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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02
Policy of the Border States.

Having steadfastly adhered to the doctrine
that civil war, or danger of constant collision be-
tween the Border Free and Slaye States, could
only be averted by peaceful settlement 5n the
Union OF our present troubles, and that it was
really the interest of the Border Slave States to
maintain their present relations with the Free
States on our border, and with the whole Union
if possible, we have deduced therefrom differ
ence between our condition and that of the Gull
States. Nothing that has occurred, therefore,
has served to change or even shake the convic-
ton, that we have interests in the Union that
are paramount-interests that the Cotton States
have not; and that therefore we should not RASH
y imperil them through any tancied identity Of
interest with the States that have LETT us for veal
or tor woe, to work out our own destiny as best
we may. We have maintained that it is neither
our interest to go with them, really essential
to their interest that we should. We are glad,
therefore, to find so respectable journal in one
of the seeded States, as the Millecgevie (Gec.)
Recorder, supporting the views we have advo-
Gated. In the issue of that journal of the 18th
inst, we find the case thus strongly stated, as
follows: eff the line of the Southern Confedracy
touched that of the Free States, there being no
law or treaty for the rendition of fugitives from
labor between foreign Poaoers, the mischief
would be such, practically, that collision of arms
would be unavoidable, unless the Slave States
receded altogether from the claims on which they
insisted while in the Union, of having their pro-
perty returned to them under the plain behest of
the Constitution and the acts of Congress to car
ry it into effect. In the simple matter of con-
venience and expediency, therefore, we believe
that the Border States will be of more advan-
tage in their present position to the Southern
Confederacy, a wall of defence against Northern
aggression, than if they were to become mem
bers of it, with all their frontier exposed to fa-
natical hatred and pillage We should then have
to try an experiment which otherwise we might
be under the necessity of making with the Free
States, and which no amount of wisdom or valor
may contemplate with Indifference. If slaves
from the Border States are stolen or enticed away
by the abolitionists, the game would become
vastly interesting in the absence of any stipuls-
tions recognizing slaves as property, which we
have reason to believe could never be obtained.
Outrage would follow outrage in rapid success
sion,. and on scale of such magnitude that war
would be the only mode of redress"
Ought not this candid avowal, from source
entitled to credit, induce the people of the Bor-
der Slave States to make every effort compatible
uaA their honor (and we would not have them
do more) to avert the catastrophe, before they
rush into the vortex of secessiona This word,
with us, has deeper Specification than it can
have in the Gulf States. We trust our people
will do nothing raShly,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

ment of the question by a Border Conference, or
any other conference; but would reserve it
for the ratification or rejection of the people
He thought when everything had been settled to
the satisfaction of tie Border States-when our
Southern sisters saw that the question was set
tied in manner satisfactory to Virginia, they
would return and look the issue sternly IN the
face; and when they thought of the stars and
stripes under which they had marched in ca
reer of prosperity, they would hardly refuse to
come back. But, should they refuse, it would
still be the duty of Virginia to look after her
own rights, and take care OF her own interests.
He then argued that SO far as the agricultural
interests of Virginia were concerned, she would
be infinitely better off to remain as she was, than
to secede from the Union. The cotton States
raised neither breadstuffs nor live stock to any
extent, but they must have them, and would pur
chase of Virginia. In laying their tariff, they
had left these articles of duty free. They were
bound to have them, and could not do without
them. There would be o free access to their
market, and he could see no reason for seeding
in order 10 get to it. II Virginia would secede,
tbeHa would moreover be line of custom houses
between her and the North, and protective tar
iff would cut us off from all articles of material
necessity that we wanted to buy. He knew but
little about manufactures, in regard to which In
] terest allusion had been made. He did not, how
ever, wish to introduce the Yankee system into
lVirginia-those immense corporations OF which
we heard so much. He preferred the peaceful
pursuits which at present characterised the IN
habitants He protested in breaking up the great
theatre on which the experiment of free trade
was in process of splendid development.
Il In conclusion, Mr.. Baldwin apologized for hav-
ling so long detained the Committee in listening
to an exposition of his views. When be looked
along the line of his duty and saw the number
| of steps that were necessary to accomplish the
object of his hope, his mind often quailed, and
he trembled with apprehension. He believed
however, it was his duty to walk in the path
4 which he had marked out. II he performed vel
the patriotic duty Which he bad undertaken, be
\ could safely leave the rest in the hands of the
great Disposer Of events. He would, therefore
1 turn neither to the right nor to the left, but
| would march straight on, in the line of duty
and of right, and leave the result to God.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02
Here is an exquisitely suggestive

