P
11- •
c ri
ca t
)
_ Sy;
(1\ I,t
.E„
/,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE CITY OF READING, BERKS COUNTY, PA.-TERMS: $1,50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
( I. LAWRENCE GETZ, EDITOR.]
OBISSRED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING
comer of Pawn and Ma abed , ad
the Fanners' Bank 'f Balding.
THINS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
$1.50 , par, payatte in advance.
Old !Of ! , ix smalls, in advance,
City,: Your copies for 40, i n advance.
'fee ropier , for 12,
4 - F A I popers discontinued at the expiration of the
pnd fiTr.
g y r pj DF ADVERTISING IN THE GAZETTE.
It. It. lmo. Imo. 6mo. ly.
1..,Te, !titre's, or less, 50 50 75 7,00 3,00 5,00
%. I 0 " 501,00 1,25 3,00 6,00 3,00
1,00 2,00 ^5O 5,00 8,00 15,00
:. ~ :411 " /AO 3,00 Z 713 1,00 12,00 20,00
[Larger Advertisements in. proportion.]
~..,..„...„,,,,..- and Administrators' Notices, 6 insertions $2,00
~.„3. 0 r„, tioticos and Legal Notices. 3 " 1,60
~..tllstoticet, as reading matter. 10 eta. a line for one
._.rare notices 25 cents each. Deaths Will be
i. 1 .Tatniteney
:;; tto-taary :Crakes, Resolutions or Beneficial and
p..y its Se,oelations, will be charged for, as solver
• • (to above rates.
- MOW' for Religion.. Charitable sad Bilis.-
, ,re' ••okais, ono-half the above rates.
H,l,:tiOag(reconsidered payable in Cash,
• L e o o • r
insertion.
whorti-ers shall have the privilege (If desired)
s -Wit,.; their advertisements every three weeks—but
any additional renewals, or savor/Wag ex
lae amount contracted for. will be charged extra
Leluif the rates alcove speeified bee , iransitait
adceillsell will be charged the same rates as
sdrortisere for all matters not relating strictly
•
vEINTINO OP EVERY DESCRIPTION
ie x superior manner, at the very Lowest prises.
.1.-o - two& of Jos Trrs is large and fasbiunable, and
poalcs for itself.
BLANKS OF ALL HINDS, •
PAACHMENT and PAPER DEEDS, MORTlllalle,
AKTICLFA OF AGREEMENT, LEASES, and a variety of
BLANKS, kept constantly for sale, or printed to
DANIEL E. SCHROEDER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
f l incE WITH J_ HAGERMAN, PENN ST„
ti +We tlixtb, Reading, Pa.
• [June 6-3 m
_ - -
C. A Leopold,
TToRNET AT LAIV.—OFFICE IN COURT
treet, Bret door below Sixth, Reading, Pa.
y
_
JESSE G. HAWLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO NORTH
n_ Slt.th Street, oppeente the Keystone House, Heading.
ni 15tio"-tf
JOUN RALSTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OFFICE WITH A. B. WANNER, NORTH
Street (above the Court Hone,) Reading, Pa.
Filzaary 21.1563-ly
-
REMOVAL.
'LLIAM H. LININGOOD, ATTORNEY AT
`FLAW, bee removed his &flee to the earth aide of
C first door below Sixth. [dee 22-tf
Charles Davis,
A IT - IaNEY AT LAW—HAS REMOVED HIS
11 [he Office lately occupied by the lion. David
deceased, in Sixth street, opposite the Court
[aril. 14
Daniel Ennentront,
TTORNEY AT LAW—OFFICE IN NORTII
t h greet, Corner of Court 01107. (au 13-1 y
David Red,
rifOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
I Foreign nue Domestic DRY GOODS, No. 25 East
Yiat,rrt:, Reading, Pa. March 10, 1860.
LEBANON VALLEY INSTITUTE,
.V.VVVILLE, LEBANON COVNTY, PA.
z'..1. - EGT BOARDING SCHOOL.—COURSE
hntraction thorough and complete—number of
p. limited. Vacations in September and October.
Iti.-As per quarter ilds. For Circulars and Information,
W.J. BURNSIDE, Away!Re, Pa
EMI=
LIYINGOOD'S
United States Bounty, Back Pay and
Pension Office,
COURT STREET, IVRAR SIXTH.
