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If THE BiITER E.\'D.” There has boCtl no victory of the Federal yU'ins, inconsiderable, during, the oourCff of war; which lias not been Oracularly de'diuedthe beginning of the end.” ' Seward, -With his proverbial as tuteness, announces, aj; {.periods from two ■weeks to a month apart, that u -the end i.v at hand,.’’ Young SEtrikp, inheriting.the tele scopic wisioh of his piU'ont, and dtilled.dfko. him in the optical mystery of seeing far into millstones, clearly discerns “ the end,”, arid thinks, hand.’-' Stanton wipes;liis sbecfacles, .peers ;into the. gh)om;:and'■',manages, in his turn, to catch fitful views of the end.” It may be taken; therefore, as an estab lished proposition,-that this thing called “ the ■end,” which these 1 great men discern in peri odical peeps; is '‘ at /rand;” land has been ever since April’,. Ihfil—sometimes'obscured view liy the smoke,; of, a rebel Victory, • Imtjagain fiashingtforth in'sb’arp outline un- light of a Southern town given over ■to the torch, or the., burning homestead of some rebel widow with a brood of factions and fatherless-ba.lies.-f SuohJgenial illuminations invariably ,ihspirq;;S'EWAßD;.’with an exultant, dispatch and Stanton -within general order, Seward claiiris the gliiry'ifor ‘‘l and the President”-STANTON:maghanimQeely, divides . it between hiuiselt, ;",the swhrd of. Gideon” and “the spirit of the Lord,”. The two ’ statesmen differ, in"'their(manifestations of ..modesty and gratitude, bat agree 1 in harmo . niousand emphatic chorus'that “the end.is ; at hand.” ■ The people of this country have more in terest in ascertaining what end if is to which .this war is being pushed, and .which our nffi ,ciaf.seo.rs. declare to bo within range of their illuminated vision, than they ever had in any question or.otuiso since the beginning of,our .national life. Some little light .is,shed upon these oracular announcements of the fakirs and medicine-men of the Cabinet, by .the, declaration of their newspaper .’organs-hud ■ stump Orators that the war is to, he.pushed to “ the hitter end.” This is a stale .phrase, ■ but phrases gather awful significance when they become the watchwm-Us ofditnvpots ay ttito cries nt a brutal party, " ’ v 1 ,<vvhcn Aituip italv'd.’and -.Everspftn'-I'-'-.'.f- ■! Who was (hen the gentleman ■?” • Are' linos of wretched doggerel— but'tblhzo'ncd on the .banner of Jack Cade, and borne by ~ the bands of a desperate multitude, ; tbey had ~ a deeper meaning and a more personal inter est lor the gentlemen of England than all the .classic poetry upon their shelves, •" Disloyal • practices,” so.hnig as it was the mere slang .of • Abolition . editors; was..a funny 'sort of , phrase—about as clear and definite, .when to the, doings of grown up Democrats, as “ cutting up shines” is descriptive oftbe. antics of little hoys. But when a .vast body ,of offences, unknown to the law Undefined, even, by the despotic power which creates them; are sumn ed up under the general head .of “disloyal practices,” and made punislm-: able, after the Turkish fashion, by- bastionJo; or bowstring us the Cadi inny direct,f .a peii-.’ pie have more at stake on the meaning ,of .those tvvo words than in all the rest- of the ■dictionary, beside. ... And so, when.n party, holding the seatsof ■ power, controlling,'! vast army, with immense , patronage of place and money, with a sqrvile and corrupt Congress to do . their bidding. . with a-debused and slavish press to champion . every .outrage they coi’nmit, and a swarm of hireling kidnappers and deputy kidnappers scattered over the land to seize and gag any outspoken friend of liberty and law—when: such a party announce, through their organs, that they mean to prosecute this war to the • “ bitter end,” the phrase is something wore; than mere rhetorical flourish. JVe believe that they say what they mean, and that-that’ ■Cud to' Which they are all locking—SoWAßD with prophetic eye, Stanton with aojlly ex : ■ citation, and Lincoln with mniiut-ofiiink gleo is an end in whoso bitterness you .and I, our children arid our children's children, tyill have a sorrowful share. Look at their past; ■ policy for a moment; .’and'see if ,wc cannot' fairly infer from it something, of their future designs ; whether gur unaided, and unofficial'; ■vision cannot discern a glimpse o.f “ t|iis;l)it-: -ter end.” The policy of this Administratinn.lifis.been ’wilfully ond fiendishly aldrcssed to the per-i’ .manent alienation t.f every Southern heart • which loaned out with patriotic yearning to the flag and’Union of our fathers. Wher ever they have-carried the Federal arms, in stead of making any honest effort to win back' ’ : the people to their old allegiance, or to pro ject those who had never swerved from it, they have insulted and humiliated them to the ex- j tent of their power—have plundered homes, ■liberated worthless negroes, uniformed them (and sept them forth, not to accomplish any (profitable military result, but to irritate, and uf possible, degrade men ol our own blond and i spirit, habituated to the honors of the soil on iwhich they were horn. To have been a Union ‘man, through'persecution and peril, has been i-ao protection hgainkt robbery apd insult. To Wave held.a slave is an offence which no a jmnunt of patriotism and suffering for the 'Union’s sake can litono for. „ The Federal flag affords a shelter to the (runaway black, but non'e.tp his loyal master. The allies of secession long :ago sent their 'slaves into the Southern .lines, .where they ,nro safely secured and profitably employed. The loyal man who retained bison his (iiith m the promises of this treacherous Adminis tration, has been compelled to stand liolplog and see their flight—nut the stealthy flight of a ragged and footsore fugitive, hut to see “loin marching off dressed in s ddier-clofV', end keeping time to the tune, ol “John -“'■own’s soul.” played by a Government ■band. The