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' ' P a ss i b g C 1 o u d s.
. BI MltS. H. I BOSTWICK.
- I look on Nature with a shadowed eye,
Her smiles, her voices, woo me all m vain,
Though gorgeous things on earth, and sea,' and sky,
Proclaim the Queen cf Seasons hath her rein.
Tis not Disease, nor Grief, nor cumbering cares,
That wed my spirit to this sad unrest,
But I am weary of a world that bears
So much of Wrong and Sorrow on its breast.
What glory doth the crowned Summer bring;?
A pall-like mantle shrouds h back from me!
Where is. tlie beauty that the poets sing?
Tho " serpent's taH," alas! I only see.
How can I bind June -roses round a brow
Pallid with bending in tte shade of graves?
Can the ears, 6I!ed with wails of living woe,
Delight in bird-song and the chant of waves?
KaTfh Is a field of struggling, warring hearts,
- These for Power.Fame and Mammon; those for Life,
TbcTS Hate aai falsehood play their fiendish partg,
And Truth and Sfercy tdn tiesHc the strife!
Ob, is it not an humblinsr, saddening thought.
That every night we lay our children down, .
More of Earth's blackening evil hath been wrought
In their young bosoms since the morning shone?
More of life's cankering knowledge, Uint doth cling
Through artor years, deforming all the souk
That vainly oft most plume rt3 wounded wing
- And strive to soar beyond the vile control.
-' - -''-:' "''
'Twas thus I mused beside the Marah fountains,
.. That well unceasing in a desert place, - .
AVhen lo! a vision on the eastern mountains,
A form of beauty and divinest grace!
, . Not clothed in majesty of the arch-angel,
But veiled in splendor, such as seraphs wear,
The stranger spoke, and this the glad Evangel,
That fell like leve-bom music on my car. :
' Why murmurest thou! Oh, faint and roibpiievuig!
.--v Is not God, Father? bath not Jesus died?
, Know 'tis a spirit erring or deceiving,
That wbispereth thus " Life hath no sunny side."
" Thou hart forgotten Faitb, and fled from Duty
. Go, labor, if thou would'st know rest in sooth.
On the rough hill-side plant the grove of Beauty
" In the bleak places, dig the wells of Truth!
"Hast thou no post bn f';e wide field of battle.
Where slain and striving are thy kindred all,
Save nnmberihg the death-shot's fearful rattle, 1 ' -Or
weeping o'er the wrecks that round thee fall?
' Hrt thou no might to lift the heart despairing?
Kor skill to tootiie tlie throbbing brain's di easc i
; - 5o voice 'to cry to th oppressor's godloss daring;
Or in the n ayward to the walks of Peace?
k" No more despairing of thy hope's fruition, r :
In selfish pinings rob thy soul of rest;
Be Faith in God. and Love to nau.' thy mission;
; " And thou, in t-lcising, shalt be doubly blct."
I will believe thy voi e, celestial comer! -
And it shrW ne: ;-e my purposed aim to be.
' 'Now in the gloslng borfrs of life's m:d-snmmer,
- .' . .An earnest toiler for HrjTnanily. '. ' '
A nd ihou. O, Father! that from highest Heaven,
- - Do3t hear the netd v,'ld bird's feeble cry,
"WhO SiCOriK-St H.i lilts aitu.lut Juujer, at oven,
By iutaiti voices oiTered up on high.
Thou wilt proct our loved ones, pilgrim-wending.
On s"pi'ery p. ths, tvm arm shall gilt tliem round,
Thv band 3li:'l aid the Difficult Hill's aacg.
Thy voice awake them on th' Enchanrsajormd..
So, thou, that sit'-t despondent, ccae thy giieving,
Faint not in weakness, nor repine in pride,
'For tis a spirit, erring or deceiving,
; That wbisperest thus "Life hath no siinny side."
Eiiinburglu Ohio. . ...
. - ' Man's Judgment.
