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Year: 1865

acceptable constitution TO Congress,
when our members are elected, we shall
bc admitted into the Union, and be re.
stored to the rights enjoy ed by our faith.
ers. But if we get up dissensions and
strifes among ourselves, or with the
military authorities, or if we fail to pre-.
sent to Congress such constitution as
we know the rational government will
demand Of us; under the directions Of
President johnson, we may remain in
our present condition for years to come,
and the military remain amongst US and
have the same control of our affairs that
they exercise to-day. 1t is not the
meeting of the Convention or its action
that can relieve us, but it is our restora.
ton to the national government through
the action of Congress.


Raleigh Standard.
Year: 1865

confidence and respect it is eminently
proper that social intercourse should Be
frank and unrestricted aR


The War Democracy, atleast, has
nothing to gain by opposing the pri,
'vilege offree suffrage in the South. If
the Southern people are to be permitted
to vote as they please, they will vote for
mel, identified with the Confederate
cause: If they are not to be accorded
the right ofchoice, they will vote for
those who control the bayonets. In
either case, the War Democrats may as
well give up the hope of welding a
political influence at the South. .is
,.,.g..g Ne,o York News...
Year: 1865

The question of State rights is
very unimportant compared with the
question of national security The
people of the United States have ex-
actly the same right to determine
upon what conditions the rebel
States shall be reorganized that they
had to prevent the secession of those
States from the Union. 1t is simple
folly to speak of any, part of the
country or any body OF citizens who
are lying under the disabilities con
sequent upon rebellion having any
Fright whatever to any share in the
government of the country except
upon the conditions which, in the
opinion Of the country, guarantee its
safety.


In the dispassionate and patriotic,
but, as it seems to Us, Illogical rea-
soning of many of our friends upon
Reorganization, they say that the duty
of the Government under existing
circumstances is, first, to adopt sure
measures to secure the obedience of
all citizens to the national Constitu-
ton, and, second, to preserve invio-
late the rights guaranteed to the
States by the national Constitution.
But how if the measures which the
country deems essential to the ma
tional security should require vio-
lation of such rights? Is the nation
to go constitutionally to destruction?
Are the nationsl rights of existence,
or the State rights in internal regu-
lation, to yieldp Or, with the expe-
rience Of the last four years, are we
to assume that there can be no real
collision between differing views OF
the limitations of State rights7 lai
According to the view we are con
sidering the State may have such q
Constitution as it lchooses, subject
only to the condition that it be re
public in form, IF then, in the alb
solute sense claimed, State always
exists, this Constitution is the fun
damental law, and an election held
under it is valid In that case Mr.
Clark and not Judge Sharkey is the
Governor of the State of Mississippi.
/ BY what constitutional authority,
then, according to this reasoning, is
Judge Sharkey sent to Mississippi
as Governor? Mr.. Clark was elected
by the voters under the State Con
stitntions which, by long sufferance,
lthe United States had allowed to be
Year: 1865

As is natural, the news of the +Hournful
tragedy at Washington aroused in every
manly heart feelings of the deepest indigna-
ton against the perpetrators and all those
who are suspected of sympathy with the
'horrid deed. Men of ordinary moderation
and prudence who are not easily induced
Ito make rash expressions, fairly gave them
selves up to their Incorporate feelings, and
.were almost ready to doubt the goodness of
IAN overruling Providence.


This is clearly not right. The utmost
moderation is demanded from every man
who does not want to see New Orleans
Ia scene of fire and blood. A small
spark at this moment would suffice to
'kindle a fire that might envelop the
.city. It is proper that men of all parties
control their feelings, and above all, refrain
from taking the law in their own hands.
The intense excitement will pass away in a


few days; the poignancy of feeling arising


from our great national af1iction will be snc-
.ceeded by more subdued regret and pop
Iular commotion may be averted. 1t is the
duty of man to act the part of man, and


not allow his excitable nature to get the bet


ter of his judgment.


