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THE DAILY SUN
Tubsdat Mobnikg July 11.
THE MONTGOMERY ADVER
TISER AND MAIL.
•which they have failed to receive, but I position ? Are the editors of that
not to him who never sought office— I journal to be understood as holding
its honors or its emoluments, in his that this is mischief-making doc-
life ; whose aspirations at all times trine ? Do they mean to intimate
have been for the advancement of the
[ public good not his own.
Advb.—We say that it does not enter
I into our inclination to ascribe to Mr.
The journal which stands at the
head of this article, devoted over a I Stephens any unworthy motive'in putting
‘ column Of its editorial space, on the so conspicuously beforethePub-
I. , , , . . 1 , lie in the character of the editor of a po
ll 1st «Tuly, to assaults of no disguised I newspaper, in the extraordinary
i character, upon the political editor of role he is now playing. It is certain that
Thz Suh. In noacingthese S
it is no purpose of ours to bandy views respecting the Constitution-, the
I words or epithets with the editors of ground work, or practical pretense for
1* ,, , r , . I pronounced and bitter hostility to the al-
that paper. This is by no means m I jg^dy foreshadowed course of thcNation-
j the line of our object at present. We al Democratic organization.
| are looking after, and guarding the Sun—What “foreshadowed course
| interests of the people, as well as of the National Democratic Organi
their safety, security and good govern- zation ?” Is the “ New Departure ”
J ment—subjects of much higher im- policy of abandoning the principles
I port and magnitude with us than per- of the Constitution, (oh which it is
| aonal controversy of any sort— admitted we are correct), and at-
| But, that our readers may be fully tempting to occupy the “strongholds”
* a^are of what is said against us, even of Radicalism, by sanctioning their
on the ad hominem line, we give them usurpations, here meant ? Do the
| below the aforesaid invective in full, editors of the Advertiser really think
: With such ^comments as we think that the Democracy of the United
proper for the editors of the Adverii- States are, in their next general Con-
: ser, and their charges. vention, going to adopt as their creed
The article from our Montgomery what a few trimmers and tricksters in
contemporary will be given in. sepa- their ranks in Pennsylvania have set
rate paragraphs, and in regular sue- forth as their programme of action
cession, in smaller type than the text in 1872? If so, we venture to say
of onr comments, with such remarks that the editors of that journal will
as we think fitting each as it occurs, find themselves quite as much at fault
In this w&y onr readers can better in this particular, as they are in as
understand the whole. scribing motives to us. Our opinion
The assault with the replies, then, | against theirs is, that the honest
thus opens and proceeds:
ADVERTISER-—A Man Without Friend*
—A Disconsolate Statesman t
We are sorry to state that an editorial
in The Atlanta Sun over the signa-
that the two million six hundred thou
sand and odd voters, who proved
themselves true to the Constitution
in 1868, according to the “ touch
stone ” referred to, and to the three
hundred thousand more, who would
have done the same thing atfhe same
time, if they had not been most
wrongfully disfranchised, by usurped
powers', as they were, have become re
creant to the great cause in which
they were enlisted? If so we repel
the imputation thus cast upon them
These are the men we claim as
friends, because we believe them to be
true to the Constitution. They con
stitute in all a host of not less than
three millions! “A man without
friends,” yon say! Where will the
masses of the real, true, genuine De
mocracy of the Union—the three
millions who have not yet bowed the
knee to Baal or his image, will never
tare of A H. Stephens, forbids us any do so monstrous a thing,
longer to doubt the. political purposes ADm—We^even hesitate to] repeat
entertained by the ‘ ‘Sage of Liberty suggestion we have heard, that his
Hall. ’ ’ object is to provoke attack from the Dem-
SuN—Indeed! well, we deeply re- ocratic press in order that, looking to
must needs be that offences come.”— j Sun—You do!
