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Well— ■'Tia idle todrsputo with fate; : But if ypu choose to hear mo toll, , Pray.listen-while Pfix the date. , Whon;/daugHWrs haste with eager foot, • A mother's daily toil, to share; • “ Can makefile•ppdil Jugs whieh'thcy eat, And menii thflistddkings which they wear; W h™ maidens look-upon a. man , As in himself that they would marry, Ami nut as army soldiers scan ’ A sutler or a commissary Whongoptlo ladies;'wbo‘-havo got The ollbr of a lover’s.hand, .. Cousent-to sharp his' “..earthly lot,” And do notnroaii/his lot of land ; \Vhcn young ; hioeh.aD!CS are allowed To.find and'woddho,.farmw’s, girls. Who don’t oxppct With rubies; disbuds and pearls ; Wliqn wivegy : io.sti : brb;>ball 'freely, giro Their hearts.Jiij’d their spouses. And live as'thoy ; woyo wont : t6 live Within their siros'-pno etory. huiises; Then; marhirn-i-if I fim'.ribt top bid— ■llejoiuod to quit this lonely life, I'll brush my beaver, ceasb to : scold, And look about me lor. a wife 1 ffiWlniimitf... - T:iH] J?lilM POLICE. "I arrived in Paris a perfect stranger, anil - ; tnok lodgingsml Maurice's.- famous English Hotel. Having .been shown to,' my apart moot, nmJ made sumo change-in mytuilet,, I , went-lor a short stroll iii the groat andin'ag : nificont city: —that heart, as it were, of-'the ■ world; I had-soiiio! letters of intrpduotion, ibut as I had nofyet presented,(.liem.'.bolieved, ,myself wholly unknown to a '.living soul dtp. .ip.-:r, omti\(j|aMis~urii;erit l i_t u\ight l)e,-,.t0. iftM oiUoor's,.woo h atl' 1 ' rCiM'my pd^^ .gates, and the cleric win/llad■ s’pqtf", ter my name—and that either shpirid:'have fixed that name in their recollection, was 'something that my modesty had not yet per mitted me to take into consideration...: ' ■ Judge ‘of my .surprise,’therefore, when -I -■ had gone hot a lew steps froth, Maurice's too wards the beautiful pa hide .gardens nearly opposite, to hear myself addressed as follows: , . • Will Monsieur 'Henry Neville liavortho -kindness‘tu answer a few important; ques tions?’ 1 turned to tlio speaker, and saw lit a glance he tras'ii total stranger .to me*—and never, to .tuy knowledge, ’.looked upon hisfuce before.. •He was a middle aged man, of father pre possessing appearance, with grey hair, eye-, brows, ami moustache, and was dressed as'it plain.substantial citizen. . : , ‘ I will .do myself the pleasure to, oblige you.’ I said in a kind.and courteous tone. .-. ‘ Permit uio first to remark; however, that you have a little the advantage of mo in that 'you already know my name.’ , ‘ Monsieur will please know me as Eugene ' ;St. Medard.’ , ‘ Hid « o ever meet before?’ ‘lt is Monsieur that ha-: now become the /questioner,’ rejoined the* Prenchman with a peculiar smile, and a kind itf formal ‘bnwf half dignified, half poll o“fft%if lie Wouldhave said tlio questions were only to come frbflf bis side. Somehow I felt just a trifle vexed and:hetv tied at the look and tune, and remarked a lit-, tie coldly: . . . ■ fi ‘I take it for granted one has tlio same ■right ty interrogate as tlio other.’ ■The features of the stranger grew grave as .one who (eels a little annoyed, and His reply was impressive, without being exactlysterni ‘ If Monsieur will bo kind enough to waive; his right in this instance,’ ho said, ‘it may save us both lime and trouble.’ ’ " I scarcely know why—perhaps something in Ids look, tone and manner, but the ides now suddenly occurred to me that I was. speaking to a man in authority—aud sgid.ro spoctfully.t • > ‘ Proceed Monsieur St. Medard.’ ; * 'l’lmnk you. Mouaiour. • You are an 'Eng ■lisbman?’ ‘ ° * I am.’ ‘You are distantly related to,thc Earl of ■ .Malvern.’ ‘ So distantly, that his lordship could never .get near enough to know our family,’ 1 re ■•pliod pleasantly, not a little surprised that a •Ereueli stranger shouhl kiiow so niuoh about mo, and wonder all the while to what result diis questions might bo tending. ‘ Yon wore an only child V •Yes.’ ‘ Your parents are dead ?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘You wore loft n small inheritance which Jyou have lately converted into money and brought .with you. thinking it not unlikely 'Jon might take a fancy to settle on the Con tinent?’ .. ‘ All true, Monsieur-; but your knowledge of me and my private affairs astonishes me.’ ‘ Lot that pass. The family of his lordship, the Earl of Malvern, Ims been unfortunate — tie near of kin remains to him.’ ‘Two proljigato sons of a deceased sister sro tjie nearest, I believe.’ 1 They are both dead, Monsieur.’ 1 Deal 1’ oxclaipioJ I with a start, for this Was news to mo. ‘One died of heart disease in Germany ;-ho other was stabbed to death in Homo.’ | Aro'you sure f’ • | Certainly, Monsieur.’ Good Heavens 1 this astonishes mo more. * hud not heard of-this.’ 4 1 know it.’ It seems to me you know everything 1’ B «'J I. with a stare of wonder. ' Jpnsieur St. Modard smiled and bontihned : oiour’ U Ul ° * IUW * lo ‘ l Presumptive, Mun you tell mo is true, I am 1’ ox ,i, . ln °d I> almost startled at the thought of r IU S bo near an onrldom--lor the then lord was old and feeble,- and might drop off at any minute. ‘ Do you know who ia next of kin after yourself, Monsieur?' inquired my strange, interrogator. ' ‘ 1 think I have heard it is one William Byerly.’ ‘Right. Do you know him?’ * Something by report.’ . ‘ Personally ?’ ■ '.‘No.’; ‘ Did report speak favorably of him ?’ ‘ I am sorry to say it dill not.’ ‘ L rpm what you heard, do yoil consider him mi’honest man ?’ •I do pat,’ . " ‘ As you alone now stand hetwp.en-ffiim and an earldom, alter the present lord, would you consider your lile safe in his blinds V\ *• ’ ‘ lianswpr this -question,, will you permit mjr to ask some two or three?' said I. ‘ Proceed, .Monsieur,' ‘ Are you Williuiu Byerly ?’ ‘ . ‘No.’-- . ' j ,j . ‘ Do you intend to use my reply in a legal W(iy ?’,••■■ ‘ No.’ ‘ Is your,ft!;joot -La.these questions friendly' to. mo ?’■ . . . Yea.’ ' ‘d'lien |T will venture to say that I should not,like, under,present ciren instances, to trust my,life in the hands of William Byerly, pro- ■ yided there was a single chance of his escap ing detection in case of. wilful ihurder.’ ...‘.Very well. May 1 now proceed ?’' "■ VYos, Monsieur.’ ‘ You will please answer to each statement' of mine as if. a question were directly On your, way to Dover, a follow traveller •made your acquaintance-?’ ‘ Yes.’ - ■ . ' ‘ You first saw him at Tunbridge,?’ - Yes.’ ” . 4 You .first noticed him while you were ta king some refreshments at a restaurant?’ Yes.’ ■ ', ■ 1 lie came. tip of you, having a carpet .bag in his hand, unit made some cum-; mon place remark about the weather?’. Yes,’ I continued to answer, getting more .and more astonished every minute. - ,What emild it'all mean ? Xlad every ac tion of my life beetl noted ? and for what purple ? My : strangc interrogator procecd- ‘ This stranger was dressed'in a blue coat, with.bright metnl'buttons, nankeen trowsers, a blutt .vest, a parti colored iicckercbicl, a white hat and black, boots ?’• - \ ' • ‘Yes.’ You replied that you wore going .to Jhu is.?’ ‘ Yes;’ .‘liowiis delighted to. bear it, because 1*( was going there also, and it was'very pleas int in-a foreign country to inivo a traveling 3.mu)anion Irom one’s native land?’ ' *° 4 ;Vcs> ’ On rbe whole, bo .made so favorable an impression .upon . your , wrmpapicimis mind • that yo.ii werc.cmlto ,pleased'to liCvo bis cum yp'iy • YcS/ ‘ On your why to doyer, he gave you some ot his past life—of his trials, strug gles, disappointments and successes?’,' * Yes,’.- - lie was an inventor—a man of genius. ;wiio lived to boiielit mankind -and himself? -Jiiiigland owed much to. Jiini,-. and so did liyinco, add so, in fucfdid tlie-ivb.de world ? ; Hills statements wore to effijet.’ I ■ •v’yer.y -well, Monsieur, ns I hayo shown you.that I know the nature of y;mr conver sation,, it is not necessary that I should wea ry you with detail. Thiaman; this'invontor, was po; ne; to Paris intake out a patent lor ■ a.now motive power—om- thiit, was destined .to revolutionize tlie world, lie was very sorry that he could not show it-to you. then but Until his papers should ho fi,lud in the .proper department ho would net trust his own..father with, the secret;’ - All correct, 'Monsieur.’- , ; : ‘oNii\v, ID'MI unfortunately, ao.it appeared, .mid'caching Do.ver, whore you wore to take tile -regular steam packet* for Calais', jour n6w'aequaintan !0, in some wa}' unknown to jiiii'i'.TCiioived the startling intelligence thiU llisiliither was lying at ’ the point ofdcath M'.lniili would require luip. to.post toJbondon immediately, and would yon, in whom lie hud every confidence, do him. the favor to ..t'iko.charge id a sma'll box, containing sonic impendent papers—and mi your arrival in iPitviß/Sl'pen it and deliver them to their prop. -;8r “address ,?' ih 1 \ * Yos, Monsieur,’ said I, becoming most intensely interested. * Curiosity, Monsieur,’ continued the 'Frenchman, *is not one of your failings, I am, happy to say, or you might not now be diving to hear wlnu I have to reveal.’ ‘ Good heavens 1’ ejaculated I, coming n nv ?’ ‘ That same hnx, Monsieur, is an infernal machine, intended* to destroy your life the moment : ,jon opened it!’ ‘Gracious God! 1 exolaiqted. ‘can this he possible,?’ ■ ‘I will proye.it. Clot it. and come with me Jjoforo .a Onminissary of Policed’. ‘Pray, Monsieur, who are you?’' . ‘A ol Police.’ •. I hastened to got the box, handling it with groat care,-and together we proceeded to the nearest Commissary, when, with it . was split open, and lo! to my astonished and;horified,gnze, was revealed a row of small loaded pistols, so arranged that, had I unloek ed and opened the box in an ordinary way, they would. s have been discharged into my .body,.. . On miy subsequently asking for an explan ation concerning this‘mysterious glfaiiv-liow so.innnb connected with myself and others, had bebomo km wn to tho'police of a foreign city—l was gravely hut politely answered: ‘lt is not allowed us. Monsieur, to reveal nuranureo of information. We are happy to have thwarted the plans of the villain, and saved your life?’ I never know who that villain was, though I always auapeotoAßyorly o( having a hand in it. I do not; kpoyy.'fnat’Jjiy life was ever again attempted—hnf certain it ig I never again permitted intimacy from an unknown 'stranger. ' , On my accession to the title and,.