The. Democratic Watchman. BY P. GRAY MEEK JOE W. FURRY, ANISOCIATE EPITOR Terms, $2 per Annum, in Advance BELLEFON PA Friday Morning, May 5, 1871 Democracy to Win We have not the least doubt but that the Democracy will will the next Presidential contest, In spite of the Force Bill and all the legislation which the Radical majority in Congress have enacted for the benefit of their party and to secure themselves another lease of power, we believe the day of their overthrow is near at hand. We see it foreshadowed in the changed sentiment of the people; we hen.s4.propliesied the everyday talk of the laboring mas ses. The people are tired of the way things have been going on for so long, and are willing, nay, even anxious lor a change. They are doignsted nuh niggerism and burdened to death with taxes. They begin now to feel that even their personal liberty 14 not se cnre, and view with alarm the signiti Cant encroachments of executive pow sr upon their right•. They have at last awakened from their lon , apathy to see their liberties slipping away from them. They were warned tone after tune, earnestly and solemnly, to beware how they gave up their consti tutional privileges into the keeping of the men who have betrayed them , but, crazed by the roar of cannon and da7 sled by the glitter of epaulet•, they gave no heed to the warning. Reek kasly, heedlessly and crimitial'%, they disregarded the solemn admonitions of the "Fattier of his Country" who, his farewell address, had ears and years before cautioned them to beware Of the very dangers into which the) were then stum4ling' At lest they have fallen into the pit, and, ni their desperate struggles to extricate them selves, base awakened from their criminal sleep to the full mea.i.re of distress which is 'llion them And n'ose - they begin to talk Biller tently from %flint the) did five, six, ten years ago. They hint about the con. atitution and intimate that too much power is centralizing at Washin l :4ton. They don't like the looks of thing... They have an ugly mpeei. It nasn't to 1n old times, sin they Then ae had more liberty, more money, h , e+ taxes. Nigger., then, couldn't be Con gressmen and senators and judges and jurymen, as they can now. Whoe nen held the reins then, and the 14tv erautet.t Wan adwint.tereti for their benefit. All this is changed now 'Hie reverse .s the ens: nt prrt , ent 1.11.1.1 ly the people, although at lint ,I.rtt to comprehend, Lane St last seen tL Bence their feverish desire to tes ,,, re things to their toriner statuv hi l t callow has lost its nitoo•tion- lor [Lem. and that rim% see it tor an its natural holeolo , neso Denim-no - , is now the bright star rn the east, ri,ol they will hereafter follow it to the spot and hour where and which will Waal he re b orn and rebaptized tire blessed and glorious prtvilegee and principles of vonelltio tional liberty. —lt to wino. If not roairaclothh adrlre the New lurk 1t,,, 14 wivelLA. Southern hrethren when it 10111 111..1n (hey 1•1143111.1rston 111. 1r outrawee brevolas it hurt* the party The Strentinrol and Ira/ram/in should heel the at 'rtee and trim t 11.1.1 1. 1.11. V ,111. Id, 11" ,,, b1 Masi. lint "every church torn ildan, es. ry F. Boot house burnt and I•Vil,ry an.• of whip ping. Idituding, and political murder is 111 nail dirtven Into the Isuroc.railr colliti These thing. alo old co toe, the World thinks—at leant f o r the present- not lei mow Ill..) 1,11 rhed,,,,, tret OW ``.art.. .., t Idan4l 1l A few , local harper , . would do well to heed the florid-1y •dvlcrh-710 ilrrrl,i The World, like the ilerabl, is en tirely a ladle) paper; and, also like the latter, priiiis for the side that it am make the moat money ant of. It to not a representative of Democratic prineipk., nor do the Southern people care an) thing Rllollt its adstre. They know and we know, 81111 so does ever) bode else know, who knows anything at all, that etery church torn dou r, every school house burnt and "every t)sse or whtyping, branding and polio. eel tnurjer * is the act of Yankee carpet baggers, scalawags, or demoralized n ig germ, whom Radicalism has prostituted to its base purposes. Don't be alarmed, Mr. Ihrald, about the nails that are beidg driven iutothe Democratic coffin. That dread receptacal for load parties Las not yet been prepared for the De mocracy. In fact the timber out of which it is to be made is as yet but a eery entail sapling in the woods, with but little prospect of its ever being Used for such a 'total purpose. But let us advise you to be careful of yaw darn diseased and rotten party. Death Lan alrenby seized upon its vitale,and