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ADDRESS TU TIIE FAIR. ...................................
AMERICAN YOUTHS.
VIRTUE IN PUBLIC OFFICERQ.
MJY GHOST STORY ...........................................
LIVING: ISSUES. (M. .1. Ferguson.) ......................... 116
EXHIBITIOBT AT IIOCKER COLLEGE. 1.11.11.) ....... 117
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graduate of the Columbian Law College, and
educated at the University of Kentucky, refers
to the following gentlemen as a guarantee of
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Is there a man

For wisdom eminent? Seek him betimes.

He will not shun thee, though thy frequent foot

lVear out the pavement at his door. Ye, fair,

Be sedulous to win the man of sense;

And fly the empty fool. Shame the dull boy

Who leaves at College what he learnt at school,

And whips his academic hours away,

Cased in unwrinkled buckskin and tight boots,

More studious of his hunter than his books.

Oh! had ye sense to see what powdered apes

Ye oft admire, the idle boy, for shame,

Would lay his racket and his mast aside,

And love his tutor and his desk. Time was

When ev’ry woman was a judge of arms

And military exploit; ’twas an age

Of admirable heroes. And time was

When women dealt in Hebrew, Latin, Greek:

No dunces then, but all were deeply learn’d.

I do not wish to see the female eye

Waste all its lustre at the midnight lamp;

I do not wish to see the female cheek

Grow pale with application. Let their care

Be to preserve their beauty; that secured,

Improve the judgment, that the loving fair

May have an eye to know the man of worth,

And keep secure, the jewel of her charms,

From him that ill deserves. Let the spruce beau,
_ That lean, sweet-scented, and palav’rous fool,

Who talks of honor and his sword, and plucks

The man that dares advise him, by the nose;

teduced by wine and women, yet drinks on,

And vapors loudly o’er his glass, resolved

To tell a tale of nothing, and out-swear

The northern tempest; let that feel. I say,

Look for a wife in vain, and live despised.

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They are full of nerves, but all their nerves
seem to be motory nerves. There is no posterior
ganglion of sensation to be found in their nerves.
There is no such possibility as keeping them quiet.
Talk of the unceasing roll of Niagara, the ever
onward progress of man, and multiply your theo-
rice in regard to perpetual motion; but the Ameri—
can Boy is ahead of all these. They have, as it
were, mentally swallowed their motto: “Go it
while you are young, for when you are old you
can’t,” and the cfi’ect of this deglutition is to be

 

 

 

 

seen in every action, and receives confirmation
from every power of their bodies.

They can out kick, out stamp, out whistle, out
swear,'out chew, out smoke, out throw, out drink,
and succeed in getting into, and out of, more
scrapes than the representatives of any other na-
tion upon earth. They can render themselves
very disagreeable, too, and with the utmost sang
froz'd. Let me draw a picture of what really hap—
pened to me a few evenings ago. I was sitting in
the College'study—room deeply absorbed in reflect-
ing upon the “immortality of the soul,” and above
all things desired peace and quiet. But in walks
“Young America.” He jerks open the door, stalks
in, leaving the door open, you may be sure; wag-
gishly sets his hat on one side of his head; gives
you a cool, careless, calculating stare; and 'with a
“how you was,” or a “how are your by-laws and
constitution,” or a “how’s your corpus,” if he has
dipped into “Bingham,” takes his seat, is certain
to tip the bench back until I, the nervous individ-
ual just behind him, gather myself for a desperate
leap, when the bench does fall, for I am firmly con—
vinced that will; is more certain, in fact absolutely
certain, to threw his pedal extremities over the .
back of another bench, with a mathematical pre-
cision attainable only by assiduous practice, and
which, if exhibited in his class, would raise him
safe above “low water mark” ( 7 5); places his hat
comfortably on the back of his head; pulls his
hair over his eyes, fixes his gaze upon vacancy, at
an angle of forty-five degrees; and, as an accom-
paniment to his pleasant thoughts, immediately
begins to drum with his fingers the liveliest Devil’s
tattoo that ever caused a man to break his Sunday
School principles.

