rh iii soe iisiniis aasabiite
iii ie ———
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sep:
tha pleasure of thosg who committed him.
The Constitution provides, as I have »
{ore waid, that ** no person shall be depri
of life, liberty, or property. without due
process of law.” Tt declares that ¢ the right | OF
of the people to be secure in their persons, | Di
houses, papers and effects, against unreason- | an
able searches and seizures, shall not be vio- ob!
lated, and no warrant shall issue, but upon
probable cause, supported by oath or affirma- |
tion, and particularly describing the place | in
to be searched, and the persons or things to] to
be seized.” It provides that the party ac-
tused shall be entitled to & speedy trial, in
a court of justice.
And these great and fundamental laws,
which Congress itself could not suspend,
have been disregarded and suspended, like
the writ of habeas corpus, by a military or-|
der, supported by force of arms. Such is
the case now before me, and I can only 5aY,
that if the authority which the Constitution
has confided to the judiciary department and
judicial officers, may thus upon any pretext
or under apy circumstances be usurped by
the military power at its discretion, the peo
ple of the United States are no longer living
wvnder 8 government of laws, but every citi-
zen holds life, liberty, and property at the
will and pleasure of the army officer in whose
military district he may happen to be found.
In such a case my duty was too plain to
‘be mistaken. I have exercised all the pow-
er which the Constitution and laws confer on
ine, but that power has been resisted by a 0
force too strong for me to overcome. It is y
possible that the officer who has incurred
{his grave responsibility may have misun-
derstood his instructions, and exceeded the
authority intended to be given him. I shall,
therefore, order all the proceedings in this
case, with the opinion, to be filed and re. | M-
corded in the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of Maryland, and di-
rect the Clerk to transmit a copy, under
seal, to the President of the United States.—
ft will then remain for that high officer, in | ba
falfilment of his constitutional obligation to
‘‘take care that the laws be faithfully esecu- | If
ted,” to determine what measures he wil] is
take to cause the civil process of the Unit
States to be respected and enforced.
R, B. TANEY, Chief Justice
Of the Supreme Court of the U. 8. | 18
ceshed ” too.
Minister to Portugal, appointed by President
Lincoln, on the secession question ? You
‘| would Hight first. Many of them now, with
those of Judge Hale's own party, who then
supported him in his efforts to effect an hon-
orable compromise, are away down South in
xy, fighting for that peace which you,
d men like you, rendered it impossible to
tain by compromise, while you, Col., are
—at home reading ‘‘contemptious’” articles
the Warenxan. Next, the Col. proceeds
enlighten us upon a very important fact,
which is, in hia opinion, a very stubborn
thing. No wonder they appear a little
crooked to him, as he deals in that commod-
ity so rarely, that when he does haPpen to
get hold of one accidentally he don’t know
w to handle it. ¢ All Democrats are not
Secessionists, we are happy to say.” This,
Col., is a fact which you have blundered
upon, but see you are not accustomed to
such things, and you gpoil the whole thing
by letting your old failing get the mastery
before you get through, for what follows
ain’t true :
Secession Southern rebellion was a Demo.
crat.” 2d. *“ No man living can point to a
single Republican North or South who is
not opposed to secession,” &c.
there is old Sam Houston.
“But avery ring leader in this
Why, Col.,
It is strange
u should have forgotten him, as he was
your favorite candidate for President in the
summer of 1860. Was he not a Republi
csn 7 Ain’t he down South of Dixy now,
very rabid in Secession ?
Where stands J.
Botts, of Virginia ? Now he has se-
Where is James Harvey, the
ve heard of the discoveries made by the
seizure of telegraph dispatches, haven’t you ?
not, we will just tell you that Mr. Harvey
a ‘‘secesher’’ too, Where is Andrew J.
Doualdson, whom you supported with so
much faith for Vice President, in the fall of
56, is he not a seceder foo. There are
plenty of others we might name, but thess
Il be sufficient to show you what an error
you made in the last sentence above quoted.
