an elegant geld hioaded cane to ton. C. L.
* ites,” When theres anything ‘up,’ they
4 - Jous exclamation was, 1 hope “there wan
* ‘enough officers yet to supply the thousand
"freedom to ‘the free—honorable alike in
“unflinching fortitude in mantaining
. principles he believed to be right.
spilt from a waganat Columbus, :Ohio and
« peration, gn we are glad ef it.
. : !
Bt reference to persona call
mcr to those made free by ¢
grese abolishing slavery he
The plan consiating of th
commended, not but thilt 8 tion of:
the national authority wonld be accepted
withous ita adoption. =
Nor will the war, nor proceedings under
the proclamation of September 22, 1862, be
"oe lal — aabion. of.
this plan.
not, would bring restoration, and thereby
stiy buh. f §24 .
And notwithstanding this plan, the re-
commendation that Congress provide by
law for compensating any State whi
adopt emancipation. before this
Seve heen acted upon is earnestly renewed:
Such would only be an advance part of the
plan, and the same arguments apply: to
bath.
This plan-ia recommended as a means, not
in exelusion of, but additional to all others,
for restoring and’ preserving the national
authbrity thronghout the Union. - Tne sub-
Ret in presented exclusively nits economi-
eal awpést, © The plan would, I am:confi-
dent, secure peace more speedily; and main-
tain it more permanently, than can be done
by fora alone} while all’ it would cost,
cofisidering amounts, and manner of pay
want, and times of payment, would be ea-
rier paid than will be the additional cont of
the war. if we rely solely upon:force. It is
wush—very ‘much—that it would cost nu
Llaod at sll ! .
The plan is proposed as permanent con-
stitutional law. It einnet become such
without the concurrence of, ‘firet two-thirds
of Congress, and afterwards, three-fourths
of the Staten. The fequisite three fourths.
of the States will iecessarily include seven
of the Slave States, Their conengrence, if;
obtained, will give assurance of their sever-
ally adopting emancipation; at no very dis-
tant ‘day, opon the “constitutional terme.
This assurance would end the struggle now,
and rave the Union forever. : * solos
I do not forgetthe gravity which shoul
characterize a paper: addressed. to the Con-
gress of the nation, by the Chief Magistrate
of the nation. Nor do I forget that some of
you ‘are my seniors; Ror that many of you
have more experience than I, in the conduct
of public affairs. - Yet I trust that in.view
of the great responsibility restimg upen me, |
you ‘will perceive no want: of respect. to
Youréelyen, in any undue earnestners I may |
weem to display.
It iv donbied, then, that the laa I pro-
pore, ifadoptad, whould - shorten the war,
‘and thawdessen “its ‘expenditure of none;
‘and of blood. It in ‘doubted thas jt would
veators ‘the national “authority and national
prosperity, and perpetuate both indefinitely ?
i hted' that we here—Congress and
3 Wtive—cnn gecure ita adoption? Will
“net fhe goad people respond to a united, and
‘enrrrest appeal fram ue 2 Can we, can they.
‘by’ dy other ‘means, so cettainly, or. so
“epeedily. awsnre thews vital objects?
“"We oan succeed only ‘by. concert. It is
not * ean anv of us imagine ‘better |” but!
«ean we a/l do better?” Object whatso-
ever in possible; #till: the question recur
“oan we it ‘bettér 1 The dogmas of the
‘quiet ‘past, are inadequate to the stormy
present. The accasion is piled: high with
difficulty, and we must rise with the ocaa-
Rion ® Ur cage is mew, go. we must
think spew, and act anew. We must dis-
enthrall otirselves, and then we shall save
our country, © BL,
“Fellows citizena, we cannot eseape history.
“We, of this Congress ind this administra.
“Sion, will be remembered in. spite of out’
selves. No persondl aig-ificance, or insig-
nificance, cun spire one. or another. of us.
“Phe fiery trinl'thtough which we pass, will
light us down, inthoner or dishonor; to the
ateat generation, Wa say we are for
he Union. The world ‘will ‘not forget that,
we eny this, We know how tu save the
Union. The world knows we do know how
to save it. ~ We—even we here—hold the
‘power and hear the responsibility.
In giving freedom ti the slave, we assure
what we give, and ‘what we preserve, We
shall nobly save, or ‘meanly lose; the beat
hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful,
generous, just—a way which, if followed,
the world will foreyer applaud, and God
‘must forever bleks. neil
ABRAIIAM LINCOLN.
December 1, 1862. © «1 3 ;
nb A MA i
A + Trarron” CiNgn !—At a handsome
"entertainment at the residence of Judge
Morse, in Dayton, on the evening of the 21st,
the Democratic ladies of Payton presented
Vallandigham as 8 token of their respect.
and as evidence of their admiration of his
those
Val.
made a pleasant anc appropriate speech in
reply. i
——— eB ee
Somehow editors can never be favor-
‘are‘hardly tolerated arid when there is sny
thing ‘‘down” woeful prayers are offered
for their absence. A country girl, who was
had all her finery “mussed’’ and dirtied ay
for some time insenaible. Her first tremu-
ne Edstox in sight.
