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MISCELLANE NEOUS.
WashingtOn's Farewell to his Army,
DECEMBER 4, 1888.

Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be,
And freedom find no champion and no child,
Such as Columbia arise, when she
Sprang forth Paas arm'd and undefled!
Or must such minds be nourishedin the wild;
Deep in the unpruned forest midst the roar
OF cataracts, where nursing Nature smiled
On infant WASHINGTON! Has Earth no more,
Such seed within her breast or Europe no such shore!
BYRON.
The Revolution was over. The eight years.
conflict had now ceased, and the warriors were
now to separate forever, turning their weapons
intoploughshares, and the camps into workshops
The spectacle, though sublime and glorious
one, was yet attended with sorrowful feelings
for, alas! in the remains of that gallant army Of
patriot soldiers, now about 10 disband without
pay--wthout support, stalked poverty, want and
disease--the country had not the means TO be
grateful.
The details of the condition of many of the
officers and soldiers at that period, according to
history and oral tradition, were melancholy in the
extreme. Possessing no means of patrimonla
inheritance 10 fall back upon--thrown out OF even
the perilous support Of the soldier at the com
mencement of winter, and hardly fit for any 9th
er duty than that of the camp--their situation
can be as we'll imagined as described.
A single instance, as sample of the situation
of many of the officers, as related TO the conduc
of Baron Steuben, may not be amss When the
main body of the army was disbanded at New
burg, and The veteran soldiers were bidding
parting farewell to each other, Lieutenant Colo
mel Cochran, an aged soldier of the New Hamp
shire line, remarked with tears in his eyes, as he
shook handswth the Baron:
'For myself, could stand it; butmy wife ant
daughters are in the garet of that wretched tav
em, and have no means Of removing them"
"Come, come," said the Baron, "don't Civ
way thus. ! will pay my respects to Mrs. Coch
ran and her daughters"
When the good old soldier left them thei
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COLUMBIA, Tenn, June IL, 1914.


Gentlemen-I have had the honor to receive
your letter of the Doth ultmo, informing me that
the democratic national convention, then assem-
bled at Baltimore, had designated me to be the
candidate of the democratic party for President
of the United States, and that had been unan-
mousy nominated for that Office.
Ii has been we'll observed that the office of
President the United States should neither be
sought nor declined | have never sought it,
nor shall feel at liberty to decline it, if confer
red upon me by the voluntary suffrages of my
fellow-citizens. In accepting the nomination
am deeply impressed with the distinguished hon
or which has been conferred upon me by my re-
publican friends, and am duly sensible of the
great and mighty responsibilities which must ev-
er devolve on any citizen who may be called TO
fill the high station Of President of the United
States
deem the present TO be a proper occasion TO
declare, that If the nomination made by the con-
vention shall be confirmed by the people and re-
suit IN my election, shall enter upon the dis
charge of the high and solemn duties ofthe Office
with the settled purpose ofnot being a candidate
for reelection. In the event of my election il
shall be my constant aim, by strict adherence
TO the old republican landmarks, TO maintain anc
preserve the public prosperity, and at the end o
four years am resolved TO retire to private life
J In assuming this position feel that not onl.
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HERMITAGE, June Is, 1914.

