BEDFORD GAZETTE.
B. P. MEYERS, EDITOR.
JOHN PALMER, ASSISTANT..
FRIDAY .• t ! MARCH 4, 186*.
What They Promised.
THE FRIENDS OP Gov. CI RTIN PROMISED TIIE TEO
LE THAT IF THEV WOULD HE-ELECT HIM, THE WAR
WOULD END IN 30 DAYS AND THERE WOULD BE NO MORE
DRAFTING. HOLD THEM TO THEIR PROMISES.
The Draft.
"llow are we to get clear of the draft ?"
"How about the draft?"—"l am poor."—
"His father and mother arc both dependent
upon him," &c., &c. So runs the long line
of questions and anxious expressions of the
people about this dreaded draft. The Re
publicans, Abolitionists, Democrats, Cop
perheads and all join in the lamentation.
The draft is now postponed again until
the first of April—just as we supposed, all
the time, but hardly dare say so, lest it
might be considered that wc were discour
aging enlistments. But why hold this dread
ed affair over the people; is it to scare them
into enlisting? It looks like it. The secret
of raising armies is at last discovered: and
that is in the green-back system. Why
not now at once then say we will have no
more drafting, but rely upon this, the only
system of raising men for this war. The
people all want to get clear of the draft.—
The authorities don't want to let theffi, it
appears. We have no difficulty in finding
out the way to get rid of it. The wonder
is that all the people don't see it. It is the
only way to dispose of it: We mean, to
vgte the Democratic ticket.
Can the Republican Party Restore
the Union ?
It behooves every enlightened friend of
the country to see to this, which is the most
important practical question involved in the
presidential election, is not eclipsed by su
bordinate or irrelevant issues. If we allow
with slavery after the war, we virtually con
cede that they can bring the war to such a
conclusion as will give them control of the
subject. It is contrary to our belief that
the war, as c by. them, will ever
lead to such a resnlt. If the philosophe f 1
who pretended to extract sunbeams from
cucumbers could have engaged his adver- j
saries in a controversy as to the best mode
of bottling the sunshine, he would have
gained over their unwariness an implied ad
mission of the possibility of his primary
exploit. On the abolition question wc will
be as liberal with the black Republicans as
they can wish. Wc will concede all they
ask as to the size- and shape of the bottles
and the way they shall be sealed; at least
until they have succeeded in the prelimina
ry experiment and have actually produced
the sunbeams. The wholesale confiscation
of southern property wih which they amuse
their diabolical imaginations will be possi
ble only after the war has been brought to
a successful termination. To occupy pub
lic attention with such a scheme now is an
impertinence which would ho simply child
ish, did it not serve to delude the country
into false expectations.
The main question for the people to de
cide in this election is, whether the Repub
lican paity has given evidence, during the
presidential term soon to expire, of ability
and capacity to restore the Union. They
have not Leen stinted in men nor.scanted in
means; no government ever before wielded
such immense resources. If they have not
succeeded they,cannot plead that they have
not had a fair trial. Money, men, the com
mand of the sea, new and surprising inven
tions in naval architecture and in gunnery,
tlie advantage of opcratiiig against a people
whose main industry was exerted in pro
ducing a great article pf foreign export, and
whose first necessity is R foreign market,
and this people hemmed in by a' blockade,
without a navy or resources to create one—
with this extraordinary combination of ad
vantages the administration has failed only
by reason of its iyibecility.
It may be said, indeed, that our arms
have made great progress. Bu{ who, with
out renouncing all claims to solidity of judg
ment, can say that this progress has been
at all proportionate to its cost? East of the
Alleghanies, the war has been, on the whole,
a sad failure. We have made a few inden
tations into the rind of the rebellion on the
Atlantic slope; but Richmond and Charles
ton atill bid us defiance, and the vast belt
of territory stretching from the Pptomac to
Ope Sable remains, with the exception of
a few hundred square miles,, in possession
of the rebels. Is this success ? We do not
ask if it is success proportioned to the enor
mous scale of our expenditure, but is it not
preposterous to consider it a3 success at all ?
