. hE Ww A ¥ ’ B| \ | 4 TOCRATIC WATCHMAN. VOL. 6. me I, NE oe BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, ise1. — — NO, 30. — Stlect Postuy, (From the New York Day Book. | MASSACEHUSEITS. BY MANEO. 8he’s » proud old State, to the manor born— The manor washed by the sea, ‘Where the rocky shores bv the waves were worn, Bre they sang to the May Flower, one bright morn, Their hosannas to the free, When the Pilgrims came from the father-land, On a bleak December day, They gathered for prayer, a grief-siricken band; In meekness they knelton the sheiterless sand, And mingling their grief with the wave-salted strand, They prayed ss the pious ones pray. Bhe’s & proud old State, by the Puritan raised, ~The world from its stains torid ; The labor was done when the faggot blased— When the waves ran blood-—when the preacher praisad . The pious deeds which they did. "Twas a wonderful thing, that pious race . To rid the world of its sin; The flame was lighted with the lowliest grace, And the deadliest hiate wore the longest face, ‘When it hurried on at the swiftest pace; To tumble thé heretic in. 8be’s a proud old State, that the Baptist’s knell And the Quakers requiem sung, ‘When on crests of pearl, with a mighty swell, The storm rolled in the dread story to tell, The Baptists and Quakers were hung. *Twas a noble Grew that the May Fiower shipped, The true, the pure and the good ; They "poayed for grace while the women were *. stripped, via And through the towns with the witches were whipped, And in the Charles swamps with the witches were dipped, A ; To wash from their limbs the blood. Bhe’s a proud old State, and she treadsin her pride On the soil owned by the free— ‘When the Baptist bled, and the Quaker died, And the witch was dragged to the silvery tide, _ All—all for desr Liberty. *Twas in Liberty's name the old State declared That creeds and witches should die; Aod when witches snd creeds the death-doom Oat on the arenas the nigger was scared, And the old State asked if any one dared To hold Cuff in bondfge—snd why ? . 8be’s a proud old State, and good st a trade— Aye. goodsst a trade in slaves; Be dealt iv the srticle-wilie it paid; Nor deemed for & moment har vonscienee betrayed Belling sons on their sires’ graves. ‘When the trade ran down and profits were slim, Cuff was sold to the southern land. The Bouth, far away in the distance dim, » ‘Was busy at work, and had labor for Bim ;™ © And’t was then his old masters, with visage grim, Called Cuffy a contraband. She’s » proud old Btate, and she don’t forget On her tall State pony to ride; And she’s pushing her work of pity yet; Old Greely and Beecher, and Philips she'll sweat Ere they save the nigger’s hide. They've swernfor the knife at the white man’s throat, To get old Cuffy off clear; To all who will help her he has pledged her vote AE al cwiril H en soever he has turned his coat, Or on the partisan sea his boat, Along the current to let it float, gr on apy side to steer. i Bhe’s a proud old State, and proud of the nest Where she hatched out her motley brood As motley a orew as mother e’er blessed While claiming a deluge of blood her behest, To wade to her waste in the flood. Bbe’s a proud old State, of her dignity turned, ~ With enough to do her own; "Twere well if to mind her own business she'd learned, And satisfied mow with the fame she had earned The witches and creeds to have hanged, drowned and burned, : 4 And now let the nigger alone. IMisigelhmeous. [From the Patriot and Union.] TO, DEMOCRATS, The writer of this’ communication ven- ures, in the present crisis of public affairs, and in view of the duties which may devolve soon on the Democratic party, briefly to ad- dress his fellow-citizens. very far from desiring to embarrass the Ad- ministration either of the State or General Government, or to impede any la®ful action which may be taken by either. In all such action they deserve from the Democratic par. #"s thorough and cordial support. When, however, under a pretense of public neces- sity—or, to judge it more kindly, under an %' assumption of emergency—the one or otfer steps ‘beyond the law and violates the plain provisions of the Constitutions which are concgeded to be yet over us, the Democratic party, as a constitutional oppo #hition. will expose and denounce it. There po danger sobgreat to free institutions, use so insidious, as that which ap rdaches in the disguise of emergency —no treason more pernicions than that which, in the name of Jatiotigm. threatens the prin. Sigel the Censtitation, and the protection which its letter throws around the citizen. If che civil war now raging not ouly breaks nion assunder, but” weakens the faith in the integrity of the Consti- t will be worse watching the Washington t, tg appeal roug e that in a | 11'l warning was of no