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The Soldier's Returit,
T2'uii-"The Mill, Mill, 0."
Wben aWll1 war's deadly blast was blown,
And gentle peace returning,
A'id-eyes again wi' pleasure beam'd,
Tft kad been biear'4 wi' mourning;
I left the Lines and 4eeted field,
AY.here lang I'd 61ees a lodger;
My hnle knapsack a' my wealth; 5
A poor but honest sedger.
A lal light Seart beat in my bireast,
My band'-a-anstam'd wi' plander;
And for fahr Sooti hame -again,
I heroy on lid wander.
I thought upon the banks .o' Coil,
I thought upon my Nancy;
thourght upon the witohing smile,
li'kat-cagghit wy youthfu fancy.
At length I smaod e onnie glen,
Whoe early life I[sported;
IE pass'd Ithe migl and trystingthorn,
Ahre Nancy ft I cortoer
Wtha spied A but any in dear mid,
Domn -by hiermother's dwelling
And turn'd me round to bide the oo
That in my ee was swelling. i
Wi' alntor voice, quoth , sweet oass,
.Sweet as yen hawthiorn's Wlsseut,
01 happy, happy may ihe be. o0
That's dearest to my bosom!
My purse is light, I've far to gang,
Aad fain wad ae th~y ledger; C0
Te oer'd Day kiag and oeatry lang, o
Tak pity on a sodger, . r
Sac wistfully she gazed on ue, !
And lovier grew than ever;
Quoth sha, A sodger ance I loved,
Forget him will I never.
Or humble coet and hamely fare,
Yo freely shall partake o't;
That gallant badge, (he dear cookade,
Ye're weleome for thee aot. e
he gaed-she redden'd like a rose
Syne pale an ony lily;
She sank within ny arms, and cried,
ArT thou my in dear Willie?
B3y Him, who made yon oun and sky, -
By whout trute love's regarded;
I Stu the nan and thu may still
True lovers be rewarded. n
The wara are o'er, and I'm come hame, V
Anr find thee still true-heared
Though paanr in gear, we rich in love,
Ad mair we'e n'cr be patedl.
Quoth shte, Mfy grandsire left mie gowd, V
A mnailin plentolh'd fairly ; 81
Then come, my faithfuo' ander lad,
Thou'rtI welcome o it dearly.
F,,r gold the merant ploughs the mola,
The riner ploughs the inAnor
But glory ip the sodlger's prize,
The sodger's wealth is honour.
The brae poor sodger ne'er despise,
Nor count hi r P u a stranger: C
Retember he's his country's stmy, 9
In day and hour t' danger.* o
| Robert Bumern. }
GOING ALOFT.
--:o: -
One evening a party of old ship- u
mastors met a a socia su per. Af- s
ter the rloth was removed, and the
wine began to circulate freely, some
of the older captain commened
spinning yarns about their own ad- s
ventu a chea frmn the numr of
was aptan Suter is ainer a mpond
goodapaier, too or o th iden tt
waoseoredlate he whole nofhingi
bu wastery yn when i ent hts
seor, and atgah ageo fourws: I on
WasellhpmtenI to shippeon h
hod' and ant dimn wfoh yoa og
vthae you ern' woe myx refus asa
moark of codneo dsrespge, an wel
give you a chate dfrom th ertorm of
e ary sailo ande our irws arg inr
pro cpote, too;e forin fthe nien al
pa about seprate fthe he of myo
sbscewuent mashood was bte oj:e
No w verys adn wene Iwnt toe I
uson h g of oufves ornkI eon,
gidrg asel qits a sailor., When
Swas eidghteen shr ws woulpd na
ribad es indiamr fors a ogt
unfar.qere wudre coix of in a
boae," bout~ thee wsame ageu anuwe
hed whobou4 nt bae due to erorm.h
nae shi-h Jod Smal, no -ws
Nowargack, a o orew liraareind
eprelyorto dhreibeing himy-lwo, all j
Sheold Wse ubuos" ask e tor cled, h
sse! aloneh, and ga other job p,
hoeer; wee pae o therst of
hthae juwas mca the filoe.
te Our captain wadshareys nde
heated, hon orabe man kindandt
bw o geton ho e doud int
bo*ho~ coul4 no't bind t o bouch
Dn shore with him to spend the night,
%ud such things as that, while we were
kept on board the ship. That wasn't
ill. He learned fastor than we did
be was a better sailor and had learn.
