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IT ATI0HAL POLITICS.
' TSrSCCli OrrlTOrC- HO COBBrrrtt fSriir spenkln reference W-wfiat'i Auaft
1 ., : Ol" . GEOIiGIA,.- v . ;
7c ptiblisli bc'.ow the able speech, of the
Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, made in the
House of Representatives oa Friday the 21st
vlt , It is a bold and manly defence of the
principles and policy of the Democratic party,
And will be heartily responded to by every
true hearted Democrat who may pcruso :.t:
Mr. Cobb Mr. Clerk, we are at the close
of. the third week of the session without an
organization, and the charge ha been made
"roin every quarter of the House that the
Democratic party is responsible for it. As a
member of that party, acting with it, and giv
ing to its actions here since the commence
ment of this session my hearty and cordial ap
proval, I rise to say a word or two in refer
ee ce to tho position which it occupies before
the country, and to justify anl defend that
position. When the charge is made by those
who profess to have a majority in this House,
thoio whose sentiments have been reflected by
tho senior member, the gentleman from Ohio,
Mr. liiddiugs, the most of whom are cast
ing their votes for the honorable gentleman
from Massachusetts for Speaker, the only re
ply that I feel called upon to make in behalf
of the Democratic party is, that we are in the
minority. It is a source of high gratification
Co theui, and they have congratulated - tho
country upon it. The minority, thereforo,
is not responsible for this want of organiza
tion. . Tho charge is made by another political or
ganization in this House, and a more exten
ded reply is perhaps demanded. It has been
said repeatedly, and it ha? gone to the coun
try,, t! at the failure of t.'m uaticnal men of
this House to unite in the election of a Speak
er is attributable to the resolution passed by
the Democratic caucus which nominated the
gentleman from Illinois Mr Kichardson for
SpeakeT ; "that thr- rfisotutiotT" iiss" erected a'
barrier between the Democratic party and
those who hold national seutiments on some
subjects in common with that party, and that
that barrier cannot be passed by them ; and,
thi reforo, that we are responsible for the fail
ure to organize. It requires a brief return to
the history of the past two years to respond
to this charge. .
At the time, sir, when the contest was wa
ging and waxing warm in all the Southern
States ; when all the political organizations in
the Northern States out of the Democratic
party were warring upon it on account of its
nationality ; when for years it bad stood firm
gainst these assaults from every quarter and
from every faction, there suddenly springs up
a secret political organization, shown by sub
sequent history to be either the offspring or
the natural ally of this free soil organization
"which had for years warred upon the national
principles of the Democratic party. Elec
tions transpired ; the friends of this national
principle, which had been illustrated 1 in the
passage of the Nebraska and Kausasbill, and
which had been maintained for years by the
national Democracy of tho North, were strick
en down. lanced only ask you to ca:t your
eyes over this House and notice those who
now occupy the seats once filled by the friends
of the Constitution, and desire you to tell me
through whose instrumentality those men wero
driven from this hall, and their places sup
plied by those who now respond to the senti
ments of the gentleman from Ohio, and who
cast their votes for the gentleman from Massa
chusetts. This was not the work of old or
gan izations existing at the North . They were
incapable of effecting it. It was when those
sympathizing with them in their free-soil sen
timents struck down, if you please, tho ban
ners carried in broad daylight, and resorted
to their midnight assembles, hid out from
ha lujht of day. and there consnirinir nomine
the - best interests, or" this count nrl th
constitutional rights of that section of it which
I have the honor in part to represent, combi
ning their secret power and influence with the
topea enemies of . tho Constitutim a id the
rights of the States, were enabled to destroy
fcnd break down the power of tho national
Demooratio party in the Northern States, and
to fill their seats with the advocates of those
P"nciPlL-s to which I have alluded. Sir,
When the tidinga of these results were beard
fry the people of my section of the country,
there was one general expression of regret and
mortification from all who could forget their
enmity to the Democratic p-rty. . If there
were any who rejoiced in these results, if
there were any whose feelings and views were
represented by that portion of the public press
which heralded m, not the triumph of Free
Boihsm, but the defeat of national Democracy
such, I trust, were few in numbers. It crea
ted, however, these results: a universal feel
ing' through all the Southern States that tho
time had armed when of us there should be
but one voice, one -people, one party, in de
fence of rights dear lo us as the constitution
r tae country, whick were now being warred
npoa by a sectional organization at tho North,
ruica was as wno ;nA;r.tA . t -
taaaiber. v fr " l w return 01
r?Oera to this Jlousa enrrvi'rxr Vf., U
i success throughout the Northern
aid
VVegtorn 5k.
