II THE CORNE 10' 'WEISS DEDIOCT-17IC FAINCIPLTS CCM!! TO LEAD, WE =an 70 FOLLOW" WM. N. BRESLIN, Editor and Prop LEBANON, PA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1862. M. The Lebanon Courier is very bitter against loyal Demo crats, but has not a word to say against the die-unionists Wendell Phillips, Sumner, Wade, &c., or the worse than rebels Cameron, Cummings, Fremont, Morgan, &c., who squandered the substance of the people, robbed them of their means to prosecute the War, and defrauded the poor.soldiers of their hard-earned wages by supplying them With shoddy clothing and straw bats. sir The Courier says that the ADVERTISER "is overrunning with malignitragainst our •loyal adznin istratione' Our readers know the assertion to be—a raterepresenta tion. < But, if, as Mr, Dawes says, "more money was plundered from Ate Treasury . .in the first year of a adminkstration, than the current yetar expenses of Mr. btiehanails Administration it is Alai some members at least oithat "loyal adVnistration" cannot rest very easy under the im putation of royalty, Further, as Mr:: • Buchanan is held ,responsible: for the rascality§ocl treachery of Find, ' strikes is that the same might be applied to Mr Lincoln, in regard to the%rascals - and traiterl ,tinder Ti 4 Vourifi•martake either horn of the i Wm. A. liebitidson, IRAs, the first name attached to the noble address of the Democratic members of Congress, -was the friend and champion of Senator Douglas on all occasions and under all circumstances. The breakgrin the Democratic ranks in. IMO, is entirely healed, and all loyal Dem ocrats stand on one dortirrum plat form. Doing thus they are invin cible. It is only by dissensions in Our ranks that the opposition can gat into power. Secretaries of War are, of late years, either most excessively slandered or the greatest scamps in the land. Floyd was accused of theft, &c., when he, came out in e. big defence which nobody be-- lieved. - Cameron is mewed -. of things, which, according to' a prom inent Republican of thia borough, make him a "greater• rascal •than Floyd." Het4came out in a la bored lieferiest week,' at Har risburg, which everybody is laugh. ing at. Taking all together, there is sufficient evidence to prove that neither has been slandered the. least.• - "The ADVIRT/811811 overrunning with mmHg. bitty ouretioat our lo'yul administration.—Courier. fir" The "Current yearly expen ses" of the 'adininistration of Mr. fluchanan were about $02,000,- 000 hence, according to the Corn. on Contracts, the public idthe first year of Mr. incoln's * adrninistration has been plundered ofthat sum. Truly, some folks hii.i . e .. fi'Yeason for inaking profession of loyalt,y„ The Courier. says : "Those who ere not out-and•ont, fully, uneon• dltially end detenuluedly for the Union, meet eonsont to be placed where there belong—coop• 'bratore with the eoceasieniste." • We were six whole weeks en gaged in the laudable endeavor to -get the Courier to declare itself one of the "out.and•outers," above in didated, and the people of this county will bear witness to our in different success. But McClure has eaßed a State_Convention, to meet •at Itarrisburg owthe rth of July ; *rubbed it a "People's State Con , vention," and hence the people must be,. fooled again into s4,,al lowini abolitionism ander the guise of :1 - 4,unism to „help elect their can didatis to office. „Rut the people won't drink at that ibuntain next fall, • • , Air AbnAt acy.qtr iv' the Lela *infint:',Neriee.tried ite.-utxrtost, by taiOatre/tentations, to inflame the -anit the marietogs destrok 0/wake and eiximitlrip2 tees i tiro persauoo . ,and.- prop erty 'Democrats in genera'. sln 1111 leis than six*mOnthastareafter the people of Lebaiilin. county paid. ‘a signal tribute.tici the loyalty, oft 8 Democracy, and condemna the Unionism of the Aurier as . hypo- critical, by going hand in hand. with them and electing a. Union ticket by a, large. majority. We pursued the even tenor of our way commending - the right and con-. demning the wrong, while the ani rier with cut, wings and ill-disguised' anger became the more hypo4riti 7 cal and shouted thelouder for-free dom, although it -thleo us six cessive wesiks ibltring it to a vagtiie and , indefinit6 acknowledgment that is for the 13nion the ConsVta tion and laws without reservation. Like the booby ,who hides its held* and then supposWits whole bod to be our of sight, it thinks that the past is, f4tgotten, and isresnm ing ifs old practices. It has now slightly changed, its policy; howev er, vd, instead 0 endeavotlng to stir up, the Inob.::sP - 4Vsl4ed` toot that it has - otacerienced cut loth ways-4i't *Oilld. like to have -our paper supyieseedby,sothe one of its political friends in au thority=perhaps by its chum An dy Curtin.' It yrould be a nice bu siness d irrangement for the aurier, but we have reasomto belie,ve that the "Reign of Terror" is over and that the law is in the ascendancy again. Is the mean time. we shall contilnitto hold to the belief - that Northern abOlitionists are no bet etit itArreettOrn secessionists, and equSlly reeponsible for ikA i troublet of the datintry. -* "Jost as - abort as the abolitionists raise thip:ir hands against the government lend become tffl "tail to the country we Ali advocate as summary tinnishtnitot on thent_insewe now do on the awes eirists.'