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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Friday Morning, Dec. 19, 1862.
77" Richmond ie not yet taken.
77” Who is going to present us a turkey
for Christmas ¥ Echo answers—*‘ Nobody,
I guess.”
tel Al Ape
(77 It is said that Burpside went forward
on a ‘‘double quick,” and backward on a
‘double quicker.”
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T= Gen. {McClellan's testimony in the
case of the court-martial of Gen. McDowell,
exonerates the latter entirely and places the
responsibility of McDowell's movements on
Lincoln and Stanton.
A
T= It you wish to support a white man's
peper, subscribe and pay for the Democrat-
ic Watchman. We give our readers almost
double the amount of reading matter that is
furnished by either of the other county pa-
pers’
77" The latess news from the army 1s
«all quiet about Frederickspurg’’ except
the pitifu! groans of the wounded and dy-
ing soldiers and rhecluttering of spades and
picks as the murdered Americans are cov-
ered with the *¢ clods of the valley.”*
ee LN
07 We cannot escape History.” So
says old Abe, and he speaks wruly, for the
history of his administration is written in
blood, and its effects are felt in every por-
tiun of the civilized world. No ; history
will point to himas the imbecile who de-
stroyed the best government the world ever
knew, and mark him down as the despot of
the nineteenth century. An infamous his-
tory will his Le to hand down to rising gen-
(rations, and ke can NOT escape it until the
power is given him to bring to life the hun-
dreds of thousands of citiz: ns thathis insane
pohly has murdered.
§27°01d Abe acknowledges in his tness-
age that “slaves,” are *‘Property,” and
advises the people of the North, to pur-
chase and pay for them, Now if we Juy
an article, ave we not a rfzht to use it to
our own advantage, and fr surown benefit ?
If so, those wishing an interest in black
skins, and woolly heads had betier be
thinking over the kind that will suit
them best. We'll take a young -‘buek’
provided he is sound, in hide, hair, and
limb, full blooded and obedient. Abram or
his agents can’t stick a crippled vp bogus
one uponus at the price he has fixed no way
at all. Our taxes for 1863, will just pay
for one.
GBB een
A Great Institution,
We passed over the Bald Eagle Railroad
ihe o her day, and came to the conclusjon
that if a person was in a hurcy he had bet-
ter walk. However, it should not be con-
demned until it has a fair trial. The pas-
senger train, with a single cxception, we
believe, hae been very regular in its trips
since placed upon the road, notwithstand-
ing the many difficulties that are to be con-
tenaed with along the route where buildings
are going up and track is being laid. One
thing is certain we have passed over Some
of the oldest railroads in the United States,
and in point of ease and comfort, the Bald
Eagle Railroad will compare with any of
them. There are seme employed along this
line that might be more accommodating. —-
‘The track will be finished to Unionville by
to-morrow.
ee ly A Brrr ee
Hon. Thos. A. Scott and the Penna.
Rail Road.
This extensive line of Rail Road, leading
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, under the
efficient management of Hon, Thomas A,
Scott, has become one of the wonders of the
age.
With all our high idees of the progressive
spirit of mankind in general we, while pass.
ing over this magpificent road and witness-
ing the amount of travel, the immense quan-
tity of treight, &ec., that passes and re-pass-
es from east to west and from west to east,
with lightning speed, can not help but be as-
tonished at the peifect system and harmoni-
ous working of the vast machinery employed
upon this road as a means of transportation
and travel.
From ten to fifteen trains pass each way
daily, at astonishing speed, and yet the
whole 1s so well arranged that scarcely an
accident has ever occurred of a serious na-
ture to either freight or passenger trains.—
One thing is certain, that while to all rail-
road travel, acccidents are incidental, it can
be said of this road that it has had fewer
accidents in proportion to its business, than
any road in the United States,
Everything is so well managed and ar-
ranged, that the vast machinery works as
regularly as a’clock. There are some two
hundred locomotives daily employed in tran-
sporting freight and passenger trains, and in
shifting freight in and about the various de-
pots. The hands that are employed must
count by thousands, as a careful watch is
always kept all along the road, in order
that accidents pe prevented, while their va-
rious machine shops swarm with toiling hun-
dreds. :
1t is really astonishing, the amount of bu-
“siness that i8 done on this road, and the per-
fect order and system with which all is con-
ducted. Thomas A, Scott is truly a remark-
able man, as all this complicated business
is done under his direction, and his brain
directs and controls it all.
RT
| hundreds of thousands of kiusmen sick,
a" No Party. ’
=
There are still left a few fanatical fools
controlling newspapers. who contiaue to
harp atour “dropping political discussions
until “a peace isconguered.” It was thus
that the Abolitionists attempted to stifle the
voice and darken the minds “of the .people
before the last elec ion, but what they ex-
pect to gain by it now, we cannot imagine.
