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AN ORIOINAL PAIIODT ON 'TIIK UURIAL Or 1IK
JOHN MOORE."
Not a lr.up.1 was heard or a Joyous note,
As a friend to tha bridal we buried,
Not a wit discharged Ids furewcll shot
At the buchulor Just to bo married.
Wo married lilm quickly, to save his fright,
Our heads from thu sad eight turning,
And we sighed as we stood by the lamp's dim
light,
To think ho was no more discerning.
To think that a bachelor, free and bright,
And shy of the girls as wo found him,
Should huru by the altar, at thu dead of night,
Be caught In tlio suaro that bound him.
Few and short wnro the words wo said,
Though wo heartily ate of tlio cakus.
Then escorted him home from that scene of
dread,
And thought how awf'ly ho shakes.
Wo thought as wo hollowed his lowly bed,
Of the be jch, tho birch, tho willow,
(IIow the shovel and bromstiek would break
o'er his bead.
And tile tears he would shod on his pillow.
Says ho, "they will talk of their friend who
has gone,
And every old "Bach" will upbraid me,
And nolliing I'll reck if lhcv'11 let mo sleep on,
'Neath tho coverlet just us they've laid me."
Hut half of our heavy task w:is done,
Ere the clock tolled tho hour for thu other,
And wo left, with tho hope that tho fato ho
had won,
Would never bo won by another.
Slo .vly and sadly wo marcliod down
Flora tho top of tho uppermost story,
And we ' nevjr hava heard from, or seen tho
poor man,
Whcm wu lull not 'n his glory.
THE FLAG RECEPTION ON THE 4th
of:july.
Tho 'Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company, with its usual patriotism, has
offered the gratuitous use ot its cars for
the transportation, in July next, of the
gallant soldiers who, during the late
war, by actual detail, bore the colors of
their regiments, or acted as thoir guard,
while thoy were on the field ot buttle.
Such ot these bravo men as may be able
are requested to assumblo in Han 'wburg
on tlio 1st ot July, and tranrtportatiou
thither will bo afforded them upon ap
plication to the members of tho Military
Committee representing tho district in
which they reside. The members of
tha Committee on Transportation should
secure correct lists ot all tho surviving
color bearers and color-guards, and send
thom to Genual Nkgi.ey, al 1 'ittsburg,
on or betore the 29th of the present
month, so that no dittioulty or dehy
will be experienced in proem ing the
tickets. General Nk.gi.uy can bo ad
dressed at Pittsburg, or General Tvn
dai.h at Philadelphia, in roteronce to
matters connected with this part ot the
proceeding, on tho coming Fourth cf
July.
Every member of tho committee op
pointed to act in concert with the Gov
emor evinces a desire to make the recep
tion ot the flags an occurrence worthy of
our glorious Commonwealth, und the
occasion bids tairto be one, the brilliancy
ot which will surpass any other display
ever witnessed in Pennsylvania or in
tho Union. '
FAST WAY SEUMOrV.
FROM THE LOYAL GEORGIAN.
Trenched April 5, 1800.
BY JAMES FREKMAN CI.AKKlt,
The cervices wore introluced by se
lection from Scripture, especially from
'he second chapter of Daniel, contain
ing tho description of the imago in Ne
buchadnezzar's dream, with head of
gold, arms of silver, thighs of brass, legs
ot iron and feet halt iron and half clay,
which was destroyed by tho stone cut
from tho mountain without hands
Malt. 21 : 44 "Whosoever shall fall
on this stcne shall bo broken ; but on
whomsoever it shall full it shall grind
him to powder." '' '
The stone here spoken of is the jus.
lice of God. Those who ignorantly
oppose it, are like the man who falls on
a mill stono, and is necessarily injured.
Those who wilfully . and knowingly re
sist justice are like him who should be
put between tho stones, and be ground
to atoms. ' .
