ffi lito y XviWOUD 4 ' im ' I' 'IIBAHAM or Illinois. ' |JR VICE PRESIDENT, A.YDRKW JOHNSON, of Tennessee. ELECTORAL TICKET. BEXATORIAI. MORTON MoMICHAEL. T. CUNNINGHAM. RBPRBSCXTATIVE. I—Robert P. King, 13—Elias P. liale, 2—B. Morrison Coate-i, 14—Charles H. Shriaer, 3—Henry Bumm. 13—John Wister, 4—William H, Kern, 16—David M Conaughy, ? s—Barton H. Jenks, 17—David W. Woods, 6 Charles M. Rank, 13—Isaac Benson, 7—Robert Parke, 19—John Patton, B—William Taylor, 20—Samuel B Dick, 9—John A. Hieetand, 21—Everard Bierer, 10—Richard H. Coryell, 22—Jchn P. Penny, 11—-Edward Haliday, 23—Ebenezer McJnnkin, 12 —Charles F. Reed, 24—John W. Blanchard. We reprint the address of the State Committee. Let it again be read, and its suggestions carried out. Read the speech of Jefferson Davis, printed in this paper. It is the appeal of a falling man for a * falling cause. A BEAUTIFUL PRICE OF RASCALITY. COPPERHEAD DESPERATION. We learn, that the Copperheads have distribu ted a flaming placard throughout certain portions of this county, announcing that immediately after the Presidential election a draft for one million men would he ordered. This is infamous, and the parties guilty of the fraud, should be brought to speedy justice. We call upon our friends to mark the men who circulated such cowardly slan ders upon the Government, We say this know ingly, that no draft is contemplated. ARMY FRAUDS. It is an old dodge for a thief when pursued to join in the cry "stop thief," "stop thief' and bellow it out most lustily of all the throng. Just so this great cry of "fraud and force in the army," which the Copperheads have been vociferating, seems to have been for the purpose of directing attention from their own rascality. The most enormous frauds have providentially been detected at Baltimore. It seems that Edward Donahoe, Edward Newoomb, a man by the name of Feny, and others, have for the past two weeks been en gaged in forging fraudulent votes to be used in the New York Election. They hadcegular blanks for soldiers votes printed ; one man filled up the blanks, another copied the soldiers name, a third copied the name of the officers, &c., several store boxes of such votes had already been sent They were found engaged at this work on Sunday after noon. Donahoe has pleaded guilty and it is prob able that his patriotic efforts In behalf of giving the soldiers votes will result in his dancing on nothing with a rope round his neck. This is a beautiful specimen of "FREEDOM OF ELECTION AT ALL HAZARDS." NOT TRUE. We are informed that the Abolitionists are cir culating a story in the army to the effect that Ge n was opposed to granting soldiers the right to vote. This is false —utterly false—and was invented merely to make votes for Lincoln.— Gazette. Whether Gen. McClellan was or was not oppos ed to granting soldiers a right to vote we know not. We do not remember to have seen any ex pression of opinion on the subject; and we arc satisfied that the man who wrote the paragraph above knows nothing about it It is part of the systematic fabrication and falsification of facts in which the Gazette habitually indulges. But we do know; the Copperheads, whose can didate Gen. Mcdlellan has degraded himself by becoming, were to a man opposed to soldiers suf frage. The entire vote of the party in this State was thrown against the amendments to the Con stitution. The Editor of the Gazette worked hard ail election day to that end, and voted himself a gainst it. The impudent assurance and audacity in lying, which these men display in their efforts to get the soldiers to vote their ticket, would be laughable were it not for the serious crisis through which our Nation is passing. "Gen. McClellan, was in favor of giving the soldiers a right to vote !" ah, indeed ! when and where and how did he show it? Publish the proof if you please. Probably the next statement will be that the Copperheads generally, and the Ga zette clique in particular, were in favor of soldiers voting. "LET THEM COUNT US OUT IF THEY DARE." The Democrats elect their candidtes and the Ab olition ballot-box stuffers and army agents "count them out " We will settle this matter after the Presidential election. Let them "count us out, "if they dare. As sure as heaven bends above, if Lin coln is re-elected by fraud, there will be a day of reckoning. Never mind! The Democratic Nation al Convention has not adjourned me die. We find the above elegant extract in the Gazette of last week. That frauds have frequently been perpetrated at elections, we have no doubt In the adjoining comity of Cambria a few years ago, in Washington township, on the line of the Portage Rail Road, then under the control of a democratic Canal Board, more democratic votes were polled than there were voters of both parties in the town ship. The fraudulent votes were proven on inves tigation in court to have been over three hundred, and ali on the Democratic side ! The election board, all Demoerats, acted without being sworn, Every one remembers eandle-boxJCalhoun; and no one whose character for truth is worth u snuff will now question the assertion that most stupendous frauds occurred all through Kansas under Bnchan an's administration. It is notorious that in certafh strong democratic districts in the large cities fraudulent totes, partic ularly of unnaturalized foreigners, have heretofore, been frequent It is probable that thousands of fraudulent