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THE PRESS,
PUBLISHED DAILY (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,)
RY JOHN W. FORNEY.
No, 111 SOTJTII FOURTH STREET.
THE. DAILY. PRESS,
m o nvlny Cwerra PER WEEK, PaFable to the Carrier.
'failed to Subearibere out of the °lig at EIGHT DoLLese
Pan ANNI:TIC, FOUR DOLLARS FOR Six MOILTRIL TWO Dole
LARe FOR Tunas MoNrae--lavallably in advance for the
Male ordered.
Sir Advertisements Inserted at the usual rates. Six
Lines constitute a square.
• THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Mailed to Sabecrilmre out of the City at Fotra DoLLA.Eg
' PER ANNUM, In advance.
GEWrSi FURNISHING GOODS.
is FINE SHIRT EMPORIUM,
Nor. 1 AND 3 NORTH METH STREET
JOHN O. ARRISON,
(FORMERLY J. BURR MOORE.I
INPOICFSE AND IMARTTFADTEIREE OF
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
SPT GREAT VARIETY APED AT MODERATE PRICES.
N. B.—Particular attention given to the making of Shute,
Ja24-104
celollars, Dia'Tors, &e.
VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
.0- The subscriber would Invite attention to his
' IMPROVED cur OF. SHIRTS.
Which be makes a specialty In his business. Abe. 0011-
titaritly recelirlag, •
NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
J. W. SCOTT,
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE:
No. 11414 CHESTNUT STREET,
Jal7.tr Four doors bslow the Continental.
MILLINERY GOODS.
1863 , SP BIN a- 1863
WOOD 411 C3ARY.
No. 725 CHESTNUT , STREET,
Have now In store a complete stock of - -
;STRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS,
INCIZOING
STRAW HATS AND BONNETS.
HISSES' AND CHILDREN'S STRAW GOODS
FANCY AND CRAPE BONNETS.,
FRENCH FLOWERS, RIBBONS, &c,
To which they res'pockfully Invite the attention. of Mer
.ohanto and
CAWBUYERS will find speelal advantage In examin
=ing tilts atoak before pnrchasing. fe2.B-2m
I - PAPER HANGINGS.
p73ILADELPELIA
PAPER HANGINGS.
HOWELL & BOURKE,
CORNER OF
iIrOURTH AND MARKET STREETS,
MAIPLIFAOTTIRERS OF
PAPER HANGINGS
INDOW CURTAIN PAPERS,
, Ofor to the Trade's. tillGE AND ELEGANT ASSORT
fiNENT OF GOODS. Qom the cheapest Brown Stoak to
, `the Finest
,Docorntione.
E. COB, FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS.
N. B.—Solid Green, Blue, and Buff WINDOW PA
PERS of every grade. fel3-2ra
- SEWING MACHINES
STILL .
THEREI2.. •
AT THE OLD STAND,
. 6118 cinsivtrr smut
• Second door, OPPOelte Sayna'a Hall.
'WHEELER di WILSON
SEWING MAOHINES.
The undersigned has not removed, but le ready at Lie
. Old °lace to supply onstoiners, at the lowest prices, with
• every style and quality of
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES. ,
Machines to hire; also, with drat - class operators, to
( private families and hotels, by the day.
Machlnestfteh lag done at short notice, in /MY quantltr.
Machines repaired and operators taught.
de2s-SM HENRY COY.
SI.MGER , I3
SEWING MACHINES,
For remit,. &I nn 'and Btauttfactarini Purposes
810 CHESTNUT STREET.
Sets-3in • • •
FIE 'WILCOX -&
,QIBBS:
FAMILY .. •
SEWING MACHINES . .
• have been greatly improved. watkin git
ENTIRELY NOISELESS,
.. and with Self.adinsting IlemmeTs, are now ready for
bale by FAIRBANKS St EWING,
Bet?-tf • .. 715 .011.13STNIIT Street,
DRUGS. AND.CREDUCALS. .
MOBEET SHOEMAKER it CO.,
Northeast Corner FOURTH and RACE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE . DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
.801INON AND 1101111STIO
rWINDOW AND PLATE GLASS,
iLisorAcrxrasas OP
wurnuinD Asp ZWO PAINTS. PUTTY.. tai
17=1
FRENCH ZINO PAINTS.
•• .Dealers and cosummera supplied at
VERY LOW PRICES FOR thizi:
I!M
AUDIT CLOTHING, &c.
OPPENETELISIER,.
No. Sel CHURCH Aqw, Philadelphisi,
CONTRACTOR AND NANUPAOTURNR or
ARMY OLOTWNG
Of Ergs Deiorisktoa.
ALIA •
HAVERSACKS.
PONCHOS,
CAMP BLANKETS,
KNAPSACKS, and
BID TICKINGS VON HOSPITALS.
MATERIAL BOTRAIT BON CONTRACTOR&
All goods made will be guarantied regulation In aim
N. B. Orders of any size tiled with despatcli. Jel-Sm
PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, dm.
•
TAMES S. EARLE & SON,
- iMPOEVIRS AND MANUFACTURERS *7
LOOKING GLASSES.
'-OIL PAINTINGS.
ENGRAVINGS.,
PORTRAIT.
PICTURE. and
PHOTOGRAPH amok
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
wirrionsms LOOKING GLASS WARRROOMR AND
GALLERY OF PAINTINGS,
deSl.t? sue •HEIESTNIIT Street. Phtladelphin.
=@:Ma=l
TF U•gt
. N I T U RE.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT,
W. ct J. ALLEN & BROTHER,
1909 CFIESTNIIT STREET
t ,et . BIIs D IE 3L y s r : IRN7DRE AND BIL
MOORE tts (TAMPION,
No. 201 kaki SBOOND Streak
In connection with theftextensive Cabinet business, are
9 now manufachwing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
• and bare now on hand a full supply . , finished with the
MOORE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
-which are pronounced by all who have used thorn to be
• Superior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these Tables, the mann.-
.faotnrers refer to their numerons patrons throughout the
.101nIon. w)* •are familiar with the. character of 'their
-work, . • • mill•am •
MX; 7 .I;S:=MI
617 ARCH STREET.'
C. A. VANKIRK CO.,
UANUFACTUIIIp4I pa •
CHANDELIERS
AND °VISE
GAS -FIXTURES
Also,French Bronze Figures and Ornaments,Porcelain
and Mira Shadoa. and a variety or
FANCY GOODS. .•
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Please call and examine goods
ZENO ARMY AND TOILET MIRRORS,
The best In the world for finish and durability.
B. M. S.
The best brand Silk Finished
VELVET RIBBONS.
sole Agen t , BENJAMIN hi. SMITH,
ltsrt MANS Street, neer West Broadway.
fv4l-3m New Perk
WILLIAM 11. YELTON & CO.,
No. 201 !loath FRONT Streets
Agents (or the sale of the
ORIGINAL HEIDSIECK & CO. CHAMPAGNE,
Offer that desirable Wino to the trade.
Also, MO:leases fine and medium grades
BORDEAUX CLARETS.
100 wises '•Brandenborg Freres" COGNAC BRANDY,
Vintage IMB, bottled in France.
60 cases finest Tuscan Oil, to flasks ; 2 dozen in case.
60 bbls finest quality Monongahela Whisky.
60 bbla Jersey Apple Brandy.
00,000 Havana Cars, extra fine.
Moat & Cbaadon Grand Via Imperial, "Green Seal"
Champagne.
Together with a Hue assortment of Madeira, Sherri.
Port. &o. I rAiS-1V
pELLEvoisnsi,,.BRANDY.---4N IN
VOICII. in Bond, for sale by
CHAS. 13. 4 JAS. OARSTAIRS,
149 No. 125 WALNUT and 21 GRANITB StS. '
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COMMISSION HOUSES.
SHUFF
,(R7 WERNWAG,
IMPORTERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
MA-R, AND 244 CHESTNUT STREET,
SILKS AND CLOTHS:
O,A SSIMERES,
MANTILLA GOODS,
GROS DE RHINES,
VELVET RIBBONS,
FRENCH CORSETS, &a.
ALTEMUS & COZENS,
fill GRESTNITT STREET,
(SOLE AGENTS FOR
GREEN tfc' DANIELS%
CELEBRATED IVORY FINISH
SPOOL COTTON,
WARRANTED 200 YARDS.
Pronounced one of the best makes in the market. rel4-11a
OUR SPRING STOOK IS NOW AR-
BAHOZD
60,000 DOZEN
H OSIER Y;
LT LOWER, PRIORS TITLE FREELENT COST OF 3M-
FORTATION
THOS. MELLOR 453 CO.,
40 dND 42 NORTH THIRD &TRUST.
JOHN T. BAILEY Ba 00.'
BAGS AND BAGGING
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION;
NO. 113 NORTH FRONT STREET,
WOOL BAGS FOR SALE.
is 7-6 m
pHILAD E L P H I A
" BAG "
MANUFACTORY.
BURLAP BAGS, OF ALL SIZES,
TOR CORN. OATS, COFFEE, BONE-DUST, Re.
ALSO.
SEAMLESS BAGS,
Of standard makes, ALL SIZES, for We cheap, for net
slush on delivery.
CEO. GRIGG.
No. as and au outman ALLEY.
SEEIPLEY,, HAZARD. &
'HUTCHINSON,'
No. 1.121 CHESTNUT STNEEN.
COMMISSION BIER . OII4.NTS, -
FOR THE SALE OB
PHILADELPHIA-MADE . GOODS.
066.0 m • •
GRIGG & . TAARAISTEAD,
No. B 1 STRAWBERRY STREET.
Offer for sale, by the Package,
RIPKA'S COTTONADES,
SUFFOLK BLUE DRILLS,
STANDARD BROWN BRILLS, •
STANDARD BROWN SHEETING%
LONSDALB NANKEENS, dro., &o. inh3
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
EDWIN HALL &
MO South SECOND Street, will OM this morning
The new shades of Alpacas.
New style of plaid and stripe Poll de Chevres.
Figured and striped Mohair Lustros.
Mozambiques and Arabian Lutes.
Valencias and Nnbias,
New styles of Dress Goode of various names.
Pnie Black Alpacas.
Jabal( . Modes. iglu*. Magentas, and Blank de Lianas.
EDWIN HALL & CO._,
90 South SECOND Street. have on hand the foil
lowing Goods, imporlodiast year, and for sale much be
low the present costar importation:
Brown, Blue, Ind Green Cored Silks.
Black Ottoman or Corded Silks.
Black Armures and Ponit de Soles.
Browns, Blues, Greens, Mode, and Cuir or Leather
color Poult de Salmi. • -
Brown, Blue, and Green Figured Silks.
Black Figured Silks.
Black Taffeta Silks. •
Black Gros de Ithine Silks.
Foulard Silks, &c.. • mh3
LADIES'CLOABINOS. ' •
Real Water-Proofs.
Middlesex Cloaking&
Spring Colors, 6-4 Melton.
8-4 Cloths and Cassimores.