=A New Oileans correspondent of ihe
New York Express writes that Gen, Butler
has teut the three remaining Episcopal Clr:
gymen of that city to durance vile—fwo to
Fort Layfayette, and oneto Fort Pickens—
for omitting the prayers for the. President.
General Butler is determined to procure
goine *'secesh’’ prayers for OL Abe, haviag
dotibiless lost all confidence in .the efficacy
and saving grace of those “that : prooceed
from, the Abolition &lergy.—Cin. Engni-
yer. DORSEY 52 Ladin: -
KrroseNg.— A few days. ago Kerosene |
vil took a tremendous rise. and sold “in,
Philadelphia as Tigh as 1,10 per gallon.—
It has now taken the other tack and is go-
ing down as frst as it: went. vp. It will
probably be down to fifty cents again in a
few wheka, The rise was unnoubtedly the
effest of speculation. A fuw of the specu
Iators have probably been ‘bitten’ in the
yma eee
A-Cormssioner oF CoxTRABAND, —The
War Depa: tment is ‘about to nt - from,
civil life a Commissioner to loo after the:
interests of the negro contrabands:. now. in
_ charge of the government. Exchange. i
. Certainly. Anything to bleed the Treasu-
«ry.»+@o in, gentlemen. Th re ste not half
of hungry Abolitionistswho-iare. applying,
gor chance to, *“gerve their” beloved coun:
ary oils : oe § oi . . & Phe
Tis Boston Pest thinks it. singulsr
that, while all kinds of printing and wri
ting peper should te going up in price,
Twa timely adoption, I doubt |
a * AN
% ha Aa er A RE
ANRC GB
So
Vow
P. GRAY : » ¥
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning, Dec. 12, 1862.
————————————————
“Te PRINTER.” —We have received this
elegant publication for the month of No-
vember. It contains much of general inter-
est-to.the craft, amongst which js a re-pub-
lication of the Constitution of the National
‘Typographical Union. Also, sn interesting
descriptive article from the pen of T. O.
Hansard, upon Dr, William Church and his
printing inventions. Every member; of th,
fratetwity should have a copy of ¢ The
Printer'” if he wishes to keep *‘booked up"
Jin all the improvements of the ‘‘ noble art.’,
Address John Greason & Co., Publishers,
No. ‘HY; Spruce Street, N. Y.
Tag Eprtor oN A ‘ Barrer,” — The editor
has gone to Philadelphia, leaving the paper |
1n the hands-of ‘the devil. ‘The young imp;
of course, feels quite important in view of
is promotion, and, as he is a chap of more
than ordinary smartness, the readers of the
Watchman need not ‘be surprised should the
paper prove more interesting than usual.
As for the editor, we presume he will
come home with the headache ‘or some-
thing else,’ He left in company wiih a law-
yer—a “Notary Public,” by the way,—a
fact which has given us some uneasiness,
and which, we fear, is but a poor guaratitee
Y [for his good behavior while abroad. How-
‘ever, we hope: fr the best and. earnestly
pray. that he be ‘led not into temptation,
but delivéred from evil.” jo )
Tue PresiDRNT's MEssacr,—We publish
this document on the ou'side .of to-day’s
paper. ‘The editor being absent, however,
we do not feel authorized tr spend an 6pin-
ion upon itiin the columns of the. Watch-
man, “preferring. rather, to leave ‘that for
him to do when he again returns to his post.
In the meantime, we advise all the readers
of this paper fo give it ap attentive ‘perusal
so that. they may be. able to digest, -under-
standingly and intell:gently, ‘ite contents:
and whatever remarks the now absent ‘eifi-
tor may feel disposed to make upon them.
‘The Message ‘is, probably, .as brief as
¥ document of that kind could. be made
at thig perilous and’ most important crisis ins
the affairs of our couritry. This'is ont rec-
ommendation.. - If. it-have any others, our
readers will, doubtless, find them out by
the time they finish its perusal.
ey Ae
Fire 15 Lock HAVEN.—A tremenduous
fire broke out in Lock Haven on’ Saturday
morning last, about 4 o'clock. The flames
raged with uncontrollable fury and in afew
heurs two entire squares in the most bus:
ness part of the town, were laid in ashes.
The fire originated in a furniture shop in
the rest of the Bank and spread from 1 uild-
ing _to building with the most frightful ra-
| pidity. Two fire companies were telegraph=
ed:for from Williamsport, but, owing to the
occurrence of a fire there near about the
same time, they did not arrive till" late in
the forenoon, Scott's Hall, the Bank, the
« Clinton House” and tho Post-Office are
among the most prominent buildings de.
stroyed. The wind blew a perfect hurricane
all the time, thus neutsalizing all the efforts
of the citizens and lending a most appalling
grandeur to the scéne. < The:loss is estimated
at from three to four hunnred thousand. dol-
lars, a considerable portion of ‘which was
covered by insurance. The burnt district
now presents a mostsorrowful appearance.
