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zjuxz ; , ) -sssBaamma '.. C. ,5.rc.. -i cj . !U '. i : . ftiJMiJt? BY G: B. SWEAKINGEtf. ""Westward tie Star of Empire takes its "Way." VOLUME I, NUMBER1 XVftl N.I'Uju-,6 v ' .-I a ,; MAJRYSVEDIjE, KANSAS, SATUEDAY, JTJXY 26, 1862- &??? '"Q aio-grtrm ntorrr ngtrf tatj -' 1 1? BlifJE u K y THE BIG BLUE UNION, 1 - II PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY HORKIXQ. G.D. SWEAwSfiEN, Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 0 copy one year, cash, in advance, $1.00 One copy, payable during the year, $1.50 Ten Copies, one year,- 10.00 An extra copy to the getter up of a club of Ten. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square, first insertion - $1.00 Each subsequent insertion, o0 Yearly advertisements inserted on very liber al terms. JOB WORK, Done with dispatch and in the latest style of the art. JgTPayment .required for all Job Work-on delivery. All Communications, or matters relating to the business of the-office, should be addressed to JN0. P. CONE, Editor and Publisher, Marysvilh, Kansas. agsiln Jflufeers "Still, in thy Drcam-laml. Pocy, Oh what a Heaven of beauty hea ; fairer than the blended glories Of a thousand sunset skies. Meada and vales of tempe stretching ('Neath soft side of changeless blue,) O'er whose velvet sod are clustered Floral Gems and Pearls of dew." THE BITTER CUP. The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight, The blackness of that noonday night, He ask'd but the return of sight, To see his foeman's face. Xet cur unceasing, earnest prayer Be, too for light for Btrength to bear t)ur portion of the weight of care, That crushes into dumb despair One half the human race. O suffering, sad humanity I 0 ye afflicted ones who lie Steep'd to the lips in misery, Longing, and yet afraid to die, Pati ent though sorely tried, 1 pledge you in this cup of grief, W ere floats the fennel's bitter leaf; The Battle of our Life is brief, The alarm the struggle the relief Then sleep we side by side ! Longfellow. loUlTwEART. Weary of perfidy, weary of wronjf, "Weary of hate where love should belong, "Weary of falsehood, weary of strife, Weary of tenderness struggling for life, Weary of words that meaningless flow, Weary of bosoms as cold as the snow, Weary of waiting in darkness alone, Weary of decking an empty throne, Weary of friendships measured by gain, Weary of longings but fruitful of pain, Weary of selfishness strengthened by years, Weary of sighing, weary of tears, Weary of callousness, weary of guile, Weary of treachery veiled in a smile, Tearfully, fearfully, weary of breath, Tearlessly, fearlessly, waiting for death. THE POOL AND THE BROOK. How silently itslumbereth, The deep and lonely pool, Without a ripple on its face To make its shadows cool. . While from it trills a noisy brook, With wavelets sparkling bright, Whose shallow, waters waste and dry , When summer's at its height. The one, like great emotion, deep ' Within the silent heart; The other, trifling feelings, which Dry up as they depart WOMAN. Warm with a rapture not its own, The heart of woman feels ! A she who by Samaria's well The Saviour's erraad sought, As those who with tie fervent Paul And meek AquOla wrought; Or those meek enes whose martyrdom Komssfatberadgraadeur saw; QauM Alpine home w vfwtfSw. trembling, .heard, Tkrouf han its Tale of death;" " .tosief triamphpoured ? -"'" Whktkr. . - " ' -. The Situation. To those obstinate and weak-minded enough to question the duty and right of the Government to put down the re Demon of Jeff. Davis and hi3 guilt-stained fol lowers, little that could he said at this time would have any weight. It would appear quite as futile to present arguments in justification of the Government's act ions to those patriotic loyalists whose hearts tell them that the Union must be preserved at every cost and sacrifice. There is -much to be said concerning the present aspect of affairs that may do us good to reflect and ponder deeply on. The past with its sad record of blunders, temporizing, indecisive deeds and useless bickerings, should be put behind us, ex cept as a chart of the shoals and quick sands we ought now to shun. That the people are in earnest, and appreciative of the task before us, is made manifest by the alacrity with which they have respond ed to every call the government has made upon them. No nation ever put forth such efforts. No people ever so utterly ignored self and individual personal interests for their country's safety. Yet we must ask, if the South has been misled and imposed