Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — Page 4

SPRING. BY BATTIK B. H. CBBMY. The birds are singing. The grass is springing Up from its wintry bed, The south wind blows, The brooklet flows, And the sky is blue o'erhead. The budding trees Nod to the breeze, In a grateful kind of way; The insects creep, And the bleating sheep Make music all the day. Down in the bogs, The noisy frogs, Are making a great harangue; •Kerthug." one goes, He’s the king 1 s’pose. And never a jollier sang. Down by the stream, In the suuiig' t's gleam, The fisherman lowers his bait, A smile and a smirk, A twitch and a jerk. And the poor fish knows its fate. The violet and daffodil With perfume the garden fill, But far gaudier flowers will grow, And the rose and eglantine Will around the trillis twine In the coming summer's glow. till flowers of spring A thrill will bring, When later ones would fail; In this northern clime, The sweet spring time With joy we always hail. I’rrrsrtßi.D, Mass.

TWO LOVERS.

BY FLORENCE H. BIRNEY.

Joshua wanted me to marry him, but [ refuHed. He wasn’t my ideal at all. I was pretty, and my friends assured me that I might pick and choose. But I had read so many novels, and my liaad was so full of romance that I wasn’t inclined to choose any one of the t all, sandy-haired, freckled youths of Pikeville. The ideal of my imagination had dark, flashing eyes, hair like the raven’s wing, tseth like pearls, and a haughty mein. So, could any reasonable person expect me to be satisfied with plain Joshua Hobbs, who was fair and freckled, with pule brown hair, and fat hands, brown with toil. But mother and Jane expected me to marry him, and I was very foolish to think of t hrowing away such a ehance, for, in spite of being very plain in appearance and manner, Joshua had made his way in the world, and was in possession of a ve-iy handsome farm, well stocked. “ You will never receive another such offer,”said mother, one morning in May. “I cannot understand yon, Leah; you appear bereft of your senses. There isn’t another girl in Pikeville who would refuse Joshua Hobbs.” “ Then he will find no difficulty in marrying,” I replied. “ I am sure I don't begrudge him to anybody.” “ So moral, so upright, so honorable in every respect,” continued mother, as she stitched away on Ben’s diminutive pantaloons, which were suffering from a complicated, compound fracture of the knee. “ But homely, mother, fearfully homely,” I said. ‘‘How can you say so?” cried Jane, whom I had always suspected of a warm feeling for Joshua. “He is very nicelooking, and will make the best of husbands.” “I wish Joshua had had the good sense to fall in love with Jane instead of with you, Leah,” said mother. “ She would never have been so foolish as to refuse such an offer, and with me in such poor circumstances, too. But young men appear to care only for pink cheeks and curls, and marry women with not an idea above jewelry and ribbons. I did think Joshua knew better.”

This was rather hard on me, but I did not feel vexed, for I knew mother was too angry to be entirely just, so I excused her. We lived in Pikeville, a small, humdrum, sluggish town, and had just enough money to enable us to live respectably and make both ends meet at the time the year’s bills came in. Mother had a righteous horror of debt, and we owed no man a cent; but, of course, we had to pinch a great deal and deny ourselves any little extra extravagance in the way of a flower or a ribbon. There were five of us to support, and perhaps mother was not to be blamed for wishing to see Jane and me well married and in comfortable homes. She thought it really wicked in me to refuse Joshua, for his farm was almost the bes£ in the county, and lay only three miles from town. But I did not fret over the matter myself. I was too sure that my hero, the ideal hero of my imagination, would come along to claim me, and take me away from little gossiping Pikeville and the petty economies over which mother fretted so continually. I liked Joshua very well, but had no idea of ever marrying him. I was too vain to think my first offer would be my last, and had no fear of being left an old maid.

