giiitasta 4ntellietra. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8;1861 "The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the pro ceedings of the legislAture, or any branch of government; 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 liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers; or men in public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given In evi dence."—thnsatution of Pennsylvania. FOR PRESIDENT: MAJOR GENERAL GEORGEII. M'CLEUAN, OF NEW JERSEY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: GEORGE 11. PENDLETON, OF OHIO ELECTORS AT LARGE. Hon Err F. JOHNSON, of Cambria. ' Rw.a.A.Ri;l VAux, of Philadelphia. pz i ,,,, yid' : DISTHICt ELECTORS. • • Ist. Wm. Loughlin, 13th. Paul Leidy, 2.d. F. R. Helinhold, 14th. Rob't Sweinford, 3(1. Ew'd P. Dunn, 15th. John Ahl, 9th. T. M'Cullough, 16th. Henry G. Smith, sth. Edward T. Hess, i.l.7th. Thaddeus Banks, .6th. Philip S. Gerhard,llBth. H. Montgomery, 7th. Geo. P. Lepier, 119th. Jno. 31. Irwin, Bth. Michael Seltzer, 126th. J. M. Thompson, 9th. Patrick M'Evoy, 121st. Erastus Brown, Rah. T. IL Walker, 2rd. Jas. P. Barr, 11th. 0. S. Diminick, 23rd. Wm..l. Koontz, 12th. A. B. Dunning, 24th. W. Montgomery. OUR PLATFORM The Enion—The Constitution—Peace— Public Liberty—Private Rights—Free Elections—A Free Press—Tree Speech— Trial by Jury—The Right of Asylum— Justice to onr Soldiers. Resolved, That in the future, as in the past, we «•ill adhere with unswerving fideli ty to the Union, under the Constitution, as the only solid foundation of our strength. security and happiness as a people, and as the framework of the Government, equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity or all the States, both Northern and Southern. Resolved, That this Convention does PN pileitlYdOClSre as the sense of the Anteriean people, that after four years of licilure to re store the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of milita ry necessity or the war p , ,wer, higher than die Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and puld liberty and private right alike trodden down and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired; that justice, human ity, liberty, and the public welthre demand that immediate efforts he made for the ~s-sation sation of hostilities, with a view to t•he ulti mate Convention of all the States or other peaceable means to the end that at the ear liest practicable moment peace may be re stored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States. Resolved, That the direct interference of the military authority of the United States in the recent elections held in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri and Delaware was a shameful violation of the Constitution, mid a repetition of such acts in the approaching elections will be held ad revolutionary, and will be resisted with all the means and power under our control. Resolved, That the aim and object of the Democratic party is to preserve the Federal Union, and the rights of the States unim paired, and they hereby declare that they consider the administrative usurpations of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution, the subversion of the civil by military law in the States not in insurrection, the arbitrary military ar rest and imprisonment, trial, and sentenee of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force, the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press, the de nial of the right of asylum, the open and avowed disregard of State rights, the em ployment of unusual test oaths, and the in terference with and denial of the right of the people to bear arms, as calculated to prevent the restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a Government deriving its just powers from the consent of the gov erned. Resolved, That the shameful disregard by the Administration of its duty in respect to our fellow-citizens who now are and long have been prisoners, and are now in a suf fering, condition, deserves the severest rep robation on the score alike of public policy and common humanity. Resolved, That the sympathy of the Delll ocratis party is heartily and earnestly ex tended to the soldiers of our army, who are, and have been, in the field under the flag of our country, and in the event of our at taining power, they will receive all protection, regard, and kindness that the brave soldiers of the Republic haves,' nobly earned. To the Democracy of the City and County of Lancaster In pfirsuance of authority given the un dersigned at a meeting of the County Com mittee.held on Thursday, August 25th, you are requested to meet in the several Wards ‘ of the city, Boroughs and Townships of the county, on Saturday, 24th day of September, to elect not less than three, nor more than five delezatesio represent such di: , trict in a general Cotinty Convention, to be Iwid un Wednesday, 28th day of September, at I o'clock N. 11., in the Hall of the Young Men's Democratic Association, in the city of Lancaster, for the purpose of nominating IL ticket to be supported at the ensuing Octo ber election. The Chairman would must earnestly re commetal to the Townships and Boroughs of the coanty, to effect a thorough and con venient organization, hy the formation of Democratic Clubs in their several districts. Township Committees are requested to give early notice of the time and plae of meeting for the election of delegates. R. R. TSHUDY, Chairman. A. J. FiTEINMA:s:, Secretary. TO OUR PATRONS We are highly gratified, and decided ly grateful for tho very rapid increase which has lately been made to both our Daily and Weekly Editions. This augurs well, for our success in the coming campaign, and shows that the gallant Democracy of this city and county are fully alive to the importance of the great issues now before the pub lic. We have a suggestion to make, however ; and it is this—that from this time until the 17th, the day of the grand Mass Meeting, every Democrat in the county shall use his personal efforts to secure us at least one new subscriber, to be handed in when they come to)own on that day, if not forwarded to us previously. By such a united effort a great work can be done effectively, and done at once. Will you do it? VOL" Sir, we mean,'who are now reading this item. Go and do so! And stand not upon the order of going but go at once. The extended circulation .of this paper we regard as of vital importance in the present campaign. Let every Demo ' Brat see that he lends it his aid and support. • Owning up Beat! Not a few of, the leading Abolition newspapers are already owning that they will be defeated in the coming election. The New York Tribune de clares " the Democratic party has a very considerable chance of success this fall." Another leading journal exclaims: "B ut General McClellan has been merely condemned to a presidential candidacy, with a strong chance of election." Well, it is gratifying to see even a slight indi- Cation of returning reason among the radical leaders. They have presumed entirely too far upon the forbearance of a pe . ople-who submitted to innumerable outrages, cfnly that they might apply constitutionalreMedies rather than re sort to revolution. The time for9that has now' come, and the people are ready to hurl the fanatics who have so abused their trusCfrom power by the use of the peaceable but powerful agency of the ballot-box. Fulton County. The gallant Democracy of little Ful ton have instructed their Congressional Conferrees to support Hon. A. H. Coff roth, the present efficient and popular representative of that district. All ac counts which we have, assure us that. he will - certainly be re-elected. For Assembly, Philip Doyle is named, sub ject to the decision'of the Legislative Conference. The leaders in little Ful ton assure us that they will increase their majority largely, even over that of last year. We believe they will do it. • COOII Secretary Stanton to General Dlx WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, September 2, 186-1. To Major General Dix, New York: • It is ascertained 'with reasonable cer tainty that the naval and other credits re quired by the act of Congress will amount to about 200,000, including Newyork, which has not been reported yet to the Depart ment; so that the President's call of July. 10 is practically reduced to 300,000 men, to meet and take the place of— l'irst—The new enlistments in the navy. Second—The casualties of battle, sickness, prisoners and desertion, and Third—The hundred days troops and all others going out by expiration of service this fall. • One hundred thousand new troops, promptly furnished, are all that General Grant asks for the capture of Richmond, and to give a finishing blow to the rebel armies yet m the field. The residue of the call would be adequate for garrisons in forts and to guard all the lines of communica tion and supply, free the country from guerillas, give security to trade, protect commerce and travel, and establish peace, order and tranquility in every State. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. The above despatch from the Secre tary of War to General Dix is cool, re freshing and consolatory. The 500,000 men demanded by the President are " practically reduced" to 300,000, and these are to supply the place of enlist ments in the navy, the wastage of the campaign, and troops about to retire by expiration of their term of service ! So that after the country, by most exhaust ing efforts, has filled the pending call for half a million of soldiers, the army will contain no greater numerical strength than it did four months ago. Passing over this fearful illustration of the destruction of human life by war, we are constrained to ask what more can be expected from an army of the same size than has already been accom plished by that which took the field in May 1' If that army could not effect the reduction of Richmond, and the sup pression of the rebellion, call we hope for greater results from its successor, after thousands of veterans are ex changed for raw recruits, and no ad dition is made to its numbers? And how is the wastage of the next four months to be replaced ? The answer to the last inquiry is obvious—by another draft. And when the term of those now entering the service is about to ex pire, how are theirplaces to be supplied? BY ANOTHER DRAFT. Verily, the hopes of our simple-minded people, many of whom suppose we are now passing, through the last draft, seem doomed to bitter disappointment. But we are informed that Gen. GRANT only asks "one hundred thousand new troops, peomptly furnished" to capture Richmond and finish the rebellion. Without adverting to the many prom ises of the illustrious Lieutenant Gen eral which have viol been fulfilled, we ask by what possibility can these 100,- OW new troops be promptly furnished ? Mtn are, and will be, sent to him, hut these will not become droops in and effective sense of the term until disci plined and inured to service. What length of training is required to make this crude material serviceable we leave to the judgment of those who are skill ed in military affairs, hut it is plain that the 100,000 effective soldiers cannot be promptly furnished. Before they are obtained General GRANT'S opportunity will doubtless pass, but so will the Pres idential election,—and what matters it if the people are disappointed after wards '' "No Compromise With Traitors." It appears that whilst the adherents of Mr. LaNcoLN were yelling " no com promise with traitors," Mr. LINCOLN himself was sending confident ial agents down to Ilichnaind to see whether he could not get smut , sort of compromise out of the " arch traitor" himself, J Er- FE RSON DA \'l B. Messrs. JAQI' Es and G iLmoim's ac count of their interview with President h.ayis and his Secretary of State has already gone the rounds of the Northern press. Secretary BENJAMIN also has given the world a version of the affair, which we laid before our readCrs yes terday. In sending these friends of his to Rich mond to try a whiff at the pipe of peace with the " hig injun " of the Southern (!onfederacy, Mr. LEccol.N seems to have grazed the edge of treason to his own party. Ile appears not to have let any of them know what he was about. Nor was this Mr. LINCOLN'S first at tempt to hold converse with the great chief of the rebellion. If faith can be put in the statement of CoIoneIJAQUES, he "had been in the Confederacy a year before," and had visited Petersburg on a similar errand !" What can be the meaning of these a/irk/ground attempts of Mr. LINcoLN to put himself in confidential comma cation with the rebel authorities at Richmond? So secretly did he go about it, that even Gen. GI A:s;T was de ceived as to the mission of Messrs. JAQUE and GILMORE—so badly de ceived, indeed, that in his note to Gen. Lot:, asking permission for LINCOLN'S emissaries to meet Col. OuLn, he stated what was absolutely false. Gen. GRANT asked Gen. LEE to allow the two gentlemen above named to meet Col. OuLo at such place between the two armies as Gen. LEE might desig nate, and he added that " the object of meeting was legitimate with the duties of Col. OULD as Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners." Now, the visit of LINCOLN'S two friends to Col. OULD, and subsequently to Richmond, was not connected in any shape or form with the exchange of prisoners. It follows that they were smuggled through the lines under false pretences; and as it is not to be sup posed for a moment that a high-souled officer likt! Gen. GRANT would state a deliberate falsehood in an official note addressed to the commander of the op posing army, we are driven to the con clusion that LINCOLN deceived GRANT as to the nature of the mission of JAQUES and GtLaIORE. It would seem as if poor LINCOLN had found that he was unequal to the stu pendous task of finishing up the " big job " he has on hand, and was trying to get out of his dilemma by the agency of means which he was afraid to let his friends know anything about. His sit uation, as thus laid open to the public view by acts of his own which he sup posed were too secretly taken to tell their own story, is truly pitiable. He finds himself unequal to the crisis; he sees all his pet schemes of conquest and confiscation come to naught ; he be holds a public debt piling itself up to a fearful .height;, he sunffs the reaction that begins to stir the political atmos phere, and casts about for some plan to escape the wrath to come. He does not go to his own chosen counsellors for advice. He knows too well what it is to be bullied by STANTON. So he con ceals hls purrfoses, and sends his two envoys off under false pretenses to hold secret converse with the leaders of the rebellion. Of course this sneaking atte npt to come to some sort of an understanding with JEFF. DAVIS failed entirely, and all that LINCOLN has realized from it is the mortification of having his poorly- laid scheme exposed. Some little good may come out of it, however. It may teach the blatant portion of the Repub- Ifes.o party, who need teaching in cer-. thin matters very badly, that it might be well hereafter not to take the high ground of "no compromise with trai tors," without first assuring themselves that their own chosen leader is not in secret communication with the great head of the rebel government, and beg ging a compromise to save himself from disgrace. A Change. The unprincipled politicians who lead the Republican party induced the people of the United States to believe, in 1860,. that "a Change " in the-political coin,: plexion of the National AdMinistra 7 tion would result in good to the court try, Over . three years of: the bitterest experience that. ever fell: to - the lot of mankind has taughtus what this change is worth. It was a change from peace to war—from the glad harvest; of the rich grain-fields of