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TfEQKEGON Alt G U S Bt P. W. VRUU. .rllll flf SUBSLKir I lUlf. j.,,,, au'tfee furnlikei al Tsrse ear r " V n.l... . 4s sa4 ef fAa IW. riM -r DtU" will he ehargtdfir Mm svmlAs g,'berifli reeeited juro lees peritd. u. mattr dieeentinued until all arrearages Ftr the Argus. Lift. i Iim ill morning, noun, awl eve t I'm" UVa ' morning limes Mar hrl luu4 '" ',''iuw Mar er impress lw niu it lines. - Remember Ihy Creator new, f Jesus thy whole heart K" Ne ussshhi mer liy youtlilul brow, u e'er ly H' ''y PM ' . if the uiiJc of life b thine, fiene oonii may annimiimM Intervene, AuJ tiuiC'S brum imy thick entwine Aai"- Ihl rMM ,''ou Wllt ' '" Let a thy weakly shrink, Hut iivrva ttitu au tliy varied way, full hA fimu soothing streams tliou It ii.uk, tftill fiud a '- Uy head to lay. Ta, when Life's day haa nearly gone, f thou thy part lit wrll performed, . IpyniicJaurw.lllUkliadeaHrairoii, bse aa by setting rays adurmd. When Denih'e slumber etesls upon tlira, Itavtlly ealrn Ittou will lay Ihev down, Tha Almighty arm banaatli Idea, And iminurulity Uiy crown. . Dec., IbSO. Zslmoxa. For tki Argus. Ta Iba Vti ear. inht I'mn tin tun liaa sunk, Old Year, Beneath tha western ware, Sine Time'" eieqniel train lliy corse Laid in lb' oblirioue (rare. Bat weeping- friends, mnl hriny tears . Fur III', alia, how few ! Jluw gludly ' Leo 'a ' withered heart Eichaug.d lliee for the new ! , Were youthful hopes, and. burning lorea, And every pruniiaa hlanil. But IriHing love, or sleuder rceda, In thy n nM,rwlei liuud f Pore mil thy spirit back rreoil Upon ita guilty eelf, li. nriili the weight of 'LeoV wuei, Tliou moat ungrateful alf f . Tliou knewtit lie loved that lovo alono lie brrathed aa vital air That kiro thou brouirht'at, nil nnrelurnol, Jliu changed to durk denpair. J)oea not accusing enntvieuce tcan , The luring hopre, the cheera, Tlie aia-ululiona tliou proposed. Wh en brought him grief and tears .' . Thr proffered eup of honey bliss llu provrd a phaiilom toy, li kesnm lovo, the promised ", Hie knell of all his y. Aye, quake, thou haggard ghost of Time! And reil thy b!oHliM cheek, To hare the sluinielei-s deed revealed, Which ' lo's ' groans bespeak ! Poitund, Jan. 9, 1S6I. - Lai. TKRRini.it Tragedy.- Tits Fort Wayne (lud.) Timeit snya that a most terrible nnil fatal accident, with consequences still morn terrible, occurred in Adums county the oth er day. The atory is at once the briefest end most awful we have read in mnny a rear. A woman, about to churn butter, threw some boiling wnlcr in the churn, into which one of the children had, unnoticed hy the mother, placed an infant, and it won instantly Kcnlded to death. In her frenzy, the mother seized a chair and indict ed a death blow npon the little girl. After realizing what she had done she threw herself into the well and was drowned. -19 The Ami He la Religion announces the return to Catholic Unity of the I5til:ir iin nation en massr, In number about four m'liions. The Bishop of Uuljriiriu, on Oct. 23, His clergy nml people, signed a docu ment, previously approved by the Catholic Archbishop of Constantinople, in which thry renounce communion with the Greek Patriarch, and place, the Bulgarian Church under tho authority and protection of the See of Rome. . Tho Oswego Times tells story of I fashionable ludy of that village, whose ptrents aro not possessed of wealth la pro portion to her pretensionr, who excused hrrcir to a visitor for doing housework, thus; Mother and I do our own house "fork, because it m so exceedingly roman ie!" We wish more of our women thought iousework romantic,, ,, llir The pork trade of the West is im mense, and price are ' all up." It is cs li mited that the farmers of the West will re ceive $40,000,000 for their hog crop, itbintwo months. Ten yenra ago the m number of hogs would not have bought 18,000,000. J9 One of the Southern pnpers closes n article on disunion thus: " All who are btvor of civil war, revolution, rain, deso latien, robbery,! arson, murder, and the tter destruction of the South, shauld go disunion." ' ' ' The Court ef Queen V Bench at Toronto, C. W., had decided to deliver op th fogMvo slave Jones, to the TJ. S. au thorities. No attempt wag made at a res ea, but much excitement occurred. An PPeal was taken. , At feceut festive meeting, mar fwd man, Whe ought to have known bet J, proposed " The Ladies," as tha "be '"P who divide onr sorrewa, doable oar Jr! ad trell ear