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■r, . 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.
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