3d more of navigation. It got so at
length that Jack was called upon to
oake the dook sometimes, when the
mficers were busy; and he used to
work out the reckoning at noon as
regular as did the captain. Yet Jack
was in our mess, and he was a con
itant eyesore. We saw that he was
reaching rapidly ahead of us in every
useful particular, and yet we wouldn't
)pen our eyes. We were envious of
is good fortune, as we called it, and
ised to seize every opportunity to
,iase him. But he never got angry
n eturn. Ile sometimes would laugh
t us,, and at others he would so feel
ogly chide us that we would remain
ilent for a while.
At length the idea entered our
cads that Jack should drink with us.
Ve talked the matter over in the
tess, when Jack was absent and we
iutually pledged each other that we
rould make him drink at the first op
ortunity. After this determination
mas taken we treated Jack more kind
y, and he was happier than he had
een for some time. We were on our
omeward-bound passage, by the way
f Brazil, and our ship stopped at
Lie Janeiro, where we were to remain
week or so. One pleasant morning
re six youngsters received peruission
a go on shore and spend the whole
.By; and accordingly we rigged up in
ur beat togs and were carried to the
anding.
Now was our chance, and we put
ur heads together to see how it should
e done. Jack's very first desire, as
son as he got on shore, was to go up
nd examine the various things of
aterest in the city. le wanted to
isit the churches and such like plao.
R, and to please him we agreed to go
rith him if he would go and take
inner with us. Ile agreed to this at
nec, and we thougiht we had him
ire. WVe planned that after dinner
,as eatea we would have some light,
weet wine brought on, and that we
ould contrive to get runi enough into
hat he drank to upset him ; for
othinig on earth would please us more
ban to get Jack drunk, and carry
im on board in that condition. Then
,a fancied the captain's favoritism
rould be at an end, and that he
ould no longer look upon our rival
Fith more preference than upon our
Dlves.
Dinner-time came at length. It
ras a capital dinner, and we came to
with sharpened appetites. But
,hen the wine was brought in, Jack
ot only refused to taste it, but do
lined to rcemain in our company. We
ried out against him as a inan, stin
y fellow, who thought himself too
ood to associate with us, and accused
im, at last, of trying to step over
ur heads on the ship, and all the
npleasant things we could think of
o make the poor fellow unhappy. At
rat he seemed to be inclined to leave
is and return to the ship alone ; but
uddenly, in a quiet tone, he said,
Shipmates, listen to me a moment.
lince matters have come to this pass
have resolved to tell you something
?hieh I never meant to reveal. My
tory is short. From my earliest
hiideood I never knew what it was
o have a happy home. My father
ras a drunkard I Onse lhe had been
good man and a good husband, but
umn ruined all his manhood and made
brute of him. I can remember how
old and cheerless the winter used to
o. We had no fire-no food-no
lothes-no joy-no nothing-nothing
't misery. Oh! bow my mother
rayed to God for her husband ; and I,
iho could but just prattle, learned to
ray too.
"When I grew older I had to go out
nd beg for bread. All cold and
hivering I waded through the deep
now, with my clothes in tatters aud
ay freezing feet almost bare. And I
aw other children ef may own ago
lressed warm and comfortable, and I
:new they were happy, for they laugh
. and sang as they bounded along
oward school. Those boys had sober
'athers. I knew that their fathers
yore no better than minec had been
nee; for my mother had told me how
moble my father could be if rum were
act in his way.
