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Notes of the Week.

ment; and to the majorities in Tennessee, Missouri and West Virginia, who are openly excluded from any other participation in their State Governments than that pleasant privilege of paying the bulk of the taxes. If any oppression is to The President has signalised the advent of be imposed, neither Executive or Congressional Christmas Day by proclaiming amnesty to all who power is troubled with any consciousness of Conare under presentment or indictment because of stitutional limitation upon power; but when an rebellion against the Government. Thus we have amnesty is declared and a proclamation of pardon THE STATESMAN will be mailed to Subscribers the satisfaction, at last, to note the official act of is issued, there seems to be a sudden appreciation out of Town, and furnished to Newsdealers in the Executive authority which abates the prosecution of the delicate relations which exist between the City every Friday evening: Subscription price against Mr. Davis, and dismisses the indictments States and the Federal authority. It is, after all, Three Dollars per annum-payable in advance. found by mongrel grand juries against General a useless boon-though the best, possibly, that Persons residing in the city can be served by Car- Lee, Mr. Breckinridge, and others of high polit- Mr. Johnson can now give-so far as the thouThirty Cents per month, payable to the Carriers. ical and military position in the Confederate ser

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Books intended for Review should be sent in vice. To the simple record of the fact we have concerned. They must wait until the mongrel early in the Week to receive prompt notice. Ad- no word of panegyric or praise to add. To say governments of the reconstructed States, and the vertisements must be left at the Office on or before that Mr. Johnson has won the honor and applause Radical usurpers in the border States, have been Thursday, otherwise they will be too late for inser- of his countrymen by this deferred act of justice crammed to satiety with the spoils and plunder of and expediency, would be a useless and insincere office and place. courtesy. His has been a long continued public ComApropos of this subject, the bold and decided service; he possesses abilities of no mean order; speech of Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, recently dehe has studied the true character of the Govern-livered in the Senate, should not be passed withment and institutions of the Republic, in its purest out notice. Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, or some political schools; and no living statesman is more other Senator, from some other Old Sarum State, familiar with the Constitution or sounder in the introduced a bill to punish with fine and imprisconstruction of its provisions. It would be idle, onment violations of the Fourteenth Amendment therefore, to say that any new light, born of the to the Constitution. The measure was designed cloudless dawn of Christmas, 1868, has broken to carry into effect, by the force of a statute, the upon his mind; or that any consideration of Excrazy decisions of a so-called Judge, who-as if ecutive duty or motive of official expediency jus- to mock the veneration which Virginians pay to tifies the proclamation, now lying before us, the memories of Marshall, Wythe, the Tuckers, which would not, with greater force, have long and other grand old judges of the olden time— since justified a similar proclamation. In fact, has been placed upon the bench of the United continued in the present number, will probably we have now simply the abrogation of those ex-States District Court for Virginia. Opposition run far into the coming year. The translation ceptions which limited the application of his for- from an unexpected quarter, however, chilled the mer declarations of amnesty-the mere latter-day zeal of the Nevada carpet-bagger. Mr. Ferry, will be pushed as rapidly as the sheets are re- completion of a duty, hitherto but half performed, with boldness and eloquence, denounced the proceived from Germany, where the work is now ap- and only concluded in obedience to a demand of pearing as a serial in Der Hausfreund. Its pre-popular sentiment, which a bold and independent sentation in an English dress in the columns of exercise of the Executive prerogative would have. at any period of his administration, both inspired this paper will, therefore, keep pace with its ap- and educated. pearance in the original German.

