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B7 P- T. BARNUU.
Definition cf ike word HumbugWarren, of
London-Geniri,lhe Hatter-Goslings Black-
When I come to sit down earnestly to
fulfill my engagement with the editors of
the Mercury, to write for tbem a series of
articles upon the ' Humbugs of the World,"
I confes? myself somewhat puzzled in re
gard to the trpe definition oT that word.
To be sure, Webster says that humbug, as
a noun, is an "impofilion under fair pre
tences ;" and as a verb, it is "To deceive :
to impose on." With all due deference to
Doctor Webster, I submit that, according to
present usage, this is not the only, nor even
the geuerally accepted definition of that
term. .
We will suppose, for im-tance, that a man
with "fair pretences" applies to a whole
sale merchant for credit on a large bill of
goods. 'His "fair pretences" comprehend
an assertion that he is a moral and religious
man, a member of the church, a man of
wealth, etc., etc. Il turns out 'hat he is not
worth a dollar, bat is a base, lying wretch,
an impostor and a cheat. He is arrested
and imprisoned for "obtaining property un
tler false pretences," or, as Webner says,
"fair preteuces.'' He is punished for his
villainy, The public do not call bun a
"humbug j" they very properly term him
a swiudier.
A raan, bearing the appearance of a gen
tleman in dres and manners, purchases
property from )on,aud with "fair preten
cel" obtains your confidence. You find,
.when he has lefr, that be paid yoa wilb
counterfeit bank notes, or a forced draft.
This man is justly, called a "forger," or
"counterfeiter ;" and if arrested he is pun
isteJ as sach ; but nobody thinks of call
ing him a "humbug." , '
A respectable looking man sits by yoar
side in an omnibus or railcar. He conver
ses fluently, and is evidently a man of in
telligence and reading. He attracts your at
tention by his "fair preteuces." U Arriving
at yoar journey's end, youniis your watch
and your pocket book, xour fellow pa-
se'neer Droves to be the thief. Everybody
... .- . ,.nirt nf,cke, anJ DOtwith-
; -tanjlng hi "fair prete&ces," not a person
in tbe coma,oni,y calls him a "humbug."
To actors appear as stars at two rival
,h l - Ther are eauallv taleoted. equal-
' y pleasitiK. Dne'advertises himself simply
as a tracedian, under bis proper name tbe
other boaets that he is a prince, and wears
decoratious presented by ajl The potentates
of the world, including the ' King of the
Cannibal Islands." He is correctly set down
as a "humbug," while this term is never
applied to the other actors. But if the man
who boasts of having received a foreign ti
tle is a m iserable actor, and he gets -up a
gift enterprise and bogu entertainments.or
pretends :o devote the"proceeds of his trag
ic efforts to some charitable object, without,
in tact, doing so he is then a humbug in
the offensive sense of that word, tor be is
an "impostor under Taif pretences."
Two physicians reside in one of our fash
ionable avenues. They were both educated
in the best medical colleges ; each has
passed an examination, received bis diplo
ma, and been dubbed an M. D. They are
equally kiiifoI in the healing art. One
rides quietly about tbe city in his gig or
brougham, visiting his patients without
noise or clamor the other sallies out in his
coach and four,' preceded by a band of mu
sic, and his carriage and horses are covered
with handbills and placards, announcing
his V wonderful cures." The man is prop
erly called a quack and a humbug. Why 1
Not because be cheats or imposes upon the
public for be does not, bat because, as gen
erally understood, "humbug" consists in
putting on glittering appearances out-side
show novel expedients, by which to sud
denly arrest public attention, and attract
tbe public eye and eat.