He is happy! supremely happy ; nothing could
make him more so, unless it were a six~inch cigar,
or a “chaw of the weec.” This latter need he
soon supplies; for noisily letting his heavy boots
fall upon the floor, he thrusts his hands into his
pockets, and draws forth his plug. Putting one
corner of this into his month, which performance,
from the size of the corner inserted, causes his
face to make a comical grimaee, the effect of which
is strikingly heightened by the knowing wink he
gives you, he deliberately moves the plug up and
down, until he succeeds in tearing off a suflicient
quantity, and from this he proceeds to extract the
filthiest of all juices—tobacco juice. This per-
formance is succeeded by one still more disgust--
ing. Now is aroused a characteristic, peculiarly
American, and one that is exhibited upon every
occasion, that is, an, ambition to excel in everyt

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thing. He bantcrs you for a spit, and if you ac- 1
cept the banter, as you will, if you are an Ameri— 1
can, then begin those spits—long spits. lVith a 1
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graceful curve, exceedingly flattering to his artistic
taste, the spit flies onward; higher, still higher;
farther, still farther, until the excitement flushes
his cheek and fires his eyes, and he votes it jolly
fun.

The favorite “bull’s eye” is the red spot on the
stove, the nearer the stove is to a white heat the
more refined (‘3) the enjoyment arising from a cen-
ter shot. Getting tired of this amusement, he
rolls the dry quid into a ball, which is hurled at
some companion. Or he, like the girls with apple
seed, tries his fortune by trying to stick it to the
ceiling, where it remains a “column of victory,”
and a measure of the capacity of his month.

But he must keep moving in some way, so out
comes his knife, and he cuts some of his fanciest
touches on the best bench; and looks the personi-
fication of innocence, when the President lectures
upon the relapse into barbarism as evinced by the
cut furniture. In fact you would take him to be
Nor has he the remotest
idea why the student just in front of him answered
—-sulphuretted hydrogen—when the Doctor asked
him what was the perfuming principle of cologne
water.

Thus he amuses himself. But these sources of
amusement sometimes fail, and then he resorts to
that abominable habit of whistling. How innu-
merable are the airs he succeedsin mastering!
And what is very strange, all the airs are upon the
highest key. The more variations he can intro-
duce when at the highest and shrillest pitch, the
more thoroughly is he satisfied with his perform-
ance, and with more satisfaction does he pull away
at the few pioneer hairs that have grown bold
enough to venture forth in spite of opposition
arising from the weather, &c. He can whistle any-
thing from one of Beethoven’s grand symphonies
to “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” and apparently
with as much case.

He delights in a good, round, hard walnut, es-
pecially when he sees a “Thomas cat” basking in
the sun, or a couple of dogs “jogging along to-
gether all so gay.” The scratch, scratch of the
dogs’ feet upon the pavement is music to his ears.
But of all the things in which he delights and into
which he throws his whole soul, and from which
he derives the most exquisite enjoyment, and ap-
parently the most lasting, is to gather half a dozen
jovial fellows together and swap lies. Here he is
perfectly at home, and cannot be equaled; and as
we now have him at home, let us bid him farewell.

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Public officers are the public mind. Govern-
ment is the practical application of that mind.
Whenever there is a want of virtue in the one, or of
judgment in the other, the safety of the country is
jeopardized. It is, however, more frequently en-
dangered from the former cause than from the
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of men possessed of stirling virtue who would not
have sufficient wisdom united with it to very cred-
itably direct the affairs of any State. When the
officers of a government become corrupt, the gov—
ermnent itself becomes corrupt. When this is
true, it either heralds the downfall of the nation,
or some very radical changes in the principles of
its constitution. Such changes are always attend—
ed with more or less suffering - among the people.
Now, in a country like ours, they will never be
necessary as long as the right kind of men guide
the ship of state. For this reason we insist that
virtue should be'a qualification of the public oili—
ccr. As no man who has not a practical knowl
edge of what is just and right, is capable of judg—

ing correctly concerning its merits, none but the

virtuous man should be invested with legislative
power. But, even ifa bad man were able to appre-
ciate the good, not having sufficient self-respect to
conduct himself with becoming dignity, it might
still be a question whether he would be very scru—
pulous about consulting the interests of his con—
stituents. Men are truest to their own selfish in-
terests; and, hence, whatever their better judgment
may teach them, you generally find them doing
that which best suits their individual purposes.
It is not to be supposed that a man’s private life
can be one thing, and his public life an entirely
different thing. Whatever his heart is must come
out in his deeds. True, he may act the hypocrite,
but the very effort to do this will expose his wick-
edness,

