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'iTJBLisrJED EVERT THURSDAY BY
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MAYSVILLE.
MAY 2G
Fadeless ia a Loving Heart.
Sonny eyes may lose their brightness;
Kimble feet forget their lightness;
. pearly 'teeth may know decay;' "
ijayen. tresses jurn to gray.; i t
Cheeks be pale and eyes bedim,
Faintthe voice and weak the limb;
Bat though youth and strength depart,
Fadeless is a 1ov1d heart.'
ie the little mountain flower, -Peepicg
forth in wintry hour,
When the summer's breath is fled,
And the gaudier floweret dead;
So when outward charms are gone,
Brighter still doth blossom on,
. Despite of Time's destroying dart,
The gentle, kindly, loving heart.
"Wealth and talents will avail
"When on life's rough seas we sail,
Yet the wealth may melt like snow,
And the wit no longer glow;
But more smooth we find the sea,
And our course the fairer be,
If our pilot, when we start,
Be a kindly, loving heart.
Yo in worldly wisdom old
Ye who bow the knee to gold
Does this earth as lovely seem
As it did in lifo's young dream,
Ere the world had crusted o'er
Feelings good and pure before
Ere you told in Mammon's mart
The best yearnings of the heart?
Grant me, Ifeaven, my earnest prayer
"Whether life of ease or care
Be the one to me assigned,
That each coming year may find
Lovicg thoughts and gentle words
Twiued within my bosom's chords,
And that age may but impart
Riper freshness to my heart!
Tc Agatha.
Bid rce not cease to love thee though all vainly
i My heart' best gifts are lavished on thy shrine
Though happiness and hope seem wrecked in
sane) ,
Since well 1 know thon never can'st be mine!
Yet, deaiestl by tb heaven that smiles above
tnee,
By the good angels with thsir pitying eyes, v
I pray thee say notl routt ceat-e to love thee
My passion dies not till my being diesl
My memory yields no word that thou host spoken j
No emilo cf thine has distance pover to dim;
The world may lose them; but their spell un
broken, Holds me in thrall as songs of seraphim,
I dream of thee by night, and, like a vision,
Thoa glidest through my day-dreame, till my
heart
Grows fuiht with too much love, and aireelysian
Seem w himpering sweetest tales f all thon art I
Will tho lone dove that fans, with weary pinion,
Tue weltering waters, ere foreet her ark!
Will Jove's proud bird forsake his cloud domin
ion. And leave the sunbeam for the jtlow-worm
eparkf
Or to the wooing moon will amorons ocean
Stretch longing arms no more?- nor violets ope
To the-warm kits of May, with meek devotion? ;
Nor youth cling fondly tc its dearest hope?
Bid me not ceose to love thee though I never
May hope to win an anewerirjg love from thee
Thine, be end reiuge" I am thine forever,
Nor power nor will is mine to set me freol
Ti e radiant raojning and the dewy even, .
The solemn night, the myriad stars above,
The infinite sea, the all-embracing heaven, ,-
Tell me of theo, and Lid mo still to lovel
No more I ask thee to return my passion
.Thy pity i even, no longer I implore
For hopeless love, sublimed to adoration,
Lifts tbe'sad soul fiom giiefs it knew bfoTe,
And braids jts gloom with sunbeams! Gloom and
gieyi - " - ' "' ' "
Ideal joy. and passionate unrest!
Wliy, At it-US oud mice repeats the story;
Yet, life beiag lot, to live is to be blest.
Look at Homo.
Should ypu feel inclined to censure
Faults you may in others view, ' .
Ask your own heart ere you venture. -If
tha has not failinfis t0' .
Let not friendly vowa be broken; ;
Kalh'tr strive a friend to gain; ,
Man? word in anger spoken
Finds it passage home again.
Do noli then, in idlo pleasure,
Trifle with a brother's fame;
Gurd it a a valued treasure
Sacred as your own good name. .
PO'SOfc form opinions blindly -
naelinecs to trouble tends;
Those oi whom we've thought unkindly .
Oft become our warmest friends.
