Whig Of Seventy-Six And Beaver Dam Democrat (Newspaper) - August 23, 1862, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin commenced TJie right cheerily on day of- the year and already there lay upon the ground sufficient to make excellent youngsters were try sleds were Clinging by filled rosy cheeked girls and merry lads the more elegant turnouts from the fourteen miles from town occasionally flitted past the tavern door where I was staying and die season was peculiarly gay as the holidays were passing In the of the country hotel I sojourned I had right heartily enjoyed the various samples of human character I had met and I had for a week day and evening the opportunity of ing to the yarns of the villagers or the numerous visitors who congregated in the old tavern which had for many a long year been the resort of farmers horse jockeys and travellers of one sort or er en route to and from the city or ward lomd I had given out among the settlers that I wished to purchase a good oue changed to turn up during my stay at the all hands was on the lookout for me for it was understood that I would for such an animal as I fancied a eral price Whether any of my newly made tanca aided the settler or not I never knew but came along on this afternoon alluded to the last day of December a young man from Vermont so he said and I guess he who drove to the ern door a gayish looking boast that at- trait my attention at for he was a good and came out in gallant style Who a shouted the driver and he fiom the heavy old sleigh upon the and flung the reins carelessly the dasher as the stable boy came to aft r the new arrival That's suid one of the He's from lor and got a good un He never comes down with air t ling but good uns this intended for me and perhaps not I heard it but seemed not to notice it An hour afterwards Jem Saltum en- hirns If before the fire and a short six I had been out to stable and examined his colt a beautiful bright bay with 1 e ivy tail and mane well put er in limb and very stylish in notion and I con 1 to buy him As yet I had said nothing to Jem S however and he had observed a marked silence on en- tering the house waite 1 for Jem um t open on me or some one around he finally seemed dropping into a doze At last I went to him him on the remarked good drove to I ly way of commencement did not reply b it opened hia eyes lazily then continued to seem to be Vol X No 45 young un I queried Did you speak to he asked looking up was saying you ha 1 a nice looking nag O i yaas that's the ill man's that is 1 -or not That is I the old man wouldn't agree o sell for no re a le price Who's the man you speak Who? Why he is my uncle the man 1 Uve are 1 qt Whose the old man's i the I o ght you meant my uncle Wall the h is whit we call up in our a good un He gits up well all r is five years co ning six square t otter way down in the forties as a new dollar but I reckon the old man si 1 any hew aud he turned over and began to snooze I made up my to purchase that at le st to try him so I How f st I told you just now that he was comin six and could foot it down in the forties That'll do I reckon for a five year old s t a igor yes have you any objection to let sir To-morrow if me see him move None in the world you wish Yes The slipping will be fine and I would like to buy a good I added if I light on one than suits me every way and does not come to Jem Saltum knew all this before I did not know whether he wished to sell and I thought he didn't Wall then to-morrow we'll take a turn with the colt and you shall see him But as near as I can from what the old man said when I left home he don't keer to sell him any way And with this consolatory remark he fell asleep or appeared the room fire At an early hour the next morning I met Jem again and gave him thg ary salutation of the season Happy New Year 1 said pleasantly Wall yea so it is New Year's day an a very nice un it pony this morning I in- quired Oh nicely never better Yas I see You're the gentleman as spoke about him last night Yes we'll give him a trial when you are I added Yas we'll try I believe the old man cares to sell him insisted Jem aboard a light cutter and at last we started on a jaunt to test the speed and mettle of the horse I had been so favorably struck with at first sight and away we went followed by half a dozen good uns rigged out at the tavern stable to see and help enjoy the promised sport The handsome bay colt proved a flyer How fast he could trot I could not say but he distanced all competitors for a mile five six seven retui u- ed to the hotel iu gallant style at the top of his gait without showing the least sign He was a splendid roadster and just what I wanted What do you ask for said I at last Wall as I said before T don't believe the old man keers to part with leastwise he could get two hundred and a half for him That's a big price for a five-year I said Wall no fool of a colt The old man won't take no I'll give you two hundred 1 said This was a round sum for a horse in those days No the old man wouldn't be satisfied insisted and he turned his horse's head to the stables as I I concluded very shortly to take the colt at Jem's price however aud about au hour afterward Well Saltum I think I'll trade with you It's to much for a old bat I'll give you two hundred aril a hilf Wall said Jem slowly I think the old like to sell him for that and I guess I'll take him to the city where I'll get his value you only asked two hundred and fifty for the colt ye didn't take me up did Not at the moment Wall sharp's the word yer know iu a hoss trade But I'm quite sartin the old man be satisfied with less than three hundred Three hundred I I won't do it that's all more I wouldn't mister if I was you Cos you can't allus tell about a year old if he is smart and putty He might break down and I can sell him in the city easy I wanted the horse but I let him go and did not sec Jem till afternoon when he turned the nag out for exercise again and whisked up aud down before tho door to the admiration of all who sav him