puts“ K » GAZ TE. . 13%.. __-_ ; -'_'_"._';;_'_ L__.;_:;__ I 11—6 ~ PU LIsHED EVERYTUE—SDA‘YMORNINGBY A. H. BYINGTON a 00., ‘ AT Two DOLLARS PER ANNUM, 1N AD VAN CE. g gratify Newspaper. ground to @0le altos amt gamma, Omani guttlligmo, Quantum, gumbo, gamma antacid. lion-mitthlialml in lean. NUMBER 789--NEW SERIES, NORWALK GAgETTE. OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING. A. B. BYLNGTON, J. B. ELLs, G. N. ELLS. I Advertising Rates. One Square, one insertion, $1 00 .. two insertions, 1 25 three insertions, 1 50 " one month, 1 75 " two months, 3 00 " tnree months, 4 00 “ six months, ’7 00 " one year—with paper 15 00 Two 8 uares, one year—with paper, 25 00 Each a ditional Square, per year, 8 00 One half column, one year, 30 00 One Column, one year, ‘ to 00 Fifteen lines, or 100 words,make a square. I raction- “ parts of a square charged for as a whole. Year y advertisements payable ist of January &July. Yearly advertisers restricted to the busmcss contem- plated at the time of contract. W These terms will be inflexibly adhered tom .' BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ._ _ ~-_._.l -- ‘ ,\_.-\,\;\.. ._ ‘ N.“ NA, . -. \~\,\ ‘1 Norwalk Pest Office. MAILS CLosE. West 7.30 A. M.—2.30 P. M. . East 8.30 A. M.——-5.00 P. M. Danbury do Norwalk Railroad 8.50 A. M. Weston, Bedding and Bedding Ridge, Tues- days, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 12 M. MAILS DUE. ' West 9.10 A. M.—6.C!. P. M. ‘ East 8.20 A. M.——3.30 P. M. . Danbury do Norwalk Railroad 8.00 A. M. POST OFFICE nouns. From 7.00 A. M. to 8.00 P. M. - CHARLES OLMSTEAD, P. M. N. A. MOSMAN, M. 1)., Homoeopathic Physician and Surgeon, Office over 0. J. Grumun’s Store, NORWALK, CONN. Office hours from 1 to 3 P. M. Dr. J. .1. WALLACE, HOM®0PATHIST, Office at Dr. Moody’s late Residence, WEST AVENUE, NOR WALK, CONN. Slate at Mr. Frank Nash’s Store, South Norwalk. . N e w ‘ HARDWARE 8:. PAINT STORE, M a i n S t r e e t, Opposite I. H. Campell’s Confectionery, MARVIN 8t PROWITT, Wholesale and retail Dealers in Hardware, Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang- - ings, Window Shades, &C. JAMES G. BARBOUR, SURGICAL AND MECHANICAL 'D E N T I S '1', O‘fice at Residence, East Avenue, Norwalk, Con necticut. Architecture. 1." E Y M . S '.l.' 0 N I: , ARCHITECT, Will furnish Plans, Specifications, Detail Drawings, and superintend the erection of public and private buildings. Office in Mar- ..ble Block, Chapel-st, New Haven, Ct. “52 Li E0. F. BELDEN, Norwalk, Conn.,Man- ufacturer of Tin, Copper, and Sheet 110.1 Ware; and dealer in Stoves, Ranges, Furnaces, Cutlery, Brittannia, Wooden and Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort- ment of House Keeping articles generally. a. s. Locnwoon, Prohionablo Draper -& Tailor, and GENTLEMEN7 S FURNISHING EMF ORIUM .'. NO. 3 Skiddy’s Block, Main-st, Norwalk, Ct S. E. OLMSTEAD a CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Gracerios, Flour, Feed, do, I 14 and 16 Main-st, Norwalk, Conn. “ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, 0f Hartford. Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual. (3th Capital $1,000,000 Insure against loss and damage by Fire on Terms adapted to the hazard,and consistent with the laws of compensation. GEORGE R. COWLES, Sole Agent lvfi For N orwalk and vicinity, DENTAL CARD. AN impression having gone abroad that the undersigned has relinquished his profession, this is to inform his friends and .he public that he still continues the practice of his profession at his 011 stand, foot of Main-st, Norwalk, where he will be happy to tender them his best services. In case of temporary absence,a skillful assistant will be found in attendance at the Office, ready and Wllllllg‘ to serve all that may call. . A. HILL, D. D. S. A. JACKSON 61. 330. No. 1 Gazette Building. “7 OULD. respectfully announce to the public and their old customers, that they have rcccntly'made extensive additions 1'; their stock of goods. We are now prepar- ed to Offer an assortment not to be surpassed in Fairfield County, in quality or price. We would call particular attention to our stock of Watches, which is lar er than ever before.— Wehave a tine lot of adies’ Swiss Watches, m gold cases, at prices varying from $20 to $75, which we can recommend as bein cor- rect tun? keepeps. 1flklso,chtlemen’s atch- 88,111 81 vcr anc go cases at an rice from 85 to $-00. We buy of thb best lufporters in New York, and altogether for cash so that our facilities for selling cheap could not be renter. Our stock of Jewelry Silver and later. Wares was never better than at pres- ent, and comprises all or the latest styles that we manufactured. A. JACKSON &, BRO, ; ISH POLES Travelinrr Baskets Baskets, Wdrk Baskef’s. Also W%I:(lE3 Ware in general, at . C. & E. K. LOCKWOOD & C0. “7 00D, all lengths, at S. E. OLMSTEAD do CO‘S \Vood Yard, for sale low Window Shades. . SPLEN DID Assortment of Window Shadesjust received and for sale by MARVIN & PROWITT. Nov. 3rd, 1862. Children’s Carriages, RICE ranging from $1.50 11 ward t P c. a E. K. LOOKwobD & ’cao. , i» ..._._. -- ~.. .. _ GAZETTE BUILDING, D. PRITCHAR D, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Residence next door to Ruggles’ Store, MAIN STREET, SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. Mrs. Tindall, in the new block BENNETT’S BUIIDING, No. 1’7 and 19 Main St., '“fILL call the attention of the public to her new and well selected assort- ment of MILLINEnY Goons, at a very small advance from former prices. Velvets very cheap for these times. Feathers, Ribbons, Flowers, &c., «be. She will give her atten- tion to the business at all hours Of the day and evening, up to the usual hours of clos- ing. All orders promptly filled. Ready made Bonnets on hand. lloomers trimmed in unique styles. 