.AMERICAN VOLUNTEER,
JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor, fc Proprietor.
terw^tiS
CARLISLE, PA., APRIL 7, 1804,
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1864,
GEORGE B. M’CLELLAN.
[Subject to the deciaionof a National Convention.]
Concertby THE Monitor Club. The Mo
nitor Club of Carlisle will give a grand Con
cert and entertainment in Rheem’s Hall, on
Monday evening, April 11th, for the benefit
of the Soldier’s Aid Society. From the rep
utation this Club has acquired, we have no
doubt the proposed entertainment will be
creditable tq all concerned in it, and well cal
culated to interest those who patronise if—
The object is praiseworthy, and we therefore
hope to see everybody attend the Concert.—
Tickets may bo had at Squire Sponsler*B of
fice, Ritter’s, Smiley’s, and Jameson's stores,
and at the door.
Another Rebel Raid Apprehended.—'Wo
know not why it is. but yet it cannot be denied
that rumors are rife in our valley of another
rebel raid. We learn also, that some few are
packing’ up their goods prepartbfy to a skedad
dle. It is believed bymauyihat the rebels
will enter this valley as soon as the weather
will permit, and that another great battle will
bo fought on the sail of Pennsylvania. Wo
entertain no such fears, but yet it is well to
bo'prepared for the worst, fur no one can pre
dict what a day may bring forth. Would it
not bo well then for all the male citizens of
our valley to form themselves into military
companies—home guards, if you please—so
that in the event of- a raid, assistance might
be rendered to our regular, troops? Every
town and village and township, too, should be
governed by some kind of police regulations.
During the last raid thouaands-of Our “ loyal”
citizens fled to the mountains and the cities,
leaving their wives and children and property
to the care of those who remained*at homo.
This must be prevented should another raid
take plate. Every town and community
s iculd be picketed, to prevent cowards from
running off. None should be permitted to
leaae except those who have stock to care for.
If our valley is to be invaded, let us all stand
together, and, if necessary fall together, in
defence of our families and our fire-sides.
Change of Hours.—The Cumberland Val
ley and Franklin Railroad Company .have
changed the time for running the passenger
trains on'their road. The time-table will be
found in our advertising columns. They al
so have put on an extra train, which leaves j
Carlisle, every morning at five minutes before
six o’clock, making close connections with
trains going to Philadelphia, Baltimore, New
York and the great West. This, train re
turns to Carlisle again in the evening, leav
ing Harrisburg at 4:20. This is a great con
venience lor business men, who have -long
desired it.
CCr'Gen. Couch paid our town a flying
visit last week, and inspected the Volunteer
Camps at the Carlisle Barracks. »
NEWS CTOS.
Buckingham, rank Abolitionist and dis
unionist, is re-elected Governor of Connecti
cut by some 6000 majority. The Abolition
troops were sent borne to vote as ausual.
The Rebels are preparing for a grand raid
Into Kentucky, large numbers of them con
centrating fur this purpose in East Tennessee.
Governor Brami.ette has returned from
Washington to Kentucky, and it is under
afcood that a satisfactory arrangement has
been made with the National Government.
General Balds’ Smith will Imre command
of the troops and personally conduct military
operations in General Butler's Department.
Lieutenant-General Grant has returned
to Washington from Fortress Mdnroo.
Hon. John Banks, President «Judgo ol
Berks county, died last Sunday.
Maximillian- leaves France for Mexico on
the 13th inst.
Presidential. —The Indiana Free Press,
the leading radical organ of Indiana, has
hoisted Fretnont's name as a candidate for
The Presidency. Another Illinois paper, Hiffli'
land Union, has done so likewise. A mept
ing of Germans of Chicago has been called to
declare against Abraham Lincoln, and in fa
vor of some other candidate. The Chicago
Telegraph, which supports this movement,
seems to intimate that Gon. Fremont will be
nominated at this meeting as an Independent
People’s candidate.
T'BE NeoroMassacre. —The late massacre
of negro soldiers near Vicksburg is now said
not to have been a rebel outrage; but quite
otherwise. The negroes went to a hotel
where there were only white women and
childrenwith their servants, committed the
grossest possible outrages on the women and
then burnt the house. An Indiana regiment
heard off the- affair and attacked and killed
the negroes. No rebels were concerned in
tbe-shocking affair. Admiral Porter said in
a late report: “ The negro troops near Vicks
burg„have been committing many outrages/
ICT” Mr. Eden, Representative in Oongresp
from Illinois, stated (he case exactly in a very
able speech in the House :
“ Should this administration be continued
in power for another term, the war will go
on until the financial schemes of Secretary
Chase will crumble into ruin : when it will
of necessity cense, leaving in its desolating
course a divided country and a ruined' peo
ple. On the other hand, should The Demi c
racy succeed in the next Presidential elec
tion, the Union will lie restored under the
Constitution in less than six months after its
•accession to power, as I'believe without the
necessity of shedding a single drop of blood;
f (£7** Major-General Ord lias been ord<
to report to General Sigel for duty:
LOUISIANA “ELECTION.” -
The truth is gradually coming out in re-
gard to this so-called election, oven from ad-
inirtistration journals and administration par
tisans themselves. The Notv York Evening
East (Abolition) publishes some extracts;
from a pamphlet, purporting to have been
Written by a citizen of Louisiana and- a 41 loy-
al man,” setting forth bis objections to the
44 election” held on the 22d ult. lie says that
the State officers said to have been elected
■are ; 4 nobodies.without a Legislature. They
cannot oven receive a salary, if that is their
chief design. Of the two the Legislature
should come first,” and ho asks, 44 by'what
organic law will they be officers of the State ?
