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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1864.
V,OE PniiSIDENT KAMtm’S ArpoiKTMEKTS.-
j jon /lannibiil TJamHrij Vic© President of the
ttaited States, will address the people of Pennsyl
vnnin at the following places :
Lancaster, Tuesday, Oetober 25.
Harrisburg, Wednesday, October 26,
Carlisle, Thursday, October 27.
Ohambersburg, Friday, Oct. 28.
Gettysburg, Saturday, October 29.
The Peace Question Again.
The recent letter of Heuschei, V. John
son, of Georgia, may be taken as a land of
codicil to the letter of Alexander H. Ste
phens. . Occupying np official position,
Mr. Johnson can speak with less reserve
on some points of the peace ; question • and
lie therefore profits by the occasion af
forded in the Chicago platform to make
an ingenious use of his former respect and
attachment to the Union. Mr. Johnson
is every whit as absurd as Mr. Stephens,
but he writes for a purpose. The idea of
peace by separation forms the motive and
Impose of his letter, , and this once granted,
Mr. Johnson desires to be, if possible, as
liberal as a prince and as mild as a mis
sionary. But, as we have said, Mr. John
son is .absurd. He tells us that the South
has always been willing to negotiate - the
north can have peace at any' moment;
“all that we want is to be let alone”—a
style of persuasion which has grown trite
and s 1 ale. Jefferson Davis has said the
same over and over again; and the North
is as well aware as Mr. Johnson that it
can have peace at any time it chooses to sur
render its own rights, withdraw its armies,
and recognize the Confederacy. Mr. John
son is often very axiomatic, but he says
some things which aye positively untrue.
It is. false that the North first assailed
the South, and therefore should initiate
• peace ; for it is a fact of history that the
whole movement of rebellion was a con
spiracy and a revolution from the outset;
All its acts were revolution and war, and
peaceful means were as unsought by'the
South as disregarded when presented.
The robbery of Government property,
the perjury and treason of: United States
army-and navy officers, even attempts to
surrender whole bodies of loyal men over
to the service' of rebellion, the establish
ment of a Confederacy, repeated, and out
rageous insult to the flag of the nation,
mal-treatment and murder of Northern
men and Southern Unionists—arming, for
tifying, drilling, organizing, and -propa
gandizing—and, finally, the attack upon
Fort Sumpter—with such acts war was
initiated by the overbearing and uncom
promising leaders of the South, before the
North had fired a shot or invaded a foot of
territory. To use the idea of General
-Sherman, who saw the whole process
of secession in Louisiana, the patient
North was badgered into war. The
Southern press teemed with stories of
the cowardice of “Yankees” and the
bravery and chivalry of the South. Mr.
Yancey and tlic Charleston junta of poli-
ticlans spoke more honestly then than Mr.
Johnson does now, when they said that
the South had to be '‘precipitated” into
revolution. Nothing was ever ihore pre
cipitate than the rebellion; anti Mr. John
son, who was nominee for Vice President
on the ticket with Douglas, and who took
similar ground with Alexander Ste
phens against secession, is as well aware
of this as any person in the North.
After four years of a rebellion, to which,
without endorsing it at first, Messrs. John
son and Stephens gave the obedience of
men who chiefly respect power, it is some
what likely that the induration of such an
experience has made them believe, more or
less, in their own falsehoods. With this
view, we read the most plausible passage
of Mr. Johnson’s letter:
“In tiioir 'eng-chei Ishad devotion to the Union of
the States—a* sentiment which challenges my re
spect—the people of the North, it seems to me, have
fallen into two grave and capital errors. On the
-one hand, they attach an undue importance to the
mere fact or form of Union, Ignoring the principles
and objects of the Union, and forgetting that It
ceases to be valuable when it fails to secure that ob
ject and maintain those principles. On the other
' hand, they think that the States of the Confederacy
have separated from the United States, in contempt
of that Union, in a wanton disposition to insult Its
flag and to destroy the Government of which it is
the emblem. Both opinions are wrong. The old
Union was an organization of States. But it was
more ; it was,such an organization, founded upon
great principles, In order to give the most efficient
security for the maintenance of those very same
principles.
“ These principles are the sovereignty of the
States; the right of the people to govern them
selves; the right of each State to regulate its own
domestic affairs, to establish its own municipal in
stitutions, to organize its own system of labor; and
to pursue Its own career of enterprise, subject to no
restrictions except such as are expressed In the
Federal Constitution.: On these the Union was
based, and constituted the solemn guarantee of all,
that each State should be protected In their un
disturbed enjoyment. When it failed to do this—or,
what Is worse, when Its Government passed into the
administration of those whose-avowed policy and
measures must lead to the overthrow of those
principles—it was virtually at an end, and, In their
opinion, ceased to be valuable to the people of the
Confederate State. Hence secession was not resort
ed to merely to throw off the Union.
“ Our people loved the Union ana honored Its once
glorious flag for the rich memories that clustered
around it. They left it w Ith a reluctance and regret
to which hißtory will scarcely do justice. They were,
as they are now, wedded to the principles on which
the Union was founded; they separated from It but
to vindicate and maintain them. Whether they
acted wisely or unwisely must be left to the impar
tial arbitrament of time and coming events. Bat no
people were ever prompted to so momentous a step
by loftier devotion to constitutional liberty. For
this, we are denounced as rebels against the Go
vernment of the United States, and threatened with
the bloody doomof traitors; our country Is invaded,
onr homes desolated, and our people slain by hostile
armies.”
Tor -what principle did the South rebel ?
Mr. Stephens gave answer four years ago,
/or no principle at all! The direct and ad-»
mitted cause of revolt was slavery; but
this Mr. Johnson in another part of his
letter denies, and claims that the South
had a real principle at stake, the right of
the people to govern themselves. In all
seriousness, we think this was the very
principle against which the South rebelled,
with as little show of principle as possible.
They took up arms against the just and
legal decision of the majority, the crowning
index of the principle of self-government,
and this for no definite and reasonable
cause, or else one which they were
ashamed to confess. ; They assailed the
common right in its simplest .and purest
form, and despoiled their States of the only
sovereignty which they possessed, that
of equality under the Union and Consti-
tution. But why argue ? Is it not too well
known that they used this terrible engine
of State sovereignty not only to crush
out the rights of all other States,- but the
grand right of the Union itself; and beyond
that, and more serious still, the rights of
the people, and especially their own peo
ple ? All Southern men who enjoy free-
dom to declare their sentiments assure us
that the unmitigated despotism which now
prevails in the South is the direct result of
that lawlessness and ambition by which a
class of bold and. desperate leaders carried
the people into rebellion, scarcely asking
their consent. The rebels are not fighting
for the right of self-government, but for the
right of Jeffekson Davis and an aris-
tocracy of proud slave-owning men to
govern them. They are not fighting for
the people,kut for an oligarchy ;or else
we have mistaken the orators and writers
who said “the natural condition of the
laborer, white or black, is slavery,” and
4 ‘ popular liberty is a delusion. ” This may
be self-government, but it is the kind of
self-government claimed selfishly and
equally by common criminals and Seces
sionists—the right to do as one pleases,
whether one pleases to do right or not.
Strange as it may sound, it is difficult for
men who try to assume a medium ground
between truth and falsehood to appear
reasonable without being absurd. . Mr.
Johnson has confided to the South words
which he intends for the ear of the North.
ILike other rebels, he may accept the Union,
if he cannot help it, but peace and separa
tion,are above all things. Peace must-cer
tainly come with the submission of either
side, and Mr. Johnson wishes the North
to submit. This, to a rebel, seems per-*
fectiy natural as long as a Southern Confede
racy remains. The Confederacy, there
fore, must be destroyed; and, perhaps, we
shall welcome the first real movement of
peace in the retrocession of Georgia.
Butler’s Retaliation.
It must be confessed that General But
ler has a faculty of dealing with the
rebels in a decided and efficient manner
He gave a proof of this at New Orleans'*
when he promptly put down the miserable
system of insult Which was indulged in
against our flag and its brave defenders,
by women who would have thought them
selves contemptuously treated if any one
spoke of them other than as “ladies.”
Now, in command of the Army of the
James, he has broken up an infamous
scheme of the enemies of the Union. A
number of Union colored prisoners were
set at work on the fortifications of the be
sieged place—a procedure in violation of the
laws of war and at variance with the gentle
instincts of humanity. Exposed to the fire
of their late brethren in arms, it was proba
bly expected, for them, that the war’s vio
lence would rage with diminished force in
a quarter where these brave but unfortu
nate men were placed. General Butler
at once remonstrated, but his protest being
disregarded, he promptly adopted the policy
of retaliation, and placed at least an equal
number of rebel prisoners at work on the
canal he'is constructing, right under the
guns of the enemy. The result was a
cessation, on the rebel side, of the vile con
duct towards our prisoners, with a clumsy.
disclaimer of what their own newspapers
had lauded as good policy against us. On
this practical retractation Gen. Butler
discharged the rebel prisoners from their
enforced labor in canal-making. Now as
frequently before, Gen. Butler has proved
that the best way to deal with the rebels is
not to temporize with them • ‘’and every one
who knows anything about war is well
aware that, to be effective; it must be de-:
cided, unyielding, and sometimes even
stern.
The Richmond Examiner is indignant
because General Butler’s ’ act of retalia
tion had the desired.effect, and insists that
the only way of dealing with it was to
place more “ white Yankees at hard work
upon the most; exposed parts of our [the
rebel] works; ” It declares that should the
rebel Government “admit Butler’s out!
rage as an act of retaliation, it gives up all
ground of argument, and recognises slaves
as men." :;
This, in a few words, is the gravamen of.
our offence against the South—the sin of
sins which Seccssia can never forgive.
The boasted chivalry of the South treats
slaves as brutes, but the humanity of the
North deals with them as men. Herein lies
all the, difference—but what a gulf does
this difference place between the S lave
holders and the Abolitionists! The Union
ists are carrying out' the principle (that ail
men are free and have equal rights), which
Jefferson embodied in the Declaration of
Independence, but which our forefathers
allowed to fall into abeyance, in order to
please the South. General Butler carries
out that, principle when, in the words of
the Richmond Examiner, he* “recognizes
slaves as men."
Organization and zeal should now espe
cially be the watch-words of the great
Union party. Too much work cannot be
done, and tbe victory cannot Be too great,
for the demands and the glory of the cause.
We call upon all good Union men through
put the State to organize in their townships
and neighborhoods, and give the’same
earnest service to the party of the Union
as they have heretofore given to their
country in peril or victory. Much ad
ditional good work remains to be per
formed by county committees. With
an industry worthy of the occasion, they
can: waken to the active support of the
Union thousands who failed to vote at the
recent election, and thousands also of
latent Unionists who are seduced by false
hood. For the sake of this class organi
zation is indispensable. We cannot call
out our full strength without system.
The colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment,
heretofore a decided. Buchanan and Breck
inridge Democrat, but now friendly to the
re-election of President Lincoln, thus
writes to a friend in this city:
“ The election passed off quietly, but as three re- ;
glments out of this brigade—mine among them—
were on picket, hot many of the men got a chance to
vote. One poU was opened, and out of sixteen votes
cast In Company F, thirteen were Republican. The
rebels are either strong Democrats or else very bad
politicians. A few days before the election, they
charged down on onr picket line, cheering lustily
for McClellan. Our men heard them distinctly,
and there were even strong Democrats, including
Captain , who was In command of the regiment
in my absence, and a decided Copperhead, who
came out of the rebel fife changed In politics.”
WASHINGTON.
CAPTURE OF A BLOCKADE-RUNNER.
Admiral Poster communicates to the Navy De
partment the capture of the steamer Nando, a
blockade-runner of 800 tons, with a cargo consisting
of 550 bales of cotton. The capture was made by
the United States steamer Fort Jackson. . ;
THE DRAFT.
The draft was resumed in this city to-day to fill
deficiencies existing In the Quotas of various wards.
Among the drafted was the door-keeper at the Pre
sident's house, which makes the fourth attacheVbf
that mansion, drafted within the past two montjp 1 .
THE LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS.
The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan reported
at the Treasury. Department to-day are $729,450
The subscription for the week were $3,227,650
SAFETY OF THE STEAMER NIPHON
The Richmond papers, of the 17th Inst., published
an account of the blowing up and sinking of the
United States steamer Niphon. Admiral Porters
to-day, telegraphed to the Navy Department that
he had received letters from officers on hoard the
Niphon dated October lith, so that the Richmond
story of her destruction was undoubtedly false.
THE CONTRABANDIST TRIAL.
