Show cy HENRY WARD beecher BEECHEK ON reconstruction rhe the rho executive committee Commit tee teo havlu havin having 0 in charge tho preparations for tho national convention of soldiers boid Bold lers lera and sailors to be held in cleveland sop 17 1 f notified rev henry ward beecher of his appointment as chaplain to tho the convention in reply that gentleman wrote as follows aug SO 1866 clarles charles G halpine brevot brevet brigadier dier general H Wo Slocum major general gordon granger major general committee I 1 am obliged to sou you vou you for the tho invitation which you havo havi made me to accas act as chaplain to tho the convention of soldiers and sailors about to convene at cleveland I 1 cannot attend it but I 1 heartily wish it and all other othlar conventions whatsoever success buc euc cess whose object ie is the restoration of all the tho states late lato in rebellion to their federal relations our oar theory of government has no place for a 6 state lato late except in the union it ia is justly taken for granted that the duties and responsibilities of a stame state in federal relations tend to its political health and to that of the tho whole nation even territories are hastily brought in often before the prescribed conditions aro fulfilled as avs if it it was dangerous to leave a community outside the great hody body politic had the tho loyal senators and represent tives tires of tennessee oo been admitted at once on the assembling of congress and in moderate succession arkansas georgia alabama Alabam north carolina and virginia the tho public mind of the south bouth woula would have been far more healthy than it is and theao se states which lingered on probation to the last would havo have been under a more salutary influence to good conduct than if a dozen armies watched over them every month that we vve delay this ha healthful step complicates tho case the excluded population enough unsettled before grow more irritable the army becomes indispensable to local government and supersede supersedes 3 it the gov emment at wa washington lington ia N called to interfere gerfe r e in one ono and another difficult difficulty ty and this ibis will be done inaptly and sometimes with great injustice for our government ern ment wisely adapted to it its own pyo per function functions is utterly devoid of these habits and unequipped with the men ments ts which nit at fit a centralized government maut to exen exer cibo cleo authority in remote states statts over local aff lairs affairs every evory attempt 1 to perform such duties fi in 1 mistake which have excited the nation t lc ai B but ut whatever imprudence there may be in I 1 a the he method tho real criticism should shaid bo be against the re requisition of ot uch kuch k such du duties t les ies of the general government the federal unfit to ex erese minor and local govern governs ment and will inevitably blunder when it attempts it to keep a half score of states under federal authority but without national ties and responsibilities to oblige the central authority to govern half the territory of the tho union by federal civil officers and by the army is a policy not only uncongenial to our ideas and principles but preeminently dangerous to the tho spirit of of our government however human the ends sought and tho the motives 16 Is s in fact a course of instruction preparing our government to be despot despotic leand and fa familiarizing familiari i the people to a of authority which can never be other than dangerous to liberty I 1 am aakre nare ware that good men uta arc withheld held heid from advocating the prompt and admission admies ion lon of the exiled states by the fear chiefly of its effect upon the par parties tIps aad upon the freedmen it is 11 gaid isaid that if admitted co Nn congress angress gress the thu sou them senators and re represents pres enad eswin coalesce with North ernt orix de do and rule tho the country Is t this big nation then to remain dismembered to Q servo serve tho tic ends of part parties partida ids have hime we learned no wisdom by tho bistor history y of the rast last ten tea yearb years ears oars in whig whir just thia this course courso e I 1 of sacrificing g he the nation to the exigencies of parties pa I 1 plunged irs us into rebellion and war even ven admit that the power would pax pas into yinto the thel hands bands of a party madeep made up of southern thern moen toen and tho the hil hii horto hoTto dishonored and rallied misled democracy of the north that power powen could coula not eq used just as they pleased the war has changed not alone institutions but ideas the whole viole country has ad advanced varie vailo P ubi lese icse is exalted far beyond bep has been at any former period anew A new parly would like a river iivori be obliged to beek geek out its chan chah channels nois in the already qed existing slopes and forms of lof the continent 4 wo havo entered a newela new now era of liberty the style of thought is freer and more noble tho young men of our times are regenerated kho khe tho ireat great army ims laa been a school abid and aud hun bun hundreds reds of chous thousands of men amogono are aro gono home to preach a truer and nobler view of human right all the tho industrial interacts intorf ta of society aro arc moving