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Year: 1863

All accounts give Mr.. Diekmsn great
credit for his argument against the traitor
Olds in the House at Columbus on Monday
The correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gsz-
ette writes;


"Mr Dickman Of Cuyahoga, a Union
Democrat, made an able argumentatiYe re-
ply to the Doctor. He agreed in some
things which the gentleman had said but
he differed from him in many others. He
did not believe that we have the Spanish
Inouisition here. The gentleman had
drawn largely upon his imagination, his
papers, &C., but mot on facts. Perhsps..all
these arrests have not been made for good
couse. It would be surprising ifsuch were
not the case. If any serious attempt had
been made to destroy the peoples rights
there is not q party which would not rise
up against it. The suspension Of the ha-
bsas corpus is contemplated in the Consti-
tuition. If you have a right to suspend it
you must acknowledge that the results fol-
lowing are authorized The Constitution
SAYS that suspension can be made in time
Of rebellion. Who is todeeide when there
is a rebellionl When there are so many
hDle Juf1sL5 VINO ulHeF IN hHbWeIlnB tnls
question, it is the duty Of the President to
act as be thinks best for the preservation
Of the public good. No one win deny that
the exercise Of this power (suspension Of
the writ, has been beneficial 1t saved
Maryland The gentleman thinks these
are troublesome etimes-tyranny is appear
ing. Ifhe had read the history of thecoun-
try he would have found precedents for
the acts Of the President-even for his own
arrest No one viii deny the love that
Thomas Jefferson had for the rights of
man. No one detested more than he did
the Alien and Sedition act he was al
ways q good Democrat How did he act
during the Burr conspiracy He request
ed Congress to suspend the writ of habsas
eorpus, which they refused 10 do, when he,
by the authority Of the war power, order
ed the arrest Of Burr and his associates.
/ They were arrested and taken to Balti-
more where they were confined for trial,
notwithstanding that they complained
that the laws and Constitution were being
trampled under foot by the act. Mr. Dick
man closed by saying that he was willing
to vote for resolutionin the proper spirit,
making inquiry Of the Governor as to these
arrests
Year: 1863

ANOTHER MARTYRED CoPPERHEAD.-The
Springfield correspondence of the St..
Louis Democrat relates the following hap
py incident which occurred at that place :;


"A few nights since, member of the
Legislature, who was sleeping double at
one Of our hotels, was kicked outby a bed
fellow, an officer in the army, for ventilat-
ing his secesh sentiments atthe unseason-
able hour Of midnight. The officer threw
the offenders clothes after him into the
passage, The member was compelled to
sit up the balance Of the night in the Office,
before the cold stove, in no very pleas
ant mood


The member must have discovered that
q fire in the rear" was what Unionists
could play at as well as the Copperhead.
Year: 1863

lhe happiness Of that loving mother was too great
to endure in silence. She encircled her noble bo in
tnc arms OF affection, and then, falling on her knees
poured lorth prayer Of gratitude to God for his de-
Year: 1863

/ The North British ReyieW gives this
sketch of him: When Burke came for
ward, as his custom was, to the middle Of
peculiarly that caught the eye Of the spec
tator, was the glasses which be almost con-
stantly wore in the days Of his celebrity.
He was tall and noble-looking, with de-
cidedly prepossessing appearance I; by no
means smart in bis dress yet, possessing a
personal dignity which the tailor could
not have given him. He seemed full Of
thought and care and the firm lines
about Che mouth, the strong jaw, and se-
we're glance oftbe dark eye; spoke Of many
an inward battle which was known 10 no
human observer. The head was solid and
intense rather than massive, high rather
than broad, and tolerably prominent;
fuller, one would say at 6rst sight, Of the
reasoning than Of the imaginary power
His nose, which was straight as il it bad
been cut after a bevil, opened out into
two powerful nosirils, made apparently
only 10 sueer. Altogether be looked Ike
great man with a great lesson TO read to
men more than ike gentle one semi TO
the world TO please. He spoke with de-
cided Hibernian accent, although he left
the country early in life. But it is 10 be
remarked that men Of genius hardly ever
lose the tongue OF their youth. He had
voice Of great compass. ard he never re-
quired TO hesitate for words. They came
quick and vehement, frequently almost be-
ycnd the power Of utterance. As he spoke,
his head rose and fell I; now ii swung,
and anon il oscillated from side to side of
his body, moved by the intense nervous
action of his frame. Young Gillray, the
foremost Of English caricaturists, sketches
Burke IN various postures and attitudes.
One of the most characteristic of these
represents him as rapt in the delivery Of
some splendid oration, with his hands
clenched and his arms raised erectly over
his head. his whole body a picture Of liy--
ing energy"
Year: 1863

