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THIS HOUSE so well known to the traveling public, continues under the charge of Isaac Mengcl. He spares no pains to supply the wants and comfort of all who favor him with their patronage. His table is spread with the best the market affords. His chambers are handsomely furnished. A convenient stable is at tached to the House, attended by careful hostlers. • apr. $, 1864a-zz. EXCHANGE HOTEL, HUNTINGDON, PA. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. April 29th, 1864.—ft. UNION HOTEL. VALENTINE STECKMAN, PROPRIETOR, "West Pitt Street, Bedford, Pa., \ Formerly the Globe-Hotel.) THE public are assured that he hat made ample ar rangements to acoommodatoall that may favor him with their patronage. A splendid Livery Stable attached. [apr.'fif. A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION. LITERATURE AND MORALS. Sflct} of Heine. COME TO TEA. Will you coiae and take tea, Dear Eliza, with me ? If we're well and alive, We shall drink it at five ; If yon think that too early. Why, without hurly-burly, We'll drink it at six, If that hour you fix; Or, to please, any time 'Twixt that hour and nine. We'll do just as you choose, But you must not refuse, For I long to be near you, To see you and hear you. THE EXCELLENT MAN. They gave me advice and council in store, Praised me and honored me more and mors; Said that I only should wait awhile— Offered their patronage, too, with a smile. But with all their honor and approbation, I should long ago have died of starvation. Had there not come an excellent man Who bravely to help me along began. Good fellow 1 he gave me the food I ate, His kindness and care I shall never forget; Yet I cannot embrace him, though other folks can; For I myself am this excellent man ! Iters and ©tte firms. A LITTLE BOY in Portland. Maine, the other day got hold of a bunch of matches, played with them a while, and then set fire to the premises, and sev eral thousand dollars worth of property was destroyed. t JT is RUMORED that Mr. RIVES' heirs will be forced to discontinue the reporting and publication of the debates iu Congress, in the Globe the present ses sion, unless Congress comes to their relief. IT WAS ANDREW .TOIINSON who, in the United States Senate, in one of his speeches denouncing session, 6aid as he passed his finger in the direction of JEFF. DAVIS, "if I were the President, I would ar rest you as traitors, try you as traitors, and hang you as traitors! THE "50 PER CENT" tariff is operating very disas trously to the foreign importers, some of whose a gents abroad have been making heavy 'purchases, without knowing what was going on at Washington. Cases have oceured where goods thus purchased were resold under the conviction that to send them across the, Atlantic, under the circumstances would be a losing speculation. CONDUCTORS on the passenger railway cars are not obliged to furnish change to the passengers.— The decisions in the courts are that a passenger must furnish the exact price of his ticket, and not compel those who carry him to give change. — When change is given at any time to a customer, it i 8 for his convenience and to oblige him but he has no "right" to demand it. GRANT'S COOLNESS. —An incident occurred during Thursday morning, that illustrates the coolness and self-possession of the Commander-in-Chief of the ar raiesof the United States. While the heaviest artilery firing in the morning was in progress, Gen. Grant was standing in company with Gen. Meade, near a fire, talking and endeavoring to keep themselves dry. when a rebel shell struck within a few feet of the twain. A disposition to move was manifested on the part of a number of officers (Handing around, when Gen. Grant looking slowly around and fixing his eyes on the spot where the shell struck, asked at once for a pocket compass, which, being furnished, he exam ined the course of the shell, found out the location of the battery, and it was not long before shells were thick among the men working said battery.—Corres pondence of Philadelphia Inquirer. FREE LABOR IN NORTH CAROLINA. —The Newbern (North Carolina) Timesoi June 4tli says: "Oldslave liolders themselves, who arc honest and candid, are forced to admit the just and vastly superior claims of free labor. They see the sluggish and einervated laboring population accustomed to live around them, animated with new hopes and fresh vigor. The va cant and idle lands lying in vast tracts in every lo cality and county, are being reclaimed with rapidity, the results this year alone within the old counties of CraVcn and Carteret, will be perfectly astounding to the ancient friands and sticklers of the worn out institution of slavery. If these happy results can he achieved at this early period, who can estimate the radical and tremendous changes which arc sure to occur when all the blessings of free labor policv are sanctioned, protected and defended by wise anil human laws adopted under a free state constitution?'' A TON OF SILVER FOR THE SOLDIERS. —Nevada Ter irtory is about 3,000 miles distant from the seat of war, in