Washington has been almost constantly
menaced; the invader has been twice upon
our soil in great force; and no longer ago
than last summer the safety of our great
Atlantic cities depended on the issue of a
single battle. That battle was, by fierce
and vigorous fighting, decided in our favor;
but since then, east of the Allcghanies we
have gained absolutely nothing. To settle
down in exhaustion and impotence after re
pelling a formidable invasion, gives but fee
ble promise of that complete conquest of
the enemy's country which is the object of
the wan
In the West, where our generals hare
been further removed from the blundering
surveillance of the administration, our auc- '
cess has been more proportionate to the vast
scale of our expenditures. But even in the
West our gains arc as yet so insecure that
one great rebel victory might change the
whole face of affairs. If Grant should be
beaten by Johnston, and Tennessee he there
by recovered by the rebels, our most impor
tant advantages in the West would be al
most annihilated. While matters remain
"in such a state that a single battle might
dispossess us of a great part of what we
have gained, exultation is premature, and
preparations to administer upon the estate
of the dead rebellion absurd.
If we get through the spring campaign
without heavy disasters we shall owe little
thanks to the administration. They have
triHed fiway the fall and winter in ventila
ting crude abolition follies and in president
making; and the spring campaigns are open
ing with inadequate preparations. We arc
to have an immense draft in March or April.
If, as we arc told, the great death-grapple
with the rebellion is to take place this spring,
how can these raw levies profit us? They
are too late to help us win victories; they
are not even early enough to arrest and roll
back the tide of defeat, if the fortune of
war should he against us. The administra
tion has no foresight; all its chief move
ments are forced upon it by the prepara
tions or the successes of the rebels. It
found out, all of a sudden, in the summer
of 1862, that it needed six hundred thou
sand more men than it had anticipated the
r* *• v • v r * i — - lv wl ~
listments. The draft last year wa3 ordered
close on the heels of a rebel invasion. The
draft ordered for this spring results from an
unexpected discovery of the great extent of
the rebel preparations during the winter.—
An administration which is novcr wise till
after the event, which is perpetually mak
ing representations that the war is near its
close, and following them up by such enor
mous calls for new troops as prove them
unfounded; an administration which gives
these constant proofs that it neither under
stands the present nor sees an inch before
its nose into the future, is incapable of re
storing the Union.
But can the Republican party substitute
a better? A large majority of the party can
discover no clearer way out of our difficul
ties than to re-elect Mr. Lincoln, and keep
in the same set of incapablcs that have so
long mismanaged the war. The dissentients
do not go outside of Mr. Lincoln's cabinet
for a candidate. They do not promise to
put into the government any greater wis
dom than is already in it. The chief point
of superiority claimed for Mr. Chase is that
he is a more reliable abolitionist; which, if
it were a merit, would only place hinr in re
lation with questions to arise after tiro war,
not demonstrate his capacity to manage it.
The Republicans have been making party
capital, for the last six months, out of the
idea that the rebellion is about to break
down friyn exhaustion. For it to end from
such a cause would reflect little credit on
the administration, which ought to have re
covered the revolted territory by military
vigor, while it had j'ct wealth to alleviate
the. burden of our taxes. But wo fear that
the expectation of an easy conquest this
spring is a delusive dream. We have no
doubt the war will run into the next admin
istration, and if that administration is Re
publican, then, farewell, a long farewell to
the Union.— JY. Y. World.
The Spring Campain.
The serious disaster which has befallen our
armies in Florida is, unfortunately, causo for
apprehension quite as much as for regret. If
it were by an inevitablo accident that hundreds
of bravo men'—how many hundred General
Girj.MOUE does not permit us to know—had
been lost, wo might accept the tact as ono of
the necessary incidents of a great war; but
unfortunutcly the movement which haS resulted
so disastrously, seems to be a part of a plan
which threatens to end in our discomfiture.—
The shameless avowals of Mr. Lincoln and Afr.
