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MAY 19 so THE LIB EB ATO 33, 0 1 1 re PRESIDENT LINCOLN DEAD. BT ALTKKP TT. A wail I on th air, th ao'ctna nmtnl Of a jreat nation' lv It wlhtjr grt IImtn deep pulsation through It ts Th nation loftiest on. It honore! cohff, LI strwken foully low th fitter wail Fill every hrt, and swell on v'ry Th nation" ehif li low. Not UureUcU Peath, At his lit' nJ.

quietly breath But. whil wnboods oak stood an tall. The runshin on It lea re, ami happy Thrilling within, tf keen, red bolt shot down, When th bin keavn bon without a frown. War at hi fet hi thundering trump bad dabd, And wa.t taking up her warbling lyre, And flower wer burying soft th thorns when flashod, How quick bow deadly th assassin's fir, Quick lik th ehooting of th serpent fang Bfor th victim hrink th lightning sprang, And th strong heart wa eloren deep woe To th dear land "a loved her tears roust flow Through many a lingering year for hi great oul Wa full of her her glory wa hi goal. When Treason reared it crimson front, roe, Rose like the flon front darkness, like th niorn From night, lik om grand pealing anthem, bora From silence atl unheralded, be shows, Sudden, hi radiant presene.

Wildly blows Fall on th bark th vengeance of th storm Up leap the wares, and black the heavens bav grown Grown an instant whose that towering form Grasping th helm all turn to him alone, All in th dark hi th beaoon fire, Hi voice th clarion of command the ire Of th fierce storm flames fiercer, fiercer still, And brighter shines his courage steadier will Stars his poised soul. Ah, tb light, sunny play Of his strong thoughts at rest th clear, broad ray They poured when roused the high, deep wisdom shown In action th resolve slow formed, and then Quick as th arrow to its mark no change Not firmer stands th rooted rock than One planted. His just, tender heart had known Slavery's most wicked curse and knowing, when Th full time came, his prescient range Compassed th end. To th dark upas tree II laid th axe. Sing psrans to his praise Shout loud hosannas, for the land is free Red Treason band did Slavery' banner raise, And Freedom' falchion in his clutch did cleave Th foul flag low Ob, ages shall receive Into their heart his glory II was pure And steadfast, and stood when others fell For his th nobl patience to endure, And to his eheerful soul all things were Well.

And he Is gone Gone when our skierere bright 9 With promise when the rainbow's lovely light Was breaking when white peace, the glittering dove, Threw courier colors on th cloven cloud When promised Spring was bursting, and above And round were ringing halleluias loud. Four years of blood and horror four wild years llave fled and he, who, like a planet, rose, To cheer all eyes, has vanished Ab, what fears Darken the land, for Freedom's treacherous foes Live yet Still let ns trust in Ilim whose light Shone o'er the waste to guide our steps aright. All peaceful should the good ftian's end have been, With the soft sun of being sinking sweet Upon a smiling scene his cloudless ken Should have known golden hues alone his feet Couches of flowers his ear the song of bird, urmur of stream, the peaceful low of herd, And hum of bee How tenderly would then The nation's heart have wrapped him in repose, While from his sunset life the stars of glory rose. For ever green will his loved memory flourish, For ever green when marble piles decay Green in his soul's grand thoughts the land shall nourish, Green in the deeds its destinies shall sway. And thou, my country dangers still entwine thee, And foes still frown, or lull, with treacherous breath But in onr heart of hearts we will enshrine thee, And swear to guard thee guard thee unto death.

On Freedom's arm we lean in proud reliance, Strong to protect, and powerful to save la Treason's teeth we hurl our stern defiance. And swear to drag her to her guilty grave. Past is the storm, with its hot, blasting thunder. Past the deep darkness of the billowy sea Bat light shines not, though clouds be rent asunder It is the twilight only that we see And in that twiiight crime will dark be crouching, With murderous hand, to do what strife could not In flowers of friendship will the snake be crouching Pitfalls will lurk in Hope's most bowery spot. Onr Ship of State hath rode the furious surges, White with dismay, and horrible with wrath But the fierce ground-swell still the vessel urges In mountain billows on her plunging path.

Save her, great Heaven oh, save the hope of ages Let not the bark be wrecked in sight of shore Guide with Thy. reins the madness still that rage So shall the world's grand hope be saved forevermore. A. V. Indejmdent.

THE MISSION OF DEATH. BT JOH 1STOSH. Read on th occasion of th funeral sermon on th death of Abraham Lincoln, in the Presbyterian Church, of Wyoming, N. T. Gone, gone, gone, And the Nation is shrouded in black Moan, moan, moan, For the Good that will never come back.

The Lofty of Faith, and the Wise, The Upright, the Honest, the Brave, In th chamber of death lowly lies. The friend of th master and slave, Alike, was the Patriot we mourn. A Nation in tears at his grave, All scarred with the battl, and torn, And weary, and bleeding, and worn With struggling fair Freedom to save, Elands gasping and voiceless with woe, Stands stoaned with th myitical blew. Stands beadingly, reverently low. Stands fearfully questioning wfcy This thnnderbolt leaped from th cloud, These plumes, and this grave, with the shroud, Should flaunt and should yawn to the sky.

