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HY JOHN G. WHITTIEH.
No bird song floated down the hill,
The tangled bank below was still;
No rustle from the birchen stem,
No ripple from•the water's heir.
The dust of twilight round us grew,
We felt the falling of the dew ;
For from us. e'er the day was done,
The wooded hills shut out the sun.
But on the • tiver's farther side
We'saw the hill-tops glorified—
A tender glow, exceeding fair,
A dram of day without its glare.
With us the damp, the chill, the gloom;
With them the sunset's rosy bloom; •
While dark, thiough billowy vistas seen,
The river rolled in sLade between.
From out the darkness where we trod
We gazed upon the hills of God,
Whose light seemed not'of moon or sun,
We spoke not, but our thought was one.
We paused, as if from that bright shore
Reckoned the dear ones gone before;
• -
And stilled our beating hearts to hear
The voices lost to mortal ear I
Sudden our pathway. turned from night
The hills swung open to the . light;
Thro' their green gates the sunshine showed
A long, slant splendor downward flowed.
Down glade and glen and bank it rolled;
It bridged the shaded. stream with gold;
And, borne on piers of mist, allied
The shadowy with the sunlit side 1•
"So," prayed we, "when our feet draw near
The river, dark with mortal fear,
And the night cometh chill with dew,
0, Father I—let thy light break through I
"So let the hills of doubt divide,
So bridge with faith the sunless tide
•
" So.let the eyes that fall on earth
On thy eternal hills look furtb ;
"And in thy beckoning angels.know
The dear ones whom we loved below!" •
tni 'AmViiig,
Translated for the Honlefournal.
The Mors' of the Flax.
33. Y ILANS ANAERSEN.
The flax was in full oom • itse Ica Te
little flowers were blue as the heavens
and fine as the wing of the butterfly.--
The sun shone upon it, and the rain wa•
tered it ; and this Was to the flax just the
same as it is to little Children, when'they
have their faces washed and receive a
kiss from their mothers—they look so
•
much prettier. •
" People say that I stand up so straight
and strong," said the flax, " and that I
shall be so very long, I shall make a
beautiful piece of linen. Oh how happy
lam ! lam certainly the happiest per
son in the whole wide world. Every
thing is so good to me, and in the end I
shall become something of use iu the
world. How the sunshine rejoices ,one,
and how the rain refreshes 'Ol3O. I am
immeasureably happy; I am the happiest
• of all."
E. t. JOEES
" Ho, ho," said the. thorn-hedge; "you
know nothing of the world, that's clear;
but we know it, for-we have thorna."
And then it snapped out crossly :
"Schnipp,..schnapp. schiurre,
I",assel urre ;
The song is done."
"'No, it isn't done," said the 9 ; "to
morrow the sun will shine or the rain
will fall with its refreshing showers. I
feel that I blossom. lam the happiest
in the whole world."
But one morning came the, work-peo
ple, seized the flax by the head,and pull
ed it up by the root--how it did burst !
And „then they laid it in water, as if they
wished to drown, it, and then it was put,
over the fire, as if they were going to
roast it: It was very dreadful.
" One can't alWays have good fortune,"
said the flax. " One must pass through
trouble; then one becomes wise."
And trouble after trouble did come
upon it. It was steamed, and codled,
and broken, and hackled, till it did not
know itself what all was' done to it.—
Then it came upon the spiuning-wheel.
Schnurr, schnurr ! it was impossible to
keep one's thoughts together there.
"I have been so very happy," it
thought, amidst all its pain • "one must
be content with the good whichi one has
received.- - Content to be content, 0 !'
And that it still said when - it came
upon the loom; and from that it came
forth a large and beautiful piece of linen.
