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Year: 1861

Of liberty and their own race Is so strong
that they will willingly sacrifice the Union
to preserve their own aud the liberty Of
the white race.


Apart from these two great parties, who
arc equally determined to destroy the
Union, is there . sufficient number Of
Union men to prevent virtual and final
dissolution Of the present conlederacyf


Taking the true view oil the existing
difficulty between the North and South,
he must be less than q white man If his
sympathy is not with the South. The
States are CO equal under the Constitution
and in the Union . denial Of any right
to one, claimed by another, and guaran-
teed alike 10 oil, is a clear. palpable and
direct violation of that Constitution which
alone forms the bond Of union between
the States. The South have the same
rights in the common territories as the
North, or they are not equal under the
Constitutional they are not equal, they
are not bound by a compact made by
them as cO.equals, and designed to pro-
tcct them in the enjoyment Of equal rights.


COMMON SENSE.


HERMITAGE, Feb. 2sth, 1861.
Year: 1861

E Pt"ri6us UnUm, and IL ever the great
North American Eagle Bird is put up to
rattle, you can set us down as good for Ave
million chances.


Our legislators at Sacramento appear to
be at dead lock Hith regard to the cleo
ton Of . United States Senator. cannot
conceive how any member who processes
to be . Democrat can hesitate for q mo.
ment as TO what position to assume. Eve
rybOdy knows that . majority Of the Re-
publican members are Of the most intense
and irrcpressible stamp, even of that in.
tense and irrepressibIe party; and any
Senator elected with their assistance is
bound to be pledged to course which no
true and loyal Democrat (Of either wing)
can indOrse; while, upon the other hand,
an opportunity for healing the unfortunate
breach which exists in the Democratic
party is Offered, by uniting upon and elect
ing some conservative man upon q plat
form which can be indorscd by oil Demo-
Gratis, and enable them to give successful
battle against the common enemy next
fall.


But ! have extended this letter longer
than | intended and must close. Long life
and prosperity to the popular and ever
true MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT. Yours,


DOESKINS.
Year: 1861

THE Dawn OF LovE.-Tfa n grape vine
be planted in the neighborhood of well,
its roots running silently under ground,
wreath themselves in o network around
the cold, clear waters, and the vines put
ting on outward grccnncss and unwontcd
clusters and fruit is all that tells where
every root and fiber Of its being has been
silently stealing. So those loves are most
fatal, most absorbing, in which, with un-
needing quietness, every thought and fiber
of our life twines gradually around some
human soul, to us the unsuspecting we'll
spring Of our being. Fearful it is, be-
cause so often the vine must be uprooted
and all its fibers wrcnched away but till
the hour of discovery comes, how is it
transAeured by new and beautiful life
There is nothing in life more beautiful
than the trance.like, quiet dawn which
precedes the rising of love in the SOUL
When the whole being is pervaded i'm.
pcrceptibly and TRANQUILITY by another be-
ing, and We are happy, VIC know not and
ask not why, the soul is then receiving
all and asking nothing. At later day
she becomes self-cOnsciOus, and then come
craving exactiOns, endless questions; the
whole world Of the material comes in
with its hard counsels and consultations,
and the beautiful trance fades forever!
Year: 1861

IT MUST BE THAT WE LIVE AGArN.-Bul.
wer cloquently says: ~ can not believe
that earth is mans abiding place. It can't
be that our life is cast up by the ocean Of
eternity to float moment upon its waves
and then sink into nothingness! Else.
why is it that the glorious aspirations
which leap like angels from the temple OF
our heart are forever wandering about
unsatisfcds Why is it that the rainbow
and clouds come over with beauty that
is not Of earth, and then pass off and
leave US to muse upon their favored love
liness2 Why is it that the stars. who
hold their festival around the midnight
throne, are set above the grasp of our
limited faculties, forever mockine us with
their unapproachable gloryp And, finally.
why is it that bright forms of human
beauty are presented to our view. and
then taken from us, leaving the thousand
streams Of our affections to flow back in
Alpine torrents upon our heartsP We
are born for higher destiny than that Of
earth; there is q realm where the rain.
bow never fades where the stars will be
spread before US like islands that slumber
on the Ocean--and where the beings that
pass before us like shadows will stav in
our presence forever"
Year: 1861