Hush give his great heart to the sod, His spirit 's already with God. So reet for th ole of th foot, peace for the heart and the hand. Till torn from it bell-eoarished root LU lifeless th Corse of our land The Curs of the fetter and gyve. The Curae of the lash and the kaife, TS Curs that keeps Monsters alive To sub at the National Life The Curs that engendered the thought, That nourished th Heart where it grew Th Curs of a System Infernal that brought The dtata of our Ckieftain so It a. This, this is the gut of the jnbaion to you.

The heart of th It solders in one. The swvrd of the Lord end ef Gideon is drawn. Dead dead dead V. I that the Nation sbowlt need gioo it agd lU Bravest to tUed That the tears of its maidens and wiv Should flow for th sacrifioed lives That di on th altar of Wrong Th young, and th brav, and th strong. Hash out of thoM treasure ef blood.

Of agonies, torteres, and tears, Shall spring ep a harvest of Good, Eoriehing futurity's year And out of the Tmpst of Sigh That wail o'ev tbe grave of our Clilef, Brave pledges will mount to tbe skies. And Joy will be btrn of our Orif. 0't th grave of the Ueotle and True, Great God of th faithful ami free. Our lovo and our vows we inew To Liberty, Puty, and Thee. An altar to Justloe made.

At th hour when hi Spirit arose, And th first worthy offering made Shall be the foul Heart of its Foes. It ovlt where the Treason was hatched That flooded with horror our land, Hy the knife of the High Prit unlatched, Well glv to the fire and the brand The fire of the wrath and the scorn That burns in the Soul when the Right, Aroused by the Godlike in majesty Imrue, lvoends upon Wrong In its might. This, this is the Mission of Heath In our Fight The hearts of the People it solders in one. The sword of the Lord and of Gideon is drawn. liochetter liemormt.

lie Zhtxntux. 44 RESPECTS FROM LOYALISTS TO A REBEL. A writer from Richmond to the Wormier Spy, tin der the signature of IMegate," gave, a few weeks go, the following account of the. doings of himself and others in that city Being assured that a visit to Gen. Lee would he-well received, a detachment of the U.

S. Christian Commission, consisting of seven, called at his door, and his son. Gen. Custis Lee, appeared, when I said to him that we had called io pay our respects to Gen. Robert E.

Lee. Being soon seated in a dining-room, without any cover on an extension dining table, the General soon was ushered in by his son, and announced. I arose by previous arrangement, and said to hint that 1 had been a soldier, and called to pay my respects as a soldier, and advanced to take his hand but he made no response, and then I introduced Dr. Parker, of Boston, and all the party in succession. We all soon arose, and Dr.

Parker said to him that we were here on a humane mission, and hoped he sympathized with it. He said that he did, and continued' that 'these associations had done much good, and he honed they would continue their lie then gave us all his hand very cordially, calling ua all by name as we parted with the best of wishes. He and his staff were dressed in Confederate grey, and looked very finely, yet sober, sad, and cowed in demeanor." This statement called forth much indignant comment from the public press. Among others, the N. Y.

Evening Post said in relation to it Several correspondents ask us to rebuke those members of the Christian Commission who, according to the Worcester Spy, recently paid their respects" to Gen. Lee. In reading the account given of the interview by one of the seven brilliant Chris tian Commissioners, it tppeared to us that they received a sufficiently stinging rebuke for their snob bishness from the rebel General, who received their address in silence, and got rid of them as quickly as he could. He evidently felt that the Commissioners had called on him only to gratify a morbid curiosity, which would have led them to the door of any burg lar or murderer as quickly as to his and the hope of Kev. Dr.

Parker, of Boston, that Lee sympathized with the Commission's humane measures, must have i struck the rebel General as odd for he was standing at the time almost in sight of the prison where, under his eye. and by his sufferance, so many hundreds of brave Union soldiers perished ot exposure and star vation. This talking to Lee about humanity is as malapropos as a deputation of locksmiths should wait on a professional burglar to solicit his ad miration for the last new invention in fire and powder proof locks and salamander safes." The general expression of indignation at the com plimentary flunkeyism of "Delegate" and his asso ciates called forth the following card of disclaimer from the chairman of the (so called) Christian Com mission To the Editors of the Evening Post The Itichmond correspondent of the Worcester Sjiy has given you a wrong view of "some Christian Commissioners and General Lee. Rev. Dr.

Parker of Boston, who called on the Gen eral, is not connected with the Christian Commission He is a member of the American Union Commission, and also has in charge the educational and religious in tercets of the freednien. Any delegate of the Chris tian Commission who accompanied turn, did so entire ly on his own account. No officer, or agent, or dele eation. or any authorized representative of the Chris tian Commission, ever called upon General Lee. If any volunteer delegate of our Commission, tempora rily in Richmond, has, under the pressure of an idle curiosity, so far forgotten his propriety as to suppose that duty or the privileges accorded by the Commis sion would take him to General Lee house, he has acted entirely on his qwn account, and under an utter misapprehension of the work for which he was sent to the army, and his course is as severely reprehended by the Commission as by any loyal heart in the coun try.

