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| i, helghoorhOod of the slaugbter was at
thr1 Ua ''e lIih fellow named Bssell,
q. commlssary, or something Of the
sort attached to one of the regiments nf Home
puhio vi 'hi' city, Impressed, no doubt with tba
belief that an assault had been made from ,ba drn
| store on the corner of Seventh and OIiva So
| upon his worthy coadiutors in the Unionsarin1 -
| cause, patrioticay resolved-aiter consnlt,+;o55
with Major Bissell aiORe-tO set an examnle haf,rn
the citizens Of the imp-opriety and dtnger of not
| admiring the Home Guard as much as they do
| themselves, by blowing the widow Armfieds store
and its contents to the d. To this end, the gal
aut officer, with degree of coolness and cOnsid-
Grafton beyond all praise, ordered the books and
papers to be removed from the doomed premises
and those of the neighboring grocery, preparatory
to the consummatiOn Of his righteous purpose, in
tending, no doubt, to run down the street in the
meantime and purchase quarters worth of pow
der, with which to cover himself with glOrv
and secure at least a overwhelmingly. The
point of this joke is, this Bssel is the
identical individual who some months since was
arrested at Chicago on the charge of cOnspring to
6ioD up the bridge spanning the Mississippi at Rock
Island, and who is now under bonds to appear in
that city to stand his trial the charge, if mis-
take not
Let not good old Maryland be cast down. The day
OF her redemption draweth nigh, | verify believe
Missouri Is now experiencing the pangs of that
travail which tn result in her dellverance forever
from the curse of Ab0itionsm; and when she shall
nave become regenerated and taken her place in the
Southern CHnederacy, thus adding another star to
that glorious constellation now become the only
emblem of constitutional liberty and just govern
ment in this once happy and prosperous land
when, say, Missouri shall have been formally re-
celved into the family of her Southern sisters her
arm will be outstretched to aid her sisters Mary
land and Kentucky, unless, indeed, they outstrip
her in the race, and gain the haven of rest before
her Heaven send that day very soon. both to
them and her
The blush Of shame and Indignation was made
to mantle our faces yesterday, by the announce
ment that several of Gov. Jackson's constitutional
ipir Tafrar i
themselves and their State, by subscring the oath
OF allegiance demanded of them by the infdel out
law Boernstein, at present the military commandant
at the capital. Attorney General Knott no wever,
refused thus to degrade himself, and in so doing
has secured to himself and name imperishable hon
or; and Though he NAV be made to suffer nov at
the hands of the dastardy scoundres the penalty of
his heroisn, in imprisonment and contumely, he
VIII nevertheless be remembered when the day of
MissOuris redemption shall arrive and her citizens
will then hasten to do him honor.
learned to-day, from gentleman direct from
Fort Smith, Ark, that Gov. jackson and the noble
little band of patriots accompanying him. were ex-
pected at that place by Mccullough on Friday last
presume, therefore, he has reached there ere now.
C.S. A.
A Remarkable Letter from Maine.
We are kindly permitted to publish below, let
ter written to friend in this city, by gentleman
who was formerly member of Congress from
Maine, and who still occupies an eminent position
in that State. As a Northern view of the war and
its consequences it deserves to be read with mark
ed attention.
PORTLAND, June 18th, 1861.
My DEAR SIR-COnstsnt engagements in Court
and subsequent confinement to my house by Illness
have prevented acknow Lodging the receipt of
your avors of the 29th aud 30th ult. beg you not
to believe the neglect svoidable
| concur mainly 10 your views of the war. We
in the North, no less than our former brathern in
the South, the top rounds of reUoLution-both
having substituted a military government, unlimit-
ed as it is unauthorized by any constitutional
form in each case. The President is acting tOuh
out any lar, except that OF an enforced necessity
for carrying out powers that are given, relying on
the approaching Congress for confirmation of his
acts. God alone can tOresee how this great caami.