the heart, of a mountainous and seemingly sterile wilderness, ami yet th<f owners and patriotic people of Virginia City, Goid Ilill. Silver City and Dayton, on the 16th and 17th of May, made the splen did contribution of nearly twenty-five thousand dol lars to the St. Louis Sanitary Fair, which, with the silver bars previously sent forward, will amount to quite a ton of silver, worth at its market price in the East, fifty thousand dollars in Goverment currency! The meetings held in the cities and towns above na med were of the most exciting character. The con tributions were mainly made by miners, merchants, mechanics, and professional men of Nevada. The employees of the great Gould k Curry minegave thir ty-five hundred dollars, and the Virginia Union char ges that the great companies which could easily af ford to donate a quarter of a million from their cof fers, were generally most shamefully indifferent. A sack of flour from Austin, Rees river, which had be come famous in a bet on the municipal election the loser having to carry it on his shoulder a mile and a quarter to the winners residence, and which had been re-sold at auction in Austin until the sales netted $5,300. was also sold and re-sold at Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, and Dayton, and brought the additional sum of about $12,000t0 the Sanitary Fund! The "Sack of Flour"' is to be sent with the ton of sil ver to the St. Louis Fair. "This is a great country." INCREASE OFPAY IN THE ARMY. WASHINGTON, June 22. The President has signed and approved the act to increase the pay of the soldiers in the United States Army. It provides that on and after the Ist of May last and during the continuance of the present rebel lion the pay per month of the uon-commissioned offi cers and privates in the military service shall be as follows, viz: Sergeant Majors, S2O ■ Quartermasters and Com missary Sergeants of Cavalry, Artillery and In frntry, S2O; Sergeants of Ordnance, Sappers and Miners, and Pontoniers, $34 ; Corporals of Ord nance, Sappers and Miners, and Pontoniers S2O; Pri vates of Engineers and Oidnance, of the first class $lB, and of the second class, sl6 ;Corporals of Cav alry. Artillery and Infantry, $lB ; Chief Buglers o! Cavalry, $23, Buglers, sl6; Farriers and Black smiths of Cavalry, and Artificers of Artillery, $lB ; Principal musicians of Artillery and Infantry, $22 : lenders of brigade and regimental bands, $75; Mu sicians, sl6; Hospital Stewards, of the first class, $33, Hospital Stewards of second class; $25; Hospital Stewards, third class, $23. All non-commissioned officers and privates in the regular army serving undei enlistsments made pror to July 2*2 d, 1861. shall have the privilege of re-enlisting for a term of three years in their respective organizations, until the Ist of Au gust next, and all such non-commissioned officers and privates so re-enlisting, shall be entitled to the bounty mentioned in the joint resolution of Congress, approved January 18th, 1864. In all cases where the Government shall furnish transportation and subsistence to discharged officer? and soldiers, from the place of original muster into the service, they shall be entitled to travel, pay oi commutation of subsistence. BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1864. LINCOLN AND JOHNSON. SPEECH OF HON. JOHN SHERMAN. Senator Sherman having been invited to address the Ohio Club of Washington City, made the following speech on Saturday evening last: The time has arrived when we must engage in the Presidential canvass. We cannot postpone it for the reason that we are in the midst of a civil war; but the fact that we are in such war makes our action more important. The war itself be comes the great political question —testing parties and controlling nominations. If the line is not now drawn, the logic of events will soon draw it. Shall the war go on until the Rebels lay down their arms, or shall we acknowledge the indepen dence of the Rebel States ? This will be the issue. Trimming won't answer. It is idle to talk about the loss of life caused by the war, the public debt, the derangement of business. After all the growl ing and grumbling, the question will come back — What of it? Shall we therefore give up the Union? Are not all these evils less than a broken Union, a Government destroyed and demoralized, a peo ple divided iuto fragments by successful rebellion? We must come back to the choice between the Union —one and indivisible—strong, free, and hopeful, even though burdened by war and debt, and a broken Union, dishonored by defeat. I will not insult you by suggesting a doubt as to where you will be found in such a contest. We are for Lincoln and Johnson, [applause], first, last, and all the time, with heart and soul, without exception or reservation, simply because they are for the Union, for the war, for sustaining the army, and for whipping Rebels wherever they show themselves. V e are not for Fremont, be cause we look upon him as the representative of a dissatisfied faction who have not patriotism enough to submit to the public will when the