V- vi'-v ..... EY.Ti 8..ARTHUR; , , '--
I wouldn't give much for hi chance of heav
en, was the remain ot. a man whose coarsp,
wet'-worn gar merits "con! rested' strongly "with '
.'.he dark, rich broadcloth of. the the. person to
whom he i efcr. ed.' I n the tones of ihe iabiv ii
aa! who ur'e'ed tl.fs seiitence, was clearly ap
parent sntiifuc; ion at the thought of Lis rich
neighbor's chance of final Ealvat:on, It was on
the S-ibbatb, "and both haiJ passea for'.h from' the
sacred edifice to wl.ich they had that morning
gone up for the avowed end of worship.
'Why do you sny thnt?' asked a friend to
wham the remark was addressed.
; fYou know the scriplores say?,' w.ii tho con
fident answer, .'how hardly they who live rich
enter tlieJTingdom of heav'en.'. ..."'!
'You believe ;hen that the mere fact of a
man posse3;og riches will keep him out of heav
en?' . ' . " :
'No; I wouldn't just like to say that. But
riches harden :he iieait and muke men unfit for
heaven?' - - .. '. '
, 'I doubt if itches harden the heatt more than
poverty,' was the reply. . .
.'Slow cao you say so?' was warmly objected.
'Is'nt the promise everyw here to tho poor? - To
whom was ihe gospel sen!?'
'The rich end ihe poor spoken of in the word
of God,' sniJ ihe friend, 'do not, it is plain mean
simply those in the world wiio possess natural
povetty. Remember that the Bible is a revc
lalion of spitr.ual truth for man's eternal salva
tion, and that iis teachings must have primary
regard to what is spiritual, and refer to man's
eternal slate ra'her then tj his mere worldly
condition. Remember Ibnt the Lord while on
earth said; ' .. . ..
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, (not ihe poor
in this world's goods) for theits is the kingdom
of heaven.
And we may, wihout violence to even the
letter of the Word,conclude that when he Bpeuks
of ils being hard for the rich to enter the king
dom of heaven, that only the proud id spirit
those who rested self-confident on tho liches of
thfir worldly and natural wisdom were meat.t.
Thnt it would be easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for such to enter heav
en, U plain from our Lord's words when ho sat
a chi'd in ;he midst of his disciples, and told
them that unless they became as ihtil little child
they could not entsrhe kingdom of hoaven.
Not externally and na'ually as that child, for
that was impossible; but poor in spirit, teacha
ble, as a child.'
. The first speaker whose name was- Maxwell
tossed hia head and slightly curled his lip as he
replied
I brt'.ieve jutt what the Bible says. As for
your forced meanings I never go to them. A "
plain matter-of-faet man, I understand what is
writen ia a "plaio, matter-of-fact way. .Tbej
Bible says they who havo riches shall hardly j
enter the kingdom of heaven." And I can see ;
how true the saying is. As for Clinlon, of
whom I spoke just now, I repeat'that I wouldn't'
give much for his chance. It is well that there
is a just GoJ in heaven, ' and that there will
come a dav of retribution. The "Dives have
thei.- good '.l.irigs in this life; but our turn will
come hereafter. We sha'nt be always poor.
Lazarus went a beggar from the "lich man's
door, and was received into. Abraham's bosom.'
'Whit has made you se bit.er against Clinton,
just now?' enquired the friend.
'I am not blt'er ngaintt hirn,' jo particular. :
I speak of the, rich, men as a :lass. They " ate
all selfish, unfeelling and oppressive. Look at
what the good Clinlon nrght do, B3 steward of
God's bounty, if he chose, ile might make our
wilderness blossom ask rose. But settlement
duy will soaie, ere long, and tlien a sorry ac
count of stewardship will he have to render.'