Boys' Cloths and Cassimeren
s'-flors' Linings. ' .
..e.
COOPER A COWARD,
mhB 8, N. corner NINTH and BIARKIIT Stree
SPRIN r -CLOAKS.
. Water-Proof Cloaks.
Black Cloth Cloaks.
Cloaks made to order.
Beet Hoop Skirts. ,
nOOPER & MNARD,
mbS S. E. corner NINTH and MARKET Streets
WIDE. SHEETINGS.
Good Shirking Muslim by the piece.
Fine and I ow•priced Flannels,
Table Damasks and Napkins.
Spring Prints and Deiaines.
COOPER & CONARD,
mh3 S. E. corner NraTE and MARKET Street:
MARSEILLES 1 MARSEILLES 1-A.
good assortment of Corded, Printed, and Plgared
ALUM/MLLES, for Essau.s, Children's'Wear, ke.
SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN. k ARRISON,
mh4 1008 CHESTNUT Street.
NIVEEIT-E •GO DS, EMBROIDERED
TRIMMINGS, &o. —The subscribers have a large
assortment dell descriptions of White Goods for Ladies'
Wear; also of Embroidered Jacone', Cambric, and Swiss
Trimmings —the choicest 3goods in the market.
SHEPPARD; VAN H.ARLINGEN, & ARNESON.
mh4 1008 CHESTNUT Street.
BLACK SILKS
Gros do Rhines.
Lustrings,Marcelinee. .
Mourning' Po do Soles.
Gros Orates.
Bonnet Taffetas.
fdoireentionee.
Doable-faced Brocades.
• - Rich, neat Figures.
SHARPLESS BROTHERS.
SPRING DRESS .GOODS.
Poll de Chevres, Maoris. '
Adrienne, Worsted Crepes.
FA de Chasms, Nebula'.
Chintzes, Lawns, Organdies..
Plain Silks, New Foulards.
Plaid All-wool Cashmere&
SHARPLESS BROTHERS. •
CHESTNUTfeffi and EIGHTH Streets.
~ I iYL•!N: t ~w Jiui ~A:4 J;~:i:~ ~
E. M. NEEDLES.
No. 1024 MUST/NTT STEM%
Asks the SPROUT, ATTBICTION Of the Ladles to hie
LARGE STOCK of .
WHITE GOODS, LACES, EMBROIDERIES,
HANDKERCHIEFS, &o.
A greater part of his' goods have been purchased
Previous being RETAILEDEAT ADVARCE, and
are now at LESS than whole
sale prices. Re has JUST OPENED
100 dozen broad Hemstitched Hdlctc, at 300.,
and upwards.
30) dozen corded-bordered all-Linen ,11 (Mk,
at D3c. , worth 25 cents.
60 pieces plain, buff, and white Piqua, (or
Children's wear.
2/3 pieces printed and lig'd Picinkfor Children's
wear.
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' BOWS.
Emb'd Maelin, lace trimmed, Am., received
every morning, from 60c.. to EIS. felo-tf
.1024THE;STNOT STRUT
. .
SPLENDID STOOK ON HAND.-
All the best makes of Calicoes.
All the best makes of Muslin&
All the best manse of Linens. • •
All the best makes of Sheeting& • •
ir All th .r e i lies ap. t h uut e. k at e o a . of Napkins.
Together with Towels, Crash, Diaper Hnoltabask, Bird
White Cambric and Jaconet, fall line.
Nainsooks and Plaid Heeling, fall line. '
Winter Goods closing out.
Shawls, fieriness, closing out,
Balmoral Skirts all prices.
Silk and Linen Hakts, nice assortment At
JOFIN EL'aVIKES',
3a : ' 70A ARCH Street
CAEl'E'rli • AND :OIL CLOTII6
GLEN FJOHO MILLS,
M'OAVLUM : & CO.,
MAXITPACTUEEII.:IMPORTERS, AND DEALERS,
509 CHESTNUT STREET,
(Ooirosite Independence Hall,)
O ARPETINGS,
OIL CLOTHS. tect
We have now on hand an extensive stock of CARPET-
INGS. of ' onr own and other makes, to which we Cal 1
the attention of cash and ehort•ttme buyers. fel4-3m
FAIRBANKS'. SCALES.
C I'o ..N
• •
The well-earned reputation of
• .FAIRBANKS' SCALES
Ens induced the makers of imperfect balances to off•r
them as • FAIRBANKS' SCALES," and purchasers have
thereby, In many instance,, bean subjected to fraud and
imposition. Fairbanks' Scales are manufactured only
by the original inventors, E. & T. FAIREAEKS & CO.,
and are adapted to every branch of the busineas, where
a correct and durable Scalnale
FAIRBANKS
= '`General Anents,
aplo-tt MASONIC HALL, 115 CHESTNUT ST
ff)'t ''t)rzss.
Correspondouco of The Press.]
WasuniamoN, March 7, 1803
On Thursday, liming accepted: an invitation to
visit Convalescent Camp, in Virginia, I entreated
myself to the tender mercies of an ambulance,
through—literally through,Virginian roads. The
distance from Washington is a little over , four miles,
but it was considered capital travel to accomplish the
journey in severity-ftve minutes. The Camp, which
is reached by passing over the Long Bridge, is with
in one mile of Fairfax Seminary and nearly three
trent Alexandria, its main supplies reach it from
Alexandria and from Washington over a railroad
Which is carried across the Long Bridge, and bears
the title, I beliete, of the Loudoun and Hampshire'
Railway. This was constructed by the Government
since the Rebellion began, and must become and be
maintained as a• permanent national institution,
rendered necessary by the wretched roads on the
Virginian vicinity of the Potomac, upon which
wagons, horses, and even broad•beamed foot Pas
sengern, too speedity find that they are liable to be
subject to Falstaff's alacrity in sinking.”
However, I am running on too rapidly,—more so
than my team did. It is not allowed to pass over
the Long Bridge (rightly an called), without a pass.
Mine, dated " Headquarters of Washington," was
issued' by command of Major General Heintz:O.
man," signed by Carroll H. Potter,' Assistant -Ad
jutant General, and rims declared to be in force
for two days. On leaching the Long Bridge, it was
examined by an old friend, (Ms. Samuel Murdoch,
the actor's brother,) who is attached to the Provost
Marshal's department, and who, notwithstanding
' our long acquaintance, went to the rear of my am
bulance to examine whether it contained any con
traband goods. On returning, next day, the pass
was given up,
One-halt the road to Convalescent Camp is pretty
good., Half way is Port Albany, which, to my 'civi
lian spectacles, appeared almost impregnable. It
occupies a commanding position, and the view of
Washington,"icross the Potomac, is .truly beautiful
from this position. The Capitol looms in the dis
tance, the sunshine making it seem still more white
and grand.
Leaving this fort we entered, 'soon after, upon a
road through aravine, awfully cut up by army
wagons, whose wheels sank from six.to seven inches
at times. This is the perfection of imperfeetion, as
regards roads. Every two minutes came a bump,
followed by a shake, eliciting " curses not loud
but deep.” The most confirmed victim of dyspep-.
sic, who will ride in an ambulanCe over such a
road, only twice a week for one month, mini thereby
lose the disease. Indigestion and ambulance-riding
through " the sacred soil' , of Virginia are as incom
patible as oil and water. N. R—The word soil, id.
the last sentence should be pronounced sludge or
At last, catching sight, on a hill, of the pickets
who, our driver said, guarded the camp, we left the
apology for a road and entered into what once may
have been arable land. A few miserable, scraggy,
half-starved; stunted trees were visible, here and
there, and a larger quantity of withered, thin, and
almost lifeless underwood. The weather, softening
the soil, which is of a reddish-brown hue, and which
has the absorbing qualities of a sponge, made travel
-ling through it as "hard" as, Ethiopean minstrels
assure us, is the road across Jordan. But we Jogged
on,—with - great fortune escaping a spill, though
sorely shaken to the last,—and eventually reached
the camp, driving on to)the quartermaster's tents,
where I was greeted with a hearty reception from
John A. Elison of Philadelphia, formerly first lieu
tenant and quartermaster of the 9d Pennsylvania
Cavalry, but now A. A. Quartermaster of the camp,
since the early part of .January. All the stores
are in his custody,—every article to be accounted
for, by vOuchers, to U. S. - The administrative
system in our army departments Is as regular and
exact as in a great and careful merchant's office.
Lieutenant Elision relieved Captain Calvin C.
koses, 68th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
as quartermaster of Convalescent Camp, by order of
General Beintzelman.
The camp, though situated on an elevated posi
tion, does not break upon the view until you are
close to it. Covered as it is by Forte Barnard, Scott,
and Richaidson, it is strongly placed. It was first
formed as far back as lest August, when Captain
Mixes entered upon his duties there, but was then
one of the rougheskand apparently most impracti
cable places imaginable. At one time, as many as
19,000 men occupied it—now reduced to .4,000. The
convalescents from surrounding hospitals are turned
over to this camp, where their cases arc treated by
competent officers ; but my good friends, the quarter-
master and the commissary, who supply them with
good clothing and abundance of good food, are the
best dispensers, after all. The food is excellent.
The men have fresh meat every day.. Twelve head
of cattle .are slaughtered and 6,000 loaves of bread
are baked daily. There is a supply of excellent
soup—in fact, the rations are of best quality. The
commissary department is *;,rattically in the hands
of Captain A. A. Pvleretllth, of Wisconsin—a gallant
soldier who was wounded in the first Bull Run
'battle. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel PacKelvy; of
Pittsburg, who was at Bull Run, and all through the
Peninsula campaign, and is a member of General
Ileintzelman's staff, has command of the convales
cent camp an Lieutenant Colonel Commissary of
Subsistence. He was so good as to spare an hour.
from his multitudinous duties and accompany me all
over the camp, showing its notabllta, and explaining
numerous novelties which would naturally be
"caviare to the multitude" of civilians, who often
criticize more than they understand.
The camp occupies from 40 to 60 acres of land. It
has four principal divisi6ns, occupied as follows:
The first, by Pennsylvania troops ; the second, by
New Yorkers ; the third, by New Englanders ; the
fourth, by Southern and„Western men. There is a
quartermaster to each division, but Lieut. John A.
Elison is head quartermaster of the camp, from
Whose stores they receive all the stores they dis
pense. There are ten Burgeons in the camp, two to
each division, and also Dr. Page, Chief Surgeon of
the Camp, and Dr. Sanford' B. Hunt, President of
the Board, by whom the convalescents are ex
amined : a portion discharged as unfit for duty ; . 1%
large number retained, as recovered and fit for set , '
vice. A new hospital, constructed of four detached
wooden buildings, with cooking and dining rooms,
is now nearly completed, and will . accommodate
1,000 men at a push. This hospital occupies a posi
tion which, albeit the highest in the camp, is still
well sheltered. It stands on a gravelly soil.
