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MAYSVILIiE, KY., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1862.
VOLUME 1 NUMBER 4
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ference with tha work of these mischief
maker. I would not have even fanaticism
deprived of the right of free speech! nor
those doubts may be removed? What do
the people care for such miserable punctilios
in the hour of a nation's agony? Sir, an
honorable peace is within the grasp of this
Congress without agony ! Sir, an honora
ble peace is within our grasp of this Con
gress without further bloodshead. This
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Editors and Proprietors.
MAYSVII-LK,
Jl'LY io, is;
natural enemies of republicanism; if we
must humble our national pride to concili
ate the British lion, let us make soma sac
rifice to win back in amity the South, that
wo may stand once again as comrades in
arms, to scourge those foreign interlopers
within their proper limits.
I am no advocate of bloodshed, but if
a foreign war should be the alternative of
submission to foreign insolence, I trust that
I should bo among the last to fall prostrate
that the hurricane might sweep harmless by.
To subserve the schemes of a party, we
have already humiliated the American peo
ple in the eyes of scoffing Europe! It will
bo a task herealter to regain tho caste we
have lost in tha familv of nations.
SPECH OF
BENJAMIN WOOD, of New York,
On the State of tho Union,
In the House of lifjireser.lah'ves, JliiIQ, 1SC2.
Mr. Chairman, I have hitherto avoid
ed troubling this House. Content to bo nt all hazard
a listener, without anv other particma- i conaucr a peace
to onposa mv
would I, in anv emergency, advocatn th
slightest infringement by tho Government
upon tho liberty of the press, Let them
sow their seeds of their infamous doctrine
broadcast over the land. Whatever may be I Congress knows that it u so, and when the
the danger. I will not countenance tho ! people shall realize that it is only the infa-
2o greater danger of establishing a dictatorship ; mous design to strengthen the anti-slavery
plover the thoughts of my fellow-country- j movement that prevents an effort to obtain
g. I men. 'that peace, woe to the chiefs of tho aboli-
50 ! But if the abominable theme must be : tion party in the land .
SO brou? ht into tho Council Chambers of tho na- I But, enough of them. Word are thrown
tion. for the sake of deeencv, ifnot of justice ' away upon their stubborn fanaticism, I ap
let it bo at a more suitable time, If there ' P0il with better hope to the loftier feelings
remains one union man at the Smth. let us 'hat should pervade humanity, and espec
remember that he is unrepresented here: I a"y
that the subject of slavery Particularly con- . shonl
cerns him, and that it is ungenerous and ; bo
miiiist if not r-nivir.lli. f.,l- n. 1 ...,,.,.,. ' of rod ncinT a spetion of our common eonn
of his absenco to push' forward moisures trv to tho extreme and therefore dangerous ! principle ot her foreign policy in any emer- j
in regard to the local institutions of his sec- conditions of despair.
Sir, there may be a fascination in tho gory
magnificence of war. There may be a cra
ving for martial glories in the hearts of mn,
and an instict of contention which wo share
in common with the brute creation. But if
ever there bo a time when a more Christian
basis. It will provo that tho first idea of,' impulse should possess our souls, it is now; I ty, an excuse lor cowardice, or a palliation
the dominant partv in tho North is active '' now, when triumph and tho consciousness!0.' national dishonor. Wheneyer the occa
ard unwavering anf inljm Msl wnr.- n.,,1 of strength srive us the noble privilege of ir. ! sion demands th at a stand should bo made
a fixed purposo to le-7slatn it ni.t of th'tnnd ! tending the hand of conciliation without I against foreign aggression, or a rebuke
attempt again, when smarting under the re
membrance of defeat, when cherishing the
deadly hate that a war to the utterance will
engender.
For the sake of union now and of union
hereafter not an enforced union, bat tho
strong union of willing hearts let the word
of peace go forth, let the hand of reconcilia
tion ba extended. Why, sir, I have heard
such words of bitter hatred expressed towards
these southerns by northern lips, that I fear
it may be already too late ever to renew the
bonds of fraternity. Such sentiments, I
have heard of implacable resentment, of
thirsting vengeance, of sectional antipathy,
as H annibal was taught to nurture against
No i Home, as Rome, in her quenchless jealousy,
interposed between the citizen and his rightf,
tho germ was planted of a danger mightier
than rebellion in its most gigantic phase;
for I believe encroachments by an Excative
to bo in itself rebellion against the only
sovereignty I acknowledge tho majesty of
the people. I believe each step towards
absolutism to be more fatal to the welfare of
tho Republic than any possible act within
the power of the citizen to conceive and ex
ecute. I will resist ovcy grasp that may bo
made upon an attribute of sovereignty not
heretofore acknowledged to theChief Magis
tracy; for reason and instinct, no less than
tho fearful examples that history has furn
ished from the ashes of republics, teach me
that the first step, unchecked, will not be
the last, but only the procursorof those giant
tion: measures against which, were ho pres
ent, ho would give his earnest opposition.