I know Jane envied me my good looks and my lover. She was a quiet, industrious girl, fond of country life and farm work, and it did indeed look to me very hard that Joshua should not have chosen her instead of singling me ont, and thus bringing down on me mother’s reproaches and complaints But then, things generally go crosswise in this bias world. Joshua did not come to the house any more after my stern and decided refusal of his suit. We missed the presents of butter, milk and eggs, which he had been so fond of bringing, and which were, of course, of more use than the flowers and jewelry most lovers present to their goddesses. This loss of the butter, milk and eggs fretted mother more than anything else, and not a day passed without some allusion to my “stubborn folly” in rejecting Joshua. “What can you have against the young man ?” mother would cry. “He is all that is honorable and good.” “His name is enough,” I would answer. “Fancy my name being Mrs. Joshua Hobbs!” “It is a Bible name as well as yours,” mother would say, sharply. “Hobbs a Bible name! Well, I didn’t know that before. I will look it up.” “ I meant Joshua,” and then in a lachrymose state mother would indulge in quotations from the Bible about the sharpness of a serpent’s tooth, etc. October came at last, and still my hero had not come upon the scene. Sometimes I was tempted to recall Joshua, to put an end to being harassed by mother and Jane. I could not ask for a new apron or collar but they would sigh, and complain of our scanty means and say, “If I’d married Joshua, etc.” Some times I really wished Joshua was at the bottom of the Red sea. But in the middle of October relief came in the shape of a letter from my aunt, Caroline, who lived in Barstowe, a large town sixty miles away, asking that either Jane or I should pay her a long visit. I felt sure that mother would say at once that Jane must be the one to go. She was the eldest, and generally had all the nice times and the best of everything. My prophecy was a true one, for as mother finished reading the letter she looked straight at Jane: “You can get ready to go by the Ist of November, Janie. You can stay until May; and I tell you what I will do: I will give you my pearl-colored silk, for you will see a great deal of company at your aunt’s.” The pearl-colored silk I Was it indeed true that mother had offered Jane that wonderful and much-prized garment? O, could I but be Jane! “I shall not go,” said Jane, very

quietly, while my eyes distended in amazement at her refusal of this boon . “Leah can go, for she will enjoy it more than I should.” “But, Jane, I wish you to go. Leah is younger than you are, and does not deserve any pleasure after her stubborn folly of last May. She may come to her senses if she has to stay here in Pikeville, and Joshua may possibly give her another chance.” “Nevertheless, I shall not go,” persisted Jane; “so you might as well let Leah take advantage of aunt’s offer.” So, when all persuasions and arguments failed to shake Jane’s resolution, mother told me rather ungraciously that I might prepare myself to go to Barstow©* “ Will you let me make over the pearlcolored silk, mother?” I asked, my heart beating high with hope. “Certainly not,” was the cold answer. “If you had chosen to marry Joshua Hobbs, I should have given it to you with pleasure, as a wedding present.” I actually felt sorry I had not married Joshua, so great an admiration did I have for the pearl-colored silk. As I whirled along in the train to Barstowe in the first week of Novem-. ber, I indulged myself in building many air castles. Of course I should now meet my hero, the ideal lover of my vivid and romantic imagination. In May I should return to Pikeville bringing’ him with me; and when mother should see that noble form, the eyes like midnight stars, the hair rivaling the color of the raven’s wing, the marble pallor of the haughty brow, and the proud carriage of her son-in-law, she would rejoice with me that 1 had not been sacrificed to homely Joshua Hobbs. So vivid was my imagination that I almost expected to see my hero in the car, but there were only four boys and an old woman, so I waited, with what patience I could, my arrival in Barstowe. My aunt greeted me very kindly. She lived in a handsome house, and had but one child, a son, who was at present stationed at a fort several hundred miles away. Thinking the winter would be a lonely one without her soldier sod near her, Aunt Caroline had sent for one of us girls. 1 expected to meet my ideal at once, but three weeks slipped by and still he had not made his appearance. I never went out of the house that I did not think that this might possibly prove a red-letter walk, and bring my lover to mo. But, as time slipped by and he came not, I began to grow uneasy. I felt as if I could not endure to return home without a solitaire diamond ring on my finger, and the prospect of a plain gold one, whereby I should cause mother to confess that I had been in the right all along. One rainy clay in December I put .on my waterproof and overshoes, an old hat and a once-discarded dress, and, with a family umbrella the worse for wear in my hand, started to go to the worsted store in the town for some split zephyr with which to finish a tidy I was working as a Christmas gift for my aunt.

