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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17
AFTER THE BATTLE.

The drums are all mufied; the bugles are sill; q
There's pause in the valley-ahalt on the hill;
And bearers OF standards swerve back with thrill
Where shcaves Of the deadbar the way;
Fora great field is reaped, Heavens gamers to Gil,
And stern Death holds lls harvest to day.
There's voice on the wind ikea spirits low cry
lis the nuscr-roll soundipg-and who shall reply?
For those whose wan faces glare white to tie sky,
With eyes fixed SO isteadfast and dnly,
AS they wait that last trump which they may not
delay;
Whose hands clutch the sword hilt so grimy.
The brave heads, late If ed, are soIemnly bowed,
Aud the riderlcss chargers stand quivering and
cowed,
As Tie burial requiem is chanted abound,
& The gFoans Of the deatistricken drowning;
While Victory looks on, Fke queen, pale and
proud,
Who awaits till the morrow her GROWING,
There is NO hooking blazcn as clay siuks to clay;
he vain pomPs OF the peace time are all swept
away
IN the terrible lace of the dread battle day;
Nor eoftiHs nor Surroundings are here;
Only relies that lay where thickest the fray
rent casquc and d beadless spear.
tar away, tramp on tramp, peals che msrch Of the
like storm waves rrtrcatp:s; -spent, ntfal and
slew,
WIN sound like their spirits that faint as they 60
by yon Fed'gg,owing river whose waters
'pr" 08s. Wit. sorrow the land where they flow
- The ,..es of her desolate daughters
iOey are Hcd-tlcy arc gone; but, oh! not as they
came,
In the pride Of those numbers they stakcd on the
game,
Never more shall they stand in the vanguard of
fame,
Never lift the stained sword which they drew;
Never more shall they boast of glorious name,
Never march with the leal and the true.
Where the wreck ofourlegions stranded andlorn
They stole on our ranks in the nists of the morn;
Like the giant of GAIA their strength it was shorn
Ere those msts had rolled up to the sky;
From the flash of our steel new day break seemed
born,
As we sprung up-to conquer or die.
The tumult is silenced the death lots are cast;
the heroes Of battle are slumbering their last
Doye dream Of yon pale form that rode OH the basts
Would ye free it once more, ye brayes
iesl the broad road to Honor is red where ye
passed,
And Of Glory ye asked but--a grave!
chambers Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17
THE LAWYERS PATRON SAINT,
BY JOHN G. SAKE.

SNHA'
lawyer of Britanny, once on time,
When business was tagging at, home,
Was sent as legate to Italy's cline, III
To confer with the Father at Rome.
And what was the message the minister brought?
To the Pope he preferred complaint
That each other profession patron had got,
While the lawyers had never saint!
every true" said his Misunderstanding to find
An attorney SO civil and pleasant
''But my very last saint is already assigned,
And | can't make q new one at present"
ITO choose from the bar it were Gttest, think;
Perhaps you've man in your eye =.
And his Holiness here gave mischievous wink
To cardinal sitting near by.
But tie lawyer replied, in a lawyer-Iike way,
~ know what is modest, hope.
] didn't come hither, allow me to say,
To proffer advice to the Pope!"
avery well, said his Holiness, I" then we will do
The best that may fairly be done;
1t don't seem exactly the thing, it is true,
That the law should be saintless alone.
'To treat your profession as well as can,
And leave ycu no cause of complaint,
propose, as the only quite feasible plan,
To give you secondhand saint
q 70 the neighboring church you will presently 60,
And this is the plan | advise;
First say few aves--a hundred or So
Then carefully bandase your eyes;
fhen-saying more avcs-go cropping around,
and, touching one object alone,
The saint You are seeking will quickly be found
For the first that you touch is your own"
The lawyer did rs his Holiness said,
Without an omission or flaw;
Then, taking the bandages off from his head,
What DO you think he saw
There vas St. Michael figured in painD y
Slbduing the Father of Evil;
And the lawyer, exclaimng, "Be thou our saint !"
Was touching the form of the devil!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17

PRAYERS hr 4 WHIppINe.--1n the early
history Of Harvard University corporal
punishment was one of the most comsnoi,
means Of correction-the tutors chastis-
ing the students at discretion. BY the
college annals it appears that when ole
Thomas Sergeant was publicly whipped
in the hall, the exercises were opened and
closed with prayer
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17

sss- Gov. Wicklife has appointed our
old schoolmate and friend, w. G. Lawes,
Of Donaldsonville, District Attorney for
The Fourth Judicial District rice Emile lie.
gehdre, resigned, this appointment is a
''rV good one, but il does seem strar q,
A - 80 find Danoo.
That the Governor coulu liz. ... De'lo'
crat worthy tue place. [Acadian.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17
VARIETIES.