Laneaster county to the grim harvest of death on the gory battle-fieldsof Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginiaand Tennessee. It was a change that carried the husband from his hap py fireside in the North to his coffinless grave in the south, and left his widow to weep in her lonely cottage, and his children to cry for bread to stay the gnawing of their hunger. It was a change that has converted fertile tracts into desert wastes, and flourishing towns into blackened and crumbling monu ments of the wickedness and the imbe cility of our public servants. It was a change that has stirred up strife not only between the North and the South, but between brethren who had previously dwelt together in - unity in the same local community. It was a change from gold and silver money to the vilest currency that any Government in the worldever imposed upon its people. It wasa change from well-regulated freedom to as loose, as ignorant, and almost as barbarous a despotism as ever cursed the soil of be nighted and barbarous Africa herself. It was a change from an economical administration of public aflitirs to a frightfully expensive one ; from eighty millions a year to a thousand millions; &opium overflowing treasury to all empty chest ;,,from low taxes to h igh taxes, and from burdens scarcely felt to burdens that can hardly be borne. I.t was a change from collee at twelve cents per pound to entice at fifty-rive ; from sugar at eight to sugar at thirty ; from muslin at twelve to muslin at seventy-five; from dry goods of all kinds, even the finest silks, at prices so low as to bring them within the reach of every indus trious poor family in the country, to dry goods so high that families in good circumstances can liarcly'afford to sup ply themselves with the coarsest fabrics. These are some of the lamentable con sequences of the change "sa loudly and but too successfully clamored for in 1860. They are upon us, and we can not get rid of tbeiir immediately by any plan which the ingenuity of the human mind can devise. liut we can mitigate the severity of t hese evils, and pave the way for their eradication altogether in due course of time, by making another change. The omit who, in managing his own private business, should change agents in the hope of bettering his con- (titian, and after a fair trial find that he had made it worse, would be accounted a fool if lie did not change again. No man in his senses, whovaltn4 his rep utation for honesty, will deny that the change made by the people in I‘`.•tiO was a change for the ivu-se. What man in his senses will say, then, that it would not he the part of wisdom to change again? The agents selected in IstiO to manage the public business have had nearly four years trial, and they have been running down hill all the time. In return for the four thousand million dollars they have expended, and the two million of men they have already withdrawn Vom t he ordinary avocations of life, they give us proposals for new loans of money, and a proclamation for half a million 111011' 1111'11'. Substantial progress they do not pretend to show us; and dull as they are, they seeta at last - to comprehend, though perhaps still to a very limited extent, the ter rible strait to which they have brought the country. How long would a man in private business allow his agents to squander his resourees and ruin his att . :ars in the reckless manner that our national agents have squandered the public resources and ruined the COllll - ? If he had a particle of prudence, or any regard whatever for Iris own in terests, In- would make an immediate change in his agents, .and everybody would say he haq done right. If the people of the United Mates wish to save themselves from 'utter and irrecoverable ruin, they must change their agents in this very Year of our Lord 15114. De lays are always dangerous, and in this case delay will be fatal. tineoln the 011ee-holders' Candidate. Abraham Lincoin is the candidate of the office-holders of his party: In no sense of the word can he be regarded as the candidate of the people. The Con vention which nominated hint at Balti more was a mere gathering together of office-holders, relatives and friends of office-holders, contractors, and fast friends of contractors, _Abolition Con gressmen, editors of party journals, and, most disinterested of all, the colored delegates front South Carolina, who, contrary to the professed principles of the leaders of the party, were ruled out on the ground that to admit them might not he just yet a popular move. The . following is the estimate made of the personelle of the Convention by an in telligent gentleman who was on the ground, and saw the motley crew as sembled: Office-holders Relatives and f Hands ni alive-holders Contractors and fast. friends •If contractors... 90 Congressmen To prove that Abraham Lincoln in no sense of the word deserves to be regarded as the candidate of the people, it is only necessary to call attention to the many violent assaults which have been made upon him, both before and since the nomination, by numbers of the more honest, intelligent„ and Upright men of his own party. TT \Va.; t hough t a short time since that he would be compelled to withdraw, and not a few of the most prominent and respectable papers of his party favored the call of a new conven tion to harmonize the party, and put be fore the people a candidate more worthy of support. But, the probabilities are that the crowd of well gorged officials, who made up the Convention at Haiti timore, will prove too strong, with their well filled purses, for the more honest and respectable port ions of the Repuli can party. They will never consent that Lincoln shall be withdrawn, and he is too fond of the position for which he has shown himself so utterly unfit to abandon it for any considerations of pro priety, decency, or a proper regard for the public welfare. Will the people help the greedy crew of officials who are fattening on the ruins of the nation to elect such a wretched creature as Lincoln, when they know he is repudiated by even the decent men of his own party. We cannot for a mo ment imagine that they will become the willing tools of those who have no higher ambition than to continue for their personal benefit the wholesale system of public plunder by which they have enriched themselves at the expense of an impoverished nation. Let Abra ham Lincoln he left to the care of his officials, whose candidate he is. Columbia County The Democratic Convention of Co lumbia county met at Bloomburg on Monday last. Wm. H. Jacoby, editor of the Star, was nominated for member of the State Legislature. John Mcßeynolds and Geo. W. Scott were appointed Congressional Conferees, with instructions to support Hon. Leo nard B. Rupert, of Bloomsburg, for Congress. Let the People Make Amends for their Folly. Four years ago the canvass for Presi dent of the United States-was going on with .comparatively little `excitement. The Democratic party, being unfortu nately divided, was unable to present a united front to those whom it then juatlY and truly denolinced for what they have Most abundtintly prciven themselves - to be, enemies to the best interests of the nation. Then the Democratic press and Democratic orators foretold what would be the necessary and natural result of the triumph of a purely sectional party on unconstitutional issues. The civil war and the wide Ipread ruin that have come upon us were predicted, but no one dreamed of one half the woes that it has been our lot to witness. The people, apparently unaware of the great impending danger which threat ened-them, refused to listen to those who were derisively styled "Union Savers." The masses, too easily swaged by im pulse, and too credulous in their dis position, listened to the lying stories of designing demagogues, and setting too' light an estimate on the im plrlant privilege of the elective'fran