45 I New Goods P03. THE HOLIDAYS. OYS, China Mugs, Match Boxes, Motto Cups, Motto Mugs, Vases and Cologne Bottles. Also, Toy Tea Setts, China Tea Setts, plain and band, and a large assortmentof all kinds of Crocker '. Sold by E. W. 8.: H. H. SMITH, Phoenix Block. Whitney a. Beckwith, PHOTOGRAPHERS, N ORWALK, CONN. MBROTYPES, MELAINOTYPES, and PHOTOGRAPHS, plain, retouch- ed or colored, in the best style of the Art. Cartes de Visites in all styles. Stereoscopic Groups, Views of Private Residences and Grounds taken. A good assortment of Rosewood, Gilt and Passe Partout Frames, for Photographs and Cartcs de Visites. E. T. WHITNEY. R. A. BECKWITH. Roofing. HE subscriber is prepared to furnish par- ties building, with lVarrcn’s superior FELT AND GEMEN T ROOFING. This article of Roofing is in use upon the Norwalk Lock Company’s Building, and at Lounsbury, Bissell & Co’s, where it gives en- tire satisfaction, and is believed to be the cheapest as well as the best roofing in use.— All orders will receive prompt attention. tf38 * C. W. LOCKWOOD. N. B.-- All orders left at the store of A. Morehousc, Main street, will be promptly at- tended to, Inquiries freely answered. ~'War Claims. HE undersigned, through the agency of reliable friends in Washington, is re- pared to secure Bounty Money, Back ay, Pensions, and claims of all kinds against the Government. Charge for collecting from two to five per cent. No charge will be made for advice given in relation to claims, and no fee charged unless the claim is col- lected. JOSEPH W. WILSON. Aug. 22, 1862. am suntan-r sazoorv, Between Main and Broad Streets, NEW CANAAN, CONN. J. W. EDMONDS, Proprietor. OYSTERS served in any style, and for sale by the Quart or Gallon. Also, all kinds of FRUIT, UONFECTIONERY, and other REFRESH- MENTS. Private Supper Rooms for Small Parties. Also, in connection with, but in separate apartments, a first-class SHAVING AND HAIR DnEserG SALOON. ‘I'D CAPTAINS AND OWNERS of VESSELS. HE undersigned has taken the SHIP YARD and MARINE RAILWAY, (formerly owned by Clark & Ritch,) in Greenwich, Conn, where he intends to car- ry on all kinds of Ship Building and Repairing of Vessels. He keeps constantly on hand all kinds of Pamts and Oils, Timber of all kinds for the repair of vessels. SHIP SMITH WORK done in the best manner, and with dispatch, on as favorable terms as any other marine railway in the country. 24 E. M. MERRI'I‘T. NEW FURNISHING STORE, IN JAMES’ NEW BUILDING, Water Street, Norwalk. HAVE at my Store in Norwalk the largest assortment of . Household Furniture in this county, consisting of Bureaus of all kinds, Lounges, Sofas, Tete-a—Tetes, Card "Tables, Marble top pier Tables and Center Tables, Wash Stands, . EXI ENSI 01V TABLES, CHAIRS and ROCKERS of all kinds, Looking Glasses, 'Picture Frames, and everything else in the Furniture line cheap for Cash. Repairing, done promptly and by experienced workmen. Undertaking, I have on hand .a large assortment of COFFINS, of the best materials, and will furnish shrouds, carriages, hearse, and every- thing necessary for the burial of the. dead, cheaper than can be obtained elsewhere. I have as geod a Hearse as there is in the county; and will attend Funerals in neigh- boring towns, without extra char e. ELBERT RA MOND. N orwalk, May 1st, 1862. 44 . Splendid Attractions FOR THE HOLIDAYS. HE Firm of KN APP A5 LYNES would inform their old friends and pat- rons that they have made an extensive addi- tion to their stock of DRUGS, MEDICINEs, PERFUMERY, PATENT MEDICINEs, FLAVOR- ING EXTRACTS, POMADES, and other articles usually found in a First-Class Drug Store, and are prepared to furnish anything in their line of business at the lowest posaiblc rates. Flavoring Extracts, Of the finest quality, constantly on hand; among which are to be found Vanilla, Lem- on, Almond, Rosc, Peach, Celery, Raspberry, Strawberry, Pineapple, Jamaica Ginger, &c. Also,a splendid assortment of LUBIN’s, and KNAI’P & LYNEs’ HANDKERCHIEF EXTRACTS and COLOGNES. Also, a superior quality of Hair Oils and Pomadcs. 4 VERY BODY wants the Tax Pay. er’s Manual, containing an the items of Taxation, the mode of proceeding, and the duties of the Officers, at SELLECK’S. Clothing neatly Cleaned and Repaired. RS. ANN E. WOOD would inform the citizens of N orwalk, that she still con- tinues to renovate old garments; will clean, alter, repair, brighten, and restore the col- lars, and make them look all most equal to new garments. . , 44tt‘ Over Bebee’s Drug Store. . QNVUS‘VQ‘: .. - ass [From the Atlantic Monrthly for March.] _ “ghoose You this Day Whom ' You Will Serve.” BY 0. W. HOLMES. Yes, tyrants, you hate us—,;nd fear while you hate The self-ruling, chain-breaking, throneshaking State! The night-birds dread morning,—your instinct is true, The day-star of Freedom brings midnight for you ! Why plead with the deaf for the cause of mankind? The owl boats at noon that the eagle is blind! We ask not your reasons,-—’twere wasting our time, Our life is a menace, our welfare a crime! We have battles to fight, we have foes to subdue,— Time waits not for us, and we wait not for you! The mower mows on. though the adder may writhe And the copper-head coil round the blade bf his sythe! “ No sides in this quarrel,” your statesmen may urge, Of school-house and wages with slave-pen and scourge! No sides in thc quarrel proclaim it as well To the angels that fight with the legions of hell! They knee! in God’s temple, the North and the South, With blood on each weapon, and prayers in each month, / Whose cry shall be answered? Ye heavens, attend The lords of the lash as their voices ascend ! “ 0 Lord, we are shaped in the image of Thee,— Smite down the base millions that claim to be free, And lend thy strong arm to the soft-handed race Whocat not their bread in the sweat of their face!” So pleads the proud planter. What echoes are these 1’ The bay of his bloodhound is borne on the breeze, And, lost in the shriek of his victim's despair, His voice dies unheard. Hear the Puritan‘s prayer! “ 0 Lord, that did’st smother mankind in thy flood, The sun is as sackcloth, the moon is as blood, The stars fall to earth as untimely are cast The figs from the fig-tree that shakes in the blast! All nations, all tribes in whose nostrils is breath, Stand gazing at sin as she travels with death! Lord, Strangle the monster that struggles in birth, 0r mock us no more with thy ‘ Kingdom on Earth!