Had we listened to the cry of no politics |
in war times” raised one year ago by the
tlack-backed villains who, by bribery and
corruption had succeeded in obtairing im-
por ant posi ions in the civil and military
departments of the Government, where or
what would we be to-day ? We know that
our situation as citizens of a Republic is |
bad enough now, and all must feel that had |
the discussion of public policy been entirely |
abandoned; and the people continued, as at’
the beginning of the war, to howl empty |
praises to Abram the I, and echo, with an in- |
famous gusto, his tyrannical orders for law- |
Jess arrests and false imprisonments, our
condition to-day would have becn ten-fold
worse than it is; the iron doors of North- |
ern Bastiles would yet be barred and their |
dismal vaults gorged with suffering victims, |
whose only sin was opposition to despotism |
and unwarrarsed assumption of power; |
tyranny, unrelenting tyranny, would yet be |
stalking unmolested, untrammeled over ovr |
broad land, crushing out our rights dnd |
trampling upon our liberties. Justice |
woul] be buried in the graye wich our Con- |
stitution and Abolitionisi would reign tri- |
umphant. Thank God! the peopie, honest !
#nd intelligent, cannot be] frightened into |
gubmission nor made to acquiesce in the bell- !
ish designs of those in power, upon the in- |
stitutions of onr ccuntry. No! their lips
cannot te licked nor their tongues tied en-
tirely. Freedom is too precious to give it |
up without a-struggle. and Rigur too dear |
o be robbed of without resistance. The |
remembrance of the bloody fields of the
Revo'ution, with the blessings they purch-|
ased, is 190 sacred to be forgotten. and that |
old love of liberty, which burned within the |
breas's of cur forefatters, still exists in the '
hearts of (heir descendants and will cause |
them to speak out in defence of American
freedom. ** No discussions in war times’
will be spurned by the honest masses, and
those in power will be compelled to come
back tmeards the old landmarks which vain
ambition and bigoted opinions have caused
them to desert.
Let us once cease to criticise and discuss
the policy of our servants, and we will wake
up to find our free institutions gone and a
despotism es‘ablished in their place. Let
us give way butlonce to those who “wonld
override cvery principle of Justice. as the
cowardly wretches who advise us to remain
silent, would have us do, and woe betide us
unhappy people, nothing but blood would
give us back that which can now be pre-
served by a litile courage and unflinching
determination. Nothing but scenes which
the soil of America has not yet witnesvod
would secure the rizh's which are now ours
and which should be preserved at all haz-
ards and under all circumstances.
If political discussions are to be shunned
until we of the North ¢ conquer a peace,”
there is a very good chance of remaiuing si-
lent on questions of national policy, unti]
the Day of Judgment ; for we do not believe
there is a sensible man in the North, after
the experience we have had at coercion, that
will pretend to think weare able to {** con-
quer a peace” or restore the Union ' y force
of arms. For our part, we have never be-
lieved one portion of our country able to
conquer an~ther at home, and the masses of
the pedple, we are happy to see, are begin-
ning to awaken from the delusion into which
they had fallen one year ago and to compre-
Lend this great trath. They sce, they know
and they feel that battles, bloody, bloody
battles, have been fought and yet nothing
has been gained—that treasure has beel
poured forth with lavish bands and willing
hearts, and homes robbed of their brightest
jewels to carry on the war, yet they look in
vain for the blessed fruits they were told
would spring from the awful sacrifice. They
stand and gaze upon fields of slaughtered
Americans and ask, what has this accom-
plished ¢ They look with sorrow upun the
wounded and dying, and wonder what good
has resulted from this? They listen with
aching hearts and tearful eyes to the pitiful
wails of widows and orphans, and then in-
quire, ** are we any nearer the goal 2" They
see poverty and distress staring in the face
millions of human beings who, two yearS
ago, were happy, prosperous and contented,
and ask, ** has all this misery been brought
about and we no better off than at. the be-
ginning?” * Yes!” the desolate hearth-
stones and newly-made graves reply, and
the suffering soldier, far from home, an-
swers in tears, ¢ tis so.”
