Rolla Express Newspaper 1861-06-17

              VOL. I. ROLLA, PHELPS COUNTY.; MO., JUNE 17, 1861. NO. 45.
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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 " ...