smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

We are glad that Massachusetts had one
man of common sense in the last Congress
Judge Thomas, though a Republican fre-
quently gives utterance to reasonable and
conservative views. We make the fol-
lowing extract from his speech on the ne
gro soldier bill:


Mr.. Speaker, let me now turn to anoth-
er feature of this bill, the term of enlist
ment. 1t provides for the enlistment of
men for u period of fire years. Whyf tee
years? ! think there is moro Significance
in that word Give" in this bill than all in
other words written in it, Its possible
objects are not written. DO you mean
to say to the country that it is your ex-
pectation, your reasonable expectation to
make enistments for your army, that this
war is to continue for a period of i've years
longer? Doyou mean to say o the country
that on this first scale on which the war is
prosecuted, and at the epense of treasure
and life at which it is prosecuted, you ex-
pect to carry it on for five years more? II
such be your expectation. it just and
manlyto say so. If such be not your ex-
pectation ,ipray add nothing to the anxiety
and alarm of tho people,


MIR. Speaker, if the object Of this war
is restoration, that involves state of
things, present or future, which will soon
be developed and felt. A war for the
restoration proceeds upon the ground
that you will find in the rebel States, as
your army advances and protection is
made possible men who are ready to raj
ly again under the blessed flag of the Tn,
ion and to return TO their allegiance to
tho national Government. If that feel
ing exists and is developed certainly it
will DO developed before thelapse OF
five years; never by this instrument
lay, never. But if the object Of this war
is not restoration; if the purpose and
object Of this war areas sometimes de-
clared in the heart and brilliant rhetoric
gentlemen on your left-subjugation, ex-
termination, the e.colonization of the
whole rebel territory, then your term of
enlistment is altogether too short-alto-
gether too short.


If, Mr.. Speaker, the object Of the cx-
termination, there is not one Of these
pages, snatched prematurely from his
mothers arms or cradle, who will live to
see the end. You have been waging the
war two years, and yet the number Of in.
habitants in tho robel States to-day is
larges than it was when the war begun.
You cannot, probably, if you would, and
You would not if You could, carry on a
war with ferceness and severity that would
destroy life as rapidly as it terminates.


Men, in war even, will marry and wo.
men be given in marriage; children will
be born to them, and mothers will hold
them to their flowing breast as the storm
sweeps by, The angel of life will triumph
owes the angel of death. Such is the bless
ed economy Of God. The determination
of eight millions of people, with the Use
of all our power and all our resources, is
moral and physical imposSibility, OI
this war, if it ID carried on for extermina.
ton. neither you nor |, Mr., Speaker, may
hope to sec its close but in one way. tC
us the way of deepest humiliation the
intervention of other nations, TO stay it,
ravages. Who talks Of war of extermi
nation is simply mad"
Year: 1863

cry and a snare from the beginning but
we owe it to the candor of the rebels that it
is now better understood. They have al
ways declared they will never consent to re-
union but at no time with greater empha-
sis than since the election successes of the
opponents of the Administration. They
hailed those successes simply as the harbin-
gers of the acknowledgment of their indie
pendence. Not public journal, nor pub
.lic man in the Confederacy gave them any
other construction Not one of them, so
far as is known here, with whatever ante.
cedents, has ventured to admit either the
desrableness or the possibility of taking new
guarantees tor slavery, and coming back in
to the Union. They have all Unanimously
secuted it-and not only in the most posi-
tive, but in the most contelnptuous manner.
They no longer know the word compro-
mise, and it is high time it was dropped out
of our own political vocabulary. Even if
We were abject enough to entertain the
question, Var or Compromise the chance is
denied us. Our only choice is between war
and disruption. Our political contests from
this time on to the end must be fought on
that ground only. The South, precisely be-
cause it made slavery its Spreme considera-
ton, sacrificed the Union. Those in the
North, who also make slavery the first con-
Sideration, consistently join in the same par
icidal work. 1t has had to come to that
There is no middle ground.