chise, suffered passion to lead them es tray, and permitted prejudice to drown the voice of reason. They voted thought- for a change when in reality all was well with the nation and with them selves. Thus they turned out of poWer the tried leaders of a party which had ruled the country almost uninterrupt edly for a period of more than sixty years, a patriotic political organization, which had by its wise course of policy fostered the rising glories of this nation until they had made it the wonder they of the world, the pride of freemen every where, and the asylum for the down trodden who sought refuge from the tyranny of despotism. The people not designing to do wrong, and, little dreaming of the woes they were about to bring down upon them selves, elevated to power a party whose very life was derived from blind and unreasoning fanaticism, the curse of the world, and the bane of good govern ment. Never before did any people pay so dearly for a political blunder. ,Never before were the lines of the poet more clearly exemplified than they have been iu our own case: "A thousand years seams serve to form a State, An hour may Isv It in the lust, and when Can man its shattered splendor renovate, Recall Its virtues hack, and vanquish time an , tate?" As we stand and ponder sadly amid the ruins and ilecityineoories of our na tionality, what is our duty ? The same political parties appeal to the people to day. The one pleads for a restoration of the old order of things, and promises a renewal of the former peace, happiness, and prosperity. The other still insists upon driving deeper the plow-share of ruin. The one offers a change ; the other swears by its ebony idol that there shall be no change. It is for the peo ple to decide between them, and we verily believe reason will triumph over passion and prejudice, and that the right will gloriously triumph. We have too much confidence in the good sense of the American people to imagine for an instant that they will he such consum mate fools as to entrust the reins of power for four years longer to the crowd of miserable fanatics whoare now rev eling in the midst of the carnival of ruin which they have wrought. May . God speed the right, and may the people see by the light of reason which is the path of duty! Let them make all possible inuends for the folly of four years ago, hy . hurling from power those who base so nearly ruined this once great and pros perous nation. , Forney on the Chicago Platform. Just now, while the platform adopted by the Democratic Convention atChicago islhe subject of criticism, and while it is being denounced liy the more ignor ant and incautious of the abolition press as lacking in devotion to the Union, we cannot help calling attention to the fol lowing endorsement of its entire sound ness in that respect by John W. Forney. Arch apostate as he is, and pliant tool of the present administration as he has always been, he is too brewed not to give his political opponents credit forso much of good as he know:i.it will be impossible for him to deny them. Pub lishing as he does the administration Oigan in Washington, and thc leading abolition newspaper in this State, it is not to be supposed that he would wil lingly concede more to the Democratic party than he could help. Hence, when he declares that, by our platform we as a party are firmly pledged to a main tenance of the Union, he is to be be lieved. No utterance of his would be regarded as of special value, if it was known that he had any strong induce ment, for lying, but when he speaks truth against both inclination and in terest it would be most uncharitable to refuse to credit his assertion. In a late issue of the Press the platform adopted by the Democratic party at Chicago is thus spoken of editorially : "Those who trill antlll/Ze the 1 , 30111/ /UPS "framed by 3f r. Guthrie, and adopted by the " Convention, will find that they cimtain but two important affirmations: first, that the " Democratic party is pledged to the mainten " ance of the Union; second, that the .Id "ministration is unworthy to be trusted. If "there is anything else in the creed of the "party it will scarcely be found in its plat " form, but must be . sought in the decalra "tions of its leaders. ' A similar indorsement of its sound ness appears in the 'Washington Chron icle of about the same date, almost in the same identical words. In his letter to the Press over his well known signa ture of " Occasional " he speaks thus cautiously : "As to the platform of this Convention, "that part in which the delegates 'main " monsly pledged themselves to the ;Union " is to he received for no more than it is "worth, for this is a compelled tribute of " the leaders to the fact that the Democratic " masses are sincerely in favor of the Union. "And *as such I accept it.- There his malice sticks out, as it did not in the editorial columns of either of his papers, but he still clearly and can didly admits that the platform of the Democratic party pledges them un equivocally to the restoration of the Union, and he accepts it as such. Will the Abolition press of this city, and of the State, and of the Union, please make a note of this most unequiv ocal avowal of Mr. Lincoln's chief fugle man. Forney is forced to admit the en tire soundness of the platform adopted at Chicago. If it were not unequivocally for the restoration of the Union it could not be Democratic. We are untram meled by any pet theories. We are not for the emancipation of the negro first and the Union afterwards, but for the Union, pure and simple, just as our fathers made it. Our rallying cry now is, as it always has been, the Constitu tion as it is, the Union as it was. .The people understand our position, and they are with us, and will stand by us as the only party capable of bringing order out of the present political chaos, and re 'storing the old order of things under which we so long existed as a happy, prosperous, and united people. TRAIN ON LINCOLN.—On Friday night George Francis Train was called out and addressed a crowd at Chicago. He predicted Lincoln's overwhelming defeat at Chicago, and feelingly said of him: "Fot a tear was shed nor a funeral note, As his corpse to Chicago was hurried, Not a white man was there to throw in a vote In the grave where Abe Lincoln was burled." pir "Old Abe " hasn't had a grin on his face for a month. He would like to change his base, but he knows there is no hope for him anywhere. He says tooth-ache would relieve him. We are informed that he has not told a joke since he penned that corn muniostion, "To whom it may concern," Serious Thoughts for Serious. Men. The President has given orders for a ' general burning of powder, a prolonged booming of cannon, during the space of no less than three consecutive days, and has set_apart next'Sabbath as a day Tor universal Thansgiving throughout the length and breadth of the land. It is well fOr the people to rejoice whenever there Is cause for joy. God knows the dreary years which have dragged their slow and bloody length along since_ the advent of ABB s w arc tINCOLS to power have given us very few days in which the nation could be glad. We have had victories, one after another, but the blind folly and the mad fanaticism of the party in power has rendered them all useless: The brave blood which has been *aired out like water upon an hundred battle fields has been spilled in vain, acid the treasure of the nation has been squan dered for naught. We are this day, if the policy of the present Administration is •to be pursued, no nearer a proper ad justment of existing difficulties than we were when the war began. He who expects the Union to be re stored by arms alone is a fool. It never can be done. If we should take Rich mond, reduce CharWston, capture Mo bile, gain possession of every strong hold in the South, and crush out every army they have on foot or can raise, we should be no nearer a proper solution