I said conic I mean to do it but I like your Give me a of him I'll take him at three red though it's a great price for him Wall mister said the scamp coolly since this I've made up my mind that he can go faster than wo thought he could an I can take thiee hundred and a half for him of a maa up the road here I've therefore concluded the old man won't he unless I do the best I tho railly I believe the old would allow me to sell him any way Confound the old man and his colt too I said not a little vexed at the sharp i practice of my friend from Vermont You got no four hundred lars out of me for that horse I spoae not mister But needn't bo no hard feeling He's a dreadful good colt and the old man wouldn't be satisfied unless he brought him a good price I'm sure With these words Saltum turned his dashing pony to the stable once more I was bound to buy this horse and think now that knew it But four hundred dollars was an awful figure I thought Still fearing that the fellow would dodge me again I mustered courage and before I retired for the night I said good naturedly as Jem sat sucking his flip Well we had a good deal of talk Yes we hev And I like your horse I know you do And I'll give you four hundred dollars for I never believed I should be such a fool as to pay like this for a single horse The Vermont sharper shook his mug drained it to the bottom slowly and After all we've said mister there ain't no man I'd hev that hoss than you But I'm bound to do what's right at the same time I must not forget the old man that raised the colt Ef I can't get five hundred for the colt I dont believe the old man would be satisfied an I've concluded to take him back to Vermont ac cordingly Five hundred I yelled why you're crazy Or perhaps you think I'm a I added night sir I trust you'll get five hundred dollars for your five year old That's a hundred a year exactly And I went to bed in high dudgeon plaguy quick at figures said Jem dryly as I retired And very shortly afterwards he wen io bed himself When I came down the next the colt stood in tho sleigh at the front can man door and Jem was just ready apparently to leave The golden opportunity to become the owner of a really fine animal was about to pass from me and I coveted the beast inwardly and in earnest Which way Jem I asked LETTER FROM ROBERT DALE To the Hon Edwin M Stanton tary of you Always a Democrat but never a pro slavery Democrat opposed in To town afore night 1121 going to pie feeing from ray youth up to have my price this colt or my name I human slavery but believing until Jem Saltum the interests ot liberty itself it was the part of wisdom in the North to abstain from fraught domestic institution of the South and to trust to time for Us eradication opposed a hereditary aversion ta much do you ask for him I said Wall mister I've thought it all over and as good horses ain't plenty just now I've made up tny that the old man be satisfied if I didn't bring six j hundred or the colt and I've concluded I shall do oue or ther other sure as preach g anyhow x hundred said I why don't you say a at onco Jem Wall he's wuth a you shall have him for just six hundred ef you want him now Jem took np the The arched his beautiful neck and was about to turn away I was beaten Put him in the stable said I I'll take it's an awful price And thus I the owner of roy fast horse The landlord laughed the hostlers d Jem they said and I was half inclined to laugh myself at the Still I hud got Ii 10 was of so two weeks after my little New Year's day adventure I found myself on the road in a natty New York cutter skimming sharply over the newly made snow path and beating with ease most of the dashers that frequent that splendid thoroughfare of the fast uns hatred and civil war is rooted out for ever Have we the means of paying loyal a fair price for their slaves My political antecedents are known to we act now before a protracted contest has exhausted our resources yea If we wait the termination of a three or four yews war very certainly no has been to attain is willing before the sword was drawn to make any honorable concessions that might avert its horrors But political convulsions bring with them great lessons and new duties War not under the Divine economy been permitted as in all past ages it if it had not its But the good it brings we must necessities No Civil war of proportions so gigantic as that now raging ever existed in the world before It differs from all others both in the results sure to ensue fiom its j protraction beyond a and ii i the conditions under n Inch oat of tvil it may eventuate in good In calculating I these time is an essential clement Seven or eight hundred are spent At the best as much more is likely to go Two tho millions or Iu that price deportation must not be estimated The South asserts that negro slavos are indispensible to her is only so far true that she does absolutely need hired negro and ought not to be deprived of them Her agriculture would for a time be ruined them But no good man desires a settlement under which any section of our country would be even temporarily ruined Nor can it be doubted that the South however strong her prejudices and tions in of owning her laborers lias herself been brought by the perils of the hour to think seriously of a change of system as the only means left her to obtain aid and comfort from Europe Nor can all het leaders be wholly blind to the fact that such a change of system would ad- vance in the end beyond calculation Im- material prosperity Suppose a declaration to the effect that the Government urged by the necessity of self-preservation takes at a fair valuation the slave property of the South Will such a declaration cause a negro tion and indiscriminative assassination of whites throughout the slave The We have n incurred the J noUn total result so far has clearly shown that the hut the debt ot England and mild and the interest on it at almost doable thj rate she pays make our annual burden nearly equal to If the war lasts years these figures may be doubled It