M'Kean Miner (Newspaper) - July 28, 1863, Smethport, Pennsylvania The Prayer of a I BT WILLIAM s. God of onr hear oar earnest Oar onr ottr is our foea and make their I Strengthen our hosts and give then i of give us Not for exemption from the toil and The the the horrors of the Bat that with we may bear the AnA welcome death Ttr save our nation's God of give Ufl For this BO costliest gift would For this we not dear oar loved Our teeming and onr gathered commerce by every triad that Cod of onr give J our bravest and onr The dearest love baa These have gone Liberty's And on her altars have died 1 of ottr gin OB have they their priceless blood In Shall treason triumph in onr nation's Shall slavery weld once more her broken And o'er a prostrate land hold God of na Nerve with nW strength Fill irith new seal the that Pillars of save from deadliest harm Their children's birthright In this goodly of onr give us 1 For tho Bad millions of the groaning Helpless and crushed beneath rod For every hope that hallows home and For the Child of Cod of the give us From war's red involved In smoko and From altars of oar noblest We cry to for Thy glorious Make bare Thine arm aad 001 foes with of give victory I July Translated from the French for the Home No Frenchman will ever forget the de- testable name of the Prussian Field owing to an obstinate error of was the means of gaining for the English the bloody battle of discontented with and by the and even by the allies France during the autumn of the same year he had entered Angered by having been reduced to in- activity he retired to one of bis numerous where he soon became a prey to n profound the cause of which no seemed to He was also subject to attacks of and with of the the danger of which he considered more nent than it really He could not bear to remain in and solitude he regarded as bodily tor and so great was the inquietude which his state of health gave rise that the King of immediately after hearing that the old General bad often desire to see bis sovereign before bis At the dead of the prince ar- rived and was at once con- ducted to the apartments occupied by who was then seventy-four years The royal visitor found himself in a dark the old of which added greatly to the melancholy of the Diverse arms of the chase were hanging upon the The old enveloped In a large was seated in an antique oaken and the only light by which his wan features could be discerned of tte ere which burned on the j the he made an fort to line to receive but the prince told him to remain toting his in his he sat down by his Blucher nude a aign to his attendants that he desired to be wift flie every one M mi O ing to the I you to undertake journey yon have made to knowing that you at ihe annual renew of die tell had yon been at or even at the thest extremity of rather than not see and all as 1 would have set ont to find have ble secret to But before I tell look at me Scrutinize the expression of my the features of ray listen to the tone of my and pay attention to the order of my Assure yourself that I am in roll possession of my and that I have not become a fool af I ask myself if I am not an idiot who mistakes the of a night for events of years gone But he as he drew from bis breast a gold is all is and I can doubt Listen to When the seven war broke out in 1756, my who dwelt in his sion at sent me and one ol ray brothers to a relation of the cess who lived in island I waa then fourteen years after having passed some time in the old fortress without hearing any news from my as Gross Renzow and its neighbor ing countries had become the seat of I joined a regiment of in the Swedish I was taken prisoner at the battle ol ond the Prussian government me to enter its During a whole year I resisted all persuasions to that and at last I obtained my liberty by en listing as a buglar in the black managed to procure a few for sixteen years had passed away since I last beard from my and my mind Was constantly harrassed with thoughts ss to what -had become of my mother and I at last started for and on my way found all the country near Mecklenburg in a dread fully in moved but slowly and with great over the rocky road leading to my I abandoned and continued my on by a This happened fifty-nine years ago on the of and just about the same hour as the hand of you see them is now past A tremendous storm had thunder rolled and crashed with reports like the firing of a park of the lightning and the rain fell in After having wandered for a long time in the I arrived at the door of the it was only then that I perceived that I was and that my servant had not Mowed the tempest and darkness of the night had probably caused him to stray I knocked with the handle of my whip at the iron hound bristling with large No one answering my I knocked again three with the same At becoming I The door opened of its own I saw no one who been the means of giving me Without ing any attention to this singular I left my horse standing at die after having crossed the I ascended the entered into the interior of the There was not a particle of light in the whole B Bound fell on my I must confess seemed to cease its and a cold chill ran over my whole What thought I to The castle