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Saturday, Nov. 14, 1857.
The Cottage and Napoleon.
Can any one read the following stanzas, translated by Beranger, the greatest lyric poet of the nineteenth century, and wonder why France, from cottager to king, mourn the death of her sweet ballad-songwriter?
Amid the lowly, straw-built shed,
Long will the peasant seek his glory;
And when some fifty years have fled,
And thatch will hear no other story.
Around some old and hoary dame
The village crowd will oft exclaim –
“Mother, now till midnight chimes,
Tell us the tales of other times.
He wronged us; say it, if they will,
The people love his memory still;
Mother, now the day is dim,
Mother, tell us now of him.”
“My children – in our village here,
I saw him once by kings attended:
That time has passed this many a year,
For scarce my maiden days were ended.
On foot he climbed the hill, and nigh,
To where I watched him passing by;
Small his hat upon that day,
And he wore a coat of gray;
And when he saw me shake with dread,
“Good day to you, my dear!” he said.
“Oh! and mother, is it true?
Mother, did he speak to you?”
“From this year had passed away:
Again in Paris streets I found him;
To Notre Dame he rode that day,
With all his gallant court around him –
All eyes admired the show the while,
No face that did not wear the smile;
‘See how brightly shines the sky!
‘Tis for him?’ the people cry:
And then his face was soft with joy,
For God had blessed him with a boy.”
“Mother, oh! how glad to see,
Days that must so happy be!”
“But when o’er all our province ran
The bloody armies of the strangers;
Alone he seemed, that famous man,
To fight against a thousand dangers.
One evening, just like this one here,
I heard a knock that made me fear,
Entered, when I oped the door,
He, and guards perhaps a score;
And seated where I sit he said,
“To what a war I have been led!”
“Mother, and was that the chair?
Mother, was he seated there?”
“‘Dame, I am hungry!’ then he cried,
I set out wine and bread before him;
There at the fire his clothes he dried,
And slept while watched his followers o’er him.
When, with a start, he rose from sleep,
He saw me in my terror weep,
And he said, ‘Nay, our France is strong;
Soon I will avenge her wrong.’
It is the dearest thing of mine,
The glass in which he drank his wine.”
“And, through change of good and ill,
Mother you have kept me still.”
The Breech-Clout Democracy of Minnesota.
The Democracy of Kanzas distinguished themselves at the late election by frauds which, save in the history of Kanzas itself, had never been equaled. Gov. Walker discovered that it was constitutional for United States troops to vote the Democratic ticket, and operated as overseer while they acted in the capacity of Democratic voters. It was also considered unexceptionable for Missourians to assist the people of Kanzas in forming their institutions in their own way, by quietly stepping across the line from the State into the Territory and depositing Democratic tickets in the ballot-box. – However, the sublime of the fraudulent voting, with the excellent design of securing the triumph of “law and order” represented in the Democratic party, and thereby conserving the Constitution, was reached in the Oxford Precinct of Johnson County. The records of the election at that place displays the names of fifteen hundred of the residents of this city; written out in long array as electors; and thereby a tremendous majority was rolled up for the National Democracy. Now great a constitutional lawyer as is Robert J. Walker, and signal as was his success in finding law authorizing soldiers to vote, and innocent a diversion as to him appeared the voting of Missourians in Kanzas, he couldn’t compass legal lore sufficient to make out a clear case for fifteen hundred Cincinnatians, voting in alphabetical order, without their own knowledge or consent, at Oxford Precinct. Consequently, he published a document, the intention of which was to excuse himself in the eyes of the Democracy for throwing out the Cincinnati vote. Such was his sagacity that he discovered that he had no alternative but to do so. It went hard with him to reject the Cincinnati vote. The next thing we heard of him after that, he was desperately sick and had a troop of cavalry, a detachment of the force that besieged Lawrence, spurring in hot haste, running down a doctor.
