- Jinictligencer.
-THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1884
printlne presses shall he free to every
person• Who undertakes to examine the pro
ceeiltilici of-the -legislature; or any branch of
govetament; and • no • law shall •ever be made
to restrain. the right thereof. The free commu
nication of thought and opinions is one of the
Invaluable 'rights of men: and every citizen
may freely speak., write and print on any sub
ject; being responsible' for the abuse of that
nbertY. In prosecutions for the .priblication of
papers investigating the official conduct of °Hl
cers,ker •men In public capacities, or where the
Inatter.published is proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi
denCe.n—Owartitiaiw; of Pennsylvania.
:ICOUN TT COMMITTER MEETING.
,•:1 The - Democnitie County Committee will
- Meet at Shober's Hotel, in the City of Lan
-4ailiFter,:en THURSDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 1864,
o'clock, A. M. Every member is re
quested, to be present, as , busineas of im
, pFtanee is to be transacted.
R. R. TSHUDY, Chairman.
J. STEmatAr;, Secretary.
Lancaster, Aug. 11, 1864.
LET THE PEOPLE SPELK
It is an undeniable fact' that during
the past three years public sentiment
has been to a great extent suppressed
among the people of the United States.
Before the military despotism at Wash-
ington, which made itself felt through
Its secret spies, its government detec
tives, and its treason-smelling minions
everywhere, the voice of the freemen of
this republic has been stifled. The press
has feared to speak out, and men have
only dared to whisper to each other of
their wrongs. It is true this was not
the universal rule. There were some
bold spirits which could not be cowed,
some manly voices which persistently
refused to be silenced, but all men felt
In sonie way the pressure of the tyranny
which lorded it over the people. That
such a state of affairs should have been
allowed to exist for a single moment in
a form Of government like ours, whose
very existence presupposes entire free
dom of thought, and the most unre
strained freedom of public discussion,
Is a lasting disgrace and a burning
shame.
We can, hos ver, congratulate our
selves that " the reign of terror " is
ended. The day when the press can be
awed, and free speech checked, has, we
sincerely trust, passed away from among
us forever. The people are to-day freely
canvassing the acts of those in power,
as is their unquestionable right, and, as
they may do without fear, are de
nouncing most bitterly the crimes, the
follies and the unparalleled corruptions
of our present miserably incompetent
rulers. It is high time that this should
be done, unless we are ready to see the
republic destroyed, while our rights per
ish. The day has fully come when all
men who disapprove of the policy and
condemn the acts of the party in power
should say so openly, and with that en
tire freedom of speech which is the
undeniable right of freemen.
The day when vulgar and abusive
epithets had any power to harm has
gone by. The people see and feel that
those are the true friends of the republic
who refuse to remain silent when lib
erty is assailed and the rights of the
people destroyed. If some silly folks
still persist in crying out "Copperhead,"
&c., they can only earn deserved con
tempt ; but if blustering bullies dare to
insult better men than themselves by
using opprobious epithets, they deserve
to meet the prompt punishment their
insolence deserves.
From this day forward let no conser
vative man, be backward in speaking
out. Let every• Democrat in the country
stand up boldly and fearlessly in advo
cacy of the principles of his party. It
is the only political organization in the
land which can bring about a change
in our public affairs, and restore peace
and prosperity to this distracted and
almost ruined nation. The days of
Abolition misrule we -verily believe
are numbered. All the signs of the
times are propitious. Let the voice of
Democratic papers be heard in thun;
der tones, demanding a change! Let
them speak out and fear not! Let the
would be despots at Washington be
taught that we the people are masters,
and they, with all their unbridled inso
lence, but unworthy servants, deServ
ing of the severest punishment we can
inflict! All that is needed now is bold
ness and unrestrained freedom of speech.
Should we not claim what is clearly our
undoubted right ? Let the people speak
out!
THE INTELLIGENCE% FOR TILE C.lll
PAIGN.
From this time to the end of the Pres
idential campaign the Weekly Intelli
gencer will be furnished for FIFTY
CENTS, the order to be invariably accom
panied by the money. It is now the
largest Democratic weekly in the State
outside of Philadelphia, and as the
Daily Intelligencer will soon be started
it will possess superior advantages for
conveying intelligence. Let clubs be
formed in every district, and an extend
ed circulation throughout the county
and the State be given to the intelli
gencer.
THE NUT INTELLIGUCER.
We are now able to announce posi
tively that the first number of the Daily
Intelligeneer will appear on the 29th
inst., the day the Democratic National
= Convention meets ai Chicago. Let our
friends throughout the county make up
their lists of subscribers and send them
is at once.
GEORGE B. McCLELLAN
The vast assemblage at he late gi
gantic mass meeting in the City of New
York, shows how thoroughly in earnest
the masses are, and is a clear proof of
the strong hold which General McClel
. lan has upon -the great popular heart.
Much of his popularity may be traced
to the righteous indignation which is
sure to attend any attempt on the part
of those " dressed in a little brief au
thority " to persecute one who has
proven himself worthy of honor. The
people hate injustice, and are always
ready to rebuke it as it deserves. His
tory will yet thoroughly vindicate both
the military genius and the statesman
like policy of George B. McClellan.—
Should he be nominated by the Chicago
Convention, and placed on the right
kind of a platform, he will prove to be
a candidate of irresistible strength, and
nowhere will be more warmly supported
than in his native State of Pennsylva
nia.
Z We see by the " loyal " tele
graphic despatches that INILLtau. H.
Sinpso's, Esq., the talented and fear
less editor of the Belfast (Maine) Re
publican Journal, one of the spiciest of.
our New England exchanges, has been
arrested and is to be tried for treason,
for obstructing the conscription ! And
what do our readers suppose his treason
consists in ? Why nothing more than
that he particularly called upon some
prominent and wealthy Abolitionists
by name in his town to go themselves
to this infernal war, or else furnish sub
stitutes for their poorer neighbors. This
tread on their corns too hard, and hence
the arrest. But they have mistaken
their mutt, as Ur: S. is not to be intim
idated by arrest and imprisonment in
one of Lincoln's modern bastiles. He
is one of a little band of Democratic
editors in New England who have never
"bowed the knee to Baal," and do not
believe either in the honesty or infalli
bility of the miserable old buffoon at
,Washington, but have keen prompt in
exposing all the short-comings,. dis
honesty and traitorous proclivities of the
most disgraceful Administration which
ONE PLANK OF THE CHICAGO
FOUL
One plank of, the platform to- be
adopted at Chicago is already settled.=
The Democracy there assembled; will -
unanitiosly declare in favor Of.
armistice, with a view to the assenffiling
of a Convention of States, in order that
an honest endeavor may be made to
restore the Union on the basis of the
Constitution. This is no longer a se
cret. Such will most assuredly be the
action of the Convention. The people
will not only be satisfied with such an
arrangement as shall give promise of a
settlement of existing difficulties with
out further bloodshed, but, they will
Imperatively demand it. No party op
posing such a proposition can hope for
success in the existing Campaign! The
people see that the war, as conducted
by Lincoln, is an entire and most
failure. They want peace, and they
know the party in power cannot be
trusted to make it. They realiire the
fact that the present Admininistration
are pledged not to end the war unless
it shall end in the complete emancipa
tion of the negro. They have read, and
will remember Lincoln's letter, "to
Whom it May Concern."
