AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JUllJi B. BRATTON, Editor k Proprleor. aer r." U CARLISLE, PA., JUNE 9, 1801. FOR IN 1801, GEORGE B. irCLELLAN. r u s »jcct to the decision of a National Convention.] Wo rccoivo letters nearly every week, (many of them from good men, no doubt,) requesting us to send them the Volunteer. They neglect, however, to transmit ?2 with their orders, and of course wo pay no atten tion to their request. We aro about tired notifying those who desire our paper that they must pay in advance. The high price of paper, ink, wages, &c., reduces cur profits to a very low figure, and wo therefore can nut and will not recognize, the trust policy linger. There are eomo men on our books who owe ns considerable amounts. Moat of them are solvent, but yet wo will be compelled to prase their names from our books and place their accounts in tho hands of an officer for collection. Wo want tho name of no one on our Imoks who neglects or refuses to pay promptly. We cannot afford it. Everyarti clc we use is a cash article, and very costly. Wo therefore hope our readers, ono and all, new and old, will see the necessity of prompt payments. flgf* Wo return our sincere thanks to Tlon. Jiun L. Dawson, M. C., for a number eff valuable public documents. As the Demo crats of this District have no member of Con gress to attend to their wants, wo will feel obliged to our friends from other districts who may favor us with Congressional docu ments and speeches. Wo are indebted to our neighbors of tho Democrat, for tho diet of droftoJ published in to-day’s paper. Sudden Death. —Mr. Samuel W. Hav erstick, druggist, of this place, attended market yesterday morning, and after making his purchases, returned home, apparently in good health. After being in his store a few minutes ho felt an oppression on bis breast, and at onco sent for a physician. Tho phy sician had arrived and was in conversation with Mr. 11. in his store, when suddenly his head dropped, and he was dead. Mr. 11. was one of our best citizens, a sci entific druggist, and a thorough-going, bush ness man. Moat sincerely do wo sympathize with his family, as we contemplate this sad dispensation of an all-wise Providence. I£7* A Present. — We return our thanks to the young lady friend who placed upon our table, a few days ago, a most beautiful and fragrant boquet. The Pennsylvania Reserves reached Har risburg on Monday morning. On Tuesday the Ist, ‘2d, 7th and 9th regiments were ordered back to Philadelphia, for the purpose of be ing mustered out of service. Tha other re giments will be dismissed at Harrisburg. It will bo a day or two yet, therefore, before those belonging to Cumberland county will roach home, as most of them are attached U) the Ist and 7th regiments. [Or The barn belonging to Jacob Rife, in Monroe township, was struck by lightning ou iaat Monday, and entirely destroyed. JKs?*Those persons whose names are dropped from our subscription list from time to time, may take it for granted that they owe as much as we can afford to trust them to. Adver tising and job work generally must be paid for at the time the work is done. Wo must pay cash, generally in advance, for every tiling, and.it is impossible therefore for us to do otherwise than demand ready pay fur our work. Not a Fiction. —Newspaper subscriptions are infallible tests of men's bones'ty. It a man is dishonest he will cheat the printer in some way—say that he has paid when he has not—or sent money and it was lost by mail—or will take Jthe paper and will n <t pay fur it, on the plea that he did not subscribe for it, or will move off, leaving it come to the office he left. Thousands of professed Christians are dishonest, and the printer's book will tell fearfully on the final settlement of the judgment day.— How many who read this paragraph will be guiltless of this offense. SSyTho N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, a Republican paper. Bays “ the bitterest at tacks which could bo made by the moat ma lignant of writers upon the policy and char acter of the men in power, could not possi bly bo damn and sting them in the popular estimation as the silent, but, therefore, most eloquent denunciation which is hourly level ed at them from presses unjustly suspended and private interests unlawfully trampled under foot.” Died Rich.— A brother of Gen. Butler died' recently in Boston, and in his will ho bequeathed one million of dollars to General Her. It is said ho died worth five millions of dollars. When the war broke out he was a bankrupt, but he was with bis brother, Gen. Ben, at Now Orleans, and there ho ac quired his wealth. He was very “ loyal,” and ■so is Ben I Appointment op a JunoE.—Gov. Curtin has appointed Alexander Kino, Esq., of Bedford, President Judge of the Franklin strict, vacated by the death Of Judge Nill. O’ The Great Central Pair, in Philadel ia, in aid of the Sanitary Cdmmissioni cncd on Tuesday last. #SrG» It was 195 in Philadelphia yester day. FALSE DECLARATIONS OF A POLITICAL TRACT. It has become a trito saying with the Abo litionists that it was not thoir desire or inten tion, when- the war broke out, to abrogate the Constitution, annul Stato rights, eman cipate slaves, confiscate private property, and arm the blacks. **AVo had no desire to do these things,” they say; "‘hut,” they add, 14 a military, necessity forced the President and the people to change their views, and therefore the new policy was adopted and the Emancipation Proclamation made its ap pearance, ahd the arming of negro troops commenced.” Such is the language used by ■the Loyal Thieves League ot Philadelphia, in their political tract No. 18. The