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THE MILITARY POLICY OF JEFF DAVIS—
WHY HE MAY ATTACK WASHINGTON
—HIS OPPORTUNITY—THE POSSIBILITIES
OF PEACE.
' ImnrobaUe as it may appear, there is renson
to
bnlieve that the President oftbe Confederate States
ia entertaining tba idea of taking possession of
Washington City, and is preparing a tormiuavie
military ioroe with a view to an expedition having
that purpose. The Southern press abounds with
threat, and insinuations to tbia effect. Davis Lid
elf baa repeatedly giveo strong suggestions ol
k . J..i,.ti. n.l ikon who know him, know
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th.i h. would be exooedingly glad to duo his per
i .,. n.n. Scutt. oat cf the District of
Columbia. It it very possibla that he greatly
evirretea bia powtr. but it would be anwis in us
ta underrate it. or fail to understand tha advanta
ges of his position. U is lh military uicinior oi
even States; and all tha aleve States are full of
sympatuiaers with him. To' machinery of bis
Geteromeot work in silence and 6eoreoy. . Ho
knows all that transpire at , Washington, while
the authorities there know nothing that is done in
Montgomery, exoept that which the authorities ii
that plaoe eea proper to. permit the world to know.
Davis stands in the dark and looks upon the Fed
eral Government, which is in the broad light. He
bas the advantage that the savage bas, who, lurk
ing in the gloom, glare upon bis foes at their
camp 6re. Davie learns all that the reporters for
the press at Washington ean atcurtuin, by daily
inquiry at all tb Departments, ff bribing clerks,
by frequenting tb Wbit House; and all that
pecial spies oan pick up in New York, and other
Northern cities. But there ore no New York re
porter at Montgomery, prying into official secrets.
They would be banged as spies if caught pursuing
tbeir ordinary business there.
Tba French Press is perfectly free in compari
son with that of the Cotton State. The mail
ore respected by the Federal Government, but not
by the Confederate. What is the sacredness of
wafer or a little paste, or tb inviolability cf an
nvolop, in a case of Southern tights I A letter
franked by J Err. Davis, would be a safe in
Northern mail bag, a any other man's letter. A
letter franked by Abraham Lincoln, and address
ed to some one in the Cotton States, would never
be delivered op by the Postmaster, according
tb superscription, without an understanding as
it content. Certainly tb Cabinet at Montgom
ery is not ignorant ot anything ia the Southern
nails, and on the Southern telegraph wires, that
it wiobes to know. Tb experience of Secretary
Dix, in attempting to oommunioate with bis agent
at New Orleans, .is conclusive on that point. No
Constitutional restraints are placed upon the em.
ploymeat of tb military force of the Confeder
ate States; and Davis command all the resources
of tbos States, which ar by no meant ioeignifi
cant in population and wealth, and io which the
military epirit bat been long and assiduously culti
vated. . .- .j -
lie could quietly conotntrai along the railroads
not fifty thousand men, a tb New York Her
Jd taye but, say fifteen thousand, who are cow
completely armed, and are being thoroughly drill
ed and instructed in the duties of actual military
service. II eould start thent all toward Washing
ton by a word. Bat lb moment it is proposed
bus tha Federal Govtramiat ia a condition
make it capable of defending itself, there it a bid
eoas hullabalo North as will at Sooth about
danger of coeicioo, and .be horror of war, as
tb way to keep tb penal wae to be pusillanimous
in spirit, and, in fact, unable to make yourself re
peoted. So Congress adjourns, without doiog
anything to strengthen ths Government, and leaves
it ia a helpless condition. To force of one thoo
and Federal troop at Washington, which wae
absolutely aeoetsary to the ptaeiable inauguration
of tb. oastitutionallj elected President, ia
thai U at bead to support tb dignity or the d
eency of the Gotcrament, and all the lories in tb
land have roarsd whb path and indignation to
Federal troops in tbe.Fedsrel city. How soon
ball w bav iodignatioq meeting of thieves
our tweets because, we. keep a polio foro I , W
ar coming to the point wheej aoarokj will V
svsrjahere, or the UovsninisQ must
supported oy tue enip(oyuict. of lates, ,Tbe d
woralinlion already sffdded by tbt Soulhern.rev
olution, is wonderful and sunning,
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Dot we are asked le the North so wenk and the
South so strong? That is not it. A despotism
bas always tht airantage over a popular Govern
ment in the outset of a controversy. The cotnYi
natiin of the Executive authority, atid Supreme
Legislative and Judicial authority also, of France,
in on man, give nira a prodigious auvaninge over
even to well equipped and warlike a constitutional
monarchy as Eogluod. In the Srst brush of s
war between a country controlled by a Military
Dictator, and ono having a Republican form ol
Government, the Dictator could strike when and
where be pleased; and if the Republic loved
peace very much more than hnnor.'and was will
ing to occept a badge of servitude, rather than put
forth its strength, tho Urct blow would Goish the
war, to the disadvantage of the stronger but less
compact organization.
