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THE SUPERFLUOUS 3IAN.
BY JOHN a SAXE.
It is ascertained by inspection of the reg
ister of many countries, that the uniform
proportion of male and female births is as
21 to 0; accordingly, in respect to mar
riage, every 2 1st man is naturally super
fluous. -Smith's Tteaties on population.
I lona have been puzzled to gties,
And so 1 have frequently said,
What the reason could really be
That I never hate happened to wed ;
But now it is perfectly clear
! am under a natural ban;
The girls are already assigned
And I'm a superfluous man.
Those clever siatalistical chaps
Declare the numerical run
Ot women and men in the world,
Is Twenty to Twenty-and-one ;
And her.ce in the pairing you see.
Since wooing and wedding begun,
For every connubial score
They've got a superfluous man !
By twenties and twenties they go,
And giddily rush lo their late,
For noneW tha number, of course,
Can fail of a conjugal mate;
But whi'i they are yelding in scores
To Natore's inflexible p'an,
There's never a woman for me
Fot I'm a superfluous man !
It isn't that I am a churl,
To solitude over inclined ;
It isn't that I am at fault
In morals or manners or mind;
Then what is the reason, you ak,
I am Mill wjth the batchelor clan !
I merely was numbered ami
And I'm superfluous man !
It isn't that I am in want
Of personal beamy or grace,
For many a man with a wife
Is uglier lar in the lace ;
Indeed among e'egant men
I fancy myself in the ran ;
Bat what is the value of that,
When I'm a superfluous ?
Al.honah I am fond of the girls,
For aught I could ever discern
The lender emotion I feel
U one that they never return ;
'Tis idle to quarrel with fate,
Fur struggle as hard as I can,
Thej're mated already, you know
And I'm a superfluous man I
No wotrder I grumble at time.
With woraefi so pretty and plenty,
To know that I never was born
. To figure as one of the twenty ;
But yet, when the average lot
With critical vision I scan, q
I think it may be the best
That I'm a sapsrfloous man !
JLove and Pridk A writer makes the
following sensible and judicious remarks,
which we commend lo the intention of
those for whom they are attended :
"Many a man has seen his choice for a
partner in life, the humble girl, far benealh
him in the opinion of the world, and al
though love and pride might have strug
gled with him fot a while, yet pride tri
umphed and he sought one Irom higher
walks of life. In all the vicissitudes of so
cial existence nothing can be mora capable
of inflicting more certain misery than is
sure to follow such a course. It distracts
the general harmony of our days, mis
shapes our ends, shortens tha length of life,
lessens the statute of manhood, and is con
trary to the divine instructions of tfio Bible,
for it declares where love is, there f3 peace,
plenty and thriftiness. Every thing good.
ia sure to follow a happy union. Let no
pride interfere in this matter."
Little 51ac Nearly every Democratic
exchage paper we receive contains at its
editorial bead tha name of General George
B. McClellan as the next Democratic can
didate for President of the United States.
From present indications "Little Mac the
people's man" will receive the unanimous
support of the Pennsylvania delegation in
tha National Convention. .
Female Modkstt. Modesty in a young
female is the Mower of a tender ebrub,
which is the promise of excellent fruit. To
destroy it is to destroy the gam of a thous
and virtues, to destroy the hope of society,
to commit an outrage against nature. The
air of the world is a burning breath - that
every ay blasts this precious flower. .
Lucoli's Poor Kelativxs. The widow
of tha rebel General Helm, who was killed
at ChiokAmaBga, ia a sister to Mrs. Abraham-Lincoln.
So Bays an exchaga paper.
2frs. Lincoln mnstba disloyal, for accord
in5Tp"21boIition logic 'Ioyal" people don't
Lava "relative ia the rebel array.
THE TWO TRAVELERS.
Some years ago two gentlemen and a la
dy had taken their places in the diligence
from Faris to Havre. One of the gentle
1 men, M. Mallaquent, merchant of the capi
tal, as indolent in mind as in body, slept
profoundly from the commencement ; the
i otner, M. Lus?ac, a commercial traveller, a
person ol a very animated character, did
not allow his tongue to rest a single instant,
j Amoug other things which he mentioned,
he let it escape that he had on him fifteen
thousand (ranees in bank-bills, and that
the greater part of the sum was intended for
the purchase of colonial productions, and
the rest as a present for his wite.