It will quench whatever remains of Union
feeling at tho Smth. if it has not already
done so. It will destroy tho last hope of a j
reconstruction of tho Union on a friendly
lv nerv.iiln thw miTiist. assp.mblacTp that greater evil could befall us than to bo forced : conceived towards Cirthaga to the end.
mid. bv tho natnra of its sacred functions. ' from the position wo have hitherto assumed An tile loom of Carthage may be accepted strides by which, over tha nocks of batray-
far removed from tho miserable ambition i towards foreign Powers! I would not have i by tho South rather than reunion at the ( c freemen, ambitious men have mounted
my country swerve one inch from any vital ; bayonet's point. j to a throne.
I appeal to thisUingress to avert that late j We want a Union, sir, oT sovereigns, not
as inglorious to the victoras to the vanquish- : of subjects. And that our Government shall
ed. Let tho door of negotiation ba flung . extend over a vast area, to mo is of less mo
wide open now, flung open now, while we j merit than that it should bo puroly, strictly,
can inakead vances with good grace, and with and unequivocally republican at "all times
laurels upon our brow. To the winds with i and under all conditions,
tho doctrine that you will not treat with! Sir. I h ive done. I have only to reiterata
my hope and my entreaty that this Con-
gency wnatever. Above an ;tnings 1 hold j
dear that national honor wh'ch wo have ev- i
er, till of late, preserved untarnished. '
However gloomy may be tho aspect of things j
at home, I would have our Hag float as
proudly as ever abroad, not deigning to!
mako domestic aflliction a plea for humil- i
aJ-
ts it thus that we aro to
? Sir, wo are flinging away
the last chances ol reconciliation as reck
lessly as madmen cast their treasures into
the sea. The agitation of the subject has
been the country's bar.a at every period of
its hitory; its discussion at t.iis crisis is des
perate self-destruction. I it whilo the
magazine is beneath us and about us, burst
ing with til o agencies of ruin, that wn must
choose to sport with tho fl imi-ig torch of the
incendiary? Sir, until our bdoved country
shall be saved, tiio word "emancipation"'
.should, by common consent, bo banished
from the languig) of debate in tiiis assern- .
b'age. It is a spr-Il wliic'n has wrought
enough already ot desolation. It is a hellish
formula of incantation which his conjured ;
up the fiends ol" discord and civil war; an. I
it never was so potent in its evil tendency
as now, when it is hying passed, like tho
breath of tho plague, from m uth to mouth,
which it his ruined. It shou'd bo spoken,
in a whi-qv-r and with a prayer li::kel to it,;
as a thing that brings, a cirse arid spread, a j
pestilence. 1 ilespur ol mv c untrv, I iles- i
P lir of ever living one m ire, in a blessed
tion in its proceedings thin
solemn individual negative against measures
which my conscience and my principles
would Dot approve, I have said nothing.
Indeed, sir, I have not had tho heart to rise
here and speak. A glar.co at this II. ill. of
itself, has been enough to prevent. When
I look around anil sie one thirl of the
Union unrepresented here, and find myself
in a body, purporting to bo one branch of
the Congress of the United States, really in
fact but a fragmentary part of it, my heart
sinks within me. It appears to bo a sec- j
tional body a gathering of the representa
tives of a sectional party. With these feel-!
legs, and wih this spirit, I have until now
avoidtd participating in debate.
Besides, sir, during tho earlier period of
this session, disaster had accompanied the
efforts of the Federal arms; I felt that ths
hour of defeat was not a fit one in which to in the Council Chambers of tho country
strive to awaken the great sonl of the North
to thoughts of peace; I felt that something
was due to thesensa of nnrt:fi?ition, sun?
thing tn the natural desire to retrievo tho
shame of discomfiture. I hoped, too, that
when victory should perch upon our ban
ners, others than myself would seizo the
occasion to urge a plea in behalf of peace
able measnres; and that this Government
itself, feel ing secure and strong enough to
be magnanimous, would take th lead and
no the pioneer in nrenir.g a path for the set
tlement of our diffi Hilties without further
recourse to Lloo '.she 1. I even hoped th it
the lezden of the now dominant partv,
moved by the sore distress which lm visi
ted our country, would relent from the stern
rignr af their doctrines of subjugation , and,
in the flush of triumph, would lean a littlo
towards a gentler jolicy than that which
they have heretofore championnd with so
much zeal and w ith so little forbearance.
