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The 21st section of the act of Congress, approved March 3,1865, provides as follows: SECTION 21.— Anfi be it further enacted, That in Edition to the other lawful penalties of the crime of desertion from the military and naval service, all persons who have deserted the military or naval ser vice of the United States, who shall not return to said service or report themselves to a Provost Marshal within sixty days after the proclamation hereinafter men tioned, shall be deemed and taken to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their rights of citizenship, and their rights to become citizens; and such deserters shall be forever in capable of holding any office of trust or profit under the United States, or of exercising any rights of citi zens thereof; and all persons who shall hereafter desert the military or naval service, and all persons who being duly enrolled, shall de part the jurisdiction of the district in which he is enrolled, or go be yond the limits of the United States, with intent to avoid any draft into the military or naval I service, duly ordered, shall be liable to the penalties of this sec tion. And the President is here by authorized and required forth with, on the passage of this act, to issue his proclamation setting forth the provisions of this seetion, in which proclamation the President is requested to notify all deserters returning within sixty days as aforesaid, that they shall be par doned on conditon of returning to their regiments and companies or | such other organizations as they may be assigned to, until they shall have served for a period of time equal to their original term of enlistment." In obedience to the latter clause of this section, the President of the United States, on the 11 th day of March, 1865, issued his proclama tion " ordering and requiring " all deserters to return to their posts; or to report themselves to Provost Marshals for duty, on or before the | 11th day of May, 1865. That proclamation and the act of Congress upon which it was based, were published in all the authorized newspapers of the 16th District. Thus all parties inter ested had full knowledge of their rights and ample warning of the penalty that would ensue in case they neglected to avail themselves of the privilege of reporting on or before the 11th day of May, 1865, The lo3d section of the general election act of Pennsylvania, ap proved Julv 2, 1839, declares that "If any inspector or judge of an election shall knowingly reject the vote of any qualified citizen or KNOWINGLY RECEIVE THE VOTE OF ANY PERSON NOT OPAL I PTE It, OR CONC'EA L FROM HIS FELLO W OFFICERS ANY FACT IN THE KNOWL EDGE OF WHICH star VOTE SHOULD BY LA W BE RECEIV ED OR REJECTED, EACH OF THE PERSONS SO OFFENDING SHALL ON CONVICTION, BE PUNISHED IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED IN THE WITH SECTION OF THIS ACT." And on referring to the Penalty in the 107 th section it says that each such person " CONCERNED THEREIN, SHALL, ON CON VICTION THEREOF, BE FINED IN ANY SUM NOT LESS THAN FIFTY NOR MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS We now tell every Copperhead election officer in the county, if he receives such voies, we will prosecute him to the extent of the law. Union men are request ed to take the name of every per son voting, disqualified by the above act of Congress, and for ward the same with the name of the officer taking the vote, to the Chairman of the Union County Committee. All the principal counties in the interior of California have elected Union members to the Legislature. Two or three small towns have gone JDemocratis. A LOCAL. AND GENERAL. NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. TIIE ALBANY CONVENTION. When King Canute found that the sea would not retire at his bidding he arose and withdrew. When Mohammed discovered that the mountain would not come to him he went to the mountain. The Democracy of the State of New York have just follow ed in the footsteps of its illustrious prede cessors. For years it has been sitting upon the shore bidding the humanity and honor and decendency of the American people re tire. And now that its ridiculous command is last in the roar of the rising ocean of lib erty and justice, it confesses that the tide has risen. Having encouraged traitors and stimulated civil war, it exhausted every method of perplexing the Government and disheartening the people, and on the eve of the final and universal national triumph, it exultingly declared the war a failure and na tional ruin inevitable. The American people, insulted and indignant, with one hand over whelmed the enemy in the field, and with the other utterly annihilated at the polls the whole line of the Democracy. After a year of consternation its stunned and straggling columns begin to stir. But as if to snow its total rout, at one