office holders are attempting to advocato tho rc elcction of the smutty joker,"-and to ex cuse and palliate his violated promises and his total -disregard of Constitutional obliga tions. Hence they-sny intheir political tract: “The conviction insensibly spread that the strength of the rebellion lay in slavery, and that'wo -could no longer allow our military pulicydo bo controlled by Constitutional scru ples.” -So they (the President and all of them) considered that the time had arrived— the “military necessity”—when they could, with brazen audacity,-violate their oaths and put tho Constitution at defiance. This is a fearful admission, and if tho Philadelphia Leaguers, (every mother’s son of whom have coined thousands, and some of them millions of dollars out of tho blood and tears of tho people,.) if they, wo say, have no better ar gument to use in behalf of thoir good patron, Mr. Lincoln may well despair of success. Their admission that ho is no longer 14 con trolled by Constitutional scruples,” should servo as a warning to tho people not again to confide in a man who can (to use his own language) take an oath merely 44 to get tiio office,” and violate tho oath at his pleasure. Cut, is it true that a “military necessity” drove the administration to a violation of the •Constitution ? No, it is not true—it is a quib ble as false as it is preposterous. This ar gument is not new with Mr. Lincoln ; it is •the argument every despot and every usur per has employed since tho day when God said 44 let there be light.” Possibly it was ! Cain’s argument when he slew his brother Aiiel. Tho President and his traitor par tisans had their "‘military necessity” policy marked, out months, if not years, before they grasped tho helm of tho ship of State. This was tho secret of their opposition to the fair Compromise resolutions offered by the venerable Crittenden. They would not oven agree to submit those resolutions to a vote of the people, for they know that they would -have been adopted by an overwhel ming majority. No, they would to noth ing but war— 44 a little blood-letting,” as the brutish Cuandler said. Their plans had been concocted and matured before Mr. Lin coln took the oath of and It will not do for thorn to bring An the usurpers plea of 44 military necessity,” as an apology for their outrages upon the people. Long before he. had-Leen.-thought-of-for. tho place he now holds, Mr. Lincoln said that ■“ this Government could not endure per manently half free and half slave.” Seward, too, had declared similar sentiments, and Chase was open and bold Inannouncing him self an advocato of -dissolution. These sen timents were treasonable, and afford proof that Mr. Lincoln and his party, like old John Brown and his followers, had doter mind to make a, “ military necessity” for the occasion—a necessity having In view tho free dom of the slaves. Their attempt, therefore, to make it appear that they were forced to adopt the infamous and revolutionary policy they did, is mere bosh—a falsehood. Their plans, we repeat, were agreed upon before Mr. Lincoln took tho oath of office. Every intelligent man knows this, and honest Abo litionists will not deny it. LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE. The New York Tribune says: In this morn ing’s paper will be found the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States in re lation to the pay of colored officers and sol diers. The opinion was called out especially with reference to the pay' of a colored chap lain ; but it covers the whole ground, and I decides that under the laws of Congress the colored soldiers in the military service of the United States, and all of them, are entitled to full pay—that is, to the same pay as white soldiers—from tho date of muster-in. In other wofds, the United States, by the deci sion of tho chief legal adviser of the Govern ment, stand indebted to every colored soldier in tho difference between seven dollars and thirteen dollars a month for their terms of service respectively. AM) .UPON Yms. In tho House of Representatives, the hill which appropriates $700,000 to reimburse tho individuals and institutions who advanced money to pay the Pennsylvania soldiers called out by proclamation of the President and the Governor of Pennsylvania, tc repel the Rebel invasion by the forces of General Leo in 1863, and who were in the actual service of the United Stales, was laid on the table, on mo tion of Mr. Spaulding, by a vote of CG yens to 60 nays. The abolition Congress and the Attorney General decided that the negroes who wore enlisted at $7 per month shall now be upon an equality with white soldiers and receive $1,3. But that same Congress also decides that white soldiers called out hy the Presi dent and the Governor shall not be paid hy the Government. The only difference is, that the latter are all white men and the former black. This appears to bo the governing principle of the present Congress. Take care of the negro, and let the white man take care of himself. S6T" The Boston Journal, speaking of the death of Josbna R. Giddings, says: lie lived to see his extremes! views be come popular, and the great cause for which he labored consummated through the mad ness of its enemies and the wonderful pro gress of events. There is too much truth in the above. It is a sad truth that the ultra, destructive, in human views of GinpiNcs appear to have be come popular, and are ruling and ruining the country; and it is a still more deplorable truth that the " causd for which ho labored,” viz : the Dissolution of the Union, had been, consummated. Bui saddest of all is the fact that a public journal of large circulation is