1s it not time, then, that we stop 2 Isit
not time that these things cease ? Compare
our situation to-day with what it was one
year ago, and then answer. Tell us, if you
are still for war, what you expect to accom-
plish, and when? Tell us wha! you have
gained in the last twelve months, and how
many more twelve months will it take to
bring about sthe desired object 2 Tell us
how many lives you will sacrifice—how
much money you will squander —how much
Jove for the Union you will beat into the en-
emy 2 Tell ug these things before you “ask
us to support a vigorous’ prosecution’ of
the wath: "V7 F : (AW 30 av
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Hoy, Luter HANcarrr, member of Con-
gress from Wisconsin, died a few days since
of brain feaver. He was a Republican, and
was re-elected at the late election.
eesti ein
(= Humprey Marshall ought to have a
change of base. [Klis present one is too ex-
tensive,—Prenls ce.
mal A OP Om et
7Pleasant—T0o have three or four loaf
ers intrude themselves into your sanctum
about tee time you get ina mood to write-
items. —E. X.
James T. Hale.
‘We would ask of the readers of the |
| Watchman, a careful perusal of the resolu
» | tions published on the outside ‘of to-day’s|
i
| the 5th ins:,, by the Hon. C. L. Vallanding-
| ham. Hon. James T. Hale, conservative (?)
| member from this district, voted with the
I. Abolitionists to table them, which is the
sare considering their large majority in the
‘House over the ‘Pemocrats, as voting against
them. From this vote alona, all oan
that his prin
ny professions of repentance he made just
betore the last election, are as black as ever.
He has shown beyond doubt, thaihe' ss op-
posed *‘to the Consti.ution as itis and the
Union as it was’ —is opposed to having the
war a war for the restoration of the Union
and the preservation of the Constiwution—
has shown that he is in favor of destroying
the established institutions of the States and
impairing’ their dignity, equality and rights
—has shown that he is in favor of extin.
guishing States and establishing Territorial
government in their stead—that he is in fa-
vor of dic atorship and the suspension of
the Constitutional authorities of the Union.
We have watched him closely since the
opening of the present session, and have yet
to see the first conservative vote. On the
question of the admission of West Virginia
as a State, he stood to the back of Thadeus
Stevens, Owen Lovejoy, and others of the
same 11k, voting for its admission, in open
violation of the Constitution, which says :
sce
les, notwithsta
nding the ma-
« New States may be admitted by the |
Corrgress into the Union ; BUT NO NEW STATE
SHALL BE FORMED OR ERECTED WITHIN THE
JURISDICTION OF ANY OTHER STATE.”
How the Honorable member will excuse
himself for this infamously wicked vote, we
know not. In our estimation, actions of
this kind look cons:derably like perjury—
for he, with the balance of the representa-
tives in Congress, have registered an oath
to support the Constitution which they have
thus so palpably violated.
All over this Congressional District, are
letters written and signed by himself—de-
claring that he “is in favor of the Un-
ion as it was and the Constitution as our fa-
thers gave it to us.” How, in the name of
high heaven, does he expect to have the Un-
ion as it was, when by his own act, he 13
rendering it an impossibility, Will it be
the old Union, with Virginia, the mother of
Presidents, mutilated into little petty States
with different and conflicting governments ?
No. ;
Not satistied with violating his oath, not
content with deceiving the people, he pans
ders to the despots and votes to indemnify
Abram Lincoln and all others for their ille-
gal acts and usurpalions, thus robbing the
peaceful citizen of the only remedy by which
he can obtain justice. Democrats of Centre
county— of the 18th Congressional District
—this is the man yon were pursuaded to
support—made to believe would act as be-
come an American citizen who loved his
country—this is the man yon were told hed
repented of his past sing, and was only
waiting to prove bis sincerity. How have
you been deceived ¢ how basely betrayed?
Lt is not right that the masses of the Demo
cratic party should be held responsible for his
election. I{isthe men that defeated the
nomination of a Democratic candidate in or-
der to bring Hale out, that should be look-
cd to—they knew what he was, and mney
deceived the people. Let them be marked.
‘In the meantime, James T. Hale should
be remembered —he should not be forgotten,
Through meely-mouthed appeals and hygo-
critical pretensions, he won the affections
and confidence of an honest, intellicent and
patriotic people, and at the first opportuni-
ty deceives and betrays them. A meaner
or more contemptible politician—a blacker-
hearted abolitionist, or a more degraded hy
pocrite. we do not believe can be found.
eC Aree pees
The First of January.
A few days—a few days,
And we'll camp wid de Norderners ;
A few days—a fow days,
An’-dis nigga will be free
Raise your heads and shout alond—sing
hosannas to Abram, ye who consider a dar-
key ‘a man anda brother.” The procla-
matjon’s issued, and the 1st of January will
soon be here. Then will be the dawning of
a new millennium, and Abram the I will be
enshrouded in a blaze of glory. Peans of
praise will goup to him from every buck
nigger in the land and a ‘sweet scent and
savory smell” will be the free-will offering
of the lovely wenches. O Abram! Abram!
but thy position will be an enviable one !—
None, heretofore, have reached the pinnacle
of greatness that thy towering intellect has
carried thee to! Moses and the Prophets
and the rest of mankind will have to take a
back seat! Yea! henceforth and foreyer
will the light of thy mind so dazzle the
earth that men will see nothing but black
spots and wool.