is My family left it when I and have not No as I am in this deserted I will try to gh several at my father's A nearly extinguished fire was slumbering amid the on the With the assistance of its I recognized my mother and my four sisters seated in a before They all stood up seeing me. 1 was on the point of throwing myself into my fath en when I was stopped by a solemn ure he made to prevent me from ing near I hdd out my arms to my she from me with a melancholy 1 called each of my by their and only answer 1 received they took hold of other's hands B end then all tet you not know I that the way a family receive a son and a after so many yean of Bare already learnt that I have entered the Prussian But I could not do otherwise; my of seeing were its Just that in teen years heard nothing of Separated from yon by interminable in the Swedish prisoner of no news ever reached me to calm my anxiety and my Yoa see selves that the first use 1 made of my liberty was to come and see you here where I thought I would not find yon but at I though I might learn something to set me on the right road to find you do not answer me you are Have forgotten the tenderness and the plays of our those plays of which this room has been often the spectator f last words seemed to move my They began to speak in low tones to each made me a sign to and one of them knelt down before my hiding her head in her lap as il she were desirous of playing Surprised at this angular In such a solemn I did now touch the hand of my sister very lightly with my w Some mysterious power do it. Now it came my torn to down my hide my head in her 0 I felt un- der the silk garments cold and hard I heard a dry like the jumbling of bones a hand was placed in that hand mained It was a I breaking forth into a cry of All nothing remained that terrible vision bet s few human Wild with and half I rubbed out of the abominable my and throwing myself into the X departed at a unconscious of where I was letting the horse take its own daylight my horse fell dead under and my anxious and troubled about my after a long search found me with a large wound m my lying insensible Beside my horse at tie root of a I was for a longtime on the point of audit was only after three weeks of raging fever of agony and that I was again in possession of my then heard from ihe people of the town that my whole family that victims of the war that had devastated and that the castle of been pillaged and ravaged several I went a second time to the castle to have the remains of my family placed in the family to my great and notwithstanding the scrupulous search I not a par tide of those remains be A hand woman's hand which was this gold lay on ihe floor of the room wherein the fatal vision had appeared to I took the it was the one I now have in my and the human bones were placed in the oratory of the Since that many a year has rolled past About two months as I wag sleeping in very chair I am now seated 1 was awoke by sight On opening my I beheld my my and my four sisters before aa they had done m the castle of my joined their bonds as if to play aad beckoned me -I W all the toting each other by die began to torn in a circle round by my while passing before 0 murmured my as she beat head toward youngest the one a to last oats OP Af u to walk my After acting ed their we die fof come voices in we meet ihen about to my soul to God that my destiny was that 1 bad do than .to md my family to your yra said the King related is certainly ver not think that your have had something to overcome these hope for the yon and you will live to to Is it not so give me you have I Do fever and do with those tw take and will he soon enjoy life for Do you not believe your As Blucher dk the King of Prussia took hi ild of the old man's hand old as the striking Gerhard yeni s That hand waa clock was just Fi Blucher was Failure addressed Dudl the delegates to at Wi has F. B. Morse on Mr. F. by elect of Mr. Morse's and his and charge Mr follow who o Con- City in February a letter to Mr. an made r. M. in a recent The gist is that Mr. Field opposed all compromises in said To Field opposes recorded to said Congress of States is and no Stab or nullify absolve its their parai obligation of obedi and laws of the on the table by the then proposed the io be the true intent the present Constitution the States under jt is rejected by the Baldwin then submitted the fol unhappy Constitution is i can secede from of from ence to the Co This was laid Mr. Fiel is dedari and meaning of that the Union This was Roger of which have portions of the extent as serious fee nation and efficient action o the sphere of and nnd net essary of Kentucky has gress to call a i amendments to United It ion the to may become people of the U tion the full and righto and may depend for tion oa the pow from tha of it was ordi ined mend to the Kentucky he to call o ments to the or to as the of ratification accord the fifth she vehemently thirteen in. fat alienated from each other to such an to disturb the peace of impair the regular the Government within constitutional powers Legislature of the State made application to Con- for proposing the Constitution of the believed to be I the of other that the