The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-24

WHIPPED hos ssi We can't help thinking his
In's'~Ae ii r. psrSnrAble than to be u able "a
tell vixen Lne has gained a victory. To watch
the ID. vi! until God is lest sight of, we don't
believe is profitable or pleasant, even for any
body TIE glory of God is brighter than the
hsnes Of bell, and the incense of heaven more
agreeable than the smoking of the pit
SAYS MIR Phillips" Years ago, the Tribun.
lad down he doctrine against the extension Of
Sis7ery Havd-pressed by the anxious crisis Of
the Kansas question, it svowed its determine
non to admit Kansas as a slave State, if she
wished TO come in as such. 1t deserted every
one OF lis own chosen points, in order to meet
one suggested, shaped by the enemy-shsped,
OF course Mark the expression, of course,
granted, no proof is needed. of course with
the intention ard the profound ssgacity to
couqoer"
Here let me say to Mr.. Phillips, that if we
are under the heel of the President" if we
are conquered, we do not know it. Oar igno-
rance is our bliss. But we are not conquered.
There is no more danger of Kansas becoming
slave State, than there is of the roll being
called on Bunker Hill. Our enemies don't
even pretend there is any chance for them. 1t
is only our friends who say we are whipped
Mr.. Phillips, with all bis contempt for Douglas
and the Republicans. is certainly copying them
IN this respect. When the probabilities were
that Kansss would be admitted under the LIE
compton Constitution, all our enemies admitted
our right and power to change the Constitution.
Only cur friends denied it. Suppose we bad
been received under that Constitution. By the
showing OF our friends, we must at least have
remained a slave State until 1864. So | sup
pose cur enemies would have to let US out Of
the scrape.
AT all events, if we are ever in such a pre-
dicament, whether by the aid of friends or enc
mics, we don't intend to be long in throwing
off the yoke.
But already Mr. Phillips sees another victory
for the Democratic party in 1860. More than
two years In advance, he begins to shout ii !:
and he tells us a story, which he heard in Man
chester, that he thinks accounts for it. "The
cavalry forces of the English army in Spain
are said to have got so used to the trumpet
sound, that they obey the call as we'll as the dis
ciplned colder himself; and when the rider is
sent to the ground corpse, the steed still hears
the trumpet, wheels into line, charges and fights
for England, as if an Englisbmap sat in The sad
die. One OF the regiments which had come from
Spain was stationed Just outside of the city of
Manchester, and they had sale of their
refuse horses. They sold some score of them.
Amongst the rest, one old man, who sold sand
about the streets, purchased fer q pound one
of the troopers horses, put him into the shafts
of his cart, and peddled ssnd for q month
The old man thought he had got bargain,
snd trotted up and down the city, and the
horse did his little work. his drudgery, as if be
had been born to it. But one day, when the
old fellow Of eighty was sitting on his cart, en-.
gagged in his daily toll, sergesnt's guard
passed him, and the trumpet sounded. The
old steed shook his name, broke the cart to
pieces, shook the cid man on to the pavement,
and wheeled into line with the troops So
with Douglas, when the Democratic party
sounds it's trumpet" What we wish to suggest
here is, that if Mr.. Phillips and his friends will
not go into lire themselves, when the battle
commences in 1860, they will not make all the
noise on the other side. Just let them try
their breath on soncrous metal and see if they
cannot make such martial sounds as will cause
the old trooper to fall into our lines. If they
do not believe the old adsge, that in union is
strength" let them learn it from the sagacious
South, which they so much admire.
But / have already made this letter much
longer than / intended. We still continue to
have frequent and copious showers Last week
/ was in The southern part of The Territory
grain OF all kinds locks rem srkably we'll |
never raw If as promising at this season of the
year, not even IN western New Jersey Fall
wheat is headed, aud spring wheat is just be-
ginning to head. Potatoes, the earliest, are in
blossom.
Respectfully, yours, T.. HEATH.