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VOL. I.
EUGENE CITY, OREGON, OCTOBER Lr, 18G2.
NO. 41
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Corruption.
Grave charges of corruption have been made
against several U. S. officials on this coast. A
commission of investigation is said to have been
appointed at Washington to examine into the
conduct of tho Custom House oflieials in San
Francisco, against whom tho late Deputy Col
lector Cushuiiiii and others have entered serious
complaints. Out of a long list of specifications
which are on file in Washington, ami which are
published in tho San Francisco Bulletin as hav
ing been made under oath, wo select a few
"simples." After allowing excessivo dray ago
on the goods pent to tho appraiser's rooms for
examination, it is charged that tho goods ure
lather freely " sampled" by certain interested
parties belonging to tho appraiser's department.
' lnu ot, tiiti- nih ility swears that to Ins certain
knowledgo " fancy goods from Franco and Ger
many, also Japanese and China goods, cigars,
coffee, sugar and oil, have been hugely sampled."
These " samples" are said to be either distribu
ted to friends or reserved for private use. A
large lot of costly tea has been taken out in
pound packages and distributed. A cargo ot
Japanese goods, consisting of writing cases, la
dies' work eases, and other costiy specimens,
were largely sampled and the samples sent round
as Christmas presents. An invoice of porcelain
ware, from Bordeaux was sampled so heavily
that it took " a large cask and box " to carry tile
samples off to tho private resi lenceof tho Cus.
torn House officer who sampled tho articles.
CoiFoe, tea, sugar, etc., are stowed away iu large
quantities iu curtain rooms, for " family use"
sometimes as high as 150 pounds of coffee being
required for a " sample." One of tho employees
proposed to a fellow that they sample largely
from tho goods sent to the Custom House, and
t'len sell tho samples and divide tho money. It
is charged that Deputy Cushman, in trying to
prevent this rapacity, raised a storm around his
ears, and that Collector llankin, instead of sus
. taming Uiiuin his reformatory ellbrts, dismissed
hint from office.
Very serious charges havo also been made
against Victor Smith, Collector at Port Town
send, W. T., which, if tho half f tkem arc true,
show him to be entirely unfit for any post ot
honor or trust.
Tim n.iners of WashiiT'ton Territory are some I
of them publishing specifications of very serious
charoes against the integrity of Indian Agent
W. II. Barnhart.
Equally grave charges are also mado in high
quarters against Indian Agent Biiddle, at Cor
vallis. Complaints nre also mado in referenco to one
or two other officials but not having been mad?
public, we defer speaking of them for tho present.
Now all of these officials may b able to set
themselves right with the Administration, and
we hope they will. I ho heads of all tho Do-
Tvnrtments aro men of the soundest inteffritv. and
while they will leouiro conclusive evidence of ,
malfeasance in office before condemning an oi'ioer, I
a l.oliovA tkt with that evidence no time will
be lost in making a public examplo of such as
are euilty of dishonosty. This Administration
came into power under a pledge to economize,
to correct abuses, and install reformatory meas
urcs generally. Wo have always advocated
such a policy on tho part of the Government,
ind thoso who took office under it did so with a
full knowledge that honest men alone wore
wanted for places of public trust. If culprits
cannot be got at tveclualbj on this coast in
aliotiM nf l.iw autlieientl v severe to meet
the
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as well as rebels, onyht to be hunq. It seems to
be a clear case ot " military necessity." Argut.
Democracv. What does the word Democrat
mean at ihe present time i It means a man
most violently pro-slavery and a secessionist.
What was the original and true meaning of Dem
ocracy 1 Government by the people, which can
be put in force by a majority or plurality vote,
and in no other way. Lincoln was elected in
this Democratic: war, and vet lac'C itnc " Di m-
vcrats " niit his authority.