11.1VING BEEN ENGAGED IN COLLECT
-1-aIV 'claim. against the Government, I feel confident
who hare heretofore employed mg will cheerfully
my pr.:aptness and fidelity. My charges are
L-Itioie and no charge made until obtained.
WILLIAM H. LIVINGOOD,
Attorney at Law, Court M., Reading, Pa.
DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
CAN NOW OBTAIN THEIR $lOO BOUNTY
1,111 the 11. 8. Government, by application to
ABKKR K. BTAITITER.
M,n't 7-tf] Collection Office, CourtBtrece, Reading.
ASA M. HART,
(Late Hart & Mayer,)
T -, ,F.ALER IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN
DRY GOODS, CARPSTIAGS, &c., Wholesale and Re
!: .: UN:le:phis prices. Sign of the Golden Bee Hive,
• Ea 4 Penn Sqaare. laprlll7—tf
P. Brushong & Bonn,
Ii.ci.INUFACTURERS OF BURNING FLUID,
_,fete, Deodorized and Druggists' Alcohol; also,
•i•L-• • ;.!:which they will sell at the lowest Wholesale
Reading, Pa
dsr•• uJers respectfully solicited. [march 12
G. M. MILLER, M. D.,
Eclectic Physician and Surgeon,
(ntiDUATE OF Tllll ECLECTIC,
sl College Pbiladelphia, offers bie proreeelonal
1.• the citizens of Hamburg and vicinity. Painful
operations, such as Setting Broken and Dislocated
amputations, Cutting Cancers, Tumors, do., will
rr 1 , : , orllled under the influence of Ether, at the consent
patient.
office at his residence in Main strest,Hamburg, Pa.
I_C63-tf •
DR. T. YARDLEY BROWN,
SURGEON DENTIST.
GRADUATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
wDental College. Teeth extracted by Fran.
ak li, cis' Electro Magnetic process, with Clarke's
improvement. With this method teeth are
ati,:e..l with much less pain than the usual 'Way. No
11,2 elarge. Wise in Fifth street, opposite the Presbyte
r:. (lurch. [april 2—ly
CHARLES LANCASTER,
MEDICAL ELECTRICIAN,
Fourth Street, above Penn, Reading.
;unary 24,16634 f
SOLDIERS'
- - -
ZOVNTY-DIONEY. SACS-PAY
AND FDDITIZON aIimAXIES
PROXPTLY ATTEMISID TO BY
A. H. STAUFFER,
Attorney at Law, Office In Court Street,
iznsi-O] BEADING, PA.
F. P. HELLER,
WATCHMAKER, JE WELER,
AND DEALER IN
WITCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
izpooss, SPECTACLES, GOLD PENS, &c.,
Signof the " BIG WATCH," 1f0.533g Must Penn
above Sixth, north side, heading, Pa_
Ur Esau article warranted to be what it is sold for
weth w „ moo, Jewelry, dm, repaired With particular
I, nadon, and guaranteed. Uebl-tf
TRUSSES.
DUPTURE CAN BE CURED BY A TRUSS
5 1. 0 F TUE RIGHT KIND, IF PROPERLY FITTED AND
Liar ATTENDED TO. This has been abundantly de-
L . t.trated in innumerable instances by the use of the
314 LTIPEDAL TitU of DR. RIGGS, during the last few
Thls truss, being covered with Hard Rubber, is
waterproof, may be used in bathing, and is al
ceenly as well as indestructible by ordinary usage.
, ctisfactory after a fair trial of sixty days, it may be
relreal. It challenges comparison with any truss known.
„br RIGGS' Offime, No. 2 BARCLAY ST., New-York
la-ly
rill SALE AT TILE OLD JAIL, 200 WHITE
....Lite Tea Setts of the newest style.
NI 'd SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 300 GRANITE
I+;zner Setts of the newest style.
1:011 SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 1000 SETS
c , lntaeo Teaware.
a` Oil SALE. AT THE OLD JAIL, THE LARG
t,„te assortment of Liverpool Ware ever offered in
Vitt g
SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, A LARGE
ArAurtmelit of Pittsburgh, Boston and French Mae&
every description.
Vilit SALE AT THE OLD JAIL, 60 BARRELS
Mack.rat at Philadelphia prices.
tarn 23 WILLLUI BROADS, Jr.
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL,
SSP - ESTABLISHED AS A REFUGE FROM gisecgtat.
The Only Place Where a Cure Can be
Obtained.