The country has had some confidence in the con'
linuation of peace, based upon the a surance that
Jxrr. Davis is a cool man, who is incapable of do
ing a rasa thing, us lias proiessca io waoi
pence. He advised ogainst an attack upon Fort
Sumter. This may all be true, but he ia tho more
dangerous for the possession of such qualities. If
ibe South Carolinians had rutihed at Fort Sumter,
as the hot heads of Charleston wanted to dn, they
would have suffered a bloudy rcpulte. . The Na
tional Congress would have been forced to pass
the A'olunteer bill, and. preparations being com
menced ia time, the fort would have boon rein
forced and held. Beeidet, South Carolina, even
according to the logic of the t'uion men of the
Border States, would b.ive been tho aggressor, and
it would not have been "coercion" for the Govern
ment to defend ituolf. Tho coolness and military
sagacity of Davis has resulted in tho "military
necessity" for the abandonment of Fort Sumter by
the Federal garrison. .With the tame policy pur
sued on both sides thore will be nioro ''military
.necessities" created. Davis looks to providing
"military necessity" for tho evacuation of Wash
ington by the Republicans.
Can he cross the border slave States unmoles
ted f Why, we are told that we must not send a
Federal soldier into Virginia even to protect the
Federal property. The Virginia Convention is
discussing propositions requiring the Federal pow
er to withdraw its company of troops stationed at
Harper's Ferry, which is the key hole and milita
ry pass between Eastern and Western' Virginia
and to withdraw all but a fow men from the great
fori Monroe at old Point Comfort, leaving that
most important position virtually in the bunds of
the "Minute men" an organization for tbe sub
rogation of the Federal Government. And these
propositions wo believe pass for Union measures
in Virginia with such patriots as Juun Ttler and
IlgNRr A. Wise. Butweb?arno remonstrances
from Virginia against the organisation of revolu
tionary armies in tbe South, There I no "coer
cion" in that. - Tbe iron work and powder mills
of Virginia have for months been at work for
Sooth Carolina. ' The ' Richmond and Petersburg
papers have complacently told us of tbe shipment
of great oannon for tbe floating battery and the
Cummin's Point battery, to assault Fort Sumter;
and of freight trains loaded with solid shot, shells,
and powder tbe material for making war against
the TJuited States Government. There has been
no alarm about this in Virginia no remonstrance
against it. The secessionists in the Virginia Con
vention, though injhe minority, -have assumed the
offensive. The Union men do little more thac
parry thrusts. The Richmond Enquirer declares
that Virginia must fight with tbe North or South,
and intimates that secession or no secession, her
military forces are at the disposal of tbe Govern
ment of Confederates. Henry A. Witi, whose
fanatical ravings are applauded by 'full galleries
attendant upon tbe Convention, has repeatedly as
serted that if Virginia refused to go with tbe
South, he would go into the secedsd States and
beg for assistance to save bis mother that is, beg
that a military force might be scut to help bis'con-
spirators coerco Virginia out of the Union, and
drive her with tbe Cotton States. Jirr. Davis
knows all this, and more than we know, and looks
upon Virginia as a fortification impregnable
against movements from the North, but open to
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him, and furnishing a sally port for bis army to
spring from, upon tbe Federal capital. lit regards
Virgiuia as an ambuscade and recruiting ground
(or the Southern army, and a wall of fire against
the North. He expects those of that State, who
are opposed to him, to remain passive, overawed
by mob violence, as be well knowt many Uuion
nii'
men are in the Seceded States. .Then be ex
th fire-eaters to flock to bit standard, bringing
the rifled muskets and cannon so liberally distrib
uted throughout the State. Instead of anticipa
ting any ' difficulty in transporting bis troops
through Virginia, be considers himself justified in
expeeting an ovation, and reiofuicemeott, muni
tions of war and provisions.
