The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-28

DEAR sir--Anticipating the excitement
that Will necessarily follow the action OF
the government with reference to The new
freedmen bill you may feel somewhat EN-
barrassed in the duties devOlving upon yon I
under thelaws and regulations already ex.
listing. That you may act steadily ana /
firmly in any emergency, you must De pre-
pared for any increased hostility on the /
part of those who have so persistently nm
dered and troubled you and your agents.
and there may be an increased restlesSness
among the freedmen. The President mas /
assured the commissioner that he regards |
the present law as continuing the existence
of the bureau at least a year from now.
The remainder of the circular asks what
steps have been taken to sustain the lndl-
gent and find employment for the unoecu-
pied and urges assistant commissioners 10
show the intentions of the government, ana
the complete practicabillty OF the 1Fee Iaoor
system.
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-The Herald's special
correspondent says that Secretary Se"arus
speech before the Cooper Institute meeting,
is invested with additional significance
from the fact ofhis receiving two or thlce
dispatches from Senator Nye ana others'
stating tn tie Pres dent had made a ter
rible speech-one that he could not possloIy
approve or endorse, and one that must IN
evitably break up the Republican party.
Mr.. Seward, however, upon learning WnaI
the President had said, tele8raphed tull
ard cordial approval
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-A special order
issued by Secretary Stanton, that all papers
needing his signature should be brought
before him with all possible dispat d, gives
color TO the assertion that he is about TO re-
sign.
A correspondent sends US an old paper
containing the following extract from one of
Brownlow's letters to Pryne, written in
1860. After alluding to the probability of
the abolitionists dissolving the Union by
their fanatical proceedings, he prophetically
says:
But, sir, the South can in two months en-
ter into an alliance with England or France,
commercial and political, offensive and de-
fensive. and in either case it viii be utter
ruin TO the Northern States of this COnfed-
eracy. England aud France want our rice,
tobacco and cotton, but they don't want
the manufactures of New England. An alli-
ance between England and these Southern
States, Will break down the existing tariff
system, discriminating in favor of New
England manufactures, as rope OF sand,
and scatter all your hopes to the winds, and
coming at once in collision with your an
cienr competitor and her low wages, with
out that protection which has built your
cities and towns, you must be destroyed.
Whenever such an alliance shall be formed,
and our cotton and other products landed at
either Liverpool or Harve, and purchased
again at high rates, New England will see
the handwriting on the wall.
| sir, would favor an alliance with France
IS a means of more etfectually furnishing and
starving out the abOlitiouists of the North.
/ The far seeing monarch of the French, would
unite with Us on our own terms, as 1t would
afford him an opportunity to crush the COM
mercc and manufacturers of Old England,
and make her feel that she is dependent upon
her ancient enemy, as well as atone for vii
Iainous treatment of his uncle, Napoleon BO-
naparte. Dissolve this Union, you infamous
villains, and we shall make this proposition
/ at once to Louis Napoleon, most sagaciOus
monarch, and he would quarter at New Or
/ leans 100000 FTenchmen, and at Chesapeake
/ 100000 more; we would then command the
! Mississippi valley, whip the Northwestern
! States into our Confederacy, and we would
/ then turn upon the New England States, and
! cause the hurricane of civil war to rage and
! sweep from Mason and DiXon's line to the
cod fisheries of Maine, until we would ex-
( tinguiSh the last abolition foothold on the
continent of America! Face to face, knife
| to knife, steel to steel, and pike to pike, we
would meet you, and as we would cause you
/ to bleed at every pore, we would make you
regret in the bitter agonies of death that
/ you had ever felt any concern for the AfTi-
! can race
Sir, if the fanatical wicked and Internal
/ course pursued by you and your uuprincipled
, associates, is continued, the result viii be as
l have said, and you or your children will
! live to see it. Pale-faced poverty and dis
m already StaPInU of
/ utacturerS and operatives in the face We
are sending our orders to England and
! France for goods and driving your hell
/ deserving Observation-Disclosures into the holding
of Union meetings and making these against
I their will, curse all agitatOTs of the slavery
question, and resolve that John Brown and
his murderous associates got only justice
when hung at CharlestOwn Garry on your
! war, If you choose death rather than life,
and we will stain every swamp in the South
/ with yours and our own blood, and with the
vengeance of an inturiated foe, we will be
upon you in the North, at the hour OF mid
night, and as long as lucifer match can be
found, We will burn up your substance
/ Now, Mr.. Pryne, may ask you and your
! ellowlabOrers in the cause of the devil, to
pause, and lift the veil of the future, not a
quarteEot century ahead of you, and use
your influence to stay the tanatical hand rails
ed to strike the blow of ruin to your country.
NdII dLOlliu you Il COlilClI OI your D6lu men
and warriors, Senator Seward, Joshua r.
Giddings, Chase and Fred Douglas, for whom
you are doing journey work, and go to that
/ victim i'll the lunatic asylum, GarIit Smith,
whose tool you have been for years, and up
on whose money you have lived and fed your
/ wife and children-ask them all if you had
not better change your programme. If the
response Is not satisfactory, call a prayer
. meeting, and have Wendell Phillips Beecher,
! Cheever, and all the lOng-faced hyprOcrites
who insult God, and mock religion, by call
ing upon him for mercy-pray old John
| Brown and his confederates out of hell,
/ where the whole batch of you
are going with tightening speed Ask
God to forgive you for your wickedness-
praying morning, evening and noon, with
your face toward Harper's Ferry Ask him
TO wash your filthy garments from the
stain of blood of your Kansas and Virginia
murders and importune him until you get
your answer-'gO and sin no more-sin no
longer against conscience and your country
laws and Constitution" Don't pray tor
heaven, for no power can qualify you to
walk the street of the New Jerusalem
Don't ask for mercy, for the winged mes
! senger can never light on such mean and
/ detestable creatures. Don't ask to be pun
lshed in hell, for that would be inadequate
to your crimes Ask to be dRnihildted or
/ baniShed to the utmost verge of astrOnom-
ical imagination, where the ghost of a negro
may never rise up to remind you whence
you came