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VOL. I. ROLLA, PHELPS COUNTY.; MO., JUNE 17, 1861. NO. 45. THE ROLLA EXPRESS l J PUBLISHED EVER!' MONDAY AT JW ONE DOLLAR, A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. h - f KATES OP ADVERTISING : ( A SQUABS OON8IST3 OF TEN LINES. ) Less than a square, 10 cents a lino for tho firsl insertion, a eent3 a liuo for each subsequent one, One square, one insertion $ 1 00 Each additional insertion 60 One square three months 4 00 One square six months 6 00 One square one year 8 00 Fourth of a column one year 18 00 Half column one year 30 00 Whole column one year 50 00 ! Advertisements not marked with tho numbei ' of insertions required will be published w, til or-dered out, and charged accordingly. Professional or business cards of fivo lines pi less, will be published for six dollars a year, in advance. Yearly advertisers oonfined strictly to their le-gitimate business. " PROFESSIONAL CARDS. GEO. F. HARRINGTON, Attorney at law, Rolla, Phelps county, Mo. Office S. E. corner of .. Main and Fourth streets. AARON VANWAR&IER, Attorney at Law, Rolla, Phelps county, Mo. . M. McGUIRE. Attorney at Law, Rolla Phelps county, Mo. Office in the Court House. ' S. G. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law, porma nently located at Holla, Pholps coumy, Mo. Particular attention paid to pre emption claims. ,' H. S CLARK, Attorney at Law, Notary Pub lio and Caud Agent. Prompt attention paid to the collection of debts and the payment of taxes for non-residen- ts, Lands sold for taxes rcdeoindd. 1 Office in the Court Houso. . I. HUTCHISON, Attorney at Law, and Land Agent. Rolla, Pholps county, Mo , will prac-tice law in the counties of Puelps. Maries, Pulas-ki, Texas, Dent and Crawford. He will ako at teud to locating land in Southern Jlistouri, in-vestigating titles, paying taxes and buying and selling lands on commission. Office on Muin street, ; near the railroad. JAMES E. OJIAUVIN. &uorn y at Law, Rol- - f i la, Mo. Agent for the Mcrchonts and Manufac- - C turers' Insurance Company, of St. Louis ; Cove- - Ki ra.ni- - Mutual Life Insurance Company of .St Louis and tbe Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Comp-iny- , of Hartfod, Conn. Office with J. M MoGuire. Esq. W A. J. E. ORGAN, County Surveyors, Real Estate, Tax Paying and General Agents.- - -- Having formed --jonncetinns witb Weal Estate Agents in St Louis, "tier niro inducements to those wishing to sell improved or unimproved ' lands. Commipion modcra-- . W N. Organ, SaUm llnnf. f.niTnM, J TC. OrMn. Hlhlla. i'htilliS county Mo. E y. MITCHELL, Attorney at Law and Land Agent, wi'l p-vcti-ce in tho couruies of Howell, Oregon, Reynolds, SShann.,n, Dent, CrawforJ, Phelps Tux is and Pula.'ki. For reference ad-- k- - dress Hon. J. H McBridc, Licking, Tcxascounty. ' Particular attention paid to collections a- - d tao t&i ment of taxes. Letters addressed to Houston, Texas county, Mo. WM N. OltGAN, Attorney at Law, Salem De'it county, Mo., will practice regularly in the counties comprising the 18th Judicial Cir 'uit. Particular attention paid to collecting. ABRAHAM JOHNSON, will practice Law in thecourts of Maries and Pnelps coutties." Busi-ness left with him will be attended to promptly. Office Clifty Dale, Maries county, Mo. POMEROY & SEAT, Atoorneys at Law, Steeleville, Mo , will practice regii'arly in the Cirouit Courts of Marie", Pholp, Pulaski, Texas, Den, Ozark, Shannon and Crawford counties. JOHN P. NORVEIL, School Commissioner for Phelps county. He oan be found, every Sat nrday, at the offioo of J. M. McGui ro, Esq., at the ,, county seat. DR. J. S. FROST, Practicing Physician and Druggist, Vienna. Tho most approved Patent MedicineB and Drugs kept constantly oh band. DR. R. BYRNS, Physioian, Surgeon and Ac-coucheur, tenders his profosiional services to the citiiensof Bella, and surrounding country. Office I at the Phelps House. MISCELLANEOUS CARDS. ALBERT NEUMAN, Artistand Dentist, Rolla, Mo., Rooms in Marshall's Sky-lig- ht Gallery. ' & W. BISHOP, Provnetor of Hiship's Addi-tlo- n to tho towB of Rolla. Lots situa'ed in tho most central portion of Town f r sale. E. W. JAMES, Proorietoror Jamus' Aldition to Rolla. Lots situated in the vi 'inity o the l)e-j- ot of the S. W. B. Railroad. Address Rolia, Mo. " WIZSUM WILSON, House, Sign an1Orn" mental Panter and Glazier, Rolla, Mo Paper-hangin- g, Graini- - g, Marbling and Gilding done --with neatness and dispatch, and on the most rea-sonable terms. t. ISAAC C. PENNINGTON, Plastirer, Rolla, Mo., oarries on the business in all its various brandies. Orders left at my residense, on the oorner of Eight and Park streets, will roceive prompt attention. DARDEN & CO., House Builders, Carpen-er- s and Joiners, Holla, Mo. Contracts taken for 11 kind" of Carpentering. Prompt attention paid i-i-ven to all business entrusted to their care. "DR. A. DeNORMANDIE, Ecloctio Phisioian, will attend to all proforsional calls in town IRionldlac, ountry. Office at the Drag Store. TME KEBl'KIi. Tho Infant is sleeping, Ue prattles no more ; , The mother is waapmg, Afflicted and sore ; The children are crying, Eor '"baby is deid;" Tho father is sighing, For one little head. t There is grief in the paloce, And mourning and woo ; All. save little Alice, Their sorrow to show. Her fair checks arc tearless ; , Her blue eyes are clear ; And trusting and fearless She stands by tho bier. Her voice is unbroken, As, lifting her head, Sho turns to the livjug, ' From one that is dead ; "Do r mother, you told us Tout God was on high, And bis anus would unfold us Wherover we die. And, father, I heard yoa Ttll undo las' nighr, Your child was an angel, In raiment of white ; i Then why alt this weeping, lhis sorrow and pain? Our Willie is sleoping To wakea again." With tho voico of a prophet, The look of a seer, Her words of rebuking Enchained every ear : The sobs cjme no longer, The eyes knew a balm, Thi paronts were stronger, The children were calin. 'Neath the shade of Ihe willow 1'huy U d aim to rest, Ths tod f.r his pill-iw- , A ro-- e on his orea-- t ; And rhuy ledrn'd iroin.his going One lo sou ot worch There are unguis in Heaven, And angels on earth. BOKDEK STATE CONVENTION A5- - dresH to the Peoplexif the Untied States. Fellow-Citizen- s : The delegates to a Convention of the Border Slave States, assembled in the city of Frankfort, de-sirejj- to address you in relution to the present condition of tho country. None of us have ever expected to live to see tbe spectacle now exhibited in our distracted land. The cry to arms re- - I .1 . -- sounas turouga1.outt our 1ooru3ers, anai u a few bhort weeks we have seen all ovei the land the marshaling of troops readj for the conflict. The pursuits of ptace are neg'eefc-- d and abandoned, and th fell spirit of war has seized almost everj heart, until even gentle and tender wo man yields to the fierce impulse, and encourages the strife, and the maternal eye scarce gathers a tear as the son seizes his arms, and rushes toward the held of carnage and of dea'.h. If this warlike spirit this terrible energy weie displayed in preparing to meet the legions of an invading enemy, out hearts would exult in the exhibition . f the martial spirit of our countrymen; but aUs ! the co nbataiits aie descend-ants of sires who stood side by side in ihe day of battle, to maintain the inde-pendence of our country, and in the ap-proaching conflict brother is lo fall by the hand of brother. Can we hope, in this day of fierce passion, that our voico, crying for peace, will be heard ? Will any portraiture of the horrors of civil war that we can give, have any influence with those who are rushing madly on to destroy each other ? We fear not. States which should have been with us, and whose voice would have increesed the potency of our demands for peace, have been seized with the prevailing madness, and have rushed to arms. Still we feel bound to make our voice to be heard, with the hope that oui words will have i heir iiifltieLCe some day, when men nhall behold the wasting and desolation that their madness has produced. All the slave States except four are arrayed in hostility to the General Gov-ernment, and are demaudiug that the confederation which they have formed shall be recognized as a sepeiate sover-eign nation. Tho process by which they have attempted to'form themselves into a distinct nation has been for each State by itself to declare all connection with the General Government termina-ted, aDd-the- n unite informing a confed-eration among themselves. Our present purpoaadoes not require us to discuss the propriety of the acts of these States, yet it "cnay be proper for us to say, that they fild no warrant in any known principle olour Government, and no justification inthe facts existing when tliey seceded. , While these States claim that their sovereignty as a nation shall be recog-nized, and have cotected armits to make good their clainl the Government of .the United States nsists that the or-dinances of secession ire utterly void, and that the Constitution and laws of the United States are sill in force with-in the i-ec-eded States, aid to maintaiu this position armies are rapidly gather-ing on the boiders of tlh seceded States. If there could be any intervention by which the shedding of blood and the desolation of civil var could be avoided, the practical good sense of the American people might discover some mode of adjusting the difficulties which would be alike honorable and beneficial to both the contending parties. Bat while one tide demands the recognition of its sov-ereignty and the other insists that such lecognition is a constitutional impossi-bility, it is manifest that there can be no arbiter but the sword, unless the people themselves, acting upon and through thei representatives, State and National, shall interpose, arrest the strile, and enforce a settlement without bloodhhed. If any teims of adjustment would be satisfactory to both parties, which would tail short of the recogni-tion of the sovereignty of the seceded States, and still satisfy them, and short ot the obedience of the seceded States to the Constitution and latvs of the United States, and still satisfy the people oi the United States, it is the duty of each party to notify the