national anti-slavery standard, year 1860, aug 25

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jMoiml ^uti VOL. XXIII. NO. 24. "NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1862. PDDL1SOED WEEKLY. ON SATURDAT, UUERICAN AKTI-SUYERV 80C1ETI, PENNSYLVANIA ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, 105 North-Tenth Sired, rhlladtlphla. Loticrt fur ruiiillciilnn, 01 le-lntnic in any v?S '<• "' e.ll|..rl.ilr lint"! !li.-|..'li' r..-.li..nl-l le-„.|.lr. -it.l. l.l'ITi nr rue. .\..Tin>. .|. ls7..Sl>™(ST.swiic.M" l""i- ilbfnf^ Of l' :l,.-,„l,l ^elections. DR. HELLO TVS ON THE WAR. j from [be address r has developed i If I were called on lo »ay wnat spots in our polilic.nl orgamisti"' which the fiery betrayed, I sboui'i ™«b1 A want of fn national rcnrcr.cnu bureaus, array, and ia all public plan's ill, Srillirmt ciccutiocB—but as n ml; d, heart- and will, are ool.npobl. II iif lt)ii' ,u. : i-. gnrS.l abir. of course TLb best b ndmir l^t.-iiH" And tbi I, (bo Slitve To ,g political life parly eked tbi! beam, against even the special .i.linnfn:.- - D tho S ctban nl,— K.iL.-r ml I i"f"> .king a rim. I u ,„..,,„, through one great interest—tbo ton repr,-on>aii illowcd tlM'ir slnvcs-und tin to pur, has" at nil limes, 1)> political bribes, .Jcieul support (it the North lo overbalance the political power ..f iho free Slates- Had there been rar, alavcry was already doomed to ilio, under very acli.ui'of that V.n-.U un-.n winch lor seventy ira had given it Id". I'or ill'-- GinsliUilion, in Hscll vsidered and regarded ns b Federal document, rlii' r pm-slavery "or nnli-slavory. As Ibc federal power In to pass into the hands of the majority, the Conslitniinn becomes favorable o unfavorable to slavery, n.'tor.linf; lo Hi" character tbnt majority. When the nation by its constitutional representatives in anil-slavery, then Ihc Constitution becomes *o,nnd not before. It did become to nt hi,, ,1,,..ion. To sustain that elc-iion. to uphold 1'reeioYnl bc-unic il>" fir.-t most direct polic) the free ami loyal States. That policy anticipated no action on the subject of slavery. It was to ' care of itself. ,,.,,, I confess thru, fur on,-, 1 nie.inu-ly dc-ired tin to take that course. I dreaded mi net nt an. lion. It seemed in mi; to be identical Willi a St ratsce, was present, to cheer and to animate by bold "-.,.|.l'.„! ,,. il,.' Imt.1--.tv of nntiotiH have statesmen een railed lu I.-- p-rlc nuance of lumber dune- than tore tho men who were- aummnoncd. by the Admin- .slration they bad placed m power, i' legi-bii, fur tv land rent and ton, by discord and aturned by Ira- tema1 blood. Tl,"v entered with bravo hearts nnd resulted spirit., upon the (-relit work imposed upon them wilhii[iM,i-| ,cd dcvuioii and tireless mdus- try The Adminiidi-Miuii asted lor inur hilldrcd (hou^and men mid lu'.ir buinlr.d million of dcilnra, ,md Conyre^ ,r,.n, |.i 1^ i'.'iv" il lire hundred t ,..i--and men ai.d liv* linnl.-l i»illi'>i. el dollars. The urmy und navy were inciea^d. „i,d laws enacted for lb. orr;ani7ation and povernmcril el tin.' milltarj ami naval force.-, and f,T ^ippli inr the pcovcrnment sill, the needed jntain to carry on the war, nbo-o [Ujuiii- li, nrnnuriiiun. stai tl.d and imiitved the world. ^tateMiien oi Iln: majority in bulb huunn id on- eri-m clearly sure tlmi alnv.ry was nut. only the cause and tbo motive powor ol tbo rebellion, but that ibc eeaeeb« toil of iln f..nr imlliun of enforced fs- (iuib unnhlvd ti-;,ison t-i lill ibe ranssH, feed and psv ita armies. They would .piiekl. hirike at tho mall onCBCiilinR tbo properlyor a the il was in iteclf a great act of ji feding espresstd on the biibjecl oy oce oi inu unumi and most eli'v.'ited ebanipiolis ol tbo war. To tbi; majority of ollieers and men, ibe prodama- licn was welcomed aa :t nolurnl event—one that was cedain to follow Ibe eonlinuanco of the war, and was th-reforo not a surprise to any one. It will bo ncrpiicsced H»(n by those who feel little roloresl in Ibis abatrnut questions of slavery or ~"! "It servca 'cm right; liny have been enough, and thBrrcsident has usbibitcd and patience in withstanding pu lonj; iliu pressure nf diiler.'nt parlies upon bim. It is a right act, per- formed at tho:igbt lime, and will be sustained by tho whole army " wcro the remarks of moat of those I cooverstd with on tho subject. Ksox. sarncd lotif; CIU11LES SUHHER AS STATESMAN. in the poli alition between Jackson, V„ . that which ns Free ,-uilern bad split oil* from th. Whig iis'-cadeney upon 11"' n.iiiiiniitiou of Len. fay rPrc led Geo oS. Bo well n false prelenso that it was an onpiedged one. __ The ibci'iiueiit calling ol a feupb-'s (.'otivenLon, anil .> nomination ut Ijoii. D.venJ fur liovcrnor, wn.« a ibuto to Ibe chariieter and inlluen.o of their r-,:„a- r of which bis frieoda have a right to feel ,.,-ou.d. For the first time in nur poli'ieiil history, a pnrlv has boon organised and a State ticket iioun- nnled for tho sob' purpose of d. f.aiin^ the reck'ctiori of nn whois not a.-tate L.lii.r. nnd nt-var aspirid Gov. Andrew is ng;irdc-l with a -uli'y lified by thu fewness of those who feel it but thcbittoruc-TH with whieh Mr. Sumner i-i hated insists on the grjiliticnlinn of a canrnss, even though a hopeh'sa one and. since there wai no .xislirif,' party ' rbick this could I- .',it,.mpted without mamfesi i(y, one was organiv. d lor ibe purpose. And it best that this should be. Let ua have a census ot the friends and the enemies of Mr. Sumner in the Stnte which ho has so honored ! I have asid that, while other Senators have shared hih convictions, none has ceiucd SJ enjphn'.icalK-. s,.. eiiiinenllv.ns lie toeinhod\ and repr.. sent ibe growini;, ricepening, Anli-Plavcry eentiment of the country. None bus s,.",ii'.d so invariably to reali; |,ubli. wrong is a puWk dangor-tbat irij lb" humblest and n-.-nki-.-it i=, peril ') tin! wtll-Leiii™ nl all. Others have seemed to regard ibc reeent ilevol sith s I i Buffers icreed. There v .arty under dure, rn party under iil'tvi uri-ini; -,-- mi ,' ei,- r.citber of thorn in ircatcucd with foruigo if :itud t cihiib to retain f, d;:al crlaitj nbeut cither our o support them, as our ..'..' ],', ,|„„„.,,|i,i,„i Ktruet work', behind .' ."|, r.d.el'b" n-mvbt burl sb-.I nnd hI,"11 int., il. bared l.OTOm.H of our d.'vuled sons, hauling for their country und, r the old (lag. Cut tins measure, denounced by the trnitor Brecalnndf of a aeries ot acta loosing all bom low of tbo land. As tho rebellion d"V"K,].ed ,f gig-'i n-. 'he rebel con literacy manileited jwer, the loyal mnS'-es whost msiu Inctions of statesmen, did r~' Blavory was the vital and itnualli bullion, and that it should be cni ! all the constitutional nnd is noi so hiDornblu and open confession there can be to secular occupation equal dignity to that of n legislator and st» ihould be tfcn noblest ambition of our men to Gil fteso atations. They ought t; as ihey do in England, and even in tbr (he man who allows private interests, nc*s or any other rmin' ibi.n inoompeten, >, s.. bim from oceepiinf public -dbe at Ibe call of hi low-men, corrupl!."ibe publi! censcieneo and^rorg.':-, the most fnered duty of a good cit strange thing il is, nt a time like tin |";i»lidi..i Abolitionists were w.i paliticnl imdcrboi ai it hah proved I lendenoy to imjin a.l»Ace* have Of. :ir present poai in a perleet quandar) of dmouareorareiioteqcH! utterl> unknown, till they to country at large, am doubt whether these '' A ti-e-jiid weakness la tie.' e^lranrdiuan abs" of any machinery for tuing the re-ponsilulu greai pnblieuiiitters. '! he cnstitulion of our Ul .,-. Th a ->ur. r nf infinile weakness. 1 lie beads ol ile| mem, hold ibeit rl«.:es »i ibe will of ibe Pre.-i- No amount of public distrust, no vole of cen moves them to lay down lieu; power. Tbo who." sticks s have bim. Tpu long Tbo wholo c ,otry w negro Carbonoriom. by which o be banded ami directed—w; lerils associated with it in our al t is nut freedom, but the wan noucrection ; and the educated of tbo ink tbat the p. I.. (hat alleged, tbat hicb the credulous a put to shame in, or that immi ie blacks asserted I have any of the rcicd imaginations. b.i-auic 111'; p force o( Ibis, i ilcd by tbecierei ar powers of t long Sburrill of the metropolitan '.'aunty, had been born and reared in listen without imbilung some ol its most cbcriolii'd " nutimis." Educated a Whig of tbo school of John Quinoy Adams, he bad resisted ardcnllynnd on Iln.- I.igl" st gruuiid- tbat annexation of Texas to which—or rather to the spirit wbicb ipelled and secured that annexation—may be aoed nil our subseipient national trulls and woes. When tbo Whig party in ltd* selected Oen. Taylor lor it" ('residential candidate, and refused to endorse gove ', n.gimi p-l Buchan his '.bim Ives ibe I 're lis tbi a Secretary, 1 ot President cboos- f io worked under Mr. have thieves and traitors in luntry could not help iteel!. when do amount of pnb- hcad of department out of r... ponsihility and care to t and ublcat President, Our o retire on the first espres- i-cr.tho present annngoment aciid an overwhelming negro any theory bad prepared us to aaDapoB inon, anaiii. proclaim emantipalion as mucb of you please, youtflect it only ah you can give ll^sc v,lo uphold davecy an argument nbi;h b:is lou eilges. Iintuc- liate pruehimati.ui of einaneipati"" " of rebellion IhsIs in the South, ji ipation att any other scbi longer co. wisbea, and if heada ol departi President was, has nnv policy, look with awnz.'inem with Uie uiru,..-t i.'nne, which u President nt 3. A [bird i, of e Ik represent!* da insellors—for, if rse be no of oilu'-s high and low, nod Counties. Uisverj pie at large jnalad'..— really know bow aolitary the little the Cabinet represent or ia a consulting body, we should t at the autocratic position, ar* nnd pity on tbe aolilude I'niu-d Stales is placed. , tb._- local distribution mndo gradual eman- Tba slaves will bold till we have bold ol their masters, This decree of emancipation, in rebel Stales, boni of m.btar, .. -ccssitv, pruebiiuied L,y the rresident in ,be full weed* of war powers, is now the settled in.l irrcl-calaolo law nf ibe nation, lu he -observed, obeyed and enfureed " by army and navy and by tbe voice of tbo nation. The enfurc.-meiu of this pro- clamation will give peace nnd order, freedom ar J uniiy to a low .liKtrneii d tuuntn the failure ecforce it w.U bring wilt, it diyord and anar.liy, diasovercd Onion and a broken nation. The issu arc clearly and distinctly drawn by this proclama- tion between law. and order, and freedom an - .,[ . ,i-.„, on ibe one bund, and anarchy, and eo-d and flavor)' and a shivered and dishonored Union ou the other. Freedom, humanily and reli- gion tho unerring vui..v ol p'Hri..,ii-in. pronounce^ all attempts to defeat tbe ,'nl.,r..,'ib.iit ol ibis proclama- tion. decreLiog tbe freedom of all slaves in rebel Stales as unpatriotic, as criminal, aye. and aa Ires- .....-..,- -j,, a- were ibe efforts to defeat the final :d,.i,me-.t of tbo Declaration of the 4th July, Thu men who sought lo defeat the con of that " proclamation of the universal nation of man from tho thraldoi ,„ m„, !„«,' id" yiolu'.ing (In- least tittle of the t„( eternal r- .ii''i'l". ba- theiein made a rui. iatake—that nothing oltie caa he so importar profitable as stern uprightness—such_ is tt key-note of bis lofty and beneGcent cs ,._;bsafed fail S-nale tin! iinal on ri In fanhfiilly, so uobly ^r, with that roomily strong body mo time been diatin- united in the Hufl'ulo 3 ftOI n order to propitiaif; Slates .ittle understood by tho peo- l extent this policy is carried. ,-, u, ufth qualilica..cr...-.,.ll»lc-.i.- required for the National olbeers. if tbo No.ttern, the Southern, the Western, Ibc EoMOro Stales ate only duly represented in the Cabinet or on (be Supreme Punch, is inat'-rs nui that th; best men ic tbo country arc wt aside and tbini-ralo persons pul into these re.-pom dde positions Fiery btalo and County baa its number of officers apporuootd W by id dishonored graves, under the bh id withering fires of outraged patrioti ,i patriotism burn us btigbsly now an and tho men, " who," in the worda of .. r, "emerge from ibeir gl.ion.1 na tho absdow tall i,r .'.n their country." tho men who pi Elace. Then as so little exactness and Ibe last thing is Ibe best man for the vacni country in the world whit Why is it that tbe land resounds with the i ured tread of a million ol armed men? Why that tbe Republic trembles with ib„ echoes ot battle. Why ia it that our bright waters at.' -ts„„.d and onr orec'n fields redd,-.„-d v, ,th in.i'.roal blood r Why is S .bat -be young men of America, in the pride and bloom of early manhood, are aummoned from homes, r-om tbe mother* who borD nd eituers who love them, to the GelUB of bl.'o.ly rife—there lo do soldiers' duiies, b.nr soldiers jrdens, and fill soldiers' graves? Why is it that jnusands of tbo men nnd the women nt I'bnstian ,merica nro sorrowing with aching Hearts --- jarful eyes, for the nbsent, tbe loved "-' tho heart of loyal A d with aoxiely and ntrv T Tbe— eriues against ibe peace oi the ouuntiy "ifa of tbe nnUon are all, all *- 1 office: inli,c-e alio mg > thii arty goes out nnd another goee in. I with every Slate wen fro.. ,,, 1:,; repr. Henied in Congress or Senate by an; oersons all over the l-nioii whom it chose to send. Tod Ibat all olbee, »,, filled a, all times without the least reference to Stato or County, and with o reference to competency. . i. Tbe irrcspunsibb-ne.-s of tbe Cabinet to nation hi "ins an irresponsible ness of bureaus head:, of departments and ol" officials to heads of Touub—which is n uinrked feature of n moat terrible weakness—rum,ing ibr-jiigh ibc civil und by ending to the military lost? a thruhb i f„r the thu batoful d, of his fellov ofic i slavery perpetual and a Lunation nod rcfiUn rjcjt Iirnpc-rly.nl health ifii—these appalling B i ua are all the inflictions of slavery 11 ,ntie eDbrt to foood a slaveboldiog e tbat plunged tbe darkness ol civil hands are drippit s tho eonspi •onspiracy against the unity anu jpublic. Slavery is the traitor ion into the Gre nnd blood and constitution;*! ri-jLU -vt-jJi r, -bould r"iaeiiibei' ibe lutenfib- " skulking neutrals, mid ibe sticklers for " rightful authority in 1. ere joining in giving aid ao.l ..onifi.rt to Ibe tint ,d,i.-"l- iv ho now iniidli threaten, ,- upon any a' Wing mad- lu eyeeutc Ibc prccbiuiiiiinn ol Abrali, I ii„-,dn to 'hoist Ibe Ida, Hag,' and proclaim nr. nl I'Mi-rniitintioii, to secure lis withdrawal or nrr^. its i-.y-vulion " I'liiru.ii-ui instinctively endorses this proclamation of emuncipatioii treason in ever) fibre of its being strie,:* with bloody bands tuibroti), il. In tbe fiery and bloody struggles through which thia proelamauon nn.si pass, struggles that will at.t this nation lo lis pi-..|.;,ui„lcst depths, pnlnotism will mark mid brand as trailers, .m, tbey not cowards, morn for the safely of thu slaves than for tho blood of brave men fighting the battles of tbe endangered country— more lor tbe perpetuity nf slavery in rebellion than for the unity and perpetuiti nf ibe Republic. try is lion ll'.c-i •- n tbe- stonni naiesol Darkness lowers and tempeals threalco. are rising, and learning and breaking around ua and over us with engulfing fury " amidst the gloom the star nt dut; '<•-'- i'= " -" radiance over tin- dark and in u bled writ. --. making luminous our pathway. The duty or the hour is as i,llliu lu the clear virinii r.t Inielbg.'nt p.", ', '- though it wer.' written in letters ol ligbt on IM bending are he* of the skies. Tbat duty IS, with every L'um-eption of the brain, every throb of the heart, every aspiration ol the aoul, by thought, by- word nnd by deed, " to observe, obey and cnb.ree bo wise, far-seeing, patrioiie, liumane and Chr™,,n" lolicy ombotlied in tbe proeb tbeWilmot Proviso. Mr. Sui eally few but intellectually anil of lioslonians who had for at guished us " Couacieueo " in " Cotton " Whigs, revolted nnd movement i-,l,i.l, culminated it, ._. support of Van llureii audi'. F. Adams. The cban, ofbase of Sir. Webslor on tho 1th of March, 1851 tin' passage of the new compromise measures of that year, including the Fugitive Shv- law , ibe practical adkerence iber-lo of ibc Whig as well OS of the [lemocratic ori'ani/ation, added strength to tbe ban .1 and ridiculed " third party," which at length became able to dictate tenin. to Ibnt large minority of tbe pfopleof Massacburetls which lunged in grasp pow.-r til ,\- Stale, but could only do so by thl Fr... Soil yule. The Constitution of that, New England Stales, r-, purine nr, al.-ofsile mnjunty to elect, no l,ov,;r„o. was chosen at the eleC " l-',U; but ibc coaliiinn aforesaid gave the dc . and most of the Male olbeers to Ibe Heme rats, nnd tli" United States Senator tu the Free Soilers. St nf lb" Democrats lung refining to support Mr. .- net, his election was barely elTccted. and Only ft several fruitless cflorls. llr. Sumner bad h.lWrlo been known ratber as n scholar und orator tbaii as a statesman. His dnt. e political views were not shared by one-fourtfi . „_ fcllow-cilixen, in the State, nor by one-tyven- tieth of the people of the Union. Ot the legislator* votes sent him to the Senate, n mnjunij uwe.1 ,,h i„ (l,n-.- wbu r-gard,d anti-slavery every form with abhorrence, These be made i attempt to conciliate or cajole. No one was .;ith deceived or bribed into his support, lie dei.recat. no prejudice and plfc-aied no hostility, rbuse wl elected bun knew exactly what to expect, and ba " lappoinled. . lertook bia seat in a Senate which bad never boinre been so inlensely all but iiniiniiiioush- l,ru-«lnvery and .iL-mi, L.: was u,-l,u, livi-l) r.-i-nr.l 'M- ; -'"', ''-' "'!'.''.. i-.': ii ,,,|^,-.,. io rding any tu-e. gusriintees to ' "~ slalery He had no other political object tbi loihcek.scondli lu,-ripple, and ultimately I. ilirov., the Slave '1'otver. Profoundly convinced I'bat slavery and liberty are incompatible—tbat thl slavsment of any mvieh s and inipius ibe rigb. , -. all-be grappled' d.icctlv ami boldli with the liatclnl m-titut.'.n," instead ot being onttnt with resisting .. , a-e rc-"ion.-. Slavery, in Ins view, yvna not to be rcprebiu.d and resisted nu-r;;l> becae u „ of the demon . illy so uolily resisted and that from Gi to i'anama, from the St. John to the Pacitic, the n bia daily course looks llr" are '.—Horace Greeley, n Tie Inilfjiendenl. m'oinv-o^'l. |l'i''-''rout't''--c,f '.las's and local legislnt and take a step forward ir anil univer ' ' l,.,b tl:,l I, onlrv.d tut 1ruitl.ll in THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION. Is ao many arid forms which Stales incrnat them- lives with, once in a century, if so olien, a poeiu t and record occur. These are (be jets ot ihM.glu Koallaire, w|,"ii, roused by danger or inspired by the polilical b-ad-rs ,,t' the dny l-reak iln: el-e . .i.i_ _^..,:_~„r ^t nnB r.T,,i IopmI legislalioti, ,f catholic Every step ia the hlslory of i a sally ol" Hie human mind into ttic „| Las Ibe inleresi of g,niu9. and in anecdotes. Liberty is a alow fruit. _ like religion, for .licit p-riods, and in rare conditions as if nwnitiu" a eulture ol the race "bicli -ball make it organic and p-rmiinent. -neb moments „| expansion in modern bi-lnrv ivc-re the eonlessie.. nf Augsburg, tbo plantation ,.( America, the I'.ngli-, i'o,„ n..uw,'altbnl li.fi. Hi" io;ctarni,on of America! ,-„!,.,.-„lcr.,.e In l"6. the Pre.-"', ..n,ar...pai, slaves in tbe West Indies, the p -i;o cf Ibe It. Pill, the repeal of tbe Corn l.iw". it" Jlagceiic iiecati-Telegrnpb, though yet im|. -!. '. '." '"- ' ibe Homestead lull in the la-; t i»,-ui. ar.J now iiu'iitly. l're=ident Lincoln's prcclamat.on cu t^e twentv-seeond ol September, TM.se are acts of grea scope; working on a long future ami ,., permanent inlereats, and honoring alike tbo-' "bo initiate so those who receive them. These measures provoke iny ioy, but are received into a sympathy so .'. _ J __ __:.... h.t mnrlil,,! '. r" e |V I" T rilld WHOLE NO, 1,168. msofihe mechanics, ttieenduraoee of farmers, the tsiionatc conscieneo ol women, tho sympathy of atant nations, all rally to ita support. Of course, we are a-suming tbo firainess of the ,li, v thus declared. It musi nut be a paper procla- alioo. We confide that Mr. Lincoln is in earnest, id, ns he has been slow in making up his mind, bos resisted tho importuaacy or parlies aad of ovents to tbo latest tuomeat, he. will ho as absolute ill his adhesion. Not only will bu repeat aad follow up bis stroke, but tbe nation will add its irresistible trength. If ibe ruler has duties, so has tbe citizen, i times like those, when tbo nation is imperilled, batman can, without sbtime. receive good news -obi day todav, without giving good news of him- self ? What right baa any one lo read in tho jour- nals tidings of victories, il he has not bought ifiem by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice, or by good in his own department 1 nl. this ,vcd from our national honor, this heavy nlf tbe national heart, we shall not fear ard tt> show our fne.s among mankind. Wu (.ball cease to be hypocrites and pretenders hut hat we have atyled our free in.Milutio.is will bo 'in' tho light of this event, the public distress bo- lus to bo removed. W bat if 'be brokers' quota- onsshowonr Blocks d,;.,.rediied, and tbo g"ld dul- ir cost- on" huudfd nudtw. iiivoovonconts t These ..1,1— ."• [.Uautoui. r,.u» »cr» lu gained uul,. intial value on tho twenty- isepnaiibor. The eaus" nr disunion and been reached, and begun lo be removed. r.very man's house-lot and garden are relieved ol thu mala- ria wbicb Ibu pureat winds and the strongest sun- shine could not penetrate ami purge. I lis territory of the Union shines lo-dny with a lustra which every Furo]tean emigrant can discern from Tar: a sign of inmost security nnd permanence Is it feared that taxes will check immigration i fW dcpaodB on what tbe tasea are spent lor. It iL-y gOM lill op Ibiayawaing Dismal Swamp .yl h^ngulple -I ar- -ali-,.d hitherto sill tb" vn.M capabilities of this enn- nent. then this taction, which makes the land bolesomo nnd habitable, nnd will draw all men ..nto it, ia the best investment in which property- bolder ever lodged bis earnings. Whilst we have pointed "Ut 111" .-,pp,rl'in,'l,.;s, nl e proclamation, it remains to bo said that the President had no choice. Ho might loot wisllully for what variety of courses lay open to bim every Una but onn waa closed up with fire. This one, too, bristled wilh danger, hat tLroogb it was tho sole safety. The measure In has adopted was impera- tive. It is wonderful to seo iho unseasonable ,,-nil- ity of what is called iho Peace parti ibrougli nil its mtn-Ls, blinding Ib-ir .yes to t nam fealuro of the uar-nauolv its luevilauleness. 1'liu war existed Ion" before ibe cannonade of Suinicr, and could net he postponed. It might have begun otherwise or "Isenhcrc.butwnrwaa in the minds and bones ol the cou.balaot.3 it was written on the iron leaf, and you might as easily dodge gravtlatioa. consonled to n peaceahlr ~" y-second of ^ n of tbe rebels, tbe „,. .,„.der States made pcacea- 01 ble secession •• saiblo lb. iaeatiablo temper of the m Sou'h mado it impossible, and the slave* n the hot- i" I r wtnrei.r 'b. t.or.k: might be, were ™n imes j, .iol i c-l in i. ..I bo >iv" 'be Confederacy Thulium and Kicbmoud.and tbey |i ~ tLouis and ll.illitnoie ..ui these' and ttey'would havo insisted ot. Wosbingtou. ti.yo then, WashiogWo, and the) Lnvo tissnme.l tbe army ^and " these, pliiladelpb' through app.i-,.. that mnakind ai _ At such times it appears created lo greet the new event, ntor, having ended tbo eompli- :ies wilh which he conciliated run over the superficial fitness 'ho measure ho urges, suddenly, happy"''!" ._ .'Qlved—the loudly thus far ar audience ia found audience hitherto last ho encroach „pou soil nubllully consecrated to _free labor; it encroached because it was essential!; vicious uniust, rapacious and l.alcliil. Others might he -atiflied witb tin; re.- trie ion or diminution of the area which tins deadly I" pas might be authorized lo blight ; he chose to lay tbe a.vo to the root ol the tree and so be rid "I" us pestilential ellluvia forever. I'uurteous and deiercnlial in bis mantiOrs, be ain- ccrel, ile.ifcd to maintain the kind-'- personal rela- tions widi those who .vera to be for years hi* daily associate- and coworkers for tbe public good but (ln yv,a liaoLthlilv refused. Tbe Whigs naturally r,.s..,rd,.l bun 'is no who bud as-isted and priifitcd .... ..,i.,.r „f il.,.,r i,art viti M as saebaset Is. and eat of Webster, Evi ats felt bound to a urprised and overawed : the heart of the as-sembl. ;iu ni.ssivc and naconeemed, at rcl.i-d and kindled tbat they come loryvard, a represeatativeof mankind, standing for reme moderation with which the President 10 his design,—bis long-ave.wed e.tpi'ctant policy, as if ho chose to be strictly the cvccutivc ol |,o best public sentiment of the country, wai mly till it should id that i York, and Hnston. l "till- batile-licid would have been nt in that event as it is now. Tbo war le, hut could not be avoided. I he war i immense mischief, but brought with e benefit of drawing n line, nnd rally States to fix il impassably—pr,-vein.ug "tbe whole force of So e.n connection and inlluence throughout tbe Nnrll. ir.uii disiraeiing uvcry city -lib ™.li». confusion, deieelune- lhat force and redocmg it toL.-iudfnUand in the progreu of 1.08- ,! -infecting u" -r tbrc.gl, the f'-tu, _ irnleadi u . dictated (lu- conduct of tbe Federal gov by our foreign crit Opponents ol tbe n tbi of o ihilat Cnl the ci abse: e of i eipl" "indeed, of tbe in the government, froi alarming aspect Jed exaaiiuallon inlo complair ],-,-t.l._- aduiuii-iration of peaalli ..I,..,.,,, and ir.erti.c-ssin llu- ctal- b gene nebow to get 3 manage- u u, ^ueh u dreadful deficiency. If anybody imagines ibis government is perishing of red tape, tbey may abamlmi their fears. Iho painled stripes on a barber's polo have as much sig- nificance as most of tbe red tape against which I have run. If all the rules and regulationa of the government in all ils departments were rigidly en- forced ; if every tape was blood-red nnd lightened lo acity, I a rule enforced ic-day and pressed by (his oflicer and i Other (having thu same du dreadful contusion and obor the departments. Slavery, bold, proud, doiiiiaooritig, will, bate in its heart scorn in ils eye, defiance in its mem, has pre- nouneed against tie: existence of republican institu- tions in America, m-ainsl lie- supremacy uf tbo gov- ernment, tbe unitv and life ol the nation. Slavery, baling IbeeliensLcd instiiuiions that lend lo secure tho rights and enlarge the privilege* ol mnnkinil, despising the toiling maS--e.s, ils iu.i.ImII-S and white slaves, delung tbe government, its Const,!.it.cn. and :,a laws, has openly pronou itselt the mortal ,ad una,,pea sable enemy ol lb- He public. Slavery .lands to-dav the only el.-arl. pronounced foe muntry btis'on lb" globe. Therefore, every - .ipnke'ii, everv line written, every keen- tbe breath of life, for a mc_. a-ainsl tbe exi-t,r,.,. and perpetuity ot democratic nsiitutiuns—against the dignity of the toiling mil- ions "t America—a-aiust iln- liberty, tho peaco, tbe honor, tbe renown and tbo life of tbe nation. In tbe lights of to-day tbnt Hash upou ua irom camp and battle-field, the loyal ")c. Iiearl and brntn of ieasees and t,.!s and i.'ali;, s lhat run death ur.iv i-i mi: tu'c of mi; .evtios! The loyal I plat ctbe; -ay.Ic y despised by lhat -which makes the ound in so many of H, fails to tbaw,diH- l,csccntbyremem. ic-rs. Itnt think of t performed that of tbe 22d id eoforco" tl „.„...,diug"lhe Chief Magistrate, w ima it with such men, nnd such men only, a and declared opinioos, bail and welcome ,wdiug tbe ranks of thi tbe point shall " near It,,- n, II. "1 rtlng Pence and Frecdoi l.llot ir party g. Socially i tho just sequel of his prior aels,-the firm vhich he announces it, without inllation or m._all these have be*pokea such favor to tiiat, great as the popularity of the- President has been, we arc beginning to flunk that we have nndcresiitualed tbe c.pacit, and virtue which Ibc Divine Providence- has made an inslrumentof beua_Ul so vHBt. He has been permitted Amen, a llu.a an; oilier American entitle,I to ibe mo=l indulgent eon; all tbat wo thought shortcoming ,',-erv delnv. lu Ibe c-.ylre 'in'" part, call these endurnnee, wind illuminated, oa they now a :s. Tbe popular siat-iii-'d ol tbe ar nt.toa.l m the impossibibt, ol .. .ou could add," say they. " lo your ireogllt Ibe whole unuv nl l-:„gland. of l-'raiieo, and ,1 Austria, you could no. roe .ugh. million ol people to come under ibis government against inn will" This is an odd thing for tin laipl, ,broan, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say. who i-mcniiers the Europe of tbe last seventy u-;i,,-tt." ci-l .mi of Italy until IS'.'i-ol Poland, since liBJ-o Francdor French Algiers-of Pri.isb l.e and, ami Dritinb India. Hut. granting ihc t.ulb, rightly read „ftb"bisi.,r,cal aphonsm, flint "the people always eoaqucr," it is lu b- noted tbat ia the boathe ..._?. A. r innd, and Ibe local laws, with ,„ „„..ib1 system aot a democrat!.; but autocratic eouipb.-Mon and those Stales -down every year a mure hostile, and aggrt— ,em^r,-.^n,.. instinct of self-preservation forced Suites, the I slavery, give thu s, 'hostile and aggressive ,cs instinct of eelf-preservali ir. And the aim of the year on our dby the aim oi lb" President s pro- of Gimuii \or io be tolerate "•vsxi-t ';;-';;,;.,,.-] .. -.» »r« ore-ut parties tbc-n just entering upon tbe carle " ,,Joldccnv, vvu-ibei-eruc.ino,-w, c.u.,.: or ,.,, ;,. d..,,d,-.j „mvi,-iioiis. Though Ins tibdiiy. b luii-oments. bis pei-sonal worth, were undispule was ntcorded a pit r two of the ,siruiiiu.aiii i-ommittcaa, being reg;arded much as he would have been in eome great Richmond or New TI1E HRST SEVTS OF THE FB(lCU.yjrAT10.S. At midnight, on the battle-field, I beard tbo sound ol coming footsteps, nnd u voice- earneat, but almost inaudible,'- "' i the distance. Nov fpat rimes and JWoun eeing tho slaves ,-rv— ,got the Pre idunt'a jgel voices when they sang ,„ the" shepherds of .luden, tbnt voice rnng again and a-ain through Ihc silent and slumbering camp- It was once more tbe annuneintion of " Peace ou eartli -good-will to aien " Seizing the welcome mec-son- ter and eagerly perusing ibc pre, bunation, 1 ened, thank t.ud.itmre its light ale-ad ; there is hope for the country: all hail tbe yn-wi.-e of freedom—d 11..H11 the n trodden down. ,1 Ofjliati ig hosts of liber proclamalion, a the qut- courl-martial suspected pen officers, than to go oa wiiuum. .1 condition of ul I subordination, all order, must have dUciplint :up three months an and properly charged r, the President, b> .„. Tbirty-sevt-nth Congr. ^n tho fourth of -My, and at neon un tl dm longer^ assc-mbled lo enler upon the migl ask imposed upunil by Ibc ualmnalperds. \ BCJ hairs in both chambers v, villi impressed upon the uind tbo gigantic proportions of tbe rebellion, ami l,e fearful "magnitude ot the impending elruggle, ind inspired tbe soul with something of awe 111 tbe iretenco of events so transcendent. Few of the biefa of slavery were present lu dominate, seduce 3i corrupt. Tbe eleni-ln-adcd, practical, dominating llavis—tbe erratic, reckle-s, fdu-i.-rmg Toombs—the a, complirhcd, timid, .-tiuiinus Hunter—tho eloqur" puli-bed insincere lkiijmi.il. tbe pretentious, p. nous Mason—the bold, mlmit. unscrupulous Slidell —the dark, cold, bitter Clay—the genial, courteous, fanatical Brown, ami ilieir conquers in conapiracy, sedition and treason, plotted their foul, dark and infernal work no b-ng.r in tbe apilol of the nation. Hut Breckinridge, the chosou el,id of incipient iren- on, not lesa guilty than his absent compeers in crime, vas present 10 cavil and criticize, to denounce the lets of loyal patriotism en- lie slunk away to atrike tt tbe heart of the country ibnt bad trusted and bon- ored bim. Thu chair of Douglas vvns vacant ; life- long opponents guied sadly upon it, for Ibey grate- s fully remembered tbat tbe closing hours of his 'ed life weru given to patriotism, lo adjuring voted followers re .ling lo tbe lnton,andcru of freedom God—and all the ricople shall cry, " Amen." Tbo good nnd the just ia all leads are, from thia hour, pledged to tbe struggle now waging against anatocra. 1 and slavery oa Ibis comment, and " l.iberiy and Pni.m. now aad forever, 10 and inseparable," have found a new and true ipoundcr. Every soldier's arm n|,all be nerved with _)W energy—every heart endowed with fresh courage, for the prayers of good men and of angela shall strengthen bim and shield bis bead in the day ol battle. Unwilling to enjoy lb- good news alone, I roused one and another, and read to ibc-m tbe proclamation. On a cot near by lay the wasted form of an officer, who sprang up and clapped bis bands for joy as be beard the welcome news. I did mil nl lirst ncugtin- 333 for. to 20 or Nebraska, bill, the Kansas Lceomptoa fraud, continually swelled t slave-traders uui Drl.ans. bad be i.i^tcd on sitting there from da. o day and making tbe freest and least altering r.l.- iVuia on tbe na.ur, ami ...nden.-o.-a of the .business there transacted. Who then foresaw or imagined lhat he would one day be Cbu.rnuin of the Umi on I'ureb-n .MTairs.a leader ol tbe majority. Posted counsellnr of the President « ell aught be (Hy,in his recent noble oration in Faneu.l Hal i" r,.-|,oii-" lu th" Presid, id's proclamation ol freedom "iUkt.ud lhat 1 have lived to see this day! Tl,c brutal nssault w herewith slavery through I,- ruininli- Pio-'ks, K.-ilt and hdmomlsuli, replied t, hl,e.vp"snreof" Ibe crimes and outrages » h bio marked her career and illustrated l,er_ character 11 tanaaa, was one of tbe inspirations ot ibc sp, ntc rremonl canvass oi 111'"-', winch syticbroinic-d will tbo close of his first term, and re due., d lu a <<-™i"^> the oppositioa to his id deepened _.. pervading the iree Slates, unl.l the eh- (ion 0! Lincoln, the ; ' uf ih,- ,-,.,. mi. Stales, tu,d ultimately that of the border slave- Stales also, completely transformed the Senate, so that, (or the last two sessions, an-' " portion of that preceding lle-m. Mr. .-u„ie,r baa [„ ., majority in a bod. cheli he c-nlnred with sea Iv ball "a tb-'icn .-oinpatriuts, and lias been aid' sceure lb" adopiion ol imponant uie.asures where . iormerly struggled inellectually to deteat those ol his haugbiy and i.onte-u.piuous antagonists. ,,,.,,,. !,', -',<, that be relurns the bale- or ; cm v. with ha wtis visiled in his days ol adversity lhat his intento condemnation of tho crime againat humanity now culminating in r ly ,hu 1. President aidicipated |„. r, -i..,,.li"ioi,"..l a lar-'e number of officers in the no ami t', -, ee--ion'oi" ibree Slates, on iho pro- n,,l.ation ol it,- polity)— when we seo how tbe rreat -take who b b'-reigu naliotia bold in our allairs ,'„. i,.,r.ur l'["Ugbt every Kurupean power li t I 11 to tin- uurl and it' became every day ,,,.,.,,-,-ntwb'it "".ant,.- and what remote uilere-ts EtaM ") lbkdBi"" cf XU W f .,„. ,-ai, hardly say 'ibe deli'., .anon was too Ion Against all timorous enunsels be bad the courage-. seize Ibe moment: ami such was h,a posilion. and ,ueh Ibe felicity a,n-„di,,g the nciio.i. that be Ua. reidaeed gure'n nt in tbe good graces of mankind. ™X .. .?_;_.... :^ .1.. .^e.^.nign than plenty 111 th. fis wonderful whai ed, and bow its ill oji ,,.],. t 11 of Southern si ic-ly, t ,„, only - Is rccoaslrM- Mt and bealibful basis. Then now ufGnt- t, (he old repulsions will cease, and, the tbo r n," say the Chi power is, and bow ill .. - mak.-s lit" mean. 111, -1 .be- s'.insbiie \iucric:i bad lost mucb of ils nltra ocraiiisi nature in the people, aud Iho ii which (raud and violence eneou governors work at a geom. ummer day atoms to repair ill or war. r , , A day which most of us dared eat worth tbe dicadlul ,'„.,„!„., ed Is. lie- g-"-'ll t b-i[,e lo Sc orth ii Oc- and plotting bra ill Btrike, and all men ol Alricni faculty enough to find their ed of the pro should bo suddenly a r.-t„ llioi r'le'l '-du, rfea gigantic and fiendiah harsh toward those n and a vicious social nl, ,-f treason. Ob the uttu-rnnce bespeak hi~ At tbe outset of this war all prudent and w menwhokiiow tbc-tcmbh- dangers uf anarchy wt concerned thai the sirile should he carried on for the defence oi ibe i.onstitutiun and the Lino. enforcement ol the laws and certainly tbat was the oiilv rn.li.-v nn wbicb a President, a Uabiaet, a Cob- .,y,lrn '. "I the to to uphold aad ddentl the f T ',". ]:, airy nn tbe war. Moreover " .,,'.',,,, ii, .v. ,-i.im nt was. made becau-e rV-'ti'u",' li bad l*'l 1" nn "b.c-liuu unfavur.-lblc te , r ->-.. al'ivem 11 was deemed lhat there ci had fallen exhae .. -ed it wasCol. Clark of th" L]l-t .Massachusetts J Itegiiiient. Alter incredible mar. lies, bard-luugb. battles, aad miraculous escapes from death on the fiuld, his regiment reduced in ibe fragment of what it ' unself prostrated b. im.e.asani lighting, bi- lled nt ibe enmp of Gen. llurnside, waiting the return of his wasted rengtii. I had not m.l him since ibe battle of New- ern, where be bore a most gallant pan, and where many ol his hraveat officers and men fell by hia side. He has since participated in all ibu great bailies of ihe PeaiBsula, and more recently in those of Virginia, and now he had scarcely a full company left- ^et be rose up wilh all bis nout'd energy, nud, mapping his hands, thanked tied for the proclamatinu. •' would do more good than a dozen battles; wool briuir to our side, not only tbe active aid of tho mi ,ndage, but secure tu ns IL.- ,-v mpatln- ; and _.:__ ;- r...A_r n.-tqaj to bo close befoi descent who bavu of American law. necessary lhat this measure rkedbyany signal results on . .„„ rebel masters. The lore,; ol ,ue act is that u commits the country .0 tins |a-iiec— tbat it compels lie- innumerable- olbeers. civil, .milia- ry, naval, of the Republic to range; tb-m,elv..s on be Hone it cannot be undone by a new A.I ministration, lor slavery n.erpowers tbe- disgust of the moral sen- :imeBt only through ,u,meiu.,r,al usage. .-a :* all,,!" it,-, crime and false pesiti on. The _ .__ ailent joy v generous hearts, and ihene to tho world. It was well to delay the sin iti! this edict could be put ot. uu..». ....... surauce lo Ibe ship as 11 go, s plunging through I." a with glad tidings In all people Happy are fit )un" who find the pestilence eb.-ansed out 0! tne earth" b-.avine open m them an bni.-.-t career, llappy tic old yvbo"ee nature purified before- they depart. D soV ^il,,!, 'l.e b'.bl tbe-tti back lo.hu, world until von have charged their ear aud heart with Ibis message .a < r spiritual slices, an- nouutiag ibe meiiornlimi of our planet. '\'.','i g','j'.'"i'u''"i'due. .-Ii-.e-. .,1 c'l.llc-.i nee." Meantime that ill-fated, luiieh-injurcl race which the 31 tion respect, wdl lu,- -„u,ewbat of the deieo^ttSuredSr ages ia their bronzed eouo- ,:,;ine:. ot.ered m the wailing "I ibetr plaintive music—'a race tialiirully benevulent. joyous, docile, industrious, and whose very im.enes sprang from their great talent fur usefulness., wbicb, in a more manage, will not ..nl., dety-l tl.e.r ^^J)- iUeive them a rank ammig 11.1 ,ms.-Jv.ii,;/t , Emerson, in Th* AW* ii^hly M -«°- i ; AND EASY VIRTUE. speech at the Cooper forcing bis proposilioa ot Davis and bin coale. and ihe- l.iw. l>coc first condition of solves right. Wo have reco' false position, and planted moral Jiupport of every nation ,'. 0,- ancti'iis, loyiug aspiration tbnt "i'-;"," " ,', ,,.'. 10, >.>uth sbuuld make haste out '."lor l'."nii,-< ber once more docile to the i„i„.ir.ol r-a-cm of Conscience, and of patricl.sm- Mr. Sumner's second tern, expiring with the pre- ,1 ,,11-T, ... ,t w'i- ,1,-11' -'' 'h 1 those .'!,-" ,.'.,-',«... ... .,.,-ure-d in pulling "rebukedW hi- co - a ,d n.or -I by .be ,-onside- f.rst condition of success '.;,;,'„ 1',. 7,,. i,|,- -.vol, should makoadeape- Buroiie. Besides, attempla to elect an anti^umner Ug.Blatnro, on the ot ue 01 , „([,-' rhii-.s 'ilo-'mioc .ill "--;' '"'""- i,,,.i[. oi-J .iture f.ilcet llll ;" J: ^1 ' I ,",',', p'i'c" yuar'tronti'yVcltUnm arnt«y be the way inwhich llr. Van Puren but it is cErlatnly not tbo course which 'nnd moral men w"ould recommend; it is ni'iha course which society has pre-senbed. it Ims, X be contrary, stamped such loose conduct with lrMrem.-e.at diaspprolmnon n re-eommcmli tidclil. ,o y^v. which, noVonly for the interest of the persons themselves, and of their offspring, but more espe- ,»y for tbe intere.U of society at large, _a«. mn tvocable, " »» bo would a irluyua ami Cbrisli; ,mend a did -nm c-nn .^mcc'.h.Aia,^ out Mr. I',," fc'i" the dUogrtemenl ojftrrtn hvtbawl <>i<i « S.iciety, made up If.