From the 0!d Guard, .May, 1864. -CIVILIZATION
IN THB FREE AND
"SLAVE" STATES
! "The poverty of the South." "The bar
barism of the South." "Wretchedness and
demoralization in consequence of 'slavery.' '
"What the North suffers from 'slavery.' "
"Irreligion of 'slave'-holders." "The curse
of 'slavery.' " This has been the harp of a
moussnd strings, played on with alacrity
and skill by clergymen, politicians, tract
distributors, and all sorts of social jugglers,
here in the North, until all grades in the
community have adopted the senseless jar
gon as a conclusion, not only foregone, but
foreordained and divine.
In this article we propose to lay the fig
urea and the fucts touching this matter.
piainiy Deiore our readers. We do not
bopo that the truth will open the eves of th
victimi of the Abolition fanaticism, but it
may possibly save some from following th
rorj'mude iDto the dishonoring, the bloody
delusion, jl ne truth Is, that negro 'slavery
has been a curse to neither North nor South
but has been a blessing to both, as the hia
tory ana the nures will show. We state
the question thug plainly, because we mean
to challenge contradiction. It is said that
there is such a thing as a man telling
ft lie until be himself believes it to be
truth. And the Abolitionists may have re
peated their slanders and falsehoods until
u 1. 1 : . i i . ....
tucy ueneve mem io oe true: out tneir
leaders do not believe them so imnlicitlv
that they dare risk a fair and public debate
upon them. I hey are brave at assertions.
dogmatism, noise, and wordy de6ance, but
mey nee wimin the covert of preiudlce and
ignorance at the approach of any man who
proposes to argue the point with them.
Aheir facts are the inventions of ira posters,
Their logic the yellof the howling dervishes
Foolish and malicious! Behold the abom
ination of their pretentions in the following
statistical records of the two sections of our
couDtry:
x. uow nas me rorin sutiered by nesro
'slavery" in the South? It has grown rich
off the proceeds of "slave" labor. The
merchants, the manufacturers, the mechan-
cs, and all classes of laboring men here in
ho North have been immecsely benefited
by the fruits of negro'slavery' in the South.
More than two-thirds of the mercantile.
manufacturing and industrial operations of
the North are based upon the 'slave' labor
of IbeSoutb. Strike down thTs 'slave labor,
and you sweep out of existence two thirds
of tbe commerce of the United States at a
ingle blow. The United States Treasury
tables of 1859 how that our exports of that
year were JKJfti USU; ot which $178,
00O.0CO were of Southern origin, while $78,
000,000 only were of Northern origin.
While tbe South produces more than two-
thirds of the exports of the country, tbe
North reaps mainly tbe commercial advanta
ges rising therefrom. The 1 reasury tables
of 1850 show that tbe tuonage of the North
was 1,831.886 tons, while that of the South
was only 391.518 tons; and to employ this
hipping, the North furnished only $3,500,-
000 worth oT freight; tbe South furnished
$21,500,000 worth.
While the South furnished six-sevenths
f the freight, she bad less than one-sixth
f the tunnage, thus throwing almost all of
the immense profits of the carrying business
into tbe pockets of the rorth. 1 be south
as not only kept our ships and merchants
uay, but ne nas aiso given employment to
our mechanics, artizaos ana laoorer. in
1850, we sold tho South goods of our own
manufacture to the value of $2 10,000,000.
We sold them imported goods, which we
paid for abroad by Southern exports, $106,
000,000.
Tbe interest and brokerage we made out
of the Suth that year, 63.200.000.
Money spent in tbe rforth by boutbero
isitors, tradesmen, travellers, etc., during
that year, $53,750,374.
Making our total hi-sioess witn tbe ooutu
that year, 462,560,374.
That is the way we have suffered by
the South. . That is tbe way the South baa
wronged us. She has given employment to
our merchants, mechanics and laborers, to
such an extent that we may truly say we
we our prosperity to her. The production
f Southern 'slave' labor has been the great
motive battery that has driven nery all tho
industrial operations of the North. The
.'retsurv tables of the United btates show
that not only our commerce, but the whole
of our industrial interests have kept pace
with tbe increase of the 'slave productions
f the South. In 1820, when there were
onlv one million Gve hundred thousand
Slaves' producing the staples of commerce,
ur tunnage was only 47.UUU tuns; out in
856, wbeu there were over three millions
f Degroes producing the same staples, our
tunnage was ib'J.UUO tons.