votes will swell the democratio majority this fall in New York City. Nor do we claim that all rascality in this particular can be laid at the door of the democratic party. Un questionably, however, the greater part of it can; and this probably, for tbe reason that unprincipled politicians, some of whom, unfortunately belong to every party, find in that party most readily and abundantly the material with which to work their frauds. Under the Constitution and the laws the means for the correction of election frauds are provided in the Judiciary. If Mr. Meyers or any other can didate of his party believes himself to have obtained ; A majority of the legal rotes cast at the election, he V is entitled to a fair hearing by the court, which will .ghre the matter a patient investigation, and will throw out every fraudulent vote, both at home and iu the army. All of which the editor of the Gazette very well knows. Why then such a paragaph as that we quote? And the same kind of threatening has occurred again and again in the Gazette. These leaders of the copperheads are bent on rule or ruin. They see iu the October elections the hand writing on the wall —" MENE MENE TE KEL UPHARSIN" TILOU art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting . Pennsylvania, Ohio, Marylandand Indiana, have sealed their doom. But the mass of the democrats of Bedford County have too much good sense, we hope, to de lajgutled into illegal acts by these reckless political schemers, whose whole desire is that they shall hold offices for themselves. The whole aim of the Gazette clique seems to be to cry fraud, and urge the people to acts of violence, in the event of the de feat, which they cannot but foresee. ;1 The Democratic National -Convention has not adjourned nine die! '' Pshaw! Neither has the HARTFORD CONVENTION. It adjourned some fifty years ago, to meet at the ( all of its pres ident. and it has not met yet, unless indeed it met ; again at Chicago last August. FREEMEN OF BEDFORD COUNTY! TO THE RESCUE ONCE MORES! The copperheads have reduced their exultations over imaginary victories gained to the narrow lim its of Bedford County. Why is this? Simply because our friends allowed them to obtain a tem porary advantage. Because our vote was not pro perly secured. Nothing else. Thereupon they set up a vociferous shout to cover up their terrible defeat upon the popular vote every whore but here, where they threaten with fire and sword and blood every man who does not vote the nasuating copperhead ticket. Many of our peaceable, and quiet citizens were intimidated and kept away from the polls, while the arrant copperhead cowards, who have not courage enough to fight an open and avowed foe, who wantonly and wickedly assails our flag, and endeavors to destroy our nationality, stay at home the terror of inoffensive citizens, and the especial fright of old women and children. We vote them a crown of copperheads and our prayer is they may ever have to wear them. We are gratified, however, to say, that we do not see the great victory for copperheadism in Bed ford county, and let us, for a few moments, exam ine the facts. Coffroth, two years ago, had 642 majority over McPherson; now he has 679, making a slight gain over Koontz of 28 votes on the vote' 0f1862 for McPherson. Is this awful? Is this pro digious ? Since then we have sent at least 600 of our voting population to the field, which will ave rage three republicans to one copperhead. If any one doubts this let him examine the returns in the Prothonotary's office. If that is too laborious, let him examine the soldiew' vote a$ reported in this paper this week. By a close scrutiny of the home vote he will learn that there has been a falling off of 984 on the vote for Governor last fall, of which the republicans lose 690 and the copperheads 294, as near as we can get at it, and this falling off is principally in republican districts as will be seen la the following table: REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS. Rop. vote, Loss, Cop. vote, Lbss, Gain. 1863. 1864. 1863. 1864. Bloody Run, 57 5 28 8 Broad Top, 140 23 72 7 Hopewell, 118 34 63 15 Monroe, 169 57 115 11 Providence E. 142 49 54 21 Providence W. 131 52 42 3 Union. 166 60 153 17 Woodberry, M. 211 73 143 37 Woodberry, S. 148 68 124 33 1282 421 775 145 COPPERHEAD DISTRICTS. Rep. vote, Loss, Cop. vote. Loss, Gain. 1863. 1864. 1863. 1564. Bedford Bor. 108 9 107 22 Bedford Tp. 130 13 243 16 Colerain, 88 24 158 12 Cumberland Val. 56 19 179 13 .Harrison, G9 16 85 7 Juniata, 67 30 182 12 Liberty, 108 35 105 5 Londonderry, 53 14 106 14 Napier, 139 28 171 26 Schellsburg Bor. 26 1 51 3 Snake Springs, 53 17 86 22 Southampton, 64 25 211 27 St Clair, 187 37 217 31 1148 269 1929 183 34 . 