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a MEXICO' INDBHDlfENt. £oxxtsfmibmu* t wicked war. \The USM of force—of arnres »uid ' | navies, of whatever strength—in erd-r to-uom- : S : , pel obulience to the civik.aud constituted au- \Tbe man who, in sucb in hour, will not work i tbority,\ says tiotly, -is not wicktd war, h at. tbopfw/w, •» either a manmc or &mon> I npt (Ml war u not war atalL go Ions (.8 it sterS'-Hult. EIMTOKH IMJEPENDEST :—In £his unprecedent- ed u-nuuiinity in the loyal State.*, and the great uprising of the people to put down rebellion and maintain our national Ctoverntneat, is it not strangp, is. it uos sad t.» cuutciiiplate ttiat, here «5bd there, are individuals to be found who lend all their sympath <-s to tho=e who are in direct hostility to our Constitution and law and seek by every possible\ means _ | exists ttjp Govtrpoifiit IN obliged to put lortb it* st ten fill when ai-siiied. The Pre-ideut. who has tak»n an oath before God and man tu maintain the Constitution and laws, is perjured if he yields tie Constifution.andrlaws to arpaed rebellion, without a struggle. Peaceful ac- quiescence would be treason on the part of the j Chief Magistrate of r ibe country, for which be I ,. ' I may be impeached anil executed. Yet, men i~~ i--» j • i i u i .' i men speak'ot Mr. Lincoln as having plunged gr«cy our nationality, and to hurl us back to r b r chaos, \from which we emerged nearly a cen- tury ago? * | into wicked war. They censure him for not ne gotiating With envoys who came, not to set- . fie grievance,, but to demand recognition \of the When I pee men of age and experience go ; .lismembermeut of the Republic which he bad about our streets denouncing in bitter terms our ^sworn to maintain.\ You clamor about tbe Administration and nil others who aid them in '. tmconstitutioTJal aet< of Mr. Lincoln. maintaining our national rights and who have a • ' 6 . , H The rigorous measures adopted for the mis-hip to our ,•.\ ^ ,../-. - .. • safety of Washington and the Government it- laid it upon the very paper on which I wi« i tiality, li.>y would discover that their an'ath- writiug. Tbe object was a skeleton.\ \There emas hav*- beea burled at a system whbh (let said he, '-are the bones of Isaac'ltayne, who itsinfhenee be wl<a» it uny) is of divine origin was hung at Charleston by tbe Bi itisb. He • and authority. The Bibb- alwunds-witb direc- gave his life to establish the Union. VWu you ; tions «•<! commands for the government and put your name to a Declaration of Dissolution,' .perpetualon of slavery. In Lpvfticus. 25ih why you may as well ha.ve the bones of l<aa© chapter, weltre told that tbe Lord spake unto itayrje before you ; be was a South Curoliniau,, Moses in Mount Sinni, fayi g. \Beth thy bocd- and so are you. But there was no blotch on his : men aud bondmaid- vfi>h thoi shaft have right band.'' \With these word? the intruder ! shall be of ib-i .ht-atHen that are- round about left the room. I started back from the contact jou ; qf th-m- shall ;e buy bondman Hnd bond- with dead man's bones and\ aftobe.\ • 'maids Moreover o! the children of the I now leave you with your bitter draught — ' strangers that ; do sojourn among you, of them My advice is s-till not to take it. As nearly all shall yi> buy, and of Mu-ir families tbat are diseases cau be safely trusted to tbe recupera- with yo'i which tiipy begat, in your land , and tive poweis of nature, so can tb^t terrible they nh'%11 be your possession, and ye. shall inaiady-r-teGisbiou, be.'t rind its cure in the takp the'n as an inheritance for ycur children. regular jubilee over every mis-hip to our troops, aud rejoice ovir every little advantage gained by the rebels it seems so strange and unnatural that I am at a loss to know, where to class tbem. jAre we to look upon the:-e frw as alone powsslng the power to lilt tbe veil and •accurately r<-ad coming events, tbni. en- abling them to f=ef the btst, the wisest, the most ju^t and humane policy to be pursued, and that tbit policy i- to be found in tiip plat- form upo-i «bieh ptnnd* .!'