®. GBAY NEEK,
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RELLEFORTE, PA.
Friday oraing, May 22, 1853.
PIT ET Se Ty ra
on Fanstigism.
low traly i} Derry Clay express the
sentiments and fuelings of the avolitionists
of the prescuy day witn, twenty vears ago,
be spoke of them as filluws: With them
the rights of property sre nothing; the de-
ficiency of the powers of the General Gov.
eeament is nothing ; the dissolution of the
Ugion and the overthrow of a Government
sy which are concentrated the hopes of the
emiliged world, is pothing. A single idea
Img tekken josgegsion of their minds and
vuward they pursue it, overlook 'ng all bar.
vistn, Tectia and regerdless of all conse.
y noes? Hew true a picture of the ad-
ginistration pmity tw-day, Heedless snd
1ogrrdicrs of nll consequences, they mady
rush { reward in pureanit of the *one-jdea,”
tiampiing® upon tke righis of properly,
u-n ping powers nol belonzing to the Gen-
oral Government, oventiding State Cousitu-
ons ang State laws, spd in their zeal m
the Lot chase after negro freedom and equal
ty, have forgotten :
Ing foree of the Copaiitation of the United
Bates, sud under ihe spreicsa reasoning
sud tyrants flea of “military necessity.”
Ceprive the citizen who 18 he true Foveieign
vi tha nation of his mog* waluslle rights,
7 dal.by jury and the benefice of the habeas
corpus, the two great bulwarks of American
ixrty sre peaccably wrenched from the
gnople in localities where no reb Lion exists
vy interfera with the execution of powers
fiom the civil law courts snd without trial
the citisem sovereign is hurried off lo prison
ihe victim of one idea faraticism that rules
tho hour, Bow wcritably true is the fir t
part of that grest patriot saint's Jdescrip-
rion of the abolitionist; sod how fearfully
trua is the second, that to them the dissolu-
tos of the Union and tke overthrow cf a
troveroment in which is centered (he hepes
of the civiiizd world, 18 nothing.
the shelition of slavery tle cne great para.
wouht idea? Does any wan pretend to be-
bere, for a moment, that tits abolition fa-
naucm wil tolerate a resloration of the
Uuion under any circomstances unl 8s sla-
very te abolished 7 Does not everything
that has been dune by the men who control
tie administration of Abahiam Lincoln ioe
&'cutn their sole purpoie to he the abolition
of 8'avery at no matter hat cost? Does
mt elt tie edicts and snd proclamations of
tho President show conclusively that he
1 geids the freedom of ihe slaves as para-
mount to the restoration of the Union ?
Docs mot the sppointment of many of his
g-uerals, such as Fremont, Scharez and
Hunter, men neted or nothing except their
r dical abolition’sin, render conclusive to
every reasoning mind that his purpose i.
Just to emaucipa'e all he claves as the
pumammount idea, treating the restoration of
she Unten as a secondary eonsideration ?
The same dea iehiowled from the sump
and the pulpit Ly every wholitun orator
in the land when they attempt Lo convinee
sa honest peop’e that slave-y is the cause
of the war, an! theiciore, slavery wust te
wiped out no matter how or at wha cost,
They do not, nay, they cun not caterian
ay idea of a restored Union with negro gla.
veey existing in it, In short, they do not
want the Union restored with slavory and
rather then iv i cumliutg to cxist, they
would have the i
¢ obligations and tind.
un broken into ten thou.
ssad fragments, the Constitution {rampled
Ja the dust or committed to the flames, and
ensrcly aud ruin follow. Aye. as Henry
Clay bas truly said, “The dissolution avd
overti row of a Governinent which 13 cone
eentiated the hopes of the civilized world,
waotlarg. A single idea has taken posses-
sion of thew minds and onward (hi ¥ pursue
ft. over eoking all barriers, reckless and re-
gardiers of sll consequences.” They per.
verted the war from its original purpode in
tr a erusade szainst the tustitution of sla-
very, knowing full weil that the omsequen-
oe would 1a to unite Lae scuthern people in
oppesition to the id Union snd divide the
sentiment of the North and render the con-
flict doubtful. What good did the em2aci-
pation proclamation sceom phish, which the
President declared hie hid no powar to issue
and no inclination to do so if be conia ? Did
# divide and distract those ia rebellion, cre-
ates war smong themselves, and unite {ne
people of the North io n determinelion to
enbius the ‘‘rebellion’’ snd preserve the
Umisn¥ No! but just the opposite.
It united Ba one man the people
+f the Southern States (who were at
list divided) in their determination to over-
vow the authority of the United States
iovorntnent, and establish their independant
aparate existence; while at the same time
divided snd disirsoied tho people of the
iorth 10 such 8p exient as to bring about
be necessity of a Conscription law ; to raise
broeg to prosecute the war. Yt these men
eed pot the terror taught in this experiment,
at madly, recklessly and reagardless of al)
paseqr nes, pursus the one ides, and will
, orsue it, even to the entire destruction of
this, vba best govertnent under the sun.—
The only security that yetremaing rests
with the honest wasurg of the people, those
who love their country more than the negro,
and whose only desire is, that peace and
onion ray foon sgiiu shed their many Lless
jogs around us as in days past. The wa.