1282 421 775 145 Totals, 2430 690 2704 328 From this deduct the copperhead gain in three districts and we have the actual number which were not out —294. Is it not appaient, then, to any one that a great number of the republican vote was not out? Take the three Townships of Union, Middle and South Woodberry. and the ag gregate vote is 201 less than it was one year ago. Will any one have the hardihood to say that our vote was all out in these precincts ? There is then a falling off in three districts of two-fifths of our vote, aud we hear of no changes. We could cite other instances, but we commend 'the figures. It is true that a large number of men have gone to the army, but folly one half of those that have gone within the year were under twenty-one years of age. This estimate may be a little too high, yet it approximates the real figures. East Provi. denee has sent a larger number of men to the field in proportion to her population than any other township in the connty, and yet our majority was only reduced 28. It is a fact not to be disputed that where a large number of republicans have gone to the army a propostionatc number of democrats have gone. This accounts for the loss of 126 cop perhead votes in republican districts out of 775, while out of the remaining 1929 they only lose 168, one half of whom are deserters now skulking about the mountains. Here then the plain truth comes Ito light. They had their entire vote out with the ! exception of th(? deserters. Republicans ! Union men ! out of the 690 rotes which we fell short on the vote for Governor of last fall, 325 were not out, but remained at home pas sively, indifferent and idle spectators of the great moral contest wliich was decided on that day in our midst Every vote that will be brought out at the approaching election, over and above the vote of the 11th of October, will be a gain. Remember this! We oould give many reasons, in addition to the one alreaay given, why our republican and war democratic friends did not turn out more gen- i erally. The principal cause was the Draft. It had j taken place just a few weeks before. Many had been drafted and felt seriously the effects of it.— 1 This has passed away and our opponents, crushed 1 with defeats every where, are no longer able to mar- ( shal their forces effectively. Now the wavering ( and the doubtful are with us and the only question to be decided is the question of majority. Abra ham Lincoln will be elected, just as surely as the 1 sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and, t now friends, bring out every man—every Union t voter from one end of the country to the other and < give him a million majority on the popular vote. t Bedford county can and will be redeemed! The 1 copperheads spent all their ammunition at the for mer election. You reserved your fire. It was a dangerous experiment,.nrverthelcss it was success ful iu our State. Now. then, up and charge along the entire line, and victory will crown your exer tions. With a full sold ers' vote, such a vote as we will have at the next election, we will carry Bedford county by at least 100 or 200 majority. Turn out Union men! Turn out! , A BEAUTIFUL SHEET. The Gazette, of this wealths crammed with false hoods, as usual. We enumerate some of the more daring. On the outside is a frightful falsehood, headed the "DRAFT!' "ANOTHER HAUL?" "LOOKOUT," The Gazette quotes Goveruor Seymour of New York as its authority. Tire Governor says: "The Secretary of War has intimated to htm (the Cop perhead Secession Governor of New York) that another draft is about to be made, the heaviest yet." Think of the Secretary of War, taking the rebel Governor into his confidence, and imparting to him information to be used to break down this very Secretary. Of course it is not true, no such announcement has been made, nor will be. The Washington R'puUU*tu is qrroted to sustain the assertion that another draft is about to be made. The Republican some time since had an articl? urg ing the enforcement of the last draft. This is made to appear in the Gazette as referring to the coming draft. There is evidently 110 intention 011 the part of the Government to make another draft, becAise there will be no necessity for it The rebellion wont last long enough after the election of Abraham Lincoln td need more men. His election will finish it A column and a half is occupied on the inside in attempting to cover up the frauds perpetrated on the soldiers, by the rejection ofthe Union votes, last Friday. The statements are lame and weak, and will receive no credit, where the truth, as we publish it, is known. A ' 'Display'' of war news is made, intended to bolster up the sinking cause of the rebels north. The following cheering Headings are gived. "REPORTED EVACUA TION OF ATLANTA !"—"GRANT'S CAM PAIGN AGAINST RICHMOND VIRTUAL LY ENDED."—REBEL LEGISLATURE OF TENNESSEE ABOUT TO ASSEMBLE !"- "BEAUREGARD INVADING TENNES SEE. " It is all of a piece, not a word of truth in it. Atlanta is not evacuated, nor is the Cam paign aaginst Richmond virtually ended. It is just beginning, and will be ended, when Richmond is taken, andjnot before. The war news is favora ble front all quarters, and the rebellion north and south is doomed. Frauds in Pennsylvania. The MeClellan men in Pennsylvania are not a whit behind their cheating, swindling brethern in New York. They voted in a body to deny the soldier tho right to vote; and they are determined, now that he lias the right, that he shall not he permitted to exercise it. When the return Judges met in Bedford coun ty, on Friday last, they threw out forty-five sol diers' votes for Koontz, the Union candidate for Congress, and in Adams county, the board threw out 12S army votes for the same candidate. The reason given for this procedure is "inforni ah'ty'' iu the returns. It is not pretended that the votes were not legally cast; nor that there was any fraud or wrong in receiving the votes ; but the re turns themselves lacked some trifling formality, and thyy were thown out. The object of this act simply was to elect Cof froth, the Copperhead candidate for Congress, by depriving nearly two hundred soldiers of their votes, legally cast. It is a barefaced swindle, and we trust that the Governor, who has the final canvassing of the votes, will show these swindlers that they cannot succeed in tneir villianous pur poses. Koontz is legally, fairly elected, AND HE MUST NOT BE CHEATED out of his seat. — Pit tabu rg Gazette THE RECENT STATE ELECTION. THE SOLDIERS' VOTE. The Union Majority Between Twelve aiic Thirteen Thousand* HARRIS WJRG, October 31.