• ft'.'i'^on I)j,vis and hif sjConstituents, crviogo.it,' let us alone ; let us alotiflT we don't want ti hurt ymt; ertr ive ask is simply tbat nim'teen miiiioii of people shall tamely and ignobly permit five\ or six milliona to overthrow and d>-ptroy'ih«titutior;s wbieti jjrl* tbe commm property and have bopn the com- mon blfs-sihgn of all''—that they are all r.i^ht.. , and we all wrong? Or. would it not be mw ju«t and ratio;ia! to consider them emphatically as the Won him. Recuperative powers of the pAUfctt, July '-\ IJilU. stars and is-tripe^s. SoUTiiaic. self,\ siys. the Hon Joseph Holt, \may s> em open to'criticism, in some of their details, to those who have yet to barn that not only has war. like peace, iis laws, but that it has also its privileges and its duiies. • Whatever of The CrMis—Bo.i No fjet is being more fully developed in the world's moral history, by the analogy of rapidly transpiring even'P, than that the spirit of liberty is rjti'ug -is by piiobantraent in the sentiment of the wo.rld at large, while despotism and op\ prfcssion are hastening to their merited doom—- So manifest are these severity, or even of irregularity, miy have i uiiiveisa/ txecrawni. arisen, will find ith iusfitieation in th- pres' | \'ty™ of &'-' t' me s'' that philanthropic seers sure of the terrible nece.-sty under which the 1 .AdmiuiiitFatSou has be-n culled to act. The man who .thinks he IHS become disloyal be- oaime of what the Administration has done, , wUl probably discover, after a elope examina tiflu, that h- waa disloyal before. But for what has been done, Washington might ere this have been a smouldering heap of ruias \ Now, will you, while nineteen million of people have risen as by magic to aid the Administration in putting down this rebellion, and while a mil- lion and a half of freemen, >vjiOj__at_;tb*! late Josepn Holt\ Btyifs ibeni ' TFar i'^;;^^ iUtjt^ ea.t thelr^bteTirfavor^ begin almost to ioresee and define the p-riod of the world's Universal Jubilee of Freedom. And who does not augur that American soil is to b« made tbe arena for some of the grandest results in thiV universal throe of hutnanitj> '— results which the present age shall witness, and the future histoiian tranhinule into imper iehabb- mouuments of honor for future genera- tions to look upon. \the Northern States are not a/one-iutPrested in this s:ruggle oh our sacred soil; tbe mighty p'rolilcm is not JjKJlliJIL—^'IL-J.g-.Jlg-gyA 11 ^ which they rally to their-country's flag; will you, I ask, still stand upon your secession prn- olivitioR. keeping up that eternal, idiotic hro«I, \t'ould my voice reach every dwelling in Kentucky. 1 would implore its inmates, if th^y would not hure tbe rivers of their prosperity shrink utfuy. «s d >- unfed streams beneath the Bimmer heats to rou*<* themselves from thetr 1-thiu'gy, and fly to the reseupof their country, before it i° cveiiastingly too late. Man should appeal to man, and nfighberhood to neighbor- hood, until the electric fires of patriotism shall fia-b from heart to heart in one unbroken enr rent throughput the land. • V • We are • „ olt has alrea(] gt lrf . wa/iiaM or all, with our every earthlyJ\ 1 ^-_,f_ ffib * r ^ d \ motile,,,\ I will say, and may bis satanic ma i prophetic signiticance. We, of <,-o'nri«e,ho\e fu- of RgijdMatea supporting the rights of the j cial and ci't»zenly interests* and sympathjesj| South, are yielding to none inthej^'a' with after y«i to inherit them for a possession. Tbey shall Wyour bondmen forever.\ That bond- man WP is the same as slave there is no doubt In the first place, hirers God tbat speaks. Second, He authorizes the Jews to buy human beings. Third. He uuthrriztv* th*ui to hold thos-i human beings that they buy as bondmen and bondmaids. Fourth, He author- izes them to transmit tbe purchased men and wom*'n as an inberitnnce to their children for a possess'ot: forever. Again, iu Iixodus 2h«0, 'il, the Lord stud : \If a man smite bis st-rvantor his ma : 4 with a rod that he die, under h ; s band (immediately), he shall be sijrely puni-hed.— Notwithstanding, if he contftiue ; a«dayjCr' two, he shall not be punished, lor he is his TiuTn'ey.'' Several thing* are to be noticed here. First- 4-Wlrateve-iMhifl means it is prtffec<tA-U*-.the*a t words: \And the Lord spake all tbes< wores, | saying.