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4
A great Battle Possibly at Hanl—Prospects
WAsnizanoN, August I.—lnformation received
from the Army of the Potomac confirms the report
that Lee massed his forces at Oulpeper on Wednes
day, and made other preparations to give us battle
on the 11 appahannock. His first advance south of
Culpeper was to toll us in taking the Fredericks
burg route ; but finding we did not advance, he con
centrated his army at Culpeper. The Rappahan
nock is guarded from Fredericksburg to Ely'a Ford,
on the Rapidan, by only one rebel regiment. The
Rapidan is fortified south of Culpeper.
Gen. Meade's whole army is concentrated on ad
vantageous-ground, and the two forces are so close
together that a battle may be looked for to-day or
to-morrow, unless Lee steals away to. Richinond.
In that event he will ,be closely followed by Gen.
Meade, and the next thing will he the siege of Rich
mond by land and water. From all indications the
news promises to be very exciting during the next
few days. Gen. Aleade's army is in splendid con
dition. The impression, however, is very strong
in some quarters that Lee will make a stand on the
Rapidan.
BATTLE OF WAPPING - HEIGHTS, JULY 23.
ARMY OP THIC POTOMAC, July 28, 1863.—Lee, with
his army, having pushed into the Shenandoah Val
ley, no sooner found that Meade was at his heels
than he made a feint as if he would turn and recross
,the potomac. So soon, however, as Meade ascer
.• • ';1 to his own satisfaction, that Lee had not
id-back in force, but only as a feint, he again
pul_ ,columns In motion, and by the most rapid
and ; . fatiguingmarches, got possession of all the
passes in the Blue Ridge Mountains down to Ma
nassas Gap, thus hemming the enemy into the .
Shenandoah Valley. On the 28 inst. his scouts re-
Ported to him that one corps of the enemy was at
or below Front Royal, just through Manassas Gap,
and that the other two corps were behind and
rapidly approaching that point.
Buford's division of cavalry were alone in occupa
tion of this important mountain pass, through which
it seemed probable the enemy intended to force his
way, and they were calling loudly for reinforce
ments, representing that the entire rebel army were
menacing them. In this emergency the 3d Army
Corps, then guarding Ashby's Gap, was ordered
down to Manassas Gap. The order was received
late in the day, and by four o'clock the corps was in
motion. By an almost unprecedented march, they
reached Piedmont before dark, when, without halt
ing, the Ist division (13tiney's command), tempora
rily commanded by General Ward, was thrown for
went to support Oeneral Buford, MI6 was found to
be ten miles in advance, up the gap. Thus it was
nearly midnight when this division reached its
camping ground, in the vicinity of L inden, a little
t own c l os e in among the mountains. Early on the
following morning General French moved the rest
of the corps up to support the Ist division, and de
spatched his Chief of Staff, Colonel Hayden, to at'
certain the position of the enemy,
Col. Hayden, in obedience to his instructions,
pushed ahead and got his position upon the summit
of a lofty mountain, as indicated on the map, whence
he had a splendid view of the Shenandoah Valley
for miles in all directions. At his very feet rolled
the murky waters of the Shenandoah ;just in front
lay the pretty town of Front Royal; beyond and
stretching as far as the eye could reach, south, west,
and north, were broad fields, rich with their abun
dant crops. The scene was a beautiful one, well
calculated to rivet the attention and awaken the ad
miration of the beholder.
But other scenes, of greater interest to the vete.
ran soldier, met the gaze of the observing staff offi
cer. Upon an ordinary country road, approaching
the Shenandoah river, almost at the base of the
mountain on which he stood, and crossing the
stream at that point by a ford, thence losing itself
in the system of ravines and hills leading to Ches.
tees Gap, a large body of rebel infantry were moving
in close column and most perfect order. Several
thousand of these infantry were seen, followed bye
large body of mounted men, subsequently shown to
be sick and disabled soldiers mounted on horses
stolen in Pennsylvania, The rear of the line was
covered by a large body of cavalry.
On the turnpike beyond, running nearly parallel
with the country. road ' above described, leading
directly to Front Royal, were the long wagan trains
of the enemy, pushing southwardly as rapidly as
possible, and extending as far as could be seen
No reconnoissance could be more perfect and satis
factory than this. Taken in connection with the
information that had been brought in by scouts on
the previous day, it seemed clear that this must be a
portion, perhaps the advance, of the rebels' 2d
Corps. Their lit Corps had already passed down
the valley ; the 3d must yet be in the rear. The
situation was eminently favorable. This was pre
cisely the time to attack. We could now cut the
rebel column in two. This was the natural and
common supposition, and there was no dissent
from it.
So soon as Colonel Hayden returned and reported
his observations, Wood's old brigade of the let di
vision, temporarily commanded by Colonel Berdan,
was deployed as skirmishers and ordered forward.
Besides the celebrated Berdan Sharpshooters, there
are in this brigade the well-known 20th Indiana,
which did such splendid service as skirmishers at
Chancellorville, the 63d Pennsylvania, and the 3d
and 4th Maine ; all regiments of the highest repu
tation, and together forming a skirmishing line of
unusual strength and excellence. They were imme
diately supported by the 90th Pennsylvania, and the
86th and 124th New. York.
TINDBROLOTHIIIG, as.
The line was formed just beyond the little village
or Linden, where the pass is very narrow, and
would admit of no extended line. There was but a
single, and that a very narrow, road leading through
the gap by which to move up the main body of the
corps; but in the face of these obstacles, General
French kept his command well closed - up and ready
for immediate use.
But the enemy appeared to have no great force in
the gap, having been content with occupying its
western end with a picket force of a few hundred
men. They fell back as our skirmishers advanced,
until they came upon a supporting force strongly
posted on a lofty hill, facing directly up the gap, and
around which the road leading through the gip
passed by a debouch to the right. On this hill the
enemy made a stand, and seemed disposed to resist
our further advance.
General Ward then detached two regiments from
hie skirmish line—the 3d and 4th Maine—veterans
of Kearney's old division—and directed them to
clear this hill by assault: Our sharpshooters held
the attention of the enemy, while the Maine men
crept silently and all unobserved up the face of the
hill. On gaining the summit they sprang to their
feet, delivered a volley, and with a most determined
charge cleared the hill, gaining %number of prison
ere, and spreading the ground with killed and
wounded rebels. The charge was a right gallant
one, such as soldiers may well feel propd of having
participated in, and will ever be a bright credit mark
for these fine regiments.
But when-this hill was gained it was discovered
that the enemy were more strongly posted on a eye
tern of hills beyond and in front, commanding the
main road through the..tgap, and to some extent for
tified there, having a stone wall, a sunken road, and
some hastily-constructed breastworks of brush and
loge to cover them.
Gen. French was determined to sustain the repu
tation of the old sd Corps, and was not willing that
any obstacles should retard its advance when it had
received orders to move forward. He directed Gen.
Prince, commanding the nd Division, to detail a
brigade to charge this system of hills, commanding
the deboueh of the road, and dialodgethe enemy.
The Excelsior brigade was selected for this bold
enterprise. The men were bathed in line, and their
new commander, Gen. Spinola, addressed them a
single word of encouragement, when the gallant fel
lows gave one of their peculiar cheers, so full of de
termination and confidence, and started forward.
Room was made for them to pass through the line
of skirmishers, and in a few minutes they were at
the base of the hill.
The eastern slope of this hill was very rocky and
precipitous, at some places being so nearly perpen.
dicular that the men were obliged to scramble up on
their hands and knees. The enemy, posted on the
summit of the hill, were pouring down upon them
a murderous fire of musketry ; yet the men never
flinched nor hesitated, but pushed forward and up
ward—now hanging by the bushes and scrambling
on all-fours, again panting and puffing at a double
quick, fearless of danger and intent only on dis
lodging the enemy. The elevation is estimated at
three or four hundred feet. Up this steep and rough
mountain side the brigade forced its way, and on
reaching the summit fired and received one volley
from the enemy, and then, fixing bayonets, gave
another shout, and rushed upon the rebels. This
charge was too imich for flesh and blood to with
stand. The enemy quailed before it, and fled in
confusion, closely and hotly pursued by our victori
ous troops.
The flight of the enemy from their first position
disclosed a second ridge or crest back of the first
that had been so gallantly carried, to which the
rebels Week themselves and prepared to make an
other stand.
