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The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
EMANCIP ALTON IN THE DISTRICT.
BY WHITTIER.

When first saw our banner wave
Above the nations council.hall,
heard beneath its marble wall
The clanking fetters of the slave
In the foul market. place stood,
And saw the Christian mother sold,
AMI childhood with its locks OF gold,
Blue eyed and fair with Saxon blood.
l shut my eyes-I held my breath,
Aud smothering down the wrath and shame
That set Inv Northern blood aflame,
Stood silent-whore to speak was death.
Beside me gloomed the prison cell
Where wasted one in slow decline
For uttering simple words of mino,
And loving freedom all too we'll.
The flag that fioated from the dome
Flapped menace in tho morning air;
stood periIed stranger, where
Tho human broker mado his homo.
For crime was virtue Gown aud Sword
Aud Law their three.lod sanction gave,
And to the quarry of the slave
Went hawking with our symbol.bird.
On tho oppressor's side was power:
And yet knew that every wrong,
However old, however strong,
I
But waited Gods avonging hour.
know that truth would crush the lie
Sometime, somehow. tho end would be;
Yot scarcely dared hope to see
The triumph with my mortal eye.
But now see it ! In the sun
free flag floats from yonder dome,
And at the nations heart and home
The justice long delayed is done.
Not as we hoped, in calm of prayer.
The message of deliyerancn comes,
But heraldod by roll of drums,
On waves of battlc-ttoubled air
Midst sounds that madden and apall.
Tho song that BethIehem's shepherds
knew!
The harp of David melting through
The demon agonies of Saul
Not as we hoped but what are We?
Above cur broken dreams and plans,
God lays, with wiser hand than mans,
The corner-stones of liberty.
l cavil not with Him: the voice
That freedoms blessed gospel tells
Is sweet to mo as silver bells,
Rejoicing yea, l will rejoice
Dear friends still toiling in the sum-
Ye dearer ones who gone before,
Are watching from :he eternal shore
The slow work by your hands begun,
Rejoice with me The chastening rod
Blossoms With love; the furnace heat
Grows cool beneath His blessed feot
Whose form is as the Son of God
Rejoice Our Marah's bitter springs
Are sweotoned on our ground of grief
Rise day by day in strong. relief
The prophecies of better things.
Rejoice in hopo The day and night
Are ono with God, and one with them
Who see by faith the cloudy hem
OF Judgment fringed with Morcy's ligh. !!
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
The Pursuit of Fugitive Slaves Under
Difficulties.

The Memphis correspondent of the New
York Tribune relates the following amusing
incident:
Yesterday beroaved patriarch applied to
Gen. Sherman, to learn how he could re.
claim his runaway slaves. 81 know of only
one way, sir" replied the General, "and
that is through tho United Statos Marshal" !"
The unsuspecting planter started in anxious
pursuit of that officer, and was at last di-
rected to Hillyer's quarters, whore be asked ;
us this tho United States Marshal =
"No, sir; the Provost Marshal"
"Where can l find the United States
Marshal r
Have you business with him :"
ayes, sir; l want my nggers. Gen.
Sherman says ho is the proper officer to ap'
ply to-"
"Oh, yes" replied Col. HiIyer, VINO per.
ceved the joke; "he undoubtedly is so the
law prescribes."
"Is he in town :"
81 don't know, but suspect not"
"When do you think he left p
"About yoar ago, l fancy.
AT last it dawned upon the planters brain
that, since the United States officers were
driven out, and the National courts brokon
up, the Fugitive Slave Law is not in opera
ton. He went back to Gen, Sherman, and
inquired sadly if there was no other way OF
recovering his chattels. Tho General re-
piled
"None to my knowledge. sir"
"What can do about it :"
"Well, sir the law provided a remedy for
you shareholders in cases like this, but you
were dissatisfied and smashed the machine
If you don't like your own work, you'd bet
ter restore it and set it running again. Un-
less you do that very soon, you'll have no
need of Fugitive Slave Law"
The planter left, with his admiration for
the beauties of Secession a good deal d.
minished.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
Gen. Butler and Gen. Phelps.