it will require the best skill of your trioei irmtinguished political quacks to keep tt alive until the nekt presidential earn• Feign. Shall the Foot of the Tyrant Trample our Free-Born Necks? If any attempt is ever made to exe cute the Force Bill,the text of which we published in last weekle WATCIIIIIN it will be met with serious, indeed with very grave opposition. The people thus far have submited to every indig ntty that the radical party basso vilely, so basely heaped upon them, but their patience !9 at la 4 exhausted. They will not quietly or tamely submit to further imposition, and we warn the powers that he, that they,. have pro ceeded too far already. The right to choose their own rulers, untrammeled, te the inherent right of the citizens 'of this country. It ts guaranteed to them in their great Mag na rharta, and they will n9l. allow it to be taken natty from them. Neith er Congress nor the President have any business to meddle with this right, and they aill doso only at their peril. We wunt free elections, 114 they used to he, Rod we will have them. No man nor set of men, not even an army t%itli harmers, shall prevent this. We may Just as well tight for liberty now as Jean+ hence, and if it must come to -anil the beak scene deter mined to tierce it on 114 then, the 1.1.11er it 14 Over the better. It lien tilt cci 7 walik to he Preto dent for a second term, let bun conic belore the people in the usual way and ash it renomination nt the hands of his party II• lie get it and is elected fairly, well and good. No one will lime any right to gainsay it. Itut when he attempts to force himself, and his party attempts to fOrce him, upon the country by the aid of the military and by the exercise of infamous and u nuunst itut 'omit powers, it then be comes another matter entirely. The liberties of ibis country and the Twine' pies of Republican tiovernment shall not be overturned and lost forever, for the sole and ignoble purpose of grata f. mg the inordinate and grasping am lution of one man. This the people have in their hearts determined, and they will abide by it. The force bill is an outrage upon in telligence. and a dastardly attempt to usurp to the administration the God green rights of a free people. Any at tempt to execute it, therefore, as we ha% e said atm% e, should he met by de termined and orgatored resistance, and if trill be. This is as certain as that the nun shines Let lia‘Nr and pus Washington lick spittlesi take notioe. —The bill repealing the act es tablishing a law library at the f'ourt 11.iume, for the benefit of the lawyers of Itrllclouu•, passed the Senate on \Veudesdai last. The fines and for fitted recognizances will, hereafler, be paid into the treasury of the county, fir the benefit of the tax payers, in place of being iced lor the purpose of purchasing law buol,i for our law ‘ers thi the mime ila) the Senate pa-i•ed the bill repealing the act which r arequire. the county coniniihrioners the local laws, in the dill-rent county papers These two bill., 11 signed by Governor, will nave to the tax payers ,4 - r the county between twelve and fif teen hundred dollars per year. We see It stated that the mer chants of New York and Philadelphia are about to lesson the number of "drummers" who are now swarming through the country and llocsling us all with samples. We are certain that country merchants will hear this news with great pleasure, for if ever a set of inortals were plagued to death by so 'ICIIIIIIOIO' 10 "give our house a call," country dealers are. The "drummers" come in dIVIIIIIOTIS, put up at the hotels Int-1,1111+1111e., and canvas the town by P hllolll, A !Min!: up on this Lust IleSr. %Old , ' he a good thing --Two or three °l our politicians, who have teen so long in a Radical senatorial district that they have got used to it, are growling now because the new apportionment bill places us in a Democratic district. It is the first time in twenty one years and perhaps longer, that the Democracy of Centre county have had it to say that they are in a Democratic district ; and it this is a reason for complaint, perhaps those who are troubled in that way had better move into a district where they can have Radical, rule to their heart's content. —lt is intimated that Gov. Ossav will veto the apportionment bill which the Legislature, alter scrnidth trouble, has agreed upon. We hardly believe he will, fur his sense of justice is cer tainly to acute to allow him to remand the people back to the infamous ap portionment of 1864. If he should v.. to it, he will be taking a responsibility that will crush Lim. .