Ely (Olotie.
W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Wednesday morning, Oct. 21, 1863.
Our Flag Forever
"!know of no mode in which a loyal citi
zen may so well demonstrate his devotion to
his country as by sustaining the Flag the
Constitution and the Union, under all circum
stances, and ENDER EVERY ADMINISTRATION,
REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALI
SSAILANTS, AT BIOME AND ABROAD."
A. DouGLAs
The Grand Result in the County.
The majority in the county comes
fully up to our expectation, and is such
a gain over the majority given Curtin
three years ago, that would, if there
had been equal gains in all other coun
ties in the State, make his majority at
the late election not less than fifty
thousand. The vote in the county is
larger than it has ever been, and the
majority for the Union candidates for
county offices is much larger than any
party candidates ever received. If all
our soldiers bad been at home our ma
jority would not have fell short of fif
teen hundred. Barree, heretofore the
stronghold of the Democracy, when
the party was a Democratic party,
has repudiated the treason of its lead
ers, and stands firm to the principles of
the old Jackson war Democracy.—
Other townships have also done well
—better than Union men expected
they could do. linnlr at Porter, War
riorsmark, Walker, and other town
ships. lluntingdon borough, too, has
not done .bad, only 113 majority for
Curtin, a gain of nearly one hundred
over Curtin's majority three years ago,
when he had 32,000 majority in the
State. Hundreds of honest Democrats
were deceived into the belief that they
were supporting the old Democratic
party—the honorable party as it ex
isted before traitors took charge of its
organization. They will now have
time to reflect, and see how badly they
were deceived into the support of the
rebel cause. We do not pity them much.
1093 MAJORITY FOR CURTIN.
Good for Old iluntingdon ! hip ! hip ! !
IIUZZA! ! !
The Result in Pennsylvania.
The Union party has elected the
Governor, Supreme Judge, a majority
in the Senate, and a majority in the
House of Representatives. The ma
jority for Governor Curtin is not as
largo as it should be, but he is elected,
and by a handsome majority, and
Woodward : is defeated. Bogus Demo
cracy is shelved ! The right arm of
our Government is strengthened !
Traitors will tremble 1 Our brave sol
diers will rejoice ! The rebel army will
get weak in the knees ! Treason will
be crushed !
Pennsylvania Election
From the Evening Bulletin of Monday
We have made a careful revision and cor
rection of our election tables, adding all the
new official returns that have been received,
and the vote fur Governor stands thus at pro
sent:
Carlin Woodward.
35 counties official, . 158,982 153,083
31 " unofficial, . 19,700 7,161
178,682
160,244
Total,
Curtin's majority, 18,438
The full official returns will change this
majority slightly, but we still think it will
not go below eighteen thousand.
In the vote for Supreme Judge, Agnew
falls slightly behind Governor Curtin, but
his majority over Lowrie, is likely to be ful
ly fifteen thousand.
The total vote of the State is likely to reacts
520,000. The largest vote ever polled before
was in October, 1860, -amounting to 492,672.
The State Legislature, we think will stand
as follows :
Senate. House. Total
Union, . . 17 52 69
Opposition . 16 48 64
Union mnjority on joint ballot,
Vallandigham Still in Canada.
The Ohio Democracy have decided
by a majority of upwards of a hundred
thousand that Vallandigham can re
main in Canada or any other place be
yond the lines of the loyal States.—
The majority against him will not be
less than 65,000.
lOWA, 0. K.
The Union men have carried the
State by from 10,000 to 15,000 majority.
The great West is sound for the Union.
Geo. W. Householder,
This gentleman is elected to the
Senate from this district, which gives
us a majority of one in the Senate.—
His majority in this county is 988, in
Somerset 1200, and Bedford gives
about 300 against him. He holed the
Baer handsomely.
Capt. Harry Gregg, of this place,
and Lieut. Joseph Green, of Barrce
Forge were taken prisoners by the
robs last week on the _Rappahannock.
LATEST NEWS.
it is not true that Gen. Meade's ar
my has fell back to the defences at
Washington. His headquarters are at
Centreville, and his army is in a safe
position. Lee's army it is reported is
in the neighborhood of Manassas.
There has been several skirmishing
fights lately, and a heavy battle is ex
pected to come off soon. Meade it is
said is ready for the contest.