The trial of -Tohnson & Sutton, dry goods mer
chants, of this city, arrested several days ago, and
charged with selling goods to blockade-runners, wa3
resumed to-day. The prosecution having dosed,
the oounsel for the defence produced witnesses to
day who testified to the loyalty of the firm. The
trial will continue foie several days, and will be fol
lowed by that of the other firms arrested here and
in Baltimore.
PROMOTION of general costab.
General Custab has been promoted to major
general, in consideration of bis brilliant services m
the Talley. This was announced to General Oub
tab at the War Department to-day, during the
presentation of the flags captured by Sheridan's
forces in his late victory at Cedar Run, and was
received with loud applause by the large crowds
who had assembled' to witness the presentation.
THE HEALTH OF GENERAL RICKETTS,
General Ricketts is reported to be in a very low
condition to-day. The ball which entered Mb right
breast, and passed through hia lungs, was extracted
to day, near his shoulder-blade. His right arm is
much inflamed, and it is feared that internal bleed
ing has commenced by the cutting of an artery.
Great Meeting at Jlerehantsville, S. jr.
Last evening an Immense meeting was held at
Merchantsvllle, N. J., about four miles from Cam
den. The Union citizens for six miles round about,
with music, banners, lanterns, and torches, turned
fiut to declare their enthusiasm for the Union, Lin
coln, and Johnson. Mr. Alexander G. Oattell pre
sided, and made the opening speech, which wa s
characterized by his usual earnestness and eloquence.
Eloquent and Impressive speeches were also made
by Mr. Edward Browning and Mr, Thomas Fitz
gerald, of Philadelphia. They were heard with
b arked attention for the space of, two hours, and
were frequently Interrupted by applause. The
meeting adjourned at a late hour with the greatest
good humor, and In full confidence of carrying the
county for the Union. Mr. A. O. Oattell is doing
.yeoman service in the glorious cause, thus confirm
ing his life-long record of attachment to the Union
and to freedom.
English Piotobials.— From Mr. J. J. Kromer,
4G3 Chestnut street, we havegfeoelved the Illustrated
London Hems of Oct. Ist and Bth, Illustrated Hews of
the World of same dates, the News of ike Worldoi
the 2d and 9th inst,, besides Temple Bar aM Corn
hill Magazine for October. We shall have some,
thing to say about the magazines to-morrow—having
a decided disrelish for writing critiques without
reading what is criticised,
W e would Invite the attention of capitalists to
the valuable property, embracing about nine acres,
of unimproved ground west of the Schuylkill river,
on Girard avenue, belonging to the estate
®*■ late Geor 8® W. McClelland, Esq.; to be sold
Thomas A Sons,at noon to-day, at the
Philadelphia Exchange.
f Laboe Positive Sale of Boots, Shoes, Bbo
:gans, Tbavblling Bags, &o.~The early atten
tion of purchasers is requested to the large assort
(ment of boots, shoes, brogans, travelling bags, gum
shoes, &c., embracing samples of ljioo packages of
first-class seasonable-goods, of city and Eastern
manufacture, to be pereinptoriiy sold, by catalogue
on four months’ credit, commencing this morning’
fit 10 o’clock, by John B. Myers & Co., auctioneeis,
sNos. 232 and 234 Market street.
Washington, Oct. 24.
THE WAR.
THE AIMT OF JAMES BIVER,
HEAVY FIRING ALL SATURDAY NIGHT.
A DEFEAT IS THE VALLEY ACKVOW-
lebged by the rebels.
CAFIBBE OF MOSKBY’S SCOUTS NEAR WASHINGTON
TOT 3 WAR EV MISSOURI.
PHICE’S ARMY IN FULI, RETREAT.
THE REBEL FORREST RECROSSING THE
TENNESSEE RIVER
Guerilla, Movements in Iventuclcy.
A LARGE NAVAL FLEET OFF CHARLESTON.
AN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS PRO
POSED BY HARDEE.'
THE YELLOW FEVER AT CHARLESTON
AND NEWBERN
Tlie Southern Papers Discassinf; Peace
and' Reconstruction.
GENERAL GRANT’S ARMY.
HSAVY FIJKIHG NBAB THS JAKES KIVSB—DUTCH
GAT SHBLLED—RBBBIi ACKHOWI.BDaMBNT Off A
DEFEAT IN THE VALLEY.
Washihgtob, Oct. 24.—An arrival from the Army
of the Potomac reports that heavy firing, was hoard
nearly all Saturday night towards the James river,
apparently from the gunboats.
The enemy shelled the working party at Dutch
Gap almost all day Saturday, hut without effecting
any damage.
The Richmond papers of the 22d acknowledge a
defeat in the Valley, and say they lost twenty-three
gnns, besides those that they had taken at first, and
about ode thousand killed and wounded, with a few
prisoners.
llt£ WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST.
MOVEJtEKTS OF THB BEBBB OBK. ETON—HKBBLS in
RICKMAK COUNTY, TBKX.—FOUKBST REOBOSSrKO
THE TKNNESBKG RIVER—THE GUERILLA FORCES
IK KENTUCKY.
Louisville, Oot. 24.—The Journal says that the
rebel General Lyon has under his command five
hundred: men, and that his move to the south side
of the Cumberland rlvor Indicates an attempt to
strike the Nashville and Northwestern Bailroad
near Charlotte.
Four regiments of rebels are reported at Centre
ville, in Hickman county; unto whose command
they belong Is unknown. ;• ■
Scouts report that Forrest Is again crossing the
Tennessee river below Florence, Alabama, , A force
of 400, rebels was at Owensboro on Friday, and on
the same day a guerilla leader, calling himself
Colonel Cheroworth, was in Henderson, His band
committed but few depredations. . :
It is thought' that the several bands of outlaws
who are scattered along the:Ohio river between the
mouth of Salt river and Evansville, will number
2,000 men.
MISSOURI AND KANSAS.
I‘JUCE IK FULL RETREAT—OUR ABUT IK FIJBSUIT.
Kamias City, Oct. 24.—A courier haß just come
in from the front and reports that Price Is In full
retreat, closely pursued by our forces. When the
courier left the enemy was twenty-five miles south
■of here,
DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH.
A LARGE NAVAL M/BBT OFF CHARLESTON—AN EX
CHANGE OF PRISONERS PROPOSED BY HARDEE—
: THE YELLOW FEVER AT CHARLESTON THE
REBEL PRESS ON RECONSTRUCTION., .
New York, Oct. 24.—The steamer Arago, from
Hilton Hoad on the 21st, has arrived. Among her
passengers are Colonels Van Wyck, Littlefield,
and Hartwell; Lieutenant Colonels Morgan and
Geary; Majors Vlgnos, Corwin, and Hart.
On the 19th a large naval fleet arrived off Charles
ton, Including schooners laden with ammunition', etc.
The destination of these vessels was unknown.
The schooner Crysollte, from Philadelphia for
Washington, with Government ooal, foundered on
the 9th off Ohlncoteague shoals.' The crew were
brought to Port Royal.
The rebel General Hardee has proposed to Gene
ral Foster a general exchange of prisoners in his
hands, man for man, and officer for officer, or their
equivalents. - The matter would probably be re
ferred to Washington,
The Palmetto Herald says that tie latest advices
report the average of deaths daily, In Charleston,
from yellow fever, at twenty. It also states that the'
rebel papers are filled with obituaries of distinguish
ed Southerners, and discussions of peaoe and reoon'
struction. On the whole, their tone is very favor
able to us, and shows a groat change within the last
few months. ■ : a-. .-’- -a; . •
YELLOW FEVER PREVAILING AT KEWBERK,
Washington, Oct. 24.—The yellow fever is pre
vailing to an alarming extent at Newborn,',but'lt is
believed that the heavy frosts of Saturday night
must Lave checked it.
FORTRKSS MONROE.
DEATHS OF PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS—ARRIVAL
FROM OITX POINT,
Fortress Monroe, Oct. 24 —The following are
among the deaths In Hampton Hospital since the
last report: O, W. Hitchcock, 58th Pa.; D. Frede
ricks, 58th Pa.; Capt. Daniel F. Linn, 58th Pa.;
Lieut. George McNeil, 188th Pa.; H. Bartsher, sBth
The United States mall steamer Webster has ar
rived from City Point with about 85 refugees. She
brings so news.
MOSEBY’S GUERILLAS.
MOBEIST AND WHITE’S GANG IN FAIRFAX AND
MjN COUNTIES—CAPTURE OF. TWO OF THEM. ■
Kngton, Oot. 24.—Mosehy and White’s
guerillas are again hovering around In the
ng counties of Fairfax and Loudon. - Yester
day a number of Moseby’B scouts made their ap
pearance In the vicinity of Groat Falls of the Po
tomac, about 18 miles from Washington, two of
whom wemmaptured and brought In.
CAPTURE OF ONE OF MOSEBY’S DESPATCH BEAR-
: Washington, Oct. 24,—John A. Washington,
one of Moseby’s despatch boarers, was captured
near Reetortown, Va., on Saturday. A number of
despatches- are said to have been found on him
when captured.
CALIFORNIA.
commercial And political affairs—large ab-
AIVAL OF WHALE oil; .
San Francisco, Oct. 22.—The demand for money
Is light, and business has impro ved.
The political feeling-between the two parties in
the State is Intense.
The mining stocks are better.
A whaler has arrived from the Arctic regions,
bringing 1,150 barrels of oil.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS,
San Fkakuisco, Oct. 23.— The steamphlp Ame
rica, from Nicaragua, arrived at this port to-day.
Sailed—Steamship Sacrsmento, Bradbury, Pa
nama, with $770,000 In treasure for England, and
$470,000 for New York.
BEKMCOA.
THE BpANOKE PIBATEB ON TBIAL—BAIL REFUSED
—THE YELLOW FEVER,
Halifax, N. S., Oot. 24,—The now steamer Ja
son has arrived, with Bermuda advices of the 17th
Inst. 1 " .
She reports that the pirate Braine and his asso
ciates, who captured; and burned the steamship
Roanoke, were on trial, and that the court had re
fused to ball them.
The yellow; fever was abating, at Bermuda.
Tl»e Maryland Soldiers’ Vote—A Man
• damns Applied for ana Refused-An
Appeal Filed.
Baltimore, Oot. 24.—1 n the Superior Court in
this city; to-day, an application; was made in be
half of the opponents of the new Constitution for a
mandamus directed to Governor Bradford, com
manding him to exclude from being counted the
votes of soldiers now out of the State. The court
dismissed the application, being of the opinion that
there were no sufficient grounds for the interpo
sition of the court in the matter..
Counsel immediately filedanappealfrom theahdve
order, and the record was made up and sent to-night
to the Court of Appeals, before which a hearing will
he had on Tuesday or Wednesday.
In addition to Mr. Alexander, It Is stated that the
B£n. Beverdy Johnson and Win. Sohloy, Esc;., are
engaged on the part of the petitioners, while. Henry
Stockbrldge and; Archibald' Sterling, Jr., Esqs.,
will appear for the Governor. •
Fatal Collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio Bailroad.
■Wheeling, Oot. 24.—A stock train going- East
collided with a passenger train coming West from
Baltimore, aboiit 1 o’clock this morning, four miles
east of Mannington, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, The engineer, fireman, and one toldler
were instantly killed, and twelve to fifteen men
were severely wounded. The train was a total
wreck....
Movements of Blockade- Runners.
' Halifax, N. S., Oct. 21.—The steel blockade
runner Colonel Lamb lias sailed. The Plarinloan
started yesterday, but put back and will sail to-day.
The Charlotte and Old Dominion are still In port.'
The Fire at Eastport, Maine.
; Eastpokt, Me., Oct. 24.—The fire .yesterday
burned from Paine’s to Wheeler’s store on Water
street every store, except seven or eight. The
steamship wharf was not injured.
The United States Ship Ind at Portland.
Portland, Oct. 24.—The United States ship Ino,
from Hampton Roads, arrived here this morning.
Markets by Telegraph.
1 St. Boms, Oct. 24.—Tobacco steady. Flour ao
ftive and firmer. Wheat steady. Corn active and
■firm. Oats slightly lower. Cotton—Small sales of
New Orleans at $l. Receipts, 217 bales and; 50
sacks. ..
HOW THB OFFICERS VOTE.
An.offlcer In the 84th New Jersey regiment, which
1b now stationed at Mayfield, Ky., writing to a friend
under date of the 14th Inst., says: “I do not know
how the privates vote, but, out of thirty-eight com
missioned officers Id my regiment, four ate for Mc-
Clellan, two doubtful, and thlrty-tvto for 1 honest
Old Abe;’»
\ BAKBB.SALB TO-DAr yALUAULB Real ESTATfI
add Stocks by order of Orphan’s Court, execu
tors, &0., 41 properties. See Thomas & Sons' ad
vertisement and pamphlet catalogue.