The. fire in’ Williamsport on the same
mght, consumed a large ‘soap and candle
manufactory belonging to Taylor & Co.—
We believe no other damage was done.
aad abies
17 The Army of the Potomac” since
the remoyal of its great leader, Gen. Mc-
Clellan, hss done little or nothing. Gen.
Burnside; though an accomplished and gal-
lant officer, finds it not possible to accom-
plish impossibilities, and ere long, ‘we pre-
sume, he, too, will share the ‘fate of Me.
Clellan and Buell. The great hue and cry
against McClellan was raised ‘by the radi-
«als, ost: nsibly, on accourt of his slowness,
(though we Tanah privilege of attributing
it to an entirély different motive.) . We ask
our Abolition friends now, in all candor, to
tell us what has been accomplished by and
since that removal 2 From the tone of the
radical press, we were left to infer that it
was MeUlelian alone who stood in: the way
of a triumphal entry into Richmond, yet al-
most two months have rolled away since his
displacement and the army is still station
sry. "There isa screw loose somesshere and
the conviction involuntarily. forces itself up-
on the mind, that the Administration’ has
made a great mistake. . McClelian’s removal
was only another:of ‘that series.of egregious
blunders which haye'rendered this Adminis-
tration ridiculous in'the eyes of the world,
which have proven: it Hotoriously incom: |
petent to manage the affairs of the country
if this trying time-and which have paralyzed.
all the bravest efforts of the immense arm-
ies under its control. We believe’ General
Burnside is doing all in bis power. to strive
at great results, but the very. fact: taat he.
hag, a8 Ie ‘beers ‘unable’ to do” anything,
proves, beyond ull doubt, the utter;injustice
of Mcllelisa’s removal. We see! no hope
of anytting better, until the Administration
of allowing its Generals.te:
cots interference ; but we have no
- jeg that that line of polity will be adopted
as
ng as the Jreaen nincompoops in pow:
er, remain at Washington. In the mean-
time, we expect soon to hear of apother
Chare's green back paper should be depre-
njatice
change in the command of the * Army of
the Potomac.”
deal ot it spi.
adopts the policy of
work ‘out their owt pl without ‘dny of:
Se eT
The fol-
lowing is the Major's answer. [tis so falf
of butnor that we think he otight to be for.
was wounded al the battle of Shiloh, and”
now, as he gays, unable to do anything. —
The poctions'fiarked , qudtationel Bin
be recognized 8s extracts from the letter of
7 “Wxsr UsioN, Towa.
November 15. 1862.
: To the, Books "of the Democratic’ Watch-
{imanw—My Dear Bogks :—Not my Books
exactly, but the Books of those into whose
hands they have fell. "4
1 would say that I have been & reader “of
the Watchmayp from Vol, 6, No. 18 to Val. 7
No. 17, and most assuredly can’t find fault
certainly due you from me; ad it. is from: you
to somebody else. You ought to’ have. your
pay in order that you ‘can pay somebody
else, That's flat... : Fe
+ Of course; you don’t’ wish to force the
matter, at all, but ’tis as "tis ‘and it can’t be
an 'lis-er.” The ‘‘law"” prescribesthe rem-
edy, but [dont believe there is a big enough
fool,in Bellefonte to-undertake: to enforce the
civil law at this stage of the "game. -
I * meet you with a hearty response,”
but I can’t, for the life of me, see where the
$2 .50)s coming from. I-havn't gut it to my
name and what makeés it worse, - ‘neither has
any acquaintance of mine got ‘it-—that will
lend Rectan ui 4 otlardar aunty |
The fact is, Mr. “Books,” you must dis-
pense with me til ‘the + three-years-ar-du-
gon 4
ring-the-war-or-sooner-discharged™ is’ up. —
You. see; I've. been so/diering for a litile
more than a year and a-half and; conse-,
quently, ain’t very ¢*flush.”’« I got. my
«lfc stove up. at the little* squirmish” at
Shiloh and can’t do much any ‘more,’ wich
makes it very bad about: soldiering”’, just
abont this ‘ime, for it lays me on the shelf
« forever hereafter.” 1 fecl very bad about
it, but can’t cry, for ‘Taughing. * (Between
you and me; 1 wonder if that js’ t‘discour-
aging enlistmens.”’) © Coo
I would say, jast ta fill out this sheet;
my dear © Books,” {hat nearly everybody
has left here for the: war. but the Belléfont-
ers, and if one’ ‘mother's’ don’ of tiem has
gone, T°hdpe fo ga to=— Pisgah? + Nary’®
a one of them,” Tiicle Jimmy McMasters
talked about going, but. you 'kbow: if you
do know him (and you. must. know. him il
‘you know anybody) that his taikis a. good
; . oulgin hop orred
“Uncle ++ Jonny Irvin” is ‘still on earth
and 1 can’t sed but he's just as young as.