case, wc hope that martial law will be extended i "u w uio iiiaeuouiiei., on ap.au so wen
over us for that purpose, for we have pretty I matured that even tho boundaries of the pro
much made up our mind that dishonest oflieials, I PoscJ domain had been fixed, independently of
Politics is New Vouk. Iloralio Seymour
is the candidate for Governor of New York on
the Democratic ticket, lie professes unbounded
devotion to tho Government, an J even pretends
til mi fii'fliiii- tli'in lm 1 ?.itnild i i-i n a !n en itnm-f if
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tho Administration and tho war. The New
York Tribune, of a lato date, thus speaks of his
supporters :
There are in this State, as in every State, men
who thoroughly sympathize with the Jelf Davis'
rebellion. They are more numerous just here
than almost anywhero clso in tho free States,
because of tho intiinato and long continued com
mercial as well ns political relations between
our city Mid tho slave region. They do not by
any means embrace tho whole Democratic- party,
but the great body of them havo usually acted
with that party, and still adhere to it. And
when wo say that every voter among them will
support Horatio Seymour for Governor, we
state what every intelligent person knows to be
the naked truth. We havo a number of journals
in this city which arc just as fivorablo to the
Secessionists as they dare be, and every one ol
them is red-mouthed for Seymour. Vo have
well known politicians whose hearts arc iu Dixie
and who chucklo over every Union defeat, and
every man of them is for Seymour. Wc have
one creat'hotel w hich is the notorious rendezvous
and headquarters of rebel emissaries and sym
pathizers visiting our city, and it will poll its
every voto for Seymour. Wo havo at least one
member of Congress who lias openly and every
where championed tho cause of the rebel-, and he
is hot for Seymour, and expects to be re elected
on the Seymour ticket. And thero is not a
human being anywhero able to count forty who
docs not know that, tho election of Sevniour
would bo exulted over throughout Jelf Davis'
dominions as a proof that the North was tired of
tho war, and anxious to sneak out of it on almost
any conceivable terms.
Effects of Delay. Maury, of " Astsouom
ical Observatory " fame has addressed a letter to
the Loudon limes, in which he says :
"It is a fact not generally known abroad, but
I may state it now, that when this war commen
ced, and even after wc had assembled an army
in the field, such was the want of preparation,
and such was tlio lack of munitions of war on
our part, that there was not only not a percus
sion can machine in the Confederacy, but when
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the army of Manassas took up its position it had
but four rounds to tlio man. Had tho enemy
joined battle with us there a few weeks sooner
than ho did, we should, for tho want of percussion
caps, have had to quit tho field or fight him en
tirely with the bayonet."
It never was doubted by anybody, who had
common sense, and the courage to uso it, that
when our forces crossed, tho Potomac in May,
1S01, they should havo marched directly upon
Manassas Junction, which was au important
strategic point, and which no enemy had then
assembled to defend.
Wc have preserved ample notes for a history
of this war, and if our life and strength are spur jd,
we will do our part towards preserving, for the
benefit of mankind, the record of tho manage
ment, under which, what might have been prompt
ly quelled as a rebellion, has expanded into a
civil war of proportions so gigantic as to have no
precedent in tho annals of the world. 'citional
Republican,
A Dursted Hubble.
Tho llichmond Examiner, of the 9th August,
has an article finally giving up hopo of foreign
intervention on the side of the rebel Confederacy.
Tho editor begins with the remarkable statement
that, while, in the first months of this war, tho
South acted upon the offensive, "she was a little
embarrassed for some time by that astonishingly
conservative temper of her people which made
them loth to abandon a L nion that
she had ex-
pended much tflort to establish." The writer,
continuing, says, " in spite of this sentiment the
South assumed the aggressive, and maintained
it successfully for the full period of six months
in the first stages of the war." Wo are partic
ular to record this Confederate admission, as it
involves a fact which the sympathizers have been
prone to deny at all times. Here wo have the
honest confession that the war was begun by
what the Kxamincr calls " the South," and that
it was waged offensively and ngrcssivcly. The
delicate allusion to tho "little embarrassment"
encountered in the first month", shows that tho
conservative temper of tho people did
"'' regard the war as a protective or defensive
one, but as directly assailing the Union. It is
well to remember this firmly established but
' l.ipl'lw rrMtAc( ti-iith r.l uni n if i f ill in T 1 1 rirttil iifi
U1IUI1J ti'llLVU'l ,.(,!., I'IIIVIIIq I. Ill J'I-1UI V 'IllUH
with another remark of the rebel organ from
which we have quoted. Since the first six months
of aggressive war upon the Union, tho South,
says the Examiner, " hat receded from the bound
ary the had marked ovt for the Confederacy" So
we have here the bold and unexpected announce,
ment of a fact long felt and known by loyal
men, to wit : that secession was a scheme based
directly upon the idea of conquest the treason-1
able establishment of a government upon the
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the wishes of the citizens embraced within the
limits, and in spite of the conservative temper
of tho whole people interested. This develop,
ment furnishes all the evidence of a preconcerted
conspiracy, and exposes the motives of the ring
leaders iu advance of the verdict of history, now
being made up from the materials gathered w ith
in the pat twenty months and longer Missouri
Republican,
Dxdiks and ii.inny goals cci cr tail to pride
1 1, ifiii-elves on tii-.r kid-.