The image 4n this plauo reminds us of
that saying of the East, ''The Mills ot
God grind slowly, but they grind very
fine." '' ' i "
We have had numerous illustrations
of the truth of these sayings in the last
few years. .We have seen persons ig
norantly, and in , good faith, opposing
themselves to the the judgement of God)
honest conservatives well.mcaning, bat
timid men, who-, feared reform lest it
honld mean revolution dishkypg op
'pre'ssion, but disliking still more svery
aaraest attempt to remor . it Tsn
years ago these men stood everywhere
in the front ranks of the nation the ad
mired leaders, as it seemed, of the pub
lic mind, occupying the best positions ot
influence. They were men wise in
their generation, thinking thy had their
finger on the public pulse, believed to be
on the high road to power, fame, oflico
Where are they now 1 God's grent
millstuie of justice to th oppressed,
was revolving and they t'ied to stop it
with their puny fingers and were broken.
The stone, out of the mountains, cut
without hands, the stone of eternal right.,
the rock of ages, has broken to pieces all
tho men of mere expediency, and they
are go no.
"The Mills of God grind slow, but
grind to powder." Unt of lato the mills
of God have been grinding very rapidly
the judgements of God have not been
delayed, but have arrived very speedily.
Look for a moment, and see how. in ev
ery case, quick and extract retribution
has followed the crime and laid its heavy
hand on t!e offender. It we tee by such
instances, that this is the day of judge
ment, and that God is not to be mocked
or trilled with we shall better under
stand what ought to be done in the
present crisis we shall not be afraid ot
standing.by tho right no matter what
soems the great expediency, clamoring
that we continue, put a little longer, to
concede, just a little something to tho
wrong.
Wo had a nation a few years ago
which appeared great and prosperous.
Our population and wealth were increus
ing every year with unexampled rapid
ity. Coming from a manly race with
good blood in our veins ; inheriting free
institutions, and a pure form of Christi
anity, planned on a continent where all
olrcumstances favored our progress, we
grew strong. We took mora credit to
ourselves than . we deserved. , Though
outwardly sufficiently religious, we had
not much sense ot God as reigning
over us. We sang our To DeUms on
Sunday but on Monday a.id all tho rest
of the week talked of ourselves as the
smartest people in tho world. We chan
ted the 'Nonnobis Domine,' slurring the
negation. Hut alt the while, wo were
liko tho imago of Daniel. Tlio head wa
ot gold, representing the golden ideas of
freedom and equality in the Declaration
of Independence ideas which were
afterward thought to bo only false gold,
pinchbeck, 'glittering generalities.'
The breast and arms were of silver ,
the pure cold silver of our Northern
stock, the belly and thighs of brass, and
legs of iron ; tho energy and intelligence
the practical faculty, the inventive skill,
wliich were the strong pillars of tho
State. But tho foundation on which
those pillars rested wero half iron and
half clay i free institutions mixed with
slavo institutions. Wo were the Fuller
and Collier of Ejop's fable, keeping
house together to the dtscomfort of
both.
The Mills of God ground oir Then
came the terrible retribution. The
stone cut out of the mountains without
hands, the terrible war, which no one,
eithor Noi th or South, expected or in
tended, oamo, and broke the old image
to pieces. No longer should slavery
and fredom, like clay and iron mixed
togenthcr, bo thu inconsistent foundation
of the State, During tour terrible years
tho nation struggled for its life. At last
we made up our minds to do justly. to
give freedom to tho oppressed, to let
Gods people go, and f'om that hour we
began to triumph.
How exact have boon the retributions
of God on all concerned. Tlio great
American Republic had been false to its
own ideas for the sake of outward pros,
perity and powojr, and during four years
all its prosperity and power wero-takon
away. Like Christ, il hung on tho cross
only he was the iunoeont victim for oth
ers' sins i but we were expiating our
own, ' There was darkness over the land
and the veil of the tpmple was rent in
twain from the top to the bottom. For
very churoh in tba United Slates ; was
lorn apart. ".;:.': . : ' " ' ''
All who wont by reviled us, wagging
their heads. ' England ' said I 'The
great domooraoy is surely destroyod, let
us help tht rebels to com plots Its dsstriio
tlon.' Th 'Frenoh emperor sald 't-
"Now is ray timo. Frauoe , helped
found the republlo f but what of that 1
I trill iei Mexioo, now that the Union
is helpless, and cannot prevent me.1
None thought there was to be a reserreo
tion for us, and oue so speedy. . "
The nulls of God ground on. The
South, which had made its wealth and
luxury outot the wrongs of tlio black
man, the haughty, luxurious South, was
plunged into utter ruin. Sho saw her
slaves turned into Union soldiers, keep,
ing guard over her homes. She saw
the Northern p"oplp, whom she had so
long governed, ruling her with'a rod ot
iron. By her own lolly, she had opened
her door, to admit all the Northern ideas
and institutions she despised. By her
own hands she had overthrown that
slavery which sho had made her idol.