ever ; but if ‘he was young.enough tobe a
baby he wouldn't enlist, ‘for he thinks the
war is a ¢ bore.” “Jim'* woulda't go un-
less he's drafted, and’ then it'll be only. for
nine months, ‘which he thiuks preferable to
nine years or during'the ‘war. * Johnny,"
ho {we call him * bloat” here) bas no idea
= 5)
(Continued from fast Number. )
1f the Deity *cominitids - or approves of
scts and fruits whieh are wepe bio from
| our predecessors; to the Major. Iages, laying waste of fruitful provinces,
the letter : ae : EBiroying.- rodaetions of
x “4 (Por the Watehsian) § <1 «| art and science, retarding, civilization, pro-
encourages intemperance; theft, murder, vi
| olence. It'sows the seeds-of vice’ and im-
earth, and thus:multiplies moral and . phys-
ical'évils on the family of man.’ Strip the
custom of war of the fig-leaf covering; and
| forms of devotion, which traditional religion-
0 | ists have thrown around it—take away the
with'it ; although, at times, it has been a
« Jeetlc’* more *“ Democratic” than I have
oesn accustomed to. But I cant say that
have disliked it to any extent for ** a’ that,”
1 dont olame you for wishing to be ‘sget-
tled up,” for who, in" the ‘devil's’ name,
wouldn't wish to be, these war times, and
that as ‘“goon as possible 2”
‘L here isn'€ a partisle of doubt but what
you've been at great “indebtedness” for
* paper, ink, &c.,” a part of which I have
been the recipient of, and the ‘amount is
not approved War. |,
+ destruction,.
‘how made legal 1 Byis
ita instruments ? Men filling high: places.
“filling the office of President or Governor,
loved country heen the scene of carnage,
“of POLITICAL CORRUPTION. ‘Who ¢an
deny this? Whe; speaking the * trath, éan’
say ought else, and who.can dery the fact
that many misters iol;the gospel have been |
and are now deeply contaminated with this
mystery of “iniguity,”” POLITIOAL COR-
RUPTION 2. And, how compres thelcon-
duet of these teachers with the precepts and
brother may succeed in butchering brother:
suv." “Ndy; verilgmot. . Then said Jesus
13
place ; for all they that take the sword shall
| perish. with.the;sword,— Marr. xxV1, 52d,
+ Plat wars incompa ible with: the will
and ‘attributes of God, may ‘be proved by
the concurrent testimony of divine revela
tion—the scriptures of trath, and the ey-
denees of his goodness, derived from & car
ful view of external vatare:
_ By divine revelation, 1 mean an inward
senso or perception of the will of the Deity,
‘spoke or made known immediately ‘to the
86ul ; ‘the only uiiversal and infallible teach:
of going te. war at all, for he has registered | erof human duty, a distinct sense of intelli-
himself “alien”! and has already gought the gence, differing.from’ the. naturel got science
protection of the Norwegian Government.
Bill Houk, 1 think, would go if Horace
Greeley and the. Tribune, woula go, but not
without. - There are a great many wounded
soldiers coming back now, who: don,tqmte
coerce” With the Abolition “view of the
of man, and'as mmely superior: to : natural
Teds ad the réasan of man is superior to
the insling} of the lowest orders of the ani-
mal creation... LT ¥
; Leip rag ‘it=is called. * ‘the
| grace of ‘God ad brings safvation:‘and; hes
matter, and sensible mon begin to 100k be-{ appeared unt all me, teaching ‘he to de-
fore they Jump. ol ee
Hoping that yoa will hold-on awhile fer
the §2,50 and hot get mad at mo’ because 1
can’t pay just now, I remain your érippled
exDorg” of asoldier. La
"woh MAJOR JONES.
i BOB Bray
_ ¢¢ Stand by Burnside a8 you have stood
by me, and all will be well.” + .