"Time passed on and I was eight
roars old, and these years had been
rears of such sorrow and suff'eridig as
pray God I may never again expe
'ionce. At length, one eel d morning,
n the dead of winter, my father was
mot at home. H-T had not been at
omeo through the night. My amother
ent me to the tavern to see If I could
ind him, I had gone half the way
when I saw something in the snow ly
be side of the road. I stopped, aind
ish udder ran through me, for it look
4 like a human form. I wenti up-to
I, and turned the head ever and
)rshed the soow from the face.. It
was my father, and he, was .stiff: and
sold!i I laid my hand upon hi. pale
crow, and it was like solid untble.
Fie was dead)ie
"I went to the tavern anid told the
people there what I had foind, and
the landlord sent two of his men to
3arry the frosen body of- my fath'eV
borne. Oh, shipnbtesLean' - noteh
groaned. She sank down upon hei
knees and clasped that icy coipse t(
her heart, as though she would have
given it life from -the warmth of het
own breast. She loved her hushand
through all his errors, and her love
was all-powerful now. The two man
went away and left the dead body
still on the floor. My mother whis.
pored to me to come and kneel by her
side. t did so. 'My child,' she said
to me, and the big tears wore yet
rolling down her cheeks, 'you know
what has caused all this. This man
was once as noble and happy and true
as man can be, but oh I see how he
has been stricken down. Promise me,
my child, oh! promise, here, before
God and your dead father, and your
broken-hearted mother, that you will
never, never, never touch a single
drop of the fatal poison that has
wrought for us all this misery I'
"Shipmates, I did promise all my
nother asked, and God knows that to
this moment that promise has never
been broken. My father was buried,
and some good kind neighbors helped
us through tha winter. When the
next spring come 1 could work, and
earned something for my mother. At
length I found a chance to ship; and
every time I got home I have some
money for my mother. Not for the
wealth of the whole world would I
break the pledge I gave my mother
and my God on that daik, cold morn
ing. That is all, shipmates. Let me
go now, and you may enjoy yourselves
alone, for I do not believe that you
will again urge me to drink."
As Jack thus spoke he turned to
ward the door, but one of us stopped
him.
"Hold on Jack," said he, wiping
his eyes. "You shan't go alone.I
have got a mother, and I love her as
well as you love yours, and your moth.
er shall not be happier than mine ; for
I swear that she shall never have a
drunken son. I'll drink no more I"
"Give me your hand, old fellow P'
exclaimed the rest of us in chorus,
starting from our seats ; and before
many minutes we all agreed to imi
tate Jack's noble resolution. We
called for pen, ink, and paper, and
made Jack draw up a pledge. He
signed it first and we followed him,
and when the deed was done I know
we were far happier than we had been
before fqr years. The wine upon the
table was not touched, and the liquor
we had drank during the forenoon was
now all gone in its effect.
Toward evening we returned to the
ship. There was a frown upon the
captain's brow as we came over the
side, for he had never known us to
come off from a day's liberty sober.
Bat when we all come over the side
and reported ourselves to him his
countenaneo lighted up. le could
hardly give credit to the evidence of
his own senses.
"'Boys," said hd, "what does this
mean 1"
"Show him the paper," whispered
Jack had our pledge, and without
speaking he banded it to the captain.
No took it and read it, and his face
changed it expression several times.
At length I 3aw a tear start In his eye.
"Boys," he said, as he folded up
the paper, ot me keep this, and if
you stick to your noble resolution you
shall never want a friend while [ live."
We let the captain keep the paper,
and when he had put it in his pocket
he came and took us each in turn by
the hand, lHe was much affected,
and I know that the cirreamstance
made him happy. From that day our
prospects brig htened. Jack Small no
more had our envy; for he took hold
and taught us in navigation, and we
wore proud of him. On the next voy
age we all six rated as able seamen,
and received full wages, and we left
not that noble-hearted captain until
we left to become officers on board
other ships.
