A.Ui .-Uv a \ VoiAiM'hhU
JOBS B. BRITIUJi, Editor k Proprfeor.
CARLISLE, PA., JUNE CO, 18(34.
FOR IN I*o4,
GEORGE B. M’CLELLAN
[Sulijcct to the decision of a National C>invontion.]
FRO3I THE FRONT.
Secretary Stanton ha* ceased issuing war
bulletins for tlio reason that our military op
erations recently have been a series of vex
atious disappointments. General Grant has
succeeded in securing a position on the
Weldon railroad, south of Petersburg, but
the disaster to a portion of our loft wing on
"Wednesday last must have been n severe
mortification to the wlnd-c army. It seems
the rebels succeeded in capturing an entire |
brigade of Union troops. General Hunter’s
movement against Lynchburg lias proved a
sorry failure. He was repulsed in the direct
attack upon that city, and now it is eemi-ofii
cially announced that ho is in retreat to
-Western Virginia. Tims ciubs the second
combined movement against the rebel capital.
The first failed when Siucl was beaten in
the valley and Butler contemporaneously
miscarried in his assault up m Port Darling.
The second great combined movement was
to isolate the rebel capital by cutting oil its
communications on every side. Grant him
self was to capture Petersburg, Hunter
Lynchburg, and Sheridan was to destroy
the Gordonsviilc road. Lech of these three
movements has resulted in a failure, .and
General Grant must now form new combina
tions* It is idle any lunger to talk of star
ving out the rebels. The roads northwest
and southwest from Richmond are no longer
even menaced. The only really good nows
at hand is that the road south from Peters-*
burg is securely in poscssion of our army.
This is no doubt an inconvenience to the
rebels ; but that is all. It of itself effects no
important object. Wc wish we could write
in a more hopeful strain ; but the country is
entitled to the truth.
However, the noble Army of the Potomac
is still intact, and General Grant, as the
Vicksburg campaign shows, is not a man to
bo disheartened by temporary failures. ’Wc
still believe be trill defeat Lee’s army and
capture the rebel capitol ; but certainly not
by the 4th of July.
To the Front. —On .Monday afternoon
last a detachment of one hundred an 1 fifty
regul.rs, under tiie command of Lieut. Mc-
Gregor, left Carlisle Barracks for tho front.
In this detachment were a great number of
old veterans, who had been stationed at this
post for the last six year's.
£ST“ The ppecial election in the W«ft
"NV ard on Friday last resulted—as was ex
pected—in the election of the Abolition can
didate, J. U, Parker.
No Adate.me.nt o.v State Taxes.— By a
recent Act of Assembly, tin* abatement of 5
per cent, heretofore allowed to counties uii
the amount of ull State Taxes paid into the
State Treasury prior to the l>t of September
in any year, has been repealed ; and in its
stead, a penalty of 5 per cent, will be added
on all State taxes that remain unpaid on and
after the first of August, to be charged in the
duplicate against each delinquent tax'paver
in arrears at that date. It will therefore be
seen that tbo ( 'prompt payment id Slate taxes
will henceforth be equivalent to a saving of
6 per cent, to all our tax-paying citizens—a
matter of considerable importance to those
who are rated high on the tax lists.
The Hot "WEATifEia— “ IV o never experi
enced such hot weather/' was exclaimed on
Sunday and day before on all sides, by tbo
sweltering masses. It is true that tbo rays
of the sun were hot, and that owing to the
lack of breeze the temperature was uncom
fortable ; still, this is the season for hot
weather, and last year and the year before,
and years before that, the same was experi-'
enced. s * Tbo warm weather at this period is
good for the crops, and wo should not grum
ble at it. MV a should think-of-what the
warmpth must be around Petersburg, and
bear our heated term with a large amount o 1
philosophy. We may add, however by way
of joining in with the grumblers, that a little
rain would be highly beneficial, ns the
drought, has now continued fur some time.
Kev Lost.—so,ooo Reward —Lost near
Port Darling, “ the key to Richmond,” which
as was announced by the Republican papers,
was entrusted to the keeping of the subscri
ber. It is supposed to have been taken by a
follow named Beauregard, who violently as
saulted, battered, and thrashed the subscri
ber, causing him to skedaddle in such haste
that bo dropped the key. The above reward
will be paid in Linooln-akins to any one who
will restore it. Gen. B.
The $3OO Commutation Clause. —-The Se
nate on Thursday. passed a bill to repeal tlio.
$3OO commutation clause of tlio Conscription
and allowing the future term of service
of drafted men to be restricted to one year.
The vote on the final passage was 24 yeas to
7 nays. The Clouse, however, on Tuesday,
struck out of the bill before it, tho section
repealing the $3OO commutation clause, by a
vote of 100 yeas to 50 nays. So that it is not
likely tho repeal will pass during the present
session.
The New York Tribune calls on the
people of Ndw York to stop eating meat as
the only way tobreak up thq ring of specu
lators and bring down the price. But the
prices of corn, wheat and vegetables are as
high as that of meat. Suppose then wo stop
■fitting altogether. That would bring tho
peculators to terms, wo guess.
i£7"' Gold in Philadelphia yesterday, 235 I
they stuiiai
It la really amusing to road the comments
uf the administration papers on the subject
of FaciruNT’a nomination by tlio Cleveland
Republican Convention. Nearly every 1 ono
of these editors are Lincoln s office-holders
—pensioners on the Government,- who make
their daily broad, nut by the sweat, of the
brow, but hy holding office at good salaries.