“ww of tho propla sre hareat and patriotic,
Is not |
i
and, slthough many, vary many who are
classed with the republican party, and
who endorse every act of this adminis-
tration, are running the same mad course of
their fanatical leaders, yet they are, doubt
lesa, honest in their convictions of tha rec.
titude of their course. Led astray oy the
false teachirgs of their leaders, they have
unconsciously arraycd themselves apaivst
their own interests—against a restora ion
of the Union, and among those whom the
great patriot stetesman more than twenty
years ago so truthfully described.
Can sny old live whig, who loved the
great [4sriol, and reveres his name, look
upod the party so truthfully described by
bra, and continue to act and identify hiuw-
self with the R:publican party 2 Can any
honest republican, (and there are some.)
whose only desire in these trying times is,
to see the Union, regardless whether slavery
be abolished or not. look upon the lvadery
of that party, and say, they are not the men
described by Henry Clay ?
We appeal, ther
und honest republicans, to cast, oft their al.
fore, to all eld line whigs
:gisnce (0 the party that hag shamefully
misused ther snpport—that has prostitutes
the war for the Union into a crusad e agains®
the institation of s'avery, thereby rendering
a reunion simost, if not entire'y, impossi.
ble, that by 1ta fanatical course has pro-
lon; ed the war, and been the cause of wuch
sacrifize of hfe. It is time now that
rvative men should unite under the
uselesy
ail cu
broad banner of the gool old democracy,
that so gnccessfully administered this gov-
ernment for more than sixty years, and at |
the poils next fall, rebuke this wild favaii-
icism that 13 destroying as fast as possible. |
the best government in the world. .
ee apr
Euppert Principles.
In al! ages of the word,and in every Coun- |
try that has existed on the face of the carth,
there has been schemeing, designing men
estly secking to overthrow and revolu |
tionize the form of government nuder which
they have lived and to cstabhish upon its
ruins anoth tr system of laws, Every man
is actuated by certain impulses, and every
object that has ever been accomplished, has
been the result of some preconceived dea or
2] an,
Napolean the great re: o'utionizer of France
was incited to action by vain ambition, and
the guilded picture of glory that he saw fur
in the future, through the tears and blood of
many bitter campaigns, lured him on, und,
fillkd his breast with high hopes of
dazzling fame, the airy bauble for which be
sacrifized every trait of his noble nature to
obtain. He, in the cortain kind of glory, for
which he waa striviug. climbed to the lofti-
est pinnncle of fam ; but what a sight must
have mel his eyes as he gazed far back to
hia boyhood's days, through the rivers of
tears. eas of blood, and piles of bleaching
Loner, ‘h ongh which he had tei'el hig wes-
ry way. We, the people of America have
hed the bloody scenes that were trans-
¢ in other countries, across the seas and
arn
pris
biessed the generous nobluliear.ed mau that
framed the form of Government under which
we nave 50 long lived in peace and prosperi-
ty. No Country on thé Globe bas Hoursh-
ed a3 ours has done, anl no people on the
face of the earth, have accumulated the
weaith, extended their boundaries, aod at
the same time enjoyed the liberty that the
p-ople of America have done, in the short
space of time that has elapsed since ihe iron-
hearted men of the Revolution of 1770 wstab-
lished the glorious system under which we
have lived. and which has heen locked upon
Ly other nations as the greatest the hap dest,
and most magnanimous governm ent that
mortal nan has ever yet established, But
why, look at the proceedings of other
nations when we have such palpable proofs
of Revolntionizers in our own land. There
is a war in America? Thousands of inno.
sent victims, oceans of blood, and valleys of
bleaching bones of our slaughtered country-
men truly, bat sadly testify. The tears of
weeping widows and the cries of fatherless
children is lieard in the remotest corner of |
the nation, and desclation, rfin and death 8
tha order of the day.
Despotism has raised its iron cel amongst
us, and anarchy with its hideous form and
devastating step, is already the result of the
foul teachings of thie fanatics who have plac-
ed an administration into power who have
no respect for the constitution of our coun-
try, and who are blindly and ignorantly
gtecring the noble old ship of state through
the boisterous billows nto the Maelstrom.
