•THB BEDFORD GAZETTE M FOBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY B. F. BEYERS, At the following terms, to wilt $1.50 per ann U in, CASH, in advance. - $2 .00 • " if paid within the year. $8 .SO <f €< if not paid within (he year. oubtcription taken forles* than six ar-So paper discontinued until all arrearage, •re paid , unless at the option of the publisher. Jt he* teen decided by the United States Courts that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment ot arrearages, is prima facie evidence ot fraud and •S ■ criminal offence. OT-The courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspa pers, if they take them from tbepost oliice, wheth er they subscribe for them, or not. KEEP IT'BEFORE THE PEOPLE. That the tax which! will he assessed and collected after the election is a Republican tax. That the tax bill was drawn by Thadde us Stevens, an A.boLtion Republican ot the blackest stamp: That it in for 8150,000,000. which at 6 percent., in the interest of $2,500,000,000, which must have been what the Republican Committee of Wtjys and Means supposed the national debt to amount to, or what it Would amount to before the close of the fis cal year. That of this tax tltc people of Pennsyl vania will have to pay at least $15,000,000 yearly, or about s2l 50 to each tax payer, supposing the number to be 700,000. That if the debt wan $2,500,000,000 last winter, or if it will be that by the iirst of Julv, on any basis of calculation assu med by the committee, it will be at least $1,000,000,000 more at the close of the war, if it should close within a year, mak ing a grand total debt ot $5,500,000,000, and adding $1>0,000,000 to the tax bill; making Pennsylvania's share §31,000,000, or thirty dollars to each tax payer, to be handed over to the collector every year. Assuming the national debt, then, to be, at the ,closc of the war, §3,500,000,000, the Stale's share of it would be about $350,000,- 000, to which add the existing State debt, and we have about§3!)0,000,000"as the grand total of State indebtedness.—§l3o to every man, woman and child in the Common wealth. Arid remember fuither, that Abraham Lincoln, Republican, or, which is now the same thing, Abolition President of the United Statos, La's issued his proc lamation declaring his purpose to emanci pate all tho negro slaves in the U. Stales— those of rebels to be freed without compen sation; those of the loyal to be paid for. There will, therefore, be at least one fourth of the slaves to be paid for—that is about one million. These, at the compen sation paid to slave owners in the District of Columbia, (three hundred dollars,) would cost the nation three hundred millions of doliars more. And men* President Lincoln i 3 determined to colonize the negroes—four millions of them in all. How much more would that cost, supposing that it could be accomplished ? Not a cent less than $1,000,000,000. Keep it before the people, then, that The WAP DEBT and the NEGRO DEBT that this Abolition Administration will entail upon the nation, if it is not check ed by a change in Congress, or by other means, before its designs arc accomplished, will not be less than §4,500,000,00011! Of which Pennsylvania's share will be about § 150,OOO.oOJ!!! On which the yearly tax would be $27,000,000111 In addition to the Slate tax now imposed to pay the expenses of Government and the interest on tho forty millions of dollars State debt. Or, in round numbers, each tax payer Would have to pay yearly thirty-eight dol lars And iifty cents national tax, imposed by this Abolition-Republican Administration. Keep these facts before the people, and lte4p before them too, the disgraceful fact that the President of the United States, an , Abolition Republican, declares in his Eman cipation Proclamation, that this Government if ill do no act or acts to repress slave rebell ion. These are his words: "That on the Ist day of January, in the yea* of our Lord one thousand eight hun dred and tixty-ihree, ail persons held as slaves within any S ate, or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free; ancT the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and jtoaintain the freedom of such persons, and vnll do no act or acts to repress suck per sons, or any of them , in ANY EFFORTS THEY MAT MA KE for tkeir actual freedom f" Remctnber that tills cqJJ-blooded invita tion to insurrection and butchery comes from •^theßepublican President of the U. States, apd that every vote cast for Republican udndidfttes for Congress or the State Legis lature, who stand pledged to a blind, un questioning support of the Administration, will be a vote in favor of this atrocious dec laration, and of increased debt and taxation to maintain the supremacy tuid infamous pohey of the Abolitionists. People of Pennsylvania awake! Arouse to action! Strike down the nefarious, incen diary, blood-thirsty Abolition parjy! Strike for Congress, for the Legislature, for the Constitution and the Union, as they came from the hands of the Fathers, and as you ahonld transmit them to your posterity! Patience ia exhausted, the country trem bka-npon the very brink of ruin—the con stitutional liberty of the white man is threat ened —the equality of the negro i 3 proclaim ed/ Strikes then—strike all, and strike home!