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And to support his throne' "With them a coxrncil he must hold, 1 Ilia aim and object to unfold. " ; . ' T And then and there to them he told, The part each one mnst play, 1 For now' the time has coiiie at last 1 For us to make our power, fast, The power we have begin, to taste ' We will not throw away. . . A bloody war: wo will begin, . tTo live in peace would be a sin, . Amid the clatter and the din, t : ""We'll found our dinasty. - We soon can subjugatethe Soufeh? For thonaands will eome pouring torth, We'll then with bayonets rule the North, . Who carea for liberty ? , ; -i " ' ,With greenbacks we will fill the land, And give then with a liberal hand, And then proclaim them free. Thus some with money we will buy, And others gain with honors high. While some we'll punish 'till the die, This is our policy. Yon see that row of little bells, TCach one to some ofSci&l tell Some copperhead with treason swell, Go bring him forth to me, I'll teach him how to speak his mind,. ' His story in silence I will bind ; r Or for him I'll a prison find, , Until he bows the knee. -What care we for widow's woes i . , , What cart we far a nation throes ? - - Or care we that the Union goes, - ." To picce3 inqutHght;4 , . , Let constitutions stand aulc, Opposing laws we'H overridej ','Ana moving with majestic strido . t- Our word is law and sight; . Alas ! alas, for human skill, . ; . Man may propose, and man may will, A Providence rules o'er us still, Though oft m mystery. Thus Abe Lincoln in his pride, Just when the good he had descried, .'By wicked hand he bled and died, .And lost his his dynasty. -From this a lesson we may learn, TAnd from our hearts should never pura, But deeply let it blaze and burni - - That this is freedom's bad, ; " ' 1 That they who rule must rule by right, Not by a tyrants cruel might, . Or eLe they must expect to fight; A noble patriot ban. . . , . . . For we will never have king,' ' -But. to the constitution cling, -t And God is with us in this thing The God of liberty Let tyrants trcmbh; at the fate," Of all whd crush a noble State, For time or die at any rate, " " The people wUl be free. tl- - ! -- - - - "Erarrr More as Twtlvk.'.! Dutclt faiaa ra Pennhrania leased his. lands io an oi2 company in Pennsylvania asi ispring, on condition of receiving oe-e:ghth of the oil procured." The weU proTed to be a pretty jrood one, and tha Iutch fanner begap to think that the oil men should give him a ybettet chance,' an J rentured to tell tliem so. They asJced him what he wanted, lie aaid tey ought to give him orteHwclfth. TnS agreement was fiBajlv hde-, with the uaderstandiKg that the Datchmld was not to tell any one. - t ; . . All went smooth until the next division day came when our friend was early on hand id se no much, better he would be off un 'derthencw bargain. Eleven barrels were Veiled to one side for the oil men, and one for him. This did not suit him. - "IIow's dish?" says he, "I tint I was to get more as before ; hy jinks you mate a mistake.' The matter wai explained to tim, that he formerly got one barrel out of every eight, but it was his own proposition to only take one out of every twelve. , . . . , This revelation took' him back. He .scratched his head and looked across,and re- - Hered hi-3 feeling of self reproach by indig nantly remarking : , . ' . " Velh dat ish great, dish ish de first time as ever I knowed eight Tash more as twelve." m m ' - A Radical Epitaph on Jim Lane. A radical sheet that could notforgive Jim Lane for supporting the President s resto ration' policy, closes a notice of tun 'with the following couplet: ; After I ife' fltfl ferer. lm . I. rw in hell. hfoi- radical rjanera say that he died of Andy Johnson on the brain or rather from having voted right once or twice in the ben ate It is probably nearer the truth to say that lie died of aa awakening of conscience lonj calloused b7 crime.: r L2 TliSSiI : IUvcr U a tii!o ia A GREAT LETTER. POLITICAL PARSONS RACK. CV THE Judge Black's Reply to the Rev. Doctor Nevin. Polit'tct tn. the Pulpit Handled TT77ort - Gloves. To the Rexerned Alfred JTecin, D D , Mr Dear Sir : Your letter addressed to me through the Philadelphia Ecming ISuh letin disappoints me ; because I did not ex pect it to come in that way, and because it does not cover the Subject in issue between us. But if I am silent your friends will sa', with some show of reason, that j'ou have vin dicated "Political iVpacAirtflr" so triumph antly that all opposition is confounded. I must, therefore, sneak freely in reDlv. In doing so, I mean to sar nothing inconsistent with my gnjat respect for your high charac ter in .the church and in the world. 1 he ad mirable style and temper of your own com munication deserve to be imitated. I tully. concede the right you claim tor cler gymen to select their own themes and handle them s they please. You say truly that neither lawyers not physicians nor any other order of men have tfie.lest authority to con trol you in these particulars. But you will not deny that this is a privilege which may be abused ; you expressedly admit that some clergymen have abused itr "and by doing so did more titan any other class of men to ctm mence and continue the late rebellion." While, therefore, we can assert no power to dictate your conduct, much less to force you. we are surely not wrong when we entreat you to impose upon yourselves those restrictions which raason and revelation have shown to be necessary for the good of the church and the safety