Already she ig in the fri htful vertex, and
without a powerful effort will soon be dash-
ed upon the rugged rocks of fanaticism, and
lost in ihe gloomy abyss. But how is this
effort to be made? low can we rescue
from the grasp of these designing men who
are willing to sacrifice every principle upon
which this government was based, for the
abolition of slavery and the centrahzution
of power, the sceptre that ‘has leen so
wrongfully used, and the power that has
been 80 shamefully wisapplied. We appeal
to every candid, honest man, to go to the
ballot box, and there, by honest, lawful
means, dethrone the party who have buen
erroniously administering the laws, and
place the party again into power who made
this country what it was, before the aboh-
tion fanatics of the North made this war,
and whose principles and creed 18 the Con-
stitution and laws. Freemen of the North,
rally under the banner of the Consti ution,
and support men who nave advocated the
doctrine that was proclaimed when this gov-
ermaent was formed, and all may yet be
well. Fail to do this, and adhere to the cor-
rupt faction whose avowed principles have
always been antagonistic to the fundamen-
tel ideas upor which our system is based,
and then, bid farewell to American Liberty.
esi nr
A destiuctive flra occurred in Lockport
last Thursday, covsuming Alexander's
block ou Man street, in which were the ex-
temsive hardware store II, &¢ 8. Mack the
office of the Courier, law office,&c. The fire
broke ou in the cellar of Mack’s stote iu 8
pile of rags aud is supposed to be the work
of an incendary,
The Administration of Lincoln, or Sew-
ard in Lincoln's uname. ia more and more
dropping the masks. The fanatics of the
abolition party, so far as ends are concern-
ed, 7 eed have no quarrel with Swward. He
means a revolution as utterly sub cersive of
our o!d American institutions 2s they do,
Only, he goes at its accomplishment like a
fox. They go at it Tike bears and badzers,
or like wolves and cats. The for is cun-
ning—but itis a Jow cunning after ali— |
In the
that Seward
the ins:iructive
ture, when the hunt really begins,
meantime, there is no doubt
stili controls Lincoln. In
we find the fox and the ape to claim Kind- |
have s to each other—the fox always
using the ape for his purposes.
He ordered the arrests ol
Police Board, and of
Maryland Legislature, of the ‘bro hers
Flarnd rs. and of the editor of the
man's Journal
Ptrarp arrests,
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ho
Baltimore
rest, now of Vallandigham.
with Aonesty and fearlessness in pohtics
Vallandigham hed studied and wndersicod
| Jeffersonian Democracy. Ile believed in it,
[Lenrtily and gallantly threw himself for-
ward as i 5 champion. His degree of abili-
ity was a eccondary question. ‘Whether
| others who agreed with him were more. or
| tess able than he. became an indifferent
| matter. Be was a (rue c¢xponent of the
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cause, and a chivairous one, and either ac-
{ cident or merit gave him the leaders posi
tion. Weed saw it and howled, Le undor-
stood that if Vallandigham succeeded, there
was an end to the bargain betwee
Weed and Seward, by which, after creating
the infamous party that bas broken up the
! Union, they were, as *‘conservatives I” jto
| float into the Democratic party, and, in its
once honored name, rule the disin
i North. Weed convinced the canal #4 rail
| roud men who manage the machiney of
New York State politics, thac if Vallandig-
ham’s plan of peace aud reconstruction of
relations between North and South prevail
| ed, the Minsigsippt would again be opened.
and the naturdd Lighway to the ocean for
{ the heavy products cof the North West
would no ionger be penned up to seeking a
market by ther arvficisl channels. Thus
tthe hope of cur gains will be lost,” Those
other “‘makers of silver shrines for Diana”
—the conuac'ors—were vesched by the
But, Vallandigham, was
growing stronger in ths hearts of the peo-
| ple. So, these charlatans have ordered him
to be sirested. Burnside has been their
"tool in the useless slaughter of so many
| thousands of Demeera’s in the charnel pen
Lesond Fredericksburg. He succeeded, n
| getting brave men into a position where |
} they were unmeraifully cut to pieces. Hej
| has succeeded in arresting Vallandigham,
j and has thus doubled his power, and ren-
| dercd it imaongsible for the people to forget
him, without forgetting the's own liber
tegrated
| Same arguments,
Liev,
{ But, while Weed and Seward, and other}
| charlatans professing better principles, but
not a whit mers honest, are seeking their
| seltish aims at the pobiic expense, our
| grief is that we see incalculable woes pre-
| paring for our country, The aim, or, at
| least, the certain result, of thege maneu-
vers, if they sncceed, must be the ‘otal
| subversion of cur fundamental institutions !
Of course, if thirst for wealth, and love of
luxury, have extinguished the hardy vir
tues of political freedom in the mass of the
| }le, our institutions are gone. It looks like
that, at present. But then, what
ceed 7 A monarchy, or an aristocracy, on a
Constitutional basis ? We |
have not the basis— we have not the condi-
| tions —we bave not the livirg conditions,
fur the one cr for the other. |
We know how widely ihe idea of this |
revolutionary change is entert:ined. We
hear its advocates, diy by day. Bat we
tell them neither we nor they will live to
see it, Our system of representative gov-
eynment may be chan.ed. Bat, if it be,
a century of anarchy and of successive up-
heavings, is hefore us. The changes in the
command of the ‘Army of the Potomac’ is
but a type of the political subversions that
must Le encountersd. in the midst of these
convulsions, whoever may escape. it will
not be those who now think themselves
eligible men.bers of the arisiocracy— wuch
less their childien.
is to sue-
Impossible !