bayonets, to which he lot* ed "■■ protection from the ■ hordes of secession, Hue been flourished injustice by his own "Who does not pity and mourn for 10 , , 1,11,n men of the border States hated In! 1 luntei * down liy their neighbors; who ■nni°/ ! '" lie " ' t i | Wo South—spurned, despised thov I lniye<l - k y We Government to which ’ticleii Wtir support and looked for thoir VOLUNTEER. TERMS Look at tli o government of Butler, in Now Orleans—the plunderer of the iron handed oppressor, whose greed fattened up on the possessions of patriot and tniilor alike!. Behold the servile condition of Louisiana and the degraded position of Virginia,' Ken tucky, Tennessee, Missouri and even Ohio 1 See how one General, like Curtis, devotes himself to stealing ootton ; and another, like Burnside, turns the bayonets of freemen against their brothers, and crushes out liber ty of speech in a free Commonwealth I- All over the South, wherever our banner has gone, delicate and gentle women, as fair and pure as our own mothers, many of them mere silent spectators of a contest whiclpthcy could neither avert nor advance, have been hunted from their ancestral homes:' 'JL’lioft, insult and oppression have, under Abolition direc tion', been the companions of the flag which brave men have borne, and which a bravo nation sent forth ns the emblem of liberty and civilization, to lure our wandering and erring brethren back to the motherly bosom of the idd Union. Gradually the army is being “ weeded nut,” ns they call it. No man but ati emphatic Abolitionist dares to look for promotion.— We have Senator Wilson's word for that'.— No Democrat, however true to his duty or be loved by his men, has any assurance that he may not, at an hour's notice,-bo stricken from the army roll. Only a little while ago, one “of the most gallant officers of the- old array— -after twenty-four years of honorable service, ‘4fter--wilining the notice of his superiors in Florida, : ;ih‘ ijjexioo and on the frontier, and fhe comraettdatipn of McClellan in this war —was abitt-ptfy .dismissed; without notice or trial,_ on' the word of a more informer, for toasting “ the Union as it was, and. the Con stitution as it is." . Ei'SEßliv, in Now Hamp shire, was dismissed for voting the Demo cratic ticket. By rapid steps • the Adminis tration is seeking to degrade the army to the level'of those slavish hosts with which foreign kings play at slaughter, : and make it ready to execute the dark designs, of .the desnots at Washington'on the liberties of the people of the North. Meantime, that no depth, of degradation may (jo .left unfathomod, that no insult to-the instincts and feelings of our people may be spared, the streets of every Northern city be gin to bo populous with negro soldiers; and it is boldly asserted, by the Abolitionists, that-the existence of the tuition depends up on thedong heelod, woolly rabble of “ Amer ican citizens of Afrie mi descent;” ■ The white soldier/; trained to-regard the Afmean as his inferior,', is crowded beside him in the rattles of battle, attd the white citizen is dontpeliod to endure the insolence cf ehonlder-stra pped Ethiops. , Dut the subjugation of the North is npt to be confided alone to African bayonets. Al ready New York swarms with a vast mass of the regular army. : Connecticut, New llainp shire and llltuilo -Island have witnessed al ready the wretched spectacle of elections carried by -Abolition cohorts sent home to vote, while their Demount.iu brethren, bred on the same soip.and. with tho same p Aitiuiil fights, wci*o awtiy tu.j-rupplo with cUmth on the'plains of. Virginia.. Kentucky, with in the last month, has seen a sadder sight— Jjayonots (tt-the pniis, pointed at freemen of America,.under the direction of an American (joneral, driving them from -.he ballot box, that" last' peaceable refuge ' of an oppressed people, and giving the dominion of their na tive soil to a horde, of imported Abolitionists. Ohio lias a like fate to , look for ; while the obiol of her people’s ihoiee, tho champion of p great party —guilty, by tlte admission of Lincoln himself, of no offence—stands an exile on an alien shore, driven to seek that protection under a foreign flag which traitors in office have denied him under his own, Sad days are these,"when American patriots .atAslavcs under tho . Stars and - Stripes and freemen under, the Cross of St. George 1 - 'i’ha forts of the North, erected to repel the invader and maintain our shores invio late and free, have been converted into dun geons for our own pimple, and many p.f.tho best men in tho land have pined : in chains for speaking an honest word in behalf of the outraged Constitution of their fathers. Nonh and South, wherever the iron Imnd of this Administration eph plant p gun. o.r fi.x .a,flay onet/ freedom is orushod.iuto the dust. . If.those things are dono in- tho green tree, what shall he dune in the. dry? If this is the dawn, what will ho the day? If tbs morning zephyrs scorch ps like blasts from ,hel|;,who shall hear the meridian heat?— i'hetend is nut yet. Vaster preparations are i,p r ‘:,j)ri£s'ress. Despotism is not idto. The General-in-Chief of our armies, llaopeoc jliat closet warrior—that chieftain of .blood less sword and paper battle-field—has pub licly boasted, in a letter t» a JNew York meet lug, that as soon as the conquest oftho.South ie^ooniplbtad, .the pry.,/ is tp.beir.yw(i against :the Copperheads-of the.Kortk!' 