&a Itbaufn 511VErtiont. *RIM PIIINCICRATIC PhiNCIPLFA CRASS To tom, Ws miss TO WO .0 . N. BRESLIN, Editor and Proprietor. LEBANON, PA WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1861 The Democrats of the 2d Con gressional District, Philadelphia, nom inated, lust week, as their candidate for Congress C6l. CHARLES J. BIDDLE, now serving his country as a soldier. We noticed last week the nomination of Neel, by the Republicans, and the "no party"- spirit that aminated them. They'were not satisfied with making the nomination in the usual way, but took occasion to denounce all opposed to them as secessionists. Although the Democrats are about 3,000 in the 'minority hi the district, we trtist they will give their insolent and vain. Lori. ens foe just such a tassel as will make them decent for sometime to come.— The Constitutional Union party nom inated Wm. M. Meredith, but he do. dined. The election takes place to. day (Tuesday.) AFTER THE OFFICES.-A Sanitary Commission to take care of the health ,of the army, has been formed at New York and obtruded itself upon the Government. Rooms hare been as• signed to it in the Treasury building. They are to examine-and inspect all camps, forts, and hospitals. "Mr. :Frederick Olmstead, of New York, kindly consents to serve as its Resi dent Secretary and General Agent at Washington, to receive donations and subscriptions." This is all -humbug, and only another of the• thousand ways people hare to crowd themselves into snug berths of big pay and no work. buoy Regiment has its med• cal staff, and if they cannot see to the health of the men under ordinary eiremstances they had better resign and give Mr. Olmstead and his "corn mission" a chance at useful labor.— f anybody in this neighborhood sends on money to the "Commission," it will only be another illustration of the old adage—"a fool and his money are soon parted." Our army and people will soon have a swarm of vultures preying upon them more deadly than the locust plague of Egypt. "NO COMPROMISE 1" Some of our cotemporaries are great on the "Compromise" question. They will mot listen ttoAnything tending to a settlement of our present national difficulties until the Southerners lay down their arms. Then, some say, .'they would be willing to come to an arrangement. Do our friends consid er this matter aright ? Do they not see' that their sentiments are precisely those of the men who shout "No com promise with traitors, but a war of subjugetionV Is it at all likely that the people of the South took up arms against the government without an honest conviction of the justice of their cause, and with the ints,ntion of laying them down' at the mere sug gestions and promises of northern newspaper editors and politicians ? We must either whip them, or, we must redress the grievances of which they complain, and which induced. them to risk their all rather than any longer to boar and suffer under.— Reneo, instead of calling upon them to lay down their arms and trust to our teeny and justice, would it not be much better for us and them, while wo aro making immense and expen sive warlike preparations, for the North to examine itself and see that it is in the right in every respect. If we find any grievances that the South has really a right to complain of, would it not be the part of wisdom and jos-, tie° to lay a REDItESE3 of those griev &noes alongside the sword, and offer them their choice. This redress, how. ever, must not come from irresponsi ble parties. It must be by action of Congress and receive the unmistaka ble concurrence of the people of the loyal portion of the Union. Such -a compromise could be made and offered without any loss of honor, and would certainly display more Wisdom and justice than is contained in the sense. less expectation that the rebels will lay down their arms without compul sion or a redress of grievances. We pray Congress to make an honest ef .fort• to preserve the Union by peace. ful means. If that cannot be done, let us at least have the consolation of feeling that justice is on our side in every respect. ser Every Farmer, Mechanic and Workingman will be benefitted by a speedy restoration of Peace. Every man who depends upon his business or the labor of his hands for his live lihood, who ham interests or rents to pay, will he benefitted by a speedy restoration of peace. Indeed all class. es of the community will be benefit ted thereby. But for the unfortunate troubles now surrounding our coun try, we ought to have most prosper ous times. The country had recov. ered from the reverses of 1857, and was ready to enter upon a career of unexampled prosperity. With the establishment of a just and honors. ble peace, prosperity must again soon smile upon on land. A LOCAL 'ITEM A•numbor of hands on the roadway 'of the North Lebanon Railroad were discharged on last Saturday evening, and it is feared that still more will have to stop work if the times continuo to agetworse fast." The Anthracite Fur naces at Cornwall have stopped and the pig iron is piled - up in' mountains at the North Lebanon Basin. Reason —no sale. If we were not fearful that it would interfere with the "present war