Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-01
Clippings from Prentice.

TIE Courier wants to know if the people
of kentucky can possibly remain longer ig
norant of the danger which threatens the
institution of slavery in the South. We
don't see how they can If they don see that
this war, wickedly brought upon the country
by Secession, that latest and worst device of
the powers of evil, will, if not brought to a
close hy the restoration of the Union ami
hilate slavery in every slaveholdng State that
enters into it, they must be as blind as dead
men.
If the Confederate States want peace, they
can have just the same pecae that they had
five years ago, ten years ago, twenty years
ago-the same peace on the same terms
What could be better?
THE Courier talks about civil war in Ken
lucky, and asks "who are responsibleY Sir,
those are responsible who, in disregard and
defiance Of the fact that Kentucky has three
times within six months declared for the
Union by overwhelming maiorities, are try
ing 10 precipitate her out OF it and procuring
the cooperation of Tennessee in the atrorious
effort. Yes they are responsible, and when
they feel the whole weight of the respous
bihty fail upon them, they will think it II
thunderbot.
TIE first appeal in the United States from
the ballot box to the cartridge boxis now ON
trial. What shall the verdict be?
IT is announced that General Price will
continue in the Confederate service, though
we thought lie wos,discharged at Boonville
Az Ohio paper says of Mr.. Nallandigham,
member of Congress from that State, that
" his seat las been abused" Has his seat
been kicked
JuXlus BRurus Boorns READING OF THE
"ANcENr MATlNER SO Booth read aloud
the whole of this magnificent poem. | havo
listened to Macready. TO Edmund Kean, to
Rachel, to Jenny Lind, to Fanny Kemble-
to Webster. Clay, Everett, Harrison Gray,
Oti7--to DR.. Claiming, Henry Ward Beecher,
Wendell Phillips, Father Taylor, Ralph
Waldo Emcrson-to Victor Hugo, Coqueret,
Iacordaire-but none of them affected me
as was affected by this reading | forgot
the place where | was, the motive of my
coming the reader himself | knew the
poem almost 10y heart, yet | seemed never to
have heard it before. l was by the side of
the doomed mariner. | was the welding
tcliug eye | was with him in the storm,
| among the ice, beneath the hot and copper
! sky. Booth became so absorbed in his read,
ing, so identified with the poem, that hi!
tone and manner were saturated with a feel.
ing of reality. lie actually thought himsel
the mariner-so | am persuaded, while he
WAS reading. AS the poem proceeded, and
we plunged deeper into its mystic horrors,
the actual world receded into dim, inde-
tinable distance. The mag8etism of this
marvellous interpreter had caught up him
self, and me with him, into Dreamland, from
which we gently descended at the end of
Part ~, and ''the spell was snapt."
And now, all in my own countrce,
/ stood on the firm land,-
returncd from voyage into the inane- =
Again l found myself sitting in the little
hotel parlor, by the side of a man with gilt
te,ing eye, with third somebody on the
ether side of the table-1tIantic Monthly.
INcENDIAHy DocUMENRs.-~Th National Re-
publican calls attention to the fact that the
power of the Post-oflice Department to pre-
vent its facilities being used for the circula-
tion of incendiary papers, was maintained
! by Postmaster- G. eneral Kendall in 1888, tn,