IT is far from being true in the progress
Of knowledge, that, after every failure We
must re.commeace from the beginning
Every failure is step to success every
detection Of what 10 false direclsus towards
what is true every trial exalts some
scarcely any attempt is entirely failure !;
scarcely any theory. the result Of steady
thought, is altogether false no tempting
form oierror is without some latsnfcharm
derived from truth.
Year: 1863

IT is with glory as with beauty; for. az
a single fine lineamen, cannot make q
handsome face, neither can q single good
quality render a man accomplished; but
a concurrence OF many fine features and
good qualities makes true beauty and true
honor.
Year: 1863

II Is about twenty years since one Of the
members Of the present cabinet was a
member OF congress from distant western
State lie had the usual right of desig-
mating single candidate for admission
into the West Poiat military academy
The applications made to him for a va
cancy which then existed were not many
but among them was letter from a boy
oi sixteen or seventeen years OF age, who,
without any accompanying recommended
tlons or references, as ked the appointment
for himself The member dismissed the
appeal from his mind, with perhaps
passing thought of the forwardness and
the impudence Of the STRIPPING who could
aspire to such place on no other grounds
than his own desire to get good educa-
ton at the public expense


But happening a short time afterwards
to be In the little village whence the letter
was mailed, the incident was recalled TO
his memory, and he thought he would be
guile the few hours of leisure that he had
by looking up the ambitious youth. He
made his way, by dnt of much inquiry, to


small tailor shop on the outskirts Of the
town, and when he was admitted at the
door, he found lad sitting cross legged
upon tailors bench, mending a rent in
an old pair Of pantaloons. But this lad
had another occupation beside his manual
toll. Near by, on a small block Of wood,
rested a book Of abstruce science, to which
ne turneo his eyes whenever they could
be transferred from the work in his hand
The member accosted him by the name
given IN the letter, aud the lad replied,


am the person.


ou wish, then, to be appointed a ca
det at West Point ?' asked the Congress
man.


do he rejoined


Why 1? asked the congressman.


Because, answered the tailor youth,
= feel that | was born for something
better than mendinc old clothes"


The member talked further with him.
and WAS 50 pleased with his fran kne,s, ais
spirit, and the rare inte.!i Geuce he eviuced,
that ne procured him the appointment


The member i now Secretary Smith Of
Indiana, aud the youth General Burnside,
in-Chiei OF the Army of tie
Fotomsc-Nr0 York Post
Year: 1863

A Soldier Of the 10th is of opinion thai.
the war has lasted long enough and that
we should begin to talk of peace.


4" propose that the North send some
honest, patriotic men to meet with similar
men from the South, at designated place
and see if our differences cannot be peace
ably adjusted. The good results OF such
a meeting are palpable. l. Whether the
meeting should result in peace or no. we
should al least get at the exact causes that
render peace uEattainable. > If these
causes are such as can be overcome by
further negotiation, why would not that
be better than war; but if they should
demonstrate continuance of the war 10
be dire necessity, then republicans and
democrats would rise up as one man, for
they would all know what they have to do


] believe in always irving peace meas
ures rather than war, and think if the
same pains had been taken to avert war
III the first place that have since been
taken 10 carry !. on the war could have
been averted. Let us Correct the Ia,
blunder, talk Of peace again. Wars are
always ended by negotiation end it is never
too early TO beuin
Year: 1863

There is period at which men come
to lie slrangely impressed with the
thought, 81 am growing DID," | sup.
pose there is year or TWO in which all
have the feeling, (il may not be painful
one, but it is sad one, it is tender. mi
nor feeliDg;l 81 have passed my youth;
am never to be young any more; not
only am a man, but rs A man have
signs and tokens of tie failure Of some
parts of my organization" s


