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.