Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1861-08-13

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A ad it la yet farther written, In protection or aatori and Bepretentatit in tae treeaom or bata hara, without whiA there can ba no lit- ijt w Tbat for aay tpeech or debate in either Ilonse rj ahall ot ba qaeetioned in aaj other place," Holding op the ahield ot the Constitution, and .ndinjc hare in the place and with tha manhood " a Bepreeentatie of the people, I propose to Tf. to dafi tha. ancient - freedom of speech ltd witJn Iheaa wallsj though with omewat ore, I trunt, of decency and discretion than . aoaaenmea beea exhibited here ; Sir, I do " . . . t ,. ) Tin . jeecvtioa a a ioreiit"a vv..v.-o..., - - A . I f.nnnlnei n4 -n oarer w-txe his re;in oa a irniuesa terpriae. ay poawoi ao.!! " t part, be indicated by my feit and by the iuluno-i aud tntrtiotMl watch I ma bbbju. it there are maay wetOioaa incident io ine ajid iti ipToaouuua, about vaicBi 1 Bare mawbatitoaay now Mc. Cbaitoiao, te rveict, to tb measaga fa as. e-eaaoas Una eirorlinHry lon oi ,08,000,000 an aoo-oXoeaHy ten tiaaea jrreat- tbma tha aoure pabiic fleDt, mate ana reari, tb does of the tteoluiiou in 1783, od four . m . i . i a.. . ..: U ihrae yecr a war arrm Ureal untain, in istz Sir. that saae CoeautuUoa which 1 agaia hold i, and to which C fc"ie tny whole heart and nay moat loyalty, oaas o Congress aloue the wee to worraw money ao to nx the purposes to Sic a it shall ha apptwd, and expressly uosits ia appraprMLtions to toe term of two years. kch Senator aod Represeutaure, therefore, .lb, anl aetore uoa ana tne country or ine ju' :e and wisdom and policy of the President's de and, aod wbeoter tbis liouse aball become a era u ca wheria to register the decrees of the xec-Uve, U will be high time to abo'ish it ut 1 have a right, I balieve, sir, to say that. pwerer gentlemen npon this side of the Cham r may differ fioally as to tba war, we are yet miy and inexorably united in one thing al least, d that in tha determination that our own rights d dignities and prWilejes as the Rpre4a ra ot tha people, shall be maintained in their irit and to the very letter. And be this as i t, 1 do know that there are some here present So are resoUed to assert sod exercise these Vhta," with becoming decency and moderation rtainly, but at the same time fully, freely, and every hsaard. 8ir, ii i so ancient and wise practice of the ngUsfc Commons, o precede all votes ot snpples V an inquiry into souses ana grievances, ana es- bcially luto any infractions or tne consmuiion hd tha laws by the executive. Let us follow ia aafa nracuce, We are how in the Commit e of the Whole on the state of the Union f and the exercise of.my right and my duty as a a . I epresentative, ana araiiing rajseu oi tne mn- de of debate aiiowea nert, i propose w consia- I- the present state of the nation, and supply ni- h aoma few ot tue many omissions oi me rresi- nt in the message before us. Sir. he bas uti- rtaken to STtre us loiormanon or rue stain oi te Union, as the Constitution requires him to do; hd it was bis duty, as an honest Executive; to aka that information full, impartial and com iiete, instead of Spreadiog before us a labored od lawyaxly viadicatioa is own course oi olky -a policy which has precipitated ns into , terrible and bloody revolution.' Lie admits the Hctt he admits tnatto-aay, wa ara in me m.a.n a reneral cfriX. wr not now a mere pel f .Insurrection, to ba euppressud in twenty days y a proclamation and a potse comiiatui of three tooth's militia. Sir. it baa been tha misfortone of the President osa tba beginning that he haa totally and whol r underestimated tba magnitude and character 'j t 1 . : : kvk ;.k L. k . nr rely ha never would have ventured upon the IBa rSTV-aUUa w , . a n ui.u ht uu v cmi, v. icked and - haxardoua experiment of -calling in million people to arms among tbm selves Uthoat tha eounael and authority of Congress Ink when at last ha found himself hemmed in by be) revolution, and this city in danger, as he de llarea. ad waked ap thus, as tha proclamation "r iK 15th of April prove him to have wk d (p to tha reality and significance of the move iat. why did he aot forthwith assemble Con Vaaa, and throw , himself npon the wisdom aai tatrktisa of the Representatives of tha States ld f tha people, instead of - usurping powers -blcbrtba CooatilatioB bas expressly conferred rirt as f ar. air and -power which i Congress ,ai bl littla while before repeatedly and m (t-atieallv rafjued to aleteiaa ,Bnl I ahall recur hSIri tba President, ia thia oeMage, baa ' vi' also to rlva a a summary of tha oaa anaer. causes Mueh bar led to thia present revolotioh.'. Pe mada'oat a caaa ba might, to my judgment Savtxniad out a aauoh stronger case agaios the Ceeeejioniits and disunion i$tt it tha South , All rha,'t TefJ wel1 " fr i goes, But the resident' does not go back far enongh, nor in h, rigb V directioa, - U a forgeU the still 'atroag. oasa agavast the abolitionists and disubiooists f tba North and West. Ba omiu to tell us that Wessloti and disunion bad a New England ori Via, and began ia lMsachateu ia 1804 at the ime of the Looislaoa purchase; were revived by ( rtford convention ia 1814, and oalminated, rii4h-wa with Great BriUin, ia sending ;mt-ioaer to Washington to settle tha terms Tor a peaceable aeparatlon of New England from thur Btalca oCb ;Uaioa Etalorgot Io remind a and the coaatry,1 tKaf ihU present 'revolatioa Wan forty- jeara ago io tha vebemens,persia-.at.-isflrinsivB- most irritating ad nnproyokaag Statioa ct Ut. Slavery ? question io the North and ,Wetf-fTOi t?j.tiaie or tne j-jraoun couifovenj, Vrtb aomi-ort laterrili,' flowa ta tia 'prexent fm'a?l.Bir.'lf '.hia: atatamenl of the case , be iba iWbola Irutb and wboHy'cprrecV - Demo-: raiio pany , ana every .. memcer ci di suxjb iuz party, too, and iu. oredeceuorx, have been 7Uty for sixty yearaof a njust:aaconsl!ta- ikoui, -wo, wiKa pucj io aaniiuisieiiu e a2lr of the Government. ' ' ' I , Bat. air, the PreiJent ignores, totally Hit vio- .jans ana long cobuodcu uciiukuuoi or slavery 'aai slave, holders, and eipeciallr sinca 183-I appeal' to 'JacksonV.besss far tba data and ?roof---untU at last a political anti-slavery organ ixc'.iaa. waa, farmed ia the. , II or lb. j and t West, whk-. co-naad to gaia atraogth year after year, 2 Trrio?tar it oaa oettreyed acxnaarped tne ' j i-'t'.i WL'ii party, and a.Hr obtained the c:--'.rcl of every Free State ia the Union, aod ' J;::il bimaelf; thraajV Free-Suu veta aloae, . v.