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Z Cannot Oivc my Hand to Thee.
TO THE -AlTllOU Ol ■•;i\i; .METllY IIASU.”
(Ih ! oe.ase to plead, for ’tis in vain,
T'heu eaiis't press this hand no more.
Kememheied yet tliat day of old,
Ueiiicmhered only to dc.jilore.
I gave thee back that jiroinaH',
In whiclithy ha]i|)incss was placed,
1 prir.cd it not since thou did.s't pnnvr,
Cnworlliy of the trust it travc.
I wonbi not cause one sad llioughl
To rest on tlnit brow of thine.
Would not that thy heart be pained,
l!y ineinory of watitsof mine.
Would hid thee forget in Lethe's tide.
Let former hoiK*s forever sleep.
Hush the sigh and check tl*e Cear,
I'orprouil hearts should ne\er wec|i.
Farewell, if'twouKl one joy im))art.
To give my hand in kind jidviei
I’erchance thy plea would melt iny lieart;
The trust of otlkT days revived.
Hut Illy hand retained witliin thy grasp.
Wake iiieiuiiries from wliii-h I’d fain be free,
Arons'again, the slumbering past.
No' I cannot give niy hand to thee.
[Fnu THE OLD NORTH STATE.]
PAI L IIKKMOA,
IIY LIK.V llKXTO.y.
CH.VI'TKK Til.
From the time >fr. Ilermon had entered
tlic room to the conclusion of this unhappy
affair the wife and mother liad heen an
agonized but silent listener. p]\pcrience
h.vl taught her how useless it would be to
atrive by word to iiillueiice her husband,
especially in his conduct towards Paul.
The Mow came so sudden that her son
was an alien from his home, too hv a fath-
e,T» word, that she could scarcely believe
the evidence of her own senses. In a few
moments seeming to realize the truth in
all its sad hearings, she arose and in a tone
that would have melted a heart of flint, or
turned tin* purpose of any mind save one
obscured by drink, she pleadingly laid
a tremulous hand upon hor husbands arm,
cried, "Oh! William Lake that back, do
not drive way our cliild."
He shook otf her hand saying, ‘‘I will
have none of your iiilerfcrence, it is you
that has n.iued the boy.”
‘•Hut oh ! my hushaud take back those
cruel words” she supplietted, falling on
her kiioce before the stem man. ‘‘Paul
is so young I cannot see him go, it will
break my lo art, Il' tir mt" she exclaimed
119 he turm-d from her and strode over to
theopjiositesideof ihcroomand cooly said,
"1 wish no tnigi'dii's enacted.”
Mrs. Hormon arose proudly to her feet
and with a lofty hearing ajiproached the
door that led lo the stairs, but just as she
hail jilaci d her font ujmii tin* first round.
she ■was confronted by her leige lord,
who in a commanding tone asked,
“What business have you, Drusilla, in
going up here V'
Put for once he was mistaken in her
compliance, facing him with scorn, she ut
tered. “I am not your dog, William Her-
nion, stiiiid aside and let me pass.”
'^I'his was something novel, she bid him
defiance. He had areused a spirit he lit
tle dreamed dwelt within his wife’s bosom.
He gazed into her face a moment, then
turned, seized his hat, and closed the front
door with a
Mrs. Hdmon ascended to her sons room
but her newly acquired strength seeming
to forsake her, as she beheld him leaning
over his trunk hastily placing some arti
cles in a carpet-sack, she sank into a chair
near by him and clasped her hands tightly
together.
Paul looked up, took her hands within
his own, and begged her not to be so
troubled, saying “he knew he could make
a living in the world.”
“Put what will you do?—where will
you go !” asked his mother.
“llartfly am detcrinincd but think I
will go west” he replied.
“Put where are your means—and Paul
will you leave me !” asked the mother. “It
is true we cannot live under the same roof,
y(;t what a comfort it would be to see you
now and then, and to know s niething of
your (ivery-day life. It does not seem as
if 1 can hi ar to si e you go out into the
wide, deceitful and treacherous world un
protected and alone. Oh! Paul my dear
bev remain near me.”
iled id not answer. I’litil then he had
never realized how necessary for his hap
piness was his mother’s jiresenco. From
liis h.ihy-hooil Paul Hermou had almost
idolized his mother. She was to him the
omhodiiueiit of all that was good and pure.