Butr.nr to Dr. Alassie juntity us in believing
that the war has !>ccn wantonly protracted in
order to enable them to carry out their schemes
of nsgro equality; and many instances can bo
pointed out i which our armies have been im
perilled or sacrificed in order to compass some
partisan cud, hut we fear that the doings of
the past will be eclipsed by tho operation of the
coming summer. The object which Mr. Lin
coln has propose 1 to himself is to bring about
his own re-clection. Far this end ho has eluip
edall his measures; and nsthe most important
auxiliary he ean secure, he is determined to
obtain the electoral votes of tho States in re
bellion. Ilis enemies of his own party have
had the honesty to provide that bogus delega
tions shall not be allowed in the National Con
vention, which is to nominate tho Abolition
Candidate for tho Presidency i but, if Mr. Lin
coin car. get. the nomination, he will have no
hesituiion in committing a fraud upon the na
tion which his associates will not permit him
to use against their partys Accordingly, expe
ditions are operating in almost every Southern
State in order to have tho requisite decimal
fraction accept the Amnesty Proclamation, and
prepare for the November election. Thesewaius
accomplish 110 good end ; and by giving the.en
emy na opportunity to cut up our forces in de
tail, they may bring upon us such casualties
that their main armies will in time equal oui
own. Should this policy be pursued throughout
the summer— and ns the political canvas waxes
warm, we must expect that the movements in
the field will bo made more and more subordinate
to the needs of partisanship—the sanguine an
ticipations in which so many have indulged,
will bo sadly disappointed. The nearer we
come to election day, the greater our danger
that the Administration will sacrifice our arm
| ios to secure continuance in office.
That our forebodings are not groundless, may
bo seen by the subjoined articlo from Saturday's
Bulletin, which is probably based upon private
information as to the plans of its favorite can
didate:—Age.
• The sad news of a repulse of our troops in
Florida can scarcely surprise those who have
coolly calculated the chances of Gen. Seymour's
success. A force of a few thousand men was
sent into the interior of the State, and when
sixty miles from its base at Jacksonville, was
met by a superior force of the enemy and driv
en back with heavy loss, to Jacksonville. The
rebels had long notice of the approach of our
troops, and abundant means of conveying an
array by railroad to meet them, of which, of
course they availed themselves. Thus, we fear,
an enterprise, undertaken uuwisely and with
inadequate means, has been brought to a mor
tifying termination. Who is responsible for
this disaster? Wits it ordered by Gen. Gilmore
on his own responsibility ? Or was it part of a
general plan of campaign arranged by General
lliilleck? Whoever authorized it, it has proved
to be a lamentableblunder, and it should be fix
ed upon the right man.
This first failure in our spring campaign leads
us to fear that it may all be badly planned. In
North Carolina, where our forces are scattered,
engaged ia making raids which only
combatants, and destroy Union feeling while
destroying private property, the enemy has col
lected a large force, partly composed of veter
ans of the Army of Virginia. We nro again
threatened with disasters there; for Gen. Hut
tier has not troops enough in his department to
meet the enemy in the field, and there are sev
eral of our garrisoned posts exposed t<r siege or
assault by the greatly superior forces of tfio rebels.
Agdin let us ask, who Is answerable for the
state of affairs ia North Carolina?
Viewing tliC circumstances in the eastern
States of the South, one caniipt help feeling
uneasiness concerning our movements ia Georgia
and Alabama. Sherman has made a splenuiJ
and thus far successful advance. Thomas ioo,
has begun a movement from Chattanooga. But
who knows whether Hardee, who has just de
feated Seymour, may not be able to make a
rapid junction by railroad with Johnson, and
defeat Grant, or with Polk in Alabama and de
feat Sherman ? We havo all confidence in our
commanders in the field and in their troops.—
Hut wo confess to misgivings as to the general
plan, and to great fears lest our divided forces
may bo defeated in detail, the enemy's short
lines of communication and railroad facilities
giving him advantages greater than those we
may possess in numbers.