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Page 1: National Anti-Slavery Standard, Year 1860, Aug 25

jMoiml ^utiVOL. XXIII. NO. 24. "NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1862.

PDDL1SOED WEEKLY. ON SATURDAT,

UUERICAN AKTI-SUYERV 80C1ETI,

PENNSYLVANIA ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,

105 North-Tenth Sired, rhlladtlphla.

Loticrt fur ruiiillciilnn, 01 le-lntnic in any v?S '<• "'

e.ll|..rl.ilr lint"! !li.-|..'li' r..-.li..nl-l le-„.|.lr. -it.l. l.l'ITi

nr rue. .\..Tin>. .|. ls7..Sl>™(ST.swiic.M" l""i-

ilbfnf Of l' ,:l,.-,„l,l 1

^elections.

DR. HELLO TVS ON THE WAR.

j from [be address

r has developed i

If I were called on lo »ay wnat

spots in our polilic.nl orgamisti"'

which the fiery ' ''

betrayed, I sboui'i ™«b—1 A want of fn national rcnrcr.cnu

bureaus, array, and ia all public plan's

ill, Srillirmt ciccutiocB—but as n ml;

d, heart- and will, are ool.npobl.

II iif lt)ii' , u. : i-.

gnrS.l abir.

—of course

TLb best b

ndmir l^t.-iiH" And tbi

I, (bo Slitve To

,g political life parly

eked tbi! beam, against even the special .i.linnfn:.- -

D tho S

ctbannl,— K.iL.-r

ml I i"f">

.king a

rim. I u

,„..,,„, through one great interest—tbo ton

repr,-on>aii illowcd tlM'ir slnvcs-und tin

,- to pur, has" at nil limes, 1)> political bribes,

.Jcieul support (it the North lo overbalance the

political power ..f iho free Slates- Had there been

rar , a lavcry was already doomed to ilio, under

very acli.ui'of that ' V.n-.U un-.n winch lor seventy

ira had given it Id". I'or ill'-- GinsliUilion, in Hscll

vsidered and regarded ns b Federal document,

rlii' r pm-slavery "or nnli-slavory.

As Ibc federal power In to pass into the hands of

the majority, the Conslitniinn becomes favorable o

unfavorable to slavery, n.'tor.linf; lo Hi" character

tbnt majority. When the nation by its constitutional

representatives in anil-slavery, then Ihc Constitution

becomes *o,nnd not before. It did become to nt

hi,, ,1,,.. ion. To sustain that elc-iion. to uphold

1'reeioYnl bc-unic il>" fir.-t I most direct polic)

the free ami loyal States. That policy anticipated

no action on the subject of slavery. It was to '

care of itself., ,,.,,,

I confess thru, fur on,-, 1 nie.inu-ly dc-ired tin

to take that course. I dreaded mi net nt an.

lion. It seemed in mi; to be identical Willi a St

ratsce, was present, to cheer and to animate by bold

"-.,.|.l'.„! ,,. il,.' Imt.1--.tv of nntiotiH have statesmen

een railed lu «I.-- p-rlc nuance of lumber dune- than

tore tho men who were- aummnoncd. by the Admin-

.slration they bad placed m power, i' legi-bii, fur tv

land rent and ton, by discord and aturned by Ira-

tema 1 blood. Tl,"v entered with bravo hearts nnd

resulted spirit., upon the (-relit work imposed upon

them wilhii[iM,i-| ,cd dcvuioii and tireless mdus-

try The Adminiidi-Miuii asted lor inur hilldrcd

(hou^and men mid lu'.ir buinlr.d million of dcilnra,

,md Conyre^ | ,r,.n, |.i 1^ i'.'iv" il lire hundred t ,..i--and

men ai.d liv* linnl.-l i»illi'>i. el dollars. The urmy

und navy were inciea^d. „i,d laws enacted for lb.

orr;ani7ation and povernmcril el tin.' milltarj ami

naval force.-, and f,T ^ippli inr the pcovcrnment sill,

the needed jntain to carry on the war, nbo-o [Ujuiii-

li, nrnnuriiiun. stai tl.d and imiitved the world.

^tateMiien oi Iln: majority in bulb huunn id I on-

er i-m clearly sure tlmi alnv.ry was nut. only the cause

and tbo motive powor ol tbo rebellion, but that

ibc eeaeeb« toil of iln f..nr imlliun of enforced fs-

(iuib unnhlvd ti-;,ison t-i lill ibe ranssH, feed and psv

ita armies. They would .piiekl. hirike at tho mallonCBCiilinR tbo properlyor

a theil was in iteclf a great act of ji

feding espresstd on the biibjecl oy oce oi inu unumiand most eli'v.'ited ebanipiolis ol tbo war.

To tbi; majority of ollieers and men, ibe prodama-

licn was welcomed aa :t nolurnl event—one that was

cedain to follow Ibe eonlinuanco of the war, and was

th-reforo not a surprise to any one. It will bo

ncrpiicsced i» H»(n by those who feel little roloresl in

Ibis abatrnut questions of slavery or~" !

"It servca 'cm right; liny have been

enough, and thBrrcsident has usbibitcd

and patience in withstanding pu lonj; iliu pressure nf

diiler.'nt parlies upon bim. It is a right act, per-

formed at tho:igbt lime, and will be sustained by

tho whole army "—wcro the remarks of moat of those

I cooverstd with on tho subject. Ksox.

sarncd lotif;

CIU11LES SUHHER AS STATESMAN.

in the poli

alition between

Jackson, V„ .

that which ns Free ,-uilern bad split oil* from th.

Whig iis'-cadeney upon 11"' n.iiiiiniitiou of Len. fay

rPrc led Geo oS. Bo well n

false prelenso that it was an o n piedged one.__

The

ibci'iiueiit calling ol a 1 feupb-'s (.'otivenLon, anil

.> nomination ut Ijoii. D.venJ fur liovcrnor, wn.« a

ibuto to Ibe chariieter and inlluen.o of their r-,:„a-

r of which bis frieoda have a right to feel

,.,-ou.d. For the first time in nur poli'ieiil history, a

pnrlv has boon organised and a State ticket iioun-

nnled for tho sob' purpose of d. f.aiin^ the reck'ctiori

of nn whois not a.-tate L.lii.r. nnd nt-var aspirid

. Gov. Andrew is ng;irdc-l with a I, -uli'y

lified by thu fewness of those who feel it:but

thcbittoruc-TH with whieh Mr. Sumner i-i hated insists

on the grjiliticnlinn of a canrnss, even though a

hopeh'sa one ; and. since there wai no .xislirif,' party

'rbick this could I- .',it,.mpted without mamfesi

i(y, one was organiv. d lor ibe purpose. And it

best that this should be. Let ua have a census

ot the friends and the enemies of Mr. Sumner in the

Stnte which ho has so honored

!

I have asid that, while other Senators have shared

hih convictions, none has ceiucd SJ enjphn'.icalK-. s,..

eiiiinenllv.ns lie toeinhod\ and repr.. sent ibe growini;,

ricepening, Anli-Plavcry eentiment of the country.

None bus s,.",ii'.d so invariably to reali;

|,ubli. wrong is a puWk dangor-tbat irij_

lb" humblest and n-.-nki-.-it i=, peril ') tin! wtll-Leiii™ nl

all. Others have seemed to regard ibc reeent ilevol

sith s

I iBuffers

icreed. There v

.arty under dure,

rn party under

iil'tvi uri-ini; -,-- mi ,'

ei,- r.citber of thorn in

ircatcucd with foruigo if

:itud t

cihiib to retain f, d;:al

crlaitj nbeut cither our

o support them, as our

..'..'i I

],', ,|„„„.,,|i,i,„i Ktruet work', behind

.' ."|, r.d.el'b" n-mvbt burl sb-.I nnd hI,"11 int.,

il. bared l.OTOm.H of our d.'vuled sons, hauling for

their country und, r the old (lag. Cut tins measure,

denounced by the trnitor Brecalnndf

of a aeries ot acta loosing all bom

low of tbo land.

As tho rebellion d"V"K,].ed ,f gig-'i

n-. 'he rebel con literacy manileited i

jwer, the loyal mnS'-es whost msiu

. Inctions of statesmen, did r~'

Blavory was the vital and itnualli

bullion, and that it should be cni

! all the constitutional nnd •

is noi so hiDornblu and open confession

there can be to secular occupation equal

dignity to that of n legislator and st»

ihould be tfcn noblest ambition of our

men to Gil fteso atations. They ought t;

as ihey do in England, and even in tbr

(he man who allows private interests,

nc*s or any other rmin' ibi.n inoompeten, >, s..

bim from oceepiinf public -dbe at Ibe call of hi

low-men, corrupl!. "ibe publi! censcieneo and^rorg.':-,

the most fnered duty of a good cit

strange thing il is, nt a time like tin

I|";i»lidi..i

Abolitionists were w.i

paliticnl imdcrboi ai

i it hah proved I

lendenoy to imjin

a.l»Ace* have )« Of.

:ir present poai

in a perleet quandar) of

dmouareorareiioteqcH!

utterl>

unknown, till they to

country at large, amdoubt whether these

'' A ti-e-jiid weakness la tie.' e^lranrdiuan abs"

of any machinery for tuing the re-ponsilulu

greai pnblieuiiitters. '! he cnstitulion of our Ul .,-.

Th a ->ur. r nf infinile weakness. 1 lie beads ol ile|

mem, hold ibeit r l«.:es »i ibe will of ibe Pre.-i-

No amount of public distrust, no vole of cen

moves them to lay down lieu; power. Tbo who."

sticks s

have bim. Tpulong

Tbo wholo c ,otry w

negro Carbonoriom. by which

o be banded ami directed— w;

lerils associated with it in our al

t is nut freedom, but the wan

noucrection ; and the educatedof tbo

ink tbat the p. I..

(hat alleged, tbat

hicb the credulous

a put to shamein, or that immiie blacks asserted

I have any of the

rcicd imaginations.

b.i-auic 111';

p force o( Ibis, i

ilcd by tbecierei

ar powers of t

long Sburrill of the metropolitan '.'aunty, had been

born and reared in listen without imbilung some ol

its most cbcriolii'd " nutimis." Educated a Whig of

tbo school of John Quinoy Adams, he bad resisted

ardcnllynnd on Iln.- I.igl" st gruuiid- tbat annexation

of Texas to which—or rather to the spirit wbicb' ipelled and secured that annexation—may be

aoed nil our subseipient national trulls and woes.

When tbo Whig party in ltd* selected Oen. Taylor

lor it" ('residential candidate, and refused to endorse

gove', n.gimi

p-l

Buchan

his I. '.bim

Ives ibe I 're

lis tbi

a Secretary, 1 ot

President cboos- f io

worked under Mr.

have thieves and traitors in

luntry could not help iteel!.

,« when do amount of pnb-

hcad of department out of

|, r ... ponsihility and care to

t and ublcat President, Our

o retire on the first espres-

i-cr.tho present annngoment

aciid an overwhelming negro

any theory bad prepared us to aaDapoB inon,

anaiii. proclaim emantipalion as mucb of you please,

youtflect it only ah you can give ll^sc v,lo uphold

davecy an argument nbi;h b:is lou eilges. Iintuc-

liate pruehimati.ui of einaneipati"" : "

of rebellion IhsIs in the South, ji

ipation att any other scbi

longer co.

wisbea, and if

heada ol departi

President was, 1

has nnv policy,

look with awnz.'inem

with Uie uiru,..-t i.'nne,

which u President nt

3. A [bird

i, of e

Ik represent!*

da :

insellors—for, if

rse be no

of oilu'-s high and low,

nod Counties. Uisverj

pie at large

,

jnalad'..— .

really know bow aolitary the

little the Cabinet represent or

ia a consulting body, we should

t at the autocratic position, ar*

nnd pity on tbe aolilude

I'niu-d Stales is placed.