The Cleveland Convention, it ia well known,
contained as delegates many of the ablest
men of the country—m<3.i ot position, intlu
enco and means, whose on ! v object in attend
ing it was to wrest our Government from the
vandal bands of those who now administer
its affairs. Of the four hundred delegates in
attendance, some ten or twelve were ex-Gov-
ernors, thirty or forly were or had been-offi
cers in the army, fifteen or twenty were ed
itors, and many were merchants and men of
affluence. Altogether it was as respectable
a Convention as ever assembled in America.
Of course they were Republicans, radical Re
publicans, it may bo, whose political opinions
wo abhor,' but yet as men, they were highly
respectable, and beyond question, disinter
ested. Suck being tiro character of the men
who composed the Cleveland Convention, it
is amusing, we repeat, to road the comments
of Linou.n’s hirelings when they speak of
this gathering.
The Harrisburg T<:lc-jraph % owned by the
Post Master of that place, and edited by
another office-holder, considers FkemwNT a
very small man, a disorgani/er and Copper
head, and those who placed him in nomina
tion “sore head* 3 , who want office.’’ This to
come from men who arc office-holders under
Ade, is modesty cxemplitiod. A few years
ago (1830,) this same TtUhjraph spoke of
Fremont ag the greatest state-man in Amer
ica, and whoso elevation to the Presidency
would be evidence of the patriotism of the
people. llo\v office, sometimes, will change
men’s opinions and cause them to eat their
own words. All other administration papers
speak of Fremont and the Convention that
nominated him in about the Fame strain. —
They desire to make light of it, poor follows,
but, from the tone of their articles it is appa
rent that a very large thorn is fostering in
thei r sides. .
Now, we are not, if vre know ourself, vin
dictive, but yoc wo cannot but characterize
these placemen, these hirelings, those mis
erable cular men, bought witli a price, as the
meanest menials that ever worked fora mas
ter. They’ arc nut worthy even of contempt,
and will he despised by honorahle men, be
cause of"their subserviency and want of de-
ccncy and truth.
We have no sympathy whatever with the
Fremont causp, but this wo can say that
Fremont is too great a man’ to cmno down to
the low practices of a Lincoln —too much of
a Christian to take an oath to break it. Yes,
Joir.v 0. Fremont, the son-in-law of the glo
rious Benton, could nut and would not per
jure liis soul for nsyty, He may have his ra
dical partizau opinions, but never would he
trample under foot all the teachings of the
early fathers ; never would ho, for the sake
of keeping himself in office, abrogate the
plain provisions of the Constitution; never
would he suspend the writ of habeas corpus,
muzzle.the press and cast men into prison,
without trial. Nol John C. Fremont would
not do these tilings if ho occupied the Presi
dent's chub. He believes in a God, and lie
would not, as wo have said, perjure his soul
fur party.
And this man, J»-itn C. Present, the father
of the Republican party—tbo man on wlnuc
broad shoulders the party was organized,
their first candidate for Presidoht, this 5a the
man, .we say, against whom the Lincoln
hired editors level their pup-guns. Puur
devils, they are paid fir their writings, and
on the election of old Ann depends their
bread and but;or. They aro alarmed, and
well they may lie, for many uf their own party
are disgusted with the “ smutty joker,” and
desire a change. They aro di-asati.-fiiyl with
him because of bis weakness, his imbecility,
bis dishonesty ; nay more, because they know
that he is the friend of Infidels, rascals and
plunderers. Well may they bo alarmed, fur
the people arc beginning to think fur them
selves, and no abuse that paid menials may
heap upon Fremont or any other man who
desires to rescue our country from anarchy
and ruin, can turn them from the object they
have in view. Mark that, placemen.
DCT 3 We sec it stated that. President Lin
coln has never drawn one dollar of his salary.
A letter-writer states that “ his Excellency
remarked recently that he did not intend to
lift any portion of Ids salary until the end of
his second term, at which time it would
"amount to a nice sum.” This looks strange.
In J.SdO Mr. Lincoln’s friends represented
him as being very poor—not worth a thou
sand dollars, and this they said was evidence
of liis honesty. Where does lie now obtain
Ids means? Former Presidents had to draw
their salaries quarterly, ami then had not
enough money to providoTor their wants, but
Mr. Lincoln, it appears, can live sumptu
ously for eight year#? on nothing! Is ho too
in the shoddy business, or is cotton now king
with him ? lie is certainly making nioncy
very rapidly by some moans or other, llis
son “Bod,” too, ns we have heard, has within
the last throe 3 ears become a very rich boy
—worth some two or three hundred thousand
dollars. “ Loyalty” pays now-a-days.
jCtay*’ The Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia
has been a decided success, the receipts
amounting to about one million of dollars.—
Whether this largo sum of money is to be ap
preprinted to the wants of the soldiers or
gobbled sharper*, is a question much
mooted in tlio city. Ono of tho Treasurers
of tho concern—a good Lincoln man and
member of the Union League—stole $B,OOO
of tho funds on the second day of tho Fair.—
lie is a very “ loyal” man, however, and
therefore considered it his right to make a
grab.
An Infamous Attack Upon Gen. Grant.
—Tlio Philadelphia Press, published by the
.hireling dog, Fornrv, in a lato issue, says—
“ Wo regard Gpn. Grant among warriors as
wo regard Mr. Lincoln among statesmen 1”,
This is a most infamous attack upon Gen,.
Grant, and in us many words pronounces
him a traitor, imbecile and ass.
JBSS“*Gon. Meade lias been awarded the
sword of tlio Philadelphia. Fair.
FLUX AND TERRIBLE TRUTHS.