—Courter. . Hag a lad a gnl i brd &sty against Wend+l Phillips wtet publielyebvest ed that he has been engagoaffor 19 years in the work ; 'of destroying the Union ? Not a word!'' • Has it had a viorlio sa,yAgamst Vice. President Ha WhO, know ing phinripies treasonable .senti. ments, publicly left the Speaker's Chair, .in the United-States Sen. ate, and almost embraced him on the floor of that body. Not a word ! Has it had a word to say against Senator Wade who declared pub licly in the Senate that—“the man who - prates abouLthe Constitution' in, this great crisiSis a traitor?„ • Not 'a wcird Has it bad a word to say against Representative Bingham who. said, in the House, only a Month ago,— "Who in the name of Heaven wants the Cotton States or any other State this side of perdition to remain in the Union, if slavery is to continue?" Not a word ! Has it had a word to say against Theaddeus Stevens, who recently said in Congress that he “was not for the restoration of the Union if slavery is preseried." Not a word. gas it had'a word to say against . e any of its friends who have declar ed—"the Constitution a league with , hell" and. the "Union a covenant with the devil-?" ~-.;0 Not a word nas it had a word to say against any of its . frion.ds who have :plun dered the treasurY in one year of a gOappr sum thau.theyearly current expenls of Mr. Buchanan's admin istration ? - • Not a worcliit Has, it had a word to say against the editor of-the 'Lebation Courier who supports only with reserva . ti-011$ th4Q-Qadauti9l4 and. the laws,- and-bitterly . opposes the Judical'branch of the adiiiirtis , tratiou ? NOT A WORD !, • Vie The Courier' prffeseet to sup port the administration. We .con tend that it is against it,'or, at least, for it only, with reservations. The administration consists of the Leg. islative, Etecutive and Judicial. powers; : they aroco ordinate, and he who opposes any Ofthosabranch es of the government offoses the administration. The' Courier: has done all in its power to bring, the Judiciary into disrepute, and hence opposes the administration. Reny branch of the government is 'super riorlo the others Jt because it is the, lest resort; is not . political; is not the creaturenf fre quently recurring elections; ~Ithe members of it do not, ea' is too of ten the case in the other branches,' shape their action by .6e popular :breeze to hold on to their seats.- 1- The Courier bitterly opposes, that lhranch of the - administration, /- and imitc-Pppcositioil has done more to -shake :01 4 reotadenip:of the people inibsrcorrectass of our political .institutions than Jett --I)3*. with his rebel hordes is'able , foliy.lt is high time for ifieVourier‘fOgiVe its whole heart to the goiernment or join - the raels at once. It gives an indifferent support to the Union; to the Corst,itution, to: the, laws, and, as will be seen above, the, ad ministration receives only its divi ded love. . a Or' The Lebanon Advertiser, in its last num ber, publishes; with evident gusto, tespeach made in Congress by Mr. Dawes on the transactions between. Alexander Cummings .and. - the govern : . want, with the evident object of throwing die credit upon the administration.—Xourier. That's rich,ibut not too rich for the Cqurier. Any one who will re fer to the last A:DVERTISER, and. look over Mr. Dawes' spetilkh will, find that thlire is not a. word therein about Mr. Cummings or any trans aetioni he had with the govern men"t. His operations only amount , ed to several hundred itousand lars, and hence was too trifling to notice in connexion - with the cor ruptions under expOsition by Mr., Dawes, •eniltacing 9itinions tars." Poor Cumming( transactionse re a small affair in these:flush Re publican times, but:they no doubt are included in the gran4. aggre gate, of which, to quote the words of Mr. Dawes— , The gentleman must remember that in the first year of' a Rep&liCau Administrittfon, which came into poiver upont professions of reform and re• treuchment; there is indubitable evidence &blond in the land that somebody has plundered the pub lic Treasury well nigh in . that single year as much as the entire current yearly eipcnies of the Government during the Administration which the-people hurled from power because of its corruption. •• Via.. Wendell Phillips declared that he has endeavored to destroy the Union for 19 years, and the 4Courier was only brought to an in different acknowledgment of its un reserved attachment for it, after a cudgeling of ``weeks. Out upon' such patriotism. Give„us the inam that gives his whole heart to the cause. We want no spoils Idnd reservation patriots these days. tgl.. A Republican of the, OM rier stripe recently visited a certain farmer of this county, whq the state of the country vas brought into discagsion. 7.. He'avowed him self an 'abolitienist, - and deck** thatiii served the Constitution just as he did the'Rible he took from them what suited him and the rest he laid aside That's patriotism and ,christianitifor you. WlLVAMSffilitei On Monday, 2i . ty 5, 1862. The 93d Engaged. BIVOUAC unnour. WILLIAM§III3IIO, }` - May '5-1.0 P. N., To the Iron. -E. M. Stanton., Secretary of, War Si-ef After arranging for 11:10VetttentS up 'York .RiVer, I WaS urgently sent for here. I figtcl Gen. 'J6e Johrititoti in front of me in strong 'force,- prob.