‘ If Ammou and Noah must reign in the land Thou gayest Thine Israel, fresh from Thy hand. Call Baal and Ashtsroth out of their graves To be the new gods for the empire of slaves l” Whose God will ye serve, 0 ye rulers of men 2 Will ye build you new shrines in the slavebreoder's den ? Or how with the children of light, as they call On the Judge of the Earth and the Farther of All ? Choose wisely, choose quickly, for time moves space Each day is an age in the life of our race ! Lord, lead them in love, ere they hasten in fear From the fast-rising flood that shall girdle the sphere! o‘.>. Peace without Liberty. [Written by Mus. Bnownmu for Italy, but fitting To America now.] Peace, peace, peace, do you say ? What! with the enemy’s guns in our ears, With the country‘s wrongs not rendered back. What ! while Austria stands at bay In Mantua, and o’er Venice bears The cursed flag of yellow and black? Peace, peace, peace, do you say 2 And this the Minciot Where’s the fleet, And where's the sea 7 Are we all blind Or mad with the blood shed yesterday? Ignoring Italy under our feet, And seeing things before behind 9 Peace, peace, peace, do you say 2 What ! uncontested, undenicd!’ Because we triumph we succumb? A pair of emperors stand in our way, (One of whom is a man besidc,) To Sign and seal our cannons dumb. Peace, peace, is still your word. We say you lie then—that is plain ; There is no peacemnd shall be none. Our very dead would cry “ absurd!" And clamor that they died in vain, And whine to come back to the sun. Hush l—more reverence for the dead! They’ve done the most for Italy, Evermore sihce catch was fair. Now would that 'we had died instead, Still dreaming peace ment liberty, And did not, could not mean despair. Peace, did you say? Yes, peace in truth! But such a peace as the car can achieve ’Twixt the tiger’s spring and the crunch of the ’Twixt the dying atheist’s negative, [tooth, And God’s face—waiting, after all. .<.>. “ God over All.” BY FRANCII L. KEBLIE. God in the sunshine, and God in the storm, God in the night~time and God in the morn ; God ever near us to hear when we call, God ’nenth the star-gems, and God over all. God in the wild winds and God in the breeze, God in the flowers and God in the trees ; God ever ready to watch lest we fall, God ”south the Heavens, and God over all. God in the star-gems and God in the sky, God in the cloudlets that flutter on high; God in the bridal-veil, God in the pull, God of the lowly and God over all. God in the sunlight and God in the shade, God in each glory Ills goodness hath made ; God in the humble cot and marble hull. God of the needy and God over over all. God on the mountain and God in the vale, God in the gentle laugh, God in the wall, God in the stream and the dark waterfall, God everlasting. and God over 811. God in the peace-time and God in the war, God in the battles that echo afar, God of the good, and the bad if they call, God so forgiving though God over all. God in the lightning and God in the rain. God in the tempest again and again, God in each sorrow He sufi‘ers to fall, God of the earth-worm and God over all, .‘.>. WA gang of boys, who have been selling old iron to a blacksmith in Pitts- field, brought a sack of the aged ore to his shop, one day last week, and took a half a cent a pound for the 120 pounds it \weighed. They went of a little quicker than common, which aroused the suspi- cions of purchaser, who straightwith pro- ceeded to examine the sack. As the mouth of the sack was opened, a twelve year oldster jumped out and put for his companions. The blacksmith had bought a boy, and the few iron scraps which ac- companied him to make a rattle, at half a centa pound. Iron in the pig is fre- quently an article of trade; but this is the first instance we recollect of its being sold in the boy. .<.>- [3.The United States minister to Ja- pan, Robert H. Pruyn, lately of Albany, has sent home $190,000 in gold coin to purchase two war steamers for the Jap- anese government. Thurlow Weed has the money, and he and Seward are go- ing to see to the spending of it. N ORWALK, C For the Gazette. Is Slavery alnivine Institution? Before answering this question, we will ask another question. Is War a divine institution ? Is it sanctioned by the Bi- ble ? We answer, it is not, except as a punishment for crime. The Almighty has sometimes made use of one nation as his “ sword” to punish another nation for their wickedness. St. James says, chap. iv., 1st, “ From whence comes war, and fightings among you ? Come they not hence even of your lusts that was in your minds.” War then originates only in the evil passion of the heart. It is contrary to all the designs of God to mankind. His kingdom is designed to spread peace and harmony all over the world. We feel safe in saying then that war is a curse, and never has the Divine suction except as a punishment for sin. If all mankind were right, there would be no war. We will now come to the question, Does'the Bible sanction slavery? We answer—we believe that it does not, ex- cept as a punishment for crime. We think that Slavery has existed, 1st as a punish- ment for crime; 2nd, as a retaliation; 3d, by an unwarrantable usurpation of power. As a punishment for crime, see Genesis ix, 23 : “ New therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being boudmen.” The Gib- eonites for their lying and deception, were punished with slavery as a retaliation. See Isa. xiv, 2nd. “ They shall take them captives, whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors,” " and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids.” It is well known by those who are ac- quainted with the subject, that the Jews, (as well as other nations at that time) made slaves of their captives as a retali- ation for their former oppression, and there is no doubt that these captives of other nations were the slaves which the Jews were permitted to hold at that time, and it is probable that it eventua- ted in their freedom; for there is no evi- dence that the Jews ever sold a slave, and it is certain that they we'be always prohibited from making slaves from their own people ; ind for doing this contrary to the strictest , prohibition of the A!