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VOL. XII.—NO. 37.
A REMARKABLE SPIRITUAL FORM.
[The following striking poem was recited by Miss
L'zzie Doten, a spiritual trance speaker, at the close ol
a recent lecture in Boston. She professed to give it im
promptu, so far a* she was concerned, and to speak
under the direct influence of Edgar A. Poe. Whatever
may be the truth about its production, the poem is ia
several respects a remariable one. Miss I'oten is ap
| parently incapable of originating such a poem. If it
was written for her by some one else, and merely com.
1 milted to memory and recited by her, the poem is nee.
j ertheiess wonderful as a reproduction ol the singular
’ music and alliteration of Fee’s stjle. and as manifest
' ing the same intensity o feeling.]
From the home of love supernal,
Where the angel feet make music over all the
starry floor—
Mortals, 1 have come to meet you,
Come with words of peace to greet you,
And to tell you of the glory that is mine for
evermore.
Once before I found a mortal,
• Waiting at the heavenly portal—
Waiting but to catch some echo from that ever
opening door;
Then I seized his quickened being,
And through all his inward seeing,
Caused my burning inspiration in a liery flood
to pour!
Now I come more meekly human,
And the weak lips of a woman
Touched with lire from off the altar, not with
burnings as of yore,
But in holy love descending,
With her chastened being blending,
I would fill your souls with music from the
bright celestial shore.
As one heart yearns for another,
As a child turns to its mother.
From the golden gates of glory, turn I to the
earth once more,
Where I drained the cup of sadness,
Where my soul was stung to madness,
And life’s bitter, burning billows, swept my
burdened being o’er.
Here the harpies and the ravens,
Human vampyres—sordid cravens,
Prayed upon my soul and substance till I
writhed in anguish sore;
Life and I then seemed mismated,
For I felt accursed and fated,
Like a restless, wrathful spirit, wandering on
the Stygian shore.
Tortured bj’ a nameless yearning,
Like a frost fire, freezing, burning,
Did the purple, pulsing life-tide through its fe
vered channels pour,
Till the golden bowl—Life’s token—
Into shining shreds was broken,
And my chained and chafing spirit leapt from
out its prison door.
But while living, striving, dying,
Never did my soul cease crying;
“Ye who guide the fates and furies, give ! oh !
give me, I implore,
From the myriad hosts of nations—
From the countless constellations,
One pure spirit that can love me—one that I,
too, can adore!”
Through this fervent aspiration
Fouud my fainting soul salvation,
For, from out its blackened fire-crypts, did my
quickened spirit soar;
And my beautiful ideal— J
Not too saintly to be real—
Burst more brightly on my vision than the
fancy formed Lenore.
Mid the surging seas she found me,
With the billows breaking round me,
And my saddened sinking Bpirit, in her arms of
love upbore;
hike a lone one, weak, and weary,
Wandering in the midnight dreary,
On her sinless, saintly bosom brought me to
the heavenly Bhore.
Like the breath of bosoms blending,
Like the prayers of saints ascending,
Like the rainbow's seven-hued glory, blend our
souls forevermore.
Earthly love and lust enslaved me,
But divinest love has saved me,
And I know now, first and only, how to love
and to adore.
Oh, my mortal friends and brothers,
We are each and all another’s,
And the soul that gives most freely from its
treasure hath the more.
Would you lose your life, you find it;
And in giving love, you bind it,
Like an amulet of safety, to your heart forever
more ?
An Incident of tbe California Klec
tion—Senator Gwln’i Vote Chal
lenged,
The Hon. Wm. M. Gwin, U. S. Senator
from California, offered his vote in the
Seventh District. On his approach to the
polls, Mr. Owen Curran, a neat little Irish
man, a Douglas Democrat, challenged the
Senator’s vote on the ground he was
not a resident of California, but he belonged
to Mississippi. Various exclamations were
heard derogatory of tbe public character of
the distinguished gentleman,among others,
one that he had lost his right to vote by
defeating the Pacific Railroad, another that
he lived in Texas. The Doctor declared
that he was a Senator from California, that
his name was Wm. M. Gwin, that he came
here in 1849, that he was United States
Senator.
