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t. ictott o.
THE H MINTED HOUSE.
It was near the One(' of
_a sultry
'day in August that I .drew up my
ttired heirs° 'before the door of the
Via* Bear—where entertainment
.vas to be obtained for man and beast
th(, laboriously creaking sign vol-
Untarily informed the passer-by:
Having seen Pluto well cared for,
a•nd in a" clean stall, saunterer into
bar-rooki, and . , having nothihg
'better to da; sat down to listen,to the
4 convereation of the -half dozen - lotilig: 7
'ere there congregated.
+I Booked over the books on itio'ta.-
Ide, but they were all airy
a k rilalttiye and cookery,: .and lee
theiti pass. I was young thea—just
twenty three,—and was' travelling
!solely' to . pass away the time of my
summer vacation (was"then ;a "mem
ber of the T ' LaW'Ophool), and
from the love of adventilie.
As yet, however, very ;little in the
way of adventure had befallen Me.—
Life had gone on rather monotonously;
/And I had strayed 11,way hero into the
Illitciteivouds 'or Maine in the forlorn
hope that I might meet with some
thing strikingly out of the usual
way.
Evidently, my entrance had, inter
rupted the conversation of the gen
tlemen ; ,for there followed a'pause,
broken at last, by at all military look
agman in rough coat and topboots.
"There was a daughter, wasn't
there, landlord ?" he asked.
"Yes," replied that individual, so
tshortly that I scrutinized him more
'closely than 1 had before done. The
scrutiny threw little light on his char
acter. His physiognomy was per
fectly unreadable. He might, .or
might not, be a bad man. He was
short, thick-set, with a red face,
bushy eye-brows, and a coldly-glit-
tering steel blue eye.
"Well, it was a startling affair for
thiS one-horse place," continued he'of
the top-boots, removing his cigar.—
"It happened four years ago, you say,
and the daughter has not been heard
of since ? Strange-!"
"Yes, it will be four years come
next Christmas," said a whitehaired
old man who had not before Spoken.
.“4. terrible night, sir ; freezing cold,
BD) e ti gi MAY - I 'l4 / 1 44 3
Roger Hampton and his wife were
.murdered; and from that day to this,
nro human eye, so far as we know,
%as ever looked on Margaret Hamp-
ton."
"What do you think became of her,
'Granger ?" asked one of the men ad
dressing the old man.
"1. ? Think ? I know not what to
think. It was currently reported
that she dealt the death-wounds, and
then fled to save herself from suspi
cion ; but I believe nothing of the
kind. I remember her as a,, lovely
and affectionate girlond of that mur
der she is pure as the angels in heav
en."
"Of what were you speaking, gen
tlemen, WI may inquire ?" I ,asked
drawing up to the table where tliey
were sitting.
, The circle courteously. Widened to
admit me; people:always like to tell
what they know, if properly request
ed to do so. ,
"We were talking over a tragedy
that occurred near here, some four
years ago, in an old mansion known
as 'Hampton's Death," replitti he, cif
the top-boots.—" Mr. Hampton and
bis wife were - murdered ; and their
only daughter, Margaret,—a girl of
401gliteens or thereabouts,—has never
been seen since." .'
"Indeed," 1 said, "but that , is very
singular 1 Who resides at 'Hampton's
Death' now ?"
"Bless you, young man," cried the
landlord, "You couldn't hire anybody
to enter the doors of a sunshiny day;
and as for living there—why , the
place is haunted •
.and one ' foolhardy
young fellow w ho , went there to pass
the night, on a wager, lost,his reason
before morning. He's been wander-.
ing ever since, Etat no ono knows what
he saw there."
"Humph And so the place is a
ruin ?"
"Getting to be, sir. You can just
see it'froin the window there."
'He pointed out, And I saw at the
distance of half a mile, perhaps, the
chimnies of a large house, clearly de
fined against the red sunset sky.
"Did Mr. Hampton possess any
property ?" I asked.
• "It was generally supposed that he
had a large sum of gold by him," said
the landlord ; "but nothing was prey
od after the murder. There were
some thousands of dollars • worth of
real estate."
"And who was the heir of that ?"
