BEDFORD GAZETTE, 8. F. MEYERS, EDITOR, i ! i : : s \ MAY 29, 1883. Delegate Elections. Pursuant to rules adopted by tho Democratic party of Bedford county, at their regular meet ing held in February, 1856, which rules are now in force, the Democratic Vigilance Com mittees of tho several townships and boroughs of Bedford county, are hereby requested to give written notice that elections will bo held in their respective districts, on SATURDAY, THE JOth DAY OF JUNE, NEXT, for the pur pose of selecting two delegates from each dis trict to re) resent such district in the coming Democratic County Convention, said Conven tion to meet in the borough of Bedford, on TUESDAY, THE 23rd DAY OF JUNE, NEXT, at 2 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of puttiug in nomination a County Ticket to be composed of one person for the office of Assem bly, one person for the office of Prothonotary. one person for the oifiae of Sheriff, one person for the office of Treasurer, one person for tho office of Commissioner, one person for the of fice of Poor Director, and one person for the office of Auditor, and also to appoint three Conferees to meet similar Conferees from Som erset and Huntingdon counties to nominate a candidate for Senator. The Democratic voters of the several townships and boroughs, are also requested to attend to the election of Vigilance Committees for the ensuing year, which com mittees will be chosen on the same day on which the Delegate Elections are. advertised to be held. Return of the result of these elections, will be made to the undersigned, on the day of the meeting of the County Convention. By order of the Democratic Co, Committee, J. W. LINGENFELTER, Ch'n. May 22, 1863. "Sympathizers With Treason." At the announcement of the death of Gen. Jack eon, sympathizers with treason in this pe culiar spot, hung their hends in despair and would have gone down in sack-cloth and ashes if it would have restored him to life. * • • Nothing but downright cowardice keeps them from joining the Southern army, and if they bad three grains of manliness they would never be found voluntarily under the protection of a government which they from the very bottom of their tiny hearts desire to destroy.— Bedford Inquirer. Were it not that the author of the paragraph above quoted, speak* for a party, we would not dignify his falsehoods with even a passing no tioe; but, as through him the Abolitionists of this county address the people, we feel it our duty to expose the malice and falsity of his statements. Now, you envenomed black-snake, who are the "sympathizers with treason in this peculiar spot?" Name them, if you please, but be care ful when you do so, not to make any legal blun der. There are some people in this town who will not permit you, nor any other Abolition serpent, to hiss at them with your snaky insin uations about "Secession sympathy." As for eurself, if you (or any other viper like you) dare . to ay that we are a "sympathizer with trea- Boo," we pronounce you in advance, a liar and a slanderer. You know, in your own venom ous heart, that there is not one Democrat in the Borough of Bedford who has any sympathy with treason. You know that you wilfully, de liberately and maliciously uttered a lie when you spoke of such persons living in our midst. You know that you publish such falsehoods for partisan purposes, in order to divert the atten tion of the public from the monstrous crimes of -which your party leaders are guilty, and to save the necks of the thieves and rascals who are now engaged in plundering the pockets of the paople. A pretty fellow you are, truly, to talk about sym{>atby with treason. Your party, through its leaders, is steeped in treaeon. The ■ten that do the thinking for it, proclaim their hostility to the old Union* and, therefore, to the Bepublic, which is treason itself. Can you de ny this T No, you dare not. You koow it is true. As to Stonewall Jnckson, there is not a decent white man in all the North, who, now thot this greut foeman is dead, will not accord to his memory that respect which is due to all men of genius, even if their talents be employ ed contrary to our wishes or tastes, or iD oppo sition to our interests as individuals or as a na tion. We advise the demagogue who talks a bout sympathy with treason, to read the lead ing organs of his own party on the subject of the death of Stonewall Jackson. There is not one of them that does not praise his virtues and extol his skill and bravery as a general, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, ;u a lengthy article in the New York Independent, canonizes Jackson und places him safe in heaven. But the fierce hussar, the bold and blood-stained warrior, of the Inquirer, would have people dig open the grave of the departed foeman, and ghoul-like, tear bis dead body with savage teeth. The grave is no barrier to his vengeance; nay, he would spit his venom upon the white robe of a taint in heaven, were it not that no viper like ha can ever get so near the celestial portal.