found to rejoice ovep those lamentable truths. t Xy Some of the citizens of Centre county, near Jacksonville, recently captured a wild animal which they call n 11 wild hog.” SENATOR 1 ’ JIM LANE. Ono of tho pots of tho administration, is tho notorious Jim Lane, Senator frora i Kan sas. fro man has nioro influence with tho President, and few of tho “ loyal thieves” have been permitted to run their arras' dock er into the tJ. S. Treasury. He has'made piles of money by contracts and by dhtirp: practices. Being -very ”loyal” albeit a no torious rascal, ho is a bigUog Under tho Ab olition wagon. Ho delivers lectures before "Union Leagues anid'attends to many other things of a “ loyal” character. Ho goes for hanging or shooting all men who refuse to agree with him and Abraham Africanus I. in political sentiment, and openly advocates assassination in Kansas, where ho lives. — Ho has .committed two or threo cold-blooded murders himself, and appears surprised that all “ loyal” men don’t follow his example.— From a speech delivered by this intensely loyal villain before tho Washington Union League, wo take tbo following extracts : “ In Kansas, whore I live, a Copperhead (or Democrat,) is not allowed to remain in the State. If he doesn’t leave when ho is or dered to, ho is shot down. [“ That’s tho way,” and applause.] lam inlormed ty the Governor of our State, that no further back than lust Saturday, a Copperhead, having refused to promptly obey an order to leave tho State, was tho same day, before night . closed upon him, found with two bullet holes through his body. [“ Good,” and applause.] , I have boon told that -Union-loving men in this community have been compelled quietly to hear secession language day by day.— [“That's-so.”] But I trust‘that before the time comes when I will be so weak as not to bo able to properly resent an insult of that sort to my country, God will fcako mo home, [Laughter and applause.] As far as I am concerned, I would like to live long enough to see every white man now in South Carolina in hell, and the negro oc cupying his territory. [Loud applause.] All this may sound, to you, very wicked, [“ not at all 1"] but to mo* there is no place on earth that, I think now, ought to be dose-, orated to a traitor. [Applause.] I bid you God speed in cleaning out sym pathisers with treason in the District of Col umbia. .[Applause.] It- would not wound my feelings at any day to find the deal tod ies of rebel sympathisers, pierced with bul let holes, in every street and alley of the City of AVashington. ’[A r ociferous applause.] I would regret, however, the loss of the powder and the lead. [Laughter.. A pause.] Hang them I and save the ropes. ThaPs the beat way. [Loud applause.] Lot them dangle until their stinking bodies rot,'decompose, and fall to the ground piece by piece. [En thusiastic applause,” There! ' Such is the language, such the advice of Senator Jim Lane, of Kansas. It will bo seen that ho regards every Democrat a “ Copperhead,” and every “ Copperhead” a traitor, and ho recommends that they all bo assassinated. Glorious, “ loyal” Jim Lane! But, we have “ later intelligence” from this valiant Senator. A woman whom ho had outraged and deceived met him on Penn sylvania Avenue, in AVasTaington recently, and beat him 'unmercifully. The following appeared in the city daily papers a week or so ago: “ An honorable Senator (Lane of Kansas) -was-aesailed and-bcaten over the-head. bn. Pennsylvania Avenue a few nights since by a, nymph of the pave. The ground of the hostile demonstration was that the great roan had seduced and afterwards abandoned her.” And this is the scoundrel who advised that all Democrats bo assassinated —this the fel low who acts as bugleman for the Adminis tration, and instructs Union Leagues what to do. lie has been cow-hided by a woman whom ho ruined, and it is a great pity she did no r t kill him on the spot., AVhat a beauty is ha lo talk about “ loyalty to the Govern ment,” when ho is too much of.a brute to be loyal to his own family. Lot the women of Washington lash him from the city. He is not lit to live in any community, notwith standing ho is a great favorite with adminis tration circles. S ' BUTLER ! In tho IT. S. Senate, on the 31st ult., Sena tor Davis submtitod the following, on which no action has yet been had : Whereas has been frequently charged in public prints, and by other modes that when the leaders of the present rebellion were en gaged in plotting and maturing it, Benjamin 1?, Butler was cognizant of and privy to their to their treasonable purposes, and gave them his countenance, sympathy and support, and that he (said Butler,) after acme of the rebel States bad published ordinances of sccesssion turned against the conspirators, whom he had been sustaining, to get position and office un der the Government of the United States, to enable him to consumate his own personal and corrupt objects ; and that after he was appointed, and whilst he was acting in tho military service he was, by himself and his occomplce, 11. J. Butler, and many others, guilty of many acts of fraud, peculation and embezloment against the United States, and many acts of extortion, plunder, dcspolation, oppression and cruelty against individuals; therefi re-tie! it Resolved , That the President of the Senate, appoint a commitco of three to'investigate such charges against said Butler, and that said committee have power to sit’during the recesss of the Senate, to send for persons and papers, and that it report all testimony .and its proceedings to tho nest session of the- Senate. The Late John C. Rives.