A PLucKY PARsoN.-The renowned Parsop
Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville (Tenn.
Whig, filings his defiance to the "rebels' in a
late number of that paper He says:


Southerners in South Carolina, Alabama
and Georgia, are constantly sending in their
insulting epistles to us, and ask discontinu-
ance of their papers because we are opposed
secession. We receive as many new patrons
as we lose old ones but if we were to re-
ceive none, and every man on our list were
withdrawn, we could have no part or lot in
the wickedness and treason of secession. This
effort to break up this Government, led on
by South Carolina, is q bold, wicked, daring
and dalnnable act, for which its wicked Lead
ers ought to be ignominously executed This
whole scheme of disunion is a more consumats
Abolition contrivance than was ever devised
by the North, by the most ultra anti slavery
men, and will work the greatest mischief to
the slave population of the country. 1t will
bring about the overthrow of slavery one
hundred years sooner than the Republican
party could have done it, The cotton States
may go out of the Union the border States
may go out with them all together, may
form Sor hern confederacy. We shall adj
here to our Union. Constitution and laws.
and denounse secession and the miserable
Southern confederacy that may spring from
it, and those who brought it about, though it
may cost us our life on the scaffold Nay,
we shall dare say in the teeth of South Caro-
lima, that the Federal Government ought to
enforce the laws, collect her revenue, and
lash the rebellious States back into line at
point of the sword and the mouth of the can
non. We have no desire to live under any
Government organized and controlled by the
corrupt, wicked, and hell-deserving villains
who lead this revolution in the South
Year: 1861

| ''N


Sacramento Bee of Wednesday says:
| The resolutions introduced at the meeting


last night, 10y Mr.. Magruder, of the Marys-
vile Express, paper, which more than any


other in the State advocates the cause of the
! Secessionists, contain no word of rebuke for
| those who have taken up arms against the


Government and forcibly seized upon its


property, while they hurl anathemas at these


who have not raised hostile arms against the
| nation, but are pledging themselves TO its de-


fense And they also declare against the en-


forcement of the laws. These resolutions are
such as an Alabama, South Carolina. OF Flor
ida Convention of Hotspur politicians might
well adopt, for they say in effect, "ThOse who
desire to divide this Union may use whatever
force they please for that purpose, but no
force shall be used against them !" 1t is said
to be a poor rule that will not work both
ways-what is sauce for one ought to be SO
for the other, but these men say, "O no. let
force be used to dissolve the Union. but none
must be used to maintain it," They may
preach this doctrine till doomsday, without
impressing the public with its iustHess. His
tory offers no evidence that it has ever been
adopted by any peope-human nature rea
volts at 1.-THE instincts of self-preservation
in man and nations, reject it with scorn, and
proclaim that force must be met by force,
as a last resort as consultation should by
consultation, and reason by reason. fpow
er is not to be used let those in arms against
the Government lay them down, give up the
forts, and other public property they have
violently and rebelliously seized, and say if
they please 1--WE have wrongs to be redress
ed, rights to be guaranteed, privileges to
demand but we are willing to negotiate on
the subject If you will meet us in a spirit
of fairness, we will offer compromises if you
will do the same, and thus all this difference
may be justly and amieably settled between
u.s."
Year: 1861

CHURCH PoLITENEss.-Saysa correspondent
of the Christian Chronicle "Why do mer
jump up and display themselves in the aisle
when woman comes to the pew after they
are seated? l have travelled over more than
dozen European countries, and never saw
the thing done. Polite Englishmen ridicule
US for it. That this practice dsturbs the So
lemnity of worship is clear. That it gives
the lady no advantage is also clear.
Year: 1861

a call for citizens meeting, to be held this
e ening, to nominate candidates lor the offices
of mayor, aldermen, and clerk of the police
court, will be found in another part of this
paper 1t is addressed to "all the legal voters
of Worcester who are in favor OF citizens
nominations which will more fairly represent
the various interests Of the city than the ticket
presented by the caucus held on Wednesday
evening"


