ov7:(sictic,fl Nottr,p.
a
THE DRUMMER BOY
"Captain Grey, tho mon were sayin?
Ye would want a drummer lad,
So I've brought you my boy Sandie,
Though my heart Is Nv ofu' and,
But nno bread Is left to feed us,
And one oilier to buy more,
For the gudeman sleeps forever
With the heather blossoms o'er.
Sandie, make your manners quickly,
Play your blithest measure true—
Ole us Flowers of Edinboro'
While yon fifer plays it too,
Captain, beard ye o'er a player
Strike in truer time Ilan he ?"
"Nay, in truth, braye Sandie Murray
Dtittunler 0: out corps hha I
1 gie ye thinks—nut Captain, maybe
Ye will hoe a kindly loore
for the friendless, lonely laddie,
When the battle work is air;
For Sandie's aye !peon good and gen (If
And I've nothing else to love,
Nothing—but the grove off yonder
And the Father up above,"
Then her rough hand li,rhtly laying
On the curl encircled head,
She blessed her boy The tent was silent
And no other word %no: said;
Fur Captain tit or oa.s ead Iv {11'0;1111111g
OF a luknkon 1.0,4
Bre:Wiwi ahoy° his hoad, then Roldon,
Bending noW, [la t.,urhod With snow,
" Good byo, "17..0U bye im,ther,
dome back some suMlllo'
Don't you tear—they don't, shoot drummer::
F.,ver, Do they, Cant:tin tey
One mor e kisN—watch tie me, mother,
You will know! ti,: smoly nw
Coming y u will hear 11le
Playing sf,f thu
After ha ttln. mut,. :this
i3Ce 1110 d to Llinit Ftr.:in,;(l
As the seudding cloud, Lef,tre Upon
Shadowed faros dca4l and while%
And the night wind 1.4, Is tird.
When low moans its li ht who: Loire
)loans, that ferrh• I y,ii Its Derr
.-_-_Death':sl.llLrk
,%he,
\Va nrlori no:
c 7,) p!.‘,1111,
at h
Death-- 11,4. from tht.,ittl
Captain (71-4. y ill Iv (4111V11
Willie fe in Ily t t•ln .1 rum
Qnirkrnt , i 11-Art :14,1 •top t
"Fend it! Mlll-,:k
"It is Ihu, I 110 , 1 you. 13 , 1•11;.'
11'outoto,t. lone'y. 13
playing thus LI, n•cirlh.
Seo—the i 11 , 4. 1t,•3
1110111 PIA, f m od lli drillomor bcy
Anil lirei,l up his .ir—pin.;
6•1)h, 1;,•.•v. lizht
el nrt• ,:11,1
Mornin.4 S•r kbt el
EMI=
Tb.it is \shy 1 lit iv the
)I”ther n..:.ri• 1111 , romi
lfut you'll t - 1-11 her, ~,11•I ri u, C:.pt tin—
Tho I. y II rd .1, d.t.11 1111.;
'.rt) hirn .1.11 lord davelimi f,rt,
Unbrulton 1., Ihr 11
Fnil e iir.
Front tho Atht,ah. \i„utty.
TEE...ttAWb - li 'doSTtS.
Our nation is now paying the price, not
only- of. its- vloo lin t also virtirrc— . --n of
alone of its evil doiwr, but of its noble and
admirable doing as well. It has of Irate see
a customary cry with a certain class, that
those who cherish freedom and advocate so
cial justice are the proper authors of the
present war. No doubt there is in this alle
gation an ungracious kind of t!tith ; that is,
had the nation been destitute of a political
faith and of moral feeling, there would have
been no
,contest. Hut were one lying ill of
yellow-fever or small-pox, there would be the
same sort of lying truth in die sta,tement,
that the !if' in him, which alone resists the
disease, is really its cause ; since to yellow
fever, or to any malady. (lead bodies are not
subject. There is no preventive of disease
so effectual as death itself,--no place Si) im
pregnable to pestilence as the grave. ti(
had the vitality gone nut of the nation's
heart, had that lamp of live heedom and
justice and of homage to the being of man,
which mice burned in its bosom so brightly,
already sunk into demillickur an I
L.: XlinU•
tiott, hi; ri in the 2--ndid and icy dark that
would remain there eiiniii bus no war of like
nature with this that to-day gives the land
its woful baptism of Idood and tears. Oh,
no! there would have been peace pu
trefaction : but withoolits sweetnesiii,
and death, but without its hopes.
In one important sense, however, this war
—hateful arid horrible though it be—is the
price which the nation must pay for its
ideas and. it; innenattimity. It you take a
- clear initial step uward-,any great • nil, you
thereby assume as a debt to destiny the pur
suit, and completion - of your action : and
should you fail to meet this debt, it will not
fail to meet yen, though now in the shape of
retribution and with it biting edge. The
nation which has recognized absolute rights
of than, and in thejr,:narne assumed to shed
blood, has taken upon itself the burden of a
high destination, and must ht•ar it, if not
willingly reluctartly,if not in joy ?it'd honor,
then in shame and weeping. .