of civil society. , 1 acknowledge that your commission is a very broad one. You must "declare the whole counsel of God," to the end that sin ners may be convincea and converts built up in their most holy faith. Truth, justice, temperance, humility, mercy, peace, broth erly kindness, charity the whole circle of the Christian virtues must he assiduously taught to your hearers ; and if any of thera be inclined to the opposite vices, you are to denounce them without fear, by private ad monition, by open rebuke, or by a general delivery of the law which condemns them. rou are not bound to pause in the perfor mance of this duty because it may offend a Sowerful ruler or a strong political party. lor should you shrink from it when bad men, for their own purposes, approve what you do. Elevate the moral character, enlighten the darkness, and purify the hearts of those who are under your spiritual charge, at all hazards ; lor this is the work which your treat Task -master has given you to do, and e will admit no excuse for neglecting it But this is precisely what the political preacher is not in the habit of doing. lie di rects the attention of his hearers away from their own sins to the sin, real or imputed, ot other people. By teaching his congregation that they are better than other men. he fills their hearts with sclr-conceit, bigotry, spirit ual pride, envy, hatred, malice and all un- chantableness. Instead of the exhortation, which they need, to take the beam out of their own eye, he incites thcta to pluck the mote from their brother's. He does not tell them what they shall do to be saved, but he instructs them very carefully how they shall act for the destruction of others. He rouses and encourages to the utmost of his ability, those brutal passions which result in riot bloodshed, spoliation, civil war, and general corruption of -moral. You commit a grievous error in supposing that politics and religion are so mingled to gether that you cannot preach one without introducing the other Christ and his apostles kept them perfectly separate. They an pounced the great facts of the Gospel to each individual whom they addressed. When these were accepted the believer was told to repent and be baptized for the remission of his sins, and afterwards to regulate his own life by the rules of a pure and perfect mor ality. They expressed no preference for one form of government over another, they pro voked no political revolutions, and they pro posed no legal reforms. If they had done so, they would havte flatly contradicted the i declaration that Christ's Kingdom was not of this world, and Christianity itself nould have died out m half a century. i,ut tjjey accepted the relations which were created by human law and exhorted tiieir uisciples to discharge faithfally the duf Us which aro.se out of them. Thongh liie laws which de fined the authority of husbands, parents, masters and magietrates were as bad as hu man perversity could make them, yet the early Christians contented themselves with tcach'jg moderation in the exercise of legal Tower, and uniformly inculcated the virtues of obedience and fidelity upon wives, chil dren, slaves and subjects. Thev joined in no clamors for or against any administration, but simply testified against sin before the only tribunal which Christ ever erected on earth ; that is to say, .the conscience of the sinner himself. The vice of political preach ing wo3 wholly unknown to the primitive church. It b triii that Paul counselled obedience to the government of Nero ; and I am aware that modern clergymen interpret his words as a justification of the doctrine that support of an existingadministrationis "Part t their allegiance to God." Several Synods and other ecclesiastical bodies have solemnly re solved something to that effect But they for get that what Paul advised was simple sub mission, not active assistance, to endorse his atrocities merely because he was "the admin istration duly placed in power." They did not go with him to the theater, applaud his acting, or praise him in the churches when he kidnapped their brethern, set fire to city, or desolated a province. Nor did they assist at his apotheosis after hi? death, or pronounce funeral sermons to Bhow that he was greater than Scipio, more virtuous than ; Cato, and more eloquent than Cicero. Polit ical preachers would have done this, but Paul and Peter did no such thing, There is nothing in the Scriptures to jus tify the church in applying its discipline to any member for ofienses purely political, much less for his mere opinions or feelings on public affairs. The clergy are without authority, as they are often without fitness, to decide for their congregations what is right or what is wrong in the legislation of the country. They are not calledor sent to pro pagate any kind of political doctrine. The Church and the State are entirely separate and distinct in their origin, their object, and the sphere of their action ; insomuch that the organism of one can never be used for any purpose of the other without injury to both. Do I therefore Eay that the Christian re standiiiff the unfaithfulness of many profes sors, it has already changed the face of hu- nian society ; and it will yet accomplish its mission by epreainq peace, independence truth, justice, and literty regulated by law, "from the eea, to the uttermost ends of the earth." But this will be aecom Dli.