safety of the country is involved. We are not for the nominees of the Chicago Convention, beeause we know the ruling spirits of that Convention are the very men who encouraged tire Rebels to revolt. They may bait their hooks with a peace man. or a war man. or one of each kind, but we know that, if they are successful, the blood of our patriot heroes wiii have been shed in vain, and disunion ar.d a shame ful peace will he the result. My friend Coombs tells you that Lincoln and Johnson were nominated by the Baltimore Con vention. I beg leave to correct the statement. — They were nominated by the people long before the Convention was held. I have attended, either as a delegate or a spectator, several National Con ventions, but I never knew one that had so little to do as the recent one. We knew jut as well who would be the Union candidate for President before as since the Convention. The renominu f ion of Mr. Lincoln was the act of the people. It is the voice of our brave soldiers now re-enacting the heroism of antiquity. It is the voice of the loyal masses of our countrymen, without re-raid iState, locality, color, or condition. The insur gents, in rebelling againt Mr. Lincoln, rebelled against the popular will, constitutionally express ed. Popular will so expressed is the king, the einperor, the supreme power in this country, and he who rebels against it rebels against every loyal citizen. Mr. Lincoln was made President by the people, and the people are determined that he shall be the incarnation of the popular will. To have nominated any one else might have been construed into a doubt as to the right of the people to have elected him four years ago. Mr. Douglas, the boldest and ablest leader of the old Democratic party, said that the election ol' any man by the people could not justify rebellion. Ho onr loyal people think, and they have resolved to give no encouragement to Rebels until they submit to the rightful authority of the indentical man who was made President by them. 1 know that some pa triotic men would have preferred a change, be cause they thought it unwise to elect any man President for a second term; others were dissatis fied with some acts of the Administration, and others had personal preferences; but the popular will, expressed through every organ of opiuion, long since swept away with its impetuous current all doubts and preferences. Now this opinion, sure before, is written and confirmed by the Na tional Convention. Opposition is faction —a very small faction at that. To the great body of our people who love this country, who love its free in stitutions, who wish to transmit them unimpaired to posterity, the way is plain, the path is easy.— We must support the constituted authorities. We must re.elect Old Abe, and let him finish the work so gloriously begun. [Applause.] Let us pre serve the Union, and if the Constitution, in pass ing through the terrible fire kindled by rebellion, shall be purified of the stain of Slavery, it will be for the glorious resurrection and a better life. If Slavery fiuTbv the wavside. let us bury it in the grave of Jeff. Davis. It was the curse of our sys tem which the framersofthe Constitution were ashamed to name. It. represented turbulence, violence and crime. Its type was a blustering bul ly, bloated with bad whiskey. It domineered in politics, religion and society. All that will be left of the rebellion when Old Abe geu-> through with it will be an emancipated race of four millions, thaaking God daily for deliverance from worse than Egyptian bondage—a grand march forward in civilization and humanity. It is sy,id that Mr. Lincoln does not lead this mobement. He may not waste his ammudition in the skirmishing line, hut he travels with the people. When he puts his foot down, something is done —not talked about. I am glad he has so brave and true an associate on the ticket —a man who understood what re bellion meant from the start, and who told Jeff. Davis and his colleagues in treason more that three years ago, "If I were President of the United States I would arrest you as traitors, try you as traitors, and hang yon as traitors." [Applause. ] Andy Johnson is a true man —not polished by the refinements of schools and societies, but a monu ment of truth, patriotism and courage; a finished piece of nature's handiwork, without many artifi cial adornments. I sat by his side for two years in the Senate Chamber, and without any previous persoual or political affinities with him, learned tc admire him. At one time his wife, his family, his home, his kindred were all in the possession, of the Rebels, but his eye never quailed and his voice never faltered. He frequently talked about the war and his own jiersonal sacrifices, but lie never re ere t ted his course, he never doubted his duty. His love for his country was only equalized by his hatred for Rebels. Such men should lie prized as the jewels of the nation, and the nation will do itself honor by making him Vice President. I only regret we have not another Vice President to elect, (applause,! and wish that Mr. Hamlin was again our candidate. He is an able aud faith ful public servant. Even those who felt bound to give the loyal men of the Houth a representative on our ticket, did so regrcting that this involved the defeat of Mr. Hamlin. But Hamlin, thank God, is not Fremont. He is willing to serve wherever duty assigns him, and already he has lifted his eloquent-voice in terms of highest praise and endorsement of his prospective successor. — [Applause. 