—The official soldiers vote received at the Secretary's Office, up to this date, is as follows : Union 17,888 Democratic 5,232 Union majority 12,056 Another Star. By the proclamation of the President, just is sued, Nevada takes her place among the stars is our national banner. She comes in uncontamina ted with slavery, and by her mines of inexhausti ble wealth will continue to attract the wandering population of the Old World. She will cast her vote in November for LINCOLN and JOHNSON. In one day we have a free State and a new State ad ded to the Union. Pennsylvania. SOLDIER.-' VOTES REFUSED BY DEMOCRATIC JUEGES. GETTYSBURG, Oct- 28. The Democratic return judges, to-day, rejected eight soldiers' returns, lor informality. These rejected returns gave Koontz, Union candidate for Congress, one hundred and eighty majority. The [ rejection of these returns, and the attempt to de feat Koontz, has produced much innignation a mong lairminded people of all parties. The Unbu judges protested, and refused to sign the re turns. B. Why Wc should Work. The national existence isthreateaed by weakly, powerful, determined and unscrupulous enemies. They work steadily, slceplessly; and aoe mist work as vigilantly as they. This is the hour of the nation's extremity, aud the imminent pfril of the country must prompt us to firm, derisive, energetic action. An official announcement by Gov. Hr.hn. of Louisana, gives the total votes cast for aud agaitst the new Constitutions, as follows : For tiie Con stitution 6,536 ; against the Constitution, 1,6j>6. Gov. Hahn, in a proclamation, has declared tlat the Constitution is henceforth ordained and c ,sUb~ lished as the law of Louisiana. IHLECTIOY FRAUDS. Forged Returns of Soldiers® Votes— Arrest and Confession of the Yew York Ml ate Agent at Baltimore. Extensive frauds have been discovered in Balti more and Washington 011 the part of some of the Commissioners of New York state to receive and forward the votes of soldiers. Two State Agents, M. J- Ferry of Canton, St Lawrence county, and Edward Douohue of Albany, have been arrested and brought for trial before die Millitary Commis sion, of which Major-Genera! Aimer Doubleday is President, and Colonel John A. Foster, of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Now York, Judge- Advocate, Donohue telegraphed to Peter Cogger and S&ndford E. Church, notifying them of their ar rest, and desiring them to obtain counsel for them immediately. It is stated that seven dry goods boxes of votes for the Democratic National and State nominees have been forwarded from Washington by express. Several packages of the alleged forged tickets are in the Imnds of the Commission, with letters, &c., involving persons iu New York. After the adjournment of the Military Commis sion in Baltimore M. J, Ferry, one of the two prisoners put on to trial, stated to the Judge-Advocate that he desired to make a confes sion of all he knew in connection with the fraud ulent papers. Ills request was complied with, and his confession was written out in the usual form of questions and answers. When he had concluded the court reassembled, and Judge-Ad vocate Foster made to the court a statement em bodying the facts confessed—the material part of which is as follows: CONFESSION OF M. J. FERRY, THE STATE AGENT OF GOVERNOR SEYMOUR. I do not recollee/ the time when the first pa pers were forged, but it was in the presence" of Orville K. Wood, of Clinton county. New York. It was done in my office, No. 85 Fayette street, Baltimore. I am, and have been for the two years, the agent of the state of New Yoi%, appointed by Governor Seymour, to look after the sick and wounded soldiers of New York.— [ first saw Wood on Wednesday of last week at my office. He came and represented himself as an agent of the Central Committee of his county to look after the local ticket. We talked about the way in which votes could be taken. It was agreed that we should sign the names of officers and soldiers, and then send them home to have the local tickets filled in. I made out such pa pers. I signed the names of soldiers on quite a number of them. I cannot tell what names we signed. The papers are in the bundle now on the table. I did not sign the names of ofiicers, but Donohue signed any quantity of them. There was a large package of these p;q>e; s left with me, which I destroyed. That package contained over two hundred that Donahue had signed. The idea of forging these papers was first suggested by a mail named Stephen Maxson. He is from the western part of the state of New York —I do not' know from what county. He is not in the service*; he is a state agent. I cannot say at what time it was first proposed to forge the papers, but it was about two weeks ago. ido not think there was anybody present but Donahue aud my self when Maxson first proposed to forge papers. There was a man named G. M. Bundy iu my office. He is now