Daily national Democrat., 1861-02-27
VIM 5. BYRNE gets off good thing inithe

VIM ). BYRNE gets off good thing insthe |
following:
Our TALK TO TIE BoYs.-We last spoke to
YOU in regard to some indignites you offered .
to a drunken old man, since which time we
have observed very pleasing reformation
in vour street conduct. We have few sug-
ge,tions to make at the present time. and
hope that they may be examined by You
carefully and treasured up: You are not to
credit all those pretty stories you hear about
good boys" dying young, and walking up
to heaven on suubeams-"good boys gener- |
ally have as strong constitutions as bad ones;
and YOU need entertain no fears that you viii
die in childhood Just because you are pretty
well behaved You need not indulge in the
idea that you should develope the muscle,
In IIeenan, in order that you may fill go'-
erumeujal appointments, when you are Il
man, because there are quite number OF
officials in the United States who are as un-
skilled in the manly art OF self defense as was
VIM. Toots Honorable b. f Washington
cannot spar and Weeks is two fiatulcnt for
the ring. Tobacco is very injurious, and, Of
course, you shouldn't use it; but if you viii
persist in the use Of the obnoxious weed, let
us recommend you to purchase the "Solace"
brand the kind we use. The smoking Of
cigars is very bad for little boys. ard it is
not particularly beneficial TO large ones; it
soflcns the brain--brainless folks are not L.
able to be damaged by it-(it would be light
ming on Judge Bolts, lit encivates the ner
vous system, dulls the intellectual faculties:
and we could not consistently recommend
cheap cigars Little boys, if you wish to
learn geometry you should carefully peruse
Euclid and Davies Legcndre; you can ac-
al lotI,r
youmns much sooner than by endeavoriug
to learn angles on IA billiard table the poas
asiJ,ortln is difficult, but it won't require as
great an outlay of the "pccuniary' to master
it as it would to make a thirteen shot on one
of Phe lans tables. Boys, the wine cup should
not be looked upon when it is red, for the
reason that the apothecary may have been
patroniled, and logwood may have carmined
its complexion. California wine, more par
tcuhrly that manufactured at Los Angeles,
"and sold by druggists generally" is OF a
| light color, several shades winter and more
| transparent than Sacramento drinking water.
Another advice boys when you see lady
in danger of falling, when snow-shoeing on
the hil!sides, you needn't stare at her en-
quirn%ly, for the probability is that you can
render her no great amount Of assistance, and
she may think you impertinent. Positively
! the last: do not hang around billiard saloons,
eschew tobacco, quit swearing, join the Dash
aways, and BE virtuous and you will be
happy
GEN. SHIELDS or THE EXISTING STATE CT
AFfAIEs--This hero and orator delivered
lecture on Jackson, in San Francisco, on
Thursday last. Among other things he said,
referring to the existing crisis:
Are we mad 2 Are we walking in dark
ness? | can't see, | don't understand If
YOU should ask me, | own am perpleXrd,
| The laws should be executed, und yet if en-
forced it would lead to civil war, and this is
death, not only to liberty, but to civilization.
My impulse is, restore this property hoist
that flag again! Tremendous applause
| But can see nothing now to save us but the
interposition of Almighty Coo. and oh! may
He III his mercy avert so calamitous an evil,
it matters not who are the yictors and Nho
are the vanished.
! would have taken up Crittenden's Con -
ompromise per6atiH ct Weratin, then |
would have taken the traitors of the South
en- DtasSo, in one body, and then | would exc
cute the laws and repeat to them what jack
son slid-"The Union must be preserved! =
Critteuden has been Wing, and am
Democrat. lie is a little of what is callet
an American, while I'm not on that side. But
he is a brave, noble, true hearted old man,
and his Compromise ought to have been aC'
cepted. Then, having platform, | care moi
how soon war was declared. The traitors
could have had war to their hearts content
But | hope and trust, and will even ven
turo to predict that the Union will be pre-
served, and for this | rely more upon God
help than anything else. Can it be possible
that God should have permitted this peopl
to he gathered together and then be tori
asunder? No! 1t can be but a malady,
disease, a crisis, a fever But if it shoul,
come TO pass that Americans should mbru
their hands with their own blood, then
must lose all hope. We must compromise
and then if we must fight let our cry be tina
of jackson s-"The Federal Union, it mus
be preserved" [Great applause"
Mr.. STOKES OF TENNEssrE.-This gentle
man made a speech in the House of Repre-
sentatives, ON the lst of February: He
maintained that there was no cause for sun
dcring the Union. He denied the right OF
secession, while admitting that of revolution
which could be exercised only when oppres-
sion becomes intolerable and all constitution
al remedies have failed lie alluded to tina
instrument to show that no State can entel
into an agreement or compact with foreigI
Powers, ETC. lie had sworn to support tn,
Constitution and all laws passed in pursuanc,
of it. No power on earth should ever induce
him to utter one word in any way whateve
to encourage any State TO secede. On tn,
contrary, he intended by that oath to stanC
firm by the Constitution. lie did not be
lieve Tennessee would secede lie hopeS
she would not He intended to do all b.
could to keep her from SO doing. But if sh
; does, the waters of the Mississippi woul,
have to be kept free to Tennessee and al
and all Others. lie would vote for any com
f promise to settle the difficulty. Tennesse
and other States were asked to Join tn
southern Confederacy but as they had prov
, ed faithless by withdrawing from Congres
( when it was in their power to prevent mis-
chief, and would not stand by the remainin!
} upon them if they went into a Southern Con
s lederacy? The plan of disunon vas concoc
ted and agreed ON two years ago by tn
leaders of the Democratic party in the cotton
States. If certain demands were not granite,
by the Charleston Convention then it was tt
| be broken up and separate Confederacy es
5 tablished, whose object was to open the AT
rican slave trade, conquer Mexico and anne
r Cuba Disunion was scheme of few cN
cited madmen and politicians ambitious men
seeking for power lie admitted that he wa
a submssionist, and would rather be Gale,
this than rebel and traitor. He was for tin
Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement