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CON STITUTIO K A LIST
THE POLITICAL. JORDAN.
Th« hard road for a Southern representa
tive to travel is the road to Con grew via Hint <
precarious ponto m—the Test Oattr.r Every I
man fit to speak or act far «Ms aectio* >rs in- ’
volved, more or less, in 'tlie difficulty it pro- 1
sents. We have, in tanner articles, demon- f
strated that the imposition of this oath was '
unconstitutional ; a war measure when ti e
law was silent and inoperative. Now that (
the war has ceased, this objectionable with (
should be annulled ; now that Constitutional
law is, or ought to be, paramount, its cancel
lation is demanded on every ground of justice (
and policy. If the friends of ltestoration ui o
really in earnest, they should act as if they
truly coveted the object of their minds. This
matter has been resurrected by a perusal of
certain resolutions adopted at the Cooper In
stitute mass meeting. These resolutions were
mainly correct, but fatally marred by the fol
lowing clause:
Resolved. That therefore, we desire to see
the restoration of practical and constitutional
relations between all the States and the Fed
eral government at the earliest practicable pe
riod, and to that end we favor the admission
into Congress of all loyal representatives from
the States lately in rebellion who were fairly
elected and can take the oath presceibed by
Congress as a test of unswerving lovaby
through all the pressure and peril of the Re
bellion.
Any one can take in at a glance the insu
perable harrier of such a stipulation and, re
garding it as simply an infraction of the Con
stitution —for which we want no better au
thority than the President’s affirmation of the
right of the present representatives to iheir
seats—we can best display its inconsistency
by another resolution immediately following :
Resolved, That the Constitution is at once,
our charter and defense ; no magistrate can
go beyond it; no department of the govern
ment, however powerful, legislative or execu
tive, is permitted to transcend it; and however
benovolent or otherwise meritorious a measure
may be, if it be not within the powers granted
by the Constitution it cannot lie adopted, and
we insist that every one of our public servants
shall conform to the will of the w iole peop'e
as manifested in the great organic act, which
is antecedent and superior to the government
itself.
Precisely so. Nothing can be more satis
factory. Repeal she law that Ims gone be
yond the Constitution, no matter how merito
rious in a state of war, and force the pub ic
servants to “conform to the will of the win le
people as manifested in the great organic
act.” The sword was unsheathed for the res
toration of the Union ; the sword has per
formed its work. The people demand resto
ration ; remove the lieintious Test Oath, which
is the only barrier to Union. Men practi
cally loyal knock at the doors of Congress for
admission, and the President admits the in
tegrity of their claim ; away with the ob
stacle and prove the honesty of your faith in
pacification!
It may he safely assumed that so lout' us
this miserable ordeal of a Test Oath remains,
so long will the country be distracted and di
vided. Faith withont works is dead ; de ire
without manifi station is ridiculous Until
this illegal and arb’trary enactment be ic
pealed, the whole machinery of governm nt
is at a dead-lock, and all invitations for the
Bouth to come are just so many pretexts to
force her away. We have done many biUer
things for the sake of Restoration ; impossi
bilities are not in the hue of achievement.
This injudicious, unconstitutional and incon
sistent Oath can best be recorded as some
wag characterised the Calvanistic creed :
“You would mid you could,
You shall and you shan’t,
You will and you won’t;
You’ll be damned, if you do,
And be damned if you don’t !”
Wherefore, since the Test Oath has ceased
to be of any benefit, having been begotten in
passion and ilf-begot; since its scope and de
sign are contrary to right, justice and the
Constitutional pact; since, it is an impene
trable embargo upon Republican institutions
and the Union of States; since, its continuance
creates an incompatible state of affairs—its
repeal is respectfully demanded by the South
in the interest of good government and by en
dorsement of the President. That it will
finally he abrogated, we confidently predict. ;
how much hotter to do quiekly what could he
done so well.
EPITHETS AND EPITAPHS.
John Keals, the poet, is said to have been
killed by a gruff review ; we all know how
effectually the Lt. General put a death’s head
upon Beast Butler by exhibiting him as an
imp tightly corked in a bottle. Wherefore,
although haunted vainly by stolen spoons, he
was, at length, slaughtered, officially and po
litically, by "an epithet—the word Bottle
being his tombstone forever. The President,
not to be outdone by his doughty warrior,
has subjected poor Forney to the excruciating
rack of an epitheticnl epitaph. Hencefor
ward he must be known as a “ dead duck."
Right well does he deserve this word pluck
ing, for Uriah Heap never equaled his syco
phancy nor Proteus his chameleon metnnoor
phases. Bottle Imp Butler and Dead Duck
Forney —arcades ambo 1 It is a thousand
pit'es that Barnum is across the pond ; never
did such a chanc3 exist, for the collection of
an unhappy family. In the case of John
Keats, posterity has reversed the dictum of
the critic ; we positively refuse to credit any
generation that liberates Butler from his bo1t,!o
or galvanises Forney even with the thin sem
blance of life recorded of Job’s turkey or the
most consumptive di-dappor.
The Freedmen’s Bureau to Continue
one lfear Longer.
Major General 0. 0. Howard, Commissioner
of the Freedmen’s Bureau, has addressed the
following circular letter to each of his assistant
commissioners :
War Department, 1
Bureau or R, F. and A. L„ j-
Washington, D. C-, February 23. )
General : Anticipating the excitement that
will necessarily follow the action of the gov
ernment with regard to the new freedmeu’s
bill, you may feel somewhat embarrassed in
the duties devolving upon you under the laws
and regulations already existing.
That you may act steadily and firmly in the
emergency you must be prepared for an in
creased hostility on the part of those who have
so persistently hindered and troubled you and
your agents, and may be an increased rest
lessness amongst the freedmen.
The President has assuied the Commissioner
that he regards the present law as continuing
the existence of the Bureau at least a year from
this time.
Please ascertain end report what steps have
been taken iD your district by the State uud
municipal authorities to provide for the abso
lutely indigent aud suffering refugees and
freedmen that have been and are being throwu
upon the general government for support.—
Continue to use every possible effort- to find
good homes lor orphan minora who are depend
ent and reduced by means of employment
offices in the different cities aud villages—
aiding the unemployed to find homes and places
of labor.
You have succeeded in allaying strife, set
tling labor and promoting education in the
midst of great difficulties. Continue with the
utmost energy and ability to pursue the same
course, so as to demonstrate to the people of
your district the good intentions of the govern
ment and the complete practicability of the
system of free labor. Give a thorough in
spection of every agent for whom you are re
sponsible.
Immoralities, oorruption, neglected duty, and
incapacity are sometimes complained of against
officers and agents of this Bureau. If either of
these charges be sustained on investigation, the
guilty agent will be at once removed, whether
he can be replaced or not.
Thanking you heartily forth® energyand
fidelity you have thus fqf tfrigplayed,
missioner is pleased to *n YTnwxtaring
confidence in your ability to cope with any new
difficulty that may arise.
Yery respectfully,
Yonr obedient servant,
O. O. Howard,
Major General, Commiaaionar.
Pen-and-ink Sketches of Legislators.
[From our own Correspondent.]
HOK. o. l. smith:* ~
olie gentlemans whops earns Mads tbk briel't
sketch ts the Senator flfom the Utb die mot
Be was in Greene county* and ip,about
45 years of age. Hi was graduAted at Emory
College, and held aVProfessorship TIT Hrfil in-
Htitution frpui LtpO. HI w.paf. suhsc
quently a Prst«so<s hrl*Mw*eleyj£».'F*ykl#
College from 1861 to 1863, and was President
of that institution from 1853 to 1899. Since
that time he has lived on his farm in Southern
Georgia. In 1861 and '62 he represented
Brooks in the lower branch of the Gentra!
Assembly, and in 1866 was elected to the po
sition be now fills so creditably to himself and
with so much usefulness to the State. Mr
Smith is a minister of the Gospel, of the Meth
odist Episcopal persuasion. In personal up.
pearance he is as much unlike a preacher as
any man I know to be one. The stranger,
looking at his carriage, bis slou 'h hat, and
peeping under the rim at a pair of bright,
quizzical eyes, and marking his rough, untu
tored whiskers and moußtache, just putting in
the hues of winter, would hardly take h m
to be an expounder of the Divine Law.—
But looks are always more or less deceiving,
and in this case very much so, for he is a con
sistent and truly good Christian gentleman
His life is blameless and his walk altogether
pleasant and lovely. But it is as a Senator I
have most to do with Mr. Smith at this time.