1 The principles announced by the Convention are explicit and radical, just as they should be. They mean war to traitors, and peace only when traitors are overcome. They mean that we must have the entire abolition of slavery as security for future peace. I care very little for platforms. They are usually rhetorical lies —speeches such as Talley rand would make. The truo test ct' a party is its tendency—the way it drifts. The current of the Union party is toward a reunited country, strengthened by the terrible ordeal of war. It leads to universal emancipation, and the elevation of man—the practical security of those natural rights which Jefferson avowed in the Declaration oflndopendence, and endeavored to secure by the abolition of slavery in V irginia. It tends to na- tionalize, harmonize, and blend into one great na tion all the elements of our system, without dis turbing the home functions of our States and mu nicipalities. Let the current of our Union move ment be right, and who cares for the bars and ed dies, the ripples and eddies by the wayside ? Who cares for avmed Rebels or their sympathizers, or even for lukewarm friends, when the tendency of our movement leads to the haven of safety ? Look at our adversaries. The other day they refused even to submit to the-people the proposition to abolish Slavery in the very way pointed out by the Constitution. After three years of war caus ed by Slavery, they still cliug to this bloody phan tom of despotism, while one hundred thousand freedmen arc standing side by side with the white soldiers of Grant anil Sherman, and at the very hour when, as General Smith tells us, the black troops of his command behaved with a gallantry and heroism worthy of the Old Guard of Napoleon. Yet those partv-ridden Democrats, who are as slew to learn as the Bourbons, would return those freedtnen to Slavery. Tliev would surrender Robert. Small the patriot, to deff. Davis, the trai tor. Now. while I see practical difficulties in dealing with the freedmen, yet, if I must choose between a black man who fights for the Union, and a white man who fights against it. I prefer the former. (Applause. ) It is not. difficult to choose between the black men who defended Fort Pillow, and the white, men who massacred them. Our adversaries say the Proclamation of Eman cipation is void—that all those freedmen are the slaves of Rebels—that Congress cannot emanci pate them—that, after fighting, and conquering, and securing us victory and peace, they and their posterity must be siaves again to their rebel mas ters; and yet, by their accidental minority in the House of Representatives, therrefuse to allow the people to secure by an amendment of the Con stitution the emancipation of these freedmen. — And remember, my Ohio friends, how we stand in this matter. We boast of our State, its free population, its central position, its bountiful resources, and more than all, of the 200,000 brave meu it has sent into the field, and the distinguished officers we have given to the service, and yet only five men in the Ohio delegation voted in the House of Represen tative to allow the people to abolish Slavery in the United States, and enough voted against it to prevent that result. (Cries of "shame. ) \\ hat better issue do we want than this? What written platform cart be more suggestive? Ohio ha* de ientod the abolition of ,Slavery in the United Sta ti iin 1864. Let us remember this in the canvass. (Applause. i My friends. I have taken but little part in polit ical movements during the preseut season, a- I have considered my duty best performed by ap plication to the very difficult financial questions pending before the donate; but after the .-••• i >n is over, in the great civil contest in which we are aliout to engage, I will allow no man to excel me in an earnest support of the Union ticket, believ ing as I do, that its success is indispensable to the preservation of the Union, and tire form of gov ernment under which we have lived and prospered. (Applause.) And let us always remember, iny friends, while we are performing our civic duties, that we are doing the lesser part. Cannon and muskets, sup ported by brave, heroic men, are of more service than UDV of us. Those men deserve the unbound ed gratitude of their countrymen. They have j honored our name—they have dignified our cause, i Thank God, the- sign* of the times in b ate their ! complete supoe**. Grant knows how to flank the ! enemy, fpd when he retreats he retreats South ward. Another array, in which Ohm i- rapnmuauv ed by over forty regiments, has crossed the last span of the mountains away down in Georgia, within cannon sound of Atlanta. Let u.s