1861. Rustam fwsVgtraau & 'CK c(itt jj t lt 9 l • VhBRSDAK, JtJLY ttf is«t. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN AND T GENESEE EVANGELIST, A WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Published every Thursday , at 1334 Chestnut St Philadelphia, Pa. Devoted to the promotion of sound Christian doctrine and pure religion, especially as connected with the Constitutional Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. TERMS. To Mail Subscribers, two dollars per year IN ADVANCE. , . , , City Subscribers, receiving their paper through » carrier, will be charged fifty cents additional. ■ Ten copies, $15.00, or 1.50 each. Twenty-four copies, 832.00, or 81.33 each, forty copies, 850.00 or 81-25 each. CiitJßoa Sessions desirous of putting a copy into every family in the congregation, will be fa cilitated in their good work by the above rates. OUR OWN OHUROH. Good Nows from the Hill Country of New Jersey.—'l’he first Presbyterian Oiiurch of Frank ford, located at Branehville, (Kev. G.W. Lloyd s,) has of late been visited by the divine blessing m an especial manner. Within the past two months fifty two members have been added to the church by pro fession, and nearly seventy hopeful conversions in nil have taken place. The greater part of those who have not yet been received into the church are young people, ranging In age from 12 to 16 years.—Mum yetist. Rev. Joseph E- Tinker was ordained and in stalled'by the Presbytery of Cleveland pastor of the church in Willoughby, 0., on tbe 26th of June. lhis is the first pastor which has ever been settled over the church, though it has been in existence for more than twenty years. Mr. Tinker is a graduate of Au burn Seminary, and son of Reuben linker, a name remembered with love and honor in the Sandwich Islands, and in the Qhurohes of Western New York. —lbid. Rev. D. H, Bassett has been constrained in con sequence of ill health to discontinue his connexion with the oburoh at Oonnersvllle, Ind. Rev.B. W. Graves, late of Chicago, has accepted a unanimons call to the First Street church, New York—and has already entered upon his duties. Rev. Anthony McGill, late of Triangle, New York, has received and accepted a call to the pasto rate of the oburoh at Barton, Canada Weßt. His post-office address is Hamilton, O. W. Rev. Ezra Jones has accepted the call of tbe church in Canoga, Seneca oounty, N. Y., and com menced his labors with them. Rev. E. Wood, recently dismissed from the Con gregational ohuroh In Hopkinton, New York, has ac cepted a call to tho ohuroh at Evans' Mills, Jefferson oounty, N. Y. The Massachusetts Association.— The Dele gate to the Presbyterian Assembly (N. S.) made a written report, giving his reasons for not attending. Rev. Mr. Spaulding, who was present, stated the ac tion of the Assembly on the state of the country as unanimous. The Home Missionary Society was also the subject of earnest discussion in the Assembly, and the friendly spirit manifested by all parties was most grateful to the delegate. Mr. S. said the New England element largely prevailed in the Assembly, and in answer to a question whether, he thought them to be earnest Presbyterians, tho delegate thought it somewhat doubtful. ■ [We give the above as we find it. We are glad to discover the evidences of friendly feeling exhibited by the various Congreghtionalist hodias. towards out Church, Bince It was settled that our Home Mission ary policy should become independent. But the ex traordinary fatuity, or the profound Yankee ingenu ity, which discerns evidence of lake-warm Presbyte rianism in the steps we are now taking, puzzles ns more than wo can dcsoribe.] Rev. W. 8. Kennedy.—This brother, the faith ful and beloved pastor of the Third Presbyterian Charoh In Cincinnati, died last Sabbath week. THE ARMY. The Good Work to the Camps.— A stranger presented a request for prayer, in behalf of the good work going on among the regiments of soldiers in their different comps. He had witnessed the oheer ing sight of a prayer-meeting of several hundreds „ on the grounds of the Catholic College at George town, District of Columbia, which for the first time hud ever been consecrated by acts df simple apostolic worship. At the close of a service with the Scotch Highlanders, one young man, deeply moved, followed the speaker to the gate, and anxiously inquired the wuy of life. His early days had been recalled. His 'pious home, hia godly father, who had instilled the gospel truths In the good old-fashioned style of his fathers on Scotland’s hills, were all brought before him as the man of God spoke of Jesus. The young mnn could not think of going on in hie godless life, and with deep emotion naked the aid of Christians, that he might be a useful man, a follower of Jesus. Chaplains. MAINE. 2d Regiment, J. F. Mines, Prot. E. 4th •' ' Benj. A, Chase, Methodist. 6th “ John R. Adams, Cong. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Henry E. Parker, 2d Regiment, . VSnMONT. Ist Regiment, Levi Stone, 2d " 0. B. Smith, MASSACHUSETTS. Ist Regiment, W. H. Cudworth, ' Unknown 2d “ A. H. Quint, Cong 7th “ Robert Carver, Bth “ Gilbert Haven, llih “ —Watson, Connecticut. Regiment; George N, Webber, Oong. 2d “ Hiram Eddy, - “ 3d “ James M, Willey, Prot.E, 4th “ E. R. Walker, Cnk. Wesleyan Guard, B. G. Williams, Oong. NEW TOBK. Ontario Begiment, Eev. George N. Cheney, Frot. E, Oswego “ Dr. Gallagher, . ‘ Escelsior Brigade, C, H. A. Bulkley, “2 n ? Joseph H. Twichell, Dolt Mnaart Regiment, W. 11. Glider, Meth, Fire Zonarea, George W. Dodge, „ Prot. E Eniun Regiment, D. D. Buck, Meth, r <* W. H. Boole, Dr. Gordon Winslow, Prot. E -—-Smith, _Unk. sth “ Bth « Utk «• T. W. Conway, Bapt. 14th “ J. S. Inakip, Metb, 15th « G. M. Post, 91. D., Pres. (N. S,) 10ih <* Royal B, Stratton, Unk. Hth « T. G. Carver, 19th <* Henry* Fowler, Pres. (ft. SO "ht “ John E. Robie, Moth, « H. H. Bates, Onk. 91th << T. De Walden, « &. Platt, ?oth « A. J. Axdell, . 51»t « S. W. Waldron, Jr., “ ;ltnh “ E. D. Winslow, Metb ''lth, (Corcoran,) Bather Mooney, R.' 0 Ist Regiment, MEW JERSEY. r JWnoriiTinu. '''* s * “ I $ Regiment, J. Geo. Butler, ‘ Eutb. “ Tboe. P. Hunt, Pres. (0. S.) s “ “ " . James McCarter, Mctb. ‘ ‘ett Legion, - Wm. Fulton, Ref. Dutch. 7~ Regiment, J. J. Marks, D. D., Unk. v'J. “ A. Ref, Pres, fstone Regiment, G. G. Ferguson, Bapt. OHIO. - j . S. fc, Xourtea, >V: S b - / sWifeyi -;- GranrUle Moody, George B. Darrft#, Bapt George H. Doane, - -KiC. It. Prutidtit, Pres. (0. S. ILLINOIS, 7th Regiment, J. P. Davis, Metb. Bth “ Richard Falkner, •* 11th “ C. P. Clarke, Prot. E. “ Butler, Bapt. 11 Miller, « Halteipaan, “ MISSOURI. W. A. Pile, Ist Regiment, WISCONSIN. 2d Regiment, J. A. Richmond, Prot. E, MINNESOTA. Ist Regiment, E. D. Neill, Pres. (N.S.) True Bishops.