(prates which occurred the following year, l aid not forget to reward fuigene Sti -Modard. alias Henry I’ouget, Secret Agent of Police, ns 1 thought he deserved to bo rewarded for the preservation of my life—-and to this day I liave not ceased to wonder over the perfection of the-French system of police. ' OCT” One’hour lost in the morning will put hack all the business of the day ; one gained by rising curly, will make one month in the year.' ICT” Patience is very goo I, but persever ance is much bettor. While the .former stands ns a stoic under difficulties, the latter whips them out of the ring. The hero veteran, who was citizen, cap-' . tain, colonel, brigadier and major general, within a space ot nine months, though a id disciplinarian, and a perfect ironsides in , the discharge of his official du.ti.es, could pn joy a good yoke, and is always ready to per form one when an opportunity presents. Indeed, among his acquaintances, h# is m,u'ch howned for his eccentric, humor,'as ho is for liis skill and bravery as a commander. *' When Grant,yyas a -brigadier in southeast Missouri, bp commanded an expedition against, the rebels under Jeff. Thompson; in northeast Arkansas. " 'pie distance from ‘the .starting.pointof tii.e expedition to the sup posed itendpavous of tlpa rebels was about one , liuudrpd and ton ciiles, ,aud the greater por tion o,f .tli,3 route lay thhingli a howling wil derness. ■ Jho iipaginsry suffering that our , soldiers-endured during, the first two'days of their..march wa,s enormous. , It was impos sible to steal or “ oonliscatif’ uncultivated real estate, and not- a hog, or a chicken, or an oar of corn, was -anywheres to lie seen.— On the' third day, hnwcver, 1 affairs looked .'more .hopeful, for a few small specks of ground in a state of.partial cultivation, were here and there visible 1 ; On that day Lieutenant Wickficld, of an Indiana cavalry regiment, commanded the advance guard, consisting of eighty, mounted 1 mini.' About 1 noon hej oamo up to a small farm house, from tile ■outward appearance of which he judged that 1 there,might he something fit to oat inside.— ■ 110 halted liis company, dismounted, and with two second lieutenants entered the dwelling. He, know that. Grant’s incipient fame hud-already gone out through all that country, and it occurred to him that by rep-' ■ resenting himself to he the General, he might obtain the host 'he house afforded. So;‘as suming a very "imperative demeanor, lie nc-. 1 costed the inmates of", the I .house, and told 1 thorn he must have something for himself ‘ and staff to .-eat. 'Ahoy desired to know who * ho was,and lie’told, them that,he was Briga dier, General Ghmb .Ab-the -sound of- that name they flew around with alarming-alacri ty; nnd served -upfibdut ali tliey, had in the bouse, taking great ••pains.’ gU ■tha- while do, make hiiid professions of loyalty;' The lieu tenants:ate as much as they could of the not over sumptuous ipoal, .but .which was, never theless, good for that'country, and demanded wliat was to pay. And they wont mi thqir,wu\f rejoicing. lii,the meantime General Grant, yvho had Imbed, his army a few miles further back for a re.-ting spell, came in sight of, and whs ratll3r.Utvorab.ly ip:pressed, with the appear mice of, this same,house. ♦ Riding .up to the .fence in front of the tmor, Up desired .to know if they would cook him a meal. “ said m Icmale, in a gruff voice, “ General Grant and his stall' have just been hero aud„cL:iten everything in the house ex cept pie.' }i ".Iliinljili r’tiuurinurod Grant*; what Is your nmnCT’- a .hair dollki* irrhfc the door, he asked, h"'slio-would keep that pie till ho sent an to- which she replied that she wuurttj?. •That .'evening after the camping- "round had been selected;; the various regiments were notified that there would ho one grand' parade at hull’ past six, fur orders.' QJlicers would see that their men all turned out, &u. in jive minutes the camp was in a : perfeet uproar, nml*tilled' with all sorts flf rumors.— Sonie.ihouglit.tlie eiieinv was upon timm,. it being so unusual tohave parados when on a inarch. ’**•'' ■At half past six -the parade was formed ton columns nearly a quarter oi l --mile in lenilth. After the. usual routine o( ceremonies the-A..A. A. G, read the follow .order,; ' ' , . Headquarters, Arm-7 -ki./t-mB I'ielp,— Special O.rJcr A r o———-Lieutenant Wick- held, of-th.e — : —^-Indiana 1 cavalry," having up this day, eaten everything’in Mrs. Sul vidge’s house, at the crossing of the fronton and Pocahontas,.and Black Uivcr, and Capo Girnnlnaij , roads, except' one pnmkin # pie, Lieut. Wicktield is hereby ordered to return with .an’-eaciii’t of one' hunurecl cavalry, and .oat that pie also. - . Grant's orders were law, and. no soldier 'ever attempted to. evade-them. At seven o clock tile lieutenant.filed out of camp with his hundred men,'amid the cheers uf’ the en tire army. The. escort concurred in stating that he devoured the whole uf the pie, and s< j| inic d to relish'-it. —Chicago Spirit of ike ‘ what is .Editing a paper now is a .very .pleasant business. If it contains too much political matter, people won’t have it. • ,11 it contains too little, they ; yvon*t have it. ;If the type is igrgeifc d,an't contain enough reading.matter. . II the type is small people can’t read it, li. we publish telegraph reports folks say they are nothing hut lies. ■ It wo omit them, they say we have no on .orpriso or suppress, them for political effect. ll we have in a low jokes, folks say we arc milling, hut a rattle bead, ’ Ii wo omit jukes, they say wo are an old issil. ■ - ■ It wo publish original matter, they damn us for notgiviqg 'sel’eiitions. II we publish soleelions folks say' wo arc lazy -for not writing more nod giving what they have .hot read in some other papers. It wo give a man complimentary notices wo are censured for being partial. If wo do not, all liands say wo are n greedy hog. . If wo insort an article which pleases the ladies, men become jealous. If wo do not eatoi to their wishes, the pa per is not lit to have in the house. wo attend ohuroh, they say it is only for •effect. I f we do not, they denounce us ns deceitful and desperately wicked. H we speak well of any not of the Presi dent, folks say we dare not do.otherwise. It wo censure him they call us a traitor. If we remain in the office .pud attend to business, folks’miy wo are too proud to mingle with other fellows. ■ If-we goout they say y:o never attend to business. If wo do not pay all bills promptly, folks say wo are not to bo trusted. If wo do pay promptly, they say we steal the money' It wo wear poor clothes, they say business is poor. If wo wear good ones they say wo are a spendthrift. ’ Now whnt is a poor follow to do ? DC7” A Gorman proverb.expresses, i n thir teen words, the substance of social philosophy; ■ what you would have in the nation you must j .plant m the school. 