We believe the people will trust the
Democratic party to make peace. They
know its past history, and know that
it has ever been devotedly attached to
the Union. The past history of the
Democratic party alone is a sufficient
guarantee that it will never consent to,
or accept a dishonorable peace. There
can be no well grounded objections,
therefore, to our making a proposition
for an armistice, with a view to a proper
settlement of existing difficulties.. It
it is the bounden duty of any civilized
nation to stay the waste of war by com
promise at as early a period as possible.
Numerous favorable opportunities for
so doing have been allowed to pass un
- improved by Mr. Lincoln, and the
people have entirely lost faith in him.—
A continuance in his policy can only
bring a continuance of national woe
and national disaster. In case the South
should reject our proposal for an armis-
tice, or refuse to listen to fair terms
offered in a convention of States, we
have lost nothing, but have gained
much in every way. If no choice was
left us but a continuance of the war, we
could see to it that it was waged with
some rersonable hope of success. We
should then stand justified to ourselves
and in the eyes of the world. The
South would no longer be a unit against
us, as they are to-day, and it would not
be long until a prevalence of Union
sentiment there would compel the lead
, ers of the rebellion to listen to reason.
, In some such way alone can this war
ever be honorably ended. Let Lincoln
insist upon carrying it on for the bene
fit of the negro, as he does, and will do,
and we shall see him swept from power
by such a whirlwind of popular excite
ment as this country never witnessed.
The people will scornfully repudiate
him and his negro war policy. They
have had enough of that, and are ready
to try what virtue there is in an armis
tice to he followed by a convention of
the States. That much of the Chicago
platform has already been settled in ad
vance by the people.
VALLINDIGRAM AT LANCASTER
The announcement that Hon. C. L.
Vallandigham hasconsented to be pres
ent to address the Democracy in this
city, on the 17th of next month, has
thrown the editor of the. Examiner into
convulsions. He is desperately troubled
and very much alarmed. "His spirit
is disquieted within him," and "great
fears make him their prey." He sees in
imagination vast bands of armed con
spirators congregating, sworn by the
most terrible oaths to the execution of
the most treason-daring deeds. We be
seech of him to compose himself. The
weather is intensely hot, and undue
excitement in these sweltering days
might prove fatal. We can assure him,
however, that lie will have just cause
to be scared when the Democratic
masses assemble here on the day of the
anniversary of the adoption of the Con
stitution, to pledge anew their devotion
to that sacred instrument. They will
come up a mighty host, ". terrible as an
army with banners," but it will be only
a laWful assemblage of many thousands
of freemen, met to protest publicly
against the tyranny of the present Ab
olition Administration, and to strike an
open blow for the deliverance of the
nation from the woes that affect it.—
Mr. Vallandlgham will be here, and so
will the people, but neither to counsel
nor commit any unlawful act. He will
be here to speak as a freeman may, they
to hear as freemen should. It will be a
mighty gathering, but a perfectly law
ful one.
SECRETARY FESSENDEN
Mr. Fessenden, finding the task de
volved upon him as Secretary of the
Treastiry to be a greater burthen than
he can bear, has retired from Washing
ton to the more genial climate of Maine,
where he is luxurating on the delicacies
of New England clam-bakes, and cast
ing about for a successor. We pity the
man who is to take his place. It will
require more than mortal financial skill
to bring order out of the hopeless chaos
into which our monetary affairs have
been plunged by the reckless extrava
gance and the miserable mismanage
ment of the Administration. Mr. Mor
rill is talked of as Mr. Fessenden's suc
cessor.
NEGRO MASS MEETING IN BALTIMORE
The negroes of Baltimore recently
held a mass meeting to take measures
to have their oath in the Courts of that
State made as good as that of white
men, and to urge upon the Convention
now assembled at Annapolis their claim
to suffrage. The talk of the speakers
was insolent, and, like that of their
league brethren, was interspersed with
the euphonious word "copperhead."
If that abolition convention re
fuses to grant the prayer of those ne
groes, they will falsify the principles of
their party, and do gross injustice to
their colored brethen. By all means
let them stand squarely up to the doc
trines of their party, and make the ne
gro their equal, by virtue of the funda
mental law of Maryland, which they
are now tinkering at for abolition pur
poses.
STEVENS AGAINST LINCOLN
Thaddeus Stevens has lately taken
occasion to declare, without disguise,
that " if the Republican party desire to
succeed they must get Lincoln oft' the
track, and nominate a new man." He
regards " Old Abe " as the very worst
kind of a failure. Mr. Stevens, bad as
his political antecedents are, is entirely
too shrewd not to recognize the fact that
Lincoln is doomed to inevitable defeat.
He, therefore, has openly declared him
self in favor of holding a third Aboli
tion COnvention. Straws shows which
way the wind blows, and Thad. Stevens
is one of the biggest straws in the Abo
lition barn-yard.
A BAD PLACE TO NOMINATE A PRES
IDENT.
Martin Van Buren was nominated at
Baltimore, and defeated. Henry Clay
was nominated at Baltimore and de
feated. Lewis Cass was nominated at
Baltimore, and defeated. Stephen A.
Douglas was nominated at Baltimore,
and defeated, and Abraham Lincoln
was nominated at Baltimore, and we
hdpe to God that he will be defeated,
too ; and if he should break his neck
and legs, all the people will.ay, Amen I
- ski
LINCOLN ABANDONED BY HIS PARTY. 2 .
The packed convention of office-h01d....
ers, whichnssembledin Baltimore in'
lastl-JdneVdoubtlesti :thought thiry had
made good their critin*nce in post
tionaOf prof&wherCthefifuceeeded in
re-nominating 01417.
Joker" is reported #o haN're been-in won
derful glee on the termination of the
performance. Never before, it is said,
was his smutty vocabulary so completely
ventilated, his stories being exhaustless,
and broad beyond even the pretence of.
decency.., Little.did he, or his parasites,
who had been fattening on the public,
dream of such an exhibition of change
in the sentiment of their own party as
is now manifest. Not only has the re
nomination of Lincoln failed to elicit a
single spark of popular enthusiasm, but,
to-day, the best and most influential,
men of his party are rapidly deserting
him. Of course, the office-holders still
cling to him and try to bolster up his
sinking cause, but all honest men see
clearly the hand-writing of prophecy on
the wall. The campaign has now run
one-half Its course, and as yet there
has not been a respectable popular as-
semblage anywhere in the country to
ratify the Baltimore nominations. The
names of Lincoln and Sohnson are
scarcely heard, or only mentioned to be
cursed by the masses. One after another
of the leading men of the Republican
party, having deserted the standard of
the " Rail Splitter," are openly denounc
ing him in terms more bitter than any
used even by " Copperheads." In New
York city there is but a single journal
which supports him with any hearti
ness, and that has most substantial rea
sons for doing so. Greeley gave the
ticket the cold shoulder at the start, and
has been more than lukewarm ever
since. Not a few of the country news-
papers of the party have backed square
out, and taken down the names of Lin
coln and Johnson from the head of
their columns. Everywhere the feel
ing of dissatisfaction is wide-spread and
complete.
Many of the more intelligent leaders
of the party, and among, them Thad
deus Stevens, of this city, openly pro
nounce Lincoln " an entire failure."—
They admit that he cannot possibly be
elected, and are busy maturing plans
for the calling of a third abolition con
vention to nominate a new man. This.
will be insisted upon and seriously at
tempted, as the only possible means of
defeating the Democratic nominee.—
That it will avail to rescue the failing
fortunes of Abolitionism from irretriev
able ruin we do not for a moment ima
gine. From all appearances the election
of the nominee of the Chicago Conven
vention, by an overwhelming majority,
is as well assured as any future event
can possibly be. Whether Lincoln be
forced to resign by his own party, or be
suffered to remain as a candidate, only
to be beaten by the Democratic nominee,
is now a matter of perfect indifference,
since it is sure that he is destined to be
most ignominiously defeated. On the
fourth of March next he will again
have need of that long cloak and Scotch
cap, in which to sneak back into mer
ited obscurity, despised and detested by
every right-thinking man in the nation.