- ably greater a 'good deur tkan tny own. , Gen. Muncie& has taken two-re drubts, and resJaed Barley's .Rebel brigade by a 'vial - charge with the bayonet, taking . ene colbnel - and a hundred and fifty prisoners, and kill ing at least two colonels and many privates. His conduct was brilliant in - the extreme. I do not know ours exactlet* , but fear that Gen. Hooker has lost-von eiderably on' - our- left. I learn frain the prisoner, taken that the Rebels intend dispiting every step to Richmond. I shall run the risk of at least holding' them in check hera while I resumeoe 4 originulan. My entire fordesMindoubte* in ferior to that of Ae Rebels, who will fight well—buer will -do all I can with the foreiat my disposal. B,,Ife.CL.ELLAN, _ Maj,o4Ge A s * m m anding. ADVANCE NEAR WILLIA.MsBDRO, Monday evening May 5, 1.:,86.1. When-my dispptch was sent last evening,qhe indicationtkiiere that - our troops would Occupy Williainsbnrg without, much oosition. The first indicationciethe pp enoraififivelYgnard being reinforced Was the fact - of their pressing our linos' about 82'Clock * the morning, showing a detnrinination to resist'our advance. Sufficient ref,,, inftlfhernents had arrived during the night to enable our Gen's. to tet , either on the defensive or offensive: ffe about eight A: M. the' enemy threw out a body of infantry t&their right, which soon exchangedgfe with theilltadvance of Hooker's divielon.— Though it did not at first soon 'seri ous, this fire was changed intermit tently for a good while: Bonre light batteries became engaged in it, and drove the enemy prattle hard ) until, unluckily, they got under' fire of the enemy's heavier guns, when they of course, get the , wbret, of it. Bram hall'a New York - battery- in pqrtion , _ far' had gotten Into' a scrape, and a very hard fight took place in the en deavor to save it. . All :the horses - were either killed or wounded the guns were mired, and, though our men fought well and hard,the enemy poured his infantry out lavishly „itt the right time and in the right place and fmally .:carried 'away tile, guns with a most terrible' chorus of yelps and cheers. It was near noon, and the, enemy entintraged - by "hieeuceess on our left, war443po,sed ter.tiab harder in ~the Bathe- direet4on. - 2:lodivnnone of the Farah tiorpa were now on 'the Weld and bk's brigade, of `Couch's ssgn two lingimints el-Defen'a brigade*theSeventh Maseachusettey el ... I s Ca ia l. r i ltu tl,, t i Nr u a d nk th :W e ira " VM ,, - "" in tw .a d ll abontlil 'thousand Acen•-;:itrere push. ed into the' riglit'Af . ogker, stopped theAdp,acrelandlY ~ iapisaved Hook er'entirely, Peokhoposition WaEMIlq, one tlia.t . affordedchanc e fer any brilliant display.; ' ; it required .the most stubborn ritel stance, and lie maintained it handsomely all day, and repulsed every attempt that- the enemy Made to advance. „Hamper ed by his position in the woods, and equally, perhaps by 'his ordem._he could not go oil, and was thus;ept under such a fire - that it la a mir y cle his loss proVed so small Fort great portion of the time his men wereilat on their facei4-. and many' of their wounds were f received in that positign, But the. woods, all around , the place wire cut4o shreds with grapshot. O-:- 'en. Peck, the afternoon, -Was aupported by Palmer's brigade, .of - Ca rey's divist4lindlArpt , formed a very strong centre. . .." . . 1 -', Out loss here was aboulkoo - killed And 70 wounded. - ' A brilliant-vietOrl*ii kehieved, a bout 5 o'clock in the afternoOn by Gen. Hancock's brigade, assisted, by Kennedy's and Wheeler's potteries. They bad been ordered i to the right to feel,oe enem . Land t if possible .tO turn. their thiywep? met by Gin. Bort,'s brigade, with' a squadron of eivimwho advanced in line of battle. Our troops Who Were lAickly, pre pared to receive tbemioponpd a heavy lire on them, and the enemy advan ced steadily to 'within tWo, yardi, wben Gen. Hancock ordered a char #3 with the bayonet which was executed with th4gteatest courage.— The enemy's line broken—ehey e. came panic-stiicken and. Iled,lealltg their dead and .wounded behind. The Rebels left upwards of 80 dead and 40 wounded. Wen's° took nearly 200 of them' prisoners. Our loss was 17 killed and 40 wounded. Their dead was buried byour ;troops and their wounded cared* for. The Condi:Lit of Gen. Itancock and* his brigade on this occasion 'Tiati ex cited, universal ad iniititien. ...V- stand ard of colors belonging 'to -cavalry engaged was captitied, and is My on its way •to Washington. When the" news of Gen. Han'cook's success be came known, a stinixt - went up from tens, of thnusands of Union throats that made the country reound for miles around. Gen. Ha cock,. ra t rained during t4l6:,ni g ht, in O two Op works' of the enlsray.. Gen. McClellan and staff arrived on the field .at 5 .9'0434, and ifuteedi ately rode to tfie front, 'where his 'presenee.among the troops was most Joyfully Wailed. Ile; immediately as. sumed command in person,. The rain has poured ,in - torrents All day.