— ln a biogra phical sketch of John C. Rives, pub lished in the Congressional Globe, this is said of him; He allowed none to be as gen erous to him as he would willingly bo to them. lie expended more in charities than any man who lived in this city, though ho earned the means by incessant, well directed labor, beginning at first by turning the wheel that moved the Globe presses by his own strong arm, before steam was applied to them. lie made no ostentation of largesses, but his books show that in a single year ho paid out $17,000 to support the wives of sol diers enlisted in the district, besides innu merable aids in smaller amounts to individu als. Mr. Rives was a Democrat all his life, and yet the buso minions of the “ Powers that bo,” the self-styled “ Loyalists,” had the hardihood to call him n_“ Copperhead." tCs"“ Lihdehwald,” the country-seat of (he late ex-president Van Burcn, has recently been sold by the Hon. John Van Buren, ifs late proprietor, to a broker in New York, for abouts26,ooo. The property consists of three hundred acres of the best quality of farming land. The grounds around the mansion are laid out .with, taste, and the garden, which is large, contains the choicest of fruit, while an extensive hot-house is filled with fruits from overy clime. OFFICE-HOLDERS AND SHODDYITES IS COUNCIL. The Lincoln Convention, composed almost exclusively of office-holders, shoddyites and public plunderers, assembled at Baltimore, on Tuesday. South Carolina was ropreson- Sod by a Massachusetts Major General, a Con-, neoticul Colonel, and two native negroes. Of course Mr. Lincoln was re-nominated'for President. The men who composed tho'Con vention hove mado (heir millione—tli'ey'dre the 11 loyiil thieves” who have been permitted, by a shameless and heartless administration, 'to help themselvdajihenally. .. Tor these .men to assemble in Convention for the purpose df 'nominating their good patron for a position that none but honest men and ihcn of ability, patriotism and morality should aspire to, is the quintessence of brazen impudence. The people will trample this shoddyite and office holders ticket under their feet. Mr. Lincoln, has been tried,'and has proved aunost'Wtoteh ed failure. "Wo are glad, however, that he is again before'the people. Thousands and’ tens of thousands of the honest portion of his own party—men who supported him in IgflO—will flay him alive, notwithstanding his bayonets and bastilos, his manacles and tinkling bells. For three years and'more bo ■has had his officiiil heel upon the necks of the people; ho has violated every pledge ho ever made to thorn, and they will now, wo hope, have an opportunity to pass judgment upon him. Judging from “the.signs of the dimes,” n crushing defeat awaits him. Office holders and shoddyites presume a little too much, in placing Mr. Lincoln again in nomi nation. The people are still sovereign, and in November next Jjvfll apeak in a voice of thunder against the tyranny, profligacy and imbecility of the Lincoln administration.' But, more anon. GIMT and muellan. ’Grant how occupies the identical ground M’Clellax occupied two years ago. Ilia soldiers rest on the same camping ground and obtain their water from the same streams that M’Clellan's soldiers did. Ke has gained this position with a loss of twenty men to M’Clellan's - one, and with an ex penditure of millions of treasure to M’CleL lan’s thousands. IV e desire to cast 'no reflec tion upon Gen. Grant, fur w.o have confidence in him, but yet we cannot but remind the peo ple'Of the ipctti&hness, if not treason, of the administration, when M'Cleolan was in vesting Richmond, *in 18G2, and when he would have captured it, had it not been for the enemies in his rear, who harvassed him more than the rebels in Ms front. Kever, in the history of the world, was a 'commander of an army so basely betrayed as "was M'Clel lan. Ho was in earnest, hut his treacher ous enemies of the administration were de termined that he should not take Richmond. Perhaps tho history of this war and of this administration may be written by nn impar tial pen some day—possibly a half century ■hence. If it is, Mr. Lincoln and his politi cal associates will bo recorded, black as ink - can make them, as tho men who conspired against tho taking of Richmond in 1862. $n connection with this subject, we copy the following pertinent remarks of the Phila delphia Age : The Abolition newspapers throughout the country arc exhibiting a great deal of anx iety upon the alleged ’remarkable identity existing between the position of Gen. Grant before Richmond* in 1804,'and that of Gen. ’M'Clellan, in 1802. They seem to bo very much afraid that the former will be consid ered ns following the latter; and (( they print Tory long and foolish arguments to prove that such is really r>ot the case. They know that Grant .did not start like M’Clellan. They are well aware that Ire .avoided the peninsular rofito. But, at the same time, one great fact stares them in the face, which overthrr ws all their finely spun theories. Gen. Grant to-day is where Al’Clcl lan was •when he begun the first siege of Richmond. Wo know that the authorities at Wash ington were anxious that the Federal should not follow, the course pursued two • ,years ago; yet Grunt’s beginning of the siege is exactly like M’Clclhin’a was. His right flank appmached Mccbanicsville, and his left, New Bridge, as McClellan's did. His supplies are drawn from White House as M’Clellan's were. His best officers were best-officers. The Chickahominy is before him to bo crossed* as it was before M’Clellan. Ho is surrounded by swamps, as M’Clellan was,,and will have to bridge "them, as did. Ho sees before him the same immense bills that M'Clellan saw, terraced