BEDFORD GAZETTE.
ISLUFOKR, Pa.—
FRID.W nxrrn MAT H> ISGI
B. F. Meyers, Editor & Proprietor.
" DELEGATE ELECTIONS.
The Democratic voters of the several elec
tion districts ot Bedford county,and others who
intend to act with them in good faith hereaf
ter, are hereby requested to meet on
SATURDAY, THE 15th JUNE, NEXT,
at the hour and place to be appointed by (heir
respective Vigilance Committees (who are here- I
by requested to give written notice ofsucli time
and place of meeting) for the purpose of elec
ting two persons as delegates to the Democrat
ic County Convention, which is tar assemble at
the Court House, in Bedhrd, on TUESDA\ ,
THE 18th DAY OF JUNE NEXT, at 2 o'- I
clock, P. M., to put in nomination a County
Ticket to be voted tor at the ensuing election, |
appoint Legislative and Judicial Conferees, and
attend to such other matters as may be ptopet
to be transacted for (he benefit of the party. —
It is also particularly requested that active and
earnest Democrats be elected Vigilance Com
mittees (or the ensuing year and tha' their
names be returned to the President of the Con
vention. Bv order of the Dem. Co. Com.
G. H. SPANG,
May 10th,'61. Chan man.
"Whited Sepulchres."
The leaders and drill-masters of the "Repub
lican" party (late of Bedford county, deceased)
who used to sneer at the Democracy as "Union
savers," have suddenly become the loudest T -
nion-shriekers in the country. The change
wrought in these once doughty contemners of
Democratic warnings as to a dissolution of the
Union, is to all outward appearances, complete
and effectual. But we know many ol them
that are urging forward the impending civil
war, who care but little lor the Union when
placed in the balances against their hatred ol
the South. They retain the feelings that
prompted them not long ago to say, "Let the
Unioft Slide," "This Union is not wortli pre
serving in connection with slavery."-Ac., &.c.
Their hearts are full of bitter,|revengeful blood,
and under the guise of Union-saving, they ex
pect to eke out their vengeance against the ba
ted slaveholder and ail who dare to speak out
for his rights. These despicable hypocrites,
who laughed at and mocked us, when westrovp
to prevent the calamity that has fallen upon our
land.nowjhave ttie shameless audacity to assume
the title ot Union Men, and in the sacred name
ol our country, to justify anarchy, oppression
for opinion's sake and the rule of the mob.—
They are "whiled sepulchres," lair without,
but within "full of corruption and dead men's
bones." Of men like these, we say to the peo
ple, beware ! Trust none whom you know to
have been the hater and reviler of Southern men
and Southern institutions. Let the true Union
men, who are honest in their desire lor a resto
ration of the Union, be vigilant lest they be led
into a crusade against slavery, whilst ostensi
bly fighting for the Union. The Government
should be our motto, and The Government
alone.
Who are to do the Fighting?
We are told that Gov. Curtin has appointed
Gen. Patterson, Gen. Cadwalader, Gen. Hale
and Col. Wyncoop, all Democrats, to responsi
ble positions in the a'mv, and this fact is cited
as a reason why Democrats should abandon
their party. Gov. f'urtin knew that the above
named officers had seen service ar.d wpre the
best tacticians and commanders in the State.—
He supposed, too, that the prestige of their
names would be calculated to cause the'rapid
enlistment of Democrats. The Democracy
were to do the fighting, as they have always
done before, and to draw them into the service
it was necessary to make Generals and Colonels
of some ol their old leaders. For prudential
reasons, Gov. Curtin gives the Democrats office
where bullets are expected fo fly, but places
his Republican friends on the feather-beds of
civil offices at a safe distance from the enemy.
We have referred to this matter only because
the blood and thunder organ across lots, urges
it as a reason why Democtats should give up
tbeir organization.
"We've got 'Em Now!"
