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A. SANDIIIRSON. Amoebas.
LANCASTER, PA., MARCH 29, 1864
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Columbia'. chosen band.
" CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
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The State Convention.
The Democratic State Convention,
which met at the National Guards'
Hall, Philadelphia,
on Thursday last,
was fully attended, and the proceed
ings were characterized by great
harmony and enthusiasm. The
preference of the Convention was
expressed for Gen. MCCLELLAN for
the Presidency. The nominations
for Electors, Delegates and the State
Central Committee are excellent
ones. The selection of our well
known and esteemed fellow-citizen,
Mr. PATRICK MCEVOY, as Elector
for this district, is a compliment to
his orthodoxy as a Democrat and
his high qualities as a gentleman and
a citizen.
We hope to see the National,Con
vention laying down a strong 'plat
form. No milk and water stuff; in the
shape of meaningless resolutions, but
a bold and determined adherence to
the platforms of 1852 and '56, and
the doctrine of States' rights. Upon
no other platform can we expect to
win in the coming election.
r- Some Abolition sharks in
Cincinnati having for sale a fac
simile of the President's Emanci
pation Proclamation, advertised for
agents, stating that the entire profits
were to be devoted to the
,benefit of
the " Soldiers Home." A maimed
soldier applied for an agency, when
lo ! he discovered that the parties
procured the copy for $lOO per hun
dred, and sold them to agents for
$l5O per hundred, thus clearing $5O
on each one hundred. The soldier
makes this statement in the Cincin
nati Gazette, and remarks "Is not
this feathering one's nest under the
plea of charity ?"
We think so indeed. Yet this is
an every day occurrence. We see
long appeals in the Abolition papers
for contributions to charitable asso
ciations, sanitary associations, sol
diers aid societies, in nearly all of
which men are feathering their own
nests under plea the of charity. Abo
tion philanthropy and love for the
soldier looks entirely towards putting
money into the pockets of a few po
litical beggars.
ABOLITION MALIGNITY
The Democratic ladies of Ohio are raising a
fund for the benefit of Mr. Vallandigham.
Mr. V. possesses very little property, and was
entirely dependent upon his professional
earnings for the support of his family. By
the infamous tyranny of the petty Burnside,
and its heartless approval by the " smutty
joker " Lincoln, he was driven from the
country, leaving his family destitute of the
means of support. The Democratic ladies
organized an association, with committees in
every county, to raise a fund, by ten cent
contributions, for his relief. It is stated that
the - Central Committee have now definite in—
formation that the fund thus raised will
exceed $50,000. This popular movement in
behalf of this noble victim of abolition
tyranny, has so maddened the Abolition lead
ers of that State that they have introduced
into their Legislature a bill making it a penal
offence to subscribe to any fund for the benefit
of any person exiled by the President! Such
disgraceful malignity was never excelled ; but
it is characteristic of the heartless crew who
are fattening upon the ruin of the country
which they have caused. But they will fail
of their shameful purpose in this case ; for, if
they pass the law, the money can still be
given to either the wife or mother of Mr. V.
THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTI-
TUTION PASSED
The Amendments to the Constitution, pro
posed by the last Legislature, allowing
soldiers to vote in the field, &c., have passed
both branches of the present Legislature. An
act has also passed providing for a special
election, at which the people are to decide
upon the proposed amendments.
Seotion first of this act, provides that the
Governor shall issue writs of election to be
held on the second Tuesday of August, 1864,
and that the people shall then vote upon the
adoption or rejection of three proposed amend.
menu to the Constitution, viz:
First. Allowing soldiers to vote. Second.
That the Legislature shall not pass upon mat
ters over which the Courts have jurisdiction.
Third. That no bill before the Legislature
shall embrace more than one subject. These
three amendments are to be so arranged on
tickets as to be voted upon separately by the
people.
Section Z. provides that the election shall be
conducted as other elections.
Section 3. That a board of Canvassers shall
assemble to publish the returns.
Section 4th authorizes sheriffs and commis
sioners to perform all necessary duties.
4, LOYALTYM
There is nothing in a name save it be a
good name, says the Johnstown Democrat,
and that is " rather to be chosen than great
riches," according to the Proverb. The Abo
lition party, after exhausting all the Lexicons
to find a title at once euphonious as well as
strikingly patriotic have christened themselves
the Loyal party. Certainly, we have no ob
jection to this. To some it may seem to imply
the stigma of disloyalty fired upon the Demo
cratic party, but we can not see it in that
light, because charging a man si im disloyalty
does not make him disloyal, especially when
the charge is made by those who use their
unused loyalty as a cloak to cover up fraud,
peculation, and a desire to trample under
foot the Constitution and laws of the land.
The word loyal has not been in use in this
country since the days of the Revolution.—
It smacks of Kingly courts and servile men
crooking the knee to sovereign power, right
or wrong, and loyalty, in its accepted sense,
means nothing in a Republican Government,
unless the terrible fallacy that " the King can
do no wrong" be tranefered to the President,
and his " subjects " acquiesce in the new
Abolition teachings that the Government and
the Administration are one and the same—
that any thing but profound fealty to ABE
LINCOLN is treason to the Government.
Between the loyalists of 1776, and the lop.
allots of 1864, there is really very little dif
ference, hence our willingness to aceede to
them the name. The tones of the Revolution
were in favor of a strong centralized govern
ment, which could crush out the liberties of
the people under the iron heel of despotism—
the loyalists of to-day are no better. The
ancient loyalists were either the paid pension
ere of government, engaged in the collection
of revenues from His Majesty's subjects in
the American colonies, and filling the fur
nished offices of honor and profit; furnishing
his Majesty's armies with supplies, or who
believed in the few governing the many at
the point of the bayonet. Now where is
there any perceptible or essential difference
between the loyalists of the Revolution and
the loyalists under the reign of LINCOLN ?
The word loyalty to-day means something
or nothing. If it is disloyal to oppose an
Administration which is trampling under
foot the Constitution and the laws, subverting
the government, and inaugurating a military
reign of terror in the States not in rebellion,
by what name shall we classify the opposi
lion to the war of 1812, and the Mexioan
war, both successfully carried through by
Democratic Administrations against the
fiercest assaults of the party now in power ?
The fact is that by disloyalty, the shoddy
ites mean to imply terror, and in the heat of
passion sometimes charge it upon Democrats.
