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I [From the Auburn I mo. i, Sept 5.] j Saturday was a gala day in Auburn, over the i splendid victor}' of General Sherman in the capture ' lof Atlanta. At an early hour all the flaps in the j j city were run lip, giving it a very gay and patriotic j appearance. At 5 o'clock P. M. all the bells struck , ; up a merry peal, and about the same hour a salute iof one hundred guns was tired. Immediately a j I large crowd, including several hundred volunteers j who were waiting to be mustered in, assembled in | front of the western Exchange, and were briefly addressed by Hon Christopher Morgan and Pro vost Marshal Knapp, After the speeches it was j proposed that the assemblage fnim in procession I ami march to the residence of Governor Seward. I The 1 and led off with a lively tune, and the line df j march was immediately taken up. Oti arriving in front of Governor Seward's residence the ssscni | blage became so large that it was found necessary to continue the march to the park adjoining Gov ernor Seward's grounds. After the processsion had halted, Governor j Seward was called for, and came forward and ad dressed the crowd in one of his most earnest and effective speeches, which was received with un bounded enthusiasm. After he concluded, three cheers were called for and given A will, for the following persons : Sherman. Grant. Sheri dan. Meade, Stanton, Farragut, Lincoln and Sew ard. Three more rousing ones were given for the soldier,? and the Union. The crowd then separa ted. tn the Evening Governor Seward was sere naded by the Auburn band, and responded to the compliment in a brief speech. The following is the speech of Governei Seward delivered in the Park : Mv DEAR FRIENDS : It is so that I like to see voii come —marching to the time of national airs, under the folds of the old national flag. I thank you for the hospitable and patriotic welcome. It proves that though you deal rigorously with your public servants, exacting reasons for their policy, energy in their conduct of affairs, and explanations ! for Failures and disappointments in their adminis ; tration. yet yon are nevertheless, just, beeauseyou willingly allow them to rejoice with you when you have .U'*ves, victories, and triumphs, to cele i brate. The news that brings us together is authen tic. [A Voice : l)b you think it is reliable.'; | Yes. Here is a telegram which 1 reetivbd this morning from the Secretary of \\ ar: i Van Duzer reports that Sherman's advance en tered Atlanta about noon today PartietiHrs not yet received. EDWIN M. STANTON. [Three cheers were given for Atlanta.] rvnnAorT AND SHERMAS. Now, this new.-; comes in a good shape. It i te bate j,'"®' and it protracts the interest of ths thing to ha *■ lars coming in Afterwards. ! Ye-. ye.-, we can w ait ■ for the particulars, j This victory comes ita the j right connection. 11 falls in with the echoes of the capture of Fort- Gaiues and Morgan. which 1 understand to be the jHtrticitfan ot Farnigut s j glorious naval battle in the bay of Mctiuk—a bat tle equalled by no other in American history but the naval achievements o*' the -nine veteran ■admi ral at New OrlekUs ad Port Hudson ; and ail these have no parallel in naval war hire but the i battles of the Nile and Trafalgar. [A voici': I wish we were all Farraguts !"] Well my friend I know the Admiral well, and I confess that we all can't be Farraguts. Indeed very few of us can. But we may take this comfort to ourselves, div as a whole people, we can appreciate the vete rans We can also apprisciate General .Sherman, who has performed the most successful and splen did march through a mountainous and hu-jite country recoidt-d iu modern history* &nt V it. The victory at Atlanta comes at the right place. The rebellious district is iu the shape ot an egg.- It presents equal resistance on its whole surface. But if you could break the shell of either of the two ends. Richmond and Atlanta, the Whole must crumble to piece?. While Sherman, under Grant, has been striking the big end. Meade tinder Grant, has been striking just- as hard blows upon the lesser end. The whole shell will now be easily crushed, for it has grown brittle with the exhaus tion of vitality within. THE CLIFTON HOUSE CABAL AND THE RTKPOSE ' RESISTANCE TO THE DRAFT. This glorious victory comes in good time for all other reasons. Just now we are calling u]>on you f.>r 300,U00 more volunteers, it y<.u will drafted men if we must—to end the war. You were get ting a little tired of long delays and disappointed expectations. In Indiana, a portion ot the peo ple. instigated by rebel plotters, at the ( liftoti House, in Canada, were importing British revolv ers in boxes, which passed the custom-house as -tationarv, under pretence of arming to defend themselves, but really to, resist the drtfV, and bring the Government down u5 rum, througu a subordinate and auxiliary civil war. True, no arms have been imported here. Yet delegates went out from among you and .