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Again I hear tho croaking step !
He's rapping at tho doorl
Too well I know tlio boding sound
That ushers In a bore.
I do not tremble when I meet
The stoutest of my foes,
But Heaven defend mo from tho friend
Who comes but never goes.
lie drops into my easy chair
And asks about the no in ;
Ho peers Into my manuscripts,
And gives his candid views;
He tells mo where he likes the lino,
And where bo's forced to grieve ;
He takes tho strangest liberties
But never takes his leave.
He reads my dally paper through
Before I'vo seen a word ;
Ho scans the lyric (that I wroto),
And thinks it quite absurd ;
Ho camly smokes my last cigar,
And coolly asks lor more ;
Ho opens everything ho sees
Except the entry door.
Ho talks about hisfragllo health, .
And t jIIs me of his pains
He suirers from a score of ills,
Ol.which ho ne'ef compluids;
And how he struggled once with death
To keep tho fiend at bay ;
On themes liko those away ho goes
Bui never goes away I
Ho tells mc of tho carping words
S me shallow critic wroto,
.And every precious paragraph
Familial ly can quote.
He thinks tho writer did mo wrong,
He'd like to run him through 1
lie says a thousand pleasant things
But never says "Adieu-"
Whene'er ho comes that dreadful man
Disguise it as I may,
I know, that liko an Autumn rain,
He'll last throughout tho day.
In vain I speak of urgent tiiiks,
In vain I scowl and pout ;
A frown i iio extinguisher
It does not put him out !
I mean to tuke tho kuockoroff ;
Pot crape upon tho door ;
Or hint to J lm tint I am gone
To slay a month or more.
I do not tremble when I meet
Thu strongest of the foes ;
But Heaven defend mo. from the tiicikl
Who never, never goes 1
From the Philadelphia Press.
RECONSTRUCTION 1
THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF
FIFTEliN !
Washington Juno 10, I860.
Simultaneous with tho triumphant
passige of tho joint resolution proposing
the new or XVth Article of the Consti
tution of the United Slates, by the vote
of more thairtwo-thii ds of tho Senate,
Hon, Win. Pitt Fessendeii, of Maine,
chairman of tho Smnte branch of the
Committee on Reconstruction, on Fri
day last presented the report of the la
bors of himself and his colleagues, from
tho time of their appointment, on tho
13th of December, 18G5. Nearly six
months, within a few ' days, have been
given to an investigation into questions,
the disposition of which, as the commit
tee wells says, "involves the welfare of
the Republic in all future time ;" and he
who carefully reads their statement will
be impressed with the madness and'folly
of the men who expected such a work to
be hastily accomplished, and who de
mand ttiat tho recent rebels shall be ad
mitted into the councils of the nation in
contempt ot the tacts and arguments
hero so clearly and powerfully set forth.
Considering this statement, side by side
with the proposed amendment ot the
National Constitution, wo Are startled at
the audacity which overlooked reasoning
that ought to have been instinoivoly sug
gosted to all patriotic minds. Wo seo
new cause for gratitude to Congress for
their heroio constancy and philosophic
inquiry, and new cause for wonder that
the President should have discarded con
sidcrations Ot such awful weight and
significance. As you have properly
published the full report, your readers
bave had time to peruse and ponder it.
No State paper since the last spicch of
Mr. Lincoln, on the 11th of April, 1805,
will exert a wider influence in Uxingfirm
er the foundations of republican liberty,
and in dispelling the meretricious false
hoods of reckless politicians. And noth
ing so foroibly drawi the line between
the hopes and plots of tho insolent trai.
tors and the tew yet plain conditions to
reconstruction of the Congress,' as this
i direct and explicit answer of the Cora-
mittoe oi Fifteen. In a long'calalogue
; cf irresistable points, Mr. Fessonden
faitona upon President J ohnson a meit
discreditable habit of withholding satjsi
factory information, anil of tompting to
lorce into tha Union, upon insufficient
and incomplets diWft, the unpardoned
and impatient rebels. After alio wing
that the war left tho Southern States
entirely exhausted, and that they "had
protracted their struggles against tho
Federal authority until all hope of sue-'
cossful resistance had ceased, and only
laid down their arms becauso there was
no longer any power to us them," he
proves from the President's own words
that thoso States, when the rebellion
was crushed, "were deprived of any
civil government, and must proceed to
organize anow." The President waited
bx long weeks before sending any infor
mation in response to the call of Con
gress, and when it came, sayslhis
report :
It was incomplete and unsatisfactory.