We have read the speeches of kings and
emperors and commanders, . when. sudden
adversity overtoek them, ‘and. stripped of
power, they Were compelled to go into ‘ex
ile... For no man is sure of his ' sceptre or
his sword in this.uncertain world... ©
Bit we ever read'a épeech that, bears
ny alk ungodliness and, worldly lusts, to live
‘oberly; righteously, and godly in this pres.
ent world.” . Tt ig the «still small voice of
divine love,” speaking the langtibge this is
the way, walk init.” 4
| “While thé conscleios may become: defi
Jed,” perverted, “sealed as witha tiot iron.’’
through: the habitual abiise of man's free
agency. until it connives at the irregularities
of iuman conduct, even to the shedding’ of
'human-blood, and all the: evils * connected
with. the practice of war, this “still small
voice of divine love, has, in_ all, ages, and
{n all the stages of human progress, howev-
er diversified, spoken” the same: langusge,
and produced wherever it has been obeyed
the same effects. . It has faught’ mankind
impress of & nobler spirit; a “truer aman. &'‘in‘évery age, that the only course. of buman
better patriot and a greater.
gh , than
these few . worda. of . General. M'Clellah, | that in’ which men endeavor
He was Having the'srmy he had esiled into
being. Degraded'at the moment wher 8ac=| leads man out of the:spirit of - bh
from under the ihffuénce of malignant pass-
cess was hovering around his, triumphant
standard ; turned Lack froth the field where,
he was soon to redesm his:country and. res-
tore a shatter¢d goverdment #“guperossded | ==theseare the effects,
by a subordinate;
and ¢onipelled to make
over to him the donimand of, the victorious
legions who loved him.with devotion verg-
ing on idolatry, io “word of complaint
breaks from bis bleeding - noble ‘ beart, but
with a voice clear, steady, glorious | in its
tones, like the clearness that.calls to battle,
hie ‘says £°1% 15 ais ob abhpd, |
« Sand by Burnside as you have stood by
me, and sll willbe wll" °°
That gave the keynote to the army and
thefcountry. Every soldier stood by ;Bura-
side {every cilizen “stood by Burnside. —! fire or
For all the friends of M'Clellan are Kidhag nection with
conduct, which i& Kbasptable
| goodness and, perfe
ons, of |
don, It vedéends hie Sui the unbiidied in:
dulgensen of upgediess asd worlaly lus,
Sore, it es, - when
| obeyed with positive and undeviating cer
tainty, and 88 no éffect can be" produced
without sn-adequate cause, 80. it proves
with the clearness:of a al démonstra-
wars, and fightings Are impossible ; for it
and guidance of Divine love to bate
Qgsire 10 deitroy bis fellow-man.
~%, hou. shalt love fhe Le
with all thy wind soul and strength.” ig the
first and eat commandment; and incon.
tothe country, and while they do nat o © | thy id a . “Bontaibs, .adoor-
him less, they luve Lier more. ary
Hlergio man! He that ruleth “his own
and that greatoess is thine.
ite
vey.
Te
N.Y. Obert
od asl Gate avaln on lied
(0"a collation ‘at the. Government Contrs-
band Boarding House; in Washington, on
Thanksgiving dsy. Wonder how the poor
soldiers in the field fared on that day *!
spirit 18 greater than bo that taketh & eity,f gia. ‘Jesus rived
: IF Two thousand negroes were tréated
ding to thie testimony of the blessed Jesus;
he sibstanse-of sll the law and.the - Proph-
were God's coma)
| Whiey are justoas they.
the days of Jesus“Cbrist:i The Apostle John,
says: “ 1fsny man éay he ‘loves God
whom he bas not seen and bates bis brother
whom he bas seen, he is a liar, and the
truth is not in him,’ —shewing the utter
hibiting the spreading of christianity ; . war
morality broadcast among the nations of the
vail of false glory which deluded mortals
have attached “to it, and these'ars ‘its reah-
ties. , 1t is safe to suy, that’ unless Divine:
Goodness approves of these things, bo does
WALI war, Bit eget iodo of. death,
bloodshed, and murder, wd
inequity. . ‘Who are
“Study, O man, ‘whothou “arty” Remem-
ber. thou {hy destination. Go not dcwn to
the grave. with the blood of thousands fas:
tened to your garments, though you arenow
placed inthe Congress Hall or Senate Cham-
ber, you. are still but.man, and sooner or fa-
‘ter you a8 well‘as se; niust appear before
the *“JUDGDMENT BAR OF GOD; « What
consolation’ will 1K¢ honors of war be'to us
then; where true justice will be rendered to
‘all, without respeet to.any. . Think. ye not,
that the tears of widows or the cries of the
| orphans have fot dlrcady ‘gone ‘up against
-you.:. For over eighteen months has ‘our be-
bloodshed and murder, the legitimate fruit
examples of Jesus Christ, whose injunctions
sre directly opposed to all wars and fight-
ings *-, Ministers of the gospel, or profess-
ing: to be, standing in the pulpit preaching
and praying for-the success.of one portion
of the army over another," what does: such
preaching or praying imply ¥' Simply that
Ts itnjot soy: reader # Venly is it so.—
Pleading with the Godof «LOVE. to: aid
and assist in so-doing, Can authority for:
such teaching be found in" and among, the
precepts.and examples of him, who came to.
unto Péter, Put up again thy sword into its
impossibility of fulfilling the first command,
the in jolatifig she seven
1f he iid ions ‘Whe
and ht! he
TROESU | ME There}
r ar, Bit wh ceo’
‘panied with the ¢time of stealing ; robbery
and plunder form 8 pat of the system, and
are acknowledg
who actually grant licenses to men to com-
Bw ifemr bye ol
* THOU SHALT NOT KILL.” War is
IR Be Qu pr -_
pI nd bute
beings; which the nations. of the earth have
sanctioned, and by which they sim to. do
each other the greatest possible” injury.»