- mighty, they were punished with the Babylonian captivity—see J eremiab, 34th chapter. As an unwarrantable usurpation of pOWer—for an example—the Jervs were reduced to slavery by the Egyptians. But did God institute or approve of this ? Hear what he says to Moses, “ I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and I am come down to deliver them.” Come down to deliver them from one of His own institutions! What an absurdity ? And he did deliv- er them, although for mercinary purposes they held the Israelites with such a tena- cious grasp that nothing but an over- whelming destruction of the Egyptians could procure their emancipation. The Bible doctrine is—“ He that steal- eth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put- to death.” Ex. xx, 16. If a man steals a horse, the owner would have a rlght to claim him wherever he could find him, although he might have been sold again and again. Now we know that American slavery had much of its origin in man stealing We heard an African say, he could re- member wheu he was a little boy and was playing in the brook in Africa. “ Dey come ’long, pick up an put under am an carry off jis like goose.” God says—“ all souls are mine.” He that steals a man then, steals God’s preperty, and it is an usurpation for man to claim and hold that property which belongs to God, and no man has a right to claim the labor of another man without re- muneration, because no man has a better natural right to reduce another man to slavery than the other man would have to reduce the former to slavery if he had the power. The Bible says—“ Woe unto him that buildeth his home by unrigbt- eousness, and his chambers by wrong, that useth his neighbors’ service without wages, and giveth him not for his work.” Jeremiah xxii, 13. But does the New Testament justify slavery, or prove that it is a divine insti- tution ? We see no satisfactory proof of it, But did not slavery exist at the time of our Saviour and his Apostles? We admit that it did. But slavery was con- nected with civil institutions, and Christ and his Apostles did not interfere with civil governments. -Christ says—“ My kingdom is not of this world.” Therefore, the Gospel was preached to the people under those governments_as they found them, without attempting to change those governments any farther than the Gospel was calculated to do by its own influence. But does not St. Paul justify slavery? Ana—There is not sufficient proof that he does ; but he at least indirectly disap- proves of it. How? By sending one sinner back, not as a servant, but as a brother beloved. A brother is an equal, but a slave is not an equal. St Paul says—“Receive him as my self.” But he could not receive St. Paul as a slave. Again he says—“ Ye are bought with a price—Lbs not ye the servants of men.” Again—“But if thou mayest be made -e.‘ .— .- ml '1 finance it rather.” But doesgot St. ONN., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1863. Paul advise slaves not to submit volunta- rily to what is claimed to be a “divine institution 1’" He certainly does, and yet the time has been when, if a person should have expressed this sentiment in some places in the United States, he would have done so at the risk of his life. We conclude therefore that slavery is not a divine institution, and is not sanctioned by the Bible, but originated somewhere In the regions of Pluto.‘ And if those who claim slavery to be a Bible doctri nc should ever find themselves in such cir- cumstances, we presume they would feel very little scruple in improving the first opportunity of escape ; their faith in the divine institution notwithstanding. SOUTH N ORWAIJC. M. W. o-n‘Q-» Why the North Cannot Consent to Disunion. [From a late number of The Revue Nation- aloof Paris we translate, says the Tribune, under the above title, a contribution of the highest merit from the pen of M. Edouard Laboulaye, a member of the Institute and a Professor of the College of France. ] The civil war which, for two years past, has been dividing and ruining the United States, has its counter-blow in Eu- rope. The cotton famine causes great sufi‘ering ; the operatives of Rouen and Mulhausen are not less sorely tried than the spinners and weavers of Laucashire ; entire populations are reduced to mendi- caucy. and to pass the Winter they have no other resource, no other hope, than private charity and the soccer of the State. Amid so cruel a crisis, and suf- ferings so little merited, it is quite natu- ral that public opinion should grow res- tive in Europe, and bitterly reproach the ambition of those who thus prolong a fratricidal war. Peace in America,"peace at any price, is the cry of thousands among us who are beset by hunger—iu‘ nocent victims that they are of the pas- sions and resentments that are steeping the United States in blood. These complaints are but too Well foun- ded, The world to day is united in one compact, and peace is a condition of ex- istence for modern nations that live by in- dustrial pursuits; but, unfortunately, if it be easy to indicate the remedy, it is almost