I hoped in vain. The triumph came; a
long train of successes has relieved the
North from its humiliation. Tho Govern- i tolerance of brotherhood, and kindlv feel-
men t claims row to stand ns a rock against
which tho tempest of opposition must waste
itself in futile efforts Tho partisans of
tho ultra war party laugh to scorn the idea
that any effectual resistance can be off trod
to the onward march of our trinniphant ar
mies, and yet no single effort h is been made
in these congressional Halls to stiy tho ef
fusion of blood. It has been left for me,
powerless as I am, to speak tho first concil
iatory word in behalf of my countrymen.
And I do it, sir, in the hopo that others,
more capable, will not be too much engross
ed with the lust of conquest and tho pride
of victory, to follow up my example
fear of depredation, or of self-rnnrvie.ri for i ministerod to foreign pride, or a cnastiso-
cowardice. If adversity has b-ien our ex- ! niant inflicted , upon foreign insolence, I
cuso for sternness, let success bo our plea! w"uld have the gauntlet tnrown down upon
for magnanimity. Providence has placed ',
within the teach of tho North a sreater tri- j
umph than countless armed legions could
conquer; tho triumph of subduing a brave
enemy with a generous and merciful policy,
that will disarm iresentment and rekindle
the impulsoof the national sentiment, with- 1
out roferenco to domestic exigencies, or
pausing to measure the strong proportions :
of tho foe.
In the heat of our private dissord, we!
seem to have forgotten that our great mis- 1
arrmd traitors. It is a sentiment of one who I
rules with a rod of iron, not of a gnat aud j gress, which has in sacred charge the wel-
g.-nerous people who assume to rule them- fare of our country, will adopt soma moa
seives. Enough has been done in proof of j sure which may bring about a cessation of
the valor of the North, and the resources of i hostilities, with a view to negotiation.
the Government. Lst something bo now ' That done, I am firm in my bsliof that
done lor th-3 sake of the past; Tor tho sake of i hostilities will not be resumed.
thememories of. the R ? volnt ion, of tho Strug- "
gle of 1S12, of the b idle-fields of Mexico;! Mrt. MEitcrEji atd Jeff. Davis. A
for the sake of a Union whose cement u'nal! i French piper states that: at the time of hia
the old brotherly flame that perhaps H notion as a people, is to republicans tho.
yet totally extinct. For, after all, they are i world. to advance tho principle that menj
our brothers, sir; and some softening of the rtre C;,I5;1ole of self-governmant, and to check j
itorr. P.imm ,n. ,nl, i k ! t li e nroTess o f m on irch V . Sir. we are losing i
!.... ...... lljul intll tilll Hl(ni9 IIAU I ' -r
sumed is duo to that brotherhood, which, bv ! SrouIul in t,le fulfillment of that sacred mis
untimely sei-erit v mnr 1 r.r.ein,i :sion. and monarchy has gained a now foot-
forever. Thrro are gentlemen who will holJ whl1'3 we hava weakening ,
sav th it th Smth must h Rtihdnod- iu, our sinews with intostino strife. To what'
w - . , . 1 lit
every armed southerner must throw down
his weapon and sue for mircy. Should a
U'.i.il.l U I ...t! -r
i-..i j i.itrv uu wiuLuy u companionship i
in our fraternity, being reclaimed at such a!
sacrifice 'of manly feeling? What would :
you havo them do? Would you have them
crouch and strew iheir heads'with ashes and 1
kneel at your gates for rea 1 mission? T oy j
ira Aiiifricctm, sir, and will not do it. No ! i
though Roanoke and Henry and Donelson i
Lmon of fr.it !ma! rvi'es, when I heir all siiou.u te re -enacted from day to day!
around mo t ho utteran" ) of that. ru:n-bree- ; through tho 1 pst of bloody years, they will
ding word " emifcip itio'i, " mingling with "ot do it. Givo them some chance for an '
the shouts ot initio, to li -roe hozzihs ol ; tionorame return, or you will wipe nut ev
triumph over t.iih?n brothers, and the groari3
forever. 1 es, sir
each other with ch
purpose? Tslt possible that gontlemon can
hopo to reconstruct tho Un;ou bv pursuing
freeman ask so much of his brother freeman? a PaIiCJ of unrelenting seventy.' U.in they
ot our living countryrniu.