The barracks themselves are variously construeted
of wood, a succession of one story houses, in fine
Weitz, about 60 feet wide, and of tents, more pictu
reeque to look at, but not so pleasant to inhabit.
Two new kitchens, to which are attached four
dieing-rooms, capable of accommodating 4,000 men
at once, are nearly completed. The ranges are large,
..arid with each kitchen-are boilers capable of making
360 gallons of soup at once. The getting-up of these
kitchens has been in the hands of Captain Joshua
Norton, who was in a state of high delight when I
first met him, having just discovered a fine spring,
which 'wee capable of supplying all the camp with ex
cellent water. There is another spring in the camp.
The principal road through the camp has been
constructed in an 'lngenious and efficient manner.
From the nature of the soil, it is impracticable to
have a corduroy road that could . Stand. Colonel
BleKelvy has had brushwood plentifully laid
across 'a
line about thirty, feet wide and coarse
gravel plentifully thrown over this. In a wonder
fully brief time, trodden down by the• teams, and
presseddown by the wagon-wheels, this becomes an
excellent road. But there is now in progress, and
near completion, a branch of the railroad which
connects Washington and Alexandria, and this will
run right through the centre of the camp, avoiding'
great delay and cost in the transmission of the muni- •
tions of war and all other stores of every kind. The
main superintendent of the construction of this
road, which will bring the camp within fifteen mi
..nutes, and Alexandria within less time, (of distance,) '
is Captain Calvin C. Moses, already mentioned.
At present 'l5 four-horse teams do the work of the
'camp. The stables, (as also the wheelwrights' and
blacken:lithe' shops,) Whieb Quartermaster Eileen
showed me, are comfortable and useful. Each
horse, he told me, is allowed 12 lbs. of corn and oats
and 14 Its. of hay every day. The new railroad will
allow numerous teams to be dispensed with. At
present, all the wood consumed in camp has tube
drawn five miles and a half—and over such roads !-
Among the institutions of the camp is Mr. Wil
liam IL A. Smith's well-provided sutler's store ; a
barber's shop ; a newspaper office—where there is a
sale of from 1,000 to 1,500 papers a day, and a post of
fice,in charge of Captain Marston, 82d Pennsylvania
Volunteers.,There is aleo.a photographic establish
ment, in which Mr. Jones, formerly optician and
mathematical instrument maker at Baltirnore, is
the artist. He took an excellent likeness of myself,
as far, as we could judge by the negative, and nu
merous completed specimens attest his skill. One
of the soldiers, who had a full-length carte de virile
• taken, told me that the . price was $2.60 per: dozen,
which is much cheaper than in Washington or Phi
ladelphia. On the other hand, no newspaper is
sold in camp at a lower rate than five cents each
copy.
There is a small temporary church, in a tent, but
a larger and more eubatantlal one will speedily be
erected. From the time of Colonel McKelvy taking
command, he has not allowed man or beast to labor
On the Lord's day, and he assured me that the men
have profited, physically and mentally, by the cessa
tion of daily toil. The dattle also are better.
, The Colonel's own headifuartere, centrally situ
ated, are too small and inconvenient for the business
which personally gives him almost constant =ape
tion. They Will -bek enlarged, but he 'postpones his
own accommedation to that of others. ,
The wooden tenements are not so expensive as
-tents, inasmuch as lumber is cheaper than canvas,
but they cannot 'be removed, even a short distance, •
without great cost, while the tents can speedily be
taken up and transferred to. another locality. The
improvements. Convalescent Camp, which have
changed it into a military.town, have all been exe-.
cuted since the 17th of ,December. An economist:
may naturally inquire !, at what cost of laboil')
This was what I asked, and Colonel Alefillelvy said,
"The whole work is done by - the convalescents
. themselves, at : a small extra payment per diem.".
Subsequently, Quartermaster Ellson showed me the
charges duly, recorded in hie Witco, as disbursements,
and these were exactly twenty -live cents a day, for a
day's work, over the ordinary pay.
Unfortunately for the interest of my narrative, I
have nothing to relate under the head "Roughing it
OKIMUff OWN, PA. .
MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1863
CONVALESCENT CAMP.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MARCH - 9. 1863.
in the Camp. ,l I had my regular meals In a tent,
good quality, excellent cooking, and only the draw
back that my friends wondered that I, for themost
part astay-athorne man of letters, was unable to con
clude dinner with an extra pound or so of juicy beef
steak, and insisted that the fair allowance of capital
buckwheat cakes at tea and breakfast, was about
thirty-six per man, with extras.
About 10 o'clock I turned into the Quartermaster's
sleeping tent, which is connected with his, also
under canvas. A. warm and spacious room it is,
which two iron bedsteads do not crowd, and, in the
silence of the camp, sleep soon came on. It rained
and hailed in the night, but on going into_ the open
air it appeared that a sharp frost had followed.
Breakfast over, I proceeded to pay my respects and
make my adieus to Col. Meßelvy, to whom, add,
indeed, to all whom 'I encountered, I desire to return
my thanks for attentive courtesy. '
Rejoining my ambulance,' I returned on it to
Washington, my brief, but shaky journey made
pleasant by having- my whole-souled host, .Tohn R.
Eileen, as my companion, Ile has "troops of
friends in Philadelphia, who will learn with plea
sure that he is esteemed by those above hini in rank
as a reliable, vigilant, and perfsetly syetematic officer,.
in a very responsible dePartment, R. S. Al.
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
Release of Union Prisoners—Arrival of the
Iberville—Six Hundred Paroled Prisoners
on Ronrii—lntereating Account of their
Adventures—List of Prisoners from the
Harriet Lane and queen of the West.
[From the NOW Orleans Era, February 26.3
The Iberville arrived this morning, from above
Baton Rouge, having on board about six hundred
Union prisoners, conhisting of three aompanies of
the 42. d Massachusetts, the crew of the Harriet Lane,
and about two hundred and seventy of the United
States-regulars, surrendered twenty.two months ace
by the traitor Twiggs, and about twenty prisoners
from the ram Queen of the West, taken at Gorton's
Landing, on lied river.
We are indebted to William H. Hunt, sergeant of
Company I, 42d Massachusetts regiment; for many
interesting particulars. Ile arrived on the lber
le, this morning. The sergeant is one of the men
who was captured at Galveston, Texas, on'the
morning of January Ist, at the time the Harriet
Lane was captured and the Westfield blown up.
The fight at Galveston commenced at precisely
half past four o'clock, by the firing of a rebel gun at
the head of the wharf, where the detachment of the
4td Massachusetts was stationed. This gun was
Immediately answered by the fleet.
The firing immediately became very rapid and
continuous, and for three hours it was one sheet of
name from the shore to the fleet and from the fleet
to the shore. A building to the left of the tempora
ry barricade,' which the Massachusetts boys had
hastily thrown.up, was supposed by the rebels to
contain our. soldiers, and they directed their fire
against it riddling itsthrough and through with two
or three hundred balls and shells. Several of the
latter burst in the building. •
'About the time. the fire was hottest, three rebel
companies volunteered to charge our troops on the
wharf, but they were driven back with considerable
lose.
A second attempt was made to reach the wharf by
the water, into which the rebels waded breast high,
with the purpose of gaining the wharf by means Of
scaling ladders. But as fast as they mounted these
they were shot by our men, and probably a dozen
were killed by our musketry. A. gunboat finally
Opened on them. They were quickly dispersed, and
the second attempt to drive the Massachusetts boys
from their position was a complete failure. About
this time three rebel cotton boats, one a hospital
ship, and the others called the Bayou City and
Neptune, were seen bearing down upon the Harriet
Lane.
The fire from that vessel drove the rebels from their
guns, and they once retreated, but returned again.
They were again driven back, and retreated by Mee
gruder's order, and spiked their guns. sergeant
Hunt himself saw some fifteen or twenty rebel guns
On the wharf and shell road spiked, as he passed by
them; and, at the time referred to, the rebels were
retreating "right smart" on a double quick. At this
time, however, the Bayou , City struck the Harriet
Lane, knocking her anchor off the cat-head, and
letting it run forty fathoms of chain, which turned
the scale against us.
The rebels then returned with their peculiar yell,
which resembled a war-whoop, and is very different
from the honest "three cheers" of our soldiers.
The gunboats first raised the white Dag, and Col.
Eurrill, finding his supplies gone, surrendered at 8
o'clock- The corithict of Col. Burrill is spoken of as
most noble; throughout the whole trying period he
set a constant and conspicuous example (laminas'
and bravery. Gen. Scurry was sent to accept the
surrender. Col. Burrill offered his sword; but the
General replied . :
"Colonel, a brave man deserves his sword, and I
cannot take yours."
The troops stacked arms, and were allowed three
hours for preparations to move. They were then
marched through the rebel lines, and quartered in
the city until early in the afternoon, when they
were formed in line and marched five miles to Vir- -
girds Point. At 1 o'clock at night they started for
Houston by railroad, and were well treated by the
rebels on thejourney. They reached Houston at'
ham the next day, and quartered in a cotton press.
The officers were placed in close confinement at
the Provost Marshal's headquarters for some time,
but finally they were allowed the parole' - of the city.
The enlisted men were kept under guard, but three
at a time were permitted Logo up to the city to make
purchases. Prices Were enormous,lis will appear
from the following : Molasses, 50 and 65 cents per
quart; bread, 25 and 50 cents a loaf—such as can be
bought in Boston for 4 cents; Butter, $1.25 per '
pound, made of goats' milk and strong enough to
draw a handcart.
• Army shoes, such as are given to our Soldiers at
$1.67 per pair, are sold at 'sB and $9. A good pale.
of boots bring. $35, 'and "Sho emaker 's charge $l2 for
topping a pair. Flour, $6O per' hundred.' Meal, $6
a bushel—ground cobs and all. Nails, $125 a keg-.
worth $5 in Boston. The prisoners passed their
time mainly 'tn making rings out of the bones of
the meat. The rebel guard b/came no much in-
terested in these specimens of Yankee idgenulty
that they spent a good deal of time in procuring files
for our soldiers to work with ; and one of our men
sold $27 worth.
There was no sickness among our prisoners ; the
men kept up' their spirits bravely, and the officer's
Were allowed to visit them on several occasions.,
• On Thursday, January 20, the prisoners were re
moved from Houston by railroad, and made fifty
three
miles in fifteen hours. They passed through
a wild and desolate country, and arrived at Beau
mont on' Friday, and were quartered in an old saw
mill, 'which was full of hogs and vermin.
The hogs were turned out, but the vermin re
mained. Prices in Beaumont were no improvement
on those in Houston. Lard $1 per pound, butter
$2, coffee $2, flour $l2O per barrel, calico $2 per
yard, white cotton cloth $2 per yard, tobacco $2
and $s per pound, black pepper $6 per pound, eresm
of tartarss3.so, whisky $3OO per : barrel, and poor at.
that.
'The prisoneks left Beaumont January 29, einbaik
ing on the steamer Roebuck, a miserable old'crai t.