— Bitterly leyml and brimming over with patriot ism, he would dance a jig upon the tomb of Stonewall Jackson, and "nothing but downright oewnrdloe keeps bim from joining the Federal •rmy," for the purpose of capturing the last tearing place of the departed rebel. According to Abolition opinion every man is * Copperhead who is for the Constitution. , A Base Lie Nailed! A Few WorcU for the Soldiers II "Tlii! Copjierhcad family hnvc infused a most unholy dislike to the soldiers of the Union ev ery where." Thus speaks the Bedford Inquirer in its last issue. By the "Copperhead family," we pre sume, is meant the Democratic, party. At least the Inquirer man, whenever he tries to be severe upon the Democracy, calls them by this endear ing title. Now, it is scarcely necessary for us to deny the charge contained in the above sen tence, for every honest citizen must admit that it is false. But lest the soldiers, for whose spe cial benefit (?) the paragraph was indited, might think, if wo made no response to this charge, that wo could not successfully refute it, we give it this passing notice. Soldiers! It is false that the Democratic par ty is yopr enemy. It is false that it does not desire your welfare. Its great heart beats with pity for your privations and sufferings. Ita very soul yearns for your safe return from the battle field. No! no! The demagogues that visited you in camp to proselyte you to Abolitionism, by poisoning your minds with malicious lies a bout the Democracy, are at their old game. For the purpose of luring you iuto the coils of the Blackauake, they tell you that Democrats har bor "dislike" to the soldiers. They hope thus to stir up your feelings against the Democratic party, which accomplished, they deem you an easy prey to their toils. For such of you as are Democrats this trap is especially laid. Nor would it in the least disappoint the hopes of these tricky scoundrels, if in your indignation at the supposed enmity of Democrats to your class, you would engage in riot, arsoh and blood shed, provided only their political opponents would be your victims. Do you not see what these devils incarnate are at ? Do you not pen etrate the thin gauze of patriotism with which they overspread the net-work of their hellish designs, and do you not perceive the Blaeksnake coiled underneath, ready to wind his deadly folds about you? It needs no sage's eye to look through the transparent covering intended to conceal this Abolition pitfall. Common sense peers through it at a glance, and Reason tears it into tatters.—But there is, perhaps, another reason why these Abolition hell-hounds are try ing to kindle your hatred against us Democrats It w simply bemuse wt are your friends. When speculating rascals, the pimps and favorites of j Abolition officials, foisted "shoddy" clothing and j wooden-soled shoes upon you, we Democrats exposed them and compelled them to do you | justice. When miserable food was served you j and your pay withheld from you for months af ter it was due, we Democrats again insisted up on your rights. When officers were placed over you who led you into slaughter-pens and bad your fellow soldiers butchered by the thousand, we Democrats protested against their continuance in command and rested not till they wero re moved. When attempts wero made to degrade you by placing you side by side with negro sol diers, we Democrats took up your plea of white superiority and prosecuted it regardless of pris ons or exile. And when the great fraud was committed upon you, by which the object of the war was changed from that of the restoration of the Union to the forcible Abolition of negro slavery, and you were dragged into a war for the negro, notwithstanding the fact that you had enlisted only to fight for the Union, wt Demo crats insisted that a great wrong had been in flicted upon yon and upon the country. For these sins against the immaculate Abolitionists, we are to be