- " - to the PrMidency of the 'Uaited : Statea. lie chooses to pass over the fact that the party to which he thus owes Us place and his present Bowerof mischiafc fa wholly1 and totally a sec tional organisation and as soch condemned by Washington, by Jeflrsoo, Webster and Clay, and by all tha foondders and preserver of tba Republic, and utterly Inconsistent with tba prta. ciples, or the peace, the stability or the existence even, of oar Federal system. Sir, there never wax an hour, from the organisation of this aeo ' tional party,: when it was not predicted by the wisest men and truest patriots, and when It ought not to have been known by every intelligent man in the country, that it most sooner or later, pre cipitaie a" revolution and a dissolution of . the Uuion. The President forgeU already that, oa the 4th of March, he declared PVor-of that party was "a law onto him," by which be meant to b governed in bis admioifitrauonf aod ret that platform anuoancao tbat wkereaa tneir were two separate ana aisiinct sibo ui wr and forms of civilisation in the two diCTsreot sections of the Union, yet that the entire rational domain, belonging in common to all the SUaiea, bou Id be taken, possed, and held by one section alone, aud consecrated to that kind of labor and form of civilisation aloue which prevailea in thai section which bj mere numerical superiority, had chosen the President, and wow baa, and fur aoma eara past has bad, a tnafority in the Senate, aa from the beginning of the Goveramenl it had al so iu tne ouse. ua omits, too, to ten tne coan- try and the world for be speaks, and and we all speak now, to the world and proeteritythat ha himself and his prime miuiaters, the Secretary of diate, declarer three yearS ago, and bar main tamed ever since, that there waa a irrepressible conflict" between tha two sections of this Union j that the Union could not eodere part slave and part free ; and tbat the whole power and influence of the FedvralGovernma.il must henceforth be pnt forth to circumscribe and bam in slavery within its existing limits. And, now, sir, how come it that the President has forgotten to remind as, also, that when the party thus committed to tha principle of deadly hate aud hostility to the slave insulations of the South, and the men who bad proclaimed the doc triue of the irrepressible cobfiict, and wLa, ia the dilemtwa or alternative of ibis conflict, were re solved that "the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana, rboutd altimately be tilled by fre labor," bad ob lamed power aBd place in the common Goveru-raut of the States, the South, except ona State, CJose fiisl to demand solemn constitutional guar antees for protection against tha abuse of the tremendous power and patronage and influence of the Federal Government, for the purpose of securing the great end of the scsiional conflict, before restorinjr a secession or revolution at all ? Did he not know how could be be ignorant that at the last session of Congress, every sub eiauiive proposition for adjustment and com pro mie, except that cflVrcd by the gentleman from Illinois, l.Mr. Ke.'logJ and we all know how that was received came from the South 7 8top a moment, and let ns sse. The committee of tbirtv-lhree was moved for in this House by a gentleman from Virginia, the second day Ot taa session, aiut recetyeq ine .yQte of every southern Representati ve present, except only the members from South Carolina, who declined to vote, in the Senate the committee of thirteen was moved for by a Senator from Ken-ncky, Mr. Powell, and received the silent ac quiescence of every soathrn Senator present. ibe Crittenden propositions, too, were moved al so by another Senator from Kentucky, 3Jr. Crittenden now a member ot this Hons: a man venerable for his years, loved for his virtues, dis. tingnishtd for his services, honored for his patri otism; lor lour-and-lorty years a senator, or. in other public oOice; devoted fiom the first hour of his manhood to the Union of these States; and who, though he himself proved bis courage fifty ve-rs ago upon tne baltkneld against Ibe tor- ign enemies of bis country, is now," thank God, still lor compromise at borne, to day. Forinnale only that he bas survived a Uuion and, 1 fear, a Constitution younger than himself. The Border State propositions also were pro jected by a gentleman from Maryland, not now a member ot this uouse, and presented by a gen tleman from Tennessee, (Air. Eiheridge,) now ; tbe Clerk of ibis House. And yet all these pro- positions, coming thus from tbe soutn, were sev erally and repeatedly rejected by the almost uni ted vote ot the Republican party- io the Senate and the House." The Crittenden , propositions, for which Mr. Davis, now President of the Coo federate Stales, and Mr. Toombs, bia Secretary of State, both declared in the Seuate that they would be satUSed, and fir which every southern Senator aud Representative voted, never, on any one occasion, received one solitary vote from the Republican party in either House. :. The Adams or Corwio amecdsaent, aocalled, reported from tbe committee of thirty-three, and the only substantive amendment proposed from tbe Republican side, was bnt a bare promise that Congress .should never be authorised to do what no saue man ever believed Congress would un dertake-to do abolish slavery ia iha States where it exists, and yet even tbie proposition, moderate as it was, and for which every souths ra member 1 present voted, except one, . was carried through this House by but one majority, after long and tedious delay, and with the utmost dif ficulty sixty-five Republican: members, with the resolute and determined gentlemen from Pennsylvania' Mr. bickman at their' bead, having voted against it and fought against it to the very last. . - And not this only, bnt, as a pari of the history of the last session, let toe remind yon that bills were Introduced into this House prepoeinr to ab olish aud cloaa np certain eootbem ports of entry; to authorixa tha President to blockade the southern coast; apd to call out the militia and accept the services of volunteers, not for three months merely, but without any limit as to either numbers or time, for the very purpose of enforcing the laws, collecting tha raven be, and protecting the pnblio property ; and were pressed vehementlv and earnestly ia this Honsa rtriar in the arrival ofthe President in this city, and were then though seven States bad seceded and set op a government oftheir owo, voted down, post poned, t&rosi asiae, or in son- oxoer -way aispos- ed of, sometimes br large tnsjorities in this House, till t - last Congress' adjourned w ithoat any action at all. Peace tkeh seemed to be the policy of all parties. . . - .V . r;. xi Tbns,sir, the case stood al Iwelt o'clock on the 4th of March, last, when, from the eastern portico of this Capitol, and ia the presence of twenty thousand of his countrymen, but envelop.