expenses." A eorrespooJent of the S. F. BaV w Q-gsls that the remains of La Fay e(t, which are aegleetrd at Faria, be re--ed to tha United Sutea. The red, white and bloe the red eeka, white teeth, and blue eyea of a te'y ibri are aa good a flat; a yoong Mdirr in the battle of life need fight for. The bet mH from Santa Fe waa attack " by a party of Camaocbe, bat ei- Ik A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Interests of the Laboring Classes, and advocating the Vol. Vf. lteaaa Ira as Wathlaitaa. Secretary ThotnMOti lift yesu-nlay for North Curnliiia. He favors lite SfOiuion of certain Stales in friendly co-ofieration, when the non slavehnliling -Suites shall re fuse to give CoiwtitiltioiiafV'iariiiitecs. Difforent State di-liiritlions are liohling meetings at Washington for consultation At one mewing on Monday ng'it 17th Dec. all the IVnusvlvnuia di hg iti-s were present, except Stevens, a id inclirlingliotli Senators. It was iinaniinimilr l ei eved to be tho opinion of ihf people of I'enusylvs - inn, ini. iio vuiiJHiiiifc.uiiiii r.jriii a ot an sections should be respected ami secured: that all laws should he faithfully and prom pi ly executed; and that the Union il.d. .1.. f. ...i - i . of the States, the Couxtitutioit and the laws should be enforced in all their Integrity. u.t fcatuniny evening lDtli Ue.J the Albany Journul came out In lavor of a compromise. It says: " We are almost prepared to say that the Territories mny be snfelv kit lo tuke rare of themselves." If this suggestion is inadmissible, it propo ses a division of territory, as in 1820. Senator Seward hud been three days In AHinny, nml it Is thought that the article represents Mr. Lincoln's views. It ta understood that the U. S. slnnp-of- war Brooklyn is prepared to proceed to Charleston, to aid in the difruce of the Government Forts at a moment's notice. The order has created quite a stir among naval men. The New Hampshire delegation in Con gress has determined that the truu course is the protection of tho public prop rty and enforcement of the revenue laws, ut all huzirik The Illinois delegation declare the Union must nml shall be preserved. Democrats of the Ohio delegation took pains in the meetings not to commit them selves to any measure contemplating coer cion, believing the result to be civil war. E. M. Stanton has been appointed At torney-General. bill for arm ng the htate passed the North Ciirolimt Senate by 41 against 3. Nearly all the leading merchants in ISal- timore tire signing a petition to Gov. lin ks to immcdiulelv call nn extra session of the Legislature to consider the crisis. A meeting of the members of the Ueor- ginu Legislature, held oa the 19th, favored cooperation, urged a Convention of the Southern States willing to co-operate, and issued n n nddress to that purpose, signed it 52 members ofthe House, llesniutions were adopted, by 66 to 54, asserting the principle of co-"erntioii. ' A motion to re consider was Inst. A bill protecting citi zens from process in Federal Courts, was lost by 10 majority. An Address to the l'rople or .Massachu setts was published on the ISlh, denounc ing tho Personal Liberty bill, aiyl recom mending its repeal. It is signed by Chief Jiislico Shaw, Judgo Curtis, ex-Mayor Lincoln, Cl fford, Washburn, Gardner, and others, representing nearly every county in the State. Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, arrived here n few days ago, and contradicts the reports that Texas is in favor of d ssolntinn. He says, on the contrary, that the majority of the people aro deeidetiiy opposed to seces sion; but, he adds, if all the other Cot ton Slates should unitedly determine to secede, Texas might then join them. Senator Douglas recently said " Seces sion is anarchy, and it would bo better that a million men should full npon the ha tile field than that anarchy should pre vail in this country." On the anniversary of Washington's death, Dec. 14th, delegations of Free Ma sous from different States assembled lit Washington, mid pledged their influence to prumote honorable and fraternal feeling throughout the country. In thej,Senate, yst-rdny, Mr. Latham emphat cnlly pledged the fidelity of Califor nia to the Union, as It will be to the ii X..HiL esiwl VVoct ha mutter wlint occurs"lto that power on tho Continent; M thumb and finger,' ami charged the that is hoth able and willing lo bu.ld the driver to givo him "particular hell," and Pacific Railroad. These utterances of Mr. ,oarn ,;,n ( take care of his thumb and Latham, so directly untagon:st.