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THE TR-WEMY k, 8! V. WIL._SBORO- S.C,TJDYMRNl A 616 VOL.. 11I.-NO 45. THRI TR[-WEEKLY NEWST VOt'CA oi the Constitution0 of the United States. nY D). D. M'0itFOHT. No.9. "I will run the machine as I find it." A. LINcor.s. Switching off the track at this point, the opportunity will be taken to consid er briefly the causes which led to the 'war. Adopting the mechanicil figire used by President. Lincoln in a speech ot his made early in 6,0 rvCohition, let ni Oxtend its appllicat.ion. Under the figure of a railroad train in IOtion, the political history of tle Government, will be hurriedly pictured. Tihe Constitution is the track, the Gov ernment the engine, the Executive the engineer, Congress the conductor, thf Supremo Court the regulator, and the people the passengers. (The reader can iningin6 what hi pleases as the train.) The powers grSed in the Constitutiot. *or prohibited by it, to theStates, will an :swer for the schedulu and the States t.li Directors. TIlE PRI MARY CAUS. The first cause of the war is to be folpid in the origin of the Company. The directors adopted almo't unanimons. ly the schedule, hat as they were divid. 01 into two parties, there arose a dis. pnte as to which party should get the patronage of the road. Th.ere w%as a nargin impl'ed in the adoupted schedilh., and (if cour-e there was a maximum and - miniimum speed. And upon these the two pa rties respectively based their claims. One party contentle4ldt.hat the train should he run at maxinmm speed, that a con sfa*nt strain should be kept on the ma chinery so as to increase more and more tho prohibitory featro of the schedule, ned force a compliance on the part of t.h o -iredtors as to its superiority. The -a.her party alleged that. such a course it'ild euringer the whole enterprise, and that thrdfore the minimum speed should prevail, or at least a medium one, which .is dOls called a conservative speed. The first party was. known as Federdlists, the second anti-Fe eralists. Wasiington and Adams were the acknowledged leaders of the 'formnier,.and Jefferson of the latter. In the first issue the high-pressuro 'party offieered the road, and Washing ?ton went in as engineer. This was in. 1799. In 1793 the sain party was again successful. I&it by 1797 the 'low-pressure party had acqiiire-d su .cient. strength to get in Thomas Jeffer eon as assistant, ongineer (Vice-Presi ident.) And inI 180I this party got the ascendancy, by actually putting Jeffer son in,as engineer. Thus for twelvo years the strain was kept upon the ma. chinery, not however without danger to the whole traint as witness thoalien and sedition laws. From Jefferaon down to Buchanan the low, pressure patrt.y got the p'trort- I; age of t.he road. In the meantime the I oppoetr/g parties had vacillated in their titular artetc, If not in their principles.iAs soon the high pressure party lost the;M *nage of this road, they chiarged this rty withi put-. ting too mnen sae. achinery. Unrder the governhlent4 the enigineer of thie high pressi t.hat party jnetifled 'the ntmro4ti a Under the engineering of Madison. 5# leader ofrthe low pressure, the same par- U f.y charged the .managers of the road wit h the utmost disiregard of' the scled. tile in straining the macbinery. . The traninorphossi undergone by' thy high-.presmure pauty wvero from theo federals t's* wh low-.pxrtur were from anti federalists .t4.dmi'ocrats or reublicena and fromi i leiocrats to secessioists. The grand listinction between the two parties has iways held however in the main. The most serious contest of all for the atronage of the road occurred in 1860. kud the most remarkable fact in that ontost. was that, of the two parties vhich led off in the strife, neither had he numerical power to secure that pa rutiage. The medium or conservative party vas really by fat the strongest. ' But his party itself had become disintegrat. :(, and assumed two phases, and while hese- two divisions of the same original iarty were fighting against each other, hey were both also contending against le high pressure piarty which had tIhen )ecotim the abolition. And thus there vas instituted a Iriangular duel, as the narino novelist calls such a disposition of opposing forces. The radical wing of the low pressure party essayed to ut in Breckinridgo as engineer. The OW-pressuie party proper pitched upon 'oniglass, but unfortunately duplicated heir ticket and thus added Bell. The igh-pressure par:y trotted out Lincoln, md with these leaders the contest be An. Extremes meet. Beginning at old ientucky, where conservatism even to intirality prevailed, and sweeping u11(l to Plymouth rock, there we find he extreme high pressure principles as 1eindant. And from the same neutral oint sweeping rouid in another direc ion to Fort Sumter, there we find the xtreme low pressure triumphant. Each if these extreme points have in time sserted and conceded the same claim lint is to get out and leave the train when its pe*ed didn't snit them.'' To illustratrate. When in the spring if 1851 lie ext reme low pressure in sontii Carolina wsted its ultimatum h'at, other ext reme in Massachusetts -esponetd tUs : "Resolved, That odimvns as are the 'governing principlesof South Carohna, twe cannot withhold from her the 'praise justly due for her consisteit maintenaice, of the great cardiiial doc trine of te right of secession by a sin gle State-a right vital to' liberi y. and 'the only safegnard of the several sov. 