r, it in ptac ol mining the nr-gn q'les-
'iv nope-, ri i ui iwu sections will do twain I
ti on a fnl'j ot-matt'-r of debate, this Con
gress would tikis intn e-.rnest, solemn con
si lent ion some ex pel ieut for seen -ing peace ,
! do believe that i-ucoes would crown our
efforts. If thev woul I enter upm that task,
not with hearts embittered aud intellects
swaved by sectional antipithieg and mock
philanthropy, but with all their souls de
voted to that one sito I pnrpn.io ilm re
construction of the Union arid our redemp
tion from civil war; if they would do this, in
the spirit of coneji;uioii, cf forgiveness, of(
ing. it is mv conviction that oeiore the close
of this eventful session, the preliminaries of
a peaco would bj arranged. But while,
with the obstinacy of a blind fanatic, and
the irotict of a brutal gladiator, tno first i
object is to promulgate a party creed, and!
the second to crush an opponent and wear j
tho badge of victory, I see tin fairer pros- !
poet tnan, at s un distant periol, reached '
through seas of bloo 1 and heaps of car- ;
nago, the forced submission of a crushed j
ar.d devastated section, and the enequilly'
unhappy spectacle of a Government tnum-l
but exnausto I by Us triumph, oete.
times together with bayonets, but at heart
they wMl bo twain forever. They are chil
dren ot the same heroic stock, the joint in
expect to re-establish concord and brotherly
love by pushing hostilities to tho extreme
verge? Whit is the union worth without
mutual respect and reciprocal amity to bin 1
tho sections? What! a Union of unwilling
States, driven into companion-hip at the
point of the bayonet, and held there by
: military power! Such a Union would not
j be worth tho shedding of ono brave man's
blood. Wo want thoir hearts, or wo want
I them not at all. And wo cmnot conquer
: hearts with bayonets, although they should
! outnumber tho spears of Xerxos. If not
are gone
m iv be
possible. To slay their soldiers, lay waste
their lands, and burn their cities may be
within our power. But to hold them in
! vou may link them' t0 bought nick by negotiation, they a
i litis, and pin thoir des- frora. "3 fjrvcr: 1 ? cn'V'fr them
' . iwuih To c iir I hair co . tori 111
" i i . i ' if l. . .. 1 It
heritors with ourselves of tho precious Ur. suoj -ci.oo. wouiu, in useii, uea.u a .P ...i-
acy of freedom; and it is a sacrile-o and an ! :,Ulan of tho first I'"n0,Pla of republicanism,
insult to the memories of the pas", that so I,r"SM',ta lhis wr "n11,1. h lvo afc,om-
minv. sir. should sit in vour prnsencfl hern P"sn" t necass uy O! no.,., .
I J.. ui. l"i w
visit to Richmm l, Mr. Jlercierhal an in
terview with Jeff. Davis, and that, in tha
cohrso of con versation , he asked from tha
rebel President if there was not in hia
mind any ground upon which tho South
could make proposals of pnace to the North,
"No, Sir." said Jefferson Divis, "the Con
federate States are not so high nor so low as
to entertoin any thought of that kind. Tha
time for peace will doubtless, come; but it
.... - i i. .... 1 l n K-
some little Ylelu:nr ol 1 "as uui yei, ana we must wan awnuo uo-
foro we can avail ourselves of your good of
fices." DcMFous-Pisa A Dan-pt. On boird tha
Steamer JfTj7io7t'a, a live Yankee and a Dan
dv sat opposite each other at tho table
The dandy throw himself back on his dig
nity and called out in a pompous tone to
tho w .iter."
You waitah: bwing me the strpportah of a
young-female hen, a fresh egg and sah, rub
the bottom of my plata with a specimen of
fruit vulgarly called an onion which will
give my dinnih a delicioas flavah."
Thn yankon quietly threw himself back
in imitation of his neighbor, and in a nasal
tono called ou!:
Yeon all-fired dod blasted dead rabbettea,
pesky lookin, little trained black nlggarl
fotch me a peck of corn and a bundle of fod
der, and rub mo down with a brick bat,
while I feed."
Man cease 1 to think of masticating whila
an uprorious yell fairly shook the cabin
during which the dandy was sen streaking
out the door with a finger in each ear.
to
no lOHIS
to
1:1V fri .f.-ind them ftn
iincn.'and so few alas! so very few
med tato and restrain.