-hed only hy reforming and elev.iting the individuals of whom society is composed ; not by exaspe- ratm-' communities aeauiit each other ; not by any alliance with the governments of the world ; not by Any vvJcar partnership with politicians to kill and plunder their enemies. Every time you reform a bad man and bring his character up to the standard of Christian morality, yau make an addition. greater or lessj to that righteousness which exalteth a nation, and subtract an equal sum from the sin which is a reproach to any peo ple, bometimes a single conversion is ex tremely important in its immediate effect unon the public interest of a whole nation No doubt the truth by Dionysius the Arco pacitc had much to.do in moulding the sub sequent laws and customs ot Athens. 1 he conversion ot Uonsta:atine was tollowed Dy the instant abrogation of all laws which fet tered the conscience. In the reign of The- odosius the people of Thessalonica rose against the Roman garrison and killed its commander. For this act of relllion the Emperor decreed against them the curse of and the innocent were confounded together in one general slaughter. His spiritual guide, pliilosopher. and friend "at the time was Ambrose, Arcnlushop ot Lilian, wno boldly denounced hiscruelry, refused to give him the sacrament, or even to administer it in his presence, compelled him to take his seat among the penitents on the portico of the church and induced him to humble his diadem in the dust for eight months in suc cession.. The conscience or the Emperor was thoroughly awakened : his subsequent reign Was distinguished by J ustice and mercy, the integrity -of the empire was preserved in peace, and the 'great. Theodosian code, the product of that bitter repentance, isstillrcad and quoted . for .its admirable union of hu manity and policy. Ambrose produced these consequences by aetin,r in the true capacity of a Christian minister ; for he reformed the criminal by a direct appeal to his own heart. A political preacher in the same circum stances would have in flamed the sanguinary passions of the monarch by exaggerating the treason of the Thessaloniansand counselling the military execution of all who presumed to sympathise in their sufferings. ou will see. I think, the distinction I would make. A gospel preacher addresses the conscience of his hearers for the honest purpose of converting them from the error of their ways; a political preacher speaks to one community, one party or one sect, and his theme is the wickedness of another. The latter effects no religious purpose whatever: but the chances are n?nct3'-nine in a hundred that he excites the bad passions of those who arc present, while he slanders the absent and undefended. Both classes of preachers fre quently speak upon the same or similar sub jects, but they do so with different objects and aim3. t . I wiU mate my meaning more cleaf by taking you own illustrations. You believe in the first day of the week as a Sabbath, and so believing, your duty undoubtedly is to exhort all persons under your charge to observe it strictly ; but you nave no right to preach a crusade against the Jews and Seventh-day Baptists, to get intolerant laws en acted against them for keeping Saturday as a day of rest If drunkenness be a sin which easily besets your congregation, you may warn them against, and inasmuch as abstinence ra always easier than moderation, you should advise them to taste not, touch not, and handle not ; but your position gives you no authority to provoke violent hostili ties against tavern keepers, liquor dealers or distulers. it any oi your hearers be igr.o- i rant or coar.se enough to de-ire more wives than one a piece, you i hould ccrta:.ii!y teach them that polygamy is the word feature of Asiatic niaanors, inconsistent with Christi anity and dangerous to domestic happiness ; but you cannot lawi'r.'iy urge them to carry fire and sword into the Territory of the Mor mons merely because 'some of the Mormons are in this respect less holy than you. If the holding of slaves or bond-servants be a prac tice question among the members of your chnrcn, I know of nothing which forbids you to teach whatever you ixmscientiously believe to be true on that subject Jbut in a com munity where slavery is not only unknown but im possible, why should any preacher mike it the subject of his weekly vitupera tion?' You do not improve the religion of the slaveholder by traJucing his character, nor mend the spiritual condition of your own people by making them thirst for the Hood of their fellow-men ? If any person, to whom the service of an other is due by the laws of the State in which he lives, shall need your instructions to reg ulate his personal conduct towards the .lave, you ar bound in the first place td tell him, that as long as that relaxation exists he should behave with the utmost humanity and kindness: for this you have the clear war rant of the Apostolic example and precept In dealing with such a person you may go as much further as your own conscientious in terpretation of the Bible will carry you. If you are sure that the divine law does1f under all circumstances, make the mere existence of such a relation sinful on the part of the master you should induce him to dissolve it by the immediate emancipation of his slaves; for that b truth to you which you believe to be true. But where is the authority for preaching hatred of those who understand the scripture differently? What privilege can you show for exciting servile insurrec tion ? Who gave you the right to say that John Brown was better than any other thief or murderer, merely because his crimes were committed against pro-slavery