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JOB PRINTING in oil ita depcrtmcnta,
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P?ETJRY. , ~~
A Dinner and A Kiss. ? ;.'( \y
"I have brought yoo' diiineV. ftther,^1
Theblixksmim'edaughh&eaid, " v '
As ehe look from her arm tho kettlejd \li?t ?I
?odUftod, its shining bdd ii ddw ,sto*?1
"There is not any pio or pudding, frtftd iUM
^Hilflgtve' you^flil};;, Jm1v rf
And upon hU toil-Worn f?rchead ... ,
Sho J*filfc* omTO&kfftV' i^doill .?ir
\tlaud iW?ruf vd bs-??lft rrebf
The blacksmith took offhin apron, ,
And dined In happy mood, j
Wondering mach at the savor
Hid in hi* humble food; .wvhfc irtl
"While oil about him were visions
F^dlp/prpphetidblif^ , . rnoo yth'
But he never thought of magift* t*rtl*fj
Mf10,^"*.^! Irf^joois *ntt8 i*j
While *he, with her kettle ?wihginsy l>?#o?
Merrily trudgtd;h?r way,ftHd ?i-?d"|
Stopping at the fight of a squirrel, ,. ? .aa
Catching some wild bird'sJay; _ ? j . tJY:
And f thought iftw man? a shadow . .
O/Hfeandfetowe should urf* *y\
If always ooHhigal dinners > "??????? <>* ?'*]
Wcro ??aaoned with a kite.
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ORANGEB?RG; JVV?
SURVIVOR'S ASSOCIATION,
.4T THE lit FIRST AyXlVEUSAHY,
By JOHN A HAMILTON. 1*^.
lij^ i.^'tii* rriwpyunq sdt d^uod
Mr. Praidcnt, lAtdit* and Citiitietnen :
Among the few privileges left us, Is
this of assembling with votive offerings,
in tribute to our fallen brethren. Memory
quickens with the scenes of yesterday,
and the fetters of to-day drag a people's
Houl to the slough of despair. The eye
?wanders wearily through the gloom of |
the future, and sott eyed peace seeks
vainly for a resting place.
It is not our aim to recur to the past {
with feelings of enmity; its oppressions,
and violated faith, its gory fields, and
loathsome prison bouses, we commit with
the "Lost cause," to the hands of the
great Arbiter of nations, and while rear
ing monuments of imperishable glory to
Sis martyrs, let us throw the veil of Char
ity over the misdeeds of our oppressors.
Even they, flushed with success and spoil,
attest tho fame that will'ever enshrine
our dead, and garland tho living, w they
#ce a wasted array of famished coldicry,
upon the field of Appomalox, lowing
down their arms too host of twenty to
one.
No mural tablet, nor stately obelisk
may raise their .head to record their
matchless worth; yet, 'tis reserved for the
impartial page of history to write a tele,
where duty waa fully rendered, and
patriotism never more splendid.
Tho mutations of governments,'which
ore incident to the -rise and fall of par
ticular political, creeda, render perma
nency and stabilityU impossible, isny sys
tem of public polity, however grand,
which disregards the great underlying
principles of truth and equity* must fail
from that innate corruption that belongs
to the sordid ambition of man. Egypt,
with her splendid ?tvilizatiott uUdertba!
Ptolejni.es? backed by a fabled wealth,
md a legal code that', challenges the
1 eratiUtloil df the best modern govern
raents, whero virtue .was-rewarded, and
.?vice punished, where enterprise'was fost
ered, gj.no iulv?t?o proscribed, eveu she"
in the vain attempt to stifle truth, as ro
[ vcaled within her borders in the first
I contury, fell easy'jprcy to anarchy , and
j dismemberment * T*'
j Rome, the proud mistress of the world,
whose gonfalon floated from sea to sea,
and whose aegis nurtured the nations of
[the earthy ,Whose genius, , and whoso
power, whoso wisdom and grandeur, reads
like a. talc of fiction, exchanged her regal
?way for Agrarian ism, a doctrine that
excited th&bosest passions of man,' aud
her empire dwindled to contempt, hkc
a ball cnst from baud to hand. She bo
came the sport, of nations, until her
palace* were parcelled as spoil among
'the vandal Joldiery of the Goth mid TTnn,
Here the canning sophistries of philoH
ojphyi pahdereld'to the depraved passions
of its diseiplea,^and1 truth the immutable
soUrce.ofligh^fledjh^r borders, leaving
behind a chaos of darkness and confusion,
f? Mark tho history of modem France,
where proscription and porsceution at
tempted to bind a people*' conscience to
the decree of tyranny. A. land of love
lines, and garden of beauty, is turned
into a slaughter house., and scene of
mourniagt and thousands floddn exile to
alien londs. ? To-day the world's gay!