Tho Republicans have already been told upon
the floors of Congress, that the Capitol and the
White House, could be demolished by a battery
planted on "tbe soil of Virginia," and the Rich
mond Enquirer bat said that General Scott must
withdraw bis troops from Wasbiogton, cr every
roof in the city shall be leveled with the dust by
the sons of Virginia. Aud Davis calculates upon
seeing reinforcements from tbt North for the Fed
eral forcea in Washington City, checked in Mary
land. There it only one Railroad reaching from
tbe North to Washington City, and that a com
pany of desperate men oould make impassable io
a tingle night. Denied Railroad transportation,
troopt from tht North would have to marcn irom
the Pennsylvania line to Washington, a three
days' march for green toldiers.'or go up th Poto
mao on steamers.
It it ay wonder that Gen. Scott's first step,
months ago,' when the worst of the traitors were
thrown out of Buchanan's Cabinet, and the dan.
iet of a mob at Washington, appeared, wat to gar
rison tht font at Baltimore and along tbe Poto
mac f He was looking to keeping open eommuoi
aation between Washington 'and tht North1;
Kvorv man with' aa observant ' tve, can see the
strategic importance of tbe Putomao and Ibe Nor
them Railway la a mllitarv com'oai of seotions for
the intstery at Wastiugton sod the fact thai the
channels of communication with Washington ti
ill commanded by Virginia, cannot have escaped
notice. For instance: the Baltimore eud Ohio
Road would serve the Virginians, provided Ihey
held Harper's Ferry, as a most formidable agent
in a flank movement upon a force marching front
the North through Maryland.
But it ia not our judgment that Dana has eoeb
comn-and of the military situation respecting
Washington, as be apparently prosumes. lie
might have more trouble than he antioipatet in
passing through North Carolina and Virginia, In
spite of the contingent disunion talk that ba pre
vailed In Ihe adhering Sjuthern Stales, there is,
in each of theai, a strong, genuine, Union feeling;
and it niiuht not be pasoive. If the Federal Gov
ernment acts with wixdom and vigor, the contem
plated experiment of the Secessionists, ol foroing
the Border Stutos to go with the Confederates of
the Union, in a war, would be an extremely bss-
ardous one t tbe enemies of the Government.
Tho Putomao would furnish the most certain com
munication between the North and Washington,
and war steamers stationed in tho river, could
keep open tbe navigation, and prevent an army
approaching by way of Richmond, from reaching
the Capital, without a circuitous march of some
sixty miles from Aquia Creek, tho terminus of the
direct Southern road. Tho Alexandria road fur
nishes the Southern all rail appronch to Washing
ton; and if th j Southern armv were met South of
the Potomac, the meeting would tuke pluce near
Alexandria.
But, the Montgomery conpirators do not look
alone lo the South; tbey find great encouragement
ip tho Xorth. When Davis declared bis purpose,
as in speeches from Vicksburg to Montgomery
that if war come, it should be carried into tbe
North, end suggested the destruction of Northern
oities, thereby promising by implication that tbey
should be sacked and burnt docs any one suppose
that be depended upon the strength of the seces
sionists alone? He certainly did not. He believes,
and he has a right to do so, from the tone of such
papers as tho Cincinnati Enquirer, that be would
find as many toriss in the North, at the British
found io South Carolina in tha Revolutionary war.
When there are newspapers and persons of mofi
or lees prominence all over .the Nor lb, crying
aloud and sparing not, that every demand made
by tbe stcesioniie must be yielded, Ihe effect
to increase the extent of those demands, end tbe
insolence of tbe spirit , in which they are made.
live up Fort Sumpter, Fort Hill, Fort Pickens,
Forts Ji-tfersoB and Taylor, Ihea Fort Monroe
ivlaita tit ikn VanltMia Las a at lliA Pn!l I
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tbo oountry submit, surrender te evluUoawMk-4
cuts, struggle,, in order to prevent tbe loss of
drop of blood! . Finally, pay the revolutionists for
their tr jublo in subjugating us, and reconstruct
the Union upon tb disunion basia. This ia tbe log
ic these the result of tb polioy of tb "Sea-
missionists of tbe North.