'eigiuties, from a grasping centraliza. timn." ApP. to Cong Globe, Vol. 25, p. 95. But that medium party which had the uplicated ticket said "no, we won't Ruffer either of the wnga to leave the rain after their fashion, but we will offi er the road and keep all the passen gers aboard." But the issue, did not ustify their assumption ; for through the Folly of their own doings the extreme high pressurm party secured the patron igo of the road. What was now to be Jone ? The very low-pressure had long %go decided what they would do in a 3ertain event, and that was to jump off Jhe train and start one of their own. Qiery.-Would not the high-pres uro havejuimped ofl if the,victory had ~orched on the banners of the low-pres iure? Hoiwever the low-pressure, the very ow,did actually leave the train,even be. 3re the engineer elect (Lincoln) mount d the engine. And when ho did take is position, that medium party wvhielI iad whipped nobody butt itself, divided, ome jumping off and others remaining n the train. As there were now has w6 parties, and irr.econcilable at that, ireceding one concluded thirt l(.s wvl. ended uo the starting a train n m trek.It did sor bt the arty e oltin -a' refieset -thelt rain a ed if the new one.O er of tl1e ~ qP ng; unsgeQQe nd. the pa ever. havl,in 11Z is.to tet htIno, bhunkg ,i ake knew frain # shop and 6tb ect, it to tremet pressure, th, ollision was too inuch. T.,e old tirain lashed through it, tnodked it into a iousand fragments, d scattered the' passengers like leaves in the val'e Valambrosa. The Directors of the old tran had humanity enough to pick up the crip pled victia, and take them back into the >ld train again, but before doing so they ied them all up. into big bundles and packed them away in the baggage de. iartnent, and there ive are yet, atid lthre we are likely to rtmain so long as Congress is coriductd, engineer and regilator. MA. JoHNsoN'S FIRMNESS8 T1L8LtX. -It. is said t! - radical$reconsidered the vote upon the amendment to the p at Alice appropriation hill restricting the Presilent's power of removal, because Ahey founil out that he would certainly veto the whole bill and the post offices bi closed up. Mr. Poltd said he would not stand before his people on that 11Mndnwont. Speakin'g of this vote of reconsideration,. the Ndioual Iitelligen. -r, of the 8th says: "The things presaged by the discus. sion inl the Senate yest.rday were, that anmber; of the more thbught-ful Repub licans in Congress will 'not longer sus Inin the head-long policy that has been thus Far forced along in the channels of legislation, under the leadership of Mr. Stevns. Arid particll -ly is it. indica. ted that measures to abide the usual exercise by the President of his preroga. tive i respect to appop tments cannot be passel over his head If vetoed. Nor is there longer danger. we feel persunad. ed, 'hut the most odionst features of the rlisunimn scheme of the 6fRe,constrnction Committee can obtain t1il rig1isite Con stitlitional sanction whis subjected to the ordeal of Exeot* disapproval. We hail this indication 'qight reason a encouraging to union. ming a .step in the direction suggested by the enlight. ene-1 pliblic se.timlent of Flurope, as giving hope to the depressed business interests of the country, and as strenigth ening the public credit. It is now a favorablv opportunity for such constitn ents of Congrissinen as are not politi cians li y trade to aid and comfort all those who, in the high concils of the nation. are disposed to act for country, and not neri-ly to obey the behiests of violent partisal.s." Tjir TRAMY AT TIEF NAOr.-The advance in the public securities of the United States is liable to be misunder stood. Instead of indicating an increas ed confidenc e in the Government credit, it oniv narks, in truth, the decline in businesq. and the decay of the general prosper'ty. The National Intelligenc(r, discnssing this subject, says quite forci b!v: "Bsiness is nov declining in the Northern States, and it is at a dead pause in the South. The vastt amount of irredeemable paper which has acen. mnulated in the commercial centres, seeks employmnent, and can find none in any industrial ptrsnit. Therefore it is in. vested in Government securities, which have advanced slightly ill price, on ac count of the demand. The Government nterst is more remunerative to capital than any ordinary business'enterprise." This is the effect of the civil rights bill. They, at the North, are getting used to its requisitions. We wish them well. NKGR3 ASRAULT AND ITS Cimu,g. QUVaNcES.