-d in a cloud of soldiery whioh no other Ameri caXident ever saw. A.braha Lincola took the oata-pf nffiee toaappeftlka ConsUtatioa, and delivered bis inaugtrrnt--dessaga, I teg tat to say, not written ia the direct sad straightforward language whicbeceee -American President and an American stAtesman, and which was ex pected.f rom -h.e plaisv . bloat,.l baoat faa Of thi Northwest, bat with the forked toague aad crook ed counsel of, the' New" York politician, leaving Ihirty million of people in doubt whether it me sr. peace or' war .; But whatever ay have been the aecret; purpose, aud cnemlng of . 'laauguml. practically for tlx ereeks the policy of peace pr? vailed and ' ttCy were weaii of tsplness to the patriot: and tsroeperit' to the colry.i. s"iaes ravivedr' trade, "rttnrct'j conerce ''flourished. Nf er was there a f-irsr prospect bsTwre aay people.' Xecessioa la the past lang-i-ked, aad was spiritless and harmless; eeeessioa ia tie future was airested, and perished. By owwhalmia majorities, Virginia, Kentucky, North Caroline, Tennessee, ana Alts soon au oeeiareo tar tne ota Union; and every heart beat high with hope that io due course of time, and through faith and pa tienee and peace, and by ultimate and adequate compromise, evert State would be reetored to it. it is tree, indeed, sir, that the JXspnbJican party, wth great unamity and great earnest noes ana determination, had resolved against all compromise and conciliation. JJot, on. the other band, the whole Democratie party, and the whale Coo stitntional Union party, were equally resolved that there akoold be civil war a poo aoy pretext, and boUh eidee prepared foe an appeal to that great and final arbiter of all dispetes ia a free country the people. ; . . . ; Sir, I do not propose to inquire sow whether the President and bis Cabinet rre ncere and in earnest and meant really to persevere to tbe end in the policy of peace, or whether from the first they meant civil war, and only waited to gain time till they were fairly seated iu power, aad bad disposed, too, of that prodigious horde of spoil-men and office seekers, which name down at. first like aa avalanche npon them ? : Bat I do know that tbe people believed them sincere, and o'ordiafly ratified aud aproved of the polity of war, to a whirlwind of passioa ana madness, but calmly and soberly, and as tha result of their de liberate and most sol-can lodgment t and believ ing that civil war was absolute and eternal dis union, while secession was bat partial and, temporary, they cordially Indorsed also the pm posed evacuation of Sumter and tbe other forts and publio property within tba seceded Stales. Nor, sir, will I stop now toegptora the several claus es which either led to a change in the apparent policy or an early development -of the Admiuis tration. Jut mere are two wbioa I caauot paa by. - Ana ibe first of these was party necessity, or the clamors of poUUcians, and especially ot Cttrtaut wicked, reckless, aud ttupriiieipled conductor ot a parttsaa press. Tbe pice policy was cnhig out the Republican pwrty. - IJadwr thal policy, ir, it was mtlting away tike snow oeforw tbe sun. The general flection iu Rhode lalattd'aad Connecticut, and maiilciDal electiona in New York and in tUe Western duties, gave abundant evideuce that the 'people were resolved apow too maat s.pi and saiiofactory coostita tionat guarantees to the South as tbe price of a restoration ot the U nion. A nd thea it was, sir, that the long aud agonising howl of defeated and disappotuted poliuciaus came up before the Adiaiuuiraiioa. . The newspaper press teemed with appeals aud threats to the President. The mails groaned under the weight of letters de-inguding a change ot policy , white a secret eon-clave ot the Governors of Massachusetts, New. York, Ohio, aud other States, assembled here, promised uieu aud money ; to support the Presi. uut iu the irrepressible couflic. which they now invoke J. And ttius at waa, air, that the necessities ofa paty in the pauga of dissolution, in the very hour ana article of death, demandiog vigorous measures, wbicb could result to nothing Out civil war, renewed secession, aud absolute aud eternal disuioa, were preferred and hearkened to belore the peace and harinouy aud prosperit) of tbe whole cowy. " . , But . then, was aolher and yet 'strourer im pelling cause without whioh this horrid calamity Ot cm! war sntgbt hava been posipuued, aud,. perhaps, liuaily averwd. Uuo vt titvi . lat aud' worst acu oi . CougntaS, wbiuti, bora u ia bit- leriiess sua aurturad ia convuUiou, iiceially did those tnuiga which itougat not to have done, and ieU uuaou) those thing- ahieb it ought tuT have done, was t be passage of au ooscure, ill consider. ed, ill-digested, auu ubstmesmaalika high pro teciive lar ff act, cooi mouly known as tuU Moi- rili taruf. J ut about the same time, too, the Confederate Cuagresa at Montgomery adopted our old tariff of 1S57, which wa had just rejected to suake way for the Morrill act, taxing tuair rate ot : outies at five, fifteen, and twenty per cent, tower than ours. Tbe result was as inev itable as the laws ot trade are inexorab e. Trad and colli jjercaoe vapectaiiy the trade and commerco of tbe West bagau to look to the South. Turned out of their natural course years ago, by the ca.ials and railroads of Pennsylvania a d'-'New York, and diverted eastward at a heavy loss to the West, the j thraaieued now to resume their ancient and accustomed cbauuele the water-courses the Ohio aud the Mississippi. Aud political association aud union, it was wall! known, must soon loilow tba direction of interest j a "l ... - ", " w sua trsae. IDs Citr !; tork. tbe rraat commercial emporium of the Union, and the Northwest, the chief granary of the Union, began to clamor, now, ioudty for a repeal of iha pernicions and rutuons tariff. Threatened thus with tbe loss of both political power aud wealth, or the repeal of the tariff, and at last of both New Koglatid and Pennsylvania, too, the land of Peun, cradled "in peace demaoded now coercion and civil war, with all it horrors, as the price ot preserving either from destruction. Ay, sir, Pennsylvania, tha great keystoue of ibe arch of the Onion, was wilttug to lay the whole weight of ber iron upon that sacred arch, , and crush it beneath the load. The tubjugaiion oflha Swulb ay, sir, the subjugation ot tbe South I 1 am not talking to children or fools j for there is not a man in this House fit to be a Representative here who does not know last the' South: cannot be forced to yield obedience to your laws and authority agaia until yon have cououered and Sub jugated ber the subjugation of. tba Sooth,' aod me closing up oi ner ports, nrst Dj force, taj, war, and afterwards by the tariff Jaws, iu peace, was deliberately resolved upon by tbe East. d sir, when once this policy was begun, the selfsame motives of warning cammerce ahd threat and loss of . trade impelled tha great city bt New York, and bet merchants aad her politicians and her press, with here and there aa honorabta e caption, "to place herself ja the very front rank among tbe worsh i ppers of M oloch. M ucb , i n deed, of tbat outburst and uprising in tbe North, which followed the proclamation of the 'X 5th . of April, aa well, perhaps, as the proclamation itself, was called forth, not so much by the fall of Fort Sampter an event long anticipated as oy tne notion that tbe iosurreetion migbt.be crushed out in a few weeks, if not by display, cer tainly, at leMt, by the presence of an overwhelming foce. r . . . " .r. . . - .i . 