-7-- tli - efttrovioaffei much from' expo sure, but none elimDiain:,_ ~ From information received . Jrom the prisoners taken, the enemy will make a decisive stand at 'Willialins burg, re-enforcements having been ar riving all day, and Gen. J. T. John sten is in command- Jett - Ihivis vas,* Richmond afr last aecoiftits. The enemy's works are very form itfable, and extend across the penin sula this side of Iltillianisbutg. The total killed and Wounded of the Union army in the Williamsburg battle, at,the latest accounts. is re ported Killed—Two huhdred and thirty. Wounded—SeVen hundred and six= ty;four. Id.isiing—Sixtrrii no. , Willianisb'g is ahnntl6:miles from Yorktown; on the road te , Riehinontl, and about-60 miles from the latter place. The - battle took 'Ogee abort three miles beyond WilliOnsknrg ' READIWARTETIS ARMY OF TUE BVIONAO r Witzums.nuftet. May 8. To the Hon...E. M. Stanton; Secretary of War I have the, pleasure to. announce the oc cupation of this place as the rank of the hard-fought action. of yesterday„ The ef-, feet of Gen: lianeock's bridled 'etigag& meat, yesterday afternoon, was to ".turn the left of their line of works . was strongly reinforced, and the enemy aban doned the entire position during the night, leaving all his sick and wounded In our hands. His loss yesterday was `,very se vere. We have some three hundred un injured prisoner 4 and" more than 1,660 wounded. Their loaa in killed heavy. I have seen cavalry in pursmi. - The donddet of our men has lbeen ex cellent; with scarcely an , exceptimv. The enemy's work are very extensive, and exceedinglistrcing, botivin regard to their position and the workatthemselvea. Our lois was heavy in General :Hook er's divison;but an - very Stile other points of the field.- PmtallianOck's success was gained with a , losS-4 not, iVikiVURf-Vra; " 'Fd" wounded. • t The weather is goetd taday, , hutAittire is a great difficulty in getting upfood, , :on accqut of the roads, Very ;few wagons have as yet come; p.• • " Am I authorized to follow the example of other generals, and direct the names of battles to be placed s on the colors.of regi ments 1 > We hawtfither battles' to , fight before reaching Itiehmond. MeCLELL4N, - Igajor*lneral Commapding, ; , FURTHER:,` fARTICI3tAR, I .A. Wummissulto;. May 6 . . The. y,, evacuated this place-and their , works': last night, the erear..guerd passing throng! about 6 o'clock this ruotnin. - " Al nine o'clock Ceneral•lellan escort elitered the town, anfi.VENk Pctes sion. Moat one. hundre(Land fifty CP ~ . enemy's sick and:wmindeewere *- hind without-any-rations, medicißk. surgeons. They also left a nutter .. triv 4 dead unburiedf . The.enemy.euffered terribly. Gene RiCketti . , . wait killed. Tie:enemy had a force here yester. of 50,000 men; atid.pnly decided to eva , ate after the brillian , . charge of Geo, Hancock. The iciivn is very pleat'e ! situated, and the majority of the wit .• , habitants are remaining. The min ol the enemy lio* in Our hands is . a! 4360, includini-tbe wounded. • g Litti,t From litorLto RATTLE NEAR NEST POINT. FOILTRESS MEMTWar-Mal steamer from Yorktown, I learn thatten. McClellan had advancol2 miles beyond Williamsburg, and had-tad stveral skirm ishes with the enemy,. routing them with heavy loss. The embarkation troo for *West Point is progressing,,iy i lth t rapidity. A heyy battle toffpl ce on Wednes day afternoon, bet weed - hie' troops of Gen. Franklin and Gen. Sectiek and the reb els under Gen. Lee, w were endeavor ing to-make their way ib Richmond. It is said,to have been the severest battle on the' peninsula. - The - Is. were. totally routed and flanked, 'Ring driver' back towards the ford under Gen. Johnston, on the Chick °ahominy. The whole numb of "United States troops killed and wounded was three hun dred. The enemy *ere driVen back by, our gunboats with gfeat slaughter. The enemy had not leg than thirty thou sandmen, while our whole force at - the : tin* was not overtwenty thousand,A4 that number having landed. Had it► not been for the gunboats our force would have been defeated • • WILLIAMSBURG, May B.—The details of the engagement of Monday are so in correct and voluminous that it :will be nec essary to await the report ofpen. McClel lan, which 'snow being prepared. Tke official report of the mired and' wounded being too lengthy to send over the military i telegrapti, it has been forward ed by mail. ' The expedition , up the York river' has been mdst successful, and our trays now occupy West point. Heavy thing has been heard di rection, but the particulars are not known. erday the• advance guard of our eta ry had a skirmish with the rear guard of the enemy about seven miles from here. The main body of the enemy have retreated across the James river.— The general impression with military men is that the rebels have made ',their last stand in Virginia. Fora distance ofsome teri.wiles beyond ;Williamsburg the road with broken artny-wagons,left in ;the retreat of the enemy. The Pennsylvania Regiments inthe Bat . tle pf TPilliamsbttrg. • • HARRISBURG, May 9.-=-The following despatch was received by Governor Cats tin from Washington this afterribon : To .Gov..Curtin :—A,New York friend In - Derr: McClellan's advance writes me ar' &Vows : The battleof Williamsburg was a most brilliant engagement, and the victory was complete. The fighting lasted from daylight till dark. Hooker's and Smith's divikons, and parts of Casey's and Kearney's were ac tively engaged all day, and an equal force held in reserve. The enemy had forty thousand, under Johnston, Longstreet, and Early; their troops being principally from the extreme South. Our killed and wound ed will reach eight hundred. The enemy left five hundred wounded in' Williams burg, and retreated beyond dliickahomi ny, A reconnoissithaeby our 'Cavalry to that strum found no fortifications i vdmaar ed many prisoners and arms. McClellan will probably remain in Williamsburg two 7 or themdays. Franklin and Sedg wlek's divisions are at West Point. The Pennaylirania I:6'oi:wilts behaved, it is con-. ceded by general consent, splendidly.