The gutters were so swollen as to be almost too wide to jump. The deepest and worst of all came in view just as I neared the store. But I was not to be checked in my career after worsted by a gutter, so I gave a little run and a spring— and landed in the middle of the muddy pool. My hat went off at the same moment and the old umbrella went crashing against the curb stone, and became a wreck at once. I scrambled out on the pavement just as amelodious voice fell on my ear: “Allow me to assist you, Miss.” I Icoked up, turned scarlet with mortification and pale with surprise and dismay, for there, wonderful to relate, stood my hero. Yes; there were the flashing eagle eyes, the marble brow, the hair like the raven’s wing, and the haughty mien. I could only stammer out something about being very wet. “You must go at once to your home,” said the musical voice of my hero; “and, if you will permit, I will hold my umbrella over you.” I stammered my thanks as I walked by his side in the direction of my aunt’s bouse. How bitterly I regretted my plight! How unprepossessing I must appear in my wet, muddy clothes, battered hat, and clinging to the shattered umbrella! At my aunt's door he bowed, hoped I would suffer no ill-effects from my bath, thrust into my hand his card, and—vanished like a dream. I ran up stairs, and, before attempting to remove my wet garments, read the name on the card: “Horatio Fitz Allen.” What a delightful combination! How elegant and patrician in sound! How widely different from Joshua Hobbs! Oh, to think that I had ever been wooed by a Joshua Hobbs! My aunt laughed over my adventure, and said she had heard of Mr. Fitz Allen, who was reported to be very wealthy, and was in Barstowe for a few weeks on business. The next evening I met my hero at the house of a Mrs. Gaines, a great friend of my aunt. He paid me undi vided attention, and my heart beat in a transport of joy. The days now went by on golden wings, and I was the happiest of the happy. Mr. Fitz Alien was with me constantly, and at the end of three weeks proposed for my hand, and laid his wealth and heart (figuratively) at my feet.

My aunt gave her consent after requesting my Horatio to give her proper credentials of his respectability and honor. This he promised to do as soon as he should return to his home, which must be almost immediately, owing to the press of business. I wrote at once to my mother and Jane, telling them in rapturous language of my conqu«<t, and describing my lover. I compared him with Joshua Hobbs, and said I was happy that I had not been sacrificed to the latter and a farm-house home. How happy I was! I wanted everyone to see my lover, and so I was delighted when in March my Cousin Paul came home on a furlough of two weeks. It was unexpected, and a great joy to both my aunt and myself. “How fortunate that you came today,” I said to him;.“for Mr. Fitz Allen leaves Barstowe to-morrow for several weeks. I am so anxious that you should ■ee him.” “I am glad you have done so well, little cousin,” said Paul. “I am very desirous of making the acquaintance of this hero of yours, this paragon of excellence.” “He will be here to-night,” I said. Horatio came about 8 o’clock, and we were conversing in the parlor after the manner of turtle doves, when I heard my aunt and Paul coming. My lover rose to his feet as they came in, and so did I. “My Cousin Paul, Mr. Fitz Allen,” I said, blushing deeply. I heard no welcome, no salutation of any sort, and looked up in surprise. My cousin was looking straight at my lover, both livid with some emotion. “So!” at last gasped my cousin; “this is the man who has dared to woo my Cousin Leah! This blackleg, this swindler, this rascal! Joe Harris, alias Luke Hartwell, alias Horatio Fitz Allen. Hound I low, sneaking scoundrel, out of this house! ” thundered my cousin. “O, Paul! Paul!” I sobbed; “there must be some mistake.” “Ask if there is a mistake. Turn to him, Leah,” replied Paul. Oh, where was the man I had deified? Crouching ggainst the .like a