in New York. Also, a man named H. Ncwcomb. I never saw him until ho came there. He is a lawyer in Albany. Part of the forged papers were made in my office ami part brought there. They were usually brought iu a bundle tied up. Ido not know who brought them. I had no letters from Peter Cagger ex cept what were found in my desk. I never knew of any correspondence on the subject with General Farrel, the Commissary of Subsistence, except the package which you have. The pack age contained a lot of blank envelojjes and powers of attorney, with a letter from General Farrell. marked "confidential," which contained a list of names of residents of Columbia county. I de stroyed the forged papers left with me, but told mj associates that I sent them to different parts' ofthc state to be mailed. A young man came from Washington on Fridav or Saturday last, say in! if I had any spare blanks to send them ov?r to Washington. lam not certain whether ho did or did not say anything about there bong some men over there who could attend to tlnse matters. Ido not know how many forged pjpers were sent off, but 1 heard them say they sent them from Washington by the dry goods box full. Ido not recollect hearing them talk des pairingly. but they talked quite jubilantly. I sent the forged papers to General Farrell, with the following letter: BALTIMORE, October 22,1864. "My Dear Sir : If you are energetic, you will be able to get the within votes arranged for the Bth of November. I should have done more to them, but I have not time. They are all on the square—the same as the blacks get theirs. Nei ther would bear close scrutiny. Ed. Donahue said send this on to you, and 1 have done it, ■ 'Truly yours, DEMOCRAT. ' . "P, S. —They Jare all soldiers—companies and regiments all 0. K. Of the rest I have nothing to say. If you have no use for them send, them back.' M. J. FERRY, "No. 85 West Fayette street. Baltimore." Henry Neweomb, implicated by Ferry, lias also made a complete and full confession. The Judge- Advocate was understood to present a plea of guilty on behalf of Mr. Ferry, and to ask on his behalf the clemency of the court. MARYLAND FREE ! Gov. Bradford Proclaims in Favor of the New Constitution--The People Rejoicing.-The New Constitution to go into Effect on the First of November. BALTIMORE, October 29. Governor Bradford has just proclaimed the new Constitution of Maryland. The friends of the measure are honoring the e vent by a display of bunting. The American has just put out an immense flag, bearing the inscription ' FREE MARYLAND. The Governor's proclamation concludes as fol lows: "And whereas, the results of the said election have been duly certified to me by the proper judges of the said several elections, and upon accurately counting and casting up the vote as returned to me for and against the said Constitution, including the soldiers' vote, aforesaid, it does appear that there were 30,174 ballots for the Constitution, 29,- 799 ballots against the Constitution, and that there were 01 blank ballots reported as given a gainst the Constitution, but not counted, the per sons offering them refusing to take the oath re quired by the said C'onstituion, and there being therefore of the aggregate so cast ainajOrityin favor ofthe adoption of the said Constitution; now, there fore, I, Augustus W. Bradford, Governor ofthe State of Maryland, in pursuance of the authority so vested in me by the said act of Assembly anil the Constitution aforesaid, by this my proclama tion, declare and make known that the said Con stitution and form of Government so framed and adopted by the Convention aforesaid has been a dopted by a majority of the voters ofthe State, and that in pursuance of the provisions therein contained, the same will go into effect as the prop er Constitution and form of Government of this State, superseding the one row existing on the first day of November. (liven under my hand and the great seal of the State of Maryland at the city of Annapolis, on the 29 day of October, in the year of our Lord 18<>4. „ , A. W. BRADFORD. By the Governor. W. B. HAUL, Secretary of State. The Richmond papers of the 22d acknowledge a defeat in the valley, and say they lost 23 guns, besides those they had taken at first, and about 1,000 killed and wounded, with a few prisoners. Jeff, Davis' Speech at Columbia, S C, Ills Views of fhe Copperhead Plan of Adjustment, Eebel Victories to Insure the Election of the Peace Candidate. REBEL REVIEW OF THE MILITARY SITIATIOX. JEFF. DAVIS AT COLUMBIA HIS VIEWS REGARDING A CONVENTION OF THE STATES. The Columbia South Carolinian gives the fol lowing detailed report of' the speech delivered at that on Oct. 4th by JEFF. DAVIS : LADEES AND GFNTLEMEN OF TIIC METROPOLIS OF SOUTH CAROLINA ; Your Mayor has welcom ed me to your home. I receive his greeting with that gratitude which one only feels when he hears expressed the language of commendation from those whose silence would have made him realize that ins conduct had been bad indeed. If, in this great struggle for the rights of the States and the liberties of the people, to secure the possession of which, and to transmit which to us our fathers of the revolution shed their blood, .South Carolina, who has stood for thirty years in tb 1 vanguard. ,-hould give him who asserted those rights no word of well done, he might turn convinced that he had failed as a public servant to perform his mission, and