When Sir William Hamilton announced
to the Royal Irish Academy his discovery
Of the central sun---the star round which
our orb Of day and his planetary attend
ants revolve-a waggish member ex-
claimed, "What our suns sun why
that must be graadsaa!"
The Emperor Of the French wishing to
re-establish old and glorious traditions,
has decided that any regiment which shall
take color from the enemy, shall bear
the cross Of the Legion Of Honor attached
below its eagle.
A darkey's instructions for putting on
. coat were, "Fust de right am, den de
LET and den give one general conwul.
shun.".
Mrs. PoYsER's PRovERBlAL PH1LosopHy.- -,
Folks must put up wi their own kin as
they doswi' their own hoses; it's their own
flesh and blood. Tn not denyin' the wo-
men are foolish; God Almighty made 'em
to match the men. Some f1lks' tongues
are like the clocks as run on strikin', not
to tell you the time o the day, but be-
cause there's summat wrong i their. own
inside.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17

W A remarkably handsome young lady Of
boston was recently married in great haste by Der
parents TO an Iowa merchant, to keep her from
marrying gamester of that city. But the game,
s'er followed the couple home to Iowa, ard the In
iatuated girl eloped with him.
The gamesters rule "heads win, fails You
lose lie was "bound to win in the long run
even when he ran to Iowa and then run away With
the merchants wife.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17
ALEXANDRIA, La, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II 1859

|tanllitaly academy, which the latter had
Submitted to the Secretary Of War.
Alto o'clock, he mounted his horse and
Erode out as usual to make the rounds
of the estate. The ominous ring round
the moon which he had observed on the
preceding night proved a fatal portent.
About o'clock" he notes, it began to
snow, soon after to hail, and then turned
to settled cold RAIN Having on an
overcoat, he continued his ride without
regarding the weather. and did not return
to his house till aftere8. a
His Secretary approached him with let
tiers to be franked, that they might be Ia
ken to the post-ofice in the evening.
Washington franked the letters, but OBJ
served' that the weather was too bad to
Isend servant out with them. Mr.. Lear
perceived that the snow was hanging
from his hair, and expressed his fears
that he Had got wet; but he replied, mo
his great coat had kept hi9dry.' AS
dlnner'had been waiting for him, he sat
down)to the table without changing his
dress TN the evening" writes his Sec
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light ofit
s He yvas very cheerfn, IN the evening -
he sat ID the parlor with Mrs. Washing
ton and Mr. Lear amusing himself with
the nanelx which had been brought from
the post-osice When he met with any.
thing interesting or entertaining he world
read II aloud as well as his borseness
would permit or he listened and made &C..
casional comments while Mr. Lear read
debates Of theSyirpin;a Assembly
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blood, however. raj, pretty freely. and Mrs
Washington, uncertain whether the treat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17

For SrArE SESAroR-The Convention
which assembled at Mansfield on the lst
inst, nominated by acclamation Col. J. S.
fiournoy Of Shreveport as the Democratic
cand'datef for State Senatorfor the parishes
OF Caddo, DeSoto, Natchitoches and Sa-
O'he' ICaddo Gazette.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17

Mrs. MAR, granddaughter Of Mrs. Siddons- fs
giving reading from shakspeare's plays in London.
Atthc invitation Of Lady Noel Byron, a small party
OF private friends recently attended the reading Of
Macbeth.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-08-17

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The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19