The’ New York Evening Post, one of the
moat influential advocates of the election of
Mr. Lincoln and supporters of his Adminis
tration, is ioroed to make ttiofollowing admis-
sions, in reference to that Administrations
It is not to ho denied that its arbitrary ar
rests, its suppression of journals, its surren
der of fugitives without j udicial warrant, and
its practical abandonment of the Monroe doc
trine, have produced a wide and deep feeling
of apprehension and disapproval. The am
bition of all .the genuine lovers of democratic
government in tins country has been and is
to conduct the war in such a manner fis to
prove to the world that the most gigantic re
volt that was ever recorded can bo pot down
by the en'M’g'es of the people, without distur
bing the fundamental institutions of the na
tion. or at any rate without in tho slightest
degree infringing their spirit. Tho masses
of tho people who feel so keenly that thoir
only security and happiness depend upon the
rigid observance of all those guarantees of
natural rights and liberties which aro the
peculiar glurv of our State and Federal con
stitutions. are jealous of tho slightest appear
ance of a departure from them, and ever ready
to vindicate them by their suffrages. *
This concedes everything that is claimed
bv tho conservatives, and It embodies the very
essence of the position assumed by tho Dem
ocratic party in relation to the points upon
which it comments. For tho enunciation of
similar sentiments the Democratic Union par
ty of our State is daily denounced as disloyal
and as working secretly in the interests of
secession. Wo have been impelled by a sense
of impcVatlve duty to denounce the very nets
which the lost says havo produced a wide
and deep feeling of apprehension and disap
proval. We are for crushing the rebellion
without dhtuiblng the fundamental institu
tions of the nation, and, when wc see that
the pnlicy of the Administration not only dis
turbs but rnthh'Hs ( ly uproots them all. our ap
prohensj ms arc excited and wo should bo re
creant to.iluly were wo to hesitate in speaking
our disapproval. Wo believe religiously that
this rebellion can bo put down by the oner-
glow of 1 1 jo people for whom our government
was established ami by that posterity fur
whom the Cunstiimion was ordained and
established hy our fathers, and that this
can ho effected wl huut infringing their spir
it in the slightest degree. Believing this, wo
should bo a mural traitor were wo not to sound
the alarm when wo see the most dangerous
usurpations of the government and tho most
reckless infractions of the Constitution. AVo
see that our rights and libetics, which are
the peculiar glory of our constitutional gov
ernment, are not rigidly protected hy tho re
spectful observance of their guarantees, and
wo do not hesitate to sound tho .alarm, and
call upon the people to vindicate them at the
ballot-box next fall. This, wbich was patri
otic ardur once, is l by our now school of cas
uists branded as treachery, and wo aro
menaced with violence if we do not acknowl
edge that Abu\ ham Lincoln and his Cabinet
are the government, on the same principle
that the crafty king asserted, “ I am the
Stale.” At this juncture it is refreshing to
he met by the admissions of the New York
7 W/, a paper distinguished for its intelligence.
The organs of tho Administration will not
dare toquestion it loyally, for it wields a pow
er which can bo made effective, and it can
raise a storm which they dare not invoke.—
It tolls plain and terrible truths, and their
enun'iathm is tho more important as coming
from a quar'er vhich a quarter of a century
since planted the i&cds of the present fruit
age of the Republican party. That it shhuld
now. like Frankenstein, shrink back, appall
ed at the monster of its own creation, which
it cannot control, is not wondeful.
FRAUDS, FRAUDS!
The principal editor of the New York
Evening I W, Mr. Linvm.n’s special organ,
was Navy Navy Agent at that city. Last
week lie was arrested, and it soon appeared
that he was a defaulter to the Government to
an irmnon." o amount —some millions! He
was a delegate to the Lincoln Convention at
Baltimore, and of course voted for Lincoln’s
rfj-uuminalion. It really appears that Lin
coln and his particular friends are deter
mined to appropriate all the means of the
Treasury to their own pockets; Never in
the history of the world was such scouudrcl
ism practiced by men in authority.
Lincoln to McClellan.—lf you will give
me satisfactory answers to the following
questions, I shall “gladly yield my plan to
yours:
Ist. Does not your plan Involve a greatly
larger expenditure of lime and money than
mi nr ?
2d. Wherein Is a victory more certain hy
your plan than mi nr ?
3d. Wherein is a uetory more valuable by
your plan than mi nr, t .
♦Ub. In Tact would it not ho less valuable
in this—that it would break no great line of
the enemy’s communications, while mine
would ?
Gtli. In case of disaster would not a retreat
be more difficult hy your plan than mine?
Yours trulv,
Burnside, Hooker, Meade and Grant have
all tried the “joker's” plan, at the cost of one
hundred thousand men, and Lincoln’s ques
tions are answered by coming at last to Mc-
Clellan’s plan! Is it “ best to sw.op horses
while crossing a stream ?”
DTa* Major- General Carl Sciiurz is appoint
ed to the command of the convalescent camp
at Nashville—little more than a mythical in
stitution. Ills predecessor was a Captain.—
Why is a Major-General retained in the ser
vice at a Major-General’s pay' if ho is fit for
nothing bettor ? Wo suppose that Sciiurz
is sent to take charge of tho convalcsient
camp so that he may not fall under the op
eration of Sehenek's bill to 'muster out all
Major-Generals and Brigadier-Generals who
shall not be in active service at a named
time.