must not last three negro mild and long-suffering and often attached to his is little disposed to resist under organization of his own Once assured of freedom he will gradually join our is all He can then be hired as a laborer or soldier as may seem Aly colt quickly attracted the attention of the crowd of horsemen and one among the number who wealthy and who knew what a good ri ig very shortly waited upon me and bantered me for my purchase lie's a gooi said I cost me high will you sell him T he asked Twenty-five hundred dol I an- swered without winking The man of fortune drew a long breath looked the horse at his leisure and theu drew his check for the somewhat to my surprise I confess Two years afterwards my six hundred dollar colt had become famous for his speed and bottom and the present 1 i i ucs tears longer unless we are to risk being made for him if his lonal tn TT How is it to be By concession 1 That is no longer in our er We can buy a truce a pause i by concession to the South nothing more arms then But if by force it must be quickly dune Delay master proves to be loyal and his services being confiscated if these are due to a rebel In all this we are clearly in our right Look now at the question in its foreign aspect under intervention the chances of Be chances great or And it must be effectually June After one such the nation inny revive its energies still elastic solvent still and respected A second will rum it financially to nothing uf worse ruin To save the country then the war must not ate without a sufficient guaranty its resumption small intervention may occur and that ere If it occur its character will chiefly de- pend upon what shall have been the ante- cedent action of our Government in regard to slavery If previously to such intervention we shall have issued a general declaration of emancipation then we shall stand before Europe as the champions of human tuJ v v JA can the war be quickly and ty while our will be regarded as ly What guaranty is j the advocates of human servitude owner to my certain has more than once refused a Lona fide offer of five thousand dollars for his splendid trotter lie has made his mile aud is now America among the fastest i i y th it it will not be opinion in England in France and Gradually very gradually as this con- out Europe generally will then prevent fest proceeded have 1 been approaching I respective Governments from the conviction that there is but one such except it be in our favor No Euro- repeatedly j guaranty the of negro slaves Pean Government dare place itself in the horses in throughout this continent attitude of a slavery protector as to this I am less measure J on the contrary wo shall have left My regret is that when I i'S meaas terminating j the issue as it now stands our policy in- T 1 C quickly and war Tne only by the confiscation act not recent reverse under Gen McClellan the broadly and boldly announced j scattered rebel fires daily bursting forth especially if the South despairing of I in which our forces had already her favorite concedes I over run the fact that we are fighting of foreign recognition and against brave men of our own race all voluntary system of gradual perceive how ne f slaves of to retain slavery in the President Having JaK extirpation of slavery effectual safest also AH North did when war was yet it now what en the result he waited ere we commenced the war for unanimity 7 Soine will fall off So be There in small loss in that And there is seme gain Better an open enemy than a worthless friend It is time that men were taking sides As things now stand I see no use in conciliating the half loyal He who is not for us is against us I think the people are ready I believe that the loyal of the North with such small proportion of exceptions as in radical national changes must be are to-day prepared for tion They have paid for it in treasure in blood not by their option They feel that the sacrifices they have made and have still to make are too vast to hare been incurred except in purchase of a great pledge of perpetual safety and peace men feel too that such a pledge is a national not merely a erly necessity The South exhausted and suffering needs it to the full as as we She will soon perceive if she does not already that two.partsTdf one tion or even two coterminous nations eaa never again exist in amity on this nent oue slave and the other free She annot see that if no others existed would suffice prevent this It is not the question whether a paper declaration easily issued will or will not be followed by a thousand practical The uprooting of an ancient and gigantic always such Ntr should we be calle d upon to predict in ad- vance for who can entirely foresee how each of these will be ultimately be solved The true question is whether greater even insuperable ones do not be- set any other policy home as we are to avoid obstacles is impossible We can but select the least formidable The lives of of us are in ing between evils When dangers surround its we walk in a measure by faith Let us do what we can and leave to the We may best trust to Him when we enter His path of progress He aids who walk in it I feel assured that final success awaits in in pursuing such a path And I no Other readout of the darkness HOBERT BALE OWEN New York July 23 1832 THE DRAFT Number of White Males in the the Ages of 18 with him I did not my friend I a cheap 01 n ni Hughes European Mission Archbishop Hughes lias returned to York with increased to the esteem and gratitude of the people He has discharged to the country while abroad in a manner that has not only proven highly to it but that marks the firmness of his char actt r and his unswerving patriotism Nothing coul 1 be more ic or to the Union cause than the es recently delivered by him in Dublin and Cork they cannot but produce a great impression upon the Catholic lation of Europe they will unite that of Ireland to a man in opposition to any at- tempt at interference with us by They place fairly and squarely before the latter the hazards w hich