Our nation, by the =early nobility of its
faith and- action, assumed such a debt to
destiny, and now must pay it. It needed
not to come in this shape: there must have
been no horror of earnage,-4no feast of vul
tures, and carnival . tifliends r = 7 -no weeping
of Rachel, mourning fOl';`her children, and
refusing to be comforted, because they are
not. There was required only a magnani
mity in proceeding to sneak that of our
beginuing,—only IL sympathy broad enough
to take our little planet and all her human
tribes in its arms, deep enough to go beneath
the skin in which limy differ, to the heart's
blood in which they agree,—only pains and
patience, faith and forbearance,—only a na
tional obedience to that profound precept of
'Christianity which prescribes service to-him
_Lthat—w kl—be—greatest r untking--this—k-im •
ledge of the wise due to the ignorant,and
--- tr©Arength,orthe strong due to the weak.
The costs of freedom would have been paid
'in the patient lifting up of - a degraded. race .
from the sipugh of servitude; and the nation
would at the 8a llla time have avoided that
slough oflaya and fire wherein it is now in
gulfed.
Itwas not to be so. History is coarse ; it
gets on by et.arse feeding and levers, not by
delicacy of temperance and wisdom of regi•
men. Otir debt was to be paid, not in a pur
form, but•tnixe - d with the costs of unbelief
covkifdice,. - avarice. Yet primarily it is the
cost, not_ of meanness, but of magnanimity,
that we ere now paying,—not of a base skep
btit of a noble faith. For, in truth,
VOL. 63.
A. K. RIIEEM, Editor & Proprietor
normal qualities and actions involve costs
no lass than vicious and abnormal. Such is
the law of the world ; and it is the law of
the costs of worthiness, of kncwledge and
of all memorable being and doing,
that I now desire to set forth. Having ob
tained the scope and poWer of the law, has•
ing considered it also as applying to individ
uals, we may proceed to exhibit its bearing
upon the present struggle of our Republic.
The general statement is this,—that what
ever has a worth has also a cost. The law
of the universe," says a wise thinker, '• is
l'ay and take." If you desire silks of the
meteor or eepp. ies at the grocery, yeti, of
course, pay money. Is it a harvest from the
field that you seek ? must he paid.
Would you have the river toil in production
of cloths for your raiment'? Only pay the
due modicum of kno ledge, lithor, and skill ,
and you shall hind its hand to your water
wheels, and turn all its pro o' , tr,,twth into
pliant service. Or perhaps you ,N isle the emu
l'oms of a household. Lty paymool of the Its
bearing of its buiLluns..,you 1.33 y hope to oh
13in it,—surely not o'lll . l - Wl , O 1).0you a-k
th a t this heluie filly :3. a tt•ue Roam, a irea
stn's for wellih of tiv , hent•l, ho3yen ?
Duce more ihe word pay corn• own
heart's un-iedi-h love, pi) , a gorwrou , tru3t
fitness• 3 poi e sympaihy, n triter molsoler
miost, 11111 it swet•t firm hearic,luess
so. whenever there is a gaining, there
11 W:1111111g, whenever a -well being a well
! ‘l,,ines,—Wilk•reV , r it a price of
; he %511.1 .. , Int,+the payment
hiI"STI - 1" - an - 1 - 1 - Fr — rtiTt -- vil
nn hung-hall l rotii nuthing ; nut he that free
ly nun sht!' 10.2iiiVe as freely.
. Il it the,e o' which I have nano I
are ail prises ell her or ordinary use, of coin
hint, or felicity: Hill if is generally undcrsru t 1
tLat hi i ppi lleis is costly : hot virtue
so I in I•1,i jog an) thing, ic often Lillppris
lid t o he its, If n Twice that )oit pay for happi
toil us that We shill he rewarded
our virtue ; what mi nalistic common place
is more common than t, rowarlletl
ton cur virtue }lit ore nut to ha: you ins to
pay for it ; at payment made, rather
than received, is the pritN^pal fact. Ifs who
is honored for reivard is a knave without, re
warn. lie who :tints pay fur telling truth has
bath ong on LIS ri,111! 1 / 1 1 and a doubl e lie in
his heart. 1)., you t.rtuk that the trite artiNt
striv(-4 to pattlf well that lie may get money
forl) . is work ? ra:her. not his ileire
payltii'money, to pay anything in reason, for
the sake of excellence in his art 7 And, In
dian], what is worthier than Ni'orth': \Vi v o
fit!er, therefore to b e p-ioi f„,. ? Ao.), tint
p•iyinoiit even under penal 'forms,
every one may see. Fi ) li What 'I of it deign
give his lofty head 7 the plivilegie of be
ing It tlei!".11, of lo4ltg a wan of great heart
.4,411. 4 ;,Inle , innti or groat min.l, with a King
James. a borleslite of all sovereignty, On the
throne.. $llll S k p` r ,f e s iho poi_
T ... F o r o f that sittccr..
it) ;inn penetration which eh tract eri/.0 , 1 his
Isle. For wlint did ell lure the last
cti ails of poverty, hit children crying fir
broad...while_ It awn iliva.rt.is-iwias, Iscree 1-wirlr -I
their wailing? For the privilege—lll his own
nub-le v. —" of reading God's thoughts of
ter flits," —G hung is written ii stll
signs on the scroll of the skies.. And Cicero
awl Thomas Cromwell, dulin Huss and John
linux, John Rogers MIA John Itrowr;, and
many another, high and low . , lamed and for- ,•
gotten, must they not till make, RS it were,
penal payment f,l he privilege of being trite
men, tritest among Irv!? Ind again, I say,
that, if one knows something worthier than
IVorth, something inane excellent than Excel
lenee, then only does he know something
fitter than they to he paid for.
