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Fridey Morning, May 15, 1865.
Eu ae EEE SS
What Has Been Accomplished}
Well another bat te has been fought, ar
ther field filled with the mangled forms of
American citizens—another ocean of blood,
poured forth on American goil-—more wives
made widows— more homes desolated—more
children made fatherless,-—more parents
childless— more hearthstoncs darkened, —
more serrvw-—want, migery, suffering, debt,
‘desolation ni death, inenrred. and, the end
is not yet, Well may we gze with aching
hearts, and wonder why these things must
be, well may we ack how long they wust
eontinne? Where 18 the family in Centre
county thet has not been robbed of one «¢
1a Lrightest jews?! mhere isthe person that
ae not lost a friend ora brother in this hor-
riéwar! Who ia there that har not wept
for the migery meted out to ur, once; tap
py citizens of n peaceful, prosperous coum:
vy? Turmin what way we will, distrue.
tion stares us in ths ace, listen. to. what
sound we please the wails of widows and
eries of crphans mingle their pi iful tones
among them. yr
And row, when two years of our couniri:s
history, has been written in blood, when
the poliey. of cotreion has been tried until |
the cup of our suftering is full to overflow
ing. when by experienes we have learned
Jessons that statesmen could not i mpress
npon our memories, let us agk what has it
all accomplished 1 Is our union any nesrer
restored to-day-than it waa when the first
army was called out 1 has the blovd of the
brave myn shed at Big Beth el, Bulls
Run, Balls Bluft, James Island, Fort Donel
sn, Shiloh, Fredericksburg, Charleston
and an hundred other places cemented one
Siate to the Nosth 3 Ilas the bands that
cover the frightfal wounds of { en's whe sre
‘dying iy ns@seous hospi'als bound togeth-
«r the d wmembered fragments of our dissey-
ered Union ¢ 1las balls and bayonets fore-
ed the people of the South to lgve and cher-
sh us a8 brothers i. Hus violated right,
enormous ‘axation and 8 public debt of
Theussnds of millions of dollars added to
our happiness and prosperity as a people ?—
Let the past with its biiter memerics and
the present with it blighted hopes ans.
wer.
OF those who are laboring (hst the Union®
may be restored, we would ask, what hope
18 there (or cur government or the people if
this war is prolong-d ; how much nearer are
we the goal than at the begining? can it not
be settled peacebly, honorably and justly to
Loth sections, without the shedding of blood
or the murder of more men ; have we not
tried coercien and has it not failed ¥ eed
not then the clamor of those who would try
it still further.
When the imberiles that are now hurry-
ng us on Lo degtruction—when the loud
mouth brawlers who stand in the saloons, on
{he corners of the rireets, in offices and pul-
pits, and bellow, blood ! blood ! when the
eontractors aad scampe who are beeoming
rich by robtang the people, and officers who
drink government liquors and receive enor-
mous wages are driven into the battlefield
and nade to share the dangers, endure the
hardships, taught by experierice the horrible
ora. lies of war, and learned to fec for those
who suffer from its effects we can listen for
them to cry “peace! peace!” until that
time they will labor garnestly, zealously,
for a contimfation for this war caring not
how meny masacres take place, or how
much misery surrouncs them.
That eight millions of freemen canbe con-
quered on their own doorsteps, we never
have believed —that the Southern States can
be compelled to waite wild us §0 88, to es-
tablish justice, Jsavedomestic tranquility,
provide: for- the common defence, promote’
the general welfare and secure the blessings
of Liberiy o ourselves and our posterity, by.
batehering their inhabitants and destroying
their propery, by making their brightest
valleys desolate -#astes, and their loves:
spots charnal houses, none but bigoted fools
will assert, Coercion wiil not secure the af
fections of Lie people, and withou: themj.a
anion would-be but a mockery, an unholy”
farce played by wicked and degraded men.
Those who have read of the downfall of oth-
er Governments which existed Lefore ours
‘had birth, knew well how it was accom-
plished, and the truthful historian will right-
fully record the overthrow of this the great-
est sud grandest Republic, to the men that
advocates force 88 the only weans of pre.
gerving the Union.
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g7 11 Old Abe ie the Government, 88
the abolitionists continually tell us he is,
18 not the young Lincelns young Govern.
ments? And will some of the patriols
sbout Bellefonte te!! tis how deny more
Governments we may expect; sul whit ihe
swe nurses” bills witl: be ¥ ‘A Wesutiful
sight tn see a nigger wench spank one of
«our Governments 1 Poor things?
; enn
7 The “Union League,” of this place
is growing “small by-deghees and beautiful:
ily less.” 1f.mombers keep fwithdrawing
‘hoeror on the scenes enacted by these ty-
‘tolerated, then let us indulge no longer in
Arrest of Hon 0. L. Paliandigham.
