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mischief mrn
' T)h ! could rTrete in this world be found
Some little r poi of happy ground,
Where Tillage pleasure might abound
' Without the tillage tattling I '
How doobly blest that spot would be,
Where all might dwell in liberty,
, Free from the bitter misery .
Of gossip's endless prattling. .
If such a spot, were really fcnown,
! Dame peace might claim it as her own,
And in it she rrikt fix her throne,
. " Forever and forever; -...-..
There like a queen might reign and live,
V While every one would soon forgive
The'little slights they might receive,
' '" And be offended never. ,
Th9 mischief makers that Temeve
. From dnr heart! tire warmth ol love,
And lead us all to- disapprove
What gives anotrrer pleasure
They eeera to tafce one's part ; bnt when
r They've beard yonr cares ; unkindly then
They soon retail itrern all again,
Mixed op wr.h poisonous measure.
And then treye such a cunning way .
Of telling ill-meant tales ; they say,
"Don't mention it, I pray, -
- I would ooi tell another."
Straight to your neighbors then they go,
Narrating everything they know,
And breaking the peace of high and low
Wife, husband, friend and brother.
Oh ! that the mischief making crew
' Were all reduced to one or two,
- And they were painted red or blue,
That every one might know them ;
Then would our villager forget
.To rage and quarrel, fume and fret,
And fall into an angry pet,
Wifb things so much below them..
Fcr Ma a sad, degrading part, ; ' .
To make another's bosom smart,
And plant a dazger id the heart
We ought to love and cherish !
Then let us evermore be found
In quietness with all around.
While friendship, joy and peace abound,
And angry feelings perish.
Tu Aukij Lover. 'No longer a lover !"
exclaimed an aged patriarch; "ah! you mis-
mm H'wnn think ana hn hlnMPil nnl m v
. . ., . . , ,, .
heart- 'Though silver burs fall over a brow
all wrinkled, and a cheek all furrowed, yet
' 1 am a lover still. I love the beanty of the
maiden's blu3h, the soft tint of flowers, the
singing of birds, and, above all, the silvery
laugh of a child. 1 love the star-like mead-
owi where the butterenps grow,
wrth a!
most the tame entbutiasm as when, with
. rav r!nolf flvlnrr nf.nm in lha win it nmt
, , , . , . I
roy cap it my hand years ago, I chased the ;
painted butterfly. I love yoo aged dame.
Look at her. Her face is careworn, bat it
has ever held a smile for me. Often have I
shared Ihe bitter cup of sorrow with her
and eo shared, it seemed almost sweet.
Years of sickness bare stolen the freshness
of her life; but, like the faded rose the per
fume of her love is richer than when in the
fulf bloom ol youth and maturity. Together
'we have placed flowers in the casement.
and folded the bands, of the dead ; together
-we&tovcr little irraTes. Throuzh storm and !
u: v.--,. , ,i ' i J
BUiiAiiuia wn ii a v a l uu lucktici. auu aiuw i
- - (9 O -
iha sits with her knitting, her cap quaintly
frilled, the old-styled kerchief crossed white
and prim above the heart that has beat so
Jong and truly for me, the dim blue eye than
"hrinking!y fronts the glad day; the sunlight
throwing ber a parting farewell, kisses her
brow, and leaves upon its faint tracery of
wrinkles anselic radience. I see. thouzh 1
no crn else can, the brhht.-glad young face
that wen me first, ehine' through those
withered Fa at ores, and the growing love of
forty years thrills my heart till the tears
come. Say not again t can no longer be a
foVer. Though this form be bowed, God
implanted eternal love within. Let the ear
be deaf, the eye blind, hand platsed, the
finis itl?ed, the brain clouded, yet the
Wrt, the true hea?f, J &IJ ob wa,lh
tl Jova, that all the power of death. W$. the
ifctsnozi cirt a shall nor vC t0 PDt ?ot
its i3eoe!)!95s flame."-
KiCtiT levels all artificial distinction. The
fccggir on his pallet, snores a9 soundly as
a kinj cn abed of down. Night kind,
gentle, soothing, refreshing night, the earth
ly paradigm ot the slave ; the sweut obliv
ion cf lha worn soal, the nure of romance,
of Mere . "cn. How the great panti ng heart
of tcciasy yearns for ihe. return of night
and rsit ! Sleep ia God's special gilt to the
poor ; tor the great there is no time fixed
for Teresa.-
"Ht'JEAND,
I must have some change to-
day.
