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i TIIE FISHER'S SOWS.
Socces to the Jolly oKTfarmer
Who sighs at the tail of the plough,
The monarch ot prarie and forest,
Tis only to God he may bow ;
fie is surely a tortnnute .'ellow,.
He raises his bread and his cheese
And though hard is his labor in summer,
- In winter be lives al his ease.
When the reign of chill winter is broken,
And spring comes to gladden and bless
When flock in the meadows are sporting,
'And the rolin is builjin; her nest
The farmer walks rorih to his labor,
And manly and tirm is his tread,
As he seiners the seed tor the harvest
That yields all the nation their bread.
His banks are all chartered by nature,.
Their credits are amply nire,
His clerks never slope wi:ti deposits,
Pur ued by the cur.e ot the poor.
Hit sto ks are the best in the market,
His shares ara the shares ol ihe plough;
They brmg bright gold lo hi coffers,
Ai.d pleasure and heaka to his brow.
When his crops are all gathered and sheter'd
When his cattle are snug in the fold,
He sits himself down by his fireside.
And laughs ai the tempest und cold.
A strainer ( pride and ambiltun.
His diny he sinves to lulfi'l,
Determined, whatever betide ?iim,
To let the worh jog as it wiil.
His trust is in him who ha given
She seasons, and sunshine, ami rain.
Who.) promised seed lime anJ harvest,
So io"g a the earth shall remain.
And it trom his dunes he wander,
Led on by hi venturous wiil,
Through, life and its changing relations,
CJot.'s Providence lollows him stiil.
." WfOlTiST lOUTlCAL D.)CCHEr.
Addiess f Democratic Memhem of C inures to
. tkt Democracy of the Uoi'ed States.
FellMo Citizens:' The perilous condition
of Qurcoomry demands that we should rea
ton together. Party organization, restricted
within proper limits, is a positive goo-1 and
indeed essential to the preservation ol pub
lic liberty. Without it the best government
would soon degenerate into the worst of ty
rannies. In our own country the experi
x enee of the last twelve month" proves, more
than any lesson in history, the necessity of
party organization. The present adminis
tration was chosen by a party, and in all
civil acts and appointments has recoguized.
and still does, its fealty and obligations to
(hat party. There msi and will be an op
position. The public safety and good "de
mand it. Shall it be a new organization or
an old one? The democratic party was
founded more than sixty years ago. It has
never been disbanded. To-day it numbers
one million five hundred thousand electors
in the States still loyal i the Union lis
recent numerons victories in mnnicpal
elections in the Western and Middle States
prove its vitality. . Within the last ten
months it has held Fta'e conventions - and
Dominated lull democratic tickets in every
(ree State in the Union. Of no other party
opposed to the republicans can the same be
aid.
SHALL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. BE
NOW DISBANDED?
Why should it ? Are its ancient princi
ples wrona;? What are they ? Let its plat
forms for thirty years speak.
. Resolved, That the Ameircan Democracy
place ther trust in the intelligence, the pa
triotism, and the discriminating justice of
the American people.
'That we regard this, as a distinctive
feature in oar political creed, which we
are proud to maintaiu before the world, as
the great 'moral element in a form of gov
ernment springing from and upheld by the
popular wilt; and we contrast it with the
creed and practice of Federalism, under
whatever name or form, -which seeks to
palsy the will of the constituent, and which
conceives no imposture too monstrous for
the public, credulity. :
"That the federal government is one of
limited power, derived solely from the con
stitution, and the grants of power made
therein ought to be strictly construed by
a!! the departments and agents of the gov
ernment, and that it is inexpedient and
dangerous to exercise doubtful constitution
al powers."
And as explanatory of these the following
from Mr. Jefferson's first inaugural :
'The support of the State Governments
in all their rights as the most competent
administrations of onr domestic concerns
and Ihe surest bul warks against anti-republican
tendencies .
The preservation of the general govern
ment in its whole constitutional vigor, as
the sheet-anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad. - . .
A jealous care of the right of election by
the people-- ;
The supremacy of the civil ovef tlie mili
tary authority- .
Economy in the public exrense,ihat labor
rnay be lightly burdened.