'T ' These, sir, were the chief causes which, along with others, led to a change in the policy of the Administration, and instead of peaee, forced ns heading into ciyil war, with ail iu actumolated horrors.; ; ; .'i.'ii-.:-;--. I' ?'-. But whatever may bare been : the catties or tha taotives of the act It is certain thai there was a change in the policy whioh tha Adauois tration meant to adopV W which" yU least they led the country to believe they intended to por sne.'-T wflf notJ venture now to assert,' what may yet some day be made to appear, that tha tub. sequent acta of tha AdmiatratioB, aad it anor moa aod persistent infractiohs of the Conatitn. tion, it high-handed naorpations of .power, formed any part of a deliberata conspiracy to over- thro tha- pretehl- farm of -Federal reput..rsa governmeniV aad to establish a strong co nsoli4a ted royrnteht ia iU tend. -lToM sir; whatever their onrsosea . now. rather think that; ih the begianint rushed heedless! and tel!og Into the golf, belisri? that, the teat of wr was then far distant and diuicuit ot acee3, toe displsrof-vir-jr la reinfordas'Forti Cc:Ur and persa Ut twenty cays," wonli not, oa thaose haad, pracipitsie a crisis, while, npon tha otheri il would satisfy its own Ttola&l ra-a. 8d I m-mvtlWp 1 im tJ4iU VV1 . 7 W J w .-.w- -- militia vjpoq tha ric-f of the rtt gan, n l aLoye all, ia that axeseiiagiy tap jf aJ ciliasJ cca iseitofcoarj-tcf i1- lasar ant ClsUx la d- TU 333utr. thua reviva and rartoi tasUiBf' f-rttaia tf I the JBpnWica tity,., f. ,.si.v , .a can narwy , conceivw atr, ivmmcoi and bis adviser covld bo woilty of t' e exceed-, ing folly of expecting to carry oa a antral civil war by a m er e por coat ilaiu ofthree-eaoaths. militia. It may Oe. indeed,- mat, v. no wicged and most desperate caaaing, the Pres . -ent meant all this a era entering wedge to that which wna to rive the' oak aseoder or posail?le f s a test, to ienra 'the public sentiment of the orth and West. ; Bui, ' .however '.that may be, the rapid secession movements f Virginia, Kcrth Carol!- aa, Arkansas, and.Tenaiasee. UKirf with them, aa I bare sd, else hare,' four faii. oaa? aad a half of people,' imaeasa wealth, in tbauslible resourcta; fivsj band red thousand f ting aofo. aad ti errwees of WasJitmgon ao J zkse. atd bringing up. too, in oneeiugle day, the frontier from tba Gulf to the Ohio aad tha reteeae,10 gather with the abaadoo meat by the ewe' side, aad . the oeeapalioaC iby tbe . other, if Harper Ferry and f Noifoik navy-yard i ai the sudden gust .and "whirl wiod lof passioa 1a the) North, com p. lied ;- jtbet a suddaa waking 'np' cf the Preaideat and hi advisers to tbo-trfrhtfal sig- . a. . a a . Bucaney oi tna act wnica wey oaa eommrted in beedieasiy breakiag the vaso whic (Mprisoa fd tht'slottocridr -demon of clvtf raror'4a a prematura bat most rapid develbpiaeai of the oartng pot to loater and promote secession, arid then to aet ap a aew aad strong for oi of government ia the States which might, remaia ia the Unloa. .; But whatever' oat have beeo, tie fiir-josa. I assert here to-day, as a Representative, that every principal act of. tbe AdsDioistratioa since, uas oeao a gisiog usurpation of power. aa a palpable and dangerous vtoistioti of that vary Cobstitatioo wbick. -this civU war Js iWofaasodis waged to sepport.. Sir, I pass by tha: jproelaua- tiou of tbe tut b of April, sasneaeaiag the eihtia -not to ceiead thi capital i there.! not a Word about the eaplia! ist the proclamation, aad there was heo ho possible danger to ivVoet uy quar ter ; out to retake ana occupy torts 4 property a thousand aai lea oa awmsaoaing, 1 aaj, ihe militia to suppress -the ao-called uarrectioa. I do aot believe indeed, no sea believed m Feb ruary last, when Mr. Stan tba of Ohio, iatroducd his bill to enlarge the net Of lTitt jti ai that act ever coatemplated the case of a general' revolution, ad of resistance by an organised .Gp vein-meut. But ao' matter. - The uilitia thas call ed out, with' a shadow, at k ast, c-f aalhority, nod for a period el tending one mouth, after " the assembling of Congress, were ply suflcleat to protect . the capital against any force 'which was likely to be sent against it and the' eyeat has proved It- and ample onoeghr to saparesa the outbreak in Maryland. Every . ether princi pal act or the Admmiatantrae might very well have been postponed, until tbe meeusg , of Coo gress ; or, if the exigencies of the oocasioa' demanded it. Congress aboold forthwith have been assembled. What if two or three -tates shoe Id not baye bent represented,- aJthonh ayea .this need not hata happened ; but better Ihis. a thousand times, tbaa that the Constitetioa should be repeatedly and flagrantly violated, and public liberty and private right trampled 'under toot, Aa for Harper'a Ferryjtad tbe Norfolk navy-yard, they rather oerdjrL protection against the Administration,' by whose orders aaiUiooa of-property wire Waatonlr .desuoyed. which waa not ia the slightest danger from any quarter, at the data of the proclamation, y - But, sir. Congress waa not assembled at once, as Cos gress should . bSve: beea, aod the great question of civil war., snbmitted. to their deliberations. Tbe representatives of the State aad of tha people, were aot allowed the slightest voice in this the most momenton question over presented to any Government The" entire responsibility of tha whole work ' was boldly r assumed by the Executive, sod all the power tequtred for the purposes ia hand -were boldly nsarped from either the State or the people, or from the legislative department t wbiJe - iha voice of the judiciary, that last refng and hope of liberty. was turuea away irom wjtn contempt. ; . : Sir, tha right of blockade and I begin r with it is a beligerent right, Incident to a state of war, and it cannot be exercised aatil war haa beeu declared or recognised and Copgres alone can declare .or recognise jrar. But Con gress bad not declared-or recognised war.; On the contrary it bad bat little while before expressly, refased to declare it, or to arm tba pres ideal with the power to to ska it.' And tkna the President, in declaring, a. blockade of certain ports in the Slates of the South, and in applying to it tbe rules governing blockades as between independent Powers violated the. Consiitotion. But if, on the other hand, he meant to deal with these States as still is-, the Union, and Sub ject to Federal aalhority, then ha usurped a power which ; belong to : Congress aloaeih power to abolish and close mp pOrt of entry a power, too, which Congress had I also refased a few weeks before to exercise. ' And yei, without the repeal or abolition of ports of aatry, aay attempt by either Congress. Or the President to blockade these porta ia a violation of tha spirit, if not of the letter, of. thai claasO of tha J Constitution which declare that! "no preference shall be given by any regulation of eemmerce or revenue to the porta of oaa State.' over; those of another. .