DAILY POST. The tnion as it was; The Constitution as it is! FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 28 Alir Reading mat ter on every page Poste Wanted. We require Daily Posts of the following dates to complete our files for 1361, and will pay liberally for them at our counter : June 20th, 1; August 18th, 1, 80th, 2; September 27th, 2; Oct. 2d, 2. WENDELL PHILLIPS While contending that mob violence can not be justified under scarcely any circum stance's, we cannot, at the same time ap preciate the indignation of some of our eotemporaries, because of the outrage committed the other evening against free speech in Cincinnati. Our want of fq.i preciation, in this case, arises from the fact, that we do not believe some of those honest, who are declaiming most loudly for the freedom cf speech, for Wendell Phillips. We know to what limits the free dom of speech has been carried in some localities in the United States. We have known it to descend in our own city to the vilest vulgarity and profanity, until its pa trons were compelled, for their families' sakes, to withdraw from it their counte nance and support, and urge its punish ment upon the attention of unwillinggrand juries. .We have seen this punishment af ter being inflicted, clamorously turned into persecution for free speech, and the con. viet, made a martyr, borne in triumph from the cell of a county prison, upon the shoul ders of an infuriated rabble, and in forty eight hours after elevated to our first mu nicipal dignity. This shows what dema gogues can accomplish in the name of free speech, so that Wendell Phillips or any of his class, had better he left to an enjoy. ment of their right, which in its exerei , e he and they invariably abuse. The address which Mr. Wendell Phil lips is uow delivering throughoutthe coun try. was first spoken by him in Washing ton City. It was published on the lath inst. in the New York Tribune, and from it we quote the following extract. Mr. Phillips said: "I have labored nineteen years to take nineteen States-out of the Union, and if I have spent any nineteen years to the satis faction of the Puritan conscience: it teas thoSe nineteen years. The child of six generations of Puritans, 1 was taught at a mother's knee to love purity- before peace. And when Daniel Webster taught me that the Union meant making white men hypo crites and black men slaves; that it meant lynch law in the Carolinas and mob law in Massachusetts; that it meant lies in the I pulpit and gags in she Senate; when I was told that the cementing of the Union was returning slaves to their masters, in the name of the God that I loved and had been taught to-honor, I cursed the Constitution ant t he Union. and endeavored to break it, and, thank God, it is broken." Is it surprising that in a crisis like the present, when the country is convulsed from its centre to its circumference by frat ricidal war, that some indignation Fhould bc., aroused by such open and defiant avow aa-we have quoted? Phillips not only sells creation that he has hated, and la bored for the destruction of our Constitu tion, but the wild fanatic slanders the peerless and mighty dead. Wendell Phil lips infamously lied in the Capital of our Country, when he attributed doc trines to Daniel Webster, such as he has ut tered and published. And yet, this is the impious monster about whom so many tears 'have been shed: not content with breaking up the Union, jackal like, he de scends to the tomb of, and slanders the memory of, one of its ablest defenders. This evening Wendell Phillips holds forth in Chicago; since the outrage alluded to, it is remarkable to see how horrified the abolition press of that city has become at the interference with the speech of the Abolition conspirator. Nothing has so enraged them since Beauregard's firing on Fort Sumpter. Not that they care partic ularly for Phillips, but to vindicate our American birth right, the freedom of speech ! Eight years ago, when Stephen, A. Douglas returned to his house, in Chicago, after the adjournment of Congress, how did these champions of free speech there treat him; His arrival was Celebrated by his effigy hanging from nearly every gas post in the city suspended by the neck, and visible as in the glare, of the sun. Had he labored for the destruction of his coon try for "nineteen years," that he was so treated? Not he; he had merely exercis ed the freedom of speech in the Senate of the United States, speaking for a State which afterwards sustained his public con duct, and for that he incurred the ribaldry and infamy alluded to. In 1852, Douglas stood on the very trenches of the 'Union, and with Webster. Clay, Cass and others, rescued it from the assaults of its• enemies, then in Congress from New England as well as from South Carolina. At