THE PRESS —PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 186 C
The steamship City of London reached Queens
town on the night of tho 12th Inst.
GBEAT BRITAIN. *
Oommeroral affairs continued to be the principal
topic oi discussion.
feThe Edepiession In commercial ciroles shows no
diminution, and business, especially In cotton, Is
almost at a desd-look, and prices continue to fall.
,„T’he additional failures whioh have taken place
include Louis SMitz, large cotton dealer In Liver
pool, with, liabilities amounting -to three hundred
and twenty sterling; Messrs.
Hime, Miloes, & Co., cotton brokers in Liverpool,
with considerable liabilities,' aha - Messrs.' Bendihe
& Go., merchants in London, whose liabilities are;
small. ■
The demand for discount at the Bank of England
on the 12th inst., showed great subsidence, and there
was consequently more steadiness in the funds.
“iuimum rate of the Bank was 0 per cent. '
The half-monthly settlement or tne Confederate
loan exhibits a strange anomaly, the price in Lon
don being 55, in Manchester 50, while in Liverpool,
<y& fug to the extent of adverse speculations. It has
rebounded to 64. “••• J
, The London Tmrs has an editorial on tho ad
dress with three hundred thousand signatures re
cently sent to Governor Seymour from England,
entreating the North to makepeace with tho'South.
The Tiwnrs says the address signed by these three
hundred thousand gentlemen can effect iust no
thing, and thinks the only possible solution of the
question is continued war. America has commenced
the fiery ordeal ofwar which settled Europe on its
present basis, and terrible as is the process,.the
Times cannot doubt that America will bo the better
for it In the end.
: Tho Palrie says that Russia has glven its adhe
fion to thO French policy on the Roman question,-
The Paris Bourse was dull and lower on the 12th
Inst., and the rentes closed at 65t. 15c.
La France says that the Insurrection in Algeria is
spreading, and the natives there appear to be obey
ing a summons to a holy. war. .
The reports of a ministerial crisis are considered
premature, bnt it is believed; that Count Keehberg
will tender his Tesigiiation on account of complies
tions in the foreign policy, / ;
i THE BAHIBH QUESTION. ' '
At the Peace Conference a compromise is said to
have been eflected on the financial question. Minor
questions were also advanced’, and there only re
now the drawing up of the treaty of peace.
The Paris correspondent of: tho London -Times
says that there arc good grounds for believing that
representations have been made at Yienna ana Ber
lin by England and Franee, with respect to the un
warrantable pretensions of the Austrian and Prus
sian Plenipotentiaries on acoonnt of the blockade
during the war, and a Paris paper professes to
know that concessions have been made to the
Danesdndhe Conference, and that a larger portion
ofJioithjSohleswig than expected wiU be incorpo
rated with'Jutlana, • • *
A meeting between the king of Prussia and Em
peror of Eussia was about to take place at Darm
stadt. .
TUBKEY.
_ A financial crisis is reported at Oonstantinopie.
Interest had been raised to 14 per cent., and money
was not obtainable at that. -
■ KEWZEiLiND.
It Is officially announced that the New Zealanders
have unconditionally submitted to the Queen's au
thority, and placed their lands at the Governor's
disposal. They were permitted to return to theft
lands, a small portion of which only will be for
felted."'
Liverpool, Oct. 13,P. M.~Oapt, Semmes, ac
companied by eight officers of the Alabama, and
one hundred men, has ieft this city, to be trans
fefred, with guns, &c., to the steamer Ranger, re
cently lying at Madeira. * V
The following arc the very latest despatches:
, Lowdoh, Oct. 14.—There Is. a bettor tone in the
money market, and funds are firmer, but the heavi
ness iu commercial circles continues.
The frigate Niagara had arrived off Shoreham,
with the Spanish steamer seized under suspicion of
being a bloekado runner.
The ship Southern Eights, of Maine, wag captured
on August 22d, by the pirate Florida, and released
under bonds.
Commercial Intelligence.
As*?! Oct,-13. —-Cotiom. —Sales :for four,days
H’« OCO il, aes ’ tocladmg 5,600. to speculators and txoort-
Tke market is very dull, with a decline of J4@ld
TRADE EE POET.-Ths Manchester market Is dull,
with a declining tendency, and quotations of goods and
yarns are nominal : . , -
Beeadstuffs. —The market is generally dull, and
quotations are barely maintained Richardson, Spence,
*9 0 -,> S ash f ? Co - report: Flour quiet
ana steady i Wheat dull and downward j red Western,
7s ddOSss white Western and Southern, 8s 3d@9s. Corn
easier; mixed, 2ls6d@2Bs. - . *; . v 7 l “
■ l “ alk «‘- -Us: generally quiet; and
rteady. .Gordon, Bruce, & Co. report: Beef heavy.
.Fork quiet i and steady. Bacon quiet hut firm. Lard
quiet and steady. Butter steady. Tallow dull.
_ Produce.-ABhes-Sales small, at 80s 6d@32s 6a for
Pots and Pearls. Sugar, dull. tioffee inactiVe, Hire;
s°ii ale sr Bmseed flat at a decline of Is. Linseed Oil
i U o\ l enm K 3 BeSiX|fSndeSlfi 8 eSiX|fS n de S lfi t d@i n / 1 , lf Klie daU ' Pe '
LOKiION MARKETS. - Wheat irmer. Sugar dull.
2fdy.' iD Taik,w dun s '- Toa Bteadsr ’ Bice. quiet and.
LONDON MOHKY MaRKF/T.—London, Oct 13
AMEKICAE- STOCKS.'—Sales of Illinois Central
Bailroad at SlJ£ discount; .Eiießallxoad 41@42.
[By Telegrapis to Londonderry. J
9 0t - . 14 T P 1, m --Cotton.-Sales of the
week, 24,600 bales, including 3,250 to.speculators and
8,600 to exporters.; The market is irregular and 1 dull,
and the Quotations of-the week hare
on. American and l@2d on other description's. The
sales to-dav (Friday) have been s,ooo:bales, the market
closing dull at the following almost nominal quota
tions : .
.. . Fato. Middling.
Oceans: ad. ' -24 d.
Uplands ......I6d. 23d.
. Stock in; port 882,000 bales, including 11,000 bales o!
American. •
' r BKBADSTU FFS. —The market is dull, with a down
ward tendency. - • • -
* PKOVIBIOHS.—Market dull. Lard firm. -
■V Bonbon, Oct 14.—Consols for mo
ney- The weekly return of the Banltof Boland shows
an increase ofbullibnof'£B,ooos ;i ...
i STOCKS. —The latest Baios‘were: Illinois 5
CentraleEallifoad shares, discount; Erie Rail-
Voad, 41@42. tv-f ; > -
? .Arrived from New Tork. Sept, 21st—Steamer Tone
rifle, at Teneriiie. Oct. S—America, at. Brenda.
Arrived Horn Boston Sept. 28.—Robert Wing, at Ma
deira. . ~ - « . ■ •-* ■
SaiUd for Hew York Sept. 23—Cassandra, from Zanie.
NEW YOBS, Oot. 24,1864.
A..- THE GOLD MARKET.
Gold closed to-night at 210Jf.
Arrived, barks Prince Oscar, Gotfcenburg ; Rapi
dan, Boston.
The bank statement for tho week ondingon Sa
turday shows: ;
An increase of loans of *380,000
An Increase of specie..... «o 000
An increase of deposits: :.......... sso.’ooo
A decrease in circulation.. 60,000
. ; THB PRICK OP GOLD.
gold lias been, fluctuating to-day. At 2P. JH. il
was quoted at 116 premium.
Governor ISrown, of Osorgia, on Kecon-
1' .The Kickmond Dispatch of the* 20th instant con
tains tbo following: A correspondent writes the
Columbus Enquirer from Lumpkin, Georgia, that
it having been reported there that Governor Brown
was in favor of reconstructing the old Government
provided we could get our rightsfeste., in the Union:
a gentleman'of that place , addressed him on the
subject, and received the following in reply, which
Is explicit enough: . :
“ Executive Department,
, “Milmdokvillk, Ga„ Sept, 19,1884.
“ SIR : ,,l n y , oar letter of tha 16th tost.,
.addressed to His Excellency, and desiring to know
.under what conditions he would he in favor of a re
construction of .the old Federal Union, and go into
fraternal embrace with 'the foul invaders of our
homes and rights, the murderers of our brave men,
and_the abusers and tasulters of our women—to a
word, the baseand. flendigh uneivilizers of the ago,
lam directed by the Governor to say that his post
tloc on this subject has been so: often given to the
p,°™try Jn an official form that he does not consider
9,1' s duty to spend time to further explanations.
All who wish to .understand it have the means of
Information at hand. Yery respectfully,
“E. N. Bifo yi.es, Ald-de-Oamp.”
NbWPaintingb by Lkutze.—Leutze is putting
the final touches to an-exquisite oabinet picture
representing”'Lady Jane Grey in prison.” The
apartmentin which she was confined is furnished
with the richly-carved furniture of that period,
while books, a musical Instrument, and various ar
ticles ~cf feminine industry are, shattered around;
The unfortunate Lady Jane is represented as hav
ing fallen asleep in her chair,' abook opened oh her
lap, which, through the long night, she had been
engaged to reading. The undisturbed couch shows
that she had not ; lain down during tho night, and
the lighted tapers still bum to the chandelier above
,ho , u ?, h tho morning sun is streaming In at the
411 armorial bearings wrought
with, slatoed glass,.and casting warm tints upon
the neighboring wall. Outside, upon the window
sill-are several pigeons, gathbreC there to be fed
with the crumbs which Lady Jane, was In the habit
of distributing among .them: vThe 'pictuie Is warm
and rich in color, and a fine feeling pervades It.
Another little picture by Leutze is one quite dif
ferent to subject and treatment than"is usual to him.
It is entitled, we believe, “A Spring Shower,” and
represents a boy and a girl ta’an apple orchard, be
neath the trees. The latter has, to a pretty, childish
fashion—drawn her dress, distended by the wind, up
over her head, to protect her from the shower of
apple blossoms, which are falling thickly around
her. The hoy is kneeling onjthe ground, drawing
towards him the white, blossoms wllch havafallen
to the earth. Tho picture is one of the most felloi
cousin subject and execution wblcli has come froni
Leutze’s easel.—AT..Y. Post n
NBW OHESTHUTrSTBEET THEATRE-—DEBUT OE
Miss Olive Logan.— The fine old play of "The
Hunchback ,J was acted last evening, for the*purpose
of presenting Miss Olive Logan to the character of
Julia. This rdle Is a, fa.vorlte with debutantes, and
one to whose reputation many renowned actresses
have added brilliancy. The : plot of " The Hunch
back ” Is not thoroughly appreciated by most audi
ences, Yet this does not cause a diminution of inte
rest in the character of Julia. She is the centre
whence all-interestsTadlate.* She unites so much
sweetness with so much passion; her purity and
nobility are so charmingly-contrasted with those
errors into whicir a hot-blooded young girl, with
Julia's peculiar temptations, would fall, that it is no
matter of surprise that the assumption of tho rile
should be the ambition of so many an aspiring
actress. - . YY ; , .'A-
Miss Olive Logan’s great personal beauty won
the sympathy of the entire audience before she
had spoken a word. : She is a blonde; so splriluelle In :
appearance as to seem almo"st t 6.0 fragile for any rile
requiring great passlpn.-sThisitrnpMsslon, however,
she at once dispels by the .utter abandon with which
she throws herself into tjjbe part. Her extreme
youth and delightful features; her ambition .at
once very great and very apparent; her impetuosi '
ty and constant endeavor to do well—were last eve.
njrg greeted with prolonged applauso, her call
before the curtain being unanimous and most en-'
tbusiastlo. v i ; ’ t'' '
, The Master Waller of Mr. Mordaunt was OOn
eeived: In the right spirit, and was acted fairly and
well throughout.
This evening Miss Legan will appear in “The
Lady of Lyons.”
VOTE OF THE 12THBEHKSYLVANIA CAVALRY.
From the private letter of an officer of the 12th
Pennsylvania Cavalry we extract the vote :
■Hni0n.................. ..,.'....'.....170
Democratic 68
Union maj0rity........... U 2
, Total vote cast.... .•...... ■;.;... ... .226
■ Ajircat many soldiers were out on duty, and wore
thnffprevented from voting.
E tJ B O I» E.
THe Belgian at Father Point.
Father PoiNiyOot. 24.— The steamshlpßalglan,
from Eiverpool on the I3thv via Queenstown on the
14th Inst., arrived here'at half past ten o’clock this,
morning. Her dates are five days later thanthose
already received.