This way of introduction to the patriots indicated by our head line. We have a mass of news from Minnesota. It may appear strange and be startling to say that the exhibition of Democratic principles there, in the way of manufacturing returns and marching voters to the polls, surpasses even the most superhuman achievements which are recorded of them in the history of Kanzas. Swarms of miserable, drunken, thieving Indians, were coaxed from the swamps by temptations in the shape of whiskey bottles, kept drunk until wanted to vote, then assembled at “the polls” and Democratic tickets placed in their hands, and by them conveyed to that “palladium of our liberties,” the ballot-box. In one precinct, one hundred and ten Indians, standing in their breech-clouts, voted, and “all the votes cast” at that place were full faced Democratic tickets. Prembina county, which has less than one hundred white population, rolls up six hundred Democratic majority. The voters were not citizens of Cincinnati, but breech-clouted savages from the vast swamps and forests of a region almost as little known as the interior of Africa before Dr. Livingstone gave the world his revelations of that land of darkness. This Prembina county is a wilderness two hundred miles square, containing two villages, Prembina and St. Joseph, inhabited by half-breeds, who receive regular payments of money from the United States. The Republican majority in that now State, deducting the breech-clout vote (which Gov. Medray, less scrupulous than Wlaker, will take good care not to do,) is 377, with the breech-clout vote, the Democracy are ahead 123. The latest Republican papers claim the Legistature which has the election of two United States Senators to attend to. It is probable, however, that the breech-clouts are too numerous for any such consummation as the defeat of those to whom they are allied. – Cincinnati Commercial.
Wesley on Slavery.
Mr. Editor: At the late session of the New York East Conference it was remarked by some speaker, while discussing the subject of slavery, that slavery had been justly called “the sum of all villainies.” This was understood to be Mr. Wesley’s language. The speaker was interrupted by inquiries which, in themselves and in the manner in which they were made, may have led those not informed on the subject to suppose Mr. Wesley never used such language. Perhaps I shall render a service to such, by furnishing the following extracts from his works:
“But waiving, for the present, all other considerations, I strike at the root of this complicated villainy, I absolutely deny all slaveholding to be consistent with any degree of natural justice.” – Vol. vi, p 286.
“What wonder if they should cut your throat? And if they did, whom could you thank for it but yourself? You first acted the villain in making them slaves, whether you stole them or bought them.” – Vol. vi, p. 290.
“You have carried the survivors into the vilest slavery, never to end but with life; such slavery as is not found among the Turks at Algiers – no, nor among the heathen in America.” – Vol. vi, p. 291.
“This equally concerns every merchant who is engaged in the slave trade. It is you that induce the African villain to sell his countryman; and in order thereto, to steal, rob, murder men, women, and children, without number, by enabling the English villain to pay him to go on; so that whatever he or the African does in this matter is all your act and deed.” – Vol. vi, p. 291
“And this equally concerns every gentleman that has an estate in our American plantations; yea, all slaveholders, of whatever rank and degree; seeing men-buyers are exactly on a level with men-stealers. Indeed, you say, ‘I pay honestly for my goods; and I am not concerned to know how they are come by.’ Nay, but you are; you are deeply concerned to know they are honestly come by. Otherwise, you are a partaker with a thief, and are not a jot honester than him. But you know they are not honestly come by; you know they are procured by means of nothing near so innocent as picking of pockets, house-breaking, or robbery upon the highway. You know they are procured by a deliberate series of more complicated villainy – of fraud, robbery, and murder – than was ever practiced either by Mohommedans or Pagans; in particular, by murders of all kinds; by the blood of the innocents poured upon the ground like water.” – Vol. vi, p. 292.
To Mr. Thomas Funnell, under the date of November 24, 1787, he writes:
“Whatever assistance I can give those generous men who join to oppose that execrable trade, I certainly shall give. I have printed a large edition of the “Thoughts on Slavery,” and dispersed them to every part of England.” – Vol. vii, p. 134.
“In his Journal, under the date of February 12, 1772, he says:
“In returning, I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the slave trade. I read of nothing like it in the heathen world, whether ancient or modern; and it infinitely exceeds, in every instance of barbarity, whatever Christian slaves suffer in Mohommedan countries.” –Vol. iv, p. 366.
Once more. Under date of February 27th, 1791, only four days before his death, he writes to a friend, supposed to be Mr. Wilberforce, as follows:
“Unless the divine power has raised you up to be, as Athanasius, against the world, I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise, in opposing that execrable villainy, which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if ‘God be for you, who can be against you?’ Are all of them together stronger than God? Oh, ‘be not weary of well-doing!’ Go on, in the name of God, and in the power of His might, till even American Slavery – the vilest that ever saw the sun – shall vanish away before it.” – Vol. vii, p. 237.
On the above extracts I remark:
1. It is difficult to imagine what language Mr. Wesley could use to define more clearly his view of Slavery, and more forcibly to express his utter abhorrence and detestation of all slaveholding.