V.V! vlav at fccmsj and take care of
.it vi',i to chan; e'louh
Adventure of Lord Byron.
Lord Byron, during his residence at Ven
ice, made frequent sea excursions, and one
ol those trips involved him in circumstances
of no small peril.' The privilege of attend
ing him on those occasions was strongly
coveted ; and there was not a gondolier in
j Venice, nora .ailor ia the Adriatic, but re
....... ..
t carded his lordnbip a his countryman, am
lordabip
countryman, and
would cheerfully have exposed himseif
to any -danger for his sake. Hs Jwas par
ticularly fond of the island of SaDioncello,
situated near Ragusa, and often repaired
thither in a lour-oared boat, accompanied
by the Countess Guiccioli and two or three
other friecds. fie always carried with him
the reqaisite materials for writing; and the
countess, who drew tolerably well Irora na
ture, took her portfolio with her. It is well
known that aloug the coast of Dalmatia there
are manysrna,d islands,aed on ono or other
of these, the company frequently landed, lor
the purpose of taking refreshment and fish
ing and shooting. The isiacd ol Grossa
Alinroe is a rock covered with scanty ver
dure, only hall an English mile in length,
and ot about ibe same in breadth. Here
rbey went ou shore one morning, and there
was nearly in the centre of the island a fine
spring surrouuded by bushes, the only, spot
which affords shelter from the heal of the
sun they reo!vd to dine there. The gon
dolier, too, left the boat, made a fire, and
set about cooking fi-th, while ihe company
amused themselves. After passing several
hours in this manner, when they would
have embarked again they found that the
boat, bavitjg been carelessly fastened, had
got loose, and they perceived her at the dis
tance of two miles, drilling away from the
shore. Grossa Microe s about twenty mile
(rom Sabioncello, and none of the contig
uous islands are inhabited. Lord Byron
smilled wh-on ha Baw his companions turn
pale : nevertheless, it was by no means a
laughing matter, a vessel rarely eveT ap
proached this spot : They had plenty of
fowling pieces, shot and fishing tackle, and
likewise a small quantity of provisions; but
onboard the boat there were stores suffi
cient for a week, and these were all lost.
They hoisted Ihe chnctesy white shawl on
a pole, as a signal of distre33; and spread
mantles upo.i the bushes to farm a kind of
tent. They had nothing to expect but to
perish by cold and hunger, unless they were
rescued by some vessel which might pre
ceive the flag, or hear the shots which they
fired from lime to time. Luckily, the
weather was flue; the countess slept in the
tent, and the other? streatched themselves
like Bedoni-us upon the ground. As long
as the wine' and brandy lasteJ, they kept
up their spirits lalerably well, but after they
had passed two nights in this manner, all
of them became - extremely aneasy, and
they resolved to construct a raft, forgetting
that there was not upon the whole island, a
stick more than a few inches in circomler
ence. To swim from the island to another
was utterly impossible, and Lord Byron
himself began to be aMarmed, when a Ve
netian, who was commonly called the Cy-
i
. clop!, because be had but one eye, proposed
t ' ...
a plan for their deliverance, and urged -by
his own danger, and iuduced by the prom
ise ot a handsome reward, he determined
to pot it into execution. There is no good
water on Sabioncello, and they had in con-
'elO0nce froogtit en snore a casic lor me
purpose ot lilting it at the spring. falling
to work with their knives, they cut this cask
in two through the middle, and in the tick-
. , , c ik
lish kind of vessel formed by one of the
halve-, the Cyclops embarked with a coup
le of pole for oar. To keep up his spirits,
i they bad previously given him a dram of
' brandy, and the company were over joyed
' to see that he preserved his balance per
fectly well. He pushed out to sea, where
his singular boat turned round and round
' with him, but in the course of an hour, it
! got into a rapid current, and they soon lost
! sight of it. They could perceive that this
current set it
towards the land, and their
hopes of deliverance
revived. Another
night passed, and! by daylight the following
morning, the Cyclops, hailed by a general
shout of joy,arrired in asij-oared boat,with
an abundant supply of wine and fruit. He
had been driven beyond the Island of Sab
ioncello, and not far I rom Ragnsa, and bad
performed in his frail vessel a voyage of
nearly one hundred miles. Lord Byron lib-
era,,y rewarded him, and on their return to
Venice he purchased for the Cyclops a boat
as a memorial of that remarkable event, of
which the latter was justly proud.
