Aiiirrirnn f^^lßaluntriT. VOL. 49. \MEJIIGAN VOLtJNTEEIi. - BDBLISttBD BVEnr TIlnnaDAT MOnNIKO Blr JO JIN B. BRATTON. TER M' S. SDB9CRIPTIOW.—Ono dollar and Fifty Cents, paid In advance/; Two -Dollars if paid within the yearj and TjfO l -ool)^rt ,, Sfid Fifty Cents, if riot paid within the'year. - Those terms will bo rigidly adhered to in every insWnde.V.S® subscription discontinued until aU attop.rages paid unless at the option of tho. Editor; '■ ‘ ‘ y ' Advertisements— Accompanied by the cash, and loot exceeding ono square, will ‘ bo inserted. three •thrifts for One Dollar, and. twenty-five cents for each additional insertion, Those of a greater length in proportion.. Job-Printing —Such as Posting-bills, Pamphlets,. Blanks, Labels,'- &o. Ad./ executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. . . THE SOLDIER’S MORNING LAY.• TRANSLATED PROM TUB GERMAN. Sung ty the German soldiers in ike Union army. ’Arouse ye drowsy sleepers, Up from your couch of clay ! The horses lively capers Now greet tbo'now born day. Our, weapons arc reflecting Aurora's purple rays, While all are yet a dreaming Of victorious affrays. Qrcafc God, our Lord and Father, Look from thy throne divine J Your call has brought U 8 hither, Tlio war, 0 Lord, is tblno. Thy grace ia but required,• Then shall freedom's banner wave. And load us thus inspired, To glory or tho grave. A morn is fast approaching, A morning long foretold-,. . For which the good are waiting. And Angels now behold. Its rays arc fust appearing, . To cheer, the good and free; 0 may it soon bo dawning ; • « The morn of liberty. Then shall our tow'ring.bells, * - In merry peals resound, From all the hills and dolls, • Our grateful hearts resp nd, •When our oauso'porvades We'll share that happy sight I For we, ye knightly blades •Wo also shared the fight, . Mmllmms. Correspondence of the Volunteer. LETTER FRIIJI MINNESOTA. , The War bi/ r the Indio** -'■{Their r <ncu. :/pui th.' Savagw, ts'c. ■ '{Friend Fratfdk— ’'’Here: Spin; vhut r(itt)e •i irnh fc that .ovri n ii. lo f;i b.fact th at “ OhhMoth-' oi' Cumhoi-iahd”., has liirnished many a set tler in this distant State; that your people will feel muoh anxiety to know something of our present Indian troubles. That this may be done coolly and dispassionately, I propose to furnish you with sueh information as I may deoui important during the war. ■ . First. The-Hoone of the late horrible atroc ities is situate in the western part of this State, some eighty miles west from Minne apolis. Fort Ridgley is on the Minnesota River, sixty miles west of St. Peter. It is at this point that most of the fighting had taken place. The “ Port” is a cluster of brick and wooden buildings, in the form of-a circle. — No entrenchments, and no ‘‘ block bouise.”— This post was occupied at the time of the first attack by-one company of the Fifth Regiment Minnesota volunteers. Fifty men of this company, under Capt. Marsh, left the Fort on a roconnoisanoe toward the upper Agency, at Red Wood, on the upper Yellow Medicine. This_ squad were ambushed, and 20 men in cluding Capt. Marsh, killed/ The balance fell back to the Fort. Fifty men under Lieut. Shehan. then on the march to Fort Riply, on the Mississippi, were ro called, and succeeded after encountering many difficulties, in reach ing Port Ridgely. This increased the force at that point to one hundred and twenty men. For more than a week this small force have succeeded in keeping twenty-live hundred In dians at bay. To relieve this gallant band, 001. Sibly left Fort Shelling with three hun dred men (raw recruits,) of the sixth Regi ment. This force was increased by the ac cession of six hundred volunteer horsemen from various parts of the State; while enrdute ! to St. Peter, up to thip date they have failed , to open communication with the beleagured 1 garrison. . Great fears are entertained that , the heroic defenders are doomed :to suffer martyrdom at the hands of the infuriated sav .ttges, . ■ ; _remforoements are on the march to , yol. ,Sibley. By to-morrow he will have fit- , teen hundred men at least, and will relieve j the Fort at all hazards. 1 HORRID ATROCITIES. The whole number known to have booh murdered at the various points will probably reach several hundreds. Men, women and children have alike been victims. . The men wore shot down by the warriors, while the women god children were handed oyer'to the sepiaws'nhd papooses, who waolwd- the unre sisting victims to pieces with their knives and tomahawks I Infants wore divided piecemeal, the heart sickens at the recital. The Mis sionaries; families have been ruthlessly mur uorod. In fact,,neither tie, friendship or in nocence has been . respected. The nearest .place at which murders have been perpetra wd; to this point, is at Acton, Meeker county, suty-five miles from this,point, , THE GREAT SCARE* Last Sunday will bea day long to-be re membered in Minneapolis. About 1 o’clock mnHo°f? 1 ' 0 - rnine 1,10 vangauardof the.fefugees thol1 ’, n PP oar anoo in horao-toaras and , *hey came by hundreds,, oon- AII Ho 0Q depicted in every, countenance.— , JWn. mmen ind Children poured in ,ann„„• un t'il °nr whole town- presented the appoaranoc of-a vast crowd, Women, bare dreds and or y in S! children by hun -0!£(.o , „ , llu n °t tasted,food for. thirty hours oorn plucked from the fields os w earned past. Weav l io o wi*t nB r• we f e ;convened,; committees i”' ■ ■ . . nls a-mg receptacles for- the Lyovon;' Wovisions forltho hungry, ,feb.- as oijmfiirtnW - wei ;° fftored away and 1 made of. 