The steamship Hibernian, from Quebec, arrived ai
Liverpool on the 11th inßt.
The steamship Sldon, from New York, arrived at
Liverpool on the nth inst. ,
FRANCE.
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Public Entertainments.
«BF AT MKKTIJVO A* NATIONAL BAU.
Last night there was at the hall of the Republi
can Invlnolbleg (otherwise known as National Hall)
one of the largest assemblages of the campaign,
met,to extend to Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Vice Pre
sident of the United States,’a welcome commensu
rate with his position and ability.
SPEECH OF VICE PEEStDBHT HAMLIN,
on being;introdncaA by Charles Gilpin,
E»q.. was received with deafening demonstrations of
applause, which. lasted for some moments, When
quiet was restored, he proceededto say that a few years
since he had spoken in this city at the imminent peril
of iiu person, when brick-bats were a prominent fea
ture in the meeting which he addressed. By the gene-
JJJf Jilaudits with which he had been received, and
Which he regarded simply as homage to the Union and
the country, he knew that the world moves. Then,
alter ashing the indulgence of his audience on account
oi physical indisposition, hoproceeded to cay; I have
come here_to-night with no purpose to inflame yonr
passions; I hope only..'to gain for what I may say
the approval of your judgments. We are, as
midst of such a war as the
ivor;d _ has never seen. What are the causes
which have brought ns into it? What are the true me
thods which we should pursue to get out of it? These
are the main. questions which ! propose to discuss. :, !
take it that in ail this audience-nay, in all the country
—there is no man who is not in favor of peace. I am
for peace. I am a peace man, and I come to-night to
talk to you of the best method of securing peace.t [Ap
plause. J.I want peace..; Those who are as dear to ma
as any that you have are to you, are interested in the
return of peace. There are vacant places at my own
hearthstone ,-and when peace; shall return to this
wel come back, Itrust, to my own-house
hold those as dear to me as yours can be to you,
[Applause. 3 If the termination of this war be proeras-
members of my household are subject to
all the hazards _of .batO s. 1 want peace. Yon want
neace. Above all, the rebels wantpeace 1 [Applause: 1
They are heginnmg to feel the halter draw around their
necks; they are beginning to feel that a little of the sta
rr o, C !li?* B ' i(rar i l Wl ¥ b ® *PPlJoiblB to their own persons.
applause 1 They are beginning to feel in
regard to the Brnmension of the habeas corpus thatdf the
not sßlpendeil tlie corpus will he. : [Laugh
?? r - Vbo in ail our unfortunate country does not de
tire that peace shall return to onr distracted land?
fte red h?Hlo® fiin?5 Ba n' fIC6S tbat 'v® hava ma,iB ®P°“
the red battle held ? . How many homes hays been
desolated? Indeed,.in what home throughout the
broad. Horth does not gloom sit upon the social hearth
stone? But we want a peace, my Mends, that shall be
lasting as time. [Loud applause. 5 We want apeaoe that
shall eradicate every seed that might generate another
r S want s peace (and we have almost conquered
It) that shall impose upon those who follow, us no such,
aread duties as belong to ns. But I thank my God that
1 live m this day. I knew—ever j discerning man must
have known—ihat in the progress of lime this struggle
Was to come. No one but a coward would shirk it; and
every gallant man will thank his God that he lives in
the day and hour when he can participate in this strug
gle by his voice, by his means, and by his efforts. -[Ap
plause. j In ail the history, of our country since
we,have_heen a Government we have been fa
miliar with the organization of parties. They have
subserved, and they will subserve, a useful purpose
But I am not aware that,-until this, day, any party in
this country has been: other than: a loyal party, in
times of peace, it Is wise., it is .best, that there should
be in the community different political organizations,
that they may . watch each other. But all parties that
have heretofore existed have only divided upon the
simple question of the administrative: policy of yonr
Government. Never, until now, has a party grown
up with disloyalty as its basis; [Applause.]:: But
at . a tune like the present, there should he no party
but the party-of The: country- Conventions may adopt
their party platforms; but I am frank to fay as an inde
pendent man that 1 hold to hut one platform, which is
expressed in'but two words—our country. [Loud
cheers. ] That platform Is brief in Its (arms, bnVit is
comprehensive.,. As to the political organization of
which this meeting to-night is one of the manifesta
tions,.! deny that we are a party. We ate. am associa
tion formed tor , ihe purposo ;of forwarding the"
cause of the .Union. .This is onr object—nothing* else
Thatj object ,rieM_ far above . every mere political
consideration. Why, my friends, I eannot look down
low enough to see a manwho, at such a time as this,
claims to be a party, man. I cannot comprehend the
motive which directs the: course of such a man. I sav
that our country;' is at this time the only platform
for the patriotic citizen. . We are men of all political an-:
tecedents, men who have been members of all political
parties; but .we have no; other flag than the old stars
and stripes: no other country, than onr own be
lovedißepnhltc. [Loud, applause. 3 I have been all
my. life a party man; I am. now a party, man, bat I
would be ashamed of myself if X should come here to
night to talk of party doctrines or party creeds. lam a
Eepublican all over, from the end of my hairto the end
o( toy toe nails. [Laughter. ] I only state that fact; I
do not want to bring it into the dlscnssion of the great
qnestions npw at issue Hay aside in the discussion of
these questions all partisan feelings. The flag of my
country, the Union, and the Constitution are the con
eiderations by. whlchl shall appeal to yon to-night
Let me ark you, as a starting point, what are our duties
to Abe Government?,, Do we not too often forget what
are the obligations that we owe to onr Government ?
Government as lu the nature of a contract with Its citi
zens, Uoveminents are ordained of God; with no go
vernment there is anarchy., In order to secure our pro
tection in certain rights weas citizens yield to the Go
vernment certain other rights. Theohiectof founding
governments is to protect the weak from the strong
Governments ai e-instiiuted (as has been expressed in
laB B.sage better than any I canemploy) for the protection
ol lile and liberty, aid the pursuit ol happiness T
know that modern Democracy tells you that govern
ment is for the protection of- life, liberty, and the our
snit Of. 1 ‘niggers! ’ ’ - :Laughter. 3 ‘ What;are the core
latiye duties and obligations of the citizen and the Go
vernment?, The Government being, founded, according
to onr theory, upon the consent of the governed, it is the
duty of the Government to protect the citizen in his life,
in his liberty, and in the pursuit of happiness. What
are the .duties of the citizen to; the. Government?-
first, the Government ; .having; discharged' Its
duty to .its citizens (and I-hold that oars has’
done.-that) it is the-duty.of the citizen to contribute
from his meais all that shall be necessary for the sun
port and maintenance of government. Intimes of peace
ihe demands of the Government have been limited- in
time of war they are and must he extensive, and'fhe
response of the eitizewshould-be Correspondingly gane
rons. - There is not; A man among ns who does not owe
to the Government all his: means, if those means are ne
. cessary to the preservation of its life. ■ [Applause 3 More
than that,there is not a muscle in his right arm, orin his
physical frame; there is not a drop of blood that flows In
his veins—there is nothing that htf-possesaes which he
doesnotoweto the Government in a time like this; in
return for its. having discharged; its duty to him
[Cheers. 3 , Y. u have breathed the air that 'comes fresh
from your hills, you have drank the pure water from
your gushing , mountain streams, until you are thank
less, and, do not regard the . value of the blessings
which you have enjoyed. When stretched upon
the bed of disease a man knows the value of
health; when obliged to drink; from the stagnant
pool he. kiows the value of the pure and spark
ling spring; when obliged to breathe- the noxious airs
ol a prison house heknows the value of the pure air
that God gives him. Long years of peace and prosperi
ty, carrying us from feeble colonies to a magnificent re
public or tbirfy millions, have made us thankless to
the Government for the blessings thatithas showered
uponuß aB Heaven has showeredits dews. . Yon go
home to the quiet of yonr domestic fireside; yon meet
there Your- loved, ones;;you havevaronnd. you means
that make life pleasant and joyous. Bat what are allthe
blessings of domesticlife unless the xogis of Government
be thrown over and around you? ,They are valueless
In this straggle ev.ry citizen owes all his means, and",
if necessary, his life, to preserve the best government
that God ever gave to man. [Great‘cheering 3 -My
friends, are you all ready to perform the duty which,
as loyal citizens, devolves upon yon? We are 10-day
engaged m a contest which, stripped of all extra
neous. matter, reduces. liself to a. single proposition—
■ country-or no country The question .at issue In
ibis contest is whether we shall have a country
i "°J- whetherwe shall have-no country at
all. [Cheers.] That is. the only question to be de
termined. in , the coming election. „ We: have got to'
crutii'out. tnis Rebellion, or be crushed out ourselves
[Applause, ] Ido net quite like, the statement which I'
have made—we are going; to crash out.this rebellion, v
[Cheers.] The man who does not believe that I hold to
be a political infidel. I would as soon donbt the sun’s
rising or settmgas doubt that we; are to beaGoyern
nu-nt of freedom. All the cohorts of hell and rebellion
ran never prevail against; us: [Enthusiastic cheers.]
Eather than suffer liberty, to perish here,-our ladies
will buckle- on the; habiliments of war. [Loud
cheers ] . Giay-htaded and tottering age will throw'
avray its crutch for the'musket: The little child will
seize the rifle and battle for liberty, r Applause 1 Nn
•toy friends, our- oIA fchip: of StateYs to float on trium- ;
phantly through uncounted ages: The Lord have mer- ‘
cy on those who shall oppose it! I pity them. .In the:
history of our countrv we have had some- slight illus- 5
trauon of the fate of those who opposed the cause of the'
country in time.of war. In the Bevolutionary war’
S,® h / u .i, a Uencdict Arnold There were men who op- :
posed the war .of 1K!2; ..but those men. stand ,with
out a spot upon .their garments when compared with
the rebel sympathizers in the fr«a States in lS6i;* rim
mense cheering, 3 I think that Judas Iscariot would
complain of being compared with them. At a time like
this, when there should be no platform but our countrv.
. we have a party that calls itself the Democratic party-
God save the mark t [Laughter. 3 No w; my - friends, L
was a Democrat of; the etraightest sect, brought up at
the feet „of Gamaliel. .But rethink that if Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison,, and Andrew Jackson,
should come back to‘ this world, to-day, thay
would not recognize as the party with which
they, acted the .organization which calls itself the
Democratic party. X belonged to the. Democratic or
ganization wnen it. aimed at, the elevation of man—
when it sopght _to. .follow the teachings of the
lathers of the .Bepnblic—when Democracy meant
the elev ation of man, morally, politically, Intel
lectually. .Now, Democracy means the debasement of
tw^ ong f <i t( 1 .Democratic organization when;
it held tMt a man should. go for his country- right or
S’ l "® o *-, Though I do not know that I ever quite adopted
that principle, yei my motto was—my country !if she
isrightl will sustain her; if she is wrong I will try to
right her; .but my country above; every thing else! Kiat
18 not, modern -Democracy. . A modei-n-Democrat' is a
man who sympathizes with rebelUon; who indirectly
aids it; who has no sympathy with that principle which
Would.elevate rna.n. and carry the nation onward In a
ca -reer of: greatness; and glorr. Modern: Demociacy
gets down and.worships at the shrine of Jefferson Davis
—[ applause]—discour a gas : enlistments;, throws every
possible obstacle m the way of preserving the integrity
of the Government. These men are called “ Copper
* because the copperhead snake is the meanest
that God Almighty, ever made.: The modern Democratic
uarty s fl made; up .of sore-heads and Copperheads. I
may Eay, my friends, that I have come here with com
mmjaedemotiems of pl easure and regret. It is to men
matter of deep regretthat the cloud of., war stiU hangs
over our horizon. HutlcSn see,and I think yon cause!,'
the bnghtlmipgof that cloud. How long ere the bright
suu of peace shall again illuminate the whole country I
know not; no. man knows; but that question could be
certainty of mathematical demon
stration if we knew how long Northern Democrats
propose to give sympathy, encouragement, and comfort
to the rebeu of the South. When the efforts of North
ern sympathizers with, treason shall cease, peace will ■
return to the country within thirty days. For the last
r?-° £? ar av tke rebels have lived upon the hope which
this Northern sympathy has afforded them. Take
away that hope, and their cause will.crnmble like
a withered leaf.-if we but do our duty to the Go
vernment asloyat citizens the work of suppressing this
rebellion will be accomplished. :But it is fruitless
to seed onr sons to the front if we do not do our duty at
home [Ghsers.3 In this crisis and at this time, abal
lot at notte is as efficient for the came of liberty as a
'bullet shot at the rebels in the fielti. We, as civilians, :
have a duty to i>crform not less important than the
duty, of those Who b«-ar the lt is to send
io onr soldiers the cheering intelligence that we,
at; the .polls,: will imitate what Phil Sheridan is
doing in , the ? Shenandoah Valley. [Loud caeera, 3
And We will do it. , [Renewed apphuse.3 Of ail
the elections which we have’ heretofore had *in
this country, none have equalled or approached in im
portance that upon which we are about entering, It is
to whether we shall have a Government or
not;_it is tc determine whether, having a Government,
we will-Perpetuate it. ■ I know : that we will do our
duty. We.;Will support onr army. We will preserve
this Government, ifre will hold it up for the ad
fHaierlovera of liberty all over world.