Gen. Spinela was twice wounded in the assault of
the first hill, and was obliged to leave the field he
bad so nobly won. Col Farnum, of the Ist Excel
sior Regiment, succeeded to the command of the
brigade. The ferocity of the assault had disarranged
the line somewhat, and Col. Farnum, as command.
er, halted them for a moment to reform, and then
gavethe order to advance again, placing himself in
front of the line.
All breathless and exhausted with fatigue, they
gained the summit of the second crest, the line bro•
ken and disordered, but only disordered as one and
another strove more successfully with their compa
nions for the honor of being first at the top. It was
nn'exciting race, in which the danger was forgotten.
in the noble strife to be ahead. And as they came
up the hill singly, and in squads of five, a dozen,
twenty, fifty and so on, each man rushed forward on
his own account to secure prisoners, each man catch
ing his prisoner by the hair, an arm, or perhaps a
coat tail. And thus the second crest was carried.
A parley was now sounded. We had gained a
second crest to discover, lying yet between it and
the valley, a third lofty elevation to which the
enemy had tied. Word was also received by Gen.
Meade that the rebel corps that had moved down
the valley was returning, leaving the impression
that it was their intention -to make a desperate
MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1868
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
of Besieging Bic innond.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1863.
stand and give us the decisive battle at that point.
Acting upon thnllnformation, Gen. Meade directed
Gen. French to suspend his main operations for the
present, and mass his troops in rear of the positions
already gained, and ordered up the bulk of hie army,
in anticipation of a battle on the following morn
ing. The narrow gap was crowded all night with
bodies of troops, packed in dense masses, so thick
as scarcely to be able to lie down. What sleeping
was done was under arms and in battle array.
The dispositions for battle were all made as the
troops arrived during the evening, and at early day
light we had a line of battle which, if it was not
very extensive, was certainly most formidable. It
stretched, however, from mountain to mountain,
across the mouth of the pass, and would have defied
assault. But no assault came. When daylight ap
peared the fast was revealed that the enemy had
wholly disappeared.
A detachthent of the Third Corps was ordered for
ward early in the morning, and. passed unopposed
into Front Royal, arriving there only in time to see
the duet of the enemy's column moving away south
ward. The returning force of the rebels that our
scouts had reported, and on which information Gen.
Meade had based his calculations for a great battle,
proved. to be simply a battery sent back by Long
street to aid in holding the mouth of the gap during
the night.
Thus it is seen on how small a circumstance a
whole campaign may turn. Gen. Meade, by moving
into' Mantling Gap, and preparing for battle there—
for which he certainly was justifiable, having such
positive information to guide him—lost two days
and a half of time in his southerly march, thus fully
enabling Lee to reach the south of the Rappahan
nock. before General Meade could possibly do so.
The brilliant affair in the Manassas Gap receives
the title of the battle of Wapping Heights from the
name of the system of hills upon which it occurred.
TIIE - INYASION OF OHIO.
M?M.MiTMWWWff
Gov. Tod has issued an address to the people of
Ohio setting forth the circumstances of the inva
sion of that State by .Tohn Morgan, and the efforts
made by him to protect the State. He praises the
readiness of the militia to answer hie call; and at
tributes to it the exemption of Columbus from at
tack. He censures Col. Sontag for surrendering his
men, 360 in number, near Portsmouth. The follow
ing is the history of the invasion:
" The enemy entered the State on the night of the
12th instant, in the northwest corner of Hamilton
county, closely pursued by a large Federal force,
and passing through the counties of Butler, Warren,
Clermont, Brown, Adams, Pike, Jackson, Gallia,
.Mtigs, Vinton, Hooking, Athens,_Washington,
Morgan, Muskingum, Guernsey, Belmont, Harri
son, and Jefferson. was finally captured near New
Lisbon, in Columbiana county, this day, about
three o'clock P. M. More or less skirmishing and
fighting took place all along the route ; but the two
principal engagements were near Buifington's
Island, in Iffeigs county, on the 19th instant, and
near Salienville, Columbiana county, this morn
ing, at eight o'clock. At the first of these engage
ments, our forces, consisting of a cavalry and ar
tillery force of regular troops, and of the militia
there assembled, were under the command of Gene
rails Hobson and Shackleford, aided materially by a
naval force on the river at that point. At the
second engagement, near Salienville, our forces,
consisting of the 9th Michigan Cavalry and our mi
litia forces, were under command of Major Way.
"In the first of these engagements the enemy lost
in killed, wounded and prisoners about twenty-five
hundred ; in the second, about three hundred. The
final sun ender to Gen. Shackleford took place with
out an engagement, and embraced Morgan himself
and the remnant of his command, number not now
known. Thus was captured and destroyed one of
the most formidable cavalry forces of the rebels, a
force that has, been a terror to the friends of the
Union in Tennessee and Kentucky for about two
years. Well may every loyal heart be proud of this
achievement."
The Governor pays the following' testimonial to
the memory of Major McCook :
"The losses upon our aide have been trifling, so
far as numbers are concerned; but I am pained to
be compelled to a )nnunce that a few gallant spirits
have been taken from us. Prominent among the
number is the brave Major Daniel McCook, the
honored father of the heroic boys who bear his
name, and who have won so much glory and re
nown for our arms in this great struggle. Dlajor
McCook, although advanced in years, has perilled
his life, as a volunteer, upon many of our battle
fields; believing that he could be of service in rid.
dingthe State of her invaders, he volunteered with
his trusty rifle as a private, and fell in the engage
ment near Buffington's Island. Ilia memory will be
cherished by all, and the sincere sympathies of all
true patriots will be given to his widow and chil
dren.);
Governor Tod exhorts the people to go on with
their military organizations, and announces that he
has cheerfully given to the Federal authorities all
the aid in hie power for the enforcement of the draft.
He expresses confidence that "the brilliant achieve
ments of our forces during the present month, result
ing in the destruction and capture of over a hundred
thousand of the enemy, together with their strong
holds, give us the hope that the war will soon ter
minate; the drafted men, therefore, need not antici-.
pate a three years campaign."
NEW NORK,
Condemnation. of the British Steamer Pe
NEW YoRK, August —The condemnation of the
British steamer Peterhoff by the United States
Prize Court, hitherto only rumored, is to-day offi
cially announced. The result can scarcely fail to
create a marked sensation in England, when the
news reaches there. The journals and some of the
Admiralty lawyers there have all along contended
that the Peterboff was not a lawful prize, inasmuch
as she was bound, not to any port In the insurrec
tionary States, but to Matamoros, a neutral port.
The evidence adduced befOre the Prize Commis
sioners, however, goes clearly to show that the
cargo of the vessel was contraband of war, and:
hence she was condemned for a "cunstrUntive" Vio
lation of the blockade. Against this decree, doubt
less, the English journalists and the Admiralty law
yers will fulminate anew; but, in view of the sound
principles enunciated by Lord John Russell, not
long since, with reference to giving such cases, no
trouble with the Government can properly grow
out of it.
THE ATTACK - ON THE TRIBUNE OFFICE. -
Naw YORK, August I.—. Sames Whitter was ar
rested last night, by Detective Mustace, charged
with being the leader of the mob that attacked the
Tribune buildings on Monday, the 13th ult. Whitter
is a barber, and has been employed at Christadoro's
establishment, at the Astor House, for a number.of
years past. He is a Marylander by birth, and deci
dedly Southern in feelings ; so much so that he ren
dered himself obnoxious to some of the guests at the
Actor House by the free expression of his senti
ments.
The testimony against him is very strong. Mr.
England, one of the editors of the Tribune, alleges
that at the time of the first attack on the Tribune, the
prisoner was at the head of the,mob, inciting and
leading them on, by voice and gestures, to deeds of
violence. Ile saw Whitter three times that day at
the head of the rioters, in the act of leading them
on. The prisoner (Whitter) is also identified by Mr.
Jenny, employed in the publication office. Captain
Flynn, late of the Irish Brigade, and several others
who were present during the attack, saw the priso
ner take an active part . in the riot.
The prisoner denies any participation in the dis
turbance, and says that he can prove that he was at,
his work during all Monday and Tuesday. When
arrested, a quantity of Confederate money and some
scraps of Southern poetry were found on his person.
He was held to answer by Justice- Kelly, before
whom he was arraigned this morning, at the Jeffer
son Market Police Court. .
THE DRAFT DELAYED
NEW YORK, August (—The announcement made
this morning from Washington, that orders had
been issued • by Provost IVlarshal General Fry to
rf•commence the draft in this city on Monday, was
incorrect. No orderg.have reached here, and there
lire facts which render it improbable that the Go
vernment has even had the subjebt under considera
tion.