There is really no occasion for any


extensive measures Of revenge here or


elsewhere. The sympathizers of the vile
sassassins, so far as our observation goes,
|are confined to a few fanatics, who
are entirely unworthy of the name of men,
and are not rated as rational beings. If
they deserve punishment, there is way to
bring them to it by the approved mode of
public justice We would again call attention
Ito the 81 cgestions contained in the commu-
Inication in another place, addressed "To
Southern Men" calling upon them to meet
and give a public and earnest expression of
their adherence of a deed that must shock
the feelings of the civilized world. 1t is
due to the high character of our friends that
some action of the kind proposed be taken.
Year: 1865

1.-THE means of procuring their port visit


from one of our men-of-war but from the
protection they might have been expected
Ito receive from the government that owns


them. They, however, like many other


|evil-disposed persons have had their brief
course of money making and apparent pros
|perity. The reaction has come and dearly
will they have to pay for their short season


|of triumph. 1t is considered doubtful


whether anything will be saFed out of the
Immense fortunes some of them made out
|of their rebel friends, as they are reported


Ito have spent their money with lavish
hand. They all believed the war would last
ten or fifteen years, and did everything in


their power to keep the rebel courage up to


the fighting point. Stagnation and decay


will soon succeed where so lately everything


was life and bustle. The immigrants will
|emigrate and the old business of now and


then wrecking d vessel, or sending off a
cargo or so of fruit will be resumed, when
Nassau will resume her former insignii-
|cance and normal poverty.
Year: 1865

The age of reason is dawning, and the


dark clouds of anarchy and strife are break


ing and fast passing away, to give place to
the star of Peace. Then the many indus
trial pursuits so long neglected will be re-
vived, and we will be again a united and
prosperous people.


When we review the past in all its terrible
deformities, and note the destruction of life
and property that this unholy war has en-
tailed upon a people that once were the
pride and glory of the earth, we cannot but
feel the wisdom of that divine hand that mas
|carried our glorious flag triumphantly
through the greatest struggle the earth ever
witnessed which has practically demon
strated that which will in future be an
axiom-a free government is the noblest
thing on earth and free people are fully
adequate to meet any emergency, and tri
sumphantly sustain the honor and integrity
Of their national flag Nobly have the peo-
pie done their duty through the trying
events of the past four years, as many hard
fought battle will testify.


Our sister States of the West may well be
proud of her noble sons. for they have
proved to all the world they are always
ready to leave the plow in the furrow to fly
to the defence Of their national honor and
there native land. They now return to the
more genial occupation Of tillers Of the soil
and long may they enjoy its sweets, undis
turbed by wars alafms.
Year: 1865

Welcome, natures gifted son, the statesman and the
The man that would not welcome him. his soul must


Ye men Of toll throughout the earth, you owe debt


Unto our statesman hero, Nathaniel Preatss Banks


Welcome from your Northern cline. New England
well may boast


Her statesmen, poets, heroes, great and goodlyi
Webster, Everett, Sumner. soar high in historic
ranks,
But deeply in the National heart is Major Gen Banks


Welcome to your Southern home, right welcomej
Where you haye labored long and we'll to make our
country free;
We bless the day that brought you here. Louisiana
to reclaim,
May laurels thioky you fall to crown your gorious
name
WELCOME to the eonqueror, Port Hudson's deeds
1 And blazon down the vista of everlasting time,
Not like the deeds OF yassaed Rome or even ancient
sOu- conquest are not slaves or gold but Christian
izing peace.
WELCOME the man of Arm resolves who never knew
Yet has heart that noby feels and does his best to
The gallant sons of freemen upon the tented field,
May their reward be victory and God their constant


shield.
Welcome the warm, kind hearted friend of all the,



Whose hopes and aims have always been slavery to-
erase
The only blot upon the shield of this enlightened,
land
with men like him to clear the way it could no onger
stand.
WELCOME the whose liberal views honor labors
right,
And with hand Of justice gives the black and
the white
A code Of laws, where they may work great and
glorious plan,
THAT draws them nearer the truth the noble rights
OF man.
Welcome the scholar and the man. whose nobleness]
of mind
And when the daily done around the social
board
He greets his friends with easy grace and frank and
open word
WELCOME the that dearly loves the sacred shrine
of home
|The joy of every manly heart-ts there he nds that
boon,
DOMESTIC bliss, confiding truth, each loving heart
enshrine
And children like the olive branch around the parent
twIne.
Welcome the lover of his country who answered toj
the call
That summoned out its legons to make foul treason


God grant that it may soon be crushed into obvions


night,
Then ali our stars will glorious shine with freedoms
RwV.
Year: 1865

RATHER DANGEROUS English papel
says there are twenty steam boilers undel
the floor Of the House of Parliament, many
working at high pressure and not tested a:
to their strength for years. Some careless
Guy Fawkes may some day innocently get
rid of the whole Parliament by sending them
into ffMs.sFr
Year: 1865

The poorest of the poor, among the
colored children, came to the Free Schools
On the morning after the dreadful news 81
the death Of Mr.. Lincoln, with bit 81
some black stuff tied on their arms, to show
their sense of the great loss to their people.