-. The 'Freudlt Reds ere getting `4111 1 .14d hy the troops of the Govern- Milli, "Inners now look an though the 'nil of the bloody work were ep. proseb lug. Simon says Wiggle-Waggle The Republican of this week has a long article landattm of that old po litical villian, SutoNTtmettoic. in the face of the fact that a finger old prosti tute never lived„ Itteon N goes 011'11)10 a perfect ecstacy of deright-oveli his in comparable character. "Chic isn't an hallucination" of BROWN•kI, however. There is method in his madness. Just now old StmoN Cturittoix has it vast influence with the adminis tration of GRANT, who likes l'‘neftwv because the latter is so much like him self. BRUN N has the remembrance of former favors conferred upon the old Centre Democrat office by CAMERON, alter that paper had deserted its prin ciples for pelf, the recipient of which favors was (jell. JANES S. Muslim, at that time connected with that estab lishment. BRI9RIN was in the habit of miffing CAllErlosf to the skiesabout every other issue, and, in return for this, the hoary beaded old sinner pa tronived him to the extent of getting him a commission as lieutenant in the regular army, anti allerwaitis lent his aid in pushing bun forward. !WON N Aliks now that lie can idn, istine game with the Sallie snrrces We doubt it, however. We think he is wasting his powder. Lightning hard ly ever strikes twice in the same place, and ItRON s will find that etaratix, alter bluing been so badly humbugged by !Seism's, will not be particularly desirous or having the operation re pealed. So there is pretty nearly two columns of wind and ink wasted,which, in these deStltiff high pricer; for gas anti printing materials, is considerable of lilt !teal. If our contemporary can in duce OM SI 1111 V to refund him in cash the cost of preparing that weak solm lion of brains and dyspepsia, he may consider himself well off —There us , n• prospect of another lead loch in the Legislature in refer erence to the Registry law. The Demo crlits demand that it dial! be amended, and some of the Republican members are willing that it should be, and re fuse to be hound by 'heir party caucus in the matter The Radical majority in the (louse also refuse to pass the Senate's until the Senate passes the !louse bills, and the Senate don't care about legislatiug any more until the governor signs the apportionment hill. So it goes. Friday or !net week, it took but five minutes (or a Republican niemlier to induce a Republican House to pa ha a resolution, allowing ten dollars per day, oier and above their regular salary, for eiery day the) are In session after the illy of Apr I . When the renoltition went to the Democratic Senate, relerred 1.. Itr appropriate committee, re It I. likely I.) 'taker. the sleep !hat 6110W4 no- %Yak inz Unjust, ungenerous, unkind and untrue -the charges of the Iluntmg• .log Montb,r, agitinat one of the Demo eni t ic a.pirante for Audilur General 6 4 1. n me, Brother eoas anNr Senatorial Conference The conferees of the 2lst senatorial &strict, composed oldie Counties of Centre, Blair, Huntingdon. Mifflin, .Juniata and Perry, met at the Ex. change Hotel, in Huntingdon, Pa., pursuant to a call for that puJpose, ou Tuesday, the 241 day of May; inst., and organized by electing John S. Miller, or Huntingdon county, President, and Wm. A. McOonigle, of Blair county, and It. E. Parker of Juniata county, Secretaries. The following conferees were then announced by the rending of their cre dentials, to wit: Win. A. McGonigle, Henry Mclntosh and Samuel McFad den, of Blair county; Wm. Furey, George ?defier,' and D. F. Fortney, of Centre; Robert Mcßurney, W. P. McNite and John S. Miller, of Hunt ingdon county; James North, Joseph flibson and R. E. Parker, of Juniata county ; Win. Wilson, - C. R. Dull and J. P. &Meitner, of Mifflin county; find Dr. Swartz, B. P. Miller and Thomas Shiselry, of Perry &minty. After which the convention, t being duly organized, proceeded to elect dele• gates to represent said district in the next State convention. Whereupon, John H. Orris, Esq., of Centre, and Dr. I). P. Hook, of Perry county, were selected as delegalse to represent this, the 21st district in the State Conven tion called to meet at Harrisburg, on Wednesday, the 114th inst„ for the pus pose of nominating candidates for 4w ditor General end Surveyor ()opera) and for other purposes. After which tbe following redilleitous were adopted, ho wit t Rusoired, That th e delegates ehls day elected by this convention be and they are hereby Instructed to use all legitimate end honorable means to sr cure the nomination of she Hon.Stun'h