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scriptive measure, both in its spirit and detailand proclaimed himself an advocate of the removal of all political disabilities in all of the Southern States. The effect was electrical, and we shall have nothing more from Mr. Stewart upon that subject. Mr. Ferry, we believe, was The effect of the amnesty will be simply that an officer in the army, and served with distincabove stated. It will relieve Mr. Davis from a tion. It is not strange, therefore, that he brings source of personal and useless annoyance; it will to the discharge of political duties the generous stay a prosecution which sensible people have impulses of the soldier. long ago decided to be scarcely more dignified than a farce; and it will give formal assurance to We have heard of the recent decision of a suit others under indictment that they need not antic- instituted by the British Government against In view of the rapid increase of advertisements, ipate any further trouble from Judge Underwood some defaulting New England contractor, growing consequent upon the growing circulation and and his Grand Jurors-a point upon which it is out of his failure to comply with engagements to The litipopularity of The Statesman, and the unwilling- not likely that they have entertained very serious furnish arms during the Crimean war. apprehensions. The trouble is, however, that it gation was a pleasant one to the counsel engaged ness of the Proprietors to make any reduction in is powerless to benefit a very large class in all of for the Crown, and to the British Colonel who the amount of reading matter furnished to the the Southern and in several of the border States. was detailed, upon full pay at New York, to superpublic, an early enlargement of the paper has We refer to those who, under the benign pro-lintend its prosecution. The judgment recovered

corked.