eapitol i3 the'spectacle of intcrnieine j
strife, and tho charnel house of butchery, j
and her proud "arch of triumph" the |
' Let ua contemplate our own land, so
lately the arena for tho development of
the grandest civilization, under the foster
ing care of utttranunelled political and
religious liberty. A html destined to be
the theatre of the meet brilliant achieve
ments recorded in tiny previous history,
and while it invite* genius to expand its
wings fa realms of undiscovered science,
it gathers from every quarter of the
globe, the festering .'dements of disnficc
tion and depravity. The libera of its
institutions opens wido to tho oppressed
nn asylum of refuge, and here th*\ victim
of tyranny assumes the dignity of a
freeman. Yet its privileges of citizen
ship are too readily vested in those
whoso adventurous spirit, bold aim, or
ignorance, render them restive under the
mildest restraints, aud ever ready to ac
cept new theories, tending to personal ad
vancement, or pecuniary benefit, they
enroll upon the side of revolutionary fac
tions, whose leaders mould their pliant
and ready material to their selfish ends.
And while a few are capable of elevating
themselves .to an atmosphere of truth,
the masses ignorant, or reckless of the j
rational objecto of life, und its duties,
degrade themselves below tho most sla
vish instincts as they swell the tide of i
depravity that threatens to swoop over
the barriers of law and order. Jlcre, al
ready burn the fierce fires of socialism,
*more' relentless than Indian savagery,
the practical embodiment of an infidelity,
that knowing no higher law thun self,
would uproot civil rule, and establishing
a' "communism" would devastate the
' Work of patient industry with the torch
of the Jncendiarv. Tho doctrines of hu
man equality, self-government, and
natural right of suffrage, oro being now
tested, amid a mass of heterogeneous ma
terial, the record of other , like cxperi
I ments Is a failure, and proHent indications
point to a similar result.
Tdrn?tgto the Convention at Phila
delphia, scarcely a century ago, wo sco
an assembly of patriotism and wisdom,
fulling from tho chart of experience, a
'course oi safety ^fcr tho ship of state.
How anxiously did tho "old thirteen,"
emerging from a baptism of blood, regard
that deliberative body, and with what ac
cord, and oncuci-5 of nonti ment, did they
endorse & Constitution, which in language
almost irrevcront?"was too good for man,
and only fitted for. angels." Lexington
and Eutaw, Moultrio and Trenton, had
cemented a brotherhood of feeling that
knew no North, no South.
Scarcely had tho victorious thunders
of Yorktown died away, ere party spirit,
with specious plea, Bought to amend the
compact,'which, with amendment tme
ceediug amendment, is to-day a patch
work of caprice, and'a-meaningless scroll.
, . Six of the States that-gave their all to
tho cause pf^erty,v?te to-day tributary'
dependencies pf, a,[despotism that gives
I license| to ignorance | to i insult and- goad,
["while the protests of her children are
scoffed and unheeded. Liberty?says
I Montesquien?"is a word that admits of
more varied significations than any other."
With some it exists only in monarchy,
! with others in wearing a long beard. With
some unless the government is -vested
solely in thoso of th.o manor born, liberty
is lost; and with others it applies only
when peculiar natloaal .tastes, or inclina
tions arc gratified, >This being so, the
word is anamolous. The noblest aim of
good government is to enhance the pros
perity and happiuess of the governed.
Then, in the fruition of a proud nation
ality, its pcoplo acknowledge true liber
ty, . Hut when one portion of a peoplo,
representing'the p^perty; the IntOluV
gonce, and honor, are disfranchised, and
plundered, to enrich partisans, whoso
affinity is with ignoraucc and corruption,
then is government u systom of oppres
sive fraud, and the governed victims of
tyranny.
How glowing the contrast of then and
now; then, the public weal was the aim
of rulers, now law Is subverted to selfish
ends; then the "well dono" of a constit
uency was the acclaim coveted, now, the
hisses of an outraged people, fall on ears
long used to contempt, and amid the
glisten of bayonets that prop a falling
state, is seen the tooth 'of decay, steadily
wearing tho crumbling arch, amid tho
pomp and splendor, that gilds an im
perial court, is seen the handwriting of a
destiny measured, and au end fulfilled.
