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HR. BIDDLE’S SPEECH.
A capital speech made in Congress by Col.
Biddle, of Philadelphia,. will be found in
another column. It has the ring of true metal
in it, and we therefore reoommend a oareful
perusal of it by all our readers.
ANOTHER VICTORY I
Another decided victory has benn achieved
by the Federal troops over the rebels. On
Saturday morning, about 8,000 of our troops,
under the brave General Shields, engaged the
enemy, some 12 or 15,000 strong, under Gen.
Jackson, three miles out from Winchester,
Va. The contest lasted the greater part of
the day, and ended in a complete rout of the
rebels. Our entire loss in killed and wound
ed is about 150. Gen. Shields was slightly
wounded in the arm. The loss of the enemy
is thought to he double that of our’s. We
captured two of their field pieces, a large
number of Bmall arms, and several prisoners.
ISLAND NO. 10
The bombardment of Island No. 10, in the
Mississippi, occupied by the rebels, was still
progressing on Saturday, the date of our latest
despatches. Our vessels, in command of Com
modore Foote, still maintained tbeir same rel
ative positions as they did for several days
previous, and no doubt was entertained of
their ability to force the rebels to evacuate the
Island.
FINAL ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEG-
ISLATtJRE
Both branches of the Legislature have pass
ed a resolution fixing the 11th of April as the
day for final adjournment. When it was
under consideration in the Senate Mr. McClure
is reported to have stated, “ by authority,”
that neither could the war tax nor the Con
gressional apportionment be attended to this
session. Mr. McClure is chairman of both the
Finance and Apportionment Committees of
the Senate.'' Why these important measures
must be postponed a whole year, it would be
hard for any one unacquainted with the mys
teries of politics to tell.
HARRISBURG ELECTION
The election in the oity of-Harrisburg, on
Friday last, resulted in an overwhelming de
feat of the Republicans—the Democrats car
rying five of the six wards by large majorities.
The Republicans had a full ticket in the field,
and to make it all the more captivating had
the audacity to affix the title of “ Union ” to
it. But that game wouldn’t take—the people
have had their eyes opened to the designs of
the Abolitionists —and “ each tub must stand
on its own bottom ” hereafter. The Democ
racy are the true Union men of the country,
and they will Bave it despite the combined
efforts of seceasionism and abolitionism to
destroy it.
GLORIOUS VICTORY AT YORK.
David Small, Esq., the able and veteran
editor of the York Gazette', was elected Chief
Burgeßs of the Borough of York, on Friday
last, by a majority of 78 votes. Mr. S. is the
second Chief Burgesß elected by the Democrai
oy of that Borough in a period of 42 years.—
Qnr young friend T. Kirk White, Esq.,
formerly of Strasburg, this county, and now
Principal of the York Mercantile College, was
eleoted a Justice of the Peace by 32 majority.
The Democracy of York have covered them
selves all over with glory.
READING ELECTION.
The Republicans carried three wards and
the Democrats two wards at the recent mu
nicipal election. The turnout was small, only
about 210 ft votes being polled. The Gazette
says “ over one thousand of the voters are now
in the army.”
U, S. Hotel. —We paid a flying visit to
Philadelphia, last week, and Btopped with our
good friend H. W. Kanaga, at the U. S. Ho
tel, (Railroad Depot) corner of Eleventh and
Market. We found everything in first-rate
trim—a oapital table, and good bed in a large
and comfortable chamber, and all for $1,25
per day. The Hotel is not only good, but
obeap, and those who try Kanaga once will
be sure to call again.
We take pleasure in calling the atten
tion of Milliners and others to the Millinery
and Straw Goods house of H. Ward, Nos.
03,105 and 107 North 2d St. Philadelphia,
whose advertisement appears in this issue of
our paper.
SSft Attention is invited to J, 4 W. Jones’
advertisement in another column—Dyeing.—
Persons having anything to be dyed would do
well to give him a call.
BURNSIDE AND H'CLELLAS.
Had Gen. McClellan been treated even
with decent disoourtesy by his malignant
traducers, nobody would have thought of
'Speofal to the re
'lpgnttipn itf Gin, BtSiJfsiDihr report;"of-hi*
irecUpg agency ih the military operations of
fiiat able offioer. It would have been: Consid
ered eo much ft jnatter of pouree that it could
have attraotecf no notice. But the 'unceasing
aspersions with which' Gpiii -McClellan has
been pursued by his detraotors, who have
descended to the most pitiful tricks to belit
tle him in publie estimation, will draw atten
tion to this passage in Gen. BnaNsinE’s report:
“ I beg to say to the general commanding that
" I have endeavored to carry out the very
“ minute instructions given me by him before
“ leaving Annapolis, and thus far events have
V been singularly coincident with his andcipa -
•• tions. I only hope that we may in future
“ he able to carry out in detail the remaining
“ plans of the campaign. The only thing I
“ have to regret is the delay caused by the
“ elements.’ ’
Gen. McClellan’s enemies have meanly
taken advantage of the fact that he could
make no reply to their torrents of vituperation
without divulging important military secrets,
and thus defeating.his own plans by prema
ture disclosures. It has: been industriously
asserted 1 that'the Burnside expedition was the
work of the 1 President; it now appears that
it was arranged, even to minute details, by
Gen. McClellan ; and that, allowance being
made for delay caused by the elements,
‘‘ events have been singularly coincident with
his anticipations.” The noble patienoe with
whioh he has waited for time to vindicate him
begins to he rewarded; history will render the
vindication fall and triamphant.
jgy Mr. Wrndell Phillips, in a lecture
delivered by invitation at the Smithsonian
Institute, Washington, week before last, eulo
gized the labors of John Brown as having
been of more valno to the country than those
of any other living man except William Lloyd
Garrison. Ho construed the President’s recent
Message to mean—“ Border States, now is
your time to sell.” He regarded the proposal
to purchase the slaves of loyal men, by and
with the consent of the States, ” as a small
thin wedge—a small wedge, but still a wedgo.”
“ The President,” he said, “ had opened the
door of emancipation a foot, and he (Phillips)
with a coach and six, and with William Lloyd
Garrison for a driver, would drive right
through. He would send a hundred thousand
men to conquer South Carolina, and when the
yellow fever drove them oat be would garrison
the forts with negroes, under white officers,
and hold them against the world.”
The following extraots show Mr. Phillips
opinion of the President’s late message :
“ A meesage of which I hold the praotioal
amount to be this: ‘ Gentlemen of the Border
States now is your time to sell. [Laughter]
If you do not sell now, and the exigencies of
the Government require in a few months that
we should take without a bargain, don’t say
I didn’t give you due warning. [Laughter
and applause.] That is a very remarkable
document —that message of the President.
“ I am not practically acquainted with rail
splitting, hut they eay that in taking a large
log and making it into rails, the first thing
you do is to apply a small wedge. Well, this
is a very small one, [laughter,] but it is a
wedge for all that. [Renewed laughter and
appfhuse.] The negro preacher said, ‘lf I
found in the Testament a command to go thro’
hat stone wall, I should go at it. Going at
is my part; getting through is the Lord’s.’—
[Laughter and applause.] Well, now I hold
to this in some ease in regard to this emanci
pation-going at it is the President’s part, and
getting him through is the people’s part.
[Laughter.] * * The anti slavery senti
mont —and I say it with all due respect—has
conquered the Cabinet.”
THK AVAY THE MONEY GOES,
Our readers are pretty well posted aa to the
way the public money has been plundered by
the Fremonters, Cameronians, and Wellesites.
We now submit, from good Republican au
thority, a specimen of financial economy in
the U. S. Senate, under the administration of
its Secretary, the renegade Forney. The fol
lowing is an extract from a recent Bpeech of
Senator Hale, of New Hampshire ;
” I have endeavored to arrest some of our
expenditures here .in the Senate ; and now I
will locution another fact to this economical
Senate, all of whom agree that economy is so
necessary. We are reduced in numbers ; we
are about forty nine instead of Bixty eight, as
we used to be ; and yet we are administering
the Senate to-day vastly more expensively,
with more officers and more salaries than we
ever paid before. We require our Secretary
at the commencement of every year to give"
us'alißt of his employees, their number aod
compensation. 1 have looked at the list for
the last eight or ten years, and the list to day
is nearly double what it was ten years ago, and
the salaries are much higher.”