—Harrisburg Pat. <St Union. Orbfurfr Mmttie. VOLUME as. NEW SERIES. MAJOji JACK DOWNING. This old gentleman—(for tho good old man is not dqad,)—writes for the iS. York CAUCASIAN, lie lives in the White House now, with old Abcy just-as lie did with old Ilickory, in 1832-3(3, and he renders the following nS the result*of a recent conversa tion of his "with Linkin:" Applying the Principles of Negro Equal ity—Lincoln has the Floor. "The truth is, Major Downing, we Re publicans have been talkin about the grate principle of the cqiuility of all men, ineludin Injiiis, niggers, Chinees, and so on, and now they want me to apply the principle, and I'm goin to do it. I think there's some humbug in it somewhere, but I don't ex actly see where, arid as they will give me no peace, and will never be satisfied onny how until it is cluri, I'm goin to put it thru." "Wal," ses 1, "Kernel, go alied, but look out for squalls." Perhaps, ses I, you never heerd the sto ry about Xenas Humspun "applyin the prin ciple." 1 liojie you won't hcv as bad luck as he did. No, ses Linkin, I never heerd that story. What was it? Wal, ses I, Xe nas was a goodnatured feller, who lived in Downingviile, and a wonderful inquirin sort of a chap, allers ail forever pryin into things. If ho bought a clock he'd take it all apart with his jack iiifo jest to sec how it went to gether. So about the time that a telegraph was started and an oflis was set up in our town, Zenas was eenaiiiost puzzled to dcth to get the hang of the critter, as he called it. One day lie went to the offis an axed the feller to show him all about it. The chap was very perlite, an explained to him the great principle on which it worked, but Zenas didn't exactly see thru it, an kept ax in questions an botlicrin the feller till lie got clean out of pashms. Finally ses he to Xe nas, 'Perhaps you'd like to see me apply the principle.' Xenas sod he would, of course. Wal, ses lie, then you jest take hold of them brass knobs an stick to 'em tight. So Xe nas grabbed hold of 'em like all possessed, but he hadn't morc'n fairly got hold before be lay sprwvrlin on tho iioor. The •princi ple' had knocked him clean over. Now, Ze nas was a tcrribul feller to smoke, an allers carried his pockets full of Lusifer matches to light his pipe with. It so happened that he had a hull box full in his coat tail pock et as he keeled over on the floor, an as he fell they scratched agin one anuther so strong that they all got afire. It warnt but a lit tle while afore Zenas' coat tail was all in a blaze, an afore it could be put out it had burnt an orful big hole in the seat of his trowser.% an scorched him thereabouts ama- j zinly. Zenas yelled an hollered orful, an sed lie didn't want to know enything more about applyin the principle. Now, ses I, Kernel, I hope you won't have as bad lack as Zenas did, but depend on't, this applyin principles you don't exactly understand, is dangerous business. If you don't git burnt somewhere it will be a wonder. WHO MADE THE NIGGER? Wal, scs Linkin, Major, you're a cute chap in tolJiu a story, but now tell me, do you think the nigger an the white man didn't enrn from ihe same parrient? Now, scs I, Kernel, that's axin a deep question. You see it's onpossibul to tell what the Croatur may have done. He might have only one kind of man at fust, and then altered their constitushins, an complexions, an brains af terwards. You see everything is possible to the Creatur. Or the nigger may have cum from 1 lam, who was cussed for his sins, but then I don't sec that it is enything agin the scriptoors to believe that all the kinds of men were made at the beginnin jest, as they are now. Rut it don't make eny difference how they cum so, so long a3 they are dif ferent. You can't eny more make a white man out of a nigger now than you breed a lion out of a pole cat. You see/ it's clear agin naiur to expect to make the nigger eny thing but a nigger. You can't get a peach out of a crab-apple, nor a pumpkin out of a water-melon, nor eagles out of duck's eggs. Y'ou can't raise chickens from egg-plants, or produce goslins from gooseberries. You see, Kernel, everything in natur must go accordin to natur. If the nigger had been intended to be cquil to the white man, and the very fact that he ain't made so, is proof positive that he wnrn't intended to be put in a while man's place. Tryiu to make a nigger act like a