ho time was he ever accused of hostility to his Government, yet no man ever received so much:abuse from these very champions of frit , speech, in Chicago. The conclusion is, that a notorious, self-Confessed conspir ator to the Union, who defiantly Pioctaims his treason and glories in it, is to become the special embodiment of free'speech,, in order to accomplish his work of disunion, while those who have stood by our govern- went from the . beginning,who are standing by it now and risking their lives in its de• fence. are calumniated and that too, be cause.of their determination to protect the constitution and restore the Union. The simple truth is that in certain localities ab olitionism compared with the Union is "Iliperion to a Satyr. Like every other phrdnsy, infatuation or madness, it is as inexorable as destiny, and as exacting as death. biz marine record of the past few dava tells a`" aid 000' of the sea. The gales of earlitlfittelileent to have swept with greet fury across the entire Atlantic, and many wrecks are the result. Immense fields of ice, from the Arctic regions, are added to other perils. Mir A geittleinan in Washington, oc- I cupying an elevated position. :Ind in whose veracity we have unbounded confidence, Iwrites us that in the late existing contest between the Divatch and chro:ziele for the publication of the Pittsburgh letter list, the Hon. Robert McKnight took no part whatever. A sense of propriety restrained him from interreeing, which any gentleman, of proper sensibilities, will readily appre e:ate. Another correspondent states that our immediate representative, Gen. Moor head, is not near co sensitive as Mr. Mc- Knight; hut that he hai an eye to every little and big thing worth having. Our friend does'nt mean that. this vigilence upon the General's part, is prompted by selfish or interested motives; he, with a laudable curiosity merely desires to observe things, "as they go on.' A GOOD SPEEM.I. We hare read the speech of Hon. Charles 1.. Lays.,berton. of Clarion. ered in the Senate of our State on the. nth, inst., and published. in foil. m the ; burg Patriot. The yput,g Sonator grasped his subject with power, and dknossed it with ability. Had we space we should he plen7ed to publkh the i.:ttire sp•eoh, a 5 it is taint try and find room. 11. , na otrly I day, for some telling extract=. "Consultation and Action our only Safety." , rnder this head the array e. - .rr-zponoent of the Richmond Whig The death like torpor which haties like a spell over our belcagured country will :.peedily accomplish Our ruin unless dis polled at once and forever. The authori ties seem actually paralyzed. henu m l oa d. in the pregenee of the great danger before them. The President's speech emit= not a beam of hope, and it i-. no wonder that his Cabinet and friends are ;K dumb as oysiP.r.s. Will no one speak. and 'break the spell ere we drift to destruction? There are brave loin, clear heads and li.dd hearts ready to propose as well as 1.1 act. trill the President give them a chat to he heard? If so, let him ee,A..iie mood a council of our !.. , t ;.•..er .!,. r:1,•11 who has, beep acensbolued danger. men of tiied e:p,•- rience. of hnown valor, i:n'rea. inter. pidity. Wigfall on the Wat Ile New Orkquis ries,2e;te mond correspondent. cxpr,,.. , tit public consternation inn vc•ry 5n ikine war He says "You will naturally de,dre to 1 . .n.w hnw the people in the Conlederme metroplis stand these trying time , . for it evident that we are not sal, in the-e duv• li2ht• , I arm( gunboat., and high water. I I=w; r, in the malt, WI. N::0141 it xery trU onte. be sure. are down-beam-I. and nobod wears as broad a grin as they .1• o l the d n v after tho haute ~r thi,r, is a universal detPrlllination .4r go down. if need be with our harnes.4 on. warring likn• a brave people to t h e last. I I , stesed General Wigfa on my return from dinner. and asked him it' tliere was -any news. •No; said he, .1 don't beli. , ve we Ease been whipped sines dinner: I ex! , cet. though, to hear of anotherdefer.: in the next tire minutes. • ' ' THE Pope and several high Roman pre lates are among the exhibiors at the In ternational Exhibition. Pius : , ends a magnificent missal, bound in crim,vn vel- vet, with gold clasps and mountings, and enclosed in an inlaid ebony enie. which. when opened ibrms a leggio, or reading desk, for the missal. The work is entirely home made. or rather Rome-made. pro ductions, the paper having been mad, L.x• pressly at the Governmimt manufactory Subineo. the types ca s: fur the i:nrpose in Rome, the printing executed iu colors at the Stamperia Camerale, and the illus!ra ted frontispiece painted by a ciistingukh,li Roman artist. After havina Let exhibi ted. this gorgeous specimen ,:f re! ) ,le ra missals is to be sent to Cardinal as a sovereign souvenir front Pio Nono. who also exhibits a hand ome which is ultimately designed to enrich 111.. , Roman Catholic Cathedral of - Si. G , c•rge, in -Southward. Cardinal Antonelli two splendidly printed and bound breva ries, which after having been exhibited.nce also to be presented to Cathclic communi ties in England. mezers.pettent :evens, repeaters. worth from 's: to z ri-mo, o n which they i.ay the as e.nding tax f.l I. I ) The poor ntnt, ,vho has a (dock tinder le-s than $5.00. pa* a tax of 25 cents., and it it happens to be an eight day clock. thyrel) , :e.