All did not satisfy Mr. Curran, who per
sisted in his challenge, insisting upon each
individual reason urged in tbe objections
aboye cited to Gwin’s competency. There
remained no alternative under the law but
to administer the oath to Dr. Gwin, and he
took it accordingly. His vote was then ad
mitted.—San F rancsco Times.
Rev. Francis Herron, D. D., for half
a century pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Pittsburgh, died in that city on
the 6tb inst., at the advanced age of eighty
six years.
From the throne of life eternal.
Personal Items.
George W. Curtice was announced to
lecture in Philadelphia, on the 13th, on an
anti-slavery subject, but a riot was appre
hended, and the notice of the lecture with
drawn. Last spring Curtic lectured in
Philadelphia on John Brown’s merits
and was only saved from violence by a large
body of police.
The La Crosse Democrat states there are
in that city “two hundred and eleven mar
riageable girls, sweet, beautiful, and accom
plished. To capture these fairies, there are
id all one hundred and twenty young beaus
—forty-two of whom don’t care for girls—
thirty-seven the girls don’t care for—fifteen
who are too busy making money, to get
married, and the balance are engaged.” This
is a very sad state of affairs.
Mrs. James K. Polk has presented to
the Tennessee Historical .Society, a portrait,
by Healey, of her late distinguished hus
band.
H. G. O. Morrison, of Dakota county,
and Henry Acker, of St. Paul, will be the
two leading Republican candidates for
Speaker of the House. They represent
parties advocating differdnt methods of set
tling the Railroad difficulty. As the Legis
lature is unanimous, or nearly so, in politics,
it will probably divide on the Railroad
question,
Garibaldi, before leaving Naples, pub
lished the iollowing notice:
The public is hereby informed that I will not
receive any letters at Caprera that are not
postpaid. C. GARIBALDI,
Indications are now apparent in the
Navy, that in case of secession, many south
ern officers will resign. The South Caroli
nians lead in the determination. At present
there are no important posts occupied save
one; the flag officer of the East Indies
squadron being a native of South Carolina.
A Kentuckian also commands a fleet. The
navy yard have no southern commandant,
except Commodore Armstrong, of Pensa
cola, who was born in Kentucky.
Philip Francis Thomas, the present
Secretary of the Treasury, vice Cobb re
signed, is a native of Maryland, where
he was born in 1810, and (after having been
educated at Dickinson College, Pennsylva
nia,) was admitted to the bar in 1831.
In 1836 he was elected to the State
Constitutional Convention; In 1838 to
the State Legislature; and in 1839 to
Congress as a Representative. In 1842 he
was chosen Judge of the Eastern Shore
Land office Court; in 1843 and ’45, elected
to the State Legislature ; and in 1847, he
was elected Governor of Maryland—
Berving from 1848 to 1851. He made a
g>od Commissioner of Patents and pos
sesses considerable administrative ability;
but is a thorough politician.
Col. J. D. Reymert, late Democratic
candidate for Congress in the second Wis
consin district, has started a paper at the
Falls of the St. Croix, entitled the “St.
Croixian.” Rather a jawbreaker, that,
brother R.
It is seriously rumored in the streets,
that Charley Nicols, John J. Shaw, R.
F. Fisk, Thomas Maclean Newson, John
P. Uwbns, George Moore, and about half
a dozen other gentlemen, are willing to serve
their country in the St. Paul Post Office,
if Abraham is willing. It is worth about
$2,000 per annnm.
An English writer says: “There is rath
er a prevalent idea, strange to say, that the
ex-King of Naples will come to England.
He has sent a large sum of money to Eng
land, and he has faith in the friendship of
the Bourbon family residing here, who,
however, have prudently kept aloof from
any manifestations of even symyathy for
the dethroned monarch. The neighborhood
of Bristol is talked of as a residence for the
King, as he has relatives by marriage there
—a Capt. Conolly, of Cersham, who mar
ried a Neapolitan Princess.”
Longevity, democracy, and matrimony,
are the strong points of Mr. Jambs Doug
las, of Coventry, Connecticut. He is 104;
has been married over 70 years; and always
voted the Democratic ticket.
A Virginia editor congratulates the
South that Mrs. Lincoln is a pro-slavery
woman. The editor is so informed by a
gentleman who knew her in Kentucky,
where they both formerly lived, and, on
seeing her some two weeks since, asked her
SAINT PAUL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1860.
if she bad modified the opinions she formerly
held in regard to the institution. She re
plied that she had not; that, on the contra
ry, her convictions in favor of it had been
strengthened since her residence in Illinois.