\ Second. The allusion is to a man who OWBS'servants anil nfaids. Tbiwt Tbe»wner'st right to smite his servants and maids with a j'rod is recognised and approved. Fourth. The owner is to be punii-hed if, through the sevtriy of the smiting, he or sbe dies at once while the K&itrifig isg©Jag\©»i -¥WSy But if the<rmi.tt°n which thrill us with intense solicitude ; but the geotral and paramount questions oi humanity J are one in interest lor the whole world, and iWdkeu universal sympathies fur-the entire Republican war ; unconstitutional war; WBF , against the rights of tbe South, a&d see your country go to destruction vvitbout putting out : a band to tavo it ? If you will, then I say stand there ,• aud in addition to what General in niidoce'in on the sam?common deck. The howl of to? storm is to our ears, and thp 'light- ning's\ red glare is painting bell'on tbe sky ;' and whil>? tbe noblp ship pitcbei and rolls un- d r the lishings of tb« waves-, the cry is heard that she has sprung a leik at \many points, and tba^tbe rushing waters are mounting rapidly in tbe hold. The man who, in such an hour, will not work (it the pvmps, is either a ma nine or a monster.\ There, Southern sympathizers, yo.u have it rtaVtVromTs^^ i ^ [^^J^lll^L^ 0 \T. ^T^. who was a member of Air. Buchanan's Cabinet. **-- i j tbatshe never petwith anybody but herseif that if it 'b7a'mJ.nomer,\look to himTbe will'give ; was h a ' w f« oa l t be 1[^ 8ide 5* aQd e f° rt J m ' yon satisfaction. ! ns , he dhi them ' *?,J oubt ^ UT &wn ' nf ali'biHty, 1m say tbat this secession movement i e «« come over wih u% ftnd »tand or fall «HU rigbt, and your great plea is. that the Ameri- ! th « . 8ta ™ , aad 8 ^f b »? ° ot \^y are can Republic had it.originin secession; that! » 0lbl0 S'f a .f 1 ,^ ra ^' ^fndfeel.as, she seceded from her mother country/and that' *°* \J 1181 ^ow that they are the emblem for yon, to resist the 8 e 5 eding «f States from tbe , ^wellasforeveryAmencanc.tizen,both North Union, is unreasonable, Ac. -But,-' says j>nd boath, of all that is'•grandrn human his LotbropMotly,tbehistQrian,iualetterto,the; ^'^ al that is t ra aspor tl ng ,n human, editor of the London Times, '\'it so happens 1 bo P ? ' They have fluttered m tbe breeze upon : that the one ca 3 e. 8 a e gerts tbe other only by j ff <?***' **y bave protected our citizens theaBseciationof contract. The thirteen col- i^lona^JandB; and have- become the pride of onies did not intend to secede from tBe British I theworld. \They have floated over our cradles; empire. Tbf y were forced into secession by a \* l4 w our ^ v& y er and struggle tbat they shall course of policy, on the part of the mother ' Doat oyer oar » raves ' Let us, then, twine each country, such as no English Administration at thread of the glorious tissue of our country's tbe present day can be imagined capable of, fla « about , our ^rt-strings, »«>* resolve that adopting. They did not secede, nor declare come weal or WuG - we w,,1 » m lifeaDl} in^eatb, their independence. On the contrary, they.\ 0 !' a f, d forever ' 8tand ^ the 8tars ***. made every effert to avert such a conclusion.\ ' ® r iP es ' /\ ,„ . . .„ , , Says Patrick Henry, the \Americans petition-1 .^ *f M will persist m following tbe steps ed, remonstrated, cast themselves at the foot of ^ ftbe firbt - bom o f thw dwforfwa/'seoewtoD the throne, and implored its interposition to : ?ch«me, you must march to the Bame tune. arrest tbe tyrannical hands of the Minister* and I t-Wttat a »\ e y°« writing, Senator from Soufeh Parliament. But their petitions were slighted. I Carolina ?\ \I am writing a plan for the dis- their remonstrances procured only additional I solution of the American Union/' \Senator violence and insult, as tbey were Spurned with I fro™ South Carolina, will you allow rae to ' contempt from tbe foot of the throne.\ The j look at your band—your right hand?