Gen. Crook's command in Rosecran's
army, is doing good service in the
Southwest. He lately fought Wheeler's
entire command with only two brig
ades, defeated it and capturing four
pieces of artillery, one thousand stand
of cavalry arms, 240 prisoners, besides
the wounded. The rebs were complete
ly demoralized and their loss during
the raid was not less than 2,000.
UNFORTUNATE MCCLELLAN.—On the
day previous to the late election,
the traitor leaders in Philadelphia,
persuaded Gen. McClellan to pub
lish a letter endorsing the polit
ical character of Judge Wood
ward. This letter was published in
the Age and printed in hand bills and
posted at all public places in .the city.
Of course it was supposed by the sym
pathisers that a •word from "Little
Mack" would influence the soldiers at
home to vote almost unanimously for
Woodward, but it was soon discovered
that the soldiers who were the friends
of "Mack" were not willing to march
to such music. They found him in bad
company, advocating the :election of
the candidate nominated by the bogus
Democracy— the candidate the rebels
wanted elected, and they spurned his
advice and voted for Curtin,their friend
and a firm supporter of the Gov
ernment. "Mack" has "put his
foot in it." A Woodward man can
never get the vote of Pennsylvania,
and the sympathisers now know this
fact, and they will be sorely troubled
to find a candidate fur the Presidency
in '64. "Mack" is as dead as Wood
ward and Vallandigham—he is a used
up candidate and his friends have
" did it."
-STEPIIEN
What the Townships have done--Ne
ver was a larger vote polled by the vo
ters of this county, and never did one
ticket receive as large a majority. The
Union men of the different townships
worked with a will and they can
smile upon their success. Almost eve
ry township has succeeded in giving
Curtin a majority—some doubling and
others going far ahead of the vote in
1860. Union men you have doncyour
duty well, and the soldiers in the field,
fighting your country's battles, will
thank you for encouraging and sus
taining them in their righteous cause.
Caldwell, Speer, Petrikin, Africa, Co
lon, Granny Wilson & Co.—These poor
devils are in a bad fix. They have la
bored night and day for many months
that treason might prosper. What
have they for their labor ? Defeat, and
the loss of money they were foolish
to bet. More than this—they have
lost the confidence of all loyal Union
men,—they have lost the good will of
our brave soldiers,—the children point
at them the finger of scorn,—and loy
al Democrats deceived by them, curse
them. No wonder they feel like crawl
ing into a dark hole and calling upon
the hole to close up, that they may bo
hid from the world forever. The cry
of " Democratic party " will not cover
up their sins—their opposition to the
best Government on earth.
TONTRAlltNuS'—Ever•since this re
bellion has been in progress, but more
particularly sincethe first day ofJan
uary last, when the Presidents eman
cipation proclamation took effect,have
negroes, who had been held in bond•
ago emigrated from amid the secession
hot-beds and found homes in the North
where liberty -has a broader scope.
Every town almost that is a consider
able distance north of Mason - and
pixons line has received a fair propor
tion of culled bredren; and along with
the rest our town has received its share.
Nothing should be said against the pol•
icy of these "contrabands" in thus flee
ing the wrath of their maddened "chi
valric" masters; but if our opinion was
required we should say that the "colo
nization scheme" is not receiving an
extraordinary amount of acquiescence
from those whom it most concerns.
160,244
How the Ohio Soldiers Voted.
CHARLESTON, Va., Oct. 14, 1863
The Ohio troops at this place held
an election yesterday, which resulted
as follows: Brough, 2,833; Vallandig
ham, 5.
BALTIMORE, OCt. 14, '63.
At an election of the Ohio soldiers
here, 79 voted for Brough, and 2 for
Vallandigham. The two votes - cast for
Vallandigham were given by two de
serters from the regiment now in con•
finement.
PHILADELPHIA, Oet. 15.
The Ohio soldiers at Chesnut Hill
Hospital vote Brough 80, Vallaudig
ham none.
CAIRO, Oct. 16.
The following is the vote of the 27th
39th and 63d Ohio regiments, station
ed at Memphis: Vallandigham, 91;
Brough, 1,590.
The amendments to the Constitu
tion giving the soldiers the right to
vote in the army, did not, properly
come up for ondorgement by the peo
ple at the late election. They must pass
the next legislature before they can
he submitted to the people. In this
county 2178 votes were cast for the
Amendments, and 24 against thorn.