The honest payment of our debts and
tiered preservation of the public faith.
Freedcra of religion, freedom of the press
and freedom of person under protection of
the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impar
tially selected."
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I oucn, nemocrais, are tne prtncipies ot
your party, essential to public liberty and
, to the stability and wise administration of
' the government , alike in peace and war.
They are the . principles upon which the
i constitution and the Union - were founded,
and, under the control of a party which ad
heres to them, the constitution and the
......
Union could not be dissolved.
Is the policy of the democratic party
wrong that it should be disbanded?
Its policy is consistent with its. principles
and may be summed up. from the begin
ning as follows : The support of liberty as
against power, of the people as against
their agents aud servants, and of state rights
as against consolidation and centralized des
potism, a simple government, no public
debt, low taxes, no high protective tariff,
no general system of internal improvements
by Federal authority, no national bank,
hard money for the public dnes,no assump
tion of State debts, expansion of Terri'orj,
self government for the Territories, subject
only to the constitution, the absolute com
patibility of a union of the states, part slave
and part free, the admission ' of new States,
with or without slavery, as they may elect,
non interference by the Federal govern
ment with Slavery in sta'e or Territory, or
in the District of Columbia, and, finally as
set forth in the Cincinnati! platform, in 1856
and reaffirmed in i860, absolute and eternal
"repudiation of all sectional platforms con
cerning domestic slavery which seeks to
embroil the States and incite to treason any
armed resistance to law in the territories,
and who e avowed purpose, if consummate!,
must end in civil war and disunion. '
Such was ihe ancient and the recent pol
icy of the democratic party, running through
a period ol sixty years a policy consistent
with the principles of the constitution, and
absolutely essential to the preservation
of the Union. :
Dees the history of the democratic party
prove that it oaght to be abandned ? 'By
their fruit shall ye know them " Sectional
parties do not acheive Union triumph.
For sixty years from the inauguration of Jef
ferson on the 4ih ol March, I SO I , the demo
cratic party, with short intervals, controlled
the power and the policy of the Federal
government. For forty-eiaht years ont of
these sixty, democratic men ruled the conn
try, for filty-fonr years and eight months
the democratic policy prevailed. During
this peri d Louisiana, Florida, Texas. New
Mexico and California were successively,
annexed to our territory, with an area more
than twice as Urge as all the oriainal ' thir
teen St.i'e together. Eisiht new States
were admitted under strictly democratic ad
ministrations one onder the administration
oi Fillmore. From five millions the popu
lation increased 'o thirty-or.e millions. The
revolutionary debt Has extinguished. Two
foreign war were successfully prosecuted
with a moderate outlay and a small army
ad navy, and without the suspension of
the habea corpus ; without one infraction
I of the constitution, without, one usurpation
of power, without suppressing a single
newspaper, without imprisoning a single
editor, without limit to the freedom, of the.
press, or of speech in or out of. Congress,
but in the midst ol the grossest abase of
both, and without the arrest of a single 'trai
tor' though the Hartford Convention sat du
ring one of the wars, and in the other Sena
tors invited the enemy to "gtcel our volun
teers with bloody hands and welcome them to
hospil 'Lie graves " . : ..
During all this lime wealth increased, bu
siness of all kinds mcltip'ied, prosperity
smiled on every 6ide, taxes were low, wa
ges were high, the North and South fur
nished a market for each other's products
at good prices, public liberty was secure,
private rights undisturbed, every man's
house was his castle, the courts were open
to all, no passports for travel, no secret po
lice, no spies, no informers, no bastiles, the
right to assemble peaceably, the right to
petition, freedom of religion, freedom of
speech, a free ballot, and a free press, and
all this time the constitution was maintain
ed and the Union of the States preserved.
Such were the choice fruits of democrat
ic principles and policy, carried out through
the whole period during which the demo
cratic party held the power and adminis
te red the Federal' government. Such has
been the history of that party . ft is a Union
party, for jt preserved the Union by wisdom
peace and compromise, for more than half
a century.
Then neither the ancient principles, the
policy, nor the past history of the democrat
ic party require nor would justify its dis
bandment.