This was the triumphant ejaculation of the
ostensible editor of the blood and thunder organ
across lots, on the occasion of an enthusiastic
war speech delivered by ajprominent Democrat
of this place a few weeks ago. That pink of
editorial patriots londly imagined that the Demo
cratic organization was to be abandoned and (hat
there would be DO party left to hold Republi
canism to an account lor the ruin it has brought
upon the country. Perhaps he had in his mind's
eye the mongrel fusion ticket which he propo
ses in his last issue. Tte Democrats and con
servative Union men will show bim who has
"got 'em!"
IF" We call the attentioMi our readers to
the advertisement of the saleef ifie real Estate
of Daniel Means, late of Monroe tp., d*ceasecf.
Persons desirous ot purchasing a fine property
will do weli to attend.
OF* There is a rumor of a fight between a
U~ S. vessel and a Southern privateer.
f THE BIGHTS OF FREEMEN.
Citizens of Pennsylvania Read !
A large standing army having been called
into service, and (he commencement of a long
and bloody war being, perhaps, near at hand, it
i is well that the people should Know their rights
j under, as well as their duty to, the General
1 Government. Whilst we are sending forth
our troops to fight for the Union, let us watch
with c-alous care lest that Constitutional Liber
ty, wittiout which the Union were a worthless
thing, indeed, be wrested -from us and tram
pled under loot by the very men to whom we
trust that holy birthright of our citizenship.—
Keep it before the people, therefore, that the
Constitution of the United States guarantees
the following :
1. Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press ; or the right of the peo
ple ppaceably to assemble, and lo petition the
government for a redress of grievances.
2. No soldier* shall in time of peace be quar
tered in any house, without the consent ot the
owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner pre
scribed by law.
3. The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated ; and no warrants shall issue, but upon
probable cause supported by oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the person or things to be seiz
ed.
4. In ail criminal prosecution*, 111* accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial by an im
partial jury of the State and district wherein
the crime shall havebeen committed, which dis
trict shall have been previously ascertained by
law ; and to be informed ol the nature and cause
of the accusation: to be confronted with the
witnesses against him : to have compulsory pro
cess (or obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to
have the assistance of counsel for his d-fence.
The Constitution of Pennsylvania also sets
forth in its Bill of Rights that,
1. All power is inherent in the people, and
all free governments are lounded on their au
thority, and instituted for their peace, safety
and happiness ; lor the advancement of these
ends they have, at all times, an unalienable and
indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish
their government, in such manner as they may
think proper.
2. The printing-presses shall be free to eve
ry person who undertakes to examine the pro
ceedings ol the Legislature, oranv branch of
Government, and no law shall ever be made to
restrain the light thereof. The free commu
nication of thoughts and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen
may freely speak, write, and print on any sub
ject, being responsible lor the abuse of that lib
erty. In prosecutions for the publication ot
papers investigating the official conduct of offi
cers, or men in a public capacity, or where the
matter published is proper lor public informa
tion the truth thereot may be given in evidence;
and in all indictments for libels the jury shall
have a right to determine the law and the facts
under the direction of the court, as in other
cases.
4. The right ol citizens to bear arms in de
fence ol thpinselves and the stale, shall not he
questioned.
5. No standing army shall, in time of peace,
be kept up without the consent of the legisla
ture ; and the military shall at all times be in
strict subordination to the civil power.
The Proof of the Pudding.
Governor SPKAGOE of Rhode Island, when
the Government called for troops lor the de
fence of the Capital, marched at once at the
head of his State's regiment, and is now in
Washington, ready to do a soldier's and a pa
triot's duty. Governor SPP.AGUE is a Democrat,
in tact the only Democratic Governor of a
Northern State this side of the Rocky Moun
| ta:ns. Why is it that some of the Republican
I Governors do not follow his example ? Sprague
j was willing to compromise and to do any thing
|io prevent the war. The Republican Gover
i nori were opposed to Compromise and wanted
j the war to own". Why don't they march ?
The Bedford Gazette is weekly publishing ar
, tides editorial and otherwise, in which it at
tempts to divide public opinion in this county,
which is now almost unanimous in favor of up
holding our country in the war forced upon us
by the traitors who are now in rebejlion against
the Government of the United States." We
state without fear ot successful contradiction,
that there are not twenty disunionists in Bed
ford county and they follow the ieaa of the
Bedford Gazette. —Bedford Inquiier.