Our readers. mre all aware of the: arrest
and imprisonment of that Patriot Statesman,
the Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, and have
doubtless read of the doings of the mob
which assembled, 1t is said, to take him from
the hands of the minions of despotism, v ho
were dragging him from home and friends 1»
the dead houss of night. The intention of
the citizens of Dayton, to prevent the arrest
of Mr. Vallandigham, in the arbitrary man-
ner in which it was done, is highly commen-
dable, and will reccive the commendation of
all lovers of the Linw, iyil Liberty 30
but id at yo Sl ota na the hoard to which the most prejudiced man
E gy : | could object, Nevertheless the remarks of
sort i io |
Ny In ¥e 370 ON. they 28 bo veh we -the drunken fool created a crowd, which, not
gs imply p B them: | \ ing aware of the nature of the dispatch,
wyens yet i the | went on increasing, until a vast concourse
seunse snd deprecate. The renders of the had assembled and the affair assumed a most
Warconas Yaw. Gb threatening aspect, bidding fair to end in a
at we dave always con. blooay snd most unmerciful riot. Mn of
demoed and Teprybated Wubs and mob vio: |p, epinions were there, and while come were
lence, and even in this instance, exasperated determined to tear tLe office down, others
a8 the people were, at the wutrage inflicted were cqually determined to prevent it. The
upon them, through the instrumentality of esalt would have been, had the aflair went
that filthy Aboliten sheet, the Dayton Jour- | 0 ns ac of he most bloudy and dis
nal me ui) fot $y jt won jushiflats, ‘Thay | graceful scenes ever witnessed in the city of
they had a »ight te shoot down themiscreants | £0 bor 4) hin point, however Alsv:
who were setting the cocrts at defiance, and Pubadephia. st SMA Pon; oy
outrag'ng personal lib rty when seizing Mr.
Vallandigham, we honestly believe, but their
love for their neighbors and friends was no
excuse for the destruction of property.—
The Journal like most of the Abolition pa-
pers. have, since the commencement of our
trout les, advocated mobs and mob laws ; ic
has now tasted the fruits of its own tcach-
ing. Let others of the kind take warning.
Mr. Vallandigham, nor his friends, would
have oftired no resistence to his arrest by
due process of law. lle has tol] them time
and again, that if he was guiity cf treason
under the Constitution, he wae at all times
ready to be tried according to that instru-
ment, But they disregarded all law, usages
of law, in thisarrest. No charges were pre-
ferred ; he was not told for what crime he
was dragged, in the dead hour of night, from
his family and his friends.
The seizure of Mr. Vallandigham is but
snather act 1 the drama of despotism, that
has been playing upon our country’s stage
for (he past two ycars—Lut another step
towards the gual of a tyrants ambition—but
a repetition of scenes which we had hoped
were no longer to be viewed—but another
page 1a the history of eur fallen coun ry—
bat one leaf more in the récord of the pres-
ont Reign of Terror, which we hope will ere
long slose. France was held in terror for
almost two years, and all Europe geazed with
Another Attempt toBapprass the Pree
dom of the Press. ., =~
“Ed Tinithy 3
Inst Friday we witnessea the gathering
and disgraceful proceedings of the mob
which assembled in front of the office of the
Age. that evening to-teer it dowsrand throw
itinto the street. There was no ocauée,
whatever for the demonstration, #3eept_the
remarks of 8 drunken man, who tore down
a dispatch which had been placed oa the
This. we may say, was simply a drunken
man’s lie, as there was nothing whatever on
or Henry appeared upon the scene and ad-
dressed the crowd, exhorting them to retire
peaceably and saying that individual rights
snust and should be protected. The Mayor
then stationed a strong police force around
the office and in the vicinity, ani the row-
dies, seeing that the faithfull protector of
the city’s rights was well prepared for them
and not liking the looks of those who were
determined to defend the Age. gradually be-
gan to sneak away, and at about seven
o'clock in the evening. the crowd had be-
come pretty well thinned out. It may be
well to say that the drunken fool who crea-
ted all the disturbance was severely hand-
led by some friends of law and erder, and
was finally arrested and sent to the station
house. Several other arrests were wade.
This demonstration shows how ’small a
trifle it takes lo excite men’s passions, and
how insecure Jife and property Lave become
under the present’ administration of affairs.
Thanks are due to Mayor Henry for his
promptitude of action, and we will say for
him, that althouzh a republican, he appears
to be a conscientous one.
ell llr EA
Fernando Wood on Peacs.
It will be recollected that, some wecka
since, Ex-Mayor Wood, of New York, in a
letter or speech, said that It was within
his personal knowledge that a proposition
had been made from Richmond, on the 12th
of Decemiber,to Lincoln, which, if accepted by
him, would bave led to peace 2nd a satisfac
tory settlement to the Nor:h and South Fi
and that © he had been requested by a high
officer of the United States not to make
known the fact until the injunction of se-
crecy was removed !” On this ¢ Observer,”
a correspondent of the Richmond - Engusrer
remarks © A
« The inference would be, that the Presi-
dent of the Confederste States had directly
or indirectly submitted such propositions. —
But I cannot and will not do him the injus-
tice to suppose, for one moment that he
would have been 80 craven as either to have
made or received any such degrading propo-
aition. The question is, who has made en
effort to stullify ana disgrace the Southern
people? It appears some has, and, it would
rants, who, at length atoned for their crimes
on the scaflo!d and block, and who can say
that the Jacebins, now controling the affairs
of our Government, do not deserve the fate
of Robespierre, Danton and Marat.