Spirit of the ltcbvl Tress.
Tho ussemblago of tlio Confederate Congress is
made the occasion of tho uncorkinir of some bit-
ter vials of wrath by thu rebel newspapers. The
! I i ft . r . t ,
iieninoiiii examiner 01 ..'vuguri imu says :
" The meeting of Congress to day is most or
pontine, it iTovidoueo liau ordered it with an
eyo siii";l to thu i'ood of t'i; Confeilerriru- it
would Havo designated the very
has been chosen for tho occasion.
period winch
It members
have coiiio in tho spirit which should actuate
them, and shall enter nt onco upon the impor
taut business demanding their attentior, their
names will be honored for generations to como ;
but if thoy have met in the selfish spirit of the
modern politician, each man to voto himself into
a brigadier -generalship, a judgeship or some
other fat office at tho disposal of tho men in
place, it were much better that Congress would
adjourn at once, and that the grave business ot
public defense should bo left to the unselfishness,
honesty, patriotism and energy of tho State gov
ernments. Tho Confederate Legislature is confronted at
the threshold of its proceedings Ly no less a fact
than tho rapid recruiting of 000,000 troops by
the public enemy, to be used, iu addition to
those already invading the country, avowedly
for its impoverishment, subjugation and enslave
ment. To repel this formidublo power it has in
tho field less than 300,000 effective men : and
measures must bo taken at onco to meet this
exigent state of ullairs.
Unfavorable as this exhibit may bo as to tho
land forces, tho case is much worse with respect
to oprcrations upon the water. Congress has
been liberal in appropriations for that branch of
tho service; and the moneys which it has be
stowed with lavish hand havo bee l spent v ith
alacrity ; but tho magilieent vessels on which
they have bren laid out have been destroyed by
t ie navy itself as soon as their triumphant sue-J
cess and absolute invincibility havo been demon
struted. Wo commenced the war with
a magnificent and wonderfully well supplied
navy, and a prospect of success upon the water,
which if improved, would have led to great
things. Wo aro now, so far as the public inter
est will allow to bo revealed even to Congress,
without anything, except that notable Secretary,
Mr. Mallory, a Navy Department, Navy Bureau,
and swarms of navy clerks, which the vast es
tablishment of Great Britain would scarcely
suffice to keep employed. It, has been proposed,
through the press, to put Mr. Mallory into tho
Mcrrimac No. 2, and blow them up together.
A simpler method would bo a vote ot Congress
requesting tho President to place this branch
of tho service into better hands."
The liichmond Vwpialch remarks :
" It will bo for Congress to repair, as best it
can, tho mischief done tho public service by a
weak and impracticable Executive; To look to
the reduction of tho forces in the field ; tho decay
of military dieiplino ; the demoialization of our
armies, and tho jeopardy in which our cause has
jccn put by a long course of Iriilmg conduct,
childish pride of opinion, unworthy obstinacy,
.,..o oouuseues, eonueii, ueuauco oi p.iouc
opinion, unpei iousness und despotic, aliectation
on tho part of those entrusted with tho war.
Nkw Orleans is an expensive luxury. The
Government is p ying more than .$50,000 a
a mouth considerably more than tho army of
occupation costs to feed tho starving rebels
whom Maj. Gen. Lovcll and Jeff Davis have left
on our hands or sent in from day to day from
beyond our lines to be fed. Tho approach of
winter renders it a serious question whether the
National Government is called on to support
men who refuse to take tho oath of allegiance.
Gen. Butler has ulrcudy orgnnied one colored
regiment, the darkest of tho members of which
ho is reported to havo said is "about tho color
of the lato Daniel Webster." This step has
probably stimulated the I Inn. Keverdy Johnson
und others, who desire (ieti. Butler to bo super
seded, to renewed exertions, and it is said j
they aro not without hopes ol success iu their
enterprise.
A Model Senator. The Visalia 1)
la gives :
tho following extracts from a speech recently
delivered in ahat region by Thomas Baker,
a member of tho California Senate from Tu
lare and Fresno : .