Who in a3l thismighty conclave can comprehend the
importance of this election ? I own that the brain of
man is not capable of grasping the importance of the
question. Shall republican ineiitutions be per
petuated or go with the eternal night
of despotiem 7 I want to invite your atten
tion to what- is the -true condition with which
onr country is . divided. While I have a platform
very brief in its terms I want to dissect a platform
put up t by r a party at Chicago; its fathers wouldn’t
know it. [Laughter. 3 There is only one parallel in my
recollection which shows how low a seme these men
occupy. _When onr army was passing through Jersey,
rn tno, Bevolutiou, and the question in every pa
triot . heart was whether, the Colonies would
maintain a free Government, a ! man by ' the
name of-Hook went-through ail the camps of the
ail the armies of the Colonial Government,
ke/hfied keef, beef, beef! ho wanted pay for-his
beef; that's all he comprehended about the struggle of
a people for fret dom.- There was a party at Cliicaso,
and they cried party, party, party ! Who are the men
ofthe party m Philadelphia? who are the Randalls,
the Reeds. I don’t mean Judge Read, for he is as true a
man as God Almighty ever made. Well, these men went
to Chicago party, party Democrats!
Why, they ought to have been hooked on to that Hook
of revolutionary times, for they were both patriotic.
[Laughter. 3 Inithe first resolution ofthe platform they
say that, m the future, as in the past, they will adhere
to the Union under the Constitution I may tax von
by recni-rinx to what is familiar to yon In history
what are theY going to do in the future? Why,
they are going, to do what they have done in the
past. - What have-they done'in the past? They
brought this war upon us. They stole our arms
from onr arsenals, and smt them down South. Kemem
hor, molhe'rs; that the muskets that sfint the ball into
yonr sons’ hearts were stolen from the United States ar
smals hy the rebels of the South under James Bocha-
Ean, [Cbceis ] It has been the habit of my life to
speak as I think under a Urrsident who was either a
traitor Jor a coward. [Cries of “Both, both ”3
That toa, he: I’ll Ist you fix it. They sent
our navy to distant parts where it could not he
used against the rebellion. The gallant old General
Scott couldn't get a battalion of men on the day of the
inauguration of President Lincoln. The soldiers were
ail abroad,, and 1 thank God there wasn’t arebel In
therante. There is no doubt that they are,for the
Tutore ss in the past.: I.don’t know where that
bright idea came from, hut it is certain that such
a declaration was satisfactory to rebels in the
South, and to .rebel sympathizers. in the North.
We are for the Union in tie futnie as we have been for
it in the past. [Laughter. 3 It mav have been the pri.
mary object. In October,lB6o, General Scott addnseed
a letter to the President, in which he said he saw trou
ble in thehnizon; that there were wicKedmenia the
South who intended to bring war on the country, and
he recommended that fortifiealiohe should he increased
in effectiveness, and the 'forts better garrisoned—
protect: the nation wi;h the free :people of the
North. Bui the dotard who lives up here in Penn-,
sjlvania didn’t see il. I hold that the rebellion
could have been crushed by almost a mere handful of
men. But they.as they were for the Union in the future
ns in the past, couldn't see it Tho question of State
sovereignly in 1832 rear.d its head. When Andrew
Jaikrsn was at the head of the Government [ know the
asperity that ran through the community. There iB not
a. mail living to-day who does not wish he was at the
htßd of-.tbe Government He put his heel upon it, and
your worthy President did net do it Taking their ad
missions wekuow where we would And themtnthefu
tuie. Wedon’t want any such kind of stnffm these days
Let me come to the nea t resolution, X,,want to state
me fact. Under the administration of James Buchanan,
he allowtd eiaht States, before'Abraham Lincoln was
iiangurated. to do what they cilled secede from the
Union, and nothing was done to check it. Let me call
your attention to the next resolution. 1 In ad
dition to that. i» it not true, that subsequent to
the commencement of,the. war that party.has thrown
every embarrassnent in its way? Have nol tbeysaltL
it was dttpotic? Have m t they dtnc all they cottlw
to aid ihe robels and retard the progress of the tTalon
men? They have done all this; they have Kept the
breath of life in the nostrils of the rebellion there and
here. The neat point in their declaration is; it ear
plicitly declares that as the sense of the American
people'these four years of war hare proved a failure.
"Who sent them opt there to speak the sentiment of the
American I can only think of one other piece
<ff arrogance equal to it, and that is when* the devil
took the. Son of Man np into a mountain and offered
him fall the kingdoms of the earth when he
didn’t own a piece of land as big as my thumb--
nail; [Laugher and applause 3 Well, the next pro
position is that four years of war have proved a failure.
Wehave*hadbuttwoyearßOf war. Let us see. Abra
ham Lincoln was inaugurated in March, 1851*■■ Mc-
Clellan-commanded the army for two rears. There
was no war then. [Great applause ! Now.this war
has bees a failure? We’ve ooly had eighteen months
of war, and what have we done? From an area of
territory which the rebels held at that time,
we have now six-eighths of it. They had a population
of twelve million souls on that day* now there are
but four millions. There is something in the heart of
man which leadß him to admire a gallant maa, even if
he be not engaged in the best of causes. We have
reaped more territory from rebellion than ever Napo
leon .did. Nothing has been done— the war’s a
failure I Where’s Maryland? CGheere.l Whera’s
Western Virginia, with her mountain homes, where
freedom loves to dwell? Where’s Missouri, Tennessee, ,
the Lome, of the gallant Andrew Johnsdn—Cchsers3—
Louisiana,-Arkansas, to say nothing of Georgia, which
the gallant Sherman bas conquered? There’s been
nothing done? I suppose they reason jrom their own
hi pothesis. The Bred Scott decision says that a. slave
has no rightswbich a white man is bound to respect
I* say that a rebel has no rights which a nigger is bound
to respect. , The next paragraph is that imme
diate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities*.
I have no doubt when Pharaoh attempted to lead his
troops through the Red Sea, and they were eugalphed.
that he wanted a cessation of hostilities. [Laughter. !
I ought to have impressed upon your minds 1 that
the whole of these resolutions were a cheat and a
humbug. They put upon them a man-who was in
lave r or prosecuting the war and a man who was
opposed to prosecuting it. It was good, to Lord and
good to devil, good devil was a.t the bottom of it;
cessation of hostilities means a recognition of the
Smth. Old Grant has got the rebellion by the throat;
[Great cheenng.l Sheridan has got in the rear. He
never went down to a gunboat/ He'rescued'victory
from the jaws of. defeat.-Farragut has got them iuthe
front, and Sherman in the heart Give them a little
more time to get up another army i They want an
armistice. There is no other way to do it bat to
crush ont rebellion. Men of Pennsylvania, yon ate
to be subjugated, or to subjugate the rebels.
Here, in your beautiful State, liberty must chant its
cheering strains, or rebellion must subdue. I don’t
like the way I state it. There is no doubt about it;
Shall the tnn rise to-morrow, so shall ,we conquer re
bellion overcome every obstacle that opposes
it. [Cheers.] That great flag, which hag floated
over us until now, shall float on and ever over
the .whole land of the free. They want a cessa
tion of hostilities with a view to an ultimate con
vention of the States.’. They want Union as it was
and Ihe Constitution: as it is, and' they go off
to Chicago and talk about a Convention to change It.
My friends, here, in your city, a mob may arise, they
maygend the hellhounds of arson and plunder abroad,
s nd when your Government has got them in its power,
up steps the leader of the mob, and says, let’s have au
armistice. Hell negotiating with Heaven I Here are
the rebels with arms in their hands. They have called
us cowards, and I think we would deserve to be called
cowards if we ever submitted to this resolution in the
Chicago platform The rebels call us Yankees, r. be
lieve they call all the North Yankees. I feel very
much at home here to-night. I think we all love
liberty, and will fight for it to the end—or any other
peaceable means. JSow mark that. Yon will find it, as
X said, a fraud and a cheat. There are only two me
thods of amending the Constitution—one by two-thirds
of Congress, andthe other by two-thirds of the States
to propose to hold a Convention to amend the Constitu
tion, and if that Convention be held, and three-fourths
appiove the amendment, the amendment shall be
adopted, bow shall this Convention be got up by the
Chicago party ? When is theultimate Convention to take
place-fifty years from now, ten years ? Humbug; it ts to
hoodwink the people. Where are you to get two-thirds of
your Congrese.to do it ? where two-thirds of the States ?
You can’t do it—twenty• one out of thirty-four States,
who arc gomg to invite these rebels to lay down their
arms? It can tbe done. lam taxing you more than I
intended. There is one lt declares
that this as now administered, is a
despotism.. .The freedom of speech and of the
3sn *l V orfch -, answering. I
wiibouly say that mien go forth aud utter- words of
treason, for which they should be hung. Of the prase,
witness the The Age [hisses], of your city, or any other
equally small paper in aay other city. Why the free-.
fS.^ ?f 018 pr88B? , Tll ey Si’’ B the lie by
their actions to their own assertions. [Applause, j I
live inn little city down East, of about 20,000 popala
tkey know me, and I believe
that in that little city the administration of sound Jus
tice to about five menthereand there never would have -
been any disloyalty. Why, out of 5,000 Democratic
voief there that party born citizens.
McCleUan, inhis letter, islor prosecuting this war uu
fallherebeUioms crushed out. It would he an awful
wbrie before lie would do it: [Laughter.] The eaudl
date is war—the platform is peace. ,£Good Lord, good
devil.] If puts me in mind of a story of a hoy who was
sent to a grocery with a pig, as a-present to a neighbor.
On hm way, for a joke, the pie was taken from the bas
ket and a.pup'-.substituted.: Whenhetook the present
.he said, Mr. A , here's a'pigmy master sent you as a
present.” On opening the basket a pup aud not a pig
wasfound. * Why, youraecal, thislea;pup. 1 ’ On hi-;
way home to his master the pup wa. taken out aud the
pig.again, returned. He gave his master the basket
umi laid, Master, Mr. A. was very, mad about that
PUP that you sect him for a pig. ” ” Why, what do you
mean, sir ? said the piaster. An Investigation of the
.basket revealed the pig. ‘ Why, ’ > said the lad, “ I he-
Heve.that thing is a[P up or pig just as It wants to itself. ’
: It's just, so with, the Chicago platform Jit’s a pig ora
puppy, just as you.please. , Sou have two sets of can
didates before you. Ton have Abraham Lincoln, the
houeßt and Incorruptible, patriot. . I have a veneration
for that man wholed our armies through the Eevolu
tion—Oeorge Washington—but I tell you no purer im
pulses everbeat in his heart than beat in the heart of
Abransm Lincoln, . [Great cheering.] I say more—a
more patriotic mannever breathed thepureair ofheavon
than Andrew Johnson'; [Cheers ] I have known him
for years, long and well, aud-whenjthe parricidal
arm was reared m rebellion he stood faithful
amongst the faithless. We ars infamous if Wedon’t
support our country. Bnt a man reared in the Southern
btates, and who has seen his family strippedfrom him,
and has hesn.prevented from association with them,
shows conclusively that he deserves our support far
more ahundantly.thau if he had been reared in our
Government. If he should have to administer the Go
vernment the rebellion would find a mighty strong
hand on its throat. We ought to elect this ticket, if
we . were; to elect a more radical man than Abraham
Lincoln the whole world would say that there' was
patriotism enough in the country to carry it through
the severest war We must sustain it, because the
lovers of liberty all over the world are gazingupon us.
Other republics have existed and fallen, but they were
net republics. .Beyond tht obligations which rest upon
ns, what is that we owe to thegallant men in the South
who have stood up for us? Woult we stand by them?'