'x>i, B a f circumstances wquld.admit veil ovor thn ® 0 °, u^8 ?f night soontbieW ft; “c»aoil i n ? Xolt, "e spone, evpr, wit ao»or wltnn^o 8 ®f atw - Good God! may we A e tm n BuoU another. ■ . Writer. apnearml o !; u ?, der oomm and of the ■ PP r,od on the streets; everybody ordered off the streets, by 10 'o’clock. Soon till was quiet save the measured tread of the watchful patrol.—All- who were- indiscreet enough to venture beyond their thresholds, were promptly arrested, and ordered hack, without time to 'expostulate. Slowly 'ant, wearily passed the dark hours, bringing, rest to the weary and hope to the despairing.— Morning came, and with it,a company of sol diers from Fort Snelling. This brave band set out for Watertown,' a point thirty; miles west, to give aid to a band of men who had sent their families here, while they remained to defend their homes and crops. When we take into consideration that af no time has there been a hostile Indian within forty miles of Minneapolis, we can readily see how unnecessary the panic.' Yet dozens of the refugees were ready, and willing to swear that their neighbors were murdered be fore they left their homes. It is a fact that not a family was left at home west: of this place; All were refugees. Such was the ef fect of the general scare. As we write a fine company of military from Frot.Snelling are passing en route for Crow Wing, on the Mis sissippi. ' " , : Various causes have been assigned for the present outbreak, viz: Firit. “ That the National Government has proved delinquent in prompt paymc.it of the annuity.” There is some, good grounds for this complaint. Second.' That Southern tra ders from Missouri have .instigated the insur rection, with a view of extending aid to the Southern rebellion, (Sec. WHO AHB AOGRBBSOKS. «The trilie of Indians directly implicated are tlie Dacdtah Souix.” This tribe reside on their Reservation, which is cmljj-aced with in the State limits. They number about 7,0,10 souls, and can muster about 1,500 warriors. Later advices seem to indicate that the Sonix tribes residing west of Minnesota are* in league with the “ Cat Heads,’' “ Yahktons,” and “ Yankton-horse,” and Arapanoes.”— Should these advices prove cnireot, then we will have a general Indian war. Thoseva rious tribes stretch from Fort Kidgely, in this State, to the Kooky Mountains; a dis tance of 1500 miles. They con muster, at least 10,00 k warriors. The “Yr.nkton-horse" lighten horseback, and are said to be equal to the celebrated Camanphes. cnirrEwi nippicwwr. This tribe reside on the east side- of the Mississippi, sixty miles above this point.— They only muster about COO warriors, and are commanded by the noted chief, “ Hnle-ip the-Day,”: This chieftain is educated arid very intelligent. He has hod a personal dif ficulty with the TJ. S. Agent, S. 0. Walker. This,difficulty culminated bn last Tuesday by bHolo-in-tUe-Day,” warriors tafcingpossession of the Agency and expelling the Agent and his family. Nothing was Injured. All the stbrec pro guarded by Indians, ;,,Mtv'Walker,, the Agent,,hnv silica that, time;‘ pomniittsd ■••tiidiln. . Yario'. '- ivro indulged ip as !to iho Wmsc this oieiui'choly a-fait'. Saute"; i- ( V. A ■';i,Wjr' hns.-jienii guilty of epmo ■led to his fearful «rv.i. ;> 1 ., Indian '■C'owrtiis-toKOp.V.pqloiijftfthi' ’Wo.diirigtu.i, by HbkilD. Oodpor and Mr. Oaks of St. Paul, has left for, the Agency. With a little forbearance and wise 'discretion., this threatened JChippewea war may lie averted. I will write you again. Yours, &c. W. DC7* A Keokuk ■ correspondent sends ns a story of the Rev. Julius Caesar, a colored preacher of Missouri, which he thinks goes to show that some of the sable brethren are quite as,'cute as any of the Hard Shells Of wh“m we have heard so rouoh of late. : . Mr. Caesar had made an appointment to preach about twenty, miles’from his master’s plantation, and there he made his appearance with his saddle-bans bn his arm, and gave out at once that he had come to preach the Gos pel to the niagera thereabouts. “Yah 1 yah F’ responded a hundred voices; but one of the negroes; more bold but not worse than the rest, sung out: “Well,.now, look n-here, niggor, if you jist brung a pack o’oavds wid you, you moot dun sumfin, but proachin’ is a little too slow for dis congrega tion.’’ ■ - 6 Caesar remonstrated with them, os they nil seemed to fall in with the old fellow’s ideas; but they told him to go home, and “de next time he oomq to bring de cards.” Caesar started off with his sdddle-bags oh : his arm, but halted, opened them, and turning about as he said, “If dat's what vou must hove/ why, den,. you must 1” and pulling but a greasy old pack sat down on the grass. “Bat’s de talk-; 0 de laud,, jis look I dat nigger got some little senses left arter all; sensihul to de last!” they cried out one after another. The preacher commenced, opera tions, and after some five or sis hours’, play/ ing hadi Skinned every thing around, clearing them out of all the loose silver they had picked up in many a day /.Ctesar shoved the documents into, the bags, and starting off again, told, them, by way of a parting, bene diction, that whenever they baa a.little mon ey to support the Gospel in that way, just to let him, know, V . OtTT When you. see a widower wring his bands and wonder what will beconfb of .him, now the dhgel-Almira: ia ; gone; - you’ll find 1 he hod one.eye on Matilda at his wife’s grave, watching her. through orockodilo tears,, and if shq:dpirft fill l “angel Almira’s place hr less (all for the children’s sake, -of course);“Why; It won’t be his fault. £7* A child of five, having, seep her father for'the first time, he haying been absent in California, was ; much astonished that he should claim, any, authority, over, her, and' on an occasion of rebellion, as he administered punishment,, she cried out, . “I really wish you had never marriedinto our family." . , Preachers and the Draft, —The! three Methodist Conferences which,'wero to meotin Ohio.in the early part of next month will be, obliged.' to postpone ' tbb ■mbeting/in bonse iqaonbo of'jtbe late decision Qovbrhor of that State, that no mah Undbr ffotyifiye years of age will be allowed to leave hispoiintry un til tub draft is effected. He wbuld' I hot even; exempt the prbaohers frora.this, rule. l,; ~ Bounties.