• "My wife, sir," said the landlord.—
"She was the next of kin after Mar
garet—the niece of Mr. Hampton.—
Bat the old house and its imm9diate
grounds are a dead weight on our
hands ; we could not give them
away." •
• I made a few more inquiries, and
`then the conversation turned to other
topics ; and soon afterward supper
was announced. At the supper ta
ble I saw the landlady—a tall, hand
some woman in the prime of life, with
a bold black eye, and an air of arro
gance particularly insufferable in one
by duty bound to be respectfully en
tertaining.
• - I was shown to my room soon after
supper;" an airy apartment exactly
Lebanon
VOL. 16--NO. 10.
Oyer the :bar4vom: My epriosity.
• ,
*as erettifed.
The 'Story .1' =heard tyliont "Ramp-
DeaW"was roinantie entnigh te:
excite the interest of liilmogt Any=
young reViiif thFe`e, and, tw„enty, and%
perhaps. TAO h 'fail, SlVare of itoinTioet
in my composition. I
rthre*,4 the west windo*, and
looked out;.'. The evening was ,and
looked
There. was a slight breeze
blowina and the pale moon "had` just
risen.
The .gray old front.. of Hampton's
Death_ w,aa distinctly viisil;lo,...lociming i
gloomily:frorajt ma* Of„,evergrecim,
it was a singular featuye,, in 'that,.
backwoods landscape man;)
Mon, built in A I..Qle:6V:tit - knot inee. 7;
gp . o.)sty).o 04.0.4teottirc. Its,
peculating•about.it._ , The. In an_zwilo.
plapned,that
. bnading
riqr to- his neighbors;.,.
.had, both
taste 'and. love,i c of: the ‘beautiful._•
There. was. harmony)be
=tween the stolle gables . of the tonic,
and the datiJk:iiinte forest stretching,
awityrfor miles- , behind it,: But this.
distant, view did not satisfy.rae.
Nce tef ,to see : the inside,..to tread the"
long 'closed chambers, and stand, per-.
haps, in the very. spot where,-on that
boisterous Christmas night, two souls'
had been so . suddenly launched into.
:Eternity. •
But I did not care, to have those
below know of my feolhardiness., as
the landlord would probabl yterfn
I would wait till they were all iii. bed.'
I sat there quietly, listening to the
melancholy voice of a whip-poor-will,
away off in the copse-wood, the still
ness growing around me, and even
the light bregze foldingits wings and
sinking to sleep in the leaves.
All was quiet ; the housewas wrap 7
ped in slumber. I examined my,pis
• cols, put on fresh caps,-andtlien4soft-.
ly let myself down to the ground by
means of the strong tendrils of a
grapevine that had climbed up to
my window. It was only a little
walk to the old rain—not more than
half a mile across the fields, to - the
dilapidated board fence that separa.
ted the grounds from the adjacent
lots. I sprang overin to the lonesome
garden, now choked with rank weeds
and grass, and stood in the shadow
of the pile of buildings.
Very massive and gloomy it looked,
with its weatber•stained walls and
high, narrow windows gleaming white
in the cold moonlight. The quaint
gables and carved dormer windows
shed a black shade over the front ;
the path to the hall door was obstruct
ed with. wild vipesandjAmbia,A,ll4l
4_
es •
very threshold. -----
Everything about the place was
dead and silent as a tomb. No won.
der people said it, was haunted, with
that old tale of clime and death hang
ing around it.
I tried the door, but it was fast.
So were the windows. I went around
to the back part, but it .was closely
secured. I pried off a cornice with
my knife after Borne difficulty, and by
that means removed a Window sash,
leaving the aperture free.
Looking in, I saw a largo apart•
ment, evidently the kitchen. Every.
thing had beenTift , just as it was be
tore the curse had fallen : the tin pans
still gleamed on the dresser, and the
kettle still sat on the deserted hearth.
I sprang in, and passed to the inte-'
rior of the
,building, a dark corridor,
to what must bays been a parlor.
Part of the furniture still remained;
the green carpet was gray with, dust,
and the chairs and sofas had put, on
the sackcloth of mould and moth.
A bat flapped against the window
as I•entered, escaping through a bro
ken pane ;:and somewhere not far
distant, I heard the shrill scream of
the n c ight-hawk. A distant door
slammed to in the draught of air I
had admitted, all striking witlystart
ling distinctness on the dead air of
that unhappy place. But 1 was not,
frightened ; it was all very novel and
delightful to me. If L could only see
the ghost, I thought, L should have
something to tell my grandchildren.
