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Year: 1861

Treason, nowadays, has got to be an al
most meaningless term. Formerly it was a
word, in these United States, which was
breathed with horror. When Slidell and
other Senators arose to take their leave of
the American Senate, they uttered more tren-
son than did even Aaron Burr in the blacklist
days of his history. 1t was treason TO the
Union, but it was "loyalty TO the South" as
those men express it who consider State
Sovereignty paramount to the authority Of
the Federal Government.


A sad day it is in our national history when
there is no uniform definition for treason and
no common rebuke for it, over the whole
country; when man may fake shelter be-
hind state sovereignty, and boldly defy the
authority Of the National Government; when
he who rises up in the midst of the people
protesting against their precipitate action, is
denounced as n traitor to his own section, be-
cause he loves his country at large; when
the term is defined in one way in the South
and in another in the North, and mems views
and feelings are governed not by reason and
justice but by the lines of latitude.
Year: 1861

batteries" which they seem to dread
SO much, were several days ago made
to give them lesson Of prudence
Yesterday morning these betteries
opened with tremendous fire, which
must have done destructive work,
though we are unable, from the fact
that the river still flows between US,
to estimate the killed and wounded.
The loss on our side, of course,
amounted to nothing. either in men
or horses.
Year: 1861

| attended the school taught in sub
district No. 9, Riverton, on Monday,
January 2Sth. The youth OF this sub.
district have not been favored with
school privileges in the past to very
great extent the present is the first
winter school ever taught here, and
there have been but two summer
terms, one of sixteen weeks, and one
of twelve as natural consequence,


the pupils, especially the older portion,
arc less advanced in their studies
than they ought to be at the age to
which they have attained ; some of
them have not attended school at all
since they came into the county, a
period, in some instances, of six Or
eight years. 1t does seem that il the
parents and school officers had dis
charged their duty, this need not have
been the case but it is pleasant to
notice evident signs Of a waking ny
among the people upon the subject OF
education. A comfortable school house
has just been built and nearly com


plctcd, sufficiently large to supply the
necessities of the ncighborhood fol
some time to come. That indispcnsa
Year: 1861

and rose plants to the city Of Boston
alone. In what we have said we
have not the slightest disposition to
underrate the glory or the cxcellen-
cics of New England We would aim
only to correct the notion SO confident
ly put forth, that the West must look


East for all high education, science,


culture, and scholarship--that in our
own and the Western States there are
not all the elements for the highest
prcccpt and example in agriculture
and the mechanical arts. We bid the
Homestead God speed in its efforts to
promote good farming in Connecticut,
and hail it as worthy fellow laborcr
in a good cause.
Year: 1861

90 The New Haven Register speaks Of
kRKaoET a. a General who never won a
battle--a statesman who never said or
did wise thiugs-a guide and explorer
who always lost his wAy--a millionaire
without dime in bis pookot--a oOmmis-
sary whose nsn starve to death on an
average allowance Of beef per man per
day.
Year: 1861

EHThe following is an exact copy of a
notice posted up in New Jersey town:


Lost-a calf red He had a white spot
on one Of his behind legs He was She
calf.-I will give three dollars to everybody
what will bring him home.
Year: 1861

PEARLS OF THoUGHr-It is a good rule
always to back your friends and face your
enemies.


Do not be deceived by facile exterior.
Tender men sometimes have strong wills.


1t is pretty saying of Thales, that false
hood is just as far distant from truth as the
ears are from. the eyes


Say nothing. do nothing, which mother
would not approve, and you are on GER
tain road to happiness.
Year: 1861

CouNoIL MEE1lNo.-T The City Council
holds an sdjousned session this afternoon At
ths usual place Those who have business to
be brought before that body had better be st-
tending to it.
Year: 1861

POPULAR We are pleased to notice
being cultivated there on grand scale-prin


cipaly by the young people. A race of giants
is about to take the place Of the puny. weak
backed generation which has heretofore dis
grsced our city. The attendance every day is
quite large. Let it be patronized literally !;
tor by so doing you partake OF that elixir OF
life which produces health and length Of years.
Year: 1861

