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Quarrelling Over the Xjfro.
The Cincinnati Couimereia,the leading
Abolition organ of that city, thus takes
issue -with the, New York Anti Slavery
Standard upon the question of negYo
suffrage.
The Anti Slavery Standard takes hih
grounds on the -question of universal suf
frage. It regards suffrage not only as an
inalienable right, but holds it to be trea
son against God's Government to with
hold it from any human being his hands
hare formed. , If it is an inalienable right,
inherent in inan,will the Standard please
say whether a Government tan for a mo
ment withhold it From any human being,
male or female, who arrives in the United
States, and declares his, or her, intention
to become a citizen thereof. In other
words, are not naturalization laws in the
nature of high treason against God's Gov
ernment?: Certainly, it would be injus
tice of tha rankest kind to the foreigner
were he deprived of life, liberty, or the
pursuit of happiness, whe,n ho landed at
New York, unless for crime, and yet, if
suffrage 13 as much an inalienable right !
as any or all of these, is not the same ab-;
etraet injustice done him. and the same'
rank treason committed by depriving him i
of it for an hour j as would be done were j
he incarcerated without cause ? Let us ;
be consistent in this matter. Inalienable
rights belong to all men, of all nations.
We cannot set up laws discriminating
against their enjoyment and exercise, be
cause the individual happens to have been
bom , in Ireland or Germany, and not in
the United States. . But if fie is entitled
toUhe one and enjoyment of one, because
it is inalienable, he is entitled to the use
and enjoyment of all that are inalienable.
Down with naturalization laws then. Give
the Irishman, the vxerman, the Swede,
the Italian, the Frenchman, the use of the
ballot the moment he lands on our sou
and declares himself hereafter a citizen of
the United States. If the right i3 ina
lienable, it is rank iaj ustice to withhold
it from a. young man till he is twenty-one.
He is capable of exercising it at a much
earlier date. No law denies him the en
joyment of all other inalienable rights,
and he is free to exercise them the mo
ment he has the capacity and desire to do
go. 'Why, then, make an arbitrary defi
nition of time at which he is privileged
to? use' this right, and before which it i3
convenient for him : to- exercise it. Let
the laws be so reformed that the youth of
the land may vote thefmonient he knows
enough to deposit the ballot. Then there
are the women, who. if permitted to vote,
would .-arrive at the legal privilege three
years earlier than the males. Why are
they cruelly, wickedly, and monstrously
deprived of the exercise of our inestima
ble, inalienable right ? They do this in
Australia once the Botany Bay of Eng
lish criminals. ' Isn't it high treason
aeainst God's Government to withhold
the right of suffrage from them? What
has the Standard been doing these thirty
years, that it has not agitated the subject?
It might have done something for the dis
franchised ; white women of the North,
even though it could not accOmplisbrmuch
for the" oppressed blacks of the South.
Inalienable riirhts are universal rights,
beloBurno- ta all - men and aH women. If
ttffrage be of their aumber they cannot
rightfully be deprived of it,- except for
(Crime, , It is oaf opinion that the argu
jmct'of the . Standard proves too much,
fL iavokts it in absurdities from which
po.Iogie or sophistry eia release it. , ,
Trouble in the Ca.mp: The Phila
4elphi Ledger Las the following from its
Washington igprresponcrent: - -'
I heat from authoritative sources that
the'radkals are arming their batteries
heavily fV the creat contest they are de-
Ccrogress...- sident Johnson,- they as
sert is not ciing &itt the principles
upon, tchich he was elected ana it is-the
determination ot theseentlfimea that no
other .principles sha govern, if they can
help it, .One of the fbst radical of the
$ Senators has evea Jiioso far as to de
clare his .intention of. uScrins a bill of
fmpeaehmeat soon after the meeting of
Regress, and advocating it with' all his
accustomed nsrgy and determination.
President, it w" well known, Js not
jpmindfal of the fanatical war-cloud that
is rising, "but he, has cast his anchors upon
ft sure bottom, and ho apprehension need
be felt for the safety of- either ' ship or
OIIA' GAMMON N THE AltOM
TIOX PARTY.
Aii able satirist in one of the Eastern
papers thus hits off the deception and dis
honesty, the inconsistency and unconsti
tutionality, of the policy aoed upon by
the party in power:
We . have accomplished a great work,
but much remains to'ibe done, before we
can establish firmly the great principles of
our party. c Have made slaves of six
millions of people who have always been
our enemies, and we have made four mil
lions of freemen, whom we must make our
friends. The first thing to be done is to
drop the name ot Republican, and take
the name of Union. The present popu
larity of that name may last long enough
for us, to fix ourselves so firmly in power
as to defy all opposition. It is true, wc have
never been able to retain any name long at
a time, because some how or another our
principles and our measures have always
soon rendered every name we have taken
unpopular and thrust us out of power.
