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An Important Pamphlet.
THE COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL
strength OF THE UNITED states.
AS SHOWN IN THE BALANCES OF
FOREIGN TRADE.—BY LORIN BLOD
GEf. PHILADELPHIA » KING At
BAIRD.
This is a brochure of remarkable ability. Its
purpose is to show the amplitude of the. .so-,
sources of the United to sustain the
fiscal burdens "oTtSe war, and to disprove
the assertions of thosa vrhc have predicted
the exhaustion ai. those resources. A, va
riety of statements are made, which surprise
by their unexpectedness, demonstrating an
increase of productive power during the war
which is beyond example. We offer a, brief
analysis of the .contents of this remarkable
pamphlet.
. The writer sets out with affirming that in
all the elements of material wealth, the pro
gress of the country during the war is beyond
all expectation! From his statement it would
appear that the exports of the country have
increased in value so largely since the com
mencement of the war, that the balan:e of
trade with Europe is greatly in favor of the
United States.
“Certainly the evidence should be most con
clusive, which would warrant the public or
the Government in accepting the present fac
titious and absurd price of gold as a measure
of-the depreciation of the currency, or of
the decline of real values in the* United
States. An annual balance of trade agaiust
the country of seventy-five to one hundred
millions yearly, cou.d not in five years pro
duce consequences warranting such relative
prices. No Other cause or process of ex
haustion exists, Jfo reason exists for reduc
ing the dollar toha.fits usual value, or for
rating lands, houses, and other property at a
value not above half that they bore in 1860.
Yet either this conclusion mußt be accepted,
or the assumption that the price of gold is
now the measure ©f ail values must be re
jected. The fact is that in foreign trade
there is no balance against the country, and
there has been none for years. On the con
trary, forsix years past the balance of ex
changes with all foreign couniries ba9 been
uniformly in favor of the United States, and
this by steadily increasing sums; It-has been
larger since the war began than be fare, and
It was larger in 1363 than in any year since
the foundation of the Government, reaching
nearly the ium of eighty millions of dollars
The writer is aware that many pei&ons
will express decided increduility At this
statement, but the corrected official statistics
of the British government as well as those cl
the United S'ales* • Which here follow, are
conclusive against all cavil. They s'ubstanti
ally agree also, except in the higher sum
which the British tables give as the balance
in our favor—an beverage difference of ten
or twelve miliums of dollars yearly."
Here the writer' has not expressed himself
with sufficient precision of language. He
speaks as if the price of gold was identical
With the depreciation of the currency. He
is opposed 1 to “rating lands, houses, and other
property at a value not above half that they
bore in I860," but whatever mode.of valua
tion wc may adopt as regard# property with
in the limits of the United' States, in valuing
the exports to foreign countries, specie must
be made the basis of valuation. Most assuredly
if the imports are valued in gold so. .must
the exports. It was not difficult to make
the * balance in our favor eighty millions
of dollars, when the impoits are valued in
gold, and the exports in a depreciated cur
rency. In a subsequent pari of his pamph
let, the author states the value of the ex
ports for the fiscal years 1862-3 and 1863-4
at $44,684,635, and “the average amount tx-
Cess oi exports, in gold value, at $28,827,950
for the four years from 1860 to 1865. There
is a great difference between these sums and
millions, being the difference of valuing
our exports in cold,, and valuing-them in. a
depreciated currency. * •
The writer says “ tho evidence should be
most conclusive' which would warrant the
public or the government in accepting the
present factitious and absurd price of gold as
a measure of the depreciation of the curren
cy-” When this was written gold was per
haps at its highest price.
It Is'now quoted at 1413-4. In the ab
sence of causes which produce speculation
a.,0 fluctuation in gold—-these causes being
mihtMry reverses or successes—the price of
gold it the measure of the depreciation of
currency. The price of gold now being
-4, the depreciation of the currency is
L ;' J °ut-thirty per eent. It precisely measures
taat depreciation when neither political or
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 18*55.
military events lead to speculation in it.
The writer states that the exports steadily
increased from 1854-55 to 1862-3, its aver
age for the iast two years, the worst, of the
war, being $57,800,000 each year. Its aver
age for the two years preceding the war,
1858-59 and 1859-60, being $28,000,000 each
year only, and for the last period of six years
►the total excess of exports is $260,484,570.
an annual average of $43,314,095; and for
the last three years an annual average of
$54,161,204.