Now, Col., don’t be guilty ef such gross er-
The Uhatchman, x
ERLLEFONTE, THURSDAY,
nes
* Hors shall the press the people’s rights main-
saa,
Unawed by party or unbribed by gain ;
Pledged ry truth to liberty and law,
No favor sways ns and no fear shall awe.”
ALEXANDER & MEEK, Editors and Publishers.
Our Last Editorial and the Demoerat.
The Centre Democrat, of last week, has
init an arlicle headed, ‘ Letting Politics
Alone,” to which we wish to call the atten-
This article was un-
doubtedly intended “by the sap-hcaded edit-
or’ as a reply to a set of resolutions adopted
st a Union ‘meeting held in Beech Creek,
uon of our readors.
rors hereafter. You must reflect before you
speak, for soon the people (who believe but
very little that you say now) won't believe
anything you say, You know, Col., you
want to go to Congress some day, and when
you tell them that fact, they won’t beheve
you, but think you are only joking. «That
would be very bad.’ But says the Watch-
man, says the (ol., ‘the second and fourth
resolutions we recommend to those who in
times of peace cried war, and now since the
war is upon us, instead of shouldering the
musket and assisting” &c ; This sentence the
Col. takes as having been intended just for
him and nobody else, because it was just
his fit. Why, Col., we declare we never
once thought of you when wo penned that
sentence. Dear me, no one ever suspected
that a person so windy as you, had a single
drop of fighting blood coarsing through his
‘veins, excepting such as prompts ‘you to
fight with your tongue and pen, and al,
though you did make that speech, in which
you said, *‘T won't say go boys, but come
boys,” everybody thought you (being snch
a funny fellow) were only joking, and didn’t
which we published some time ago, (to|m
which we refer our readers as they are too
lengthy to reprint) with the following com-
meant !
ean what you said at all. Lastly, the
Col. quotes from us: “The men who talk
the loudest are not the men to fight,’’ and
Since the day for compromise of the un-
happy dilterences existing between the North
and the South has seemingly past, the true
‘patriots and good men of both sections hay-
tag been overruled in the last Congress by
the bad meu in each, we believe these reso-
Jutions to be expressive of the feelings of
Democrats everywhere, and of all Republi-
sans who have not been led astray by the
false teachings of abolition preachers.” The
second and fourth resolution we recommend
asserts that ** six companies have gone from
this County numbering five hundred men,
and that four hundred of them were Repub-
licans.” As to the truth of this, we are not
prepared to decide exactly, as we have never
considered that it made any material differ-
ence what the politics of our army was. It
has been enough for us to know that they
were men willing to die for their country,
but since the Col. has broached the subject,
to the caroful study of that small band of Ww
political agitators in this County, who.
in times of peace, have cried war, and now
that war is upon us, instead of shouldering
their muskets and assisting to fight the bat- | te
tle they have contributed so much to bring
about, still remain at home and talk about
hanging honest Democrats for the expression
of their opinions. Venly is the adage true
--the men who talk the loudest are not the
men to fight. The Democratic party has
always favored the settlement of the diffi-
eulty between the North and the South b
compromise as long as there was any possi-
bility of it being accomplished, and are yet
in favor of any compromise that would be
honorable for the North to accept, but be-
lieving that none such will be offered they
show their patriotism and devotion to the
Union by rallying to the defence of the Star
Spangled Banner, where the fight wages the|
hotest. They, like all true American citi-
zens, will rush to the rescue when our coun-
try is in danger and fight to the bitter end
to maintain its honor and those highest and
noblest principles of the Constitution, free.
dom of opinion, freedom of speech, and free.
dom of the press.
Ww
Cql. vents his rage in the following very elo-
quent styje : ‘“ Now we find fault with no
man for differing with us in opinion, but at
the same time we claim the right to think,
to speak, and to act as an independent free-
man.” You are perfectly right here, Col., | gi
we are of the same opinion. * Wedo not
know where we read a more contemptible
peice of slang and falsehood than is contain-
ed in the above.” We do, Col., and most
gladly refresh your failing memory by calling
Four attention to that most delectable sheet,
the Centre Democrat, of which you have
the Lonor fo be the editor, vol. 27, No. 18.—
Read it, Col., some day when your spints
are calm, and we are satisfied that you will
geome to the same conclusion we have—if
not. wé give you up as a very hardened case.