From thence I passed through two
smaller rooms to a large ball, in the
middle of which rose a broad stair
case. This I. ascended, the tong unu
seal stairs e,reaking weirdly beneath
my, tread, as if astonished at their un
wonted burden. A door at the head
of the landing stood slightly ajar. I
pushed it open and entered a long,
narrow chamber, dimly lit up by the
moonlight struggling through the
dusky glass. Ooe glance showed me
that "this was the ghostly chamber."
There were dark, rod stains on the
counterpane of the •bed, and near the
centre of the floor the delicate carpet
was discolored with what had once
been a pool of blood.
Here, then, the deed was commit
ted. If these silent walls•could speak
What a tale of violence and crime they
might reveal ! While 1 stood there
thinking how once the death-shrieks
of that hapless old man and his wife
had resounded ' through "the_ room,
wondering where the guilty murder
er was hiding—wondering what trag
ic fate had overtaken the fair
garet, I heard the faint sound of,, a
human footstep. Convinced that :.I
was not mistaken, I listened intently.
It was repeated. No ; there was no
mistake.
I looked at my pistols once more,
to make sure that all wasright. HI
were to meet flesh and 'blood, those
trusty weapons might prove my beet
friend, if only ghosts, 1 might save
myself the trouble of trusting to gun
powder.
There was a door on the opposite
side of the chamber leading through
several rooms to a second hall, smelt•
er than the first; and from this lan
another fligitt of staireaseendedjisid;
LEBANON, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1864.
ing, probably, to the attics. I hur
ried through, and paused at the foot
of these-stairs: -I could hear thestep
joryLdisti netly«no i;_iibseemed , to ,be
,almost over, ,my ,heat,l- r ,, soft, Might-,
and hurried, pagip,g c back, : apd(orth j .
eveii,Abought .I„co,iild distinguish
the slight rustling.ofsgarments and
as I stood , breathless,, a low moan
tole ,to my ear—so thrilling low that
felt the rosy blood around my heart
sbrink and grow cold. 'A,
,
ton,Earle I are you a cowarill"
fsaid to myself, and the bare -insinu-
Atjen was enongh to send ,nae forward.
n t .up e stairs,
_tyre at a hound, :
but was stopped bya: strong -oaken
,dpor. • Istried-to break
. it clevvni„ but,
it resisted:all my efforts. wen tu,back
4 1.9, gni li,e-oh am bars . ;: - bg I on s .•and
' ; iv , rerictied . off t the-greats poet of a .3na.
hogany..ltcskteadi 0.110 returning, ; used
th t air-a 1 spy t,„ of . hattaring-ram:
'mere wooden - door.could long. Aiih r
stand-sue.h- an attack as I ...ruade,l tic
that.one, and ere long ,I hail the alt•
isfaction of seeing it tall inwards. I
leaped over the ruirisfinte the apart
ment thus opened before me,. but 'it
,Wll.B, bare and ucfurnished,.. Not' a
thing, animate or ina,nimate„ to, • dis
turb the ghostly devastatiop.i- ,
I glanced.quickly - oirer.the walls in,
sear h, of some 'secret passage,: apd
the farther corner, I perceived a slide.
fastened with massive j bolts the,
outside. drew back the bars,. and
. paused a moment betore I sought to ,
penetrate the mysteries that door
concealed. My heart beat so loudly
could hear it, but / 'laid My band
thereon - and found . it beat calm -and
strong. ; <
A vague, nameless something thrill
ed through iny.„-sou.l as 1 stood there.
It seemed to Ane as if 1 were about to
enter on a new n,n4.,sweeter existence.
The hand of. Destiny itself was upon
me.
I opened the door slowly and stood
on the threshold. What did I see ?
The moon was shining brightly in
to the chamber, flooding every re
mote corner with its silvery brilliance.
I - could distinguish everything with
the greatest minuteness.
In the centre of the room stood a
slight spectral in its slenderness, with
a lace white as marble, and masses of
black hair flowing down over sable
garments. The shadowy hands were
locked together; the great, mild, dark
eyes were fixed ape my face with
an expression of terror and won
der.
advanced to the side of the phan
tom form. Whether it was ghost or
lisijie..wpman. I kaa.w_nat__:_lmil_waa
___lteis..,,kietest.,_,sitddestVoice na.a
ever heard, addressed - Ine.
'Who are you?" "Why are you
here?"