— lt is estimated that the bounty paid by the U, S. Government, with those paid , by, §tato Governments, counties,. town, corporations, 'etc'., will swell, the Amount ex pended beyond the legitimate payment of eol djerskwages and outlet, in raising volunteers under the President’s ball for three- hundred thousand.men, to fifty .ptillioits of aoilqra.' . A large number of-our citixcna seein. to be afflicted with colds— at least.thoy show a- strong desire to keep away from, the draft.i £®* The Bachelor’s Hall differs from most houses in having no Eves, . causes. C anions Custom.— ln a tract of country in Germany, not far' from Frankford-on-tho Maine, called the Wetterau, a custom exist ing at the fairs which may startle'some of our salaried magistrates and police inspectors To some of the numerous light fingered gen try a privilege was granted, for on adequate fee, with full permission to steal what they could without being amendable to the law, with this single proviso, that they must not be o'ausbt in jflagranle delictu: if so, the owner of the property had the equal privilege of pay ing the roguesout by a good thrashing, for: which no action for assault could lie. Those thieves were somewhat ironically designated, in their official written license, free kaufer Ifvee buyers), and public notice was given at the beginning of each fair that, free buyers had been: licensed, and that therefore every one should be on his' guard. In mediaeval times many of'.thp municipal customs of oar own'ouuhtry were very similar, and it would be a curious .circumstance if, in the town re cords of any English city,, such a custom as that of licensing free buyers cdiild be found,: ib'.de especially if the still unexplained Pie Powder Court, at Smithfleld Bartholomew: Fair, granted any such privilege. ' 3C7 1- “Ono Qf my little twins said to roe the other day (being not quite throe years old) after sonic dispute with her brother, to which I was not listening ; ; wehra teat?” • “Why, no, daughter; little boys wear coats.” , “Yes, hut J wear a toat.” . ' “What, little girls wear coats 1” • “Yes,‘papa (and' obi what a twinkle, in her little, eyes Vf'petti-toats.’ Papa gave an in etahfor.” ■ " J;' ■ " *" “Do yon keep'nails here?’’ asked, a* sleepy looking lad, walking into a hard-waro store,'the other day. •' “Ifes,’-'replied the gbiitlemanly proprietor.. “Wb keep aft kinds of nails; what’ kind and how-many, will you. have M ' . “Well, - said the boy eliding''tbwlird‘ the door, “I’ll, take a pound of finger nails , odd aboufapound anda half of toe hails.”;’ 1 > - There is a hotel in Springfield that brilyphaVgeS half price' for lovers; andpyet, the proprietor says ho I 'makes more of this class of boarders than, any 'Other people about the hones;/ “Lot a.'youtb,” Ke says, “set up with a yellow spencer and blue eyes of Saturday night, and he will feel eo heavenly, that he won’t get down to pork and boons again till the latter part of the week;” A Weil Trained Servant.—The follow lowing reminds us of a little anecdote which we think we will tell'flrst, so as to be a little ahead of our friend who narrates it; " A couple of friends, sportsmen, fond of shooting arid fishing, were on a- treating es ousion, in the month of May, some four or five years ago.;- ■ ■ ' ' When they left the rude hotel in tho morn ing, where they had passed the night, they agreed to separate in purimirig their day’s sport; and an agreement was made to ren dezvous at the tavern at, sunset, and compare the result of the day’s labor or ‘ sport,’■ ns it is generally called. ' , . . . : Well, about dusk one of the party arrived, and soon ofter the other, and they comppared their strings of fish. Oiie greatly predbmiriated; it consisted Of fifty-seven trout. , ' ' 1 Did you catch all these yourself?’ ‘Why, how do.yoi) s-’pose I got ’em, if P didn’t catch.’opj?’ ‘ *. That airift the question. Did you catch them?/' "'/ Why, to be sure—l took every one of ’em myself/ 1 Well, ,that:seemed satisfactory; but some how or other, this discrepancy in the number of fish taken seemed to be ratherlieculiar; ■ so-after supper the discomfited friend took little boy to one side, with whom his compel-1 itor had fallen in on his way back to the tav*j etn, and putting a quarter of a dollar in his hand, said* ‘DidMri. P — ; — catch all those fish he brought back with his own hook and line V ‘ Them Ho had on that crotched stick ? Ho had two o’ them sticks.’; ■ ‘ Yes, yes—l know: hut did he catch them all?’ ' ' ‘Can’t say ; all.t can say, is that he told me how, if any body asked me; I " wasn’t to say a word about them fish ; and I ain’t a goin’ to do it 1’ The cat was put of the hag 1 . Now for the second sto.y: A gentleman who had carefully trained up his servant the way he should go, so that when his”wife was - present he might not de part frbm it, sent film with a box-ticket for the theatre b • the house of a young lady. The f servr.nt returned, when the gentleman and his wife wore at dinner. He had, of course,' been told, in giving answers to cer tain kind of messages, to substitute the mas culine for the feminine pronoun, in speaking of the lady. \ - _ ‘ Did you see him ?’ said the gentleman, giving him the cue. ‘Yes,.sir,’ replied the servant. ‘Me said. he’d go with a great deal.of pleasure ; and that he’d wait for you,, sir.’ ‘ What was he doing- V asked the wife, care lessly. ■ ,/ ‘ Me was patting on hie tonnet.’ was the re ply. ' ' ■ It is said,that there was 1 ‘fat in the fire’ immediately. - ■ Two. Taois of a Eino.^—A servant boy was .fsh iaife; ; oo1ony; made a large 1- fbrtqne, oamdljaok tp ter many years, andbpught the. Restate oh which he had been a servant. Oue day, ,while walking over his land with % friend, fie came to the plank, bridge, and there he told bis, friend the story. -'“I could swear,” he said, pushing bis stick into the rand, ‘.‘to the vevv spot on which the ring dropped.” Wh?n the stick came back, the ring the end of it 1 , , I heard this story when a child, and should certainly have forgotten it, but for a carious illustration which followed it of the insensi bility, of some minds to degrees of probability. A gentleman in company, said i “I knew a thing quite as extraordinary as that. A lady of my acquaintance lost her wedding-ric;;, and could find i: nowhere. This whs shortly before Twelfth day ; when , the cake was out, she found the ring in the very piece that was cut for her. She had helped her cook to make the cake, and the ring had dropped off her finger." No person in the company disputed the second story being As ns. the first; Out, young as I was, I could not help dissenting in my own mind. And now ana then, when I have read trials iind ver dicts, I have suspected that the narrator of the second story was only one of a class which is hot extinct. " OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT A WATS BE. BIGHT-HUT, RiailT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY." CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,1862; OF ILLINOIS At the Democratic Mass 'Convention, heli'at ■ liidianapolis, Indicma, July 30, Xfi ; ; MvFelldw Citizens and .pleasure frequently tq allude is&egfeati ! ness-of our. country, nnd/the 7proppetity and happiness of our people. ,The sun of heaven never shone on, a. people: so 'prosperous and happyoswe were two, veara ago. Oar people, from throe millions,.had-.;increased to thirty, millions.. From, a little .line .of. population i along the Atlantic, we had grown and spread until our shores were washed jjy two, oceans. We had stretched put our atnnTfom.the.lakes of the North to the Gull of Mexico. Wo em braced every qualityof soil arid every kind of production., The sail:* of uur cummorco whit ened every sea, and the Imppy American tar, standing upon the deck of hi.s vessel, ,looking proudly rip at tile stars and stripes floating gloriously above him, arid-felt tjlnt. in that flag he, had . safety -arid ; pfotectioa,' everywhere. Around every . fireside . was Jcontentment; happiness and plenty. But wlmt is. the scene that'meets our eyes at the ,present time? From- the plow and from the aftVil—from the physician’s office and from-the halls of justice —we are hurrying to arms. 4 (' The Union has assumed the appearance of one vast military camp. The tax-gatherer, too, will soon be upon us, tmwring from us ohr substance.- ,They ore grave andnriporfant questions for us to decide.. Ifow pan we , re turn to that happiness arid prosperity . hich we once enjoyed f. I Wqriltf answer, can only be dong- by the Constitution. l as itisund'thedjnipn as it was. Whatever. amount of powej^.is,necessary, and in whatever form, to enforce that principle, ought to be and must be employed. ■ A ;e -bollion embracing thousands of our firmer fellow citizens now. arrayed iri arms against the govorrirnerit most be put dpWn. by force of arms. And, at the same timhtliat this is be ing done for the rebellion in the South, that class of our fellow citizen's in other parts of the country who are seeking hjr other mean’, than those of eannori-shot arid bayonets to de stroy the Government, nuiat lie 1 driven-out of place and power,, and.other men, who will ac knowledge their obligations and perform their 'duty to the country must be. put in their places. . ~’ : ;7 To accomplish that ohjeot depends upon you and upon ;nie,'bat more upon you than' upon me., You will have to begin, the work right here. ! If you have already , begun this good, as.l trust in God you have, let nte urge yqn tq ,khep;it;np: byi:.bvei?y njeans' in yoni -goveJrim'. at, the - the 'dopends upon yiffo r ' but thmri performririoe is very, peon' ) Letiuriinquire a little into- tbe'past history of those men, and see whether .they deserve to lie, trusted in the future. You .remember that a few years ago wo warned the people that the formation of sectional parties was dangerous to the Union apd the Constitution, You wiil recolleot that these men then srieor ingly said to us ; that-;.w;eVere “ Constitution and Union told you tfiefi that all talk about danger,JtoTthe Onion and the Constitution was the Merest braggadooia. , They asserted that there was no danger of the South Receding—that yoJ could pot get thein out of the Union:—their naves'would up and murder them. Welly wtv'did not find that ex actly the case, did wo. 1,-Those men cheated you then, didn’t they f fjonio of.tbem cheated themselves; others, and by far the largest portion/of the party, dig not,.although they cheated you. , Wolf, we passed alonjj as usual, and what turned up nest ? Whott there began tri be signs of trouble in the Southern country, we conservative men stepped forward and said, “let’s compromise.’’ : whey replied, “ No 1 we will never compromise with rebels in orms,” . They profoundest con tempt for the South—srjd our women would, go down there and drivethem altogether into the southeru d'Cririn —it.vasA mere breakfast spell. Again they ehecied you. Again they proved false prophets,And, like prophets of old, they ought ail tope storied, to death. [Cheers and laughter.],?No they would not compromise. They waijtod a little blood-let ting—if it was absolutiy necessary for the future peace,- They sari} it would notoOmo to much—these people down: South -would net fight at all; and whon'tjt length your Presi dent called for an armyiof seventy-five thou sand >niem were told that-they would make rapid work of the- tcbellbn. It was to be an nihilated. at. a single.ploy. So. said these men. Well, how does.the inciter stand now? We have already mustered (in six hundred and ninety-three thousand, aid still there is room formore, . [Laughter,| Ah, my friends, these men,wore never ripe mistaken in their lives than when .thcy. aipume to place such 1 a slight Value'upon cue (treriglh of the rebel lion arid the courage hf the 1 people' of the South. , ;lt is ho pardoalar credit to any American to say that tie will fight: that is one quality that is common to the American race. They have always displayed that' char acteristic wherever tfijy have been. These men, therefore,: when'they told -you that Southern; people would not fight, eitherdid not'understand'tha riiitjeot/op thriy-willfully misled yen. <l/ Well, what; n6st.?,3ji6y.;opme : ' now; after they have, foprid', out tinjt the southern soldiers will fight,•/’they' odirie y yrin again arid; ory, “ We have been tnistflken this time, but we have it now—just arm the negroes, and the worlc will be.finished il short qvdril., /Fellow citizens, as often, as I par a man talking in that way, I come to, lie eorioiiision that he wants to find so'mo' : riz mse for changing. the iseuo. so as to get some one else to-do :th'o fighting.,. He , don’t wanjt; .to, volunteer; [Laughter.] .No man of cOmmpn intelligence can be induced to beli ve that the negro, na turally an inferior ra- o,'arid debased' by ig norance as be is, con iver compete with the white man upon the'Wtle-field, ony more than he can anywhere else: Set them against caoh.otherj thfoe-'to-oio; and the white man will be allithp'timfi thj viator. - ■ t ■ . In ’ Afexroo,’whefe pnr soldiers fought a mixed race, they we e victorious on ..every battle field,- although jutnun.bored in the ra tio' bf- five to one/ ’ Now, if thn African is afraid' of anything ori' ihiseartty'it ffigtfnpow aefV 'lri what estipMlon Pari yrin hold thrit inari who tells, you'tlllt the liberty,,indepen d«noe, and 'OonBtita<i(|rial govejfnihent of the country depend uporija few miserable, igno nofrint, cowardly negrtos ? We have a popu lation of twentymillioris hf white people, rind SPEECH HON. W. A. RICHARDSON, immense wealth ; properly directed, we ore capable _of;beating_any army the world ever saw or ever will see, and he who had the ef frontery Jo say that we cannot maintain our government without the help of negroes utters a libel upon the American nation. , ~ , It is false that slavery is the cause of the present unfortunate condition of things. The cause, does not lie there; it lies in another place. The mischievous legislation of these abolitionists in Congress is the cause and the ;only cause. I speak plainly but I speak pre cisely what I think. Now one thing. 7:';'When wo met one year ago in Congress, •both branches pledged themselves that the war should be prosecuted for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution and for that ! alone. All of these abolitionists either voted for the resolution which was adopted embody ing that sentiment, or ran out of the House to avoid voting at all. Fell, the resolution was adopted, The, President issued his call'for 1 volunteers, and six hundred and ninety three 1 thousand rushed to arms upon the faith of 'the solemn pledge which Congress had given I to the people.. Time rolled on, and., success 1 seemed to smile upon our efforts. Our west- [ ern armies had won great and glorious victo ries. , The southern people were still divided. Just at this juncture Congress meets. The dominant party goes immediately to work to undo alHhe wise legislation of the called ses sion; Every proposition that is brought for- 1 ward is for the negro. It soon became appa rent that the majority, in Congress was no longer bound by the Constitution. Instead of coming forward with measures of peace and [ conciliation, they came with; confiscation, fire and sword,-and by these measures they at once fired and unites} the hearts of the South ern people. Thus for we conservative men had gone hand in hand with thece hypocrites in good faith; but hero we left them. We parted with them with' great sorrow and pain, Then it was that I became satisfied that the majo rity controlling Congress meditated the des truction oi the government—-that they preferr ed a divided, government, with the chances of power and plunder. History is full of examples that go to show that governments are never destroyed by means of either rebellion or foreign foes.with out some fault upon the part of tboir own ru lers. You may , turn to the Scriptures, and ,’ybu will find numerous instances in point. The children of Israel were, not, nor could they have been, divided by ,the wickedness of, Jeroboam,, the son of Nebat, who rebelled against the Government; but it required-tlio mad hilly of Rehoburaa,- their rightful sover- to.divide them; , When the wisb men. who had been for maqy years the faithful advisers of his father came to Ehaboam'and endc: vored to pursuadc him to respect the rights of all his subjects and administer the government without par tiality to any,, his answer was : “ My father lashed