*¢ The Democratic party say they have been
in favor of compromise. but the day for
sompromiss has seemingly past.” So they
have, Col. They prayed for peace and en-
too does not justity such a conclusion.
merely set forth that it was the auty of all
democrats to adhere to their mottoes of the
past, and by so dving maintain the Govern-
ment and the Constitution under which we
live, and because forsooth we venture to
say what others say about the Administra-
tion, they flare up as though it were a God
to which we should get upon our knees and
render homage. Now we beg leave to show
e will venture & bet with him, that there
are not ten men out of that number that did
not endorse the acts of Judge Hale last win-
r in Congress, in his efforts to settle the
national difficulties without a resort to arms,
and therefore have denounced the Col. as an
agitator. You can claim no credit, Col, if
they were all Republicans.
8ays every man who goes to war deserves
the thanks of everybody. Here, again, he
speaks the truth, but spoilsit all as usual
by leaving us to infer from the next sen.
tence that he deserves credit for staying at
home. But we must part with the Col., and
Again, the Col.
© hope, forever, upon this subject.
Government vs. Administration.
The Press has extracted from two differ-
ent articles in the last WaromuaN and places
them side by side as follows.
What are They ¢
‘- Bhe ia seeking to de. “The Administration
stroy that Constitution|lis bringing about & na-
: . which is the basis of our|ltional Bankruptoy just
Alter reading this, tho courageous paper party platform. —She hasjias fast na possib
ni
now musters her forces
under a banner compo-
sed of only threo stripes)
and seven stars and our,
duty is to support the
le.”!
sited our flag, and
vernment in bringing
or back to her alle:
ance.”
Aad says that either one is proof of antag-
onism against the other, and winds up the
article as is usual with such poltroons by in-
directly flinging the charge of intoxication
and treason at the editors of this paper.
‘We hold that the language above referred
We
dorsed Judge Havrn's efforts last winter, to] the learned gentlemen (who ju ging from
effect » peace, while you said you would not
ecept peace by compromise, bgt that yoo
his ignorance and stupidity must have left
shoo! too young) that thers is not eres
I x or ig, y
seeming inconsistency In the above two ar-
tween the Government and the Administra-|
tion, The first is founded upon the principles
of Eternal justice, and is perpetusl while
the second is but temporary, lasting bat
four short years at a time. The first are
those principles of eternal justice, as set
forth in our constitution by our fathers, as
the fundamental rules and principles by
which the intercourse between the several
States is to be regulated. The second is but
the servant of the people whom they have
chosen to manage and direct our public af-
fairs in accordance with thoso established
rules. In short, the first is that good old
Constitution established by our fathers .in
1789, while the second is but the Chicago
Platform—a creature of but recent birth.
The first we shall always give our most
cordial support, because we believe it to
have been ordained by God, while the other
we shall support or oppose, as their policy
shall seem to us right or wrong. It is but
the servant of the people, and when it does
what is manifestly wrong, the people, the
mighty people who made, have the right to
differ with it, and in cases of gross misuse
of the powers entrusted to 1t.to bring it to.an
account in the manner provided in the Consti-
tution. Now, Mr. editor of the Press,cx Mp. —,
who penned those com ments, where is our
inconsistency ? We will take the liberty of
showing you some inconsistencies and sen-
timents uttered by you in the past, unless
you stop this constant howl of treason, that
will make you writhe in agony through fear
of that punishment which you appear
to be so anxious to see iflicted upon men
who never knew but one Union and that ‘the
Union of thirty-three States, who never sup.
ported but one Constitution, and who never
paid homage to but one flag and that the
noble Starry Banner without one single star
veiled or effaced, all this you would have
done to men because they differ with you in
politics, and dare to speak their minds as
independant, freemen. Do you still ask
** What are they ” we will tell you more
plainly what we are. We are free born,
white male citizens of the United States
supporters and upholders of the Constitution
of our Country, and beinz such dare to speak
the truth though ‘the heavens fall.”