Through the torpidity of some, the tim-
idity of others, aud the wnseravulous sel- |
fist ness of the most active and potent on
all gides, it is & most benign and cver-
ruling Providence alone that can save us.
And Providenca, in these political matters,
usually helps only those that show a dis
position to help themselves. The chains
of a most vila slavery are shaken in our
very faces. Every guarantee of Censtitu-
tions and of laws that we have hitherto
boasted ag the bulwarks of our freedom,
is openly and Mfagitously violated —and
stilt white men—the sons of freemsn, trot
around hike monkeys, grinning at each
other, gathering up shin-plasters, counting
them over. and then eating and drinking
as if this were the «nd of their being, and
the ability to do it the height of their am-
bition.
A truly free people would, peacefully,
but determinedly, be organized from one
end’ of tho land to the other, and, in the
words of Jefler-on, be ‘standing to their
arms,” to resist usurpation,—Freeman's
Journal.
Wg should not forsake a good work be-
sause it does not advance with a rapid
step. Faith in virtue, truth and Alnighty
gooduess, wili save us alike from rashness
and despair.
ea e—
A word filthy spoken or written will often
and profound leg nd of “Reynard the Fox,” |
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i red, and alwavs realy, if not openly, to here. on
wd inaugurated the system of arbi-
the
I. He, too, st the instigation |
of Thurlow Weed, whose man’ hn is, will |
be found to be really responsible for the av | ooni
In Deunrocraiic | recor
hearts, Vallandigham had become identified | thav
’ £
President Lincoln has apain made n « Proc
jamation,’ and one ag foolish as those that
have gone before it, He bas now ‘proclaim-
cd’ that all of us, ahle-bodied citiz ns. must
rush forward to be drefied. Well, when we
come, Abraham will hear from us! Bat
the gist of Atraham's ** Proclamation’ is
warn the large body of men who have de-
clared an intention of beeowing cif zens,
Lat who have not even etect to thir dee-
larasion, to quit the country withn sixty.
five days from the date of ihe ** Procisma-
tion,” or that they will be liable to be drafts
ed. He says, farther, which is very true,
and ends in the capture of the vicious crea- |). any one who has excreised any vight
or franchise peculiar to citizens has heieby
become Liable to all the service that can be
demanded of a native citizen eof any of the
‘This is rather hard, in view of
Seward’s meilation, through ovr foreign
con~uls. to the men of foreign lands to ¢ me
the score hat employment WAS
abundant, and that, while aliens, no a vil ob
{ ligation was incurred.
But we say to men of foreign birth, who
! d an intention to become citi-
e never ucted on it—have never
© —to rest perfectly quiet. —
The Auburn pettifepger; Seward, who wr
Siates.
|
{A ¢'s Proclamat ' for him, doesn’t
{ know / The subject of Great Britain,
or of France, or of any other forcign S.ate.
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who under happier suspiees of cur conn-
{ try, may have declared an sntention of te-
nriag an American citizen, but why now,
fers that intention, needs do ao more
ifu the court before which he made
hus decliration, that he has thought better
on the subject, and renounces Ms intention
to become an American citizen, By such
notification he becomes an alien, with all
the privileges of an alien. We will gaaran-
tee to any such person his immunity by so
doing. They tell us that in Ireland, within
the English pale, they spoke of a certain
class as © mere lish.” So now, for Amer-
can citizen, they may speak of ** merg’’ cit-
1zens,
tn Fort Lafayette, in 1861, we saw the
irons taken oft British subjects. who had
Leen thus treaten as felons because they
were trying to run the blockade of Charles
ton. Seward bowed to the demand of the
Brirish governm nt, Next day we siill saw
the chams on the ankles of an honest lish.
man. We asked him how it came ‘that he
was not liberated with the others who were
his stupmares. Ile responded: © Troth it
waa my misfortune to have become an Amer-
ican citizen!’ lle was a‘ mere” American
—not a British subject !
Yes, Americans! It is a fact that can
any time be proved in a court of justice, a
fact for which William H. Seward—conscry-
ative Seward—is re: ponsib'e, that, alter a
visit from Mr. Archiba d, Briish Consul at
this port, privoners who proved themselves
Briush cubjec s.were released from irons and
shortly eftar set free, while others taken on
the same vessel with them, because they
were, «r had become, American citizens !—
« Hail Columbia,” the ** Star-spangl-d Bau-
nar,” and a!l that kind of tring, nas a spe-
cail charm for the storo old Americans who
were witnesses of that transaction!
We say to aliens, who have, ** declured
their intentions” to becoma citizens, but
never executed those inentions. not to be
fiightened --especially if they, by birth,
were subjects of moderately powerful gov-
ernment. They are in no danger. As a
matier of precaa ion, it'will be well to give
of a revocation of the purpose of becoming
a citizen. But don't skedaddle! Seward's
aim. now that he forever despairs of eajol-
inz the foreign born into his seifish echewes,
is to get as many as possi le to leave tho
eoun'ry. Now, we say to them: don’t do
at! —Freemad s Journal,
a
Arrested Foc Telling ths To uth.
