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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
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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. Those from eighteen to twenty live re pug
down as