Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 35, Number 24, 10 August 1865 — Page 1

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"TfnSTORICAL SOCIETYbe DUIU O.M TUG FIELD OF FA Mil. , t a. w. lillOK. Every day ia full of welcomes. Great flight of cheers go ap, and rapped regiments and ra-d flag pas ea. Tbe wide doors of the Fair buildings are thrown open and they anarch through tbe street of tbe city of a I cores, where Jaatice is satisfied aud Mer.y aaailca content. And ao the soldier dies and tl-i citizen ia born aasa. And far from the noisy ptwswoli, and a war from the loud acclaim; aauid tbe green field, and the springing grain, where tle aueUovv bora of the bee Viud audibly on, and tUe robin siug that same eld song, am! the suuahiue lies asleep before tbe open dix.rs, there are weloomea that wait tbe soldier still ; welcomes with no pomp in t!em tearful, inarticulate. Lore; will clasp Urn at the gate, will fold him at the door, will tremulous! bless him from the "old arm chair." It will be, "Mr brother!" "my busband!" "my soldier bojr !" "my bod T and the last two syllables w II wrap in them the mightiest lore aad honor on tbe globe. Happy the soldier whose loyal mother waits bis eouia. He will forget, iu tier .presence, all the noisy pageants of the mart, a ad -with ar bead upon bis shoulder, into the near hearea of whose eyes be louked in boyhood, his heart that has throbbed with tbe hot ferer of battle will beat as gently as a woman's again, and the soldier be lost in the soo. But titers art those who receive no welcome ; orer whose vacant plae tbe ranks chase op like tbe wares of tbe sea; for whom they rainly wait, in tears and silence, in many a borne to-day. AUs, for the unreturning brare! But there Will be those to answer for them when I'eace "makes p her jewels." Call the old rolls of the returning regiments ; and there will be voices to answer for them along tbe broken ranks. History will repeat itself in rtei'r story, and the memory of the dead will be vindicated. Let us gire, if we can, that breath from the past, and lay it loringly and reverently at the foot of fifty thousand graves : On the right of tbe battalion a grenadier of France, Struck through bis iron harness by the lightning of a lance, His breast all red with British blood, bis brow with British breath, There fell defiant, face to face with England and with death. They made a miter of his heart they cleft it thrmgh ami through One halt' was for his legion, and the other for it too ! Tue colors of a later day, prophetic finger a-e 1, For lips were blue ami cheeks were white and lite jtrur ar (m was red ! Andtbebuglea blew, and the legion wheeled, and the grenadier was dead. And then the old commander rode slowly down the rtnks. And thought how hrirf the journey grew between the batter'd Hanks ; And the shadows in the moonlight fell strangely into line Where the hatuVs reddest riot pledged the richest of trie wine. And the camp fires flung their phantom all doing what titer could To close the Unity odumns up as old raiiioaiuners wo'd. On he rode, the old comnunder, w ith the evi&ign in advauee. And, a atutued brouzoa brighten with the smoky torch's glance. Flashed a light in all their faces, like the flashing ot a lance, When, with brow all bare aud solemn, "Kor the King 1" he grandly aa4 "Lower the colors to tlie living beat the ruffle for the dead !" And thrice tin- red silk flickered low in its fl.une of royal tire. And thrire tlte drums moaned out aloud the mourner's wild desire. Ay, loA-er again, thou crimsou cloud, agaiu the drums lament : Tia Uaciiel in the wilderness and Kamah in tlie teutl "Close up I Right Dresf !" the Captain said, and they gathered under the moon, Aa the shadows glide together when the sua shines down at uoon A stranger at each soldier's right ah, war's wild work is grim 1 And so to the last of the broken line, and death at the right of him ! And there in tlie silence deep and dead, the Sergeant called the roll. And the name went wandering down the line as he called a passing soul. Ob, then that a friendly mountain that summons might have heard. And flung across the desert dumb the shadow of the word. And caught the name that all forlorn along the legion ran. And clasped it to its mighty heart aud sent it back to man ! There it stood, the battered legion, while the Sergeant called the roll, And the name went wandering down the line, as he called for a passing soul, llurraa for tlie dumb, dead lion t There a voice for tlie grcuadier Rolled out of the ranks like a drum-beat, and sturdily answered "Hsu!" "He stood," cried the sons of thunder, and their hearts ran orer the brim, "He stood br the old battalion, and we'll always stand br him I "Ay, t for the grand crusader, and we'll answer to tlie name ; "And what will ye say T" the Sergeant said: "Dbad on Tui'ritui or rim:" And dare ye call that dying ? Tbe dignity sublime That gaius a fu'lough from the grave, and then reports to Time ? Oh, look