— The 102 d, 93d, 98th, 26th, 105th, 57th, and' 63d Ptnnsylvania Regiments, 'and perhaps others were engaged. The ene my's fortification 4 irk Williamsburg were most formidable. The Pennsylvanians have acquitted themselves in a Manner worthy of veterans. The Pennsylvania sick and wounded. who arrived at New York in the Daniel Webster, have been Brought by a special agent, appointed by the Governor for that purpoae to Philadelphia; where they are 'now in the hospital, and being kindly car ed for. _Fourteen men were tob ill to be moved, and are now in Charge of a Penn sylvania physician in New York Cityllos-, pital, Pursuit byGeginkCleHants ArsAy. ADVANCE' .TO CUMBERLAND. INT 1 , IV Itan2 COURT:' Tit ! , May 19-3 o!ci. put suit of the r Rebels,. by our troops upd Viand of Gpb: Stone. Man -hos in - • irylvespeet been SUCCOA. flak His htnid Tnarters.ure now berg, within.. 27 , miles of Richmond; the advance, consistiugapt the Er itp Illinois cavalry, is fi"P r irotles atr4o. - e enemy were in sight but grad. 'itany falling back. The inhabitants have, in nearly every instance, Wt., but fro the last information. twat haa , been obtained;,,the enemy., will make a stand at. • Bottom', Bridge, fif titen milt* from Richitiond, and . ,the head. iglitns of the .Cbickahominy river. , - Gan:. McClellan, with_tbe main body oL theikr,rgy s . foiio)!ipg up within a tell' : miles. Cumberlitudra small•town oil the Pamonkey..river a•fu - ,1 twee. and a half miles from hore, was deserted this morning by the enemy, and is now occupied by our troops. • LAZOT -FROMGEN. MACL.E.t -' • LAWS ARMY. 4.4iiirpany of the Sixth Cavalry puShildiblast-tijght to White Rouse, on, teltr omonkoy giver, better know as We CifAje Vrtatr, owned by a son of Gen. filbert E . . Lai:. Thikisitapany secured 7,000 bushels of wheat 0, - od 4;000 bushels of core: . • The rebels' bad jiAreed the railroafil bridge and :ton up the red:for spine distant*. toiNde Itiatimorid t • The Jireovie. froth White Abuse to Riehmon,tt ti;* railroad is 28 aliles. The rear guai:d' q f the enemy is at Tumitalta .Depo, five iniloS> from White House. • • Girionierh•Nints. 'NORFOLK, PORT§MOI.7TH AND .- 71 1 1 R, 1 !".• NAVY YARDAI,BPObSE2SED ,WASHINGTON, May 11i-:The foll Owing was received• at the War Department this morning:— • •FoaTanss Mosnox, May 10-12 o'clock at night.—Noriolk is ours, and also Ports mouth ,and thelVavy Yard. General WoOlt.havirig completed the landing'of his forces at Willoughby Point, about nipeo'oloc,k this mprning, commenc ed his march oti-Norfolk with 5000 men. . . Secretary - Chaie accompanied the Gen'. eral. About Ave miles from the landing place a Rehel battery waif found on the opposite side of the bridge over Tannees Creek. After a rd* discharges by corn paniesofinfitntry the Rebels burned the bridge.. .This• compAled our forces to march arAd five miles further. At 5 o s clock in: the afternoon our forces were within a short distance of Norfolk, and were met by a delegation of citizens, and the city was fOrrnaily 'surrendered. Our troops marched in and we now have,pos. session. Gen. 'Viele is in:command as Military Governor. The city and Navy Yard Were not burned. The fires which have been seen for some hours proved to be the woods on fire. General Wool; with Secretary. Chase, returned abilat 11 O'clock to-night. General Huger Withdrew his forces with out a battle. Corn. Roger's expedition was heard' from this afternoon ascending 'the James river. The reports from. General McClellan are favorable. ED‘KARI} M. STAVTON The ReWeamer Yorktown Sunk NEW YORICi May 11.—Speciabldespatches state that , the, kat-clad steamer Gagna pea su tik the Rebel steamer Yorktown and deptured the Jamestown, in the „Tames I river* " • The Itlerrimac - Blo*n up FoRTRs?s MONitOE, May I 1. Hon. P. Matson, Aisle t Seel of War: The Merrimac was blown up by the rebels at two minutes before 5.. o'clock this morning She teas ; set fire - tO at about 3 o'clock, and the explosion took placcc at the time stated. It is said to. have been a grand sight by those wlig i saw it. The Monitor, Stevens in the gunboats have gone up towards Norfolk. (Signed) E. S. SANFORD. Ma. Lorcocri's LAmgr.—By special per- Mission of the 'Censor of the Press," we are allowed to mention that the President on alighting from his -carriage after his late Aquia Creek excursiotoremarked that it was all nonsense to say Virginia was disaffected, as he had toutid •it a. Clay State up to the hub. ADDRESS Of. .Democratic Members of angrisi to the Democracy of me United' States. FELLOW CITIZENS : The perilous condition' of our country demand .at we should reason 'together: Party organi zation, restricted within•proper limits, is a pos itive good, and indeed essential to the preserva tion of public liberty. •Without it the best Gov-, ernmerit would soon degenerate into the worst of tyrannies. In despotisms the chief usenf power is in dusk. out party opposition.. . 4 Our own 009007 tbo experience of the last titifve months proves, more than any leps*iihh4tayy, theneces sity.of patty organization. Vile sent Admin istration was chosen by a pert ,;..dln all civil arts and appointments bat • , pized, and Still does fealty Ind obligati° . ..it; that party.