'StanW—' swaggering, bullying ami vulgar, as usual— says that “ the Copperheads are to lie driv en hissing, to their holes." -\Ve know who they mean, anil what they mean. They mean .theJJeinocratic party—the party which .at this moment Jigs g.n iimnense majority in all the great Stiites of the '-Worth—Vho party of Jefpebson and Jackson— the party which ■hits given to this war its greatest General and to our armies their best men.. This is the ..party,ivhich these wicked and arrogant fellows threaten, from their official seats, with death, chains, and slavery, They mean to parcel the South out into Territories, to bo governed by, military satraps of the Sumner and yyipsoNschool, and, having accomplished this work, to hold the North just as they hold Kentucky and Louisiana now. Ihis is nb idie.visiqp qr groundless phan tasy. We have the boasts and promises and threats of'all .their leading men to niake it plain. Already’, they have trampled on ev ery line and letter of the Constitution ; al ready they have Half eompleted the work of our enslavement. ;And now .they tell ps that f “end" is at hand— “the bitter end!” This is the end to which their eyes are look ing with an exultant glitter, and they say it is coining. What will the people say? Let them speak out'attho polls. Let Pennsylva nia’s voice be hoard above the mar of cannon and the clash of bayonets. Let l.p,- speak out in her sovereign might, and say, “Hr people shall .he free as their fathers." That the vice conspirators at Washington dare not despise. T '.ey will tremble at its tones. But if it is not heard in Ootolior—if public virtue and patriotic spirit have fled from us, and v,’e have become tit only to bo slave's—if we wilbrosolve jn our madness to choose for a Governor a tried and willing tool of the en emies of tho-Constitution, then. i.pdood, “tbe bitter end” will have come to us—the end of peace, liberty, justice and law—an end whose bitterness we will -taste amid terror desolation and tears.— Age. “I hold that this Government was made on the white basis, by white men-, for the bene fit of white men, aud their posterity forever.” S. A, fiotidhis. Jiiilgc-Woodward on Know-Noiliingism. The following correspondence was pub lished in 1852, during the campaign of that year, when Judge Woodward was a candi date for the Supremo Court, It speaks for itself. If any one, after, reading it, suspects him of &now-Knothirtg proclivities, ho is too firmly wedded to falsehood to understand thp truth: . ” ■ llon. Geo, W. Wooijw.ynp.: Deat:. Sir: —The undersigned members of the Democratic party beg leave to call your attention to contain charges now frequently made by the Whig presses, agal st you, in regard.to your views upon the naturalization laws, and alleged hostility to the ,rights of naturalized citizens. We are aware that you may justly regard your life and conduct ir the 'high.station you lia-vo occupied, gnd tins' boundless confidence of the Democratic par ty .which you enjoy, as a sufficient answer to such calumnies. Butghe charges are intended to operate on and mislead persons to whom ' lie truth is un known. Wo would, therefore; solicit from you an expression of your views on the sub ject, if your time will permit, not doubting that every candid mind will ffius bo that by no.act of your life have - you brn justly chargeable with having entertained men or measures favoring an illiberal or pro se; ip,ive policy towards’ adopted citizens, on account of the place of their birth or their religious, opinions. Very recpectfiilly, yours, &0., ■•; Env i it M Stanton,- Charles Shaler, Samuel W, Black, Wm. Wilkins, . Jas, Ross Snowden, and- others. Judge Woodward’s Reulv. Pittsburg, September 14, 1862. The official duties which have brought* me to Putshurg, keep me con stantly engaged. My answer to your letter imist there, ore he brief, ! . From, my earliest youth to this present mo ment, I have.been,;an earnest aud heartyjsup; porter of »he Democratic party, and an equal ly zealous opponent,-,sp far as my political action could -decorously ign.d properly go, of whatever has.opposed it. lam not and nev er''have been a “Native American” i ■ any. political sense, any more thgp I am or have been ti Whig, Antimason oryig; Abolitionist. The charge of “ Nativeism” ,is attempted to be sustained by a, motion whie}; ,1 made in the .Reform Convention of -183'7; ■ “That vva-. simply a limitation of a motion made by Mr. Thomas, a Whig member from Chester coun ty,.and w,as calculated to compel his party ,(who yyete ,jn a majority in the convention,'), to come.up,to the mark or hack out. They chose the latter branch-for the alternative, and my motion ;llg-vin,g answered its purpose, was withdrawn. The siugjf introducing, f.he subject into (hat body lies .a; the door of a Whig, and not tit mine. , , The Speech so niton quoted against me, I am not responsible for.-, h wjis iptrudnee.l. into, the'rielia tes by rt Whig rcpm-u.i-, ln vio J lation of the rule.*; of the hotly, which required him to submit'it fur revision before puhlici - tion, and which lie never did. I made some, ohserv, tions explanatory of, my amendment of Thomas’ motion, but that speech is not a fair report of them, My other speeches were submitted for revision ; this one I.never saw till the.book was printed, and I never ceased to condemn' it. ■ During the .session of”the Convention, namely,'on the' 10th day cf,January, 1838, a member in debale alluded to .the motion, not .the speech, as indicative of hostility to for eigners. I promptly denounced the'imputa tion there, in the face of tho Convention as 1 have done many a time since, as a gross misrepresentation. See debates of the Con vention,'vol, 10, p. 33/34. I have retained the undiminished confidence of tho Democratic members of the; Reform Convention,, several of whom were adopted .citizens, and all of them-opposed to Native-' isni, lyduld this have been possible if- tho Whig reports,of my sayings, gnddoings, had been' true ? jl’ho Native Ameyi'eiih party its (f I s ,m.y .witness. iScyen years .a I was The .qguuus nominee for United Stales Sena tor. The county of Philadelphia was repre sented by Natives. They askeu liio, whether, if elected by their votes, I would favor their measures for .changing the naturalization >iaws. I answeroil them no, and they threw every vote they could command against mo, and raised a shout of triumph over I oir \ : c tory. ■You refer to statements-in the Whig pa pera of this city. One of them wasshown 11113 a low days ago; in which was a garbled extract from a letter written by me about a year ago. in'which I denied the imputation of Nbuive ism as destinctly as I deny it now. f ' the editor told his readers that the letter contains an admission that i.