The Marietta Journal, 1868-11-13

I 8 GENBRAL W ON THE T ey, S rancT VT The question is, wlat does Grant think of the negro! There i nbt men in this house that will weintain for 'a moment that beforo the war, before 1861, there is the slightest shread of cevidence that Ulysses Grant ever had rone single ilea on the negro, right or 'wrong. You will allow that. Then 'the gun sotnded at Sumter. Did he 'M into line, did he right-about face Dixand Butler? Cer Certainly - tainly Certainly he did vot. Then came the ques ques'H - 'H ques'H arm the negro! Shall 'we feed the negro 7 Shall we recognize 'dn citizenship of the negro? You all 'know what kifled Fremont, and what 'cashiered Hunter, and what made the 'Seuth hate Batler and Charles Sumner? It was the negro. Nobody ever felt !Gnnt - nobnd Jever found fanit with bim. You allow, lam not ex ex:l"eming - :l"eming ex:l"eming or misstaiinge You never heard the first lisp of a word from Gen Gen'eral - 'eral Gen'eral Grant during all those years. The great General marched right up to Ap Ap!pomlltox - !pomlltox Ap!pomlltox took the extended sword of 'Uencul Lee, and sheathed it. And every man in this audience will allow ithat up to that moment the lips of Ulys Ulysses - ses Ulysses Grant never had déspped one single 'word, ard his most sanguine friend has 'not presumec ta hint at one, or invent one up to 1865, Is not this so? He 'went all throngh the war with the heav heavens - ens heavens dark and the land shaking with the thunders of fifty battle-fields - God's command to the natien to do justice - justiceand and justiceand it did not wrench ene wordfrom his lips. And he gave no mottoes. ~Chat ~Chatham - ham ~Chatham said, "i rejoice that America resist resisted," - ed," resisted," and you know kim by ihat. An Andrew - drew Andrew Jackson said, "The Union, it must be preserved." Butler said, "(lontra "(lontraband," - band," "(lontraband," and the people of the loyal States responded. |[Applanse.] What did Grant say, enthusiastic idolator of a stout soldier? T go to the extremcst Jimit, and ask you to state one single 'wateh-word uttered by him that a bull dog might have not growled forth, and 1 am doing him justice. I know all he did, and will, to the extent of my ability, 'mcte out to him the lavish praises which he deserves. Dat that great conflict never wrenched from him a single word in reference to thenegro. How does he stand to-day ! What do we know about him ! Eagland looks up to Disracli 'and says he represeats this, to (iladstone 'and says that he represents that, we will trust them twenty-four hours, and if they dou't prove faithful, out with them. Amevica, in an hundred-fold darker hour - two thousand million dollars in debt, with anarchy in half of the repub republie, - lie, republie, with half a million fresh graves, the most terrific convulsion that ever strain strained - ed strained the cordage of nationality, the great gigantic war of ideas - looks up to a great soldier and says what is his opin opinion? - ion? opinion? DMf. Washburne assests, Major Rollins is confident, Schuyler Colfax be believes, - lieves, believes, Colonel Forney supposes, Henry Wilsen does not doubt, the Ilvening Post thinks, the Tribune hopes, and in the meantime there does not a man walk this continent who is able, in this urgent exigency of national affairs, to quote one single written word that pledges the great General to any view on this sub subject, - ject, subject, excepting his reply to the yémina yémination - tion yémination at Chicago. That says, "I indorse the system of Congressional reconstruc reconstruction." - tion." reconstruction." Well, judging by the yedr 1565, that is s failure. Congressional recon reconstraction - straction reconstraction ! It mcans t?ge negro in Ueor Ueorgia - gia Ueorgia turned out of the Legislature and the jury-box - it means cvery Union man is afraid to show his head in the public streets of South Carolina - it means 'Texas is a den, of thieves - it means practical statesmanship. - Mark you, I am a Yanatic, T am a dream dreamer, - er, dreamer, lam & theorist. If you want prac practical - tical practical statesmanship go up tothe Senate. That is the body that admits seven of ten States by bill, and when they have got in, Georgia puts the negro under her feet, South Carolina shoots every loyal loyalist, - ist, loyalist, and the frightened Daily Advertiser tarns vound aud says, "How this is to be remedied nobedy can ell." WHERE 18 YOUR BOY AT MIGHT. The practice of allow ing buysto spend tlicie evepings in the streets I 8 onc of the most ruitious, dengerous and mis mischievious - chievious mischievious things possible. Nothing so speedily and mrely marks their course downward. The lccl'nkb under cover of night, an uluh y state of mind, vuigar and profane language, obscenc practices, criminal sentiment, and a law lawless, - less, lawless, riotous bearing. Indeed, it is in the streets, after xfght-1111, that boys acquire the educatio and tho capacity for becoming rowdy, dissolate men. - Pareuts do von bcfi'c-:o it! Wil you keep your childrem home of nights, and soo that their home is made pleasant and profitable ? |