of our national troubles than we are this day. We should, on the contrary, just have met face to face with the really dif ficult problems which have been set before us from the beginning. There would still remain the great bulk of the white people of the South, and the whole body of the blacks for us to deal with. What would we do with them? We might hang .1 4 EFF. DAVIS, and other leading rebels, but could we be sure others would not be ready to take their places at a moment's warning. We could not withdraw our armies for a moment. we did, our pet proteges, the negroes, would at ones be reclaimed by their masters, and our authority be set at de- To allow the Southern States an existence, or their people any of the customary privileges of American free men, would be to offer a premium for renewed revolt against what they woulc regard as the most oppressive tyranny How could w'e hold them in subjection with any force materially less than it took to subdue them? Would they voluntarily submit? Let the years that are past answer. There are few men and fewer women in the South who would not rather die than yield to the terms proposed by ABRAHAM LIscoLN. They have exhibited this their stern re solve in a thousand ways, and on more than a hundred bloody battle-fields. hey are ready to die if need be, bu they will not yield to terms which they regard as involving a sacrifice alike of right and of honor. We may overpower them for a time by brute forec, bu , they will still possess and display— " The unconquerable will And study of revenge, nximortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, . \Ant whirl is else not tog be overcome?" They arc of the same race with our selves, and as much accustomed to be free. They date their origin back to the same laved loins, boast of a share in the same ancestral glories, and are ecustomed to light their courage, at the same historic altars. In them our sol diers;as brave a set of men as ever stood arrayed in the panoply of battle, have ever found foemen worthy of their steel. They will never voluntarily give up the struggle in which they are now en gaged, until there is an entire change in the policy of our rulers, and even if ut terly routed, and driven from the open field to their swamps and mountain fitstnesses, would not yield to such terms as are now otli•red them. They have not only sworn to this, but they have demonstrated it to the entire satis faction of every man who is not either a downright fool or wilfully blind. To proper terms they would submit—to such terms as Lincoln offers never. In but one of two ways can this war have an end. We must either conciliate the South, as it is alike our interest and our duty to do, and thus induce a vol untary- return of the revolted States to their allegiance, or we must extermi nate the entire white population of that whole vast region: Until one or the other of these things is done our armies will bleed in vain, and the treasure of the nation will continue to be expend ed for naught. Not before . one or the other of these things is accomplished can we ever expect to hold securely a foot of Southern soil an hour longer than the feet of our soldiery rest upon it, or to extend the authority of the government over a single spot thereof not under the immediate control of our' military authorities. Are we prepared to keep up permanent standing armies nearly as large as those now in the field to prevent the people or the South from reducing the negroes back to subjection, anti to prevent the rising up of a people ready at any moment to revolt. Could we afford to do this? Years must elapse before we can expect to derive much revenue from the South (once such a rich Aource of profit to us,) in the con dition to which that section is now re duced by this struggle, even if it was back in the Union by voluntary con sent. But, under such a state of aflhirs as would inevitably follow forced sub jugation the expense of keeping a whole people in subjection would necessarily swallow up What little of available means the war has left'to us of the Nfirth. But this is not all. No free election could be held in any subjugated South ern State. A change, a fundamental change, in the form of our ( lovernment would be rendered absolutely necessary by any such mad attempt. Nothing short of the most complete military des potism would be found strong enough to hold in subjection one half of this great continent, inhabited as it is by a race fully as braV'e and as well accustomed to freedom as we are ourselves. ft would have to be a despotism of the most harsh and rigorefus character, extending its iron hand of power not over the con quered territory of the South alone, but over the whole land. Neither freedom of speech nor freedom of the press could be :Allowed to exist anywhere within its domain. Our republican institutions would have to be abandoned, our rights as freemen given up, and all our liber ties would be lost, Ile 'er more to be re gained except by struggles which would lead us through seas of blood. It is possible to restore this Union by coming back to the Constitution as our fathers made it, but as surely as the mad designs of Lincoln and his advisers pre vail, so surely will this nation yet see days to which those of the past three years, sad as they have been', shall seem all luminous with joy, as we look back upon them from out of the midnight gloom of the future which it is possible may be ours. We may, peradventure, yet revert to these days as comparatively happy ones—as fit occasions for thanks giving. It is high time the people everywhere had their eyes opened. Let them refus6 to be made fools of any longer. Let them think of these things by day and ponder over them by night. Let them take them to church with them next Sabbath, and pray over them if need be. In all seriousness we address ourselves to all serious men, and in theSe times every man ought to be se rious. _ggr. There is another pressure on "Old Abe" to reform his cabinet. Too late— nothing will lave him. Look to the Roldter Vote. It should-not be forgotten for a mo ment that the soldiers in the field from Pennsylvania will vote in gie coming State election, and for,`X*sideifloliThile there is every reason - 10 apprehend that great frauds will be attempted and . . Pe rpetrated under the miserable systeqt4U tentionally adopted: by the Abolition majority of our Legislature, the De." mocracy of this State have their work to do in the premises. It is the duty of all Democrats, be they men or women, who have friends in the army to open a correspondence with them at once, and to send them regularly and frequently the right kind of reading matter. When you have read your paper, mail it to some soldier in the army. It will come to him like a letter from home, and will be most cordially welcomed. The Abo lition papers lie most persistently in re gard to the feeling of the soldiers to ward the Democracy. Many volunteer officers may have abandoned their early political faith to please those in authori ty over them, but that the rank and file are 1411 true to the glorious old party with 'Which they acted when at home we have every reason to believe. The following extract from a correspondent of the New York World we regarci as accurately representing the real state of feeling in the armytoward our gallant and gifted standard bearer: "From information that has been care fully gathered during the past week, there is every reason for believing that Gen. Mc- Clellan is the soldiers' choice for the Presi dency. If the vote of the Army of the Po tomac be fairly taken, without interference or dictation by higher power, four-fifths of it will be cast for General McClellan. In the Western armies it is calculated that he will receive three votes out of every four. The soldiers not only believe in him per sonally, but they feel that the control of affairs should be in the hands of a thorough