The moment for the resumption of the draft will
not originate in Washington, but here; and the
drafting will not take place until some prelisaina
ries, not yet attended to, are complete. There will
be no draft on Monday, though the drawing may be
ordered in the course of next week.
Wben the question about the quota is decided, and
a sufficient force to preserve order shall be in readi
ness to act, and the authorities here prepared to
undertake the work, the Government will make the
draft. The community may depend upon it that
there will be no failure hereafter.
ONE OF THE RIOT MURDERERS ARRESTED
The important arrest of one McAlister, charged
with a murder unsurpassed in brutality, was made
on Friday. The accuser, Mr. Lawrence, made an
affidavit, setting forth that about half past 6 o'clock,
on the morning
,of the 14th of July, while at his
stable, some little girls informed nim that a colored
man was being murdered up the street. Ile hastened
as near as possible to the scene of the murder, and
there saw Williams prostrate on the pavement,
and McAlister standing over him with a paving
stone, weighing nearly twenty pounds, in his
hands. McAlister repeatedly raised the atone and
brought it down with fearful force - on the head
and face of the unoffending negro, who at each
blow would give a convulsive shudder and scream,
till the life was nearly crushed out of him. While
this brutal murder was being enacted, the four
corners of the streets were crowded with men, wo
men, and children, who coolly witnessed the fiendish
act, but so paralyzed with fear were they that not a
soul raised his voice or, hand to put a stop to it.
After the crime was consummated Captain Dickson,
of the Twenty-eighth precinct, appeared on the
ground, and conveyed, the negro, whose face and
skull were crushed in, to the New York Hospital,
where he died soon after admission. Mr. Lawrence
closely scrutinized the murderer, so that he could
recognize him again, and at the time of his arrest
McAlister had on the same clothes and hat that he
wore at the time of inflicting the fatal violence.
There is not a possibility of his being mistaken in the
man, and Capt. - Dickson it is said, will produce wit
nesses to corroborate the testimony of Mr. Law
rence. McAlister was locked up to await the result
of the investigation, which will be held to-day by
Coroner Naumann.
'The Colored Sufferers.
A committee of well-known merchants, Jonathan
S i turges and others, have appealed as follows to the
deployers and public of New York :
kThe undersigned, an executive committee ap
poflit at a large and influential meeting of the
merchants of New York, to dispense the funds con
tritated by them in aid of the colored Buffering by
the late riot; have been instructed by the General
Committee to address their fellow-citizens in rela
tion to the object of their care. The committee have
learned, with deep regret, that in various ways ob
stacles have been thrown in the way of the attempts
of the colored laborers to resume their wonted occu
pation, cases having occurred where men, who had
labored faithfully for years in a situation, have been
refused a restoration to their old places. Street
railroads, by which many had been accustomed to
pass from their distant home to their usuarplace of
business, have refused them permission to ride, and
have thus deprived them of the ability to perform
their customary duties and earn their needful pay.
The undersigned, in behalf of the merchants of this
great metropolis, respectfully but urgently call upon
their fellow. citizens to unite in protecting the in
jured and persecuted class whose cause the born
mittee advocate. The full and equal right of the
colored 1111111 to work for whoever chooses to employ
him, and the full and equal right of any citizen to
employ whoever he will, is too manifest to need
proof. Competition is indispensable to the success
ful management of commercial business ; only the
energetic, enterprising merchants of this city will
not allow any Interference•with their rights. On
the other hand, if the colored population, for a want
of firmness on, the part of the whites, be deprived
of their just rights to earn an honest living,.they
would become a dependent, pauper race. The cora.
mittee therefore earnestly appeal to the good feel
ings, to the sense of justice, to the manliness of
eveey employer, of whatever class, to restore the
colored laborer to his customary place, and to sus
tain him in it"
ADDRESS OF DANIEL DOUGHERTY, 14AQ.
DELIVERED BEFORE THE SENATE OF UNION COI:
LEO% SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK, .7ULY 20, AND
BEFORE THE BOCIETIES OF FRANKLIN AND MAR
SHALL COLLECE, LANCASTER, PENN., ON JULY 29.
In years gone by, when peace serenely smiled over
a land glorious and blest, and every face was radi
ant with joy, it was fitting that your orator should
select a theme suggested by your collegiate career,
enforce it with the logic of the schdols, and grace
it with gems culled from the classic and historic
page.
But, alas ! these are days gloomy and joyless.
America trembles in her altitude of splendor.
Struck by myriads of blows from ambitious and
successful treason, her life seems ebbing fast, The
nations look with cold indifference or secret delis
faction as perish the liberties which an heroic race
bequeathed an endless posterity.
Dark and despairing as are these times, all may
yet be well if we regain the virtues of our fathers.
You, gentlemen, of the Elmthian and Diagnothean
Societies, are to act Our part in times without a
parallel. You are either to link your names %frith
tbe renown of a mighty-people, or sink with your
country into bloody and dishonored graves.
At such re time I cannot choose a subject apart
from the grand struggle on which is staked the
world's last chance for freedom. Therefore, to-day
I ask you to bring your minds from amid the memo
ries of the buried past, and fix them on the living
present, big with the fate of coming centuries. It is
time for the patriot to speak and act. Heedless
of all risks—scorning alike the smiles of power and
the scoffs of the rabble—though the partisan point
at him as a victim for popular fury, looking alone
to his country's Weal, to dare all for duty, and speak
the truth though ten thousand voices strive to
drown his warnings with denials.
Here then 1 in the cloister-like quietude of the
college—far_ from the flight of prejudice—here,
where the perfusions that tear the hearts of men in
yonder outer world dare not enter, let us now seek
to know the sin which caused our nation's fall, and
how to regain the paradise she lost.
Through the wide stretch of history the people
have ever been oppressed. With the might of num
bers on their side—with the intellect, the valor, and
energy to create a nation and make it prosperous
and great; with the gentler virtues to cap and
beautify the whole, they yet, by injustice to them
selves—by their senseless prejudices, differences, and
hates engendered anddirected by designing destards;
their willing ear to the transparent flattery of the
demagogue; their reluctance to listen to citizens
too honorable to fawn; their love of gold and its
train of enervating evils; their faithlessness' to
princiPle; their contempt for public virtue, and
want of true patriotism—they have for thousands of
years groaned in bondage and bled in battle that
the few might triumph who resolved to rule, and
had the energy and courage to succeed. Now and
then, along the track of time, the masses have risen
with heroic grandeur, smitten their oppressors, and
illumed the world with resplendent Republics ; but
at the very zenith of renown they have yielded to
their failings and sunk again to servility and chains.
The American student sighs when he reads of the
wrecked glories of the people, and, with an aching
heart, feara that institutions founded on justice,
liberty, and love, aimingto lift mankind, are beyond
the scope of mortals, and the earth must continue to
be cursed with tyrants.
We must cease to be charmed by the syrens that
have sung unto our woe. Let us bravely face our
dangers. If the American Republic survive this
storm, and rise refreshed and purified, no tong.
can tell the glories of her future. If she be destroy
ed, let us own the Government we love is a failure,
and beg posterity to spare their blood and hug their
chains, for the people are not fitted to be free. I
know how startling words may be, even amid the
perils about us, but better to heed the prophecy than
bear the panes of its fulfilment.
It were impossible that our form of government
could have had a peaceful birth amid the petrified
prejudices of the monarchies and despotisms of
Europe. A world was discovered that free institu
tions might have fair play. Not alone a discovered
world, but a new peOple born to dwell in it.
The streams of ,immigration poured on these
shores the blood of every nation, each commingling
with the other, enriching 'all, and creating a race
which, for intellectual vigor,courage,and love of
liberty, is the noblest that ever lived.
In a country from its structure fitted for the
grandest of empires, with a magnificent sweep of
territory that knew no boundaries but the great
oceane—with the Atlantic to the east, rolling an
eternal flood afar—the American Republic arose and
dazzled:-the world with its swift and marvellous
prosperity. Itlind unfettered and free . , sprang into
every way of life, and proved the might of the
masses. The glories of old Greece rekindled their
long-expired fires in the land of Young America.
Yet, when her splendors were but dawningwhile
yet the statesmen of kings stood aghast at her great
ness, and dreaded her future, while her millions
were thriving as never mortals thrived before—ex
ulting in her proWess, and sure of her stability—lo!
as if struck by the lightning of God's wrath, she is
rent in twain, deluged with fraternal blood, and is
the Niobe of nations. Whence the causes of this
awful fate—this sudden death to all our hopes?
