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COURAGE.
Keep up your courage, friend, 1
Nor talter on the track
Look op, toil bravely on,
And scorn to languish back !
A true heart rarely fails to win
A will can make a way
The darkest night will yield at last
Unto the perlect day !
See yonder little flower,
You've crushed beneath your tread,
The sunshine and the shower
Beat on it bended bead ;
Though bowed, it is not broke,
It rises op again
And sheds a sweet perfume across
The hungry desert plain.
Then like the tender flower,
Be ye. O, wsary man !
In many ways God blesses jou ?
Deny it if you can !
You've love to cheer yonr heart.
You've strength and bracing health ;
For these, full many a lordly peer
Would yield op all bis wealth.
Never despair ! it kills the life !
And digs an early grave !
The man who rails so much at Fate,
But makes himself her slave !
Up ! rouse ye to the work !
Resolve to victory gain !
And hope shall rise and bear rich fruit,
Which long in dust have lain !
THE C111LD IX THE GRAVE
BY HAWS CHRISTIAN ANDERB0V.
There was sorrow in
the house there
was sorrow in the heart ; for the youngest !
child, a little bov of four year- of age, the ;
only son, his parents' present joy and In-
,r. hnnw. was dead. Two daosnter thev
had. indeed, older than their boy-the old whose extremties were lost in the distance,
est was almost old enough to be confirmed J ' w k wound her; but before her
amiabl sweet girts they both were ; but stood, and in one moment was clasped to
the lost child is always the dearest, and he , her heart, her child, who smiled on her in
-was the youngest, and a son. It was a j beauty far surpassing what be had possess
heavy trial. The sisters sorrowed as young J ed before. She ottered a cry, though it
hearts sorrow and were much afflicted by I was scarcely audible, for, close by, and
their parents' grief; the father was weigh- j
J down by the Affliction, but the mother ; came aeiignuui music, never Deiore nau pr render lneir return rexl ,0 impossible -was
quite overwhelmed by the terrible , nch glorious, such blessed i-ounds, reach- The Soulh derKands ,hat these laws shall
Mow. By night and by day had she devot- ed her ears. They rang from the other j be repeaed that masters shall meet with
fd herself to her sick child, watched him, de of the thick curtain black as night j no aifficalty in re-taking their fugitive prop
lifted him np, carried him about, done ev- j that separated the hall from the boundless ( erly. and that ,he provision of the Constitu
ery thing for him herself. She had fell as ' space of eternity. J ,ionj made in tneir behalf, shall be execu-
if he ere part of herself. She could not j ' My sweet mother !" ray own mother !" ed to ,he Tery ieUer. In this an unjust ex
bring herself to believe that he was dead , she heard her child exclaim, h was his act;on t Would it be a hnmiliaiing con-
that he should be laid in a coffin and con-j
cealed in the crave. God would not take
the child Irom her. O no ! And when he
was taken, and she could no longer refuse j
tn. K.t;. ih tmih. she exclaimed, in her
wild grief : "God has not ordained this !
He has heartless agents here on earth
They do what they list they hearken not
to a mother's prayers !"
She dared, in her woe, to arraign the
Most High; and then came dark thoughts,
lhe thoughts of death everlasting that
human beings returned as earth to earth,
and then all was over. Amdst thoughts
morbid and impious as these, there could
be nothing to console her,and she sank into
the deepest depths of despair.
In these hours of deepst distress she
could not weep. She thought not of the
young daughters who were there left ; her
tiosband'e tears tell on their brow, but she
did not look op at him her thoughts were
with her dead child, her whole heart and
soul were wrapped op in recalling every
reminiscence of the lost one, every sylla
ble of his infantile prattle.
The day of the funeral came. She had
not slept the night before, but, toward
morning, she was overcome by fatigue, and
an2 for a short time into repose. During
that tune the coffin was removed inta an
ether apartment, and the cover was screwed
down with as little noise as possible.