at the bay of sleep, with its breathless wares of swart). And its flocks of lettered sheep, dumb and white before the I.oni The wares died down to dimples, as if the fond earth smiled To think bow sound the slumbers of ber dear and tired child Tbe fleecy tablets leaning abore each drowsy head, As if nature with italics would emphasize the dead. lVth earth gire up the daisies to a little sun and rain. And keep at their roots the heroes while weary ages wane 7 Sling op the trumpet, Israel! Sweet bugler of oar For nothing waits thy summons beneath this broken sod ; For the deadest of the heroes hare as ailently rent tbe lod, As the clouds burst into flower when the sun rides over the bar. Or heaven breaks out of the blue and blossoms star by star. They march abreast with the ages to the thunder on tlie rigut. For thev bade the world "Gxn Morning !" when tbe world had said "Goon iuur f ( -loyu OMTHtd. A private meeting was held iu New York, within the last few days, to provide means lor the defense of Jetf. I)a is. Speeches were made in which it was claimed that the South was not conquered, aud that by tlie aid of their friend? in the North, Southern independence would yet be gained. When F Kit sax do Wood was elected Mayor of New York, in l!54, the taxes of the city and county wf re 84,s50,000. Then systematic corruption was inaugurated and it has coutiuued to increase rapidly. The taxes this year are 317, 4ii,!0S SU The cost "of governing London, which has a population thre times as large as New York, is $12,000,000 a year, and to ke p Paris ia ordeicosts only $10,000,000 Th cholera his readied Briminghara, England, andts spreading rapidly among the pa up era of that city. It is also apreadiug ia Constantinople. At Alexandria it has almost entirely disappeared, Oa the day when the U:e inform: ion came from there, only two death, occurred. In Cairo it was l.ss virulent, all ho' the cases, at last adricjs, continued quite numerous.

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Interesting Storg. HOW I LOST A WIFE ; A a Episode ia the Life of Bachelor. I am "down" on dog! I have the greatest possible antipathy to dog of ail breeds. lour "noble ewToundIaad, as thev are inappropriately, I think ! termed ly their admirers; jour faithful St. Bernard; your wiry haired, active rat destroying, Scotch terrier ; your longlegged consumptive looking greyhound ; your pug tailed pug nosed and very pugnacious bull-dog; your feickly looking and snarling poodle all individually and collectively, I abhor. In short, and most emphatically, too, I detest the whole canine race. It is an. old antipa thy, and as deeply rooted as an elm of a century s growth. It was in mid summer that I paid my last visit to the rural residence of Mary. The weather was excessively hot, and of course an opportunity to enjoy the refreshing atmosphere of the country the fragrance of clover fields, the perfume of sweet scented flowers, and other rural luxuries, and above all the society of one so dear to me as Mary an opportunity to enjoy all other luxuries I say I eagerly embraced. Myself and my friend Charley secured a week's furlough from our employer, and with happy hearts and anticipations of a pleasaut time, we left the city. That afternoon we arrived at our destination, Charley's parents, sisters, ami the rest, and Mary, n:irt ii'iilurl v. I flattered mvself. were all delighted to see us. Ah, I ean never forget how lovely the sweet looked on that afternoon. creature "The very air seemel lighter from her eyes, They were so soft and beautiful, and rite With all we can imagine from the skies." rr, ..... , . . ... ! AO aid to pleasantness Ol our tisu I also three or four j'oung temple cousins ! had been invited to spend a few days at the farm. They were all beautiful girls too, but so enamored was I of Mary that : I paid but little attention to their many charms. Charley romped and flirted with them, while I confined mvself exclusively to the society of his charming sister. How we picked berries., hunted bird's nests and four leaf clovers together; what delightful tete-a-tetes we indulged in, beneath the shade of fruit trees; our moonlight rambles tliroii?h the garden ; ( all thee and tunny other luxuries, I shall not speak of further; tlieir remembrance only serve to make me feel irlooiuy ft ttd increase my antipathy to dogs J But to Die catastrophe I have so frequently alluded to. At a short d.