Of those few, I thank my God thnt I am
one. I am proud to procliim it hore be
neath tho dome of the Capitol. I shall pro
claim it, here and everywhere, until tho
wings of peaco shall be onco more folded
over the bleeding country, I shall proclaim
it aloud and honestly, although to do so
would make me tho next victim of this
crml strife.
St, it may bo said that T speak of peace,
while its attainment, without furthere re
course to arms, remains impossible. I do
not btdievH it impossible. What effort has
been nude? What door has been opened
through which the passions and ill-feelings
of the contestants might piss out anil rea
son enter? None. The single idea has
Sir.it is an in inefiaceable reproach to
those either deluded or wicked men who,
In the North, by unwearied agitation of ab
olition schemes, have stirred the embers of
ik. isf-;f. if an nterntil renrn:ieh to thpm
.iii.-i o'.i.i., . - . - r - i ....
that, through defeat and victory, through- ag liust the discussion, in this Cnamh
out every phase of this unhappy struggle,! anv anti-slavery scheme whatever at
St, it is not my intention to vent re
proaches, even where I believo them best
deserved. I have rism to enter my protest ;
r, of
th is ;
- with the groans of their distressed and tor- j crisis, an d to offer an earnest appeal to this
lib in t r
' . . . . ' . .. .1 r 1 . i. - i.u- 1 l
ted bv a moitv ot thoso sovereignties th it I 'w upon iuo punpiu inn
. it h'rih and cizir." with horror and ; the sword alone, must decide the issue. It
remorse upon tho desolation it his wrought.' his been pronounced treason to hold an op-
tured country smiting upon their cars, they
have clung, and still cling, with unpUying
Tiprtinncitv. and even with ferocity, to the
doctrine vhich has been tho germ of all tho confederate causi is hopjloss, tho loiders of ! our suffering country, in the name of wives
Congress th it its legislation shall emoraso
every men. is of securing an immediate
peace.
If. as tho Government claims, tho
posito opinion, hir, if to have but little
faith in the efficacy of the sword for join
ing severed friendships, if to earnestly de
sire peace and deprecate the horrors of war,
be treason, thou am I a trator; and I am
prouder of such treason than others can be
of their vindiciti ve, flaming, and pretentious
patriotism.
I conjure this Congress, in tho name of
mischief. With the first exulting shouts of
Federal victories they set up tho echoing!
crv of emancipation. With all tho energy i
cf fanaticism, with all the subtile arts and j
intrigues of scheming demagogues, with all :
the appliances of cunning, intellect, and
patronage at their command, even at. thisj
eventful crisis, when every American briin
should be at work to bring about a fair and: K the first to stretch out the hand of on
honorable peace, they have no thought, no filiation? Heaven forefen ! th it thousands
hope, no duty but to propagate their creed, j 0f hum m lives an 1 a country's welfare
extending its influence into every nock and j should depend up insofalsaa principle.
corner of tho land, and poisoning tho at-! s it because tho South has not been sufii
moRphere of these sacred Hills with its iu-! ciently punishol. humbled, and subdued ?
terminable discussion. Upcnlv anrt in se- Then let us confess that chastisement
tho secession movement c innot be lgnorantj
of the fact; ami knowing it, they will bo i
naturally inclined to lend a willing ear to j
whatever proper overtures this G tvernment )
may present. At some perio 1 of this strug-;
gio there must bo neg iMation; it must bo j
resorted to, ro oner or la'er; why not now? ;
Is it because pride forbids that wo should 1
that may bo widows, of children thit may
bo orphans, in the names of gallant man,
now strong in health, and who, to-morrow,
may ba stretched in death upon the gory
ground, or writhing, miima 1, an 1 disfigured,
with tormenting wounds in tho name of
humanity, that sickens at the d lily record
of tiiis terrible strife, I conjure this Con
gross to soizs at the merest chance that miy
exist of present termination of this tragedy.
Let something bo attempted in tho spirit of
mediation. S r. the people will respond to
.lio n UI HI Will
look in vain for a republic on the western
hem isphero.
Sir, I love to entertain tho hope that onr
Union will bo restore 1 upon tho foundation
laid down by our fathers; and I dosire no
changes in the plan of that glorious super
structure. But I am not so unnatural a wor
shiper of tho Union as to seek its salvation
with tho destruction of those for whoso wel
fare it was conceived; to build it up upon
tho deal bo lies of my countryman. I would
not fling away the substance to perpetuate j
the name. Every drop of blood that is shed
in this struggle will wo iken tha bond of
union between us. One word of conciliation
at this crisis will do more to save the conn- ;
try than all the achievements, past and to
come, of your victorious soldiery.