It is false that we have ever attempted to di
vide public sentiment as regards the support of
the Government. We have striven to prevent
the disorganization ol the Democratic partv,
the crushing out of free speech and a free press
and th° endorsement ot she policy nf the Lin
coln administration prior to the taking of Fort
Sumter. If this was attempting to divide pub
lic sentiment we plead guilty, and are proud of
the imputation.
The blatant hypocrite that wrote the article
from which the above is an extract, has amused
himself for some weeks by calling us " traitor,"
" disunionist, ' &c. Now, this same self-right
eous scribbler, who assumes such great virtue
and patriotism, said but a short time ago, in the
hearing ola friend, that he " wished to God,
John Brown was alive now, that he might ful
fil his purposes upon the South." Such is the
patriotism, such the Union-ism, such the Chris
i tianitv of this great stickler for the Union and
the Laws. Hear him talk and you would suj>-
pose him a very Gabriel. Unveil his heart
and you have before you the hideousness of
Mokhanna.
JOHN FLEMING, Gardener at Bedford
Springs, will accept our thanks for some speci
mens ot his new potatoes, "Fleming's Seed
ing," and also for some fine cucumbers and let
tuce, all of whtch were duly appprecialed.
OF"" Remember that the Stars and Stripes are
the emblem of the Constitut ion and as such must
be maintained. Hurrah for Democracy, the
Stars and Stripes and the American Union !
I In Allegheny county in this State, where
the Republicans have 10,000 majority, they a
gree with the Democrats to hold a Union Con
vention, and nominate and support candidates
from both parties. The same is the case, we
believe, in other counties. Now we propose
the same plan of "dropping" partyism in Bed
ford county. What say you, Gazette *—Bed
ford Inquirer.
In one column you call us a traitor, and in
the next you ask us to join you in forming a
Union ticket! In one paragraph you denounce
us as a Disunionist and in the next you would
have us assist you in electing to office some cl
your new-fangled, made-to-order, paterit-iiglit
Union men ! No sir! The Democratic party
is a party of principles, and when its members
go to the polls to vote, they expect to have a
ticket presented for their acceptance pledged to
represent those principles. They want a ticket
composed of men who believe in, and who are
willing and ready to carry out, the doctrines of
the Demociatic party. As the editor of a Dem
ocratic paper, it is our duty to see that the De
mocracy are not without such a ticket, and to
that duty we hope we shall never prove recre
ant. It you and your party are anxious to give
up what you styled your principles, if you
think it is necessary for the country's good that
you should do so, we shall not have the slight
est objection. As for Us we intend to vote lor
a pure, straight-out Democratic ticket at the
next "lection, no matter what may be the pros
pect of its success. We will cling to ptinciple
though we should be in a minority of thousands.
As to the " Republicans" of Allegheny coun
ty sharing the offices of that county with the
Democrats, we are assured that they intend do
ing no such thing. There has been some talk
about their intention to da so, but they have
not done it, nor have they any idea of doing it.
The same motive that prompts the " Republi
cans",|n Bedford county to seek the formation
of a Union ticket, will deter those of Alleghe
ny from consenting to such a ticket. The love
ol the spoils is their ruling passion and by that
they will be, as they have been, governed in all
things.
[l?°* The Inquirer publishes a long string of
grievances suffered by the Government at the
bands of the South, winding up with the taking
of Fort Sumter. Nobody denies history. On
the contrary we say that there were twenty in
stances prior to the taking of Foit Sumter, that
would have justified the Government in making
war, if the taking of Fort Sumter was justifica
tion. If President Lincoln intended 10 coeice
the South, he had just as much cause to do so
on the day of his inauguration as afterwards.—
Yet he declared in his Inaugural Address lhat
he would do no such thing, and that he would
not oven send "odious officials" among the dis
affected people to carry out the laws.
•'BEWARE !'
That erewhile windy advocate of freedom
,nJ '••*• ,h ;"6" ♦•- D - Zn.Kju.trer,
threateningly tells us, every now and then, to
"beware." For the especial benefit of the scrib
blers for that sheet, we publish below and adopt
it as expressing our own sentiments, the reply
of the Concord (New Hampshire) Standard, to
the Boston Journal, when the latter threatened
the former with mob violence.