whipped cur, white as ashes, and shaking with fear! I approached him, but he waved me back. • Let me go,” he said. “ You will not tell of this, for it would shame her. The game is up, and I have lost her fortune.” “My fortune!” I repeated. “I have none.” “ Then I was deceived,” and he bowed himself out. Who can estimate the extent of my mortification! Cousin Paul had met Mr. Fitz Allen (as I will still call him) several times, and knew him to be a low villain, on the lookout for money, no matter how it was to be obtained. I was congratulated on my escape, and felt thankful for it, but it was a bitter mortification. The days now crept by, and I longed for home. I thought much of Joshua Hobbs, of his true, manly heart and tender love for me, and determined that when I went back to Pikeville I would give my homely lover some encouragement, and reward him for his faithful love by my hand. May came at last, and I was once more in Pikeville. .1 had not written of my coming, for I wanted to give mother and Jane a surprise. The very first person I saw whom I knew was Joshua, who was at the station in his buggy, talking to the ticket agent. “So you’ve come home, Leith,” he said, giving me a pleasant smile. “Let me drive you to the house in my buggy.” I consented very gladly, for we lived in the suburbs, and it was a long walk from the station. “Jane is not expecting you,” he said, as we drove along. “How do you know?” I asked; “do you visit there now? ” “Yes, very often,” he replied. “You must know that I am fond of going there, since Jane has consented to our marriage taking place next week.” I sat still, stunned by the news. So Jane was to marry Joshua, and she had not written me a line, telling me the news. “I was afraid she would not have me, since I’d been your lover first, but she said she didn’t mind that. I am very happy, Leah. lam sorry your marriage was—was— ” “Don’t speak to me of it,” I cried. “I cannot bear the mention of that man or my folly.” When I asked Jane why she had not written me of her engagement to Joshua, she said she was afraid I would write something back about her being second choice, so she thought she would wait until I came home to tell me the news. They were married the next week, and have been very happy together ever since, while I am only an old maid, of no use to any one except my small nephews and nieces. I have seen the folly of giving up the substance for the shadow; of creating an ideal and worshiping it blindly. I lost both my lovers, and my life has been a lonely one. Boston, Mass.

DIAMONDS UNEARTHED.

Love descends to friendship; friendship never soars to love. Women do not like to remember; men do not like to foresee. One talent, well cultivated, deepened, and enlarged, is worth a hundred shallow faculties. "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Love is the strongest and most arbitrary moral power. Love forgives, but never excuses. If a tree has not blossomed in the spring you will vainly look for fruit on it in the autumn. By their fickleness women escape much misery. Birds save themselves only with their wings. Ho man ever offended his own conscience but, first or last, it was revenged on him for it.— South. No character is complete that has not some mental treasures on which it may draw during the treachery of fortuse. A good man is as a priest and'minister of the gods; devoted to that divinity which hath its dwelling within him. —Marcus. Crowd is no company; men’s faces are but like pictures in a gallery, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. A man seldom shows improvement until he has found himself; and, in this sense, if in no other, the majority of mankind are lost. Hearts have windows. They should be kept open at all times, that the glad sunshine of all that is true and beautiful in this life may enter and abide therein. Pity with its crystal drops is sweetening many a cup of life. And, in return, many a grateful heart is laying on the palm of pity the choicest gems of gratitude. Good resolutions are an honor to every heart that may form them. But that honor takes to itself a new luster and that heart is nobler still when these resolutions are not broken. It is the narrow-edged men—the men of single and intense purpose, who steel their souls against all things else—who accomplish the hard work of the world, and who are everywhere in demand when hard work is to be done.

He Got It.

“For the sake of humanity give me just one mouthful to eat,” he said as he halted before one of the eating stands on the Central market yesterday. “I’ve nothing for tramps,” replied the woman. “I’ll take anything-—even them ’tater parings,” he continued, “for I haven’t tasted food in three days. If I can't get food I shall become desperate.” “I can’t spare anything but this prep .” “I don’t care what it is,” he interrupted, “only don’t be stingy with it. There—that’s it—give me a heaping spoonful and I’ll always remember you with gratitude.” It was a bottle of grated horse-radish, strong as the grip of a paving ring on a city, and the woman lifted out a big spoonful and deposited it in his open mouth. The tramp must have taken it for some sort of prepared infants’ food, for his mouth closed with a yum I yum! It opened again, however, and when he started to run he upset a dozen flower pots, two boys and a barrel of charcoal. Much of the dose was blown into the eyes of a horse hitched to a vegetable wagon, and after the man bad run twice around the market with his mouth wide open he got a start for the Randolph street fountain, and never took his chin out of the basin for forty straight minutes. — Free Press. The Waupun Leader contains an Article informing its readers “when to eat pickerel.” We did not read the article, but suppose, of course, that the Leader says, eat pickerel at meal time. Nothing appears so much out of place as to see a man in business hours walking along the street picking the bones out of a piece of pickerel.— Peck's Milwati* kee Sun. The Court House in Hernando county, Fla., was burned by incendiaries, and the Qouoty Judge has been assassinated,

ELOQUENT PLEA FOR PEACE.