-it.i?:re from the dwelling, just at tlie turn of a road leading from it. ran a tine stream of clear, cool water. It was a charming stream to bathe in, and Charley and I, early in tlie morning, before the folks were up, used frequently to indulge in the aquatic luxury. One morning, however, Charley felt like sleeping a little longer than usual and I was obliged to take my bath without his company. I, ; arose very early, just as the day was breaking. It was a charming morning ; the air was cool and refreshing. The j rose bushes were drying their dewy tears, as if in gladness at the approach of daj-; ' birds were carrolling their morning lay, j and I was thinking. I was thinking i of a dream I had the night previous. I I dreamed that I was in Paradise saw i angels in profusion and most conspicuous I among them all was Mary. The rest j of the dream I will leave to the imaginai tion of the reader. I wended my vay ' slowly to the stream, thinking of my dream and various other things. Divest- ; ing myself of my clothes in I plunged ; bathed, swam, splashed and floundered about, for half an hour, until day had j fairly set in. The people at the farm : were up and about, anil then I thought i it about time to dress. I went to the ! spot where I had deposited my clothing, I but instead of finding everv article there as I had left them, and as 1 had reason to expect, nothing but my hat, boots aud coat remained. Heavens! Here was a dilemma. I looked all around, faithfully and diligently, but the missing articles could not be found. "Where could they have gone to?" I asked myself. "Surely, there can't be any thieves about so early in the morning. Ha! ha!" I chuckled aloud, consoling myself with the thought that Charley was playing off a .practical joke. At that instant I cast my eyes up the road in the direction of the house. Horrors ! Right in the middle of the road, and but a short distance from the house, I discovered a huge Newfoundland do-r a gigantic srjasgv brute the pet of Mary and the rest of the girls sporting with what I recognized as mv new MacR cassimere pants, and other portions of my apparel. The dog had followed me to the stream unobservj ed, and the result was as I have mentionj ed Oh. how the thieving brute was en joying himself tossiug high into the air ; my pants, shaking mv shirt, and appa- ; rently making merry over the perplexi ing predicament his mischievouness had ! placed me iu. What misery I was in! ; I feared to go into the road to recover my clothes, lest my rather immodest appearance might shock some of the fe male folks, who could not fail to see me. if I did so. from the windows of the hoiise. "Here, Fonto! Ponto.'" I called out but Potito didn't come. I whistled, coaxed, and made all sorts i gestures usuanv made in sucn cases. but l'onto was heedless of them all. As : if in unbounded ecst.tciea at mv very lu dicrous predicament, and apparently exulting over the trick he had served me, he went to work with increased liveliness, tossing my clothes high in the air. Taking my fine cassimeres in his huge jaws, he would run toward me, as if in obedience to my call, but before he got half way to where I stood, he would halt suddenly, snuff the earth, bark and start back again like lightning carrying my pants in his jaws, tossing them high in

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the air again, aud catching them, shake them in a manner that appeared as if he really enjoyed the sport. None but one in the same position that I was then placed can properly appreciate my feel ings at that time. What to do I cool I not possibly conceive. Every moment I expected to see Charle3 and some of his female cousins aud probably Mary too, Usue from the house in search of me, as I had been absent long enough to excite their surprise. Well, I finally came to the conclusion to put on what portion of my apparel the thieving dog had left me. This portion, as I said be fore, consisted of a coat, shirt, pair of boots and a hat, a very scant supply, certainly, for a modest man, as I was, to appear before a bevy of females, as I momentarily expected, for I was positive that my absence would soon be inquired into. I first drew on my boots, then my linen, and next my coat It was a dress coat, too, made in the height of fashion with narrow tails, which, on the occasion served only to hide a very small portion of my nudity. Thus ludicrously attired I awaited patiently, but anxiously, the appearance of some person from the house to whom I could make known my misfortune, and thus get relieved from my very unpleasant predicament. I waited and waited, and waited, and began to tire of waiting, and still nobody came. Voices I distinctly heard in the distance merry voices and ringing laughter greeted me, as I satdespondingly contemplating the probable denouement of my contretemps. The sound of the voices gradually drew nearer and nearer ; the laughter became more audible; now I heard the sweet musical voice of Mar-V5 then Frank'9 Jyoua and hearty laugn DroKe in, mcerspersen wun me more witching and- dulcet laughter of females. How I longed to be with them ! What fear and anxiety I suffered, as nearer and nearer the voices came, again I looked in the direction of the house, with the hope that I might see Borne of the male members. But such was not my luck. I looked again, standing on tiptoe, and straining my eyes till they seemed to be fairly bursting ftom their sockets. Hope this time d.