He is not a brilliant orator, but a close and
clear thinker, and a forcible and impressive
speaker, addressing himself to the merits of the
question under consideration lather than to
the effect of his words or the manner of his
delivery on the listening Senate or gallery.—
He is attentive to business and is perhaps the
most laborious member of the Senate. His
duties as chairman of the Enrolling Committee
are very onerous, but are discharged with zeal
! and fidelity. Hia humor and cheerfulness .en
der him popular among his brother Senators
on the floor or iu committee, and when the
. spirit moves, he takes from the quiver of bis
. wit an arrow, which, when let fly, is sure to
I hit its object and bring down the game. He
I is courteous and affable ib his manners, social
1 and genial in his disposition, and warm arid
geneious in his riendship. The public good
seems to be his chief concern as a legislator.
Despising the crafty machinations of the time
serving politician, he his guided in all that Lie
does by the instincts of a virtuous patriotism
and by a pure and lofty ambition which knows
no selfish ends.
COL. CLAIBORNE SNEAD.
Turn over a leaf of my album of Legislative
Photographs and you will wish to liDger long
in pleasing contemplation of the picture be
fore you, that of Col. Claiborne Snead, the
young Representative from Richmond. His
features are very fair, but handsome and man
ly. expressive of much strength of will and
firmness of purpose. When at rest, his light
blue eyes has a thoughtful and rather melan
choly expression, but when aroused, it flashes
with meteoric brightness. I never knew a
face which more distinctly indicated tHe varied
emotions which agitate the breast. The stern
wrinkles of th“ contracted brow relax in a
moment, and » bland and eood-humored
smile usurps th*- place of bis former fixed and
determined aspect. Should bis ear perchance
to catch a word of passing praise, modest
blushes suffuse his face, as refined and delicate
as the roseate tints which mantle the maiden’s
cbetk. In stature he is about 5 feet nine inches
high, spare built., of graceful figure and car
riage, and very neat and select in his dress,
hut, “ not gaudily expressed ” Among the la
dies he is considered very handsome, and is a
general favorite. This may serve to explain
why his seat is vacant when bright eyes “with
heau'y beaming’’ glisten in the gallery of the
House. Colonel Snead is a native of the city
and county he represents, and the very large
vote which be received upon the occasion of
bis election was a just tribute to bis higb moral
and intellectual worth. In the begtnuing
of the second great struggle for independence
be entered the service as lieutenant in one of
the many companies which his city equipped
for the field. Hss skill and courage in the
lace of the enemy displaced older commissions,
aud he roso to the rank of colonel of the 3d
Georgia regiment. It were better for our
cause had this rule ieen more generally ob
seived, and that Ices of promotion from more
personal favoritism had characterized the ad
ministration at Richmond. Napoleon placed
the eigntf of his approval only upon the brow
of those whose prowess and military skill upon
’the battle-field avouched their merit. Hence,
amocg his marshals we find a galaxy of gen
erals better tji*n ivhora the world never knew.
From a becoming sense of propriety, as well
as native modesty, Col. Snead has so far par
ticipated but little in the debates of the House,
but in the few efforts which he has made, has
exhibited a high order of intellect and a grace
ful elocution which, added to a fascinating ad*
dress, justify the lively expectations of his
friends, that a rich field of usefulness and
honor lies before him.
TnE Great Johnson Meeting at New York
—Tn pursuance of a call signed by William C.
Bryant, George Opdyke, Thurlow Weed and
other prominept citizens of New York, a large
Hnd enthusiastic prtblic meeting was held at
the Cooper Institute en the night of the 22d
February, of the citizens of that city, “who
sustained the national authority in tho war
against the South, who approved she general
principles announced by the President in his
aunutd message to Congress, aud also in his
recent veto message, and who earnestly des.re |
to prorrote harmony in the public councils of
the country, to the end that full constitutional
relations between the Federal government and
all the States in the Union may bo speedily and
happily established.' 1
Secretary Seward, Gov. Dennison, Hon. Hen
ry J. Raymond and other prominent members
of the Republican party, made speeches in
favor qf President Johnson’s restoration policy,
aud took issue with the Radicals, on account
of their opposition to the admission of South
ern Representatives to Congress. The princi
ciples promulgated by the President in h:s
annual message, as well as those contained in
his veto message of the Freedmen’s Bureau
bill, were sustained and warmly endorsed both
by bold resolutions and eloquent speeches.
The whole tone of the proceedings are de
nunciatory of the Radical party in Congress,
and eulogistic of the conservatism of the Pres
ident. As an evidence of the popular senti
ment of the great city of NeW York, represent
ing alike the views of prominent Republicans
and Democrats, the address, resolutions and
speeches plainly indicate that the President
will be sustained by the great mass of the peo
ple in the Northern States, who are already
sick and tired of hearing the brayings of po
litical Jacobins in Congress—men who bel
lowed for the press rvation of the Union ouring
the past five years, bqt who are belieing their
frothy protestations by their works. Now
that toe war 13 over, they would throw in
surmountable obstacles in the way of restora
tion, by ostracising our people and confisca
ting their property. In this, however, they
will be defeated, as the people of the North
are moving, and coming to the support of the
President.
These popular demonstrations are the best
evidence of the growing streng: h of our cause,
and indicate that pro long the Union will be
practically restored by the admission of South
ern Representatives and the restoration of all
onr rights, personal and political, which the
Constitution guarantees to every sovereign
State.
The New York News says of the meeting at
Cooper Institute :
“The speech of Mr. Seward was well receiv
ed by the immense meeting. The declaration
in favor of ths admission of the mem
bers to their seats in the Senate and House was
received with the intensest manifestations of
delight; while his allusions to the manifest
- destiny of this country to embrace the coati-
J nent, eljcited almost fquAT applause.
“After the Secretary pf State haA concluded
his speech,' the Postmaster General, Mr. Den
nison, spoke, defendifgfvitk great adjjity the
veto of the freedmenßureau bill. The con
cluding speech was made by the Honorable Mr.
Raymond, who was greeted upon hi# appear
ance on the sand. and repeatedly during his
speech, by the enthusiastic applause of ihe
meeting.
“Wehiil with delight this unmistakable
Proani estatiou of ttjie purpose of the pcrmlo of
New York to sustflnUie President in
to defend the Constitution against the acsaults
of the Radicals and to perpetuate our (epub
lican|U>stitutiong. Os course rfpre ares fcany
,Ikiew n theAddreaa, Ihe le alutione faadithu,
speeches to which we cannot give our assent ;
bnt’we are glad to •know’ Jth*t the mass of., the
Republican party in this city have, under the
guidance of their wisest leaders, bravery and
patriotically separated themselves from the fan
atical factiou which controls the Congress, and
rallied around the President, m support of
the Constitution, and of the principles euuu
ciated iu his annual message, and in his veto
of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill. This is the
great and essential point. It establishes these
facts; that the Freedraen’a Bureau will never
be permitted to blight the industry of the
South, and destroy the liberties of the coun
try ; that the right of suffrage will not be con
ferred upou the negroes against the will of the
people of ihe several States in which (hey
live; and that while Andrew Johnson is Presi
dent the republic will survive.
“Let good men everywhere take heart again.
Let them everywhere meet together and
pledge to the President that they will be tree
to him so long ae he shall bo true to the Con
stitution.”
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Milledgbville. Feb. 23, 18C6.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 3 o'clock, p. m., and
proceeded to read bills the second time.
Mr. O. F. Smith moved the suspension of
the rules, to enable hint to introduce a resolu
tion. Agreed 'to.
Mr. O. F. Smith then offered the following,
which was unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That toe General Ass-mbly do
hereby expnes their cordial endorsement of
the sentiments contained iD the able and pa
triotic address of trie Hon. Alexander H. Ste
phens, deliverer in the Had of theHouss of Rep
resentatives. on the 22d inst', and that a copy
of the same be entered upon the joarnal of the
irenate and House of R>p:esenta'ives.
Mr. Moore, from the Judiciary Committee,
introtuceda bill to change the penal code.
Fiftv copies of the bill weie ordered to bo
printed.
SENATE BILLS OK THIRD READING.
Bill to incorporate the Columbus Street Rail
! road Company. Passed
Bill to incorporate the Li'e and Accident In
surance Company, in Atlanta. Passed.