point it proposes to reorganize upon its old basis. In Ohio it asserts the very doctrines which the country has denied in the victorious field. It moans in Pennsylvania that if its coun sels had been heeded it would be still alive. But in New York— ma, en Hispania! —with the perfection of comedy it resolves that "its past history is to be found in the proud est records of the country," especially in in the chapter entitled' The Chicago Plat form and "that it is ready to meet the great questions of the future with the pa triotism, fidelity to principle, and practical wisdom that have characterized its long and auspicious identification with the history of the nation." There let us take breath and ask, as well as inextinguishable laughter will allow, why, in a crisis of mortal peril, the American people, to secure their national salvation, utterly obliterated all this Democratic patri otism, fidelity, and practical wisdom ? And history and the immediate memory of the people answer, because it was the Patriotism of Benedict Arnold, the fidelity of Judas, and the practical wisdom of Horatio Sey mour. "The Democracy" of New York having thus complacently referred to the proud rec ord of their contemptuous rejection by the people, enthusiastically resolve to support cordially a President whom they are still hoarse with denouncing as a renegade and traitor: whose election they deplored as a national disgrace, comparing him to the horse whom the Roman emperor made con sul; and, finally, this Pretorian guard of slavery gravely announce that the abandon ment of slavery makes peace and Union pos sible. The builders of last year's Chicago plat form having thus bolted it whole ; the revi lers of the President having declared their sincere attachment to him ; the lackeys of slavery having thus grinned over its corpse ; and the bitter opponents of the war having duly cheered its nappy and beneficent conse quences; "the Democracy" of New York proceed by the mouth of John A. Green, one of the most notorious Copperhead op ponents <>f the war in the State, to nominate General Slocum.a Republican, a distinguish ed and honored soldier, and the military Governor of Mississippi, who has just sup pressed the "civil" Governor's authority. His unanimous selection is followed by that of Lucius Robinson, another Republican, and one of the most honest and faithful offi cers the State ever had; and his nomination in turn is succeeded by that of Martiu Gro ver, another Republican, who left the Dem ocratic paity ten years ago, when its "proud record' was characteristically illustrated by "the patriotism, fidelity, and practical wis dom" of the repeal of the Missouri Com promise. Thus poor old King Canute yields to the ocean which he can not command. Thus those who have systematically betrayed the principle of the Government surrender for the time to those who. under whatever name, have inexorably maintained it. Thus the party which has thwarted progressive civilization in America cats its own words, abjures its own acts, turns one complete somersault, and its late face disappears. The anti-American spirit which has so long dominated the Democratic party still survives in the country. Its associations are all with the name Democracy. The or ganization of the party remains; and al though its leaders temporarily desert their reactionary and natural ground, they are still the same, and the irresistible tendency of human nature will compel them to reoc cupy it at the earliest practicable moment. That profound faith in the moral righteous ness and political wisdom of fair play for all men, which is the mainspring of progres sive American civilization, wili never, under any probable circumstances, he found iu the Democratic party, but in its antagonists. In every country there is a constant tendency to intelligent progress and an opposition to it. This makes the eternal Tory and Liber al parties of all civilized nations ; and the ! American Democracy is the American Tory party. It is useless to say that it was not formerly so, or that it ought not now to be I so. We must deal with facts. The true party of the people in this country might have been called the Democracy, hut the opportunity was lost. The name was sur rendered, and the organization is not in the hands of those who sincerely.love liberty, and in no other hands can the party of pro gressive liberty be safe. The ignorance and prejudice of the coun try, the rabble of cities, and the aristocrats in feeling, all gravitate to the party known as the Democracy. The intelligence, the industry, the steady, elevated purpose of the country, gravitate to the opposition. There are unprincipled and corrupt men iu all parties; but the character of parties themselves is radically different. Thus the, great eras of true progress in this country have been those in which the Democratic policy was overthrown. To the