GENTLEMEN-I have the honor TO acknowl-
edge the receipt of your letter Of the 10Th inst,
inviting me TO a mass meeting proposed to be
held at Murfreesboro', on Wednesday next, for
the purpose of confirming the nominations re-
Gently made at Baltimore by the delegates ofthe
democratic party.
Although the state ofmy health will not allow
me TO be one of your number on that occasion,
/ enter with all my heart, into the objects of the
meeting.
Never, gentlemen, had we more reason 10 fe~
licitate ourselves upon the auspicious prospect
which now summons the old republicans TO the
tield.-lnstead of disorder and confusion produ-
ced by differences of opinion respecting the rel
ative claims of the distinguished individuals who
were ballotted for at the convention, what do
we witness2-Unanimity without a parallel.
Rising above all selfish feeling, those individuals,
themselves, nobly withdrew their names from
the list of candidates, and united in the nomina.
ton of Messrs. Polk and Dallas; two gentlemen
thoroughly known TO them, as having the highest
qualifications of character and talent, and pos
sessng in an eminent degree, the confidence oI
their fellow-citizens.
A party that can give such practical proof Of
lis capacity to harmonze, and of its ability, in the
pursuit of principle, to bury all differences abou
men, cannot fail of success.
agree with you, gentlemen, in characteri
zing, as you have done, the annexation of Texa:
to our Union, and the occupation of Oregon, al
American questions. Our Union is not safe al
long as Great Britain can be encouraged in he
designs upon these territories. Let us, there
fore, rally with patriotic and national zeal unde
the flags upheld by Polk and Dallas. If they arr
successful, Texas and Oregon will be ours; i
they are defeated, British influence, under th'
pretence of aboshing slavery, will be interfering
with our rights, and it will never cease, as Ion!
as our glorious system Of Government is a sue
cessful proof that monarchy is not necessary Il
secure the happiness of man.
| am very respectfully,
ANDREW JACKSON
Messrs. w. G. Reeves and others, Committee
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impose on myself salutary restraint, but that
take the most effective means in my power Of en-
ablng the democratic party TO make free selec-
ton of a successor who may be best calculated
to give effect 10 their will, and guard all the in
terests of DER beloved country.
With great respect,
have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES X. POLK.
To Messrs Henry Hubbard, and others, COM
mittee of the democratic national convention at
Baltimore.
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a silent adeu, their answer was only in tears; Of
fcers and men with glistening eyes watched the
receding boat till the form of their noble COM
mander was lost in the distance.
Contrast the farewell of Washington to his ar
my at White Hall, in 1883, and the adieu ofNa-
poleon 10 his army at Fontainbeu, in 1914! The
one had accomplished every wish of his heart
his noble exertions had achieved the indepen-
dence of his country, and he longed to retire to
the bosom of his home-his ambition was salts
fed. He sought for no crown or sceptre, but for
equality and the mutual happiness of his fellow
being. No faint of tyranny, no breath of slander
no whisper of duplicity marred the fair proper.
tons of his public or private life-but
''He was man, take him for all in all,
We meier shall look upon his like again."
The other great soldier was the disciple of sell
fish ambition. He raised the iron weapon of war
TO crush only that he might rule. What 10 him
were the cries of the widows and orphans? He
passed to a throne by making the dead bodies of
their protectors his stepping-stones. Ambition
self, were the gods of his idolatry, and them
he sacrificed hecatombs of his feow-men, for
the aggrandizement Of personal glory. Enthu-
siasm points with fearful wonder to the name oil
Napoleon, whilst justice benevolence, freedom
and all the concomtants which constitute the
true happiness of man, shed almost divine halo
round the name and character of Washington.
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Or The Boston Atlas "a leading coon paper)
says with fear and trembling, /" a severe and tre-
mendous contest is before us--one in which
defeat is certain, if we do not employ all tho
means,' &c. This looks like giving up the ship
in advance.--We hope it is not in contemplation
TO pittdrap Mr. Clay.
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LETTER FROM GEN. JACKSON.

We find in the Nashville Union the following
reply Of Gen. JACKSON, to a committee on the
part Of the citizens of Murfreesboro' inviting the
General to the mass meeting to be held at that
place. The old Hero, it will be seen, enters
with enthusiasm and zeal into the movement in
favor of the annexation of Texas, and the occu.
patton of Oregon:
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POETRY.