The chief object with every one Advb.—Nothing of this sort is neces
should be, not to be the just cause of sary toset the seal of utter condemnation
,, T , on what he is now doing. If he were the
them. It is SO With us. best man and noblest patriot on earth,
Advb.—We are forced to believe that his conduct would only be the more rep-
he ban mounted the Editorial tripod rehensible or the more to be deplored,
(with questionable taste and propriety because his capacities for mischief and
even . m the opinion of his firmest evil would only be thus increased instead
friends we presume) to oppose and if pos- of being diminished. It is quite enough
sible to defeat the National Democratic that our own ordinary intelligence clearly
Party in the next Presidential election, perceives, and that his extraordinary inr
Sttw Well, you must allow us very telligence cannot fail by possibility to
.. „ 7 , perceive, that his writings and counsels
respectfully to say that this only ^ conveyed to the readers of The Sun,
shows that yon know very little about must injure (if they have any effect at all)
| gome matters you ate attempting to
instruct the public upon. and comfort to the cruelest, most malig-
Atvph—What hfa motive may be in thus nant and most unrelenting enemies that
indicating his inimical intentions, we shall ever yet oppressed a patient and helpless
not attempt to scrutinize. We fear that people.
the fact of his opposition, not in igno- SUN—Not at all. They only bring
St b“‘aSiti^cd “ WoheS^S schemers, intriguers,
it could be denied or explained, wheth- tnmmers, and «money changers, who
er his motive may be bom of the morbid ^yjsh to come into power, possessed of
ySition, or^r'havTjS^g P fmm I the “strong-holds” of despotism,
that species of fanaticism which feels erected by the usurpations of their
S&forwhalheZjSg^^ttf Passers, so that they may ad-
truth, however impracticable; we shall minister the (government under a
not stop in enquire. His^motive may be \ Democratic name, but on Radical
We tMnk it likely that
opposes, and will prevent, if in his pow- our writings in Thf Sun do no in-
er, to aooomphsh*t, the triumph of the considerable injury to the prospect
Democratic Party next year, and the ,/ f „,, . , ^ „
consequent defeat of the Radical Parly of success on the part of this class of
fromwhose hatreds and revenges, imbe- politicians. This is just what they
cilitiea and corruptions, we have suffered are intended to do; but in them our
so terribly since the war, and which still ,
from its strongholds of power menaces “most unrelenting enemies” will find
us with dreadful insults and renewed out- quite as little aid and comfort as the
. 1 tricksters.
Sun—You are quite as well in
Advb.—To prove this, we quote from
it formed as to his objects as yon profess The Atlanta Sun.
neither claim nor
to be aS to his moti ves. UlS object IS | friends or allies, any men or party, North or South,
Mr. Stephens says
>r look npon, as politii
itical
who are not true to Constitution and the essential
editors of the Advertiser go to find
as many ? Not certainly in the ranks
of the Democratic party. Whether
they shall he able to recruit as many
from renegade Democrats and strag
gling Radicals, together, time must
disclose. One thing is certain, if he
who recognizes as friends those only,
who are true to the Constitution is
in fact without friends, as the editors
of the Advertiser would seem to
maintain, then he is in no worse con
dition—“disconsolate”—as he may
be, than the country over which he
might well weep! Our country is not
quite in this condition, yet, we trust.
We said farther, that we should
never recognise as a political friend
or ally any one who shall maintain
that the usurpations attending the
Reconstruction Acts have all been
settled “ in the manner and by the au
thority Constitutionally appointed.”
Do the editors of the Advertiser join
issue with us upon that proposition ?
Are they to be understood as holding
that the Democratic party throughout
the Union, should maintain so perni
cious a principle or proclaim so glar
ing an untruth!
But we have not said that Mr. Val-
landigham’s Dayton Resolution on
the subject of the new Amendments
was “false.” That Resolution simply
declared these Amendments to be de
facto parts of the organic law, and by
no means affirmed that they were de
jure or rightfully so. It was the
Pennsylvania Harrisburg Convention
which declared that they were rightful
parts of the Constitution, having be
come so “in the manner and by the
authority constitutionally appointed!
This is the statement which we said
contained a great untruth !
Moreover, the Editors of the Ad
vertiser need not be reminded by us,
we trust, that Mr. YaUandigham’s
Dayton Resolution on this subject
was not adopted by the Ohio Conven
tion either in form or substance.