-tt. ;0 the secession sentiments wr.ich Washington j ....t-... v.,. . -..rit,,,..rl !.:.,. havi, served to lift him tnanv pegs higher in the esteem of onr Union-loving! citizens, who, potting faith in these tele-1 ov(.rsftr sentence. When any one In graphic Roorbacks, had come to the -8tincti?l,iy pnlrlp his hand to protect his that tha voumr senator ol tnclu- i . ' . . . . eifle had really beet, seduced into the path of Di-union through the efforts of his older nnd more wily colleague. Before the week in ntpr we shall donlttless hear from Sen ator Baker pledging Oregon to the same path which Mr. Latham says California is destined, to tread. Stnnt, of Oregon, is said to be sound on the Union question. THE FORT HOCtTRtK BCSHCESS. Buchanan, apparently, docs not intend to strengthen Fort Moultrie. The wife or V,.i A nrl.Tson who commands it, is here, and made personal appeal to the Presi- i dent to send hm rem lorcemeill, nmuun that her husband intended to defend the position to the last. It is stated also that Gen. Scott advised the President, soma time since to strength, n the ' J?J Mou tne; but instead of comply ng witn this advice, the President caused the troops stationed there to lie ordered to California, when there were plenty of other troops who could have been detailed to that 1n,7- Tb! !?2rS 7:. .re aireal Z-JZ .n,l .re nrincinallr concentre-' ted to Charleston, who are to be assigned the duty of taking Fort Moultrie. Lad- ders for scaling me wana an, -; 77 : .a tw Mwarations are mane tor me enlr .ttarlr.. ine s.u? l"' ' aN .....lefnaw rtaftf ntf awaiting orders to stnxe. in m- ned with a lorce weak lime im - , . p... In number, with strict orders rmm the Tres - ident to ct only o. the defensive, wmcn d,Triestl.em f''Zn MsiHtu enemv who approacttea mem to meet an enemy wno PP"-' ffffr naer ne prcm . r . .. . OREGON CITY, OREGON, JANUARY 19. T wraly-tve Yearn Aaaaag the f.allaa ra Ullaa.af l.aat.laaa.aaa Mli.tl.aea Tea eara aa Ovevaeer) er laaUe views I Htavrrj. Think, ye masters, iron lisarb-d, I liu al y-m j ivul Imurd., Tb uk haw insut ba ks have smartal Fur tha twee a jour cane kffwJs! Mrs ON Till PLANTATION. It was the cotUm-gatherine; season, and I often went out 0:1 the plantation at night ,0 wtnrss the weighing and punnnins up of ' the day's work. Thr following is a de- scnptioii of the urat Kvne of tho kind I witnessed. When the overseer reached the place for weighing, he railed out to the black driver who was following his gang, whip in hand " Bring in the cotton." Instantly I saw the slaves hurrying np to their baskets and emptying their sacks into them. Two or three wagons were on the turn-row ready to receive the cotton when weighed. The black driver adjusted the scales, and then called ont, " All ready, sir." Several slaves immediately jumped into the large wagon bed, made for carting cotton, to empty the baskets and tramp down the cotton. One slave with a lantern seated himself on the side of the wagon to examine the baskets as they wept cmplitd, to see that there were no pumpkins, cleds, or other sub stances secreted in them to increase their weight. Another, who had been taught the nnmbers nn the balance, prepared to weigh; and another, who hud learned the numbers on the baskets, stood ready to an nounce the number of each basket as it was put on the scales. One set of hands stood ready to drag up the baskets and lift them on the scales, and another to lift them off when weighed, and dump them into the largo wagon bed. The overseer with a lurge folding slate in his hand, which contained the name and number of each working slave, with a record ofthe amount of cotton gathered by each one for two or three previous days is seated on a basket, where he cau see the figures on the balance, and detect any attempt to deceive him in the weight. All tilings arranged, he culls out, " Weigh, in a little less than no time!"' The slave who ennounces the number nl the basket on the scales, cries ont " Fifty, sir,'' and the one who takes account of the weight, responds, " One hundred and seventy-five, sir." The overseer compares the number with the record of previous days, and orders the black driver, who stood ready, with whip in hand, to give No. 50 fifty lashes, " d d well put on." " She ought to have had over two hundred pounds such a day as this a moist dny no wind, and better cotton to gut her in than yesterday." He