Only a few weeks ago we took upon our-
selves the responsibility of editors and pub-
lishers of the DEMOCRATIC WATOHMAN under
the impression that we still lived in a land
of liberty. We are still of the same opinion
notwithstanding the efforts of the Editors of
the Central Press and a few other men in
this community to crush out that sentiment
which we trust shall always remain within
us. We are happy to know however that
there are but few men in this con.munity
holding the same notions of loyality that we
see manifested by them, as we have always
heard that the term loyality was incompata.
ble with our free institutions. It § applica.
ble alone to that allegiance which is due
from a subject to his Prince, King, and not
to the human respect obedience and support
due from all American freemen to a govern-
ment. But these men we believe would love
to change our government into a monarchy,
a despotism, it would be more suitable to
their taste and aristocratic proclivities,—
They would have us to be loyal subjects to
an Administration and as Administration
and Government with them is all one thing
the next position taken will be that Govern-
ment means monarchy and monarchy a des-
potism. Then, Ho! ye loyal subjects, the
editor of the Press, or one of his aiders and
abetters here in this town, or it may be
President Lincoln must be placed upon a
throne. Are we not justifiable in coming to
such a conclusion ? Ever since this unfor-
tunate war has commenced there has been
a set of these same rabid frantic fools at-
tempting by hurling the charge of treason
at democrats, to arouse the prejudices of the
people against them, and when we attempt
through the columns of our paper to show
that democrats have ever been and are now
true to the Government, they attempt
the same thing with us in hopes that an ex.
cited populace may silence us for fear we
may by sho wing up the truth interfere with
their designs next ; they can see no difference
between an Administration and a Govern-
ment and hold that to differ with the Admin-
istration in some minor matters of policy
is opposing the Government.. 3rd that we
must all be loyal subjects to the Adminis-
tration and that it is treason to say ought
against it. My God upon what are we verg-
1 1
I . 5
Eon. fellow citizens, we begof you, to
stop and think what you are doing, and not
be led astray by these men who would have
the freedom of speech and freedom of the
press forever crushed out, and who are en-
deavoring to instil into you such ideas of
loyality as are only proper in a monarchial
government. If this is once accomplished,
the main bulwark of liberty is gone, and it
is but a step into monarchy. Now we hope
we may not be called upon again to correct
such errors of the Central Press, nor to deny
the charges of treason with which we have
borne so long. We make no such chargas
against any man, although we might with
the same justness do se against those who
oppose the binding force of the decisions of
the Supreme Court.
ee reat
Hon. 8. T. Saocer, Chief Clerk in the Pa-
tent Office, and for some time Commissioner
of Patents, has been removed to make room
for a worshipper of the Chicago Platform.
J. B. Mexx, Esq., another Democrat from
this County, we understand has been Ker-
flamixod on account of his political doctrine.
So the work goes nobly on— No Party”
bah! a
Hl
ticles. There ig quite & wide difference be- |
The Revival of Partv Lines.
In the last issue of the WarcmMax, we
took the position, m an editorial of sotite
length, that out present national ealatnity
had been brought about by the false teach.
