smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1862

1t was little thing, and we doubt,
if the worlds people had been asked
their opinion on the subject, three
fourths of them would have replied,
" A silly person she must be to weep
for rosebud" But let them think
as they please, we will look into her
heart before We accuse her Of acting
foolishly. That little heart is strange
ly troubled now, and all because the
little rosebud would not expand its
pretty leaves and show the rich tints
of beauty beneath Let us sec. The
rose was her favorite flower, with tho
tender moss running up the frail stem,
and even Clinging to the tips of the
leaves, and that little bud when it first
made its appearance, wrapped in its
mantle and tiny green hood, seemed
to her like fair visitant from some
lovely cline. How joyfully she wei
coined it, and how anxiously she
watched each leaf unfold until Just
upon the eve of perfection, it droped
withercd and finally broke it's stem.
Yes it was little thing, the blighted
rosebud, yet, the tears will fall. But
it is not for the shattered form of beau
ty before her all no To her it is
the emblem of the decay Of human
loveliness, and now the memory of a
bright and joyous creature, who had
fallen in her youth, rccurs to her
mind-a fairer one of beauty than the
messy encasement of the blossom.
Perhaps fond hearts loved her well,
and earnest prayers were breathed
over her, but her cheek would pale,
her voice lose its sweetness the fair
flower was bliShted in the burstingof
its beauty, and the grave received the
bud, around which so many bright
hopes were clustered. Then


Maiden. for the bightel rosebud weep,


Nor check the falling tear;


For tis to thee an emblem sweet


Of friends, though lost, forever dear.


K**s*
Year: 1862

This is happy spring to us who
have met here, for the purpose of stor-
ing our minds with useful knowledge;
but when we stop moment, and look
back upon the past three weeks, we
can think of a great many moments
which We have lost, yet We think our
time has not been entirely wasted. If
we have not learned as much as we
might, it has not been our teachers
fault, for he has done all that he could
to aid us in our studies, and we shall
henceforth regard him as friend.


l.. 4. PETIT.
Year: 1862

received while so in service, shall be
entitled to receive the bounty and pay
to which they would have been enti.
tied had they been regularly muster
ed into service Proridcd, That the
bounty and pay referred to in this act
shall not be payable unless their term
of enlistment and service be of such
duration as to cntitle them to receive
tho same, according to existing laws.


Approved, March 25, 1862.
Year: 1862

The Louisville Journal itself does not
go before us in admiring the sterling
qualities, the patriotism, the gallantry,
and intelligence of Col McHenry, but we
would suggest to the Journal the ques-
ton whether it would be good policy for
the war department to submit to the
dictation of Col. McHenry in this mat
ter?


Is there no danger that other officers
would follow this example in other re-
spects? Or does the Journal consider
that Kentucky officers are exempt from
obedience to the articles of war r?-EU-
GnSrilIe Journal.


We said in our articles on Colonel Nc
Henry, that, in issuing his hastily-writ-
ten order, he had no thought of violating
any order of the Government He ever
recognized fully the duty of obedience
If he had felt that he could not, as an
officer, execute conscientiously the COM
mands of the powers above him, he
would not have Intentionally disobeyed
but resigned If the Evansville paper
admires his sterling patriotism, gal
lantry, and intelligence as much as it
says, does it not agree with US that his
removal was perhaps an unnecessarily
Year: 1862

severe proceeding? Does it not think
that an admonition, gentle or stern,
would have been better? And would it
not now, with the assurance that there is
not the smallest particle of insubordina-
ton in him, be glad to see him restored
to the service in which he has struck so
many good blows for the country?


The last question of the Evansville pa
per is not a fit one to be asked of US
LoGisUtlLe Journal


1t would be rather doubtful comph-
ment to Col McHenry, to say that he
did not know when the order was pro-
mulgated that its execution would be a
palpable and direct violation of the arti-
Gle of war, prohibiting the return of fugi-
tives by the military power.


Had he felt that he could not, as an
officer, conscientiously execute the arti-
Gle alluded to, or what was easier still,
simply obey it, as it requires no active
obedience, he should have resigned.


Had Colonel McHenry recalled the
order when his attention was called to
its conflict with the article of war which
lit violates, if indeed he issued it unwit-
tingly, then gentle admonition alone
would have been sufficient.


The order, as we understood it, was
never withdrawn or receded, and much
as we admire Col McHenry, we can not
but approve of his dismissal 1t was
necessary to the preservation of discip-
line to the army.


Were General Burnside or Gen. Rose
Grams to issue similar order, the same
punishment should be meted out to them.


If Col McHenry acted thoughtlessly
in the matter, and would so express him.
self to the Government, we should hearth
ly rejoice in, not only his restoration to
command, but also in his promotion, to
which his gallant services have entitled
him.


Our last question was only meant to
draw from the editor of our Louisville
cotemporary the acknowledgment that
no oficier in the army, either regular or
volunteer, should be allowed any particu-
lar immunity in the discharge of his
duty.
Year: 1862

Gentlemen Accept my thanks for
your magnificent gift-for your spirited
and beautiful charger. He has been
trained, and we'll trained in the proudest
column of Cavalry that halls from your
own proud State, and l am sure that the
gallant Major Forth, in all his many
lessons, has never learned him to turn
his back upon the foe.


You kindly allude to my civil and mil
itary honors. Whatever they may be, lit
tie or great, they would have been moth
ing but for the fostering hands that have
surrounded me from childhood; and
when remember all your kindnes, my
eyes fill with tears, and my heart thrills
with emotions that J. cannot express.


In the long dreary march, in the mid
night camp, in the midst of battle, with
hunger, cold, pain, disease and death
around me, my mind reverts to your
happy homes, and find myself involun-
tarily supplicating God to shield you and
yours from that desolation that follows
in the footsteps of war
Year: 1862

New YoRK, Dot. ia special to the Times
from Washington says:


General Fremont expects soon to be in Wash
ington, preliminary to hia assignment to an I'm
portant command in the southwest.


The statement published nearly q week since
that General Morgan had been suspended from
his command on account of his retreat from
Cumberland Gap, is believed by the Secretary
of War to be untrue, % nothing Of the kind
is known ct the Department f
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thing wrong about the mans heart. He
don't love his country as he should. Your
country needs you now worse than a, any
other time, and if you want to go into the


service you can fiud no better or more hon.


oratle place than in an old regiment. Why
object to filling the places of the brave boys


who fell at Belmont, Donelson, or Shiloh,
whose bodies sleep in soil contaminated BY
the footsteps of rebels? In sickness or 10


health. in the camp or on the battle field.


the best place for the young soldier is by


the side of the veteran.


But there are some who say, 81 can't go
this is war to free the niggers!" This


charge is not worth attention, but although
no such object is contemplated in the pros
ecution of this war, yet the negroes are get


ting free pretty fast. It's not done by the
army. but they are freeing themselves, and


will be left in the South. Now, let me say
of slavery, il you wish slavery to continue,
join the army and help us whip out the reb
els quick, and there will probably be a few
old stumps left; if not. then slavery must
go. Now. my principles on this question
are, If the master is engaged in the attempt
to overthrow this Government, take the
AA'oS W Jul Pcopio duu ucsoIdtc OuE uOmcS
and the slave gets free, its none of my bus
mess. is family quarrel in which shall
not interfere. If the question was present
ed to me as to which should live. the Union
or slavery. would say the Union with my
last breath. The Union is worth every thing.
1t the sacrifice of million of men was nee
essary to the salvation of this Government,
and nothing else would save it, and l was
the arbiter Of its destinies, l would consign
the million to death-and die with them.


l am for a vigorous prosecution Of the


war-to do this we must have men, and
thousands of them. If necessary, would
call out every abe bodied man in the loyal
States--turn the Government over to our
mothers, wives aud daughters. l would
give those who want to 60 an opportunity,
and those who did not want to go. | would
make an opportunity for them. | would
make them fight for the Government l
would stretch the army from the Atlantic to
the Rocky Mountains, and with fixed bayo
nets and 10 solid phslanx l would give the
order, Forward, march!" to the Gull Of
Mexico. Every man | met who was will
ing to fight for the Government, l would
place a musket in his hands let him fall into
the ranks. and to every one who did not. l
would give the order. double quick time,
march! l would drive every one Of them
before me. aud those who would not sub
NIT. when we reached the Southern bouhda
ry line. l would pitch head aud heels into
the Gulf.
Year: 1862

means known TO warfare. And those means
are employed. not fer the purpose of hurt
ing the men or Of meddling with their local
institutions, but to maintain the law: When
citizens arm themselves against the Govern
ment, which represents the sovereignty OF
the people, they put all their lives. all their
institutions-everythin which they have
and are, and which may aid their resistance
in mortal peril. Trey do it, and not the
Government; just as man who forcibly
stops vou at night upon the road exposes
his life. II you kill him, it is he who has
done il.