'How do you know that the account vijil noi
be approved in heaven?' was asked ia a qui t
vd -e. . -
- 'Approved! How do I know?' ejaculated
Mas well impatient! y. 'Any man can eas-i y
see that he is an nnfaithfu'jhard heaitad and op
pressive ttsward. . "
'H as he oppressed you.'
'Yes.'
. 'Ah! I was not aware of that. I did'i.t
know that you had ary claim upon him as cn
almoner of heaven.'
'My claims are those of common humanity.
But you shall know all and judge for yourself.
am a poor man' -' " .', - -
Well'
'With a wife and four childrer, whom 1 love
as tenderly as Clinton, or any other purse-proud
oppressor of the poor can possib'y love his v.ife
and children. r. They are dependent on me for
daily labor. With the sweat of .my brow !: keep
hunger from my door, and cold frohl entering
therein.' . , . '..'
'An independent mar,' said the other.
'Ye.", thank God! An independent man; as
independent as any nabob in the land.'
'Do let the nabobs alone,' was answered to
this. .: 'If you are) - independent why care for
them? Why permit yourself to be fretted be
cause' others are fre;tcd by Providence wi'.h a
great nbundandance of worldTy goodb? There
is danger i'u this thing, by goi.'ig beyond the na
bob.", and arraigning ihe wisdom of Lim who set
teth up whom he will, and whose otmty feeds
even the young ravens; So goon with your
story. . What is the c.imo that Mr. Clinton has
comm.tted ac-. inst you and humaL;iTy - - - --
'1 am a poormary-es4swd-is,. ,
'1 know you arc; a hard working, industrious
but poor man.' -
'And as such eniiiled to soma consideration.'
'Entitled to a fair return for your labor in all
case?.' . '
'Of course I am; and to some favor in the
di f ribution of employment, where ! present
equal capacity with those who are less needy
than myself.- -; ' .-.
- 'A plain story makes all pliir. Well you
are aware that Mr, Clinton is about building a
new dam for his a.i'lt' """
' '1 am.' ' ' ' " ; ' ' '" "
'And that he asked proposals?' .
'Yes.' " , .
'I tried to get the proposals?',, r . . ,
'You,'; .There was more surprise in the ejac
ulation than ihe fiieud had meant to convey.
Ceitajaly,nhy. no:?' was petulantly remaik-
ed.
'Of course you had a perfect light so to do.'
'Of course I had, and of coursemy bid, though
the lowest, was thrown out, and the bid of Jock-
son who manages to monoplize everj thing in
the village, tiken.. He and Clinton are leagu
ed together, and ihe oiler for , proposals was on
ly a sham.' , . :: - - ' :
That is assuming a good deal, friend. Max-.
well. . :'..' '"I.---' -'--
'No it is'nt. It's the .trut and nothing but
the truib. He's the Jackall, and Clinton's the
l.on.' , ' . -. - 3 -
You speak without reflecting,7 said the friend
m'ld'y. ' - '
'I'm not b'iad. I can see bow things are wor
ked.' : - . -' :r-;;
'You say your bid was lowef Ihari Jacksou's.
How do you know this? 1 thought his bid was
cot publicly known.' ...
'1 know i: and in lact knew what it wns to
be before I sent in my proposal?, and wa, there
fore, able to go below it The truth is, between
you and me,l managed to find out jut what eve
ry man wus going lo bid, and then struck a
mark below them all, to make sure of the job,
I -wanted a chance, and 1 deiermjaed to have it
at all huzards.'
'I hardly th:nk your mode of procedure just
or fair,' said the friend 'but waiving tha', could
you have made any tiling at the job at your Lid
ding.'
'Oh. vep. I'd havo made something more n
good deal, than 1 can mako by day's work.