T. Shugart, 9f Centre county, for Au. ditor General; and if—after having ex hausted all legitimate means available for that liarpose—ittbould become im• possible to secure r. Shugert's nom ination—then and in that event, we deem it our duty to name Dr. A. 1). Markley, of Bucks county, as the eec ond choice of this district for that im portant office. Resolved, That the delegates this day elected he and they are hereby in structed to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of 11. Stewart E4q., of Dauphin county, for Surveyor General. W. A. MeGoatm.a, R. E. PARKER, Secretaries. Swinging Round the Circle W hen President Johnson, during his official term Qs the tenant of the 'White !louse' at Washington, made a trip to the West on some really nationally in tereeting occasion, all the Radical Re publican press—Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart—mnde a great out cry against hint. They say hp was rang ing the country like a foot-pad to rob it of its political cash—or votes. Well, how now? Here is the beggar, the un qualified and unlimited acceptor of presents, and the unmitigated manikin and dumb figure bend of a political party, li. S. Grant, "swinging round the circle," in as conspieious and de ' niiiii.tratile a manner as ever Andrew Jiihnbon did, But instead of sneers and jeers and all that sort of thing, the ler) , same press that ridiculed and slim tiered Johnson, now lauds, magnifies, and advertises the great military and ()laical fraud and quack, 'Big Smoke' Grant. Well, it is truly wonderful how poor human nature can be misled by self motives and blinded by partisan bigotry, in politics, as well even as In morals and re" - ;:on. Nobody of corn mon sense, or whose eyes are not closed against light by the merest partisan prejudice, can fail to see that Grant, in company with Vice President Colfax and Senator Morton, a number of oth. er prominent demagogues, are on a ho !meal tour with a view to the next Presidential election. We have and make no objection to this. We really and sincerely wish that the Repulill can party will nominate Grant for the succession. Tney, of course, think he is the only roan they can elect. This is only a proof of their conscious pover ty of good and great statesman, or an acknowledgment that, in their judgment, the people of this coun try don't want a statesman at the helm, but a third rate soldier, an igno rant statesman, a reclaimed drunkard, and a selfish man. We think that the weakest, corruptest, vainest, meanest, ar d foolitibest man that ever sat in the Presidential chair is the present incum bent, and that a large majority Of the people of this country are fast com ing to that conviction.—Sanday Mer cury. A TTEIII9 - AT WHOLE/84.1.K TIIIKVING. —As Major fluff was surveying a piece of land on the mountain, in the neigh borhood of Sandy Ridge, n few days h e di4covcred indications of a con_ odertilde large sized attempt at stealing shingle timber, upon land for which Mr Richard A therton,of this place, is agent. Reporting it, a warrant was issued sod placed in the hands of Constable J. C Noun who deputized Mr. Charles Cop. lin, and together they made a de cent upon the suspicious parties, cap turing-.lorry Sharrow and four others, whose name we did not learn They had cos nearly seventy trees ;Marrow at 'first refused to be gobbled, but its c ol ,elit s ra r ......r.eised of a 'winning way,' which lie rend, r, d [nore effective by the exhibstion of an nr,oliiient la the shape of a Fla slnader, lie a tlr persuaded to submit. • The peas a. re brought to town crud taken b. fore a justice of the peace, where Sharr.,w and two others pleaded guilty, the r. reaming two &dim ing their innoceine Alter a hearing the matter was conitironowd, the guilty parties agreeing to pay the costs, $lOO, and appear before n ju•lice on Monday next, Our opinion re that these fellows were left off too easy They should have been punished to the full extent of the law, for, Hour information be cor rect, this is not the only time they have been engaged in this business, and an example cannot be made too soon. l'hilipsburg Journal WM --The Hon. James tl Blair of Missouri, who left the Itepublieun cau cus, replies to a note addressed him on the subject at some length and con• eludes: 14: the Republican party has no high. er, thtkler, nor:more exalted mission, atm, anii purpose, than the taxing of the people of the West for the benefit of the aristocrats and monopolists of the Kart, and the continued degrada tion rind humiliation of th• white peo pie of the South, then I must confess that I am at a lose to see how myself and toy liberal Republican friend in my district, who agree with me in sen timent, can consistently longer affiliate or net witil it. Aid BUCII is New If stWpelgire Ku KLur.