men ? I think the minister, in his pulpit dis courses, ia forbidden to. touch at all upon that class of subjects which are purely polit ical ; such for instanee, as the banking law, tariff, railroad charters, State rights, the naturalization laws, and negro suffrage. These are questions of mere political expe diency ; religion takes no cognizance of them ; they come within the Bole jurisdiction of the statesman: and the church has no more right to take sides upon them than the civil government has to use its legislative, judicial or executive power for the purpose of enforc ing principles wholly religious. In short, if I am not entireinistaken, a Christian minister has no authority to preach upon any subjects except those in which di vine revelation has given him an infallible rula of faith and practice ; and, even upon them he must speak always for the edifica tion of his own hearers, "rightly dividing the word of truth, ' so as to lead them in the wavof all riffhteousnessn. When he (does more than this he goes beyond his com mission, he becomes a scurvy politician, and pose of propagating political doctrines under any circumstances, or with any excuse, is in piy judgment not only without authority, but it is tne nigncst crime mat can oe commiueu against the government or wod or man. Perhaps I ousht not to make this broad as sertion without civine some additional rea sons for it . In the first place it js grossly dishonest I employ you as a minister, py your salary, and build you a church because I. have con fidence in your theological doctrines. But you may be at the same time wholly unfit for my political leader. Now, you are guilty of a base traud upon me, n, instead or prcacn ing religion, you take advantage of the posi tion I have given you to ventilate your crude and ignorant notions on State affairs. I have asked for bread and you give me a stone ; in stead of the fish" I bargained for, you put into my hand a serpent that stings and poi sons me. It destroys the unity of the church. There is no room for rational dispute about the great truths of Christianity ; but men will never agree upon political subject", for hu man government is at best but a compromise of seliih interests and conflicting passions. Whenj'ou mix the two together yon break the church into fiamcuts. and instead ";f ' One Lord, one iai h and one baptism," substitute the proverbial bitterness of the odium theolocricviH for the "charity which thinketh no evil" No one will deny that a Union of Church and'State ia always the cause of bad govern ment, perverted religion and corrupt morals. I do not mean merely that legal union which exists in European countries. That is bad enough ; but you have less common sense than I give you credit for, if you do not see that this adulterous connexion assumes its most polluting form when the church is vol untarily prostituted by her own ministers to a political party in a popular government The evil influence of such connexions upon Church and State is easily accounted for. Both of them in combination will do what either would recoil from if standing alone. A politician backed by the promise of the clergy to sustain him can safely defy honesty and trample upon law, for do what he may, he is assured of clerical support here and of heaven hereafter. The clergy, on the other hand, and those who are under their influence, easily acquire the habit of praising indiscriminately whatever is done by their public men. Acting and reacting on one another, they go down together in the direc tion of the pit that is bottomless; and 1-oth are f und to have "a strange alacrity at sink ing." Jso man can serve two masters faithfully ; for he must hate one if he loves the other. A minister who admires and follows such men as those who have lately ruled and ruin- od this country must necessarily despise the character of Christ If he glorifies the cru elty, rapacity and falsehood of his party leaders, he is compelled by an inflexible law of human nature to "deny the Lord who bought him." j. he experience of fifteen centuries proves that political prcachecs are the exeat curse bT the world More than half the bloody wars which at different periods have desola ted Christendom, were produced by their direct instigation; and wherever they have thrust themselves into a contest commenced by others, they always envenomed the strife and made it more cruel, savage and uncom- Eromismg. lhc religious wars, so-called, ad nothing religious about them except that they were hissed up by the clergy. Look back and see if this be not true. The Anan controversy (the first trreat schism) was followed by wars in which mil lions of lives were lost. Do you suppose the real quarrel was for the insertion or omission of filinque in that part of the creed which de- scr-.oes the procession of the Holy Ghost? Iid a liomoousian slaughter hi brother because he was a homaunisian'l No, it was not the difference of a diphthong, but the plunder of an empire that they fought for. It was the politics of the church, not her religion, that infuriated the parties and converted men into demons. The Thirty Years War in Germany is often supposed to have been a fair stand up fight between the two leading forms of Christian ity. 1 1 was not so. 1 he religious difference was a false pretense or the political preach ers for the promotion of their own schemes. There was not a sane man on all that conti nent who would have ftdt himself impelled by motives merely religious, to murder his neighbor for believing or disbelieving