Proclamation by the President
A Call for 300,000 more Troops.
IVAstttxo•rov, Oet.l7.—By the Pres
ident of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION.
WitcticAs, The term of service of a
part of the volunteer forces of the Uni
ted States will expire during the com
ing year ; and zehereas, in addition to
the men raised by the coming draft, it
is deemed expedient to call out three
hundred thousand volunteers to serve.
for three years or during the war, not
however, exceeding three years.
.Yow, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, and
commander-in-chief of the Army and
Navy thereof, and of the militia of the
several States when called into active
service, do issue this my proclamation
calling upon the Governors of the
different States to raise and have en
listed into the United States service
for the various companies and regi
ments in the field from their respective
States, their quotas of three hundred
thousand men.
I further proclaim, that all volun
teers thus called out and duly enlisted
shall receive advance pay, premiums
and bounty as heretofore communica
ted to the Governors of States by the
War Department through the Provost
Marshal General's office by special let
ters. I further proclaim that all vol
unteers received under this call, as well
as all others not heretofore credited,
shall be duly credited on and deducted
from the quotas established for the
next draft.
I further proclaim that if any State
shall fail to raise the quota assigned
to it by the War Department under
this call, then the said quota shall be
made on said State or on the districts
of said State for their due proportion
of said quota, and the said draft shall
commence on the Ist day of January,
1864.
And I further proclaim, that nothing
in this proclamation shall interfere
with existing orders, or those which
may be issued for the present draft in
the States where it is now in progress
or where it is not yet commenced.—
The quota cf the States and districts
will be assigned by the War Depart
ment through the Provost Marshal
General's office, due regard being had
for the men heretofore furnished, whe
ther by volunteering or drafting, and
the recruiting will be conducted in ac
cordance with such instructions as
have been issued by the department.
In issuing this proclamation, I ad
dress myself not only to the Governors
of the several States, but also to the
good and loyal people thereof, invok
ing them to lend their willing, cheer
ful and effective aid to the measures
thus adopted, with a view to reinforce
our victorious armies now in the field
and bring our needful operations to a
prosperous end ; thus closing forever
the fountains ofseditious and civil war
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Wash--
{T s} ington, this seventeenth day
of October, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-three, and of the independence of
United States the eighty-eighth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President,
WM. 11. SEWARD, Scey of State.
The War Democracy.
We find the following senbible
eh in the Harrisburg. Telegraph, a
leaching Republican paper.
We have that tenacious love for
our principles and party, which noth
ing can turn aside but just such dan
ger as that which now invests the
Union and threatens the Government.
In this hour of peril to the Government
wo have been and still are willing to
sacrifice party to insure the general
good. Nor have we been alone in the
exercise of such a feeling of sacrifice.—
The War Democracy of Pennsylvania
have set their brethren of the Nation
an example which will be emulated
hereafter by all true Democrats who
are in earnest in their efforts to rescue
the land from rebellion. Let the War
Democracy, then, be invited to the
highest honors of the triumph. Let
room be made for them, wherever the
country's defenders are recieved with
loud acclaim. Let them be wel
comed to our hearths and blessed at our
alters. They have sealed their devo
tion to their country in a sacrifice such
as men never before made. The glo
ry of a party which had almost become
sacred in their oyes, was trampled in
to the dust to defend the glory of the
country. The traditions of an organ
ization which was invested with the
most sacred memories, and around
which clustered their holiest affections,
were repudiated to render imperish
able the traditions of freedom—to se
cure tho perpetuation of the Union
and the Government. These men as
ked no honor or position, while they
were thus battling for the cause of the
country, except the position in which
they could fiercest fight the common
danger. Hundreds and thousands -of
those mon will never confess the good
they have done. They will not even
participate in the general rejoicing.—
They have their honor in the contem
plation of the present great victory;
their reward is the assurance that it
was partly d,ue to their efforts, that
the country has been from the
clutches of the traitors in the north,
whose sole purpose of victory was to
secure the success of the traitors in
the south. Hence we must honor these
»ten! wo must honor them by recogni
zing, acknowledging and repaying
their great services.—They are patri
ots as noble as are those who sacrifice
life and limb on the battle field. they
have earned the gratitude of the na
tion; and we trust that it may never,
hereafter, become our duty to oppose,
any of the generous or gallant War
Democrats who did so. nobly for the
country on Tuesday last.