"Why lam here, depends on cir
cumstances." •
I paused, furl waguncertain wheth
er I was speaking to the flesh or the
spiri t.
"Oh I" she cried, springing toward
me and taking my hand' in both of
hers; so soft4iiid warm', "only say
that, you have come to take me a
way from here Only release me
and I will be your slave foreverl"
The suspicion that had all along
been forming in my mind, broke out
in the abrupt question :
"Are You Alargare.. Hampton ?"
' 'Years ago l witsvalled
"Good G-od _and where, have you
been sinee--sip . 4e„ , that. Christmas
night ?"
"tre're, 'always. - Oh, sir if you
kneW the half I have -suffered, you
would take me away KC
I replied by liftirigheein. my arms
and bearing her down over the stairs
to life and freedom , once more. It'
was the happiest moment of my ex
istence when I stood with her on.tho
greesward in front of Hampton's
Death, with the silver:rairr.-ofttlie ob
si'ructed moonlight falling over us.
Stu) - Shivered at the touch of the
might air. How very long it had
been since she had felt the free, fresh
air. I took off my coat and button
ed it around 'her, placing her in the
shadow of a tall fir tree, that she
might have the support of its rugged
trunk.
"You will not be afraid to stay hero
while I get my horse ?" I asked.
"Where is it ?"
"At Carl Jansen's hotel."
I thought she shuddered at the
name—my suspicions were fast tak
ing a tangible form.
"Yes, 1 will stay--but, oh ! you
will not desert me ?"
"Desert you I May God smite me
dead if fthink of it I" I exclaimed,
and flew °goner th'e field's to the host
lery. I was young and enthusiastic
then. My plan was all formed.—
Plato was strong and willing, he
could carry us both &wily, and 1:46t,
on his back, feeling for the noble'tel
loW an affection strong as that of a
man for bis brother. He needed no
urging; he seemed wild to got away
from the vicinity of the Black Bear;
and it was hardly five minutes before
I had Margaret Hampton up before
me. With one hand I guided the
horse, the other arm held the slight
form to niy side—l was afraid [should
lose her if I did not hold her fast.
Half an 'hour's brisk gallop brought
us to the little village of. Lowridge,
and soon alter I had the landlord of
the G-lobe louse out of bed, and very
much at my service.
I took Margaret into the parlor,
and made her tell me her story in as
few words as possible. The land
lord was a magistrate, and took
down her statement. Two hours, af
terwaids I was on my way to the
Black Bear, with four,constables,and
warranta. or thearrest of : Carl Jan
sen 011 the charge of murder. ~;
We entered the tavern without core.
mony, and' took the guilty wretch in
bed by the side; of his equally guilty
wife. . .
Hwsvasletl i g6l in .the co
in
arid the beat' afternoon a judicial' ex
-
amination tank -:place. , Margaret's
testimony .wasamply sufficient tcieon
vict him, add lie was taken back to
the place Of has confinement ,to await
his trial at it kigher court. ..
Three dayis afterwards ,
he waa
found dead itt„his cell. He ~had died
from the effects of poison brought
him by his;wVe ; and the sante day
she too wat9seized with a fatal ill
'nest that inA've hours.ended ter life.
Justice was iJefrauclecl. of Jts .dues.
„Jansen leftla -writ:ten confessipn in
,fullo. He , en44ered•upou all the herr'.
_13,1e .particol4 with, fiendish, niauce
ness;, and I awl eloquently, on: the
,drillwitlytW t cli u he,•. avoided_detec-
Ol
klo.n.
It-ewn — aalirhad:expected
-;! Ar 43. ,laildS4l betug,.the ; •next-heir
after Margaret to the Hampton wealth
the wretched couple had, formed .1 he
plan of, raurderipg the whojefaroily,
..i R . order to sdcure ;the property. A
night whetv 4 #ll.oe servents were
Away at a Ch•rtst.tnas Testival.was se
lected,• and the deed was: done; done; , only
Jansen could mot find it in his heart
'.to sacrifice Margaret. There was a
tender spot ,in the villain's : nature,-
after 'all. Long ago, in
,his early
taanbood, loa Auld loved a.woman Of
' whose face Mittgaret's was the coun
terpart. TtOg lo woman had died, in
her young liVOcenee, in her lover's
armrs, and lohe sake of that tender
memory, the kr . l, who resembled her,
Bin
was spared., t she had been kept
a close prisoner - f.,every one believed
her dead, and'A Oahe was, to all in
tents and purplass. Jansen had car
ried her food atlsiated intervals ; and
encouraged the prevailing belief that
the old house was haunted, to the
best of his ability, The young man
who had gone there to pass the night
had been frightened by some diabolical
contrivance of -Jansen's ; and I only
escaped a similar fate i)y •keeping my
intention of goinglaere a secret.