-' .,,.V( ,. .,,.; ' -...,....'-'-? -, - ... . Sir, upon this point 4 'do not speak, wlthoat the highest aathority. Itho very anidst of the South Carolina nullification; controversy,. ii was suggested that in :tbe , recess of Cos gress; and wiiboet a law ogovera his, tha Presideni; Andrew Jackson',' meaat to send down st fleet to Charleston andu-blockade the port IBat the barn snggeetion called forth. the. indignant-pro test of Daniel Webater himevlf tha ttrch jeneroy of nullification, and whoso brightest Isarels were wOei in three yeara conflict In the 8enate Cham bar with its ablest champions." Id an" address, i October, 1832, at Worcester Masaacbnaetts, before a National Republieaut convention-lt waa before the birth, or christening at least, .of tne wnig party the great expounder of the Constitution aaid : . '' . - " 'We are told sir, that tha Presi.enlwttt-tm-mediately employ tbe military force, and at once blockade Charleston I A military remedy, a remedy by direct beligerent operation, ha thns been suggested, and nothing else haa been suggested as tbe intended means of preserving- the Union. Sir, there is no little reatoa td.thiak ltat- this suggestion is true. We cannot be altogether; en-mtndf uT of the past,' and therefore we cannot be lt02ther j&pprelnlive for U' fatnre. For osa, air, I taise my eoic' Ufc-and against the nnanthorixed employment of toilitary. power, aad against aupersediog. thenth&rify,of the lawe, breUI ar'Sd force, under" . pfelense of putting down; onUilication.raJ TU Truident has pA thoritv to blockade X&arleslonJ c-b t . v oa at us other ead of te aven.e, aod the bao dackaons arooad - hi-.' do: t'ociiiia,' not Only .Charlsston hsrbcr, bol tie trie: sotllsra fcoait, three thoatnd mile la ext-rt, by o s!a- stroke of the pefl. ' V j Ths-Prtl!ht hsi nd i:t:.!ty WeipToy lllsrk: thewcrdi-. wi.uy.wres tut na ha ts c:y reauirei" JZUirtd tso Wdo bt law sel til tltfl tf. ri-i.es. l - 1 r'' -' - - - pis ddf is to csai, tie t ia exscVuJL-- ilis dutv is to soctiort ihe cLZ vu-torL'v.i- s . Aa ia tha Usrryrsxn case, forsoo-h : bol recnr so is&t acresus s His daty t if & ws ho V; Jsckson Jsciton,- sirthiigf-itifsckfohl did hot dr to do. it withoot aciienty, of Con-greas hot Ofar'Jsckson of toav, iha i:;t?a Jack. iha aiiitary rorce of ihe couauy, if necessary Sat their sepport stadexcatioatfffe-'a--Z tits a 5 iWjr t law era. with decision 6f . -.. ' tr .!' j". .-l -- ii inj, t vj an ingenious c evicts, those who resist the laws escape fiom the reach of .the. judicial aathority, as it is now provided to be ex-ercUed, it is paiirtly competent to CWcrera to make such new provision as the exigency of tha case. may demand. -, . . .4 ,i; . Treason, sir rank ; treason, a9 ,tbi to day And jaV thirty years ago, it was tree Uaion fatriotisas aad see ad coastitstioeal U w f Sir, prefer the wisdom aad stem fidelity to juicei. pie of the father - i'.i t . Such waa the voice of Webster, and each let me add, the voice, ia bis last great speech io the Senate, of the DoCQUta, who death . b land now w-oeroa. : . f Next after the bloekade, air, ia the cctalogae cf darinji executive tsrpatioas,cosne the proo-lamatioa of the id of May, and the orders of the-War and avy Departaeot in pursuance of it proctataauc- ana eeerpeUoa which would hat cost any Huglisa aovareign his head at any time within thsxJast two hundred years. Sir, the Constitution ool.oaly cotfins to : Congress the right to declare war, bat expressly provides that "VoograsS'tnot uta rrestdeatj shell hare power to raise and support armissV and to M to provide aad saaiazalBi a-avy.n ; Xa pursoa-ee of this aathority, Cougress. rears ego, had xed the nam. oer or octcers, aad ot tha reeimeots, of tha dif ferent hinds of service t and also too aomber of Sia, cicW,rine, and seamen which sfaooM cosBpoaa th iSavy.; Io only that, hat Ceo gress has) repeatedly, w thia the last tire years, eetaaed to increase the regular Army. -More than that still: taj'ebeaarj aad March last, the House ap oa save! el teat votes repeatedly and expressly refased to authorise .the Presides t to accept the aervice of volunteers for the -very purpose of pro a ? .! ' as: jf - - ' "g tne paouo property, entoretag the uws, aad cUtitig the revena. 'And yet the Presi- dent of hie owe mere will and authority, and iu violeueaof taw .Coastitution, has proceeded to uareaee, ana ha tacreased, the sUadieg Army by tweatyfive thoaaaad men j tbe Navy by eigh-teeo thosaad-. ad haa celled fur and accepted tb services of forty regiosenta of volunteers for three yeara,'namWriag oftj-i wo thoasand mee, and aaaking thus a grand army or military force raised by executive prociamalioa alone.' without eaoetioa of Coagrv?--, without warrant of law, and so direct violalioa of the Constitution and of his oath of ofice, of eights-five tboasaod soldiers ew- iisted for ihxeo and five years, and already to the seto. a.no yet the r resident new asks as to up-port the Aray which he ha tha raised t to rati fy his eserpal ions by a law tXit fado, and tku to asaka ourselves parties to anr owe dev. redation. Sad to his infractions af the Const it u- Uoa. Meanwhile, however, he has Ukea good care. ot only to enlist the mee, organise the regiment, and snuater tbeea Into service, but to provide ia advacce for a horde of forlorn, vera out, end brokea dawn politician of hi own party, by appoiating, either by himself or throarh the Governors of States, major general; brtga dier generals, colonels, lieateaaat eolol. ma- Jors, Oapiaias, lieutaaaats, adjutants, ooarter masters, and surgeons, am boot any limit, to oim-rrs, aod withaatso snach os oace saying to Coegress M By yoar leave, geaaemeB." UTIiauiui wim i, ww, BIMCI U US COB stitatioa, thia eeormoa asurpatioa of the