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Gov.-No, Madam, I suppose not. I

Louis. "As a minister of the Gospel, | and a trustee of a State charity, I recog- will try to be more generous to you than nize the fitness of the call on me for my your own rule would make me. I do not oath of allegiance. Cordially and grate- believe in your rule that "all things are fully do I give in this my adhesion to my justifiable in time of war." But that is country in this hour of terrible trial, re- just what you rebels insist upon. It is garding it as the scource of innumerable perfectly right and proper for you to vioblessings to myself, and the millions of late the laws, to destroy this Government, my countrymen, and fully believing the but it is all wrong for us to execute the present attempt to destroy it to be a curse laws to maintain the Government. against both God and men, against the present and future, against ourselves and the human race, with hardly a parallel in the history of the world."

That was good text and comment for every lover of his country and his race.

The secession ladies looked around in various directions, and seemed to think that they had opened a knotty argument on a dangerous subject, with a very bristling adversary. Heaving a long sigh, they retired.

"Come from 'Ginny, Sure!"

Knotty Argument for Secession Ladies. Quite an entertaining dialogue occurred At Point Lookout, where the Union one day in the Governor's office in Nash- army encamped, the blacks were nearly all ville, Tennessee, between Governor John- from Virginia. Some, however, ran in son and two secession ladies of that city, there from the State of Maryland, prewho came to complain of the occupation tending to have come from Virginia, that of a residence belonging to the Confeder- thus they might not stand any chance of ate husband of one of the ladies by a United States officer. The conversation was substantially as follows:

Lady. I think it is too dreadful for a woman in my lonesome condition to have her property exposed to injury and destruction.

being returned, in any contingency. On a certain occasion, a rich Marylander came down to the Point, to look after one of his boys; finding him, he said, "Jack, you rascal, what are you here for?" Jack very coolly replied, "Who be you, Massa? I never seed you 'fore." "Yes you have Gov. Well, Madam, I will enquire into too, you lying scamp, I raised you and the matter, and if any injustice has been you must go home with me." "Yah! done, will try to have it corrected. But yah! Massa nebber can don fool dis nigger. your husband, you admit, has gone off I's come from 'ginny, sure,” replied the with the rebels, and you abandoned your darkey, and utterly refused to know his dwelling. old master at all. General Marston was Lady. My husband went off South, asked to send the negro back, but respectbecause it was his interest to do so. You fully declined, and "Massa" went off one mustn't find fault with anybody for taking darkey short.

care of himself these times. You know, Governor, that all things are justifiable in

war.

Literal "Stump" Speech of a Soldier. One of the attendants at the great Gov.-Well, Madam, it appears to me Union meeting held in Troy, Miami counthat this broad rule of yours will justify ty, Ohio, during the gubernatorial canvass taking possession of your house. Accord- between Vallandigham the anti-war caning to your maxim, I don't see any reason for helping you out of your difficulty. Lady.-Oh! but I didn't mean it that

way.

didate, and Brough the Union Republican candidate, was a returned soldier who had lost one leg at Vicksburgh. He was welcomed by his friends, and one of them-a

Vallandigham democrat-entering into ness. I believe it is customary to treat conversation with the soldier, remarked, the Speaker.

"You were a Democrat when you enlisted, Here he produced the flask, and proand I suppose you have come back a Dem-ceeded: Yes, I beg to inform the House ocrat." The soldier replied, "Yes, I was that I shall treat the Speaker-respecta Democrat when I left, and I am a Dem- fully.' ocrat still.' That's right!" replied his

er's colleagues.

The flask dropped into his pocket and friend, triumphantly; " and of course you he into his seat, amid cheers from the galwill vote for Vallandigham,"-looking lery and smiles from the honorable Speakaround to gain the attention of the crowd to the answer. It came. "My God! how can I?" said the soldier, as he raised his eyes to the crowd, and put his hand on the unhealed stump of his leg. Was not that an eloquent "stump" speech?

Bogus Yankee Legislature in Georgia. When the Twentieth Corps of Sherman's grand army of invasion through Georgia marched into the capital of that State, to the music of the Union, the officers, to the number of about one hundred, assembled at the Senate chamber, called the roll of the House, appointed a speaker and clerks, and opened the Legislature' with prayer, the facetious chaplain praying for the overthrow of the Confederate Government, the return of Georgia to the old Union, fine weather and little fighting on their march to the coast, and concluding with, "All of which is respectfully submitted."

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A lobby member very gravely arose in the gallery, and asked if this honorable body would hear from the gallery.

Half an hour's discussion followed, and on a parliamentary division, it was decided that the gallery should be heard.