as a man had proven tumble to cope with the responsibilities of his position. Therefore it is, Air. Mayor and fellow-citizens of Columbia, that! feel heartily grateful for the welcome received at your hands. South Carolina has struggled nobly in the war and suffered many sacrifices. There is, indeed no port ion of our land where the pail of mourning has not been spread: but I thank the Giver of all Good that our people still remain firm there, above all other places. lam told there have none been to j waver and none to doubt. It often happens that at a distance from a scene of action, men, whoifpres- j ent could easily measure it, magnify danger, until' at last those become despondent whose hearts, if actually stirred by perils, would uosooner think of shrinking from the prompt performance of duty than the gallant sous of Caroliua. whose blood has so generously flowed on the many battle-fields of this war. But if there be any who feel that our cause is in danger, that final saccess may net crown our efforts, that we are not stronger to day than when we began the struggle, that we are not able to continue the supplies to our armies and to our people, let all such read a contradiction in the smi ling lace of our land, and the teeming evidence of plenty which everywhere greet the eye ; let them go to those places where brave men arc standing in front of the foe, and there receive the assurance that we shalrhave final success, and that every man who does not live to see his country, free, will see a freeman's grave. (Applause.) There are those who, like the Israelites of old, are longing to turn back to the flesh pots they have left; who have thot' there stili. may have been some feasible mode of reconciliation, and even be willing to rush into a reconstruction of'the Union. Such, lam glad to know, do not flourish on the soil of South Carolina. Such cannot be the sen timents of any man in the Confederate States, il he will only recollect that from the beginningdown to the present hour, your Government has made every effort within its power, to avoid a collision •f arms in the first instance, and since then to ob tain every possible means of settlement honorable to ourselves, based on a recognition of our inde pendence. First, we sent commissioners to ask on what tonus the quarrel could be adjusted, aud since that time we have proclaimed 11 every public pa per our desire for peace. InsoLutly our every ef fort has been met. The Vice-President of the Confederate states was refused a passport to the North, when his object was negotiation —that means by which all wars must lie terminated.— The doGr was rudely shut in our faces. Interven tion and recognition by foreign States, so long an ticipated, have proved an ignis futuius. There is, then, hut one means by which you can hope to gain independence and an honorable peace, and that is by uniting with harmony, energy and deter mination in fighting those great battles and achiev ing those great victories, which will teach the world that, we can defend our rights, and the Yan kee nation that it is death to invade them. (Ap plause. ) With every Confederate victor}', stocks rise in the foreign market —that touchstone of European sentiment. \V ith every noble achievement that influence the public mind abroad you are taking one step forward, and bringing foreign nations one step nearer your aid in recognizing and lending you friendly intervention, whenever they are sat" is lied that intervention -or no intervention, the Confederacy can sustain itself. Does any one believe that Yankees are to be conciliated by terms of concession ? Does any man imagine that we can conquer the Yankees by retreating before them, or do you not all know that the only way to make spaniels civil is to whip them ? And you cau whip them, if all the meu ca pable of bearing arms will do their duty by taking their places under the standard of their country, before the the veteran troops of the .North receive the fresh increment which is beinggathered in the Northern States. Now is the good and accepted time for every man to rally to the standard of his country, and crush the invader upon her soil; and this, 1 believe, is in your powder. If every mart lit to bear arms will place himself in the ranks with those who are already there, we shall not bat tle in vain, and our achievements will be grand, final and complete. Is this a time to ask what the law demands of you—to inquire whether or not you are exempt under the law, or to ask if the magistrate will take you out of the enrolling office bv a writ of habeas corpus? .Rather is it not the time for every man capable of bearing arms to say: '".My country needs my services, and my country shall have them!" When your heroic fathers, the \\ higsol the Revolution, fought in that war which secured your birthright, their armies were not gathered by asking who can be forced into the field, but "Who are able to fight?" No man was too old and no boy too young, if he had the physical capacity to enter the ranks of the army. In the days of the Revolution, the boy left his pa ternal roof only to return to its blackened ruins.— He grew to manhood among its struggles ; and may not your country claim similar services from the youth of the present day? Like them, you must emulate the glory of your sires.