Scnonz is ono of Lincoln’s civil appoint
ments. Ho is a man of fine ability, but he
has never, with all his opportunities, shown
n particle of military talent. Ho is a radi
cal though, and therefore ho will ho taken
care of. No doubt of that;
{£l7* Wo saw a sight at tho Lehigh Valley
Depot on Friday last, such as we never ex
pected to see in this Jree country. A white
man atd a filthy negro, both said to bo deser
ters from tho.army, were chained together by
clasps around their wrists.. In this condition
they wefomarchcd through the public streets
of Easton, on their way to tho depot. That
is carrying out the abolition doctrine of equal
ity of thoraces, with a vengeance. —Exchange
Maximilian has made his imperial, OTi'try
into Mexico. Commenting upon tills event,
tho Now York Daily Kcivs says;—“Repub
lioaniam rctrogadea iipon this‘continent, and
now no.longer with pride and exultation, but
with a humiliation and consciousness -of per
fidy to our own faith ns tho defenders of self
government, wo must say, in its worst sense,
“ westward the star of empire takes its sway.
For one republic, murder; for another, sui.
, cidc. Our Black Republican cotcmporarics,
throughout all the phases of this Mexican
adventure, have systematically closed their
eyes to the consummation. At one time they
would insist that the Mexican people would
vindicate their liberties. At another they
would prophesy that Maximilian could not
, bo tempted with ah imperial crown to ex
change his European security for a transat
lantic grandeur founded on a quicksand and
nurtured in convulsion. Some sophistry was
always within reach to varnish tho ignoble
policy with which this Administration has
betrayed a sister republic to foreign cupidity
and ambition. Meanwhile, tho crafty mas-
ter politician of tho Tuillcrica weaved at his
loom, and to-day wo must realize at onco our
degradation and his triumph. .
“ Wc presume that the justifiora of tho Ad-
ministration’s cowardly suhson ionce t$ the
imperial programme will now seek to allay
tho popular disgust with grandiloquent pro
mises of summary action in prospective. We
will do this when wc have conquered the
South, and wo will do that when tho Union
shall have been reconstructed. But in the
interim, tho apathy of this Government in
regard to Mexican affairs amounts to a re-
of the Empire—a recognition by
the Administration, but not by the people. —
The shameful diplomatic action of Mr. Sew
ard, in direct repudiation of the popular sen
timent aa expressed by the House of Repre
sontativea, is a virtual admission, on the part
of our Department of State, that we relinquish
the Monroe Doctrine. Nothing more diffi
cult than fur a nation to reverse diplomacy
upon a question that involves the interests of
another mighty and exacting power. To
have remained inactive and apparently ac
quiescent up to the period of Maximilian’s
actual possession of the throne is an ac
knowledgement that the Empire is an aceom
plished fact. Wo have quietly looked on
while the germ was being planted, when hut
a breath from ‘Washington would have blown
it from the furrow, and now the strong tree
that has grown up will require sinewy arms
to lay it low. Diplomacy can no longer servs
our turn. To restore the Mexican Republic
wo must measure swords with the moat pow
erful potentate of Europe. There must be,
on our pari, a renunciation of a cardinal
principle of our foreign policy, a betrayal of
Republicanism upon this Continent, or a des
perate war with France, with Mexico, and per
haps with Austria. ThcconflicUvill bo no brief
interchange of blows, to lie followed by an
aceom modatian, but a definite trial of strength
and endurance. Arc we prepared for it?—
With the co-operation of the South, the trial
will result in the grandest triumph of Repub
lican principles that the most earnest free
man could contemplate. In the name of hu
manity! of freedom, of our mission upon
earth, in the names of our fathers, who
achieved Republicanism with their blood, lot
us cease the strife that is senseless, ruinous
and ingenious, and turn our united arms
against a common enemy.
♦* I believe tha! tho Constitution lias given
no cower to tho General Government to in
terfere in this matter and to have slaves or
no slaves depomb upon tho people mi each
State'alone. Hut besides tho constitutional
objection, I am persuaded that tho obvious
tendency of sued) interference on the part of
tho States which ha.vo no slaves, with the
property of their fellow citizens of the others
is to produce a stale of discontent ami jeal
ousy that will in tho end prove fatal to the
Union.” —Ex-Piusi dent Harrison.
“With tho Almliiiunists therighta of prop
erty are nothing; the deficiency of ti o powers
of the General Government is nothing ; the
acknowledged and ineontcstible powers of
the States are nothing ; the dissolution of the
Union, ami the overthrow of a government
in which are concentrated tho hopes of the
civilize! world, are nothing. A single idea
has taken possession of their minds, and on
ward they pursue it, overlooking all barriers,
reckless and regardless of all consequenses.”
—Uenrit Olay.
“ If these infernal fanatics and Abolition
ists ever get the power in their hands, they
will override the Constitution, set the Su
preme C.iurtat defiance, change and make
laws to suit themselves, lay violent hands on
those who differ with them in opinion or dare
question ihcir fidelity, and finally bankrupt
tho country and deluge it with blood.”—
Hamel Webster.
“ Sir, Tho Abolition party is'a disloyal or
ganization. Its pretended love for freedom
means nothing more or less than civil war
and a dissolution ot the Union. Tlonest men
of all parties should unite to expose their in
tentions and arrest their progress.— Andrew
Jackson, ”
“In contemplating the causes which may
disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of
serious concern that any ground sJouldhavo
been furnished for characterizing parties by
geographical discriminations.”—Washing
ton's Farewell Address.
A mi a 11 am Lincoln
“1-hold that this Government was made
on t{io white basis, by white men, for the
benefit of white meir, and their posterity for
ever.”— S. A. Douglas.