This is especially the ease when fraud and
peculation on the part of the knaves in gov
ernment employ are discovered and laid bare,
on the charge made that this war has been
diverted from its original purpose into a war
for the Abolition of slavery in the Southern
LET US TAKE COURAGE
We have this consolation, that thus far in
the contest for President, there is greater
unanimity in the Democratic than in the Ad
ministration ranks. The Democrats in Penn
sylvania are nearly unanimous for the nom
ination of McClellan—so are the Democrats
of New York and New Jersey—while, on
the contrary, the Abolition party are muoh
divided in sentiment. In the Western States
they are for Fremont in opposition to Lincoln,
and they have made up their minds to stick
to him whether he is nominated by their
National Convention or not. Even in New
York there is a strong Fremont party. It is
questionable whether it is not, as between
Lincoln and Fremont, the stronger party.—
At all events, the Fremont men held a meet
ing uu Friday week, and spoke their senti
ments very freely. Among others Mr. Gree'ey
took part, and spoke openly and boldly in
favor of Fremont. Let us take courage from
these signs of the times. The Baltimore
Transcript has the following account of the
proceedings:
NEW YORK, March 19
The radical wing of the Republican party
held a mass meeting at Cooper Institute last
night, whioh was largely attended. General
Fremont was nominated by acclamation for
the Presidency, and declared to be the choice
of the friends of freedom throughout the
country. A number of speeches were made,
the burden of nearly all of them being an
unmeasured condemnation of the policy- 7
military and civil—of Mr. Lincoln. Greeley
was, of course, among the speakers, and an
nounced his advocacy of the " one term "
principle, and declared a decided preference
fur any other man in the Republican ranks
over Mr. Lincoln.
THE NEW REVENUE BIM
By the new Revenue Bill before the Cum
mittee on Ways and Means, a Tribune cor
respondent states that tobacco is taxed twenty
five per cent. ad valorem in the leaf, and
forty cents a pound manufactured. Pe
troleum five cents a gallon on et ude, and ten
cents on refined, and distilled spirits a dollar
a gallon. The great difference in the quali
ties of Jur tobacco, the Connecticut River
being about as good as Cuba, and Michigan
not a quarter as good, made the adval,,rem
tax inevitable. Two of the sub-Committee
are said to be opposed to a high tax on to
bacco ; one of them is said to be obstinate in
his faith that a tax of fifty cents a gallon on
whisky will produce more revenue than a tax
of a dollar. So the taxes imposed in the bill
prepared at the Treasury on tobacco and
whisky may go into the Ways and Means
Committee reduced, and possibly, but not
, probably, go into the House reduced.
It is estimated that the charge of ten cents
on refined petroleum has been already raised
by the sub-Committee. In addition to the
above a very large increase of the revenue is
sought to be made by the new bill by doubling
the price of stamps on notes, bonds, &c., and
taxing instruments and forms not heretofore
reached, such as letters patent, deeds for
conveyance of personal property, copies of
instruments and documents read in court,
executions, processes from justices' courts, &c.
There is no tax whatever on malt. Beer is
taxed $1,50 a barrel; this inoludes lager.—
The temper of the House and of the Senate
grows daily in favor of higher and bolder
taxation.
FREE NEGRO IRIPUDZINCE
It may be interesting to our colonization
friends to 1.; , ..w that the celebrated " progress
of opit.iou " ih kn. ckir g the bottom out of
their arrangt [neon , . l'he I , il, wing spirited
resolutions we d a' a meetingof "free
Americane. • f , esvent," lately held
in Boston;
1. Resolved, Thai when we wish to leave
the United States, we oan find and pay for
the territory that shall snit us best.
2 That when we are ready to leave, we
shall be ready to pay oar own expenses of
travel.
3. That we do not want to go now.
4. That if any body else wants us to go,
they must compel us.
What do you think of that for a negro
meeting ? Think of how they lean back on
their assumed dignity, and put forth sueh un•
rivaled impudence ! This is a single example
of how big a negro will feel if patted up and
encouraged. What will it be when the
former colonizationists raise their voices (as
they are doing) in favor of the disgusting
doctrine of " miscegenation "
PROOZIADVSOIIiWTIOCI - DZEOC - MICTIC .
I VATIC CONVENTION
The Itemooratks State Convention, to select dele
gates to the National Convention at %low, mat
at the National Guards' Hall, in Philadelphia, on
Thareday last. The Convention was caned to order
by Hon. CDASILDIP d. BIDDLII, Chairman of the
State Central Committee, and Col. T. B. Samaras;
of Fayette, was appointed temporary Chairman.—
Mr. H. T. SHULTZ, of this coanty, war one of the
temporary Secretaries.
After the list of credentish wail read over the
permanent organisation of the Convention was
completed by the selection of Hon. Hussar H.
Wirtz, of Montgomery, as President, assisted by a
number of Vise Presidents and Secretaries. Mr.
Joan fdcSvssassr, of this county, was one of the
Vies Presidents, and Mr. B. T. ISHIII.II continued
as one of the Secretaries.
Messrs. GEORON SANDZREION and SJUCOEL H.
BaTNOLDB were on the Committee on Resolutions.
The following gentlemen constitute the Electoral
ticket, delegates to Chicago, and the State Central
Committee :
FIRST DISTRICT.
Elootor—William Loughlin.
Delop/co—Samuel G. Zing, Dr. George W. Nob
loser. . . _
State Committee—Lewis 0. oa:llday, Joseph hie
gray, George A. Quigley.
BLCOND DIEITEIC?.
Bleotor—Edward R. Balmbold.
Delegates—William M. Riley, G. W. Irwin.
State Committee—Charies M. Leisenring, Dom
thick Muller, Frederiek E. Brown.
TRIED DISTRICT.
Eleotor—Edw. P. Minn.
Delegates—William Curtis, Simon Arnold.
State Committee—Hobert J. Hemphill, Merles
Btiokwaher, Philip H. Luts.
7017E111 DISTRICT.
Blector—Thomas McCullough.
Delegates—William W. Burnell, Isaac B. Cassin
State Committee—Peter Armbruster, A. R. Soho
Add, Richard Simpson.
IfITTR DISTRICT.
&lector—Edward T. Ham
Delegates—H. P. BASS, Charles W. Carrigan.
State Committee—Charles Vansant, H. W. Ditt
man, J. D. Miles.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Eleotor—Philip b. Gerhard.
Delegates—J. D. Stiles, Perry M. Hunter.
State Committee—A. L. Rabe, James F. Kline,
Jacob Danehower.
■ETEATH DISTRICT.
Eleetor—G. G. Leiper.
Delegates—John H. Brinton, John C. Beatty.
State Committee—Dr. E. 0. Evans, Dr. W. D
Downing, George W. Weaver.
EIGHTH DUITEICT.
Rleetor—Miohael Seltzer.
Delegates—J. Glancy Jones, Win. Rosenthal.
State Committee—kliohael P. Boyer, Jonathan
See, George Smith, Jr.
NINTH DISTRICT.
&teeter—Petri,* McEvoy.
Delegates—George Sanderson, Henry A. Wade.
State Committee—R. R. Tahndy, A. J. Steinman,
S. R. Reynolds.
TRITE DISTRICT.
Elector—Thomas H. Walker.
Delegates—Franois W. Hughes, Dr. C. B. Glon-
Inger.
State Committee—A. Wilhelm, F. P. Dewees,
James Ellis.
ELEVENTH DUITILICT.
Elector—O. S. Dimmiok.
Delegates—Philip Johnson, Carlton Burnett.
State Committee—H. B. Beardsley, A. G. Broad
head, Jr., Samuel 1:1. Neiman.