avail. In doing so he is | ; of political parties, clearly defined, 78 Fso- lutel: essential. Excessive as party spirit may sometimes become, it is a conservative t so long as parties existed on their ancient basis of difference—so long as we were divided as Democrats and Whigs— nay, even as Democrats and Republicans, before Republicanism was animated by the acrid and fanatical spirit which incites it now, and did in the canvass of 1860—while there was periodical excitement and the strong feeling which political revolutions generate, the institutions of the nation were safe, and the very bonds of party sympathy bielped to keep the Union together. When what may be called the historical parties of the nation were disintegrated and gection- alism became fr olominant, the Union was endangered. If this sad result be not due, as we think it is, to the breaking up of old party lines, it certainly followed it very quickly. The Democratic party has much to re proach itself with. The division in the Charleston Cor.vention was unnecessary and mischievous. [t broke front in the face of the ecemy. It gave an undue vigor and force to a third party, which under the name of Union, led away to an ineffectual stand. ard thousands of honest voters. How radi. caily weak and discordant this plausible party was, is shown by the attitudes now held by its accredited leaders; for while the Presidential nominee sustains the armed resistance of the South, the candidate for the Vice Presidency gin hie New England latitude, urges on the d coercion of the North. Such must always be the end of no party, or third party, independent organization.” et it is, fellow-Democrats, Sith all this experience, with the lessons of 9: recent and the remote past, and in thi [a of the nation’s fate, that you are agaf asked and tempted to surrender your party organ- ization, and take refuge in & new and ill- defined combination, which has no object but the support of an administration that you had no agency in elevating to power, and whose measures of detail and general policy you cannot consistently approve—and you are asked and counseled to do this, not by your adversaries, but by deserters from Democratic ranks, who while the contest wag waging, contributed by mischievous counsel to foment discord among uf. and who are now earning the wages of their apostacy by having the suspicious confidence and reluctant gratitute of the Republican party. We assume that this will be au an. swer to the attempt to seduce you from your ty. #4 when, let us ask, when before was the Democratic party of Pennsylvania in a prouder attitade than now. if it will be but true to itaself ¥ It is thoroughly umited.— Ail past differences are forgotton in the ‘of the pest misery is upon us. he distinguished men around whom differ- ent individuals rsllied, and in. behalf of whoai'so much animated and adverse feeling was aroused, have taken their positions in the ranks of the party, and relinquished their aspirations. One of them has sunk into his grave. TH® Administration whose acts and policy were the subjects of honest difference, «is no more. Every reason or pretext for discord isgemoved, snd as an opposition —a constitutional opposition—the Democratic party of the North bas all the vigor and energy which such an atiitude always gives. If any one asks why, as an opposition, we shonld seek to maintain the active efficiency of the Democraticfarty of the State, the answer is easy, and, we vengure to think, conclusive. Addressing our friends, we give that answer clearly and ingenously, and we ask for it due attention. It will be born in wdgbet for the con- requences which hav wed Mr. Lincoln’s election the Democratic party is in no sense responsible. They+raised the voice of warn- ing early, and it never died on their lips i They took as their text Washington’s farewell words of counsel against sectional and geographicel agties' They foretold that if a candidate should be chosen on the Chicago platform, advocated and cordially sustained by every Abolition fanatic in the land. disunion aud civil war would come—and they have come. Theg' foretold the men of business —the mer= cul farmer, the mechanic and the man@facturer, that with the danger of dis- union, not as a phantom but as a fixed re- ality, would come: bankru ty, and ruin and beggary—and they have come. We are now standing amid the wreck and misery which last fall were forshadowed. The peo: ple of Pennsylvania were misled by the promise of a protective tariff, and one was enacted at such a time, and in such a form as to o to the difficulty and promote. the financial distress we now suffer, and main- tains its precdfious existance on our statute j longsas political expediency . The Democratic party fore- is didappointment would come Bam form—and i has come. The