Is (herd anything in the present crisis
which demands it ? The more immediate
issue is, to maintain the constitution as it is
and to restore the. Union as it was.
. To maintain the constitution -is to respect
the rights of the States and the liberties of
he citizen. It Is to adhere faithfully, to the
rerj principles and policy which the dem
ocratic party has professed for more than
half a cectury. Let irs history ,"aad the re
sults, from the beginrjiogy prorer whether
it has practised them. - We appeal proudly
to the record.' '
The first step towards a restoration of the
Union as it was is to maintain the constitu
tion as it la 1 Sri long as ft Was maintained
in fact, and not threatened with infraction
in spirit and in letter, actual of " imminent,
the Union was unbroken. ; 1
To restore the Union, it is essential, first,
to give assurance to every State and to the
people of every section that their rights i nd
liberties and property will be secure wit tin
the Union ur.der the constitution. What as
surance so doubly snre as the restorat on
to power ol thit ancient organized consoli
dated democratic party which for sixty years
did secure the property, rights and liber ies
of the S'aies and of the people, and thua did
maintain the constitution and preserve the
Union, and with them the multiplied bless
ings which distinguished us above all other
nations ? ,
To res'ore the Union is to cruh ont lec
tionalism North and South. To begin the
great work of restoration through the ballot
box is to kill abolition. The bitter waters
flowed first and are fed still from the un
clean fountain of aboli'.ionism. Amies
may break down the power of the Con ed
erate Government in the-South, but the
work ol restoration can only be carried on
tbrojgh political organization and the billot I
in the JSorth and West. In this great work ! of overthrowing or interfering with the
we cordially invlie the co-operation of all ! rights or established institutions of any
men of every party who are opposed to the ; State. Above all, the democratic party will
fell spirit of abolition, and, who, in sinceri- i not support the administration in any thing
ty, desire the constitution as it is, and the j which looks or tends to the loss of our po
Union as'it was. Let the dead past t ury litiral, personal rights and liberties, or a
its dead. Rally, lovers of the Union,' the change ot our present democratical form
constitution, and of liberty, tu the standard ! of government.
ol the democratic party, already in the field
and confidenfof victory. That party is the
natural and persistent enemy of abolition.
Upon thi question its record as a natinal
organization, however it may have bee i at
times with particular men, or in particular
Sta'es,. it U clear and unquestionable
From ihe beginning ol the anti slavery agi
tation to the period of the last Democratic
National Convention it has held bnt one lan
guage in reaard to it. Let the record speak.
Resolved, That Congress has no powei un
der the Constitution to .interfere wit'i or
conirol the domestic institutions of the sev
eral States, and that such Slates are the sole
and proper judges of everything apper ain
ing to their own. affairs not prohibited by
Wie Constitution; that all efforts of the abo
litionists and others made to induce Con
gress to interfere with questions of slavery, !
or to take incipient Heps in relation there
to, are calcnlaed to lead to the most alarm
ing and dangerous consequences, and that
all such efforts have an inevitable tenden
cy to diminish the happiness of the pi ople
and endanger the stability and permansncy
ol th"e Union, and ought not to be co mte
nanced by any friend ol oar political nsti
tutions. Upon these principles alone, so far i s re
lates to slavery, can the Union as it was be
restored; and no other Union, except the
nnity of despotism, can be maintain id in
this country; and this last we will res st as
our fathers did, with our lives, our fortunes
and our sacrs l honor. ,
But it is anl that yon must disbani the
democratic party "to support the eo 'ern-
ment." We answer that the demorra'ic
party has always supported the government,
and while it was in power preserved the
government in all its vigor and integrity,
not by force and arms, but by wifdom,
sound policy and peace.. But it nevor did
admit, and l ever will, that this administra
tion, or any administration, is "ihe go rern
ment." It holds, ar.d ever has held, that
the Federal government is the agent fthe
people of the several States composing the
Union; that it consists of three distri:t de
partments the legislative, the exeutive
and the judicial each equally a p irt of
the government, and equal!? entitled o the
confidence and support of the States and
people; and that it is the duty of evety pa
triot to sustain the several departments of
the government in the exercise of ill the
constitutional powers of each which may
be necessary and proper for the preerva
tion of the government in its principhs and
in its vigor and integrity, and to stard by
and defend to the utmost the flag ivhich
represents the government, the Unicn aad
the country.