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
Elector—A. B. Dunning.
Delegates—Charles Dennison, A. J. Gerrittson
State Committee—E. W. Stardevant, Daniel Ran
kin, John Blanding.
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
Eleotor—Paul Leidy.
Delegates—John F. Means, David Lowenbeig.
state Committee--Harvey Biokler, George D
Jackson, C. S. Russell.
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.
.Eleotor—Robert Swineford.
Delegates—Hamilton Alrioks, Wm. H. Miller.
State Committee—Solomon Mellott, E. S. Dety,
A. Patterson.
PITTBEINTEI DISTRICT.
Elector—John A. Ahl.
Delegates--Peter A. Yeller, H. D. &golf.
State Committee—John F. Spangler, J. A. Blat
enberger.
SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.
Elector—Henry 11. Smith.
Dalegates—Henry J. Stable, B. F. Meyers.
State Committee—William P. Schell, J. MoDawell
Sharpe, Levis Leiohty.
IIEYENTBENTH DISTRICT.
Elector—Thaddeus Banks.
Delegates—R. Bruce Petrikon, Daniel M. Dull.
State Committee—James D. Rea, Jamul'. lamp
bell, Jos. W. Parker.
EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. ;.
Eleotor—Hugh Montgomery.
Delegates—John H. OrTis, Stephen Pierce.
State Committee—Miles White, Huston Hepburn,
S. R. Peale.
NIA.ISTZENTH DUITBIOT.
Eleotor—John M. Irwin.
Delegates—C. L. Lumberton, James K. Kerr.
State Committee—R. B. Brown, R. L. Cochran
J. D. Gill.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT.
Elector—Joseph M. Thompson.
Delegatos—T. B. Searight John Latta.
State Committee—ki. P. Laird, J. B. Sansom, E
S. Roddy.
TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
Elector—Erastua Brown.
Delegates--William A. Galbraith, William A
Wallace.
State Committee—Benjamin Whitman, T. J
Boyer, A. M. Benton.
TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.
Eleetor—James P. Barr.
Delegates—William D. Patterson, Samuel P. Ross
State Committee—Franois R. Sellers, Joseph R
Hunter, Andrew J. Baker.
Elector—William J. Koontz.
Delegates—J. A. McCullough, F. H. Hutchinson.
State Committee—B. S. Golden, James Braden,
William H. Magee.
TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT
Elector—William Montgomery.
Delegates—R. W. Jones, S. B. Wilson.
State Committee—William Swann, Charles Carter,
D! S. Morris.
lion. C. L. WARD, of Bradford, was elected Chair
man of the State Central Committee, and Gen.
GEORGIC W. CASS, lion. WILLIAM BIGLER, BOIL
ASA PACKER and WILLIAM V. McGRATH Esq., were
elected delegates at large to the National Conven
tion.
HOW RICHA.RD yeux., of Philadelphia, and Ros
/MT L. Josirrarosr, Esq., of Cambria, were nominated
for Electors at Large.
The Committee on Resolutions, through the
Chairman, Hon. J. GIANCY JoNaa, reported the
following :
Essayed, That as we have no State candidates to
present to the people, and no issues involved in the
coming election other than those which affect the
welfare and liberties of our sister States equally
with ours, we leave it to our representatives 111 the
Chicago Convention to unite with the representa
tives of the other sovereignties of the North in em
bodying the sentiment of the people in a declara
tion of principles acceptable to all the States, on
which we rely to elect a President, and bring back
peace and union to this distracted land.
Resolved, That the Democracy of Pennsylvania
hereby express their preference for the nomination
of General George B. McClellan, as the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency by the Chicago Con
vention, and that the delegates to said Convention
be instructed to vote as a unit on all questions aris
ing therein, as a majority of the delegates shall de
cide.
li.e.rolved, That the first necessary step to restore
the welfare and prosperity of the American Repub
lic is to get rid of the present corrupt Federal Ad
ministration, and the lure way to accomplish this
end is a thorough organization of the time-honored
Democratio party, and the prevalence of union and
harmony among its members,
The resolutions were adopted unanimously with
out dissuasion.
The members of the Convention were entertained
is a magnificent style, on Thursday evening, by
the Pennsylvania Clab, at the Club Rouse, 1129
Chestnut street.
THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG.
—A letter from Gettysburg, in the Baltimore
Sun, says :
" All the bodies of the Union soldiers have
now been disinterred from the pits and
trenches, where they were hastily thrown
after the battle, and carefully buried in their
appropriate placrs in the cemetery.
The total number of bodies thus removed
and entombed is three thousand five hundred
and twelve. About one thousand of them are
unknown, and deposited in that part of the
inclosure set apart for those unrecognized.
Nearly or quite a fourth of the whole number
of the slain belong to the State of New York.
Many of the unknown bodies have since been
recognized, their names having been discover
ed from letters, photographs, medals, diaries,
clothing, and other things found upon their
corpses. Quite an amount of money, in small
sums, ranging from the fractional part of a
dollar up to fifty dollars, was also found upon
these bodies by those who disinterred them.
Thirty-six dollars in gold were found in the
pocket of one, and thirty to forty dollars—
paper and gold—in the garments of others,
besides many relics, mementoes, &c. All this
money and these relics have been taken care
of by the committee, properly labeled, and
held in safe keeping for the relatives, should
they ever be discovered. An elegant hunting
case gold watch and five or six silver watches
were also found upon different bodies.
mar An Abolition paper d in an adjoining
county says, "it is evident the Copperheads
would rather have any other candidate than
' honest old Abe.'" This is undoubtedly true.
For a worse man for the Presidency, we verily
believe, could not be found, were the whole
world ransacked for a candidate. No country
on the face of the earth, in all times past, has
been so thoroughly ruined and depraved from
the highest state of civilisation and prosperity,
in such a short time. Before his election to
the Presidency, all was prosperity, peace and
happiness, but now, where are wet—Hanover
aticen.
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~eom the BaHand ( Yt) Oonrier
GREELEY ANSWERER
The malignity, duplicity and hypocrisy of
Horace Greeley, as exhibited in the four under
quoted lines from the N. Y. Tribune, is well
answered in the following article from the
Newport (Vt.) News, whose editor is a Repub
lican and in favor of the re-election of Mr.
Lincoln to the Presidency, but who will not
silently consent to'hear General McClellan ma
ligned and slandered by knaves, fools, fanatics
or hypocrites. Many of the Vermont Republi
can papers are down-on the' News' for its
manly and outspoken sentiments, but dare
not give the article from its columns that we
quote below. The secret of the matter is, the
editor of the News served, fought and bled
under Gen. McClellan in the noble army which
he created from which he was so suddenly,
ruthlessly and unceremoniously torn away by
radical enmity and jealousy, when victorious
ly driving the enemy before them, so recently
defeated at Antietam. Greeley and his elan
may sneer about Gen. McClellan being a " true
man " to the negroes and to the fanatics, but
he had better keep away from the soldiers
when he slanders " Little Mae," whom they
love the more he is abused :
" If there be one sincerely loyal man who
still clings to General McClellan, we ask him
to answer this question : If Gen. McClellan
is a true man, why is every traitor his noisy
champion ?" [N. Y. Tribune.