Surely never were people SO devoted and
90 grateful
Year: 1865

g. The brewers Of Pittsburg have got
into trouble with the Government H
arises from y difference Of opinion between
them ana the Collector Of Internal heV
enue. They return as tax one amount anO
he estimates what they owe at another rh'
breweries have stopped till the difference \
settled.
Year: 1865

A gentleman who had married a second
time indulged in recurring TOO often in con-
versa,ion 70 the beauties aud yirEes of his
first consort. He had however barely dis
cstnmou, enough to discover that the sub
jeci was not an agreeable one to his present
lady.


Excuse me, madam, said he. & can
not help expressing my regrets for The dear
Departed


Upon my honor" said the lady, 'I can
mos, heartily affirm that am as sincere a
mourner tor her as you can ben
Year: 1865

my life has been spent in endeayoring to es.
tablish and perpetuate the principles of free
government believe that the Government
in passing through its present peris, will set
tie, down upon principles consistent with pop
ular rights more permanent and enduring than
heretofore / must be permitted to say, if
understand the feelings of my own heart,
have long labored to ameliorate and elevate
the condition of the great mass ofthe Ameri-
can people Toll and honest advocacy of
the great principles of free government have
been my lot. The duties have been mine,-
Year: 1865

There is much difference in soil A gravel
ly soil can be treated with impunity. In some
sections plowing is done almost Immediately
after rain, and no injurious results seem to fol.
low. There is heavy grain-there are heavy
crops throughout the locality. Such soils are
of gravelly nature-commonl dark loan


But keep plow out of yellow soil generally,
when wet, even when sandy Time must be
given to yellow soil to drain and dry As to
clay it is simply destructive to plow it when
wet. 1t is making brick of.it 1t is lump
of grease when wet. And the hurt it receives
at one plowing will always last for years, not
withstanding the mellowing influence of win
ter. Frost will help, but not cure; it takes


many years to do that. We have had ample
demonstration of this. The ground will be
"hubby and the axe and FOUNDER will be of
little avail. So will the roller and harrow
They will only make smaller the Jumps which
are still lumps, still brick -bats--dead ground


Nothing grows in them, or but partially y
There may be some dry soil al the top, when
plowed or gravcaAnixed in, enough to support
shrimp vegetation but the rest is like so
much gravel-the hard little grains or baked
earth. Here then is delicate thing-the
proper time to plow clay soil To plow dry,
is to be equally reprobated; this will also pro-
duce Jumps, unless it is in the rich black loan
that will withstand pretty much the wet plow-
ing as we have noted above A soil Just right
will stand severe treatment Plow the deli
cate meagre soils, when neither wet nor y.
That is the best tine-that is the only time


You will then avoid the ill effects of the two
extremes. The ground will come up mellow,
if it has any mellow principal in it And no
time is so good as after rain in midsum-
mer---a day or two. +''8
Year: 1865

Hoes IN ORCuARns-A Cayuaga county
correspondent advises as follows in the Coun-
try Gentleman. .., -.-......


The true way for Eastern pig feeders, who
do not wish to pen up their swine, is to have
their pens communicate with the orchard-
Don't ring the pigs, but feed well, and just
let them root as they will This course will
manure your orchard and you are sure of a
good crop of appleA In hot weather the
shade is grateful to the swine besides the
great benefit to future crops, by having all the
wormy and curculio stung fruit picked up as
soon as it falls have followed this course
with swine and orchard for twenty five years,
and but one year failed in having an abund-
anee Of fruit If the orchard becomes too
weedy, plow and plant with early potatoes, or
some crop which natures early. Sow with
small grain next spring, seeding with clover
and orchard grass, harvesting grain by turn
ing in pigs; and If the pigs are fattened by
liberal feeding, without confinement in close
pen, the consumer will find it an improve
ment in the quality and favor of his pork,
Year: 1865