M. Mallaquet, on the contrary, during
the rare intervals when he was sufficiently
awake to speak, said simply that he was
goi ng.to Havre.
The diligence arrived at Pontoise, where
the horses were changed As the road
, , . , . ,.
posed to the travelers that they should walk
... , . ..
up me nui. L.ussac emoracea tne propo
sal with pleasure, and Mallaquet, from po-
litariAja o fTa s . I t e Y a n r taut iIaIi'tK tarl
though, in fact, he had no deair to put his
' 1
leys in movement.
n... Knv. din. I n iti. ,;!! .(
r
the diligence tollowed them.
Soon darkness came on. But the trave-j
lers coutinued to hear the diliigence rolling
they both remarked that they had wander- ! o ; r ... .
, . . . . .... Li, : ranee from the air ol tranquility which he
ed from the riht road. Ihey wished to re- i . ? . .
. . . i r .1 : , rho deem him-e f a victim, Mmulaied.
turn t here;o, rut the sound of the wheei ' '
.... T. - , , He went back to bed with contented heart.
no longer reached them. 1 h indolent , .
. , , . . ', And the ren t was, that neither ot tha tra-
Mallaquent crew a'raid. Mn'term a few " . ' ,
, , . . e wrs having Plept, but neither of them aNo
oaths, he bean to march at a more rapid," . .
rate, and tl is mdden change ave birth ...
the soul 6t M. Lussac to a sombre prei-eut-
itnent. iienierril'ertr.g ins unpruoeiii avow- f
. .
I .knf 1 1 f'ioii it, rkt, lu I Irurriil flif!l
.... , . , .
ie lldil Willi mm, iud uiDoi .
m; i tl- .L-d him,lf ; J
i. - . i Paris, and each of the partners amuses
terror whether this suspected companion " ...
,0T , ' " u ... k himt-elf with te) ng the sinsular c.rcum
had not plat ed w.th th5 conductor to rob ",c' " ' ' - - .
" . 1 ,. , p , kj ' stances which led to their bus-.nes rela-
him in some olnary place. Perhaps, he ! ' .
, ' . ,- m-, . tions. It is nver, however, without emo-
a ?o thought, another accomplice m:sht be
7 . . . - - i . t on that Ma laqnet hears Lussac speaking
urk ii2 n some spot near, ready to pounce , 1 '
. . u r - ,i of the moment when the knife wa kept
on mm. in iruui, puor .(..at ucrmcu j
hirasf If a lost man : he deterunued, thtre-
fore, lo be on hi auard.
Willi regard, to Mallaquet, when he saw
Lussac become suddenly silent, he at once
conceived similar suspicions to those of his
" i:i. .
cnmnariimi. tie na 1 not. u is irue. -.k-
! - ,
Lussac been guilty cf any indncretion en
dangering his own en lerpri-te, but his pick
ets were filled wi;h important papers, and
the avowal ot his companion appeared to
hint new only an adroit trick to inp'tre him
with confidence. Keeping at as greit a
distance as po'ib!e from each other, the
two travelers w a ched each other's move
ments. At last, a march coming in the
way, forced them into immediate contact
on a narrow path. Their alarm and distrust
went oa increasing. Mallaquet raised his
hand to wipe hi brow, bathed in pre.-pira-lion.
Luaac then stopped, thinking that
be saw "in his companion's hund an instru
ment ot murder. However, ' to brace his
courage a little, he likewise raided hU
hand to take a pinch of snuff. Mallaquet,
seeing this stooped don lo the muddy
ground to escape the expected pistol-shot
Alter some time passed in the anguish of
these mutual suspicions Lunsac determined
to give utterance to his dread in words.
We inuil," eaid he, "be thoroughly on
our guard here. It is the very demon him
self who has thrown us thus on tha high
road in the middle of the night. Fortunate
y if we meet-with any misfortune or at
tack there is nothing to be found on me
but empty pockets."
'Indeed,'- replied Mallaquet, "yon surely
forgot the fifteen thousand francos which
you have with you."
- "Ob ! that was all noneence," cried Lus
sac; "my words on this point were the
merest wind; of course 1 was only joking."
This speech did not fail to increasa the
terror ol Mallaquet. .