white man is jest like old Sol Hopkins, one year harness in his otf ox an his boss together to plow corn. The ox was lazy as he could be, an the boss was a young, high-strung nnimil, nn sieli a pull in an haulin team you never did sec. It al most killed both. Y'ou see it was workin agin natur. It was tryin to make ah 033 an ox, and an ox a boss, neither of which things can be did. Y'ou see, Kernel, everything in natur must gotaecordin to natur. Wal, scs Linkin, there is a good deal in what you say, but then the people don't be lieve it. They think the nigger is only ac cidentally black, an if he lacks in mind an capacity, it's all owin to slavery, an they won't believe eny other way until they see for themselves. I tell you, Mojer, the prin- Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1862. ciple has got to be applied, no matter how many coat tails or how many trowsers are burnt. Wal, ses I, Kernel, I guess there are other folks who think jest as you do, for somebody has sent me some verses in re la shin to the next great emancipashin ball which is to cum off, cut from some noospa per. I will read 'em to you: The Emancipation Ball, GIVEN TO FOUR MILLIONS OF NEGRO US, BY THE GREAT REPUBLICAN P-A-K-T-Y. Another Great Ball is soon to be, l)e like ob which you nehlier did sec, De bids is out, I's seen a few, l)e guests I know, and so do you. Lubly Rosa! (Sambo come! Don't you hear de banjo ? Turn! Turn! Tutu! De fust on do list is Mistah Snow, An do nox is Joe men an Dinah Crow; Chalk en ivory! heels aa shins! White man wait till de dance begins! Lubly Ilofci! Sambo cornel • Don't you hear de banjo ] Turn! Turn! Turn! Pompey Smash, an his lady fair! You may bet your lifo (ley will bofc bo dare! And Mistah Ducklegs—bully for he! Such a gizzard foot you nebber did see. Lubly Rosa! Sambo come! Don't you hear de banjo] / Tuui! Turn! Turn! An Gumbo Squash, wid his bressed grin, His curling hur, an his ebo-shin— De lviug ob Hearts will come to de Ball, Let de gals look out for dure feckshuns all! Lubly Rosa! Sambo come! Don't you hear de banjo ? Turn! Turn! Turn! 010 uncle Ned. frnw down dat hoe! An Dinah drop dat kitchen dough! All Dixie's free, wid nuilln to do But to dance all night, an all day too. Lubly Rosa! Sambo come 1 , Don't you hear de banjo? Turn! Tumi Turn! De whim triifct* l,uA it..C.u .ft, an.., , But to work! work! an de taxes pay; While, de bressed darkies dance dere fill, Let de white trash foot de tiddler's bill! Lubly Rosa! Sambo come! Don't you hear de banjo? Turn! Turn! Turn! While men! White men! Sure as you're born, The crows are going to take your corn! They surround your ficjds on every tree, And they blacken the sky as far as we sec. Lubly Rosa! Sambo stay! In the land of Dixie Far avvav. Linkin laughed at it when I got thru, an sed it done very well for some sore-head Dimtny crat, but that Whittour could write one on 'tothor Ride that this wouldn't he a primin to. I tolled him Whittom* might make liett r poet ry, but I doubted whether there would be as much truth in it as this had in. Four Millions of Slaves Set Free —One Million of Them to Come to Pennsylvania. It is proposed, and intended, to liberate four millions of .Southern slaves. What is to become of them? Jl is i lie to tulk of colonizing them, even if they would consent to be sent away. We have not vessels enough, if all we had should ho employed for the purpose, to transport so ma ny people. Allowing that out sea-going vessels would carry an average of 2o<) negroes each, it would require sixteen thousand vessels to trans port all theso 'Tr< edincn" at one trip. One thou sand vessels would have to make, each sixteen trips, five hundred, thirty-two; two hundred and fifty, sixty four, etc. But we will not impeach the reader's intelli gence further on this point. Everybody knows that if the negroes are set free they will remain in the United States. And when it is consider ed that Abolitionism will have taught them to believe that the Northern free States arc the ne gro's paradise, it will he evident to all that the lilacks, when freed, will immediately set their faces hit her ward. Indeed, the very circumstan ces of their changed situation will b get a desire for further novelty. Besides, the theory of the emancipationists in this business is, that the ne ' grocs will, as they must, fight their way through toour lines—that, on hearing that Massa Lincoln has set them free, on papers, they will avail themselves of whatever weapons may he within their reach, and will slaughter such old and de fenceless white men as have not gone to the war, murder the women and children, and make off' for the federal lines, marking their way with butchery and blood. So, the conclusion is in evitable that if the four million of Southern slaves are set free, wo shall have them swarm ing into the Northern States, numerous as the frogs and the flies, the locusts and the lice of E pvpt. This will be the curse put upon onr I'lta raoh and hit people, not because of their refus ing liberty to the children of Israel, but because of their giving lilierty to the children of Ham! Now, leaving out California and Oregon, we have seventeen free States. To which of those will the most of these negroes probably come? Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and the States bordering on the (present) i slave States. New England, by its remote sit uation, its uninviting climate, and its sterile soil, would, to a great extent, cscapo the ourso whioh its policy will entail on the other Northern States. New York and Michigan will receive a consid erable portion of the "freedmcn," Wisconsin and Minnesota not so many; Kansas, we believe, I hps passed a law calculated to prevent such nil influx of negroes—but that State is under the Abolitionist*** rule, and of what account is law when it runs counter to their purposes; Illi nois has stringent laws against permitting ne groes to ootne to resile within its borders, and we believe the laws of Indiana place some iinpe • diments in the way of negroes immigrating to j that State. So th" probability apjiears very [ strong that when the four millions of negroes are let loose upon the North, Oliio, Pennsylva nia and New Jersey will be the chief recepta cles of tbem. But, suppose we divide them equally between the whole seventeen States— this will give to each State two hundred and thirty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-five (235.235) in addition to the stock already on hand. But, as we have seen, there is no prob ability that there will he aa equal division of those emancipated negroes amongst the North ern States. Pennsylvania nnd Ohio would lie likely to receive one half, at least, of the whole four millions. The proclamation of the Presi dent, if its purpose he fully realized, will very probably add a million of negroes to the popula tion of Pennsylvania. 'lUuk of this, laboring men! Think of it, Our fields will bo black with ne gro laborers; our factories and workshops and wharves will fairly slink with ill 'in; our pris ons and poor houses will have to be enlarged to hold the vast increase of criminals and pau pers that they will furnish us, and our taxes will have to be increased accordingly. Southern prod yets will he vastly abridged, and the prices of cotton goods, sugar, tobacco, rice, etc., which our people want, will be pro portionally increased. Already these things are nearly double in price what they were two years ago. When this negro exodus troin the South shall occur, and the negro laborer is trans planted to Pennsylvania, a poor man wall not be able to afford the luxury of a muslin shirt, nor of sugar in his tea or coffee —indeed, he may have no tea or coffee to put it in A million more of negroes in Pennsylvania! Ten hundred thousand more of negroes in Penn sylvania! Think of this, white laboring men, and remember that these imbruted Africans, will not only be your peers in the field and in the factory, but, if Abolitionism be carried out to its legitimate (or illegitimate) results, they will be your peers at the ballot box; and, in locali ties where they may settle so thickly as to have a majority of votes, they w ill be officeholders, of the Peace, Constables, etc. And, if negro equality ,' i to prevail, they will he can didates for the hands in ni.'O'riage of your daugh ters and sisters, and, the force ot this negro de lusion may become so great that, ere 50 years elapse, your blood and the blood of these en fruit' nchised slaves may be flowing in tho same veins. Think over all these things, white men.' Republican Opinion of Lincoln's Procla mation, The Now York 'Times, commenting on the President's Emancipation Proclamation Says: "From now till the first of January—the day when this proclamation will take effect—is little over three months. What may happen be tween now a id then, in the progress of the war, it is hard to say.—We earneitly hope, however, that by that time, thtfrcbellion will bo put down by the military hand, and that the terrible element of slam insurrection may not be invoiced." This, we take it, is a virtual acknowledge ment that the proclamation aims at a ''slave in surrection" in the South, with its accompanying horrors —the indiscriminate slaughter ot white men, women and children, with the accompani ments of arson, rape, and all the hellish crimes which Giddings and his associates have for years been desiring to see perpetrated by the ne groes upon the whites of the South. The Philadelphia North American , does not doubt that this proclamation will lead to "a rev olution in the rebel States," which means insur rection and its infernal concomitants. The New York Tribune , the organ of the traitorous radicals, is rejoiced—it is in ecstaoies over tho proclamation. It says, "It is the be ginning of the end-of the rebellion; the begin ning oif the new life ot the nation. Got* BLKSS ABKAUAM LINCOLN !" Grccly is satisfied now; he will no more com plain of the President; he has accomplished his purpose. Even Phillips will be pleased now. The President has "proclaimed a policy," which pleases these life-long enemies of the Govern ment —of the Union. "God bless Abraham Lsncoln /" will he repeat ed by all the tribe of negro worshipping fanat ics, fools and fiends in human shape who have, for so many years, been reviling the memory of Washington and stigmatizing tlie Constitution (which he helped to frame, and which he heart ily approved,) as "a league with death and a covenant with hell." Greeley has given them the cue, and they will all take up the cry: " God bless Abraham Lin-' coinP though, hitherto, they have execrated him, and pronounced him a "mud turtle"—the "Illinois stare hound" etc. They arc conciliated now, and one of the purposes, if not the main purpose, of the proclamation is already accom plished.—JloUiilaysburg Standard. MOKK 810 Grxs.—The Fort Pitt Works are turning out the immense fifteen inch guns now at the rate of three a week. These guns weigh each, in tho rough, about seventy thousand pounds, and apart from the difficulty of cast ing, the labor of handling, turning, and finish ing such a mass of metal is immense. There are four of these guns now in tho lathes, and by the time these arc out others will be ready to take their places. It is the intention to turn out three a week for the balance of the year. They nro intended for the new "Monitors" and are the most formidable of their character in the world. Arrangements are now in progress for casting a twenty-inch gun. This latter gun will throw n ball of one thousand pounds, and is expected to have n range of four miles. 1 WHOI.E HUIREB. 8093 Beeeher Put to the Test. According to the statement of Robert V. Fitzgerald, First, Sergeant, Fifth Regiment Cor coran Legion, (formerly of the old Sixty-ninth.) I published in one of the Brooklyn papers, the said • Serjeant was in search of recruits tor the war, 'in Fulton street, in the City at Churches, on j Monday, last and then and there meeting Beocb i er—whom he did not then know—asked him ito enlist under the Stars and Stri|K?s, to fight ! for the Union. Beeeher was shocked, and de nounced the recruiting sergeant as ''a scoun drel," who "ought to have known that he (Beeeh er) did not want to enlist." The patriotic Irishman had evidently fallen in with the wrong customer —a man who held any one for a scoundrel who took him to lie a patri ot. Had Fitzgerald read his blaspheming ser mon, published in the Herald of that morning, he could not have made such a mistake, if he hail only known the person of Beeeher; for, while in that profane discourse the clerical ac tor compares liimself with Christ, and intimates that hanging him and a few other radical lea ders would have as great au effect in defeating the rebellion and securing the abolition of sla very as the crucifixion of the Saviour had in o vcrthrowing Judaism and establishing Christi anity, Ijc confesses that lie thinks too much of his life to sacrifice it in uiiy such cause. Beeeh er, Greeley, Garrison and Phillips do not want to fight for the Union. As the Richmond Dis patch, in au article we published yesterday, well observes: "The Union is the god of all parties alike, except the ultra abolitionists, who, strange to say, are the only men in the North willing to 'let it slide.' The war has been car ried ou from the beginning by the conservative classes, and scarcely an abolitionist is to he found in its armies." Greely, indeed, lately boasted that, though jhey numbered 900,000, not one of them had I ever smelt battle. No doubt, like beecher, they would one and all dunounce as a scoundrel any man who should invite them to" fight for the Constitution which Beecher holds to be a worth less "sheepskin parchment," and for the Union, which ho denounces as "a monstrous outrage upon human rights." But the draft will fetch them up. Sergeant Fitzgerald suggests that Beecher, who "insulted the flag he bore and discountenanced enlistments, ought to be watched by the Government, as his conduct is very suspicious." We entirely agree in this opinion, and the whole traitor tribe re quire the exercise qf the utmost vjgjjanoe on the part of the President.