What right, we ask, had the bloody bald
head, whose imbecility has made lus tracks
slippery with the blood of his fellow coux-
trymen, ever since the beginning of this ter-
rible war, to send a pack of dirty dogs to
drag from his home, without warrant or
cause, one of the best and bravest men in
the North! what right, we ask, has brain.
less Burnsides, or any other shoulder strap-
ped fool, to order the arrest of a citizen ina
State, when the couris are dpen and have
full sway 2 Do not the laws of our country
make provisons for the pumshment of all ob some one who claims to speak for us
crime ? If so, why was not Nr. Vallandig- | 5S Uessrs. Editors, this is & subject which
ham arrested acpording to law? The fact | g ould not be per mitted to rest where it now
is, he had committed no crime, he had but | does. tis calculated te do us much harm
dared to exercise the 1ight of a freeman, | at home and abroad ; and 1 do hope the
rights, for which the fic1ds of the Revolution Bons vi 90) ain hsm ng
were reddened with the blood of our fore-
aver the person may be who has submitted
fathers, and righ's for which our blood may | the proposition, will, I presume, at present
yet have to redden other fields. remain a secret, but, when known, will be
In times like these it does not become pa- closely watched and marked.’
itrots to remain silent—cowards may fear to
speak, but brave men should talk, when
License is granted to popular passion, and
faction run riot and ani establish power by
brute force—when Constitutions and 'aws
aro trampled under foot, and the most sacred
rights of individuals crushed out. Mr. Val-
landigham, right, true and gallant as he is
loved as he has ever been, and tallented as
his course has shown him to be, is nothing
more, under the circumstances, than the
bumblest citizen. The priciples rises above
the person, and no true democrat will con-
sider for 3 mement, who is the subject of
these arbitrary proceedings, but will fly at
once to tha rescue of the fundamental prin-
cinles of our liberty. If free diszuasion, the
atmosphere in which they live. is not to be
The Enquirer replies to its correspon-
“dent as follows :
¢ Observer’ —Do yon not know Fernando
Wood well enough to know that what he
says is always to be taken with many grams
of allowance? Whether any one ever made
such s communication to Wood we cannot
say ; but that no ene was qualtied to wake
any such statement ou behalf ot the coun-
try is apparent to every ome: It would be
the worst of folly for the President, or any
one else, to undertake to contradict al the
statements muce by the venal and corrupt
politicians of New York city. Hither Mr.
Wood has heen egregiously sold by some
wag. or. in theanze.of New York politics
such a falsehood having become useful, it
has been made * to order and warrented to
suit.”
We lave no doubt but ** Observer” is a
contractor in the Confederate Army, and.
fike the Richmond Inguirer, has particulsr
reasons for wishiag the war to custinue.—
Like hundreds of men in the North, they
care not how many men are murdered —how
inuch money squandered —how many wives
widowed—how many homes made ‘desolate,
so that they can 8il their msaliste waws
with the blood of innocent wea, and gorge
their pockets out of the public, treasuries, —
We have said befors and we say again, that
the feelings of the massesin the South, can
not be judged br the tone of their sensation
Journals any more than san those of the
North, by such papers as the New York
Tribune, Philadelphia Press, Harrisburg
Telegraph &e. Our duty as patriots, is to
labor for peace, regardless of the ravings of
fools, or fanatics, and that this end may be
accomplished we ask every honest man in
«old Centre—in the Keystone State” to
raise hig voice in opposition to comtinuance
of this wicked, suicidal war.
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7 Miss Dickenson, who is just now
creating quite a stir in abolition circles
by her petticoat polities, would do much
more honor to herself and to her sex, to be-
come an apprentice to the wash tub, or
make application through the Hew York
Herald for a situation £8 ‘‘wet nurse.”
We shou]d’nt wonder a bit, *<if in the
course of human events,” she should take
to ruicing darkies for herseil.
the mockery of a ballot-box. Democrats !