The fact if, 1 set my hoart on that jub as a step
l ing siohe lo contract work and am bitterly
disappointed at its loss. Much good may it do
both Juckson and Clii.t m. I shouldn't be much
sorry to see the new dam swept away by the
next freshet,
Why Maxwell! TIih i not the spirit of a
Christian man. Envy, malice the.-e are what
tho Bible condemnsjn the plainest terms nnd
for these sins, IhC" """"ye qu:ts as much lo
answer for as the liaij .vLfPerhnns more.. It
.... .
you go from church on the Sabbath with no bet
ter thoughts than these, I tear you are quite as
far from the kingdom of hoaven as you havo
supposed Mr, Clinton to be.'
'Good day.'snid Maxwell, tuti.ing off abrupt
ly from his ffiend, and taking a. path that led by
a nearer course than the one in which they were
walking, to his home.
A few weeks later, the person with whom
Maxwell thus converted bad occasion to trans
act some bus-iness with Mr. Clinton. He had
rendered him a bi'l for work done, and called
t receive pay merit. " '' ' '
'You've made a mistrke in your bill, Mr. Lee,'
said Canton. ' " r
'Ah, are you certain?' : .
'You can examine for yourself. I make an
error of twenty dollars in addition.'
'Then you only owo me sixty dollars,' said
Lee, wi'.h a disappointment in his tone he could
not conceal. - .
'Rather say that I owe j'ou a hundred, for
the mistake is in your favor. . The first column
in the Li'l- adds-up fifty .instead of iLi ty dol
lars.' !
'Let me examine i";' Lee tiok the Li'l and
added up the column three times before ho foil
entirely saiiified; Then he said:
'Sj ii does! Wei1, I should never have been
the wiser if you had only paid me the figHy
dollars called for by the footing up of the bill.
You might have retaiued the advantage with
perfect safety.' '. ' '--'-.
Lee said this on the impulse of the moment:
Ho instaLtly saw a change in Mr.Clinlon's coun
tenance, as if he were s'ighlly offended. -
'Oh, no not with saftty,' was gravely repli
ed. '- ' :
'I should never havo found it out.'
'But there u n coming day, with every man,
when the secrets of his heart will stand reveal
ed. If not now, it would , thee appear that 1
had wronged you out ol twenty dollars.'
'No one is more fully aware or that than I
am.- ' . ' ' '
- 'It is Tor me, however, to live in the presen',
so as not to burden my future with shame an re
pentance. Knowingly, Mr. Lee, I would not
wrong any man to' the value of a single dollar.
I rriay err, and do err, like other men, for to err
is human.' 1 ' ' '..." "" ' '
After ihe expression of such sentirhonts,"Lee
felt curious to know what Mr. Clinton thought
of, and how he felt toward Maxwell. So he sai ',
after referring to the hew. milldam in the process
ot erection
'You didn't take the lowest bid for its con
struction. . . ..
.: 1 look the lowest competent bid.' A . ,
'Then you do not think Maxwell competent
to do the work?' '..'--
1 do not think him a man to be trusted, and
therefore would not have given him the contract
(or such a piece of work at any price. - You are
aware thai the giving away of that dtun would
almost inevitably involve a serious loss of. life
and property among the poor people below the
stream. I must regard their safety before my
pecuniary advantage lo m3'self and have giv
en Mr. Jackson, who has ihe contract, positive
instructions to exceed his estimates if necessary
in order to put the question beyond a doubt. 1
know him to be a man whom I can trust. But
1 have no confidence in Maxwell."
A good reason why you decline giving him
the job.' : -- - - ' .
'1 think so.' .
'Maxwell was greatly dhappointed.' :
'I know, and has spirken very hard against
me. " But that avails nothing. My ptijcipleof
action is to do right, and let others think and
say what they please. No man is my j idge
Maxwell is not, probably, aware that I know
him thoroughly, and that 1 have thrown as much
work in his way a3 i could safely do. He is
not, of course, aware '.hat one of my soils over
heard him in reference to this very mill-dam
say
I'm bound to' have the contract whether or
no. 1 have learned the lowest bid, and have
put in a bid still lower.'
'How did you learn this?' was asked of him.
'No matter,' he answered, 'I have learned it.'