All the flax, to the very smallest stem,
was contained in that one piece. -
"This is truly extraordinary. I never
could have believed that fortune would
15e so kind to me. The thorn-hedge cer
tainly did not know what it was talking
about with its ‘Schnipp, schnapp,
schnurre, basselurre !' The song isn't
by 'any tneans done. It commences now,
really, for the first time. It.is allso very
strange to me. raw paid now for all my
sufferings. lam the happiest of all. I
am so strong and so fine, so white and so
long. This is somewhat different from
Debotea to lip iliqqcipies of Dv .1161)oeileg, 110 lig ,Dissehiiimtioij of 4ffovllittf, gqD
THE RIVER PATH.
ft, • •o• •e st• ' PA"; TgURSDAY, AUGUST 23
•
bons.. simple plants, -although one does,
bear — blossims. Why. the pastor's wife
herself stopped to look at me, and said
that.l was the best _piece in the whole
parish. 'I certainly could not be any
happier."
And now the linen was brought' into
the house, and then came the scissors.
0 ! how they did cut and slit! and how
the needle flew in and-out. That was no
pleasure, certainly ; but from the linen
came twelve white cameras of the - kind
which one does not quite like to - name,
but which, nevertheless, every one must
liuee•
_-
" Only see. notv," said the flag,
for the first time,_
I really, have. become'
something useful. Now I shall do good
in the world, and-every - one knows that
to dO good is the greatest pleasure one
can have. We. have become twelve
things, but are still all one and the same
—we are a dozen. What_ an extraordi
nary piece of good . fortune it is." .
And years passed-by, until they could
hold together no longer.
"Everything must come to an end
some time or other," said each piece.—
"I would willingly have held together a
little longer, but one musn't wish foi
im
possibilities."
And so it was torn in shreds and rags.
It thought everything was over now, for
it was torn, and steamed, and cooked
again, and then—it became beautiful
•
•
white paper.
"That is a surprise, and 'a
_delightful'
surprise, too," said the paper. " Now 1
shall be finer than I was' before, and now
I shall be written upon. What is there
in the wotid which cannot be written.
Oh I what good fortune it is."
And there were, in truth, the mast
beautiful storied and verses written upon
it ; and only once was there-a blot. And
.the people heard what stood upon it. It
was so wise and so good, it made them so
much wiser and better. There was a
great spell in the words upon that paper.
" This is more than I ever even dream
ed of. when I was still a little blue field
flower. How could it ever occur to me,
then, that I should at some future time
bear happiness and knowledge
,to man
kind I cannot yet understand it, but
it really is so. I myself_have dine noth-•
iii to — deddiiallir aad - yetl tnrcroivsied
with one joy after another. Each time,
1 when I think the song is done,' then
directly something better than all hap
pens. Now I should certainly be sent
all over the world, that men may read
me. Nothing else can possibly happen.
That is the only thing possible. I have
precious thoughts: upon me, even as I
once had blue flowers. lam the happi
est in the whole world."
But the paper did not go upon its
travels; it only went as far as the book
seller's; and there all that 'was written
upon it was placed in•types, that a book
might be, made of it—yes, even many
hundred. books ; for in this way much
wore pleasure and good might be done,
than if the single sheet of paper upon
wl:icb it was written had gone forth in
the.world.
" Well, this certainly is incomprehen
sible," thought the written paper; " this
never occurred - to me. I shall remain at
home, and be held in honor; exactly like
an old grandfather, and that I am, too,
among . _all the- new books. Now one can
judge something of my good fortune.—
Lie wrote all these tine things on me.
Book down at me. What an honor that
was ! Each word flowed directly from
*the pen into me. • I am' the happiest'
thing in the whole world."
And then the paper was tied together
in a bundle, and thrown into a large bar
'rel, which stoad in -the wood-house.
" It is best to rest' atter accomplishing
a great
can
said the paper, " for tiler'
one can collect one's thoughts, and find
what wore lies in one. - Now I know for
the first time what is in u.e; and to know
one's self, is the first step in true vyisiom.