M. M. Pomeroy,
Democrat who has
wndent of the
go Tunes, hag been ordered
it of Gen, Preniiss for giving
saw them, without gloss or
transformation. It is only nesissary to say
that Mr. Pomeroy has been of the + War
Democratic stripes,’ and a strenuous swps
porter of a “war for the Umon.,” Comn-
menting on his 2rresc and exclusion from
our hnes, Mr. Pom roy saysi— Our of-
¢
¢
the Departue
the facis as b
truth.
close investigation, we determined to give
our readers facts, leaving lies 10 be spoken
ny official reports of victories never won. by
commanding offi ers. hike Prentiss aad the
telegraph. The iden of wilting facts
startled, as with the sting of Lightning, the
willing t ols of the administradion, anc it
should not be allowed, Tho truth’ of our
letters —the existence of evils and wrongs
stil: greater than we have written of, is stil
mm the army. + We asked Gen. Prenciss if
we had written a word that was not truth
sunple and uncontrovertible. We dared
hiw to deny it--gave him proof to substan.
tate the articl No cue can contradict
ths reply was this: ‘Mr. Pomeroy. I want
you to understand that the uth shall not
le written from his aistiiei to discourage
the people of the North, as long as i a am
here”
Sn long as we remained silent to the dis-
honesty and eorrnption among officers in the
army, we were a prince of good fellows. So
long as an editor endories every wove of
the administration, or writes up a hero of
every ignorant, thieving aud cowardly gen-
eral cursing the army with his presence and
the country with his existence, it is all right,
Just so long as we see fit fo remain siienr
aud s ¢ poor people pinndered men de-
prived of all legal or political rights —the
flag of the North marking the depository of
stolen ge ods--generals stealing cotto:, col
onels stealing horses, captains stealing
mules chaplaing siealing negroes and pri-
vates stealing laces, jewelry. clothing, bed
ding, pictures and love mementor of friend.
ship from innocent women and children,
without writing a word of protest that such
damnable vardaiism should be stopped, So
long as we ¢onld witness tne persistant ef.
forts in the arm: to crush Democrats rather
than the rebeliion—could sea Union resi-
dents of the S uth robbed and insuited by
the men they once prayed to God might
reach them gnickly. So long as we had
daly evidence gleaned from picket post,
camp fires suttler’s tents and hospitals,
that the army was tecoming demoral zed,
and the men that were not afraid {o speak,
weary nnd disgusted wiih the life of plan-
der and idleness they were leading, and
mention it not. we are a loyal citizen. Nine
months since Hel ra was ocenpred by fed-
eral troops. Thirty five thousand men
pitched their tents there in the rich cotton
county of Phillips, and the work began. In
nine months eight changes of commanding
officers over that post have shown the un-
stableness of the Government and tended
to demoralize the troops. Six out of the
eight commanders there have mado wide
pendent foriunes in cotton, mules and other
speculations, but the enemy has never been
uet,—Ez.
ep er re
Haars JuopaMenTs. —1f you must form
tarsh judgments, form them of yourselt,
not of others, and, in general, begin by at-
tending to your own deficiencies .firats—
If every one would sweep up his own walk,
prove as a nail in & sure pice.
we should have very clean streets.
fence was simply this: we Lad told the | publicans
After months of observation and! firm spirit and resolute purpose of the Pem-
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“ibe Infamous Programma, The Latest Proslamation. Latter From Hon Idmund Buks
Ao she Bdiror of the Nation Eagle
bn Pour Mele of the 16th inke , I. roticeld
|» communication dated at “Hilug Bead.
18 U, April lst, 1863" signed “GIL W,
| purpotting to hove bern geritten by wu
soldier, ia which I find the following sen-
tenees :
«1 would Mkp to come North and siop
one week, [I would aprointa Copperhead
funeral every d.y: and would see that a
corpse was ready.” 4 . -
{ #1 would a8 soon shoot a Cooperhead as 1
would a snake by that pane.”
From the language of the Republican
press and orators I understand a “Cepper-
head” 10 be a Democrat. It is a black-
guard tern, but I do not quarrel with the
Republican pregses, and orators for using
it, they bereg the best judges of what is be
coming and respectable for them in the mut.
ter of ,manncra. Such being the meaning
of the term, the soldier, therefore, who
wrote the letter published ia our paper
| avows his determination tw shoot and
{ murder his fellow citizens because they be-
lieve in the Democratic faith, and support
the principles and policy of tha Democratic
party.