~v sentiments were at the time adverse to.the rights of foreign horn mV izcns, A copy of the letter thus misrepre- by the Pittsburg Gazelle, I send you herewith m th e Keystone of Sep. 23d, 1851. A\ hen men will allow their political pus sions to get the better of their voracity so fan* ns to impel them to acts and associations like this, it is •easy enough to understaml how a ? I W n * wa ? m isropreaented' by a reporter or the Convention, whose motives fordoing so were just as strong as those which actuate my political opponents now. ,' Anofc.ior allegation, that I oppposod Judge Campbell last full, is as, false as,any other of of the numerous mis>statcinents recently made against me. 1 never opposed any nominee on account of his birth or religion, amll support* ed no nominee last fall more heartily than I did Judge Campbell, It is with infinite reluctance I appear before the public at this time, even in self defence., A candidate for a judicial office is perhaps, * more than any other candidate, required to. await quietly the decision of the people. I 1 am as sensible as any man can be, that poli tics ought to.he kept away as far as possible from judicial elections, but the terms of your k letter leave me no choice but to.answeK I have answered liy giving you briefly the trutji. I give it because it is the truth, and J accompany it with no appeal to party pas ; sion or prejudice. If industrious defamation can succeed in representing mo as having ever sustained any tliiborAT or proscriptive ism, then the Truth and a life are powerless against slun dor ■There are some presses, and many men op posed to mo in political sentiments, who are disposed to treat mo fairly, and who will not descend to low appliances,.to .accomplish a party purpose. Such men and presses com mand my respect. Against others who are .loss scrupulous,,! have no shield . but the truth and my life ; and relying on these, 1 pan afford to await in patience, the verdict of the people. Thanking you, gentlemen for t.ho kind feelings manifested in your loi ter, Tam, with great respect, Your obedient aervhnt, ; Geol W. Woodward, CARLISLE, PA„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1863, From tbo Phil. Evonlnjj Journal, Mr, Lincoln Sustained Ly Military Force. It would be intcresting-to know how many troops Mr. Lincoln bad stationed throughout the “ loyal” North to prevent popular out breaks against his popular arid benignant ’administration!. The Now York correspon dent of the Inquirer wrote, a day or two since, that “ thirty two thousand bayonets glittered in tlje sun withip an area of seven miles sur rounding New York'.” ' This is- about as large a number of bayonets as accompanied General Seott on bis triumphant march from Vera Drug to the city of Mexico. The Potts!- villd Hiz.ultircC, some timo.sinco, stated that there'«p;as in and around Pottsville a larger army than Qeneral .Taylor bad when be fought the battles of Pale Alto' and liosaca do la Palma. In, Luzerne' county, in this State, there tire several regiments. In and around this chy there are, Several,'(perhaps ten or twelve) thousands'of soldiers, and in. almost every part of this State there are more or less cyidon.ee that wo are living under mil itary rule.' Throughout the whole North, b fact, the t/jUlici's of'Mr. Lincoln are scattered, and, in many ,place-, verb profusely. In Ohio there is a large army-,probably thirty thousand men—while in Indiana and Illinois there are many of Mr. Lincoln’s armed agents to keep the popple ,in subjection. In lowa, too, there are numergus soldiers, while Wis onsiri, Minnesota and Michigan are not loft Unguarded and' unprotected by bayonets.— In Now York St-.te, besides,the' thirty thou sand .already mentioned as being in and near the metropolis, there' are milny , thousands of our country’s defenders. That is a large State, containing, several largo cities pud towns, in which it- is necessary to employ force, or have soldiers present to prevent re 'dlion. New England Contains numerous ■Copperheads, and is not without her share of soldiers, while New Jersey and Delaware are kindly favored with the presence of a liberal number pf the national police force. It would be-highly'interesting, wp repeat, to know bow many of Mr. .Lincoln's soldiers there are scattered throughout the entire loyal North. Would it be extravagant to estimate the num ber at a hundred and jttfty.thousand ? , ty.e think not, and it may bo that the real num ber is much above tha . ' ’ How largo a proportion of .this force has been drawn from the Army of the Potomac we are not informed, but it is known,that a very considerable.portion of the fbroe in New York was sont.from that army. It would bo a sad-mistake i&M.r; Lincoln; in securing obe dience in New York, should,’.lose the.Peder al Capital, - ’ The force stationed throughout the North to compel loyalty to Mr. Lincoln’s Admini - iration is, probably. t far -below the num ber, according to populatimit.yhioh the. E mperors ot Prance and Anstfik have stationed ' in their dominions, to keep 1 the people in a. loval.aud patr'oiic 'mood. .'- ’J-'be armed, police . which the British Government- has in Ireland in, perhaps,, not more, nuiuerdus th an that of nnr Republican governmenbin. the State of Nc.v.'.YnrU. At all.evefti's,.tile resemblance '..