And this state of things is tolerated and
sanctioned by a Republican Senate, at a time
when the Government is running into debt at
the rate of nearly two millions a day, to carry
on the war, and Congress is about levying
upon the people an annual tax of more than
one hundred millions of dollars 1
the vote,
All the Republicans in the House voted for
the President’s emancipation resolution. It
received also the support of three or four
Southern members.
BThe negative vote, thirty-one, was made up
of nine from the slave States and of the Nor
thern democracy voting nearly solid.
The vote from the slave States was as fol-
Yeas— Messrs. Blair (of M 0.,) Blair (of
Va.,) Brown (of Va.,) Clements (of Tenn.,)
Fisher (of Del.,) and Willey (of Va.,) —6.
Nats —Messrs. Crisfield (of Md.,) Critten
tenden (of Ky.,) Dunlap (of Ky.,) Harding
(of Ky.,) Leary (of Md.,) Norton (of M 0.,)
Thomas (of Md.,) Wadsworth (of Ky.,) and
Wiokliffe (of Ky.,)—9.
TRUTH IN A FEW WORDS.
It is estimated, says the York Gazette, that
from Three Hundred and Fifty to Four Hun
dred Millions of Dollars would be required to
purchase the Slaves of the Border States, al
lowing the small sum of $3OO a piece. This
large amount the Republican party are in
favor of making the honest tax payers of the
country pay in heavy taxes. The negroes once
bought, the expenses and trouble will be just
begun. They must he clothed and kept from
starvation afterwards. This will require more
than the amount required for their purchase.
This is indeed a pretty Republican scheme, at
once economical, just and patriotic. (?) Is
such a party worthy of the confidence of the
people?
REPORTED CAPTURE OF YANCEY.
The steamer Rhode Island, which arrived
at Fortress Monroe on Tuesday evening, from
Key West, brought a report that William L.
Yancey, odo of the rebel Commissioners to
Europe, had been oaptured a few days since
on board a schooner which was trying to run
the blockade. He was dressed in sailor’s
clothes, and was recognized by one of the news
paper correspondents.
Philadelphia Conference. — The fifty
ninth annual session of the Philadelphia Con
ference of the M. E. Churoh commenced in
Philadelphia, on Wednesday last.-.-
General Burnside Promoted.— Brigadier
General Burnside has been confirmed' as a
Mqjor GeneraLof Volunteers, an honor he has
riehly-earned.'!
■S&'W* direct attention, to tbo,advertise
ment of Dr. L. Graves, N. Y., in another
column.
THB TOHSAGE TAX BILL.
Harrisburg, March 18.
The following is a copy of the bill for.the
repeal of the act to. Commote the Tonnage
Duties, as amended aild passed by the Honse
of lthas not yet been aoted
upon .by tho Senate, havinzbeen referred to
the Finance Committee on Monday lafternoon:
An-* act to repeal the act approved seventh
March, AnnoDomini'one thousand qlght hnn
dred and.sixty one, entitled 41 An Act for the
Commutation ofToShage Doties.”.
Whereas, an act was passed at the last
session of the Legislature purporting to be an
act for the commutation of tonnage duties, by
means whereof the earn of seven hundred and
fifty two_tbousand three hundred and eight
dollars-and forty-ohe-eents, or thereabouts,
besides interesthe. State by the.
Pennsylvania ’Railroad Company, and in con
templation of law in the treasury of the State,
togethemsith a large .annual
ted to bVpaid by the said company as the
prieeofita charter,-and by wav of compensa
tion for the deterioration in value of the main
line of the public works, apprehending and
actually inflicted by the construction and oper
ation of the said’ road, which Revenue had
already, reached thd sum of three hundred
thousand dollars and upward, and would have
amounted at this time to a greatly larger snm,
with the prospect of indefinite inorease, were
wrongfully withdrawn from the sinking fund,
provided by the Constitution and laws of this
State for the payment of the public debt there
of, and made seared and inviolable for that
purpose, upon suggestions and considerations
which were either in conflict with the Consti
tntion or utterly illusory and. r worthless in
themselves, amounting In effect under cover of
a pretended'contract as a commutation to a
gratuitous donation of allihe said moneys and
revenae to a private corporation, without any
substantial equivalent whatever, thereby vio
lating the plighted, faith of the State, and in
creasing the burthens of the people at a time
when the necessity of a country pre-eminently
required the most rigid eoonomy and the
strictest husbandry of their resources. There
fore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the author
ity of the same, That the Baid recited act of
Assembly of the seventh day of March Anno
Domini one thonsand eight hundred and sixty
one, be and the same is hereby repealed, and
the said tonnage tax, or duties imposed by the
act incorporating the 6aid Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, and the supplements thereto,
is hereby restored, and imppsed and made
payable to the Commonwealth, in the same
manner and upon the same’terms and condi
tions as though the said repealing act had
never been passed.
Seotion 2. That it shall be the duty of the
Attorney General to prooeed forthwith to sue
for, recover and colleot, by distress or other
wise, the arrears of the B&id tonnage tax, which
were due and owing at the time of the passage
of the said recited act, which is hereby repeal
ed, together with such additional tax or duties
as would have accrued upon the tonnage of
the said company until the date of the present
act, and for the proper ascertainment of the
amount of the said additional tax, it Bhall be
the duty of the said company tp file forthwith
in the office of the Auditor General, a state
ment duly authenticated by the oath of the
President and Treasurer of said company, of
the amount of their business so made taxable
for the intervening period, and also to furnish
to the Attorney General, from time to time,
such other and additional statements, and
such access to their hooks as he may judge
necessary for the purpose of the said Bait or
other proceedings heTeby authorized : Pro
vided, however, That the moneys paid by the
said company on account of the said pretend
ed commutation over and beyond the annual
instalment or instalments, payable by them
on their bonds for the purchase-money of the
public works, shall be credited upon the
arrears of the Baid tax, which were due and
owing at the passage of the said repealed act,
and allowed in the collection of the said &r-
During a debate in the U. S. Senate on
Thursday week, on the bill for the relief of
persons held to service or labor in the District
of Columbia, in other words, a bill to abolish
slavery in the District, Mr, Davis of Kentucky,
offered an amendment appropriating $lOO,OOO
to colonize the slaves liberated under this act,
and used the following decided language :
If the negroes were liberated, they would
become lazy and vagabonds, and will be a peat
to the community—beoome criminals—and
any power that assumes to liberate slaves es
tablishes inevitably a war between the races,
which will end in emigration or extermination.
There were about 225,000 slaves in Kentucky.
If the Government undertakes to liberate them ,
the white people will not permit them to remain
there. Never ! The white people will either
have to drive them out, or hunt them to exter
mination. If negroes are. liberated in the
Cotton States, it would be giving up those
States to the negroes. The men from the
Slave States arc as loyal as any men in the
Senate, but they will never submit to have
their slaves liberated by unconstitutional acts
and remain nmong them—never, never I He
spoke the feelings of his heart and the princi
ples that he devoted his life to, and which
- every Union man South agrees to. The whole
South will unite in resistance to all such un
constitutional acts.
VOTE FOR THE UNION.
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce publishes
ah extract from a private letter, “ written by a
Southern gentleman whose love for the Union
is not to be doubted,” in which he says :
The series of victories lately achieved by the
Federal troops, lead me to hope that by a wise
and magnanimous use of an opening, which
may never again occur, a voluntary Union may
again be formed, and our unhappy country
once more blessed with peace and prosperity.