in trausubstantiation. It proof of this were wanting, it might be found in the fact, that long before the war ended, the sectarian cries were abandoned, and Catholics, as well as Protestants, were fighting on both sides. It is utterly impossible to believe that the clergy of England and Scotland, if they had not been politicians, would have thought ot waging bloody wars to settle questions of election and reprobation, fate,forc-knowledge free-will, and other points of metaphysical theology. Nor voul i they, apar: fiomthoir politics, have encouraged and commuted the other horrid crimes of which they were guil ty in the name of religion. Can jou think that the Irish were inva ded, conquered, oppressed, murdered and robbed for centuries, merely because the En glish loved and believed in the Protestant religion ? I suppose you know that those brutal atrocities were carried on for the pur pose of giving to political preachers in En gland possession of the churches, cathedrals, flcbe lands and tythes which belonged to the rish Catholics. The soldier was also reward ed by confiscations and plunder. The church and the State hunted in couples, and Ireland was the prey which they ran down together. Coming to our own country you find Mas sachusetts and Connecticut in colonial times under the sole domination of political preach ers. Their treacherous wars upon the Indi ans for purposes wholly mercenary ; their en slaving of white persons, as well as red ones, and selling them abroad, or "swapping them for blackamoors;" their whipping, impris oning and killing Quakers and Baptists, f$ their conscientious opinions; and their base treatment of such men as Roger Williams and hi friends will mark their government through all time as one of the cruellest and meanest that ever existed. Political preachers have not behaved any better since the Revolution than before. About the commencement of the prescntccn tury they were busy in their vile vocation all over NewEngland and continued it for many years. The wilful and deliberate slanders habitually uttered from the pulpit against Jefferson, Madison, and the friends who sup ported them, were & disgrace to human na ture. The immediate effect oS thisvras the Yankee plot to secede from the Union, fol lowed by corrupt combinations with a foreign enemy to betray the liberties of the country. Its remoter consequences are seen in the shameless ranacitv and bitter malignity which, even at this moment jjlgjigyjij'ox- You and I both remember the political preaching which ushered in and supported the reign of the Know-Nothings', Blood-tubs, and Plug-usrlies, when Maria Monk was a Saint and Joe Barker was Mayor of Pitts burg; When pulpits resounded every Sun day witn the most injuriousfalsehoodsagainst Catholics; when the public mind was de bauched by the inculcation of hypocrisy and deception ; when ministers met their politi cal allies in sworn secresy to plot agamst the rights of their fellow citizens. You cannot forget what came of tins not. murder, church-burning, lawless violence all over the land, and the subjugation of several great States to the political rule of a party desU tute afiVe bf principle and capacity. I could easily prove, that those clerical pol iticians, who have tied their churches to the tail of the Abolition party, are criminal on a grander scale than any of their predecessors. But I forbear, partly because I have no time and partly it may, for aught I know, be a sore subject with you. I would not excite your wrath, but rather "provoke you to good works." Apart from the general subject there are two or three special ideas expressed in your letter from which I venture to dissent You think that, though a minister may speak from the pulpit on politics he ought not to indicate what party he belongs to. It strikes me, that if he has a party, and wants to give it ecJessiastical aid or comfort, he should boldly avow himself to be what he is, so that all men may know him. Sincerity is the first of virtues. It is bad to be a wolf, but a wolf in sheep's clothing is infinitely wone. , , You represent the Church as an unfinished structure and the state as its scaffolding I think the church came perfect from the hand of its divine Architectbuilt upon a rock, established, finished, complete and every one who comes into it by the right door will find a mansion prepared for him. It needs no scaffold. Its founder refused all connec tion with human governments for scaffolding or any other purpose. lou say (in substance) that,witnoutsome- ' i u: ::, - ; good and bring him no respect The gospel is not vague, indefinite or non-committal up on the subjects of which it takes jurisdiction, and upon them you may preach as loudly as j-ou please. But I admit that in times of great public excitement an important elec tion or a civil war men listen impatiently ti the teach'ns of faith and repentance. A sermon which tells them to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly before God, is not an entertainment to which they willingly in vite themselves'. At such a' time a clergy man can vastly increase his personal conse quence, and win golden opinions from his audience, by pa m fieri ng their passions with a highly seasoned discourse on politics. J he temptation to gratify them often becomes too strong for the virtue of the preacher. I fear that you yourself arc yielding to it As a mere l.ivman I have no riirht to advise a Doctor of Divinity, but I hope I am not over presumptuous when I warn you against tins specious ailurementof