for the Union," the above might be taken.for a text to place some whole. some truths before the public in a local kind of way. We might call the atten. tion of the people to the fact that the promised "CHANGE" is at hand; we might show from records and recol lection that never in the history of the country, during a democratic ad. ministration, were the times so deplo rably bad as at present; we might show that even during the Buchanan administration, when the great panic of 1857 took place, the mechanics and laboring men nevertheless had em. ployment,and,if not high, at least fair, wages,and that'nobody was hurt. Wo might call attention to the deceptions practiced upon the people. in times past, and again .. reeently, in regard to a Tariff, compared with which some of the grievances ht . id at - the door of King George in the Declaration of Independence are trifling; welnight show that while:'► certain.political ;par ty disrupted the Government to secure barren wastes and rugged mountains for the white man's labor, they have placed him and his on the verge of starvation amid smilingfields and love ly valleys. We might refer to our files and show how the Democratic party strove for 'TILE UNION.;' .how-it fought for the constitutional rights of all sec tions against f.4liatieism-, abolitionism, union-Sliding, and their many-hued ad herents, until it sunk itself under the mad and reckless bloWs of its enemies; we might show how the very men now so anxious for 'THE WAR TO GOON,' were lawbreakers and disunionists in prin ciple and in practice, and express our belief that they have only now chang ed front from the helfef_ that their present course is ,only a shorter road to the end they have been pursuing all their lives, We might glance at more recent events, when mob law ruled supreme ; we might refer to the principle of 'enforcing the laws' in ono section, and the practice of violating the constitution Lama the laws in the other; we might show what we lose by all that is past and to come. •and enquire what we are to gain. If we desired to take t 12,;,, present into view we might, look into the faces of our mechanics and laboring men, and see impressed there in plain letters—want of employment, poVerty, misery, and the fear of what is still to come, while the dread of ruination and degradation haunts the business man day and night. Do we see the dawn of a brighter day in the distant horizon that might avert some of the dreaded evils ?—not the least glim mer. These things, and ma ny more we might speak of -in expla nation of our text, but, we must net. We must first'conquer and subjugate,' and then only become sensible men and talk like reasonable beings. THE VOTE OF VIRGINIA ON THE SECESSION QUESTION. We have at length the official vote of Virginia, as announced by Governor Lacher, on the question of secession. He gives the figures thus: For Seeepelon, 125,950 Against Becenion, 20,373 Thirty-four counties in the north. western part of Virginia did nottnake any return of-their - vote to the Seces sion magnates at Richmond. These counties gave 9,000 majority against secession, reducing the secession ma jorityiin the State to 94,750. The to tal•vote of the State was about 181,- 000, of which the Secessionists obtain ed some 135,000. FRIVOLITIES OF THE WA.R. We certainly lay ourselves open to the contempt and ridicule of foreign nations, as well as the south, in many respects. It has been given out that the most desirable prize,..aside from Jeff. Davis, our government and sal dicrs have been wishing for is Gener alßeauregard. In lien of him, how ever, a party of N. Y. Zouaves, last week, arrested a stalwart negro,whom they named after the General, and.pa. raded him about Washington. The northern papers made a sensation item of the act and beaded it "arrest of Gen. Beauregard." They also seized an auctioneer's flag, which they declared a secession rag, and carried it about in triumph. These things are not very dignified—not even funny—from the filet that the veritible General and a genuine flag were prizes beyond their reach. Stir The State Department at Wash ington was elosely engaged all day on Friday with foreign affairs, and the ambiguous position of England to. wards the United States government was considered far from satisfactory. It is said that, in consequence of the conclusions come to by the Secretary of State, fresh instructions have been sent to the commanders of the block. ading squadron, and that in the event of any interference by British ships on any pretext whatever; they. will 'be taught a severe lesson by our feat. VIOLATION OF LAW In many respects, at, the present time our government is not in a strict sense, -a constitutional or law-abiding government. The constitution to ma ny is a dead letter, and the laws are, dispensed with at pleasure. This we say without reference to the North or South, but if we tread on 'anybo . dy'S toes it is their fault; not ours. The apology is that a state of war makes these things imperatively necessary. That may be so, and it may not. But a state of war certainly does not make a violation of the post-office laws in the Northern 'States, by