Clergymen, lawyers, or physicians, who
should tesorl to such methods of attracting
the public, would not, for obvious reasons,
be apt to succeed. ' Bankers, insurance
agents, and others, who aspire to become
the custodians of the money of their fellow
men, would require a different species' of
advertising from this , but there aid various
trades and occupations - which need only
notoriety to insure saccss,alwayB provided
that when customers are once attracted,they
never fail to get their money's worth. An
honest man who thns arrests public atten
tion will be called a "humbug," but be is
no: a swindler or an Impostor. If,- howev
er, after attracting crowds of customers by
bis. unique displays, a man foolishly fails to
give them a fall equivalent for their mecey,
tbey never patronize him a second time,
but they very properly denounce him as 'a
swindler, a cheat, and Vimposlor ' they
do not, however, call him a "hombcz- He
, J Jills, not because he advertises hie wares
Truth
in an Autre manner, but becaue, afier at
trading crowds ot patrons, he stupidly and
wickedly cheated them. ' . -
"When the. great blacking-make of Lon-
rlltmintia.! Kta nnl In tftri. nt In ' Wf'lfl
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I on the pyramids of Ghiza, in huge letters,
"Buy Warren's Blacking, 30 Strand, Lon-
don,"he was not "cheating? travelers upon
the Nile. His blacking was really' a supe
rior article, sod well worth the price charg
ed tor it, but be was "humbugging" the
public by this queer way of arresting at
tention.' It turned ootjast as he anticipa
ted, that Englich travelers in that part of
Egypt were indignant at this deecralion,
and thef wrote back to the London Times
(ever Englishman writes or threatens to
'write to the Times." if anything goes
wroni;,) denouncing tbe"Goih" who had
thus disfigured these ancient pyramids by
writing on' them in monstrous Totters--" Buy
Warren's Blacking, 30 Strand, London."
The Time's published these tetters, and
backed them up by several of those awfully
grand and dictatorial editorials peculiar to
the'great "Thunderer," in which the black
ing maker, "Warren, 30 Strand," was stig
matized as a man who had' no respect for
the ancient patriarchs, and it was hinted
that he would probably not hesitate to sell
bis blacking on the sarcophagus of Pbaroab,
"or any other" mummyj il he could only
make inot.ey by it. In fact, tp cap the cli
max. Warren was denounced as a "bum
bug." These indignant articles were cop
ied into ail the Provincial journals, and
very soon, in this manner, tbe columns of
every newspaper in Great Britain were
teeming with this advice : "Try Warren's
Blacking, 30 Strand, London." Tbe curi-.
osity ot the public was thus, aroused, and j
theK did "try'' it, and finding it a superior
article, they continued to purchase il and
,m,n-t t th.ir rind. and Warren
made a fortune by it. He always attributed ,'
his success ,o hi haviug "bumbogged" the i
pi uj tuis u u'xv -
iDg his blacking in Egypt ! But Warren
did not cheat bis customers, nor practice
"an imposition under fair preteuces." He
was a charlatan, a humbug, but he was an
honest upright man, and no one called him
an impostor or a cheat.
When the tickets for Jenny Lind's first
concert in America wera sold at auction,
several business men, aspiring to notoriety,
"bid high" for the first ticket. It was finally
knocked down to "Genin, the Hatter," for
5225." The journals in Portland (Maine
and Houston (Texas,) and all other journals
throughout the United itates,betwec these
two cities, were connected with the tele-
graph, announced the fact in their columns
the next morning. Probably two millions
of readers read the announcement, a.ked,
"Who is Geoiu, the Hatter ?" Genin be
came famous in a day-. Everyman invol
untarily examined bis hat, to see it it ' was
made by Genin ; and an Iowa editor de
clared that one of bis neighbors discovered
the na.uebl Genin in bis old hat, and im
mediately announced the fact to his neigh
bors in tront of the Post Office. It was sug
gested that the old bat should be sold at
auction. It was done then and . there, and
the Genin hat sold for fourteen dollars!
Gentlemen from the city and country rush
ed to Genin's store to buy hals, many of
them willing to pay even an extra dollar,
if necessary, providing they could get a
gliropue of Genin himself. This singular
freak put thousands of dollars into tbe pock
et of "Genin, the Hatter," and yet I never
heard it charged that be made poor hats, or
that he would be guilty of an "imposition
under fair presences." On the contrary, he
is a geu'lernan of probity, and of the first
respectability.
When the laying of the Atlantic Tele
graph waa nearly completed, I was in Liv
erpool. I offered the Company one thous
and pounds sterling ($5,000) for the privi
lege of sending the first twenty words over
the cable to my Museum in New York
not that there was any intrinsic merit in the
words, bat that I fancied there was more
than 25,000 of notoriety in the operation.
But Queen Victoria and 'Old Buck" were
ahead of me, tbeif messages had the pref
erence, and I was compelled to "take a
back seat.'