1 “ OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE IUOIIT—BUI .HiIHT'OJI WRONG OUII COUNTRY.” A STORY OP GBAMV . .U, 6. GRANT, Brig. Gen. conmnu.ding. Milins a Paper.. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY; AUGUST 20, 1863. |3olitimL ADDRESS r ’ OF THE JHSIIGCRATIS STATE CENTRAL fe'MmEE. To the People of Peitnsylvania ; An. important Election is at }U ful, united and secure. It is now the scene of a groat civil war between States that- 'ately minis tered to each other’s prosperity.in a Union founded-for their common good, _lt was this Union that gave them peace at home and re spect ’ abroad'. They coped -successfully' with Groat Britain on -the ocean, and the “doctrine” uttered by President Monroe' Warned . off the iMonarchs of Europe from the whole American Continent, Now, Franco, carves out of it an Empire, and ships built in England' plunder-uur own commerce .on I every sea. A great public dfbt and com I scriptioh burden the people.■: .The,stranger and wealth of the-na i m are turned from productive industry and consumed in the .destructive arts of war. Our rrfen-ios fail to .win pence. Throughout the laml' arbitrary power -'encroaches ii.non civil liberty'.'' " ' ’ . AVlmt has wrought the disastrous change? ■'No natural causes embroiled-.the -J,\ T oftii and .the. South. Their iiitorcbaMgei.blo products .and commodities, und various institutions-, were, smii-ces of reciprocal benefit: and bxclud ed competition and strife,. But'an artificial cause of dissension .wifcf’iimnil iiitlie'position of the- African race; and the ascendency in' the W-.Uiu.nal .GutinciW of uipu .picdgod to an aggressive ' linii uiicoustiiiifiomii Abolition policy hits.brought our country .to ,the condi tion of ‘-the luius'o dividcil against itself/’ The .danger-to.'the Unitin'begun wliore statesmen' had furcseoh it—it began in triumph Ufa sectional party, founded -on''principles ill rev-’ ulutioiiary hostility ■to the 0 institution'and the laws. The leaders of this party were, pledged to a conflict witli rights 'recognized nod sheltered by the Cimstitutli:?; they called this conflict' • irrepressible.” mid whpnovor one parly is dcterminod.to uttiu-k what anoth er is determined to defend, a conflict jciui. al ways ho made “irrp) possible.” ■ They:eminted on an easy triumph through tlmctfid of insur gent slaves,--.and, in tins care less how soon . they provoked; a collision. Democrats- and . eonservutites..,strove to a vert conflict. Tl.ipy saw that .Union was the naramount. interest' of their country, and they stood by the, great bond of union, the Constitution ■of the United States, They were. content to leave, debaieabip questions noiler. it to tgU>v,\\n.l fraoilid 10 decide tlie'oi ; they p.i-dltirjjbd it«to' ; .tl.wrtfa-iq-iT.-as.ii.n •arlxtTdr o'titl'd' to merit Hid ti*io which their. mints them in sc.n-n—thu title of .‘Min’on-savers/: Wm will not, nr rehearse their efforts. In tiio 'i'liirrv-Sixtli the Republican lenders refused their assent to the Crittenden Compromise, On this point, the testimony his Excellency Austin, Stair: ; “ Governor Bigham and myself telegraphed 1 you on Saturday, at tho request'd? Massa > chusotts and New York, to send.,'delegates to the ponce ur compromise Congress. .They admit that we were right and they were wrong; that no. .Republican State should have sent delegates ; hut they are, hero andj and cannot, got away. Ohio,- Indiana arid? Rhode Island are'caving in, and there id} danger of Illinois ;;.°.rid now they Leg ns, for God’s sake to come to then-rescue, and save’ the Republican party from ruptilre. I hope you will send stiff harked men or, none. The whole thing was gotten up against my judg ment and advice, and will end in thin smoko. Still, I hope, ns a matter of courtesy to some of our erring bretliorn, that you will send the delegates. Truly, your friend. h. CjI.VNDMia. .“jP. d3.—Sonte of thcgrianuTacluring States .think that a light would ho awful. Without it little blond letting, this Union will not, in iny estimation, he worth a rush. •• Washington, Feb. 11, 1801. In Pennsylvania, too, the same spirit pre vailed. It was not seen how necessarily her her position united her in interest with the Border States. She has learned it since from contending armies trampling out her har vests and deluging her fields with blood.