Why should not- that word g forth, even
now, in the hour of tho triumph of the !
Federal arms. If there his ever boon a
period in the history of republics when pro
longed civil strife has failed to curtail tho ;
liberty of the masses, I hive not read thit
history aright. Alrealy, with one years
bitter experience, we havo beheld some of
the dearest privileges of American citizen
ship wrested from our grasp. And hw
long, at the rate, bafore, upon the conveni
ent plea of necsssity, wo shall bj stripped
of other rights which heretofore navo made
us deem ourselves free-nan? IIi-.v long,
whilo personal liberty even now depsn Is on
the nod of an ofli:iil? How long, while
free-b irn American citizens can bs lofs to
languish in bast iles, biyon 1 th reach of tha
constituted tribunals of the land an 1 at tha
mercy of tha Executive? llo.v long, while
tho press, the guardian of liberty, the friend
of the masses, is shackled, giggil, co ved
down to sullen silence, or, worse yet, become
the minion of a pirty? I low long, wliila
voters are arrested as tho pills by miiitiry
process, and legislators are hurried off to
their siired
bo lorgiveness tor too pist, and friendship
and forbaaranca for the future.
In place of exulting over victories, anl
longing for new triumphs, ho-.v much more
pleasant and more holy to draw a picture of
the joy that will pervade many a now gloom v
hotisediold when the glad tidings of peace
shall bi b rno from city to village, from
village to homestead, from lip to lip, and
heart to heart. A nation's jubilee wonld
well repay vou for
your stern policy. How many arms would
; ba outstretched, how many hearts would j
! bound to givo a "welcome homo again!" to!
i tha war-stained volunteer. O.i! sir, those:
meetings at tho cottage threshold, those:
claspings at the farm-house porch, those
cleavings of the throbbing bosoms of women
to scarred and manly breasts, wero worth
all the laurels that were ever snatched from
blood-stained fields. The news of our vic-
I tories has been hailed with poans and il
luminations; bit, with tho first tidings of
peace, there is not a hovel in tho land that
i would not h ive a cindio at its window; not
a palace that would not blaza with splendors
in tokenof the advent of a blessing, priceless
beyond all earthly triumphs.
Then, sir, let us lower tho points of our
victorious swords-, and parley with tho foe
wnile the bugle blasts of victory are yct
ringing in onr ears. If wo are free in antiei- I
pition from the peril of future reverses; if
wa are sanguints that the Federal arms aro j
henceforward gifted with invincibility, that I
is the noblest reason why wo should say to 1
our opponents, "pause, if -oti will; relljct."
x--i. - -1 -1 .i. uno vr mconcil fo
ment, before we drive them to the resistance
of despair. There can ba no victory where
kith and kin, whore brothers and fellow
men, are struggling for supremacy. All is
defeat; all is disaster; all is misfortune, tears,
and mourning. Do not let us efface with
blood every sicred memory that may yet
bind thes3 men to us as brothers. Givo one
sign of invitation before the death struggle I
is renewed, Lat tho spirit of forgiveness I
pass between tho lines of those opposing j
host?, an I with the blessings of Providence, I
those arnnd legions will take a lesmn from 1
Sibina and early Rome, whoso soldiers, j
united by domestic ties, threw down their i
weapons upon the bittle's verge, and sprang J
to each other's embrace. I
Sir, I have spoken freely, studying only to !
make my words an index to my thought. I
My opinions havo brought upon me the cen- i
In the vovage of life men profess to be In
! search of heaven, but generally take cara
not to venture so farm their approximations
to it as entirely to lose sight of the earth.
Tho calf of a thief's leg is an appropriate
place for a dog'j teeth to hold a meeting.
Could tho apostles, in their old world at
tiro, enter a fashionable church, the sexton,
with a big look would wave them from ths
pews.
Pedagoguo. ' Well sir, what does h-a-i-r
spell?'
Boy. 'Dint know,'
Pod. 'What have you got on your head?
Boy. 'I guess it's a skeeter bite, it itches
like thunder,
A gentlomcn was rocently roused up at
mg.it aini told that Ins wile was ueaa.
sure, often most discourteously expressed , 'of turned round, drew the coverlet closer,
many who differ with me: but for that I care , I"'"01 uigmu.ip aim muiac.
lie w.
: li t lu niuri
shall bo in tho morning!'
