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A PLAIN EPISTIiE TO UNCLE
ABE.
I have a message, Uncle Abo,
For your own private ear; —
As I can't go to Washington,
And as you won't come here, —
I'm forced to put it into type,
With circumspection meek:
As bashful members often print
A speech they dare not speak.
My head is nigh bursting, Abe,
My very eye-balls throb,
To see what pesky work you make
At out tnat little job,—
Which you, and Bill, and Iloracc G.,
Agreed so nieo to do,
In less than "sixty days" from date—
Some twenty months ago !
Wo gave you henns of soldiers, Abo,
To help you smite the foe ;
A string of warriors that would reach
From here to Mexico.
We packed them off with spades to dig,
And trusty guns to shoot,
With haversacks to grace their backs,
And fifes and drums to toot.
You saw these mighty legions, Abe.
And heard their manly tread ;
You counred hosts ot living men,
Pray can you count the dead ?
Look o'er the broad Potomac, Abe,
Virginia's bills along,
Their wakeful ghosts are beckoning you
Two hundred thousand strong.
We gave you several shillings, Abe,
To pay your little dues;
Enough to buy a dozen shirts,
And sundry pairs of shoes!
We gave you cattle, horses, mules,
AnJ wagons—fuil a score ;
And several euuuou with a voice
Loud as a bull can roar !
Now what I'm after, Uncle Abe,
Is riuiply to find out,
What yon have done with all this 'ere,
And what you've been about!
If unto Caesar you have given,
Ail that is his concern,
Then " Mrs. Caesar want's" to know
AVhat you have done with hern!
I know you're young and handsome. Abe.
v And funny as our Pol,
A peer exalted, great and high,
A ruler seven foot tall;
You're big enough, if only smart,
To manage all the gang;
And tho' a litilo green—you'll rise,
When you have got the hang!
You told us that the Locos, Abo,
Were rascals to the core,
Because they made so free au:e
Of Uncle Samuel's store.
Full sixty millions in a year!—
Now wasn't it a sin
For Democrats to squander thus
The darling people's tin!
And are you not deserving, Abe,
Both gratitude and grub,
For having stopped this wicked leak
In Untie Samuel's tub ?
The sage who did this wondrous deed,
Is fit with saints to sup ;
It only costs two billions more
To plug the vo.-sol up!
You say the South had ruled us, Abo,
Some fifty years in peace,
And that the time had fully come
When their vile reign should cease;
That you were to take the helm
Tho sinking ship to save,
And put her on another tack—
And —I really think you have !
You'ro out of luck, entirely. Abe,
The engine's off the track ;
The b'ilor's burst, and there yoa arc,
A sprawling on your back !
The exciseman is at the door,
Contractors cry for pelf;
You're blind and stupid, deaf andlacao,
Nor very well yourself.
Your cabinet is feeble, Abe,
And dull as any dunce;
And if you have an ounce of brains,
You'll ship them off at once ;
Send Stanton to the Fejee Isles,
Give Welles and Chaso tho sack,
Swap Halleok for a Hottentot,
And send for Little Mac !
I know you tell us, Uncle Abo,
This is a mighty war:
And that the job is rather moro
Than what you bargained for!
That you have done the best you could
To make the rebels rue it,
And if you knew what next to do,
You'd go right off and do it!
Now that's the very thing, Abe,
That makes this din and clatter ;
You don't appear to "see," Abe,
And that is what's tho matter!
The niggor's in the wood-pile, Abe,
As shy as any trout;
So you think the Proclamation, Abe,
Will smoke the weasel out!
You want to freo the darkios, Abe,
At least, I so construe it;
The difficulty seems to bo
To find out how to do it.
The way, dear Abe, is mighty dark,
And bothersome to sec ;
I fear you'll have to give it up,
And let the darkey be.
I tell you what it is, Abo,
The folks begin to think
This colored sop is rather stalo
For victuals or for drink.
Our mothers love their absent sons,
Our wives their husbands true,
But no one cares a mouldy fig
For Cuffy or for you.
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT."—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1863.
Select
THE WIl'C IIC KAFT OFMEIt-
CYO'MORE.
AN IRISH STORY.
A breathing creature was Mercy O'More.