Bill supplemental Ao the act incorporating
the North Georgia Amiini; Oompiuy. Passed.
prescribe and regulate the relations
of parent and child among persons of color i n
tl is State. Passed.
Bill to add an additional clause to section
2535 of the Code. Passed.
Bill to prescribe and regulate the relation
ofhusban i and wife among persons of color
in this State. Passed.
Adjtmrped.
HOUSE.
February 23.
The House rearsembled at 3 o’clock, p m.
Mr. Cabaniss, of Upson, introduced a bill to
incorporate ttie Frankling Mining ani Manu
facturing Company.
Mr. Glenn, of Wbittfield —A bill for the relief
, Moses S Collins.
Mr. Harrison, of Chatham —A bill to incorpo
rate a company for laying down carriage rails
ways in the city of Savannah.
SILLS ON 3d BEADING
Bill to change the line between Spaulding abd
! Poke. Passed
i Bill to change the line between L urens and
i Wilkinson. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Columbus Manufac
ing Company. Passed.
Adjourned- f,
i SENATE.
February 24.
, The Senate met at, 10 o’clock
Prayer by Rev. S- E Brooks.
Mr. Black offered a resolution tc prevent the
distribution of the mail among the members
> until after adjournment. Lost,
f Mr. McDaniel —A resolution to prohibit, the
I introduction of new matter after Monday next.
Agreed to.
Mr. Gresham—A resolution that the General
! As°embly adjouru on the 10th of March next,
f On motion, the nsolution was amended by
I inserting the 13th of March, aiidpassr d.
BILLS ON 3d READING.
Bill to authorize freedmen lo perform the
marriage ceremony between persons of color.
Lost, •
Bill to regulate proceedings of insolvent,
banks. The bill proposes to allow the banks
in the payment of their bills to estimate the
value ot the same at tho yalue of gold at tlie
lime the bills were paid out by the banks.
Pending the consideration of the bill, (lie
Senate adjourned till Monday morniug, 10
o’clock.
HOUSE.
e KiiEUAit7 24.
The House met at 10 o’clock, n. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The House took up the unfinished business,
the bill for the relief of indigent widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers, and after reject
ing a motion to reconsider a substitute,
laid the bill on the table, to take up the regu
lar business, which was the call of the roll for
tho introduction of
NEW MATTER.
Mr. J. J. Jones, of Burke—A hill to alter
seption 1564 of the Code.
Mr. Russell, of Chatham—A bill to legalize
and make valid certain acts of Notaries Public.
Mr. Stewart, of Spalding—A bill lo increase
the pay of the compiler of the laws, aud to
provide for the early distribution of copies of
tile same.
Mr. McTtougald—A hill to change the
line betweon Muscogee and Chattahoociie coun
ties.
Mr. Byrd—A bill to amend Part 4th, Title 7,
Paragraph 4532 of the Code.
Mr. Vasoo —A bill to repeal sections 1593
and 3C35 of the Code, aud all other acts
which forbid aliens ami foreigners to acquire
real estate.
Mr. McLindon —A resolution of refusal to
entertain any proposition to sejl or lease the
Sttlte road.
The House again took up the bill for the re
lief of indigent widows and orphans of soldiers.
The bill, after unimportant amendments pass
ed.
Leave of absence granted Mr. Mo.-es the
balance of the day, on account of sickness
Mr. Adams, of Clarke, introduced a bill to
amend section 3988 of the Code.
Also, a hill lo amend section 3604 of the
Codo.
Mr. Harlan, of Gordon—A bill to alter tho
rules of evidence.
Mr. Glenn, of Whitefield—A bill to define
the mode of ascertaining the number of indi
gent widows and orphans of soldiers and indi
gent soldiers and all other persons who have
to be supported by taxation.
Mr Gartrell, of Cobb—A resolution in rela
tion to the pay of claims of Post masters.
Adjourned till Monday morning, 9 o’clock .
SENATE.
February 26, 1866.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Yarborough, of the
Methodist Church.
Mr. McDaniel offered the following, which
were unanimously adopted :
Whereas the Senate and House of Represen -
tatives of the United States of America in Cou
gre3s assembled did pass an act donating
public lands to the several States and Terri
tories, which may provide colleges for the
benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,
approved July 2d, 1862, provided that the
State or Territory should signify us acceptance
within two years from the date of its approval
by the President; and whereas an act extends
ing the lime within which Stales aud Territories
may accept t his grant of lands was passed and
approved April 14th, 1864, by which the time
of acceptance was extended to April l4tb, 1866:
Therefore
Be a Resolved by the Senate aud House of
Representatives of tho State of Georgia in Gen
eral Assembly met, That the Stale of Georgia
does hereby Bignify its acceptance of the benefit
of the provisions of this act.
Resolved, further, That his Excellency tho
Governor be authorized to forward a copy of
these resolutions to the President of the United
States.
The bill for the relief of hanks was taken up
as the unfinished business. Pending the con
sideration of the bill the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o’clock, a. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The Journal was read and approved.
BILLS ON TIfIRD READINO.
Bill to authorize the Superintendent of the
Western and Atlantic railroad and State Trea
sure to sign fi .bond • pledging the faith of the
State for |;be jawfiteftt of certain purchases made
of the United States. Passed.
The stay law—the special order—was taken
op and, after considerable discussion, passed.
Bill for the relief of Lunatic Asylum. Referred
to the Finance Committee.
’ The homestead bin wife taken up and read.
Adjourned till 3 o’clock, p. m.
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Voice; of the Pqpple !
IMMENSE MEETING AT NEW YORK.
ANDREW JOHNSON SUSTAINED.
RADICALISM DENOUNCED.
SPEECHES OF SECRETARY SEWARD,
GOV. DENISON AND MR RAYMOND.
An immense mass meniDg iu ratification of
thq general principles pboumlgated by Presi
dent Jobnson in bis Annual Message to Con
gress and also in his Veto Message, was held
at Cooper Institute, New York, on the evening
of the 22 1 of February. Tbe Institute was
tilled to such an extent that not a foot of
stuudiusr room could be had in tbe Hall when
the proceedings commenced, at 8 o'clock, and
thousands anxious to pirticipate were com
pelled to leave. The was decorated
with national colors. The portrait of President
Johnson was suspended over the chair, with
General Grant's on the right and General Sher
man’s on the left. A bust of General Wash
ington was placed in front of the speaker’s
chair, the ceiling was adorned with banners,
and a band ot music enlivened the proceedings
at intervals with national and other popular
airs. Among the distinguished visitors were
Sccre’ary Seward, Governor Denison, of Ohio,
Hon. Henry J. Raymond, Messrs. Wetmore,
Opdyke, Cornell, Catting, Judge Daly and
others. The meeting was organized by nomi
nating Hon. Francis R. Cutting, chairman.—
A long list of Vice Pn sidents,representing the
wealth and ability of New York,was read, and
an address and resolutions drawn up by Mr.
David Dudley Field, opposing negro suffrage,
favoring the admission of Southern Represent
atives, and sustaining and pledging themselves
to support tbe President in his constitutional
measures to restore the Union were adopted.—
The address and resolu 1 ions we cannot publish
at present for. want of space :
SPEECH OF THE HON WH H SEWARD.
Fellow-citizens : I have beer, in the habit, as
you perhaps ktio of addressing—[Voices,
“Louder! louder I” J My voice has been bro
ken, and i rus* you will have charity and not
ask me to speak 1 aider. The doctors could tell
you why. I was saying, for the information
of those w.,0 hear me—that ean hear me-that it
has been my habit, for many years past, of ad
dressing my fellow-citizens of the State of New
Yoik on the eve of important (lections, from
my own home at Auburn. I have been heard,
through the kindness of my fellow citizens,
from Montuuk Point to Chautauqua, and from
Lake Champlain t > the Ocean, when I only
spoke even within the protection of my parlors
or fireside and home. I was here on lire 18th
of October last to perk lo you thsn,and I did
i speak concerning the dangers ot a collision bc-
I tween Republican friends of the President of
the TJui'ed States and him whom the people of
the l!mud States have elevated to that high
and responsible trust I stated then what I
! thought would answer for instruction and profit
fora whole year, and you all agreed then to
give me a respite of one w hole year, and that I
should come hack and speak to you on political
topics in October, i 860; and now you have
called me hack here again on the 2id of Feb
ruary. It is rather hard that a person shell
be rtquired to perforin duly at the capital and
at, the same time that of u traveling lecturer or
speaker at home, (Specially from so laige a
Slate as this But 1 have come back in obe
dience to your summons. 1 have come back
cheerfully—l have come back cheerfully, for L
am no Secessionist. [Laughter ] I know how to
obey, 1 think, the commands of tnv fcllow-citi
z t:s o! my native State without violating tny
allegiance to the United States. [Cheers.] But
although I have come hack in obedience to this
summons,! have not come back as au alarmist
—I have no terrors tu sound, ! have no dan
gers to waim you of. I have no alarm to
waken or apprehensions to excite about public
affairs. There are no dangers, there are no
perils, there is no occ:ia : on for alarm. The
country has been saved [clie.-rs] —saved, com
pletely saved, thanks bo to God I and it is not
to be saved over again iu this day and genera
tion. The Slate is safe —Ah* goodly ship has
passed beyond tbe hteakers, tbe billows ai d
.the tempest which beat upon her during five
years, and she is now successfully and proudly
riding into the port wijere jjhe oujhf to he.