Neither the Liberation of the slaves. nor
the brave soldiers who fight. nor the stout
sailors, nor the seizure Of rebel property,
nor the occupation of rebel land, nor the
destruction of rebel cities. NOR all the me an 5
of warfare combined. may suffice to sup
press the rebellion. No man is so foolish as
to suppose that any single means will an
swer; no man is sure that all means togeth-
er will succeed. But every man who wish
es his country well, who believes that the
hope of equal human rights falls with our
fall, who feels that our defeat is the victory
Of Despotism and an Aristocracy. earnest
ly prays that, If that defeat must come, It
may not be embittered by the thought that
we did not do to save ourselves all that we
might have done.


The only question for man who looks
solely at the salvation of the Government
is. does slavery help the rebellion? II not.
he will not urge emancipation. If it does.
he will insist that to help save the Union
the slaves shall be freed. Then. if some
foolish fellow says. you can't do it," We
can tell him that we will y.-[Harper's
Weekly.
Year: 1862

| But this is not war for the abolition o.
slavery, is it!"


Mo- and the assertion that any consider
able party urges it for that purpose is false
and is made by demagogues to prevent q
vigorous policy by alarming old party pref
ud'ces. The amusing absurdity that any
loyal man is making upon the Presiden,
outrageous demands to violate his oath and
trample on the Constitution is simply a
political gag of the most melodrsmatic kind
The intention of repeating it from day to
day is to help the success of the rebellion by
dividing the North.


The object of this war is the restoration
Of the Union. 1t is not waged to hurt a
single hair upon the head of any man, loyal
or disloyal: nor to seize his property; nor to
use his supplies; nor to occnpy his land; nor
to destroy his buildings 1t is not waged
to do any body or thin the least injury in
the world. nor to interfere with any privil-
ege; nor to touch any right. Its object is
simply and only to maintain the Govern
msnt, without which no man has the small
est guaranty for any right whatever.


But ii IN maintaining it, hundred thous.
and men are shot upon the field. if property
of every kind is seized and appropriated. II
acres and districts are utterly desola,ed, il
cities are laid in ashes. ant slaves are h5era.
ted that they may not strengthen the enc
my, all will be done. and done constitution
ally. and done rightly, for all this is irtinite-
ly better than that the Government should
be overthrown.


Yet the Constitution guarantees to every
man security of life and property by the
most solemn pledges. They can be taken
from him only by due course of law-ex-
cept when he is resisting the law. Bat to
enforce his obedience to the Law every thing
which strengthens his resistance may be ia
ken from him, and at last even his life itself
No man has any right more sacred than tha,
TO his life. The Constitution authorizes the
Government, in the name of all the people.
to Kill any man who resists the laws after be
has been properly summoned TO yield.


In precisely the same way, when a for
midable combination resists the laws. and
not only resists, bat makes war upon the
lcounTy. it is to be suppressed by every
Year: 1862

SoRREL AND OTHER WExps-The Massa
chusetts Ploughman says: Where the soil is
free of rocks. there is no danger of sorrel
prevailing 10 any extent. A good plow,
well held, will bury it deep enough to pre-
vent It's appearance through the summer,
provided that some valuable plan, is encour-
aged TO take its place. Every decent soil
will bear something in the course of the
summer; and when the farmer neglects to
improve his land, he must expect 10 find i,
green with some kind OF vegetation A
good growth of clover will bury all the sor
rel and smother il for a whole season. A
growth of buck wheat will smother all other
vegetation, and come nearer killing all foul
weeds; and buckwheat will grow in poor
soils.
Year: 1862




THE SURE REsULT.-The destruction OF our
Northern foe begins to loom up, aud take def
mite shape. 1t is not to be accomplished by
power of arms. We must fight certainly, but
we fight not for conquest. We resist to i'm
pose upon our enemy the necessity of exertions
and expenses which make his own destruction
sure.