They went down the Neches river and across Sabine
lake, plainly desorying one of our gunboats with the
glasses.
The original design was changed, and the prison
ers were taken to Burr's Ferry, the furthest poiat
up the Sabine river accessible with the steamboat.
The prisoners were six days on the wretched old
vessel, and one of their number, David Chapit, pri
vate of Company I, died on the passage, and was'
- buried by his comrades at Stark's Landing.
The soldiers were here put into deserted and log
huts of the tinkled description, and kept five days,
during which Henry C. Sellas private of Company
D s died•from sickness contracted on the voyage.
Monday morning, February 9th, the bughreounded
at an early hour, and the prisoners took up. their, '
line of march for Alexandria. It was One travelling
for twenty-four hours, through a high pine country.
It gradually grew lower, and'the travelling became
bad. The prisoners were urged on constantly, and
even some of the mules of the baggage train dropped
with exhaustiorts One rainy morning the road lay
for 8178'mile:is - through a swamp, when the water was
above the knees of the men. - -
This wearisome march continued without inter
ruption, until the 13th, in the afternoon, when the
prisoners came in sight of Alexandria—a handsome
little village, once prosperous, but, like everything
else in Dixie, about "played out.. They remained
hire, waiting for orders, until Sunday morning,
when they turned out very suddenly, at 33 , 1 o'clock
in the morning, end hurried off up the river to get
out of the way of Uncle Sam's gunboats, whites they
said were coming up the Red river to take the place.
They went twenty miles and remained until after
noon, when word came of the capture of the 'Queen
of the West, and all returned. •
The same night everything was put on board the
steamboat, and they started for Vicksburg direct, as
it was supposed, but the order was count ermended,
and the teams were put on shore, and the s teamer
left with the prisoners, and sailed direct for
Port Hudson. Here a lieutenant colonel came on
board, took command, and examined the papers' and
ordered the vessel to the other side of the river,
where she remained over night, within two and a
half miles of the Union picket. . , .
KIIJ.1 0 .1) AND WOUNDED.
The following is a list of the killed and wounded
of the Forty-second Massachusetts : •
- Company G.—Privates F. xnott, kille d ;u. L.
' Parker, wounded in shoulder, severe; G.R. Derry,
In the arm, slight; Es D. Double, in the hand, severe;
T. T. Sweezer, in the mouth, slight.
Company D.Lieut. W. IL Cowdin, wounded in
the back, severe; Privates J. O'Shaughnesay, right
leg amputated; L. T. Joselyn, wounded• in the head,
severely by a piece of shell; T. Elate, in head, slight;
T. IllorrllL in hand, severe; D. J. Sullivan, hand,
slight.
Ordnance Sergeant D. Wentworth, wounded in
right leg, severe; Q. M. S. H. Foster, in hand, slight,
GOING OVER. TO THE FEDERALS.
During the night the two stewards cut down the
life boats, and deserted over to the Union lines. Two
'of the engineers, one deck hand, and five of .the
• guard, and two negro firemen, also deseregit the re
bel craft at Baton Rouge.
On Tuesday morning the prisoners were trans
ferred to our flag-of-truce boat, having come down to
the point fixed for the exchange. They had been
previously paroled at Alexandria.
MRS. LINCOLN'S: BROTHER AT HOUSTON.
The rebel officer whd called the roll of our priso
ners at Houston is Lieutenant Todd, a brother of the
wife of President Lincoln. He is tall, iat, and
savage against the "Yankees."
. ,FEDERAL . OFFICERS RELEASED .ON
PAROLE..
The following is a list of the United States ofilcers
taken prisoners at Galveston and released on pa
role, who arrived on the Iberville: •
The Rev. Dr. Sawyer, chaplain of the 424 Massa
chusetts ; Dr. T. N. Penrose, surgeon of the steamer
Harriet Lane; Acting Paymaster R. J. Richardson,
do.; Third 'Assistant Engineer ' J. E. Cooper, do.;
Third Assietant Engineer —t, do.;•Third Assist
ant Engineer A. T. E. Mullen, do.; Acting Master's
Mate E. M. Davis, do.; Paymaster's Clerk 7. C.
Tobin, do. •.
PRISONERS CAPTURED ON RAM QUEEN OF
THE WEST AND RELEASED ON PAROLE.
• The following is a list of the prisoners captured on
board the ram Queen of the Weat, in Red river, on
the 14th inet., and sent here on the Iberville:
• Carroll Smith, plivate Company 0, Cad Illinois
, 'Regi ment ; J. Bates, first sergeant Co . I, do. j Chas.
D.-aulkner, Co. I, do.; Win. Brown, private Co.
H, do. is— EloCullom, private Co. F„ do.; L. 9. Jor
bal, private Co. IL, 18th do.; Daniel S. Booth, assist
• ant surgeon Queen of the Meat ; C. S. Eddison,
• mate of do.; 'James W. Foster carpenter. of do.;
John Foley, deck hand of do.;.John Williams, cabin
. boy of do.; F. S . Duncan , second mate of de.,• E. G.
Halsteen, private ; T. F. Rice, do. T. L. Williams,
do.; Richard Grove, blacksmith ; Christopher Lan
ner, private; G.. W. Hill, steward ; Geo. Watson,
deck hand : George W. Bailey, private; Wm. It.
' Taylor, engineer. •
ANOTHER PERIODICAL COMET.-The Bos
ton Dun/tri
H p: . says : "It appears from the rfeenf re
port on the arvard Obseivatory, that Kr. Safford,
the eminent , matheinaticiaa. has found that the
brilliant comet (Tuttle's) Bo well seen in the ,heaven
last Bummer moves in an elliptical orbit, gibing it a
period_ of 13 1 ; yenta , a conclusion to wlitch the
European observers bare also come: The ellipse
has considerable inclination to tie plane of; the
ecliptic, and intersects- in the two zodiacal con
et eliation s, Leo and Oapeleorn., It is extremely
elongated, the .outermost part lying away in space,-
on the southerly , aide or the ecliptic, nearly as far
beyond the whit of the • planetNeptUne ae Neptune
bimkelf iB from the sun- , When in perihelion, or
neatest the solar orb, the comet is just within,the
orbit of the earth. 4 • • •
NOON FOR TILE SHE OF TILE UNION,
GREAT WAR MEETING
IN NEW YORK
DEMOCRATS, REPUBtICANS, CONSERVATIVES UNITING
UPON ONE PLATFORM.
TniE PLATFORM, WAR FOR THE UNION.
Enthusiastic Demonstration in Favor of =the
Administration;
N4tional Union League Fortheoi-
Speeches by James T. Brady, John Van
Buren Judge Daly, and. others.
The New York papers contain long . reports of a
meeting held in New York, on Friday evening, to
sustain the'Presitient in the prosecution of the war.
I Cooper Institute Hall was crowded to overflowing,
and another large meeting was organized on the
outside : It was intended that General Winfield
Scott should preside, but the old chieftain was con
fined to his room with an incipient attack of pleu
risy. In his absence, his Honor George Opdyke,
Mayor of New York, occupied the chair. Our space
prevents a republication of the full report, but we
.reprint such portions of the addresses as will interest
the lOyal reader everywhere.
WE. MUST BE TRUE
l?.ev. Dr, Hitchcock made the first speech, in the
course of which he said :
Aitil*rith the rebellion on its own honest or tlis
)ionetit feet, as the case may be, shall meet us foot to
fooyand eye to eye, and breast to breast, and then
it Cvrll be known whether twenty millions of Demo
eitatic Republicans, standing on this continent, con
secrated to Democratic Republicanism, shall be a
match and an overmatch for eight millions of rebels.
[Applause.) The Administration has determined
that this issue shall be fairly tried. Military neces
sity, military wisdoni, has dictated this measure
purely and surely, and shall we not bless God for
the Opportunity whi6 lie has given us to consecrate
a magnificent act of holy justice in the name and
;under the wa y ings of out(starry tlagl [Applause.]
strikc for our institutions, tor the graves of our
fathers;lor . thecradlea of our children ; and we strike
that grander blow for humanity, for man as . man.
.[(heels.] And now, beneath the auspices of these
new measures, the voice of the nation, that was
choked almost silence, bowing to the dust, is peal-
In wacioaa the ocean in clarion tones. The heart of
the true Engl and, hearing, is responding to us. Every
true Frenchman every true German, every true
Christian man in Europe is on our side. [Applause.]
.11 seems paltry in us to have misgivings.in this
'eleventh hour. The rebellion is almost'
The lest blew for our institutions is almost struck,
'arid shall we now be false to ourselves in this final
trial By the memory of our fathers, by our hopes
for our children, by our faith in God, the Father of
all mankind, no, tic, a thousand times NO [Great
;Applause.]
WHAT A: BRECHTNRIDGE DEMOCRAT
TIIiNKS---SPEEOIL OF .TAMES T. BRADY-,
PONE CONSTITUTION, ONE COUNTRY,
ONE DESTINY." -
James T. Dimly, an eminent lawyer of New York,
•Brecliirtridge candidate for Governor in 1860, a warm
supporter of Horatio Seymour, and a rigid Demo
crat of the Southern school, made the next speech :
. But' that grave of mine, 'hdiVever unnamed or
.uzinotlced, I want to be distinguished by some lin
gering'of affection iri some heart that cleaves to the
recollection of film who once was, as the grave of
one whose ,country was the United States of Ame
rica. [Loud cheers.] That is my country. I can
.admit of no other. There is no name to be substi
-tuted for that. There is no flag except ours that I
can ever accept [cheers], no star to be taken out of
it [cheers], no stripe to be stolen from it [cheers];
stars to be added to it without number [cheers],
stripes to be accumulated till the eye tires of look
ing at theme eo that with all the gallant history of
•its past and glorious associations of its present, how
ever gloomy the prospect may appear to many, there
shall be for us now and hereafter, one country, one
Constitution, one destiny. [Loud cheers.]
IiESFEOT FOR THE YANKEE
Although from the first time that I ever made a
speech in public till now most of you have been op
. priod to me, aril well understand, in political senti.;
ment, I thank God that it has been permitted me to
be present on an occasion when any one human being
would attach importance to my voice in saying that
, I stand up now, as I always have done, for the pre
servation .of the Union and the Constitution of the
country. [Loud cheers.] When I began life I
heard, as I afterward heard, a word called Yankee.
It certainly does not apply to me. But the South
has applied that word to all of us atthe North. Now
I em free to say that I discover in the Yankee cha
racter some particular features that I no more ad
mire than I do some of the prominent traits in the
inhabitants of the land from which I sprang. But I
nevertheless accept the name of Yank.ee as applied
'to me in the spirit of our forefathers in the revolu
tionary period ; and if the South can find no more
of disgrace to be attached to it than its undying
struggle for the preservation of this Government,
whether slavery exists or falls, I thank God for it.
[Loud applause.]
• ' 'THE .DUTY OF AN IRISHMAN.
YOU. 'will pardon me, my fellow-citizens, if I offend
the prejudices of some of you in speaking my mind.