- stales.
We felt, all of our peo-
pie-felt, . that the time had come when we
should stand firuland tree by those men and
that party of theportU wbo, by their ,votes
and conduct, ba4 proven themselves true to
the Constitution. There was no man in that
hour who would have risen, before a Southern
constituency and palled to t&e stand northern
Free Soilers to pove the want of soundness
and nationality, nd true principles, in the
men who had bei sacrificed in their defence
of their constitutional rights. Why was the
South not a unit?j - Why did not she speak
but one, voice in cpmmon with those national
Democrats who, ip times past, stood by her,
and have stood hee in defence of the consti
tution, a firm andfunbrokeu phalanx, irora the
commencement ot the session down to the
present moment ? Sir, I lo not feel author
ized to speaker what, occurred in other ptates,
pircd in my own. In the hour m which this
universal sentiment prevailed, there was un
known to us, unknown to the Democratic par
ty as ituow staud3 organized, a secret political
organization springing up in our midst, and,
before we were aware of it a large portion of
our people were bound by solemn oaths and
obligations to subject their feilow-citizens to a
new test, unknown to the past political history
of our country, and, as we honestly believe,
then and now, violative of the constitutional
rights of many good, worthy, and patriotic
citizens of this land. Sir. the Democratic
party of my own State stood prepared to unite
with every man. North and South, who would
stand by the constitution, and seeing that this
question to which I have alluded had over
whelmed all other questions, had indeed be
come the paramount question of the day as
illustrated here, we wanted to be united, we
wanted to speak as one man, with one voice,
and one heart, as there was a universal spirit
and feeling of sympathy throughout our region,
But this secret party broke upon us if I may
be permitted to use the homely illustration
like a clap of thunder from a clear sky, pro
ving that there existed in our midst a secret
political organization having for its principle
the prescription of Catholic and foreign-born
citizens, and these new tests were to bo ap
plied to judge of the orthodoxy of overy man
in our State before we were to be permitted
to co-operate with them. Gentlemen say
there were no such tests submitted, no such
tests to be found ;in their Philadelphia plat
form, and none such to be found in their pub
lished declaration of principles. I reply that
I know not bow it may be in their own States,
but in mine I looked not merely to your Phil-,
adelphia platform, I did not content myself
inquriug as to their published declarations,
but being enabled to see a little further into
this matter, I inquired into their oaths and
obligations to ascertain what tests they inten-
dii t.ao 'v a yx-ir ttboee - acting f
with me. In order that I mav be distinctly
understood, and that gentlemen may compre
hend my reasons for the course I Lave marked
out for myself, I beg leave to read two or
three lines only of these oaths taken by a por
tion, if not all, of the Know-Nothing or
American party of my own State, as follows;
" That you will not vote, or give your in
fluence for any man for any office in the gift
of the people, unless he be an American born
citizen in favor of Americans ruling Ameri
ca, nor if ho be a Boman Catholic."
Sir, I leavo it to thoso whoso tastes lead
them to inquire to discover whether this was
openly set forth in the Philadelphia plat
form. I find it in the oath. And further;
" That you will, when elected or appointed
to any official station conferring on you the
power to do so, remove all foreigners, aliens,
or lloman Catholics from office or place, and
that you will in no case appoint such to any
office or place in your gift."