Beyond all that, the holy dead—their spirits are hover
ing around us,. and watching to see that we are true to
them, and will vindicate the blood they have shed for
their country. [Applause.] How is this thing ,to be
done? I ought to have alluded to the candidate for Tice
I resident of the Opposition party. He 1b the puppy oft he
party« He never did anything to carry on the War,and
he said once:,” Let trar erring brothers go "in peace.”
t will not go back. The only way to do is to crash oat
the rebellion.. It.can only be settled by determining
through all time that the majority shall rule. This,
trouble cannot and consequently ought not to be settled
till treason is pumt hed as i t should be. This damnable
heresy most be settled. Thors is no such tiling as State
sovereignty, .Stale rights I admit to tlieirfnllest extant,
a hydra headed monster.with thirty-four heads sack
ing up and tails wagging whenever and however they
please. The States have rights, but not sovereign
rights. Cana State declare war, levy taxes? There
is no such thing..We wont settM this question,' and
can’t settle it, until it isl acknowledged? that the Go
vernment ib supreme One other idea.' We can’t settle
this question until [slavery .is".swept from..the land.
[Loud .and long, continued cheering] They tell us that
we have changed the purpose of the war.' I say-no
r A. ov<sl 7 t !} 1 . 118 tha , t ,i? l<!r ''- reß with the putting down
ot the rebellion and the restorationmust be sweptaway
and when it came in between us it too must go What
two or three years ago it would have been a crime and
a smto do, ; it wonld be a crime and a sin not to do
“ ow - There lB not a man in this country who does not
know that slavery lies at the bottom of the rebellion,
and it must be swept away. Here, in your city, what
ten years ago would have been a wrong to do, would
to-da-rbe a wrong nut to do. a man has no right to in
vade the domicil of another. The; English Taw says
that the wind may hover at a peasant’s fireside, but
his prince may not, . But if a-flre: breaks out in the
haute of one of-your citizens, it would he wrong for
citizens ..not-. to p-break into tlat house and
quench the last spark of that fire. By ne
glecting so to do the whble city might be
renuced to azhes. I. thank you for your kind atten
tion, and beg pardon for having occupied it so lone
In a few revolving years we will all be laid in the
dcst. We have a duty to perform, and we owe it to our
children to perform it well. Here to-night, myfriends.
let ns swear upon the altar of our country—as Hanni
bal swore at his father’s knee eternal enmity to Home :
so let us swear eternal fidelity to our country and to
liberty. Let ns look up at that old flag, and beneath
Us ample tolds let ns resolve to live in liberty, or let us
die in Its defence, - •
At the conclusion of Mr.'Hamlin’s speech, Mr.
Eiche proposed three cheers for Y’ice President
Hamlin, which were given with a will. Three cheers
for Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, were then given. Mr. Hamlin then proposed
three rousing cheers for “ Our Country.” Almost
the entire audience rose to their feet and gave throe
of the heartiest cheers ever heard, and the wildest
enthusiasm prevailed.: Mr. Eiche then introduced
Major Deertag, who delivered a patriotic address,
which was forcibly delivered and weli received. At
its conclusion the immense audience quietly sepa-
rSIOS LEAGUE MALL.
SPEECH OF HON. THADBBUB STEVENS,
Union League Hall, last evening, was crowded
to overflowing, on the occasion of an address by
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens. Long before 8 o’clock
every seat to the hall was occupied, and scarcely
standing room could be found on the platform or on
the main floor at the time the orator made his ap
pearance. The reception of Mr. Stevens amounted
to a perfect ovation, and it was many minutes after
he was introduced before the applause subsided,
and he was permitted to proceed. .'/-.v-
Air. William H. Perkins presided.
After stating that he labored under a severe at
tack of cold, which’might prevent him from being
heard, and asking the indulgence of his audience In
case they could not catch all he might say, he pro
ceeded : ...
i. ' This is no common occasion. In the midst of treason,
; rebellion, and bloodshed, we have met for no purpose
, i Of mere social enjoyment. Almost within sound of the
; groans of the dying martyrs;, we have assembled to
:. consult on subjects of deep and solemn importance.
Heretofore conventions have been held to consider
Questions of national policy, such as the tariff, the pro
tection'of American industry, and a national currency
These were all grave questions, and might well com
mand- the attention of a free and intelligent people.
But we are now to hold counsel upon the life of the na
tion, upon the preservation of the Republic, and
the future existence of human freedom; This period is
only Ises important and less solemn than that dreadday
when all shall be assembled around the bar.of final
judgment. Let us, then, speak the truth boldly. Let no
one beguile the people with false and flattering tongues
Let none dare to daub with untempered mortar. Prom
this rebellion this Eepublic will emerge reunited, pnri
fied, strengthened, and glorious through all tims&or
wilxsinkinto profound despotism, slavery,and iiifamyv-
On the result of the ensuing election depends the ond-or
the other condition. It may be well briefly to consider
the cause of .this wicked war, for we are often dis
gnsted with the clamor of nigger war! nigger war ’
abolition war!,» Abolition war i issuing From the
parched and foul throats of grog-shop and lager
beer politicians.. [Applause. 3 Indeed this is the great
argument, suggested by knaves and beßeved.bv fools.
. The Constitution df the United States unfortunately con
tained a provision,[forced upon-*onr nnwiiling fathers,
protecting slavery within the States where it then ex
isted.- This provision had been long deplored by the
friends of freedom, but no attempt had ever been made •
to violate it. So long as those for whose benefit it was
made respected the Constitution, the anti-slavery
people of the free States obeyed all its Injunctions In
, all the debates and alt the measures in Congress, until
the secession of the Southern States, ao one can find a
single suggestion or proposition to disturb slavery in
the slave States. The Republicans contended that that
accursed institution should not he; permitted to extend
into: free-soil. [Applause. 3 They asked for nothing
more,--Slaveholders contended that slavery wal
the proper condition of. the laboring classes without
regard to color—that capital had a right to own labor.
™I “I« to6ee tt spread oy. r the, whole nation, so
that Eoutbern masters “conid eail the roll of their
slaves at the foot of bunker Hill Monument.” White
the North agitated for the preservation of freedom, the
South agitated for tbs spread of slavery. Our free Ter
ritories wereprotecifd from, slavery by tbe Ordinance
of 1787, drawn by Jefferson, aud re-enacted when ae
ceasary.' The public lands were reserved for free set
tl* re. Bat the institution was untouched. Such
was the.conditicn of things when the election of 1860
took place. The Constitution provided that a majority
of the electoral votes cast should make the President.
No one pretended that the election was unfair. Mr. Lin
coln haaamajority of all the votes, and was proclaimed
Presicent. The slaveholders , resolved that he should
never take his seat They proposed first to murder
him, and failing in that,, to resist his inauguration
You remember how Lieut. Gen. Bcott deemed it neces*
fcary to fill Washington with ail our available forces on
the 4th of March, 1861. In,the meantime Conventions
had been held, and States nad declaied themselves oat
of the Union, The rebels then seized HarS^’aTerry
armory; and all the public property there. They seized
o mfnl on ßfPn for i ß "WMis, and navy S '
and mints, with hundreds of millions of United stTro.
property,.. Still.ihe Government made no war Bat at
length they had the audacity to fire on the Ameri!
can . flag, .followed by an assault upon and' the
capture of Fort Sumpter. This was war Who
it?. Ehame.gn those who falsely charge thiß wav
: en the Administration, or to ihe people of fhe ’HoSh
[Arplause, ] ,Tt .was but the cousummatiou of a-r-T
spiracy to dissolve the Union, which hid hMn dS
liheraicly concocting ;or th ! rty years I
: they could not ex! end slavery over the" whole
: they determined to cut the nation in On rhT 1 ’
part found in aristocratic emplro whose S! 1 ,
1 should be slavery This an AboiiTioT f ri
war begun lor the abolition offretilnln 1 a
[Tremendous applause! ]If w« a{fc~°L° f
succeed, if we el ct McClellan and (mji-.'T 116 re Nels to
of“ve» Souttir? 3 I^heCong!e!|
hiK l membot who left his seat to join
felted A d
The hYrrh w iL-, which tfcw would have.
tlmid men. The Congress of 1&S0
8 ~,“ r US »«L«r Personal bravery, feut with less moral
1 5-tv * S.? , ' re Bh “ ked We prosp-ct of civil
fmdimlK, 16 sneeae friends of the Union end of
bldnd^.’aT S l ’if Preferred the slavery of ethers to the
the duet h.frSn U “ , Th-y humbled ihemseivee lu.
™ Southerninsolence. To avoid thethreat
’ \ to iho. traitors; they al ai‘>3fc
adopted the nfamous Critteudev'resolii
titv. ofiwedrso-to ame©d ihe Oonstimiion to
*, ■aboixtioa of slavery impossible,eyanio a ooa*
The flaveboldiog inadmeu -rejeoted
-aud spurned the prostrate sunpll
/.ute while yet koeciuig in »he dust. [ >:] Their
i fi>Uy.ms tbs of fceedom. Sad. sot tia gods
m*dB them mad, we should this day hare been la
Smokies, instead of having stricken them from others.
thus forced uppn< us we hare expended
wiHnns of money and sacrificed hundreds of thousands
of thebeßtUvesofthe nation. fihall-that treasure be
expended—above all, shall that precious blood be shed
Til Vain? ’There are those among ns, half traitors and
half cowards, who advise ns to withdraw onr armies
and tmefor peace. The candidates for the Presidency
stand’ upon two distinct ami very different platforms.
Mr Lincoln, If elected, stands pledged by the Balti
more resolutions to prosecute the war until the rebels
submit. [Applause. 3 The® in readjusting the wovern
ment he is bound to insist upon the integrity of the union
as it was, and the Constitution as it should be, with
e e a^fi^
the withdrawal of onr armies so that the rebels may
secure their independence on their, own terms., Mc-
Clellan's letter aceopting. the nomination insists on
maintaining .the Union by force .of arms; but agrees to
leave slavery untouched. It is fair to say that the 1 great
difference betweett-McCiellan and Lincoln is, the former
agrees to mako peace and- readmit «fch.e-ferai to xs.witli
slavery in all i heir States. Lioco! n Insists that slavery,'
that cause of all our wo«s. shall become extinct. [Long-,
continued applause 1 In all wars the conqueror has a
right to demand indemnity for the past and' security for
the future. All must perceive that there can be no per
manent security .whileßlavenr exists. Eor boib. reasons,
therefore, we have a right to demand its t otal extinction.
There a?e not a few among ns whose tender consciences
and public, judgments induce them to., believe tuat in
any future reconstruction of our Government wears
restrained by the Constitution from insisting onfche
abolition of slavery, but that we must - accept the
“Unionasit was and the Constitution as it is ' .This
.is a most pernicious idea. Let us inquire into its
validity* The Constitution was a compact, a treaty,
an agreement between the-, people of the .united States,
mutually bindingon all. It was ratified by the States in
their corporate'capacity. All the people of each State
did not agree to it There were large minorities. But the
majority haying decided, all werebound. So long as this
compact was kept by thecontracfcingpariies, every part
of the Conetiinfion was binding on all. If individuals
or combinations' violated it, th&y could be punished
by the municipal authorities; so long as thelaws could
be executed, such infractions amounted to crimes, to
be punished by the regular tribunals, but they released
no one from hia obligation to sustain the Constitution.
But when whole States rose in rebellion: when nearly
half of those quasi sovereignties, banded together, de
clared their independence, and by formal decrees threw
off their allegiance to the union; declared the Constitu
tion no longer binding; formed a separate and distinct
government; raised large armies; and not only for
months bnt for years maintained their independence
de facto, and were acknowledged, by all as a belligerent
power, their acts were no longer to be treated as
crimes within the Constitution, so as to enable, them,
or their advocates for them, to claim its protection.
By the well-known law of nations war dissolves all
compacts all treaties between contracting
parlies, when peace comes, ail compacts and former
treaties are not to be revived “as they were ” without
the consent of the conqueror. It would he absurd- to
allow a belligerent, after having attempted the destruc
tion of his adversary and failed, after having pro
claimed all treaties at an end, to come back and claim
the pro ection/of those spumed treaties, and to be re
instated in all his former rights after his injnrtd adver-#
sary had triumphed and reduced him to submission.
[Appl ause. ] The South never had any protcctio&fflpr their
slaves except through an unfortunate clause in the Con
stitution.- The provision is stricken out by themselves.
Their relations to the United States noware governed by
the laws of war jand the law of nations only. By the law
of nations, as now recognized by the whole civilized
world, there can be no slavery. Thank God, all writers
now agree that “man can hold no property in man. ”
So far as we are bound to admit, there :is not a slave on
the American Continent. Before the proclamation of
freedom their own acts and the operation of National law
had set every bondman free. Shall we now agree, for
the sahe of a disgraceful and precarious peace, tore-en
slave 4,000,0C0 of human beings? Shall we bearthe
burdens which are 'to oppress our posterity forages,
unless we make the rebels reimburse us? Shall we
suffer the shades of our murdered citizens to wander
unavenged, and aid: to rivet the chains upon a whole
race of' God } s children* that we may purchase the poor
boon of a temporary peace from triumphant traitors ?