“This is the simple face of the commercial
statement. It includes, of course, the mu
tual exchanges of gold, and it does not in
clude that exchange of values technically
known as exchange remittances. This last
account is large; it covers the interest aud
dividends payable abroad, on whatever ac
count they may be held, whether railroad
stocks and bonds, or State, municipal, and
United States securities. It also caunot
cover the transmission hero for sale of any
such securities, and thn remittance of ex
change drawn against produce shipments in
payment lor them; which is, so far as the
foreign creditor is concerned, the final pay
ment of the debt."
This shows how imperfect an idea is, con
veyed of our indebtedness abroad or of the
indebtedness of foreign countries to us, by a
mere naked statement of exports and imports.
It should bo remarked, however, that if
money is remitted to the United States from
abroad to be invested in any of our securities
should equal the interest and dividends pay
able on our securities hold abroad, the ac
count being balanced, the exports and im
ports would afford, approximately, a correct
measure of our foreign trade.
Iu whatever light this exchange of gold
aud silver is regarded, the state of trade is
still favorable to the United States. If count
ed as merchandise, it increases the balance in
our favor for every year except 1861. In
fact the natural movement of gold is toward
England as the ceutral point of the world’s
exchanges, ac* going from the United States
i is legitim t* merchandise: but in going
uom Englauu .t is such in lar less degree,and
might, in fact, then be regarded as a payment
of differences such as 'we pay' in exchange
uow, and paid in gold before we were pro
ducers of gold. From England it is an ex
hausting draiu, while from the United States
it is not, because the Uuited States produce
vast quantities of gold.
In the face ot these enormous annual dif
ferences between the values sent to England
from the United States, and those sent to the
United States from England, it is not easy to
see how danger can be apprehended, or why
great fear should be expressed of commer
cial exhaustion. Any assumption that past
debt 9 exist there, the discharge of which re
quires the shipment of all oar gold and all
our surplus wealth is utterly uufounded.—
Trade nominally to and from England is un
doubtedly largely of the character of transit
trade through British ports to other markets,
but the adjustment of balances is in England,
and the statistics here given represents the
aggregate of ggueral commerce with a reas
onable approximation to accuracy.
Tho writer here alludes to the large quan
tities of gold shipped from the United States
The products of California are not embraced
in those tables of the exports, or they are so
blended with the export of gold and .silver
made for other purposes, to. pay balances,
<sc., that the public is deceived, imagining if
the export is large that the balance of trade
is greatly against the country. The" gold of
Oal'.fornia is as much the product of her soil
as the cotton of Carolina or the wheat of New
York is the product of the soils of those
States. The excess beyond her wants is the
surplus beyond lieFown requirements.
It will be seen that the average annual ex
cess of gold exported from the United States
to England, the six years before and during
the war ($22,700,106) if included in the gen
eral exports, that the exports and import!!,
both being estimated in gold, will nearly
balance each other. . '
The writer, in relation to the large quanti
ties of gold going out iu the last two years
from California to England, states that it is
simply a diversion of large sums from their
usual course when leaving San Francisco,
the gold being taken to London from the
Isthmus and not to New York. The expla
nation, no doubt, of this fact is that the
danger by capture,by. our cruisers, of the Cal
ifornia ships, has occasoned the diversion.
But the most interesting part of this pam
phlet is the information it contains, as to the
increase of productive power of the North
ern, Northwestern and pastern States since
the commencement of the war. Tho author
has compared the qualities produced be
tween 1339-60 and 1862-3. The results are
truly startling. It is out of our power to
copy tho details. We can only present a
summary of some of the results.
Total excess of grain and flour, in bushels,
53,824,072.
lotal excess of meats and like animal pro
ducts, pounds, 458,791,639.
Total excess of oils, gallons, 29,948,405.
Total excess of spirits, gallons, 3,298,195.
Approximate tonnage in excess, 3,845,-
267,293 pounds; equal to 1,716,766 tons (of
2,240 pounds.)
The importance of this increase is most
strikingly shown by comparing the quanti
ties of these articles exported in 1859-60,
with the increase:
Total weights of these exports in 1859-60,
-1,246,388,944 pounds, or 556,423 tons.
Total weight of these exports in 1862-63,
5.091,655,936 pounds, or 2,273,060 tons.