If we are to regard tbe President of the Con
federate Slate as having the disposition to march
upon Washington and drive Ibe authorities of the
Constitutional Government out of the city and
to understand that be bas tbe meaoa to make such
an expedition an exceedingly dangerote one it is
time lo consider whether any opportunity that
would warrant him, as he looks at it, in making
the movement, is likely lobe offered. We will
find tbat the "opportunitv" must be associated
with a clamor about 'coercion." Tha question
then arises: When will the Administration cm
ploy coercion? that is to say, when will there be
anything done towards the preservation of the
Government, at whijh tbe enemies of tbe Govern
ment will shriek that they ar coerced? The Fed
eral Government bat jutt increased and complica
ted oustom-bouse taxation. 'It bat adopted a very
high tariff one odious Id tbe importing interest,
Tho Confederate States have lowered tbeir Tariff.
Some of the articles taxed highest at northern
ports are free in the touthern ports. There are
no means for collecting revenue on tbe line be.
tween States that have aeceded from those tbel
have adhered to tbe Union.' If Ibe Federal Gov
ernment doet not assert itt topremaoy on tbe
southern coast, tbe touthern portl (if order vert
aa far raturtd in Iht South t to jh u eao
iecurit. become tbe great impor'mjr port. Of
course people would not import good at New York
and pay a heavy lax on then, when tbey could im
port them at New Orleana end pay a very light
tux. l'ermit th ireeaom ot eouiuern pone, ana
''enforce the laws" in tbe north and there will
ba no Federal revenue. Tbe. Government will
bankrupt and uttesly without credit. It would
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'dithouU 10 collect sue revenue- on snipe, w
cause the importer bat a right to warehouae hie
goods; aud they cannot be warehoused in a float
ing custom bouse. The Government must, there
fore, surrender to secession there will be finan
cial necessities more pressing even than military
ones and the officer of tbe Government, bigh
and low, most evacuate their position (starved
out like Major Andereen,) and let King Mob relga
or tbe coast of the Confederate States must
blockaded, or their porta of entry abolished.
blockade, or abolition of ports of entry, would
ia southern parlance ercioul Tb reply which
Davis proposes to make, ie an attack apoa Wash
ing to. ' ' -l - V -
It Is possible tbat we way yet avoid thi rugg
issue, bat we cannot do Ii by refusing to faoe
facte.' ' A firm t and far the Government ' by
good olt'.sent of tbe adhering States a resolute
dsnunolation of a raid upow Washington- fey
who eall themselves Vaioo aaea io tbe South th
decided expression of public opinion ia the Nertu
in favor of etanding by th Government at all a st
ar lis and to th litter end placlag tb army and
navy In a condition to b available In ease
emorgonoy-lbeso things would Improve peace
prospects. Then, while matter drift quietly,
-wi ... .hat will be the voidlot of the people
the seceded States, oppn their permanent Constl
Pm.iiional Government. It willinter-
est us to know what tucces tbsy will bav in rala
in mnv: and wbotbef tbe Conventions will coo
suit the people, and whst the people will bave
' whether Ihey are or are noioonsuiwu.
.ha "meantime State after A State will call
a National Convention, and people will look lo
An extra session of Congress inay.be called
Tbe
polioy of the Administration will appear at all
points. Tbe Commissionsre from the Southern
Confederacy to the great commercial powers of
Europe, will be ready lo report. Thus, while lia
bility to confiscation and all the dangers of uncer
tainty will prevent or at leaat greatly check South
ern imports, "current events and experience" may
carry us smoothly past Ibe "dead point of danger."
From the London Times.
TWENTY YEARS' WAR FOR A NEGRO.
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What an undemonstrative people we are! How
moeh it takes to move a prosperous Englishman!
We ought, perbapt, le eipeot the men of Macehet-
ter, who have reduced agitation to system, and
have a well oiled maohine-y atwayo ready with
tree banked up, to go off with a shriek at mo-
mssts notice; but generally speaking, It is won
derful bow tong an Englishman will keep hi deep
est feeling to himielf. Take this extradition alave
ease. We have In oor eustodv a (ueliive slave,
who in his own defense bat slain white Ameri
can who, if be bad not escaped to Caooda, would
have been burnt alive for the deed. Tbe Cana
dian Courts have determined that we oogbt to sur
render him. ' The ton of Ibe alaia man demands
the victim, and tbe judges admit tbe legality of
the demand "tbe Court awarde ir, and tbe law
dolh give it." Aceordiog to all the pullie proceed
ing ia Ibis ease, it would appear that tbe regular
and natural course of events would be that Ander
son, tbe negro, would be taken from tbe Canadian
prieoa and banded across the Canadian frontier to
authorities there ready to receive him, and that by
them be would be tried, condemned, and executed.