sustain, support and encourage these armies, and we may then hope to look to a peaceful future, when our kindred may gather again around the home fire side, and our country go forward in it* second and advanced stage of prosperity. (Applause.) THIt PEOPLES WAR In conversation with Copperheads, we have frequently heard, and have hoard with disgust, the cuckoo cry that the war was "Lincoln s do ings that it was "kept up by the shoddyitos, against the will of honest people;' that it true pa triots had their way the fighting would stop to-mor row." Ac., Ac.. Ac. Now, laying aside all question of the origin of the war in Charleston harbor we have always maintained, and do maintain, _ that not for one moment has the war for the Union pro gressed without popular sympathy, popular sup port and popular approbation in every style, man ner and degree. Those who demanded the dis play of the American flag at every house, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, in April. 1861, were the American people, unbiassed by party and filled with one common sentiment, of devotion to the Republic. And while in the first fervor of the flag demonstration but one heart and voice were felt and heard. Fernando M ood joined with Wendell Philips in exhausting the language of patriotism, and both maintained that tne na tion's life must be preserved by fighting. The sev enty-five thousand troops cubed out at thi* period were rejoicingly willing volunteers, and tnoy marched to Washington not only crowned wi.u the praises, prayers and tears of tho.-e Whose loy alty lias stood the wear of three years, but with universal eulogies and cheers offered by tfow who have since become Copperheads and traitors. Under the subsequent calls for troops the vonin tcers mav be numbered by hundreds of thousand*: Senator Wilson says they amount to que million seven hundred thousand men ! Surely if ever an, cause bad popular support it wa* shown in the heroic action of (his almost countless hosts of pa triots! But further, we may remind the reader that when drafting was tried as a substitute _ for volunteering, every art of every rebel sympathizer in the land was put in operation to check it.— Brutal vidians murdered loyal men by dozens tn Schuylkill county in this State ; traitors foSowed their example in Illinois. Kentucky and Mat-viand, and in the city of New York the crowning butch ery was accomplished. Yet the draft went on everywhere, though at New \ork the fiendish spirit of carnage, robbery and treason was only kept down by the sight of the glittering bayonet* of the Army of the Potnmac. . But time would fail us to indicate the signs of the popularity of the war. Look at the debt, wit h and without interest, of oyer one thousand, seven hundred and nineteen millions of do! nrs, v. hicit i. so bravely borne by the people, while they are also earer to carry the last new loan; the money of the nation is offered as freely as the lives of its bravest and best. Look at the Sanitary hairs, and the contributions to the Christian Commission, tin Great Centra! Fair in this city crowning these o - ferings with a splendor before which every work of the kind attempted in America pales into insig nificance. The Art Gallery alone almost equals the Louvre or Versailles ; while neit her in London or Pari* can a more enchanting scene bo found than in the Horticulture department, nor a more inter esting spectacle than that presented flag-urapped arches of Union Avenue, l ite r air is however, but one evidence of Philadelphia s support of the war. She has had ninety thousand of her sons in arms since the first gun at inurater; she has refreshed at her Volunteer baloons over half a million of soldiers, without a dollar of ex pense to the Government ; her daughters hare comforted scores of thousands of sick and wounded heroes in eveiy hospital in the vicinity; and her firemen have carried, free of charge, m their beau tiful ambulances, thirty-seven thousand of these mai mod heroes. Can any Government, una or the spell of red tape, do such works as these Can any "despot " make men, women andl ehUOren pott forth such largess of sympathy ? Verifr, tf ovfc. the people of any nat ion said Amen ! to tb prosecution of any war, that Amen has been pre nouneed by those wlmsusfom the War for Die t - nron. —Philadelphia Bulletin. SPEEC H BY VICE PKESIDEKT HAMLIN. His Opinion of the Union Candidates. lion. Hannibal Hamlin made a speech at a rat ification meeting in Bangor. Maine, on Saturday evening last, of which we find the following report in the Whiff: Mr. Hamlin said that the Government under which wc lived was but Ibtle more than three fourths of a century old. There were those pres ent, as he couidsee, within whose lives and recol lections its foundations were laid by onr worthy and patriotic fathers. The goddess of Liberty that surmounts the dome of the Capitol at Washington .verlooked a magnificent but uncompleted struct ure. And yet in tliis brief period of time the arms ofa wicked and causeless rebellion had been raised to sever the union of the States, and virtually to >ft ike down our form of Republican Government. War in all its horrors, and in magnitude nnequal ed in modern times, had been hurried upon the land. To-day, a gallant and noble army, under its most accomplished and distinguished leafier, Lieut.