and answers, 44 by that, any one of whoso
plain provisions is violated to obtain this el-
ection. 44
The reader can see how bravely Lincoln’s
plan of 44 reconstruction” goes on in Louisi
ana as well as in other States, his ownnarti
sans alone being the witnesses and jutiges,—
1 The pamphlet thus criticises'the election and
the conduct of it:
“The fundamental law of both the United
States and the State of Louisiana is trans
gressed. i'he,safeguards to elections are
broken down by arbitrary power, so that,
being neither (air nor free, they have no law
ful authority nor moral force. There is no
freedom of discussion, without which voting
is a farce. Of some seven daily journals in
1 this city, three or four-under various influen
lessor pressures advocate the ticket of the
, commanding general, which docs not com
mand the favor or respect of onc-tqnth pjirt
of the genuine voting population in this part
ot the State; while not one says a word for
• the two other tickets, which divide between
them the sympathies of tho rest of the vo
ters. It'is’notorious that tho preference of
the military administration andits strong de
sires are made known in many ways; that
its employees are ‘ expected* to vole accord
ingly; that the election judges and officers
are appointed by it; that the returns will bo
passed Upon by it; that it decrees tho quali
fications of electors; that all the people are
; under its absolute power ; that there is hard
ly a man who is not afraid to incur its dis
pleasure. '*
L The writer adds, if it is claimed that “ mil-
itary necessity” makes such conduct neces
sary, “ then we must do without civil gov
ernment.? Ho says further:
“It is also notorious that the military
commander has not only made known his
preference of a certain ticket, but also in
many ways discouraged other candidates ;
that lie has influenced, warned and overawed
the press ; that he has threatened the citi
zens in his proclamations and orders, and
through official journals; that laborers em
ployed by the military administration (and
forming a very large class of voters) have
been ordered to attend certain party meet
ings, and given to understand that their em
ployment depended upon their voting ac
cordingly.”
(Dhese are serious charges, says the Post ,
and it is “constrained to add that they are
i-epeated by men of known loyalty in New
Orleans, in letters to their friends at the
North.” The evidence is conclusive that the
farce of re-establishing civil government in
Louisiana,*by the command and under the
terror of military power, has been enacted
by Lincoln and Bunks, as their own admir
ers testify.
The Post says : “ It is significant that the
1 pamphlet botore us hears neither the name
of its printer nor its publisher. It is com
plained in the letters which we receive that
matters like those of which it treats cannot
be freely discussed at New Orleans without
danger of expulsion from the State.”
Let us Pause and Reflect'.—The New-
York Journal of Commerce , in the course of
some reflections upon Governor Seymour’s
able message, remarks :
“ We arc unquestionably approaching the
crisis of our national history. From the
Presidential election, which is to occur this
fall, wc shall, if conservative men succeed,
begin to restore the glory and the peace of
the American Union ; while, if radical meas
ures continue to remain in power, our down
ward course will be rapid to anarchy and
ruin. We doubt whether free institutions
can possibly survive four years more of trial
such as they have endured under radical man
agement. The great truth brought out by
Governor Seymour,that there is a bottom to
j the national purse and a limit to the national
credit, is of profound import. Shall the plan
of war and conquest, at the expense of o L .hcr
thousands of millions, continue till we read
that limit ? till we puss it ? Will prudence
caution, reason, never resume sway at Was’
ington ? No one can doubt that this nath
is able to bear as great a debt as any other
nation in the world ; but that does not imply
that we can bear any amount of debt, to the
extent'of unlimited thousands of millions.
Let us not blind our eyes and close our cars
to the deceitful premises that the war al
most over. It slreches away before us into
years of darkness, fearful years to a free
country. The expenses of treasure and of
blood are yet to bo enormous. Wo can car
ry our present debt without doubt. How
much more can we carry ? This is .the ques
tion forcibly presented in the present aspect of
our national affairs. It dues not present it
self, as radical men will pretend, a ques
lion of abandoning a war for the Union. It is
a question, of abandoning a war for conquest
a d abolition, and resuming a war fur the
Union. Shull ws go back to original princi
ples, or shall we plunge into chaos V*
A Toucitof Treason ! —The Philadelphia
Daily News, of the 30 th-, contains the follow
ing constructive treason. Or, ns that paper
supports Lincoln and Curtin, may we consid
er its outgiving as an excess of patriotism?
The design is evident throughout all the re
gion of shoddy, that Mr. Chase is “ beyond
his 'depth,'” and must be brought to shore by
a sudden removal to the hanks of the Ohio:
“ The gold market exhibits less strength
than was noticed last week, and the quota
tions are $1 68 to SI 69. The propositions of
the Secretary of the Treasury in reference to
the payment of the difference of interest on
“ Ten-Forty” bonds, by which he fixes a rate
of premium on gold,’isnot favorably received
by those who’desire to see the government
occupy the exalted position which it should.
The construction put upon his regulation is,
that he fixes thevalueof a “greenback noth”
at fifty cents on the dollar Jess-than coin.—
This is* without"doubt the practical result of
his position, and there are many among us
who say, “ If the Secretary of the Treasury
thus depreciates his own currency, how shall.,
we complain of others for doing the same
thing? We said some timesiuce that we fear
ed the Secretary was about to give the public
evidence of his getting beyond his depth/'
Selt Mutilation;—A~ young man named
Upperman, whorecently enlistedin the Twe
nty-first Pennsylvania cavalry, chopped off the
two middle fingers and horribly lacerated the
fore-finger of his right hand, a few days ago.