military man, such as he. As for the oill- cers, nearly all of them are for the general, though they have to maintain a prudent silence about the matter. All the West Point influence is being quietly exerted in his favor, and with the exception of such as owe their commissions to, their affiliations with .Abolition Governors and Congress men, there ,is hardly an officer but would vote for him in preference to Mr. Lincoln. This is somewhat remarkahleln view of the exertions that have been made by the Ad- ministration to depose or removeto frontier stations every officer who WILS li.llOWll to in- "The rank and tile are wearied with the way the war is prosecuted. IL is a common remark among them that if the settlement of the war was left with them and the rebel army, they would soon mine to terms. As a whole, the soldiers are disposed toward peace, and would willingly give generous xt us to their brave enemy. A dishonorable care they would spurn in common with he great mass of the people, but they are II ready lie a peace that will luring nodis- credit upon the nation. llolding these views they hail the prospect of elevating a pro fessed military man M the Presidency, and kill support him on the ground that'll* the war continues, he will he competent to di rect it to a successful issue; and if terms of peace are to he agreed upon, he will obtain them more speedily and more satisfactorily Ilan a civilian. This they say without am 3 -ellection upon Mr. Lincoln, whose repeat ed blunders in the eilange of eonunanders has math , hint lulything but popular in the army." But, the question comes up, HOW ('AN WE SECURE THE SOLDIERS THE RIGHT TO VOTE AS THEY PLEASE? We may not be able to do this entire . No doubt the Most enormous am outrageous frauds will be perpetrated— no doubt every unfair means will be employed to intimidate those who de sire to vote the Democratic ticket in the army ; hut it k ouriluty to•furnish every Democrat in it with a supply of Demo- critic tickets. How can this he clone'.' We can think of no plan which would be so effective, and so little libable to failure, as for every Democratic man or woman in this state who has a friend in• the army to send, enclosed in a letter, at an early period in the campaign, s( that they will he sure to get through ii time, a full supply of Democratic tickets To enable all to procure them, tickets for both the State and Presidential elec tions should be printed right soon, and a supply of them sent to sonic good, reliable Democrat in each township in the State, and notice of the matter given in the county papers, so that every Dem ocrat in the State who has a friend in the army may know exactly where to procure the desired number of tickets, without having to put himself to any serious inconvenience. I the Admin istration at Washington should dare to tamper with the mails, so as purposely to delay the delivery of letters just prior to the election, we could be apprised of the fact, and would have the proof of their villainy. If, after the tickets had been secured, any attempt should be made to inthnidate voters in the army, or to prevent a fair and free election, the evidence of the rascality of those in authority could be easily adduced against them. We make t hese suggestions thusearly, because ( action in this mettler is ab solutely necessary, and we call the earnest consideration of the Democratic press throughout the State to the sub ject. If a better plan can he suggested, we shall he glad to hear it, hut early action in (hi, naitter is imperatively de manded. The Express on "Ajax." The El - pro:8 of Saturday evening has a savage, ill-natured and uncalled-for attack upon our able and interesting correspondent, "Ajax," who is attach ed to the Army of the Cumberland. The attempt at wit and ridicule on ac count of the 110711 de PURI( he has chosen, neither he nor we care anything about; but when the editor says that our cor respondent is " afThrding, aid and com fort to the enemy," and " is one of the few black sheep to be found in his regi ment—one of those few who have con tributed little to its proud fame," he is guilty of a mean, contemptible and de liberate falsehood. " Ajax " has been a soldier for three years, has rt.- enlisted as a veteran, and never shirked a duty or was absent from his post on the field of battle, as every officer in the 79th will readily testify. And this is the kind of treatment he receives from " loyal " paper for his bravery and good conduct as a soldier. Further, a son, upon whom our cor respondent doted, gave his life to his country on the" bloody field of Chicka mauga. And yet, because " Ajax " chooses to write for the Intelligencer, and gives truthful and interesting ac counts of affitirs as they really are, he is branded as a " black sheep," one of the few " who have contributed little to t s he proud fame " of the regiment, and as one "affording aid and comfort to the enemy." Shame upon the man who can make such charges upon a gallant veteran who has done his duty in every instance. As to "Ajax's " politics : The Piz press calls him a copperhead, and here again our " loyal " neighbor is no nearer the truth. He has always been a Whig and Republican, but never an Aboli tionist, and does not believe in a warfor the emancipation of the negro, or the destruction, pillage and waste of private pioperty. ,Fle is a high-toned, honorable gentleman, and we have enjoyed his personal friendship for many years, the excitement and passion of political cam paigns never interfering with or inter rupting it. This is all at present we have to say in defence of our esteemed correspond ent, but we can assure our " loyal " neighbor that he is abundantly able to take care of himself. STRAWS Snow, &c.—The Tribune says : " Better a nation composed of half the Union than an anarchy embracing the whole." Still muttering of " half a Union." Still dwelling on a free North ern' republic, and a Southern one with its own institutions. And this is called Unionism! Closing Scenes of the Convention as Seen by !Jai- m. - Never before did this country witness a scene of such joyous excitement as was presented at ttikWigwam wherrthe call of 4163*Eites' Wended and It was asoertain- , ed tlmt on the fing,,ballot Georgnl3.7itcelel hm had been nominated for: the high office of President by a•vote of more than two thirth,' From ft& twenty thousand voices went up a wild shout of rapturous joy, and cheer followed cheer without pause or dim inution for the fell space of fifteen minutes. Cannon broke in upon the loud swell of hu- man voices with their thunder, and-brass bands playing in , concert, Han to the Chief who in triumph advances,", added. their volume of sound to the loud acclaim which hailed our chieftain as the chosen champion of a people determined to be free. While the cheers were yet deafening, Mr. Vallandigham of Ohio took the stand and said : Mr. President and gentlemen of the con vention: My position, in regard to the question of candidates, has not been doubt ful previous to or since the commencement of the session of the convention ; but I am not of the number who resolve to support a candidate by beginning with a protesta tion against him. [Cheers.] Prom the first moment we have assembled here to the last, I have been animated by but one sentiment, and that nearest my heart—in this conven tion peace, to the end that there may be peace in the land. [Loud and tumultuous applause.] I now move, Mr. President, that the nomination just announced, be de clared to be the unanimous sense of this convention. [Loud and long-continued cheering The question was put and carried by a storm of ayes, not a single member voting in the negative. This was the signal for a renewed outburst of enthusiastic applause which lasted for several minutes. After the nomination had been declared unani mous a number of most admirable speeches were made, by Messrs. McKeon of New York, Powell of