Satan. All thoughts of putting the Gospel aside because it does not suit the depraved tastes of the day. and making political harangues to win popularity in a bad world, should be sternly trampled down as the suggestions of that Evil One, "who was a liar'and a murderer from the beginning.' Faithfully yours, kc, J. S. Black. York, July 25, 1866. Wholesale Starvation of Infants in Massachusetts. The Lawrence Massachusetts American of the 11th inst., gives sonie most horrible de velopements which an investigation before a coroner of that city, had quite recently brought to light That such things should l-e in the midst of a community so gushingly philanthropies so aggressively devoted to the leveling of social distinctions in other States, and so intolerant of human wrongs and weaknesses in other people, may cause some wonder. "Coroner Dr. W. D. Lamb held an inquest yesterday afternoon over the body of an in fant of lour months, named Charles Keating, whose parents are in Lowell, which develop ed horrors enough to make one shudder; It appeared that one Mrs. Rogers, who is lo cated in a small building on the alley between Jackson and Newbury, Essex and Common streets, has been in the habit of receiving young children from the age of one month to one year to board. Some of the mothers were married and some not married. She his had as many as nine at one time, and a day or two since had six. The one on whom the inquest was held died on Saturday evening, and on Monday niornins a neighbor looked in and found the body of 'the child lying quite black, covered with maggots, and its eyes not closed. The woman, who was far from civil, said thatshe was going out to make arrangements for its burial, tihe held another child alout the same ags, a poor little attenuated thing, ap parently very near dead, and which b prob ably not living while this is written. The death of the one in question, according to the woman's own statement, must have been attended with great suffering. One witness did not hesitate to express the opinion that the wretched infant had sucked its fingers to the bone and quite raw in the agonies of starvation. The witness also mentioned sim ilar cases of the kind which had occurred in that house, or anion? infants immediately after being removed from there. They were fed, to use the expression of a witness, upon flour gruel scared with milk. Two of the witnesses testified to the horrible smell which pervaded the place, and the filth with which the house abounded. The evidence differs about the presumed guilt of the woman Rogers, thus far, though there mav be further developements at the inquest this evening, to which time it has been adjourned. There can be no doubt, however, about the criminal neglect of pa rents who would trust their children in such hand. It is stated, and quite possibly with truth, that two or three of these unnatural mothers expressed the hope that their in fants would die, and they would then be relieved of the burden of paying a dollar a week to the women for their support Much excitement has prevailed about the matter and the den has been visited by hun dreds. At one time the alley was quite blocked up with people, all of whom were expressing bitter indignation, both against the old women-and the parents whose chil dren were deposited there. . P. S. We are informed that the mfant supposed to be dying yesterday, has been bv its mother, a single woman . nnrtrtwesr. nart of the citv. and that it is still living. . times lading poiiucai euiyecia, uiiuioici ui in danger of falling into a ''vague, indefinite and non-committal stvle." which will do no REMARKS . .. . .- op " . HON. CHARLES R. BUCKALEW, On the Bill appropriating $50,000 out op the m0ney8 of the united states, for the relief of the sufferers by the.late fire ijt portland, maine. Mr. JOHNSON. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill intro duced by me for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire in Portland, Maine. The motion was agreed to, And the Senate, as in Committee of the whole; proceeded to consider the bill (S. No. 428) for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire in Portland, Maine. , It proposes to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be purchased such provisions and clothing and such other articles as he shall deem advisable, and to tender the same in the name of the Govern ment of the United States to the State of M aine, for the relief of the citizens who have suffered by the late fire in the city of Port land in that State, and appropriates a sum not exceeding $50,000 for that purpose. Mr. JOHNSON. I move to amend the bill by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the following as a sub stitute: , . - That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to render to the Governor of the State of Maine, in the name of the United States, for the relief bf the sufferers by the late fire in the city of Portland, $50,000, to be used in such man ner as he may think best. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said sum of $50,000 be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid but of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro priated. Mr. President, if a measure lite this is to pass, the sooner it is done the better. The fare at Portland was unexampled in its de struction, covering miles of streets, and has thrown upon the world, houseless and im poverished, thousands of citizens. The in dividual contributions that have beeh made throughout the United States2 I see, are not adequate to meet the immediate wants of the people. Mr. BUCKALEW. I suppose that the proper motion to be supported by those who are unwilling or unable to vote for this mea sure would be one to postpone it I see no propriety in referring it to the committee which has charge of the expenditures of the Senate alone. Mr. President, a few years ago the large nnd flourishing town of Chambcrsburgin my State was burnt to the ground. The greater part of it was destroyed, not by the act of God, by mere accident or casualty, but by the act of the public enemies. It was Hone at a time, too, when the Government of the United States had stripped our Common wealth of her whole armed force ; our sol diers were under the control of the military authorities of the United States and remote from our borders. In that defenceless situ1 ation, caused by our responding to the appeal of the General Government, our State was invaded, and one of our large, flourishing, wealthy and interesting towns wassweptfrom the face ot the earth by fire. Great desti tution and suffering fell upon our people. If there ever was a ca.-e when an appeal coul'l be made to the General Government for aid because of the destruction of prop erty by fire, that was the case. All the cir cumstances surround ing that calamitous event would have appealed powerfully to this Gov ernment for aid and for relief to our people, because that act was caused by the defaiijt of this Government in defending our terri tory ; it was caused by the act of this Gov ernment in withdrawing those forces which would have defended us on our borders, and indiscreetly and unwisely diiosing of them in such situations that we were not protected. Not ode dollar has this Government con tributed to those sufferers or to re-imburse our people for the propcrtydestroyedonthat occasion. If our people of Pennsylvania possessed twelve votes in this body instead of two. it is possible that some appeals would have been made here and stronirlv pressed appeals to the charity of the Senate for relief or for re-imbursement to us, tor the injuries which we suffered. Instead of that, sir, what has been done? Private liberality was appealed to to alleviate the suffering which fell upon Our people, and subsequent ly our State Legislature appropriated half a million dollars to pay for the property thus destroyed, nnd destroyed under circumstan ces that if there was any fault at all, it was a fault that rested upon this Government, and a . i n, iniL uputi LUC UOVCIUU1VUIU1 JICUJJ1G Ul x tnu- sylvania. Now, sir, the difliculty; the pressing and sharp difficulty, which is in the mind of every reflecting member against voting for a measure of this kind is, that there is no boundary, no limit to the exercise of a char itable power of this description. You can not distinguish letween cases of casualty or of accident in different parts of the country, and administer a system of charity from this point upon any intelligent and upon any fair nrincin'es of justice. It will always be a system of favoritism if you enter upon it In responding to some appeal in case of famine in Ireland, or some total destruction of a great city in Venezuela, there are limits to the charity of the nation. This is one of the powers of the earth, and in its capacity as a member of the family of nations you may, perhaps, infer some color of power for charity of that description. But in exercising this power among the States of our Union, in distributing our charity and our bounty where suffering ap peals to us in the various States, we are en tering upon a field of expenditure, we are entering on the exercise of a power which has no limit, no boundary, no rule, no equal ity, and finally, to sum it up in a word, no principle of justice by which you can be cer tain tnat your bounty will be administered in a proper niflnner and that it will reach the proper persons. Now, sir, we are unacquainted with tlie special facts of this great disaster. e know that it is one enormous in its magni tude and most afflicting in its character, but I think the State of Maine herself should stand forward upon this occasion. Being pos sessed of all the facts pertaining to thrs great calamity, and being specially interested in it as the governing authority, having jurisdic tion in the place where the disaster happen ed, she should step forward and administer such relief and eitend such public bounty to the sufferers in this case as is appropriate; and when she has done that she will have done no more than other States of this Un ion have done under similar circumstances. At all events, sin as at present advised, I am obliged to say that so long as such cases as the destructiori of Chambersburg are ex isting facts in our recent history I am unable to bring mv mind to that frame which will by yeaa and nays resulted yeas 22, hays 18 j as follows : . - i v YEAS Messrs; Anthony, ChanUler.Clark, Edmunds, Foster, Grimes, Guthrie, Ilendef son, Johnson, Morgan, Morrill, Norton, Nye, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Stewart, Sumner, Van Winkle, Wade, Willey, Wilson and Yates 22. NAYS Messrs. Brown, Buckalew, Con hess, Cresswell; Davis, Doolittle, Harris, Hower, Kirkwoodi Nesmith, Poland, Rid dle; Saulsbury Sherman, Sprague, Trumbull, and Williams 1 8. ABSENT Messrs. Cowan, Cragin, Dix; ' on, Fessenden, Howard, Lane, McDotigalli and Wright 8. So the bill was passed. My First Dock. In' the morning when the light was about the color of a grey cat in a cellar, Tim roused me un and we sallied