-at down tn council Chicago with those Indiana conspirators, and agreed with them not only that that importation of Juis should be defended iu the election canvass, but also to demand ibe cessation of the war upon the ground tuat success in restoring the Uuion is unattainable. Already, under the influ ence of the cheering news hvrn Atlanta, all tin? discontent and this despondency have disappear t BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1864. j ed. We shall have no draft because the army is j being reinforced a# the rate of five to ten thou ! ! sand men per day by volunteers. (Hurrah for the j volunteers. ] May I nor, add that this victory at j I Atlanta comes in good time as the victory iu Mo j bile bay does, to vindicate the wisdom and the eh j ergy of the war Administration. Farrftgut s fleet : , did not make itself, nor did he make it. It was j prejiared by the Secretary of the Navy, and he j that shall record the history of this war truthful ly, and impartially, will wiite that since the days j of t.'arrtot, no man has organized war with the a- j bility of Stanton. {Cheers for Stanton, cheers for the Secretary of the Navy. ] THE MALCONTENT SPIRIT. But. anspieiOtts as the occasion is, it has never erless failed to bring ont some whom we might have exjiccted liere. Why are they not here to rejoice iu the victories that Will thrill the hearts of the lovers of freedom throughout the world — Alas, that it must be confessed, it is party spirit that holds them aloof. All of theui are partisans. Some art 1 Republicans who cannot rejo : ee in the j national victories because this war. for the life of] the nation is not. iri all respects, conducted ac- j cording to their own peculiar radical ideas and theories. They want guarantees for swift, and universal, and complete emancipation, or they do not want the nation -aved. Others stay away be- ; cause they want to be assured thrt. in coming out j of the revolutionary storm, the Ship,of State will ; be found exactly in the same condition as when j the tempest assailed it. or they do not want the ; ship saved at all, as if anybody eduM give such ] guarantees in the name of the people of thirty ! millions. ' )thers are Democrats. They received . from their fathers the axiom that only Democrats j could save the country, and they must save it by j • Democratic formulas and combinations which the j i progress of the age has forever exploded. They i cannot come up to celebrate achievements which j 1 condemn their narrow and herditary bigotry Others, of lioth the Republican and Democrat-; i ie parties, arc wilting that the nation shall lie sav- .. ed. provided it is done by some one of their chos en and idolized chiefs, which chief they mutually ] denounce arid revile. Tfiey cannot- hodor Grant, and Sherman. &nd Fanngut, and Porter, bcedaso 1 by such homage they fear that Fremont and Me- ; Clei inn's fa eve may l>e eclipsed. Nevertheless, there are enongli here of the j right sort, [ ''Yes, tKit's true,"] enough of men . who once wen: Republicans but who, taking that : ■ won! iu a partisan settle, are Republicans no long- { er. and nien who once were Democrats, but Who. j , taking that word in its narrow Application. are j Democrats no longer, all of whom are now 1 nioti , men. because they found out at the beginning ot this tremendous eivi! war. or at some period iu j j its progress, that no man. no party, no formula, j no creed, could save the Union, but that only the j people could save it, and they could save it only j by ceasing to become partisans and becoming pa triots and Union men. (Cheer; for the Union. ] ! Yes. my friends, when this war shall be ended in the restoration of the I nion. no man then living j will exult in ■p.^ uU "''y i t 1 nuance he was either a radical or a LonsenatK-,, a Republican or a Democrat but every man Will claim to have been throughout an unreserved and j unconditional I niou man. But why should party spirit, especially at this i juncture, divide the American jieople. And why should I. a member of the Executive Auininis- ] lion, allude to it on such an occasion as this? The ! answer is at hand. The Constitution ofourcoun- i i trv commands that Administration to surrender its powers to the people, and the jieople to desig- t | nate agents to assume and exercise them four ; years. You receive the Executive < hmrnment in a condition very different ahd highly improved. j We found it practically expelled from the whole country south of the Delaware, the Ohio, and the i Missouri, with uio-t of the army and navy betray ed er fallen into the hands of insurgents, and a i no* and treasonable Confederacy, with indirect bet* effective co-Operation ot foreign Powers, es tablishing itself on tHe Gulf ot M-xk-o. We cheerfuiiV give the Government back to you. with large and eout|uering armies, and a triumphant navy, with the hateful Confederacy falling into pieces, and the rebeSious States, one alter ai'.oth er, returning to their ai.egiance. Regardihg myself now. therefore, riot as a See i rctu.y. but siinpiy ;t> oticoi the people. 