Year: 1861

It ID to me . thoroughly disgusting sight
to zee, as we sometimes do, the wife and
children of q family kept in constant terror
OF the selfish bashaw at the head Of the
house, and evef On the watch to yield In ev-
ery petty manner to his whims and fancics.
Sometimes, where he Is hard. wrought and
anxious man, whose hard work eAfns his
chldrer,'s bread, and whose life is tho sole
stay, il is neeifal that he should be defeFred
to in many things, lest the over tasked brain
and over strained nervous system should
break down or grow unequal to their task
But ain not thinking Of such cases. /
mean cases in which the head Of family b
a great fat, bullying, selfish scoundrel; who
devours sullenly the chpice dishes at dinner,
and walks into all the fruit or dessert, while
his wife looks on in silence, and the awe
stricken children dare not hint that they
would like little of what the brutal hound
is dcvouring mean cases in which, the con-
tcmptible dog is extremely well dressed, whilo
his wife and children's attire is thin and bare;
in which he literally tosses about his money
in the billiard-roon, and goes off in autumn
for a tour on the continent by himself, leav-
ing them to the joyless routine Of their un.
varied life. 1t is sad to see the sudden hush
that falls upon the little things when he en-
SCIS lIlC uOuScs uOw UuC SuS
short, and they try to steal away from the
room. Would that were the Emperor Of
Russia and such man my subject! Should
not he taste the knouts Should not make
him howl ? That would be his suitable pun.
ishment; for he will never feel what worthier
mortals would regard as the heavier penalty
by far the utter absence of confidence of real
affection between him and his children when
they grow up He will not mind that there
never was dny when the toddling creatures
set up a shout Of delight at his entrance, and
rushed ut him, and scaled him, and searched
his pockets, and pulled him about; nor that
the day will never come when. growing into
men and women, they will come to him for
sympathy and guidance in their little trials
and pcrplexites. Oh woful to think that
there are parents, held in general estimation
too to whom their children would no moro
think of going for kindly sympathy, thnn
they would think Of going to Nova Zembla
for warmth Country Parsoa, ''
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ThE TRUE DoCTRINE.-JoHN X. PORTER,
President of the New York Union Conven-
ton, in his address before that body, made
use of the following language: a-s #@o39
The OCCASION on which we meet excludes
all considerations of personal and partisan
advantage. This is no fitting season for po-,
litical intrigue and Vaccinations. What is
now demanded is the patriotism, the direct
ness, and the energy Of manhood. II iss
time for earnest men to speak and strike to.
gethcr Let no man be selected for Office
who is not worthy Of public confidence; and
when the contest comes at the polls, it is for
us and those we represent to pour in volley
of votes, which shall fall like a vulley Of bull
let's on al! who sympathize with rebellion.
| The hearts OF Union men should beat
pulse to pulse, until the national standard
again points heavenwnTd from each accus-
toned hight between the Potomac aud the
Gulf. The feeling OF every Democrat, Of
every Republican, should be that to which
Stephen A. Douglas gave uttcrance, in tho
hour in which his voice sunk to everlasting
silence" Our country irst-our country
last--our country now and forever T.