■between, tlui-mou ui-cniul '(Ovbeltjhbtto ’ govern-’ mcnls of Europe arid the-'republican govern ment of the United Slates' has become very ■ striking of late. This ./her country-' is now .kept in wholesome rcs/iiiinf by bayonets; men are 'summarily'arrested''-'anil imprisoned, duf-' ing.thc pleasure of nnr ’ rulers, for exercising (be freedom of speech, fn rinerty-deemed in dispensable to the preservation of a free gov ernment: mock elections lire held'with armor 1 men at the polls, to- determine.'who •shall vote, and.all (lie marks of power and. tyran-. ny that distinguish the governments ofNa-' poloun the Third and Francis Joseph, tire prominent now in free America. - Wo worn forcibly .struck with a remark of the New York correspondent df'-tlie Inquirer, printed in tliat paper of.the 20th inst. After referring in glowing terms to the “ thirty-two -ihimsand bayonets glittering in the sun” in and around that oily', lie said y.’itli an air of Republican pride, (bat “ the enemies of free 'government in Europe are deprived ofale.xt from w; - ch to ■ preach more homilies on the failure of Republicanism in America!” Wo venture .the. assertion that his glowing, or gl.e.-'.mmg, picture of .“ thirty-two thousand bayonets” in and near only due of n.ur cities, to enforce “loyalty” to Ahraham Lincoln, is; a stronger.argument in proof of “ the failure of Republicanism in America;” than any of the “enemies of free government in Europe” have over yothpon able to make. ,Wo suspect the Inquirer man of rebel sympathies and of intentional irony. The following paragraph" troni his letter maybe regarded as additional proof of bis gtiilt: ■ " The'principal thoroughfares, during the day, have presented a novel spectacle—one th" '■ reminds one of life in Vienna , or Berlin, or Venice, Patrols of soldiers met the eye at almost every step, hod policemen in squads nt half a dozen or more alternate ■ dtb these .everywhere,a crowd isoulleotod. e majesty 0/ Jc' ce < is certain, was never hefnre so solemnly impressed upon the New York mind' ns thus it is to-day. But for that soldiery and those policemen, however, nothing- is more certain than that we should bo again under a reign of terror, and at the mercy of the r mirehists.’' , This eloquently'describes the bitter am; utter hatred of the New Yorkers for the Fed- oral Administration. It reads ns tliougl wi itton in Paris, just before the breakingoui of the French Kovolution. The strongest argument against Mr. Lin cplo’s consists in the omni presence of his.spldiors in tlie North. The fact that soldiers are necessary to enforce his decrees aud measures is all tli tu coruiomn him as a Republ The mere fact that a Gonser came necessary to secure troops, is ip itself, a sufficient condemnation of Ins ippmor of conducting the war and of bis Administra tion. ,\Vhenever force has to bo employed to compel obedience to tbd administration of a Republican Government, it ought to bo re garded by those in authority as sufficient reason or cause for changing their policy.— It is proof of public cimdnnnptiou of their course. Mr. Lincoln stands condemned by itho people of the North, and, of course, is cordially hated by t|je whole people of the Sou th. A perfectly "free and fair expression at the pulls,do-morrow, would condemn him in every State iu the Union, .save Massachu- setts and Vermont, and even in those States his friends would not prove greatly in the majority. ,Tn any other State nothing but force, frliu'd and the bribery of patronage could secure him a public endorsement. Ills own Stafe, with a fair election, woiild go at least thirty thousand majority agaiiiidf him. Indeed, if is questionable whether |io would bo sale from personal violence if ho wore to visit his old home in Illinois. Wo notice, by the way, t t.both ho and Stanton stick close ly to Wash’ gton, whore bayonets are plenty. iMr. Lincoln has to bo guarded by li strong cavalry force, near his precious, person, oven Have our people ever duly reflected upon tlrene facts, and what they indicate? They in- dicpte the utter repudiation of this Adminis tration by the people, who are, really the Government. They indicate that, Mr. Lin coln has betrayed the people,—betrayed his trust; that ho is ruining the country and de stroying.public liberty. Two years ago ho had a largo majority of the people with him; now he has a large majority of the people a gajj|st him, and so bitterly against him that an army of soldiers is found to bo necessary ( 0 prevent them (iom malting violent resist ance to his authority. This is the truth of the matter, and what more need be said f This gentleman, health was ?o fee ble a short time since as to iffdjice him to de cline a re-nomination, is now vigorously, stumping the State, begging those whom he has helped to beggar to re-elect him. In .or der to help .him along in his canvass, we pub lish gratis a compliment or two paid him by. members of his own party. The Governor is, proverbially, a modest man, apd will not bla zon his virtues before the people, and most of his friends partake too-much’'of the same amiable weakness to be. of much service to him. But there are exceptions the Pitts burg Gazelle and Dispatch seem, disposed to do him justice, and as wo feel charitably dis posed towards him; we quote their oulogiums with pleasure.' They are both Republican papers of the Abolition dye, and neither the Governor.nor his friends can expect to their testimony. The Dispatch says.: ■.' ’ , ‘■Mr. Curtin, so long-ago as the 15th of April, announced that he slvuld ‘retire from the office’-at the.close of his term,'assigning ns a reason therefor, that his constitution had been so completely broken down .by the la borious duties of his office that a prolongation of those duties might .endanger his life. For, the consolation of the select circle of friends who might have grieved over b* s complete retirement to private life, his Excellency further intimated, that a snug diplomatic po sition, which ho should, not feel at liberty to refuse,• had been tendered him. To say that this early, and bfjioial announoeqien,t of (gov ernor Curtin’s intention to abandon any de signs oh. the Gubernatorial Chair was hailed with satisfaction by the sincere advocates of Republican principles throughout the State, is to give but a, faint idea of the relief such a prospect'afforded I _lt is idle to disguise the fact that the pre vious course of Gov. Curtin had. not'heep satisfactory to the mass of the Republican party. Rightfully or wrongfully, he has bpon hold responsible by the voters of the party .for the shoddy swindles which disgraced the State’s management of her quota of three months’.troops ; ho is hgld responsible for the mismanagement of the reserve corps, and for. the shamefully’bungling mnnneyih which' tlio draft of :1862 was put ynto,^operation'.