declares, in tones which send terror through all their hearts, and with oaths and epithets too vile to priut, that he will flog every uigger that has not more cotton to-day than he had yesterday. No. 60 begi for mercy "dis one time, massa!'' her head and back hurt her so bad she could hardly stand np. "Goto the black driver, you infernal )h, nnd he'll cure your nches and pains? The cotton is wasting iu the field the weather is good for gathering it cotton must come, shall come, or Mr. Nigger's hide must pay the penalty" Another, who was sent to tha black driver, plead that tho skin was worn off his " fum nnd finger." The overseer cursed The Mark driwr ordered tli . . .. ! , , after mother, in their turn, to lem, shell off and come down," . ., t strip and lay down, to receive the execution of the from tl.e u.ooxtrac.t.ig ,. , driver culled on other slaves to stretch him 0t nnd hold his hand and feet. As tho female slaves came down, they gathered their clothes np to their waist, and lay flat on their faces. If auy one re fused, or did not keep her clothes out of the way of the lash,". two or three women were ordered to pot hf r in the vice when one instantly planted herself on the ground, secured the victim's head between her knees, and drew her clothes over it, so as to con- An. her arms and lav bare her back for - . -- the driver's lash, whde two others strercuca oot ner frtt and held them. j h7 Ken from one to thirty slaves ' awd after this manner, at one cotton ..,.. .,. .,, , thii. As fast as the wagons were loaded, tbey were driven off to the Cotton tn(j w(ien tie Mt ,H(?on WH loaded, tll ,iTM hnrried to the Gin house. Here, their first bnsine was to gather np in Urge baskets the cotton that bad been sanned that day and carry it up two flijhu of stairs, into the seeond story of the irin-hoose. This done, the wagons were drawn np and their contrnte spread npon ...... t -l .J a. . u.h int ln cleared, to intw-" j u readv fur sunning the next day. ... i . . dly.g work thOT imlfd, at the rf A pairrJ( -w haste, to their respective eabins. clling st the w , htmM,'for their pone of roni bread. k;.i rimtd their Uowatcloriapper, gro Step to be wmhed down with water. From this time no slave is permitted to leuve his cabin until the turn out bell rings iu tha morning. The second morning bell, which is the sig nal for turning out to work, Is rang at the earliest dawn; when the men, boys, girls, and women that have no small childreu, are at once marshalled and on their way to the cotton field, and the women who have childreu under ten are hurried off with then) to the children house, where the little things are committed to the charge of an old slave appointed for the purtiose, who makes the larger children take cure of the helpless ones. Here the nursing mothers were set to gathering cotton near the house, and the rest sent after the gang. The chil dren nndcr three mouths old, were to be nursed four times a dny; between three and six months, three times; from six to nine niou t lis, twice a day; and once a day there after until weaned, at the end of twelve months. This species of stave stock Is too valua ble to le exposed to can-less or unskilful munagemvnt. The old mine has htr rules laid down, which she must rigidly observe. Caro is taken that the mother does not nurse her Infant while her blood is heated by toiling In the sun. When the dew Is off, an old female slave brings out all the children over six to gather cotton. In her hand is a bundle of switches, " to teach the young Idea how to shoot," though she stimulates them more with other appliances than with the rod; such ns the fear of tho overseer and black driver, and encouraging them to race with one another iu cotton picking. These jnveuile laborers are generally between the ages of six and ten; all over ten go out with the mnln pang. The dews ure very heavy in the Missis sippi Valley. When neui'y off, the slaves' breakfast comes out in a. cart, which con sists of a box of bread and meat, accom panied with a barrel of water. (On this plantation, a half pound of meat was the daily allowance for each work'ng slave.) The black driver then calls to the slaves to bring their cotton to the baskets, change their wet clothes nnd get their breakfast, the prcscrilord allowance of which he deals nut to each one, while they seat themselves on the ground, or on the edge of a basket, to eat. Their dinner is brought out nnd distribu ted in like manner, about one