Advb.—It then follows unquestionably
thathe{does not “claim or look upon them
as political friends and allies.” In other
words he does not consider the Democra
cy of Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Ar
kansas, Tennessee, Iowa, Maine andWis-
consin, who have already in their State
Conventions accepted the two Amend
ments as accomplished facts and as dead
issues, to be his friends and allies, and he
is desirous that his readers shall see them
with his feelings, not as friends and allies,
but as men to be regarded as enemies.—
Moreover no one can possess a reasonable
doubt that New York and every other
Northern and Western State will within
a comparatively brief period occupy pre
cisely the same position. Nay, more, so
far as the South has yet spoken the South
ern Democrats and Conservatives dis
tinctly reveal their inflexible purpose to
co-operate with their democratic friends
from other sections on the same pro*
gramme. The National Democratic Res
olutions are just as openly to be read to
day as though they had been unanimous
ly affirmed by a Convention in June or
July of next year.
Sun—You think so, do yon ? Yon
indulge the hope, do yon—that the
9th Resolution of the Harrisburg
Uonvention will become the Demo
cratic “Shiboleth” in 1872? Well,
that is just what not less than two
a wherefore? Where are the masses of
tile Democracy of Pennsylvania who
have already rejected and repudiated,
not onr views, but the transfer Reso
lution of the Harrisburg Convention?
Behold them as they now stand npon
the “old platform” of their “time-
honored principles” and instead of
deprecating all discussions npon sub
jects pertaining to the Reconstruction
Measures as “dead issues,” see them
hurling their effective denunciations
against “the fraud, perfidy and vio
lence* by which these most palpable
usurpations were consummated! Be
assured, gentlemen, our object is not
to produce “confusion or discontent
in Georgia or elsewhere,” but to effect
union, harmony and victory all along
the line under the “old banner,” han
ded down from the founders of De
mocracy and the builders of the Mag
nificent Temple of onr Liberties.
Advb.—Whether he wishes to lead a
new movement, or whether indirectly to
wound those who have rejected his des
tructive advice, the result cannot be
otherwise than to assist, voluntarily _ or
involuntarily, in retaining the Radical
Party in its hateful and dangerous su
premacy.
There are some facts all most see and
appreciate. An affectation of blindness
wifi not do. An affectation of being
able to avoid the logical operation
of these facts will not do. One of
these facts is that there are and can be
but two actually contesting parties for
political Administration between this and
! ]|notto defeat the Democratic Party, I p£2 c “ 0 i e n s S was based, we are
j but to defeat any party and every par- ■«!*.*» * ****
| ty that shall attempt to come into I ^ ^^J^K2££^hi&n°a
; r\r>MTGV An those nrineitllftS or UDOn a worthier, we trust. With ns the chief »im now is
powei on most principles, ui upon u I for union and concerted action between all the true
r\f these nsnr nations which friends of the Federal Constitution in aU the States,
sanction 01 tnose usutpaiwns «U1U1 andfor* grand rally to f»ve their common liberties
;have brought “these troubles” upon \&£22S3g*&£3&£>$£££££
ithe conntiy from which “we have W*
ifered SO terribly since the war.” Any entering tboreal contest in 1872, it is essential to
u * . •M know by the previous application of this "touch-
kj Dartv in hia opinion SO brought into stone." who are ••our friend*,*■ and who aro onr ad-
h ™ J , ... , I versaries. Whoever shall prove himself to be a
I OOWer. fortified as it would be behind true friend of the Constitution, we shall recognise
8 r „ ,, , . as our friend and ally. Whoever shall not, wo shall
d these “strong-holds, could not only I recognise as onr adversary in the coming great con-
,, , , -- ... , . * test between Imperialism and Constitutionalism—
Jj “menace but would Ultimately lit- between a consolidated Empire and a Federal Re-
’ terly overthrow the entire fabric Of | We say in advance, however, that we shall never
4OHr frOC institutions* So is for tlic I from any quarter he may* any one who maintains
success of the Democratic Party, not
1 however upon the principles on which ^ ^fdep^t^any ^^!L a int ZfSu^ot millions and a half of Democrats with
these “strong-holds” of despotism j £?no I very “inflexible purpose are deter-
j]were erected by Radicalism—but up- ««dsof ou«-of our cause or the liberties sliall notbe done. We shall
on their own old creed of standing Now it is evident to Mr. Stephens as to
last by the Constitution,and “arraign- others that whetiier tiie Northern and
ii. „ r . - vv „ „ Western Democrats believe themselves
ting before the bar of public reason all in their present attitude on theVallan-
rtthe mischievous misdeeds of those who I digham Resolutions to be true to the
iV„ rn Lrnncrhf“fhe<?pfrnnhW’nnnTi Constitution or not, Mr. Stephens does
, hare brought these tronoies' upon ns, nofc admit that ^ Me ^ Indeed be
and consigning them, with their au- complains of their heresy, and avers that
Lthors, to that righteous popular con- they are false.