We began as Federalists, theu National
Republicans, then Union men, then Free
Soilers,. then Native Americans, then
Know Nothings, then Republicans and
now we have come back to Union men.
All these names we have, by turns, brought
into contempt with the masses. Now,
while our name is popular, wc must man
age so to secure our power that the masses
.shall not have power to turn us out. We
hare the purse and the sword in our
hands ; we must manage to keep, them.
There are several subjects which must
be managed with great eare aud adroit
ness to secure our success. The first is
the question of negro suffrage. They
must have the privilege of voting, or
rather we must have the privilege of vot
ing them. They are entitled to vote if
anybody is, because they are the men who
have enabled -us to crush the rebellion,
and secure the great power we now pos
sess. Did not our great, good and lament
ed Lincoln declare that " to dispense with
the services of the negro troops would be
to give Up the contest?" What our
white soldiers could not effect our negro
soldiers most gloriously accomplished.
They are therefore entitled to vote. But
it is not so much what they are entitled
to, as what we want and must have, that
is to be considered. We want and must
have their votes to setoff against the
votes of the poor white men. ' We can
make a valuable use of it, too, in another
way. e can use them as a base to in
troduce a property qualification for voters.
and if we can effect this, we disfran
chise the u poor white trash" who always
vote against us. : -
But we must not commit ourselves to
this now. It might prevcut us from be
ing able to accomplish it. It might drive
off many who -are now supporting us. We
can make nothing by it; all who are in
favor cf it will vote for us any how, be
cause they know they have nothing to
hope from our opponents ; they know it is
our interest to adopt that measure when
we can, and they know we do not hesitate
to deceive anybody to secure our interest.
The negroes can't help us by their votes
now, but when we get the power, we can
adopt it, and their votes will make up for
what we lose by it.
There is another ; question which .will
give us great trouble, and upon which,
unless we manage it with great skill, we
are in danger of shipwreck. It is fraught
with danger and difficulty. I allude to
the exemption of Government securities
from taxation. It must be saved at all
hazards. One of our grealest men said.
" let the Government take care of the
rich : the rich will take care of the poor."
This is the doctrine ; we must impress it
upon the people. W c must especially
ring all the changes upon the horrors of
repudiation, I find there is a strong and
growing . aversion to this exemption, and
the people have feelings and opinions that
it is very hard to answer. I heard the
other day a very plain-looking man talk
ing very strongly against, the injustice of
it, ana as there were several listening very
attentively to him, I thought I would put
in' a word in its defense. So I said to
him, " My friend, don't you know that
Congress has passed a law that these secu
rities shall ? not be taxed by the States ?"
Tie replied, " Yes, I know it ; but I know
it is unjust, and it is the first time I ever
heard it claimed that the Constitution
gives Congress the power to say what
cronertv a State shall or shall not tax. . If
it has the right to say that a State shall
not tax one sort of property, it has a right
to say it shall not tax. another. If there
is auy property it has the right to exempt
from taxation, it is the Government lands
yet it has never claimed that right, but
nas always inaue a uaigaau yj uui eiict.
A "But if you tax these bonds they will
be sold out of the State, and that much
capital be driven out. i -
" Well. I suppose they will eret the
value of them in money or some other pro
rcrtv -that will pay taxes, and even if
they don't, I see no good that property
does the State which pays no taxes.",
; : ".But, my friend,' you will not have the
olie-h ted faith of the country violated, and
besides, yoa know the Government could
not have got as mucn tor tnese ponas u
Congress had not "promised that they
should not be taxed!" .
" The faith cf the country is not plight
ed to this iniquity. Congress had no right
to pass such a law, and nobody is bound
bv it either in law or " stnrals. I know
that all vou people that stayed at home
and speculated upon and made fortunes
out of , the mistortunes ot tne country,
make a, great fuss- about the plighted faith
of the country, and talk mighty loud
about the disgrace of repudiation, but I
never hear any of that sort-except where
it is to heln the rich and privileged class
es There are thousands of men in the
army who entered it for the war y the war
is over and has been for months, the men
want to go home 9 ', their families, but
thev dare not" do it at the risk of being
shot' as' deserters. ' I don't hear an j of
voa complamiDCr of the 'violation pi the
plighted faith of the country. 1 went iuto
the army four years ago. The Govern
ment promised to pa v ine in money as
good as gold. Last year they paid me in
money that was worth from thirty-five
to forty cents ou the dollar. -When they
paid me .off two months ago, it took
n dollar and fifty cents to make a dollar.