Payun 1,1 , 11/ ossunie a penal form : 110
think this its i)111,1' 1,1111 Anil to t ike the law
at once out of the limitations which these ex
omples suggest, let roe ,Ilow yon dint it is n
low of healthy and olllnnleoling Nature. Tem!:
at the sr,,le oli•xklenco nu 1 you will !We thnr
file every Step of It N 11111•• in Hutt 91,11,i pay
ment is le l :linen The nrlioin' is higher than
the vegetable; the noimid, accordingly
subjecd,to the sense of p.tiu , the. vegetable not.,;
non among atiimahs the pain may be keener
as the organization is nobler. suscepti
bility nut only to pain, bit to vital injury,
(dlSerVitS the stifle gradation. A little gird
ling kills an ink ; but some low fungus may
be out nun troubled and trample I tuf ///iitam
anal it will nut perish ; on I along the shores,
furriers year after year pluelc sea weed trout
the rocks, a nil year after year it springs again
its lively 11S ever. Among the lowest 111shil'S
of animals you will titol a creators that., if
you cut it in two, straightway duplicates as
eXiStellee 111111 floats 11 W y twice TIS happy /IS
before; but in the prick of a bodkin or of
sting of a bee the noblest of men may die.
In the ttninhil body the or 4 atis ertke n draft
from I lie getirral vigors of the ..y , t , cri just in
proportion to their di g nity. The eye,—what.
an expensive boarder it the gas tric tables is
that: Considerable provinces of the brain
have to he mad e over to its exclusive use :
till it will be remembered that a single ounce
of delicate, sensitive brain, roll of mysterious
and marvellous power, recirtires IllOrit Vital
S111)1 , 011 [hall wally pounds of c ommon mus
cle. The powers of the eye aro groat; it has
a_ to cost tauch, and it, does cost. Also
we observe that in this organ there is rho ex
'Deeding sitsrepttbility to injury, which, -as we
hti.ve observed, invariably accompanies powers
of a lofty grade.
Noble senses cost touch ; noble susceptibi
lities cost vastly inure. Compare oxen with
men in respect to the amount of feeling and
nervous wear and tear which they severally
experience. The ox • enjoys grass and sleep;
he feels hunger and weariness. 114 he is
'wounded hy that which goes through his bide.
But upon the nerve of the man what an in
cessant thousandfold piny ! Out of the eyes
of the passers by pleasures and pains are
ruined upon him ;. a word, a look, a tone
thrills his every fibre ; the touch of a hand
- m - ams - or - ft - riltsflse - vve - Yarro ertn - litsliffn es.
• Antioipation and memery, hope and regret
hive atidliate,•illeatjoy and sorrow and shame,
eh, what troops of visitants aro ever present
with his soul, each rind all, whether welcome
guests or unwelcome, to...be, nourished from
the resonrcoa of his imam I And. out of this,
high sensibility "of man must 'come what in
numerable stabs of quick agony, what slow,
gasping hours of grief and pain, that to the
cattle upon the hills are utterly unknown :
But do you envy the ox his bovine peace ?
is precisely that which makes him an ox. It
is duo to nothing but his insensibility,—bp
no means, as I take occasion to 'assure these
poets who laud outward Nature, and inferior
creatures to the •disparagement of man,—by
no means duo to composure and philosophy.
The as is no.groat hero, after all; - for.he will
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1863.
hollow at a thousandth part of the sense of
pain which from a Spartan child wrings no
tear nor cry.