From tho Giant's Cauesway to the Cape
Clear, from Connemara to the Ilill of Ilowth,
you would not meet with another such dear,
delightful, clever, captivating darling. All
the boys of high estate, rich and poor, ac
knowledged the fascinations of Miss Mercy,
and no one was ever known to be thrown in
to any other than an ecstatic state when
Miss Mercy favored him with a smile of that
dear, delightful, dimpled face of hers ! Oh,
it was quite enchanting to have such a smile
beamed upon him. Talk of sun ! There
never was a ray from that glorious luminary
that fell so warm upon the heart of created
man as a smile from the face of Mercy O'
More. There was a man who declared that
upon his heart Miss Mercy had made no im
pression ; and people said, in consequence,
that he had no heart at all, but he had, and
a pretty good one, too, as tho sequel will
show. It happened, too, that this very iden
tical young gentleman with a hard heart, or
a heart with a low covering, was the only
one whom Mercy herself had fallen in love
with.
" "Well, Florence, darling," said Sir Mau
rice O'More, one day to Mercy's sister, ' and
so you believe that our beauty is fast caught
in love ; and in love, too, with that unloving
Englishcr, Harry Perceval."
" I do, indeed," was the reply.
" And what makes you think so ?"
" I can interpret downcast eyes and gen
tle sighs, 1 warrant. ' Sister,' said I to-day,
£ sweet sister, what think you of the gay
young bachelor, our visitor V ' A goodly
man enough,' said she ; and then 1 heigho !
heigho !' she sighed. Do you mark that !
' That goodly man,' said 1, 1 will make some
pretty maiden's heart ache.' 'I do not
doubt he will,' she straight replied, and then
she turned the leaves of many books, but
nothing pleased her there ; she tried her pen
cil, too, but after making many crooked lines,
and nothing else, she blamed the unskillful
maker of the crayon, and snapped it in a pet;
her gay guitar, she said, was out of tune ;
and then her harp, alas! She swept her din
gers over the strings, but the only music
they made was tho echo of her sigh."
" And from this," said Sir Maurice, " you
infer that she loves ? Well—well, time will
show."
It is possible that Harry Perceval may
have felt the soft passion creeping upon him,
and not wishing to become a Benedict, he
resolved upon flying fr.iin the dangerous
neighborhood of Zdercy O'More. Certain it
is that he culled to him his man, Barney, a
gentleman , who officiated in various capaci
ties, valet included, and ordered him to puck
up all his " traps," " fur," said he, " Barney,
we leave this place to-morrow morning "
" Sure you won't" said Barney.
" Sure I will," responded Harry Perceval.
"They want to persuade me that I'm in love
with Mercy O'More."
" And you could do worse than be in love
with her," said Barney.
" Could 1 ?" said his master, " but I don't
happen to be in the mind just at present to
do anything so desperate. I'm not to be
caught with her beautiful bit of the blarney."
"Don't you be talking of the blarney,
masther," replied the faithful domestic.—
" Mayhap, you haven't been rubbed upon
the blarney stone yourself! By my con
science, I've heard you whispering such
things into the ears of the English girl, that
St. Patrick himself couldn't beat, with the
blarney-stone, at the back of him."
" Hush, Barney; no tale-telling out of
school."
" Say fie to yourself," inasther. Isn't it
yourself that's libelling the red cheeks and
bright eyes (blessings on 'cm) of Miss Mer
cy ? Ah, masther! whenever I catch a
twinkle of those eyes, I feel a great-coat
warmer all the day after. Och, such eyes !
such diamonds !"
" Irish diamonds, eh ?" said his master.
" No, sir, the genuine ! Then such cheeks !
Red and white, laid on by the -hands of La
dy Nature herself, rouud about, like the
chert ybims heads at church. Then her lips !
Och ! her lips that's motheratiuu!"
" You are romantic, Barney," said his mas
ter.
" You may say that," was the reply ; " I'm
just the boy for that same."
" Well," ejaculated Perceval, suppressing
a smile, "by this time to-morrow, Barney,
you and I will be on tho high road"
"To matrimony, sir?"
" No, sirrah, to England."
" You'd better be merciful and lead Mer
cy to the altar."
" And lie myself up in a halter, afterwards.
No, no, I'm not bound for the gulf ot matri
mony yet."
Thus saying, Harry turned round, and per
ceived a tall and lanthron-visaged young
gentleman, whom he heard breathe a heavy
sigh, hanging down his head.
" Halloo !" cried Harry, " who are you ?"
The stranger heaved another heavy sigh.
" Aro you dumb, sir W asked Harry,
The stranger shook his head.
" What ails you ? Speak ?"
The stranger heaved another heavy sigh,
and, exclaiming, " Mercy O'More !" hastily
retired.
" Poor unfortunate gentleman !'" exclaim
ed Ilany. " What a vixen this Mercy must
be! A fury incarnate! Prospenne in a
satin petticoat. I wish I was a thousand
miles off!"