The mills of God ground on. Tha
guilty South had beou punished ; the
gulty North had been punished. The
torments of an enslaved race were expi
ated by the blood of our best and brav
est, shed freely on a thousand fields ot
battle, tho innocent in place of the guiV
ty. The wealth accumulated by the
wrongs oftiie ves during a century,
was all squandered in four years of
wasteAil war.
With this punishment ot tho princi
pies cumo tho sentence, also, on the ac
complices and accessories. The great
democratic party, of the land, wliich had
made itself the devil's advocate of sla
very, was overthrown. It ha I hold in
its hand the destinies of the nation il
was beaten at last in every precinct, at
every election, in every loyal State of tho
land for New Jersey has never been a
loyal State. Scarcely hud England
ceased from applauding tho rebels, than
she was scared by a .rebellion in Jaiuacu,
and another throated rebellion in Ireland.
While she was affectionately imploring
us to be meroiful to Jefferson Davis, sho
was scourging, shooting and hanging
helpless men woiinin and children in Ja
maica. Franco, also, whiuh had seized the
opportunity otour disasters to reach out
her arm to grasp Mexico, now finds her
self unable either to hold il or let it go.
Canada which gave such sympathy to the
rebels, that they were encouraged to or
gauize an expedition on her soil to rob
and plunder our towns, now finds, in
turn, that she is- apprehonsivo of expedi
tions organized on our soil to rob and
plunder her towns. So rapidly do the
mills of God grind out their appropriate
results. Yet men continue to sow tho
same lead seed, and cry out, with amaze
ment whon tho harvest arrives.
Good, careful Abraham Lincoln died.
A man full ot cares, carrying a great
weight of responsibility, but happy in
his lito, fortunato in the opportunity of
his death. Sinco tho greatest of Roman
writers, wrote those words concerning
Germanicus they have never been appli
ed to a nio,-e opportuno death, flu lived
to soo tho Union restored, Richmond
taken, Leo's army surrendered; slavery
at an end, his malignant oppnsois sileno
ed i then ha died, and all tho bitterness
of his eneiims changed to silent respect
or repentant gntitudo. He also reaped
what he had sown. lie sowed honesty,
fidelity, truth; he reaped love and honor.
In him was fullillud the saying : "If
thino oyebo single, thy whole body shall
be full of light.' flis singleness of pur
pose took the place of genius, of knowl
edge, of purpose, of persuation, ot cul
ture. Rising from the humblest posi
tion in tho nation, to tho highest atm.ng
men, he ennobled that great ofHue more
than the oflico ennobled him.
Hut tho mills of God grind on. The
Republican convention- vhich nominat
ed Abraham Lincoln for ro election
nominated for Vice President n man
who had always been a pro slavery
Southern Democrat, and who differed
from tho othp rs only in this, that while
they were mostly disuuionists, ho was a
unionist Ho was a sort of an Abdiul
among Southern 'loaders. Giva him tho
praise ot it.
But whon tho Republican convention
nominated him for Vioo President, he
was a pro-slavery Democrat, as he had
always been, brought up in the , Border
State leoling ot hatred to abolitionists.
and hatrod to disunionists as well. lit
disliked South Carol'inia for its rebellion,
and ha , disliked Massachusetts frr its
abolition. lie was nominate! not bo
causo he represented tho sontiinonts of
tho majority of tha party, but because ho
did not.. Nominating conventions first
satisfy the majority, by giving thorn the
Presidont, and thtu conciliate tho minori
ty by tin offer of the Vioj President.