It seems to my poor judgment that now is the
time for the North to say that she is really sin
cere in her desire to preserve the Constitution
and the Union, and that the South shall have
all her constitutional rights, with such further
guarantees as will really unite the sections, and
make our country and its Constitution perma
nent, prosperous and happy. It is clear to my
mind that if our constitutional government is
to be preserved, the conservative masses of the
North must put forth their strength and put
down the enemies of the Constitution among
themselves ; so that the South may see that in
returning to the Union, tfieir rights under the
Constiiution will be scrupulously respected,
and their equality assured. This would give
the North an elevated position in the eyes of
the world, and secure peace in the future ; for
I cannot doubt that a Union party will be im
mediately formed in the South, if the letter
and spirit of the Crittenden resolutions, to
which the public faith is pledged by an almost
unanimous vote in Congress, iB carried ont in
all sincerity.
MORTALITY IN THE ARMY.
Many exaggerated statements having been
made as to the mortality in the army, it is as.
certained from official sources that the number
of deaths among the regulars stationed at and
in the vicinity of Washington City, for the
quarter ending with March, 1861, was 28 ; for
the quarter endiDg with June, 33 regulars, and
46 volunteers; for the quarter ending with
September, 56 regulars, and 749 volunteers;
and for the quarter ending with December,
108 regulars, and 2,970 volunteers. Total
deaths 3,990, of which,loo arose from wounds.
The above deaths were in 257 regiments, in
cluding those of the army of the Potomao.
A SLIGHT SIGN OF REASON.
The vote on the resolution to expel Mr.
Powell, of Kentucky, from the U. S. Senate
for alleged disloyalty, was aa follows:
Yeas —Davis, Dixon, Harlan, Howard,
Howe, Lane; of lod., Pomeroy, Sumner, Ten
Eyok, Wade and Wilkinson—ll.
Nats —Anthony,Browning, Carlile, Clarke,
Cowan, Doolittle, FessendeD, Foote, Foster,
Hale, Harris, Henderson, L Kennedy, King,
Lane, of Kansas, Latham-,' McDougal, Nes
mith, Pearce, Rioe, Sanlßbury, Starke, Thomp
son, Trumbull,: Willey r Wilson, of Mass.,
Wilson, of Mo., and .Wright.—28.
Rejection.oeConsul Nominations, —James
Leßley. jr-. nominated as Consul to Nice, and
Win,. fdoran, jr., nominated as’ Consul to
Bayonne, were rejected By the-Senate on
Thursday. BotK are 1 now -in- Europe. Mr.
Lesley was Hen. Cameronla private : seoretsry
during, the firatfew monthnof bisadministra
tionof the War Department. Mr. Moran was
formerly connected with the duly press of
Philadelphia.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
''’’-Capture of the Rebel Steaheb Aoholia.
—We have been permitted to publish the following extracts .
from m private letter from EUSkt OiSSON to hia father, ‘
Hsxxt P. Cahsos, Esq., of this city. It was written at U»e '
Bonth Mississippi Pass, on Pp®ru*sE»hpd B*s* ■
aa interesting aceonnt of the caVtfnre atoanfor *
AgttOlla, laded with eotcon, by the U.
lyn.' Harry 4a one of the Intelligencer family, mining ,
been initiated into the arts and mjrstecfp of Finitn this ;
Office, la a “fellow of infinite jest and Mid *• ;
are glad to learn is in the but of healtlf and spirit*? We*'' ;
should be pleased to publish some of .fßpleunitf £gsaTai tutf: •
Jottings, :as we know they would Mkhmcsing kfefi fuD.ot*
Interest: :
“ Thrmoet exciting time we have had since the storm,
the Ist day of January, was on thelCth day of this month,
just two months since we came on board. I suppose, how
ever, yon have seen a report of it before this letter will
have reached yon. About six o'clock in the morning,
which was very foggy, a sail was reported from the mast
head, wfateb proved to bo a rebel steamer running the
blockade, and laddd with cotton. The anchor was slipped*
tttpTgotiMidfr-wjfty**
fore it was accomplished *Seeesn r wax ourbrcigfit.. We
followed as best.sre eonld, and on getting pretty well oat
. of the fog, which is thickest jnst at the month of the river,
wehad-the egfetmonatisfacttaß of seeipg the joyel ftegm
ing at her utmost to 'escape,' Ahntst all the Mis were
immediately set, and asmnch steam as coold be raised was
pot to tiie engi m..Va gained
ten o’eloek came within long gun range of her. As she
would not come - to, about bflf-paft ten, and when within
good range of her, a shot was firad at her, which fell short
however, as the sea was so'rough that accurate aim- bould;
not be taken* -About this time she apparently heaved
and hoisted the “old flag.” This led the Captain of‘the
Brooklyn to shorten tall and atop the speed of-th* engi. 0 *-
Th|s made ‘Seceeh’ change her mantodvers, and again the
■trained every nerve to eeeape, and before the Brooklyn
eonld be- brought round again, she was again almost out
of sight. About this time the wind lulled'considerably,
and we gained upon her slowly. The chase Vs* kept up
until about o’clock in the afternoon, by . which time
the distance was lessened hut very little, and if she could •
have kept the diaee up until dark might hgve.qacapofl.
. “ Shots were being fired at ber whenever an opportunity
was presented—perbaps'fifty shots were Bred. About fern*,
o'clock, when off MobUe Bay, she was again seen to change
her .course, and when getting nearer, we'sAw the steamer
South Carolina, one of oar blockading steamers,'wtticb had
caused her to change her conyse. At this time we fixed a
considerable number of shots at her. and she rounded to
and stopped. A.boat was immediately sent to ber with an.
officer to take possession of her in the name of the United
States. Sheproved to he a large steamer laded with eo&
ton, and bonnd for Havana. She - threw overboard .a.
large amount of her eotton, whieh could be seen'floating
on the water farmUes.- Shelsa valuable prise, however.
- —the boat alone being worth considerable, as she Is a new
vesseL It was found that .a number of roots had struck
her, one striking the boiler, mortally wounding the engi
neer and. scalding a fireman. This Is what, nQ doubt,
) made her stop. •
“We had another chase .on the piornlng of .the 24th,
which did not prove as successful as the iiw one,' ae-flhe
turned ont to be nothing bnt a small schooner laded.with
I segars, and already in possession of .a pr ise crew. In this
chase we lost a large anchor. * * ■
- - “The weather here is quite different from what.it was
r at Key West and Mobile Bay, having considerable'rain,
and every night the fog is almost as bad, if not worse, than'
.the rain.”
/Death of Capt. E. Y. Rambo.—On Wed
nesday our town was filled wjth gloom by the unexpected
announcement, by telegraph to Mr. A. M. Bajnbo, that the
body of Capt. E T. Rambo had arrived in New .York, in
charge of Lient. Fessler. The ill news spread rapidly, and
a defeat of our army eonld not have produced a more pro
found depression than this sudden announcement of the
loss of one of onr bravest soldiers. The telegram merely
announced the arrival of the body, with nothing in addi
tion upon which even to base conjecture as to the time,
place or manner of his death. The flag* of the town, which
were generally flying in honor of the victory !of .New Mad.-,
rid, were lowered to half mast, and each citizen sought of
another some particular* of tba sad event.
On Wednesday afternoon Mr. Rambo left- town for bis
mother's residence at Coatesville, and Messrs. M. M. Stride
ler and H. Wilson volunteered their'services to proceed to
Philadelphia to receive the body, and convey R to the na
tive place of Capt. Rambo. They met Lieut. Fessler at
Philadelphia, and on Thursday morning brought the re
mains to Coatesville, where a general concourse of citizens
awaited them. The Immense crowd was formed In process
slon by Mr. Miller, and the corpse borne in honor to the
residence of the mother of deceased. The stores and places
of business were generally closed, and the flags at half
mast. The feeling of sorrow and sympathy in Coatesville
was intense.
Meantime all was doubt here ps to the particulars of
Capt. Rambo’s death. We thought the simple sorrowful '
fact that the gallant soldier was dead could scarcely be ag- ,
gravated by the attending circumstances, and hoped that
there might even be foand consolation in the manner of
his fell. Alas I the tale when told has only added horror
to horror. Capt. Rambo, while at the bead of bis Company,
on a service of danger, was shot down by comrades or hla
own Regiment, through some terrible and fatal error.—
With him died one of bis Corporals, Samuel A. Relgbard,
and several'others fall wounded—twp'dknkeroualy, possi
bly mortally. The particulars are hut Imperfectly known.