It MAY, perhaps, be a supposable case,
that ALL the “ men and brethren” in the
South will not receive the benefit of
Abram’s proclamation. 1t might be that
some of those ‘* hot-headed” Southerners
would hang on to their miggers even after
the first of January, and then what’s to be
done in that case? Issue another procla-
mation, we suppose, or send Pope or Fre-
mont or Banks or somebody else after them.
We don’t know, but kind of imagine that
proclamations will drive President Davis
and his Cabinet)out of Richmond just abeut
as soon as they will give freedom to the
niggers within, the lines of the Confederate
army. “If “slavery” isn’t‘ busted up” by
the first day of January, we shouldn’t won-
der to see old Abram
———————& weep add bewail
Like a dog with a tin kettle tied to his tail.”
20D ill.
7 We have sometimes thought that the
opposing armies were like to rival lovers on
a visit at the same-time to their sweetheart
—trying to outsit each other.—Preutice
07 Let this war be carried on, upon our
side humanely. Let us-not forget that our
enemies are human beings, though they often:
seem to forget it themselves. Prentice.
Congressional.
& session. thus far, shows a prevalence
‘of radical feeling and a determination on
the parc of the Abelitio ists to carry every-
| paper, which were presented in Congress on |4hing their own way. All motions for in-
vestigations into frauds, peculations and
usurpations are tabled immediately by the
radical majority. ‘'I'here is but one conso-
lation to the people of this country, and
that is that the present Congress will go
completely disgust the masses of our voters
with the principles of Abdlitionism, that
they v hem in shame so deeply that
Gabriel will not resurrect
the trump of
them.
On the 1st inst, Mr. Cox offered a Reso-
lution condemning the arbitrary arrests of
peaceable citizens throughout the North, as
unwarranted by the Constitution and laws
of the United States, and as a usurpation
of power not given up by the people to their
rulers, and securing to these ar. ested a prompt
and public trial. Defeated by a strictly par-
ty vote, the Democrats voting in favor ot it.
On the same day Mr. Richurdson offered a
Resolution of Inquiry, wishing to know how
many persons had been arrested in the
State of Ilinois, where they were confined,
what were the charges and upon what aa-
thority they were imprisoned. Defeated by
a party vote, _the Abolitionists voting
against it, .
1n the Senate, on the 2nd inst., Mr. Davis
reported a bill recommending a National
Convention to settle the war. It was voted
down immediately by the Abolitionists.
Let the bill be passed and the people elect
their cwn delegates to such a Convention
and our difficulties could be settled henoe-
ably, in thirty days.
Mr. Saulsbury offered a Resolution inquir-
ing into the cause of the arrests of Citizens
of Delaware and by whose orders they were
imprisoned. Tabled immediately by the
Abulitioniststs.
On the 6th inst., Mr. Vallandigham offer-
ed the Resclutions published in full on the
outside of to-day’s paper. They were voted
down by a strictly party vote, the Demo-
crats voting for them.
On the 9th inst., Mr, Stevens reported a
bill of indemnity, legalizing the unconstitu-
tional acts of old Abe and others, in caus-
ing unjust imprisonments, suspending the
wiit of Habeas Corpus, &c. A very candid
admission, by the way, that he has broken
his pledges and violated his oath, After
considerable debate, the bill was passed, the
Democrats voting against it. We suppose
that Abram will now stand purified and re-
fined in the cyes of the Adminis tration par-
ty. That they have the power to wash the
stains from his soul or exculpate the perjar-
ed official, is something that but precious
few will believe. If we are not mistaken,
it will take more than a resolution cf Con-
gress to clear the old culprit. On the same
day Brown, of Virginia, presented the peti-
tion of persons claiming to be residents of
the Western portion of the State of Virgin-
ia, desiring the admission of a few counties,
as a separate State, into the Union. A bill
was pregented to the same elect, Which, ar-
ter a Qebate of two days, was finally pass-
ed, and on the 11 h dy of December, 1862.
+ West virginia’’ was admiited as a State
by an Abolition majority, The Democrats
voted in opposition to this unconstitutional
proceeding, What the necessity was for
rive authority to erect a new State within
the jurisdiction of an old one, we know
not, §
Ou the 12th inst,, Mr, Yeaman offered a
Resolution declaring that the President's
Proclamation of September 22ud is unware
ranted by the Constitution and that the pol-
icy of emancipation, as indicated wm that
Proclamation, is not caleulated to hasten
the restoration of peace, was not well ¢ hos-
en ag a war measure and is_an assumption
of power dangerous to the rights of giti-
zens and to the perpetuity of a free people.