— Bishops Clarke and Mcllvaine have been in Washington looking after the regiments of their respective States. The camp of the 2d Rhode Island Regiment is named Camp Oiark, in honor of the patriotic Bishop. The Chaplaia of the Second (Vt.) Regiment, Rev. Mr. Smith, from Brandon, Vt., came into the Pulton Street prayer-meeting on the day on which the regiment passed through the city. He stated that when he entered on his duties while in the en campment at Burlington, he found, on going into the hospital to visit the sick, a man in great distress. His countenance indicated it. He inquired-of him if he was in pain. lie said he was not. But seeing that in his countenance which could not be mistaken, he pushed his inquiries, and the man disclosed to him the fact that he was in great distress about his soul. He said, also, that at a late prayer-meeting held in the regiment, tbe Colonel did not hesitate to acknow ledge that be was deeply interested on the subject of religion, and was earnest to know what he should do to be saved. » Enlisted as Missionaries.— One thing I must sayi,ke added, which is a further explanation of this spintuaT influence. Soon after my joining this regi ment, two young men came to me and said that they were brothers, and all the sons of the family. They had enlisted in the army as missionaries on purpose to do good. They had talked over the matter and had settled it* that there is no such field of useful ness before a pious young man' as the army. So to do good we : are herb, safd’they, and We will aid you in any way in our power. You should have seen tbe parting-between the father and' these two only sons, as he lifted up his hands and gave them his, parting benediction, and consecrated them to Jesus Christ, and the great work of salvation in the army. Seeing that, and many scenes like that, you would not wonder that men are already inquiring vihat they must do to be saved. As near us I can find out, in so short a time, we have,fifty such men in..our regiment. We are going to do the werk of the Lord, in the full confi dence that the Lord will,fight our battles.! - - A Sabbath School in Camp.— Rev. B. W. Chid law writes from Oamp'Cbase,.' l Ohlb, of the 23d Regi ment, as follows-. '. ,;' ~ , ' “Last Sabbath morning a Sabbath School was established, held in the grove, W. H. Kiiowlden was chosen Superintendent, Eight classes, of from ten to fifteen, formed; selecting front their number a teacher. Their lessonwaa the first chapter of Mark. This is truly a good and hopeful beginning. lU&i of ilje Struggle. CONGRESS. July 4.—The special session of Congress met at noon. 39 Senators and ,167 Representatives; were present at the opening. Galuaha A. Grow, of Penn sylvania, was chosen Speaker of the House, and Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, Clerk. The bqrder Slave States, including Eastern Tennessee and West ern Virginia, were well represented in both Houses. The members of the House,-who seem disposed to give trouble, are Burnett, Secessionist, from Ken tucky, and Vallandigham, Democrat, from Ohio. .The body will, however, promptly overrule their unpa triotic attempts to .hinder-legislation, and afford aid and comfort to the rebellion. On tbe next day, the President sent in his message, whichis a stroug, pa triotic, and every way admirable document. It pre sents tee administration,, in a bold.and unequivocal, and yet noble and humane, attitude before the coun try ; and will help to strengthen the impression that Providenoe, in giving us Abraham Lincoln and bis associates in this emergency, has well prepared us for the dread conflict through which we are passing. We give the document entire:— Fellow Citizen's ofthe SenatcandHouseaf Represen tatives:—Having been-convened onan extraordinary oc casion, as authorized-fly the Constitution, your attention is not called to any ordinary subjection of legislation, THE SEIZURES OF THE BEBEJ At too beginning ofthe presidential term, four months ago, the functions of toe Federal Government were found to be generally suspended within. the several States of Sonth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, excepting only those of th'e Tost Office Department. . Within these States all the forts, arsenals, dockyards, custom houses, and toe like, had been seized and were held in open hostility to this Go vernment, excepting only, Forts Pickens, Taylor.and Jefferson, on or near toe Florida Coast, and Fort Sum ter, in Charleston harbor. South Carolina. * *: ’* The forts thus seized had been put in improved con dition. Hew ones had been built, and armed forces bad been organized and were organizing, all avowedly with the same hostile purpose.:• The forts remaining in. the possession of the Federal Government, in and near these States, were either besieged or menaced by warlike pre parations, and especially Fort Sumter, which was near ly surrounded by well projected hostile batteries, with guns equal in quality to the best of its own, and out numbering the latter as perhaps ten to one. A dispro portionate share of the Federal muskets and rifles had somehow found their way into these States, and had been seized to be used against the Government.' Accumulations of the public revenue lying within them had been seized for the same object. The Navy was scattered in distant seas, leaving but a very small part of it within the immediate reach of the Government. Officers of the Federal Army and Navy had resigned in great numbers, nnd of those resigning a large propor tion had taken up arms against the Government. Simultaneously, and in connexion with all this; the purpose to sever the Federal Union was openly avowed. In accordance with this purpose, an ordinance had been adopted in each of these States, declaring the States re spectively to be separated from the National Union. A formula for instituting a combined Government for these States had been promulgated, and this illegal organiza tion in the character, of Confederate States was already invoking recognition, aid and intervention from foreign powers. THE POLICY DECLARED IS TUB INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Finding this'condition of things, and believing it to be an imperative duty upon the incoming Executive to prevent, if possible, the consummation of such an at tempt to destroy the Federal Union, a choice of means tq that end became indispensable. This choice was made, and was declared in the inaugural address. The policy chosen looked to the exhaustion of all peaceful measures before a resort to toy stronger ones. It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the Government, and to col lect the revenue, relying for the rest, on time, discussion