— W"■ Yur'k Herald. Mortgaged to the Devil.' That the old fellow who presides over the re "ions below must be driving a thriving businessin taking mortgages on the souls of many of our people is too self-evident to deny; and if he does not foreclose on the,7l ere the war is ended, he will certainly soon thereafter demand a ful fillment of the bond. The revelations of th'ir ras cality almost fails even toexcite a remark ninong tho people, for it has become so common they have come to regard it as a matter of course. The late demand of the Government for ad ditional men has brought tolight the astounding fact that the Paymasters and Quartermasters' rolls contain the names of two thousand men who have never api>eaml or been represented by a living personification of a human being. Their names being on the pay rolls renders it certain that some person or persons have drawn the salary of these two thousand myths, and that the people have been grossly robbed out of their hard earnings; and thc.ir names appearing on the rolls of the Quartermaster, renders it cer tain that their rations have been drawn by some individuals, and sold for filthy lucre, as there were no mouths to eat them. This, however, is not the main injury the Government and the people have received ; but when the service of these men was wanted, and the insurgents were pressing hard upon our worn out and tired sol diers, these two hundred thousand men were needed to ta-nt back the enemy and nssist our soldiers in the unequalled fight; but they were not there; they were myths, and the President was deceive J, and the people were deceived, and our soldiers were % murdered because they were not there to help thein. A heavy load of guilt rests upon the Leads of the wretches who have thus robbed the people and slaughtered the nation. We would rather have a millstone tied to our necks, and he east into the middle of the sea, than to be compell d (o answer before God for a deed so atrocious and foul. That the devil has a mortgage on their souls there can be no manner of doubt; and it can never bj obliter ated, for it is an unpardonable sin. The perpetrators ol' this monstrous crime should be ferreted put at once, and caught, the President would receive the plaudits of the whole country if lie would cause these fellows, to be Constitutionally arrested, tried and hang ed. Mercy to sucli creatures is cruelty to the whole people and to the lovers of liberty in all parts of the world. To hang them is to deal leniently with them in comparison with their crime.— Greensborg Argus. STRAKOK BUT TUBE. —Capt. Klotz, of Clar ion, came to this city yesterday with a company [ from Clarion county, composed of ninety-seven men, every one of whom is a Democrat. A company from Clarion could not well be any thing else than Democrats, but it is singular that there should not be a single Republican in tho company, especially when the fact is taken into consideration thnt the Republicans are pa ving the way for a defeat this full by declaring that all their voters have gone to war!—Liar risburg Union. AN apothecary's boy was lately sent to leave at one house a box of pills, and at another six live fowls. Confused on tho way he left, the pills where the fowls should have gone, and the fowls at the pill place. Tho folks who re ceived the fowls were astonished at reading the accompanying directions:—"Swallow one ev ery two hours." Hates of 2U>t>ertising One Square, three weexaor lee, . . tie* One Square, earh additional inaertion leia than three month* 25 3 MONTHS. 6 MONTH*. 1 flit One square • $2 00 $3 00 $3 00 Two squares 3 00 9 00 0 00 Three squares 400 700 13 00 i Column 500 800 19 00 i Column . . 800 12 00 30 00 4 Column 12 00 18 00 30 0q One Column 18 00 30 00 SO 00 The sp ice occupied by ten lines of this aixe of type counts one square. All fraetiona of a aquure under five lines will be measured as a half square s and all over five lines as a full square. All legal dvertisements will be charged to the person hand ing them in. VOL. 6. NO. 10 A Religious View of the War. The following communication is from one of the most gifted and discreet clergymen of a Bor der Free State:— Catholic Mirror. Messrs. Editors: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation," &c., Jam. 1, 27. If this be the ease, as infaliible truth hath de clared, what must we think of clergymen—■ ministers of "the meek and lowly Jesus"—who in the temple of the living God can proclaim, "that it is humanity, it is mercy' to send down upon the unfortunate and erring South, hun dreds of thousands of men armed to the teeth —to destroy, to annihilate human beings of our own race—misguided, it is true—but still rc claimable, not incorrigible, not beyond the pale of conviction. It is lamentable to think that, in our philanthropic age, such language should be used by u class of men whose calling is peace. If this language be held by one, high in spiritu al position, it is still worse, more censurable, as it encourages others in inferior grade, to depart from their vocation of mercy and good will to all. How unbecoming for one elevated to lofty dignity, in "the House of God," to oppose the