Congressman 8. 8. Oox on Test Oaths and the Like. * A Burning Rebuke to the Policy of Hate and Unforgiveness. (From the Congressional Record.] The distinguished gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Garfield] in his opening speech at this session sought to place the onus of repealing these obnoxious statutes upon the Southern Democracy. I beg to say that the action taken st the last and st this session was not the setion of one section or of one class of Democrats. The points of the compass hsve no bearing upon this matter. Our action binds all sections. The advice which led to it was not taken exclusively from any part of the country. The gentleman found no end to his admiration of the Democratic Congressmen who seceded from this hall in 1861. Their noble and heroic conduct was the theme of his admiration; but he more than intimated his detestation of their present conduct in seeking to obliterate these legislative anomalies, born of the war. It was so unhandsome and unheroic in contrast with their splendid heroism as rebels. Ah! the gentleman’s purpose is understood. It is not so much to fix opprobrium upon the solid South as to revamp the old slander against the Democracy of the North. He would admire the military heroes of 1861 to derogate from their civil courage of 1879, and by reviving the bad blood of other tomes, endeavor to regain for his party their lost power over roads macadamized with stale libels noon the Nortnern Democracy. I regret to say that some color to this view has been given by Southern men; especially by one gentleman, who in the heat of debate said that the South learned secession from the Northern Democracy. I wish he had waited until my eloquent friend from Mississippi [Mr. Chalmers] had spoken. He fitly discriminated between the Northern and Southern Democracy when he said: “ When the war was closed and the Republican party undertook to destroy the constitution, history will say that the same gallant Northern Democracy, with the same flag in their hand, rallied tbe Southern Democracts and drove the Republicans back to their duty. We, sir, in the" South loved the constitution more than the Union; the Republican party loved the Union more than the censtitution; but it wili be written :n history that the gallant Democracy of the North were the truest patriots of the land, and that they loved bo h the Union and the constitution, one and indivisible.” This statement might go further and be equally just. Does the gentleman forget, what Mr. Greeley in his volume on the “Conflict” would inform him, that the great body of men of the South were opposed to secession? He will find the facts and votes furnished in that volume. Does he forget, too, the men of the Democratic party who opposed secession and risked and lost their lives for the Union? Would ho ignore the McClellans and Hancocks and men of no less note, who maintained the viger of our Federal system against secession, and who fought for both Union and constitution? It pleased him and others to derogate from the Northern Democracy, when he arrogated unto his parly ail the praise of quelling the “so-called” heroic rebellion. We understand Ids eulogy and its subtle intent, when he praises his party and the Southern Democracy in 1861, in order to dispraise the Democracy of the North then and the Democracy of both sections now. Does he remember that in 1860 the Democratic party divided, one great portion of it, under Douglas, representing the Union-consti-tutional sentiment, with 1,365,976 votes, and the other representing the Southern sentiment, with 847,953 votes? Is it manly, just and fair to ignore his Democratic brothers-in-arms and those of us •ho voted all supplies to quell the rebellion? When the democracy were sundered, was there no patriotic principle for us North, to guide our conduct? He forgets that the Northern Democracy, in States like Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, favored Douglas, while the extreme' States of the South only were largely for Breckinridge. He forgets that in tbe three great States of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio the whole Democratic vote was cast for Douglas, with the exception of some 25,C00 for Breckinridge. He forgets that the Southern secession leaders could muster only about one-fifth of the total votes of the United States, and that the Northern Democracy fought through the crisis of 1863-’6l, and the remaining years of trial and blood, like men as heroic as those from whom they parted. He forgets that in Illinois seventy-five votes were given to Douglas to one for his extreme Southern competitor; yet the gentleman glorifies Southern heroism to detract from his Northern Democratic neighbors. At what particular time did the gentleman from Ohio learn to love rebellion, that he should make an apotheosis to its heroism? Ah! why? Is it because we of the North opposed extra-constitutional methods of conscription and confiscation; or is it because since the war the Democracy have shown the spirit of forgiveness and favored amnesty, that all might come under the shadow of the Government? Is it because we have sought to make our Southern brethren equals here, when they come back redeemed from their prostration and the oppression of your military satraps, under the reconstruction? Is it because Southern men have joined with us in the back pay and pensions of Union soldiers? Is he sorry that we would build up by generous policies the waste places of the South, and lift up a highway for the people yet wandering in the mazes of test-oaths, military force at elections, and Supervisor espionage and oppression? Would he make a desert or an aceldema of the South ?