and the ballot-box. It promised a continuance of the mails, at the Government expense, to the very people who were resisting the Government, and it gave re peated pledges against any disturbance to any of the people or any of their rights. Of’ail that which a Pre sident might constitutionally and justifiably do in such a case, everything was forborne, without which’At ; was believed possible to keep the Government on foot. NON-REINFORCEMENT OP SUMTER EXPLAINED. On the 6th of March, the present incumbent’s first full day in office, a letter of Major Anderson, command ing at Fort Sumter, written on the 28th of February, and received at the War Department on the 4th of March, was by that Department placed in his hands. This letter expressed-the professional opinion of the writhr that reinforcements could not be thrown into that fort within the time for his relief rendered necessary by the' limited supply of provisions, and with a view of holding possession of the same, with a force of less than twenty thousand good and well disciplined men. This opinion was concurred in by alt the. officers of his com mand; and their memoranda on the subject were made enclosures of Major Anderson’s letter. The whole was immediately laid before Lieutenant General Scott, who at once concurred with Major Anderson in this opinion. On reflection, however, he took full time, consulting with other officers, both of the Army and Navy, and at the end of four days, came reluctantly but decidedly to the same conclusion as before. He also stated at the same time, that no such suffi cient force was then within the control of the Govern ment, or eonid be raised and'brought to the ground wiibin the time when the provisions in the fort would; be exhausted, in a purely military point of view this reduced the duty of the Administration in the case to the mere matter of getting the garrison safely out of the fort. ’ .. , it was believed, however, that to so abandon that po sition, under the circumstances, would be utterly ruinous; that the necessity under which it was to be done would not be fully understood; that by many it would be con strued ob a part of a voluntary policy; that at home it .wonld discourage the friends of the Union, embolden its adversaries, and go far to insure to the latter a recogni ttion abroad ; that, in fact, it would be our national de struction consummated. l - This could not be allowed. Starvation was not yet upon the garrison, and ere it would be reached, Fort Pickens might be reinforced. This last would be a clear indication of:policy, and would better enable the coun try to accept the .evacuation of Fort Sumter ns a .mili tary necessity. ’An order was at once directed t"o‘be sent for the landing of the troops'from the steam ship irdoklyn info Fort Pickens. ;TKis order eonid not , go by land, ; but must take the longer and slower rant*; Hmmcatt § fesftgtniaw and (Setum by sea. The first return news from the order was re ceived just one week before the fall of Fort Sumter. The news itself was that the officers commanding the Sabine, to which vessel the troopß had been transferred from the Brooklyn, acting upon some quasi armistice of the late Administration, and of the existence of which the present Administration, up to the time the order was despatched, had only too vague and uncertain rumors to fix attention—had refused to land the troops. To now reinforce Fort Pickens before a crisis would be reached at Fort Sumter was impossible, rendered so by the near exhaustion of provisions in the latter nnmedfort. In such a conjuncture the Government had a few days before commenced preparing an expedition, as well adapted as might be, to relieve Fort Sumter, which ex pedition was intended to be ultimately used or not, ac cording to circumstances. .The strongest anticipated case for using it was now presented, and it was resolved to send it forward, as had been intended in this contin gency. It was also resolved to notify the Government of the Southern Confederacy, that if the attempt should not, be resisted there would be no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition, without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the fort. This notice was accordingly given, whereupon the fort was attacked and bombarded to its fall, without even awaiting the arrival of the pro visioning expedition. • ■ , : : It is thus seen that the assault upon, and the reduction of Fort Sumter was in no sense a matter of self-defence on the part of their assailants. They well knew that the garrison in thefort'eouldby ntf possibility commit aggression upon,them. They knew they were expressly notified that tho giving of bread to the few brave and hungry menof the garrison .was all which could on that occasion .be attempted, unless themselves, by resisting so much, should provoke more. They knew that this ■ Government desired to, keep , this .garrison in the fort, not to assail them, but merely to maintain .visible pos session, and thus to preserve the Union from actual and immediate dissolution, trusting, as hereinbefore stated, to time, ditousiioh and the ballot-boxfirr final adjustment. And they nssailednnd reduced the fort, for precisely'the reverse object—-to-drive out the visible authority of the Federal Union, and thus force it to immediate dissolution. That this was their object the Executive well under stood; and having said to them in the Inaugural address, ca“ have no conflict without beirigyourselves,the aggressors,” he took pains not only to keep this declara tion good, but also to keep the case so,free from the power of ingenious sophistry as that the world should npt,be able to,misunderstand it. ... .. . .. . By the affair at Fort Sumter, with its surroundin’g circumstances, that point,was reached. Then and there by the assailants of the Government; began the Conflict of arms without a gun in' Sight or in expectancy to return their fire, save only the few in toe fort, sent to that Har bor years before, for their own protection, nnd still ready to give that protection in whatever was lawful. ' THE ISSUE FORCED TOON THE COUNTRY. In this act, discarding all else, they have forced npon tob country, the distinct issue—-immediate dissolution or blood. And this issue embraces more than-the fate of . these United States; it presents to the whole family of man the question whether a Constitutional Republic or Democracy—a Government of the people by the same people can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its Own domestic foes. It presents the question whether discontenjed individuals, too few in numbers to control the -administration according to the organic law in any case, can always, upon the pretences made in this case, or any