Yes, it. is precisely this sensibility which
makes man human. Were ho incapable of
ideal joy and sorrow, he, too, were brute. It
is through this delicacy of conscious relation
ship, it is through this openness to the finest
impressions, .1 hat he can become an organ of
supernal intelligence, that, he is capable Of
soci.al and celestial inspirations. High spi
ritualATisibility is the central 0011dili , 111 of a
noble and adinfi'able lile ; it is the Linge on
which turn and open to man the g tte- ot his
highest glory end purCst pence Vet dir this
he must: pay awry all that induration of brutes
1111,1 boors whioli sheds off HO tunny a wasting
excitement, Find stinging chagrin, its the tea
(hers of the w iter howl shed rain,
in 'entering, therefore, upon any noble
couri4e or life, any generous arid brave purr
suit tif exeellence, understand, that, so fur no
ordinary coin is concerned, you are rather to
ply, than to he paid. for your siiperiorities
Understand that the pursuit ofi excelle,nce
must indeed he brave to he pro , peritmi, —that
is, it is always in some way opp i-eil and iin
pecill .d. Understand, that, w,ili every,step
I r spiritual elerati• n which you tit ti.titi:soine
part of tour 110,1001 Ca and e .0111 , 111i0nsnil , will
Ile left behind Understand, that, it you carry
priticiples and philosophic inteiligence
into camps, these posse , sions will in general
not Inc pa-sed to your credit. hut Will be charg
ed aizainst you: and you must surpass
interiors in their ~Wll 1,1;01,1 40 .. 11 . 110
-W-11 , 14-0-1- I , ol'llllr t hese ci;t rm
iblrri , and, that, it you have a revertmee for
theoretical and absolute truth. Los ,11 cotu
nom fortune will (mom to pm in answer to
equal hit- , iness itli I tin
to those who tale for too: ey. and do 1101. Caro
I.o'll'l/J-11. Ate 2, oil a phi sician Let me lel,
you th a t there is a pos it le ox e lence in your
prOrk, , ,Hllll which will rather limit than iu
crease, your practice; yet that very oixcelk!nue
you must stiiv,i to :alt 1111, 10r your soul's life
concern-1 in your doing so Areiyou tt
lawyer ? kiiow that there is 0 •le;•fli and de
licacy in the sense of justice, which will some
times send clients from your °thee, and some
tuntiq 116 your tongue at' the bar; yet, as you
would preserve the majesty of your manhood,
same just for tlitit unproti'ahle stqlqe 14 jus
lice, —unprofitable only because infinitely,
rather than profitable. lit a 01111'111y
and critical time, when much is ending, and
nimidt beginning, and a great land is he tying
told •tuirmiog 'Thies of ills
s•dittion and throes of ni,:tv birth, are you a
state, , ,nAit of earnestness and with
your eye on the cardmal question of your
Cf0,:11, its air-,.6,r clearly in your heart, and
soar wii; irrevocably set to give it due emin•
coition and ? Expect ea'uinoy and
atlected contempt from the base; expect alic
minor' and me , i • inst ruction itn I undervaluing
on the pirt of wit, ,ire Ate
y , Ol a woman i.tch in high nohle s 3 to
rit hies - turd flirt flog aft I, its' must
ever he the with such, not too rich in a
meet companionship 7 Expect lonelinesiiK and
%violas it as a
i zraueu i lmayour is
tsar, l Are you a trim artist er thinker !
Expect to go heyimil popular appreclation !Irt
beyond it, Or the highest app r e c i a t io i k iyou
will not deserve. in tine, for all excellence
expect and .oe,it to.pay.
No one ever heliithis law more steadily in
view than Jesus ; and whim ardent young peo
ple Canlo 10 him "propw.iii: pupilage, lie w
wont at once to bring it hetore their eyes. It
was on such an occasion that he uttered the
words, so simple an I intense that they thrill
to the touch like the string or it harp, "The
foxes Imre holes, and tire birds of the air ilaVe
nests : but the Son or bath not where to
hiy his head." 11l like SUggeStiori Iris olUCSii:In
0r the king going to war, who first sitteth
.1 wit itn , l e insulter!' whether he he able , iin
of the man shout to null a house, who begins
by counting the cost
The coo,
-question of this most arise i—
titiestion of this must on all sides either be
h tnestly met or dishonestly elude I. For oh
serve, that attempt to e•ietipe payment fir the
purest values, 110 less than fur the grossest, is
, If uric seek to compass possession
of ordinary goods without compens won, we
at (moo apply the opprobrious term of theft or
frau,l IV by does the same sort of attempt
cease to be fraud when it is carried up to a
higher degree and applied to possessions more
precious It lie that evades the revc tine !LW
Of Ill.' State lie guilty of fraud, what of 111111
who a' , 11).1 impni t Nature's goods and p
For Nature has her own system of
imposts, and permits no smuggling. There
was a tax on truth ered here was on tea or en
silver lila e. Character genius, high parts in
history are all assessed upon. Nature lets
out her houses aild lands on liberal terms ; but
resorts to distraint, if her dues be nut forth
coining. Be sure, therefore, that little success
and little honor will wait upon any would-be
thieving from God. Ile who ittiempts to pur
loin on this high settle has set all the wit of
the universe at work to thwart him, and will
certainly be worsted sorely in the end.
The moment, therefore. that any man is
found engaged in this business, how to esti•
Male hint is clear. Daniel O'Connell tried the
experiment of being an heroic patriot and
making money by IL It is conceded by his
friends that he applied to his private uses, to
sustaining the magnificence of his household,
the rent-moneys sweated from the forehead§
of Irish peasants. But, they say, he had sae•
rift cod many ambitions in taking up the rule
of a patriot ; and he felt entitled to revenues
as liberal as any indulgence of them could
have procured him! The apology puts his
case beyond all apology. He who—to employ
the old phraseology--seeks toaxact the saute
bribe front God that he might have obtained
from the Devil is always the Devil's servant,
no matter whose livery he wears. -Had one
often to apply the good word patriot to such
men, it would soon blister his mouth. I Lind,
in fadt, no vice so bad as this spurious virtue,
no sinners so unsavory as these Mock saints
-- To natiorm; - also, - this comprehensive la - vr
as 'lies. Would you have a nobleand orderly
freed - ent ? "
Ilenry; and the speech is liceiL9dits.bold and
peculiar; but, by an enduring ordinance of
Nattire, the people that does not in its hoUrt
of hearts say, "Liberty or death," cannot
have liberty. Many of us have learned to
fancy that the stern tenure by which anoioot
communities held their civilization wits now
become an obsolete foot, and that without, peril
or sacrifice we might forever appropriate all
that blesses nations ; buti . by the iron throat of
this woe Providence is thundering down upon
us the unalterable law, that mop shall hold no
ideal possession longer thou he places "all his
lower treat:wet:Cat its command.