I don t hear any of you complaining of
tlie violation ol the plighted taith ot the
Government in this. You, and such as
you, stayed at homo and speculated, and
got fat Government contracts and trot
these bonds; some of them you paid for
in
currency worm inirtv-nve cents on
the dollar, and from that up to ninety.
iou snow as well as I Uo tliat the Uov
crnmeut has not issued .a bond since the
war commenced for which it received a
hundred cents on the dollar in gold ; and
besides, many of you got these bonds by
selling worthless or iul'orior articles to the
Govonmiout lor three or four prices, and
now you want to tax us, who have done
the fighting and sustained the losses, to
pay you their lull amount in gold.
" I came home two months ago, after
having been absent four years. My young
est child, nearly tour years old, I saw for
the first time. I found my wife looking
ten years older than when 1 left her, from
anxiety and her hard work to support her
self and the children, with the help I
could give her from my pay; and even
with this, she had to sell most of our stock.
Before I went iuto the arm- we had the
comforts of life around us ; now, we have
but very little left us but one little farm.
Four years of hard work, exposure and
fighting have left mo less able to work
than I would have been if I had stayed
at home. You all say we have served the
country, and talk aud speak a great deal
of the gratitude of the country toys. But
what have we saved ? And where is tha
gratitude ? AH of us have lost propcrty
many have lost life, and of those who
have "returned, many have lost health aud
limbs. What do we find ? We cannot
get .work to do that will support our fam
ilies. If we go into any business, we must
first pay a license to the Government. If
we should, by good luck, happen to make
in a year more than six hnudrod dollars
in any way, we must pay to the Govern
ment a tax of five dollars on the hundred
for all over six hundred dollars, though
all that make may not be enough to sup
port our families. We cannot eat or drink,
or wear anything but what is heavily tax
ed, and wheu we die. our wives and, child
ren cannot divide the little property we
leave without first paying to the Govern
ment one dollar on every hundred of its
value; and then we have heavy State
and County taxes to pay besides. I do
not see how we are to five. AH this we
we are to suffer, that speculators and i
tmev
cs may be made rich off of our lubpr.l thre WM pnjv hiloie .ri -all
blow a great deal about the gb- L,j rooster. Kho lCCame so pktous that
You
rics and the benefits of the war. I cannot
see it. l don t see what we, who have
done the fiuhiino- and the suffering have
m.wl. -am lil-I- m-il-A Til TV - I1! . !
is not one of tho rank and file who is not
.w ly nu vj, .v. f un0!5 aaa rcet sct'in w ,it ;.. ;.!.,, i
worse off. I have suffered and lost enough
and for oue, I am not willing that I aud
my children, and thoir children after
them, shall be ground iuto the dust aud
made slaves, to make nabobs of men and
their children who did not strike a blow
in the war." :
I did not think I was making anything
by this discussion, and I left. I did not
know how to answer him ; and. besides,
he was getting a little excited. But we'
must manage somehow to answer these
things, or to keep them out cf the dis
cussion.
I write these things to you to let you
know how the thing is going. This must
be shown only to the intelligent heads of
our party, and to those .who are not over
ly squeamish, for these things will have
their efiect with the ignorant, and even
with some of the intelligent, who are
squeamish about what they call justice.
Ferhaps 1 may "write again.
lours, as ever, Oily Gammon.
An Abolition View. The New
York Evening Post, one of tho ablest
Abolition organs in the whole country,
after discussing: the policy of President
Johnson on reconstruction, adds :
Should the policy of the President
then fail, the determination of matters
will be left to the Cougress, which, after
such an experience ' will not be in so fit-
tins a mood. Many of the members of
that body already hold to the theory that
the insurgent Statea have destroyed their
State organizations, and reduced them
selves to the condition of Territories.