The following, whicn wo are permitted* to extract'from a
letter from Col. Welsh to bis femily, will best explain the
unhappy affair: '
“ Oor Camp Is filled with sadness—my herole comrade,
Capt. E. Y. Rambo is dead; 60 too h!s Corporal, Sam’J A., .
Relgbard. The Captain was‘shot directly through'the
heart, and died without a struggle. Augustus. Wagner,
and Wm. H. Reicbard are very dangerously (I fear mor
tally) wounded. Howard Yache is slightly wounded; (a
buckshot in the leg); he is able .to walk about. Sergeant
James McCann has a painful wound In' the head—l think
not dangerous. Richard Smith Is slightly wounded in.
the arm; James A. Stonecypher has a buckshot in the leg
—not dangerous. George Rhoads is slightly wounded In
the arm.
“ I do not know the particulars of this casualty, except
that it occurred this morning before daylight, abont fifteen
miles from here, in an attempt to capture a body of rebels.
Company H of my Regiment mistaking Company K for the
rebels fired—and the above is the sad result. Col. Beaver
was with the expedition, which bad been planned several
days previous to my arrival here; he was with Company
E, bnt is not injured.
“ I feel sad. Captain Rambo was a most valuable offleer
and my devoted friend. His wife, hla mother, his brother
will be greatly distressed; their grief cannot be greater;
than mine The death of bo gallaut a soldier is a heavy
loss to bis country, tho Regiment and his Company, by
whom be was beloved. He died nobly, in the fulfilment
of bis duty, and at the bead of bis Company. Corporal
Reighard was an excellent young man, a brave soldier,
and is deeply lamented by bis comrades
“ I have not yet Tssumed command of the post or refei-*
ment. I had proposed visiting the other part of my regi
ment before reporting for duty. I thick, however, I shall
at once take command here, and investigate this lamenta
ble blunder. I cannot yet determine who Is to blame—or
if aoy of my officers. Had my poor boys been killed or
wounded by the enemy, I could bear Jt easier, but the
thought that they were ehot down by their own comrades
is terrible. The wounded are all well cared for, and I
earne»tly hope for their speedy recovery.
" Lieut Fessler, of Company K, goes home in charge of
the bodies. If he succeeds In reaching Port Royal with
them in time for the Atlantic it will be well; if not, I pr»
some they will have to be buried at Port Royal.
■‘The wounded bear their pain ydth the greatest forth,
tude. Howard is not at all in danger, lie is very lively.
The shot dropped out of bis leg—lt did not strike the
bone. Sergeant McCann's wouud is In the head—a buck
shot slightly fracturing the skull. Ills cap was shot to
pieces. He is able to walk. Poor Wagner and Wm. H.
Reicbard are both shot through the body—through or near
the lungs. Wagner’s eye is very bright, and I think he
will live; but the doctor tbioks his case doubtful.'
*«***«•
“ I have named all who were hurt. Friends of the others
need not be uneasy. None of my new recruits were in the
expedition. Except the wounded, the boys of Company
K are all well.”
Of the above named, Corporal Reighard and Private
Rhoads are from Newberry, Lycoming county, Pa.; Ser
geant McCann and Privates Wagner and Vache, of Colum
bia; aod Privates Reichard and Stonecypher; of'Cogan
Btation, Lycoming co., Pa.— Saturday's Coiumbia.Spy,
List of Grand Jurors to serve in the Court
of Qnarter Sessions, comraonciog Monday, April 2tst:
John Armstrong, Martic.
George Ammons, West Cocalico. ’
David Baker, East Hempfield.
Henry B Bowman, Manheim township.
Moses M. Brubaker, Elisabeth.
John Charles, Washington borough.
E. H. Cbcever, Ephrata.
John Curley, Leacock.
George Dale, Sadabnry.
Heory Echternacb, Adamstown borough.
Benjamin Eshleman, East Lampeter.
Richard C. Edwardß, Drumore.
Joseph Frantz, East Earl.
Nicholas H. Gillespie, Colerain.
William T. Harlan, Little Britain.
John B. Landis, Upper Leacock.
Henry Miller, Adamstown borough.
Jonas Mumma, East Donegal.
John Miller. East Donegal.
George W. Nimlow, Martic.
Elias Stone, Earl.
Baltzer Schneder, Brecknock.
John Werntz, Straabnrg borough.
Stephen Wiggins, Providence.
List of Petit Jcaoas to serve In the same Court:
Benjamin B. Brandt, Rapha
Joseph Boyers, Mount Joy township.
Cromwell Blackburn, Colerain.
Benjamin Barr, Pequea.
Henry M. Breneman, Strasburg township.
John Brush, Columbia.
Jacob El Cross, Manheim borough.
Franklin Clark, Strasburg township.
Joseph S. Denlinger, West Hempfield.
Moses Eby, Leacock.
William Evans, Warwick.
Levi Eby, Raphe.
Samuel 8. Geist, Manheim township.
J. H. Goodman, Marietta.
Timothy Haines, Manheim township.
Alexander Holton, Dtumore.
John Hess,* Manheim township.
B. F. Bieetand, Marietta.
Jacob Haldemao, Conoy.
Samuel L. Heieey, West Donegal.
John 8. Horst, Carnarvon.
Joseph Hood, Bart.
Jacob Immel, Manor.
David Knox, Saliabary.
Martin Kllog, West Donegal.
Henry Lipp, City.
Peter E. Ligbtner, Lancaster township.
John Lapp. East Lampeter.
James A. McPherson, Drumore.
Frederick Miller, City.
George Martin, Esq.. City.
Richard McGranu, Manheim township.
Benjamin Nissley, Rapho.
James Peoples, City.
Grabill Real, Salisbury.
Christian Stoner, City.
Henry E. Slaymaker, City.
James A. Bteele, Providence.
Henry 8, Shirk, Adamstown borough.
Adam R. Ream, West Cocalieo.
Adam Sheaffer, Mount Joy township.'
John Tweed, Providence.
John Troyer, City,
John M. Weller, West Hempfield.
William.R. White,.Colerain.
John B Warfel, Paradise.
EtraWisaler, Clay.
Hiram F. Wltmer, Paradise.
List of Jcaoas to serve in the Court of -Common Pleas,
commencing Monday, April 28th:
Abraham Bruner, Colombia.
Michael Harry, City.
Levi Bard, West EarL
Jesse Boyer, Columbia.
Joseph Bachman, Mount Joy township.
Pamnel Eby, Elizabethtown borough.
Simon Engle, Conoy.
Henry Esbeoshade,Paradise.
Samuel M. Friday, west Hempfield.
Daniel Greenawalt, Manor.
John Gorreeht, Jr., City.
Harding J. Hilbert, Eden.
Jacob E. Grabill, East Donegal.
Jacob G. Getz. City.
Samuel Grabill, EarL
Peter Heller, EarL
Daniel Helm, Strasburg township.
John Hippy, Columbia.
Levis Honseal, Marietta.
Christian B. Herr, West Lampeter.
John Kuhns,City..
Jotias'Mfeyer, Columbia.
David Mowrer, Eden.
David C. Locher, City.
Walter F.’Neel, Fulfoo. « .
Philip Pyle, City.
Jacob Plckel, Manor,
Charles J. Rakeitniw, Leacock.
. Frederick Smith, City.
Beujamla Stauffer, Manor. •
. Jaeob. Shirk, Caernarvon.
Jacob B. Shuman, Manor.
Levi Senrenig, Earl.
Bam nei W. Taylor, City.
Algernon Whiteside, Colerain.
■Jacob Weaver, ©ty. r;
. U i atresaingly tWlocaliiewa
lf ZQASMnI dokldt nAfIM tlUMio
cnpatton of oar local reporters and editors wilibe, like that
of Othello, “jpne I" _
Franklin and Marshall Collrqr.—We
have received the Anoail Ottalogai of Franklin and.
Marshall College for 1861-’6l From it ve leaan that the
number of Students in the College proper is 101, and in the
Preparatory Department 24. Total, 12&__£n the Theologi
cal at Mercersbarg, there are 35 students.