impossible to apply it. Up to the present moment, it is from» the war itself only that we can expect the termination of the war. To throw herself into the contest and impose a truce by force of arms would be an enterprise in which Eu- rope would exhaust her strength—and to what purpose ? As Mr. Cobdeu has cor- rectly said, it would cost less to feed with game and champagne the operatives who hfii’rb been ruined by the American crisis. To 0391' our friendly mediation, at this time, is to expose ourselves to a refusal, if not even to eanpcrate one of the par- ties and push it to extreme measures ; in fine, it is to diminish our chances of hav- ing our mediation accepted at a. favora- ble moment. We are then reduced to the necessity of remaining spectators of a deplorable war, that causes us infinite evils ; we are reduced to the necessity of offering up our prayers that exhaustion and destitutiou may at length appease these infuriate antagonists, and compel them to accept reunion or separation. A sad position, undoubtedly, but one which has at all times‘beeu that of neutrals, and from which one cannot emerge without rushing into unknown dangers. If we have not the right to interfere we have at least, the right to complain, and to inquire for ourselves who are the really guilty parties in this war that strikes us too. The opinion of Europe amounts to something. It can, better than arms, precipitate events, and lead us back to peace. Unfortunately, for two years past, public opinion, led astray, has been upon the wrong track, and in taking the wrong side, prolongs resistance, instead of cau- sing it to cease. In England and in France the South has found numerous able advocates ; its cause has been put forward as the cause of justice and liberty. The right offsepa- ration has been proclaimed, and men have not recoiled from an apology for Slavery. Today, these arguments are begiuiug to wear out. Thanks to certain publicists who care nothing for humanity; thanks especially to M. de Gasparin, light has dawned, and we know what to think of the origin and character of the Rebellion. To every candid observer, it is evident that all the wrtug is on the Southern side. It is not necessary to be a Moutesquien in order to comprehend that a party whom nothing threatens, and who, through either ambition or pride, breaks the National Union and tears its country in two, has no right to the sym- pathy of Frenchmen. As for the canon- ization of Slavery, that is a work that must be left to the spokesman of the South. All the wit and intellect iu the world cannot sustain that fallen cause. Had the Confederates a thousand rea- sons for complaint and revolt, there will ever remain upon their Rebellion an in- delible stain : no Christian, no liberal, will ever interest himself for men who, in the broad light of the nineteenth centu- ry, boldly avow their desire to extend and perpetuate Slavery It may still be al- lowable to the planters to listen to theo- ries that have intoxicated and destroyed them, but never can such s0phisms cross the ocean. The advocates of the South have rendered her a fatal service. They have made her believe that Europe, eu- lightened or seduced, would take her part, and would, one day, cast into the scales something more than sterile good wishes. The illusion has been kept up, and still keeps up resistance in the South; it prolongs the war and our sufi‘erings. lf, from the very first day, as the North had a right to expect, the friends of Lib- erty had pronounced boldly against the policy of Slavery; If the partisans of peace upon the high seas, if the defen- ders of the rightsof neutrals, ha'd spo- ken in favor of the Union, and had re- pelled a seperation that can profit En- gland only, it is probable that the South would have rushed with less rashuess into a course without visible issue. Should the South notwithstanding the courage and devotion of her soldiers,und the skill of her Generals, fail in an enterprise which, in my opinion, cannot be to greatly blamed, let those take it to heart who have had so poor an opinion of Europe as to think VOLUME XLVIuNUMEJE =8. here to a policy against which patriotism protests, and which the Gospel and hu- manity alike condemn. “Be it so 1” some may exclaim. “Ad- mit that all the wrong is on the South- ern side, but, still the South desires to withdraw ; she cannot live with the peo- ple of the North. The very war itself, no matter what its origin, is a new cause for disunion. By what right can twenty milions of men compel ten millions of their fellow-citizens* to continue a detestcd alliance, to respect a con- tract that they desire to break at any price? Is it-possible to imagine that, af- ter two or three years of fighting and of suffering, the conquerors and the conquer- ed will live together '2 Can a country two or three times the size of France be sub- jugated? Will there not be blood be- tween the parties? Separation may be a misfortune, but that misfortune is now ir- reparable. Admitting that the North has legality on her side, as well as the letter and shirit of the Constitution, there still remains another indisputable point—the South desires to be free ‘at home. You have not the right to crush a people that combats so valiantly. Therefore, he resigned! Were we less enervated by the ameni- ties Of modern life, and by the listlessness of a long peace ; had we still in our hearts some remnants of that patriotism, which in 1795, carried our fathers to the banks of the Rhine, the response would be easy, but today I fear it would not be understood. If to-morrow the south of France were to revolt and demand separation—If Alsace and Lorraine de- sired to isolate themselves, what would be not only our right but our duty? Would the votes be counted to ascer- tain whether a third or a half of the num- ber of Frenchmen have the right to des- troy the