Law loving —law abiding citizens ! we must
vindicate these sacred principles, if needs
be, with our own blood,.or take not the glo-
rious name of liberty upon our cowardly
lips. Mr. Vallandigham’s case may be ours
to-morrow, then who 1s safe ! when is the
surety, that We, as citizena of Pennsylvania
will not te dragged from our homes, and
;mmured in the loathesome cells uf pestilece
breeding dungeans ! where is the security
the Constitution guarantees us in our per-
sons, papurs and effec 2 Can we have it
under such brutes as Burnsides ? Will those
in authority see that we are protected from
such pery tyrants? No! On what power
then can we rely ! Let your own hearts an-
swer. f
. tn Ae
7” We should like some one who is
better booked up in “matters and things
generally” than ourselves, to tell us how a
pereon can support this war, furnish men
and money snd cry on, on, to the President
end his advisers aud not be 8 practical abo-
litionist. To talk about stopping the war,
while means are furnished to prosecute it,
is the most absurd folly, and to ssyit is for
the “Union,” is telling a plain snd palpa-
ble tie.
rr peel
Ler Democrats cheer up, the prospeers
from it, as they "have for the past week or
wo, it will soon not muster a corporar’s |
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guard. Od Contortions or the file of id
tlemen whe say it ie pot a political organi-|
,zatioa, canaotinduce hones: meu Lo patron |
nas it.
jee
for a complete victory at the State election
were never better than at present. Green-
hnees, Contracts and Usurpations cannot
prevent the triumph of Deme racy this fall.
Let the honest terse ‘ald eutre not be
Ms, Palmer, of Concord, N. H,, whose.
office was mobbed by the Abolitionists in
1861, is about starting u new paper, entitled
the Democratic Sentipel. Suceess attend
1 derful,
The Dospitism: in. the Wobt: °
fl ———— = LE
All over hie Wipe ‘the Administration
seems to be graduaily weaving its network of
despotism. Its Provost Marshals are becon-
ing more numerous than {he locusts of Egypt
and they annoy and barrass the people even
worse. In Missouri every «ne of these mili-
tary understrappers is a despot, before
whom tho whole Cightsirhdod myst bow. —
He dispenses law, religioc aed morals for
the entire population. He regulates their
food, their newspapers and all their rela-
tions of life. There lica Lefure US now an
bulletin board swearing it was (reason. | order of ono of these small potato despots in
t
which he declares that The Caucasian, the
Cincinnati Engraver, the Chicago Times and
Medery's Criss shall not circulate ‘inthe
dominions of his sugust majesty, comprising
the county of Monroe. These ure all demo-
cratic papers in favor of the Constitution
and desiring the restoration of the Union, if
it be possible. They are not, however, In
favor of war which has rendered and still
renders the attainment of either impossitle
Therefore, these hirelings, to do the dirty
work of a base Administration, let loose
their spite upon every cons itutionul jour-
fal. The pretense of military authority is
ihe cover of these despotic acts ; but there
is a day of reckoning coming for these trait-
ors to every principle of free institutions,
‘when this excuse will be swept from them,
and they will stand forth in their true coless
before a people whose rights they have
trampled upon and whose just hatred they
have so richly earned*
Slowly, and by degrees, it is evident that
the Bourbons st Washington ate trying lo
extend the same despotic sway over the yet
free States of fows, lllinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Wisconsin. Gen. burnside signaled
bis advent in Ohio by issuing the most ty-
rannical order of any of Mr. Lincolu’s sa-
traps, and hig ebbalterns have followed it
up in very conceivable form of outrage
and “oppression. We real that one man.
under (ien. Burnside's order, has been sen-
terced to four months imprisonment at hard
labor, for simply expressing his sympathy
for the gallant men of the South now strug-
gling to beas back the vile policy of Aboli-
tionism which threatens to make another
Hayti of their fair fields, and to deluge
their lovely plains with another San Domin-
go butchery. It will soon be criminal to
think, according to the policy now attem ted
to be carried out in the West. The sale of
arms has been prohibited, as If the right of
the people to have and to bear arms were
not written in the Constitution in letters of
light, It is, however, pretty’ evident that
the West do not intend to submit to these
illegal, unconstitutional and despotic pro-
ceedings. The powers that be, at Wash-
ing:on, hope, by dint of terrific orders and
all sorts of annoying and harrassing perse-
cutivns, to intimidate and brow beat tke
people, and carry the State election this
fall. They know that the Great West is
overwhelmingly agsinst their abolition war
policy, and uniess they can bolster it up by
terror, or bribery, or corruption, they aro
lost irretrievably.
Hence these. gunpowder fulminations, |
hence these high sounding orders and these
spasmodic instances of tyranny, They do
not venture to attempt then in a State
where there is a Democratic Governor, but
where the people are defenculess, they pour
upon their heads all the visls of wrath
which Abolition hate and fury can com-
mand.
But they will fall short of their intended
object. No future event is written in more
legible characters on the dial of time, thao
the overthrow of the pres=nt abolition ad-
ministration. It is trying not only to de-
stroy the Constitution -of our country, but
to reverse the order of msture. It must
fail. Let the people keep good courage,
stand by their rights and defy the despots,
and all will yet be well. —Caucasian.
et A eee
Now York Bread Thrown int) the Mud.