' Increase, 3,845,267,293
461 pounds more than three times the entire
export of these articles in 1859-60.
*** * * *
An exact comparison of the values of ex
ports of United States produce from the loyal
States, from 1860 to 1863, is not practicable,
but by excluding the trade of port® subse
quently closed by the rebellion from the ac
count of 1860 and 1861, a close approxima
tion to the true account will be obtained. A
share of northern products was always ex
ported at New Orleans, and, to a small ex
tent, at other southern ports; but a share of
the staples of the States now in rebellion was
also sent to foreign markets through northern
ports. ' Simply separating the exports at
ports subsequently closed from tho returns
of exports for 1860 and 1861, the increased
surplus oi the loyal States is as follows:
DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF LOYAL STATES.
In 1859-60, sl73,7s9,CfiA'N. Increase over 1800.
In 1860-61 201,651,554 \~v'527,891.890
In 1861-62 213,069,519 39,309,855
In 1862-63 305,884,998 132,125.334
The increase is 76 per cent, in 1863 upon
the exports of 1860, and the total value reach
ed is but little short of the value of the ex
ports when cotton, rice aud naval stores
made up nearly $200,000,000 in value of the
total. These three articles were exported in
1859-60 to tho value of $196,343,596 in a
total of $373,789,274, theu the largest to
which the domestic exports of tho United
States had ever attained.
The leading fact presented, which will
attract the attention of Political Economists,
is the great increase cf productive power
daring a destructive intestine conflict, wast
ing both capital aud population. All wars
are more or less attended by a loss of pro--
ductive power. Those who consume, aud
consume wastefully, do not aud cannot re
produce the value they consume. Unless,
therefore, there is au energy infused into
those who are not withdrawn from industri
ous pursuits, to compensate for the lqss of
productive labor, theory and experience
concurring, it is scarcely possi
ble to conceive that there would be a large
increase of material wealth during a destruc
tive war, Yet such appears to have been
the fact.
In a supplement is embraced the quanti
ties exported in 1863, and for the first half
year of 1864. They bear to the previous
years a still higher proportion. Among the
exports Petroleum has a large space. The
value exported in 18.63 was $10,664,379. In
1860 it scarcely existed as a product of ex
changeable value. In 1864 the value was
$19,421,452.
The quantities of tobacco are maintained
in an extraordinary degree, In view of the
fact that nearly two-thirds of the export of
1860 came from the Confederate States. As
was to have been expected, cott.on, rice and
naval stores show a marked and large loss or
quantities in the exports. The writer lias
extended his researches to the state of the
tonnage in steamboats and on interior lines
of railroads in the respective States, showing
an increase fully commensurate with that of
the productions of the country.
The following remarks which close the
pamphlet are very striking in this aspect of
the subject: ,
“Generally, the production of articles of
prime necessity as supplies to theextentliere
shown, aud the export of these vast quanti
tics as the national surplus at such a time, is
without parallel or precedent iu the history
of nations. The list of articles here cited is
a small and incomplete one. taking only
such 'as represent the general condition, its
was explained in the previous citation of the
quantities exported. The army in the field
tluring this period exceeded any army of
modern times, and it might be supposed not
only to require all the supplies of this char
acter the country could at any time produce,
but it would reasonably be anticipated that
stores of provisions would be required for
other nations. Instead of this requirement,
however, the surplus sent abroad rose stead
ily in magnitude from ibe beginning of the
war forward, and in the closing months of
1864 the excess of the export over the im
port trade would more nearly imply that all
Europe was at war, aud that the United
States were devoted to the trade in supplies
•which such wars have heretofore demanded,
than that war at homo was trying the nation
al resource*, diverting the industry of the
country, and absorbing all the supplies that
tho people left to pursue such industry
throughout the country could produce." ***
The Art of Committ-wo SuicibK —This
forenoon I met a couple ‘of children of ten
der years walking about, each with two min
iature swords stuck in their waist-sash, indi
cating that when they grew up they will have
the privilege of wearing two swords. It ap
pears that amongst the arm bearing section
of the population, the children, from the ear
liest years that they are capable of being in
structed, are taught not only the use of the
sword, but also tho most genteel and ap
proved method of committing suicide by
Harra Kiru. It is considered vulgar to per
form it as a mere rude process of disembow
elling by ripping themselves up. A certain
limit is assigned to the abdominal incision,
which is usually made with the short sword,
in a transverse direction. The actual depri
vation of life is effected either by the person
himself wounding the great blood vessels of
ttie throat, or having his head struck off by
an attendant after he has recognized the ob
ligation of committing suicide by personally
milking the abdominal
British Arms in China and Japat.