national unity, to make a nullity of France, to tear to pieces the glorious heritage which our fathers have acquired with their blood? No l we would grasp our mnskcts and march! Woe to him who does not feel that his country is holy! and that it is noble to defend it, even at the cost of every species of suffering and danger I “But America is not France; it is a confederation, not a nation.” Who says this ? The South, in order to justify her wrong. The North says the contrary; and for two years past it is at the price of innumerable sacrifices that it affirms that the Americans are one and the same people, and that the country shall not be cut in two. This is fine—this is grand ; and if anything astouishes me, it is that France remains inscnsible in the presence of such patriotism. Is not love of coun- try the especial virtue of the French ? What, then is the South, and what is the right‘Ofseparation so loudly vaunted ? Is it o’couqncrcd people reclaiming its inde- pendence as Lombardy has done? Is it a distinct race, refusing to continue in an oppressive alliancel No; they are colo~ nists established on the territory of the Union by American bands, who revolt without any other reason than their own ambition. Take up a map of the United States. If we except Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia, which are of old English colonies, all the rest of the South is established upon territory pur- chased and paid for by the Union, which is equivalent to saying that the forth supported the greater part of the expense. The old colony of Louisiana was sold to the Americans in 1804, by the First Consul, for seventy-five millions ; Florida was purchased from Spain in 1820, for twenty-five millions, and the war with Mexico, the expense of one hundred mill- ions, and cruel losses, were necessary to secure Texas. In a few words, taking in all the rich» regions that border the Mis- sissippi and Missouri, from their sources to their mouths, there is not an inch of ground that has not been paid for by the Union and does not belong to it. It was the Union that drove away or bought off the Indians ; it was the Union that built forts, constructed navy-yards, light-houses and harbors ; and it was the Union which gave value to these deserts and rendered colonization possible. The men of the North as well as the men of the South cleared and planted those regions, and made flourishing States of sterile sol- itudes. In old Europe, where, on all sides unity has risen from conquest, show us as sacred a title to property, or acoun- try that is more the common work of a whole people. And now is a minority to be permitted to take possessxou of a ter‘ ritory belonging to all, and toiselect the very best part ? Shall a minority be permitted to destroy the Union, and put in peril those who were its first benefac- tors, aud without whom it would not ex- ist l If this be not an impious revolt then we must say that the whim of aa- tions makes their right. It is not merely a. political reason that stand in the way of separarion; the geog- raphy, the situation of the localities, Ob- lige the United States to form but one nation Strabo, contemplating that Spa- cious country which is now called France said, with the certainty of genius, that oousideringthe nature of the territory and the course of the streams, it was easy to See that the forests of Gaul, inhabited by a scattered population, were .to become the residence of a great people. Nature had arranged our territory to be the the- ater of a grand civilization. This is not less true of America. It is, to speak cor- rectly, but a double valley, with an in- sensible point of separation, and . two great water courses—the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence. There are no lofty mountains that; separate and isolate the populations; no natural barriers, like the Alps and the Pyrenees. The West can- not live without the Mississippi; to pos- sess the mouth of that river is for the farmers of the West a question of life and >death. The United States have felt this from the very first When the Ohio'aud the Mississippi were as yet only rivers lost in the woods—when the first settlers were but a handful of men dispersed through the desert, the Americans already knew that New Orleans was the key of the front door. They were unwilling to leave it to either France or Spain. Napoleon un- derstood this. He held in his hand the future greatness of the United States, and he was not averse to ceding to America all this vast territory, in order as he Sftld to give England a maritime rival which, sooner or later would humble the pride of our enemies. He could have dispossess- ed himself of the left bank merely, and ‘r ll “1"! “W“ “We“ thanklesseciessilm‘ 0‘ marmfim’mmm margarine, use: have satisfied the United States, which at that time, asked for nothing better; he did more[and here I think he made a great mistake,]he gave up With a stroke of the pen, regions as large as half of Europe, and abandoned all our rights and claims to that fine river which we discov- ered. Ere long, sixty years will have passed since that cession. The States which are today called Louisana, Arkan- sas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, and Oregon, the Territories of Nebraska, Dacotah, Jefferson, and Washington, which will soon be States, have been founded upon the vast domain ceded by Napoleon. Without counting the slave holding population that desires to break the Union there are 10,000,000 citizens between Pittsburgh and Fort Union who claim the course and mouths of the Miss- issippi as having been ceded to them by France. Ie is from us that they hold their title and their right of possession. They have on their side the claims of sixty years, claims consecrated by labor and cultivation, claims which they have received as ights from a solemn contract and, bett