, tb._- local distribution mndo

gradual eman-

Tba slaves will bold

till we have bold ol their masters,

This decree of emancipation, in rebel Stales, boni

of m.btar, .. -ccssitv, pruebiiuied L,y the rresident in

,be full weed* of war powers, is now the settled

in.l irrcl-calaolo law nf ibe nation, lu he -observed,

obeyed and enfureed " by army and navy and by tbe

voice of tbo nation. The enfurc.-meiu of this pro-

clamation will give peace nnd order, freedom arJ

uniiy to a low .liKtrneii d tuuntn ;the failure

ecforce it w.U bring wilt, it diyord and anar.liy,

diasovercd Onion and a broken nation. The issu

arc clearly and distinctly drawn by this proclama-

tion between law. and order, and freedom an -

.,[ . ,i-.„, on ibe one bund, and anarchy, and

eo-d and flavor)' and a shivered and dishonored

Union ou the other. Freedom, humanily and reli-

gion tho unerring vui..v ol p'Hri..,ii-in. pronounce^ all

attempts to defeat tbe ,'nl.,r..,'ib.iit ol ibis proclama-

tion. decreLiog tbe freedom of all slaves in rebel

Stales as unpatriotic, as criminal, aye. and aa Ires-

.....-..,-i -j,, a- were ibe efforts to defeat the final

:d,.i,me-.t of tbo Declaration of the 4th July,

, Thu men who sought lo defeat the con

of that " proclamation of the universal

nation of man from tho thraldoi

, ,„ m„, !„«,' id" yiolu'.ing (In- least tittle of the

t„( eternal r- .ii''i'l". ba- theiein made a rui.

iatake—that nothing oltie caa he so importar

profitable as stern uprightness—such_ is tt

key-note of bis lofty and beneGcent cs

„ ,._;bsafed fail

S-nale tin! iinal on ri In

fanhfiilly, so uobly

^r, with that

roomily strong body

mo time been diatin-

united in the Hufl'ulo

3 ftOI

n order to propitiaif; Slates

_,.ittle understood by tho peo-

l extent this policy is carried.

,-, u , ufth qualilica..cr...-.,.ll»lc-.i.-

required for the National olbeers. if tbo No.ttern,

the Southern, the Western, Ibc EoMOro Stales ate

only duly represented in the Cabinet or on (be

Supreme Punch, is inat'-rs nui that th; best men ic

tbo country arc wt aside and tbini-ralo persons pul

into these re.-pom dde positions Fiery btalo and

County baa its number of officers apporuootd

W by

id dishonored graves, under the bh

id withering fires of outraged patrioti

,i patriotism burn us btigbsly now an

and tho men, " who," in the worda of .. „

r, "emerge from ibeir gl.ion.1 na tho absdow

tall i,r .'.n their country." tho men who pi

Elace. Thenas so little I

exactness ;and Ibe last thing i

is Ibe best man for the vacni

country in the world whit

Why is it that tbe land resounds with the i

ured tread of a million ol armed men? Whythat tbe Republic trembles with ib„ echoes ot battle.

Why ia it that our bright waters at.' -ts„„.d and onr

orec'n fields redd,-.„-d v, ,th in.i'.roal blood r Why is

S .bat -be young men of America, in the pride and

bloom of early manhood, are aummoned from homes,

r-om tbe mother* who borD

nd eituers who love them, to the GelUB of bl.'o.ly

rife— there lo do soldiers' duiies, b.nr soldiers

jrdens, and fill soldiers' graves? Why is it that

jnusands of tbo men nnd the women nt I'bnstian

,merica nro sorrowing with aching Hearts ---

jarful eyes, for the nbsent, tbe loved "-'

tho heart of loyal A

d with aoxiely andntrv T

Tbe— eriues against ibe peace oi the ouuntiy

"ifa of tbe nnUon are all, all *-

1 office:

inli,c-e >:

alio mg > thii

arty goes

out nnd another goee in. I with every Slate wen

fro.. ,,, 1:,; repr. Henied in Congress or Senate by an;

oersons all over the l-nioii whom it chose to send.

Tod Ibat all olbee, »,, filled a, all times without

the least reference to Stato or County, and with o

reference to competency..

i. Tbe irrcspunsibb-ne.-s of tbe Cabinet to

nation hi "ins an irresponsible ness of bureaus

head:, of departments and ol" officials to heads of

Touub—which is n uinrked feature of n moat terrible

weakness—rum, ing ibr-jiigh ibc civil und by

ending to the military

lost?

a thruhb

i f„r the

thu

batoful d,

of his fellov

ofici slavery perpetual and

a Lunation nod rcfiUnrjcjt Iirnpc-rly.nl health

ifii— these appalling B

i ua are all the inflictions of slavery 11

,ntie eDbrt to foood a slaveboldiog e

tbat plunged tbe :

darkness ol civil

hands are drippit

s tho eons pi

•onspiracy against the unity anu

jpublic. Slavery is the traitor

ion into the Gre nnd blood and

constitution;*! ri-jLU -vt-jJi r,

-bould r"iaeiiibei' ibe lutenfib- " skulking neutrals,

mid ibe sticklers for " rightful authority in 1.

ere joining in giving aid ao.l ..onifi.rt to Ibe tint

,d,i.-"l- iv ho now iniidli threaten,,- upon any a'

Wing mad- lu eyeeutc Ibc prccbiuiiiiinn ol Abrali,

I ii„-,dn to 'hoist Ibe Ida, I: Hag,' and proclaim nr.

nl I'Mi-rniitintioii, to secure lis withdrawal or nrr^.

its i-.y-vulion" I'liiru.ii-ui instinctively endorses

this proclamation of emuncipatioii ;treason in ever)

fibre of its being strie,:* with bloody bands tuibroti),

il. In tbe fiery and bloody struggles through which

thia proelamauon nn.si pass, struggles that will at.t

this nation lo lis pi-..|.;,ui„lcst depths, pnlnotism will

mark mid brand as trailers, .m, tbey not cowards,

I morn for the safely of thu slaves

than for tho blood of brave men

fighting the battles of tbe endangered country—

more lor tbe perpetuity nf slavery in rebellion than

for the unity and perpetuiti nf ibe Republic.

try is lion ll'.c-i •- n tbe- stonni naiesol

Darkness lowers and tempeals threalco.

are rising, and learning and breaking

around ua and over us with engulfing fury"

amidst the gloom the star nt dut; '<•-'- i'= " -"

radiance over tin- dark and i in u bled writ. --. making

luminous our pathway. The duty or the hour is as

i, llliu lu the clear virinii r.t Inielbg.'nt p.", ', '-

though it wer.' written in letters ol ligbt on IM

bending are he* of the skies. Tbat duty IS, with

every L'um-eption of the brain, every throb of the

heart, every aspiration ol the aoul, by thought, by-

word nnd by deed, " to observe, obey and cnb.ree

bo wise, far-seeing, patrioiie, liumane and Chr™,,n"

lolicy ombotlied in tbe proeb :

tbeWilmot Proviso. Mr. Sui

eally few but intellectually anil

of lioslonians who had for at

guished us " Couacieueo " in r.

" Cotton " Whigs, revolted nndmovement i-,l,i.l, culminated it, ._.

support of Van llureii audi'. F. Adams. The cban,

ofbase of Sir. Webslor on tho 1th of March, 1851

tin' passage of the new compromise measures of that

year, including the Fugitive Shv- law , ibe practical

adkerence iber-lo of ibc Whig as well OS of the

[lemocratic ori'ani/ation, added strength to tbe ban .1

and ridiculed " third party," which at length became

able to dictate tenin. to Ibnt large minority of tbe

pfopleof Massacburetls which lunged in grasp pow.-r

til ,\- Stale, but could only do so by thl

Fr... Soil yule. The Constitution of that,

New England Stales, r-, purine nr, al.-ofsile mnjunty

to elect, no l,ov,;r„o. was chosen at the eleC "

l-',U; but ibc coaliiinn aforesaid gave the dc .

.

and most of the Male olbeers to Ibe Heme rats, nnd

tli" United States Senator tu the Free Soilers. St

nf lb" Democrats lung refining to support Mr. .-

net, his election was barely elTccted. and Only ft

several fruitless cflorls.

llr. Sumner bad h.lWrlo been known ratber as n

scholar und orator tbaii as a statesman. His dnt.

"'

e political views were not shared by one-fourtfi

. „_ fcllow-cilixen, in the State, nor by one-tyven-

tieth of the people of the Union. Ot the legislator*

votes sent him to the Senate, n mnjunij uwe.1

,,h i„ (l,n-.- wbu r-gard,d anti-slavery

every form with abhorrence, These be made i

attempt to conciliate or cajole. No one was .;ith

deceived or bribed into his support, lie dei.recat.

no prejudice and plfc-aied no hostility, rbuse wl

elected bun knew exactly what to expect, and ba" lappoinled.

.

lertook bia seat in a Senate which bad

never boinre been so inlensely ,all but iiniiniiiioush-

l,ru-«lnvery and .iL-mi, L.: was u,-l,u, livi-l) r.-i-nr.l

'M- ; -'"', ''-' :

.-

; "'!'.''..:

i-.':

:

';

,

ii

;"

,,,|^,-.,. io rding any tu-e. gusriintees to ' "~

slalery He had no other political object tbi

loihcek.scondli lu, -ripple, and ultimately I. .

ilirov., the Slave '1'otver. Profoundly convinced I'bat

slavery and liberty are incompatible— tbat thl

slavsment of any mvieh s and inipius ibe rigb.,

-.

all-be grappled' d.icctlv ami boldli with the liatclnl

• m-titut.'.n," instead ot being . onttnt with resisting

.. , a- e rc-"ion.-. Slavery, in Ins view, yvna not to be

rcprebiu.d and resisted nu-r;;l> becae

u „ of the demon — .

illy so uolily resisted ; and that from Gi

to i'anama, from the St. John to the Pacitic, the

n bia daily course looks llr"are '.—Horace Greeley, n Tie Inilfjiendenl.

m'oinv-o^'l.l

|l'i''-''rout't''--c,f '.las's and local legislnt

and take a step forward ir

anil univer '

'

l,.,b tl . :,l I,

onlrv.d tut

1ruitl.ll in

THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.

Is ao many arid forms which Stales incrnat them-

lives with, once in a century, if so olien, a poeiu

t and record occur. These are (be jets ot ihM.glu

Koallaire, w|,"ii, roused by danger or inspired by

the polilical b-ad-rs ,,t' the dny l-reak iln: el-e

. .i.i_ _^..,:_~„r ^t nnB r.T,,i IopmI legislalioti,

,f catholic

Every step ia the hlslory of

i a sally ol" Hie human mind into ttic

„| Las Ibe inleresi of g,niu9. and in

anecdotes. Liberty is a alow fruit.

_ like religion, for .licit p-riods, and in rare

conditions as if nwnitiu" a eulture ol the race "bicli

-ball make it organic and p-rmiinent. -neb moments

„| expansion in modern bi-lnrv ivc-re the eonlessie..

nf Augsburg, tbo plantation ,.( America, the I'.ngli-,

i'o,„1n..uw,'altbnl li.fi. Hi" io;ctarni,on of America!

i ,-„!,. ,.-[ „lcr.,.e In l"6. the Pre.-"', ..n,ar...pai,

slaves in tbe West Indies, the p -i:;o cf Ibe It.

Pill, the repeal of tbe Corn l.iw". it" Jlagceiic|

iiecati-Telegrnpb, though yet im|. -!. '. '." '"- '

'

"

ibe Homestead lull in the la-; t i»,-ui. ar.J now

iiu'iitly. l're=ident Lincoln's prcclamat.on cu t^e

twentv-seeond ol September, TM.se are acts of grea

scope; working on a long future ami ,., permanent

inlereats, and honoring alike tbo-' "bo initiate sothose who receive them. These measures provoke

iny ioy, but are received into a sympathy so

.'. _J__ __:.... h.t mnrlil,,! '. r" e |V '! I" T rilld

WHOLE NO, 1,168.

msofihe mechanics, ttieenduraoee of farmers, the

tsiionatc conscieneo ol women, tho sympathy of

atant nations, all rally to ita support.

Of course, we are a-suming tbo firainess of the

,li, v thus declared. It musi nut be a paper procla-

alioo. We confide that Mr. Lincoln is in earnest,

id, ns he has been slow in making up his mind, bos

resisted tho importuaacy or parlies aad of o vents to

tbo latest tuomeat, he. will ho as absolute ill his

adhesion. Not only will bu repeat aad follow up

bis stroke, but tbe nation will add its irresistible

trength. If ibe ruler has duties, so has tbe citizen,

i times like those, when tbo nation is imperilled,

batman can, without sbtime. receive good news

-obi day todav, without giving good news of him-

self ? What right baa any one lo read in tho jour-

nals tidings of victories, il he has not bought ifiem

by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice, or by

good in his own department 1 nl. this

,vcd from our national honor, this heavy

, nlf tbe national heart, we shall not fear

ard tt> show our fne.s among mankind.

Wu (.ball cease to be hypocrites and pretenders hut

hat we have atyled our free in.Milutio.is will bo

'in' tho light of this event, the public distress bo-

lus to bo removed. W bat if 'be brokers' quota-

onsshowonr Blocks d,;.,.rediied, and tbo g"ld dul-

ir cost- on" huudfd nudtw. iiivoovonconts t These

..1,1— ."• [.Uautoui. r,.u» »cr» lu

gained uul,. 1

intial value on tho twenty-

isepnaiibor. The eaus" nr disunion and

been reached, and begun lo be removed. r.very

man's house-lot and garden are relieved ol thu mala-

ria wbicb Ibu pureat winds and the strongest sun-

shine could not penetrate ami purge. I lis territory

of the Union shines lo-dny with a lustra which eve ry

F uro] tean emigrant can discern from Tar: a sign of

inmost security nnd permanence Is it feared that

taxes will check immigration i fW dcpaodB on

what tbe tasea are spent lor. It iL-y gOM lill op

Ibiayawaing Dismal Swamp .yl h^ngulple -I ar-

-ali-,.d hitherto sill tb" vn.M capabilities of this enn-

nent. then this taction, which makes the land

bolesomo nnd habitable, nnd will draw all men

..nto it, ia the best investment in which property-

bolder ever lodged bis earnings.

Whilst we have pointed "Ut 111" .-,pp,rl'in,'l,.;s, nl

e proclamation, it remains to bo said that the

President had no choice. Ho might loot wisllully

for what variety of courses lay open to bim;every

Una but onn waa closed up with fire. This one, too,

bristled wilh danger, hat tLroogb it was tho sole

safety. The measure In has adopted was impera-

tive. It is wonderful to seo iho unseasonable ,,-nil-

ity of what is called iho Peace parti,

ibrougli nil its

mtn-Ls, blinding Ib-ir .yes to t nam fealuro of the

uar-nauolv its luevilauleness. 1'liu war existed

Ion" before ibe cannonade of Suinicr, and could net

he postponed. It might have begun otherwise or

"Isenhcrc.butwnrwaa in the minds and bones ol

the cou.balaot.3 ; it was written on the iron leaf, and

you might as easily dodge gravtlatioa.

consonled to n peaceahlr ~"

y-second of

^ n of tbe rebels, tbe

„,. .,„.der States made pcacea-

01 ble secession •• saiblo lb. iaeatiablo temper of the

'm Sou'h mado it impossible, and the slave* n the hot-

i"I r wtnrei.r 'b. t.or.k: might be, were ™n imes

j, .iol i c-l in i. ..I bo f >iv" 'be Confederacy

. . Thulium and Kicbmoud.and tbey

| ( i~

t . Louis and ll.illitnoie

..ui these' and ttey'would havo insisted ot.

Wosbingtou. ti.yo then, WashiogWo, and the)

Lnvo tissnme.l tbe army ^and "these, pliiladelpb'through

app.i-,.. ,, that mnakind ai _

. At such times it appears

created lo greet the new event,

ntor, having ended tbo eompli-

:ies wilh which he conciliated

run over the superficial fitness

'ho measure ho urges, suddenly,

happy"''!"

._ .'Qlved—the

loudly thus far ar

audience ia found

audience hitherto

last ho

encroach „pou soil nubllully consecrated to _free

labor; it encroached because it was essential!;

vicious uniust, rapacious and l.alcliil. Others might

he -atiflied witb tin; re.- trie I ion or diminution of the

area which tins deadly I" pas might be authorized lo

blight ; he chose to lay tbe a.vo to the root ol the

tree and so be rid "I" us pestilential ellluvia forever.

I'uurteous and deiercnlial in bis mantiOrs, be ain-

ccrel, ile.ifcd to maintain the kind-'- personal rela-

tions widi those who .vera to be for years hi* daily

associate- and coworkers for tbe public good;but

(ln t yv,a liaoLthlilv refused. Tbe Whigs naturally

r ,.s..,rd,.l bun 'is no who bud as-isted and priifitcd

, .... ..,i.,.„r „f il.,.,r i, art viti M as saebaset Is. and

eat of Webster, Evi

ats felt bound to a

urprised and overawed :

the heart of the as-sembl.

;iu ni.ssivc and naconeemed, at

rcl.i-d and kindled tbat they come loryvard,

a represeatativeof mankind, standing for

reme moderation with which the President

10 his design,— bis long-ave.wed e.tpi'ctant

policy, as if ho chose to be strictly the cvccutivc ol

|,o best public sentiment of the country, wai

mly till it should'

id that i

York, and Hnston.

l "till- batile-licid would have been nt

in that event as it is now. Tbo war

le, hut could not be avoided. I he war

i immense mischief, but brought with

e benefit of drawing n line, nnd rally

States to fix il impassably— pr, -vein.ug

"tbe whole force of So e.n connection and inlluence

throughout tbe Nnrll. ir.uii disiraeiing uvcry city

-lib ™.li». confusion, deieelune- lhat force and

redocmg it toL.-iudfnUand in the progreu of 1.08-

,!-infecting u" -r

tbrc.gl,

the f'-tu, _ irnleadi u. dictated (lu- conduct

of tbe Federal gov

by our foreign crit

Opponents ol tbe

n tbi

of oihilat

Cnlthe ci

abse: e of i eipl"

"indeed,

(

of tbe

in the government, froi

' alarming aspect

Jed exaaiiuallon inlo complair

],-,-t.l._- aduiuii-iration of peaalli .

..I,..,.,,, ..- and ir.erti.c-ssin llu- ctal-

b genenebow to get3 manage-

u u, ^ueh u dreadful deficiency.

If anybody imagines ibis government is perishing

of red tape, tbey may abamlmi their fears. Iho

painled stripes on a barber's polo have as much sig-

nificance as most of tbe red tape against which I

have run. If all the rules and regulationa of the

government in all ils departments were rigidly en-

forced ; if every tape was blood-red nnd lightened lo

acity, I

—a rule enforced ic-day and

pressed by (his oflicer and i

Other (having thu same du

dreadful contusion and obor

the departments.

Slavery, bold, proud, doiiiiaooritig, will, bate in its

heart scorn in ils eye, defiance in its mem, has pre-

nouneed against tie: existence of republican institu-

tions in America, m-ainsl lie- supremacy uf tbo gov-

ernment, tbe unitv and life ol the nation. Slavery,

baling IbeeliensLcd instiiuiions that lend lo secure

tho rights and enlarge the privilege* ol mnnkinil,

despising the toiling maS--e.s, ils iu.i.ImII-S and white

slaves, delung tbe government, its Const,!. it.cn. and

:,a laws, has openly pronou I itselt the mortal

,ad una,,pea sable enemy ol lb- He public. Slavery

.lands to-dav the only el.-arl. pronounced foe

muntry btis'on lb" globe. Therefore, every -

.ipnke'ii, everv line written, every

keen- tbe breath of life, for a mc_. .

a-ainsl tbe exi-t,r,.,. and perpetuity ot democratic

nsiitutiuns—against the dignity of the toiling mil-

ions "t America—a-aiust iln- liberty, tho peaco, tbe

honor, tbe renown and tbo life of tbe nation. In

tbe lights of to-day tbnt Hash upou ua irom camp

and battle-field, the loyal ")c. Iiearl and brntn of

ieasees and t,.!s and i.'ali;, s lhat run death

ur.iv i-i mi: tu'c of mi; .evtios! The loyal

I plat

ctbe;

-ay.Ic

y despised by lhat

-which makes the

ound in so many of

H, fails to tbaw,diH-

l,csccntbyremem.ic-rs. Itnt think of

t performed that

of tbe 22d

id eoforco" tl

„.„...,diug"lhe Chief Magistrate, w

ima it with such men, nnd such men only,

a and declared opinioos, bail and welcome

,wdiug tbe ranks of thi

tbe point

ishall

" near It,,- n, II. "1

rtlng Pence and Frecdoi

,l.llot

ir party g.

Socially i

tho just sequel of his prior aels,-the firm

vhich he announces it, without inllation or

m._all these have be*pokea such favor to

tiiat, great as the popularity of the- President

has been, we arc beginning to flunk that we have

nndcresiitualed tbe c.pacit, and virtue which Ibc

Divine Providence- has made an inslrumentof beua_Ul

so vHBt. He has been permitted

Amen, a llu. a an; oilier American

entitle, I to ibe mo=l indulgent eon;

all tbat wo thought shortcoming

,',-erv delnv. lu Ibe c-.ylre 'in'"

part, call these endurnnee, wind

illuminated, oa they now a

:s. Tbe popular siat-iii-'d ol tbe

ar nt.toa.l m the impossibibt, ol

.. .ou could add," say they. " lo your

ireogllt Ibe whole unuv nl l-:„gland. of l-'raiieo, and

,1 Austria, you could no. roe .ugh. million ol

people to come under ibis government against inn

willI" This is an odd thing for tin laipl, ,broan, a

Frenchman, or an Austrian to say. who i-mcniiers

the Europe of tbe last seventy u-;i,,-tt." ci-l .mi

of Italy until IS'.'i-ol Poland, since liBJ-o

Francdor French Algiers-of Pri.isb l.e and, ami

Dritinb India. Hut. granting ihc t.ulb, rightly read

„ftb"bisi.,r,cal aphonsm, flint "the people always

eoaqucr," it is lu b- noted tbat ia the boathe

..._?. A. r innd, and Ibe local laws, with

,„ „„..ib1 system aot a democrat!.; but

autocratic eouipb.-Mon ;and those Stales

-down every year a mure hostile, and aggrt—

,em^r,-.^n,.. instinct of self-preservation forced

Suites, the I

slavery, give thu s,

'hostile and aggressive

,cs instinct of eelf-preservali

ir. And the aim of the year on our

dby the aim oi lb" President s pro-

of Gimuii

\or io be tolerate

"•vsxi-t ';;-';;,;.,,.-] .. -.» »r«ore-ut parties tbc-n just entering upon tbe carle"

,,Joldccnv, vvu-ibei-eruc.ino,-w, c.u.,.: or ,.,,

;,. d..,,d,-.j „mvi,-iioiis. Though Ins tibdiiy. b

luii-oments. bis pei-sonal worth, were undispule

was ntcorded a pit r two of the

,siruiiiu.aiii i-ommittcaa, being reg;arded

much as he would have been in eome great' Richmond or New

TI1E HRST SEVTS OF THE FB(lCU.yjrAT10.S.

At midnight, on the battle-field, I beard tbo sound

ol coming footsteps, nnd u voice- earneat, but almost

inaudible,'-"'

i the distance. Nov

fpat

rimes and JWouneeing tho slaves 1

,-rv—

,got the Pre idunt'a

jgel voices when they sang

,„ the" shepherds of .luden, tbnt voice rnng again and

a-ain through Ihc silent and slumbering camp- It

was once more tbe annuneintion of " Peace ou eartli

-good-will to aien I" Seizing the welcome mec-son-

ter and eagerly perusing ibc pre, bunation, 1 ened,

thank t.ud.itmre its light ale-ad ; there is hope for the

country: all hail tbe yn-wi.-e of freedom— d 11..H11—

the n

trodden down.

,1 Ofjliati

ig hosts of liber

proclamalion, a

the qut-

courl-martial suspected pen

officers, than to go oa wiiuum. m» .1

condition of ul I subordination, all order,

must have dUciplint

:up three months an

1 and properly charged

r, the President, b>

.„. Tbirty-sevt-nth Congr.

„ ^n tho fourth of -My, and at neon un tl

. dm longer^ assc-mbled lo enler upon the migl

' ask imposed upunil by Ibc ualmnalperds. \ BCJ

hairs in both chambers v, villi impressed upon the

uind tbo gigantic proportions of tbe rebellion, ami

l,e fearful "magnitude ot the impending elruggle,

ind inspired tbe soul with something of awe 111 tbe

iretenco of events so transcendent. Few of the

biefa of slavery were present lu dominate, seduce

3i corrupt. Tbe eleni-ln-adcd, practical, dominating

llavis— tbe erratic, reckle-s, fdu-i.-rmg Toombs—the

a, complirhcd, timid, .-tiuiinus Hunter—tho eloqur"1

puli-bed insincere lkiijmi.il.— tbe pretentious, p.

nous Mason— the bold, mlmit. unscrupulous Slidell

—the dark, cold, bitter Clay— the genial, courteous,

fanatical Brown, ami ilieir conquers in cona piracy,

i sedition and treason, plotted their foul, dark and

; infernal work no b-ng.r in tbe 1 apilol of the nation.

Hut Breckinridge, the chosou el,id of incipient iren-

on, not lesa guilty than his absent compeers in crime,

vas present 10 cavil and criticize, to denounce the

lets of loyal patriotism en- lie slunk away to atrike

tt tbe heart of the country ibnt bad trusted and bon-

. ored bim. Thu chair of Douglas vvns vacant ;life-

• long opponents guied sadly upon it, for Ibey grate-

s fully remembered tbat tbe closing hours of his

'ed life weru given to patriotism, lo adjuring

voted followers re .ling lo tbe lnton,andcru

of freedom

God—and all the ricople

shall cry, " Amen." Tbo good nnd the just ia all

leads are, from thia hour, pledged to tbe struggle

now waging against anatocra. 1 and slavery oa Ibis

comment, and " l.iberiy and Pni.m. now aad forever,

10 and inseparable," have found a new and true

ipoundcr. Every soldier's arm n |, all be nerved with

_)W energy—every heart endowed with fresh courage,

for the prayers of good men and of angela shall

strengthen bim and shield bis bead in the day ol

battle.

Unwilling to enjoy lb- good news alone, I roused

one and another, and read to ibc-m tbe proclamation.

On a cot near by lay the wasted form of an officer,

who sprang up and clapped bis bands for joy as be

beard the welcome news. I did mil nl lirst ncugtin-

333 for. to 20 or

Nebraska, bill, the Kansas

Lceomptoa fraud, continually swelled t

slave-traders uui

Drl.ans. bad be i.i^tcd on sitting there from da. o

day and making tbe freest and least 1altering r.l.-

iVuia on tbe na.ur, ami ...nden.-o.-a of the .business

there transacted. Who then foresaw or imagined

lhat he would one day be Cbu.rnuin of the Umi

on I'ureb-n .MTairs.a leader ol tbe majority. 1

Posted counsellnr of the President . « ell aught be

(Hy,in his recent noble oration in Faneu.l Hal,i"

r,.-|,oii-" lu th" Presid, id's proclamation ol freedom

"iUkt.ud lhat 1 have lived to see this day!

Tl,c brutal nssault w herewith slavery,

through I,-

ruininli- Pio-'ks, K.-ilt and hdmomlsuli, replied t,

hl,e.vp"snreof" Ibe crimes and outrages » h bio

marked her career and illustrated l,er_ character 11

tanaaa, was one of tbe inspirations ot ibc sp, ntc

rremonl canvass oi 111'"-', winch syticbroinic-d will

tbo close of his first term, and re due., d lu a <<-™i"^>

the oppositioa to his

id deepened

_.. pervading the

iree Slates, unl.l the eh- (ion 0! Lincoln, the ; '

u f ih,- ,-,.,. mi. Stales, tu,d ultimately that of

the border slave- Stales also, completely transformed

the Senate, so that, (or the last two sessions, an-' "

portion of that preceding lle-m. Mr. .-u„ie,r baa I

[„ ., majority in a bod. cheli he c-nlnred with sea

Iv ball "a tb-'icn .-oinpatriuts, and lias been aid'

sceure lb" adopiion ol imponant uie.asures where .

iormerly struggled inellectually to deteat those ol

his haugbiy and i.onte-u.piuous antagonists.