There is among the republicans of the city
considerable dissatisfaction with sumo af the
proceedings of the caucus held on Wednesday
evening, more Eth the proceedings complained
of than with the nominees for mayor and al
dermen. Some republicans expected the re-
nomination of Mayor Davis, while others were
strongly opposed to it and now feel that they
did not get fair chance TO nominate some
body else. The board of aldermen nominated
is admitted to be an excellent one, the men ON
The ticket being very competent, and nearly
OF them men who have served in the same
capacity. The complaints we hear relate
more to the proceedings connected with the
baloting for the candidates for mayor and
clerk of the police court than anything else


The complaints are that the arrangements
for collecting the ballots necessarily excluded
from voting all those who could not get into
the hail. SO that hundreds who had been ait
ang outside renounced the caucus and went
home that there was reat deal OF traudu-
lent voting, which, under the circumstances,
the committee could not or did not prevent J
and that the caucus refused to take another
ballot fox clerk of the police court, after the
committee reported that great many fraudu-
lent votes had been cast on that ballot. 1t is
very certain that an immense number of per-
sons went 10 the City Hall, and that a large
proportion of them could not get IN, and OF
course could not deliver their votes 10 the
collecting committee Never was there such
a crowd at a caucus in Worcester. The room
was too small Mechanics Hall itself woult
have been filled.


The balloting for clerk Of the police court
and the declared result OF it, have been the oc
casion OF most complaint. Mr.. Murray, tn
nominee, is native of Worcester, born o
Irish parents. We understand that he has ex
Icellent qualifications tor the office. He is musi
cal director at St. Johns Church, and is a mai
of very correct habits and character, well es
teemed by all who know him. The complaint


we hear are not directed against him personal
by. Tie dissatisfaction is occasioned by tn,
fact that the caucus gave both the mayor ant
clerk of the police court to the democrats, anc
that there was a refusal to order another bal
lot after the committee reported that there ha,
been fraudulent voting. This matter NOR
than anything else has intensified the dissatis
Year: 1861

lie Irish papers all anticipate much suffer.
ing this winter from the unsoundness OF the
potatoes, which seem to be almost as much
el,ed upon as ever or the slstenance OF the
pop.ls on, notwithstanding the experience of
the !asl fifteen years as TO its uncertainty.
The following extracts from papers of recent
date are but specimens of the tone OF most OF
the journals


-FrOm the Dublin Freeman, Nov. l4,J


The potato crop is now dug out, and Tie
result had been anticipated. More than one
half is gone, and whether the remainder will
stand in close pits excluding the slightest ap-
pioach of air, remains TO be seen. In the
provincial papers find that scme localities
had been visited less severely than others, and
our country triends draw general conclusions
about ''things being much better than they
had been represented" We wish we could
jpin in the encouragement and hold out hope
ot improvement. But we cannot. The staple
food of the country has been already reduced
one half, an estimate in which farmers, boards
OF guardians, aud landed proprietors concur
while in some districts it would not be eXtrav-
agant to assert, HAT, so far from a portion Of
the crop being available for food tie people
will not have sufficient ior ftod


from the Limerick Reporter.l


The harvest returns in the neighborhood of
Newcastle West are lamentably deficient. We
have been credibiy informed that not more
than One-fOurth OF the potato crop is available
for human food, while acres OF wheat have not
been cut down at all, but allowed to be eaten
down by cattle. Large quantities OF hay,
which has lain several weeks in the meadows
half covered with water, is now being removed
to the haggard almost useless except for ma
nure. The gl0Omiest anticpations are in.
dulged in as regards the prospects of the small
farmers during the comine season.


from the Northern Whig, Nov l5l


The crop OF this year has been extensively
infected by the old disease. Immense guam
titles of the gross produce are totally unfit for
human food; large proportion OF the balance
will however, be used in cattle feeding and
it is to be hoped that the portion unfit ior any
purpose will not exceed a moiety of the entire
produce of the potato lands. Prices are very
that the consumer will more than share the
loss with the grower. In olden times, and
long before the destructive blight had seized
on the national esculent one shilling per hun
dred weight was often the market rate for
excellent potatoes Occasionally higher prices
ruled, but more frequently still lower ones
In 1888, for Instance, choice varieties which
had been carted seven or eight mites lrOm the
country, were sold in our market at the
nominal rate of eighteen pence the hundred
weight, or one penny for each stone of fourteen
pounds. The current rates this day will aver
age four shllings the hundred, or about six
times the price paid twenty years ago.
Year: 1861