Her slightest w’isii Lad ever heen peremp
tory ami his mother had frequently been
heard to .say “Paul has never given me a
pang or tear.” Perhaps too this love for
his mother had Loen rendered more potent
by the cold, straiig-e, treatment of his fath
er.
Mrs. Ilermon seemed so stunned that
she was eiiahlvd to give her sou but little
assi.>Jtance, but he made his arrangements
with ulacriu' shkI in a few moments he
signified he was ready and turned to his
mother to say, (/oad b>/e. She held him to
her bosom in a long warm embrace, then
kissed him and asked him to meet her at
eight o’chkCik the following morning at the
large poplar tree, over beyond the hill,
some quarter of a mile distant. He left
her; she threw herself upon liis bed to re
liev*e an over-laden heart in tears, but not
alone in vain tears, but in earnest thought
and plannings for the future was an hour
spent. Then the soft twilight came on
hushing all nature with its sweet magic
spell, aiKlits influence was felt by the tear
ful mother, in a measure stilling the wild
throbhings of her heart and she gave him
into the hand of God
Now we will leave licr for the present
and go with Paul. He first descended to
the sitting room where he found Sue bit-
tiM-ly weeping as she had heard her father
tell Paul to leave, and with her as the oth
er children the brother was a favorite.
Little Pecca was standing by lier sister’s
chair begging her not to “kye” and she
would give her “take.” Seeing Paul she
ran to him and led him to Sue, as if to ask
his aid in drying her tears. He stooped
down and kissed her twice, took little
Pecca into his arms kissed her also, while
she wound her little white arms around his
neck “I loves you brudder Paul.” Then
putting hor down he said good bye while
she laughed a merry baby laugh and hold
ing out her chubby hand said “bye.” Then
she looked serious and amazed to see
bright drops come in her brothers eyes and
ran to search lier father and to tell him,
“Prudder Paul was kyeing.”
Paul went out into the back yard, and
said adieu to the servants in the ample old
kitchen, who looked much troubled, thence
into the orchard, whore he met his elder
brother Xat. 8omc conversation ensued
in which Xat expressed much wonder at
his father’s severity, then pressed into
ILiul’s hand a dollar, saying, “that it was
every cent he had, as he spent all last
night hut what would procure Paul a
night’s lodging.” Then the brother’s part
ed with a warm grasp of the hands, Nat
being a willing bearer of a message to the
second brother, John. Yes, they parted,
one it seems endowed with superior advan
tages, education and competence, the other
by sole self-exertion to rise above misfor
tune, or walk in the vale of poverty. But
we will see what a brave heart, correct
principles, and industry can do.
Hememheriug his promise to his mother
for the morrow, Paul determined not to
proceed far that evening, so asked for a
night's entertaiinnent of a gentleman in the
neighhorhood. The night was nearly spent
in useless jilanniiig, there d termining to
await circuiastances he fell asleep, but to
dream of being a child, playing around his
mother’s kiice, and basking in the sunlight
of her smile Awaking rather late in the
juorniug he sprang up.hantily dressed him
self, ate liis breakfast, paid his bill and rc
paired to the appointed spot to meet is
mother. Soon she came, and after man}
kind inquiries and a few tears—the all im
portant subject—of what was to he done
next? Where Paul was to go and what
to do was entered upon. Paul could not
think the plan of his mother feasible—that
of his remaining in North Carolina. The
land was too poor and the country too
slow. He wished to go to a county whiy-i
Dame Fortune was more lavish in her gifts.
Clerrit Smith on the Duty of the
IZorth to the South-
A LETTER TO THADDEUS STEVENS.
Hon. Thad. Stevens—Dear So*;—You
are reported in the New York Tribune^ as
having recently said on the floor of Con
gress :
“It is now held by one of the most lib-
pjj^l and enlightened gentlemen in the
country (1 mean Gerrit Sm}th7 that we
But the means of going, where were they ? should even pay a portion of the damage
He could not take the wings of the wind ; hiflicted on the Rebels, and pay a portion
and his proud spirit could never beg his | Rebel debt.
way. And could he leave his mother.— I Of course, you do not mean that this is
That is a question most boys of sixteen ! literally so. My often repeated proposi-
may smile at, yet they do not love their ! tio“ ‘l^at Government give or lend mon
mothers as Paul Hermon did his. At! South to help her to an upward
length Mrs. Hermon drew a letter from her start from the depths of her poverty and
pocket, saying, “Listen to me, my son.— i desolation. By what, logic you were able
In the noon of the night I wrote this and i construct from the letter of this proposi-
God has given me faith to believeit will be , your figure of speech is for y'ou, not
crowned with success. “She placed the explain. I am truly sorry that it
open sheet into his hand and bade him read | i“ jour heart to hold up to ridicule my
it.