It is supected that the act was committed in
order to obtain a discharge fropi the army.
Go£D closed yesterday at IG7£.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Tho democratic party of the State, as it
stands to day, is entirely harmonious and uni
ted. It is not divided, enjd cannot bo divided,
either frith respect to men or mere meas
ures of administsativo policy. The extreme
pressure of tho times, tho desperate peril in
which Constitutional liberty lifts been placed
by arbitrary power, and tho impending col
lapse of a false financial system, which, when
it falls iu,' must idiot wide spread and disas
trous ruin, are causes that compel the people
to take position, either with those who are
mismanaging their affairs at Washington, or
with those who oppose them. ' Thus it is that
tho next Presidential canvass will dnd but
two political organizations in tho field, be
tween,whom tho issue will ; ho, simply and
squarely, whether tho Government, as formed
by our fathers, shall or shall not be preserv
ed. Speaking of this subject, tho Louisville
Journal wisely and.'forcibly says i
“ There are hub two grcatparties in the coun
try; namely, the Conservative party and the
Radical party. The basis of the Radical par--
ty is universal and immediate emancipation
I by the General Government, and the prosecu
tion of the war until the accomplishment of
this end is secured. The basis of the Con
servative party is the Constitution, and the
prosecution of the war until the supremacy
of the Constitution is acknowledged. The
latter is a constitutional party. * The former is
a revolutionary party. The Conservative
i party would maintain the Government as our
fathers made it. The Radical party would
subvert the Government and construct a new
one according to the radical vagaries. Such
are the respective basis of the t\so great par
ties of the country.”
The Democracy of Pennsylvania arc not
only a unit in point of organization and prin
ciple, as was sufficiently demonstrated in the
State Convention that met recently in this
city ; but their delegates to Chicago are per
fectly untrammelled as to the various candi
dates who may come before the National Con
vention for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency. They will go there uninstructcd, ex
cept to the extent of acting together unani
mously on all questions for the sake of the
great and glorious cause of Constitutional
SovernmcDt. And this atiidudcof the Perfn
sylvania delegation must secure for it decided
respect and influence in the deliberations of
the assembly which is to declare the princi
ples'or platform of the party in'the coming
Presidential campaign, and to select the stan
dard-bearers who will lead it in that, momen
tous contest. The voice of the “ Iveystoue
State” has always been deservedly potential
in the National Conventions of the Democra
cy, and the high, dignified and Conservative
ground on whjch the party, speaking through
its only coristitutcdrepresentatives, has lately
put itself, will, no doubt, enhance-the consid
eration and deference which the Pennsylva
nia delegation will command at Chicago.
There surely never was a period in our na*
tional history so big with vital issues, so preg
nant with weal or woo to the present genera
tion and to the remotest posterity, as that in
which we live. On the action of the people
in the approaching elections will, wc duubi
not, depend the fate of popular government
not only on tins (jontinent, but tbrougout the
world. If the experiment shall fail here, it
will probably bo the last effort that will ever
be made to tost the fitness and capability of
mankind for self-government. In view, then,
of the inestimable prize which is at stake, it
clearly becomes the duty of the Democracy
—of all the honest and true friends and of
popular institutions—lo sink every minor di
vision and difference, and unite in defence of
the National Constitution, against the trea
sonable and destructive acts and policies of
the radicals at Washington and the rebels in
the South. With this sort of uninon among
all really, genuinely loyal men in the loyal
States, for the sake of the Union and the Con
stitution. the cause of popular liberty may
yet be rescued from the encroachments of des
potism, and the fabric of our Democratic s}'s
tem of government be even moreiirmly cslab-*
lished by reason of the fearful trial to which
it has been subjected. Lot us hope, above all
. that harmony and wisdom will reign in the
1 Democratic Convention to meet at Chicago.
[ and that as the party was defeated in 1800
, by its “isms” and schims at Charleston, the
, bitter fruits of that occasion will prevent a
■ recurrence of the same fatal mistakes.— Age.
n
Negro Equality. —The St. Louis Demo
crat, a lending Abolition organ, contained in
its issue of the loth ult. the report of a din
ner givin in memory of the victory at Pea
Ridge, at which several prominent Generals
wore present and made speeches. Wctake
the following from the Democrat's report; -
General McNeil responded, and in thecourse
of his remarks said that hereafter the elective
franchise should be extended to all who tight
for thejcountry, without regard to nationality
or color. [General Gray and Rbsecrans:—
“ That’s right; that’s right.”]
■ "General Rosecrans said -he lully concurred
in what had been said about’ black soldiers..
General McNeil haa-fold-you bethought that
every black man who fought for the,country
should have a vote ; so do I, so do I, etc, etc.,
Hero are three Generals in responsible po
sitions in the Federal army, who openly avow
like prominent political leaders in the Ad
ministration party, their conviction’ that tlie
blacks shouhlhave preciesly the same politi
cal rights and privileges as the whites. So
cial equality, including of course amalgama
tion or miscegenation, are now next in order
in the Administration or Abolition program
me.
The Strong Band. —The Abolitionists are
organizing a new secret society called the
“Stiong Band." The organization is of a
“ military character," and designed, no doubt
to terrorize over peaceable citizens, and carry
the coming elections by violence and fraud.