Geo. II. Stcaht, Chairman U. S. Christian Commission.

The amount of this disclaimer is that the detach ment of tbe U. S. Christian Commission, consisting of seven." of whose doinjrs one of- their number, speaks, did not act by any authority from headquarters. It is well for the Christian Commis sion (so called) that its head can say as much as this in its defence; but there is no reason for doubting that several members of that body, of their own mo tion, thought it well to pay their respects to Gen. Robert E.

Lee," and did so, arranging that "Dele gate," also a member, should be their spokesman. "When Delegate found the cold shoulder turned by Gen. Lee to his overtures of respect, he introduced Dr. Parker, a grey-beaded clergyman, recently pastor of a Baptist church in Boston, who auccecded in re commending the party to the favorable attention of the rebel General, and he soon gave them all his hand very cordially." Why did these half dozen private members of the Christian Commission (so called) and Rev. Dr.

Par ker (who, according to Mr. Stuart, is not a member of it) wish to visit Gen. Lee, and pay their respects to him? There is no reason to suspect these gentlemen, or any of them, of disloyalty of sympathy with Gen Lee as a rebel, or satisfaction at his labors for the Confederacy. Their regard for the great rebel leader dots not arise from the perjury which he committed at the commencement of the war, betraying the Gov ernment which he had sworn to support nor from his turning against his country the education which she gratuitously gave him at West Point nor from his treachery to Gen. Scott, abusing the confidence of that officer by gaining a knowledge of his plans and se crets down to the last moment when they could be car ried over to the enemy nor from his system of false hood, kept up to the.

List, assuring the Confederate armies and people that the rebellion would uudoubt edly have a successful issue, though ho wrote in February to Jeff. Davi that the Sooth could no longer carry on the contest, and wrote substantially the same thing. March 9th. to the rebel Senate nor from his wanton waste of human life, allowing the bloody las battles before Petersburg and Richmond, after it had become manifest to him that tlie defeat of the Con fed eraey was inevitable nor from his proved habitual cruelty in the past, as a specially severe slave-master, a kidnapper of the slaves freed by Mr. Custis, his fa ther in law, and a wpman-whippcr nor from his al- lowaiw: of tha internal system of torture and starva tion practised upon the Federal prisoners at Belle Isle, Libby, Salisbury, Camp Ford and Andersonvtlle whnaing! word from him would have prevented them; nor, lastly, from the demeanor which he has preserved since Ids surrender, of a man merely de feated by superior force, and not in the slightest de gre penitent, cither for hi treachery, perjury, trea on, falsehood or cruelty none ef these fact, I say, produced the retpect which these members of the Christian Commission felt and expressed for Gen.

Ls-e. What then did produce it? It is due, no doubt, to the assumption that this per jo red and hardened traitor is a Christian an assumption proceeding from the fact that he i a member of om one of the pro slavery churches of the South. The character in which Ida eulogists have delighted to parade Mm l-tiat of a Christian And they can prove the claim for him to Ihii extent, namely hej it gentleman accord- Ing to the Virginia standard, just as Henry A. Wise is and a Christian according to tho Church standard, just as tho editor of the Journal of Com merce is. A gentleman 1 This distinction in Virginia is first inherited, by descent from one of the F.

F. V's, and then supported by an avowed contempt for labor, (tho earning of his own food and clothes,) a careful avoidance of it In his own person, and a haughty ar rogance towards the representatives of it namely, negroes, the poor whites of the slave States, and the people of the North generally. These are the essen tial characteristics of tho Virginia gentleman," and General Lee, no doubt, acted up (or down) to that character. A Christian 1 This distinction is first gnined, alike South and North, by making a profession of relig ion and it is supported, alike South and North, by conformity to the church standard of Sabbatical ob servance, and attendance on prayer-meetings. These are the essentials.

No doubt General Lee fulfilled them. rive years ago, thia view of the characteristics of the Christian gentleman passed equally current North and South. It is true that the Yankees had a habit of industry, and a prejudice in favor of earning their own living. One might bo a gentleman here without indolence, and without cheating somebody else out of the expense of his maintenance. But in spite of this difference of theory and practice, and in spite of the manifestation of supreme contempt from the South to the North on account of it.

the Northern people. trange as it may seem, accepted the Southern view the right one for that latitude, and yielded to the ords of the lash all the deference that they demand ed. The Northern representatives of trade, of politics and of religion vied with each other in subserviency to the Southern idea. Business men actually seemed to think it better to trade with a few hundred thou sand slaveholders, governing the Southern country, and keeping civilization out of it. than to supply the vastly increased demand which a diffusion of freedom and civilization would have produced among the millions occupying that region.