-On Friday evening, b tween 8 and 9 o'clock, Mr. Green. CI iel of Police, heard a negro saying or threat ening that he woul kill a U!nited States soldier. Mr. Green remonstrated with 1.lim, but the negro being obstreperons, he attempted to arrest him ; whereupon the negro assaulted him and ktnocked him down. Mr. Gnsen, as soon as lhe oonld get the use of his hand., discharg. ued his revolver four times at the body of his1 nead~tant, the effects of the wounds, ate 9we leava, proving fatal. 'o regret to chronicles this th,ing of our freedmen,I dwe believe the majority of-t?,hes and prudent among t,hem will cond$mtn eI c'nduct of the freedman- eadefto., F+hn Ie Neg York Aet<id. W ii de 118, Ji eff. U116h. P'ONTR916 MONROE, Maj, . MIrs; Jeff. V'avi's iAs talite up her '"artefs ibWid6 the 1oYt; Si6 remaii'ed there last night; ta#ing pievionsly sent for her baggage il man servant. Dr. Coop'er; pot su'rge6n; and; by viit4le 6f such poiiti?on; the medt'a&l att6ndant of Mr. Daiis; has giviN h'e'ap'artment in the hotise o'coupied by :mst6f Ad tafii ly. The bo'etor; it i ill be re'nenibbied; is not only the medical a:dvfseit of Mr. Davis, but als6 futnishes hii' his 6eala from his own tabM4. Althou'gli . iter. taiining no sh'adow of syipa;hy foi Mr. D'avis; lie W.-iturally feeli a deep p'rofes; sional intereFt in hi'm ; and; in- the dis. .harge of his p'roiessioinal duty has bee unfaltering italonf and faithfeul ; and to his admirable skill' and wiftehful care there can be i1o doubt thai Mr. Dais is irm'ensm'ably indebted for what of heithh and vitaify stil remain to him. Hold. ing mcih relati6ns to Mr. Davis furnishes all t he expthn;*t'on' tht rieed' be given of his receiving Mrs; Davis as' a guesC ih his family. As for Mrs. ]avis site may congratulate herself that qhe has fallen into sudh' hospitable find' considerate hands. CONDITIONS ot MINt. IVAVI8' Yl8I'T. As state in my letter of yesterday, Mrs. Davis obtained per"i8sion to.visit her husband' direct fRom President. John son. But the permission was given tinder certain restrictibi\s, thlough with liberality of indulgende tl%it greatly air pribsS very many here. The restricti'ons are that she is not to tse any influenco or contribute any aid to thW rescud* of Mr. Davi.i or his release otherwise tthn through the proper Government 0han. ne 1. The indulgence gradl6d' her admits ier to inconstrained interviews with her husband, a0d at ill hours of the day between reveile and sutinst. It is not. enjoined that an officer shall be in the room with them, neither is it forbid. den.- In the absene of Pach injufttion, General Miles allowed her to visit her husband unattended by an officer, A sentinel, however, walks back and forth continually in front of the barred win. dows of his room. last, alid not least, no limit is pla::ed upon the 16ngti of her visit. THE TiME MRS DAVIS PROONEs TO lt* MAIN. In answer to a question lo* long shn pr-oposed to make her visit,- Mrs. Davis said emphatically, "I iittd' to remain until Mr. Davis is orderdi'twa for trial, or lie is released from prisen or dies." And she is a woman of that. decision and spirit tlat she will do what she says, unless some intermediate interdiction ocenre to prevent it. She evidently las no such fears, as it is believed she knows too well the tenure1 Ler sojourr, to allow herself to entertain any sutch apprehensions. MR. DAVIS' FUTURR AS I.O0MED AT li MRS. DAVI. It is nitutral for women to be enthusi astic, part'cularly when their Ftrotg eat affections and more cherisheu hopes are interested. Mrs, Pavis ih probably not am exception: It is deC tain that she is eathusiastially hopefil regtrding the future oit Mr. N4vis. She expresses tler sure belief that he will very soon be released on his parole. It is possible that the wish in her case is father to the thought, but she talks with that degree of nsurance on the topic, carrying a conviction- of a stronger basis for the belief she expresses thaii idle surmise. fondisd- on~ delsisive hbpe There twight be persos,. she .says,-wh wotrid like to, pesene Mr. Itvis froisi prison, but she sents tte- idea of huis'ad cepting any such release.. T'lf will not go away from here, she- dSecer;-unless in a mranner comporting with. his sense of bigh honor ; and she claitne A,b' hitn a puinati of' hronr partaking of tikhiv. alry of the old knight. of the mediteval ge,On the subjec of parole she' in' stets with equal emphasis; that he wouild sa.er.e hi. 3ii before violating hit parohet ed t ta hlAlabasth, for killing weeku nShri DanIel . Jbt lie asg insured Gen; McUefsw I said e be prepar. na abhiotr7 of kl. amplnigt. Tie Clivirc Imltelligenier, D EVOTED to the interests of the Pro testant. Episcopal Church, is publish ed at Charlotte. N. C. 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