Everv item ol tbe material wealth of the
North has increased io tho eame ratio with
the increase of the 'slave staples ot the
South. That is the way slavery nas nun
ns. By the blessing ot Almighty uoa, may
it continue to do for our children as it has
for us giving employment to our industry
giving cheap clothing and high wages to
our laboring men, and to our commerce a
name respected on every sea. That is what
oUorv has done for the North
w e KUOW
how profanely the Abolitionists will rave at
these stern truths. But there stands the.
facts and the figures let them deny them
ir they dare.
2. We are told that 'slavery has im
poverished the South itself; and to remedy
this evil we are now trying to cut the throat
of every white man, woman and child there,
and to give the lands to the negroes, and to
such people, in the North, as are willing to
live on terms of perfect eauality with the
nef-oes. That we may see how 'slavery' has
impoverished tbe South, we will take tbe
fiva old 'slave' States, from Maryland, and
including Georgia, and compare tbem with
it,. ;-r Nbw Knaland States, which boast
r h.incr noased of almost all possible ad-
...r,..... nr the rest of mankind. Io 1850
these New England States bad a population
rf 9. 728 COO. In two hundred years they
o.rrtintr to the census of 1850, ac
...,m,i.rl wealth to the amount of $1,003.-
460.00a while the five 'slave Slates, with the
same population, had accumulated wealth
to tho amount ol i,42w,o;7,vw,
Thus the five 'slave States accumulated
an aggregate wealth over the accumulated
wealth of the six New Eogland States of
S417.589.000. If the whole wealth of New
England were equally divided among its
citizen, it would give each but $360, while
the property of the five 'slave' States equal
ly divided among their citizens, would give
each the sum of $520, showing a difference
in favor of tho 'slave' States of S153 rjer
capita. This, thpn. Is the way 'slavery has
impoverished the Southern people. Massa
chusetts, which ia the richest of the New
England States, and, perhaps, the richest of
the non-alaveholdiog States, could, if her
property were equally divided among all
her citizens, give each $543. But South
Carolina, if her proDertv were so divided
could give every citizen Sl.OOO.
After Connecticut and Rhode Island, there
is do non-slaveholding State that couid give
over $280 to eachBof its inhabitants, and
majority oi the ttorthero states could not
give aver $200 to each, while a majority of
the 'slave' States could give $400 to every
wmie man. The population of all the free
States, according to I be census of 1850. was
ld.114,380. The white population of the
slave' States was 6,312.879. All the North
em States of thirteen million citizens had
accumulated property to the amount of $3.-
186,683,000, while tbe 'slave States of only
six minion citizens naa accumulated. Z.
775.120.000 worth of property.
While the population of the North was
one hundred and nine per cent. , greater than
the boutb, it has accumulated riches but
sixteen per cent, above the South. So a
division of all the property of the non
slaveholding States, among all their inhab
itants equally, would give to each only
$223, while the same division of the riches
of all the 'slave' States would give to every
white man 1 his is the way 'slavery'
has impoverished the white people of the
South. This is the "losing game of 'slave
ry,' "of which we have heard so much for
a quarter of a century. The census of 18o0
shows that the wealth of the 'slave' States
was about double per capita to that of the
non-slaveholding States. What folly, then,
what-impudence for us here in the North to
talk of the 'losing game' of 'slavery,' with
these figures staring us in the face!
3. We hear a great deal about the bar
barism and wretchedness which 'slavery' in
flicts upon family and home in the S.)uth
What say the figures on this subject. Let
us take again tbe six boasting New England
States, and compare thdm with the five oi l
slave' States, having tbe same popu.ation.
