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JULY 1862   DOUGLASS MONTHLY.   687

funding.  In this manner the expenditure of several years is crowded into one; – and is not that a manifest increase of employment to the working classes?  The answer to which is, that it is the same kind of benefit which any man has the power to derive from getting into debt.  A short life and a merry one may have its charms for some;  but one of the first lessons every thoughtful man learns and communicates to his children, is that this is fool's policy, and the way of wisdom is directly contrary.  The working classes have many of them the intention to live themselves and if they do not they mean to leave those behind for whom they are equally concerned.

The upshot therefore is, to try to convince the working classes that they are every man's meat who sets a hungry eye upon them.  Their opportunities for knowledge are not so great as some;  though they every now and then give palpable proofs that of a little they can make much.  And their political power of making use of what they have, is purposely cribbed cabin'd and confined, till reduced to something which must be put on the pin of a microscope like a flea, to make its parts and proportions visible to the naked eye.

Things must be mended here, as they must be mended in America.  Sooner or later the contest will come;  and he is the best citizen, who does most to prepare for the solution of the difficulty.  It is as true as ever, that affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground.  The rich and powerful when a shoe pinches can go the reasonable way to have the ill removed.  Those who have neither wealth nor power, must bear the ills they have, till by union and knowledge they can make up for their paucity of means.
Yours sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.

[[symbol: index]] SAMUAL J. MAY.–  On this recent trip to White House, Virginia, to look after the sick and wounded from this county, Mr. May travelled from Washington in company with a party of Congressmen, Representatives and Senators, several of whom were accompanied by their wives.  Hon. Chas. B. Sedgwick was one of the party.  The trip was a very pleasant one, the parties becoming quite well acquainted, and all being very much pleased with Mr. May.  Among those especially pleased with him was a Democratic Representative from this State, who votes for confiscation but against emancipation, very conservative and strictly 'orthodox,' but who was unacquainted with the antecedents of Mr. May.  Finally one of the party asked him if he knew that Mr. May was a Unitarian Minister.

'What!  A Unitarian Minister?' was the astonished reply.

'Yes, a Unitarian and an Abolitionist.'

'A Unitarian and an Abolitionist? was the still more astonished response.

'Certainly he is the veritable Samuel J. May, one of the original Garrisonians.'

After a moment's thought the Democratic conservative, orthodox Congressman drew a long breath and exclaimed earnestly, 'Well, I don't care, he may be a Unitarian and an abolitionist, but he is certainly a true hearted christian gentleman!'

The quick retreat of Jackson from the Shenandoah Valley must be a great disappointment to the rebels.  The following are the Richmond Examiner's speculations:

It is not yet know what results Jackson may eliminate from the wonderful success which his bravery and long toil have fairly won at Winchester.  A general expectation has prevailed among his devoted followers that he would soon lead them into Pennsylvania.  Lincoln and his comrades at Washington have been fr some time past in mortal terror that he would rush on their own seat of sin.  After his victory over Milroy, the Federal Capital was in such a state of apprehension that packing and preparation for immediate departure were visible in all the Departments.  So far as we know here in Richmond,, there is now absolutely nothing to prevent Jackson from doing one or the other.  Banks' force was the last left capable of resisting him in that region, and after the tremendous beating it has gotten at Winchester, it must necessarily for some time be quite ineffective.  It would, indeed, be a soul cheering thing if Jackson should now force his way to Washington city and startle the brood of harpies settled there in wait for the carcass of the South.  We may rest satisfied that this great blessing of Providence will be improved by the man to whom it has been vouchsafed.  He is not one of those Generals who spend their time in camps waiting for somebody else to do something.  From the time of his entrance on command, up to this moment he has continually marched and fought.

– The N. Y. Tribune gives us the following illustration of church religion and brotherly love in the metropolis:

Some time since a gentleman in good standing in the community, who is a member of an up-town Baptist Church, purchased a fashionably located pew, for which he paid the munificent sum of $1,000.  In the course of a little time he met with reverses, and among other effects at the mercy of his creditors was his pew in the church.  This fell to the lot of a practical working mechanic, who decided that he would worship his God in this edifice, and with his family would,  on the Sabbath, occupy the $1,000 pew for that purpose.–  Accordingly he and his family attended regularly and respectably the services of the sanctuary;  but his social status became known to the 'lades and gentlemen' who occupied the pews adjacent to his, in the middle aisle, and they presumed to criticise every and the minutest act of the new comers.  The mode of shutting their eyes during prayer, their unusual attention and apparent devotion during the services, their uniform vulgar practice of remaining till the close of the service, their going to church in stormy weather without using a carriage, and other extremely ill-bred peculiarities, all were criticised.  As the mechanic and his family retired from the church the grown boys of the congregation, together, with some of the younger misses, would crowd in the vestibule and converse loudly about 'tallow,' 'grease,' 'shoddy coats,' 'calico,' 'leather gloves' and other kindred subjects, with which the strangers were supposed to be familiar.  It appears that the humble but frugal mechanic bore this contumely with creditable christian forbearance, not yielding his rights in any degree, but continuing his attendance upon religious ordinances as usual.  The stoicism of the iron-pew holder was an outrage of the devotees of fashion;  they appealed to the Trustees, the Trustees appealed to the mechanic, the mechanic offered to sell out at cost price;  the Trustees hesitated, and the mechanic retained the pew, attending the church as usual.  Being somewhat democratic in his notions of society, and a firm believer in the doctrine of human equality, he introduced to his softly-cushioned pew two colored brethren.  This last act was the feather which broke the camel's back.  So grave an outrage demanded redress at the hands of the law as a 'disturber of public worship' – an act of annoyance of God's people 'under their own vine and fig tree.'  The mechanic continues his devotions, is passionately fond of music, and elects to look toward the choir while praise is being offered from that locality.  Meanwhile the Trustees have preferred a charge against him before a Police Justice for 'disturbing public worship,' on which Mr. Mechanic had to find bail, and the grand jury have found a bill against him.  His case will be tried soon be tried before the Court of General Sessions.  The Trustees allege that the reputation of the church demands that they prosecute the case.  They contemplate forcing him to sell the pew at a sacrifice, which he considers would not be an equitable financial transaction.

NEGROES AND WOMEN OF MEMPHIS.–  The negroes and women have been largely represented on the levee and bluff, to-day.  The former seem to enjoy the change things have undergone and wear a half-satisfied and half-comical air, that convinces one they know the nature and source of the present war.  The darkies were vastly amused over the gunboat fight, and enjoyed it as much as they would have done a corn-husking.

'Look heah, Massa,' said a great, jolly, ebony-faced fellow to me, this morning, in front of the Gayoso, 'Did you see ole Uncle Abramis' boats go froo dem ere shell boats of ours.  I gosh, dey drapped 'em like eggshells.  Dey cleaned 'em all out fore brekfast.  Fo e God, its good ting Massa Montgomery dey did'nt take all de day to it.'

The women I have mentioned as very numerous on this occasion are mostly of the lorette persuasion, as may be seen from their rouged cheeks, lavish display of jewelry and bosom, and outre toilettes.  They are rather comely, some of them, and appear very anxious to attract the admiration of the new comers to Secessia.

If the Yankees had inscribed, as Beauregard so falsely said, 'Beauty' on their banners they would have found in these lemans abundance of the former, such as it is, with very little opposition to the acquisition of the latter.

These are the women the Memphis papers say shed tears over the humiliation of the city.  Bah, what nonsense!  They weep!– For whom?  'What's Hecuba to them;  or they to Hecuba?'– Cor. Cincinnati Times.

Ben. Wood, a member of Congress from New York city and brother of Fernando, is also about to be hauled over the coals.  A resolution is pending, charging him with having held communication with the rebels, and ordering an investigation.  Ben. has never given very conclusive proof of his soundness, and it is well that such as he are looked after.

– Two of the new Monitors are now under way at Greenpoint, L. I., but it will be at least four months before either can be launched.  They are to be sea-going vessels, with two turrets instead of one.


The Future of Africa:
MISCELLANIES:  BY REV. ALEX. CRUMMELL, B.A., OF LIBERIA, AFRICA.

THE UNDERSIGNED proposes to issue in a 12 mo. volume, of about 300 pages, Orations, Addresses, and other Papers, most prepared for National and Missionary occasions in Liberia, West Africa;  and pertaining to National Life and Duty.

The following is a list of the articles:

1.  The English Language in Liberia.
2.  The Duty of a Rising Christian State to contribute to the World's Well-being and Civilization.
3.  Address on laying the Corner Stone of St.. Mark's Hospital, Cape Palmas

P.S.  The following names have been readily obtained, within a very few days, in the city of Philadelphia, mostly for TEN copies:
Rt. Rev. A. Potter, D.D. Rev. Albert Barnes, Benjamin Coates, Esq., Rev. S.H. Tyng, D.D., of New York., Mrs. Eli K. Price, Rev. J.W. Cracraft, John Welsh, Esq., John S. Crozier, Esq., Samuel Welsh Esq., Hon. Edward Coles, Rev. T.S. Malcom, Rev. B.T. Noakes, Hon. G.W. Woodward, A.R. Cope, John Bohlen, Esq., Anthony P. Morris, W. Parker Foulke, Esq


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