DEFIANCE.
While fhe Democratic Standard will as ; t
has ever done, adhere to Ihe flag of the Union,
and stand by the constitution and laws of the
country, it will maintain to the last extremity,
with our blood it need be, the freedom of speech
and the press, the sacred birth rights of Amer
ican freemen. And we now say to the editor
of the Boston Journal, that if the mob, at his
instigation, shall assaii our person or property,
it we survive, we will hold him responsible for
the outrage in property, person and life.
We tell that malignant and blood-thirsty mis
creant, that the blood of the first Dembcrat of
the Granite State that shall be shed by aßlack
Republican mob in this contest, will be avenged
by all the Democrats of the Grande State. Be
ware of the entertainment to which you are in
viting your countrymen at home, by your bar
barous and bloody counsels. It is enough to
have a sectional civil war. Beware how you
instigate a war of factions at home.
We commend to the editor of the Boston
Journal the following extract from a speech of
the Hon. Lyman Tremain, delivered a', the
great Democratic meeting recently held at Al
bany, N. V. Ihe coat fits his back exactly.
The sentiment ot that portion of Mr. Tremain's
speech is the unanimous sentiment of the Dem
ocratic party of the entire North, and will be
maintained at all hazards :
CAUTION AGAINST ASY INVASION or CONSTITU
TIONAL RIGHTS
Pardon me, fellow citizens for a few words
of caution. In times of great excitement, like
the present, there is imminent danger that in
an excess oi zeal to accomplish one supposed
good result, other constitutional and sacred rights
may be infringed. It has been with indigna
tion and pain that I have heard rumors of
threatened mob law directed against citizens or
newspapers for the free expression of their sen
timents. H- is an enemy of the public wel
fare who suggesis or sanctions such sentiments,
and should be marked arid condemned by alt
good citizens. In most cases, J presume, if V ou
examine his history, you will find that in other
timeg he has been the most blatant advocate tor
Free Speech and a Free Press. Never was
their greater necessity for preserving this free
dom unimpaired than when the military power
takes the place of civil authorities. A free peo
ple will never consent to be hurried into a mil
itary despotism, or any other usurpation of pow
er, by stifling free discussion. I have no fears
that any attempt will ever be made, in this law
abiding city of Albany, fo punish any men or
any press- for expressing his or its opinion upon
public affairs, w.th perfect freedom and inde
pendence. Without these privileges, the Gov
ernment for which we are struggling would not
be worth preserving I know I speak for you
and thousands of others when I sav, "woe, woe
be to the man or men, or the press or presses,
which shall successfully stimulate a mob to sup-'
press either Freedom of Speech or the Preys."
For the Bedford Gazette.
ST. CLAIR TP., May 20tb, 1861.
| BENJAMIN F. METERS :
We see it stated in the last Inquirer that
j there are twenty disunioniats in Bedford. Don't
i thee think twenty one could be found by going
to David's printing office? We don't know
who the twenty are, nor what party they be
long to ; but we know who the twenty first
one is. TIIP writer of this has beer, a tolerably
close observer of tilings in Bedford county,
j for a number of years. He has never seen as
j much treason, disunion and abolition any
1 where, as he found, to his sorrow, in the
j Inquire! of sth April, last, in an article headed:
j "Is the voluntary return of the seceding States
| desirable"? That article labored to show that
j a return ofthe States with slavery Was not des
ireable, and our friend David, with a number
of othprs, approved the sentiment. It their
voluntary return with slavery be not desirable,
is not forcing them back much more undesira
ble ? Ah ! thee knows it well, David, that the
publication of such an article two years ago,
would not have been safe for thee. Beware.'"
IWe love peace, we can see no good in war
Our homes are happier, our firesides brighter,
j when no enemy lurks around.
•\ e would prefer letling'slav"ry alone, mind
our own business, and le' slavery take care ol
itself. It a sin, v> are not responsible for it. If
no sin. Lien we have committed a very grave
i c ln by meddling ourselves with it, and bring
ng about, or at least helping to bring about, this
inglorious fight of Cain with Abel.