By thus illustrating what I believe the
public will concede to be the sense in which
the word "humbug" is generally used and
onderstood at the present time, in this coun
try as well as in England, I do not propose
that my letters on this subject shall be nar
rowed down to that definition of tbe word.
On the contrary, I expect to treat of various
fallacies, delutions, and deceptions in an
cient and modern times, which, according
to Webster's definition, may be called
"humbugs," inasmuch as they were "im
positions under fair pretences."
In .writing of modern humbugs, how
ever, I shall sometimes have occasion to
give the names of honest and respectable
parties now living, and I felt it but just that
tbe public should folly comprehend my
doctrine, that a man may, by common
usage, be termed a "humbug," without by
any meacs impeaching his integrity.
' Speaking of "blacking-maker" reminds
me that one of the first sensationalists in
advertising whom I remember to bare
seen, was Mr. Leonard Gosling, known as
"Monsieur Gosling, the great French black
ing maker.'? He appeared in New York
in 1830., He flashed like a meteor across
the horizon ;aod before he had been in the
city 'three months nearly everybody bad
heard of "Gosling's Blacking." I well re
member bis magnificent "four in hand,"
A iplendid team of blood baya', with Iongand defended right ol jlom: '
and Right-r God and onr Country.
COUNTYPA-, WEDNESDAY JULY
black tails, and managed .with such.dexter-
ity by'GosIing himself, who was a great
"whip," that they almost- seemed to fly.
The carriage was , emblazoned with the
words. . "Gosling' Blacking," in large gold
letters, and the whole turnout was so elab
orately ornamented and bedizzened that
everybody stopped and gazed with wonder
ing admiration. A bugle player or a band
of music' always accompanied' the great
Gosling, and of course, helped to attract the
public attention to his establishment. At
the turning of every street corner your eyes
rested upon "Gosling's Blacking." From
every show window gilded placards dis
coursed eloquently of the merits of "Gos
ling's Blacking." - The newspapers teemed
with poems written in its praise, and show
ers of pictorial handbills, illustrated alma
nacs, and tinseled souvenirs, all lauding
the virtuesiof "Gosling's Blacking," smoth
ered you at every point. '
The celebrated originator ofnegro delin
eations, "Jim Crow Rice,", made tbis .first
appearance at Hamblin's. Bowery Theatre
at about this time'. The IcrowdB wliich
thronged there were so great that hund reds
from the audience were frequently admitted
upon the stage. ..Jn one ot his scenes, Rice
introduced a negro boot blacking eetablish
meut. Gosling was too. "wide awake" to
let such an opportunity , pass unimproved,
and Rice was paid for singing an original
black-Gosling ditty, while a score of pla
cards bearing the inscription, "Use Gosling's
Blacking" were saperded at different
points in this negro , boot-poliehing hall.
Everybody tried Gosling's .Blacking ;" and
as it was a really good article, his sales hi
city and country soon became immense.
Gosling made a fortune in ssten years, and
retired ; but, like thousands before him, it
.was "easy come easy go.
! lead mining speculation
He engaged in
tind it was gen-
understood that his fortune was, in a
gat measure, lost as rap.dly as it was
Here let me digress, in order to observe
that one of the.raost difficult thirigs in life
is for men to bear discreetly sudden pros
perity. Uniess consideribleiiime and la
bor are devoted to earning money, it is not
appreciated by its possessor ; and, having
no practical knowledge tif the value of
money, he generally gets rid of it with the
same ease that marked its accumulation.
Mr. Astor gave the experience of thousands
when he said that he found morl difficulty
j":n earning and savingbis fir! thousand dol-
! 10 accumuiauug ... ui .uU.OHuD.
! munons r -
The very economy, perseverance,
and dis-
nrnrtire.
1 rmiina wnicn ne was ooiibu tu
as be gained bis money, dollar by dollsr,
gave biro a just appreciation of its value,
and thus led him into tbone habitsof indus
try i prudence, temperance, and untiritig
diligence so conducive and neceseary to his
future success.
Mr. Gosling, however, Jvas not a man to
be put down by a single financial reverse.