philanthropy of- St. James ; so that his words, instead of exciting men "to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation," are calculated to make orphans nnd widows on a large scale indeed. Whatever we may think of lay-politi cians, (for they are of the work!) there can be but one opinion as to a religious man or a Chris tian minister, whose position the Prophet thus describes; "gild yourselves and lament, Oye , Priests 1 Howl ye ministers of the Lord, go in sackcloth, ye ministers of God, because sacri fice and libation are cut off from the House of your God." It becomes the ministers of the Most High to 1 be jieace-makers, to weep over the tens of thou sands slain, "in Israel," overtaken by sudden and unprepared-for death. "The man of God" can never hound on men to death, or exult in their destruction, unless there be a well groun ded hope, that their death is "in Jesus," or ac cording to all human appreciation that their lot will be with the saints—"in bliss." It is worthy of being remembered that the Church of which its highest and lowest' func tionaries are, after all, but mere officers—has decreed that any one high or low who contri- I butes to blood-shedding, is irregular ; which, if 1 the party be of clericul order, means that he is i debarred the exercise of his official powers. r t' | j':s 'uufji ilunt OOT.VK Lib. V. Til. XII "Dam euutain homoridti irreg ularis e<t." This decision is illustrated in the Canon Law by the condemnation of a Deacon who had been tire occasion of a homicide and on this account had forfeited the right to pro motion—".Vo Videtur ad sacerdotunn promo* vendue." If then, in consequence of imprudent | sermons, from high or low, in the Church, tor | rents of blood should flow, wo ask, are not j those concerned in this calamity, irregular; and | if so, how can they exercise their functions—or, at all act consistently if they concur to blood shedding. It is an admitted axiom—"Ecclt j fia (ib/iorrct a sanguine, " that is, the Church | detests blood-spilling. Let them all reflect up on this tendency and requirement of the Church and act ifi conformity to her expanded views of philanthropy. NEMO. As lINFn.RILR.En PROMISE. —Gov. Andrew, j of Massachusetts, in a letter to the Secretary ! ol' War, promised that if the war for the Union were turned into a war l'or emancipation, "the roads would swarm with the multitudes that would pour out to obey the call." Well, the President has issued an emancipation proclama tion, and how stands Gov. Andrew's promise T A Boston paper says: "Since the President's emancipation procla mation was published—whether owing to that or some other cause is not known—recruiting has almost entirely ceased. Even Ward II (where the foreign population reside) has con tributed no men during the last three days." Just as we expected. Abolition prophecies and promises are alike bosh —nothing. When t tic proclamation appeared, Forney cried, "The rebellion is ended!" But, as far as we can see, it is now about as formidable as ever. Greely cried, "God bless Abraham Lincoln!" Beecher responded—and the whole Abolition crew shout- I ed Amen ! For such poor compensation as this the President forfeited the respect and confidence of more than half the North, and made himself ridiculous in the eyes of the world.— Patriot 4r Union. "Neddy" MoPhersonv This little "Thimble rigger" last week adver tised his through a card published in the Republican papers of the district, announ cing that he had volunteered his services as aid to (trig. Gen. .Reynolds and consequently could not meet the people of this Congressional Dis trict in "popular meetings." This week it "Presto Change," and another card appears from him advertising himself to speak at live or six dliferent points in this county during the pres ent week. We respectfully suggest to this po litical demagogue, that the people of this coun ty generally are fully as intelligent and well in formed on the political issues of the day as he himself, and are fully competent to do their own voting without being bored by listening to dry and prosy speeches of two hours and a half in length. The people of this district have weighed Mr. MePherson in the balance and he is found wanting. They want an honest man to represent them in the United States Congress hereafter. They have had enough of a man who talks one way and votes another, pretend ing to be a conservative yot always voting with Thaddeus Stevens and Owen Lovejoy. The Hon. Edgar Cowan of this State, remarked lart winter to a gentleman of our acquaintance, that "ho could never understand that, man McPbtur son; lie talks right, hut invariably votes wrong." The people of this district will vote wrqag tot htm on the second Tuesday of this moeih, we* opine.— Vaiky Spirit and Tnrm.
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