,,,.,,,. ,!,', -',<, that be relurns the bale- or ; ,

cm v.

with ha wtis visiled in his days ol adversity_

lhat his intento condemnation of tho crime againat

humanity now culminating in r

ly ,hu 1.

President aidicipated

|„. r, -i..,,. l i"ioi,"..l a lar-'e number of officers in the

no - ami t', -, ee--ion'oi" ibree Slates, on iho pro-

n,,l.ation ol it,- polity)— when we seo how tbe

rreat -take who b b'-reigu naliotia bold in our allairs

,'„. i,.,r.ur l'["Ugbt every Kurupean power

li t I 11 to tin- , uurl and it' became every day

,,,.,.,,-,-ntwb'it "".ant,.- and what remote uilere-tsEtaM ") lb '-' 'kdBi"" cf XUWf.,„. ,-ai, hardly say 'ibe deli'., .anon was too Ion

Against all timorous enunsels be bad the courage-. .

seize Ibe moment: ami such was h,a posilion. and

,ueh Ibe felicity a,n-„di,,g the nciio.i. that be Ua.

reidaeed gure'n nt in tbe good graces of mankind.

™X .. .?_;_.... :^ .1.. .^e.^.nign than plenty 111 th.

fis wonderful whai

ed, and bow its ill oji

,,.],. t

11 of Southern si ic-ly, t

,„, only -Is rccoaslrM-

Mt and bealibful basis. Then now ufGnt-

t, (he old repulsions will cease, and, the

tbo r

n," say the Chi

power is, and bow ill .. -mak.-s lit" mean. 111, -1 .be- s'.insbiie

\iucric:i bad lost mucb of ils nltra

1 ocraiiisi

nature in the people, aud Iho ii

which (raud and violence eneou

governors work at a geom.

ummer day atoms to repair ill

or war. r , ,

A day which most of us dared

eat worth tbe dicadlul

,'„.,„!„., ed Is. lie- g-"-'ll

t b-i[,e lo Sc

orth ii

Oc-

. and plotting bra

ill Btrike, and all men ol Alricni

faculty enough to find their —ed of the pro

should bo suddenly a

r.-t„ llioi

r'le'l '-du,

rfea

gigantic and fiendiah

harsh toward those

n and a vicious social

nl, ,-f treason. Ob the

uttu-rnnce bespeak hi~

At tbe outset of this war all prudent and wmenwhokiiow tbc-tcmbh- dangers uf anarchy wt

concerned thai the sirile should he carried on for the

defence oi ibe i.onstitutiun and the Lino..

enforcement ol the laws ;and certainly tbat was the

oiilv rn.li.-v nn wbicb a President, a Uabiaet, a Cob-

„ .,y,lrn i'. "I the to to uphold aad ddentl the

fT',".

]:, ,, , airy nn tbe war. Moreover ".,,'.',,,, ii, .v. ,-i.im nt was. made becau-e

rV-'ti'u",' li bad l*'l 1" nn "b.c-liuu unfavur.-lblc te

, r'"-,

->-.. 1 al'ivem 11 was deemed lhat there ci

had fallen exhae

.. -ed it wasCol. Clark of th" L]l-t .MassachusettsJ

Itegiiiient. Alter incredible mar. lies, bard-luugb.

battles, aad miraculous escapes from death on the

fiuld, his regiment reduced in ibe fragment of what it|

' ' unself prostrated b. im.e.asani lighting, bi-

lled nt ibe enmp of Gen. llurnside,

waiting the return of his wasted

rengtii. I had not m.l him since ibe battle of New-

ern, where be bore a most gallant pan, and where

many ol his hraveat officers and men fell by hia side.

He has since participated in all ibu great bailies of

ihe PeaiBsula, and more recently in those of Virginia,

and now he had scarcely a full company left- ^et

be rose up wilh all bis nout'd energy, nud, mapping

his hands, thanked tied for the proclamatinu. •'

would do more good than a dozen battles; wool

briuir to our side, not only tbe active aid of tho mi

,ndage, but secure tu ns IL.- ,-v mpatln- ; and_.:__ ;- r...A_r n.-tqaj I

to bo close befoi

descent who bavu

of American law.

necessary lhat this measure

rkedbyany signal results on

. .„„ rebel masters. The lore,; ol

,ue act is that u commits the country .0 tins |a-iiec—

tbat it compels lie- innumerable- olbeers. civil, .milia-

ry, naval, of the Republic to range; tb-m,elv..s on be

Hone it cannot be undone by a new A.I ministration,

lor slavery n.erpowers tbe- disgust of the moral sen-

:imeBt only through ,u,meiu.,r,al usage.'

.-a :*

all,,!" it,-, crime and false pesiti on. The

_ .__ ailent joy v

Igenerous hearts, and ihene

to tho world.

It was well to delay the sin

iti! this edict could be put ot. uu..». .......

surauce lo Ibe ship as 11 go, s plunging through I."

a with glad tidings In all people Happy are fit

)un" who find the pestilence eb.-ansed out 0! tne

earth" b-.avine open m them an bni.-.-t career, llappy

tic old yvbo"ee nature purified before- they depart.

D soV ^il,,!, 'l.e b'.bl tbe-tti back lo.hu,

world until von have charged their ear aud heart

with Ibis message .a < r spiritual slices, an-

nouutiag ibe meiiornlimi of our planet.

'\'.','i g','j'.'"i'u''"i'due. .-Ii-.e-. .,1 c'l.llc-.i nee."

Meantime that ill-fated, luiieh-injurcl race which

the31 tion respect, wdl lu,- ;-„u,ewbat of the

deieo^ttSuredSr ages ia their bronzed eouo-

,:,;ine:. ot.ered m the wailing "I ibetr plaintive

music—'a race tialiirully benevulent. joyous, docile,

industrious, and whose very im.enes sprang from

their great talent fur usefulness., wbicb, in a more

manage, will not ..nl., dety-l tl.e.r ^^J)-iUeive them a rank ammig 11.1 ,ms.-Jv.ii,;/t

, Emerson, in Th* AW* ii^hlyM -«°-

i; AND EASY VIRTUE.

1speech at the Cooper 1

forcing bis proposilioa

ot Davis and bin coale.

and ihe- l.iw. l>coc

first condition of

solves right. Wo have reco'

false position, and planted

moral Jiupport of every nation :

,'. '.

0,- ancti'iis, loyiug aspiration tbnt

"i'-;","" '.''

,', "-. ,,.'. 10, >.>uth sbuuld make haste

., out '."lor l'."nii,-< ber once more docile to the

i„i„.ir.ol r-a-cm of Conscience, and of patricl.sm-

Mr. Sumner's second tern, expiring with the pre-

,1 1 ,,11-T, ... ,t w'i- ,1,-11' -'' 'h 1 those .'!,-" ,.'.,-',«... ....,.,-ure-d in pulling

"rebukedW hi- co - a ,d n.or -I by .be ,-onside- f.rst condition of success

'.;,;,'„ 1',.7,,. i,|,- -.vol, should makoadeape-

Buroiie. Besides, I attempla to elect an anti^umner Ug.Blatnro, on the ot ue 01,

r 1 „([,-' rhii-.s 'ilo-'mioc .ill "--;' '"'""-

i,,,. I i[. oi-J .iture f.ilcet llll;"J:

^ 1

'

I,",',',

p'i'c" yuar'tronti'yVcltUnm

arnt«y be the way inwhich llr. Van Puren

but it is cErlatnly not tbo course which

'nnd moral men w"ould recommend; it is

ni'iha course which society has pre-senbed. it Ims,

X be contrary, stamped such loose conduct with

, lr, Mrem.-e.at diaspprolmnon ; n re-eommcmli tidclil.

,o y^v. which, noVonly for the interest of the persons

themselves, and of their offspring, but more espe-

"

,»y for tbe intere.U of society at large, _a«. mn

tvocable, " »» bo

would a

irluyua ami Cbrisli;

,mend a did -nm c-nn

.^mcc'.h.Aia,^ out Mr. I',," fc'i" 1

the dUogrtemenl ojftrrtn hvtbawl <>i<i «

S.iciety, made upIf.

Page 2: National Anti-Slavery Standard, Year 1860, Aug 25

^ - - - -AfsS\^v^

, ,'inofoy'iTrreo "in»n,nnd ibo woman a slave.

„ u hi probably suggest 'hnt the '^^^

-JV. 1'. Ermirtg Pmi.

OS» PBBNTJSS'S XA11RATIPE.

.-,., „.„.„., other thi-wt. h»;i his hnlf-ytar':

'

„„,„-,.;„ni„...i/ ;«.'."/ '•" into »"

Jnli-Slatery man.

Was.hsc.ton, Friday. Oct. 1 ,13J12.

.

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ns .olIowB

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, | ,,,..,,,1., ...

pleasure, » is

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vlilling away (heir lel'.ire ''" r

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"ihinkso. Hluuk I r.|.,T,l; 11 ",

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^ Ve^oV.d Tor oneC"^'.^ ™j now thins. f° r which I thank

. .v,,

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-W/-''^^^ndvanee io.nU.1. v,-,. win give t ^"A1!"'?' h"

rt, and Ivtly In dren—givo hlra

:<.ii, i v..-n.,v.

lehriellle,.,. wilier

ill ..f nil knowledge, nil .........

since I luce mini.' IliCto oil'

one step further. There la t

.

,iiiii, .iv • ii -jvi u- ..... ...i

- '.;.[•;

When Sir Samuel Uninlllcy propuscd to abolish

me punP-hmon, ..I ">al!l l-r ^l-lHNK .»'* ';>'«' It'f

,.1.„.

1

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' An.l ffl.. ii (1 lunrj.viis n-r>.r,n.v v,..l

.III,,. if.T '->. 'ill m.r.,, the HH..r> -f .In;

tV,cli-=U l:iw. T:..iinil. v i^wwt truly t.i M hi*

-B.«UpVoi..J:;o.li..«l-''.li*Mho"l l

^n,p..'.i'i

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list in i, 1 .-.f...rli"i> hi il'o l.irmoi-fl nri? mlmcvous, iiilflli

.,. n i i.oK.-rful nii.l liti.T.il.d.i !h«'y .i-r-utut'' ;l " "' , " 1

,1 alr.-r.ml. <•' "i"" c^inu-y. T'r.r.l.i. m> it no" ui"r-

I on fver I »« ilii-m in this ontivni^r :ffh,t. I »[!»«

,„„„.,„ f„ M!l , fi ..1,.. ..I ..nr ,.o«.nl ty. I. nut.' 1|" ".' ' *'

m t ..n.i SWnt will, the nvopn.lio, of th, S ^.-^v.-k

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T hin".v'....l. c^tryil.iip closely

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.^;rr"u,:n y^r-ii I.mv ilii--' idu'Ii'v v.-'il' :'h-.ll I-." worked uut, and

;i,,\h y ,„ jubilv, come to God". ra0-n d pM pl.

him Kti;,t ihc Lord ordnincl

ipcctinclhi-.ip.'r-

A WAK HVMN.

,11,'I .ii.nl, Jl.'i Ifliii'iuiJ.™

'.,.. i,i, oiir ii|.i-liiiulion,—

1 i.k-n. IlikmM, 01' Thy ..[.j.-'nr

"I'lMit'ii'-UI itn.t 1 hchcld lllin

Indiaojv, Entiling lor

rnvriuiy"Willi.-: f.

rovcmmcnt. L*-i hi'.',*".' " '-^liftv(i

^"Sv^SiferlTV,".',;;,! i...s»«b.

In»«

:„ ,., ?|u . W- S i Bsnuolbwir. It is no

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from Sundny until

could .„.i,i-li..l.

lV t:''iV,t^hr^;d^,o>Liberty p«in.cd upon tW

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credit for .loinu, h,L;

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.tctta. Thin nclglihorh

tmherat litis buried t

nd only Within ii few di

Mr. fulii

,.„.:,i,-....tl.

?r lieru cjtploined lliu

on of tlio Presidot

mrosdinte tind pru

, and thon qlowa :

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is ih.n,' lor IrfT'J • This

:. niih tin.- Iilier.il liirimia

ii« ii]k:t of tninneipiliiin ii

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ot il„.i MiU'.y.

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,„,i: ::|,v,|.,....r ot i.hibii.lin.i.y ;

hot :, «..v inaoit:

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re « hut olio course now iK'love u_- >\?

u anei ptilion, nt liint i..h.]i'id ." ' ivur^iTT^.-

PBSHSYLVANIA STATE MEETING.

Tub Twcnty-ufih Annual Meting of the Peniwyi™-

niaAuU^Uvery Society will bah^ld in Hortkultnral

Hull, West Cheater, on Saturday, the Mth inat,, at 10

o'cloclt, (..m. A full tttwodftnee of the membere oni

friends of the Society ia requested, while a cordial irm-

Utlion U extended to all othera faTorable to the cause,

out of the Statu, to be present and participate in

the proKBlings of 'he meellug.

The anti-slnrery movement ia prcsentinu IWclf id s

,ew aspect. It has reached a point in its progrest

whore nsw ohllB ationB ftre devolved upon those vrht

policy of

u l.-.i.i

rirnl ;jr..„'l

..cw'and snliliiue n. 1 ii'.'j

The !: t. .lli.-n will hi-

[ 1, nl.-vaicd to lifi-'lil-, ...i

' will I -

.,i|.|...,- , Wen

it leja tirduous, at

;in those which lin

C5. What these r,

naturnl subject o[ in

r:,.-lv..-hrend me;

,„ . -^ ,- l„..rl ,il.<n. oot orrivsl. Tbo 'l"'*"™wns

"„ ooiiir... ."I '" !'•"• ' 'I'";?- ,u tT.u.lr.1 uiBbl."

-.Jlb-,,'-r.'~; "w" ".

0,0 .... dsy lo ......l.io.M.-.. "'I'...

'-"':' i

;

,ni;,"."';;

i;"" r ™»s,"Sn..m:"; '," "i.".i».J«.."i...o.i»«i " '""'>'

nss tbo .Ds.v.r. '"Tln„'s rlgLt. ..von Ibo.

J,:™ Yankee;,." •' Hoiv mmiy have you on

«,V^.b?=iH«',1

.[,;, | io Mer.Jinn mid placed in quarters

J..W Ko.d bsil fc Shll.b." Wb.rm.r ft. nu,

stopp.-d l'-'|.l.' ran "

Mil. SUMSEffS CATTLE-SHOW SPEEOB-

, ,. ..,„ .tim-r of the llsoipsldre County AtrrlcuKunil

i ij.ti Gestibiirk: 1 cannot

i |„„V.cd upon ihii hiM.itifn!

„jow and hill.e.id, ...ntribnio

hile I was a youth in i-ullege.

o Aposiale,

Will, *•'

tl.'.r

;ral oi my elafsmnt

lorn Cambridge we

'

..and arrived atAml

. refrCihcd ourselvc

the blood w^rk.l ' I'iallilenn. ihou linat coi,:]i,erc,.

,,il] v.I he lic«.J if.iin it"' apoi-tme e hicfs ...." --

-.,.1.:. l.lh,rti-, th.„, I,,,;.:...,.,.!.-,--! ,aiidlheech,

rv will hi., her.r.1 round the globe.

elusion I oUlt Iho (oliowing sentiment

:

,n... y the Connecticut. Iltippy in its fertilitj

beauty ; happier

,d fnc

in Hi... l.'ul-

J ill i-- riVL-r '- Mlv.rivulJli.L- throil:--!. Hi ."'»',villi 1« ruer

^^ ^^ ( irK.]mn , Illt|lt> , r, hK-b

,''-' ';,-., i-,. [:.. I>, .ri,. LI. nl....vewe Blopt netr

-..]',[.: 1 „; |1,.. Kinporr-.r lulimi. '."-"i'

i for ho had once umln-atcu '.iiris-

imiti'.ih'irveH'liii.n beff-re he bl.,1 Mriielt il... la-

...epired Li l.i* hatred I i-i.ttani y, lie I.^Uef.j ...1...1, (pined from his side and then

i hut eonqnerod.'

lterprbc. Iho dutica ot

nro in tome reapects less ouorous

heretofore demanded our cnor-

t ohligfttiona are, will form a-

dry at the approaching meeting,

preiiiint to any that topics ot the

masting and obcer-inapiring character will be

eonaldered, ftnd that parties in all respects competent

will bo pment to give value lo their diacust

Jjyts Morr, P

J. Si. lIcKui, Cor. Scc'y.

,.( lit. ..II, V

llucky Major, whose

, wh- c-ldlj- enough indicativo of his office, tb»t

was the Kcv thai unlocks Iho luyjlcry of our luture.

It is not eo much Submission as it is Sepftrntiou thai

is the pressing danger of thia present hour. This

turn eiplnius all ihiit has been incsplic«blo in the

past yenr-s hiflory. Why liichmond was not tHken

last November, why it did not fall tlio last

Thy lien. MeClellan is eetticp ready to go i^.v. ..

.

.er quarters at thiu moment, U (ill clear in (ho light

of Major Keys incautious revOaKon. It nt leM*t

redeems Gen. McClellau from the charge of incapacity

lo form rt plan, if it bo (rue that all he has done and

lelt undone has hnd tlio definite objett of enhausting

nil wearying out the North, and bringing it to the

pint of accepting peace on any terms ho and -Mr.

lava can agree upon.

Wo haw faith to believe that this scheme, if it

*oro indeed entertained, has bceu defenied by iha

very policy of delay designed to ensure i

l)ad Itichuiond been taken last Kovembj

last May, it ia iu the nature of lhings that ..

opportunity of compromise might have been possible.

Rut the unbroken successes of Iho rebel artaa conse-

quent upon those delays—uDbroken except by the

,o indisputable victory of Rosuucranr. at l'errysville

-have put the rebels in a position to dictate and

„at to sue for terms. Nothing hut tlio recognition of

their independence, can satisfy them now. and we

believe they would turn n, deal car to Bunnell and

Fernaudo Wood, if thov oflared them nny olher term

thnn these. Thus far the delays or our campaign

been the salvation of the country. Now. c

they will assume a very different aspecl. Tl.e.y

'

censa or the republic is nt an end. Nothing

invoitbut thaiesoiuto trying ontoftheFiesi-

;

B policy of emancipation. If the rebellion e*r,

not he put down with ihc assistance of the slaves

acl'ive, or passive even, 3nd the Southern country

setlled anew and lis society reorganized, then then-

nothing for it but to acknowledge the independence

„,tl\."n1',.krnev. The reeoguition of that indepen-

dence by the Great Powers of Europe is imminent.

It impends over us Mid can he averted only by suc-

cesses on the soil of Ihe rebellion whieh shnll make

its overthrow no doubtful matter- And they must

bo had soon or they will arrive loo Into to prevent

he most serious foreign complications. The tal

ion ol the republic Ilea in the hands of the Prctid

H,. bag given the country a policy—let bitii now(

it a man nblo and willing to carry it out.

believe that ho has the country behind him. That

Dickinson and Ilrowiison and Bancroft represent the

Democratic party more truly than Seymour, the

Woods and the Brookses. That Edward tverett

more filly represents what was honest in thB old

Whig parly than George Lout. What the countr;

croans for is action nud that speedy. What it drendi

•at. than dcleat U delay. Is the long

.nd in nothing or worse than nothing

is iheThlood that has been poured out like water t

„k like water into the ground, estorting from

„caven no justice by iw exceeding hitter cry ! Alter

all this agony and bloody awent ia there to bo no

surrectioti iAwful are tho responsibilities of tho

men in whose hands, under God, are these issues oi

life and death. May their Strength ho even as therr

day!

,„- ™ time during several days following

.itcning of lh« thirteenth day, iho feebly loyal rci'.lu-

liota read by Mr. WinUvrop were taken up to I ict. a

upon, in spite of veer atrong opposition. Rcr. Dr.

Mason, of Maryland, moved to lay them on tl itable.

Illi motion was rejected. The more encrceiic loyal

resolutions offered by Mr. Hoflroan were then ruled

upon and rejected. Rov. Mr. Home, of Now Jersey

(son of the late Bishop Do»no, and lite bim always

favoring slavery), tried to tarn the current ot (eeline; by

proposing prayer. The President ottered eevcral Col-

vote was then taken on certain anil-loyal rcsolu-

prcaenced by Dr. Thmll.and thay were aegativeJ.

lur relolutiom presented by Uev. Mr. M. Atli ler

met with the simo fate. Rov. Dr. Qnwka hoped to

.p the li'Io of fit'linjf by nioiin? nn s.Jj.-.urnu.ont. and

rentening further amendments if the meeting did not

yield. Ho was voted down, and then Judge Chambers

left the bouso, apparently with 'ho expectation that his

absence would leave the Convention without a quorum,

i Iboa taken (about eleven o'clock p.m.1 by

tho resolutions were adopted by the fol-

lowing vote -. Clergymen, yen) 13, nny* T. Laymen,

On Friday. Ihe seventeenth and la« day ef the Con-

,entioo. Bishop Mcflvnine, of Ohio, read ihe l'Mtoral

Letter of the r.iinops. From iho publithcd ab»trnct of

Ibis document we learn that ll spoke o( the rebellion

crime'," and beitaned "strong con-

domnali.in " upon thuso elergymcu who hod taken up

jnin in it, but declared it not necessary to set

forth our own sins which bad brought upon u* Ibis

.amity, and made no mention at all ot slavery.

The cuureo ul the Episcopal Church in ihis Conven-

u has been aymmstilcal with her pa.«t shntncful hbt-

ry in this country. F rale, airing with slavery, frum

commencement to the present time, like Iho uther

sis It has been even more vigilant and pen-blent

In they in ita efforts to prevent iulcr.erenco Bgainst

ot wicked system. Fewer of lu mrakra Umn of

.. „.-„. .»,. (t h,. Roman f'itholh perhaps cicpted)

ir acted In i. h.iK

ii.th.i.ieh

in churchmen iu opposil

ily frowned down and c

astlcal bodies. The aol

orasing Iho llguro of

CAN THE HEP UELIC BE SA VESi ?

r ih in leriility "

GEh-ERALMlirtia tfEihlXQ TO TEECOXXItADAXDbi.

[Tho followln

of couirehands -

I mvi; been requested to say

:ch uy Gen. MiroBEi. t

deeply interesting, I

valley. Since then

and abroad ;but I k

beauty. I have sect

ail! .lit

,-i.ll.ll- —..-— --

sec the Yankees, and the „

ent on They manifested a

ive Yankee General. Some of

,. people have published con

for I was a little annoy for i

to to ihe window to show my

C,,|.,n.f in charge, -. ..

eS el:,i.a." Tata your bead

idows of Lombard)'

:

ne and the Arno, andienry IV. called the t

words to you by

good man. Any avjod/nin-U

, o. ccnor. 1 r.....i.-et I.ini > ;ir.i.. Ii

ilo, k '..- v.hii.-, Ii he he n>nlW-ii. 1

, 1S sneh.. whether hei. .vh,'.. .,i i-l i-li.

ow lliat llmvu lalk..'.| I'.. ..I! ti.y i-..h!l",.:

..,.,. oil and seiic ;'"" '"' 'y :' "-"; '.'"

?«ene wliich I witne..-. J n >* U" neish-' ,".

H, r

i...^.. ^.,T-na^^.-il In nnv kin-

fuller places

.,'! M,..ti„-,-f..i ..I"' m. Idier-'. Bim k.ive not yet urn

,i.,. iv | ).,, Inn liln. are under inv [.roteetieti

guidance, and in whom 1 lukc deep i ,x,t, iV.lh

i„v „ i-.t llle i fullv avnipntliii-e. 1 hnee. and ondtr-'",':'

lU I ,.,.; ,; lr ...| ,i, Hi.-.- luidst of .livery.

, , n K '

, tueky, and know all about ,.. l\l,ile II,,.

... „.,„,, ...,"(..„„,.,.. I with It Hi:.! are pk.vi.iil.

,„ which you will lenity, there are .-.ivl many other

things which are not pleasant, and 1 (hint

in thonssoeia

iting i.ir any further i

landmen, it th

,n l.ii i I

.li.,niti-

,. U f ilii.i i.ei:-l,i...ili-.'-.l

ilten quoted, "Fort,

:w the good they h

,,t „i,.| liberal npint. -

in. nl Ike ere ale,- 101 In-

,(,1,11,. U | il, L. bi-I ...nliii-,.

mi—Montesqule,-,rke,l in kin:

country.

"I".-!.).-.-\ hi..-:." rou;^

,u , live Yankee, lou have

„i- ,t l.oil alone WH l-l'-'l' ,l '^

eiiu n:,.-ing:l (applause and laughter).

Kbile we iw-; ,,1o ed on uiit.sponsand here

for the first time learned,hat we were " >* "^rited fr ih.' i.rivi.i.- soldiers, the) v-.r,_ ..ent to

th pr»X of [viabaum. A. T„„.iloosa, I earned

rial we officers bail to go to 'lalladega Having

ta mjpo^ssion from . »1. Jor-lw.. «" Aid to Gen

Iieauremrd who, permit me to say here lo-nighl.

and Ji. ma, h- raid .. .hm.i.hou, ,h,s country

i« ,l,r- onlv mm wearing a i-.-eesh iinilonu that 1

l^'i re'.,ve.l the le:,,t" partiele of courtesy from

aincel have been w, lb tl.e.n, drew me aside era.*

• Wl.,,1 in his name! "What is his name I )

Hi mime is I'ol .I'mluii, AfsiMant AdJul ant-General

Of Gen. Beauregard. That man budIgiven me a

letter to his brother at Mobile lo ass at mo it 1

needed food, lie nl So_ wro.e .to Gen. Jones, com-

mai.ilnnl Ihere, aulhor.^tig him to parol.

fertility but on oocoii

truth. But here In tl

there greater fertility

If the farmers of oi

.,.,- ih. i

..[ ll.eil

bi,.„lilu

,e,. shall U ...

shall serve bim with I

'["tiiink IbiH is true. 1 a .it cerhi

i;„, ,„ ime .i-.-i :-H I i«r. em. all 1"'

al privilege, cannut be taken nwa.

.age and wicked the master maypraying in "lie "»i' t

ir wluilo ll

God h

But It seems to mo that the

for you colored people ; a hi

v..h"i N.-..-I..1 .in.! .I" 1 '. n-'i.' ,,l

,i e. mis I'Uly one ii""'--'-

.,|„, u , .„ ,ereenl- Th«e

t,r. .km. iiu.nce ot tho ugi

] tin: head

""{:

my, find both

Where ii ihcrc a Iruer liberty T

tr country needed anvth'mg to

That nf 160(1 is uol yet prepared, and I go

c. Dlloon yc.n. ol .(,., ..." o.ilb..o Lo. Loo-

,o,.,,.d,„,.. r .-;;S

~q= ;»5Voil pursuits, while Ik'- t" 1 "'

'j[. ,,,(,. ^^ M „,

a should ponder

inruu^ii ,.j \- •ii--....

God will bless your i

level than you have:

children may bee on'

["sUmws Hint in IS-''" Hi" four b.r|,-i: -t

v euunlry,

on/iiiK mm,„„. .vitb tlmt letti

quarters of Gen. Jop.cs, who, by the way. is - «"»-

SadoYnukec. I extended my hand. Oe^.-No,

an^teA7ma^ro^dl^LZ ' Whiia the

"respect me. when the Adjutant handed me my

parole, and bid good byo. 'lon^ a

™f"D"

,,i,,„;,,l his liMid- 1 .Hid, ''No, sir, and bowed.

I went up the Alabama river. No accomtnoda-

ions for the officers, b.it we were told .that

were to be ireuf-d ns g.titU'inen. \' e knew

not to he disappointed. We "ore scut to •,.....-

degn in North,.', M.-iL.a.m,, .hlek is a very healthy

i;;,"',! r.riega.l. Illuioi.ian, who said: » General

have you any Chicago men in your ci

sir we have ; the oiheers of ono

58th Illinois." .Ho said

; Indian Cien, S-:.i'.. )...-

uZmw'W'i "*<•"*>'"re'fanS'b

nO^OOD. These ll,ures,^^^i^r^lIliS..

rowncd, and yr' ""

1.,nile; I"..,-

[ ilon'tknow

iw.how deeply

obody will be willlon -unelvea u>il.u gutdjSioo

opportuoitlea andKmve

,y ihe Republic, the great Amur!