1, iikeyotl. am called b. my vote to determine into whose hands the precious trust shall now be confided.— We might wv-h to avobl, or. at least. poscdj But it cannot aud it ought not to be avoided tui 1 adjourned. It is a constitutional t:i!ii. and the ba-j tion must go through it de.ioe;ateb and brawiv. j I shall, therefore, eheeriuiiy submit for youicom sideration the codrse which I have concluded H adopt, and the reasons for it. rj THE PRESENT NO COMMON" P Rfis' D tNTI.fL EI,KO ( Tlu \ —lIOW NATIONS ABE Kt INEf> BY PARTIES; t First. I b> gy-'U t-> remember tint th- pr—tit no common or customary Pre iieii.ia. election. | It 0,-curs in the midst of civil War. arising out of _ disputed succession P) the Executive jfower. I>t - puted successions are the most frequent causes i J civil wars, not only ;n republic,-, but even iu rnoi archies. A dispute about the succession of tl - President periodically begets an abortive or a re revolution in each one of the Spanish' and Aiuc > can Republics, So the disputed succession of 11 Spanish throne begot that memorable tKirty-yej ii War which convdlsed all Europe. A dispute Whej 1 h Juarez was the lawful President; bought .e the present civil war, with' the cou-cifucnce . I French intervention iu Mexico. A dispute who; t er the present King of Denmark. Who WtaxSni * to the throne last w inter, is lawful heir to : Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, brought ah the civil war in that country, which, through • : man interverttiofi, has just now ended with 1 dismemberment ot the Danish Kingdom. I remarkable, fclwi, that civil wars, produced by puted succesridrts, invariably begin with resist? bv some one or inorc,pf the States Or provits which constitute the Kingdom, empire, or re|- lic which is disturbed. It was so wilh the Uid States of Mexibo. It was so in the United St> | of Columbia, and the case was the same inc j United States of Venezuela. Now, it is eein j that in 11*60 we elected Abraham Lincoln lawly and constitutionally to be President of the we United States of America. Seven of the Ses immediately thereon rushed into disunion, ad summoning eight more to their ailiauoe, thoyet ;up a revolutionary Government. They levied war i against us to effect a separation and establish a ; distinct sovereignty and independence, j RE-ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN A VINDICA TION* OF THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS We accepted the war in defence of the Union, j The only grievance of the insurgents was that their choice of John C. Breckinridge for pfeident was constitutionally overruled by the election of Lincoln j They rejected Lincoln Hnd set up a usurper. The j Executive power of the United States is now there | fore, by force practically suspended; between the usurper Jefferson Davis and that constitutional President Abrtham Lincoln. The war is waged by the usurper to expel {hat constitutional Presi ] dent Front the capital, which, in some sort, is con i stantly held in siege, and to conquer the States j which loyally adhere to him. The war is main j tained on our s'de to suppress the usuper, and to : bring the insurgent States hack under the author ity of the constitutional Piesiderit. The war is at its crisis. It is clear therefore that we are ' fighting to make Abraham Lincoln President of the whole United States under the election of j 1 sou, to continue until the 4th of March 1865. — I In voting for it President of the United States, can we wisely and safely v©:e out the identi al per i son Thorn, with force and arms, we are fighting . into the Presidency? ["No no!"} You justly say '"ilo." It would tie nothing less than to give up the very object of the war at the ballot box.— The moral strength which makes our loyal posi ! tion impregnable would pass from us; and ffhen ! that moral strength has passed iway material for j ees are no longer effective, or even available. By such a proceeding we shall have agreed with the enemy, and shall have given him the victory.