. But there was a ~pecial form of Oast, invited
by the virtue-of our national existence; and
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it is this in particular that weare now paying—
pa) ing it, 1 am sorry to say, in the form of
retribution because the nation declined to
meet it otherwise But the peculiarity of the
case is, as has been affirmed, that itctvp,s chiefly
the .Virtue and nobility of the nation which
created the debt at the outset.
And n0W..3 VI t is the peoulier virtue and
glory of Ott,' nation Why, that its national
existence is based upoii a recognition of the
absolute rights and dot ies of humanity The
oretically this is our basis ; practically there
cotinnixture; . much of this cosmopolitan
faith is iniMyied with much of confined self
regard. Bit the iheoretical fact is the one
here in point: -since the question now is not
of the national unfaith or infidelity, but of th'e
national faith. Awl beyond a question, the
peal faith of the natinh, so far as it has one, is
represenfed by its formal declaration, made
sam.ed by the shedding of blood. Our belief
re,lly is not:in the special' right - or , privilege
of Americawl. but in the preogrative of twin
This prerec,:ft ice' vl.e have succeeded well
or i.I nt st tabi iitterprering ; the fact,
that our appea s i is to this, alone concerns us
here.
Nom this oation , ll nttitude, fm fur as history
itif urn's trio. fs unprece , leloed. I'llo true-burn
son or Albtoo, aura )0, , nu_saucpitural culture
c:llarge; soul, bell reli,, , ,Fausly that
(hot is uu Eitgltsinnon, ira toe' lute! e ,, ts
Engl , itnl precede tine,. or the universe.
Whyli, therefore. lie ,ees nuythlug dmie which
deplete, the'-pocket ut Engiorel, It attests him
with a of in those to Mioni
Lia-A 4 1 , r 4:4 •
Itte,ol. •1',,i(111 She h ts , nail /.:1 a deeper
than i. commonly wcaut. ,
We wilt net Eilgl:111t1 over touch ;
she 1111 H d011...g00d seri l ee in List i oy. 11e win
not boikt I ion - selves; the :le 11.11 111):11 . 10,1 ul
el/ttricry have heed, in 110 S , ll ill part, I,ke
and bidder to a degree ,hut is sinipty sicken
•
Nevertheless, tt remains true that the
tun biniciitat idea it the St it netti repro-cuts
a new 0111 mm-to 1,16101 y Leery. Euro
peail naitoriality has taken shape ant charge`
ttr while yet our globe teat not to be
gdibe. %%stub: berate the looker- ,
lan i and sag - laded away into k1ark1.112.9 111.1,1
itiy-qery ; auLi it %cal nut p• ssilde that corn'
111011 111,1111 ui=sy Illprilhy sapid .1 take tutu its
arms a worlitut whit* it, could not cunt, tee.
But a national spirit Was hero generated when
the ocean had been crossed, when the earth
been rounded, When, too, Newton had, as
tt were, cirtumua%ig.,ted the solar system,
when, therelere, there (wok be, autilllUSt be,
a new recognition of h mainly. Our country,
again, was peopled fiuui the minorities ut
Europe, trini those w hum the spirit ut the mew
Lone had touched, and taken away their con
icia with uid institutions, —a popuiation rest
less, uncertain, yeasty, chaotic, It iiiigot lie,
of the rawness or new conditions, utruu
and inagnai.umtus by turfk, :is such people
:ire ‘1'3111., but all leavened more ur less with
a si new itk i ii.mtury, —a II icuvtuud
it a sitel of whole wbirld heeling, a olive of
the uncut_ s-ul humanity, and, as di:live
011', a seat. tit it lute t ights of man, ul i•re•
rogittves beionging to human nature .us
The truth ula ft L. is has been brought nu
tier sikpieion by the flatulent i,ratory of our
Pout ,t Jolys ; but until it remains. Our
nation dt 1 enunciate a grand idea never ei t ual
ly led by an) oilier. Our nation has said, and
said with the sword in its right baqd, "Every
111 111 guru info this world has the ' riAlit. 11 - um
t; to in ii‘e the must and best of Mis exis
tence, an 1 satiety is established only to kir
titer and guard this holy right. " We thus
estaldishe I a new scale 01 justice ; we rai. , ed
a demand fur the individual which had not
been so ma he before. Freedom and or ler
were Coale one; were with
justice, simple, broad, e teal, universal jus
Lao Aineric•in itle.o., then, what is It
rite I irti,.y,•eor,,n of o , :t't , s r/t justice, this it
With justice, nil nut on a scale
of eiinventioutil usage, but on the ecmle of na
turd right. That, as 1 read, it the American
ilea—oohing politics mural by their unity
with natural justice, justice wet hl-old and
w0r,..1 wide
Tins conception s —olHeurely cren nal felt,
an tnixo,l with the inevitalile amount. or lolly
awl sell-seeking, vet, idler all. t Ili: , conception
- -our notion isrwl to stand up and announce,
arid to eon, crate it be the sha ldiug of blood.
culling Owl , t tidal! go I men to Will10:44 The
doe I wa'i growl: the hearts of mon every
where were more or less Ito accomplices : all
the tiles of history rail in its favor
iforg“ti log than-elves intu virtue and getter
catty, lent it ginireitislies or even good arins;
it w.is aucresstul ; nu i On it spritnary success
waited such pritspernies as aid wore has eel
don' ,oeu.