- Gen. Grant, was pressing the rebels back upon Richmond, the centre of treason and its power, and which, when thoroughly broken, as it would soon be, could not. be again recuperated. Another army, under the accomplished Gen. Sherman, was close upon Atlanta, the great workshop and depot of armament and supplies for the rebel forces. His campaign has been most.distinguished, and he ful ly believed would be crowned with complete tri umph. Such was the condition of the country ; and while they had assembled for a specific pur pose—to ratify the Union nominations' at Balti more—their action had a broader and more com prehensive scope. Or. in doing that duty, they should not forget that it was to preserve our Gov ernment; to strengthen it by our support; and to perpetuate it for all time; to sustain our armies in the field with ail our power ; and to pledge again to each other renewed efforts to crush out the last vestage of this unholy rebellion, that they had as sembled. These were the great duties of the day. More than that; as Slav #rv had sought to destroy Republican Government, and to substitute servi tude in its place, that too must pass away, and our Government must be free in fact as well as in name. No foot of Slavery must hereafter pollute its soul.. — To accomplish these objects, and for the perform ance of these stern duties, the nominations at Bal timore were made. In this view we give to them an earnest, an honest, and a most cordial indorsement and support : and as the best evidence of doing so, we will cease in no proper effort until the nomi nees are triumphantly elected, as they certainly would be if alive, in November nest. The nomi nations were platted upon the distinctive ground of preserving and perpetuating the Constitution and the union of th< States. It wa- upon that ba sis that the convention had been called. It was addressed to all who loved their country above mere party, and who desired to preserve if. Old political organizations had served their purposes and passed away. The Republican party, by whom President Lincoln had been nominated and elected, had only demanded the non-extension of Slavery. But Slavery having inaugurated the war for the avowed purpose of making itself the basis and corner-stone of Government, the very life of the Government demanded and required its extinction with the- war it has so wickedly as well asmadly waved. The Union must be severed, or Slavery must die. Those who were unconditionally for the Union were invited to unit ■ in an organization, and above all party, for it - jßnintenatv-e. It in voked all creeds in religion, end all pans - in pol itics to its standard. Such is the organization vrl ' n ntnees you haveW? i for tain by your eh. rt-. From his acquaintance with President Lincoln and Andrew .Johnson he felt that it was appropriate, and it would bo exporter that beshould say something of them personally. Of President Lincoln there was no words lie could use that would increase him in their estimation. — They have long loved him as the cherished and honored Chief Magistrate of the nation, and he had been renominated and would bo re-ellected in obe dience to the wrH of the people. Tie could only repeat what he had so often said, that President Lincoln was a man of eminent abilities, and of rare and unsurpassed integrity, who will administer the Government wisely and well, and bring the nation out of its present difficulties and plant it upon the eternal principles of liberty.' He will certainly do no intentional wrong, and we may repose in conii dence that all his undivided efforts will be devoted unselfishly to his country's good. The fearful re sponsibilities which has rested and will continue to rest upon him, arc such as has been placed upon no other man. The-contemplation of it alone is tearful; what then must be tlio reality. But un der a good Providence he will sustain and discharge hi* responsibilities. He (Mr. 11.) was not unmindful of the fact that many had complained that tuc President hud been too slow, while others had also complain 1 thar.be had been too fa-:, or even ra-b in his act-. With a people like ours, artivo. re-tive and impa tient. and unused tn the scenes of war. he win" would provoke no discussion or produce no divi sion of opinion, would be more than human. A mid the perils that had surrounded the Ship o State, he. had guided her with the hand ofa skill ful pilot, and would soon reach the quiet haven o: peace. Elect him by your votes, as you will, an, in the meantime give to him your "earnest cooper ation in the of the duties thus d \ci\< upon him. In a Union organization, compose of men of all political organizations, it was deemc wisest and best to select a man who had bee identified with the Pemoeraric party, and tk honored and incorruptible patriot. Andrew John son, of Tennessee, was nominated for \ iee-l'res dent, and