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" Occasional," correspondent of the
Press, under date of 10th inst., says :
"It is stated that later news from
Europe leads the Administration to
anticipate a less cordial support by
England and France of the policy
adopted towards the seceded States
than was looked for two days ago.—
Should these two great Powers at
tempt to treat the Davis Piracy as a
Government, to disregard the protest
of the Administration, and to force the
blockade, the war will extend from the
New World to the Old. In such an
event, we shall have a clean open field,
on a clean open issue. It will be the
battle of every element of slavery
against every element of liberty. The
end would be reached through blood
shed, but the victory would be with
the right.
"The preparations of the Adminis
tration for a long and comprehensive
campaign, though secretly made are
stupendous. Up to this moment they
are not based upon the contingency of
a war with foreign countries; but the
spirit of the people will sustain any
expenditure that may be deemed ne
cessary to vindicate the Government
against European as well as domestic
foes."
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The Mont
fomery Advertiser says that the Con
ederate Congress has resolved to re
move the capitol to Richmond, Va.
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The trans
portation of immense bodies of troops
to Fortress Monroe is to take place
with the least possible delay. Major
General Butler will forthwith repair
thither, where he will establish his
headquarters as the commandant of
the new Military Department of Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Tenne.ssee.
These facts are significant of future
events.
A private letter, dated on Friday,
on board the U. S. Frigate Minnesota,
in Hampton Roads, says : We arrived
from Boston on the 13th, and have
commenced our assaults on the enemy.
We have seized about $300,000 worth
of ships and tobacco. We are antici
pating an attempt on the part of the
enemy to fortify Shewell's point, and
if they do, we shall attack them.
The health of the volunteers in and
around the Capitol continues unusually
good.
CAAMBERSDURG, May 19.--The Con
federate troops on Friday last, visited
Maryland flirmer, three miles below
Harper's Ferry, and killed seven hogs
and drove off three head of cattle in
broad daylight. They have committed
similar depredations in Maryland for
ten miles above the Ferry, and these
visits are occurring daily.
Unionists, driven out of Virginia,
are arriving here daily, and sorrowful
stories are related by many.
WASHINGTON, May 20.—Important
military movements are expected to
begin to-day, but nothing definite con
cerning them has yet been made pub
lic.
There is no positive news from Vir
ginia, but it is believed that the forces
collected to resist the Federal troops,
have been exaggerated.
Several regiments are under march
ing orders and only waiting for the
Word.
It is the general impression here
that a movement on Harper's Ferry
will take place this week.
The Day of Jubilee has come, and
the 30,000 troops remaining in and
about this city are rejoicing that thoy
are so soon to show of what metal
they are made. That Richmond is the
point of early attack is no longer a
matter of doubt, but which route the
force will go is undeveloped. •
CINCINNATI, May 20.—Three com
panies U. S. Artillery from Fort Ran
dall, Minnesota, under command of
Major Getty, arr.ved here yesterday
morning and encamped on the Orphan's
Asylum lot. They left for Camp Den
nison this morning. There are now
16,000 Ohio volunteers encamped there.
From the South
On yesterday the Richmond (Va.)
Examiner, of the 7th inst., was placed
in our hands. We make a few selec
tions from its editorials and leave our
reader to make their own comments:
" The North is bankrupt. Her peo
, ple must imigrante to the West or
starve."
" The States of New York and Penn
sylvania and the New England States
do not produce annually enough meat
and bread to feed their population for
six months in the year, and (except a
little wool) produce nothing with which
to clothe them. Their soil is extremely
sterile, and it would require many
years manuring to make it capable of
supporting the present population.—
They cannot produce their own food
and clothing and will have nothing
wherewith to purchase it.
" When he (Buchanan) determined
upon a line of action which drove
from his Cabinet all the Southern gen
tlemen in it, he *became the precursor,
and nothing more, of the hideous Illi
nois Baboon."
"Probably Mr. Buchanan, after all
did as well as any other Northern man
could have done; for, from the nature,
education and the structure of their
society, faith and truth are impossible
amongst them, save in rare exception
al cases, and his was far from being
one of these."
"A few days more and the people
of this State will surely see an Aboli
tion army on their soil."
/laming the Militia of the State
We publish below several sections
of the bill which passed the Legisla
ture last week, and approved by the
Governor, providing for the loan of
three million of dollars, for the purpose
of arming the militia forces of the
State. The loan is to be taken on
certificates or bonds of the Common
wealth. bearing six per cent. interest
per annum, payable semi-annually,
and which bonds and certificates shall
be exempt from taxation for any pur
pose. These bonds and certificates
are not to be issued for a less sum
than twenty-five dollars, and no cer
tificate or bond is to be negotiated for
less than its par value.
