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THE SOUTHERN % s -a. asr x> /' ,v HARFORD COUNTY INTELLIGENCER. f ‘ ‘•LIT US CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION AS THE MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK WHEN THE NIGHT AND TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM.” SI PER ANNUM. BEL AIR. MD. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 27, 1863. VOL. VII.-NO. 9. THE SOUTHERN MGIS IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY "W- B-A.TEIMI.AJtsr, AT OwV£ DOLLAR PER ANNUM, IK AOVAKCE, OTHERWISE One Dollar and Fifty Cents , Will be charged. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square, (ten lines or less,) three inser tions, SI.OO. Each subsequent insertion 25 cts. One square three months $3.00; Six months $5.00: Twelve months SB.OO. Business cards of six lines or less, $5 a year. No subscription taken for less than a year. i |ljoftic;il. For the Southern JEgis. "HOPE ON, HOPE EVER,’’ BY LIZZIE. “Hope on, Hope ever,” is a motto, in fine, Which is wrapt in the prestige of humor divine; And whate’er of sorrow may sadden life’s way, Let the sunshine of hope ’lume the .gloom of dis may. In first Peter, first chapter, without semblance of trope, Is the language, “Be sober, and to the end hope;" E’en to “hope against hope," is the moral I draw, And to never despair is Divinity’s law. Beneath the huge billows that answer the storm, Is darkness uncleft by the chrystal of morn; Yet secure in their beauty, hid forever from view, Are ocean’s pure gems robed in passionless hue; But ah ! if exhumed to the splendors of day, With diamonds and rubies to embellish array, Could the demon of pride and heartless attire, Higher purity give, or fresh lustre inspire? Wealth, fashion and fame may entrance from afar, And the eye of Ambition may rest on their star, Hut the heart that’s athirst for the rapture above Must dash from its portals such idols of love. “Contentment with godliness"—our lile as it may, Is a sceptre of peace, ’mid the scenes of its way ; A jewel more precious thau sparkles in crown, Ur annals of fame on the page of renown. Tnun “Hope on, Hope ever,” whute’er may be tide, Tho’ fashion may scoff aud fully deride, The fate a kind Parent doth wisely design, Can chasten our spirits for rapture divine. Fallston, February, 1863. The Brave at Home. The maid who binds her warrior’s sash, With smile that well her pain dissembles, The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles ; Though heaven alone records the tear, And fame shall never know her story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear As ever dewed the fields of glory. ———■——■ ■ i L PisttllsMirns. * From the Dubuque Herald. VIEWS OF AN ABOLITIONIST CON GRESSMAN. We give tho leading points below of the speech of M. F. Conway, Republican Congressman from Kansas, lately deliver ed in the House of Representatives, on the subject of the war. He is the first of the Abolitionists to give in, that the object of the war cantfot be accomplished, audithpt peace on any terms is preferable. We commend it to our Republican readers as being'sound doctrine from one of their no tabilities. '• ■ he IS AGAINST RE-UNION. Sir, I am not in favor of restoring the (•■institutional relations of the slaveholders to li.d Union, nor of the war to that ond. On the contrary, I am utterly and forever opposed to both. I am in favor of the * Union as it exists to-day. lam in favor of recognizing the loyal States as the American nation, Lased as they are on the principle of freedom fur all, without dis tinction of race, color or condition. I be lieve it to be the manifest destiny of the American continent on this principle. I conceive, therefore, that the true ob ject of this war is to revolutionize the Na tional by resolving the North into theffiation and the South into a dis tinct public body, leaving us in a position to pursue the latter as a separate State. — I believe that the direction of the war to any other end is a perversion of it, calcu lated to subvert the very object it was de signed to effect- His unionism. ! I have never allowed myself to indulge " in that superstitious idojatrj of the Union prevalent among simple' but hones * .’{]> 0 people, nor that political cant about the Union so prevalent among the dishonest ones. I have simply regarded it as a form of government, to be valued in proportion to its merits as an instrument of national prosperity and power. THE SOUTH INDEPENDENT. The war which has come in between the North and the Sooth for the past two years has made a revolution. It has sub stituted in the South another goVertiment for that of the Union. This is the fact, and the fact in such a matter is the important thing. It settles the law. No technicality in a question of this kind can stand. The war has utterly dissolved the connection between the North and the South, and rendered them separate and independent powers in the world. This is the necessary legal effect of civil war anywhere. It makes the belligerent par ties independent for the time being, aud, unless the one succumbs to the other, they continue independent of each other forev er. The principle is laid down by Vattcl as follows : “When a nation becomes divided into two panics, absolutely independent, and no longer acknowledging a common supe rior, the State is dissolved, and the war between the two parties stands upon the same ground, in every respect, us a public war between two