The headquarters of tho 'organization is at
Chicago, Illinois. Camps haverecently been
instituted in Harrisburg and Philadelphia,
andit is designed to extend the organization
over tho whole State. This secret oath-bound
society is only a reptilian of Know-Nothing
ism and Wide-Awnkeism. The people ex
perienced the eyilsflowing from the defunct,
organization just named, and if they encour-.
age this new one they will have reason to re
gret it. —Patriot and Union.
dr” According to report, the Confederate
plan of the campaign is to reconquer Tennes
see and Kentucky. It ia believed by them
that Kiohmond is almost impregnable, and
that the great bulk of their armies shouhj be
concentrated at the West. ,
JUSy It is said to bo a fundamental princi
ple of tbe Loyal Leaguers never to gorwith
in a league of the enemy.
SPEECH Of
HON. AMOS KENDALL,
BEFORE THE GREAT
M’CLELLAN meeting
IK MEW YORK.
Old'Amo? Kendall, Jackson’s Post-Mas
tor-Gonoral, Ims taken off his coat and rolled
up his sleeves lOf Little Mack. No purer
patriot lives Ulan Auos Kendall. Like
Jackson, ho is honest,Jtnd therefore alarmed
at tho villiany ho; see? practiced in all de
partments of the Government. At the re
cent M’Clellan mass meeting in New York,
ho spoko as follows.:
Mv Fellow-Citizens:' I stand before you
as the representative of the Jackson ago, of
Jackson’s politics,. I only wish that the old
chief was hero, and that I might stand be
fore him as in days long gone by. Many
may think it strange that a man ns old ns ,1
am, whoso political life has lungSinca ended,
ami who has every comfort about him, should
cmin embark on the, stormy sea of politics.
“’Wliat,” they may dak,.“has brought you
here? What has brlmght you hero before
this immense assemblage ?’’ To that 1 an
swer, the depLrnblo condition of my country!
If thore is nothing in that which can infuse
life into political partids, then our country is
in a hopeless condition. Why, fellow-citi
zens, if, the old chief with whom I had the
honor to sorv.e in this Government could by
possibility rise from his_gravo, the condition
of his beloved country would now bring him
[ up. Two factions, one South and the other
North, have been (hr many years past, aim
ing at the separation of- thjs Union. If the
old chief could riowvlKtTfrom His grave with
the arms arid strength of an archangel ho j
would seize them and Say “ cease this fratri
cidal strife —theissio of blood.” lie -would
say to them,-” the Constitution that Wash
ington gave you is die best Government you
can hope for in any event Submit to the
laws of your country, and to the Constitution,
North as well as South ; let men North
mind their ovv'n business, rind let men South
mind theirs.” [Cheers.l But,
those factions have become military, a fac
tion South under the direction of Jeff. Davis,
and a faction North under the direction,of
Abraham Lincoln —[loud hisses]— have bro’t
tlie two ends of the Union in collision with
each other, and it. is this which has almost
been [the ruin of our country. What does
the country now want? Undoubtedly there
are individuals here entertaining various
opinions. Sumo are called “ War Demo
crats,” some Peace Democrats,” . some
Conservatives,” and I would feign hope
there arc many Republicans who regret they
have aided in putting tho present incum
bents in office, [Applause.] Whatwewant
is the union of all men—tho conservative
principles of all men who wish this fight to
cease, who wish the iJnion restored, who
wish it done in the best manner it can bo
done, nut that the leaders in the rebellion
•should not be subjected to the punishment
they deserve, but that justice should be tem
pered with mercy, and that the innocent
should not suffer with the guilty. I am not
physically able to make a long speech, and
toerc are otborti wiio will discuss this ques
tion belter than I can. I shall content my
self, therefore.’with a brief exposition of tho
conduct of our Government toward the Army
of the Potum ;o. Most of you’, I presume,
have ronO Gen. McClellan's report. [Loud
applause.] Ton have,seen his plans for, tho
I on nagomont of t|ie wat; you have seen how
I pniisen alive his principles are; you scon-how
I 1,0 took the raw material placed in his hands
i and in ml led it into one of the most magnifi
cent armies that ever trod the earth. [Cheers]
You have seen him, in commend of this ar
my, arrange his plans of attack on Rich
uriiinl. ll"t nil those plans were subverted
l.vthc military authorities at Whsliington.—
| iLsses.] He was promised and was to have
tool not only the s'liiy which he immediately
commanded, hut the co-opcration of a divi
sion u-o’ler Oenl’Mel'owell, consisting of 35;-
| Oiit) or -lll, Olio men. Willi tho lull expeota
! lion and anticipation of support from this di•
j vision he commenced his march toward Rich
mond on the Peniiisuhi. .He was in the vi
cinity of Richmond. General McDowell was
approaching, and at one time, was within
about twelve miles of McClellan. Then,
suddenly, and without consulting McClellan,
• this support of 35,000 men was ordered on
other duties. On this he relied for strength
ening tho right wing ot his army which was
then on the northern side of Richmond. Gen.