/ is said Of athletes, boxers and Wrest.
lers that they have second Jrsoth. Al
ter they have gone through what may be
said to DO theiI first strength, there is
rally,ng of the system. and then they are
said to have come to their second breath.
When they are on their second breath,
they hold out great while. So it is
with our thoughts in respect to growing
old We have sad feeling to get over.
which arises from the consciousness that
we are becoming aged; but after men
have got over that feeling, they never feel
old, though they are eighty years Of age.
they come to their second breath in that
regard! Now. do you begin TO have a
consciousness that You are failing? Du
you 6Sd that your feet grow heavier than
,hey used to be? Are there not some pei
sons here that have some difficulty abou,
the ear? Have you not thought that per.
sons talked less clearly thau they used toi
Have yoG thought that people did no,
pronounce their words as plainly
as you were taught to pronounce
you're in the school you attended? Doel
it not seem to you that the spectacle ma;
ters are growing slack? Are there nc
times when you feel that the shadow il
turned? All day long the sun goes up
and up. aud up, till at last it stands .
flush MONDAY and then, when it slant
even ore degree, you STE that the sbad
ow creeps down the other side, and grow
longer as il goes down. There are many o
you lha, have seen the shadow run on III
wrong side. and it is growing longer Ant
longer. Your sun is goisg down lowsrt
The western horizon.


II q man has been GccuStonied TO thihl
Of bis life mainly IS centersd or fxs'
here. il 10 not possible that he should no
feel sadness at the indications Of deosyiul


powers. OF limited accomplishments, @
Year: 1863

The Office of the Yicksburg Wing was
burned down on the 9th inst. Some
think the editor set it on fire himself, to
avoid the disagreeable necessity of wit
ing articles against the cowardly Yankee
Vandals, while their shells were fall
ing and exploding around his sanctum,
Year: 1863

"The North has discovered from this
war the Ualue Of SlaUery to The South as a
military Institution; and the proclama-
tIons on Lincoln have been designed to
destroy that power in our hands. y
RiclmHd Enquirer.


Yes slavery is valuable, or rather we
have by our folly, allowed it to be made
valuable to the rebels, "as a military in
stitution."


We can make it our military strength,
and their military weakness, if we have
the courage and common sense and pa
triotism to do it, The 100000 OF slaves
now worked by Southern traitors for the
benefit of the Confederacy, are as service
able to them as 100000 of loyal white
farmers are to the North. Suppose the
rebels could deprive US of that number of
white agriculturists would they hesitate
to do it? Not a day; not an hour; not
one moment They are fighting for RES
ULT
Year: 1863

The cause of the breaking of the
bridge in Richmond, some time since, as
the prisoners were marching over it,
is said to have been not their weight,
but the fact that they were marching Co
music and keeping step. This same
thing caused one of the strongest iron
bridges across the Loire in Franco to
fall in 1855, with a regiment passing
over The regular tramp of large mum
Der of men is the most trying ordeal a
bridge can undergo. Some suspension
bridges have notices prohibiting the
marching Of bodies of men to music
across. The remedy is TO march men
across bridges in broken step. The
same principle in marching is exhibited
in the fly-wheel Let a heavy hy-wheel
be a few pounds ont of balance, and get
rapidly in motion on the upper floor of a
building, will shake it down.
Year: 1863

A MsTAKE.- Some sore-headed journals of this
State oppose the denomination of Ben jamin p.
Avery, present incumbent, for State Printer,
because be is not practical typo. This is a
mistake, Avery is printer learned his trade
in the Office of the Harrisburg Keystone, paper
owned by his uncle. Moreover, he has made the
best State Printer California ever had done the
State work more expeditously, neatly, and at
less expense. This should be the greatest argu
ment in favor of his re-nomnaton and we sin
cerely trust he will be the nominee of the Union
party. His paper, the Marysville Appea', has
done better work for the Union cause than any
other in the State, and we are quite sure the
Trinity delegation will assist in re enomnating
him. The Mountain Messenger does Avery fall
justice in the following paragraph;


"We are certain that our present State Priner
has done double the amount OF manual labor in
O first class printing office, and kuows more about
the trade lhan the blacksmith prnters," who
are trying to hound him out of The position he
has so successfully filed, with credit to himself
and benefit to the State"
Year: 1863

IL announcing the entrance of the Marysville
Appeal upon the third year of its existence. we
don't think the truth could be more foreibly said
than in the following compliment paid it by the
last Red Buff Independent;