Nation in its territorial integrity. The vicissitudes

of the last filleen months have made hope and fe.

alternate in all thinking minds. And even now,

be light of the late elections in Pennsylvania and

,e Western States, it docs not yet seem sure that

. ,„„;,,, ia worthy of salvation. 11 not worthy, it

maot be saved, for nations, like individualsM„-ork out their own salvation. It cannot and wOl

not be forced miraculously upon Ihe not, or e o or.

The ,uesiion ot. ivl.ieh that of life and death turns,

s whether more men in the Northern States love

.heir nationality holler than slavery 1 Whether they

choose to sink down into a second or third-rate

Power rather than Ibat slavery should go down and

black men have an even chance in the battle of life

ith white menl For this, wo apprehend, is the

ae statement of the case, all sophistries and lying

elusions put aside. We assume that it » now clear

that either slavery is lo be destroyed or the Confede-

racy to ho recognized. Mr. John Van Baren baa been

well censured for what he said in Cooper Instiluto

the other day, nud we imagine that the loud curses

with whieh his statements have been received by the

Itepublicans were more than counterbalanced by the

deep ones bestowed on his frantic ingenuousness by

his own party. Truth is not a sate tb.ng to say,

alwavs-ns poor Maj. Key found when he let the cat

, nf tuTbag a* to the secret of the MeClellan delays

,he Po.oinac. We see interest is making to oblain

TDK EPISCOPAL OBURCB AJSD SLAVERY.

Church Ac Church,

: but ' will • v Ihi

i higher

tneir nigin-a. niy...-. ... -.-. -.-—

God, is to do all they can foe the

he .....

id people in tho free Si

, Thia e:q.e

rou have a great work to dc

'oi re.-i.oii,,b,lny. The .vliol

your beleiil e.'it

Ihe deepest

'' rfr;ro^r^v!C

d

uVn',Vr

U

VorijuJlM^wn crops

;you shall gather and tell

)'our industry fotho products ot j-i

you shall own you

lo feel that God i

r ..eie ..

.1,.. I:.,

icatiAe

ll,e ivhule

.randed vessel, anu an tue sn-eu^

red is put upon this rope to li

ily rope breaks, the vessel is lost

i,l kelp cull io belpyidoleut and ncgli

'iiuelll -tl"-

„, JU lived in

Chicago ; but I was compelled to leave there, be-

" "'

»aa persecuteJ for my teniinjent.- 1

o wilb the AbolilionUis, and I could not

ir goveriiiiivnt because il was so e irrupt.

' Vee sir," 1 responded, " you were no doubt com-

pelled to leave because you were gu, ly of .-o„,e

'rime lor which you (eared an arrest (laughter).

,ked a special favor of Hint gentleman that h

i.i —i .,i...i-o..i,li ,.- again and tieuible us by ti

Wo remaincS a week at Tnlli-l-.-a.

MJ of us were cor, fined in n room HO by 50

j-,.,-1 well .inlilaleil. bill setesli toldier, k:id

quartered there. It was a lively place In

you- our rations wen, a qui. H.-r ol ap.inndul mus.y

bacon and a piece of con. bread, said to be the

Southern Hiidiera1

rations. We were soon sent to

Solum, where we were j.ui in charge of Col. Kent- If

Kent,

3 yearn ; and .

Dut gratifying »= ..

iiilke.eslatislies, wlueh must a.

the content of the former, the

whieh to my mind are more

.hue agriculture was only an

developed. The plough 01 the

was lilde more than a pole with

which Iho earlb was scratched

1,1,.,,-, i-.-i :! y.-ara. Hnil leiiillli ol

;,..,,,.,. |,„ r ,,i[,r.iiluet.

'...,,. ! ...iv. .ilt'ii •

E

But agriculture is

iinil Ike

you ..-cannot >idYoc,„ .. ..— .

cord is made, ll this persecutor oi me ...." i^ —..ilieer, mils into mv bands, he shall sulior as

suffered, lie ulleiuplod lo torluro mo about my f

who, he said, bad been lakeii and hung as a spy,

their pupnrs could bu believed, lint 1 had » pa]

in my pocket to givt Unit ihe lie wilb. ami Ibis is h

1 g.ii il.e pi,|-er: A lady was passing >" the sir

beneath Ike window, the bud passed several tin

Dtlore and had attracted the atleniion of ihe olbc

confined; some ef tl.eiu sugge-iled that she wai

Union lady. We tore oil one of ihe ciirlnins wb

huag in the hotel where we were iinprisiieeil, j

in la.',' let, .T.i wrote eft it with chalk, God b!

Ik., pri, r,,' friend." She nodded assent, i

bowed to us when wo showed it. hho went I

J.uiifi; com" I.",J yards dislant, and I sent a nt

.mplhrity. As

i are other aspects,

iloresting. In early

t most imperfectly

inoient busbundmanstick at the end byother imph

,juperfleia! eh

„„ t ,„,liai, art, in a hie/

jt it is nl.-,, a science, wn.. ..

.1 .* na much as navigation or ailronoiny.

I,!, ledgevlue l-,,„t help tlK farmer ;

an"mag

|

y»hysiol.,gi w',11 ji.l c.,...r..

;

...e. 1 ^when v.

r,:gar,l agriculture in this hel. Ihal » b > e '"

'r^^^-XiX; J l

:'\,dhe,pu^

.., fail .1...

ler. It iil.le 1,.

r. if nUi:..,'diJ.i|i }•><

, ,„e idle, vile

nod your lnsThvF -

rivot eternally tlio

.- ,iii[.eeSded

e careful of your ch.il

iu industrious, cleanly

lion ot tke c

once. Bui innn.ni i' :1

d which is lollowed.

lb... stun

,,.,1 will la

._. ilaithtul, yo

ill tb.e.e ivliu I.e. la, are nianjutu

-.,i-,o.nnd suOer k> the dnvee'i uoad-.•" -

your hands the r. leuii.g "I ""'- 1 ' -=**H-v>-r- per i-.f.-

'.H-rniiii you inoui-n eeutltnially- ll JoU fall. 1. lint

;i r,..,.liur,.-|,..i.aibiltt)- ii will be wkea you come tod,

lu |,.,-1 that the only ''

serving yourselves

allowed to slip.

And you, women,

ob.-.i'i.nlnni! ilntiioi at all

,„,„,,. , t and lid v. .i..|l.il.e all 'l.'.v. " iivevM „i), ..

have 11,em in tho best possible cnndWon, always think

inn and contriving t al.e thetu ekaiicr an. i

eoiniertable. Wkea y,m.' ku.;b„i„l een.e, lemie Ir,...

II,.. l,ib,.,v.n..l la.ie.il... of the day, always l.i.i. i.e.

thing good and nice for his aupper, and .peakkiuJI

to hint for these little acid ol Tore and attention wi!

brine .'.iu happiness and joy.

,;,;,,„,, ,„., „„-„..., .mi to ,v.-.,]:. i u..| ],il,.i

A :, ,V,:.-.

!. ami -:.i. i- •<; -.tf

1,";

,,,.,!,, ,., „.,.,b ikai i.iii have, that 1 could labor lit

:!:; .%..« >» *> ^ '«;» ^-^^„eru ia lo ileal justly: secut.J, lo loio mete,

third, to walk humbly. First, justly-I shall ci

gelyou to do; an, duty lalth-'ully. L' ;;o

would'Vre be°iier

l

TbitD

lms"uch a"bTuuderer. Dut Hit

fact remnias that, if slavery be preserved, tho repub

lie, One nud Indivisible, is at an end.

Now whether of these twain alternatives will the

North elect. The deadliest and most dangerous

mies of the nation are endeavoring to bring about

t sl'tlo of things which shall ensure the ccMislence

jf 'these two entities-slavery and tho republic.

Thw talk of conquest, but they mean surrender.

They babble of terms to be made at Tlichmoad, _but

in their beans they are maneuvering lor conditions

which could be imposed as well at Washington as

there. Could these despicable traitors have their

the Union might possibly be maintained and

slavery not merely be saved harmless, but bo made

ie"ensWe with the Union. It is likely that JefTer-

,n Davis would consent to rule over the thirty-four

States, if he could dictate the terms of the treaty.

he substituted for Mr. Lincoln till the end of

sis years, let tho Confederate debt bo assumed,

let all Ihe dropped officers, military and naval, be

restored, lot all negroes escaped during the

return

ibis country

designate thi

always succeeded ia

di^eussion and action upon the subject of slavery. n

very few of the clergy and a very few of the laity

hav-o from time to time attempted lo arouse the body,

in its Conventions, lo do or say something In aid of tho

llave And these persons succeeded only so tar as to

.-'t themselves stipmiiiized as troublera of Israel. The

peace of" the Chureh," alike on Sundays^^

B renialin-.f U"br.,l;.n b> any prole-at mb.ui" I

slavery It must be remembered that silence, in rela-

on lo a thing es.uWW.e'i. is support. Tho clergy and

itv ot this Church, for halt a century past, have

.cried no influence as real aad active in bt

.overy by refusing to say anything agai

North, as by buying, selling, and breeding

Lath. Andnotcenvet.iiotevenibroUEhtheoppor-

tunily offered by the slaveholders' rebellion, has 11

•nee been broken. How far this subject, keretol,-.:

carefully avoided, has now been touched, at

..rough what amount of opposition, we may read in

tho report of the Convention ju,t closed.

The General Coaveatloa of the Protestant Episcopal

Church, whieh is held triennially. met on tho 1st mat.,

I St. Joints Chapel in this city._

On tho Hrst day, after the reading of Morn ng

raver a sermon was preached by Bishop MeL ...=l;r}

1 Michigan- Ho bunted of the faithfulness of the

F.pi , ,, pB"l clergy, rejoicing that in their pulpits hero

1 no e.citing teachings relative to human nghU,

opjnininir tint" the Cliureli" muat conunue t... Le

t she has been, Iho great cense rvativ-e element in

the nation. Ho deplored the •' unhappy contest in

happy hou "of'tho last General Convention.

It is to be noted that the one chief difference between

the Convention of three years ago and the prenent ono

alavcholdiD- Hiihops,

clergymen and laymen, were received as Christian

eihren without objection from any ono, whde Ihu

ibp the persons in question, having bcconio rebels at

ell as slaveholders, chose to stay away.

Seats, however, were assigned for those abicni

fl/irtn.as ii they had been es peeled, and m callinf

,r representatives of thodioceses, those io the secede.

States were called, as well as the others.

The Convention proceeded n iih the sort of busines.

-[..in-H-v there. dibcu^ion whether or net any aliera

n was 'needed in the canons, the rubrics, and tin

hook of Common Prayer, when, on tho third day

Judge Bruno, arriving from the bsltle-uold of Ant,

e

n introduced a new subject, and created an miens

nation lie was iurpri-ed tliat 'here was no tpcec

action here to indicate that we were at war wit

rebels, and ho offered a resolution proposing

Individually cared, t .

,. slave : and Iho efforts uf theae tu nrouso action

ion to slavery have been slesd-

ruihed down in their ecclcsi-

of one ol their publishers, la

tlio slave from lhat worhl-

wuuiu bo had chosen as iho vignette

el the Prayer-Book, and the etrtillcalo

iven by one of their Bishops to that dis-

graced volume, have fitly symbollied tho whole Course

ol the Episcopal Church in this country. Not otea tho

culmination of slavery in rebellion can divert them

from their allegiance lo It. Fur its sake, indeed, many

of their most eminent men wish lo leave tho rcbolliua

iuelf uncensured. Tlio speech of individuals In this

lust General Convention more frequently favor, than

discouDtenances slavery. Their public action of every

sort, their resolutions and canons, their introductory

sermon and their concluding pastoral letter, nliko

ignore that subject. And all effort lo nronne thia

great representative body to aid in Iho attainment of

civil and religioua rlghla for millions of their country

men hitherto unjustly deprived of them seems to bo

regarded by the Convention at large, as well as by

,Qawke, as " the lugging > oi lilUo

idLr,y "eea-

Yhy was a storm of cicitcmcnt kindled by (he very-

it mention, In this Convention, of a subject which,

.... eighteen months past, has excited Iho toolings,

affected the Interests, and occupied the .bought* of tho

whole population of this hnd, more than any other

whatever': Why was all refcrenco to the tr-

ot a rebellion la this country so strenuously

dt Why was the very moderate tctolation

which tlrst mentioned it—a resolution perfectly in har-

,oDy with tho customs and traditions of tho Church,

nd asking only prayer for the return of Union to

Church and Slate-laid ou the [able without oven the

of discussion upon its merits, by a vole of

more than two-lhirdeT And why was so large a poi-

nt tho seventeen days spent in steady resistance to

i successive movement in this direction: Can these

gs bo accounted for otherwise lhan by the fact

; tho rebellion is a slaveholders' rebellion! and that

cusioai of the Church to uphold slaveholders as

istiaus, and to throw its Influence oa tho side of tho

ilave 1'i.wer, hu.s becom

flier

land

ircly L

rs of Iho Episcopal Choi

. Tho i;l,u

llW.ll..-!-.

cetly c

r paid 1 Iho a

pre,.-, a fori )f pray for tho

matgote

amoved from those

rod by tho spirit

1 acta for his country

tnuli... lie think* fur km

shall r.„ be pnl d and made

il.e lbro.,1 a I

,ur Senators apiece and twice as many Represent*,

ivea in the House for the same constituent numbers,

,ith absolute power of legislation for the whol,

,ation and we rather think our ' misguided brc-

ihren " might be wen back again. We cannot think

them as to suppose that they nould take

nnythin" less. Let the Seymour party in this Stale

aad the People's party in Massachusetts have Ihe

itrol of our poliey.and they can have all Ibis, and

re if Ihey want it. On no other terms would

they Velum foc on no 0,hcr could thej'bl"'° lh°

guarantees for want of which they have gone to !

with us. Freedom of speech, of the press and ol

pulpit must bu razeed to the pattern of Carolina

swell as industry remodelled in tho sf

s,or slavery will still be liable to be blas-

phemed 'and molested. They mast have all or noth-

"i"—nol from ambition, merely, but from necessity,

Tho lale elections hnve not A3 favorable a look as

c could desire—though they might have a much

,ore malign aspect. They are bad enough " ™

tho Na

over the rebel*. Varii

ciloment nud discussion aroused by

this resolution, and details of tho voto by which it was

laid ou the table, wifl be found in Tuc Sr.i-VD.uu, nf the

lltbir

„u „„al with the rebels in arms, only lack

pluek and self-devotion. Bui, slil1

from them the worst that is likely

pily, those traitors are not in the C

i, they do not control it-and this

affairs,

s their

befal us. Hnp-

Cabinet—at any

wful question

get there.

._...„ of Saturday, the fourth day, Judge

Cn^penter""of New-Jersey, renewed the contest by

ring a resolution requesting a new special form of

fet. An excited di-eu^.i„n mv rene.ve-I, aiel li-

ter resolulions were presenlcd, and o Committee w u

finally instructed to report respecting belli proposals

the following Thursday.

Oa Monday, the fifth day, Rev. Mr. Goodwin, of

I'onniVlvnnia, offered for mlopti'in Eomo new canons,

,i,o boid'os oi »», o...i".i- «~"' " "'•">'••:,

... ,., II,.: ..„,, 0O.0 10 OppO^tlOD, OJO.Od

,1. . ; .! ... . . -I.... »• u" "» '"< <<•"

-=E^oo^:=:::k

Alter a prolonged debate, the proposed canons w

referred to tho Committee on canons.

Rev. Dr. Hawks, of this eily, a native ol Serth

I „ I mnwueoil " vasporolior. of our toulhern breth

',

l'hhhiv'Iii Ik" we .hould nut "lug io «J1 ihell.-..

_irly questions of the day " during Iho diseuaaion of

Church mailers.

l of .

to the

clod with the Siato a

ays buhl loyally to tho ciablishcd governmeni to be

i pray lor tho President, the Governors, and all who

re in authority, and lo pray for tho success of their

whenever Hie government held it needful to

nsheath tho sword. If we remember rightly, very

iany of Ihe officers, and a large proportion of tho

ehsiil „i-. in our army and navy, have been Episcopa-

ns. Hod tho government of the United States been

,iated will! force and arms by a rebellion one-tenth.

j magnitude of Ibis, of any power abroad or at homo

cept Ibo Slave Power, Tin Chvrch would have been

ited and cniplinlic, and prompt in ihe denunciation of

At present, scarcely rebellieii.ieoreely even seliism,

i 3 n ,.i-,. .eke bee rebukes, if they proceed from men so

|,„„,'|, red and uphold as Ihe Soolliern slaveholders.

a loiut thus conspicuous in the Episcopal Cburel,

nd, In less or grealcr measure, in all our Churches.

,u great, loading cede -las lie il bodies bavo pros-

d themselves to tie the bulwark of slavery. Tbo

....Oionofthocountry might, if it would, long sineo

have abolished slater)', by setting the rcapectability

and moral weight of a Church coooeclion In direct an-

tagonism to that system. They have chosen, inalcad,

iot only to shrink from such antagoniim, and tako

inciter in silence, but, when compelled loopcnocQon,

lo direct their rebuko against the reformer ralhcr than

Iho slaveholder. Tho natural result has lollowed.

Tho chain which they have helped bind upon the slavo

is now riveted upon their own necks ; and those bodies,

themselves corrupted, well nigh beyond remedy.

, have been wont to call themselves " tho talt of

the earth."

(Wo have received the following oolea from a cor-

ispondent whoso interest in this debate prompted

in, to attend closely at the sessions ;]

I have dropped in daily to witness [ho progress of Iho

omentum, and I can assure you many of Iho Delo-

ites have proved themselves apt scholars and bavo

.ado very creditable advancement. Bnch men as

udgc Chambers and Dr. Hawks, who bavo controlled

30 Episcopal Church for a quarter of a century, con-

tinued like the mole to burrow iu Hie dark and i.mLst

,ro is no light, and that tho Ban Is a dangerous insti-

iun. Dr. Ulson of Massachusetts was a mero iustru-

nt in their kinds and nothing more. Dr. Shtittuek

raa everything by turns and nothing long." Di-J.

Thrall and McAlisler of California made a m Intake at

iho oulbroik of tho rebellion and remained in tin

....... of gold (California) when they should have gone.

further Soulh ; but they were not nblu to, do much

Dr. Mead declined to voto for liii own rcolu-

r rather fur the re solutions of lite Committee o(

Nino of which he was chairman. Ilo in a casl-fron

very brittle. Rot. Dr. Unban IX-

sumed lie championship ol the Booth alter Dr. Good-

si,, bad floored Dr. Hawks ;but Dr. Vinton soon took

tho starch out of bis collar, and left him lo bile hU

thin lips when diey (ailed to answer bis ponderous

Day after day light shone in upon tho Convention

„nd tho spirit ot rolorm seemed lo movo on iho great

deep of the bearls of honest mem Dr. Kandnll, a stitr

rvative who vote! ngaiaul Judje Brunol's re«olu-

at-no out in a hold and eloquent nrgumunt in

of loyalty. Mr. wobui of Pennsylvania, a very

talkative man, a sari of Lay Bishop, gSTO up the idea.

of bespattering his Southern brethren with fulsomo

On Thursday, the

by appointment,

eventh day, the Convci

ionsj derailon ol the s o of I

praise, and turned the table- upon them

Convention odjourued. Kev. Lir. EBgby made

iration could give it. Bu

lhat even the Demoerali

l States are to bo reckoned

iuninerite triumphs. The

that of Philadelphia have

o deeply with their blood,

hey are willing to be made

ipolitical tricksters would

.„ju'try, and of the pending rebellion. Hon. Robert C.

Winlhrop, ol Msssachusetta, read tho Ion? series of

proposed by the Conituit.ee. Ron. Murray

Hoffman pointed out that the rebuke given in them to

the rebels was conditional and prospective, not positive

amendment- He wanted

position, not only before

the Soulh. but before tho world.

Earnest and eiciting debate on tho rebellion, the

if the Contention in regard W ll, nod the qu

rolontarj

i j mark their game.

ll,- ll ire th.li.Ta Wiinl.l il,,!, .iliellier cuuuiciu ™ _-- -

think our peril lies bIinvoluntary in their relation lo it, was continued fa

the side uf patriotism, and placed himself right o

me record. Mr. Ruggles, who bad boon a plia.

deputy In the hands Ol Judge Chambers, finally votcl

for the passage ot the resolutions from Iho Commiitcj

of Sine. , .

Aftcraaeeilouoi two week, tliv vote was^a e

SS-ISSSiMSmhoik Ibo do.l Iron. M. L.l ^'"" ""\","? '

"|",,C"|, || ira we iv earne-l .njni] I.. .ml -

-

-!"' t' 1

t,

n.

',',..' '.r.-ervaliw body in America has

Jien a very Ui«t awp la Iho right^"^y^^

Page 3: National Anti-Slavery Standard, Year 1860, Aug 25

WATQUt

A ILKETOESB TigUnOEB is now the duty of every man

and woman throughout the North who loves nnd meani

lo stand by the great WW* of human liberty. Tyrants

South and knirea Nortli havu combined in » desperate*

Mbeme to overthrow everything just and good in the

land, and to nubject the entire Norlh to the rule and

power of slavery. 3 .til ia tk*ir In-il eAanu, mid ibey

ary next, tlioj fail to set a formidable party organised

in the North find orrayed against the Administration,

their failure is Anal. nnd contempt and shame will bo

poured on them from every i|unrter ut the earth.

Prom now until Ih» tot of January next, ttanfoM,

let tho frionoVol freedom .tand constant at their post.

Casting away Ml untimely criticism, I" them .tand

firm t.y the great pviiKiplo ,,f uiin*"cip«tir.n, as oiniiici-

ntcd in the Prosi'lent'-i proclamation of September Md,

and elnlot far it tho full and cordial support of Otorj

upright and loyal eilisen. Let them patiently a

fflilhfully set forth to llio doubtrul, the timid and t

hostile the arguments and facts which must, now a

forcrer, make 1111 heocat, just nnd equal policy tin- b

far any nation, and, at a crista like the prcnent, wli

tlie " vilest synem of slavery that over anw the sut

is fighting for the mastery nver in, which render .ueh

a policy ibsoi/tli.y sKL'iasiUV for us. In these

two months and a half a world of work is to b,

nnd by tho united, hearty and courageous exertions of

all may U done ; and, if done, this terrible plague may

vet be stayed. Lot every good

"woman join in the heartiest and most unqualified sup-

port of the NMlonsl policy of freedom lo every

pressed, defrauded and eii.lavcd human being on

Hit. With such an ohjeci thus clearly seen to bi

National object, the favor of a just and righteous God

will come to ua and work with us, the confide no

our entiro people will bo renewed, tho flagging

wearied spirit*, of our armies will revive, the forces of

the rebellion will be weakened, and panic take

place of haughty pride nnd insolence in its ranks.

That which is now done by us haltingly, doubtfully,

he vend dent

flowing Si.

Lawrence. The view f1-4.rn this summit la

includes the White Slountah

and the Green Mountain* oi

tho NorMi-weit-tho latter including the summits o

smid'a Hump and Mansfield.

To-day wo are lo visit " Devil ffill."

[Hero tills lettor somewhat abruptly elo.es, mid m

further account has reached us from the mouutaii

and win. 1 helped to

This fr,

roasted on a stick

embrace* the summit which divides the

ag east into Connecticut river from those

Ih through Lake Champlai

Mm place

,t ih.y v I get a

-EJ./.n. «]

fely fro

.,„ an impvJrivo, daring lei

and judgment. SohUIette.

..ry lasting impression upon

WHAT CONSTITUTES A QZitTLEJLAXt

TDK Rev. Dr. Bellows, in

and at 1 is -purposes, will

nilcdly and with a

with a ten-fold

ingle and

ing, and enc

the land.

Jehu C. Tucker

digham in Ohii

not only lahnr to convince the doubt-

ago the despondent; wo must stcadlly

ijehief making and troit'.roua spirits

uch oro to bo found In every quarter of

1 on and encouraged by aueli men as

tlie Woods In thla Slate. Jncl Parker,

nnd oihcra in Mnwoilikens, Vnllan-

. I'ttiit in Indiana, and the like, they

silh a vindictive and umcrnpuloui

ipple ibcnrovira nnd rifoitsof tho North,

to thwart the object of il

ally. Col. Key, lately said)

the real object of those wl

name of a hollow nnd spurioun Democracy, to bluck

the wheels of tho government and compel the Presi-

dent to abandon the position of his proclamation.

Mere or lets clearly avowed, this Is the unjusafionnWo

mofiuo and ebjtd ol all concerned in this work of oppo-

siliDu Disguised as it is in some cases under a poor

pretence of support of the President, while, in others,

as in tlie ease of the presiding nfllccr of

Out Wwfttttgtim Cortcspomlcucc.

WaSIIBOIOS, Oct, 2d, 1862.

rmy dnes not soon move, does not do any-

thing this Autumn, but quietly goes into Winter quar-

1 navy will do something. Of course it cannot

achieve any of those great triumphs which nro equiva-

. to a decisive victory upon the field of baltlo wlih-

Uio aid ol the army. But it will take cities while

army does nnthing. That Is, if the army contents

itself with doing nulliing—If Gen. McClellan believes

It for the best to gn Into Winter quarters. I suppose

that tho matter resta with Gen. McClellan. And if he

decides In favor of doing uolhing this Fall, wo are

bound to believe that in his opinion if wo altompt to

do anything wo Bhall be whipped. That is tho logic of

his opinion. But Secretary Welles does not mean to

let his Admirals lie Mle. They have been walling to

get fully ready, nnd they may have to wait a few

weeks longer still ; hut an attempt will soon bo made

10 take Charleston, Savannah and Mottle. Admiral

Dunnnt was here B week lo consult upon this very

i at the Navy Department, and he has returned

to Pnrl Itnval, or is about to return from New Vork.

It looks sometimes aa if the navy wan our only hope

Winter. The army ia inactive—perhaps it la tot

erous for it to move before Spring—and gold ii

ilng up out nl sight, or rathor government paper i:

depreciating so rapidly that it will

cent discourse at the

dlous distractions, be-

tweeni tlie Southern and Northern people, claiming for

the former the respect of the latter, or"--

Iheir superiority as gentlemen. Theli

ind Bet, 'heir lelf-poMCiion and graet-tul man. en

wore instanced as evidence of their claim 10 the laurel

What is It that coMlUutcaamnn gentleman I Is

it tho attainments nffUnkd by study iu tho achnols or

claowRcTC 1 1^ It fortune inherited or acquired I Is it

the she, weight, form or color of Ihe individual I

Does it consist In the accident. 0! birth 1 Are thew co

gentlemen aivo those born of wealthy parents? Do

they grow only in tropical climntca t

If gentility consists In scholarly acquirements, tarn

the- North La in advance ot the South. II wealth is

.1., _..., i,..t the North takes tho lead. If physi^e

istinii, then the North la ahead. ;lf

I |-,.-ir.li:

-

i.d'H :! 1.

lm '> decidinglliv Amerii-aeli jU he iipbure

T.-.iirm.ui/.l.i

mill Ih.- irnlri'.ti-rii i-li"

hoi Mirii.uri uml ,li'!:ir,

ice guard lo Viri'lnl.l. i., (

mall III. I .

N-rll

. !!,.. probleu

Wo have been taught to believe that a gentlen

nn who i< Kcntle. Uo who is only elegant mo

p nn.l nothing more. Mere dignity may bo a ins

at covers a dunce.

Why ti aro ihe Suolherners small hands aud si

ot? We cannot account for the deformity unlei

1 part of the 1 ureo that reals upeti thoio who

,t week. Labor devclopoa tho physical orBaoltil

dolence cripples and deforms. Look a

bo t

md lire r....i 1

'

','].

;-,i»..ieinr. failed Dcmo-rind Lt'l.j liiilTi nu.l

d them aiminK ua

not be held to bevould be a superbbeen followed by

er"wlli lie an Adniihi-in.ilien

bo wiitelied. Cut ihe people

idem; and we who preienci

—1 addressed tho President a'lain ai

"I.lem..fien.ecottb,

The !

To harp upon what is]

would lie u.ele«; tbo

r,.l Ihi, ei(Y he ili:.tin> tlj I

e of Fort11 ih.' p.irt nf ih,' T ~ 1

1 L1 ...

. L.-'

I will here 1

'

g IrotH Bunie of my previous roiiorl*.