i demnation which they so unques- Sun—Is iliere a word in this long
tionably deserve. This is what he is extract quoted from us, (and which
Endeavoring to get the Democracy of constitutes the gravamen of our
Ihe Union to do. Is this endeavor offense in the judgment of the editors
j right or wrong ? Is the motive which of the Advertiser) about the North-
ij prompts it a bad one or good one? em or Western Democrats, or the]
fVDoes it spring from “a morbid egotism Democratic party, in any section of
•’■of » sickly mind” or “disappointed the Union ?
[ambition?” Disappointed ambition What we said was, we neither
indeed! Let such feelings be at- claimed or looked upon any one,
U;ributed, if you please, to broken North or South, as a political friend
| ,lown party-hacks, or to those misera- or ally, who is not true to the Con-
>le sycophants of power, if any such stitution, and the essential principles
pan be found, who have sold them-- upon which it was based. Does the
dyes for expected spoils or fiivors, ‘ Advertiser join issue with us in this
see whether the wire-workers and
“money-changers” can trick them in
this business or not.
Advb.—And it would surely seem -that
Mr. Stephens has either entered on the
petulant^ puerile, quite irrational project
of proposing to convert the Democratic
Party to his own peculiar views, rejected
by them almost “en masse,” or else that he
seeks to do what is perhaps practicable,
and for some undefined or unrevealed ob
ject, to occasion whatever discontent and
confusion lie can make in Georgia
elsewhere in the body of the Democratic
organization.
Sun—“The petulant, puerile, quite
irrational project of proposing to con
vert the Democratic Party to hia own
peculiar views, rejected by them al
most fen masse f ” Was there ever
more extraordinary scintillation of
disturbed imagination ? Who in this
instance is trying to convert, or rath
er to transfer, whole masses by a sim
pie Resolution, without ft why
the Presidential election. These two
parties are the National Democratic
! Party, and the so-called Republican or
Radical party. One or the other must
succeed at the election. If the Demo
cratic Party does not, the Itadical Party
wiU certainly again triumph, and again for
four long years the South will he tortured
with socialistic Radicalism, and no citizen
will be able to feel assured dial his Stale Gov
ernment will stand for diirty days at a time.
Sun.—There are some facts which
ought to be apparent to all. One of
these is that there is a party in power
seeking to perpetuate its existence,
whose chief object is the overthrow
of the Constitution, and with it onr
entire system of Government, which
it was established to secure. This is
known as the Radical or Republican
Party so-called. Another fact, which
all ought to see and know, is that the
only way in which these ulterior ob
jects can he prevented, is by arousing
the true friends of the Constitution
everywhere to a proper sense of the
danger of the crises, and bringing
their combined energies to act in con
cert at the polls for a rescue of the
Ark of their Covenant from the hands
of those now bent upon its desecra
tion and destruction. It ought also
to be known that this can only be
done by a full exposure of the enor
mous wrongs and high crimes against
Public Liberty which have been com
mitted by those who have so shame
fessly abused their public trusts. To
do this and save the country is the
high mission of the Democracy.