meet dangeroas or all powers the power of the sword -other infracUoaa and asswmptioas wara'oaa . aad after pabiic liberty, private right aoon felL The privacy of the telegraph was iaveded ia the search after treason . and traitorai altboagh - it tarn oat, ignifiMtty eaoagh, that the only vie tim.se far, is ooo of the appointees and special pets Of tha Adminlsuraiioa. The telegraphic dispatches, preserved under every pled re of secret v for the protectida aad safety of the telegraph com paoies, were seised and carried awar without search warrant, without probable cause, without oalh, and without discription of the places to be a a . a a - . searcneo or or tne tnioga to be seised, and in plain violation of the right of the people to be secure ia their houses, persoaa, paper? mad effects, against unreasonable searches aad eeixures. Oaa step more, Sir, will bring epon as search and seisure of the pablio mails , and finally, aa in the worst days' of English oppressioaaa ia the times of the lioesells and tha Sydneye of English martyrdom of the drawers and secretaries of the private citizens though even thenti ty ranta had the grace to look to the forme of the law, and the execution-was judicial aarder, net mititarv slaaghter. Bat who shall aa itt it. future Tiberius of America shall have tha modesty of his Roman predecessora. la exteoaation of whose chafaoter it is wriUew by the great his-toriaa cvtrtU occUs,JussUqu eccUrm nms rpee- tavit, . "t . - . Sir, tha tights of property having War thus woutoaly violated, it Beaded bat a little sUetsh of asorpotraa to tavode tha sanctity of the peraoa aad a victim was aot long waatinr?.- A - private citlseo of Maryland, not subject to tha raise and articles of Oar not ia a cae arisiog in the land or navalforces, nor In the militia when in actual service u seised ih his own bouse in tbe dead boor of sight, not by any civil officer, aor upon any civil process, bat by a band of arsied soldiers, uuder tbe verbal orders of a military c.iief.- aad is ruthlessly tore from his wife aad his obildrea, and harried off 10 a forttets of the United 8tates and that fortress,- as if in fhockeryi the eery one whoee ramparta had floated that ster-epaa- gled banner Immortalised Ja song by th patriot prisoBer who, C- saw It folds gfe-mlng. a id the- wreck of battle, and Invoked lh blessiegs of Heavea opoo and prayed toai ii angut long wave--- " Ocr 4ki tind fftXiH OAdT tie Xone if CU ..... - ; :- - And, siiv when the highest "jadictal oCScer of tbejaod, tbe Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, npon whose shoulders, when the jodicisl ermine fell, it touched BOlhiog aot as spotless as iUeif, the aged; the venerable, the 'gentle aod pare minded Taney who hut si little while before had administered to the. President the" Oath to pre- serve the Constitution and to exeoote the laws, Issued, as by Uw it waa his swore doty to issue, the high perogatrre writ of aaoea corpus tbat great writ of right; that' main bulwark of person-al Uberty, -commanding the' body of the accused to bo brought before aim that justice might be done by daeooarseof law, and wUhoetdeaial or delay j the gates of tbe fortress, its cannon turned towards sod to plain sight of the city where the court sal,!and froOning frorS 'the ramparts, wers closed against the oHicer of the law, and the aswerjelnraed that the ccer incotamand has by the authority of tbe President suspended -the yrtiiofkdbea corput. And thns it is, "sir, that the Meased hi eversincewbeeh held prisoner without dffS.pr?css--f t-e Uwf without bail withotlt preatnt lry grand jury j withoot speedy, or public trill by a petit jury of his own Elate or district; or any trial at all j without jn-for i.tioh of ua c&tsre and csose of tS accu sation f iot;t t! j eonfrontei with tts wit-oer, einst t.;ci j .tritont'eo:jalory f rct'Sss to obtaia.'taf?8 ia t!s favor f and f ithcrtit tte a..nce of coanrtl fjr Li defense. And this is, Tjaf twiuied A eTcaa liberty? And tus'H Is, sir; tist Ltiie, ia r.tca, ia tla sever. tj'iLirj y--y rf ts HrzlY. tl t -es.t writ and sacority Df rr---tl fr?-oM v -k!r it ce-t tet. p?.til:ts a- C . ? ri .V of T - - " -1 f. x I t re 1 j-f f I tor . and to . 4a Lii ft foa vecsl judges sn i tyrt Viris, written in tha crest charter at r.ucroe-s by te iron bar --3 ti tsco ' ' . , " , . , . S-ord of the limet,- tiler homo, to the.lan- gageolChAa, worth all the classics recox- .i c ion wiiWHiw m aucw nwca .tin w m uj, as often as violated aad stolen Sway and finally and armly aecared at last by tbe great act ot Charles li, aad uaasfsrrsd thence to: oar own Coosiitntion aad Laws, has been wantonly aud ruihlesaly Ua ipletLin. the das Ay, sir, tHl great writ, bear i eg. by special command of Peril eat, those other ancouth but magic words, per statvtum fricesmm primo Canli sctidi rtyis, which no Hug lish Judge, no lvuglish minister, uo king or queen of Eagiaud, dare disobey j that writ Woogbt over by oar fathers Sad cherished by then s a ps-tceieaa ikberitaaeo of liberty, aa American Preeidat haa - cooiesnpuously set at defiaaee.- Nay,' more, he has ordered -us su&bs-dmate military chieta to aasx-ewO it at ihtir-cr-itioc Aud yet, after all this, he cooi y comes before this Jloese a a the Seaaie aed tha country, and pleads thai be is oeiy pr-4vibg a protectiag the Ceastitutioo aud etemaaSs aud expects of this Hocse aid of ibe Senate aad the oocatry their than a for his usurpations of poa or while outside of this Capitoi, his m-rmidoas are clamoring for imDeaehauent oi tie Cbii Justice, as engaged in a co-spuracy to break dowa t-o federal Uorarnmenf 1 ' St however mSck nccaasity-P-the trraot's plea -otay heorged la.exta-uatioa of the asorpa-tions aad i-Jrectio-a of the President ra rvgard to paUie liberty, there can he no soch apoWsy or defenre for his f n vasioas of private right. V) hat overranag necessity required the Violation of the sanctity of private property aud private confidence i tat great imUic danger demand ed the - rest aad iapriso-meat. wiuuout tr.al by common taw, t oaa single citixea. for aa act dooe weeks before, epealy. aad by the authority at tis state 7 it guitv of treason, was not the judicial power ample enough aud strong enough tor his conviction aad puuiehm ent7 What, then, was needed in his case, but the precedent under which other men, in other places, might become the victims of executive suspicion and displeas ure 7 As to the pretense, sir. that th President has tha ooaatttuuoaal right to suspend the writ of ha beas corpus, I will not waste time or breath m arguing it. The case i as plaia as words can snake rt. It is a legislative power t It is found only la the legislative article i it belongs to Con gress oolr to do it. Subordisaie officers have