2. He puts “men-stealers,” “men-buyers,” and “slaveholders,” of “whatever rank and degree,” “exactly on a level.”
3. American Slavery he regards as the “vilest that ever saw the sun.”
4. He connects the “slaveholder,” the “slave-buyer,” the “English villain,” and the African villain together, as involved in the same “ execrable villainy;” and declares the slave trade to be the “execrable sum of all villainies.”
W. C. Holt.
Middletown, Ct., May 6, 1857.
The Financial Revulsion and Slavery.
The working of the financial revulsion in the country, admonishes us at every point how short-sighted are the most sagacious calculations, and how all human combinations are swept away by the great current of events. Man proposes, but God disposes.
Five short months ago, and how strong and invincible, how victorious and menacing, was the system of servile labor in the United States! Estimated in pecuniary valuation at two thousand millions of dollars, and actually returning a high rate of profit upon that incredible sum, it presented, in its direct appeals to private interest, and in its complication with all other industrial relations, an aggregate of political and social force which was really omnipotent. By one blow of fate, at once unexpected and irresistible, it now lies, struck down from its high and palmy state, and floundering in an abyss in which, as yet, no bottom is found.
It is impossible at present for either friend or foe, to measure the extent or consequences of this great overthrow. It is certain, at any rate, that both the price and intrinsic worth of slaves will be reduced one-half, thus annihilating one thousand millions of dollars in exchangeable values. It is certain, at any rate, that slaves in the border slave states, where slave labor is pressed upon by free labor, must be rendered absolutely worthless for any purposes of use in their present position. Who can measure the consequences of these great changes?
In Missouri, for example, exposed to the full flood of the rushing mass of free labor struggling for bread, of what value can negro slaves be to their owners? What can be more certain than that they will be swept away like wisps of straw before a hurricane? Who will purchase the shiftless and slothful labor of the African, when white men are found on every hand, eager and pressing for employment?
While the epoch of the removal of slaves from Missouri and Maryland must be greatly hastened by these changes, the system of Slavery in all the states has received a shock of which the consequences must be immense. It was the enormous profit made out of slave labor, and the enormous appreciation of slaves, causing them to be bought and sold literally at their weight in silver, which was at the bottom of that frenzy of passion which has swept over the whole Southern section of our common country, and of which we have seen the results, in the disruption of party ties and of religious associations, in the overthrow of ancient and sacred compacts, and in an abandonment of all the principles and teachings of the Republican fathers.
This frenzy will cease with its stimulating cause, and men will return once more to sobered and rational views. The whole system of politics built upon the profits and prices of negroes, will tumble to the ground. – Washington Republic.
President Buchanan’s Letter. – Slavery in our Territories.
The Territories belong to the sovereignty of the Union, and not to the individuals who compose that sovereignty. As well might an individual claim the right to enter into the Treasury of the United States and claim a part of the public money, as the common property of the Union, as on the same ground to appropriate to his individual use any portion of a Territory of the United States. – There is now a law of the United States to punish any individual, by indictment or civil action, for entering upon the lands of the United States, and cutting timber, etc. And the President is authorized to use the public force to remove trespassers from the public lands, when necessary.
The common property of the Union is not the common property of the citizens of the Union; but it is held by the Government, to be appropriated as it shall think fit, under the Constitution, for the general welfare. Squatter sovereignty, which has been recently introduced into our system, is an anomaly. It is not only unknown to the Constitution, but is in direct conflict with it. And we have the beauties and high moral effect of this now sovereignty exemplified in the Territories of Utah and Kanzas. But even these Territories were organized under an act of Congress.
There can be no more absurd idea than to call this Government a partnership: as though it were subject to the same rules of law as a copartnership of individuals. It is a sovereign government, within the powers delegated; and it has no powers beyond those specially given or necessarily implied. It cannot institute Slavery. It never has attempted to do it. It has power to prohibit slaves from a Territory, as it has power, in its discretion, in legislating for a Territory, to prohibit any description of man, colored or white, which Congress may believe injurious to the morals and general welfare to a Territory.