other of suoh terms as would be satisfactory, so that an ad-justment might be made. But we repeat, if the recognition of the sovereignty of the seceded States continues a sine qua non., and if the Government continues to disclaim tbe constitutional power to make such rec-ognition, there is no peaceful solutirn of tbfi diflfir.iiltv nossihlfl.' o'Jiflr than -- - --j -- , t L- - such as tha people themselves may bj r their action produce. It is proper for us to say that in our ; opinion the Constitution delegates to no one department of the Government, nor to all of them combined, the power to destroy the Government itself, as would be done by the division of the country into seperate Confederacies, and that the obligation exists to main-tain the Constitution of the United States, and to preserve the Union unim-paired. It nas been suggested in quarters en-titled to the highest respect, that the in-dependence of the States which have seceded, might be acknowledged by a National Convention, adopting an am-endment to tbe Constitution for that purpose, as such an amendment would have the support and acquiescence of the seceded States. But we leave that for the decision of the people and their representees, when they shall feel the imperative necessity of such a settle-ment We now turn to the consideration of what ought to be done for the purpose of quieting apprehensions within the few slave States which still adhere to the Union established by their fathers. We ask no concession of new or ad-ditional rights. We do not fear any immediate encroachment upon ourrights as slave States. The amendment to the Constitution proposed by the last Congress, gives us assurance that at present there is no dangerthat our rights will be a-sail- ed. But we are few in .number, and the preponderence of the free States is continually increasing. The secuiity to our rights now afforded by the sense of justice in the minds of the free States, may be lost by a change j i of popular feeling in the future. One great object in constitutions, is to pro-tect the rights of minorities. In the Constitution, there are general grants of power to the Congress of the United States which might be perverted to our injury contrary to the spirit of I the instrument, and still tbe letter of the j grant claimed to authorize the injurious j legislation. Such are, the power "to j regulate commerce between the States," j and the power of "exclusive legislation . over the District of Columbia," and "over forts, dock-yard- s and arbenals in the several States." It would not now be claimed by Congress that these grants auth'iriz d the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia while Mary-land and Virginia leraained slave Siates nor the like abolition in l'oits and o:her places within slave Slates. But what will be c!aimcd in the future Me cannot know. Sj, also, in relation to the ter-litoti- es belonging to the United States. While we are aware that all teh Tefrito-iie- ., then unorganized, were organized by acts of the last Cougress which con-tain no piohiuition of slavery, and while we know that this was the action of a Congiess in which the fiee States had ihe control at the time the acts were passed, still these are but the aets oi Congsess subject to repeal or alteration as public let-lin- g may change under temporary excitement. It is but just that the rights of the slave States, now in a small minority of the whole States, should be guarded in the particulars mentioned by such constitutional guarantees as shall render them secure against future legislation ia times of excitement. Our distinguished fellow-citize- n, the Hon. John J. Crit-tenden, for the purpose of securing by constitutional guarantees rights already possessed, presented to Congress cer-tain propositions to amend the Consti-tution which met with general approval and were satisfactory to us and to our people, and those propositions, as orig-inally offered, or any that are equivo-len- t, would be now satisfactory, and would quiet apprehensions that exist to some extent in the minds of real friends of the union, and which are industrious ly exctied by those who are enemies of the union and of the people. Whether any such constitutional guarantees would hve the effect of reconciling any of the seceded States to the government from ivjiiuu luicf udvo buiii Lueiuacivca away we cannot say, but we allow ourselves to hope that the masses in those States will in time learn that the dangers thej were made to fear were greatly exagger-ated, and that they will then be dispos-ed to listen to the calls of interest and of patriotism, and return to the family from which they have gone out. One effect fo giving such gmrantees, certain-ly, will be to prove to the world by the Irauk recognition of the rights of the few slave States adhering to the Union, that the States which have seceded have abandoned the best government in the world without any good or sufficient cause. It may be urged that there are not now a sufficient number of States acting in the union to ratify any such consti-tutional amendments as will furnish the guarantees we require. But