Democracy we owe, in late years, the repeal of the Mis souri Compromise, the efforts of slavery to perpetuate itself, the Dred Scott decision the vitality of State sovereignty, and the armed insurrection of slavery against a free Government. To the opposition, under whatever name, Free-soil, Republican, or Union, we owe the education of the public mind and conscience which has produced emancipation and es tablished the Union upon the eternal rock of justice. The Democracy delights to call it self conservative. But its conservatism is merely dry-rot; and no intelligent American can believe that the country would stand as nobly eminent as it does at this moment if the Democracy had remained in power. Therefore it is useless to sacrifice substance to shadow, or to bewail a name. He is not a very wise man who supposes that resis tance to the true spirit of constitutional lib erty is at an end in this country, or who does not see that it will again rally under its old name. The temporary shifts of a party in order to gain or retain power may vary, but its permanent policy must be the same. "There are few statesmen so clumsy and BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, OCTOBEB 6, 1865. awkward in their business," says Burke, "as to fall into the identical snare which has Proved fatal to their predecessors." The in evitable tendencies of human nature are stronger than men: and he is not a wise friend of liberty or his country who helps to put in power those who nave betrayed both because for a while they hide their hands. The course of the New York Democracy at Chicago in 1864 and at Albany in 1865 is ab solutely different. But the party will still be the nucleus of the reaction. Its face is turn ad, but its heart cannot be changed. A ship now tacks before a head-wind to the right, now to the left, but it is .-till the same ship pursuing the same voyage.— Harper s Week- RECORD OF THE DEMOCRATIC PAR h Y. Pro-n+averg F traction. So far from maintaining the indissoluble nature of the Federal bond, the Democratic Party at an early period in the struggle adopted the theory that the secession of the South absolved the remaining States from all further obligation to the Constitution, and that they were individually at liberty to separate and set up for themselves or form new connections on such terms of alliance as they might please. There can be little doubt that the ultimate object of this scheme was to reorganize under the Montgomery Constitution, whereby the old supremacy of the alliance between slavery and Democracy might be restored aad the domination of the party be perpetuated. The key-note to this will be founu in one of the resolutions adopted at the great Democratic meeting in Philadelphia, held January 16, 1861. We have the authority of Mr. William B. lleed for the assertion that "it was adopted with enthusiastic unanimity." l 'Resolved, That in the deliberate judg ment of the Democracy of Philadelphia, and, so far as we know it. of Pennsylvania, the dissolution of the Union by the separa tion of the whole South, a result we shall most sincerely deplore, may release this Commonwealth from the bonds which now connect it with the confederacy, and icoald authorize and require its citizens, through a convention to be assembled for that purpose, to determine with whom their lot shall lie cast ; whether with the North and Fast whose fanaticism has precipitated this mis ery upon us, or with our brethren of the South, whose wrongs we feel as our <>wn, or whether Pennsylvania shall standby herself, ready, when occasion offers, to bind together the broken Union. " That these were the views of the domi nant men of the party is evident from the fact that Judge Woodward at that time made no secret of his desire that Pennsyl vania should go with the South. So, iu the spring of 1861, ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey, in a letter to L. W. Burnet, of Newark, argued the matter thus: "I believe the Southern Confederation permanent. The proceeding has been ta ken with forethought and deliberation —it is no hurried impulse, but an inevitable act, based upon the sacred, as was supposed, 'equality of the State.".' and in my opinion, every slave State will, in a short time, be found united in one confederacy. * * * Before that event happens, wc cannot act, however much we may suffer in our materi al interests. It is in that contingency, then, that 1 an>wer the second part of your ques tion. What position for New Jersey will best accord with her interests, honor, and the patriotic instincts of her people.' Tsay emphatically they tcould go with the South, from every wise, prudential and patriotic purpose. At the time of the Chicago Convention, these views were not so openly ventilated, but they evidently were at the bottom of the reconstruction contemplated by the "cessation of hostilities" and "convention of