Revolutionary Pensioners.-- -It appears
by the report of the Committee on Pen
sions that only eighty-seven of the Revolu
tionary soldiers now remain. Among the
number is one (Mr. Ralph Farnham) who
was a participant in the first battle of the
war—Bunker Hill. It is a melancholy fact
that a few of the old soldiers who fought for
our independence, that secured our Union,
will live to see it dismembered.
It is rumored that Donn Piatt, of Cincin
nati, is to be President Lincoln’s private
secretary, and that his wife (“Bell Smith
Abroad”) will aid Mrs. Lincoln in dispens
ing the hospitalities ol the White House.
The companions of the Prince of Wales
on bis American tour are to be handsomely
rewarded. The commanders of the Hero
and Ariadne are to be promoted, and the
Duke of Newcastle is to receive the vacant
order of the Garter.
The Empress Eugenie at last accounts
had left Edinburgh for Perth. She was
cordially received. The Emperor would
join her at Windsor Castle.
The estate of the late Sir George Simp
sod, (Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Com
pany,) amounts, it is said, to 250,000/.
The Movimento, of Genoa, relates the
following curious anecdote:
When Garibaldi arrived at Caprera, he was
astonished to find the appearance of the Island
quite changed. Instead of the stony desert he
had left, he saw before him well cultivated
fields and beautiful plantations, with shady
groves and spacioas avenues. It looked as if
a magician had been there, and struck the
Island with his wand, bidding nature forthwith
to lavish her treasures on this chosen spot. But
the General was still further surprised when,
instead of his hnmble cottage, an elegant villa
stood before him, on entering which the mys
tery was soon explained—for lo !on the walls
of a fine large hall there hung the portrait of
his friend, Victor Emanuel, who had turned his
absence to account in order to prepare this
surprise for him.
The War Department has just issued, in
pamphlet form, a tribute to the bravery,
endurance, and patriotism of that portion of
the United States Army which has been
recently engaged in conflict with the In*-
dians. In enumerating instances of indi
vidual heroism, with which the little docu
ment is studied, the exploits of two Irish
men receive deserved prominence. One
Patrick Collins, of the Second Cavalry,
attacked twelve Indians, killed one, wounded
one mortally and two slightly, and routed
the remainder: private Wheelan, of the
First Cavalry, having been surrounded and
attacked by nine Indians, and wounded in
both legs, managed to kill two of the enemy,
and broke three sabers in the skulls of his
assailrants, when three of his comrades gal
lantly rescued him.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, a Repulican
journal, says that Senator Hale “has, by
some unaccountable freak of the citizens of
his State, got into, and kept in, a seat in the
Senate of the United States, when his true
position would be in the saw dust of a circus,
crowned by the jester’s cap and bells. He
is the mountebank of the Senate, possessing
neither dignity, prudence, nor proper appre
ciation of his high duties ”
Victor Emanuel, born on the 14th of
March, 1820, succeeded his father, the
gallant but ill-fated Charles Albert, on his
abdication after the battle of Novarra. His
reign commenced in March, 1849. He was
married in April, 1842, to the first cousin of
the present Emperor of Austria who died
in January, 1855. He has four sons and
one daughter. His eldest son and heir is
Prince Humbert, born in March, 1844, a
youth of great promise. His daughter, the
Princess Clothilde, born in March, 1843,
was married in January, 1859, to Prince
Napoleon, son of the late Jerome Bona
parte, ex-King of Westphalia.
Boston Election.- —The vote cast in
Boston on Monday for Mayor was 14,449
the largest vote ever cast at a municipal
election in that city, yet about 6,000 less
than that cast for President in November.
F. W. Lincoln, jr. the present Mayor, was
elected by the Americans and Republicans
last year. His vote was 5,958. Mr. Kim
ball, the Republican candidate, defeated on
Monday, received 5,681 votes. Mr. Wight
man, the Mayor elect, was the candidate of
the Democrats and Bell men. His vote was
upward of 8,000.