'You can't go lower and build the dam safely,'
was said,
. To which ho replied 'I can build the dam
and make a good profi'. As to- the safety, I'll
leave that in the hands of Providence, Ile will
tuke care cf the poor people below.'. Mr. Lee.
. '1 felt at? inward, shudder when this was re
peated to me. 1 could not have believed the
man so void of common honesty and common
humanity, Was 1 not right tj withhold from
him such a contract?'
'You would have been no better than he if you
had given it to him' was answered 'And yet,
this same men inveighs against the rich, and
thinks their chance of heaven a poor one.'
Simply because they are rich!'
' 'Or, it might with more truth be said, because
they will not yield to his covetous, and envious
spirit. He is not coi.tent with the equivalent
society renders back to him for the benefit he
cenfers, but wants to share what of right belongs
to others.' ,
'That spirit I have often seen him manifest.
Well, if riches are a bar to a man's entrance
into heaven, how much more so is discontent,
envy, malice, hatred and a selfish disregard for
the rights and well-being of others, The rich
have their temptations and so baye the poor,find
neither will enter heaven unless they overcome
temptr.tion, and receive u purified love of their
neighbor. This is at least my doctrine.'
'Of the two, I would ralher take Clinton's
ctnnce of heaven,' said Lee to himself as he
went touting away, Jeven if ho is a rich man.'
Lady's Wreath.
CP" Wealth, honor and favor, liny come upon a
man by chuncoj nny ! thoy may bo cast upon him
without ao much us looking after them ; but virtue
is tho work of industry and labor; and certainly it
is worth the while to pui cliiiso that good , which
bi-iugs all othors along with it.
Sorrntos did not urge his friends to ontor onrly
upon public employments ; but first to tnko pnins
lor the nttninuiont of tlie kaowlodge necessary fur
their succoas in thoiu. - " '
' . .. From the 'Wheeling Intelligencer.,
The Congress xf hc.'!.Peops
League" to't'.ic American People.
He ir us once more-. You have listened to the
appeals of bleeding Europe, pouvod forth in tones
such as the world will never hour again. We do
uot offer to reiterate those efforts; what they couid
not accomplish is, upon that field, beyond the
sphere of human powers.
They have not succeeded as we had hoped.
The fact is too clear befor us lo be unperceivod anl
we disdain to shrink from ils acknowledgment.
But with men in whom a purpose has become ab
sorbing, one failure is but a harvest of experience
for future efforts. We have searched the causes
of defeat, to make them means of victory; and we
have found thorn.
Your sympathies were chilled at the outset by
waut of a uniform, setlled, and tangible- purpose,
ill tho action of the European republicans with
whom you woro askod to co-oporate." The hope
less confusion of jarring interests, the din of dis
cordant traditions, cud the clang of warring theo
ries presented a contrast to the calm, starry, revo
ulions of your political system, which could not
but repel yu. .
There was another obstacle, fur which we have
been disposed to blame you; unjustly, as more ma
ture reflecitju has convinced us. The "pursuit of
happiness" is recognized as tho legitimate purpose
of an American.. Wealth is tire material element
of h'nppinese; and the American pursuos weullh as
such. The proofs are abundant that hn 13 ever
ready to apply . that wealth to the attainment of
the worthier objects of life, nnd the welfare of his
specios; but the objects so favored must be those
legitimately wi hia the sphere of hU purpoios.
hose which, interwoven and combined,' fjim a
unity of his aims and objects. In his giving and
his taking his unity of purpose is never forgotten:
Political purposes, above all others, are the recipi
ents of your endowments; but lo bo so, they must
fall within the sphere of your political sympathies;
and the jiolhical sympathies of Jmerica are con
fined to Ihe missiii.i of the A ma icon Republic.