with iurica I 1 wisdom towards intelligence and liberty everywhere in churches in literature in natural se lences sciences in pLy physical industries in social questions as well as its in politics the wa nation ion fon feels that winter is over and and a new tring iring spring hangs in III the horizon and works through all tho elements in this happily hap liy lis fly changed and advanced condition 0 of things no party of the tho retrograde can maintain itself everything marches and parties must march I 1 hear with wonder and und shame bhame and scorn tho the fear of a few that the south once more in adjustment with tho the federal government will rulo rule this nation the north is rich noven never so rich the south is poor never before so poor the population of tho the north is nearly nearis double that of tho the south the industry of the north in diversity in productiveness and forwardness in all the machinery and education required for manufacturing fac turing is half a century in advance of the bouth south churches in the tho north crown every hill and schools swarm in every neighborhood while the tho south has bubb but matt watt mattered ered lights at long distances like lighthouses twinkling along the edge of a continent of darkness dar kneas in the tho presence of such a contrast how mean and craven is the fear that the south will rule tho policy of the landl that it will have an influence that it will wil in time most important influences or restraints we are glad to believe but if it rises risea at once to the control of the tho government it will be because the north demoralized by prosperity and besotted besotted by gro groveling gravelin velin interests refuses to discharge its blare bhare share of political duty in such calef the south not only will control the government but it ought to do it it is feared with more reason that the restoration of the south to her full independence will be detrimental to freedmon tho tho the sooner we dismiss from our minds tho idea that the freedmen can be classified and separated from the white population and nursed and defended by themselves the better it will be for them and us tho the negro is gartand part par and tand parcel of southern society ho he cannot bo be prosperous crous whilo while it isun is its evils will rebound upon hiim hilm lwe ite happiness and reinvigoration cannot be kept from his participation the restoration of the south to amicable relations with the north the reorganization of its industry the I 1 s of its enterprise and thrift wl will tall all ail rebound to the freed mens benefit nothing is so danger dangerous us to the freedman as an unsettled sta state 0 of society in the south on him comes all the spite and anger and ca caprice rice and re revenge he will bo be made the h scapegoat cape zoat goat of lawless and heartless men unless we turn tho the government into a vast military machine there cannot be armies enough to protect the freedmen while southern society remains inbur ary if southern society is calmed I 1 bottled settled and occupied and soothed with now hopes and prosperous industries dus dub tries no armies armie s wil be b a needed riots will subside lawless hanger hangers on will be driven off or better governed and a way will be gradually opened up to the freedman through education and industry i to all kil full fuli citizenship with all its ita honors and duties civilization is a growth none can escape that forty years in the wilderness wilder neba nesa who travel from the E egypt of ignorance to the promised land an of civilization the freedmen must take their march 1 I have full falt faith hla hia hin in the results inthe if they have the stamina to undergo the hnry hary hardships which every uncivilized people has bas under undergone gohe goho in their upward progress they will in due time take their place among ong i us is that place cannot be bought nor bequeathed nor gained by sleight of hand it will come by benty so virtue industry industry and frugality As the nation cannot bo sound bound until tho the south is prosperous P e r 0 u sl BO so on tho the other extreme a w wealthy e a 1 th y condition of civil society in the bouth south is to the Nt welfare elfare of the freedm freedman i aa t refusing to admit loyal senators and representatives from the south to congress will not help the freedmen it will not secure for them the vote it will not protect them it will not secure any amendment olour of our constitution irwill it will only increase the dangers and complicate the difficulties whether we regard the whole nation or any anysee section of ilor llor class in it lt the first deninno of our jimke ime is entire union f meanwhile the great chasm which rebel robel rebellion lion ilon made is not filled up it g grows kows deeper and stretches wider 0 out of it rise xie dread specters anil and threatening sounds let that gulf be closed and bury in 1 it lt slavery lavery sectional animosity and all strafes and hatreds hat reds it is fit that tuat the brave men who on I 1 sea boband and land faced death to save the I 1 nation should now by their v voice volee 0 lee leo and I 1 vote consummate what thor swords i rendered possible for Forthe sake forthe forthe for tho the sake of the south and ahil its millions of our fellow country countrymen