Ot oourso, they tak for granted that the
President will not die wheu in oflloo and
ao the seooud, office' means nothing..
1 Mr. Johnson has not changed. lie it
the same man ho was when nominated.
The Republican party have only them
selves to blame for his being President.
When a party, in nominating n Vice
President, chooses to tako for granted
that the President will not dio, it does
not deserve much sympathy, as a pirty,
when disappointed. The mills of God
grind on, and grind to powder the par.
ties which prefer expediency to princi
ple. And now thd President and Congress
stand before' the people with a great is
sue beUnen them, on which the destiny
of the na'ion depends. You, your chil
dren and children's children, to the latest
generation, are interested in having it
decided rightly. It must not bo left to
the President and Congress as a private
quarrel, it must not he left to political
parties out of which to make party
capital. The issue is not whether the
President on our side, or members of
Congress on the other, have been most
hasty with their tongues and injudioious
in speech. The question is, 'What
does justice require to be dou? V This
nation stands to day under groat obliga
tion's. We have taken by the power of
tho sword, four millions of men and
women from the hands ot their masters.
Wo aro under obligations to God and
man to see them through this transition
state. Four millions ot people cannot
remuin standing in the highway. But
thoy ewn no houses, nor lands where
then shall they go ? "Foxes have holes,
and llie birds of the air havo nests;" but
here is a great multitude who aro like
tbo Son ot Man in this, that they have
not where to lay their head. They are
willing to work, but they havo to work
tor those who have always robbed and
plundered them. Ought Ihey not to
have some protection against their in
justice and cruelty ! Tfm President
says, 'No j leave them to their old mas
ters. They will treat them justly.'
Congress says, 'Yes . they have a claim
on the nation for protection. Let us
protect ihcui, not by the sword, but by
law just, equal law.' It prepares a law,
establishes tho Freedmen's Bureau. The
President vetoes it. It prepsres another,
the civil rights bill. The President ve
toes it.
Now, I have nothing to say to the ob
jections made by tht President and his
legal advisors to the details of these
measures. They may bo sound objec
tions, euflioient to justify these vetoes, or
they may not. I no not say it is a bad
thing to have theso bills defeated. I do
not know that it would be any advan
tage to the freedmen to have tho Freed
man's Bureau, if sll its officers were to
be appointed by tho President and those
sympathizing with him. It might have
become a grent instrument of oppression.
I do not think it necessary to call the
President hard names. It is what he is,
a poor white man of tho South, s Border
State man, a man brought up to despiss
and disliko tho negro. A man educated
in an ignorant hatred of tho North and
its institutions. He is a well-meaning
man, but having that weakness which
consists with a strong, fit f ul will, a power
ful and passionate nature, dimly lighted
by the sight ot any large truths. He
has no definite plan, 'no dear convic
tions, no consistency. He deolared him
self ready to be the Moses of the oolorsd
people, and he has proved thoir Pharaoh,
lie saw andapprovod,(thore is evory rea
son to believe) the Freedmen's Bill, and
then vetoed it. In April, 1865, he said,
'Treason is a oriine, and traitors should
suffr its penalties j it must bo' nade
odious and traitors must be punished
and impoverished Their great planta
tions must bo seized and divided into
small farms-, and sold to honest and ic
dusti ioiis men,' But since he has been
President his whole treat ment of traitors
has consisted in pardoning thom. In
October, 1835. the President told Maj.
Stearns ot this oity, that he was in
favor of negro suflerage under certain
limitations and that he should try to
introduce it gradually into Tennessoe, if
he were there. Just before April 18G5,
he told a orowd in a speech, that he was
ready to give the freedmon the ballot,
lie advised Mississippi to give the ballot
to every colored man who could read,
and to nil who had fought for theUuion.