— Since his declination’ tile course of Gov, Curtin haseven.been more un satisfactory to men of his party, especially in 1 the. western’ portion of the State. .During the last invasihn of the. Monongahelii valley by the, rebels, all efforts of the authorities here to secure even the privilege of organizing j troops for home defence, .faUpd ; ynd (taring, the later invasion by ■Lee’’s army, instead of adopting a decisive policy of enrollment, the State; authorities published, frantic appeals to the pcdplo, and made daily changes, in the forgl qf-pHli.stnienfs, until military affairs in the: State vv»re' tUroivp.jnitoJitter confusion.”, This extract, has the merit of being-both time and complimentary,’and we have no doubt will be appreciated by his Excellency. The Gazette is’ by no means behind its con temporary, in laboring to do justice .to the Governor. It speaks plainly, but the people; love candor, and will pronounce faiyly iiponj the facts on the day of election. . Addressing the convention that nominated .Curtin, the Gazette remarks: “ We trust that nobody will allow himself to..lje quisled by the idea that a man like Cur fin, and withstjuh a record a’a we have shown : of him, can ho forced, upon the .’people of this country by putting himln nomination against their will. We know what we say,- when we give notice to those who may. be tempted to tins view, .that he is’ nr iversaUy believed by the people here to pc have sold the Stale and the party both- —and to be anything but well Affected to the national administra- tion or the.truly, loyal men at home ; they know indeed so well the sort of company he keeps, and the kind of influences, that have governed him, that we have, but given shape and utterance to their invincible repugnance fp the man, 'and dime what they, desired in endeavoring to save the party, by warnin the managers that they must neither touch fnate, or.handle anything so-'unclean, if the; considered the vote of the strongest llepnbli can county in this State or the nation an im portant one.” , These papers have not yet retracted a won hey have published, nor has any friend ol 'Curtin’s or'the Governor himself.undertake: o refute the charges. The record stands un mpeached. How to Manage the Draft.— A cntompo; rary suggests that the draft should be made with two wheels instead of one—that every name should be drawn from one wheel, whilp blanks and prizes are drawn from the other.' This is the only fair method, and, ought to have been adopted. To draw the. nutpbcr required out of a wheel, leaving the remaining'namos untouched, affords no evi denoe to the public that names are not re peated or emitted in the Jofls, or tbat the lint is necessary ilic.m President, •ipticm la)v be- rolls themselves are faifly jnude up. It is much more satisfactory. (6 draw every name, and against every napio draw a blank or a conscription ticket. A Democratic Gain. —The Democrats have just gained a member of Congress in Mis souri. ,Zu the Third District, which was rep resented by Mr.iNooll, Republican, an elec, lion has just been''held to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Nooll's death, anil has result ed in the triumph of John G. Scott, Demo crat, by a handsome-majority. The New York Tribune blames the fdministration ibr permitting his election. McClellan’s Report.— Gen. McClellan has not only transmitted his report to’the War Department, but also' accompanied it with an urgent request that', if the Dopart mon decline the trouble and expense of its publication, ho should bo allowed to publish it himself at his own cost. Whether the ad ministrationwill grant him even this privil ege is very uncertain. Andrew C. Curtin. Tlic Treachery of Hie Administration. , The political condition of the. country, moulded by the policy'of the present Nation* al Administration, lias not.been slow enough in process, unfortunately, to bo unfclt-. The rapid, headlong .strides of tbo party in pow er toward the accomplishment, of those de signs, which, for a time, since the beginning of the war, wore hidden in the fair promises made t.o the people tor purposes of concilia tion and support, have disclosed too soon the treachery of their authors, to win ills notion to forgetfulness of the past. Haste has been begotten of failure .and despair. Reckless ness has supplanted prudence with the sense of decaying power. Two years ago. rancor and regret wore reconciled to trust the assu rances of compromise and-conservatism, made by the President in the dark and solemn hour of national affliction,-. Two years ago a single, earnest purpose animated, without distinction of party, the people of the loyal States. A great thought, common to all, lilled the mind and heart of the nation,. Ti o world witnessed for the second time in onr history, the spectacle which has since gradu ally faded tint of view—of n united North bent upon the accomplishment of our natihn al salvation. -We trusted, believed, forgot the divisions our enemies presumed upon as an element ol their, own- strength, put faith irt the men who were over us. anti in the ho liness and justice of our cause.- T-wo years has deceived us ; two years has taught us the I experience of disappointment and chagrin, I and tilled with mortification and despair the I hopes that were che; : hed in stern resolves ■ d| generous .sacrifice..' The history of that period has doyoleped ' tljp,most stupendous' duplicity ever practiced upon a-civilised peo ple, and ip bringing nqw, issues to. the War has ajro.ugl.it/rosh burdens on the country. ■ The treachery of the men in power,insti gated by a restless .