The bill also provides for the com
plete organization of the militia force
of the State. by the appointment of a
proper person of competent military
education, experience and skill, to
have command of all the military for
ces of the State. This appointment
has already been made in the person
of Gen. George A. McCall, of Chester
county.
One of the most judicious and patri
otic provisions of this bill is that which
legalizes the appropriation of money
by the commissioners of the several
counties in the State, for the purpose
of supporting the families of such of
the volunteers who have or may leave
the said counties unable to make such
provision themselves.
Sze. 12. That it shall not be lawful
for any volunteer soldier to leave this
Commonwealth as such, unless he shall
have been first accepted by the Gover
nor of this State, upon a call under a
requisition of the President of the
United States made upon the Gover
nor direct for troops for the service of
the United States; and no volunteer
soldier shall be allowed by the Gover
nor to leave the State until fully
armed and equipped for effective ser
vice.
SEC. 14. That the Associate Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas and the
County Commissioners of the several
counties of this •Commonwealth shall I
constitute a board of relief, to meet
monthly, or as often as they find nee-
essary, at the office of the Commis
sioners, and, upon reasonable claim or
suggestion, furnish such amount of
support or relief in each individual
ease as they may deem equitable and
proper for the families, or for persons
resident in their respective counties,
heretofore in any degree dependent
upon such volunteers as have been en
rolled and mustered into service from
their several counties, under orders
from the Governor of the Common
wealth during the existence of the
present exigencies of the General Gov
ernment, the claims oy.suggestions fbr
such relief to be madv, in writing, set
ting forth the facts of the case, with '
such proofs and vertpations as the
board may require, aria- to be filed in
the office as vouchers for payments
which maybe made tlAr, payments
for relief to be made rders drawn
in the usual form, wit% an-indorsement
on the back of each, " aed by the
board of relief," which nurhsement
shall be signed by one of the Associate
Judges; and all the vouchers and the
orders issued thereon shall be duly au
dited by the County Auditors or other
proper authorities, and published in
the annual statement of the public ex
penditures of said counties;
if it shall
be found requisite by the Commission
ers of any county within this Com
mon wealth, they are hereby authorized
and empowered to make a temporary
loan, or loans, at a rate of interest not
exceeding seven per cent. per annum,
to carry into effect the measures of
relief provided by this Act. Provided,
That all arrangements nmde by the
several counties of this Commonwealth
for the surport of the flimilies of the
volunteers mustered into service, are
hereby legalized and declared to be in
full force, until the provisions of this
section aro carried into effect by the
several eounti es of this Commonwealth.
SEC. 15. That it shall be lawful for
the proper authorities, of any county
within this Commonwealth to assess
and levy a tax for the payment of
such appropriations as may have born
or may hereafter be made by such au
thorities for the relief of volunteers or
of their families or both, which volun
teers shall have been or may be re
ceived into the service of this State,
or of the United States in the present
exigency of the country: Provided,
That such assessment shall not in any
one year exceed two and one-half mill
upon the dollar of the taxable property
of such county: And provided farther,
That all loans heretofore negotiated
or moneys borrowed by any county,
city or borough for the purposes afore
said, be and the same are hereby rati
fied and confirmed, and the bonds or
other evidences of indebtedness issued
or to be issued therefore are hereby
made good and valid, and that all ap
propriations heretofore made or to be
made by county commissioners or mu
nicipal authorities, for the purpose of
arming or equipping volunteers, or
for the relief of their families, are
hereby legalized and shall be allowed
them on the settlement of their ac
counts, as other payments are by law
allowed.
SEC. 16. That in case any soldier
shall die after being mustered into the
service of the United States or of this
State, leaving a widow and minor
children or a minor child under the
age of fourteen years, the mother of
such minor or minors shall receive
eight dollars per month from this
State, for the term of five years, unless
all such minors shall, before the ex
piration of said five years, be of the
age of fourteen, or unless she or they
receive a pension, from the United
States. If such widow die or marry
before the expiration of said five years,
such pension from the time of such
death or marriage, shall go to the
support of such minor child or children
as aro then living.
SEC. 18. That all incorporated Uni
versities, Colleges and Academies in
this Commonwealth are hereby au
thorized to establish in connection
with their several institutions a mili
tary professorship for the education of
young men in military discipline and
the art of war.