He opened a store in Canajoharie, N. Y.,
which was burned, and on which there was
no insurauce. He came again to New
York in 1839, and established a restaurant,
where, by devoting tbe services of himself
and several members of his family assidu
ously to the business, he soon reveled in
his former prosperity, and snapped his fin
gers in glee at what unreflecting persons
term "the freaks of Dame Fortune." He
is still living in New York, hale and hearty
at the age of . seventy. Although called a
"French" blacking maker, Mr. Gosling is
in reality a Dutchman, having been born in
the city of Amsterdam, Holland. He is the
father ot twenty-four children, twelve of
whom are still living, to cheer him in his
declining years, nd to repay him in grate
iul attentions for the valuable lessons ot
prudence, integrity, and industry through
the adoption of which they are honored
as respectable and worthy members of so
ciety. a
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T101AT131 OF THE CONSTITUTION.
BttME Of THE REBELLIOUS -.ACrS OF LINCOLN'S
ADMINISTRATION AOMNST TUB GOVERNMENT
OF THE UNITED STATES.
IsL Tbe issue of paper money.
2d. Tbe appointment of Congressman to
commands in the Army, at the same time
retaining for them tbeir seals in Congress.
3d. Tbe division of tbe State of Virginia.
.' 4th. The arbitrary arrest and imprison
ment of American citizens.
5th. The proclamation that one-tenth of
the Toters of any State can legally elect its
officers and make its laws.
6th. Tbe suppression of the Press by
force of arms,
7thThe interference with the ballot-box,
intimidating ihe people, and carrying elec
tions by armed men.
8th. The substitution cf commissions for
the Courts at Law.
The following also may be put down as
violations of me principles ot the United
States Government as established by an ac
tive policy of over 80 years duration, by
the Lincolo Administration :
1st. Offering to abandon tbe right of pri
vateering 2d Declaring that confiscation of prop
erty shall extend beyond the life of the per
son attained ol treason, thus making treason
work corruption of blood.
3d. Its disposition to form entangling al
liances with European powers, as shown
in its intercourse with Russia, a nation of
serfs ; while , at the same lime, it denounces
and union with slaveholders, and carrieson
a war ct extermination against its own
countrymen and brothers. .
4th. The total abandonment, in practice,
of the Monroe Doctrine:
Mb. The delivery to the Inquisitorial
Government of Soain of a refasee : without
law. and in violation of the long cherished
The Republican Record.
We give below the resolution of the
Chicago Convention of 1860, the resoln
tions advocated in Congress in 1861, and
the resolution adopted at the Baltimore
Convention ot 1864. Four years ago al
most every Lincoln man threw the lie in
your teeth if you called them abolitionists,
or contended that their party were in favor
of interfering with slavery in the States,
and poiqted to the 4th section of the ' plat
lorm. It reads as follows :
"That the maintenance inviolate of tr.s
rights of the Stf tes, and especially the right
of each Staie to order and control its own
domestic institutions according to its own
judgment exclusively, is , essential to that
balance of power on which the perfection
and endurance of our political fabric de
pends j and we denounce the lawless inva
eion by arro'ed force of the soil of any State
or Territory, no matter under what prelect,
as among the greatest of crimes." . -
That is the. doctrine npon which Mr
Lincoln was elected to the office of Presi
dent ohhe United States, it was1 the doctrine
of his Inaugural Addreas and it was the
doctrine of all parties in the House of
Kepresentatives'on the 11th of February,
as will be seen by the following resolutions
which were passed by a neatly unanimous
vote : -
"Rssolved, That the Federal Govern
ment nor the people or governments of the
non-elaveholding slates have a purpose Or
a constitutional right to legislate upon or
interfere with slavery in any of tbe Slates
of the Union. ....
"Resolved, That those , persons in the
North who do not subscribe to the foregoing
propositions are too insignificant in number
and influence to excite the serious attention
or alarm ot any portion of the people of the
republic, and that, the increase of their
numbers and infloence does not keep pace
with the increase of the aggregate popula
tion of tbe "Union " '
It wae only on the 22d July, 1861, one
day alter the battle of Bull Ron, when tbey
began to realize tho perilous condition of
the country, that the House of Representa
tives again spoke in the Resolution of a
pure patriot and statesman the words of
truih and soberness, and to which ssnti
men.s it would have been well had they
adhered to for all lime to come.