SAD AccIDENT.-On Tuesday morning an
lrishman in the employ of Miilens Emerson
OF oxOridge' while engaged in cutting up
large tree which had been teled previously,
either wartonly or carelessly cut away large
branch which held the trunk up from the
ground. Before he could escape the hinge
trunk fell over upon him, horribly crushing
and killing him almost instantly. Ills ifeess
body was not discovered till the afternoon.
Mr.. Emerson warned him particularly not 10
touch that branch and then left him He did
not come home to dinner, and MIR. Emerson,
upon going u learn the cause, found him
crushed and dead beneath the tree. He leaves
wife and two children to mourn his sad and
unlimely death.
Year: 1861

| One day last week a gentleman Of this city


hailed an up country boat, the Cora Anderson, rs


she was passing Greenville Miss, whithet Ho


had gone on business, to return home. Shortly Hf


ter being under way, our NatcheS friend observed


a pensive-looking little girl, aged about or 10


years, whose Black hair and yellowish brown skin


would indicate that she was mulatttess. Thefs


was something shout her that interested him; and
he inquired of the captain concerning her. He


was informed that she was slave belonging to- a


man on board whom the captain pointed out, who


said he was taking her to New Orleans to sell her,


he having bought her for $l60 in Northwestern


Missouri on the borders. Our NatcheE friend


eyed the little girl and the bBflef man 30 Closely


as to attract the attention Of the latter, with whom


he was soon engaged in conversation concerning


Tie 6hild, intotrogating him in such d manner as
to elicit answers not always agteelng with previous
statements, and evidently alarming him. This
was suspicious The little girl was taken aside
aud examined. She said she was an orphan, and
had been taken from en- asylum in New YORK By
this man. that her hair was light ara her COM
plexion brunette; that this man told her bo was
going south with her, where, his adopted daugh-
ter, she would have good home; that black hair
was preferred in tie South and prettier than hers,
and that he had taken her to barber and had het
hair dyed black lie also told her that if she
would allow him to put some yellow dye on her
skin that her complexion would become much whit
er in few days, and that he had put the stain on.
On hearing these statements, the child was taken
n charge by the captain, and potash, soap and
Eatet being applied, the dyes we're taken of, ana
he light hair and light mplexiOn brought to light.
The pretended master was seized by the excited
passengers, who were about to deal with him sum-
nariy, but it was finally arranged to lock him up
in state-rOOm until the boat should land. In tbs
meantime tbs boat had passed 81. Joseph, and
when few miles below that town rounded to to
take on wood. At this point, how or in what man.
ner it is not known, the border rufian escaped
from the boat leaving his baggage behind. The
girl was taken by the captain of the boat to New
Orleans and placed in one Of the asylums of tha,
city.
Year: 1861

A correspondent, whose letter we published a


few days since, pointed exultingly to the fact that


England and France maintained harmonious rela-


tons with the siavehol6ng Government of Brazil,
as positive proof that those nations would be equal


ly well disposed to Southern Confederacy. We
trust tho contingency may never arise in which
the Question may be practically tested whether
foreign countries would be friendly or uniriendly
to secodng nation carved off from the existing
Republic; but there are strong reasons why Eng
land, with her peculiar anti-slavery notions,
should regard with much greater favor the Brazil
ian Government than any one likely to be formed
in tho southern part of the United States.


OF the total population of Brazil which now
numbers near 8,000,000, not more than one fourth
are whites, and the remainder is composed of a
mixture of mulattoes, mesizoes, and blacks, slave
and free. No distinction Of color aChatever EXISTS in
that country, and in the language of recently
published encyclopedia, its laws "render manu-
mission easy, and once emancipated, the negro
finds erery calling and office as fully open to him as
to the tchites. In the army or naUy, in commerce,
agriculture or manufactures, in social or political


position, color is barrier TO the highest success 1t
results n ths that the danger of insurrecton does
not exist The humblest sla7e looks forward with
hope not only to future freedom, but to wealth and
power" We learn, too, that some Of the most ex-
tensve slaveholders and men of the frst rank in
Brazil are negroes and mulatoes. When Gov.
Wise, of Virginia, was the American minister
there, during Tyler's Administration, he found
colored men Of African descent in the Cabinet,
with whom he had official business to transact.
Indeed with the exceptions that the Emperor and
royal family are of pure white blood, and that
there is considerable white population in the
country, there is little or no practical difference,
so far as the elevation and power of the colored
race is concerned, between Brazil and any pure
negro government.