Pol iticians courted the slave power. The Managers of the American Tract Society, and of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, did the same thing, and twisted their policy into conformity to the slaveholders' ideas, even though their Northern contributors were far more numerous and far more liberal than the Southern. And the Virginian minis ter or church-member was not in the least less wel come to the pulpit or communion-table of a Northern church, from the known fact that he got his living by selling human beings (including his own children) in the market. The change in this respect which has come over the community is not due in the slightest degree to any increase of purity, morality or religion in the church but to the access of patriotism, affecting the whole North, which the slaveholders' rebellion has de veloped, and to the evidence brought out by that re bellion of the inevitable opposition of Southern ideas to Northern liberty. This mighty tide has carried with it not only the hunkers of the world, but the hunkers of the church.

And Dr. Parker, Delegate and their associates, being a little slower and duller than the rest, had not yet found out that the credit of the Christian gentleman is somewhat impeached by treason, and those other features of General Lee's history above enumerated. Times have changed and the Church and its children, the "Christian Commission" and the "Young Men's Christians Association (so called) are changing with hem; though it should not be forgotten that this in creased decency of external conduct in the church is owing, not any elevation of principle in itself, but to the better example set it by the world." To be sure, this change has wrought somewhat hardly with Delegate and hia brethren, who have now, it is said, been discharged from the Christian Commission for their untimely manifestation of zeal They probably really thought that they were doing service, by their exhibition of Christian courtesy, to the body which they volunteered to represent. No doubt they thought that the regularly received es timate of Christian character, namely, church-mem bership, would cover and sanctify as many sins as it did five years ago, when Mr. Stuart and Mr.

Tobey would have shown as much respect as themselves for Gen. Lee. But accidents will happen. And they may console themselves, if they can, with the reflec tion that they have formed the stepping-stone by which the Christian Commission has taken the op portunity to raise itself in public estimation. c.

THE BALLOT. THR BALLOT A MEANS OF LIFE OB DEATH TO FREE DOM AND rKEK LABOR WHO SHALL USE IT 1 The ballot! In whose hand shall it be placed? In the hand of ignorance or intelligence of vice or virtue of drunkenness or sobriety of treason or loyalty? With the American people, the ballot is a question of life or death to freedom and free institu tions. Shall those be allowed to wield it, who are traitors, or who acknowledge a higher and prior alle giance to a foreign tyrant and bigot? What does a ballot mean It means sovereignty, not only over the one that casts it, but over me, you, and every body within the jurisdiction of that sovereignty. It makes the will of the man who casts it a law, not only unto himself, but unto all his fellow-citizens. It is the symbol of the instrument of what Blackstone calls supreme, irresistible, absolute and uncontrolled authority of the voter, not only over himself, but also over the property, liberty, life and happiness of every man, woman and child living on the territory over which that ballot extends its power.

Accordingly, as it is used, the ballot is a far greater weapon of good or of evil than the bullet. What has fostered into gigantic proportions the assassin of President Lincoln, Slavery,) during the past five years The ballot. What has made the Amer ican Republic the assassin of humanity in the person of the Negro for seventy-five years? The ballot. What spread the sum of all villanies" over Ken tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas and Arkansas? The ballot. What made the Federal Government, in all its depart ments legislative, judicial, and executive a slave- hunter? The ballot.

What subjugated the North ern pulpit, press, commerce, legislature, literature and religion to the assassin The ballot. What em boldened that assassin to rebel against the rule of the majority, and strike at the heart of the nation The ballot. But what has saved the North and the nation from the assassin's knife I Tbe ballot not the bullet. True, according to popular political and theological ideas, the ballot means a bullet provided the minority will not yield to the decisions of the ballot. But, still, as it was the ballot, that nursed the assassin.

Slavery, and gave to it its power and dominion over the na tion, it was the ballot, and not tho bullet, which, as an expression of the people's will, gave that assassin the death-blow, and rescued, the republic from his grasp. During my sojourn and lecturing in Great Britain, I identified myself with the Chartist, or Universal Suffrage Party. Who shall wield the ballot? Shall it represent humanity, or property, title or station Shall it be wielded by Ignorance- or Intelligence, by Drunkenness or Sobriety, by Vice or by Virtue, by Moral Degradation or Elevation, by Treason or Loyal ty Shall sex excludo intelligence, virtue, justice. purity and loyalty from suffrage, while sex (of the opposite kind) shall admit ignorance, drunken- tie, violence, brutality, social and moral degradation. and treason, to it exercise? These questions, so vital to the existence and perpetuity of freedom and free institutions in this and in all countries, have been discued in Europe for twenty-five year.

In all my journeying and lecturing in Great Brit ain in defence of tho ballot at the one great means to secure and perpetuate free labor, a free nress. free schools, free society, and free institutions, I was uni versally answered by reference to the one great and shameful fact i. Where on earth can fnnml a tyranny so cruel and remorseless as in that nation, (America,) where suffrage is most extended What could I say The ballot has been made, in this Re public, the cause of more anguish, tears, cruelty and blood than can be found flowinir from tnr othpr source. By the ballot, this fountain of tears and blood, of injustice and Inhumanity, has been and is being dried up. Shall the ballot again be the means of opening it! Again I ask, cannot those who have for thirty years been exercised in a war of ideas against slavery, that noble band of Abolitionists who gave their all to rescue their country and the world from the knife of that most malignant and merciless of all assassins, chattel slavery, initiate a national movement to give to the ballot Its true place and value as a means of redemption to earth's toiling millions from oppression, and of progress to the world HENRY C.