! "COMING DOWN TO DOTS."—Secretary Chase difference of opinion; F<IZBY appealing to the
is a close calculator. lie figures up the nation- money getting propensity, and exciting the de
al debt for tho next two years as accurately as s ' ro for gain, patriotism is deadened—thestand
tho astronomers calculate the return of Donati's a d of the soldier lowered to that of tho raerce-
Comet, which is to bo back again upon acer- navy—the pride of home lost—men seeking the
tain day, hour and minute sometime about the highest bounties; base selfishness encouraged;
year 2000. Our debt on the Ist of Jul}', 1804, the poorer sections being deprived of their men
is to be 51,C86,950,011 44, and on the 30th by the richer. A system so radically wrong,
ol June, 18G5, it will amount to 82,231,935,- from which flows so much that is evil and has
190, 37. Just two billion, two hundred and a tendency so injurious should be condemned
thirty-one million, nine hundred and thirty-five ftn, l abandoned.
thousand, one hundred and ninety dollars— and As a P' Hn f° r raising and maintaining armies
thirty seven cents! Now,j)vecan stand the bil- ' n times of war, a Constitutional draft, whether
lions and tho millions, but tho tacking of "the >wdcr the control of the Stated or the power
thirty-seven cents to them forming a sort of a delegated to the General Government, has many
erackor to the whip, is what gives the sting strong reasons why it should be preferred. And
to the Secretary's long lash of figures. But !,s a means for the promotion and preservation
it shows what a glorious thing arithmetic is.— °f peace, the reasons are of greater force. But
What would have become of these thirty-seven to make it effective, either as n plan to be used
cents if there had been no arithmetic to cypher ln times of war, or as a means for the advance
ment out, stick them there, and let tho nation mont of peace, it would require to bo the only
know just how its affairs will stand upon the method permitted for the bringing out of the
30th of June, 1805 ?— Patriot <f- Union. citizens and organizing thera into armies; and
IT CURES SO QUICK. who were drafted and returned capable of per-
Ra(|)vay's Ready Relief, whether applied ex- forming military duty,
ternally or taken internally, acts at once; there We are passing through the ordeal thnt has
is no delay, but it instantly fulfills its mission been fatal tp Republics, it wo are topuss through
of relieving, the patient of pain annd discom- safely, if escape is possible, we must, with
f or t. all the coolness we can command, look at our
A highly respectable lady of tho city of New situation as it really is. We must free ourselves
York while nailing down some carpets run a from that weakness, by which we are made to
small carpet tack in her kneo and shifted the f°H° w without injury the course of others, wo
pan. For two years sho was laid up a cripple, must shake off the feeling that springs from a
spent uownrds of TWO THOUSAND DOL- desiro to "follow the times." Wo must think
LARS WITHOUT DERIVING ANY BEN- for ourselves, if we wish to bo free, if we wish
EFIT. Sho was advised by a nurse to nso hand down Constitutional Freedom to pos-
Kadway's Ready Relief; the first application tority. _ X.
gave her case, one weeks use made a perfect abolition paper? report the Hon. S.
cure. Ilad tins lady tried the Ready Relief y. Cox as having, on the, 11 tli, declared himself
when the injury happened, she would have es- in fuwr of Fernando Wood's proposition, to"
capcil tho painful simei mg of two years uura- rem | (jorumissioners to Richmond to endeavor to
tion, and haved two thousand dollars. in ascer t; a i n whether we cannot havo pcuco with
mind, that Radway a Ready Relief will prove out furthcr butc bcry. "Bully for Cox."
its marvellous efficacy at once in all cases where _
pain is experienced, whether lllmmutism, Lum- ®*Kcep it before the people that the Black
bago, Gout, Neuralgia, Bums, Scalds, Bruises, Republicans in Congress voted against allowing
Wounds, or Diarrhoea, Dyscnt -ry, Diptharin, ] soldiers one dollar a day, and at the same time
Influenza, Sore Threat, Hoarseness, Colds. Let i ".ted to give Abolition ciorks four dol'ars a day!
those who suffer try it. Price 25 cte per bottle. 'Oh! ye hypocrites!
For the Bedford Gazette.
Bounties.
A calm investigation of the question, of the
propriety of the payment of bounties by the
borough, for the purpose of avoiding the draft
about to bo made, will show that it would be
unfair, imprudent, and illegal, and would not
accomplish the object intended ; and to give to
tiio subject the careful consideration it merits,
will lead to the conclusion that the system (if
it can bo so called) of bounties is in opposition
to sound policy and is an active ngent in the de
moralization of the country.