different nations.” — , [Book 111., chap. 17, p. 428.] It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that so learned and profound a jurist as the honorable member from Pennsylvania (Mr. Stevens) should express the same opinion. ***** * THE DEMOCRACY TRUE TO THE UNION. The Democrats will not of course listen to separation for an instant. Such a sug gestion, in thoir eyes, is treason —a prop osition to dissolve the Union—for which one qught to be hanged. They expect the question whether the Union shall be res torod by force or by compromise to be submitted to the people in the next elec tion; and upon that to carry the country. Their plan is to oppose the Administration simply on its anti-slavery policy. They put in issue the confiscation not, the Mis souri emancipation act, the President's proclamation of emancipation. These measures they pronounce unconstitutional, deny their validity, and everything done, or to be done in pursuance of them. In ad dition to this, they attack the Administra tion on account of its suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, false imprisonment, cor ruption, imbecility, &c., and a thousand oth er incidents. But on the war and the integ rity of the Union, they arc like adamant it self. They olaim to favor the war for the sakq of the Union, but. to be for compro mise rather than war. They say very truth fully, that the Republicans nave tried force for two years, and exhausted tho country, aud upon this claim the adoption of their method as all that is left to be done This is the manner in which the politi cians of the country propose to teminate this great conflict. THE GREAT’ CONSERVATIVE PARTY. An alliance seems recently to have been effected to this end between certain de menti, heretofore hostile. The Border, State politicians are tbe remnant of tbe old Whig and Know Nothing parties, who, all their lives, cherished an intense hatred of the Democracy. They now unite with that party to effect this object. The Republicans of tho Albany school, under the sagacious leadership of Mr. Weed, who, for long years fought the Van Buren regency, and finally broke it down through the agency of free soil, are also faand-in-glove with their old opponents.— Thus the army of the Democracy takes the next great political battle, supported on the left by the followers of Clay and Crit- ; tendon, aud on the right by the special friends of William H. Seward. Such a host may well feel confident. It js a com- i bination for victory. The elements have ! been well shaped. Not in vain have the border Stole politicians thronged ■ the hall of the Presidential Mansion.— i Not in vain has the discreet Secretary of State incurred the reputation of having become' imbecile. Not in vain bos the . whole Administration suffered tbe odium { of drifting with the tide fur lack of a poll- { cy. They could well afford to dispense { with tite applause of tbo radicals, while they silently directed, that under-current which was to refer the' gigantic question, , wi h which they would not grapple to | the decision of another Presidential elfic- , turn. *H* army Conservative. Without reference to the result of the i Wr, I consider tbe chances of tho eppsur ’ i ("ifl • vatlves in the election for superior to that of tbe administration. Great reliance is placed by the latter on the vote of tbe soldiers; but, in my opinion, this is delusive. Tbe soldiers will be affected in like manner with the real of tbe people, and, moreover, will be tired of military service and anxious to return home. They will be dissatisfied from a thousand causes and desire a change.— The suffering and indignation yet to be engendered by tbe unlimited ifesue of an irredeemable paper currency, will of itself overwhelm the administration party, and sink it deeper than plummet ever sound ed. But the Democrats, in my judg ment, safely calculate that they can take issue on any one of a hundred necessary incidents of the war, and defeat their op ponents by a large majority. THE PROCLAMATION A FAILURE. Many suppose that the effect of the pro clamation of emancipation will be to so thoroughly, speedily and completely anni hilate and extirpate slavery, that the slaveholders will have no longer a motive to act together. This is an egregious mis take. The proclamation will have no such effect. Its constitutionality is de nied. It is still unexecuted, and its va lidity undetermined. The whole subject is yet open to debate and final settlement. The Judicial Department is to render its .decision upon it; and, in the meantime, it is to be the controlling issue in a popular ’ election for President. This state of things will undoubtedly inspire the slave bolders with a more resolute purpose than ever. Their effort will not, as heretofore, be to prevent the Abolitionists from free ing their slaves, as a distant and specula tive proposition, but to rescue him from the grasp of the enemy already actually . laid upon him. It will redounle their will, and bring out every latent energy. SUMNER HIS MAGNUS APOLLO. The Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. 