Voted down by the Abolitionists; the Dem-
ocrats voting for its passage.
Mr. Holman offered a Resolution increas-
ing the pay of private soldiers and reducing
that of officers not in actual service, It
was adopted almost unanimously. Mr,
Richardson offered an amendment requiring
the pay of each private and non-commis-
sioned officer in actual service, to be paid in
gold and silver. Voted dowa by the Abo-
litionists.
viding for the raising and equipping of
100,000 negroes, to serve in the army for
seven years. It was laid over for further
consideration.
A great many other bills, most of which
are for the benefit of negroes and abolition
contractors, haye passed the House.
member from this District, James T. Hale,
has either ** skulked” or voted with the Ab-
olitionists every time. Conway, of Kan-
sas introduced a bill to restore peace by a
recognition of the Southern Confederacy. It
was voted down.
Newspapers.
The publishers of the religious newspa-
pers of New York and Boston held a mee-
ting recently and adopted resolutions reev
commending that the price of the papers
should be raised or the size reduced on the
1st of January next ; that notices of marri-
ges, deaths, obituarias, and societies, should
be paid for as advertisements; and that
«the laws of the last session of Congress,
Jeyying a heavy tax on the malerials of our
business, and on the .adyertisments and
finally on the income of the publisher, is
peculiary oppressive upon newspapers, the
circulation of whic ought to ‘be stime
ulated and . not burtailed during the
war.” ;
The New York Tribune, T?me Post. and
Herald have raised their subscription prices
and the Albany papers have réduced their
size. Papers all over the country are eith-
er increastng the price or reducing the size
of their sheets, and all‘papers must do go in
order to hive. = It.is the high price of white
paper that renders this necessary , the
heavy taxes te which they are Subjected,
burdensom and nnjusgas’ they, eould: be
borne, if the paper could Be had:at the for-
mer price. But the price. of paper has
vearly doubled in the last two months, and
is likely to go up higher still:
the admission, or from what source they de- |
Hickman, the renegade, offered a bill pro-’
The
Prepared expressly for the Watcaman.]
0 Man, Who Art Thou?
OR
REFLECTIONS ON PEACK AND WAR.
BY JUSTICE.
en
(Continued from last Number.)
The advocates of war, aiteiipt to prove
its Divine authority by the Scriptural sc.
count of the wars of the ancient Jews —
They appeal to the Bible to prove that the
Divine Being once lent his sanction to, the
custom of war, and actually commanded the
Isrealites to carry on a bloody and extermi-
nating warfare against the natives of Ca-
naan. Hence they arrive at the conclusion
that as the Deity once sanctioned war,
there is nothing inconsistent in believing
that he may sanction it stil, They do not
however appear ‘o consider that the Jews
did many things which it would not be prop-
er for Christians to imitate. If their con-
duct is to be a rule for us, we ought to fol-
low them in the rite of circumcision—we
should perform their sacrifices, and keep
their feasts. We may not only justify war
by their conduct, but many other evil prac-
tices also. They claimed Divine authority
to destroy the natives of Canaan, to cut off
one of their own tribes, and in certain ca-
ses, to stone their childrec to death. How
far they had such authority, we can only
judge by what we know of the Divine na-
ture. If God 1s good, and justice mercy
and love are his attributes, if in theoutward
and spiritual creation he has given us mani-
fold demonstrations of his benevolence, and
if he is ucchangeable, the same yesterday
to-day, and forever, then we know he could
never have given a command to any peo-
ple to commit such acts of cruelty as these.
If wars and fightings, cruelty and revenge
are inconsistent with the willof the Deity
now, they ever have been, and ever will
be.