Sir, those principle wera openly defended
and justified by the representatives of this
party in the canvass in the State of Georgia,
aud when they applied to me and to my friends
this new test, wo rejected it. - j
Wrho is responsible for the division in my '
State ? Who is responsible for the fact that j
Georgia, upon this floor, does not speak one
united voice ? I put no test to my friends of
the American party. I raise no harries be
tween them and myself. They erected, they
put them there, and they are responsible fot
it. If gentlomen, when they say that their
party is not in favor of proscription, mean
that they have not taken, and do not justify,
these oaths, then I will go with such gentle
men to inquire where and what their princi
ples are ; but if they are the defenders, the
advocates, and the apologists of these oaths,
then I say the barrier between us is deep,
wide and impassable until, by their own act,
they have removed it. (Applause.) -
In my State the contest was carried on upon
the issue formed upon those principles Geor
gia, in common with her sister States in all
portions of the Union, pronounced ' against
thoso principles, and upon that issue her rep
resentativei of the Democratic party met here
at the commencement of this session. What
did they do ? They placed in nomination for
the office of Speaker tho gentleman from Illi
nois. Wo have the testimony of more than
one of our friends voting against him on this
floor that there is no personal objection to his
election. . -
A Voice. Or political either.
Mr. Cobb. There may be political with
some I say there is no personal objection to
him. Why can they not support him, and
vote for him, agreeing as they do with ; him
upon this great issue involved in the Kansas
and Nebraska act? Why, sir, because of the
resolution adopted by our caucus That res
olution extends to our cottntrymen all over the
land pur j heartfelt congratulations upon the
triumph of the principle imbodied in that
Kansas-Nebraska act in many of the States.
But our friends desire us to withdraw those
congratulations. ; What, for? Is there any
objection to that expression of the feeling of
the Democratic party in .caucus? Does that
constitute an impediment to the . support a
national man may desire to give to the norai-
neo of the Democratic party ? I apprehend
not. ' Certainly, it cannot to those who pro
fess to occupy a national position.' But we
extended our congratulations to our country
men upon the triumph of civil and religious
freedom, as antagonistical to the doctrines
and the principles of those oaths which I
have read in your hearing If they do not
defend, justify, and approve ' the principles
i in bodied in those . baths, the resolution does
not touch them. If they do justify those
doctrines, then let me ask of them what they
demand at our hands " They themselves have
erected the barrier.' We have triumphed
over itj and, because we express our congrat
ulations to the country at the triumph we have
gained over" it, they demand us to retreat and
withdraw those words of congratulation.
Mr. Reade Mr. Clerk, I thought the iren-
dtMeJfiiagiliet-hig-wftt' wyty ra-ilii? tsiicri
ty, and had not triumphed.
Mr. Cobb--Either the gentleman has not
listened attentively, or I have spoken to very
little purpose. -" I am speaking now of the
triumphs which the Democratic party has
gained since the Congressional elections, and
the voice of the people declared in their favor
by the defeat, in the various States of this
Union, of those who went before them hold
ing the banner of these proscriptive oaths and
obligations.
Mr. Bcade If tho gentleman will permit
me, I understand him to mean, in speaking of
the triumph of this party, . their triumph in
the country. I would, then, ask him this
How can his party have tiiumphed in the
eountry, unless the elections show it ; and how
can thoso elections show it except by the re
turn of a majority of Democratic members of
this House? If you have not a majority in
the House, then were your triumph ?
- Mr. Cobb How much trouble will it give
the gentleman from North Carolina to work
out this problem, that the Democratic party
has triumphed in the Northern States since
the elections for members of the present Con
gress, and that many members now holding
seats are doing so in defiance 'of public senti
ment at home, as shown by the result of these
recent elections. I hope the gentlemen will
take his leisure, and let ns know tho result
when he has ascertained it. ...