Ildt. because the deed was noble, great costs
mu-d neeTh attend it. 10 tend it lung And rust
of all the costs of applyuly our principle irahin
nor own Lionises. For, when 11 place had been
obtaine i for us among nations, WO looked
down, and lo! at our feet the African—in
challis A benighted and submissive rare,
down trodden )111 , 1 despised from of old, a race
orouteasts, of Pariahs, covered with the shame
of servitude, and held by the claim of that
terrible tali:mmu, the word properly,—here it
crouched at our feet, lifting its hands, implor
ing Yes, America. here is your task now ;
never flinch nor hesitate, never begin to ques•
lion now; thrust your right hand deep into
your heart's treasury, bring forth its costliest,
. purest justice, and lay its immeasurable boun '
ty into this sable palm, hind its blessing on
this degraded brow. Alt, but America did
falter and quest ion. " How can IV' it raid.
"'This is a Negro, a Negro! Besides, h... is
PROPERTY I " And so America looked up, do•
Lermined to ignore the kneeling form. With
pious blasphemy, it said, 'fejt; lure provi
dentially; Clod in His own good time will dis
prrse of him ;" as if God's hour for a good
effect were not the earliest • hour at which
courage and labor' can bring it about, not the
latest to which indolence and infidelity can
postpone it t Then it looked away across oceans
to other continents, and began again the chant,
; a is — man ; natbral i ight. is sacred forever;
and of_polities tho sett) basia_ls,universaLjus,
tics." Joyfully it sang for , awhile, but soon
there began to come up tile_ clank of chains
mingling with its chant, and tlio !groans of
oppressed men and violated womer;and pray-.
ers to Heaven for another justice than this;
and then the words of its chant grew bitter ill
the mouth of our nation, and a sicknoS came
in its heart, *mean evil blush mounted and
stood on its brow; and at letigth a devil spoke
in its bosom and said, ‘• The negro has no
riglo, that a white man is bound to respect;",.
add We the words were 'fairly, utterod,,their
meaning, as was jpdeod inevitable, changed
to this,—" A Northern ' has no rights
that a Southern
_gentleman is bound,tO re , =;
speot ;" and soon. gams were
,heard.;booming
about Sumter, and anew chapter in our his-
tTal
Cli S:--$1 50 i. I •V: ice or $ '2 . I I I: y .1. 3
IBM
tory and in the world's history began.
Our nation refused allegiance to its own
principles, refused to pay 'the lawful costs of
its virtue and nobility ; therefore it is sued in
the courts of destiny, and the case is this day
on trial.
The cast, is plain, the logic clear. Natural
right is sacred; or it is not. If it is, the negro
is lawfully free; if it is not, you may be law
fully a slave'. Just how all this stands in the
Constitution of the United States I do not pro
some to say. Other heads, whose business it
is, must attend to that. Every man to his vo
cation. speak from the stand point, of phi
losoplii, not. of politics: I attend to the logic
of list ory,,the logic of destiny, according 'to
final judgment will be ren
dered.,.,; It, .10,itot t , exactly to be supposed that
thetittattite,of,any nation makes grass green,
or establishoslhe relationship between cause
and effect., The laws of the world are con
sidara nly older than our calentler, and there
' fore date .yet More considerably beyond the
year,l7B9 : - 'And by the laws of the world, by
thoLeternatjidatienship betv. - .Ceti cause and
effect; it:stands—enacted beyond repe il, and
gra;?tin'tipon,soinewhat more durable than
marble or-brass, that the destiny of this na
tion for met'Ohan one century to come hinges
upon its jtistiee to that outettetleeo,—outcast,
but noChencefiirth t0,...ba!-:eaS(iaii - ,k,,,by (11, save
to the utter inviting deWn;of ott*lves. Once
it might liailes‘been otherWiSe; 'now we have
made it So Justice to the-Afrietticis salvation
to the while Mau. upon_thia'Coniinent. Oh,
my:America, you inust:foittutioti-,tilall_not_
he -- kFirrti - t - tt - t - hiS - fact A oriovr, -- de epui its-nry
lure and higher in my esteem than ever he
rire, newly illustrated in worth, newly proven
to be capable still, in-some directions, of ex
deeding magnanimity, open your eyes that
your teed may have guidance, now when there
is stilt need ! Open your eyes to see, that if
you deliberately deny, justice and human re
to one innocent soul in all your bor
ers, you , talo tit your own existence; for, in
violating the unity of humanity, you break
the principle th . at makes you a nation and
alive. Give justice to black and white, reeog
111/.0 man 110 Man; or the constituting idea, the
vital faith, the erystalizitrg principle of the
nation perislies,and the whole disintegrates,
tolls into dust.