[The following is one of WILLIS early produc-
tons, and like all his first writings, exceeds in
beauty, in our estimation, the efforts of his ripper
years 1t was written, we believe, for Boston
periodical, and obtained for the author hand
some prize. 1t is bright and sparkling gem
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Do YOU HEAR THAT, BoYs!-Under this cap
ton, the editor of the Easton, (Pa.,) Argus says:
cat the election in 1s40, Mr. Van Buren's
majority in the Borough of Easton was about
one hundred At the approaching election Col.
dred and trenty,fpe! Arethere no changes,
.heh2n
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ILLlNo1s.-The Fourth Democratic District
Convention of Illinois met on the 9th inst, and
the Hon. John Wentworth, oi Chicago, was unan-
imously nominated Representative to Congress,
having received every vote.
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0HT Pass it round! that the wings are oppo-
sed to the " One Day Election Law," because
it would do away with the iniquitous system of
Pipe-Iaying, by which they are in hopes of sue
ceedng. Pass it round, also, that Democratic
House of Representatives passed the bill, but
that whig Senate defeated it.
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Total for Polk and Dallas
For CLAY AND FRELrNGuuysEN
Total for Clay and Frelinghuysen
MR. POLK's ACCEPTANCE.

We present below, from the manuscript copies
in our possession, says the Boston Post of the
29th ult., the correspondence between the Com
mittee of the Democratic National Convention
and its nominee for the Presidency, the Hon.
James X. Polk. His reply is short and appro-
pirate. 1t will be seen that, if chosen, he is de-
termined not to be candidate for second tenn.
This, if we mistake not the popular feeling, will
be received as decisive proof of the unamb-
tious honesty, the purity and the patriotism of
the democratic candidate, and will increase his
wide and spreading popularity with the masses
of the people--
BALTIMORE, May 20, 1914.
SIR-At Democratic National Convention
of delegates from the several States of this Union
convened on the 9th inst, and now sitting in
the city of Baltimore, for the purpose ofnomina-
ting candidates to be supported for the Presiden-
Icy and Vice Presidency of the United States at
the ensuing election, the Hon. James K. Polk of
Tennessee, having been designated, by the whole
number of votes given, TO be the candidate of
the democratic patty for President of the United
States, was declared to be unanimously nomina-
led for thu office.
The undersigned were appointed by the Con
venton committee to request your acceptance
of the nomination thus unanimously rendered to
you; and they cannot forbear TO express the high
qualification which they experience in the perfor-
nance ofthis duty, and the hope which they con
fdently entertain, in common with thercoleagues
of the Convention, that the devotion to the cause
of democratic principles which has always char
acterized your conduct, will not suffer you to
turn deaf ear to the call of our country, when.
in manner so honorable to yourself, she de.
mands your distinguished services.
With the utmost respect and esteem, we have
the honor to be your obedient servants,
HENRY HUBBARD, VIM. H. ROME,
B. H. BREWSTER, r. M. SAUNDERS
! ROBERT RANTOUL, Jr
Committee of the Democratic National Con
ventlon at Baltimore.
Hon. J. X. Polk, Columbia, Tennessee.
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nTEsANTHROPIC HOURS.