ings of that band of political hucksters in
the North, who have for years been dissatis-
fied with our Constitution, our Bible and
our God, and who declared t4at nothing
would satify them short of a new Constitn-
tion, ‘‘anti-slavery Constitution,” a new
Bible, * anti-slavery Bible,’ a new God,
“anti-slavery God,” on the one part, and a
set of political « fire eaters *” who have long
hoped, by the promulgation oftheir extreme-
ly rabid opinions, to fire the whole southern
heart for sccession on the other part, and
that the Democratic party in the North was
not responsible for the acts of those ¢ fire
eaters’’ in the South, any more than the
honest portion of the Republican party is
responsible for the bad acts of its abolition
allies. From these premises we drew the
conclusion that the Demoeratic party were
not to blame in any way for the present bad
state of affairs, as they had no hand in
bringing it about. We further showed that
the motto and the banners of out party
heretofore indicated our position on the se-
€'ssfon question, and plainly showed that
we were the Union party, and always had
been, while the opposition that now ase
sails us had repeatedly declared their wills
ingness to ¢ let the Union slide, ”’ and
carried the only secession flags that ever
floated in this country. We then gave
many of the men who had done these things
oredit for leaving off their old secession nce
tions and coming to our assistance in main-
taining the Constitution and our country in
its hour of peril. For having spoken the
aforesaid incontrovertable truths, we have
been denounced as traitors all over this
town, by a few men who consider themselves
the only patriots now living north of Mason
& Dixon's line. To these men we have to
say that we have nothing to detract from
the sentiments uttered in that editorial. —
We spoke the truth in attributing the
troubles in which our country is deluged to
evil, designing men, both in the North and
the South, and surely there is no sane man
living in this town, county, or elsewhere,
that will deny it. The only thing that we
are sorry for is, that the necessity was forc~
ed upon us by what claims to be a Republi-
can paper in this town, te mention even the
‘name of Democrat or Republican in these
troublesome times, when all should be will.
ing to stop even thinking of the past, if
possible, and unite cordially in their support
of the Government in settling the difficulty,
in whatever manner may be deemed best—
peaceably if possible—by conquest if it
must. Bat when that newspaper charges
all our present trouble and disgrace upon
the Democratic party, without making any
distinction between the Southern secession
wing of that party, and the northern, Urion
loving, which has ever been loyal to the
Constitution, even while three fourths of the
opposition to it in the North were holding
doctrines fundamentally opposed to the
Constitution itself, were opposed to the
enforcement of the laws made under that
Constitution—were opposing the observance
of the decisions of the highest tribunal in
the land, in the case of Dred Scott, which
was part of the law and the Constitution
We cannot be expected to be silent and thus
give sanction to such a nefarious lie.—
No, gentlemen, when agsailed, we will
strike back, and if these gentlemen in this
town, who returned their paper on account
of our last editorial having a tendency to
revive party lines, will but give themselves
a moment’s calm reflection and then read
the Centre Democrat, they will themselves.
have to acknowledge the justness of our po.
sition. But there appears to be some men
hereabouts, with whom it makes a great
difference whose ox gets gored. The Centre
Democrat has been pawing and bellowing
like a frantic bull, and has repeatedly gored
ourox. That, with these gentlemen, was
all right—they stood aloof and enjoyed the
sport highly. But when our ox turns and
gores their ox, they can’t stand it no longer
—their blood begins to boil, they screw up
their courage to the sticking point, toss their
horns about defiantly, and pitch into the
fight on the side of their bleeding ox.—
Shame, gentlemen, on such consistency. —
Shame on such partiality. This is forgetting
party lines with a “vengeance.”
No one deprecates the renewal of party
lines at this time more than we do, and we
have listened quietly ever since this war
commenced, to the taunts of treason,
traitor, secessionist, that have been hurled
at the party to which we belong, ic hopes
that reason would again bs restored. and
this thing stopped. We have borae with it
until « ‘forbearance has ceased to be a vir-
tue,” and now we are determined to defend
ourselves and party against these slanderous
charges at all hazard. If you don’t wang
party lines revived, cease to do it yourselves
and set ua the example by denouncing all
men in your party, who are so ready to
make these charges. Muzzle the Centre
Democr 3, your Republican paper here in
this town. Have it cease to charge all the
frauds that have been committed on our sol-
diers, upon the Democratic party, and also
cease to charge all those who differ with it
in politics, with the charge of treason, se-
cession, &c.. &c. Then we shall stop re-
plying until we are again assailed.
ce tA Ae eee
Ir the editor of the Central Press will pub-
licly acknowledge that he isso contemptibiy
ignorant as not to know the difference be-
tween a Government and an Administration,
and will give our devil a *‘ quarter ” he will
enlighten him on the subject, and for anoth-
er *‘ quarter »’ Billy says he will teil him,
that a State Adminstration isnot the Na-
tional Administration
A Certain Merohaht's Opinion bf Layaly.