I took MargareNt once, to my
mother in Boston„ and then, as the
associations of her early home were
so painful to her, I sold out the, prop
erty, and placed the proceeds to her
credit. When I gave the certificates
of stock into her hands, I said.
"There, Margaret, the old life is
buried. Now you can begin the new.
She did not reply, but, sat there in
the mellow sunshine, her beautiful
face troubled, her beautiful eyes cast
(loan
Lon ; you , w Ili gbfin LO 1
laiief--;, an
_
a great belle.” - _ cl b_e
"No," she said, softly ;"I no not
wish to be a belle, Clinton."
"What would you be, if you could,
Margaret 2"
She lifted her sweet face to mine..
I caught her to my breast, and held
her prisoned there.
" W odd you be my wife, Margaret 2"
And she answered.
oyes:,
So she was—so she is now,: and has
been these many .happy years; Gad
bless her I And every day my heart
is full of eloquent gratitude to an in
scrutable Providence, Inr . sending me,
in_ a fit of romaaticcuriosity, to spend
a, night at Hampton's Death."
POLITICAL.
n Important Paper.
'ROTEST OF LEADING REPUBLICANS
AGAINST
DICTATORIAL USURPATIONS
A CAUtTiit HUM
Senator Wade, of Ohio, rad Representative
Davis, of Maryland, hold np Linoolife•Usne-
Pation of Power to the Reprobation and
Scorn of - the Freemen of.the "United States.
!TO TUE SUPPOItTERS• I OF THE GOVERN-
EN
We have read - Witbdut Surprise, hut
not without indignation„ the procla
mation of the President of 'the Bth of
July, 180.
The siipporters ef'_rthe Administra
tion are responsible ,to the country
for its conduct ; and it is their right
and duty to check the encroachments
of the Executive on the authority , of
. Congress, and to require it to' confine
itself to its proper sphere: • !''
It is impossible to pass in silence
this proclamation:Without neglecting
that duty ; and, having-taken as much
responsibility as, any others in sup
porting the Administration, we are
not disposed to fail in the other duty
of asserting the rights ~of Congress.
The President did not sign the bill
"to guarantee to certain States whose
Governments have been usurped a
republicanform of Govern m ent,'' pass
ed by ~the supporters of his adminis
tration in both Houses of Congress
after mature deliberation.
The bill did not, therefore,- become
a law, and it is, therefore, nothing.
The proclamation is neither an ap
proval nor a veto of the bill ; it is,
therefore, a document unknown to the
laws and Constitution of the United
States.
So far as it contains an apology for
not signing the bill, it is a political
manifesto against the friends of the
Government.
So far as it proposes to execute the
bill which is not a law, it is a grave
Executive usurpation.
It is'. &ting that the facts neces
sary to enable the friends of the Ad
ministration to apprebiate the applo
gy and the usurpation be spread be
fore. them.. ' l . _
''"Ttee pkiidlamatiot. says : •
Abticttis.t.
And whereas the said bill was presented to the
President of the United States for his approval
less than one hour before the sine die adjourn
ment of said session and was not signed by him--
If'that is accurate, still this bill was
presented with other bills which were'
signed: , •
~Tlth„'n that hour, the time for trne
sine die adjournment was three times
posponed by the votes of both Houses ;
and the least intimation- of a - desire
for more time by. the President to
consider this bill would have secured
a further postponement.
Ydt the Committee sent to ascer
tain if the President had any further
communication' for the House of Rep
resentatives reported that he had
none; and the friends of the bill, who
had anxiously waited on him to as
certain its fate, had already been in
,fo ,
rmed that the President had resolv
ednot.to sign: it.
The dine - of presentation therefore;,
'had:nothing to do isith his failare to
approve it.