you with . whips, but I will lash yon with scorpions,, and my little finger shall bo ’ thicker than my father’s thigh.” . From thai day. forward Israel was a divided kingdom, shom.of itk glory and of .its power. This last :Congress .lias, 4pnU'^rJ;us,.iWifer. ; w^waB - in, boom, did lor the king, ofijgr| } As I have said before,there was a large Unioaaentiment'dn the South. In view of tin's fact, what should have been our policy ? Should we, have endeavored to con, vinee these people that, beneath the flag of their ooiintry all their rights'off; property were secure? Ido not know how y'pu’Hre going'to reconstruct.this Union to place it upon. Such basis. we l rajght have had in this strong Union element'at .the .South. Who does not know that two thirds of the se ceded States were carried in the wickedness of secession absolutely without the Consent of,the people and against their will. The hearts of these people were for'the old government; in which they had alwa s trust ed, and the old Constitution, which they had. always revered. Suppose our policy had,been : to foster and encourage ihatoad of'driving off that Union sentiment. There would have been no army in the field to-day. But'in lieu of that polio3 r bf oonoiliation which would imve been our salvation, we adopted the policy meeting of them all with fire and sword, and fatal the consequence are not yet all told. Now, I agree 1 that it is right and proper in every government that, where you put down rebellion like this, you should punish the lead ers, but no government ever adopted the poli cy in relation to the people themselves that ours has. A few years ago, the Hungarians rebelled against Austria. . That is one of the most despotic governments on the face of the globe. The government succeeded in over throwing the rebellion—how. ? They executed, a few of the leaders, sent the remainder into exile, and passed amnesty to the residue who were not leaders in the rebellion. There nev er was a government that has not uniformity let the burden fall upon the leaders while i the ■ great mass of ■ the people .were j permitted to return and resume their al legia.nce to the government. And f will ven ture to assert'that if, after the battle of Fort I Dopelson, the government had adopted this policy of conciliation, there would have been no rebebarmy in the field to-day. But instead of that being the.case, they are'at this mo ment; confronting us with an army more nu merous and' superior to our own, and' we are compelled' to call for more volunteers. Now, the volunteering-now going on, in view of the doubt already oast upon the subject,qtande fair; but it is eveideat that pur people, ate nut rush ing to 1 arms with the spirit and, in' such num bers as they did when the former call was made, when there was a hope that the war was te be , pppdueted upon more humane and conservative ipfinCiplesv In this State and in liUinbjs’we shall probably succeed .after a while in raising our quota of volunteers, but in many ojf-the States they will be, foVcod to draft, The Congressional legislation of late has been fatal to ns in every way. • I hear : a good, deal said now and then about, the;** statesmen” of this republican party, but 1 have never been able to put,toy finger upon any of their statesmanship, I' have served along with them in 'Congress, oqd I have found it invariably the'case that; whenever any man coiled by-theiriname begins to, rise to position of a true statesman, .they crowd him out of the ranks; Take Mr. Cowap, of Pennsylvania,' os an example. They hate that man worse, and denounce him more bit terly even than they do .me : for they, say Biohardion is on old sinner anyhow, and they i do not expect much of huh, Tom afraid that when the-future historian comes to write of our times, as ho willgroup these men, with respppt to-statesmanship, and will say,.“ Here is-a sot'of one idea-fools, Vbo permitted the-govornmont handed down to; them by their .forefatb-srs to -fall to the gtound rather than give tip oUabsiird'lnotion, which could never 'bp realized or-, oarried-out; ■You cannotadminister government sucopifS:' fully with bnd'idea, lot mo toil you that" those men,'when, 1 in the pursuit of tjlie.if one idea; they coma to make the negro do everything and have everything dwindled down, down, dpwn until they become totally' incapable of | anything like true statesmanship. Last win ter, • when Isaw thy venerable friend here j from Kentucky; together with Mr. Crittenden : -‘-men who had been associated in days gone bywith Clay dud IVebstorand Benton occu pymg, seats, upon' the. floor of Congress these, intellectual pigihies and one idea men, the poetry of Moore suggested it self very forcibly to my mind ds rioouliorlVl applicable to their situation: " 1 feel like one who trends alone,. Some banquet hall deserted, Whoso lights aro gone, whose guests are fled; And all but ho departed.” Whon we pass into the page of history, as we soon shallj I fear that not one of all the rep reaentatives of.tho republican parfcy/now in Congress will ever have been found to have produced a paper—to have boon-guilty of a thought—that is worthy of the great cause and the great interests that are committed to their charge. Now, if you send these men back to. Co ngress, the history of, the Republic-is written. Our days aro numbered, and wo-are number ed with the past. Infamously, ingloriously, without a struggle, we passed away, and be came ‘ a school boy’s tale—the wonder of an hour.’ I have hoard a good deal said about the conservative republicans.in Congress. These so-called conservatives.'are excellent men, judging them by what they say ; Indeed, they talk the best-to vote so badly of any sot of men I ever saw. We did think at first that your Representative from this Congres sional district would vote with us all the time, but .we were,' sadly disappointed when the time for talking passed by and he was called upon to vote. That is the way with all of these men. For a time they would make good Union speeches, talking tolerably conservative all the time, and voting just ex actly like Lovejoy and hisfrieuds. I came td tfie same conclusion about these “conservative” republicans that a. Yankee once came to in regard to the Siames twins.- The Siames twins bad come to Boston, and the old Yankee had paid his money and went into the show. He examined the ligaments that bcipntTthe young men together, and, as soon as he had satisfied himself that it was-a real thing and no humbug, he said, “Vfel.l, I rather guess them fellows are brothers."— Just spi-my follow citizens, I have been .com pelled to conclude that those “conservative” republicans and abolitionists are brothers.— [Cheers and laughter.] One is just about ds bad as the other,- or, if there is any difference, it is in favor of the abolitionists, lovejoy avowed his policy. I like" a bold man. If he is Wrong in principle, I can at' least ad mire the courage which enables him to avow himself.. I always could understand lovejoy; but I never could understand your Represen tative from this - Congressional district.— [laughter.] .If, during the last Presidential election, these “conservative’-’ republicans had avowed the sentiments they expressed by their votes,'the country would not have been in the condition it is at present. Now, let me urge-.you, it you are going to send re publicans to Congresa at all let us have the of. ,^^e..me3 lovejoy be' cheated, so I would ratborWSvd the full-blooirr| ed abolitionists to deal .with. I understand their position,' The danger of the country arrises not frotp these men, because you can strip them ; but -it arises from these “con servatives" falsely so called. - There,is a class of men who are always I very busy—who go about the country ,de-' I nounoing every man who does not agree with them as a traitor to the country] . You talk to one of these men, and ask him what he* is for, and he will tell you, if ho tells the'truth, that he is diverting this war from ‘its legiti mate objects,so as to make it a war "of eman cipation. Ask him then ; “Are you for the Constitution?” He will answer; “6li, no;, the Constitution is played out; the South has overthrown the Constitution.” Sir, that man is no more nor less than a traitor, and when ever it becomes his interest no matter where’ ho may bo, North or South, East, or West£ he will betray the country. Such men occu* ; py a double relation. In the first place they are cowards ; for they will not enlist in the. defence of their principles; and, secondly, they are traitors to the' Constitution of their country, for- they declare that it is.no longer binding upon them. Now, it is plain that if we wait for such, fellows and for the negroes to put down the I rebellion, we will all die before it is done.— When this rebellion is put down, it will be put down by men who are devoted to the Con stitution and the Union, One thing is certain—if ‘fjh.eso republicans maintain the power in Congress, our govern ment, with constitutional liberty, is gone for ever. If you return to the next Congress conservative men, who are anxious only to preserve the Constitution, we are safe, and the old ship of State will laud in a' sdfe' hat tier, where we can find protection. w ' " The stake we'are playing-for now", is infl nitely greater than wo have ever played for before. If the republican- party is. retained power in Congress;-wo' aie. gone. If we Betid' a different class of men,- they can but lose all, end they may save all. 1 ■ v , ‘Jihis much I will say for Illinois—we in tend to maintain our ground in that State.— We shall advance our line somewhat; and I think that when we shall come to- present these great issues to our people, duty to the] dead, duty to ourselves, and duty to those who are to come after us, will rally arou,nd I us men enough to drive most of these men I from Congress in the State of Illinois. I One thing I know will ha done —the issue will be presented. It will be presonted in no.- cowardly, truckling spirit. It will Be’pre sented by men who are not afraid to speak their true sentiments, with the panoply of American citizens around them. My fellow citizens, l oan, hardly express to you my feelings-whon I' have scon these ter rible disasters coming upon my country, and when i, reflect' that her free institutions wore - | all the heritage I have to bestow upon ray children.- I have seen more of the good re sults that have flowed from our institutions, more-of prosperity my fellow citizens—than' many men of my day. And how, in the dO olino of lifo, with a sun tending towards the twilight, no lodger with a vigorous arm to de fend or assail, I shall endeavor cheerfully to accept whatever the Almighty may place be- - fore me. But if it is in the proviacride of God that he is to punish us with afflictions, to destroy our government, then I care not how soon the summons may come to go hence.- I would desire to live no longer. ' , : IJepco it 18, that I-say that tothe' discharge of .the (|.uty before the people, there, is no ppwfir;i)ii earth that shall prevent' me' from telling plainly and oandidly'whatl think ought, to bo done for, the welfare of our beloved-country, ■ . But npt only does -every consideration of patriotism urge us to the : vigorous prosecu tion of this wav, if restricted to its legitimate objoots, but every'consideration of interest also.