There are, indeed, a low reels at the mouth of
the harbor, and skill will lie exercised by s
wise, prudent and a careful crew, and she w ill
meet wiin no shock, no collision ; but sho wii)
ride safely into tier ancient mooring, whether
she pess through this channel which they say
is entirely safe, or whether, taking the advice
of others, the members of Congress move es
pecially, she lowers her sails and tacks round
jiu oroer lo take a longer sweep- The penally
is safe, I tell you, any how ! j Cheers j It is
only a dispute between the pilots; to all arc
honest men--ail well-meaning pilots. All that
can or will happen will he this : tlmt she may
mb the bottom or sides, and that as s*>e press
es upon the sands she m«y rock and toll a lit
tic, and then some of the pilots—perchance it
may be some Congressman or some Cabinet
Minister, perchance it may be some Senator or
some President, perehaiics? it may ue some
siaii sman—may unfortunately get washed
overboard. I should be sorry for this to hnpp n;
but I am sure it is all that can happen, be
cause the good ship is coming in without a leak
fore or aft, and without a spar or a splinter
starboard or larboard—she is coming in ail safe
and sound. [Cheers.] I should be very sorry
if any of these pilots should be washed over
hoard ; bnt if that can be prevented you and I
will try and do the best we can to prevent it.
Well, then, it can be home. Audit 1 should
happen to bo one of those that are lost iu that
way, lot no friend lake any concern on that ac
count.
And now, fellow-citizens, having relieved
you of your anxieties, showing you ] come
here to ssk no alarm, I will proceed with the
subject which you wish me lo discuss. That
subject is a difference of opinion between the
President, who is one of the pilots who stand
at the helm and the assistants, who are sum
moned up from lime to time to the walch at
the forward deck under the command of thp
quartermaster. It is a very considerable dif
ference, and I perhaps, cannot explain it to
you any better than I shall do by reminding
such of you, and I suppose there are many
such, who have been sometime in your lives
in the habit of attending the theatre. Ail
such may remember .a play which had some
popu'arity some years ngi. It was entitled
“The Nervous Man'and the Man of Nerve I
Tnese two characters,' the nervous man and
the man of nerve, lived in different parts of
the country. Tuey were friends. They had
been friends in their youth, and their friend
ship increased with advancing yea's. The
nervous man had a son, a hopeful son, and the
man ot ner.o had a loveable daughter. These
fond parents contracted a marriage between
these piriiis, winch should hrng their two
houses, and, I suppose, their estates together,
but without letting the candidates into the
secret In the meantime these two amiable
young persons, through some caprice or for
tune, or of some other more capricious god,
happened lo fall together at a watering place,
and knowing nothing of each other’s previous
history or relation, aud nothiog of the views of
their parenis, they fell in love.as was most natu
ral; and as was most natural after falling in love
agreed to be married. Each went home aud
reported to the parent. What was their sur
prise to find that the nervous man refused to
allow his sou to marry the lady of his choice,
who was a stranger to him, and announced
that he had iu view a marriage which was
most desirable, the other party to which be
would produce, and with whom he was ex
pected to fall in love at first sight. The man
of nerve was equally mystnrions with the lady.
And so, finding they were to bo married,
as they supposed, to strangers, they 'both ran
away and got married together. When the
news of it came, the nervous man was all on
lire with disappointment, with passion and
rage. He disavowed liis son, he disinherited
him, he declared he would never see him
again; and the man of nerve, on theothir
hand, protested that his daughter should be
recovered, and she should still marry the mau
of bis choice. What was the surprise of the
parents, when the lovers, having come from
church and fell and b.egged the parents’ fort
giveness and li easing, tho parents discovered
the son and daughter had each married the
very party they had pledged them to marry
beforehand. It was a disappointment but a
success. Tho nervous man refused to give
his consent, a though the marriage waa irrevo
cable, although it camo just as he wanted
But the man of nerve had more consideration.
He said it would all come out right, and he ex
tended his forgiveness. But the nervous man
was still implacable—could not be even
soothed, much less propitiated. Tho man of
nerve said: “ Why, old friend, why don’t
you forgive your son after having had it all
your own way—for thoy got married your way
as you wanted them ?’’ “ Yes, 1 have had it all
my own way ; but I won’t forgive him lor all
that d n it,” said he, “because I have not
had my own way of having ill” |Laughter]
The President of the United States has got the
Union restored, prosperous, safe and sound.
He has got it restored with slavery, which was
the cause of iis dangers and evils, abolished.
He has got it with a Confederate debt expung
.ed, a»d he has got It restored with the loyal
debt accepted by the Confederate States. He
has got it restored just exactly in the way he
wanted to have it. Tho nervous men of the
Senate and House of Representatives have got
it restored exactly in the same way—the Cow
federate debts all abolished, loyal debts all
established, slavery all abrogated—everything
all just as they wanted It, only they have not
had their own way of having ill [Laughter.]
Too President is a man who knows that that is
about all a mania this troublesome world could
expect. But the nervous man or tbe man of
uerve would expect not only to have it jhst
right, but to have it his own way of happen
ing. But, fellow-citizeus, I have said that
there is no danger ot difficulty iu our condition
or circumstances; and I will now tell you the
reason why. The States which were in the
rebellion have been aided in reorganizing
themselves by constitutions which are loyal,
by men who are loyal, and in sending to Con
gress loyal representatives to rosume their
places in the seats which disloyal traitors in a
fit pf passion and spleen and in violation of tne
Constitution and the Union abandoned. Now I
am sure this plan is going to succeed. I atn
sure of it because some plan must succeed, and
because this is the only plan which has ever
been attempted or which I think ever will be
attempted. Certainly it is the onlv one that
can be attempted with success. It is nearly
executed already. The States aro there just as
fully in the exercise of their State functions
and powers and faculties as the State of New
York is at Albany to day. Representatives
can oorae up and lay their hands upon the
Bible aud take tbe oath, and rernnin there. —
Now, I think this is going In be done. It may
not be done to-day. I thought it ought to
he done on tbe first day of this session of Con
gress. Others thought it better to wait and
inquire—tako a tecess. Then I thought it had
better lie done when the recess was ended. —
Others thought it better bo postponed to tiro
Ist of February. Now they are talking of
postpoDiug it till they can pass some law. But.
lor all that 1 know a State which is loyal, aud
continues to be loyal from this time hencefor
ward, and is represented by loyal representa
tives, is sure some day—in this Congress or
pome other Congress—some time in the life of
the Republic, will come in. This is all that
remains to bo done—and it, is the same plan
that Abraham Lincoln projected before ho was
removed from his hignt trust, the same one
that Andrew Johnson was executing for him
in Tennessee —it will he done. Now, if I ert
in this my judgment is incorrect. Then as
tbe Union is to he restored some time, there is
to be some p’ati which is practicable, and if
there is some one. then some one who is in
favor of it can tell me what that plan is and
wbeu it is likely to he adopted. I pause for a
reply. I have never seen auy other plan
proposed I have seen this plaa suggested at,
two successive Congresses, that, notwith
standing the conditions of tbe States thev
should be legislated in'o the condition of Terri
tories, aud should bo governed by tbe military
arm till they had performed sufficient acts ol
purgation, and should ho brought in at some
far off period. If this is capable of being call
ed a plan of restoration, then L think it lias
proved a total faiture, because it requires a law
to reduce the States already with governments
in full operation to tho condiiion of Territories.