When she awoke she arose and wished
lo see her chilli." Then her husband, with
tears in his eyeijt told her, "We have clos
ed the cofSn ; it had to be done !''
uWhen the Almighty is so hard on me,"
he exclaimed, ''why should human beings
be kinder !" and sb burst into tears.
. The cofSn was carVied to the grave. The
inconsolable motherSt with her young
danghters. She lookei &t them, bot did
not see them; heryrnoughts had nothing
more to do with J none ; she gave herself
up to wretchedness, and it tossed her about
as the seatoasen the ship which bad lost its
flsman and its rodder. Thai passed
'the day of the funeral, and several days
iollowed amidst the same uniform, ' heavy
grief. With tearful eyes and melancholy
looks her aSicted family gazed at hen
She did not care for what comforted them.
What could they say to change the current
of her tnosmful thnughts t
It seemed as if sleep bad fled from her
forever; it alone would be her best friend,
strengthen her frame and recall peace to
her mind- Hsr family" persuaded her to
keep liter bed, and she lay there as still as
if boned in sleep. One nizkt bar huiband
hsd lis'sr''.! ty hsr r,!,,i p. f"-TV!"
pose and relief, he clasped his hands, pray
ed for her and for them all, then sank into
peaceful slumber. While sleeping-soundly
he did not perceive that she rose, dressed
herself, and softly left the room and the j
house to go whither her thoughts wander
ed by day and by night-to the crave that
bid her child. She passed quietly through
garden, out to the fields, beyond which the
road led outside of the town to the church
yard. No one saw her, and she saw no
one.
It was a fine night ; the stars were shin-
ing brightly, and the air was mild, although
it was the first of September. She entered
the churchyard, and went to the little grave; (
it looked like one great boquet of sweet
scented flowers. She threw herself down,
and bowed her bead over the grave, as if
she could through the solid earth behold j
her little boy, whose smiles she remember'
ed so vividly. The affectionate expression
of his eyes, even upon bis sick bed, was
never, never to be torgotten. How speak
ing had not his glance been when she had
bent over him, and had taken the little
hand he was himself too weak to raise -As
she had sat by his coach, so now she
sat by his grave ; but here her tears might
flow freely over the sod that covered him.
"Wouldst thou descend to thy child V
said a voice close by.
It sounded so clear, so deep, its tones
went to her heart. She looked np and near
nersioou a man wrappeu . . .arge mourn- ,
ing cloak, with a hood drawn over his head; '
but she could not see the countenance un
der this It was severe and yet encourag
ing ; his eyes were bright as those of youth
"Descend to my child !" she repeated;
and there was the agony of despair in her
voice.
"Darest thou follow me ?' asked the fi
ure. "1 am Death !"
She bowed her assent. Then it seemed
all at once as if every star in the heavens
above shone with the light of the moon.-
CL. L I ,J a - . I
She saw the many colored flowers on the
surface of the grave move like a fluttering
garment. She sank, and the fignre threw
his dark cloak round her. It became night
the night of death. She sank deeper
tnn lhe Pde could reach
The church-
J"d lay like a roof above his head
Tbe cloak that had enveloped her glided
to one side. She stood in an immense hall,
hen far away, and afterward near again, I
well-known, most beioved voice ; and kiss
followed kiss in rapturous joy. At length
the child pointed to the sable curtain
"There is nothing so charming op yonder
on earth, mother. Look, mother! look at
them all ! That is felicity !"
The mother saw nothing nothing in the
direction io wuiku lue wiuiu uuiuiw.cicbji
, . .... , . . .
aaraness iiae inai oi nigui. one saw wun
saw
earthly eyes.
She did not see as did the
child whom God had
called to himself.
She heard, indeed, sounds music ; but she
did not understand the words that
were
conveyed in these exquisite tones.
"I can fly, now, mother," said the child.
f,I can fly with other happy children, away,
even into the presence of God. 1 wish so
much to go; bot if yon cry on as yon are
crying now, I cannot leave yoa, and yet
should be so glad to go. May 1 not 1 Yoa
will come back soon, will yoa not, dear
mother?"