* Say not that you are unequal to the task, for I believe that our people are even better than were our honored ancestors. They have fought more and bloodlier battles, and there are fewer who are lukewarm in the cause now, than existed in the days of the Revolution. W hat a glorious reflec tion it is, that wherever the tide of war has rolled its devastating wave over the land, iust then do you find every heart beating true to the Confede racy, strengthened as it were, by vicissitudes, and every woman ready to sßhre her last loaf with the soldier who is fighting for our rights, . A lA II negotiation has been offered for con sideration—a plan of negotiation by States. Well, it is not easy to see on what terms the States can negotiate. In tne first place, they have no con stitutional power to do so. In the second place, i lr, Lincoln lias said that he will not negotiate with thorn unless they can control the army, and they can only obtain the power to control the ar my by traitorously attempting to enter into a trea ty contrary to the Government, they have institu ted. Rut suppose this were possible, what are the terms offered . If you will acknowledge your crime, lay down your arms, emancipate your slaves and turn over your leaders—as they call your hum ble servant—to be punished, then will you have permission to vote together with your negroes up on the terms under which Mr. Lincoln will be gra ciously pleased to allow you to live as a part of the nation over which he presides. If there be a man within the. sound of my voice who contemplate such a proposition. I pity him from the bottom of my heart. My only wish is that he was north of the dividing line. He is not the spirit that anima ted our fathers, and he is not fit to exist among the men who are now perilling their lives in the cause if whicji we are engaged, for he who is so slaAish cannot lie trusted with sacred guardianship of the widow and orphans of the soldiers who have died in battle. I have just returned from that army from which we have had the saddest accounts —xhe army of ] eunes.see and lam able to bear to you words of good cheer. Fhat army has increased in strength *ice the fall of Atlanta. It has risen in tone it s march is onward; its face look to the front bo for as lam able to judge, Gen. Hood* strate gy lias been good, and his conduct has ueen gal rant. His eve is now fibred upon a point far be yon a tnat where he was assailed by the enemy. U< hop&toon to haze his hand upon Sherman' *!ine of to fie, it where he can hold if. Ana if hut hnlf — nay, one-fourth — of the men to whom the service hoe a right, will give him their strength, I sec no chance for Sherman fa eeco.„ from a defeat or a dwpraaful retreat. I therefore hope, m cow of <dl the 'Mntinqencies of tcar. with oil tju confidence which I found in the army, that with in thirty dam that army, which has so boastfully t a . km upwt Winter quarters in the heart of the Con federacy, wiH he in sea rch of a crossing on the Ten tm*ee River. . - That our army retreated far was but a natural pre cursor of that despondency which spread itself over the country ; but as I approached the region occu pied by our troops the hope increased, until at last found in the army the aerne of cofidenoe itself.— Gen. Beauregard, so well known to you all, is go ing there with a general command, which will cna olehina to concentrate all the troops that can be made available for the public defence. I, there fore, say be of good cheer, for I hope that bright er intelligence will soon reach you. But, my friends, if it be otherwise—if we suffer reverses it is what is to be expected from the for tunes of war. It is the fate of all human designs. In that event we shall have reason to anticipate from all brave men a conduct becoming the occa sion, and shall look to you to redress your misfor tunes, to rise in the face of disaster and resolve to succeed, determined that you will live or die free. [Applause. J Your brave sons are battling for the cause of the country everywhere; your Fort Sumter, where was first given to the flag of the Confederacy, still stands, fhe i honor of the State has not been dimmed in the struggle, and her soldiers - will be sustained by the thought that when they are no more. South Carolina will still retain that honor with which she commenced the war, and have ac cumulated that greatness and glory which will make her an exemplar of all that is chivalric and manly in a nation struggling for existence. You who nave so long been the advocates of State Rights have never raised a clamor againstthe laws which seem to invade them, and I think, for ob vious reasons, YOU are not like those newborn lights who, perhaps, are just beginning to appre ciate the great principles of that creed. You saw laws passed winch were necessary to make those States which are in co-operation effective for the good of the whole. You understood the nature of'the compact entered into by the sovereign States, and you have not been fearful that the a gent created by yourselves was likely to turn against that Government for which he and you had been so long struggling. Understanding the means of preserving your State Governments, you have not been frightened by the clamor of those who do not. breath the pure air of State sovereignty.