What will happen to me . ? Forward I
must go—everything goes forward; that
- I know by experience.' -
But it-stayed in the wood-house until
finally one day all the paper was taken
out and laid upon tile hearth-. There it
was to be burned, for it wasn't worth
enough to be sold to the grocer, and be
used as a wrapper tor bread and sugar,
they said; no, it was only rubbish, and
so it must be burned. And all the child
ren in the house came and - stood round,
for it was fine fun to see paper
larned, it flamed up so high in the air at
first, and, afterward, one could see in the
ashes so many red sparks,- which ran
aboat hither and thither. One after the
other went out so fast—that they called
I" seeing the children come out of school,"
and the bit spark was the schoolmaster.
; Often they thought 'that the latter had
gone, but in the very same minute would
come anothef spark.
There-goes the schoolmaster," they
cried.
Ah, that was grand fun. They. would
have liked well to'know who it was really
went there. We kliew it; but they
didn't. All the old paper, the Whole
bundie;•was lald..upen the fire, and '
burned iip fast, enough. " _ •
" Ugh I" it said, and blaiefl up in' l a
cleat' flame. " Ugh - !;that burning, wasn't
very pleasant work." •
Whe.ni however, r the .whole was in
flames, itlitrearned higher upt in . tbe
than the flax had ever been able to lift
its - little blue flowers,. and sherie• as - .tile
white - linen had never shone: All the
Written letters upon it were for a momeet
'bright red, and then, all the' Words • anld
all the thoughts vanished in the flatriel. -
"-Noti - T. shall rise directly to the sun"
It erfiid fram the fl tales. And - it' - wus
if thousand:l'ot voices repeated the •'try,
and the flames rushed up .through' the
.ellituney'lligh- into 'the air.- - And flner
than the flames, invisible-to mortal eyes,
fluttered about tiny little beings, even as
many , as there had been flowers upon. the
flax. They Were lighter even • than the
flames from which they had sprung into
existence; and
: when the latter disalp
neared, and .only the black ashes of the
paper remained, they ran over them like
little- red sparks. "The childre6 came
out of school, and 'the schoolmaster was
the last of all." That was good spetit,
and the children sang over the dead
ashes :
"now.
"Schnipp, schnapp, schnurre,
Basselurre; .
The song is done." -
- nut the little invisible beings said :
" The song is never done—that is the
beauty of all. I know it, and, therefore,
I am still the happiest thing, iu the whdle
•
world."
'
The Republican. Party Vindica
ted.--The Demands,ofthe
South Explained.
SPEECH OF
Hon. ABRAMAII LINCOLN
OF ILLINOIS,
Delivered at the COOPER INSTITUTE,
..Y. City, February 27th; 1860.
. Mr. Pr4ident andFellme-Ditizenslnt
the City of Kew York,: The facts.with
which, 1' shall deal this' evening are
mainly. old and familiar; notris i ,there
uety to the genel'aliiscMalt et
of than. If there shall be any novelty,
it will liciu the mode of presenting the
facts, and the inferences and ebservations
following that presentation. In his
speech last autumn, at Columbus, Ohio,
as reported iu the New York. Times, Sin
ator llopglas said: ' •
Our fathers, when therfrfuned the Gov
ernment under which we live, understood this
question just as well, and even better than sve
do now."
I fully endorse this, and adopt it as a
text for this discourse. [Applause.] I - C
so adopt it, because it furnishes a precise'
and agreed startingiPointlor - a discussion
between Republicans and that wing of the
Democracy hea i ded by Senator noughts.
It simply . leaves tho, inquiry,; What was
the understanding those fathers had Hof
the question, mentioned? What is the
frame of government'under Whichve live ?