— But in that agreement the Constitution and the Union will have perished, because when it shall have oncq been proveu that a minority can. by force or circumvention defeat the Poll accession of at constitutionally chosen.President, no President thereafter, though elected by ever so large a ma jority. cut hope to exercise the Executive powers unopposed througout the whole country. One of i two things must follow that fatal error. Either a contest between your newly-elected compromise i President, and the same usurper, in which the u i siirper must prevail , or else a combination be ' twecn them through which the dsurper or his suc cessor, subverting your Constitution and substitu ting his own. will become President, King, or Em peror of the United States with foreign aid, if he j can ; with foreign intervention if necessary.— j { That's so.] To 1* sure it is so; nothing Is more | certain than that either the United States tpid their constitutional President, or the so-caJled Confederate States and their usurping President. ; mast rule within the limits of this Republic. I ! therefore regard the pending Presidential election j as involving the question wheter hereafter we shall : have a Constitution and a country left us. flow shall we vote, then, to save our country from this fearful danger? (Vote Lincoln iu again.!— 1 You have hit it exactly, my friend. YVe must ate Lincoln in again, and fight him iu at the | same time If we do this the rebellion will, perish lv ! fwe dootherwi3e Wc have on usurpation or of entering an endless scccession of | eml ami social wars. Upon these grounds, eu i tirely irrespective of platform .and candidate, 1 consider the recommendations ol the Convention at Chicago as tending to subvert the Republic.— | fit's so ; that ss. fact.) 1 It will seem a hard thing when I imply that a i jarty like the Democratic party can either m nli fcte or blindly adojit measures to overthrow the lepubiie. All experience, however, shows that it (; by the malice or madness of great parties that ree States have been brought down to destitut ion. You often hear alarms that a party in pow •r i< subverting the State, and it sometimes hap tens -o. But nine times out of ten it is a party 1 ut of power that in its impatience or ambition Iverthrows a Republic. OW UK DLLS AND COPPERHEADS HAVE GROWN j : i TOGETHER—THE NEW C.ESAtt ANDPOMPET. 1 i The DenuKtat ie party, of course leaving off the joyal Union Democrats, opposed the election of ' fkbrabam Lincoln in 1860. In doing so. they di- j fided and organized in three columns. One, a :reasonable column of State-rights disunion Dem ocrats, under Breckinridge. A second, i loyal ' Northern column, itfider Douglas. The third, a . loneiliatory Hung column, under John Bell, who ias sihee joified the insurgents. Wc therefore uvited the two- loyal columns to combine with ' lie Republican party td oppose the disunion ieinoeraric column. They declined. On the eve bf the election in IMO I told the followers of ifougla- and df Bell that when the election 'should Have closed they would find that they had inadvertently favored disuuiori and rebellion.— They persisted, and the attempted revolution Icame. Disunion then presented itself, in the prac tical form of preventing Abraham Lincoln from ISssuirfing the Executive authority. Thus the Democratic party produced that calamity, the Southern Democrats acting from design, the Northern Democrats passive through inadvertence. The disputed succession still remains unadjusted. A new election has come on. For a time, the Northern Democrats, with notable exceptions, gave a more or less liberal support to the Govern ment. agaitlst the Democratic insurgents of the South. But the same Democratic fortes which figured in the election of 1860. noit appear in the political field, with positions and policy unchang ed since that tithe, as I think, except for the worse. The Sdtitheril Democracy is still ill arms under the ifsifrper at Richmond. The Douglas and Bell columns, consolidated, arc found it Chicago, arid al three of the parties ate com passing the rcjee tbnof the Constitutional President of the United Sates. They agree not ohly in this attempt, but trey assign the same reason* for it, namely, that Jirahiiin Liiieoln is a tvritnt. They agree, also, that the real usiirper at Rich lorid is blameless aud pUre ; at least the Rich mild Democracy affirm it, arid the Chicago De noOracy do hot gainsay it. To me, therefore the j bfuocracy at Richmond and the Democracy at i (jicago, like Casar and Pompey, seem to retain a their original family resemblance. They are vy much alike—especially Pompey. But it is n in mere external- that their similarity lies >y talk very much alike, as I have already .