o'clock. The above is a fair specimen of life on a cotton plantation, during the cotton-picking season, which extends through a period of nearly five months. Other crops, such as corn, pens, and pumpkins, are also to he gathered during a part of the same period, which is generally done in wet weather, when cotton could not ho dried, if picked. Toward the close of tho cotton-pieking season, when the weather becomes cold and wet, arid the slaves need more blood stirring excrcisf to protect them from such diseases as cold, rheumatism and pneumonia, the strong men are put to mauling rails, clear ing land, or ditching, nnd the feebler ones, together with the females, to clearing off tin? stalks from the corn nnd cotton fields. When a slave is sick he applies to the overseer, who examines his pulse nnd j tongue, and, if inflammatory symptoms np- penr, sends him to the sick house, to the care of nn old slave, who gives him such medicine, ns the overseer prescribes. Bat il no vhib't symptoms of disease can be de tected, he turns a deaf ear to ull his com plaints, curses nnd sometimes flogs him for playing powtm to deceive him, snd drives him out to his hard toil, weeping and groaning, perhaps with rent disease and suffering. Should he appeal to the black driver, as his hist resort, for pity nnd favor, his reply would probably be; " Do yon link I is a fool, nigger, to let white folks cut hd mv hidef o, sir-ee dm nigger not no n to lie kotched in dnt manner. II you not able to work, go to white folks, and if wh te folks send yon hack In work, yon era got to work. D it am dis nigger's husiness wr on whip, so don t tool you time grnntin' to dis nigger, I tell yon 'cause if yon does, yon is goV to grunt more worse 'en dat, firs' ting you know." Now, snpH)e this to tie a case of rent sickness and suffering, and not feigned and there are multitudes of just such cases who is responsible for this atrocious cruelty? Not thp poor blai k driver, sure ly; he is impelled by Inexorable necessity. Is it the overseer? Should he adopt a different course, his occupation would lie gene; bis work would never be done; every slave that conld get rid of w.rk by feigning sakness would be snre to do it. No; it is the nttlem which is the legitimate source of all this crui'ltv a system which has lieen blasphemon-dy landed as the offpring of Ood, and indicative of the highest type of civilization! Vaiuntort) labor, stimulated hy hope or desire, has no occasion to feiprn sickness. The question of ability to work may I safely left to the laborer himself. But the victim ol coerced labor cannot lew trusted thns his driver must decide the nnuhAn f,,e him nA liA t. nrf linl.l in rircmc H rrueiiv, i . Rlt in ehlirlilljr , whicl, charge it, by hnpl i . . decide it ernelly, though nnintentionally. this cru-lly npon the sys- a nvte abstraction, we lirat ion, npofi all who sns- (tain the sysieai, either dirw-tly er hy rou- mvanc. ob ui. side of Truth in every issue. 1861. No. 41. Aa Ot Brrav Came Ira. LOCISIANA rSKK TERRITORY AT Till TIMI OF ITS fl'KCIIASK DY Till I'NITKP STATES. It hss long been a prevalent Idea that Louisiana was slave territory when coded by Francs to the United Stutes; and hence, that the enact meat of the Missouri Com promise was an encroachment of the North npon the South, Inasmuch as it excluded the "Southern Institution" from a vast country ia which it legally existed at the time that country was acquired. This Is a gratuitous assumption, and fulmi In fact. Recently, an eminent legal gentleman of Illinois, Gov. Koerner, well qualified by his habit of research, his leguf acumen and general scholarship, to Investigate a ques tion of this kind, has just published the re sult of his examination of the very point at issue. n establishes, beyond all dispute, these facts: I. That the National Convention of France passed the following law in 1793: " The National Convention decrees that the slavery of negroes is uboliihtd in all the Culonit; it is therefore decreed that all mtn, without ditlinctmn of tolor, inhab itants of the Colonies, are French citizens and shall enjoy (jurirral) all the rights guarantied by the Constitution." Lot tlu 10 riuvoUe, an 8. K. That this law destroyed at once the legal tenure by which slaves In the colo nies were held; and that though they were not formally set free end suffered to enjoy their liberty, their detention was an act of force, for which the luw gave no warrant. III. That while this luw was