This appeal to the scriptures to support
tho custom of war, greatly diminishes their
usefulness to mankind, because they can
only be valuable so far as they give en-
couragement to godliness, to the cultivation
of virtuous and benevolent feelings, and to
just views of the being and attributes of
God. To endeavor to prevent the scriptures
{rom being used as authority for the indul-
gence of evil and revengeful passions, is not
to call in question either the authenticity of
the history, or the sincerity with which the
writers of them recorded their views of the
commands of Deity, or the duties of man,
The Jews no doubt thought they were do-
ing God service in destroying the Canaan:
ites, and persuaded themselves to believe
that Jehovah led them onto battle. But as
thousands of people, from that day to this
have fallen into the same fatal error, 1s it
not. well for us to inquire how far the an-
cient Jews were liable to be swayed in their
apprehensions of duty, by the force of their
prejudices, and how far the circumstances
by which they were surrounded. tended to
modify their opinions. It is of the utmost
importance, before we make their opinions
or oractices our ruie.of action, that we ex-
amine them by the light of truth, furnished
to our own minds by the illamination of
which alone, we shall be able rightly to es-
timate what has oeen said by others con-
cerning the nature and commands of God.—
1f that whieh is written be at variance with
that which is revealed by the icternal con-
victions of right, it is doing violence to the
Spirit any longer to cling to the letter.—
The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth
life,” It is because the scriptures are read
under the influences of education and a su-
perstitious devotion to the letter, that they
are quoted as authority for perpetrating this
afflicting and desolating scourge from age to
age. #icha
The false and forzed construction of their
meaving, and the mistaken inferences that
aro drawn from a perusal of their pages,
pave the falsehood and error. Experience
has abundlantly shown that as the mists of
prejudice superstition and ignorance subside
and Divine light and truth and knowledge
prevail, the views which mankind have en-
‘tertained of the meaning of scripture, have
undergone great and radical changes. 4
few centuries ago the doctrine: that the
earth was the immortal centre of the uni-
verse, was 80 firmly believed, that whoever
dared to assert a dtfferent opinion, did it at
the peril of his life. A false theory of the
universe was ignorantly adopted, and the
attempt was made to. reconcile the appear-
ances of nature with the letter of sorip-
ture. i
The learned Spigleus, Bishop of Upsal in
Sweden, suffered martyrdom at the stake
for assisting the doctrine of the antipodes,
The celebrated philosopher Galileo, was
confined in a dungeon on account of his
opinions being at variance with what was
supposed to be the meaning of the Bible, the
doctrine that he taught, and which is now
fully believed by every one acquainted with
the subject, pronounced bya board of
cardinals to be ¢ unsound in: philosophy,
beriticical 1n religion, and contrary lo the
Scriptures.” * Thus we see, that as clearer
views of the laws and operations of pature
haye gradually developed, errors in science
have been exposed which had long been de-
fended beeause of their supposed agreement
with the letter of Scripture ; so in the pro-
gress of light and knowledge, aad of clearer
and purer views of the divine nature, may
we not hope that human opinion will be
changed, till the idea that God” ever sanc-
tioned or commanded war. will ro longer
thought to be in harmony ‘with his benevo-
lence or with the spirit of the Bible.
The persuasion that the Deity commands
and sanctions war, is by no means pecu-
liar to the Jews. , As the nations of antiqui-
ty deluded themselves with the idea’ that
their Gods were either inviting them to war
with its uttendant atroicities,’ rapines and
murders, or taking an active part on one
side or the other. In this réspect modern
nations are scarcely advanced beyond them,
and they will thus coutinue to degrade: the |
attributes of the Oréator so- long as: they
are taught to believe that the Deity ever
directed any people to murder and destroy
professing christianity.
their fellows. Under this false pretext of
Abiviee commission the most shocking
barbarities have been committed, by nations
e A striking cxam-
ple of this is to be seen in those military
expeditions®f tue christians of Europe
for the deliverance of Palestine from the do-
minion of the Saracens and Turks. Iufin-
ended by ‘religious enthusiasm, amounting
to fandticism, and blindly devoted to the
letter of the Scriptures, it was believed
that the thousand years mentioned ‘in the
20th chapter of Revelations was ‘fulfilled,
that Christ would soon make his second
appearance in Judeah to judge the world.
The country was at this time in possesion
of the heathens, and the same grave reasons
were urged for their extirpation, which had
led the Jews to destroy the inhabifanits ‘of
Canaan. 1t was considered an indignity
offered to the christian name, to allow Jeru-
salem to remain in the hands of the infi-
dels, When Peter the hermit and Pope
Urban the second addressed the vast multi-
tude assembled at the councils of Placentia,
and Clermont, urging them to enlist in the
pious undertaking, it is said the whole mul-
titude vehemently declared for war, and ex-
claiming, “It is the will of God, It is the
will of God,” solemnly devoted themselves
to perform a service, wuich they no doubt
believed to be highly meritorious in the
divine sight. Under the pretented or fan-
cied commission the crusaders hurried for-
ward to Jerusalem.—all classes of men,
from the king to the beggar, enlisted in the
enterprise, and in a little while seven hun-
dred thousand men prepared for war, were
collected on the plains of Asia, on the very
land where Jesus had told a zealous disci-
ple, “put up tky sword with its sheath,
for they who take the sword shall perish by
the sword.” With their banner and the
cross hoisted on one of the principal emi-
nences ef Antioch, they commenced the
butchering of the sleeping inhabitants—
‘men, women and children were indiscrim-
jnately massacred, and on this single night
10,000 human beings perished. When
these furious fanatics took the city of Jeru-
salem, there was also a general massacre of
the inhabitants, yet after they had glutted
themselves with blood and carnage, they
immediately became devout pilgrims, and
in religious transports ran barefooted
through the streets to visit the holy sepul-
chere. In these wild and extravagant ex-
peditions, undertaken under the delusion
that it was the will of God, six millions of
human beings perished.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Army News.