To be loyal 18 to dym-, We are sor} ta
pathise with our Gov. Jebat some fow exhibit In a
ernment in this hour of {word and deed, a #pirjt
Her extreme peril; tojiuot consistent with our
feel every stroke that|lidea of loyalty. If &
falls upon her suprema- lidifference of opinion is
cy; to have a desire to/ihad between the Salary
remove every impedi-fland the Government,a
ment which may bejja small part of the Su-
thrown in the way to mariipreme Eench, with re- |g
the harmonious action ofjigard to a writ of Habeas
all her departments. —{Corpus, they of course
Central Press. fall in wiih Judge Ta-
ney ; he is right and the | W
(Government is wrong &e.
That is, the Government
should release her strong-
holds, set the captive free T
and permit the incendia-
ry, the murderer, the spy
and the lawless to go
forth seeking new vic-
tims i whom to lay
their bloody hands, —~
Central Press. .
The above extracts ate from the Central
Press, of this place, in ah afticle headed
+ Loyalty.” Both extracts aie from the
same article, which is so contemptible that
we would not have condescended to notice
it were it not that its author claims to be a
patriot and a scholar, and is striking in the
dark at somebody, He first starts out by
saying ¢ To be loyal &c., is to refrain from |
throwing anything in the way to mar the
harmonious action of all the departments of
the Government,” and in the same article
finds fault with those who think the decis-
ion of Judge TaNev is right. Now, we
wish to remind the very learned gentleman
that our Government was divided, by the
men who made it, into three departments,
viz: the Executiae, the Legislative and the
Judicial. The Judicial is the Supreme Court
of the United States. It is the highest and
most sacred part of the Government, and its
decisions are the supreme law of the land,
which every man who supports the Govern-
ment must respect and obey. Judge TaNEY
is the Chief Justice of that high court, and
the decision referred to is the supreme law.
Here is a direct blow at the supremacy of
the Government, according to his own reas-
oning, and, if it be correct, the man who
penned that article 1s a traitor, and ‘“unwor-
thy he protection of the laws of that Gove
ernment which has heretofore protected him,
and unworthy a place in the social circle i
with which he has been accustomed to mingle.” | |
““ This is the class of men who can be seen |g,
moving from crowd to crowd uttering insin-
uations of Gov. Curtin’s complicity with
those who have contracts for supplying the
army with clothing and provisions.” Thig
we never expected to hear of him. as we |n
have always thought him to be a very inti-
mate friend of the Governer, and it is indeed
*¢ ungenerous”’ of him to thus attack him. |,
Now please look at the punishment he
assigns to those who are guilty of these [8
things. ‘* Away with such men—the sooner
we are clear of them the better. Form them
into a line and march them from our midst —
they are the enemy in our camp, why should
we let them fight against us from behind the
screen,”’ According to his' awn theory, we
look for him to head the line, and march out
of town to the tune Dixie’s Land. Out of
his own mouth we condemn him.
Job A. Green, of New York.
T!
of America for which their fathers znd
otird alike pledged their lives, their fortu:
nd their sacred honor?
Independence and universal liberty which
they planted amid guffesing. and enriched by
thair blood ? Where the
galaxy of American States—the hope, the
pride and the exempler of the world ¢ How
then would the spirits of a Washington and?
fortunes
Where then the
nu that glorious
Jefferson, and other patriotic sires—long
since gone t5 their rest—could. they. revisit
the scenes of their labors and gacrifices—
wep over the melancholy spectacle of their
subjugated kindred ? For myself, I shudder
and recoil from the thought!” This is (he ex-
tent of my Treason, an
if to feel thus be a
raitor, I dread not to bear the 1eproachg 1
fear not to repeat the emphatic language of
Patrick Heory, to those who on another
great occasion raised the malignant outery of
reason :— If this be treason, make ths
most of it.”
eel A eect.