If it is only virtuous men who can perform vir-
tuous deeds, how very desirable it is that our pub-
lic men should be of this class. But, the main
question with the masses seems to be, “What are
his politics?” If this question is answered satis-
factorily in reference to any candidate, they do not
stop to inquire what is his ability, or his charac—
ter for honor and integrity. With them the “sum-
um 607mm” of political excellence is the party
name. This is the only requisite necessary to se—
cure their support.

The blind enthusiasm by which unprincipled
politicians are sometimes enabled to carry off the
honors of office from men of real merit, is perfectly
disgusting. To s3e base trickery, falsehood, and
bribery taking advantage of popular prejudice to
ride into power, crushing to the earth honor and
virtue, is enough to make one conclude that all
that is good and true is lost to the political world.
Indeed, the manner in which the public good is
sacrificed to personal ambition, makes this conclu-
sion the only alternative.

But we can expect nothing better while bad men
rule. “Can a clean thing come out of an unclean?”
If the people would have their country’s
honor kept inviolate, they must commit it to faith—
ful men—men who know What to do, and how to do
it. They must remember that to make a man a
public oflleer, is to give him a public recommenda-
tion. They should require every man upon whom
they confer such an honor to have the same virtue
that is necessary to insure their private esteem.

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this. We need not support a man simply because
he is virtuous. He may hold principles which we
regard as subversive of our country’s welfare. To
secure our favor, he should unite with virtue, cor-
rect views and a soundjudgment. But even should
he not possess the two last qualifications in a high
degree, the public good would be safer in his hands
than in those of a man who is deficient in the first,
whatever his pretentious may be in reference to the
others. If;the success of any party is thought nec-
essary, honest and conscientious men can certainly
be found in its ranks to advocate its cause. If
such is not the case, this one fact alone, is suffi-
cient to justify theimmediate severing of all con-
nection with that party.

It is only when men of supericr moral worth are
sought out and invested with the powers of state,
that the safety, honor, and prosperity of the country
will be insured, for public virtue is public safety.

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The only peculiarity of my ghost story is, that
it is true.

In 1857 I was a student at 13— College, in
what is now Western Virginia. It is quite a re—
mantic village, situated in the mountains, and
made up of the faculty and their families, and such
trades people as have settled there for the purpose
of supplying the students and faculty.

One. of the chief objects of interest about the
place, is its grave—yards; no cemeteries with lodges
at their entrance, but such as are open to any body
at any time. There were some interesting legends
that hung about them that were handed down from
one class to another, and were told by them in
their more serious moments.

While I was there, a young man named D ,
came and entered college. He was about 18 years
old; was handsome and haughty, but a gentleman.
He selected his friends, and I was not one of them,
and never would have been, perhaps, had not Prov-
idedce so arranged it as to make him give me his
hand, and tell me good-bye in token of his friend—
ship, about one hour before he was most tragically
called away from this world. -

That day, at the table, a remark of mine was
misconstrued by him, and he arose in a manner and
with a tone ofrescntment that indicated he thought
I would fight him. I made no such demonstration,
and he left the room very angry. It was evident
to the company that he was altogether wrong, and
my first thought was that any man who so unrea-
sonably deceived himself, should be allowed to
find the truth as best he could. But though I say

 

I could more easily have done wrong.

I left the table, went straight to his r..om, and
went in on his invitation. He asked me if I came
to fight him. I said no, and on his invitation sat
down, and in a few moments gave him the true
import of my remarks. He saw at once, that he
was mistaken, and was evidently deéply mortified,
though his false pride, as I thought, allowed no
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my explanation, but made no apology. The sequel
showed that he disdained words as an expression
of his feelings, and that he intended his actions in
the future should express his appreciation of my
course. I left his room, bidding him good evening,
to which he replied respectfully.

I felt piqued that he had made no apology, but
enjoyed the consciousness of having done right.
I was quite surprised when he came to me a short
time afterward, and said:

“A party of my friends and I, are going to swim
this evening, and I want you to go with us.”

