COLUMBIA
DEMOCRAT
4.
AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER.
LEVI TATE, Editor.
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VOLUME 26.
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o vino e
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BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL
uuTAULiaiu:i) as a nnruiii: ritoji uuai;ki:uy.
The Only Place ichcro a Cure can he
Obtained,
DU. JOHNSTON' haa discovered the most Certain,
t'pecdy aud unly I'.lfectual ltcmcdy In the World
fwr nil tirlvatu Diseases, Weakness of the linck or
Llmba, Stricture", AlIVttioiiB of the Uldnoja and Iliad.
4tx, Involuntary IH'charges, Impotent y, ticneral lie
uility, Ncrvuusuess, Hjspepsy, Languor, Low Spirits
Contusion of Idea, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity,
"1'iuiiiblinga, Ulniness of Sight or Olddincss, Disease of
Hie Head, Tliroat, Nusu or skin, Atl'ectinns of tin- l.ivir
J.unga, Mtumnch or Dowels those terrihle Disorder!
arising from the Solitary Habit of Yoiiili-thosu stuitr
.aud solitary practices more latal lu OnJr t. klims than
itln aougof Syren to thu Marines of Ulysses, blight
ing their most brilliant hoped or anticipations, render,
jug marriage, fcc. impossible.
VOUNC SI U N
Especially, who have become the victims of.Solilary
Vice, that-drcadful anil destructive habit which niinu
jilly sweeps to an untimely grate thousand!, of Young
Men of thu moat exalted talents and brilliant intellect,
-ho might otherwise hue entrain'. d listening Senates
with thu thunder of clo'iuemc 01 waked to ccilaiy thu
living lyre, mayiall with full confidence.
,M A It It 1 A C i:.
Married persons, or Young Men contoinplutin,; mar
rlago, being aware of physical weakness, organic deabili
ay, deformities, tee., speedily cured.
lie who places himself under the care of lir. Johnston,
may religiously coutldo in his honor us a geiilleiueu, and
cunudciitly.rcly upon his skill as a physician.
ORGANIC
w i: a k n i;si)
Immediately cured and full vigor restored.
This Distressing A ll'ection which rmdera life mis
crablu and marriage impossible is thu penalty paid by
:naVi I'jr aptTonunH 'uSccsT from noi'Ving , UU the mattock, white man l-d rhubbel and de
nwaro of the dreadful cniise'luuncu that may ensue, , spade
Now who that understands thu subject will pre . We board.ihs hab no work to do, wo all hub quit do
tend tq'dcny th.it the power of procreation is lost sooner ; lfaju
Uffibc)nu boahdbmsjou'l. uab.o tug and
prlugs. tho most serious and destructive symptoms to sweat,
both body and mind aiise. The system become derang- And wish yuu was'nt white trash n thousand timea I'll
Oil! 110 piiysicil ami ineiii.u 'i "";"""','?" .
. i i..- ...... ... .I..,.-..... r. n i i l)i.i.li.ii.m
palpitation of the Inurl. Indlgu.tiou, Loiistltutiutial du
Ailiiy, a wasting of thu Frame, Cough, L'oiisumptiuii.
decay and death.
ori'scn, No. 7 ..jutii rnr.i)i:r.n.-K rs-rnnivr.
Lufl hand aidu going from ilaltiiuoru street, a Tew dour
from tht corner. Tail not to observe name and number.
Letters must bu paid and contain a stump. Thu Doc
tor's Diplomas hang in his otlicu.
ACU11K WAUIiA.ST HI) IN TWO DAYS
Mi MtaiLuv on Miusvom iiituos,
dil jviijwiva:
Member of thu Uoyal Coll .go of Hurgioiis, London.
41raduate from one of the mot eminent Colleges of thu
United State", and the greater part of whose life has
ibeen apent in the first llipitals of London, Talis, t'Jul.i-
delpliiaand eleeHliere, has ellVcted some of the most as
tunishlng cures that were ever known ; many troubled
ui prucruuiit-Mu, t-., j . rf -. -. --
with ringing in im1 m 'f -.-r, h.i.
nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds, and baste
fiilneas, with fre.pieiil blushing, ntti'iiileilhiniii limes Willi
derangement of mind, were cured immediately
TAKE PA 11 T 1 C U I. A 11 KOTI C C.
Dr. J. addresses all those wlm have injured themsi-lvea
by iiutiroper iiidulgeiicu and sulilary habits, whirh ru
in bull! body and mind, unfiling them for either busi
aiuss, atudy, society or marriage.