Many others insist that the whole body
of the people, who took part in the war,
became thereby, as our courts have de
cided, alien enemies, forfeiting their
rights, and putting themselves out of the
pale of citizenship, which can only be
restored by an act of pardon or an act, of
naturalization. 'J hese theories arc, per
haps, not popular now ; but they can be
made so belore iNovember next, let the
fair and kindly disposition of the North
meet with no corresponding response ;
let it be turned back with insolence, or
indifference, or hostility; and it is easy to
see the result. Disappointment will pro
voke exasperation, and exasperation lead
to acts. The generous policy will cease
to find favor ; doctrines of Federal su
premacy and of the need of lederal in
terposition will get into vogue; the strong
arm of military lorce will be exerted;
and for years to come, the Southern
States, which have now" on opportunity
of embarking on a career of freedom and
prosperity, will sink into mere territorial
dependencies,, if not subjected to an igno
minious military vassalage. , , , ,
A Greek maid being asked what fortune
she would brinz her husband, replied : "I
will bring him what gold cannot purchase
a heart unspotted, virtue : without stain,
which is aU I inherit from my parents."
--'Chaw' Ferguson I Tbii noted guerrilla
chief has . been executed.. He pLoved to be
nearly as bad and brutal a man as Stanton
The latter is not hung yet however. - . .
From tho Christian Times.
0NCEI X I W S!Mti I S A
TIVK AltTIC
Must persons who hnv their lutth in
a Christian land, w ho are at alj.-l'wrving
ill their habits, and who do urhcloiig to
that political party known ill tho "groat
unwashed," have some idea, more or loss
distinct, of the appearance, and qualities
of the sponge. The distinguishing char
acteristic of the sponge is its capacity for
absorbing water. It lias great imbibing
power. In this it 13 second only to the
habitues of u city rum saloon or a village
tavern. Tho learned tell us that it is an
animal, and, if so, it must be like the
Irishman's alligator "a baste that was
nil mouth except his tail, and that was
mouth too." It is because of the won
derful capacity for absorption with which
some men are endowed by nature, or ac
quired by long and successful practice,
that they have been denominated sponges.
Such persons hv( th. feouhr and the
kill of imbibing all that is uecessary for
their maintenance, either in a physical,
mental or moral point of view, with -a
mug froUl and matter-of-course sort of
air which is wonderful to behold. For
instance, in the first year of my ministry
I am a Baptist minister, reader a
man drove up to my gate one terribly
rainy afternoon, threw the reins over his
horse's neck and knocked at my door. 1
opened it, and he fcaid :
Is this the Kev. Mr. Gladm"
I! V.a el " . .
"Wcih Br. G..
uit name iJ Elder
Sponge. I am ou my way to theprricrul
association and 1 thought J would stop
Over night with you. I'm very wet. so
idease take my burse to yntr stable, give
him eight or ton cars of corn and run my
buggy under cover."
Dear reader, 1 was greener then than
lam now, and did it" When 1 came
back to the house I found Ur. S. com
fortably seated, with his muddy boots on
the round of otic of my parlor chairs, and
his dripping umbrella standing upon the
pretty rug my wife was at so much pains
to make. I went into the kitchen just
in time to hear that lady tell our little
hired girl to go to the store, a quarter of
a mile away, and get some black tea, for
Br. S. had told her he couldn't drink any
other. We kept that man two days, aud
when I arrived at the general association.
I heard of Br. S. telling that we had
treated him very shabbily.
An old friend of mine, the sou of a
Baptist minister, told me once that wheu
he was a boy he really u-ed to think that
be had curried the horses and blackened
the boots of every Baptist in Ohio. He
said their stock of chickens became so
reduced by the visits of the traveling
the instant he x-aiitiht si-jht of a , Br.
Sponge coming over the brow of the till.
with wide extended winrs and vcBow
behind him, betook to the woods. Cack
ling at the tap of his voice. " My turu
next niv turn next !"
I have already alluded to the air with
which the
vou. He
qionge inflicts himself upou
really seems to think he is
a great favor, and that yuu
doinsr you
ought to be overwhelmed with the sense
of honor done you by his visit. Mrs.
r
Gladius can't stand that. Mrs. G. is a
very nice woman, but not long ago fhe
expressed herself to me somewhat forci-
bjy in this wise:
"I didn't care so much about that man
(the Br. Sponge) staying here a week, or
about his blacking his boots on the win
dow sill, or making me get soft-boiled
eggs and toast for him every morning. I
could stand his detestable sanctimonious
snuffle when he prayed, but to thitfk of
his squeezing my hand when he left, and
telling me it must afford me great pleas
ure to carry out the Apostolic injunction
in Hebrews 13:2, and that 1 would re
ceive my reward ; that I can't stand, and
won t stand, there now!
If these sponges were always upon re
ious or denominational business it
would not be quite so bad, but generally
they are peddling books, selling reapers
or hawking rat-traps about the country.