was for the large-sounding sum of one hundred cluding the inevitable Mr. Colfax, who seems to negro militia, time will soon disclose-if the events thousand dollars, in currency, we suppose; but, have the faculty of turning up whenever a dinner in Arkansas have not already indicated the fearlike the famous Jarndyce case, the whole amount is to be eaten, or bottled rhetoric is to be un- ful consequences which must result from arming a had been anticipated-by the Colonel's full pay, The leading speech, we suppose, was bloody and savage race and turning them loose to and the retainers and reminders and additional from Mr. Motley, who is put forward, generally, as their work of rapine and slaughter. It is, howfees paid during the many continuances which the most complete specimen of the New Englander ever, scarcely worth the ink and paper to record preceded the final decision. The lawyers are of the present day. He certainly deserves what- these outrages. The President is powerless, we stated to have grieved sincerely at being forced to ever merit belongs to the pre-eminence. "When suppose, to interfere in the government of a rerelinquish their hold upon John Bull-and we you can take the Rocky and Allegheny ranges out constructed State. How far Congress may be are entirely prepared to believe the statement. A of our mountain system, when you can take the affected by the recountal of such instances of somewhat similar result will follow the abandon- Hudson and the Ohio and the Missouri out of lawlessness, the recent passage of the Militia bill ment of Mr. Davis' prosecution. Mr. Evarts our river system, when you can take a living will sufficiently answer. And the people of the was first feed and employed-and recently Mr. man's heart out of his anatomical system, and North, who alone have in their hands the power Dana, of Massachusetts-the unsuccessful oppo- bid him go on his way rejoicing without it, then, to control the authorities, will content themselves nent of Butler-was retained by the Government and not till then, can you take New England out with a shrug of the shoulder and an expression as his successor. The semi-annual fee of some of the social and political system of this country." of thankfulness to Heaven, that they do not live five thousand dollars, at each term of the Court, This is charming from one who has written and, in Arkansas or North Carolina. It is very easy was very easily earned, it is true, but will be probably, read something of history. "But what to contemplate the wrongs of others with indiffervery severely missed. It is not every day that I most admire, what most moves my pride in ence; but if by some power of magic the picture one gets such an honest chance at the Treasury, Massachusetts and New England is, that she has could be reversed, and the North made the scene and we cannot restrain the expression of a little so cheerfully dissolved herself in the Union, of the wrongs and indignities which the South is regret that so respectable a New Englander as Mr. merging all the State, and sickening and per- forced to endure-how long before the fires of reDana should have been so quickly cut off. Yet if nicious doctrines of State Sovereignty, in this volt would be kindled? he be no better lawyer than he has proved him- great and powerful and glorious Republic, of self to be a judge of the sentiments and prefer- which the only sovereign which we recognize is The story, which has had some currency, to the ences of the people in the Essex District of Mas- the United American people." Very self-sacri- effect that General Jackson proposed a night atsachusetts, we are fearful the Government made ficing and generous in Massachusetts and New tack at Fredericksburg by his own corps-the men a bad selection of its law representative. England! Having spread all over the country-stripped to the waist and armed with bowie knives being as essential to its existence as the mountains-has received a very complete refutation in a The Radical papers are complaining of the and the rivers-filling its offices and growing fat letter from General Early to the Savannah News. want of emotion which attended the delivery of upon its treasure-the descendants of the Pilgrim The points made by him are so practical that one the Congressional eulogies upon Thaddeus Ste-Fathers have magnanimously dissolved themselves can scarcely realise the credulity with which the vens. They state that the programme was gone in the Union, or, to state the proposition more stupid statement of General Jackson's eccentrie through as a "lifeless task," and that the men who accurately, have compressed the Union into them-purpose has been everywhere received. In the had paused so often to listen to the voice of the selves. Mr. Motley is a historian, and it would first place, no such plan could have been devised patriarch statesman, could scarcely stop writing be a profitable study for him to trace the changes without the knowledge of General Early, who and talking long enough to hear the last eulogies in New England sentiment from the day when then commanded a division in General Jackson's spoken to his memory. The lamentations of the Fathers cheated the Indians with bad rum, corps; in the second, the weather was so cold that studied eloquence seem to have been drowned the shoddiest of red cloth and the brittlest of the men would have frozen to death; while in the "amid the din and jargon of the House." "A glass beads, down to that later day when a third, the fact is presented that there were not few months ago," writes a correspondent of the Hartford Convention made the "sickening, per- bowie knives enough in the whole army of NorthIndependent, "Congress itself seemed scarcely nicious doctrine of State Sovereignty" the pre-ern Virginia to arm a single company. So much more than Thaddeus Stevens; and now-let us text for a treason which only want of nerve saved for the story, which, like a hundred others of simface the fact with enough to praise, there are from breaking out into active rebellion—at a ilar absurdity, has been accepted by the unthinkvery few to miss, and fewer still to mourn the time, too, when the country was bearing the ing, and will, one day, form the subject of a special lonely old man, for whom no wife and children burdens of a foreign war. chapter and a flaunting illustration in some forthweep. As for Congress, there are not more than coming Yankee common-school history. six members in it who would confess that it does not get on as well without as with him." It is a There are Southern men and Reading Rooms singular commentary upon that feature of popular murder committed at Charlotte, in the Mayor's and Clubs who imagine that they declare a pringovernment which canonises men before they die, office, and in the presence of that official. A Mr. ciple, or vindicate their consistency, by refusing but strikes them from the calendar after death. Gleason, a respectable merchant, was assaulted by to read the leading papers of the North which One seldom hears now of the second Washington a negro, and because he resented the indignity, are Republican or Radical in their politics. This -and in regard to the Great Commoner, the was immediately arrested and taken before the is unphilosophical, not to say absurd. Ab hoste same ingratitude of the Republican masses is Mayor. While awaiting an examination, he was doceri, has always proved a true maxim. Disalready repeated. To them a living dog is better shot by a negro bystander, who coolly walked off cussing the duties of the Legislatures which will than a dead lion-and they turn impatiently from without molestation. While the body of the mur-be required, this winter, to elect United States the offices due to the dead, back to the snarling dered man was borne to his home, the negroes Senators, the New York Tribune expresses some strife which belongs to the living. It is worthy generally indicated great elation. Several of them sentiments which have the real merit that belongs of note that the most analytic and just of all the were known to be accessories to the murder-to truth, good sense and independence. It de spoken estimates of Mr. Stevens' character was among them a negro policeman-and these were mands, for example, that Pennsylvania and Indithat of Mr. Buckalew. He was no volunteer eufinally arrested. Yet there has been no lynch law ana shall choose as good men as Mr. Buckalew logist of his late colleague, but when the duty -no breaking open a jail and overpowering the and Mr. Hendricks, to fill the vacancies which was assigned to him he performed it with dignity guards-but a startling, shocking event like this, the retirement of those distinguished gentlemen arousing every pulse of human indignation, has will occasion. It is constrained to give this timely been borne calmly, although every one knows that counsel because it hears-" that pretenders are "Forefathers' Day" was celebrated at Del- if a Radical judge does not see that the murderers trying to make themselves candidates whose prinmonico's, in New York, by the New England are acquitted, a Radical Governor will take care cipal qualifications are impudence and money, Society, with all the usual Yankee blarney, self- that they are pardoned. This terrible crime may mainly the former." It thinks that Pennsylvania glorification and mutual admiration. There were be traced directly to the establishment of a negro could well afford to give Ten Millions of Dollars speeches from press, pulpit and politician-in-police. What will follow the organization of the for a Henry Clay or Walter Forward to put in