Yesterday morning Attorney General Speed
waited upon Hon. Andrew Johnson, Vice
President of the United States, and officially
informed him of the sudden and unexpected
decease of President Lincoln, and stated that
an early moment might be appointed for the
inauguration Of his successor. The following
is copy Of the communication referred to:
Year: 1865

PIETY AND PUTTY.-On Wednesday even
ing, 22d ult., j. Sella Martin, having been
recommended by several white clergymen,
and subscribed, of course, "a thousand dol
lars salary being the bait) to the Presby-
terian faith, was installed pastor Of Shiloh
Church. At the conclusion of the solemn ~
exercises, a merry-making was appropriately
had in the basement, to which the audience
were admitted on the payment of fifty cents
a head. We learn that this nice little catch
penny arrangement proved quite a success,
at which the clerical knave became so elated
that he attended meeting of an important
nature in Brooklyn on the following even
ing, and there disgusted the audience by an
exhibition Of his malicious spirit III an at
tack on this paper, in which he villited the
members Of the late State Convention by
the lying statement that his election to the
Presidency of the State League was intended
as an expression against this Journal
AflglO-Africdn.


We select the above as q sample OF the
folly of discord and malignity in newspapers
that should keep their pages free from such
business We, of the Black Republican
faith, offer such kind counsel to our erring
brethren as their cases need. We believe
that, in pursuing this strong course, we shall
secure the warm approval of all high
minded ana honest men among us. The
Anglo-African, and other papers engaged in
he holy work Of fr eedom, should not stoop
to trifes. If two men disagree, give them
time, and their better sense viii teach them
that they have that right, and that they
should enjoy it ike men. Take advice,
brethren.
Year: 1865

FREE TRADE WITH THE SOUTH.-The over
throw Of the rebellion is now q fixed fact,
and, as the Washington Chronicle says, the
dag cannot be distant when unrestricted
trade with the South viii begin. So soon
as the rebel armies shall have capitulated,
or been Overthrown, there will no longer
exist reason for restrictions upon trade
The system Of permits viii be abandoned


and every citizen viii be left free to 20 into
the South with his merchandise. The block
ade'win be raised, the railroads will be re-
paired, and thrift and enterprise viii take
the place of desolating war. The effect viii
be an immense increase in the demand for
the national currency. The population
which it will supply with medium Of ex-
change viii be augmented by several mil
lions, an active trade in cotton will spring
up, and the effect VIII be gradual decline
in gold, until resumption Of specie pay
ments will become practicable.


We deem il a matter of the utmost i'm
portance that the freedom of trade should
be established at the earliest day possible
which may be consistent with the idea of
Withholding supplies from the enemy. There
are interested parties who viii make great
outcry at these suggestions, because they
are armed with trade permits, by which
they expect to make fortunes out of the i'm
mediate pressing wants of the Southern
people. OF course, they viii see the strong
est military necessity for excluding COM
petition until the last farthing is extracted
from the Southern people Nothing but
necessity can justify the system of permits.
and, when that ceases, they should be aban-
doned. There can be no healthy trade with
the South while they are continued. They
serve to withhold from the misguided people
Of the South one of the best arguments in
favor Of a return to loyalty, and they at the
same tine obstruct the regular current of
trade, which is 10 essential to the prosperity
Of the loyal States.
Year: 1865

SECRETARY SEwARD.-Thc New York Tri
bune says Of Secretary Seward


The World, some days since, put forth the
untmely and maladroit suggestion that
Governor Stewards Withdrawal from the
Cabinet would facilitate and hasten the re-
turn OF the seeded States to the Union.
Apart from its irritating tendency in view of
the recent murderous attacks, we cannot be-
lieve this to be true. Governor Seward has
said and done nothing since he entered the
Cabinet to render himself specially obnox-
ious to the rebels, and his leaning toward
a generous policy Of forbearance and for
giveness, to any extent consistent with the
national integrity and honor is known in
all wellinformed circles. The revolted
South has certainly nothing to gain by Gov
ernor Stewards retirement from the Cabinet,
and it is now neither in position nor in the
MOOD to desire change whereby ii must
lose i'll reality in order 10 gam a petty sem
blance of triumph. We trust Governor Se-
ward, before retiring, may be able to inform
the Powers of Europe that the Union ia re-
stored and our country at peace.
Year: 1865