Oh, stay ! oh, stay !" she cried, "only
one moment more. Let roe gaze on yoa
one moment longer ; let me kiss yoa, and
hold yoa a moment longer in my arras."
And she kissed him, and held him fast.
Then her name was called from above
the tones were those of piercing grief
What could they be 1
'Hark I" said the child ; ' it is my father
calling on yoa."
And again, in a few seconds, deep sobs
were heard, as of children weeping.
''Those are my sisters' voices," said the
child. "Mother, you have surely not for
goten them I"
Then she remembered those who were left
behind. A deep feeling of anxiety perva
ded her mind ; she gazed intently before
her,and spectres seemed io hover round her;
she fancied t'aat she knew some of them ;
they floated through the Hall of Death, on
toward the dark curtain, and there they van
ished. Woold her husband, her daughters,
appear there 1 No, their lamentations were
still to be heard from above. She had
nearly forgotten them for the dead.
"Mother, the bells of heaven are ring
ing," said the child. "Now the sun is
about to rise."
And an overwhelming, blinding light
streamed around her. The child was gone
and she ielt herself lifted np. She raised
her head and saw that she was lying in the
churchyard, opon the grave of her child
Bat in her dream God had become a prop
for her mind. Sha threw herself on her
knees and prayed :
Forgive me, O Lord, my God, that I
wished to detain aa everlasting soul from
it flight into eternity, and that I forgot my
And as she uttered this prayer it appear
ed as if her heart felt lightened of the bur
den that chreshed it, then the sun broke
forth in its splendor, and ' little birds sang
overhead, and all the church bells around
began to ring the matin chimes. All seem
ed holy around her; her heart seemed to
have drunk in faith and holiness; she ae
k nowledged the might and mercy of God :
she remembered her duties and felt a long
ing to regain her home. She hurried thith
er, and leaning over her still sleeping hus
band, she awoke him with the touch of her
warm lip on his cheek. Her words were
those of love and consolation, and, in a
tone of mild resignation, she exclaimed.
"God's will is the best 1"
Her husband and daughters were aston
ished at the change in her, and her hus-
bsnd asked her ''Where did you so sudden-
ly acquire this strength this pious resigna
tion V
And she smiled on him and her daugh
ters as she replied, ''I derived it from God,
by the grave of my child."
Southern Eights and Concessions.
Our national difficulties could be settled
in twen'y-four honrs if the Republicans
would agree to abide by the Constitution of
the United States in all its provisions, as
interpeted by the Supreme Court. The
most ultra Snntharn State unit nnthins
more than this. We hear a great deal of j
b0(ter abom th(J norbitanl demands of
,he Soolh Republicani tel, ns that h W0Q,d
be degrading in the North to yeild to them ;
and yet, these demands embrace nothing
more than the South is entitled to under a
judicial construbtion of the Constitution.
The first demand of the South is, that
the provision of the Constitution requiring
the return of fugitives from labor shall be
faithfully executed, and that all State laws
which embarrass, conflict with retard, or
obstruct the peaceful enforcement of the
, 8ja?e , hM be repealed. There
o r
is nothing unreasonable in this demand.
The South has a right to its runaway slaves,
; and ihe North has no right to protect them
from capture. There can be no appeal in
. such cases from the Constitution to public
opinion. No matter how deep the sympa
j thies of Northern men may be in behalf of
fugitives from bondage no matter how
great their reluctance to witness the return
of runaway negroes, they have no right to
array public sentiment against law. No ex
cuse will avail to avoid the execution of a
direct and plain provision of the Constitu
tion. Many Northern States have been
grossly culpable in the enactment of laws
which increase the dangers and difficulties
io lhe way of lhe caplnre 0 fagHive slaves,
cession for the North to acknowledge the
binding force of the Constitution and the
laws passed in pursuance thereof ?
The second demand of the South is in
reference to the territories. The Supreme
Court of the United Slates having decided
that slaves are property, and that the citi
, . 0 . , . . i. .
zens of the Souther Nates have the right to
. lr a .nak nmnarfv intrt fh nmmnn tfrri
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me auinoniy ui cuuo iuu9uiuuuut iuo
' Southern States, interested in slave proper-
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ty, asit inai lUia uecmua uo icspcvicu nuu
enforced as all other decision of the Su
preme Court are respected and enlorced.