1 Sumner,) who has lately been re-elected to serve another term of six years in the body he has so long adorned, should, in ' this crisis, point us to the proper action. His purely Northern character, his great ’ abilities, his lofty aspirations, his sacrifi- l ces for freedom, the entire confidence of 1 his State so spontaneously bestowed upon him—and that State the noblest in Atner- 1 ica—all single him out as one authorized I and required to speak with a decisive voice i on this great occasion. < There are also in this House gentlemen i whose words on this momentous theme the 1 country will listen to with intense inter est. The honorable member from Penn- 1 sylvania (Mr. Thaddeus Stevens,) one of I the truly great men of America —full of 1 learning and wisdom—tried by long years < of arduous service in this cause, who has I never faltered, and is now ic-elected in his < district by overwhelming numbers, stands < foremost among those of whom the nation I will expect deliverance from the dangers i which encompass it. Let these men, and i such as these, speak, and tell the country i what to do in this hour of transcendent I peril. Nevertheless, I cannot refrain from ex pressing my individual opinion that the | true policy of the North is to terminate j t is war at once. The longer it continues ' the worse our situation becomes. Let the 1 two houses of Congress adopt the follow- 1 ing resolutions: I “ Resolved , by (he Senate and House of 1 Representatives, &c., That the Executive < be, aud he is hereby requested to issue a ( general order to all commanders of forces ‘ in the several military departments of tbe ( United States to discontinue offensive op- J orations against tbe enemy, and to act for 1 the future entirely on the defensive. * Resolved, That the Executive be, and he is further requested to enter into ne- 1 foliations with the authorities of the Con- * 'derate States with reference to a cessa tion of hostilities, based on the following . propositions: 1. Recognition of tbe in- | dependence of <he Confederate States.— J 2. A trade between tho two States. 8. 1 Free navigation of tbe Mississippi river. 8 4. Mutual adoptiou of tbo Monroe doc- ? trine. CAN LIVE TOGETHER. I entirely disagree with those who assort that it is impossible that the North and South could live peaceably side by side, , because there are no natural boundaries between tho two, such as the Rooky . Mountains or the Atlantic Ocean. This j. is a bugbear with which we impose upon ourselves. Tbe people of tbo North,and 8 South can never become foreign nations j to each other in tbe sense in which the French and English or Russians are.— They are sprung from tbe same origin, a speak the same language, possess a com- s moh literature, inherit similar polities ind d . f, ♦ religious inhabit regions close ly connected by natural and artificial ties. They will, therefore, both be always Ame rican. The only great difference between them is of a social and political nature, namely, that which arises from tbe exis tence of African slavery in one, and its absence in tho other. This foot, however, offers no obstacle whatever to such a separation as is invol ved in independent political jurisdictions; on the contrary, it greatly facilitates it Before the Federal Union was establish ed all tbe States were independent, and associated under Articles of Confederation, in the nature of a treaty. The argu ments now adduced to show the impracti cability of present separation between tbe North and South, go with equal force to prove the impossibility of what then actu ally existed and was accepted in the case of tbe thirteen original States of the Union. Tbe latter stood toward each other precisely as tho North and South would stand, should they stop tbe war and enter into treaty. It would simply be resolving the North and South into confederate States, resuming, as to them, the old basis of the Confederation. This would be the whole of it. It is t herefore a very simple operation. I do not suggest this, however, on the idea that should it ever be adopted, the separation it implies would insure an ul timate reuuiou on an anti-slavery basis. I have confidence in the inherent vital ity of Northern civilization. I have no fear to set it in competition with that of the South, Let them proceed side by side in the race of empire, aud we shall see which will triumph. Indian Tradition. Among the Seminole Indians there is a singular tradition regarding the white man’s origin and superiority. They say that when tbe Great Spirit made tbe earth, ho also made thrge men, all of whom were fair cornplexioned ; and after making them he led them to the margin of a small lake and bade them leap in and wash. One obeyed, and came out of the water purer and fairer than before ; tbe second hesitated a moment, during which time the water, agitated by tho first, had become muddied, and when be bathed he came out copper-colored; the third did not leap till the water became black with mud, and he came out its own color. Then the Great Spirit laid before them three pack ages, and out of pity for misfortune in col or, gave the black man the first choice.— He took bold of each of tbe packages, and having felt the weight, chose the heaviest; tbe copper-colored then chose the next heaviest, leaving the white man the light est. When the packages were opened, the first was found to contain spades, hoes, and all tbe implements of labor ; the sec ond enwrapped hunting, fishing and war like apparatus; the third gave tbe white man pens, ink and paper—tbo engine of the mind, the means of mutual improve ment, the social link of humanity, tbe foundation of the white man’s superiority. Starting in the World. —Many an unwise parent labors bard and lives spar ingly all his life for the purpose of leav ing enough to give his children a start in tho world, as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money left him by his re latives' is like tying bladders under tbe arms of one who capoot swim ; ten chan ces to one he will lose his bladders and go to tho bottom. Teach him to swim, and he will never need the bladders.