it is to be remembered that there is no time fixed by the Constitution for such rati-fication, and if rhey should be ratified by the free States, then at the end of the present civil war, termiaate as it may, either in the restoration of tbe se-ceded States to the union, or in the es-tablishment of their seperate national existence, there will be the number of States required for the ratification. Fellow-citizen- s of the United States, you are about to be engaged in a war in which the horrors that ordinarily attend that state are likely to be aggravated by the fact that you are of the same family, and have long lived together in intimate intercourse and in friendly relation. The kind feelings that once existed have been changed to bitterness, soon to de-generate, it maybe, into deadly animos-ity. We desire to remind you that you , are contending about a question of prin-ciple upon which we would faiu believe that you are on each side convinced that you ate right. It is no longer a ques- - tion of party politics, no longer a ques- - , tion about the right to hold slaves in Territories, or to retake them when they . escape ; the question now to be settled is, whether we shall live in the same" union cs formerly, or whether our fa-thers formed a government upon' such principles that any one State may, at her own pleasure, without the consent of the others, and without responsibili-ty to any human power, withdraw from her connection with the Government and claim to be sovereiga as a seperate nation . It will be readily seen that this, as a question of principle, is not affec-ted by the number of States that have withdrawn. It would have been well if this question could have been solved1 in 'some other mode than by a resort to war ; but it may be that nothing but a divine interposition now can determine it by other means. A war npoH such a question ought not to produce any higher exasperation or excite any great-er degree of animosity than is incident to all wars. In the meantime let the spirit of humanity and of the high civ-ilization of the age, strip this war of the horrors that generally attend such civil strife. Our States desire, and hare indicated a purpose to take no part in this war, and we believe that in this war, and we believe that in this course we will ulti-mately best serve the interests of our common country. It is impossible that we should be indifferent spectators ; we consider that our interests would be ir-retrievably ruined by taking part in the conflict on the side where the strongest sympathies of our people are, and tht our sense of honor and of duty requires that we should not allow ourselves to be drawn or drivea into a war in which other States, without consulting us, have deliberately chosen to involve them selves. Our safety and our dignity as among the most powerful of the slave States, demand of us that we, take this position. If the time shall come when our friendly mediation may arrest the far-ther progress of the striis, our most ear-nest and strenuous efforts shall not be wanting to bring about peace, and ic is by such efforts that we hope to serve the interests of our country. And now, in conclusion, we make 'Jul suiciliu upoai iv biro pcuuio Hi Oils , United States. This is your Govera-- i ment its preservation is yourpreserva- - tion its overthrow is your rubp, and you are the rightful arbiters of its fate. We hope you will take the subject of this address into your consideration. Act with the energy and decision of a free people. In you and you alone we have confidence. You have the intelli-gence and the power to ru;e this fearful crisis. Make known your will in soma emphatic, form that shall give it authori-ty with your representatives everywhere, May we not earnestly hope that you, the people, the whole people, without regard to parties or sections, will be abla to command a settlement of the na-tional difficulties, and will see the pro-priety and necessity of having a cessa-tion of present hostilities, so that the I measures of pacification which your wis-dom may devise, can be calmly con-sidered by your constitutional authori ties. We venture to suggest, for your con-sideration and action, two specific prop-- ' ositions as most likely to lead to pacifi' cation. 1st. That Congress shall at once pro-pose such constitutional amendments as will secure to slave holders their legal rights, and allay their apprehensions in regard to possible encroachments in the future. 2nd. If this should fail to bring about the results so desirable to us, and so essential to the best hopes of our coun-try, then let a voluntary convention be called, composed of delegates from the people of all the States, in which meas-ures of peaceable adjustment may be " doviaedand adopted, and the nation rescued from the continued horrors and calamities of civil war. To our fellow-citize- ns of the North we desire to say, discard that sectional and unfriendly spirit, manifested by teacmng and action, which has contrib-uted so much to inflame the feelings of the Southern people, and justly create facphpemre.he. nsion-on their prart of iniiary' io " ...