In this sense the Democratic party as al
ways sustained and will now sustain the
government against all foes, at home or
abroad, in the north or the south, o en or
concealed, in office or out of offi.e, in
peace or in war. -
If this is what the republican party mean
by supporting the government, it is i.n idle
thing to abandon the old and tried iemo
cratic party, which for so many years and
through so many trials supported, preserv
ed and, maintained the government f the
Union. But if their real purpose be to aid
the ancient enemies of the demoericy in
subverting our present constitution and
form of government, and, under pr jtence
of saving the Union, to erect a slronj cen
tralized despotism on its ruins, the demo
cratic party will resist,' them as the worst
enemy -to the constitution and the ijnion,
and to free government everywhere.
We do not propose to consider now the
causes which led to the present unhappi
civil war A fitter time will caf iereat-(
ter for such discussion. But e titnxrid
you now that compromise made yoor Jnion,
and compromise fifteen months ao would
have saved it. Repeated efforts wen made
at last session of the Thirty-sixth Cc ogress
to this end.' - At every stage the great mass
of the South, with the whole democratic
party, and the '.whole constitutional ' Union
party of the North and West, unitec-in fa
vor of certain amendments to the ccnaiitu
tion, and chief among them the well- known
"Crittenden propositions," which would
have averted the civil war and mail tained
the Union. At every stage all proposed
amendments inconsistent with the sectional
doctrines of the Chicago Platform r were
strenuously and unanimously resist jd and
! defeated by the republican party.. The
'Crittenden proposilions" never received a
single republican vote in either House.
For the proof we appeal to the journals of
Congress and to the Cot.gressional Globe.
We scorn to reply to the charge that the
democratic party is opposed to granting aid
and support to the Federal government in
maintaining its safety, integrity, and consti
tional supremacy, and in favor of disband
ing our armies and succumbing to the
South. The charge is libellious and false.
No man has advocated any such proposi
tion. Democrats recognize it as their duty
as patriots to support the government in all
constitutional, necessary, and proper efforts
to maintain its safety, integrity, and consti
tutional authority; but at the same time they
are inflexibly . opposed to waging war
against any of the States or people of this i
Union in any spirit of oppression, or for
any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or
But no, democrat?, it is . not the support
of the government in restoring the Union
which the party in power requires of you.
You are aked to give up your principles.
your pol.cy, and your parly, and to Mai.d i
by the adminttration of the party in power, i
in all its acts Above all, it is demanded
I ol you that you yield at least a si'ent sup- ,
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j'uii iu men wuuio yuii.y auu iu wuij nuu ,
all scrutiny into their public conduct of j
every kind, lest you should "embarrass the j
administration." You are thus asked fo re-,
nounce one of the first principles auj the
chief security of a democratic government
the right to hold, public servants respon- !
sible to their master the people; :o render -j
the representative accountable to the con-
sliiuent; the ancient and undoubted prerog
ative of Americans to canvass public meas-
ures and public men. It is this "high con- j
stitu'.ional privilege ' which Daniel Webster
declared he would ''defend and exercise'
within the House ar(4 out of the House, and
in all places, in. lime of war, in time of
peace, and at all lime." It is a right se
cured by the constitution a riaht inestima
ble to the people, and formidable to tyrants
only.
If ever there wa a time when the exis
tence and consolidation of the democratic
party upon its principles and policy was a
vital necessity to public and private liberty,
it is now.
Unquestionably the constitution gives am
ple power to the several departments of the
government to carry on war, strictly subject;
to its provisions, and in case of civil war,
with perfect security to citizens of the loyal
Stales. Every act necessary for the safety '
and efficiency ol Ihe government, and for
a complete and most vigorous trial of its
strength, is yet wholly consistent with the
observance of every provision of that instru
ment, and on the laws in pursuance of it, if
the sole motives of those in power were the
suppret-sion of the " rebellion" and no
more. And yet the history of the admin- (
istration for the twelve months past has
been and continues to be a history of re
peated usurpations of power and of viola
lions of the constitution, and of public and ,
ptivate rights of the citizen. For the proof
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we appeal to facts too recent to need recital
here, and too flagrant and henious for the
calm-narrative which we propose. Similar'
acts were done and a like policy pursued
in the threatened war with France in the '
time of John Adams, and with the same
ultimate purpose. But in two or three
yreas the people forced them into an hon-!