A FRIEND.
The Catholic Clergy and the State of the
Country.
We find in the Catholic Telegraph of this
week, the Pastoral Letter of the Third Provin
' cial Council of Cincinnati, to the Clergy and
Laity of the Diocese. The letter is signea
by,
fJohn Baptist, Archbishop of Cincinnati,
f Peter Paul, Bishop of Zela, Coadjutor Ad
ministrator of Detroit.
f Amadeus, Bishop of Detroit.
• fMaitib John, Bishop of Louisville,
f Maurice, Bishop ol Vincennps.
-(-George Aloysius, Bishop ol Covington,
-(-Frederick, Bishop of Saut Marv.
fJohn Henry, Bishop of Fort YVayne.
"This "pastoral letter" speaks of our nation
al troubles as follows :
Wherever Christ is to be preached and sin
ners to be saved, thpre she is found with her j
ministrations of truth and of mercy. She leaves
j the exciting question referred to precisely where j
the inspired Apostle ol the Gentiles left it : j
contenting herself, like him, with inculcating
on all classes and grades of society the faithful
discharge of the duties belonging to their re
: spective states of lile, knowing that (hey will
have to render a strict account to God for deeds ;
in the flesh, that this life in short and tran
sitory, and that eternity never ends. Beyond
: thi, point her ministers do not consider it their
! province to go, knowing well that they are the
i ministers <>f God, who is not a God of dissension,
; but ot peace and love.
Had this wise and conservative line of con
j duct been generally followed throughout the
| country, we are convinced that much of the I
i embittered feeling which now unfortunately ex
! ists would have been obviated, and lhat brother
| love, the genuine offspring of tiue Christianity,
instead ofthe Iratricidal hatred which is obvi
ously oppOSeil to lis essential genius and spirit s
would now bless our country, and bind togeth
er all our fpllow citizens in one harmonious
brotherhood. May God, in His abounding
mercy, grant that the sectarianism which di
vides and sows dissension? may gradually yield
i to the Catholic spirit which unites and breathes
unity and love.
NO PARTY NOW !
Ihis if the cry of the Republicans all over
the land. A man who dares to call himself
still a Democrat, is denounced as little better
| '.han a secessionist and traitor ; and in this city,
; the mere fart that a number of citizens whose
■ loyalty r.o one can question, consider it their
j right and duty to keep up the organization ola
j "Democratic Club," has aroused the indigna
tion of a self-eonstituted and secret 4 Vigilance j
: Committee" to such a pitch that, we are told,
they have threatened to stone the house in
which the meetings of this Club are held. E- ,
ven our neighbor of the Journal, who has just
j received his appointment as Postmaster, for no j
I other reason than that he is the political friend j
iof the Administration, cot .-nits the gross incon- j
sistency of repeating this "no party" cry.
A desire to soften the asperities of partizan !
j controversy, is a( all times commendable ; and
at this time, ol all others, when the country is
! engaged in a war for the preservation of its '
lawfully canstitutrd government, it is to be ex
; pecteo tiiat all good citizens will us - iheir influ
ence to restrain the heat of political discussion,
and prevent any offensive demonstrations or ex
pressions of political opinion. But, we would, j
in all candor, suggest to our Republican friends j
that, as they are now iff power, it should be
their business to set the example of wiping out
party distinctions and differences. So long as
the Administration at Washington continues
the work of "proscription for opinions' sake"
we mean, removing from office good Union men
merely because they are Democrats, and ap- 1
(pointing in their places other Union men mere
ly because they are Republicans —so long as
this goes on, the sincerity of the men who cry
"no party" so loudly, is open to suspicion.—
There is a glaring inconsistency between the
word and the deed; and people who are given
to reflection may well be excused if they come
to the conclusion '.hat this apparently generous
abandonment of party, means only a disposition
to tolerate "no party— but our own !"