-yvned in the distance. Cluirlev, my friend Charley, I distinctly saw emerge from the garden tnto tlie road. I laughed aloti I and dutu ed with joy. I saw a speedy release Irom my awkward predicament, and blessed the fate t'.iat sent it. But disappointment an l such a disappointment soon stored ine in tlie face, for looking a second time, I saw half a dozen girls Mary, her sisters and co isins following like young fawns in the walk of Charley's footsteps. Down the road thc3' bounded, like a drove of frightened deer, crying out in shrill tones, my name. "Where is the runaway?'' Where can he be?' "Frank ! Frank !" sang out several sweet voices among whom I recognized Mary's. All of a sudden, however, these joyous shouts were changed to different tones. 'We e-e-e : We-e-e-e!"' screeched a half dozen feminines. 'tile's drowned ! he's drowned !" cried some, a conclusion they all seemed to arrive at, when they discovered a portion of my clothes. Two or three fainted, and one or two carressed l'onto the dog for what they deemed his sagacity in making my fate known. The whole household were speedily alarmed, and all came rushing towards thttstream. and directly to the spot where I had partially secreted myself behind a small clump of trees. Here was another dilemma. My position was every moment becoming more critical. If I re mained where I was, I was certain to become exposed. I looked around for a place of concealment. Oh ! I feit as if I would have given a kingdom, if I possessed one, for some friendly tree wherein I might take shelter. I looked -gain, and thank heaven ! I discovered one. It was but a a short distance from me, and unobserved, and with the agility of a squirrel I mounted it; and just as I had seated myself on an outstretching branch in a manner that perfectly screened me, half a dozen girls Mary among the number arrived on the spot and halted directly under the tree. "Can he be drowned ?"' sympathizingly asked Mary. And I thought I heard her sob. Delighted at this evidence, as I took it, of an attachment to me on her part, my curiositj- was excited, and anxious to catch every word spoken by her, I carefully and noislesslv stretched mv body forward on the limb on which I was reKsing Treacherous limb ! Unlucky movement ! Just as I did so. with a report like a pistol, the limb broke. down I went headlong in the midst of my sympathetic female faiends. " What a fall was there, my countrymen T ' The sudden and unexpected catastrophe bewildered me for a moment, and it was seme seconds before I fairlv recovered from the shock. The first recollection I had was being surrounded by a group of astonished maidens, having each one the appearance of a marble statue. Mary was nearest to m "And half in wonder, half ia fear. She gaaed with blushes warm. " But she gazed for only a moment; then uttering a scream equal in shrillness and loudness to a locomo ive whistle, she darted off like lightning, followed bv the fluttering of muslin, such a sereeehinf. ana sucu a general stampede, I never beard or witnessed. A war they went like young colts with anlimited "pasturage, and soon they were all out of sio-ht 1 looked around to see if I had beenentirely deserted, and discovered Charier, rolling on the ground, in a paroxvsm of laughter. With him the thing "was a capital joke, and he enjoyed it wonderfully. But it waa far different with me. When I thought of my ludicrous costume, its scant amount hat, coat and

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AUG. lO, 1865. hoots and a narrowed tailed coat, too when I thought of this, and reflected that, thus attired I had been seen by Mary, her sisters and cousins but particularly Mary none of the persuasions, coaxings, beseechiugs, of my friend Charley could induce me to make my appearance at the breakfast-table that morning. No ; I resolved instantly to take my departure for the city, and did so as soon as I obtained the requisite wardrobe. I never saw Mary afterward, site was soon after married, and is now t le happy mother of a happy and quite uumerous family, and I'm a bachelor. Yes, I'm down on dogs. The whole canine race. Don't you think my antipathy to the brutes is justly founded ? Gen. Cox on Reconstruction. Last week, we published a few extracts from the able and truly eloquent letter of the Union candidate for Governor of Ohio, in reply to a "committee," giving his views regarding the disposal of the colored race. We make further extracts from the same document, believing that we could not publish anything on this "vexed question" more practical or more acceptable to our readers. "Ilildreth.in his 'Despotism in America,' declared tdave to be in itself a state of war, and this character is indelibly impressed upon both races in the South. The captive learns duplicity toward his captor, and in the s-lave it has become a marked characteristic It is a fair stratagem for which he feels no guilt. I have seen a master boasting of the fidelity of his servant, and discussing the subject of slavery in his presence. while tlie negro waited upon him with an