The news from the army this week, is
anyth'ng bat cheering to those who have re-
lations of friends connected with it. Many
a heart will be made to bleed over the re-
ports of the doings of the “Army of the Po-
tomac,” and many a home will be made
desolate by the actions at Fredericksburg.
General Burnside has been whipped, badly
wipped, and if we are to judge from the
list of killed and wounded, the defeat is
worse than that of Bull Run or Balls Bluff.
The particulars of the fight tan be told in a
short space.
Burnside shel.ed the city on Thursday
night, and on Friday morning crossed (he
Rappahannock with his forces ia the face of
a light infantry fire. During the balance of
day, he kept “driving them back’ towards
their entrenchments, and laying his plans to
surround and capture their whole army.--
On Saturday morning, he stormed their
works at the point of the bayonet but was
repulsed. Storied them again, and met
the same fate. Rested over Sunday, then
trying it again, succeeded in capturing a
few guns, but got info a position from which
he had to retreat, and was then driven back
across the river. ;
The killed and wounded are to be num-
bered by thousands. There were regiments
that went into the battle mine hundred
strong, and came out with less than seventy
men, Officers were shot down by the score.
They scemed to be a special matk for the
confederate sharp shooters.
Thus has another attempt to take Rich-
mond failed, and another defeat proven the
folly of carrying on the war. , Will our ral-
ers never get their eyes opened enough to
see that American citizens were not born to
be conquered—that the people of the North
are not able to coerce the people of the South
that a war of this kind will not restore
peace ?
The news from the West is not of much
importance. Morgan, the indomitable Guer-
rilla, continues his raids, capturing horses,
transportation trains &c. He has been
making some large hauls during the past
week, and from the amounts taken by him
and Stuart, and others in the service, we
have coma to the conclusion that the people
of the North are not only feeding, clothing,
and paying their own men, but are doing
the principle part of bearing the ‘‘burdens
of the war” for the Southerners.
We discover that the men, self elected to
the bogus Legislature at Wheeling, are in
session, and have passed resolutions re-
questing one of their Senators, (Mr. Caz-
LISLE) to resign, because he is a Democrat-
and therefore opposed to an impudent vio,
lation of the United States Constitution, by
admitting Wheeling and some of the terri-
tory of Western Virginia, into the Union as
a new State. A more palpable violation of
the letter of the United States Constitution
could not be performed or a more danger-
ous one. Will the Republicans add this
new crime to the long catalogue on. recerd
against them ?—Crisis.
_“Deplorable Outrage.
A letter from Memphis infomes us that
Father Feelis an estimable priest of Tenn-
essee, returning from saying Mass on the
rout from Nashville to Chatenooga, was ac-
costed by ruffians calling themselves sol
diers, and, not satisfying their inquiries,
was thrown down, and shot through the
body, At last accounts it thought he would
die. Such are some of ine fiuits of this
horrible civil war.—Freemaus Journal.
r——— AAA.
The postage stamps area very unpop-
ular currenty. Every body svems to havea
lick at them,
‘| ment worth sustaining.
Judge Gould ‘on Illegal Arrests.
The following letter 10 President Lincoln
is from the pen of Judge Gould of the Supe-
rior Court of New York. It needsno com-
#
ment.
New Yorg, Nov. 14. 18062.
To His Excellency Abraham Lincoln, Presi-
dent of th: United States.
Sir : On my arrival to this city, from © y
residence in Troy, N. Y., I find that a cou-
sin of mine, G. Colden Tracy. a broker of
this city, has been, firs: arested and sent fo
Fort Lafayette ; and secondly. to-day taken
as a prisoner t6 Washington. The news=
papers say—and as far as I can learn by
all inquiries that the cause of the arrest is
some dealings he has bad in contractors’
drafts on Governments officers for moneys ;
and, it is said. some frauds were commit-
ted, in or by the drafts, and he is charged
with com; li‘ity therewith.
if this Le so, itis a crime cognizable by
the courts, and only by the courts: AndI
am amazed at the fatuity of public officers,
who take no warning from the distinctly ut-
tered voice of free people. :
i am and always have been, an unwave-
ring enemy of this rebellion—(cursed in its
origan, most accursed progress—(and sup-
porter of the Administration. I am Judge
of the highest court of this State, And if
no honest voice has yet reached the ears of
our Government I wishto say, anl to be
heard in saying, that Star Chamber process
aud Secretary’s warrants are dangerous
instruments to play with, and that among
us, the true, staunch supporters of the Gov-
ernment, who would crush treason with the
iron heel, but who know the law, are com-
pelled to hang their heads in silence at the
mention of cases which have occurred in our
midst.