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Buckalew's place." We think so too, and The announcement by the Greek Minister of make the announcement-when I see men of have the more readily, when we recall that a certain Foreign Affairs that his government will make property rushing to purchase or bribe fellow-men enes Forney is one of those candidates to whom any sacrifice for the preservation of the rights with gold." Virtuous Mr. Colfax! His confesTribune refers. Whether he comes in on the and independence of the Greek nation, we take sion of shame at the spectacle of bribery and corfication of impudence or money, we leave it, is in itself an informal declaration of war. ruption-of which his Washington and Congres's to decide. "When we first looked down, The Gaulois states that Russia has urged the sional experiences have doubtless afforded him ges. The 36, upon the Senate from its gallery, Henry United States to take a part in this Turco-Grecian some knowledge-is equally naive and refreshing. interf Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Silas affair-but we apprehend we have enough of the But returning from generals to particulars-from State Hht, John M. Clayton, Thomas H. Benton, Americo-African complication on hand to keep us corruption in the abstract to buying territory in the remin Watkins Leigh, William C. Preston, from intermeddling. the concrete-he says: "We Americans should J. Crittenden, Willie P. Mangum, John merely welcome all into our increasing fold.

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Thomas Ewing, James Buchanan, Hugh| HUMOURS OF THE NEW ENGLAND Doing this, we shall respect the memory of the hite, Felix Grundy, and Samuel L. SouthPilgrim fathers; doing this, we shall respect our Among the characteristic illustrations of New own honor; doing this," he might have addedss numerous than it is to-day. The present England humour to which the late celebration of but did not "we shall save our money!" The è has many able and justly eminent mem- "Forefathers' Day," by the Sons of the Pilgrims, Vice-President was evidently carried away with ess to Heaven and yet we cannot realize that Human Pro-in New York city, gave rise, there were some admiration for the example of the Pilgrim Fathers. or North Car is forcibly exemplified in a comparison of things that verified the old proverb that "many If territory could be bought as cheaply as they 1 of membership with that of 1836." A a true word is spoken in jest." Such for ex-bought it, perhaps Mr. Colfax might be willing to by some por which, though Republican, thus speaks ample was the saying of Mr. Whipple, "that the trade. But if it takes seven millions of gold to rsed, and the enate in which a majority of three-fourths New Englander, when he discards the jack-knife buy Alaska-and we do not know how many hunand indi posed of its party friends, will do no great for the pen, cannot get rid of his old habit of dred millions to purchase Cuba-Mr. Colfax obto the politics or morals of either Democrats whittling; as thinker, statesman or reformer, he jects to the demoralizing practice. We should therners. Outspoken boldness and indepen-aches to whittle institutions into the shape sug-like to suggest an improvement upon the idea he hich has a ought to be recognised by all who honor gested by his notions of justice and good sense. puts forth. He and his friends have already laid eral Jais: grand qualities. Mr. Whipple might have added that in the grati-duties upon everything that comes into our ports fication of this propensity his countrymen have-pushing the system of protection almost to the whittled our own institutions pretty much down verge of prohibition-why not impose a duty to nothing. All that the jack-knives of Messrs. upon all immigrants? Why not make the "forSumner and Wilson, and the rest of the Con- eign peoples" pay a little entrance-money for gressional whittlers have left us—is the shavings. coming "into the fold?" What costs nothing is The illustration is an apt one of that New Eng-worth nothing. The ignorant foreigners would land spirit of intermeddling which "aches" to re- be led to prize their privileges more highly-the duce all things terrestrial and celestial to its own glory of American citizenship would be raised to peculiar standard. that pitch of more than Roman grandeur," where Mr. Colfax desires to see it-and a fund created, which in time, perhaps, would pay off the National Debt. We commend the idea to our Radical financiers.