disobeyed it - Goeeral Wilkinson disobeyed it, hut he sent his prtaonara oa for judicial trial j Oeaeral Jacksoa.disob2yed it, aud was reprimanded by James Madison i but no President. bo body but congress, aver before assumed the right to suspend it. Aad, sir, that other pretense, of aeeeeeity, I repeat, cannot be allowed. It had ao exkrteace in laet. The Constilation cannot be preserved by violating it. It is an of fense to the intelligence of this House aad of the country, to pretend that all this, and the other gross and multiplied infractions of the Conslila tion aud usurpations of power were don by the President aud hia advisers out of pare love aod devot.oa to the Coastitetioa. - But if so, sir, thea they have but te step t urtbae to take, aud de clare, ta the language el Sir Boyle Roche ia the Insa Uoase ot Commons, that sach.is the depth of their attachment to it, that they sure prepared so give ww, Be-sty a part, out Ihe whole of the Coaauteuea, tprtm Of Uur remainder. And sir, if indeed this pretest of necessity b wlt foohded, thea let oi say, that s eauso. whi.h dc-mands the sacrifice of the Coeslitatioa and of the dearest security of property, liberty, and life, eea not be Jest, or at least il is not worth Urn sacri- floe...- - -' " - Sir, I any olliged to pass by, for wait of time, Other grave Sad dangerous infractions and usurpations of the Preaideat iaco the lrt of April. I only allude csaUy to the qusneriag of soldiers ia private houses without the eons at of ihe owners, aud without nay man ear having been prescribed by law to the censorship over the telegraph, and the infriogerneut repeatedly, in one or mere of the States, of the right of the dcO t1 to keep arms for their defease. Bat if all these things, I ask, have been done in the first two months after it cemaancemect of this war, and by men not military chieftains aad uoased to arbitrary power, what may we not expect to see done ia three years, and by the saccessful heroes of the fight f Sir, the power and rights of the States atei th people, Sr d of their Representatives, have been usurped the ssnclity of the private house and of private property has bean iaveded and the liberty of Ihe person Oaa toaly aod wickedly stricken down free speech, a a X a . a a e too, a as area rcpeatea eeaieo ana an this under the plea of aecessity. Sir, the rigbr of petition will follow Dext -nsyTit has been shaken and the freedom of ihe press will fall after it j and let me whisper ia your ear, there will be few to mourn over its loss, a u lets, indeed, its ancient bight aad hoaorable character shall be reecaed and redeemed from its present reckless mendacity aad degradation, Freedom of religion will yield too, at Last, amid the exeltaat shouts of ilionS, who have seen its holy temples defiled its white robes of a former innocence trampled how fender the collating hoofs of an ambitious and faithless or f-aaticai clergy. Meantime naliobkl banks, ban kr apt lews, a vast and permanent pablio debt, high tariff heavy direct taxation, enormbal eX-pearter, gigaaiic aud . stupeudeuS pecttlatibni anarchy first and a strong government afterwards no more Stste tines, no more State govefnihents, and a consolidated monarchy or Test -centralised military despotism mast all follow ia the history of the fatere, as ia the history of the 'ptist they have, eeataries ago, bee a written.., Sir, 1 have said nothing, aad have time to say nothing sow, j of the imnoe indebtedness and the tast expenditures which hav already aecrse-,-per of the folly Sad mia-aaaagcmeal of the war so far, aor of the atrocious sad shsmsless pecolations i and fraud! which have disgraced it in the State Governments and the Federal Governtcebt from the beginning. The averaging hour for all these ' will con e hereSfur, and I pasa them by no. . I have finished bow, tdr. Chairman, what I proposed to sayat this time upon the message of the Preside ct. lAs to my owe position in regard to this roost Unhappy civil war, I have only to say that I stahd to-day just where I stood npon tbe 4ib of March last- where the whole Demo cratic party, and the whole Constitutional Uaion ; party, and a vast majority, as. L believe Of the people of the United States stood too. I am for peace, speedy, immediate, honorable raxes, with all its bleasiogs,- Others may .have changed j I hae not, . I question not their.motves aor quarrel with their coarse. '. It is vain and fatile for thetb to question or le quarrel with mine. My defy shall ba discharged, calmly, firmly, quietly, and regardless of eonseqeenc-e. - Tba approvltig voice of a convcienco void of offense, and the approving judgement which shall follow, " after aoia time bo past, these,1 God help; tbe, are my tract and support. Sir, t have poke freely aad fearless! todayftnar to the apposite bank It Was steep aeveret as berhmo aa America IteprtietiUtive and an J l Amer cfta rit-tewt ooe-fintfr-resolfed. eomWIi what may, not to lose Lis owh constitutional 11b-trt:et, sor to SuxTenderJkU otrhl tfonstitotioival t'bta in the vain Vrt;to 'jpose .tbe-o rihis and USefties npoTi'ten. toil'ionS cfohwUling f". t I lave sp-kea eaiaeslly, too, but yet Bot as one mindrI-ef tbe o!emniijyof the shes which scrrcpni tr upo wj iJa'todsry. ifJ w' -i i Cofrrf rf the.Unitf J Ctatea essetrb I :i leri ott the ."-of Decembor, i8-0.jirtt . re-, moniha S-a. the Senile srascompoeed of etaty-. Seniors. itpre-.S! tlrt-',hre.t ef the Uaios,aaJ thai Uouseof iwo hundred and tl iitj tsrs s raeobers eai State beinr preseois NTJMBEll 17. . it waa a graua and aU.-a spectacle: the em- h,tad0r f lire and thirty sovereignUiee aud "f Uiirtyvoae miilieas LpeopW'ihe soighriea r public oa earth, in geaeral Congress assesubled.-la the Senate, tocv aod thi-Coue. were teas' Of th ablest aad most diatit.yeishad atateama-t of the coutlfy" mea whose a'aiaea Were fasutUar to the whole couuirv oo of thea destiaed to pal into hhtory. 'The new wiraf the Capitol had but just recent! . bru Suinhedre aii their gorgeoua mag nificeeee. and, except a fcaadredl marines at tee avy-yard, aot a aoidier was wiihia' forty miiea of Wabugton. Sir, the'C-agrees ol tbe United Statea' sneets here again to-oay ; Lt Lu chaag-d theecee-a.