Well, whatever happens," he said, af
ter a few moments hesitation, 'I am deter
mined not to yield till I have fired my pis
tol as often as I can,"
"Pistol!" exclaimed Lussac; "but do
you not know that it is forbidden to carry
arms'?" . . .
'Forbidden, do yon Bay?" continued
Mallaquet, assuming an air of great cour
age : 'ttbere are resolute fellows, however,
who do not much ' regard who, in fact,
laugh at such prohibitions."
This conversation was interrupted by the
trot of a horse; the rider waa postillion,
who told our travelers that they had gone
astray, and that they had, at least, a walk
of two hours to tha nearest posting station.
Both more alarmed than ever, sought re
lief in larious oaths. .
Presently a carriage passed ; Mallaquet
attd Lussac rushed towards it. ; Lussac
wanted to gel op behind, but the coachman
struck him so fiercely with his whip, that
be was forced to let go his hold. Behold
our travelers, then, dragging their weary
liraba mew along the highroad. . ?. ...
Alight gleamed in the distance. Oar
travelers, drowned in . prespiration and
crushed by fatigue, inarched towards the
pot where tha light was shining. J t was
a Tillage; everybody had gone to bed j
but they at last succeeded ia discovering
an inn. t '
Fresh mishap! - All the rooma were oc
cupied ; bnt; the. 'landlord, yeiiding after
awhile to their pasVtonate reqoefjf gave
lhara. the room which be had reserrei for
himself. Hungry and weary, however, the
two companions felt the irresistible need
for" some food. The delay caused by the
repast was marked by an absolute silance ;
and in nearly the tame silence Mallaquet
and Lussac prepared with their exhaufcted
frames to taste the sweets of repose.
'The moment . am in bed," thought
Mallaquet, "I Bhall. pretend to be asleep I
shall even snore with tolerable emphasis if
reedful ; but I shall keep myself alert for
whatever may occur.
As for M. Lussac, after , having slipped
his -portfolio under his pillow, wished his
companion good night, and blown out the
candle, he 'placed himsell cosily in the bed
as he could, but kept his eyes fixed ( in the
darkness of the corner of the room where
the brigand was.
Two hours passed away, marked by thp
most complete immobility on both sides.
The first feeble light of the dawn was be
ginning to peep through, when JVI. Lussac
i perceived his neishbor rising with precau-
, "tcc, ou . , .
! lion, nnd aoproachin.1 his own bed on tip-
toe. MaIlaqUtft then stooped down over M.
: Losac's lace. M. Lus.-ac's heaU beat like
IIU1I U 'HI '
'team-engine. Fortunately howev.r ho
r l ..I . .- I raft, lev rtfirlur ItlA
i fiau nis Kniie oweuci
Deu-ciomes.
l . l
He afked hme'.f whether
v, .,m .mi in hn hfnrehant with the as-
sain. But a litlie cowardice, and the ex
cps of his emotion, forced him to wait,
without stirring, the development of event s.
I uninft ;iinr-
having suffered any greater harm than a
, - . ()f
, tha morninsf
- tlttV IIIL'llll 1 ..IHltllW.!.. ... ' - - t
in in arm TOT liO 1PR. DC
I Tl I.
,' came intimate friend;?, and ended by form-
i;i a cotnmeic:al partnerjnip
The house
... ,Jrior al
M Kllaqnel and Company still prosper at
ready under the bed clothes for a fatal stab.
Tie New Draft.
' Josrjih is not and Simon is not, an t ye will
; w w-jznin aunj. .cut... ....
! will rifl f mill thonxniuU of humble homes
I.l-n.' !.i .lm (Hit I l . I
-
all of f the land when the six snort lines,
signed "Abraham Lincoln, "which we pub
lished yesterday morning, at tha head of the
first pae ct the lUi'y Xfivs, shall find their
way into the lowly dwellings
One and a hall tm!lioii3 of halo hearty
men have been taken trom the productive
ULor which hat made the greauie-is, wealth
h;ippir,e and honor ol our beloved country;
and now half a miilion more are to go!