From a hundred streams they come; yet, trace
them, and find the source of all to be the people.
Aye, every dropraf blood poured out in this ter
rific war—every oneof the hundreds of thousands of
newmade graves theet rise all over this once happy
land—the desolated homes, the wrecked hopes, the
squandered treasures, the untold misery, the imps.
tilled nation, the menaced liberties of America—all,
all rest on the guilty heads of the people. Before
high heaven, I arraign the American people as re
creants, ingrates, and parracides.
Apostates to the Republic —faithless totheir vows—
scoffers at public virtue—reckless of principle—eager
for gold and greedy for place, they banished inte
grity, intellect, and patriotism from the high stations
of the State and Nation and filled them with trick
eters, trimmers, partisarie, plunderers, drunkards,
duellists, imbeciles, and traitors.
The men whO, after.a seven-years war, won our
independence and the generation that followed, knew
the priceless value of the Republic ; they faithfully
dischareed the high trusts of American citizenship;
then virtue and worth were placed at every post to
gum d the public weal. Then intellect had a chance
to cultivate a pure ambition to serve the State; then
from the by-ways of humble life came forth states.
men, sages, and orators, who flung the mantle of
genius around their country and made her fame im
mortal.
But the ehildren born when the last of the revolu
tionists were passing to their graves, growing to
manhood amid alt the evidences of boundless pros
perity, fancied the Republic was their own, without
effort or responsibility, and that no power could
wrest it from them. Educated beyond all other peo
ples, the fruits of literature spread far and wide,
lovers of liberty and ready to ale for it, they yet for
got to live for it. Jealous and watchful of their
private interests, they overlooked the general good ;
enjoying the rich gains of industry and enterprize,
they utterly ignorned the vital truth that a Republic
dies when the 'people cease their vigilance or leave
to faction or party the sacred duty enjoined on every
citizen.
Blessed with peace while 'Europe was convulsed
with wars, our patriotism exhausted itself in shout
ing at the name of Washington, chorusing the na
tional songs, blindly voting for party hacks, and in
public meetings being moved to pity or passion, like
the citizens in the play of Cresar.
This forgetfulness of duty, this sin against our
selves, this crime agatnet our country, was taken ad
vantage of by opposite classes in the two sections of
the country. In the South, the planters—a small
Minority, comprising the wealth and culture,. living
in elegant ease, on the labor of an inferior race, am
bitious of rule, anxious to guard, and i ti ti possible,
spread their peculiar and precarious -tution—
assumed entire control.
hile Southern cities and States did not and could
not grow in population and thrive as did the North,
yet they were always better governed; more free
from corruption, riots, and crime, because offices
were created- and filled for the good of the commu
nity, and not for the gain of the incumbents. Offi
cials were retained as long ns they faithfully dis.
charged their duties. Representatives and Senators
had previously served in the State legislatures, and
entered ,Congress a phalanx, differing, perhaps, on
indifferent subjects, but united in everything that
tended to the in tercet of their section and to strength
en and spread the institution of slavery. Re-elected
without opposition, term after term, they became
educated in -:the profound science of government,
were the"master-spirits of the nation, shaped its
legislation, innoculated the country with some re
volting theories, by the adroit management of party
selected for themselves - the highest himors of the
Union, and when, with a show of fairness, they
yielded to the North, chose only those who were
pledged to their opinions and would be controlled by
their counsels.
In the North, the loweeUgrade of society—the
scum of the cities, village loafers, hucksterers of
legislation, aided by contractors without capital,
lawyers without practice, doctors without patients,
and journalists without principles, all bound to
gether by the cohesive power of public plunder—
boldly grasped the reins and willingly gave the
honors and control of the Republic, in consideration
that they might clutch each year a hundred millions
of patronage, besides' the rioh booty that every
oflice, high and low, in'" all the North, became.
Oflices were created and managed without .refe
rence to the general good, and exclusively for the
emoluments of the knaves who filled them. Honest
and able judges received salaries less than the in
come ef an ordinary attorney ; while the clerks of
the courts, whose functions were mostly discharged
by deputies, made fortunes in three years. Seats in
the Legislature and in Congress were too often
scrambled for hy filthy fellows, who unblushingly
sold their votes to the highest bidder, and were
thrust aside at the end of the second term to make
way for successful competitors.
If it so chanced that a great Intellect appeared
from the North in the Senate, as long as his views
chimed with party , his pathway was strewn with
flowers ; but if his sense of right and proud heart
rose indignant at an attempted wrong, his followers
deserted him .his own fellow-citizens, whose honor
and opinions lie had maintained, turned for a mo
ment from their avocations to sigh that he had left
the service of the State, and then threw up, their
caps as some low tricksters started to tills chair from
which a statesman was expelled. The rival organi
zations, who, by corrupt caucuses and conventions,
named the candidates for every office, from the
Executive of a Commonwealth to the constable of a
township, to advance their respective designs and
make permanent their success, sought by every ar
tifice to inflame the spirit of, party, which the first
President in his farewell appeal warned the people
was 66 truly their worst enemy, and whieh, instead
of warming, would consume the nation."
Alas! the people would not. see the snare. The
angel of country, all beautiful and good, who had
en] iched them with priceless gifts and would have
shielded them forever, was turned from with cold
neglect, her caresses scorned ; while the demon of
party was worshiped with idolatrous devotion.
Year after year, party spiritgrew in bitterness
and rancor. poisoning the wholeination and drag
-
hag it towards the awful gulf of civil war.
No villain too depraved to aspire to Office, and
once nominated, every voice shouted for his success.
No outrage could a partisan commit that would not
find defenders. Infamous legislation would be ap
plauded by the party in power; the noblest and
most necessary measures denounced by the one
seeking authority ; the basest paasionn of the mob
courted. Zustice was sacrificed to expediency,
honor to availability. The laborer who paved the
streets or swept a room, and by the serest ballot
voted for the worthiest man would be dismissed
from employment and with his family left to starve,
while the audacious villain who, by bribery, pur
chased distinction, would be dined and honored by
the President!
The rapid increase of population in the North
caused by European emigration, equal laws, high
price of labor, and low price of ands, which led to
the formation of new States, taught Southern poli
ticians that they could not expect always to rule.
Foreseeing the advantages of their geographical
position, prompted by the maddest ambition, and
aided by confederates in the North—the future will dis
close this fact—they slowly yet surely arranged their
plans for the dissolution of the Union, Southern in
all their sentiments and legislation, they intention
ally provoked a Northern party. With artful faci
lity they shaped partisan animosities into sectional
hate to make successful their accursed scheme. On
December sth, 1E360, a Southern Senator, addressing
himself to Northern Senators, said, "Here are two
hostile bodies on this floor, and It is but a type of the
feeling that exists between the two sections. We
arc enemies as muoh as if we were hostile Statea.
Disguise the fact as you will, there is an enmity be
tween the Northern and Southern people that is
deep and enduring, and you can never eradicate it—
never."
Declarations of war against the nation were ut
tered in Congress amid approving shouts from
crowded galleries, echoed far and wide, and sustained
in public assemblies all over the land. Treason for
once boldly faced the sunlight, and lathe very coun
cil without check arranged the destruction of the
Government. Senators proclaimed treason in the
Capitol, retired from its wails with the air of con
querors, tarried in the city for days to receive their
pay end the parting calls of their parasites, and yet
not in all the Congress was there onebold enough to
denounce the awful crime, aridmake oath and arrest
the traitors for high treason.
Nay, when the overt act had been committed, re
bellion sent instate its emissariesto dictate terms to
an insulted nation, and left the capital indignant
that their terms were not accepted.
yet party spirit blindly followed to the brink and
took the awful plunge.
{To elect a Northern President was sufficient cause
for the dissolution of the Union ; to enforce the
authority of the Government was the coercion of a
flee people ; to imprison public enemies a violation
of the liberty of the citizen ; to assert the dignity of
the nation an infringement of the Constitution; to
war on armed traitors in b'oody rebellion was to
destroy the integrity of the Republic !
A nation thus deserted ai-d forgotten by its pro•
teeters, the people, and left the sport of wicked men,
could not last : decay was its destiny. Every vote
in its Congress cast tinder the whip and spur of
party. No loving rivalry to serve the country, but
fighting each other with malignant fury; spreading
through all the citizens the hate that inflamed their
own false hearts; a fratricidal war—the bloodiest
that ever cursed the earth—ensued, when all might
have been spared had there been but "ten righteous ",
statesmen in the councils of the nation.