A DILEMMA: A yoiang parson of the Universalist faith, many years since, started West ward to attend a convéntion of brethrea in the faith, HMe took the precaution'té carry a vial of cayénne in his pocket, to ' sprinkle his food With, as a preventive to fever and agds. The convention met; and at dinner & tall Hoosier ob observed - served observed the parson as ho scasoned His meat and addressed him thus: ~ *'Stranger, I'llthank yon Tora 'that 'eré red salt, for I'm kinda' cut'ons to try it." o e irra (s B "Cortainly," veturned the pardom; but you will find it very carcful how you aso it." . .. . . The Hoosier took the yroffored vitk and feeling himself pr'nufl against an quantity of raw whisky, thought that hé could stemd the "redralt" with impuwity, . and accordingly sprinkled a junk of beef - rather bountifally with it, and forthwith introdiiced it into his capacious mouth. {t soon began to take iold, e shat hig _ eyes, and bis featurer began to writhe, denoting a very inkariionious condition physically. Finally be could stand ik no longer. He opened his mouth and - gereamed ""five !" Bk "Take & drink of cold Water from the . jug," said the parson. : "Will that put it out?' asked the: martyr, suiting the action to the word. - - - In a short time the unfortanate man bes gan to recover, and turning to the par parson, - son, parson, his eyes yet swimring in water; exclé'aimm]y': S "Sprangor, you call yoursclf a Var Varsalist; - salist; Varsalist; I bélieve ¥' ! wi 1o ' i oel AN ! SLANDER. il s Against slandes there is 1o dofenés. Hell cannot boast of so foul a fob; It stabs with asmile. It is & pdstilence walking in darkness, spreading conta-: gion far and wide, which thé most wary traveler cannot avoid, It is the hearts. searching dagger of the assassifi; the poisoned arrow whose wound is im imcurable. - curable. imcurable. [t is'as fatal as the sting'of thé thémost - most thémost deadly asp - murder is its 'employ~: ment, innocence its préy, and ruin its sport. - e i ; A BEAUTIFUL ALLEGORY: Mr. Crittenden was engaged in de< fending a man who had béen indicted for a capital offense. He cloged his ef effort - fort effort by the following beautiful allegory z, ~ When God in his eternal eonceived. the thodght of map's ¢reatibn, e called. to Him the three niinisters Waiting con constantly - stantly constantly on the throne - Justice, Truth and Mercy, and thus addressed thent: .+ «Shall we make man ¥' Then said Justice, "0, God, make him not, for he. will teample upon Thy laws." ) Truth, madean answer also, "0, God, maké: him not, for he will pollute Thy Sane Sanetuaries." - tuaries." Sanetuaries." But Mercy dropping dewn és: her knees, and looking utp lhrougk-:hr; tears exclaimed, O, God, make 'him 2 I will watch over him with all Jx'" through all the.dark .paths through which he may have to tread." Then (GGod made man, und' lln.lld;ohi\ud, 0, man, thou art the child of Mercy - gé dedl with thy brothers." i e il A ii| L 1 They are fools who insist on be= ing perfectly misérable because they! cannot be perfectly happy. 2lßlieTy 5 Ho who has bad ends in| vien is pretty sure to come to ong:

WHO ATE ROGER WILLIAMS ? ' (Praen Steele's Fonrteen Weeks in Chewistry.) l The truth that matter passes from the' animai back iv ihe vegeiable, and fram | e vegetable to the animal kingdom | wgain received a curious illustration not | iong sinee, 2 For the purpose of erccting a suita suitable - ble suitable monament in memory of Roger Wil Williams, - liams, Williams, the feunder of Rhiode lsland, lnini privats buryiog ground was searcled for the grave of bimself and wife. It| was found that everything had passed into oblivion, The shape of the coffiv could only be traced by a black line of| carbonaceous matter. The rusted hinges ' and pails, and a round wooden knot, alone remained in one grave; while al single Yock of braided hair was found in | the other. Near the graves stood an | apple tree. This bad sent down two main roots in to the very presence of ' the contined dead, The larger root,| pushing its way to the precise :8" oc+| cupicd by the skull of Roger Williams had made & turn, as if passing around it, and followed the direction of the back backbone - bone backbone 1o the hips. Here it divided into two branches, sending one along each ieg to the heels, when, both oxtwdcdi upward to the toes. One of these roots | formed a slight erook at the knee, which | made the whole bear a striking resem-| Basce to the huwan form. There were ! the graves, bat their occupants had dis- | appeared ; the bones even bad vanish- | ed. There stood the thief - the guiliy | apple tree - eaught in the very act of ' robberys The spoliation was complete. The organic matter - the flesh, the bones of Roger Willinms, Las passed into an | apple tree. The element had been ab absorbed - sorbed absorbed by the roots, transmuted into woody zn, which could be burned as fucl, or caryed into orsaments; has bloomed into fragrant blossoms, which delighted the eye of the passer by, and scattered the sweetest perfume of spring; | more than that - has been converted iu-; to luscious frait, which from year to year has been gathered and uun. - j liow pertinent, then, is the question, | "Who ate Roger Williams ! el A Waiter, is this a spring chick-} en! Most remarkable fowl I ever at-| tempted an assauit upon." @ "&'u, sir, nice qmn? chicken: woth-| ing eléc at this establishment. Don't! you see, sir, it springe every time you | try toget a koife into it?" | Customer realizes the sad fact and af after - ter after & holl hoar's futile exercise of the kuife and fork, calls for a plate of hash. | - B i %A Uliod gir! on being asked tlmi detinition of replied, ""It iv| the fragrance which tlowsis yield when they are trampled upon."

. The Hriq ' on tho "sen of reading," we olip from an exchange. 'We do not know its paternity, but it tifully set forth: "Men scldom think of the great event i pahy biing orevee o e their own iding ferever their 'tyes the traces of the loved ones whose diving smiles were the sanlight of their 'existence. Death is the grest antago antago'mist - 'mist antago'mist of life, and the cold thought of the e vad g throngh the dark ek do not wast to go ley, althongh its passage may lead to Paradise,aud with Charles Laub, we do net the muddy grave, e ith kings rinces for 'our hdan ' But the fiat of matare is incxorable. There is wn apneal of relicf from the great law which dooms us to dust. We forest and the flower that blooms and 'withers in a day has not & frailer hold wpon life than the mightiest .monarch that ever shook the earth with his foot footsteps. - steps. footsteps. Gencrations of men appear and vanish as the grass, and the countless s ultitude that throngs the world to-day, will to-morrow disappear as the foot footsicps - sicps footsicps on the shore. In the beautiful drama of lon, the in instinet - stinet instinet of immortality, so eloguently ut uttered - tered uttered by the death devoted Greek, finds a decp response in every thoughtful soul. When about to yield hLis young existence as a sacrifice to fate, his bo boloved - loved boloved Clemauthe asks if they shall not meet aghin, to which he replies : '< have asked that dreadfui question of the Lills that Jook eternal - of the clear strean:s that flow forever - of the stars amony whoze £clds of azure my raised spirit hath walked in glory. were dumb. Bat while | gaze upon thy liv living - ing living face, I teel that there is something in the love that mantles through its b -auty that cannot wholly perish. We shall weet again, Clemanthe."