Chatium. When streatched upon his
bed, in the agony of the gout, it was report
ed to Chatham that one of his official sub
ordinates pronounced an order impossible
of execution. "Tell him," said he, rising
up and marching across the room on his
wollsa feet, his faca Blroaming with per
6pi?aTiim tTOm ,e 0JCcrac'al'DS efforfj ''tell
hini it ia theorJer of a" nail treads op.
on impossibilities." - ,
The wild man of Oronoko said to a priest:
"Thou keepest thy God in a church, as
though he were sick and needed thy care.
Our God is on the mouniain-top, directing'
the storra,and guarding us in the still watch
es of the night" : " - - .
Trie law is the wall of a state and when
a prince shows his head above it he de
serves to have it taken off.
. Why is the toothache like an unanswera
ble argttmentl Because it makes people
held their j-jw. ' , '
ORATION
or ,
COL. CnARLhS J. DIDDLE,
Formerly of Ihe Firtl Pa. VohnJcos, Buck
tail's) ot the Democratic Celebration of the
Fourth of July, at Ilirriburg.
. Fellow Citizens of Habrisdurg : 1 have
come, wiili great pleasure, upon the invita
tion of your Committee, to lake part in ikis
celebration.
I was g.lad to -hear that you intended to
revive the proper observance of this day,
which ha?, of laie year., been too much
neglectd. We can all remember when it
was the universal custom of the American
people to assemble on this anniversary to
celebrate the great event that heppened on
Ihe 4ih of July, 1776, when the old thirteen
colonies of Great Britain declared that they
V were and of right ought to be free and
independent States."
It was the custom, too, of the speakers
appointed for the occasion to strain to the
utmost their powers of language to express
the greatness of that event, and the conse
quences that flowed from it; and, indeed,
4th of July oratory was sometimes charged
with dealing a little too much in exaggera
tion. But, while! shaM not try to rival the
eloquence of those who have preceded me
on former anniversaries, I will say briefly
this that -no 4th of July oration ever ex
ceeded or came up to the truth in speaking
of the blessings that the American people
enjoyed during the long period tha sue
ceeded the establishment of their Liberty
and Independence. We who have known
the evils, and dangers, and burdens of a
great civil warcanjook back now and see
how prosperous our lot was, how lightly
the troubles incident to human nature fell
upon this nation, from'the end of the war
of the Revolution till the beginning of. the
late attempt-at Revolution which the valor
of our armies has, at last, with God's bless
ings, ntteTly defeated. And by none was
was greater valor shown than by the gsllant
eoldieTS who crowd your city to day. To
all who are here, ah d to all who celebrate
this day elsewhere, we utter the voice of
welcome. Welcome, Sons of the old Key
sione,ta the homes you have well defended !
Welcome to the Siate upon which your
deeds reflect immortal honor.
Eighty-nine years ago, this day, the Amer
ican Colonies cast ofj the rule of George
the III. 1 n-Mr joyaliy which means the
love n peo; !i have lor a king was exhaust
ed, and the men ol the Revolution drew
the sword in the name of patriotism which
is the love we bear our country.
They drew the 6word upon no insuflicicnt
cause. They first tried every peaceful ef
fort to obtain redress within the Govern
ment under which they lived. The Decla
ration of Independence says, ' In every
stage of these oppressions, we have peti
tioned for redress in the most humble man
ner. Our repeated petitions have been
answered by repealed injuries. A prince
whora character is thus marked by every
act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be
the ruler of a free people'
Nor did the leading spirits of that day
rashly plunge their country into war. There
were statesmen then who calmly weighed
in the balance the imposing but distant
power of Great Britain, and saw that the
colonies were able to cope with it. By a
Revolution, justly begun and wisely prose
cuted, the people of the '0!d Thirteen"
States freed themselves from the rule of a
king whom they regarded as a tyrant. They
established a government by the people,
and under it they grew and prospered, till
they reached a heigih of prosperity never
surpassed among the nation of the earth.
Surely the events of the last four years
should net abate our reverence for the fath
ers of the Republic, or for the free Govern
ment they founded "for themselves and
their posterity." We cannot charge on
them our sectional controversies, ending, at
lasf in civil war. They foresaw the danger
and showed us plainly the way to avoid it.