"When, in God's name! is all this to
end V we may suppose to be the sad and
anxious exclamation of many a worthy
mafon, as ebe takes her seat at the frcg.il
board for the evenicg meal to morrow and
next day, and next day, as the doleful news
shall reach the farm houses throughout the
land. "When, in Gtid's natna ! is all this
to end ? Jioberi was killed at Ball R:iii ;
John at Chatice!lorvii!t;Sam has returned,
mu'ilated and bed-ridden 'or life from bloody
Chickamoga ; Thomas alone remains to
us. Peace ! Peace ! Oh God, giva on peace.
Th'n war is not worth" what we are pay
ing for it. Our own fields will remain un
cultivated ; our own homes will become
desolate, to say nothing of a 6iil greater
misery inflicted upon our Southern brethern
if this horrable war continue?. Shall we
longer sutler, and inflict all this for the
emancipation of the oegro, who is much
happier, tlave as he is, than free as we
would we make him?. When, oil when
shall this eruel war stop ?"
The father liftens to this apostrophe of
his wife, but sits by pale, ' thoughtful, and
silent. Thomas, too, finishes his meal
without uttering a word.
Tom, my, boy you'll have to go this
time, I fear," says the father fcer'.ously,
rising from hi chair.
"Will l?"is the curt reply ; and there is
something in the eye a id about the lip of
Tom, as he leaves the room, which sug
gests to his parents that Tom t not quite of
the same opinion with his father. X. Y.
Daily Xews.
How the Mossr Goes. A son of ex
Senator Cameron has just, afler two yenr'
service, teen placed on the retired list as an
army paymaster, with a salary of of two
thousand dollars a year for life! No matter
he is a poor man and probably has his
mother to support.
The Press of the 4th instant, in an editor
ial says : "Tha passage ofa General Bank
rupt Law by Congress seems to be certain.
This is "loyal" authority, and the annnncia
tioa of this important news, has ol course
the sanction of the Government.
McClellaw Delegates. The Dernoerate
of Montgomery and Huntingdon counties
have appointed delegate to the next Dem
ocratic convention, with instructions to
support General McClsllan for President.
That's tight. With "Little "Mao" as our
Btandard bearer, all the thieves, shoddy
contractors, office-holders and bayonets in
the country cannot prevent the success of
tha Democratic parly.
Tu work! makes ns talkers, but -solitude
makes os thinkers.
Llneola's Abolition Policy.
In his last message the President has
thrown to the winds everything like consti
tutiontional law, the vested rights of States
and conciliation and with autocratic dicta
tation has prescribed the future status of the
Rebel States and their inhabitants. Thi?
cunningly deviled document is to te used
as a political lever to perpetrate his own
dictatorial power upon this continent. He
knows that no considerable number of Con
federates will ever subscribe to the test oath
he has created to support the proclamations
and other radical measures he has inaugu
rated during his Aboliiion rule. Conse
quently onr anguBt master creates a law al
lowing ine tenth part of thtf people of a
Staid to represent inch Stale. With the
idea, probably, that the patronage 'and in
fluence of the Government would be suffi
cient to corrupt and secure a tenth part of
thi most corrupt element of . each State to
the purposes of' the taction in power, o.ur
ruler has e?n fit to i.ue this ukase. The
experience he qas had with such parlifians
a Judge Advocate Holt has doubtless de
cided him to risK the chances of securing
jhi-i frac ion of the voters of each State.
According to this messages we can have
no peace, no restoration and no cessation
of the enormous waMe ol li!e and treasure,
until the peculiar idea and policy as well a
the political aspirations of Abraham Lin
coln have been fully carried out. The ab
solute will ol our iUJiCiil Abolition rulers
is herein announced as ihe future rule of
action, respecting war, peace and the exifl
unc of States. On oi condition and one
S only, can those in ar-n again.-t the United
! Stritfiti be allowed to return to their alleg-
;nr urid thfl.r richt under the constituiton
, Thi5 COiuh,iouJ9 llM oa!k to tttbacribe to tht
I private ov'u.vms, cud lite um'jilwn posom
uiul virtv dtsigns of Alrchw Lincoln, Ihe
pre -at uponetit if the radical Abolition fac-
; jn
j Is lhre a lensible man in the United
i States who doubts but that this usurpation
! ol dectorial power will tend directly to pro
! long the war iodefir.ately, to continue to
' deluge the nation in blood, and to rash us t
on to national bankruptcy ?