The answer must be, the Constitutionlof
the United States. , That Constitution
consists of the original, framed in 1787,
(anduuder which the present Government
first went into operation,) and twelve sub
sequently-framed amendments, the first
ten of which were framed in. 1789. Who
were our fathers that' framed the Con. ti
tution ? . I suppose the " thirty-nine"
who signed-the original instrument may
be fairly called our fathers who fraMed
that part of the preSent Government. llt
is almost exactly true to say they franied
it, and it is alteigether true to say they
fairly represent the opinion and sentiment
Of the. whole nation 'at that rime. - Their
names, being familiar to nearly all, and
accessible to quite all, need not now , be
repeated. I take these "thirty-nine,"
for the present, as being "our fathers who
framed - the G;.,vernreent under which - We
live." What is the question which, ac
cording to the text,lthose fathers under
stood just as well, and even better, Oan
we do now? It is this : Does the proper
division of local from. Federal authority,
or anything in the; Constitution, forbid
our Federal Governinent to control as! to
shivery in our Federal Territories? Union
this Douglas 'holds the affirmatite, Ind .
Republicans' the negative. . This afiirt ra
iive and denial form an issue; and i ns
issue, this question,,is nrecisely what the
text declares our fathers understood bet
ter than we. [Cheers.] 'Lit us now ;in
quire whether the " thirty-nine," or dirt
of them, ever acted upon .this questin ;
and if they did, how they acted .upor it
--liow they expressed that - better under,'
standing. In .1784, - three years before
the Constitution ' the United:States:then
owning the Northwestern Tdrtitory, - .and
no other, the Congress Of the'Confedera
tion had before drain the question of tiro-
Inbiting -slavery in, That Teeritery; 'dad
four of the " thirty-nine" whir afterwards
framed the Constitution iverotm that Oen
mress, and toted on 'that citiestior, -.lof
these, Roger Sher Man, Thomas Mifflin.
1860,
and liugh -Williamson, voted for the pro
hibition—thui 6110W1112 that, in their un
derstanding, nu line dividing local from
-Federal authority, or anything else prop
erlyforbade.the Federal -Government to
control as to slavery in Federal Territory.
The otler - of the loin, - James McHenry,
voted against tha;prohibitlon—ihoiring
that, for some 'cause, - be thought it im..
proper to vote for it. In 1787, still be
fore the •Cmistitution, but while the Con
vention ,w,as in session framing it,- and
while the Northwestern Territory, still
was the only Territory owned by . the
United;Statesf.t.lw*arnn question-yof
hibiting ( l3l#eryln the YTerritory.again
came befqin the Ceng,ress of the Confed
eration; and. three more Of the "thirty
nine" who afterwardi signed the Consti
tution were in that Congress, and voted
on the question. . • They were William
Blount, William Few and'Abrahain Bald
win.; and they all voted for ; the prohibi
tion—thus showing that, in their under
standing, no line diviiing local from Fed
eral authority, nor anything else, proper
ly. forbade the Federal' Government to
control as to-slavery in Federal territory.
.This time, - the prohibition became a law,
being a part of whitt is now well known
as the - ordin..nce 'Of 1787. .The question
of. Federal control of slavery in the Ter
ritories seems not - to have been directly
before the Convention which framed the
original Constitution ; and hence it is not
recorded that the "thirty-nine," or-any of
them, while engaged on that instrument,
expressed an opinion on that precise ques
tion. In 1789, by the first " Congress
which sat under the Constitution,
.au act
was passed to enforce the ordinance of
1787, including the prohibition of Slave
ry in the Northwestern -Territory. The
bill for this set -.was reported by one of
the "thirty-nine," Thomas Fitzsimmons,
then a member of the House from Penn
s.ylVania. It went through all its stages
without a word of opposition, and finally
passed both branehts without yeas and
nays, which is equivalent to a unanidious
pas Sage. [Cheers.] In this Congi , ess.
there were sixteen of the ".thirty-nine"
fathers who framed the original Constitu-.
titan. They were—John Langdon. Nich
olas GiAman, -William S. Johnson, Boger
Sherman, Robert Morris; George Ciyiner.