he spoke of Andrew Johnson from long and-intimate acquaintance. He knew hit well, and a purer patriot did not live in the Jaw He had been Governor of Tennessee, and had r< j re- uited his State in the Senate and House Representatives of the United States. From ii long and varied experience in the councils of li. counti y, and by his intellectual abilities and hero; patriotism, lie was eminently fit to discharge I L duties of President, should he in the Provident of God, be called to do 80. Amidst traitors i the Senate from his own section, h> stood unmovee true to the Union, and unconditionally loyal t his country. With us loyalty cost - nothing. N< to be so was simply infamous. But to men wh lived, in the midst, of treason and rebellion an who literally took their lives in their hands, fo adhering to their country's flag, there was indue much merit. Such the po?dtioji oi Andrei Johnson, faithful he stood among the faithless Separated from his home, driven from his Mate his property seized and confiscated, hi* sons im prisoned and his wife and children driven to tn mountains, i'or the preservation of their lives, or sonic of the evidences which prove, beyond a. doubt, the loyalty of Andrew Johnson. Jwn only add that, he has given to tne tiovcinimit his unflinching support of all the measures whirl havo been adopted to crush out this ttebcJioii He long since paw wilh the eye of a sagacion statesman, that slavery could not be left again t impcril the country's peace and safety, and ha acted npon rhat. conviction. He is every way em inently fitted and qualified for th*: position t which he has been nominated, and he will ban our honest and earnest indorsement and support Such are the mou putiu nomination hy the I nio? organisation for President and k*-President worthy personally, for their eminent ability am integrity, of your earnest and unqualified support to carry nut the principles ret forth in the resolu tions of the convention. And yet v-. have here a lipge bodv of men by whom they will 1- violent ly and vindictively opposed, some of whom arc traitors at heart ' and who need only die overt art to consummate that crime. These men should have lung since been sent to their own place, to act and associate with therewith whom they were in sympathy, Said Mr. H., had lie the power, in many eases ft" should bare been iw* occasion top complaining of delay. But there was a still more Vol. 37: No. 7\ numerous class, from whom opposition was to come, called Democracy. These very men a-- mainly guilty of instigating the war. But for their acts it never would have existed. A person nee President of the United Staves, has stated what would be done hv Northern Democrats. That, troops to vindicate the integrity of the Union could not go forth without first passing over their dead bodies. It was this encoura<.e given by these so-called Northern Democrats, that i nstigated the war. as has their unceasing opposi tio:i prolonged it, lUidtbuu to their true re sp< mobilities, and do not let them escape or mis guide the uninformed. The blood which has been shed, the amouut oftreasure expended, and the grief which in many case s has been felt in the do mestic circle for the heroic dead, is upon them. But for their acts the war would not hate existed, and if they had discharged only a plain, simple duty in support of the Government, it might have long since ceased. The hopes of the rebels have long hung on the action of their friends in the North. The Tories of the revolution, whose names were a by-word and a reproach even to (heir deccudants, were patriots compared with these men. It was however, consoling to believe that all their efforts would avail nothing but their own disgrace. The Union would live in spite of all efforts of rebels in tbe South, or their sympathisers in the North. SPEECH OF AVIIREW JOIIXSOV. A great Union mass meeting was held at Nash ville. Tennessee, on Friday wight the 10th inst. at which Andrew Johnson, the Union Republican, candidate for the Vice Presidency made ancle luetit and patriotic speech. In the course of his remarks h • v.dd with much emphu-:.-: "I did not seek the position assigned me by the National Convention. Not a men in all t. ' and can truthfully say that I have risked him to ise his influence in mv behalf in that body, for :be position allotted to me. or for any other. o'i he contrary, I have avoided the candidacy. But I have not*-ought it. still, being c eu'. rr I upon me unsought, i appreciate it the mere highly.—- Being c.interred on ui ■ without s-.,•.•.< a lion T <Half not dvdin" it. [Applause.] Cone yal or v.. . suco -- or d*fr.":. sink or swim. Mirv.v, or perish. I accept the nomination, u principle, lo he ccmseijueiice- what they may. 1 will do what L Iwlicve to !