Evidence discloses that there were ten con
spirators in the assassination plot; that at a
meeting held in Memphis they selected by lot
the assassin of the President. Our authori
ties have a letter which says:
“It becomes your happy lot to destroy this
tyrant. You can select the cup, the blade or
the bullet: but you know the cap has once
been tried and failed ”
Important Arrest*
Transactions of a Notorious Swindler in Phila
delphia— Checks on New York Banks, s•€.
[From the Philadelphia Press, May 2.]
An elderly man, who, from all accounts,
has passed a very large portion of his time
in Eastern prisons, was arraigued yesterday
afternoon at the Central Station on the charge
of obtaining three sewing machines under
false pretences from the Florence Company,
on Chesnut street, on Sunday. He lias as
many aliases as would fill a clever sized vol
ume. His right name is said to be Hale, a
noted horse thief, hailing from the State of
Maine. This business he carried on for many
years, and was frequently incarcerated for
short terms oi‘ t’nreo months or six months,
occasionally getting a year. His career in
that State is marked with hairbreadth es
capes aud deeds of daring worthy a better
profession. He is pleasant in speech, and
every way qualified by mature, as well as
education, to push auy nefarious business
transaction.
He is the same mm who passed a forged
or bogus check of $1,500 upon Johu G. Til
ney, storekeeper, near Fourth and Market
streets, on the 22d of December last, for
goods ; but, the fraud being detected, he es
caped. This check was signed AVm. R.
Roche. The affair, however, led to the ar
rest of Wm. D Parker, a bartender at Davis’
hotel, foot of Market street. After several
hearings Parker was discharged, it being ev
ident that he was innocent of any felonious
knowledge of the transaction Tne swindler
escaped tho vigilance of the police force, but
in a short time he was traced to the “Tombs”
in New York, on some other charge grow
ing out of his rascality. It was thought by
the police of Philadelphia that, as lie was
already arrested iu New York on the charge
of parsing a bogus check there, it was un
necessary to pursue him further. Roche, of
course, was forgotten. He now appears as
George W. Douglass, alias William Moore.
From tho evidence adduced it seems that on
Saturday last he stopped at the Florence
Sewing Machine Company, on Chestnut St.,
and purchased a buttonhole machine for the
sum of one hundred and twenty-fire dollars.
He said that he also bad an order for two
cabinet machines for ladies, and after exam
ining several, selected two, and ordered them
to be sent to his hotel ou Market street, West
Philadelphia. Tho threo machines, valued
at $376, were sent as directed, and lie gave a
check on the Philadelphia National Bauk.
This document, after being presented, was
pronounced bogus, and measures were adopt
ed at once to recover the sewing machines
and arrest the swindler. It was naturally
thought the fellow would take a western
train; but instead of that he sent the goods
to tho New York depot, and taking pa c sage
in the train, arrived at Trenton, JT. J., on
Saturday evening, to which place lie was
traced. Ho was' arrested there yesterday
morning, and brought to this city. The ma
chines were recovered. Upon searching
him a memorandum book was found in his
coat pocket. It contained a number of check
blanks, and also fourteen checks.
The checks are all bogus, and, as a general
thing, the par ies named in thtw urn business
men in New York. The persons from whom
the machines were purchased on Saturday
took a good look at him yesterday, and
thought ho recognized him as Hale,-who was
arrested and scut.toThomaßton, Maine, more
than a year since, for horse stealing. When
the defendant called at the store on Saturday
to purchase tho sewing machin-:s, the attend
ant there, now Jbe principal witness against
him, thought he bad seen him before, but
did not kuow where to place him. Upon
close scrutiny yesterday he was sure that he
was Hale, the horse thief, who had been
pointed out to him. The witness communi
cated his suspicions to the detectives, and
one of them directed him to speak Suddenly
to him; to call liiin by his name, and appear
surprized to see him.
The witness did so. Ho entered the
Rogues’ Gallery, where tho alleged* swindler
was seated, and said:
“Why, Hale, how are you?”