Object Description
Title | Rolla Express Newspaper 1861-06-17 |
Description | Vol. 1, No. 45 |
Subject | Rolla (Mo.) -- History; Phelps County (Mo.) -- History; Rolla (Mo.) -- Newspapers; Phelps County (Mo.) -- Newspapers; |
Coverage | United States -- Missouri -- Phelps County -- Rolla |
Source | The Daily Evening Herald printed and published by Treadway & Albright, St. Louis, Missouri. |
Language | English |
Date | 1861-06-17 |
Item.Year | 1861 |
Item.Month | June |
Item.Day | 17 |
Type | Newspaper |
Format | |
Collection Name | Rolla Express Newspaper Collection |
Rights | Images of this newspaper are in publish domain |
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Title | Page 1 |
Date | 1861-06-17 |
Item.Year | 1861 |
Item.Month | June |
Item.Day | 17 |
Item.Page | Page 1 |
Type | page |
Item.Transcript | VOL. I. ROLLA, PHELPS COUNTY.; MO., JUNE 17, 1861. NO. 45. THE ROLLA EXPRESS l J PUBLISHED EVER!' MONDAY AT JW ONE DOLLAR, A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. h - f KATES OP ADVERTISING : ( A SQUABS OON8IST3 OF TEN LINES. ) Less than a square, 10 cents a lino for tho firsl insertion, a eent3 a liuo for each subsequent one, One square, one insertion $ 1 00 Each additional insertion 60 One square three months 4 00 One square six months 6 00 One square one year 8 00 Fourth of a column one year 18 00 Half column one year 30 00 Whole column one year 50 00 ! Advertisements not marked with tho numbei ' of insertions required will be published w, til or-dered out, and charged accordingly. Professional or business cards of fivo lines pi less, will be published for six dollars a year, in advance. Yearly advertisers oonfined strictly to their le-gitimate business. " PROFESSIONAL CARDS. GEO. F. HARRINGTON, Attorney at law, Rolla, Phelps county, Mo. Office S. E. corner of .. Main and Fourth streets. AARON VANWAR&IER, Attorney at Law, Rolla, Phelps county, Mo. . M. McGUIRE. Attorney at Law, Rolla Phelps county, Mo. Office in the Court House. ' S. G. WILLIAMS, Attorney at Law, porma nently located at Holla, Pholps coumy, Mo. Particular attention paid to pre emption claims. ,' H. S CLARK, Attorney at Law, Notary Pub lio and Caud Agent. Prompt attention paid to the collection of debts and the payment of taxes for non-residen- ts, Lands sold for taxes rcdeoindd. 1 Office in the Court Houso. . I. HUTCHISON, Attorney at Law, and Land Agent. Rolla, Pholps county, Mo , will prac-tice law in the counties of Puelps. Maries, Pulas-ki, Texas, Dent and Crawford. He will ako at teud to locating land in Southern Jlistouri, in-vestigating titles, paying taxes and buying and selling lands on commission. Office on Muin street, ; near the railroad. JAMES E. OJIAUVIN. &uorn y at Law, Rol- - f i la, Mo. Agent for the Mcrchonts and Manufac- - C turers' Insurance Company, of St. Louis ; Cove- - Ki ra.ni- - Mutual Life Insurance Company of .St Louis and tbe Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Comp-iny- , of Hartfod, Conn. Office with J. M MoGuire. Esq. W A. J. E. ORGAN, County Surveyors, Real Estate, Tax Paying and General Agents.- - -- Having formed --jonncetinns witb Weal Estate Agents in St Louis, "tier niro inducements to those wishing to sell improved or unimproved ' lands. Commipion modcra-- . W N. Organ, SaUm llnnf. f.niTnM, J TC. OrMn. Hlhlla. i'htilliS county Mo. E y. MITCHELL, Attorney at Law and Land Agent, wi'l p-vcti-ce in tho couruies of Howell, Oregon, Reynolds, SShann.,n, Dent, CrawforJ, Phelps Tux is and Pula.'ki. For reference ad-- k- - dress Hon. J. H McBridc, Licking, Tcxascounty. ' Particular attention paid to collections a- - d tao t&i ment of taxes. Letters addressed to Houston, Texas county, Mo. WM N. OltGAN, Attorney at Law, Salem De'it county, Mo., will practice regularly in the counties comprising the 18th Judicial Cir 'uit. Particular attention paid to collecting. ABRAHAM JOHNSON, will practice Law in thecourts of Maries and Pnelps coutties." Busi-ness left with him will be attended to promptly. Office Clifty Dale, Maries county, Mo. POMEROY & SEAT, Atoorneys at Law, Steeleville, Mo , will practice regii'arly in the Cirouit Courts of Marie", Pholp, Pulaski, Texas, Den, Ozark, Shannon and Crawford counties. JOHN P. NORVEIL, School Commissioner for Phelps county. He oan be found, every Sat nrday, at the offioo of J. M. McGui ro, Esq., at the ,, county seat. DR. J. S. FROST, Practicing Physician and Druggist, Vienna. Tho most approved Patent MedicineB and Drugs kept constantly oh band. DR. R. BYRNS, Physioian, Surgeon and Ac-coucheur, tenders his profosiional services to the citiiensof Bella, and surrounding country. Office I at the Phelps House. MISCELLANEOUS CARDS. ALBERT NEUMAN, Artistand Dentist, Rolla, Mo., Rooms in Marshall's Sky-lig- ht Gallery. ' & W. BISHOP, Provnetor of Hiship's Addi-tlo- n to tho towB of Rolla. Lots situa'ed in tho most central portion of Town f r sale. E. W. JAMES, Proorietoror Jamus' Aldition to Rolla. Lots situated in the vi 'inity o the l)e-j- ot of the S. W. B. Railroad. Address Rolia, Mo. " WIZSUM WILSON, House, Sign an1Orn" mental Panter and Glazier, Rolla, Mo Paper-hangin- g, Graini- - g, Marbling and Gilding done --with neatness and dispatch, and on the most rea-sonable terms. t. ISAAC C. PENNINGTON, Plastirer, Rolla, Mo., oarries on the business in all its various