government officials, a necessity. We allude -to the present grOis abuse of the frank ing privilege. . What advantages the government can obtain by a violation of the plain letter of the law in sup pressing the Southern Rebellion is be yond our ken. That provision should - be made for transmitting free the cor respondence of our Volunteers is right and proper, but there should . be no such glaring law breaking as is al. most daily presented to our notice. It was but yesterday Cliatlve:saw in the hands of: a boy, who, probably, never wrote half a-dozen letters in his life, two , unused envelopes :of the United States House of Representatives, with the frank of "J. W. Forney, Clk H. ofR." thereon. They were sent prob ably as curiosities from the army, or intended to -enclosedletters to the vol. teers, from their friends at horne. We have reason 'to believe that this swind. li,ng of government is carried on to an immense extent,and mainly by par tizan hacks who hope to profit per sonally at the expense of government by this glaring and swindling . vkilation of law. As we sapabove, the corres. pondence of the soldiers should be paid by government, but let it be done lawfully. Let a law be passed inereas ing the pay:of the :soldiers to the ex tent of the correspondence, so that the money may come directly from th'e Treasury, instead of cheating the Post Office department out of its in. come, and thus furnishing CXCUBCS to curtail the mail facilities of the people because "it don't pay." 'Our motto is "The Union, the Constitution, and th e.etiforeement of the .Laitis," North as well ;as 'South. PLAN OF. THE CAMPAIGN The Washington co;. ros p oo d oo t o f the N. Y. Time§ - r pro.esses to have ob tained fr , :,rn a very reliablo military souri.le in Washington, Gen'l Scott's plan of the campaign. It is as fol lows: To concentrate troops in imm: oise masses along the northern of th e Confederate States, protectin g Wash ington and holding &, Coe armies of Jeff. Davis in check that he has drain ed the South to bring into Virginia. And then when, the fit time comes and the season of the year will favor it, (sometime next winter) to drop large armies down on the seabord arid Gulf coast at* the Confederated States,men aeinrg them atevery exposed point.— In this way, the armies in Virginia axe to be drawn away to repel a more serious danger nearer home ; and the Union to be restored as the Confed erate armies retreat, until their cause is finally lost by demoralisation, and without any great battles or blood shed." This plan of the old General's will, probably be successful, if carried out, but why delay its gexecution ? Why, with the immerse means at the com mand of the governmcmt, and about half a million!of men in, or ready for, service, not, lave the work half done alreadyi It is said, in excuse, that our t;oldiers are raw, and need milita ry training. Are we not giving the Confederate soldiers also time and op portunity to prepare themselves while we thus delay, with this disadvantage to us,that time is of the, greatest impor tance to them, from the fact that they have probably only half the number of soldiers in the field we have, and hence a greater necessity to refine their raw material. Time is all to them, and it seems to us we give them all the time they could possibly do. sire. 105,577 No FIGHT or THEIRS.—It seems that the AbolitioniSts of the Western Re. serve, Ohio, have no concern in the struggle now going on in this coun try. They stand aloof—won't enlist —are still 'considering' whether they shall furnish any troops for the Union, the Constitution, and the Laws.— They probably regard this as no fight of theirs. The Secretary of War has become tired of waiting for contin. gents from that quarter, and, the Cin cinnati Commercial says, has written a letter to Gov. Dennison, in effect directing him not to wait on the Western Reserve-for troops, but to take them as they come. These negro worshippers should haven ,few army contracts sent on to them to arouse their patriotism.— Though reserved they may not be modest. Civrr `VAR.—"Civil Wars," says Burke in his masterly letter to the Sheriff of Bristol, "strike deepest of all into the manners of the people.— They vitiate their politics; they cor rupt their morals; they prevent even the natural taste and relish of equity and justice. By teaching us to con sider our .fellow-citizens in a hostile light, the whole body of our nation becomes lesi . dear to us. The very names of affection and kindred, which were bonds of charity while we agreed, become new incentives to hatred an d rage when the communion of our. country is dissolved." EDITORIAL SUMMARY The Treasurer of th)N. Y. Central Railroad, G. L. Wilson; committed suicide, last week, by throwing himself free; the third-story window of his residence. He 'had been depressed in spirits, owing to considerable losses in private Affairs, through changes in the value of property. —The Trustees of Columbia College, N. Y., last week:, conferred the honorary degree of Doc tor ' of Laws, (L.L. D.,) on Abraham Lincoln. —Two pretty, girls decayed lately three Con necticut soldiers; who were on Picket duty, near Fall's Church, and captured them. The soldiers dos now in Richmond as prisonersof war. We are surprised that Connecti cut roldiers should thus be:caught. If they bad been Green Moun tain boys there would he some excuse..A few .days since Gen. ..Bragg sent,word to Capt. Brown, of Fort Pickens, not to return a shot Hone was fired'from the rebel batteries, for the firing from the-latter might be a mistake! Do 'L -war of this sort; where one side has the exclusive' arrange ment --ef „the time and manner of the : tittle, a huge farce?