Thi addressed individual looked astonish
ed for a moment, and colored up in the face.
Using a very profane remark, be turned his
bac;q aud seemed lost in thought.
He was committed lor a further hearing,
at which Mr. Parker, the bar tender, will ap
pear to identify him in the transaction of last
December. —•
Aim at Something.— Arthur Gilman,in one
of bis public addresses, tells what he calls
“an Andover story.’’ One day, he says, a
mau went into a store here, and began tell
ing about a fire. “There had never been
such a fire," he said, “in the county of Es
sex. A man going by Deacon Pettingill s
barn saw an owl on the ridge pole. He fired
at the owl, and the wadding somehow or
other getting into the shingles, set the hay 08
flrc,and it was all destroyed—ten tons of hay,
six head of cattle, the finest horse in the
country. &c.” The deacon was nearly crazed
by it. The men in the store began exclaim
ing and commenting upon it. “What a 10-s!"
««ys one. “Why, the deacon wiil well nigh
break down under it,".say9 anotner. And so
tney went on speculating one after another,
and the conversation drifted on In ad sorts of
c .njcctures. At last a quiet man, who sat
spitting in the fire, looked up and aske I
“Did he hit the otolf ’ That man was P >r get
ting at the point of the taing. Let all puude
speakers, in the pulpit and elsewhere,-heed
the moral. Did you aim at something, and
did you bit what you aimed at ? No matter
about the splurge, and the smoke, and the ;
bay—“ Did you hit that owl ?”
Printing in Japan.—A Gaiiioruia printer,
who has been to Japan, says that though
working entirely by hand, using no kind ol
press in their printing, the Japanese printers
execute many descriptions of work equal to
what is done in some portions ot Europe.—
Among the specimens he has brought hack,
says the San Francisco Flag, is a really spir
ited picture of the entrance of the Great
£ (Stern into New York harbor, copied from
Frank Leslie's pictorial of the event. This
picture IS well printed in colors, is nearly
thirty inches square, ancl is formed of Six
parts. Each part must have required *1 least
half a dozen blocks to print, it, Each has
been so closely adjusted that the joints .
not discernible.
PRICE. 5 CENTS
From Harper's Magazine for February.
THE BALLAD OF ISHMAEL DAY.
A ran v naßeAtive
One summer morning' a daring band
Os rebels rode Into Mar yland-
Over the prosperous. peaceful farms,
.Seeding tenor and strange aiarms.
The glitter of hoofs and the clang of arms.
Fresh from the South, where the hungry pine.
They ate like Pharaoh’s starving kine :
They swypt the land like devouring surge.
Aud left their path, to its furthest verge,
tare as the track of the locust scourge
‘•The rebels are coming,•• far and near
Rang the ti lingß of dread arud fear ;
Some piles, and cow rSrl, and sought to hide—
Home t-tood.erect in their fearless pride—
Aud women shuddered snd children cried.
But others—vipers in tinman form,
Stinging the i>usom that kept them warm—
Welcomed with triumph the thievish hand
Harried to offer the friendly hand.
As the rebels rode into Maryland..
Made them merry with food and wine
Clad them iu garments rich and fins, ‘
For r gs ana Hunger to amends •
Flattered them, praised them, with selfish sods.
“Leave us scatheless, for we are friends 1
Could traitors trust to a traitor T No l
Little they favored friend or foe, - *
But gathered the cattle the farms across.
FMqglng back, with a scornful t<>ss *
“If ye are friends, ye can hear the loss 1"
Flatbed with triumph, and wine, and wer -
Thev neared the dwelling of Isbmaet l)av-
A sturdy voteran, gray and old, •
With heart of a patriot, firm and bold.
Strong and steadiest—unbribed, unsold.
And Tshmael Day, his bravo head bare,
His white locks tossed by the morning air.
Fearlesa 01 danger, or da ith, or scars,
Went out to raise by the farm-yard bars,
The year old flag of the Stripes and Stars.
Frondly, steadily np it flaw,
Gorgeous with crimson, and whits and bins'
Hia withered hand as hs shook It freer
May have trembled, but not with fear.
While shouting, the rebels drew more near.
“Halt'." They had seen the hated sign
Floating from old Ishmael's lice—
“ Lower that rag." was their wrathful cry '
“Never i" rung Ishmael Day’s reply: -
“Fire, if It please you—l can but die'!”