An English View of Threatened Se-
The London Times of the 2Gth alt., com
mences an elaborate article on the threat
ened secession of the Southern States of the
American Union, with the following notice
able paragraph :
la electing Mr. Lincoln to the office of Presi
dent, the Northern United States have ventured
on a bold experiment. They have determined
to test the courage and sincerity cf the South,
to face unapalled the sceptre of secession, and
discover whether it be really a terrible spirit
potent for evil, or only a bugbear, devised by
a Clever faction, inflated with the breath of rho
domontadiog orators, and dressed out with a
hideous mask by placemen trembling for their
appointments. A month or two will show
how far those are in the right who have calcu*
laten on the strength of the American Union and
the supremacy of national feeling over all section
al interests. Should South Carolina, Georgia
and the adjacent States separate themselves
permanently from the Federation, constituting
themselves a new nation, with their own army,
navy, customs, foreign representatives, and all
the appanages of independence, then the whole
series of American politicians will have been in
the wrong, and this jonrnal, which has always
declared such an event to be impossible, will
have been in the wrong with them. But if, af
ter an outburst of party passion, the Southern
ers themselves become sensible of the wicked
ness and folly of their course; if they recognize
how tar the possessors and expectants of offi
cial places are the movers of this agitation, and
if, moreover, they are calmed by the reflection
that a President, powerful as he is, can do little
to alter the policy of the Republic, and nothing at
all to subvert the domestic institutions of the sever
al Slates, then the result will be such as we an
ticipate, and the United States will continue to
combine in one Federation, two communities,
with widely different politics and systems of
social life, but forming essentially and unalter
ably one and the same people.
The Times then renewes the action of the
Southern States, and comes to the conclu
sion that the best policy for the Federal
government, is
—“To leave the Southerners entirely to them
selves, to take no notice of the withdrawal of
the Senators and Representatives, to avoid as
much as possible any conflict between the Fed
eral authorities and the excited populace cf
Charleston- in short, to oppose a ‘masterly inac
tivity’ to the South. The South will grow accus
tomed to a Republican President, the move
ment in South Carolina and Georgia will be
confined to only a section of the slave States,
and after some months wiser counsels will pre
vail even there. President Lincoln will prob
ably be found by the slaveholders more harm
less than they anticipate. Men’s acts are never
so extreme as their opinions, and, as the free
soilers have flourished under the dominion of
their opponents, bo the South may exist in spite
of a Chief Magistrate whose opinions on slavery
are not considered orthodox at Charleston.
Somebody has sent ns a marked copy of
the prospectus of the Missouri Democrat,
the leading Republican newspaper of St.
Louis, which commences with the following
words:
Now that the great Republican party has re
deemed the country and a long era of national
prosperity and glory may be expected to set in
with the inauguration of the new President, &c.
United States stocks sold at 85 in New
York at last advices. Before Lincoln was
elected they brought 103)4.
Letter from Pike’s Peak. — A gentle
man of this city has placed in our hands a
letter received by him from a Minnesotian,
dated Gregory’s Diggings, Nov. 17th, from
which we make some extracts that may be
of interest to those who have friends in that
region:
“We have just had a heavy fall of snow and
the weather is very cold, and everything is
very quiet. Many of the quartz mills in the
monntains are not rnnning, on account of
water, as the different ditches are frozen over
and only those that have springs are able to
work. Here and there you will find a gulch
miner at work, but most of them have either
gone to the States, or are at work on the lead
claims, or in the mines,
“Very flattering accounts have been received
from South Clear Creek; new leads have been
discovered and assays made which have yield
ed from four to forty thousand dollars per
cord. You may think this statement is wild,
bnt the assays were made by Dr. Day, (brother
of Dr. Day of St. Paul), and he is called by all
who are acquainted with him an honorable
man, and one who can be relied upon. The
leads over at Gold Dirt are yielding from three
to seven huudred dollars per cord. In this sec
tiou the yield is from one to five hundred dol
lars—generally about two thousand dollars.
The one that we are grinding is from the Fisk
lead, and averages two hundred and fifty dol
lars per cord. The expense of getting out and
grinding is forty- six dollars per cord—so you
see there is a good profit left. Miners and mill
owners are sanguine that there is money to be
made in the business.
“All the Miunesotians, as far as I know, are
in good health and doing as well as could be
expected, considering the unfavorable season.”