"Resolved, That this war is not waged
oo their part in any spirit of oppression,
nor for any purpose of conquest or subjuga
tion, nor for the purpose of overthrowing or
interfering with the rights or established
institutions of those States, but to defend
and maintain the supremacy of the Consti
tution and to preserve the Union with all
the dignity equality, and the rights of the
eeveral States unimpaired ;and that aa oon
as these ot jects are accomplished the war
ought to cease."
At the time of the passage of this Resolu
tion it was said that the action of the House
received tbe approbation of the President.
In a little over a tyear (Subsequent to thto,
the President issued bis Proclamation
giving notice that the slaves of all States in
Rebellion on tbe first of January following
should be declared free. Another procla
mation was irsued on the first of January
1863, declaring four millions of slaves free,
thus doing what his own friends had pre
viously declared he had no right to do, and
repudiHling his own inaugural and th9
Chicago platform on which he had placed
himself. Uufortunately for the country he
was elevated to the office of President. The
late Baltimore Convention which renomi
nated him was brt the mere automaton of
the President, aud tbey declared as he had
previously dono.
'Resolved, That a slavery was tbe
cause and now constitutes the strengtb of
the rebellion and it most be always and
everywhere hostile to the principles of Re
publican Government, justice and the na
tional safety demand its utter and com
plete extirpation from the soil of the Re
public, ad that we uphold and maintain
the acts and proclamations by which the
Government in its defence has aimed a di
rect blow at this gigantic evil. We are in
favor furthermore of such an amendment to
the Constitution, to be made by the' people,
in conformity with its provisions, as shall
terminate and forever prohibit the existence
of slavery wi:hin the limits or jurisdiction
ot the United States." '
Abraham Lincoln and his party are
hostile to the platform upon which he was
elected in I860 hostile to the rights of
nearly one half of the States and hostile to
tbe principles which. were bequeathed to
us by wiser and better men than himself
and his advisers.
We might in reviewing his course
throaghout, expose his glaring inconsisten
cies, bat il is entirely nuaescessary as the
country has already learned it at an enor
mous cost. He has already acknowledged
that he has violated his oath of office, by a
violation of the Constitution, yet he has the
effrontery to ask the people tore-elect him
for another term, that he may consumate
their fioal destruction. Before voting again
for him tbey will enquire what I blood and
treasure will be required for the "utter and
complete extirpation from the soil of the
Republic," an institution which was ad
mitted until two years since they had no
constitutional right to interfere with. Be
fore voting again for him they must forget
the cities that have been sacked, the fields
that have been desolated, the widows and
orphans it has made and the brethren that
have been slain in a causeless and
unnatural contest, and even memory itself
must be. unseated in the individual before
he will cast his vote for the re-election of
Abraham Lincoln.' ' ' J ' "
20, L8)4.
War Tte Dead in the Wilderness.
Lieut. Bailey of the 16th Regiment N. Y.
Vols., writes from Auandale on the 14 h
in'su , . . , .........
f did not rnfet. when I . left von .in
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in
Rochester, and promised to write you, that . part of the individual in power to perpeiu
I should visit the battle fields of the ,WiI- ate his despotic and calamitous reig-n bf
derness again at this early period if at all.
I arrived in , camp on Sunday afternoon
after leaving you, and was placed, on duty
as officer of the guard ; and the day follow
ing was detailed as one of the officers to
accompany an expedition ot 500 cavalry to
guard an ambulanae train, aiid rescue our
wounded who were yet in the hands of the
enemy, whom they had placed under guard
and were removing to Richmond as fast as
possible, as prisoners. We arrived at tbe
United States Ford, on the Rapidan, Friday
night; croeaed Saturday morning and at 10
found a deserted hospital where tbe first
three days of the battle were fought. To'
within about a mile of this the dead of both
armies had been buried ; but from . this to
the next hospital (about fifteen miles) the
dead remain as death found them. Il is a
scene I shall not attempt to describe, and
so utterly awful that I could not do it. Il is
estimated that 15,000 of our men, and ac
many, or more, of rebels lie here onburied ;
and as six weeks bave paed since the
battle, imagination in its fancies cannot
begin to paint the rpectacle. I most pass
it. After parsing through this wilderness
of death, we' found another hospital, sur
prised the guards and took possession, and
found about sixty wounded in charge ol
one of our surgeons, ha being a prisoner
also. We did not stop to inquire to whom
or what side they belonged, whether friend
or toe, but commenced at once to put thrm
into our ambulances and to make ou way
out of this wilderness and shedow of death,
haateniag on our way to Washington. An
official account of tbe expedition will
doubtless soon be made. We did not
allow any talking with the men many ot
them had all they could bear to endure the
transit ; and ae nearly the whole of them
had to sit up, and as come of them had
limbs amputated, we judged a portioo
wonld die on the way with all tbe care we
could exercise, and so they did. As to the
care they had received, they all say that as
much had been done .for them as, under
circumstances was possible. They all ex
pressed great satisfaction that we had come
for them, aad that they were going with us
back under the old flag. One scene affect
ed me much. It was found that one poor
fellow was totally unfit to be removed, and
when we told him so he said, '-take me
with you as far as I can go, and jet me die
on my way home ! if you do not, I shall
crawl after the train as long as life lasts and
then die on the field with my comrades !"