The Department of the Cult is perturbed
by the negro question. Tho facts are de-
rived from the correspondence as follows /;
General Pnelps made rcqusitioE for arms,
equipments, &c, for "throe regiments of
Africans" which bo proposed TO raise. lie
said at the same time that he had already
upwards of three hundred Africans, organ.
lzsd into five companies, who arc all willing
and ready to show their devotion to our
cause in any way that it may be put to the
test. He says that Southern society is dis.
solving, and that to prevent the African
from being instrumental in general state
Of anarchy, ho should be attached to our
side
To the requisition for arms, &C., General
Butler signfed his wish that General Phelps
employ his contrabands in cutting down the
trees and forming abattis between bis limos
and the lake. General Phelps responded ss
follows:
"Whie am willing to prepare African
regiments for tho defense o! the government
against its assailants, am not willing to
become the mere slave driver which you
propose, having no qualifications IN that
way. l am, therefore, under the necessity
OF rendering tho resignation OF my commits
sion as an officer OF the army of the United
States, and respectfully request leave of
abseuce until it is accepted"
General Butler, in reply TO this letter Of
General Phelps says that the president
has not indicated his purpose to employ the
| Africans in arms" that the arms, &C., "for
the Louisiana volunteers are, by the letter
of the Secretary of War, expressly limited
to white soldiers" aud he orders General
Phelps to dcsist from his negro enlist
mens. In regard to the engineering work
proposed, the General says:
You have five hundred Africans organ
izod into companies. You write me this
DO done by them or by soldiers, now drilled
and disciplined. You have said the loca
ton is uHhealthy to the sodiers-it is not
| to the negro. Is il not bost that these un.
employed Africans should do this labor I;
10 do this the negroes ought to be en-
ployed, and in so employing them l soc no
evidence of slave driving or employing you
as a slave driver.
Tho soldiers of the army of the Potomac
did this very thing last Summer, in front of
Arlington Heights. Are the negroes any
better than they : Because of on order to
do this necessary thing, to protect your
front. threatened by the enemy, you tender
your resignation and ask immediate leave
of absence. l assure you did not expect
this, either from your courage, your patriot.
ism, or your good sense. To resign in face
of an enemy has not boen the highest plaudt
to a soldier, especially when the reason as.
siguod is that he is ordered to do that which
recent act of Congress has specially au.
thorized commander to do. O., employ
the African to do tho necessary work
about camp or upon a fortification.'
General Butler refused to accept the res
ignation of General Phelps. and has referred
the whole matter to the War Department
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
For the JefTersonan Democrat.
THE SOLDIERS MUSE AT EVEN.

The rising moon surveys our camp,
A thousand stars in heaven appear.
Each soldier rests in sleep profound,
Meath Heavens rich robe he knows no
fear.
In sleeps embrace we're carried back
To home and friends, in native dells
In dreams We oft our parts act o'or,
Iu scenes that thrilled the hearts deep
cells.
But diforont scenes than these are ours,
When lcng.roll beats ut dead of night;
From sylvan dreams we form in line,
Each grasps the steel, prepares for fight.
'Tis now tho soul with dread stands still,
The hoart itself iorgots 20 beat,
But soon It's DER, tho knoe that shook
Stands stout and firm, the foe to meet.
Oh, thon. may lie who rules the world,
Make strong the arm, sustain each heart
Protect, direct, on every hand,
That each may bravely act his part.
j. IL. WARNER, 4lst Reg, o. V.
Written in Camp Houghtcn, south o
Athens, Alabama.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
Lake Nvassi.