, “Old Abb,” in tbereugb experiences of
his early days, couldn’t have had a choice
of bed-fellows; there are at least a dozen of
the most “onery” fellows we know of, in this
city alone, who boast of having travelled,
eaten, drank and slept with him—and ex
pect their reward for so doing.
DEFECTIVE
cession.
‘•A Little Previous.”
AGE
A Free Port. —Dan. E. Sickles in a
late speech in Congress, said:—“The city
of New York will cling to the Union while
a single hope is left; but when there is no
longer a Union, proud as she is of her posi
tion as a metropolis, ready to banish sec
tional prejudices, and willing to contribute
all in her power to maintain her honor at
home and abroad, when there is do longer
a Union, she will never consent to be an
appendage or slave of a Puritan province.
There is no sympathy now between the city
and State of New York, nor has there been
for years. She will open her free port to
the commerce of the world.” This project
is advocated by several New York papers.
Education in Wisconsin. —The annual
report of the Superintendent of Public In
struction in Wisconsin, gives the number
of school districts in that State as 4,110;
number of male attendants, 194,834 —beiDg
about two thirds of the children of school
age in the State ; average monthly wages
of male teachers, §24 20; ditto female
teachers, §l4 84 ; total receipts for school
purposes duriDg the last year, §574,183 97.
There are 1,175 district libraries in the
State, containing an aggregate of 35,939
volumes. The amount of money raised for
the libraries was §2,003 91. There are also
161 select and private schools in the State,
exclusive of incorporated academies, at
tended by 7,326.
Commissioner op the Land Office.—
The New York Times' Washington corres
pondent, writing on the 12th, says:—“Hon.
Cyrus Aldrich, of Minnesota, is mention
ed by many here for the office of Commis
sioner of the General Land Office, under the
incoming Administration. His long ex
perience as Land Officer in the West, to
gether with his thorough knowledge of the
details of our land system, pre-eminently
qualifies him for the position.” That cost
the Colonel a good story, and—the drinks.
ST. ANTHONY MINNEAPOLIS
FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.
Not Closed. —The Mississippi river,
from the head of Nicollet Island to the
“Dam,” is still partially open. We would
like to know if Captain Tapper, the ever
present toll gatherer, baa managed to resist
the encroachments of Jack Frost for the
especial benefit of the inexorable Bridge
stockholders. If so, we, with sundry other
victims, would like to know long the league
is to continue.
Fire. —The Drying House of Messrs.
Gilpatrick & Bassett, used for the purpose
of drying material for their pail and bucket
factory, was burned last Friday. Loss,
8700. We learn that this misfortune will
not seriously curtail the operations of their
factory. The Dry House was built on the
dam structure. During the progress of the
fire, the dam took fire, threatening the demo
litionof that important improvement. Hap
pily it was timely extinguished.
Arrested.— lt will be remembered by
the readers of the Pioneer that we noticed
some months since, the robbery of Messrs.
Newman & Co.’s store at St. Anthony.
The loss sustained was quite heavy. At
the time suspicions were entertained by
many that two youDg men by the name of
Day had something to do with the burglary.
Quite true : —these young men decamped to
parts unknown immediately after the rob
bery. These precious gems of morality
made their appearance in St. Anthony last
Saturday evening. The youngest, Henry
Day, has been arrested on the charge of
aforesaid burglary. The preliminary exam
ination will come off to-day. These preco
cious youths are sods of G. E. H. Day, Esq.,
of St. Anthony.
Fair and Festival.—The Ladies of the
Presbyterian congregation of St. Anthony
intend to bold a Eair and Festival in their
new church building on the Wednesday eve
succeeding Christmas day. It promises to
be a recherche affair.
Farmer’s Store.—We learn that there
is a movement on foot among tbe farmers
of Baooklyn, Cedar Lake and Richfield
Towns to establish a “Farmer’s Store” in
Minneapolis. The plan contemplates a
store at which dry goods, groceries, &c.
will be sold at nett cost, with an additional
percentage imposed sufficient to pay rent
and clerk hire. The arrangement is by no
means original. It was most effectually
tried on, a few years since, in tbe rural dis
tricts of the “Empire State,” and with ru
inous consequences to all concerned. The
experiment proved a universal failure, in
volving tbe originators in perplexing law
suit?, many of which remain on the “calen
dars” of t!he Tespective counties unsettled.