•.ine worth more Olan $5.0, he is ;axed ;.it cent , . Now. t }tem.:ands of perative , . if they misq their working time five are heavily fined: their wives have t prepare brenktit-d and (limier by '' ci-oi-7-I:ine or risk heavy im t h ow Two G i r - istianPatriot - :.,. - look it uk ith the friends of this wise corn - A cousin of Commodore Fos s w h o wittee. Inc h low ninth pay they for • - hpus l as t -- grew up with him front childivJod. infurins • ' • : us that he hasbeen noted for his pietyarlliaa. lava. broutc. ivory, k, timepieces, ever since he entered the naval service.— clocks? t'loeks tat aro astronomi c . th at One of his first acts on going on board make sweet music, h and are imported front ship as a midshipman, was to obtain the London. Paris, Vienna, Lattsanne, Geneve. captain's consent to form a Bible-(-lass i Jlanb-h. Ii niiu. ate., at a cost from Sat t 0 among the sailors. He labored faithfully tai $- - ,00 and more, what pay they for a tax? with the men, and so pleased his captain, Why, the same us the poor working who was not a religion: , man, that he ap- man's $5 to $7 clock-50 cents. pointed him acting chaplain of the ship. Th. , v•-ry pins with which the poor wash- While in charge of the navy yard at ier woman fastens the clothes to the body Brooklyn, he became known to many of of her baby are taxed. But Thad Stevens our readers. He delighted to talk to u..ok mighty good care to lay no tax on the Sabbath school children, and, like General use of jewelry, because it would be a bar- Anderson, scented to be at home when den to hi friends the rich. lam very much surrounded by them. He has at different inclined to believe such a„ tax would bring times addressed the school at Sands street , a sod deal of revenue, and would be more and other Methodist Churches. •lle is a .in:iieions than a tax on watchesand clocks. member of the Congregational Church.-- Ever' piece of jewelry worth more than General Burnside isanother Christian hero one dollar with five cents; every piece of whom his countrymen may feel proud. worth more than $5, 25 cents; worth more Mr. Collier, who was sent by the Young I than $5O. 511 50; worth more than $lOO, Men's Christian Association to l a b or I $5: and tlir every $lOO worth more an ad among the soldiers of the Burnside divis- ditional $5 ought to be; laid on. laa ion, writes to the Librarian of the Asso- I dies that sport with silk dresses ought tube ciation that the General has been very I taxed with for every turkish, cash kind to hint. He has given him a tent ; meres and other costly shawls, sable and next to his own, and very frequently he - ' all other costly furs ought to be heavily hears the General engaged in reading his I taxed: it would either check FloraVFlita- Bible and in praye r before retiring.—The syls-extravagance, or help the Treasury Methodist. marvelously along. Pianos are taxed with ! Oh shame: where is thy blush ! Look Fatal Lion Fight. at the tax of the poor working men's For the last few days of Lynn Mart. ; watches and . clocks ! Is there any compar- Mender's Menagerie of wild beasts hats been I tson: i , there any equity. Whieveianth cost from $3 to exhibiting on the Tuesday market place. 1 5500ought ry to p be taxed at with $25, and one This menagerie is well known by the acei- I that costs from $5OO to $l.OOO with $5O dents which have occurred in connexion all that cost over $l,OOO with $lOO. Men with the feels of daring amongst the lions I that are able to procure such costly furni by Maccomo. On Monday evening a re a l ' titre, are also able to pay a handsome tax, lion fight took between the famous and if they like good music, they shouldlion Wallace, - and a lioness. 'lt a p. I not grumble if they have to pay for it. pears, that the lioness had hitherto been! Mirrors that cost over $lOO, ought to be kept separate, in consequence of 'her not I taxed with $5. and for every additional being perfectly tame. Haying recently sso cost. another $5 should be laid on. shown signs of a quiet spirit. the proprie- Riding horses that are kept forpleasure tor ordered the slide which divided - her den sake, ought to be taxed with $25, and from that in which%the oth6r lion and lion- ! race horses with $lOO, becausartheir owners ess . were confined to be drawn. .No sooner; gain often more than $l,OOO at one race. was this done than the •' Wallace" crouch- : Sporting men's water crafts, their single ed down, and, almost instantly. sprang and double-barreled gunsand rifles., setter I upon the new comer with the utmost fe- and pointer dogs,fishingtackleandall sport.