Scarcely anything would aeem more certain to fill
every large room to England with tympathiaert
and platform eloquence
Yet almost nothing hat been said about the mat
ter. Lawjers have discussed the judgment of
tbe Canadian Courts in a dry, lawyer like way, but
so tar at any expression of public opinion it con.
corned, it miglt well be imagiued that the English
people cared no more about Anderson, the negro,
than if it were a question of putting to death a
erippled horse. How strangely mistaken, however.
would any foreigner be who would so read tbe
public mind. Rather than give up that man, En
gland would go to war. Even if we bad fought
for twenty year, and wsr drooping from tbe drain
of me and treasure; if we were gasping from great
disaster, vre don't think a men would be found to
suggatVa a terminetioa of oor diffiooliiee that we
hould hand over tbie elave. There Is perhape, no
cae flat could be pot which would have soch a
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hol a pew ali ear tnnM belie. Oar atlonal
pugnacity, our tense of national honor, national
hospitality and humanity, and oar hatred to negro
slavery would all combine. It it a eat in which
we should have Mr. Bright finding fault with In
suffioieney of the Naval Estimates, and Mr. Bux
ton making sarcastic allusion to lb want of en
terprise ia the Secretary for War. Yet with all
this power ef explosion there bee not been a siogle
bant. Eves Exeter Hall bas not said a word.
Even tbe professional ranlera. who make what
tbey eall a career out of tuob demonstration, bare
not ventured to lay bold of tbe topic
ELOQUENT VINDICATION OF COLORED
CITIZENSHIP.
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Extract from a speech on tbe Resolution of
Mr. CrtitsLdeo, proposing certain Amendment
to the Constitution, delivered in the U. S. Senate-,
Feb. 21st, 1861, by UxNatr Wilsoji, of Massa
chusetts. The Senator from Kentucy, eeeoaded by tbe
Senator from Illinois, proposal to incorporate io
the Conatltatiou a provision that "m elective
fRANCHIS HALL MOT Bl EXERCISED BT ANT ME
SONS OV (HI ArSICAN RACE. 1M WHOLE OR IN PART."
Wby, air, Is this proposition of disfranchisement
now made Who demands it T What is to be
gained by thi disfranchisement of men, who
ancestor presetted tbe right of suffrage before the
Constitution of Ihe United Stale earn from the
band of it illustrious framer ? "At the time,"
ayt Judge Curtis, in tb Dred Scott ease, "of tbe
ratification ot the Artiole cf Confederation, all
free native-bom inhabitant of the Stotet of Htm
Hampshire, MassachusstU. New York, New Jer
ry, and North Carolina, though descended from
African alavet, were not only citizen of thos
States, bat took ol tiem at had tbe other neoessa-
ry qualification possessed the franchise ol elec
tors, on canal term with olber citisens." Ia
Maryland and Tennessee, person of the A moan
raee long sxeroiaed tbe right of suffrage, lo tue
casting vote of that class of men, John Bell once
owed bie eleotlon to the House of Ueprtsentatives.
Massachusetts adopted bar Constitution in 1780,
during the war of Independence. Tbat Constitu
tion made tbe elave a freeman made persons
the African raee citizens, entitled to tbe elective
franobi:. Tbi right, seoured io tbe troublous
davt of Ibe Revolution, to persons of the African
raoe, by Joba Adams, Parson, Lowell, and tbeir
noble associate, ba been exerpised for eighty
j ears. Now, air, lb Senator from Kentucky
some into tbi chamber, propose she disfran
chisement aad degradatioa of eitiaeae of Masaa
ehasetts, made to by bar bsroi air, and I blush
M eoafeee that there are man in that Common
wealth ee false and recreant to human right, as
to petition Congre to sustain thi wicked, this
nenttrou preposition ot aiairanaoimns.