McClellan was consequently compelled to
fall back. Now who are responsible for that
necessity? Why, tho Administration. —
[llis.-cs.] They directed Gen. McClellan to
uriug liia army hack to Aoquia Creek. He
bad about 1,200 sick and he could not re
move them, as ho had no means of transpor
tation. They were constantly complaining
because bo dld-nnt hasten his steps, lie did
all that man could do. but ns soon as General
Lee perceived his retreat he returned North,
and before McClellan's army could get into
position before Washington, General Lee had
fallen upon Pope’s army and defeated it. and’
the whole army come running hack to Wash
ington, where McClellan had arrived in the
meantime, in a state of disorganization nrtd
confusion. Then the Administration went to
Gon. McClellan and begged his assistance to
get them out of tho mess. They asked him
to come and aid thera. ■ Theyfeared for their
own safety and lor tho safety of your capital,
and then they caafe to this man of talent and
ceneralship, and asked him to aid them.: —
What did-ho do? He came and took com
mand of Uiis'rtrliiy-; ’in a few Jays put every
thing in order, and advanced toward the ene
my. Much has been said in thenewspapers
in opposition to Gen, McClellan, because of
his slmv marching'.in the pursuit of Lee.—
Now ail who borer rend his report Will ,see
-tlmt-he—wao-omiersd by Gen. Halleck not to
go too fast. Oen. Iltilleok was the fiiunda
tion of all this misfortune. Hullecli was
asked before the Investigating Committee ;
“ How niiich was Gen. McClellan’s progress
a day?” Ttrvrfiioli ho replied, ‘,‘six miles,”
hut not a "word ot explanation, not a word
such as “I prevented his marching; he
marched rather bettor than I thought.”— l
Then Gen. Burnside" waif ask'ed to tdko'ocim
maml, and lie replied that Gori. McClellan
■ could do more with that army than- anybody
else. [Cheers.] He said :• “ I don’t think
myself competent to command ouch an army
ao'Jthat.” General Burnside, however, took
command.- Halleck met Burnfride some dis
tance from Washington, and there received
.from him his project for the campaign, which
was, that he, should march down to Freder
icksburg, cross.the river there and advance
toward Richmond from that point. General
Halleck did not entirely approve of that
plan, hut said he would consent if the Presi
dent approved Of it. [Laughter,] Well, the
President did approve of it after Halleck had
conferred,with him. But the quartermaster
did not know where the' pontoon. Bridges
were by which the army was to cross the
river at Fredericksburg. Gon. Woodbury,
the quartermaster, stated before the Investi
gating Committee : “I went to General Ilal
leok, and asked, him to delay the march of
the array for five days until these pontoon
bridges could he brought down, hut his (Hal
leck’s) reply, was, 1 will not delay the march
of the army on .Richmond for a single hour 1”
What was tho consequence? Why, General
Burnside not being apprised that the pon
tuonn could not ho got down marched to Fal
mouth, at which place he had to wait for ten
days till they arrived. In the meantime tee
had advanced on the other side of the river,
and fortified the country, so that when tlie
pontoons,came.the Union Troops had to areas
in the face of the .enemy’s- fortifications.—
And what was the ccnsequefioa of the at
tempt to cross ? Why, the utter defeat and
slaughter of thousands of brave soldiers.—
General Burnside then devised another plan
of attack, which was disapproved of by his
officers. Hejre Burnside threatened to re
sign unless a number of officers, whoso names
were presented to the President, were re
moved, and at the bond of the list stood Gen,
Hooker, This tho President refused to do,
and Burnside resigned,.
-In concluding, Mr. ICendall colled on all
true friends of the Union and tho Constitu
tion, to support in the forthcoming contest to
tho utmost of their power, George B. Md
-Clellan, who in his, (tho speaker’s) opinion,
was th6-man destined by tho Providence of
God to save tho country from further blood
shed, and commercial and pecuniary ruin,
and cement on a firmer basis than ever tho
bonds of Union.
The Outbreak in Illinois—-A One-Sided Ac-
count of ils Origin.
The Chicago Post (Ah.) of Thursday, con
tains theTollowing account of tho commence-
mcnt of the out-break
The Circuit Court was in session at
Charleston on Monday. The "34th Illinois
being under orders to move from Mnttoon on I
the 30th, Col. Mitchel and Surgeon York
We re in Charleston for the purpose of gath
ering up the men belonging to the regiment.
During the morning several altercations took
place between soldiers and citizens, but none
resulting seriously. In the afternoon asquad
of soldiers attempted to enter the court house
for the purpose of seizing deserters. While
pushing their way through the crowd around
the door, they pushed against a man named
j Nelson Wells, who threatened in an insult
ing manner to shoot if the thing was repeat
ed. Some words passed, and, the soldiers
still pressing forward, Wells shot a soldier
in the crowd, but not the’ one who had com
mitted the offence. Firing soon became gen
eral, and eight ot nine of the soldiers who
happened to be armed stood their groupd* and
continued to fire in self-defence; while the
others, being unarmed, fell back. The par
ty that remained was surrounded by twenty
or thirty m'en, vfho continued to fire until
most of the soldiers were either killed or 1
wounded. Wells, the first assailant, was the
first man killed. Dr. York, hearing the fir
‘ing in the court house, came to the door and
was almost instantly mortally wounded. Ho
discharged his pistol at his assailants sever
al times, however; then withdrew into the
court house, and soon expired. In the mean
time, tiring was going on from the windows
of the court house. Sheriff O’Hair is believ
ed to bo the leader of the, assailing party, ta
king a prominent part. Col. Mitchel, who
was unarmed, while struggling for a pistol
with a man named Winkler, was fired at sev
eral times, but escaped with a slight wound
on the hand. Winkler was shot and mortal
ly wounded. The 54th, under command of
Lieut. Col. Chapman, arrived from Mnttoon
within thirty minutes after the receipt of a
' dispatch from Charleston. Col. Brooks, took
command of a mounted force of thirty men
for the purpose of scouting the country in
search of the rioters, who in the meantime
j had loft under,command of OTlair. During
the night his party arrested and brought in
twenty-two prisoners, at least twelve of whom
can be identified as having been concerned
in the assault. It is untrue that Mr. Eden
had made a speech, or that Uiotow commen
ced while Dr. York was replying, as was re
ported. The assailing party, after their pis
tols were discharged, arc reported to have
taken guns from their wagons, where they
were concealed. Moderate men of all par
ties'are convinced that the attack was pre
meditated, a 3 is evidenced by the fact that
the assaulting party were armed.