— There must and.will be an opposition. fhe pub lic safety and good demand it. Shall Alm a new organizmion or an old. one ? . ,'he DeMlSPatio partl weefounAted inure ' Nam sixty year's ago.— It /pa never been distuinded. T5O day it num. hers one million_ tire Inniksid Alifptcvind electors in the States still Itsvecent numerous victories 'la municipal elections in the Western and Middle Stab* proyA.t i ty.— Within the leat ten anufttitk - hfii held &lite Conventions and nomiatatedireirberocratie tick ets invery Free State in the R ettionlf no oth er, paytylpposed to the epultlieans c the same 4, said. 6HALL THE ItEMOCILk TIC PARTY BE NOW VISBANDBDT' Why sh oo A ancient rallA t ES wrong? WbeS, teAlloirt Let its platforms for thirty years speak "Remised, That the Awe Haw Democracy placa their tenet in the Intolltiptike .14111. patriotiad th e die crintinatina justice of- *merit:an pt "That waregarittlite distioctivirp in our political creed, whop tce aro proud tamaintalu before the world, as. the,gbeat moral element In a form of gov ernment opringing from and uphold by the - POPULAR IYll,ll;hied we contrast it with ttie creed and practice of Festir lism, under whatorer Moine, or form. which seeks to palsy the will of the cttnetitoent, and which soncelyes no imposture too iisonstreuis f6f- the _popular arailfulity. • . • ••Thsigahe WederalGO , SraMetit IR one of IllnDedsPow or, derail. sooty from the Costrittoxiilr; and the grants of poier made thereon ought to be stristly,oonatrned by all the departmests and agents of this Government; and that i lt le Inqgpeareiti autdrdengeroaa' CO- exerviso doubtful cnstltutionaloowers." Anaiirexplainat4l, Of these the following from Mr. JEFFAS . OX'S Brit inaugural : ' - . "The stiport of ttneStsrit 6 , 0888.!IMIeNTI in " 811 their rights as t h e Meet Cnlppetent administrations of.our doweetre concertisland the surest bulwarks against an tirepublieen taiideneies.• nThe . prteeriirtion of the Gsmsaar. Gortaxerzer in its whole constitutional vigor as the sheet-ariabor of our ,piaca at borne and safety abroad. • "A Jealous care of the right of electiqn by the people. 'THE SIIPRE3IACY OR TUE C 1371, OVER Tito MILITARY AUTHORITY. .Economy In the pulite expense, that labor may be lightly butgened. "Thitchoaest paynsent or onr debts and sacred preser vation at the public faith. "'Pomm OF RELIGIN, FREEDOM OF TUE PRESS, A N D FREEDOM OF O PERSON UNDER PILO TEOTION OM TUB HA BAB 0011P138, AND TEIAL BY JEIBIES 111 EAL V SELBOVED." ,i, # . Snub, Demooist4;:ank the principlgs of your party, essential to public liberty and to the sta bility and wise administration of the ,Govern; ment, alike in Fiume and war. They are the prin ciples upon which the:Constitution and the Uni on were founded ;and, under 'the control of *a.par ty which aditiies'to them, the Constitution'Would be mairitalueil and' the Union oeuld norlie-dis solved.-/ • - • Is the roLIOY 'elf the Dem.oeratio party wrong that it ebould be diebaoled ? Its "Poite - rilr.baniihrtenl.' with . its principles, and - vas , - beiontainuili np,-from the beginning., as fel lowot,... The support of liberty as against power ; ,Of the • people •as against their agents and sor• inuojlind . of -State rights as - agaipet coneolida-', .00 find centralized deapotianr4 a: simple gov- - ernorteht; no public, debt; low taxes ; no high protective tariff; no general system of internal improvements by Federal authority ,•' no Nation al :18tinkvioard money for the Federal public (Ries; no assumption of Statedebts ; expanv ion of territory; self government for the Territo ries, //object Only to the Constitution ; the abso lute colatibility of a union of the' States, 'Portelav 'arid part fgen;" the admiesion of new States, vrith or wittilllrt Slavery, as they may elect; 810 :roterforenee toy the Federal Govern. jn State lond Territory, or . in -the Distr . e - of Columbia ; and, finally, as set forthlittife CinUtinati Platform, in 1856, and .peaffilMeiti in 186 0,.eAsoluie and eternal "repudi ',ation of ALL, 61INTION' TIES AND4LATFODDS eoneerning_domeatle r y which seek to em toroil the States aud lno n,te treason and armed rglgti acie to law in the Territoriea, and who.. av i r acomicrparjates, tf 00 / 18 irmrnatod,. puss *id in CIVIL WAR AND DIWNION." Such was the ancient and the recent policy of t Damao:natio piviy, running through _ a N or= ilxty yearn—a policy consistent with the , prOciples of the Constitution, and absolutely essential to the preservation of the UnioO. Does the - /semi' or the Demonratie party 'prorit..ithat it ought to be abandonelt 7 "11 y i • „knits shall ye - know. them." Sectional pull° Mb not achieve Union triumphs. For' latY years ftion the inauguration of lefferaon s piiirltie 4th 'o /Malch, 1801, the Democratic party, with stror intervals, controlled ths , pewer and the polioy o the Federal Government. For forty-eight years out of these sixty; Democratieft ruled 'the country ; for fifty foul' fears an ' ht months the Dernooretio • pidloy4frevallett . touring, this period. Louisiana, Florida, TeX3f,. New Mexico and tinfoil:Oa weroNspeOes'el veiy annexed to 'Our tarritoly, with*Arga94,of.: than twice as larg as all the origiimil Thirteen States together•—r. • ieu . new States wanild.foßted under strictly "mescal° A:dinioietraions—.one under the Ed: nistration - of F'lllmorp.' From