orable peace with France, rebuked the ex- 1
cesses and abuses of power, vindicated the
constitution, and turned over, the Federal
government to the principles and policy of
the democratic party. To the ' sober sec-
ond thought of the people," therefore, and
i uw uuuvi wuaj nucu aaill 1 it lime JCIli
with our fathers.
3ot if every Democrat concurred in the
policy of prosecuting the war to the utter
subjugation oi tne coum and tne subversion
of the State Governments with her institu
tions, without a con vention of the States,
and without an overture for peace, we
should just as resolutely renist the disband
ing of the Democratic party. It is the only
party capable of carrying on a war; it is thff
only party which has ever conducted a war
to a successful issue, and the only patty
which has done it without abuse ot power,
without molestation to the rights of any
class of citizens, and with due regard (o
economy. All this it has done; all this, if
need be, it is able to do again. If success,
then, in a military point of view be requir
eJ, the Democratic party alone can com-
man
- To conclude : Inviting all men, without
distinction of State, section, or party, who
are for the constitution as it is and the Un
ion as it was, to uoite with us in this great
work upon terms of perfect equality we in
sist that
The restoration of the Union, whether
through peace or by war, demands the con
tinued prganizauoo and success of the dem
ocratic party. i ,
. That the preservarion of the Constitution
demands it;
The maintenance of liberty and free dem
ocratical government demands it;
The restoration of a sound system of in
ternal policy demand it; '
Economy and honesty in the public ex
penditures, now at the rate of four millions
of dollars a day, demands it; ' j
The rapid accumulation of an enormous :
nuu j-'di uiaiiciii (miujiv; ueui UfcMiauu u u
public debt already one thousand millions
of dollars, and equal at the present rate, in
three years, to England's debt of a century
and a half in growth ;
The heavy taxation, direct and indirect,
State and Federal, already more than two
hundred millions of dollars a year, eating j
out the substance ol the people, augment
ing every year, demands it;
Reduced wages, low prices, depression
of trade, decay of business, scarcity of
work, and impending ruin on every side,
demands it;
And finally, the restoration of the con-
cord, good feeling and prosperity of former
years, demands that the democratic party
shall be maintained and made victorious.
W. A. RrcHARDsoa, ol Illinois,
A L Kkapp, Illinois,
J. C. Robinson, Illinois,
John Law, Indiana,
I). V. VoortHKr.s, Indiana,
W. Allen, of Ohio,
C. A. White, Ohio,
Warren P. Noble, Ohio,
Geokgk H. Pendleton, Ohio,
James R. Morku, Ohio,
C. L. Vallanpigmam, Ohio,
Philip Johnson, of Pennsylvania,
S. E. Ancona, Pennsylvania,
Geokck K. Shiel, of Oregon.
Note. The names of absent members
concurring in the above will be affixed to
the pamphlet edition to this ad Iress.
Ulaj. General Ilallcck.
Henry W. Ilalleck was appointed Major
General in the United Slates Army in Au
gust last, at the instance of Lieut. General
Scott, then about to retire from active ser
vice. At the time of his appointment, Gen.
Ilalleck was a leading member of the most
prominent law firm in San Francisco
Placed upon his arrival from the Pacific, in
command of the department of the West,
he promptly swept away the abuses which
had crept into the service under Fremont's
administration; and, from the very hour he
assumed command the record of the war
ir. the West has been a succession of glori
ous victories. Under his masterly policy,
the rebels have been driven from Missouri,
Middle and Western Tennessee, including
the Capital ol the Stase, have been occupi
ed by the Federal armie; and a lo Ipemenl
obtained for onr troops in Northern Mis-i-sippi
and Alabama, und Northwestern Ar
kansas. From his headquarters at t. Lou
is, Ilalleck, with his marsterly skill, has
directed the movements of the grand armies
under Generals Buell, Grant, Pope, and
Conies, besides controlling the action of
subordinate commanders in different parts
of MNsonri.