brandies. Orders left at my residense, on the oorner of Eight and Park streets, will roceive prompt attention. DARDEN & CO., House Builders, Carpen-er- s and Joiners, Holla, Mo. Contracts taken for 11 kind" of Carpentering. Prompt attention paid i-i-ven to all business entrusted to their care. "DR. A. DeNORMANDIE, Ecloctio Phisioian, will attend to all proforsional calls in town IRionldlac, ountry. Office at the Drag Store. TME KEBl'KIi. Tho Infant is sleeping, Ue prattles no more ; , The mother is waapmg, Afflicted and sore ; The children are crying, Eor '"baby is deid;" Tho father is sighing, For one little head. t There is grief in the paloce, And mourning and woo ; All. save little Alice, Their sorrow to show. Her fair checks arc tearless ; , Her blue eyes are clear ; And trusting and fearless She stands by tho bier. Her voice is unbroken, As, lifting her head, Sho turns to the livjug, ' From one that is dead ; "Do r mother, you told us Tout God was on high, And bis anus would unfold us Wherover we die. And, father, I heard yoa Ttll undo las' nighr, Your child was an angel, In raiment of white ; i Then why alt this weeping, lhis sorrow and pain? Our Willie is sleoping To wakea again." With tho voico of a prophet, The look of a seer, Her words of rebuking Enchained every ear : The sobs cjme no longer, The eyes knew a balm, Thi paronts were stronger, The children were calin. 'Neath the shade of Ihe willow 1'huy U d aim to rest, Ths tod f.r his pill-iw- , A ro-- e on his orea-- t ; And rhuy ledrn'd iroin.his going One lo sou ot worch There are unguis in Heaven, And angels on earth. BOKDEK STATE CONVENTION A5- - dresH to the Peoplexif the Untied States. Fellow-Citizen- s : The delegates to a Convention of the Border Slave States, assembled in the city of Frankfort, de-sirejj- to address you in relution to the present condition of tho country. None of us have ever expected to live to see tbe spectacle now exhibited in our distracted land. The cry to arms re- - I .1 . -- sounas turouga1.outt our 1ooru3ers, anai u a few bhort weeks we have seen all ovei the land the marshaling of troops readj for the conflict. The pursuits of ptace are neg'eefc-- d and abandoned, and th fell spirit of war has seized almost everj heart, until even gentle and tender wo man yields to the fierce impulse, and encourages the strife, and the maternal eye scarce gathers a tear as the son seizes his arms, and rushes toward the held of carnage and of dea'.h. If this warlike spirit this terrible energy weie displayed in preparing to meet the legions of an invading enemy, out hearts would exult in the exhibition . f the martial spirit of our countrymen; but aUs ! the co nbataiits aie descend-ants of sires who stood side by side in ihe day of battle, to maintain the inde-pendence of our country, and in the ap-proaching conflict brother is lo fall by the hand of brother. Can we hope, in this day of fierce passion, that our voico, crying for peace, will be heard ? Will any portraiture of the horrors of civil war that we can give, have any influence with those who are rushing madly on to destroy each other ? We fear not. States which should have been with us, and whose voice would have increesed the potency of our demands for peace, have been seized with the prevailing madness, and have rushed to arms. Still we feel bound to make our voice to be heard, with the hope that oui words will have i heir iiifltieLCe some day, when men nhall behold the wasting and desolation that their madness has produced. All the slave States except four are arrayed in hostility to the General Gov-ernment, and are demaudiug that the confederation which they have formed shall be recognized as a sepeiate sover-eign nation. Tho process by which they have attempted to'form themselves into a distinct nation has been for each State by itself to declare all connection with the General Government termina-ted, aDd-the- n unite informing a confed-eration among themselves. Our present purpoaadoes not require us to discuss the propriety of the acts of these States, yet it "cnay be proper for us to say, that they fild no warrant in any known principle olour Government, and no justification inthe facts existing when tliey seceded. , While these States claim that their sovereignty as a nation shall be recog-nized, and have cotected armits to make good their clainl the Government of .the United States nsists that the or-dinances of secession ire utterly void, and that the Constitution and laws of the United States are sill in force with-in the i-ec-eded States, aid to maintaiu this position armies are rapidly gather-ing on the boiders of tlh seceded States. If there could be any intervention by which the shedding of blood and the desolation of civil var could be avoided, the practical good sense of the American people might discover some mode of adjusting the difficulties which would be alike honorable and beneficial to both the contending parties. Bat while one tide demands the recognition of its sov-ereignty and the other insists that such lecognition is a constitutional impossi-bility, it is manifest that there can be no arbiter but the sword, unless the people themselves, acting upon and through thei representatives, State and National, shall interpose, arrest the strile, and enforce a settlement without bloodhhed. If