This is the sum and substance of their de
mands. They dou't require anything more
. i than the highest judicial authority in the
country has pronounced their right. They
only demand that the Constitution, as au
thoritively expounded by the Court, ahall
be respected. While that decision stands,
it is the right of the South to enjoy all the
btnefits which it confers. Congress has
not power to destroy this right ; and yet,
because tbey insist upon it, the Southern
Stales are accused of exacting degrading
terms irom the North.
If the Northern majority are required to
recede from the position that Congress may
and should exclude slavery from the terri
tories, it is their own fault. They bad no
business to assume the right to exercise
power not warranted by the Constitution.
If it is humiliating to abandon an unjust
and illegal claim, they most suffer this mor
tification ; for the obligations of law are
more imperative than the decrees of party.
But, for tbe purpose of reconciling diffi
culties, the Southern States now loyal to
tbe Union, propose to yield the right to take
their property into a portion of the com
mon territory, provided their right to the
remainder is recognized. This is sobtan
tially the offer made by the Crittenden reso
lutions. They involve concssions on both
sides. Tbe Sooth concedes a portion of
what the Supreme Court has determined to
be their right. The North yields its pre
tensions to exclude salvery south of 3630',
which supreme judicial authority has deci
ded it has no right to do. And yet, the Re
publicans grumble at this proposition as if
it sought to extort enormous concessions
from thtm. The concessions are principal
ly the other waj Patriot and Union.
G? A Convention of Bloomer damsel is
reported to have resolved that the) will
wear short dresses or nothing. ..What an
FAREWELL SPEECHES .
OP SENATORS SUDELL AMD BE.U1S1J.
WITHDRAWAL OF THK LOUISIANA SENATORS.
Mr. Slidell, (opp ) of La., sent to be read
by the Clerk, the ordinance of secession
passed by Louisiana.
REMARKS Or MR SLIDELL.
Mr. Slidell said Mr. President, the doc
ument which the Secretary has just read
which places on the files of the Senate offi
cial information that Louisiana has ceased
to be a component part of these once United
States, terminates the connection of my col
league and myself with this body. The
occasion, however, justifies, if it does not
call for, some parting words to those whom
we leave behind some forever, others, we
trust, to meet again, to participate with
them in the noble work of constructing and
defending a new confederacy, which, if it
may want, at first, the grand proportions
and vast resources of the old, will still pos
sess the essential elements of greatness a
people bold, hardy, homogeneous in inter
est and sentiments, a fertile soil, an exten
sive territory, the capacity and the will to
govern themselves through the forms and
in the spirit of the constitution onder which
they have been born and educated. Be
sides all these, they have an advantage
which no other people seeking to change
the government under which they bad be-
fore ld fca wjoyed-they have to
pass through no ialervenir.g period of anar
chy. They have in their several Slate gov
ernments, already shaped to their hands,
everything, necessary for the preservation
of order, the administrat:on of justice, and
the protection of the soil and their propriety
from foreign or domestic policy. They can
consult with calmness, and act with delib
eration on every subject, either of immedi
ate interest or future policy. Bot if we do
not greatly mistake the prevailing senti
ment of the Southern mind.no attempt will
be made to improve the constitution. We
shall take it, such as it is such as has
been found sufficient for our security and
happiness so long as its true spiritjived in
the hearts of a majority of the people of
the free States, and controlled the action,
not only of the Federal, but of the State
Legislatures. We will adopt all laws not
locally inapplicable or incompatible with
our new relations. We will recognize the
obligations of all existing treaties those
respecting the African slave trade included.