It is astonishing what demands .they will
make of one. I ouce received a letter
like this:
Spoxgeville, Aug. 5.
Rev. Mr. G cadius Dear Brother :
I am a Baptist in good standing, aud am
iu the commission business
Can vou inform me what is the price of
beans in your village ? An early answer
will greatly oblige,
Yours in the bonds of Gospel love,
A. Sponge.
The following was wy reply :
Mr. A. Sponge Dear Sir: Yours
of is received. No. Send me a
stamp for the postage of this letter.
Yours, &c, ULAPirs
A still more summary dealing Is' that
of my friend. Rev. Muscular Christian
My friend boards at the village hotel, and
not long since he was visited by a tall,
solemn-looking individual, who announced
himself as the general agent of the aurora
borealis aid commission, for supplying
the inhabitants of the north pole with
palm loaf fans and ice cream freezers. lie
also said that he supposed it was conve
uient for him to stay there until he could
present the subject to the churches. -
" CertainlyT the landlord will be happy
to entertain you," blandly responded my
irieuu.
" Ah, yes, but I want to stop with you
I always stop with the minister." '
" Wall. I will let tou occupy one of
my rooms for a dollar and a half a day."
' " But I don't mean that. " I mean for
you to entertain me as other ministers do;
LUCY UUU L ilJV UUJ Liiiu.
With that my friend turned and looked
him square in the lace and said :
What is your salary, sir ?"..,
. ' ; f Two thousand dollars a year, and my
expenses paid ' - ; .. ,
; " Well, sir, my salary ia just eight hun
dred dollars a year, and if you don't leave
this room instautcr I shall proceed to put
you out." '
" What!" ejaculated the general agent,
lifting up hh hands in hoiv horror. " is
that the spirit of the Gospel; is this ful
filling the injunction of the apostle, 'As
much as lieth within vo.u, lire peaceably
with all men?"' . ,
"May-be-not," replied my friend. "But
I am very sure the apostle never meant
all men to live with use, and I interpret
the text to mean, 'As much as don't lie
in you, put 'cm out,' and I shall immedi
ately proceed from the exposition to the
application unless you leave."
The general agent left. Header, don't
understand me as endorsing tho Itev.
Muscular Christian's course. I must say
that 1 think it a little loo severe, i I have
iu contemplation a milder remedy. I
propose buying a six pounder, planting
it before my front gate, aud loading it
with a blank cartridge. When Br.
Sponge makes bis appearance, I will
touch it off. This will, I think, in most
cases, scare him. But if he should con
tinue to advance. I shall then, with mv
family, execute a masterly retreat to the
barn, where 1 shall have enough provis
ions stored to List me until the enemy
raises the siege and retires.
The Sew York Denioeraey.
A e have already shown in these col
umns the. spurious character of the so.
called :- Democratic " ticket aud platform
formed in New York. It is well to notice
what Abolitionists say of the body tvho
made them. The Albany Evening Jour
nal thus speaks of it :
The Convention which put forward this
pMatibnu was not enthusiastic." But it was
eminently practical. In the language of
a leading member, it was intended "to go
in and win at any coit." So Jong as war
prevailed these party managers were peace
men ; now that the strife has ceased, thev
are for the vigorous prosecution of the
war; they. outvie their opponents" in the
show of enthusiasm with which they wave
the Union ban ner ; they earnestly eudorse
the measures by which our flag 'has been
carried in triumph over the South. With
slavery in existence, they were its earnest
defenders never abandoning the system
so long as it had a spark of life iu its car
case; now that slavery is under the
ground, they resolve themselves entirely
satisfied with its overthrow. They would
have nominated Horace Greeley for Sec
retary of State, and adopted Wendell
Philips last speech as a platform, if such
measures had been deemed, essential to
success. Mephistopheles comes to his
new work in the disguise of a75asut. We
shall look with some curiosity to see how
the rank and file will take this abandon
ment of almost everything they have been
accustomed to hurrah for and swear by.
l'hey can only know that their platform
or ticket is "Democratic " by its libtl.and
by the two or three " ear-marks which
tatiou and on national indebtedness. It
is best for the Union parry to understand
at the outset of the campaign, that our
opponents have taken the strongest posi.
tion possible tor them to occupy.
ihe character and work ot the "Demo
cratic Convention remmu us of a little
illustration in the form of a fable. A wolf
caught a skunk, and was about to slay
him, when the skunLsaid, "Don t kill me.