The following illustration Of the ancient
friendship which subsisted between Kep-
tucly and Oho-the fraterna affection
between the save-hoding communities on
one side of Ia belle riviere and the non,
settlers on the other side
is from a speech of Tom Corwin. 1t is
Que of those paragraphs which were SO
dstasteful to his black republican aud
itors.
ale remembered that it was his fortune
to be a wagon boy in the war of 1872. en-
gagged in bearing whiskey [laughter] and
ratiops; and he remembered that there
were four negro slaves from Kentucky going
with him to the frontiers. He remembered
seeing in the wigwams the dried scalps of
bis countrywomen Then il was that the
Kentuckians came to the defence of Ohio,
and sent their negroes to defend them, and
they did not think Of hd6eaS co,pustng the
negroes then. They fought to save the
scalpiBg Of the women Of Ohio, and the
dashiBg out of their childrens brains some
of them died on the river Rasiu, and Others
in the defence Of Fort Meigs, and the slaves
went home to their bereaved mstresses
and he never, SO help him God, would con
sent to see injustice done to those who
stood by him in such an emergency.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19

THEIR TEsTlxoNY.-The Republicans have
protested against being associated, in any way,
directly or indirectly, with the Abolition trans
actions at Harper's Ferry 1t has been claimed
by their political opponents, simply that the
teachings of the party tended to such results ;
but this has been strenuously denied. 1t was
hardly expected that developments would come
to light duplicating prominent Republicans in
the conspiracy; but this, too, has happened
The press has done its best to defend or disown
these leaders, according to the dictates of
policy bat they refuse to be- eoan5ed out.
Senator Wilson said, few day ago, at Syra
euse -" The Harper's Ferry outbreak was the
consequence Of the teachings of Republican
iSm." Now let the other leaders add their tes-
timony, and all the witnesses in the Republican
ranks will be needed to prove that the Demo
Gratis have borne false witness A small por-
ton of the press, even now, sustain Wilson's
assertion.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19
THE pREsIpENCY FOR A PARDON.

THE PRESIDENCY FOh fAhDON.
Under the above heading We take the following
article from a late number of the Richmond En-
quirer, edited by son of Governor Wise:
The extravagant offer made for horse at
the battle Of Bosworth, has been more than
overdone in the effort for the pardon of
Brown. The Presidency is the offer now
made to the Executive of Virginia for an
uniustifabe exercise of Executive clemency.
An article in this issue of the Enquirer,
from our cotemporary, the Richmond Dis.
patch, will give some idea of the efforts now
being made to effect the pardon of John
Brown. Many of the letters therein alluded
to, make their appeal through the fears of
personal violence, but the most of them APP
peal to the magnamity, the kind-heartedness,
and the ambition of the Executive. How
little is the character of the present Executive
understood by those who suppose that either
fear or ambition could lead him to act so
repuguant to every just man.
The effort is not confined to the Black
Republican journals, but, we regret to see,
even the New York Journal of Commerce
joins the mistaken cry for clemency, and
its reasons imply that living martyr, at
"hard work for life" is less dan gerous than
dead martyr-that the penitentiary makes
a man more of felon than the gallows-
and that @nisguided people" sympathise
more with the forgotten dead than with
the suffering, hard working, confined living
To us it appears that John Brown, at
hard labor, would be continual source of
supply for Abolition fanaticlsm that his
groaus would resound from Richmond to
Eastport, and from the James river to the
ST. Lawrence; that every meeting Of the
Black Republican and Abolition parties
would herald forth resolutions for his ibera
ton; that the stumpin every election, from
a Constable to the Presidency, would be
redolent with praises of his heroism and
curses upon his imprisonment. Not so with
John Brown executed.
He has forfeited his life and though pos,
sessed of many traits of character that were
worthy of better fate, pity and commiser
alton are closed against the murderer of
Turner, Beckham, &c.
"Vindictive and blind feeling" has char,
acterized no part of his trial, and we can
appeal to the world that neither "indecent
haste" harsh treatment, or any wrong has
been offered to the prisoners. A speedy,
but fair, trial was demanded by all the cir
cumstances. A grevous wrong had been
done, and quick retrlbuion was necessary.
Threats of rescue we're freely made, and the
prisoner, by a bold and impudent effrontery,
held out the belief that hope of relief was
still entertained.
This effort to defeat the end OF Justice i'm
plies fear of the fanatics on the part of
those who urge ths strange request. AS
Virginia aud the South have more occasion
to fear the mscreants the exc .ution of
Brown may excite to similar deeds of rash
ness and folly, we desire to be left to our
own course for similar cases in the future.
Virginia will execute Brown and his as
sociates, aud feels herself able to meet all
the consequences that may arise from that
act.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19
TIE PARnoNIEa POWER.