— Governor Curtin sent to the Peace Congress Mr. Wilmotand Mr. Meredith. Mr. Wilmot was chiefly known from the connection of his name with the attempt to embroil the country by the “ Wilmot provi so.” baffled by patriotic statesmanship, in which Clay and . Webster joined with■ the Democratic loaders, just ns Clay and Jack son had joined in the tariff compromise of 1833. , ’ ‘ It was the triumph of the Abolitionists over the Democrats and Conservatives of the north that secured a like .triumph to the Secession ists over the Union men of .the South, The John Brown raid was taken as a practical exposition of the doctrine of “ irrepressible conflict.” , The exultation over its momenta ry success, and the lamentation aver its fail ure had boon swelled by the Abolitionists so as to seem o'general expression of Northern feeling. Riots and resegos iiad nullified the constitutional provision for the return of fu gitives.' . No danger to the Union arose from Blavpry, whilst tho people of each State dealt calin y and intelligently with the question within their own State limits. Tho strife began when people in States whore it was an immaterial question, undertook to proscribe the course of duty upon it to Stales in which it was a question ot great importance and difficulty. This interference became more .dangerous when attempts wore made to use the power of the General Government, to the injury and proscription of some of the States. In Pennsylvania, the.' party on whoso .yets you will pass at the ballot-box, has trampled upon the great rights of personal liberty and the freedom of the press. . The dignity of our Commonwealth has been insulted in the out rages perpetrated upon her citizens. At' Philadelphia and at Harrisburg, proprietors of newspaper's have been seized at midnight, and burned bfi to military prisons beyond, the limits of the State. Against acts like these, perpetrated before-the eyes of tho mu nuipal dnd'State authorities, there is neither protection nor redress. The seizure of a jour nal at West Chester was afterwards the sub ject of a suit for-damages in. the Supremo Court of Pennsylvania. It came to trial be fore Chief Justice Cowrie. Rehearsing the ancient principles of English and American justice, he condemned the acts of the federal officers us violations of tho law that binds alike the private citizen and the public functiona ry. lie said “ all public functionaries in this laud ure upder, the law, and none from the highest tp the lowest are above it." 1 Im patient at any restraint from law, ii partisan majority in Gongrtjss hastened - to.puss an act to takfdVonJ.the State Courts to the United States Courts all suits'or prosecutions “lor trespasses or wrongs done or committed by virtue or under color of any authority derived from of exorcised under the President of-the "United States;”, and’suchi.authority was de clared to be a full defense for tho .Wrong doer in aiiy action, civil or criminal. ;Tho Amer ican Executive is,' as the"word imports, the 'executor of the duly enacted law.a; yet the 'pretension,is made that his will can take the place of the laws, .'jlho liberty, the character ■ of every citizen is put at the iuerey pf new' lunctionaries-called " Provost Marshals.”— A secret accusation before these Officials takes the place of upon hearing before a lawful .magistrate, and no .writ of haheds corpus mly inquire tlio cause of, the arrest. To illegal, arrears, have hsen added the mockery of a trial of n private citizen, for his political opinions, before a Court Martial, ending in ttie infliction of a new and outrageous nennl ly, - invented by the President of the United Siutes. Wo need notcuminent upon nets like these.- The President of the United States has no authority, in peace nr war, to try oven an enlisted-'soldier by Court Martini, save by virtue ol and in strict conformity with, the .military law laid Jown in the act of Congress ." establishing rules and articles for the gov ernment of the armies of tho United Stales.” Yet by Ids proclamation of, September' 24, ISu2, he has nssuiued' to make all,'eitize is' amenahie to military courts. He has violated the great principle of free government,., on 'Which Washington conducted the war of the Rev. 1 nLion, ami Madison the v-T-r of the principle of the subordination of the mil itary to Ihe civil power.' lie has assumed'to put “ martial law,l’ which is tho rule offeree at a spot where ail buys are silenced, in tho i-yUico of cif 1 1 justice Throughout tho land, and Mias thus assailed, in turn.) ol I tic Slates, eveii ■ ,Oftthc-ta'Jhit-.-adi re.hoL I occasional acts, done'in haste,"m iioat,.or ig norance;-but a. new system of government j - put in, the place of that ordained and estab lished by the people. That the Queen con It] I not do what he could, was. Mr. Seward’s boast to the British Minister; .The “ military ar rests” of Mr, Stanton received the “hearty ■oummondatiOu” of the convention that venom untied Governor Curtin ; and |t pledged .him and Ins party to hearty co-operation in.'sueli acts oi the. Administration in future. Such is the degrading platfonp. oil which a candi date fur, .Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania stands before.her people. , These pretensions to arhitrary power give otninons significance .to il hue change in our military establish ment. The time ■ honored system of mailing oh the States lor drafts from’ their militia, has beep replaced by a Federal conscription ■ on tho model of European despotisms. W.e would not minister to the excitement which it inis caused among tneti’.hf all parties. Its constitutionality will be tested before, the courts. If adjudged to bo within the power »f Congress, thd people will decide - on tin propriety of -power, on which the British Parliament—styled mnniputent-r-hns never ventured. On this you will-pass, at the polls, and tho next Congress will nut ho deaf to the voice of.the people, Em* ail political evils, a constitutional remedy yet remains in the ballot-box. We will not entertain a fear that it is not safe in the guardianship of a free people. If men in office should seek to perpetuate their power by wresting from the people of