Is it a pleasure to denreciate, denounce and degrade the Northern Democracy? Does his own party need require this? Did our party fail in furnishing troops for the war? Was it a falsehood when a Republican Legislature of New York gave Gov. Seymour the credit for even exceeding the call for soldiers? Did they fail to pay their taxes? Did they fail in giving their youth, their manhood, their sympathy to the union which their fathers loved, and to the constilution which Washington helped to frame? How can such statements be characterized? Allow me to say that from the time the war closed until the present time, I have objected to individual amnesty bills, though voting for them, preferring a general bill, because based on a principle. In the Forty-fourth Congress, on my motion, such a bill passed this House by a two-thirds vote. Gentlemen seem to forget that I have not favored this principle altogether because it would be a grace ana help to the South, but oecause it would be a grace, an anodyne, a comfort and a benefit to ourselves. It has been said that forgiveness to your enemy is a charming way of revenge. It leaves your foes your friends and brings about grateful retaliations. An enemy reconciled by force is not so readily to be trusted. As the Italians have it: “tiosjietto licenzia fede;* suspicion dismisses faith. I would appeal to gentlemen on the other side, if they have not the spirit of kindness toward others, not to be cruel to themselves. As Sir Thomas Brown has said, “It only feathers the arrow of the enemy.” It destroys all that is knightly and magnanimous. There is no lack of patriotism in following the precepts of history as to clemency. It teaches that revenge is injustice and hurts most those who ludulge in it Fourteen years have passed since the war was closed. We have felt, those of us who are Northern Democrats, that a great wrong was done by this long delay in healing the wounds of the war; but we were prompt to draw the curtain upon onr wrongs. Christian, Hebraic, and even pagan lessons are plentiful to teach ns to regard such civil wrongs as though they had not been. Gentlemen on the other side would forgive; yet they “powder their opiate with scorn and contempt.”' They punish while they forgive. This is no charitv. Reservation in forgiveness is a species of hatred. Let us imitate the divine forgiveness. It lies in the principle of loving and being loved: “to 1 »ve Him because He first loved us.” It is the doctrine of peace and good will. Is it for us, who have our brothers near us here as our equals, to harbor the spirit of separation, distrust, and enmity? Let us. if we can, be bound and solidified by one constitution, for one inseparable Union, and under it, for the untrammeled will and rich heritage of its past wisdom and glory. If we must have a test, let us swear to each other by each and every star upon the blue field of our ensign, by the white radiance, in which all colors—red, white, blue, aye, and gray—blend as one—not, as in the old Italian code, by the God who avenges, but as the old Anglo-Saxon kings were adjured, by the grace and mercy of His bon—that good-will and amnesty shall be the spirit and aim of our legislation. Let us swear that no check shall be placed upon the will or the tribunals of the people but for the people, and never, by the Eternal! never to yield our rights, however and how often defeated, to grant the money and substance of the people, that it may be used for their own undoing! Whep our laws require of all officers, jurors, and agents of the Government, that they should take the test oath, so help them God—what God do they invoke? On whom do they call’ Is it the God of vengeance and hate, or is it the God of love and mercy? If it be the latter then what a mockery is the oath which is the proof and perpetuation of revenge and unforgiveiiess? The God we would invoke for amnesty and peace has given us a code of ethics whose Highest illustration is drawn from the Sermon on the Mount Would that I could picture to you that mountain, with its divine orator speaking those ineffable truths! Is it possible that my friend from the Silver State could have used these words? “Prosperity sleeps benumbed in the frozen vault of fear, and the great and mighty North with its generous and forgiving heart, stands at the door, as Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus, ready to resurrect and quicken it with the inspiration of a new life.” 1 observe thia eloquent language in the