Great excitement was occasoued, some
years since, among scientific men, by the
announcement that that portion of South
ern Africa named by map p.makers, in de-
fault Of better information, the "great in
terror desert" was in reality we'll
wateted basin, having a number OF large
navigable rivers and extensive fresh water
lakes. Two Of these-Ngami and Ny.
assi--have been pretty well explored, the
former in the belief that it would prove "a
be the head waiers Of the Nile, and the
other by DR.. Livingstone, in the hope thai
commerce might be introduced into AT
vica. DIR. l.. spent some five years In hit
second journey from South Africa to LAX,
Nyassi, and has crossed the continent from
the lake to the oceans on the east ant
west, fading to the eastward fine watel
communication. He has since explored
the lake for about 200 miles, and pub
lished in the New York Tribune brie
sketch Of the journey. In August las
the party carried boat for 35 or AZ
miles, past the Murchison cataracts OF
Shire river, which opens into the lake
There are five falls of from 100 10 15
feet, and a number OF rapids in the cata
rscts, :he entire fall 1900 feet.
The lake is from six to seven hundret
feet in depth, in many places deeper, ant
has some resemblance iu outline to Italy
1t begins in latitude fourteen degrees
twenty-five minutes south, and extend
to the southern borders Of the tenth de
gree Of south latitude-being over 22-
miles long. 1t is nearly straight, lying
between the 3jth and Seth degrees o
longitude; a succession Of bays open int,
il from the east, and range Of high land
and mountains surround it. There ar
several small, uninhabited islands in tn
lake, which afford no protection or an
chorage from storms, owing to the rock
surrounding them. Five rivers flow in;
il from the west, and, il is thought, on
from the north. The shore is very pop
ulous, fishing being the chief occupatio
Of the people, varied by slave catching
The explorers met no hostile demonstra
tons except from tribe called Ajawa
whom they endeavored to dissuade iron
slave catching.
DR.. Livingstone speaks enthusiasticall
of the future destiny of Africa. The SO
is luxuriant, and frosts are unknown =
The cotton plant IS perennial, and re
quires none of the :oil necessary TO it
culture where it is exotic. The creates
drawback is slave hunting, which depop
ulales the country so much as to endange
labor. This traffic, however, will ulti
mately cease, by the extinction of tn
slave markets throughout the eivilize
world
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
Gen. Rousseau's StyIe,

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Ga
zeHe relates the following OF that noble
Kentucky Unionist, Gen. Rousseau:
was in his tent not long since, when
gentleman came before him requesting
permission to 60 beyond our fines and
visit his wife. He had never taken up
arms against the Union, but he had aided
and abetted those who had, and admitted
that he was still secessionist.
"You can't go |" said the General.
at seems very hard" replied Secesh,
that can't go and see my wife,"
"No harder for you than it is for me-"
returned the General. 81 want 10 see ing
wife. You have compelled me to leave
her by your internal treason. You surely
don't expect me to grant you favor
which your rebellious conduct prevents
me from enjoying"
"Well, but, General"
! at is useless TO talk, sir. II YOU will
go 10 work and assist me to return 10 my
wife, will do all can DO 10 enable you
TO return to yours"
"What do you wish me to do, General?"
81 wish you 10 return to your allegi-
ance, as fa- as lies in your power, to dis.
countenace rebellion and treason"
"But, General, my conscience will not
allow me 20 do that"
"Neaher Msn." replied the Kentucky
patriot, "will my conscience allow me to
grant you favors which are due only to
loyal men,"
OF course there was nothing further to
be urged, the baffled rebel took up his hat
and left. The General turned toward
those who were sitting in his tent, and quiz
etly remarked
"When you have rendered these reb.
els fully sensible OF how much they have
lost by their rebellion, you have taken
the first step toward making them loyal
men,"
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29