Rising with all the dignity and polish of a Chesterfield, he quietly put his hand in a side pocket, drew out a flask, placed it to his lips, replaced it in his pocket, and resumed his seat.

After the organization of the Legislature the question of reconstructing the State was taken up and discussed for some time, with all the gravity conceivable, by the Yankee representatives' from the various counties. The result of the deliberations was that the State was led back like a conquered child into the Union, and a committee appointed to kick Governor Brown and President Davis at their most accessible point-which committee retired, and soon after returned and reported that they were animated by a progressive spirit, but that the articles upon which they were to exercise their pedal extremities were non est.

The Legislature adjourned after the style of Governor Brown's Legislature of the previous Friday-by taking a square drink and a handful of "hognuts."

Tableau Political.

In a letter dated from Murfreesboro', N. C., January twenty-second, 1862, is a description of a tableau given there for the benefit of the soldiers. It must have its place among the political olla podrida of the war of the rebellion :

We should not do justice to the tableau unless we were to describe the first scene. A young gentleman representing King Cotton, sat upon a throne resembling a bale of cotton. Down on one side of the throne sat a representative of the ebon race, with a basket of cotton. The king held a cotton cloth as a sceptre, and one of his feet rested on a globe. Around Lobby Member.-I beg the pardon of him stood young ladies dressed in white, the honorable House for my thoughtless-with scarfs of red and white looped on the

The Speaker.-I must raise a point of order. I believe it is always customary to treat the Speaker.

shoulder with blue. On their heads they laws. On the same day he made a requiwore appropriate crowns. These repre- sition for twelve thousand men, afterward sented the Confederate States; Missouri increased to fifteen thousand. He apand Kentucky were guarded by armed pointed Governor Lee, of Virginia, to the soldiers. chief command, and Lee marched with the While we were gazing on this picture a fifteen thousand men in two divisions. dark-haired maiden, robed in black, with This great military array, says the histobrow encircled by a cypress-wreath, and rian, extinguished at once the kindling her delicate wrists bound by clanking elements of a civil war by making resistchains, came on and knelt before his maj-ance desperate. esty. He extended his sceptre, and she Every thing that Washington said and arose. He waved his wand again, and an did at that period became of singular inarmed soldier appeared with a scarf and terest to those who lived in the times of crown, like those worn by her sister the great Southern Rebellion, just two States. He unchained this gentle girl at generations following. In writing of the the bidding of his monarch, changed her soldiers to Governor Lee he speaks of crown of mourning for one of joy and lib- "the enlightened and patriotic zeal for the erty, and threw the Confederate flag across Constitution and the laws, which had led her, raised the flag over her and led her them cheerfully to quit their families, forward; then Kentucky advanced, took her homes, and the comforts of a private life, by the hand, and led her into the ranks. to undertake and thus far to perform, a Need we tell you who this maiden of sable long and fatiguing march, and to encoungarments was intended to represent? We ter and endure the hardships and privaleave that to be understood. If your tions of a military life. No citizen of the readers cannot divine, it is owing to our United States can ever be engaged in a description, and not to the scene. The service more important to their country. ceremony was performed in pantomime. The representative of Virginia had inscribed on her crown, 'Mater Herorum;' and North Carolina wore on her brow a white crown, on which was the word 'Bethel.' Both of these States were represented by their own daughters.

It is nothing less than to consolidate and preserve the blessings of that revolution which at much expense of blood and treasure, constituted us a free and independent nation."

When the disturbance was quelled, he said: "It has afforded an occasion for the people of this country to show their ab

President Washington's Summary Dealing horrence of the attempt and their attach

with Rebellion.

ment to the Constitution and the laws; for I believe that five times the number of militia that was required would have come forward, if it had been necessary, in support of them."

When the Whisky Insurrection broke out in the eastern counties of Pennsylvania in 1794, Washington said: "If the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority, a small one too, is Governor Lee, of Virginia, was the to dictate to the majority, there is an end "Light Horse Harry" of the Revolution put at one stroke to republican govern--peculiarly dear to Washington, who in youth had loved Lee's mother before her Washington issued his proclamation on marriage. He was also the father of the 7th of August, 1794, declaring that, if General Robert E. Lee, the great Contranquillity were not previously restored, federate chieftain in arms against that on the first of September force would be same Constitution and those laws. Could employed to compel submission to the General Lee doubt where Washington,

ment."

had he been alive in 1861, would have| been found? Would he have been found standing side by side with the Virginian Lee, striking deadly blows at the heart and life of his country?

Same old Planter's Crotchet.

"Old Zack" and his Son-in-Law. When the usual committee was appointed by Congress to wait upon General Taylor, the President-elect, and announce to him his election by the people as Chief Magistrate, an incident occurred which the events of 1861 served strongly to recall in the minds of those who were knowing to it.