Irhe,'Alumni now embraces 318 members, vis: Alnmni of
jlanbaU'.Cidlege, 182; Atnmui of franklin and Marshall
;Qeflegfe39&.''».The fiiiilnipliiifhin atthACfcun
‘feencement n«act Sammer, win be delivered by Wnufttt EL -
HntW^feaHarrisburg; .the Biennial: Addrearbefue.
tiie fcUrtary^ietie*.}^Kevi-W. H. Garik* D. D, proto*
Aor ikjhe Princeton, If.
H Ifayal,M roiCAg Af£&2it)i sia^Tha^res-
Ideot 'KkftW^itnUMnrgebti £ M. F (mV. 8, this 1
city? to Be Fleet Surgeon to the Western Division of tte
Golf Blockading Sqnadron. This division is the largest
squadroninahipe, gnns and men now under one command
since the formation of onr government. The Commander
is Flag-019 car Faaxaour, and his flag ship is the Hertford.
REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION.
Froxniha Norristown Register.} *
Ha&siSßoaa, March 12, 1862.
this nr?mt»g!atr»rtWaJw that
exceedingly rabid abolition, negro-worshipping sheet, the
.Chester Ocmntj Ftme*, headed * 4 A Political Plot Spoile—
d Committee on Honse Expenses Dissolved, Ac.** I woa’d
not hpv notibftttfaU Irtlde hadrit ant *per for.the gross
falsehoods contained in said article. / ■ r“ '
First the anthor says, that I was indefatigable in my
et ffStirfS theAnditor HsßtettFrdffie* towarehofßepoblK"
-can eon-option. ; J ylsited the, office but once, and then it
iria l for thtf 'purpose at having a correethm ‘Edade in thfc
statement be furnished us. • He had .omitted threedtems,
amounting to fourteen hundred dollars, which fchbatd have
been chargedtoHr.Baacb, the presentderkj bqt-he re
fused to make,the correction, alleging that this money had
been given to the Clerk and 1 we'had ntr right to Inquire
.interit.i; • r; - .
The writer also tries to mtke it appear that the' expenses
for 1857-ahd • 1858—when Jacob Zibgler was Clefk—were ;
.doable that of 1861* when Mr. BauQh,the model Abolition
‘ist, officiated.'
111 order to make tbs'tmth public and to extend justice
to el! parties,! have taken the reports of tbo Auditor Gen*
oral for" the las tflre years, and from theml make the foU
. lowing statement;;; Thjtse reporta befog official documents,
I do not suppose any one will dlflpute the“auth6rlty, and
-I refer -your receders to thoee documente as'ptooC.of my
statement.' In-1857,1 And the expenses as follows: —
The' officers elected and appointed for that year’
>df«w: Croat ;thn Treasury: on the part of'the
House for ,thp Begular Session...... -—521,872.65
expenses, Regular Searfon 9.957.54
**. « .iJSjtra ; •« 1,000.00
“ “;. paid to W. Jack,late Clerk 3000.09
. , Amounting in all to-~..~ ........$35,830.19
- In 1858 the expenses were as follows:-*
Paid to! officers
Contingencies ~-.
- Amounting to.
In thSJkboyeitom is iocluded the sum of $3,885.25 paid
for curtains, drapery, A&, to Wm. H. Carry! A Brothers.
It is proper hereto state tbatall tbebUlt of Mr; Ziegler
for contingencies were presented to the House, referred to
the Coifl'mlttee bn Accounts, examined by-them and re
ported correct; passed by the House, examined by the
Auditor General who had hie warrant issued for payment,
and thui settled in a legal and proper way. Since that
time the'House has had no control over the expenses what
ever. The Clerk presents his accounts to the Auditor Gen
eral who settles them.
. In 1859 commenced Republican rule, and the expenses
are as follows: '
Contingencies, including some extras.
Amounting in all to
In 1861, the first year of Mr. Baach’s clerkship, ibe ex
Senses were as follows:
Seers
Contingencies, and no extras.
Amount only to.
. In 1860, Hr. Kaaeh, Clerk, the expenses :for officers were
as follows:
For regular and e'xtra session* $31,656 25
Contingencies, including extra session, but no
extra expenses /whatever.
Amount only t 0........... 441,856 25
Making* difference In favor of the Democratic session of
1857 of only $6,026.00, for example
¥ox 1861,
« 1857
Balance in favor of Democratic rule ...
In 1857 and 1858 we bad no pasters and folders, the work
being done by the Door Keepers.' In 1859 the Republicans,
to gratify a few more political friends, appointed these offi
cers and paid them $ 2,530.00
ln!860 there were eighteen of these officers, who
were paid -
In 1861 there were fifteen of these pasters, who
were paid as follows: Those retiring
Regular session
Brtra session of Berenteen days.
Amounting only to..
Again, in 1866 the expenses of the House under
Republican rule were $38,329.17
Id 1858 thp expenses of the House under Demo
cratic rule vere.
Showing a balance In favor of Democratic rule of:
Amount expended for curtains, drapery, Ac.,
daring the year 1858 - 3,885.25
$12,031.24
Ab the aetaal difference between Democratic and Kepabli
' cab rale when there.was but s single session eaeh
Upon examining the record I find oar priuter has very un
kindly omitted all of my remarks In support of my amend
ment, made on Friday afternoon )a*t, to the 40th section
of the Appropriation Bill. This compels me to explain a
little farther.
These patten and folders were paid the above same when
the Act of Assembly positively says they shall receive only
one dollar per day nod no mileage. So much for Republi
can honesty generally. But 1 cannot conclude without
showing the amount actoally received by our model Re
publican Clerk. The law fixes the pay of the Clerk. lie
is to receive a salary of $7OO, and $3 per day and mileage,
making his honest pay about $l,lOO.
He received last year for the regular session $ 1,184.00
Fifteen days extra 45.00
Indexing Journal (Illegal) lilfi.oo
E. H. Baucb for expenses incurred duriug recess
(which I suppose meaotto buy lager and pret
zels)
£ 11. Rauch, a similar item'
Delivering Daily Record.
£. 11. Rauch, pay for extra session of seventeen
days .. i
Total, only
for about four months* work. Bat he Is not sat*
Jsfied yet, for his triends, in the Appropriation
Bill passed last Friday, voted him for indexing
Journal of Extra session the farther sum of.
Also, for. his expenses daring recess again
Making his pay for the last Regular and Extra
sessions !
This statement I hare prepared for pablication for the
purpose of refuting Abolition lies, and showing how they
spend our money. If any of my Abolition friends want
'auy more light, I bare a little yet in reserve, which they
can hare whenever the; apply to ,
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“ TIIE EARL’S HEIRS.”—We have received from T. B.
Petebsoh A Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut Street, Phiia., an
advance copy of a new copyright novel with the above title,
from the gifted pen of Mrs. Ellen Wood, the author of
“East Lynne,” **The Castle’s Heirs,” etc. This new
work.is evidently destined to create quite a sensation in
literary circles, and have a wide circulation. The Phils
.delphU /nquirer thos iotrodQces it to the public:
The talented authoress, Mn>. Ellen Wood, baa Jnst pro
sented-to the public a new novel,- entitled “The Earl’s
Heirs, a Tale of Domestic Life.” Everybody recollects
what a sensation her former work, “East Lynne,” crea
ted. Wb have, perused a copy of the proof-sheets of the
“ Earl’s Heirs,” just issued by T. B. Peterson A Brothers,
and aro confident that its reception by the public will be
very flattering to the deserving Authoress. The plot unites
novelty, Ingenuity and plausibility; the dialogues combine
vivacity with naturalness; while the incidents and de
scriptions are rendered with great dramatic power, stamp
ing the work as a rare conception of genins. The MesSrtf.
Peterson having with their customary enterprise, pro
duced this work in advance of the English publishers;
present their patrons with the only edition that can be
issued in this country, and far in advance even of its pub
libation in Europe. Price Fifty cents a copy only, and sent
to any one to any place, free of poetage, on remitting that
amount to the .publishers.