I'm a wolf." " You a wolf! Let me hear
you bark." " I can't bark, because I've
got a bad cold." " But your clothes don't
look like a wo!t s. ;iOh, mine were sto
len; these are my little cousiu's." "But
you havu't a wolf's ears." ' Because my
ears were trimmed. Ihe wolt, halt con.
vinced, was about to leave, when he sud
denly stopped, snuffed the atmosphere a
moment, and exclaimed, " xou may bark
like a wolf, and wear tho clothes of a wolf,
and show the ears of a wolf, but no wolf
ever had such a d -d bad smell about
him as you." And so, the poor skunk died.
Seizing Ihe Jlines.
The San Franoisoo Call, an Abolition
organ, in a recent leader on the right of
the Federal Government to take posses
sion of all the mineral aud minium lands
in the whole country, gave expression to
the following view of that subject :
S appose the Administration docs in
tend to take such a step -what is there
wicked about it ?" The present Adminis
tration has been legally selected by the
people to administer the affairs of the
country. It is conceded on all hands
that about all of the gold and silver lands
in tho country, belong to the United
States. They are its property. The
Government, as well as individuals, has a
right to do what it pleases with its own
property. It may either sell or give it
away, or even allow others to work it
without charge. Either disposition is
purely a question of policy on the part of
those intrusted by the people with the
duty of managing the affairs of the Gov
ernment and of disposing and taking care
of Government property. .
How do the owners and workers in our
extensive gold
this?
and silver minjs like
The End of the World. A British army
officer, Captain W. A. Baker, of the Royal
Bombay Engineers, has at last settled an
often-disputed date the year in which the
world will come to an eni. In a work just
published in Encland, entitled "The Day
and the Hour ; or, Notes on Prophecy ; a
Sketch of the Future, extracted trom the lii-
ble," he imparts a considerable amount of
luiviuiabivu r, un u . ..j v.... ...... .j . ...j ... ......
if true." The day of judgment, he tells us,
is fixed for Sept. 20, 1878 ; the hour, sun
set ; tho Translation of tho Saints having
previously taken place, at l'o'elock in, the
r t it - niiv r t 10-;
morning ou iiio-oiuoi oauuurj ion;.
: An honest Hibernian, trundling along a
hand-cart Containing all Ins movables, was
accosted with '. Well, .Patrick, you are mov
inz asain I see." "Faith,1 1 am," he" re
plied : " the times are so hard, it's a dale
cheaper ' hiring hand-carts than paying
lira tail Treatment of Ilie .egroe
Koulli Uy -oi-llifra Oliieer aud
Wiliuii.
The Cincinnati Commercial has a cor
respondent who i travelling through the
South on foot.' Among other things he
mentions, the cruelty of the Northern
officers and civilians in the Southern
States towards the negroes, and contrasts
with it the treatment thev received at the
hands of their old masters aud the South
ern people generally. We make the fol
lowing extracts from his. correspondence :
I, stopped to drink (oh, how sweet
water tastes to a foot-traveler in the sunny
and sandy South.") at a place temporarily
occupied by a gentleman of the name of
Tatum. Herbert Tatum (I was particu
lar to inquire, his name) is a Southern
prodigy being the only man I have yet
met in the South, who, upon upon the
testimony of the negroes thenesclvcs. (for
their master was away) tkite trr jhftfe th
universal sudden revulsion by the-late
slave-lord against their emancipated vic-
tims.
Strange to Fay, tins planter is fcdu-
eating his negroes himself. Strange to
say, though impoverished like fhe rest,
(he was at the time absent trying to pro
cure corn' he had all ulnn" tbroimh ilia
war, and still eonriuuw?, to she with ' hU.i
people the same he cats himself. Fur
ther, he does not now. and never did,
show any distinction whatever among his
servants had treated all aliko no favor
itism. To be sure he had informed his
servants of -their perfect freedom of ehoicc
to go where they liked, at the same tine
telling them .that if they preferred to re
main he would do the best lie could by
them; take them back with him to his
and their home" in Mississippi, and locate
them in comfortable independence and
freedom on the plantation. vv hat wori- fjet ns illustrate the operation of our nn
der that the faithful creatures ptill cling jstpble currency 1v a simple example,. in
to such a man ? What wonder that while i telligible to evWlaboring man. If. three
others complain that their able-bodied
negroes are leaving until they are com
pelled to drive the rest away these true
servants, grateful f r a spirit cf sincere
kindness which I never knew any of this
much-abused race, however imbrute 1, to
ignore what wouder that they all, little
and big, ask nothing but the privilege of
remaining, even if they should have to
remain as before with sach a master?