That cannot be done without an act of Con
gress. Every oue knows it will require tbe
assent of the President, and everybody
knows who has read his message be is not go
ing to knock down and tear to pieces the
States which he has built up with his own
hands. It takes ten emperors, with their
combined forces and statesmen niot troubled
by any Congresses, to effect the reduction of
one State inio tbe condition of a province wuh
a pro-Consul as its ruler. I think, therefore,
that the plan is not practicable, and have given
it up. I will sho'w you. It is no longer men
tioned or proposed. The bill has met the
sleep of death, and in Ls place we find a joint
resolu'iou of the two Houses of (kmgiess,
passed on Tuesday last—a joint resolution
that the States will not be admitted anyhow—■
that is to say they never shall be re-:ldntitled
until they have a law passed. Well, that is
certainly giving up the idea of reducing them
io Territories. They are content to let them
stand out where they are, and not let them
in stall. I think that the President’s plan D
certain to he adopted at last. I will give you
some of the reasons why I think so.
The history of the Unit'd States for ninety
years shows that there never was a State kept
out of this Union that wanted to come in;
th<re never was a Slat? that wanted to get out
that ever was permitted to do so [Applause ]
There never was a -bate outside that was with
in the verge of the Union that did notgeti’seif
itt somehow. We have had a Congress that for
a large portion of this period has had a fancy
for playing experiments at keeping States out
of the Union that were out; but it is only the
present one that carries the chimera so far 113
to keep out Slates that. are in. They lured it.
There wer four Stains nl.cn tin C'onsiitutio i
was adopted that refused So come in. Nine
adopted the Constitution Wed, after years,
all the otjier fopr, t itp wyy faces enough, came
in, and made the Union thirteen instead of nic*.
Well, then,the Congress tried hard to keep out
Michigau, and they tried very hard to keep
Missouri out, and they went into an agony
qv r Texas. That one died, and we gut per
fectly beside ourselves in relation to California’s
coming .in We would not let her come in
anyhow. But here they all are—Texas, Mis
souri, California—ail of them loyal, and all
of them, except Texas, perfectly dutiful. We
have brought in aew States, anil not kept them
as Teriiorioa. Every province, every district
at the cast side of the Mississippi river, rushed
through a state of pupilage into the Federal
Union its fast as they eculd get in. Every
State west of the Mississippi—we bought pro
vinces from Spain from France and from Mex
ico, including the wtoie te.rjtory. Wfc'wtarU
gled whether they should come in as provin
ces or States, and vt ry soon they came in
as States und here they all ate now. Tell
VOtir neiuhhnra and fi-iunrl" j
as to keeping States out, of the Union when
they are organ'z.d, that ybu cannot keep your
selves from gettiug States in without trying.
If it were possible that, we should cel provinces
north of die frontier or in Mexico they would
lie incontinently pet feet, full, complete Slates
We cannot go further west without getting into
the ocean, and therefore I do not extend in
that direction It, is the necessity of the Ameri
can people and nation, of the people of this
continent as far as propinquity or neighbor hood
will allow, not to make other territories or pro
vinces according to the rules of 'Washington,
but States. A State does not like to have a
deputy government, and a State when it lias
got to be a State likes to be a member of the
Federal Union, because it wants tho commer
cial, the social and oilier advantages and to
share in the national nnown, and therefore it
is our destiny.—it seems indeed as if the Lord
Almighty in his wisdom had hurled all these
States, Mexican, French, Spanish, white people,
slaves, free, native born, aliens—hurled them
into the Union spite of the will of the American
people themselves, thus declaring and mani
festing his will that we hero in this continent
of North America shall not he many nations,
but one nation. [Cheers.] Fcdlow-citizeus,
I have thus far said nothing of the feelings of
morality, of religion and of patriotism. Ido
not propose to raise them here. I confess that
the regulations of Scripture are not in these
latter days accepted as an infallible guide of
faith—much less an infallible guide of practice,
and therefore I do not as you whether w<•
ought not, since the prodigal has abandoned his
course and his views, and has returned ant
is on the way to meet the parent at the do; r.—
Tdo not ask you whether we ought not or
whether we ought to kill the fatted call, and
invite this rebel brother to the luxurious enter
ta.'umeni; but I do say this, speaking as a
matter of worldly penitence and not of Chris
tian faith or doctrine, that when five years ago
this prodigal abandoned us, and attempted lo
pull the house down over our heads, we sol
emnly resolved that we would pursue aud
bring back this prodigal brother, and when he
had been brought back aud was repentant.
that we would compel him to take his seat at
his father’s table. Now. what I say is, wo
have done just exactly that thing. VV r e have
reduced him ; we have humiliated him ; we
have brought him to penitence and contrition,
and to sorrow and loyalty, and to beg for his
place he rejected in his pride aud folly—his
seat at tho family maosion. There are no more
controversies about slavery. There was no
cause of embarrassment but slavery. That
you have given to the dogs, and that made a
finish of it. They have not left a hair of iis
skin, or a disjointed bone, or a fragment to
cumber the ground, or sharpen the cupidity of
those sinners called slaveholders, or to awakeu
the hopes of that mistaken elas9 of men called
“dough-faces.” There is nolongerauy contr .
versy about slavery to give you aa ex< o • !•
keeping these States out of the Union Tuey
are all free States, well you may say Unit, after
all, a destiny that seems so fix- <1 as this —such
an irresistible proclivity of Stajes to come
together—show an impossibility lo keep them
out. I tell you, my good friends, we have
noticed what this country has done’ for a
period of 10 ye rs. It had slavery then not
only in the rebel States, but partially in
exery State. I saw the people abolish it,
State after State, and proceed to educate and
elevate the emancipated freedmeu, uniilsla
very, finding that its time waa coming, or
gan zed itself into a rebellion, and thou I saw
them take it and tear it in pieces and cast
down This has been done by the American
people in 90 years. Uncle Sam’s position has
been doue by ourselves in this generation.—
Well, don't you give yourse ves the least con
cern. The American people are one hundred
fold wiser than they were 100 years ago, and
they have given proof of it; and after the next
hundtfd years they will be a hundred fold
wiserthan we in the generations that is crowd
ing usoif the stage, will bo as much wiser as
we are than those who went before us. When
I see this, I ask, how all this has been done.
Has the United States, except as a military ne
cessity, ever abolished slavery 7 No, but the
States have abolished it, and have effectually
abolished the whole Institution. I bad the
great privilege the other day of certifying that
slavery was abolished in the United States of
America, from one end of the laDd to the
other. [Cheers.] Do you think that I certified
that President Lincoln abolished it by a pro
clamation? No Buch thing. What I did cer
tify and what the reesrd is, that there are 36
States in the Union, of which 11 were Con
federate and slave Stales, and two-thirds of
the whole number, including a considerable
portion of—that 11, not the Pioaideut, not the
Congress, not tho any, but the Stales of this
Union, loyal and disloyal, altogether abolished
it. [Applause.] And now I know tliht this
has been done by the American people and not
done by Congress, uot by tho President but by
the Stales, anil by all tho citizens of the States
in obedience to the exactions of moral opinion
created in the States by tiie loyal citizens of
the States. I entertain tin doubt and no ap
prehension that this work, of inelioUition, of
progress, of the removal of the restrictions from
labor, of the destruction of classes aud caste in
the United States is nlfro to be accomplished—
is going on now— and from this hour, and will
be until you or your children may hope to read
the Deelaraiiou oi Independence as a fact that
all nun art-free and iqual. [Cheers ]
I have refrained thus far irom speaking ol
the exciting subject—a collision between aod
diffreme of opinion between the Pn sklent ol
the United Stales and Congress about tbe
Freed men’s Bureau bill. I will say upon that
subject that duly considered and alone, it is
not a matter of sufficient moment lo excite tho
aiteuliou which it has received, or tho inter
est which has been converged upon it. Both
the Congress of the United States and the
President know that we aro iu a transition
slate from war to peace, that we have many
freed menj and refugees—that they are desti
tute aud fufferine, and that it is the duly of a
just, people in its triumph to protect all those
who were the victims in the attainment of its
success. Both Congress and the President
have agreed to provide by law for the protec
tion of refugees and freedmen during the war,
and cne year thereafter. Both Congress and
the President agreed that when wo bad passed
from a state of war lo a state of peace, that
tbe roaintuimuce of the Froodiueu’s Bureau
would be unnecessary, unwise, uncons itution
hl, and, therefore, neither Congress nor the
President, desire that that shall be the case.—
There is in them this difference of opinion bc
twecu the two: The President looks to the
admission of the States into tho Union accord
ing to their organizitiou, ami that their trail
sitior- slate has nearly passed. Tho Congress
is annulling that they shall come in. and, seek
ing to postpone, thinks that the Transition
period is to be p-otraeted ; therefore Congress
thought it was wise to have the new bill con
taining the Frecdmen’s Bureau lull indefinite
as the President says, at least until Congress
shall repeal it. The President thinks it is uu
necessaiy.