There are less than three hundred thousand slaveholders in the Southern States. These do not constitute, with their families, more than one-third of the population of these States. Now, which are the partners, according to Mr. Buchanan’s notion of the partnership? Common justice, would say, that two-thirds of the population of the South should be consulted in regard to their rights, rather than one-third. And yet Mr. Buchanan is on the side of the slaveholders. But he regards the three hundred thousand slaveholders equal to the twenty-six millions of free people of the Union. And these slaveholders must be indulged to the preference of the many millions of freemen, who will never go into a slave Territory which protects Slavery. – Chicago Democrat.
The Plunder Party.
The anti-Benton party of Missouri will hereafter deserve, more pre-eminently than any party that ever had an existence, the title of the plunder party. They have, in the course of less than a year, since they held sway, brought down the Bank of the State of Missouri, which withstood the pressure of 1837 and 1840, to repudiate its debts, by borrowing nearly all the money in its vaults; and they are now asking their friends in the Legislature to legalize the suspension. They have, in less than a year, stripped the treasury of the State of Missouri, and instead of the surplus they found there a year since, it is now empty and in debt, and the members of the Legislature have been called upon to conceal its condition and hide the hands that have robbed it, by voting down a resolution calling upon the auditor to report all the receipts and expenditures of the state government, pointing out the law under which every disbursement has been made. This resolution caused a tremendous confusion among the anti-Benton leaders, and brought the officials from the basement of the state capitol into the two Houses of the Legislature, in order to defeat it. They labored to this end by fair means and by foul, and the amendments drawn and placed in the hands of members intended to turn the inquiry into other channels, are said to be in the handwriting of the auditor and secretary of state. But in the House of Representatives all their tricks were of no avail. The opposition taunted them with the desire for concealment, and by calling the ayes and noes, compelled them to vote the inquiry. In the Senate the auditor recommenced his intrigues, and when he found himself voted down, as a last resort got his party majority to place the whole affair into majority to place the whole affair into his own hands, by voting an amendment that the auditor, the man of all others most implicated if any cheating has been going on, should order the prosecution of those who be found to have helped themselves to the public money, and generally have the entire control of the affair. If the auditor has allowed any of his fellow-partizans to appropriate the public money, will he force them to refund? If he has, as is alleged, audited the account of the public printer for $2500, when he was not entitled to $700, will this same auditor make him pay it back? If this same auditor audited to the chief clerk of the last House of Representatives $1300, for copying the journals, when he was only entitled to $300, will he make the clerk refund what he allowed him to extract illegally from the treasury? If the auditor, thus lavish in helping his friends, has not overlooked himself, will he be likely to institute a vigorous prosecution? The dodge is too transparent. It is an effectual method of suppressing the inquiry into the manner in which our lately plethoric treasury has been made empty by giving the entire control of the inquiry to those most interested in concealment. The House of Representatives should strike off the Senate amendment, or pass a resolution of the House only, not requiring the concurrence of the Senate, if the body is determined to place the whole affair in the hands of one of the parties implicated. The plunder party should be exposed and held up to the public gaze. – Missouri Democrat.
The Kanzas Election.
By the news which will be found in this morning’s paper, from the Missouri Democrat, it will be seen that the Free State people of Kanzas have made a pretty clean sweep, and have a strong working majority in both branches of the Legislature.
This, we presume, will settle the long, vexed, and exciting question, as to the future of Kanzas. The die is now cast, and it will only remain for Congress to admit Kanzas as a Free State.
A great many suggestions, incident to this event, present themselves to us, had we room for them today. As, for instance, what effect will the future of Kanzas have upon Missouri? No one can doubt what it will be, when he thinks of Iowa on the north side, and Illinois on the east side. Even allowing that the inhabitants will be the quietest and most conservative people in the world, the force of sentiment will work out; and then, on and on, over into and through Missouri – the Platte purchase part of Missouri – until it meets the same sentiment, which is now eating its way thro’ from the other sides. Then, what about Arkansas, on the south side? By and by, this caustic will get down to the Arkansas line, and it will commence eating away, until it eats every species of niggerism out of the State.
Close behind all this – eating away, in the wake or swath of it – will come along the solid, massive, never-receding, but always-advancing column of free white Anglo-Saxon labor; clearing away, too, as it comes, the coarse and clumsy implements and appliances which lazy and clumsy serfdom used, and leaving along the trail, instead, all the latest devices of the white man’s brain.
Is not all this so? Has it not happened so aforetime, in the old Free states? Has it not been the case all along down the world’s history? In short, is it not destiny? Verily, it so seems. – Wheeling (Va.) Intelligence.