Men of Cumberland County 1 will yon, can
you disregard tho words of the fathers wo
quote above? They are indeed, voices from
tho grave—voices of departed Patriots, some
of whom were Whigs, some Democrats.—
Will you not bo guided in your course by tho
words of wisdom expressed by our former
Statesmen? If so, bo up and doing, and as
sist to put down, at the ballot-box, tho “ in
fernal fanatics' f who are preying upon tho
vitals of tho people, and shaking the very
foundation of tho Republic. Up, and throt
tle tho “ disloyal organization, ” if you desire
to savo your country from tho rein that
threatens it. Up, freemen; up I
, OCT” Mrs. Harriet Beeclior Stowe, in the
course of a panegyric on Mr. Lincoln, says:
“Little did the convention that nominated
Abraham Lincoln for President know what
they were doing.” Nothing could bo truer.
And still less did the people that elected him
know what they were doing. But they know
now, t Will they, with their eyes open, re
peat' the deed ?
O’ The Abolitionists don’t want the coun
try as it was. They desire, a now nation.—
And so they go in for miscegenation.
MAXIMILIAN IN MEXICO.
TORES FROM THE GRAVE. ■ ,
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION.
The JFbrh?-, in speaking of tho arrest of
Henderson, Navy Agent for New York and
tho proprietors of tho Evening Post,
on charges of official malfeasance, uses tho
following language:
The only point in this disgraceful 'matter
to which wo wish to call attention and give
emphasis, is one which concerns public mo
rality and an honest administration of tho
Government, ' More official corruption has
been disclosed since Mr. Lincoln carao into
office than under all bis predecessors put to
gether; and it is probable that what is dis
closed is but a small part of what has boon
pepetratod. For a party which professes to
ho founded on “ groat moral ideas” this is
no doubt incongruous, and it might seem un
accnunablc, if tho world has not furnished an
many examples, from those “white sepul
chres,“ the ancient Pharisees, downward, of
rapacity wearing tho cloak of assumed virtue.
A false and factitious virtue is probably the
moat fruitful source of corruption. The rea
son, when we unco come to reflect upon the
subject, ia obvious. The basis of a man’s
moral nature is an honest and resolute fideli-
ty to truth. Whether truth makes for a
man or against him, whether it favors or ob
structs the Rccompliahmont of darling object
come in what nnwelcemo guiac it may, it ex
acts man's unhesitating homage, under the
penalty of abandoning/ him to drift, like a
ship w ithout compass or rudder, at tho mercy
of his passions and cupidity. Now, aa for
this Black Republican party, tho truth was
never in it. It baa been the embodiment of
a conscious lie from tho beginning. It pro
tended that its only object was to prevent the
extension of slavery into free territory, when,
in fact, it aimed, from tho first, at the com
plete abolition of slavery. It pretended that
it passed tho so-called personal liberty hills
to protect citizens of the free States, when
their sole purpose waa to prevent tho return
of fugativo "Slaves. It pretended to regard
tho emancipation of the southern slaves as a
military nccosity, when it only meant to take
advantage of the war to accomplish the orig
inal object for which tl o party was formed.
It protends to regard Democrats as traitors,
when it only wishes to render them odious
and keep them out of power, and thinks this
<1)0 likeliest means. It delights in false ac
counts of the war and exaggerated estimates
of our success, because its moral nature is
so corrupted that honest adherence to truth,
merely because it is true, Ims become m dis
tasteful as pure water to an inebriate. * Edu
cated in a long course hypocrisy and false
pretences, it has not even a prcceptfon of
the nature of moral virtue. Perjury is no
crime if tho violation of an oath conduces
■to the freedom of a slave. Hence, a man like
gumnor, who has repeatedly sworn to to sup
port the Constitution, openly scouts that pro
vision of it which requires the surrender of
fugatives. Keeping faith in a contract is
most regarded as a virtue ; and although tho
Union could never have been formed without
a stipulation that each State should control
its own domestic affairs, the chief aim of the
1 party is to break that engagement. Tho
1 Black Republican party have invented a sub
• sfilule for the sterling old fashioned virtues
of honesty, veracity, fidelity to engagements,
! and the keeping of oaths. Perjury, hyponri
fly, fraud, and the foulest official corruption,
f are consecrated by the bastard and spurious
- loyalty which consists in a noisy profession
of the abolition gospel, and a canonization of
P old John Brown as a political saint, “ whoso
soul is marching on.”
1 This spurious philanthropy, which is made
i the cloak for every description of dishonesty,
hag so eaten out the heart of moral virtue in
I the abolition leaders, that political and offi
cial corruption 5s lankor and more widespread
under this odious Black Republican rr.yimc
■ than it has ever been in the European coun
tries most given over to peculation and rapa
city.
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Republicans False Prophet**.— Of all
prophets, truly remarks tho Brooklyn K<uj!c,
surely the leaders of the Republican party
are least entitled to belief. After laboring to
show that the Union of these Slates was not
worth a dollar, they predicted that the South
could not be kicked out of it. When a sec
tional party triumphed At tho North, it was
predicted that tho South, instead of endeav
oring to got out of the Union, would content
herself by firming new combinations within
it. When the thoughtful men of the country
wore alarmed by tho gravity of the Hines im
mediately following the election of Mr. Lin
coi.n, that functionary himself assured us
that there was “ nobody hurt,” and that there
would not ho. When war actually broke out,
we were assured that tho Southern people
wore endeavoring to deceive themselves, but
that they could not deceive so astute a poli
tician as the man who made tho statement,
Mr. Seward. Then came the “sixty days”
prophecy, and finally the intelligent contra
band, too, took his place among the prophets,
and the South wna to bo starved out. Give
us, said Mr. Greeley, an emancipation policy
and 900,QU0 men will take the field. Free
tho slaves and the roads of New England
will swarm with* volunteers, said Gov. An
drew. Proclaim the extinction of negr.o shi
very, and the news will bo carried from plan
tation to plantation, says the Tribune , ami
the rebels will have as much as they can at
tend to in putting down servile insurrection.