His place in history will be a most un
enviable one, and future generations
will be as much puzzled as the present
to determine whether to pronounce him
most knave or fool. Had he not so ut
terly disgraced the Presidential chair,
he might be regarded as an object of
pity ; as it is, he only deserves what he
has earned—the detestation of every
American citizen.
GENERAL RENTER.
In our paper of last week we publish
ed an account of the gross outrage com
mitted by Major-General David Hunter
upon the property of Hon. A. R. Boteler,
of Jefferson county, Va., and comment
ed in proper terms thereon. We have
since learned some further particulars
which add to his infamy, and which
stamps more indelibly the brand upon
the dark brow of this Lincoln emissary
of Abolition proclivities.
Mrs. Boteler was a Miss Helen Stock
ton, of Princeton, New Jersey, a daugh
ter of Dr. Stockton, an old and eminent
citizen of Princeton, distantly connected
with the family of the Hon. Richard
Stockton, the father of Commodore
Stockton, and the uncle of this same
Major-General Hunter. The family of
General Hunter were intimately ac
quainted with Mrs. Boteler in her early
life and at the time of her marriage, and
yet in the face of all these facts, we
find this General Hunter burning the
residence of an old friend's daughter,
the companion of his sisters and relit-
tives. If there is another instance on
record of black-hearted atrocity supe
rior, or parallel even, with this among
the numerous diabolical acts which
have attended Mr. Lincoln's generals
and general atrocities we should like to
have it pointed out. Further comment
Is unnecessary.
SHOWING THEIR DISLIKE.
An exchange says, it is not long since
we saw abolition papers in glee because
the handsome portrait of Ex-President
Buchanan on the Pottstown bank bills
was defaced on several notes. Of late
we see " the hoot on the other leg ;"
The $lO greenbacks, on which is the beau-
Ufa( portrait of Old Abe, are mutilated, (we
almost said defaced—that could hardly be
done on such a good-looking character).—
Here are a few samples of inscriptions
written on the portrait—" Nigger worship
per," " murderer, ' "thief," government
contractor," "traitor" "beauty," 'N ow,
we disapprove of this, but to show the "loy
alty," that fhe game can be played both
ways, we deign to notice it.
RAIDS ON WOMEN.
We mentioned some time since that Sher
man had improved the machinery for de
vastation and theft invented by Hunter and
Butler. We then copied from a ootempo
rary that he destroyed a factory, which was
private property, in which about four hun
dred white women were employed, and
sent them north from Marietta in search of
starvation. Sherman will soon reduce
himself as low in public estimation as. But
ler, Hunter, Schenck, or Wallace. How--
ever, he continues his improved raids, as
appears from the following in the Louisville
Journals:-
"ARRIVAL OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
FROM THE SOUTH.—The train which arrived
from Nashville last evening, brought up
from the South two hundred and forty-nine
women and children, who are sent here by
order of General Sherman, to be transferred
north of the Ohio river, there to remain dur
ing the war. We understand that there
are now at Nashville fifteen hundred wo
men and children, who are in a very desti
tute condition, and who axe to be sent to
this place to be sent North. A number of
them were engaged in the manufactoriee at
Sweet Water at the time that place was cap
tured by our forces. These people are mostly
in a destitute condition, having no means
to provide for themselves a support,. Why
they should be sent here to be transferred -
North is more than we can understand."
We further learn by the same papers that
when these women and children arrived at
Louisville, they were detained there and
"advertised to be hired out as servants, to
take the place of the large number of ne
groee who have been liberated by the mili
tary authorities, and are now gathered in
large camps throughout Kentucky, where
they are fed and supported in idleness and
viciousness at the expense of the loyal tax
payers."
Thus, while these negro women are riot
ing and luxuriating in the Federal camps
on the bounty of the government, the white
women and children of the South are ar
rested at their homes and sent off as prison
ers to a distant country, to be sold in bon
dage, as the following advertisement fully
attests:
Norton.—Families residing in the city or
country, wishing seamstresses or servants,
can be suited by applying at the refugee
quarters, cm Broadway, etween Ninth and
Tenth. sanettomad by Cap J
tien ones,
/Wait nut'
Zilatabol, b
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SOLD AT AIICTIOIi IN CHESTER-
COOT!'
Tiie adjoiningT4OliAty ofllcherr has
lonifieeji noted as one ottlie it - beds of
abolitionisut Its popula ibn hiti stead.;
ily itpod inhostile*ray t;;:,
cratie,partY; beau* they-chi* to re;',
gaid it c=as a ';.pio-slaiiery Voliticaf:
organization. One would naturally
have supposed that after such an exhi
bition Chester county Quakers would
be the last people on earth to engage in
the alaye -trade. , But, 'Alas far,theNeak
ness of human nature, there is no telling_
Whit eCeti"euch meu mad do when
moved by the spirit of - and
driven to desperation by fear of personal
danger. Chestercounty fanaticism is too
cowardly to prosecute with its own hands
the bloody work it has inaugurated.
Accordingly we find the Abolitionists
of that most godly region largely en
gaged in the slave trade under the new
impulse given to it by the decision
which allows agents to be sent out to
recruit in the various slave districts
where negroes abound.
But this is not all, nor even the worst.
Astonishing as it may read, it is never
theless true that they have erected a
'regular auction block for the sale of hu
man flesh in the pious and polished
town of West Chester. White men and
negroes mixed up indiscriminately, in
accordance with the most approved the
ories of abolitionism, are set up to be
sold to the highest and best bidder.—
Those engaged in the traffic have taken
out a regular license under the internal
revenue law, and pay an annual tax of
ten dollars for the privilege of selling
human flesh and blood at public outcry.
The coming draft had filled the soul of
many an abolition coward with intense
horror. As they heard the howl of the
" gorilla " at Washington demanding
the blood of 500,000 new victims, the
warm current froze in their veins, each
particular hair of their heads .stood on
end with fright, and, much as they
loved their money, they prepared to
sacrifice even their best cherished idol
rather than go in person to fight out the
war which their infernal doctrines had
inaugurated.
Human bloodhounds were soon on
the track of every poor white man whom
the pressure of want had reduced to a
state of desperation; or of any poor devil
of a negro who might be bullied, bought,
or cunningly inveigled into exchanging
his-filthy covering of rags for a suit of
regulation " blue," and the emptiness of
his pockets for a well stuffed wallet of
" greenbacks." Having hunted down
some such prey, the next thing was to
dispose of it to the best advantage. The
substitute dealers of that section being
intimate with the description of slave
auctions in the South, as pictured by
Harriet Beecher Stowe and others of
her stripe, and, being alive to its bene
fits, determined to introduce the estab
lishment into the free (?), intelligent (?),
and most Christian (?) county of Ches
ter. It was accordingly duly advertised
from time to time that at such an hour
a sale of men would be held. Now a
white man was put up to be bid for by
white men and negroes alike, and then
a negro. The scramble among the pur
chasers is said to have been disgustingly
exciting. We can imagine the scene
and hear the voice of the crier, " 0, Yes !