Advb.—The principles and policy of the
Radical party are .veil known whether rep-
sented by Greeley or Grant. What
matters other little personal differences
when they both favor alike the Bayonet
elections Act and the Eu-Klux bill.
Greeley is as much opposed as Grant is
to Mr. Stephen’s tests of Constitutional
Orthodoxy to which he would so rigidly
subject the Democracy. Whether Gree
ley or Grant be President the infamous
schedule of social and political Radical
ism will be the same m the hands of
either Presidential curse. But from what
he says Mr. Stephens is just as unfriendly
to the Democratic party on the Ohio and
Pennsylvania platforms as he is to the
Radiffftl party. He is so indifferent, ap
parently, between the two sets of ene
mies that he is eager, and turns editor
for the purpose, to distract the Democ
racy if possible for the direct or indirect
benefit of the Radical Tyrants.
Sun.—Mr. Stephens, it is true, is
just as unfriendly to the 9th Resolu
tion of the Pennsylvania Harrisburg
Platform as he is to that platform set
up by the Radical Party through Sena
tor Morton at_ Washington city; be
cause there is no essential difference
between them. As much as Mr. Gree
ley may he opposed to Gen. Grant we
venture to say that he gives that 9 th
Resolution of the Pennsylvania Plat
form his hearty endorsement, and re
joices at what he may look npon as
the prospect of soon seeing the entire
Democratic Party as “repentant sin
ners” entering the Radical folds. If
the Democracy of the Union shall
unfurl a banner, bearing this Resolu
tion, as the Editors of the Advertiser
seem to think they will, then may
the Philosopher of the Tribune ex
claim as old Simeon did, “now lettest
thou thy servant depart in peace.”
The complete Revolution in the Gov.
emment which he has so assiduously
labored to effect for thirty years will
have been accomplished and approved
by the “Nation.” This most lamen
table result, we trust, will never en
sue ; and, hence, we are by no means
an indifferent spectator to these dra
matic scenes—hence the active and
earnest part we take with no view to
“distract the Democracy,” however,
hut to awaken them to a full sense
Advb.—The Democratic statesmen
fbink after the most anxious reflection
and deliberation that $01 they can possibly
accomplish, under afl the circumstences,
at the next election is to save the Con
stitution as it stands, and to preserve
the Republio itself from destruction.—
Mr. Stephens either believes or affects to
believe if they will allow him to virile Vie
platform, that they not only can save but
fully restore the expurgated Constitution
as interpreted by Jefferson, and Callmun
and in the spirit and meaning of the Res
olutions of 1798-99. Because the North-
em and Western Democrats diner 'wiin
him in respect to this absurd idea, he
forms an issue of opposition and assumes
by plain inference that “the sole object
of the Democracy is the acquisition of
the spoils of office.” We will venture to
predict, however, that should the Demo
cratic party succeed in the next Presiden
tial] election on the one hand, or
the Radical party on the other, he will be
apt to find in the one or the other con
tingency that Democratic success would
mean something more than the spoils of
office.
If Mr. Stephens desires to escape un
measured odium, let him on a “sober
second thought” consent, since they can
not follow him, to allow the Pendletons,
Thurmans, Hoffmans, Blairs, Hancocks,
McClellans, Yallandighams, Blacks,Yoor-
hees, Brooks, Woodwards, Adams, Coxes,
Becks, Hendricks, Seymours, and tens of
thousans like them, the friends of consti
tutional liberty, the opponents of usur
pation, the bold and strenuous defenders
of our people from outrage for years past,
though themselves in a minority, and now
pledged to accord to us an honorable
equality as States of an American Union,
to lead in the approaching struggle.
Sun—Gentlemen of the Adver
tiser, ' give yourselves no concern
about Mr. Stephens’reputation or his
good name. Odium, whether meas
ured or unmeasured, never enters his
thoughts when moved, as in this in
stance, by a'high sense ofPublic Du
ty. Some misguided Democratic par
tisans may think that all they can ac
complish at the next election, is to
save themselves from worse evils than
those now upon them, and that even
don that one erected for them by Mr.
Jefferson, (not by Mr. Calhoun), and
npon which they have stood so long.
