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A poor old woman was scrubbin' the
floor,
She rose to her feet in great surprise,
An looked, quite startled, into my
eyes.
/ saw the whole of her troubles trace
In the lines that marred her dear old
face,
"Mother" / shouted, ''your sorrows
arc done
You're adopted along with YOU
horse-thief son
Come over the hill from the poor
house.
She didn't faint she knelt by my side,
An thanked the Lord till fairly cried,
An maybe our ride wasn't pleasant
and gay,
An maybe she wasn't wrappedup that
day;
An maybe it wasn't pleasant sight
To see her a-gcttin' the evenings tea,
An frequently stopping and kissing
me,
An maybe we didn't live happy for
years,
In spite of my brothers and sisters
Who often said, as I have heard,
That they wouldn't own a prison bird,
Though they're gettin' over that, |
guess:
For all of EN- owe me more or Iess.)
But I've learned one thing-and it
cheers Il man
In always dom the best he can--
That whether, on the big book, u blot
Gets over a fellows name or not,
Whenever he does u decd that's white
It's credited to him fur and right
An when YOU hear the great bugle's
notes
Al the Lord divides his sheep an
goats,
However they may settle my case,
Wherever they may fix my place,
My good old christian mother, you'll
see,
Will be sure to stand right up for me,
With--oyer the hin from the poor
house.
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.'I'se Scare, Citizens o.. the
SOHtkn.''

SoHtE.
Under the above heading we find
the following article in a recent mum
Der Of the Boston Gloie, a paper
of strong Republican proclivities,
which has so many good points in it
that we transfer it TO our columns not
withstandine It's length-which we
trust will deter no person from read
ing 1.-THE Globe says -
The lot of most of the negroes who
have been freed from bondage in this
country is cast among their old mas
tiers, and they are likely, for the most
part. to remain in the South where
they are more AT home than anywhere
else. While they are now at liberty
to 60 whthersoever they will, the eli
mate OF the Southern States, The char
acter of the labor required there, and
their associations with the soil and the
people, are all calculated to hold them
as the laboring mass Of that section.
They can be in every way better off
there than in the more rigorous eli
mate and on the harder soil Of the
North. among people to whose ways
they ale unaccustomed, and who, not
withstanding their theoretical sympa-
thies and professions Of kindness, are
less likely 10 treat them with the con,
siderate regard which is so agreeable
to their trusting and dependent dispo-
sition, than those who are familiar
with their poculiarities and wants, and
have been used to them in the rela-
tons of worklngmen i'll all capacities,
Not only is it to the advantage of the
negroes to remain in the South, but
the white people Of that section could
hardly spare them. There is 10 class
Of laborers so well adapted for the
work to be done there, none who could
be employed to the same advantage
The interests of the white and colored
people of the South are mutual, ard
each would be better off for the pres.
ence of the other, if they would but
understand and recognize each others
rights and claims, and live in peace
and harmony,
1t is the manifest destiny Of the two
races on that part of this country to
live together, and the great object to
be aimed at is to secure that condition
of peace and harmony. Those he.
groes are now, what they were not
fifteen years ago, citizens Of the Uni.
ted States in the eye Of the law, but ii
is not easy for those who once held
and treated them as chattes to recog-
nize the great change in their condi-
ton. Their status has been establish
ed by the Constitution of the country,
but it will not be fully secured until ii
is granted by the States in which they
live and by the people who constitute
the cultivated and dominating element
of society there. The negro must win
his civil equality and his standing be
fore the law from the whites whose
fellow citizen he is, before they are
worth anything to him. He will be
aided in this, not by the oflicious and
unnecessary endeavors of the Federal
Government at coercion, which will
excite opposition and stir up strife:
but by his own efforts and those Of
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cents year, takes white beans and
apple sass for pay when he Can get it,
raises a large family, works nineteen
hours out of every twenty-four, knows
no Sunday, gifts damned by every
body, and once in while whipt bi
somebody, leaves no money, and il
rewarded for a life of toll with a short
but free obituary puff in the nuze.
paper
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his friends and advocates among his
own fellow citizens. Until he can
gain his position as u citizen with the
consent and goodwill Of those with
whom he must live and act, he will
not gain it at all, though coercive
statutes should be accumulated to VOL
umes and the agents of the Govern
ment be multiplied in every county of
the South till local government was
taken from the people and operated
as an appurtenance Of the national au-
thorlty. That the administration of
local concerns should thus be taken
from the people, and the principles Of
free government oyerthrown in the
portion Of the country Of which they
are citizens, is as bad for them as for
any class. 1t will render their situa,
ton more uncomfortable and retard
the progress Of Cancellation and the
adjustment of the relations Of citizens
on basis ofjustce and equality.
The Federal Government must pro-
tect all citizens from violence and out
rage, but the domestic affairs Of the
States should be left as completely as
possible in the control of their citizens.