[We shall get the truth in relation to this
Illinois outbreak by-and-by. At present we
have only one side of the story, and that in
tensely Abolition. We know that Southern
“ Egypt” as it is called, which is
Democratic, has furnished more troops for
th.c war than Northern Illinois, which is Ab
olition—and we have no doubt that if an
outbreak did occur there —sucli as is repre
sented—it was provoked by Abolition out
age, or military tyranny.]
Two Hundred Thousand Troops to In
vade Pennsylvania and Ohio. — A corres
pondent of the Now York World, writing
from Baltimore, and professing to be acquain
ted with rebel designs, communicates the
following information—important if true,
-and plausible enough to be probable. It is
likely, however, that General Grant’s move”
ments may in some measure control Lee’s :
“ It is probable that the invasion will take
place at -an early period -in the spring, as
soon as the roads are in good order but de-'
pending also on the state of the rivers anil
the dryness of the,season. It will undoubt
edly take place in two columns—one under
General Leo, nearly in the track' of hid for
mer invasion of Pennsylvania ; the other to
strike for Cincinnati. It is intended that
each shall have an effective force of fully
seventy-five thousand troops, and that each
shall have, iri addition, a reserve force of
twenty-five thousand men.
“ Of course, the plans of the rdbfils tfill be
modified by the movements of General Grant.
If he fdiould take the initiative in the work,
he mnySnticipato the rebel plans ; but*it is
certain that they, are about to make this gi
ant effort to change the war on. their part
from a defensive to an offensive character,
knowing that whichever party can assume
the offensive will have the advantage of mo
mentum in the attack. Wo shall now see
one of the most interesting plays in the game
of strategy, and by some of thd ablest mas
ters on each side.”
FROM FORTRESS MONROE!
Fortress Monroe, March 30.—The rebel
commiesonors for the exchange of prisoners,
Robert Quid and Captain Hatch, of Richmond,
arrived this morning on the flag of truce boat
A. Wirians. The steamer Adelaide, Capt
ain Cannon, loft this morning at 10' o’clock 1
for Baltimore, haying- been detained from
last evening by the storm. The schooner
Lydia Ann, Capt. Overton, was lost at sea on
the 23d inst.- Thelastone of the Russian
fleet sailed h.enco for New York this morn
ingi The English frigate Buzzard arrived
last , evening, and anchored in Hampton reads.
The appearance Colonel Ould .to a‘ person
who knew him-prior to the break'mg out of
the rebellion, is one of great change. In
size the rebel Commissioner' is about six
feet, and rather rotund. His face is com
pletely covered with a greyish, grizzly beard;
altogether he looks a man who has the bur
den of a “ kingdom” to wear on his shoul
ders. The object of his-miEsion can only be
guessed at, but relates to the future plan of
exchanges. *lt is understood, and in fact
was pabUshed'in the'Rlohcaond papers, that
if Gen.- Butler would c6me to'the capital to
make the necessary arrangements to facilitate
exchanges, he should receive ample protec
-fcion. Geneneral Butler and Colonel Quid
are on friendly terms, and up to the moment
of my closing this, thfe two commissioners
are engaged in their humane and laudable
undertaking.
dr” It is the sine qua non, not only that
the Southern rebellion be conquered, in tho
ordinary sense, but tbit tho cause of the re
bellion bo oonquOrod'and extinguahed.—Abo
lition Exchange.
fruo : but te accomplish this will require
tho extermination of tho residents of Nnw-
England, the hanging of Greely and Tilton,
and the expatriation of the whole tribe of offi
cials at Washington, from Old Abe down to
bis door-keeper,
AMOS KENDALL ON THE CRISIS,
BETTER XI.-HNION LEAGUES—THEIR
LEXinxt OATH, OBJECT, io.
To dll Unconditional Union men of the Uni
ted Stales. ' .. ■
Tho relations which appear to exist Be
tween the Union Leagues and tho present
administration of our government, make it
tho duty of every loyal citizen to inquire in
to the motives and designs of those combma-
tlo Tho basis of these clubs is on oath or oaths
which have Recently been brought_to light
in the following manner and in the following
W °A Springfield (Illinois) letter, published
in the St. Louis Republican of the .iOtli ult.
gives n full exposition of the ceremonies,
passwords, &o„ of tljo Union Leagae, as de
rived “ from a correct and litoral copy of the
Ritual adopted by the National Convention
of the Union League of America, at Cleve
land, on the 21st day of May, A. D. 1803,
duly certified by the signature of J. M. La
wards. G. P-, andAV. K. Irwin, G. B. S.