Had I not been fond of swimming, I should have
accepted the invitation any how, under the circum-
stances, for now the stream was greatly swollen by
reason of the mountain floods, and the water was
seething, and boiling, and lashing against the rocks
in a manner that was very tempting to a bold
swimmer; but it was early Spring, and was very
cold.

The time for going came, and I found it impos-
sible to go. He come to find me, and met me in
one of the college walks.

“Well,” said he, “we are going, and are waiting
for you.”

I told him I was sorry, but that I could not go.
I never shall forget how he looked. His expres-
sion seemed to say, though I have been willing to
apologize in my way, it seems that my own fault
is shown me, by his being unable to accept my
apology. He started off, but had not gone more
than ten steps, when he turned and came back,
and said: “I will bid you good-bye.” I shook his
hand cordially, and said good—bye.

It was a strange proceeding for two students
who met each other half dozen times a day, and
who expected to meet the next day, (if he did ex-
pect it) but there was something, it now seems .to
me, impressed me very solemnly, and I bade him
good-bye just as I would a friend who was going
(‘11 a long journey, and he walked off out of Sight.

Just one month from that day I saw him for the
first time again. One of his dark eyes had turned
blue by the action of the water, and stared out of
its lidless socket, the other was torn out, and his
hair had rotted off his skull; his skin hung in tat—
ers, ( he was naked) and my fingers sank into his
decayed flesh as I helped to lift him, his body hav-
ing been found seventeen miles from that place, as
it floated out into the Ohio. I was told by the
three or four companions who went with him to
swim, that having disrobed himself, he stood on a
rock and looking at one of the number repeated:
“Darest thou, Cassius, now leap in with me into

i this angry flood and swim to yonder point?”
it myself, 1t was one time when I did right, when :

They all accepted the challange, and jumped in
together. But the water was like ice, and chilled
them to the very bone; all but I) soon gave it
up as too dangerous, but were driven by the tide,
and only succeeded in getting out far down the
strain, chilled and exhausted; but D —-—:~ strove
to gain the goal on the op}' osite side, but his efiorts

 

‘ceased, and he was swept helpless by the water,

his limbs so paralized that he could not strike, but
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“if you can do any thing for me, now is your time.”

There was a hard struggle to save him but the
current was too strong, and when they were com-
pletely exhausted and cut by the sharp rocks, they
dragged themselves out by the bushes, and saw
him float out of sight to sink, no man ever saw
where, and then there was a scene rarelywitnessed
in B Search was soon made impossible by
night, with awful darkness and thunder and light—
ning, as if the elements conspired to intensify the
horror; one month from that day we found his
body. We dispatched to his fricnds,but no answer
ever came. We thought we would bury it, but
looked for his friends every day, and did not. So
we concluded to set the coflin in a kind of cellar
under the old church, where the door had been
broken off and the aperture was always open.
Near by was an old grave yard, and it was a sing-
ular coincidence, that years before, a young man
named S —, brought there by Mr. Davis, subse-
quently President of the Confederate States, was
killed by falling on the ice, just where young D
was cramped, and that his grave had been dug in
this yard, and was not, until this day, filled up, and
that his coffin sat on the top of the ground for two
years, as the legend reported, because they had
been arrested in the very act of burying him, by

 

 

the news that his father would soon arrive. - .

One night soon after we had put D——-s remains
under the church, I was walking alone to see some
friends. It was late and dark, and very still. I
must cross this stream in a dark covered bridge
just at the point where these two tragedies had oc-
curred. One route lay by the wagon road, and did
not go very near the church and grave yard, but
the prettier route was right by both of them, and
I had always gone through there in the day time,
though it was some farther.