To which the editor of the News, replies
thus:
" It galls us to the quick to see a man who
has been as instrumental as Gen. McClellan
has, to organize a military force to suppress
rebellion, defamed, traduced, and treated with
such extreme enmity by men who have done
sa little to fight traitors, as the editor of the
N. Y. Tribune. We do not question Mr. Gree
ley's loyalty, or his zeal to save this country
from overthrow—and we say the same of Gen.
McClellan. But we do contend that den. Mc-
Clellan has shut the mouths of one hundred
traitors, where Mr. Greeley has not so much
as heard the report of a single musket dis
charged at the enemy. We say this not be
cause we intend to rebuke Mr. Greeley—
though he richly deserves it—or beCause we
desire to laud Gen. McClellan, but we have
been a soldier under him, and like thousands
of others, have contracted a soldier's love for
him, which will cling to us to the last. Should
we deny this, even in our present capacity as
a journalist, we should blame no man if he
treated us as scornfully as he would a desert
er. We therefore say to Mr. Greeley that
there is one sincerely ' loyal man' who is not
ashamed or afraid to answer this question.
General McClellan is a true man, because one
hundred thousand, yea, two hundred thousand
good and true soldiers of the United States
army respect and honor him as an officer and
a soldier—a man who is ready to sacrifice his
life to save the government of a people who
will revere his name long after his traducers
are dead and forgotten.
We make these remarks as an independent
journalist—and though we never expect to
support Gen. McClellan in any political con
test, we will never abuse him because he has
been so unfortunate as to have bad men for
his ' noisy companions.'
If there is any truth in history, the same
sort of clique at one time attempted toswarm
around our Washington. We have no kind of
idea what kind of men Mr. G seeks for his
companions, but of one thing we are certain,
soldiers will never make much 120183 where he
is, and he will never cut much of a figure
where soldiers are.
It is possible that an article like this may of
fend some of our readers, and perhaps some
may decide to forsake us. If so, we cannot
help it. The man who thus boldly accuses
Gon. McClellan of treachery and treason, says
no less of every soldier who has been under
his command. We accordingly resent it
mildly, yet decidedly. If we are to have such
men as Horace Greeley to put down this re—
bellion, and tie the hands of such men as
General McClellan and his soldier friends, the
sooner we stop this fight the better for us."
PAYING DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE
The war between the North and the South
has now been waged for three years, We
have called into the service 1,775,000 soldiers.
We have now in the field say 500,000 men.
There have been discharged on account of
wounds, disability and sickness, together with
the desertions, say 375,000. This leaves 900,-
000 men now dead and buried. This is a lib
eral calculation in our favor, for if we could
reach the exact loss in our army the totality of
deaths would nut fall short of a million of lives.
We have stolen and freed, from the rebels,
from 75,000 to 100,000 negroes : admit it to be
100,000. This war, from the beginning, has
been a war for the liberation of Southern
slaves from their owners, in the intent of the
instigators, though it has only been publicly
avowed fur the last two years. To say noth
ing of the injury, loss and cruelty to nineteen
twentieths of the poor slaves, to say nothing
of the destruction, loss of property, demorali
zation of our populatiot, the untold miseries
of the wounded and broken down constitutions
of the discharged soldiers, to say nothing of
all this lose to the body politic, it has cost the
United' States in debt, entailed upon future
generations, already $.3,000,000,000. To sum
up the gross amount, we have, in order to lib.
erate 100,000 slaves, and make them worse off
than they were while with their masters, cre
ated a debt of .$3,000,000,000, and sacrificed
the lives of 900,000 of our fellow citizens!
Is not this, in the language of the immortal
Ben Franklin, " PAYING DEAR FOR THE
WFIISTLF.." So thinks the Patriot & IThion,
and so think we.
MR. DAWSON'S SPEECH
We make the following extract from the
great speech delivered by Hon. Joure L.
Dnwsori, in Congress, on the 24th ultimo :
This war cannot last forever. Sooner or
later contending parties must become ex
hausted, the armies dwindled, credit destroy.
ed, the land filled with graves and clothed in
mourning, and an adjustment upon some
terms will be the only cure for the evil. The
uncompromising obstinacy of Charles I lost
him his head ; that of James the II his crown ;
that of George 111 his colonies:- Shall these
States again be lost by imitating the exam
ple? Shall we not rather learn a lesson from
that chapter in our history in 1812, when Mr.
Clay, aided by Calhoun, pressed the war of
that period upon the Administration of Mr.
Madison in resistance to the British _preten
sion to the right of search? The wae'lasted
for three years. There was great sacrifice of
life and vast expenditure of money. During
that period the Navy upon the waters of the
Chesapeake and the Atlantic covered itself
with imperishable glory, and our soldiers
poured out their blood like water upon the
Raisin and the Thames, at Tippecanoe and
Lundy's Lane. And yet Mr. Clay, at the
head of the American commission, met the
British commission at Ghent, and there ne
gotiated a treaty of peace without saying one
word of the matter in controversy, and which
yet was deemed honorable and satisfactory.
Nearly fifty years have elapsed since that
period, and the right remains unadjusted to
this day. In the meantime our relations with
England, social and commercial, have 'grown
more intimate and important.
Mr. Speaker, there is everywhere an anxi
ous and earnest looking forward to a termina
tion of this contest I believe there is no
obstacle so potent against a return to peace
as that spirit which has given a new policy
and a new object to the war. To refuse, be
cause of the institution of slavery in the
Southern States, to adhere to, the Union of
our fathers, is all one as if we should refuse
to treat with the Ottoman Empire or the Bar
bary Powers because the one is the sovereign
of a nation recognizing polygamy, and the
other the slavery of the whites as well as the
blacks. The man possessed with a single idea
is of all the most unfitted for a statesman.—
That high character implies a condition of
mind which contemplates things as they are,
and which forbears the removal of a less mis
chief when this would be productive of a
greater. He must aim in his policy at the
production of the best good of society, but
will carefully refrain from great, sweeping in
novations, preferring to leave the correction
of evils to the gentle hand of time, which, as
Lord Bacon expressed it, " is the greatest in
novator," well assured that no Government
clan be successful which does not adapt its
policy to the various characters of the people
to be effected by it, and to its diversities of
industry and sectional intevests.
ser Chief Justice TANEY, of the United
States Supreme Court, celebrated his 87th
birthday on the 17th inst.
LOCAL DYIPAR=ikT,
PansoneL.—Jaoob Matz, a well known
preacher of the religious sect of Drinkers, died on the 12th
loot., rear Ephrata, In the 83th year of his ago.