any teims of adjustment would be satisfactory to both parties, which would tail short of the recogni-tion of the sovereignty of the seceded States, and still satisfy them, and short ot the obedience of the seceded States to the Constitution and latvs of the United States, and still satisfy the people oi the United States, it is the duty of each party to notify the other of suoh terms as would be satisfactory, so that an ad-justment might be made. But we repeat, if the recognition of the sovereignty of the seceded States continues a sine qua non., and if the Government continues to disclaim tbe constitutional power to make such rec-ognition, there is no peaceful solutirn of tbfi diflfir.iiltv nossihlfl.' o'Jiflr than -- - --j -- , t L- - such as tha people themselves may bj r their action produce. It is proper for us to say that in our ; opinion the Constitution delegates to no one department of the Government, nor to all of them combined, the power to destroy the Government itself, as would be done by the division of the country into seperate Confederacies, and that the obligation exists to main-tain the Constitution of the United States, and to preserve the Union unim-paired. It nas been suggested in quarters en-titled to the highest respect, that the in-dependence of the States which have seceded, might be acknowledged by a National Convention, adopting an am-endment to tbe Constitution for that purpose, as such an amendment would have the support and acquiescence of the seceded States. But we leave that for the decision of the people and their representees, when they shall feel the imperative necessity of such a settle-ment We now turn to the consideration of what ought to be done for the purpose of quieting apprehensions within the few slave States which still adhere to the Union established by their fathers. We ask no concession of new or ad-ditional rights. We do not fear any immediate encroachment upon ourrights as slave States. The amendment to the Constitution proposed by the last Congress, gives us assurance that at present there is no dangerthat our rights will be a-sail- ed. But we are few in .number, and the preponderence of the free States is continually increasing. The secuiity to our rights now afforded by the sense of justice in the minds of the free States, may be lost by a change j i of popular feeling in the future. One great object in constitutions, is to pro-tect the rights of minorities. In the Constitution, there are general grants of power to the Congress of the United States which might be perverted to our injury contrary to the spirit of I the instrument, and still tbe letter of the j grant claimed to authorize the injurious j legislation. Such are, the power "to j regulate commerce between the States," j and the power of "exclusive legislation . over the District of Columbia," and "over forts, dock-yard- s and arbenals in the several States." It would not now be claimed by Congress that these grants auth'iriz d the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia while Mary-land and Virginia leraained slave Siates nor the like abolition in l'oits and o:her places within slave Slates. But what will be c!aimcd in the future Me cannot know. Sj, also, in relation to the ter-litoti- es belonging to the United States. While we are aware that all teh Tefrito-iie- ., then unorganized, were organized by acts of the last Cougress which con-tain no piohiuition of slavery, and while we know that this was the action of a Congiess in which the fiee States had ihe control at the time the acts were passed, still these are but the aets oi Congsess subject to repeal or alteration as public let-lin- g may change under temporary excitement. It is but just that the rights of the slave States, now in a small minority of the whole States, should be guarded in the particulars mentioned by such constitutional guarantees as shall render them secure against future legislation ia times of excitement. Our distinguished fellow-citize- n, the Hon. John J. Crit-tenden, for the purpose of securing by constitutional guarantees rights already possessed, presented to Congress cer-tain propositions to amend the Consti-tution which met with general approval and were satisfactory to us and to our people, and those propositions, as orig-inally offered, or any that are equivo-len- t, would be now satisfactory, and would quiet apprehensions that exist to some extent in the minds of real friends of the union, and which are industrious ly exctied by those who are enemies of the union and of the people. Whether any such constitutional guarantees would hve the effect of reconciling any of the seceded States to the government from ivjiiuu luicf udvo buiii Lueiuacivca away we cannot say, but we allow ourselves to hope that the masses in those States will in time learn that the dangers thej were made to fear were greatly exagger-ated, and that they will then be dispos-ed to listen to the calls of interest and of patriotism, and return to the family from which they have gone out. One effect fo giving such gmrantees, certain-ly, will be to prove to the world by the Irauk recognition of the rights of the few slave States adhering to the Union, that the States which have seceded have abandoned the best government in the world without any good or sufficient