" APPEAL.-The Marysvile appeal, one OF the
best and ablest conducted newspapers of the
State, has passed the anniversary Of the third
year OF its existence as an organ of the true
Union sentiment of the State May many sue.
ceeding anniversaries find it still the same useful
aud excellent j0urnal--ever defending the right
and condemning the wrong, and one of the
towers Of strength in the grand Union ed6ce.n
Year: 1863

Through all the Winters cold and gloom,
When earth has seemed SO like q tomb,
I've told my heart the Spring would come,
While fancy listen'd to the hum,
Half hidden half apparent strife
or nature wakening into life.
But now the bare, brown earth appears,
Mid blessed Aprils smiles and tears,
Bright harbinger of May day flowers,
And all the glorious Summer hours.
How many hearts have watch'd like mine
To see the welcome Spring gtime sign,
And what would human nature do
We're all these promises untrues
"Spring- time and harvest shall not fail
While earth remains''-the promise hail
With joyful hope desponding ones
And while wars chances claim your sons,
Let industry and faith combine
To prove the promise and the sign.
God let thy Peace soon bless our earth,
For our wrung hearts have learnd its worth,
bitter lesson, blood and tears
Shall mark it through all coming years.
Too sad the theme cannot write
OF things so terrible tonight,
But blessed Peace shall lure my pen
To touch the mournful string again.
An April sunsets loveliest sheen,
With more than glory clothes the scene
Ger which my eyes are wandering now,
And gratefully my heart must bow.
oh that sweet health might come to me
With the upspringng leaves see,
The old time flowers used to Gull,
The simple, pure and beautiful.
My native home, deem thee fair,
Though have breathd in CALAIS air;
Yet my adopted home, with thee
Thought memory, hope, must oftenest be-


ANNE K H. FADER
Me-, April 1868.
Year: 1863

WHO TOLD You ?--The lower country papers
have given general circulation to the statement
that Trinity county sends three Stanford and one
Low delegate to the State Convention. We are
ID to know how they gained the iuforma-


If Sargent is a candidate for Governor a
ity of the Trinity delegation will favor
mination. Between Low and Stanford, the
will get majority vote. 1t is very
Die, however, that Stanford will be the
nominee
Year: 1863

WEL@osE.- We publish in this number pretty
little poem from our poet friend, Anne X. ii.
Fader, She writes that her native town is almost
deserted by reason of the country's call for
soldiers to aid in crushing out treason, We
sincerely trust that returning health will soon
permit her to return to her adopted home.
Year: 1863

The meanest man in the world is.liv-
ing in New Jersey. In helping him out
Of the river once, man tore the collar
off his coat. The next day he sued him
for assault and battery. Exchange.


II strikes us that the arraignmsnt of
the President of the United States for
flagrant usurpations and crimes, BY The
conservative politicians of a State which
that President saved from the jaws of
the rebel army is quite as mean. Some
small politicians would rather SEQ the
State drowned in treason than have their
coat collar !. .. slavery, torn.
Year: 1863

We observe that some of our contemporaries in this
State who refuse to publish the proceedings of the
people looking to peace, eagerly catch at and pub
ish the proceedings of meetings looking to indefn-
lite war, and laudatory of jefferson Davis. One
thing is admitted however and that is the right to
hold public meetings and the policy of holding them
at this time; and this, it must be borne in mind,
applies well to the socalled peace meetings as to
the Jefferson Davis meetings. twill not do to say
that it is not polite for the people to assemble them
selves unless they will speak in certain way
they have right when assembled, to speak as they
please, and to arragn them for doing, to ques
ton their motives is to ipeach not only tt cir in
telligence but the fundamental principle of their
right to govern themselves. If they have right
to assemble to aud Mr.. Davis, they have right to
assemble to censure Mr.. Davis; and the army has
the same right But the private soldier is ignored
in the army meetings, and his right therefore, to be
heard amounts to nothing. HIS voice is stifed un-
less he will surrender his judgment to others, and
think and act as he is told to do by his superors-
And yet he is fighting for liberty-for the right of
thought and free expression!