ofherpreterice, or arbitrarily without any pretence, break up their Government, and thus prac tically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces os to ask, Is there iii all republics this inherent and fatal weakness ? Must a government of, necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people; or too weak to maintain its own existence? THE PRESIDENT’S REQUISITION. So viewing toe issne, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so to resist the fbree employed for its destruction by Torce for its preservation. The call was made, and the response of tho country was most gratifying, surpassing in unani mity and spirit the most sanguine expectations. Yet none of the States commonly called Slave States, ex cept Delaware,gavea regiment through the.regular State organization., A few regiments have been organized within some others of those States by individual enterprise, and received into the Government service. Qf course the: Seceded States, so called, and to which Texas had been joined about the time of the inaugura tion, gave no troops to the cause of the Union. , The, Border States, so called, were not uniform in their action, some of them being almost for toe Union, while in others, as Virginia and Worth Carolina, Tennessee and Arkan sas, the. Union sentiment was nearly repressed and silenced. THE COURSE OF: VIRGINIA. The,course taken in Virginia was the mqst remarkable, perhaps the most important., A Convention, elected by the people ijf that State, to consider this very question of disrupting the Federal; Union, was in session, at the Capital of Virginia when Fort Sumter fell’. To this body the people had chosen a large majority of professed Union men. . Almost immediately after the fall of Sum ter, many members of that majority went over to the original disunion minority, and with, them adopted an ordinance for withdrawing the Stain from the.“ Union tins unange. Was wrought by their great ap proval of toe assault upon Sumter, or their great resent ment at the Government’s resistance to that assault, is not definitely known. Although th<*y submitted toe ordinance for ratifica tion to a vote of* tbe people, to be taken on a day then somewhat more than* a month distant, the Convention and the Legislature; Which was also in 'session at the same time and place, with leading‘members of the State, not members of eitherV immediately commenced acting as if the State were already out of the Union, They pushed their military preparations vigorously forward all over the State. They seized; thS United States Armory at Harper’s.Ferry,,and the Navy Yard at Gosport, near Norfolk. They received, perhaps .in vited', intotheir .State, large bodies of. troops with their warlike appointments from the, so-called Seceded States. -They formally .entered into a -treaty of, temporary alli ance and co-operation with tbe so-called. Confederate States, and sent members to their Congress at Montgo mery —and, finally, they permitted' the insurrectionary Government to'be transferred to their Capital at,Rich mond. * -The people of Virginia.have thus allowed this giant insurrection to make its nest within bet borders—and thus Government ha 3 no choice left but to deal with it where if finds it, and it has the less regret, as the loyal citizens have, in due form, claimed its protection. .Those loyal citizens this Government is bound to recogpise and protect, as being Virginia. THE ARMEO NEUTRALITY POLICY. In the 1 Border States, so called,—in' fact’’-the Middle States—there are those who favor a policy which they call armed neutrality—that is, an arming of those States to prevent the Union forces passing one way; or the Dis union the other, over their soil, . This would be Dis union completed. Figuratively speaking, it would be the building of an impassable wall along the line of se paration—-ahd yet not quite an impassable one, for under the guise of neutrality it would’tie the hands of the Union men, and freely pass supplies from among them to the insurrectionists, Which it could not do as an open enemy. At a stroke it would take all the trouble off the hands of Secession, except only what proceeds from the exter nal blockade. It would do for the Disnnionists that which of all things they most-desire—feed them wetland give them Disunion without a struggle of their own. - _ It recognises no fidelity to the Constitution, no ob ligation to maintain the Union—and while very many who have favored it are doubtless loyal, it is neverthe less very injurious in effect. Recurring to the action of the Government, it maybe stated that at first a call was made for seventy-five thou sand militia, and rapidly following this a proclamation yvas issued for closing , the. ports of the insurrectionary districts, by proceedings in the nature of a blockade. So far, all was believed to be strictly legal. . . ■* ' At this point'tbe insurrectionists announced their purl pose to enter upon the practice of privateering, Olher calls were,made for volunteers, to serve three years, un less sooner discharged, and also for large additions to the regular army and navy. These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured, upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity —trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ra tify .them. It is believed that nothing has been done beyond the Constitutional competency of Congress. THE PRESIDENT HAS THE BIGHT TO SUSPEND A WRIT OF HA- BEAS CORPUS. Soon after the first call for militia, it was considered a doty to authorize the Commanding General in proper cases, according to his discretion, to suspend the privi lege of the writs of habeas corpus—or, in other words, to arrest and detain without resort to the ordinary pro cesses and forms of law, such individuals as he might deem dangerous to the public safety. This authority has purposely been exercised but very sparingly. . Never theless, the legality and propriety of what has been done under -it are questioned, and the attention of the country has been called to the proposition that one who .is sworn to take care that the laws be faithfully executed should not himself violate them. Of course some con sideratibn was given to the questions'of power and pro priety before this matter was acted on. The whole of .the laws which were required to be faithfully executed were being resisted and .failing of execution in nearly one-third of the States. Must they be allowed to finally fail of execution, even bad it been perfectly dear that by the use of the means necessary to their execution, some single law, made in such ex ' treme tenderness of the citizens’ liberty that practically it relieves more of 1 he guilty than of the innocent, should —to a very