We put him in an ambulance, and brought
him along until death relieved him, then
stopped and buried him. His last worJs
were, "Now I am flying, but I know I shall
not be left above ground for vultures to feed
upon, as my comrades were." No one had
any words but atl tears hero.
A raiKND sends os the following propo
sition of a platlorm for the Chicago Con
vention, wiili a request that il republished
in The Age. He does not know theautbor,
nor is such knowledge essentisl to a just
appreciation of the paper : Age.
PLATFORM FOR CHICAOO.
"A Prominent Democrat, who is not
known as a manipulating politician, but
nevertheless one whose position and knowl. j
edge of the events of the country make his
views worthy of consideration, submits the
following platform for the delegates to the
Chicago Convention to cogitate over. He
claims that the Constitution contains within
itself ample provisions for all emergencies,
whether in peace or war, prosperity or ad
versity, or to cope with conspiracies, trea
son, rebellion or other violations of law and
order ; also, that the first plank is broad
enough and sufficiently comprehensive for
every Democrat end conservative in the s
country to stand upon, and maintain effi
ciently every State and persoral right be
queathed us by our sires of the Revolution,
and that all other issues are factious, dis
trading, disorganizing and injudicious.
The second plank of the platform is inten
ded to impress upon the person who is now
in power that his office is not hereditary,
but subject to the will ot the majority of the
people ; that the Democratic party intend
that the coming election shall be ;a fair and
honest one. We give his piatlorm for the
benefit of all concerned :
1. The Union and the Constitution as
established by Washington and the fathers
ct the Republic.
2. In view of the unconstitutional acts of
Abraham Lincoln during the past three
years, and of his manifest intention to con
trol the coming Presidential election by
means of a similar coarse of procedure,
like unnecessary proclamations of martial
law, military intimidation and coercion,
Government patronage, bribery and Iraud,
arbitrary and unconstitutional modes and
rules for voting, partisan persecutions of all
military men and civilians who presume to
entertain or announce opinions adverse to
bis own, and by a violation of all constitu
tional and State laws which stand in the.
way of his personal ambition or the success
of his faction :
Be it Resolvtd, That the Democratic Con
servative' and Constitutional men of the
loyal States hereby pledge "their fortunes,
tkeir lives and their sacred honor" to de
fend and preserve the freedom of speech,
the freedom-of the press, -and the freedom'
Two Dollars per Annua.
NUMBER 39.