A glance will make it evident, that it would
be unfair, if wo bring to our remembrance the
course pursued previous to the draft that has
been made ; at that time no effort was made to
avoid the draft, and those who were not ex
empted had the alternative of serving or pay
ing the eomn: utation; would it not be an act
of injustice to add <0 the burden already borne
by coaipell'ng them to pay a tax for the pur
pose of relievir'jf others?
To contract, n u?bt that can be avoided, in
view of the heavy outf.ty that will soon be forc
ed upon us. for the neefssif y purpose of sup
plying the town with a plentiful supply of wa
ter from an unfailing source, >vou?d bo an act
of imprudence; ordinary foresight wilt compel
the adoption of a plan, with reference to the
increase of population, the improvement of the
1 higher streets and their extension ; a largo ex
penditure of money will therefore be required.
An examination of the general Borough laws,
by which we are governed, \yill show conclu
sively, that the Council would act illegally and
I without authority, in contracting a debt for such
a purpose and to so large an arftount; and in
I order to reconcile ourselves to the performance
I of an illegal act, by glossing it with the lacquer
of necessity or expediency is a base cheat; when
| offices are accepted, be they humble or elevated,
the holders by that acceptance, obligate them
eclyes to act in a manner worthy of the confi
dence placed in them, and to perform with fi
delity tho duties of their position ; there are no
gradations in tho binding force of oaths, the
oath of the most obscure and unimportant of
fice com pels an observance aijd the performance
of the duties of the office as strict and unswerv
ing as that of the most exalted; the opinion
that prevails to too great an extent, that an of
fice of little influence requires little attention to
its obligation, is opposed to every principle of
moraltiy.
If we take into consideration the length of
time we have been engaged in this war, the still
defiant attitude of the South, and the number
of men we have remaining fit for duty, it will
be evident, to the least discerning, that the pay
• ment of bounties will not free one man from
service, it would be merely a short-sighted ex
pedient to defer that which will be the lot of
every one liable to military duty, and this will
be made, if possible, snore certain, if the war is
to be carried on fertile present avowed purpose,
that of destroying the institution of slavery.
For wo can 110 longer hide it from ourselves, if
we have the moral courage to shake off self-de
lusions and to free ourselves from the erroneous
impressions made by the falsa statements of de
signing men, that in opposition to all outside in
terference with their home institutions, the South
is a unit, that resistance to all attempts-to de
| privc them of what they hold to be reserved
® ,u '' '**" * ' " fl>m o'm kp.ffn
, an army in the field. There cannot be a doubt,
that if the plan of tho Administration is to be
sustained, the services of every man capable of
! bearing arms will bo needed in the field. If six
millions of united Americans are to be aubju
, gated, a stronger and more elevated feeling than
that exerted by money must nnimatc the con
, querors—bounties will not do it.
In conducting a war, and especially one of
long duration, sound policy calls for a plan that
will keep an army up to its required strength,
without delaj s or hindrances of any kind. The
want of well disciplined reinforcements at the
proper time anJ in sufficient numbers, will
defeat the best matured plans of the most skil
u'l General, and is certain to lengthen out the
war, if' {here are no worse results. The rely
ing nppn bounties to bring out men in sufficient
numbers at the time they are wanted, is hazard
ous j for by not having likd effect at the same
time in all sections of the country, delays are
caused, and consequently troops are fo r ccd into
the field before tlicy are properly discipliritlfl-
After the country has been drained of a certain
number of the able-bodied men, bounties will
become ineffective —a resort must, bo had to
harsher moans, which will frequently meet with
resistance, and will always be obeyed with re
luctance. That tho paying of bounties is a
cause of demoralisation, wilt not admit of a
difference of opinion; f<iaby appealing to the
money getting propensity, and exciting the de
sire for gain, patriotism is deadened—tho stand
awl of the soldier lowered to that of the merce
nary—the pride of home lost—men seeking the
highest bounties; base selfishness encouraged;
the poorer sections being deprived of their men
by tho richer. A system so radically wron<*.
from which flows so much that i 3 evil and has
a tendency so injurious should be condemned
and abandoned.
Our Sentiments.
We below the resolutions of the
Democratic State Convention of Connecti- 1
cut. They have the ring that proves the
old vessel of Democracy sound away up
there in the land of abolitionism and witch
craft. Wc commend them to the careful
perusal and study of every good citizen:
ConnecticutDomocratic State Convention.