In another column will be found an extract
on the subject of the Federal debt. There
appears our best salvation. No temporary
success Of their arms can avert from them the
, crushing weight of their fast accumulating
debt, which settles down upon them, unrelen.-
ingly as fate-which broods over their future
like the spectre of the Brocken. Each con
quest reveals to them the hopelessness of re-
uuioE-betrays to them an inevitable insol-
vsncy.


They are gene beyond redemption. All the
boasted wealth of the North cannot save her.
That debt, t,contracted in DESPERATION and based
upon Southern wealth, which they hoped to
subjugatc, will crush them ost. 1t is q pitia-
BILE spectacle. Like spoiled children they have
thrown away the richest inheritance ever
vouch safed IN unworthy people. They ruin
themselves in the effort to regain it, and have
nothing before them but darkness and gloom.
Year: 1862

ISLAND No. 10-We have no coroboration
of the telegraphic accounts of the fall of Is
land No. 10. The matter yet remains mvs-
terry. 1t may be, and doubtless is the case,
that our forces have been compelled. by pru-
Dental eason, high water, for instance, to
shift position. But we cannot think they
have been forced from position by the mill
ftary power of the enemy. We await the next
news with interest and promise read ers
an extra if it should be highly important
We have mails since last Friday, and expect
something interesting when we get the next
Whether Islard No. 10 be fallen or not, Mem
phis is yet far from their reach.
Year: 1862

HE WEtvHER.-We have had copous rains
OF late, and there is an immediate prospect
of a rise in our rivers. Red River will soon
be navigable above the raft. 1t is Of no great
importance, however. There is no cotton
to go out and but little corn and wheat.
Year: 1862

BkA- 1t is with pleasure that we have learned
that our friend Atticus Slaughter and quondam
correspondent Bright Star Rides is not
prisoner reported by US an issue or two
since, but that he escaped from the federals,
and is now with his company in fine health and
spirits. We hope to hear from him again. He
wields fthe pen of ready writer"
Year: 1862

ance, and, whatever imperfections will
come sufficiently near to make them By far
preferable to civil war and revolution. In
such a forn of Government as ours, there
Is no excuse for revolution. Evils, If any
there De, can be corrected in other and more
peaceful ways, Fidelity to the Constitution
does not mean that all shall construe that
instrument alike. Those who agree to abide
oy II, though constituting il differently, can
stand shoulder to shoulder in its defense.
Year: 1862

Loyalty is not passive virtue. Some
thing more is required than passive obedi-
euce, i Is an active virtue, and the man
who is not actually taking up arms in favor
ofthe Constitution could act right at home,
could promote proper public sentiment
that wou shame TO silence the lurking
traitor who is afraid to come out boldly and
express himself but who all the time wishes
the rebellion success


PARTIES HAVE Absorbed oUR LOYALTY.


Such has been our prosperity az q uatiou,
that the claim of the Government upen the
loyalty OF ibe citz.ns has never been felt.
Ii has heretofore been given 10 parties aud
10 men, So long as the CONSTITUTION was
not in danger, party leaders had monop-
oily of the loyalty of tie people. But the
time has come when this long sleeping,
dormant claim of the Government upon the
loyalty Ct its people is asserted, and it is
The duty OF the people to respond. Substi-
tate 40 party, no great leader for true allie
giasee to the Constitution.
Year: 1862

HAD they the good wishes Of secret
secessionsts, of men who wish to withdraw
their allegiance from their government be-
cause they don't like the party which hep-
pens TO be in power2 ~ M
Year: 1862

- The extreme cautiousness Of the Sec
retary Of War in attempting to deprive the
people Of the North Of the news Of the move
ments Of the army, lest by that means the
rebels should gain valuable information, is
proving Of little avail. The utmost secresy
has attempted to be observed in the transport
tation Of troops to Fortress Monroe, and yet
every move which has been made was known
to the rebel authorities at Richmond even be-
fore the telegraph could have announced the
fact through the loyal States. What possible
good can be accomplished by such arbitrary
restrictions, and why the loyal men % the
country are thus kept in ignorance Of what
the rebels have every facility Of knowing, is a
mystery far beyond our comprehension. More
mysterious still is the new order excluding
an newspaper reporters from any connection
with the army, and prohibiting these now
with it from remaining under penalty Of ar
rest and Imprisonment This is a despotism
we little looked for in a republican govern
ment. Cui Bono
Year: 1862