prose poem:
Passing neat little martin box of house last
evening, we happened to see man waiting al
the door for admittance. At the instant green
blind above just opened little way, and by the
gas light we caught the glimpse of pair of bril-
liant eyes and futter of something white, and q
bird toned voice softly said, ssWho IS there ?''-
ssIT's Me- was the brief response. The eyes
and the futter disappeared from the window,
like stars in cloud, and we almost fancied, as
we passed on, we could hear the pattering of two
little feet upon the stars, winged with welcome
1t was trihe it happened all to be in an in
slant, but it haunted us for an hour. It's me-
Amid the jar of the great city, those words fell
upon the quick ear aloft, and met glad re-
sponse.
IRIS mel And who was ssme ?'' The pride OF
hearts life, no doubt; the tree a vine was
clinging to the ssDefender Of the FAITHFUL in
the best sense in the world.
ssIT's ME- 20 Many there are who would give
half their hearts, and more than half the hope in
them, for one such recognition in this sswide
wide world" On Change, in the Directory, al
the Post Office, he was known as A. G. s., ESQ.
but on the threshold, and within those walls 1r's
ME and nothing more; what more is there one
would love to be-?
Few OF all the hearts that beat SO wildly
warmly, sadly, slowly, can recognise true sou
amid the din and darkness eff the world, in that
simple but eloquent IT'S NE. As if he had said
Now, am nothing to all the world,
For am all the world to thee.
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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

The PLAIN TRUTH FOR MIssoURI.-In the Mis-
souri, State Convention, on the l4th inst, Judge
Orr, delegate from Greene county, spoke some
plain truths as to the plot OF the Secessionists
He said:
ssIt would be the height of folly for Missouri
to secede. Where one negro now escapes to IL
linois, dozen would escape, and instead of re-
covering half of them, we would recover none.
l never expect to go out of the
Union, and will live in Missouri too. tell
you that / am going to stay where / am. am
going to stay in the Union. l am neither going
South or North. But am told You are going
North No, sir, am not going to trot with
Missouri over to any of them. Well, then, 1 am
coercienist !! Let me illustrate by an incident
IN my own history. | once had two sons who
took notion to run away from me, and pretty
soon one of them came back. What did I do
then Instead of shedding blood l shed tears,
and the next morning put him on horse, and
gave him another horse alongside and sum of
money, and told him to 60 and bring back his
brother. They returned, and / never thought of
punishment. That's exactly the way 1 would
treat our Southern brethren. 1t was
said by the gentleman from Cole (Mr. Knott)
that he would very much regret to stain his
hands with his brothers. blood. So would T.
But don't want my brother to stain his hands
with my blood and it may be necessary, possi-
bly,, to stain our hands with our brothers. blood
to save our wives and daughters
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02
The Type.

Ine 1yPes
Pick and click .9zs
Go thetypes in the stick,
~ As the Printer stands at his case
His eyes glance quick, and his fingers pick
The types at rapid pace.
And, one by cne, as the letters go,
Words are piled.up steady and slow
Steady and slow,
But still they grow,
3 And words of fire they soon will glow;
Wonderful words that without a sound
Shall traverse the earth to its utmost bound
Words that shall make
The tyrant quake.
And the bonds ofthe slave oppressed shall break !;
Words that can crumble an army's might,
Or treble its strength in righteous fight.
Yet the types they look but leaden and dumb,
As he puts them in place with his finger and thumb
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

PLAIN TALK.-Go out into the open air. young
women, and add lustre to your eyes, bloom to
your cheeks, elasticity to your steps, and vigor
to your frames! Take exercise; loose your cor
set strings and run up bill for wager, and down
again for fun; roam the fields, climb the fences,
leap the bitches, wade the brooks and after a
day OF unrestraned liberty, go home with an ap-
petite acquired by healthful enjoyment. The
blooming and beautiful young woman-rosy
checked and bright eyed-who can darn stock
ing, mend her own frocks, command regiment
of pots and kettles, feed the pigs, milk the COWS,
and be a lady when required, is the girl that can
make good wife. But the pining, screwed up.
W wasted, doll dressed, consumptive-mort-
gagged, musio-murdering and novel devouring
daughters of fashion and idleness, are no more
fit for matrimony than pullet is to look after o
brood of fourteen chickens. The truth is, girls
want less fashionable restraint and more liberty
of action; more kitchen and less parlor; more
leg exercise and less sofa; more pudding and less
piano; more frankness and less mock modesty.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