Diu yOu eNcI tHlHh, dluOlilOus, eUeIS 6Ic
bustling reader, man or woman, what a
Blessing it is that the great majority OF The
people of the world are not like you? If
you have not stop moment aad consider,
and you will thank fortune ii is so. Men
that never talk at town meetings, that don't
try 10 become postmasters al every change
| in the administration, and don't stick their
elbows into a crowd, are very likely 10 pass
unnoticei thro' the world and you have the
mistaken notion that they never did you any
good Women who attend 10 their baking
and babies, who never talk scandal al sew
ing societies, and do not insist on making
the tour of the fashionable watering places
every summer, who live and die nobodies
in the estimation OF all but their immediate
household circle Thank God for just such
nobodies. What hubbub we should live
in else The very thought of it is painful
how much worse would be The fact.


Quiet people must be those angles in dis
guse that imaginative people talk so much
about. Very likely they will never do us
any positive good The blessing we receive
from them are negative, and we pass then.
by unnoticed. They let US alone, and the in
habitants OF Secessia are not the only per
sons who wish to be lei alone we all OF US
have had that feeling more times than we
can tell. We get tired of the incessant rat
tie of the machinery OF society, and long TO
shut down the gate. Then we appreciate
the unobtrusive attention of our quiet friends;
they don't talk to when we wish 10 be
silent, or at least they only address ns with
that silent language OF the eye, which ex-
presses SO much, but never wearies US
They never bore us by making us listen TO
|. their ambitious plans and more they never
anger us by telling US Of our faults. They
don't hatter Us when pres ent, and don't
slander US when away. Indeed, they pass
through the world silently and unnoticeG
ike the feather that falls from the wing of
;he soaring bird.


II is doubtless wisely ordered that some
men should be wiling to be the leaders of
society, and should enter the lists as candi-
dates for the honors of the world There
are men who can no more restrain their
ambition than they can dam up the ocean
Their blood grows stagnant in the country,
and they rush 10 the city 10 engage in its
more active and more exciting pursuits
| Their goal is ever before them, never reach
ed, and they are happy only from ;nces-
SAINT .oi But the mass OF mankind always
come in and 60 out at the back entry OF
! lie, and are never seen in ihe parlor or on
the great. thoroughiares. They are substFa-
Ia or mankind, rarely seen, but supporting
/ the rest. The minister furnishes them with
their theological opinions. The newspaper
gives them their views of other things
i They do their own work in their own way,
and live and die, peaceful, coniented and
happy Let Us never sneer at quiet people
1 then. They fill their appropriate places ex-
acily, and perform their duties faithfully
/ Can as much be said OF all OF US !.-Sprug-


ieid Republican
Year: 1861

If riches increase SET not your heart upon
them, because they are liable 10 decrease as
fast as they increased because they cannot
satisfy the boundless desires of The i'm
mortal soul because there possession is
connected with new anxieiies and re-
sponsibiiGies because their pcssessor is
subjected 10 peculiar and, iniourious temp
latious because they must all be lett al
death and death may come at any hour; and
because the good things Of the present life
are Of Insignificant value. when compared
with the treasures Of heaven. which he for
ever forfeils who makes worldly wealth his
supreme good.
Year: 1861

We can hardly realize the fact, so short
does the time seem since bads and bios
SONS, blue birds and iiacs, welcome the re-
turn OF spring but the summer is over. done
gone for the season. as the darkey says
The leaves are still green, and ample 10 af-
ford grateful shade but in few days they
will wear yellow linge, and they will no
longer be treated with their wonled respect.
when pedestrians seek the sunny side Of the
street 10 travel. Although the transition from
summer TO fall is so silent, and occurs just
al a time when the fruits of the earth are
so thick upon US, and naturally should con-
fine our Thoughts TO channel which would
induce Us, like Young, TO
Year: 1861

New YORK, June S.-Earth works are being
constructed to day above the chain bridge.