The bill had been discuised and con
sidered.fOr More than a month in the
Houk of Representatives, which it
passed on the 4th of May ; it was re
ported to the Senate on the 27th cf
May without material amendment,
and passed the Senate absolutely:as
it came froth the House on the 2d of
Ignorance of its contents is out of
the question. -
Indeed, at his .request, a draft of a,
bill substantially the samein all ma
terial points, and identical in the
points objected to by the proclama
tion, had been laid. before him for his
consideration in the winter of 1862-
63.
ENE I
There_is, therefore, no reason to
suppose the provisions of the bill took
the President by surprise.
On the contrary, we have reason
to believe them to have been so well.
known that this method of preventing
the bill from becomin , ra law without
the constitutional responsibility of a
ott
veto, had been resolved on long before
the bill passed the Senate.
We are informed by gentlemen en
titled to 'entire confidence, that before
the 22d of June, in N. Orleans, it was
stated by a member of Gen. Banks'
staff, in the presence of other Gentle
men in official position, that Senator
Doolittle had written a letter to the
department that the House recon
struction bill would be staved off in
the Senate to a period too late in the
session to require the President to ve
to it in order to defeat it, and that
Mr. Lincoln would retain The bill, if
necessary, and thereby defeat it. --.
The experience of Senator Wade, -
• .
PonAiriArpig t
fate ot-to thy% • cj„.-3Kn_qpite
dieted by letters received from ew
Orlos.,ns before it had passed the
Senate.
Had the proclamation stopped
there, it would have been only one
other defeat of the-will of the people
by an executive perversion of the
Constitution. ; •-•
But it goes further. • The President
says :
And whereas the said bill - contains, among
other things, a plan•foriestoring the ;States - in
rebellion to their - proper practical re iatien in the
Union which plan expresses the ScOse of Con
gressupon tha t subject, and which plan it is now
thought fit Way before the people:for their eon
sideratpn.,,
ty,lyha..atitholjty of,the:Ooostitu
4,iom? w kat forms' f ? The:-„rcaulta
to .:be!..,declareq.; fly, „whom . ? With,
what effect when ascertained? .
Is it to be alaw ;by the approval of
the people without the approval . of
Congress, at the will of the. Presi•
dent ? • • ;
Will the President,, on. his opinion
of the popular approval, exeente it, as
law?
Or is this merely a device to avoid
the serious responsibility of defeating
a law on which so many hearts repos
ed for security ?
But the reasons now assigned for
not approving the bill are full of
ominous significance:
The President prOceeds :
Now, therefore, I, ABRATIAIt LINCOLN, Presi
dent of the United States, do proclaim, declare,
and make known, that, while I am (as I was in
December last, when by proclamation I pro
pounded a plan for restoration) unprepared by
a formal approval of this bill, to be inflexibly
committed to any signal plan of restoration—
That is to , say the President is ,re
solved that the people shall not by
law take any securities from: the reb
'el St4tes against a renewal of the re
bellion before restoring their . power
to govern us.
His Wisdom and prudence-are to be
our `suffiCient guarantees . ?
lie further says :
And, while I' am'anprepared to declare that
he Free State Constitutions and Governments
already 'adopted and installed in Arkansas and
.J.,Ouisiana shall be set aside and held for naught
thereby repelling and discouraging the loyal cit.
izens who hove set up the same as• to further ef
fort— .
That is to say, the President per
sists in. recognizing .those shadows of
Governments in Arkansas and Louisi-
ana, which Congress formally declar
ed should not be recognized—whose
Representatives and Senators were
repelled by for Mal votes of both
Houses of Congress—which it was
declared formally shOuld have no elec-
Viral vote. for President and Vice
President..
They are the. mere creatures of his
will. They cannot live day without
his support. They are mere oligar
chies, imposed on the people by Mili
tary orders , under the forms of elec
tion, at which generals,'provost-mar
shals, soldiers and camp-followers
were the chief actors, assisted by a
handful of resident citizens, and urged
on to premature action by private
letters from the President.
In neither Louisiana nor Arkansas,
before Banks' defeat, did the Utited
States ..control half the territory or
half the population'. In Louisiana,
17+ 7 11.0LE NO. 792
General Bank's proclamation candid
ly declared :1 , :The fundamental law of
the State is Martial Law."
Qn that foundation of freedom he
,erected-what the President calls "the
free Constitutiiound Government of
But of this State whose fundamen,
tal-law was martial law, only,sixteen
r parishes. out of forty-eight parishes
were held `by the United States ; and:
in five °Mho' sixteen we held only .
our camps.