Thechjef business of war isto kill men,
women and children. It isa. low estimate
to say that'two millions of human beings
have been on an annual average, killed by
war during the last five thousand years.—
It is unreasonable and absurd to believe,
that this commandment is to be violated
with impunity by Divine authority, which
would be the case if wars was commanded
by. the Deity, or consistent with his will.
** God is love, and they that dwell in love
:{ dwell in God, and God dwelleth in them.”
“The visdom that cometh down ‘from sbove
is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and
easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good
fruits, without partiality and without hy-
pocrisy,” and by the teachings'thereof man-
kind never has been, and never can be, iu-
structed in the art of war, or led to practice
it’iu any ot its features. **God hath called
us to peace,” The kingdom of God is right-
eousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost."
* Live in peace, and :he:God of love and of
peace shall be with you." ' «Whosoever
| bateth his brother, is a_mardérer, and’ ye
now that no murderer hath ‘eternal life
abidiog in him.” . I might go on to fill pa-
ges with similar passages, taken. from .al-
‘most every scriptare writer, and thus bring
forward a+ cloud of witnesses,” whose tes-
timony should tend to . one, point, preving
thut these writers:believed tho Deity to bes
% (3od ‘of love and of p:ace,” and not a God
of hatred and of war, and that'it isonly ev-
ery *‘good and perfect gift,” that ‘cometh
down from the Father of lights, in whom
‘there is neither variableness nor shadow of
turning.” Its’ impossible’ for sny one
carefully to study eternal nature without
perceiving that the benevolence of the Crea-
extended dominions. The Universe with
all its multitudmous races of Beings with
which itis peopled, is manifestly under the
‘care of one .common Father, wko openeth
his hand and supplieth the wants : of every
living creature. Ho “ maketh his sun to
shine on the.evil and on the good, and seu:
deth rainon the unjust, as well as on the
just.” Fava 40
the Deity are unfolded to our finite under:
standings, they reveal a work of benevo-
Jence and Tove: All things sre made sub-
geryiefit {6°a | universal principle of order,
by which bappingss and enjoyment’ are in-
tended to be realized by every graduation
| of living existenges..- God has assigned to
every creature ite sphere in the creation,
and within the boundaries fixed for its de-
'velopment, he has placed the means of en-
joyment. . As:onestardiftereth from anoth-
| er star in glory, so do these ‘his creatures
{excel each other in’thb scale of intelligence
and being. Man was made for society, not
‘todo injury, but to do good.
4'to live in'continual hostility to his own flesh,
‘and Fegard bis fellow-man as his enemy.—
Such an intention on the part of the Crea
tor, would be destitute of benevolent design.
«God hath made of one blood, all the na-
'| tions of mon that dwell apon: the earth,”
he, bath sown in the heart of man the seeds
| of every, vittuous affliction. These be in-
tended should: produce, these acts of
veciproeal kindness and friendship which so
abundantly widen. the horizon of human en-
jogyments, The gift of reason, and that
still higher gift, emanation from the Divine
mind with Which man 18 endowed, furnishes
a sufficient proof of his elevation above the
beasts that perish, and bis creation for no-
ler pursuits, than to be the enemy and des-
troyer of his fellow men. :
Ea (70 BE CONTINUED.)
f
TH
a8,
The President's Message.
CRITICISMS OF THE ABOLITION PRESS.
+The fullowing extracts from the Abolition
journs edited by men of brain and _ pirit—
not mere toadies, like Forney and hi# vlass
‘—give agood idea of the opinion enter:
1 tion {
d to be consistent with : the
tor is manifest in every part -ofhis widely |
‘As far as thé intentions and purposes of
lle was not
than their contemptible
for the living. {
made to the departm
ww d , the reader ofthe mess:
would fot gles
the field and an army on the ocean.
that we had an 2 n
tis
strangely barren of every word or ides’ Goward mi
. vi Boat a word of commisers- The:
ave wounded and dead. or. si.
that could lead one to suppose that war
of thousands $ since the preceding message
was penned, or that the insurgents had ex-
'haus'ed th eir resources of blood and tre
as-
ure to overthrow the federal government,
lives and their money in noble, self-sacrifi-
ing. ‘efforts to sustain tha government under
the shock. No word of sympathy with the
past, or of cheer for the: furure. * * *We
The Bpringfleld Republican says:
Not a few will say that the President
seems almost wholy oblivious to the great
crisis that is upon the country, and the mo-
méntous necessity that rests’ upon the gov-
ernment; whije he is absorbed in his scheme
of compensated emancipation, the realiza-
tion of which is int he far oft future, if it is
to come at all. Others still will scout
plan altogather and declare it 8 wast
it'is so palpable to ey
war is the business of the hour, and that
ia-by war to the utter subjugation ‘of
his
of
time and energy: to censider it at all, while
everyone that earuest
it
the
slaveholders, that slavery is to be abolish-
ed, and not by the consent of the slavehold-
ers themselves.