know, air. it ie aa ograoiou task, la these days,
and in these ebambere, to maintain, even, tbe le
gal right of a proscribed raee ; I am not insensi
ble to the a-ibe and jeer, tbe taontt and misrep
resentations or a eorropted publio opinion ( but,
never can I never will content, by word ot act,
to Ibie erlme against freemen. Tbe material In
tereslt of MaMiaebatetU are dear torn, but tbe
rigbtt of ber people ar far dearer. Sir, I tell her
apoetstt aonu who bevt put tbeir name to these
memorials for tbe disfranchisement ol ner eoiorea
men, knowing what tbey did, that the constitu
tional rights of tbe humbles! man whj tread tb
soil of th old Paritaa Commonwealth ar dearer,
far dearer to me, than all those material Internets
for which they ere ready to taorifice tht right of
tbeir fellon-meo. "
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Sir, in Ibe dark day of oor weakness, the an
cestor of tb men yon would now, la th day cf
your power, trample beneath your feet, freely
ave tbeir blood for Ibe libertiet end independ
nce of America. The leader and first victim of the
Boston Massacre of Ihe 6th of Maroh, 1770, which
so fired the hearte and roused Ihe patriotism ef
tbe people, was Crispue Attacks, a colored pal
riot. One i f that race mingled bie blood with the
fallen patriots of the 10th of April 1775, and they
stood with oor heroic sires on Ihe b ighle of Booker
Hill, when the elorm of battle clung around aad
beat upon it. Tbey fought side by side and shoul
der to shoulder with our father, "for the right,'
eay Bancroft, In hi narration of th work ol
that day, "of the free negrooe to bear arms io the
publio defoose at that day, wae ee little disputed
in New England a their other rigblt." When
Major 1'itcairn the leader who opened the mur
derous fire upon tbe patriots on Ibe green of Lex
ington common mounted tbe wotkt on Bunker
Hill, crying '-The day ia ours," he fell, mortally
wounded, by Ihe uoerriog ehot of Salem, a black
soldier.
Hundreds of the ancestors of Ihe men upon
whose browt the Senator from Kontncky would
stamp degradation, entered the army and fought
with beroio courage on the stricken fields of the
Revolution, borne of the most beroio deeds of tbe
war of Independence were performed by black
men. A braver regiment loan tbe Colored iteg
iment of Rhode Island, led by tbe gallant Col.
Green, tbe bero of Rod Bank, trod not tbe battle
fields of the Revolution. Of ibis black regiment,
Tristnm Borgea said in Ibe House of Representa
tives, in 1828, that "no braver men met the en
emy in battle," and Governor Eustis, of Massa
chusetts, Secretary of War under Jefferson, laid
of them, in 1820, "Tbey discharged their daty
with teal and fidelity ; the gallant defense of Red
Bank, in which the black regiment bore a part, is
among the proofs of tbeir valor." Arnold, in bis
admirable history of Rhode Island, pay thii no
ble tribute to tbe conduct of tbia regiment in the
battle of Rhode Island which Lafayette pronoun
ced " tbe best fought battle of tbe war." "It wat
in repelling theso furious onsets, that tbe newly
raised llacl regiment, under Colonel Green, dis
tipguisbed itself by deeds of desperate valor. Pot
ted behind a thicket in tbe valley, tbey three times
drove back tba Hessians, who charged repeatedly
down the hill to dislodge them ; and so determin
ed were tbe enemy in tbeae successive charges,
that tbe day after the battle the Ueasian Colonol,
upon whom tbi doty bad daveloped, applied to
exchange hi command and go to. New York, be
cause be dared mot lead bie regiment again to bat
tle, lest bia men should (boot bias for having
anted thorn to much loss."
Connecticut, too, raised a battalion of black
soldiers, and Colonel Humphrey, attached to tbe
military family of Wasblogton, nccepled a com
mand in this corps. Tbe beroio defence of the
fort on tbebeighleof Groton, by Colonel Ledyard
and bie brave comrades, ie a glorioue page in onr
historv. Bv their tide fought and fell men of
tbie bated raoe. History records that, wbtn the
workt were stormed, tbe British officer, exaspera
ted by tbe heroic resistance, inquired: "Who
commands thia fort?" "I once did ; yon do now,"
answered Ledyard, banding tha officer hit tword,
wbiob was inttantly ran through bit body by tht
officer. Lambert, a black toldter, avenged tbit
murder of bit oommander by thrusting bis bay
onet through Ibe body of the British officer, and
then fell, pieroed by thirty-three bayonet wounds.
Sir, in the great struggle for independence; in
tbe war of 1812, on land and tea, the blood of Ibe
colored men of New England wae freely poured
out in vindication of your libertiet, righti and
honor; and now yon ask ot lo despoil them of
their long possetttd righti. Never, eir, never by
my consent. In addressing the German working
men of Cincinnati tbe utber day, Mr. Linooln told
them that "tbey were all of tba great family of
men, and if there ii one shackle npon any of Ibem,
it would be far better to lift the load from them
than to pile additional loada npon them." Tbat
wet tbe utterance of a Christian atateeman. These
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men yon propose to oisirancnise turcver are
all of the great family of man, and if there are
shackles apoa then, it wonld be fbr belter to lift
tbe load from them than to pile additional bar
dent upon I hem.