You publish the fetter without words or
comment, or dissent, from tha atrocious and
murderous sentiments which it expresses, —
You thus, anwittngly, I hope, cotribute
the influence of your paper to stir up to
deeds of violence, outrage and blood, the
latent undisiplined passions of scciety which
when once let loose, like famishing wolves,
know no restraint or moderation,
Are we, Democrats, many of us your neigh
bors and subscribers (o your paper to in-
fer that you approve of such sentiments, We
desire, sn are entitled to,a distinct answer
to this question.
tiave you reflected uponthe probable con-
scgaence of the utterance af such inflam -
tory and vile sentiments as are contained in
the letter of the soldier above referred to.and
are too common io tha columns of the Re.
publican press, and in the mouths of Re.
publican orators §
If they were to prevail would you be en-
tirely safe 7 17 Democrats or “Copper heads
as we ard calied, in derision, by a party
who carr upon their shonlders the awfnl
and appailing sin of being the primary an-
¢
{struction of the Unfon—nre to be shot
{ down and murdered in cold blood, do you
{ think that the public pecace wonld be
| long maintained in the North, and that
| you republicans, would, escapo nll dan-
ger?
“Lag no such thitering unction to your
soul.” The beginning of such busmess 18
the boginning of civil war and anarchy here
m the North. The first Democrat shot
down will be the signal for tho slaughter of
a Republican ana the horrible work once
began, where wonld it end? And what
would be the fate of the Republicans beiween
the fire of the rebelson one side, and the
ontraged and incensed Democrate on’ the
other? I wll answer no further than to
say. that the Democracy would not be the
greatest sufferers in the end, and weald not
ba annihilated.
An to the soldier why wrote the letter
above alluded to, if ne he a goidier, and has
thas disgraced his patriot calling, ail 1 have
[to gay is, that ho haa attered setiments
worthy only of a vil. and execrabie murder-
er. Let him come on, and dare attempi to
execute his atrocious threats, Ue
not make many corpses hefors he woud be
one himself. Both ho, and yoo, and sll Re-
should understand, that it is the
would
{ ocracy to defend themselves, their property
| and their rights,to any extremity which the
occasion may demand.
We do not enter into sny defence of our
patriotism and byaity fu comparizon with
the patriotism and loyalty of Repulican,—
We have always been true £y ur country
and to the Union. Wo have been neither
the origionators nor fermenters of a section-
al puty, which has resuited in the de:tiue-
tien of the Union, and in civil war, We
have opposed the causes and the men that
have bronght these calamitious results upon
tha country. Ani we have rallied with as
much zeal as the Republicans to the support
of the existing Administration in its uacon-
stitutiopal measures to repair the huge mis.
chiefs which the Repablizan party has been
instrumental in bringinz about ; at the same
being resolved to Wo d that arly responsi
ble at the bar of G.d snd the People for
their ageney m this terrble basiness of des-
troying our country ; and from which res-
poostblity we dunot intend they shall es-
cape. by any threats or menaces of violence
trourselves. And finally, the Democracy
are resolved to maintain their rights at ail
hazards, let them be assailed from what.
ever cource they may ber And in view
of the bloody menaces which appear in
Republican newspapers and fall from the
lips of Rapablican orators, I say to my
Demoeratic friends—be ready for any emer-
gency. :
I therefore submit to your cool and calm
jnd:ment, whether it is best, or prudent, for
Republican presses orators,or sdidiers to 1m-
dpilge m any more threats to murder Demo-
craig, or to commit outrages upon them, be-
cause they claim aud will. enjoy the rights
and privileges of Americancciizens. 1 can
hardly think the l=aders of the Republican
party really dasire to inasgurate murder.
revolution, and anarchy at ther own doors.
but [ may be mistaken. Their infatuation in
this dark period of our country's peril and
suitering is astonishing, aud nobody can for-
see to what folly, crime, and calawmoity it
way lead.
The very fact that you have published
withous dissent and ccnsue, sach a let-
ter ad that which has galied forth thiss
eommmunication, 13 one of the gloymy
presages of impending evil which over.
shadows our now sufficiently sfl'cted ocun-
try. “ .
If the Administration and the Republi
can soidiers would display half as wuth re-
Leolntion and energy in conquering tho pebiels
thors of the present civil war and the de-.
28 they manif at in their endiavors ‘to “put
down the Domasration itv. they wicht win’
Pome Tiotoryes © 1yéh wenld be ereditabla to
the macdyos and the coun'er, :
Bu! tie corquest’and su'juzationiofl she.
Demarratie party thew wl id to he Cant
ntter imposihility, whetherahiy ‘attemnt to
accomplish the raealt hy contumély threats
orarms, Ttis high time they comprehended
this fact, and acted accordingly.
AsT am never ashamed, wor amid to
avow pu'licly what [write for the pub-
lic press sign my name, in propria per-
sona.
With much personal repeet and esteem, |
&e., i
3 EDMUND BURKE.
Newport, N, I, Aprit 18.1863,
rms A me + membrane
{lov Seymours Letter.
ALBaNy. May 17.=The fol'owing is the |
letter of Gov, Seymour to the Vallandigh m
meeting last nignt: -
Exrcorive DerarmyeNT,, May 16.