The New York Herald OF the Sd instant,
thus notices the mistakes committed by an
eX-correspondent Of that paper:


MALLORY, TIE REBEL SECRETARY OF THE
NAvY.-This distinguished indi vidual whose
occupation, like Othello's. has been gone fo1
some time, surrendered himself to Captain
Gibson, United States Navy, at Pensacola,
on the goth of April. We publish % sketch
of his career in another column. Fifteen
or eighteen years ago this Mallory was the
shipping news correspondent of the Herald
| at Key West. We paid him-we forget how
much but 1t was more than he ever re-
ceived from the Southern Confederacy'
for his services in the Cabinet, for we paid
him in good gold and the COnfederacy gave
him worthless shinplasters


Mallory left off writing us letters for
awhile and then began again. Shortly after
the reOpening of his correspondence we
discovered that he had been elected United
States Senator from Florida This was
about 1851. Upon hearing this fact we
Informed him that, in our opinion, his posi-
tlOn as Senator was incompatible with his
position on the Herald as an intelligent
and independent correspondent, and that
unless he resigned his Senatorship, we
should be obliged to dismiss him and employ
somebody else at Key West. The truth is, we
have tried several congressman and Sena-
tors, and find that they make very poor
journalists. They are never capable enough
nor Independent enough for the require
ments Of this paper.


The protection of the Herald being
thus Withdrawn from him, Mallory
went to the bad. Congress gave him a
place on the Naval Committee in con-
sideration of the naval knowledge he
had acquired as our correspondent, and
when the rebellion broke out jeff Davis
made him Secretary of the rebel navy.
His office has been almost Il sinecure;
but the pay has not been any larger
than the work. Now that he has surren-
dered himself, he win probably haveto stand
his trial for treason. When he is convicted
we hope that President Johnson will let
him off as lightly as possible; for, after all,
he is a gOOd-natured, innocent sort of per
son, whose original sin was his ignorance of
the fact that it is better to be a Herald cor
respondent than a Senator. This was the
source of al his woes. However, we can
not take MIN back 10 our employ. No man
who has betrayed his country can ever be
connected with this journal.
Year: 1865

Dark as the clouds of even,
Ranked in the western heaven
Waiting the breath that lifts
All the dread mass, and drifts
Tempest and falling brand
Over ruined land


So still and orderly,


Arm to arm, knee to knee
Waiting the great event.
Stands the black regiment.
Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet.
Bristling and firmly set.
Flashed with a purpose grand.
Long ere the sharp command
OF the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
~ Now" the fiag-sergcant cried,
q Though death and hell betide,
Let the whole nation see
If we are fit to be


Free in this land; or bound
Down, like the whining hound
Bound with red stripes pain
In our old chains again 7"
Oh! what q shout there went
From the black regiment
"Charge!n Trump and drum awoke;
Onward the bondmen broke;
Bayonet and saber-stroke
Vainly opposed their rush,
Through the wild battles crush.
With but one thought aHush
Driving their lords like chat,
In the ms mouths they laugk
Or, at -.4e slippery brands,
Leaping with open hands,
Down they tear man and horse,
Down in their awful course;
Trampling with bloody heel
Over the crashing steel,
All their eyes forward bent,
Rushed the black regiment
" Freedom !" their battle-cry-
= Freedom or leave to die"
Ah! and they meant the word;
Not as with us 'tis heard,
Not as mere party shout;
They gave their spirits out;
Trusted the end to God,
And on the CORY sod
Rolled in triumphant blood;
Glad TO strike one free blow,
Whether for veal or woe;
Glad to breathe one free breath,
Though on the lips of death.
Praying i'll vain
That they might fall again,
So they could once more see
That burst to liberty!
This was what a. Freedom" lent
TO the black regiment
Hundreds on hundreds fell;
But they are resting well.
ScOuTges and shackles strong
Never shall do them wrong
Oh, TO the living few,
Soldiers, be just and true!
Hail them as comrades tried;
Fight with them side by side;
Never, in field or tent.
Scorn the black regiment.
Year: 1865

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