The first speech I ever made for a Presidential can:
didate was in behalf of a Southern man. From that
time to this my Sympathies have been strongly with
that portion of the Union. But, gentlemen, to make
the matter pointed, if I lived in a house with a
friend, and he announced to me some day that under
Do circutustances Would he associate with me any
16n r, I - Vould propose to vindicate what is manly
in my nature by telling him that I would go some
where where I could find suitable company. [Great
merriment and' applause.] And when I came here
to-night, and as I passed through the streets to-day,
I was beset, by. gentlemen. for whom-I -have the
greatest: respect, who Wondered whether I would
speak at hmeetiog where gentlemen always opposed
to us in politics would be present, and where, per
haps, a spirit of freedom stronger than any that had
entered into their natures might be exhibited. [Ap
plause.] Gentlemen, I differ with many of you in
regard to the causes, the conduct, the'prosecution,
and the probable results of tbe war in which we are
engaged. But, with the blessing of Heaven, who
ever may applaud and whoever May censure, I
would be false to the Irish rase, from which I sprang,
to . find here a home and a refuge from the penmen
tion and oppression of that detested land to which
the first speaker too politely referred [applause and
a hiss], if I did not use my last breath, and employ
the last quiver of thy lips, in the utterance of a
prayer to Heaven againitall assailants, internal and
external, for the preservation of the American
Government.. [Loud applause]
"A WAR FOE THE MAINTENANCE OF THE
GOVERNMENT."
When this war broke out, -I knew that it was
urged by the South. I hoped that it might terminate
early; I hoped that my. Southern countrymen—for
such they are-would develop among them some de
sire to remain with us... I detected with regret that
they had prepared means to make an assault upon a
- Union that they ought to lore. I maintained si
lence in regard to it. You will excuse my egotism
but I now justify myself in 'my own presence. Is
found that they proposed to take to themselves Fort
Sumpter, the forte at Key Weet and Pensacola,
Tortugas and Fortress Monroe. I thought it was
quite essential to the dignity and prosperity of the
country that we should retain these fortresses. I
think so now. I did hope, however, that the South
ern people would put their feet upon the necks of
their leaders and insist upon the maintenance of the
Union. But they have informed us that they would
consent to no such condition. They have told'lle that
if vie gave them a blank paper and pencil tb write
the terms of a new compact, they would not agree to
it. Therefore ft it a war declared for all ulligate
suits that can come, and I spit upo n the Nortlign man
who takes any position except for the maintenance of the
Government. (Here almost the entire audience rose
to their feet, waved their hats, and cheered vocifer
ously for some momenta)
' INTERVENTION BY ENGLAND.
Great apprehensions are entertained lest England
should interfere. I have prayed to God, on m
bended . knees, that she would. [Loud. applause.]
Let her but exhibit one single manifestation in that
direction, and there is not a man of my race that
would talk about the exemption of forty-five years*
of 'age. [Great Laughter.] Tie woulibbobble up on
bis crutch, in the ardent expectation of splitting the
bead of any one who undertook to interfere in a
matter that belongs to ourselves. Permit me, how
ever, to do justiceto those wine, excellent, and patri
otic gentlemen' .of England, who have been so just
toward 'us throughout this controversy. I would
disgrace myself, and insult you, if I did not acknow
ledge here my gratitude to those who, without fear
or hope of reward, have stood by our cause. I would
do myself injustice if I did not admire the character
of that great man; John Bright "loud applause],
whose last observation In regard to The London
Herald and' Standard is that he does not care much
about their censure, for neither of them, In the mar
kehiof Eugland, could ailed the price of a pinch of
snuff. [Laughter and applause.] The single rea
son, ally= all know, whyrranee and England de
sire to interfere in this fight; is an acknowledg
ment, in the presence of the world, that they are in
debted to us for the means of employing and support
ing their population.. ;Applause.] '
"ROW DO WEt,PROEOSE TOEND THE WARP ,
Now, fellow-eitizens„ I am met everywhere, as
you. are, by the question, "How is this thing to
end!" I airt' sorry to say that the presuppoeed an
swer to tifat question is interfered with by two class
es of men . . 'First, by the women of this country.
Bachelor as I am, no doubt this remark will subject
me to censure. But I say, if the women of the North
had manifested that interest, which they should in
the success of our cause, which the 'women of the
South have done in theirs, thousands more of men
mould have been stimulated to take their position
in the field. I can never find myself en rappant with
that class of people who manifest something like
pleasure at the success of our foe. What is this
war about? It certainly has grown into a war ; it
certainly lea war of the North against the South.
And when I talked with .Southerners, as I did with three
in Philadelphia last Sunday, as ardent Secessionists mutes
bitter opponents as I can find anywhere—as biller at thaw
who cluster in presen o vol Verson Davis himself--I said,
"Gentlemen, you must admit that there is a moral
superiority In the people withwhom I am associated,
'when you can talk to me freely what I would not
dare to Day at the South, except at the peril of my
existence." - [Applause.] And[l said to them as I sly
to you, How is this thing to end! I say, with your
permission, gentlemen, to my friends of the Demo
cratic party, whom I cannot meet one by one on the
street, and who perhaps would not value my opinion
if I did—Sir, how do you propose to end it! The
South say to you, it ou are all Yankees; we pro
pose no aesociation 'with you, and will consent to
none." Have you ever seen a man with a whiteface
upon him or a black face upon him who would pur
sue, for the sake of society, the person who
spurned him . ] [Cheers.] You ask me how this le to
end: With the feeble powers that I have possessed
since I arrived at man's estate, I have strndled for
that which I would contend for if the Constitution
were restored or continued, that .is every right
which the South can justly claim under that mired
*instrument. But they say. We will makeno pea Ce.
THE SOUTH AGGRESSIVE—THERE CAN
NEVER BE TWO GOVERNMENTS.
They propose that there shall be twogovernmente
mild!, soil, armed governments. •Sir, I cannot con
sent twany such condition. ("No PI Rome and
Sparta, Carthage , and Athens were all, repuhlies ;
this was taught to you in 'four primer. Each of
them was a military power. .1 refer you to 2'he Fed
eralist and the articles of Alexander Hamilton in re.
gait to the possibility. of• maintaining separate or
ganizations of government on this continent. When
you can answer them, let 'me sec your treatise or
bear your discourse and I will be submissive, as I
hope I have always been, to the voice of reason.
:Eut, hlr. Southerner, listen to ran and the men who
have stood by-the South against the denunciations
of presses—and, gentlemen, I see' them represented •
on thisplatform4isten to me , wild, with the feeble
capacity that I possess, have indite(' always that
you should have all the rights to which you are en
titled. You say rib. Arr. Lincoln was elected Presi
dent, but you weeinto the canvass. He' was cho
sen President, suit yet there was a majority in both
branches of Congress against him. I defy you to
point:Jett .a. single net of the Government which
should have Provoked any hostility on your part.
But as Jung 2US there is breath la , nipbody—it . rou
limbo it a question between the SOuthand theNorth'
.---1. should think I was unworthy of the mother who
bore me if Etlid not go for any.portion eustaMett by
40. e ConatithtiOn of Ahe United States. [Applause.]
• - • ' •
MUST TRIUMPH
Before I saw the ruins of the old world I thought
I ehbuld shed a . tear over them, but when I dis
covered that they were the steppingatones by , which
the human race rose to its_ present height, they
became a pleasant sight to me. Here bivilization
has found its last resting-place. There is no place
to which to go back civilization knows no regurgi
tation it has no reflueut wave. The people of the
South in the single State of Virginia would never
employ the necessary physical power to redeem that
exhausted soil; Nobody will say, after my discourse
closes, that I have been very eulogistic to the
speaker, but seriously, in the presence of my God,
in the exercise of the hest capacities that I know
how to employ, I say to my . friends of the South,
however gallant and chivalric and persevering may
be their struggle in the field, all history will be false,
all analogies fallacious, every promise to the human
race an absurdity, if this people, who have conquered
the barren East and conquered , the ocean, and are
willing to conquer all circumstances of privation,
shall not own the whole of this continent before
this country expires. [Loud and continued alt
.
THE RESOLUTIONS A PLATFORM FOR
ALL UNION MEN—FORMATION OF A
UNION LEAGUE.
Ex-Judge Bonney read the following resolutions..
They were received with very great applause:
Resolved, That , it is the, duty, of every citizen to
unite in all proper efforts to preserve and perpetuate
the Union in accordance with the Constitution.
Resolved, That the conduct of disaffected persons,
claiming to be citizens of the United States yet zeal
ous in their attempts to embarrass and impede the
action of the legally-constituted authorities, and In
the utterance of treasonable sentiments, deserves
and should receive the condemnation of every loyal
Resolved, That the loyal people of New York here
by pledge, their fortunes, their influence, and their
honor to the support of the national authority in
every vigorous and determined effort of arms, on sea
or land, to secure a complete and final suppression
of the causeless and: atrocious insurrection which
now desolates our country.
Resolved, That the Army and Navy of the United
States owe theirundivided allegiance to the Consti
tution they have sworn to support and defend, and
that no soldier or sailor can rightfully hesitate in
his obedience to the commands of superiors in rank,
whose authority is derived from the Government of
Resolved, That every citizen owes allegiance to the
Government, and he who denies its authority, or
fails in his duty to uphold the honor of its flag, is an
abbettor,of treason, and should suffer the penalty
due to his crime.:':
Resolved, That this meeting, under solemn sonvie
'Hops of duty and in a firm reliance on the.juntice of
that Providence which guides and guards govern
ments and peoples, does hereby resolve itself into a
Loyal League of Union Citizens, pledged to an un
conditional support of the Government in all its con
stitutional efforts to suppress the rebellion, and an
uncompromiaing opposition,to treason, in whatever
form it appears.
Resolved, That the committee of this meeting be [Le offi
cers 'and Committee of the Loyal Union League ofTie citi
zens of New York, and that each person present is a mem
ber of the League.
The resolutions were adopted by acclamation,
An eloquent address was -also made by David
Dudley-Field, Esq., a leadirm Republican of New
York, who took high ground 6 in favor of the war,
the Administration, and the proclamation of the
President.
NO FAITH. IN "PEACE" POLITICIANS.
An address was also made by Judge Daly, a lead
ing Democrat, who has been hitherto a warm advo
cate of the South, and to prominent in his opposi
tion to the North that the Tribune denounced him
for his subserviency to the treasonable sentiment of
the Confederacy. In the course of his brief speech
he said :
There are a number of men in the North at pre
sent who talk of peace, who talk of an armistice,
who talk of concession, who hope for compromise
and who have no hope of the war. If persons of
-that temper of mind have made:up their minds that
the war is hopeless, and that the separation of the
States is now inevitable, then their conduct and
their declarations are consistent with their convie
tions ; but for men who profess entertaining such
convictions to be desiroua for the restoration of the
"Union, for the preservation of the land in the terri
torial unity with which it was committed to us by
our fathers—l say, if such men entertain that con
- viction, I have little belief in their wisdom, and if
they have wisdom, I have doubt in -their na
tionality. [Cheers.]