still, from nature and from God. It Is for defending this that they are reproached; they are usurpers and tyrants because they will not put them- selves at the mercy of an ambitious mi- nority. What should we say if, to-mor— row, Normandy, in revolt, should pre- tend to hold for herself, exclusively, Rou- en and Havre? And, yet, what is the course of the Seine, compared to that of the Mississippi, which runs along 2,250 miles and receives all the waters of the West? To possess New Orleans is to com- mand a valley that includes two thirds of the United States. “The river shall be made neutral,” we are told. We know what such promises are worth It 'has been seen how Russia managed the mouths of the Danubey-why it cost the Crimean war to secure to Germany the free enjoyment of her great river. If to-morrow, afresh war were to break out between Austria and Russia, one might be sure that the possession of the Danube would be the guerdou of the fight. It cannot be otherwise in America from the day on which, for a length of more than a hundred leagues, the Missis— sippi shall run between two servile banks Already, the effect of the war has been to arrest the exportation of Wheat and Indian corn, which form the wealth of the West. In 1861, the surplus crops had to be burned, to the great damage of Europe, which profits by their expor; tation. The South herself so fully per- ceives the strength of her position, that her ambition is to seperate the Valley of the Mississippi from the Eastern States and to unite herself to the West, thus cousiguiug the Yankees of New-England to an isolation which would ruin them. It is with the bait of the Mississippi that the Confederates hope to re-estublish, to their own advantage, the Union which they have broken for fear of Liberty. we now see what to think of the pre- tended tyranny of the North, and wheth- it is true that it wishes to oppress and subjugate the South- On the contrary the North does nothing but defend itself. In maintaining the Union, it is its rights and its life which it is seeking to save. ‘ Up to this moment I have spoken of only material interest, legitimate interest which,fouuded on» solemn titles, constitutes a sacred right. But, if we examine the moral and political interest, the interest ofa superior order, we shall still better understand that the North cannot yield without committing suicide. The United States are a Republic, the frecst, and at the same time the mildest and the happiest that the earth has ever seen. In what does this posterity of the Americans findits support? In the fact that they are alone on an immense terri- tory; they have never been obliged to concentrate power and weaken liberty for the purpose of resisting the ambition or the jealousy of their neighbors. In the United States, there was no perma- nent army, nor mi.itary marine; the enor- mous sums that we might spend in order to ward off or to sustain wars, the Amer- icans have employed in opening schools and in giving to all their citizens, poor or rich, that education, that instruction, which forms the moral grandeur and the real wealth of nations. Their foreign policy was comprised in the one maxim, “Never to meddle in the quarrels of Europe on the‘ sole condition that Europe should never meddle in theirs, and should respect the freedom of the Seas.” Thanks to these wise maxims which Washington bequeathed to them in his immortal Farewell Address, the United States eujqul, for eighty years apeace which was disturbed but once, in 1812, when they had to resist England and maintain the rights of neutrals. It is by thousands of millions that we must count the sums that, during the past seventy yenr,s we have spentin maintain- ing our liberties or our preponderance in Europe; these thousands of millions the United States have employed in improve- ments of all kinds. There is the secret of their good fortune—their isolation has produced their prosperity. Now, suppose that the separation should be accomplished, and that the new Confederation should comprise all the Slave States, the North would lose, in one day, Its power and its institutions. The Republic would be stabbed to the art. There would be in America two nations face to face ; two peoples, rivals, and ever on the eve of quarreling with each other. Peace, in fine, will not eradicate hatreds; you cannot efi'ace the recollection of greatness passed away, of the Union destroyed ; the South victo- rious would undoubtedly be none the less the friend 01' Slavery, nor less in love of domination. The enemies of Sla- very, now undisputed masters of their policy, would not assuredly be softened by the separation. What will the Con- l'ederation of the South be to the North? A foreign power established in America, with a frontier of fifteen hundred miles, a frontier open on all sides, and conse- quently, always menacing and menaced. This POWer, hostile owing to its very vi- cinity, and still more so through its insti- tious will possess some of the most con- siderable portions of the New World; it will hold half the seacoast of the Union; it will command the Gulf of Mexico, an interior sea one-third the size of the Med- iteranean ; it will be mistress of the its pleasure, ruin the population of the West. Thus, the remnant of the Union -mlfl - haulenjn. m. 3.. “an... a- 3- ll ' mouths of the Mississippi, and may, at. . :5 fend itself against its rivals. Questions of custom-houses and frontiers, rivalries, jeal- ousies—all the an ances of Europe would overwhelm A erim together. It would be necessary to establish custom- houses along a space of five hundred leagues, construct and arm fortifications along the same immense frontier, keep up considerable standing armies, maintain a navy on a war footing—in other *"words, abandon the old Constitution, weaken municipal independence, and concentrate power. Adieu then