Year: 1870


CONTINUED.


Notwithstanding we have stack
ed our guns and laid by our uniform,
feel that the battle is but half fought
yet"


why not? The insurgents have
all laid down their weapons and re-
turned peacefully TO their homes, have
they not? To what then do you re-
fer?" inquired Mrs. Lazelle of her
husband.


refer to the belligerents at home,
who are so seduetively undermining
the best government the world ever
saw"


Explain what you mean, husband,
l do not quite understand you"


al mean the sending of such men
as that infamous st. Clair to Wash
ington."


Has he been renominated ?"


"Not yet, but he will be. He Is
the most popular aspirant before the
opposition party"


"There surely can be no cOnven-
tion that would nominate him Why
he Is entirely dissipatedv


"That Is the principal ground on
which he bases his expectations of
success. He says that this is n neees.
sary qualification for a politician
nowadays, and boasts that he is con-
siderably above the general average
at Washington, for he says he never
drinks when there is any important
business before the house, while there
are good many older members than
himself that are partially intoxicated
all the time, both in the Senate and
in the House. He asked me this
morning for whom ] was going to
electioneer. told him for an honest
man If there was one left in the ma
tion."


" / am afraid we shall have a very
exciting campaign this fall, really
wish it was over"


II wish we were prepared for it
but our rusty, worn out political ma
ehinery Is not fit to carry US through
such an evertfu crisis. 1t sometimes
seems 70 me the South is not the only
portion ofcOuntry laid waste and made
desOlate by the war. If the men at
home instead of standing with blanch-
ed cheeks, streaming eyes, and cOun-
tenances aghast, watching with such
eager solicitude the result Of arms
abroad, had guarded a little more
carefully the interests at home, it
would. be much better with US to-day
than it is. Why intemperance has
run rampant with the public mind,
and If cotton is no longer king, we
have one more unfeeling in his stead.
Alcohol to-day holds the reins of this
government, and guides the ship of
State. And look at the men to whom
ii has intrusted the interests Of this
nation-and it is expected this fall to
send a large reinforcement to WASH
ington, fully committed to the whisky
interest"


"But can there not be something
done to arrest the progress Of this
evil ?n


"That question is more easily asked
than answered. That something
should be done is too evident TO need
demonstration. But how to carry
forward the work is q problem for
and statesmen to solve"


"Can it Eot be accomplished by
the people ?'


Excuse me, wife, but you talk as
one of the foolish women il you
expect svarice and appetite to let go
their hold upon this people by the
simple asking"


CHOW do you think the evil is to be
?''


"What is it that gives a man pow
er?p


lone thing is the ballot, and
way is by putting him into
Office"


"Well, sooner allow a child TO play
with unsheathed steel, or an insane
man to revel mid loaded musketry,
than place political power in the
hands of man who is the slave of
either appetite or mammon."


But we cannot exclude such men
from the ballot"


"No, certainly not; but L do wish
we might interpose some counteract-
ing influence to offset their votes and
prevent their election to Office"


You know our Democratic gov
srnment is founded upon the princi-
pie OF equality to all"


"Of course such men will be allow |
cd the franchise as long as they are 1
citizens, but the most hope |
less feature in the case is the fact that /
they form the preponderance of the |
voting element of this country"


Well, we must all be patient and I
and perhaps I'm the course /
Of time we shall see some Of the diff
,ulties obviated."


"Yes, and we may possibly be swal- /
owed up in the vortex of ruin while we 1
are waiting for the slow process Of
wrongs 70 right themselves. I tell |
you, wife, when I think Of our own /
narrow escape from the consequent |
wills of slavery, and since witnessing
he desolation wrought in the land as
/ recompense for that sin, have
earned to look doubtingly upon the
of continuing in evil that
yoOd may come. / feel that the in
1ineible Justice that has blotted out
he great sin Of slavery at the South,
will not longer wink at its counter
BART in the North, and that this will
De the next battle ground"


Now the war is over, people will
urn their attention more 70 this ques-
ion, and il will yet be amieably adj
usted In some way. Congress will
lrbitrate in the case, sooner than ever
zee the country again deluged in
llood.n


iThat is exactly what papa said
lbout secession, but it did not prove
IS he anticipated, y replied Mary COM
ng into the room just in time to hear
he last remark.


AT tell you that while the men who
make and execute our laws love this
lemon rum so well themselves, it is
equally vain for us 10 expect any thing
rom them. The sin lies with the
people, and God will hold US aceoun-
able for its eXtirpation. We must
I'd ourselves of this crime"


How do you think, Mr.. Lazelle,
his can be donep


HThat Is Just the question my wife
has been asking me, and ] tell her IL
S more easily asked than answered.
)ne thing is certain, we must either
make use of the means already placed
n our power, or we may justly expect
hat sin-ayenging God viii appoint
Iueh means as seem good in His
iight.n 4
HWelI, what means have we now ct
,ur seIamAnd7r !,