Up to the very hour that Sumpter fell, the masses
of the North believed that 'Southern treason was
but an outbUrst of passion consequent on a Presi
dential defeat. While an armywas organized in the
South, in all the North not a soldier was summoned,
nor a drum beat. When the flag fell the people
awoke from their long lethargy, started up in angry
patriotism, and ,offered all on the altar of their im
perilled country. A million of men were ready to
rush towards every point of danger. The heart of
the patriot beat high with new-born hope.
At the first tap of the drum the citizen-soldier
sprung to the ranks, and changed home and its pre
cious joss for the march, the tent, and the gory field.
Never has valor had such rotaries.
Every regiment has its tales of glory ; every vil
lage its hero, whose deeds recorded will fling to the
shade the darling names of Roman history.
The people aroused, lavished contributions to
carry on the war, cheered until thv welken rung
farewells to the gallant sons, and then returned to
their own concerns, certain that before three months
were passed there would come to them the same
message that etelifir sent from Zola.
Since that time two years have passed ; each day
draped with blood, and crowded with scenes of un
utterable woe. Immense tracts of country, where
the eye enraptured gazed on lovely fields and happy
homes, are now desolations, where dwells alone the
States that had never heard the booming of can
non save on joyous celebrations of historic anniver
saries, now hear its roar crashing death and destruc•
tion in its fiery flight.
Away out on every sea our commerce is devasta
ted—from the shores of the Atlantic far on to the
Rocky Mountains; from sight of the Capitol to the
extrernest southern verge, the war rages. A million
of men of the same origin, born on the same soil,
speaking the same language, worshipping at the same
shrine—with interests mutual, if not identical,
bound together by commercial, marital, lineal, and
religeoueties, until, yesterday enjoying boundless
prosperity in unbroken peace, under the mildest and
noblest of Governments, are now warring with each
other. Five hundred thousand have been slaughter
ed; three thousand million of dollars have been ex
pended; the wounded and the maimed never 'seen
before, now ache the sight whichever way we turn;
women mourning for their husbands and sons,
fathers and brothers, cross our path at every step.
The rumble of the hearse is leard, and the muffled
drum is beating. Imperial France, in violation of
the Monroe doctrine, unchecked, rears a throne on
the ruins of our only sister Republic. Foreign com•
plicatione are drifting towards us; our gallant army,
decimated by battle and disease, disheartened by dia•
sensions and want of sympathy at home, has nigh
been overwhelmed.
The rebellion, haughty, defiant and successful, has
advanced its legions on Pennsylvania soil and
threatened to ravage our fields, fire our mines, and
wave its bloody banner over our own homes and
altars; the cause of the Union sinks lower and
lower, while ghastly anarchy seems hovering - just
above us. .
Yet, are the people of what is called the loyal
States alive to the awful realities? have they ban
ished from their minds all meaner thoughts in the
towering resolve to regain their nationality? are
all differences forgotten, and are ,they united to a_
man in burning hate against the foe bent on the
destruction of their liberties? have they hurled from
the Tarpeian rock the traitor? have they placed at
every post, military and civil, the ablest soldier and
the virtuous citizenl have they decreed the direst
penalties on the wretch who fattens on ill-gotten
gains wrung from his country's misfortunes! have
they execrated for all coming time the damned vil
lains, the active agents of all our woes, the scurvy
Stand forth, men of the North, and answer.
Grief may shed its bitter tears in the silent cham
ber, poverty may starve in, its hiding place, the pa
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hiot may mourn, but no grief, nor fear, nor feeling
seems to dwell in the public mind or touch the public
heart. This year has been wild with fashion, hilari
ty, and show. Our Northern cities eclipse the past
in gorgeous dissipation, more diamonds flash in the
glare of the gay saloon, the gentlemen stop at no
extravagance, and the ladies in full dress powder
their hair with gold; dinners, balls, and masque
rades in ostentation and luxuriance, turn midnight
into ' day ; prancing steeds and guady equipages
carry lighthearted loveliness through all the drives
of fashion : stores where jewels, pearls, and precious
stones andthe rich goods of Europe and Asia are
exposed, are crowded with purchasers and have
doubled sales, though gold touched a premium of
seventy per cent.: speculators in stocks make for
tunes in a day : palatial stores and marble dwellings
ore springing from the earth on every side : resorts
of amusement were never so numerous and never so
crowded ;-prize fights excite for a time more interest
than the battles of the Republic ; thousands of dol
lars are staked on the favorite of the race; gambling
hells are wide open to entice to infamy the yOung ;
crime is fearfully on the increase ; the law grows
impotent, and men who have, by the basest means,
defrauded the laborer, the widow, and orphans, hold
high their heads and go unwhipped of justice. It all
this the ruddy glow of health, or the hectic flush?
Turn from social to public life. The politicians
who in April, 1861, awe-struck at the majestic an
ger of the people, had crept like cravens to their
dens, no sooner saw the storm had passed than they
came forth bolder, baser, and more perfidious than
before. They divided again into parties, and have
contrived, fomented, and produced apathy instead of
energy, discord in place of harmony, and are pre
paling events for the future at the thought of which
the strongest heart must shudder. Lofty sentiments
actuate but few of the leaders on either side. One
cries out for the Union, the other for the Constitu
tion, but they care for neither. With one party it is
a struggle.to keep power, with the other to obtain
it. Becoming millionaires by the war, some of them
care not when it ends. The opposite faction, mad
that they, too, cannot plunder, have no words of
comfort for the bleeding soldiers of the Republic, but
in public meetings .are loud in the expression of
their love for traitors, who, under the cloak of free
speech,are striving to light the fires of mutual slaugh
ter in the North. .
Them organizations are, for the most part, con
trolled by an aristocracy of scoundrels, ignorant, sel
fish, vulgar, and depraved, who give the choicest
honors to him who pays highest or sinks his man
hood deepest. Walk the promenade of the metropo
lis of either New York or Pennsylvania, and let me
point at a few you will surely see. There at the cor
ner lounges a felon who has served a term, nay, pro
bably been pardoned out of the penitentiary. See
where rides the murderer who escaped conviction.
Yonder swaggers the bully of the prize ring. Yet
one of these is, perhaps, a justice of the peace ! ano
ther a councilman ! and the third holds a sinecure in
the customs or post office I They each manage pre
cincts, wards or districts ;'are bowed to, button
held, , and -de companions of by candidates for
Congress,Governors of Commonwealths, and Se
nators of United States. These are lords of the
city, the fountains of honor in the State. They issue
their edicts, and the citizens—the industry, the la
bor, the wealth, the intellect, aye, the pietv—blindly
obey, and never raise a voice against the despotism.
Every avenue to the Capitol choked up with such
characters, gifted men, in self-respect, shrink from
such associations and smother a noble ambition in
the useful obscurity of mechanical, mercantile, and
piofeasional pursuits. This accounts for the other
wise extraordinary fact that the stupendous events
of the last two years have produced no statesman
whosename will stand conspicuous among the he
roes of history..
Thus, too, it is that even the legislatures of the
States are sweltering with corruption.
In September last, the roar of the battle of Antie
tam could be heard in the counties of Adams,
Franklin, and Fulton. The Legislature of Penn
sylvania, meeting in January, were four months in
F. cordon bartering for bribes, the franchises of the
State, favoring every villainous scheme to cheat,
wrong; and oppress the people, quietly passing bills
to annihilate contracts involving= immense sums,
_
and when detected, unanimously requesting the Exe
cutive to return the bills unsigned, yet had no time
fororganizing the militia, nor for considering the
necessity for - fortifications, though the enemy has
since invaded the State, and in one week destroyed
property to the amount of millions of dollars.
So bold and so brazen in iniquity have lawgivers
become, that more than one member asserted in
open session, without contradiction, that rings were
formed among the legislators! so that no bill could
be passed, unless each member of the ring received
his price !
Search the records of civil and criminal'courts of
your large cities, watch the proceedings of the legis
latures of the States, read the reports of the inves
tigating committees of the two last Oongresses, and
stand amazed at the diabolic villainy of those to
whom the people had entrusted their dearest rights
and sacred liberties !