THE thirteenth of October last pass
ed off with less general quiet than
some election days heretofore. The
excitement, especially concerning who
should be elected, ran unusually high ;
while ever and anon in different quar
ters of the borough would be a rush to
see " what was the matter"—but "no
body was hurt."
WE call attention to the letter of
Samuel T. Davis, son of Mr. Henry
Davis of this county, on the first page
of this issue. All who wish to know
his sentiments will be interested in
giving it a perusal. Such a soldier as
our young friend Davis, should receive
the congratulations of every loyal man.
Jr the subscription list to the Globe
continues to increase the next three
months as rapidly as it has during the
past month, we will be compelled to
procure a fast power press, and then
we will be able to give our readers
three times the worth of their money.
Our active friends have our thanks
for helping us to circulate loyal senti
ments.
Maj. Gen. 11. W. nalleck, passed
through on a special train Saturday
evening last, on his way to Cleveland,
Ohio.
4e-_1 Copperhead speaking of a mee
ting they bad not one hundred miles
off, a bystander said laughingly " the
greater part of the crowd wore Union
men," whereupon he replied " No, sir,
there was not a d—d Union man
there."
PROGRESSING.—The new Odd Fel
lows Hall at Coal is to be a brick
building, and will be quite an or
nament to the place.
STRONG OANDIDITES.—Jacob Weight
Pan as an independent candidate for
the Legislature in this county and re
ceived 2 votes. George Raymond run
as an - independent candidate for the
Legislature, in Blair county, and re
ceived 11 votes.
WAR NEWS.
FROM ST. LOUIS.
General Brown Defeats the Rebels under
Shclby—They are scattered in every
Direction—lmmense Captures—Heavy
Losses on both Sides—Official Des
patches of General Schofield.
WAstuNGToN, Oct. 14.—The follow
ing despatches were received at tho
headquarters of tho army here, to day:
St. Louis, Oct. 13th.—To Maj. Geul.
Halleck : General Brown has beaten
the enemy undbr Shelby three times
and is still in close pursuit. Their es
cape is hardly possible.
Two expeditions recently sent into
7:cortheastern Arkansas have captured
and sent to Pilot Knob, over ono hun
dred prisoners. J. M. SCHOFIELD,
Major General.
St. Louis, Oct. 14.=To'Major Gen].
llafleck: Gen. Brown brought the reb
els under Shelby-to a decis'ive engage
ment yesterday. The fight was obsti
nate and lasted five hours. The rebels
were finally completely routed and
scattered in all directions, with the
loss of all their artillery, baggage and
a large number of small arms and pris
oners. The enemy's loss in killed and
wounded is very great; ours is very
large. Our troops are still pursuing
the flying rebels.
J. IT SCHOFIELD, Nfnj. Gen
ENGAGEMENT AT BRISTOL
Union Victory—Capture of a Rebel Bat
tern.
Oct. 15
The extra Star says: The firing yes
terday in the front was that of a con
siderable engagement between a largo
force of the rebels and the portion of'
the army of the Potomac—a scout of
Gen. Warren's Second corps that was
in the vicinity of Bristol Station—in
fantry as well as cavalry and artillery
being engaged oa both sides. The
result was a decided 4 Union victory.
The rebels being beaten with the loss
of an entire battery and 100 prisoners.
Ere the termination of the fight iNfaj
Gen. Syice's corps camp up and assist
ed in driving the enemy oft' the field.
THE WAR IN VIRGINIA
Movement of the Itebrl Kill's Corps on
Leesburg—Meade's Army in Line of
Battle.—Reconnoitering and Skir
mishing.—Runters of the Enemy rip
proaching Fairfax—Our Army in Safe
Position.
WASHINGTON, Oct. N. Last night
about eight o'clock, according to pas
sengers from tho army, information
came to Gen. Meade that a corps of
the rebel army, supposed to be Gen.
A. P. Hill's, had moved from our front
in the direction of Leesburg.
The Star says a heavy reconnois
sance was immediately started in the
direction of Aldia, the reconnoitering
party moving light, without knapsacks,
and the enemy will make a little by
their motion should they be undertak
ing any surprise game in that direc
tion.
There was more or less skirmishing
along the pickets on either side, and
several casualties are reported.