limited extent—be violated? Tp state the question more directly, are all the laws but one to go unexecuted; arid the'Government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?. Even in such a case, would not the official oath be broken if the Go vernment should be overthiown, when it was believed that disregarding the single law would tend to pre serve it 1 But itAvas not believed that this question Was pre sented. Itwas not believed that any law was violated. The provision of the Constitution that the; privilege— the writ of habeas corpus—should n°t be suspended iin iess when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it, is equivalent :to a provision that such privilege may be .suspended when, in cases of re hellion or invasion, the public safety does require it. It was decided that we have a case of rebellion, and that the public safety does require the qualified suspension of the privilege of tbe writ which was authorized to he made. Now it is insisted that Congress, and not the Execu tive, is vested with this power. But the Constitution itself is silent as to which or who is to exercise the power, and as the provision was plainly made for a dangerous emergency, it cannot be believed that, the framers of tbj> instrument intended that in every case the danger should run its course un til Congress could be called together, the very assem bling of which might he prevented, as was intended in this case by the Rebellion. . - No more extended argument is now offered, as an opi nion at some length will probably be presented by the Attorney-General. Whether there sball be any legisla tion upon the subject, and if any, what, is submitted en tirely to the better judgment o! Congress. FOREIGN SYMFATHT MANIFESTED. The forbearance of this Government bad bpen so ex traordinary and so long continued, as to lead some fo reign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our National Union was proba ble. . • While this, on discovery, gave the Executive some concern, he is now happy to sa? that tbe sovereignty and rights of the United States are: now every where practically respected by foreign powers, and a general sympathy with tbe country is* .manifested throughout the world. i'. REPORTS OF THE SECRETARIES. Tbe Reports of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War and the Navy, will give the information ip detail deemed necessary and Convenient Tor your deliberation and ac tion, while the Executive and all the Departments will stand ready to supply omissions, pr to commuptcate new facts considered importantifpr-yto to know... THE PRESIDENT CALLS FOR FOB& HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN AND FOUR HUNDRED SIICLIOSS OF DOLLARS. . It is now recommended that yatt'give the legal.means, for making this contest -a you place at the control of togShyernment for. toe work; at least 400,000 men and $400,000,000. That number of men is about: one-tenth of those of proper ages within the regions Where apparently all are wi U ihg Ite j engagS, and .the torn Jib Bss THfiolt B 8 fyijeWy third part of the money value Owned by the men who seem ready to devote the «■ Holer' ! r A debt of six hundred millions off dollars now is alesV sura-per. head than was the debt bf-opr own R-volution when ire came out of that strugg|s.,ah(U,lie money value in the country, now bears even A’greater proportion to what it was then than does the papulation. Surely each man has as strong a motive how m-'preserve our liberties as each bad then to establish them.* A right result at this time will be worth more to the world than ten times the men aid ten times the money. The.evidence reaching us from She country, leaves,, no doubt that the material for the .Work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction, and the hand ot the Executive to give it prac tical shape and efficiency. 1 ,;,;. One of the greatest perplexities of the Government is, to avoid receiving troops faster (nan it can pr .vide for them. In a word, the people will Save their Government, if the Government itself will do iia part only indifferently well. It-might seem, at first thought, to be of-little difference whether the present movement at the South be called secession or The movers, how ever, well understand the diffefetlce; At the beginning they knew they could never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any.narnc-which implies vio lation of law. They knew lh*(r people possessed as much gf moral sense, as muchflff devotion to law and order, and as much pride in anf reverence for the his tory'and government of their common country, as any oth»r civilized and patriotic people. They knew they could make no advancement directly in the teeth of these strong and noble sentiments. : Ac cordingly, they commenced, by an insidious debauching of tbe public mind. They indented art ingenious so phism, which, if conceded, was; followed.by perfectly logical steps through all the incidents to the complete destruction of the Union. Th'e; sophism itself is, tbac any State of the Union may, consistently with the Na tional Constitution, and, therefore, lawfully and peace fully withdraw from the Union,-without the consent of the Union or of any other State. .The little disguise; that the supposed right is to be exercised only for a just cause, because they themselves are to be the sole judges of its justice, is too thin to merit any flotice. With rebellion thus sugor;Ottated, they -have been drugging tbe public mind of tbejr section for more than thirty years, until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up grins against the Government the day afier seme assemblage of men have enacted the farcical pretence of taking their State out of the Union, who could have been brought to no such thing the day before- . . . This sopbism derives much, perhaps the whole of its currency from the assumption, that there; is some om nipotent and sacred supremacy pertaining to a State;'to each State of our Federal Onion. Our States have neither more nor less ixnver tt^. ihat r-asar-vpd to them in the Union by the Constitution; no one of them ever having been a'Slate out of the Union. The original ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British Colonial dependence,* and the new ones each came into the Union directly from a condition of depen dence, except Texas, .and even , Texas, in.its temporary independence, was never designated a State. The new ones only took the designation of States on coming into the Union, while that hanfe was first adopted for the o'd ones in and by the Declaration of In dependence. Therein the United Colonies were de clared to be free and independent States. , But even then the object was plainly not to declare their independence of one another, or of the Union, but directly the contrary, as their mutual pledge .and their mutual action, before, at the time and afterwards,'abunr daptly show. The express plighting of faith, by each and all of the original thirteen, in the articles of con federation, two years later, that “the Union shall be perpetual,” is most conclusive'. Hairing never been States, either in substance-or in name outside of the Union, whence this magical omnipotence of State Rights asserting a claim of power to lawfully destroy the Union itself? Much is said about the Sovereignty of the States, but the word even is not in the National Constitution, nor, as is believed, in any of thp State Constitutions.