SEC. 19 That the commander-in-chief
in conpnetion with the officers compo
sing the grand staff of the militia of this
Commonwealth ; are hereby authorized
and required to organize a military
corps, to be called the Reserve Volun
teer Corps of the Commonwealth, and
to be composed of thirteen regiments
of infantry, one regiment of cavalry
and one regiment of light artillery.—
The said regiments shall severally be
composed of companies of like number
and to be armed and equipped, clothed,
disciplined, governed and officered as
similar troops in the service of the
United States, and shall be enlisted in
the service of the State for a period
not exceeding three years or for the
war, unless sooner discharged, and
shall be liable to be called into the
service of this State at such times as
the commander-in-chief may deem
their services necessary'for the purpose
of suppressing insurrections or to repe
invasions, and further to be liable to
be mustered into the service of the
United States at such times us requi
sitions may be made by the President
of the United States.
SEC. 20. That the commander-in-chief
in conjunction with the officers afore
said, shall cause two or more camps of
instruction, not exceeding eight, to be
formed in different sections of the State,
for the accommodation and instruction
of said troops, and the Governor shall
appoint suitable officers or drill mas
ters, with the rank and pay of captain,
whose duty it shall be to instruct said
troops in the military art, conforming
as near as may be to the plan of in
struction, rules, regulations and disci-
pline adopted for similar troops in the
service of the United States.
SEc. 21. That the commander-in
chief shall cause the troops aforesaid
to be drilled and instructed in such en
campments for and during such periods
of time as he may deem necessary to
perfect them in the military art.
SEC. 22. That the said corps shall
receive the same pay and rations when
under such instructions in said camps,
or in the active service of the United
States, as similar troops receive when
in the service of the United States,
and that said troops shall, when not
under such instruction in camp, or in
the service of the State or United
States, at all times hold themselves in
readiness at their respective residences
to be called into the service of the
State, or upon requisition of the Uni
ted States, and shall be required to
provide and keep in repair suitable ar
mories for the safe keeping and preser
vation of their arms and accoutre
ments.
SEC. 23. That it shall be the duty of
the commander-in-chief and adjutant
general, to procure and furnish arms
and accoutrements and a uniform dress
suitable for said troops, at the charge
of the State, and the captains of the
several companies composing said reg
iments shall be required to receipt to
the adjutant general for said arms, ac
coutrements and uniform dress, and
shall further give bond to the Com
monwealth, with surety in such sum
as the Governor shall direct, to be ap
proved by the president judge of the
court of common pleas of the county
in which such captains may reside,
conditioned for the safe keeping and
delivery over to the adjutant general
of such arms and accoutremets as may
be received by them for their respec
tive companies, upon demand legally
made by the adjutant general, and the
said bonds when so approved chall he
be filed in the office of the adjutant
general.
SEC. 24. That the several companies
and regiments composing said volun
teers corps shall be entitled to elect,
and the Governor shall commission,
officers similar in number and rank to
those allowed like troops in the army
of the United States : Provided, That
the Governor shall have power to ap
point and commission chaplains for
said corps, and to designate their rank.
SEC. 25. That no troops shall be kept
in camp longer than three moths at
any one time, except the Governor
shall, upon the expiration of said three
months, deem the longer continuance
of said troops necessary for the protec
tion of the Commonwealth, or shall
have a requisition for troops from the
President of the United States.
SEC. 27. That the Governor and Ad
jutant General be and are hereby au
thorized and required to procure and
furnish at the earliest possible time
after the' troops provided for in this
bill shall have been supplied, not ex
ceeding one thousand stand of modern
arms and accoutrements for each of
the counties of this commonwealth
bordering on the Maryland, Delaware
and Virginia lines, to be received by
the county commissioners of the res
pective counties for the purpose of
arming organized troops for the de
fence of said counties, and for such
other military service contiguous to
their borders, as they may be called
upon to perform, and the county com
missioners of said county shall respec
tively execute a bond in the name and
behalf of such county, in such sum as
the Governor shall direct, conditioned
for the safe keeping and delivery over
to the Adjutant General all such arms
and accoutrements as may be received
by them for the purpose aforesaid at
such times as the Governor may direct,
and the bonds so executed shall be
filed in the office of the Adjutant Gen
eral.
Sac. 28. That the Governor and the
Adjutant General be, and are hereby au
thorized and required as soon a possi
ble to procure suitable arms accoutre
ments sufficient to arm the volunteer
companies of this State now or here
after to be regularly organized under
existing laws, and further to collect
and contract for the remodelling of all
such military arms belonging to the
State as are or have become deficient
and unfit for modern service : And pro
vided further, That before any arms arc
delivered to any volunteer companies,
or home guards, they shall severally
be sworn or affirmed to support the
Constitution of this State and the Con
stitution of the United States, and to
obey all lawful orders of such officers
as may be placed over them by proper
authority: And provided further, That
so much of any law heretofore existing
authorizing members of volunteer com
panies to receive pay for any military
parading not in the actual service of
the State, is hereby suspended during
the existence of the present war, and
the military tax now imposed by the
laws of this Commonwealth shall be
collected and paid into the Treafiury
of tho Commonwealth to meet the ex
penses of the militia musteret into ac
tive service,
Robert J. Walker on the Union.