from bottom to top with earthworks. The roads he is following were surveyed by M’Clellan. Ilia maps wore drawn by M’Clel lan's engineers. M’Clellan's Signal Corps discovered the fortifications, and left on record full accounts of their position and strength. M’Olcllan’s Engineer Corps built the roads across the swamp. From one side to the other of his line, Grant will advance towards Richmond, ns M’Clellan did, and will throughout bo benefited by M’Clollftii’s experiences* Gene - al Grant is a bra-vo soldier. Above tfre nean and petty jealousies that disfigure the men at Washington and their pensioned favorites, ho will seek that path which, in his judgment, leads to success, without stop ping to inquire who took it before; and the * base, attempt now making by the Abolition press to injure- the: fame of General M'Clel lan, will nowhere find more contemptuous disregard than in thobroastof General Grant. What a Farce !.•—Wo learn from the New York Herald that the “loyal” subjects of Old -Abo in South Carolina, composed of ar my officers, contractors, camp followers and negroes, held a “Mass Convention,” at Beaufort, on the 17th inat., and* appointed delegates to the Abolitio'fc National Conven tion at Baltimore, on'the 7th of June. The delegates selected to attend and vote for Lin coln are: General Saxton, Military Govern or; A. D Smith, Tax Collector ; Major Par ker, Paymaster U. S. Army ; followed next in order by ,E. S. Dedley, Robert Small, Prince Rivers, Henry Haines, King Thomas, and Sergeant Williams —all Contrabands, or “ gemraen of color next Messrs. Cooley, Dunbar and Robbins, Army Sutlers, and next 11. G. Judd, Chief Mogul among , the contrabands. *•- .... . . MatuiskWial Advertisement*. —My dear girl, if a young fellow should ask youtoatop out on the roof of the house in ibo dark, and jump off over the caves without seeing how far down you would go, would you dd it?— Probably not. Well; when any young fel low, or old fellow either, writes you a letter, or puts an advertisement in the paper, ask ing you to correspond with him, and you want to correspond with him—don't you do it! He wants you to take a jump in the dark, and you’ll break your neck. THE CLEVELAND NOMINATIONS. 'Central Fremont’s Letterof At'cepimiei. . On our first page willbo founda summary of tho proooedings of the Clovoland Ropubli- oan Convention.. It will bp "soon that Gen. Fremont was nominated for Presid’cht, add Gon. Oociirane of Newlfork, for Vice Pras idont. B6low wo publish Gen. Fremont’s ■letter of acceptance. It will command tho attention of the entire country, for it contains sentiments of startling significance. ■ Gon. Fremont has been the idol of his party for ■many.years -, indeed, ho has boon-considered tbe'falhpr of the-Republican organization.— Beyond question ho is a man of talent, of en ergy and of power. ; Of course his political views are antagonistic to Democratic princi ples, but yet, unlike 'Lincoln, he is not in favor of violating tho Constitution and set- ting aside law,-order and decency, to gratify the whims of unprincipled traitors. But to his letter of acceptance': GENERAL FREMONT’S ACCEPTANCE. Gentlemen : In answer to tho letter, wLioh I have had the. honor to receive from ypu, on the part of the roprosohtativos-of tho peo ple assembled at Cleveland, tho 31st of May, I desire to express my thanks for tho confi dence which led them to offer mo tho honor able and difficult position of thoir candidate in tho approaching presidential election. Very honorable, because in offering it to me, you act in the name of a great number of citizens, who seek abovo all things tho good of thoir country, and who have no sort of sel fish interest in view. Very difficult, because in accepting the candidacy you propose to tno, I I am exposed to tho reproach of creating a schism in tho parly with which X have been identified. | ■Jlad Mr. 'Lincoln remained faithful 'io the principles he was elected io defend, no schism could have been 1 oroatod and no contest would have been possible.. This"is not an ordinary election ; it is a contest.for the right even to have candidates, and-not merely, as usual,- fot the choice among them. Now for tho first time since 1770, tho question of consti tutional liberty has been brought directly be fore tiro people 'for their serious consideration nnd vote. Tho ordinary rights secured under the Constitution, and tho laws of tho country have been violated and extraordinary powers have been usurped by the executive. It is di rectly beforo'the people now to say whether or not tho principles established by the rev olution are worth maintaining. if, as wo have heed taught to believe, those guarantees for liberty which made the dis tinctive name and glory of our country aro in truth inviolably sacred, then there must be a protest against the arbitrary violation which had not oven tho excuse of necessity. Tho schism is mode by those who force the choice between a shameful silence or a pro test against wrong. In such considerations originated tho Cleveland Convention. It was among its objects to arouse tho attention of the people to such facts, and to bring them to realize that while we are saturating aouthorn soil with tho best blood of the coun try in the name of liberty, wo have really parted .with it at homo. To-ddy We have in the country the abuses of a military dictation without its unity of ac tion and Vigor of execution. An administra tion marked at home by disregard of consti tutional tights, by its violation of personal liberty, and the liberty of the press, and, as a crowning shame, by its abandonment of the right ot asylum, a right especially dear to all free