all the States"advocated in the platform. One speaker, however, D. H Mahony, of Dubuque, lowa, was bold enough to enun ciate them, and thev were favorably receiv ed: "We must elect onr candidate, and then, holding out our hands to the South, invite them to come and sit again in our Union circle. [A voice—suppose they won't come ?'J If they w ill not come to us. then I am in favor of going to them." [Loud cheers. ] And the Van Buren County Press, at Paw-Paw, Michigan, declared; "If the North and South are ever re-uni ted, we predict it will lie when the Confed erate States North adopt their new ('Mont gomery ) constitution, or something very near like it. There's a good time coming boys." •> COPPERHEAD DISUNION CONVEN TIONS. As early as July 15th, 1861, the project of Disunion was broached by the Hon. Ben jamin Wood in the following resolution of fered in the House of Representatives, which received the vote of every Democrat ic member : "Resolved, That this Congress recom mend the Governors of the several States to convene their Legislature for the purpose j of calling an election to select two delegates j from each Congressional District to meet in ] general Convention at Louisville iu Keu- - tucky, on the first Monday in September next; the purpose of the said Convention to be to devise measures for the restoration of peace to our country.'' The revolutionary project was allowed to Jeep for a year, when the disasters of the Peninsular campaign encouraged an attempt to revive it. Mr. William B. Reed came forward to feel the way. In August, 1862, he publish ed his "Vindication," in which he affected to believe that a restoration of the Union was impossible, and that all that remained for us was to decide upon the new leagues which should be formed. To accomplish this, he preferred separate State action. 'Tf the choice be between a continuance of the war, with its attendant sufferings and demoralization, certain miseries and uncer tain results, and a recognition oi the South ern Confederacy; I am in favor of recogni tion of course making the Abolition Party responsible for this dread necessity. The blood of the Union is on them. "If it be a choice between the slow but ultimately successful conduct of the war, the subjugation of the Southern States, tenure as mere military provinces, involving of course a radical change in the "political organization of the triumphant North, so as virtually to abrogate State rights and create a centralized domination with all the hcresis of the day engrafted, and peaceable recog nition, I still prefer recognition. "If the inquiry be further pressed as to how I would arrange the terms of pacifica tion and recognition Ido not hesitate to say that, dodge or defer it as we may, in my opinion the decision —I mean as to limits and possible as to debt—must be made by the States and their citizens, acting as they did, when seventy years ago they entered into the Federal compact. There is no other conceivable mode. Maryland and Kentucky, after all, each for herself, will have to determine where her lot shall be cast, aud what her pecuniary liability* must be, whether lor a share of the Federal or of the Confederate debt, or whether to be exempt from both. What Maiytanil anctKentucky do, Pennsylvania and Ohio have a right to do. This settles the question of boundaries, and nothing else will; and if the decision in volves the abandonment of Washington, and leaving it the monument of what was once the Capital of a great Republic, be it so. — I would rather see it a rum than what it is now." In November, Mr. Reed returned to the charge, and openly suggested the raising of the standard of revolt by the Middle States. "Yet should, in the providence of God, the spirit of topical fanaticism which has brought all this misery upon us still maintain its sway, it may be the destiny of these great Middle [ States to speak, and if need be to act, in \ self-defence in maintenance of all that is left of Constitutionii) jiberty in the fragmentary and shatteredU'nwm winch yet survives.—- They may act together, or they may act separately. Within each of them is the perfect machinery of Government, and all that is wanting is in animating and practical spirit of local loyalty. It may be that one man can supply that spirit: and it is the hope that these fugitive words of earnest suggestion rather than of counsel, may find an answer in the heart of the people, that they are given to the public." THE SOLDIERS AND THE DEMO CRATS. The idea of feeding a hungry man upon the savory odors of a hospitable kitchen is not unlike the hope of achieving a Demo cratic victory by the aid of soldiers' votes. Nor does the utter desperation of that hope deter these politicians. They indulge it with an oblivious forgetfulne>s beyond de scription ridiculous. Even their soldier candidate, Colonel DAVIS, seems to have lost his own memory