Authenticated copies of the constitutions
and ordinances adopted by the conven
tions m three of the States had been
submitted ; extracts from newspapers
furnished scanty information as to thu
action of one other State, and nothing
appears to have been communicated as
to the remainder. There was no evi
dence of the loyalty of tliore who partic
ipated in these conventions, and in one
Stale alone was any proposition made to
submit the action of the conventions to
the tin al judgment of the people
Thus treated by the Executive, the
committee was compelled to act for
itself :
Failing to obtain the desired informa
tion, and lull to $rope for light wherever
it might be found, your committee did
not deem it either advisable or safe to
adopt, without further examination, the
suggestions of the President, more espe
duly as he had not deemed it expedi
ent to remove the force, to suspend mar
tial law, or tf restore tho writ of habeas
corpus, but still thought it necessary to i
: - ,1 1 i- - . t 1 1 :
exercise over the people of the rebellious
States his military power and junsdio
tion.. J his conclusion derived greater
force from the fact, undisputed, that in j
all those Stales, except Teuuessee, and
perhaps Arkansas, the elections which
were held for State, officers and incm
bers of Congress had resulted almost uni
vcrsally in the dtdeat ot candidates who
had buen true to tho Union, and in the
election of notorious and unpardoned
rebels men who cmld not take tho
prescribed oath of office, and who made
no secret of th&ii hostility to the Gov
ernment and the people ot tho United
States.
Undor these ciroumHtances anything
liko hasiy action would have been as
dangerous as it was obvioiiidy unwiso'.
It appeared to your committee that but
one courso remained, viz: to investigate
carefully and thoroughly tho state of
feeling and opinion existing among the
people of these States ; to ascertain how
tar their pretended loyalty could he re
lied upon, and thence to infer whether it
w ould be snfo to admit them at onco to
a full participntirn in the Government
they had fought ' tour years to destroy.
It was an equally important inquiry
whether their restoration to their for
mer relations with the United "States
should only be granted upon certain
conditions and guarantees, which would
effectually secure the nation against a re
currenco of evils bo disastrous as thoso
from which it had esuoped at so enor
mous a saennce.
On the Providential project ot admit,
ting such persons into Congress. The
report says :
It is moreover contended, and with
apparent gravity, that from the peculiar
nature and character ot our Government
no eush right on the part of tho con
queror can exist; that from the moment
when rebellion lays down it arms, and
actual hostilities cease, all political rights
of rebellious communities aro at once
restored; that because the people of a
State of the Union were onco an organi
zed commuuity within tho Union they
necessarily so remain, ond their right to
bo represented in Congress at any and
aU times, and to participate in the gov
ernment f iho country under all circum
stances, admits of neither question nor
dispute. It this is indeed true, then is
the Government of the United States
powerless for jta own protection, nnd
flagrant rebellion carried to the extreme
of civil war is a pastime which any Sjate
may play at, not only certain that it can
lose nothing, rn any event, but may bo
the gainer by defeat. If rebollion suc
ceeds, it accomplishes its purpose and
destroys the Government. It it tails the
war has been barren of results, and the
battle may be fought out in the legisla
tive halls of the country. Treason de
feated in the field, has only to take pos
session of Congress and the Cabinet.
On the new cry of 'no taxation with
out representation," the reply is conclu
sive That taxation should be only with tho
consent of the people, through their own
representatives, is a cardinal principle ot
ail tree governments; out it is not true
that taxation and representation must go
together under all circurnstaneos and at
every moment of time. Tho people of
me jjistnot ot Columbia ana of the
Territories are taxed, although not repre
RonU'd in Congress If it bo tru) that
the people of the so-culled Confederate
States Imve no wgjjt to throw oil' tho
authority of tho ' United States; it is
equally trim that they are bound at all
times to share tho burdens of govern
ment. They cannot either legally oi
equitably refuse to boar their just pro
portion of these burdens by voluntarily
abdicating their rights and privileges
as States of the Union, and refusing to
be represented in the councils of the
nation, much less by rebollion against
national authority and lovying war. To
bold that by so doing they could escape
taxation, would be to oiler a premium
for insurrection. To reward instead of
punishing treason.