Turning again, he beheld one of tho wild
est, prettiest, most good matured looking lit
tle flower girls ho had ever encountered, who
dropped a modest curtesy, and was passing
onward, when Harry caught her apron, and
asked what her name was?
"Kathleen, if you please, sir," repeated
the girl. " Kathleen the flower-girl, if you
please ; who gathers blossoms from bill and
dale, for the gratification of her customers.
W ill you buy ? Here are roses and lilies ;
but they are for the gentle and the good."
" Am 1 not good ?" asked Harry.
"Law, no; you're a man. Here is a
heart-ease for the forlorn lover; will you
buy ? And here are some pretty tulips ; do
you love tulips ?"
" Fof" tulips, of all the world, my pretty
Kathleen."
" Law !" cried the girl, Washing and sim
pering. " They may suit you, for you are as
bright as tho butterfly."
"Am I like a butterfly ?" exclaimed Har
ry Perceval.
" Why, no ; not quite so pretty," was the
reply.
"Eh! my dear wench," said Harry. " I
should liko to be better acquainted with
you." -
" Should you, indeed ! Well, that's very
kind, for nobody thinks of any pretty girl
now bui Mercy O'More. 1 was once a beau
ty, sir."
" And aro you not still—still—still most
beautiful ?"
" Ah, that's flattery !" said the girl.— ;
" Bnt the young men all thought tho same
once. Before Miss Mercy came into the
neighborhood, 1 was the loveliest, happiest,
and gayest of girls ; everybody envied me,
for 1 was universally beloved. I had then
twenty lovers and a half—real ones, too."
"Twenty and a half!" cried Harry.
" Yes. The half one was Corrnac O'Casey,
a very good natured bit of a man, rather ten
der here, sir, (touching her foreltead.) Na
ture in creating him had made a sad mistake,
and transferred the soft place from the heart
to the head. lie nevex told his love, but
only used to squeeze my hand when ho bo't
a posy, and sigh shockingly—" Oh dear !"
" And clid that merciless Mercy rob you
of all these ?"
w Ah, she did. There's not a lover can be
kept trom her."
"It is very strange," said Harry Peaceval,
that for her capricious smiles they should
have forsaken the pretty Kathleen."
" Isn't it, sir. "There must have been some
witchery in it, for they all of them, on their
bended knees, swore they loved me dearly.
Ah, those were happy times, when, the day's
labor being ended, I selected jine from my
many suitors, to accompany me in a moon
light ramble, among the hills and valleys,
glades and glens, by wood and lake; each
seemed a paradise, and I the presiding spirit!
And when the sun was sinking behind the
distant hills, its last glories were accompan
ied by the music of my beloved"
" Ah !" cried Harry, " a guitar ?"
" No; ajewsharp. He played so sweetly
that my spirit wept, as the divine melody
fell upon my young heart ; and when the
great round moon arose, our hearts were en
tranced with bliss."
" I see it !" cried the enraptured youth.—
" I picture the romantic scene—earth, Heav
en and water; moonlight, paradise, and a
jewsharp! Oh, delightful,"
"Yes, very; except when a shower of
rain visited us ; and then my lover would run
away."
" Run away ! Now, can there be a man
on earth so vile ? Hun awaj* from such a
simple innocent girl as Kathleen ! Kathleen,
that man was a villian."
" Was he indeed ?"
" Kathleen, your charms, your innocence,
your delightful simplicity, entitle you to a
suitor of superior rank. Mercy O'More has
not one half of your attraction. She is pre
cious ugly."
" I am not precious ugly, am I ?" asked the
flower girl.
" You —you /"—cried Harry ; " No! you
aro all perfection ; you are—you—are —
Zounds—l feel—l feel"
" Do you feel ill ?"
"III? Yes— 110, not ill, my dear; bull
have the heartburn sadly."
" Shall I fetch you a little chalk and wa
ter?"
"O no; the only medicine that can effect
my cure lies deep in those lovely eyes ; let
me gaze on them until my own dull orbs
shall draw it forth."
"O, sir 1" cred Kathleen, blushing deeply.
" Let me gaze and gaze again," exclaimed
Harry. "'Tis thus I would fortify myself
against the witchcraft of Mercy O'More."
" Would you, indeed ?" replied Kathleen,
with such an arch expression, that Harry half
suspected she was something more than she
seemed but her subsequent replies removed
his iuapiciooa, and be inwardly congratnlutod
himself upon having discovered one of the
purest, most artless and unsophisticated girls
in the world. He was already half in love
with her, and before they parted he had made
Kathleen to promise to meet him again.