Every prediction of these men has been falsi
fied ; yet unabashed, they continue to pro.
phesy, and the credulity of their dupes is not
yet exhausted.
A Swarm of Office Holders. —Tho Abo
litionists have arranged matters so that al-
most every third man of their party is an of
fice holder, but even this docs nob seem to
content them or satisfy their greed for place
and profit. Wo now find that they have in
troduced into Congress a bill to take a U. S.
census in IBGs—heretofbro it has'been taken
every ten years. They make this move on
tho presumption that uld Abo will bo elected
for another term, and they want to fix things
so that employment will bo furnished to sev
eral thousand more of tho Loyal Leaguers,
too cowardly to enter tho army, but all eager
to devote themselves to thesupport of tho
Government” for pay.
One of tho greivanoes that tho American
colonists urged against. King George 111., in
justification of their Declaration of Indepen
dence, was this. How aptly would its words
apply to our present llulor:
“lie has erected a mullidnde of neto offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers to harass
our people, and cat out their substance”
Tub Effect. —The day after Lincoln’s
nomination by his office-holders at Baltimore,
gold advanced 8 per cent., and Government
bonds went dowen at the same ratio. If this
is not ominous, what is 1
O’ Gen. Banks had a good deal of tact as
Speaker of the House of Bopresentatlvcs.—
Why didn’t ho, when Dick Taylor was mov
ing upon him, cry out, mallet in hand, “Sir,
your motion is out of order 1”
POLITICAL GENERALS.
The fact is now perfectly understood, that,
Gen. Butler and General Sigel had, in
their late nxpoditions, done that which was
expected of them, and which, with ordinary
military skill and prudence and courage,
they might have done, Gen. Lee’s army would
have been cut off from all reinforcements and
all supplies of provisions, and Richmond
rendered utterly untenable. Vast military
, conecquenses depended upon the success of
those expeditions, for they were important
parts of Grant’s great plan of operations
against the Army of Virginia and the rebel
capitol. But both expeditions failed, failed
ingloriously, failed' because Butler and Sta
eL, one of them taken for a Major-General
ship from a lawyer’s office, and the other
from a cigar, stole, were unfit for their posi-
tions. One of them had never had a com
mand nor been in battle in all his life, and
the other had always relied for fame upon
that tremendous military manoeuvre, the re
treat. Surely it was a -burning shame that
expeditions, involving so much —involving
probable the fate of Richmond, the fate of
the Army of the Potomac, and God knows
what more, were committed to the leadership
of two civilllan Generals, whilst officers lice
McClellan and Buell, trained, educated,
and practiced Generals, were, from the Ad-
ministration’s selfish resentment, or caprice,
o,r folly, or all three, out of service. Does
any man of common sense suppose, that, if
McClellan and Buell had been in the pla
ces t,f Butler and Sigel, the result of Hie
two expeditions would not Imvo boon differ
ent? McClellan and Buell would have
licoii tbo right men in the right places, and
not, like Butler and Sioel, tlio wrong men
ill tilo wrong places.
The Administration tins made itself ridic
ulous bv its want of judgment in tbo appoint
ment of officers and by an equal want of
judgment in its treatment of tlicm afterwards.
It lias set tbcin up without good reason, and
often upset them without any reason. It
lias turned, mid over-turned. It lias dismis
sed the worthy and retained the unworthy_
It has intrusted enterprises of the mightiest
moment to those, who, ns, military men,
eoald show lie shadow of a just claim to pub
lie confidence. And so, after more than three
years of war, wo are as wo are—hopeful in
deed, but still struggling against a rebellion,
which] but -fo'r executive imbecility, would
have been crushed long ago.
If tbo multitude-* that the policy of the Ail
ministration litis directly and indirectly fyjc
rificod, could rise up from their “ lowly-bods,”
living and armed, they would of themselves
constitute an army that none of the rebel ar
mies could withstand.
Blnjnr-Gcnml Halier.
Somewhere about the month of October,
IRS9 —lees than live years ago—tncrq was a
political meeting held at CherloMown, Mas
sachusetts. It was a .Democratic meeting,
and pos.-ildy a Breckinridge Democratic
meeting. At it a speech was mii'lc.Jiy^l-r: 51 '
Benjamin F. Butler, from which wc makti
the f-dlowing extract, bogging our readers to
understand that the orator is M ij ir-Goneral
B. F. Butler, of tlio Fo<loral army, now be
sieged at Bermuda Hundred. B. F. Butler
said;
Lot us look at another thing by which I
propose to show that while our Republican
f iends have boon ho busy, looking after the
interest* of the negro, that they have neglec
ts I the interests of tlio white. I'pray yen
li-ton to mo a moment. The subject to
which I would now call attention has bt-nii
already alluded tohv the chairman—the evils
are nowhere shown in a clearer light than in
our system of pauper charity. Allow me to
utalo a few (nets. According to the statistics
furnished l>y the present Slate Legislature,
as a report of their own committee, it in more
dangerous to spend a year in a Massachusetts
almshouse than it would have linen to have
led the charge of tho Z *uavcs at Magenta.—
I ppo that this statement strikes some of you
almost with dread. Let me repeat. There
was a larger proportion ofthe regiment which
led the attack at the battle of Sojfcrino came
out from the battle unscathed, than there
were of the paupers of ISOB who came out
alive from tho State almshouses of Massachu
setts. [Sensation.]