it will have to encounter in case it should ever to take so desperate and ill e a step It is for this reason that the English tory journals which have distinguished themselves by their ardent advocacy of southern interests are so furious at the outspoken boldness of the sentiments They have had bitter ence of the that attaches in cal controversies to the opinions of the increase the probability tint we must de- prive the South o a lejal right to its four millions of laborers before we can against masters in a reasonable time aad in an effectual manner I acn not an advocate of revolutionary shortcuts out of a I am not in favor of violating the Constitution by way of escaping a danger There might be immediate advantage but the precedent is replete with not at all an unlikely the sympathy of public opinion throughout Europe will be with the South and will sustain any action ia her favor in such an event how false our how low we shall have fallen in the eyes of the world I how un- enviable the place we shall occupy in tory all time It ii idle gasconade to say that thus situated we can defy Europe Tet the northern action while peace yet existed between the North and South without a violation of the Constitution other words without South by emancipation the sympathy and the permanent services of her four millions of laborers without action of uurs then throw into the scale it a act i into the scale IQ a revolutionary act i us the thirty millions of England the forty mill Can slavery ba eradicated J ions of who shall say how many Clearly not now iu war without such violation If j tens of millions emancipation be necessary to insure the for reputation shall we have strut permanent peace and safety of our I s nobler than self existence in and if we are willing to pay to i States between 45 years Loyal States 1850 Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island 39 182 Connecticut New York New Jersey 117.580 Pennsylvania Maryland District of Columbia Virginia ISO 335.308 12L254 162.280 Ohio Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Michigan Iowa Minnesota Delaware 281.904 434.094 41 ail loyal shu e owners a reasonable pi ice for their slaves yes For no principle in law is better than this that when important lic interests demand it private property at a fair appraisement for public use The opening of a street hi im- proving the running of a railroad are held in this and other civilized Roman Catholic hierarchy The latter j tries to be objects of are slow to put themselves forward in this to justify what the French law calls op- way but when they do their example and advice exercise a tremendous influence amongst their own persuasion Were war to break out between this country and England we will venture to sny that not a single Irishman could btj pre- upon to enlist in the English vice Here on the contrary every man would spring to arms glad to have the opportunity of paying back the old scores that his forefathers have lated against their English oppressors Even as regards the present war the recent speeches and the onslaughts that have been made upon him by the English press will have a powerful effect upon the Irish mind in this country They will do more to ulate enlistments among our fellow zens of that nationality than all the heavy money inducements that are now being Y Herald propriation pour cause pub But of importance how utterly trivial is the opening ef a street or com- pared to the preservation in its integrity of the greatest republic upon earth 1 Ought we to declare general tion coupled with a provision for the ment to oil loyal of the fairly appraised value of their claves This question resolves itself into another Have things gone so far that the Union in its peaceful integrity and within is borders can no longer That is the great of the day I think it must be answered even now in the affirmative Every month that ses is converting hundred of thousands of moderate and conservative and peace ing men to the same opinion They of sectional friendship or national peace until the teeming cause of mortal opponents who shall have forestalled us and assumed tho initiative of While the contest no higher ter than that of n portion of a great de- sinng a separation from the mother forcibly casting off its authority what more sympathy can we expect from Europe than we ourselves gave to Spain when she lost Mexico or to Mexico when Texas struck for Until the issue is changed so that the great question of human liberty in in it we must expect from European powers at tbs best only indifference coupled probably with the feeling that as Mexico FUG against Spain and Texas against Mexico so will a Southern Confederacy finally maintain itself against That a declaration of emancipation was not issued a year ago I do not Great must mature in public ion before they can be carried out Ex- treme measures to be justified and effectual must often be preceded by tried conciliation Yet in national it may be as dangerous to point as to anticipate public opinion And I confess my fears for the result if decisive measures are longer delayed Stand where we are we cannot and to go on is less dangerous than to retrace our steps We ought never to have proposed emancipation with compensation to loyal nor declared to the disloyal as by law we have that their slaves shall be liberated without compensation if we did not intend to follow out the policy we Total The North West have drawn from force thus far for the army and navy Left Seceded States Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Tennessee Louisiana Texas Total The South lias drawn thus far upon force Left Border States Kentucky i Missouri Total 120.263 151.738 1 21.175 305.569 500.000 WOULD DO WITH THEM heretofore a conservative and Democrat in Grant county made a speech at a war or in the other evening -Some one in the asked what do with the niggers The Major ed I would enforce the confiscation law free the slaves of rebels and put arms into the hands of all that cm and Jet them help us as much as they