I was alluding, sir, to the position which,
we occupy, and the demands made by ou
friends. Ifi Mr. Clark, the principles imbodied in
those oaths and obligations do not find any
representatives upon this floor connected "with
the national American organization, then the
resolution passed by the Democratic caucus,
constitutes no impediment in the way of their
giving their support to the nominee of that
party. If. however, they do defend and ap
prove these principles, then I ask them with
what jwjtit A pwpricty-l key al l-poal
us to withdraw our congratulations to the
country when they refuse to withdraw the ob
noxious principles to which I have alluded ?
As desirablo as the organization of this House
may be to the Democratic party, as desirable
as it may be to the large majority of the people
of this country for the organization to fall
into our hands, I say frankly and candidly to
my friends of the national American organi
zation that the Democratic organization of this
House will never be purchased by my aid and
my vote, by the sacrifice of the principal in
volved in the resolution passed by the Demo
cratic caucus on the 1st of December. Sir,
three great principles are illustrated and fore
shadowed by that resolution ; the rights of the
States, freedom of conscience, and the rights
of the foreign-born citizens. When the war
has ceased by the Republican party, as they
term themselves, upon the first principle, and
when the war ceases by the American party
upon the two others, it will be time then to
consider the necessity of urging these issues
longer before the country When that time
arrives we shall not only bo in Georgia and
the South but throughout this broad land, in
e?ery State, one people, expressing one voice
and one sentiment. .
Another objection is made because the gen
tleman from Illinois is the regular nominee of
the Democratic party for Speaker, as well as
because he represents the principles of the
party, and we are asked to withdraw him and
select another candidate, or to unite in the
election of another man in other words,
they have no personal objection to the candi
date of the party, the gentleman from Illinois,
and there being no political objection to him
which does not equally apply to every other
member of the Democratic party ; yet they
ask us to nominate another candidate, or to
give our votes to another person. For what
purpose? There can be but two purposes:
One is to abandon the principles upon which
we have stood. . I have disposed of that. The
other is to waive tho organization of the Dem
ocratio party. Sir, I ask my friends, is this
a time for us to entertain the proposition of
waiving the Democratic organization? To
day, though reduced, in numbers upon this
floor, it occupies before the country perhaps
a prouder position than it ever did before.
My Southern friends, do'you ask me to waive
or to abondon the Democratic organization in
the hour in which purged of the last Free
Soil sentiment, and acting in barmony, it has
enlarged its sphere of usefulness,' and is en
tering upon a new career of triumph of na
tional principles? If you do I cannot re
spond to the demand. Believing, as I do, in
my honest judgment, that the best interests of
this country, if not its very existence depend
upon the preservation of the national Demo
cratic party and its principles, I will never
abandon that organization so long as the ban
ner which floats over it has inscribed upon its
folds the principles to wblch, in heart, in spir
it, body and mind, I am thoroughly and un
falteringly devoted, now and forever.
But, sir, some other representatives of this
national American party have expressed feel
ings and sentiments by no manner of means
in accordance with the feelings and the views
presented Jy. my friend from Alabama, Mr.
Walker, who opened the debate upon this
question. My friend from Kentucky over
the way f Mr. H. Martha! utterly repudiated
the idea that we should unite and co-operate
together in the organization of this House.
He has nailed, his banner to the mast, and if
it is his will aud pleasure to stand by it, be it
bo ! But it is ungenerous to charge mc with
undue devotion to my banner when they them
selves are prepared to fall and die or triumph
by theirs. The gentleman from Kentucky,
his colleague, Mr. Cox. does not ask us
merely to abandon our organization and our
principles, but to join with him in the election
of the candidate for whom be has cast his vote.
Mr. Cox I did not mention the name of
any gentleman.' ' ;
Mr. Cobb A gentleman, then, of his par
ty. : , ;
Mr. Cox Certainly, of roy party. - I said
ia i? tb.Jc2jocrt.te party nitc4 with.tU: .