0, Yes ! This way ! Draw this way,
gentlemen, if you please ! We now offer
this man, John Jones—aged 46—just out
of the draft, and, therefore, a valuable
substitute. He has been stripped stark
naked and carefully examinad by the
board. We warrant him all right, or
the money refunded. He has a sickly
wife and a large family of small chil
dren, but he is sound himself. How
much do we hear for him?"
" Three hundred dollars," cries Mr.
Broadbrim, whose breast is torn with
contending emotions of cowardice and
cupidity.
" Only three hundred dollars," echoes
the crier. " Why he's worth three times
that money. Four hundred! Thank
you, Sir ! Five hundred ! Six hundred
There, now that's lively, gentlemen.!
Six ! Six fifty ! Seven ! And a half—
and a half ! Miad your bids, gentle
men! Going! Once—twice—three' times
—gone !"
So went the slave auction at the wun
ty seat of Abolitionized, Quakerifled
Chester county.
This is not a mere fancy sketch. Thu
sales were had at public outcry by men
regularly licensed as auctioneers of hu
man flesh. Some of the sellers were of
noteworthy antecedents. One was a
negro, who brought to market two of his
own color, and to the disgrace of the de
graded wretch be it said, one miserable
white biped which presumed to call
itself a man. The negro found no diffi
culty in disposing of his stock among
the loyal purchasers assembled. Among
others who were in the business were
two sons of a loyal Abolitionist, one of
whom had taken the conscientious oath
while the other had been exempted be
cause his father swore was he non compoa
mentis. But there they both were doing
their best to'rake up a few "greenbacks"
as the price of the human beings they
were selling to the shambles. And
the silly son seemed to be the sharper
of the two. The proof of the actual oc
currence of these things, substantially
as we related them, we have in the
word of one of the most honorable and
reliable gentlemen in Chester county.
He was an eye witness. Oh ! the dam
nable hypocrisy, the detestible meanness
of Abolitionism ! These very men could
weep mock sympathetic tears over the
lying fictions of miscegenatically in
clined female writers, while ready to en
gage in a more disgusting traffic in hu
man flesh than any that the slave market
of the South ever witnessed. Out upon
them for the veriest lying hypocrites
that ever disgraced God's green earth.
They ought to be branded and pilloried
as fit objects for the slow, unmoving
finger of scorn to be forever pointed at.
I °TO WHOM IT MAT CONCERN."
Abraham Lincoln,
and Abraham Linco
cut the following
Lincoln's Inaugural,
March 4th, 1861.
I declare that I have
no purpose, DIRECT
LY OR INDIRECTLY, to
interfere swith the in-1
stitution of slavery in.
the States where it ex
ists. I believe I have
NO LAWFUL RIGHT TO
no so, and I have 14. - ,o
INCLINATION TO DO
so. * The RIGHT
of each State to order
and control its own
domestic institutions
according to its own
judgment EXCLU
SIVELY, IS ESSENTIAL,
to the balance ofd
power on which the,
perfection and ENDU
RANCE of our politi
cal fabric depends.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
A SERIOIIS CHARGE AGAINST THE SAN
ITARY COMMISSION.—Tho Brooklyn Eagle
says, a charge is made against the United
States Sanitary COMMIBSSOCI, that its agents
are diverting the means of this charity to
partisan purposes, and that. its correspon
dence is „carried on in envelopes having the
Baltimore Presidential ticket printed on
them. The Sanitary Commission has col
lected over four million of dollars through
the fairs and other agencies, and this amount
has been contributed by men of all parties,
to alleviate the sufferings of our wounded
soldiers. The suspicion -that a portion of
this money is to be used as an eleclioneer
ing fund, will excite a just indignation and
unless the managers of the Commission
purge themselves of this charge, and the
agents gent" of the offense are -promptly
dismissed, the usethineas of the Commis
skta walla la a Jet lawalla* 9lattztral•
THE GREAT McCLELLAN MASS MEETING. 1 SENATOR COWAN OF PENNSYLVANIA.
-:-. All accounts agree in saying that the , •
grand mass meeting, of the friends of
McClellan, held is the Cliy of New
YiA, on the evening of the' 11th inst.,
'was by far the largest gathering ever
'svitneseci even in that city : of immense
.poPular i demonstrations: The Herald
and the ' World both agree in estimating
the number of people present at 100,000,
and none of the journals of that city
put it at, less than 75.000. It was be
yond . questipti the largest and one of
the most enthusiastic assemblages ever
convened in that city. • The World thus
introcimies the detailed account of Its
special reporters :
. _
The rally of the friends of General Mc-
Clellan at'UnionSquarelastevening, called
together What was by all odds the mosttre
mendouS and enthusiastic meeting ever
held in :the metropolis.' The great war
meetingafter the fall of Sumpter was sup
posed toi be the greatest meeting held in
this citytup to that time, and certainly we
have had nothing like it up to the meeting
of last night, which, at the very lowest cal
culation, was twice, if not thrice, as large.
Not only w as the wilt space of Union Square
densely packed, but all the avenues of ap
proach to it were choked with the masses
of human beings who were eager, by their
presence and voices, to do honor to the sol
dier-statesman, Gen. George B. McClellan.
This was not, be it understood, a Demo
cratic meeting, though doubtless many old
Democrats were present. It was a spon
taneonsgathering of all parties and kinds
of men who are opposed to the present Ad
ministration. The solid" men of the city
were largely represented, and a more re
spectable and well-behaved crowd was
never seen in the city. It was a people's
meeting in every respect, and the old party
hacks were not even present as speakers.
The masses were addressed from four
grand stands, and a number of impro
vised points, on porches, store-boxes,
&e. Among the, speakers were Hiram
Ketchum, Frederick A. Seaver, E. B.
Norton, W. W. Hewitt, John B. Has
kin, Col. Mansfield Davis, (of the sth
Zouaves,) William D. Murphy, C. C.
Eagan; W. T. Jennings, (who presided
at the monument stand,) E. 0. Perrin,
Judge Evans, of Texas, Judge Beech,
of Queens county, M. Frank Reiffert,
(at the German stand,) Gen. Abram
Duyrea, (who presided at the main, or
Broadway stand,) and numerous others.
The resolutions were read by Mr. F.
A. Seaver, as follows :
WHEREAS, The line of policy adopted by
the Chief Magistrate of the nation is in op
position to the plain injunctions of the Con
stitution and his own inaugural declara
tions, and, under the specious plea of mili
tary neccessity he has commenced a system
of direct encroachment upon the rights of the
States and tne people in making, arbitrary
arrests, in striking down the freedom of
speech and the press, and abolishing the
right of habeas corpus where rebellion does
not exist—in a fanatical attempt to force an
equality; social and political, between races
naturally different—in disfranchisement—
in holding the electoral votes of States sub
ject to his personal ambition, in defiance of
the authority of Congress—and has created
a general distrust of his ability to carry the
nation safely through the arduous conflict
in which it is bow engaged ; and
-WHEREAS,' What is now wanting to set
tle the war, is the election of a President
who will administer the Government in the
spirit of its founders, and afford an oppor
tunity for the people of the South to return
to the Union with rights under the Consti
tution ; therefore,
Resolved, First, That the only hope for
remedying existing evils is in a change in
the Administration, and an abandonment
of its policy.
Second, That the salvation of the country
now depends on the determination of the
people to elect the men of their choice, and
it is incumbent upon, and the paramount
duty of members of party conventions to
ignore all disputed questions of policy, and
in the selection of candidates, to regard the
plainly-expressed wishes of the masses they
are delegated to represent.