Kentucky, Saulsbury of Delaware, Ex-Senator Allen of Ohio an old friend of General Jackson, Mr. James S. Thayer of New York a personal friend of Henry Clay, and others. All feelings of dis content were lost sight of; and the great Democratic party stood united as one man, ready to do battle for the cause of the Con titution and the Union. It was a glorious spectacle, and one long to be remembered. Had the Border States agreed in the sup port of any single num from their section, he would have received the nomination for Vice President by acclamation, but, when the second ballot came a large number of their votes were voluntarily cast for Mr. Pendleton, and his nomination was speed ily made unanimous, amid enthusiastic cheering, and to the most perfect satisfac tion of the entire Convention. Soon after this the crowd . began to thin out of the galleries, and after the passage of a number of appropriate resolutions the Convention adjourned with nine rousing cheers for the nominees. The grand ratification meeting held in the evening was a monster atl'air. Notwith standing heavy trains on no less than eleven ditilirent railroads had taken away their many thousands no perceptible diminution of the crowd could be noticed. The whole of the vast Centre Square of the city was densely packed at an early hour in the evening, and all the streets in that vicinity blockaded by the enthusiastic thousands who crowded every avenue. There was speaking from a number of stands, and the telling hits of the orators elicited rounds of thundering applause, the vast multitude swaying hither and thither as one speaker seemed to be more capable of eliciting cheers than another. The great feature of the evening was a grand torch-light procession. The Chicago Times says of this: "Such a demonstration as this proved to be was one which certainly was never beibre witnessed in the West, and which feW can ever hope to witness again. As a spectacle it surpassed in splendor of effect the grandest of any similar demon strations ever attempted in this country. As an expression of popular sentiment it has never been approached. Not the march of the Parisian women to Versailles; not the enthusiasm which followed the hurling of a stool by an euthusiastic Scottish woman at the head of an encroaching Bishop ; not the uprising of the Swiss peasantry against the tyranny of A ustria,nor the patriotic outburst which hurled the despot of Naples from his throne, could have surpassed or equaled, even, the magnificent display which last night heralded the dawning in this country of a day of prosperity and peace. The peo ple had but one voice, and one sentiment, and all were joyous over the prospect of a time which was to wipe away the disgrace and humiliation which has been inflicted upon the country during the past four years:' A. large and magnificent transparency headed the procession mounted on a chariot drawn by six white horses. It was in scribed en all sides: " Invincible Club, The next President, George B. McClellan; The next Vice President, George IL Pen- Acton." Underneath the transparency was a brass band : playing inspiritingly as; it moved along, while from the chariot-rock. ets and Roman candles sent forth a contin uous stream of fire. Following this were thousands of men bearing Chinese lanterns inscribed with the word Union, while throughout the immense length of the pro cession were distributed multidudes of trans parencies bearing appropriate inscriptions and admirably executed caricatures. Among the other more noticeable of the caricatures was the following: Lincoln standing in front of the Treasury oilice in an authoritative attitude, inscrib ed, " I demand mysalary in gold." Another highly suggestive device was a historical sketch of the Red River expedi tion, inscribed, "My God! Where's Banks and his soldiers ?" "Abe 1711865." A coffin containing the mortal retrains of the present Chief Magis trate and a flock of buzzards hovering over his resplendent carcass. " War." A forcible representation of an infernal spirit flying through the air and scattering desolation on all sides. Dry bones, graveyards and burning buildings in the foreground. " Peace." A farmer at the plow, sur rounded by all the signs of prosperity and plenty. Abe Lincoln on horseback swimming a river. McClellan " safe on the other side," and looking back. Inscribed, "Abe, how would you like to swap now?" "Weighed and found Wanting." A bal ance with the constitution in one scale, and Lincoln, confiscation, and the inevitable nigger in the other. " Welles' Navy." An old canal-boat, a pepper-box revolver, and a skull. I'll trade even." Lincoln offering to exchange a barrel of greenbacks for a gold The mottoes on other almost innumerable transparencies were appropinte, but we have not time even to mention a few of them. In front of the Court House there was a grand display of fire works which lasted for hours. During the time the procession was passing the whole square was ablaze with the light of rockets, Roman candles, firey serpents, and every conceivable device furnished by pyrotechnic skill. The crowd' around the stands of the speakers did not thin out much before midnight, and at one o'clock speaking was still going on. Such a scene as that day witnessed was worth a long trip to behold. By noon the next day the crowd was gone, though many did not leave until afternoon or night, but by noon you could make some estimate by contrast of the vast ness of the multitude which had been pres ent to witness the proceedings of the Con vention. It was only by looking at the city then that an entire stranger could have an idea of how many people had been pres ent. To our eye the city, full though it still was, seemed almost deserted. On Thursday night the Abolitionists, very foolishly, so far as policy was concerned, called a Mass Meeting to be held in Centre Square. It was a slim affair, and the con trast to the immense crowds that had filled it for night after night before made it look ridiculously small. In vain did their speak ers attempt to get up any enthusiasm. The people would not cheer assertions that " the war must go on until slavery is wiped out." That was the declaration of all the speakers but the masses assembled had no applause for such utterances. During the course of the evening some one of the orators made a coarse attack upon Gen. McClellan, when some soldiers present interfered and sum marily put a stop to this kind of I alk. There were apprehensions for a time that the af fair would break up in a row. From pres ent appearances it will be impossible for the adherents of Lincoln to get up the slightest enthusiasm in his behalf anywhere; the people are heartily sick of him and his party. Paid orators and office holders may bawl themselves hoarse, but the heart of the people will not respond, and their ear* will be C l e t gP9rr3c Patqcan o i gTe.f i r"l" ise a Continitance . bioodihed; 'and'''four years more of the wretched:misrule with which this nation has been cursed. Coming from Chicago to Pittsburg we saw and heard the most unmistakable indica tions that there was a most wonderful and complete revulsion in public sentiment. One gentleman who got on the cars at Up per Sandusky, a wealthy and respectable cit izen, assured a gentleman of our party that he knew personally over twenty men who had always been opposed to the Democratic party, who had openly declared since the nomination that they would vote for Mc- Clellan. We found this to be the state of feeling along the e whole route, and did not hear Lincoln's name mentioned except to be execrated. The West is all alive with enthusiasm. Our camp-lires are lighted all over the prairies, and on every hill-top, and the good sense of the people'ill not Phil to bring about the change which the country so much needs. Everywhere the more in telligent men of the nation, as well as the masses, seem to be rallying to the old and