—Two thousand active, unprincipled, Northern ecoundrols (State prison Convict. prefered), are wanted to travel through the South, scaring, robbing murdering people here and then, burning houses a n d other property. Pay prompt, and 'Co particular dauger: These crimes to be charged to the to Klus, and p l id for by the Rapublicase, who will tiro have sotnething to talk about s they are passiug brie ICP r9t , thr ptol of million, of dollars aud oalliutt.• acres of land belcuicing to the public. Por situations and information, ad. dress U. B. Grant, President and breed er of doge, or B. F. Butler, thief and coward, Washington, D. C.—Es. —A ministar aot long ago preach. ad from the text 'Boys theretbre stead fast,' but the printer made bint , , pound how 'Re yo {here f%r break. hist l' THE BOARDER CLAMS. Mr. Dill, from the special committee on the borger war claims, made the following report: The select committee to whom was re ferred the petition of 500 citizens of Chambersburg, praying for some legisla, lion to make compensation for the traordinary losses of property sustained by them (luring the late war, make the following report: That they have considered the subject matter of the petition referred to them and generally the question of losses by our citizens of the southern - border during the war, by, reason of depreda tions upon their property by the confed erate and federal forces, and particularly by raids of the former, and will proceed to state their conclusions upon the several points Involved In the question of public responsibility for those losses, with the grounds upon, which thetr conclusions rest. Their report is made thus broad, because they understand that their investigation was not intended to he confined to the Chambersburg losses alone, but to extend to all the losses which occurred upon the border which heretofore have been subjected to ex amination under the authority of the state. The first question to he considered is, whether the United States are liable for the losses upon the border,eit her by rea son of a direct constitutional obligation or by reason of particular facts connect ed with the several invasions of the state to by both By the fourth section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States it Is provided that the United States shall protect each of the States of the Union against invasion. This guar antee Is coupled with two others—the one for protection of the several States against domestic violence upon demand of state authorities, and the other secure to them republican forms of govern ment.litigninst every form of external and inte al danger, accompanied by vi olence, this comprehensive section of duarantees was intended to protect the ates, and the obligation assumed by the Veiled Stares under it has been one expressed limitation, which is, that the interposition of the federal government against domestic violence must be invok ed by the legislature of a State or by the executive thereof when the legislature cannot be convened. No one can doubt, upon reading these guarantees of the constitution, and duly considering the general objects for which the constitu tion was made, as announeed in its pre amble, that complete defense to the states was promised and intended there by, and that an obligation of self-defense Which, in the absence of the constitu tional compact, would have rested ex clusively upon the several States was thereby charged upon the federal gov ernment. It is not necessary to insist that the States respectively parted with the right of defending themselves against external danger, when imminent, or against actual Invasion, hut unques tionably the whole duty of defending them imposed upon the United States. Nor can it be doubted that this obliga tion and duty of the United States to protect each State against invasion Is not confined to cases of invasion by a for eign enemy. The guarantee is express ed in general language and is without limitation. An invasion of a State from another State or association of States is as much provided against as an invasion from abroad This is the clear conclu sion to he drawn from the language of the guarantee and from considering the known reasons which dictated its Inser tion In the constitution. Hence Judge Story, in his work upon the constitution, section 1,818, In speaking of this' guar antee, declares "that the latitude of the expression here used seems to