The South ha always maintained an3 !
sincerely believed that th election of a i
j Republican President and the establish- j
me nt of a Republican party would conti- i
j lute a direct attack upon their domestic in-
! stitutior. ol slavery. They have assered I
i ar.d believed that the union and harmony ,
; of the States would be deemed ol secondary ;
; importance by the party in comparison ,
, w't h the aboVtion'of slavery. Many years
j of meddib.-ume interference, of abuse and
vi. operation o;i the part ol their orators, ed
itora and pamphleteers, long since convin
' ced the Southern mind that they had noth-
ing to hopo from this party but bitter, per
sitent a',d uncompromising ho-tiiiiy to
their domestic iustitution and their mater
ial interest. With these impressions the
South rushed into rebellion, and our sec
tional and partisan rulers accepted the
con 'est with the end and aim of extermi-
nalinz their Southern enemies and f-lavery
; at the same time. And what has the result
j proved ? Simply that the Southerners weie
: right ; that the war hud not been waied
I for the restoration of the Union and the
j t ature fraternity of the States, but for the
j abolition of slavery and the forcible perpet
i uation ol Abolition sway over this once
free Republic.
! Mr Lircoln no longer wears a mask, bnt
! bids the people of the States of the Union to
j bow down and worship the neg'O idol he
has set befcro them, or remain beggars,
disfra:ichi.-ed, and outlawed vassal. He
has constituted himself the law and the
Constitution, and has graciously allowed
hi Southern eubjects to exis', provided
they wilt adopt Vis radical negro policy.
give up their slave property, and ssbmit to
bis ruie. X. Y. Didy Aeifj.
I.v the recent Conservative Conventon in
Philadelphia, which nominated McC'ellan,
one ot the speakers said :
When he first came to' this country he
was one ot the most radical Abolitionists
that ever lived, but he was horribly and in
famously deceived. (Lauzhter.) The find
afr:iuiri! .,;,.. nlda ill thiS COUntrV WIS
I V v, f.w.ia,.. " -' ' . 1
! Gerritt Smith be found him at that tune
not only workins for the freedom of the
negro, but for the Gubernatorial chair at
Albany he also formed the acquaintance
ot Wm. 11. Seward, and xvas obliged to say
that in all Kurope he never discovered so
much rascality as he -saw in this cour.tiy.
He was not a man to be bought or one. to
be sold, he went by lacts. Although he
wiohed the country treed of every slave,
yet he had found that it was only the true
old Democratic principles that secured
equal rights to all.
In alluding to tha present power, he
said :
They say their life ia full ol holy facta,
They say they'll go to heaven lor all their
' 'acts,
If really ihey reach that heaven of Pure,
They'll rob God' Treasury the same as
yours !
The speaker endorsed in strong terms the
name of George B. McClellan as the man
for the emergency. He reviewed tha course
of that General while in command of the
army, and ol tha progress mada by the
arrny afterward. Ha alluded to the conscrip
tion and suspension of the habeas corpus
by a Government which called itself free.
What McCIellah wished fot, was for the
crushing but of tha rebellion and re-establishment
of the Union.
What I'oime Do We Steer ?
If a citizen ol this Republic, having been
absent from his country during the past
three years in some remote region in ignor
ance of the -events that have tran&piied,
should suddenly return and come in social
contact with his fellow countrymen, his
principal theme for wonder would be the
apparant resignation of carelessness with
which msnj members of the Democratic
party allude to anticipated fraud on the part
of the adniinis ration in the next Presiden
tial election. It Is commonto hear people
who in tetter days would have repelled the
idea with indignation, now express their
conviction that the re election of Lincoln
by fraudulent means, in opposition to the
popular will, is a foregone cos elusion ; a.id
many go so far as to admit that Mr. Sew
ard's theory will be practiced, and that the
present incumbent will retain his office by
a suepension of the exercise of the elective
franchise, making necessity a plea for dis
pensing with the election. Several journals
claiming tci be Democratic have of late ac
knowledged that the popular sentiment will
be dented the privilege of expression, and
they already take it for granted that the in
trigues and arbitrary action of Mr. Lincoln
and his adherents will enable him to hold
lor another term the absolu a scepter he has
asfurneJ.