SPEECH OP NOUN VAN BUREN.
John Tan Buren, well known for the prominent
and able part he took in the recent canyces as the
champion of Governor Seymour, and the antagonist
of the Administration, made the leading speech of
the evening. He began by reviewing his own course
in the contest between Wadsworth and Seymour,
and said:
— As to the thing that should be done at this elec
tion, if I believed—and I said so with entire truth
and sincerity—if I believed that, by voting for
Wadsworth, I should contribute to the success of our
arms, and bring about in this country an honorable
peace,.l should vote for Mr. Wadsworth for Gover
nor without hesitation. But it was because I did
not so believe ; because I was entirely confident that
such a course would not be advantageous to the
country, and would not bring about an honorable
peace which is the legitimate. object of the war,
I
that should support Mr. Seymour. I also said on
that occasion, in speaking of the advantages of sup
porting Mr. Seymour, that my object was to sustain
the President as far as justice will authorize and sus
tain him in every fair governmental measure that he
may adopt for the purpose of carrying on the war, or
to uphold-the Government. I said that it was our
purpose to stand by the Union and the Constitution,
and to stand by Mr. Lincoln as far as lie would let us,
and to stand by McClellan whether he would let us
or not. [Mingled applause, hisses, and great con
fusion:] Now, in conclusion—[renewed hisses and
applause]-1 am only repeating to you what I said
on thel3th of October: [bites of "Go on."] I said,
protract this contest to the next Presidential elec
tion, no matter what is the result, this country will
be irretrievably swamped long before we reach the
4th of March, -1865. It must be done sooner—the re
sult must be achieved under Lincoln; it - must be
achieved by carrying vigor to him"in resisting what
I may say will, unless defeated, result disastrously
to us. It will be observed that then I stated, that
party organization had ceased to be of any practical
importance; that the sole inquiry, in my judgment,
was how should we best carry on the war—re voice,
"That's so "F-Land that I would'be governed entire
ly in that canvass by thataingle consideration. [Ap
plause.] What I .then said I repeated in various
portions of the State after the 13th of October, and
until the very day of the election. Govenor Sey
mour was present on this stand at the time I spoke.
Be was with me in Brooklyn, in, Rochester, au t in
Buffalo, and the single complaint his friends made,
ae far as I understood, was that I fell far short in
my support of the war and the vigorous and deter
mined support that Mr. Seymour expressed his rem.
lution to give to it under all circumstances. [Ap
plause.] The election came and passed, and it is no
part of our province or purpose to consider the par
ticular result, except to say that the people of the
State of New York, after a very active canvass,
were about equally divided, for to speak of a ma
jority of a few thousand in a canvass in a poll of six
hundred odd thousand, la. simply to say that they
were about equally divided, and the same was true
of the States Of. Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania;
the • majority in These great Central States was
trifling, and to-day, to-night, while we are here, the
people of these great central and controlling portions
of these United States may very properly be regard
ed as about evenly divided between the - two parties
that were organized at the last canvass, and the fu
ture results will depend, in my humble judgment, a
great deal more upon future conduct of individuals
Than upon anything that has transpired in the past.
[Applause.] Now we have passedthrough the elec
tion. There ia no election in this State till next au
tumn. We are assembled on the 6th of March to
determine, not what New Hampshire shall do, not
what Comiectieut shall do, but what the people of
the city of New York and of this State shall do.
And there being no election pending, I hold it to be
entirely'preposterous to assume that people who
differed during the last canvass in this State may
not unite a few minutes together, and tell what we
think will be the end of this war; unite cordially in
such measures as may be necessary to put clown re
bellion that has no shadow of justification. [Ap
plause.]
. After alluding to this history, Mr.
Van Buren proceeded to discuss the national aspects
of the question and the relations of the rebellion to
slavery :
THE SOUTH THE AGGRESSOR-THE /NEA
MEM _OF THE REBELLION.
. .
There is no doubt that there has been for a great
length of time, a large-number of politicians in the
South who have been determined to extend slavery
to the free territory of the United States. They en
deavored to use the organization of the Democratic
party for that purpose, and, in 1848, they assumed
such a position in regard to it as to force what I con."
eider the regular Democracy of the State of New.
York out of the Democratic party, [Applause.] The
election of '4B, and '62, and '5B, came to pass. The
election of 1660 was the next that transpired, and in
the meantime this disposition was manifested, by
• various efforts, to force slavery into Ilfansae, and
other measures that it is not necessary now to &s
-ettee, and to which I was always opposed. In 1860,
in'the Democratic Convention, they declared that
the platform of the convention should contain a re
cognition of the legality of slavery in all territories
of the United States, and they declared in addition,
that slavery should ' be protected by the Genera/
Government in all the territories belonging to the
Union. The Democracy of the North refused to agree
to that, and the convention broke up. It reassembled
at Baltimore, and again broke up, and the election
of 1860 came on, the Southern men having a candi
date of their own, and the Northern and Western
Democracy supporting Mr. Douglas, and a large
number of gentlemen supporting Mr. Lincoln, re
sulting in the election of Mx. Lincoln. [Applause.]
In that contest I took no part. I voted, but 1 did
nothing more. No man ever heard me, in public or
in private, express any opinion in. regard to it, ex
cept when the election came off. I deposited my
rote in opposition to Dir. Lincoln. [Voices—
" Good."] After that election Congress assembled.
Mr. Lincoln's message declared in the fullest manner
his unwillingness to- interfere with 'slavery in the
States. It recognized,An the fullest extent, the
right of the different Slates to have slavery if they
chose, and his entire indisposition to interfere with
it, notwithstanding that several States . seceded
'from the Union - as they said. They held a con
vention, and resolved themselves out. Their ro
presentatives abandoned their seats in Congress,
although they had control of the Senate and House
':of Reiresentativee, and the Supreme Court of
' the belted" States," they, retired from the Con
gress of the United States. • They went further
and set up a Government of their own, or said
they did. Now you all remember the debates be
twern Webster and Rayne upon that suhject, of the
right to secede from the Union. Mr. Webster, told
Rayne what has since proven true—that that was
mere rebellion, and when they put it in operation
they would sec that,'in order to carry out what they
assumed to be the right of peaceful secession and
'nullification, they must use force, and be met by
force, and the law of bayonets must decide the con
troversy. [Applause.) .Thie occurred. They as
sumed to set up a Government under the right
which they claimed to destroy the Uniou. They
formed a Congress and elected a President. But
_property of
a entohte United content th t i h s. e - y T se h iva
eyse i Lzed for t t h a e ,
its ships, its treasure. They fired upon the flag of
the United States at port Sumpter, and claimed the
right to exercise the power of a sovereign Govern
ment. Now, you will , bear in mind—every fair
minded man lathe United States will bear in mind—
that up to this moment not 'one hair of their beads
had been injured. No light of any Southern man
had been invaded.
NO SUCH REBF,LLICK.IN HISTORY. •
11inory will record that the world never witnessed a re
bellion against a governmental authority before where the
raels could not lay their finger upon a thing to show that
either their property, Their liberty, or their rights had been ,
in the slightest. particular, //media. [Great applause.]
This being the fact; the city of New York sent forth
80,000 men to quell this rebellion. Her capitalists ed
vaneed $300,000 , ,000 to put down this rebellion. The
State of New lark sent 200,000 men, and lam to
argue, in the faceof these facts and the pasthlstozyof.
this contest. that the rebellion is atrociously unjust, •
and that the war in Which we have engaged with the
South is rightfully prosecuted by us in vindication
of the Constitution and the Union. [Applause.]
Now, what; is the condition of thissontestl They
were not " satisfied. with what I have detailed; but
they tannouneed they were going to establish a Re
`public' the corner-Stone of which should be slavery,
and they are now engaged in that task, in endeavor
ing to establish a Republic on this continent in 1863,
the cornerstone of 'which shall be slavery. Now, I
THREE CENTS.
went to Herkimer in 1848 to lay a cornerstone, but
it was not this. [Laughter.] It was as mush un
like this as anything you can possiblysimagine, and
it adds no additional attractions to the contest, as
far as I am concerned, that they should avow this
object in prosecuting the war. It is now a. contest
forced upon the non-sltroeholding and 'loyal slaveliolding
States, by those who are endeavoring to build up a repub
lic based on slavery. To prostrate a rebellion that has
that object in view, lam willing to devote any means, any
time, any exertions within my power, during Me rat of
my life. [Applause and three cheers.]
THE ACTION OF CONGRESS—THE POWERS
GRANTED TO THE PRESIDENT.
Now let us see whether there is , anything worth
considering in what is suggested by those who die
sent from us, and are unwilling to prosecute tilts
war. The measuresthat havebeen recently adopted
by Congress are so lately adopted, that it becomes
any man who is careful in what he says to be
guarded in speaking of them. The President issued
two;prociamations—both of them, as I have fre.
quently stated, I disapproved. Re issued both be-
tine I apoke on the 13th of ()Wolfer, and before Goy.
Seymour spoke. Neither of As saw anything in
them which prevented us from favoring a vigorous
prosecution of the war. It there was nothing then,
it is certain there is nothing now: [Applause.] The
bill which has excited the sensibilities Of several
gentlemen who have spoken in New Jersey, and at
a certain hall iq this city, (hisses,] was a bill which
gives extraordinary powers over the purse and sword
to the President of the United States. They are
bills which seek to protect by indemnity the Presi
dent and those connected with him from arrest.
They are opposed to another bill, as I understand,
which has become the law, which authorizes the
President, in his discretion, to suspend the writ of
habeas corpus. [Applause.] I will state now, as briefly
as I can, what are my views in regard to this. Who
first place, as to the bill which gives the President
the enormous power over the sword and the purse, I
agree that it makes him almost a dictator. I agree
that it is a verylgreat stretch of power. -
THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT—A HIS
TORIC PARALLEL—THE POWERS GRANT-
El) PRESIDENT VAN BUREN.
• I argue that unless there maybe a necessity for it,
it should not be done. Everybody knows that in
prosecuting a war under a Republican Government,
which consists of several States the great apprehen
sion is that there may not be unity on the part of the
States suffloient to impart energy to. the executive
heads. That was predicated as one of•the grounds
upon which our system of government would fail.
I call the attention of my Democratic friends to
this, because there seems to be particular solicitude
about them now. [Laughter.] The. President was
given the power of the purse and -the "sword in
1839, when Great Britain had directed.z:forcible
possession to be taken of a portiorrOf 'the - State of
Maine, and Sir John Harvey had moved troops of
Great Britain into that territory to- hold it. The
Governor of the State of Maine met this action
by moving Maine troops on to the same terri
tory. The President of the United States called
the attention of Congress to it,'and left it to their
own wisdom what ought to be done: :Now I hold
in my hand a copy of the bill that they passed upon
that occasion, in 1839. I will state 'to you the
substance of the various sections, without detaining
yon at this late hour by reading the bill. The first
section puts the whole naval and military force of
the United States, and the militia, at the disposal
of the President. [Applause.] The second declares
that the militia, when called out, shall be compelled
to serve six months. The third gives the President
power to call out 60,000 volunteers. In those days
when our army had never reached 8,000 men, it was
a weighty matter to call out 80,000 men, and was re
garded as an enormous authority. [Laughter.] The
fourth section gives the President power to complete
and employ all the armed vessels of the United
States—thus putting the whole army and navy
of the United States at his disposal. [Applause.]