The agitation produced by attempts Of portion
Of the pubic press and few public men of the
country, to induce Governor Wise to pardon
Brown. or to stay the execution of the sentence
Of the Court until the Legislature meets, has
called forth inrumerable commentaries on the
proprety Of the exercise Of the pardoning power
by the Executives
The n. 0. Pioayune, Of Tuesday, has an article
on the subject in which the official conduct Of
Gov Melville u this respects severely criticised.
Says that paper:
The misuse Of the pardoning power by the
Governors of the several States render it scarcely
doubtful that society would be gamer by the
entire withdrawal Of the privilege Of remitting,
in any case, the penalty Of crime.
The certainty Ct punishment is more powerful
upon the wicked than all other restraining in
6uences, and just in proportion to the probability
Of escape from the clutches of the law is the law
itself mere sheathed sword for The defence of
society.
Within the past ten months the Governor of
Mississippi has pardoned twenty one convios from
the Mississippi Penitentiary. Nor is he singular
in h'S manifestation Of a false philanthropy. Tho
criminal records OF every State where the Cover
nor can paroon will show similar result.
1t would seem as though the age was tninted
with a strange unsoundness of opinion in regard
to those who violate the laws. The entire officers
Of the law have q species Of monomania in favor
of the criminal when he has exposed himself to
the vengeance Of society. If he do not escape
before he is brought to trial, the loniency of the
court, the difficulty Of obtaining witnesses, render
his case hopeful; but if conviction is obtained
and sentence pronounced the Governor interfere
with his pardon, and the wretch whose life or
liberty was justly forfeited to society, is enabled
to repeat his outrages against humanity and law.
This is all wrong; and no man in the Emitted
States has done more to illustrate this fact than
Gov. Neville, with his twentyone parGons in
ten months. We're he perpetual Governor, the
penitentiory would be without occupants, and
the courts might suspend their functions
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19
HARpER's FERRY RESOLUTIONS.

The following preamble and resolutions
were introduced in the Georgia House of
Representatives on Thursday, by Mr..
Gibson, of Richmond, and passed unani>
mously:
Whereas, The late attempt at Harper's
Ferry, in the State Of Virginia. to excite a
portion of the slaves Of the South, to insur
rection, has produced the highest degree of
Indignation in the minds of the southern
people against the perpetrators of this out
rage, their aiders and abettors, and affords
just ground to apprehend renewal of their
efforts in other places; and whereas, the
action of Gov. Wise and President Buchan
au meets with our unqualified appreciation,
we deem it incumbent upon the members Of
tbe Legislature of the State of Georgia to
give the most authoritative expression of
their sentiments Therefore
Resol0e2, That we regard the effort to
excite the slaves of the South to a servle
insurrection with the most intense indigna
ton, and trust that the parties to this insane
and reasonable plot may meet with the
most prompt and signal punishment, believ-
ing as we do, that while it will be melting
out just retribution for their crime, it will
exert a wholesome influence in deterring
others from countenancing similar move
ments.
RESOLVED, That the prompt and energetic
action of Gov. Wise of Virginia. and of
President Buchanan, in suppressiBg the ous.
break at Harper's Ferry, and in their efforts
to capture the insurgents, evince degree
of manliness and patriotism, honorable alike
to them and worthy of our warm admira-
ton.
ResolUed, That we pledge the State Of
Georgia to uphold and support the State Of
Virginia and the President Of the United
States in the position they have assumed,
in connection with this unfortunate affair,
and we earnestly counsel the utmost vigil
ance in guarding against the recurrence Of a
similar conspiracy, in our own borders, or
elsewhere at the South.
ResOEved, That a copy Of the foregoing
preamble and resolutions be transmitted by
the Governor Of the State of Georgia to the
Governor and Legislature Of Virginia. and
to the President Of the United States.
The same was then ordered to be trans
mitted to- the Senate without delay.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.