Se
Our readers will recollect what & disgust-
ing picture of pulstital béuevolence New
Yorkers presentéd, a short time since, in sen-
ding food to England, when hundreds of:
needy people ia our own country were in
want. We observe that George F. Trainal-
ludes to a fict, which we have seen publish.
ed in only one paper— vis: that the opera-
Lives of Manchester, England, felt so nsul-
ted ot the shaw display of benevolence we
made of ourselves, that they actually mob-
bed the persons who undertook to distribute
the bread. he fact has been sarpressed
in all our papers, but it appeared some
time since in the columns the Jhiladel-
phia Ingniver, {a a letter from its London
correspondent, as follows:
«I am sorry to see that an unpleasant demen-
gtration was made at .Manchestor, reosntly, oon-
cerning which itis wellthat you ziwuld have fall
particulars. It appears that a mosting of the
operatives had been eslled for that day, and it
was announced that the Rev. ©. W. Dennison,
chaplain of the Gearge Griswold would be pres:
ent. But the Zavaten of the wooting also en-
nounotd that on the occasion “fiiteen thousand
loaves of bread would be distributed, compased
of the flour brought by the (George Griswold, sud
representing the number: of ‘barrels of the staf
of lifa that composed ber pargo. When tho hour
of the meeting arrived, instead of a vary anxious
and grateful “assehlage of mien, women en
children. there wasuniy an excited snd infuriated
mob. L may sparoyn 2 the details, but the e
was, fifteen thousand loaves of bread, each one
wegihing two pounds amd 8 half, thus represent.
ing somo one hundred and Aft barrels of flour, |
were taken from the pans and throwa into the
mu’, where it waatrampled under foot. The mob
pelted each other with the convenient missles snd
a scene of exoitement and confusion ensued, bet.
ter imagised than described. Of course, the
mesting. ug such, was: broken up, and the day
terminated in this. disgraceful row. These ap-
pear to be the faets, for which I have zo. com:
went.” st
No wonder thst the toadying abolition
journals of this city did not give this news
te their readers. We have a higher opion-
10n of English laborers now than ever be-
fore, and should have had a still higher
opinien of English people if they bad refus-
ed to let the vessel Jand, Charity that
comes kindly and unobtrusively is not to be
despised, but that sart that comes taunting-
ly ostentatrously is an insult. Laboriag
men do not desire to be, treated as paupera
by a set of jackassical shoddy aristocrats,
who have grown rich by stealing, These
men of Mauchester desired work, not char-
ity, and they knew that the want of South-
ern cotton was the regson why they could
not get work. Worst ef ail, this beneyo-
lence came from a set of Abolitionists who
had brought all their snffering upon them,
and who now pattonisingly ssid, t¢ Seo how
great and rich we are! e can whip the
South with one hand, and feed all the pau.
pers in England with the other.” But Man.
chester saw another: sight. -The sham be-
nevolence was rejected, and the 15,000 loaves
of good Ameriaan bread were kicked in the
mud, and usedby thy mob as foot balls.—
Just think of that, ag the end of your dona-
tions, ye Stewarts, and Ohittendens, and
Laws. — Caucasian.
17 It is rumored that' Seward will soon
resign his plpce as Secretary of State, and
join the * Swiss Bell Riugers.” in 8 series of
mus ical entertainments. Wh gRill is won=
My Lord,” said les “1 can touch
‘a hell ‘on my right hand, and order the ar-
vest of a citizen in Ohio. [can touch the
bell again and order the imprisonment of 8
citizen in New York; and no power on earth
but that of the ints ‘cg release them
} him,
‘What We Think About it.
After zongeslment becsme no longer possi-
ble the publicis petmitied to know that Gen.
Hooker's Avmy hag ‘bendefeated. Thus the
sixth ‘chmpaign' sialitigt Rie} mond, bas fail.
ed, sud Hooiger adds one mora. to. the list of
gallant soldiers who -have made’ dnd ‘lost
their reputation in thig gruel RAN Doubt,
less the friends-of te driddecedsrint’ candi
date for victory may pot be wanting in
plenty of reasons why he did not succeed, as
has been the case with the friends of each
and every other leader who went before
him, for reasonsare as thick es leaves in
Vallambrosa, in the history of military fail.
ures.