The Oswego Commercial Times, forget-
ting that Lincoln's stump speeches were
not
written by him, and that his messages were
says:
We confess we are disappointed in
the
message. , Since he become President, Abra
ham Lincoln seems to have abandoned alto-
gether that forcible and eloquent style
which rendered his speeches famous.
We
Inok in vain for any such ringing sentences
as those contsined in his impromptu speech
at the Cooper Institute, prior to his nomina-
tion for the Presidency. The message is
plain, straight forward and rather heavy.—
He makes no appeal to the feelings, he louch-
es none of the finer emotions of the human
heart, he takes no effort to stir up ‘the pa-
‘txsotiem of the people to high and lofty
deeds. for Union and Liberty. Does the
evation of a man to the Presidency blot
el-
out
of his mind all the eloquence and poetry it
may have pr viously contained?
The Albany Statesman frankly condemns
the message as wholly unworthy the Exe- |
cutive who writes it, and the Congress
whom it is addressed :
to
“ We confess to a sad disappointment in
the perusal of the President's annual mes-
gage, We looked to it with profound inter-
est for a full and fair presentation. of
the
state of the country in view of its pending
troubles and impending perils, yet when
are looking for bread, we are given a stone.
Itis s great pity that Mr, Lincoln could
not discern the calls of his bleeding country
for plain, straightforward, energetic action
in suppressing the slaveholders’ rebellion—
adhering to the Uonsti-ution as it is, snd
simply availing himself of his determina.
tion to employ the slave in the service, if
his owner shall con inue in revolt at the end
of the prescribed period. He is honest
enough in all he says and purposes, ‘but
the
country is heartily sick of hearing of noth-
ing but his honesty. :
We hope now that the message is dehver-
ed, that Congress wall treat it with all prop
er consideration, but go to work to strength”
en the army of the Union, for its preserva-
tion, and to lighten the burthens of the
tion, by preserving it from any further im-
positions either in civil or military life
The whole loyal population are crying for a
termination of the war, by its suppression,
without compromise or temporization.
The
President and his Cabinet do not yet seem to |
be fully sensible of this cry. Will the pres-
ent Congress prove itself sufficiently: intelli-
gent and disinterested to prompt the Execu-
tive to a discharge of his duty? If it does
not, there is a “manifest destiny’’ for this
. 33
nation that only God can avert.
These quotations are exclusively from
ministration papers, and we regret that
cannot add an extract similar in spirit and
ad-
we
| of Gen. Scott.
4h Te
T
Organizing Taleut of Me-
Clellan.
ening Journal
urlow Weed, the
end of Sécretary
“He was ealled to Washington.
“at the urgent request
He was called by
the unanimous voice of the loyal
people. He found the Army of
Potomac. a. hideous mob.—He
found mutiny 1ife in the camp,
and insubordination the presiding
genius of the field. He found
Washington filled'with drunken
soldiers ; Colonels and Brigadier
Generals laying ‘dead drunk’ at
mid-day in hotel bar-room: , reg-
iment whose commanders had
nat visited them for days ; diseci-
line laughed to. scorn; riot and
‘lawlesness rampant all a long
our lines, le changed all this.
He brought order out of chaos.
Ile reinstated discipline.. He
cleaned Washington ef uniformed
sots that liad so long infested it.
He compelled incompetant offi
cers to resign. He compelled
Captans and Colonels and Briga-
diers to make their headquarters
with their commands, insted of at
Willard’s and the National. He
quelled the mutinies that threa- .
tened to destroy our army. He
checked the disorganizing and
demoralizing tendency that “had
caused such profound and genera
alarm through the country. He
converted a mob of w orse than
undisciplined svldiers—a rabble
degrade by defeat and unmanned
by panic—into what even Mr.
Russell, of the London T'smes, ix
compelled to call ‘one of the fi-
nest armies in the world.’
‘Without the organizing genius
of General McClellan, where"
would we be to-day?
What has been the reward of
General McClellan for this great -
service to the Umted States?
His retirement at Trenton an-
swers. :
GEN. HALLACK AND A DICTATOR.
The recent removal of General.