Speech Delivered at Staten Island
The following speech was delivered
by Hon. R. S. Walker, at the late Union
Mass meeting in Staten Island, New
York. Mr. Walker said :
This is no gala occasion, no fourth
of July commemorating the birthday
of our country, but a meeting to pre
vent its death. This is, indeed, a strug
gle for the life of the nation, to decide
if we have a country, or whether the
flag of the Republic waves over a mere
organized anarchy, to be succeeded
by military despotism. Our fathers
believed that they had founded a Gov
ernment—that they had made a Uni
on which was indissoluble, and, for
eighty years our progress was unex
ampled in the history of the world.—
The question now is, shall we sustain
that Government, or shall we substi
tute in its place the fatal doctrine of
secession. This word secession was
unknown to the founders of the Re
public ; it was first interpolated into
our political vocabulary in 1830, when
South Carolina attempted to destroy
the Union. It was then condemned
by all the other States; and especially
by Mr. Madison, the then great survi
ving founder of the Constitution. No
such word, or any of similar import,is
to be found in the Constitution. That
instrument was what its framers call
ed it, " a Constitution;" " the supreme
law," " a Government," and not a more
league or compact. The language was
not that of agreement or treaty, but
the majestic words announced by the
people of the United States, we " or
dain and establish" this Constitution.
It was made supreme over State laws
and State Constitutions, and placed
beyond State power by any State ac
tion. whatsoever; it was mad,' of per
petual obligation upon every State,'
in the language of Washington, it
created " an indissoluble Union." Of
all the great framers of the . Constitu
tion, Washington, Franklin, Madison,
Hamilton, and their illustrious com
peers, all condemned the doctrine of
secession, and pronounced the Ameri
can Union "indissoluble." Indeed,
even if the Constitution were a com
pact to which the States only were
parties, this pretended reserved right
of any one of these parties to destroy
the compact at pleosure, would be in
itself the climax of political absurdi
ties. If this doctrine of secession be
founded in truth, wo have never had
"a Government," "a Constitution,"
"a supreme law," but a mere volunta
ry association, from 'which each State
might withdraw at pleasure, not in
time of peace only but in war, and
thus have provided in framing the Gov
ernment for its destruction. To have
inserted the right of secession in the
Constitution, would have been to in
scribe its own death warrant on the
face of that instrument. Yet the con
test in which we are engaged is to es
tablish or overthrow this anarchical
doctrine of secession, and this contest
can close only in the triumph or defeat
of the Government. If defeated on
such a question as this, it will be in
vain hereafter to speak of the American
G overnment. We will have no Govern
ment, and will have acknowledged
that.we never can establish any here
after. Tho groat experiment of pop
ular liberty will then have failed ; it
_will have -1-1-,ilea-her.,--aml
now and forever. We are asked to
recognize the Government of the so
called Confederate States. We have
DO such power; it is forbidden by the
Constitution ; and if we had such a
power, to acknowledge such a Govern
ment would be to admit the right of
secession, and, thus to commit po
litical suicide. Let such a disinte
gration he once established, and disor
ganization and secession will become
our normal condition, the law of our
system. When the South will have
separated from the North, how soon
will the States . of the Pacific separate
from those on the Atlantic; the West
from the East, and the centre from
both sections, until we shall become
separate and independent States, en
gaged in perpetual warfare at home,
and the scorn and contempt of all the
nations of the world ? When I look
at the map of this great Republic, and
behold it stretching in majestic gran
deur from ocean to ocean, and from
the Northern lakes to the Gulf, I can
never consent to its dismemberment,
and, more especially, can I never
agree to leave the mouth of the Mis
sissippi in the hands of any foreign
Power. That stream is the great arte
ry through which flows the litb-blood
of the nation, and to sever it is death.
If we recognize this so-called Govern
ment, they will become to us a foreign
and independent nation.
They will make treaties first, and
then alliances with foreign and with
hostile Powers. Do they not now ask
the aid of England and of France ?