In sustaining the Federal Government against
those who have traitorously made war upon it,
and supporting the Administration in its deter
mination to enforce the Constitution and Laws
in every State of the Union, there should in
deed, be 44 no party." An issue of this kind
rises superior to all other questions, and the
true patriot, of whatever political faith, is call
ed upor. to offer up every party feelJing and
prejudice upon the altar of our common coun
try. So it is at the present time. Democrats
can give no better evidence of their fi-Jelity to
the Union, than in the alacrity with which they
have reipooded to the call </ the President tor
troops to aid him in crushing the rebellion at
ihe South* In the gallant Armv of Volunteers
that P. en?) hania and the other loyal States
have sent forth to the tented fi-ld, ready to do
and die lor their country, there is "no party "
Uemocrats, V* higs, Republicans and Ameri
cans march shoulder to shoulder under the
same glorious flag, and with one heart and one
mind, have sworn to defend and protect it to
the last.
I On the question of maintaining the consritu
i ion, the Laws, and the Union, there must be,
, there is "no party." But, upon all other ques
tions of public interest, there will continue to
be differences ofopinion, and these differences
Will divide mer, as heretofore, into political
I parties. The Democratic party finds nothing
;in its past career or in its present position, to j
to induce it to abandon its principles or organ- j
ization. It will therefore adhere to the one I
and preserve the other, regardless of denunci
ation from any quarter. It violates no law,
and infringes upon no man's rights, in doing so '
! On the contrary, the Constitution expressly
guaranties to ihe people, at all times, " the
right peaceably to assemble"— Reding Gazette.
Letter from Judge Campbell to Sec
retary Seward.
Our readers will remember that when the
Confederate Government was first organized at
Montgomery, three Coinniis-ioiieis were sent
by Mr. Davis to confer with the Government
of the United States for a settlement of the dif
ficulties between the South and the Adminis
tration at Washington. These Commissioners
were not received, or recognized, by President
Lincoln, but a correspondence was carried on
with them through a friendly intermediary, the j
1 HON. JOHN A. CAMPBELL, at the time and for |
i I
j many years, a Judge of the Supreme Court of j
j the United State?. The high character and !
| patiiotic motives of Judge Campbell, are ac-;
i knoweledged everywhere, and the following
! letter from him to Secretary Seward, is, there
j lore, entitled to considerable weight in settling
i ihe question as to why Fort Sumpler was fired
upon by the Confederates.
WASHINGTON CITY, Saturday, April 13, '6l,
SIR : On the lslh Match tilt., I left with
Judge ford, one of the Commissioners of
the Confederate States, a note in writing to liie
effect following :
44 I feel entire confidence that Fort Sumtrr
will be evacuated in the nex' leu days. And
this measure is felt as imposing great responsibil
ity on the Administration.
I feel entire confidence that no measure
changing the existing status, prejutliciously to
the Southern Confederate States, is at niesent
contemplated. .
I feel an entire confidence that an imme
diate demand for an answer to,the coinmunua
tion of the Commissidners will be productive of
evil and not of good- Ido not believe that it
ought at this time To be pressed."
The substance of this statement I communi
cated to you the same evening by letter. Five ;
days elapsed, and I called with a telegram from j
(jeii Beauregard, to the effect that Sumter was
not evacuated, but that Major Anderson was ,
at work making repairs.
The next day, aft—r conversing with you, I
communicated to Judge Crawford, in writing,;
that ttye failure to evacuate Sumter was not the j
result of bad faith, but was attributable to caus- j
es consistent with the intention to fulfill the en- '
gagement ; ana that as regarded Pickens, I
should have notice ot any design to alter the
existing status there. Mr. Justice Nelson was
present at these conversations, three in number,
and I submitted to him each of my written com
municalions to Judge Crawford, and informed
Judge C. that they had his (Judge Nelson's)
sanction. I gave you, on tb 22d March, a
substactantiai copy of the statement I had made
on (ho 1 Sth.
The 30th of March arrived, and at that time
a telegram came from Gov. P.ckens inquiring
concerning Col. Lamon, whose visit to Charles
ton he supposed had a connexion with the pro
posed evacuation of Fort Sumter.