Commercial says we are able to state on the
highest authority that latest dispatches from
other agents in Europe are in the highest degree
satisfactory. at


Prussia has assured our Government that no
rebellion against so mild and beni6cent a Gov
ernment will receive any sanction whatever
Austria ves equally warm assurances and a
determination to give no countenance to the
rebels. France is cordially with US in word and
in deed, if we need IT, Hra


Dispatches from Mr.. Adams say that the Brit.
ish Government is now as well disposed towards
us as we could desire The Ministry have given
Mr.. Adams a more friendly and cordial hearing
and rebellion will hereafter find no sympathy
ut the Court of ST. James,
Year: 1861

We print the following protest from Legrand
Byington in order that We may have it in a con-
venient place and shape for future reference
We are sorry a good many other cowardly SYM
pathisers with rebellion have not the courage to
write their names, with his, upon the roll of in
fanny, as they would do but that they dare not
do. This protest" will be reproach to Le-
grand and his posterity after him, for at least
two generations.
Year: 1861




N MAN FOUND DKAD.-Yesterday informa-
ton was brought TO the Coroner that a man was
living dead in Hnson's pasture. On examination,
il was found that he had lain there for some time
the face having completely decayed and the hasr
dropped from the scalp. The jury could not as
certain his name nor the cause of his death. No
marks of violence could be detected. verdict
was given accordingly and the following descrp-
ton sent US with the hope that it might lead to
his identification- Deceased was apparently
about 45 years old, feet inch high, quite slen-
der, black hair mixed with grey, about inches
in length, beard about one weeks growth. In
the lower Jaw we're four teeth, three on the right
side and one on the left; none in the upper jaw
but some lying loose in the mouth. Had on
brown satinette eoat striped with black, two
pairs Denne pants, course boots and hickory
| shirt, two others beside the body, one straw hat.
In his pocket we're found an empty port.monie,
comb, one oil cotton handkerchief red and yell
| low. There was small leather belt around the
| body.
Year: 1861

c Whatever may be his standing as man,
or his pretensions as statesman, patriot or
moralist, distrust the motives and reject the
counsels Of bin, whose language or measures
lean toward Disunion. Admit not the fellow
ship nor breathe even the atmosphere of the
modern Cataline. He is smitten with moral
lepresy, dangerous to youth, ana no coihhu'
MON should be held with him. No matter
what may be the ground, real or pretended,
of his dissatisfaction with the Government
and no matter what his own condition, high or


low, rich or poor, private citizen or public


functionary; if he openly advises or secretly
| suggests a breach of the Union, or if his con.
duet tends to that effect, he is traitor to his


country, and should receive, in the aborfence
| of the virtuous, if not from penal law, the re-
| ward of his crime.
Year: 1861

A LOVERS Folly - The MOMENT OF Hrs
PRlpE.-A late writer says:


believe there is no period of life as that in
which thriving lover leaves his mistress after
his first success. His joy is more perfect than
at the absolute moment of his own eager vow,
and her half asserting bushes. Then he is
thinking mostly of her, and is in certain de-
gree embarrassed by the efforts necessary for
success. But when the promise has once been
given to him, and he is able to escape into the
domain Of own heart, he is a conquerOr who has
mastered half a continent by his own strategy.
1t never occurs to him-he hardly belle YES that
his success is no more than that whic is the or
binary lot of mortal man.


He never reflects that all the old married TO-
gies whom he knows and despises. have just as
much grouad for pride, if such pride were endu
ring; that every fat, silent, dull, somnolent old
lady whom he sees and auzzes has at some Pc
riOd been deemed as worthy prize "a his prin-
cess galleon; and so deemed by as bold a captor
as himself. Some one has said that every young
mother, when her first child is born, regards the
babe as the most wonderful production of tha,
description which the world has yet seen. And
this, too, is true. But l doubt whether tha,
conviction is 80 strong as the conviction of the
successful lover, that has achieved a triumph
which should ennoble him down to later gene
rations.
Year: 1861

Resoired. That the President be authorized to
appoint Reporter to the Senate. whose duty it
shall be to correctly report the proceedings of
this body.