Allow me to give yon tho figures. ITow
many was tho average number of paupers in
the State almshouses during the year ISoS?
Twenty-seven hundred and sumo odd. How
many died in tho year ending October, 18’>8?
Six hundred and sixty-six—one in every
fair. JOvory fourth man, woman and child
fiat wont into tiie almshouses o( Massachu
setts died and was buried in tho Potter’s
held of a pauper’s burial ground. Three
hundred and forty-one children, under the
ago of five years, (lied in those charnel hou
ses, and the physician of one of these houses
saya ho does not expect to rear hut throe per
cent, of the children brought there under one
year old I Three out of a hundred—all the
other ninety-seven to go to a nameless grave !
"Why this whole Commonwealth, felt out
raged because there came a report from Kan
sas that six or eight men had been killed';
and in all the wars of Kansas there were lint
nineteen well-attested cases of men being
killed, and yet our mothers and wives, and
daughters scoured the country for old clothes
and other comforts to send the people of that
Territory. [Laughter.J In the fmmo year
three hundred and odd children ot Massachu
setts anil died like dogs in a kennel in our
o>vn almshouses, while wo were weeping over
the imaginary wrongs of Kansas! [Cheers.]
Again 1 ask, my friends, is it not time that
we looked at home ? Where is Mrs. Stowe ?
Where is Greeley in The Tribune? Where
is the extra philanthropy of the humanitari
ans ? Where is that denouncer of great and
good men, Wendell Poillips? Whore are
all these men who regulate tho affairs of tho
people afar off? Is there hot ample room
for their charities hero'at homo? One hun
dred and sixty-five people dying at Bridgwa
ter ; one hundred and fifteen at Tewksbury,
and one hundred and one at. Munson 7 For
ty infants died in two months! Oh, but they
were while children 1 [Laughter.] Why
look after them ?
I do not wish to harrow your fu&Ungs fur
ther by Ainrg into statistics. I only Sask you
if it is nMt'iirae wo ceased to look after the
wrongs olft the negro at the South, and look
a little after the people at homo? But if
any Know-Nothing friend of mine will say
this is of no conscrpicnco, that these people
or the largest portion of them, wore 'merely
Irish paupers, to him I answer that the groat
majority were native born citizens of Massa
chusetts, entitled to every protection that
Massachusetts gives to any of her citizens,
(applause,) and the very A largest proportion
of them were born on ttiis “continent. If I
om told that, “Oh, these were the old, the in
firm, and the sick,” I have to say that out oi
these G6l, 341—more than half—wore under
the years of age; immortal souls, brought in
to this world, and placed in the care of Mas
sachusetts charity, Massachusetts philanthro
py ; and they have gone to God who gave
them, and it is for us to render an account,
not for them.
THE PRESIDENT AT I
ATo mentioned in our last that our " P
happy President had paid a visit to tlm T 3 N
itary Eair nt Philadelphia. Nay mor nn ‘ ft
made a speech there, which wo p-hmi ,lo ft
Tl . , . .. ueiow v’
It is a much longer speech than 1, 0 l,„ n , ft
in the habit of delivering, pud had boon c ft
fully prepared and committed to mom,- T' >'■
foro ho loft Washington. It may thorofure f' 6
considered one of his best efforts, p i . ft
men of sense and education, and you ca ' ft
form sonnj idea of the ’l“ H
Lincoln ; A - H
president Lincoln’s speech i j
I suppose that this toast was liitemlM , f |
way for mo to say suniotl,,, 0 M
(Laughter,] War nt the best is terHhln K ’~T I
this war of ours, in its magnitude aml : • 5,1
duration, is one of the most terrible l,V ls >|
deranged business, totally in tuiui'v I l “ s >a
ties, and partially in all" lonaliti C s j',, fel
destroyed property, ami ruined lioincn • . , fij
pioduooda national debt and taxation u ,ln9
eedented, at least in this country.