We shall be prepared to assume our just
proportion of the national debt, to account
for the cost of all the forts and other prop
erty of the United States which we have
been compelled to seize in self-defence, if
it should appear that our share of such ex
penditure has been greater, than in other
sections; and, above all, we shall, as well
from the dictates of natural justice and the
principles of international law, as of politi
cal and geographical affinities, and of mu
tual pecuniary interests, recognize the right
of the inhabitants of the valley of the Mis
sissippi and its tributaries to its free navi
gation. We will guarantee to them a free
interchange of all agricnltural productions,
without import tax duty, or toll of any kind,
the free transit from foreign countries ofi
eery species of merchandise, subject only
to such regulations as me be absolutly ne
cessary for the protection of any revenue
system we may establish, and for purposes
of policy. As for such States of the Union
as may not choose to unite their destinies
with ours, we shall consider them as all
other foreign nations -'Enemies in war
in peace, friends." We wish and we hope
to part with them amicably, and, so far as
depends on us, they shall have no provo
cation to pursue a hostile course. But in
this regard we, from the necessities of the
ease, can only be passive. It will be for
; ,ne people of the free States to decide this
momentous question. Ihe declaration,
however, requires some qualification.
' Coald the iesoe be fairly prerented to the
j peope 0f those States, we would have little
j doUDt of a peaceful separation, hh the
possibility of a complete and the probabili
ty of a partial reconstruction on a basis sat
isfactory to os and honorable to them. But
with the present representations in either
branch of Congress we see nothing to justi
fy our indulging any such expectation.
We must be prepared to resist coercion,
whether attempted by avowed enemies or
by a hand heretofore supposed friendly
by open war or onder the more insidious,
and therfore the more dangerous, pretext
of enforcing the laws, protecting public
property or collecting the revenue. We
shall not cavil about words or discuss legal
and technical distinctions. We shall con
sider the one as exuivalent to the other, and
shall be prepared to act accordingly ulro
qae aTtro pnrali yoa will find os ready to
meet yoa with the outstretched hand of
fellowship or in the mailed panoply of war,
as yoa may will iu Elect between these
alternatives. We have no idea that ou
will even attempt to invade our soil with
your armies. But. we acknowledge your
superiority on the sea at present, in some
degree accidental, but in the main natural
and permanent, ontil we shall have ac
quired belter ports for our marine. You
may, it yoa so will it, persist in consider
ing cs bound to you during your good
pleasure. Yoa may deny the sacred
and indefeasible right, we will not say of
secession, but of revolution aye of rebel
lion, if yoa choose so to call our action
the right of every people to establish tor
itself that form ot government which it
may, even in its folly, if soch yoa deem it,
the principles of our immortal Declaration
of ludepeouece. You may attempt to re
duce us to subjugation, or you may, under
color of enforcing your laws or collecting
your revenue, blockade our ports. This
will be war, and we shall meet it with dif
ferent but equally efficient weapons. We
will not permit the consumption or intro
duction of any of your manufactures. Ev
ery sea will swarm with our volunteer mi
litia of the ocean, with the striped bunting
floating over their heads for we do not
mean to give up that flag without a bloody
struggle. It is ours as much as yours, and
although for a time more stars may shine
on your banner, onr children, if not we, will
rally under a constellation more numerous
and more resplendent than yours. You
may smile at this as an impotaut boast, at
le&st for the present, if not for the future.
But if we need ships and men for priva
teering, we shall be amply supplied from
the same sources as now almost exclusive
ly furni&h the means for carrying on with
such unexampled vigor the African slave
trade New York and New England. Your
raercatile marine must either sail onder
foreign flags or rot at your wharves. But
pre-terminating this remedy, she will pass
to another equally efficacious. Every civ
ilized nation now is governed in its foreign
relations by the rnle of recognizing govern
ments de facto. You alone invoke the doc
trine of dtjure, or divine right of lording
over an unwilling people strong enough to
maintain their power within their own lim
its.
How long, think you, will the great na
val Powers of Europe permit yon to impede
their free intercourse with their best custo
mers for their various fabrics, and to stop
the supplies of the great stapple which is
the most important basis of their manufac
turing industry by a mere paper blockade ?