Jack Small is now one of the best
masters in the world, and I believe
that the rest of our party are still
living, honored and respected men.
Three years ago we al1 net, the whole
sizx of us, at dinner again, and not
one of us had brokcen that fledg~e
which we made in the hotel at Rio.
We had all stuelk to the sea, and wlto
then pommanders of good ships.
That is my story ; and' now you
kmiow why I can't drink wIth you,
and, as I said at first,.will not. take
my refusal as a mark of disrespeeotor
Want of good-fellowship.
STItt. Tilst CoM.--Tast week
9,000 Europeans were lande$ In Ne#
York city fromw emigi-ant 'shipi In
80erch of new b9eues. Erom Ireland
and Germei 'oane 5,000 about
equate h p6tdns Wili I rgma
Sde n ha d he bum l krs t fth e r en t
from Ger many are arritin &
mor sgp aseg alse, ybeta re
of t~alt more ppd . remet line,
Fotelg limhulgvantsl ortlue te
pour in 'New Yode by-ew .eteama
e 'I'Aih Idahe% OItw of Jjdn ind
Metathdng froaIl6Vl4l1dn~
brought at totale of .-M3y
theaViswedsan r~gano dei
~ng' Wst " te' fbagn4' Ihes ML4se
Jorlyh5*~svePfdro - .
*lth a sprinkling of Sontob.
Benator Sawyer's Views on the Subject.
The Congressional Globe brings us
the full ver6atim report of the hot
debate in the United Stetos Senate,
on Tuesday last, on the oubjoot of
universal amnesty. We take the fol
lowing passages from the able spoeoh
delivered on that occasion by Senator
Sawyer:
HlE INN 'T AFRAID.
After alluding to Senator. Morton's
denunciation of those wio favored
amnesty as unsound Republicans,
Senator Sawyer said :
For one, I recognize no man's right
to read me out of the Republican par.
ty until he shows that I stand on
ground which is not Republioan.
More denunciation, more assertion
that I am acting in the Interest of
rebels or rebellion, has no effect upon
me. I feel no particular anxietj to
avoid pleasing the rebels-if I-do right
and act as a Republivaq. I think it
might be more wise and statesman.
like if some senators shonld remem
ber that their chief mission is not to
make the rebels hate them. But
%here are some senators here who seem
to conceive that consistenoy requires
them so to act that the rebels shall
entertain toward them now precisely
the same opinion that they entertain
ed when the war was flagrant. Sir,
that is not. my positions. When the
war was flagrant I hated rebellion ;
when the war was flagrant, to the ex
tent. of my power I resisted rebellion;
but let me say, Mr. President, when
the war was flagrant I did not hate
rebels, and I do not hate, rebels nor
anybody else now. It isnot the mis
sion of the Republican ptirty to hate
the men who created and*who carried
on the rebellion. It was the mission
of the Republican party. to suppress
the rebellion ; and it has been and is
yet the mission of the Republican
party to reorganize this lgovernment
on a more solid and enduring basis
than thot upon which it has ever
stood before.
SOUTHERN UNANINITY.
But, air, let me tell he senator
from Indiana that the f.o' tdation upon
which he would reorgs. .i: this gov
ernment, the foundation upon which
be would reconstruct tho States lately
in rebellion, is a foundation as-unsta
ble as water. The rebellion took into
it vortex the whole Southern popula
tion, with exceptions absolutely in
significant in number. All classes
were bound up in sympathy with it.
Every man, woman and child, with,
as I said, insignificant exceptions, had
but one aspiration so far as the politi
cal situation was concerned ; and that
was that the Southern Confoeeracy
and the onuse of the rebellion might
triumph. Here and there a man
of generally very. slight politicalor
social significance among his follows
was, or professed to be, a loyal man ;
hit the number was so small that to
carry on the government in those
States by their aid, and by their aid
alone, is a proposition perfectly ab.
surd to any man who knows the peo
ple.