It is conceded that in small States,
there oxists a purer glery, and higher
patriotism, than where a deusor popula
tion, bloated in its civilisation subverts
tho nobler aspirotions of its people, to a
sordid ambition, Hencolthp pieturo of a
giant iordc, conscious of its might, and
greedy for conquest, employing every
means, of skill, of force, ondof treachery, to
overthrow a people, wlnso pride whs
their dovotion to principle, and whoso
genius gavo wisdom to tie councils of
the nation. Thero existed on tho part
tho South, a distinctive and prominent
individuality that oxclted tho envy and
hatred of the North. Tenicious of her
rights, she repelled any invision of them,
not with braggnrt luutghtiress, but with
appeals to the Constitution.' Sensitive of
her honor, she disdained V> share tho
division of unlawful spoil. Proud of her
traditions, she clung to tho aiuse of truth
nud justice, and during to oofend them,
sho bared hor breast to tho sioek of waT,
until an hundred plains dunk in her
children's blood, and fall in}, nhc found
no fitter sepulture than amidthe ruius of
her ancestral homestead. To-day, sho
sits at, the graves of her sots, tho day
that gavo birth to tho gon'nnof liberty,
is hor day of sadnes, that tie garlands
whioh decked tho brow of a Mnshiugton,
are spurncij by the heol of tytnuy.
"Ah, who?who will assumo tho bays,
That tlie patriot's wore,
"Wreaths on tho tomb of days,
Gone evermore;
Tho laurel we will twlno for them
And bays for hero's diadem,
The fading rose, befits the grave
Of the tyrant and the (lave."
Were the cause of our oppressors just,
why should they employ physical force
to sustain it; nay, the very restraints they
seek to impose upon our will and actions,
imply, on the part of those enforcing
them, a blindness to justice, or a care
lessness to determine what is truth; and
what, is error. Belief is admitted to be
often an involuntary state of mind, and
the adherents of a cause, which by ac
cident, or fortuitous circumstance is de
feated, are accredited with a lack of in
dependence of will, and living for dead
i?suea, which from generation to genera
tion have been propagated without the
option of dispute. This may apply to a'
theorem, the practical application of
which, has deduced success, but we'who
prefer to revoro the principles of the uLost
Cause" havo yet to learn that it is thV
cause of error. ?. Under its 'principles this1
government grew to a slateUhoss of might
and wisdom, respect and influence;' that
rendered tho American ? name, the
synonym of success. For seventy1 years'
her sons were called to the high places Of
her councils, and . the galaxy of intellect
Bhc contributed will shine with a peerless
splendor, when lt*sor lights will have
been lost iu forgctfulness. A decade has
not waned, smec tho dow?-of a. power*
that promised a revolution of progress,
that would bedazzle nn admiring world,
with its broader philanthropy, and more
expanded civilization, Let the era of
to-day attest tho experiment, Aye; in
our own Btate "instar omnium" whore
tho boastful champions ef progressive
liberty, have had full scope, to display
tho largess of their virtues, See the
levies of huge taxation, ostensibly for the
public weal, To theso a patient and hark
rupt people responded, Five years ofjug?
glery, have 10 manipulated the affairs of
finance, that "its array of figures are as
Inoxplloablo as if written in Sanscrit."
They said smooth thing?, while preach*
ing to abandon the sinking ship, and the
end is at last, The beautiful fabric they
planned is a failuro, and "the credit of a
once proud commonwealth is moribund
and worthless." Lot the blush that suf
fuses every honest brow write its disgrace,
and let our duty be, still to maintain a
reverence for the post, whoso entombed
truths will quicken at no distant day to
rescue this broad land from soenes of
ruin, or lend its genius to found a new
born liberty on the alto of a fallen des
potism,
(To be Continued.)