Third, That success in the election, in op
position to the powerful combination of this
Administration, depends upon the popular
ity of the candidates with the army, and
the final selection must, therefore, fall on
one of the great soldiers who has distin
guised himself in defense of the principles
upon which the Government was founded.
Refielved, That in Major-General George
B. McClellan we recognized those sterling
qualities which characterize the true pa
triot, soldier, statesman and gentleman,
and which will insure an Administration
alike elevating to the nation and creditable
to the civilization of the age ; and while we
would not disparage the claims of his
brother soldiers, we but reiterate the voice
of the million which comes upon the wing
of the wind from every part of the land,
when we (declare him the embodiment of
the hopes, as he is the choice of the Ameri
can people.
Resolved, That our sympathies are deeply
enlisted for our brave soldiers in the field,
and that we long for the return of the day
when, by ballots instead of bullets, we can
maintain the Constitution and the Union,
and. restore to our country the inestimable
blessings of an honorable peace.
Resolved, That we earnestly recommend
the friends of McClellan to hold immediate
meetings in every city and county, and give
expression to their views as to his nonuna
tlon by the approaching convention, or by
the people, and that they assemble in mass
convention at Chicago on Saturday, 27th
inst., at 12 o'clock, noon, to take such action
as may best unite the conservative ele
ments in the coming campaign.
The resolutions were adopted unani
mously.
The Herald says, editorially :
The McClellau meeting at Union Square
on Wednesday evening was an overwhelm
ing popular demonstration. In enthusiasm
it equalled, and in numbers it surpassed,
any previous political gathering since the
outbreak of the war. Such a proof of Mc-
Clellan's popularity with the masses is a
personal compliment which cannot be too
highly estimated. But those who see no
deeper significance than a personal compli
ment in this vast assemblage take very
shallow views of public affairs. The meet
ing developed the almost universal hostility
of the people to the Administration. ft
showed also that the people desire_ one of
our great generals for their next President.
Every cheer for a general was followed by
groans for Lincoln. Old Abe had not a
triend among the thousands present. The
most casual mention of his name provoked
the most unanimous manifestations of dis
like and disgust.
The World says :
Concerning its object, the presentation of
General McClellan s name, as a candidate
for the next Presidency, this only needs to
be said by us, that the Convention at Chi
cago will certainly give due weight in their
choice of a nominee to an event which de
monstrates how deep a bold that gallant offi
cer has upon the hearts of the people out
side of the great Democratic party . , and
irrespective of the party inaeldnery which
usually is the main-spring of such an as
semblage, and usually gives direction to
such au outpouring of popular sentiment.
Its other main object, to vindicate the
policy and the conduct of a general against
whom a corrupt and imbecile Administra
tion has leveled every weapon of attack,
whom it has driven from a command which
he has led to victory, and whose policy for
the conduct 'of the war has been departed
from to the nation's cost, in every particu
lar—this object was successfully accom
plished. General McClellan needs no other
vindication. The devices of his enemies
thive come to naught. The failures of those
who have succeeded him have illustrated
his success, and henceforth the weapons
which strike at-him will cut the hands that
handle them.
But looking, as patriots must, to a higher
object than the choice of a candidate for any
nomination, however high, or than the vin
dication of any man, however well he may
have deserved of his country, the chief and
best significance of this great exhibition of
the popular heart must be deemed to be, its
proof that in the hearts of the people devo
tion to the old Union, and to the Constitu
tion which created it, still beats high and
warm, and with as unconquerable a fidel
ity as it beats and burns in the breast of the
brave soldier whose devotipn to those su
preme objects of loyalty was yesterday so
signalized. and honored.
The Newa, dissenting from some of
the views expressed by speakers and in
the resolutions, remarks :
It will be seen by our report of the .Me-
Clellan mass meeting held last evening at
Union Square, that we were right in antic
ipating that it would prove ' an interest
ing demonstration." The name of General
McClellan, associated with the idea of per-
Secution, and illustrating the popular re
pugnance to the Administration, was
sufficient to attract all classes of the Deruoc
-racy, and a large proportion of Black
Republicans hostile to Mr. Lincoln. Any
• public demonstration that gives the people
an opportunity to vent their feelings of de
testation and contempt for the arch-fanatic
and despot of the White House must be, in
point of numbers, a success.
The Journal of Commerce surrenders
Most of its .space to a report of the
meeting, which it calls " astounding,!'
and pronounces it " without doubt the
most magnificent affair of the kind ever
:seen in New York or . America," and,
"beyond comparison, the greatest, the
largest, the most enthusiastic meeting
'ever held in any. country." The Tour
hat thin .s that this demonstration
places General 'McClellan before the
Teople - asli candidate for the Presidency,
.
With; perhaps; as great power and preis.
Xige as the nomination. of any conven
tion amid de.
of March 4th, 1861,
,ln of July 18th, 1864,
Lincoln to the Rebel
C,0771771i3,5i071,Cr8, July
18th, 1864.
Any proposition
which embraces the
'restoration of peace,
•the integrity of the
whole Union,and the
ABANDONMENTOF
SLAVERY, and comes
by an authority that
dan control the armies
now at war with the
United States will be
received and consid
ered by the Executive
Government of the
United States, a n d
,will be met by liberal
!terms on substantial
and collateral points;
and the bearer or
bearers thereof shall
have safe conduct
both ways.
ABRAHAM LINVOLN.
Words of Truth and Soberness. ,
Among all the members of the National
Legislature who .have been called to give
counsel for' the safety and welfare of the
Republic in this day‘of severe trial, we know
of none, says:. the National. Intelligeneer,
who has brought to the discharge of his du
ties a higher intelligence, a clearer sagacity,
or a more patriotic fidelity than the Hon.
Edgar Cowan, the learned Senator from the
State of Pennsylvania. Entering the Sen
ate at the opening of the Thirty-seventh
Congress, he early won for himself the ad
miration and respect of his associates, with
out distinction of party, by the learning and
dignity with which he explained and de
fended his views of public policy, while the
independence and eloquence for which he
was conspicuous in debate early drew to
'him the attention of all who mark with in
terest the progress of °Lir parliamentary
discussion.
Mr. Cowan, we need not say, is a distin
guished member of the Republican party;
but in his whole career as a legislator be
has made it apparent that he considers his
first and highest allegiance due to the coun
try, and therefore never narrows his mind
so as to give to the former the homage that
should be paid only to the latter.
Our object in thus referring at this time
to the eminent place justly held by this
Senator in the eyes of the country, is to di
rect the particular attention of our readers
to the subjoined weighty words, held by
him in the Senate on the 27th of June, a few
days before the close of the late session,
when that body had under consideration
Mr. Trumbull's amendment repealing the
joint resolution of July 17, 1862, which qual
ifies the confiscation act and limits forfei
tures under it to the life of the offender.—
We could wish that these words mightsink
into the heart of every citizen in the land,
for we verily believe they are words of truth
and soberness:
Mr. Cowan said: I think, Mr. President,
that our course in regard to the Southern
people has been of a character entirely the
reverse of that which would have been suc
cessful in suppressing the rebellion. We
Were filled with incorrect ideas of the work
we were engaged in, or of the only methods I
by which we could perform the gigantic •
task we had undertaken. We started out
with exaggerated notions of our own
strength, and we disdained to think that
our success depended upon the loyal men
of the South ; we thought we did not need
them, and treated them accordingly. Think
of such a proposition as that contained in
this law, that if they do not lay down their
arms in sixty days they will be punished
by loss of their estates! How, pray, are
they to lay down their arms ? Surely we
know enough to know that this Is mere
mockery, and that the rebel President might
as well expect a soldier in our armies to lay
down his arms upon a promise of his pro
tection.