To make still plainer the revolting , characteristics
of those whom the people bad made 710 i their equals,
but their masters, to show how utterly lost to even
the outward forms of decency, to say nothing of dig
nity, these representatives are, I cite the following
facts : The Councils of Philadelphia meet under the
same roof where the Declaration of Independence
was signed and the Constitution of the United States
adopted. On the second of January of the present
year, while many a patriot was eagerly listening to
the news of the battle of Murfreesboro, in which
hundreds of the very, flower, of the city had fought,
and some had fallen, the, street in front and the
avenues of Independezce Hall were &lied with a
crowd of loafers of both parties, solely intent, by the
basest frauds, to obtain the organization . of Coun
cils, and thus control for a year the patronage of the
city. In the Common Council, each party selected a
chairman ; each. had a clerk. The two chairmen sat
together, one recognizing only the' members of one
party ; the other, only recognizing the members of
the other. A motion put by one chairman would
be voted on only by those who agreed with him. The
published report contieues
"It was now oue o'clock, and the prospect of an or-
K n te ir 4 N o io g t e r t La r s as slim as when the members first cal
' The chamber was still crowded, the two presidents
r coupled their seats. and the members talked and chatted
together, walked the door, and smoked cigars- Some
had their hats on; some read newspapers, and almost
all reclined in their seats, with their feet upon their
desks.
' Thus the.valuable time of the City Fathers was ex
pended, until three o'clock."
This farce was continued during every 'meeting for
five weeks. The published preceedinge Of meetings
THREE CENTS.
held from time to time eve.' since show that amid
hissers, yells, laughter, and applause, were heard
such remarks: "There is no- man laughing at me
that I cannot whips" I can't be bought or sold;"
"kicked out of window," "liar," "rascal," and
other terms not to be used in this presence.
On the second of the present month, when the soil
of Pennsylvania was sosking with the - blood of
thousands of patriot soldiers, who fell that day at
Gettysburg, the following took place in the Com
mon Council of Philadelphia, on a motion to
thank a judge for a decision:
The • gentleman from the Twenty-fourth ward
moved to amend by inserting the name of " Chief
Justice Lowrie," and would like to. have his name in
serted before those of the counsel.
Mr. Qufx said this thing smatters of flattery to the
Judge, who simply did his sworn duty,. and. he has
merely decided what ie the law of the land, for which
he in not particularly entitled to thanks.
Mr. Q. was severe upon the "gentleman from. the.
Twenly-fourth ward."
The debate became animated.
Mr. LEII:Ff said that he thought, among other things.,
that the "gentleman from the Twenty-fourth ward"
bad roman to thank Jardice Lowrie for his seat la ti r is
Chambee ; he cannot thank the people.
" GEntleman from the Twenty-fourth ward" arose.
and said be would pull the nose of the member from the
Eeveui h (Mr. (Leigh).
President Mean's gavel came down rapidly, hut. above
the din of which the voice of the •' Gentleman from the
Twenty. fourth ward" was beard crying • ' Loafer!" .
•
het e or elsewhere!" &c.. &c.
Mr. PAT sTER arose, and was called to order because of
Personal remark.
A call was made for the previous question.
Mr. PAINTER complained of gag-law.
The call for the previous question was not sustained.
Great confusion prevailed.
A motion was now made that the subject he postponed,
which resulted as follows: ayes 10, nays 23.
On the amendment of returning thanks to Chief Justice
Lowrie the ayes were 18, nays 18.
Let us look to the Legislature :
On the thirteenth day of January last, the hall of
the House of Representatives wasjammed full with
ruffians ready to hang a member whom it was sup
posed, and not without reason, had bargained away
hie vote on the election of a Senator of the United
States.
In the proceedings of the House, on the 14th day
of April, as published in the papers of the 15th, will
be found the following :
A member wanted io IMOI9 if it would be in order
to sing a ming I
Speaker. If the gentleman will start a tune, and
there be no obiection, it will be in order !
On the same day, in the House of Represedtatives,
occurred this scene, not published in the proceed
ings, but the truth of which can be proved by hun
dreds of witnesses:
A Member. I rise to a question of privilege.
The Speaker. The gentleman will please state
his question of privilege.
Member. We will now introduce the elephant.
Immediately, from one of the side rooms, came out a
figure representing an elephant, with tusk and trunk,
chains and led by a legislator through the hall, amid
shouts of laughter, and not a member rose to resent the
insult!
Surely, at such a time as thia,.
every word uttered
in the Senate of theUnited:States should breathe
exalted patriotism, and every action evince the re
spect due to the august body. If any flagrant viola
tion occur, the Senate, in vindication of ita own dig
nity, should mark its condemnation by the severest
measures.
Yet, early in the last session, a member from De
laware designated, in debate, a brother Senator as
" the fellow from Minnesota," " adventurer in the
wilds of Minnesota."
Dlr. Dougherty here . related at length the scene
in the Senate on the 27th of. January, when one of
the Senators from Delaware, after having been
called to order repeatedly, and requested to take his
seat, refused, and when the Sergeant-at-Arms was
ordered to arrest him, pulled out a pistol and threat
ened to shoot the Sergeant-at-Arms.)
Amid all these events and scenes which foretell
our swift and sure destruction, and which, as if an
angel spoke, should recall us to our allegiance to the
Republic, the people, like a sleeping drunkard, will
notawake and avert the impending doom.
The politicians, the evil spirits of the nation, with
whom fair is foul and foul is fair—these close con
trivers of all harms, these juggling fiends who trade
and traffic in affairs of death, who met the people in
the days of success, and with prophetic speeches
that did sound so fair, solicited them to the sacrile
gious murder of their country, are now, with wild
glee, dancing around the boiling cauldron of parti
san hate, pouring in every envemoned lie and poi
soned argument to make the hell-troth boil and
bubble, telling the spell-bound people they bear a
charmed. life, can never vanquished be, urging them
to still further steps in blood.
• ' To spurn fhte, scorn eeuth, and bear
open 'hove wisdom, grece. and fear;
they despairing of the charm only when brought
to a dismal and fatal end, their liberties and rights
ale shuck down and forever destroyed by the
swords they thought could only fall on vulnerable
crests.
We of Pennsylvania, with interests identical,
knowing that, in this dread crisis, whatever our fate,
all must share it alike, instead of standing united,
firm as a mountain in support of our Government,
are divided against ourselves; our differences ex
hibiting themselves fiercely and distinctly in social
clubs, family circles, public charities, and religious
denominations. Part of our people, with hearts
devoted to the precious cause, yet stand paralyzed
like passengers on a ship struggling amid a stormy
sea, forgetting that in this hurricane we are all of
the crew and belong to the ship itself. Tens of
thousands there are who care not whether the nation
is saved or lost. Thousands, in private conversa
tions, openly oppose their country, and declare their
sympathies are with the traitors. Some admit the
army needs soldiers, but they,'even to violence and
murder, will oppose the conscription : they say the
war is for the black man, yet they will not agree to
the black man fighting; carry on the war, say they,
but inflict on the rebels as little harm as possible ;
shoot them, but don't exasperate them; kill them
in battle, but don't confiscate their property; it is
true they are resolved to destroy the nation, but
give them their constitutional rights !
With othera, slur the flag with impunity, but, on
peril of your life, utter no free speech against a fa
volite general. These leave the house of God when
prayers are said for the Government; they curse
the President as a tyrant who should die, and in our
very presence praise the arch-traitor Davis !
With them to defend slayery is patriotism ; to ad
vocate freedom is treason'; they say a Secessionist
must be conciliated, an Abolitionist hung; South
Carolina should be coaxed back into the Union,
Massachusetts must be "left out in the cold." They
are against the war, but will organize to assassinate
soldiers sent to arrest deserters; they prate of peace
and calf the foe, reeking with the hot blood of our
slaughtered patriots, their brothers ; yet are eager to
clutch their weapons and kill their own kinsmen,
who dare to be true when they are false. Treason,
the bloodiest and blackest of crimes, has from the
beginning been unchecked and aids the enemy in
the very capital of the nation. All the roads leading
to the armies, our cities and towns, swarm with
conspirators ready to seize on our mishaps to raise
the banner of revolt. Yet no death-warrant has
been signed. When, at last, in loyal Kentucky, a
traitor was arrested, tried, found guilty, and sen
tenced to die, the President of the. United States
pardoned the culprit. Every lover of the Union,
whatever may be his partisan proclivities, re
membering that Douglass is dead and the other
two candidates are arrant traitors, must rejoice
that. Mr. Lincoln was elected to the Presidency.
No fair man can question his personal integrity
and patriotic motives, and it is proper to bear in
mind that he is contending with trials and difficul
ties the like of which never before fell to the lot of
a Chief Magistrate or ruler. Yet, had the Presi
dent been entirely incompetent to discharge his
high responsibilities, the people could hate no right
to complain. They did not choose to meddle in the
selectionof a President.