When tho fundamental subject of rep
resenation itself is rwachod, tho logic- of
the report is eloquent and unanswera
ble :
Tho exerciao of representation neces
sarily resulting from the abolition of sla
very, was considered the most important
element in the questions arising out of
the changed condition of uflaii's, and tho
necessity for some fundamental action iu
this regard seemed imperative. It ap
pealed to your committee that tho rights
of theso persons, by whom thu basis of
representation had been thus increased
should bo recognized by the Guneral
Government. While slaves they wore
not considered as having any rights,
civil or political. It did not seem just
or proper that all the political advantages
derived from their becoming free should be
confined to their former masters, who had
fought aqainsl the Union a ,d withheld
from themselves, who had always been
loyal. Slavery, by building up a ruling
and dominant class, had produced a spir
it of oligarchy adverse to republican in
Mtitutions, which finally inaugurated civ
il war. The tendency of continuing the
domination of such a class hy leaving it
in the exclusive pofse-eioii of political
power would be to encourage tho same
spirit and lead to a similar result
Doubts were entertained whether Con-
gross had power, even under tho amend
...I f V,..ut;t..t;nn tA .n.:i . i. 1:1:.
tid Constitution, to prescribe the qualili
cations of voters in a Slate, or could act
directly on the subject. It was doubtful
in the opinion of your committee wbeth
er the Slates would consent to Kiirrondor
a piwer they had always exercised, and
to which they were attached. As tho
best, not the only method of surmount
ing nil difliculiy, and as eminently just
ami proper in itnult, your committee
comes to tho conclusion that political
power tdioiiM bo poss ssed in all the
States exuctly in proportion as the right
of sultVaga should bo granted without
distinction of color or race. This, it
was thong'. t, would leave tho whole
question with the people of each State,
holding out to all the advantages of in
creased political power, as an induce
ment to alio v all to participate in its
exercise. Such a proposition would be
in its nature gen'le and peii-u.iivo, and
would tend, it is hoped, at up distant
day, to an equal participation ot all,
without distinction, in all tho rights ar.d
privileges of citizenship, thus affording
a full aiid adequate protection to al)
classes of citizens, since we would have,
through the ballot box, tho power of
self protection.
Holding these views,, your comiiiitleo
prepared an amendment to the Consti
tution, to carry out this idea, and sub
mitted the samo to Congress. Unfoitn
nately, as we think, it did not receive
the necessary constitutional support in
tho Senate, and therefore could not be
proposed for adoption by the States
J lie principal involved in that amend
ment is, ujwever, believed to be sound,
and your committee have again proposed
It in another form, hoping that it may
reoeive the approbation of Congress,
, It must not be forgotten that the Pros
idont's policy against all amendments
of the National Constitution is, in faot,
intended to leave tho authors of tho re
bellion with greater power, becausa of
the acts ot emancipation and tho incor
poration iuto tho body of tho population
ot tha, persous herctotoro called slaves 1
How the people of tho insurrectionary
States responded to the President's api
poals, and how ready they aro for imme
diate admission into Congres, tho com
mittee explains :
So far as the disposition of tho paople
ot the insurrectionary States and tho
probability of thi!ir adopting measures
conforming to the changed condition ot
affairs can be inferred from the papers
submitted by the Presided as the basis
ot his action, the prospects are far from
encouraging It appears quite clear that
the anti-slavery amendments, both to the
State and I'ederalconstitutions, wereadopt
ed with reluctance by the bodies tvhich did
adopt thnn; and in some States they have
been either panedbti in silence or rejected
The language ot all the provisions and
ordinances of the States; on the subjoot
amounts to nothing more than an uir
willing admission of an unwelcome truth.
As, to the ordinance of secession, it is in
some cases declaed "null and void," and
in others simply "repealed," and in no
case n a refutation of this deadly hemy
considered wrthy of a place in the new
constitutions.