How, then, is the desirable state of
things, iii which the rights OF the ne
gro will be cheerfully granted, to be
brought about? 1t cannot be accom-
plished all at once, but 4 necessary
condition Of it is that there should be
outside power intervening to repress
one side and eXalt the other, and to
keep up Il feeling Of antagonism aud
hostility. The political interests Of
the two races are really identical, and
it will speedily appear to be to the adj
vantage of both that they work to-
gether. AS the negroes become bet
ter educated and come to understand
the responsibilities and powers OF cit
izeDship, they will be able to win
from their lcllow.cilizcns what can
never ben enforced for them, and the
whites will find it for their advantage
to grant cheertully what they will
never consent to be coerced into
granting. 1t is q matter
OF growth and peaceable adjustment.
We do not believe there is now any
disposition or intention largely prevail
ent in any Southern State to deprive
the negroes Of the rights guaranteed
to them by the National Government.
There is the struggle there, which we
find everywhere in the North in a less
degree, between parties, to win the
other, by motives Of fear on personal
advantage. In this as much wrong
is committed in New York as in
New Orleans, but this Is Il matter
which the people must cure for them
selves.
The two classes of the citizens of
South, SO different in their history and
experience, and accustomed to regard
each other from positions SO far from
that of civil equality, must come to-
gether in their sympathies and learn
to work in harmony, through the dis
ciplinc of experience and the influence
of mutual interests. Through the
constant struggles and conflicts and
agitation Of State politics, by a better
understanding Of each others actual
needs and mutual concessions and
mutual gains, they will reach condi
ton in which there will be no more
injustice or wrong than exist any
where else, where men are not all wise
or all honest and where selfishness
has not ceased to be ruling motive
in human action.
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Josh Billings gives remarkably
just definition of a country newspaper
editor: "An editor is a male being
whose buzines it is to navigate q nuze-
paper. lie write editorials, grinds
out poetry, inserts deaths and we'd
dings, sorts out manuscripts, keeps a
waste basket, blows up the devil,
steals matter, flies other peoples bat
ties, sells his paper for dollar and fifty
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BY WILL NJ. CARLETON.

tricks,
Known as the "worst Of the Deacon's
SIX"
I, the truant saucy and bold,
The one black sheep in my fathers
fold,
"Once on time,' as the stories say,
Went over the hill ona winters day
Over the hill to the poor house.
Tom could save what twenty could
But "givin" was something he never
could learn
Isaac could half . the scriptur's
speak
Committed hundred verses week,
Never forgot and never shipped;
But "Honor thy father and mother,
he skipped;
So over the hill to the poor house.
As for Susan, her heart was kind
An good-what there was Of it, mind !;
Nothin too big, and nothin' too nice,
Nothin' she wouldn't sacrifice
For one she loved-and that ere one
Was herself, when all was said an
done,
An Charley and Beccy meant we'll, no
doubt,
But any one could pull GIN about.
An all our folks ranked well, you SEE,
Save one poor tellow-and that was
me,
AN when, one dark and rainy night,
A neighbours horse went out Of sight,
They hitched on me as the guilty chap
That carried one end Of the halter
strap,
An I think, myself, that view OF the
case,
Wasn't altogether out place.
My mother denied it, as mothers do,
Bat am inclined to believe twas
true,
Though for one thing might be said
That l as well as the horse was led,
And the worst of whiSkey spurred me
Or else the deed would never have
been done.
But the keenest grief I ever felt
Was when my mother beside me knelt,
An cried an prayed, till | melted
down,
As | wouldn't for half the horses in
town,
/ kissed her tondly then and there,
And swore hencefoth to be honest
and square.
served my scntence-a bitter pill
Some fellows should take who never
will
An then | decided to 60 ''out West,
Concludin' 'twould suit my health the
best;
Where, how / prospered l never could
tell,
But fortune seemed to like me well,
And somehow every vein | struck
Was always Dublin over with luck
An better than that | was steady an
true,
An put my good resolutions through.
But l wrote to a trusty old neighbor
and said,
You tell 'em, old fellow, that ! am
dead,
An died Christian twill please
EN- more
Than if had lived the sameas before.
But when this neighbOr wrote to me,
"Your mothers in the poor house.
said he,
had i resurrection straightway,
An started for her that very day,
And when I arrived where was
grown,
took good care that l shouldn't be
known;
But I bought the old cottage through
and through,
OF some one Charley had sold it to,
And held back neither work nor gold,
TO fix it up as it was of old.
The same big fire place, wide an high,
Flung up its cinders toward the sky
The old clock licked on the corner
shelf
wound it up and set it agoin'
myself
An if everything wasn't just the same,
Neither | nor the money was to
blame
Then-over the hill to the poor
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[Bing'tdmptoa Lcadar.
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