, nil. 'in ihe 1-jiIl ...( I-'ebruary, lo thi- I'm;/ J-hiv fori

lluullrio had been renrmi-il nnd pr-iily '-ttcnithi'Med

>oy by tin' i-r.-l.--H-. Many j.ih-it(iiI new l:mdhnttorie? (I.i-'ide a f r n 1 i 1 1 > 1-'

I -.- nitti !i id ticencimttroct-

ed. Hulks, too. Iiav., been eujil; in Hie |irinei|.:il chin-r tr-'u

lerii-i of Ihe Fcces-iionisu.

il Secretary licit and ni)

nlna ship of war for ll>,

;ed to employ ihe pusci

,mrl.!,rir. i-

on the nrally l.-l -.I. Inn vr..|

jsr.1. Th

ieh desolited hnuielinld* all thn.iugh the

,„|i,ii- with din..n-.'l vi-i.m and .br>-.lllins

word, could jo.ilv tell the story of this

ir Htlv praise lilni. nefloi-l in feeling, cul-

sle, noble in thought. 10 pur., and irue in

ill., child mi.'liL rv.d the record williout

,0 brave in defence of the right— -to loving

It was in no light s|

... I li::hti.ii; : In- whole

.

: ! j 1, and ruin, ihe cuilt

i.-.r ihe hidier, v.-t »<<: ihe

I iii-.n -imply Thruuith 1

I of* eareleunea tl

died n

...-.uiy.-i .,v

and fllmo of Ihe

.K.-i-m. ';

as u id*

ir l„][,— ihen died. Andcad lice. lo-da v. throuuh-TlniiLl.oi.Ih.nt, i;,...l."

only at home, but iaih.- Ih Id. That it can be

Mid of him 'as ot (.jw oilivrj, t!e.n lie liv.-d in einip -u" ne; the men gatliered nbam him. ntfiht

listen i" tho n ible thbughls he would" thoughts that 1

the ci

Heid fresh,

. ,ly life into

id, indeed, us a lie. In -liming iu many

^iiramntu.

it is some relief

to know that tho navy means to do something. Win

is most to be feared l» that the country will tire of tho

war before long, and that separation will come, with

tho emancipation proclamation nu utter failure. It is

to ho hoped that nobody is trusting in the idea Ihat the

proclamation will execute Itself, for It will not. Wo

need a vigorous. President and fighting Generals to exe-

cute it And he who supposes that the people will go

on patiently with the war, without suecessen which

imiso to end tho rebellion and tho war-expensca

lb it, ia wofully mistaken. The tiuio will

our Generals will not or our armies car

lories, tho people will refuse to go on so any longer,

e genuine patriot is to-day anxious lent that day is

preaching. To And fault ia not a pleasant vocatio

1 now after the President baa done so nobly, it

ry difficult

Theli

developed their physical power*, a

their bodies wero ao Well educated Iboy were 1

afflicted with foelilc feet and bau 1 . t"? delicate lo In

Ihe discus. Unfortunately fni tbo North wo hn.o 1

manv small hand* and fool, and they are usually maieu

with small head.,

The idea that delicate feet nnd hands aro marks of

bigh breeding and gentle blood ia advanced lor the

purpose ol degraJing labor. Those who will not work

their bread belore Iboy eat it, are like

neruicB. who had a mouth and 00 hands, and with

ml mouth made faces at those who did the work,

ockiug the hands that fed it.

Ged hai given I" each human being two hands and

ne mouth, plainly teaching the lesson that we nro to

work twieo as much as wo eat-in other worda that

wo should earn our bread by labor.

The Southern gentlemen (I) on whom tho Rev. Doe-

„ lavi-dies his cutiipliuicnts arc rebela—their littlo

hands hevo been employed in shooting, slabbing and

itllugtlio throats ol our brothers, nous and fathers.

Thoy have poisoned wells, ol water, spriDkled arson

.. aul bnllhera t!> Ihe li:'. Ml,.-Held, ntld then b(

il,<-i.iai the pells.

rqiru-ent huell r. ditlncl ,1-1 the l.i(-lilll. ,(, 1-'

.:. „,. Se'.v V-n-k. i:, ml...'!. ,, l.-.,-.l..-'.-i.i'l--.rl.

,.' 11,1,0 Tlmdlilriclsl Id bj l'l!!llll. rc[,r.-.-.;.

1 'n.uliinlicailon id e:a,didn'..-s will learu the r.-.»..

. - i-ii.-t- ! .-linn--. ! ""il. II1..1-1-I11.1', li.iL- leave Ir.

.. il„- yj.r.i f,,.,iil,,..il"u : o,..l li.i-.-ru- .l..iie U.I-. 1 n.ji

.., .„,„. r.|nr^:l. cn'mit t 'here may be such

... , rt ,i,diy r.lh-i.ri I'T delil.e.alii.n as will lead to a

.,.,.,„ .,1 nil 1l1u.11.- n hi if- -I deeply lor their country in

ibis hour ot her trlhuloilon.

Very sincerely, yours,iitoliOR Dlxeil'ilT.

iailing, 1 nest, verhallv,1 nhmitllrl

) Our lull- Cabinet either Mint tuecor b., Sdnt by -lilj),

!' y.-lir, liehlini; Mu-ir way by the bii'lnrrie* (Increos

ill; 111 ulreliglh'dnilyl, or linn Major \..l-. ,.

una— thill il. cull. I-'" in.L'. iiiijplii . by 1 . ihardmeot, nad>y lirintjiny In ineielianl vi-;;.,elii, lielj i-g IlimaClf iciv-

it Wor !., Hie del.

tlon to refuso nil cooperation with the Administration,

in its Policy ol Liberty for All Men, is openly, daringly

and traitorously avowed, the motive and end aro alike

and the same vrilh them all. "To save slavery"!

Infamous work— to which no European crowned head

dares to commit hiuisoli ; to which no aristocrat of

tho Old World will stoop so low, in the middle oi the

nineteenth century, as to lend li'

which 01

a, looks with una

empt. "Toeavoslnvei

uriarM, scholars, prolesi

i-miiidcd in

f both hci

,. i-ery [, n

:i,l llcnieci

eakablo at

:'-'! Fitting work, indeed, fur

irs, Ihe would-be magni

nnd, for this sublime a

.th ihe lowest ans, tu engage

lulled purpose, to joi

unscrupulous tools of fiietion which our poor,

suffering land ia enrsed withal I "To savo sla'

Whu will stand lorlh, ranged undt

OES. SCOTT IN JJ'K OWN

u-hicli a-

-plitir.o:ly ii

iniewhat singular let-

n fact'

toward tho

Iu Hie fort, y lich, in 1 be b,o«

BuAV.TPiiiov US fir. Aiv

..

1 t.enl . Il)-, croilj' tnptrlui •)«eiiociu

urther delay, tt'li

Word '.111

ir.nj, ,'( thr.-

I) Coaal"

mill »,. ,],-

I.rrl :

hut link

Fort Sumler, with all his vcaicla.

back by enmotliing like a (nice

hen], eiiibraciug Charleston and.iri-ri.l upon between the late Prrii-I-

prineipal — J

a lussiog and a by-word In (he

Ltnd-i blot i kindrcd-

"My a

aU ti

1 in imminent danger of losing

.thing for want of action-action-act ion I Wl

now nearly UfiO.OOO troops on the Potomac. Per

1 1 have put down ".0,000 too large a number. Ii

army going to spend tho Winter under canvass

And what ia of atill more importance, ia it going at ouco

Winter quarters on (Ae Patomae !

10 President himself has been deeply exorcised

a this point. Ha wool to see Gen. McClellan for

sole purpose "I ascerialiiiiii.- the came for the sin-

gular delays of the army. lie was not satisfied, ia not

satisfied now, but who does uoi remember Ihe history

of the past aummer I The President has been accused

of interfering with Gen. MeClellan'u plans—the Presi-

dent a civilian—McClellan a military genius ! But the

Winter ia coming fast, and gold is—how high is tbo

premium I The President cannot afford to wait much

lunger, and leiH not, unless the Winter catches him at

10 buainess of making up his mind. Tbo wet weather

ay suddenly come Dn, and put the entire army in a

condition of enforced quiet for the Winter, and if ji

ihould be 10, Micro nro people who will not regret it.

The result of tho elections in Ohio and Indiana, and

in Pennsylvania, has greatly surprised nnd grieved tho

President, and I think a majority of

. 1 rations designed for Union soldiers, nnd wr

batteries.

Floyd, with his Munll boiM-:,. nt-ilo nulli-iis .if in

from the Treasury, and with hia small foot ran r.

from Fort TJonclton. The Southern people, with their

small hands, have stolen the earnings of four million of

men—Micy have stolen children from cradles nnd

ielded the lash until the blood from tho quivering

flesh cried to Heaven lnr vengeance. Can a man be a

gentleman nnd a rebel and n tyrant? LaBttu, the

"id small bands and looked like n gentleman—

t the throali of innocent men when he met

and the temper of tho Gei

hellion, which they disclose, will help lo mutcu History.)

Gen. Winricld Scott, deminc his |>:iM fidelity 111 Ihe

Union and hi- .li-!|,-.-iii".i (" m.iinl nn it In; fori..', when

nn-.--..:.!-.-. di 'iteid'-d by ::-nii'' rr-.rri.i public uion-i. .uh-

„.ii., in .'..-ll-dr-i-r.-n-e lb., 1. .11.. wine, m'-ii.'-.-.uid.i. which

he nukes public tliroupli J7..J .V.ifi.m.i! biW.ii-K.u-e

II.',. f .nil tr...l.n i'l'---l- 'I'.n- "I hiu 'ulih .I.TI.Ie-i [luwell

Or.Hllllirl Jrl.-.l. TlM>ll.p...li; bill V."V sliuuld 1 llV brill

tu know wliai i-s-l'i ci-idi.iii liuchniion and ei -bee re ImyTnucey have tu /ay to them.

October OT. 1SS0. 1 emphatically called the attention

elUil're-id.:.' i- ihe m. 'i.) i-1-..^CJrrnOM in

ill the forts brl"-' > l"-.-|.'- u.".. i I - . -i

the -ouihern - t - .>' •

icoln harbor. Oct. 31, I •'-''

'

Inry .1 War thai a circular saou

jf South Carolina, Klorida, l.ouii

uce lasted to the ml of that Ad-n.i

Tliisia tho call

ia tho true American, let his birthplace oe wnero i

may, who hears and joyfully accepts it. Let us nl

then, be vigilant; in tho proclamation we have th

touchstone of every man's temper ; it is the spear <

Ihe Angel which develops the ftimd, wherever tb

hateful and man-hating spirit cttiita. Let us ace tbi

nothing is lost through our inaction, or halting ; th(

no faithful rebuke ia wanting, no word of cheer nr

encouragement withheld, which we, each of us in h

lot, can give. And may God—as Be surely will-

defend tho Bight!

BEOltQB BANCROFT ON TBS CRISIS.

:, having been nominated to Con-

r tho Eighth Congregional District of New-

York on the Union ticket, in oppor-ition to the so-called

Democrats, writes the following loiter on the stale of

itry. It will thus be seen that he is ashamc

of tho party which he has supported nearly all his lih

•'- Tom,-, Of

the A nUiistra ,r thai tli r,- Cibiii,

ry badly nver the triumph of

Dcmoerals. Cut the President ia ns-

tounded. Be did not expect that the people of tli

three States mentioned would pronounce against hii

ao decidedly. It is a heavy blow upon him, and 1 m

afraid that he will not rend the moral of the elcctio:

results correctly. The truth ia, that the people ai

tired of the management uf tho war. All the spec!

pleading in tlie world will not hide this fact. I7ic w' "

is precisely because it h

1'i.i.f.i," fed.)

id all others, without a squadron of warun'.l a ...ii-i.li.-rul'le .ii mi — •- pr-l'-ul Lo l-ike andMieiniiiiv Iiinnldiil'li' li.iii'--ri.-.. l.i-k.w l-.,tl Si inner.

i..-1'..re tiie e>hiusliiin of iK ^ub.-i .(,-iir-,-— lirniil;'

preiiniiri'.e'l, l"r the change el eittuiiialane-..i.

:i.-lirr..|.|.- t.-. M.i.j. .Xii.l-i'-'.n. LnpL toiler III. ill

n-t-rl nn.l all tin- OLIiei- ..llieers "I the fori. 11 w,ll

,- lb- if .-lien. Ti.llcn, Chief ol Ihe Corps of fr e.-

['„'

1

'!i..|\'..t'. ili;",'ri,"]/,' that ihij. Anderson be

uuted lo evneuati' I lie tort, .e luai; giillillilh hell

ill] and hi-J criipiilli-ilii, injn,.-.li.il.-ly vn pi, . jrin,'

l.lc- ii-.-.iut'.irioii'.ii ! take them lo Ne« V.t-.-.liili.v wcLlii;--. Ii.i-I ril.-ii.lily nn: reused in III.- Ij-I

i tV.Cimei j-, : In il,e >.,. •' n i. i

'

, ii,,,:;... _\1r. Sumoer Blood, on

ltd blci. We have U.-il Cbul .-

.,

I ,. „ II.C ...J ... laid! SI

uii.Mi.o -.,.;i,,- -..,-,.- -i i -! .-

iuic L. ileionoa.. SI u.

!-

ceomes of Chtirlcs Bin

ready reigns In the Caivu; !-?V O"'

ISTEKVIIIW Ol" IILE PdSSUIKSl ""1

bed in Xrtj V.i; k. t

ity (Wahhingron) Dec. 12. Ncit day I

per? "(Hilly ureud «[lun lllL' ^ecrel.ary "1 War ihe same

i,.iv,—vi-t., hli-ong garrlsuns in the Southern fori-.—

In,,,-. ,ij Cliiirleidiii and I'.-n nn-ln harbor*, at once ;

hnie on Mobile Bay and the Missiiaippi, below

It waa nol till January a (whan Ihojirj! Coners rrom South Carolina withdrew! that the

s;on I luul aoLeitcd October 31 waa obtained t-

lih commanders nl the few Southern forts wl

ivsaulla. (Miij Anderson waa nut among tbi

i,l, d, being already struitly beleaguered.)

January II.—To Lieut. Slemmer, commondirBi.oln Harbor :

The Ceucrnldn-Chlrf directs thai yon take in:

icrof the form fn Pensa<

,r .i..,i. papers-o. .1.. ....

, I,.-., .i-.: li

Ikhirduin, the i.,

ized companies and I

pots arailablu for tin

c for me an cai

. -incipal "de-

he Secretary did not

I begged him tu pro-

with tho President,

i.llltriel. This act I

io are invoke to the perils that

country, and who pledge them-

be governed by loyalty 10 the

xt Congress will have befoi

[ unLj.-ci.'i Unit ever engaged '

A PEEP INTO [ PRIVATE LETTER.

printor's types have no ri

But s editi

,f The Ub^atoT. has sent to the temporary oc

,f this Editorial Chair a private letter giving

ottinga of that pleasant Grean Mountain pic-nil

.that can be the harm of printing a part of this

iVu expect, at any rate, to be turned out of ollh

iveek. So wc venture lo give the following fro

from o Our Own Cnrrespondent."

Depi

It Is

.r plana lino orked

PKICUIM,

ice I parted with you, and I

report myself. Jlr. G

.." [This remark, wo

d sense.—El. pro leia.] All

o a charm ; the weather has

con carried on so shamefully. Thei

ig but imbecility from tho commencement

ntil now, and the people are aick nigh un

;. And then there ia another fact: thepco

nti-slavcry yet by a great deal. But tho el

ot pronounce against the proclamation of

ion—they protest against imbecility, ngainfi

heating, ngainat the jobbing and cootrac

ear tin* aiupid censorship, the fn

and thi

ilh the war. Tho Prl

lug that ho was strong enough

n, Alexander Cuuimings:

""'

ftho w

11,1-1 .[id.lr.

nee the Convention that fi

et wo seem to await the day ol

methods of prepi

...king, aller the lavLh

Wt'j-A dearest to uo, toconti

ram divisiona and wo

i of unclouded pro

iuiiTtluv.w. It is lieoi

he North. Yet,

... Jrorn this city alone troops

constitute a formidable army, we are

lanifest at the polls our consent to a dn-

the country. Wo send men from every

thoy (how b the battle-

I.- I Ml» I H.,1

.

,

,'l,.'i'-.-,nV-l!'-'" Mniilirle lo hold the

iri.i-.-r) iin-il"-i .muck."

And the Secretary, with animation, added ;

o Wo have n vuiicl of war (the Brooklyn) held in

ml !li[,

an many men could

not bo wilhdrawii Irooi thai (Mni-j.m, hut could he

taken from Xi-iv York. Nest, Mi.it it would then be

too late, as the souib Caruliua Cuieiii-doner.- would

Ihen have the fame in ilnir band., by first using and

then cutting tbi '

\ n, the v.-

urago, a asked to

n light only U

Amis

of other mi

t his mistal

crfectly I

been propitious

have look,

r has given pleasure ; and v,

the finest scenery in tho worl

My native town is beautiful beyond my power of d

view of the wholo While Mountain range and an U

menso reach Of intervening terrilory, dolled with

smiling farms, pretty villages, and ponds sot like mil

rora In surrounding hills. Wo are Full ot enUiusiasi

ever what we see, and our time paises delightfully.

The arrangements for friend G. to apeak in Ih

placu, kindly made by the minister nnd deacons of tl

Coojjregolioual Church, have been fully carried on

Ho spoke for two hours in his grand way on Sunda

ailernoon, after a brief introductory address fro

myself. The people were so impressed that they cried

out for more, and another mceiing was appointed for

Monday evening, when ho spoko again to a full house,

with ((rent power and unction, fairly taking the people

Tor twenty-llvo years his reputation here, as almost

everywhere else in New England, has been that of a

fanatic and an infideliand I, as bis assoclato and

friend, have stood under Ihe same condemn, lion. Bui

tho people of this towu havu beard air. Garrison ;they

Though the people

It is hard tu say a

is Ihe simple truth that tho 1'r

the political disasters iu the V

carried on the war as to h

popular. Ho might at tbo ou

ground on the slavery queslio

thirds of tho people with h

uch all through tho Winter t

.cians quoted him as Ibt-ir frii

his very question, and the President was claimed dur-

ig Ihe entire session of Congress B3 thoir special

friend. But tho past cannot bo recalled, Tho Pi

icat, and ia dinposed lo do everything ii

power lo save Ihe nation. Ho can do it still, a

believe will do it. Let fighting Generals have comn

of our armies. Lot McClellan be encouraged to '

piehmond before Winter sola in. Lot tbo rebellion bo

crushed before tho first day of nait Juno, and all

he welL Slavery will be finished loo. But If tl

t tho pro-slavery poli-

tho short-sighted di

with

peedy end of this

Btrile indefinitely.

;nt, the army, and

o gain peace by

The.

:-i v.

0 of t

a thirty

inr lnr generations. Quick, united

intjil ti, an early end.

Stnto of New York,11 ring through Ihe .

K..rt Sanlight s.

"

handful of armed secessionists

ly bo permitted, that if the Sc-

ipunltc with you." (this order was signet! by AlJe-ic

"amp Lay.)

It was just before the surrender of the Pcr.iarela

Any Yard (January 1°| that Lieut. Slemmer. calling

unon Com. An.i-ir.-n:.-. i.t.i.iiind ihe aid of some Jo

:.'nin,o„ E.,.i.u.!ii or I il'-r-r.-, [but no marine. ..I.:.-'-..

.dded 10 his lo aoldieri, mode up bi.1 numbers lo '••

jien, with whom thii miritcrious officer lo -inc.-

held Fort Pit bens, ami [.erl'.niitd, working nifht and

day, on immense amount of labor in moui^m; guns,

keeping up o stron; guard, etc., etc.

K.irlv ii, January I rent-wed. in has bi-cti seen, myr-ulii ilJU.itll to be .III..W..I lo ["•"! l-'T' l'l':t-;n:..

l,„l iip.i.1,1 ilailn: lini,. wit. hut ill vaeilLili-jiT.. I ir.-t,

the President ' ihmivlit ii no tmii-i'iiii nt is made by the

l-nitcd Slate-], l-'rrrt ilellae will prnb:ildy not be nccu-

pied nor Port I'itkeie* aitai.'ke.l. In ta.e el" meveiuents

by the United Stiit-j, whieh will dnublle.-i lie made

known by the wn-e-f, M'elv will be eorre :[: .n.linj; I. nil

and the attempt lo reonforco will be usc-

IWlion friiiu n note mad..' by Aid-ih--..' imp

Lay, about Januar. 12, ..1 tlie President's reply to a

itss-iite from uie 1 Nell, It wa-1 iloiibttd wbelhvr It

ould be sale to Bind iMtnfijrcom.-nts in an unarmed

turner, and the want, as usual, »f a sellable naval

i-^'.tl— lln- lironklyn being long held in reserve at

.-..rlolk lor some i-.irp"--e niik..-..v.-ii to me. Finally,

after I had kept a Umh of :m .....oils in New lork

Harbor ready for -r.nue Unie-a„d ili.-v weald iuve

1-- . I. --irli ir.'.-.'! !" I"- ..--llr-.l-.-.r I . I I >[

H '. T . 1 > t ^ I 'I '

''-

' ''

'-

'

and lo oecupy Fun Mcliae al.-i— il.e Presided!, iihi.ul

-lanuori I-", pei-iiiilled Unit ihe s |i-el-.-ae llroeklyn

Bh.iuhl liai-e a J.Hiiel.- eonipaay, ai.i nun, Iruu, I- it Moo-

rno, Hampton ILnd-i ami nri.nl urn e Lieut. Slemmer in

Fort Piekeii-.bul without a aurplus man for the neigh-

boring fort, Mellae,

The Brooklyn, with I'.ipt V...):'-.!'^ rempriny iilnne

led theCh-ciftalie ic.i-1-.rl fiekeiw ab-ut January --

and, on the 2°ih, President Buchan -

pjbllo engaged h•...i,

i• .

' • ,. .

. i,^;. ii.ry *ii.- c ,in;e 1

. p. Ir/ Mil., .e.1, lb; It lai a:

;,. „-.* -• »i -tl ,-k.f a :

ould now have becu in the potsesalo

attw, nnd not a baliary below themecled by tho secesalnniils ;

conseqi

'ntftii H'-J uindiMiruetcd and free."

'f/ie samo day, December IS, 1 wre

'• Llcut,-Gen. Ecotl bees tho President

HCI UIILJIIIi: Cil "h"i,J, "^ v-^,r...

'cdnaidav. Tlie funeral tikes place

vi.-i.-';, -/'. i.'- nl' V.i" Jiiaoircr.

Later reii rns modify. li -t..:...-r :- ,1,: .:l.-r.li...i,-),

Il<pit.-!, ,.,,. NII-.-..-.H t., nine. I.i

1: I",' i.r-li...

iwnrli t|..-elcl t.y Mi- Ui-i.ai i

%'r'nmnioei ,.,].! tllin.lls-

! :,:;:. ',;-'-

|,...-ii..,it.i

. lUI'l r.|l....|vll

Willi nr

mtly ihe i

i tbo following

UuionJ Aro we to devote all .mi i

curry nn tho war, and ih-.-ui;" tu il.i- pi'll t si-

u., and could not havu been avi.iileil.wn9 unnecessary

1,,-viin ry in the field, aiel limn I., oi.ri.ily at the polla a

i-.-mliiiiH. to faint and mii-eumb: Whin Ihe iiliirarelij

of tbo South begun the war by wn ly uiiiiliii.e our

,, . . yvbi.di was M'ii-].:i'-,.l uiily by ihe niblinie

nte nn.l .midi-rali'rii Willi whieti they hire iK-IVat

l.ii-iii.ii.iie.-imlil. an. I un-.tltain eoiil.inte. Miall

ow prncb •*

,1; Tury

wl.uie

dim! Furl Piekeii-'.lo commitiDiaiKlCapt.VwIsea'aconipai

iu nl tacked4

1 iii'l'.r.i

iuwL ftlemmvmet of hosiillly

until Slari-h i

[. ..'.'.li.. 1.1

'en-at..la,

piinj; l-'net

, that t

1 min if

iiiai,a:.:-.-ii,'-nl prevail, wc may as well givi p first

1,1 truth inof Chrh

apprehension and

On Monday we spvn

lie tho remains of my

anl brother, and tho:

s compensation for y

n ihe radiance

joy

tit.it il.ig

igland, all the old he,

oing eagerly hi

vninflet half oitiie

adopt them Tor our counsellors!

iat things, iu this time ol general

Vtail'leii.L'.i'--),

".iaturd-is ntylil, 1

ive 2S,—Acnill. ft I'u- r Ma.iur Aii'lei'.i"0 hud g.ill.ntly

s,,i,l wi.i-lv thrown hi:, handlul of m"

'

ila Fori Sunili-r b-ar e llml. "H

(.arulu.a, (here iva-s ttreat ilin-t.-

„i-Jeiij by Hiu fe--erttnry hack lo lb*.

11 IhDOt

slop-mother

dso of many, old and young,

whose, laces were once familiar to me. Then wo as-

eended n mountain, commanding a view of not only

Peacbam, but of an immense expanse of mountains and

valleys, foresta and farms, with here and tliero one ol

the beautiful little ponds so common ill New Uamp-

nhire and Vermont.

We rolled stones from tho lop, to hear them gc

crashing far down tho aide.

Yesterday vre sioud 011 the spot where I was born—

the situ of a log cabin long since demolished. Wo tra

veiled over tho road which my boyish feet pressed 01

tho way to school. IVe wet

tolled in youth, and through

ilyuwolt. 1 looked

slept, Into the room

last, into the cellar

...for the South will achieve ils indepei

ilnvery will not bo overlhrown by any edict of

I'l-c-il.iii Lincoln.

1 with various persons llr. Lincoln

does not indicate very clearly that lie sees what

'

ing him and tho Administration before tin

rat that is a way peculiar to him. Ho oltcu talki

bo did not fully comprehend a question, wbei

is, that he ia calling for an argument from hi

So ho talked with the Chicago delegation, r

week aIterwnrds issued tho proclamation ol emar

lion, lie is thinking very hard just noie. Lot ua

It will be to good results.. Oh for audacious e*

ship! And by that I da not mean a b

who has pluck only. Pluck and brains—we must have

both. If used properly, the proclamation of emanci-

pation will aid us wonderlully ;hut if we use it as if

, wero ourselves afraid ol It.it will do us no good,

t, instead, n great deal of harm. Tho next month is

be an imporlaut one in tho history of tho war. If

ll.U'j ia done St will be a bad omen ol tho final result.

Harper's Ferry and above, and oicopt at t

Union go. Shall

It la una uf tho s

„, n-.,w, thai an .11'"'. 1- 111:1"" "' l'tre iianu our it 1

" ' reign birth to stive their votes in the

y puny ut the fa^li-h aristocracy w.,11 t.i e,r.|iir,iti"ii .ippre td lie .;. al In in.

m, with noble puriutism, placed tbeir

i service (! the government A1 that their loans wero ofl'ercd «

1

without any need! That the ^01

bought p.

p., 1 p-

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lir.t'ii.-lril,li.,n-i (..rail limn

ra thDcO expressions iv ell.

[Ttiai iuiui 1, ..-; 1 ne. ,-r !--.... mi.. 1

y ,',;,, :;ji"

','']',"'-';'r,',Tv,-miooat ivLiiiogK

terminals with It.]

Hearing, however, of tho men

ir hu-diliti.-s on the part ol the

lie ihe erection of new batter...

.1 -,.,.I,,.. 1 nui a k'lin m-m. 'u'l whta

-.i/.-.l-diuiu-! the I'r.-aie t.-on.emiuii nii-1 nn

brought the subject to the notice of the now Ad

tralion, when this nolo, dated March 14, to

Vodgea waa agreed upon, vii: "At tho first far

moment you will land with your company, «"

Fort Pickens, and hold the same till furthoi

' -, in duplii

rleiach. -I ''llh.-'-i

, Toft Sow Vo'rk by two naval

.bout the middle of March,

Bubstituled, for twi

paroled by tho auih

diapntchfs taken from one ol tl

escape like treatment, forced to I

that city. Thus those authoritieE

make war upon Ihe United Stales

them of thu Navy Yard, Jan. \t.

Respect fully submitted.

Headma tiers of the Army, Washl

id already

third.