punished, provided you can be per suaded to take us in hand. The Abolitionists themselves are too cowardly to undertake it. They want you, soldiers, to do it for them. Should you not rather punish them for presum ing yon ignorant enough to believe their lies? Great Meeting of tho "Onion Loot I" Speaking from Three Stands. TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM! On Saturday night last, the "Onion Leek" had a meeting in the Court House, at which were present six male "Leekers" and sixteen ladies. Hon. A. King made a speech which held the large and eDthnsia6tio meeting spell bound for some time. lie v. George Krgafoos— the inevitable George—then arose to deliver himself of his usual surplus patriotism, when j twelvo of the sixteen ladies left the room incon tinently. Not at all discouraged by this direct blow at his oratorical powers, George proceed ed with his harangue and told his audience that the "Leek" must be conducted on the principle upon which the old Temperance societies were carried on; that is, instead of pretending to be. ' tce-totnllers" and at the same time drinking behind the door, the Leekers should outwardly insist that they are no politicians, but behind the curtain they might play at politics as much as they please. Whilst our reverend friend was engaged in eliminating this great principle, speak ing was going on from two other stands, to wit: the Secretary was talking to the President, and the wisest man in town was engaged in doing the same thing to Mr. King, and each in as loud a voice as that of the main speaker, Rev. Mr. Sigafoos. The meeting having thus iiccotne rather demonstrative, it was thought best by tlie "Leekers ' to adjourn it, which was accord ingly done. This meeting speaks well for the loyalty of lJodford. Copperheads, beware! I irpnoyioißXT. —Our enterprising friend of the Meagel House, ts about adding another story to "his hotel. This will be a great improvement to th house and will make it one of the finest hotel buildings to befuand i any country town in the ataio. Another Outrage upon the Press. On Wednesday, the 20th inst., the office of the Huntingdon Monitor was destroyed by ft couple of returned volunteers, who did tiieir work of destruction in the presence of a large and ndmirmgassemblage of the Abolition inhab itants of "the ancient borough." The Monitor was n inild but firm Democratic paper and the only crime of its editor WHS his refusal to en dorse tiie evil deeds of the Abolition conspira tors. Well, Huntingdon "cannot escape histo ry." Let it be written down that 111 the latter half of the enlightened nineteenth century, the town of Huntingdon, heretofore supposed to be a part and parcel of "the land of the free and tlic home of the brave," the private property of a law-abiding citizen was ruthlessly destroyed and his personal safety secured only by speedy flight. Let it also be recorded that when this outrage was committed George Taylor was Pres ident Judge of the IluntingJon district, tliut William Lewis was editor of the Globe, and let the name of the Sheriff who refused to make any eflort to quell tho riot, be handed down to the lowest depths of historical infamy. The following address has been published by some of the true and deer-ut poople of Hunt ingdon : HUNTINGDON, PA., May 21, 1863. To the Democracy of Huntingdon County : An important hour in the history of our country is upon us. The question which presses itself home to every freeman now is, shall the rights and the liberties of the citizen be preserved, or shall the violence of a bloody mob override the majesty of the law. and destroy both property and lifef In a crisis like this we appeal to the sovereign people; they are alike the source of virtue and ot power, and their will, to b obeyed, needs but to be known. True to the sublime cause of constitutional liberty in the early struggles, they will not desert it now, when the fires of perse cution light it? grand march to victory! Feeling deeply, as all citizens who love law and order must feel, the outrage committed on the office of the Monitor , on Wednesday, the 20th inst., we hereby unite in a call for a mass meeting of the Democrats of Huntingdon county, to be held in the Court House, on Friday, the 29th of May, at 1 o'clock, P. M., to give ex pression to our utter abhorrence of such violence and brutality, and to renew our allegiance to the rights of the citizeu and the Constitution of tbe Union. Freemen of Huntingdon county ! shall your voice be hushed by the mob? Shall your prop erty be destroyed, and your persons endangered, and that, too, in the name of liberty? Never! : By tbe sacred altars of our father, wc swear never. NEVER! Then come in numbers and in power to the mass meeting, and in obedience to the law of j the land, let us both assert and maintain our j rights. The Monitor must be re-established, i and even- moment of delay broods peril to our 1 cause. Let there be a thousand Democrats in council. There is no man who loves liberty, i that cannot devote one day to its holy cause. John S. Miller, R. Bruce Petriken, W. P, i M'Nite, A. Johnstqp, J. Simpson Africa, E. L. I Everhart, F. Helfreight, F. R. Wallace, Wit Colon, A. P. Wilson, G. Ashman Miller, Johhf R Lightner, George Mears, R. Milton Spoor, ! Joseph Rigger, Daniel Africa, Valentine 1100- j ver, A. Owen, Great Religions Concoursei On Saturday last the "yearly meeting"of the Dunkers, a very large and pious sect, commen ced its sessions at Clover Creek, a few miles North East of Woodbcrry. An immense con course of people was in attendance. The number of persons thus gathered together, is estimated by some at ten thousand. Many, if not all, of the eminent preachers of the sect, we are in formed, were present. There was preaching from a number of stands, and many of the ser mons were truly interesting and instructive. Persons from a great distance were in attendance. To some their journey to the place of meeting, must have been a pilgrimage. The meeting las ted three orfour days. VALLANDIGHAM.— Tho President has com ranted the sentence of Vallandigham from im prisonment in Fort Warren to exile in the Southern Confederacy. It is reported that in accordance with this decision, Mr. V. has been sent a< row the lines. Not only was tho Ad ministration afraid to try Vallandigham accor ding to the Constitution and the laws, but it also feared the people too much to risk his be ing sent through New Jersey and New York to Fort Warren. Well, they have exiled him They have driven mad hi 3 true and gentle wifg. They have robbed his children of their protec tor. But with all this persecution, they have but fired the hearts of the people with love for a man whom before they had only admired and respected. Vallandigham is a martyr to civil liberty, and as such his name will go down to posterity. WThe Inquirer makes a great ado about a preacher having been led off from a Democrat ic meeting recently held t Paris. This preach er talks politics from the pulpit, preaches Abo lition, apologues for the men who use mob law on Democrats evcrj*whero, and says lie would "rather bo in h—ll than be a Democrat." He came to the meeting referred to, stood, like an eaves-dropper, outside, at the window, and re fused to go into the house when politely invited so to do. Odious as he has made himself to the community in which he resides, we are quite sure he would not have been molested, had he not, himself, first recommended violence.— Verily, "he that sowefh the wind shall reap the whirlwind," and he that excuses and apolo gises for mobs, shall perish by them. In this instance the doctor was only made to swallow a little of his own medicine. cyThere are rumors of tho capture of Vicks burg and of a number of bloody battles having been fought by Gen. Grant prior to his invest ment of the city, but, up to the lime of going to press, they, have not been confirmed, and, therefore, wc postpone accounts of them till our next. Tho news in regard to Haloes' Blofif, TV*I think-, W Tv.tlsWe. A Sad Story. 1 YeJterday, says the Philadelphia Age of May 23, we published u telegram announcing that the. wife of Hon C. L. VAI.LANDIOHAMJHAD become insane: The sharp, quick click of the magnetic finger gave us no indication of the causa which proditced this sad result—nothing was borne a long the wire except the startling fact that a gentb and loving wife had been bereft of her reason. The events of the last few weeks, how ever, furnish H clue to this fearful story, if it be a reality. The midnight arrest, the illegal trial, the Irum-head court-martial, the sentence and bunbhmcut of a devoted husband, all tell of the causes which froze the heart and paralyzed the brain of a true woman. The cruel outrage upos tho person of a citizen has not only exiled him from his happy home—it has desolated his fireside and crushed the temple in which the ho liest affections clustered. God help IIEK, and comfort HIM in his latest and