WHAT OUGHT TO DE DdNE.
I can understand, too, that those
who would govern these States as sub..
ject provinces, who would continue to
keep over them the strong arm of
power, who would destroy the vital
principle of the American Republic,
which is local self- overnment, ad
miinistration of local-interests by lpcal
agents-I say I can understand how
those who would upset all this princi
ple and theury of. government, who
would destroy this chief element of
strength in the American systemi,
shudavocate the. continuanoe of
theit system which should hold the
igrip upon the throats of the great
taajority of the white population.
That is the only theory on which I
can understand it: but if our purpose
I i. t forget the war, if our purpose is
to. establish in the breasts cof the
8enthorn people a love for the institu
tions of the Uniltod States, if our pur
pose is to strengthen the governmente
in those States, and to have a real
Uinion, iwe., meua-a)kp" tho. people of
those States with all their snrmitjes
upon themn ;;we must incorporste theiu
into the body politic of the United
8tates, as equal vo~otitneut members.
We must recollect that 9 man in
South Carolina, a oittiie of the Uni
ted Stateb, naust be placed on preoise
ly the sttneS platform, and covered by
the same proteotioli, en'dowed with
the saine political privileges, As a'mnan'
In Massachusetts or Michigan.
A FOOr,:en rosdC1r.
~When you shut: out any one lag
section of tbe 0Qeaoiry from all espi,
rations for participation. In th pub..
lieoodoes, when you, tell that. largoe
elal.~sa meoa that thmey ipathave ano
yst or 10 -in .ther administration if
the affairs of -the goverpqment yen~ b44,
them to obey and .love,Iasay you out
oft' from'th'bpublieas pberty .ond of
ille gesteulemdmni ofi stresg66. (Whbflm
I s'eieet thaatiatiitioxi-ted. .ehird'
oldme lUf-te-]Nurteenthe auroendme
nown-as the test oath, 1absee aainbie
ofJu 1809; -whieke out of
riseddrom Oba'deetfiutik s
ight huee 41id eiq~nl
Lit fit thousand of tham, hnt a mil
lion nen at lcast in the States that
did not nominally go lito rebellion
when I reflect that all those boys and
young tmen who never had. held an
office and who had no political opin.
lons ure those that they had absorb.
ed from the atmosphere which they
had breathed all their lives, ate out
off from all aspiratIons for Federal
preferment and Federal ufidfet, I say
the folly of man cannot conceive a
more blundering and stupid scheme
than the scheme of keeping that test
oath on the statute book.
THE TRUTH AT LAST.
We are now, in many localties In
the South, reduced to the necessity,
in order to get Federal appointments
filled, of selecting them from ignoram.,
uses or rascals ; and yet the senator
from Indiana tells us that we can se
leot where we will-that the fifty
thousand loyal men are amply suffi
cient to guide the counsels of. the na
tion in those States. Now, I wish to.
do all credit to the men who were
loyal to the flag in the Southern States
-I wish to give them all the praise
which belongs to men who resisted a
current that belongs to my friend from
Indiana never had to resist-I wish
to give them all the laurels that be
long to them. Far be it from nq,
who saw their suffering and their uaa
rifloes through that terrible contest,
to take one single leaf from the pbap
let which should bind their biows.
But, Mr. President, they were few in
numbers; as a rule they were insigni
fioant in political and social conse
quence ; and if you attempt to carry
on the business of government in those
States by their agency and that of the
race lately enfranchised alone, you
will certainly fail.
WHY HE nECAME A SENATOR.
And when any senator charges that
the political course on this floor of
another senator would be controlled
by the consideration of the question
of his re-election, it is an aspersion
upon his integrity as a senator, and
an lnipliontion that be will Violate his
ou h as such. When a senator allows
his official senat~rial conduct here to
be governed by such wetives as those,
it is better that his place should b
filled by another-man, and lot me say
that I do not hold the seat I ooupy
hero because I would have sought the
place which I do hold, nor would I
have held it or have been a casdidate
for it, but for the fact that I desired
to keep out others who were oven less
fit to be here than myself, and that I
could select in my State many men at
that time who, if it had not been for
these very disabilities imposed by the
Fourteenth amendment, would have
stood on this floor much abler advo
cates of the principles of the Repub
lioan party, much stronger men for
the State of South Carolina, and for
the United States, that I can ever
hope to be.