Yesterday there was skirmishing
all-along the lines of our army, and
some firing also on the old Bull Run
battle field, but there was no general
engagement.
Our army last night was in lino of
battle. The whole baggage and trans.
portation train was sent to the rear,
and the sutlers were Ordered to Alex
andria.
The skirmishing yesterdaya•as grin
cipally for position, and the report is
that in every instance Gon. Meade
has succeeded in getting the advan
tage.
The 192 prisoners of war, captured
on Wednesday last, near Bristow Sta
tion, re shed the city last night, and
were committed to the Old Capitol
priwn.
MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY
WASHINGTON, Oct. IG.—From infor
mation received from the army of the
Potomac to night, it appears that a
body of the enemy were seen passing
southward, opposite Blackburn's ford,
last night, and our batteries shelled
them.
_They replied for half an hour,
and then disappeared. They made no
other demonstrations yesterday.
It was rumored that one corps of
the enemy was approaching Fairfax
last night by the Chantilly road, and
our heavy batteries were sent out in
that direction. They have returned,
and report all quiet.
Our army is in a perfectly safe po
sition, and is prepared to repel any at
tack the rebels may make.
Emancipation in Maryland,
Colonel Cresswell, the able competi
tor of lion. J. - W. Crisfield for Con
gress, said in a recent eloquent speech:
There is no alternative left us. We
are bound to take up this question now
in all its bearings; and, after turning
it over and over in our minds, and
viewing it in every conceivable light,
the conclusion is inevitable, that Ma
ryland must be a free State. Men who
had examined the subject, came to the
conclusion more than two years ago.
They saw it coming. There is now a
crisis in our affairs, and if we are wise
we will avail ourselves of it. We will
assert our right as freemen to decide
our destiny for ourselves. We will
determine, now and forever, that free
white men are not degraded, by man
ly toil, to a level with the slave, and
that hereafter free labor shall conse
crate our efforts, and bring down the
blessings of God upon our people.
Fellow-citizens, a new era has dawn
ed on Maryland. From the smoke
and blood of a mighty war, waged to
perpetuate human bondage, new prin
ciples have leaped into existence, fully
armed, aggressive, already half vieto
rions. Speech and opinion have been
liberated, and already thousands who
but lately were groping darkly in the
midst of doubts and uncertainties, who
acknowledged but yesterday they
stood appalled before the power of a
direful superstition, now clearly see
fast coining an act of God, a decree of
liberty and progress for Maryland.—
[Great applause.]
All the best statesmen of Maryland
are beginning to share these feelings.
Ex-Governor Francis Thomas, a can
didate for Congress, and ono of the
ablest men of Maryland, holds similar
outspoken opinions:
He did not vote in Congress fur con
scription, confiscation or emancipation,
but not because he thought these mea
sures unconstitutional. The idea that
slavery must be perpetual, or that
millions of human beings should have
no hope- or refuge but in the grave,
was one abhorrent to him ; and he held
that in the confiscation act, and other
measures, the rebels got nothing more
than their due. [Applause.] I believe
in fighting the devil with fire.
lie had always held that slavery
was an evil in Maryland, and to begot
rid of when pos-ible. There has been
much said about a convention in Ma
ryland upon the emancipation ques
tion, and one gentleman—Mr. Matlit—
had argued against the slave question.
It was an "idle question," he said.-
- I\Tot so. It was a question right in
front, and it was cowardice not to meet
it. [Great applause.]
There was nothing peculiar about
slave property that entitles it to ex
emption from discussion. Other spe
cies of property charged with having
a.demoralizing effect had heretofore
been roughly handled in debate. The
question of slavery in Maryland was,
however, in his opinion, a dead one,
and the law-makers of Maryland ought
now to step over the dead carcass and
come to live issues ; see what disposi
tion shall be made of fugitive slaves,
and adapt our household to the new
condition of things. [Applause.]
A million of slaves were fugitives,
and a million more would soon be so.
He had inquired of the Register of the
Treasury what it cost President Frank
Pierce to arrest the fugitive Burns in
Boston, and was told that the sum
was 627,7301 If, in 1854, it cost that
suns to arrest ono fugitive, they could
estimate what would be the probabili
ty and the cost of reclaiming one or two
millions of fugitives in the present ex
asperated state of feeling. And the
fact that slavery had suffered by the
war should not he advanced to the
prejudice of President Lincoln. lien
iy Clay or Andrew Jackson could not
have administered the Government
during this war so as not to abolish
slavery.