and purity of the ballof box in the ap
proaching Presidential election; that whilw
pledging ourselves to acquiesce .Id nd
abide by any honest and lair election we
hereby solemnly declare that we will resist
to the last 'extremity any attempt on. the
fraud, military coercion,or other "mdde thatf
that pointed out by the Constitution- an4
Isws of. the United Sjstes. . ,
. The Conservative men of tbe Jbyal tatee
would regard a revolution at home as a dirg
calamity but when the questions at issue
are an oncons titntionaf, proscripttverTcroet
and fanatical despotism on the one J band",
and the Union, the Constitution and the in
alienable right's and privileges bequeathed
us by our lathers on the othor.no true Airier
ican citizen or patriot can hesitate as to his
imperative duty. The former inevitably
leads to an indefinite prolongation - of the
war, universal suffering and oppression;
national bankruptcy, anarchy audacoceoU
id ate d military despotism , while the latter
would most assuredly bring about a speedy
honorable and satisfactory peace, a restora
tion of the Union, and a return of public
confidence, public, credit, prosperity, fra
ternity and general happiness. , -- 'j
The lawless attempt of Mr. Lincoln., by
declaring martial law, to suppress the Con
servative Union party in Keotucky, is high
ly characteristic cf the maa and bis meth
odr. That part? embraces, unquestionably,
seven-eighths of ail the citizen of -the
Slate, who have been from the . beginning
opposed to cecssioti, and unconditionally
loyal to the Constitution. From it has been
raised, almost to a man. the entire force of
over forty regimeots sent by Kentucky to
the sepport cf the national cause. In its
racks are found to day every great leader,
military and civil, whese noble patriotism
has made Kentucky the first among; tho
border Slates for loyalty, the clearest from
participation in rebellion, the rdost defiant
of blandiAhrtWit or intrigue directed against
her integrity as a member, of tbe national
Union. Bramlette, Jacob, Wolford,. Pren
tice, Davis, Mallory, Guthrie ; these are
but representatives among those noble ci
vilians and soldiers who illustrate the devo
tion and truth of that State,the most severe
ly tried and tlis noblest of all that rallied in
hope around the national flag wheu .'hi
war bsgan. Against her interests and ber
sympathies, in spite of wrong, actaal and
threatened, in the face.of insults, more try
ing than all, Kentucky has remained faith
ful. A nd to day she is still as faithful as at
first. The State of Henry Clay has never
disgraced the great leader of whom she
was so proud, and whose lessons she team
ed so well. She is "faithful onto death."
Let the facts speak for thermelves. In
vasion after invasion has swept across the
State. Not a man who would joia the Con
federate cause,but has had, not only oppor
tunity brought right home to his door, but
every inducement held out to him to cast
in his lot with the rebellion. Yet the Union
army has gathered ten recruits - Kentucky
soldiers, the army knows them to one that
has gone off with the Confederates. To
the last it has been so, and we confess our
selves astonished that, notwhhs:anding the
outrages ot late heaped upon her people,
Morgan is now said to have been driven
into Tennessee, with little or none of that
addition to bis force which he relied upon,
raised among his old neighbors. Kentucky,
loyal as she has been, is proved never to
have been so loyal as to day.
Why, then, does Mr. Lincoln now place
Kentucky oader the control of his military
underlings ? Why does he stamp her into
the duet wilh Maryland, Delaware,Missonri
and Louisiana, States no longer, save in
name To rhetilion these disfranchised
commnnities Is to answer the question
Kentucky has a voice in the coming elec
tion, and that voice, onstirled. will never
name Air. Lincoln tor .the Presidency. The
j experiment has been tried of controlling
the ballot box by the bayotie!,lried success
fully ; and the President now exteuds the
area of his shameful experiment to Ken
tucky. Kentucky is to be forced, with Lin
coln's hand upon her throat, to gurgle out
' Lincoln," in November. That is ihe whole
secret of "Martial law." We shall see
whether the bear has not a harder hog than
the hunter. There is no allegiatice to any
tyrant due in America. Kentucky has not
held her truth to the Union throagh three
years of more than Spartan devotion,
against the forces of a confederation headed
by one of her sons, uow to yield to Ihe
equally violent and illegal action of anoiiaer.
The two may vie with each other in tbeir
unnatural attempts to destroy their com
mon mother. One has been aaswered by
the serried st'el of heroic battalions, the
other will meet, i.i response to hi lawless
violence, snly a stern silence. Kentucky
is disfranchised, but she will never be dis
honored. Mr Lincoln will never get her
vote. Boston Courier.
Shoddy in a Skarc A very pretty figl4
has been going on for a week or two be
tween Thurlow Weed, Opdyke, David Dud
ley Field, Greeley and the Evening Post"
Poet Bryant's paper. The dramatis personU
are all of the Knights of Shoddy? and the
fight relates particularly to the ' question of
"Who stole tbe most from the Government
on contracts ?''
An auctioneer said ol a-geatieman who
had bought a table, but never came to take
it away, ibal be was one of the most un.
come-for-table persons be ever knew in tnd
.whole course of hia life .w 'Li- s
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