mell meli for our own sake and forthe for the great cause of freed freedom 0 m and civilization I 1 urge the immediate immedi a te reunion of all tho the parts which rebellion i and war have shattered 1 lam iam am truly youre yours henny HENRY IVARD A BREECH BRE less LEBS GUN AND AID NO GUNPOWDER the fondon bulletin says A startling invention in gunnery has been heen announced 1 byu byj bair M r hardin harding g w who h 0 makes not merely a breechloader breech loader but a gun without any solid breech he ho takes a tube open at both ends and this forms hisgun which is loaded loaded and discharged with deadly effect the plan is simply this that a piece of wadding is rammed in at one end of the tube then another piece leaving asp a space a and nd of coarse some somo air between between them ai closely 0 compressed then the powder is placed in and aen then balt ball on the powder the he breech is practically formed by the tho air contained between the first and and secand piece of wad wadding ding dlug others are inquiring quiring if gunpowder itself should be got ri rid of altogether midst all these changes captain dixon says yes and sends us one ono of his gun cloth ch charges ar geb a a piece alece of rolled tape tope so to aspea speak ina inn paper r case open at atone one end T the tho e patentee fa claims for the gun cloth cioth c charges h arges anges freedom from all risk of accidee accidental t al explosions plo except when confined in a gun zun un barrel barrei or bombshell they are non explosive they thes burn but do not explode if lighted and held hold in the hand they are arc harmless they may bo dropped down a red hot barrel barrei without fear of danger A hundred may be lighted at once and the result will not be more explosive or dangerous than setting fire tire to a handful liand lland ful fui of shavings neither would the firing of a whole magazine be attended with more danger than the burning of so much wood cotton or paper the recoil is scarcely perceptible the report is only one half smoke there is none and combustion is peril perfect act and no residue is left to foul the barrel barrei and with all these charges an aye superior to gunpowder as a propelling force at least so says the inventor guncotton gun cotton was as formerly made and used an uncontrolled unmanageable capricious niclous foree force besides being liable to ion lon ignite ite at a low heat and fire by spontaneous combustion gun cloth this patentee says as made according to his patent isa is a strong but docile servant weight for weight many times stronger than gunpowder and capable of being 0 used with entire safety in existing fire nrc arms ag ix IN baa BAVA iUA itla the people of bavaria are not allowed to marry marev until they have what is termed an fl assured means meang of subsistence the law however does not work well as will bo be seen by bv the tho fol foi following lowin 9 remarks of a correspondents 1 I have heard of a case care of two poor people havin having to wait fifteen years for permission t to 0 marry marny ipar ry and spending two hundred florans florins on applications one of tho the writers on the 1 subject gives the following instance an ab operative earning twelve shillings a week was engaged to a girl earning seven and owner of the house valued at and a cow they applied for permission to marry and were refuse 3 means of subsistence not assured 1 time went on they had two children and still their application was refused on the same ground the owner of the manufactory took up their cause and pleaded i it himself WIT with the official saying baying that his refusal was not what was intended by the government the offic officer er replied curtly what does that matter to us the government may have its own ideas on the subject but wo we have ours and andlen I 1 ja particular am of opinion that such marriages are neither right nor useful e I 1 the author from whom I 1 quote this adds while I 1 arii am writing my servant girl aged fifteen years comes in dressed for a feast day and says that her father and mother are to be married today to day and she must henceforth be called by her fathers name twelve times her fathers application for licence to marry marny was rejected and each time timo lie had to pay fees and 9 ac 7 tue THE london fins curtly 1 I pi lin tin vites kitei 2 england to fex lex examina examine mina ilir hr havy awse audi see if it I 1 is s as strong and I 1 ingine invincible ible ibie as coee cock generally suppose it to be A rl PLAGUE aa UP the plague of locusts in al algeria aleria erla eria causes considerable uneasiness to ne the government the troops were were recently called out to act against this new species of enemy but the consequence of this massacre ma may laythe seeds of pestilence inasmuch N as th the e remains of such sueh an agglomeration of dead in insects have arodd produced ged a nuisance of odthe the worse w orse nature to convey an idea of the number of locusts daily destroyed we are told that three thousand cwt cat is the tho average result of the days battle battie with this tilis new foe STEAM TO SUMMIT DP OP MOUNT mound washington NOTON A A steam railway iva y is being built on the mount wa washington sh ington running to the summit it is near the old site bite of the old fabyan hotel A half |