Southern American, they could elect an Amer
ican ; but I could not speak for my party, and
say that if I come over to the Democratic
party my friends would follow the example.
(Mr. Cobb I had understood the gentle
man as inviting roe to cast my vote for the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Fuller,)
but be says for some member of his party I
will say frankly und candidly to the gentleman
from Kentucky, that, if this House is never
ofganized, my voto will never be given for the
representative of any party, or for any mem
ber of that party, who has inscribed upon his
party, or his personal banner, those oaths and
obligations; and I-should regret extremely,
apart from that consideration, to cast my vote
for tho gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr.
Fuller,) because, in the act of doing it, there
would come up before me the ghost of the
murdered Wright, who by that gentleman's
constituency, and by his aid and co-operation,
was stricken down because he gave his vote
for the Nebraska bill, which my friend from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Fuller) says if he had
been a member he would have voted against.
,Mr Cox. If the gentleman will permit me
to make a remark, it is this : lie declares
that eu account of tho proscriptive character
of the American party, he can never vote for
a candidate of that party. I leave it to the
country to judge whether he has proscribed
that party himself, or whether or not the
American party were the proscribers. I ask
for.a good man, and do not care to what par
ty he' belongs.
Mr. Cobb. A man does not represent the
fundamental principles of the constitution of
the country, as I understand them, who is the
defender and the advocate of these oaths and
obligations, and for such a man I never will
vote. The salvation of thia country is not to
be sjcured. by the union and co-operation of
r men who are separated upon fundamental con
stitutional principles. . r ,
rw.ygft riii&n, Mr--CIet.V. go ib to jl .
discission of these principles which have been
broight before the House, but I did feel that
siletce longer would be unjustifiable, when,
froa every quarter, I heard this assault made
upoa the Democratic party, and it held re
sponsible for the want of organization.
I am not, sir, disposed to go into the dis
cission of any principles outside of those look
ing to the question of the responsibility for
tht organization of the House ; but at the
prcper time I desire to . be heard upon the
prfaciples of this Nebraska and Kansas act,
and upon the difference of opinion which ex
ist in the Democratic party; and I think that
I saall be able to show, though there do exist
differences of opinion upon points immaterial,
that, upon the great leading, practical idea
contained in tho bill, there is but one voice
and one sentiment in the Democratic party.
Adopt what theory you please of this Ne
braska act; and, thoajU there may be a vari
ance upon abstract questions connected with
these theories, yet it will be found that'each
theory leads, in the end to the same practical
result that is, that the people shall deter
mine for themselves the nature and character
of their domestic institutions This I shall
attempt to elucidate before this House at the
E roper time. My object in the remarks I
ave submitted, is to epeak of the organiza
tion and the difficulties attending it. , I have
given my own views, justified my own con
duct in reference to the past, and that will
constitute my justification for the future. I
am upon the line which duty and my princi
ples have marked out for me, and I shall con
tinue upon that line to the closing scene of
this drama .
From the American Celt.
. Tnat Convention at tte Astor House.
, Oct beyond there. Reader, removed from
the chair in which we sit the 16th part of a
mite or so, and almost over against Barnum's
Museum, stands the Astor House, a place of
much resort and huge proportions. At all
hours of the day and night its lobbies are fill
ed with men of good character, (such as you
might trust to sit beside you, with money in
your pocket,) and a pack of Do-Nothings of
dubious reputation, who make vagrancy a
profession, and imulate honest people by the
most recondite contrivances.
Underneath those lobbies, to the right hand
and to the left, several net-works of Tele
grph wires converge which flash intelligence
at a moment's notice to audiences throughout
the Union. Indeed, there is no hotel in New
York better suited to the wants of & respecta
ble business man, or an unindictcd politician,
than the Astor, but it is, perhaps, the worst
rendezvous in the city for conspirators who
wish to evade the Law, or slink from the
sisht of its officers.