PROsCRIPToN PLAYED OUT.
But, Mr. President, I did not rise
to speak at any length on this bill. I
believe, as I said when I began, that
the speech of the senator from Con
neoticut but re-eohoes the sentiments
of the vast majority of the people of
the Republican party; and -I believe
that the acuteness of the senator from
Indiana has in this instane~ failed
him, and that ho has not sufficiently
studied the sentiment of the party of
which he is so distinguished an orna
mont. I think tfai when thie people
speak on this subjdot, he will find that
ho represents not that majority which
might have the right to read aniinori
ty out of its ranks, but.that he. stands
in a minority which . may rather ask
to be admitted to the orthodoz plat
form of the party.
GRANT vs. HANCOCK.--80me time,
ago, General Hancocok wrote to Gen
eral 8herdian inquiring' why' he w~as
not promoted to the place- made va
cant by Thomas' death. Sherman
returned this insulting answer :
"I atn requested by the Piresident
to lnfotm yott tbst there is nothing in
your personal *elatios' to Gehierals
Grant, or lb your dffiaial- relwtiods to
his, administratiQD, that oduld -j'udtify
your promotlon now, or lead. you to
ex poet it lierpafter."
Poor' H~noook I, le is the best of
all dint late antagonists in - elrM : but
be happened to have persaonaI' knowl
edge of. Grant's .gutter days,. and he
was ipolined .to be J9le9t t~o -the
South. Besides he is a Dem~oorat and
no jobbahg knave. Hlow day, be sak
such a favor aG piroeotiohi 1' Generdl
lHanocok will live long enough 'te
wish hie had broken his swordle 1860,
et 189esg i agsist hedeqtroyera of
orhisp ontand it as W he
mnot trllliavt of 'war Ddtpoe ats Is
t~istahod to the wall, what 'oan the
eniaal fff hope for from the: asn kud
the party they so powwfphly qostrib,
utq I.to raise to the psQt.e areg# po
and s1.ieral --dupfeta gig*suaed.
ten&fri W. rnfdlS.
nuAr Vf1WtIb r De$ ifte'dedt
bydee ei TuwIreraing40
work of an lanendlary....M'war. JNm'.
The Missioiary Record on Beform.
spea ing of the reform movement
in this State, the colored editor of the
Missionary Record-popularly known
as Daddy Cain-explains how the two
races wero separated in sympathy
thro years ago; and recognizes in
this movement a wish to bring them
back into accord. Assuming that the
whitos are the more active of the two
just now, he says: "We certainly ap
preoiate their feelings in that direc
tion, and do not object to their at
tempts to regain the confidence of the
people. There are but few, if any,
objectionable features in their meet.
ing or resolutions. They demand just
and honest administration of govern
ment. They demand low taxation.
They demand economy. They demand
honesty. All of these are reason.
able and just demands, and we second
these demands with all our heart.
We pelieve there is not a Republican
in the State, who desires a good gov
ernment, but will concur in these de
mands. On those points we are all
ageod.
Note this language well. It is sig
nificant. It is the language of one
thoroughly aroused to the infamous
administration whiuh he has been do
nouncing so trenchantly of late.
Note the separation of Republicans
into two classes.-those "who desire a
goodgovernment," as all honest men
do ; and those who do not.
This latter class is the one at which
he is aiming his denunciations. It is
the one at which the Reforn party is
directing its artillery.