Rev. L 8. Demand, pastor of at Peal's German Reformed
Church of this city, has severed his connection with that
church and denomination to accept of a pastoral relation
with a Reformed Protestant Dutch Congregation la Pater.
son, N. J. On Tuesday evening last the catechumens of
his present congregation presented him with a handsome
silver pitcher elegantly chased, as a testimonial cf their
regard and esteem.
Rev. A. X. Shoemaker, formerly pastor of the Union
Bethel of this city, has accepted a charge in Chicago. He
leaves for that city early in April.
Rev..l. H. Babcock, late Principal of the Yates' Insti
tute of this city, has been assigned to a charge In Minne
sota by the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of that Diocese.
E. H. Ranch, Req., formerly of this city, has purchased
the Bezbachter, a Gorman paper published at Reading, Pa.,
and will hereafter conduct It in connection with an Eng
lish paper.
William R. Gerhart, eon of President Gerhart, of Frank
lin and Marshall College, this city, bee passed an exami
nation before the Board of Examiners at Washington, and
been recommended for a Major's commission in the 11. 13:
Colored Volunteers.
-• • •• • • • ••• ••
First Lieut. Thomas U. Carpenter, of this city, hew been
promoted to a Captaincy In the 17th Raptler Infantry, his
commission to bear date March 4, 1863. •
George M. Franklin, Sag , of this city, has been appoint
ed an Assistant Adjutant General, with the rank of Cap•
Min. Capt. Franklin Is now doing duty on the Staff of
Gen. Franklin, In the Department of the Gulf, Louisiana.
Samuel Wright, Seq., late editor of the Columbia Spy,
has been ePnointed an Assistant Adjutant General, with
the rank of Captain. Capt. Wright went out as an Aid on
the Staff of the late General Welch.
CoL F. B. Pyf,, of the 77th Regiment, a prisoner
at Richmond since the battle of Chickamauga, has been
released on parole, and has arrived at Annapolis. tient.
Col. Miles and Lieut. Holbrook, of this city, are still de•
tained as prisoners.
Mr. Benjamin Bnckwalter has been appointed Postmas
ter at Greenland, this county, vice Michael MacGonlgle,
resigned.
Martin B. Immel, Postmaster at Highland, this county,
vice John J. Tripple, resigned.
ON A FAREWELL TOUR.—GOTTBCHALK, the
most eminent Pianist living, la now on a farewell concert.
icing tour, prior to his departure for Europe. One of his
Inimitable entertainments will be given at Fulton Hall,
this (Tuesday) evening, upon which occasion he will be
assisted by a number of well known and distinguished
artistes. Mr. Gorrsonata is a great favorite with our
music-loving folks, and although he always draws good
houses here, upon this occasion, we think, he will have a
crowded audience. An artist of his unequalled abilities Is
deserving of nothing lees.
CHANGED HANDS.—The old Fountain Inn
Hotel, in South Queen street, probably the very oldest
tavern stand in thi s
city, has changed hands—Mr. JACOB
HUBBB retiring, who to succeeded by Mr. Faexras Eficr.sar,
a brother Typo and one of the Xxaminer proprietors.—
Fun" is an A No. 1 Printer, and from his well known
business qualifications and go sheadtiveneas will keep up
the reputation of the "Fountain Inn," and make a capital
landlord. In short, he will know "how to keep a hotel."
We wish him success.
PROPOSED CITY BOUNTY.—The City Coun
cils held a special meeting in their Chambers, on Tuesday
evening last, and passed the following resolution:
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the
City of Lancaster, that Councils will appropriate, under
the prospective law on the subject to be enacted by the
Legislature of the Commonwealth. the sum of $276 to each
recruit that will enlist in the United States army and be
credited to the quota of the city in the coming drafts;
and that the money and expenses paid by individuals in
the city towards making tip the quota of their wards in
drafts ordered, shall be refunded them out of the appropri
ation allowed by Councils for bounties to volunteers.
—The City Councils hold another meeting on Saturday
evening, and passed an Ordinance vesting in the Mayor
authority to borrow a sum not exceeding $144,000, for the
purpose of filling up the city's quota under the calls of the
President. The Ordinance, as published in to day's Intel
ligencer, gives full particulars as to bow the amount to
be borrowed Is to be Lquidated, &c.
" MUCH ADO," &c.—The "loyal" papers
aro extremely exercised because Ton INTEL/SI/INC= did
not publish Private MARTIN'S speech in reply to the
Mayor's remarks at the reception of the 79th. Our prin•
cipal reason for not doing so was that we were crowded
with other matter. But to calm this "tempest in a tea
pot," this "much ado about nothing," we have concluded
to let our readers em exactly what this speech is, and
here it is In cztenso:
Your warm welcome has not been unexpeoted. We have
had, from time to time, kind assurances that we were not
forgotten by our friends at home, though for two years
and almost a half hundreds of miles have intervened be
tween yourselves and ns. When you sent us those beau
tiful colors, nearly fourteen months ago, we felt that
Pennsylvanians had not forgotten their 79th; and, amid
the din of battle, we read on them that which our friends,
with a Spartan satisfaction, had placed there, and added
another blood bought name, making a trio of unsullied
stars in the great American constellation, that we feel
will shine brightly to the future history of the mon of
Lancaster county. Many of our fellow. have fallen be
neath those bright folds, and we who are here to-day have
signified tar willingness to stand by them through the
storm of more battles, until our cause shall triumph and
the death of our fallen be avenged.
Away down in Georgia we learned that the ladies of
Lancaster were working hard for the soldiers in the field.
To hear thin, did as good; gave us assurance; nerved us
veterans. In the same catalogue we often saw the names
of those who should have been with us in the struggle;
those we passed by, for when we knew that noble-hearted
women were enlisted in our cause, we felt it a stronger
acquisition than any accession of these champions of
words would have been. You know who I mean; if they
can feel justified in their actions, our c nsciences would
never allow us to parade the streets of this city in kids
and beaver,
and, God knows, we have at least a record to
show. Wh o,, a living wall of brave men were battling
back the ins f assails of treason, protecting our h• roes
and firesides from the ruthless hands of the enemy, whim
we revel in easy luxury, instead of shrinking from the
duty, we should rather thank our God that he has favored
us with power to protect the helpless nod the loom:aut.—
What will-the future say of those lb ostrious predecvsvors
who dared not cress the State? While the graves of the
bendy men of every State have rendered immortal the
field of Gettysburg, it was a blot la the history of our
Commonwealth that has taken the best blood of her truest
sons to obiterate.
But we know that a soldier's and a citizen's views of
this war are rarely alike. When we look at the hundreds
of young men around us, in all the energy of youth, we
think, with pain, that Pe nsylvania,.the Keystone of the
Old Arch, one of the original Thirteen, the State that
responded so nobly to the first beat of the long roll as it
Came surging on Southern winds from the walls of Sum
ter, need, yet thirty thousand men ton her quota, while
her sister Staten, of less than a quarter of a century's
growth, are sending forth their thousands whenever called
upon And may we not hope that when our short respite
is over, and we go forth ng.in, our ranks will prove that
the old garden county Ooes not wish to be behind in men
or means, even though the hardest of the task is over and
the rebellion virtually crushed. The bulletins of another
battle may announce disaster to our reuse It is well
that we should have overwhelming numb,rs 'at every
point, so as to leave no shadow of doubt as to the issue,
and at 'nee summarily close the war.