infill course of redaction, and atiog, always more or less oppressivi told that with disunion an an increased public xation-—and they ocratic party went fu th& prédiciion that with he" sudden with il ittences. especial- ly of the proc of] ‘great Southern staple, which k the whale world in trib. ute, would come destructiofi‘of thé revenue from duties, an impost orf nes es, excCi- ses, and direct taxation by the ral Gov- ernment—and they will surely cofne. prob- ably so soon ae Congress can be eonvoked to suthorize them, drawel of agricul avert this catastrophe, and when defeated as they were by large majorities of the elector- al vote, they sabmitted, and resolutely, if not cheerfully, recognized the duty ot vigi- Isnt submission. The Democracy of Penn - sylvania donot fudge sevcrely their Sonth- ern crethren, who, rather than submit, have sought to withdraw from the Union ; but they owe it tc candor and self respect to say that they have felt deeply the wrong the South has done to them in yieldiag to re we nt, however just, and abandoning RI and steady, and loyal friends in the We will not take counsel even The Democratic party honestly strove to |; from this «regret, but sure that we were right. defore the crisis come, and as sure that we are right now, we reaffirm our prin- es and desire to reorganize our party. ® Nor is this all. The Democracy of Penn- sflwania has practically proved its loyalty 1o.the Union and the Government. It dis- suaded coercion while the policy of the Ad- istration was yet undecided. It favored any reasonable plan of compromise and cop- ciliatiog, especially that which, originating in Kentucky, had the support of Crittenden and Gutbrie, and of every truly conservative man in the Nation, and which was rejected by the sullen obduracy of the representa- tives of Republican fanaticism. Tt did this for the sake of peace, and it retracts and re grets nothing that it did. Nay, the Democ- racy of Pennsylvania has done much more. When in t| idst of the excitement which followed t f Fort Sumter, the Presi- dent of. nited States invited volunteers to ral the flag of the country.as he sud, tl ned and insulted, the Demo crats of the North, and especizlly those of Pennsylvania, at once answered the call.— They did not pause to inquire who was right or who wrong. They did not regard it, in the language of Secretary Seward, as a “question of parties.” They did not give utterance, in the moment of supposed or ac~ tual peril, to any exultation which might tie United States and his ad®isers found themselves. as they are still, surrounded and sustamned by Democratic soldiers, who knew no impulse but that of honor and pa- triotism. At thi moment, it is conceded there are erroiled, from this C ommonwealth alone, three Democrats to one Republican. The Secretary of War, has, in an official document, expressed his regret that the largest Republican counties of Pennsylvania sent the fewest soldiers. It is well under- stood that there were upwards of six thous .and expectants for office in the city of Phil- adelphia alone —all, of course, Republicans —aside from the army of jobbers and con. tractors, no one of whom thinks of rendering wilitary service. Six regiments of office seekers ! fu : And what has been the reward of the gal- lant men who have thus yielded to the un. reasoning impulses of loyslty ! Itis with deep mortification that in the face of the world we have to confess that already Penn. svlvania has been digraced by a system of fraud and imposition upon the poor soldiers unparalleled in the history of abuses At the very moment when patriotism and loyal zeal were at the highest point of exultat'on —when all party lines were obliters ted, and one impulse moved the whole peop” =when the poor and the rich alike seem to yield to’ it—in the freshness of this zeal, there has been developad a scheme of gigantic abuse and imposiiion, under the very eye.of the Executive authorities, at which the public stand aghast ; and though the service and the war * are little more than two months old. we are informed by the Chief Magis- trate himself, tbat the poor Pennsylvania soldiers are neglected, and in their wretchs edness and raggedness are a discredit to the State. The disclosure of the character of the supplies furnished by thc mercenary jobbers in Philadelphia and Pittsburg alone are frightful. Half a million of dollars cheerfully appropriated’ has been wasted and misapplied, and unless the aroused jeal ousy of the people arrest it, three millions more will follow, Thus do corrupt officials secure, as they imagine, in the immunity which office and pay fidelity are supposed to give, reward the generous zeal of a mili- tary people. Nor will it ever be corrected or ful'y exposed until a Democratic Legis- lature investtgates it thoroughly. If