They wrote it down in the Great Charter of
American Liberty the Constitution of the
United Slates. Enlightened by long expe
rience of separate .colonial governments,
ibey framed a peculiar government for
States which had some interests in common,
and-many interests separate and distinct.
And how did the framers ot the Con.titii
lion provide for all these interests, so as to
avert '.he danger which they saw must flow
from any unwise tampering with the in
terest of one State, by other States which
did oot share that interest. How did they
provide against this danger, which could
not escape their sagacity ; for it was not a
doll, flat uniform despotism they were
founding, but a Federal Uuion among States,'
of infinite diversity in climate and soil and
institutions and in the habits ot their peo
ple. They provided against this danger in
a way bo plain and simple thai the smallest
intelligence could understand it; they pro
rided against it in a way so complete and
perfect that till '.he corner stone of their
buildiug was rejected the whole grand edi
fice stood erect and firm, defying the storms
of political passion and sheltering all who
dwelt within its precincts.
They rested the cart of the common interest
in the Federal Governneat, and they left the
separate and peculiar interests to the care of the
Slate.
; This was the great cardinal principle of
the American Constitution. Let do man
blush that he has maintained it. Let uo
man who looks for a future for his country,
cease to maintain it still.'
I know that some treat this principle as
if. it bad becri devised solely to protect the
intitnliofi of jrlsvfry. in hn S''h.eTn"S'?.!q
as if it were of uo concern to u. No,
fellow-citizens; slavery has perished by
the sword of Var, but this principle is as
vital as ever to froa government, as vital as
ever to each State of the North and the
South, and to the people of every one ol
them. It me illustrate this by au example,
that has no relation to slavery. Many years
ago the good cause of temperance was
seized upon by fanatics, and of -course
pushed to the most absurd extreme. In
many of the New England States, a law
was passed called the ''ilaine Liquor Law"
which undertook to change, by the stroke of
the pen, the habits of mankind and to com
pel total abstinence from every sort of liq
uor, from bTandy to lager beer. Great ef
forts were made to pass this law in Vcr.a
sylvauia, but our legislators, having some
respect for the will their constituents,
couldonly be brought to pass an act refer
ring the queston to the decision ol tho peo
ple ; and at the next election, you remem
ber it no doubt it was in 1851 we voted
down the proposition to enact the "Maine
Liquor Law" in Pennsylvania, Tima has
shown that we were right, for the Jaw prov
ed a total failure where it was first enacted.
YeT, I rernembeT that when I was in Con
gress three years ago, and the tax bill was
under consideration, there was some de
bate as to what lax should be put upon
whiskey.. Up jumped the member from
Maine and proposed to tax it ten tkontanti
dollars a gallon, (or, ha paid, he wished the
Federal Gpvernment to put an end to the
manufacture ol an article that was very ob
noxious to his constituents. Now I conies
(hat I opposed that proposition ; not that I
am partial to whiskeynt because I thought
the Federal Government had no right to
"abolish" it in Pennsylvania.
Iet me illustrate this further by an ex
ample that has something to do with "the
negro question" which still remain? to vex
us, though slavery has fallen by the sword
of war. -The Convention that framed the
present Constitution of our State decided
that negroes should not vote in Pennsylva
nia. Our courts had always eo conetrueJ
our former Constitution of Pennsylvania;
for the men of the Revolution, while they
mitigated with the mo6t enlightened benev
olence the lot of the slava, yet regarded his
race as a recent offshoot from the barbar
ous tribes of Africa, and did not extend to
it the political franchises which they secur
ed "for themselves and their posterity."
But lo pat ihe matter beyond all cavil, the
framers of the Constitution of 1833 declared
expressly that the elective franchise shonld
be exercised only by the "white freeman."
Now, oppose, when we had thus decided,
that Mr. Van Baren, who was President
then, had issued a proclamation declaring
that, whereas, the people of Pennsylvania
had decided that negroes should not vote,
now he, Martin Van Euren, President ol the
United Stales, believing that the Constitution
was no longer binding on hirn, because
there had been a war with the Seminole
Indians, did declare it to be his sovereign
will and pleasure that negroes should vote
in Pennsylvania.