It must be conceded that a home for every
family is oat of the most desirable bless-
ngsthat civilization canbestow. 1 he more
complete, or the less mixed this home, the
greater the probabilities of happiness and
virtue. Now these nve New lingland
States had, according to the census, 518.532
families, while they had only 447,787
dwellings. So that New England had
eventv thousand seven hundred and forty-
three families without a separate home;
while the five 'elave' States, containing the
ime population, have 506,763 families, and
476369 dwellings.
Thus, in New England, one family in
every seven is without a home, while, in tho
slave' States, only one family in every fifty
two ia destitute of this inestimable blessing.
This, then, is what 'slavery has done for the
white ho riles of the South. This the social
wretchedness and barbarism we bear so
much about. There are actually more white
families broken up, separated, and scattered
to the four winds of heaven in these New
England States than there are 'slave' fami
lies thus separated in the Southern States, j
But our present estimates are all concern-'
log white people North and South.
4. We hear mce.-saotly of tbe lrrengion
of slave holders, and our Northern clergy
are in tbe habit of praying for the Southern
people as though tbey were heathens and
without. Christian habits. It is not an easy
matter to est' mate the relative religious
merits of a people. We can only take the
visible evidences of attachment or of indif
ference to religious institutions as our guide.
Let us again take the six New Eogland
States and the five old 'slave' States, and
see in which section we find the greatest
evidence of profound and consistent attach
ment to the worship of God. We are still
guided by the census of 1850. After two
centuries of religious agony New England
has erected 4.607 churches, while the five
old 'slave Stales, with the same population,
have erected 8,081 churches. The New
England churches accommodate 1,000,893
souls, while the churches in the five old
slave States accommodate 2,896,472 souls.
So these irreligious 'slave' States have
erected double the number of churches, and
furnished the means of grace to over a mil
lion more souls than than the boasting
pharisees of New England have. One third
of the population of New England is un
provided with any place of worship, while
these 'slave' States have provided churches
for a million more people than can go to
church, if thev wanted to, in New England.
This is the "irreligion of 'slave' holders.
Ain. we all know that the religious senti
ment of the South is almost entirely free
from the innumerable isms which have de
moralized and broken up the churches In
the North. All such abominations as Mor
monism, Millerism, Communionism, Free
loveism and Spiritualism are all of Northern
birth, and have never made any neaway
in th. Ronth. The Southern churches have
steadily resisted all these profane and cor-
rupticg innovations upon ine pur
nr r!hritian faith. It is the rarest thing to
see a church split to pieces there by schisna.
Neither is there comparatively, any
indecent soctanan violence at me ooum
which has disgraced the very name of re
ligion in the North. . ,
The ministers of the Gospel in the South,
aa a claw, are, in Christian deportment," and
io manly character, far ahead of the clergy,
as a class, in the North. Ooe reason of this
undoubtedly, is, the settled, dignified, anl
tolerant character of the Southern churches.
"Like people, like priest," ia an old maxim.
The language which the different sects. in
tbe North are the habit of applying to each
n.K.r ;, r.P krr.inT the fish markets
t han tha temula of Gad. Such indecent and
nrofana clerical demagogues M Beecher,
Cheever, Typg," and Bellows, even leaving
out their Abolitionism, would not be tole
rated io tbe South. With all these facts
known to us, what intolerable impudence
ior us to talk about tbe Irreligious char
acter of .'slave'-holders!"
5. We are told that 'slavery has brought
demoralization and crime upon the South.
Let us have the figures. The census of 1850
shows that the ratio of whites in tbe Peoi
tentiary of Virginia, for ten years, was one
to twenty-three thousand, while the ratio
in tbe Massachusetts States Prison was one
to seven thousand five hundred end elghtv-
seven. In the city of New York, in 1849,
mere lZ6z convictions for crimit. whirh
was more than in all the fifteen 'slave' States clerical vagabond wrote, has the finest sys
ror that year. In the State of New York, tem of common schools of any State in the
there were ten
wcroieu mousaoa iwo nunarea ana
venty convictions for crime. In South
irolina in a population more than one fifth
ae
mat ot JNew York, there were only forty -six
cases Qt crime. The bills . of crime in
Ubarleston, 3. C. for that vear were six and
a half per cent less than io Boston.