If, as the President assumes', these
insurrectionary States Wore, at tha close
of the war, wholly without Stat govern
menu, it would seem that before being
admitted to. participate in tho direction
of public affairs such governments should
be regularly organized. Long usage
has established, and numerous statutes
have pointed out, tho mode in which
this should be done. A convention to
frame a form ot govornmont should bo
assembled under compoteut authority.
Ordinarilv this authority emanates from
Congress, but under the peculiar ciruuin
stances your committee is not disposed
to criticise the President's action in as
suming the power exercised by him in
this legard.
Thu convention, whon assembled,
should frame a constitution of govern
ment, which should be submittod to the
people for adoption- It adopted, a
Legislature felioiild bo convened to pass
the laws necessary to carry it into effect.
When a State thus organized claims
representation in Congress, the election
of representatives should bo provided
for by la in accordance with the laws
of Congress regulating representation,
and tho proof that tho notion taken has
been in conformity to law Bhonld bo
submitted to Congress.
In no case have those ossentiat prelimi
nary steps been taken. The conventions
assembled seem to have assutn-id that the
Constitution which had been repudiated
and ovortliiown was still in existence
nnd operative to constitute tho states
members of tho Union, and to have
contented themselves with such amend
ments as they were informed were
requisite in order to insure their return
to an immediate participation in the
Government ot the United States. And
without waiting to ascertain whether the
people they represented would adopt
even the proposed amendments, they at
once called elections of Representatives
to Congress in nearly all instances bef ire
an Executive had been chosen; to issue
certificates of eleution under the Stats
laws, nnd such elections as were held
were ordered by the conventions. In
one instance at least tho writs of election
were signed by the provisional governor.
Glaring irregularity and unwarranted
assumptions of power aro manifest in
several cases, particularly in South
Carolina, where tho convention, although
disbanded by tho provisional governor
on tho ground that it was a revolutionary
body, assumed to direct the Stato.
The report insists, with startling toroe,
that tho insurgent States
Should exhibit in their ao's something
more than unwilling submission to an
unavoidable necessity; a feeiing, it not
cheerful, certainly not ollunsivo and
delimit, ar.d should evinco an entire
repudiation of all hostility to tho General
Government by an accoptanco ofsiyjh
just and favorable conditions as that
Government should think the public
safety demands. Has this been done!
Let us look at the facts shown by tho
evidence, taken by tho committoo.
Hardly had tho war closed before the
people ot these insurrectionary States
come forward and hastily claim as a right
the privilege ot participating at once in
that Government which thny had for
four yoirs been lighting to overthrow.
Allowed and encouraged by the
Executive to organize stale governments,
they at once place in power leading
rebels, unrepentant and unpardoned,
excluding with contempt tliOBO who had
manifested nu attachment to the Union,
nnd preferring in many instances those
who hid rendered themselves the most
obnoxious. In - the face of the law
requiring an oath which would necces.
sarily exclude all .such men from federal
office, they elect with very tow excep
tions as Senators and Representatives in
Congress, men who had actively partioi.
pated in the rebellion, insultingly de
nouncing the law as unconstitutional.
It is only necessary to instance tho
election to tho Senate ot the lato Vice
President of tho Confederacy. A man
who, against his own declared convic
tions, had lout all the weight ot his ack
nowledged ability and of his influonce
as a most prominent public man to the
causes of tho rebollion, and who, unpar
doned rebel ns ho is, with that oath
staring him in tho face, had tho assur
ance to lay their credentials on tho tablo
ot the Senato. Other rebels of scarcely
loss note or notority wero selected from
other quarters Professing no repen
lanco, glorying apparently in the orinie
they had committed, avowing still, as
tho uncontradicted testimony of'Mr.
Stenhonsand manv olhors proves, an
adherence to the pernicious doctrino of
secession, and declaring thattiiHyyioiuea
only to necessity, they insist with
unanimous voice upon their rights as
States, and proclaim that they will submit
to no conditions whatever preliminary
to thoir resumption of power under that
Constitution which they still claim tho
right to repudiate.