To General Mitchell and his brave troops belongs the distinguished honor of being the first Federal commander to pen- It was doubtless with a courteous intent etrate to the great Charleston and Mem- that those who moved the springs in this phis railroad, and the first to break little matter induced Congress to appoint through the enemy's line of defence, ex- as chairman of that committee Jefferson tending from Chattanooga to Corinth. A Davis, - his previous domestic relations strong Union feeling was discovered by with General Taylor suggesting him as the Nationals as they entered the State an acceptable medium; though, had the of Alabama, but it was mingled with the public been as well informed as the priusual Southern political crotchet of State vate mind, such a choice would have been sovereignty, and the duty of submission the last adopted. The duty in question thereto. One old Gentleman, a planter, with an extensive estate, expressed the views of the majority of the people of Madison county. Said he

"It seems like tearing out my heart, to give up the old Union, but when Alabama voted to separate, I thought it my duty to sustain her."

is, of course, only a form, to be fulfilled with the gravity and the grace adapted to the occasion, but calling for no display of rhetoric, and no assumption of official dignity; it is simply a constitutional observance, whereby the representatives of the nation testify to the result of the ballot, and state the same to the successful candidate.

"But," said his Union interlocutor, "Alabama, in attempting to break up the General Taylor's want of oratorical acnation, did what she had no right to complishments, his aversion to display, his do."

"Ah," responded the old gentleman, "passion and prejudice blinded our eyes to that truth."

modest demeanor, and his conscientiousness, were known as well as his bravery and patriotism, and would have been delicately respected by a thorough gentleman in the discharge of this simple duty, which

"Are you then willing,' he was asked, "to see the authority of the National Gov-needed for its performance only quiet

ernment restored?"

"Yes, and to pray from this time forth that all her people may be willing to return to their allegiance."

courtesy and respectful consideration.

Instead thereof, Jefferson Davis, entering the hotel parlor, where General Taylor was seated, with the aspect of a quiet, This final answer of the old planter in- honest old farmer, threw back his shouldicated his resolution to abide by the ac- ders, turned out his right foot, and with tion of his State, whether the majority precisely the air of a complacent sophoof her people became loyal or remained more, began a loud harangue about the treasonable. It was the old planter's blind-"highest office in the gift of a free people," ing and blundering crotchet, as it was of the "responsibility of an oath," and other the South generally, among the planters. rhetorical platitudes;-the needless pitch 8

apparently fixed to the place, hastily turned and left the chamber, exclaiming that he could stand it no longer, for he "felt his Fourth of July rising too fast." Would that all whose names are familiar with the scenes enacted in that Chamber in 1861, had been susceptible to the spell of that

of his voice and dogmatism of his empha- the spot, and standing for several minutes sis, the complacency and elaboration of his manner and assumption of his tone, in connection with the meek attitude and deprecatory air of his auditor, made the tableau resemble a prosecutor and prisoner at the bar. The difference of age and the former relations of the parties, (Davis having by a runaway match married Gen- same great name. eral Taylor's daughter, who died a few

months after,) and the utter novelty of Witnessing and Dying for the Truth in Misthe good old man's position, made the scene, to say the least, a flagrant violation

sissippi.

About fifty miles from Natchez, Missisof good taste not less than good feeling. sippi, lived an unflinching Union man. It was one of those unconscious and During the war, his residence was aptherefore authentic revelations of charac- proached by an armed gang of guerillas, ter, which reveal a

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man's disposition and temper better than a biography. Though ostensibly doing him honor, the speaker seemed to half defy the gray-haired soldier, whose eyes were cast down, and whose hands were listlessly folded-to challenge, as it were, with his fluent self-confidence the uneloquent but intrepid man of action, and ungracious

Witnessing and Dying for the Truth.

ly make him feel how alien to his habits and capacity was the arena to which popular enthusiasm had elevated him.

who soon succeeded in securing him as a prisoner, and told him, that if he did not immediately and in their presence, recant his former sentiments, and take an oath that he never by word or deed would again favor the principles that he had formerly all along adhered to, his fate would be instant death. His reply was:

Magic of Washington's Name. While the disunion Senate of Maryland were in session in the State House at Annapolis, in 1861, a number of soldiers entered the ante-room and inquired if the Senate Chamber was not the place where General Washington once stood? An employee of the house answered that it was, and showed one of them as near as he could the very spot where Washington stood when he resigned his commission. to brand me as a traitor."

"In the sight of God and man, I am clear of the crime of treason to so glorious a nation as this was till your wicked and selfish designs have caused it to be what it is; and while I draw the breath of life, I intend never to give my children cause

The young man reverently approached They then replied that they had a long

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