same census discloses tue tact that
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on ucruoi oauia are a zreai ueai less aa-
dieted to crime than free negroes North.
u luoajnuiiusouB. iua ratio ui truo uezroes
in me states prison, for ten years. wa3 1 to
OCrfc X n .. .. . -rf - .. ..
in me remtentiarv 6i v irima it was
1 to 3.001. So that in tbe non-slaveboldinsr
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States 250 . negrofis commit as much
crime annually as 3.000 free negroes in the
slave States. 7587 white people in the free
States commit annually as much crime as
5.s,UU(j white people commit at the South.
ibe criminal degradation among tbe
whites at tbe North is from three to five
times greater than at the South. One rea
son of this undoubtedlv is. that extreme
poverty is almost unknown at the South.
There is not the same debasing competition,
the Sams selfish strife for the necessaries of
ife there, and the selfish passions are much
ess excited, while a sense or superiority or
race, which is practically awarded to the
white man or every degree, shuts off from a
nousand temptations incident to life in tbe
North. How else shall we account for the
vastly less amount of crime in the South?
The census proves the fact, and ought for
ever to seal the lvinz lmsof Abolitionism.
6. Another of the falsehoods of Aboli
tionism, is, that the whites are physically
degenerating in the 'slave States. Where
are the figures for that? One of the signs
of physical degeneration is pauperism. Let
us so e. In the six New England States
there were 33.431 paupers: in the five old
'slave' States, containing the same popula
tion, there were 14,221, giving in the New
England States an excess of paupers of one
hundred and th:rty-five per cent, over these
'slave' States. The ratio or native born New
Englanders in the poor house is one to one
hundred and forty-three; while in these
'slave' States it is one to two hundred and
thirty-four. All nationalties in the New
England poor-houses are in the ratio of one
to eighty-one, while in tbe 'slave' States
they are one O one hundred and seventy
one.
Another sign of physical degeneration is
the growing frequency of insanity. What
says the consus on this point? There were
in New England, 3829 cases of insanity,
while In the fire 'slave' States, embracing
an equal population, there were only, 2,326
rases. Here is a diuerence ot more than
sixty per cent, in favor of the 'slave' States.
An equal per cent, will be found in favor of
the 'slave' States in relation to deaf and
dumb. ,
Populational decrease is another evidence
of physical deterioration. New Eogland,
with 11,564 families more than the old
'slave' States, has 13,534 less births annual
ly, and 10,152 more deathsthan these 'slave'
States. The 'slave' Statts have 27 per cent.
more births, and thirty-three per cent, less
deaths.
This seems trdly wonderful, when we re
flect thai the climate of a great portion of
these five 'slave' States is a great deal less
healthy than that of New England . Where
slavery has existed for over two hundred
years, we find tbe population,' even in a
comparatively unhealthy climate, exhibit
ing signs of physical perfectability from
thirty to forty per cent above the healthiest
and the most orderly of the free States.
This, then, is the way 'slavery' has de
teriorated the physical man. If we wanted
further proof of this same kind of physical
debility frem 'slavery, we may find it in
the history of the present war a history in
which even our boundless impudence has,
thus far, found nothing it dared to brag over.
7. Another falsehood of Abolitionism is,
that poor white people are despised and trod
den under foot by the slaveholder. This is
about the wickedest lie of all; for it is ex
actly the reverse in tbe South. There the
white man wears an eternal badge of honor
io his white skin, which, however poor he
may be if he is an honest, upright and intel
ligent citizen, is always acknowledged, at
all times and in all places. This fact as
tonished the English traveller. Col. Free
mantle, when he lately visited tbe South.
Speaking of this very class (poor whites) in
the South, he says: "Every white man ia as
good as another (by theory),and every white
female is, by courtesy, a lady there is only
one class." ...
'This we know to be Btnctly true. A white
man may be as poor as Lazarus there, and
still, if he possesses the attributes of char
A intelligence his poverty never bars
him from the parlors or the rich, as it does
in the 2ortb. t here tne eoc-.ai uau n
tk. kUMr Fin. mil not. aa here, upon the
poverty or misfortune or our own white race.