Pennsylvania, too rjghtof suffrage ;if the servants of the people should rebel against their master, mi them will .rest the responsibility of an attempt .at revolution of which t o man can foresee the consequences or the-end. • Butin’ now addressing you upon tho political issues Pif, tile day, we assume that too 'institutions 'of our country are destined to endure. Ttlio 'approaching election derives .further importance from the influence it willjex'oruiso upon tho po(;uy of the government.' The aim of men not fanaticism arid-,-party spirit you id bis to reap tho best fruit.ufroin - the victories achieved by our galiantuarmies —tilo best fruit would be peace and 'restora tion of the Union. ; JSueh is not tlio dim ol the party in powef. '.Dcii-iininaiQil by its most bigoted it wages a war for the negro, and bVrt-foriha Union. It avows the design to protract tHoyvar till slavery shall ho abolished in all the Southern States; in the laiignag of ono of its bainp’oloteors, “how can a man Imping, and praying for the de struction of slavery, desire that tho war shall b > a shoit one.” Mr. Thaddcu-i Stevens, the Ropuhliuan leader in tpe last 11-iuso of Rep resentatives, declared, “The Union shall nev er, witii' my consent, be restored under the Constitution us ii is, witli slavery to bo pro tected by it.” Tlio same spirit ..appears in Mr. Lincoln’s latp answer to the 'citizens of Louisiana, )vno dosird the return of-that State under its present Constitution. Mr. Lincoln postpones them till that Constitution . shall bo.amended. - Tho '.Abolitionists dotiro tho war ti) last tilTfreodom is secured to all tlio slaves; hordes of politicians, and contract-- ers, mid "purveyors, who fatten on tlio war, desire it to .lust forever. When the slaves are all emancipated by the arms, a .cimsfant'ihililucy intervention will lie needed to keep them above or equal with' the white race in tlio Southern States. Peace lias no place in this platform. - It proclaims Confis cation and Abolition as tho objects of the war, and the Southern leader catches up the words to stimulate Ids followers to fight to' ■tlio last. 16 is not the interest of Pennsyl vania that a fanatical faction shall pervert and protract tlio war, for ruinous, perhaps unattainable ends. What tho North needs is the return ol the South with iis people, its territory, its staples, to complete tho integrity of our common country. Tins, and not mere devastation and sooial confusion, would bo tho aim of patriots and statesmen. Tho Abo lition policy promises us nothing bettor than a Southern Poland, ruled by a Nintern des potism. But history is full of examples liow . ... I, \y!se rulers have assuaged civil discord by mnjeration-aml justice, while bigots and des pots, relying solely on force, have been baffled by feeble opponents. That a temperate Coh sit tutional policy will fail, in our case, to reap the fruit of success in arms cannot be known till it is tried ' The times are critical. Franco, tinder a powerful and ambitious monarch, is entering on the scone, willing again to play an impor tant part in an American Revolution. The English Government la hostile to us—-it-ha« got all it wanted from .abolition, and will have nothing more to do with it. The seces sion -leaders, rind the. presses under their Control, oppose ro-uriion, proforing, perhaps, even an humble dependence .upon European powers. , 12ut from many parts of the South, and'across the picket lines, ami from the prisoners and the wounded, has come-the proof of a desire among the people of the South to return to Constitutional relations with the people of the North. Early in the contest thisdesiro was shown in North Car oline, one of the’old Thirteen associated -with Pennsylvania on the page of'Revolutionary history. Rut the majority in Congress m ul’c haste.to aliovy that Abolition, not Re-union was their.aim. In a moment of depression on the 22d of July, 1801, being the Jay al tor the battle of Roll Run, they allowed th passage of a resolution, offered hy Critton don, denning a policy' for the restoration o the Union. Rut thuy.siiou rallied and.filleii the Statute Books'with aots of .confiscation, -abolition, and emancipation, against .tie re ‘monstrances of eminent jurists and o mser vativo men of all parties. Mr. Lincoln, lop, yielding he said, “to pressure,” put his proclamations in place of the Constitution and the laws. Thus every interest ami sen timent of the Southern people were enlisted tin the side of resistance by the policy of a parly, which, as Mr. Stevens said, will not consent to a restoration of the .Union, with “the Constitution as it i-sl” It is this poli cy that has protracted the war, an 1 is now .the greatest' obstacle to its termination’.— The fe iii'iion 1 ofthe States can alone give them their old-security at home, and ppwer and dignity abroad. This end can never ho reached upon the princijdos ofthe party now iu, power. Their ‘'principle's are radically false, and can never lead to a good conclu sion. Their hope of sating up, the negro in the 'place of tho white man runs counter to the laws of race,—the - laws of nature.- — Their 'statesmanship has been weighed in the balance and found wanting; their “lit tle blood letting” has proved a deluge. Their interference with pnr armies has' often frus trated arid never aided 'their suoeest,,tili it has become a military proverb that the best thing fora General is to ho out,of reach from Washington. The p;;rt-y'v.msfcumied upon t.Up.political anil ‘moral heresy of opposition,- to, compromise, 'which is the only means o( union among States, and of.peace and good will on earth among men. In a 'popular government tho people are tho sovereign, and.the sound sense ofthe whole community .