On motion Of Mr. Stout, the resolution was
laid on the table


The Senate adjourned
Year: 1861

descriptions of praise and shouts Of triumph,
was season of joy long to be remembered.
" The best of all is, God is with u.s." There
were high and holy resolutions formed there.
Our new Presiding Elder has peculiar
Scottish tact and energy which, baptized with
tho spirit of his Master, make him most ef-
ficient presiding officer in the Association and
tho District, and give him access generally
to the hearts of the people.
The following resolutions were adopted,
which the Secretary was instructed to have
published


Whereas, two new Regiments are 10 bo
organized in this State, for the war service of
government-and whereas neither of the three
organized Regiments have Methodist chap
lain, and whereas there are good reasons for
the opinion that our Church should be repre-
sented in the chaplaincy of our State army
therefore,


Resozred, That we appoint a committee of
three to take into consideration the propriety
of representing before the Executive of the
State our feelings that one of the aforesaid
Regiments should have chaplain from the
M. r. Church. Said committee consists of
Rev. Messrs. Mckenzie, Moore and Simons


The following Resolution to be read in the
Pulpit at Swanton


Whereas, The people of Swanton Falls
have very chcerfully and literally entertained
us during this session of the Association,
and have cheered and encouraged US by
their presence at our meetings, Therefore


RESOLVED, That we hereby express our
gratitude to them and will not cease to pray
for them until we meet them on the other
shore.


Resolved, That the Association owe Br.
Simons debt of gratitude for his character
istic promptness and fidelity in making prep
arations for our comfort and convenience
while here.


Resolved, That the Secretary be and here.
by is instructed to secure the publication of
an abstract of the proceedings of this Associ-
alton in the Vermont Christian Messenger.


In compliance the above is respectfully
submitted.


The next meeting of the Association is to
be at Winooski on the I'd Tuesday of Octo-
Der next. II. f. AUSTIN, Secretary.


Fairfax. August 10.
Year: 1861




to the trainers of the constitution
We will now take up the two prop


ositions and the only alternativ


left us, that of the sacred right o


revolution. What is revolution? L


is to take up arms and fight from


under an oppressive government


Is this the reserved right of States


to secure their domestic tranquil


ty? Can it be possible that tht


sages of the revolution, after


seven years war to obtain freedom


did frame a constitution for the


Union of the States with no Other


guarantee for liberty, but to wade


to it through blood and slaughteri


As my limits are short | must come


at once to the constitutionality ol
this question. / will say, in the


first place, that had the functiona-


ries of our government believed


the constitution itself taught the
right of secession on the part OF


a State, there would have been no
such calamity as civil war now
raging in our midst, and further
more, If the whole South had been


a unit, on the right Of secession,
we might have averted, in all prob
ability, the now perilous condition
of the Southern States. To this
proposition some may ask how?


By demanding of the federal au-
thorities our constitutional rights,
leaving them the only alternative
to grant the petition, or dissolve
the Union. But to the question.
Does the constitution teach the
giiq7t of secession? Not just in so
many words. But no fact In our
history is more obvious, than that
the thirteen colonies began the con-
test with Great Britain, as distinct
communities, and came out as
and Independent sover-
eisn States. Even the articles of
confederation, which was a mere
league. offensive and defensive,
was not ratified by any of the colo
MES, for three years after the be
of the war, and two years
after the Declaration of lndepen-
dence; and three years more, before
they all ratified. No one of them
the revolution, only upon
it's own volition, hence, when they
threw off British oppression they
owed no allegiance to any power
on earth, but were free and lnde-
pendent OF each other, and OF the
world. They then agreed to form
a more perfect Union, the object
of which was to establish justice;
insure domestic tranquility; pro
vide for the common defence; pre-
mote the general welfare; and Sc
cure the blessings of liberty, to
ourselves and our posterlty. The
pronoun os.rselres in the preamble
means the people of the several
States. as such, and not the indlvid-
uals OF any State. NOW, each VI
the old thirteen States had and now
has its own constitution, tor It's
own internal domestic concerns;
and they each enc consented to
the creation of another, to carry
out the purposes specified, and SO
enumerated in the pream-
BILE When the constitution OF
1877 was framed by the delegates
Of each in convention assembled,
how was it adopted? answer, The
seventh article says"the ratification
Of the conventions of nine States
shall be sufficient fer the establish
ment of the constitution between
the States so ratifying the same.
Hence it is seen, that each State,
independently Of the others, and
Year: 1861