severest sorrow! We have 110 heart to pursue this painful sub ject Let the hero who has suffered exile be cause lie dared be a freeman, calmly trust his fatein the bands of bis countrymen. The night that is now around hitu will, ere long, break into day. The heel of the despot that is now piaeed upon his neck will be removed. The | chains that are now hung upon his limbs will bo stricken off. Already tho bright halo of a martyr's crown is spreading its rays abovo his head. "Futurity will restore his rights, and hoior his memory!" A Storm Gathering in the West. It is impossible to read vbe Ohio and Indiana newspapers, without coming to the conclusion th*t a storm is gathering in the West, full of the direst portents to our country's peace. We I submit the following extracts from the last Co j lumbus (Ohio) Crisis, that has reached us, and beg our Republican friends to weigh calmly their terrible import. I "The Eastern papers come loaded with de nunciations of the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham. j Our friends East must not suppose that because | vary little is said in Ohio, that there is no feeling 1 i the subject. The feeling is far beyond the au [ ibble expression of the people. Under no circum stancei did we ever witness the same state of public mind. It pervades ei'tey part and portion of the I State. Scarcely a word passes between the Demo crats and the Republicans—they jxtss as total strun gers." And again: ''So intense is the feeling in the State, that Jew feel like saying anything on the subject. There is a death-like, feeling in every heart, which is smoth ered under the mere inquiry of "What has been done with Mr. Vallandigham?" and such like ]iuquiries. Would to God that the authorities I were fully sensible of tho great blunder they ! made— of the slumbering volcano underneath. Who ; counsels—who advises them ! Surely not the men of sense—of patriotism, nor lovers of or j der and of safety. We pray for peace, for law, ' and for order, but we fear that our prayers are | but mockeries. If trouble comes let it rest on I the shoulders of those who would have it so." i The report we give elsewhere of the proceed ings at the late Indiana Democratic .State Con vention, the deliberations of which were held 1 with a military force in the ball, and soldiers , patrolling the streets, is from a bitter Republi can paper, and of course untruthful, but it tells •/s own story of the strides of military power in ft trj and loyal-State, mid the suppressed fury I with which it is regarded by the people.— World. I Lrtrasion of Kentucky, Etc. CINCINNATI?, MAY 19,— -Passengers to-night friin Lexington state that the reliels in large force—sonic estimate it at 30,000 —have enter ed Kentucky, and threaten an invasion of the interior. Gen. Burnside Ims no official notifi ctticn of such a inurement, although he regards such an event as not improbable He believes himself fully able to check this march. There are now Confined in the military pris on here 220 political prisoners, all to be tried by tho court-martial now boldiug daily ses sions. Prisoners nnd deserters are arriving here by every traiu. VALLANDIGH AM- —BURNSIDE AND THE PRESS. The indications are indubitable, that Mr. Vallandigham will be nominated for Governor by the Democratic State Convention of Ohio, next month. Gen. Burnside bas notified sundry weekly pa pers in this State to send him proofs of the mat ter tbcj' design publishing, before it appears in their issues t the reason assigned being tho pub lication of articles against the administration, Order No. 38, &c. Important Rumors About Hooker's Army. NEW YORK, May 21. —The bulletin board of the World office has a placard which says it is rumored that the Army of the Potomac is fall irg back to the defences of Washington and the .upper Potomac .Gen. Hooker is known to have removed his headquarters. Movements of the Piratos. NEW YORK, May 22. —Advices from Bermuda of tho sth ir.st, give arnmorthat Captain Scm mes has resigned the command of the Alabama to hie first officer, and taken comnrand of a fine Confederate ihip ramiuting twenty-two guns. Another Threatened Raid of Stuart. Last night's Washington Star says: Telegrams received here LO-dny state that Stuart is believed to be raasvang a heavy force of cavalry at Culpeper Court-house, for a raid within our lines. The i depression, however, is bused, so fur, on rumors only. CONFEDERATE GYJNBOATS. —According to a correspondent of the New York Tribune the Confederates iti North Carolina are building a large iron-clad gunboat on the Tar river, and a floating battery on the Roanoke river. He fur ther states that three others are being built at Richmond, Va. Ono of then; is named the "Ladi.es' Gunboat," paid for by subscriptions of the ladies. 