[ clivrocm, at the-*pylls, the errors of political people.,of Fpnnsylyan.ia have. ,-seen, wfcti ‘regret, th>i‘‘uo%nsißjtlifiirilp‘aiins of the Abolitionists substituted fiir.tho’origin al .objects oi the .war.’ 'They have seen, with indignation-, many_ gallant ■ soldiers 'of .'the Union driven from its .service, because they hare not bowed down to-the Abolition iihii. Ihoy will see, with horror, the war protract ed in order to secure the triumph of a party ■ platform,,or as Air. Chandler said, ‘;tu save the Republican parly from rupture,” The time is now ar. hand when the voice of the people will he heard. The overthrow of the Abolitionists at tho polls and 'the'reestab lishment of constitutional prnoiples. at the North, is-the first imtispensahre step tow- ' e-rds tho restoration op tho Union, and the 1 V-inilioaii m, of civil liberty. ' To this great service,to his country each citizen may con tribute by his vote. ■ \ Thus the people of tho North may them selves extend the Constitution to tho people nt the South. It would not ho a spec! ms of fer of politicians, to he observed with no bet ter faith than the resolutions of July, -ISGI. It would ho a return to the national policy of the hotter days of the Republic, through the intelligence of the people, enlightened hy experience. It would strengthen tho Gov ernment for a constitutional government is strong.when exercising with vigor its legiti mate powers, and-is weak when it scfs°aii example of revolutionary violence, hy inva ding the rights of the people. Our principles and our candidates are known to you. The' resolutions of the late Convention at Harris burg, were,' with some additions, tho same that had been adopted hy the Democracy in several States, and hy the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. They declare,, authorita lively the principles of the Democratic pin-tv. It is, as it always has been, for the Union and tho Constitution against all iipposors.- The twelfth resolution declares “tjjpt while this General Assembly condemns and de not;-apes the huilts of the Administration, and the encroachments of' the Abolitionists, it does also most thoroughly condemn and de nounce the heresy of secession, as nowai’raiit ed hy tho.oonBtiu.tlim, and destructive alike of thC'tiocurity and perpetuity of government, and of the' peace and liberty'of the people! and it does hereby must solemnly declare that tho people of this State are unalterably, op posed to any division of the Union, ami will persistently exert their yifhole iiiQnmioo and power under tho Constitution, to maintain ami defend it.” - We have re nominated Chief-^'nstice.-Dovvric 1 f"r the bench wh ch ho adors. Our candidate for Governor, Wood ward, in his public and pri.yr.ii character, nfforts the'hest assur ance that, ho'will bring honesty,, capacity, I firmness arid patriotism to tho direction of the afioirs of,the Commonwealth. Long with drawn by judicial function, from the political arena, ho did not withhold his warning voice when conservative men took omiiisertrigether upon the danger that menaced our country. Ills speech at the town meeting at Philadel phia, in Dec. 1250. has been wind ioated by snh seqnoiitevonts, as a signal exhibition of states manlike sagacity. Under his administration, wo miry hope that Pennsylvania, with God’s blessing, will resume her place as “the key stone ofthe Federal Arch." RIDDLE, Chairman, K 7" book not mournful! into the past it eiu lint return; wisely improve the present —it is thine;' go forth to moot the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart. 0“ Wise men are instructed by reason ; non of less undenitanding by experience, the mist ignorant, by necessity ; mid boasts by latnre. J tC7“ People who have been ruined by law suits, will probably find happiness only when they are reduced to necessity, for it knows no law. jCT” fiothihg so adorns .tho face ns cheer fulness. When tlio heart is in flower its bloom and beauty paes to the features. ROBERT E. MONAGHAN* ESQ:, Before ike Philadelphia Democratth Central f luh, on Saturday Evening, April 20, 1863. A large meeting of the Eeranoratic;Club, on Saturday evening, greeted Mr. lie bert B. Monaghan, of Chester county, who was an nounced to deliver an address before the members at the Club Room, Walnut Street near Sixth. Mr. Monaghan, on malting Inn appearance on the stand, was received with great applause. Ho introduced himself by announcing that it required a good and 'a brave man to tell the whole, truth upon all . occasions, and arrogating to himself no more of these qualities than alt good citizens should possess, ho proposed to state a.few plain facts, and enunciate his sentiments.— lie Came to speak of the Constitution and of the equality of all the States, in one great and glorious Union. lie came to speak not as a party than,' but. as a citizen with others', to renew our pledge, , that through peace and through'war, we will .maintain the constitutional rights of. tho. States., [Applause.] He asked nothing but. the'Constitution as our fathers.made it. Tt was made in tho midst,of excitement, ancl , thcrc.is.no. necessity that it should-be viola ted-fir any purpose. [’Applause.]-■ Tho eon.