- I rocity, and seized her by the throat. A ingapparastus ought toberestsonablytaxed. fearful scene ensued, but it was of short ; Private boxes in theatres. and pews in • duration, for Wallace" was assisted by churches ought to be taxed according to i another lioness, and combined they sue- their rent. „All these and thousandsoloth- I m ceeded in killing the lioness very quickly. or articles ore, are riot taxed at all or so The roaring of . the wild beasts during this' j ridiculously low, as not to be worth men- I struggle was fearful. It is said that the 1 tioning. liones s which was killed was worth nearly : Wall paper is highly taxed because it is 2001.—English paper. the poor man's only means to beautify his.' humble home: but you search in vain for a The Engiueer on the Monitor. tax on velvet, silk, or other costly tapestry. The engineer on the Monitor is young j because the rich man uses them. Issuic Newton ; son of our forme r towns- ' All throng/Ir, you will find that that mis man of that name, and the pioneer in formed clump toot took every possible pre- j cautionto shift the burden of this tax from steamboating on the Hudson. Yaung the shoulders of the rich-, to the backs of the Newton iq a thoroughly educated, scientifick'n classes, whom he most hearti oor wor king mechanic.' He was born on a steamboat, and nursed by a steam engine. He has f; despises. • •••- There is no tat - for his frier*. the "visited all She great machine establish- ..ironmasters, the. speculators -in • lumer merits o f the Cnd World, and _has been lor coals. the land - speculators, and so - on; sleeping with a steam engine Once he was there isnot one cent axon cotton! big enough to whittle. Young Newton. is haps Thaddv and some of his friends in one of the nacn who is to make his marktend to buy some of the to-be-confiscated i • on the age, if his life is spared . • cotton plantations, and h. will therefore' For the Daily Morning Poet. A Word About the War Tax Bill. The Black Bebub- The Democratic !lean principle was, principle was, is and is and will be: "Leg- j will be : " Legislate islate so that the jso that the poor can rioll get richer, and make an honest liv qua:: will take care of; lag, and the rich will poor." : take care of them selves." Mn. :- -The glaring fact that the Committee of Ways and Means is determ ined to follow the first half of the above quoted Black Republican principle,induces tue to :,a same words about the laying on the war tax. To tell the truth, as soon as club-foot Thad. Ssevens was announced as chairman of :he above mentioned committee. I had :nisgivings, because 1 know in what su preme contempt this Black Republican aristocrat holds the poor working classes of our country. He stands inthis respect or the sameplatform with llarn mond,l °mobs, Pryor, V. igfall, in a word he belongs o the eartheta codfish aristocracy, the most contemptible upperteudom. This ias:of wean hove no trail in their charac roleem them from well deserved , ilWlrspr and repruach; mean, :i.thish, cow ardly and arrogant: they despise the arti mechanic and laborer, un whose sweat they e and thrive. They look at this 0:1SS. of society as their beasts of bhrden. 1,111.01 may !admit and ride. :and if :hey have foundered it, they may abandon It to it. M t , glance at the war tax bill will satisfy vim tiqu I have not over drawn the picture. Who pays by the operation of That bill the heavie , i buiten the rich or the poor; the a.pitlist or the workingran ? It would lead us too tat as regards your space and my time to go in a --full discus- Sti ,n on Iloe merit-: or rather demerits of this Black Republican measure. We Will but glance at some of the most thigrant oppression of the working classes. Let n'T begin with the staff of life. The rich tarter with his broad acres, who raises his own wheat, ryit,, corn, &C., and bringi them to mill, pays no tax. bevattse it is for home consumption: but the poor laboring man. the miner, the inechanie. the artisan. Who have to 'buy their flour by the barrel.by the hundred and too often the pound. they are taxed. I understand that this tax is removed: len w a s ;t pity toward.: the poor that cans t.sl ip• illtlVa lit, ! The proprieters id 1 11.