This seems a monstrous snpposiliotij;
certainly, it would have seemed so then ;
yet at this day there is a large and active
party claiming that the President may do
this very thing, and demanding the instant
conversion of the field hands of ihe South
into voters, to wield the political power of
one-third of the States of this Union. Un
der pretence of establishing universal suf
frage, this scheme aims al the destruction
of popular suffrage by degrading it, .and
making it impracticable for its foundation
is the intelligence of the voters. The au
thors of this scheme do not want a Govern
ment founded on the intelligence of the
people. They want a Government founded
on force and propped op by bayonets.
They want a Government which, if il fail
to elevate the negro, will at least drag the
white man down to his level. Every effort
has been made to draw from President
Johnson a proclamation as unconstitutional,
as impolitic, and -as revolutionary as that
which I have, by "way of illustration, as
cribed to one of his ptedecseors. He has
resisted the demand. 1 am not hero to bo hia
eulogist, bol lei us recognize that since he
was suddenly called to his high functions
by the lamentable fail of Mr. Lincoln, his
course has given encouragement lo all who
hope, aod pray, and strive lor the mainte
nance of the Constitution of our country
One speech he made lately which merits
your applause. I can repeal to you every
word Ot it. A large body of politicians as-j
sem'bled at Washington to try upon him
the effect ol what was known in Mr. Lin
coln's time as "a pressure." They had
determined to extort from President Johnson
a proclamation in favor of negro suffrage.
Mingling threats with persuasion they told
him, at last, that they would crush any man
or any party who stood in their way. When
they had finished their speeches, the Presi
dent made a reply eo significant and so ap
propriate that I think you will join me in
applauding every word of it. He said to
them : ' Gentlemen, I wish you all good
morning." That was all be said, and they
went on their way by no means rejoicing.
1 give you this anecdote as 1 find it in the
newspapers; but many official acts show
that President Johnson has not joined hands
With the men who are seeking to establish
a different Government from that which the
men of the Revofulioa handed down to us.
The cry of this party is "down with the ac
cursed doctrine of Stale Right3." They aim
as directly at ihe overthrow of ihe Consti
tution as the rebcIsSdid before they laid
tlavn thou aTrr)oJuci devbt h?
joined in the cry who do not comprehend i
i;s meaning. Many who talk of "accursed )
State Rights'' mean only to curse secession.
Thay may do that and welcome. Tha doc
trine has never found any (avor in our sight.
No body of men have testified against it
more emphatically than tho Democracy of Pa.
Every platform laid down by their authority
has denounced it. To quell il was the first
and highest aim of the Democrats who
swelled the ranks of onr regiments. The
same may be said of the great mass of the
Northern Democracy. Their latest political
act was to . nominate for. the Presidency
George B. McClellan ; Ihe earliest hero of
the war ; lie, like all its later heroes who
have won true renown, struck for tho Un
ion, and gave it the first place in his heart,
even above "Abolition." Secession was
the doctrine of the Southern leaders; it has
fallen with them ; it ia dead, killed, slain
by the sword.. The" great raa3S of the
Southern people regard it now as the "blood
iest blunder in tho book of lime." But let
us never consent to bury in its grave the
Constitutional rights of Pennsylvania, or of
any other Slate in the Union. Strike them
down, and the whole beauty and filncas of
cur Govcr.mient is gone. It would no more
be the same Government than the British
Government would be the same if you could
strike out iu Parliament, anJ leave tli.j
United Kingdom to l governed by ihe ar
bitrary will of Ihe man, woman, or child
who may. chance lo fill the throne.
"The Constitutional rights of the States are
the only sure dfences of civil liberty. It
was left under their sheler by the. framers
of the Constitution; even Alexander Ham-
j ikon, who was the most indulgent to Fed
eral power, lays it down as an axiom in our
political system that ''the State governments
will afford complete security against inva
sions of public liberty by the National au
thority." One of ihe great charges which the Dec
laration of independence brought against
I George the III was, "ho has effected to
J to render the military independent of and
Bupeiiui iu lilts civil luwct. 1 ins ;icii-ii-
sion, revived in our day, and reaching even
' to the total suppression of the civil power,
j in all its relations lo civil liberty, is the
j great political heresy thai has prevailed at
j '.he South, both deserve the signal cotulein
J nation of the people. The absolute sway
exercised by officials in the Nor:hern States
i was in nearly every instance, mere wanton,
J useless, irritating usurpation ol functions
j that the Constitution and laws have wisely
; vested in the civil tribunals of our country.