/ sometimes feel as could blot
All traces of ofmanlzind from Earth
AS if 'twere wrong to blast them not,
They so degrade, SO shame their birth
To think that Earth should be so fair,
So beautiful and bright thing;
That nature should come forth and wear
Such glorious apparelling;
That sky, sea, air, should live and glow
With light, and love, and holiness,
And yet men never feel or know,
How much God of Love can bless
How deep their debt of thank funess.
I've seen the Sun go down and light
Like floods of glory on the sky
When every tree and flower was bright,
And every pulse was beating high
And the full soul was gushing love
And longing for its home above
And then, when men would soar, If ever,
To the high homes of thought and soul
When life's degrading ties should sever,
And the free spirit spum control
Then have seen, Oh, how my cheek
Is burning with the shame feel,
That truth is in the words speak,
I've seen my fellow creatures steal
Away to their unhallowed mirth,
AS ifthe revelries of Earth
Were all that they could feel or share,
AHu SIOIlOuS uCuNGnS were SCdlCely WOlln
Their passing notice or their care.
I've said was worship,
At woman's shrine-yet even there
/ found unworthiness of thought,
And when deemed first had caught,
The radiance of that holy light
Which makes earth beautiful and bright
When eyes of fire their flashes sent,
And rosy lips looked eloquent; -
Oh, have turned and wept to find
Beneath it all trihing mind.
was in one of those high halls,
Where genius breathes in scuptured stone,
Where shaded light in softness falls
On pencill'd beauty. They were gone
Whose hearts of fire and hands Of skill
Had wrought such power;--but they spoke
To me in every feature still,
And fresh lips breathed and dark eyes woke,
And crimson cheeks flushed glowingly
To life and motion. l had knelt
And wept with Mary at the tree
Where Jesus sufIered--I had felt
The warm blood rushing to my brow
At the stern buffet of the Jew
Had seen the God of glory bow,
And bleed for sins he never knew,
And had wept. | though that all
Must feel like me--and when there came
A stranger, bright and beautiful.
With step of grace and eye of flame,
And tone and look most sweetly bent
To make her presence eloquent,
Oh then looked for tears. We stood
Before the scene of Calvary:
saw the piercing spear--the blood
The gall-the writhe of agony
saw his quivering lips in prayer,
"Father forgive them, "-all was there,
/ turned in bitterness of soul,
And spoke of Jesus. had thought
Her feelings would refuse control:
For woman's heart, knew, was fraught
With gushing sympathies. She gazed
A moment on it carelessly,
And coldly curled her lip, and praised
The high Priests garment! could il be
That look was meant, dear Lord, for thee.
Oh, what is woman--what her smile
Her lip of love--her eyes of light
What is she, if her lips revile
The lowly Jesus. Love may write
His name upon her marble brow,
And linger in her Curls jet
The light spring flower may scarcely bow
Beneath her step, and yet--and yet
Without that neeker grace she'll be
A lighter thing than vanity.
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GEN. CAss.-It is stated in the Michigan pa
peTs, that Gen. Cass will probably succeed SEN
ator Porter in the United States Senate, after
the 4th of March next.
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Hon. GEoReE M. BIBB, who has been made
lately Secretary Of the Treasury, is an Y. States
District Judge in Kentucky, and was demo
cratic State Senator under M. Adams Admin
istration.
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Col. PoLK's F1DELITY.-During the whole
term of Col. Folks service in Congress, from
1925 10 1887, he never missed division. his
name being found upon every list of the yeas
and nays.
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W The Wing Convention of Massachusetts
has re-nominated George N. Briggs and John
Reed as candidates for Governor and Lieuten-
ant Governor of that State.
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OF Clay stands poor chance in this game Of
Polk. We shall have the four aces--New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia, the first hand.
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POLK AND THE TARIFF.

In the language Of the Pittsburgh Post, We
earnestly invite the attention of every voter in
the State, and especially of those honest wings,
who, revolving at the manifold inperfections of
Henry Clay, would not support him at all, ifthey
had not been abused by stories his devotion TO
the Tariff, to the following expose of Mr.. PoLK's
views on that question. We submit to any I'M
prejudiced man TO say whether the clear and
definite declaration of Mr.. Polk, is not better
for the friends of home industry, than the con.
stant repetition by Mr.. Clay of his love for The
Compromise Actin other words, we defy any
whig to show that Mr.. Clay is disposed to dc
as much for home industry as James X. Polk
JAMES K. Polk ON THE TARIFF AND DIRECT
TAxATIoN--SoUND SENTIMENTS.
"5th. Are yOu in .fapor Of tariff or direc
tarcs for the support Of the General GOrern
ment?"
"6h. If a tariff, do yoa approve Of sach q
tariff as aoould give protection to home industry
against foreign indaStry?"
| answer that l am opposed to system Of di
rect taxation, and am in fa0or Of a moderate
scale Of duties, laid by a tariff on imported
goods, for the purpose Of raising the repenuI
which may be needed for the economical admin
istration Of The Government. In fixing the rate!
Of tariff, my opinion is, that the object in view
should be TO raise the revenue needed by Gov
ernment, leaving the interests engaged in mana
factaves to enjoy the incidental advantage wh;cl
the lery Of Swch duties ,OiU afford to them,
JAMES K. POLK.
COLUMBIA, May 18th, l943.
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UNITED STATES SENATE.
DEMOCRATS.
IV1r1Gs.