McClellan following so soon after
that of Buell, gives interest and
importance to the views of Major
General Nelson freely expressed
at Louisviil: a few days before
his death. Buell had not: then
arrived from Nashville, but it was
known that secret negotiations
were on foot for his removal. —
These movements Nelson denoun-
ced with his usual energy: In
one of his conversations with a
number of leading gentlemen, he
uttered the following remarkable
production : line
¢ Mark my words, gentlemen ;
I know Gen. Halleck thorough-
ly. He is unquestionablya man
| of great intellect, but heartless
and utterly . unscrupulous He
will tolerate no man in the army
who usurps the -affections of his
soldiers. His whole ‘energy is
bent upon making himself dicta-
tor. McClellan and Buell are in
his way, and he is looking for an
opportunity, -and. will seize it
honesty from a single administration pres | when it comes, to remove “and, it
in Pennsylvania.
The Abolition press of |
this State seems to be cursed with traculeut |
editors who seem to glory in nothing more
and Union.
servility.— Patriot
. rte eet ———
7A clergyman of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, writes. to the Harrisburg
Union, as follows . + If the Lord requires
aman to be an Abolitionist before a man
ta'theDeity, is |
5" Tmitate. the? istration party:
Maker. Web 0
ed, ‘and,
tion, that in the absence of those tempers:
xd gispheRtioif Whisk divine 14vs S3bdgE - us nothing of the progress of the war;
~wet something. should have been said. if riot
risiimponsible (or; msn tthe , inflaguee, for the information of our.own people, for
or sto
nl Davie
tained of the message by the mord intelli:
gent and independant portion of the admin-
3 a ow From the.N. Y. Evening Post.
Mr. Liricoln is not & rhetorician of the Ma-.
caulay school, who writes polistied Brittan-
{ aware sentences.” Neither is he a formal
logician, whose premises and conclusions
‘éarry cofiviction’ with:them “as: irresistibly
as a cannon ball carries death, His reason-
ings are not always rigid oor his illustra-
‘tions happy, ane his methods are any thing
but graceful. * * * Ttwill be a disap-
intment to the public that the President
can be a minister, I. am. certainly misin-
formed. I cannot preach a sincere gospel
and at the the sane time advocate & false
philanthrophy.” : A
—
‘GEN. BurnsmE.—A. correspon-
dent of the National Intelligencer
states that Gen. Burnside was
born in Liberty, Indiana, of Scot~
tish parents, his father being
something of the Davie Deans
school, but wanting its morose-
ness and sectarian bitterness. He
inherits much of the deep rooted
religious conviction, caniion and
determination so. eminently pe-
culiar to the « sons of Scotia. *
Lord “ty God, |
“Thou shalt love:
‘true now as they. were in.
| that of people abroad:
The N.:Y. Commercial Advertiser dwells
also upon | this cold-blooded indifference,
this apathy of sense and of consience in re-
gard to the Rervices and sacrifices of
war: , be
"In ‘one réapeot the message disappoints us
| and is indeed unsatisfactory. Tt is entirely
| ‘silent on the-domestic condition of th ¢ coun-
|e “Wxcept from incidental mention, . the
oo 3 n 5, A y true
the duys of Moses as they wire. on jen; .and:| render of the document would have no idea
«of. the mighty and exhausting confiiot
through which the country is passing, snd
which bas been s6 fruitful of events during
the past yéar. Our soldiers and sailors
with their generals and comwanding aoffi-
cers of every degree are passed over in to-
THE OLD FLAG FOREVER
Every American “Yoves_ and
venerates the Stars and Stripes,
‘and is ready to defend it a ginst all
foes, he they foreign or domestic.
This is his pride and he’ does not |
wish to’ see a negro painted on ils
field.— Holmes County Farmer.
oH i: Naw Tors BLeriofFor City
ed Comptroller; ‘Corp
je
possible, todisgrace. them both.
In these views Brigadier Gen-
eral Jackson expressed his entire
concurrence. Ten “days -after-
wards Nelson was assassinated.
Within three weeks-Jackson was
killed at Chaplin Hills, and with-
in six weeks'of the time of mak-
!ing the prediction, MeCleHan-and
“Buell were dismissed with’ contu-
mely:* Time will show whether
the dictatorship: is to be gttempt-
ed, and thus perfect the prohecy.
B&>They are telling a‘good
"story in Troy, New. York as fol-
“ows: «It was rumored: that a
gentleman known to be -a loyal
‘oitizen had a secession flag flying
from his house." Of course ' there
was a tremendous upror, and an
excated party started for the prem-
ices. Un reaching the house it
was found to be a lady's. balmo-
‘| ral that had’ been washed and
hung from a back: window to
dry. ‘The husband avowed his
| determination to stand-by that
flag as long-as he lived, and the
effervescent crowd exploded and
jppeared.: i -
# x0 Shue
x
ion Coun
VaRiEry oF Corors—Republis sel; and: for Alderman in nine
cans are usually black ; but Dem- | wan
ocrats, wherover you find them,
are ‘true blue.’
ards took place on Tuesday, and
! resulted as anticipated, in a com:
| plete Democratic trumph.