—We have also received, from the same publishers, the
January, February, March and April numbers of Peters
sons’ Ladies National Magazine, all of them handsomely
-Illustrated and embellished. The- April number has a
beautiful engraving entitled “ Ruinous Prices.” There is
also a magnificent plate of the latest Paris Fashions, vari
ons other embellishments, and no less than forty-one con
tributions to the reading department. For pioepectus see
our advertising columns.
“TRAIN’S UNION SPEECHES”—Mew*. T. B. Peter
son A Brothers, No.3o6Chestnntatreet,Philadelphia, have
forwarded ns a copy of this publication—made" up of a
series of speeches, delivered ln-England daring the present
American War, by Qeorga Francis Train, of Boston, Mass.
They all breathe a strong Union sentiment, and some of
his utterances must have been anything bat pleasing’ to
the English aristocracy.
The profits of the salo of this book, are to be devoted to
the establishing of the “London American,” the only
American Organ In Europe.
THE RATIONAL TAX.
Hear what our Republican contemporary ol
the Pittsburg Gazette sfiye of the War Tax :
“We have no wi6h to create undue alarm,
but we are approaching a orisis in our history
that we cannot contemplate without shrink-
We have felt the visits of the tax-gath
erer before, but his visits have been as mere
trifles compared to what they will be. The
Philadelphia Ledger has been making some
calculations of the amount eaoh State will
have to raise of the national tax about to be
laid :
“The anm to be raised and paid into the U.
S. Treasury by New York every year will be
521,344,142; Pennsylvania, $15,886,435;
Ohio, $12,867,701 ; Indiana, $7,439,175 ; Il
linois, $9,414,643 ; and the other States in the
same' cheerful ratio. These are enormous
Bums, and by no process which can be de
vised, can they be collected without being
felt. In some quarters the attempt to colleec
it will fall little short of confiscation. New
England, New York, Pennsylvania and New
jersey may go through each a tax with the
breath of life remaining in them, but it is
doubtful whether there is another State, loyal
or: disloyal, that can go half way through.”
A HOME THRUST-
Hon. John Hickman, the other day, was
airing bis patriotism in the House of Repre
sentatives, by assailing the loyalty of Yal
landigham, when Mr. Richardson asked per
mission to Say a word, which Hickman grant
ed :
“Mr. Richardson then stated that there
were members on this floor who had declared
that they-would not vote a dollar of appropri
ation unless the war shall be prosecuted for
the purpose* of emancipation, and he here
-desired to denounce them as traitors to the
government, and they ought to ho put under
arrest and executed as they deserved.”
'. To this the gallant Hickman and hie cet
made-no reply, but still kept dashing away
at the ohnoxioue member from Ohio.
Pbacdb >K: Abut Cmthisq.—Tbe i .tr,..,5.
Clothing. Inspootion .Board. already figure up
slisofr,ooOworiA~nfulothing«U!liandwhjcl>jB
wholly worthless,' xsuppUed prinpipaliy; by
Pennsylvania contractors.
THE ALLIANCE WITH THE I
NEGBO.
Speeefa of sof Penn*
aylv&nla, deliVferpdtntf'&e House of Rep
resentatives of thartJriitte<t States, March
...6th,
*•> being In. Committee or the Whole on
the state or tho Union, Mr.BtDDLK addressed the
Comm&ae al^ollows: .I t " '
". ill- CKAittirjjH : X thank you, for giving me the
4oor. .43 woold-not willinglyTet pass the sentiments.
by ,my eolleegne (Mr.
*°mi Dayn)'withoKt so|>pQaing 5 o|>pQaing them Sentiments
whichare, X believe, more characteristic of the con
servative people whom he and X have the honor, in
part, to represent upon tbhLloor.
As a citizen of the border State of Pennsylvania,
the views in which X have been bred in relation to
the institution of slavery have been temperate, and,
X hope, joBt Xt has not * been to me an exciting
subject, as it is to many with whom X am associated
in this House; for to some gentlemen, very calm in
their judgment on all other matters, the mere word
“ slavery ’ ’ seems to have much the same effect that
a red rag has on a bull.
i X have never been blind to the disadvantages and
evils of slavery ; I have not been indifferent to their
hy practiojd, constitutional means
have ever regarded*the intemperate
policy of the political anti-slavery party to be, as
sterile of benefit to the. negro as it has been .disas
trous to thepeaoe, the prosperity, and' the unity of
our country. • • r.’
This war has brought us, at last, ,tq see that there
1b a broader question than the “slavery question,”
though it is commonly preferred to narroW the dis
cussion down to that. But, now: matter is
brought home to us, we find that there is a “ negro
question,” vast and complex and embarrassing,
even if slavery, were blotted out of existence. .
Prom the earliest times, JPennsylvania has had her.
mode of treating these questions. Originally a slave
holding State, she adopted, in 1790, the policy of
gradual emancipation, extending it, however, only.
, to the future-born children of the davea then living ;
! these children'were to receive their freedom at the
ago of twenty-eight years. ‘ : _
This great measure was the product of universal
publio sentiment, and was perfeotly consistent .with
the. general interest; to effect it, no pressure, no
compulsion from without was directed against, our
people. Had there been,Troth, what I know of their
temper, I should jddge that slavery would have ex
isted among us to this day. As it was, the last slaves
died out within the recolleotion of the youngest man
upon this floor. -
By dor common law, however, the negro had never,
been a oifizen; so our highest court, decided; and ■
when {harfolnt was controverted, thd people settled
it definitely by; amehding the Constitution, so that;
to be a** man is one.of the necessary con
stitutional qualifications of the eleotor.
On our statute book, aV-this very day, is our State
Fugitive. Slave Law, far older than the acts.of. Con
gress on that sutgeot; nay, older even than the dense
in the Constitution of the United States providing
for the returuof .
You perceive, air, that Pennsylvania could have
little excuse for joining in the luaurreotion against
the Fugitive Slave Law, or against the judgment of
the Supreme Court, of the . United States denying
citizenship to the negro, since we have ourselves fur
nished the precedents for both the statute and the
deoiaion.
In our just indignation against the present vast
rebellion, let us not entirely forget that in too many
of the Northern States a chronic rebellion'against
I distasteful constitutional obligations has existed for
I many years. '
In Pennsylvania, our distinctive sehool of aboli
tion has been marked by the mild benevolenoe of our
venerable Society of Friends, whose Christian ohar
ity embraced both the master and the slave ; Tet it
not for one moment be confounded with the cut
throat jikilanthTo-py , whose emblems are the toroh
and the pike, which has canonized John Brown as a
saint of the chnroh in which the negro is worshipped.
You will rarely find in foil membership in it a man
born and bred upon the soil of Pennsylvania.
From that church X am an open dissenter; X differ
wholly from those who look upon the present as a
“golden hour;” who regard it with exultation as
' the dawn of a black mil lonium. In me, their hopes
and schemes inspire disgust and horror.
An eminent member of the dominant party has
promulgated his scheme for carrying on this wut. —
He has promulgated it in many essays and speeches,
to one of which parliamentary usage permits me to
refer, einoe it was not made in his place in the Sen
ate. He wonld not, it seems, trust to the valor of
our armies and the skill of our generals. We are,
: like the anoient Britons, to call in an ally to fight
I our battles lor us ; our ally is to be—the negro.
Southern men, it is said, fight and the negro tills
the ground; we are to reverse this order. Xhe ne
groes are to do our fighting for us ; a million of them
are to constitute our army ! In this pamphlet of
Ur. Sumner the black muster-roll is given. He says
in his speeoh to the Republican Convention at
Worcester:
“Careful calculations, demonstrate that of this
number there are upwards of one million of an age
for military service; that in Virginia alone there
are 121,564 male slaves of an age for military ser
vice.”