Mr. President, I have sometimes doubted
whether we could be serious when we ex
pect any good results to come from such
measures as this, which not only exposes us
to ridicule but does harm to our cause.—
What was wanting in this crisis of our his
tory with new criminal legislation, when
the code was complete before? We had a
statute punishing treason with death, a lust
and proper punishment, one well according
with the magnitude of the crime, as well as
with the majesty of the law which inflicted
it. For all those who conspired for the dis
memberment of the Republic, who used the
means and perverted the State Governments
to bring it, this is the fitting punishment,
because it is the highest, and falls upon the
guilty alone, where it ought. I would have
had no additional laws ; in war they are not
needed. I would have contemplated no re
forms within the area of the rebellion ; they
cannot he made at such a time. What we
wanted was men and money; these grant
ed, the true function of Congress was over
until peace was restored and all parties
again represented. But above all things I
would not have played into the hands or the
enemy; I would not have done that which
the rebels most desired t. have done, 14-
cause I have no doubt that this and all
kindred schemes have been the very ones
which they most wanted us to adopt. - I do
1101 know that Jelli.reon Davi s ever preys
but, if he dues, I have no doubt he would
pray for measures 011 our part which w e re
obuoxi OUS to all people of the South, loyal
and disl , ,y al, Lmon and disunion. Ile
would have prayed that we should outrage
all their common prcludices and cherished
beliefs; that we should do these things by
giving ourselves over to the guidance of
men whom it was part of their religion to
hate; to hate personally and by name, with
an intensity rarely witnessed in the world
before. He would have prayed for confis
cation general and indiscriminate: threat
ening as well the victims of the usurpation
as the usurpers themselves; as well those
we were bound to rescue as those we were
bound to punish. Fervently he would have
prayed for our emancipation laws and pro
clamations as means to fire the Southern
heart more potent than all others; they
would rally the angry population to his
standard of revolt EIS it each had personal
quarrel. IJe would then have a united
South, while as the result of the same meas
ures a distracted and divided North.
That is the way I think he would have
prayed and would pray now. Is any man
so stupid as not to know that the great de
sire on the part of every rebel is to embark
in revolt with him the whole .people of the
disaffected districts? Is not and has not
that been considered enough to insu r e suc
cess to him? And when does history show
the failure of any united people, numbering
five or six millions; when they engaged in
revolution:' Nowhere; there is no such
case.
What did we do to bring this unity about
In the South? We forgot our first resolve
iu July. IS6I, to restore the Union alone,
and we went further, and gave out that we
would also abolish slavery. Now, that was
just exactly the point upon which all South
ern men were most tender, and at which
they Were most prone to be alarmed and of
fenled. That was of all things the one best
calculated to make them of one mind against
I us; there was no other measure, indeed,
which could have lost to the Union cause so
many of them. It is not a question either
as to whether they were right or wrong—
that was matter for their consideration, not
ours ; for if we were so desirous of union
with them, we Ought not to have expected
them to give up their most - cherished institu
tions in order to effect it. Unions are made
by people taking one another as they are,
and I think it has never yet occurred to any
man who was anxious to form a partner
ship with another that he should first at
tempt to force that other, either to change
his religion or Ids politics. Is nut the an
swer obvious; would not the other say to
him : "If you do not like my principles,
why do you wish to he partner with me?
Have I not as good a right to ask you to
champ yours as a condition precedent?"
So it was with the Southern people --they
wore all in favor of slavery, but one half of
them were still for union with us as before,
because they,did not believe we were Abo
litionists. The other half were in open re
bellion because they did believe it. Now,
can any one conceive of greater folly on our
part than that we should destroy the faith
of our friends and verify that of our ene
mies? Could not anybody have foretold
we would have lost one-half by that, and
then we would have no one left to form a
union with? We drove that half over to
the rebels, and thereby increased their
strength a thousand fold.
Is not all this history now? The great
fact is staring us full in the face to-day ;
we are contending with a united people
desperately in earnest to resist us. Our
most powerful armies must skilfully led
have heretofore failed to conquer them, and
I think will fail as long as we pursue this
fatal policy,
Now, Mr. President, I appeal to Senators
whether it is not time to pause and enquire
whether that policy, which has certainly
united the Southern people in their cause,
and which quite as certainly has divided the
Ndrthern people in their support of ours,
ought to be abandoned at once. Why per
sist in it longer? Can we do nothing to re
trieve our fortune by retracing our steps?
Can we not divide the rebels and unite the
loyal men of the loyal States by going hack
to the single idea of war for the Union; or
is it now too late? Have we lost irrecover
ably our hold on the affections of our coun
trymen who were for the Union in 1861—
even in 1862? Is there no way by which
we could satisfy them that we yet mean
Union, and not conquest and subjugation?
And what a difference in the meaning of
these two phrases! The first offers the hand
of a brother, the second threatens the yoke
of a master. Or are we obliged now to ex
change the hopes we had of Southern Union
men for that other and miserable hope in
the negro? Is he all that is left of loyalty
in the South, and the only ally we can rely
upon to aid us in restoring the Union? Ye
gods! what have we conic to at last ? Either
to yield to an unholy rebellion, to dismem
ber an empire, or to go into national com
panionship with the negro! Is this the al
ternative to which our madness has brought
us?
Mr. President, these things are enough to
drive a sane man mad. After all our pre- t
tension, all our boasting, how absurd will
we appear in the eyes of all other nations if
we fail in the struggle? Especially as al
most all the measures about which we have
occupied ourselves for the last three years
have been based upon our success already
assumed as a fixed fact. We provided for
confiscating the estates of rebels beforo we
got possession; we emancipated slaves be
fore we got them from their masters, and we
provided for the disposition of conquests we
have not made; we have disposed of the.
skin of the bear and the bear itself is yet
Uncaught. All this we have put upon the-
'record; the statute-book will bear witness
against Utt in all coming time ; and we can.
not escape the comietitienelis if we fail.
Mr. :President; our ileoternment was in
:d to be one of 14% P of
law. Timm was $ wain' in * f p - foie
ministration of it left to the arbitary will of
an individual or individuals: - This was its
merit, or intended so,fiar excellence. I atnt
for preserving its character in that respect
_atrictly,' , let no man, from the President
down to 'the most petty officer, dare to do
anything, whether to friend or enemy, ex
cept as warranted by law. Let us make
war according to law, and let us have peace
according to law. -If we fight a belligerent
enemy, let us do it according to the law of
nations. If we punish or restrain a refrac
tory citizen,
let us do it by the law of the
land. "by due process of law." Had we
had faith m our Constitution and laws, and
our people, we had not been in our present
condition. Had we made war, and war
alone, the loyal people North and South to
a man would have been with us. The voice
of faction, if 'not entirely hushed, would
have been harmless. The capital of the
demagogue would have been worthless,and
the nation would have been irresistible.
Had we treated the negro as the Constitution
treats him, as a person, as another man;
had we made no distinction or difference
between him and other citizens, we had not
aroused against him that tribal antipathy
which will be far more likely to destroy him
than a false philanthropy will be likely to
elevate him in the scale of being. If he was
friendly to us, the same use could have
been made of him that we have made; we
could have enlisted him in our armies now
as we have been enlisting him in our navy
for long years. We could have received
him as a volunteer, if ho was able-bodied,
Without looking to his complexion, and we
could have drafted hint without inquiring
into the relations which existed between
him and his master, any more than we in
quire into the relations of the white man of
twenty years of age with his parent or his
guardian. State laws adjusted all these
questions, but to the United States it made
no difference whether he owed service to
individuals or not; he owed his first duty
to the Republic as military service was re
quired. All this was lawful, and no loyal
man ever did or would have complained of
it, kindly done in the proper spirit.
