Über dieses Buch
THE
OLD GUARD,
A MONTHLY JOURNAL,
DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF
1776 AND 1787.
C. CHAUNCEY BURR, EDITOR.
VOL. II.-1864.
NEW YORK:
VAN EVRIE, HORTON & CO., 162 NASSAU ST.
BOSTON: JAMES O. BOYLE & CO. PHILADELPHIA: J. TRENWITH.
CHICAGO: J. R. WALSH. ST. LOUIS: GEO. J. JONES.
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY RECEIVED THROUGH THE
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
APR 1 1921
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The Infamous Message and Proclamation.....
Congress and the Tureatened Impeachment of
the President..........................................................
Epigram
A Wonderful New Dictionary..................... 19
The Doomed City......................
Editor's Table
Our January Number; Hon. C. Godfrey Gun-
ther; Lincoln's New Chronology; Debauch
ed Democrats; Good Breeding in Washing
ton; Delightful to Play the Fool; Intellec
tual Repasts in the Reign of Abraham; The
Wife of a Republican Senator Disloyal; The
Nero of the War; The President Entertain-
ing the Rumlans, &c.
FEBRUARY.
Peace Coming Through Bankruptcy..............
............ 25
The Constitutional Union......
................................................. 31
War Howling Clergy..........
...... 86
The Messages of Governors Seymour and Parker. 37
Lines in Praise of Thad. Stevens
43
Destiny and Duty of the Non-wealthy Classes..... 40
Hon. Thomas H. Seymour.........
Epigram on Ben. Butler.......................................................... 44
"The Extreme Democracy;" Duke Abbas
and Mr. Lincoln; Rip Van Winkle; Dr.
Tyng on Ethnology; The Penalty of Subvert
ing State Governments; The New Hampshire
Resolutions; Congressinan Mallory on Con-
stitutional War; Mr. Meagher as a Squelch-
er; True Policy of the Democracy; Sian-
ton's Brain an Addle Egg; a Collar to Choke
Liars; Senator Grimes; Shoddyocratic So-
ciety in Washington; A Tax on Dirty Linen
in the U. S. Senate; The Shadow of Death;
Jenkins in Boston; An Intelligent Contra-
band in the White House; A Floating Debt;
The Deserters Fryed.
MARCH.
45
The Principles and Policy of our Fathers......... 49
Democratic Stultification
Epigram on Chase and his Shinplasters
Hon. Edson B. Olds.......................................................................................... 91
The Negro Regiment Reception; Rev. Dr.
Tyng and his Abuse of the Catholics; Mr.
Lincoln and William the Conqueror; Eizur
Wright and the Negroes; Lincoln and his
Government; Africa and the United States;
Arming for the Election; Rev. Starr King;
The Republicans the Worshippers of Odin
The Old Guard the Enemy of Sectionalism;
Col. Dahlgren and his Orders; The Russian
Principle of Government; Gov. Bramiette of
Ky, and the Ballot; The Abolitionists going
South; The Legislature of New York; Ed-
ward Everett Sick at Heart; Gov. Seyinour
and the Police Commissioners.
MAY.
93
JUNE.
69 Epigram on uniner..
The Nullifiers of the North........
The Tricks of Tyrants.............................................................
Death of Liberty (poetry)....
Pretension and Impudence Dissected.............135
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia......................................
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.121
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The Condition and Prospects of the South........ 64
Hon. James W. Wall........................
Abolitionizing the Democratic Party; Now to
Conduct the Democratic Campaign; The Pre-
sident and Spiritual Mediums; Old Letters,
by Miss Helen Rich; "Slavery" not Deal;
Madame De Stael and Harriet Beecher Stowe;
Mr. Bln on Abolitionism; A Retired Gene-
ral; Desiring to be Popular; Definition of a
Congressman; Judges as tue Tools of Des-
....................139
Ex-Governor Price.................................................................
Editor's Table .....
The Coercive Principle the Ruin of Republics....207
Hints on Stump-Speaking..............
...212
Mrs. Lincoln's Extravagance; Which is the
First Party? The Difference between the En-
thusiast and the Fanatic; Mr. Lincoln Sighs
for a Soft Pillow; Stealing Down South; The
Professor of Arms; An Armistice and Con-
vention; Lincoln's Re-Election; Greeley vs.
Arnold; Lincoln and his Cabinet; Practice
vs. Principle; Shall we Sutter Lincoln to Des-
troy our Country? The True Author of War;
A Mysterious Man; The Intention of Lincoln;
Peace and War Papers; The Fond Du Lac
Press; The Draft; Montesquieu on Demo-
cracy; A Poem of Dean Swift's; Meade to
Lee; Going to Canada; The Old Guard for
1863.
OCTOBER.
Principles of the Chicago Convention....
McClellan and Lincoln............................
.213
..217
.223
Uprising against Lincoln's Revolution; Pros-
titution of the Pulpits; A Louse in the Head
of an Editor; Will Lincoln Submit to a Hal-
ter? Advice to an Abolition Lady; Where
our Armies Have Gone; Not "A Kingdom
for a Eorse," but a Republic for a Min;
Great Practice in Spoon Stealing; Lin oln
Jokes over the Dead; Lincoln in a New Play,
"He Stoops to Conquer;" Seward Studying
Cromwell's Usurpations; The President Vio-
lates his "First Love ;" Bishop Hoadley on
Government in 1711; Slave Record of New
England; Ben. Butler's Last Thefts; Bar-
ney's Dishonest Clerks; Lincoln's "mon-
strous" Meeting; Fremont's Withdrawal;
Lincoln has Sold inore than his Shadow tỏ
Satan; General McClellan's Commission;
James T. Brady; Needless Defence or Gen.
McClellan; Montgomery Blair's Crimes; Let
us Boast no more of Freedom; The Presi⚫
dent Nominating Members of Congress; A
Suit of Old Clothes for John A. Dix; The
"Undertakers" a Good Business; Note to
Subscribers.
NOVEMBER.
.237
The Old Monarchist Party of the United States...265
The Old Knight's Daughter (poetry)...
273
The Doom and the Regeneration of Democracy...274
Editor's Table ...
THE OLD GUAKD for 1865; Hon. Daniel Пols-
man; Sherman's March; A New Emblem
for the Lincoln Administration; Definition
of a Freebooter; A New York Poet; A Max-
im from De La Bruyere; The Shenandoah
Destruction; Strange Arrest in Connecticut;
Ben. Butler; The Result of the Election;
Clay vs. Potter; A Philadelphia Publisher;
Mr. Vallandigham; Generals as Speech-Ma
kers; Beecher in the Pulpit; What will Stan-
ton Do? The Fame of a Rafisplitter; Trans-
lation of a French Verse.
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