nations abroad, its'course has been characterized by a feebleness and want of principle which has misled European powers, and driven them to a belief that only Com 1 meroial interests and personal aims are con cerned, and that no great principles are in volved in tho issue. The adirtirable conduct of tho people, thoir readiness to make every sacrifice demanded of them, their forbearance and'silonco under the suspension of every thing that could ho suspended, their many acts of heroism and sacrifices, were all ren- dered fruitless by the incapacity, or, to speak more exactly, by the personal ends for which the war was managed. This incapacity and selfishness naturally produced such results ns led the European potters, and logically enough, to the conviction that the North, with its great,-superior population, its im mense resources, and its credit, Will never ho able to coerce the South. Sympathies which should have been with us from tho on set of this war were turned against us, and in this way tho administration has done tho country a double wrong abroad-, tt created hostility, or at best indifference, among those who would have been its friends it tho real intentions of tho people could "have been bet tor known, while at'the same time it neglect-- ed no occasion fur-making the most humilia ting concessions. Against this disastrous condition of affairs the Cleveland Convention was a-protest. The principles which form the basis of its platform have my unqualified and cordial ap probation, but I cannot so heartily concur in all tho measures which you propose. Ido not believe that confiscation, extended, to the property of all rebels is practicable; and if it were so, I do not think it a measure of sound policy. It is, in fact, a question be longing to the people themselves to decide, and is a’proper occasion for the’ exercise of their original and sovereign authority. As a war measure, in tho beginning of a revolt, which might be quelled by prompt severity, I understand the policy of confiscation ; but not ns a final measure of reconstruction after tho suppression of an insurrection. In the adjustments which are to follow peace, no consideration of vengeance „oan consistently be admitted. The object of tho war is to make perma nently secure tho pearfb and happiness of the whole country, and there was but a single element in the way of its attainments. This 1 element of slavery may be considered practi ' cally destroyed in the country, and it needs only your proposed amendment of the Con -1 stitution, to make its extinction complete. With this extinction of slavery the'party divisions created by it have also disc ppeared. And if in the history of the country there has over been a time which the American peo ple, without regard to one or another of tho political divisions, were called upon to give solemnly their voice in a matter which in volved the safety of the United States, it is assuredly the present time. If the convention at Baltimore will nomi nate any man whose past,life justifies a well grounded confidence in his fidelity to our cor dial principles, there is no reason why there should be any division among the really pa triotic men of the country. To any such I shall be most happy to give a cordial and ac tive support. My own decided preference is to aid in this way, and not to be myself a candidate. But if Mr. Lincoln should be nominated, ns I behove it would be fatal to the country to indorse a policy and renew a power, which has cost us the lives thousands of men and needlessly put the country on the road to bankruptcy, there will remain no other alternative but to organize against him every element of conscientious opposi tion with tho view to prevent the misfortune of his re-oleotion. _ In this contingency, I accept the nomina tion at Cleveland, and as a preliminary step, I have resigned my commission in the army. This was a sacrifice it gave mo pain to make. But I had for a long time fruitlessly endeav ored to obtain service. I make the sacrifice now only to regain liberty of speech, and to leave nothing in the way of discharging to my utmost ability the task you have set for me. 'With mj earnest and sincere thanks for your expressions of confidence and regard, and for the many honorable terms in which you acquaint me with the notions of the cent mittoo. I am, gentlemen, Very respectfully and truly youre. J J. C FREMONT. jfbw-York, Juno 4, 1864. . _ , Ttt Warlhington Q. Snothor, of, Maryland, EdfvbriFGllbert, of New York, Casper Bulz, of Illinois, Mass,-of Missouri, N. P.Sowyor, of Pennsylvania, Committee. ‘lldiv'AHD tub Forger.—The Eagle has a letter aupposed tb lilavo been Written by How ard in the interior of Fort Layfayetto. As a specimen of the “>Dead Beat" style, it will excite the risibldstland furnish food for reflec tion to all who may be preparing for a trip 'to the sand stone fort in the harbor': Cell 5,311 Seconb Tier, I Fort Layfayette, May 24, 1804. ) Hear. Eagle: —ln the language of the ■“ magnificent” Vestvali “ I am hero." T think I shall stay here—at least till I got out. Perhaps you wore surprised at my sudden departure. So was I. But I received a pressing invitation from Gen. Dix to come down here, which I didn’t fell at liberty to decline—so I didn’t. Bob Murray brought the invitation. Bob Murray is United States Marshal, and. ho marshaled 'the the way I should go, so I thougbt'it best to go it. Bob is a nice man ;ho has'h Very taking way with him, but I wouldn’t recommend you to cultivate his acquaintance. You may have heard of Fort Layfayette ; it is a great resort of the friends of the administration —over the.loft. The location of Fort Layfayotto is in the water between the Atlantic Ocean and West Point. It is a good site for a marine resi dence, but I haven’t seen any marines hero. It is inaccessible on all sides, except the in side, Its out-accessibility is what I moat ob ject'to. . The why you get in is curious, and mhy interest your readers who haven’t boon hc'ro. You can’t go by railroad or steamboat, or horse, and buggy. The entrance'is-aflfected in a,highly military manner, invented I be lieve by Gen. Dix or .