Yon w ere, with all the wealth and resour
ces of this once great confederacy, but a
fourth or fith rate naval Power, with capa
cities, it is true, for large, -and in a just
quarrel, almost indefinite expansion. What
will yoa be when, not merely emasculated
by the withdrawel of fifteen States, but
warred upon by them with active aud in
veterate hostility. Bat enough, perhaps
somewhat too much, of this. We desire
not to speak to you in terms of bravado or
menace. Let us treat each other as men
who are determined to break off unpleasant
incompatible and unproofitable relation.
Cease to bandy words, and mutually leave
each other to determine whether their dif
ferences shall be decided by blows or by
the code which some of us still recognize
as that of honor. We shall do with you as
the French Guards did with the English at
Fontenoy. In a preliminary skimri$h the
French and Englnh Guards met face to
face. The English guards courteously sa
luted their adversaries by taking off their
hats. The French returned the salute with
equal courtesy. Lord Hay, of the English
Guard, cried out, in a loud voice, ' Gentle
men of the French Guard, fire !'' Count
D. Acteroche replied in the same tone
"Gentlemen, we never fire first " The
English took them at iheir wont, and did
fire first. Being at closa quarters the fire
wa very destructive, and the french for a
time were thrown into some disorder, but
t the fortunes of the day were soon restored
j by the skill and courage of Marshall Sare.
t aud the English, under the Duke of Cum-
berland, suffered one of the most disastrous
defeats which their military annals record
Gentlemen, we will not fire first. We have
often seen it charged that the present move
ment of the Southern Slates is merely the
consummation of a fixed purpose, long en
tertained by a few intriguers, tor the selfish
object of personal aggrandizement. There
never was a greater error. II we wert. not
! about to part we should say a grosser
or
more atrocious calumny, uo not oeceive
yourselves. This is not the work of politi-
! cal managers, but of the people. Asa gen-
j eral rule the instincts of the masses, and
and the sagacity of those who in private
life had larger opportunities for observation
and reflection, had satified them ot the ne
cessity of separation long before their ac
customed party leaders were prepared to
propose it. We appeal to every Southern
Senator yet remaining here whether such
be not the case in his own State. Of its
truth I can give no stronger illustration than
the vote in the Louisianna Convention of
130 members, every delegate being in his
seat, voted for immediate secession, and of
the seventeen who voted against it there
were not more than four or five who did not
admit the necessity of separation, and only
differed as to the lime and mode of its ac
compliehmenL Nor is the mere elec
tion, by the forms of the constitution,
of a President distasteful to use tbe cause,
as is so often and so confidently asserted,
of our action. It is this : we all con
sider the election of Mr. Lincoln, with his
well known antecedents and avowed prin
ciples and purposes, by a decided majority
over all other candidates combined in every
free State on this side of the Pacific slope
noble, gallant New Jersey excepted was
conclusive evidence of the determined hos
tility of lha Northern maesees to onr insti
tutions. We believe mat ne conscientious
ly entertains the opinions which he has so
often and so explicitly declared, and that
having been elected on the issues thus
presented, he will honestly endeavor to
carry them into execution. .While now we
have no fears of servile insurrection: even :
ot a partial character, we know that
; inauguration as President of nthe Unitedj
emancipation, and ibal the fourth of March
woula have witnessed in various quarters
outbreaks which, although they would have
been promptly suppressed, would have
carried ruin and devastation to many a
Southern home, and have coat the lives of
hundreds of the misguided victims of North
ern negrophilism. Senators from six Sta'es
have now severed the links that bound
them to a Union to which we were all at
tached, as well by many tie of material
well being as by the inheritance of com"
mon glories in the past, and well founded
hopes of still more brilliant destinies in the
future. Twelve seats are now vacant on
this floor. The work is only yet begun.
It requires no spirit of prophecy to point to
many, many chairs around us that will
soon like, ours, be unfilled ; and if the
weird sisters of the great dramatic poet
could be conjured up, they would present to
the affrighted vision of those on the other ,
side of the chamber, who have bo largely
contributed to the deep damnation of this
taking off,'a glash to 6how them many more.'