'litis one has just boen launch ed. A traitor, under the law of war, or a war traitor, is a person in a place or district under i martial law, who, unauthorized by the military commander, gives information of any kind to the enemy or holds intercourse with him, — New Rules of War. We should like to know under what part of litis definition Vallandigham received sentence :ts a "traitor," or how any man, according to this code, who exercises tho simple privilege of free and opeu discussion before his neighbors, can be convicted of lioMlng intercourse or pterins, intert* the cwtay, THE PEOPLE AND THEIR RIGHTS! Magnificent Mass Meeting in U nion Square. 25,000 AMERICANS IN COUNCIL. Vindication of Law, Free Speech, and Constitutional Guarantees. Popular Enthusiasm for Governor Seymour. THE ADMINISTRATION REBUKED. The great mass meeting last evening at Uni on Square in behalf of free speech, a free press, and personul rights, and having spcecial refer ence to the vindication of these as violated in the arrest of Mr. Vallaudighain, proved a mag nificent success both in numbers uud enthusiasm. The arrangements were under the auspices of the Democratic Union Association, and though necessarily made somewhat hurriedly, owing to the urgency of immediate action, were most ex cellent. It was estimated by the most candid persons, experienced in the measurement of audiences, that there were present between twenty-five and thirty thousand people. Four stands were e reetcd—one in front of the monument of Wash ington, one facing it, one in the South side oi Fourteenth street, and a fourth in front of Dr. Cheevoris Church. One of these was devoted entirely to German speakers. All the stands were surrounded by a perfect mass of human beings packed in the closest space and extend ing as far out us the voice of the loudest speak er could reach. The stands were hung with Americun tiags and were furnished with sever al well arranged lamps each, which shed suf ficient light to render the stands entirely con spicuous, and in addition to these, Drummond lights were placed in different locations, light ing up the whole scene around. The meeting was quietly collecting on the east side of the square at half-past seven. The German Legion pressed up from tho east side of the town and packed closely around the stands and at a quarter to eight they began to call for the lights and music. Their numbers were at the end not less than eight thousand. Speeches were then made by Hon. Luke F. Cozens, Hon. C. Godfrey Gunther, Hon. Eli P. Norton, R. S. Tharin, Edinon Blank man, Win. B. Rankin, J. A. McMasters, Captain Ilynders, Dr. Adolpli Bergman, D. C. Birdsall, Prof. Mason. D. C. Van Lune and other distin guished speakers. Letters approbatory of the object of the meeting were read, from Hon. A. Oakey Hail. District Attorney of New York City and lately a leading "Republican," R. o'- Gormun, Esq., .Judge Parker, Hon. 11. C. Murphy, Ex-Gov. Hunt, (Whig) Hon. Nelson J. Wateibury, Hon. C. Ingersoll, Hon. S. E. Church and other prominent patriots. We give below the resolutions adopted by the meeting, and the letter of A. Oakey Hall, an eminent '■Republican" lawyer, who has recently forsa ken the foul and treacherous party that has brought ruin upon the country and is now at tempting to riot in that ruin by giving its lead ers despotic power. Let every intelligent "Re publican" read and ponder well this letter. Resolutions. Whereat, Within ft state where the courts of law are open and their process unimpeded, sol diers under the command of otlioers of the U nited States army have broken into the residence and forcibly abducted from his homo the Hon. Clement L. Vallandighara; and Whereas, A body of men styled a military commission have arraigned before them and tried the said Hon. Clement L. Vallandighara, a civilian and an eminent public man, for words sooken in the discussion of public, ques tions, before an assemblage of his fcllotvcitizens; and Whereat, The said military commission have sentenced him to punishment ae yet unknown, but which is to be announced in some milita ry order to be promulgated hereafter; there fore, Resolved, That we, the citizens of the