‘‘..some other .man.” ' The way of getting out 1 haven’t discover ed yet. When I do, I’ll lot The people who keep the fort are of the military persuasion ; it is their forlc. They_ mostly wear swords or guns, and do everything in a military way, which is not a civil- way, though they have been Very civil to me.— The fort is a substantial building; there is mo apprehensions of burglars. Sensible peo ple would rather break out than break into it. As a hotel it is not equal to the Mansion House, though the terms are- more reasona ble. They don’t charge any board. The only charge military people are given is to charge bayonets. The bill of faro is wholesome, but lacks' variety. There is too much pork. The bill of faro, however, is varied. IVo have pork and crackers for breakfast, crackers and pork for dinner, and pork xoiih crackers for tea. I think wo shall have a change next week, as the commandant has sent an order to Now York for a barrel of pork. When you write to mo, enclose a bunch of radishes in, the letter. Somebody may inquire why I ctiftre koro-. I'll tell you confidentially. The Government ia making extensions to its mansion -at Fort Hamilton, likewise at frort Richmond, on Staton Island. They wAnted a reliable per son to look after tbo architects, to see that they didn’t pocket the bripk*. Fort Layfay- etto is half-way between, and bo situated that yon‘can see both forts ; at once, and is just the place to sec what is going on. A meet ing of the cabinet was called at the White House. Secretary Stanton introduced the subject. The cabinet saw the point at once, and laughed so loud that they woke up Secre tary Welles. Secretary Seward rang his little bell, and sent for General DiS. “ Gen eral/’ said William 11., “ how is Fort Lay fayetto?” “Our flag ia there,” said the General, with military promptness. “Is there a reliable man to ho found it. the De partment of the East ?” said Win. 11. “If there isn’t” thundered the General, “I’ll shoot him on the spot,” “ Who is he?” asked the Secretary. “ Ilis name is Dead Boat,” said the General. “ Send him to Fort Lay fayotte.” So I came. I am'still here. Yours, in retirement, lx lbi t)lsi’ENBAßLE Necessity." —Mr. Lin coln, in the Hodges letter, remarks: “ When, in March and May, and in July, 1862, I made earnest and successive appeals to the Border States to favor compensated emanci pation, 1 believed the indispensable neccs* eity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come, Unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposi tion, and -I was, in my best judgment , driven to 'the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it the Constitution, or of laying a strong band upon the colored ele ment. I chose the latter, tn chosing it, I ■hoped for greater gam than loss, htit of this I was not entirely confident” In other words, at the risk of endangering our foreign relations, of disgusting the entire “home sentiment/" of driving a great army into insubordination, for the sake of a matter of the expediency.of which he was doubtful, and from which he only hoped that more profit would ensue than loss, and simply and solely-because he wds “ naturally anti slavery," and wanted to bo re-elected, Mr. Lincoln did deliberately and advisedly lift his hand and smite ’down the Constitution he was sworn to preserve, protect and de fend 1 And this is “honest Old Abo I" A Capital Hit.— The Chaplain of the U. S. Senate, like all other Abolition humbugs, having made a practice of notifying the Lord of what ho wants done, in his “ prayers," Senator Saulsburv, of Delaware, offered the following: Resolved , That the Chaplain of the Senate be seepectfully "requested hereafter to pray and supplicate Almighty God in our behalf, and nob lecture Him, informing Him, under the pretense of prayer, of his (the said Chap lain's) opinions in reference to His duty us the Almighty, and that the said Chaplain bo further requested as aforesaid, not under the form of prayer to lecture the Senate in relation to the questions before the body. O’ Why is it that the “ loyal” papers of the country have so little to say about the bogus 'proclamation, since the author has turned , out to be an Abolition reporter and speculator? Will they profit by the "lesson they have learned in this case f A Neobo as Good as Two White Men The “ Occasional” letter from Washington to the Philadelphia Press , suggests that for negro barbarities, perpetrated by rebels, they bo made to give two white rebels as hostages for the philanthropic investment. What next 7 FbeeiJomoe tub Pbess.—ln Prance, a newspaper is entitled to receive-three sepa rate warnings for as many offences, in the way of giving currency to false reports or publishing seditious articles; but then" it must bo remembered that Franco un der its present ruler is a much milder tism than either Russia, Austria or the Uni i tod States* CUMBERLAND COUNTY. The draft for'Cumberland County was commonosd onTUhrsday morning last. The following ls a correct list bf those drafted i SIXTY-SECOND SUBDISTRICT. Monroe Towdships 221 enrolled. IB drafted. Wmßeok, Wm A Morrelt, John Myers, Johnßorgard, Levi Gales, Sami Garvor, Wm Moore, Jacob Strouk, Jacob Goodyear, Jacob Encfc, Wm Latimer, John Piter, Ellas H Kuhn, Sami Christ, Jr,, ■Rudolph Hartzlcr, Henry Stub. SIXTIETH SUB-DISTRICT. •South Middleton Township '326 enrolled. 