These are some of the sad and melancholy elects pro
duced by early liabitt ot'joulh, vi : H eakness of tho
Hack and Limbs, Tain in thu Head, Diiiiness uf Sight,
J.'oss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the II. art, llys
iiepala. Nervous Irratabillty, lMrangeiuuiit of the lliges
live Fuucliuus.Oeiieral Debility, S)niplomaol tonsuiup.
lion tec
MENTALLY -The fearful efiects on the iiiliul are
..in..), 'm i..ir,..iile,l. Loss of Memory. Confusion i.f Ideas
Jira.H"" .ovoriuurimlye::
fiOIUU OI lliu evns iiiiiuii.vii
I U U II ... ...
Who have injured tumselvos by a certain prartlce.
1 ,f T I, , I- X
.indulged in when alonu-aliabit rre'iuently leariicil troiii
evil companions, or at school Hie ill'or.ts of wliiih are
nightly felt, even when H.-locp, and if not Hired renders
marriage impoible, mid destroys boll: uilud and body,
should apply immediately.
What u piltv tli.tr avoung bian, thu hope of his t ouutry
and tho darling of his parents, should be snatched Irom
Jill prospects and enjoyments of life, by Hie onseijiii ii
ea of deviating from the path of nature, aud indulging
in a certain secret habit. Such perai.ua afar betoro
contemplating , t R I A l E.
rcfluct that a sound mind uud body arc the mo6t ne
.ceaaary rc'iuisilies tu proiuulu connubial happiness
Indeed, without thesis the journey through life becomes
a woary pilgrimage, the prospect hourly darkens tu
the viuw; tho mind heroines shadowed with despair it
Hilled with tho melamlioly rullertiou that the happiness
of another becomes blighted with our own,
DISEASE 01' I M 1' It U I) E N 0 E.
When tho misguided and i mprudont votary of pleasui c
finds hu has imbibed the seeds of this painful disease, it
oo often happens that an ill tinu-d sensu of shame or
xlrcad of discovery, ilelers him from applying lu Ihoso
who from edilcalijmaiid lespectability can abmu belrii ml
Jiim. delaying till thu constitutional symptoms o this
liorrld diaensu uiakus their appearance, such as ulcerated
,oorc tliroat, diseased nine, nocturnal, pains in tho head
and limb, dimness of sight, duafiiess, nodes on the shin
bonea, unci arms, blotches on tlu head, face and extreme
ties, progroaslug with rapidity, till at thu julatu 01
tho niuuthand bones of tin; nose fall in, and the victim uf
ibis de'seuso becomes a horrid object uf l oiiiiiu-seratiuii
itill death puts uperiud to bis dreadful sufferings, by sen
ding him to "that buutnu fruni whence no traveler ru
iturna," It ia a mtlancholy fact that thousands fall victims to
ithla lerrthlo disease, owing to thu iiusklllfulfnuss of ig
norant pretenders, who, by tho iuo of that Deadly I'oi
.on, Mercury, mln ihu coiiatilutl.u and maku thu reel
.1uq of llfo miaeruble.
S T R A N E 11 8
Trust not your lives, or health, to the caroof tho ma
iny Unlearned and Worthiest Pretenders, dcsiltutu of
.ftnowlcdgo, namu or churaiter.whocnpy Dr. Joniifluii a
lUdviirtisumcnts, or style themselves, lu tho newspapers,
trcgularly Educated 1'hy.iciaus lucapablunf Curlug.lhey
t&ecp you trilling moiiili after month taking their filthy
tand poisouus cmupunuds, or na long us tho amullet lee
,cnn bu oblaiucd, uud in deapair, leavu yuu wilh ruined
Uicalth to sigh uver yunr gailtag disappointment.
Dr. Johnson is thu only l'liysiciuu udveitlKjiig,
Ilia credential or diplomas always iiangin lilsomcc.
Ilia remedies or treatment lire unknown tu all ulhera,
prepared from u life hpcut ju the great hospitals of Lu
aropo, the firs! in tbn country and a ninro extensive I rl
..il Pruaict Uiau any other Physician in the world,
INDUCEMENT Of Till: l'llUSb.
Tho many thousuuds cured at this in-UtnUoii year nf
rter year, and the iiuuiurous jniportant Surgical Opera
.linna performed by Dr. Johnston, witni'sed Jjy thu re
iportcra of thu "r'un," "Clipper," and inuuyollicr papers
jiolicce of wliich have appeared ugain and again beture
'th. public, besides his stauiUugus a geullemen uf ihar
.ctcr and reiponsibility, ia u auiliclent guaantuu to the
.filleted.
SKIN DISEASES SPEEDILY CUBED.
Persona writing should be pattlceiarin directing ihoir
rtcttcri tobU Institution, in thu following manner :
'T JOHN M. JOHNSTON, M. I).