to their former glo- rious liberty l Adieu to those institutions which made America the common coun- try of all who could not find air to breathe in Europe! The work of Wash- ington would be destroyed, and thesitu'a- tion would be full of difficulty and peril. That such a prospect gratifies those who cannot forgiveAmerica her prosperity and her greatness, I understand. History is full of these dark jealousies. That a- ple habituated to liberty should risk their last man and their last cent, in order to preserve the. heritage of their fathers, I still better understand and approve. What I do not comprehend is that there should be found in Europe men who con- sider themselves Liberals while reproach- ing the North with her generous insist- once, and advising a shameful relinquish- ment of her, rights. War is a frightful evil, but out of war may spring a lasting peace; the South may grow tired of I struggle that exhausts her; the old Us. ion may arise again; the future maybe saved. But what can come from 301).“. tion but an interminable war and‘éonto less miseries? This tearing sounds! of the country is an irremediable downfall; such a misfortuo is acquiesed in '0 when one is crushed. Up to this point have continued the hypothesisthat the South remains an independent power. But unless the West join the Confoilu- ates and the Union be ‘re-estsblishod without New-England, this independence is a dream. It might last a few y'sirs, but in ten or twenty, when the West should have doubled or trebled itsfhe population, what would the Confcdm- tion, eufeebled perforce by its slavesys- tem be, in, the presence of a people null- bering 30,000,000, and shutting it'iu on both sides. In order to resist, the South would have to lean on Europe; it cannot live unless protected by a maritime pow- er, aud England alone is in a condition to guarantee its sovereignty. This would be a fresh danger for free America and for Europe, too. The South has no navy, and with Slu- very, never will have. It is England that from the very first day Would grasp the monopoly of cotton and furnish the South with capital and ships. In two words, the triumph of the South would see En- gland reinstalled upon the continent from which the policy of Louis XVI. and of Napoleon drove her, the neutral Powers weakened and France again involved III all those questions of the freedom of the seas which cost two centuries of struggle and of suffering. The American Union, in defending its rights, had insured tbs independence of the ocean; the Union once destroyed, the preponderance of En- gland would spring up again. That would be peace banished from the world; it would be the return of a policy which has served only our rivals. This is whst Napoleon felt, and what to-day is forgot- ten. It would seem as though history were only a collection of narratives for the amusement of children. No one is willing to heed the lessons of the past. If the experience of our fathers were hot thrown away upon our ignorance, I. would perceive that in maintaining the national unity, in defending her indepen- dence, it is our cause as well as her own that the North protects. All our wishes would be for the success of our old Sud faithful friends. The enfeebleuess of the United States would be our own elf..- blement, and in the first quarrel with Ell- gland we would regret, when to late the abandonment of a policy that for flirty years past. has been our security. In writing these pages, I do uotexpect to convert persons who have in their hearts an innate weakness for Slavery. I write for those honest hearts which al- low themselves to be carried away by the sounding words of national independence that are flourished before them to deceive. The South has never been threatened: even now, it could return to the Union. It is only asked not to break the notion- al unity, and not to ruin liberty. Tho North, it cannot be to often ,rcpestsd, is not an aggressor. It defends thatch- ly which every true citizen defendss-slllt national compact—the integrity of tho country. It is sad that it has fouldlo little support in EurOpe, and especiallyln France. It is upon us that it counted. it is in us that it hoped. We have .‘b'n- doneu‘ it, as though those holy words— country and liberty—had no longer—lea echo in our hearts—What has becomes“ the time when all Franco applmdbd young Lafayette placing his sword Ill lb. service of the Americans? Who)“ imitated him ? Who has recalled .zths glorious remembrance? Have we grow: so old that we have forgotten everything? What will be the issue of the we'r? It is impossible to foresee. The south may succeed ; the North may divide'bud exhaust herself with intestine quarrels. The Union is,‘ perhaps, no more thbn a grand recollection of the Past. But whatever may be the future and its chau- ces, there is one duty for those whodo not allow themselves to be carried any by the succeSScs of the present hour; it is to sustain and encourage the Nortlfi. the very last moment ; it is to condemn those whose ambition threatens thh most beautiful and patriotic work that human-- ity has seen ; it is to continue faithful” the end of the war and even after dots», to those who to the last shall have fought for right and liberty. . . «OH @The Winsted Herald says that the ladies up there having no skating, have taken to licking for amusement. This. is how they do it. Sticking a pen knife in the door case, the fair kicker kicks l down with the toe of her boot. The higher the knife and the more lithe 'J limb the performer, the greater applause is awarded the successful kick. One Is- dy, in attempting the feat fell back!“ and was severely injured. 0 I gGreeubacks are boarded in. , A" - mond as much as gold. $320 of third- ernte money are needed to buy $100 in $93229. $3.09.“. °°“f".d"_‘7§§9~lnmsx...tflm 1 l
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