Great Britain, therefore, and France, might
with perfect prOpriety maintain friendly relations
with Brazil when they would be unwilling to rec
ognize such confederacy as South Carolina pro-
poses to establish, if the small pox does not drive
her seceders panc-stricken to their homes; and if
several other contingencies which are much more
probable DO not occur. Of course, none of the
statesmen Of the South would be willing to initiate
Brazil in the customs and regulations we have re-
ferred to, If the secession project should be sue
cessful.
Year: 1861

1t has been indignantly denied by some, tha
the slaves at the South are deluded by what they
have heard from the whites into the belief thai
LINcOLN's election is triumph of abolition. The
following will show how we'll grounded is the fear
1t is from the Pamela (Miss.) Star, of Dec l3:
eve wish to suggest the propriety of all slave
owners taking some pains to correct very false
impression now prevailing among the negroes
about the election of Lincoln. 1t is generally
believed by our slaves that they we're to be free if
Lincoln was olectedj or at least, they think some
how or other they to be benefited by bis cleo
tion. We do not recommend it, but suggest for
the consideration Of the better judgment of our
felow-otizons whether it would not be best to
tell them that the election of Lincoln had nothing
in the world to do With them or their freedom,
but has reference to the question of making new
slave States; that nothing has been done to change
their condition, by Mr.. Lincoln or any body else,
and that all the talk they hear about the slavery
question cannot in any way, free them.


1--WE would be glad TO hear an expression Of
opinion on the subject and have made this sugges
sion at the instance of some large slave owners.


'If something of this kind is not done and also
a strong check kept upon them, we must have
trouble with our negroes soon. 1t is impossible
for them to remain passive while we have so much
excitement around them every day."
Year: 1861

Lincoln has been visited BY fre-eater and his
blue coekade, and at the close of the interview the
President elect assured him:


"YOu will fud that the only difference between
you and me is, that think slavery wrong, and
you think it right; that am opposed to its exten-
sion, while ycu advocate it, and that as to The Sc
euriy Of the institution and the protection Of slare
property IN tie States where it has lawful exis-
tence, you will find it as great under my admins
tration as it ever was under that of Mr. Buchanan.
Year: 1861

GA young woman in Boston, who was
Jealous Of female companion, recently gave
her preparation to remove frsckles from her
face. The unsuspeeting girl used it, and to
her horror the next morning found herself as
copper. colored as a S, nth Carolina half breed.
The preparation was nitrate Of silver, and can
only be Grad Gated from the skin by time.
Year: 1861

Gy The Cincinnati Enquirer states that
the loss ustained by the pork packers in that
city 40 TO the present time will not fall shor
Of $1,000.000 There can be no doubt that
the blockade is effectual there.
Year: 1861

f An "oId soldier" writes, that in the
war Of 1912, every soldier was advised to car
ry a string, to be tied round bleeding limb


and be twisted tight by a stick or ramrod,


until surgeon can be found.
Year: 1861

ALEXANDRIA, UEsERTED.-A correspondent
Of a New York paper writes from Alexandria
as follows:


For some unexplained reason, ever since the
recent review and parade Of the troops in Al
exandria, a regular stampede has taken place
and one half OF the inhabitants have departed.
At the Mansion house, the first hotel in this
place, somewhat similar in style to the Pres
colt house OF your city, there are four board
ers: the usual average was ninety. The ar
rivals nil. l asked the proprietor bis reason
for continuing, be replied that he had nearly
one hundred thousand dollars worth Of prop
erty in the house, which if the house was shut,
would be total loss, as troops would be guar
tered in bis builIing and soon destroy it. On
the principal street in Alexandria there are
four hundred and eighty-twO stores, of which
three hundred and SIX are closed. OF this
place it may be truly said