\ \As \Boston sfhaasacre,\ the Boston port bill, the Jtuoiieli I had not the power to refuse, I extend- Boston \tea party,\ \Battle of Lexington, the I ed it. He grasped it, and held it near the battle >oi Bunker Hill, were events which] light, thus affording me full time to examine long preoeded the Declaration of Independence, j every ieature. It was the face of Washington. • It was not till the colonists, felt that redress ; He was dressed in t^e Revolutionary costume, for grievances was impossible that they took j such as you see in the Patent Office. After' the irrevocable step, and renounced their al- j bidding my hand for a moment, he looked at legiance to the Crown. The revolution had ime steadily, and said iri a qiuet way\; .\And corny ut iafct; tbey bad been forced into it, but. with this hand, Senator from South Carolina, tbey k'.ew i'._ wa k r vflution, and that they j yon would sign your name to a paper deolar* , were-acting at th^ psril of there live-. \We I ibg the Union dissolved!'' \Yes I said, if a must be unanimoos in this business,\ said HarT-j ffriain contingency arises I will sign »y name cock ; • we mast an haug together.'' \Yes 1 , to th ? Declaration of Dissolution. At lhat replied Franklin, \or else' we shall all hang • moment a black, blotch appeared on the back separately.\ The risk incurred by the colonists | of my hand, which j seem to see now. What was enormous, but the injury to tbe mother; L» this? siid I, alarmed, I know not vyhy; at country wa* comparatively slight. They went I tbe blotch on my haud.''« \That said he, out into darkness and danger themselves, but dropping my band, \is the mark by which the British empire Was not thrown into aiaarchy Benedict xirnold ie knows in the &txt world Wieknl war; cruel wui ,• Abolition war; Black.| race, Tbe heart of\ the great world tbr,.bs in'igbtily to-day with solicitude for the y«t doubtlul ultimate ot this great strugle—doubt- ful not as to where lays the power whicb shall triumph, but as to what that vieicvy ohdl! be'; what it shall gain to the cauy: ot li-edom— whether, becoming ascendant, it shall give as- cendancy to the ju^t claim* of humanity aud the solemn conviction! and demands ui the age. At leat-t to him whose soul is intensely cLarged' iv ith the spirit of bio.herbood and philanthropy, thefe Cousideraiions must appeal with stroii£ awakunings. It i&«o* an iudlffereut matter whether the grandeur and potency e-f.this up- rising shall be equaled * by the controlling presence of justice and beneficence, directing and consecrating it, under Providence, to holy > merciful and enduring ends. It is every day becoming more apparent that u,U civilized governments are caretuily analyzing the ba«is of this movement, and searching into its motives. And it is manifest that the spirit and scope of its policy in refer- ence to the long agitated questiou of American slavery, and tbe fate which shall be awarded to this overgrown inequality in thy future, i-o jtsty (the father of secession), in his nocturnal visits, sing to you, o« did he to hi* first-bora son, tbe following awful dirgp, uli'.ch n-ver !ctastd to ring in bis ears until be took bis Gual plunge-of secession, and which is now sung as I a rtqaiem over hia grave. , j \ Before putting this bitter potion to your i tips, as a dernier re»ort, I wilPremind you. as • did.Franklin, of those few who for a while j withheld their signatures from tbe Constitu- t?servant or maid lives a few hours, and dies toe next day after the smiting, the owner, in not to be punished. Sixth. Tbe reason given is, he is hia moQPy. \\. ~~' The New Tftament takes up the sutjett, and although Abolitionii-ts may say tbat this is not tbe direct words of Deity, yet they must acknowledge that it is the voice of bis Son, and consequently is authoritative. And Paul, who deolared that all scripture is given by in- spiration of God,.says, in Romans 13:1,2: ••Let every soul bo subject unto tbe higher powers. For there is'no power but of God ,- the powers tbat be are ordained of God. Wnoever ^therefore rpsisteth tbe power, resisteth the or- dinance of Gcd: and they.tbat resist'shall re- j cefr-e to themselves damnation^' The Fugitive Slave Law is one oi Hoe pow- ers-tbat be, therefore is an ordinance of God. [,£aul lived in an age when the Government of Rome sanctioned, established, upheld, and propagated the most crushing system of slavery the sua ever shone upon, and that too when Nero sat* upon the imperial throne as chief ruler; and if slavery is ,fo degrading and heinoiie-; if