Si; millions,: 111'poprilation, ineresaied to thirty...one' • arillions. he Revolutionary:debt was extinguishid. two foreign wars wereauccdssfully• prosecuted, with a moderate outlay and a Atilt army and navy, and without the suspension of the habeas sprpue; without one infraction (dam Constitdtion ;,.with out usurpation of power ; without supplaheing a single newspaper : without imprisoning a single editor; without limit to theireedom of the press, or of speech in or out of Congross, L but, pia the midst of the grossest abuse of both 1 " and wittiont the arrest of a tingle " ira i tor," thought& HART- Fon]) CottVeNttos Sat dining one of the *art; and in the other Senators' invited the engin) . to' "GREET OUR VOLUNTEERS WITH ntoon• HANDS. ureng , a . _. AlI D I) " LCONr ll E tb T i g li E t U ita 'r e ° l4 -11 11111 P th iT i A ll 8 C L re C all G ed " , l bsts .".' in ' ems of all kinatillbsultiplied, prosperity smiled on ev ery side,,,taxes were IoW, warm were high, dui North and the South furnished a marketfor each other's products at good prices; public liberri was secure, private rights nodisturl4,ied ; every moo's house WAS his castle; theV'urta were oped to all ; no passports rot travel, no secret pollee, no spies, no informers, no bastiles ; thls right to assemble p ea cm e hlr,,,the,right to petitior, ; -.Or deal of religion, fie . edorn of speech, a.free.ballot,' and a free press; aniCallAttime the,Copstitu tion maintained and the n of the Stites pre seteed.. • Such were the choiceTruittief D.em oora tic prin ciptes and policy, carried out brongh"theswhole cried during which the De o party held p epower and administered . s dentl Govern ment. bulb has-been the history ef that party. it,,,' is rt. Uoion party, fur it preserved thelfirtilfh,. hiPwisdom, peace, and compromise, for more than' half a century. Then neither.the ancient printlZies, tbe ar ifi,o „, r. nor the past hisArry of the Democratic p ; ,..re.- quire nor would jitittify Its disbandment. • • Is thlrwanytbing in the present crisis which demtindii it? The more immedihte issue is, TO.. MAINTAIN THE CONSTITUTION AS IT IS,..CISD.TO RE STORE TEE UNION AS IT WAS. • To maintain the Constitution is to respect the . rights of the States end the liberties of the citi zen. It is to adhere. faithfully to the very prin.. - eiples and policy which the Domocratic tertylas professed for more than half , * -century. Let its history; and the results, from the beginning,: provewhether it has practised them. lVe appeal; proudly to the record. , The first step towards a restoration of the Union' as it was is to maintain the Constitution as it is, So !Cog as It was maintained in feet, and not . threatened with infraction. in spirit and intimate* actual or imminent, the Union was unbroken.. . To restorithe Union, it is essential,. first, to give assurance to every State and to thd people of every'section that their rights and' liberties and property will be secure within the Union ander the Constitution. What assurance so doubly sure all the restoration to power of that ancient organized consolidated Demooratia party which for sixty years did secure the property, rights, and liberties of the States and of the people; and • thus did maintain the Constitution and-preserve the Union, and with them the multiplied bless .legs wbidh distinguished ns above all other na. tions? - .... To restore tba.Uniort is to crush.onl seatirrnal ism North and Soteth'. To begin' the great work of restoration through the ballot-box is tokill eh .elision. The bitter waters of secession flowed first and are fed still from the unclean fonntain.er' abolitionism. That' fountain must be.dfied up. r4aLropies may break down the power of the Con federate Government in the South; bat the work of restoration can. only be carried on through po- Racial organization and-the ballot in UM North and West. In this great work * we cordially in: vite the tio•operation of all men of*very party who are opposed to-the fell .spirit of abolition, and who, in sincerity, desire the Cdastination as it isand. the Union aillt was. Let tbi l flea3 peat berg its' dead. Rally, lovers of the Union, the Constitution, end of Liberty to the staindard of the Democratic party, already in the'fiield" dna oonfident of victory. That party is the natural and persistent enemy of 1001RP:tor. Upon this 'question*s record as a national 'organization, how ter it iiiity have been at times with portiere lar tan or in particular States, is clear and un questionable. RiAr the beginning of the anti slavery agitation - to ther`periodthe last Demo cratic Natuial . Convention it held bps, ono h t language in regard to it. Let t e record speak ! : "Resolved, That4ongressilss.no power under the Constltetion to Interfere gith...oecontrol the dommticr. institutions of the reverallStatia,and that surly Staten are the sole and proper judges °fare , ytlthig appertain ing to their own affair, not prohibited bybOonstitu tioia;- that all. efforts of the abolitionists or others made todnduce•Congress to interfere with Questions ef ale. r..,..., ..or to take incipient scups in relation thereto, are ciMlated to.lead to the most alarming and dangeroaa conseonenceS, sod that ail such atom have An !Devi table tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and „,garrohneneY the Union, and ought not to be countenancer - by any friend of our