secure each State not only against foreign hos tility, but against ambitious or vindic tive enterprises of its more powerful neighbors." It is beyond dispute that the United States did not keep this guarantee of de fense upon the several occasions when our border was struck by the enemy dur ing the recent war of the rebellion. The guarantee was hot kept and duties under it performed by the United States, and by reason of their default, our citi zens were assailed in their peaceful homes and their property aPpropriated, or wasted and consumed. They were completely innocent of all blame. They had performed all their duties both to the slate and federal governments by contribution of taxes, by voluntary as seasments upon them:wlyes in aid of the common defense, by the raising of troops, and by complete obedience to all the laws of the land. Hut their just claim—their absolute right to protection and defense against external violence-- was riot maintained. by either of the governments to which they owed allegi ance It i• true. Al a general orloco 'bat "protection against In ~,n le due pr o (every society In th- ~ A rts ennipoßing• IL' (Story s?,l •we. 1,818) This correlative of all ;lance rests oval every state, and in ?to absence of compact or treaty betvet co states is exclusively a state obligation. Rut under our system of dual government the case Is widely different,to already shown. Primarily, • I,' '• oloit unquestionably rests upon the United`states, and was assumed by them in the federal rompeti for full and valuable consideration The con tribution of 'awe strength to the Union, and the I.ssittnidirm of numerous and onerous duties to the federal govern ment by the people and government of each state constitutes the solid townie lion upon which this federal obligation rests. It follows that a state may de mand this protection for its citizens from the federal government In every possible case, and hence, in no ease.can the answer he made b or In behalf of that government that t h e state Is bound to defend Itself, If, then. an.) obligation or linty refits tipiii) :t t.. rowel Ile own people 11 lon, It must be considered as o: • , .be di..cossed only between the t wo. ...) 1.4 we OP/cash) clew of the peee last halms Which subsist between them. The United States cannot assert any such state obligation or duty In the hum of their own cleat e 4aerantee eon hinted ti In the fourth of the eon. siVao. In the . default of the gonstitutional proteetion of the state by the United Bte'es against Invasion, and of an actu al defoose of the slate by herself On sottwuuwuw ut 11A, it ftllllo, can any we detilit al.at the oath," lecisrred by the state for defensive purposes w ou ld constitute a just demand against the United Statte ? In such case,ougnt not the guaranteeing party to Ake good the outlay incurred by reason of his de fault, and when the state makes her de mand for reimbursement would it not be most unreasonable and unjust to re pudiate or reject it? But can losses in curred by the state or by her citizens in consequence of a breach of the guaran tee to put upon a different footing from the outlays incurred by the state in self defense? In each case the default of the guaranteeing and protecting party is the cause and foundation of the de mand.• The committee can discover no limitation in Such case upon the respon sibility of the United States excepnheir inability to respond to the demand- It is admitted that war ravages may he so extensive as to render indemnity to in nocent Sufferers Impossible. The bur. den may be too great to he horns, and cannot, therefore, be accepted or stinted. But in the present case the plea of bankruptcy or inability ca nnot be interposed. It is to be observed that the guarantee in the constitution is One in favor of the several states In their capacities as parties to the compact, anti Is therefore to be asserted by the states and not by individual citizens in all cites of its rio lation. Hence ills proper and becomes necessary, in the present instance, to cxamint• the relation and intercourse be tween the state and the federal govern. mootduring the war, and the conduit of each in relation to the defense of Ihe state. Did the state perform all her do ries to the federal government, and is she in a position to claim that the guar mitce in question should have been kept? The 7111SVI er to this question is furnished by the statutes f' the ',mu monwealth, and by the public recordsof the war. The slate furnished her due iihnrc of militia and vo:unteers under the He v , ral calls made by the President of the l M. ted States