TREASON TO THE C0NFEDERACY.-The New Or
leans True Delta, the only paper in the Southern
Confederacy which has not yielded to the seces-
sion folly, thus announces the adjournment of
the State Convention:
In our inmost heart, this morning, we sincere
ly do thank God that the ignorant, factious and
republc-destroying gang, recently belching and
splitting treason, profigacy and waste, in Baton
Rouge, is scattered. The new or sham Democ-
racy who there held high wassail; the filthy
dregs of every loathsome faction, from blear-
eyed federalism to ruffian thuggery which has
appeared at intervals of national darkness and
gloom, from the foundation of the Government
until the present time, were therein represented |;
and the chosen exponents of Slidell Democracy,
the mouthpieces of that fetid, vulgar and unprin-
cipled organization which is installed in power
over this unfortunate people, were taken with
prescient intelligence of their adaptability to
their work, to inculcate the principles of their
master upon the masses ofthis population.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02
POETR Y.
A Mothers Group.

A Mothers Group.
Arrow of little faces by the bed;
A row of little hands upon the spread;
A row of little roguish eyes all closed;
row of little naked feet exposed.
The gentle mother leads them in their praise,
z Teaching their feet to tread in heavenly ways,
And takes this lull in childhooPs tiny tide,
The little errors of the day to chide
No lovelier sight this side of heaven is seen,
And angels hover DER that group serene;
Z Instead of odors in censer swung,
There floats the fragrance of an infants tongue.
Then, tumbling headlong into waiting beds,
Beneath the sheets they hide their timid heads;
TIL slumber steals away their idle fears,
And like peeping bud each face appears.
ALI dressed like angels in their gowns of white.
They're waited to the skies in dreams of light,
And Heaven will sparkle in their eyes at morn,
And stolen graces all their ways adorn.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

"Will you give me them pennies 2" said q
big newsboy to a little one, after giving him q
severe humping.
mo, won't" exclaimed the little one.
s.Then will give You another pounding"
s.Pound away. Me and DR.. Franklin agrees !;
DR.. Franklin says: Take care of the pennies and
the pound will take care of themselves.'n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

The RED MAN ON THE WALK.-Tbe black
man having taken Texas out of the Union. the red
man threatens to drive her back into it again.
Tor protection. The San Antonio papers, March
9tb,) to hand, are filled with accounts of Indian
dsepredatons in that vicinity, occasoning much
alarm among the whites. The withdrawal of
Uncle Sans troops have made the redskins
ooid--and the chances are now that instead of
invading Mexico, the chivalry of the Lone Star
VIII have to stay at home to look after ''ths
Greeks at their doors.n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

"a young poet out West, in describing Heay-
en- says: 1t is a world of bliss fenced in with
pretty girls. If that is true, and we are so for
tunate as to get there, we intend to ask permis.
sion to sleep in the fence corners. - Ticks5sro
Whsg. - :,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02
From tho Aleeandria Gazette :
Col. John R. Baldwin.

All accounts concur in representing Mr.. Bald
wins speech in the Convention, as a very able
one We look upon him as one of the first lner
in Virginia, in every respect. We agree witt
our correspondent in wishing that Baldwin and
Summers patriots, statesmen-could
speak in every county in the State. All honor
to such men, and to their gallant friends in the
Convention, who, while they would restore the
Union, if possible, would still stand by the rights
and interests of their own State-hoping for the
best. contending against the worst. Mr.. Bald
wins noble protest against the indignity offered
to the old Commonwealth, by certain other sons,
who are now attempting to insult and decry her
to blur the spendor OF her tame-and to de-
grade her in the eyes of the word-an unnatu-
raj aud ever to be lanented perverson of true
Virginia feeliog-was worthy OF the man-and
will be responded to, enthusiastically, by the
whole Conservative party OF the State, and, even
by thousands of those who are in favor of Seces-
sion. Let Us stand by, rally around, and uphold
and defend Virginia, to the end
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

A green horn standing by sewing machine
at which handsome young lady was at work.
looking alternately at the machine and its fair
operator, at length gave vent to bis admiration
with:
aBy golly its purity, specially the part COW
cred with caliker." esiga
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

III you marry" said Roman consul to his
son, 'iet 1t be woman who has Judgment and
industry enough to get meal of yictnals. taste
enough to dress neat pride enough to wash be.
iore breakfast, and sense enough to hold her
tongue" - - -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Letter from Richmond.
RICHMOND, March %.