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utySir'tUnfoai'

"1 i'vaJe ^u?.™!"*1

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,'li; IMIIM, .'10 lo!B on ll:r !-(.ll- lirke! I- tlil-t

,linl^ we

lilukiboivrong .idr Iijj.i: i . ftePT eelaiivM «Con-ure.-i api-ar 11. .tuii.1 ' ..'....1 1. "1

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, r"."m"-' i',7v l'"'.'.. ' r'i.,-n, '1

... ...al.ly

lu l'owi, the fit Itenrt. dilative- In ConKK-ss are all lie-

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.I'uir-i^Vi'ri.^-'-i'lii taeV'.il.iri'" U niiks ate 10 vote, .rhleh

..ill „.l! i.wuelv loiliii inr-j.irttr., ,

-Sut] ai,- ihe i-.-ni-ral i-t-.'ilii ...i' I lie l.l-.itebei tltflloan.

Tilt rul,.:l till..-!, ,."l ol ciiir-c I.,- i,ii„;".'l by llitili.

||„. t llitv-not arlpld 10 lie ' The pjnv lh.it gave ils

uvtrv villi' in r.-tl.tl V illan-lieliaiii. ui.il v.-liii-l, ll,is ren.iini.

aaitr'l ll,o. w,„,. 1, I,,,, imidu ,i|.|..,7..i.t t.ili.^: ilie rebols

liavt rep-.if-JIv- ill.l 11. at iln.-i c-" "'.re all ngllt, but

lia,l no pane li,;l.h,J tlie hit- U nul hv,L n, ili.initli

tlltVbad? iVcl.(111 f, .,, ll„illl-:.:,'lll--.it.i,l,. Tilt ll-.-ni.-,-

traile ma--e5 do net. "e iro-t. int.in '> iiiicninigi! ine

..,„,,-..!, bold m. I'll- I.e.-

M „ t,,.p.--,-' H11-- r'-I-n.

,,,„,-,, 101 Hi. .-..i.i.mi..

icrnlta may Insiantly

I. That orders may n

ri-un, Willi iilii|iln aiilipllu-, of a

. . ;.,i..'i, • ! I, i f,v: ibles, 1

,ipi; ead. ». That 000 or two.ip|.,lt Ibo!

ink.-, fellow

»„ uationid character, by coweriCKbejo.

:t which all the possible dep .u-inl ol

ity could uoi have avoided I Will th.-y (•••-

,ent Iu see the giivei-nnn-n; -. par.il) 'etl, nod It- pdiey

11 tinn-erl-'iin, ils 10 j.-opard tlie n.-r,tunilir,n > pub.i.

;redit,aud tu invite ilie intei-p,isitioii ol loieigo p.»-

Aro nor merchants prepared to wean tberairjv

The r

l„-L.r-,liiiilnary to o baltlo—to a _

is, the whole nation will bo glad, always providing

at we are competent to thrash the rebels, and if tvi

liiiiit-i pr. [ii-cd to wean t:

.- el" the Chesapeake and II

a 1

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l.-.-itliiniiy nl-o

''^o'rw.'.r.'i'.'l.^tll.lfi'Korl:,

.0 and I'. .1.1-.... >><! |..,ttieel,i.ly-

i'f;.;.;:""

, ,,r„T hiii'lll

tbiJIi/v.V'i.e,'-'," !. tl .:1 1 -

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tmontlhnlibc Brook- "'.liall give iiilriy iIm-u-j I '< •

"froiultio/ht wur since Jol)-.

j with an ai

so where uur film

chamber where !

there my mother breathed hei

here I used

apples. Every alone on the old place looked familiar—

the barns, wood-aled, garden, orchard, nil had a greol-

TLen we went to nn out-lying farm, which 1 remem-

'i7ie ilrpuilican 0! this

confidence Ibnt Gon. Hooker ia aoon to Do sent 1

mand the army on the Upper Potomac, and tin

IkClellnn will be brought down here to take th

now filled by Gon. Banks. I don rt know how much

truth there may be in this story. Tho letter

Kearney wluch has recently hcoo published

injured Gen. MoClollao. That letter waa bo sweeping

in its condemnation of Dearly all tho Generals

Army ol thu I'olomac that it fails 10 injure Gen. N*>

eifm 1

id tho p. 'wur of freedom 10 bleu.l them with ui

00 ii',iiiii,ality and broMitchuud, aud they ttavi

nl,, iKiv .! ;„ - :i.e general divlreta. hov

bave ii'-ith list ihey are received Into thu boson

nation, nnd form a part ol one great, real, living

r.ple. Shall we =.url n„rd li. thu-.e ot tliem who""""

camp tlial there ii on Ameri.Mn puepl,—ihat

Union la a sham I Mar eilv rightly declared ils s;

pathy with the gall mi v.:„'reurii(i. when ho returned

from bin long captivity. What gave tlie chief lus

his services and hia rjurrowo tjeepl this, that h

fought aud budered lor a country and a peoplot And

following obituary

Liberly and Free Soil parties, and more recently as a

idical Republican, hia watchword was. " 1 i-eedmii lo

1 ' nnd he embraced every opportunity that offenfd

fitriking a blow at slavery and In ravor of tho Righta

]Hcd.' in Philadelphia, on Monday, Oct. utl, of wounds

.-.;"„, I at Ihe lultlu ,'t AlHI,-t.i"i. l.ee. vi-c 11 1- .<-...J

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ompany F, Tweuty-eighlb Heglmeo^ 1'ennsylvania

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'..r.l of the close ofonc of the truest. br.ive*t,

' ;.',!„ , . tl.iit l.a.v l-.-,n ...Iter-d up in tins great

, - ,.-: .„,.. prctiniii ly.., -11 where .uffermg

1, tl,u M ,'. 'all. > -lb nn. ^^niy^.. .11, ,. ,.u,..l.--l .11 I - l

'-- 1 - "o ''" 'iinri'iut i><

""I',!' ,i- alttr tluUting =0 well and bravely to

Iraw forth Ihe chcen and inspire the hearts of ui

,.-.,U- _ltlli.li lb.- liul'l ui-.iir.iii-- d and uiiu'.ir..l-1-i

',,r|| . ;.:,,, i,-,.— ,.;.,..,.! ,„i.l,-r.i!„.l.-"h'--lb. ili-lgr.o

L ''

r ,.. in d.iya,.. aii-ii) without alleviation^, - wa

, ,.., ,..„;, !l."v a veunu irit.i.1. who.e love hid over

'!,';,. all .!l,.atlcs;andBhau---"'

,,n bank tu the bt.icto ll|ai

ajnrlty I.. Oen. Wndiivti

.,1.1 mate up by el

There I? nothing new In this efleel of thu w.'.« uf lt-1 !, K-.-tral Stalei were cam. -",,ltrall-l- I. .-.iu=.. if Hi'' prt|'-,aibTi

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..aru of thoir (tab

li. -lv-cuaU 1: |r-...-t

llibilieavy

.. ..Ir. In Ih0[,.].il,-lly liv Urn

l„ill, willlu siroiiKLT..ni|.h.i

tn'nt't'bt'di-i-il'ie--. ol Vall.iiirlleii-iiu. l-'''>,

bee«, etc., would voliimerr in -

litpabliean t-nnlitaeiii. ol Mini—" 'Julfiw, etc. Mr. Colfax nl

injority by the viiliiiHeerii

Willi I

v.Sto-

low their soldiers a

Jr? Y. IXbu-ie.

IN THE FIELD.

STOSEWALL JACKSOS SiB3 IT, ASD 81QE1S PORWOilE.

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'.ii.to lo llaoer.-.lown. tv.elv

,,11 a -treii.htr, when eve

luvine heart, whii li -uldini]

urn-Ion hii trienda and be

1 ,\u lull i-t the iwary juurn

orly falling 1

ed nod waited fi

miles across the

I step was a nai

,p0l(BM.T01_kUrl J hi- helpers.

t to Uarrisburg,

f the friends, &reached bla side and

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Page 4: National Anti-Slavery Standard, Year 1860, Aug 25

piiiccltancoujs gqm*tum.t.thoy should grow discontented, and Mn k'throw

oil their chains before their time-the "'"SI:

(.raterul wretches, who wero taken

ul fed all the y

Booths ibe will) oipbM

Tl.ii- -uill. Mo >r l-'iillni' i liin

1 )."M "-'"1

Corns l<> IbyUodelbut."

r f..wur >im..l- iiTxiu-lly un tlie Hill.

I Mil- str-mec rliOliehllnU >>'"« I"""

.ehimh llcs'lgeiiu.c "<<>" '••'["'

Comctolfi.yle.dlM [In,..-.

.in T.ntiietl ctilnic :

li. ii.uiilii.--il, old ago pssl.

lo thy r.wl in In-'"-"

ird hit native bells

hru.Ti- in llcli.il spell*.

l.-'wlth m-Tnii lir.iw.l.ccricl

Iho 'bore wltltewnliieV il-lc'

Iiv liod Ultimo.'

hunk God, tlinu wl.ii.iiu: l.mivp, mMi

,- ,- i^-:.Ut'i"v..k-.: .ve ll..- pule,

'luiul the. pood ship nml re mil -ill.

t'oim 1" il.v t,J"-' '" Hi" 1'.

F:nl grew II"'" lu-iling rhinnI

" Come lt> Illy lio'l ill In-t."

Doomed heavy un lb(J blast,

i row ilinl -en, n» IT It heard

lull ili.ill-. ilic .-.i].lali.s .'Idle - li)

,0 .1'-ailiTW iihis;ln^iic>lil|,.

'• Clue lolll-Hi'i'lfo liul-."

imotothyOedi.t la".'

IK In lite weedy caves,

of, hou>:ed,

[ii|,-n-ull-ii

..,,. in the week.'.iiide'r the lush." True,

might have bi.i. f..iiml ilif" who bad an «n^f """'

of il than in,' factor. ,urls utile North .who flour-

ished in .ilk I brondcloib. wore gold chains, ami

crew Int and Iniy en en,- peek ° r '" rn "" ,l 1.

vo n0f

U,t

of herring a weit.. Ha. it ibe represon.nlion of Ibe

people is lo be believed, of the young men and old

men of uiiifo.ler„ nnd nitfofous, ol iho present day

Ibeir fate wiih so terrible that the average lift - '

i.lun- man or woman, niter being put ml

field, was not ever eight years. .

A Catholic priest, one- day during Iho

Ml told lie si:.. ..s in n sermon, "that they were all

lo be free in twelve years, and tint I bey must begin|

lo prepare for liberty," etc. ... , .-n _nI ;i„- wildfire lb.) new. ran over the island, till all

id beard Ibe slory. Oh I it was touching - >"

o men and women report Iho tale

mm nflcr.

"Tho poor Simla" (suid ibe cil- or a pll«.

.

.Idine the storil-'thc poor souls dul not know

iw lo count time they w.-ro so ignorant and de-

rad-d. Thev rushed "home when I hey hemd this

„„,} ,,-..,, mid into our pi«.n«, osclnimmc,,

'-»>

,,,,„.. oli !„.,..«*. am we free in twelve yen;.. uml

,],,.„ ,ve told ihem, ' Ye*, it was so.' ibey asked witli

,,,,.; i.iv/iil,:,!,,,..,^.*!.."!!-.". ;»elvo .yen™,

honey?" and wbe.i I told them twelve Chnatiu is

a— lor they onlv Lnew how to measure ycan.^1)

i (hreo any*' festival at CbriatnlM

iVby,

nska questions

tile crooked, contemptibli.. ibin; that

PUTTING TDE OART BEFORE TUE HOUSE.

The old saw goes that " nn Irlihmun Is prlflRBed t"

j-I.--.iK iwiie." ami -' '•'/;' '' '•->•:.Tl lt. |.rivilcg-.

n IKjO, eleven

I'd eboose n honWith not a sou

a grot of [Kjace

!

by Brill's wave,

';;:>;

ore absoluto condemnation of them than tbo Biblo

ibibited. He wouliL lit-.' some of bis ,i U die...v lo

fose nil oatb and Le sunl i" ].n-"'i.

ii w..,il.l no. I"

, r i,",,-,... be sni'l. and eliangt of air would do lh.ui

SILENT nOESUlf.

lie tpoke rather of f ilent nnojes in religious ai

ie,H as of an impressive nnd beiieueisl cburnei.'r. I

id i,i,t think b" could rcroain tilent for two hours.

Ho ridiculed Ibe idea of holiness in brick? end

mrtur-sanetity in iron pillar*, nnd conind.-red iba.

jh»t he deelnred w,i a ji. s t pit £Wl opokeii from tbe

eclurc-room as IWim tb- l.ni.el ; a, to bsiifc bein*; " (

„", or. in a ph.ee of wor.-bij., I- ilioiJB lit nn individtml

tbould he fell lu his own trm.d..m m tbo mntlrr

Upon tho whole, tbe lecture, iboujih a mi're etiitcD,

nnd delivered with tbe cbarncienMie freedoin oi

oipression and in.l.-i...-r„|,- ol iud-meiit peculiar to

tho lecturer, uvine-d r. .-peel nn.l ndnnrniion for the

clnracter of lieore..' ! -.«. «nd mruiy "I tW v-riiy ipb=•

bn advocated ;but as ln< reganltd (.Jeorfie VoAsron

son to bo more of a prneticnl than doctrinal charm-

tir, ho did not touch much upon controversial poml

c| theolocy.

The leeiure e].,iu'd will, a short prnyer, an

doted willi a bencilietion.ibe audience keeping ihe

7ea(B.—Brttlik Friend.

a r.rpsiring Iho sew-

1

TlIiiVUUTif.

Uurd psn'op: words,

Vctielili

Biinrlih

urely, jbnll lb. re li.k

lc, [|i..y walk tot hick lo llof

n.lnj; itrecl.

Ud down their bands, nnd wail.-l o"t '"' 'I'-l 1'"

1

mns-'n. ob! inisaus, ti'.ehe Uliristninsl Uh! we

not lib dnt long, honey—we all 'cm die—all 'em work

dead gone 'foro dat. , .

The good owner, encm^ed Ihem, and thu bad

,,H, 1„iei,...Uellin;; ibeui o.U of the inland, or com-

,,,1111,1; more inieiijcly hnrd work, and tbingn wvtit

|,n npieirently ™ iwial ""I'l 'he feeond day ut July,

18-18, when it was found a plot had bee,, coiirocled

for the general uprising "I ihe rlnves. Unit nigbl—

Suiidiiv eyeiiin.- at !) u'i.l'.'.k- when iho V'.:o|ple were

,l..,,,.-,.ii,m, ,„tb- nWecrif}-, tbe whob; people

verOBlMtlediir--'-

',][.....',„'-'!.

1„.||-;.-.t- i-.jil-.ceiieh-sh'o-lls

Ind horns blown ;tigtml answered signnl, l.ll rem

iiouiitfi in-side m-I vill-j ih.-j ..>mu: pouring m, an<l

•nlbering logell.er in groups or tbousai.ds,

„:n-,b,^ t-: i-dil.- ^.yusol-t-liriBiiensteilo .

,,,, and !Ye.!crick,ted on ihe west, tinned iviib Ibeir

,„nelietc,^, knives for cuUinf; cbiic, and fork.

,-MA.U-j cui--.iii.il tiui.'in- --'I' ivil.l, -telin-.us

- — free—we «e In-.--'' " l.maTu.'ipale, e

They lerrllied tbi- v.ln'e inbabiianls. -is did

old John Brown with his gnlla.it /i«-i(i/-on« the con-

ience-stricken lyrnnts of Virginia.

Believing thnt the ulavcs would'— bl'r and nieto ou

THE DANISH WEST INVIE&

Tno-K who have kept up with the tide of pi

events dorm? Ibe last si- mnritha. will perhap

remember that vine lime ... the !-pn«e « "" B * l*ted

in ihe public journals tbiii the government of J),

IkU addresMd ibe Cnhi it WiwhinglQO

officinlly, making ib-.-n. tbe oll-r of aa imlnm on

MUeir West India Ules for certain .onirabaniU ea cjip-

iiic from the session tyrants of the South: that

thty would rcfiuire them to give three years appren-

ticeship under their " l'rovisional tiovcrnmeut. and

lo hrcaihe love's tendci

o bitten hy aion —u sillii.fi by a boufili t

li your fond win. to «t

ur Uoor at daylight's dohard hlttlniriit your noii hard knitting at your

PerlinnionenrlrcnrcsWillie sympatby her

'III good to walk upon

ived.

i

. ... theyiind

to Ihem ns they had

poor, panic-stricken

harbor, and almost

j detail of

If ibe United Stales ahouli. .._

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U„„i~h .-.e.ri.in-Ht w.'ibl lr.'.ns|-.rl lb- in nl

- m Ihe Southern

,n.il liberiy.

;X| -Ip-v I

'.flcr a io»

e roun.l (ii

the Danish roles.

„-V' followed in the

,1,,' public prims), n^eriing tbai the

\V.1-hi1n4t011 >">•! accepted ibe pro-

wliitcs lied to the ships

hvirle.l them 10 sinking.

It would lake 10a l-.eig

the story ivs told lo me agi.11, «,,-, ^... .- — r-

plo. The historian of that evei.il.il time, Kev.,obn

Knox who tells the story all on the side oftheplatd-

,,-.. (Ei ,- said), has not told i

will c.ii-0 hia version of the

nrticle. Now lot me" Tell the tnlo as 'nvos lold lo rue,"

L Old lady who hnd lost nil her slave*;by

"

ly whose father hud been ruined; by

inn, nluio!.! white, who liud th.re gnu. d

her freedom; by the rommsndunt of the tort nt

i:briMi.-njicd;andb) fiev. Mr l^bo.-. 'Le Ivpif opal

niiiihter ei FrederieL-t, .1 " In tho nieuihs of many

w itne^c* all thiri"s •' .'I ' - c'tabl^hed; ar.d these

persons, in dilTerent |..r'» ,.f lb? i'b.nd. did not die-i-

erce in one mnlerial psiot in the

mHurrcclion.

The slaves mnreted -jp and no.

nig bidy v

a do tho people.

recital of thi

MR. 8PUKOE0N ON I1E0RQE FOX.

List night, tho 19th ult„ Mr. Spurgcon delivered

1 nddress. in ibe |..etur.-r,...,iii atni-bed to his 'I at..-r-

nnclo, on "The Life and Opinions, buying and Doings

of George Fos." He regretted that his numerous

ilions prcvcaled him from making ihe prepiirn-

whicli no interesting a subject demandeJ, but

nhould be make mistakes, he would not make them

wilfully; should he deliver a hasty judgment,

rcould not nllcel Ihe bun e ruble and gl-jruius dei.-l. :

lone d.pnrleil. bec.iii-e a future occasion he cou

rectify his orrora. (Jeorge Fox was amongst the

vary highest of the men of note who hud carved

their names on the rock of history, Dis opinions

-.ere atUl spoken through the S-'icIv be hud formed;

,ud beside.i esnildi=biijg that boeiety, he hid left a

nurvelloin literature, ^lanv 01 bis eonlemporaries

cave him ibe foulesi and uiosi .-caiulaloo* ehnrncier

(noy could invent ; but on the other hnnd liis^i

pics excused nil

AIABRYINQ Off HOMME t: ISLAND.

rich time in jirrfmiiir.,; Ihi

runrrincu service here. Tbo cnuirabnnds who come

i„ large imnibers lo tho island, tcon beg 10 to learn

the ways and cusloam of - ,.,l,.- ."o... f -m-. ol

- -dquiring about the lo'titatiou I mnrnago,

:d that they were not jiroperl, mainedj

that they were simply j'-i." 1 ' together at the will

mid pleasure of their masters, without regard lo

'-ir will or wish in tbe matter. While Ihey Sgrea

...y well, and live very happy, they somehow or

other think themselves to have begun wrong, and

iTdingly make up their minds to begin over again.

nyer-meoting io the con-

,vas .l.,t,r, bibe- and that of the w

nton. "Well, what can I do for yoi

eu, John turn.. I to Judv. and .lu.lv tuned a sby

look towanls John, and iben ihey bulb drew their

mouthB from car 10 ear, sbowu.g tb-.-ir line lectin 1

icated Iho question, mid John replied Bomethmg as

T-- Itchi ihem lu ihe tlr-!iime cnc.

Whether he tben shall crosi to thBP,

Or 1 lion p> thither, or II beSonej uiiil-my (wlni.yoyct ihnllsee

Eoch other, yet ocalDs

Ah.J'.y! wlieo willi ih

Forgivingly nt last ye greet]

Pal forlh thy Iw.f; lliou genile plane <

tJ.'t win.: undlreM lire i-u. il« e.-ae.

Will, .-..[.hyri i nn.l nnlmy ruin

Tl.e>-J r.-..,iiL':..-r.-ii.tyon.

f. inti.r.ii. mi'l "in nnd :kle|>cnmblne

i,

-,(".''.'."".huinnri' heart (.1 mine!

tk- -nil, contain ihysclf end henr.

Dcecmber day) w-re hrii f a.i.l ehill

The wliuli.,fMii|.-li .i-r.-w.l.l .„..]-!:

LIFE EVEItrtt'HEXE.

LifE everywhere! Tbe air is crowded with birda

;nutiful, tender. inlellig-)nt birds— to whom life is asong and a thrilling nniietv—iho anxiety of love.The air is swarming w iih in.ecis—those little ani-

mated miracles. Tbe waters are peopled wilh innu-merable forms—from ii,,: luiiniilcul.-. so small thatone hundred and fifty million ol ihem would notweijdi a grain, to tb- wind,:, si, h.r-.. tbi.til seems auisland as it sleeps upon tbe waves. The bed ot the

ru with polyp--, i.'.rp', eiar-fuhe*, and with

shell animalcules. 1 be rugged spm-; of Ihe reck is

fcarred bv the silent boring of »oft creatures, andblackened with countless muscles, barnacles ami lim-

"' ovcrywhercl On tho earth, in tbo earth,

ij, creepitic. b.,rr.,ivn,g, boring leaping, run-

If the ttquiilen.'il i-oi-ilneM nl the wood tempt

auni'T into its eheikereil fhn-l--. we nr-) saint, .1

,„. din of numcrons ibEtcts, the twiner of birds,

tho scrambling of trjiiirrvls, tho stnrlled rush ol"

unseen beasts, all telling how populous is Ihis seem-

ing solitude. It we pnuso before a ireo, or shrub, or

plant, our cursory and hnlf-ahstrneiid glance delects

a colony of various inhabitants. We plucks flower,

and in its blossom we see many a charming inseei

busy in its appointed lubor. We pick up a fallen

leaf, aad if nothing is visible 011 ii, there is probably

ice of no insect larva hidden in ils tissue, and

fits development. The drop of dew upon

will probably contain ils animals, under

icroscope. Tbe same tuicro.-copo rovenls tbn.

the" blood-rain" puddink app-aiing on bread, and

awaking supers tit io03 lerrors, is nothing but a col-

.Vi:,,-

„.,.,..,,-

AnniUB Hron Clocou,

LITERARY ANECDOTES.

,et:.l» is told

C-imhili

^livcvtiscmcHts.

of Lbirle.i Mmtheivs, that, perat

old ccnllemaa, a family ftieud.ba drank le.'

mother without her finding out the cheat-

"Tub Gre.\t Vuui*b."—Succcssfal pn great auihoriiv over ibe language of ibeir country.

1 ,>ivl-vV lrip(.v'^i.r..-.-iuu of tbe great vulgar," has . VFR -

S clLLS—Areymi .icH.tcebl-, an

become a part of finglish phraseology. Ai.-.r am ion «l »t«rta"I'',.;

", ',',';',".In

„i

Fnx'ELOS,—Lord l'etcrsborough.aller a visit to!~',|",'ii''|"-."'>.

,

li".!' pi .'..^..'.'u'tr-'-"^ 01^= ,-

Feneloii.snid, " He was cast in .1 parlieulnr monld,| M.'«ri<i»r.'ii»«tj.o»otii,..l(hi..^ij.J-v- •

lection ofil.i. I tie- vast trsc's of enow which n

^n.ele nigbt owe their color to the nil

production of a minute plnut { F\

Tbev y ui-'bl which C

.clous rapidity

(rieeu* nicalis).

cheese, our bread,

vnll, t, and distigur.. _..

nolhinc but a collection of plants, fho many-

colored lire which aparkles on iho surfneo of a

Summer sen at night, n* the vessel plows her way,

which drips from the oars in lines of jewelled

I by nillious of 11.

how many of the

of dailies, wet-klie

juntry like

nders of 1hon-

es that bestrew

paused for one

What does that mean!" TIow

here tho Danish Isles were, 01

r, or to what kind of climate 01

icntiag to expatiinte native-

mid like to

ill endeavor, Uy

•talus twenty ydo si

,voka inquiry upon this subject

f a short sketch of the islands,

nnd their iition

The i-.l-.nds of the Caribbean sen belongin;,

Denmark are St, John'n, St. Thomas and 6 1, Croix.

St. John's is a very small island, lying a fei

distant from the others, nnd wus onco (and

be now if cultivated) famous l-r producing the best

coffee in the Western world. Si. Thomas has a re-

marl ahl- liarl.or. '1 be ii-lan-l is not ten miles long,

and less that eight in breadth. Bat

coa-st is a bay i.ln.o.t surrounded w

r,ii.„jettia' n

11 ilo'triii.

er used for

ol Butlv.,s I could, else he

table, upon which ho wrote th.- orders for iheir pun-

•nients threw hia inlslnnd cut of the window, ar.d,

: ,. Ibe, desper-.ie act, rushed to the wh.pping-post

id tore it up, and cast it inio ibe sea.

On a few estate descried by musters and mis-

es.es llu-v brok- int., ibe wine-cellars, and, dnnk-

. freelv, became eon.lilioned lite unlo miini >ou..e

en we 'have known in recent days, uiirlhlnl I

iechievous, nnd despoiled the furniture, and then

,i,red out all Ibe good old rum they could lay their

indson: for, said Ihcv, "rum puts the deln into

old man, so wo spill him on the groun*. and him

n't gat him any mo'." .;,-,. ,In lie' meantime, a : II ve-fl hud been dis-

tebed to Folio Hi.oforu l.o.ly of Spaui.-ib -ehli-r-

,th lb, ir eiinnou. ivl... I arrived, and only waited

tho order of Gov. Von Scholten to firoupon^ "

unarmed iiias^vs, anil commence

Blaughter

iow tell them the

niful work of

,t , „.-e there called, wh.u, "ash il.-.r feet

in tho clear waters, and lift their head B inlo tie

clouds fifteen hundred feet above. Tho city of Si

Thomas is buible.l upon ibrec 'purs of these moui

laina, which form an ainphiiheuire around tho hai

hor tho entrance to « In. h from Ihe ocean is not ove

nixty yards wide. Ships of all nations lie at anchor

in ibis' beautiful bay. and an immense trad. ....

Chandisa is carried on from Ihe town— the ships

bringing all needed fabrics for the long chain ol

islands to this port, nnd Irom thence they are taken

in smaller boats or packets from St. Thomi

Forty 'miles due south from this port, four hours'

sad with a pleasant l.re.-e.and forty miles east ol

Porto Kico, lies ibe far-lamed isle ol at. Croix, or, as

we knew it Ion- n-i. r-'-.i.ta L 'r»:: |.vho hna not heard

of Santa Crui rum I). This islnnd is twenty-four

miles Ion", nnd from three to nine in breadth far

less in territory that ihe smallest County in NewYork; and yet it bus .. bisiorj of .Mouse and thrill-

ing interest, reaching back to ibe dnys of tho grand

old discoverer of worlds, who, according to Wneli-

in"ton Irvine, found even ils women more than

a match for his gallant cavaliers. But I do not pro-

pose to write ils history, nor to tell what a rich bone

of contention this " gem of the sea, ns it is now

christened, whb among the^ .juarrelling^

Europe dm

'

Von Scholten, who was evidently moved fay

principle of justice nnd humanity,

cnl poliev, restored ponr-

riding into ll, —of the island ,

cipation. immediate and unconditional, to nil the-

Danish West India Islands. He Iben sent his herald

to ihe west end; bat the multitude would

this " good news of great joy " from no one

Governor himself. Ko ho mounted his carnf

drove post Untile to Frederick sled, and ag.u

his proelnmntion of emancipation,

hour no slave's foot

'

i subordinalio:

iwd of thousands nt the cas

,:h troil the s.

>• m there not eaaeled tbe horrors of St. fit

(using a cant prase) hero aad thereT Did these

.lauo ipaivd slaves murder their r

the wives, and lorture ibe children?