Opposed to this is tho policy gener
ally pursued. Distrust aud dislike beget
them appropriate compliments.- How
heartily these tropical African natives
reciprocate a feeling, whatever it may be.
Aud (hen when the military forces the
fugitives from injustice, back into the
clutches of the same injustice, what cru
eity ! What infamy for an United States
soldier, at the bidding of ono of these
white slave hounds, to whom the negro
has been recommitted what disgrace to
the 'uniform he wears. I say for the Un
ion soldier to be called upon; and .till
deeper disgrace for him to be found com-
JLdyini: tunij neqroes vp fj the thumbs.
" i 11V, saiu tuu WTir.trr, m-x r
we don't srv how vou people have bet
tered the condition of the ncjrroes we
never treated them so badly while they
were slaves."
Stopped to chat with a kind-hearted
Alabama mistress, shout twelve miles out,
who said : "Northern piasters are al
ways the worst. Two men kept a store
on the road near by. They took their
meals at a neighbor's house, and mean
while left the store unattended, so that
the negroes, in their absence, would get
in and steal. 4 1 had seen some of my ne-i
groes with things that I thought could J
not belong to them, and sent these men '
word not to let them come about the !
store. Pretty soon- one of my servants
was missed. I was anxious, and my hus
band went down the road toward the
store. On the way, he-met these men
returning with the missing negro, holding
him up between them. . As soon as -the
slave saw my husband, he fell upon his
knees, crying ' O, my massa! O, my
massa 1' My husband thought he was
shamming, for fear of further punishment,
(for evidently he had been caught steal
ing at the storo,) and takiDg a cowhide
from one of the traders, struck the negro
with it, when the poor creature fell back
dead. Those Northern traders had been
whipping him all night first one, then
the other."
This correspondent thus speaks of the
conduct of a Federal officer towards the
negroes :
Major Ross Wilkinson is an individual
who merits due consideration in this con
nection. : Major Ross Wilkinson, of 'the
lGth Corps, Provost Marshal, lias had
the immediate military police cf all Upper
Alabama. You know 1 mentioned how
negroes upou the plantations I passed,
from Columbus to this place, have ween
"-regulated,'' to the out-lleroding of even
Southern severity. All that tying up by
the thumbs, is, it Eeenjs, part of a system
whose head and instigator was the Pro
vost Marshal, Major Ross Wilkinson. A
few days ago, not far from town, three
colored girls were stripped of their cloth
ing, and by Union soldiers (under orders
of Major Ross W llkinson,) lashed upon
the bare back, with a buggy trace one
fifty, one sixty, and the third ninety
nine times, all, to use the phrase of the
All .. . t t 1 1 1l 1 A
Alabama statute, " wen laid on, A re
spectable clergyman of this place, -who
in obedience to a published circular, re
questing that the usual functionaries
should administer the marital sacrament
to negroes, also going to Major Ross
Wilkinson, Provost Marshal of the loth
Corps, for permission, in a particular in
stance, was answered : . " You may marry
respectable white people, but I'll not
permit you to marry niggers. 1 mean to
make, an end of niggers. . ; If I had my
way entirely I would stop the breed
These are" about his words, as reported to
me, and brutal as they are, they are but
consistent with his infamous spirit.
; In addition we will give the following.
extracted from the statement of a corres:
pendent of the New' York Independent
( Beech c-r's), who writes from Richmond :
His. name is B. F. Stoops,
Captain of the Eleventh Pennpylrania
cavalry, Marshal of Fluviana county,
Virginia. J will state one act of this
man's cruelties, which should be suffi
cient to give him pre-eminence in the
worst days of the Inquisitions I give
you the tacts as vituetned and related by
a responsible gentleman of that county.
"On Tuesday uoou I saw a negro man ou
a wooden horse. The hor; e was construct-.
cd of two boards, by bringing the two
edges together in the form '.of a V.
Heavy weights were attached to his feet.
I was informed by citizen that he had
been confined in this painful position
since Saturday morning. The man had!
become exhausted faiuted and fell off
several times, when the heavy weights
referred to were fastened to his limbs to
prevent bis failing." This gentleman,
touched with the sijifcring of ihi& TietiEa
of terturorwtn to th Marshal to inter-'
cede.ia his LehaUV ad. ta r rtjaoustrate .
against this cruel punishment, when that
gentleman informed him that his remon
stnicce would do no good, that he would
not take" him doam if the Lord Jesus
Christ, himself .should come for him.