The Kanzas Press.
Various opinions on various subjects from various Kanzas papers.
Who can beat it? – I. M. Atkinson, whose claims adjoins town, showed us a few days since a giant corn stalk grown on his land. The stalk measures sixteen feet in length, and one ear on it was eleven feet from the ground. Truly Kanzas is a great country for corn stalks, watermelons, potatoes, beans, pumpkins and babies. – Kickapoo Pioneer.
A Buncombe Correspondence. – We give our readers the correspondence between the citizens of Lawrence and Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton. We have witnessed many proofs of the impudence of Jim Lane and the citizens of Lawrence generally, but this letter of theirs is the cap sheaf of all. It was not expected by them for one moment that the Governor and Secretary would accept their invitation, but they wanted to make it appear that the citizens of Lecompton were such ruffians that it was not safe for the chief executive officers in the Territory to remain in their town, and that it would be safer for them to go to the den of iniquity, where there was a fiendish and diabolical attempt made to murder an officer about fifteen months ago while he was in the discharge of his duty. – What assurance has the Governor and Secretary that if they were to go, that if some of their official acts did not meet with the approbation of the Lawrencites that they would be served in the same way that Sheriff Jones was while attempting to make some arrests that did not happen to please the people of Lawrence? – Kickapoo Pioneer.
It is very natural for such a hole as Kickapoo is now and has ever been, to sympathize with Lecompton. The one has justly been styled the “Five Points of Leavenworth County,” the air of the other has ever been pestiferous from the “chivalry” of which it has been the headquarters. Why don’t you applaud Jones for assaulting Sec. Stanton?
- The United States surveyors report several large and valuable salt springs in Washington county, west of Maryville. They are on a branch of the Little Blue, in township 2, range 2, in various sections. – Kanzas Tribune.
- The steamer Hesperian passed up the river, the present week – the first one for a long time. Steamboats look as they used to. – White Cloud Chief.
It will be inferred from this that steamers have abandoned the upper river trade.
- An old friend of ours, who is excited in regard to the election, is savage at the Missourians, and remarked, the other day, that they would corrupt the angels of Heaven, if such a thing were possible. Some one observed that it might be possible, as the devil was once an angel. “Well,” he said, “he believed the way the devil came to fall, was, that he happened to get into the Missouri bottoms!” – White Cloud Chief.
Living in Kanzas Without Work. – Many people seem to come here impressed with the idea that they only have to come here, to get rich – that gold will come to them, without seeking – that they can pick it up, every step they take. This is a sad mistake, as they discover when they get here. Money can be made in Kanzas, and in a few years one may become independent; but it must be worked for – and that work hard, too. Kanzas is one of the best places in the world, for the working man to make money, if he will but diligently apply himself to business, and be economical. Every one cannot get rich by speculating; and if any one comes with the expectation of lying down to sleep, and waking up rich, he is doomed to be sadly disappointed. What we want, are working men – and for such, there is good fortune in store. – White Cloud Chief.
Marcus J. Parrott.
The Ohio Statesman makes bold to speak of our Representative elect as if it knew what he thought, and what he would do, at the coming session in Washington. First, let us correct it, in one essential point, viz: that any one was “authorized” to speak for him in Ohio. No such authority, direct or indirect, was ever given by Mr. Parrott. Second, let us say, that Mr. Parrott was a Democrat, and, what is more, is a Democrat, in the Jeffersonian theory. Third, let us add, that Mr. Parrott stands now, and will stand in Washington, on the Free State Platform of Kanzas, and will oppose whoever opposes that Platform, and support whoever supports it. Washington is a sort of political graveyard; men go there pure, and come away impure; but we are ready, with a full heart, to trust our Delegate, without doubt or fear. Whoever else may falter in defense of Free Kanzas, he will not. He will prove true to Free Kanzas, and her Free State people. – Leavenworth Times.
A Difference. – If we had fiver niggers at large in this District, contrary to law, the President, old as he is would mount his horse, and, at the head of his marines, would sustain the Constitution and the Union at all hazards, and at all costs. But as, instead of five niggers, we only have five banks at large, contrary to law, the Administration contents itself with expressing a little harmless disapprobation. One runaway nigger would bring down upon us the whole army of the United States. Five runaway banks have brought down upon us nothing more terrible than windy editorials. – Washington (D. C.) Republic.