She w'atched his face as he read and the
quivering lip showed her the tempest of
emotion those simple lines were waking in
his soul. The letter ran thus :
Midnight, June oth, 18—.
Friend of mif Childhood:
It is with unfeigned diffidence I write
you. Yet the trying circumstances urge
it, a mother’s heart prompts it. You of-
times proved yourself a friend in my j'outh,
will you not be in this dark hour ? I write
you in behalf of my child, my high-spirit
ed, but noble boy. He who gave him be-
reasonable proposition. You are too old
and too inteilectual to be making such con
cessions to passion and prejudice. There
are two reasons why the North should be
glad to help the South. Fisrt, the South
is poor—very poor, and the North is rich
—very rich. Second, the North is largely
responsible for the poverty of the South.
Our fathers united with the fathers of the
South in making this a land of slaves, and
in our own day the North has gone with
the fouth in upholding and extending sla
very. Until the breaking out of this war
every Congress was for slavery. The re-
ing has driven him from his father’s house. ^ Missouri Compromise was the
Will you not receive liini ? j ^^®^k of the North as well as of the South.
There is much that I could say iu praise i the enactment of that infernal
of my son, yet it might be read with a higitive slave act, which even the good
careless eye, knowing it was indicted by a . ■’Abraham Lincoln was compelled by the
mother’s hand. But this I must say, he P^'o-sluvery sentiment of the North as well
has ever been the kindest and best of sons ^outh to enforce so rigorously.—
to his mother. Time I know will dis-' exceptions, our
cover to you the true gold in his character, i ^orihern colleges, theological seminaries,
He has a brave heart, and is more than political and religious parties were on
willing to make every exertion for a sup-: slavery.^ The commerce of the
port. He has had advantages of educa- j ^®^h was emphatically in the interest of
lion, has to my knowlcdgo, been indns- j slavery.
trious, and I think is fully competent to I ^be light of such facts it cannot sure-
take charge of a neighborhood school.— ' b' be denied that the North made herself
Will you not receive m// son in your house l^H'gcly responsible for American slavery,
as a boarder.? Will you not interest your-! tbe war came of slaveiy, and the pov-
self in obtaining a school ? I am asking
much I am aware, but I know not whose
aid to ask, save yours.
Paul is too young to be cast out into the
world with no arm to guide or sustain him.
Will you not offer that arm ? Will you
uot he a father to the fatherless ? and my
prayers will bless you.
Most Respectfully,
Drusilla Hermon.
After reading the letter twice over Paul
placed it again in his mother’s hand, say
ing,
Oh ! Mother I cannot take this to Mr.
Ardon, it is asking too much.
“Paul,” said his mother, “this is all the
way I see tor you ahead. You have ever
been obedient, do not disobey me in this
thing.”
“But what claim have we on Mr. Ar
den ?” asked the boy.
Something like a faint smile passed over
the face of ilrs. Ilermon as she replied
“Leave that to me, Paul; I know some
thing of the rare goodness of Mi*. Arden’s
heart. Will you not take this to him to-
came of
same degree
erty and desolation of the South
the Avar; and hence, to the
that the North was responsible for slavery
is she responsible for the war and for its
ruinous results to the South.
You call my sympathy with the South,
and my desire to have the North help her,
“sickly humanity.” I call it simple
honesty. If my neighbor and I join in
getting each other drunk, and he in his
frenzy goes to tearing doAvn my house,
and I, in self-defence deinoli.sh his, I am
not to disown his claim upon ray sympa-
thy. I am to feel that honesty requires
me to help him to rebuild.
AYould to God that Congress were so
just and wise as, at tliis very session, to
lend fifty millions of dollars to the Confed-
crate States—to each of them so ranch of
it as Avould be proportionate to her popula
tion and to Avhat she has suffered from the
ratrages of the Avar I The share falling to
each State to be distributed throughout her
i territory in loans upon adequate security.
{ This, by proving the love and pity of the
North for her, Avould Avin the heart of the
day, and introduce yourself as the sim of ^ South, and Avould thus produce a true and
Mother,
much
)
to
Drusilla Hermon.
Paul hesitatingly replied, “Yes
I CAN do so, yet I dislike very
trouble others.”