In this stone sounding-board, in this cov-ered-an
thoroughfare, a body of adventurers
dubbed a Convention plots at this moment
against the Law, meditates piracy, more
criminal than that of Lopez, Walker, or Kin
ney, and caps the climax of it3 madness by
arrogantly trampling upon the Decrees of tho
Church, . and practising tho rubric of assas
sins in the name of the Irish iu America.
In the name of the Irish in America ! !
Look closely at it and Etudy its features.
It is comoscdin the main at fellows who
never pulled an angry trigger in their lives ;
of Corporals and Colonels who coul 1 not head
an assault against an ant bill in a scientific
manner; of Adjutants whose - knowledge of
tactics have never soared above the making of
shoes, or the selling of quack " medicines.
There is but ono man, Oliver Byrne-, in the
gathering - who could ship a gun, or superin
tend the projected ealute to Dublin; all the
rest are, at best, a batch of obscure men mis
led by narrow judgments and a false idea of
patriotism j or wortldesa scribblers who point
their pens iu ?pruce-street," and torture their
little minds devising political Perhara Lot
teries " to raise tho wind." t - - -
Not one of these latter is known by reputa
tim to five hundred of our countrymen oa
either, side c-C: Ika. Allantic-cio one of Uoese
has over written, or spoken ten sentences - in
accordance with good morality or the religion
of our people. On the other hand, ever since
they' came into life under the sliaJe of John
Mitchell," they have eschewed all the nicer
amenities of life indulged in tho n tost ex
travagant disrespect for the Church, and sick
ened and saddened our best men, clerical and
lay, by their literary burlesques upon Irish
politics and Catholic principles. These are
the Fathers, : the Sponsors, the Alpha and
Omega, of this movement. Possessing no
spark of patriotism or religion themselves,
they make a precarious livelihood by carica
turing those of better men. Without a Past
to which they can look back with pleasure
without a Present, tuch as an honest' man
would live without a prospective Future,
such as a virtuous or conscientious mind
might hopo for, they drag out their lives strut
ting in a small way with the spurs which
Mitchell shed in his "sets-to" with Christian
ity, and wheedling their countrymen by pat
riotic pretences. These, we say, are the
prime-movers in this matter: now look sit
their victims.
Those good-hearted men, such as -ot Bos
ton, of Brooklin, and of this city, have!
every man of them, been seduced into this il
legal cabal by misrepresentations. They do
not think, as they Git there, that they are con
spiring against tho country they have eworn
to protect ; they do not think, as they grow
giddy and young with the passing excitement,
that ten millions of their countrymen will
blush at their folly, or curse their recreancy ;
and they cannot, would not, believe that the
Church disowns them and shuts", them out
from her sacraments. Yet all this is, or will
be, true. They are cut off, in their old age,
from the preceptor of tbeir ycuth and tho con
soler of their manhood. Thry are on tho
high road to the States' Prison and disgrace.
They are on the eve of reaping crops of cur
Bfvixam ail tho rntriarrhaof thair jtmigralioti,
and all the spectators of their flight. We
pity and we respect these men. They are
dupes ; persons who mean well, but act badly.
Their goodness lic3 in their weakness. If
" good intentions" justified or palliated crime
they could not be criminals. We repeat, we
are grieved to see good men tricked by sharp
ers ; but the fault is theirs, if they will be
victims in spite of our warnings.
These two classes, Reader, schemers and
earnest dupes, comprise the body before us.
Answer are the IrLdi ia America represen
ted by them ?