it is such a crime against humanity now, it,cv?as equally so then, and ought.not to have beea sanctioned, but denounced by Je- hovah arfd Paul; and as it is not, but is sanc- tioned and commanded by Divine Revelation, how can men. claiming to be guided by its un- erring counsel, declare that the institution is tt far as that fate lays within the purview o?J not divine. There, appears (o be a difficulty present movements, will control Mngly detei- j romewbetev aj JTMII not some of our Abolition mine the respect, eontidence, and co-operatiou with which our cause will be regarded by Pngland, France and Ru,s.sia, at, least when fto pros and cons ot this great issue Bhall come to be fully comprehended. Intelligence and en- lightened moral convictions were never aa widespread among tbe masses as to-day. King\ praft and priestcraft cannot, if they would' combine the terrors of power aud superstition to hold in surveillance and prostration. Masses- once enlightened and made conscious of their preachers and editors tak,e^np these passages of Holy Writ and'explain it away ? July 1.J. - Coo.visiyri. • I tee Swarming—A ijifew Theory. I have kept bees for some years. I saved three smarms front, one hive. After the third #warm I esaminedthe old ode, and on raising the cap frora the hive, found that tbe bees had driven two queen bees into the cap. I had one divine sovereignty in the integral rights and j swarm wlUca bad a large number of bees lying interests of socieiy, can never after be easily ion tic outside of the hive for nearly two 6ru8hed nor safely enslaved ; then the crafti- j months ; and from what I had observed by aess of civil and ecclesiastical despotism, reH j keeping bees, that they bad not hatched a of its dark enchantments, becomes impotent; then entrenched usurpers can no longer, by the black vanguards ot ignorance* fear and terror, subject the many to the all-devouring ambition of their unholy oppressors. A. FAEKB B. Is Slavery a Divine Institution'? j MESrtiw.HrMrnr.iES & SCARRI-IT.—It has often ' been asked in these times of excitement what • cause moved the ppople of the Northern States I to rush like a mighty tornado to tbe Capital ?! The answer from some has been: Why, the j President has called for them ; others have vc. i plied that it was to put down rebellion ; others | have asserted that it was an indirect thrust at slavery. It is probable that those having the last named object in view are among our most sincere and zealous soldiers ; they have been been urged on by the pulpit and tbe press to wage a war of extermination, against au insti- tution which, for nearly six thousand years, has existed under divine authority and command. if these religioua-and political manumissionists queen bee; the reader will at once see that they would not have survived this season. I caught a queen bee from the cap, and pat her in a small tin bos, fall of air holes, so that they Could take each other's breath, and then put it finder the hive, left it there fifteen hoars, and theh let her go into tbe biva. Sbe passed through tb'e crowd without being molested.— The third day there came a large swarm irom tbe hive. S. Mexico, July 22,1861. Write- tot <'f trlf^ng things— But, O, cy *«>\l. PP rati thoa oMilghfflf, nobler sCratas Thsn e-rt-'i's laUe,-trsjMityr.v' Uietne*. Break o; tby home, thy totter home, in 'heaven, Tb»re, sufelsln rapturous accents tond- groeiata The soul'8 reflniug thews o{ loue . Sinoe we ofr earth by angeU' taotl are fed,. £x|ADd my soui! join thou th« RDtb*m Of the Rigbteou\ <lead. Earth U not my home. I tin, jfioparing here, for nobler life umti thiat. 1 livo, to ripen for the sBiea, »a4to S8afg\t My lellow tpfctetes bh the way to hitlers. Meilco, K, V. liASfitti. \' •\ \ 'm »»•« in; jar-Never purchase love or friendship by and obaos by their seoeesion. You say that Mr., \He said ,io more, but drew from beneath his! would only look into the divine, or, what they ' gifts ;%vhea,thus obtained, they are lostSSBOOH: Lincoln has plunged into au unnecessary and i cloak an object which he laid upon the table— call the higher law, without prejudice or par-' as you st)p payment. 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