of their notorious sym pathy with the rebels. But that is not sur prising on his part, when you compare it with the fact that for three years he allowed a furious secessionist to conduct his own pa per, "The DoylcsU/va Democrat," and to hll it with all sorts of abuse of the govern ment. and never thought of disowning the the infamy until he was charged with being responsible for it! Three years want of memory! When it was his own paper— published over his awn name, in his own town, sent to him in his camp and read in bis tent! Wonderful absent-mindedness! But it appears that ever since the gallant Colonel lias recovered his memory sufficient ly, yet very feebly, to say that this three years' prostitution of his own columns was without his consent (not, mark you, without his knowledge), he has again lost that im portant intellectual element. The Heading Daily Evening Record, a reliable Union pa per. .-ays. on Friday last: ' The Doylestown Democrat, owned and edited by Colonel Davis, the Copperhead candidate for Auditor General, has an edit orial in a recent issue in defence of the in human monster, Captain Wirz, wlto mur dered our brave men by the .slow process of starvation at Audersonville. It asserts that the military commission, before which he has been put upon trial, is a usurpation cf power, and that the prisoner has not been lairlv dealt with. Colonel Davis, wo pre -ume, takes this course in order to commend himself to the support of his party." If then the Colonel forgets his own affairs after this fashion, and runs into all these Copperhead habits and phases, how can we expect to remember the open treason of the Democratic leaders of this State? llow can we blame, if, following his example, they de cide to forget, even to deny, that they ever did sympathize with the rebels? And who will be surprised if, like the poor starving who tries to console, even while tantalizing himself with the unctuous perfumes of a round of roast beef, they tool themselves with the hope of getting a Democratic vic tory with tJie aid of the soldiers' vote? — Plain. Press. THE AUTUMN ELECTIONS. The autumn elections in Maine. Vermont, and California show little sign of that great and sweeping reaction against the Union party of which there have been so many dismal forebodings. Indeed, upon a smaller vote, the Union majority is proportionately larger than it was last year. The reason is plain. In the utter wreck of its hopes, prophesies, and policies, the Democratic party has been engaged all the autumn, from Maine to lowa, in coming as near to the Union party and its principles, as possible, but with very various result. In Maine tue effort was.laudable. la Penna. the old currents were too strong, and the Convention was like a congregation of dead men solemnly affirming obsolete falsehoods. In New Jersey the result was characteristic. The Copperhead gentlemen, who knew that the war had settled their position unless they assumed an aquiessence it it, said as much as they dared to show that their sympathies were still with the rebellion, and then nomi nated —since there was no escape—the least warlike of warriora, who immediately atoned for his error in having been lor a short time a soldier by a ribald speech, appealing to the hatred of one class of citizens for another. In Ohio Vallandighxm ruled the Conven tion, and doomed the districted party to deeper humiliation. But in New k ork they made a clean breast of it. The party faced straight about, of course declaring that it always looked one way; and not only au aunounced doctrines which, with some ex ceptions, are agreeable to Union men, but actually snatched their chief candidates from the Union ranks. This was the crowning proof offered by the most sagacious body of its opponents that the Union party is the party of the country, and that success is to be expected only in the degree that its principles are pro fessed. Yet notwithstanding this amusing revela tion of the fact that the Democratic party is utterly confounded and discordant, there have l ecn those who prophesied a great Democratic reaction. In Maine, however, where, next to New York, the recantation was most complete, the event shows the Union ranks tinner than ever. In Vermont a model community, of sober, intelligent, and industrious citizens, the humbug of "De mocracy" is utterly exposed. In the coun ties of California the Union members of the Legislature are generally elected. In New Jersey the Union men work with a cheerful vigor and a resolution which no reverse can daunt, which will soon redeem that State from its long subservience to a narrow and inhuman policy. In Ohio, the Union party will gladly show again its over whelming scorn of ALLAN mu Li AM and the doctrines of the rebellion. Meanwhile every voter will naturally ask himself what is gained by deserting an orga nization which has always held those princi ples from conviction, tor an organization which has steadily derided them until the war put them beyond questior? Or, grant ing the sincerity of the Demecratic conver sion, conceding that the leopard has changed its spots, why should the veterans of long and victorious campaigns be discarded for the raw recruits of yerterdayr The Demo- VOLUME 38; XO. 41. cratio syren may sing, but we doubt if she can persuade ANDREW JOHNSON to go down to posterity as the yoke-fellow of JOHN TYLER.