upon by its leaders, and drawn into a fratracidal strife to end in suicide, have not we been trifled with by our rulers ? That far-seeing sagacity which ought to hae enabled us to prepare at once for the emergency has certainly been wanting, and murderous experiments have well-nigh exhausted the nation's strength and buoyancy of spirit. Reckless promises, and assurances of cer tain success, when delay and disaster have followed, have rendered the people tim id, suspecting, almost despondent. "Wea ry months of laborious effort and patient suffering, in which we were told that the end was nigh, have ended in the startling announcement that the army is not large enough, that time is yet to be given the re bellious traitors to perfect their arrange ments for the defense of their last strong hold, while three hundred thousand more troops are being raised nd equipped by us. While Generals and soldiers in the field having seen the uselcssness of con ciliation and the necessity for quick deci ded action, and the absolute necessity for making war as war ; and while the peo ple have given every assura ernment of their support i measure adopted for i find the Tulers far b. means placed in ounHHHFstriking a death-blow at treason as though almost by Divine injunction, are 'unused and almost ignored. At whose door lies the blame ? Who is responsible for the nation's tears? Grief fills nearly every house for loved ones snatched from life and usefulness by black-hearted traitors, whose property thsy were protecting ; whose right to the labor, lives and souls of men in slavery they are made to waste their energies and to pour out their life's blood to maintain. Must this nation be sacrificed, and the temple our forefathers reared be laid in ruins that the " fair chivalry" of the South may raise aloft their accursed edifice, ded icated to traffic in human blood, and say estoperpetua f If the country can be preserved without destroying the institution of slavery, the people of the North have said, let the foul blot remain to curse us. But they have never yet become so debased and groveling as to consent to the destruction of the Re public that slavery may live. Yet the ac tion of some of our Tulers would seem to say not "the Union, it must' and shall T)e lpreserved,vbut"wewiilCsaye the institu tion of negro. slavery totbur ort titers of the South even atithe sacrifice of life, hon .or'and country1" ; TT 'slavery go hand" Ink4ind the, proud people .who hwe . matheir. imtt Jht their land should ever be the home of free dom yield to the one, that the other may be made imperishable. Let us be done with temporizing and conciliating measures. Let us strike with a 'quick, fierce hand and determined hearts. Let us cease to lop off branches and "waste our energies in pruning the twigs about the outer edge of the deadly upas, and let us lay the axe at the root, then the branches must fall too. '"Why dam up the minor arteries and suffer the great canals to convey the life blood of the heart back and forth? Still the bear ing of that heart and see if every artery does not stagnate. Let the government arouse itself! Throw off the devilish bonds that plausi ble treason has placed about it, and, ris ing to the dignity of the people, carry on this'war as it deserves to be justly, but in that very justice mercilessly. Let it protect the lives of Unionists and patriots by taking the lives of rebels and traitors. Let it save the feelings of loyalists by dis regarding the susceptibilities of disloyal ists. Let our military authorities banish from our midst insolent, arrogant and in decent families of rebels, and preserve in tact the virtue and good breeding of Un ion families. And if slavery stands in the way let it be put out of the way. If the negroes are to be used against us let us use them against the traitors in arms. " Let us be up and doing, With a heart for every fate, Still achieving, s- ill pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait," And the event will surely find us stronger, purer and prouder than before. Mot Democrat, Peppxb tor Soldiers. An exchange says : A gentleman who saw and convers ed with several of the wounded soldiers who arrived from Newborn a few days since, says that they told him that pepper would be one of the most acceptable and best things that could be sent by friends to the soldiers, and one that has not been thought of. Pepper is ah excellent pre ventive of diarrhosa, which is prostrating large numbers in the warmer climate. Ono of the soldiers was a veteran in the rMexican war. He stated that a liberal