Oftha Baltimore Lock Hospital, Ualtlniorc, Maryland-.
Jan ItVloOa. i-Matcli 17, lcCO,
TINWARE & STOVE SHOP.
'rplIE undorslgned respectfully informs bis old fricndl
X anil custuuuira, that hu has purchased bis brothers
J ntcrorl in tho nbovu establihhmcut.andllie concern wils
ihareaftar bu conducted by himself exclusively.
lie rus jittit rcceiveu uuu uuers iur s.uo. me uni,..
I cat and moat extensive) assortment uf r A N 0 Y
I Ilia tnrk runsists of a couiidcle uasoitment of
s'rnv i. s i.ver iiiiruuuceii iniu mis niarKi'i.
iths bast Cooking and parlur Huvcs mine murnci, lugeiie
r wilh Blovc 1'nturea uf uvury defiripliou. Oven and
llox Stoves, JLadiatora, Cylindar Stoves, Cast Irun Air.
'Tight stoves, Cannun Stoves, &.C, fee. Stovepipe and
Tinware eonatwuly on hand und maiiufailurcd tu Older.
.All kinds or repairing none, ns usu.ii, on m'ni num..
Tbe patrornixe nf old friends and iiw custoinNrs ru-
IPMiniuuir tuuciirii, ...... --
.r... A M 1 T '1 '
are aomu oi inu cms iuuu.iu.yu. . . , , .i i, . - t : i , n,.nncn
Thouaaoda of persona of all ages can now JUiigu What uu siiv. .uuiitijr xi, i nuu.i.jr luip , , .
Ja thu cause of their duilining health. I.on-,ing III' ir . .. , ii, , , ol u
Tlcor, becoming weak, palu and oiuaciaicd. luviug sin- I u uiauuoa ijuuauuuo iiui laiuiug ej tuu "'"Ji ,
nli, mi Hie eves, coueh and svmntuina o . .. -.i . . -.- -...i- i.
lUootntburt .November Id 1-uO.- if
Select Poetry.
lc United States Hotel.
by one on ik DoxniMUa.
I'a took roonta for do season racuttln' qulto n swell
I'a atoppln' at a tavern do Uk'tTan States (I.tci.,
Old Omclk Sam'b do laudlord-wo cat and drink nur fill
And du wisdom of the measure ia, dar'a nuinlii for de billl
Oh, HI OUInkum darkey.
Do white traali can't afford
To take rooms at do tavern
Wliar do cullud gentry board.
Do 'possum It wnaluhly but wo've better grub dan datj
D huc'caku It was 'hillceht, de raccoon sweet and fat
Hut 'possum, 'coon nnd hoe-enko I I bid you all farwell
Yuu wuuld n't suit de 'dluty at Undo Sam's Hotel,
Oh Hi O Binkum darkey I
Oil don't yuu hear do bell f
It's riugin' for de buurdaha
At Uncle Bum's Hotel.
Anil don't you know do boardahs J do accomplished
Din. ill Crow
Do acriishiitulluu 1'ompoy, and do gallant Mistali Snow,
And nil ob du 'bom equals,' no matter w liar iky dwell.
Are gohi' tu buboardah'a at Uncle Barn's Hotel,
Oh Hi O Dilikum Darkey 1
0 berry sure I am.
De best of all do taverns
Is kept by Untie riam.
De Bcrushination l'ompey. when he alts down todine,
Just hear him call de waitah, to fotch along du wine !
And sue du little white boys nhclpiit Ml stall Snow,
And bringing chicken fixing to do lubly llinali Crow 1
Oh Hi O Dinkuiu Darkey I
I'a cuttiti' quitu u awell,
I'a took rooms nt a tavern
Do United Slates Hotel.
It's n mighty big old tavern, dat United States Hotel I
Jt has sixty thousand bourduhi, and it 'commodates
'em well 1
Jt baa room lor all of Hixle, an' I 'spect they'll nil bu
hero,
Wid dar wives and pickininnies, 'for do cndlii' ob do
year.
Oh Hi O Dinkuiu Darkey I
Wo have no bills tu pay,
Dey chargu 'em to de nhitu trash
1 bear do landlord say.
bet I
ULll
Oh Hi Olliukiim Darkey I
Oh don't you hear debi-JI I
It's titigin' fur do buardaha
At Uncle Sam's Hotel 1
Jjigait (C7Aii) Qdzctte
CoiiATCssioual.
Tho Abolition Schemes of No
gro Equality Exposed.
JI'AoI the Tiii-payers are Paying fui Ha r.jperimenti
SIOu.OK) jur day Expended on liniiaway and i'agalond
.Vci'rers
SPEECH OF
HOKW.A. lUOIIARDSOtf,
Of Illinois, iii ike House of Representa
tives, Muy 10, 1802.