I cannot attend the meeting at the Uapi-
tol this evening, but 1 wish to state my
opinion in regard to the arrest of Mr. Val
landigham. It is an act which has brought
dishonor upon oar country, It is full of
danger to our persons and our homes It
beears upon its front a conscicus violation
of law and justice. Acting upon the evi-
dence of detailed informers, shrinking frou
the light of day, in the darkness of right,
armed men violated the house of an Ameri-
can citizen and furtively bore him away to
military trial, conducted without those safe-
guards known to the proceedings of our
judicial tribunals. The transaction involy-
ed a series of offences against our mot sa-
cred rights It interferred with freedom of
apeech ; it molested our rights to be secure
in our homes against unreasonable scarches;
it pronounced tentences without trial,’save
one which was: a mockery, which insulted
sx well ns wronged. The perpetrators now
seek to impose punishment, aot fir an of-
ence against, but tor the disregard of an
invalid order, put forth in the utter disre”
gard of the principles of civil hberty. If
this proceeding is approved by the Govern
ment, and sustained byjthe people, it is not
merely a step toward revolution —it is revo-
lution; it will not only lead to military
deapotism—it establistes mnlitery despot
ism In this aspect it must oe accep ed, or
n this aspect rejected, Ifit is upheld, our
liberties are overfhrown, the safety of our
persons, security of our property, will here.
after depend npon the arbitary will of uch
mili-avy rulers ag muy be placed over us,
while our constitutional guarantees will be
broken down. Even uow, the Governors
and Courts of some of the Western States
have sunk into insignificance before the
despotic powers claimed and excersised by
military men who have been sent into their
torders. It is a fearful thing to increase
the ‘dangers which now overhangs us by
(reating the law, the judiciary, and the
State Authorities with contempt. The peo-
pie of this conntry now wait with the deep
est anxiety the decision of the Admninistra-
tion upon these acts. [aving given it a
generous support in the conduct of ‘he
wu we pause {0 see what kind of a Gov-
ernment it i8 for which we are asked to
pour out our blood and our treasurers, --
The action of the Administration will de-
termine in the m'nds of more than eue half
of the people of the logal Sates wheth-
er this war is wazed 10 put down rebel
lion at the South or destroy the {ree insti
tutions at the North. We los for us
decision with most solemn solicitude.
(Sighn.d} HORATIO SEYMOUR.
Suppression of '* Disloyalty” at the
North,
Alarge party of leading Union Leazuers
of Phitadeiphin, headed by Morton MeMi-
chat and Ex-Mayor Gilpin, arrived here to-
day. Senators Wade and chandler and Col-
onel Forney are their invited guests, Tt is
supposed that steps are to be initiated where-
by heme forees shall be organized under gov-
ernment auspices to repress difloyal demon-
strations and organizations in the North.—
Philadelphia has already moved in this mat
ter.— Wash. Correspondent of N.Y. Herald
14h nat.
The object of this proposed military or-
ganization in the North is to * repress” the
Democratic party, and carry the ¢’cctions of
Abolitionista te office. The pretense of
« suppressing disloyal organizitions” is
falie—it is a lie, b se and black a3 the hearts
of the men who have coined it, The Abo-
litionists are simply employing the power of
the Government, with its hosts of armed
men, to perpe uate their power and oppor.
tunities of plunder. The saving of the
country is no part of their business it is
to save themselves from the wrath of a deceiv-
ed and betrayzd people that they arc laboring,
To do this they intend to organize Abolition
regiments of cowardly home guards, to be
controlled by the Ahohtion office holders,
and the pimps and parasites of the corrupt
power at Washinton.
The recent demonstrations against the
peoplo of Ohio and Indiana gives us warn-
ing of what we may expect in Pennsylva-
nia. [It is the object of the Adwministiation
and its base hirelirgs and satraps to carry
the elections in Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois, in order to maintain their hold
on power and the publio purse.
having a Democratic Governor may escape
their machinations, and so may New Jersey;
but that 1t ,s intended to carry the elections
in the other States named for the Abolition-
ists by means of the bayonet and military
terrorism, cannot be doubted. — Evening
Journal.
te A Apt
VALLANDIGISM SENT T0 Fort WARREN. —
The New York World says: At the hour
of going to preas. we learn that Mr. Val-
landigham has becn sentenced to close con-
finewent in Fort Warren during the r main
der of the war.
«Gen. Rarnside has filled full the measure
of hls fully and shame. As a soldier, the
slaughter pen of Fredericksburg is his moh-
ument, the arrest and conviction of Vallan-
digham his epitaph.
New York !
Rumors of ©
i : We liao: hHwov 6675 Timars iat ohanm-
‘es nthe Cabinet. Some of then come di-
trect from \Washivgton, while o'hers are
istrained and filtered in reaching us by way
far New York, That “anger onsliuzht is
{made on Mr, Seward by he extreme radi
\ cal Abolition faction, ig evident; but it &
now pretended that not only he, but three
! more members of the Cabinet are about to
{resizn, ann their resignation is excepted bee
forchand by the President. Mr. 8 anton,
Seeretary of War, Mr, Welles Segrerary of
the Navy, and Mr Postmaster Gener 1 BY) vir,
are said to accompany Mr. Seward 10 his
retirement ; 80 that Mr Chase, as the Chan.
cellor of the Exchequer, wil bencefor h be
the Premier. Mr Charles Sumner is nam-
ced as Mr. Seward s successor, while General
Banks is mentioned as the successor of Mr.
i Stanton. We give these rumors for what
they are worth, without veuel ing for tiem
Whatever programme may be agreed upon
to-day may be changed to-morrow ; and
events succeed each other in such rapid suc.
cession that it would be folly to predict
what is likely to happen within the wext
twenty-four hours.