Politicians and public men are always anxious to
consult the people and to hear their voice in times
of peace But if it be true that the government is
the peoples, and that they and they alone are en-
titled to rule both in peace and war, how much
more important is it that they should be consulted
in revolutions like the present. when every thing
precious is at stake No matter what majority of
them may do no one has right in political sense
to question their action. Their voice is final and
conclusive. They are the masters in this country.
All attempts to mGndge them will fail. They were
managed and deceived into this war, by the aboli-
tionsts on one hand and the original secessonsts on
the other; and that lesson will be fresh in their
minds whenever any attempt is made in the future
to control them


We observe that Destructyes here and there are
holding meetings, made up for the most part of ex
empts, spectators, government contractors. Office
holders and the Ike This is all well enough.
These people who thus assemble to let off steam arc
quite as harmless towards the Conservatives as ther
are towards the Yankees. Let them meet and re
sOOe to their hearts content That is all they will
ever do.
Year: 1863

We find in the North Carolina Christian AGOo-
cate, religious paper, the political address ISSUED
by certain officers of the army to the people oil this
State. We have read it carefully. 1t is very
commonplace affair. Several of those who have
signed it affect to be scholars yet the style IS quite
ordinary, and in some respects imperfect. Inere
are thousands of prvates among the North carolina
troops who could have written abler address and
in better style than the one before US. ..


We shall pay our respects to this document IN
our next


We confess to our surprise at seeing this ADDRESS
in religious paper Our respected contemporary
of the AdUoeate has declined to publish the pro-
ceedings of meetings of the people though request
ed in one or two instances to do so; yet ne pub
fishes this document conceived in fraud and purely
political in its character because it did not emanate
from "a small meeting" but from "a convention
of the army" A big political meeting or conven-
ton can have hearing through his columns, but
the small meetings" must find some other organ.
Our cotemporary it seems chershes blg politics in
his columns but he shows no favor to little politics.


There never was a more stupendous political
fraud than this army convention The privates,





in favor of reconstruction-of laying down arms
and submitting Internationally to the federal gov
ernment and that the tendency of its articles, if
not its object was to emancipate our slaves and
place them on level with the whites. The 44th
regiment we learn, was harangued to this effect by
one Of the officers who signed this address. In ad
dition to this, the Standard itself was carefully
concealed real position and sentiments mis-
represented, while garbled extracts from it in
the Richmond Enquirer were read to the men,
and they were told that these garbled extracts,
and nothing else, embodied its views. In short,
all the insidous and unscrupulous appeals to the
men, and all the perversions and misrepresen-
tations which characterize heated political cam
pagns were resorted to for the purpose of inhuen-
cling the men and even then the actors in this fraud
signally failed to carry the men with them, and the
convention, so called was for the most part q self
constituted body that spoke for very small minor
tyof the troops The secret ballot, formidable un-
der despotisms, but seldom resorted to under the
mild operation of free Constitutions and equal laws
was all that was needed to enable the men to ex-
press their views; and if this had been allowed them
the Standard would have been endorsed by at least
three fourths of the army.
Year: 1863

ara, dated


WENTWORTH Aug. 26, 1858.


"Mr. Gilmer, the candidate in this District for
Congress, made a speech at our Courthouse on
Tuesday being our Court week, and there wasa very
general turn out


Mr.. Gilmer is against any compromise except the
independence of the South is acknowledged, and
warned the people against holding meetings that
were calculated to engender dscord; but said it
was right guaranteed them under the old and new
Constitutions to assemble peaceaby to consult and
determine what public measures tended to their
be done in such way as to show the South unit.
His tone and manner were conciliating. l don't
think word escaped him calculated to offend any
who differed with him; and while great many
differed with HIM the ground that he was not con-
seruatlre enough for them, he was not regarded as
a Destructive.


After the speaking was over, meeting was held
and resolutions passed, (as l understand, did not
remain in the meeting or hear the resolutions read
which were calculated to create discord, notwith-
standing they had been kindly warned against such
acts by Mr. Gilmer. One of the resolutions was to
censure the Editor of the Standard passed by
small party after the most of the meeting had re-
tired thus taking advantage of the friends of the
Standard whom | think to be numerous in this
COUNTY, made SO for the valuable services rendered
by it in sustaining the Executive Of the State and
our Supreme Court against military despotism, &c.
write you this for the purpose letting you know,
as believe the said resolution is not the sentiment
of the County, and as it is calculated to do Mr. Gill
mer harm, and the people who are with you injus-
ticen