For the last quarter of a century the people have
exercised no authority in the nominations of the
candidates for the Presidency. The first officer of
the Republic—the executive of the nation—has
been chosen by a national convention, a body not re
cognized by the Constitution, and far removed from
thepeople—"a scheme," said a great statesman, "per
fectly calculated to annihilate the control of the
people over the presidential election, and vest in it
those who make politics a trade, and who live or
expect to live on the Government."
A system so base that an experienced and dis
tinguished statesman of the Democratic party, as
early as 1844, declared it to be an "EVIL THAT sarusm
BE CORRECTED OR THE ELECTIVE.. FRANCHISE
ABANDONED."
Was the election of Mr. Lincoln advocated for the
reason that he was a tried statesman, able to steer
the nation through the coming storm? No such ar
gument was urged. The twoprincipal appeals made
were, that he was the nominee of his party, and had
been a " rail•splitter.,)
The partisan organizations are now bending every
energy to grasp the Presidency in ISG4.
This is the mainspring of all their actions; it is to
achieve this the leaders are goading the people to
madness against each other. A rebellion is ripening
in the North, State authorities may clashwith the
national sovereignty. Probably each party, to de
ceive the people, will dazzle their eyes with the
glare of military glory, and one failing to elect its
favorite may seize on the excitement, and attempt
to overturn the Government.
Let any thoughtful American who loves his race,
survey the present, and tell his reasonable fears for
the future. Either one of four fatal consequences
seems likely to be near at hand.
It the armies of the foe once gain a firm foothold
in the North, they will lay waste our fertile fields,
sack our cities, seize the capital , and dictate terms
of peace that will make us freemen slaves.
If. the Southern Confederacy be acknowledged,
then we surrender to an implacable foe three-fourths
of the national domain, the greater part of our
ocean boundaries, the mouths of most of our large
rivers, all the Gulf shore, the forts so necessary to
the protection of our commerce, thepublic property,
victorious battle-fields, graves of the immortal dead,
the capital, the archives of the nation, the statues
of our ancestors, the untold treasures, the prestige
and power of the Republic, our rank among the
nations, and purchase a short-lived peace, to be fol
lowed by a protracted war only, ending in a military
despotism or a part or all the North seeking the
shelter of a throne.
If the wards prolonged on Southern soil, partisan
malignity, growing in fury as approaches the Presi
dential election, may burst into internecine war,
and all the horrors of the French revolution make
red with blood the streets of Northern cities.
Even if we conquer the South, as conquer we must,
unless chastened by visible misfortunes in the North, our
triumph )• ceding unbounded conceit, we will plunge
deeper tithe vortex of voluptuous prosperity, our
country forgotten by the people, its honors and dig
nities the spoil and plunder of every knave or
fool that can court or bribe the mob, the national
debt repudiated, justice purchased'in her temples as
laws now are in the Legislature, the life and pro
perty of no man safe, the last relics of virtue de
stroyed, anarchy will reign amid universal ruin.
Thus night thickens around the Republic, and in all
the sky there is not a star. lam not unconscious
of the thousand blessings we yet enjoy, nor indiffer
ent to the succession of splendid victories this
month has given to the national cause. But who can
forgett—can it ever be forgotteni—that since these
victories were announced an organiied partisan
mob, instigated by. partisan leaders ' was for three
days master of the metropolis of the Union, and did
deeds of fiend-like cruelty, unmatched in the annals
of crime?. that this same mob was harangued, amid
.great cheering, with honied words by the Governor
Of the State and two judicial dignitaries, one of
whom,
in a public speech, two months before, cried
out, "be not afraid," and counselled resistance to
the Government to the death I and that the Board
of Aldermen, without one dissenting vote, appro
priated out of the public funds $2,500, - 000, to depriVe
our army of reinforcements, andander to ruffians,
,t
each one of whom should feel the alter 1 -
I have uttered sentiments that clash with the
opinions and prejudices of all classes of my coun
trymen, but - have not spoken to wound the sensi
bilities of any one. I know it is;easy to state the
wrong, and hard "to find the remedy, but from my
soul I believe the only way this nation can be saved,
except.by the hand of God, which we have no right
to expect, is to know at once the depths of the dis
ease, that radical remedies may be applied.
Think not I counsel that we sit and desparingly
contemplate our downfallen fortunes until we float
to either of the sad alternatives t that we allow the
glories of the Republic to wither in our keeping;
that we, like cravens, should seek to survive our
country. God of our fathers forbid.
As a last resort, let the true men come forth from
their seclusion, and, in the name of liberty and our
country, appeal to the majesty of the people. They
have deceived themselves and been deceived. In
competent officials, a venal press, aspirants for
office, and partisan leaders have flattered their fol
lies, praised their weaknesses, applauded their
crimes, and made them believe even defeats in the
field wet e strategic triumphs.
Come forth, virtuous citizens, from the workshop
and the factory--from the store, the study, and the
fottim—from the closet, the college, and the altar,
and by the histotic memories of the Revolution, by
the victories won in, foreign wars, by, the blood of
our countrymen—our dear brothers—shed in this
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by the love we bear our children, by our hereditary
hatred of royalty and despotism, by our sympathies
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world, let us call on the people to rise, as - their
fathers did, and dedicate life, fortune, and honor to'
the restoration of the Republic. Let each citiiren
conquer his prejudices. Let us shiver to atoms the
vile organizations of the day • let us cease to
be New orkers or Pennaylfanians, Republicans'
or Democrats, and remember only we are Ame
ricana ; by enactments destroy the whole breed
of those who barter and sell their country's offices
for gold to undeservers, and let competent and hon..
est officials, Hkeemployees in private life, be retained
during good behavior—punish public defaulters with
the heaviest penalties—purify the ballot-box, and
make sacred the privilege of suffrage—let elections
be rare except for representatives—render the judi
ciary independent of popular clamor and fearless
and inexorable in its administration, decrees, and
sentences—reform your constitutions in every par
ticular where experience has proved the necessity—
teach in schools and colleges the science of govern
ment—give genius and integrity once again a chance
in public life—let him who faithfully serves his
country in the prime of manhood, enjoy its rewards
in his old age—inspire all with a love of the Union
and fixed resolve to crush with mighty blows, like
those of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, this accursed
rebellion—let every leading traitor die a traitor's
death—be not elated by victory or dejected by defeat
—beep buoyant and brave—bury all dissensions in
the graves of our dead heroes—cheer our gallant
brothers in the field with the heartiest sympathies,
arriving at the just conception of the duties of
American cilicenship, and of what should he the full
measure of our country's future—pray God we may
yet see floating over a once more united people,
our
dear old flag, the terror of tyrants, the hope of the
oppressed, and emblem of the free.
At this appalling crisis, when thelife of the Repub
lic—the destinies of an hundred millions immediate
and remote are staked on the actions of the hours—
you, gentlemen of the societies, " the latest seeds of
time" appear upon the scene. Gifted with education
—unspotted in morals, untrammelled with the chains
of party:, and; fired with patriotism as are all fresh
hearts, I call on you to dedicate your years, your
future, your ambition to rescue the Republic. Be
firm when tempted, fearless when in danger, be
firstly like the Roman to leap into the gulf to save
your country; if needs be, sacrifice ease, fortune,
home, love, and life. -
" Such ties are not
For those who are called to the high destinies
Which purify corrupted commonwealths;
We must forget all, all feelings save the one ;
We must resign all passions save our purpose;
We must behold no object save our country,
And only look on death as beautiful,
So that the sacrifice ascend to Heaven
And draw down freedom on her evermore.
They never fail who die
In a great cause; the block may soak their gore ;,
Their heads may sodden in the sun, their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls;
But still their spirit walks abroad, though years
Elapse and others share as dark a doom,
They but augment the deep and sweeping thouirt Fs
Which overpower all others, and conduct
The world at last to freedom.fl'
THE - TERRITORY.
Gen. Blunt's Victory at Elk Creek.
FonT Ginsox, July IS - -General Blunt crossed
the Aikansas night before last, and met the enemy's
pickets right across the river. After driving them a
Jew miles, he met about two hundred of the enemy,
drove them, after a charge, for many miles, till they
met the main force at Elk Creek, the headquarters
of Cooper, about twenty one miles from Fort Gib
son. Here the main fight ensued, which resulted in
the complete rout of the enemy.