for no other object than this, we look anxiously for the early and efficient organization thr’o- out the Commawenttiof the Democratic party. The power of impeachment rests in the House of Representatives. It is a power not to be lightly exercised ; but it should be regarded as an existing principle. There will be room for a gocd many impeachments by and by. i“ When the hour of real or imaginedl danger came, and, as we have said, loyal citizens of all parties rallied at the call of the’ Presi. dent, no whisper of suspicio: doubt was heard. The confidence of th e of the North was gererous and unlifnitedii [twas thought the Capital was threa and the Nation started forward to its résctie. I ever in danger, in less than a fortnight was safe. The imminent, ny i was over, and tnen the people, especially the Democratic party, had a right to expect that the operations of law would not be un- necessarily interrupted, and the constitu- oment of emergency and alarm they did give to apply any severe rule of criti- c restraint ; but the danger, as we a have said. at t partially over, we had a right a revivals the rules of la lone insure cWil liberty. In- stead of which, we find ourselves compelled to look on and acquiesce in official acts that at least are calenlated to excite alarm and make us pause in the course which we once #0 cheerfully and implicitly pursued. We a rights of the citizen be protected. In find it openly asserted and assumed that a precedent taken from the legislation of mon archical governments, of passing an indem. nity*law in Congress for unauthorized and illegal acts, is to be initiated, we may be e d for doubt and suspicion. and fear of tHe inevitable future. The suspension of the hogs corpus act in a neighboring State, whereWlle jdficial functions of ‘th: Govern ment are in full force, by ~ailitary and Exe. i fegrful incident of the times qt t. If the acts of a or seondoned, why may not Congress create a’ Bictator at once ? We are in danger when iS announced, as it was lately, in a Republican paper of Philadel- phia, that «it will be the duty of Congress at once to confer on the President greater wers than even in history were conferred in President before ;’ and in another, “that the trial by jury ought to be tempo- rarily abrogated.” * ! The Democratic party has the. right— ger look 5 do not care to specify them’; but when we *North American of 24th of June, a Tnqui- rer of July 24. t % po 4 . Y . B S * 2 Hasse baving testified its loyalty.—to take a bold, aud decided stand of .constitational opp tion, It shoald do sg _ and maintain it resolutely. Bat it d do more. It should announce and strive to initiate in the State Legislature, where first the popular sentiment can be expressed, a positive poli- cy for the future. That policy, as we un- derstand it, we propose briefly and pointed- ly to declare. : Its first and ieading object is Peace— Peace, if possible, by preserving the Union in its integrity ; but if that, as we fear is | Recngnition. We defy contradiction to the assertion that the Union of the States, as it came to us from our ancestors, in all its in- tegrity, has had no more fai‘hful supporter than the Democracy of Pennsylvania. No taint of sectionalism rests on us. In times when some of those who are now noisiest in their obstreperous patriotism were agitating schemes and devising measures having for their effect the alienation of one section {rom another, the Democracy steadily and uni- formly opposed them. Had the Democratic ascendancy in Pennsylvania continued, the social and politizal union would have stood et. As we have said, when it was direct- y threatened and means of conciliation seemed possible to avert the evil, the De- have beer®pardoned at the verification of | their forebollings. Bat, right or wrong, | their country called for their services in the | field, and they obeyed, and the President of | Uni kei. out. mocracy sustained them. The danger was never disparaged or ridiculed by us. Bat it has come in spite of us. The dominion of a sectional party has been inaugurated. Tne Unio, is torn assunder. Civil war has bro- The sword is drawn. It is the perilous edge of fraternal battle. Drops encugh of blood have been shed to stimulate revenge. The agencies of mischievous fa- naticism and unboly excitement arein the air around us—the voice of moderate coun- sel is hushed, and the conviction forces 1ts- elf apon us that there is no chance of reun- ion pow The most we can hope for is, thas the Union sy not perish in a hideous convulsion. [fit is not torn assunder’ with too firce a struggle, it may be reconstructed; for who shall say that if it is allowed to die 1n peace, but there may be, not to speak it profanely, a resurrection in a brighter snd purer form hereafter. This is not rhetoric. This is no