Show ENGLISH PICTURE OP THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION people tliat dwell on the face of tlie earth and never until then There is such a thing as truth hut that does not prove that it exists within you or me a Seraph might stand by our side whose being has been made radiant by the light of truth and we still be in ig- the norance” 44 The light must be in the soul before its benefits can be realized It must be in the centre of man’s being a fountain of light and of life and glory from which fountain should proceed life and truth until it is diffused throughout his whole being until all his affections are sanctilied and his judgment corrected” — Amasa Lyman ENGLISH PICTURE OF TIIE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION At this time when we are running so nearly on the heels of next Election the following abridged account of the GREAT LlNCOLN-DoUGLAcontest — prepared from 41 All the Year Hound” — will be interesting At the time when these notes were made it wanted one week to the election of President and the contending parties were in a state of seething excitement— hence we find : All the political clubs are sitting day and flight The “ ROUGH & KINS ’’are clamorous the “PlIIZ "the UGLIES” are vociferous 41 DOUBLE Pumps” are marching in procession the '“REVOLVER S Hitters” and44 Dead Rabbits” of New York are unfurling ' their banners the WIDEAWAKES” are trimming their lanterns by day and carrying them about all night The “Wideawakes” as potent now 44 as used the “ Know-nothings- ” to be a few years ago n We find Broadway full of caricatures The newspapers relate sad stories of election accidents We see lithographs of Douglas being flogged by liis mwith other for keeping company balthe naughty “Nebraska Bill anced by pictures of Mr Lincoln Flouting from a platform of rails under which grins a half concealed nigger The “Herald” is treating its readers to a series of photograph of the characters and personal appearances of the various eandi-- dates for the City Council — some But the greatvery spicy indeed est excitement of the day i& — clec-cio- The Grand Douglas in Jones’ wood Ox-Roa- st Fire Brass Banda struck Up Yankee Doodle and four cannons saluted the heavens from the Fftli avenue every ten minutes for an hour And all this was to adverat two o’clock totise the day in Jones’ wood We order as our preparation for the roast a 13 speakers enter in prossession and march towards the platform The mob rolls and billows and sways Hon Iler-sclitill it rocks itself palm Johnson has just begun to sav that he lias come from the South the sunny constitutional mint julep and blessing the memSouth” in answer to a call at of the inventor set out for the once pressing and pleasurable” ory' 44 The vast multitude of freemen he wood” Wre pass an enormous flag made sees assure him that the great and of sixty yards of cloth with heating popular heart of the counDouglas and Johnson on it try is moved and agitated by the and glide in a car containing about impending popular — — — Crisis” lie would have said fifty persons — mostly wild lookon more hut at that bent men moment hang apparently ing beef than politics — up Third Ave-enu- e — hang — bang — bang goes the injudicious cannon and a voice roars 1 have gone Our friends from the Eleventh Sure says one Ward are here !” without meat for two days just to Yes and all New Jersey and get an appetite for this affair I Connecticut too !” cries another mean to fill in enough now to last And on comes the noisy procestill Sunday” sion with tumultuous banners and Another says lie doesn’t care what “the little giant” says so he untirable hand Mr Johnson silenced for a time can get some of the Douglas beef A third uses his tooth-pic- k freely goes on to say that the Brecken-ridg- e to get all under wreight” as he platform lias been split up and he talks much tliat wc don’t playfully observes We meet two rival ballad singcare to follow' until there is a shout of Dry up !” — “ Douglas Dougers one with a wry mouth bel-loto the tune of las!” And at last Douglas rises Cmaptown to speak amidst cadenced earthRaces “In Illinois there can be found — quakes of applause volleys of candudah dudah non and bursts of brass bands Two nags upon the campaign ground — This is tlie sturdy unscrupulous dudah dudah do: who is once a cabinet-make- r man do declare First Little Dug’ I dudah dudah opposing Lincoln once a boatman And spotted Abe’ with krinky hair and woodcutter both aiming at dudah dudah do” in a great country where power : other this To responds the is no impediment to prevent there 44 We’ve pitched our tent on campaign the poorest man of virtue and gem ground ius from attaining the supreme A few days a few days To giv e the woollies another round power Douglas is a thick-se- t Douglas’s suing home g man of an O’Connell The White House is the place he’ll stop build He begins : Iu a few days in a few days Fellow'-Citizeof New York lie mustlid'sgo there as sure as pop For — I appear before you y for going home !” We enter tlif green rail gate of the purpose of making an earnest Jones’ Wood and find ourselves in appeal in behalf of this glorious Union Cries of Good for you !” a faded Tea Garden A brass band is pounding out Hail Columand Three cheers more for Dougbia” at the foot of the speaker’s las !”) There can be no disunion-is- t On tlie left baud side of there can be no enemy in this platform the pathway some four thousand Union) in the Empire City of s America (A voice That’s so ! ” rowdy boys— persons — New No no!” and applause) with small flags surrounded a large enclosure shut in with a pine fence York is not Northern nor is sho Southern nor is she Western nor In the centre of this arc light tern of loaves she Eastern but she is contiis with tables piled porary nental and metropolitan (Cries of bread and heaps of “crackers” That’s good !” and cheers) New and biscuits making the rowdy York is the great commercial cenmouth water with carnivorous anThe nolice in large flat tre the great monetary heart of the ticipation with brass s American continent and as such caps and blue stars on the breast look on at the' every New' Yorker ought to 'sympathise with every State and Terpit) fifteen feet long six feet wide and four feet deep where the ox ritory and every people in the w hole Union the sheep and the hog are roast(Applause) Then I ask your attention to the mode iu ing fragrantly There is a roar of which this glorious Union is to be election cannon a "defiling of banners and a clash of music as the mantaiued aud perpetuated forever el st 44 44 x 44 44 44 44 44 ! 44 - ‘ stern-lookin- 44 44 44 44 4 two-third- 44 44 frock-coat- |