_Tltopm.sEitzsbn.mcao„Willianacit4b ra
'ham Baldwin, Rufus
terson, Richard. Bassett, George Read,
Pierce..Butier, Daniel. Carroll and James
Madison. .
n
This shows that, in their understand
ing. no line dividing local from Federal
authority, nor anything in the Constitu
tion. properly forbade Congress to Prohib
it slavery frr the Federal territory; : else
both their fi,delity to correct .principle,
and their Oath" to support the CoLstitn
tion, would. have constrained them *to op•
pose the prohibition. Again : George
WaShington, another of the iltltirtv-nine,"
was then President of the United States,
and, as such, approved and signed the bill
—thus completing its validity as a law,
and thus showing that, in his undendand
ing,•up line dividing local from Federal
authority,mor anything in the Constitu
tion, ferbade - the Federal Government to
dontrol as to slaVilry in Federal territory
[Loud applause.]
_No great While after
the adoption of the original Consti•ution,
North Carolina ceded to the Federal Gov
ernment the country now constituting the
State of Tennessee; and a few years later,
Georgia ceded that which now constitutes
the States of Mississippi and AlabaMa.
In both deeds of cession it Was made a
condition by the ceding Stares, that the
*Federal Government should not.prohibit
slavery' in the ceded country. Besides
this, slavery was then 'actually in the ced
ed.country. tinder these circumstances,
Congress, on taking charge of these coun
tries. did not absolutely prohibit : alavery
within them. But they did interfere
with it—take control of it—even there,
to a certain extent. -In 1798. Congress
organized 'the Territory of Mississippi.
In the act of organization they prohibited
the bringing of slaves intro the - Territory,
from any place without the United States,
by fine, and giving freedom to slaves so
brought. This'-act passed both branches
of Congress without yeas and nays. In
that Congress were three of the ‘ thirty
nine" who framed the origival . Constitu
tion. They were—lohnlangdon, George
Bead and Abraham Baldwin. They all
probably voted for it.. Certainly they
would have placed their opposition to it
upon record, if, in their understanding;
any line dividing local_ from Federal au
thority, or anything in . the Constitution,
properly forbade the Federal Government
to control as to ^slavery, in the Federal
territory. • [Applause.] - In 1803,. the
Federal Government purchased the Lou
isiana country.: Our for Mer territorial
acquisitiona l eame"from certain of our own
States, but this Louisiana country was ac
quired. from a foreign nation. In 1804,
Congress gave a Territorial organization
.to that part, of it which now constitutes
the State of Louisiana... New Orleans . ,
lying within that part, was an old and
'comparatively large city. The - re were
coia4derzible towns aninettleatnents,
(. t... '
FOUR CENTS.
TERI~S~--$1,25_: : PER
.~NISIIAI:.,.:
,
l
and slavery was extensively and thorougri
ly_inierniingleg with •tlie•
gressWid not, in the 'ferrite - rioted, pro:
hibit ;slavery ; but, they did interfere with
it—take control of a glore- marked
and 4tetisive ,hay thin they . - did - in the
case of 'Mississippi. The substnnee of the
provilion
. Itherein Made in.-relationL to
slaves was— . ,
Fi4t. 'That no. rlaVe should be
ported into the Terrih3ry trona foreign
parts.l
Second. That no sla4e should-,be car
ried into it who had been itnPerted into
the t i nited
May, 1798. • •
Third. That . no slaire Akita(' be ear. -
tied into it except by t 1 C miner, and for
his ono use as a settleil the penalty in,-
all da4es being a fine upon the Violater of
the kW and freedom to the skim ' [yro
longed cheers.]• •
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Ths act was, also passed without yetis
and nays. In the Cougress which passed
it, there were two of the "thirty-nine."
They were Abraham Baldwin and . Jona
than Payton. As stated •in the_Mtie of
Mississippi, it is probable theyr both ifotr-.
ed for; it. %, They - would not have alle*ed
it to pass without - recording . their opposi
tion in their underistanding; it
violat'ed either the line properly dividing .
local from Federal authority or- any pro.
vision of the Constitution. In 1819 and
, 182016:mm and passed.the Missouri qiietil
due. Many votes were taken, by yeafi
and'riys, in both branches of -Congietii;
upon I the various phases of the general
question. , Two of the " thirty-nine,"
llufna King and Charles Pinckney-4er°
nieuiters of that Congress. - Mr. -
King .
steadily - voted for slavery prohibition and
a. A ainLt all compromises, while Mr. Pinak.