politicatirtst i l4ll, Agar 2/#' 'Ufa lb " eiples iiloneAllitTatiialtelates to 'alersory, eat t he Union as it was be restored; and Do other Union, except the' UNrrr 'Ow DlcsPOT .ssit, can be Maintained in this country ; and this lait we Will resist, as our futheu did, with our -lives, our-fortunes, and oncsacred honor: , But it is said . that you' must disbars ilt DOM-. °erotic pary "to support the Goveramen ..," 41% answer that the Democratic party has always snit% ported. TIIE im ip`SRNMENT ;,and While .iterras - tiri power pre , the Government in all its vigor and integrity, wry force and arms, butby wis dom, sound p . ,011e. mind peace. But it never 4 1 d admit, and ttever,will, that this Administration, or any 'Administration, is "the Government"— It holds, and over has held, that the Fades:loo*V ernment is, the agent of the PEOPLE( of the:Ape:al States cbmposing_the Union • that it connate et three distinct depaitinents- 2 tee Legislistlie; the Executive, and . Judiciel.—eachequeity p..4,ait of • the ^ Golternmee,,tesind equally ...e.4114-tiSithe eon ftilititee,and impport. of thoßtates and the people; andiliar it is thoduty of.every patriot to sustain thp several departments of the tioverntitent to the. exercise of all'the conetitutional powers of each which may be necessary and proper for the pre set vdtion of the Govan/Arent in its principles and do its 'vigor and integrity, and to stand by and ittifenii: to the - utmost the flogwhich represents the Government, theaUnloh tald - tee - eettetri- • In tills sense the Demoisret* . pisety 'has - eiways ' sustained, and wilt nosSinitsto, hoe' orovnittr- MEET against all foes, at home or abroad, in the &rth or the South, open or concealed, 'in Ace Milt of office, in peace or in war. If. this !ft - what the Republiipka party mean by supporting the Cloven:it:sti, ira as idle thing to abandon/bold and 'tried DAsireratio party, which iota try portend tttrough so manes trials supported; preservati and maintained the Government of the Union. Bu4getheirrettslpur posit bi to aid the ancient engine of the De wiry acy in subverting ourspresent. Constitution and form of government ) and, under pretence' of saving the Union, to erect a strong central- - ized despotism on its ruins,,tbe Dernocratio par ty *ill resist them,es the worst tummy to the - Constitution and the Union, and to LW:4lll4Or - ernment every where.' We do not propose to consider no the y muse whiehled,to the present enhamy civil 'war. dr fitter time will come hereafter I'4 such dieens sloe. But we remind yo ow thrit constroisms , „ made your Union and ooWnemistftfteen months ago would hal - weaved it. Repeated- effort* were' made at t be-hist seision of the Th Irty-si wth 'Con - press to this 'end: , At every stege...the great mass of the South, with,the whole Demoarratio party t and the whole constitutional Union party r of the North and West, united in fey* Of ,certain a mendments to the Constitetion-,--Aa'•c9stf a mong tbemythe woll.kaoar.n.."'strr onerous," which weuld lucre averted Cirril wiz end maintained'the Union: At every stage, all ' proposed amendments incongiatent with the sea tiortal.dpctrine.s of the.Carcieslit - PLATA:nut were strenuously...and utalinimously - reithsted and defeat ed by ttie Republican party. The "Crittortdi4 ..Propositions" never rembined atingle Repoldhsaw vote is Stithistßause.'" Ptir the 'proof wes‘ appeal+ to the Jeurnalsef• Congress and to the Gnitgres sional Gipbe. • • We ;worn to reply to the chergethat theDem oera tie party is opposed to granting Rid and it op port to the Federal Government in maintaining. its safety, integrity, and comilitukum tt p Temary and in 'hive: of disbanding : an d ime _ combing to the South. The•-ledwir,ge is libellous ' and false. No man has . advetteled any each pro :position. Detwerlits • as patriots to n sup eities p vary tirt , titteoglilse It as - Utak duty fly au tflo pr e c e pe rn r in e e ir n o t ria ln i sol mai l 'm a n : stitutional, . Lain its safety, integrity, and constitutional an -1 hority; but et - the same time , they are inflexibly opposed to waging war against any of the States or people of this Union in any spirit of oppres *len, oiler atty plorpose bi ionquest.or, subjaga-' ro tioo, or of overthwing or interfering wilt the-- rightsor established inetitiations of atiyslata. - .Abovee A d m; iertr ai l thae 43 ti t o ili n ° in any °ratklPa th t i tY ng which wiiln9t .io su e looks PP°r Or t th tends to• the. losts;of our politics' or persortal rights and liberties, or a eb t ange of our Present detnocratiettl,form al government- _, . ~.. But - no, Dawn:wets, it is not the suPPersex OM Government in restoring the Union whitrlpt the , party in power require of-yon. Yea arrs..aAigist to give np your principles, your poliey,r,pnigpos - er party, and to stand by Ithcr adosinistre,t_ I - - tr• , party in power, ip all its acts- 411 4 4 311 mended of you that you yield at` t a tai'. suiport-to their whole policy , setterislitthel• soratfri,yr into their public oonduetof•every k, ' lest • Y,Wstkataid " embarrass the 'Atiministnsti- p Yob ern-thus asked to meanie' one of the .priiittiPlea and the .c - litarity of a .0 4 1 10 i lb tiovernmenx--- old.publieter responsible to - -' 'lei' to's Atie-represen , he twilit thy' an cite itiveos. , Mos V" '4.-1; " rtliy rf4r l
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