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El Monte, Sept. 28, 1863.
Cor. Sansome and Halleck Streets
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The tears of affection are the dewdropa from tbe
blue sky of the soul.
WASHINGTON.
BT PARK BENJAMfiJ.
Of all the heroes whe have s   hone
On history's starry page.
The light, the glory, and the pride
Of each successive age—
Whose name's the bri ghtest and the best ?
Whose fame the dearest won ?
They are thine own, imperial West!
For thine is Washington.
The laurels that adorned his brow
Are fresh as when the grew;
For he was first in war and peace,
As brave as he was true;
And Irom oppressions iron grasp,
With strong and constant hand,
He ransomed all his countrymen
And saved his native laud.
In counsel wise, in prudence firm,
And spotless in renown,
He put away ambition's geuds
And spumed a kingly crown;
Wealth had no lure to drag him down
From his traDscendant place ;
For dearer than the world to him
The freedom of his race.
He was the Joshua of his time;
All men obeyed his will,
Aod in the valleys, where he fought,
The sun and moon stood still.
Tbe soldier of the Lord he went
Held by a mighty hand,
Till he bad passed the wilderness
And reached the promised land.
No warrior of the cla?sic roll
Called out a juster praise;
For Caesar, gaiued no grander spoils
And wore no greener bays.
Like Caesar, too, how well lie wrote,
Though not witb blood stained pen,
A record of the noblest deeds
Acheived by noble men I
Great while he led his armies on,
Great while he ruled tne land,
And greater still as he resigned
His ccuntry's high command—
When, great as be had lived he died,
Submissjye to depart,
"America" was found engraved
Upon his inmost heart.
He loved the Union, "Guard it well,"
The dying hero said.
"That hour which sees its broken bond
Will see your freedom dead,
Oh. guard it well, and let it stand
For its own sake secure;
Then Peace sustained by Liberty,
Through ages Bhall endure."
Alas! could he have seen the hour
That we have lived to see,
He might have deeply mourned the loss
Of Peace and Liberty.
And could we listen to his voice
As oft he spoke before,
Our broken bonds might be rejoined
And Union rise once more.
Ob. that bis spirit might descend
To day tike heavenly fire,
And light upon our country's shrines
The old, fiaternal fire:
That Love and Peace might live again
And Hate and War be done,
As with accordant lips we hailed
The name of Washington I
During this abolition war at least one hundred
thousand men bave been killed, four hundred,
thousand have been disabled for life ; thus half a
million have been subjected to death, wounds, and
to sickness worse than wounds in the armies of
both side.   What amount of human misery has oc
[From the Illnlrated London News.]
Among the evils of the war wich has called oul
all the violent passions ofour American relatives
is the generation of habit of what'we are discrib-
ing in the mildest language when we called it profanity.   No person ot honest nature   would be too
courred beyond and behind the   armies   we shall   hard UP0Q a "an who at time of fierce excitement
IFrom New Tort Herald.]
Wliat   the Abolitionists   have Accomplished.
During the past week the abolitionists have
been holding a sort of jubilee at Philadelphia.
Acording to all accounts tbey have bad a pretty
good time of it. Tne abolition press has felicitated them, and they have felicitated themselves,
upon the great work they have accomplished and
the great succefs they have achieved. Tbe Tribune claims for them that elecled President Lin-
cold in 1860, and states that "posterity will do
them justice." Contrary to its usual habit, the
Tribune is altogether too modest. The abolitionists have accomplished a good deal more than the
election of Lincoln, and in the matter of doing
them justice, we shall proceed to anticipate posterity.
In 1860 the American abolitionists, ppre aDd
simple, numbered about one hundred thousand
persons. In 1840, when they ran Mr Birney for
President, the abolitionists polled seven thousand
votes. In 1844, with the same candidate, they
polled sixty-two thousand votes. In 1848 tbey
intermingled with tbe free sdilers, and gave Van
Buren three hundred thousand votes. From that
time forth the pure abolition vote is so mixed op
with the Iree soil vote and the republican vote
tbat we cannot get at it with much accuracy. Still
we believe that one hundred thousand is a fair estimate of the number of true, radical abolitionistB
who have followed tbe flag of Garrison and Phillips, and wbo are entitled to share in the credit of
tke abolition work and in the glory which now
crowns the labor. In this number we include all
such old women as Greeley and such young women as Tilton of the Independent.