There is no denying that a great peril
threaieus the elective franchise, and the
most careless observer of the recent acts ol
the sdrrinistration will be impressed with
the conviction that a sys'ematized plan is
in the operation to remove from the peo
ple the choice of their next Faderal Execu
tive. The late proclamation of Gen. Put k,
which if carried into e.Tact, will give the
civil jroverrment of Louisiana into the con
trol of a fpw Federal retainers, has set the
machinery in motion. That proclamation
furnishes the first modem instance of the
abrogation ol a state constitution by a mili
tary commander. The first Napoleon,
wielding at once an imperial scepter aad a
conqueror's sword, never, in the hight of
his power, presumed with a stroke of his
pen lo overturn the tundamentals of a State's
political system. He dethroned kings,
changed dynasties, and transferred the exe
cutive authority to the creatures of hi will,
but he respected the essence of the politi
cal fabrics beneath which the people dwell.
Nation, it is true, have been robbed ol
their nationality, as in the ca-te of Poland,
who-e oppressors have so warmly greeted
by the debtors of Pulaski and Koeciuko
but those upheavals of political foundations
were consummated by the co-joined action
of potentates, not by the single will of mili
tary captain. It has been left for a solJier
of tbU Republic to exercise, toward his
own country men, the most absoluie ol des
potic civil functions.
But the approach of thi period designa
ted for a Presidential election rendered it
necessary lor the schemers to develop their
bold plot. The creation of this itnpromtu
civil government of Louisiana willl give so
many Abolition electors from that State for
the Presidential electoral college. Arkan
sas and Tennessee will be maJe. to furnish
their quotas by the same process. In otter
Sidles of the Confederacy where a snifi
cient number of Federal soldiers and ne
"roes to constitute one-tenth of the voting
population can be brought to the polls un-
dtr tiie Abolition oath, the mummery will
be hurried through and the subservient
electors will be duly qualified. Idaho, Ne-
vada and Nebraeka, po-tibly Utah, will be
lcgi!aed iiito the luiion in lnne to pay
their forced tribute lo the Abolition candi.
date, their sparse population, of course,
controlled by federal authority or bought 0f e war. Rev. Mr. Trumbull, an army
by Federal patronage. What will be do.ie j chaplain hose service and sufferings en
in Deleware and Maryland is evident by : titled him to speak for the information of
the record of what has been done. And if . tne meet:n2. made an impressive address.
all this should not suffice to stem the tor-
rent of popular opposition, the means that , timed address from a clergyman whose al
carried Ohio asairist the greatest vole thai ' iUsi0ns to the sacred scripture were little
was ever before polled there for a guberna- j ete than blasphemous, certainly foolish
torial candidate, will be employed in bo ! and calculated to do no good. He seemed
northern S'.a:e. Contemplating the vast , to cteire to create the impression that the
nel that U thus being woven, well may the ; peoble of the South are unfit to be members
people of this Republic be appalled at the ; Qf our body politic, while we are pouring
imminence ol the- danger that threatens the j out OUr blood and treasure to compel them
very existence of their political system. I to be such, With a boy's foolishness he
But shall it be said that the people ac- thought to make a good point by telling
cept the destiny thus Traced out for them by j his hearers that Judas was the only apostle
an unscrupulous a-id reck'ess faction ? Are borne in Southern Palestine, forgetting that
the Democracy so faint-hearted and sub- I lne Lord himself was born in that South,
missive as lo ak cow ledge that thy see the
meslcs, and net put forth their strength to
rend them asunder? Shall Democratic
journals camly comment upon the probable
result, and, confessing that they understand
the peril, 6Ugest no measures to avert it?
Must we shrug our shoulders, and like the
Mussulman fatalist, say it is wi'hin ths
book of Dooms, and bend our necks to the
bowstring? It is this apathy, this appa
rent indifference, '.his careless, sometimes
jocular allusion to the purposes of tyracny,
that gives strength and audacity to the con
spirators. Let the people seriously survey
the treacherous grouud before them; let
them look at the pitfalls and traps that en
viron them let them consider bow feasi
ble the project of the men in power, unless
an organized and determined effort be made
to preserve the elective franchise in its pa
rity. Do not let us drift into a confirmed
absolutism, without bending an oar or un
furling a sail to stem the current. If the
voice of the people at the next Preoideniial
election should be stifled, it will be hushed
forever, until in some generation of nobler
spirits it rings rot again in tha thunder
tones of revolution.