One. with a loud, defiant laugh,
Left hia comrades aud neared the staff
“Down I" came the fearless patriot's cry_
“Dare to lower that flag and .die I .
One must blead for it—you or Ii"
fiat caring not for the stern command.
He drew tne halliards with dariug hand •
Plug 1 went the ride bail—down he came
Under the Uag he tried to shams—
Old Ishmael Day took careful aim t
' Seventy winters anti three have shed
Their snowy glories ou Ishmael's head t
But though cheeks may wither and 'locks grow
grey, •
His fame shall be fresh and young alwav—
Honor be to old I-hmael Day! *
■' 1 ■' — 1 ■ '
A South Carolina Her i — -There was a
man in Charleston, Nelson Mitchell by name,
who died about eight mouths ago, leaving, I
believe, a with and two children poor and uu
carcdi'or. From ihe beginning he has rea
i «>ne'd with the people, and that openly,
i about the rebellion. Twice he was seutenc
! ed to be hung by a secret military commis
sion, .but the authorities never could find a
inau to do the work. A lawyer by profes
sion and an anti-slavery man by education,
be undertook a task which ought ever to
make his memory honoied by the negroes
aud those interi stvd in their condition. After
the unsuccessful assault upon Wagner, in
July, 1863, a military court was convened to
try the black prisoners captured from the
54th Massachusetts regiment.
It was decided, alter some delay, that mil*
itary. courts had no jurisdiction in the case,
aud that the matter should be handed over to
tie State. Mitchell volunteered as counsel
for the men, and after five months’ trial he
gained his point and convinced a South Car*
olina jury that these men were tree. To do
this you cauiinagiue how fearlessly tills
brave soul must have worked. An intelli
gent quadroon t6ld me that he was present
during tho last ten or twelve sessions, and .
that Hitchers eloquence was perfectly start
ling ; at any rate, it had the effect of awake
ning the jury so much to the importance of
the deci-ion, that I suppose they were really
i irig itened into a favorable verdict. He has
never been publicly mentioned at Charleston
; since then, except in very doubt fill terms.—
They did not dare to touch him. because he
seemed to be so thoroughly in earnest, and
be died from the effect of poverty and want.
Every night, before going ty bed, Nelson
Mitchell took his wife aud children to his
room, ancl, after having locked the door and
shut tbs blinds, hung au American flag over
the mantle, and sat by it in conversation with
bis family. The evening that he died, bis
house was struck by one of our shells from '
Cummings’ Point, and liis family thus left
more destitute than ever. They are being
very well looked after now, and I dont
tbink will be allowed to suffer much hereaf
ter. F»r all this service he had the displea
sure of tho authorities and tho coldness cf
the people; but the way in which the m-groes
talk of him is very tender. Nothing can be
added to this simple narrative. Among all
Soctli Carolinians we have ever heard of Nel
son Mitehe l al<>dq •eem* truly ohivaiy.c.—
’ Through all the intoier tble g isconad#' and 1
I inhuman sophistry of the State, his
I plea tor the black prisoner- is the sole enno
| Wing sound.— Harver’s Weekly.
An Humble Rebel.— We often hoar of
repentant rebels, but the following from the
Nashville Union shows that there is £uch a
ttdng as an humble one: “We met recently
wi h a gentleman from the country, who in
18 Jl me ft rebel, and a very wa m o e. Tak
ing tho si art of us, .he. said: "Fou need not
ask me if Ive got my rights ip the territo
ries. I rather think I have. ButXkavn't a
npgro. worth a c*Et on my farm. I don t care
if I never see afiOther. I’m humble, not
I after the Uriah Heap -tyle f but realty hum
ble. Humiliated in the very dust to think
that I once gave my influence to drag Ten
nessee into rebellion against a government
that ever afforded me protection and never
did me an injury. I am truly penitent; not
a bit of the rebel is left in mer I rather
think I would give my life willingly, gladly,
i to heal the wounds of my country aud re
, store her prosperity and happiness; and I
1 will add, were I permuted to vote, I would
j consider it the grca.test pxiviiege l ever en
| joyed to cast my suffrage for making Tences
:s e for over and ever a free Smie. That’s
my position.’ Here our Old friend ran out of
breath, and we got a.cbance to gfve him V
i word of comfort and consolation.’*