Do not charge il upon Congress ; no net of
Congress ever authorized a military court
j to'try a citizen noi connected with the mili
, tary service. Every act passed during this
war carefully sont all such cases to the
; civil courts. Even the Conscription act
provided that those accused of resisting it,
if arrested by the military, should be "forth
with delivered over to the civil authori
, ties," for trial. Yet here, in Pennsylvania,
citizens accused of this very offense, undr
this very act, were, in open contempt of
the law, imprit-oned in tho guard house at
Camp Cunin, tried and sentenced by "mil
itary commissions." Do not chargo on tho
military power the bass acts dono in its
name. The military power of our country
has its sphere, and it has filled it grandly '.
it needs no triumph over the. civil institu
tions of our cunnlry. The great soldiers of
the war are soiled with no complicity in tho
acts of petty despotism done by Secrela
'Ties of War, and politicians in civil office.
You men of Harrisburg have seen the guard
house of the neighboring camp tenanted,
: not by disorderly soldiers or Rtibel prisoners,
' but by editors, and farmers, and men in ev
ery walk of life, robbed of their civil rights,
, and subjected to tho "lynch law" that is
administered by military commissions. For
all this there could be urged no pica o
j "military necessity" such as may leave a
! commander in the field of war no limit but
his owa will in the exertion ol his power.
Tli6 pica of "military necessity" could not,
wiili truth or decency, be urged in Penn
sylvania, where no civil court was closed
by armed rebellion, nor ihe due course of
law obstructed, 6ave by those who made
that plea the pretext for their acts. These
acts were dona from iiu "necessity,- civil
or military. They were prompied by that
bad principle in human nature which the
laws aud constitutions of free governments
are meant to curb. Shakespeare describes
il when he says :
"Man, proud man
Dresi in a little brief authority
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heav'n
As make the angels weep."
Your highest interests and the interests of
your children demand that these acts shall
not pass nucondemned, to be treated here
after as precedents. The highest dutyi
now, of the people of the Commonwealth
is to vindicate the Majesty of the law. To
vindicate il al the ballot-box and in the j
courts of justice, so that never again upon j
the soil of Pennsylvania her citizens shall
be wantonly stripped of the rights that are
their birthright by titles older than the Con
stitution, older than the Declaration of Inde
pendence. - The great founder of our Commonwealth,
William Penn, in his first frame of govern
ment for Pennsylvania proclaimed this great
truth:
"A government is frea where the laws
rule, and ihe people are a party to these laws,
and mora than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or
confusion."
It is no tyranny, bat the rule of la that
he established here; and "trial by jury"
j was provided for so amply that ocr latter
' Con!tit!l''rt,)S Jtiv !ouil only tf;ip to sr;
"trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the
right thereof remain inviolate." To this the
Constitution of the United States has added.
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public
trial, by an impartial jury of tho States and
district wherein Ihe crime shall have been
committedj which district shall have previ
ously been ascertained by law; and to be
informed of the nature and cause ol the ac
cusHtion; to be confronted by the witnesses
against him, to have compulsory process
for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to
have the assistance ol counsel (or his de
fence." How this was specially added to
Ihe Constitution, by amendment, upoa the
unanimous demand of the people, is a fact
too well known to you for me to dwell upon
it. You may not be 60 familiar with the
facta that iauglthe founder ol Pennsylvania
the value of "trial by jury." I will relate
them briefly: they will not seem inappro
priate to the day dedicated to civil liberty
nearly two hundred years ago, William
Penn was tried in a Mayor's Court ol Lon
don, on a charge of "riot." You may smile
to bear lhat Ihe riot consisted in holding a
Quaker meeting. The trial was one of the
invasions ol the rights of conscience to
which men were exposed, who, in that day
did not follow the form of worship ol the
Church of England.
The Mayor and the Recorder and .the Al
derman of London sal as judgos, and twelve
sturdy freemen ol London were ihe jury.