carried mourning to almost every l„] Wf
it can almost bo said that the “ iicavciift' 111 111
hung in hluek.” Yet it continues] nnift H
ral relieving coincidents have nc.]uiiu„," e i'ffl
it from the very beginning, which him IS
been known, as I understood, or Imvo .3
knowledge of, ih any former wa"s i n t | lc WI9
tory of the world. The Sanitary G u „, ni i 1
with all Us benevolent labors, tl lo Ulu-isf "89
Coimnission, u itli all its Christian midi Je ' n 11W ■
olcnt labors, and the various places, 1
incuts, so to speak, tr.d' institution, 9
contributed to the oomlort iind iclief ft'.ft 9
soldiers: Yhu have two of those pl a ,, ts j° 1
this city—the Cooper-Shop and Union y.ilun? I
leer Refreshment Saloons. (Great amilaift 9
and cliecrs.) And lastly, these fairs, wlfti, I
I believe, began only in last August, if r I
mistake not, in Chicago ; then nt iftstft 9
Cincinnati, Brooklin, Now York, at ISahimura 9
and those at present held at St. Lmis, Pitts- I
burg, and Philadelphia. The niiiliveandub- 3
jeot that lie at the bottom of all these wro 9
most worthy ; for, say what you will, aftrt I
nil the most is du.e to the soldier wlm'lakes 1
his life in his hands and goes to fight t|fti llU . 9
tics of his country. (Cheers.) In what is 3
contributed to Ids comfort when ho p a s,cs to 1
ami fro, and in what is contributed t„ |,i m 1
when bo is sick and wounded, in whatever 1
sluipo it comes, wliothor from tlm lairfl
and tender hands of women, or from anvil
other source, is much, very imieli ; l, u t. '[|l
think there is still that which Inn as tiiuciijl
value to him—he is not forgotten. (Climel 3
Another view of those various institutions ifti
worthy of consideration, I think ; Ihev nrill
voluntary oontri but ums.Jgi veil frcelv, a ‘lihois,f-I
ly, mid earnestly, on top of all the diMiub'i|
'uncos of business, (he taxation nnd'hur.lriiijy
that the war has imposed upon us,, giuT.l3
proof t hut the national res uircos arc u it aliy
exhausted, (cheers ;) that the national sj.ir.tß
of patriotism is even stronger than at tiuSj
comniciiceniontof the rebellion, a
it is a pertinent question often askHlntlu
mind privately, and from one to tlio orher,
when is-the war to end? Purely 1W as
deep an interest in this question as unv.>iher
can, but I do mu wish to name a ilay.tr
month, i ur a'year.whon it is to end. I djm,;
wish to run any risk of seeing tlietimec nu,
without, or being read3’ fur the on<l, and f-r
tear of disapuoiiijunjent, because tin* ti-n-bl
dime and not tmXeml. "Wo accepted ilk
war for an object.m worthy' object, and tic
war will end when \hut object h attain- - '! -
Under God, f hope it never will until that
time. {Great Cheering.] Speaking "1 tit
present 1 a’oj itign, General Grant b n-a-rvil
tndiavc said. I am going ! hr-.ugli 011 f nho
if it takes ail mi miner. [Glieej>.} Ih - ar
has taken three years ; it was h-irmi - r
ceplcd noon the li in? of restoring the in’ l ml
authority over the vrhoio- national d
ml lor the Ameiicau .people, m fir
as my knowledge enaides me to -jr'iik. I -w
wo are going through mi this lino if it t-.k-H
three years more. [Cheers.] My hi-irkl
did not know lint that I might be calki inmi
to say a lew word* before 1 g-a a-vav lisa
hare, {daughter.] 1 have hover been 111 iTi
hahit oi making predictions in regaol t-> *im
war, hut 1 am almost tempted to make
If 1 were to bayard it, it is this: TIl.ll
Grant is this evening, with General M-mM
and General Ifancork.of Pennsylvania, uni
the hVavo officers and soldiers with liim.ijis
position from n hence lie will never lied
e 1 until Jvichm md io taken. ( Lead cln erin:]
And I have but one single proposition M pii
now, and, perhaps, 1 can best nut it i'i Lm
of an interrogative. If I shall discover (Ini
General Grant and the noble o!lii , er.-» and moi
under him can be greatly facilitated in tln-ifi
work by a midden pouring forward H t 1
and assistance, will you g‘y> them t«i 1,10 -j
[Cries of *’ }'C;i Then, I say stand n?;ihi
for I am watching for the chance. |Lauguj
ter and cheers. J 1 thank you, genili'iu -a. |
Winder how many of these blatant ligj
mouthed shoddyits, who vociferated “p'f
yes,” so loudly, will bo found
their muskets when Lrvror.v issues die
for more men ? NOT ONK I
JG3?” The Boston Courier inquires can r.r.r
ho ly tell wh}' Andrew -Johnson, the t-h m
Candida 1 © for the Vice Presidency, sn! 1 !-'’ 1 * 1
Breckinridge in 18G0? Was there imv u" f
fciko or misunderstanding as to tho
tho Breckinridge leaders at that time- ( >
if there was such a mistake in the N‘ ,rtJ ■ l !
it supposable that a Southern politician I
not know' tho ultimate determination 11 ‘ l
.Southern ext ©mists in tho case of thec?v
lion of Mr. Lincoln ? There were two tied*
running at the South and tho North a'
the election of either of which was coni!l s' J
bio with peace and a nmintaiiifluanco 0 [
Union. But Johnson supported neither,
gave tho weight of his vote and his nil hj
to tho Southern extremis.’ Why d'J J
abandon them and go over to the
extremists ?
• -—lt i
Minister Corwin for Maximus* 5 - .
said time Minister Corwin, from * lc * ..'a
lioro to-day, nud that lie favors too f®
ment of tho Government of Jlaxnm
Y, Tribune’s Washington dispatch, J ,n '
Why not? If Corwin’s masters WP 0 ®
tho Monroe doctrine, is it surprisinjt l'° 6 M ,
favor the establishment of a Mom™' 1 ? 1
Mexico ? One logically follows the o 1 > er '
• gJT Since General Grant hns( t ii
ed with the sola direction of iho A 1 s!f
Potomac, the President lias °™ OIC I gold
en gas balloons belonging to it to t
Journal of Commerce.
Hadn’t the Republican Congress to
included in the lot, and bo dispose 0
same time ?—Cincinnalti Inquire ).
C 7" The abuse wo got from till
pors reminds us of the welt km? cr ,|
a pig, after wallowing m 11 :' n9 t.—W
chooses a clean person to rub a n
isville Journal. .
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Docs vs. Sheep.— Sheep liusban Ojjf,!,,
the past ten years, lips fallen fivo IninJ" 1
the State of Ohio, and n ® ar •. ,1 on accee"
thousand in Now England.
of dogs. , j
TT If there is a prospect that eH0”.,,,.
bodied men have got to R° • [j ftn ,j girl)
bettor bo educating our worn nW \ in
bo the conductors of our n _ . v^(e Join' 111
managers of our estates.
O” The meeting of the oin ° e j fr®
tional Convontion has been P OB 0 f A'
the 4th "of July to onday, tbo -
gust, at Chicago.
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