If we are men we will resist it to the death; if we are
Christians we will sooner suffer martyrdom. I know
no difference between those who advocate this slave
doctrine and the professional man-stealer who plies his
hellish trade bn. the coast of Africa. [Cheers. ] Tn dis- .
cussing this question I' purposely omit all arguments
derived from the fact that each a peace would be but a
hollpw truce, to.be followed by renewed wars as soon
as the rebels had sufficiently recruited their strength.
Lput it on the higher grounds of moral obligation and
Christian duty; I put it, also, on the high ground of the
vindication of human liberty throughout the world.
I know there are those in the Republican ranks
who have proposed peace on the single ground of
the integrity of the union; leaders of our phalanx;
once chiefs in the “irrepressible conflict” between
liberty and slavery; journalists whoass timed to be
thunderers in our literary corps have' advised to nego
tiate on .the simple condition of the maintenance of
the Union. : They have even suggested -that the im
mortal Proclamation of Freedom should not stand in the
way. They have said that this was not a question of
‘-freedom, but a question of the Union.” Such men
deserve to be rebuked by all the true friends of f ‘ Union
and Liberty.” . [Applause.!' Can it be that, alter
having proclaimed freedom tb all; after having en
rolled these’freemen in j after they have
fought and bJed, and many of them died, side bj
side with our gallant soldiers, we are mean
and base enough to betray them, and surren
der them to'the tender'mercy of their traitor
masters, to shackles, to torture, and to death? Can
Retublicans or Democrats* whether in .the Cabinet
or out of the Cabinet, who make such suggestions, be
aught else than miserable cowards or moral traitors ?
;It ia no excuse to plead that the “ spirit is willing, bnt
thefieshisweak.- Men who aspire to march, at the
of a nation, and to be foremost in the party of
progress, have no right to tremble and despair when
danger threatens. My young friends, Iknownot how
such poltroonery stirs your warm blood, but, old as I
am,!t .makes the blood boil in my thin, worn veins
It is not by such trembling and trimming in compro
mises that .great nations are established or sustained,
where would have been the liberties of Switzerland,
if william Tell and her great men had fainted when
the .first dark cloud overshadowed-them? Did Rome
succumb when Hannibal overran Italy, and thun
dered at her gates? Where would have been the
Dutch republic? where;.the independence of the
Ketheriands, had not William the Silent remained
unshaken, for-fifteen years, amidst defeated
armies, and burning cities, and slaughtered citizens,
refused all offers of compromise shoi t of independence 9
His firm principles and iron will wrung from the
haughty Spaniard the independence of his country. Be
admonished by the example of your own heroic ances
tors. . For eight years of unparalleled suffering, with
but three millions of people, with their armies often
reduced to a mere handful of men, they preserved an
unshaken fortitude, compelled England to submit to
the dismemberment of her empire, and finally estab
lished the immortal principle ** that all men are horn
free and equal. 7 Shame on their degenerate sons, who
with twenty. millions of people cower before the dark
banner of slavery! Thoy are not legitimate descendants
of wasbitgtonr and Adams, aad-Jefferson, and the
heroes of tbeKeyolution. There have been some foul
practices, some taint of the blood, some crossing of the
breed. They Have the names, but; not the souls or
lineaments, of their reputed fathers. But in the midst
of all these penis, we have been rescued from the rocks
and shoals by the firm grasp of the pilot at the helm.
P.ising at last above the influence of Border Btate se
duction; and of Eepublican cowardice, he elevated
lumself to the full height of his moral nature, and de
clared, “To all whom It may concern,’ that there
should he; no negotiations except on the basis of the
.integrity of the Union o.nd the abandonment of
slavery. ”- [Long-continued cheering and cries of
- Thai’s-the-doctrine!”! -Weil; may every honest
man; well may every man, who loves God and loves
liberty, exclaim, “Thank God lor _Abraham Lin
coln!” Wiier and firmer than his official or of
ficious admirers, he has saved the nation from '■
disgrace; he has rescued liberty from destruction
lam not about to bestow indiscriminate praise upon all
the acts of the President. .Whoever.’heaps fulsome
eulogy on those m power is a parasite and a sycophant,
and not an honest counsellor. He “ crooks the pregnant
hinges of the knee, that thrift may follow fawning ”
An houeßt critic, who points out the errors of his Mends,
may be believed when La speaks of their, virtues. He
who denies any errors to his idol makes him more than
human, and is entitled to no credit. Mr. Lincoln, at
the commencement of his term,, was beset with difficul
ties such as never environed man. Unfortunately, his
Cabinet was not a unit. His kind nature inclined him'
to lavor .those who were most favorable to our
erring brethren; ” He hesitated to lay the axe
at tie root of the tree, and eradicate the cause
of air our evils. He rejected the counsel of Cameron
and Chase and Stanton in the Cabinet, and Fremont,
and Butler, and; Hunter, and Wadsworth, and Coch
rane in the field; .nd followed that of Seward, and
Blair, and Smith, of his Cabinet, and of tiaileck, and
Buell, and Schofield, and McClellan in the field. They
drove back to their masters fugitives from slavery, and
protested against their freedom. Bnt all this is In the
process of correction Some of them have no longer
power. Hone of them have influence any longer. Fre
mont; and Cochrane, With a magnanimity which does
them great credit, have merged their private griefs in
the love of their country, and cordially support the
Baltimore nominees. The slanderer of the Eepublican
party,, who. charges them with intending - “negro
equality, fraternity, and amalgamation," though '
long spared, hasatlast heard the solemn sound, • ‘ Ttiv
time has, come.” The President has ordered-ail
hie generals to -receive, and sot free all - fugitives
from bondage. Above all, he has declared that
there shall be no compromise with traitors. . Submis
sion, the integrity of the Union, and the abandonment
of slavery are his only terms. Let ns forget that he ever
erred, anct support him with redoubled energy. Who ■
is this McClellan that he should reign over ns 3 [A voice
‘ • Gunboat engineer,' ’ and laughter. ] Well, he conidn’t
engineer his own bi idge. [Laughter and applause 1 I
shall not-imitate our opponents and make personal
attacks on their candidate. I knew his father well He
was an intimate friend of mine. For his sake, I wished
well to his amiable son when he first rose into notice
For quickness of perception and decision of character
he had no superior. I had hoped that his son had in
herited these characteristics. It wasno fault of his that
he falls far behind his ancestor in those great qualities
He is, I have no doubt, a mild,kind-hearted gentleman.
It would make his heart bleed to tee a traitor suffer We
have the authority of an able Border-State gentleman
who so long assisted to mislead the P,esident,that he is
a gentleman of refined education and polished manners
1 r J Cß ““ b . e , r that while McClellan, with one hundred
and, fifty thousand men, ■ lay before Washington, be
sieged fprnise months by General Lee, with fifty titou
sand soldiers and twenty Quaker guns, he was deemed
the neatest clad officer m the army. Ho man on dress
paiade created so great; a sensation among the ladies 5
A ll . 6 , 1 ,T all<:d ., ’dear little band-box Mac ’’
[Laughter and applause. ] In these qualities it must be
confessed that Lincoln is no match for him His biv
fists were not made to wear kid gloves and walk In
silken saloons. They were made to grasp the oaken
helve and swing the tempered steel of the woodman -
His aims, instead of being artistically rounded and
tapered, aio sinewy, And long as a cyclop’s Korishe
so graceful a -horseman. His legs, instead .of being
padded to fit a quilted saddle, aie long, with ioin’s like
Put astride of Mccfeltank prancing
parade horse,_and yon would think he was walking with
r °? y between his legs. How, IthinkthatGen
McClellan smostfasudiousadmirer.evenJtevirdFjohn-'
son, cannoi complain that In this picture I haye bean
partial, and made his favorite too ugly or Mr Lincoln
S?,??' S i E i ß^ ae 'rf As Physical powers S are their
intellectual If you wish, a delicate-writer to indite
sonnets to a lady s eyebrows, choose MdCieilan If
you wish a rugged Anglo-Saxon wriler to-ronse a na
ww B, s if Lincoln.!f..they should encounter, either
mwitally, the giantgrlp of the Rail
hplitterwill tear the polishf d dandy f rom th« vrS?‘Jwi
and hurl him farther than anlidian shoote hS “ow
Winch of these men will you choose to guide the rolling
5 1 . 11 ;;, 11 ? the midst of a storm ? To brave men theysal
.McOlellan is a general; to peace men they say he is S
enough ofageneral to thwart their views ll amnocaboift
-to revivekis military history. His first g?eat baWe
that gave him notoriety andrai-edhimto the hradofth! -
army was a masterpiece. He fought and woVt?2
the mountains of Westare Virri"°f :?°L w gR., i . t ami<l .
twelve miles. _Few miUtary mmi iofildwhoohwith /
loDger bow. over his pleasant campaign at
Washington.- When he went tSthhPeninsSrhf took
with him one hundred and sixty thousSd fide s-?l
diers. He was delayed at Yorktown for thStv d\v« w
eleven thousand rebel soldiers. When the PresYdjS
gave him peremptory orders to attack their iiies break
through and march to Bichmond, he refused to oblv
and went to digging. This was not his first, nor hTs
offers While that old herof£ieit!
yff: f™. 14 ’ stril commanded our -armies, McClellan
treated him with contsmpt ; and instead of reporting to
him, passed him over and reported directly to the Be-
r w e2l^^ General Scott’s letter to the Secretary
of War shoWB how sensibly he felt the insult-
His grief at insubordination drove him
into retirement. The battle of Antietam was'
fought by Hooker and Burnside, and ether corps com?
mandtrs. while McClellan sat securely parched on a
peak of the South Mountain, three miles in the rear
when that battle was won he refused to pursue the
many, but lay idle for four weeks, until he escaped
with his last wagon. The President ordere# him to
puisne and attack the enemy, bnt for a whole month he
refuted to obey. Ihave said that for some things T
blamed the President, Among the chief of these is his
peimittmg this repeated disobedience of orders to
unpunished. He shonld have ordered him under ar
rest, and had lnm tried by acourt martial for Ms lifu
Afterthe rebels had withdrawn from Yorkbran
permitted McClellan to proceed towards
halted at asafe distance from the town
two montls in the pestilential
ny until fifty thousand olhis brave len wSfsent“to
tne hospital or the grave. He never ventn-L.
tack the enemy. When they sot tiraS
attached iim, he waseereif SJSiffi 14
nnul. far in advance of Msarmr. Ip fS?n5
on board a &nnbf)a.t Afto i lound a safe place
«Saf ai g a lS:
rfi ft i * ar hittlale & bed tears. The chival
lnanvnfflr»«yoiJraTtlt -?, f ; ‘ h ?- bravo, In the midst of
enter Ba : , Pin! Kearney, an old soldier,
\Ve sro4e5 ro4e£ t against this order for retreat.
pf- retreatinir, to follow up the enemy
p? Richmond. And in-foll vieWi of the responsi
of ® uc ! l to you all, each aa
oraer can only he prompted by cowardice or treason.”
L-Appiause. 3 This is not my Jangnage-, It is the lan*
tfoageof thelidjo-hearted-Keamej, sp*akln« from ids
gory bed. McClelian agenerattoleadtlß-roes! [Cheers 3
isehad[ better nierehal old women. Those who train
nnder him shonld put on petticoats* take the distaff,
and twirl the flying spindle. He may he an. excellent
for a peaceable war, but brave men will nevOr
choose him to lead in bloody etrite; It were more fit
ting for him to enjoy hi? major geaerhl’s salary in thA
midst of a nest of Mew Jersey Copperheads Pnf
these Demccrats in to persuade the rebels to
peace? notkesa-the peach whSiUtw
-were in ? Why did they not prevent the South,from
raising the bloody-standard of revolt? Such'talkS
idle foils;. There can.be no honorable, lasting pbace
except through viLtorious.wa.i You areon®®!|ht
read now. Bid Grant ard hts brave generalaand sol
diera follow “P.ft®} 1 P*®d!e-maklng_mea«nrss [cbeers
<or Grant!, and they wiil wed no Woods, Yallandie-
Chilians to .help them Thu artumenis
ot the McCletlamtes are-addr&ssed to the fears and the
avarics-pf the people They have mistaken,tiie charac
ter ofonr countrymen.;- This is not a nationof cowards,
cut of brave and generous men. Tbis is. not a fitrol
people; but they are trained to perseverance. It may
be said of them aa was said of the German-ancestors of
some of them; “Otheas go to battle, but these make
war. ” Cowards may skulk and run, howling Kiesar.
bigger! Abolition, Abolitnn! traitors! but brave men
willbear aloft the stars and stripes, the banner o£?h»
undivided Union. Pat into pdwet those who love
peace,bnt knowhow to coaqtvßnpthose who will wros
serve the Union, and vlndicataigni,versai lihertv VlhT
ever, Whether In power or ant of it, whether PrfS'
dent. Cabinet, oradvisere, wl» shaUprowse peace with;
Ijr. Stevens retire amid a shower of applause/
Hon, wm. h. Armstrong, of Lycoming county,
followed In av'plflEodand patriot!,,,
the close attain,’oa of the aniii.^
Wayne 'o* 0 * Esq.., Gf C'h es . n 5?:
the- closing addret's. It was :
gulshed gentleman *"as enthusiast;?. T
The meeting adjonmt'd with g W ,V„!‘ ! *i:
Union. . ' °
Address of »r Mat, '*»<>. r ,i .