I left tfiat with you and was to have an an
swer the following Monday (Ist April.) On !
the Ist of April I received from you the state
ment in writing, ".I am satisfied the Govern- !
rnent will not undertake to supply Fort Sumter |
without giving notice to Gov. Piikens." The
words 44 I am satisfied" were lor me to use as
expressivp of confidence in the remainder of
the declaration.
The proposition, as originally prepared, was,
'•The President may desire to supply Sumter,
hut wii! not do so," occ., and your verbal ex
planation was that you did not believe that any
such attempt would be made, and that there was
no design to reinforce Sumter.
There was a departure here from the pledges
of the previous month, but with the verbal ex
planation I did not consider it a matter then to
| complain of—l simply stated to you that 1 had
that assurance previously.
On the 7th April, I addressed you a letter on
tfie subject of the alarm that trie preparations
by the Givernment had created, and asked you
if the assutances I bad given were well or ill
founded. In respect to Sumter, your reply was
" Faith as to Sumter, filly kept wait and see."
In the morning's paper I read, " An authoi ized
messenger from President Lincoln informed
Gov. Pickens and Gen. Beauregard, that pro
visions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably,
or otherwise by force."
This was the Bth of April, at Charleston, the
day following your last assurance, and is the
evidence of the full faith I was invited to wait
for and see. In the same paper I read that in
tercepted dispatches disclose the fact that Mr.
Fox, who had been allowed to visit Major An
derson, on the pledge that his purpose was pa
cific, employed his opportunity to devise a plan
for supplying the fort by force, and that this
plan had been adopted by the Washington Gov
ernment, and was in process of execution. My
recollection of the date of Mr. Fox's visit car
ries it to a day in March. I learn he is a near
connexion of a member of the Sabinet. My
connexion with Commissioners and yourself
was superinduced by a conversation with Jus
tice Nelson. He infurmed me of your strong
disposition in favor of peace, and that you were
oppressed with a demand of the Commissioners
of the Confedeiate States for a reply to their
first letter, and that you desired to avoid it if
possible, at that time. I told him I might, per
haps, be of some service in arranging the diffi
culty. I came to your office bis re
quest and without the knnwledge of either of
the Commissioners. Your depression was ob
vious to both Judge Nelson and myself. I was
gratified at the character of the counsels you
were desirous of pursuing, and much impressed
with your observation that a civil war might
be prevented by the success of my mediation.
You read a letter of Mr. Weed, to show how
irksome and responsible the withdrawal of troops
from For! Sumter was. A portion of my com
munication fo Judge Crawford on the 15th of
March, was founded upon .these remaiks, and
the pledge to evacuate Sumter is less forcible
than the words you employed. These woids
were: Before this letter reaches you (a pro
posed letter by me to President Davis,) Su.nter |
will have been evacuted."
c °nn>*oners who received (hose com
mon,cations conclude they have been abused
and overreached. The Montgomery Govern
,{". ro"ur;— :z'.
prepared to arraign you he lore thrcountrvin
corfnect.on with the lre S ,dent. 1 placed I nL
remptory prohibition ~| JOn thia, a, being con
trary to the terms of my communication! wiS,
them. I pledged myself to them to common,-
cate information upon what I considered as the
best authority, and they were to confide in the
ability of myself, aided by Jodg- Nelson, to de!
term,tie upon the credibility of my informant
1 think no candid man who v. ill rea(i '
what I have written, and consider for a mornert
what is going on at Sumter, but will that
the equivocat.n|couduct o the Administration
as measured and mlerpreted in connection with
these promises, was the proximate cause of the
great calamity.
I have a profound conviction that the tele
grams of the Bth of April, of Gen, Beauregard"
and of the lOth of April, of Gen. VValke-° ttJ
S-cr.1.,, of War, can bo Mm*] „ j!
else than their belief that there has been sv s
j tematic duplicity practiced upon them through
ou It is under an oppressive sense of the
j weight of this responsibility, that I submit to
i you these things for your explanation.
Very respectfully,
JOHN A. CAMPBELL,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Hon. VVM. H. SEWARD, SEC. of State.
% FROM CHARLESTON.
THE BLOCKADE SUSPENDED.
Arrival of Foreign f essefs.
WASBINTON>MAY 20.