Ecroonwas slain, and ono only v

ordo, "the man for tho hour,"u

plan of insu

Sol ono white

unded. Johnbad laid this

shrewdly, sanely and secretly.

„ .nnrlained ot it till tbo

faults. Bven In in..-".^rAuues

ehnraelera have been givca of Georgi

V01.. Ilia cliaritetcr ha.l 1.,-n unliivorably discribct

by Lord alacaulae. but Lord Macaulay hid beei

always spiteful towards tbe Quakers, anil whei

rcferrin" to l'enn or Fox, he never lost an oppor-

tunity of saying son,-thing against them. There-

lore "they should tut- Lord Mm 11.day's remarks nyr

nhat they wore worth, and no more. Cnrlylo had

na well ns Mneaulay, given 1111 opinion of George

Fnx. Shrewd me.,, boll, ul ihem. but one would not

much respecting what they said on ihe subjeel

of religion.. .

Having read the hostile opi a ol Lord .M mania

v

the lecturer proceeded to sa) thai it was the easiesi

bine in tho world lo write slashing article., about

cople, and lo pick out little pieces of whit they

nd said ;any fool hi do that, and such conduct

vus nnworthv ol Lord Mucnula,. He next read the

emarks of Cnrlylo, who, ns a shrewd thinker, he

aid, was not to be excelled, but who had done

jerioua injur)' to religious faith in tho present

ttiry. He (Mr. Spurgcon) would

life of George Fox. He lived in a i»were in earnest, and somo went beyond

into lan.iiieisni. I'rophets were in every

,.f..|.!ii.Tv---.s ... I-: us pl.'ui.lul as Wnfl

lushes; but George Fox was one ol'^vi soberest

men in that strong.; time. Some ol hi, tiro loused

followers coniuiitled at tmiis ib-i' -lisgustoxijlim,

„. nil. -I which he protested; but he could not

vent nil who were his followers from doing e-

thing that was outrageous. They should not Ihere-

l„r„ confound ticotge Fox with his associates ;Ihey

should not lay Other men's sins nt his door;they

should let him stand in his own ehocs. GeorgO Fox

was probably the best judge of ,= hat was his duty,

,n,l "ijti i.ur'o ago knew letter n hat God required

oi him llian ibev could know in the present day. il

be (Mr. Spurgcon) bad as much gr.ico ns George

Fo-c, wilh George Vio's lempei-aaietit, be might have

done the same thing 1 he nnrvel vncs-not thnt the

man wttB extravagant, hut ibut lie was not much

moreao Even in-irh life George Fol hid shown

the most lender spirit. 1'lnvs and games had no

charms for him; and, shocked nt tbe conduct ol

somo old men, he onee expressed a hope that when

he grew old God would prevent him Irom doii

ibey did. His parents had not tbo means ol c

him much education, bin be had ibe poiver lo

ot. a great number ol things. When he said y

Mnssn, wo been linki.. _.

wees com' dis ebenin' to see whether yi

marry ub; wo is willin' to pay 11 right good

the iob; for it "ill ple'cse ,1- mighty w

joimd io.-e.hler from the hook ;fordo way de darkies

are brought togedder who we come from,

'eordin' to do riglit way."iBawJobnwas evidctly expounding

„.'er whi.h he bad been undying for sou," nine.

turned to Judy, who sat by, dr..ss. -d m ro.igli gi

ments, with her sleeves rolled up 10 her shoulders,

of blanker round her bead Judy urn

lauchinc away as hnrd na she could. Smdl—" Jndy,

hut have vou 10 sac on Ibis subject T Judv put

, a sober face, straightened op. and spoke in

solemn earnest-" Bless my heart, it 1 don t link

I ns Sykes links on dis 'ere important suujiok,

,- both I. ceo a linkiii' le mailer n-bt -mart .

.._ -jw, bein' dat wo got here, wo comi

dis blessed ebening."

enough th.'i limit be married I

,llouy hand-book containing the lorn

doin" thiE, John nnd Judy went through ...

.lutions. Judy stripped her bend, pressed her

hand down over hr ln.,r, »|..t * •>•: her Imnd, and

iben sn.onlbed her ha.t a.-.a-.a. fhe told John ~~

ready. John loolfl at b.m-eli. fixid his hau.

toned his coat, tied his s'^s. and it.en straightened

up, ns if all were ready- I came forward and toh

them 10 tnkc tbei: pb.'.s. II..-, JiJ not understand

rae, nnd 1 told Iben, (0 stand up. Judyfeet, and John was

-Oats ik ScoTL.isn.—Lord F.libnnk mndo

happy retort on Dr. Johnson's definition of onis :

'

rain which in Luglund i- I'.'i.enilly given to horses

but in Scotland «c;

,

.he pet .' "lea, said

be " and where eke w ill you sec such horses and -"'

mm?"Mttrr.vKE om Born Sides.— V0I1 aire «BJ

day speaking warmly in praise of ih- pby;

Haller, in pretence of a pcr-on who was irinp

'

juso. "Ah, sir." said the person, "if M. Haller

ould speak of your works as you speak of hi".

Possibly we are bolh mistaken,'1

replied Voltaire.

The PsotkbTaSI liui.-.u- -John Wilkes wot

ice asked hy a Roman Catholic gentleman, in '•

arm dispute on religion, ' Where was your Church

before Luther?" "Did yon wash your face tint

ningl" inquired the foe'

-

" Then, pray, where

washed r—MoXT.lIO.tE'l! I'L«Ot.

swhere in bis wrilings

plan of his, of rrnnslcrr-

cl.ii.il.

Alter

down and hegi

Judy, nnd whispered

Judy Inughed.

ssasaaSirtrKIK.

Slistnj, BJIIU

,T. liillHEtJ. II C

1 : .w.,.v

ir face before

- Old Monlaign

.„„ ..'hole eculences from

:u , njthors without acknowledgment, ihnt the

3 might blunder, be giving -|.|;-jcj/cj to Senccjl

Plutarcb, while ihey >™-"»-l the^ lotdu-hc.'.I they l\euik-ntd

stood oj>, Judy threw her hend

grin. John became indignant at

,i'd lo her In be respecilul. but

afked Join if he would take Judy

le'.ntoo whom heibeaheldbytho right hand, to he

In- lawful and wedded wife. etc.. to which he replied.

•' Wid de help oi doLoid.lw.il. Judy was not s

solemn 11s John -vus. When 1 asked her ,. _.

r o„l,l take John Sikes, whom .-!.- held by the ngi

and lobeh-ronh lawful and weildioMunbari.i-

-heiiier she would" lo.e, honor and obey him, en

be bad net concluuVd her 'au-b. but made out

ay "Yes mnssa, I'll try." That answer did m

nit' John, 'and ho objected; so sho concluded to say,

Job n'forgot the fee ; so Judy stepped up and asked

rhatwaa "de charge i " John then came up and

said he reckoned it was Ins business w " lend bilm.

John asked how moch I would charge. I told him 1

would charge him a shilling. He laughed n-1

ble-si-d bis heart.; for he "* peeled .1 would

more Ho reckoned he g-t her mighty cheap. He

had no money, for he bad not been paid lor bit-

work on "do fort"; hut Judy wns beiier oil;sh,

had Ibe cash. She put her band inside the dress

nnd pulb- 1 out a porleu.onnnie. 1 told hor

mind tbe pny 110,7. as 1 intended to give tho money

back to her ns a present. They went oil as happy

as liny two individuals I ever mnrried.-Un.ofc

T. IF. Conicay.

CONSKHIBKCES ABE Cacses.—There._ mnn in this life which is not the begil

long a chain of consequences, as thnt

lenco is high enough 10 give us a

id.—Bobbes.ithey, quoting this,

ebnin of con ; equ. tic-s b

say that the chain of cnu

-Ancestkv.—" The

boast of but his illusli

Tboims Overbury,belonging

^oiioirnt,

, like a potato- tho only good

under ground." The Duke ol

amid the I'roiid Duke, and ol whom, T w„De

"That

Fahh.-

should present

.de all through

k in bis carriage, 1"

Ir. Mountnin, cbnplnin lo Chnrlcs 11..

day, by ihnt monarch, to whom he

certnin bishopric just then •-""

r^i;i-:si-ii v.-tami.i-ii^lm, N-. i'

1..[,,.-! '-.

! ',E - ,"*? ,l""^Ii

l

f,^|i

t

Ihmm liij ic-1 E.enloj Clu«i.

1150. BEST PIANOS....

JlSfi;

SDRM'tJOtSkt ill .ii:

-jl/TItS. K. G. SATTKRIB liu n

B E

bo had been siru. k by-

drawn his knife and c

tyrant slightly^ "Put up y_.

tnr

among the

tho XVth, SXV 1th nnd XVIIth c

ir have I time to sny light of the weird liorics,

,ed down, of Ihe fonrfol

deeds of iliiring of old LUiu-kl-urd and Uluebeard,

the two terrors of tba duyB of the buccaneers of the.

XVth century, whose great stone cnsllea are still

pointed out ns crowning the mountain peaks of bl-

I'rotn the" diked, christiani

nil renderdiscovery by

tho

:(iiii el 11 amid thi

deposited I

One fact of Ihcse isli

nnd thinkers, that aln

people who called themselves

thoy have been given ovei ™ "-.--

Twenty years ago, so say the pcepl

island of St. Croix bad 11 population ol

to 30,000 Blaves, nnd d.OUU free while|

land wus divided into IL'ti .states, the .

prising 250 neres. ibe smallest but six. All of these

estates, except n very few on the steeps of Ihe monn-

tains, were cultivated in enue, for ranking sugar nod

The immense preponderance of the servile popula-

tion rendered ihe uimosi rigor in the management of

slaves i.cce.-sxr>- ; and 10 ibis day l!n< peopl" give the[;'„_„,;,„" L

'

nn) |,

most horrible aceouiii.s ol cri.elti-- practiced upon

tho poor blncks. Hy and by. when we shall ropy the

laws of these ieles, dear reader, you will judge foi

yoursolf whether tbcae tales arc likely to be true 01

There Ore good henr ts ovorv where: and oven here

in this almost den of demons, were found men tba

feared God and loved mercy. I cannot pause non

to tell of the long-sullering. palieut endurance, and

unfaltering faith ot the Moravian ministers, who, for

thirty years, strove to win their way among the

planiers and their people, nnd to touch them the

Protestant faith. It is n touching sight to look upon

their graves, some thirty in number, lying in a green,

shady glen of iho mountain, nerir the city of bt-

Tboiuns, each with a low marble block at the head,

and ihu name of the sleeper chiseled thereon,

tho grout palms wave their never-fading

and Ihe sea-bre

drooping branchL„At last their labors of lovo were crowned

success. Tbe court of Denmark wns moved. Chris-

tiuuu, tho wife of Christian, the King of Di

grew to have serious doubts ns io tho divine origin

of an institution ihnt cut oil men's limbs, gave 33

lashes on thu bare back, pinched them will, red-bot

irons, and hung or put them to lorluring deaths, for

loving liberty belter than slavery. Tbo Quakers ol

England, too, mov.d their i,'uien on thu subject, nnd

so it fell out ihnt Denmark, in 1M7, issued a decree

thai all tho slaves, born after that dato upon the

island, belonging to her crown, L-houbl be FllEE, and. .

that all persons held ns slaves nl that lime should assist Ihem

hnvo freedom in twelve years.

President Lincoln's pr.,. Initiation to take effect

the 1st of January, ISfiJ. will nut moro exaspei

tho sinvehol-hr ut .iouih 1' .rulina or old Kentuckylhan did this edi-.t of king 1 hrisiiin of Denmark the and yoi

besotted, since hoidors of the Danish Isles.

They swore resistance. But what could six thou- sago >

sand men, women und child...n do against Dtumnrk I could

Thoy finally agreed to keep quiet. "'Ihey would 1 Turning

not even tell the slaves ol iho good lime coming, lest \" Will y

lood. Let ihem grant iba

jk no more." This man escaped from tl:

itb the Governor. The latter went to Copei

d gave himself up to his king, waa Hied for

ind acquitted.

nnd two others, (ibis I had Hem pnval

friends) came lo New York city, where they live

and died in obscurity, and paved awn; from amor,

unhonored and unknown. That which wool

made a hero in Italy or Hungary, made only

in the land of the tvrtmt and the home ..I

But what shall 1 say or tho resultt

Eleven years afler, there was peace and quiet in all

tho land. There were no patrols "' "

tho pubf

the sli.v

tho puoiic Equares. Doors w

narcuy .oeked at night, and pistols and poignar-ls

longer slept under the pillow that supported the bead

of wife and husband or maid, n at night.

Nino public eel 1-hon-s, large, airy, and well

kept, were doing their work. Churches

with willing and devout worshippers,

population "—onco the unpaid

filled

Tho rural

._ _.id a bank

from their small wages, they have

thousands. The) had Ibe.r moral

,, social societies, friendly societies,

all of which were working as well as could be

expected. Sixty nea 111 -engine;- were sendingup tbt-ir

of labor to heaven, an"

liangi- hi.n, because hi- mjrim.i men would swear ----'

ould declnro upon the.

eorco Fox would only sny, " verily," nnd there was

n end of it. George lei could .always desl with

ther men's hearts, and sec them thoroughly, b-icii.ise

t- bad been prepared bi icmpi.iiion for his high and

noble mL-flion. One of the lirsl things he perceived

waa thnt huninn learning wns not necessary for reli

"ions teaching; and was there anything extra

ordinary to tbiltl No; because no man ould pre-

tend to make a minister, for thai whs l.csls work.-

next said that human professinn did not make

.... Christians, nnd that was thu fact ; but for

testing thnt, George F'ox wius put in prison.

In other opinions ol George rox, 10 which the lec-

turer referred, he expressed his acquiescence, but

could not endorse the- doctrine thnt sinless pcrfecliou

is uttnitiHble, because bo had never met such 11

He approved generally ot the acts of Georgi

but in 1651 George l'ox did a thing in Lichfield

which he (Mr. Spurgcon) could not iusiify. because it

was n silly thing. Ho went to a meadow, took oil

his shoes and stockings, nnd, having ihem there,

entered Lichfield, crying out, "Woe to tho^ bloody

city ol Lichfield 1 " For so doing ho gi

PRINCE ALBERTS FARM.

,ce Albert's farm is situnled near Windsor

...l.r.ut .wen.,- miles S. W. of the

n- lbonsali-1 uvr.s, one hundred cl which ar-

..|„w,.l.n„d is wooded nn.l sown » ,tl. -r..ln.r-l

,,.,,.,lre-— l ..'re four .-.'nr-' «i.h I"!"" 1 ""'

Ibe amid-.' land is sub-soiled -eery live or

Ihreo years with four enormously large Scotch hi" -'

iveii tandem; rotntion ol crops

us, without the Indi

Barley nnd oats ar

s ninth the SI

ushed in a mill drivei

1 and Aldcrney cows

Italia made of iron ; iron troughs ah.

it in each stall, with wast.-pipt 10 guii-c

behind them, and then..,' 10 msua re-shed, from which

,, is pumped into .arts similar to ours for watering

streets, and sprmkl-.d over the grass. Keeps

lull r-Nifolk and Hcrkshu-c pigs, peelers tort..

mount ol" ibeir taking on fat ; a- one ol the s

herds said, "A dale ol fat a dale

The pig-

eing lower

duels the liquid

saw peach, npric

pineapples, BtWgrowth; "-~ '

11 ,.ipe e

there were martyrs

testimony against the.r uiiii'i".""-

of Lichfield. Lord Mneaulay ubarged hllo W

..... Gripe, " does the island exnoi

_. much sugar and rum as il del in IttltiT" ^0

but tho people eat more at homo, till more ucres 1

corn 1111. 1 yams, and import two dollars lo one.

"Ab!"cxclaiins .Mr. Aristocrat, " do iho plantei

go lo church i-undu.s now. driven in Bi.t-horee

couches, mounted with silver and gold and precious

stones, wilh si.\ altc-nda, it slaves in livery, ns ir-

oned did!" Oh I no, my good friend; but the sli

that toiled under the whip on tho Sabbath day, thai

his masler and mlalrcss might thus ri

clean and comfortable suit, goes to mowife and little ones in his ou»i "Emnui

and praises God as a free

friends, one and all, the sun

found in any given quantity -. -though it ho a (act not to le denied, that tho

while folks have grown pooler since they have had

lo pay a firBt-elass laborer IT cents a day.it is

equally n truth that tho 2li,00l) have grown richer.

Tim majorily has como up a litlle-

goao down a Utile.

does not kni-e. bow lo lake cat

black does.—Mrt. .Frances D. OuS <

.villi bis

of human good is not

the reign of Dioeleiian

d that he wns bound 10 bear

tyrdoro in the hlpody city

ayubarged bunt-nib iude-

iso ho took oil his shoes nnd stockings,

and described bin. as a madmanIhut there was no

indeeonoy in the net, which merely caused the tool-

of his feet and ihe saving ut his shoes. In the

rse of bis career t.eorgi' Pus was imprison--.! stel

ten black ami blue, hut the, never could kill him.

.... wrote against the fashion, of his day;and le

(Mr. Spurgcon) would desire to read what he had

vr.i,-,, ifV-rc. was time to do so. He (Mr. SpuT-

eon) was not going lo advert lo the ladies' dreesi

\i .he pres-nt time ;but. referring to Ihe dress ol lh«

lien, ho would ask, was there ever anything uioc.

absurd and preposterous than thu high bluet: hai I

After Borne further remarks on modern coatum" M '

Spurgcon resumed nnd brought to a close his

tivo of tho life of Geo

applauded by Iho numurous nuuience iu w- -- uddritsc'il— (-.- !•/•'!' M' 'ii'i;/

to keep. In the gnnlen 1

1! plum trees trained espalier'

ies and grapes, in till stages

latter finer than in countries to which

„ .uuigeuous. and ripo all the year round.

Melons will not grow in the open .air, but thoy have

very fine ones in frames Her Majesty must cer lain 1)

fare sumptuously everyday. There ar

to Iho garden alone.

Tail the g.-ntl.-ouiuly inanagi r ol the farm,

very iiilunnvion .lis, rid. 1 '-'so went 10

Queens sialt. >ai lluck.ngham Palace; ihey

would make- mere comfonable dwellings than two-

thirds ol the people ol 1 melon live in. English fur-

riers have found out that Ih- upper part ol the stall

ought to be lowest by two inches at least. There

nrv" in those stables ono hundred nnd sis horses.

Her Majesty

<?r?L"

c,ha-ving been loudly

In addition to the foregoing,

furnished bv a correspondent "ho V

leeiure wi'li a tew 1.011= respecting

hnvu heon kindly

irE of Pope,—Onu duy, ns Pope wns

... -t .in-" ihe " Iliad," ho cniue lo a pns-

cither he nor bis Dssi-tuul could intcr-

, , , rrilll stood bv, in his humble garb,

)""suggc.-.ted that, as he hnd some

itaneo with Greek, perhaps he could

"Try il, try ill" said Pope, wilh the

«ho is encouraging a monkey to cnl red

s always glad lo see sTho lecluror said he

dier 11 Christian, but he ...-

I hrisi.au a -oilier ;he never cold rcc.cn. .1" the afo-

ot .,. Christian praying. " Forgive us ,,11/ lr,|f (.,iss

nnd tben nucmpiing to thrust a bay,. WW ^ mi

JUiD PKRSOXAI.

lie highly ndmireil the neat, becoming dress oflhi

females in the Society of Friends, and thought tba

the e.vlravagnnccs ot dress in prolcssing I. bnsimi

women jib much to le depfornl. lie on v "'

.-old chain, but coaii'lering 'hat, ofh -

—young nien— iv.ii.ld Le likely to he led '.-

bis example, be had put u away; and it the join

men would milk- a similar sacnliec, ho ill 'g LI t-'

would fc.-l nil the belter for it. "Send your go

chains," said be, "to Ihe orphan asylum nt Urislol

they will be glad ol them.1 '

!ly is partial lo greys, and may frequently

iving two in baud in l\ u.dsor Park. 1 be

Princess Alice drive- lour pomes, und is en id to be

an excellent hcrsewomnn. I saw thu eight cr.aiu-

lolorcd horses that draw l.-i Majesty at the tune ol

oc.-uin- or dissolving Paifoimeut. 1 heir harness is

0f,.:

n:

DI.°..1 K0 |d mounted, cost S1O.000; and the

go cost 835,000 ninety years ago.— Cor-

respondence of Philadelphia Ledger.

The Vault of tue Bank or Enqlasd.—Tho Bant

of England Direclors had a terrible fright, two or

three weeks ago— not on account of the lo.-.- ot their

wiiter-mnrked paper, bui Irom the summary inva-

sion of the bulliou-ruom ul the back. A corres-

pondent of tho Birmingham /:..>( tells the Story thus;

"The Directors received an anonymous letter,

.tim; that the- writer hsd the means of access to

their bullion-room. They treated the mailer as n

hoax and took no notice of the letter. Another

moro'urgent and spceihi letter foiled to rouse them.

\l Icnlli /),.- ire.V.T oif.-iv.V lo sir.-.-l then io th< hulU,

..,,,„„ „< „«>i h.-r tl,r;ijfcuscl tu 'licit Tliey ther

column.. ient'ed with their eurn-pondent Ihrougli tin

channel he had indicand, appointing some durk ant'

midnight hour for the rendeivous. *

„ li,. .„-

ll of tl n.ysi.

ted lh<

,licd*ho,"l could tell

Jiow so," said Charles, " if I had hi

faith?" "Wbv, yes," said the witty cleric, "yoi

Majesty might sav (.. 1'iii M.-vmain, 4c I'lott removed

into thai &c." The chaplain succeeded.

Cimiovs REiiAjtii OK Vasitt.—Frnnklin say

" Most people dislike vault v in e.tturs, whnlevershn

they have of it themselves ibut I give it fair quay

tor wherever I meet with it, being pers led that 11

is often productive of good In the possessor, -

others who are within his sphere of action.

iberefore iu many c;l=- -j it wculd not be altogether

ibsurd if a u.nii were to ifo.uk God for his rantiy,

inong tbe other comforts of life."

Losixa Tiiie.—One night when Matthews was

cine to tho theatre ul Ediuburg. and was almost

00 late, he took a coach, nnd ordcryd the coachman

drive 10 the theatre. In going up the bill, the

lorses l-ruu- (in: J, 'he conch made no progress upon

,.hich-M-.tlhews remonstrated, saying, thai he should

,1 .0.. late, thai he should fo-e his nme The coach-

iiau coolly said. " Veur honor should reflect that I mosinc; limo as weed's yorsoP."

Adah Smth.—This distinguished philosopher

*as remarkable for absence oi mind. And as an

anecdote of ibis p.oiliariii it is related of mm, that

vim. one Sunday morning walked into his garden

Kirkcaldy, dressed in little more than h.s nigbi-

wn. he gra.lualli foil into a reverie. Irom which le-

d,d not awaken nil be found himself in the streets ol

Dunlermline, a town al least twelve miles off. lie.

had in reality trudged along the kings highway all

that distance in pursuit ,.t 11 certain train of ideas,

and he wns only stopped 11, his progress by the he L

of Dunfermline, which happened at that nmo lo I.

ringing the people 10 church. His .appearance in :

crowded chnreb. on .•....nil rfonduy uioromg, 10 l.u

night-gown, is lelt lo the imagination ol the render.

Casmbals.—Chnrles Lamb wriles to his friend

Manning to dissuade him from goinj

endeavors lo instil the fear of can

mind. " Some say the Tmtnrs are cannibals, and

then conceive a fellow c.K- ,.) my friend, and lidding

the cool mcifom.y of m-mrd and v.necar. This

reminds one of tb Ivier rrydnev iriniih is saul to

have r-ivi-n to ih- llisb- 1- of New /-aland previous

his,departure, recuninending him to have regard

the minor ns well as to the .- grave -Iu!,-,s 01

his statioa-.o be gi,- n .0 h.-spitnl.ty-and, it. order

tbo tasl.s o! his native' CU.:S"S. "c-'.i io in

smoked little hoc >u ihe Laion-racl,-, and n

cold clergyman on tbe sideboard. "And as fol

'f, my lord," he concluded," all I cn^say is.that

., „v.. your new parishioners do eat you

will disngreu wilh them."

A CoKTRAiT.— Sydney Smilb, 1

upon tho folly of a scheme for erenli

£lji)ayear, with the expectation ol the. .

wilh good and well-educated preachers, druwi

his ready wit ihu following pictures (if a mem

the "colleclion of sacred beggars. 1 hen

tore is drawn of a clergimun with J.130 pern

who combines all moral, physical and intellectual

advantages, a learned man. dedicating himself in-

, ii -eh to ih- care of Ins parish. "1 charm.ng^ mnn-

,crs and dign.Ged deportment, si* feet two inches

,i„b Le: lull, proportioned, with a magnilieeiil

b '.

expressive oi nil the cardinal vi

,r __.,— ... _ n ..,i ,i ; asked

hi, will fall

of his poverty! But sub-

-i'l'iu't-

'

lor'liiu n„ average, ordinary, uninteresting

minister ; obese, dumpy, neither ,11-nntured nor good-

natured, neither learned nor ignorant, striding over

Wiles to church, with a second-rate wife—dustv

and defojuetoent—and four pi

,.,t eutecbisui and bread and

,een inoneoftl.o-Cesh.:n,-llam-;.n.U.iphc 1.U--1.:-

nado on -Mount Ararat se.on after the *«'"''''." '"

he waters-driving in the High street of Edmc

on; among all his pecuniary, saponaceous, olcagi-

wms pnrisbioners. Can nny mnn of comrnor

ay lhat all these outward circumstances of im

jl leligion have no bearing on religion itself.

V.TIVE WOMEN,mm* WEsrov: cowuxi

M.1 SOPHIA 1. ROSSEL will reopen h

pESNSYLVASIA 1 liM.M.t. '^^^at^Perkfoj

j" W. SUMitnLASD.

M,MOSG THE PlNl-.s; Oil, SUUTII IN 6ECE3-

^hiltulctphis gdr«ti?ewtt»te.

STOVES, RANGES, LEIHGFI AND SCHUYLKILL

COAL, ETC.,

SO. 101 KCMHTU7IB sTICEET, l-IIIWDEU-m*-

InaiVin;-

I

Kf.NDEP.DIM. i JUSTICE, Importers .nd Dealers

DR1ZG MEDAL I

luol" , l.jrf-1 h-.-. 1-

arded in London, in IBS1, for bit

ml lie Te 1' L'ou.uiniiJincnts—and it i.

:riumph, it such a

TONES i CO., ol the l'jeic.,1 "..e I'^^'J^

Jt"(tU», alia npruil] ' n" -;.;-

; JJf'JJJfJitllJ

luLwiiioTiIw":"."''--;' '>•' '-.'a'-'U 'V-

'''* ''''- '''

1'•'>;"'

be- SlirpUi.

1[h.fite tell me what an il

neemphali.ally endorsed the v

Ithis . 'il-ieci, and could not concc;

s of Friends

,,,na heard below. Some hoa,-.-

ih- ll,or w.r-' wiihoui much Irouhlc, displaced,

and in a few minutes the Guv Eawkes of the bnnk

stood in tho midst of the astonished Directors. His

story was very 1 111. pi- ami .-! might to rwnrd;

An old

.Irani ran under I'.- bullion-room, the esi

which had become known to him, nnd hy

which he nn. 'In ha.e carried away enorm.

Inquiry was made, Nothing had been nbstraeled

nd the Directors rewarded the honesty and

A LAHGE assortment

;Vi>lTsce'?lb«i.*ii'l hr (i-t '»sj

tt»" Wust lUli-llM* nf'ii-I'leli

iALAMANl'Llt SA1 I---,

lONI-'ECTloNEflY - KEAIOVALv-Lcsiitui 1""™^

vyAr Dora IEie Trek Leas T—"If the

fnli'to'wnrd the south or townrdthe north, in the

ukce where the Ire-.- fall-th. there it shall be. (tccl.

si J I There is a sob. tun meaning crouched uml-r

this metaphor. Tbe trie will no. only lie as it falls;

it will uUo fall na it leans. And tho great question

which every one ought to bring home to bis own

hnson, without a moment's dslay. is this; What*.fmy soull Does it, with all Its

towards God, or from him."—J- J-

clearer and nuily of their anonymous correspondent-a working (may.

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