forth. We marched silently aldng the shore, "looking sharp" in the reeds, Tim constantlywhispering to me to keen mv eves onen. The min felt verV heavy, and, in that peculiar light, looked about fifteen feet long. On we strode, pulse going like a volunteer at Buena Vista. SudV denly says Tim, softly: "Ah! there sachanceibyJdve! Now,my boy, all ready." . "Eh, chance! where ? at what?" - Tim put his fingers to his hps; and; making me crduch ddwnj pointed through the reeds In minute, "sure enough, I saw a duck, gracefully bobbing up and ddwh, about fifty yards off or less. I became awfully excited. "Let me shoot him, Tim." ' 'Certainly, crack away. ' ' I knelt down ; my fingers trembled like those of a surgeon at his first operation. the duck loooked about the siae of a turkey gobbler to my distorted vision It was a fearful moment However, I recovered myself by a resolute effort, brought the gun up, took a longt mur derous aim; my finger pressed the trigger, whang ! I beheld the sky and fourteen hun dred thousand stars perpendicular before me. Upon examination, I found this phenomenon ' was occasioned by ray horizontal position on. my back; combined with the concussion of theshot "You've hit him; 'cried Tun. "He'a wounded. Quick, quick; take" my gun.whihj I load yours; I looked at my weapon I had fired both barrels at once. I looked at the duck he was bobbing up and down violently. Con siderably bewildered, I, however, seized Tim'a gun, resumed my position, tookanotherdead ly aim, and fired. ."T'other barrel! quick! or he's off," cried Tini: Bang! " By George ! yo'ti hare missed him: He'd no, ne can t fly 1 See him spin round I Here, give him one more ! Mind, aim care fully, now." . Bang ! fi-r-z; bang ! I saw the sky ana , one thousand more planets than before. When I arose, that diabolical duck was still there, spinning round more merrily than ever. "Tim," said I. "the duck is remarkably tenacious of life. ' " Ye yes. The fact is. they are; gener-8 ally; especially canvass-back ; they are called so on account of the thickness of their skim , I am convinced that's a eanvass-back." "Tim," said I, "I'll take the skiff and shove out there andgethimt Yon wait here; He's nearly gone now." ."Yes: I'll go back to the house and ot- ; der breakfast Your shots have spoiled fur- , thef sport, this morning: I'll have things ready by the time you get back." And without waiting for remonstrance, Tim walked rapidly off. I got in the bkiff, shoved out, reached the duck, (who appeared as I advanced to have his head entirely shot off,) picked it up, and ' found that it was a decoy ! My remarks to Tim, upon rejoining him at the hotel, I have upon reflection, concluded to omit Go Wrni Them. If you want to be tar ed to support the negroes of the South in luxurious idlenca-go with the Radicals. If you are anxious to pay for a swarrn of useless office-holders to engender and perpet uate discord between the Southern negrdes and their employers go with the Radicala. If you think the families of "fredmen should be supported out of the Treasury, while the widows and orphans of white sol diers who fell in the war for the Union are left to provide for themselves go with the Radicals. If you think negro soldiers "bear the palm" in suppressing the rebellion gd with the Radicals. If you want negroes to vote in Pennsylvania go with the Radicals. If you want eleven States stricken from the flag of the Republic go with the Radical. If yon want wealth protected at the expense of labor go with the Radicals: If you want agitation and strife prolonged, business paralysed, and the country bankrupted gd with the Radicals. . Ladies Should Read NewspapfjU. It is a great mistake in female education td keep a young lady's time and attention de voted to only the fashionable literature of the day. If you would qualify her for con versation, you must give her something fcd talk about give her education with this actual world a dd its transpiring events. Urge her to read the newspaper, and becorne .fa miliar with the present character attd im- provemcnts of our race. History is of some importance, but the past world is dead and we have nothing to do with it Ourthddghta and our concerns should be for the present world; to know what it is and improve the condition of it Let her have an intelligent opinion and bo able to sustain an intelligent . conversation concerning the mental, moral and political improvements of our times. Let the gilded annuals and poems on the centre-table be kept a part of the time cov ered with the woekly and daily journals. Let the whole family, bf men, women and chil-. dren, read the newspapers. Beware of Paper Collars. A Bostorl paper has the report that a clerk in one of the wholesale stores of that city has lately been afflicted with a painful breaking out on his neck, which be at first attributed to boils but the matter getting serious, he applied td a physician, who informed his patient that he was suffering from the poisonous proper ties of articles used in the preparation of his ' enamelled paper collars ; which has been absorbed into his Fystem ; and upon inquiry it was found that 6dme half dozen other" clerks, all of whom wore these collars, were affected in a similar manner Singular. Pullup, coming home late "pretty full," found the walking slippery, and exclaimed, "V-ver-very tdng'lar, wh whenever watef freezes, it always fr-freezes with the slippery side up." ' A gentleman who took a young lady to f;:rs cf rrcn, t" . n
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