....516,552.38
......... 13.55019
.t30.183.1fr
.....$2O 301.15
....^11,645.86
.....$51.947.01
...$26,483 76
11,845.42
.$3B 329.17
.$41,856.25
. 35,800.06
.$ 6.026.06
.$ 7,296.55
$ 8,145.99
it' the distinguished gentlemen from Missouri and
Kentucky wish to know the number of these black
champions of the civil liberties of white men in their
respective States, they will find it set down here. —
In conclusion, Mr. Sumner asks this question:
“ Can we afford to rejeot this natural allianoe, in*
spired by a common interest and consecrated by hu
manity T”
A noble lord once urged in the British Parliament
the employment of the Indians against the British
colonists in America. He said, this noble lord, that
“it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means
which God and nature had pat into oar hands.”—
Then, sir, the great Chatham rose and blasted him
with an eloquence that has become immortal.
“ That God and nature put into onr hands! I
know not what ideas of God and nature that noble
lord may entertain; but I know that such detesta
ble principles are equally abhorrent to religion and
humanity. Such notions shock every precept of
morality, every feeling of humanity, every senti
ment of honor.
44 These abominable principles, and this more
abominable avowal of them, demand the most de
cisive indignation. I oali upon that reverend and
this most learned bench to vindicate the religion of
their God, to support the justice of their country.”
* * * * * “I -invoke the
genius of the Constitution.
44 To send forth the merciless cannibal, thirsting
for blood, against whom ? Your Protestant brethren ?
To lay waste their country, to desolate their dwel
lings, and extirpate their race and name by the aid
and instrumentality of these hell-honnds of war.—•
I solemnly call upon your lordships, and upon every
order of men in the state, to stamp upon this in
famous procedure the indelible stigma of the pnblio
abhorrence.”
Sir, you will remember, too, that it is the standing
reproach of American history against George 111,
that he called in the Hessian against his British
subjects. Yet we are to call in the negro! Mr.
Snmner asks us, “o&nweafford to rejeot this natural
alliance?” Why, if, indeed, with our twenty mil
lions we cannot cope with six; if it is we who are in
danger of extermination, then, perhaps, we cannot i
afford to rejeot the alliance with the negro. Aj
French marshal onoe smothered his enemies—men,
women and children—in a oave; and when he was 1
arraigned before the public opinion of the world, he
pleaded 44 necessity.”
Now, sir, no man can set limits to necessity, and
no human intelligence can foresee all the exigencies
of war; and I, for one, have been unwilling to give
my adhesion in advance to any set formula for their
determination. Bat, in the present aspect of this
war, my trust is not in the help of the negro. Nay,
sir; as one who has at heart the successful prosecu
tion of this war, I would not venture to array against
the Government in whioh I have a, part, the sym
pathy of race. It is the great tie by whioh God
knits into families those several portions into whioh
it has pleased him to divide mankind.
Do you remember when , the Hast Indian rose upon
his English ruler? Do you remember how it froze
our blood to read of men who Qlasped their wives |
and daughters to their hearts for the last time, - and !
then slew them .to sans them from the black demons,
athirst with lust and rage, who' swarmed around i
them ? Do yon remember bow the American Minis- I
ter, an honored Pennsylvanian, stood np then in
London and said to the British nation, “ Men of
kindred breeds, onr hearts are with you in this
struggle?”
Never did minister better represent his people.—
Our wrongs from England were forgotten then. Yes,
we forgot that it was England that warmed in her
bosom the viper of abolition, till its fangs were
grown. Now, that thpy are fastened upon the vitals
of onr unhappy country, she rejects the reptile that
she fostered.
Sir, I know not what notion that man has of the
military character who thinks that the slave of yes
terday may be the soldier of to-day. Of the slave
yon cannot make a soldier; yon may make an as
sassin. Bat the shrieks of white households mur
dered, and worse than murdered, by the negro, would
appal tbe hearts and palsy the arms of more of the
supporters of this war than all the race, of Ham
could take the place of. To Mr. Sumner’s question,
then, I answer, we oan afford to rejeot this black al
liance. It offers to northern white men a fellowship
that most of them abhor; it proffers to the southern
white man no terms that he prefers to extermina
tion —it proffers negro equality or negro domination;
it drives the Union men of the Soath into the ranks
of the enemy; it opens to us a dreary prospect of a
protracted, devastating, ruinous guerilla warfare;
it shocks the sentiment of the white race throughout
the world.
in the present aspect of tbe war, then, my trust is
not in the negro. , I trust iu the mercy of Almighty
God to bring this distracted nation back to peace
and union; and, under his Divine Providence, I
trust to onr soldiers’ valor and their leaders’ skill;
to.firm and moderate counsels in the administration
of this government; the allies whom I would wel
come are the Union men of the South. We all know
how.lung and gallantly the Union men of North
Carolina and Alabama and Tennessee strove till they
were suppressed and overwhelmed. It is well known
how the Union sentiment retarded the progress of
secession in all the Southern States. It (< is not
dead, bat sleepeth,” that Union sentiment whioh
men of the Bonth have oheriahed, under perils that
we have not been called on to - encounter. Every
dispatch that comet'to ns from Kentucky and Ten
nessee tell us of men rallying to tbe old flag. I
would have the old banner presented to_ their ex
pectant eyes, not as tbe emblem of a military des
potism; but'as the free flag of a Constitutional gov
ernment. I would tee our armies strengthened and
restrained by discipline, moving southward with
resistless force; carrying everywhere peace to the
peaceful; the Constitution and the laws to tbe law
abiding; defeat and rout to the southern armies,
which eould never be rallied nor recruited where the
people have their -rights. War so conducted will
knit our conquests to us, will double our strength and
sap the enemy’s.
To those victories let us contribute our part. Let
ns not, by revolutionary' measures, extinguish the
rising hopes of those who loVe the Union, Let ns not
foster and.stimulate and pander to publio.impatience.
It was discussed here oh this-floor lately what was
meant by the great Captain of the age when ho said
he was forced to givehattle prematurely at Bull
Kun. Sir, I understood - atways that meant that po
pular impatience bf -'dday :preoipitated hls move
ments. Perhaps he remembered how, at the begin
ning of the pax with Mexico,' a congressional intnghe
had over bimah inoompetentpoli
-ticiah—be felt that he must move, oy. perhaps again
experienced flre i inthe.xear ,, /rompoUtical batter
leg/ Let u* error*; Test we expiate
themhy defeat « 7 to
our white you will not need a black one.
.$ 2,210.20
.$ 2,341.20
JOSEPH REX.
I know that here I ran counter to sentiments that
are often expressed upon this floor. The gentleman
from Kansas, for instance, in bis eloquent speech,
whloh we all remember, charged it upoa.the Presi
dent, as a grievous error, that he wfoaod-* f to bring
back the seoeded States on the old basis; ”*and the
gentleman deemed it the height of satire and ridionle
to desoribe “ MoOleUan and Banks and Dix and
HalleokVand the like, armed to the teeth and ready
for th'b frayv with sword in one hand and the Consti
tution in the other, prepared to administer death or
the oath ofaltegtonoe, aooording to the stubbornness
or dooility bf the satyeot-” Sir, if what iathns ridl
euledis indeed the policy of the President, I will
give all a man can give to farther and rapport it.
I refer to the speech of the gentleman from Kan
sas, beeaose it is the frankest and dearest exposition
that X have heard Here of the dootrine of the party
of wbioh he is a distinguished leader. 1 would say
that the dootrine of that party might be snmmed up
in four words: “ Throw the Constitution overboard.’ 1
The gentleman from Kansas said explicitly, “ the
wish of the masses of our people is to conquer the
seeeded States to the authority of the Union, and
hold them as snbjeot provinces.’' He oombats, as a
fallacy, the idea that constitutional obligations rest
on oar Government in its proseoution of the war.—
He says, “ this principle most be repudiated, or it is
obvious that we are tied hahd and foot.’’
. v rise of the Demoo ratio party in this coun
try waaTKe people’s protest against the concentration
of.power, in/the: Federal Government. Now, let
some party rise; call it the Democratic party^—call
it, If you will,, “ the white man’s party whioh
shall protest thegfr-aohcT.e* fo* black armies
and States held as snbjeot provinoes.