Do they not already offer them favor
able treaties ? And how soon, in the
certain collision of interests, will we
not be called upon to contend with
them in alliance with European mon
archies? What guarantee have we
that they will continue the republican
system, and how soon may they inau
gurate a monarchy along our whole
coterminous boundary? Already they
have formed what they call a Govern
ment, a Constitution without submit
ting it to the vote of the people. Al
ready they have violated the great
fundamental principle of popular lib
erty, and upon its ruins they may soon
establish a monarchy, or what is more
probable, a military despotism, in de
fiance of that clause of the Constitu
tion which requires us to maintain in
each State a "republican Government,"
No, we can never recognize this so
called Government without overthrow
ing our own. Wo can never admit
their independence without destroying
our own liberty. The struggle is, in
deed, for the life or death of the Re
public, and we must fight it out to the
last with a power and energy worthy
the majesty of the American people,
and commensurate with the magni
tude of the issues that are involved.
We shall fight for our country, for our
Union, and for the Constitution. We
shall fight under that sacred flag which
floated over the army of Washington,
and which is consecrated by a thousand
memories of kindred glory and renown.
And what flag have they? They have
none rightfully whatever; but what
they have is composed of seven stars
which, with bloody hands, they have
dared to attempt to snatch from the
banner of the American Union, Nev
er shall they tear any one of those
stars front that Manor: NeVer shall
they divide an acre of the soil, or sep
arate a drop of the waters of this
great Republic. The fatal word se
cession is inscribed upon their flag,
treason and rebellion are written there,
and death to all popular liberty would
soon be inscribed upon their banner,
and regard for their welfare as Well as
our own forbids the separation. NO !
we cannot surrender this Union with
out a base and cowardly abandonment
of a solemn trust committed to us by
our forefathers, for the benefit of our
country and of mankind. We are the
sentinels that guard the last great cit
adel of human liberty, and if we be
tray our trust wo shall have written
not only the epitaph of our own free
dom, but have inscribed thereon in
letters never to be effaced the fatal
words, Man is incapable of self-govern
ment. If we cannot perpetuate this
Union, and maintain this Government
and this Constitution, founded by
Washington and the sages and patri
ots of the 1117Volution, how vain and
idle the hope of preserving any disin
tegrated fragmentary dismembered
system which we might substitute in
its place? No! it is this Government
and this Union, all whole and invio
late, or no Government and no Union
whatsoever. Who would respect our
wretched flag with so many stars torn
from our banner ?• Who would regard
our Government, thus fallen, dismem
bered and disgraced ? Methinks I
hear the derision of Europe and the
scoffs of tyrants exulting over the fall
of the American Union, and the down
fall of the liberties of the world ! No !
my fellow citizens, we cannot surren
der this flag, or strike a single star
from the great constellation. We must
strangle, now and forever, the hydra
of Secession, or it will involve us all in
one common ruin. But let us now
crush the monster, and although our
fields may be crimson, even by a fra
ternal blood, we will emerge from the
fiery ordeal—we will come out through
the valley of the Shadow of Death,
and stand purified, redeemed, exalted
by the struggle. The problem of self.
government will have been solved, and
the great experiment will have proved
successful. No citizen of our own
country, or of the world, will hereaf
ter doubt the permanency of the Amer
ican Union, or the capacity of man
for self-government. Our triumph, in
such a struggle, will be the jubilee of
liberty throughout the world. Who
will falter in such a cause ? Who will,
for a moment, doubt our success ?
We cannot, will not, must not, shall
not fail. Already the voice of party
is silenced. We know now no party
but that of our country, and will know
none until our flag shall float again,
not only over the walls of Sumpter,
but over every other fort, and harbor,
and State of the American Union.
In all of those so-called seceded States
there are thousands still devoted to
the Union, who look to us for succor,
and who, with rejoicing thankfulness,
will again behold unfolded over them
the flag of the American Union. These
loyal citizens we cannot, must not,
dare not abandon. And the exiles
who have been driven from their homes,
because they loved the Union ; must be
restored and guarded by the protect
ing power of this great Government.
Secession is revolution, it is robellical,
it is war, it is treason, and it must be
suppressed ; or acknowledge that we
have no -(4-ovornmont, and never can
have. Peaceable secession ! Why the
very seceders must laugh at the pre
posterous folly. Peaceable, indeed !
Why, for months preceding the final
development they were all arming and
preparing for war, seizing our forts,
our mints, our arsenals, our vessels,
our treasure, firing upon 'unarmed
steamers or schooners, and finally
opening their batteries on one of our
forts occupied only by a handful of
starving soldiers. Peaceable, indeed !
Why, did they not have traitors in the
Cabinet, plotting the overthrow of the
Government of which they were mem
bers, and do we not all know that, but
for the sudden and majestic uprising
of the American people, they would
now be by force of arms in possession.
of the capital of the Union ? For
weeks and months the American-Gov
ernment forbore with an indulgence
unexampled in the history of the world.