I have only to say in conclusion, sir, that
I hope that the joint resolution will not be
repealed, and that this and all kindred pro
jects will fail in the future, for the simple
reason that they strengthen the rebels by
uniting their
~p eople with them, and they
weaken the Lnion cause by dividing its
friends and distracting them 'with unneces
sary issues.
FACTS FOR NO-PARTY HEN
The order in the case of Lieutenant Ed
gerly, of the Now Hampshire volunteers,
issued by the Secretary of War, and the re- Lincoln has issued three proclamations
cent letter of President Lincoln by his pri-
for conscriptions since the first of January,
vat secretary, John Hay, regarding
the culling in all for a million of men. At this
e
resignation of Mr. Gibson from the office of rate we shall have to give almcist another
solicitor of the Court of Claims, are plain million before the year closes,
indications of the deliberate policy of the The Republican papers will soon begin
administration. They deserve to be recalled to tell us, for the one hundreth time that
constantly to people's minds, especially the rebellion is on Its last legs, and that it
when the Lincoln organs are talking with is only necessary to put this 500,000 men in
such bare-faced persistence of the, duty of the field t., finish it. This is the story they
all patriotic men to forgot all party distinc- would have the impudence to tell for five
tions, and work only for the good of the
country, i, e., Mr. Lincoln's re-election,
whose first election has well nigh ruined
the country.
WAR DEPARTMENT, A.DJ'T-DEN.'S OFFICE, !
WASHINoTON, March 13, 1803. ;
Special Order 119.
33. By direction ( I f the President. the fal
lowing officers are hereby eli:emisscd the ser
vice of the United States = " Lieut. A. G.
Edgerly, Fourth New Hampshire volun
teers, for circulating Copperhead tickets.' -
By order of the Secretary of War.
L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.
To the Governor of New Hampshire.
In passing, let it be recalled that Colonel
McLean was exiled to the Pacific coast on
the ostensible ground of not voting in the ,
Ohio election, though he had never voted at
anv election in his life.
EXECUTIVE NIANSIoN, •
NN'Et , 3llitiu - ion, Juky
J. C. Welling, EN.
Sir: According to the r i te -t eontained
in your note, I have pliteed Mr. (4 ihson's
letter of resignation in the, hands of the
President. Ile hue read the letter, and says
that he accepts the re,ignation, no he will t ,
gl , td .lo with other whieh mon I, ten
dered, no this is, for the purpose of taking , o 0
attitude hostility against him. He say,;
he was not aware that he was so mneh in
debted to Mr. tlil)son for having aceePl"d
the office at first, not remembering that
user pressed him to do so, or that he gllve it
otherwise than, as usual, upon a ri , ittest
made in behalf of Mr. Gihson. lie thanks
Mr. Gibson for his acknowledgement that
he has been treated with personal kindness
and consideration, and he says that he
knows of but two small drawbacks upon
Mr. Gibson's right to -till receive such
treatment—one of which is that he never
could learn of his giving much attention to
the duties of his office, and the other is this
studied attempt of Mr. Gibson to stab him.
I MB, very truly, your obedient servant,
.TORN HAY.
Here is one man driven out of the army
by the President for no , ether reason than
voting and working for the Democratic
ticket. Here is another reprimanded and
exiled fur not voting the Republican ticket ;
and, tinnily, here is another resigning a
civil office, who is publicly insulted by the
President with the declaration that ho will
be glad to accept the -'rosignation of any
persons who do not intend to vote for his
Ykl-1
HORRORS OF WAR
If the choicest stores of Hell's horrors
were at human command, could any negro,
or negro advocate, find anything, more
dreadful, than 'some of the scenes of the
present war, as enacted at the South? We
sympathize deeply, with the sufferers of our
own border, and would gladly do every
thing in reason, to relieve the homeless and
penniless people of Chambersburg, but it is
simply the part of manhood now and ever
to denounce the madness which called into
this contest black demons incarnate, instead
of men. Look, if ye can,:Black Republi
cans, ou this picture, and bow your heads
in shame at your own wretched work :
The 2rlMassachusetts infantry, 700 strong,
with one hundred white cavalry from the
sth and 2d regulars, lately moved into
Westmoreland' county. Four hundred
negroes with white officers, and fifty white
cavalry proceeded to devastate the county.
Numbers of 1111111 es are mentioned of per
sons who were stripped of every particle of
food and all their farming implements, &c.,
the negroes saying they were to have farms
in Maryland, and would need tools. Their
line of march produced a desert. Says the
Richmond Enquirer:
" Mr. Ben. English, after having every
thing destroyed, was stripped, tied up, and
given thirty-nine lashes with the cowhide.
And more horrible, but only too true,
twenty-five or thirty ladies were violated
by this parts - of negroes. I could give
names, but deem it not best. Neither age
nor color was spared by these demons, who
were encouraged by their white officers.
" The rest of the regiMent, 300 strong,
with 50 white cavalry, under the immediadt
command of Colonel Draper, marched to
Richmond count. On the route, six negroes
violated the person of Mrs. G. eleven times,
she being the wife of a brave soldier of the
9th Virginia Cavalry, being also sick at the
time, with an infant six months old at her
breast. This is only ono instance out of
twenty others of a ale outrage. Mrs. Dr.
Belfield whipped five negroes front her
room, thus heroically defending herself.
They plundered everybody of everything
in their line of march."
. .
What power is there to subdue a race of
freemen nerved to resistance by the memory
of such wrongs? The Southerners would
be the lowest of cowards, the must abject of
slaves, if they would consent, we will not
say to lower their weapons in submission,
but even to be reconciled to a foe that sanc
tioned these outrages by their black
myrmidons. Let the people of the North
proclaim to the world that they are not
sanctioned by the popular sentiment. The
honor of the North demands immedi
ate steps to prevent the recurrence of Huell.
horrors.—Patriot & Union.
An Awful Condemnation of the Adminis
tration by Forney.
In an article in the Washington Chroniek
headed "A National Loan Association."
we find the following truthful paragraph,
which amply describes the alarming condi- '
tion of our currency, the crime of not pay
ing our soldiers, and of starving their fami
lies, and shows up the danger of national
bankruptcy and financial ruin. We com
mend it to the serious consideration of all
reflecting men. It shows that the ruinous
high prices which bear so heavily upon our
soldiers, their families, and our citizens, aro
the work of the Administration through the
Treasury Department:
"The Government is paying, M-day, two
dollars and a half for every dollar's worth
of material it is.buying to carry on this war. •
The soldiers who are lighting your battles
are suffering for• their pay because of the
want of funds in the Treasury. Their fami
lies are suffering for food and clothing be
cause the soldier does not get his hard
earned wages. We aro entailing on our
selves and our children double the debt there
is any necessity for, and running the risk
of a repudiated currency and a dishonored
national credit, because greenbacks are at
a discount and gold at a premium. We are
adding daily to the prices of every leading
article, and imposing a fearful advance on
the very necessaries of life, thus necessi
tating a constant advance in wages, which,
in turn, compels an increase in the price of
goods, and the end will inevitably be
national bankruptcy, a fearful financial
crash, unless this terrible enchantment of
value is arrested." '
TsE CHANGE.—In 1860 we were told to
vote for Lincoln. and a change. Cotton was
then ten cents a pound. The. people voted
for Lincoln ap4 the ".change." . Cotton now
is $1.64 a pound:That is, it requires a great
0.; "....iplxv" new te buy anything.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Old Abe's a Stagician, whose talent extends
E'en to making an army of Shaker.;
For his late drafting order has made troops
of Friends,
In fact, filled the city with Quakers!