— Give your child a sound education, and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals arc pure, his mind cultiva ted, aud his whole nature made subser vient to laws which govern man, and you have given what will be of more value than the wealth of the Indies. • - Mxsantheopy.—Misanthropy delights 1 in wearing blue spectacles; its eyes are 1 jaundiced, so that it does not care to look upon the world as it is, glowing and sparkling in healthful sunlight:, every leaf and flower and drop of dew beautiful with its own peculiar charms. It rejects the 1 reality of beauty, insisting that blue spec tacles form tbe normal condition of the 1 human vision, and that people who do not wear them are never able to see any thing in its true light; which means, of course, its blue ligpt. If it oould have j its way it would will that every child be born into the world with those dreary glosses firmly fixed upon its innocent lit tlo nose, to enable it to stumble through J life as miserably as possible. , A Crusty old bachelor says that Ad- 1 am’s wife was called Eve because, when ] she appeared, man’s day of happiness spas i drawing to a close. i •d ■ nl fr-w Hit!’ 1 1 How to Miki Mosey. i. Let the business of every body alone i- and attend to your own; do not buy wbst i you do not want; use every hour to ad , vantage, and study to make even yonr lei - sure hours useful; think twice before you b throw away a shilling—remember you will have another to make for it; find rec i reation in looking after your buainesa, • and so your business will not be neglect ; ed in looking after recreation; buy low; sell fair, and take care of the profits; look over your books regularly, and if you find an error, trace it out; should a , stroke of misfortune come upon yon in • trade, retrench, work harder, “but never ■ fly the track;" confront difficulties with unflinching perseverance, and they will • disappear at last; though you should even fail in the struggle, you will be honored; but shrink from the task and you will be despised. By the following of these rules, how ever, you never need say “fail!" Pay debts promptly, and so exact your dues; keep your word. Social Affection. —Society has been aptly compared to a heap of embers, which when separated, soon languish, darken and expire ; but if placed together, glow with a rapid aud intense heat, a just emblem of the strength, and happiness, and the security derived from the union of man kind. The savage, who never knew the blessings of combination, and he who quits society from apathy, or misanthropic spleen, arc like the separated embers, dark and useless ; they neither give nor receive heat, neither love nor are beloved. To what acts of heroism and virtue, in every age and nation, has not the impetus of af fection given rise ? To what gloomy mis ery, despair, and even suicide, has the di rection led! How often in the busy haunts of men, are all our noblest and gen tlest virtues called forth t And how in the bosom of the recluse do all the soft emotions languish and grow faint! Live pok Something Thousands of men breathe, move and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard of no more.— Why ? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them us the in struments of their happy redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, so they perished —their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, 0 man immortal ? Live for something. Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. 19“ An lowa orator, wishing to des cribe his opponent as a soulless man, said: I have heard that some persons hold the opinion that ‘just at the precise moment after one human being dies another is born, and the soul enters and anim|tes the new babe. Now, I have made extensive and particular inquiries concerning my opponent there and find that for some hours before he was born, nobody died. Fellow citizens, I leave you to draw your own inference. Epochs are one of Satan’s chief devices. He says, “commit this sin, so that after it is over, you can have an epoch to begin holiness with. Go intdthis de bauch, so that after it you may be able to make a clean start." But the Spirit of God says, “Sin not, and begin to be holy at once, else you may be deserted forev er.’' 19* Childhood is like a mirror, catch ing and reflecting images from all arooad. Remember that,an impious or profane thought uttered by a parent’s lips may op erate upon the young heart like a careless spray of water thrown upon polished steel, staining it with rust whicu no scouring can efface. 19* Somewhere in the west, a sable knight of the lather and brush was per forming the operation of shaving a Hoo sier with a dull mor. “Stop," said the Hoosier, “that won’t • do.’’ / “What’s the natter, rah “That rasor pulls.” “Well no matter for dat, sab, if de han dle ob dia raaor don’t break de baird’s * wand to come off." -"., i. fjff* A negro preacher, recently, in Vii*' ginia, referring in a desultory and charac teristic discourse, to the day of judgment, said, with groat earnestness and forvor, “Brethoro and sisters! in dat day da Lord shall divide de sheep from de goats, and biesa ds Lord, he knows which mmtk do wool!"