The accounts from Missouri prove that the
men whom morning paper of this city used CIV
lily to style "votng CATTLE have covered them
selves with glory in the cause of the Union
Mulligan's Irish Brigade justify the reputation
which their native countrymerH have won in every
civilized nation for loyalty and high military
courage. We do not fatter them when we say
that they deserve to be ranked with the gal
liant New York Sixty ninth-the regiment of
Meagier and Corcoran, and which, as we'll as
themselves, evince what the country may expect
when the gallant Shields leads his brigade into
the field.


We cannot refrain here from pointing political
moral, though with no intention of exciting poit-
ical bitterness. The naturalized citizens of this
country have been as patriotic and sef-sacrifcing
in the war as the native born. They have given
to the nation net only fighting men, but leaders,
in proof of which we need only mention Corco.
ran and Sigel. We hope that this lesson will
never be lost--that the American heart will trea-
sure it in memory forever, and that it viii eradi-
cate the last lingering remnants prescription
Chicago Times.
Year: 1861

Last spring, in accordance with the wishes of
some kind friends, consented to be candidate
for Clerk Of the Courts Of Marion county. As
had always been Republican it was my purpose
TO submit my name to a convention of the Repub-
lican party. But after the Inauguration Of civil
war by the act Of Southern rebels / believed that
all party action in the loyal States should be ss-
pended; at least until the rebellion could be sup
pressed firmly believed and still believe that
we shall never be able to sustain the Government
of the United States against the wide spread and
monstrous treason which threatens to destroy it,
if the defenses of the Government are weakened
and paralized by partisan warfare in the loyal
States Under this conviction was unwilling to
contribute even the slight influence which might
possess IN sustaining party action. / therefore
announced my name as a candidate independent
Of all parties. Soon after this announcement the
leaders Of the Republican party called conven-
ton ard riade strict party nominations. This
was also done in the face Of the fact that at the
very time the ablest and most patriotic Republi
can papers and statesmen throughout the country
were advising the abandonment of party in order
to save our Government.


On the 3Ist of August the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party Of the county, following the ex-
ample of the Republicans, F
held convention and also
made strict partisan nominations for the same
Offices. tf ~ ~


During the past summer have traversed a
large portion Of the county aud talked to the peo
OF all parties, faceto face They have almost uni
versally agreed with me IN relation to the evils of
partisan warfare and the imminent danger Of
Year: 1861

1t will be seen by our dispatches, that the
President of the United States has issued an or
der so modifying and rectifying that clause of
Fremonts proclamation which relates to the con-
fscation of property and the liberation of slaves
to make it conform to the late act of Con-
gress Oh the subject of confscation. 1t appears
that the President, receiving the proclamation,
promptly wrote to Fremont, asking him to modify
the Objectionable clause, but Fremont preferred
that the modification should be made by direct
order from the Government, which accordingly is
done.


The President has made thorough work of
this business The proclamation is rectifed upon
the points which we published on Thursday last.
They are, first: the liberation of the confiscated
negro. Second: the restriction of the con6sca-
ton of negroes to those cases in which they are
used in promoting actual hostilites against the
United States; and third, a modification of that
portion of the proclamation which recognizes no
difference between disoyalists who cease hosuli-
ties against the Government, and those disloyal
lists who persist in rebellion. The President re-
quires the proclamation to conform to the law of
Congress on this subject.


We have been confident from the first that this
matter would be set right The right action of
the President in the case will sorely the Sc
cessioniss. Itannihilates large portion of their
most available capital in trade. They will hardly
know what to do for material to work with when
they can no longer hope to make the people be-
lieye that the purpose of the United States Gov
ernment is to set free the slaves of the South.
The stopping of the hole will keep away good
deal of wind.-Louisuiils JonrRal.