Poverty is never treated as a crime in the
8outh. Let tbe poor, but honest white man
answer how the thiog is here in the North.
And let his answer stand for the refutation
of the Abolition falsehood in relation to this
matter. ' ,
8. Another charge is that the South la
without schools, and baa done nothing for
the: cause of education What says the
census? Take again the six New Eogland
Statea. and compare them with the five
original 'slave States. These New England
States have of colleges and academies, 1,002.
The five 'slave' Sutea have of the same,
1,265. The New England States have en
dowed their colleges and academies to tbe
extent of $343,805. The five 'slave' States
nave endowed theirs to the mnA
sum of $1,080 435. . Thus the five 'slave'
States have 163 more1 colleges and acade
mies than tbe . six New England States, and
these five 'slave' States have bast tha ;T
States of New England in endowments of
those institutions of learning. $236,630.
Under these figures, how look th aditn
lecturers and ministers of the North, who
have crammed the public mind with ao
many impudent falsehood on this iiKct?
x is oui a tew weess since a New Eogland
chaplain, writing from Nau? Hrlo.no tn
T. - , . . . - i " J
New York paper, declared that "the South
is without schools," when the truth is. that
the State or Louisiana, from which thU
U nion; or had before Butler broke them up
in New Orleans, and BaBka in the country,
as far as he has advanced. The State of
Louisiana has 12 UnivaraitU. with an tt.r.
age of 989 scholars, while Massachusetts
has onlv fnnr a,uh .r.... .r trq
And yet a Massachnsetta miniator writ.
noma that titu. i i
I vuu. u.ig uu ewuuuio iu
Linniamnai"
9. For years the Abolitionists have urred,
as a chAivra orra.na a SVAR t it- mMa k
canaa nf ,i .t ;n;u s.,M
I . O v uuo. v. '"'Vll UlOiWUI9g
hatnraon ,h. j .u. li.-u. t
I nuiico HUU bUD UlttUftS. 1U
18o0, according to the census, there were
in the United States 405.754 mulattoes: of
these there was one mulatto out of twelve
among the 'slaves' and a fraction more than
one ont of two nmnnr fr-
negroes. That
is, the illicit intercourse between whites and
blacks is ten times greater in the North
than iu the South, with the 'slaves. Thus
we sea that Northern editors, clergymen,
and politicians, have been in the habit oi
charging upon 'slavery' as a sin, the very
thing that the North is ten time more euiltv
of than tbe South. Or, it used to be counted
a crime, but now, in these ripe days of "Re
publicanism" and miscegenation, this kind
of intercourse between the whites and the
blacks has suddeuly become a virtue which.
if not rare, is the crowuinz and zlorious
triumph of the Republican party.
If tbe limits of this article permitted, we
could name enen other matters; in compari
son of the two sections, still to tbe disad
vantage of tbe North. In some future
number of The Old Guard we shall resume
this subject, with a view of pointing out
the causes which have led to the differences
of the two sections, as developed by the
census. We shall . be able to. show that
many of these Southern advantages are ac
tually due to the institution of negro
'slavery that not only the census, but moral
and political philosophy demonstrate that
the institution of negro, 'slavery' developes
& superior mental and physical condition of
me white race.
This statement may cause Mr. Surnner to
open his eyes with horror; but Mr. Sumner
dare not enter into a fair debate with the
editor of Tbe Old Guard on this subject.
He knows that the charges which have been
brought against tbe South will not stand
tbe test of argument and fact. The very
history of the foundation of our Government
is a perpetual refutation of the bunting
slanders of the Abolitionists. Tbe architects
of American freedom were 'slave' holders.
Washington, "the Father of his Country,"
was a 'slave' holder. The author of the
Declaration of Independence was a 'slave'
holder. The father of the Constitution was
a 'slave' holder. Religious liberty on this
coutioeot was established by 's'ave' holders.