The eleven paristes we substAke
ly. held had 133.185 inhabitanWl . . e
residue of - the State not held by us,
At the farce called the election.•
the officers of Gen. Banks returned
that 11,346 ballots were cast ; but
whether airy or by whom the people
of thejinited StateEkhaye no legal as
;, but it is lirohable that 4,000
were Citst:hY soldiers or employees of
tlleill:riiited-States.-inilitary or inuni
, .
ciptkihyt runic -according to any law,
State or%tional, and 7,000 ballots
represent the State of Louisiana.
Such is the free Constitution and
Government. of Louisiana ; and like
it is that of Aarkaßsas. Nothing but
the failure of a military .expedition
deprived us Oa like one in the swamps
of Florida; and before the Presiden,
tial election; like ones may be organ
ized in every rebel State where• the
United State's have a camp.
The President, by preventing this
bill from becoming a law, holds . the
electoral votes of the rebel .States at
the dictation of his personal ambi
tion.
•If those votes turn the balance in
his favor, is it to be supposed that bis
competitor, defeated by such meaus,
will acquiesce ?.
If the rebel Majority- assert their
supremacy in those States, and send
votes which elect an enemy of the
Government, will we not repel his
claims ?
And is not that civil war for the
Presidency, inaugurated by the votes
of rebel States?
Seri o usly impressed by !these dan
gers, Congress, "the proper Constitu
tional authority," formally declared
that there are no State Governments
in the rebel States, and provided, for
their erection at a proper time ; and
both the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives rejected the Senators
. and
Representatives chosen .under the au
thority of what, the President calls
the free Constitution and Govern ment
of Arkansas,
The President's proclamation
"*olds for naught' this judgment,
and discards the authority of the Su
preme Court, and strides headlong
to be chosen in either of those States
a sinister light will be cast on The
motives which induced the President
to "hold for naught" the . will of Con.
gress rather than his Government in
-Louisiana end Arkansas.
The judgment of 'Congress which
the President defies was an exercise
'Of an authority.exclusively vested in
Congress by the Constitution to .de
termine what is the established Gov
ernment in a State,and in its own na
lureand by the highest aa
tliptity binding on all other depart-,
merits of the GoVerament,
Ttie Siiptem 6'o6l'lk — has fornially
liberated that under - 0e- fourth section'
of the. fifth article - of-the Constitution
requiring the United States to guar- •
antee to every State a republican
forth of government, "it rests with Con-•
gress .to decide what government is' the
established one in a State; and "When
Senators and Representatives of a State
are admitted into the councils of -.the
Union, the authority of the Govern
ment under which they are appoiked,
as Well as its republican character, is
recognised by the proper constitutional
authority; and its decision is ..binding
on every. .department of the Government
and could not be que,stioried in a ju
dicialtribunal. It is true that the
contest in this case did not lust long
enough to bring this -matter to this
issue;- arid as no Senators or Repre
sentatives were elected under the au-•
thority of the Government of which
Dorr was the head, Congress
was not called upon to decide the con
troversy.—Yet the right to decide is
placed there."
Even the President's proclamation
of the Bth, of December, formally de
clares that "Whethei members are
sent to Congress from any State shall
be admitted to seats, constitutionally
rests exclusively with the respective
Houses, and not'to any extent with
.tbe Eiecutive."
And that is not the less true be.
cause wholly ineonsistent• with the
-President's assumption in that proc
lamation of a right to institute and
recognize State Governments in the
rebel Statee,.nor because the Presi
dent is unable to perceive that his
recognition is a nullity if it be 'not
Conclusive on Congress.
Under the Constitution the right
to Senators and Representatives is
inseparable from a State; Govern
ment:
lf there be aState Government, the
right is absolute.
If there bo no State Government,
there can be no Senators orßepresen
Waives chosen. .
The Two Houses of Congerss are
expressly declared to be the sole judg
es of their own members. '
When, therefore,Senatore and Rep
resentatives are admitted, the State
Government;under whose authority
they were chosen, is conclasively es
tablished ; when they are rejected
its existence is as conclusively rejeced
and denied; and. to this judgment , the
President is bound to submit
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his unwillingness "to declare a con
stitutional competency in Congress
to abolish slavery in 'States . " as an
other 'reason 'fo"r not signing the bill.
But the billnowhere proposes to
abolish slavery in the States.
The bill did provide that all
slaves in the rebel States should be
manumitted.