The Washington correspondent of
the New Yolk Commercial Advertiser
says : "Through the infleenco of Sen
ators Johnson and Hicks, and Gover
nor Bradford, of Maryland, the Presi
dent has issued an order revoking all
military edicts that in any wise direct
the enlistment into the army of slaves
in Maryland. It was found to he
working incalculable mischief, and
alienating most of the people from the
Government and the State, for it was
an entering wedge to the destruction
of other rights and privileges depend
ent more or less on the tenure of the
slave. If those who still clamor for
radical measures for immediately de
stroying slavery in these border States,
would only go into the heart of Mary
land, and pee how utterly dead that
institution has become, as compared
with two short years ago, it would
seem to be reasonable to let well enough
alone. Slavery, is almost among the
things that were in this State; being
valuelesis, its future is fitful and brief:"
General Rosecrans' Congratulatory Or
der after the Tlattle of Chicl;amauga.
11. Q. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,
CHATPANOOOA, Oct. 2, 1803.
ORDERS, NO. 3
ARMY OP THE CUMBERLAND: You
have made a grand and successful
campaign ; you have driven the rebels
from diddle Tennessee. You crossed
a great mountain range, placed your
selves on the banks of a broad river,
crossed it in the face of a powerful op
posing army, and crossed two othsr
great mountain ranges at the only
practicable passes, some forty uOles
between extremes. You concentrated
in the thee of superior numbers; fought
the combined armies of Btgg, which
you qrpvf% from Shelbyville to,Tull
shoma ; of Johnston's army from Mis
sissippi, and the tried veterans of
Longstreet's corps, and for two days
held them at bay, giving them blow
for blow, with heavy interest. When
the day closed you held the field, from
which you withdrew, in the face of
overpowering numbers, to occupy the
point for which you set out—Chatta
nooga. You have accomplished the
great work of the campaign ; you hold
the key of East Tennessee, of North
ern Georgia, and of the enemy's mines
of coal and nitre.
Let these achievements console you
for the regret you experience that ar
rivals of fresh hostile troops forbade
your remaining on the field to renew
the battle ; for the right of burying
your gallant dead, and caring for your
brave companions who lay wounded
on the field. The losses you have sus
tained, though heavy, are slight, con
sidering the odds against you, and the
stake you have won.
You hold in your hands the substan
tial fruits of a victory, and deserve,
and will receive, the honors and plau
dits of a grateful nation, which asks
nothing of even those who have been
fighting us, but obedience to the Con-
stitution, and laws established for our
own common benefit.
The General commanding earnestly
begs every officer and soldier of this
army to unite with him in thanking
Almighty God for His favors to us.—
Ho presents his hearty thanks and
congratulations to all the officers and
soldiers of this command for their
energy, patience, and perseverance,
and the undaunted courage displayed
by those who fought with such un
flinching resolution.
Neither the history of this war, nor
probably the annals of any battle,
furnish a loftier example of obstinate
bravery and enduring resistance to su
perior numbers, when troops, having
exhausted their ammunition, resorted
to the bayonet, many times, to hold
their positions against such odds, as
did our left and centre, comprising
troops from all the corps, on the, after
noon of the 20th of September, at the
battle of "Chickamauga."
W. S. 80 - SECT—INS,
Major General Commanding.
An Eloquent Protest.
Some time since a document was
sent to Europe, for effect abroad, pur
porting ti be an appeal of the "Clergy
of the Confederate States" to churches
throughout the world, the object of
which NVOS to solicit sympathy for
Southern shy:cry from religious people.
The ministers of the churches of Scot
land have put forth the subjoined very
able rejoinder, to which we ask the
attention of our friends:
We, the undersigned, ministers of
the churches in Scotland, in reply to
the appeal made to us in the "Address
to Christians throughout - the world,"
recently put forth "by the Clergy of
the Confederate States of America,"
feel bound to give public expression to
our views, lest our continued silence
should be inisconstrucd,*as implying
either acquiescence in the principles of
the document. or indifference to the
crime which it seeks to defend.