Feeling now more at ease, Mrs. Hermon
remarked, “I have brought you some more
clothes my son, together with several of
your books, your dinner also.”
After conversing ahalf hour longer, fear
ing her husband Avould inquire into her ab
sence, she strove to summons strength to
again say good-bye If her plan succeed-
lasting peace batween them. And then it
would be Avorth to the nation, if only in a
financial point of view, many times fifty
millions of dollars. Gold would no longer
bear among us a premium of 40 per cent,
and our Government AVi'uld no longer have
to pay 7 per cent, nor much more than
half 7 per cent, interest on its loans. Very
respectfully A’ours, Gerrit fcMiTn.
Peterboro’, July 15, 1867.
Tbe Nashville Banner has it from the
ed, it is true Paul Avould be but some five most undoubted authority that General
miles from her, yet it was like rending j George H. Thomas expresses himself in
heart-strings to say good-bye, knoAviug the j strong disapprobation of the entire militia
home-circle A\'as broken, perhaps ncA-er i system set on foot by BroAvnloAv, as tend-
again to be rc-united. Paul promised to ing to foment discord, beget strife and
couA'cy by the first opportunity, either by , needless bloodshed, and keep the country
word or line, the anxious intelligence of, in canstaut turmoil and excitement,
his success or non-success, and to meet her i
if tbe plan succeeded as often as possible j
at church. A long silent embrace, the i
mother still grasping the hand of her eon
and leaning against the ancient tree as if 1
for support laid the other hand upon his |
uncovered head and blessed him. Then j
taking the path homeAvard, she gained an j
eminence and looking back, she beheld |
Paul standing just as she had left him, ga* t|j0 f^j,. j-ecord of thirtA’-seA’en years as a
ziug after hei. Oue mighty sob burst from respectable showman, bv becoming a mem
ber hear', and again she Avent on, murmur-! Congress,
ing aloud, “Oh ! God direct him and keep , ®
his heart pure, and yet soften the heart of j A close observer of ncAvspapers says
bis father toAvard him.” i is a marked difference in the owner’s
In a short time she entered her OAvn description of a horse for sale, and that of
gate The house seemed sad and lonely, ) ^^e same quadruped stolen. The animal’s
for one of her most precious treasures Avas defects are apt to beset forth rather strong-
gone. Bathing her face to remove all > the last case.
traces of tears, she strove to regain some I General Sherman reports that fifty In-
degree of cheertulness in discharging her aians will checkmate 3,000 soldiers. It
household Guties, again committing all hi therefore, require an immense army,
to the hiinds of Him that doeth all tln^*?® at a great cost, to carry on the war with
well.” (To Im> rr.ntinned. ^ ‘ them.
Some of the Radical Republican papers
having proposed General Phil. Sheridan
as a candidate for President, the Lynch
burg liepnblican suggests that they ought
to put “Old Jube” behind him, to make
him run aa'cIL
Dan Rice, the other evening, in his cir
cus, said that he was not going to defile
President’s Message.
Washington, July 15.—The folloAving
is the message transmitted to-day, addres
sed to the Senate of the United States :
I transmit, herewith, reports from the
secretary of war and the attorney general
containing the information called f• r by
the resolution of the Senate, of the 3d iiist,
requesting the president to communicate
to the Senate copies of all orders, instruc
tions, circulars, letters, or letters oi advice,
issued to the respective militarvofficers as
signed to the command of the several mil
itary districts, under the act passed March
2, 1867, entitled “An act to provide for
the more efficient government of the rebel
states, and the act supplementary thereto
passed March 23, 1867 ;” also, copies of
all opinions given to by him by the attor-
ney general of the United Slates, touching
the construction and interpretation of said
acts, and such as may have taken place
between himself and any of such comman
ders, and betAveen him and the general of
the army, or betAveeu the latter and any of
the said commanders, touching the same
subjects ; also, copies of all orders issued
by any of said commanders in carrying out
the provisions oi said commanders in car
rying out the provisions of said acts, or
either of them ; also, that he inform the
senate what progress has been made in the
matter of reg’stration under said acts, and
whether the sum of money heretofore ap
propriated for carrying them out i.s proba
by sufficient.