city of New York here assembled, denounce the arrest of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham and his trial and i sentence by a military commission as a startling i outrage upon the hitherto sacjed rights of A j merican citizenship. Resolved, That the exigencies of civil wfir j require the fullest and frc.tst discussion of pub } lie questions by the American people, to the end that their temporary public servants mr.y not forget that they .arc the creatures of tlje pub lic will and must respect the obligat ions and duties imposed upon them by the Co'jsutution of their country, which is the authentic, sol emn expression of that will-, and that, whenev er, upon the orders of military co-mm.anders and from fear of their spies and informers, Ameri can citizens not in the military service shall fail to approve or disapprove measures of pub lic policy, to denounce t>r applaud tho com uundcr-in-cbief, and to af.vocate peace or war, as ,their judgments mr.y dictate, they have ceased to be freemen, and have already become slaves. Resolved, That wi: reverently cherish that great body of constitutions, laws precedents, and traditions which constitute us a free peo ple, and that we hold those who designedly and persistently violate t.hom ns public enemies. Resolved, That w/e are devotedly attached to the Union of there states, and can see nothing but calamity and weakness in its disruption, and shall continue to advocate whatever policy we believe will result in the restoration of that Union. That at. a time when our fellow-cit izens are falling by thousands upon the battle field, nud human carnage has become fatnilliar, we implore tbe federal authorities not to adopt the fatal error that tho system of imprisonment and terrorism will subjugate the minds and sti fle the voices of American poople. Resolved, That we call upon the governor of the State of New-York nnd all others in au thority, as they value organized society and sta ble institutions, to save us from the humiliation and peril of the arrest and trial before military commissions of citizens whoso only critna shall be tho exercise, of a right, without which life is intolerable and republican citizenship a false name and a false pretense. Resolved, That the refusal of the judge of the district within which the Hon. C. L. Vallandi gham is incarcerated to grant a writ of habeas corpus is, in itself, a nullification of the Con stitution nnd an infamous outrage upon the clearly defined rights of tho citizen Reeolrcd, That we fully and heartily indorse tbe language of our nobfo and truly patriotic promw add-wvA *c the. montief efmasbfa! at ; Albany on Saturday, the 10th instant, that the : arbitrary arrest and imprisonment ot Mr. VaJ , land igh inn is "an act which hits brought dis honor upon our country, which is full of Jan j ger to our persons and homes, and which bears ' upon its front a conscious violation ol law ma* i justice." i Iksolved, That while fully and heartily indor ; sing the manly and outspoken sentiments of the governor of New-York, we shall do all in one J power to sustain him in his deteimination to ; preserve inviolate the sovereignty of our stare I and the rights of its people against federal en ! crouchments and usurpations I i LETTER FIOM A. OAKET llAU JJistkici Atiueney'u Office, | May Id, lbbiJ. j ! Mr Dear sie : With regret I find un imper ative and unexpected out-of-town engagement preventing my active participation in the meet ing so opportunely called. At the lust state election I withdrew from the Republican organization, not only because I could not accept its new dogma of military e maucipation, and it; dangerous doctrine that a war crisis sanctioned departures from constitu tional landmarks whenever executive discretion so willed, but because the organization indorsed gross outrages upon a free press and free speech I found it more agreeable to consort with old political foes who opposed these dogmas, de partures, and outrages, than to remain with old friends, but new enemies to approved constitu tional rights. lu sanctioning by even .silence the unmilitary espionage, uuuiititary rhetoric, and "Botnba"- stic acta of Major General Burnside, President Lincoln has practically confessed that the old i Republican cry for free speech and free press was one simply of partisan abstraction; for when that cry presented a practical issue Pres ident Lincoln was found Hist thrusting muskets into the office of a Philadelphia editor, and