General Halleck is a native of Oneida co.
New York. He entered the Military Acad
emy at West Point as a cadet in 1835, and
stood third in the class, and was brevetted
Second Lieutenant ol Engineers in 1839
In 1845 he wa appointed Firt Lieotpnant.
In 1847 he promoted for his gallantry in
California In 1853 he was appointed cap
tain of Engineers. He is the author of a
book on "Bitumen and its Uses," and a
series of lectures on Military Science, de
livered before the. Lowell Institute, in Bos
ton. He was a member of the committee
to draft the constitution for the State of
: ,., . . , K c
; California; had previously been Secretarj
of State lor the Territory of California. In
the naval and military operations on the
Pacific coast he was chief of Commodore
Shrubuck's staff. He is an astute lawyer,
a man of fortune, and is now comparatively
a younz man, being only 43 years of-age.
His grandfather, now in his hunJredth year
is living in the village of. Western, tiPar
Uiica, New York.
Gen Halleck, in personal appearance, is
; below ,he medinm height, straight, active,
and ,, fprmej. and has a bri.k. energetic
! c;n if:-an, r h firm rii, rhsripr.
: Ji8'nos'e j3 delicate and well formed, his
forehead ample, and his mouth by ro
means devoid of humor. His eye is of ha
' zel color, clear as the morning star, and of
the most intense brilliancy. When Ire looks
at a man it seerns as thoozh he were going
literally to read him through and through
No amount of oily dup'icity, no brazen
aflrontery, could avail anything before that
keen penetrating glance. It is an eye to
make all rogues tremble, and even honest
men to look about them to be sure they
have not been up to some mischief. The
profound and implicit confidence of all who
have any dealings with him is no mystery
after seeing what manner of man he is.
We know nothing of General Halleck's
political antecedents. But we know from
his official orders and addresses, that he
conceives this war to be prosecuted solely
for the preservation of the Union and the
maintenance of the constitution the 'old'
Constitution of Washington and Madison,
and not the new (angled instrument which
Lovejoy, and Phillips - and Sumner and
preaching up. In entertaining aud boldly
expressing these sentiments, General Hal
leck has been honored with the hostility ol
the radicals, but he has not quailed before
the storm, and since his famous "General
Order No. 3," which set the abolitionists
howlingv he has given no sign of a disposi
tion to prosecute the war for any other pur
pose than to preserve this government for
the benefit of the white race; whose ances
tors framed it. General Halleck, we should
cot forget to state, ha f-bown the highest
i qualities of civil administration. Compare
' Missoari nov with its condition when Fre-
mont was removed from the command he
so grossly abused, and we have the benifi
cent results of the soldier-stalesman'B dis
creet and far-sighted lolicy.
The President's Proclamation. '
We must respectfully beg leave to doubt
whether the President's proclamation will
have the effect of allaying the excitement
and apprehension produced by General
Hunter's order declaring the slaves forever
free in the Slates of South Carolina, Geor
gia, and Florida. The proclamation does
not say that the Government has no power
to interfere with the domestic irirtitutions
of the States, or that the President may not
in certain contingencies attempt to exercise
such power; it merely says that General
Hunter was not authorized to i.4 "the or
der he did, and the Government rJ no in
timation of his intention to issue 6uch an
order. This is the extent of the President's
disclaimer. Whether it is competent for
him as Commander-in Chief of the army
and navy to exercise such supposed power
as a means of preserving the Government,
is a question which the President reserves
to himself. He clearly intimates that it is
an open question to be decided as he may
see fit and the exigencies of the country
may demand.
The fatal blunder of the administration
is to leave this an open question. It should
have been decided a year ago. Every day
that it remains undecided is a' day lost lo
the coontry. Such indecision is unbecom
ing, to use the very mildest term, in an ad
ministration entrusted with the control of
governmental affairs at the most moment-1
ous period of our career as a nation. De
cision, firmness, promptness, a settled and
unyielding policy, is necessary in this cri
sis; not a vascillating course, which invites
the assaults of faction and stimulates the
enthusiasm of theory propagandists; not a
hand-to-month policy, a living from day to
day upon expedients, a helpless drifting
upon the tide of circumstances.