In any other country than this we would
treat this Convention with ridit-ule ; we would
kill it with kindness ; we would take away its
powers of mischief by a quiet opposition But
here at this time we are compelled against
our wish to treat it with a seriousness, which
under other circumstances, it could not de
serve. Within a week it will be used as a . jibe
word and an argument asainst us by our ene
mies. It will be auotcd as an evidence of
Irish sentiment, as an earnest of Irish irreli
gion, as another sad parody upon the previous
struggles of our countrymen for their unhap
py mother land. We desire lo anticipate
these judgments, and to put in our demurer
in advance, to any and all deductions hurtful
to the Irish Exodus, which may be based up
on them. Both in its objects (which are so
cialistic and subversive of the historical Irish
cause) and in its means, -. (which set aside the
duty of citizens and the discipline of the Cath
olic Church.) it is a he upon the, Irish of
America, and as such, we protest against it.
It represents them in the same manner that a
check-forger represents the man whose name
he forges. It filches a reputation not its own:
It trades in a borrowed character. It is, in
short, creature of a badly prosecuted swindle,
ia which some persons have sacrificed portions
of the'r little savings, without any security for
the repayment of their investments, and with
out cnteitainiug any reasonable hopes of ever
seeing them expended for a feasible object.
We write this to show that it is not in any
manner a creation of the Irish mind of Amer
ica, or in syiaphoDy with Irish American sen
timent. ,
Whoever mistakes its import and influence
after this explanation mistakes it wilfully and
knowingly. Whoever after this attempts to
mete out the condemnation and odium which
it ha3 earned, or will earn, to the Irish of A
merica. must assume that they learn nothing
from experience that they are heathens and
publicans that they disregard the Law and
defy their Pastors and that this Convention
itself is sustained by Bishops, Priests, Laics,
and is a fair index of Irish respectability and
talent all preposterous assumptions !
A camel will will pass through the efe of a
needle, oil and water affiliate and a tadpole
swallow a hypogriff before the Irish degener
ate into disciple3 of the Infidels and Socialists,
who planned this Know-Nothing Conventicle.
Reader turn your eyes from tho Astor and
the FiJlibfislers wo have now dona with'
them. '
S3T Tha capitol of Nebraska Territory is to
cost 500,000. Mr. Bovey, of Maine, has
taken the contrac t to build it of brick .
.From tho Metropolitan for December. -
Wie Last Grand Matter of Halta.
" Ma fA Urdplveiwr The bo&toof fkr
badly, u my motto.' ; . ' " ' '
"But what will Europe' Jy when it risada an
absolute renunciatiou of tl dm on Xalta. Go;
and Comiuo, mad by our Order, aJmost rithou.l
resistance V ,;.-.'
"And what. prfty,.haa your Order done foe
France, thbt I should seek to guard its honor and
ftsintoresu? You are the secret allies of Eng
land, and tho open friends of Russia, and y&u
have denied water to our fleet, w Lea we Lad n
other part at hand that could relieve, our wanta4
"But, Generai" the rest of the-reply was cut
short by a deep sigh. .
" Come, como, my gpod friend," said the Oaa.-,
f ral, , MjJtais sow im Lh Wada of Hub Txttmh
2apub3te, t u 3 rioW!7 tatf wrC it (tunr tLeii' ' -.
You, at all events. Lave no Teason to consider
yourself ill-treated. Look at article 2d. ' A pen
sion of three hundred thousand francs a year, not
to cease unlesg it be replaced by a duchy in Ger
many.'" The speaker at thea words placed the point of
his fore finger on a parcLmeDt that lay before him;
and raised Lia eyes to those of 1U interlocutor.
The conversation was carried on ia the Parisib
Palace at Valetto, the capitol of the Island of
Malta, oa tie ICth of June, 1798. The speaker!,
two military personages of high rank, were seated
at a table covered with papers aud -documents.
One was dressed in tte uniform of a General of
the Republic of France. The other was a tall
German Knight, with Hue eyes, fair skin, and
rosy cheeks. He wore the robe of St- John, -and
his breast was adorned with the Gand-Crosi'ot
the Order. .....
. .Their colloquy was now ended bxAhe. s?rj'
of two copies of a written agreement to. which
they affixed their names as. follows Signed;
" Er. Ferdinand de Boopesch, G. St of the Order
of St. John." Signed, " Bonaparte," The G rani
Master now rose, and was courteously escorted bjr
the General to tLe door, where he tuuk. Lis leave.