When William Penn was called upon to
plead he said: T desiro that you would lei
me know by what law it is yoo prosecuted
mo, and upon what law yoo ground my in
dictmenj." They had no law to show, so
they tried to silence the prisoner. The Re
corder cried out to the Mayor, "My Lord, if
you take not enmo course with (his pesti
lent fellow to stop his moslh, we shall not
be able to do anything to-night." "Take
him away!" cried the Mayor, "take him
away, turn him i.ilo the Bale-dock." To
which the undismayed Quaker answered,
"Is this justice, or .true judgment. Must I,
therefore, be taken away because I plead
for the fundamental laws of England? How
ever, this I leave upon your consciences,
who are of the jory, and my eo'e judgoj,
that :i these ancient fundamental laws
wnich relate lo liberty and property must
not be indispensibly maintained and obser
ved, who can say he hath a right to the coat
on his back? Certainly, our liberties are
openly to be invaded; our wives to be rav
ished; our children slaved; our families ra
ined; aud our estates led away in triumph
by every sturdy beggar and malicious infor
mer. The Lord of heaven and earth will be
judge between us in that matter."
But they thrust him into ihe dock and
gave his case to the jury. Now mark the
sequal. The unjust judges were willing
enough to say that a Quaker meeting was a
riot, but they could not bring an honest jury
to say it. Tl.ey wonlJ not convict the
prisoner. Then the Court stormed at the
jury and threatened them with fine and im
prisonment. At this William Penn cried
out from his dock, "It is intolerable that my
jury hhou'd be thus menaced. Is (his ac
cording to the fundamental law? Aro ihey
not my proper judges by the great charter of
England?" Thon the Recorder troke in
again, "My Lord, yon must take a course
with that same follow." "Jailor" cried the
Lord Mayor, "bring fetters and stak him to
the ground." "Do your pleasure" said Penn,
"I matter not your fellers." Then the Re
corder spoke these words, mark them, lor
they are the creed of him and all like him,
and there are many like him alive this day.
The Recorder said, "Till now I never under
stood ihe rea'on of the policy and prudence
ol the Spaniards in coffering the Inquisition
among them; an 1 certainly il never will be
well with us, till something like the Span
ish Inquisi.ion be in England.
But the sturdy English jury were no Span
ish Inquisition, and they stuck to their ver
dict o( "not guilty."
Such is "irial by jury," dear lo the heart of
every freeman. The worshipers of arbitra
ry power hate it; they prefer the Spanish
Inquisition or "the something like it," a
military commission.
Let the people whom William Penn
planted on this soil say which system 6uits
them best, if they have not degenerated,
ihey will declare for "civil liberty,'' as their
forefathers did upon the 4th of July, 1776 ;
for which we are here to-day to honor
them. And now, fellow-citizeiis, in cele
brating this day, let PonnYylvanians not for
get its later illustration, from the great fight
which lo us, 6urely, was tho greatest o! ihe
war. Two years ago, the rebel army flush
ed with victory at Fredericksburg and at
Chancellorsville was marching to the invas
ion of the North. You have not forgotten it
here, for it had almost reached your doors.
But il mel at Gettysburg, in fair open fight,
the gallnatarmy ol the Potomac, under a
Pennsylvania soldier occond lo none ihe
gallant Meade and after three days of des
perate battle, the rebel host was driven, baf
fled, beaten, btck across the Potomac. Let
us recall this to day and on evpry succeed
ing annivorsary when Penns)lanians meet
to honor patriotism and valor. In tho time
that I may appropriately occopy, I cannot
rehearse the other great achievrnen's of the
war. In many of them tho gallant soldiers
here to-day have played a glorious part ; id
tho armies of iho Union, tho tons of Penn
sylvania were never surpassed in numbers
or in valor. Let them take care as citizons,
not to looso tho fruits of their victory. They
fought tor the old Union ot (ree elates as
their forefathers founded it to re-establish
nt poltt10 it.
Fellow citizens of Harrisborg, I have
spoken of the past; I will not assume to
speak ol the future. The failure ol so many
predictions that the war should last but six
ty day s prodic lions that it would last many
years teach us how fulilo are the attempts
of man to penetrate the future. But always
he may look foward to it trhb manly hope
and Christian confidence for himself and for
hi" country. The limes afford us many au
guries of good. Difficulties that seemed in
sufferable are being easy surmounted by the
intelligence of the American people. The
South is recognising again her duties to a
common country, and the North will recog
nise the rights lhat belong under the Cons
titution to alt who seek its shelter. A broad
spirit of tolerence is taking the place of the
narrow spirit ; of sectional bigotry, which
was the first source of our troubles. We
may see again a united country, not unche
quered by difference of interests and feel
ings; small must be the territory, or small
the intelligence ol (he people, where no
such difference exists: but we may yet see
the whole land ruled by a Constitution that
wasfrmod and admirably framed to ac
commodate all the differences that spring
from the spirit of liberty.