impassive humility which would make 3-ou believe no intelligent idea of free dom had ever penetrated his brain. Yet I have seen that samo negro afterward in camp, transformed into a clear-headed ally of our troops, leading them to his master's buiied stores, or guiding them to the flanks of the enemy's lines, with an intelligence and steadiness of purpose which left no doubt as to his understanding of the conflict between himself and his matci The daily and hourly repetition of proofs of this fact, many of them too subtle for description, but none the loss convincing lo the observer, has fullv convinced me that never between Norman ami Saxon nor between Gaul and Frank, was there a more conscious hatred, or antagonism more liktdy to prove inveterate, than between black and white on our Southern soil. The negroes will have no 6ense of security nor faith in their former masters, even if they offer tbem political rights; they will fear them as Da no ox dona fertniet. What does history teach U9 in regard to the permanance and durability of such prejudices and enmities of race? Speaking on this subject, Atigustin Thierry, in his history of the Roman Conquest, says: "Whatever degree of territoiial unity the great modern States of Europe may appear to have attained ; whatever may be the community of manners, language, and public feeling, which tlie habit of living under tlie same government, and in the same stage of civilation, has introduced among the inhabitants of each of those States, there is scarcely one of them which docs not even now present living traces of the diversity of the races of men, which in course of time have come together in it. This variety shows itself under different aspects, with features more or less marked. Sometimes it is a complete separation of indioms, of local traditions, of political sentiments, and a sort of instinctive enmity distinguishing from the great national mass the population of a few small districts ; and sometimes a mere difference of dialect or even of accent, marks though more feebly, the limit of the settlements of races of men, once thoroughly district and hostile to each other. If fifteen centuries of common government and political Union have not been able to obliterate the distinctions and even the "instinctive enmity" of races which were physiologically similar, what encouragement have we that success will attend a forced political fusion of bitterly hostile races from the antipodes of the human family ? The process by which even the comparative unity of the English people was achieved, is described by the same philosophic historian, whom I have quoted, near the close of his great work, as a "complete amalgamation" of the Norman and Saxoirtdioms, and a "mixture of the two races," which it toak four centuries of sanguinary war to accomplish. -. I hold that there is great philosophic truth in the words of Guizot, in summing up the eight centuries of bloodshed out of which the French emerged into nationality from the petty races and tribes. He says. "In the life of nations. that onion which is exterior and visible. the unity of name and of government, I l I a av 1 A. I although important, is by no means the first in importance, the most real, or that which makes indeed one nation. There is a unity which is deeper and more powerful : it is that which results not merely from identv of government and of destiny, but from the homogenity of social elements, from the likeness of institutions, of manners, of ideas, of tastes, of tongues; the unity which resided in the men themselves whom society assembles, and not in tbe forms of their associations ; in short, that moral unity (f tiu mvrale ) which is far more important than political unity, and which is the only solid foundation for the latter." I have watched with deep interest tbe educational effect of the war upon our own army, and I assure you that whilst our white si!diers have unformiy and quickly learned to appreciate tbe fact that the existence of our free Govern ment could only be preserved by the

destruction of the system of - slavery, and so became radically and thoroughly antislaverj-, the tendency for battling for the old flag was almost equally uniform in increasing and deepening their pride of race. The fact is one which cannot safely be overlooked in any calculation involving their action upon, the political problems before the country, and it it one in regard to which I think I can hardly be mistaken. The details of any system of separation could only be determined by careful study and a wide comparison of views. Suppose, however, that without breaking up the organization of any State, you take contiguous territory in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, and there, under the sovereignty