I have como to the couusio.: that it is a
public necessity that this Con. dry shall be under
two separate governments
There is not a single, vestige of the Comtitii
tion but what has been violated by the party
in power.
Tho people of tho South have a right to
set up a government of their own.
A ntate cannot be indicted lor treason, w o i.
owe our allegiance to our respective States in
preference to the General Government, the !
Luion pltform to tho contrary notwithst.in.Ii.i?. i
v hat 1 am speaking hero to-day is considered ,
treas n
and I expect I am standing on slippery
ground; out l am in a backwoods piace, where
"uul ngni mm ins military j.ower rannoi
C" - ' nt ,ll! 1 wil1 exercise the 1 bei ty of
free speech, it I have to look through the:
rates ,
of a priscn. 1
The advocates of the Union gt growling
ground ns a wolf, holding up a dig which is
j nothing but a rag worth twenty-live ccr.ts, to
gull the ignorant. Sir, this fl ig has been pros. :
; titutcd Vj thu lowest iniquity. I
1 have spoken in strong terms, but no strong ( these free musical eutert uninctiis are much
cr than my conscience dictates. attended by women and children, here are ice
We hope General W right will give this trca-' water pumps to pieaso the little folks, and boys
sotab!e Senator an early opportunity to look ' to wait m thirsty ladies without chargo in oddi
"throug'i the grates of n prison," even if he tion to th" lemoiiu. (no 8piriU,).:akcs, etc., to
does live "in a backwoods place." Such a traitor , be had at the adjacent refreshment saloon, where
should i, ever be allowed to take his scat in th . the tiri';e of everything is fixed at reasonable
Sttiatc of a loval State
t)rii;iu of Slavery.
Mr. Bancroft, iu
tlio first volumo of his
'History ol tlio l intcd Mates, gives an account
of tho carlv trallie of tho Europeans in slaves,
,' :
purchased
sold them
la the middle ages tho enetians
white men, Christians and others, and
to tho Saracens in Sicily and Spain. In En
gland the Anglo-Saxon nobility soid their ser
vants ns ;l:iv. tu f,trui(inu, Tho Portugese
mat imported negro slaves trom W estorn Ulrica
into hurope, in livl. Spam soon engaged m
t radio, and netrro slaves abounded in some
places of that kingdom.
After America was discovered, tho Indians of
Hispaniola were imported into Spain and made
slaves, j. no opamarus visited tne coast ot iNornti
America and kidnapped thousands of tho Indians
whom they transported into slavery in Europe
and tho west lufies Columbus himself kid
napped 500 native Amcrians took them to Spain,
that they might bo publicly sold ut Seville.
Tho practice of selling Indians into bondage
continued two centuries.
Negro slavery was first introduced into Amer
ica by Spanish ulaveholdcin who emigrated
with their negroes. A royal edict of Spain
authorized negro slavery iu America in 1518.
King Ferdinand sent from Seville fifty slaves
to labor in the mines. In 15.' I the direct
traffic-in slaves between Africa and Hispaniola,
was enjoind by royal ordinance. Las Casus,
who saw the indians vanishing away before
the cruelly of the Spaniards, suggested that
the negroes, who nlono could endure severe
toils might bo further employed. This was
in 15ls.
Sir John Hawkins was the first Englishman
who engaged iu tho slave trade. In 155:2 he
transported a large cargo of slaves to Hispaniola.
In 155T another expedition was prepared, and
Queen Elizabeth protected and shared in tho
traffic. Hawkins, in one of his expeditions, set
fire to an African village and cut oirthruo thou
sand inhabitants; ho succeeded iu seiz'uiii two
hundred and sixty.
James Smith of Boston mid Thomas Keyser
first brought tho colonies to participate in sla
very
Iu 1051 they imported a cargo of negroes.
iiirougiiout .Massachusetts the cry ol justice was
raised against them as malefactors and murder
ers ; tho guilty men were committed for tho of
fense, aud tho representatives of tho po p!o or
dored the negroes to bo restored to their native
laud at the public expense. At a little later
period thro were both Indian and negro slaves
iu Massachusetts.
In lC!S:i a Dutch ship entered James liiverand
lauded twenty negroes for sale. This was tho
epoch of the introduction ot slavery into Vir
ginia. For many years tho Dutch wero prin
eipaly concerned in the slavo trade iu tho mar
kets of Virginia.