—lion. Hendrick 1 8. Wright was elected to. Cougresa, on Saturday a week, in the Lucerne district without opposition. De is elect ed to'supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Geo. W. Scranton.—Tbere was it very seri ous riot in Milwaukee last week. Several of the banking houses were broken into, the furhiture destroyed and the officers severely handled. The trouble was occasioned by the banks refusing to redeem the notes of the "wild cat" banks of the country. The mob was Suppressed by a milita ry cornpany.—Mr. B. Rush Petriken has de• dined the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel in the regular army recently conferred on him. He wanted to be - a colonel. He is unfit for either. —lt is said that there is a strike by the miners and laborers of the Schuylkill Coal region, owing wren attempt to reduce the wages 10 percent.- 5,553 tons of coal were skipped over the Lebanon Valley road last week—an increase again•over any previous weekly shipment. —Limit. John P. Ely passed through this place last week on his way to Ittiliantipdlis,"to report for- duty in- the regular artify. Ile has resigned hid ?position 'in the Lebanon Guards. ' We have not learned WIIO his etteeessor is in the Guards.---Some would subjugate, lay waste, and make a desert of the South rather, then compromise. And .yet these men tell us that there are a great many Unionists in the Sollth.—The'report,last`week, that Col. Wallace and his Indiana , Regiment had been sur rounded by 'the enemy at Cumberland, Md., and were is iniesinent danger, Was false. The rein. forcements ordered by Gov. Curtin to Cumberland hare returned.---No full official report of -the Great Bethel affair Itad'yet been made public, and it is thought that our loss I was much larger than has been supposed.--L-The lithit accounts from Harper's Ferry aro that it is entirely deser. ted. Na troops were there, and the lust of the enemy's pickets loft on Thursday.—From Mar tainsburg we learn that the enemy have destroy ed a large amount of valuable property belong ing to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, consist. lag of forty-eight locomot iveengines, and a great number of cars. There 'appear to be Awn'. 6.500 secession troops there. ---John Maro-4ert, son of Mr. J. : 1111 Marcloari, o f P l a c .:4, and, for some years PeAt a r et l i4o at °! ph P,ftdelphia, has become the Ist Lieutenant in- t'ne Myerstown 'company, now at West John Fisher, of e tiled township, sold two - tracts of bind to his son, Joseph ;.the one tract containing about twen ty acres at forty dollars per. acre ; the other about ten acres at .thirty dollars per acre.—Lewis Rose wo% committed to our prison, lost week, ohorged by Mr. Peter Fisher, near Myerstown, "ith stealing, two bags of feed--The Union I force now in the city of Baltimore, exclusive of the troops at Fort McHenry, is upwards of seven . thousand strong, a heavy battery of artillely, and a number of ugly locking piens of ordnance planted on Federal Dill, commanding every stree t leading iu that direction. • - DANt4ER§ AHEAD. A correspondent writing from Ar lington Heights, Va., the most ad vanced position of our troops beyond the Potomac, sets forth some strong grounds for apprehending that a seri ous disaster might befal our troops in that quarter. lie says "It seems to be pretty well estab lished that the rebels are able to throw at least 50,000 men upon our troops, upon this side of the Potomac, within twenty-four hours, while our whole force consists of thirteen regi- Ments of only 800 men each, but lit tle over 10,000. in all. It is true there are something like 30,000 American troops in the neighborhood of . IVash ington ;—but it would not be easy to throw all these across the river in time to prevent a defeat ; even if the safety of Washington would permit their withdrawal. A considerable time would necessarily be. consumed in crossing so wide a: river .by the means at comniand'of Our troops. Everything favors the belief that the rebbls intend to -strike a sudden blow at some point, of our lines. They are not at all likely to await the tight ening of the coils by which we intend to strangle them. Their safety con. sists in breaking the coil,—rather than in resisting its strength. They have able Generals, vigorous and energetic in action, as well as skillful in their plans i and it is the height of absur dity to suppose that they will stand by as idle spectators until the elabor ate and complicated arrangements of Gen. Scott are ripe for execution.