Record. Could a representative of our Mountain State have forgotten the teachings of the Saviour? Mr. Speaker, it may be a fancy, but I sometimes think that the loftiest and purest thoughts come down to us from the mountain. But in the mountain* we do feel onr faith. All things responsive to the writing there Breathed immortality, revolving life. And greatness still revolving; infinite; There littlem ss was not; the least of things Seemed infinite. I hope it may not be presuming to say. Mr. Speaker, that I have been something of a traveler, and have been upon many mountains of our star. 1 would that my observations had been better utilized for duty. I have been upon the Atlas, whose giant shoulders were fabled to have upheld the globe. I have learned from there, that even to Northern Africa, the Gotha brought their fueros or bills of right, with their arms from the cold forests of the North to the sunny plains and mgged mountains of that old granary of the Boman world. I have been amid the Alps, where the spirit of Tell and liberty is always tempered with mercy, and whose mountains area monumentthrougha thousand years of Republican generosity. I have been among the Sierras of Spain, where the patriot Riego—whose hymn is the Marseillaise of the Peninsula—was hunted after he had saved constitutional liberty and favored amnesty to all—the noblest examplar of patriotism since the days of Brutua. From the seven hills of Rome, down through the corridors of time, comes the story which Cicero relates from Thucvdides; that a brazen monument was erected by the Thebans to celebrate their victory over the Lacediemonians, but it was regarded as a memento of civil discord, and the trophy was abolished, because it was not fitting that any record should remain of the conflict between Greek and Greek. From the same throne of ancient power come the words which command only commemoration of foreign conquests and not of domestic calamities; and that Home, with her imperial grace, believed that it was wisest to erect a bridge of gold, that civil insurgents should pass back to their allegiance. From the Acropolis at Athens, there is the story of the herald at the Olympic games, who announced the clemency of Rome to the conquered, who had been long subjected to the privations and calamities imposed by the conqueror. The historian says that the Greeks, when the herald announced such unexpected deliverance, wept for joy at the grace which had been bestowed. Au these are but subordinate lights aroffnd the central light, which came from the mountain whence the great sermon was spoken. Its name is unknown; its locality has no geography. All we know is that it was “ set apart.” The mountains of our Scriptures are full of inspiration for our guidance. Their teachings may well be carried into our political ethics. But it was not from Ararat, which lifted its head first above the flood, and received the dove with it-t olive branch; not from Sinai, which looks proudly upon three nations and almost three count ies, and overlooks our kind with its great moral code; not from Horeb, where Jehovah with His fearful band covered His face that man might not look upon His brightness; not from Tabor, where the great transformation was enacted; not from Pisgah, where Moses made his farewell to the people he had delivered and led so long; not from Carmel, where the praver of Elijah was answered in fire; not from Lebanon, whose cedars were the beauty of the earth; not from the Mount of Olives, which saw the agony of the Saviour; not from Calvary, at whose great tragedy nature shuddered and the heavens were covered with gloom; not from one or all of these secular and sacred mountains that our best teiching for duty comes. It comes from that nameless mountain, set apart, because from it emanated the great and benignant truths of Him who spake as never man spake. Here is the sublime teaching: Ye have heard in the aforetime, that it hath been ■said. Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them t! at hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. and persecute you. That ye may be children of your Father which is in heaven: for He make th His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeih rain on the just and on the unjust. The spirit of this teaching has no hospitality for test oaths, and asks no compensation'for grace. Along with this teaching and to the same good end, are the teachings of history, patriotism, chivalry, and even economic selfishness. Yet these teachers are often blind guides to duty. They are but mole-hills compared with the lofty mountain whose spiritual grandeur brings peace, order and civilization! When these principles obtain in our hearts, then our legislation will conform to them. When they do obtain their hold in these halls, there will arise a brilliant day-star for America. When they do obtain recognition, we may hail a new advent of that Prince of Peace, whose other advent was chanted by the angelic choir? In conclusion, sir, let me say that, in comparison with this celestial code, by which we should Jive and die, how little seem all the contests here about armies, appropriations, riders, and coercion, which so exasperate and threaten! Let onr legislation be inspired by the lofty thought from that Judean mountain, and Goa will care for us. In our imperfections here as legislators, let us look aloft, and then “His greatness will flow around our incompleteness, and round our restlessness, His rest?” Then, measures which make for forgiveness, tranquillity and love, like the abolition of hateful oaths, and other reminders of our sad and bloody strife, will rise in supernal dignity above the party passions of the day; ana that party which vindicates right against might, freedom against force, popular will against Federal power, rest against unrest, and God’s goodness and mercy around and above all, will, in that sign, conquer. To those in our midst who have the spirit of violence, hate and unforgiveness, and who delight in pains, penalties, test-oaths, bayonets and force, and who would not replace these instruments of turbulence with love, gentleness and forgiveness—my only curse upon such is: that God Almighty, in his abundant and infinite mercy may forgive them, for “they know not what they do.”

OHIO DEMOCRACY.