Presently afterwards Barney arrived with in
telligence that all his master's moveables
were packed and ready for departure. " Un
pack them, again," said Harry Perceval ; and
Barney, wondering at his masters fickleness,
retired to obey the new orders. v A fortnight
passed, and Perceval had grown more reserved
in his behaviour to Morcy O'More ; and he
stole out evening, after tea, to-meet the pret
ty Kathleen, with whom ho was so much en
amored that he at length resolved to marry
her.
" I am going to get married,' said he one
day to Sir Maurce O'More.
" Is it possible ?" said the baronet.
" I knew I should surprise you. You will
be more surprised when I name Mrs. Harry
Perceval elect. lam resolved to do justice
to modest merit, Sir Maurice; for what is
fortune given to us for, but that we may be
stow it in rewarding virtue and goodness ?"
Sir Maurice admitted the justice of the
enthusiast's opinion.
" And, therefore, I intend to marry Kath
leen Nolan, a poor,but beauteous peasant,
whom I adore."
Sir Maurice expressed a wish to see the
charmer; and Perceval promised to bring her
the next night. '' but," he added, "be sure
and keep Mercy out of the way ; for she would
laugh at me."
And on the next evening the charmer was
conducted into a little private parlor at Sir
Maurice O'More's and there the lover, the
lady and the baronet spent a very pleasant
half iiour. Perceval had made Sir Maurice
acknowledge that Kathleen was more beauti
ful than his daughter Mercy, though Sir Mau
rice qualified the admission by declaring it to
be his opinion that he had seen Mercy, when
6he used to dress her hair in a profusion of
ringletts, look quite as beautiful as her rival.
But Perceval insisted that it was quite im
possible that Mercy could look like Kathleen
or talk so fascinatingly as Kathleen, or be
half so loveable as Kathleen. And then it
occurred to the lover that it was time to do
part, and he said as much; but Kathleen did
not stir from her seat.
" Come Kathleen," at last he said, "we
must go.
"O, no; not just yet,"she replied, in a tone
more fascinating than anything Perceval had
ever before heard, even from her lips; and
running her fingers over the strings of Mer
cy's harp that stood near her, she played one
of the national melodies with such delightful
expression, that Perceval seized her hand,
and kissing it ardently, cried aloud that he
was the happiest man in the world; and Sir
Maurice said that he ought to be.
" You do love ma a little ?" asked Kathleen
archly.
" Lore you !" cried Perceval, " to distrac
tion ! to madness !"
" Then," said Kathleen," suppose we ring
the bell, and let sister Florence come in to
witness our happiness !"
"'What!" cried Perceval.
" What 1 echoed Sir Maurice.
Kathleen removed the clustering curls
from her checks and brow, and displacing
some marks which she had penciled upon her
conntenaco, was discovered to be no other
than Mercy O'More herself, who had hit up
on this method of winning the heart of the
man she loved.
Need we add that the bell was rung in
compliance with Kathleen's request, and that
Florence came in to witness the happiness of
her beloved sister; and that Mercy relinquish
ed her right and title to tho ancient and hon
orable name cf O'More, within a month, at
the nuptial altar ?
JACK TAK'S YAKNS— HOW Jack Fiddle
Rode a Streak 0' Lightning /—Two sailors
were once spinning yarns, when one said that
when his ship was sailing on the Gold Coast,
the weather was so hut it was no uncommon
thing for the doctor to boil the dinner by
merely setting the pot out in the suu ! That
is very likely, said the other, for once when
I wassailing in a high northern latitude, the
weather grew so cold that even our voices
froze before tho sound of them was given out.
The capten tried his speaking trumpet in
vain, and wc had to work the ship by signs,
like dummies, (meaning dumb people.)
What was most remarkable, however, when
we got far enough south for a thaw, those
very words that wo spoke, together with the
captain's bellowings through the trumpet,
began to sound, and such a mixed up hulla
baloo you never heard in all your born days !
That was very queer, said the first speaker,)
but did I ever-tell you of Jack Fiddle's ride
on a streak ot lightning ? You see lightning
is so common in those low latitudes * that no
sailor is afearcd on't. One day when Jack
was aloft helping to reef the sky-sail, as a
storm was brewing, a streak of lightining
struck the yard on which Jack stood, taking
him off his feet, carrying him down one of the
main halliards with a run, and so overboard.
I seed him go down .astride that streak 0'
lightning as plain as I sec you uow.Wc th row
ed him a buoy, and when he was ab
oard, the seat of his trowers was found to be
burnt out just as clean as though they'd been
cut with a knife ! An' what's"very singular,
hid dkiu wasn't scarcely scorched 1
•a
ITKRMS: SI.GO PER ANMTTM
(Lonmuutiauion.