Here, then, is the real issue. Al true
pubic men should mark it, and stand un-


linchingly up to it. There should be no
dissensions among them, no invidious re.
erences to the past. Agreeing upon th,
vital matter of sustaining the war, and with
it the present anti slavery war policy. as now
the sole means of saving the unity of the
nation, they should be united as one man
and hold firm to the end against traitors and
the abettors of traitors They will triumph
i'll the end, as surely as there is faithful
people around them, and a just Heaven
above them-N Y. Times
Year: 1863

Why THE SOLDIERS WERE BROUGHT TO
TIE PoILs-On this subject the PeninsuIar
Ne,rS says:


1t IS already known to our readers that a
committee Of eight of the most ultra
sham Democrats of the present Legislature
has been appointed, with power to send for
persons and papers, to inquire why soldiers
were at the polls in this State at the recent
election.


This legislature with the view of making
party capital, will thus spend $1,000 of the
peoples money to find out what everybody
already knows The members themselves
know well that it was to prevent fraud and
riots contemplated by the disloyal men OF
the State In Mispilion Hundred, on the
morning ofthe election, the polls were taken
possession OF by the secession bullies, and
not Union vote could be poled until the
soldiers arrived and cleared the window
The secesslonists were advised by Senator
Salisbury to 90 to the polls armed, and in
many Of the Hundreds this advice was acted
upon with the view of driving the loya
men away from the polls. In the western
part OF Kent county, revolvers were by some
means distributed to hundred Of the worst
men Of the secession party, and the loya
people saw that the election would be con.
troled by the disloyal mob unless some
means were taken to preserve equal rights
In Baltimore Hundred it is said that a large
body Of Maryland Secessionists, all heavily
armed, arrived within two miles of the polls
with the Notwithstanding to previoG,
arrangement with the disloyal leaders in thi,
State-of driving away the true men Of this
loyal old hundred, SO that it should not pol
its large Union majority. Such are few
Of the reasons why the soldier were brought
here g.
Year: 1863

come as fair as females. he wore at the
time Of his execution q dark blue coat end
brass buttons, light blue pants, q blue chick
shirt, and black wool hat. He was appa-
rently about SO years Of age. The wretch
had previously confessed his guilt, the
substance of which confession was that be
had hired himself in the eonfedeFats engi.
neer corps at Island No. 10, for the Pur-
pose Of gaining information fOF.the beneft
Of the federal government. aud though at
last detected, he died with the conviction
that be had furnished more valuable infor-
motion, in the character of a spy, 70 that
government than any other ten men in the
United States service" -..l
Year: 1863

WHAT is that which works when is
plays, and plays when it works? A
fountain.


WHAT is that which isnever before
us, can never be seen and yet all are
ook:lg toward itP Tomorrow.


A good many men are in the best
health when they are out Of spirits.


WHEN is tooth equal to four roods
Of land? When it's an acre.
Year: 1863

This section Of the State has lately besn blessed
with abundant rains. We learn that the wheat is
turning out remarkably we'll, bat there is danger of
its being Injured by the continued wet weather. i.
Year: 1863

There can be nothing more puzzling than
the analysis of ones feelings on battle
field You cannot describe them satisfac-
torily to yourself or others. To march
steadily up to the mouths of hundred
cannon while they pour out fire and smoke,
aud shot and shell, in a storm that mows
down the men like grass, is horrible beyond
descrip ription-appalling 1t is absurd to say
that man can do it without fear During
Hancock's charge at Fredericks burg, for a
long distance, the slope was swept by such
hurricane of death that we thought every
moment would be our last and am willing
to say for one, that was pretty badly scar
ed. Whatever may be said about ''getting
used to it" old soldiers secretly dread a
battle equally with new ones. But the
most difficult thing to stand up under is tue
suspense while waiting, as we waited in
Fredericksburg, drawn up in line of battle
on the edge of the field watching the
columns file past us and disappear in a
cloud of smoke, where horses and men and
colors go down in confusion, where all
sounds are lost in the screaming of shells,
the cracking of musketry, the thunder of
artillery and knowing that our turn comes
next, expecting each moment the word
forward" 1t brings a strange kind of
relief when the word &" forward" comes.
You move mechanically with the rest.
Once fairly into it yonr sensibilities are
strangely blunted you care comparatively
nothing about the sights that shocked you
at first; men torn to pieces by cannon shot
becomes a matter of course. At such a
time there comes latent sustenance from
within us or above us, which no man antic-
ipates who has not been in such a place
before, and which most men pass through
life without knowing anything about
What is it? Where does it come from?
Cor. Spy5ngfeld RepubZic6u.
Year: 1863