— They will make a dash at some point of our extended lines i in the hope to in spire new courage in their own troops by inflicting a signal defeat upon ours. It is stated, on good authority,that the rebels have 30,000 troops at the Junction already,—that this number is constantly swelled by the daily ar rival of regiments from Richmond,— and that Gen. Johnson is marching to join them with the 10,000 which he took from Harper's -Ferry.- The ;Ap proach of such a force may well in. cite our Government to make the most prompt and effective measures to meet them. It is certainly -of the utmost importance that we should not be so entirely absorbed, in our own plans as to overlook those of the enemy." WHAT A VOLUNTEER IS ENTI TLED TO RECEIVE. Volunteers in regard to clothing, have been placed upo'n the same foot. ing, with the regulars, and for the in. formation of those who do not knoW what they are entitled to, we publish the list in full. Private army soldiers are allowed one uniform hat, each year, price $l,OO ; 1 forage cap each year, price 57 cents; 1 uniform coat, each year, price $6,56;3 pairs of trove. sers the rst year, 2 the second, and 3 for the third, $2,82 per . pair, 2 sack coats, each year, price each $ , 2,10 ; 3 flannel shirts, each year, price 90 ets. each ; 1 overcoat in five years, price $6,40; 3 pairs of drawers the first year, 2 .evertotheryear, prigs 71 eta, each , 4 pairs 1,4 brogans, each year, price 52,20 per pair; 2 blankets in five years, price $2,44 each. There are a variety of other articles supplied, but these the chief ones. In order to en courage economy and cleanliness among the troops, every article not drawn, according to the allowance, will he paid for to the soldier. So ev ery man now in the ranks will prob ably receive pay' -for the-Clothes-he wears, as they were not furnished by the Bnieau:of Clothing. [The above, so far as relates to the receiving of pay by the soldiers for undrawn clothing is, we think, a mis take. The soldiers are entitled to drawn the clothing.specified but = the price of them iS.deducted from their wages. If the men draw no.clothing TrOm the Bureau 'they - receive the wages specified by laW and nothing THE GREAT SCIIEHE OF CON SOLIDATION. "When this war terminates, we shall hear no more of Virginians as such, or of North Caroli nians or of South Carolinians; hut we .shall all he Americana, one and indirisiqte.": Merit of patrimistit the Altos f Aryticgrects with an outfiurst of treason. .rt this contest means anything nt all, it means - that we: shell come out of it as "Americans, one and indivtaible."! and we mistake the sentiment of the patriotic North, and the spirit of the soldiery, ff they do noteche the eloquent words of the Seeretury of Wai•.— :Phtd, Press. The Philadelphia Press has its mo tives for 'zeal in the cause. of the Ad ministration ;. and it will be better rewarded for the epithets which it casts at. us, than the most devote& of our, soldiers for their gallant assaults upon the enemy. The assumption of •Mr. Cameron that the States are to be crushed out by armed foree, is not the first inti mation froni, that quarter of the de signs to establish a consolidated gov ernment upon the ruins of State lib erty. The'New York , Courier .& quirer,,w hose editor has just been ap pointed .to a diplomatic. office to rep resent the Government and the Ad ministration abroad, demands : 'Why all these State lins7:3 Why a ll thi s needless, cumbersome, it'll.licate entaradt7,, sti t, of different pow-rs to Wfqa law and io deorcejudg mew ? . We can efford now trir efface the old Co lonial Ceography. - * 4 i 3 the admitted powers of States within the N , ... 0 :rt that has been the source of all our trotthel.b.. Nor will the removal of State power, awl creation of a nationality be ato sk so for midS.!;:, i .e: It has been done even in the in stance " 'England and Scotland, educated as foes by "D.:,nries of warfare.": And this is the system which -Gen eral Banks prophecies is to be de, vated upon the ruins of the present Government. For over three-fourths of a century this theme of a cense-li , - dated Empire has occupied the minds of men who had no faith in .our sys tem. During all that time the De mocracy have successfully resistrA this change. We believe they w ill defeat it now. The Cainerons, the Banks, the Webbs represent but a minority of the penie• and they t will be swept from power the moment they attem'Yi, to execute their nefari ous roeneme. There is as much folly as wicked , . ness in their scheme of consolidation. The Union wouldnot have broken, if the attempt had not been to conSoli dare it; if the Federal Governmetit had not assumed a•jurisdietion never intended for it, and - effected to discuss ' and decide moral and social questions belonging exclusively to the States.- 7 When this scheme of consolidation is commuted, revolution will•follow, and anarchy be the end. The story is already written for us in the history of Mexican Republics. If it were not for the States and State power, Mr. Cameron would at this moment be a prisoner at Wash ington. The Cabinet would have been caught like rats in a trap. It was the States that armed and sent on hundreds of thousands of troops to rescue the Federal Government; it is State credit that now sustains this army. The Secretary of War has had only to accept an army, organized and made to his - hands by the Slates. We have seen great men come upon the stage, and pass away. We have seen Secretaries and Generals and Diplomats appear and disappear.