The French historians can tell exastly
why Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo,
but all thelr methods of ratiocination could
never explain away the fact of defeat. In
like manner the fact stands palpably upon
record that the several campaigns against
Richmond, under the leadership of Scott and
McDowell, McClcllan, Fremont and Banks ;
Pope, Burnside, sad st last Hooker, have
failed, The reasons why Beauregard John-
ston and Lee, have been more successful
thap the eight soldiers above mentioned, are
watters of apeculation among critics, bat
their conclusions in no manner reverse the
results. The rebel generals are just as lia-
ble to be defeated as our own, and they may
be. In our opinion. the success of this or
that general affords no just ground for the
belief that, by marching over bleeding fath-
ers, mangled sons, orphaned children, and
weeping widows, we shall find, amid ruin-
ed homes, devasted fields, and smoking vil-
lage, a road to reconciliation and reunion,
The whole policy of subjugation is wrong,
and utterly consistent with the spirit of
Awerican Liberty, oy id
It is not wrong becsse Democratic gener-
v
duct it, as the New York World teach the
people. but, because it subverts the very
foundations —the fundamental principles
upon which the Union was built and upon
the argument of the kizgs, and should ne-
ver be introduced into a Federated Repub-
lic to compose the differences between its
members,
The Constitution of the United States the
Bill of Rights and the Declaration of the en-
daring principles of the 4th of July, 1776,
were not intended to bs mere words— mere
parchment bonds to be kicked and cuffed
around at the behest of power. They were to
remain as a beacon to all posterity, that here
upou this Continent of America, in. the land
of liberity, the ideaof a government built
upon fear, favor or force, was forever aban-
doned, The States which created the Feder-
al Govergment did not intend to create a
monster. in order thit they might ba rwal-
lowed by it. They did not want a strong
government, for they had struggled for sev-
en years againat orie that had made the fa-
tal error, that force could e¢onquer the aftec-
tions of the people. The mother country
bad not oppressed them. for they would nog
admit their right to do it. Tn the language
of Webster, they ‘‘went to war for an idea,
and fought seven years against a preamble.
It is in this light we look upon the policy
coercion.” We mourn for the brave desd ;
we sympathize with the maimed living
and the weeping families around us,
but we weep for the fatal error of Abra-
bam Lincoln and his advisers, who urge
on this conflict by teaching the people that
there is no other way to reumon, except
through blood, Those who beleive with us
are not disloyal to the United States, nor to
the brave soldiers of the Union who lie un-
buried on the Banks of the Rappahannock.
We honor them for their memory,and mourn
for their death,
We desire to avert this foarful slaughter.
Wo believe tha there is another road to ve-
conciliation than through the valley of death
It was not that wo loved our section less, but
the Union more, that we opposed war asa
remedy. We beliovad in the prophetic lan
guage of Abrabant Lincoln, uttered before
the multitude assembled to witness his inau-
guratjon, that ‘‘you may fight, and fight.and
after much fighting and utter exhaustion on
oth sides, the identicalterms upon which
a | we differ will bave. to be setiled by com pro-
mise.” The hand of power may be used
to suppress (he freedom of speech, but
neither the President ot the United States
nor the Czar of all the Russias can. con-
trol the freedom of thought as long as life
remains.
Our opponents msy shower approbri ng
epithets upon our heads —they may aesail
our motives and misrepresent our position’
but that will not satisfy the minds of the
people. They will inquire for the trauth,and
sooner or later will become conviaced that a
Government built upon force is a Despotism
and that the Administration must adopt an-
other policy, or else not only ihe glorious
Union, but that which is inestimately of mor
ever — Evening Journal Philad:
To CORRESPONDENTS, — or
“To Mys. 3% 9% 8% on the Death of
Minnie,” will be published if the author
will furnish her real name. ~
«The Past” has been received, read -and
pear next week. :
“8. 8."—~Wa insert no candidates name
for less than three dollars, snd the money’
must eccompany the notice.
++ Thebes." It such a thing has happen-’
or it may not, nothing 1a surprising ‘now.
a-days.’’. 3
“Widow."—We have not yet received
a full list of k'lled and wounded of. the
148th 1n the late fight. God knows, it will
be large enpugh, but pangs larger one, will
be made if fio eiffel 'watiiagantinued.
«Mollie R., Bare did per-
fectly right, and should Rayg dono so long
go. Sych o man shoyld bp branded as a
coward gud drummed put of society.
The news from the drwy Fanuol be reli-
Can the guéén vf Buglamd, tn her dominions
do as much.~~FEx.*" ,
ed upon.
als and Democratic politicians do. net -con- :
which it can only be restored. War is
value, even our Libertics, will be fost for-
placed on fle for publication. It will ap.
ed, we know, nothing about, it may be so, |
The Murder of Democrats in Kansas.
city has gone radical republican. It hag
heretofore deed democratic.— Telegraphic
dispatch. Cle
‘This dispatch’ indicates that there has
‘been a change of public feeling in Leavan-
‘worth. We propcse to, show the causes of
¢ A féw days since, a U, S., Sefiator from
that State. Yugeted 5 ie that it
was customary iil Kans (S o hunt Dempic is’
as game, shobting them with as lift]
punction oftonsciincs as Fiioy wnt 20p-
perheads’’ in reality, instead of “name.—
Many supposed the Senator exaggerated the
facts in the'case ; that he represented ng a
general practice: what were only oceasional
incidents, Ne stated the simple trath,~-
* only that and nothing more.”