Nkw Youk Central Park. A correspondent
of tho Sacramento Union thus speaks of the
Park:
'ludead 1 think the Park, even now, is supe
rior to .'lliv fliintr . ,r tit,. L-iii.l in tl,,. 1.1 I I,.
its JovoIy Ja-us (or ratilel. its ai0 for iu suVer;l
divisions ure united into a continuous sheet of
water) aro pretty boats for public use, some of
which convey passengers around the whole ex
pause for ten cents each, and somo of which are
"call boats" to bo engaged by one or more per.
sons at a small price per hour. These boats are
rowed by faiicifuly dressed boatmen, and starting
fiom the elaborated stone steps of "Tho Terraces'
go uder a variety of iron, stono aud wooden
bridges, built in a variety of elegant styles ; dart
around cunning little islets, where roses grow
in glorious luxurianco and beauty ; glide among
whole families of long-necked swans und cygents
that dot with white, like great bunches of cotton,
the glistening surface of tho lakes, or drop along
side of tasty landing places of stone, whoes
graceful pillars support Italian villa liko struc
tures, with seats, gay swinings, etc., for public
accommodation. 1 have seen twenty such boats
at once of a moonlight evening gondoliering
about the lako all Clled with ladies ami gentle
men singing 'Glory to tho Union,' und making
the night air vocal with their hilarity. Then
the beautiful drives and walks of tha Park.
Only think of seven miles of carriavo road now
complete, and as much more of road devoted to
equestrians, lJCside.s miles a"id miles of nicely
made paths for pedestrians now running uphill
and how plunging into little vales ; now rushing
out into tho sunlight and anon hiding themselves
umid trees and flower bushes; now curving over
a pile of rock with steps cut into their prec
ipitous sides) and anon dropping down beside a
quiet brook over which tho willows hang, as if i
liko Narcissus, dying away in agaze at their
own fiir proportions. Along these paths iron
benches, for the weary to rest upon, are closly
placed, some beneath wide spreading trees, some ,
,., - n iif.st!,.,l ni;,i ,l..,.l f..i; .o,l mvn. ,.i.,l
some i the oj.en nir. "Hydrants with tin cups
nUaehc 1 to their nozzles, are also scattered about
,ICV5 r,.ltM ,or the refreshment of tho thirsty.
Over the carriage roads water carts constantly
lr.lV(;i sprink!u them well, and keep down th-j
dust, w hile one and two horso vehicles run in all
directions to convey -itorsaII over the Park nt
seventy - five cents per hour. On Saturday after-
nfinn. n li.-iud fif inililrt (Iisfrinrsfi nlnroirinrlir fl.r
110 gratuitous entertainment of tho multitude.
An admirable place, nicely elevated, seats a
few thousand pesrsotn out of tho sun, and gi.
gat. tic touts below accommodate thousands more
all iu close vicinage to tho neat little building
which has been erected for the musicians. As
; points by the Park Commissioners. On Satur- j
day, tho grass (interdicted on other dayt to
to tho Vandal tread of human foot) ii left open
for the romp and play of children, and they
avail themselves of it gladly. Such U our
Central Park, how d( you like the picture 1 I
u1 ..QU it is 80lnething realy delightful par-
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lieillillj US 1.3 tlfC BL14UUUU Willi TUHIIU
buildings, open to tho air at the sides, but roofsd
i i at the top, whero you can sit and gaie on
surroundinr seenos and enjoy the aummer
breeze and the scent ot fluwero, without being
exposed to tho heat or dirt. A noble place ia
the Central Park to make love in If man,
has any cloqticnco iu his soul, what a chance to
pour his passioi'ate tones into the ear of ft belov
ed object when sui rounded by slghta and aconei
so romautio and bewitching ;
OitTiioGiiAr-tiv. The following is verbatim
copy of tho certificate attatched to the return of
tho postmaster in Shawnee County, Missouri,
I hereby eirtify that tho four go'in A Counte ia
as ueer 1 it to as i now how to make it if there is
any mistake it is not Dun a Purpcrs."
i
Tub Democratic party " still lives," in all ita
glory, all its purity, ull its patriotism, MovnL
uiii Democrat.