The Democratic State Convention of Connec
ticut, which mot at Ne-v Haven on Wednesday,
adopted the following among other resolutions:
Resolved , That HS the Constitution lias been
| the only guide ar.d light to the Democratic par
ty in times past, wc now recognize in war us in
peace 110 other standard by which to .iudgo ot
measures, and 110 other guido and light for our
political action.
Resolved, That it is the grand mission of the
Democracy to restore the country to its former
condition, the Constitution to its rightful su
premacy, the equality of the States under it,
their right of supreme local legislation in do
mestic concerns, the freedom of thought, froe
dom of speech, and freedom of the press, the
freedom of popular suffrage, religious freedom,
the right of private judgment, the right of per
sonal liberty, that is a necessary concomitant of
the CUt of habeas corpus, the inevitable right of
private property under State laws, and the in
dependence* of the judiciary, the right of trial
b" jury, the %b* civil authority 10 hold the
military in strict subordination —rights which
have been wantonly yiolated by the present ld
--miuistrntion, and the Inte.'i'fcnce ot the people
thereby insulted and their judginfUt outraged.
Resolved, That as the deliberate opinion 01"
this Convention, the party in power does not in
tend to preserve the Constitution which we re
ceived from our fathers, and is not conducting
the present war for that purpose, but for the
purpose of revolutionizing the. domestic institu
tions of the Southern States, and of establish
ing a new Government of despotic power on
the ruins of the old Union.
lies,ilved, That the entire perversion by the
Abolition P.epubiiean party of the object of the
present war as declared by Congress, "to defend
and maintain the supremacy ot the Constitu
tion and preserve the Union with all the dignity
and tights of the several States unimpaired,' to
a pestilent Abolition crusade for the total de
struction of all State equality is an infamous
waste of the nation's blood and treasure.
Resolved, That the grand scheme of the pres
ent Administration to fill the country with na
tional banking associations, supplant the banks
of the sovoral States, to monopolize the whole
paper currency, and to draw the whole banking
capital of the States and people under the su
pervision and control of thd Treasury Depart
ment, and to concentrate the whole moneyed
power of the country in the hands of the Pres
ident, is a bold and daring encroachment on the
well known and universally acknowledged rights
of the States, more dangerous even than that
great enemy of liberty, a largo standing army.
Resolved, That tho gross mismanagement of
the war and the needless expenditure of vast
sums of money make the Administration mor
nlly responsible for thousands of lives uselessly
sacrificed, and the addition of hundreds of tpil
-110118 VI UVHa>. . 4ho Ob-.lana () f tll6 DeODIC,
and while it is made the interest of the thou
sands of the retainers which the Administration
guthcrs around it to continue tho war and all
the present ruinous expenditure of public mo
ney, no effort will bo made by those in power
to bring this unhappy difficulty lo a close, and
wc agree with u high Republican authority that
should Mr. Lincoln be re-elected not only will
"tho dignity and honor of the country sutler,"
but "the war continuo to languish through his
whole Administration, until the public debt shall
become a burden too great to bo borne."
Resolved, That the cause of free institutions
and self-government must never be abandoned,
whatever may be the cost of time, treasure or
blood, and that while the Constitution of tho
United States gives power sufficient even for the
present terrible exigency, yet in its letter and
1 spirit, it deprecates confiscation of property, po
litical execution of persons, territorial organiza
tion of States, forcible abolition of slavery.
Resolved, That the gallant soldiers who have
sacrificed tho comforts of a home for the hard
ships and dangers of the field, to preserve the
institutions established by Washington and his
compatriots, afs entitled to the solicitous care
of tho Government, and wo pledge to them our
best efforts to promote their welfare and to se
cure full justice to them on .all occasions.
Trouble Among the "Loyalists."