— Harper's 1 Veekty. "VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT.*' The opposition party, which calls itself democratic, having been knocked into a cocked hat at the last election, and seeing no other chance, now calls upon the Union par ty to support President Johnson, the elected candidate of the Union party. It is usual, we believe, for a party to support its own candidates especially when the people ratify its choice by such a majority a* elected, Mr. Johnson. It must be gratifying to the President to see that while he is supported by the party which nominated and elected "him, he is courted and flattered by those who during tbe election abused him, and during the whole fbur yearoft.be vaitepoke of hint on ly as a reprobate and a renegade. Ilut the democratic organs also invite the Republieau and Union party to come over to ' 'democracy. What kind of' 'democracy'' —that of the T ennsvlvania platform, or that of New Jersey, or that of Maine, or that of V allandieham in Ohio, or that of Minneso ta? If they mean that true and consistent democracy represented by the Evening Post. which holds with Jefferson to "equal and exact justice for all men"—the Union party stands there now and is the only party which does ; it chose its candidates in the last elec tion upon that platform ; and it is willing to receive accessions to its ranks—though it can get along without \\ hen the democratic organs in this State guardedly puff the President, whom last year they vilified and denounced, when they pro fess confidence in a man whom they but a few months ago hedd up as an unscrupulous and ignorant tyrant, the people remember the plaintive confession of Mr. Elijah F. l'urdy, the great sachem of. Tammany, in the Leader, a few weeks ago. He wrote : "What the democratic party chiefly needs is power. It is a very thankless and cheer less office to be confined to the business of standing outside of the farm fence and find ing fault with those who are in possession of the house and grounds, fruit and orchards, cattle, stock, pork and provisions. You may talk more sense, know more moral law. be more fluent in argument, and have the most solid convietion of your own wisdom, personal elevation and abstract right, but if you can't get in and get the other fellows out, it is all vanity and vexation of spirit." It seems that the opposition lealers dis pair of getting the present aw out by popular consent —so they, in desperation, adopt the novel expedient of calling themselves the ins. "Hurrah for Johnson" they shout, poking their heads over Mr. Purdy's "farm fence. "Open the door to ns, we are the real simon-pure Johnson men !" And as they utter these cries they shove forward two or three In ion men whom they have snatched up and forced to head them". But peering out from behind the coat-tails of these unfortunates, we see Vallandigham, PendletoD. Thomas and Horatio Seymour, Long, the Woods and the whole tribe of fellows who consider, with Purdy, that "what they need ehieflv is power:" and who are ready to hide behind even a Repub lican stalking-horse, if so they can get with in gun-shot of a political success.—JVl Y. Eve. Font. THE RECORD OF THE DEMO CRATIC PARTY. By nominating as candidates for office, soldiers who have served their country in the late terrible war, the Democratic party would fain hope to escape from the consequences of the fearful record it made for itself during the last five years. But are the people pre pared to let it do so ? Shall the hideous disloyalty which blackens that record now be obsemred by means of soldier candidates ? Those who call to mind the atrocious speech es made in Legislative bodies and in mass meetings, the abominable resolutions pas sed by conventions, and the outrageous ar ticles published in papers belonging to the Democratic party, can have no hesitation in arriving at the conclusion that nothing can atone for such things. The war was waged for the preservation of the very life of the nation itself, and for no partisan object what ever, and it was against such a contest that the Democratic party chose to array itself. Yet, by now raising all sorts of side issues bv appealing to the prejudices of classes, by propogating malicious falsehoods against particular candidates, by adroitly allying themselves now vrith one interest and then with another, by claiming to be friendly to President Johnson after having vehemently denounced him as an "itinerant pedler of abolitionism," by sheltering itself behind the laurels of soldiers who fought in the war and who have been weak enough to accept its nomination, it struggles desperately to obtain once more the power which ft so shamefully abused whenever entrusted with it. We appeal to reading and thinking men to refer back to the record of the party, to ask themselves whether such a party is fit to be entrusted with power again, and whether they are prepared to sanction its course by votiug its ticket.