.e is the ok :%;Hmrn our froe country can whether in the i workshop, or at thé v you _the samo noble hearted Siee And inflepor inflepor'dent - 'dent inflepor'dent being, Andifßherois a man in saciety gpon whom we look with esteem 'and admirvation, it is the independent, sober working-man. We care not whether he be farmer, mechanic or com common - mon common laborer - whetlier 'fn are en endured - dured endured in the workship, the field, or tho eoal mine; whether Lis home g in the backwoods or in the neat cottage - our admiration is the same. What a lappy picture he presents; what a roward for his Jabor, who, by his own unaided ex exertions, - ertions, exertions, establishes for himself a respect respectable - able respectable position insociety; who, c'ommcnc-i ing in poverty, by his skill and assidui assiduity, - ty, assiduity, surmounts ecvery prejudice, and finally succeeds in forming a character whose value is enhanced by those who( come after him. ' Such a man we prize as the noblest work of which human nature is '¢apable - the highest production she can 'bont.l And let it be fmrm in mind by the young working man just entaring upon the stage of active life - let it ever lie at the foundation and be the moving spring of his efforts - that this situation 'he must strain'cvery nerve to attain. It can be attained by wil. Untiring in industry - dustry industry and virttous ambition never fail to their reward. They never yet were exerted in vain, and never will while honesty and justice find a homein the human breast. It was remarked by an eloquent writer, that the working man who had no inheri:ance but virtue is the sole king among men, and the| only man among kings. "He envies not the gon of easo, Nov lovd in princely hat'; 2ut bows before the wise decrees, PR ! In kindness meant for all."

GETTING ON IN THE WORLD. There are many different ways of get getting - ting getting on in the world ; it does not always mean making o great deal of money, er being a great man for the peoplo to look to with 'wonder. Leaving off 'a bad habit for a good one, is getting on in the world; to'be carefal and saving, instéad of thoughtless and wasteful, is get getting - ting getting on; to be active and industrious, instead of idle and lazy, is getting on; to be kind and forbearing, instead of ill illnatured - natured illnatured and quarrelsome, is getting on'j to work as diliigcntly in the master's ab absence - sence absence as in his presence, is getting on; in short, when we sce any one properly attending to his duties, persevering through much difficalty to gain sueh knowledge as shall be of us%o himself and others, and offering a g example' to his relatives and acquaintances, 'we may be sare he is getting on in the world. Money is a very usefal article inits way, butit is possible to got on with small means, for it is a mistake to suppose that we must wait for a good deal of money before we can' do 'any 'anything. - thing. 'anything. Perseverance is often better than a full purse. There are more helps towards getting on than is generally suppored ; many people lag behind or miss the way altogether, because they do not see the abundant and simple means which surround them en all sides, and so it happens that there are aids which cannot be bought with money. - Those who wish to get on in the world must have a stock of patience, of lope lopeal - al lopeal confidence, a willingness to learn, and a disposition not easily cast down by difficulties and disappointments.

l "NO SECRET, DOCTOR" . . 4"1 noticed," saill M*;'H Ya mes 'crlumic, among a nainber of ,workron s house erecting but A NS way from my office who alwaye appesrs !cd to be in 2 merry - humor; 'bad a kind and cheerfal smile for evory bhie he | mi.-t. Lot lhol"(iuy be evar "dm gloamy, orsuploss, a happy smilsdanded liko a sunbeam on his cggpermnlam- ,' ance. Mteting bim one morning, T ask asked - ed asked him to tell me the eecret of his 'cot= - stant happy flow of spirits." "No ¢ cret, doctor," he replied ;"I have 'git' ome of the best of wives, and when Igd to work she has a word & ¢&hcour ¢&hcouragement; - agement; ¢&hcouragement; and when {go home ' me with & kKind stsile and a kiss; then tea is sure to be ready ; and she has done so mhny titfle things to please. me, that [ eannot findiit in iny heart td speak an unkind word to anybedy." - = What influence then has woman over the heart of man to séten it and makeé it the foundation of cheerful and m emotions | Speak gently, then; a kin@l kin@lgreeting, - greeting, kin@lgreeting, after tho toils ¢f the dAy aFé over, costs nothing, and goes far war'h making home .happy akd peacefal. == Young wives, and girls, candidatés for wives, should kecp this in mind; older wives, experience may have ! ready taught thew this important lesson. And what we say to wives, we _also say to husbands. A loving word and a kiss go very far with a woman,