— What is a Sovereignty,,in the political sense of the term? Would it be far wrong to define,it “a political commu nity without a political superior?” Tested by this, no one of our States, except Texas, %Vef was a sovereignty, and even Texas gave up the ctjgf-acter on coming into Union, by which act she: acknowledged the Constitution of the United States and the laws and treaties of the United States, made in pursuance of the Constitution, to be for her the supreme law of the land. The States hive their status in the Union, find they have no other legal status. If they break from this, they can only do so against law revolution? The Union, and notthem selves separated, procured their independence and their liberty. By conquest or purchase, the Union gave each of them whatever of independence and liberty it has.— The Union is older than any of the States, and in fact it created them as States. Originally some - dependent colonies made the Union, and, in turn, the Uuion threw off their old dependence for them and made them States, such as they are. Not one of them ever had a State Constitution independent of tlta Union. ,Of course it is hot-forgotten that-all the new States framed their Constitutions before they entered the Union; nevertheless dependent upon and preparatory to coming into the Union. Unquestionably the States have-the powers and rights reserved to them in'and by the National Constitution; but among these, surely, are not included all conceivable powers, however mischievous or destructive, but almost such only as are known in the world at the time, as Go vernmental powers, and certainly a power to destroy the Government itself had never been known as government, as a merely administrative power.*' ' • • This relative matter of national power and State-Rights as a principle, is no other than the principle of generality and lo cality.. Whatever concerns the* whole 4K6md be confided to the whole.-tii the General Government;<%hile whatever concerns only the State should be left, exclusively io the State. This is alt there is of original principle aliout it Whether the Na tional Constitution, in defining boundaries between the two, has applied the principle with exact accuracy, is not to be ques tioned. We are also bound by thaf defining. wiihout ques tion. What isnow combated is the position thotSecession is consistent with the Constitution —is lawful and peaceful. -It is not contended that there is any express law for it,"and no*' thing Bhouid ever he implied as law which leads to-unjust or absurd consequences. THE- BiaHTiTOrtSBOEDE. The nation purchased with money the countries out of which several of these States were formed. , is it just that they, shall go off without leave, and without refunding ? The natioh paid very large sums—in the aggregate, Übelfeve, one hundred mil lions—to relieve Florida of the aborigines tribes. Is it just that she shall now go ofT without consent or without making any return? The nation is now in.debt for money Applied to the benefit of these so-called Seceded States in common with the rest. Is it just either that creditors shall go unpaid, or the remaining States pay the whole! Fart of the present na tional debt was contracted to pay the old debts of Texas. Is it just that she shall leave and pay no part of this herself! Again/if one State may secede, so "may another, and when all shall have, seceded, none is left to pay the debts. Is this quite just to creditors? Did we notify them of this sage view of ours when we borrowed their money ! if we now recognise this doctrine by allowing the Secedere to go in peace, it.is diffi cult to see what we can do if others choose to go, or to extort terms upon which they will promise to remain. • The Seceders insist that our . Constitution admits of seces sion. They having assumed to malse p National Constitution of their owq.in which, of necessity,"they have either discarded or retained the right of Secession^, they insist it exists in ours. If they have discarded it, they thereby admit that bn principle it ought nolto be in ours. If they have retained itby their own construction of oUrs, they show that to Inconsistent they must secede from one another whenever they shall find it the easiest way of settling their debts, or effecting any other selfish or unjust object. The principle is one of disintegra tion, and upon which no Government can possibly endure. If all the' States save one should kssert the power to drive that one out of the Union, it is presumed the whole class of seceder politicians would at once deny the power, and denounce the act as the greatest outrage upon State rights. Butsuppoee that precisely the same act, instead of being called driving the one out, should be called the seceding of the others from that one, it would be exactly what the seceders claim to do, unless, indeed, they make thepoint that the one, because it is a minority,' may rightfully do what the other, because they-are a majority, may not rightfully dol These politicians are subtle add profound on the rights of minorities—they are not partial to that power which mule the Constitution, and speaks from the preamble calling itself “The People.” THE UNION MEN IN THE SOUTH. It may well be questioned whether there is, to-day, a ma jority of the legally qualified voters of any State, except per haps, South Carolina, in favor of Disunion. There is mmch reason to believe that the Union men are the majority in many, if not in every other one of the so-called Seceded States- As the contraty has not been demonstrated in_ any one of them, it is ventured to affirm this even of Virginia and Ten nessee, for the result of an election held in military camps, where the bayonets were all on one side of the question voted upon, can scarcely bo considered a demonstration of popu lar sentiment. At such ah election all that large, class who are not at once for the Union, and against coercion, would be coerced to vote against the Union. THE CHARACTER OF OUR