• 111111 . an 1111U14.11Se , rich o"Mi'vni of New York, pr o xed to the Motion of t he committee that they Paul make ninney quite:is last under this tax a s y 11-ed :111,1 tills was the .:1115,` ufl t!,, rt.1110V:11. No thanks to you gentle men of the committee! The assts: sin is still an assassin. although his 'deadly Ow WaS averted by a bystander. Tht• farmer and the rich man who raises I or buys his steer, cow, heifer, sheap or • hog and butchers theta. pays no lax. be- I eaus e fir home consumption: the poor 111(11 55111) 11115 to Lay Ilk 11100 by the pou n d, 1 - to isay a tax. 11:1.11:. SI (“••••11'; laid no tax on tooth pitdo: because he knows full well that the Lam r a very short •time mill hav e -n o use for them. and the tax would altogether Mil on hi. rich friends. All foreign Si and brandies, such as our aristocratie clump -foot and his rich friends us,. are ridicnlossly lightly taxed. while the tax on our domestic wines and o n lager beer are so impudently high 113 to forbid the laboring men any inducement in The same. • i The corn broom. wherewith the poor women keeps the naked floor of her house clean. is taxed; but volt will hum in vain to find in equivalent tax for the use of vel vet, brut- elc. Turkish and other costly car pets whereon Thaddv Stevens is wont to put hiF, malformed emnb- foot. The poor miner, who goes before sunrise i nto th, IWeIS or the earth• there to earn. by hard ~ork. tin honest living. and leaves hi d'= , --1110,otl e after sunset. that never see, the gloriom, sun except on Sundays. when i.e owns a watch worth from S'3_ , in the upshot. has to pay cents -tax for the ;:uxury of knowing what time in the (la:: it is. This is also the case with .gage lailroadmen. watchmen, wood- 1 quarrymen. &c., while on tile oth er committee men .po rt ehrono• I provide..for Iheligheg.profit of their? in vestment. • The whole bill shows conclusively in what utter contempt the white working classes are held by the leaders of this Black Republican party of which malformed Thaddeus Stevens is so brighten ornament. This ambrotvpe of the evil one had one time to jump out by a back window, to es cape the popular fury; it will he well for him ifhe should ever come in the same pre dicament again, to look sharp that he does not come in the painful position of Muham ined's coffin. G >:-+H{-* M Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Pa. Cotton Shipments at New Orleans A New York letter dated March 24th A commereial house ;n Pity k in. re ceipt of an item or two of intellizence from Sew Orleans of importance, as showing rather an expectation there that the city would imon be in possession of the Union forces, or a concerted movements to run the blockade. The date is March K.th. There w%•re ten ships on that day loading cotton fin i..vcrpool. all which were eet tine five cents per pound on f: - irei::n a:- COlllll. I c•anaot ascezzain throuk7h what particular channel this news wai , received. but of its entire enrrectne , ,s the ruspeeta bility of the house in question i- a satiifa,•- tory guarante... Irish News A bill to amend thelrixii jnrt ..ystern.so as to vice taxpayers a. voice in the prrblie expenditure, will soon intrelurt4-oitr) the Englkh A 11LL11 K of stone. weighing twelve ton- . has been purchased by it Dublin committee for a statue of the late Daniel O'Connell, to be erected in London. AT a retN•nt mretinz of tho Galwaylirf . Committee, presided over by the bitilt tips, SONIC painful instance,; tif suffering from destitution were given. AN instance of 'the oppressive ,3stem of Irish land tenures was lately exhibited in t ,trial at the Cork Assize,. A Mr. r el a small holding to a man named Tyner. at 5125 a year rent, and induced Triter to Imild a hOllSe WI the lot, which fu.st i , efoo. Three years atter Tyner was elected from his house. and brought an ;te flon against the landlord for his elaims. The ilefem , e, which raised a point whether the landlord agreed to pay half the'ex• pen , ffs or only '62:4 shows the harslotes, of the law• in the hands of tin unscrupulous person. and goes tar to explain the general hooerte the Irish land cultivators in spite of the richness of th e soil. S.:too was finally granted the tenant as compensation. TRUSSES. TRUSSES. TRUSSES. -$.71 7 A huge and earefttlly selected assortment of al I the Modern Improved Trusses, including Ritter's ei.kbruted patent Truss, the finest instru ment "4di kind in use. For Smile, at greutly re due,' price , . by SIMON JOHNSTON, Druggigt and Dealer in Choice Family Medielima, . - mmorSmitlati,ld and Fmirtlistreete. ShmilJ.q• Sti , penYorie,i, ut !my prico.. nitl2l .1 Sligh i t Cold, , pctieth„flaassenesit • or 0,2.01. OCav h might be cheolc.r,d with a simple remedy, 3, often. tern - ,it.atez serioueZN. 1 7 .:7% , are a wire of the im..ro -lance cf s t 0.-i irrr p , r.l tali_ or gillech ,fsrld in. iteJirst stage that which ir. the beginninir would yield to a rerr., , lu, if not attended to, mon hrngs. 7404-2 tit rc . 4,