This platform is planted upon the
ramparts of the Constitution. Our
appeal is,“Never abandon it; never
depart from it!”
As Themistoeles, when the fate of
all Greece depended upon one im
pending battle, stood forth and urged
that the stronghold of Salamis should
not be given up, and abandoned
(which the leaders were about to do),
so we now, in a crisis of like peril,
raise our voice, and urge the Democ
racy, on whom the hopes of tire Con
tinent and of the world rest, not to
give up their impregnable position on
the ramparts of the Constitution!
In this is their chief strength. This
is their Salamis. Themistoeles was
thought to be mutinous at the
time. He was denounced as a sower
of dissensions. The hand of Eury-
biades was raised to strike him down
as an enemy to the cause—as one
giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
The calm but f mi reply of the. un
daunted Athenian was:
“Strike, but hear me.**
Fortunately for Greece he was
heard. His reasons for not abandon
ing the port of Salamis prevailed. This
position was not departed from. Here
the hosts of Xerxes were beaten, and
the Teutonic system of local self-gov
ernment was preserved against the
most formible effort to overthrow it,
and to establish in its stead that of
the Asiatic type, which was general
consolidation and centralism.
Tliemistocles, we imagine, cared
nothing for the odium of words, or
even that of blows, if they had fol-
found conviction that the liberties of
his country were at stake; and it was
no time to consider matters of mere
taste, propriety, or even military
subordination. We referred to this
incident a few days ago, on another
occasion, in illustration of our present
position; and now repeat it, for the
special benefit of the Editors of the
Advertiser; that they may bear ill
mind the fact that there can he such
a thing as earnest, zealous, enthusi
astic, disinterested patriotism, which
rises as high above all mere selfish
personal or party considerations as
the priceless attributes of Liberty rise
in the estimation of all who are fit to
enjoy it, above the glittering fascina
tions of Power, whether exhibited in
the splendors of Royalty or in the
more imposing insignia of Empire.
A. H. S.
WITH WALKER IN NICARAGUA.
this can he done by not only ceasing^ q 0 wed. He was moved by the pro
to denounce usurpations, but by
sanctioning all of them, so far as the
past is concerned; and in this way
they propose to make an effort, at
least, to secure what is left of Liberty.
These men are not statesmen. If they
were they would know that “what of
Liberty ” they consider as left, can
never be saved or seoured by the
course they reoommend. Power is
ever progressive and aggressive—ever
grasping and encroaching. Give it
an inch, and it never fails soon to
claim and take an ell. If it is to be
successfully restrained in the end, it
must be met at the threshold; and
there persistently resisted, without
terms or quarters. If the citadel be
voluntarily yielded, the outposts will
betaken as a matter of course. If
bold and avowed usurpations, based
upon “fraud, perfidy, and violence,”
and in violation of every civil right,
of seven millions of people, be once
sanctioned as rightful acts—not to be
questioned — upon what rational
grounds can sensible men be inspired
with any hope of saving, by the
greatest possible exertions, anything
that may he supposed to be left of
popular rights ?
We do not believe, as intimated,
that the “object of the Democratic
party is the acquisition of the spoils
of office.” Far from it. The great
object moving the masses of the De
mocracy everywhere, is the salvation
of the country; but while this is
true, we believe it also to be true that
there are with them, as with other
large bodies of men, a class known as
camp-followers whose “sole object ” is
the spoils. One of our objects is,
that this class in. the Democratic
camp shall continue in their posi
tion of “ Bummers,” and not be per
mitted to assume that of “Leaders.”