I invite the attention of conservative men to
the fact that in this due plying of costs lies
the true conservation. 1 invite them to observe,
that, as every living body has it principle
which makes it alive, makes it a unit, bar
monizing the action of its members,—as every
eryst-al MIA a unitary law, which commands
the arrangement of its particles, the number
and arrangement of its faces and angles,- 7 ,50
it is with every orderly or living slate. To
lOs also there is a central, clarifying. unify
ing faith Withouet his you may collect hordes
into the brief, brutal empire ofla Cbingis
lihan or Tamerlane ; but you can have no firm,
tree, orderly, inspiring national life.
Whenever and wherever in history this cen
tral condition of national existence has been
de,truye 1, there a nation has fallen into chaos,
into imbecility, losing all power• to produce
ii,euins, to gentirade..able.suuls, to..,sustatti.-the
ttu.t of men in each other, or to 501 port any
ft t I.e conditions of social health and order
Even advances in the right line of progress
have to he made slowly, gradually, lest the
shuck of newness be too great and break (Ara
people from the traditions in which its faith is
embodied ; but a mere recoil, a mere denial and
dertrtu t on of its centralizing principle, is the
list and utmost calamity which can befall any
nation
Th. is no line-spun doctrine, fit for parlors
and lecture•rooms, but not for counting•roouis
and congressional halls.' it is solid, durable
fact. History is tun of it ; and he is a mere
node, and blinder than midnight, who cannot
perceive it. The spectacle of nations falling
into sudden, chronic, careless imbecility is
frequent and glaring enough for even wilful.
tress to see; and the central secret of that sad
phenomenon, so I ate sure, has been suggested
here. Wheu the socializing faith of a nation
has perished, the alternative for it becomes
this, that it can be stable only as it is stag
nant, and vigorous only as it is lawless.
Of this 1 am sure; but whether Bullion
S!reet can be willing to understand it I ant
not so sure. Yet if it cannot, or some one in
us behalf, grass will grow there. And why
should it refuse heed'.' Who is inure con
cerned ? Does Bullio a Street desire chaos?—
Does it wish that the pith should be taken out
of every statute, and the chief value from every
piece of property ? If nut, its course is clear
This nation has a vital faith,—or had one.-
-well grounded in its traditions. Conserve
this; or, it' it lots been impaired, renew its
vigor. This faith is our solo pledge of order,
of peace, of growth, of all that we prize in
the present, or • hope for the future That it
is a noble faith, hew in its breadth, its coin
prehension and magnanimity,—this would
seom •in my eyes rather to enhance than di•
minish the importance of its conservation
list the ofily argument against it. is, that it is,
generous, broad, inspirin,z : and the only ap
peal in opposition to it must be made, to the
coldness of skepticism, the suicidal miserliness
of egotism, or the folly and fatuity of ignor
ance.
Our nation has a political faith. Will you,
conservative men , conserve I his, and so regain
and multiply the blessing it has already
brought ? or will you destroy it, and wait till,'
through at least a century of tossing and tu
mult, another, and that of loss value, is grown?
And faith, a orystullizing principle for many
millions of people is not grown in a day; if it
can be grown in a century la problematical.—
The - fact, and the choice, are before you.
Our nation bad a faith waioli in cherished
with sincerity and sureness. If half the na
tion has fallen away front this,—if half the
remaining moiety is-doubtful, skeptical about
it,—if, therefore, we are already a house di
vided against itself and tottering to its
to what is all due? Simply in the fact that
no nation can' ling unsay its central principle,
and yet preserve it in faithfulness aud power,
• Martin ItatiM can long preach the sanctity of
Amaral right, the venerableness of man's ap e _
tura, and the identity of pure justice with po
litical interest, from - an auction-block on_which
titan and maidens are sold,—that, it} fine, a
nation cannot Continue long with impunity to
play within its own bolllers the part both ' of
Gassier and Tell, both of Washington and
Benedict Arnold, both of Christ and of him
that betrayed him.
Wetaust choose. For our national faith we
must make honest payment,- so conserving it,
and with it all for which nations may hope ;
or else, refusing to meet these oasts, we must
stiffer the nation's soul to perish, and in the
imbecility, the chaos, and Bhamothat follow,
-suffer therewith all that nations may lawfully
fear. •
What good omens, then, attonct . our time,
now when the first officer of the• larid,..hais
Rut the , trumpet to his mouth and blown
round the world an intimation that, to the
extent of the nation's power, these costs will'
begin to be 'paid, this true conservation to
be practised! The work is not yet done;
and the late elections betoken ti 0 .0,% much of
moral debility in the people.. .But,' my trust
continues firm' , The work will ""be donee—
at least, so far as we are responsible . . for its
doing. And then I Then our shame, our
misery, our deadly sickness will be taken
away ; no more that poison in our politics
no more that degradation in our commercial
relations; no more that careful toning down.