EXETER, April Bth, 1803.
MR. EDITOR : _ .
Through the medium of,
the Democrat I desire to present a few facts
with my sentiments concerning the war, ite
origin, its objects and the manner in which
it is prosecuted, beiug, of course, personally,
responsible for my communications,as I write
my own views.
Judging by the popular speeches, re
solutions and actions of Republicans, I 6in-.
cerely believe the great objects of their pafty,
were to revolutionize the Government or di
vide the Union. lam aware that this charge
is a grave one against any great party. It is
one that should not bo lightly made. But
does not the following declarations justify
the charge ? Wendell Phillips of Massachu
chusetts has declared.
"We confess that wo intend to trample
under foot the Constitution of this country -
Dante! Webster says : You are a law-abiding !
people ; that the glory of New England is.
' that it is a law abiding community.' Shame •
on it if it is true ; if the religion of New
England sinks as low as its statute-book.— .
But I say we are not a law-abiding commun
ity. God be thanked for it."
When this was enunciated it was said that
Phillips had no public position—that he
spoke no representative voice. He was a
plain single citizen, and to his opinion no
weight should be attached. But who is Mr.
Seward ? Ife was Senator from New York, '
(now Secretary of State,) who openly pro
claimed revolution, and created a party in
the free States, pledged to a war on the pe- >
culiar institutions of the South. He claimed
that Congress had the power to regulate sla
ver} in the lerritories, and in his speech in
1850, said, " The Constitution regulates our
stewardship. The Constitution devotes the
domain to union, to justice, to defense, to
welfare, to l-berty. But there is a higher
law than die Constitution , which regulates
our authority over the domain and devotes
it to the same noble purposes."
"When this was proclaimed from his high
place in the Senate, full uubridled license
wa9 preacned, and slavery was to be destroy
ed at all hazards. The sentiment which
broke from \Y endell Phillips was endorsed in ,
high places. The Whig party was at once
dissolved, and an organization at once creat
ed solely on the slavery question. But com
ment is unnecessary. I will give incontro
vertible evidence from the declarations of their
most prominent leaders to substantiate my
position.
Mr. Mann who stood prominent in the par
ty deliberately declared:
' f have only to add, under a full sense of
my responsibility to my country and my
God, / deliberately say, better disunion, bet
ter a civil or servile war, better anything that..
God in His Providence shall send, than an
extension of the bonds of Slaverv,"
Mr. I.urlingame, in the House of Repre
sentatives, in a speech in August, 1851, said :
The times demand that we should havo
an ASTI-SLAVERY CONSTITUTION, AN ANTI
SL AVERT BIBLE, AND AN ANTI-SI, A VERY GOD."
1 hese atrocious sentiments wore endorsed
by the great body of the Republican party
by electing their authors to the highest hon
ors of the country. Now, I ask the purpose
and objects of the party to be judged by no
other rule than their own declarations and
acts. Judged by these their settled deter
mination was REVOLUTION to trample un
der foot the Constitution of this country ," and
the subversion of the Constitution is the over
throw of the I nion. It is revolution because
it changes in fact our form of Government.
From ihe success of such principles I date
the commencement of civil war. Here is
where I see the origin, the primary cause of
our troubles. It vsas not simply the imposition
oi a trifling tax on tea that caused the Am
erican Revolution, but it was the assertion of
Parliament to tax the colonics without their
consent. It was a controversy between the
Crown and Ministers on one side and the
people on the other, in reference to powers of
government made under the British Consti
tution. Now, Ido not believe that the raid '
of John Brown in Virginia or the election of
Abraham Lincoln as President was the cause
of this revolution ; but it was the assertion
of the right and duty of Congress to abolish
slavery. It was the assertion t.f'thi right to
abolish, accompanied by such acts asecidenc
ed the purpose to abolish, that ted to the Re
volution. Tho incontrovertible evidence of
Republicans to strike down slavery "at all
hazards," and consequently State rights, may
be found in all their speeches, resolutions aud
political documents, and he who denies tho
truth is either a " fool or a knave."
S. 11. s.
.
The following rich scene is said to
have lately occurred in one of our courts of
justice between tho judge aud a Dutch wit
ness all tho way from Rotterdam :
Judge. —" What's your native languago ?"
Witness. —" Ipo no native. Iso a Hootch
man."
J— " What is your mother tongue ?"
IF.—" Oh, fader say she pe all tongue."
J. (in an irritable tone)— What language
did you speak in the cradle ?"
1W. —" I tid not speak no language in t
cradle at all; 1 only cried in VooUhj
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