Spies are hardly cautionedwhen they are
where they cau do infinite harm ; but a pow-
erful hand and an oppressive one 1s laid on
a person here, who is not in a position for
doing misehief, if he would, and who is sup-
posed to have no friends.
In this respect. I thank God, there has
been a mistake. [It is true that he is a youug
man, of not such means or influence , itis
also true that he has a young wife(married
not long since) and for no assigned cause,
and for no assignable cause, that those in
power dare to give breath to, he is taken
away from home without giving to his
wife an instant’s interview or a chance to
gea him. Is this country the France of a
century ago ?
The young man is the grandson of that
Uria Tracy who lived and died a Senator
of the United States from Connecticut, who
was the first man buried in the Uongres-
sional burying ground at Washintgon, and
whose ashes are insulted oy this atrocious
invasion of the liberties of the people in the
person of his decendant
I am not speaking merely my own opin
jon of such arrests. I know the opinions
and the feelings of many of my brethern of
the bench. And if the Government is really
desirous of so proceeding as to make it our
duty to make public our opinions, they
will be heard, not merely in the writ of ha-
beas corpus, but in open déciaration to tlie
world. .
lad 1 been a few hours earlier made
aware of this case, I should have not troub-
led you with a word ; but I would have seen
that the process of the Supreme Court of
this State, wag execated as to protect its
citizens accused of such offences from any
arrest, other than cone under the appropate
process of the courts. = f
I beg again to assure you, in all sincerity
that this Lind of proceeding has gone to
‘far already, and, that, while to the last of
our men and our means we are yeady and
determined to “and {1 v-
eraments in en
whole land as mi
termined to be fudged by 0
by the Secretary or any one who is not com-
missioned for that purpose. We know and
acknowledge the rules of war, where the
necessity of the case requires the existence
of mortal law. But we know also the
common law of liberty, and the broad, great
charter of the constitution.
I write warmly, zealously, because I
cannot bear to think of our cherished gov-
ernment’s taking any course to injure its-
self; at a time too, when our only hope of
| escaping the eternal disgrace and humilia-
tion of letting the cau @ of human 1 berty, .
perish in our hands is to sustain the gov-
ernment of this Union, and to haveit a gov-
With great res-'
pect, yours, &c.,
Grorge GouLv.
so
A Negro Army.
John Hickman’s bitl, presented “by him
in Congress lsst week provides for 100 re-
giments of negroes to be raised. in order to
suppress treason, rebellion insurrection and
for other purposes. The field officers are to
have double pay over those of the Regular
Army. }
A regiment, by army regulation, cousists
of 1,000 men. There is a Major, Lieut.
Col. and Col. to each regiment: ‘A brigade
consists usually of four or five regiments;
which are commanded by a Brigadier Gen-
eral. An army corps consists usually of
not less than 20,000 men, commanded by &
Major General. So that for war and other
parposes, there would be an army of 100;-
000 negroes, officered by 100 Majors, 100
Lieut. Colonels, 100 Colonels, 20 Brigadier
Generals, and 5 Major Generals—all no-
groes.
Their pay by Hickman’s bill would stand
thus:
White Major, pay yearly, $1,800
Negro Major, ce $3,600
White Lieut. Col. pay yearly, $2,000
Negro Lieut. Col. ~ ** 4) $4,000
White Colonel, pay yearly, $2.500
Negro Colonel ~~ ¢¢ . $5,000
White Brig, Gen. pay yearly $4,000
Negro Brig. Gen. -* ke $3.00
ite Maj. Gen. pay yearl $6,00
) pay yearly, 212000
Negro Maj. Gen. « t
i
Miritary Mos AT St. PauL. —The peopla
of St. Paul have been treated to a practizal
demonstration of military outrages and
open violation of law and order which natu-
tally arise fren the evil example set by the
Abolitionists.. It appears that one day lagt
week, four companies of the Third Minnes-
ota Regiments were paid off when the funds
failing, , the Paymaster was compeled to
close his office. Immediately the members
of the six unpaid companies disbanded and
started upon the rampage. They took
boots, shoes,bats, caps, gloves, mittens and
brooms by the dozen, and broxe into pri,
vate residences all over the city. ‘Lhe po-
lice were unable to restPain them, and als
though at last accounts they had quicted
down, tkey were still in a state of rebelliger
| against military and civil war
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