The Democracy Of this county will meet at the
Court House in this city on the 4th Monday in
November next 1t being the 28th day Of the
month, for the purpose Of appointing Delegates
to the Democratic State Convention called to meet
at Jackson on tho I'd Monday of December next
to appoint delegates to the National Democratic
Convention which viii meet IN Charleston in June
next. \ full attendance Of the party is requested
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19

= THR CoNvIcr OooK.-0u the trial Of this felon
at Charleston, Va, bis confession was read by
Mr.. Hunter. The confession was written by
Cook, and fills twenty. FIVE foolcsp pages. 1t
elicits nothing new, except the fact that he impi
Gates Fred. Douglas and Dr. Howe. The tonfes-
sion is to be published in pamphlet form, for the
benefit of Samuel G. Young one of the wounded
men at Harpsr's Ferry.
The feeling against Cook is said to be stronger
than against any Of the other prisoners. He is
regarded as having been SPY for the insurreo-
tionists Strong efforts, it is said, will be made
by Gov. Willard to save bis life.
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19
THE LEGISLATURE OF TENNESSEE ON TIE
HARPER'S FERRY AFFAIR.

nhhf En- . fEhhL AFFAlh.
The following resolutions have been in.
tEoduced into the Legislature of Tennessee
now sitting at Nashville:
" Therefore, resolved by tie General As
sembly of tbe State Of Tennessee, That we
recognized in the recent outbreak at Har,
per's Ferry the natural prints of this treas
enable irepressibIe conflict doctrine put
forth by the great head of the black rcpub.
lican party, and echoed by his subordinatcs;
and that it becomes the imperative duty Of
national men of all parties throughout the
Union to announce to the world their sense
of its infamy, and to unite in crushing out
its authors as traitors to their country and
as deadly enemies to the public peace, the
rights Of the State, end the preservation Of
our republican institutions.
Resolved, That we record it as the sense
of the Tennessee Legislature that the de
claration of Mr. Seward, that respectable
portion of the Southern people, under the
lead of Cassius NJ. Clay aud Francis P
Blair, will unite with the black republican
party to prevent the extension of slavery
and will eventually rise up against slavery,
is libel on the honor and integrity of the
Southern people, and will serve to make
them more watchful and exactiug of theil
public servants in the national councils.
"ResOlvsd, That it is the duty Of oul
Representatives in Congress to recognize a,
enemies to the Union, and especially to The
slave States, all who, in any way, favor Oh
affiliate with the sectional black republican
party, and that any action on their part
which favors cooperation with black re
pubhcaus in organizing the House, and thus
placing the officers and important commit
tees Of that body under their control, woulC
be false to the sentiment of the people o.
Tennessee, and an insult to their constitu
ants, and disgraceful to themselves.
" ReSoIUed, That we acknowledge oul
appreciation of the prOmptness with whieE
the national administration took steps II
check the recent conspiracy before it obtain
ed the huge dimensions of revolution.
ResoBUed, That our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress be furnished with
copy of these resolutions"
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19

How THEY VOTE IN NEBRAsKA.-A Nebraska
paper gives the following to illustrate "how
they vote in Nebraska: "A sovereign came
up to the poll, and voted in his blowse, stepped
aside, exchanged the blowse for an overcoat
and returned and voted again passed back,
took off his overeoat, and returned in his
shirt-sleeves, and voted the third time went
out, and in few minutes returned in citizens
dress, and voted the fourth time; then got an
old hat, a ragged, dirty coat, and came uE
limping and voted the fifth time"
The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-11-19

Tom. Oorwin, in his recent speech in New
York, takes the ground that the Constitution
grants to Congress the power to abolish slavery
in the Territories, though bot in the States
He also maintains the constitutionality of the
fugitive slave law, and ridicules the contrary
doctrine. He is for the exclusion OF slavery
from all new territory, and, touching the pow.
er Of the people to alter the Constitution,
urges that it be done so as to give to Congress
the power to abolish slavery throughout the
Union.