A change of commanders in the army is
also freely predicted. Sume of the Westen
papers recemmend General Heintzelmsn for
the command of the Army of the Potomac:
ethers have ventured to talk shout General
Franklin; while no one haz, as yet, cenfur-
ed to sugzest to the President name of
McClellan: The Radical faction, however,
will not be satisfied with anything short of
Builer or Fremont. Mr. Lincoln, we know,
is attached to General Hooker, and will not
change him for any other general. So chese
epeculations may all amount to nothing, un-
less an immediate move is contemplated,
|
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‘the Democracy to be put Down
A Western paver says :
In consequence of Gen. Haseal!'s milita-
ry ord or. and the fact that no sort of fair
play is to be allowed in the coming munici-
pal eluction of Indianapolis, Ind.. the Dem.
ocrats there have withdrawn all their candi-
dates. even for the schools, Not a Domo
erat will consent to be a candidate. Eve
ry Republican candidate. even down as
low as for the dog pound. will therefore be
elented.”
Jut in those places where the Democracy
are riot likely to surrender their rights so
tamely and suffer the elections to go against
them by default, military force is to be em-
ployed to suppress them, as wil! be seen by
the following bit of intelligence :
A larze party of leeding Union Leaguers
of Philadel bia headed by Mortou MeMich-
acl and Ex-Mayor Gilpin, arrived. here to-
day. Senators Wade Chandler and Colonel
Forney are their invited gnests. It is sup-
posed that steps are to be initated whereby
home forces shall be orgnuized under govern
ment guspices to repress disloyal demons-
trations and organizations inthe North.—
Philadephia has already moved in this mat-
ter.—Wash. Correspondents N. Y. Herald,
14th inst.
“Confirmatory of all this, the Harrisburg
Telegraph, another gctitious, Janohinicay
press, thus helps (0 foment, the 1mponding
civii war in the North ;
We sincerely hope that the example of the
loyal men in Philad:lphia, will emulated by
te people all over the Commonwealth
by every loyal State in the Union. Tet ir
be plainly understood, that the organization
is practicaly intended to pit down tieason in
the Joyal Sates. If it 1s right to pursue and
8h001 a traitor in the rebellious Stites
ard
it is
also right to visit the game puns ment on
the same deviigin the loyal Sates. Lod us
orzanize, then, everywhere. Lot us show
to the Government that it wil be sus-
tained and s'rengthened. Let us prove
toe, to traiters, that they wi'l le resisted
and put down.”
Well, if, the eonversative people of the
North—the Democracy —are to be driven
to armas in defence of their constitutional Lib-
erties, let the strife come, and sooner the
better. :
Au upstart of an Assistant Provost Mar
shal, at Fulton, Missouri, issued an order
prohibiting post masters in Ais district from
ditributing the New York Caucasian. Chica-
go Times, Cincinnati Enquirer. and Colam-
bus Crisis, of which Capt. Snedecor, P. M.
at Falton, who seems to have more rezard
for his oath, than fear of (he peity tyrant,
Says:
Post Orrick, Fouron. Missovar. ) .
. Marx 1, 1863. }
The order was handed to me on Wednes-
day last, and I would respectfully notify the
peopte of this county, and especially (hose
who get their mail matter at this office, that
i I do not consider that 1 belong to t. 5. stan.
| ber, or subjcet to his orders.
I do not recollect that I have ever diso-
beyed any legal order, nor do T expect to do
so. If any person asks anything-of ma in
a proper manner, it wakes no difference how
humble their position in Fle is— even though
it. be a Loyal Citizen of African descenl—
I will use my utmost influence to accomme-
date them, but where any person assuwes
authority thal does not properly belong to
them, and they undertake to domineer r
Capt. Isaac D. Snedecor; they way exfost
to find an impediment in their way larger
than they expected—say about 215 pounds !
i Isaac D. Sxepecor, P. M.
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i
A Prayer. —The following parody ou tha
Lord's Prayer was found written on the leaf
of a tract on the person of a dead Yankes.on
the battle field of Sharpsburg and has
| been furnished us for publication, Wein.
fer {rom it that the Yankee soldier was mora
wrathful than pious, and withall slightly
sdemoralized : \
Our Father who art in Washington,
Abraham Lincoln be thy name!
Thy will be done at the North
Asiuis atthe Squih :
Give us this day our daily
R tions of crackers and bacon §
And forgive us our shortcomings,
i 4s we forgive our quarter mnsters
| Aod commuissaries ; for thine is the
{ Power, the nigger and the soldiers,
A For the termof three yeas. Amex
.