Now if yon will refer to the old bill creating
the Freedmen’s Bureau, you will find it i 3 limit
ed by the laws of enaetment to the war of the
rebellion and one year thereafter. Is the wir
ended? Practically it is. Hostilities have
ceased. Is peace restored ? No; practically
the States are still disturbed and there is a ne
cessity for military force. The pence has not
absolutelv come. Coming, but not come, the
President says. The proclamation of 18t!l an
nounced civil war. A proclamation of the
President will announce that the war is at an
end. Now, if lam right in this, then peace in
a legal sense will come to be in the United
States just at the (lav when the President issnes
a proclamation, tr Congress passes a law de
claring that peace has come, and not before
if tbe proclamation should be made to day,
then by Ihe term 3 of ihe act creating a Fn.ed
meu’s Bureau, we will have one whole year
thereafter At. 'he end of that 'ime the Presi
dent s '.vs wc shall have the benefit of ex peri
once. If we need the continuation of the
Freedmen’s Bureau, Congress will then be in
session ttgenae a bill, and if as we all trust
we shall have from them the 22d ot Febiuary
will be a very good day, the rnoßt glorious of
all days, for a proclamation that the rebellion
is ended that the freedmen of this conn
try are restored to their own natural rights.
Well v this being the case what is the
course of duty? What ig the differ
ence between the President and Oongriss?
The President says, ‘T have got. 50,0(10! men
and I do not want any more—l can execute
the duties of tl e Freedmen’s Bureau. I have
got eleven millions of dollars under the id i
law, and I do not want any up cue. I can
administer the Efectimcu's Bureau with eleven
million of dollars, and I have {.ot 500 agio's,
raililnry and civil; with their salaries they aro
sufficient to execute the admiuistialiou of the
Freedmen’s Bureau. I don’t waut any mo o
agents. Congress comes along, aud say, ‘Mi .
President, you are entirely mistaken, you waut
more money, you want more men, you want
more agents, you want 10 000 egoiiia, !S2h,-
000,000. Jt is foliy to quarrel with the Presi
dent of the United States in tho house of his
friends. Whv. fellow-citizens, tho powers
offered to l lie President might tempt a Maxi
milian, a Louis Pardon me, friends,
they are insufficient to benefit Andrew John
son. [Cheers] I really do not believe there
is one man in the United States that, would
lake the position if required to take it wMt
such powers and privileges ; and if there is, i
know lie is the only one, and tUerefne u is
safe. There is po other country in the world
where the experiment might not have been
tried ‘with more success. When the time
shall empo th it there stmll ba in the White
House a President of the United Stales, who,
besides 50,C00 men which ho does need, will
take ho 000 more than he does need, and in
addition to $11,000,000 will receive $25,000,-
000 more from a deficient C agrees, then 1
teil you that the time will have arrived for
the rolling of au Imperial throne into tho
White House, and surrounding it with Impend
guards. [Applause]
SPEECH Os 00V. BEK ISON, Os OHIO.
Poslmaster General Donison was then in
troduced, and made a short speech, recapitula
ting the arguipents used by the President in
hia veto message, which, he said, was advised
apd supported by every member of the Cabi
net.
SPEECH OF HENRY J. RAYMOND.
lii answer to loud calls, the Chairman then
introduced the Hou. Henry J Raymond, who
spoko at length, lamenting tho extraordinary
powers conferred on the Reconstruction Com
mittee, ami saying that, on Monday last, he
knew that a majority of the House were in
favor of the admission of the Tennesseo dele
gates ; but in consequence of the. malice en
gendered by the President’s veto, they had
since refused to admit any of the Southern
delegates. [Applause.]
OTHER PRoCEEDINSB.
A rrsolution forming the officers of tho
meeting into a permanent organization, to
hold meetings lor the same object, was adopt
ed. A committee was also appointed to go to
Washington, and lay the proceedings of the
eveuiug before the President.
Massachusetts Morality—A Case or Love
and Villaint. —A Massachusetts paper relat s
the following, which illustrates the peculiar
morality of the Puritans of that State. In
stead of sending missionaries and school
marms South, we are inclined to think they
would find a large field for their philanthropy
ft little nearer home :
About eight months since a young man of
prepossessing manners and smooth address, by
the name ol David Pattyplace, ti und his way
to the village, of Milford, Massachusetts, and
engaged hoard at the nouse ot Mrs. Fannie E
Bailey, a widow woman with four children,
the eldest a daughter of thirteen years. lie
succeeded so well in ingratiating himself into
Mrs. Bailey’s confidence and affection, that a
criminal intimacy sprang up, producing results
that could not be long concealed. Taking still
further advantage of the unfortunate woman,
he from time to time bo.rowed money from
her, amounting in the aggregate to three or
four hundred dollars. By her liberality to
wards him she became at last so deeply involv
ed in deht tnatshe wu obliged to sell ner house
and lot, the reward of long years of industry.
Not content with mining the mother and driv
ing her, with her little ones, from her home,
be next turned his attention to the eldest
daughter, an innocent, simple-minded child,
and soon succeeded in making her the victim
of his hellish lust, without exciting the bus-.
picions of the mother, as he was in the habit,
of accompanying her to balls, parties and other
places at evening, where she was removed from
the maternal eye. It seems strange that tile
mother could thus unsuspectingly trust her
daup hter to the cure of n-I who had already
accoTTo V ' d’-.. i, i.i- ;■n‘ it would seem
to i h o l d upon id.,- \ till i>> as l.er future
ho o.tDU, and regarded the interest lie nuini
tested for the daughter as a sort, of parental
one. Thus matters p issed along, untjl a few
days since, when he hired a horse and Sleigh,
with Mrs. Bailey’3 permission, took the daugb
ter to a dance six miles distant. After tr.e dance
was over, instead of returning, he persuaded
her to accompany him to the resiclenoe of bis
cousin, some fifty miles distant in Rhode M>tnd
Arriving there, he sent the conveyance back to
Milford by a young man, who informed Mrs
Bailey of her daughter's whereabouts Quickly
the mother followed the erriDg child, and en
deavored to persuade her to return home, hut
the villian objected and induced her to. leave
the daughter in his CMC, promising lo bring
her hopste the next'day ; but instead of doing
this they took the ears in a different direction,
proceeded to Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and
from there to Hudson, and from thence to
Cohoes, where he procured board with a-Mrs
Alger, corner of White and Sargeant streets,
and remained as man and wife a day or
two since, when he absconded, letving the
young Miss Bailey without a cent of money or
a change of clothing. He was arrested in Am
sterdam.
From Texas.
Nsw Oblbanb, February 25.—Advices from
Galveston to the lgth instant say that a Wharf
Cotton Press and Warehoure Company, with a
capital of one million of dollars, has hoeu
formed, paying four hundred thousand dollars
for lots’. A cotton factory has been established
at Houston and another is organising.
Caoitalists here have prepared to dig a ten
foot canal from Buffalo Bayou to Galveston
Bay. *
Wigfall escaped from Texas three weeks
since
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The Jolly Old Pedagogue. ,
BT tiKOHBK ARNOLD.
t.
f*
’Twan a jolly old pedagogue long ago,
TaH and slander, and saHo w :ind dry;
His Jbrm wits bent and his gait wt s slow,
His long thin hair was as white as snow,
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye ;
And he sang erery night as he went to bed,
“Lot us be hap t y down here below ;
The living should live, though the dead be dead,”
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long aga^
n.
He taught his scholars the iu!e of three,
Heading and writing and history too ;
He took tbe little ores up on his knee,
For a k nd old heart in his breast ha 1 he,
And the wants of the littlest chi'd lie knew ;
“Lesrn while you’re young,” he often said,
“There is iitnch to enjoy down here bekw;
Life for the living, and rest for the dead I”
Said the j >l!y old pedagogue, long age.
in.
With stupidest b"ys ho was kind and cool,
Speaking only in gentiesl tones ;
The rod was haidly known in his schoo'—
Whipping, to him, was a barbarous rule.