WRIGHT. P. S. Shall the use of the ballot be based on sex This, so far as the existence of this republic, and the cause of human freedom, happiness and progress are concerned, is a far more important and comprehensive question than that of negro suffrage. It is equally base and tyrannical, equally inconsistent with im partial Justice and Equal Rights, to make sex, as it is to make color a reason for exclusion from the ballot.

To exclude a wise, upright, jnst, true and loyal woman, because she is a woman, is no less a wrong and an outrage than to exclude an intelligent, wise, just, noble and loyal Negro became he is a Negro. So, to admit an ignorant, depraved, brutal, disloyal White man to vote is as dangerous as to admit a Negro with the same character. Cannot the Abolitionists start a new movement that will cover the whole ground If they could, tens of thousands will aid in it who will not while the question is confined to the rights of the Negro. Have intelligence, virtue, sobriety, morality and loyalty no special rights in regard to suffrage Has Woman no rights at the polls 1 If wrong to brand and cast out the Negro from the ballot, because God made him a Negro, is it not an equal wrong and outrage to brand, cast out and trample on woman, by excluding her because God made her a woman Now, while reconstructing our national and State governments, is the time to discuss these questions Abolitionists are the ones sent and commissioned of God to do it. II.

C. W. TIGHT DEESSEJG. Rochester, (N. May 1, 1S05.

Dr. Dio Lewis Dear Sir A stranger, I address you on a subject Titally connected with the interests of the race at any rate, of that portion claiming to be civilized and enlight ened yes, even ideal and artistic. Some time ago, I read in the Liberator your letter to women, on the importance of well-dressing, and protecting the feet and limbs, for which I thank you most heartily. have waited, hoping that some one would respond, and also ask you this question Can you not reach our fashionable women on the subject of tight dressing, and, through them, the mass who follow This question involves, to some extent, the well-being of the world. The women of America are committing de liberate suicide by compression of the vital organs I say deliberate, for one would think enough had been said and written by physiologists to have 'warned our women against disease and death on the one hand, and to have charmed them into admiration of nature's workmanship on the other, to have resolved them to be no longer guilty of violating these laws of physical growth and health.

But, through ignorance, or pride, or false ideas of beauty, they are led on to commit the tame folly and the same crime with those who have suffered before them; and so will have to incur the same penalties, and pass through the same bitter ex periences. At the Monteagle Hotel, Niagara, where I spent a Sunday a year ago, I saw, say twenty, young married women, evidently the pride of their husbands, with fair forms generously moulded by nature, but their waists so distorted by art, that without doubt my hands and one of theirs would have much more than spanned some of them while others, it seemed, I could easily clasp myself with outstretched fingers. It was a painful ly sad sight to me, and I could have preached a sermon if that had been the time and place, and if I had been the person. No, no the last if stands right in the way. It needs, perhaps, a man at any rate, a distin guished physiologist and advocate of the laws of health, and one who has been successful.

"Nothing succeeds like success," says Emerson and your sys tem of gymnastics is taught the country over fash ionable women and men practise, and send their chil dren to learn the health-giving 'Now, will you not speak to our women, and rebuke them for this flagrant disobedience to the laws of their being, and this barbarous outrage upon true ideals of beauty? As charitable as possible, I will believe that many need information and teaching; that they are not aware of the extent of their sinning and if they could once be set thinking, they would arouse themselves to bring about a reform. It needs no prophet or astrologer, to read the horoscope of the young women mentioned, together with tens of thousands all over our land; as well as in France and England. A sensible, observing mother, in middle life, might see them a few years hence (and a very few) faded, diseased, perhaps sorrowing, either watch ing over diseased and dying babes, mourning those that were gone, or looking forward to the wasting and going out of their own lives, so that they must leave their helpless treasures behind. Oh if these young wives could feel, for one moment, in their souls, the transcendent joys of motherhood, nothing could tempt them so to barter away their birthright for the ap plause of vanity and folly, and for the sake of coropli ance with false standards of taste. This is a constantly increasing evil, gaining by fash' ion much within a few years, and increasing also by inheritance.

It needs attention of physicians, ana conscientious i men and: women everywhere. It is a vital and serious question and I most earnestly wish that you who have epoken to women of subjects so intimately connected with this would lend your influence to advance a reform, com pared with which, to me, all other, dress reforms shrink into insignificance. Respectf ally yours, CATHARINE A. F. STEBBINS.

INSTEHOTIOir OF. THE PJIEEDMEH'. -No. Sp-jleh Language and Conclusion. In the previous article, we commended the Phonic system as a means of teaching the freedmen to read There is, however, another object equally important 1 1 tiiat seems to nave ueeu scarcely noiiceu.

a lie ireeu men have never been taught to speak the language With their vicious pronunciation, a phonic or phonetic orthography becomes doubly important They meet words that they have alway spoken erroj neously. Vith no certain guide before will give the word tho same false pronunciation to they are, accustomed while a phonic text would constantly remind them of their error. And, again, it is as important, if they are to become men and citizens that they should learn to talk, as to read, that they should leaf the spoken, as well as the written We have no teachers that are prepared foe this work. We have good elocutionists, but they have not been in me naoii oi beginning their work so funda' mentally as is required in this case. The sounds pf the language are not commonly taught in our schools and few of our teachers know how to teach them.