I
Mr. Richardson Mr. Chairman. I ,
desire this morniuc; to submit a few re -
marks tor tho coustdcration of the House
officered and managed, is ablo to crush
out tho rebellion. I shall direct my at-
tcntiou, therefore to the consideration of
some of the many new questions which aro
I l.llliUL,. .11 ll.U I1VIM. .111.,.,., .. J ULl..VU. V
continually arising during tho progress of al llcbt) aU(1 a tax of S7!J)000 to bo pai(1
this terrible civil war. j ammaiiyj as interest upou this sum, by
Negro EqudiUj Determined upon. I tascs iu)posod 0Q tho iaboring white pco
Mr. Chairman, there is a manifest anx- plo of til0S0 Statog Not satis(icd witIl
icty, an ovcrwecuiug desire, a persistent doing this much for your especial favorite,
purposo, upon tno part oi iuo prominent
members of the dominant party in this
Government, to place upon terms of equal
ity and make participants with us in tho
rights of American citizenship an inferior
raoo. The negro race, which is incapable
of cither comprehending or maintaining
any form of government by whom lib
erty is interpreted as licentiousness is
sought to be exalted, even at tho cost of
tho degradation of our own flesh and blood.
Wo all remember witli whatintonso sat
isfaction a recent order of tho Secretary of
State, Mr Seward, one of tho chief clerks
of the President, was received in certain
quarters, because it declared that no fugi
tive slave should bo retained iu custody
onger than thirty days, unless "by speciul
order of competent civil authority."
That I may do no injustice to the head
of tho Stato Department and his unwarran
ted assumption of power, I quote tho offi
cial paper itself;
"Dej'Autuent op State,
"il'athingion, January D5, 1602. J
"Sir; Tho l'rosidcut of tho United
States being satisfied that tho following
instructions coutraveno no law in forco in
this Distriot, and that they can bo execu
ted without waiting for legislation by Con
gress, I am diicctad by him to convoy thorn
to you:
"As Marshal of tho District of Colum
bia, you will not receive iato .custody any
persona claimed to lo hold to servieo or
hbor within tho District or elsuwhcro,
and not charged with any criuio or mis
demeanor, unless .upon arrest or .commit
ment pursuant to law, as fugitives from
such sorvico or labor ; and you will not
rtain any fcuch fugitivesin custody beyond
a period of thirty days from their arrest
and commitment, unless by special order ;
of competent civil authority.
"You will forthwith causo publication
to be inado of this order, and at tho ex
piration of ton days therefrom you will '
apply tho samo to all persous so claimed
to bo hold to sorvico or labor, and now in
your custody.
"This order has no relation to any ar
rests niado by military authority.
''I am sir, your obedient servant,
"WILLIAM II. SEWARD."
Privileges for the IScgro Opjucssiotifor
the White Alan.
While Mr. Seward was issuing this or
der for a general jail delivery of tho ne
groes, ho was also sending, under a usur
pation of power, and in violation of tho
laws and tho Constitution, hundreds of
white men and women to fill tho cells of
the prisons in this District and throughout
the loyal States. Against many of these
white men and white women thus incar
cerated by this despotic Secretary of State,
no charge has ever hecu made; they arc
imprisoned without tho form or authority
of law, and thus the personal liberty of
tho Caucasian is ruthlessly violated, while
tho African is most tenderly and carefully
guarded, even to the nullification of State
enactments and the national statutes. Let
a rumor become current that a negro has
been deprived of personal liberty cither
in this District or anywhere else and
thcro arc dozens of Republican members
upon this floor striving to obtaiu the atten
tion of the House while they may offer
resolutions inquiring by what law, by
whom, when and whero thesn objects of
their undivided affections may have been
arrested. Dut never yet has any of theso
philanthropic gentlemen made inquiry for
tho law aud or authority under which
white American citizens havo been kid
napped by the State Department, dragged
from their homes, and left to pine, aud
die perchance, in some of tho mauy has-
rtilcs which this Administration hai cstab-
lished.
It is well known, sir, that if any white
citizen, perhaps a father or brother, des-
ires to visit a relative or acquaintance in
the military service of this Government,
that ho is obliged to secure a "pass" from
some competent authority, and to obtaiu
this he is required upon his honor to de
clare his loyalty and fidelity to the Gov
ernment. Rut tho negro goes and comes
within the Hues of our army, whether his
.Inclination (in tnufm-il rn- frnm flir. nlinmw
1 . . , i , , .
Ilui pnlnr nf Min liliii'l? limn is Ins nnssnort.
and is received as cquivoleut to the pledge
ouor aud of loyalty upon tho part of
Lite person;
i Tt.inmin.iM Nenrnrft rr 'cir.fi rmnlmnnentt.ii
i tlia czditon of While Citizens.