-faction in their midst, is heart-sickening to the believer in the true .destiny.of- the nation ; : itean no more be re warded with success than can.the machina tions of the father of Lies. It has degraded the national character and sedpeed the na tional virtue, and lent a low tendency ’to the tone o> our national life. It has not.only divided the North, retarded the operations of our .arms, and delayed success, but it has engendered-a policy of deception practically subversive of the rights of .cm- own people.,— It is fits origin of prosoript'wo' lejiguep, op pressive but artfully, worded laws, secret designs upon the elective franchise, -false elhcial iotelli eneo, suppression of lacts.and the circulation of lies, official intrigue, jeal ousy and debauchery. The President himself —God pity us, his people!—stands to-day before the world convicted of the conspicuous crime-of perjury to his oath of office, and the deliberate avowals of,his, inaugural addrdss. In mockery of .Divine-justice he calls upon his people at stated times, to pray for the welfare of the Union—but fur sins ao gravo a deeper penance Ims been required and is requited in the fast increasing evils and sof .rows that have come upon us. —Patriot d? Union. The Union. 1 .“These States jfrp ghjripus in their.-in.di ' viduality, hut their ei/ileal/ye ‘glories.arc in the Union, By all means, at (ill lirtEard-., rirq. they to be maintained in their integrity and -the full moasuroyf their constitutional rights , —for-pa!y_so is'the Union to be-preserved— -1 wily - su is.it worth preserving';.' it is the per fection of the prisma ic colors, which blended, 1 produce the ray of light. It is the complete ness ol these assemhlodsovei-oign ties,, lacking nothing which they have not lent for a great .purpose, that makes the Union precious.— I Tibs Word-Union is a Word of gracious omen. It implies confidence' and affection—mutual .suppnrt-and protection.against external dan gers. It is the chosen; expression of the strongest passion of young hearts. It is,the charmed .circle within vvjiieh the ..family (Ity.eUs. Jt;is man helping his fellow-man in ti*',” rugged', world. It is,. States, perfect in themselves, confederated for mutual advan tagq. . It is the poople-of States, separated by lines, and interests, and institutions, and usages, and- laws, all forming one glorious nation—all moving onward to the same sub lime destiny, and all instinct with a common •life, Onr’ lathers pledged their 1 lives, their .fortunes, and their-sacred honors, to form this Union—let ours he pledged to maintain it."— -Geo. W. Woodward, July 4, 1552. W flO IS THE SOLDIER'S REAL FRIEND .Extract from tho .decision (if Judge Wood .ward, sustaining the stay law passed hy-our Legislature in favor of the soldier : Now, if a stay of execution for three years would not be. tolerated in ordinary ; tiines, did not those circumstnness constitute fin emer gency that justified tho pushing of legislation In the oxtroinest limit of the Coif-titution ? ■No citizen could lie'blamed for volo'ntoering ■ Ile-has invoked to do so by appeals-as- strong as his love of country. In tho nature ol things there is nothing unreasonable in ox-' emptihg a soblier’s.property .from execution' whilst ho is absent from borne battling fu the supremacy of tho Constitution ' and the integrity .of the Union, Inil’.vviibn'ho has not run before he was sent, ItUt has yielded’ himself up to the call of his country, his self sacrificing patriotism pleads;'from pet-tongued for all thdindplgmico drum hisorodi tors which the Legislature ii'ave power to grant. If the term of indulgence seem so long in this in stance, it was not bipger than tho time for which the President and Congress demanded the soldier’s services.” NATIVE AMERICANISM. “I am not and never have been a ‘Native American’ in any political sense, any more than,! am or have been a Whig, Antimnson or an Abolitionist. * * * The speech so often quoted against mo, I am not responsi ble for. It was introduced into the debates by a Whig reporter, in violation of the rules of the body, which required him to submit it for revision before publication, and which he never did. • * ■*,*'! promptly denounced it, in the face of the Convention, ns I have done many a time since, as a gross misrepre sentation. * * * The Native American party itself is my-witness. Seven yearn ago I was the. caucus nominee for U. S. Senator. I be county of,Philadelphia was represented hy Natives. They asked wether, if.ejected by their votes. I would favor their measures for changing the naturalization laws, I an swered them NO, and they threw every vote they could command against me and raised a shout of triumph over their victory.” Geo. W. Woodward, Pittsburg, Sep. 1,4, 1853. ET’Tho DomocriUio party is for peace. It will hail with’satisfaction the ending of the war, whenever that can ho done upon the ba sis of a restoration of tho'Uniom But it will not consent to a separation of the States "Upon this platform it stands prepared to re sist every assault and to advocate peace with s. restored Union. ’ ' Qaanlrcll’s Raid-Retaliation. A despatch from Leavenworth,' to tho St. Louis Democrat, published elsewhere, says : “ The citizens under command of Lane, killed forty-one of Quantrell’s men. ia organizing a force, and says ho will go into Missouri caidy in September. Martial law has been.proclaimed in Leavenworth.'?-. ' The newspaper press of the North, irre spective of party, condemned the massacre at Lawrence. have inva riably denounced' this method of warfare,, bdt tho papers in the interest or pay of “ the G. vermnont,” have only now awakened to the fact that such : proceedings are infamous. Who began this, mode of Who is responsible for the massacre at Lawrence?