We refer, or course. to a sin :le topic,
that of slavery, as it is handled in the
address. We desire to say nothing in
consistent with our country's attitude
of strict neutrality as regards the war
raging across the Atlantic. We do
not discuss any of the political ques
tions connected with its origin, pro
gress, and probable issues. We offer
no opinion on the measures adopted
on either side. Nor arc We to be re
garded as shutting our eyes to the
past and present sins and shortcom
ings of the North in relation to the
African race. The one object we have
in view is to express the deep grief,
alarm, and indignation with which we
have perused the pleading on behalf
of slavery in general, ar.d American
slavery in particular, to which so, ma
! ny servants of the Lord Jesus Christ"
have not scrupled to append their
-names.
With the feeblest possible inciden
tal admission of "abuses" which they
"may deplore, in this, as in other re
lations of mankind 7 we find these
men broadly maintaining, in the most
unqualified manner, that the relation
of master and slavo"—"among us,"
they add, to make their meaning more
explicit—"is not incompatible with
our holy Christianity." They thank
God for it, as for a missionary institu
tion ; the best, as it would seem, and
the most successful in the world.—
They hold it to be filch: „eculier func
tion to defend and perpetuate it. And
they evidently contemplate the for
mation of the Southern Confederacy
upon the basis of slavery as one of its
fundamental and permanent principles
Or elements, not only without regret,
but with entire satisfaction and appro
val.
Against all this—in the name of
that holy faith and that thrice holy
name which they venture to invoke
on the side of a system which treats
immortal and redeemed men as goods
and chattels, denies theta the rights
of marriage and of home, consigns
them to ignorance of the first rudi
ments of education, and exposes thorn
to the outrages of lust and passion—
we most earnestly and emphatically
protest. We do not think it needful
to argue. The time for argument has,
for many a year, been regarded by
the whole of enlightened'Ohristendom
as passed and gone. Apologists for
slavery, attempting to shelter them
selves and it under the authority of
God's Word and the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, are to ho denounced as really,
whatever may be their intention, the
worst enemies of both.
All reasonable allowance, no doubt,
should be made for the circumstances
of Christian ministers called in Provi
dence to labor where slaVery exists.—
Some soreness, even, on their part, un
der what they regard as unjustifiable
and dangerous movements on the oth
er side, might be excused as not un
natural. And if we saw them mail
fully lifting their voices on behalf of
universal liberty, and settin them
selves to aim at the instant redress of
the more flagrant of the wrongs inci
dent to a state of bondage, we would .
bo prepared calmly to listen to their
representations as to the best and like
liest prnptical methods of promoting
the present amelioration of the condi
tion of the slaves, and securing, within
the shortest period consistent with
safety, their complete and final eman
cipation.
We are reluctant to abandon th e
hope that, upon reconsideration, and
in the view of the sentiments now
unanimously held and el - z . pressed ~on
this subject everywhere else, all over
Christendom, our American brethren
may yet be induced to take up a posi
tion more worthy of our common faith
than that which they at present occupy;
But, at all events, the obligation lying
upon us, as things now stand towards
them, towards ourselves, towards the
Church and ..he world towards the Bi
ble and the Gospel, is to record, in the
strongest Nssible terms, our abhor-,
rence of the doctrine on the subject of
slavery which the Southern clergy
teach and upon which they act; and
to testify before all nations that any
state, empire, or republic, constituted
or reconstructed, in those days of Chris ;
tian light and liberty, upon the basis,
of that doctrine, practically applied,
must, in the sight of God, be regarded
as founded on wrong and crime, And
as deserving, not his blessing, but his
righteous wrath.
Rob. S. Candlish, D. D., Edinburgh.
Thomas Guthrie, D. D.,Edinburgh.
W. H. Goold, D. D. ' Edinburgh. - •
Rob. Buchanan, D. D., Glasgow.
John Cairns, D. D., Berwick-on-Tweed..
Chas. J. Brown, D. D., Edinburgh.
Andrew Thompson, D. D., Edinburgh.
Arnot,
W. Lindsay Alexander, D. D., Win b'gh
James Bugg D. D., Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, September 22, 1863.
This" is beim , . t' signed by all the lead
ing ministers of Scotland, and is their
answer to the appeal of the clergy: of
the Confederate States.