New Publication.
The Progress of Slavery in the United States.
By Geo. M. Weston. 12mo., pp. 301. Washington, D. C. Published by the Author. 1857.
It is not often that a volume from Washington brings to us such a wealth of thought and diction, so compact and pointed, as we find in this volume, the character of which is indicated by its title. Of the seventeen chapters of this book, the last contemplates the relations of the Island of Cuba to the United States, and to the slave question. In the paragraphs of this chapter, alike, the friends of free labor and the propagandists of slavery will find wisdom and instruction, seeing that it is not in every aspect of the question that the latter class will find hope and zeal. The previous chapters contemplate the institution of slavery in the United States, historically and prospectively, and every page is full of fact and thought, arranged in masterly combinations, and set throughout in strong and nervous English, yet with dispassionate rhetoric, showing the author possessed of a cool and steady as well as of a well stored and comprehensive intellect. We can do no better than to submit extracts embracing such segments of the writer’s circle of argumentation as can be best appreciated apart from the context.
This work, of which the extent of our extracts forbids further notice to-day, will be a text-book and magazine of suggestions and facts, in the great struggle between Freedom and Slavery – extension on this continent. It is the production of a scholarly and statesmanlike mind, and addressed to men of thought; its mission will be to move the mind of the country, till discussion on the topic to which it is devoted shall be foreclosed by beneficent action and legislation. – New York Evening Post.
We concur in the commendations bestowed on this book by the Evening Post. It is a very valuable work, and should be in the hands of every man who wishes to keep himself thoroughly posted on the slavery question. It is for sale by the author, at Washington City, and will be forwarded by mail to applicants at $1,00 per copy.
A Remarkable Story. – We take the following from the Walkulla (Fla.) Times of the 14th inst., and give it to our readers for what it is worth:
“A friend informs us of the following occurrence, which is reported to have taken place recently at Attapulgus, Georgia: A gentleman who had received a considerable sum of money was compelled to go from home, leaving his wife alone in the house, situated some distance from any other dwelling. Towards evening, two negroes entered the house, and demanded of the lady the money, or they would take her life. Being a woman of great coolness, she saw at once it would be useless for her to attempt to evade the demand, so she produced the money, and gave it to them. The negroes then remarked that, as supper was nearly ready, they would stay and eat with her. She told them to be seated until she got it ready. The woman had a vial of strychnine in her cupboard. The woman, in sweetening their coffee, managed to put a dose of the poison in their cups. They drank, and in a few moments were dead. The neighbors were called in, and the negroes discovered to be white men in disguise – near neighbors and friends of her husband, who had known of his receiving money and his absence.”
Progress – Downward. – The principle is this, and will ever remain in force, that men by nature are free. – Continental Congress, 1779.
It is conceded, on all hands, that the right to be free can never be alienated. – Continental Congress.
It is among my first wishes to see some plan by which Slavery in this country may be abolished by law. – Washington.
Slavery is contrary to the law of nature and of nations – William Wid.
Slavery is a dark spot on the face of the nation. – Lafayette.
Slavery is repugnant to the principles of Christianity; it prostrates every benevolent action in the human heart. – Patrick Henry.
The way, I hope, is preparing, under the auspices of Heaven, for a total emancipation. – Jefferson.
The South now maintains that Slavery is right, natural, and necessary, and does not depend on difference of complexion. The laws of the slave States justify the holding of white men in bondage. – Richmond Enquirer.
Horrible Depravity of a Committee of an Agricultural Society. – We quote the annexed paragraphed from the Summit county (Ohio) Beacon:
The Committee of the Summit County Agricultural Society, not having the Dred Scott decision before their eyes, awarded the premium for the “best Bread” to Miss Eliza Bell, of Middlebury, aged thirteen years, and colored. This, however, is to be said in behalf of the Committee. They awarded the premiums by the numbers attached, without knowing the names or complexions of the competitors. Miss Bell had the best bread; at least, the Committee thought so; so she got the premium.
The Losses. – Some of the larger pecuniary losses which have resulted to the country from the present mal-administration of public affairs, may be roughly stated as follows:
The (so-called) sale of Fort Snelling - - $1,000,000
Mr. Cobb’s 16 per cent. premiums for the public stocks 500,000
The army in Kanzas to control the elections - 3,000,000
Total - - - - - - $4,500,000
Transcribed by Shannon McElroy