— Fhila. Xorth American. A DEMOCRATIC PROTEST. Petroleum V. Nasby protests, as a consis tent Democrat, against the nomination of soldiers by his party. He writes: — "I object to nominatin em for the fol'erin reasons: — 'L Taint honist. In 1862 I called the soljers 'Linkum purps" andorfisers 'should er-strapt hirelins,' and I meant it They wuz wagin a crooil and unholy war agin Dimocrisy, they wuz redoosin our inagorities in the suthern Btates at the rateuv sum hun dreds per day, and now to nominate em is a Bop I' !i never make. "2. Twon't pay. These fellers sold us out when they took commishns, they sold out the Ablishnists when they flopt back to us, and what guaranty hev we that tbey won't sell us the next turn of the wheel? Ef we coot! git sum decent wuns, it mite do, but, good Lord! the soljer who wood do this wood be lower down than we is, which wood bother a man. All the votes that sich men eood controle, we hev alluz owned in fee sim ple. "3. Taint justis 2us originel copperheads. We ondoored the heat and burden of the day; we resisted drafts, we dammed taxes, we wuz Port Lafaycted and Fort Wariued, twas us who died in our door-yards. Where wuz these orfisers then? All the damage they dun the guvcrniuent wuz in dr&win pay and rashens. "4. The reconstructed dimocrisy uv the South wont like it, and to them, alter all we must look for success. ■'s. They acknowledge nigger equality by allowiu niggers to fight with em. "6. We hev gone too fur to try the soljer dodge. We opposed the war, we opposed ther votin, we opposed Ablishn in voting pay and supplies, we opposed Aid Societies and laft at .Sanitary Ccmnushus, we opposed drafts at a time when they needed help, and to go back on sich a reckord is ruther reach in, and I won't do it. '7. Ef wo undertake the soljer, we commit ourselves to pavin his penshuns, et settry. How would the suthren Dimocrisy lie that? "8. Ef we nominate men who served, we disgust the deserters and them est went to Kanady for the sake ov the coz. 1 ' Mr. Nasby appends the following advice to his party.— "We have cappytel enuff in the Nigger Let us plant ourselves boldly on snoor ground. Let us Resolve that Goddlemity wuzrite in makm the Nigger our slave, tho he made a mistake in plantin in his heeven buzuin a chronic desire to run away from his normal condishn. Let us hang out our ban ner and iyseribe on its foles, No marrvin Niggers!' 'No payin adept inkurd in a Nig ger war!' 'Protect us from Nigger equality!, and sich other precepts es cum within range uv the Dimekratic intellek, and go in and win. "May the Lord hasten the day. "PETROLEUM V. NASBT, "Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun. lion WELL PENNSYLVANIA KEPT IIEK WORD. When President Lincoln made the first call for troops in 1861, of 75,000 men Gov. Curtinin behalf of this State said: " Penn sylvania woubl not only famish ker quota, but give 300,000 more to put doicn the rebel lion. According to official tables, the Pro vost marshal General says that Pennsylva . nia has furnished 361,930 men. This does not include those who were called out during the invasion of the State in 1863. the num ber of which is set dovm at 90,00 ft The ■number who left this State to enlist in other States is computed at 25,(X)0; and the num ber of colored men who left Pennsylvania to join organizations in other States is estima ted at 2.500, making in all the grand total of 479,449; or a little less than half a million of soldiers. Pennsylvania leads the van, and she has the proud distinction, although not the first in population, of furnishing more men for the preservation of the life of the nation, than any other State in the T nion. Not only has she been foremost in the work of sending men, but she has di minished her public debt by nearly a million of dollars per year. This is a noble record, and it speaks volumes in praise of our rulers. The poorde will do well to follow the coun sels of the men who have served this State so faithfully. When the Democrats rant and talk of corruption and extravigani ex penditure, we can refute their base slander and calumnies, by pointing with a proud satisfaction to the nobie record whien our officials have made. THE DANGEROUS ELEMENT. The News thinks "the negro element of the South is dangerous to the peace of the country at large." In what respect? Does the element" eat too many Gov ernment rations? In Knoxville, 359 eat, but only two belong to "the element'" Is "the element" lazy! Every writer from the South tells us that the bar-room loafers the corner loungers, the petty gamblers are white men. The negro works. Does "the element" cost too much?