WanTKD Five hundred thousand more
soldiers by Old Aba. Turn oat, boys !
NUMBER 16.
The Cfcorca and the War.
Doubtless the great conservative element
in a democratic country is a pure religion
But that religion can never remain pnra
when it is prostituted to political purposes.
Its mission is to the heart of the individual
person, and not to the collective body poli
tic. Its conservative and purifying iofluenco
must be effectual, if at all, on single men
and women, the resulting effect being on
the public interests through those individ
uals. In all countries, when men have
brought the church into the strifes of na
tions or of patties, the effect has been not
only to injure or debase the church, but al
so to destroy its influence for good over the
hearts of individuals. When it becomes a
machine for political effect, it ceases to
have powerfor moral good. It makes no
difference whether the cauo it espouses be
the right or the wrong caaee. The result
on the church is always the same, aud al
ways bad.
The clergy, as individuals, have not only
a right, but are under an obligation to duty
as citizens. Their right to political opinions
ar.d political preference is an unquestion
able right. At the same time, in excer
cising that right, they are bound to be ex
ceedingly cautious that they do not attempt
to use their holy profession for political
porpose. They are made men with duties
as men, citizens with duties as citizens;
but the minestry which is entrusted to them
by their Master is not subject to their owq
whims and caprices, nor have they right to
use it for any other purpose than that which
is stated in their commission the delivery
of a message to mac from God; the preach
ing of a gospel, not to nations or govern
meuts, which are things of an hour, but to
the soul of man, which are to outlast tha
evancescent dynasties which men devise.
It is impossible for a right-thinking xnaa
to avo;d a sensatiorf of pain, and perhaps a
deeper emotion, when he hears a clergy
man recklessly degrade his character and
mission by making it other than Gad has
made it. The danger of this, has always
been recognized, and therefore in all civil
iztd countries, and even in barbarous coan .
tries, there Las been a uniform practice of
exempting clergymen from soma duties
which might lead to an intermingling of tha
two characters, the clergyman aad the citi
zen, so as to debase the influence of tha
former to the level of ihe latter. The clergj
for example, have been exempt from mili
tary duty, and in some countries have been,
debarred from holding civil office. Tha
latter provision has not met with general
approval. The former has always been re
garded as necessary to the pnri'y of religion
in all nations, until the radicalism of onr
own country abolished the exemption and
broke down this important wall between
religion and politics. This was doubtless
the reult ol the abolition effort which for
years declared that the accompi&hr&ent of
its designs cootd only be achieved "over
the ruins ot the American Chbrch and the
American Union" The attack of tha in
fide! forces was directed as against tha
church as against the Union, and it is to be
feared that they have succeeded in doing
almost as great injury to one as to tha
other.
The war meeting at Cooper Institute, was
the in main, a reat success. The arrange-
mem were made without distinction of
politica! parties, and both Democrats and
j Republicans joined in it heartely, sinking
I m-l30r differences. Well-known Democrat
j ic anj Republican public speakers address-
ed the meeting in patriotic speeches, say
ing nothing to offend or rouse the feelings
of men of opposite views as to tha measure!
But the proceedings were marreJ by an ill-
. an, his small wit was only a sneer at
the birthplace of Christ. We respectfully
submit to tha clergy who stay at home, to
preach to the peopla that the illustrations
of existing things with us which some of
them occaisonally seek in Holy Writ, are
not calculated to do good, but rather to do
evil. The treason of Juda6 is vastly too sol
emn a story to be cited even in a war meet
ing for the purposes of rousing hatred and
indignation against a class of people, and
the aid which such citation afford to the
men who would bring religion into disre
spect is great. It is not necessary, nor is it
desirable for the public good, that men
should be called on to adrei w&r mealing,
who drew their illustrations from those high
and holy sub jects which belong solelj to
the relations of man to his God Let tha
church be preserved from the dangerous
attempt to make it apart of human political
machinery, however valuable its influence
may seem to be for humta ends. It must
be preserved for higher good, even than
tha saving of a great country. Journal of
Commerce.
There t a pressing demand for wbis
officers of negro raiments. Here U a s
-chance for our Abolition friands to oer
their services.