AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
JUllJi B. BRATTON, Editor k Proprleor.
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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.