Now, ho thinks all attempts l giving
citizenship to the negro dangerous and
wrong. Mr. Johnson is not a atrong
man nor a deliberately bad man i but a '
man ambitious to reconstruct the Union
at once i , and having no clear, definite
- , -
purpose, no strong insight. He is,
therefore, changeable and easily led,
first one way, then another. It is my
opiuion that if the nation conld utter its
voico deliberately and clearly, on tho
questions between the President and
Congress, he would obey that voic,
whatever it was And therefore, it
seems to mo ve-y desirable, that this
voice should be uttered, fully, unequivo
cally, by the press, by. the elections, and
it it were possible by State conventions,
called for that purpose. Let the Presi
dent be told that the nation requires of
him to protect the freedmen, and see
that they have an equal chance with the
white man, a full protection for all civil
rights, and that God and man demand
ot him that he see to it, that he bear
not the sword in vain, but that he de
fends with that national sword tho weak
and ignorant against the strong oppres
sor. But a second question is at issue be
tween tho President and Congress pre
liminary to that of the freedmen and pros
teolion for them. 'When, and how
shall the Union bo reconstructed !' The
President says t 'At onces Congress
says : 'Wait and sco.' The President
issues his proclamation, declaring the
war at an end, and tho rebel states all
ready to come at onco into tho Union.
I Jo denounces Congress tor not receiving
their representatives and Senators. Now
we have tho testimony ot Gen. Karl
Schurz, and of a multitude of others,
that no Union man can be elected even
in tho most loyal parts of tho rebel States,
when any one who has fought for the re.
bellion is his opponent. Tho President
wishes that these men, dripping with
tlio blood of our brothers and sons, shall
xsome to Washington to pass laws to
govern the loyal men North and South.
Congress says : No I Wait till wo see.
Let us consider a littlo. Let us have
some guarantees of their real loyalty be
fore wo receive them back.' Here is tlio
real imo issue between tho President
and Congress. This Is what should be
kept before the people, and which the
people nhould be oulled on to decide
For, after all, in this country, tlio people
decide everything. No man, however
powerful or great, no party, however
triumphant, can resist the verdict of the
national mind.
Tho President and Congress stand to
day before the bar of tho nation, pleading
this question. ' Tho President says :
'Until the Southern States aro admitted
to their full rights, martial law at an
end, nil their governments re-establish'
ed, their Senntors and Representatives
in Congress, tho Union )s not restored.
We wish to restore tho Union. That
was what we proclaimed to bo Iho ob
ject ot tho war. Now that they are
ready to return let us receive them.'
. Congress replies 'We aro as anxious
as you to restore tho Union, but we wish
for a real Union, one which will last.
Theso States rebelled ngamst the Union,
and fought it four years.. Their spirit is
still unsubdued. They hate the North,
hate freedom, hate Union, and if they
arc admitted now to tho floor of Con
gress, will do all they can to divide and
destroy the nation. We do not wish all
the blood and treasure spent by loyal
men in the war to be wasted. We do
not wish to have to do over again all
that work. Wait, then, keep things as
they are. Keep a military government
in the South for some time longer. Pro
tect tho freedmen, until thoy havo adap
ted themselves to tho new condition of
things. Govern the Soulh firmly but
kindly, till it also has accustomed itself
to tho new order,
Now, wo believe, that if the loyal
people oould bo heard on this question,
thoy would declare Congress to be right
and tho President wrong. On this point
there would be no difference of opinion.
Now England, the Middle States and the
West would be all agreed.
Duriug the first part of Iho war wo
wore governed by tho Border States, by
their influence on Mr. Lincoln. Now
they govern us again, through tho char
acter of Mr. Johnson. This Border
Stato infltinencc has always boon disastr
ous. Right, wo can understand and
wrong wo can understand ; but this
bordor ground, wlilolt is neither right
nor wrong, neither hot nor cold t which
claims to occupy the golden mean be
cause it hates equally falsehood' and
,ween vh.tue tJ gin , th ,h ,
e ,t i i. t .. ...
truth t which professes neutrality bo
oi. iub uiiurua oi tiaoaicca,,wniou tue
Lord cinnot be ar., ; 'Jlec'auso thou art
Dcither cold nor hot, hut lukewarm,' I
will spew thee out ot tny mouth.'