of sentiment to low levels, that it may har
monize with low conditions; no more that
need to shun the company of all healthful
and heroic thoughts, such 'as are fit, indeed
to brace the sinews of a sincere social order,
but sure to crack the sinews of a . feeble
and faithless conventionalism. Base men
there will yet be, and therefore base
politics; but when once our nation has paid
the debt it owes to itself and the human race
when once it has got out of its blood the ven
oin' of this great injustice, it will, it must,
arise beautiful in its young strength, noble
in its new-consecrated faith, and stride away
with a generous and achieving pace upon
the great highways of historical progress.—
Other costs will come, if we are worthy;
other lessons there will be to learn. I an
ticipate a place for brave and wise restric
tions,—for I am no Red Republican,—as
w-ll as for brave and generous expansions,
Lessons to learn, errors to unlearn, there
will surely be ; tasks to attempt, and disci
plines to practise; but once place the nation
in the condition of health, Once get it at corm
with its own heart, once get it out of these
aimless euld , es into clear sea, out of these
accursed "doldrums,!' (as the sailors phrase
it,) this' commixture of broiling calm and
sky-bursting thundergust, into the great
trade-wads of natural tendency that are so
near at hand,—and I can trust it to meet all
future emerg ency. All tlie freshest blood
of the world is flowing hither: we have but
to wed this with the life-blood of the uni
verse, with, eternal t
.truth and justice, and
Gud has in siore-no blessing for noblest na
tions that wiltnot;:bg_setured I Jr ours.
NO; 10.
The Woodcutter's Warning
During a walk that I once had with the
clergyman of Landsdroff and his wife, they
told me of a su hien death which had lately
taken place in the village.
' It h very awful,' I said ;
life hangs upon.'
That was really the case with one of my
family in time past,' said the clergyman's
good wife. ' tier life did hapg by a thread.'
Tell me how it was,' I said.
'lt. was the story,' said the lady, 'which
caused the inscription you see• to be placed
over our door-way.'
The inscription was as follows ;—.
Iron.", we learned why God sends grle f and woe.—
How great, Ids boundless lore we then should know,'
I read the lines, and then asked the minis
ter's wife if she would kindly tell me the
story:
She thus aegail
About a hundred years ago my mother's
great-aunt the Countess von Meritz, was liv
ing with her two daughters in a castle in Ger
many.
They were once invited to a wedding, which
was to take place by torch light, according to
the old German custom. They did not ac
cordingly, set out till it was beginning to get
dusk. They had to pass on their way through
a part of the Black Forest.
Now it happened that Gertrude. the eldest.
daughter of the Countess, had given her a
reatl,of,ccarls, and slae.._wure....them..nn the
evening of the wedding. But it chanced as
they entered the forest that a branch of black
thorn caught in her hair, and before it could
be disentangled the thread broke, and the
small seed pearls were scattered far and wide.
The servants and ladies busied themselves
aliki in picking up the scattered pearls, when
suddenly a wood cutter came running from
the forest, and went up quite out of breath,
to the Countess.
Prny go no further, ladies l' he exclaimed;
'when I was cleaving wood just now, I heard
two robbers plannitig how they might way
lay your party, rob you, and kill your ser
vants if they mode any resistance. The for
est is full of these men. I had the greatest
difficulty in getting to you in time. If you
had not been later than you expected you
would most certainly have fallen into the
hands of these robbers.'
Of courso no more was said about going on
to the wedding, and the horses' heads were
directly turned homewards. On arriving safe
ly at her castle the good mother thanked God
who had preserved her and those with her.—
Nor did she forget to reward the wood cutter
who had warned her in time of her danger.—
And there were two lessons which she tried
to draw for her children from the history of
that evening First, that our life always
hatigs un a weak a thread as that which held
Gertrude's pearls ; and that therefore God
only keeps us alive : and secondly, that all
troubles and disappointments are as much
sent for our good,as the delay in getting to the
wedding, which saved the family from the
robbers.
From this time,' continued theelergy man'a
wife, 't,he lines )ot: read over our door, become
the motto of the Countess and her family.—
And when I married, and my husband had
the parsonage repaired, he inscribed over the
entrance:—
' rf ono wo loarned why fiod sends griof and woo
How great 1110 Loundießs love wetkeu abonld know
CAN A CARPET BAG EAT?—IL was but a day
or to ago, while traveling upon the oars be
tween this city and Columbus, that a train,
stopped at a small village note hundred miles
off, the conductor crying out : Fifteen min
utes for dinner "
The passengers, of whom there happened to
be a large number, rushed into the dinner
appartment, and took the seats at the table,
one of them depositing his carpetbag in the
chair next to him. At the usual time the
landlord passed around to make his collection,
calling upon the aforesaid passenger for his
payment for dinner.
Mow much?" says, the passenger.
"Eighty cents," replied tho landlord.
" Eighty cents for dinner ? why that's exter ,
tion."
4, " No , sir: it is not. extortion. Ain't that
3 our carpet bag r
" yes sir : that is my carpet-bag."
" Well, that carpet-bag occupies a seat and
of oour'e I must charge for it.'
"Oh I is , that.the C.aBo ?e choral/I - your
eighty--cents.' - -
Turning to the carpetbag the_ passefiger
remarked : " Well, Mr. Carpet Bag_ as you
have not had much to eat, suppose be take
something," at the same time opening its
mouth, and turning therein half a ham, a roast,
chicken, -and a plate of c.rapkiii and sundry
of her articles, amid the roar of laughter of the
other passengers.
The provailinm opinion among the passen
gers was that theoarpet-bag won.,—Cincinnati
Examiner. - 4
U OUGHT TO KN014.- , -AneSetlatlgO, in puff
ing soap sold:
"It, is the ,best ever used for cleansing a
dirty man's face. We have used its an 4
fore we know." •
A GERMAN STORY
'what a thread