Every step of the exultiug foe nearer
the free soil Of Pennsylvania, should
make her people more and more united
lu defence Of the best Government the
world ever saw. Our fathers struggled
seven years for the rights we enjoy.
Howerer We may offer as to Men or
Means, we can not, we do not disagree
as to the great fact that our form Of gov
ernment is easy but powerful. The des-
psrate horde now threatening to ravage
our State, is very probably the last that
can be rsised-defea, it, aud the last hope
Of rebellion is broken. The moments are
precious.
Year: 1862

The German reformed Messenger has a
long and able article on the evils Of Poll.
tics-parlicularly as to the intemperance,
laziness, and bad habits induced, aud the
too common fact, that when some men
get an Office, they are no, content to make
what they can from it honestly, and return
to their former calling, but are afterwards
worthless for any other purpose except to
work and hunt for some other office.
Year: 1862

TENNEssEE.-We bow our heads in
.orrov for our beloved Tennessee. The
foot of the invader is upon her, and his
hand is upon her throat. A day Of venge-
auce will come. Some of her sons are
selfish traitors and have sold her. But
seventy-seven regiments Of her loyal men
are in arms all over the Southern Con-
federacy-enough if concentrated to sci
her free uuaided. They will never sub
NIT to her subjugatiou. Not one in Q
hundred Of her citizens will ever sit down
contented until the hateful flag of the
enemy is banished from her soil.


We anxiously await the development OF
the plans which have induced our aban
doumeut Of Kentucky, and the middle
portion of Tennessee, to the enemy. We
are curious to see how the movement is
estimated at head quarters, and what will
be the criticism of military men. For
ourselves we attempt none. We can only
reflect in the deepest sorrow, how hard il
Is, that with seventy thousand OF her men,
and more taken from her bosom and scat
tered upon the Potomac, in the mountains
of Virginia, upon the Mississippi, and FL
over the South where battles are fought
for other homes she should have been de
iivered, in their absence, 70 the enemy as .
worthless member of the South, aud that
without struggle. 1t may be all for th'
best. Our judgment should not be hasty
But We may say let Arkausians take warn
ing, and flock to their own border. They
are most interested in standing there.
Year: 1862

FREE TRADE-We alluded some time
ago to the policy of free trade for tho
| South.


The policy of unlimited free trade is n,
doubt the correct principle of political
economy. 1t is of course proper to modif.
it, when some peculiar reason may arise
For Instance. There is IA large portion o
our country e, for nothing else but sugar
Cotton cannot be made upon it, nor rice
The high price Of slaves, precludes the
planter from cultivat'ng sugar, in compe
tilion with the cheap labor Of the West
InGies. He had better remove higher,
aud 60 into the cotton culture. Tha
would leave large portion Of the soil OF
Louisiana, Florida, aud Texas waste aud
undeveloped. This jastifes departur,
from what, in the abstract, every one
might argue to be the truest policy Fo
the sake of developing all our wealth ant
prosperity the humblest man would no
object to bearing his small portion of tn,
burden to protect the sugar interests.


This is cited for instance only There
may be other cases in which o departur,
from the general policy might be proper
But in the main these two things are true
We ought to be able to buy every thin!
as cheap as we can; and we ought t.
know by direct tax, how much money ou
politicians raise to squander, or use rightly
Year: 1862

To THE PLANTERS US urge upon
you the patriotic duty Of planting largely
Of bresdstuffs. Corn and peas, and every
thing Useful for food that can be gathered
and garnered should be made in profusion.
Do not lose pig, or calf, or sheep that
you can avoid. Save in overy way. We
hope our fortunes are not SO dark as to
require it, but it Is q matter Of policy to
make supplies enough, if possible, for
years ahead, of all things that will keep.
Much will necessarily be destroyed this
year to prevent its falling into the hands
of the enemy. It's place will have to be
supplied from the surplusage Of those re-
gions which the enemy do not invade.


We have never acceded to the policy Of
refusing to raise cotton. But cotton
should be secondary. Much of that too
will be necessarily destroyed, and, as :hs
stocks of Europe will be clearly exhausted
by the time the blockade is raised, all We
make will bear high price. We viii
come out Of the war weakened and 10
debt. Cotton alone can be exported fol
such supplies as We may need from abroad
or for money to put US 10 condition TO dis
charge our debts. Without cotton, v,
fail Of our chief element Of strength.


BE sure ani make largely Of provisions
| aud then all the cnttou you can.