Ia this District vou have abolished sla,-
very. You have abolished it by compen.
! sationLv a(1din,,si.000.000 to the nation'
t d tLo frecdom of th;s citv and
tho hospitality of tho Government to all
' tho runaway negroes in this country who
choose to visit the District of Columbia.
! You issue rations lo them day after day,
and week after week, rations which must
be paid for through tho sweat and toil of
! tho tax ridden white men. You arc thus
I supporting in indolence hundreds upon
hundreds of black men. How many and
at what cost I am unable to state, because
when a resolution, asking" for this infor
mation, was introduced by the honorable
gentleman from Ohio, (Mr. Cox,) it was
immediately tabled by the Republican
majority upon tho other side of this
House. Tliose gentlemen daro not let
this information go to the country; thoy
shrink from the exposure which a truthful
reply to such inquiry would iuako, Tho
resolution of Mr. Cox also asked for the
number of negroes employed as teamsters
in the army, and at what wages ; but
this was equally objectionable, for it
would havo illustrated tho fact that ne
groes by the hundred aro receiving better
pay as drivers than our own whito sons
and brolhcrs aro for periling their lives
as soldiers iu jthe .defence of tho Union
and tho Constitution,
Haying been thus deprived of obtaiu
iug official information upon these ques
tions, Ism obliged to gather my statistics
from such sources as I can. I shall niako
no statement that I have not received
1 10 m respectable and responsible parlies,
and nono which I do not coueeiyc to ho
rather under than over the true estimate.
Tho Government is to-day issuing ra-
tions to about two thousand negroes in
this District alone, that cost over twenty
cents per ration $100 per day, in viola- and Florida issues an order to enrol corn
lion of law, is being paid for this purpose, panics, regiments and brigades of ncgroos
Tlio Government is hiring in the District
several hundred negroes, some as team
sters and some for other purposes, to tho
exclusion of white laborers, thousands of
whom, together with their wives and
children, in our largo cities, aro suffering
for the want of employment. I speak
advisedly when I say that the Republican
party a-e already paying, of tax gathered
money, in this District alone, over three
hundred thousand dollars per annum to
buy, clothe, feed and exalt the African
race. Thus for the negro you expend
more in a single year in the District of
Columbia than you appropriate for the
government and protection of all the peo
ple in all the organized Territories of the
United States. The negro is made supe
rior, in your legislation, to the pioneer
while men that settle the great West, and
amid hardships und dangers, lay the
foundations of the new commonwealths,
the hardiest and noblest men of our com
nion country.
So the people arc taxed yearly more
for the benefit of the black race in this
District alone than it costs to maintain
the burdens of State government iu cith
er Iowa, Mirhigan, Minnesota, Wiscon
sin, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Now Jersey,
Delaware or Maryland.
Onehundrcd thousand dollars per day ex
pended on lazy negroes.
Hut it is not in this District alone that
you require the people to pay tribute to
the idol of your affections. Wherever
you find our army, with one or two hon
orable exceptions, you will find that
hundreds of rations are being issued daily
to unemployed negroes who rendezvous in
and about the camps; wherever thu army
is they arc being employed iu various ca
pacities at good wages, and to the utter
exclusion of white labor, that now
languishes iu irksome idleness through
out our country. I state there
fore, and 1 think truthfully, that the Gov
ernment is already paying Sl()i),000 per
day for tho support and employment of
negroes paying it, too, out of money
raised through the toil, deprivation and
taxation of our own kith and kin.
In my district, Mr. Chairman, my
constituents arc selling corn at eight cents
per bushel, in order to support their fam
ilies aud maintain the honor ami integri
ty of our Government. Shall money
thus raised ami for such a purpose be
diverted to the entertainment of the Af
rican ? AVill my people, will the people
anywhere, endorse the party and the Ad
ministration that thus seeks the clcv.ition
of the negro, even at the cost of ruin to
their own race i
TIlc Negro placed upon an equality with
our sailors and soldiers.
One might suppose that your aulor in
the i-arc and protection of the negro
would stop and cool here but no, you
go still lurtlicr. Having made him your
equal as a civilian, you now seek to place
him on the same level with American
sailors and soldiers. First came the or
der of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr.
Welles, as follows ;
"Navy Department, April 30, 1802.