What these one hundred thousand abolitionists
have accomplished may be stated in a few words'
They bave accomplished the present war. They
have worked for it thirty years, and here it is.
Tbey have wrecked a powerful and .happy oonntry.
They have arrayed brother against brother, father
ngainst son, children against parents. They bave
filled tbe land with widows and orphans. They
have transformed the country into a vast graveyard. They have sbed an ooeon of blood and
squandered mountains of money. They have made
the air heavy with the ehreaks of the wounded,
the groans of the dying and the lamentations of
the mourners. Tbey have devasted the fields and
plantations of the South and destroyed tbe commerce of the North. They have given a check to
the progress of civilization and democratic institutions from wich it will take years to recover.
All this they have accomplished in thirty years.
One hundred thousand fiends let loose from the
lowest bell and inspired by the most infernal malice could not have accomplished more mischief in
tho Same space of time. If tbis be anything to rejoice. If tbey desire to raise a monument to perpetuate the remembrance of their triumphs, our
battle fields will furnish tbem witb enough human
skulls for a pyramid, and Wendel Phillips or
Beeeber would be only too happy to deliver the
address at the laying of the corner skull.
now inquire. The amount of property destroyed
during the war may be roughly estimated at five
hundred millions of dollars. The injury inflicted
upon our commerce aDd carrying trade may be
stated at one hundred millions of dollars. This
is rather under than above tbe marks ; for the rebel Maffit asserts that he alone has destroyed eleven millions of dollars worth of ships and cargoes,
and Semmes has certainly destroyed much more.
The war debt ofthe North and South amounts to
about five thousand millions of dollars. If tbe war
ends by the abolition of slavery we shall have to
ke.ep a standing army ofa hundred thousand men
and support two or three millions of indigent negroes for several years. But we will leave that
probability out of the count, and will also refrain
from estimating the millions and billions af dollars
which the now impeded industry of this country
would have produced had not the abolitioniBts
caused this war. We wish to confine ourselves to
facts and figures*m indisputable authenticity.
And what do these facts and figures show ? Estimating the white population of the United States in
1860 at twenty-six millions—and this is within a
few hundred of the official figures—we find that
the abolitionists have been instrumental in causing
tbe death of one man out of every two hundred
and sixty people, and the crippling or otherwise
disabling on one out of every fifty-two people.
Aleo the the abolitionists have caused the destruction of property valued at six hundred millions of
dollars and a war expenditure of about five thousand millions. If these are things to be proun of
let the abolitionists bold a perpetual jnbilee.
Taking the above statistics as a basis, a very
simple proces of arithmetic will demonstrate that
each one of our one hundred thousand abolitionists
has caused the death of one man and the life long
disability of four men, and has already cost the
country fifty-six thousand dollars. What are the
cruelties and expenses of slavery when compared
to this? It is very evident, howe.ver, that the loss
ot life and limb and money during this war should
not be so equally divided among cne hundred
thousand fanatics. Individual abolitionists bave
been more or less guiky according to their oppor«
tunities and their influence. Garrison, for example, should have more than one dead man, four
wounded and crippled men, and fifty-six thousand
dollars worth of destroyed property set down to
his account, Wendell Phillips is in tbe same case.