next, conveying a private citizen of Ohio (where in no hostile foe had entered) into another state, by process of sword and bayonet, to be tried by drum-head court-martial for the "offense" of making a speech, which neither iu zeal nor in epithet approached the warmth and contumely which Congressman Lincoln had employed in Ids January (1848) speech against President Polk and the Mexican war! It must ever be a source of regret to th* members of the bar (few of whom are tinctured with the fanaticism that blinds judgment) that a city member of high position, and who in the Held had proved himself a gallant and Chirac ric soldier, should have presided over the un constitutional court which passed upon the case of Mr. Vallandighinn. What a glory for the New-York bar it would have been had Briga dier General Robert B. Potter said to hit lel low-raembers of the court, in the ineinoraW language of Junius: "If an honest, and I may truly affirm a laborious zeal for the public ser vice has given mo any weight in your esteem, let me exhort and conjure you never to suffer an invasion of your political constitution (bow ever minute the instance may appear) to pass by without a determined, persevering resistance.— One precedent creates another. They soon ac cumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact to-day is doctrine. Examples are sup posed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they do not suit exactly the delect ig supplied by analogy. Be assured that the laws which protect us in our civil rights grow out of the Constitution, and tu*t they must fall or flourish with it." And continuing the quotation, permit inc to add (ss if my own ex pression of feeling in respect to the Vallandt gharn precedent), "f/iw ts not the cans* of faction, CM- of party, or of any individual, but the common interest of every man in [America].'' Your obediesit servant, A. Oaxky HAU.. lion. Gideon J. Tucker, Chairman of Invi tation Committer. CAPTURE 'JF HAINES' BLUFF With Fourteen! Forts, Gwia and Oman Equipage in Good Order. Bombardment of the City. WASHINGTON, May 25.—The following h te'i received at the Navv Department: CAIRO, 111., May 25. 1#65. I Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of tht Navy : The following dispatch has just been re ceive.]. A. M. PENNGCK, Fleet Captain, Mississippi Squadron- FLAG SHIP BLACK HAWK, I J I (lined Muff, Y<uoo River, May 20, 1863- l On the morning of the 15th I came to the Yazoo river, to lie ready to co-op* rate with Gon. Grant, leaving two of the iron-clad* at Red River, another at Grand Gulf, one at Cor thage, and three at War renton, and two in the Yazoo, which left ma a small force. Still I disposed of them to the best ad van "age. On the 18th at Meridian, firing was beard in the rear of Vicksburg, which assured me that Gen Grant was approaching the city. The cannonading was kept up furiously for some time, when, by the aid of glareo*, t dis cerned a company of our artillery advancing, taking a position, and driving the rebel* before them. I immediately said that Geoeral Sherman'* division hud come into the left of borders Bluff, nud that the rebels at that plane had been cut off from joining the forces in the city. I despatched the DelCatb, Lieut. Com- Walk er, the Chic taw, Lieut-Com- Ramsay, and the Homo, Petrel and Forrest Rose, all under com niand of Lieut-Com. Breow, op the Yaaoo, to open communication in that way with Oen* Grant and Sherman. This I succeeded in doing, and, in three hours, received letters from Gens. Grant, Sherman and Steele, informing me of their vast wowae, and asking mo to send up provisions, which '"as at once dona. ' * In the meantime Lieutenant Commanding * Walker, in the De Kalb, pushed on Haines* Bluff, which the enemy commenced evacuating the day before, and a party remained behind, in hopes of taking away or destroying tka large amount of ammunition on hand. When thoy saw the gunboats, they ran and left every thing in good ordep—gnnr, forte, tents and equipage of ail kinds which fell into our hands. Assoonastliecapturejof Haines' Bluff and fourteen forts were reported to roe, I sbovod up the gunboats from below Vjcksbopg to lire at the bill batteries, which fire was kept up for two or three hours. At midnight they moved np to the town and opened on it for nbout am hour and continued at intervals during the night to aneoy the garri son <H*he 'lrk I planed sis rowiaM in portion.
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