An Old Bachelor. An old bachelor is a
poor critter. He may have heard the sky
lark, or (what is the same thing) Miss Kel
logg and Charlotte Paltioing ; he may have
heard Old Bull fiddle and all the Dods
worths toot, and yet ha don't know nothio'
about music the real genuine thing the
music o! laughter of happy, well-fed chil
dren ! And you may ax their father home
to dinner, feeling very sure that there'll bo
no spoons a missin when he goes away.
Sich fathers never drop tin five cent pieces
into ihe contribution box,nor palm 6hoe-pegs
off onto blind h-d 5 so s for oats, nor do any
thing which is really mean. I don't mean
lo intermate thai the bachlor is up to little
gama3 io this son, not at all; but I repeat,
he's a poor critter. He don't livo here : lie
only stays. He ort to 'pologizeon behalf
of his parents, for bein here at all. The
happy married man dies in good style at
home, surrounded by his wcepin wife and
children. The old bachelor be don't die
a till, he sort of runs away like a polly
wog's (ail. A. Ward
The "relic" fever has caused considera
ble damage lo portions of Ford's Theatre in
Washington, where Booth killed Mr. Lin-
i coin. Thai portion o( the stage carpet upon
which Booth leaped from the President's
box has been cut away for a diameter of.
four feet. The latest "manifestation" of
ibe relic fever is that of a-visitor who went
into the saloon attached to the theatre, and
asked the bartender : ''Havb you the sarrie
bottle on band out of which Booth drank on
the ni2ht of ihe assassination 1" ''Yes, Sir,'
Can I have a drink ol lhat same brandy
out of that same bottle?" "Yes, Sir." "Let's
have it." The visitor tastes the brandy,
makes a wry face and continues : "And
that's the same brandy that Booth drank?'
-Yes, Sir." "Well, 1 don't wouder that he
killed the President. A drink of lhat brao
dy would make a man kill bis grand
mother." .
A Nick Pucr to Live In. The Chicago
Jju ma, descanting upon the crime in that
city, says : Our local columns teem with
highway robberries, house breaking, pocket
pickings, and the marvellous achievements
of the "confidence" charpers. The curtaid
of ihe night is scarcely down, before the
villains are abroad and busy. In the early
gray of the evening; on the most frequented
avenues, the honest aud unsuspecting citi
zens is hugged to silence by the arms of.
one garroter, while the fingers of another
lilt his watch (rom his fob, and his purso
from his pocket. A clergyman returning
home Irom prayer meeting loses all bis
monej and other valuables, and all the sa
cred keep sakes ho has about him by tho
hands ol a pair of ruffians, at utue o'clock,
in the evening, in the heart of the metrop
olis.
Mode of Burying Atiobxkys in Lonqor.
A gentleman in the country, who had just
buried a rich relation, who was an attorney,
was complaining to Foote, who happened
to be on a visit with him, of the very great
expenses of a country funeral, in respect to
carriages, hatbands, scarfs, &c. "Why, do
you bury attorneys here?" asked Foote,
gravely. ".Yes, to ba sure we do; bow else?"
"Oh, we never do lhat in London." "Noi!"
'said the other, much surprised; "how do
you manage?" "Why, when the patient
happens' to die, we lay him out in a room.
over night by hiraseli, lock the door, throw
open the sash, and in the morning he is ea
lirely ofl." "Indeed!" said the' other, in
amazement, ''what becomes of him?"
"Why, lhat we cannot exactly tell, not
beiug acquainted with supernatural causes.
All that we know of the mailer is, there is a
strong smell of brimstone in the room the
next morning.
A Jerscvman wa vory sick, and was no
expected to recover, his friends got around
his bed and one of them says : "John do
you feel willing to die?" John made an
effort to give hia views on the subject and
answered with bis feeble voice : I think
I'd rather 6iay whore I'm better acquaint
ed.
An Irishman being asked for a certificate
of hia marriage, bared bis head and ex
bibited a huge scar, which looked as though
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was tnado with a fire shovel. Theevi-.
tnce was satisfactory.
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