This work is described as a pamphlet of three
by four inches, containing twenty pages.—
The oath administered to initiates is as fol
lows : , ,
•• I. A B ,do solemnly swear, (or
affirm’,) in the presence of those witnesses,
that' I have never voluntarily borne arms
against the United States since I have been a
oftizen thereof, that I wilLupporl. protoot, and
defend the Constitution and governmontofthe
United States, and the flag thereof, against
all enemies, foreign and domestic: that I
will bear true faith and allegiance to the
same; and that I will also defend this State
against any invasion, insurrection, or rebel
lion, to the extent ot my ability. This I
freely pledge without mental reservation or
evasion. Furthermore, that I will do all in
my power to elect true and reliable Upion
men and supporters of the government, and
none others, to all offices of profit or trust,
from the lowest to the hignest in ward, town,
county, State, and general Government. —
And should I ever be called upon to fill any |
office, I will faithfully carry out the objects
and principles of this League., And, further !
that I will protect, aid. and defend all wor-1
thy m’omberd of the Union League. And, |
further; I will never make known in any way
or manner, Co any person or persons, not
members of the Union Longue, any of the
signs, paaa-tvords, debates, or 1
plans of this or any other council Under this
organization, except when engaged 1 id' ad
mitting new member's into this League.
And with my hand tipon the Holy Bible, Dec
1-arntion of Independence, and Constitution
of the United States of America, under the
seal of my sacred honor, I acknowledge my
self firmly bound and pledged to the faithful
performance of this my solemn obligation. —
So help me God.”
This oath having been taken “ with clasp
ed and’uplifted hands,” all repeat the “ free
men's pledge,” as follows :
“ To defend and perpetuate Freedom and
the Union, I pledge my life, my fortune, and
my sacred-honor. So help me God,”
These oaths have been for many weeks be
fore the public, and there seems to be no rea
son to doubt their authenticity. I believe it
has never been denied. .
Far bo it from me to impeach the motives
of all those who have taken these oaths or |
joined these associations; hut 1 iun persua
ded that they have done it without duo con
sideration of the tremendous responsibility
involved in the act. The leading object of
the Leagues is said to be, no doubt truly, the
extinction of the United States. —
That object is not in illegal or uncon
stitutional ; for slavery may bo abolished by
legal and constitutional m,cans. But these
oaths are not limited to such means. They
bind the men who take thonr to support any
means for the accomplishment of that end
which the 'League itself may prescribe, how
ever unlawful and atrocious. They go fur
ther, and bind the member never to male
known in any way or manner to any person Or
persons, not members o/ the Union League
any of the signs , pass-words, proceedings, de
bates or PLANS ef this or any other Council
under this organization, except when engag
ed in admitting new members into this
League.”
Look at the comprehensiveness of this ob
ligation. Toe plans of an organization are
always digested by its leaders. IX»cs robbery
enter into their “ plans ?” Their sworn fol
l uvers are bound not to diselbse’it 1 Docs rev-
olvtionl They mdof fie*silent! .Does d'ssas
sina/ion? They must be mute! Are they
jcilled upon before a court or jury to testify
in such a case ? them*
I selves j! To all this the Union Leaguers
binds himself when ho f-ays : “ W ithm'y hand
on the Holy Bible. Declaration of Independ
| ence, an I Constitution of the United St t'Cs of
, America, under the seal of my sacred honor . 1
1 acknowledge myself firmly bound and pledged
to the faithful performance of this rn'ij solemn
obligation ., So Help me God.”
ivories t Union Leaguer,is it riot so? Look
again at the oath you have taken. Does it
except an y " plan** which may be adopted
by your “League,” however- unjust, cruel,
diabolical, or bloody ? Have you not surren
dered your right of individual opinion and
independent action? Have you riot sworn
the USe of the army toehable them to carry
the late eledtionin Maryland rind other Suites,
and 1 on the other, by the unanimity with
which the Union Leagues are coming out ir»
favor of Mr. Lincoln’s re-election. Indeed
it may bo assumed, without much danger of
mistake, that the President’s emancipation
proclamation, his scheme of reconstruction
and the treatment which the loyal men of
the Border States are receiving at his hands,
are parts of the “ plans” of the Union Leagues,
But whether these “ plans” were originally
theirs or not, they adopt them as their own
by giving'thonr their united support. -And
what are the characteristics of these plans ?
. Oho of these characteristics* is robbery of
loyal men I The, President’s emancipation
proclamation declares nil the slaves in cer
tain Slates and parts of States free, whether
the property of loyal masters or disloyal.
Another characteristic of the “ plan” is
that it punishes tlie loyal roasters' by disfran
chisement if they refuse assent to the rob
bery. They iriust sweat* to support 1 the Pres
ident’s'emancipation proclamation, or not be
allowed to vote in'tbe reconstruction of their
own government 1 No alternative is left
them ; they must consent to be robbed or
disfranchised.
.Another characteristic of thri" “ plan” is, |
that if proposes to use the*’armies df the Uni
ted States' to' cobble minorities to govern
majorities, one-tenth to govern nine-tenths
in the redemed States.
Another part of the “plan” is to use the
army to enable them to carry the elections in
the loyal States; driving freemen from the
polls and filling Congress and the State Legis
latures with men of their own type of loyalty.
Look at the'late elections in
tudky, Delaware, and- Maryland, where' the
freedom of elections has been suppressed by
the united action of the Union Leagues and the
Union Army I It isjdficiallyreported that no j
orders were issued from the War Department
touching the employment of troops in their
to conceal* “ treason; stratagem and crime” I
even to the extreme of perjury in a court of I
justice, should suoh elements enter in tliO|
''plans** of the Union’ Ldnguds'f* In fine,
have you not made- yourself a slave in the
name offreedom f
| What the present” plans” of tho£o Leagues
I are has been but partially .developed. That
| the leading Leaguers themsblvesaro conscious
i that they will not bear the-light, is proved by
[the means used to keep them secret. If their
object ho to extinguish slavery by constitu
tional and legal means, why impose an oath
of secrecy. , The very fact of their requiring
such an oath is of itself proof that they con
template the use of questionable means.