"Sir: The approach of tho hot aud
sickly season upon tho Southern coast of
tho United States renders it itnpcrativo
that every precaution should bo used by
tho officers commanding vessels to continue
tho excelleut sanitary condition of their
crews. Tho largo number of persons known
as 'contrabands' flocking to the protection
of the United States flag affords an oppor
tunity to provide in every department of a
ship, especially for boats' crows, acclimated
labor. Tho flag officers aro required to
obtain tho sorvico of theso persons for tho
country by enlisting them freely in tho
navy, with thoir consent, rating them as
boys, at eight, nino, or ton dollars per
mouth, aud ono ration. Let a monthly
return bo inado of tho number of this class
of porsons employed cn each vessel under
your commaud. I am respectfully your
obedicut servant.
"GIDEON WELLES."
Under tho plea of tho approach of the
sickly scacou, Mr. Wollcs issues this ordor ;
under tho samo plea tho negro may bo
galled iute any corvico in tho South through
tho sickly Bcason, and t&o toriblo effect it
jiught havo upon our army aud navy, was
uot thought of by auy Republican official
until recently.
Having mado this progrcsivo stop in our
navy (as my colleague from tho Rureau
Distriot Mr. Lovojoy would call it,) it
remains to bo emulated iu our army. Not
long docs it wait an imitator; Gcnoral D
I M. Hunter, commanding ia iho iiir.Uary
department of Sot Gxroltuia, Georgia
in tho millitary sorvico of tho United States.
Thus, in less than two years after tho
acccsion to power of tho Hopublican party,
tho negro is undo, as far as possible, tho
equal of tho whito man as a civillian, a
sailor and a soldier. Nay more than this,
tho Constitution is violated that whito men
may bo bereft of guarrantccd rights.
Whito men aro stripped of tho armor of
American citizenship in ordor that the
negro may bo clothed therein. All this
ha3 boon done against tho oarncst protest
of all conservative men. And appropria
tions and amendments to bills appropriating
money for tho suppression of tho rebellion
which provided that no tnoucys should bo
diverted cither to tho freeing, tho support
or tho enlistment of ncgroos, havo been
invariably wroto down by tho Republican
party in.thi3 House.
Worse than this even, General Hunter,
iu his zeal for tho negro, withdraws tho
protection of his army from tho loyal citi
zens of Jacksonville, Florida, in order to
perfect his great negro boarding house
and African military academy at tho
mouth of the Savanuah river. This is
undoubtedly in harmony with his brilliant
discovery that African slavery and martial
law aro incompatible. Common minds
havo heretofore considered martial law
and slavery, cither for whit:s or blacks,
among tho moat coneordent institutions
upon earth. This proclamatory com
niandcr, who vici his profundity into the
immortal General Phelps, undoubtedly
considers martial law the very casket jew
el of Amoricau liberty.
My mind, Mr. Chairman, revolts at the
idea of degrading tho citizen soldiery of
my country to the'level of tho negro. Sir,
tho American Volunteer has always been
our reliance in peace and our vindication
iu war. I am opposed, and you will find
tho volunteer army of tho Union opposed
to the equalization in the ranks of citizens
and slaves.
We must receive Negro Diplomatists.
Haviug made such efforts for the ne
groes of the United States, it would seem
that tho zeal in their behalf would lag and
languish. But, no ; you now go wander
iug among iho islands of tho sea, and ovor
the continents of tho globe, in pursuit of
ucgro principalities and republics which
you may recognize among tho powers of
earth Uayti and Liberia furnish further
matter for your infatuation to fatten upon
aud you at onoo proceed to establish dt
plomatio relations between the United
Slates and these benighted and half made
parodies upon human government
At an annual expense of thousands of
dollars, you propose to receive nogro di
plomats from them, and send United
States Ministers to them ; indeed you arc
the champions of ucgro equality, without
regard to cost, place, propriety or digni
ty. This Congress has been in session near
ly eight months, and all that I havo re
viewed you havo done, and more you
would do if you could, for the negro.
What havo you accomplished for tho white
man? Havo you provided for tho pay
ment of pensions to tho soldiers who havo
been disabled while fightiug tho battles of
your couutry? Havo you appropriated
money to relieve tho wauts aud necessities
of tho widows and orphans of whito mcu
who have perished upon tho battlc-fiolda
defending the Constitution aud the flag of
our country ! Ah, nol your timo has been
too much engrossed with the negro to think
of theso things. You have uot appropria-
ted ono dollar for theso purposes purpo-
bcs that should onlist the ability and tho
sympathy of every patriot in tho land.
If this statoracat is inoorrect; if this
Republican party or its Administration
havo ever mado a single effort in behalf of
tho maimed soldiors, a tingle appropria-
tion for tho support of tho orphans aud
widows of slain soldiers, I hopo some gon-
tleman upon tho other side of the House will
correct mo. Thero is no rcsponeo, and I
am reassured in the correctness of my as
sertion by your silence. Tho alleviation
of sufferings of whito men or tho protec
tion of their rights is not in your lino of
philanthropy. Liko your illustrious prot
otypes, Mrs. Jclcby, of tho Bori-bo-la ga
mission, or tho Rov. "Aminidab Sleek,"
in the play of The Serious Family, to tho
political brauoh of which you Abolitionists
will soon belong, your sympathies are
never activo in behalf of practioal and
gcuuino benovoleuco.