NATURE AS AN ARTIsT-Nature never
places two inharmonious colors in juxta-
position, but every tint is laid on with the
most perfect artistic effect, not shadow
out of place. Her colors are contrasted I,
never opposed, and even in her widest
moods she still Aings down her massive
rochs, and pours her foaming water,
where the landscape seems to need it most
In the words of the talented author Of
"The Land we live iu," Mature is al.
ways at work, producing changes which
do not show from day to day, but are
very striking after course Of years. She
disintegrates the rocks, and now and then
sends down masses, laundering along the
ravines, to bridge over chasm or m make
a new islet in pool she sows her seeds
in erevices or in little projections, and the
bare face OF the precipice becomes leath
cred with the rowan and the birch she
draws her carpet of verdure gradually up
the base slopes where she has deposited
earth 10 sustain the vegetation /; she is
forever covering with her exquisite MOSES
and ferns every spot which has been ieft
unsightly, till nothing appears to offend
the human eye within whole circle OF
hills. She even silently rebukes and re-
pairs the false taste OF uneducated men.
II he makes his new dwelling Of too glar-
ing a white, she tempers il with weather
stains il he iudolently leaves the stone
walls and blue states unrelieved by any
vegetation, she supplies the needful screen
by bringing out tufts OF delicate fern in
the crevices, and spring coppice on the
nearest slope.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
Gen. Claws Farewell to Russia.

We have already announced the fact
that Mr.. Clay had taken bis leave of the
Gar, and introduced TO him Minister
Cameron. Bayard Taylor, in a letter to
the Tribune, thus reports Mr.. Clay's fare.
well remarks:
"Your Imperial Majesty will see. from
the letter Of the President OF the United
States, which l have the honor to bear,
that he recalls me at my own request
Had consulted my pleasure rather than
my duty, l should not have exchanged
the attractions which surround your I'm
perial Majesty's Court for the hardshps
and dangers of the field of battle. By
this devotion TO my country, your I'm.
perial Majesty will measure the depth of
my grstitude that you have msgnani.
mousy stood By US in our time Of need, OF
humiliation, and of national peril. That
gratitude is felt by every lover of our great
Republic, at home and abroad. Should l
survive the war, 10 enjoy that more stable
peace which l believe God reserves for
our country, it shall be the purpose of my
life 10 cultivate and strengthen that graf
itude for your Imperial Majesty, your
house and your people. My cOunlrymen
know already what vow have been to US
l shall tell them of the clemency, of the
frmness, of the sublime courage, which
your Imperial Majesty displays in your
msgnanimous efforts for the progress and
glory of your own people. To have per-
sonally known and enjoyed the gracious
consideration of The most ilustrious among
living men, who will be known in all time,
not as the Gear OF all the Russias, out as
Alexander H., will be TO me the most
precious Of life's memories. Sad, in leav-
ing your Imperial presencs, go to min
g|O my aspirations with the great millions
OF the Western World, that God will pros
per and have in His holy keeping your
Imperial Majesty, your Imperial house,
and the fortunate millions OF people under
your paIernal rule."-N Y. EUe. Post.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29
The Graveyard Whistle.

Tho editor o: the Nashville Union, who
has as good an opportunity to judge of the
strength of tho Rebels, as the editor of the
| Springfield Republican says:-
Within the last fow days two or three
Rebel plans for tho Summer and Fall cam.
paign, including u geueral invasion of the
North, capture of the Capital, ETC., ETC.,
have appeared IN our columns. That these
speculstons have boon, and are now in-
dulgod in by the rebels, there is no doubt,
but they arc nevertheless, with vigor and
promptness on the part Of the Government,
as little likely to happen, as the falling OF
the stars. 1t is mere piece of braggadocio
INDUCED in to keep up the sinking spirits of
the cOntederacy; it is school boys grave.
yard whistle, to inspire fresh courage in in
spring bosoms. Our own opinion is that no
time have the fortunes of the Confederacy
so called, been so gloomy as now. The
guerrilla rafting of gongs did not succeed
in bringing over kentucky On masse. as wal
hoped and anticipated, into the rebellion
aud in this State it has met with no better
success. On the contrary we have no doub
that hundreds of active, substantial Iowa
men baye enlisted in the Federal service ia
these two States, within tho last two weeks
who never would have taken up arms in any
other circumstances. In spite Of the violent
language of the rebels it is easy to see that
their violence is the language Of despair
rather than of confidence. A gentleman of
truth, and great sagacity tod US the other
day that he had observed in conversing with
wel-informed rebels in the interior of this
State, they had no confidence in the ability
of the Confederacy to protect them, and
said they were hopelessly ruined. They
said tina: while the guerrilas could every
now and then destroy train, or capture a
few soldiers at dash, still they always had
to run when tho Federal forces came up,
and that such war was impoverishing the
South, aud running their property.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29