STICK TO THE FARM.-Amid your plans
for the future, never, for one moment har-
Dor the idea Of bcttering your condition by
entering the arena of commercial lifa. Do
not change home Of quiet, real enjoying,
for the turmoil and illusion of city resi-
dence. Barter not sweet repose for visions
of empty wallets, nor let notes due on the
morrow assume the prerogatives of the
nightmare. Very poor comforters for care
and anxiety are these little realities IN the
commercial world. Stick to the farm
What though hard labor be the every day
command, it is noble, healthful and condu-
Give to the full development of the whole
man.
Year: 1863

A farmer writing to the Cincinnati Ga
zette, gives the following as his experience
in the cultivation of Sorghum:


Last year planted early in the spring,
in good, rich land, after soaking the seed
in warm water for three or four days. 1t
came on finely. cultivated as 1 would
corn, with the exception of scraping with
the hoe the loose dirt from the hill, that
the sun might warm the root of the puny
plant, which process, as l thought, facilita-
ted the growth very much, as it does not
grow very rapidly until the middle Of sum-
mer, when the soil becomes warmed with
the long days of constant sunshine. Soon
after maturity, which is known by its turn
ing yellow, l cut and hauled it to the mill,
which consisted of the common cast mill for
crushing, and the open pan or pans with
non bottom and wooden sides, placed on
long furnaces for boiling. l made from
cane that grew upon one acre Of land 100
gallons good thick molasses one hun
dred and sixty of which | sold at fifty cents
per gallon at home, without the expense of
shipping | manufactured for myself and
neighbors fourteen hundred and seven gall
Ions, charging l6 23 cents per gallon, and
making from thirty to sixty gallons per
day, on an apparatus that cost about $lOO.
Year: 1863




effective purgative pill which could be relied as
and perfectly safe in its operation. This has
been prepared to meet that demand, and exten-
Sve trial of its virtues has conclusvey shown with
what success it accomplshes the purpose designed
1t is easy to make physical piU but not easy to
make the best of all pills which should have
none of the objections, but all the advantages, of
every other. This has been attempted here, and
with what success we would respectfully submit to
the public decision. 1t has been unfortunate for
the patient hitherto that almost every purgative
medicine is acrimonious and irritating to the bow
els. This is not. Many of them produce so much
gripping pain and revulson in the system as to
than counterbalance the good to be derived from
them. These pills produce no irritation pain,
unless it arise from previously existing obstruc
ton or arrangement in the bowels. Being purely
vegetable, no harm arise from their use in any
quantity but it is better that any medicine should
be taken judiciously. Minute directions for their
use in the several diseases to which they ap-
picable are given on the box. Among the COM
plants which have heen speedily cured by them, we
may mention Liver Complaint, in its various forms
of Jaundice, Indigestion, Languor and Loss of APP
petite, Listlessness, Iritabiity Bilious Headache,
Bilious Fever, Fever and Ague, Pain in the Side
and Loins; for, in TRUTH all these but the con-
sequence of diseased action in the liver As an
aperient they afford prompt and sure relief in Cos
tveness, Piles, Collie, Dysentery, Humors, Scrofua
and Scurvy, Colds with soreness of the body Ulcers
and impurity of the blood, Irregularities in short,
any and every case where purgatiye is required.


They have also produced some singulary sue
cessful cures in Rheumatism, Gout Dropsy, Gravel,
Eryspelas, Palpitation of the Heart, Pains in the
Back, Stomach, and Side. They should be freely
taken in the spring of the year, to purify the blood
and prepare the system for the change of seasons.
An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels into healthy action and restores the appe-
tte and vigor They purify the blood, and, by Their
stimulant action the circulatory system, reno
vate the strength of the body, and restore the
wasted or diseased energies of the whole organism
Hence an occasional dose is advantageous, even
though no serious arrangement exists but un-
necessary dosing should never be carried too far,
every purgative medicine reduces the strength
when taken to excess. The thousand cases in which
physic is required cannot be enumerated here, but
they suggest themselves to the reason of every
body and it is confidently believed this pill Will
answer a better purpose than any thing which has
hitherto been available to mankind. When their
virtues are once known, the public will no longer
doubt what remedy to employ when IN need OF a
cathartc medicine. Beng sugar-wrapped, they are
pleasant to take, and being purely vegetable, no
harm can arise from their use in any quantity.