While the new Eogland Puritans were
drowning the Baptists, whipping the Qua
kers, boring holes through their tongues
with red hot irons, and driving women
naked through the streets of Boston.because
they would not adopt tbe Puritan sectarian
ism. the Catholic 'slave'-holders of Mary
land were laying the dop foundations of
roli2ious toleration and liberty. 11 we are
in aoy mood for looking facts io the face,
contrast the condition of our country now
with what it was when all were 'slare'
holders. Contrast our present Congress for
character, dignity and ability, with the Con
gress when almost every member was a
slava'-holder, or the representative of a
slave'-holding constituency. Well may we
adopt the lines of Burns:
"Yon see yourself with them compared,
And sh.idder at the niffer."
Or. if we dare tell tbe whole truth, com-
pare Aoranam uincoin, ine type-man oi
Abolitionism, with Jefferson Davis, tbe
type man of slaveholders. Measure them
intellectually, morally, religiously, or as
gentlemen, and tell us wbat you disoover.
Then, if you waDt to see tbe thing lurtber,
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compare ttannioai xiamiin ana Alexander
11. Stephens. II you are not already sick,
make the best comparison you can and
compare Gen. Grant with Gen. Robert Lee;
or Stonewall jacsson witn me ropes,
Hookers and Burnsides sent to confront him
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IU battle. U( luiais uuoi, i, is uiamsro-
f ul to us. We are ashamed of the contrasts;
but we are still more ashamed of the
slanders and falsehoods which tbe public
ODinioo of the North seems to have im-
bibed in relation to me aouin. uur soie
ob:ect is to save our own section from an
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ignorance, a uejuiiou aua .ameuwu, wuiuu
have periled everlastingly the peace of our
country. We were born in xsew ibngiano,
and know how to oe proud ot mucn mat oa
longs to New England; but we also know
how to blush for its implacable fanaticism.
Said a Grecian philosopher, '-Do not tell
me mv virtues': tell me my faults." This
is the part or honor, aod of tree friendship.
We have perlormed that part in this article.
Elder John Leland, a somewhat' eccentric
but famous Baptist minister in Vermont,
the early history of our country, waa one
day praying, at the installation of a vain
and conceited young minister, when he
Baid, "O, Lord, do thou Mesa thy young
eervantl Make him'-Humble. O.Lord.lei
him not be puffed bp. but do thon prick
him and let the wind ont ; Ve have fol
lowed aomewhat Elder Inland's
prayer. We have pricked Pdr -vidfous
Northern pretention. We vejet
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Josh Billings aays that it iz 5 dollars fine,
in Cincinnati, tew strike a hog, in anger
TheCairrpsi.snf lir virgittia-Oar tosses.
xne at. Loan Republican's Washington
correspondent saysf . - - ', .
- : ;' otTH LOSSESV" ' " ' .- "!
The otal number of our wounded brought
?55m .Clty fTOm the'fcaltla'-tfeld so far Itf
,h- , An arDQy Burgeon arriving from
the front yesterday says We have about 15
OOU seriously wounded remaining at Fred
ericksburg and Belle Plain tk. a
include those between Fredericksburg and
the front, which were wounded in Han
cock a and Burnside's engagement or Thurs
day. . Our total wonned is fully thirty-five
thousand. '
Add to this six thousand kiltad t
ing to tbe usual nronnf inn-v ar thro ik
sand prisoners, and our total loss amounts tc
the enormous number of 44,000. Ten of
twelve thousand are renorted m;Minr fvnt,
8 it is generally believed, the enerh v' 'ran.
ture are no more than three thousand, this
number must include the stragglers and
those engssred in attending th nni.4.
tbe latter being several thousand
"We have lost 14 Geuerals Sedgwick',
Wadsworth, Stevenson, Rice and Hays kil
len; Bartlett. Gettv. Robinson TlTnr,?a nA
Baxter wounded; Seymour and Shaller cap
tured; Neil and Talbutt missing and suo-
posed.to be captured.'