The terms ofthe following Senators expire on
he 4th ofMarch nexf:--
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BEAUTY.-Sterne says that beauty has so ma
ny charms one knows not how to speak against
it and when it happens that graceful figure is
the habitation of virtuous soul, when the beau
ty of the face speaks out the modesty and hui
mility of the mind, and the business of the pro
portion raises our thoughts up to the heart and
wisdom of the great Creator, something may be
allowed it, and something to the establishment
which set ii off; and yet, when the apology is
read, it will be found at last that beauty, like
truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the
lplainest.
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TREMENDOUS wHIG ENTHUSIASM

Messrs. W. G. Reeves and others, Committee:
American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-12-03
CITY COLLECTORS OPP,CE,

BALTlMORF, I'm Nov ISlI
~ 0EFl u 70 TAX PAYERS. The Collect
~ or, DESTROYS Of closing the collection Of the State
and City Taxes for the current year, us near as posi-
bic, before it expires aud anxious TO avoid any pro-
cess by which TIE Tax Payer may be subject to add
t!Ona charges, publishes, for their information the
following extract from Ordinance of the city, ap-
proved 18th March, lell
Sec. !. Be ii enacted aud ordained by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, That from and after
the first day Of November, in each aud every year. il
shall he the duty Of the Collector enforce tie pal-
me"t Of all Taxes remaining unpaid by distress or
otherwise.
This section Of the city ordinances applies as well
tn the collection of the State as the City Taxes.
That legal process may he avoided and the c0nse-
qnGnt expenses persons owing this office are earnest
" requested to pay the Assistant Collectors, promptly
as they may call or At the office, which is open for
that purpose early in the morning until late in the
evening.
MI cow A. r. LEEERING, Collector.
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fall alike upon her. He did not doubt the sim
certify Of the appeal; and he also felt share OF
that regret, for well he knew it sometimes hap
pens that the virtuous ard good were pierced
with sorrow by the unjust acts of the vicious.
Bot, in referring to the jury, he said that how
ever counsel or themselves might regret such
sad results, there were higher considerations
which they should look to in celebrating as to
the guilt or innocence of the traverser.
Mr. r. referred to Mr. Johnson's speaking
of Torrey as being no ordinary criminal-ot
his having received fine education, and de-
voted his life to the study of the prccepts OF
Heaven. Mr. r. said he knew of no njunc-
ton derived from Heaven which disconnected
the christian and the citizen good christian
was the best citizen; good citizen respected
the law of God; all the civil relations OF lie,
were but part and parcel of heavens in
junction, which commanded of all men re
pcct your rulers" &c. Mr.. r., in the con-
GLIDING portion Of his remarks, spoke OF the
beauty of the moral law in harmonizing with
the civil law; of the obligations Of all men to
obey both; and of the absurditY Of any mans
violating the laws of the land, because of the
belief that he was doing the Lord service
We have attempted merely to point to the
most prominent parts of Mr.. r. S address; and
do not hesitate to say that it was one of his
most powerful characterized as his eff
forts generally are with ability and ingenuity.
As display of forensic eloquence, the conclud-
ing portion was peculiarly great; and for sub
Unity of moral sentiment, never perhaps sur
passed.
Mr.. r. spoke for about an hour and a half,
aud was listened to with the most profound at
tention. Upon his concluding, the case was
given to the jury.
Mr., Cox inquired of the Prosecuting Attor-
ney, if the jury were to understand they must
believe the offence, if any, to have been COM
mittcd within the limits Of the city.
Mr. Richardson replied, most undoubtedly.
The Jury then asked for balitf, and retired.
After an absence of about two hours, they re-
turned, and rendered a verdict Of guilty"
1t will be remembered that Torrey was ar
raignod under three indictments, each specify
ing particular slave said to have been abduc-
tee; and Il general indictment covering all
three. The question will therefore be argued,
hereafter, before the Court, whether Torrey
will be held liable to a separate sentence i'll
each case or not. The law imposing term
of six years nthc Ponitentary for single Of
fence.
MIR. Cox, upon the announcement Of the
verdict, filed motion with the Court for an AZ
rest OF Judgment, with view to new trial.
The Court adjourned till tomorrow morning
10 o'clock