They who have so foully murdered the
Constitution and the Union will find, when
too late, that, like the Scottish Thane, that
For Baupuo's issue they have filled their
mind,
Have placed upon their heads a fruitless
crown,
And put a barren scepter .n their gripe
No on of t heir's succeeding.
In taking leave of the Senate, while we
shall carry with us many agreeable recol
lections of intercourse, social and official,
with gentlemen who have differed from as
on this, the great question of the age, we
would that we could, in fitting language
express the mingled feelings of admiration
anJ regret with which we look back to our
associations on the floor with many of our
Northern colleagues. They have, one af
ter the other, fallen in their heroic struggle
against a blind fanaticism, until now but
lew remain to fight the battle of the Consti
tution. Several, even of these, will termi
nate their official career in one short month,
and will give place to men holding opin
iiuS diametrically opposite, which have
recommended them to the suffrages of their
States. Had we remained here, the same
fate would have awaited at the next elec
tion, the four or five last survivors of that
gallant band. Bat now we should carry
with us at least this coupling reflection
our departure realizing all their predic
tions of ill to the republic opens a new
era of triumph for the democratic party of
the North, and will, we firmly believe, re
establish its lost ascendancy in most of the
free States.
SENATOR SEVJAMtN's VAB R WELL TO THK CON
STITUTIONAL MEN OF THK NORTH.
Senator Benjamin concluded his eloquent
farewell to the Senate on Mor.dy week, in
the following language, addressed to the
patriotic men of the North who have stood
by the Constitution and maintain the rights
of all the States :
"But to you. noble and generous friends,
who, born beneath other skies, possess
hearts that best in sympathy with our; to
yon who, solicited and assailed by motives
the most powerful that could appeal to sel
fish natures, have nobly spurned them all ;
to you who in our behalf have bared your
breasts to the fierce beatings of the storm,
and made witling sacrifices of life's most
glittering prizes in your devotion to con
stitutional liberty; toyou who have made our
cause your cause, and from many of whom
1 feel that I now part forever, what shall I
can I say ? Nouaht,! know a:.d feel,is needed j
for myself, But this I will say for the peo
ple in whose name I speak to day. Wheth
er prosperous or adverse lortunes await
yon, one priceless treasure is your, trie !
assurance that an entire people honor your j
names, and hold them in grateful and affec
tionate memory But with still sweeter ,
and more touching retnrn shall your unsel-
fish devotion be rewarded, when, in after
davs, the story of the present shall be
written, when history shall have passed her
6tern sentence on the erring men who have
driven unoffending brethren from the shel- j
ter of their common home, your names will
derive fresh lustre from the contrast, and
when your children shall hear oft repeated
the familiartale.it will be with glowing
cheek and kindling eye. Their verj shouts
will stand a lip toe as their sires are named
and they will glow of their lineage from
men of spirits as generous, and in patriot
ism as high hearted, as ever illustrated or
adorned the American Senate.
A wretched editor, who hasn't any wife
to take care of him, went the other night to
a ladies' fair. He says he saw there "an
article" which he "fain would call his own,
bnt it was not for sale." He declares that
since that night he has been 'wrapturoosly
wretched." As the article was bound in
hoops, the reader is left to infer that it was
either a girl or a keg of whiskey. They are
both calculated to make a wretch "wraptu-
rous
"Do you keep matches!" asked a
young wag of a retailer
"Oh yes, all kinds," was the reply.
"Well then, I'll take a trotting match."
The retailer immediately handed him a
box of pills.
Looks Well To see young men go to
Churcn every Sabbath, give their undivi
ded attention to the remarks of the preacher,
remain in church ontil dismissed, and then
return home, " without stopping at the
tjjjoo,"
. Artemns Ward ea Editors.
Before you go for an editor, young man,
pause and take a big think ! Dot not rush
into the editorial harness rashly. Look
around and see if there is not an omnibus
to drive some soil somewhere to be tilled
a clerehip of some meat cart to be filled
anything that is reputable and healthy,
rather than going for an editor, which is
bard business at least.