In force, Louisiana wus ceded by Spain to France, and at once came within the operation of this salutary enact incut; and that every slave in tho territory was legally set free, ns soon as the net of cession wus accom plished. They were yet nominally slaves, bat frco by the law. At that time there were no slaves in ull France not one. IV. Before Slavery was Introduced into the French colonics, in 1804, by Napoleon, Louisiana still free, had been ceded to the United Stutes, and came into the possession of our government legally as guiltless of Sluvcry ns Massachusetts. Men were held there iu bondage, only because of their Ig norance of their natural and legul rights; or as the Govcruor says: ' " Louisiana at the cession was a free territory. All negroes were French citi zens, nml, under our treaty with France were entitled to he maintained and pro tected in tho free enjoyment of their liber ty, property, and ofthe religion they pro fessed. " " I nm speaking here merely of the legal status ol the negroes. I presume that, as France never took acta! posewlon, the slaves remained dt facto slaves. But there is no statute of limitation to the recovery of liberty. If treaty stipuhtions are sa cred, all slaves who were in existence when Louisiana berume a part of the French possessions, all born while It remained n Frsnch colony, and all their descendants, are entitled to freedom, as no law of Con gress, nor even a State Constitution, coufd take away their rights." Here, then, the whole fabric goes to the ground. Tho truth turns out to bu this: Louisiana was free when acquired. Tho Missouri Compromise gave hull of it np to the encroachments of S'avery. The North was outraged by the conces sion, nnd she, not the South, is the party to complain. IHv" A statement was recently present ed to the Statistical Congress in England, hy the delegates from Australia proper, and of Tasmania and New Zealand. The summing np made the yield of gold, from 1851 to the closo of 1850, 101,371,828, or over five hnndrrd millions of dollars. The American gold regions hnve yielded even more than this, and In round numbers it may be stated that in twelve years the addition to the world's stock of gold ex ceeds one thonsnnd millions of dollars. EmonATiON raoit Irf.i.and. The Wes tern (Ireland) Star alleges thnt (lie exodus still continues: " Even at this lute period of the season the ' exodus' is scarcely a whit abated. The ru-h Is still onward, nnd America seems to be the chief destin ation of those leaving the country. The stream of emigration via Liverpool still continues to flow almost as rapidly as in June or July." How to Obtaik a Chsistta HcsBAxn. A Louisville paper hss some answers to correspondents. Here is a sample; Jenny Ministers are not more addicted to dissipation than men of other professions. A few of the Knlloch type tske glu-toddies and liberties with females bnt the great majority of them are as good as lawyers and Doctors. If yoa want true Christian, marry an editor. . tST There are 100,000 warriors en the right side of the Cancusue, who are vigor ously defending their Independence. The capture of Schamyl did not end the war, so a great Russian expedition is now talk ed of to see if it cannot be dene during the next two years. a A monument ia to be erected In ( Gleoceater, England, to Bishop Hooper, - on the at- where he was hnrnt, A few years .go the remains of the stake and chain were excavated tbert, RATKH OK ADVKItTISINOl One square (twelve linos, or leas, brevier Bieasare) one insertion 3 00 Kai-h subsequent iasrriioa..., I 00 Huslnessoarus ana year 90 00 A liberal doiluelioa will lie made te those who advertise by tha year, IW The number of iuiertiena shouM he noted a Ilia mart in of an sdvsrtisenieul, atkerwlao it will ba (tublislisd till forbiddeu, sad Sharged ac cordingly. IV Obituary notices will ba ehargad half tha abava rates of advertising, tar Jus PsisTise tieeuttil alih neatness and disiMlch. I'ayment Jut Joh Printing mast te made etrieery or A were. Carrier'! Address. The ncw-boru year hath come, and doth dcmutid Tho usual off'ring from tho Carrier's hand: Bnt think not custom, stiff and cold, Has power your humble servant's heart to' mould; Te eke from me cold and plodding strain, To tickle putreus, or fit hopes of gain, I never write, unless with poet s lira Some lofty, stirring themes my pen inspire j One of tho Ai'ue must fun me with her wing, Before my soul is in a mood to sing. Full ninny