— The rate of wages in the South is from five to seven dollars a month. The labor is severe and harsh. It eouid not be purchased here for five times the money. Is "the element" vicious? We hear sto ries of oppression and injustice every day, assaults, murders, deceptions; but in all cases the white man is the oppressor; "the ele ment" is calm, uncomplaining, docile. "The element'' is-daDgerous to the country pretty much as the lamb was to the wolf. Whether he drinks up the the stream or down the stream, or does not drink at all, | the wolf will certainly be disturbed.—N. Y. Tribune. STICKING TO IT. Col. W. W. H. Davis, the Democratic can didate for Auditor Genera!, has resumed full charge of the Doylestown Democrat , a news paper which he has owned for many 3 ears, and which heretofore and now sympathizes with the rebels. The peculiar force of the Democrat , since Col. Davis has returned to preside over its columns, consists in asserting that the rebels have not been whipped; that they should be received back to the Union with all their rights restored; that slavery is not and never can be abolished, and that in justice to the rebels, the debt which they in curred in struggling for their "rights" is as legal as the debt which was piled on the peo ple by the National authorities while waging a crusade on the people of the South, and if the National debt is paid, so also must the debts of the Southern States be liquidated. According to Col. Davis's own theory the triumph of the Democrats at the ballot box would be to wipe out all disgriceof the defeat of the rebels on the battle tieid. The Doyles town Democrat takes this posititn, and W. W. H. Davis is the editor and proprietor of that pestilent sheet.— Union Free Frees. THE CONFEDERATE DEBT. A sample of the temper of the Southern people is to be found in the action of the Alabama Convention, refusingto repudiate the Confederate State debt. This debt waa contracted for the sole purpose of overturn ing the United States Government, and now that Alabama is preparing to ie-enter the Union, she cooly flings into the teeth of the Government the insulting declaration that she intends to shoulder the debt incurred in her rebellious efforts to throw off its author ity. In other words, Alabama declares that she thinks secession waa a legitimate busi ness and that all debts incurred in carrying it on should be paid. She believes she was right in what she did, and is sorry only that she failed. The action will be followed in the other Southern States, and when the way is clear, the effort will be made to saddle the nation with the Confederate debt contracted by Davis' government. The one is the enter ing wedge to the other.— Pittsburgh Ga zette. WHO WORK The Richmond Times insists that "we must adopt plans for bringtng in emigration gener ally, for it is quite evident that the negroes lo not mean tc work. Some other labor must therefore be procured, and that at very short notice, or this country, tne noblest the sun sbines upon, will become a wilderness like Jamaica." We have not heard of any negro refusing to work. Most certainly there are ten white men fed by the Government as paupers for one negro. The difficulty of the Times is not that the negro refuses to work, but that be will not work for the white man. Let the white man work for himself. The negro will not bother him. The allusion to Jamaica gives us an idea of Southern argument. The island is in a great part controlled by negro labor, and instead of being a "wilderness," has more wealth, more real happiness and prosperity, a greater num ber of small, well-tilled farms and comforta ble homes, and more generally diveraified intelligence than proud Virginia with her chivalry and her tournaments. Of Jamaica we shall speak again. Before the war it was said that a Virginian would, any day, rather fight than work. The war has cured their fighting propensities, but has, certainly, not improved their working powers.— N. 1. Tri bune. SIGNIFICANT. No word of condemnation can be seen in .any of the Copperhead papers, of the acts of Wirx, who systematically murdered our BOl diers at Anaersonville. The sympathizers with the murderers of the lamented Lincoln would rejoice to see the AndersonviUe butcher acquitted. Yet that party expects the humane and loyal people to support it. We incline to the opinion that the expecta tions of the Copperheads will be blighted on the 10th of next month. The South Carolina State Convention assembled at Columbia on the 13th, there being in attendance one hundred members*
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