Platform Adopted at the Recent State Convention. Resolved, That the Democracy of Ohio demand free and fair elections, and to that end denounce all interference with elections by the military power. That the experience of this and other countries has abundantly proved that the presence of troops at the polls is destructive of freedom of elections, and is incompatible with the existence of free institutions. That the laws enacted by Congress, which, under pretense of regulating the manner of Congressional elections, interfere with the election of State officers, and overthrow the laws of the States governing the choice of such officers, are unconstitutional, and for that reason ought to be repealed. That thev are also instrumentalities of fraud, force and corruption, by which the party in power uses the money of the people to corrupt, and thousands of irresponsible officers to harass and coerce, the voter’s, and especially by force and fraud to deprive our naturalized citizens of the right to vote, and for these reasons also said laws ought to be immediately repealed. Resolved, That impartial juries are essential to the administration of justice, and thereby to the preservation of liberty. That no man can be secure in his person or property when the juries are packed and controlled by the Government police and for partisan purposes; that, tinder the Federal jury laws now in existence, juries may be, and have been, so packed and controlled, and that the highest interests of Justice and free government require tlrat these aws be changed so as to secure fair, iihpartial and independent juries in the Federal courts. Resolved, That the Republican minority in Congress, by refusing to vote supplies to maintain the Government, unless the majority would agree to the use of troops at the polls, and also the maintenance of the unconstitutional, corrupting, violent and unjust election laws aforesaid, and the President of the United States, by his unprecedented use of the veto power in order to perpetuate said laws and the use of armed men at the polls, have shown a spirit of faction and a devotion to party success instead of the welfare of the country, and the preservation of its constitution and liberties, that demand the condemnation of the whole American people. Resolved, That President Hayes, by his frequent interposition of the veto, in order to defeat legislation that was plainly constitutional, that in no way interfered with the independence of any other department of the Government, and had received the most mature consideration of Congress, has shown Utter disregard of the considerations and principles that in- . duced the insertion of the veto power in the constitution, and a like disregard of the wishes and welfare of the people. Resolved, That we declare it as the sense of the Democracy of Ohio that not a dollar should be appropriated by Congress to pay soldiers, Marshals, Deputy Marshals, or Supervisors of Election to interfere with or control elections.

Resolveel, That the efforts of the Republican party to open and keep alive the war feeling between the North and South are to be condemned by every lover of his country. . Resolved, That we reaffirm the financial principles heretofore advocated by the Democratic party of Ohio, that the issue of money in any form and the regulation thereof belong to the General Government alone, and ought not to be delegated or intrusted to individuals or corporations; that we, therefore, oppose the perpetuation of the present national-bank system as a means of control over the currency of tho country, and demand the gradual substitution of treasury notes for national-bank currency, to be made receivable for all dues, and a legaltender equality with coin, such Government issues to be regulated upon the principles established by legislation or organic law, so as to secure the greatest possible stability of value. Resolved, That after changing the valuation of all property from the scale of paper money, by which the heavy burden of debts now resting upon the people were created, to the former level of gold and silver, the change then made in the metallic standard itself by the demonetization of silver was a monstrous fraud upon the people, cunningly devised in the interest of the holders of bonds, that should be condemned as a violation of every principle of honest dealing' 4 , and a covert assault upon the fundamental

rights of property, Mid we, therefore, demand the full restoration of silver to its original place as a metal, the same as gold. Resolved, That the rapid increase of the in-terest-bearing debt of the Government under the present administration ought to excite the serious apprehension of the people. We demand that the further increase in the bonded debt in time of peace be stopped, and it put in process of extinction. Resolved, That the attack made upon the State Legislature in the Republican platform is wholly undeserved, and that the Legislaturein its arduous work of codifying the laws of the State, and in the reduction of fees and salaries of county officers, and the passage of a law to protect the ballot and prevent bribery at elections—deserves the commendation of the people of the State. Resolved, That it is the duty of our Government to maintain to its fullest extent the doctrine that a man may, in good faith, change his habitation and become a arizen of any country. We should protect, in every part of the world, all our naturalized citizens as we would our native-born, and should resist all improper claims upon them by governments to which they no longer owe allegiance. We demand that existing treaties with all foreign governments be rigidly enforced, and that early steps betaken to obtain from the German empire the fullest recognition of the rights of expatriation, of the rights of our naturalized atizens returning or having property there, by a modification of the treaty existing between ns.

A Matter of Interest to Travelers.

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