use of pepper had been found very useful to prevent this disease, and that he had wholly escaped by the use of it in North arolina. It is not provided by the gov ernment, and can only be obtained of the sutlers at exorbitant prices. The soldiers advised all who send articles to soldiers to put in a supply of pepper. It is put up in tin boxes holding a quarter or half pound each ; the soldiers punch holes in one end and thus make pepper castors. The Nashville Union says: The so-called Democratic Buchanan and Valla n dig ham Democrats, we presume Conven tions, which are now actively engaged in giving aid and comfort to the rebels, by passing traitorous resolutions, uniformly tell us that the country prospered until Mr. Lincoln got into power. This single assertion convicts those pretended Demo crats of the falsehood and sympathy with the rebels. The country suffered more harm under Buchanan's than any other previous administration. 'That adminis tration was owned and controlled by Southern Iraitors, who had but two ideas self-agrandizement and slave propagand ists To pronounce such a wicked, rot ten and treasonable administration bene ficial to the republic, is to betray either ig noranceor a sympathy with traitors. In the Senate proceedings on the 5th inst., we Jind the following: , Mr. Lane, of Kansas, submitted the following resolution, which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to : Resolved.-Thar, the Presidon nP h United'States be reauestedto communis i i it?j. y . . - . r- . ij lotoeoeaate. tne aaouota -due me ,w -Adnata in weaeTerir, JJepart ifientitwifch'a Tiew of applying the same rupee the taxesdlifrom atiitaU-U-4he General Gtrtrnment. " '. -ur - . i Plain Talk to the Democracy. Emancipation and Negro Equality ms viewed hy Col Forney of tht Philadel phia JPress. In the campaign that is about to be open ed against the Administration and the war, powerful emphasis is to be laid upon the empty accusation that the friends of Mr. Lincoln favor unconditional emanci pation and negro equality. Contempti ble as this accusation is, it is frequently repeated by men who, in their heated par tisanship, forget that they are intelligent and reasonaDie beings. As usual, the name of " Democracy" is to be invoked as cover to this arrant demagogueism. In other days, before the people of the Uni ted States were educated bv a sreat war. vhich overturned old expectations and des troyed old theories, such a " divertisse ment'' as this might have passed current But unless our masses are indeed sunken into the deepest slough of ignorance, this attempt to seduce them into wrong paths will be fearfully avenged. I have a very low estimate of the leaders who bullied and coaxed the majority of the Democrats of Pennsylvania into the support of Breck inridge in 1860, and who, with all the treacheries and corruptions of Buchanan revealed to their eyes and cars, refused to denounce these crimes. The bloody har vest of the seed thus sown should admon ish them against another experiment upon the supposed credulity of the American people. The men in the free States who advocate unconditional emancipation are very few in numbers. In the Republican party they do not number one in five hundred. There is not a traitor anywhere who does not know this to be true, evenas he repeats the reverse. As to negro equality, a sti'l more conclusive reply might be made to this silly falsehood. The practical amalgama- tionists are not in the free States. The most infatuated Abolition fanatic rarely carries his free thought into free love. It is only in the atmosphere of rebellion that negro equality, in its worst phase, has been accepted and illustrated. The social distinction between the races of white and black, in the free States, is as broad and clear as it is in England and France, where, in the face of laws that make no distinction as to political right, the one preserves its relations wholly 'independent of the other. But why continue a reply to an argu ment not even believed by those who make it ? This war is productive of great nd new issues. While it adds to the responsi bilities of the Executive, it reduces the re liance of the demagogue upon popular ig norance, and to this extent reduces the weight of these responsibilities. It would have been worse for slavery if treason had taken up arms against a Democratic in stead of a Republican Administration. Then the ingratitude of the slaveholders would have been more keenly felt, and more mercilessly punished. The Demo crats, who clamor for compromise now, and are "blind to' the atrocities