We waited too long. We should have
reinforced all the Southern forts, as
urged upon the President by the illuS
trious Scott, in October last. We
should have provisioned and reinforced
Fort Sumpter immediately after its oc
cupation, in December, by the heroic
Anderson. We never should have
permitted that fort to have been en
circled in the cordon of fire and of hos
tile batteries with which it was sur
rounded, while patriots at hoMe looked
on with grief and sorrow, and all Eu
rope, astonished at our imbecility, ex
claimed that we had no Government,
and prepared soon to acknowledge that
of the Confederate States. But the
President who permitted these things
has retired in disgrace and inflimy.—
The past is gone ; it is irrevocable, even
by Almighty power; but the present
and the future are ours, and in the
coining glory that now dawns upon
us, we must extinguish the memory
of our humiliation and reproach.—
These disgraceful scenes must never
be re-enacted. The curtain has risen
upon another act of the great drama.
This rebellion will be suppressed at
once by the -stong arm of Government
and the people. There"can be no more
hesitation, no more truce, with armed
rebellion. The Confederate States
have made war upon us, and we must
all rally as one man, with overwhelm
ing force, around the flag of our coun
try, and unfold it where it waved a few
months since, from the Penobscot to
the Rio Grande, over every fort and
State of the American Union. Fort
Sumpter is now historic, anti that flag
must float again over its walls. It
was our 'fort—exclusively ours—by
law, by cession, and the Constitution.
The right of property was ours, and so
was the " exclusivejurisdiction," and
and the noble son of Kentucky, accom
panied by all his brave officers and
men, and sustained by the mighty
power of this GoVermnent, must again
replace that flag over the walls of
Sumpter, never to be surrendered un
til time shall be no more. And now,
fellow-citizens, each day, each hour, is
making history, and as I unroll the
scroll of coming events, we read the
closing words of this year: Rebellion
crushed—the Government Maintained—
the Union perpetuated—'-undivided and
undivisable it rests now and forever on
the eternal basis of the affections of a free
and mighty people,
tthcirism ixi theiSdiatii
When the 'turbid wave of Secession
dasned• over Maryland- a -.few Weeks
since, it seemed'as if every Vestige of
nationality and patridtisin has been;
swept away, and we of Pennsylvania'
began to examine our flints and fire
locks in the expectation of meeting an'
army in Delaware or Chester. If any
ono had predicted on that dark
. and
fatal April day,' when our fellow-citi- '
zens were murdered' by an uncontroll
able mob, that - before another' moon
had set, the flag which was then dis
honored would be elevated—that -the
'cockade of treason would be banished
—and an army of the Republic would
pace the Streets of 3taryland's
tropoll's unmolested, and all this with
out a single life or shedding a' drop of
of blood, he would have been regarded
as an enthsiast or a dreamer. • A month
has not transpired, and. yet we see
every condition 'realized, and feel that
Maryland is as honestly and surely in
the Union as Pennsylvania or New
Jersey.
The agencies used for the purpose
of securing the' secession of Maryland,
were the Same which the conspirators
successfully 'adopted •in 'the extreme
Southern States, and if Maryland had
been on the other side of the Potomac,
or under. the rule of Such men as -Hun
ter Letcher,. and Mason, we would'
certainly see a- Confederate army on
Federal Hill, and meet the pickets of
General Beauregard along Mason and
Dixon's line. There is a very strong
Southern sentiment among her people,
her interests are largely identified with
the system of slave labor,
and there
are men among those high in authori
ty who were in constant conference
with the conspirators, and anxious to
carry out their schemes. They gained
a temporary success, and to all appear
: ances, and for all practical purposes, it
was as effectual as that gained in Geor
gia or Florida.
In Maryland patriotism Was crushed
out by terror. There is no agency
more potent than that which appeals
to the imagination. It is natural for
us to go with the Multitude ' and the
multitude instinctively seeks the safest
path. So long as peace reigned the
people of Maryland were content to
cling to their allegiance, but when a
comparatively small band of ruffians
precipitated Murder amongst them,
and threatened the lives of all who re
fused to bow down to 'the idol of trea
son, there were thousands who either
accepted the humiliating alternative
or fled for safety into more loyal States.
Hundreds placed the Secession cock
ade on the breast, because a refusal
might have brought the knife to the
heart, or a pistol to the head. The
reign of terror was complete, and its
sceptre was acknowledged by all dais
es, from the Governor down to the
town constable. The newspaper press
actually surrendered, and either obeyed
its commands or adopted a system of
silence.