Greeley has probably caused the death ofa thousand men,.and the remainder ofthe injury wbich
he has inflictedupon the nation and upon humanity must be increased in proportion. The same remark will apply to Beecher, Cheever, Tilton and
such prominent abolitionists. Sumner, Wilson,
Chandler and other abolition politicians have eyen
a large share for which to answer. This sad ac
count will certainly have to be settled some day—
not in tbis world, herhaps, but certaioly in the
next. Then, if the abolitionists can find any food
for gladness in this facts, it will be when they enter Hades and discover that tbe worst fiends receive them with respect, and tbat Satau, Mephis-
topheles. Beelzebub, Moloch and the oth r devils
vacate their thrones to offer the new comers all the
insignia of pre-eminence in evil. The jubilee in
Philadelphia will be nothing in comparison to this
grand satanic reception.
I The Presidency.—Lincoln is in love with his
place and its power. He has been President long
enough to wiBh to be President longer. He is
even now working for re election. The poor old
man has not sense enough to see that he is not
fit for the place he holds, and that the people only
tolerate him because they must tolerate him until
they can Constitutionally get rid of him. J He
might have secured a second leaBe of power if he
had only done right, regardless of consequences—
if he had only exercised his office honestly and independently for the good of the whole country, instead of allowing himself to be used by a set of
radical and unscrupulous demagogues, who are
only interested to carry out one fanatical idea a^
the expense, if need be, ofour national unity and
liberties. But he was too weak to resist tbe ultra
Abolitionists, and they have used and
are using him to his own disgrace and
the ruin ol hiB country. He is litor-
ally nowhere in the coming contest for the succession. His feeble, fickle, vacillating course haB
put bim equally out of the respect, the sympathy,
and the support of the radicals and the conservatives.
There wae, in the outset of his official career a
plain path of duty and policy open to him, and if
he had resolutely pursued it, be might have saved
bis country and made for himself an enviable re-
reputation in history. But he bas miserably
botched wbat he sails his "job." He has, in hiB
office, been but a bull in a china shop." He h»s
rushed and plunged wildly and blindly about
within the sphere of his power, breaking .things
generally, and disgusting everybody jwho hoB auy
interet in the precious wares he has trampled on
and destroyed. Indeed. Mr. Lincoln's'extraordti*-
ary assumption of power, and his unfitness to exercise it, put us in .mind of the shining bolt which
Burke launched against the absolutism of the National Assembly of France. "That," said the most
brilliant of sound thinkers, "since the destruction
of the orders, has no fundamental law, no strict
convention, no respected usage to restrain it. Instead ol finding themselves obliged to confbrm to a
fixed constitution, tbey bave a power to make a
constitution which shall conform to their designs.
Nothing in heaven or upon earth can serve as a
control on them. In. such a state of unbounded
power, for undefined and undefinable purposes, the
the evil of a moral and almost physical inaptitude
of the man to the function must be the greatest we
can conceive to happen in the management of human affairs." The justness of this opinion appears
to be too manifest for doubt. And in the opinion
we believe so many of the loyal people ofthe Union
concur, that Mr. Lincoln's aspiration for a second
term in the Presidency is destined to wither under
a frost as killing as that which nipped the root of
Wolsey,—Phil-Met cury.
should be too much moved to be very careful of
his tongne. When directing the "currents of a
heavy fight," neither Napoleon, Wellington, nor
Clyde, waB particular as to the form of emphasis
in which hasty orders were delivered ; and a good
deal of expletive may, under such circumstances,
be thought no more of than the noise of the powder
that is projecting tbe ball. But it is really another thing when preachers in the pulpit and states*
men on the platform think; it necessary to be impressive by dint of appeals and altesioas *hio"ffl
are offensive to people of test and painful to people of religion. American speakers and writers!
on both sides bave been a great deal too ready to-
claim the direot superintendence aDd approbation
of providence ; and those who would affect to see
the blasphemy of such a man as Suwarrow, for instance, who rhymed on "Glory to God and to tbe
Empress" alter the butchery at Ismail, are ten
times as prompt with similar tributes at every
fresh slaughter io tbe course of a fratricidal war.