'It may be that we can furnish a more intelligent class of teachers for the freedmen, than for our schools at home, more intelligent, we mean, in this respect in all other respects, they will challenge comparison with the teachers of any other country. Ant if we cannot, the day is far distant when the freedman can claim his right to citizenship, without betraying in his dialect his servile origin. It must not be inferred that no attention Is necessary to this point, because negroes at the North learn to talk like other men. A child brought np in Hindustan, learns to talk Hindnstanee but it does not necessarily follow that tour millions of men settled in that country would talk that language in preference to their own. The laics that operatein elevating great masses of men influenced by one another, mixing chiefly in society among themselves, if not different in nature, are different in effect, from those that operate on one individual surround ed by other influences.

This, it seems to us, those who direct the education of the freedmen should carefully consider. They cannot overestimate the importance of bringing all available forces into the field. They will all be needed and more too, that are not now available. Let, then. Phonics do its work in teaching both the spoken and the written languago let teachers be prepared so as to aid most efficiently in this great work- bring all the forces available into the field and then let us labor on in faith and hope for the elevation of the long oppressed freedman; and God will grant us success, and through him give a higher tone to educational enterprise throughout the country.

Conclusion. If, in the preceding articles, we have not made the impossibility of ever teaching four millions of freedmen to read and write, merely, by the method now pursued, appear clearly, it has been from an anxiety to be brief. We have merely hinted at difficulties that could not be unfolded in their length and breadth in a Ic6S book than Worcester's Quarto. We offer one further consideration. It is this we have failed to teach our own sons and daughters these arts.

Our compositors are the only men in the country that know how to spell with accuracy and it would be difficult to find a man anywhere who could read a common newspaper through without mispronouncing some words. Besides, we believe that fully one half of the adult population of the Northern States are able to use well a vocabulary of only about three thousand words. These they can read and spell in some man ner. When they meet a word beyond this narrow circle, they neither know how to pronounce or to spell it. The great world of words that are in constant use in our literature convey to them no certain sound, and a very vague sense, if any at all.

And this is owing in great measure to the fact, that the vagaries of their narrow vocabulary absorbed all their thoughts, and still gave them no clue to anything beyond. But suppose that we admit the possibility of find ing teachers and money enough to make the freed men as intelligent as the more ignorant classes among us are are the calls for other charities so unimportant that we can afford to spend years of time, and thous ands of dollars, to accomplish a work that by a better method could be accomplished in as many months, aud with as many hundred dollars Besides, it is conceded by those who have had ex perience in the work, that the great body of freedmen and women cannot be taught to read. The children, they say, may do well in the course of years but the older persons, for the most part, will not. Many say. Too bard, massa, too bard nebber can learn to read." And why, ye directors of the education of the freedmen, why need they stumble forever over the debris of an ancient world Because we do If you should choose to drive your pleasure carriages over trackless wastes, where huge boulders of lava attended the wonder of volcanic action, you might find a compensation in its historic teachings; but would you insist that every truckman should drive his heavily laden cart over the same boulders to teach him a lesson in geology If yon insist in travelling without roads, do not object that humble practical men should have them.

Oh ye stupid reformers Indignation need -not be re pressed when provoked by your blind conservatism. Send your missionaries southward only in sail ships let the old truck wagon be employed instead of the steam-drawn car; deny and refuse every modern invention, and modern civilization itself; but for the sake of Truth and Humanity, do not insist on binding a burden on the freedman that neither ye nor your fathers were ever able to bear Do not clog his whole mental development by giving him husks when he asks for food. Now he may proudly say, Still in thought as free as but when yon shall have drilled him a few years by the same methods that you use in confusing all the common sense of your own sons and daughters, under the pretence of educating them, you will effectually reduce him to subjection. 'This course may be necessary in order to subdue a spirit of inquiry and love of truth among those whose greatest danger lies in knowing too much but, pray don't be so tender of the freedman. He is not naturally so eccentric and insubordinate as to need these artificial restraints.

We assume, however, that the readers of the Liberator do not value an education in proportion to its power to confound the reason, and make the pupil forever dependent on authority. The Liberator has always consistently favored freedom of mind. When the shackles of a false orthography shall cease to bind the intellect; our schools shall teach science our citizens shall become educated high and worthy views of life will be entertained by a larger number than now; and we shall begin to emerge from a long night of intellectual and moral darkness. When that morning, which is even now breaking, shall dawn, as the morning of freedom shall its radiance be. As the barbarism of slavery is now so evident, that no one is found to apologize for it so, then, will the heathenish darkness; that is still so dene as to hide from Bight the moral desolation favored by it, that no Trench will be found to play the part of a pro-slavery minister but all mankind will shudder at the waste of time and misdirection of effort which it has caused.