dream. It is the reality on which sober judgment calculates ; and hence it is that, believing peaceable reunion impracti- cable, and subjugation of the whole South 10 arms as much go, we are in favor of Re. cognition and Peace—and we avow it as an ultimate and cardinal principle of Northern Defnecracy, on which sooner or later we mast trinmph. Tt is in no desponding and dislogal spirit that we say this, Let any one who loves his country and his country- men scrutinize his own heart, and analyze the emotions which agitate him as the news of each rapid hour of civil shife comes to him, whpther it be of victory or defeat. If a victory, itis a victory over brethren -and kinsmen and friends. If defeat, itis sorrow and suffering and ignominy deeper and dark er and more intense, because inflicted by’ a brother’s hand. The great orator of Amer- ica once portrayed the North and the South — Massachusetts and South Carolina— standing shoulder to shoulder in the dark hour of the Revolution.’ It is our to see them, in the Droad light of thi ’s civilization, seizing each other roat and seeking each other's bl the world looking on in amazement and Pennsylvania, though in arms, has no'pleas- ure in seeing New England soldiers march- ing over the soil of Virginia or Maryland, in the cluch of Massachusetts. Unless the war of subjugation be arrested, we r On a chapter of bloody his tory the like hich has never been written, and the end of which is failure and disappoin t and mutual destruction. For should succeed, and every dispossessed retaken, and the National: Flag wherever it be struck, it will fl tude and bloody ruin, and government will find itself area of desolation—of States social institutions hopeless] “Hf this must be the end of “vi should we not shrink from certain ? The alternati all its shame and so.ro contemplate. Peace our opinion, sooner 0 pass—and it is the pa y statesmanship to look to eventdlities, and to smooth the way to honorable and permanent pacification. Such, we repeat, we hold to be the true policy of the Democratic party. To affect this with ease and honor, with afety to local interest. which always‘ought 0 be regarded, a delicate and responsible duty devolves on us. A factious and vexa- tious opposition defeats itself, and in a crisis such as, under any circumstances, must continue for some time to come, it would not be consistent with expediency or per- sonal honor to encourage it. But there are certain cardinal principles of public economy to which in the past the Democratic part; of Pennsylvania has been faithful, whic either in time of civil or foreign war, or in the transition state which succeeds it. are more sacred than ever. We cannot expect | them to be asserted by the Administration now in power, or perhapsany Administration pressed by pecuniary exigencies and com- pelled %o resort to financial expedients.— Financial empiricism is congenial to the des perate eircumstances of war. If not resist- ed, or at least closely watched and restrained it becomes inveterate. Chief and foremost amongst these measures of mischievous pol icy is that mode of Federal legislation which discharges individuals from the obligation of their debts. To such legislation, unless made strictly prospective, and extended to banking and et rations, the Demo- cratic party has as steadfastly opposed. It is a great scheme to give immunity to fraud and a legal safletion to the facility with whicll insolvents® seek to free them- selves from their just dgbts.’ Like stay and exemption laws, it giv: transient relief, but inflicts a fatal wiih on substantial credit. Madé ¢ sory and extended to corporations, it is relatively unobjectionable. Had it so existed, we should have been spared, on more than one occasion, the de- grading exhibition of suspension of specie payments by the banks and recently the sor- rowful sight of the suffering of the poor, who have been defrauded of their little sav- ings at 8 moment when théy stand most in the case, is now impracticable, Peace and li of the Union be again welded lation on the subject of bankruptcy the De- posi-| mocgaoy is utterly opposed. The history of our country shows auother law of coincidence which has not varied. — The creation of a large funded debt under the .presure of war—and it matters not. all bloodshed being costly,'whether it is foreign or domestic—and the institution of a nation- al by haye heretofore Been, simultaneous ; and st them both we raise ur warning voice. fihded debt of the ed States if this Mr continyes, on the 1st of #anuary next, be less than six, hundred mil- n annual interest, at the ‘arc now negotiated, of ions, and to be increased bey: computign shereafter. Besides this, must § ill be an_unlimifgd issue of j convertible 1 reasury notes, whose only v; ue 18 théir being recervable