If wo have been - disposed to make this a cause
of complaint, we have' doao you wrong. Wo
could not rightfully ask you to transfer your sym
pathies to the far distuui steppes of the Thoiss and
tho Danube, so long ns we had not roared the
bridge oa which the American mind could easily
traverse the- void betweon. Your dosiiny is vast
enough; and comprehensive enough for the ener
gies of any people. We do not require you to go
beyond it. But we do ask as we are entitled to
ask, that you should embrace your whole mission,
and fulfil it. -'
What is the mission of tho American Union ?
lu tho year 1737 thirteen free States upoa this
continent found themselves suffering for want of a
common commercial legislation, a united post office,
equal coins, weights and measures, a uniform copy
right and patent Jaw,, security, agaiast a national
bankruptcy, an irrevocable tl.'ianco for peace and
war, tlie abolition of hereditary offices and stand
ing armies, tho extradition of criminal?, tho event
ual recognition of matters of record, a suitable
guarantee of republican institutions. It was then
that Alexander Hamilton loid (hern that it was
left for the peoplo of these States to decido whether
governments were destined forever to be the re
sults of force and accident, or whether men were
capable of forming States upon reflection and
choice.
They executed the task; and at the head of their
labors thoy inscribed the motto E pluribus unum.'
a hey sny that as the ends of government aro com
mon to humanity,' so should there be a unity of
government among men to obtain these ends; they
saw that a multijilicity of states dividing society, I
which is a single whole, is tho result of impel feet
civilisation," and. that it is tho task of ratioual pro
gress to displace it by a unity of the state. ;
Under this motto the American Union has ad
vanced, unconciously at times, but ever irresisti
bly. In the acquisition of Louisiana tho father cf
our Independence was compelled to set his seal
upon it. Texas and California followed the same
inevitable bent. Cuba and Canada are conscious
of the impending necessity. In Mexico we ob
serve the formation of an ecclesiastical party de
sirous of annexation lo tho Holy Alliance, and a
similar organization, eager to obtain admission into
the American Union. Even the Islands of the
Pacific, in the awakoning dawn of their political
life, manifest tho same attractions. " The conti
nent is ours," is fast becoming a recognised princi
ple of our policy. v
But what has a principle to do with continents ?
Principles are universal.
America is npw more intricately connected with
the European world, than were, at the time ofthe
formation of the Uuion, the American S-ates
among themselves. The lightning is not yet the
connecting' medium of thought; but already the
number cf letters forwarded between the divided
woilJs has become incredible. Postal anange
monls have scarcely time to bo ratified, before
new ouos ate necessary. Tho commercial rela
tions are becoming more and more complicated,
tho rival products are driving each other from the
market. Tho clashing laws of copyright and pat
ents aro becoming more and more unjust in their
operation, the impunity of crimiuuls is growing
more flagrant tmd more (langerous from duy tq day.
The emigration of a few short yours is equal to the
population of ull the Stales that formod the Union.
Every laboring family in Germanic Europe is re-r
presented in Amorica.
All the classes of Europe Tn.tT suffer
FROM THJS VAST AD TRESEST HAVE SEX TliEItt
UOrES OF THE FUTURE ON AMERICA.
Ivpssuth was their groat plenipotentiary.
It is becoming daily maro apparent, that the
monarchs, having learned to look upon trade as a
eonduptor of ideas, are resolved to close tlie terri
tory tliev encumber azniost American trade. Tlie
internal commerce of America exceeds tho exter
nal by a proportion which Imnlly loaves to tho lat
ter a figure in tho scale. Yot the European
Buifbs are inhabited by a pooplo infinitely more
numerous, more scnntily supplied, and equally
willing, if able, to return labor for merchandise,
with any iu tho Western continent, Tho whole
enormous diflbre-nco is a tax upon our industry, to
which America submits without represoiitutiun.
The political misfortunes of Europo exert a con
tinental .influence upon her commercial situation
hor commercial situation reacts upon ours.'