We would advise those contemplating the
establishment of a similar venture here, to
inform themselves of the history of the New
Tork “Babble.” One thing we woald add,
if the project coaid not succeed there, it is
very probable it would not here.
NEW SERIES-NO. 361.
The Resignation of Hon. Howell Cobb.
The following is Mr. Cobb’s letter ten
dering his resignation, and the President’s
reply:
Washington, Dec. 8, 1860,
My Dear Sir:—A sense of duty to the
State of Georgia requires me to take a step
which makes it proper that I should no
longer continue to be a member of your
Cabinet.
In the troubles ol the country consequent
upon the late Presidential election, the hon
or and safety of my State are involved.—
Her people so regard it, and in their opinion
I fully concur. They are engaged in a strug
gle where the issue is life or death. My
friends ask for my views and counsel. Not
to respond would be degrading to myself
and unjust to them. I have accordingly
prepared, and must now issue to them, an
address which contains the calm and solemn
convictions of ray heart and judgment.
The views which I sincerely entertain,
and which therefore I am bound to express,
differ in some respects to your own. The
existence of this difference would expose me,
if I should remain in my present place, to
unjust suspicions, and put you in a false po
sition. The first of these consequences I
could bear well enough, but I will not sub
ject you to the last.
My withdrawal has not been occasioned
by anything you have done or said. Whilst
differing from your message upon some of its
theoretical doctrines, as well as from the
hope so earnestly expressed that the union
can yet be preserved, there was no practical
result likely to follow which required me to
retire from your administration. That ne
cessity is created by what I feel it my duty
to do; and the responsibility of the act,
threrefore, rests alone upon myself.
To say that I regret—deeply regret—this
necessity, but feebly expresses the feeliDg
with which I pen this communication. For
nearly four years I have been associated
with you as one of your Cabinet officers,
and duriDg that period.nothing has occurred
to mar, even for a moment, our personal
and official relations. In the policy and
measures of your administration I have
cordially concurred, and shall ever feel
proud of the humble place which my name
may occupy in its history. If your wise
counsels and patriotic warnings had been
heeded by your countrymen, the 4th of
March next would have found our country
happy, prosperous and united. That it will
not be so is do fault of yours.
The evil has now passed beyond control,
and must be met by each and all of us un
der our responsibility to God and our
country. If, as I believe, history will have
to record yours as the last administration
of our present UnioD, it will also place it
Bide by side with the purest and ablest of
those that preceded it.
With the kindest regards for yourself and
the members of your Cabinet, with whom I
have been so pleasantly associated, I am
most truly aod sincerely, your friend,
To the President. HOWELL COBB.
Washington, Dec. 10, 1860.
My Dear Sir — l have received your
commanication of Saturday evening, re
signing the position ot Secretary of the
Treasury which you have held since the
commencement of my administration. Whilst
I deeply regret that you have determined to
separate yourself from us at the present
critical moment, yet I admit that the que&*
tion was one for your own decision. I could
have wished you bad arrived at a different
conclusion; because our relations, both offi«
cial and personal, have ever been of the
most friendly and confidential character. I
may add that I have been entirely satisfied
with the ability and zeal which you have
displayed in performing the duties of your
important office.
Cordially reciprocating the sentiments of
personal regard. I remain, very respectfully,
your friend,
Hon. Howell Cobb. JAS. BUCHANAN.
Electoral Vote. —lt appears that six
Presidents have received nearly the same
vote in the electoral college since 1828, as
follows :
1828 Jackson received 173
1836 Van Bnren “ 170
1844 Polk “ 170
1848 Taylor “ 163
1856 Buchanan' “ 174
1860 Lincoln “ 180
The Pot Boils.—Col. Webb, of the New
York Courier, asks and answers questions
in a manner that proves a slight difference
of opinion between Republican politicians.
Here is a sample:
“If the Albany Evening Journal and
ourselves, have asked nothing but what is
right and jnst, and which may be conceded
by both the North and South with honor—
why does the Tribune in the face of facts,
and in total disregard of the slightest re
spect for truth, charge us with proposing to
nullify the election of Lincoln and the dis
bandment of tbe Republican party ? Tbe
answer is at band. Simply because tbe
editor of the Tribune is as much of an
Abolitionist as Garrison, and at heart as
anxious to dissolve tbe Union, as Yancey
or Keitt, and other disunionists at the
South.”