We are not a horse.and have consequent
ly not been called upon to furnish the mo
tive power for a threshing machine; but
we fancy that the life of the editor who i
forced to write, write, write, whether he
feels right or not, i much like tbe steed in
question. If the yeas and neighs could be
obtained, we believe the intelligent horse
would decide that the threshing machine is
preferable to the sanctum editorial."
The editor's work is never done. He is
drained incessantly, and he dries up prema
turely. Other people can attend banquets,
weddings, &c, visit halls of the dazzling
light, get inebriated, break windows, lick a
man occasionally, and enjoy themselves in
a variety of ways ; but the editor cannot.
He must stick tenaciously to the quill
The press, like a sick baby, mustn't be let
alone for a minute. If ih press is left to
run for itself even for a day, some absurb
person indignatly orders the carrier boy to
stop bringing "thatjinfemal paper. There's
nothing in it. I won't have it in the
house!" The elegant-Mantilina, reduced
to mangle turning,;described his life as a
'uem'd horrible grind." The life of an
editor is all of that. But there is a good
time coming,! we feel confident, for tbe
editor a time when he will be appreciated;
when he will have a front seat; when he
will have a pie every day, and wear store
clothes continually; and when the harsh
cry of "Stop my paper!" will no more
grate upon his ears. Courage, Messieurs
the Editors.
Still sanguine as we are of this jolly time,
we advise the aspirant for editorial honors
to pause ere he takes np the quill as a
means of obtaiuing his bread and hotter
Do not. at least, do so until yoa have been
jilted several dozen times by a like number
of girls until yon have been knocked
down stairs and soused in a horse pond
until all the gushing" feelings within you
have been thoroughly subdued until, in
short, your hide is oT rhinoceros thickness.
Then, O. aspirants for the bubble reputation
at the prens' mouth, throw yourselves
among the inkpots, dust and cobwebs of
the printing office, if yoa will.
A Patriot's Prayer.
Many years ago, on a well remembered
occasion, when the Union was just under
going one of those tests which threatened
to rend it in twain, Daniel Webster closed
one of the most soul stirring speeches be
ever delivered, with the following glorious
sentiments :
"When my eyes for the last time shall
be raised to behold the sun in heaven, may
they not gaze upon the broken fragments
of a dishonored, but once glorious Union :
upon States dissevered, discordant, bellig
erent ; it may be, in Iraternal blood. Let
their last feeble lingering gaze rather be
hold the glorious ensign of the Republic,
now known and honored throughout the
earth, still full high advanced not one
stripe erased or polluted, not one 6tar ob
scured, bnt streaming in all their original
lustre, and bearing for its motto po such
miserable interrogatory, as "what is all this
worth ?" nor those other words of delusion
and folly ; "Liberty first, and Union after
wards :" but everywhere spread ail over in
characters of living light, blazing on all its
ample folds, as they float over the sea and
the land, and in every wind onder the
j wn'e neavens, inai otner seuumeni, oear
to e"rJ UDe American h.art, "Liberty and
1 Union. now and forever, one and insepara-
'11 1
j Vle-
Decidedly hard Tae times. They try
men's souls as well as thesr pockets.
Wht was Adam like a sugar planter?
Because he first raised Cain.
CI" To keep apples from rotting pot
them in a dty cellar with fifteen children.
17 If you doubt whether to kiss a pretty
girl, give her the benefit of a doubt and go
on.
Query If a bat canfly ten miles in
two hours, how far can a brick-bat fly in a
crowd ?
17 A western editor cautions his readers
about kissing short women, as the habit has
made him round shouldered.
tyMick, what kind of potatoes are
those you are planting V
Raw ones, to be sure ! Be the hooly
poker, and does ye think I'd be aflher plant
tin biled ones?"
VW Bad The Charleston Mercury is
printed on -paper manufactured in New
England.
"Local" says "there is one thing be al
ways did like about printing," and that was
"quitting lime
SzcxDtn Scott Town has Seceded !
Quite a number of personB hava bHn )o?k-j