There is serious discontent, and no small
amount of caterwauling among tho various
cliques of the friends of a number of tho abolition
candidates for tho Presidency. They accuse
Mr. Lincoln of foul play, and say that he in
stigated the organization of the Loyal Leagues,
and appointed their members to office with tho
ulterior purpose manifested in the seemingly spon
taneous nomination for his re-election now being
echoed all over tho North. Some important
developments are taking plaec concerning the
coming canvas. While State after State seemed
to bo coming in for the re-nomination of Mr. Lin
coln a counter-movement of unusual strength
is springing up. The significant letter of Speak- .
cr Colfax, declining to commit himself to the
fortunes of the present occupant of the White
House, has emboldened others, and the current
dodge of theopponents of Mr. Lincoln is, "Wait
till the rebellion is put down; then there will be
time enough to talk of the next President." But
the fact is, these same persons arc working in
the interest of Mr. Chase, General Fremont,
General Butler and other noted Republican
aspirants for the Presidential nomination. Two
new names have recently been added to the
list—Gens. Banks and Sickles. Greely, with
tho Tribune interest, and all the leaders of tho
extreme radical party, are known to lie strongly
inimical to tho ronoraination of Lincoln. Lit
tle knots of political suckers around the county
are engaged in nominating "Old Abe," 110
is apparently ahead in the affections of his par
ty, but he certainly has tho majority of the ac
tive leaders .opposed to bira, and they may yet
prevent his reuomiuation. Gen. Fremont has
a great many supporters, especially among the
western radicals, and they stato that he will
certainly run as an independent candidate in
case Lincoln Bhould be formally renominated by
the Republican National Convention. In short,
he is bound to have another run. To forward
the fortunes of Fremont, a new paper entitled
tho 'Publicist' is shortly 10 bo started in Now j
York, and a campaign paper, the 'Pathfinder,'
b"Mi of which will ardently support tho claims \
of the first man who ever issued an euiaoc'pa-1
tion proclamation. Lincoln certainly has ru- ■
ble before him in order to become the '<cbiit?ti<r
man' with his own parly. But let them squirm
wriggle, and quarrel to their hearts' content, and
cheat each uthor its they cheat all others, it w
110 affair of ours. Wc have nothing to do with
their wrangle, except to suggest that they are
agonizing over a prize that none of them shall *
possess, tor it has been otherwise ordered. The
people have willed that Genorul George IJ. Mc-
Clellan, the patriot, soldier and statesman, shall
be our next I'resident, and they intend to see
that lie is elected.— llollidaysburcf Standard.
Gen. McClellnn'a Report upon the organ
ization of the A, my of the Potomac
and its campaigns in J 'i/yinia and Mary
land.
This report was transmitted to the War I)e
--pnrlmcrit in November, 1302. We find it on
our table February, 1 8GI! Fill op that long
interval with Wilkes* calumnies, Congressional
calumnies, all aided and abetted by the Wash
ington cabal, whilst the evidence of their falsi
ty was in the files of the War Department, and
if you do not feel an hopest glow of indignation,
I very much fear my good fellow that you are
not many removes from a knave, or to say the
least, have about as much blood in you as
turnip. Wo hardly know now which of that
pretty trio, Lincoln, Stanton, or Hullcck, we
feel the profoundest contempt for, after reading
this exposure of their guilt. It is true there is
another set of conspirators, Wilson, Wade &
Co., who arc responsible for much of the wrong
inflicted upon the nation, but their crime is mod
erate compared with the offence of those men
who, being in power, trifle with tho interests
of the country to gratify personal ambition and
hatred.
As we shall have occasion frequently to refw
to this report of Gen. MoClellan, itii our pur
pose now to direct public attention merely to a
few facts connected with the Peninsula battles,
and the Maryland campaign. And we desire
that it shall ever be borne in mind that from
May, 1802, down to the memorable letter writ
ten from Savage's Station, (in which Gen. Mo
Clcllan charged the Washington cabal with sac
rificing the Potomac Army,) Gen. Medullars
urged, expostulated, and fairly entreated the
cushioned officials at Washington to semi Air
Armg reinforcements I There was his telegram
dated near Williamsburg, May 10th, and at
Cumberland, May 14 th. In answer to this
telegram Stanton replied tbnt Liucoln was afraid
to uncover the Capital and woukywum McDowell
with 40,000 men to dcfewl it.