We say farther; we have a high ad
miration for the Thurmans, Hoff
mans, Blairs, Hancocks, McClellans,
Blacks, Voorhees, Brooks, Wood
wards, Adams, Coxes, Becks, Hen
dricks, Seymours of the Democratic
Party; perhaps a much higher admi
ration, as well as estimation, of tlie
statesmanship of some of them than
the Editors of the Advertiser. Few
living men stood higher in our esti
mation than the lamented Vallandig-
ham. Still we did not approve his
Dayton manifesto, modified as it was
and resorted to as it most probably
was, as a political strategic movement,
partly as a blind to the enemy, and
partly as a flank manoeuvre against
the real “new departure” pronuncia-
mento, concocted in New York, and
proclaimed in the 9th Resolution of J Watts & Co’s Liverpool Cotton CSrcu-
the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Con- ^® r » °* instant, says the excess in
.. ... ‘ , the visible supply over that of last year
vention. Be all that as it may, how- was on that date 351,236 bales. The
ever, it was, in onr opinion, an error week previous it ivas 406,630, and the
week before that 449,780. -Eignt_ weets
(From the Poems of Joaquin Miller, the new California
Poet.)
WALKEB.
“Ho was a brick and as brave as a boar;
As brave as Nevada’s grizzlies aro,
A Texan tigress in her lair.
Or any tion of anywhere;
Yet gentle as a panther is.
Sleuthing her young in her first fierce kiss.
And true of soul as the north-pole star;
Tall, courtly, grand as any king.
Yet simple as a child at play,
In camp and conrt the same alway,
And never moved at anything;
A dash of sadnes in his air,
Born, may be of his over care,
And, may bo, born of despair
In early love—I never knew;
I question not, as many do.
Of things as sacred as this is;
I only know that he to met
Was all a father, friend, could bo;
I sought to know no more than thta;.
Of history of him or his.’*
HIE DEATH.
Speak ill of him who will, he died!
In all disgrace; say of the dead
His heart was black, his hands were red;
Say this much,'and be satisfied;
Gloat over it all undenied;
I only sry that he to me,
Whatever he to others was,
Was truer far than any one
That I have known beneath the sun,
Man, maid, or saint, or Sadducee,
As boy or man for any cause—
I simply say he was my friend
When strong of hand and fair of fame;
Dead and disgraced, 1 stand the same
To him, and so shall to the end.
HIS GRAVE.
He lies low in the levell’d sand,
Unshelter’d from the tropic sun,
And now, of all he knew, not one
WiU speak of his fair in that far land;
Perhaps ’twasthis that made me seek.
Disguised, his grave one Winter-tide,
A weakness for the weaker side,
A siding with the helpless weak.
A palm not far held out a hand.
Hard by a long green bamboo swung;
And bent like some great bow unstrung.
And quiver’d like a willow wand;
Beneath a broad banana’s leaf,
Ferch’d on its fruits that crooked hung,
A bird in rainbow splendor sung
A15W, sad song of temper’d grief.
No sod, no sign, no cross or stone,
But at his side a cactus green
Upheld its lances long and keen;
It stood in hot red sands alone,
Flat-palm’d and fierce with lifted spears:
One bloom of crimson crown’d its head.
A drop of blood, so bright, so red,
Yet redolent as roses’ tears.
In my left hand I held a shell,
All rosy lipp'd and pearly rod;
I laid it by his lowly bed.
For he did love so pissing well
The grand songs of the s&emn sea.
Oh shell, sing well, wild, with a will.
When storms blow loud and birds be still.
The wildest sea-song known to thee!
I said some things, with folded hands.
Soft whisper’4 in the dim, sea sound.
And eyes held humbly to the ground.
And frail kueeaknit in the warm sands.
He had done more than this, for me, .
And yet I oonld not well do morel
in judgment on tlie part of a truly
great man, who was thoroughly de
voted, as wo believe, in heart and soul
to the cause of his country.
ago it was 657,000 bales. This shows a
gain in consumption equal to over forty
thousand bales a week, or at the rate of
more than two million bales a year.
When Judge Nixon opened the session
of the United States District Court at
Be further assured,, gentlemen, we
have no desire or inclination to write Trenton> N> j lBst week , the twenty-four
any platform for the Democracy. 'Ve|g rand jurors confronted him, weighing
wipit mi new platform written for j g,491 pounds,or an average of 270 pound*,
of the importance of preventing so them by anybody. Our whole soul is-The lightest was 160 and the heaviest 425
OF horrible, a catastrophe, 1 enlisted m urging
them not to abao- i>ouuds.