The fifth section appropriates $10,000,000 to carry
into effect the provisions of this act. in those days
ten millions of dollars was a great deal of money.
[Laughter.] The sixth section appropriates $lB,OOO
to send a special minister to Great Britain. The
seventh section authorizes him to expend a million
of' dollars in finishing the fortifications upon our
seaboard, and building them. The eighth section .
directs that the militia and volunteers when called
out, shall be portions of the army of the United
States. Now, how do you suppose that bill passed? It
put the whole purse and sword into the absolute power of
the President of the United Slates. Clay, Webster, and
Calhoun—men perhaps.inferior to the &loss of our day
[laughter]—weremembers of the Senate. The bill passed
the Senate, and these three statesmen—although all rota
lenity opposed personally and politically to the then Presi
dent of the United States—voted for the bill, and Updated
the Senate unanimously. [Applause.] It passed the
House of Representatives, after a full discussion, by
a vote of 201 to S i and the leader of that six was
Help A. Wise [hisses ], the.bold brigadier who dis
till
shed himself so greatly at Naga Head [laugh
ter , while his brigade was fighting acid . his eon
dying. [Applause.]
WHAT THE DEMOCRACY THOUGHT IN 180
ON THE QUESTION OF ABSOLUTE POW-
Now, let us see whether the Democracy of our day
was alarmed at this union of the purse and the
sword, and, in the first place, let us see how the po
litical opponents of the Administration treated it.
Gov. Seward was then Governor of the State of
New York, having been elected in 1838, ands politi
cal opponent of the President. On the 7th of March
he communicated this act to the Legislature, with a
moat praiseworthy message, concluding thus: "I re.
spectiully call your attention to this subject, with
the expectation that an expression on our part of
concurrence in the policy of the General Government
will contribute to avert the calamities of war, and
cause a speedy and honorable adjustment of the
difficulties between this country and Great Bri
tain?' Mr. Isaac L. Varian was then chairman
of the Democratic General Committee, and Mr.
Elijah P. Purdy was one of the secretaries.
They called a meeting of the Democrats of
this city, and over that meeting Mr. Holmee presi
ded, and for vice presidents were men whose names,
when read to any Democrat, will bring back associa
tions of greatintez est, and perhaps of some sadness,
unless he supposes that the prominent Democrats in
the city now are more respectable than those whose
names I. will read. The vice presidents were Henry
Yates, Walter Rowne Samuel Tappan, Divided
Van Schaick, Gideon Tucker, Abraham Van Neat;
and they resolved, not that there was danger the •
union of the purse and the sword , --not that it was a
usurpation—but that it was a prompt and patriotic
measure on the part of the House of Representatives.
[Loud cheers.) Let us see how it wee received by .
the electors, It was on the 2d and 3d days of March,
as I have stated to you. The election in New Hamp
shire came on then, as it will now within a few
days, after the adjournment of Congress; and New
Hampshire, which had been somewhat equally divi
ded, gave 7,000 majority for the Democratic ticket.
I shall be pleased if my Democratic friends find It
gives a large majority now. [Cheers and laughter.]
The city of New York, by a defection in the con
servative portion of the Democracy, had been thrown
into the bands of what was then called the Whigs.
The city election almost immediately followed, and
the city was recovered. Isaac L. Varian was elect
ed Mayor by a thousand majority, and twelve out of
seventeen wards gave Democratic majorities imme
diately after this extraordinary usurpation.
THE MEASURES ADOPTED TO SAVE THE
.REPUBLIC IN THE EVENT OF A WAR
WITH ENGLAND.
, .
General Scott, who was too - have presided here this
evening, fortunately for the country, was then pro
minent in the command of the armies of the United
States. On the 7th of March he went to Maine,
and he remained there until about the 21st, when he
concluded an arrangement with Lieutenant Gover
nor Harvey by which the British troops retired from
their position in the State of Maine. The Maine
troops also retired, and civil officers were left in pro
tection of the publicproperty, and, by his wisdom
and his foresight, by the 24th of March he was able
to report to the Government of the United States
that the whole difficulty had passed over. [Ap
plauie.] Congresaassembled in December, and the
President of the United States made this communi
cation to them : .
" The extraordinary pOwers vested in me by an act
of Congress; for tho defence of the country in an
emergency, considered so far probable as to require
that the Executive possess ample means to
meet it, have not been exerted. They have, there
fore, been attended with no other result than to In
crease, by the confidence thus reposed, in me, ob
ligations to maintain, with religious 'exactness, the
cardinal principles that govern our intercourse with
other nations. Happily, in our pending questions
with Great Britain, out of which this unusual grant
of authority arose, nothing has occurred to require
its exertion • and as it is about to return to the
Legislature, ' T
trust that no future necessity may
call for its exercise by them, or its delegation to
another de artment ofthe Government." •
Not a do lar was expended, not a volunteer was
called out, not a man from the militia was brought
into the field under this act ; and I would be glad to
know whyit may nothappeathatthia extraordinary
demonstration on the part of the Congress of the
United States, of the power and resources of the loyal
portion of this Confederacy,will not again be followed
up by a similar auspicious result. The successful way
to prosecute a war is to make an overwhelming. de.
'monstration of strength to satisfy those who are pre
parekto resist the rightful authority of the Govern
ment, that the resistance is useless, and that this must
be crushed out. [Cheers.] Now, gentkonen i there
is nothing in my humble judgment, therefore, in the
law "eased putting this enormous power in the pr
session: of the President 'of the United States to
deter me from assisting in a vigorous prosecution
of the war. [Cheers.] I can very well understand
how, if I sympathize With the rebellion—if I deemed
that this war should fail—l could spend hours and
columns in picking flaws in this act. But if I be
lieved that substantial' justice required that the
great ends of prosecuting the war demand that the
whole power of the Government shall be lodged by
the Constitution of the United States in the Presi
dent of the United States, I Nvill bow in silence to
the act whether I approve of it or not. . [Prolonged
cheers.) If the President of tho United States had
usurper these powers, there might be a degree of
propriety in denouncing it; but when the representa
tives of the people, legally elected, after due deliberation,
assume the responsibility of lodging these trusts in him,
in my humble judgment,. and certainly in view of the
precedent to which I have referred, no wise man will ever
complain of the act. [Applause.']
THE PROCLAMATION. OF EMANCIPATION.
And what I have to say is in reference to the
proclamation of the President of the United States,
declaring slaves free in certain parts of the Union.
[Prolonged cheers.] I have taken occasion, .on
several times, to state (and that was perfectly
known when I was invited to speak this evening)
what my objections were to that proclamation.
'There are no objections to its constitutionality.
The President has a right to make any proclamation
he chooser, and so have I. [Applause and laughter.]
The onlyquestion I make is as to the wisdom and
legal caret of this proclamation. Now I say that.
the proclamation does not set any body free. If a
men is free by law, he is free with or without the
proclamation, but I say that it excites the Southern
people to this view. of the subject. (Hisses and
opplause mingled.] They say, "You declare that
If we come back and submit to the law and to the
Government, then our slaves are emancipated."
That was ' not . the President's intention. You
-.may rely upon it that he did not emancipate
the thives in any territory of the United States
that is under the dominion of the United States.
They are not emancipated in Kentucky. in Missouri,
in 'Tennessee, or in Maryland—[ A voice: "They
ought to be," followed by hisses, applause, and
cries of "order' miler j—and that was, in my humble
judgment, no part of his purpose. In my judgment
his sole object was to declare, as a general policy,
that as our armies advanced against the rebelswhen
the rebels were conquered their slaves should be
le gaily free. There is no doubt about that, with or
without the proclamation. Slivery exists by force,
recognized by law;
.. slaves now are held in the so
called Confederatebtates by virtue of the Confede
rate States Government and the Confederate United
States authority. When our armies advance, and those.
Government* arc overthrown, the elavehoiders who refute
to rteogniZe the Constitution of the United Stales lose
their stares by lam, beyond all peradventure. [Loud ap.
Otiose.] That being so, It is not wise, in my huoible
judgment, to continue such a declaration; but that,
of course, is a matter for the past. I say, as I have
frequently said; that in my judgment, all the good
that could have been done by it has been done.
THE DUTY OF,THE PEOPLE TO THE PRESI
DENT, AND • THE PRESIDENT TO THE
PEOPLE.
Gentlemen, I believe that it is just as much our duty to
unite in a vigorous prosecution of the war under the
President of the tinted Stales as it was when the
war was first declared, notwithstanding anything
that may hare been done.. Nor am I one of
these who insist that he should pal a particular
general in command of the army or any por
tion of it. I never suggested that he should make a
change in hia Cabinet, that one member should be
put out and some. other person take his plaoe. That
belongs to him; and I am not disposed to interfere.
It is for him to determine - how hieresponaibilitims
shall be discharged, and not me. But what Ido say
is, that he had better trust the people. lam one, of
those who an not in the habit of speaking of the
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The WAR Palmas
all-To the getter-up of the Mb of ten or twenty. as
extra copy of the Paper will be given.
peel as eomething separate from myself. I very
often meet men who tell me that the people want
this or that.
Well, 1 say, I guess not. I rim one of the people.
I don't wont it ;• and bow do you get at the result t
The only way I know of to determine what the peo
ple want le to Rieke up yore mind what you want
yourself, and then. tater, in the absence of evidence
to the contrary, that other people want it. (Pro
longed laughter.; Now, there is a great anxiety felt
as to the course on the Democrats. Gentlemen, a
Democrat is a peculiar iestiention. It does no good
to drive the Democrats, to bully, or to attempt to
intimidate them : they will have their own, was al
waya, as I have found. But Tnever stall be made
•
to b elieve that the met/n*llo stood by George Clinton,
anti their fathers before them, in the Revolution ;
who stood by Tompkineand .laskson in tam; who
stood by Polk and Marcy in.the Mexican war, will
be found wanting in this. it' remains to be seen
whether they will or not.
A COMMENT UPON MR. BROOKS, OP THE
EXPRESS.