1 have reoopiod these important po
sages to p'ace tnom more oloarly before
your readers, in view of the aotioe of the
Senate and the certain cooperative ao
tion of the Houaej on the new amend
mont'of the National Constitution. The
great issue in the coming election! will
be that amendment. Approved, as it
will be, I predict, by the loyal LegSsla-.
tures, it wilt nevertheless bo assailed by
thu Copporheads. The vory best vindi
cation ot tho just ioo and neoessity of tho
new artiole is contained in the report
from which I havo quoted, and intelll
gont men should1 m'ako themselves fa
miliar with it. I anticipate an easy
victory over all opposition. For not
only will patriotic citizens in the North
be impressed ami convinced by these
masterly arguments, but tho South will
see fir itself, how futilo it is to resist a
cause so powerful in the support of
three-fourths ot the one branch of Con
gross, nud more tl on two thirds of the
other, and also in tho moral force ot its
own intrinsic moi its. 3 nalor Lane, of
Kansas, predicted that four Southern
Slates stand ready to say yes to tho
amendment. And I believe that Con
gress will admit every recent insurgont
State as it does so. How litllo margin
will then bo left for the Copperheads ot
the North to make war upon tho Union
Republican party in the coming elec
tions? Occasional.
PRAISE YOUR WIFE.
Praiso your wife, man ; for pity's sako
give her some little encouragement ; it
won't hurl her. Sho has made your
homo oomfortnblo, your hearth bright
and shining, your food agreeable ; for
pity's sako tell her you thank her, if
nothing more. Shu don't expect it ; it
will make her eyes open wider than they
have those ten yours, but it will do her
good tor all, and you, loo.
There aro many women to-day thirst
ing for the' words ot praise, the language
ot eiicouragomeut. Through Bummer's
heat, through winter's toil, they havo
drudged uncomplainingly; and so ac
customed havo thoir fathers, brothers
and husbands becorao to their monot
onous labors that they look for and on
them as they do on the daily rising of
tho sun, and its daily going down.
llono evovy day, may be mado beautiful
by an appreciation of its very holiness.'
You know that, if the floor is clean,
manual labor has' been' porformod to
make it so. You know, if you oan take
from your drawer aclean shirt whenever
you want it, that somebody's fingers
have toiled in making it so fresh and
agreeable, so smoothe and lustrous.
Everything that pleases the oyo and tho
Bense has beou produced by constant
work, much thought, great care, and
uutuing efforts, bodily and mentally.
It is not that many men do not ap
preciate theso things and feel a glow of
gratitude for the numberless attentions
bestowed upon them in sickness and
health ; but they dou't oomo out with a
hoarty "Why, how pleasant you' make
things look, wife, 1'' or "I am much
obliged to you for taking so much
pains !" They thank tho tailor for giv
ing them "fits ;" they thank the man in
a full omnibus who gives thorn a seat ;
they thank the young lady who moves
along in tho concert room ; in short they
thank every thing out of doors becauso
it is tho custom, and come homo, tip their
chair back, and their heeU up, pull out
the newspaper, grutnblo if wlfoaska tlicin
to tako tho baby, scold if the lire has
gone down, or, if everything is just
right, shut their mouths with a smack
of satisfaction, but uov.ci' say, ' I thank
you."
I toll you what, men, yoit'ng and old,
it you did but show any ordinary civility
toward the ' common articles of house
keeping, your wives it you gave thotn
the hundred and sixteenth part ot tho
compliments you always choked thotn
with beforoyou wore nnrriod fewer
womon would seek for other sources of
affection. Praise your wife, then, for all
good qaulilies she has) and you may rest
assured that her deficiencies nre fully
counterbalanced.
A VETERAN STATESMAN" DEPARTED.
Tho Detroit pnpors announce the
death of Hon. Lewis Cass, the distin
guished statesman, in .the eight) -fourth
year of his ago, which event took plaooat
his residence in that city Sunday morn
ing, at 4 o'clock. General Cass was
born id Exeter, Now Hampshire, Octo
her Oth 1782, and was the oldest son ot
Jonithan Cass, a captain in the Conti
nental Army during tho Revolutionary
War.
Ex Gov. Clay, ot Alabama, tha father
of C. C. Clay, and once U. S. Senator,
a man who owns several thousand acres
of land, and refuses to sell, comes with
his basket every day t'o the U. S. Quar
termaster in his district and gets his
charity rations. Tnousands of the late
slaveholders are thu living on tho gov
ernment they so haughtily tried to, des'
tf'oy, and which they now demand tho
power to control.