For minute directions, see wrapper on the Box.
Year: 1863

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE Geo. E..
Cole, Esq, has received the Democratic
nomination as candidate to represent Wash
ington Territory in Congress. The nomi-
nee has always been an uncompromising
friend of the Union, and a determined foe
to the rebellion With such antecedents,
the Union democrats the of Territory will
cordially unite in his support, and inasmuch
as support of the war is the test with repub-
licans, it is fair to infer that they too will
come over and yield him a hearty support.
Mr. Cole, possesses the industry and ability
necessary to make an able and useful Dele
gate, and the people of the Territory will
be fortunate in securing his services
Mountaineer.
Year: 1863

The number Of men to be drafted in'In-
diana will be one out Of every Eve of all
enrolled in the FIRST class. From this ratio
there is to be deducted the excess Of voIun-
uhsrs furnished over the States quota. It
is thought that when the final 6gures are
made the number 10 be drafted will he
susll, probably not exceeding len thousand
in the whole State, or less than one thou
sand 10 a Congressional District.
Year: 1863

Although we Of Ohio are relieved from
immediate personal interestin the draft it
win be Of interest to know that Hon. Fha-
deus Stevens Of Pennsylvania has written
. letter in which he states that the law Of
the case cannot decide otherwise than that
the payment Of the $500 sxempts the payer
Tor three years, the same as If he had fur
nished substitute. This is certainly the
view which justice and common sense must
Year: 1863

The TRUE IssuE.-In spite of the renewed
partisan attempts to make the contrary ap-
pear, the assaults of the slave power conspiracy
is upon the real Democracy Of the country
1t seeks the dismemberment of the Union
simply because it could not pervert the Union
from republic to virtual oligarchy, polit-
ical plantation ruled over by few political
overseers lording it by the divine right Of the
peculiar institution 1t is utterly false to
affirm that the North is fighting from section
al feeling merely to conquer hated adverse.
ry. 1t is fighting for the integrity of the
entire nation against purely local insurrec.
ton. However humanity may rejoice that
the knell Of barbarous feudalism has been
struck, the primary object of the Federal Gov
ernment is not to abolish slavery, but to pre-.
vent slavery from abolishing the Republic
Therefore there can be no permanent peace
until slavery is annihilated as political
force, and the deceived South taught it's true
character.
Year: 1863

Imagine venerable Copperhead, when
this war is over, and these stirring times are
forgotten, sitting at his home with his chill
dren around him. He may tell them Of the
wars and the sacrifices men made, and how
people rejoiced when the news of each victory
came from the army. What will he say of
his part in that struggle? "My children, in the
sad time when the country was in danger,
was against the country-my heart was
with the rebel-when he triumphed was
glad-when he was defeated my heart was
sore and heavy. My children, when am
gone do not curse the traitor. Be silent 1t
is the only respect you can pay to your faith
er's memory y."-Phitadelphia Press.
Year: 1863

TIE MEN RAISED BY THE CoNscRIPT1oN.-
The Washington correspondent Of the N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser says that dailv tele-
graphic reports are made all over the country
to the Provost Marshal General, of the num-
Der of men obtained, so that an approxima-
ton of the final result can be made. 1t is
not thought that hundred and fifty thous-
and men will exceed the number. Unless
the brilliant Union successes continue rapidly
there must be more men raised, continues the
correspondent.
Year: 1863

GREEK FIRE.-The Greek fire was first used
by the Greek architect who escaped from the
Mahommedans when they were assailing
Constantinople, He carried his invention
with him and committed great havoc upon
the enemy with this fire. 1t was in use
down to the thirteenth century, but its COM
position is unknown. Men of science differ
widely in their suppositions respecting its
ingredients. Some have conjectured that
naptha was the principal substance, but nap.
tina cannot be made to produce the effects that
belonged to the Greek fire. 1t was used in
firing cannon, and naptha cannot be used in
that way. About forty years ago it was an
nounced in the Magazine of Discoveries that
the recipe for making Greek fire had been
found in an old Latin manuscript, but since
that we have heard nothing more of it.
Year: 1863

. Then we shall know that we are moi
4 enemies, but that we are friends and
I brothers. Then we shall know that this


Union is a reality; and we shall mourn,


am sure, with sincerity, equally over


the grave of the misguided, whom we


have consigned to his last resting place,


with pity for his error, and with the


same heartfelt grief with which we mourn


over his brothers, by whose hand, raised


in defense of his Government, that mis-.
guided brother perished.