Jleasons against Equulizing the Jlaccs.
Mr. Chairman, I am opposed to all
these sickly schemes for equalizing tho ra-
cos. God made tho whito man superior
'. to tho black, and nolcgiilutioa will undo
or chrngo tho decrees of Heaven. They
aro unaltcrablo as tho laws of nature, eter
nal as Divinity itself, and to legislate
against them leads us to ipfidclity and ru
in. Siuco creation dawned tho white raco
has improved and advanced in the scalo of
being, but as the negro was so is ho now.
"But," say tho Abolitionists, "tho Afri
can has been blessed with no opportunity
for improvement." Who gavo tho whito
man an opportunity for improvement ?
God, in his infinite justice, placed the two
races upon tho oarlh at tho beginning of happiness of tho earlier days of tho Ul
timo to work out their respective destinies, public. Sir, these armies wero raised Id
History lias faithfully recorded their execute tho laws aud maintain tho auMi r
aohicvemcnts. To that impartial tribunal ity of tho Constitution iu all tho States.- -I
confidently appeal for the verification of j They arc, sir, to suppress armed violators
tho white man's superiority. As God i of that instrument. And, sir, it remain.,
mado them so havo thoy remained, and, 1 for the people at tho ballot box to eup
unlike tho Abolition cqualizatiouists, I ' press these Northern violators of tho C'-a-
find no fault aud utter no complaint against
tho wisdom and justice of our Creator,
The ovils of tho attempted equalization
of tho races is illustrated by the history
of Mexico. That country was settled by j
tho intelligent Spaniard, a race not interi-
or to our own ancestors, 'iiioy dovcl-
oped the resources ot tno count.-y uy Dun-1
ding roads, Highways and canals. All
along their hue of march the church and i
schoolhouso were erected as landmarks of
their progress. But finally the idea of tho
equalizing of the races became popular ;
tho attempt was made, the races were com
mingled, and thenceforward the deteriora
tion of the people were rapid and fearful.
This holds true not only in Mcxioo and
throughout Ceutrnl and South America,
but in ail sections of the globe, wherever
the whito raco has commingled with tho
black or the Indian. This system of
equalization has failed to elevate the in
ferior, but has always degraded tho su
perior raco. Ou the other hand, wher
cvor tho purity of the white race has been
preserve, w suiiertoruy uaa ""ueu,
j .-. . ' -i i : .i i
and its development, both mental and
FI.J0.Uu., ii.ugiracu. uuuvi ouu
i: i .!.: i: .
uuuiuiu, ujiuu iuib uuiiiiuum ui uicc uuu,
t . ... 1 1 l
uas ever lowereu tuc Eianuaru oi mo gov
ermng race.
For three-quarters of a century tho
United States have led the van in all that
is great or useful in inventions. We havo
made an errand boy of tho lightning ; wo
have applied steam as a propelling powar.
In a single year we have demonstrated the
fratility of "England's wooden walls," by
tho construction of our ironclad ships of
war, and at the samo time, by tho same
thought, dissipated all previously enter
tained opinions of sea coast and harbor
fortifications. Sir, I am satisfied with the
history of tho races as they are, as thoy
were created, and as our forefathers legis
lated for them. 1 claim no originality
for tho thoughts ; thoy have been enter
tained by some of tho ablest statesmen, not
only of our couutry, but of England;
among them Mr. Canning, who, when the
British Parliament was considering
schemes kindred to those now occupyiug
the attention of the Republican party in
this country, said :
"Iu dealing with the negro, sir, wo must
remember that wo aro dealing with a be
ing possessing tho form and strength of a
man, but tho intellect only of a child. To
J turn him loose in tho manhood of his phys
ical strength, in tho maturity of his physi
cal passions, but in tho infancy of his uu
instructed reason, would be to raiso up a
creature resembling the splendid fictiou of
a recent romance, tho hero of which con
structs a human form, with all tho corpo-
j "al capabilities oi man, anu witu tuc
U"ewa and sinews of a giant j but, being
unable to impart to tho work of his hands
a perception of right aud wrong, he finds
o lato that ho has only created a more
' tUan a moral Powcr of uoinS mischief, and
J himeuU recoils from the monster ho has
wad0, '
Onoof their great statesmen of to-day,
' Lord JohnRussel, whenever ho alludes to
the black race in America, and lo a change
of its status, talks only of a very gradual
emancipation, because ho knows that sud
den and unconditional emancipation would
bo destruction to both tho nogro and the
whito man. British utatcsmen oppose
immediate emancipation upon tho ground
of crpedienoy alono. American statcsmon
should oppose it, not only upon that
ground, but also upon tho ground that tho
Constitution gives no powcr to interfero
with tho doracstio institutions of tho bov
oral States no such powcr cither in peace
or in war.