- | /As for me; I feel that all that I, hold dear is at stake—all myolved fh the safety, of mv country, and I tyould bawilling even now to close my eyes foreyen if.l/h.new that I waai bequeathing to my children, unimpaired, the civil liberties which, I have enjoyed under thei Constitution., I desire to live long enongh th see peace restored over,all the land, from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,. I desira. to see all my countrymen worshipping: oncei more at the same altar, and; all uh«sd in tho effort to, trans.mit.tcf posterity unimpaired the glorious privileges won for us by the blood of oiir patriotic ancestors.:, .[Loud dhcßrs.j • -••itioiittoUi] Once uppp a time, Prdriok, Kingof Priism,' surnamcd Old Fritzo,’ took a ride and espied an old farmer ploughing his acre by the Way side, cheerfully singing his'ineltfdy. ; ; . _ .“You must be well off, old man/'' said the King; “ does this acre belong to you, which' yon so industriously labor?".’, • “ n 9> si r.” replied the. fatmerj: who did not' know that, it was the King. “I am not so rich as that ;-I plow for wages." * . • , " • ■ “How. much do you got a. day?" askedlho King. ■ . “Fight grosohen,’ said the farmer. ‘•‘This is not much,” replied the King “can you get along with this?"; ■' ;• ' ■■ “Get along, and have something left." “How is this ?’’ , : • ■ . - . , ‘‘The farmer siniled/and’said; ' / ! ' ‘ Well; if I-miist-tell yon, two grosohen are for myself and; wife -vwith two I pay my old' debts; two I lend; and tproj give fdr (he Lord’s, sake.” ' “This is a mystery which I cannot replied the King. . ■ ■ “Then Twill solve it for you," said-tho far-, mer. I have two old parents at home, who hept me when I was weak and needed help; • I keep them ; this is my. dept toward which I pay two groschen. a. day. .The third pair of ■grosohen, which I lend’ away, I spend for the’ children, that they may receive a Christian' instruction ; this will come handy ■to mefand’ when we get bldf. With the last twtf rgroschon I maintain: two. sick sisters whom T would not b 5 compelled to keep; this I give for the" Lord’s sake; • ■ ' ■ The King, well pleased with this answer; said—“ Bravely, spoken, old man I ’ Now. t , -v -will give,you something to guess. Have you w’ ever seen me "; • • , . ’ » , “Never/* baid'thS.farm^i:,., “In lebs'than.five minutes you shall see me ' fifty times, find, csifry in your pocket fifty of. my likenesses.:”-... : “This is S rlddid. which I cannot imravel,” said the farmer. . ■ “Then I will do it for yod/’ refilled- the. King.. ;,v Thrusting his> hand; into his pocket, and,’ counting him fifty aevy/gold pieces iritb.,his ' . hand, stamped with his royal likeness, he said ■ to the astonished farmer, whb.knew riot what J % was coming coin is also genuine, for' ■ it comesfroni our Lord God,.anid Xiim his pay* master/, ~ ... , . K 7“ A Pennsylvania e'ditpr says, "eomo- Ill&an won green'enough -b«tg.|rgifeftii & prove that we will tell a five cents." ■ ! 1 ’John/ said Dean Itamsoy, ’l’nj suro ye ken, a.rollin'stane gathers nae moss?'— ‘ Ay/. , rejoined John; / that’s true; ' but ban you tell me’ whaf gold thb inoss Is to tho stanef’ 1 • KT’lf the ; rebels; get tired Of fighting,' there are a-great many caves ,in'. the South, that they can hide in/ And really it seems So begetting ahouttime for therato pave; ■ ■ To tyavol safely through the world; a man. must have a, falcon’s eye, an ass's ears, an ape’s face, a merchant's words, a camel’s back, a hog’s mouth; and a hart’s legs.-,, 1 ; ..O’ A Mississippi paper says that there is a fearful soardity of corn and wheat there'.— Well, if the rebels can find nothing else to' grind, lot thdm grind their teeth’. KlT’Our soldiers often have a great difficul ty in finding roads to travel dver/ hu't'tho reb-. els add' their cause are always upon the “ broad road.” thou,;clean my farhitare.Jair handmaiden V asked X. of a pretty' servant who was' polishing his escritoire. ‘ I dußt/ replied she. . , g. itT" The Nevf Orleans : see sayg. that there is untold wealth aniOiig the Confederates.' If there is any truth among them,- iidflertainly untold; . -; ' . . . J5®"A smile may be bright while the heart • is sad. The rainbow is beautiful in the 1 air, while beneath is the moaning of the sea. , .O’ It might he difficult to say which would’ to the peace of a country— the execution of the daws or the lawyers. O’ T.he rebels threaten to Suspend diplo-- matio relations with England. . They had' better wait till they have a few. ' [C7“ Mrs. Pnrtirijjtpn says-tliat g, gentleman, laughed so hard that she feared he would hard 11 bust his, jocular vein.*?’ ■ O’ The falsehoods of .the rebel authorities sro ia many cases infernal-machines’ planted* to b’fevf dp their own friends. _ OHT"T;vo groat geographical discoveries are yet to bd' mnde—the source of the Niger and'* “the.lnst ditolii” , O’dVo'may say of 'ti gbodmanypeoplQ’s; ;Bouls that it is a v wonder nature ever thought' them worth, framing. O’.Rob a man -of his life, and you’ll -bo ■ bung; rob a.man of his living; and you may bd applauded. ... 1 B Zs““ Industry ninSt prosper,” aa tlid maii* said when holding the baby while- hia wife chopped’ wood, - ,-,V ' . K?“’ <mp pf Circe .changed men to swjno that oup is very common—it contains strong whiskey.,-’ ,■ , ;86? 4 Many a man who is proud to bo.qdar- < tormaster, has a wife at home who is whole ■master,':’. . ■” , C 7“ If .we nro tired of oqr liberties, it ifl time tfce earth should bo tired of our livin/f mee enoo. ' ’ fT" If the Amorioon Onion were to poriab, the world might os well be inode a boaliro. no; m ■f'fii'x
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