We have come home as veteran volunteers. Our friends,
no doubt, will ask us why we re-enlisted, when there are
so many on whose services the country has as good a claim
as on ours, who have never undergone a single privation.
We answer proudly, we belting to the Old Guard, the first
Three Hnudred Thousand—the men who have brought
this rebellion down from the flush of manhood to the de
crepitude of old age; who have set it on its crutches, and
are even now moving those crutches down the pathway of
time to an ignominious grave. It is true the festering
carcass of Rebellion may turn, cast them a ay, stand for
a moment erect without their support, bat it is the death
struggle; the wounded bison is most dangerous and most
powerful in his last agonies. Now, then, is the time to
strike. Davis and his minions are blind with mu , y and
rage at their hitherto lit success; their followers are
deserting their standard not by tens or hundreds but by
thousands. He is even now casting lots with the poten•
totes of Europe for the spoils of our fair country, as the
Jews of old did over the raiment of our Saviour. Would
we be American soldiers and tolerate this, or standby and
have it told us that a levy of ronscripta decided the fate of
the great Republic of America? No! a handred thousand
veteran volunteer. are ready to carve with their bayonets
and write with their blood, if need be, the glorious inserip•
lion of Freedom and Liberty to all mankind. Yes, to rear
with their sabres and muskets a shrine that the world
will bow before, and the lovers of Liberty from every
clime kneel devoutly at and worship--art idol of hope—a
beacon light to the down trodden Hungarian and the
Italian trembling in the chains of their forefathers.
What! should we desert the ship now, after hawing
stood at our poets through two years of storm and night
and rebellion. when her decks were red and slippery with
the best blood of the loyal North? Desert her now, when
one by one her broken planks are being placed in their
former position, and her course Is becoming more steady
under the skillful guidance of Lincoln and his eubordi.
mates, Grant, Thomas and Meade, with their faithful and
disciplined crews? Abandon her now, when we can feel
that, with a little more sailing and a few more stitches of
canvass, we can outride the heavy sea and the black
piratical craft of Rebellion will be our prey? No! we
mean to stand by the bulwarks of our own good ship
until their flag is struck and their crew suspended at
every yard arm.
To the friends of our comrades, whose graves mark the
green hillsides of Kentucky, or can be found amid the
dark cedars of Stone River, or by the waters of the fretful
Chickamauga, the river of death of Georgia, I wish to say
a word. You have the proud consolation of knowing that
they fell in a muse, the sacredness. of which is second to
none ever contested on the• face of the earth; that they
felt fighting to demonstrate the feasibility of self govern
ment ; is prove the superiority of Freedom over Slavery;
civilization over barbarism; light over darkness; with
their faces toward the deluded foe, doing their whole duty
to their God, their country, and humanity; that their
bones will form a part of the corndr stone of a superstruc.
lure the like of which was never presented to the gaits of
man—a Republican Government uncorrupted, majestical
in might, sublime In its majesty.
For The intelligence?
Maxims. F+nlreas—Gsntlenun : Some of the good
old citizens of Caernarvon township, God sheer them
in their good work, have'been trying to raise money,
by subsoription, to buy substitutes to fill our quota;
they have been working at It about two weeks with
all the energy with whioh mankind is generally en
dowed, and have not yet raised more than half of
the necessary material. The mechanics and labor
ing men, with the exception of a very small num
ber, have paid very liberally, and some of the farm
ers, with a Boman liberality, gave freely of their
abundance ; but many of them that are liable to
military duty have not given one cent; men who
own scores of acres and are making money by the
thousands, and at the same time desire to see this
unholy rebellion crushed—are very busy about elec
tion times, but do not intend to shoulder the musket,
nor give of their affluence. As long as our poor
men are willing to volunteer without remuneration
and be immolated on their oountry's altar their
patriotism runs down our streets like a river ; but if
called on to .keep time to the music, or open their
long purees, they have a friendly monitor within
their noble breaats which tells them it is wrong to
give any more than their moral support to wipe out
this rebellion, which consists in voting, /Lc., &e. We
had a meeting on last Friday, on the eleotion day,
to raise funds, and the result of it was, to avoid this
glorious prerogative, many of our patriots staid at
home. But it is not at all surprising to me when I
reflect upon their economical habits and their pecu
liar characteristics ; for some of them could make a
mourning suit out of a - yard of black tape and have
enough left to circumnavigate their hats. A.
CEURCHTOWD, itiarail 23rd, 1864.
THE BATTLE OF GkITTTSBURG
The testimony of General Hancock before the
Committee on the Conduct of the War, in relation
to the battle of Gettysburg, detracts somewhat froth
the glory which has been claimed by General Sickles
and General Meade. It is to the effect that on the
morning of the lot of July General Meade directed
General Hancock to proceed to the front and assume
command of the First, Third and Eleventh corps.—
Upon arriving at Gettysburg he found that the First
and Eleventh had been driven back and were in
considerable confusion. He relieved General How
ard and proceeded to form a line on which an en
gagement might be fought—this being in accordance
with General Meade's instructions. He was engaged
in forming the line, when the Third eorps came up,
and position was a ssigned it. He then reported by
an aid to General Heade, and the remaining divis
ions of the army were ordered up. The line thus
selected was the one on which the three days' bat
tles were fought ; and General Hancock commanded
the left eantre on the third, when Lonptreet was
repulsed from his deperate charge upon our lines.—
General Meade had nothing to do with the selection
of the line of battle and trusted entirely to Gen
eral Hancock's Judgment as to its value in a mili
tary Pant of view.
Prom Wiltlb~s Now Tait World.
THADDEUS STEVENS AND THE PURI.
TY OP ELECTIONS.
Some one said that whoever cracked Thad
dens Stevens's skull would let out the brains
of the Republican party. = But other fissures
disclose the brains of that party, and none
have seen harder service than ;hat one with
which ungenerous Nature herself endowed the
able and unscrupulous Pennsylvanian who is
the chairman of the Committee of Ways and
Means. The brazen effrontery with which
Mr. Stevens, on Monday, denied before the
House of Representatives that the nation was
being made to pay transportation bills for
Republican soldiers and civilians to go home
and vote at State elections, was his master
piece. He has done hard work for his party
in times past ; no one but he had the courage
first to scout openly the idea of a restoration
of the old Union, and laugh at a re-establish
ment of the old Constitution—that mask of
his party he was the first to pull off and
reveal its purpose of a war for abolition ; but
that job (to use a word which Mr. Lincoln
has made classic), that " job" was not
tougher than the one which he undertook on
Monday, and in the few years which remain
to him of a long and ill•spent parliamentary
life, Mr. Stevens will -never again find hie
moral hardihood so taxed, his effrontery eo
strained, his sense of self-respect, or at least
his desire for the respect of his truth-loving
fellow-men, so utterly abased as it was when
he backed up, with his personal word, the
denial that the administration had thus pros
tituted its power, tampered with the purity of
elections, bribed a specious popular approba
tion of its imbecilities, its faithlessness to its
oaths and to the supreme law.