Our informant has since learned that the
ncro expired from his torture. , "lie
1 .oL"t'1 23 if lie was dying when I saw.
nn.
Hon the Poor arc RofoueI
Some three months ago. gold was down
to 125, and we seemed fairly on the way
to a sound currency. But it is now up
ward of 144, with the prospect of a still
further rise. It is by taking advantage
of such fluctuations- in the valoe of mon
ey, the sharpers and speculators acquire
sudden riches; and every dollar that they
make, comes oat of the earnings of labor.
three
months aeo. when gold was 125, a frugal
laborer had put 100 ia a saving bank,
the interest at 5 per cent., the nsual rate
of suc h institutions, would be one dollar
aud twenty -five cents. The principal,
when he lent it. was worth 80 in gold;
and now, when it has been on interest
three months, the principal and interest
together ainouht to less than $71 in gold,
making a dead loss of $9 in gold or $13
in our present 'currency..',' It is in this
way that the people are robbed of the
fruits of their labor. -
Daniel Webster, more than thirtyyears
ago, described with his habitual vigor of
statement, the operation of &? inflated,
fluctuating currency. What ho understood
so clearly from history and 'philosophy,
we unhappily knew from observation and
bitter experience. We com mend his im
pressive language to the earnest attention:
of the industrious classes; "we ask them
to mark, as from their own knowledge
they can, the truth of its representations.
Mr. Webster said : ?
"The very man. of all others, who has
UlV.UllJl.t luultUl I LI U LiVUUU. lUlll.lll.Jj
and who suffers most by mischievous leg
islation in money matters, is the man who
earns his daily bread by his daily toil. A
depreciated currency changes the prices,
paper money failing between morniDg and
noon, and falling still lower between noon
and night, these things constitute the
very harvest time of speculators, and of
the whole race of those who are at oace
idle and crafty; and of that other race,
too, the Cataknes, of all times, marked,
so as to be known forever by one stroke
of the -historian's pen, men greedy, of
other men's property eiid prodigal of their
own. Capitalists may outlive such times.
They may eitheprey on the earnings of
abor by their centr per cent., or they may
hoard. But the laboring man what can
he hoard ? Preying 5 on nobody, he be
comes the -prey of all. j Uis property is in
his hands. iii3 reliance, his productive,
"rechold, his all, is his labor. Whether
he work on hs small capital or another's.
his living is still earned by his industry ;
and when the money of the country be
comes depreciated and debased, whetlier
it bo adulterated coin, or paper without
credit, that industry is robbed of its re-,
ward. He tlicn labor for a country vchose
laics cheat Mm out of Jus bread.
Maevellovs Copt. of. tub Bible. A few
years since there was exhibited at New York
a marvelous specimen oi nanawruing, u dc
imr no Io.ir than a complete transcription of
the Holy Bible on a surfaco about the size of
an ordinary mantel or pier glass, tne woras
of the same being so ingeniously arranged
and grouped as to form the representation of
a beaut-Hilt temple, white at tne same time
not one word is omitted, no senteuce trans
posed, and the several sentences follow each
otner m proper oTaer, -as nrss view uia
spectator perceives only a wen arranged
architectural drawing, delicate and exact,
but on ariose examination (some parts re
quiring the use of a magnifying glass every
part ot tne elevation eacn wmuow ami uoor
way, each apparent line and .curve of col-;
umn cornice and entablature, everyrning, in
short, about the picture, except, perhaps-, a
slight shading, is resolved into a "distinct
regular handwriting, lhis wonaeriui pro
duction was executed by a Polish gentleman,
bv the name of Davidson, who finished his
task after two years and seven months of
constant labor and application.
The adjuration of Madamo Duruy, the
wife of the French Minister of Public In
struction, of the Protestant faith in favor of
tho Ivomanism, has been reported. The
Paris correspondent of the Post, alluding to
the fact, observes that the Jesuits are very
active just now amongst the families of high,
and conspicuous peronageg in France as well
as England, Other ladies of the Protestant
religion are spoken of as likely to beeeme
Papists, and it is reported that !M. Guizot
will ere long declare himself a Roman,
Catholic. , - . .
The use of the term " horse-power, is very
common, yet few, except good mechanics
and engineers, attach a definite meaning to
it. - It means the power required to lift 13,
000 pounds, avoirdupois, one foot high ia
one minute.
AB.vi Appointment. Colonel Burbridjre,
who rnn-dft himKplf Tintnrimiei in . VonHnirv
daring the war by his infamous brutalit ea,
has been appointed Treasury Asrent ia
Texas, ' .