The result of this decision was disastrous.—
It rendered it impossible for Gen. McClellan to
use the James river as a lino of operations,
caused great losses and delays in bridging the
Chickahominy, and left his army divided by that
stream instead of being massed. Gen. McClel
lan's letters, dated May 21 and 28, were an
swered insultingly. On June 24 th, he again
uppeaied to the Secretary of War for reinforce
ments; .Tune Stli ditto. On Juno l ith bo beg
ged .Stanton not to interfere with his control of
the nrmy. OnJur.e 20th he again besought
T.incoln to extend him the propor aid in men.
On June 25th, he wrote:
"I regret my great inferiority in numbers, but
(•■el that I am in no way responsible for it, as
1 have not failed to represent reputedly the ne
cessity of reinforcements—that this was the de
cisive point, and that all the available meant of
th' v- ernment should be concentrated here."
On the '2Bth of June, at Savage's Station, the
Pjnt up mortification, sorrow and chagrin of
this noble officer and patriot burst forth in full
volume upon Stanton and his superiors. Flesh
and blood could stand no more, and, in view of
wagon loads of dead and wounded men, Gen.
McClellan hurled upon the guilty heads of the
Washington cabal a censure that will never be
forgotten as long as this war is mentioned in hu
man annals.
From jhis time Ihrtro are juet two (significant
features in the Report. Ono covers tho futile
labors of McClullan to proveat tho abandon
ment of the Peninsula ; the other bis efforts to
avert the policy which resulted in the defeat of
Pope, and his subsequent glorious campaign to
retrieve the consequences of that defeat and
shield the capital from tho advancing rebel le
gions. It is heart-sickening to read the corres
pondence from July, 1852, on to th? Ist of
September, '62. Ilalleck seemed to gloat in
tho oportunity of thwarting every plan submit
ted by Gen. McClellun, and lost no opportunity
of wounding him by tho most insolont taunts.
There camo a time, though, when tho finger of
Ilalleck trombled too much to shape taunts
and tho Head of tho nation had no leisure for
tap-room jokos. Then 11. VV. Halleck, Esq.,
(author of a book, and formerly commander at
tho Planter' House. St. Louis,) wroto August
3d, 1852, at 10.7 p. m.
"/ beg of you to assist me in this crisis with your
l ability and experience. lam entirely tired outJ"
All ha! the day of gibes and jeers was over
for a fimc. Lee's legions, flushed with triumph
wero pouring on, with glittering bayonets and
rumble of cannon, toward tho cushioned seats
at Washington. These were tho days when A.
Lincoln, Esq., could write, September loth:
"God bless you and all with you etc., etc.
Alas ! why talk of South Mountain and An
tictam—why talk of the wretched ingratitude
of the men who owed their very lives to the
skill and genius which gave us Antiotam and
South Mountain. Shortly after these signal
achievements came the wolves in full chorus,
and then began tho full tide of falsehood and
detraction. Malice fattened on its prey, and the
merriment from tho cushioned seats waxed joc
und, the rebel hosts were on the other side of
the Potomac and Hclisarius was without a com
mand. ...*
Citizeos of the United States, how long will
ya tolerate these tilings!—
Valuable Farm
For Sale.
The undersigned, acting F.xecutor of the last
will, 4*c.i of Frederick Rock dec., will sell *t pub
lic Sale on the premises, on
Saturday, the 26 th day of March inst,
stlOoelocs, A. M all that FARM tale the residents
of Frederick ROCK, dee'd., situate in Juniata Town
ship, Redford County, adjoining lands ef Coiwsd
Buyer's heirs, Peter Hill-gas, John Weyand, Wil
liam Gillespie, and others, containing 249 acres,
more or less, (embracing 30 acres-known as the
"Stump Lot.") About 100 acres cleared and undar
cultivation, the balance in Rock Oak Timber > hav
ing thereon erected
Two Log dwellings and Two Log Burnt.
There are also. tw. apple orchards thereof. Ths
property is well watered with Sprihge, and i§ pleas-
a p 'iy located, being well adapted to the raiting of
grain end fruit.
Terms CASH, payable on the Ist day of April,
when deed will bs delivered and p-xrestion given,
subject to the rights of tenan'a. For further infer
mati.n apply to John P. Reed Keq.. Bedfoi.t
BENJAMIN tiOUSKL,
Match, 4, Itet. Acting Executor.