cause. It may be urged that there are not now a sufficient number of States acting in the union to ratify any such consti-tutional amendments as will furnish the guarantees we require. But it is to be remembered that there is no time fixed by the Constitution for such rati-fication, and if rhey should be ratified by the free States, then at the end of the present civil war, termiaate as it may, either in the restoration of tbe se-ceded States to the union, or in the es-tablishment of their seperate national existence, there will be the number of States required for the ratification. Fellow-citizen- s of the United States, you are about to be engaged in a war in which the horrors that ordinarily attend that state are likely to be aggravated by the fact that you are of the same family, and have long lived together in intimate intercourse and in friendly relation. The kind feelings that once existed have been changed to bitterness, soon to de-generate, it maybe, into deadly animos-ity. We desire to remind you that you , are contending about a question of prin-ciple upon which we would faiu believe that you are on each side convinced that you ate right. It is no longer a ques- - tion of party politics, no longer a ques- - , tion about the right to hold slaves in Territories, or to retake them when they . escape ; the question now to be settled is, whether we shall live in the same" union cs formerly, or whether our fa-thers formed a government upon' such principles that any one State may, at her own pleasure, without the consent of the others, and without responsibili-ty to any human power, withdraw from her connection with the Government and claim to be sovereiga as a seperate nation . It will be readily seen that this, as a question of principle, is not affec-ted by the number of States that have withdrawn. It would have been well if this question could have been solved1 in 'some other mode than by a resort to war ; but it may be that nothing but a divine interposition now can determine it by other means. A war npoH such a question ought not to produce any higher exasperation or excite any great-er degree of animosity than is incident to all wars. In the meantime let the spirit of humanity and of the high civ-ilization of the age, strip this war of the horrors that generally attend such civil strife. Our States desire, and hare indicated a purpose to take no part in this war, and we believe that in this war, and we believe that in this course we will ulti-mately best serve the interests of our common country. It is impossible that we should be indifferent spectators ; we consider that our interests would be ir-retrievably ruined by taking part in the conflict on the side where the strongest sympathies of our people are, and tht our sense of honor and of duty requires that we should not allow ourselves to be drawn or drivea into a war in which other States, without consulting us, have deliberately chosen to involve them selves. Our safety and our dignity as among the most powerful of the slave States, demand of us that we, take this position. If the time shall come when our friendly mediation may arrest the far-ther progress of the striis, our most ear-nest and strenuous efforts shall not be wanting to bring about peace, and ic is by such efforts that we hope to serve the interests of our country. And now, in conclusion, we make 'Jul suiciliu upoai iv biro pcuuio Hi Oils , United States. This is your Govera-- i ment its preservation is yourpreserva- - tion its overthrow is your rubp, and you are the rightful arbiters of its fate. We hope you will take the subject of this address into your consideration. Act with the energy and decision of a free people. In you and you alone we have confidence. You have the intelli-gence and the power to ru;e this fearful crisis. Make known your will in soma emphatic, form that shall give it authori-ty with your representatives everywhere, May we not earnestly hope that you, the people, the whole people, without regard to parties or sections, will be abla to command a settlement of the na-tional difficulties, and will see the pro-priety and necessity of having a cessa-tion of present hostilities, so that the I measures of pacification which your wis-dom may devise, can be calmly con-sidered by your constitutional authori ties. We venture to suggest, for your con-sideration and action, two specific prop-- ' ositions as most likely to lead to pacifi' cation. 1st. That Congress shall at once pro-pose such constitutional amendments as will secure to slave holders their legal rights, and allay their apprehensions in regard to possible encroachments in the future. 2nd. If this should fail to bring about the results so desirable to us, and so essential to the best hopes of our coun-try, then let a voluntary convention be called, composed of delegates from the people of all the States, in which meas-ures of peaceable adjustment may be " doviaedand adopted, and the nation rescued from the continued horrors and calamities of civil war. To our fellow-citize- ns of the North we desire to say, discard that sectional and unfriendly spirit, manifested by teacmng and action, which has contrib-uted so much to inflame the feelings of the Southern people, and justly create facphpemre.he. nsion-on their prart of iniiary' io " ... |