of the Lnited States, and with all tbe facilities which the power and wealth of tne Government can give, we organize tae ireeatnen in a ueiiemlencv of the Union analaoous to the W esteru Tern tones. Given them schools, laws facilitating the acquirement of homesteads, to be paid for by tlieir own labor, full and exclusive political privileges, aided at the start, should it seem necessary, by wise selection from the largest brains ana most pnuaiuuropic Hearts among anu blavery men, to join them, a judicia ry or executive which would command their confidence in the first essays of political existence. There need be no coercive collection of the colored race in the designated region ; the majority are there now, and tho reward of political power would draw thither the remainder quite as rapidly as their place could be supplied bv white immigration into other States. The forts and seaport cities could remain under the direct control of the Federal Government as the basis for that common trade aud intercourse with other parts of the country and the world, which would be necessary. The fullest opportunity to develop the highest civiliztion "they are capable of, would then be given. Colored men of talent and intelligence would not then make a vain struggle for the empty name of being lawyers without briefs, or merchants without trade, but would have what a leading journal at the East has frequently demanded for them, the opportunity, as well as the right, to rank according to their real character and ability. That there are diiliculties in the relation of such a plan I shall be the first to admit, but there are difficulties iu all plans. It is natural to men to strii2rle to avoid responsibility, and to drift upon the current, trusting "to fate ; but drifting leads to diiliculties, as we who drifted into a war which has cost half a million of lives and untold millions of money, should not need to be told ; and I agree with you that drifting will probably decide this matter against the black race, aud involve his destruction, while by leaving the labor of the South in the hands of a degraded caste it entails slavery, and prevents that homogenity of institutions and manner, XSortU and South, which I have said I believe to be the only sure fouudatiou of permanent peace. The Anglo American and the AfricaAmerican races now stand face to face upon the Southern soil in irreconcilable hostility. The few colored men whom we have among us may be regarded as the wails and strays of the great body which is a nation in numbers, and in its isolation by mental and physical characterestics. It is as a unit that we must deal with them, and no paltering with tho edges of the difficulty will avert the doom which all history teaches us will follow a solution. The magnitude of the problem is immense, but the principles which must decide it one way or the other are simple. When we deal with a whole community, however closely related to ourselves, it ia not by the application of the maxims of muncipal law as applied to individuals, that we must decide the case, but by a modified form of international law, which so far from ignoring our responsibility to God, our common ruler, or the obligation to recognize the fundamental rfghts of man, necessarily implies them all. Religion, honor, humanity, republicanism, all call upon us to see well to it that we do not allow the seething and molten elements to crystalize into a new form of oppression, and I recognize as fully as you possibly can the burden of resjtonsibility which this great epoch in the world's history rolls upon all who have even the humblest part in determining the shape of public policj I have approached the subject as an an ti slavery man. I have thought as deeply as I was capable of, and have carefully revised rpy opinions and tested them by all the fundamental principles of right aud justice. If others do not agree with me, and it part me from any whose principles and motives are the 6ame as my own, my deep regret that it should be so cannot change my convictions. It has seemed to me that the solution I have offiered rids us of the difficulties in our way. It gives to the black man political rights ami franchises without , i "e .uvui9v:9 n luiuut onerous terms; it reduces the renresen!a.a.. JF . . . . tation of the Southern whites in Con gress to a proper basis, their own numbers; it secures the permanent peace of the Government and the allegiance of the people, by the only sure guaranty, viz: that of common interest and identity f institutions. What more would you have ? It is worth while to consider that in such a plan as I have suggested, there is that which is likely to attract co-operation on the part of reflecting men in the Southern States. There can be no question lbat so rue portion of .the sectional bitterness which finally led to secession and war, was caused .by a more or less distinct perception of difficulties like these we are considering, from which they saw no reasonable outlet, and that any plan which recognizes the, facta have atated, and endeavors to provide for them so as to secure harmony and prosperity in tbe South, will soon find advocates there. I do not mention this