years we've seen both come and go, Siuce BKr.Attsrr.An broke his lunce npon the foe; Since Freedom's banner, raised on high by inoso Who vowed from Oregon to drive its foes, Was nailed to mustliead, by a noblo few, Whose patriot-love nought but their country knew. For eight long gloomy years It seemed to sumo As though an everlasting uight had come; And Fiikkpou, rightful mistress of the world, Hud front her golden throne been rudely hurled. But Freedom's triumphs Luve at length exposed The false predictions of her ancient foes, ho scorned to own that men could ever be Each other's peers in clainij to liberty But held the Democratic doctrine right That governments arc justly bas'd on miyhi; That tyrants rule by luws ns fixed and old As these which futures labyrinths uufuld; A nd sagely held the normal state to be, Of ull the laboring clusscs, sluvcry. I lie. iron liutiu of tyranny, they said, On Sinai's tables wrote, ull we have read, And ordered Moses to reveal to Jews That mercy meant, iu Scripture, " turu the screws. ' This, such us Tacitus and Cornwall saw, Wus heavens fixed, unutterable law, Which made it right to rob the poor of par, Then coolly auctioneer their wives uway. the rights nl taste such only did respect, . All natural rights tucy uiubt of courso reject. They said they thought thut any one who would But peer in ocean in a thoughtful mood Could see that whales were humored in their likes, And God intended they should swallow A conflict 'irrepressible,' Hwixt might And heaven-born Liberty, as natural right, Wus never thought of till our noble sires On Bunker INI lit up the glowing fires, That shone o'er lurid night's despotic nail, And told tho world that freedom was fur all, They hung a ' Declaration' in tho sky, And toiling, wayworn millions, passing by, Paused, bent their heads, nnd with their burnished swords , Pointed their comrades to the noble words Thnt gave the lie to what kingcraft had said, And claimed a crown of freedom lor each head. Hail, Freedom 1 Liberty! whatu'er thy name, Thy character and pnrposo oro tho ssme, Oh this the natal uuy of Ssixtv-Osb, They were when gleaming eword and thundering gun, On Boston's heights, espoused tho holy cause laws. Of heaven-born natural right und equal King Street in Boston saw the fight begun, Chicago now proclaims the vic,t'ry won. The sons of Boston dealt in bloody knocks, Chicago's cohorts used the ballot-box. Boston slew tyruntu clad in coals of mail, Chicago rode tho taric on n rail. George Washington our fathers tnnght to fight, right. Abe Lincoln taught their sons to vote lot Old Honest Abr'am, stately, noble, tall, Has made on Buck and Brcck a New Yenr's cull; no rang no bell, but thundered ut the door, As callous fists were wont iu days of yore. His knocks repeated mudeench panel shako So terribly, Old Buck begun to qunke; . He shook with fear, and turning deadly pnlo Exclaimed, " Home person' knocking with a rail!" JoLnnestuggcr'd up, and twisted the knob, Thinking some Demot-rut wunted a job; " God bless you," said Jo, " you certainly must dust ; Have come a long way, you're covered with Pray, whut cuti I do? Speuk out, my good friend, On honeH Jo Lane you may, sir, depend. Perhaps from Orleans, you como all the way To lift a fat job, or get your buck pay? Or do you but wish to r.fiu the maids?'' " iVw, Mir," said Old Abe, " I'd rather make railt." " Make rails!" said Old Jo, " that beats the old Call Yoa certainly are a good Democrat; . But, if so, I'm sure you're dreadfully green, For the like of you was never yet seen To stand at the door and ask for a place Which trnu gentlemen ull think a disgrace. I see, to be sure, you're robust und tall, And look as if you could handle a maul, But no Southern man, which of course you are, To rob a poor slave of this tool woul J dare ; So dry up your jokes, und tell me your will ; If sound on the goose, your pockets we'll fill. . hand'-" But read me that scroll you bold iii your " It reads," said Old Abe, " Go out, Buck, and stand " At this, poor Old Jo fell down at the door, And eaves-dropping Buck sweut blood at each pore. Says he to old Cass, ' The Nicholson end!' Says Cass in reply, ' Remember Ostendl' Says Back to old Cobb, ' Your dev'lish Slave Code!' Says Cobb to poor Bock, 'Remember Covode!' Said the whole gsng, giving shoulders a shrug, ' We're certainly doomed! oar graves are . tWVoHg!' (Ctntinmi en nest fage ) fpw witboot dsauga. tiv. Dreoarstioo w:n ba ed w id cjuaouv-. ;