12 drafted. jVm' Hasfing, James Shannon, Nap B Moore, Moses M Myers, Jos ill fjohj John B °hm, Geo Otto, -David Sbonffbr, Wm UumtaelbShgh, Jacob Homminger, James Miller, David Bouer, • FIFTY-THIRD SUB-DISTRICT. Frankford Township* IG3 enrolled. 26 drafted. Geo Morris, Wm Wert, „ Adolphus Oiler, Elias Alexander, Wm Reamer, Wm Finkonbindur, Simon Bonder, Dani Burkholder, Wm H Miller, Wm Haines, Christian Bowman, Solomon Myers, Sami Burkholder, Lewis Myers, Bcnj Nickey, Henry Rlckabaugh, John Walter, Sami Webb, Philip Snyder, Miohl Wolf, John F Mountz, Fred Kerres, Jacob Wetzol, Andrew Oiler, ■John Fry, Henry Raudabanghy FORTY-NINTH SUB-DISTRICT. Mifflin Township. 158 enrolled. 21 drafted. Abraham Whisler, Jonathan Barrick* Jack Lucas, (col’d.) Michael Bloom, Abraham Henry, Chas West, (col’d,) T/iomas Henry, John Uobcrlig, John Shulenberger, David Storrplt, Jesse Watson, John Wolf, Geo W Jaooby, Sami Bowman, Henry Barrlck, Sami Heckman, Josiah Allert, William Jumper, Joseph Jumper, James Bams, (col’d,) Goo Landis, FORTY-EIGHTH SUB DISTRICT. fiopcw'ell Township* D 7 enrolled. 9 drafted. John L Wcist, G Quigley, C C Stofiffer, John Arniatroog, Geo Kelsor, Henry Welker, Goo Mower, John Honscl, John Ilcllit'flnger. FOBTf-SIXTH SUB-DISTRIOt. bouthatnplori Touftihip. Geo Evilhawk, Peter Tritt, Joseph Graham, Edwin Pullet, (col’d) Goo W S’trigort, Henry Varner, Goo WoaVeV, Wm Russell, Andrew M Bauks, Mich SCott, ((sol’d) Abraham Stahm, * Isaac N. Hays, •James Stine, . John W Hutchinson, Reuben Mowers, James Elliott, David Halter, ' Rob’t Guslis, (col’d), While engaged clearing a mass of accu* mulated rubbish from the shelves of our li brary, one evening last week, wo happened to lay our hands on a pamphlet entitled* “ Address on Religious Intolerance and Po- litical Proscription, delivered at Lancaster, Pu., Sept. 24th, 1855, by John W. Forney.” This address was a well-written and truthful argument against the miserable Know Noth ing order, which at that day sought to obtain Con&dl of our National and State politica. la its pages, however, wo-find severe denuncia tions of abolitionism, which, now that Fortey has himself- become an Abolitionist, will do to republish, in order that he may have the benefit of reading his own opinion of his pre sent associates less.than ten years ago. Wo copy some extracts': Dea!o Beat. “We find unchurched clergymen Contend ing in the party Held; proscriptive^dcrna-' goguos ignoring all the ideas of genuine pa 1 triotism ; and the iinmunities’securod by the sacred blood and tho written'constitutions of the past, postponed or,sacrificed by a- nrtrrow and a bigoted Naiivism, which, like a rank weed that grows in the dark,-or luxuriates between tho wills of a' prison, is baleful to the eye and poisonous to the touch. We are rapidly unlearning tho groat lessens taught by history ; and we find a party in our midst bent on the establishment of the same tyran ny from which our fathers fled'. * *.* , So that it will bo perceived, while AbolK tionism marks its career not only by forcible* resistance to the statutes of Congress, but in filling Christian denominations with discord and unhappiness by giving prominence to infidels like Garrison and to traitors liko Wendell Phillips; on the other band, Know Nothiogism> imitating closely tho example of its dark rlly, writes its record in tho bloodiest defiance of the most solemn cove nants of law and religion. * * * * What is there in our happy country.to mnko men afraid of the light of day and of honest inquiry ? Have we a conscript la>v that teanT tho husbandman from bis plough, the father from his family, the sou from his widowed mother, to go forth and ant as gladiators for the amusement of a few ambitious Kings* Have wo a gang of hired tax-gatherers to drain the substance of the people? Have we laws for tho rich and stripes for the poor; Is our President an Attila or a Caligula ? « our Senate a council of Ton? Is our House of Representatives a body of tyrants RT m °d with power to ravish and destroy ? Secret usurpations against such wrong would ho justifiable and right, for wo are taught the great lesson‘that “resistance to tyrants )8 obedience to God." But wo do not carry such burdens, and long may it bo bdforo sufferings of our people will render it neces sary for them to imitate the example ot 1 1 trembling subjects of the monarohs ot t world." * * * . * ' * * True as preaching. And what was truein 1855, is equally and more true now. Wen dell Phillips was a traitor then—he is no le!* a traitor now. We had no conscript law, such as he describes, then, but we have one now. In 18C4, wo have “ a gang of hire tax-gatherers to drain the substance of tbs people.” They are worse than the lio° ““ the locusts of Egypt. Wo have “inns oc the rich and stripes for the poor.” Our Pro Bident is not exactly an Attila, but an aP° ogy for one. And against such Forney told us in 1855, we wore tnngh groat lesson, that “ resistance to tyrants i obedience to God.” Exactly so. But w e the people undertake to resist, they are o: 1 incarcerated in loathsome dungeons, or ® ished froth the country. Such is the of Abolitionism, and no man’knows i ® than John W. Forney. Yet, ho is , ing himself to the very men ho so ‘ denounced but nine years ago, and wi 1 ,, g revelling in riches gained by his cou Argus, tSS~ Gen. Hancock received the svror< the Louisville (Ky.) Sanitary F®' l, THE DRAFT. 240 enrolled. 18 drafted. FORNEY IN 1855.
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