We captured three stand of colors, two howitzers,
and over sixty prisoners. The enemy's lose is two
hundred killed, and between three and four hundred
wounded. Our loss is trifling—not over ten. killed
and twenty-five wounded.
Among the latter is Colonel Williams, who was
shot while leading the gallant let Kansas (colored)
Regiment to the charge, through- the right lung,
hand, and in the face ; but nobly his black boys
avenged him, for they went in like tigers. All pos
sible care will be taken of Colonel Williams.
. .
It is reported that the enemy has more reinforce
ments back of his last fighting place. If that is true s
he will give us another very lively fight before long.
Let him come along, however, we can whip any
number of them, after once having the start in get
ting them demoralized.
Colonel Williams , wound through the breast is
not as dangerous as at first supposed. The ball had
been taken out, and the surgeon says he will re
cover. The enemy burned at Elkhollh a large amount
of commissary stores, gathered there in their ware
houses. We took one hundred good guns. Major
Hiram S. Sleeper was on the field durimr ' the battle.
We received the news of the battle at Helena sis
days sooner through deserters from Fort Smith than.
from Fort Scott. •
The Rebellion in St. Louis , and in New
The St. Louis Union, of the 29th of July, has some
words regarding the experience and conduct of
Union men in that city in ISM, when they were
threatened by a Secession mob, which are worthy of
our consideration:
"We would advise the trembling, faint-hearted
Union men of New York to strengthen their faith,
hope, and courage, by a recurrence to the conduct
of the Union men of St. Louis in the spring of 1861.
"Had the Unionists of this city quailed and fal
tered before the mysterious threats of massacre and
arson which every morning brought them ; had they
hesitated in the face of vows by desperate rebels to
burn the city and drive them into the Mississippi,
St. Louis would have become the northwestern
corner-stone of the Southern Confederacy, and the
skeletons of Frank Blair, 0. D. Filley, Sam Glover,
B. Gratz Brown, John How, Witzig, and others we
could name, would even now be dangling in the air,
as an ever•present warning of the peril of ' treason
to the South. Had the citizen Unionists of St.
Louis even depended- upon Government assistance
for protection they would have been lost. The re'Sels
of this city were at that time resolute, deter
mined, and desperate. They were more numerous,
proportionately, than the rebels of New York,
and more dangerous, because organized, drilled,
disciplined, and armed. They vowed their determi
nation to seize St. Louis and drag it into the
Southern Confederacy, even if they tad to agreed
nate every prominent Unionist in the city, and
"drive the Dutch" into the river. The perils of
Unionism at that time were great. Few of our citi
zens know, or ever will know, how great they were.
And yet St. Louis is now a peaceful Union city, un
marred by the conflagration threatened but never
executed against it, unstained by the slaughter and
massacre which rebels had plotted for its baptism,
into the Confederate fraternity. It was secured to
the. Union cause by the calm, determined courage of
the Union citizens, at the cost of less than two score
lives.
"Cannot the Union men of New York learn a les
son from this? We tell the people of New York that
this movement against the draft is a rebel scheme—
nothing more—nothing lees. It should be met and
treated as such. It may be that to crush it battles
and bloodshed will be necessary ; but what of that
Have not battles been fought in Missouri. Ken
tucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and,
in short, in half the States in the Union? WhY
should not one be fought in New York, if n'ecessary
Battles should be fought wherever armed rebels are
found resisting the laws Nand if this conditioa exists
in New York, not all the towering steeples, the
elaborate architecture, and the accumulated wealth
of that proud metropolis should save it from a
battle."
CHANGES IN NAVAL UNIEOENS.—The Navy
Department, on the 15th ult., announced the follow
ing changes in the designations of rank for the off -
cers of the navy :
Shoulder straps to be of nary blue cloth, 43
inches long, 13.; inches wide, bordered with an em
broidery of gold, inch in width, with the follow- -
ing distinguishing devices:
Atliniral, foul anchor, 3,„' inch in length in centre,
with star on each end, 7:L. inch in diameter, placed
yi of an inch from centre of star to end of strap, all
embroidered in silver.
Commodore, foul anchor, ;.cinch, embroidered in
gold in centre, with star inch in diameter, embroi
dered on anchor, in silver.
Captain, spread eagle, 2 inches between tips of the
wings, standing on plain anchor 13,,; inches long,
embroidered in silver in centre of strap.
Commander, foul anchor, 3„-' inch in length, in
centre, with leaf at each end of an inch in
length, stalk of leaf placed 3, - .; inch from end of strap,
all embroidered in silver.
Lieutenant Commander same as commander, ex
cept the leaves to be embroidered in gold.
Lieutenant, same as commander, except that in
stead of the leaves there shall be two gold embroi
dered bars at each end, 2-10 inch. wide, and 3.; inch
long, with 1-10 inch space between each bar, and
placed 4-10 inch from end of strap.
L. 'Master same as lieutenant, except there shall be
but one embroidered gold bar at each end, 2-10 inch
wide, 3.; inch long, and 4-10 'inch from end of strap.
Ensign same as for master, but without bars.
A NORTH CAROLINIAN ON SLAVERY.-
The demonism and inhumanity of the New York
mob and the traitor Jeff Davis's East Tennessee
soldiers are so much alike : that it calla to mind the
prophetic views of the far-seeing Representative
from North Carolina of other days, Mr. McKay, who
was then the father of the House of Representatives.
In a conversation he had with a friend, about the
year 1846, he lamented the existence of African
slavery in this countzy, not only as an evil and a sin,
abstractly considered, but for its deplorable effects
on both the black and the white man. He regarded
the white race as- sinking into effeminacy and
cruelty; and the black race as rising, in the scale of
human civilization, under the pressure of this mon
sts one iniquity. He believed that the time would
come when the two races would exchange places,
when the blacks would show themselves to be the
true Christians of the country, and the whites would
sink into barbarians in their dealings with the
former. He would give his right arm, he said. if
slavery could be abolished instanter in the old North
btate, and a atop be put to the decadence of the
whites. 'Mr. McKay, however, did not foresee the
terrible debseement whiCh slavery would produce
upon the whites of the free States and European
countries. The fruits of the stolen labor of four
millions of people cannot be enjoyed with impunity
by any part of-the world.—Post.
A. BIAMIOTHI CONTRACT.-The Elartford.
Courant states that Messrs. Woodruff &Tieach, ma
chinists of that city, have contracted with the United
States to build the machinery for three large steam.
frigates. Each of the engines to be built will have
two GO-inch cylinders, with three-foot stroke, with
four tubular boilers attached, each of which will be.
about one hundred thousand pounds weight. The
propeller screw for each of the vessels will be of
composition, or gun metal, four bladed and sisteen_
feet in diameter. The crank ahafts.will each be
forged seventv-five feet long and thirteen inches in
diameter. The Government has fifteen of these
steam vessels ordered to be built. The contract of
Woodruff & Beach will amount to about $1,300.000,
and will be sufficient, at it is estimated, to keep
force of five hundred men employed without cessa
tion from twelve to fifteen months. It is farther
stated that so urgent is the desire of the Government
to have . this contract filled at the earliest possible.
day, men who are engaged as employees in. the con
cern alluded to will, when drafted, be at once de
tailed for service there.
RETALIATION.—The President has authorized
the issuing of an order declaring that it be the
policy and intention of the Government to retaliate
in kind for every case of ill-treatment of our °dicers
and men, black or white, by the rebel authorities
hangnig for hanging; shooting for shooting, and im
prisonment for imprisonment. In every instance
where it is known that a black man in the military
service of this Government is taken prisoner and
sold into slavery, our military authorities will be
instructed to select a rebel prisoner and conhue him
to hard labor in some prison ' there to remain until
the black man liberated. The Government main
tains, and Still exact promptly and to the letter, that
the Federal 2121V - 0)172, like the fag, must and shall be ye
spected.—Waslungton Republican.
THE LABORS OF GRANT.—People have been
wondering what the ever-active, never-ceasing
worker, den. Grant. has been doing since the Fourth
of July. Be has riot been airing his honors, nor
parading his laurels, nor blowing histrumpet—nor
even, like Hercules, after the twelve labors, has he
subsided. The telegraph relieves our anxiety for
him. " Gen. Grant has perfected a complete system
of mounted patrols between Vicksburg and New
Orleans, which, with the gunboats, aftbrds ample
protection to vessels." Thus has this great - Soldier
put the finishing touch to the gigantic work whlcit .
was begun by hint two years ago,—Tima,