— We therefore have no modesty in setting np our prophecy against that of Mr. Cameron; and we tell him that when this war ends, the names of 'Vir ginia, and Carolina, and Pen nsYlvania, and New York, will still survive; and that the name of "Republican," as applied to the party which now abuses the appellation, will cease to exist.— It will have become ill-omened and infamous, as the most wicked and fa tal faction that ever cursed and dis honored a free people.—Albany Argus. Important - front Baltimore—Arrest of Marshal Kane—A Provost Marshal Appointed. BALTIMORE, .June 27.—At 3 o'clock this morning, George P. Kane, the Marshal of the Police of this city, was arrested at his house, by order of General Banks, and conveyed to Port Mcllenry, where he is now a prisoner. General Banks has, issued a procla. 'nation, naming John R: Kenly, of the Maryland regiment, as Provost Marshal, and suspending, all the pow ers of the Police Commissioners. Ken ly is. to exercise supreme control over the department until some known boy. al citizen is appointed to act as Mar- SW. .The proclamation giVes as the rea son for the arrest of Kane that he is known to be aiding.nnd abetti Egg these in armed rebellion agai est the Gov: eminent at the head of an armed force, which he has used to conceal rather than detect acts of treason to the Government. BALTIMORE, June 29. The 3d Jersey regiment has just passed through, making the 6th regi. ment that has passed through. Balti more in less than twenty-four hours. The city continues quiet. There are many rumors as to the in tended action of the Police Board. Nothing. d efinitG yet, A COTJP d'ETAT IN I3ALTIMORE BALTIMORE, July I.—Since 2 o'clock this .moreing, start! ing proceedings have been going on here, detachments of Artillery and Infantry were sent to various parts of the .city and are now posted. in Monement Square, Ex. change Place, the -Eighth Ward, Broadway and other. points. Before daylight, all the members of the-. Boar- of Police Commissioners, except: the Mayor, .were arrested and sent to Fort McHenry. A multitude of rumors are afloat as to the cause of this sudden movement, but nothing definite is yet known. It is said , that a- plot has been -dis• covered of an intended- outbreak.. Declaration of Independence. A Declarationby the aepresentatives of the United Skates-ofi America in Con gress assembiedi Jiir.Y-4 770 k, "When, in the.courie of hump events, it becoines necessary for one people to dis solved the political bands which lidire con- ; fleeted them with another and assume among 'the powerS - sof the earth ~. t he: seper- ate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature'S'God entitle =thin, a' decent respect to the opinion i)f mankind requires that they should declare the cau ses - WhiCh impel them to the Separation. ~W e hold theie tiuthSlto be self-evident: that all men are created equal ; that,..they are - endolVed by:theinCh - eator With = ,eeilain inalienable right* . that among these—are life, liberty, and-the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure'these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gOv erned; that •whenever any form of govern ment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the, people to alter Or to abolish it, and to institute new government laying its foundation ''on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to theme Shall seem. most ely ; to effect their safety and happiness. Pru dence, indeed will dictate, that government long,established shoulcinot 'be changed for light and transcient causes,and according ly all experience hath shown, that marile and are more disposed to suffer, while e su& Irr rable, than to right the ;its are ~elves by abolishing the formato wh'ich `hey are ac customed. Butwhen.a,lo,..r,gtrain of abu ses and usurpatieAs, put: sning invariably the same evineres a design to reduce them unfler absolute despotism, it is their right, ins their duty, to throw off such gov ninent, and to provide :new..guards for their futuresecurity: Sach has boven the patient suffering cif - these eolonleS, and such is now the necesity which constrains them to alter their former sk - stems of gov ernment. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in it_ rect object the establishment of an a ly s . o . lute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted t o a candid wnidd. die has"refusna hi assent: t ws th e assm o a most whOlesoir'e and necessary for the pubic goo',. :ie I nas forbidden his governors to pass tiws of immediate and pressingimportanc e unless suspended in operatic:in till his assent should be obtained ; and when so suspend ed, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. I He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people, would relin quish the right of representation in the leg ;stature ; a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bod ies at places unusual; uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of t - .eir public records, for thea - tile itnipose of fatigueing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firm ness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long, time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be eietted whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the peo ple at large for their exercise, the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the pop ulation of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners,refusing to pass others to encour age their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. "He-has • obstructed the administation of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. "He has made judges dependent on his will alpne, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their sal aries. "He has erected a multitude of new of= flees. and sent hither- swarms of officers to harass our people, and to eat out their substance. • He has kept among us in times ofpeace standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. "He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the , civil power. • "He has comb led with others to sub ject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our, con stitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us : "For protecting them by a mock trie.l, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States: 'For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : "For imposing taxes on us without our consent: "For depriving .us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury : • "For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences "For abolishing the free system of Eng lish laws in a neighbouring province, es tablishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries so as to ren der it at once an example and fit instru ment for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies. "For taking away our charters, abol ishing our most valuable laws, and alter ing, fundamentally, thelbrins of our g,ov ernments ' , For suspending our own legislature; and declaring themSelires invested with power to legislate for us in all cases what - soev.er. ;He has abdicated governmenthere t by declaring us out of his protection, and wag ing war against us. "I-le has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns and destroy ed the lives of our people. —"He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyran ny, aliyadybegun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely parilleled in :=E the most barbarous ages, and totally un worthy the head of a civilized- nation. "Ile has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren ,or to fall themselves by their hands. - "Ile has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitantsof our frontiers, the mer ciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguiehed-destrue tion of all ages, sexes and conditions. "In every state of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the, most humble terms ; our repeated petitions have been ansWered only by repeated in jory. A Prince, whose character in thus marked by every. act which may define a tyrant, is uhfit to, be the ruler of a free People. '-Nor have we been wanting.in atten tions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time,ofattempts by their legislature to extend an unwar rantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded Mem of the circumstances of our emigration and settlemmt here.-- We, aye appeale d to their native -just 4 ice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them. by the ties of our common kindred, to ditavow:these usurpations which would, inevitably interrupt our connexions and correspondence.,, They tnp have been, deaf to the voice of justie", and of con- sangeinity. We, must,' th'Jrefore, acquiesce in the necensitywhiet. denounces our seP . dration, and hold 'ihem, as we hal tile rest of mankind. enemies in war, in peace friends::: "We.thereiore.,.the representatives ofthe Unit.eclSt:ates Arneriba in general Cott: gres,s ptssembred, i Judge of the thel.lr2PefOarirlg [tithe StVem rectitudeorour 6' I :ntentionti, do, in - the name and hyattilieri ! ty able gpod people of these colufL es , „ . solemnly,riblisb'and declare, t'xiat these United' COlonies are, and aright o l vht. t o , be, FasaAnd lar/sessrmar PrA.MaS; that they are absolved from all, allegiance to the British crown, andthat alt political eon nexion between them and the state or - G. Millen is, aini oughtta betotallydissolv ed; and that as free and int:let:MONA states, they have penver to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish con*, merce, and do all other acts and' things; which independent states may of right And far the sllPpOrt of 'this -declaration, with a firm rettanne on the 'pr o tection of Divine Pl'ovidencei we mutually ptedge e enniother our fives; our rortunes, andi our sacred honor.' te4,...