If RORACR GREELY does not need the oath
of fidelity to the Uniox the Constitution and?
the National Flag administered to Lim, we’
don’t know who does. Reed the following
stanzas which appeared in the Tribune, in
1854. ;
Mini} to the Stars and Stripes.
All hail the flaunting vin!
The stars grow pais and dim;
The stripes are bloody scars—
4 Lie, the vaunting hymn,
t shields a pirate’s deck,
It binds a man in chains,
It yokes the SSDivels neck,
And wipes the bloody stains.
Jess powN the flaunting Lim f—
alf mast the starry flag!
Insult no sunny sky
Wih HATR'S POLLUTED RAG!
DES{ROY: IT ¥& WHO CAN!
DEEP SINK IT IN THE WAVES!
It bears a fellow man
Togroan with fellow slaves.
Fory TRE BOASTED Lk '—
TILL FREEDOM LIVES AGAIN;
To RULR ONCE MORE IN TRUTR
MONG UNTRAMMELLED MEX.
Roll up the starry sheen ;
Conceal its bloody stains ;
For in its folds are seen
Lhe stamp of rustling chains!
———— eee man
Tae Seize TELEGRARINC Despatmas.-—
The Commission engaged in examining the
seized telegraphic despatches have examined
only those of the Washington office durin,
February and March.
require months at least to’ complete their
task.—N. Y, Tribune, *
hey think it will
The Albany Argus says: :
** Instead of seeing its foes ‘struck by
ghtning ”’ as it thought, the Government
as burnt its own fingers in the recent cou
e telegraph. Harvey’s treason, when it 18
traced to its source, will reach back to the
Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln, and leading parti-
zans of the Administration, it is said, are
implicated in other discoveries.
t is for this reason that revelations are
ow postponed for three months! The: ob
ject of the postponement is to throw the mat.
terbeyond the scrutiny of Congress.
body, when 1t meets, should force the Gov-
That
ronment to justify its violation of the Conati-
tution, by the proof of vital necessity, or
hould impeach the wrongdoers.
Fight at Great Bethel, Virginia.
Bavrinore, June.—This has been an oxoi-
ting and sorrow{vi day at point Comfort.
Gen, Butler having learned that the rebels
were forming an entrenched camp with bate
terios a Great Bethel, and he deemed it neges~
ry to displacs them, Accordingly moves
ments were made from Fortress Monroe and
Newport News. .
At midnight Col, Daryea's Zonavisning™
Col. Townsend's Albany Regiment crossed
the river at Hampton and teak up their line
to the Syracuse Courier and Union:
The following ‘extracts are taken from a
letter of Jonn A. GRreeN, Jr., of (New York)
of March. The former were. some two miles
in the advance of the latter.
At the same time, Col. Benedix's regiment
and a detachment of the Vermont and Mass
achusets regiments moved forward to form a
*¢ Let the white men of the North calmly
war. 2 a
The American people of this generation do
not know what war is. They cannot real- 4
ize its sufferings. They cannot anticipate |
its horrors War, among thirty millions of | ©
the most chivalrous, genous, brave, disci.
plined and martial free people the world ever
saw, must present scenes of terrible tragedy
such as the most hardy will shudder to con-
template. War in the nineteenth century
proposes means and appliances for the de-
struction of human life, which convert battle | f
into mere butchery, where every wound is
fatal, and the death of thousands may be the
work of an instant. Wermvores the stop-
page of trade, the cessation of peaceful in-
dustry, stagnation and irreparable injury
to every interest. Factories are silenced,
warehouses closed, fields lie uncultivated, |*
ships lie idle at the wharves, the work shop |?
and counting room are abandoned, agricul |P!
ture receives deminished returns from its
labors, taxation increase ten fold, churchs
are turned into hospitals, school houses and
senate chambers are converted into barracks,
the people are impoverished, labor goes un.
compensated, property loses its value, debts {b
and incomes are uncollectable, starvation
walks abroad in the streets and roads, noble
cities sink into piles of smoking and bloody
ruins, helpless women and innocent children
suffer untold miseries, and the wrath and
madness of man call down the vengeance of
Heaven. This is the entertainment to which
we are invited. This is the price we are
asked to pay for the liberation ot tie negro
and his elevation to cival equallity with the
white man! When we are called upon to
forget our principals—to fling aside al! that
we have hitherto professed—to disregard
the claims of our southern brethren fraterni~
ty and equallity—and to hurry forward, up~
on the impulse of homicidal excitement, in
support of a war policy, against brethren of
a common ancestry, we should first pause, | ©
and consider our duty to ourselves, to our
families, to our country and our God.