-Kown u. When you consider that among the Demo its at Chicago the Indiana Democrats were pres . q who have imported arms to resist tjjv nation- al authority and defeat the national laws, and that all the Democrats there assembled agreed to jus | tify that proceeding, I think yoti will agree with 1 me that the Richmond Democrats and the Uhiea | go Democrats have lately come to act very much j alike. j HOW THE CHICAGO CONTENTION' OBETED THE REBEL PROGRAMME. t shall now go further and prove to you that tl.ey not only have a common policy, and a com mon way of defending it. but they have even a ddpted that policy in concert with each other. — ' You know that when the Chicago Convention was 1 approachinng in July last. George Sanders, Ciern | ont C. Clay, and J. P. Holeomb appeared ut the j Cllftou House, on the Canada bank of the Niaga ra river, fully invested with the confidence and acquainted with the purposes of Jefferson Davis and his Confederates at Richmond. You know, also, that Chicago Democrats resorted there in j considerable numbers to confer with these enussa i ries of Jefferson Davis. Here is the fruit of that conference, and no one can deny the authenticity iof my evidence. It is extracted from the London Time*, the common organ of all the enemies of the United States. The New York correspond ent of the Loudon Timet, writing from Niagara Falls, under date of August 8, says : "Clifton House has become a centre of negotia tions between the Northern friends of peace and Southern agents, which propose a fcitbdrtiwal ol differences from the arbitrament of the sword." The correspondent then goes on to complain that ' 'an effort is to be made to nominate a candidate for the Presidency ort the ground of an armstice and a Convention of the .States, and to thwart by all possible means the effort of Mr. Lincoln For re election. '' Mark now. that on the Bth of August. 1864, Northern Democrats and Richmond agents agree upon three things to be done at Chicago Namely: 1. The withdrawal of the differen | ees betwoeri the Government and the insurgents j rom the arbitrament of the sword. 2. A nomi- ] nation for President of the United States on a : platform of an armstice and ultimately a Conkera- J ; tion of the States. 3. To thwart by ail possible j means the he-election of Abraham Lincoln, j Such a conference, held in a neutral country, be i tween professedly loyal citizens of the United j j States and the agents of the Richmond traitors in ' j arms, has a very suspicious look. But let that | pass. Political elections must be free, and Uiere fore they justly excuse many extravagances. We i have now seert what the agents of Pompey and j Caeear agreed at Niagara that Pompey should do at Chicago. Here is what he actually did : Unvoiced., That this convention does explicitly j ; declare, as the sense of the Amerieau people, that, \ I after lour years of failure to restore the Union by | the experiment of war. during which, under the \ pretence of a military necessity ofwar power high- ' er than the Constitution, the Constitution itself" has been disregarded in every part, and public lib- ! j erty and private right alike triHidcu down, and the ! i material prosperity of the country essentially iiu i paired, justice, humanity' liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a oesation of hostilities, with a view to an ulti ' mate convention of all the States, or other peacea | ble means, to the end that at the earliest practical , federal t mon of the >tates. Demvcrcey at t 'htcago did there just what ; had been n{treed upon In, the Richmond agents at j Niagara, namely, they pronounced for an aban don nun tof the m Hit a ry, iefencc of the 7 ion against the insurgents, with a neic to an ultimate X&tmual j Con rent ion and the tie feat of the election of Abn- j ham Lincoln. That is to say. they proposed to j j e .) e £t Abraham Lincoln from the Presidential chair j i at W ashingtoii on the 4th of March next, and at j i fhc same time leave *he usurper, Davis unassailed, ! aeeffra and unmolested, in his seat at Richmond. I wit ha view to an tiltimate convention of States. I which tliat Usurper's Constitution will allow no ■ one of the iusurgeiit States to enter. What now. | if there be no Convention at all. or if the Conven- i tion fail to agree on a submission to the Federal authority! Jefferson Davis then remains in au thority. his Confederacy established, and the I nion. wirh all it- glories, is gone forever. Nay. more, if such a thing could happeff as that the Chjcaco candidate, nominated upodsuehan agree ment, should be elected President of the United States on the first 1 uesday of November uext, who can vouch for the safety of the country against the rebels during the interval which must elapse before the new Administration can eonstitutionallv cothe into power? It seems to me that such an e lection would fend eqally to demoralize the Union and to invite the insurgents to renew their efforts for its dest ruction. REBEL AND COPPERHEAD UNDERSTANDING WITH THE LONDON TIMES. It remains