A few wo-eks ago the Missionar.y
Record denounced these corruptions
in high places, and the rings that are I
wresting the hard-earned dollars from
our impoverished people. In Satur
day's issue it touches upon this matter
in this vein :
"The willful waste of the public
moneys in certain directions, the for
mation of cliques in and through
which this great waste is perpetrated,
are the most damning features of this
misgovernment, and wanton extrava
gance. We have hear d of the vibrat- I
lug ourses which have fallen upon onr
head, siuce we called attention to this
j J few %eeks ago. We ad
vise those gentlemen keep perfectly
cobl; we know enough of their tran
sactions, to hang them; and when they
push, us to the wall we will tear off
the garments from their deformed
politioal carcasses, and exhibit them
to public gaze in such a manner that
they will be confined so deep in their
plitical graves that Gabriel's trumpet t
will never awake them."
No doubt Daddy Cain knows some
of those stunning facts which closed
the lips of Senators when Leslie on
the floor of the Senate challenged
them to ask him about the land com
mission moneys. The grave Senators
were.silent that night ard to-day
when Daddy Cain denounces them',
they are tnute.
What power on earth can keep
closed all these lips during the coming
campaign. t
Not all the bribery, bayonets, Win
chester rilea, and executive brigand
age, nor all the dragooniiig, both mili
tia and constabulary, of the Scott
regfime.-Guardian.
HowV TRUF.--Don Piatt writes to<
the Cincinnati Commtercial:
"The wonderful energy exhibited
by the southern people in struggling
tup from the utter ruin that followed
the late civil war is one of the mar
vels of the day. While contending
against the bluildering, unjust acts of I
reconstruction, originating in hate
and continued through greed, that I
deprived them of a voice and vote in
laws nlOW involving the business in
terests of the entire country, the peo
ple have struggled manfully and with
success to a certain extent to restore
the national prosperity of their re- I
gion. In this no aid whatever has
been given by the General Govern
nment. On th contrary, its acts have I
been nggressive to the last extent,
and it Is no exaggeration to say thati
the GonYiithbft'nt" Washirigtdti has
wrought dhobto iidjury- to the South I
eioce ,the war than it was able to of-t
feet duringthe conflict of armas.
fod"Tt' is ta strangest folly that ever
Lucit AN4D 'LAbon.-aMany people
complain of their bad luck, when they
ogI ,to,balame their owen want of
wis qng sIgt Aotion. Mr. Cohden, a
disinguishediwrfiter in England, thus
iot' about liek and labor
Luck" Is evterything waiting for
somethidg to turdi up.
Labor, with keen oyes and' strong
ilwill turn u~ something.
14014|99 4 e, *pd wish.s the
awould bring hito news of a
tarn'B out at 0 o'clookc, and
with- busj' pen r ringIng hammer,
ayqthb~fonudation of'oompetene.
1.olatloe0,
b'o'obars4ter.
abbt 4449uphard to indepehda
~ ~ *aposo' to rheslalbf.sh 'the
Nashville Universit.m
A Letter from D. Wyatt Aiken.
CoKESBUfly, May 14.
To the Ectitor of the Charleston
News:
It appears that the remarks I made
before the recent convention in your
city have excited the ire, disgust and
':ontempt of bh- friends and foe, and
curses hot and heavy have been heaped
upon me from every holo and corner of'
tho city of Charleston. What are the
lacts in the case ?
On the morning of the last day of the
convention, after a free discussion upon
lubjects generally pertinent to the ob.
ect of the convention, I ventured to
>htrude upon that body my opinions,
nd, in reply to a member who had
irgued 'hat in importing inimigrants to
his country we must receive them as
ur equals socially, I entered my protest
igonst anyv such inducement being
>reseited. A promicuous recognition
>f social equality with strangers fron
iny quarter I would not subscribo to.
qeithwr would vou, Mr. E litor, nor
vould it be asked for or expected by any
ntte'll igent 1 inigrant.