And too hard work for his poor old bones ;
B< sides, it was i ainful. he sometimes said :
“We should rnako life pleasant down her*
below,
The living need charity more than the dead,”
Said Ihe jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
n
IV.
He lived in the house by the hawthorne lat e.
With roses aud woodbine over the door ;
His rooms were quiet, and m at, and plain,
But a spirit of cmnloit there held reign,
And made him forget he w»s old and poor.
“11 eed so little,” he often said,
“And my friends ar d relatives here below,
Won’t litigate over me when I am dead,”
Said the jolly old pedagogue, lorg ago.
v.
But the pleasantest t in*s that he had, of al 1 ,
Were tbe sociable hours he used to pass,
With hia chair tipped back to a neighbor’s wa’l,
Making an unc remonious ca'l,
Over a pipe and a friendly glass ;
'This was the durst pleasure he said,
Os the many he tasted hem below :
“"Who lias no i ronies had better be dead !’’
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
VI.
Th-n thej 11 v old pedagogue’s wrink'ed face,
Melted all over in sunshiny smiles;
He stirred his Blass wi'h an old-school grace,
Chucked and sipped, and prattled Brenhiles
fill 'he house grew merry from roof to tiles ;
“I’m a pretty o'd man ’’ he gently said, •
“I’ve lingered a long while, here below.
But : y heart’s frerh, if mv youth is ft id I”
Said tbe jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
on.
He smoked his pipe in the b almy air,
Every night when the sun went down,
While the soft wind plated in his silvery h.iir,
Leaving its tenderost kisses there,
On the j illy old pedagogue’s j ally old crown ;
An i feeling the ki-ses. he smi>d, and said :
“ ’Twas a glorious world down here below ;
Why wait for happiness till we are dead ?”
Sal i the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
Till.
He sat at ids door, one c iltummer night,
After the sun had gunk in the West,
And the lingering lienm. of golden light.
Made his kindly old face lo ’k warm and bright,
While the odorous night-wind whispered“Restr’
Gently—gentlv—he bowed his head—
There were tinge's waiting f.r hin I know ;
He was sure of h s happintss. living or dead.
This jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
K und Table.
-‘Message” of Brigham Young.
Although Utah is known to the law only aa a
Territory, with a Governin' appointed by the
Prvsident,, «Dd a territorial deleg *te (Win. H.
Hooper) in Congress, Bright)in Young persists in
calling it “the Hta'e of Deseret,” and has just
sent a mes-age to tbe Mormon Legislature, under
d t-c of* Executive office, State of D.-seret, Janu
ary 22 ”
In this document, which has the merit, of bre
viy, Brigham discusses tho affairs of Utah from
the extreme Mormon stand-point; gives thanks
’or abundant harvests, praises the untiring in
dustry ami enterprise of the people, and proceeds
as follows :
“Thus has a Hi ate been formed and brought,
into being of which the honorable members of
this Legislative Assembly are the true represent
atives. ’Tis true our S'ate organization has not
yet received the sanction of Congress and the
general government, yet It is considered best for
ns to mspntaia it intact, that, whenever the pro
bilious moment shall arrivfc, our State may ),<•
xb‘e, the more readily, to assume the robes of
sovereign tv Not withstanding the seeming neg
lect. on the part of Congress in hearkening to
our petition, for admittance into the Union as a
State, we are s’ltt progressing in the founding of
a commonwealth, whicli must ere long win its
way to place and power. Hettlements are con
stantly extending East and West, North and
Son'll, throughout the entire limits of the State,
and an extensive traffic has been opened up with
otir neighbors o.n the North and West.. * * *
“It i-i now about four year* since the adoption
hy the people < f our State constitution ana the
formation of nor slate government,, yet Congress
has not chosen to act upoo our memorial, pray
ing for admission into ihe Union, and l regret
to add, thav indications do not appear favorable
for sack action during the present session of Con
gress. This delay on the part rs our govern
ment appears the more temarkable, as oth* r
Territories of less extent, and popula ion have
gained their status as States, and no good r. a
son y in be assigned why Deseret, should continue
to be thus excluded. The question as to how
long it will be proper for u-t to submit to thus
have our constitutional lights and franchise
withheld from us, is an important one ; but wi
leave its solution to Him who roles all tilings
If favors beget obligations, few indeed are the
requitexents that can ho justly claimed ateur
k.tj'.'L,
“Other Tetritorles—besides being ad pitted
into the Union wi h subsidies, gvants of land for
sehao's, railtoad-i at d other public purposes—
have had extended to th« ir citizens pre-emption
rights, and appropriations for various putposts,
and o berwise been the rec pients of the patron
age, bent fits and b< unties of tbo parent govern
ment, while Utah has been held off at arm’s
length, and has grudgingly had doled out to her
the scantiest pittances ; but, after all, it is net the
empty forms and enactments of law, muster-rolls,
nor worm eaten parebn euts that constitute the
S'ate; ir is tile living people—an intelligent,
industrious, educated, enterprising people which
constitute a government, and are, moreover, tbe
source of political power in governments, based
like ours professes to he, upon democratic prin
ciples.”
“Yankkbs.”—The Petersburg (Ya.) Index,
stirred up hy th*observation that Samuel Ada-> s
had a larger short; than Thomas Jefferson in
bringing on the Revolivion, indulges in the fol
lowing :
“Our private opinion aud belief ia that there
are authentic documents now in the library of
Yale College—or they will be there when needed
—to prove that Bunker Hill monument marks
the site of Babylon the Mighty ; that Caithage
was no more i,o'r less than Portland, Ostriura,
Nahant and Boston, in faei Athens, that Homer
was professor of belles letties at Harvard and
Patinorua a member of the Chuib-idge Yacht.
Club ; that Priscian taught, a grammar sch ml at
Monpetier, and Archimedes was a private tutor
of chemistry in Concord; that St. Peter was a
Cape Cod fi-herman,- and fit. Matthew a collector
of the Internal Revenue at b'tonington ; that
Phidias owned a brown stone quarry in Maine,
and Sncrat's founded the At antic Monthly ; that
the Academia was the walk under the yew trees
at New Haven, and the C'dnssu-s of Rhodes a
statute which strided from Nantucket to Martha’s
Tineyard; that Plymouth Beck is all that is left
of the Tower of Bsbel, and the Coun»cticnt river
ran through Paradise: that Stonington is the
site of Tyre, and Merrimac last colors the dies
tli---1 made that city f.iuious; that the o'd Temple
of Diana at Ephesus was not burned, but is row
Fanetiii Hall; anu that Herodotus and Wendell
Phillips were the same persons ; that, the fabie of
Ko *'ulus and his brother being suck'od by a well
(lupim) arose from the circumstance that their
mother was the first Vermonter who looped her
dresses ; tnat Mercury was the ancient name of
Ben But'fei’s family and, that like everything
else in New England, the family had gone on
perfecting itself from the start; that tbe sun
shines six hours per diem more on that favored
spot than on any other between the pokes; aDd
that. Noah’s family were so much elated at an
alliance with tbe Websters oi Massachusetts that
they got up a dictionary to commemorate that
tact; that tit. Ratrick was Head Centre of a Fe
nian circle in Bangor, and St. Andrew kept a
distillery in Lowell; and, finally, that tbe Mille
ninm will begin in 80-ton, and wlil not he allow
ed to extend beyond its limits except hy a two
third vote ol the tax payers of that heavenly
city, excluding all who have, at any time In their
most .‘-ccret t houghts, expres-ed a doubt of tbe
propriety of hanging Jrtf. Davis ai d General
Lee on a sour apple tree.”
Why We Should Wear Beards —There aie
| more solid inducements for wearing tho beard
j than the mere improvement ot a man’s personal
! appearance and the cultivation of such an aid to
theeverjday diplomacy of life. Nature com
bining. as she never fails to do, iho useful with
the ornamental, provides us wilh a far belt; r
respirahr than science could ever make, and one
that is never so hideous to we r ns that black
seal upon the face that looks I ke a patrport to
the realms of suffering and death.
The hair of the men tacbe not only absorbs the
mo'Sture and miasma of the fogs, but it strain*
the air from dust and the sunt ot our gieat (ities.
it acts also in the most scientific manner, by ta-*
king heat from the warm breath as it leaver the
chi st, and supplying it to the cold air taken in.