We do nol propose to annoy our readers by illustrations of his practice, aa those who have read
the documentary history of the struggle will recall
a mass of such sins against propriety and religion;
but even those who have noticed the clerical menaces of Greek fire and worse, by the federal preachers, and have seen Mr. Lincoln's telegram, in
which he invited one of the Generals to stand stiH
and see the salvation—we scarcely care to copy
the rest of the message—will not have been pre™
pared for Mr. Seward's last outbreak. Tbis for
mingled folly and profanity, perhaps outdoes most
of what-has preceded it. And this is the utterance, not of a soldier in the fierce heat of a fight
or even ofa fanatic preacher blatant for the sake
of pew rents, but the deliberate orratory of the
leading statesman in the Cabinet of Washington.
Mr, Seward, the Palmerston and Russell of the
Lincoln Ministry, haB been making a speech in
which he declares that there can be no peace until
Mr. Lincoln Bhall be President of the whole United
State. Then, that is to say, when the flower of
the Southern soldiery shall have been slaughtered
—when the cities are garrisoned by the Federals
and scores of Bolters are holding tbe people in an
iron clutch—when the sword and the fire bave
done their work, then, cries Mr. Seward, "There
will be peace, and the angels in Heaven may tune
their harpB to tbe symphony of such a peace."
Suwarrow, the Russiau savage, is fairly outdone
by Sewajd, the Federal statesman and philanthropist. The idea wbich he calls np is to painful to
be regarded lightly , though the ridiculous blends ,
with it to an extent which makes it difficult to repress a smile- If he bad been content lo be only
portentously magniloquent instead of profane, if
he could have remained outBide the barrier, and
not rushed in where those be invokes fear to tread,
it would have been well. Could he have been satisfied with the music of the spheres and let the
morninsr stars sing together, rejoicingly "Hail,
Columbia!'' tbe sentiment would have been American, and not altogether impious. But the picture which he has sought to draw iB so audacious
lhat we should have hesitated to reproduce it, bnt
that it is well that English readers Bhould understand tbe sort of madness wbich haB judicially laid
hold of tbe men of the North.
Leaving it, and forgetting as far as we may tha
profane parts of tbe idea, we should much like to
know Mr. Seward'sidea aB to some of the stems
wilh which it would be necessary to follow np
peace, whenever it is made. If it were possible
that the South could be dragooned into submission,
what next ?.We do not thick so ill of the Federal
statesmen as to believe that tbey desire to rnle
nine millions of tbe South aa Mr. Seward's idol,
the Emperor Alexander, is ruling the Poles. We
do not even suppose that he desires perpetual garrisons over the South, martial law, and a reign of
terror. The idea probably is that if the South can
once be subdued it will accept the humiliation, an.d
take the goods the North provides it, and that in
time ill feeling will subside and institutions begin
to work again. If'theso improbable events are
ever to come to pass, it is not too soon for Mr.
Seward to bave begun to consider the source of •
the misfortunes that have wasted the States, and
what remedial measures should be adopted to prevent the recurrence of such miseries. And as even
if the North should have to make peace on other
terms, and should have no occasion to include the
concerns of the South in any Washington legislation, the same hints may be as useful, or perhaps
more so (as Federal administration, under the circumstances, will be more difficult than heretofore,)
we should like to ask bim respectfully whether
these are among the rearrangements which he me*
ditates.
Why the War Goes On.—The soldiers at Helena, in Aikansas, used to amuse the inhabitants
of that place, on their first arrival, by telling tbem
yarns, of which the following is a Bample :—
"Some time ago Jeff. Davis got tired ofthe
war, and invited President Lincoln to meet him
on neutral ground to discuss terms of peace.—
They met accordingly, and after a talk, concluded to settle the war by dividing the territory and
stopping the fighting. The North took the Northern States, and the South the Gulf and sea-board
Southern States. Lincoln took Texas and Missouri, and Davis Kentucky and Tennessee ; so that
all were parcelled off excepting Arkansas. Lincoln
didn't want it—Jeff wouldn't have it. Neither
would consent to take it, and on tbat they split,,
and the war has been going on ever since.
In the House the resolution instructing tbe Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the propriety of exempting clergymen of  all  denomina—-
tions from the draft was laid on  the. table by a
large majority.
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