- -. stitutiun was forined by the people. '-It .is a wisely and oarblully prepared instrument,, and it is the noblest piece of workmanship --. that' has ever, been made by. the reprospeta- ' dves-of the peiTplo throughout the-world.: tit ■ uearis jifstieo. and meaning justice, it mcariii peace.: [Applause.] And this is tho secret of pur unexampled prosperity..'ln thotpaat. We.need go back'but three years, and b,V ascertaining-what we were and whivt we . needed, wo can suggest a retuedy for our pres- " eut ills. Tiio speaker'sketched rapidly theprogro::.-. : of tho nation under our Constitution, growing from three, millions to thirty millions, ami Iroiii three colonics to thirty-four States.. A' If'ecr people, and a more God-blessed people, never-existed on the face of the glohCi Why this unexampled -prosperity? '.-The opurcb . was but a single one. It was singie-wnen those brave men met in yonder hall, and declared that the thirteen Colonies were free and independent States. It was single when they there and than pledged each to the other, their lives, their, -. fortunes, and their sacred lienors in support. of that declaration. It was single when they ; planted the tree of liberty, and watered it with the mingled blood of their hearts.' ;Yos, , sir, it was single when tho.men of.tho f3outh and the men of the North stood 1 side by aide in tho war of tho Revolution, and full togeth er on the battle Helds of Runkoi' 1 llill aml Yiu-.htuwn/' Saratoga and 'Monnioullr, anv.. own native Brandywine— , and at Pauli.and suffered’ .together through . the long, dreary Winter at Valley Purge.-A'- [ Applause.] It was a single source during that long and bloody struggle of seven years ' which won for us the Liberty and Ihdeperid , .once., wet,now enjoy.;'Slfj, that source .w'atj . j singl».-qibgn. jTnmqs. - Maciisop. of Virginia-^fCheers]—’anil John" Larigddn of New Hanipsiiire, and Rufus Ring of, Massachusetts, .and Roger. Sherman"'of. Connecticut, and Alexander Hamilton of New; Jersey—[Clieers]—and Reed of Delaware: and Carroll of Maryland—[Clieers]—and . Blunt of North Carolina; and. Baldwin of Georgia.; arid -Untlege, and Pinckney, and Butler of South Carolina ; and .Eranklin, and Mifflin, and ..Clymor, and Ihgersol of Penn sylvania, mot together as brothers and its oqimls, meaning right, and intending and doing justice to each and every section of the country. They, nla-mied and devised, ond after mature deliberation adopted and signed an agreement of Union for the general vrel- posterity forever. [Applause.] Yes, fellow citizens', that course was single when little • Delaware first, and great Pennsylvania see oid, and after them the other eleven States, ratified and confirmed, .in theuyndivid.ual and sovereign capacity, the pet of those gfca.t men, and sunt to the .world With their united ,■ approval that wise - and best chart of freedom ever bequeathed to a people—the glorious Constitution of the American Union. [Grdat applause:] The eoorgt (if our success .ffoilj that day to this, through -ail our .wars, ml.r trials and our changes; was tllep and hac beeii UNITY I v ... The unity of the hearts of par people— ■ the paternal unity of the nation nndof ,that constitution. .It was the ;iihity of mutual love, the true unity of a prosperous and hap py-people.' /Fraternal liivo alone.'can bind together'a, self governing nation its constitu tion and tho laws. It was no coercive uni ty (Cheers.) Force never can croito nor sustain a government of a'free people, for tho one destroys the other. [Applause.] Up to 18G0 wo were blessed -by enr'ryingp'v out the Consign ion and tho principles of unity as intended by the framers of thisGoy ernuienf. What is tho cause of the present disorders ? too, in my opinion, has .our present odaiisi ties but'a single cause. Tho Democrats tor yetirc pointed, outtb the people where leading, I and wore c?Jltd'‘v£ough laces” and “ Union savors." ,d'lio cause of'onr. downfall is Abo litionism, which was born in Old England, and thou sent tcrNow England to bo nursed ■ until it should sting to death the young gi. ant of tlio Western world. It was born in Exeter Hall and shipped to laneuil Hall, there to ho nursed until it would poison and corrupt the bipod of our people, and brealf down the power that was competing with tie British Empire. (Cheers.] Win. Lloyd Garrison, I believe, was the first agent of the New England Anti-Slavery Society to the world’s Anti-Slavery Conven tion, held in London 1n.1803. In that Con vention he denounced the Constitution of this Government, and.declared that the men who had made it, had by their act “ dethroned the Most High God." lie returned to this country and started the first organ pf Amer ican Abolitionism—the Boston which had, and still lias,for its motto, “ The Constitution of the United Sta'es is an agree ment with death and a covenant with Hell;” and yet that paper, no doubt, is taken by the Union (?) Loaguero, and is permitted to go through thb mails; and is, no doubt, road by Mr. Stanton at bio breakfast table. The speaker was not sb sure but .tile,President took it. (Laughter rind hisses.) And yet those men . call Democrats “Copperheads" and “ Traitors," Abolitionism has divided the country. The speaker reviewed the pro gress of Abolitionism, conjinoriceing with tho . time.when it entered tho Methodist Episco pal Church and dissolved its union. It on tered tho Huptist Cliurbh and dissolved its organization. It invaded the Now School brunch of tho Presbyterian Church and served its union. So, too, with the Ameri can Tract Society and Homo Missionary So- Conduded dn Fourth Page. ADDRESS OF •e of the whole country, end for the purpose securing liberty to themselves ami their As our success hart but a single source, so, NO. 10. 1 ... ■ „