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Tribune has a queer fling at the Radical Referring to the statement that Mr. counsel will seek his release by a writ of eral Ears Corpus, it says: "Strangely enough, the e by party of two years ago, that thought it theble in a great nation to keep him a perat of G prisoner, without show of trial, now makes

every ent." It does not strike us that this is at ch plange. The Republicans or Radicals-either owlede h-were willing to determine the whole On the same occasion, Mr. Schuyler Colfax, a diriston, by a proclamation of amnesty, long be- who wished it to be distinctly understood that he ond, the -e slow process of Mr. Johnson's clemency was not a New Englander, and had not a drop of ve forked up to that point. They did not conNew England blood in his veins-we wonder if he their duty to advise him to that step, but, is sure upon that point-illustrated to perfec- Professor Hitchcock, the eminent geologist, presental his well known, were ready to approve, or, at tion the spirit of successful bargaining in his re- took a metaphysical flight. Leaving the world marks upon the subject of future acquisitions of matter, with which it is to be presumed his masi lot to oppose it. Can it be that the delay sulted from that former pledge of the of territory. In view of the recent purchase of studies have made him most conversant, he esbeent-that he would hang traitors and make Alaska, and the revival of the agitation in regard sayed to lift the veil which hides the spiritual todious? If so, we can but congratulate to the annexation of Cuba, the views of the Vice- and unseen world. He followed the Pilgrims beat at last the path of true duty, although President elect are valuable. He is not opposed yond the grave, and proclaimed their present and rough a glass darkly, has been marked in to the acquisition of more territory. He is only immediate Apotheosis. "The Puritans"-he said outline before him; and that he has had opposed to paying for it. "When," says he, "have had their trial and got their verdict." kbone to follow it. "with our silver-lined and calm American na- "Their judgment-day has come and gone." We tionality"--but why "silver-lined"-Mr. Colfax? doubt it-considerably. Then-with increasing election returns from Spain, thus far re- We pause to catch the meaning of the epithet. prophetic fervor and Apocalyptic imagery-"they by cable, are not complete. It is probable We have heard of clouds with a silver-lining, and have won their palm-branches and their crowns; ould not be too decided to say it is certain admit that the prospect before the country under they sit in the highest thrones." We have no e Monarchists will have a large majority in a four-years' rule of the party to which Mr. Col- desire to copy the irreverent example of the Amonstituent Assembly. This result will be fax belongs, and of which he is a distinguished herst Professor, but we cannot help thinking that ed by those who have little confidence in representative, is suggestive of clouds whose the Pilgrim Fathers, unless much changed for the rmanence or usefulness of any government blackness needs very much to be relieved in some better, are likely to set much more store by their is based upon Red-Republican, Radical or way. But, according to the speaker, it is not the "crowns" than their "palms," while as to their 2 principles. It has already disappointed future, but "our American nationality" which is climbing into "the highest thrones," if permitted, rge class of visionaries, optimists and fanat- "silver-lined" and "calm." Really, we are glad we have not a shadow of doubt. The Puritans 10 prefer a republic, supported by a gaol that the lining is not paper; but should have been were always of the class that choose out the chief the one hand and a guillotine upon the more ready to believe, if he had said-brass, or even rooms at feasts-the highest seats in the synato a government of strength, order and se- nickel. But to proceed with Mr. Colfax-"when" gogue. We are not surprised after such a preThe proposed conference for the settle- in the possession of the nationality thus described, face, that this geological Son of the Pilgrims disof the Eastern question is pronounced by "we command that respect which our great re- covers that Plymouth Rock was the "Rock of e London Times and Standard to be en- sources and intellectual power merit, we need Ages"-or, at least, if the actual substance upon useless. The menace of war, therefore, not go into the market of the world to offer gold which the Fathers set their feet when they landed to grow fiercer; and it is stated that Greek and silver to induce others to share with us our from the Mayflower was merely "a boulder swept its in Turkey have commenced a sudden brilliant future. I feel ashamed, as an Ameri- down from the glacial period," the figurative to Roumania and other places of safety. I can"-he exclaims-"and I do not hesitate to foundation upon which they built the fabric of