Constitution are or to secure to the ted States of every enjoyment of their so far as the same heir security and granted to or Seneral in national purposes for and does therefore States to unite with application to Congress Convention for proposing of the for one or the other mode be proposed by Con- with the provisions of the ma ance ed but it was by their opponents Tennessee and are the Border which are represented as so fo conciliation and Mr. Amoa of New Hampshire Radical formerly in Con moved jn Address to the concluding with the following That this Conference re cognizes the well understood proposition that the of the United States gives no power to or any othe branch of the federal to in in with Slavery in nn of the and we are assured abundant that neither of th great political organizations existing in the country contemplates a violation of die spirit of the Constitution in this regard on the procurement of any by which or any ment of the General shal ever have jurisdiction over Slavery in any of the That the Constitution was ordained and as set in the by the people of the in order to form a more perfect establish insure domestic provide for the common de the general secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and when the peopl of any not in foil enjoyment ol all the benefits intended to be secured to them by the or their rights if are their their prosperity or their liberty imperiled by people of any other State; and adequate redress can and ought to be provided for such That Constitution of die United and the acts of Congress in pursuance thereof are die law of the to which every citizen owes faithful and it is therefore re- recommended to the Legislatures of the several States to consider impartially whatever complaints may be made ol as inconsistent by sister States or their and carefully re- vise their statutes in view of such com and to repeal whatever provisions may be found to be in contravention of supreme That this Conference mend to die Legislatures of the several States of die to follow the example of die Legislature of die State of Kentucky of in applying to Congress B call a Convention for die proposing of amendments to the Constitution of die United pursuant to the 5th article most comprehensive and con- proposition was earnestly ed by die but was opposed die unanimous vote of die Slave State and nine after days of earnest a comprehensive proposition was adopted not by of the Federal Constitution whereby all Federal territory south of the deg. 30'min. was virtually made Slave denying to press all power to abolish ng it impossible thereafter to amend the institution so as to give Congress power o abolish For this the delegates from the Slave States and by their votes it waa Mr. Field plan of thus agreed upon by the Peace and for An an auspicious John Tyler felicitated While he affected to congratulate the was ed by Congress with no reaped n the Mason and of of of denounced when it WES pot to the veto only three out of gave their votes m its in the its fate was scarcely the in the Peace of ray and went for the tee as it wha j die of aw dates went for change of of diat and for die ae cY fortifying not human but he man diat we sought to obtain EO the of which you may those with were present m though not b that we for a general Convention of the which you Convention b nng in die most solemn offered and rejected by fbo hree of die alave States had would been if any it that we did because we could avert the war and of for it rests upon other consciences than that a schema of adjustment in i by the and therefore the present awful condition of the is not traceable to its or omission to but ail its deference to tha and submission to the deminds of the Border Slave that i of supposed tion which and which they obtained from the was repudiated by the in Con- gress from those very N April -j A Goon Army of the A a Phi attached to the writes die yon hy an friends of onr corporal sens him a die many good things I in said box waa a sized dressed m fall Zouave which they yon at a fair in The after getting waa taken sick die boys started die story diat die corporal was a woman and had given birth tp a The rumor ike flocked to our to a wonderful phenomenon i we guarded the tent with zealous only allowing en to catch passing glimpse of the and could find a number of to swear they bad Bat 1 10 cream of the joke waa yet corporal received a fen it too to die all going home her some had it bat ahe was it rich heiress from tyrant but hundreds believed in is and recruit of Company of the Zouaves me a ristic story of a He was a man of high who been ent to our hi on a. for time oa intimate or le battle of was H caught tho eye of who came to offer his You Can do said ja of your onder has just seized my horse am dying of fatigue and If you records for all too feat the rebellion Was a foregone They that can em for me you may sate The went to the rathe probably on die a got possession of the horse and put on one and On and at eer saw han get your and tell ma what die word The aon and soon read M who to a government b Democrat said an- the or tha doea it aay off dosses dia maker of. the that old I thought be woa sort of favoring the t diat any to