ty is to terminate. fear it will prove the bitter end
of popular government, and establish the fact that
limited monarchy, and landed estates in perpetuity,
and property qualifications for vOters-n fact, that
the British Constitution is the freeSt and lest which
is capable of enduring. Such certainly, will be
the result if reconstructon of the federal Union
cannot be effected. | sometimes flatter myself that
this will be the turn of affairs; that the orth will
drive, BY force of arms, the seceders out of the
border States, and then, BY blockades the sea-
coast and cOTdons OF troops along the interior
lines, starve the cotton States into submission;
that BY general causes, then, the Union will be
reconstructed substantially on its old basis:
l. The North conceding to the South free occu-
patton Of the common territory with their slave
property, until organized into States, and then a
majority vote shall make it free or slave State
all the South asked, and what the North ought
never to have denied.
2 The North will concede a rigorous and faith
ful execution of the fugitive slave law.
3. The Federal Government will assume all the
debts OF all the States-North and South aiik;
and then, with fifty millions OF addition to the
ordinary expenses Of the army and navy, which
all will admit to be needed, necessity for a tariff
of a high protection order will be felt alike by
North and South, which will last 80 or 40 years;
and will NJ oll hrau hos of pt1
high glow. The South will yield to a tariff
for the sake of getting rid Of her great debt. The
North will WELD to any amount of funded debt for
the sake of such tariff. The South will become
more OF a manufacturing and more of a commercial
people than heretofore Run out the sequences of
this termination of the war, and yOu will steadily
perceive thatwe shall, as nation, be richer and
more peaceful than ever before, and stem any ma
tiOn that has flag on land or ocean. | would to
God that | could make both North and South
pause over such proposition for adjustment of
their pending acts of reciprocal suicide. If the
people could get out Of the tolls of the politicians
both North and SOuth-the war, on the above
basis, could be settled in convention in ten DAYS
only, and all would be peace aud happiness where
all is misery and devastation.
| can one other result possible. If the war
shall be protracted for another twelvemonth, the
old Union Government will be likely to get involved
in complications Of a cartel nature with other Cav
ernments account of the disarrangement of their
commerce and manufactures. The South may then
be able to maintain their attitude of secession, and
reconstruction of the Government become wholly
impractcable.
Then Maryland will go with the South. Maine
'oW no less certainly 90 Nth the Cdnddas. She ioW
join Republican Confederacy. She ,1iU
deem the game Of repWbiicdn governments pjaJed
out, and Portland tgU become the great commercial
and anufaUtTing depot Of the British Government
on this continent and Baltimore ,ctH become the
responding point of Importance to the Southern
Confederdcy. The Western Confederacy will be-
come an elective monarchy, with life peeraPes and
an elective House of Commons. The United States
will ultimately crumble to pieces and unite with
one or the other of these new formations |
confess, with my increasing doubts of the wisdom
of government founded voting per capita
without regard to the qualifications of inteIig renee
to responsibilities OF property possessions,
not sure that the latter result would not be more
enduring for the people through succeeding genera
tons than would be that of the former. These
are the convictions of manhood compared with the
visions of boyhoOd; and in boyhoOd they would
have savored of treason to my ardent democratic
senSbilites.
But the past forty years have developed i'm
mensity of wisdom in the science OF government,
which posterty will not fail to benefit by. And it
must be confessed that judgment of principle
which natures personal ambition decays in the
minds far safer than one that is Influenced by
the aspirations of buoyant hopes of self-aggran-
dizement that are incident to Inexperienced man.
hooc. The pending war is to be condemned in its
inception and in its progress as unnecessary. 1t
ultra politicians both sides-the disunionSts of
the South. and the republicans Of the N0rth-had
,oiHed it, all would have been settled by conven-
ton and not by
Powder is but a poor cement to broken constitu-,
tOns Of government; when the is over, the
folly of it will be transparent to all. | would to
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