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The homogenity must be made perfect ahd complete, for neither subject provinces nor military proconsulships can long co-exist with republican government. Fslstaff Outdone Jeff. Thompson has a ''Family Telk" with hie Ragamuffins. When Jfcrr Thompsok's men had been assembled at Jacksonport, Arkansas, to be paroled, a few weeks since,' the redoubtable hero of the white plume mounted a barrel and spoke to them after the following fashion. A portion of his address has already appeared, but will bear repetition : Gentlkmkn: I have eorae here to have a little family talk with yon, as this will be the last time I may ever meet you together. I have come here to tell you the news. Many of you don't know'yet that Vicksburg has fallen, and many of you don't know that Lee or Johnston have surrendered, but I tell you it U all true. 3fany of the 8,000 men I now seearound me, very many of you, have been skulking for the last three years in the swamps within a few miles of your own homes, skulking duty, and during that time have not seen your children. I see many faces about me that have not been seen by mortal man for the last three years; and what have you been doing all this time? Why, you have been lying iu the swamps until the moss has grown six inches long on 3'our backs, and such men call themselves "chivalrous soldiers." A few weeks ago Gen. Reynolds sent a flag of truce to my headquarters, and I sent out to gather up a respectable force to meet those officers, and not one of you responded ; a few days later, when Col. Davis and Captain Bennett of General Dodge's staff, bore dispatches to me from that General, I again attempted to call about me enough of you to make a respectable' show, and how many of these bravo 8,000 men reported at the call ? One tore eyed man vrith green goggle. But -ou rally like brave and gallant men around Uncle Sam's commissary stores, and I now come to surrender you, and hope you will make better citizens than you have soldiers. Voice from the crowd : "General, talk to uslik. trentlAmon " 1 'n you just dry up until 1 get through, and then you can get up on this barrel and talk. I know there are some gentlemen here, and I know there are more d d sneaking, cowardly dogs.who "have never done nothing on nary aide," and I am going to talk to you all. Now, 1 want you to go home and work hard and take care of your families, work early and late, and get np at night and see if your crops are growing. Above all things, avoid political discussion. If any man says "nigger" to you, swear that you never knew or saw one in your life. We have talked about tho niggers for forty years, and have been out talked; we have fought four years for the niggers, and have been d d badly whipped, and now it is not "your put," the Yankees have won tbe nigger, and will do what they please with him, and you have no say in tbe matter; if they want him they will take him, and if they say that you must keep him, you must do it and no mistake. I tell von that you have no say in the matter, and you oughtn't to have any. Go home and stay there; don't go anywhere but to mill ; don't go to church, for the ministers will put knots and mischief in your beads and get you into trouble. Be' good citizens, and then those of you who have been good, honest, and brave soldiers have nothing to fear, bnt I warn those of you who have been nothing but sneaking, cowardly jaybawkers, "cutthroats and thieves, that a just retribution awaits you, and I hope to God that the Federal authorities will hang you wherever and whenever they find you, and they will do it sure. . Now I want to talk to yon Miisourisns. You are talking about going to your old homes to lire again. What'did every one of you say last fall, when Vou went into Missouri and expected to remain there? Why, that you would make every Union man "climb a tree," and many threats of a similar character. Now, do you think that those Union men whom j-ou threatened with a Laltcr a few days ago, if you got the power, are now going to permit you to come and live among them, and hare all the rights and privileges they enjoy ? Xot much. Now the tables are turned ; if you go back there they may make yoa climb tree and I hope they will for many of you richly deserve it. A clergyman was lately depicting before a deeply interested audience the alarming increase of inUmperance, when he astonished Lis hearers by exclaiming : "A young woman in my neighborhood died rery suddenly last Sunday, whL'o I was preaohing the Gospel ia a state of beastly intoxication V . - i s a nil a X3F"Ab honest German in Philadelphia, listening- to am acooaat of a married woman's ehypemeat with another man,' the other day, got greatly excited over it, and spluttered forth, with the greatest Teherncce: ,4If mr Tife rnae away mit anoder jnaa' rife, I will shake him out of hex preaches, if she be min own fader, nunc Got !. n r

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