“ ~Truly did Jefferson record the parentage of aboli
tion at its rise, as a political proscription. He said,
in.a letter to Lafayette: - - •
' “On the eclipse of federalism with ua, although
not its extinction, its leaders got np the Missouri
question, under the false front of lessening the
measure of slavery, bat with the real view of pro
ducing a geographical division of parties wnloh
might insure them the next President.- The people
of the North went blindfolded into the snare, fol
lowed their leaders for a while with a seal truly
moral and laudable, until they became sensible that
they were injuring instead of aiding the real inter
ests of the slaves, that they had been used merely
as tools for electioneering purposes.”
Such were the words of Jefferson, himself opposed
to slavery, .but more opposed to the attempt to
abolish it in Missouri,- through the agency of the
Federal Government. Of that attempt he said:
“ This momentous.question, like a Are bell in the
night, avf&kened and filled me with terror. I con
sidered it, at once, as the knell of the Union. * *.
“ Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of
slavery from one State to another would not make a
slave of a single human being who would not be so
without it, bo their diffusion over a larger surface
would makethem individually happier, and propor
tionally facilitate the accomplishment of their eman
cipation by dividing the burden on a greater num
ber of coadjutors.*’
Let me rooall, too, that at that day a Representa
tive of my own State, Henry Baldwin, of Pittsburg,
afterwards a judge of the Supreme Court -of tho
United States, and one of the ablest, foresaw with a
prescience that rivalled Jefferson’s, the dire evils
that were to arise from a geographioal division of
parties. In 1819 and 1820, on the floor of this
House, Baldwin advocated, with all the vigor of his
robust intellect, the immediate and unconditional
admission of Missouri: Sir, X voted the other day
.against the bill prohibiting the retarn of fugitives
by the military authorities. That bill was carried
through this House under the whip and spur of “ the
previous question,” after a single speeoh in its favor
from the gentleman from Ohio, to which no man was
allowed to utter a word in reply. He represented,
withoat any ehance for contradiction, that the mili
tary olfloers were usurping the functions of our oivil
judges and marshals, and were “ running down and
hunting down men-, women'and children, as alleged
fugitives from slavery.”
The simple. foot, as X understand it, is this, that
In localities where the civli power is extinct, and all
its functions are exercised by the commanding gen
eral in the performance of his duty and his pledge
to protect all constitutional rights, he has protected
rights to slave property.. We, by our rooent legisla
tion, have invidously discriminated those rights as
the only ones which he shall not protect, and that
at a moment-whon oar armies are occnpying regions
where those rights of property are more valuable
than any other. Our army occupies a county, say
in Tennessee; the Union men welcome it; their
slaves quit work to hang around the camp; the
owners appeal to the only authority existing for a
remedy. The general, who decides everything else,
must say, “Friends, I promised to maintain all
your constitutional rights, but hero I am powerless.
Go down to where there was once a Court, and if the
judge, who is now a secession Colonel, does not hang
you as a Union man, he will give you a warrant,
)erhap3. If not, all your slaves must, practically,
>e free ; civil society must fall into chao3. Bo Con
gross has enacted.”
Sir, X did not choose to vote for that enactment. —
Whenever, in the anomalous condition of things in
oident to this war, it rests wholly upon a military
officer to sustain oivil society and maintain the laws,
X will not vote to restriot him in bis duty, i believe
that in'tho progress of this war we shall constantly
see, as we have seen, the civil power entirely super
ceded by the military. By the rules of civilized
warfare the conqueror owes protection to peaceful
men in their rights of property ; I would not impose
a penalty on our officers for performing their duty.
Law and sonnd policy, in my judgment, diotate that
they should perform it. Of course Xdo not mean to
countenance the notion that slaves or any other
property should be returned to men in arms against
the Government. Bub, eir, I do not wish to see
every oolumn of our army carrying in its train a
vast swarm of ungovernable negroes; a terror to every
one but the foe iu arms. Useless in battle, they will
devastate the land and stain tho page of our history
with horrors that modern civilization forbids, even
in war. How this is to be prevented X know nt, if
our officers may not send them back to their labor;
nay, as some here have strenuously contended, may
not even exolude them from tho camp.
For these sentiments, I doubt not, 1 shall be styled
“an advocate of slavery.” Neither JLhat nor any
other imputation shall ever deter me from voting
and speaking according to my convictions.
I desire to see a speedy and glorious termination
to this war; and X would not ignore the lessons of
history, which teach that suoh a termination was
never reached through sweeping confiscations and
proscriptions and savage'cruelties. You may make
a desert and call it peace; or you may summon
clemency to the aid of valor, and make your earliest
victories decisive. lam a northern man with north
ern principles. In thisconfliot my pride and inter
ests are ail enlisted on the northern side, whioh is
my side. *
It is in the interest of the North that I bare ever
been opposed alike to northern disunionists and
Bonthern disunionists. I would leave to my ohildren
the Union that our fathers left to us.
Born and bred on the soil of H the State, whose
proudest title is to-be “ the Keystone of the federal
arch,” I do nor wish to see a new St. Domingo on
her southern border.
These are my sentiments as a and
a white man.
MALIGNITY OF* TUB ABOLITIONISTS
TOWARD THE BORDER STATES.
From the Louisville Journal.]
The abolitionists hate the Border States as
good people hate the Devil. This is manifest
enough. As an amusing illustration of the
fact, a very distinguished member of'the Ken
tucky Legislature, who visited Washington
several weeks ago, tells us that the abolition
ist Cheever, in his abolition discourse at the
Capitol, reserved his “ particular thunder 7 ' for
the communities which, with a strong remi
niscence of his native Down East, he styled the
“ B_a_ r -d-e* r States/' and which he served
up for the delectation of his mainly abolition
audience with a reckless pungency not sur
passed even by that which, in the days of
“ Deacon (Jile'a Distillery/' won for this rever
end libeller a cell in the jail of Salem. Mr.
Cheever, herein at least, is a fair, representa
tive of his class. They all bate the
“ B-a-r-d-er States" with a rancor unchecked
by honesty or truth.
And the reason is plain. We have already
stated it. The abolitionists hate the Consti
tution, and would gladly let the Union slide
rather than have its preservation atteuded by
the preservation of the Constitution likewise.
They want to abolish the Constitution, regard
less of consequence, under the pretext of sav
ing the Union. The Border States, on the
contrary, want to save the Union by saving
tbe Constitution, which they believe the only
effectual method possible. The Border States,
being a unit in favor of this policy, naturelly
form the head of tbe great body of patriots
who rally around the Administration that de
clares and carries out the policy in defiance of
abolitionism everywhere. Such is the offence
of the Border States in the estimation of the
abolitionists.
Tbe very bead and front of their offeoding
Hath this extent, no more.
It is for this, and nothing else, that they are
denounced, decried, derided, and defamed, by
every Abolition spouter and scribbler in the
country.
In a word the abolitionists and secessionists
hate the Border States for the same reason in
different aspects. The abolitionists hate the
Border States, because they stand by the Con
stitution. just as the socessionists bate the
Border States, because they stand by the
Union. The Border States as'the steadfast up
holders of both the Unioa and the Constitution
are the equal and common enemies of both the
abolitionists and the secessionists. And in this
twofold enmity every true patriot must share.
Let the true patriots of the North bear in mind
this explanation, and the venomous railing of
the abolitionists against the Border States in
general and Kentucky in particular, if itshould
be kept up, will do good rather than hurt. _ We
hope it is doing no great hurt as the case is.
;h|
ipy The St. Louis Republican says of the
President’s Message to Congress upon eman
cipation :
“It issuffi-ient that Mr. Lincoln recognizes
the complete and sole authority of the differ
ent States to form, change and regulate their
own domestic institutions in their own way,
and that be puts himself in opposition to all
violent revolutionary measures affecting the
loyal in tho same manner as the disloyal.—
Whenever, the question of emancipation in
this State, or any. other, comes up for the
consideration of the people who are. sloop
interested in it, and who alone opn determine
it, then it will be time enough to take ahand
in it. “If Congress Bhall stop all agitation just
■where Mr. Lincoln proposes to -leave it,‘'and.
-kiok the whole subject.out: of it, tho oitiiens
• ofthe several ’States will bain, abettet temper
■ to disonss it, in all its bearings."