But my own course will be wholly uninfluenced by
that of any one else. I have been cautioned by a
great many people about attend insthis meeting to
night. I was told that it wet an insidious - attempt
to disintegrate the Democratic re.; ; and a news
paper which joined us last fall [laughter). and many
representatives in Congress who never joined us at
all, have great fear that I will do something to dis
integrate the Democratic party. Now, if the whole
party should differ with those to whom. I have ad
verted, we should be nd more disintegrated , than we
were before. My Representative 1 have revery high
opinion of He eeems to be very willing to represent
the whole of our :state, and a very considerable part
of New Jersey [laughter] ; and, looking at hie paper
this evening, I perceive that he has taken charge of
the Governments of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and
several other States. It la not often that a mania
favored with being provided with such extensive
plane of usefulness. I mad as teeth that he made
before the Democratic Union Anotaiition, on the sd
of March, as it was reported' in the World on the 4th.
Without undertaking to say what was proper for him
to say, or for him to omit, I will say that I thank
God that he was not my Representative until noon
the next day. The Democratic party, asou all
know, nine years out of ten, controls the Gover
nment of the country. It requires, therefore, no more
patriotism on their part to be attached to the• G
overnment and the country. It is. in fact, an attach
ment to themselves. [Laughter.]
"WAR TO THE BITTER END."
' Bid, fellow•cilizens,whatever lam doing, and whatever
y else does , ! I shall sustain this war to the biller
e a ercheere,l and the city of NC le York will do it after
sending eighty thousand men, and spending three hundred
millions of dollars, they will not hesitate to go through;
and the Slate, in my humble judgment, will not hetilete to
go through. 'Why was there anything even more pre
posterous than the idea that when we ate told by The
Southern men that we must recognize their inde
pendence before they will treat with us; that we
should be wasting time in undertaking to negotiate
- a peace? When the President of the Confederate
Republic as he claims to be, denounced the best
men of the North, and East, and West as pirates
and hyenas, and, what he seems to suppose worse
than all, as Yankees, [laughter,) is it possible to
make terms with him, or to listen with composure to
any arrangement for an accommodation. [" No:"]
Why, Win are the men that have been sent from the
State of New York who are thus denounced by this
rebel chieftain? I have differed from a great many ot
them politically. I have differed from a great many
of them personally, but when you find the Kearneye,
the Van Rensaelers, the liamiltons, the Schuylers,
the Ditto, the Campbells, the Caubrellings. the
Dewers,' the Rings, the Wadsworths, the Row
lands, and the Vosburghe, the best blood of the
State of New York, who are thus denounced as pi
rates, why, I submit that it requires more than or
dinary composure to listen to it. Yankees! They
arc the Knickerbockers of New York; they are the
best men of the State of New York; and when they
peril their lives and shed their blood in defence of
the Constitution of the country and the Union of
the States, he who denounced them as pirates and hye
nas is as forgetful of the principles of truth and honor
that should govern the language of 4 gentleman as he is
traitorous to the flag under which he acquired political
fame. [Loud Applause.] We have nothing to do but
fight this matter through. We can have no discussion in
regard to it, and it behooves us to look around and see
what assistance we are to receive, or what interference we
are towed with.
MEDIATION.—NO DANGER PROM ENG
LAND.
Let Inn say one moment toyou, that I am not one
of those who unite in this sentiment of anxiety
.about the course of Great Britain. I happen to
have had peculiar opportunities which it is not ne
cessary now to advert to, for knowing the people of
Great Britain for the last thirty years. They will be
neutral, and, in my humble judgment, that is all we
have the right to expect. Nations are like individu
als. When two gentlemen resort to the arbitra
ment of arms, no other person feels himself at liberty
,to interfere in the quarrel, and when two • nations,
cultivated and civilized, or claiming to be such, re
sort to arms, all we have a right to ask, inney hum
biejudgment, of any third person, is that they shall
not interfere but shall stand neutral. Now, all
the public acts of the Government of Great Bri
tain all the declarations of her prominent men,
all ! the correspondence of her minister, all tho
general source of information compel us to believe
that they mean to observe strict neutrality. Gen
tlemen tell me that they allow vessels to be fitted out
at their private ship-yards. Well, it is for us to ree
member, that we are to be at peace before long, and
Europe is to be at war; and whatever our shipyards
or the owners of them, and our merchants say they
will allow the Government of the United States to
forbid them from doing when European nations are
at war, exactly that we have a right to insist that
the British Government shall prohibit the ship
builders of Great Britain from doing—no more and no
less. We must live up to our own law. Now, it is
not a violation of any neutral act, in my judgment,
in Great Britain or here, to build a ship, and sell it
to a Government that is at war with us.. It in seized
ns contraband, ff you can get it—fair prize of war
but
it is no violation of the neutrality of Great
Britain, andites violation of our neutrality.. It our
ship owners and ship builders desire such an amend
ment to be made to the neutrality act of Great
Britain, then it is a fair matter of discussion whether
it shall be one. But short of that, believe me,
we
cannot compel them to do any more than weare
willing to do ourseivee
WHAT TILE FOREIGN POWERS THINK OF
THE WAR.
• 'But the Goternment and people of Great Britain
have unquestionably a sympathy with the people of
'the Southern States in this contest, and while they
do not feel at liberty to interfere, and ought not to
be asked to interfere, in my humble judgment, we
have their good wishes, and never had apprehended
any acts on their part of an unfriendly character.
Butane beyond all doubt, is entirely friendly. The
Emperor of the French will do exactly as he thinks
is entirely for his own interest. I am not one of
those who attaches any importance to what he de
clared be will do, because his declarations to the
French people were never kept, and.l haven't any
idea that his declaration to us will be observed, un
less it is for hie benefit: He and his prominent Men
about him have nothing in their past lives to offer as
hostages for their conduct. They live in the present.
Be holds his Government by force—whatever is no
cerssary to maintain himself, that is exactly what he
will do. And, in my judgment, when he sees that he
must go alone, that he will have no co-operation.
from other Powers, he will refuse to interfere in
this quarrel; and will let us alone.
WE MUST DEPEND UPON OURSELVES—WM,
MUST UNITE—UNION IS VICTORY.
- But, gentlemen, we must depend upon ourselves ;
if we can fight this battle to -victory, we shall—if we
cannot, we shall be defeated. But, beyond all earth
ly considerations, we muat unite—thatis our highest
consideration, and being united I have no doubt
about the result. I do not look forward to a long
war—a great many people do. It is not the habit of
modern times to have long wars. The-great im
provement in the engines of destruction enable na
tions to bring war rapidly to a close. The Russian
campaign was not long ; the Italian campaign was
a short one, and in my judgment the war will be a
abort one if we are united and putforward the whole
power of the loyal States of this Union. With our
immense population and resources we ought to end
this war in ninety days. Start your troops in New
Orleans, at Vicksburg, at Charleston, and in Ten
neseee. Charge along the whole line—advance with
energy and will—Union—and, my word for it, in
ninety days everybody will wonder that this rebel
lion was ever-regarded as formidable in any portion
of the United States. [Prolonged cheers.]
A LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF
. STATE.
-
lion. Henry J. Raymond made a brief addresto
and read the following letter from Hon. William H.
Seward, Secretary of State:
• DEFAIITSINNT Or STATE,
WASHINGTON, March 3, 1863.
To the Ron. George Opdyke and others, New York:
GANTLEMEN: I thank you for your invitation to
the meeting to be held on the 6th instant, designed
to resolve itself into a loyal league of Union citizens,
and I deeply regret that public occupations here pre
vent my acceptance. I pray that my name may be
enrolled in that league.
1 would prefer that distinotion to any honors that
my fellow-citizens - could bestow upon me. If the
country lives, as I trust it will, let me be remem
bered among those who labored to save it. If Pro
vidence could disappoint the dearest hopes of man
kind, let not my name be found among those who
proved unfaithful.
I subscribe to your proposed resolutions in their enact
letter and in:their right loyal and patriotic spirit. I would
reserve nothing whatever/ism the sacrifice which may be
required by the country. lie that preferreth himself, his
fame or ha fortune, Us friend, his father, his mother,
'his wife, his Mild, hi s party or his sectionabove his coun
try, isnot worthy to be a Wizen of the best and noblest
country that God has ever suffered to come into existence.
No one of us ought to object when called upon to
reaffirm his devotion to the Union, however. Un
conditionally, I would cheerfully renew the obliga
tions of fidelity to it every day and every hour, is
every place, at home or abroad, as often as any citi
zen should question my loyalty, or se often as the
renewal of the obligation on my part should seem
likely to confirm and strengthen any other citizen in
his patriotic resolution. The reaffirmation Is whole.
BORIC for ourselves, even if it influence no one else.
I RD; gentlemen, your obedient servant,
WM. H SEWARD.
A LETTER FROM GEN. BURNSIDE.
WASIITNGTON, Friday, MatCh 8, 1863.
To George Opdyke, Jonathan Starve and others, Com
mittee:
Grircri.rixeu : I regret that my public duties will
prevent my acceptance of your kind invitation to be
present at a meeting of loyal citizens of New. York,
at the Cooper Institute, this evening. The resolu
tions which it is proposed to introduce are in exact
accordance - with my sentiments. It is clearly the
duty of every "citizen, sailor, and soldier," to give
to the Government his unconditional end moat effect
ive support. A conditional support ie.full of discord,
danger, and disaster, and, at a time like the present,
amount, to disloyalty. In view of all the resources
with which God has blessed us, it would be ignomi
nious to believe that we have not the physical ability
to maintain the Government, when we remember
that we are fighting to sustain ,:.Government that
originated in truth, justice, honor, and patriotism,
against a rebellion that originated- in deceit, fraud,
ambition, and ignorance. It- would be distrusting
God's justice to believe that final success wilt not
attend our effbrts.
If we see evils before us, Ist us do all in our power
to correct them in a temperate way. Our legislators
should be made to feel. that they misrepresent us
when they attempt to clog the wheels of Govern
ment, or indulge in party legislation.
Polities an/12)(14y iines sitould. be ignored for the pre
sent. Fraudulent contra 'cots and dishonest disbursing
officers should be pun faired. officers and soldiers should
be subordinate, patriotic, energetic. and.free from' all per
serial ambition. The law of Congress making every
man a soldier who's, capable of beaaing arms should
be enforced and submitted to. The-old regiments
should be kept full, and promotions- made from
soldiers and officers in the Held, foremerit.
The President And Governsea should. be always
surrounded by honest, loyal, and. patriotic men,
capable of giving advice in there severatiMpartments.
The press should be temperate and independent ;
and, finally, our whole people, men, women, and
children, about(' be loyal, palriotice and honest, trust
ing in the righteousness of our cause, and cheerfully
submitting to all the privations .which the Provi
dence of God may visit upon us. ' Who will believe,
that this rebellion could last another year if we were
all I 'solved to fulfil these conditions
Thanking you, gentlemen, for the high honor clone
me by this kindinvitntion,
I remaire'very respectfully, your ob't serv't,
• A. E. BURNSIDE, Major General.
The Hon. Mr. Darter; of Ohio, late !United States
Minister to the Government of Bolin ia,Sind who has
Just returned home to' offer his 'services to the
veniment, next addressed the - meeting, urging the
necessity of prosecuting the near with vigor. At the
conclusion of Mr. Carterer address, it being near
midnight, the meeting adieurned with cheers for the
UniOn.