— Then you have had no difficulty in the organiza tion of the three forces incident to iniDUary ser vice. You are in that condition in which your defence must depend upon what does not belong to the active forces of the country. Your battles are fought on other fields. You have on the coast some riecesity for what is termed an active army, and should it it be incumbent upon you to furnish troops from your reserves, you have no constitutional scruples, like Gov. Strong, of' Ma ssachusetts, against marching your militia from the bcrdere of bhe State, to fight the battles of the cause in which you'are engaged. I honor yea for it. It is needless for me to argue questions here which have been discussed elsewhere, for here I am among the deeiples of him from whom I learned my lessons of State rights—the great, the immortal John C. Calhoun. Among thoseto whom we are indebted in South Carolina, I have not yet alluded to that peculiar claim of gratitude which is due to the fair country women of the Palmetto State—they who have gone to the hospital to watch by the* side of the sick—those who throng your wayside homes—who have nursed as if nursing was a profession—who have used their needle with the industry of sew ing women —who have borne privation without a murmur, and who have given up fathers, sons and husbands with more than Spartan virtue, be cause they called no one to witness and record the deed. Silently, with all the digniny and grandeur of patriotism, they have made their sacrifice—sac rifices which, if written, would be surpassed by nothing in history. If all the acts of heroism and virtue of the women of the South could be trans mitted. to the future, it would present such a rec ord as the world has never seen. All honor, then. I say, to the ladies of the Palmetto State. Their galantry is only different from that of her sons in this, that they deem it unfeminine to strike ; and yet such is the heroism they have displayed—such the noble demeanor they have exibited—that at the last moment, when trampled upon and it be came a necessity, they would not hesitate to strike the invader a corpse at their feet. [Applause, j It is scarcely necessary for me, at a time like his, to argue grave questions respecting policy, past, present or prospective. I only ask you to have faith and confidence, and to believe that ev ery faculty of my head and heart is devoted to your cause, and to that I shall, if necessary, give mv life. Let every one in his own sphere, and according to his own capacity, and devote himself to the single purpose of filling up and sustaining our armies in the field. If required to stay at home, let him devote himself not to the acquisi tion of wealth, but to the advancement of the common cause. If there is to be any aristocracy in the land after this war, I hope it will be an ar istocracy of those men who nave become poor while bleeding to secure our liberty. (Applause.) If there are to be any peculiarly favored by pub lic opinion hereafter. I trust it will be those men who have longest borne a musket and oflenest bled upon the battle-fields. If there is to be any young man shunned by the young ladies when he seeks their favor, I trust it will be the man who has grown rich by skulking. And with all sincerity, I say to my young friends here, if you want the right man for a hus band, take him whose armless sleeve and noble heart betokens the duties that he has rendered to his country, rather than he who has never shared the toils, or borne the dangers of the field. If there still be left any of those military criers who have never spoken of our Generals but to show how much better things could have been managed or of our Government, but to find fault witli it, because it never took their advices—in mercy's name, let these wise men go to the front, and aid us in achieving our independence. VVitlgthcir wjsdoui and strength swelling our armies, I should have some hopes that I will not be a corpse before our cause is secured, and that our flag would never trail in dishonor, hut would wave victoriously a bove the roar and smoke of battle. I believe it it in the power of the men of the Con- Jederacy to plant our banners on the banks of the Ohio, where we may say to the YajJtee, ' 'Be quiet or we shall teach you another lessaon" Within the next thirty days much is to be done, for upon our success much depends. Within the next thir ty days, therefore! let all who are absentees, or who ought to be in the army, go promptly to their ranks. Let fresh victories crown our arms, and the Peace party, if there be such at the North, can elect its candidate. But whether a peace can didate is elected or not, Yankee instinct will tench him that it is better to end the nor, ami leave us to the enjoyment of our own rights. Prayerful for your welfare, confiding in the ar my of the Cunfedrate States to do that which soft words can never achieve, and in the hope that God will preserve the little ones of all brave mea who are in the field, or who are going to it, and trusting that in the under brighter au spices, it may be my fortune to meet the good jjeoplu of Columbia, I wish you for the present iarewell. (Applause.) Now for steady, systematic work in behalf of the Union cause. Only five days more. Close up the rauks, prepare the line of battle, and be ready for the grand charge on the Bth of Novem ber. Bear this in mind now , although the election is five days off, and let it become a fixed resolve: Vote at the earliest possible hour ou the morning lection, and then be prepared to work all day for the cause.
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