forme how only to give you the proof that, although the way in which the Chicago De mocracy did what had been agreed upon in ttieir behalf at Niagara was not altogether satisfactory, yet. what they actually did was excepted as a full execution of the previous compact. :ST. CATHERINE, C. \Y., Sept. 1. To IJon. D. Wier. Halifax: Platform and Presidential Hominee unsatisfac tory. Vice President and speeches satisfactory. Tefl Philmore not to oppose. GEORGE N. SANDERS. D Weir is a Richmond accomplice at Halifax and Philmore is understood to be the conductor of the insurgent organ in Lotidou. Here then we have a nominaton and e j.'iatform which were made by treaty formally contracted be tween the democratic traitors at Richmond and the tHe democratic oppositon at Chicago, signed, sealed, attested, and deliverd in the presence of the London Times, and already ratified at Richmond. ( " By Heaven, we've got 'em!) Got them, to be sure you 've got them, my friends. They say lam always too sanguine of the success of the national candidates and of the national arms. But it seems to n>e that the veriest croaker ina!l our loyal camp will Lake new courage and become heroic when he sees the last hope of the rebellion hang upon the ratification oftliis abomi uable and detestable compact by the American people. Yes, you have got them: but how did you get them? Not by any skill or art of the Administration, or even through the sagacity or activity ofthe lorsil people, but through the cunning of the conspirators overreaching itself, and thns working out their own defeat aud con fusion. They do sav that the father of evil always indulges his chosen disciples with such an excess of subtelty as to render their ultimate ruin aud punish meut inevitable! APOLtCT CONCEIVE!) IN TREACItdttY—IDENTITY OP THR BUCHANAN AXt 'CLEL S tTSAEMB. And what a time is this to proclaim such a policy, conceived in treacbenr and brought forth with shame less effrontery ? A cessation of hostilities on the heel of decisive naval and land battles : at the very moment that the rebellion, without aeingle fort in its possession on the coast, or on either of the great rivers or lakes, is crumbling to the earth, and at the I . | wmc time a dozen new ships of war are going to complete the investment by sea, suid three hundred j thousand volunteers are rushing to the lines to com plete the work of restoration and pacification I The re is a maxim which thoughtful teachers al ways carefully inculate: it is that inconstancy i iirebecility, and that perseverance is necessary to in sure success. This maxim was set forth in the form of a copy in the writing-book when I was young.— "Perseverance always conquers." Even infantile beginners encountered the instruction in the form o? a fable in Webster's spelling-book, The story was, that after using soft words and tufts of grass, the | fanner tried what virtue there Was in stones, and by persistence in tliat application he brought the rude I hoy, who wat stealing apples, down fro in the tree, | an d ~ade htm ask the farmers pardon. Our Chica- I go teachers tell us that just as the rods boy is coming , down, we must lay down the stones and resort again j to the use of grass, with the consequence, of course, j that the farmer must beg pardon of the traspasser.- I But what makes this Chicago policy more contempt j tible and even ridiculous, is that it is nothing differ | -nt from the policy with which the same parties now I contracting actually ushered iu disunion in 18C1, j in the closing hour of the Administration of James I Buchanan. \ es, my dear friends, when we of this Administration came into our places iu March, 1861, ve found there existing just the system Which is not* rccomncitded at Chicago. Namely, first a treason sotiable Confederacy in arms against the Federal au thority. Second . a truce between the Government of the Uuited States and ttte rebels, a veritable arm stiee which was so constructed that while the nation al ports and forts were thoroughly invested along the sea coast and rivers by the insurgents-, they could be neither reinforced nor supplied, even with food, by the government. Third a languid debate with a view to an ultimate .National Convention, which the rebel* haughtiiy despised and contemptuously rejected.