VOLUNTEERS. It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free in stitutions we enjoy have developed the power and improved the condition of our whole people beyond any example in the world. „ Of-this l have a striking aiid impressive illustration. So large an army as the Government has now oh foot, was never before known, without a soldier in it, but who had taken iiis place there of his.own free will. . , .. But more than this. There are many single regiments whose members, one and another, possess full practical-know ledge of all the arts, sciences, professions, and whatever el«e whether usefuh or elegant, is known in- the world, 'and there is scarcely one from which there could not be selected a President, a Cabinet, a Congress, and perha]>s a Court, abund antly eorhjietent to administer the government itselfi • Nor do I say this is not true also in the case of our late friends, now adversaries, in this contest.. But it is _so much better the reason, why the Government, which has conferred such benefits oribotb them anil us, should not be broken up. W hoever, in any section, proposes to abandon such a Government, woulddo well to consider in deference to what principle it is that he does itjWbat better he is likely to get in its stead 1 ; Whether the sub stitute will- give, or- he intended!-to give, so much of good to the,peop!e. . There are : some foreshadowings oil this subject. Our adversaries have adopted some' declarations Of independence, in which, unlike the good oh! one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words, “Alt men are created equal.” Why? They have adopted a, temporary national 'constitution in the preamble of Which unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit, j’Wc, the people,’’ and substitute, ‘‘We,the, deputies, of the sovereign - and inilepenite.nrTSlates.” Why?. Why .this deliberate pressing out of view the rights ofimen andthe authority ofthe-people? '■ THE CONTEST ONE OFTHE PEOPLE. This is essentially a people’s contest.' On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government, whose leading Object is to eievate the condition of men; to lift artifi cial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start, anil a fair chauce in the race of life. "yielding to partial and temporary, departures .from necessity, this is the leading object of the Government for whose existence wc contend.’ NOT AN ENLISTED SOLDIER OH SAILOR A DES ESTER. I am most happy to believe that the plain people un > derstand-and appreciate this. It is wferthy of note that whiie in this, the Government’s hour of trial, large numbers of those in the army and navy who have been favored with the offices, have resigned and proved false to the hand which had pampered them, not 1 one com mon soldier or common sailor is known to have deserted his flag. Great honor is due to those officers who re mained true, despite the’example of their treacherous associates. But the greatest honor ami most important fact of all is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers, ami common sailors. To the’last man, so far as known, they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose commandsan .hour before they obeyed as absolute law- This is the patriotic instinct Of plain people, They understand, without an argument, that the de stroying of the Government, which was made by Wash ington; means no good to them. Our peculiar .Go vern ment-bas often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have’ already settled —the successful’ establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains—its successful maintenance against a formidable-internal attempt to overthrow it. It is for them to demonstrate to the world, that (hose who can fairly carry ah election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitu tionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets—that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots themselves at succeeding elections. Such will b%a.great lesson of peace, teaching men that what they cannot take-by an election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of war. THE COURSE OF THE GOVEBNMEST AFTER THE REBELLION IS Lest there he some uneasiness in the minds of candid men as to what is to be the course of the Government towards the Southern States after the Rebellion shall havebeen suppressed, the Executive deems it proper to say. it wilt be his purpose then as ever .to be guided by the Constitution arid the laws, and that he ’ probably will have no different-understanding of the powers and the duties of the Federal Government relatively to the rights of the States and people under the Constitution ihari that expressed in the Inaugural Address. : He desires to preserve the Government, that it- may be administered to alt as it was administered by the men Who made it.' Loyal citizens everywhere have the right to claim this of their Government, and Government has no right to withhold or neglect it. It is riot perceivea that in giving it there is any coercion—any conquest or subjugation, in any just sense of those terms. The Constitution provides, and ail the States have accepted the provision, that the United States shall guaranty to every Slate in this Union a Republican form of Government. But if a State may lawfully go out of thq Union, having done so, it may also discard the Re publican form of Government; so that to prevent its going out it is all indispensable to use every means: to the end of maintaining the guarantee, .When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to obtairi it are also lawful and obligatory. NO COMPROMISES TO BE MADE. It was with the deepest regret that the Executive found the duty of employing the war power in'defence of the Government forced upon him. He could but perform -this duty or surrender the existence of the Government. No compromise by public servants could in this case be a.cure— not that compromises are not often proper, biit that no popular Government can long survive a marked precedent. That those who carry an election can only save the Government from- immediate destruction by giving up the main point upon which the people gave the election. The people themselves, and hot their servants, ead safe ly reverse their owit deliberate decisions. ' As- a private citizen the Executive could not have consented that these institutions shall perish, much less could he, in betrayal of so vast and so sacred a trust sis these free people had confided to him. . : t-r r He felt that he had no moral right to shrink nor even to count the chances of his own life in what might fol low. In full view of his great responsibility he has so far done svhaf he has deemed his duty. Yon-will now, according to your own judgment, perform yours. He sincerely hopes that your views and your actions may so accord with his as to assure all faithful citizens who have begn disturbed in their' rights- of a certain and S|ieedy restoration to them under the Constitution and the laws. And having thus chosen our course without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. July 4, 1861. NOTICES. Hamilton College, Clinton, K. Y Order of Exercises for Commencement Week: Sunday , July 14.