» * * * * -* - * |W
The fundamental doctrine of our political
system is, that governments can only derive
their just powers from the consent of the
governed, Eight millions of white men can-
not be coerced to accept a government they | U
repudiate or hate, by all the armaments of
all the powers of christendom. Why, then,
undertake so palpable an impossibility 2—
Why endeavor to do so flagrant a wrong ?—
Fifty years of war—the expenditure of huns
dreds of thousands of lives—and of h
of millions of money, —far frome reducing to
subjection the men of the seceded States,
fighting as they believe in behalf of their
liberties, their families, and their Somes, | sh
will only end in a permenent seperation to
be recognszed by us hereafter ; or if the
most sanguine expectations of the war are
realized, they can only be held with a large
and expensive standing army as subjugated
Germans discovered by
leftgon the field that the supposed enemy was
consider the causes and count the cost of |J9Retion with the regiments {from the Furtress
t Little Bethel, about halt way between
Hampton and Great Bethel.
The Zouaves passed Little Bethel at about,
o'clock A, M. Benedix’s Regiment arrived
ext and took a position at the intersection of
the roads. Not understanding the signal,
the Zouave regiment in the darkness o
morning fired upor Col. Townsend's column
marching in close order and led by Lisut But
ler, son of Gen. Betler.
the
Other accounts say that Townsend's men
red first, Atall eyeuts the fire of the Ale
bany Regiment was harmless whils that of
the Germsns was fatal killing one man and
fatally wounding two others.
The Albany Regiment being back, the
tbe acooutrements
friend. They had.in ths mean time fired
ine rounds with small arms and a field
iece. The Zonaves haaring the fire, turned
and fired also upon the Albany boys.
At day break Col, Alien’s and Col, Carr's
Regiments moved from the rear of the for-
tress to support the main body. The wistake
at Little Bethel having been ascertained, the
uildings were burned, and a Major with two
prominent Secseionists, named Livery and
Whiting, mada prisoners,
The troops then advanced upon Great
Bethel in the folliwing order: the Zouaves,
Col, Bender, Lieut. Col. Wasbburne, Col.
Allen and Ool. Carr,
iments formed and succesively endeavored to
take a large masked battery of the Saces-
sionists,
At tbat point our reg-
The effort was. fatile, our three small
pieces of «rtillery not being able to enps.with
the heavy rifled cannon of the snemy, socor<
ding to soma nocounts thirty in sumber,
The rebel battery was so dompletely maske
ed that no men sould be seen, but tha Hashes
of the guns only.
than 1000 men behind the battery of tie rebs
s.
There were probably Jese
A woll contorted movement might have
secured the position, but Brig. Gen. Pierce,
ho commanded the "expedition, seomed to
bave lust bis progence of mind, and the Troy
Regiment stood an hour exposed ton galling
ure.
en, but at that moment Lieut. Gerbla, of the
An order to retreat was at ‘ongth give
. S. Army, and in command of the Artif
lory, was struck by a éabnon ball and ‘in
stantly killed. He had spiked his gun and
was galiantly endeavoring to withdraw his
command. »
There ara probably 25 killed and 100
ondreds | wounded. They brought them to. she for-
tress this evening. SBE 0 Rrra
telly BAP A etm .
The Selinsgrove Times says Oongress
ould bring up a bill of impeachment against
President LINOOLN, for letying war against
the United States. :
DrsgoNTINUED. —The Lock Haven: wu ¥
provinces. Where then-will ba the Union [74m Its readers discontinued it some tim
of our fathers? Where than the freedom | since
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