Maryland is not the only place in
the world where terror may rale.—
Unless the strong hand of law and or
der is applied, it is as apt to visit one
section as another. Panics are easily
created. A dozen men might go into
Chestnut street at noon-day and ter
rify one-half of the people with a story
about an invading army investing Fort
Delaware, or Fort Mifflin, and if the
affair was ingeniously managed we
would have hundreds under arms be
fore
evening, and on the way to resist
the invader. We might publish in this
quorning's journal a statement that a
detachment of traitors had undermined
Independence Hall, with the intention
of blowing it up, and it would take a
very large police force to keep the
crowd which would certainly collect to
apprehend the miscreants, or muse over
the smouldering walls of our temple of
freedom. The people of one-half of
the Southern States have been driven
into revolution by stories as absurd as
these which we have used in illustra
tion. There are thousands of people
' to-day in Georgia, Alabama, and Mis
sissippi Who love te Union - ha fervent
.ly- as they 'did Si*. - mouths ago; and yet
these people trample our flag because
they think it is the emblem of their
subjugation, and retire every night
with the fearful anticipation of having
to encounter, at an early hour in the
morning, Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward
at the head of an army of negro deS
peradoes and thieves.
Time is an illustration in point,: A
Richmond newspaper—and for scur
rility, bad En"lish, and falsehood com
mend us to the newspapers of Rich
mond—publishes a paragraph purport
ino•t' to come from " Tho _Democrat, Of
West Chester, Pennsylvania," to 'the
the effect that . military companies
were being formed in that town, to in
vade the South, Mar that their banners
were to be inscribed with the watch
word, " Booty and Beauty." Then we
have an impassioned appeal to the
men of the South to fly to arms, march
on Washington, and disperse the Ad
ministration which raises its armies by
such a "hellish suggestion !" There
is no such newspaper printed in West
Chester as " The Democrat." We have
traced this paragraph in nearly all the
newspapers from Virginia to Texas,
and it is but a specimen of the stories
which aro invented to madden and
and mislead the people of the South.
Tho remedy which has been applied
to Maryland; and with so much suc
cess, must be applied to the other
States who have - been terrified into
acts of treason. The leaders Must be
overpowered, as they have been in
Maryland. Terror must be banished,
as it has been from Maryland. Tho
people must be assured 'of safety.—
Their fears must be appeased, their in
dustry protected, and commerce per
mitted to seek its natural channels.—
If we had permitted the mob to con
trol that State, we do not 'think there
would now be a thousand outspoken
Union men frOm Snow' Hill to Cum
berland. Me believe if General - But
ler or General Cadwalador entered
New Orleans to-morrow, planted a
battery on the levee; encamped five
thousand troops on Canal street, and
issued a proclamation similar to that
published in Baltithore last Monday,
the American flag would float from
every flagstaff before night, and the
Picayune would give us a leader next
morning on the advantages of the
Union, and the necessity for dealing
with secession as with' treason. Wo
believe' that there is ii 'great Union
feeling latent in all of these Stites.—
Notwithstanding the precautions used
to smother and conceal it, tokens of its
existence are brought' to us on almost
every breeze that conies from the Gulf.
.
It is r hulAilin4 'in' , exiticky,; Ten
nesgee, arid' Virgniid,;_ it' has' flooded
out treason In. Maryland and Missouri,
and when the armies of the Republic
are in Frankfort,.Memphis r and Aich
mlind, as they - are 'hi ThiltithOre and.
4,,ouis, we will see tho same,glori
ousresults which , they lifixe . .achieks(l-.
Thus far our. triumph.has -been , .almost
bloodless,' and we pray that it may bo
so to the end.—The Priss. '
Serenade tki Gen. Butler.--.A. - Siies'oh
-'}rim'
eorrespoodonce of thiiNen'Yotk times.]
Wasiritari.orq: May . 10.-,—Major' Gen
eral, Butler, who is stopping , at* the
National, received a complimentary
serenade, to-night from his Massachu
setts friends now in Washington. 'The
music was by the Marine :Baud, Who
never performed in :better tasteaml.
spirit.
.
It having become • known ..about
town•.that Butler was at the National,
crowds thronged there to , see him, and
his room was beseiged byvisiMorsAmtil
late in the night. Although rimehi'ex.-
hausted, he received them kindly
heartily. Some two .thousand I)eoplec
collected in and about the-hotel.
In response 'to the sbrenadelandtho
cheers of the crowd; Gen: Butler spoko
as follows:
FELLOW-CITIZENS :--Your cheers for
the old Confunonwealth of MasSaelni
setts are rightly bestowed: - Foremesb
in the rank of those who fought for
the liberty of the -country in the Rev
olution; were the men of Massachusetts.