FoRNEY, of the Philadelphia Prees t is
%wing to Europe, and the Springfield Re
publican asks, impudently: " Who will
praise everybody and everything connected
.with the Administratieh ?"
Dissipation is getting exAfpusive. At New
York and Brooklyn brandy is 31 a glass,
cobblers and mint juleps 20 a 23c., lager
beer 10e. and cigars 10 a 40c! The Boston
Post thinks such prices will do more to se
cure reform than several temperance lec
tures and anti-tobacco tracts.
MoNT, of the Suflblk (L. I.) Herald is for
the Chicago nominee, while thelast New
Loudon (Ct.) Chronicle bolts outright and
declares its purpose to do its worst against
the rail splitter.
Colonel Moorehead's regiment of Penn
sylvania volunteers recently returned home,
their time expired. The regiment
went eat over one thousand strong and
comes hack with sixty-four men and eight
.officers. Where are the balance? Let the
grave answer!
NOT EXEMPT.—The Provost Niarshal
General deei.les that the one hundred days
militia are not exempt from the draft under
the President's last all for 500,000 more
men.
It is said that tigie are so dear in the
1 West that house-wives use the white of
their eyes instead of the " white of an egg"
to clear the coffee.
The following advertisement appeared in
the Jilsacani Republican :
WANTED.—A few good men that under
stand digging graves, to work at Jefferson
Barracks. Wages $1,50 par day and board.
Apply to J. A. Smithers ct Bro., No, 113
Chestnut street, St. Louis.
Another Missouri paper asks this pointed
question :
'• Do the Messrs. Smithers know that the
• discouragement to enlistments' is a crim
inal offence?"
The political rats are all deserting the
sinkina - ship of the Administration. In
addition to the sulky attitude of some of
the leading city Republican journals toward
, foyerument, quire a number of smaller
country papers have taken down Lincoln's
name and announced that hereafter they
will occupy a position of armed neutrality
or open opposition. Several of the Kansas
and Missouri journals have gone over to
F 1,1110111..
The prt-iont ox.pen,t , onr ornIII2LIC
amount to . ; ••2,700,0110 :311'2,r,00 an hour,
min‘no. *l5 To"
Thai to throe a unnut•.,
II !! Pjr.affS , lay, or
1,07 , '..-uoa yoar. it 7,•eJ f.dol. man may
ltd to pnroulyo that. tho whsle
lan rninh! havo it,ol,..tht and paid for a
erar and a half ate fpuraal.
All )hil I , •N.lu~a~,thtl fO/10.,S
I,llably Int;Jr.tneta that Hon.
Thc,ina- sin.•.• hh, rf.Lurn home, lass
hilt.-r le111111.:l'ili“ri TO: the Lill
, 11‘ Adminkt rat are. not surprised
at it. 11111. neighbors . era
:Nll% 4 flwin rot the ,aily wan who sup
the t\JlwiniNtration three years ago,
wh., has silwe becomu thor,aw,ly disgusted
with 11, mismanagenioni and corruption.
In of lowering the current sale of
sik Cr and gold by any other moans, the
rnw. S.,!retary of trio Treasury has resolved
to try a n.-w and original movement, equal
to Grant's la,t. In the future coinage of
the mint it is proposed to put the
eagles on the coin with closed wings—eo
that they can come down.
It was the radical is. 1. Post, speaking of
the President's call for 500,000 mon, that
said : " is the Lone of a Europeaa Sover
eign letting his Subject..? what he requires of
For the benefit of our Republican friends
we give below the authentic pedigree of
their distinguished patron Shoddy:
These are the generation of Pshawdee,
Psnawh, who came from Jonbool, begat
Pedullah ; and Pedullah begat Rheet Aylah;
and Rheet Aylah begat Jobbah ; and Job
bah begat Holz Ayl ; and Holz Ayl begat
Kaudpbyssh : and Kaudphyssh begat
Pshawdee.
Some one remarking that Hunter had
brought back from the Shenandoah Valley
some cannon which he had captured, after
wards corrected himself by saying that the
bronze statue of WASHINGTON which he
had seized would 11 melted up make a can
/10n.
•• More than half a million of niggers
who, three years ago were fed by planters
on hog and hominy, are now fed by the U.
S. on hard tack and salt horse. To bring
about this change it has cost the United
States about five thousand dollars and the
life of one white man per nigger. No one
can pretend that the sable wretches were
not in all respects better as they were.
Northern and Southern men, to the number
of a million—the first choice and very flower
of the race—have fallen in battle or have
died more horribly in hospital, and the
nation is nearly broken down with financial
embarrassments, and all this has been done
to make some hundreds of thousands of
niggers oven more wretched than they were.
A:soldier in the army before Petersburg,
writing to his father (who was a Republican
three months ago), says:
I hope you will do all you can for the
election of 'McClellan. If the boys here get
a chance to vote, you may depend on hie
getting a large majority! He is regarded
as the ablest General in the service, and the
best man for bringing the country out of
difficulty. He is not only a good General,
but a noble-hearted man—caring always
for the comfort of his men."
Criasunzo FRONT.—A large number of
Republican papers in the West are taking
down the name of Lincoln and raising that
of Fremont. Among the latest we notice Is
the Kansas State Journal, at Lawrence, and
fielv , :t fan, a Swiss paper, published at Tell,
Indiana. The Western Republicans are
going on the war path with the " Path
finder very rapidly.
The man who is anxious that "the List
dollar and the last. man " shall be used in
order to crush the Rebellion and Slavery
was in town yesterday. He came to bid
farewell to his son, who was just about
leaving for Canada—for the benefit of his
hpalth!
The Brooklyn Times, until recently 0114
of the most strenuous supporters of "The
Government" and its policy, has the fol
lowing in relation to the late Maryland raid :
Is President Lincoln incompetent? —
Should he be elected President for another
four years? Is the North to he disgraced
by rebel invasions every summer for the
next four years? If re-elected, it is not at
all unlikely, from present appearances, that
Father Abraham mav endd his reign
,by
skedaddling from the White House in the
disguise of' a kilted, long-legged, Scotch
Mr, Lincoln iii his Springfield letter, said
" if I shall urge you to continue fighting, it
will be tut apt time then for you to declare
that you will not fight to free negroes." In
his Niagara letter he avows his determina
tion to continue the war until the freedom
of the negro is attained. The "apt time"
is now at hand for the people "to declare
that they will not tight to free negroes,"
and refuse to furnish any more men for
such an unlawful purpose. Let Mr. Lin
coln be taken at his word!
LINCOLN INVITED TO DEciarrs.—The
Albany (N. Y.) Statesman, a Republican
paper, thinks if Mr. Lincoln continues on
the track he will certainly be defeated, It
says:
"There is only one way left to prevent
the Democrats from electing the neat Pres
ident, and that is, to have President Lin
coln decline the nomination, his successor
to be either Gen. Grant, Sherman, Butler or
Hancock. Such a nomination would unite
the party. Nothing else ever will. Divided
as the party now is, between the friends of
Lincoln, Fremout„ - ckiase, ..SeWaid and
.Weed, the party can not avoid - iknost hu
miliating defeat; in Novemberir The elites
-I;rophe can yet be averted, but only by the
declension of Mr. Linooln."