of the reb els, in that event would have discarded ev erything but the sword, and believed any thing but rebel humanity. Mr. Lincoln's Administration is doing only what that of Mr. Douglas would have done, and less, had Douglas been chosen President Results, have sadly proved that if Breckinridge had beea elected, four years would have found the Free States without a country save that which was controlled by the institution 'of JSlavery. ine rebellion of 1861-62 is the voice of the devil pro- .claiming that, in-the event of tht election of -iSreclannage in xooujuur years woui haye found a slavenenarchy ! ; ;. Thpsnsrft DlainieS50Oi.ri ratr need nit rfietorie to adorn and no witnesses to eon. firm, them. They, are factiVajsi, facta are better tba Juiwrj. T: The Gravea of the Soldiers on tht Battle field of Shilob. Tho graves of many of the deceased patriots are adorned with running ivy, ev ergreen and wild flowers, and some few of them are inclosed in small' log cabins. A wooden slab denotes the resting place of many a comrade. Upon tho slabs at tht graves one often perceives appropriate in scriptions. The Illinois dead seem to bt all entitled to this consideration, ' whilt many of the graves of Indiana soldiers ex hibit proofs of the frequent visits of friends. The following is inscribed upo a slab at the grave of Frank Larmeri,o! an Indiana regiment: " Llstc Viator ; Heroem calcas f "" " Upon the grave of an Indiana soldiei named H. C. Markham: "No sound can awake him to glory again." Four soldiers from Illinois were hurie4 in a romantic vale, and upon their grave a slab informed me that reposing there weit "Four Heroes." In close proximity I saw a grave taste fully fitted up j a rack fence protected it, and the epitaph described the remain! at being those of Henri Muller : "He died for his beloved coaatry." Snatches of poetry I discovered apov many of the grave stones, neatly and ap propriately inscribed. The graves of many of the Iowa, Wit consin, and Ohio regiments are tastefully, made, but generally unaccompanied by epi taphs. r. Phila. Press. Geo. F. Train in a recent speech hat some hard hits on Brougham : "The fact is, Lord Brougham is a good illustration of wisdom gone to seed. Ht wrote himself out ten years ago and talk ed himself out before I was a schoolboy. His range of thought is limited his style is stiff his mannerisms are painful. Ht is an intellectual cucumber gone to seed to ripe for our age we liked him better when he was green." laughter u A dozen children may seem a large family to some folks who are moderate," remarked Mrs. Partington, "but my poor husband used to tell a story of a woman in some part of the world, where he stop ped one night, who had nineteen children in five years, or five in nineteen years,'I don't recollect which, but I remember it was one or t'other." On a tombstone near San Diego, Cali fornia, the inscription reads thus : Thit ' yere is sacrid to the memory of William Henry Snakaraken, who caim to his deth by bein shot by a Colt's revolver one of the old kind brass mounted, and of suck is the kingdom of heven." A tutor lecturing a young man for 'ir regular conduct, added with earnestness: " The report of your vices will bring your father's gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. . " I beg your pardon, sir," interposed tht incorrigible, " the old cuss wears a wig." Why are young ladies kissing each oth er an emblem of Christianity ? Answer: Because they are doing unto each other as they would men should do unto them. That answer's a libel ! The everlasting pains of the lost cotnt from a sense of the infinite 'dignity "of am offended God. The eternal bliss of tht elect results from the wonderfal goodies of the Lord, who has crowned mem witk glory. " I am very much troubled, madam, with cold feet and hands." " I should suppose, sir. that a vounsr gentleman who has had so many mittens given him hy the ladies. mignt at least Keep nis Hands warm." 1 ' Keen awav from ma.' or -vou'll set mt on fire." said a follow ta a red-headed eirl. " No danger of that: you're too greea to Durn, sne replied. The teliow aieatooei after. Mrs. Partington says: "It is a confed erate shame for the Cabinet people .at Washington to permit our men-of-war em die Potomac to hug Hary Land Short at much." k nTinnlmnster in -Ireland-adrartiaai that he will keep Sunday'aehool twice week Tuesdays ana-fcatturdayt. i L The safest and machftbe commonest way' to steal is to Day ana sot pay. ' . 5. vv - - . 1Y ?. " Ut j .ft3 a-t , . M WRSSr SjS V. if ... V x f . .5 5 .3fc?fc u ji'Vs - i 1 -T W