In answer to that portion of the resolu
tion which inquires Avhether the sum of
money heretofore appropriated tor carrying
these acts into effect is probably sufficient,
reference is made to the accompanying re
port that the appropriation of S500.000
made in the act, approved March 30,1867,
for the purpose of carrying into effect the
act to provide for the more efficient gov
ernment of the rebel States, passed March
2, 1867, and the act supplementary, passed
March 23, 1967, has already been expend
ed by the commanders of the several mili
tary districts, and that iu addition the sum
of $1,645,277 is required for present pur
poses. It is excceaingly difficult at the
present time to estimate the probable ex
pense of carrying into full effect the two
acts of March last, and the hill Avhich pass
ed the tAVo houses of Congress on the 13th
instant. If the existing governments of
the ten states of the Union are to be de
posed, and their entire machinery is to be
placed under the exclusive control and au
thority of the respective district command
ers, all the expendiiures incident to the ad
ministration of such governments must ne
cessarily be incurred Ly the federal gov
ernment. It is believed tliat iu addition
to the $2,100,000 already expended, an
estimate for the sum Avhich Avill be requir
ed for this purpose Avould not be less than
$14,000,000, the aggregate amount expen
ded would, no doubt, be considerably aug
mented if the machinery of these States is
to be operated by the federal government,
and would be largelA- increased if the Uni
ted States, by aboli: hing the existing State
governments, should b come responsible
for liabilities incurrtd by them before the
rebellion iu laudable efibrts to develope
their resources, and in nowise created for
insurrectionary purposes. The debt of
these States thus legitimately incurred,
when accurately ascertained, Avill, it is be
lieved, approximate a hundred millions of
dollars, and they are held not only by our
own citizens, among whom are residents of
portions of the country which have ever re
mained loyal to the Uni ai, but by persons
who are the subjects of foreign govern
ments. It is Avorthy the consideration of
Congress and the country, Avhether, if the
federal government by action Avere to as
sume such obligations, so large an additi ai
to our public expenditures Avould not se
riously impair the credit of the nation. Or,
on the other hand, whether the refusal of
Congress to guarantee the payment of the
debts of those States, after having displa
ced or abolished their State Governments,
would not be vieAved as a violation of good
faith, and a repudiation by the national
legislature ot liabilities Avhich these States
had justly and legally incurred.
Andrew John-son.
Washington, D. C., July 15, 1SG7.
WHOLE NO. 68
The Knitl.nion of Innocent IMen
FROM ConorE.,-.—}[r. Lowe, iu a recent
discussion in the English House of Com
mons, said :
“ My honorahie friend, the member from
Reading, said that a majority in America
had never been known to abuse its ])Ower.
1 Avill take one instance, Ax-liich is just as
good as a thousand. Certain things be
came necessary for the llepublican party,
which could not be car -ied without a ma
jority of two-thirds of the Congress. Ev
er A'body knows that members who were in-
noccirf men were expelled from the legisla
ture in order to obtain the uece.^sary Re
publican majority.”
Mail Line From Norfolk to Liver
POOL—Direct 'J'rade. Colonel Lamb
has noAV succeded in establishing between
Xoriolk and Liveiuvool ” The Uuiied States
Mail Line to Liverpool,” Avhich wo pre
sume may be regarded as a permanent in
stitution. The steamship Worcester, of
the new line, Avill leave this citA’ for Liver-
pool, direct, on the 24tli instant.
In the fall, a steiimer of this line Avill
leave Liverpool for Xnrtblk, diiect, regu
larly every month. This is certainly most
encouraging in the midst of our troubles,
Avhich, \v(,* trust, time will soon remove.—
The efibrts of sin h men in a struggling
community are incalculable; and, indeed,
upon them depends a eily’s progress and
prosperity. Direct trade is now an ac-
complislied fact. — For. Jour., llih.
The Fmppror Xupolcon as Viewed
Through a Clergyman’s Spectacles.—Ri*v.
Henry W. Bellows, now sojourning in Pa
ris, Avrites that “Napoleon lias a jioor walk
and an uninteresting presence. He looks
care-Avorn and cold, anxious and les rved.
II is complexion is pallid and lii.s expri's-
sion deprecatory. i here is nothing to ex
cite entiuisiasin in his look or nianner. In
private he is reportt d as mild spoken, ami
able and of quick intelligence, Iml his face
i.*! both impassive and unpromising. All
the portraits flatter him.”