When the President of the United States
tells the people in an official proclamation
: intended to be known arid read by all men,
j that he holds in reservation the question
; whether he shall at some future day employ
j the army in destroying the domestic insti
: tutions of the retellous States, he intimates
that he may possibly undertake to do what
he has no constitutional power to perform,
j We do not wish to misrepresent his posi
tion, but we put the question to every nn
, prejudiced mind whether this is not pre
. cicely the purport of his proclamation.
; What! the President of the United States
, undecided as to whether he possesses or
will undertake to exercise the power of
abolishing slavery in the States '. Does any
man not a fanatical Abolitionist seriously
believe that the President has the Conslitu-
j tional power to decree the c mancipation of
i the blacks ? Where is the clause in Ihe
Constitution that conl.?rs tliis power?
; Where the passage that by the most re
( mote implication invites it ? So so long as
1 the rebel! ious Slates are recojjnizod as be
I longing to the Union (and this is thr& theory
i upon which the war has been conducted)
j 'hey ore subject to the constitution and en
.' titled to all the rights guaranteed by the
constitution. Moreover, as our covernment
i is one of limited powers, and those powers
! are specific in the fundamental law, it can
not transcend or overstep the limits pre
: scribed by the Constitution.
The President refer to the re-olution
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auupieu Py congress at rus suggestion,
pledging the United Stalas to give pecuni
ary aid to any State which may adopt a
i gradual abolishment of slavery, for what
l purpose we do not see without it is to warn
i the Southern States that if they do not close
j with ihjg offer, emancipation without com
pensation rnay be enforced. This part of
the proclamation has no ronneciion with
what precedes it, unless it is meant as an
! intimation that in casa voluntary emancipa
tion is not acceded to, involuntary emanci
pation may be enforced as a military neces
sity. The meaning, however, is not clear,
notwithstanding the President deems it ne
ceesary to declare with the utmost solemni
ty 'I, acts not the Pharisee" as if the
suspicion haunted his mind that the resolu
tion of Corgress was open to that charge.
In fine the proclamation leaves the ques
tion just where it found it. I is thoroughly
non committal, leaving every oiher point
in darkness except the single one, that Gen.
Hunter was not authorized !o issue an or
der freeing the slaves in the States of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
The Old Tnion ajainst the Xew.
The Abolitionists scoff at the idea of the
restoration of the Union as it was. They
are easily opposed to the constitution b it
is. They are in fact revolutionists and in
this respert upon a moral level with the
rebels. They are not in arms against the
Government because they expect to use
the armies fighting for the defence and per
petuity of the'Governmenl as the means of
accomplishing i's destruction. Observe tha
course of their leading men. Sumner in
sists that the secession of the Southern
States has destroye the old Union and an
nulled the Constitution with reterence to
those Slates, and that hereafter they are to
be governed as territories, subject to such
rules and regulations as an irresponsible
majority in Congress may determine. He
affirms that the Union is sundered the
Constitution dead in the rebel states, and
that Congress is not restrained by the Con -
slitution in legislating for them, but may do lond, and ihe two then shook bands and be
whatsoever seems best to the majority. If ! came friends.
this be true, secession has destroyed our
government. - It is not true, aud the man
who affirms it is as much of a revolutionist
as Jeff Davis. Wade, another leading re
publican, says tha. whoever talks of consti
tu ional rights is a traitor A traitor to what?
Not to the Constitution, not lo ihe govern
ment, but to the new governmenl unlram
meled by constituiional restrictions, which
these abolition traitors are seeking to erect
upon the ruins of the old Union. Wilson.,
Lovejoy and other radical Republicans are
equally decided in repudiating the old Union
and in foreshadowing a new government in
which their fanatical colions shall rule supreme.
The Union as it was the Constitution as
it is. This is the banner which the Demo
cratic party flings to the breeze. This is the
motto which meets with a cordial response
from every patriotic heart. This is the only
road to safety the only refuge from despot
ism or anarchy.
Paiutiog.