This was the idea I intended ad
'ancing. IfI was unfortunate i ex.
iressing a different idea, I can but
'egret it. I feel that no :nan in the
3tate, according to his means, has done,
an do, or will do more than I to en.
ourage immigration, elevate labor, and
ejvenate our old worn out hnds. If
o the effect this end policy forbids the
ruth should be told, then my consola.
ion is I am too honest to be even
>olitic.
A word, if you please, to the Charles
on press. Your Geritan paper says I
ave learned but little during the past
ix years. I plead guilty to the charge
nd I confess the Correspondent has by
lo means increased my learning. It
ails me "a slaveocrat." W herefore ?
3ecause, forsooth, I (lid not extrol the
tir haired German, and waste volumes
I gas in deelarin- the generous
velcome that awaited the immigrant.
I narrated simnly what I had seen
f the Chinese, aind expressed myself
lensed with their labor ; that where
workig with negroes they hat allowed
pecitaors to paus unobserved, while tle
oAgru'm slop their work to tako a sur
'ev of the visitor; that they are frugal
lid economical, while their colored co
tborers were extravagant, and oftener
han otherwise would spend on Satur
ay the next earning of the week ; that
he Chinese would answer for our tide
iater huads, but, ioL for ihe upper
ountry, and that I did not advocate
heir introduction into the latter section.
'or this and this alone the Suedlicher
'orrespondent accuses me of seeking for
bouthern redemption through Obinese
abor, and uses other truthless and in
onsistent remarks that have fallen
iarmlessly at my fect. For its edifica.
ion I may say, I have in my employ
mentGerman and native whites, and.
olored laborers, who are perfectly con
ant, and satisfied with the treatment
hey receive, and would not exchango
omes with any of my traducers. Only
L day I have received from Charleston
family of English immigrants, who
eem neither to fear the "Slave Pascha,"
or to anticipate his extending to them
ight olse, than kind treatment, and
rompt payment for labor performtd,
oth of which theyv will surely get. But
nough of this Ireful German.
A ft end htas handed me two copies of
Radtc'al shieet pubbshted in Charleston,
ne of which contains an extract from
n article in the News that I had not
eon. This article enumlerate's iahost of
;reat men who in the pest lave risen
rem htumble origin. Shakspeare wvas a.
rool-comber, lie says. Shall I, there.
ore, anticipate poetic ideas from the
Dnglishman who is this day shearing my
hteep ? Because the father of Gregory
1l1 was a carpenter, does it follow that
very carpenter's son must be a Pope ?
tidienilous nonsense. Such instances
rove that genius cannot be hid uinder
.bushel, and nothing more. Merit,
hould be rewarded, and conscientce tella
IC I have niever rejected its claimis.
This same shoot has dotted all over
ts columns garbied extracts fromt what I
aid, and a paragraph or two of wvhat I
ave wntttein. T1o this I have no objiec
ion. As a target I httve been shot at
o often by Radical marksmen that their
asaults are received rather as healthful
onics. I take thorn as a dyspeptio
votuld "Solomon's Bitters."
Mr. Editor, I cherish individual re.
pect, h.ut have never stopped to court
t. I have not "crooked the pregnant
tinges of the knee theat thrift might fol'
ow fawning." I esteem the regard of'
9 Ommuntity, and have nevetr willfully
giveni offence. I f I have dlone so in
,his insatance, it is because 1 have been
niiiunderstoqd, and therefore I feel nos
niortification for what I have said.
WVhat speaker before the conventiora
~laimned that "all the sense and all the
mttivation ofi the universe was contnued.1
~o Sonth Carolina ?" Who said we
sould not learn much from the German,.
Lhe Irishtman or the Englishtman ? Cer-,
tainly I did not ; for among thie adopted
ettietieoigf this State I liave the hionortto
ntimber many warm 'personal frientder
And one oif the staunchest frpends
I have is a Northern man who is .nfow.
rmy aeighbcor.
Yotr ob4Iientl servant,
D. WV wrT.A1t..r
Thomas (Arly!o li now seventy-frver
vaarm old.