The Grand Master wended Lis way fciuwiy along
the strada reale, and having reached the esplan
ade in front of the great Church of St. John, h
dismissed Lia attendants, who retired to tho Hos
telry or Palace of the Grand Master; "while Iloh
pesch ascended the steps leading to the Church.'
Twilight was now spreading its grey wing3 over
tho city, his troubled soul needed the quietness
and solitude of the hour. Leaning against a pi
lasUr of the facado, ho cast his. eye upon th
Th'a fair and famoua city, this whole island
with the neighboring islands of Qczo and Cbniino
all these haughty knights of every natiou-aU,
these fortifications, down to curtain and fosse, -6carp
and ravelin, had been subject to his coin- '
mand up to the present day. S.ill all fa not
lost; three hundred thousand frane a year, or C
dukedom in Germany is something to be consid
ered :" quoth the Grand Master. "But will not '
all Europe spurn me as a traitor, or at beet a '
coward?" . - i" ' ,
The Grand Master cculJ find no lathiactory
answer to this 6eriotis question. He shut his eyea
convulsively to banish the hateful thought, and
buried his face in Lis hands. How long his sad
and painful reverie lasted the Kuight wai unable
to explain, nor could he account for his manner
of entering the church. Ho found himself, how
ever, kneeling not far from the door of the sub
terranean chapel which contains the tombs f tha
Grand Masters of the Order. As he gazed down
the gloomy stairway leading from the church to
the vault, he perceived a dim spark of light, which
gradually quickened into life, and grew larger
and brighter, shedding a round a blue and ill
omened gleam.'- By this light he saw a confused,'
sparkling of helmets and shields, swords and
spurs, and then a group of Kuighis of St. John,
who moved up one after the other from the vault,'
and marched towards the wicket of the railing
before tho grand altar. . ne observed that every
Knight wore tho insignia of a Grand Master, and
as they passed into the sanctuary he recognized
distinctly the features of Nicholas Cotton er, Man
oel de Yflhcna, lisle Adam, Tinto, Zondadari
and tho great Lavallettc, whose appearance was
identical with the statues or painted portraits on!
the monuments in the aisles of tho church.
Suddenly a report of all the cannon in the hun
dred and one forts of tho island burst upon his
car with a deadening crash. Each 6lab now
trembled, flashed and blow pen, and from each
started op a warrior. The whole space was filled
with the sparkling armor, and the nodding plnmea
of the dead came to life again. A Kn'gnt in the
armor of Auvergne marched up the middle aisle
and unfolded the grand gonfalor of the Order in
front of tho altar, and at his side stood pages bear
ing the well known " sword of Religion," that
which rhilip II. bad bestowed upon the great
LaraTIette.
At the foot of the altar stood a bishop, arrayed
ia fuU pontificals, supported by beacons, sub-deacons,
and the ranks of the minor clergy. Every
one kft'elt as the venerable prelate made the Stgu
of tho cross, and began to recite the " ihtroit."
The " Gloria in excelsis" and " Credo in unum
Deum," were intoned. High Mass went on, and
when tho Bishop chanted " lie missa est," he was
condnrt'.-d to hia throne, disrobed of tho brilliant"
j vestments he had worn whila officiating at ms,
i and clothed with a" plain white one without ore ft -;
menfs'.
j. The deacon, who was a priest of Order ef
; St. John, now stood before the bis-hop and said :
! " Mvt IHustriousand Reverend Lord, the Knighte
of tho Order of St. John here present ask you,
j whether it is pleasing to yoi that the chair of
i hnncr of this chapter he fitted ?" -!
T'ao Bishop "answered" riacct." The raae
' ter of enrcmonies and two pulssants in complete
j armr ajproacbol t'.je terrified HopKh in tht'
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