— What were the alternatives left us? Either to surren - der ourselves and the Government, at discretion, or to summon the pteople to arms, terminate the armi tice, adjourn the demoralizing, debate and ''repos sess" ourselvs of the nationrl forts and posts. And now has all the treasure that has been spent, and all the precious blood that har. bc-en poured forth, gone for nothing e'se but to secure an ignominious j retreat, and return at the end of four years to the ' hopeless imbecility and rapid process of national J disolution which existed when Abraham Lincoln j took into his hands the reins of Government. Even* one of you knows that but for that accession | of Abraham Lincoln ju-t at that time, the Union would in les-' than three months have fallen into ; absolute and irretrievable ruin. I wilt not dwell long on the complaint which mis guided but not intentioualiv perverse men bring a gainst the Administration of Abraham Lincoln— ; They complain of military arrests of spies and lurk ! ing traitors in the loyal States, as it the Government ■ could justify itseli for waiting without preventative • measures for more States to be invaded or to be car- I sred off into secession. j They complain that when we call for volunteers we present the alternative of a draft, as if when the ship has been scuttled the captain ought to leave the sleeping passengers to go to the bottom without call- - j ing them to take their turns at the pump. They are not content with plotting sedition in se ; cret places, but they go np and down the public ; streets uttering treason, vainly seeking to provoke j arrest, jc order that they may complain o! the liberty of speech. The impunity they cverv- "* i where enjoy under the protection of constitutional , debate shows at one and the same time that their j complaints are groundless, and that the Union, in the element of moral stability, is stronger than thev know. THE CHIEF COMPLAINT IQiIXST THE PRESIDENT—A SIGNIFICANT AXSFfcR—THE QUESTION OF PEACE. The chief complaint against the President is that he wijl not accept peace on the basis of the integrity of the I nion. without having also the abandonment of slavery. When and where Have the insurgents of fered hint peace on the basis of the integrity of the ' nion l Nobody has offered it. The rebels nerer will offer it. They are detennined and pledged to rule this Republic or ruin it. I told you here a year ago that practically slavery was no longer in jues fion ; Ihat ft was perishing under the operation of the war. Thai assertion has been confirmed. Ihe L nion men in all the slave States that we have delivered are even more anxious than we are to abolish slavery. Witness Western Virginia, Mary land, Mzs.-ouri, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkan sas. Jefferson Davis tells you in effect the sama thing. lie says that it is not slavery, but independ ence and sovereignty, for which he is contending.— There is good reason for this. A hundred dollars in gold is only a year's purchase of the labor of the working man in every- part of the United States.— At less than half that price we could buv all the slaves in the country. Nevertheless oar opponent* want a distinct exposition of the President's view* on the ultimate solution of ths slavery question. Why do they want it ? For the same reason that the Pharisees ond Saddncees wanted an authorita tive resolution ofthe questions of the casuistry which arose in their day. One of tltose sects believed in a Kingdom to come, and the other denied the resur rection of the dead. Nevertheless, they walked to gether in loving accord in search of icstruction eon ceruing the spirit-world. -'Master," said they, •'ther; Was a man of our nation who married a wifa and died, leaving six brothers. These brothers suc cessively married the widowed woman, and after wuzds died : and, last of all the woman died also.— In the resurrection, which of the seven shall have this woman to wile ?" Now, what was it to them whether one or all should have the woman to wife in Heaven? It coqjd be nothing to the Sadducees in any case. What wa* it to any human being on this side of the grave ? V hat was it to any human being in Heaven except the woman and her seven husbands ? Absolutely nothing. \et they would have an answer. And they received one. The answer was that, while in this mortal state men and women shall never cease to marry and to die, there wiil be in the reasurrcctioa neither death nor marrying, or giving in msurixge. Although altogether unauthorized to speak for the President upon hypothetical questions, I think I can give an answer upon the subject of slavery at the present day—an answer which will be explifcit, and I hope not altogether unsatisfactory. While the rebels continue to wage war against the Govj ernmeut of the United Stakes, tho military meas ures effect-rig slavery, which Hive been adopted from necesity, to bring th war to a speed' and successful end, will be continued, exocp so tar as practical experience shall show thai they can be modified advantageously, with a Jvicw to the same end. Wheu the insurgents shall have disbanded their armies spd laid down their arms, tho war w-> instantly cease, and all tho war measure* then [Concluded on 2nd page. J Vol. 37: No. 38.