WERE the true vsage Of sin seen at full
light, ubdressed and unpainted, 1t were i'm
""S PUoSI oo"Id ba in love viii II hnt wo'S rstSsr
fee from il as hdeous aud abomina5Ie.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29

"YoU are writing my bill on very rough
paper" said client to his attorney. Never
mind" said the lawyer. "it has to be ysiss
before il eomes into court
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29

THE physicians Of the soul, like those
OF the body, should make their cordials as
palatable as they can.
The vicious poor often rob their neigh
bors 4; the vicious rich rob their neighbors
and themselves.
The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-08-29

oPPosIrEs frequently 60 together ;
chills and fevers are generally associated
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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-02-27
The "COntincnfals. -

We take pleasure in Announcing that The
CoyrrxExrALs - the most celebrated concert troupe
now travelling will give one of their unapproach
able entertainments at Corbins Hall, next Satur-
tav evening. The simple announcement of their
coming i sufficient to draw Il crowded hosse.
a contemporary, who has lately heard them sing,
says:
They were greeted with full house, and gave
decidedly the best concert we listened to. 1t
was far superior TO their former efforts Mr..
franklin, lst Tenor, has left them. and they have
in his place VI. d. D. Snyder, one of the best
tenors we have ever heard. His rendering of the
beautiful song "Down by the Sea-" and the solo
and chorus, " No Flag but the Old Flag" were
truly fire. Mr. Watson in the bass solo, " The
Monks of Old" fully sustained his former reputa-
ton. AMI has improved greatly since we
heard him before The gem of the evening was
the new Barcarolle, List the Evening Breeze
composed By Mr. Lewis, Violnst, (and which he
Intends shortly publishing.) We have heard mu-
sic OF every variety, but We never heard a piece
that contained 50 many pleasing changes and beau
ties as this one. We commend the Contnentals.
10 the friends of music everywhere, and to our
brethren of the Press, especially. Trey will find
them to be one of the best troupes extant.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-02-27
The Worlds Horse Fair.

We learn by letter from w. P. 1sH,M, Sec'y,
that the Worlds Horse Fair will lie held in Chica
20, commencing on the 81 of September, and con-
tinuing two weeks. The fair will be open to all
nations for competition, and it Is expected 30 make
i, the largest collection of horses ever exhibited
in America. Twenty-Five thousand dollars in pre-
mums will be given. There will be a thousand
dollar premium for the best trotting horse, and
probably the same for the best four mile run
hing horse; FIVE hundred dollar premium for
the best lady rider, with equestrian exhibitions
every day also, a series of elk races, with other
novelties.
Farm, stock. and road horses will receive over
third of the premiums. which are the largest
ever given.
The officers of the Association are:
President Hon. F. C.. Sherman, Chicago Vice
President, Geo. Wilkes, New York General SUI
permit sndent. J. Milton Smith. Chicago; Secreta-
~, w. 7. Isham, Chicago.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-02-27
Ialotifes.
lFrom the Mishswaka Enterprise Feb. ?, 1s6l.l
Worthy Of Merit.

Among the many remedies offered to the publci
under the head of Patent Medicines, it is relief to
know that some of them are valuable preparations,
will do what is claimed for them and are worthy of
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class may be mentioned, Dr. Roback's Scandina-
Wan Remedies Blood Purifier and Blood Pills
which are most excellent preparations and which
have the desired effect in all for which their
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Like thousands of others we bear personal wit
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with the best OBJECT. We are also acquainted wit
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the use of only four bottles of the Purifier he re-
ceived more than one hundred dollars benefit.
His difficulty erysipelas.
We express our thanks fora liberal present oJ
these remedies for use in our family.
See Advertisement in another column.