- It ia generally believed here that Grac6
canoot prosecute a vigorous pursuit of Lstf
owing to our heavy losses, and the bad state
of the roads. That heavy fighting will
probably be suspended for several daysj
Grant is preparing to advance, and Lee ia
tbe meantime, establishing a new line od
the North or South Ann. While the resulS
so far is justly claimed as a success, disap
pointmentis felt that it is not more deci-
sive. Grant's terrible lossn almost over
cloud his victory and, indeed, It is feared
be cannot reach Richmond if he has anoth
er bloody ordeal like the last eight days lo
go throng. Some insist he had two huo-
dred thousand men; but I am satisfied he?
nad.with all reinforcements that have reach
ed him up to this time, not over one bun
dred and seventy-five thousand sixty
thousand of which are now hors dii tombai
in one shape or another
Hope. We have fead that among somd
of the South Sea Islanders, the compound
word for hope is beautifully expressive. It
Is 'manaolaoa,' or the 'Bwimming thought'
faith floating and keeping its head above
water, when all the waves and billows are"
gorging over a strikingly beautiful defini
tion of hope.
Tntra is Life If we die to-day, the sua
will, shine as brighly and the birds sing as
sweetly as to-morrow. Business will not
supended for a moment, and the great mass
will not bestowed a thought to our memo
ries, "is he dead?" will be the solemn in
quiry of a few, as tbey pass to their pleas
ure or to their work. But no one will miss
us, except our immediate connexions; and
even in a short time they will forget u?, and
laugh as merrily as when we sat besidd
therm
Thus shall we all, now iu active life; pass
away, uur children crowd close behind usj
and they will soon be gone; Iu a few jearsi
not a living being can say. I remember?
him. We live in another age, and did bus
iness with those whd have long since slum
bered in the tomb. This is life. How rao-
idly it passes? O, blessed are they who are
held in everlasting remembrance I
Ala and Scnshinb. A New York mer
chant noticed io the progress of years that
each successive book-keeper gradually lost
bis health, and finally died of consump
tion, however vigorous and robust he wat
on entering his service, and at length it oo
cured to him that the rear room where the
books were kept opened into a back yard
surrounded by high walls, that no sunshine
came into it from one year's end to tbe oth
er. An upper.room well lighted was im
mediately prepared, and his clerks had uni
form good health eYer after.
A familiar Case to general readers is de
rived from medical works, where an entire
English family became ill, and all reme
dies to fail from their usual results, wheni
accidentally a window glass or tho family
room was broken in cold weather. It was
not repaired, and forthwith there was s
marked improvement in tbe health of th
inmates. 1 1 be physician at once traced the
connection discontinued his medicine and
ordered that window-pane should not be
replaced.
A French lady became ill. The most
eminent physicians of her time were called
io, but failed to restore her. At lengtbi
Dupreyteu the Napoleon of physio, was
consulted. He noticed that she lived in a
dim room, into which the sun never shoos
the boose being situated in one of the
narrow streets, or rather lanei, of Paris; '
He at onCe ordered more airy cheerful apart
ments, and all her complaints vanished
The lungs or a dog become tubercuiatea
(consumptive) in a few weeks, if kept con- -fined
in a dark cellar'.' The most comrAoa
plant grows spindly", pale, aDd seraggiwg
if no sunlight falls upon it. The g"tesfc
medical names' In franco, oi mo
ry. regarded sunshine and pure air aa equal
agents in restoriog lDintainDS A"Uwh
From these fta.' 'ch f"80 !?toP"
ted the 'moat common mind should eon-,
olude that cellars, and rooma on the north
ern sides of buildings. ct ipittmiaU la
which the sun does not immediately shine,
sboold never be occupied as family rooma
or chamber, or as iiorarieaorBiuaies. oucu
apartments are only fit i for warehouSas, of
purposes which rever require persons to re
main in tham only a few mtadies at a time.
And every Intelligent and humane: parent
should arrange" that' the family roon' and
sleeping apartments should be tha inoei
commodious, ligbieatj and brightest la hl
dwelling. .. . . : i ;A
It ts estimated lhat the i Increase In tii
number of acres ia the Southern . Statea
planted to wheat, corn WDC
fhor war broke out. i Trcm 10.900.000 acre
n I860, 13.93000 io 1862; to UfiCO
S)0 inlsS, aod SO, 550.000 iu 1854.