Geo. Logan baa engaged to stump
Pennsylvania for Goary.
. FINE ENGLISH.'
. The Nation quotes lotno sentences
from Mr. Doming's apeooh on Grant, in
the House of Representatives, as choice
specimens ot "elegant oratory," as in
deed they aro. For instance, Mr. Deru.
ing described the Capitol as "this mas
sivo structure, with its soiled foundations,
expanded wing, toworing columns, and
bubbling dome," which, perhaps, may
all bo "on gulfed in L'ctho s dark, waters."
And here is another fine passage i "Far,
far back at tho very dawof history, in
deed upon the vory first-' page of man'a
tompostuous annals, writ in faded hioro
glyphioi upon crumbling columns."
But thov have a writer in the South
ern States who can beat Mr. Doming,
and givo him odds', , Writing1 in the
Crescent Monthly of lee's surrondsr, be
remarks : "The supreme hour was now
come, when trom across Fame's burning
eliptio, where it had traced, In flaming
sheen its luminous path ot glory, the
proud Aldobaran of Southern hope in all
tho splendors of its express, Ilyades
brightness, should sink, to rost behind
Turid war clouds, in the fateful western
heaven, there to bring out, on death'!
dark canopy, tho immortal lights of imA
mortal deeds, and spirits great and glori
ous, shining forever down upon a ciuso
in darkness, like tho glittering hosts up
on a world in night."
But the West presents u'j with an x
a'mple besides which tjho efforts bpth of
the East and the South, both' of Doming
and the Crescent Monthly, beoome tame
and flat. The Loavenworth Conserva
tive, commenting, a yoar or two ago,
upon an eloctioh in Kansas, eloquently
remarkets "Tho fall of corruption has
b'eon dispelled, and the wheels of tho
state government will no longer bo tram
meled by sharks that have beset the
pubho prosperity like loousts." 2V. F.
Post.
Hulks' for rnif Ciioi.eiu Sbaiok.
Somebody gives the following rulos to be
observed during tho onolora season., It
the individual who follows the dircolions
don't have the cholera, he will be depriv
ed of what rightfully belongs to him:
Drink all the poor whiskey you can.
Eat something as often as . possible
during the day, and take a hearty supper
late at night, just before retiring.
Guzzlo lagjr beer every Sunday at the
beer gardens. 1
Keop well supplied with green apples
and other unripe fruits- to eat between
your meals'. , ,
Tako a drink occasionally. . , '
Dou't be afraid ot vogetables 'har
ness' them rn every passible occasion.
Meats won't hurt! you if yon only eat
enough ot them Stuff.
Above all, drink. ' '
Avoid bathing altogether. .
Don't miss an opportunity to get mad,
it gives a healthy tone to the braias.
Get up cross in the morning and keep it
up. In order to' do so yon' must drink a
great deal over night.
Pay no attention to tne condition oi
your backyards and alleys'. ,
Drink as often as anybody asks yon.
Troat as long as ybu have any money.
A dozen or two glasses of loda during
the day, and a quart or so of ice cream
on a hot afternoon, will bo found advan
tageous. Drink'. ,
Take another. '
Swill down Brandy and Blue Ruin in
tho morning to g'iv"e tone to yoar stom
ach. Above all, don't fail to drink. '
Tim Menken hoop is after all ns
novelty. In 1753 the sex were re
proached for making
"Their pcttcoats short, that a hoop eight yards
wide, i
Might docently show how1 their garters wero
tlod." , , !
Only how t'he showing is not always
decent. . ' '
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At a priotVs festival, on Franklin's
birthday, the following was one of tha
regular toasts i "The editor and tha
lawyer The devil is satisfied with tha
copy ot tho former, bat requires the
original of1 tne fatter"- j
Ik not oontent with high resolves
rather be content with little doings.
Tiikhb is no substitute tor thorough
going', ardent and sinoer earnestsness.
Sr.ANDKR is a coward's revenge, dis
simulation his defense. ' '
Duties fulfilled1 arc always pleasurM
to the memory. ; , , ' ;! I
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