Year: 1862

is treason here. our excellent Governor


would speedily be known as the unlamented
j ohm A. Andrew, for his speech is exceed


ingly free and easy-quite loose, as you may
say. Then, what would become of Mr..


Phillips? Does he speak in favor of the
Government? Has he ever said anything in
favor of ony Government, except that of
Havh? Did he not lately advise a large
and patriotic assembly MOTTO give man or
dollar to the Government of the United
States? Aud did not that patriotic society
applaud that liberal suggestion? Shall we
prosecute Mr.. Phillips therefore? n OF with
my good will. Not without my active re-
sistarce. | should violate the very first
principle of Democracy. which is greater to
me than anything but the word of God him
self, if did not fight for Mr.. Phillips right
to tsM treason to any fool who wants TO hear
him. In letter, the Governor refuses to
supply troops to the President. Do we
prosecute him? No, but tempest Of deri-
sion breaks over what he calls his head,
fr.m every part of the United States. and
even from England. To that. we can safely
leave him.


When the regiment Of the late Colonel
Cass went off, without an escort even of the
Second Battalion, it was not actually hi ssed
IN State street, as was the Massachusetts
regiment on its return from Mexico, but the
agreeable remark was made and heard, tn at
the departure of the Irish would be great
relief to our poor houses and jails! The
Governor or his friends may say so about
Col. Cass's countrym en-the Irish-without
committing treason, or even giving offence.
We are not accused of talking so badly, even
about Mr.. Andrews conference.-the ne
groes-yet are we prosecuted In South
yT-bo
settled its limits before Judge Lynch. Let
US not desecrate this Court with what be-
longs to him, or we will sink below the level
even of South Carolina.


Much has been said as to finding fault
with the Goverumen ent, as if there was some
peculiar sanct;ty in it.


Have we arrived at such a state that no
one must find fault with any action or omis-
sion of the g overnment or any member of
it, without having treason imputed to him !?
Can not you. sir? Can not I? I, for exam
pie. have the misfortune to think, that Mr..
Seward, our present Secretary Of State, is
not fit, as Statesman, to index the paper
of the late Silas Wright. However little he
may be affected by my thoughts, do tn ink,
his want Of sense-sO5er Sease-has mad e
him the laughing stock of Europe! | think
tha he is a small ward and country politi-
clan, who writes like a sophomore and acts
like 4 stock jobber. Every time he speaks
about what will happen in si1ty days, in
ninety daysi he puts me in mind of curb
stone broker. chattering over the approach
ing maturity of dubious note! | think
such men have been advanced to important
places in this country about as often as they
will be, and can not help rejoicing to think
that Mr.. Seward will pro badly be the last Of
I ba LII 7
Mr.. Phillips taken out patent for the APP
plicaton of tirst-rate abuse to seco nd-rate
men? And must be tried for treason if
ever 50 unsuccessfully attempt to infringe
it? Again, do not worship Mr.. Sumner
cannot admire person who is so simple
as to think it finer thing to pretend to be
fanatic, than to be duh but honest M an
There is a fine old German story called
The Adventures of Reynard. the Fox" in
the illustrations of which, animals Of differ
ent countries ale represented in the attitudes
and with the expressions of men. The illus
trations are very good and from the we'll
known fact that men often resemble certain
animals in most curious and un accountable
manner. their effect is highly amusing. 1t
is particularly SO, if you happen by any
chance to be reminde ed by them of any par
ticular person. Now, must l suffer death if
say that [ never look at those pictures
without thinking Mr.. Seward and of Mr.
Sumner? And that Inever hear the names
of Mr.. Seward or of Mr.. Sumner without
of the picture of the Fox and Of
the picture of the Gander?


And what if | am frank enough to say
that l am sick of the staggering imbeclity
with which the Government have managed
this war of life and death? Is that treason
able? Shall my Government is to say,
my servant, my credture-waste mn money,
and even let it be stolen, and stop mn paper,
and interrupt my business. ard violate may
Constitution, and starve aud kill ma soldiers
out of pure neglect. and gain only disaster
and defeat for me by all this folly? And
shall say nothing? II am to put up with
this, and more, and say nothing, or else be
shut up by order of w. ii. Seward, l want
to know. seriously and calmly, what shall l
fight eff. Davis for? What worse can he
do to me than Seward or Stanton have done
already? What, inde eed-when their want
Of sense and want of energy have made him
everything that be isl Lost money may be
reganed, lost armies may be replaced out of
our swarns of men; but who sha! give us
back the time we have "fooled away" before
the dirt heaps of Manassas? Expose a cup
of clear water to the frost. Observe it, and
even when the cold begins to fill its trans
parent subsistence with beautiful specule of


ice, if you agitate the mass it will not I'M
medate!y freeze. But give it in that con-
dition very short period of rest and it be-
comes a rock hardly yielding to the energies
of gunpowder ard firei So have we found
the South. They were once und decided.-
Time and the stupidity of the Government
have consolidated a hesitating into hostile
people. Yet Mr.. Gordon is traitor if he
calls fool fool.


No, sir-freedom of speech is not quite
gone. 1t still lives" in Boston. This mean
prosecution is not to affect it. The respect
able members of the Republican party think
aad say plainly what they think about it,
Those that happen to know of them are