But to reach the goal of their hopes, tho
Abolitionists of this country aro willing to
ovorrido oxpedionoy, tho law aud tho Con
stitutionto destroy tho Government itself,
in order to cmancipato at once all tho
slaves in tho South,
JJultclsfor JlebchJiullotafor MolHui
ists.
Sir, I will not digress, but return to iIk
consideration of tho responsibilities tiit
aro resting upon us. Our country u it,,
accd by Secessionists in arms, rcbu;, up
on the one hand, and by Abolitionist?, cul
lifiers of tho laws and tho Constitution,
on tho other. Sir, I proposo bullcU f ?
tho former, ballots for tho latter. Th
two classes disposed of, and thcro will tu
a return to tho prospority, tho pcac- cul
stitution, if they would preserve tho riLt,
and liberties of American citizens.
Miscellaneous.
rpnE Bloomseuro Ladies' Soldiers'
Aid Society At a lato meeting of the
Bloomsburg Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Assoei-
at;on tuc following resolutions wore prcs n
1oa i.v ,i, prr.,i.1nnf. it; TTrtrn,.r Vn.
pert, and unanimously adopted:
1. That wo will consider ourselves an
organized society and continue our 1-bon,
as opportunity may bo afforded us, far tL
benefit of tho sick and wounded coldioid,
whoso sufferings demand our'decpost sym
pathy' and earnest offorts
2. That wo tender our thanks to tho
community, for their co-operation with
us in our endeavours, also to tho gentle
man who have so kindly furnished us with
the usa of a room, stove, fuel, &o.
3. That wo return thauks to our heavenly
Father, for pcrmittingand enabling us to
labor together in peace and harmony, for
, , , f RomGtI.:n ,
j humbly LopQ) towarda amclioratin2 t!l0
CODditions of the bravo but afflicted dcfcn
i fjCr3 Of OUr COUUtrV
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A Scene in Court. The Warren(Pa.)
Mail, of last week, says wo had a scone
in court this week not down in the pro
gramme. When Anna J. Clements waj
brought in to be sentcuced, Judge Johnson
proceeded to lecture her ou tho crime of
larceuy and gave her some good advice.
She stood bold and dofiant, frequently in
terrupting him wi'h insolent remarks. Her
black eyes fairly flashed fire and ven
geance. As he closed with a two ycirs
sentonco in tho penitentiary, 6he yxlkd
out, "can't you give me a longer sentence,
you d d old ?" and let fly four or
fivo stones ono after tho other liko light
ning. Tho Judges ducked their hc.s
and dodged, barely escaping a hit. TL.l
ctn Lniitiilrt.l lil-n o r"i1l,nt fry T...7-.
and actually got partly behind the bene!,.
before she was seized and held, whilo c'.
yelled and struggled with tho strength ot
a strong man. Wo never saw such des
peration. SLo would no doubt havo stab
bed the Judge if she had been armed.
What is an Editor ? no is an indi
vidual who reads proof, bobs around af
ter local items, talk to all wlio call at his
sanctum, recives blame for many things Lo
never docs, works sixteen hours a day. end
gets about half paid for his labor! If
anybody thinks tho position of an editor a
pleasant and profitable ono, let him try is
on
BSyThe Secessionists carry a flag cf
eleven stars. The Abolitionists in 1850
and 1800 marched under ono with sixtcea
stars. Tho Democratic flag is the flag of
tho wholo Union, without a star erased or
a stripe polluted.
JCGrScuator Wado thinks "tho constitu
tion is suspended for tho present." If
Senator Wade, and a few liko him, had
been "auspouded" themselves years ago,
thcro would havo Leon no troublo in the
nation now.
CSfAn old lady from a tcmparenco vil
lage lately attended a party in town,whcre
of courso, champaign was served, and was
provailed upon to tako a glass. She drank
two, when smacking her lips , she exclaim
ed : Well, it moy bo a wicked drink, but
it's good !"
At an assemblage of a few friond,
ono evening, the absenco of a lady was
noticed, which was apologized for by an
acquaintance, who stated she was detained
by a littlo incident.
''Ah, yes," exclaimed Mrs. John Smith,
'and a beautiful little incident it is, too;
weighs just nino pounds nud a half.'J
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