Amerieaat, ’H;.
The Ashton and StalybrVge in.. '
October Ist, says:
On Monday evening last, the B«~ -
London, who has latalv return 9>i’V' r '
America, delivered a lecture in ,
the Town Hall, Ashton-under-T ?*.->: l --
Bey. J. P. Hopps. The chair wasoe v'V
Massn, Esq. The room was crow.A
those present we noticed many
tlemen of the town and neighborh-f-. l '-
Dr. Hassle, on rising', was receiv -, "
prolonged cheering. When sil?r -'. n
he said ho hoped he should dese--'-'.
the close of his address as cordial] ‘ ’
them when he was Introduced to ’twC ; ’
and considerate remarks of the e - .
not know the gentleman whose w,.:~ -
that meeting In person, In chara* ~ '
and whatever he might say la an e ,
he had advanced, must be receive -
against a shadow. He believed tt, ,
present, and he hoped he would be ay,
as much respect for him (the le Lbr 1
lecturer) desired to entertain to-.-, ■ r i
hear.] He disclaimed partisans.,.,
that men could not take a side In •' „ r
being identified with a party. He -
not ashamed of his party. [Cheer i P ’
the working man—[cheers]—the y,
Lancashire, as well as the working a,,”: !
Louisiana, the North and South
and Tennessee.. [Hear, hear.] He
America, and he had met face to
man and the white man, and had fcl c it ?, • V
to seek to remove the opprobrium wh-; ~H- upon
upon the minds of his friends In Atncfriv i:
the people of England, and he nave' <ti
successfully than by telling them ;
nig man of Lancashire, even when tu*
food sufficient for them and for Vi'
repudiated, with their hard
hands held up, all sympathy with 4,
because the leaders of the South want'
the working-men their slaves [ehecrs]-VrV. :
man, but the working-man, be he bla-s
[Hear, hear.] And if they would in ,V !
graphic and extremely Interesting accout
EdmundElrke of the Interview with Jeff.-i'
at Eiohmond, they would find that Jefiet
said, concerning the North, “ They b
away 2,000,000 of our slaves already; i et '.'
the other 2,000,000; they are welcome. '
fight for slavery, but we fight for r-,
of governing ourselves on our own
What were those principles that tiiV
their own 1 That the laboring
be their slaves everywhere [hear,
that the aristocracy of the South ,
the lords of creation, and that the iaW
of the South should be their slaves, in a no
dition, whose only destiny in creation w*
the black arch upholding the republic r]-:
cratle South. Now, he was not ashaasi
party. He came to them (the audience
party. He did not belong to Lord BjA
party. He did not belong to those who y
tie North was fighting for dominion, V
South was. fighting for liberty, for he h
the liberty the South fought lor was the i
to'wallop their niggers. [Cheers,] Hs h!
that God had made all men everywhere
as It regarded their powers of bodv. a„,
susceptibilities of instruction, improve™!!,
enlargement of mind. He believed tint")
lored people; In their circumstances
much adaptation to such development as y’
In the circumstances In whieh they wer
and, therefore, for his part, notwithstai
sheer and the smile (about amalgamate
lleved that the black man was his brother a
he was entitled to Us .sympathy as much’as
eon Davls was, or any other man amontrst
Southern Confederates. [Hear, hoar.] “1
Jefferson Davis said he had been trying f»
years to accomplish a deliverance for th
ft om the bondage. of the North, but he fr
unable, and therefore he had_proclaimed tt
Sentience of the South. A bad time tri
ad the four years of Buchanan, the Pre
when they had Jefferson Davis himself anf
membors.of the Cabinet! A bad time wh*.
could send the ships of war to other parts*
world! A bad time when they could filch tb
fury of the United States, and leave p
empty! [Cheers.] Yes,itwasabadtlmefi
able men. [Loud cheers.] His frieni. hi
said that nobody had a right to complain <
States were warranted to secede; and he’i
distinction between those that united of tW
accord in the Government, and those thi
made to unite by conquest. Xe dared say t
already that he (the lecturer) was a Scot
[Laughter and cheers.] : And yet he hadtt
deuce to tell Scotchmen that they were cot
[Laughter.] The Scotch conquered! l
Scotch gave them a king.: [Cheers and H a ,
A very pretty fool he was, he would admit r
and laughter] ; but they were glad to have!
order to have peace. Conquer the Scotch
try it [Cheers and laughter.]
, All that could be said of the Constitute
Terence to slavery was certain expressions
tog persons held to service. So exceeding]
lous, so squeamish, so anxious to find d
mark of a despot that had- gradually *
itself, and proved the curse and crime of -
that they who planned, erected, develop
mastered the Constitution of the United
spoke not of slavery. They spoke of per.-,,
to service. An apprentice was held to ■
and if an apprentice were to leave Aste
he had signed his indentures, and go to
having escaped from his master ~wMt
to service, the people of York would be
to give him up. And It was in top
alter the slave trade had been aboik
1808 slavery Itself would gradually die or
the bright-blooded men of constitutions)'
of America spoke thus gently of the syrte'er’
ry. Who would say that Benjamin Franklii
to perpetuate slavery 1 Who would say th?r
Henry meant to-perpetuate slavery! >;>,•
them. Jefferson himself groaned and cri
his deathbed because the masters were or
the slayes; and he saw the time comuw
country would be, like a thunderbolt, «=,
the existence of slavery. They, however a
this—and it was this that had been the tri,
republicanism of America. He was per=oßd
It had been the only blot that had exist*,!
country. But he would tell the Eevereid
man wno had delivered the previous lectors
did not already know it—that it had beet
purpose of maintaining that slavery that tf
ern States had, from time to time, sonant >
[ division, disunion, and alarm, and to domi
! the States of the North. [Cheers 1
Be referred to Mr. Alexander Stephens, win
admitted that the South had always pose;
control of the Government; had a mai«riti
Presidents chosen from among themselves, i
management of those chosen from ami
.Northhad sixty years of Presidents, v’>
• Northhad only twenty-four; had eiahtecr
of the Supreme Court, whilst only eievei
from the North; and these they had ref,
guard against any interpretation of the t
tion detrimental to Southern interests. Tt
dents of the Senate had been twenty-foa/
South, against eleven for the NorJ
Speakers of the House, twenty-three to 1
Attorney Generals, fourteen for the
against five for the North; and ford
ulsters, eighty-Bix to fifty-four, though
fourths of the business requiring ili
agencies abroad wa3 from the free Stas
higher officers of the army and navy were
vast majority, men of the South, while the
and sailors were Northerners—the worki
after all. More than two-thirds of theclers
tors, and others, filling the executive defat
—2,000 out of 3,000 for the last fifty yeirs-hs
the nominees of the South, though oalv «
of the whole population of the entire "con
longed to the South. More than three-foo
the revenue collected for the support of t
- vernment had uniformly been raised by the
There was a great difference there from w
gentleman told them in the last lecture
South brought the revenue : the Soath brae
commerce; the South brought the wealth:
did they bring It 1 [Laughter.] He would te
what was In the Constitution. He saw they <
like reading, butintheconstltutionit waspret
that if there was any dissatisfaction with tie
of that Constitution there should be a coirs
each separate State to consider what was C
ter of complaint, and to apply the remei;
might he, in their judgment, necessary, Ta=,
to meet by the prescriptions of the Constitaih
when so assembled were to deliberate, were)
up to the: Congress, and the Congress, if w
might themselves deliberate, or appoist
olal convention to consider the matter, h -
anything of this done when Jefferson Ih
his party proclaimed a confederacy'
one instance—not one State had in
.convened—not in one Instance Was there ,
peal to the people. Mr. Lincoln was pte
to submit to-snch an appeal. He suggestei
an appeal. He waited for such an appn
nothing of the kind ever-took place, tin
Lincoln was elected he had, speakinglnriw
bers, eighteen hundred thousand and odd yk<
his electoral colleague. There were twelvs t.
thousand against him : but. seven hundred " : -
of those twelve hundred thousand who vote! s
Mr. Lincoln were for the Union— were fortm
dent that would maintain the Union— wsreo!
to any severance or fraction of the'Unia
nunored thousand) or thereabouts, toich ---
Breckinridge, bnt of those twelve hundred th?
there were almost the entire number iatfeh
States that became Confederate as the
and rebellions States. In looking oyer at.
written by Edmund Klrke, In the Atlantic a
he-found some useful statistics. How at
they think composed the chivalry of the Sc
■the men. that; held more than two, three,
slaves 1 Altogether they amounted to about
and ...these were the men who had been the;
the well, the pump, the power, the
®B«iae of the nation bringing about this
rebellion. Of the other people—farmer-’
laborers, and laborers—not one In
them could either read or write. The
no free schools to the Sonth—no colleges
press—no free labor, and' the result of
was that the people of the South were, in ni
Instances, forced, coerced, and constrained
patbize with those who had been the Coni
leaders of that abominable and destructive re!
In reference to the action of the Government
those people, there was just one little Inside
nected with the President which seemed tf
. &&swer all tliai Us friend had said about (otC‘
employed by the North; Did they knowff!
oath ot the President was % Did they Snow wi
fotii or declaration of every member of Conri
ol 1 hoScnate was? It was that they should ma
the Union—lt.was that they should main:
according to its Constitution, and the Preside:
was made commander-in-chlef. was bound f
-tain that Constitution in the midst of war.
open and outward enemies, and against all.
and rebellious subjects.' It was not Ms bus
say to the people of snch and such a State «
declared they would not submit, “We will It
go.” As well might be let the city of New Vo
and he (the lecturer) .was satisfied that the !!i;
of the citizens of that city were aiders, a?:
and upholders of. the South, and of the ret
which now cursed that country. [Hear.
Why? Because of their Southern procUvitiei-.
Because of their commercial transactions •
"Why? He thought he might say.ifc safelv- 1 ®
many of them were married to Southern®
[Laughter.] They were constrained by cer»
ences, as he thought, to act In that' way; a E<
President were to let 500,000 go, why not let'
and if he let one go, why nob let 500,000 go'
was the uiiierence l . It was-not the majorii
hadneverbeen put to the majority. Ith&
been a question, for the people. It was a
.action that got up what they might call a ■
tion of representatives from the States in A”
or Montgomery, or Jackson, or Maryland, nt
they haffdone It accordtog-to thedirectioto*;
son Davis-arid his man Judas. [Laugtrii;
lecturer next, proceeded to give some ).c-. e ;
formation concerning America, and after
brief history, of his travels ln that country,
menttag at some length npon the slaver? 'I 8
concluded amid loud applause.
Councillor Winstanfey, In propBting s ■;
thanks to the lecturer, said that hs was ?>*;
one point had been settled—and ha thosz tt .-
now been settled effectually—ani that
States did not possess the power to. secede
hear,)’ That being so, they could: desteD !
nothing hut rebels, and rebels, too, ag ain
the best- Governments that was W‘r e-'
since the world began. [Cheers 1
The motion was put and cairieav,- accI s -» 5 ;
his remarks he passed a high eabe-ium
dent Lincoln, and conducted by sayi&? 11,I 1 ,
had raised Mm to. hi& preset DosUion.
do “fH ls work through flaw die hopa' l ';
wonld keep him where ha Vas until hi- 5 sf '
done. [Loud cheers.]
A votejof thanks was than riven to tb* ct
and the proceedings termin' ,ted.
The Tothso Boa Pas*widest cos- , a !Q '\
amendment of the Constitution of Cf a
adopted by the people, in August last,
from that State are? allowed to vote sere*
before the day fixed. -for the Presidential ««■
the State. On the;l3th instant the co®
, appointed by the 0 overaorbegan to cou«
votes on the sou»m side of the James. v
Is said to have Veen fairly conducted.
.notgiven, but a correspondent inticaate
soldlers did nr t stultify themselves by J
■ what they b'*d been for two yeers igWjos