Oun Brokers are arle to measure, tiie er-t-ESTAtiF.
of European Oipressio.naji-o( A-
MERICA? SUBJECTION. . . ' ' " T .
American prosperity demands the disenthral-me-nt
of European tmde; American liberty, re
quires tho liberation of tim .European brethren,
the - Aiuovieua Uuiou demands its extension over
the States of Europe. - The time has come for
the strange device " Pluribus Unum," to cross
tho 'Atlantic : .
We call for the spread of American - liberty.
It may succeed without; the cost .of American
blood or treasure. But thanks be to the God of
battles, it is more likely,' that, as Greece bad her
li ojan wait, which transformed her from .a fishing
coast, into ihe light of civilization, as the Crusades,
ot" Western Europe, woke .herefrom the nigh.1 cjf
ages, so America will have her Iliad and her era -sade
to achieve her place among the nations, as
the focus of humanity. A. - war for the spread of
our institutions is not a war of conquest; for", 84
the spirit of government , is the principle of self
government, or rather, of non-government, Ss ex
tension involves not the introduction, but the abro
gation of force and violence ; its purpose is to re
store the sovereignty of the individual by removing
the shackles against which he is vaicly struggling
The American continent .divides the Oceania
Italy the Mediterranean;. and as Rome of pld look
ed forth upoa the circle of lands that skirted' tba$
inland sea, so the Unitod States of the modern,
world cast their eyes around upon the shores of
the Ocean. The universal Empire Jpf the future,
is their portion. The Empire, pot of conquest and
aubjeetioo, not of tradition and deatli, not- jof na
tional rivalry and clannish hctte, ' but of fraternjty?
equality .and freedom. We invoke' her tOWrSl
out her destiny, and niake'One World of .Many
Wheeling, Va., ISept. 21, 1852. , ... i; :
Kosradin Hamburg, Indianapolisil r, . ' ;
- Richard Fischer, Wheliqg. . -
Leosh R.OOS, Newark",' tiA i.t ,. . . r .
- J. Moll'er, Cleveland, Ohio.- .' L .
: E. SchlaeoebI, Boston, Mass.
T. N. Winkle, Wheeling, Val -:. r - :- ,
Carl Hoffmaw, Pittsburgh.' v ... - .' ..
J. Roth, Eittsborgh.". . ..- - . -
Li. Meter, Boston, Mass.' , . ": . -;
W. Rosenthal, Philadelphia . v
Coxuad Strobel, .Wheeling. , .' . ..
G usta v Bacz'ko,' aWd; N . Y.' , -. -. i . ; .
: Lorenx. Eircuner, Troy,' N.' Y.., . -j ; y,
William Rothacksr, London, England ,
A'dolph' GerWio, Cincinnati, Ohio.' , .
C. Go'efp, PhiladelphisKi - .-:i. .-
. .- , , ... From the True Democrat.'
Important CM-respou'dcnccSIantler
IScliited'.' . ,-, - ,
. V" Mi. VxkKoar, Oe 1,-1'852J
Jonu P. Hake Dear Sirt Hon. Daniel R'
Tilden was iu this place- do the 25th' litli;' when ia
oonversatiea with a few individuals, he stated thatt
in it private circle of friends in Cleveland. He among
the number, you stated, in substance, this:' "That
you wore in favor of the election of Gem Scot) i
that your purpose in coming to the west' was to
secure that object, and tkat if your present course.
was not thought best for that end you would adopt"
some other ?' and tho reason you hud for doing-so,'
as Mr. Tilden mado tho impression, teas that ytu
consider the interests of Freedom would b.e'compat
alivefy safe in his hands.' " '
Believing that you never made such statements,'
and for the purpose of putting a stop "to the' use
that is being made of them, we trust you will fa
vor us with a reply in reference to the matter.. V
Very respectfully ' . . '" .