in duties, a which become of no value as'duties dimin: ish. A civil war, prolonged for any time, § will lead to an issue of I'rea notes as currency —in other words, to vival of continental money. An increasing debt and a decreasing revenue, with necessities of military expenditures becomes more pressing every hour. lead naturally to the creation of pat and diminish this pressure. This machin- ery can be no other than the institution, in some form of a uational bank. with power to establish branches, and a right to issue pa- per money. Such an institution, ag Con- gress and the Executive are now constituted would meet no opposition on the ground of constitutional scruple—and on the score of expediency it is openly advocated by tht portion of the press of New York, (where, of course, it is to be located) which seems to represent and control the dominant party at Washington. With the creation of a bank will Be coincident the removal of the mint from Philadelphia; for though with the unrestrained manufacture of paper money the coinage of their precious metals has little connection, the insult to Pennsyl- vania and Philadhlphis will not be complete unless the last vestige of Federal beneficence on our soil be obliterated. The third great measure of the dominant party which calls for the scrutiny and vigil- ance of the Democracy of the State is the absolute repeal or material modification of the Tariff of 1860—by the promise of which the vote ol Pennsylvania was secured to the Republican party. = Of the policy of that legislative measure at the time it was enact~ ed we have already spoken, It was impor- tune ; and when, By the direct agency of the present Secretary of State, thea a Senator rom New York the Warehouse system was Jelpetnated, the feeble hope that a fair and onest mode of levymg imposts might be initiated was at once extinguished. For the impgsition practiced on the manufacturers of Pennsylvania, we owe it to candor te say Mr. Lincoln is not msible. In no writ- ten word of his, that we know of, did he pledge himself to a tariff. He came from a region where free~trade doctrine is predom-~ inant, and never committed himsels in the direction of a protective Tariff. t his Pennsylvania friends and adv , and they, by us, will be held to their professions. The writer of this is no extreme protection- ist—very far from it. But he wants fair play for Pennsylvania ; and he watches, and be thinks the Democratic party ought to atch, the Fronts of that vast monetary wer which already threatens to overshad- ow us. i Let then, the Democrati thoroughly united, organg and township of the Stat 1 of the ich they agree. I y 0 means by which our rep ernment can be preserveday True UNioN A Jury 13, 1861. Monday says : We hase been shown some very handsome specimeiS of the filled $20 gold pieces now in circulation. The work is don€ precisely as was formerly described in the $10 pieces. The sides of the coin containing the impres- sion is left in slabs(the centre being taken out by sawing or turning in a lathe) and these two sides are then soldered to a planch- et of platina, the edge being also covered with gold and remilled. Platina is the only base metal which will kcep up the weight without increasing the size. The coin as finished is worth only about $7 ; thus losing two-thirds of its value. They can be de- tected in some cases by a careful examina~ tion of the edge, were two faint lines some times show that the coin is composed of three pieces. None but a skillful expert can be sure of making this discovery. Mr. John A. Cisco; who first detected this cheat is a son of the Assistant Treasurer. Al- though quite a young man, he has shown fair to rival Mr. Birdsall, who has hitherto had ne superior in that line, in this or any other country. A Japanese Expassy 10 Eorore.—A let- ter from Kanagawa, Japan, dated May 26, says : + The projected embassy to Europe from the court of the Tycoon assumes definet shape by the appointment of the principle nages who are to take part therein.— ere are four envoys, all of whom are of the Hatomato ranks They will go out in such vessels as the English government may place at their disposal; but in the large retinue which is to accompany them will be officers, engineers, and a crew of their own countryman, to man their own vessel on the return voyage—it being their purpose to purchase a large steamer while io Europe. The absolnte date of their departure is not fixed, though 1t will not be before the close of summer. : 3 ramet lA Ast The height of politeness is, in passiog veed of them. To any other federsl legis- around on the opposite side of a lady .to avoid stepping on her shadow. * ia ially with a |b i, i Ee eSen- s they well'may do oly this com- | ni k riends, and b rare tact and skill in this work, and bids |P! SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Peace Meeting IN Deraware Co., N. Y. —At a spontaneous meeting of the the ine habitants of Margaretville, Delaware coun- ty, N. Y., and vicinity, attracted by the disturbed and alarming condition of the country, and assembled without previous call or notice at Akerly Hall, Jeremiah Bird- sall was called to the chair and Issac T. Moseman appointed Secretary. The Hall was filled to overflowing, and many unable to find seats within assembled about the building to listen to the proceedings. After prayer by the Rev. Charles Gerse, a committee on resolutions was appointed, and the Declaration of Independence was read by Dr. S. W. Reed. 0. M. Allaben, of Margaretville, being present, was called a: address the meeting, to which he bcu nded, and for more than an hour dis- d the principles upon which our gov. ernment is founded ; denying the sonstitu- tional right of thé government to carry civil war ints the bosom of any State ; chargin, upon thejpresent Administration the double intention of overslaughing the rights of the States and inaugurating the Federal princi- some fiscal machinery to anticipate revenue Lples of 1798, and of carrying the abolition of slavery into the States where it now ex- ists ; and reviewing the repeated and alarm- ing usurpations of the present Executive. The committee on resolutions reported the wing, which were unanimously adopted”: Resolved, That we view with alarm the present attitude of the Republican party. in their refusal to entertain any propositions to restore peace to our distracted country. Resolved, That of all Wits, a civil war ia the most repvlsive and inhuman ; and that we regard it as the worstof all possible . eans to be used in the settlement of our resent troubles. Resolved, That & peaceable separation of the States #hough much to be deplored, is far preferable to a forcible union, where hse nosy and fraternal feeling cannot be main. . tamed. . Resolved, That we are in favor of the Un? ion as it once exited, and believe the pres- ' ent war, if prolonged, will lead to its de- struction. We therefore trust that Congress will devise a peaceful compromise, by which may be brought a speedy setttlement of sll our difficulties. Resolved, That we believe it to be our du. ty to support the Government in every emeérs gency, and sre willing so to do, yet we de- clare to the world that we cannot be dra~ gooned into the Sapper of Abolitionism or Federalism in any form. Prace MzeTING IN Wayne Co. SPexnstL. VANIA.—A call baving been posted the evere ing of July 1st, for a Peace Meeting, to be held on the 4th., in Jonebville, the ‘people almost to a man, assembled at ao ¢ ‘hour, and atter raising & Union flag on a hickory pole in tront of the Ariel post-office, the as sembly adjourned to a large barn. The meeting then came to order by calling A. Dhase othe og as Drones uw) Abot Purdy, Jose] sgood, John (zlossenger, B, Bartleson, H. Vaugn, W. B. Simons, Jerimiah Osgood, R. D. Lesher, A. Jones and M. A. Bidwell. as Vice Presidents, and P. W. Collins and B. Jones Secretaries*— By request of the President, the Declaration of Independence was then read by A. Bea- jamin, Fa. r.J.N. ward Esq., and Rev. G. Dobell. The fol. lowing resolutions were unanimously adop- circumstances, 18 preposterous, and while we deeply deplore the resolution which has severed eleven States from the Union, we prefer peace to civil war, and believe that coersion ean rry with it the least weight in favor conciliation and peace. RecoLvep, THEY we earnestly rec nend that our members of Congress 8 bled, use their utmost ende peacable and honorablegid present troubles, and them in their acts to nance of civil war, ResoLyep, That the co¥fse pur ir army, apparently endorsed by the adminis- tration, in allowing slaves to pass unmolea- tod into the free States, ought to be consid- ered prima facie evidence that the object of the war is more for Abolition than Union. ran ———— A PresipeNTiaL MisquoraTioN.—It will be recollected that in President Lincoln’s Message great stress was laid upon the fol- lowing point, which we quote : «They have adopted a temporary National Coustitution, in the preamble of which, un- like our good old one signed by Washing« ton, they omit, “We the People,” and sub. stitute, * We the Deputies of the Sovercisa and Independent States. Why? y this deiiberate pressing out of view thi rights of men and the authority of the peo- le 2” : The preamtle to the Confederate Consti- tution commences as follows : «WE THE PEOPLE of the Confederate States, each acting in its sovereign and and independent character, in order to forms permanent Federal Government, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, and se- cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity—invoking the