-A part of Colonel Wallasels diana Zonaves, at Cumberlann; scouting in that vicinity on Wednes day- night, encountered about' forty mounted rebels, and routed the trf , ter a brisk skirmish,. It is reported that seventeen of floe rebels were killed and several wounded, and- a good many horses 'taken. Ono of Hayes' party was killed and himself badly wounded. pir" Twenty thonsand gallons of water are eont from Baltimore weekly for 'Fortress Monroe. for the nse of the'gerrison. ' 13ERFORD RESOLUTIONS.. We would bespeak the attention of every Democrat, as well as the con servative men of all parties,.to the un daunted- ecla ration of principles laid down in :the following rosolutions adopted by the Dernocaacy. of Bed . ford County, in convention on the 18th inst. They embody the true doarine —the doctrine of the Constitutional Union men of the county—the only true and consistent friends of the Uni on ,The Gazette says in reference to these resolutieo:---- • . . . . .. '.""We will standby them, no matter w leaves thorn; emho - ; we wilt adhere to , . the - sacred principle of Constitutiona! Liberty which they enunciate in spite of 'mobs, civil war, or the blodiest of anarchies. Upon that rock we plant our banner, and there it shall remain so long as we can write a line, or ut ter a syllable.. . • IWheremr The Democratic Party. for years post, in its. Conventions, State and National and through its presses and by its representatives in Congress, denounced the policy of estabiishing Sectional parties, holding that Ito success 'of such parties would inevitably result in' 'bloody and horrible civil war. And wherectit, the prophetic warnings upon this subject uttered (rota tiirto to brae by dm great and good men of the Union. are now fully verified in the present deplorable condition of our beloved country.. And wiersur, We are . un willing now to renounce the opinions heretofore entertained by us as to the causes which operated to bring about the difficulties in which the nation is involved, or to stu:tify our selves by endorsing the political doctrines and policy whose triumph in the last Presidential elec tion has so fearfullly imperilled the perpetuity of the Therefore Resoteed, That _as; the- Demoeratio party has stood by the Union and' the Constitu tion, in peace and in war, through good and thra evil report, wed. emit a pleasant and patriotic dn•- ty to declare our unwavering. devotion to- that, party, its principles and' Usages. Booked, That whilt4 'the •preisent civil war was none of Or 'seeking," and whilst wo deprecate and deplore its existence, and earnestly hope and prey for the early 'restoration of en honorable peace, as Demoirats who have always been true to the Constitution, and whose fealty and devo.. Lion to the Union are attested by the whole his tory of our lives, we feel it our duty to sustain, the Fe.leral Government in the exercise of alfits Constitutional powers in its effort* to maintriitt its integrity and the continuance of our glorious Union. Resolved, That whilst as Democrats and patri ots we believe it to he our duty to support anti sustain the Government in all its Conetiteileeet acts, in every emergency, yet , we desire "Repub - Deans" so caned, distinctly to understand that was will not and cannot be dragooned into the sup- % port of Abolitionism in any form. Resolved, That We regard the Constitution or the United States as the only bond of Union be tween the several States and the only rule of ac tion to benbserved in the present condition or our country, that we will sopport.itas ,we here , . always done in all its parts, In its letter and spir it, and in our interpretation of 'lts Meaning on controverted points, we , will be governed by the decisions of the Supreme . Court ....Of the - lJnited States, believing that the deereei and decisions of that brattish 'or the Government should be re spected and obeyed by every law abiding and pa triotic citizen. . Resolved, That we denounce mob law in every form and under any pretext whatever, whether exercised by Secession conspirators at the South, or fanatic enthusiasts at the North, and that ere. are for the enforcement of the law in the proper. and lawful form, against offenders in all parts Ott the country. . Resolved, That we look upon the dae 3 / 4 / 0 1/' ot T interference with the institution of sla.v.orPinstitte *dare States as preached by fanatics at thielthrthn•. and the doctrine of Secession as pronutlgated by eonspiratiors against the U n i on s,t the South, sus equally subversive of the Constituaion,..the liber- ty of the people and the Imlay GI the nation„ Resolved That the Administration of Andresi t G. Curtin meets our hearty disaWahation, unfit especially in its managemoet of the military af fairs of • the Commonwealth, it .deserved, and, should receive the unTralitted comierneatioa every patriotio citizens, Resolved, T hitt the evidently eorruit And fitaxa. ulent disbursemeot of . the liberal a.pproOkutione made by the late kcegiebtture for the support or the military of the state, tut e*isitek. thro. im position of rotten uniforms alesit lesurmient autt. un w h o l esome rations upon, the brave soldiery or our. Conmats *wealth; shots lit be at once correct. ed and thostr.gisilty in the premises, eeverelt baked. and.punittliiikt2 - RESOLUTIONS
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