SnorbiSH.—Introducing a re.solnlion in
Congre.ss the daA’ i\fr. Slianks of ImJian.a,
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had occ.a.sion to allude to tin late unfor
tunate Emperor of Mexico, in Avhich he
spoke scornfiilly of the self-styled Pi-ince
Maximilian, and the “ so-called ” Rovtil
“House of Ilapsbnrg.” For this very
brilliant idea the Ncav York Times, Radi
cal, thus comjilements him :
“The “self-styled blister Shanks, or
the “so-called” lioin.rahle Mister Shanks,
lives so far out West that probably the
ncAvs has not 3’et verclied him that the
House of Hapshnrg has been decidedly
and d(-finitely “Royal,” or rather inijierial
for something liki* six centuries, and that
it traces its genyralogy and power back to
the seventh century of the (,’hristian era.
If a person cannot be blamed for having
heard this, be eortainly cannot be blain(,‘d
for having beard that Maximilian was ac-
luilly by birth a “ Prince,” and that he is
no more to blame for this than Mr. Shanks
is responsible tor biting born a frito and
independent citizen of thi.s tbe great demo
cratic republic, wlio.se gigantic rc]niblic,
Avliose gigantic bird, standing on tbe Rocky
Mountains, slap.s its Avings over the entire
continent, and keeps tiie whole human race
in a constant .state of terror.
Feilds Cook is entirely mistaken
when he says that the negro race Avill in
crease in the United States. It is perfectly
obvious that it Avill not remain at all a
gicat Avhile in the present Lnited States.
If there were not to-day a single white
man south of the Potomac, in the lapse ol
a short period the North would have :akcn
possession of the country. I here are now
31,000,000 of white people in the Euitnl
States and 4,000,000 ol black'. »'~hoalsof
Avhite immigrants from E'.u'ope are hunl-
ing every month at New Ynk- i’lditicaJ
troubles in Europe (and the an’ is charged
AA’ith them) Avill gr.*atly increase thi-immi
gration. Tbe wave G? immigration Avhicli
noAi' Langs suspended over the Sontn Avill
presentlA’ descend upon u.-, and the blacKS
will be pushed soutliAvaril. or in a soiilii-
wc^terlA* dirertion, - i karl .tte-iiUc I'hro/i
The Impeachment (.’ommittee.—The
Judiciary Committee, sitting as a Commit
tee of linocacliment, have had several
meetings of late General Spinner and
one of Ids employees have l.u en recently
examined touching the jji oceeds of the sale
of confiscated Confederate property, par
ticularly as to whetlcT and Avhat jiortions
of them have been letiirimd to tlio owners
of the property coiifieiniied. So far, at
loiist, as the President is concerm.-d, no im
portant facts, we bear, Avere elicilml. It
is understood that on T’lmr.sday next f/cu-
erals Grant and llillvi.-r iiro to be examin
ed. Upon Avliat point;- lias iiot transpired.
It begins to bethoiiglit In' well-inlormed
persons iibout tlie Capitol, that the jjerli-
luicity of Mi-s-^rs. Boutwcll, Butler, Wil
liams and 'riiomas, wi'h tln-ir coadjutor.s
out.'ide the committd*, has produced an ef
fect upon .a sullicieiit nninber ot the Radi
cals of the House to rend(*r soinetliing in
the shape of an injpf;achment probable in
November m-xt. 'Tlie public mind has
been inihinn cl to a Imiglii that the enaet-
meiit (A a farce of the sort i.s (Icenn d iu-
dispen.^abli: to kei p ttj) the excileim.-nt un
til alter tin* 1’n-.-idr-nrial election. 'J’he
peiniiug r(-.'o!ution iii' .Mr. t (^vode points in
that dii' Ction Xid. Ii'.bUtgcucer. 17//i.
“ r;iio.sT OF TIIE Past (.'on-stflution.”
—in his late S|)C(,ch iijioii the coiifcicnce
report, coinmenting njion tin* fact that the
>enate was t>o!;:i,d il .use in the march
of radicalism, Mr. s-an, said :
“ S nii*? fiag.i. o’' ..i ;i.. old .shattered
coUfAitutlijn ii.oi •: ok, p, i liap.-, in the
kidiiCys ol'somo [I.iughter,] and
troubled tbeiXi at '>'1 ii-n iht*y tried
to pi'ogre.ss, the !■•* t m tin- p i.'t conslitu-
lioii w;i.s touiid iii :] u.i\ . and ob.-*lruct-
edtliOin. P.,rbap- ! il . I . .i--.n: nod enoiigb.
He did net find r.u.- I'.'-dr . l.L it