They will see that the shadow on the sundial of Progress has been put back a century. But in the light of that brighter day. full amends will be made for these evils, and the class of men that sought to perpetuate this darkness will be doomed to eternal infamy, with those whose defiant voices have forever ceased to proclaim the divine right of the taskmaster. PHILIP. EXPLANATORY.

The following explanatory note from Her. William II. Ciianning is in reply to one of inquiry seat to him by Rev. Samuel May, respecting a certain speech made by Andrew Johnson Washisotox, April 23, 1S65. Last evening I met Dr.

William Elder, who gave me an explanation in regard to the remarks of Andy Johnson," quoted by Wendell Phillips in his recent speech at Music The speech of Mr. Johnson was made long ago, before or at the beginning of. the war at, any rate, before the Emancipation Policy had been adopted by. our government- What he said showed that he was all ready for the most advanced policy for, after declaring that rather than have tbe Union perish, he would have every negro in. the country returned to Africa, he added, in answer to soma one in the crowd, Aye I and emancipation too I am ready even for that." Dr.

Elder says that the whole significance of the speech was in proving that, as early as the beginning of. the war, Johnson was for freedom. Indeed, he declares that it. was in this view of it, as indicating his advanced position, that Phillips quoted the speech of. the brave Tennesseean.

So much for, "plain Andy And now as regards our "President," receive tony renewed assurances that no man. in the nation is more resolved than he to exterminate the whole brood of cockatrices, until there is' nothing to burt or molest in all, the holy Yours, rery truly, II. C. THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF MR. COBDEH.

Lo.vnox, April 15, 19C.i. For two weeks past, all England ha U--n mourning for tbe death of Richard CoW-n. Th departure of the great man who not only aHiieved a worldwide fame as the advocate of sound economi- tmtb but immortalized hirrwlf as the champion of fr' dom and humanity, is a great and irreparable lo. Now that he is gone, even his political opponent are constrained to admit that ho was a man who rendered the nation the greatest, the mot ed service, and that we shall rver sec hi azain. I need not dwell upon the ial rram which every American has for revtringhis memory.

But still I would call yoor attention th! fr-t that the bronchial attack which rot him hi life mm brought on by Lis desire to take part in tbi great debate on American affair, which took iLv in tU i uuuTC oummgni some lour we at ago; acJ t.t. if his fatal illneM had not wool, have taken Ms place side Ly side with JiriyU in defence of the cause of truth and jotK-e on tU American continent, Th Kn.peror Xapoh-rn said in an article in the Mvniirur, which eiM-rallr attributed to his pen: Ccbden loved France, a't understood bcr; France will rvever Mm." The same mar, I feel sure, be said of America. Col den understood and loved her, and no Arneri-aj "worthy of the nam; will ever reaw to peerless memory. As for this country, in my time, no such grief ha ever been exhibited for a statesman or public man no voire of Iamer.uti'n V.Vt unto this has been raiser up to heaven, U'i tft tears have been shed over tbcj red a-t of tli dead. 1 was present in the Houms of tie day after his death, and I shall never wp.

lemnity of the scene. Although thrr warn ft religious light, no drapery of won, the. houae an indescribable-aspect of mourning. There, ww large attendance of member. wLo tte seats, stood hy the doom, and flowI into the.

and, when Lord Ia1nterton roe to py Wis generous and hearty tribute to the d-prted states man, a solemn silence reigned through tbs chamber. What Lord Mvl' wM graceful and appropriate but it ti r-ered lit. Disraeli to rise to the full diinity of the I never listened to a more elevated ttre of eln than that which characterized tin? tr.ter-f of the great orator's speech, epeeialij wbra be. ti "There are indeed. I mar r.

rome fre'-r tA Parliament, who, though they may not be p-t still members of tbi Hooe. are n4-peti-t of lutions, of the caprice of contit-n-, ryi A the course of time. 1 think that Mr. Cofylea wa ot- of those men." There was a snblimitv in tbi i'Jea ti al lied not only to jreniu, but to a still loftier of soul, and the House wa carried tr hv axx inspiration of tbe speaker. Mr.

lir-kt, wLoa rif was heart-rending, could scarcely iru i speak. His face bore the mark of lie guish, and bis manly voice wa broken hj t-turr As I listened to Liss, my eye turrisd fo'tL Tr benches, and I saw more than one rr-LeH servative men who, when 3Ir. wm had been bis political antagonist baxbed teaa, Tbe sipht was consoling to toe and my cw vjrrvw. I felt that death was not so rtuch a a bridge which united all generous bearu tLl it wa a sacred brotherhood which bound tie dej bk isjt living by new and endearing ties: that ft no party, only the cotnpanorlIp of ejrrltf. of the just who are here with tbe x'ijkvw wbs have gone to their eternal reward.

Tbe sorrow rj tbe House of Common tbe gritf of tbe Lrid action, has met with a sympathetic reere i every civilized clime. In France Cobdca Las Lees cr-ed as no Frenchman of oar age been zo-r-rri. The French Minister for Foreijn A if ir Lw w-ten a dipatcb to the Embassador is ark is unparalleled in tbe history cf dipcaey. Tbe document is full cf revereT.ee, of proiowai for the illustrious dead. The Kspercr Lm tendered bis bust to be placed la tbe saesa iz Versailles.