honored standard of our party as they never did before. All men who are not wilfully blind, or interested in concealing the truth, admit that there is no hope of peace or re union if Lincoln is re-elected. Letter from Philadelphia. [Correspondence of the Daily Inteingencerd PHILADELPHIA, September 5, 1864. MESSRS. EDITORS: Congratulations have doubtlessly fallen upon you without num ber, until your modest shoulders bend be neath their load, Congratulations for having in the face of the most inauspicious eircum stances given to the long suffering, Jong be-lied people of the city and county of Lan caster an intelligent daily publication. (You will accord me the privilege of congratu lating you, and the generous helping hands who have aided you in this enterprise; for of the thoustmds who will turn away from the misrepresentations of your contempo raries, none more earnestly wish you suc cess than I.) It remains now for the Demo crats of the city and county of Lancaster to push on with the work so handsomely be gun. Every one has an influence which may be wielded to the advantage of the Democratic daily, and by consequence to the Democratic party. It was a happy co incidence that delayed your publication un til the meeting of the Chicago Convention. Two influences, the one auxiliary to the other in a comparatively limited degree, are at the seine time given to a much abused people. The Daily Intelligencer, within its sphere, will assist in making clear to our countrymen that the plan of adjusting our difficulties proposed by the Chicago Con vention is the only one not fraught with disaster to humanity and to law. There are two propositions which should be kept constantly in view in this campaign, and I am glad to see the Intelligeneer never loses sight of them. The first and most important of which is, that the re-election of Lincoln will certainly complete in the hands of the National Executive the assumption of •un limited power—a power that will in no de gree be restrained or controlled by the legis lative and, udicial (co-ordinate branches of government,) but which will go smashing through the few remaining Constitutional and statutory restraints which we are dal lying with now, and ere another four years expire, he will, like another Tiberius,call in his legions from his conquered provinces, and from Arlington Heights look down upon the mockery of representative legis lation in our capital. The other proposition I would refer to is this, and in order to be successful, it should be adhered to strictly : Let every Democrat conform to the princi ples laid down in the Chicago platform. Let us not be, as we were to a very obvious extent in the political campaign of last fall, wrangling among ourselves. If we would Will We must be consistent with our profes sions as publicly enunciated by our repre sentatives in National Council assembled, and if those are not clear, let us turn to that corollary and supplement, General George B. McClellan himself. llis speeches are consistent with oar-platform; his dignity as elevated as the highest instincts of hu manity man make it ; and his devotion to the principles of Constitutional Govern ment as true as that of the most enthu siastic Democrat in the land. There is a pamphlet issued by the pioneers of the Republican party, to which nor edi tors and public speakers have not suffi ciently called the attention of the masses of our countrymen. I speak of the pamphlet entitled "Miscegenation." Mr. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, used it with marked effect upon his woolly-headed,fellow-Congressmen last winter; and the horrible doctrines it advo cates, must, if understood, make our peo ple recoil front the social and moral debase ment into which these fanatics are so surely leading them. Allow me to quote as I did to an abolition gentlemen the 'other day, who was speaker of the lower house at Har risburg for two years, and who indignantly said, "it (the pamphlet) is a d—d Copper head campaign document." I quote: "All that is needed to make us the finest rare on earth is to engraft upon our stoek the negro element which Providence has placed by our side on this continent. Of all the rich treasures of bldod vouchsafed to us that of the negro is the most precious." "It will he our noble prerogative to set the example of this rich blending of blood. It is idle to maintain that this present war is not a war (lir the negro. It is a war for the negro. Not simply for his personal rights or his physical freedom ; it is a war, if you please, of amalgamation, so-called— a war looking, as its final fruit, to the blend ing of the white and black." ' Let it (the war) go on until Church, and State, and society recognize not only the propriety but the necessity of the fusion of the white and black ; in short, until the great truth shall be declared in our public documents, and announced in the messages of our Presidents, as desirable that the white man should marry the black woman and the white woman should marry the black man; that the race should become melaleuketie before miscegnetic." " They (the whites) need the intermingling of the rich tropic temperament of the negro to give warmth and fullness to their natures. They feel the yearning, and do not know how to interpret it." " We must accept the facts of nature. We must become a yellow-skinned, black haired people—in fine we must become miscegens if we would attain the highest re sults of civilization." These are specimen bricks taken from the pile. I cannot help asking your readers what do they think of them? To the beau tiful young ladies, the proposed alliances which their leading Abolition friends have in store for them cannot but be gratifying. The millenum is at hand; the prejudice of race and color have vanished! Eau-de cologne, frangipanni and the personal effluvia of the Ethiopian are sublimely commingled—if anything a little more of the African required to complete the odor! The yellow and dark haired Saxon, Celtic, Teutonic, or Milesian maids cannot help being grateful that the Abolitionists are about providing them with suitors fresh from the golden sands of Guinea and the jungle of Ashante. They must reflect say the Suninerites and the Stevenites that pre ference for color is a mere prejudice, and that the muscular arm and the heavy lips of the gentlemen front Timbuctoo are as tender in their wooing as those of the straight haired fellows of the Caucasian persuasion. The Democracy of Philadelphia are al ready astir. The parade and reception of the Keystone Club on Friday night, was a very handsome affair. The enthusiasm of the people generally for McClellan and Pendleton contain much that foreshadows mischief to the miscegenationists. Clubs have been already organized everywhere throughout the city. In some cases time has been taken by the forelock, as in the case of your own admirable Young Men's Democraiic Club of Lancaster,—and all that was required to put them into complete activity, was the announcement of the can didates of tne Convention. 'The people seem to feel that the Democratic party must win or anarchy must follow. It is useless to deny the tact that the prosebution of this war, for the purposes announced by the abolitionists,cannever bring to the aid of the adminihtration the Democracy of the land, and, without them the Southern Confeder acy "is an established fact." rknow when I write this that Atlanta has fallen before our brave western army, and that Mobilo may soon be ours ; but still, unless history is an absolute fable, the end cannot be oon summated without . unity. A bar has been raised against this unity by the Abolition ists, because they preferred to make war for a policy-in which the Democrats will oppose them to the bitter end. m, _rar• The Washington CAronicie disavows any,intention of abandoning Lincoln. SO much the worse for Lincoln.
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