It is not only a respirator, but with the beard
entire, we are provided with a comforter as well,
and these are never left at home, like the um
brellas and all such appliances whenever they
nre wanted. Moffat aud Liyin stone, the Afri
can explorer, and many other travelers, say that
in the nighs no wrapper can equal the beard.
The remarkable thing is too, that ihe beard,
like the hair of the head, protects against the
heat of the sun ; it acts as a thatch does to an ice
house ; but more than this, it becomes moist
with the perspiration, ami then, by evaporation,
cools the skin. A man who accepts this protec
tion of nature’s i»ay face the rudest storm and
the hardest winters. He may go from the
hottest ro"m iuto tho eoldest air without any
dread; and we verily believe he might sleep in a
morass with impunity- at least his chance of
escaping the terrible fever would be bettor than
his beardless companions.
J L ■ 1 " " J>
Toronto, C. W., Feb. 20.—Tf# Grand
Trunk Railroad Company have issued a efreu
lar, notifying their agents that in cofaequenee
of the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty,
they have decided f*r the present to give pre
ference to shipments of freight* for tLe United
States- T
By Telegraph.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
CONGRESSIONAL
t Washington, March 2.
TJie engaged all day in tho din.
cubs ion of ttke ciyil rights bill, which was
finally postponed Thursday,
f The Senate pa*ed the concurrent resolution
relative to the admission of the Southern
States.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Milledoevillb, March 2.
The House coucurrcd in the Senate amend
ments to tbe revenue bill This proposes to
raise, by taxation, Utree quarters of a million
dollars.
1 lie House authorized the Governor to issue
bonds to the amount of one million and a half
dollars, pledging the Slate Road and its in
come for their redemption.
NEW YORK COTTON AND GOLD MARKET.
Nmv Yobk, March 2.
The cotton market closed to-day with an
advancing tendency. Sales 3,000 bales at 44c.
3,000 bales of governmeut cotton sold at
prices ranging from 3%,47. The qualities
Tom Low Ordinary to Middling Fair
Gold 85J.
MOBILE COTTON AND GOLD MARKET.
Mobile, March 2.
Ttie sales of cotton to day were three hun
dred bales. Middlings at 42. The sales for
tho week were 2,300 bales ; receipts for the
week 12,034 hales; exports for tho week 8,778
bales; stock on hand 76,455 bales.
Gold 34a36.
Commercial and Financial.
[Reported for the Constitutionalist.]
Augusta, Ga., March 2.
COTTON.—A belter feeliug was exhibited
to day than yesterday, there being moro in
quiry. Prices, however, have undergone no
change, arid we quote Strict Middling at 35
and Good Middling at 36 cents. Fi VO hun
dred and sixty-one bales were received by
tbe Georgia railroad.
GOLD Market dull, with a downward tend-)-
cncy. The pales to-day were very limited,
and in small sums. Brokers buying at 133.
National Express Company.—The Charles
ton Courier, of the 28th the
following commendation of this new and
thriving enterprise :
The vigor demonstrated by this company
which but yesterday, as i‘. were, initiated a
branch in this city, bids fair at no distant day
to late second to no fps'itiituiu of a similar
nature. 8.-tahlished widen a period of six
months, and laboring under many disadvan
tages naturally occurring at the termipation of
a gigati ie revolution, it stands tins day upon a
basis made firm by a combination embracing
intelligence, energy and perseverance. By the
steamer Emily B. Sender, which arrived'.yes
terday, this company has had forwarded to
them, of Pennsylvania manufacture, tour new
and handsomely finished wagons, with horses
well suited to the work expected of them.—
Among this stock is a dork bay,tour y ears old,
which elicited the admiration of reveal con
noisseurs of horse flctli who vi.-wod him yes
terday as he stood tn harness in front of our
office. With Joseph E Johnston as its I‘iesi
dent,. J K. TThlhoni Spcrinlendent, O F. Web
ster Route Agent for this Divison, assisted by
a corps of at inches in a'l respects w ell Qualified
to fur Iter tho ini'rests of this company, wo
besaeak for it n complete anil perfect success,
more than commensurate with their highest
expectations.
The Charleston News also Gays :
The new and beautiful w,icons of this favor
ite- Ex; roes Company turrvd out in hand-omo
style this morning, and attracted general atten
tion and admiration. The National Repress
Company is every day_growing more and moro
into popular favor, for the promptitude with
which they dispatch all business entrusted to
their management, ns well us for the efficiency
and marked courtesy of its officers.
MRS. PAKTINGTtIA’S 1.15 T.-THE
following la from H. T. Shillaher, Esq., welt known ait
tie author of Mrs. Partington's colehr .ted toying* :
t'nn.fiKA, Mass., Jure til. i?C4:
Mv Dear Mrt, IIoqlr: The auvtntng throat of pre
mature old ago, ininiife&t in my cnantilng h&i r, induced
me to oppose your new Hair Tint as a •, elenee, end th*
result hia proved every Ihint; l could wish. U com
pletely changed tbe grey, by a simple application, and
freed me from tho moot 1 of antiquity not yet doc. I
am relighted with it, an t comio.-M it to all who. like*
myself, would deprive Tim -of an early triumph.
Wishing it the soooese It deserves. I remain.
Yours truly, P. p.
This is only a sample fro,a hundreds of a similar na
ture, in fav >r of tho New Discovery, Mystikos, or Bo*
gle’s Mystic Hair Tint! One prrpara'ioa, Anycoior.
No washing before or after tho application. Hate and
reliable. This, with Brgte’s world renowned lfyperiau
Fluid for dressing thy h dr. Electric Hair Dye, and
other preparations, may he had of W. Bogle, Wig and
Hair Work Repository, Horton, and
STEVENSON A SHELTON Diuvgists,
no»2B—tßm Amoi-ts, tin.
Cooking Stoves, of the most
approved kinds, varying in price
from twenty to one hundred dol
lars, sold under 'guarantees to
operate perfectly, by
Wit. SHEPIIEIIF) & CO.
255 Broad st.
Augusta, Ga., March li-Stt. mbS-tlm
House Furnishing Goods, of
every description, at rates much
reduced, for sale bv
Wm SHEPHERD & CO.,
255 Broad si.
Augu-ta, Ga., March, 1836. mbS-fltn
Tin Ware, of all kinds, at
Wholesale and Retail, for sale
hy
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.,
255 Broad rs.
Augusta, Ga., March, 1866. mh?-flra
Cedar Buckets, Wash Tubs, Keel
ers, Measures, Wash Boards, Clothes
askets, Plough Lines, Trays, and
other Wooden Wares, for stile at re
duced rates, hy
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.
255 Broad st.
Augusta, Ga., March, 1866. mb2 flm
Steak Dishes, Chating Dishes,
Soup Tureens, Tea Urns, Coffee
Pots, lea Pots and other Planished
or Block Tin Goods, for sale at re
duced rates, hy
Wm. SHEPHERD & CO.,
255 Broad st.
Augusta. Ga., March, 1866. rrh2-flm
ORNAMENTAL
Plants and Trees!
I OFFER for planting now, and during the
coming Spring, a fine lot ot Extra Large and
beautiful
Magnolia
Koonymna
Pittotporum
L-gustrnm
Laarustinns
“Wild Olive,” oc “Mock Orange,’’
Golden, Arbor Vila;
Tree Box
Dwarf Box, for borders
Ametictn nolly
Jutiper, (varieties
Cunninghamia
Spireas
“ Snow Balls,” Lilacs, Ac, As
These Trees and Hants are very tt.rifly, and
of extra si*- I —especially adapted to Ornamental
Grounds, Cemeteries, Ac., Ac They will be
sold very low, and taken up Htid packed care
fu'ly.
I can also supply Southern Fruit Trees, Grape
Vines Strawberry Plants, Ac —all ol the choicest
varieties, and some of the Trees suitable for im
mediate bearing.
For Catalogue, Ac., address :
D. REDMOND,
Augusta, Ga.
jan2B-jlleblAl6mhl*ls
City papers copy.
Notice.
AIX holders of the bonds of the Wiloiingtoß
and Manchester Railroad Company, North
Carolina, are respectfully requested to make
themselvts known, as scon as possible, to the
undersign*#; or M. K. ‘JEHSUP & CO., Agents
of the Company, New York, giving the Class
and Numbers of Jibe Bonds held by them respec
tivaiyw that the JCofn party may confer with them
on matters relatmg to their interest.
HENRY M. DRANE,
President W. and M. R. R. Company,
febSl-aodlm Wilmington, N> C,