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SCENE 2D-Cabinet Meeting.

Abraham...

[Enter Committee of five Senators.]

Good morrow, your honors;
What's now agog in Parliament?
Fes...

We are come, your Highness,
As select men from last evening's caucus,
To favor your Highness with this Protest.

[Hands out a paper, which Abraham reads.]
Abraham...
And is this your role?
My Court will understand the purpose:
Those doughty Senators do of me demand
A modification of my Cabinet, faith;
And the Duke of York, most faithful,
At least shall go. What say my Court?
D. of Y...

I say, your Highness, Here's my portfolio... take it back: I can't be useful unless I'm wholly black. Salmon...And here's my portfolio, full of checks; Take it, and I'll run my chance for Senator. Montgomery... And, your Highness,

I, too am ready for the slaughter. I'll see 'em d..d e'er I Edwin... Will yield an Inch. I'd rather die. Abraham...

Take back your folios, all; We're all upon ill fortune's track, And together we will sink or swim. Go back, ye intermeddling solons, Do your worst, but unless you're the stronger, I'll stand this "pressure" a little longer.

[Exeunt Committee, exasperated.]

Edwin... A pretty bold attempt, your Highness For little boys to Wade beyond their depths,

Without bladders 'neath their arms.

Edwin...

[Enter Halleck.]

Here comes the fatal cause

Of all our most malicious ills. Halleck...

Such epithets address you sir, to me? I'll not brook such contemptuous slurs. Sir, you are a coward, and never fought for spurs. Edwin... Me a coward...then you're a lying whelp, And dare not resent, without procuring help. Halleck...(Slaps his face.) Take that, paltroon, my legal tender,

And show how brave you play your own defender. [They clinch and have a savage set-to.] My rabid Lords,

Abraham...

It grieves me sore to see this cruel sport, Strewing blood and hair about my virtuous court. Most vicious mastiffs,

D. of Y...

I pray you both, preserve your strength; You'll need it all on ropes, at length.

Chandler...

Let them fight.
I admire the pluck they're now begetting;
It so pleaseth me to see blood-letting.

See the claret; good Lord, how Stanton reels,
And Halleck chucks him out...head, neck and heels.
[Exeunt, actors, drama and all.]

MORAL.

Sad is the moral...brother shouldn't war with brother,
Nor in the Cabinet sho'd they maul each other.
May God in future forbid such exhibitions,
And rid the country of such vile politicians,
Lest they our rights and liberties destroy,
Is the ardent prayer of the Carrier Boy.

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Brown, John... His "solution".

His Harper Ferry Raid... Various Extracts,
showing Republican endorsement of...Sermon
of De Loss Love...Fort Atkinson Standard...
La Cross Republican...Sermon of Rev. Mr.
Wheelock... Milwaukee Sentinel... Elkhorn In-
dependent...Telegrams... Winsted Herald...J.
W. Phillips... Elder Spooner... Natick Res-
olution...Rockford Meeting...Firing Guns in
Albany...Theo. Parker's Postula... Milwaukee
Republicans... Rev. S. W. Bassett...More tel-
egrams... Wendell Phillips...Milwaukee Free
Democrat... Wisconsin State Journal... Rev.
Mr. Staples...Milwaukee Sentinel...R. W.
Emerson... Rev. M. P. Kinney... Menasha
Conservator... Milwaukee Atlas...New York
Tribune... Wood County Reporter...W. I..
Yancey... Wisconsin Churches...New York
Herald...J. W. Forney...Kansas Herald on
Character of Brown....

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Amnesty... President's Proclamation--N. Y. Round Ta-

ble on.....

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Arms...Frauds in purchase of....

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Glories in interference with elections.......
Blair, P. M. General...Speech at Rockville..
Speaks of Democrats on "gibbets".

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Andrew, Gov... His "Roads Swarm "--Letter........

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What followed in Massachusetts Legislature... 157
Administration, the...N. Y. Times denounces... 159

Other Republican papers Denounce...
Radical Press "Disloyal" to,

Brougham, Lord...On coercion....
Burnside, General...Order 38... Spies......

Approves of arrests for wearing badges.
Declares martial law in Kentucky..

Blood-Thirsty Threats...Sen. Wilson in Maine

Against copperheads......

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Bastile... Victims liberated from......

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Phillips on the Rampage....

C. B. Smith pledges Policy of...

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Brinsmade, Mrs... Her arrest and remarks on.
Bill of Rights...Massachusetts and Virginia.....

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Democrats...Loyalty and patriotism of....

Of New York...Iowa...Ohio... Wisconsin... Ken-
tucky....Minnesota... Pennsylvania.....Connecti-
cut...Indiana...of Columbus, Ohio...of Madison,
Wis... The National Democracy...Gov. Seymour's
Proclamation... His message of 1863...Gov. Per-
kin's proclamation...H. L. Palmer's views...et
tu Vallandigham... Democrats rejoice at victo-
ries...testimony of their opponents... Mr. Sew-
ard and Judge Paine on...Stanton compliments
Seymour.....

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Agitation for, in England--Sudden--Paley's
Opinion

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Hailing Extermination and Damnation.......

Sumner's Revolutionary Spirit...

Declaration of Independence--Revised....

phis Appeal.......

On Cause of the War.

On Compromise.....

On Northern Conspiracy..

Disunionits... The other class....

Duer, Judge... On Martial Law...

Discouraging Enlistments... Boston Liberator..

Douvall, Rev. Wm. O...Hopes for Civil War...........

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Douglas, S. A....To S. S. Hayes, J. Taylor and Mem-

Threatened and punished for voting.
Hated by Republicans...Richmond Examiner
and Mobile Register on..

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Of 1814 protest against disunion....

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Of New Jersey, spurn the treason....................
Democratic Vote... In the loyal States........................ 305
Defaulter...caught.

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Debt...The public...cost of the war...is a public, a na-

tional blessing....

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Our National, &c...

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Disgraceful Outrage...At Boscobel..

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Discipline...At Vicksburg.....

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Despotism...Seeks semblance of legality....Solicitor

Whiting misconstrues law..

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Have we not a military....

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Seward pronounces unconstitutional..............
Lincoln's "greatest folly".

A leaf from French History...

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Message of Gov. Seymour, 1864, on.................................................. 269

Plantations abandoned........
Abolition prophesies 30 years ago...London
Times on... Trollop on, &c....

Capt. Hamilton statement... Editor New York
Post on... Mr. Baird's opinion... Ex-Governor
Wood's Experience... Kingston, a God-forsaken
place... American Missionary on... American
Anti-Slavery Society on... Effect on marriage
relation

Loss of labor... Decay of estates...Only to free
negroes from labor... Mr. Lincoln's testimony
...Mr. Underhill in Cuba...Cuba and Jamaica
statistically compared...statistical comparison
in the United States....

Proclamation... New York Tribune on......
Pope's bull against the comet... New York Tri-
bune, Janesville Gazette, Waukesha Freeman,
Boston Liberator, on..........

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Springfield-Utica letter, on........................................................................... 168
Wilberforce and English views on................ 171

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