—Afternoon.—Third Annual Sermon before the. Graduating Class, by Rev. Samuel W. Fisher, D. D., President of the 1 College. Evening—Address before the Society of Christian Research, by Rev: Walter Clark, D. D., of Buffalo. .Monday, July 15.—Entrance Examination at 9, A. M., and 2, P. M. Prize Declamation at 7|, P, M. . Tuesday, July IS. —Afternoon.—lnangural Address, by EUieott Evans, A, M., Maynard; Professor of law. EVening.'—Address and Poem before the Literary So cieties. Xddress, by George Sumner, Esq., Boston, Mass. Poem, by R. J. De Cordova, Nejv York. Wednesday, July 17.—Annual'Meeting of. the Society of Alumni. Oration, by Hon- Thomas Treadwell Davis, Syracuse. Poem, by James Ausburn Towner, New York. Evening.—Meeting of Alumni and Friends of .College-- .-.- .. Thursday, July 18.—Commencement. ‘ 2t The Stated Meeting off the Presbytery of Cayuga, according to adjournment, will be,held In Aurora, Tuesday, the 23d inst., at two o’clock, P. M. CHASi HAWLEY, Stated Clerk. Auburn, July 4, 1861. V. A Meeting of the Third I'resbytejry of Philadelphia ■will be held in the Presbyterian House on Monday, the 15tU of July, at twelve o’clock, St. CHAS. BROWN, Moderator. July 4, 1861 20 to 38 A suit of Black or Fancy colored Cl ,ut anil made in style unsurpassed. Entire new style', /mere and Vesting - . July 10. \ VARR, 19, Ninth St. ab. Chestnut. TOW STOBAT SCHOOL SIJfGIJTG BOOK, BRADBURY’S GOLDEN CHAIN! The Author’s most popular - SUNDAY SCHOOL SINGING BOOK, Is now ready. \ PRICE, sia PER HtnSDHED, CASH, " IVISON, PHINNY & CO., NEW YORK. t Send fouried stamps for a specimen copy, to WM. B. BRADBURY, 421 Broome’ Street, HVY.‘ 3t ' - 1 WILLIAM S. TOTING, . . 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Gm 0773- TO FARMERS, MERCHANTS AND OTHERS! Any person desiring the services of healthy, honest BOYS or GIRLS, can procure the same by applying at No. 264 South Sixth Street, PIHLADEPHIA. The agency is not one of profit, but established strictly with the view of procuring homes for those ready and witling to work. ap. 25. (SPECIALITY FOR LADIES. TRESS AND BRACE DEPARTMENT, Conducted by competent Ladies. Entrance on Twelfth Street, first door below Race. A full line of Mechani cal Remedies, tigfrt and elegant in construction, specially adapted to Ladies’ me. ■ C. H. NEEDLES, Proprietor, S. W. cor. TWELFTH and RACE Sts., Phila. S3-.Entrance to C. H. N.’s Room, for gentlemen, at the corner. 753 HEALTH AND EDUCATION. DR, WM. H. CORNELL’S SCHOOL FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG LADIES, IS NOW OPEN AT Kg. 1432 South Penn Square, A few more pupils may be received. It is conducted on the plan of the New England Female Seminaries and has two peculiarities, viz.; Health, as a primary object, and Instruction, given by Lectures. For the Sanitarium, none but Ladies are taken as Boarders, though patients of both sexes are prescribed for at the office, in. all those cases to which Dr. C. has given special attention for nearly twenty years in Bos ton, namely; Diseases of the Lungs, Skin, Epilepsy, and all aflections of the Nerves, General Debility, and all diseases peculiar to Females. " ‘ The works on “ Epilepsy,” &c., wi>] he sent any dis tance, post-paid, upon the receipt of 50 cts. in postage stamps; “How to Enjoy Life,” for $1.00; and “ Cleri cal Health,” for 50 cts.' Dr, C. was permitted, while in Boston, to refer to: Rev A. L.'Stone, ; Rev. H. M. Dexter, Rev. Chandler Robbins, D. D., Rev, James Walker, D, D. s Prest. Harvard University t£ Mark Hopkins, _D.Jp., (< Williams College. “ W. A. Steams, D. B-, “ Amherst College. “ Daniel Leach, Supt. Pub. Seb., Providence, B. I. John D. Philbrick, “ Boston, Mass. J. V. C. Smith, M. D y John Ware, M. D , D. Humphreys Storer, M. D., Winslow Lewis, M. D. And ip Philadelphia to : Rev. H S. Clark, B. IX, Rev. H. A. Board man, D. D., “ Albert Barnes, “ A. Converse, D. D., Alex. H. Vinton, D. It., “J. H. Jones, D. D., Matthew Newkirk, Esq., Hon. Alexander Henry, Hon. Richard Vaux. MELODEOH" MANUFACTORY. The undersigned having for the past twelve jeers been practically engaged in manufacturing ■ : mei.oi>eows, feels confident of his ability to produce an article supe rior to any other in the city, and upon the most mode rate terms. Tuning and Repairing promptly attended to. A. MACNUTT, No. 115 H. Sixth Street fblOy CRITTEND E IPS PHILADELPHIA COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. S. E. comer Seventh and Chestnut Streets, PHILADELPHIA. An Institution designed to prepare young men for active bust ness. ICBtablisbed September, 1844. Incorporated June 4th, 1855. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. B. B. Comegyk, David S. Brown, Francis Hoskins, a V. Parsons, David Milne, * D. B- Hinman, George H. Stuart, Frederick Brown, John Sparhawk, Joshua Lippincott, Jr., Samuel C. Morton, John Sibley. faculty. S. HODGES CRITTENDEN, Attorney at law, Principal,Consulting Acebdnfant, and Instructor in Commercial Customs, and Com niercJrtl Law, THOMAS IV. MOOTiE. Professor of Penmanship. JOHN GItOKSRECK, Prafeesor of Book-Keeping and Phonography, and Verba 1 im Reporter. JAMES A.GARLAND,and H. A.WILTBERGER, Instructors In the Hook Keeping Department. At this Institution each student is taught individually, and may attend as many honrs daily as he chooses. The Complete Counting House course embraces thorough iastrnc tiop in Penmanship,: Book Keeping, Commercial forms, ami Her* cantite Arithmetic* with the privilege of attending all the Lectures on Political Economy, Commercial ]>aw. the Duties of Business Men,. &c.,'which are delivered at intervals during the year, in the Lecture Room of the College. > The. Department of Commercial Law affords business men every facility for acquiring such an amount of legal information as shall guide them with discretion in. their business affairs, lull Course Law Students also received. Catalogues, containing full particulars of terms, manner of Tu structioDj may be had on applying at the College, either in person or by letter. ‘ 4®- Twenty Fire per coni, discount allowed to sonsof dergvmem 49* CHITTENDEN’S BOOK KEEPLKG for sale. ITTce SLStJ, Ke to same sQcts. : . 183 William McCouob. m commission, omo.—*o.ll. JOSEPH LEEDS, Inventor and Patentee.
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