) again uu, now grieveu i
but little. I am content to bide the hour
that shall set mo right before my country
mm. As I have believed tha prosecution
of this war to ba a widening of tha gulf that
saparitcs tho sections, I hive earnestly op- i niir.n,
pose I it. I hivo always loikol noon the i
subjugation ol" tha South as a project . whose To undertake to reason a girl out of lova
fulfillment woul 1 striko a heavy, perhaps a j is as absorb as would ba tha attempt to ex
fatal blow, to true republicanism : and al- , tin-misTi Vuu vim with asvr'nu. The onlr
though I will yield to no m in in devotion ! thing that will break a love fit is hard work
'Don't you like back-gammon, said a lady
on a steamboat to a Hoosier.' 'I don't knotf
I never ate any,' was the reply.
i
c-c-
cret. by the agency of the press, the pulpit,
and the political rostrum, in the camp, in the
city, and in the open field, they aro spread
ing the contagion; they aro innocnlating
the country with this moral pestilence which
has already brought us where wo ara, to the
very brink of the grave of onr nationality.
Sir, to these apostles of abolitionism will be
traced hereafter whatoverof evil has befallen
or may befall our country. They arc buil
ding its sepulchre with tho bones of their
slaughered countrymen. I do believe there
are gentlemen within my vision now, whose
sworn purpose, whose first desite, paramount
even to the preservation of Republicanism,
is emancipation. They and their d isciples
first threw the apple of discord. They first
applied tho torch, and are now more besy
than ever with throwing fresh fuel to the
flame. Should history ever trace which
God forbid tho record cf this couutry's
ruin, that page will seem Iho strangest to
thoso that read which shall tell of the
madness and wickedness of the arch-fanatics
of abolitionism. In the dark recesses of
the temple of infamy, the gloomiest niches
7iil bear the ir.srrij tion of their names.
Sir, I counsel nono but a moral inter-
vengeance are the objjet ot tins war.
and
Is it
because tne anti-snveiy iuu)cm'jin "
yet received a sufficient impetus? If so.j
go tell it to tho armies that have won your j
victories ! Make abolition tha war-cry !
Place a banner with thit device in the van
They will bless this Congress for any meas
tire that breathas of the spirit of reconcili
ation. They are weary of this war; weary
in despite of tho excitomen t of present vic
tory. They will awake soon to tha con
sciousness that ftich yictories are purchased
at a sacrifice terrible to contemplate; that a
national debt is created, which, in its rapid
" ..: I. f .1
" . . o li , ...!! .u ;
mncuuns: now long, wu.iu ma p.u n.i.ins
of the abolitioi pirty ara coining money
out of the blood of their countrvm in, pirad-
ward and lure thoso armies on to conquest i accumulation is appalling lebt which, if
...itv. it if von can. lour sol Hers would
rend tho treacherous ensign into shroads,!
and would march to their homos with the
same alacrity with which they pushed on
to tho battle-fiald.
What, then, is tho cause that withholds
negotiition? You will not parley with
armed treason! Bat you hava pirleyed
with armed treason, if that b3 the word;
parleyed for tho mora convenience of an ex
change of prisoners, and other purpose to
mitigate the grievances of war. It was your
du'y so to do. And shall you not do so to
accomplish all that your troops are fighting
for the reconstruction of the Union?
Let us suppose that tho South is anxious
to embrace an opportunity of return, and is
withheld from making advances by doubts
as to the intentions of the North: is it not
right that we shou'd confer with them, that
ever paid will pross like an incubus upon
future generations, stunting tha growth and
paralyzing the vigor of our young Republic;
or if repudiated, resting a blot upon our
annals.
If we look abroad the spectacle tends
only to our shame. We see the sceptered
hands of Europe planting their royal ban
ners upon the soil of this western hemis
phere, which it is our natural duty to con
secrate to republicanism, and which we
might at least have guarded from the greed
of foreign despots. The flig of Arragon
and Castile flaunts in the air of San Domin
go, and, united with the blazonries of Franco
and England, is unfurled upon tha walls
of San Juin da Ulloa. Whera may they
not float a twelve months hence, if we, the
natural guardians of this continent, should
elill l-i a kn.r A -i Kl-t i n er in aaeh ftfnftr'a crnra?
01 II ' f J J J ..i.WHIl.., I . ,. v.uv. .
ing their
showy
patriotism and shouting
"Union," with their arms up to tha elbows
in the pn'olio Treisurv? Uiw long, sir,
will tho people of the North, taxa 1 bayou 1
endurance, robbo 1 and cheate 1 by an ever-
craving horde of political hyena how long
will they hava a cuiica batwea-i i
and anarchy, batwean a ropub.io an 1 a
despotism? Alas! we still cling to tho name
of a republic, but have wo tho raility? It
is entirely at tho option of one mm. or of a
council of men, whether the citiz3.n shall
broithe in froedom tha free air of Ilaivan.