It is an historical fact, to which I take
pride in now referring; that in 'the
Revolution, 'Massachusetts sent Meer
men south of MaSon's":and. D,EXOLI'S
Line,to fight for the, cause of the coun
try, than all the Southern:Colonies put
together; and, in this second war,. if
,war must come, .to proclaim: the De
claration of Independence anew, and
as a necessary consequence establish
the Union and the Constitution, Mas
sachusetts will give, if necessary, every
man in her borders--.-ayecandwomen!
[Cheers.] I trust I may be excused
for speaking . thus of Massachusetts;
1 but I am confident there are many
within the sound of my voice whose
hearts heat with proud memories of
the old Commonwealth. There is this
difference, I will say, between our
Southern brothers and ourselves, that
while we love our State with the true
love of a son, we love the Union and
the country with an equal devotion.—
[Loud and prolonged applause.] Wo
place no " States rights" before, above
or beyond the Union. [Cheers.] To
us our country is first, because it
is our country, [three cheers,] and
our State is next and second, because
she is a part of our country and our
State., [Renewed applause:] .Our oath
"of allegiance to Mir country, and "our
oath of allegiance to our State, aro in
terwreathed harmoniously, and never
conic in conflict or clash. He who
duty to the State, and he that does his
duty to the State does his duty to
does his duty to the 'Union, does, his
the Union—" one and inseparable,
now and forever." [Renewed ap
plause.] As I look upon this demon
stration of yours, I believe it to, be
prompted by a love of the common
cause, and our common country a
country so great and good; a govern
ment so kind, so beneficent, that ' the
hand from which we have only felt
kindness is now for the first time rais
ed in chastisement. [Applause.] 3La
ny things in a man's life may be worso
than death. *So,- to ,a government
there may be many things, such as
dishonor and disintegration, worse
than the shedding of blood. [Cheers.]
Our fathers purchased our liberty and
country for us at an - immense cost of
treasure and blood, and j by the bright
heavens above, we will not part , with
them without first paying the original
debt and the interest to this date !
[Loud cheers.] We have in our veins
the same blood as they shed; we have
the same power of endurance, the
same love of liberty and law. We will
hold as a brother him who stands by'
the -Union; we will hold as an enemy
him who would strike from its constel
lation a single, star. [Applatse.]—
But I hear some one say, "Shall we
carryon this fratercidal war? Shall
we shed our brother's blood, and meet
in arms our brothers of the South?"
I would say, "As our fathers tlid.not
hesitate to strike the mother country
in.the defence of our rights, so, we
should- not hesitate to meet the brother
as they did the mother." [Sensation.]
If this unholy, this fratricidal
.war
forced. upon us, I, say, :Woo, woe .to
them who have made_ the .necessity.
Our hands are elean,,our hearts are
pure; but the Union must be,preserv
cd
Gen. Butler , was interrupted here
by an intense cheering. When silence
was restored, he continued
At all baiard of money, and if need
be, of every life this side of the Arctic
Regions. [Cheers.] If the 25,000
Northern soldiers who are, here aro
cut off, in six weeks 50,000 will take
your places; and if they die by fever,
pestilence or the sword, a quarter of a
million will take their place, till our
army of the reserve will be women
:with their broomsticks, to drive•every
enemy in the Gulf. [Cheers and laugh
ter.] I have neither fear nor doubt of
the issue. , I feel only horror and 'dis
may, for those who have made the war.
God help them,l wo are here for our
rights, for our country, for our - deg.—
Our, faces arc set, South and there
shall be no footstep backwards. [lm
mense applause.] Ho is mistaken
who supposes we can be intimidated
by threats or cajoled by compromise.
The day,of compromises is past..
The Government must be sustained,
[cheers,] and when it is sustained, wo
shall give everybody in the Union
their rights under the Constitution, as
we alwayshave, and everybody outside
of the Union, the stool of the. Union,
till they shall come under the Union.
[Cheers, and cries of " Good, go on."]
It is impossible for, me to goon speech
making; but if you :will . go home to
your beds, and the Government will
let me, I,will go South fighing for tho
Union, and you will follow me,
Gen. Butler elosed :Amid loud cheers ;
the band played some national airs,
and " Home, Sweet Home," , and after
more cheers the crowd dispersed. Gen.
Butler, on retiring to his room, was
warmly eimgratulated b e y numerous
• te- The rebel foree.s in Virginia hai-o
taken au path' within a few days to re
sist the authority of the United States
by forge of arms. z' Softie fe - mi in War
rentoWn and other places refused 10
take it,