- This very wretch, Jim Lane, who now an nounces his intention of going into Missouri in September. It was ho who committed the towns,ot Osceola, Papiusvillo and Warsaw, in Missouri, to. the flanies after an indiscrim- inate scene of carnage, plunder and rapine. It is stated that this man Quautrell’s whole family were murdered in one of Jim Lane’s raids. • The dispatch further pays: “ A report jost received says -uiaf.a mim-. her of buildings-in Cass, county, Missouri, arc on.firo,- and over a hundred rebel sympa thizers had been, killed.” l)o our readers know what this-meanE ? It is the inauguration,af a sencaof barbarities;- whijh the Indians ot.Minnesota would shud der at perpetrating. It means that innocent women and children are to be made the vic tims for the cruelties olQuantrell’s guerillas. It.means'that oilier towns in Kansas, and elsewhere, will be sacked and given.to mini-, snore by men whose families are now bei ig murdered, and that Jim Lane and his gang are furnishing the best-- means of keeping alive a spirit of hatred against the Union in Missouri. , An order has been issued from Headquar ters at-Kaiisas City, Mo., to depopulate three; entire counties in..Missouri—Jackson,. Cass,'' and -part of Vernon/ Those who can show satisfacl'ori/ evidence qf their loyal ty are permitted to remove into' Kansas, tlnV rest are to go—Cod knows where.' They cain iiot go far without being murdered upon the highway by Jim Lane and his men. “Over a hundred rebel sympathizer's' have been killed!” ' . . That tells the tale. Wo have read;nothin ;r more horrible in the 'deeds-of tlw-fiiissiv.!' soldiery upon the Poles .than'the system ol' warfare inaugurated by Jim Lane, Colonel Jeunison, of Kansas ; Mon[gumcryand Jf ;r ginson, of South Carolina and Georgia. OHi help the Union that these men are making !; Philadelphia Evening Journal. . “The Soldier’s Prie.Eil” The Inquirer announced a few days sirieo, that Governor Curtin, while in this city, bad. been called- on by several members'of flic Sanitary and 'Christian''Commissions, ‘‘who had not seen him since they had met on va rious battle-fields.” This is truly touching. Tender', indeed, must'have been-the .meeting; between-: f.ndy uiul tlov'c pumn gonllotn--;!, parting, as they had done last, “ upon vetrimir haUte-Jields.” -But there is something puz : zling about this statement. What in' the world was Andy doing on-these battle-fields' He i not’ there Jiyhlin", for-we kpow that in sp-‘ o of his promise to- head the forces,of Pennsylvania during the recent invasion, in maintained a secure position in their reniv— Ho is willing, like Autemas Ward, to saeri liee all his ablebodied relatives, down to his wife's brother in the. good cause, but has no idea of exposing his own precious person to rebel bullets. \Vo presume therefore that the battle-fields on which Andy* met iiis'-satl itai-y and Christian friends wore fields oil which tho bloody work was already done.— (3. d indeed must have been the speotdple,Lo Andv, of men maimed and slain, piled in go ry heap's* with, ho shroud save the shoddy rags with; which lie bad clothed them. Many a son bf-Pennsylvania, for whose comfort the country had made every provision, marched to tho field in tatters, that Curtin and his confederates might be eerie bed/ Many V. brave boy .slept cold under his rotten blanket while Abolition robbers .filled their pockets with tho money which the State had paid to , buy him a warm and good one. Anda'he.ipiih 'who sanctioned these outrageous ffguds, and profited by* them, goes wandering ever the country on tho hunt of lintflo-fi.pfds; sheds crocodile ..fears ever dead Pennsylvanians whom ho kept hungry and .ragged white alive; shakes hands with the Christian'anil Sanitary Commissii n ; wipes his eyes with a cambric handkerchief, and snugers about be ing ” the soldiers’ friend.” God save tho poor soldier from the murderous friendship of this battle-field touriah 1 • low Hie French Conquer a IVoplc---i Lesson to Mr. Lincoln. -When General. Forey, 'commanding tho French forces in Mexico, first landed on Mex ican soil, he, directed the issuing of the fol lowing proclamation to the people of yef-jo, Cruz; “Nobody can he tried, imprisoned, por suffer any imposition or fine, unless by the magistrates, and in conformity with the laws. No person can bp'forcibly incorpbrafajlas a soldier 1 in the Mexican troops. ' The productions of the country, the horses and the cattle necessary for the support.of tho French and Mexican Annies,.cannot be taken unless witli a regular, requisition, and being previously paid for. • The soldiers and civil guard are to protect travelers, and clear tho roads of tho rubbers who despoil the inhabitants. A full and. entire amnesty is granted to all those who have taken up arms againat-th'e army, and who returning peaceably to thkn’C homes, shall present themselves to the afcS-. des and make a.promise to live ns good citi zens. jVo Mexicaucan be molested for his po- ' IHiciU.opi, lions. The General-in-Chief wishes tho .French authority to be made the succor and supnort of all, and hopes by tboqa means to’revive confidence, put an end to tho evils of war, as sure individual liberty, and bring back abun dance in tho busum of families. ' ' Durard St. Arnadd, a Commander in Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz, Nov. 24,1862. Mr. Lincoln would have done well had ho, long ago. issued a proclamation similar, tot he al ove, and lived up to its tordns himself. Ho has, however, acted contrary to almost every * rule of action laid down by Gen. Forey. Negroes who had deserted from military service, in Massachusetts, were ar rested a few days since. As the guard wort) taking them down to the' wharf in Boston, heavily hahdeulfcd, on the way to ForLWar ren, one Of them held up his manacled hands and exrlnimed. “Dis am Mnssa Linkum’s Proclamation."’ The elfoct can be better im agined than described. no. m
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