mid she submitted without complaint to the vigorous execution within her limits of the conscription act of March, 10;3, and Its several supple ments. Iler due share of troops for the public service was furnished by her or drawn from her under United States laws and 'presidential proclamations throughout the war, and in addiniat thereto, in several cases of emergency, she furnished to the United Slates her own desensive force At the urgent demand of the war department she al. lowed her border to be uncovered to the stroke of the enemy, when, by a more selfish policy, she could have secured her own protection at the peril of the conunon Interests involved in the strug gle. _ But it is a material consideration in passing upon her conduct as a member of the federal Union in a time of unex ampled diftidtty and danger that she did not rely wholly upon the Pulled Staten for her protection from externs/ danger. In addition to F 1 prompt, real. cam and complete performance of all her duties to the common cony she made adequate provision for defending i t herself, and would have whol relieved the federal government fro the per. fornnuice of practical duties her un. der the constitutional guaran e if that government had not interfered ith her de fensile arrangements and taken Cr) MI her defensive force. The report then proceeds to review the measures taken by the state for the defense of her eitizAms. The reserve Corps was organized at a cost to the state of $3,000,000, and transferred to the federal army immediately after the Bull Run defeat, thereby exposing our borders to the enemy In Imo:I the m, Iltia were called out to defend the ex posed portions of the state, and the money advanced to pay them. The leg. islature subsequently legalized the pay ment and authorized a loan to meet iL In 1864 six regiments were organized for border defense, but were called to the Potomac to reinforce Hunter, after his defeat, 'and the destruction of Chain, bertiburg was the result. An extraordi nary session of the legislature was called, and V 1,000,000 more appropriat ed for defense , but the war soon after closed, and no part of it WAS expended and the money paid for the reserve corps, and for the militia in 1863, was repaid to the state by the general gov ernment. The state, in the opinion of the committee, discharged her duty faithfully, but her borders acre Fn el, and her citizens suffered spoilation, because her defensive troops acre trans. ferret.' to save the Union armies. The report then reviews the various acts of assembly from 1861 to teats, in all eight different enactments providing for the adjudication of the claims and filethe payment of a portion of then They show that lb* ultithate payment of the claims by the general government was steadily kept in view by the state, and lbw the state has recognized hut duly to procure an adjuntmerbo of them for her chizemi. fliv ii•port vonclislcs its follows ruder the several acts above men tioned the border elitinis have heel' ex amined and ascertained under the sanc tion of state authority, and the evidence of their amount and character is upon file in the office of the attorney generaL Some of those ascertained under the earlier assessments have hero thallhy the United State , ' and upon those lo cated in Chatnbermburg half 4L 1111111011 of dollars lute been paid out of the slam treasory wider the act of nth of Feb ruary. 1866. Speaking generally, the vaihTity mud 'justice of the border claims have been asserted in the strongest po9 ntanner by the state government, and the whole scope of state action enneorning them pOinla to the ultimate adjustment and payment. 'The losses.which arc the subject di the present inquiry were canned by sue. ceselve raids In 11389, 1868 and 1864, b' the advance and operation.' of 'Lees army in 1863, and by depredations and appropriatiens of property at severe!" times by federal troops. As to the lait. ter, It is to be noted that the militia, by whom WHIM of the damages were (wok slotted, were tuusturt.ti into the UnlteLP Staten service -before their advance the border, nod constituted a part ur; the federal forces. The aggreg . ... l 4 l amount of the claims cannot, with me_._ Mena of information at band be ex-auw ly Meted. In the official repirts en filit in the auditor genera.. office some " the claim. are duplicated; some of the. reported upon under the act of 18 68 14 ing contained in prior report&• lint the sum total, of the claims will not exceed , two Million tight hundred,thousaud do), tars, and they will be suliject to such
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