Year: 1861




question Of retaining values which are within
receptacle of stolen goods where grand larceny
IL the only method OF acquisition. We obtain
our manners, our refinement, and our policy
from the South according to their modest clalm
of impressing the characteristics OF their supe-
rior caste. We may then adopt their jurispru-
dence and give them in reciprocity the legal de-
terDiDati0ns, as to their possessions, which they
now enunciite in passing on our property Te
Attorney General of the league of rebellion has
. tate and experience which fit hun most
happily for the best rulings of the law Of pluu-
der. A convicted thief himself, his mind s above
auy of these narrow bases toward honesty
which make The treatment Of the honorable fri
masonry Of light fingers but little better than
persecution by our ordinary judicature. As Mr.
Judah +. Benjamin is the reservoir from out of
which rhe smaller vessels of law are filed, the
expectation that shophftiDg, sheep-steallng, and
the higher grades of eminence in the special
branch of easy iDgathering, will have the kind
Offices of judge and jury, with tariff of va
rietDes from the Congress giving pecuniary en-
eoursgement to excellence, from the escalade OF
Q beE-r Ost, up to the highest achievements of the
art, ia the capture of a Mint or the seizure Of II
Sub-Treasury.


Whether we shall follow out in our sequences
their precedents is yet 10 be seen. SO tar,
they have respected nothing in the require
mcnts of honesty OF the rules of war, while We
have kept ourselves without very much resistance
and little of vigor, turning succession of "leit
u ,lat. .A
buffetings.


When the sky is red we cay it will rain, but
in dry weather the sign fails, and we have an
other yellow sun. When the individual or the
Government is openly and repeatedly insulted We
soy there will be attempt at punishment; but
we are sometimes as wide of prophecy as We are
when we usurp the powers of the almanac aud
undertake to prefgure the weather. One kick
does not always induce q phlegmatic man to strike
back or run away, but when the double soles
play away at his extreme rear with the regu.
larty and force OF fuling-nill, apathy must obey
momentum, if sensibility does not arouse to
movement.


Yesterday l spoke of men who, within twelve
hours, (and might have made it six if l had
adjusted close timetable), had gone back into
their ranks with their parole not dry upon their
lips. Aud what would you doY" says my
friend vino proposes to settle this quarrel by
private fasting and public prayer-sending the
last theory of the Non-Resistants into their
ranks, instead of cannon balls-raining down
living colporteurs carrying the precious yield of
She Tract Society in haversack. instead of the
hastorm of shot.


You shall have very short aud direct reply.
would select equal number Of men, Of cor
responding rank, from my prisoners, send flag
of truce to the Headquarters of the Command
ant with all the cOurtesies known in war, de-
mand the return Of the scOundrels, and if refused,
hang the hostages before the sun went down on
my wrath. .t. .r


A privateer ia taken and conveyed into New.
York harbor. The evidence of her character can


not be questioned. The man who doubts it


would disbeleve that very great are being


made officers and very great knayes receive


commissions in civil hfe-he had better G, fur.


ther, and discard Revelation and deny the Chris.


tian religion.


Every one should be properly tried and prop


erly hanged. They are pirates Of a darker hue


than Maoiote or Malay Still, shall be abubd-
antly content if they are not set at liberty with
commissions to serve in the Federal Navy. We
dare not hang spy nor shoot deserter. Cen
temeD, permit me to remind you that there is
not Presidential election for nearly four years;
and further let me indulge in second sight, and
hint to you that the boldest and truest man in
this war viii be the one on whom the Presiden-
tial baptism win descend, either by ballot or
bullet-tbe printed paper or the pointed bayOnet.
Mankind like change, and we have feasted on
imbecility to surfeit ia the last twelve years.
Even if despotism becomes personal, if with it
goes security for something it may not only be
endured but courted, You may give the life of
yourself favorite child, if you can be assured
that protection win shield the circle Of your af.
fectiops BY this sacrifice, rather than that you
ahould lie down in fear and wake in dread for
each and oil that you love.


II you will study the character Of your peo-
pae you need not go astrsy in knowing that
they will certainly end this war, and that they
wiz end it only with the subjugation Of
every rebel. They viii do it under your lead
and direction gladly and dutifully, or they will
DO 1t under leaders whom the trouble Of the
hour shall bring out aud ordan with command.
The Fairfaxcs and the Essexes passed away like
the consuming stubble before the deyouring FIRE,
and the Cromwells and Iretons left the stately
columns Of their genius, in war and administra-