But as the President bad already
signed three bills, manumitting sever
al classes of slaveS in States, it is not
conceived possible - that be entertained
any'scruples touching that provision
of the krill Tesdpecting Which he is sb.
.lent.
He has already himself assumed a
right by,preclamation to free much
the large number of slaves in the reb , .
el States, under the authority given
him by Congress to nee military pow
er to suppress the rebellion ; and it
is quite inconceivable that the Presi
dent should think Congress could
vest in him a discretion it could not
exercise itself.
It is the more unintelligible from
the fact that, except in respect to a
small part of 'Virginia and Louisiana
the bill covered only what the procla
mation covered—added a Congres
sional title and judicial remedies by
law to the disputed title under the
proclamation, and perfected the work
the President professed to be so anx
ious to accomplish.
Slavery as an institution cab be a
bolished only by a change of the Con
stitution of the United States or of
the law of the State ; ana'this is the
principle of the bill.
It required the new Constitution of
the State to provide for that prohibi-
tion-, and the President, in the face of
his own proclamation, does nor ven
ture to object toinsisting on that con
dition—yet he defeated the only pro
vision imposing it!
But when be describes himself, in
spite of this great blow at emancipa
tion, as "sincerely hoping and ex
pecting that a constitutional amend
ment abolishing slavery throughout
the nation may bn adopted," we eu
rionsly inquire on what his expecta
tions rest, after the vote of the House
of Representatives at the recent ses
sion, and in the face of the political
complexion of more than enough of
the States to prevent the possibility
of its adoption within any reasona
ble time; and why he did not in=
dulge his sincere hopes . With so large
an installment of the blessing as his
approval of the bill would have se
cured.
After this assignment of his reason
for preventing the bill from becom
ing a law, the President proceeds to
declare his purpose to execute it as a
the one very proper plan for the loyal people of
any State choosing to adopt it ; end that I em,
and at all times shall be, prepared to give the
gxecative aid and assistance to any such peo
ple so soon as the military resistance to the Uni
ted States shell have been suppressed in any
such State, and the people tberefor shall have
sufficiently returned to their obedience to the
Constltution and the laws,of the United States ;
in which cases Military Governors will be ap
pointed, with directions to proceed Recording to
the b
A more studied outrage on the
legislative authority of the people
has never been perpetrated.
Congress passed a bill ; the Presi
dent refused to approve it, and then
by proclairiatircia pits as much of it
, in force as he sees fit, and proposes
to execute •those parts by officers tin
! known' to": 06!: laws of the United
States and not"subject to the confir
'mation of: the Senate.f.
The bill directed the `appointment
of Provisional Goveenore by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate.
The President, after defeating the
law, proposes to appoint without
the advice and consent of the Senate,
_Military Governors for the rebel
States 1
He has already exercised this dic
tatorial usurpation in Louisiana, and
he defeated the bill to prevent its lim
itation.
Henceforth we must regard the fol
lowing precedent as the Presidential
law of the rebel States :
ENECUTIVB. MANSION,
WASHINGTON' Maroh 15,/861.
Ms Excellency, Michael Huhn, Governor of
Louisiana:
Until farther orders you are hereby invested
with the powers exercised hitherto by the Milita
ry Governor of Louisiana. Yours.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
This Michael Hahn is no officer of
the United States: the President
without law, without the advice and
consent of the Senate; by a pri
vate note not even countersigned by
the Secretary of State, makes him
dictator of Louisiatia.
The bill provided for the civil Ad
ministration of the laws of the State
—till it should be in a fit temper tio
govern itself—repealing all laws rec
ognizing slavery, and making all men
equal before the law.
These benificent provisions the
President has annulled. People will
die, and marry, and transfer proper
ty, and buy and Bell—and these acts
of civil life courts and officers of the
law are necessary. Congress legisla
ted for these necessary things, and
the President deprives theta of the
protection of law.
The President's purpose to instruct
his Military Governors "to proceed
according to the bill"—a makeshift
to calm the disappointment its de
feat has occasioned—is not merely a
grave usurpation but a transparent
delusion.
Re cannot "proceed according to ,
the bill" after preventing it from be
coming a law.
Whatever is done will be at his will
and pleasure, by persons responsible
to no law, and more interested to se
cure the interests and execute will of
the President than of the people and
the will of Congress is to OS iladd of