Tbe Senator from Kentucky, mpporled by tbe
Senator from Illinois, proposes to incorporate into
the Constitution a provision authorising "tbe Uni
ted States to acquire districts of country in Africa
and South America, for tbe colonization, at tbe
expentet of the Federal Treaeury, of tucb free ne-
groet and mulattos at tbe teveral State may
wish to bave removed from tbeir limits, and from
the District of Columbia, and snob other placet at
may ba under tbt jurisdiction of Congress.
Tbit proposition it not intended to encourage
emancipation-, but to perpetuate slavery. It does
not sropose to tend, at tbe publio expense, tucb
persons a may b bearafier emancipated by mat-
ten willing to emancipate on condition ol expatri
ation to distant lands. No. sir, tbat i not it
purpose. That purposs is to mak alavery more
secure by sending out of the tlaveholdiog States
tbe free negroes. Efiorla, inhuman and onohru-
Uan effort, bave been made in several of Ibe Stales,
and ia torn of them suooeeifully, lo expel or re
duce to tlavery tbe free colored population, lodge
Catron, of the Supreme Court, to bie honor, de
nounced tbe proposition, when made in Tennessee,
aa an attempt "to oommit aa outrage, to perpe
trate an oppression aad cruelty." These efforte
to oommit to outrage, to perpetrate aa oppress
ion and cruelty" have been defeated only In torn
of tb State by tb greatest sxerllons. Tb prop
osition was latsly mad, in tbe Legislator
South Carolina, to rsduo all free negroee
lavery and confiscate ibeir property, Tbe com
mittee to whom tbe suljsot wat rtlarred mad aa
advert report, ia which tbey say, "Ther ia
p-tenl within lb border of the Bute nearly ten
thousand free colored persons ; that tbsy ar
thrifty, elderly, and well disposed that tbsy are
th owner of a vast amount of property, both real
and personal ! Ikat ia tb oily of Cberlestoa alone
hy pay taiei on 1,5G1,870 worth of property
tbat of tbit amount, more (Ana thrtt kundrtd
and dollar art in tlattt that the free negro el
Char lee ton alone pay taxee to tbe tsistlt of $27s
209,81, and that other portiooe of the State) ebt
at fair a ratio." Io antwer le tbe proportion M
confiscate the properly of Ibes peopla and ae
tbtm into tlavery, Ibe committee tay tbey "loTbea
to consider aeyibing so full of loittiet aw net
edoess."
Adopt thispropofitioo -amend ibe ConitltotJo
and tht wild cry will go np for tbe removal if the?
free eolored men, whose fredom and proeperity,
even under tbe almost crushing bardene hnpoeetf
upon there, excit lb jealoosy of tb master mti
the hope of ibe (lave. Put tbi proposition ia tb
Constitution, and the farmers, mechanic, and?
worklngmen of tht free Slatee will be forced to?
contribute mllions, 'earned by the weat of ibeSf
brows, to ensbls the people of the elave 8tatet la
banish their free colored moo. Gladly would I ttr
amend Ihe Constitution as lo au thorite tbe Fedef'
al Government to acquire territory iu Mexico,
Central or South America, for the eoloniaatlon, al
the publio expense, of tuoh pereooe as the kamea ,
ity of slave master may emancipate, ea gaaditiew
of removal, and for tbe free people of color wh
may choose to emigrate at tbeir own expense; bat,
I never can -I never will consent Co tbie prop
osition for eternising elavery, and imposing thia
burden upon the toiling people of the North. Na,
sir, never, never! '
A Queer Fix. Tbe position of tbe Unile4
States it tbe most singular and bamiliatfrt; thai
tver befel a people. We find oorselve withea
war, and yet not at peac ws bav not dlesslved
tb Union, and yot tbe Union it not acknowledged)
over large part of the country. The President
has tworn to possess and protect the property of
tbe nation, but the forts, armt, mints, money, an
all other kind of property are take in eve
Slatet and btld tgaintl lira with impunity j b
has tworn to execute the lawe and collect tbe rev
enue, but a:i the national army ie not large enough
to execute the lawt npon the land, and Mr. Lla
eoln bat no power to collect tbe datiet on the tea.