It it a pity that we have not, in this
country, tome moans of taking the tenia
ot the nation on great public questions,
like that which the English have in the
dissolution ot Parliament. In a great
crisis like this, in England, the queen
would dihsolve Pailiamnt and order
new election. Then, all oyer the land,
the qnestion would be agaitsted at the
pollswill you support the ministry
and its policy or not? The returns of
the members would decide the question.
If we had such a method, the President
wonld disolve Congress, and order a now .
eleotion. Members of this Congress
would go homo and discuss the question
before the people. It a majority was .
then returned opposed to the President,
as undoubtedly there would be, he would
be obliged to submit. Wchave notuch
method ot getting tho sense of the na
tion. It might indeed be done by calling
tonventions oi 'tho peoplo in all the
States to tay yes or no to the qutttion,
Do you approve the Presidet's policy.'
But we have no maohienry ior such a
work, and no persons whose duty or in
terest would lead them to engineer tueh
a movement. So we must depend on the
declaration of national opinion at it ooraes
from local eloclions, like that of Con
necticut. But, mcautimo, if we believe
that Congress Is right and the Pretident
wrong on theso two main questions, the
whole people, by all its voices, by all its
Tjpportiniities, by ovcry ulterence publio
and private, by heaping the desks ot all
t' e members with correspondence, should '
pour into Wush'ngton the confluent
(teams of publio opinion. Let the na
tion, with no uncertain voice, utter to
the President and to its representatives
these two commands. 1st, Protect the
trcedment 2d, Delay reconstruction till
you havo guarrantees that the freedmen
will be protected.
We demand for loyal intelligent freed
men the same civil and constitutional !
rights which are afforded to others. We
claim lor thom first, some adtquate
means for personal proteolion; second,
some equal opportunities of acquiring
and holding property, third, the motive
and means of education. For as God
mud the issues to depend upon the war 1
to depend on tbo way we treated the
slaves, to now he makes the character of
the peace to depend on the way we treat '
the freedmen. The Nation, President
and Congress, are standing together be
fore the bar of God's infinite and per- '
feet justice, and we are to go to the right '
hand or to the left, according at we treat
Christ to-day in the form of these, the
least of his servants. Do we need a
guarrantee for the integrity of the Union,
that there shall be no more secession, no ,
more rebellion? Let the freodmen at
the South have civil and political rights,
and they will turu the scale for the Union
in every State. Thoir loyal vote will
everywhere prevent nullification end se
cession. Do wo have a new public tents
ment in the Sou Ji, and to root out the
last remains ot the pro slavery hatred
of free institutions? When once the
Southern States have given equality,
eduoation and full protection to the oolor.
ed man, they are unnecessarily in synw
pathy with the North. Then, thoy will
ask the North to help thom in carrying
out Northern ideas. Do we wish to
escape financial embarrassments i to
secure the means ot paying the national
debt to enlarge the power of the agrk
cultural, manufacturing and commercial
interests of the oountry f There is no
way by wbiuh it can be to easily and
thoroughly done as by elevating thtso
four millions of people out of poverty
into Industry, comfort, knowledge. Give
them their full rights as men and citi
zens, and they will increaso the whole
productive powor of the union in an iou
monse ratio. Thoy will consume your
manufaoturos. they will buy your goodt,
they will inoroaso the rewards oi indut.
try all over tho oountry, and add thout
andt of raillious of dollars to Itt taxable
woaltb. v.-;-
But whatever wo choose, whatever
we decide, the mills of God will grind on
and grind to powder all who come be
tween them. 1 If we chose, we can sty,
"We are tired of the eternal negro (' let
him be r this 'is a white' mnn's govern
ment. Lot the whites of the South gov.
em the blacks f the blacks are not fit
to take oare of themsejves t so lot thora '
do as they are commanded. . We ' want
the Union restored at onoe, i' we want no
Freodman's Bureau i give their rights to .
the stoedud Statoado uoUeny anvtinn-
againtt the President' f Me' is. tho GoVT
ernmenti lot Congress be quiet 'Vi' '
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