-losiead of Ihirty -four StttM t wai j-thrve ooly, one less than W- v .tabes forty yeare agn, are here or ia tbe other wing ol the Capitol, f orty-sux Senators ind ent hundred ai.d av-ty -three Ropteseatativetcoastitu twe onrrce ,f the now United Statea. A.dof ha, eigtit S-na- tors aad twenty for Xlc-preseetaiiws, fram four SUaiea only, lieger hare yet asdepnties fr.o tha great Soetb which, from the tegtitt'g of the OovernmeaVroi fribotd so much temorld tls policy, to build np its greatness, and to eitrol iu destinies. All the otber Statea of the Soouh are gocie. Twenty-two oVaatOrs and S'Xiy-te Represe atatives no forger answer to their oas-rsr The vscaut seats are. ioded". still here r and the e jcutcbeecs of their n-spective Suiee look dowa now solemnly arid sadly from ibeee vaulted c s ilia gs- Bat the Virginia of Wasbbatoe, aod Ilea ry, and Madison, ot Marshall and Jeffersou, of -taacolpb, and Alouroe, the birth piae of Clay, tbe mother of States and of Pmridext ; tt- Carolines of Pint-kney and Sumter and Marion, of CaJhcua and Macon ; atd Tennessee Le hon of Jscksso and other 8tste, too, once raoat loyal and true, are no longer herv. The voice aod footsteps of the great dead of the past two a?--of the Republic, linger still it may be in echo, along tbe stately corridors of this Capitol bat their descendanla from nearly one . half of. thST States of the Republic will e-et with Cs no more within thesO marhl halls. But io the parka end lawns, and Upoa tb bread avenuea ot thia spa cious city, seventy-thousand aoldiera hav supplied their places j and the morning dram-beat from a score bf encampments within sight of this beleaguered Ca'pitoU give melancholy warning to the representstives of ihe States and of the people, that am anjts uw ana SiLXXT. Sir, some y-ar hence, I would fain hope sooto raonlhs heoce, if I dare, the present generation will demand to kaow the cause of all this t and some ages hereafter Ike graud and impartial trf- Daoal of history will make aolecta and diKreaf inquest of tbe anthors of this terrible r-svlxti0.. FAN-TON - IIAEE. ".,! ircxPt-iT or l-MS srvourtica Tkeexplblts of Fannoa, the fsrseas lory part I- laa ef North Carollaa, would make a body ef Ucur inore Interesting than any tale ef fiction. : Re was n reckless fsllsw Wsody minded as the bounds of llayti. He soiOethnes slew the halpteea tu cold ' bleed -the coward ! But he had that iasueeuee tana and bearing! -r authority that kept bU peeaie' Wllhlo the. me las aud bounds Of his oent eespeUe-wlli. . He aad hfc party were one day reaitag Uiemselvee by n Spring, leeugtag bore and - on the crcea grass ia lbs shade of tha trees. . One ef his suboi-tuats, a big, strong maa. bad vat saad with him'. HI rage Lad been boiling ia Mm for several nays; aad o me fresh afraat caittrf - hU angr to become sngovernable be drew his swerd, and was resting with hie elbow ui Ik ground and his baud unoer hia bead. His d.v-et- ed followers were "ouoU biui, aad he beari ibe click ef thlr locks, as inyy cocked tbeir n.-MLrthlta alone !" crl. d Fannon In hi haro. quick leu. He laid aliti, cairn and -eif-ie,- wlla. hts Keen, uatx cyea nxed oa lb ring '!- tenahl, aa he made a tremendous ptaug at tits breast. But wbeh the stroke Same ftaebciswvr-ed away like a ahake, and the bd tn.u ptuagad his award: Into: the ground- Quick aa Jlrhtoia r'a-aoa's sharp blade paasd through hia figmuiio to rm K kits and lias 1 punish these who rttare-gard my auiherity !" and his eyes glowee d sparkled like a esrpeut The o aa seek to toe earth lorever. But FaS-en's mare is wrllUa at the heeler thfe- sheet; and she la the baroiae Of the prsat wrltV: log. Achules had hUautbtrsaad Balas and Pad-argO) Al-xander bad iiis BueephaJas; McDoiiaU badbis&ebm. - Faunon waa a man of blood,' Uko; them, and like them he bad hia larorlts ehar rr Shd an uoa 'a mare was worthy ef her e vwr, -sr area a belter man," He balled bar the Kao Dos. from her resemblance iu color te a deer. 'he a-ae a rare antmai Heal, powsrioi, iatslligeat, 0-is sen iamband her ewesr valued ber, I dam aay,- above kiig or country ot tba Hf of his trrlow man. She bore biro proudly and fearlessly tu t bloody sklrmUh or tbe quick rvlre.t. Wim ba"' stood in tbe silent smbnsh, the failhrsf brute wasr by his swiej ever ready . Io bear htm wiirtharsvar b would. .But Fanuoa lost his mare. - Dewa SO tne aat or the Little Rfrer, the i srtl-san aad some of hi followers one day easturedit. maa by the aamsof Hanter -a whig irom tba country abost Salisbury, N. C. This wa. suu l entcau-e for death, aud Fannon told th. maa he9 should hand hlnr. H-uter waa evidan tly a na Of limes; but what could he do, aloae auu dele oaa- less, with a dozen bitter enemies? It waa a caseb ef cdmpiets dasperatioa. Tha rope wasry.-, aad a sueng oak threw out lis ceuvoalaut Uaneh." ss, Fannon told him be might pray, for his tane:' waa coma. The poor toaa hneeleo aw. and ? seemed absbrbed iu his lat petition uv iK- hreu ef mercy- Kaatfea and bia Uraa eoo y, asf iha " treaty ni-fe steed among them, with the rmas ea-her neck. They began te. he impativat ior Uuir victim to tlose bis devotional exercise. Bol they soon dhvcoveraa mere ; ef veththan hetvea In-II outer's thooghUf for he suddenly spree ami faDOon's mare,- bo Wed his head down en her pew-', erfulueck, presses' his heels ea her flanks, and,", darted away like the wind. i- - 1 .The . tory rifle wsra Jevslad ia ; a " aoweatiI "Shoot high ! Shoot high V cried Fa u sou "save my mare !" ' Tbe slugs ail wbisilrd ever ' Hunter's back, aay One that told with aernsgf aim, which tore end batrad his sbonUJer .roaUfulw ly. He reeled on the saddle, aad ialtsiek at Heart jt but hope was before r-tnyj dtalh behind him, aal he nerved himself for the race; Oa hasped through woods and raviueej and brambles, dia thac pevrcnulmareeairy: Lira safely nd wlftly. li e snsmise were ia hot puna t. -Thy foileaed h 1 by the trail of blood from hia Vvlm ed ah- alder-Hs came to Utile River; there m bi ford; lh bank waa high,' aadndeip place io lbs Siream b- fo e him -Bat the foe came; he drew tbe Ia.-and clapped bia heels on ber siJeS, and tbe gallant : mare plonged recklessly lute th- atresia. -h . snorted Ut the Spray as she roa pawed the yWtl- . lug wste, and tossed ber beaaUfnl ms-s ahsve tiw ' surface, and aktruniad along like a wild swaa . Hunter turned her dewa stieaia, ia bejeer evaj- ' . Ing - ber parseers. aod she rared ana sh-a threagh thefiMblagwaiere of the sb. al, like lij-hi : tingln a stereo eload. .. r ' i But Fannoa was oa the trail, aad rush. wt . the bank with all the rough ener tb-U the lose f' kia -avorile coma inspire, uooiw xarnea u feet of perpendicular rock hat she plan tr as the shore et a beand ; and the a av ate- oar- way aw ever the latcminable forest cfplnee, straiglt aod swift as aa anew that adirable snare. - ; ! OS and ea eld the generoas brete bear bar toa-srs fosmaa.lIII lbs parsasrs were Is.t hopeless' behind.-Late ia the svetlcj Uanter rosiit-r : 5-iLbury,bad the slug ex traced freut his soo leer nd afler lin-rri r--. . sometlfne.wHh ;tbe v"' : , aud excitement fin-Jiy got well. And the r 1 't mare, he kept and dierULed tSI se . ng. .;.-:it. .) yf . i , mi ---- - 1 CALL aad see those ulos aat Rugate, Uf-.ve purchasing elsewhere, at the OW Cotp9t. is-.e.'SK C.u.TA.