The House . had gone into the Committee of
the Whole on 'the Army Appropriation bill,
and' Mr. Kernan, the able conservative mem
ber from this State, offered an amendment,
providing that no part of the money appro
priated for army transportation should be ex
pended for transportation of civilians employ
ed in the departments to or from their homes
at the
. public expense. Whereupon arose a
sharp altercation, departing considerably from
the subject thus raised, in the course of which
Mr. Stevens, hard pressed by hard facts with
vhioh Mr. Kernan supported h;e amendment,
made the brazen assertion which we have
cited. Of course he had a pack yelping after
him. The chance was too good a one for hilwl
ing Buncombe, and your Philadelphia Kellys
are not the sort to stint their yelping when
the staunch hounds are ahead and yelping is
safe. We shall not follow the windings of- the
debate, nor is Mr. Gooch's defense of the
whitewashing proclivities of the Committee
on the Conduct of the War worth heeding.
Mr. Kernan was perfectly right in demand
ing to have the subject of transportation of
Republican voters at the national expense re
ferred to 'an honest and disinterested commit
tee ; of course, therefore, not to the Commit
tee on the Conduct of the War, which is
a whitewashing and partisan committee. The
republicans refused one of their own party,
General Frank Blair, an investigating com
mittee, after he had charged openly and ex
plicitly, on the floor of the House, that the
Treasury Department's management of trade
and traffic at the West was reeking with
corruption from head to fingers, and backed
up his charge with the whole weight of his
personal, civil, and military character and
position. He offered to prove his allegations
true, to an honest committee. Such a com
mittee was denied him, and the subject was
referred to the Committee on the Conduct of
the War and suppressed. Mr. Kernan took
warning by that experience ; nor did he yield
to the fierce and insulting demands of the
leader of the administration party the name
of his informants, nor suhject them to that
party's persecutions. " Give me another, not
" a whitewashing committee," said he, "and I
" will furnish witnesses.
In the hope that there are enough honest
and patriotic men in the Republican majority
to j , in with the Democrats of the II ,use in
yet 'voting fir such a committee, and willing
to defend the purity of elections, and to brand
a corrupt expenditure of public moneys, even
at the cost of punishing members of their own
party, we propose to show them that such
corruption - , such profligacy, such tampering
with elections, can be proved by other wit
nesses besides those whom Mr. Kernan is
ready to name, to an honest committee.
First, Let such a committee summon before
them the head of the transportation branch
of the Quartermaster's Department in Wash—
ington, and demand of him who authorized
oue of his assistant quartermasters to issue
transportation orders, just before the Penn—
sylvania and the New York elections last
year, and to iodorse them thus: " This
transportation is given on the order of the
Secretary of War, November —, 1863."
Second, Let an honest committee summon
before them the President of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, and his agents
in and out of the ticket offices at Washington
last fall, and demand to know of them the
number of tickets which they furnished on
such or similar orders, and for what points all,
or nearly all, or a majority of those tickets
were issued.
Third, Let a committee which desires to
preserve the purity of elections in the United
States call before them the medical officers at
that time serving in or about the Washington
and Alexandria hospitals, and demand of
them, by stern and rigid cross-examinations,
whether, bef ire giving furloughs or sanction
ing them for soldiers going home, they did
not ascertain, directly or indirectly, how those
soldiers would be likely to vote ; and whether
they allowed any considerable number to go
who said they would vote the Democratic
tickets, and whether they did not allow all
those physically able to go who asserted or
suffered it to be thought that they would vote
the Administration tickets.
Fourth, Let such a committee ask these
medical officers if they had not an order, or a
request, or an intimation to pursue such a
course with the soldiers in their charge, and
if they had, wbo gave it to them, and then
continue the investigation with the parties
implicated.
Fifth, Make the same inquiries of the med
ical officers then serving in the hospitals in
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the vicinity of
New York.
Sixth, Make the same inquiries of the medi
cal officers at Throgg's Neck, David's Island,
etc., at the time of the late elections in - New
York and Connecticut.
Seventh, Let an honest committee summon
Secretary Stanton before them, and demand
to know of him if he did not promise to a
Republican politician, five minutes after hav
ing left with him the presence of President
Lincoln, that the Pennsylvania election should
be carried for the Administration candidates.
Let them demand to know of Mr. Stanton if
he did not order the transportation of all sick
soldiers to their homes and , back to be paid,
at the time of that election, and the one in
New York, and if there was not an intima
tion, given, hinted, or acted upon, that none
but those who voted the Republican ticket
should he permitted to leave.
Finally, Let an honest, not a whitewashing
committee summon President Lincoln himself
before them, and when he is confronted with
Secretary Stanton, let them demand of both
if the Secretary was not complained of, in the
presence of the President, for having attempt
ed to defeat the nomination of Governor Cur
tin at the Pittsburg convention and charged
with injuring the Republican party in Penn
sylvania and with the responsibility of their
defeat in case they should be defeated. Let
them next demand to know of those high
officials, - whether at the same interview with
the same person he did not demand of them
that the Pennsylvania election should be car.
ried anyhow, by such means as we have indi
cated above, and whether any intimation was
given then, or at any other time, that they
would labor to have it thus carried, either by
the President or by Secretary Stanton ; and
let them demand of Secretary Stanton if he
did not, after the interview, upbraid the per•
son who was with him for having broached
their plans in the presence of the President,
and assure him that it was needless, and that
the eleoti)n should certainly be oarried.
Lerthem then demand of the President if,
at that or any other time, he ever forbade
Secretary STANTON so prostituting the power
of his office, or ever after rebuked him for
having so prostituted his power and so mis
used the public moneys, in order to carry, and
in carrying, the Pennsylvania election.
Mr. KERNAN'S amendment was rejected.
But if the honest Republicans in Congress
will join the Democrats in demanding such
an investigating committee, and that commit
tee will call his witnesses and ours, we will
furnish them with still other clues and facts
whereby the troth shall be made known—
painful though the consequerfow:te to Mr.
STRVINII, to hie party, and to the administra
tion whose corruption hea sown corruption
round the land.
Prom the Philadelphia Bendy Merem.
THE caTECiliasios THE' CHURCH
OF SHODDY.
Designed Expressly for the Shoddy League,
which mud be 'vacated by every Shoddyife
before he is allowed to enter Abraham' s
bosom.
BY PET= PEPPERCORN
Question.— What is your name ?
Answer.—Shoddy.
Q.—Who gave you that name ?
A.—Abraham, William and Salmon, where
in I was made a member of the Shoddy
League, an enemy of State Rights, and an in
heritor of a bundle of greenbacks.
Q.—What did Abraham, William and
Salmon do for you ?