D. R. Anthony, the Postmaster and Mayor
elect of Leavenworth, in 1860 murdered the
editor of the Leavenworth Herald (Mr, Sat
urlee,) because he had published an article
exposing and denouncing Anthony's .¢¢ jay-
hawking,” a term applied .in that Stafe to
those that commit murder, and robbery in
organized bands. Soon afier the murder he
was appomted Postmaster of that city by
President Lincoln, and about the same time
received a commission as Lieutenant Coloyel
in Jennison's regiment, in which capacity
he continued the pleasant avocation of jay-
hawking, (for the sake of the Union,) con-
fident that the murder of one editor would
secure him against exposure and denuncis.
tion by others. [He resigned his commission
8s Lieutenant Colonel during the past sum-
mer, and returnd to Leavenworth, declared’
his intention of becoming a candidate for the
‘Magorality at the next municipal election,
and his convietion that he would be sucoess-
ful. This was a somewhat singular boast |
| for an unpopular citizen to- make in a city
that had:always been eariied by his politi-
eal oppuuents. Subsequent events prove
Yow well ho was justified in making it:
Early in Eebruary a call was published
for a Democratic meeting. “After the meet-
ing was organized, he interrupted its pro-
ceedings with a hundred or'more of his arm-
ed jayhawkere, The democrats, in conse-
quence of the excitement, adjourned the
{ miceting for ao week. The object of the
meeting was to unite the democratic party
in that city ‘upon a conservative platform;
The chairmaii of the meeting was District
Attorney, anid a supporter_of Mr. Lincoln,
though disapproving the proclamation.
After the adjontnment of the democrats,
Anthony and his friends organized a meet-
ing, he being chosen chairman, In speeches
‘by himself and Jennison, they stated that
they came there prepared to shoot any one
who offered resolutions in the democratic
‘meeting, and all who voted. for them. A
day or two after he headed the mob that de-
stroyed the Inquirer office, his jayhawkers
stealing the bedding and clothing of the em-
ployees, many of whom lodged in the build-
ing. Mayor Deninan, under the dircum-
‘stances deemed that a strongerSpolice was
necessary for the preservation of ‘order, and
appointed an extra‘force. Anthony, in the
Abolition sheet of that: city, published a
card threatning the Mayor, and demanded
the dismissal of tha extra police. TheMay-
or declined compliance, he called a meeting
in which resolutions were passed ordering
the Mayor to discharge the police, the Sher-
ift (a democrat) to dismiss certain deputies,
and sundry Councilmen therein named, were
directed to resign.
The Mayor dismissed his police. the Sher-
i#t his deputies, who werc compelled to seck
protection in the fort, and the Councilmen
resigned, and two of them left the country.
A reign of lawless violence was immediate-
ly inaugurated. Several citizens in one
evening were robbed; a government con-
tractor, Mr. McConnell, was strangled with
the cord from hre bed until he gave to the.
robbers his money ; a Union man and re-
spected citizen, Edward Stevenson, was shot
through the throat and twice through the
lungs in returning hewo between 7 and 8
o'clock in the eve .
afraid to [cave their
. Now tbat Leaven:
some state of diseipiine, Mr. 3
another public meeting. in which he wis
nominated for Mayor, [tig ncceasary to re-
and i!
late that he was backed by .Jennison: and,
hus jayhawkers ; that United States Senator
from Lawrence a few days before the elec
tion, and mada a specch similar in atyle and
spirit to. ms Washington speech. exulting
over the murder of “copperheads ;” that
Anthony, in a saloon, gave ag a toast, © The
man that shot Steverson;’ which being
coldly received, he substituted in its stead,
«The murder of Saturlee ; that he had his
jayhawkers, armed with Arkansas tooth-
pick and patent’ pill- drivers, scoured order
at the polls and preserved untainted the pu-
rity at the ballot-box, by compelling voters
to taks the following tho oath, proscribed
| by the Provost Marshal of that city for the
“¢cossion » .
«J do solemnly swoar that I will bear trua alle-
‘| giande to the government of. the United States ;
that I will support and sustain the law. thereof
Yu proclamation of the President,and the Wer
epartment :) that I will maintain the national
anny paramount to that of all Btate, coun:
ty and Confederate powers ; that 1 will discour-
age and dissountenance, and forever oppose seces-
al Union - that I will disclaim and denounce all
faith and fellowship with the so-called. Confeder-
ate States apd Confederate Armies, and pledge
my honor, property and life fo the sacred porform-
ence of this my solemn oath of allegiance to the
United Ststes—so help rao God!” -
ceedings, which are facts in mabner and
orm as here set forth, and can be abund-
antly verified, enabled tiem to telegraph :
—4 Leavenworth, Kansas, April 7.—This
‘city has gone Radical ‘Repyblican. 1t has
heretofore been Demoératie.”—Chicego
Tribune. :
: 4 ;
It is said that the préperftions fir the at-
tack on Charleston cost one hundred and
fifty millions of dMlars. The fight lasted
according _ to the, latest reports, but halt
an hour. So: that tho experiment; was at
the rate of five millions of. dollars per win-
ute, { oh
:
LEAVENWORRE, Kansas, April 7. Tie :
Lane, a perscnal friend of Antdony, came
gion, rebelion or the disintogration of the Feder-.
iis unnecessary to ‘Félate that these pro-|
President's Proclamation.