• my duty. Speaking of slavery Gov. Johnson used thu anguagc: — _ ... '•"And here let tuo say that now mine time <o -ocur to these fundamental principles, while tha ami is rent with anarchy and upheaves wiiti the hroes of a mighty revolution. While -oeiety is ti this disordered state, and we are sorkvs secu ritv let us fix. the foundation oi the Government >n principles of eternal justice which wiH endure [Pr all time. There is an element in pur Biico>fe who are for perpetuating the institution of >-i --,-erv. Let me say to you. Temnesseeanj and irma front the Northern State*, that Slavery is dead. II was not murdered by me. 1 toid you long ago what the remit would be if you endeavored to ?o out of the Union to Slavery, and thai the re sult would be bloodshed, rapine, hems, plundered villages and chics'; and therefore x urge you to remain in the Union. In trying to Fi.i rciy you kill- '' h. an i k-t your own ire - i nn. Vour Slavery i dead, but I did murder it. As Mr; h>. ih said to fcanquM s bloody host, '■Never shake thy gory lock? at roe— Thou cari--\. not say 1 d.il it. Slavery is dead, anil you uiu.-t pa "don me if I do not mourn over its ucß<; isody; you can leave out the disturbing and aangerogs eI ntent, and !, • 01.i. ibos. J ■;= to -of tin- nine'. '/>•- " Wii.-cU will move in harmony. Now. in regard to enianwjiation, J want to say to the blacks th.it li ■; :ty means li'yrty to work otd enjoj the fruits of our labor. Idleness is not freedom. 1 desire that all men shall have a fair -tart and an equal chance in the race of life, and et him succeed who has the most menu 1 his, 1 hink, is a principle of heaven. lam for emanei tation lor two reasons: first,.because it is right in (self, and .second, because in the emancipation of ■lie slaves we break down odious and dangerous instocracy. T think we are freeing more whites han blanks in Tennessee. lam a democrat in the strictest meaning, of tne Km lam for the Government because .it ia 1 >moerafic — a government of the people. Tam or putting down this Rebellion, because it *is war igatns't cteuoerac.-. lie who stands off. stirring ip discontent in thi - State and higgling about ne mo.-. is practically in the Rebel camp and encour ices treason. He who in Indiana or Ohio makes ■ar upon the Government out of regard to 91a cry is just as bad. The salvation of the country - now the only bu-iness which concerns the i atn )<J. THE COURTSHIP. The following extracts from the leading Copper head and Radical newspapers will show how tho wooing process oi the two great parties is being rarried on. Thus : HOW THE HA PICA I > WOO TUT. rOTTEUirEAPS. [From the New Notion, the organ of Fremont.] ''Lincoln cannot hops for the support. of the new party, for its birth I* 2 tu> its Lin cdn ami'the present, Administration. Nor can MeClelian hope tor a better result. Vfilbout reckoning the extreme youth of this candidate, his Hitme has become, whether justly or unjustly, so identified with the doctrines that are so utterly repugnant to the Western p ijffe. that Fremont himself, had he the desire to do o, would bo un able to induce Lis friends to vote for . Let .eilan. The Democratic party has no o'iier name to put. forward. Gran* has been mentioned, and he, in fact. bekHUM to the Democratic party; but before the Fourth of July Grant will.have destroyed him self by bis own blunders and incapacity. \ hat will then remain to be done ? Suppose > : t Lin coln and M -Clellan obstinately persist; then we shall persist also. When we consider that ia e.ec in" Fremont as its candidate the new party es imuiscs the grievances of theYv est against the East; that it is eager and willing to regain it rights; that the new parte favors those foreigners whoso rights have iwen injured bv the proseut Adminis tration, animated as it is ny the spirit oi Know • Nothiugism; and that all these elements are young, anient, and in favor of extreme resolutions, wo eannotW conclude that prudence and patriotism will perfer to promote the success of a party led bv a man of unquestionable integrity, end wno is the incarnation of American freedom and dignitj'- There is so little difference between this party and the Democratic party that it would Ire easy to adopt t. common ticket which would sweep eyerj thir g before it. Such a step would be to the irt tcri-f of the Democratic tneket if it *H ( not remain four years longer in the background. ' HOW THE COPPEBHEAHS WOO THE RAHICAXS. [From the Now York World, Copperhead ] "But why should Democrats have any choice in.the action Of the Republican party (supposing it were to be successful) as between Lincoln and Fremont? On the slavery question their poney would bo the same; hut, an honest anti-slavery man would bo better at the head of the Government than a truckling, time-serving Abolitionist. And then Fremont is unequivocally for free speech, a free press, the right oi' asyiuui, the Monroe doe trine, and the guarantee of personal liberty.— There is nothing in the slavery question to bo weighed for a moment agftinrt tliese. So fkr a* the liadieal> consent, to atiad upon these pnw pies of tlie Ulevoiiw>d plati'orin, iay have a bond of s> in path y with t'ue Democratic party ami *uh ail Uuo patriots." , , 'An oxebango aak, very innocently, is it any hv fer voutig ladies to sit in the lapse of ages? Another repUesthat it all depends on tle kind of ages selee tea. 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