We make tho following extract from
tho speech of Hon. Francis P. Blair, of
Missouri, beforo tho Missouri Legislature,
Jefferson City, January 4, 1872 5
"I am well awaro that ho (General
Grant) cannot write newspaper articles,
and for that reason is not considered'a
very great man by many who oru write
such articles. I know ho has novcr dis
tinguished himself as a stump orator, and
is greatly looked down upon by somo of us
who do make stump orations; but there
are other qualities which ho possesses
which make him a most dangerous man,
in my opinion, In tho position which he
now occupies. I do not believe that ho
cares a straw about our frame of gov
ernment, His military education and
military genius necessarily make him
arbitrary in his ideas of government, and
he places no valuo at all upon any other
governmont than that which uj absolute
ly arbitrary and military. He has sur>
rounded hi niseif with clcrko who nil wear
uniform; tbat Is a very slight lhdfcation
of the temper of ifr'tftiU^ r?c Ay *
friend, he has other qualiteft 1? "WAtfo^,'^
to that; he is a man capable' of conceive
tag most dangerous purpx^Vind eiei
cuting those purposed wM tafelbto
will, and I think he'ha*' demottstrut,
ed since ho assumed the power of the
Executive of this nation &at :J?! wW"',,J
hesitate at nothing and stop: at noUifeg, "'
at no deed which will give him tjia
supreme power in thhwtountry, and I dp
not expect htm to halK br hesitate 'tVoV
ahythlug to gi4Vhim pre-crnincnt power
in this country, except that hb shall deem
it most imprudent to attempt it.*' 1W
_M , r _. '? 1 ? * '*
lav Pat All??Two Dutch farrnem
at Ivmdcrhook, whose farms were ad*
jacejit, were out in their topeetiveftcltfi?;'- '
I when one heard an unusually 'loud nalV,!c
looingr in the direction of a gap in ?: high171
stono wall and ran with ell speed to thg "
place, and tho foUowing brief c?nVer??>',K'
itiauo^isi^edjj r,w ,mo**st aUra orllto ?
1 o.ir^pny wtjlsh QfrnaUter-t^^V?^,0!?0
?ays Sboiudtf :vee tryidKtoiplWfo** W,r
I top of dish high st hono vol. and I fell off,
end all to;?tone. vailtuwhlev^ow^^uWte Tr
me and has brokcu one of mine lags ro# ?
and bath of mine irras, smjamed tty'rih '
in and dcae pig?tones|ire lyins/on dotcji
of mineb^y^^^ 1
other; 11 yy you hollow so low* ?tot'^oU1"''
got t.otbwKa," loo >*oJ aw if& hna ,?oiT\(
Emu i- ^,tl?!)'<? I!*imesi?\m*\n aeof m3?'d
A Vouxt; PtiPiTivrsT.-^Parson. "What
|is a-minicleTj'i^^. au}^j LUls hue ?uerun
Boy. "Dunno. ,3fno*o!?h
Parson. UW?H if the inn- : waren tn
shine in the middle of the night', what
should you say it was?"
Boy. "The moon."
Purson. "But if you were told it was
the sun, what should you say it was?"
Boy. "A lie," ,
Parson. "I don't tell lies. Suppose I
told you it was the sun, what would you
say then ?"
Boy. "That you wasn't sober P
Why are women like churches? Bo
cause, firstly, there is no living without
one. Secondly, there's many a*spire to
them, Thirdly, they are objects of %dora*
tion, And lastly, but by no means leastly
because they hayo a loud clapper in the
upper story.
Mr. B. Webster, keeper of the Court
House and grounds at Spoltsylvanfo
Court House, it is supposed, wna murder*
ed at Guirtcy's depot, on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg ?nd Potomac* Railroad,
on Thursday night last, while in a stats .
of intoxication,
The LancoaVor Ledger saya tKat a lotflPT
has been recolvcd hero from ex-Judge H,
G. Onderdopk, of Manhassat, N. Y. pro*
posing to assist the people of Lancaster
county in building a railroad from this,
place to Monroe, N. C, a distance of t wen- '
ty-ono miles, Judgo Onderdonk re pre- '??
sentsa Northern company, of largo capital
and wBich^-qrupanv |s now, if we are $ot
mistaken, building the Wilmington, CbflK
I lotto & Rutherford Railroad, which passed
Monroe. The propositions contained iu,
tho letter havo boon favorably considered ?
by a number of our hnsiuess men und a,
correspondence has been opened,
A country girl coming tsppx the field,
waa told by her cousin t^at she looked n^,
fresh 0? a daisy kissed^ >y dew. "Wejl:
it wasn't any fellow by. t-hat name, but it,
was By Jones t boj kissed nie. X told him
every person it\ the. town would <jin^ it
out,