A.—They did.promise and vow three things
in my name. First, that I should renounce
free speech, free press and free elections.
Second, that I should believe all the articles
in the Shoddyite newspapers; and, thirdly,
that I should keep and silently obey Abra
ham's,'William's, and Salmon's sole will and
commandments, and walk in the same all the
days of my life.
Q —Dust thou not think thou art bound to
believe and do as they promised for thee?
A.—Yes ; and verily, by the help of the
Provost Guard, so I will; and I heartily
thank Abraham, William and Salmon for
shaving made me equal to the nigger, and I
hope I shall continue so to the end of my life.
Q.—Rehearse the articles of thy belief.
A.—l believe in Abraham the First, maker
of great_debts, high taxes and proclamations.
And in William, the Auburnite, who peeped
under the British lion's caudal appendage and
discovered an orifice, through which he crept
out of the Mason and Slidell affair. And in
Salmon, the greatest paper manufacturer of
modern times, upon whose articles there is
always a very liberal discount. I also believe
in the Almighty Dollar, the only god of the
Shoddyitds, and in carrying on the war as
long as I make money out of it, and go in
for the last man and last dollar,' providing
that I am the last man to go, and get the last
dollar myself. I further believe that Abra
ham the First has split more rails, expended
more money, wrote more proclamations, told
more stale jokes, caused more misery, saeri •
feed more lives, and ran the country more
into taxation and debt than all the Presidents
which have preceded him, and ought to be
re-elected again either by bribery or fraud, so
that I may continually feed at the public Drib,
office without end. Amen
Q.—What dust thou chiefly learn in these
articles of thy belief?
A.—First, I learn there is nothing like
Shoddy. Second, that black is white, and
white is black, and that thesis is no distinction
in colors, and that it would be an impossibility
to distinguish any difference between myself
and a nigger. Thirdly, to brand every man
as a traitor that dares to think, speak or act
different to myself
Q —Y , ,u said that Abraham, William and
Salmon did promise for you that you should
keep their commandments. Tell me how
many there be?
A.—Ten.
Q —Which are they?
A.—The same which Abraham,
and Salmon compel all their lick•epittles to
take before they become members of the
Shoddy League, saying we are your masters,
and have raised, you to an equality with the
darkey, and filled your pockets with shin
plasters.
First Commandment, thou shalt have no
other masters than us.
Second, Thou shalt not support any 1110,14
ure, frame any bill, speak to any Copperivad
(unless to abuse him), put up any one except
one of us for President, for we are jealous
men, and we'll set our dog Forney on any one
that dares to break this commandment.
Third, Thou shalt not take the nam s of
Abraham, William and Salmon in vain, as
they are all expecting to receive high titles of
honor, and one of them to he King of
America.
Fourth, Remember that On all Thank,giv•
ing days thou kneeleet down on a pad of
Shoddy, asking the giver of all good to aid
the black legions in cutting throats, flogging
women, , burning houses, and rubbing hen
roosts.
Fifth, Honor the nigger, and if he wants
to marry your daughter don't refuse him,
under the penalty of dismissal from the
League, and being denounced as a Copper
head.
Sixth, Thou shalt not call the draft a con
soriptive law, or say that poor white men are
sold for $3OO a head, whilst the Shoddyi,es
remain at home.
Seventh, Thou shalt not grumble at high
taxes.
Eighth, Thou shalt not disbelieve any re
ports of great victories, though they never
happened.
Ninth, Thou shalt bear false witness
against all opposers of the church of Shoddy.
Tenth, Thou shalt covet and receive a share
of all stolen property, whatsoever it be, after
Abraham, William and Salmon have had their
share, for you know the largest dogs have a
right to the largest bones.
• Q.—What dust thou chiefly learn by these
commandments ?
A.—l learn two things—my duty to my
masters, and my duty towards myself.
Q.—What is your duty towards your mas
ters ?
A.—My duty toward my masters is to obey
them, fear them, and honor them with all my
words, with all my cringes, and with all my
bows. To flatter them, give them thanks,
idolize their names, and serve them blindly
all the political days of my life.
Q —What is thy duty towards thyself?
A.—My duty towards myself is to love
nobody but myself, to sacrifice even my father,
mother, sister or brother for my own interest;
to lick the dust from the feet of my superiors,
and be as cruel as possible to inferiors ; to
give my hands to picking and stealing, lying,
slandering, and doing any dirty action what
soever. To all the aforesaid creed I do most
solemnly swear, and, if it is required, will
willingly swallow the book, so that I may con
tin-e a faithful Leaguer, office without end.
Amen !
MR. VAL LAN DIGHA M ON REPRISALS
WINDSOR, C. W,, March 7.
Messrs. Hubbard & Brothers, Dayton, Ohio •
GENTLEMEN : I read, several days ago, the
telegraphic announcement of the " riddling "
of the Empire office by " furloughed soldiers."
I offer you no sympathy, for that will avail
nothing now or hereafter. I do express to you
my profound regret that you were not pre
pared to inflict on the spot and in the midst
of the assault, the complete punishment which
the assailants deserved, but am gratified to
learn that some of them did soon after reooive
their deserts.
But these cowardly acts cannot always be
guarded against. And they do not primarily
come from the soldiers. There is, therefore,
but' one remedy for past and preventive of
future injuries, and that is, instant summary
and ample reprisal upon the persons and
property of the men at home, who by lan
guage and conduot are always inciting these
outrages. No legal nor military punishment
is ever inflicted upon the immediate instru
ments. Retaliation, therefore, is the only
and rightful remedy in times like these. I
speak advisedly and recommend it in all oases
hereafter.
It is of no avail to announee the falsehood
that " both parties condemn it." after the
destruction has been consummated. The time
has gone by for•obedieuce without protection.
I speak decided language ; but the continual
occurrence of these outrages frequently at
tended with murders, and always without re
dress—demands it. They must be stopped,
let the consequences be what they will Re•
prisals in such cases are now the only way
left for a return to law and order.
Very truly,
C. L. VALLANDIGHAIL
RETURN OF COLORED EMIGRANTS IRON
HATTL—During the last session of Congress
the sum of $600,000 was appropriated for the
colonization of colored persons declared free
by the act of -emancipation and confiscation.
Taking advantage of this appropriation about
420 colored persons embarked, in April last,
at Fortress Monroe under a contract with
Forbes and Tuckerham, of New York, for the
Isle of A-Vache, belonging to the republic of
Hayti. During the passage the small-pox
broke out, and they suffered terribly 'there
from. After their arrival out their sufferings,
from want of attention, beoame so great that
Secretary Usher, under the direction of the
President, despatched Mr. D. C. Donohue,
of Indiana, to examine into their condition,
and Mr. Lincoln determined, upon his report,
to have them returned to,this country with
out delay. Accordingly, the Alp Mario& C.
Day was sent to the Isle of A-Vaohe during
the month of February; and on .Sunday_ she
returned and cast anchor 'the - Potomac,
near Alexandria, with the eoxviving colonists,
uow 368 in number, on-biffird.--;