1-
ney es steadily voted against slavery pro
hibition and against all compromises: .
[Ch4rs.] By this, Mr. Moe showed
that, ;in his understanding, no Hue -
ing
Weal from Federal authority, nor any.
I thing in the Constitution, was violated.by
Congress prohibiting slavery. in Federal
territhry ; while Mr. Pinckney, by his
votes' showed that in his understanding,
I there; was some sufficient reason for op
posing such prohibition in that case. The
cases II have mentioned - are - the only zeta
Lof the, "thirty-nine," or of any of them,
upon lithedirect iisne, which 1 have been
tp.discover`. -
sons litho thus rioted, as being 'four
.ici
1784, 1 three in 1787, seventeen in 1789,
threeiin 1798, two in 1804, 'and twoin
18194-'2o—there would be, thirty-one of
theini But this would be - chuntirigJohn
Lang lon, Roger Sherman, William Few,.
11.ufu. King and George Read caehtiiice,
and 4braharu.Balthyin four_tions. -[Ap
plaus.], He was a Georgian, _too..
newcd applause and laughter.] The trace"
numbbr of those of the -"thirty-nine"
whom] I have shown to haie acted upori
Ithe question, which, by the text, they un.
derstijod better than we, is - twenty-three;
icaviiik , sixteen not shown to have acted
i npon It in any way. Here, then, We leave,
twenty- three'of our " thirty-nine" fathers;
who framed the Gove:nment under which
we live, who have, upon their official're
aponsibility and their corporal Oaths, act;
ed upilin the very question which the teat
affirn ." they understood juste as well;
and even - better than we do now;" and
twenty-one of them-- 7 a clear majority of
the ivhole " thirty- nine"—so acting upon
it as tp make them guilty- of gross politi
cal impropriety and wilful perjury, if, in'
their i i inderstandiug, any proper division,
oetween local and Federal authority, of
anything. in the COnstitutien. they bad
made ;themselves and sworn to support]
forhad'e the Federal Government to coti=
trol. asj to slavery in the Federal T,errito:
ries., [Cheers.] Thus the twenty-one
acted;, and as actions speak hinder than
words,? so actions under such responaibil'.'
ity speak still louder.
Two of the twenty-three voted against;
Congressional prohibition of slavery in
the Fdderal Territories, in theinstaneci
in whibh they - acted upon the question.,
Mit far what reason they so voted is not .
known. They may have . doT so becipiso
they thought a proper division of -local'
from 'Federal authority, or ionieprovision .
or principle of . the Constitution, stood 10 .
the .wdy; or they may, without any six&
ques4n, have voted againstlthe prohibi
tion on what appeared to, therm to be ant;
ficientigronnds of expediency.. No one
who, bits sworn to support the Conatitri=
tion can conscientiously vote for what he;
undergtands 'to be an uncenstiftilionar
measure,-however expedient he May think
it; bui one may and, ought to vote a! , airist
a meal ire which he deenis constitution
if, at the same time, he deems it inexp
dient. I It therefore would be unhafc to
set doWn even the two who voted against'
the prihibi don as hay ing &tin So lsedanse,
in the 4 undcrstandiog, sny proper: Ois
ion of local from Federal at
anytbi gil
n, the Censtit.4.ticei,ftifrli3Oct tho
Federal Govertnnent , tocentrol:as. to ila=
very iU Fedentl territory:! [Langliter and 4
prolonied applause.] . %lid relltaitiliipix-:
teen of the " thirty-nine,"- sifar i as iliayo
iscovired, have left no record, of tbeli ,
nnderstanding upon the direct gnertion
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