The thought oecured to me that as it was now
night, and the shade was no object, perhaps I had
better follow the carriage road, and though my
reason had been a good one, something seemed to
say to me, it may be you are afraid of that coffin
and open grave and the tombstones, and to prove
to myself that I was not afraid, I took the path
that led right by them. 7

As I walked along the path that was approach-
ingthe solemn spot, I tried to fall into the same
train of thoughts that I indulged in as I walked
along there in the day time. I would not have
whistled though, for anything, as that would haVe
looked cowardly. It was very still, and my own
footsteps sounded very strangely solemn. I would
not have looked around for anything. No. I had
been cultivating a romantic and ‘studential air for
some time, and knew that I commonly walked with
my face to the ground. I could tell from the echo
against the church walls, that I was near the little
gate that was immediately in front of, and near it,
and which I knew always to stand shut, because
there was a weight on it, and no way to keep it
open. I intended as usual, carelessly to walk up
to it and put my hand on the latch, as familiarity
would allow me to do even in the dark, and open
it and walk through, but as I raised my head and

 

 

tried to peer through the darkness, sure enough it ‘

stood wide open. A hundred reasons flashed
through my mind in an instant of time. IVhy it
might be open, and as quick I found fallacies in
all that accounted for it on natural principles. But
this was not a tythc of what was unmistakably
evident to me.

It was no mental hallucination, and no explana—
tion about optical illusions, amounted to anything.
I reviewed Abcrcrombie in one seCOnd. D———— was
naked when Ilast saw him, and there were the
white legs and feet, with the white body, but no
head, that stood within three feet of me, in the
open gate. If a man thinks an impression once
made on his mind is ever erased, let him stand as
I stood. Why speak? Horrible if it should answer,
and more horrible if it should not. Why not
speak? What so awful as this silence? I was as
a bird in the charms of a serpent. I moved for-
ward one step. What if it should tounch me?
And oh! horrible, what if it should not touch me,
and allow me to walk right through it? There
was a low, long, deep, unmistakable groan,
as if

 

 

ZZVZJVG ISSUES.

 

People of to—day are clamorous for the discus
sion of living issues. They say this is an age of
progress, and the antiquated notions of a hundred
years ago will not suit this generation. ' Their
whole employment is either to hear or to tell some-
thing new. Old theories must be abandoned; old
practices superceded. There must be a complete
revolution in science, morals and religion to suit
the advanced stages of modern improvement. In
short, opinions are about as fickle as fashions.

There is a great deal that is true in all this de—
sire for change, but quite as much that is false.
It is perfectly right that We should deal with living
issues; but there are numberless mistakes made as
to what these are. The doctrines of Sadducism
that were in vogue two thousand years ago, are
flaunted before the public as something new.—
Swedenborgianism is proclaimed as a newly dis—
covered theory that will untie the gordian knot of
many difficulties. Attempts are made to account
for Providential occurrences, without recognizing a
higher power than a merely natural agency. These
are called living issues—and this is modern pro-
gress. Now, there is evidently a mistake here,
The truth is, these theories, dug from the accumu-
lated dust of centuries, are more curious than use-
ful, and this progress is backward. ’Truth renews
its youth like the eagle, but these so-called “living
issues” are hoary-headed and ready to vanish
away. Truth, revealed when the morning stars
sang together, is as fresh and as soul—inspiring as
that discovered but yesterday. Truths, whether
known from the beginning of time or learned to—
day, are the living issues we have to grapple with;
and the practice of these is real progress—progress
onward and upward.

To a certain extent people are right in saying
that the notions of a century ago will not suit this

 Jam, 1873.

age, but, unqualified, it is not true. Leaving out of
view bodily comforts, and conveniences in trade
and travel, this generation has little of which it
can boast. Its advances in moral and spiritual de-
velopment are put to shame by the noble self-sac—
rifice and devotion to truth evinced by the people
of fifty or a hnndred years ago. What they lacked
in worldly advantages, they made up in moral
worth; what we gain in the former, we lose in the
latter. IVhatever error they held we should avoid,
but whatever truth they taught we should advo-
cate. Truth is fitted to all ages and to every class
of society. No change in. man or advancement of
man, can make any change necessary in truth, for
this reason, if for no other, that it is immutable.

It is well, too, to throw aside old theories, if bet-
ter ones can be substitutedfi Old practices should
be abandoned on the same condition. But no
change should ever be made simply for the sake of
change. This would be puerile; yet, frequently,
that no other reason can be given, cannot be de-
nied.

It is idle to discuss any phase of science that is
opposed to either morals or religion. \Vhatever
cannot be reconciled with revealed truth, must
sooner or later be abandoned as untenable. It is
idle, too, to attempt to discover any religious truth
not given in God’s word. The living questions

that should concern us, are those that teach us ,

how to make ourselves purer and bet