81 When we part tomorrow night, let US
remember that we owe it to our country
and to mankind that this war shall have
Tor its conclusion the establishing of the
principal of demoratic government-the
simple principle that whatever party what
ever portion of the Government prevails
by constitutional suffrage in an election.
that party is to be respected and main. maaiin
tanned in power until it shall give place.
on another trial and an other verdict to
a different party or different portion Of
the people Applause. I


g Ii you do not do that, you are drifting
at once and irresistibly to the very verge
OF the destruction of your Government
But with that principle, this government
of ours--the pnrest, the best, the wisest
ana happiest in the world-must De. and
SO far as we are concerned, practically
will be, immortal. Cheers. Fellow
good night.
Year: 1863

The following scientific description Of a
lady's dress was furnished by an unsuccessful
applicant for position as civil engineer
Comical base equal to seven -tenths the axis,
four vauted zones equdstant on the planes
of the sides-cons truncated one nodule
from theoretical apex, with a warped surface
placed diagonally upon the parabola o.
trunaction, intersected by the quadrant of a
sphere, and it again by irregular polygonaI
planes of half the diameter of the sphere
sIoping downwards 10 the angle Of the
cozine Of figure.
Year: 1863

Lord OF Life! with radiant brow,
See, Nation thanks Thee now
Thanks for all the golden grain,
Sparkling from the mighty plain
Thanks for silver lake and rill
Laughing down the emerald hill
Thanks for all the common light
From the sun and starry night.
In that sun Thy angel stands,
Guarding still the glowing lands,
In the starry light we see
Still the glorious mystery
Still the flag of love unfurled
Over an adoring world;
Lord Of life! O still thy breath
Keep US from the gates of Death;
Keeps us radiant on the sod
Giv'n us by our Father-God.
Lord of Life! but sweeter bliss
And lovelicr, even. than all this,





In Elysium wraps our souls,-
Round US like an ocean rolls;
Rolls with music, love and light,
In the daytime and the night
'Tis the sense we have of Thee
In Thy grand divinity.


Deathless Glory! Boundlcss Bliss!
Thanks, eternal thanks, for this
This that in the town or wild
Makes Humanity that child,
Maynard, simple, though it be,
Sailing Times mysterious sea,
Over which a thousand wings
OF angels wave with minist'rings.
For the cradle or the tomb
Ever shedding Eden-bloom.
Lord oc Life! with radiant brow
Thus nation thanks Thee now!
Lord of Life! still let Thy breath
Keep us from the gates of Death!
Keep US radiant on the sod
Given us by our Father-God!
Year: 1863

A CURIOUS phenomenon occurred re
Gently at the Courde-ed Brie -" Last
evening, says correspondent, from that
place, "just after dark, at the moment
the public square was crowded with til
usual Sunday audience of the military
band, a very curious incident occurred.
The day bad been cloudy, with a steady
breeze form S. s. W. some rain had
fallen, and the sun was very red in wild
sky still nothing prepared us for what
actually happened. Just as the maire
and his party were returning shome, a
raw leg of mutton fell down from tie
sky The maire called the municip
authorities together at once to consult
about this meteor" The explanation
may be found in the fact that Mr.. Nader,
in his great balloon, sailed over that place
at an immense hight, and by some mis-
chance lost overheard one of the legs of
mutton he carried up.
Year: 1863

member of the State Constitutional Con-
vention, Pos master in this place under
President Pierce, and Mayor of our city.


He was gentleman of more than usual
ability and force of character-of excel
lent Judgment, and strong will and de-
examinations. He was remarkably well
informed on all general subjects, and
genial in his social intercourse with
friends. HIS sudden and unexpected
death has left void in our community
which it will be hard to fill Yin San.
Year: 1863

Our adviccs FROM the field of operations up
to noon to-day are that the victory of General
Hookcr's army is a more complete one than
was first supposed. All that the most snnguinc
could hope for has been realized, If VIC except
the awful slaughter, which for the present we
fOrbcar to enter upon.


We congratulate the army and the country
upon this important success. There are facts
connected with this movement which cannot
at present be stated, but when the movement is
completed they will developc themselves and
be appreciated.