•A Omens :BArrtx.—From a - pri
vate letter of a soldier on theltapidan
we get an account of a fight ,which
may-not figure in history among. the
battles of this war: Just across the i•_iv
er in full view of our, pickets, - but, at
that time within the Yankee lines, is
,a
corn field which earlier in the sea Son
abounded in choice roasting ears:4--
From this field the men of both armies
in the vicinity were wont to fill their
camp-kettles by stealth; for it was
dangerous business—the field being
exposed to the fire of the pickets on
both sides of the field, the danger of
unpleasant collisions and interruptions
was much less, but gradually from day
to day the hostile gleaners approached
each other, until only a few rows in
the centre of the field were left un
gathered. But still our boys wanted
the corn, and would encounter the
risk. One morning two of them had
crossed the river, and were cautiously
foraging among these ungatbered
rows, when their eyes lighted upon
two stalwart nessions engaged in the
same buisness. All were unarmed,
but in an instant all straightened them
selves into fighting attitude and' de
manded a surrender - Both squads
turned a defiant answer, and both fell
to fist and skull, to enforce compliance.
They "fighting tell, and falling fought,"
and when they fell they kicked about.
They turned and twisted, and pum
melled and thrashed away among the
corn, till our boys began to doubt
whether they had not caught Tartars.
But luckily for them, just as their
wind was beginning to fail, a reinforce.
meat came up, in the shape, of another
Corn-federate gatherer; and the Yanks
were captured and carried in triumph
over the river, prisoners of war---,1/4-
I con Telegraph. •
MARRIED,
On Thursday 15th inst., by Rev. S.
11. Reid, Mr. ROBERT MARTIN, to Miss
JEMIMA Kt.w.a, both of Wallser tp.•
OBITUARY. • •
A I,FRED G. SrATES entered the Vol
unteer service as a member of C0. : 13,
113th 111. Vol. Infantry, on the 9th of
August, 1862. The regiment to which
he belonged entered the Sold on the
26th of March, 1862, and was brigaded
in the 2d Division,
15th Army Corps,
under Sherman. From- the time of
entering the field up to the surrender
of Vicksburg, on the 4th of July, 1863,
the most active and arduous servieo
was required of, and performed by
Sherman's Army Corps; through all
of which Corporal States passed, and
performed his duty at the Head Quaff'.
torsof the First Brigade (whore' ho
was early detailed) in the most satis
factory and praiseworthy manner.—
He fought at the battle of Arkansas
Post, where he plainly demonstrated
by his valor that his arm was nerved
by the purest and strongest motives
that could actuate a freeman. • He
was in the expedition that went up
Steel's Bayou and relieved our gun
boats. Was also with his brigade du
ring its march round by Grand Gulf
to the rear of Vicksburg, and aided in
the siege until its surrender on the 4th
of July. His Brigade was ordered in
to General Sherman's forces which
marched back upon the Big lAtieN to,
oppose Johnston subsequent .to the.
surrender of Vicksburg, and forced
him back upon Jackson, Miss.
Alfred was assigned a position am
clerk in the Division Q. M. Depart
ment and performed its duties until
his regiment was ordered to Corinth,
Miss„ when he rejoined his company,
ho having become at this time very
much reduced in health by ro,evero
attack of flux and diarrhmi. An his,
arrival at Corinth he was obliged to go
to the Post Hospital, whore he died on
the 28th of August, 1863. By his .
death the cause is deprived of another
noble, brave, and earnest freemathp i nd
one more family is bowed down with
grief by the deprivation of so wally
a member from life's golden circle.
J, Z. K.
DIED,
In Bedford; Ohio, Sept.lsth, ELMER.
Ehr,swolunr, infant son of Benjamin
and Mary Clouts, aged 11 months.
Ain—Home is swooi.
Little Elmer's gone to rest,
And left us hero to mourn ;
And now Ito sits among the blest,.
We would not say, return.
He has gone ty fait an angel band ;
His sins are all forgiven.
"Forl.o him nph'•' our Saviour says,
"Come dwell with me in Maven!).
MA little tongue niay ever sing,
►lis Saviour's praises swell;
iii , zenna to our Ilenyenly Ring,
'lie ddetfi all things well. '
Little brother, choose the lyny
Your little Elmer's gone.
To 'Heaven, yes, lie's there to-day,
Singing around God's throne.
Dear parents, you may sit and weep
O'er the departed one,
But look to Christ where you may seek
balm fur every wound. AI. C