J The Charleston Courier, of Friday, says for
J the past two days our port has been without the
prser.ce of the Niagara, which has left lor parts
| unknown. She has been reported off Savannah,
j in company with the United Slates
J Perry, and was seen oil North Edisto, but at
present there is no certain information oI her
I position.
The steamer Huntress observed near the Bar,
has also left so that our port is bonsequentlv
without* obstruction at this moment.
"V esterday we had several arrivals Iron fo
reign ports. Among them is a cargo of molas
ses from Cardenas. A Brit sh brig with
| pig iron and coal from Glasgow. The latter
1 has been token up to return to the same port,
and is engaged to take a full cargo of Sea Is
land cotton at the enormous freight of 24d.per
pound. Such a rate has not been given in the
memory of the oldtst inhabitant.
Capt. Eizay, of the U. S . Army, has ten
dered his services to the Confederate States.
TRADING ON BORROWED CAPITAL. —To read
the Boston papers alone, one would conclude
that Massachusetts was doing all that is beinc
done in the war line, and that her troops are
about all that are in the field. And to read their
highlalutin stuff about "M issachusetts blood
shed at Baltimore," one unacquainted with the
facls would think a whole regiment of her
sons had been slaughtered there. We have
no desire to disparage the new-born patriotism
of that State, or to detract Irom the credit to
which she is entitled for the promptness and
' unbounded liberality she has displayed in this
great crisis. It is the first time she has been
on the side of the country and the Government
in time of war, since the formation of the
Union ; and, being a new convert to patriotism,
it is very natural that she should rnaaife&t great
zeal. But her people and their organs ought
| to be a little Jess boastful, and especially should
•hey not claim credit for what belongs" tooth
ers. A very large portion of the troops she
has furnished, are men ol other States tempor
arily residing within her limits; and not one
of Ihe men killed at Baltimore was her son
two of them belonged in Maine, and the other,
young Ladd, was a New Hampshire boy belong
ing in Alexandria. How much "Massachusetts
blood' was shed at Baltimore we do not know,
1 but it is certain that no Masscnusetts life teas
i 'Are/ and in view of this fact, we think it
about firr.e tor the Boston papers to dry up" on
that subject.— ConcurJ(A. //.) Patriot.
NORTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. —The Albany
Evening Journal reminds its readers of the
■ constitutional impediment lying in the way of
the sp' edy formation ola new State to be com
dased of the counties situate in the Nothweslern
part of Virginia. It says:
"The indications are that Western Virginia
will apply for admission into the Union as a
new State. How will she be recognized by
the Federal Government? The Constitution, ar
ticle 1, section 3, declares that—
"No new State shall be formed or erected
wi'hin the jurisdiction of any other State, nor
any other State be formed by the junction of
two or more States or parts of States, without
the consent of the Legislatures of the States
concerned, as well as of the Congress,
"The consent of one of the parties will of
course be withheld. "Old Virginia" will ob
ject to being bisected in thia summary manner.
How will this constitutional impediment be
overcome ?"
C. Reamer has been elected Captain,
W. W. Anderson First Lieutenant and Win.
Bowles, Second Lieutenant, of the Bedford
Dragoons. This is a fine company of horse
men, and should be accepted by the Govern
or and put under pay for the defence of the
border.
j- DIED—
GUMP.—At the Forks of the Road, on the
sth inst., after a brief, though painful, illness,
James Buchanan Gump, aged 4ys., smos. and
25 days.
Christ hath called our boy ;
Why should we mourn for bim *
He haa tasted of that joy,
Which is unmixed with tin.
0 God, of love and light,
Enable us to tell ;
As did the Shunamite,
That, "with our child 'tis well."
P* ** *
STUCKEY.—On the 16th inst.,George Wat
son Stuckey, aged 7 ys., 1 mo. and 23 days.
Another gem for Jesus' crown.
BARKMAN.—On the 30th ult., in Mon
roe township, Joseph Barkman, aged 68 years.
The deceased was a prominent and highly
esteemed citizen of Monroe township, where
he had resided for many years. His death leaves
a vacuum in the community which will no<
soon be supplied. May his ashes rest in peace!