The UIion feeling is better than it ever was.
The Convention will adjourn, I think, in about
two weeks A Border Slave State Conference
will be invited, and think the report OF the
majority will be adopted. Mr.. Baldwin, of Au-
gusta, is now making a splendid effort His
manner, voice, and eloeution are fine; his ideas
clear and lucid; his logic irresistible, and his
ponderous strokes reverberate loudly upon the
shattered buckler of the Secessionists. In haste.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

U An old fellow being visited by his pastor, he
assured him that he could not be good chris
tian unless he took up his daily cross, whereat
he caught up his wife and began Juggling her
about the room.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-04-02

Dobbs says that beauties generally die old
maids. They get such value on themselves
that they don't fad purchasers till the market is
closed. aa
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The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-07-04
A New Law Needed.

One Of the very first acts of the ex-
ira session of Congress which meets
to-day, should be the passage of a law
declaring that al! contractors dealing
with the Government, during the con-
tinuance of this rebellion, whether con-
tractors for Army or Navy supplies,
shall from the date of the enactment be
put on a military footing, and in cases
of malfeasance be dealt with as often
ders against the martial law; and that
all government officials, from Cabinet
Ministers down to the Quarter Masters
and Commissaries clerks, who are in
any way connected with the purchase
of arms, equipments, provisions, ami
mails, or military or naval stores of any
sort, shall, when caught in collision
with the "scalpers," who are trying to
clothe our troops in rags, and feed them
sour flour and on sinking meat, be
brought up to the drurn-head and tried
according to the forms which there pre-
vail, and shot outside Of the lines, as
soon as their guilt is proved. 99e Ie5r
Such a law would save the country
tens of millions of dollars, spare our
troops many day of hunger and dis
comfort, and greatly increase the eff
eency of all branches of the public
service, by preventing the demoraliza-
ton which contractors rascality and
official corruption will cause among the
men who fight and the men who pay.
Fortunately the Michigan troops
have generally escaped the grasp of
the spectators who dabble in
the blood of their countrymen; but if
a half we hear of the rascality which
has been practiced in Ohio, in New
York and Pennsylvania, is true, the
necessity for such a law is imperative.
The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-07-04
Congress.

Congress.
An extra session of Congress con-
venes at Washington to-day. The
session will doubtless be short, and We
may reasonably suppose that as the
members will nearly all come from loyal
States and loyal Districts, that all propo-
sitions for negotiating with rebels will
be at once rejected without serious con-
sideration or debate. jeff Davis,
Beauregard, and his fellow rebels, are
known only as traitors to their country
men who are not only not known as
statesmen, but whose position as citi-
zens, and whose lives are already
forfeited. 8d E5ne ri tsy Ed.
1t may be safely assumed, also, that
no proposition for peace from any source
not based on unconditional submission
on the part of the rebels will be listened
to for a moment by any true friend of
the Union. The Government has
arrived at that point where it cannot
falter or hesitate hairs breadth from
the line of duty. Nothing could be
more preposterous than the. proposed
plan of compromise to be presented by
John j. Crittenden. He closed his
Senatorial career in March last, his plan
of compromise, having utterly failed.
But he has recently figured in bor-
der State Convention, comprising, ac-
cording to reports, scarcely bakers
dozen, and now returns to Congress as
a conditional Union man. The United
States will not render itself contempt
BILE throughout the world by proposing
terms to traitors. rl Hol
1t is said that Mr.. Crittenden pro-
poses to ask the rebel States to present
list of their grievances, and if they
are not remedied-if Congress and the
Administration do not yield what is
demanded-thcnh he will refuse to vote
a dollar to carry on the war! No such
humiliating proposition can receive
attention from Congress or the Execu-
tive. The first duty of the Government
is to suppress rebellion at whatever
cost. Only loyal subjects can ask for
remedy of grievances. raor