Whether the Union League or. President
Lincoln now command the army and govern
the country, is perhaps a question of doubt
The indications are that they share the hen
or between them;- The confidence they have
in each othoi, is shown on the. one hang bv
their being intrusted with the registration of
the President’s voters in Louisiana, and bv
raids upon tile polls. Did their orders come
from the Union Leagues 1
It appears that the Leagures are not con
tent with imposing on their converts one oath
taken “ with olppsed and uplifted bonds-’*
hut after he has taken it, they all swear him
and themselves over again in what they call
the “ freeman’s pledge" in the following
words, via: “
“To defend and perpetuate Prcedorii find the
Union, I pledge my life, my fortune, arid my
sacred honor. 3ouei,p he God.” 3
What a spectacle before High Heaven is .
conclave of men who have sworn avay their
own freedom of opinion and of action, swear
ing themselves a hundred times over “ to de'.
fond and perpetuate Freedom" with a pled™
of life fortune, and sacred.honor! This Strangs
inconsistency is to be reconciled only on tli s
ground that the only freedom they mean ij
the freedom of the negro , and to that tbev are
willing to sacrifice their own : not only their
n,on freedom, but *‘ life, fortune, and saerti
honor,"
I am not done with this subject.
Andrew Jackson
February 25, 1804.
THE LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL MOVEMENT,
In January, 1862, President Lincoln, with
a flourish of spasmodic vigor, issued n mil;,
tary order, directing a simultaneous forward
movement of all the armies of the United
States on the 22d of February then next en
suing. What natural relationship, founded
in military reasons, there was between that
particular date (about the beginning of the
deep spring muds) and a forward movement
of all the nrm.ios, did not' then appear, nor
has it since appeared. What is certain is,
that the vigor of the movement did not cor
respond to the pomp of the manifesto, and
that the campaigns designed to bo affected
by that order resulted, for the most part, in
disaster.
In January, 1801, a manifesto is issued—
with less publicity and parade, indeed—di
recting a simultaneous political movement to
take place on the 22d of February, (or nomi
nating Mr. Lincoln for re-election. Whether
the augury of supposed lucky days will prove
more auspicious in the political than it did
in the military movement may admit of some
doubt; but here is the political order duly
signed and authenticated';
TO THE LOVjCL CITIZENS or TUE UNITED STATES.
New Yuuic, January 28.
(The day is not far distant when you will
be called upon to elect an dddupant for the
presidential chair. This id ti most important
aud mdaVontoefs question', wflll'vfutfthj of youf
careful consideration.
From' tho 12th of April, 1861, our march
onward lias been steady and grand. Thu
heart of the people has been true to thegre.it
principle’s ol liberty, which are to be main*
tained to tho end.
In Abraham Lincoln tho loyal people have
found a true leader and an able defender o"
the great ideas upon which our government
was founded, lie has been tried and mil
found waiting. No man in modern limes
over came into office under such trying cir
cumstances —none over worked’more diligent*
.ly to’bring discordant elements together ami
make them move in harmony,
f From the chaos of human passions, dislmn
[ est interests, political intrigues, ahd subtle
treason pervading every deportment of g-v-
I cvnnVenf, order has been created ; nnd al
though in tho midst of a war of almost unpa
ralleled magnitude, wo move on as in times
of the mbst sublime peace. f
It is therefore proposed that on the 22d of
February, 1864, all citizens of the United
States, without regard to party, who are in
fayor of the re-election of Abraham Lincoln,
shall meet at appropriate places within their
towns, counties or States, for the purple of
giving public expression of their sentiments'
upon this inert important question.
Moses Taylor, pfenning Duor,
. Charles G- J’udson, Edward Mirtturn,
Moses 11. Orinnell, Go >rgo W. Blunt,
John Steward, K. L. Taylor,
P. 11. K. E. Morgan,
Hubert S. lluno, 11. Sturgis,
A. W. .Spies,; Edward Lamed,
S. S. AVyckoff, Hush C. Hawkins,
J. P. G. Foster, George F. Taiwan,
Thus. B. Stillman, Mumhi Thomson,
Henry M. Taber, L. W. Jerome,
Charles Lnmson, Peter Townsend,
B. A. Cub"in.an,
National Conference Committee, of tho Union
Lincoln Association of Ntw-YorJc.
S. Ba.\p2R, -President
S. J. Glassey, Secretary.
This document has not, that wo arc aware,
before appeared in a newspaper; but it hat
been s'dnt in thb’ foyritfoi a Circular, printed
on sheets of letter-paper, to the postmaster
of every town’, village, and hamlet in tin
loyal states; all tho postmasters-being pre
sumed to lib good ahd ! t'rue Lincoln men, or
at all events,-tho pro-Lincoln speech of the
poatnmster-gonbral, last mbnth; being a si*
niticant hint that zeal-for Mr. Lincoln idl
not damage'any potftmaster’nt headquarter!
Precisely what is written on llie-blank paft
of these'circulars our information docs no
enable us to state ; but very likely it niayh
directions to show 1 to influential
Lincoln men of tlio vicinity, olid secure theii
active co-operatiort in getting up tlio propose!
meetings on tho 22d of February, which da]
may hfiveTjoen selected with tho purpose
suggesting, a parallel between our first an
our latest President.
Matm&
Iri this placo. at the Reformed Parsonip
oh the 4th inst., by the Rev. Samuel PhiliPt
Mr. Nathan W. Harnburobr to Misi w ‘
bah J. Macbeth, both of Carlisle.
Matte;
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