: JOHN A. REED, ) .11
t nuinnnr.v I11"1
'. WM. TURNER, J)
Comi
''" :' Clevelaso, QcU 2d, ife52i:
Gestllmeh : Yous favor of the first in'stTis boi"
fire me,io which you givecertainstatements', which
Hon. Daniel R. Tilden is said to have made rehv."
five to a conversation I had in a' private circle of
friends in Cleveland, he being of the nuraUer.'
- I have nciher time, nor recollection sufficient
to state all the conversations I have had in Cleve-7
land r bat I can state most unequivocally, and. with-1 -out
hesitation, that I never had any such eonversaC
ti jn with Mr. Tilden, ner any one else, in a circle
of friends in Cleveland, nor elsewhere. 1
, Soon after my arrival in Cleveland, I think tW
same day, Mr. Tilden called on me at my lodg
ings acd requested of me a private and confidential" '
interview. As I had known Mr. Tilden In CeSrvT
gress, and had a high, regard for him as a man of1
integrity, and also as one who had been known aa' '
ananti blavery man, the interview was readily gsarft.-"
ed. M r. Tilderi represented to me that be had'
great fears of the co'ntequencea that would result'
from the election of Mr. Pierce, adversfi tf tini
cause of Freedom, to all of which I assented, and
... . , .
told uim 1 was as much opposed to the eleetnn of
Pierce as he was. He further represented that'
my coming into Ohio, would have a direct tenden.-
cy to bring about the very result which I depreca-"
ted, and that the only effect of my labors in Ohjoj"
would be the defeat of the very objeot 1 desired
to promote, v.z : tho success of the cause of free
dom.' -: " ' ' . - - "?'';'"'''-"''--.-.,
From this l' dissented, and told him I did bos'
think it was so, and that if I hid thought that my.
visit to Ohio would be the occasion of aiding aad
strengthening the cause of slavery, I. certaini-
should not have come. .
This is the amount of the conversation as I to-"
collect it. . . , - , .- .. ..
- -.- - -- . .
I have not probably given the whole ; but i" ut
terly deny, and challenge the proof to the contra
ry, that I' have in any private conversation, with'
any one, since I camb into Ohio, uttered a word at
variance with, or inconsistent with, wha.t I hve
said in nvjr public addresses.
If tliis cocrersntioo was' had with a circle of
fi tends, lot any and all of them' be called to c6n
traiict' me, if I have not stated the truth'. My
public addresses rtro before the public,-and any
one has a porfect right to draw from them, orany" .
one of thorn, nny inferences which may fairly b"ef '
deduced from them'. But no man', nor set of men,'
havo a right, from cohversatid'ns fa private, which?
are in perfeot accordanpe with my public sjeatingV
to form conclusions of their own, and then publish!
them as my sayings.
I have' stated, thai' when Mr. Tilden sought i
conversation with me, he desired that it should ha"
a codlidential one ;' but I have no desire' for any
such ehield to protect me from any thing I have
said. He ancf every other man in this State, hav
my full permission to publrsh, as fully as they may'
wish, every thing J haVd'said to theni.' " .i . ,
Trusting that I have fully' answered your lottery
I romain, " ".''" '
With much respect, '
Your friend, - .
. JOHN P. HAL&
Curious Historical Pact During the tron
bles in the reign of Charles I., a country girl came
to London in search of a place as a servant maid,
but not succeeding she hired herself to carry out
beer from a ware house, and was one,of thosa
called tub women. The brewer observing a gop
looking girl in this low occupation, took her into
the house as a servant, and after a short time mar
ried hor. II died while she was yet a young
woman, sntl left her the bulk of his fortune. Th
business of brewing was dropped, and MV. Hyde
was reoomtnended to the young widow, as a skill- '
ful lawyer, to' arrange her husband's affairs. .
Hyde, who afterwards was Earl of Clarendon,
linding the widow's fortune considerable, married
her. By this marriage there was no other iasua
than a daughter, who was afterwards the wife of
James II.. and mothor of Mary and Anne, Queens'
of EnHauJ.