So does Jefl Davis, and Yancey, and Toombs
(who wouldn't cotton to tho rebol committoe
of incendiaries), and Wigfall,und Benjamin, not
to mention a thousand other good Democrats
who are to-day fighting in tho armies of Dixie
for " the Constitution as it is and the Union as it
was." " Let moderation preyail." Appeal,
.
Wkaltii of the Anciknta. Croesus possessed
in landed property $8,000,000, besides slaves,
money, and furniture worth as much more ; ho
used to say, that a citizen who could not support
an army or a legion did not deserve the title of
a rich man. Seneca had a fortune of (1,700,000.
Tiberius left nt his death (98,125,000, which
Caligula expended in twelve months, Vespasian
on ascending tho throne, estimated all the ex
penses of Koine ot $175,000,000 a year. The
debts of Milo amounted to $3,000,000. Ciesar,
In 'fore lie entered imnn nil v nfiicn. flvni JtlX.
C5,000 ; ho had purchased the friendship of
Cairo lor 2,!00,M)0, and that of Uucjue faulus
for $ 1 ,500,000. At the tirno of the asassination
of Julius Ctosar, Marc Antony owed (15,000,000;
he owed this sum on the ides of March, and it
was paid by the kalends of April ; between the
death of Ciesar and his own decease he spent
$735,000,000. Appius spent 12,500,000, in de
bnuchcry ; and, unding an examining tale affairs,
that he had only $100,000 left, he conimitUd
suiido by poison, because lia considered that
sum insufficient for his maintauanoe, Csesar
gave Satulla, tho mother of Brut ns, a pearl worth
?50,000. Cleopatra, at an entertainment she
gave to Antony, dissolved in some vinegar a
pearl worth $ 100 not a great roaay thousand
dollars, as is commonly stated aud be drank
the acid beverage.
Suppress the Abolitionists
Tho Sacramento Union says : liar per1 Iftei
ly once so conservative that it discharged one
of its most brilliant contributors in obedience to
tho demand of Southern subscribers has become
intensely radical, if tho influence of that journal
is as extensive as its circluation, who can wonder
at the growth of tho anti-slavery sentiment in
the loyal States. Hero is tho " Lounger'a" an
swer to a favorito cry of tlio secession sympa
thizers of the North :
" Let us suppress the Abolitionists," cries
somo slack-witted orator, " and the rebellion
will cud !" Of course it will, you daar soul ;
aud if all your fellow citizens had been of jour
caliber and kidney there would hare been no re
bellion at all. If Hampden and his frieads had
said, " let us suppress these fellows who ctj out
against sliip-moucy," England would liave quiet
ly submitted to the tirauny of the Stuarts. If
His and Patrick Henry bod shouted, 44 hurrah
for King (ieorge and the Stamp Act!" there
would have been no bloody revolution. If Mir
abcau aud the Fronch people had bellowed,
"Hurrah fir starvation : aristocrats forersr I"
all tho trouble in Franco would speedily hare
ended. To be sure every right would bars
been annihilated, every liberty destroyed, and
few rich and remorseless people would bare gov
crned Franco ; but there would hare been Ho
difficulty, except moral rot and goseral aatiooal
decay.
"Let us suppress the Abolitionists V But
supposo you begin at the beginning. First sub
due tho common some of the coanlrr ; thee. oi
may subdue thoso who influence it. It is not
what you call with an amusing persistaaoe, abo
litionisin, which causod the war, but the opening
of tho eyes of the people so they saw. Tbs)
people of this country know perfectly well that
slavery is at tho bottom ot this rebellion. It
there had been no slavery there would bars been
no war ; just as there would have been no aboli
tiotiism. The temperance movement springs
from drunkenness ; and whes a drunken man
kills his wife, don't you think tho tstotaleri are
responsible tor it 1
Slavery was trying to hill the country. It
had almost succeeded. " Watch ! watch P
shouted the abolitionists. Slavery, naddened
that its crime had been discovered, shot and stab
bed right and left. " Taore, thore !" cry the
sensible Wicklilfo Ac Company " this comes of
calling the watch ! Why the devil can't you
hold your tounges? Let us suppress those fel
lows that cry watch, watch ! and all will beqtsWC
again !"
Certainly : a dead dog or a dead oatiots $t
both very quiet. And a nation of freemen throt
tled, with its own consent, by a stars system,
like ours, is the deadest and meanest of all dead
dogs.
Wnr is a cannon just fired, like a whipped
hool boy 1 Because it is warm at the bretoh.