Tbe regrets of the Pruaa Caaser ael-gled with those of the Engliai aiid Parl-rnenU. The Prince of Servia Las ordere-i a funeral service to be celebrated in tbe of Belgrade tbe special reason tor thi Co-den waa an ardent advocate of tW rigtts Servians against the aggressions Tcztej- la every capital of Europe there hare beet greas a a-moc-t unprecedented expressions of sorrow fcr international the entitled titbtea tie wcrii. 1 at a tne unseiusQ patriot, in wtoseoocl UoC ria: a great thought, and who was preoetin-i to Oi-eif which will bear fruit to tbe latess gesterar-vn. The galea of Westminster Abbey were ot ce-ed to receive tt-e body of Riciurd Cccocx. TWy would have been if the reqnest Lad beew but years ago, before tbe death of Lis bticvei a4 only son, Mr.

Cobden Lad cbcten tVe pc of Li burial. 1 was present at Lis icte rraert. a-r2 slal never forget the place and tbe sfere- Wt Lavu-g-ton church is situated about a mile a a kal: fiwa Mr. Cobden's residence at LaoionL a is docs on the summit of a beasWoes Scatrx shingled spire is visible for mites arocrvL TVe g-avr-yard forms tbe of tbe LIU. and lui re: I a succession of terrace, which are ov-eri3cwsJ vili firs and other undecidoous tree.

Tbe cktrci is separated from the pleasant parsociare. wki smooth lawn and lovely parterres, by a wru-cif rt yew hedge. The funeral poeesc tiu-cedoi way up tbe narrow path which socaew kit jre-plx--ly reached its terminal point at tbe pirrred oakea porch of the litt'e medieval churrb. Tbe cc was borne by laborers on Air. CebJfo's The pall-beareri walked by the sJ of tbe with grave countenance and reverent Mvrw.

Ftj- came Mr. Bright, who was tbe imate a sriei sacred for description. Then Mr. Gladoee. lb chancellor of the Ljtchequer, wbow face was of taxable, and whoso air was that of a nvan wmprcsi devotion.

Then two other CabintA mi Villiers and Mr. Milner tiibson. who. Eke Mr. den, were leaders in the crusade affair4 tW cvr laws.

Then Mr. George. IViUwv, Mr. A. V.

Paul-ton, Mr. William Evans, Mr. Ilcarv AhwortX Mr. Tboniasson, and other frWrd ai associates of the deceased statesman. Tbe jtmwc ia the church was performed without any cbor! aoers sorics.

All was as simple as the grand of the great man's character. Never did the chanter from the Epistle to the Corinthians. bck the Apostle fets forth that great truth ot the rr-yerrrc-tion, hich our Lord made cno of lb corrr-4oc of his doctrine, appear mor real, uore true. wo) sublime. And never, as the body was taken etiS ist the celestial-sunshine, did heaven beam n.we fr-ciously upon the last solemn rites cf death- Language fails me to describe the qniet loveliness ot that hill-slope the glory of that wid expanse cv-try, which, standing where wo did on thw verc Richard Cobden's grave, extended without brrak for miles and miles, until it mingled with th tV-covered sides of tbe lotty range of the Jvuithdowa.

The service was concluded amid the tears and rvnt-up sighs "of the mourning throng. The crowd of members of Parliament and other distinguished men, who had come from all parts of the country to pay a last tribute of respect to the memory of a great and good man, then went their appointed way. Mr. Cobden had been buried, as bo desirvd, by the wd of his genthvhearted sou and all rut have as they descended once moiy iuto the regions of earth, that they had lelt behind them a spot hich; so Ion as time shall last and England 1 what s.he is, wHl form a place of pilgrimage for the wise and good ef all countries, more precious than "any other wbk-lti now rests within tbe limits of our sea-girt chores. On the previous day I had walked through, the sunny lanes which Mr.

Cobden waa accustomed traverse I had conversed with those who knew him intimately and loved Lira welL It ia impossible to conceive ot a more pure or perfect tife than that which be was accustomed to live in this, lovely and sequestered nook. His means weie not irrrat, but his benefactions were roost generous. 11 took an interest in the daily life of every villager many of them when in distress were recipient of his bounty. ben illness confined him to bis chamber or hia house, be never ceased to inquire after those who might need his advice or his care." Bv his own family he waa tenderly beloved. All w'ho visited his hospitable dwelling were charmed by hi winning manners as well a elevated by: bis enlightened cooversatio.

nr. enearred to an estimable Tounc man Mr. Fisher by name who, since tke death bis son, Las supplied the place of that beloved one to him, and who, both before and since his death, has exhibited qualities of heart and mind which Lave proved him to be worthy or the affection bestowed upon him: by Lis illustrious friend. Finally, Mr. Cobden was a deeply religious man he acted oat letter and spirit th faith in which he believed, and the recompense of which hi unspotted spirit le" tined to enjoy for ever.

Corr. X. Independent.