Every farmer has several hundred doll
ars invested in wagons, carts, machines and :
implements. Now how much lonser would
these alLlast if every crack joint and pore ;
were well filled with good oil paint? Prob
ably on an average at least one third longer
than if not painted, and more , probably at
leaf-t twice as long. A great deal may be
done by keeping them properly housed, but
they must necessarily be more or less ex
posed in u-e, the heat opens the cracks in
summer, a shower often over akes them
and soaks into these cracks. The process
is asjain repeated, and decay begins. An
overstrain splits them wider or breaks cer
tain parts. They must be patched or re
paired, or new ones purchased.
The farmer who has five hundred dol
!ars thus invested might save from fifty to a
hundred dollars a year by keeping a pot of
aint always on band, and on an occosional
rainy or spare dsy go over his machines
aud implements, and fill with paint such
as need it. The pot should have a tight cov
er, so as to prevent the paint drying, which
may be best accomplished by ning an
earthen jar, with a larae cork to fit it.
Every farmer should keep a vessel cf
white lead paint the pure anie'e. This is
the bsl for filling in cracks or joints in
small tools it is good for abrasions on the
backs of animals, from harness or yokes
it is good for the scratches in horses that
have to travel mnddy roads, and it is good
to coat the mnoldboard of a low to prevent
rust after plowing is completed
"Wno is Gf.s. Hcntcr? ' General David
Hunter, who is broajnt prominently before
ihe public by his order giving liberty to one
million slaves, is a native of the District of
Columbia, and Is now in the fif'y-eiahth
year of his age. He craJua'ed at West
Point in 1822, and has been ir. the servii-
in the army, with brief intern.ihsions. ever
since a period of forty jears. More than
twenty years ago he was commandant at
Fort Lavenwor'h, being then a Cap ain of
dragoons, and for more than thirty yearn,
altogether, he was in frontier service, in
amonpst the tavaues, and lived in turn with
every Indian tribe from Lake Superior to
Mexico lie rerved as paymaster through
the Mexican war.
When Gen. Sherman was removed from
South Carolina, a ccple of months aao,
Hunter was appointed his successor, and
the department was enlarged so as to com
prise South Carolina, Gearcia and Florida,
and was designated as the department of
the South. It was under his administration
that Fort Tulaski was captured, ar.d Jack
sonville abandoned to the rebels,, and late
ly he ha been rscennoitering very close to
Charleston. Hunter is a man of immens
physical strength, activity and hardihood,
produceJ by a life's caval-y exefcise in
the air of the frontier, aided by a constitu
tion that never knsw a day's sickness, and
though fifty-seven is a elastic as a man of
thirty. He has always been considered 8
a man of discretion, though impetcous, and
in politics he has been and is a Republican.
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rF Now let me tell you a secret worth
hearing. This looking always forward lor
enjoyment don't pay. For what I kr.ow of
it I vould as soon chase butterflies for a liv
ing, or bottle up moonshine for cloudy
nights. The only true happiness is to take
the drops bl happiness as God gives them
ev?ry day of their live; the boy imi'l learn
to b hap,y when he is plodding over his
lessons, the apprentice when he is learning
his trada. the merchant when he is making
his fortune If he fails to learn l!ii art he
will be sur9 to miss his enjoyment when he
gains what he sighs for.
How She Likkd h. A very worthy and
pious old dame, who could not read had
several books loaned to her. which she got
a little girl to read to her. The deaco-i of
her church loaned her 4Pi!jrim's Progress,
and a nephew a copy of 'Robinson Crusoe.'
Hearing ihem read alternately, the dame
got ihe text a li'.'.U m:xed up, and when the
deacoo called upon her and asked her how
she liked the allegory. IMcrirn's Progress,
he was somewhat surprised when the re
plied, ' It's a marvellous book truly ; why
what big troubles him and his man Friday
undergoed.
Two French doctors were fi2hting a
duel with small swords, when one di-arm
ed the other.lhe sword of the disarmed man
flying off to some distance. "Down, and
beg lor your life." exclaimed the successful
combatant, as he raised his sword to split
his adversary. ''Never" exclaimed the
latter,"! will never beg my lile of you un
less I should become so untortunate as to
j .faal ,he be u .erenl rj. Unshed out
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