At the "opui sesimj," of tho Executive, tho
gloomy portals of the Bastfles L Fayette or
Warren will gape to raoalva him. And this
is the Republic I was taught to lovel
Sir, this is only a symbol of what must
to tho U n ion, altoongn l would miRa any ;
and every personal sicrifiie t restore its j
glory an! integrity, I will never consent,
even for the s ika of that Union, to yield up!
my birthright as a free man; to sacrifice thoso ,
principles of self-government, those rights;
of free speech, free thought, an 1 personal j
libirtv, without which Uuion is but a mock- j
ery and a name.
It is not gran lour an 1 ex'ent of tarritory
that I covet as the chief attrib i tes of the i
G iverom-jrit in lar which I am to live. i
Wrfre I one of b it a single community, in
signifio mt, in num'ojr.s, but secure Jn a guir
anteo of pure republican ministration of af
fairs, I would ba proud of my citizenship. !
But tho union of a thousand States, each j
one as great and populous as tho noble one j
among whoso R jpresantativasi I h ivo tho
honor to ba, I would detast, yes, sir, in my j
most inmost heart I would dest it, if tha
holding together of its component parts
free lorn ' should craite a necessity for the assumption
ot despotic power.
and mutton chops. G oo 1 advice and indo
lence onlj mako things worse.
Coming from the pulpit, after a heavy
sermon, a popular minister said to his favo
rite deacon, "Deacon, I'm very tired" "In
deed!" replied tha deacon, "thon you'll
know how to pi'y in "'
ErjprroN-iotrs Flint. Tho new paper at
Maysville, called tho D.Uar VeeVy Unlit-til.
is publinal under tha firm of Rosi
3z RossEtt rather - singular euphony.
Sini'i years ago there was tha firm of
IIcNTi-u & PiiisxE-t in that city which
could be roidilv m ido to real Hunt -for
an l Fist-hat . Ilillsboro (0.) Gazette.
07-An old minister up town tha other
day aska.l a worn in what could ba dona to
induce her husband to attend church. 'I
don't know,' she repli I. "unless you wera
to put a pipe and jug of whisky in tha
paw."
I ... .. .1.. i f ii.- i i :
Mf-government is the go! oi mr poiiticar. -1 , , , ., ,n . .u Z.
:i ..'?... i ... . it.:,. :?. . i : i 'What makes you think so, child? Cos them
' " ' ' ' . . ' . - . ... . . I r.i..a..r
ii i . r ii , f.,'.'h. got a tarn' big hole in 'em.'
temple ba dastrovet, I w vu 1 not torsive i " a
j (7 Confederate fl ig enpturod at Shiloh
' by Col. Jackson, has been forwarded tc
Gov. Magoffin, who has placed it in tha
Sir if ther must ba war let it ba against tha ha attempted onco they will not fail to
the cread, nor would tha mighty principle
ba buried in tha ruins. I love and would
preserve tha temple, for beneath its ro if are
gathered the treisures of holy pist associa
tions; upon its hallowed walls arejnscribad
th n am as o f patriots, from the North and
inevitably ba, should the S)uth ba crmhel from the Smth. whosa blood has baen its
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cemant. out ratner wonm i uvo ma
ouj fabric crumbla to t'ua dust, thin see the
spirit of despotism enshrined within its
sicred precincts.
I have eeen alrea ly the silent butlengthen
shalow of absolutism creeping into thi3
sacral asylum. And whan th3 Exocutivo
hand, for tho first time in our history, wa3
into tha Uuiou. Yon may bring the South
to terms with your bayonet, but whau you
havo done so, you will have m la a baud of
air; a covenant whose seal will ba a military
despotism; and to break it at tha first oppor
tunity will be au aim and a purposa on the
pari of the subdual saction. What thev
placed
State- Library.
'Gentlemen anl ladies, said tha show
man, 'here yoa have th magnificent paint
ing of Dan'iel in tha Lion'a Den. Daniel
can ba easly distinguished from tha lion by
the green cotton umbrella under hia arm.'
'The man who has raised a cabbaga head
has done more good than all tho metaphy
sics in the world,' said a stump orator at a
meeting . 'Then' replied a wag, 'your mo
ther ought to hare had tha premium.'