We have a government tbal it no government ta 4V
portion of the country ; and a flag that le aol al
lowed to be hoisted in tbe cotton Statee. We bav
two President!, two Congresses, and two aeta ef
Soon for tb am Stats ) tbey will not acknowl
edge each other ; tbey will not negotiate with aacfe
other ; tbey will not fight each other; and the)
will not make peace with each other. How Ion,
oan such a ttatt of affair last without Woodtbtd t.
How long without giving tbe world another Mex
ico? And who can tell a wby we have aom M'
Ihit miserable and disgracefal predicament, e' .
bow we trt ta esoape from it t Kevburypori Utr-
ald. '' ' '"..'
FACTS OF THE LAST CENSUS.
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In looking over tb pages of tb Cenana of 18S0.;
many interesting fact meet the eye. It U only
occasionally, however, that tbe eensue-laktr
made any record of amusing or peculiar facte and
eooditione not ttriotly within the line of bie offi
cial doty. We may note, first, that a wrpritreily.
large proportion of th leading mea al Unto-"'
whether ia the professions, ia commercial pareaHa,
in educational enterprises, in scientific agriculture,
or in tbe eeale of general wealth era aaiivee at
New England. The "retired gentlemen" are al-
mott invariably men of limited meant, while tha .
wealthiest men of the State are actively engaged,'
in various pursuits. In teveral inttanoee female:
are tet down at "farm laborer!." Ia theeoaat.
of Clinton one man ie booked aa "too laay to work,,
and only just bontst enough not to ileal;" while,
in the town of Logan another ie curtly called "a
loafer," at though he were the only member ol.
that much abused fraternity in the valley of tbt
Hockbockiog. Columbiana and Seneoa aeea to
bave a monopoly of tbe (Vint of Ohio, though ia
Lucas there it a family of alovea children, Ihe old
ettnot ytt 20, the eeventb 12; while in Browa
township, Franklin county, there are in one family
four pair of twin Ihe oldest 16. In Knox, there
are in one family three yonng ladiet aged 18. I
Champaign there it an old patriarch who ia tba .
father of thirty-two children, by two wivet by ,
tb) first fovvleen, and by tbe last eighteen. Xbej ;
are nearly all married, and he hat managed to gift)
each eighty acrct of land, and It bimeelf worth)
nin thousand dollar. There U in Clinton What .
tbe census calls a "iceond Virginia family," of
whom it it laid "the men have no occupation, ana ,
that of tbe women can be guessed at from th
number of illegitimate children, there being tea.
In Montgomery there i Ono family, wno, oy inter
marriage of uncloe and nelcet, and other kin, ar
all diseased, and nol let than Ave children war
boru blind, while two are deaf and demb. Ia th
same county a young lady ia "blind from aveitaak-.
log at tcbool;" aad a mtn wat mad Wind trea
being "scared by a dog at four yean of age."-.
There ie alto, ia tbe tame county, a woman wh
"baa bad forty bents broken at variout llatee dar
ing life, and it now utttrly hilplett." Ia Cola at--biana
a father bat named hie boye Freedom aad ,
Reform, and in Medina a female child ef til year
is named Kansas. Peoauiary loee em I bav,
been a fruitful cause of insanity, and eoe "idiot'
ie said to bave been "love-strook".
Tbe orthography of the return I la torn la '
elaacea remarkable. We copy t Lawiaa, Margvet,
Riobal, Sari, Sberlitt, Jul, Jain, Alia, Faay, aV
fiah, Idy, liaaer, Lisa, Elan, Tkeodoar, tWett
Sirue, Niaolaio, Dene, Tbomae, Araetee, O ,
roam. Other, Iteral, Cannady. Meekagaa, Pmc, i
Irland, IlleaoUe, Ceiatuoky, Eegnear, M b ia,
Paater, Coart, Bagag, Braer, Carag, Doetar-JSed-'
ton, Brick-Lair, Maoea. ' ''
By aa amendment t the aaUat law a4bpte4 I I
th but Coagret, all p"1 I 4
ball ftmaia ia fore fo atveai year, 4 all
tateaaioaief patent prohibited. - - t v.
Our ffciger maple tree bae h p!aat4 rl
nealiy in Ibe weede ef Boulwcea, e4 fatten rt
will be made to ecclimatlM it ta riaaee Ki tin
yield of ugefc '
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