Whereas, The Congress of the United
States at its last session enacted a law enti-
|. tled ““An act for enrolling and calling cut
which was approved on the 3d day of March
last. ra ps
cv And whereas, 1L.is regifed in the aid act.
overnment to suppress insurrection
and sébellion, to guarantee fo each Statea
And whereas, For these high prpages “2
military force is indispensible, to raise and
to contribute;
And whereas, No service can ber more
praiseworthy and honorable than that which
is rendered for the maintenance of the Con-
stitution and the Union and the, fent
mresci L1C
0 of 8 free govern
ony Temas. ,N
An Yor {ba
ed; it was enaclo? by the I statis’ that
ail able todizd male citizens of the United
Stutes and'persons of foreign birth who
shall have declared on oath of their inten-
tion to become’¢itizens under and. in pur-
ages ‘of twenty and forty-five years (with
certain exceptions not necessary to be men-.
tioned) are declared. to. constitute the na-
tional forces, and shall ‘be liable to per-
ident for'that purpose — B
: And whereas, 1t is claimed by, and in be-
half of persons of -foreign hirth, between
to become citizens under, and 1n pursuance
of the laws of the United States; and who
have not exercised the right of suffrage,
or any other political franchise under the
laws of the United States, or of the States
thereof, are not absolutely incluced by
their aforesaid declaration of intention from
renouncing their purpose to become citizens
and that on the contrary such persons, un-
a right to renounce that purpose and to
forego the priviliges of citizenship and res-
idence within the United States under the
obligations 1mp)ged by the aforesaid act of
Congress.
hensions concerning the liability of persons
concerned to preform the service reqired by
such enactment, and to give it = fall effect, T
do hereby order and proclaim that no ples of
alienage will be received or allowed to exempt
from the obligations impossed by the afore-
said act of Congress, any person of foreign
birth who shall have declared on oath his in-
tention to become a citizen of the United’
States under tho laws thereof, and who
shall be found within the United States
at any time during the continuance of the
present insurrection and rebellion st or af-
ter, the expiration of the period of sixty
five days {rom the date of this proclamation
— nor shall any such plea of alienage he al~
lowed: in favor of any such person who has
as aforesaid, declared his intention to be
come a citizen. of the United State, and
shall have at any time cxcrcised the
right of suffrage or any other political fran-
chise within the United States under the
laws thereof, or under the laws of any of the
seyeral States.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the Ucited
States to be aflixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this the
eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand cight hundied and sixty-three
and of the independence of the United States
the eighty seventh.
ABRAUAM LINCOLN.
By the President— Wm, Li. SEWARD. .
eto —
Mg. VALLANDIGHA M's PROTEST. —Arreated
wi hout due process of law, without warrant
cm any judice! officir, and ow in military
, IL ha be Cha charge
uayioel or
by any saeh court, cut lam sujet, Ly the
expres grins ol the Uonstitution, to arreset
sued by Sowe officer of a court of competent
jurisdiction for trial of citizens. Tam sub-
trial, to be confronted wiih witnesses, and
to compulsory process fur witnesses in my
hebaif, and am en itled to councel. All
.of the United States. But the alleged offence
itselt is not known to the Constintion, nor
to any [aw thereof. Itis words spokea to
the people of Oho 1m ano “en public “politi-~
cal meeting, lawfully and: peacefully as-
sembled, undeer the Constitution, and upon
full notice. ¥
It is the worns oj a citizen, of the public
policy of the public servants of the people,
by which policy it was al'eged that the wel-
fare of the country was not promoted, It
was an appeal to the people to change that
policy,not by forcz, but by the electisnsand
the ballot-biq. It is not pretended that I
counseled disobedience to the Constitution,
or resistance to law or lawful authority.
have never done this. I have nothing fur-
ther to submit,
May 7 1863, O.L. VALLANDIGHAM.
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Abolition, the Union, And the Civi. War;
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eel Orns
More Arrests.—Fiftean or twenty prom-
inenc secessionists of this city, says a tele-
| graph dispatch, aated St. Louis, May 5th
| were arrested to-day under Gen. Curts’ re-
| cent order. Query—Are they to be tried
by wilitary commiséion, or will they be
handed over to the civil tribunals of the
country ? :
republican form of Government, and to pre- *
A serve ithe public tranquility. © }
is-thus Hesit-
suance of the laws thereof, between the.
form military duty in the service of the .
United States, when called out by the Pres.
Now, Therefore, To avoid all misappre-
.only by due process of law, cr warrant ise
these I demand as my rights, as a citize}
of the United Sates, under the Constitxtion
:the Nations! forces and for other purposes.”
that. there now exjsté in the “United States
{aR insurrection and rebellion against the
1 aatbority theraafoand jt is, under the Cgy- , °
™ a folokbe Ehictishdtes! thetidity a. A
J:the.
support which all persons ought willingly
corseqien $
ages specified in the said: act, who have °
here ofcre declared on cath their intentions -
der the treaties or law of nations, retain
ject to indictment and trial on - presentineny
of a grand jury, and am entitled (0 a speedy"