DR. JOHNSTON HAS DISCOVERED THE
most Certain, Speedy and only Effectual Remedy in
the World for all Private Diceases, Weakness of the Rack
or Limbs, Strictures, Affections of the Kidneys, and Blad
der, Involuntary Discharges, Impotency, General Debility,
Nervousness, Dyspepsia, Languor, Low Spirits, Confu
sion, of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremb
ling. Dimness of Sight or Giddiness, Disease of the Head,
Throat. Nose or Skin, Affections of the Liver, Lunge,
Stomach or Bowels—those Terrible Disorders arising from
the Solitary Habits of Youth—those HECRET and stately
practices more fatal to their victims than the song of Syrens
to the Mariners of- Ulysses. bligpting their most brilliant
hopeeor antieipatione, rendering marriage, 3m., impossible.
r=i'w"r3r•-71
Rapecially, who have become.the victims of Solitary Vice,
that dreadful and destructive habit which annually sweeps
to an untimely grave thonsaads of liming Men of the moat
exalted talents and brilliant aptellect, who might other
wise have entranced lieteninaT•enate“, with the thunders
of eloquence or waked to ecstasy the living lyre, may call
with tall canailanca.
iIfiARRIBGE.
Married Persona, or Young Den contemplating mar
riage, being aware of physical weakness, organic debility,
deformities speedily cured.
He who places himself under the care of Dr. J. may
religiously confide in his honor us a gettelahlah, and
con
fidently rely upon his skill es a physician.
ow:tamale VITWKWEISSI
Immediately Cured and Fell Vigor Restored.
This Distressing Affection—which readers Life and Mar
riage impossible — in the penalty paid by the victims of im
proper indulgences. Young persons are too apt to commit
excesses from not being aware of the dreadful conse
quences that may ensue. Now, who that understand the
subject will pretend to deny that the power of procrea
tion is lost sooner by those falling into improper habits
than by the prudent ? Besides being deprived of the pleas
ure of healthy offspring, the most serious and destructive
symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system be
comes Deranged, the .Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Loss of Procreative Power, Nervous Irritabil
ity, Dyrpepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, indigestion, Con
stitutional Debility, a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con
tmmption, Decay and Death.
Office, No. 7 month Frederick Street.
Left hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors
from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number.
. . . ,
Letters mast be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor's
Diploma hangs in his office.
A CARE WARRANTED IN
TWO DAMS.
No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
DR. SONNSTON,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeope, London, Grad
uate from one of the moat eminent Colleges in the United
States, and the greater part of whose life has been spent
in the hospitals of London, Purim, Philadelphia and eine-
Where, has egeeted using of the most astonishing ewes
that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in
the bead and ears when asleep, great nervousness. being
alarmed at sudden sounds, baehfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended sometime With derangement of mind,
were cured immediately.
rit- 1,1 4-141 - 4 w , c.afl
Dr. J. addresses all those who have injured themselves
by improper indulgence and solitary habits, which rain
both body and mind, unfitting them for either business,
study, society or marriage.
THESE are some of the sad and melancholy effects pro
duced by early habits of youth, viz; Weakness of the
DUE and Limbs, Pains in the Head, Dimness of Sight,
Loss of Muscular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dys
pepsia. Nervous Irritability, Derangement of the Digestive
Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Cense mption, 81c.
hiattrat.mr.—The fearful effects on the mind are much to
be dreaded—Lose of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, Depress.
Siang of Spirits, Evil Forbwiings, Aversion to Society, Self
Distrast, Love of Solitude, Timidity, &c., are some of the
evils produced.
THOUSANDS of persons of all ages can now judge what
is the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor,
becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a
singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms
of consnmption.
YOUNG MEN
Who have injured themselves by a certain phictice indul
ged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil
companion% or at school, the affects of which are nightly
felt, even when asleep, and if not Cured renders marriage
impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap
ply immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his country.
the darling of his parents, should be snatched from all
prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequence of
deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a cer
tain secret habit. Such persons NOW, before contemplat
ing
311WRIAG111,
reflect that a sound mind and body are the most necessary
requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with
out these the journey through life becomes a weary pil
grimage; the prospect hourly darkens to the view; the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and fitted with the
melancholy collection that the happiness of another be
comes blighted with ODX own.
ammo.= OP xszinuorizrom.
When the misguided and ;imprudent votary of pleasure
Ands that he has imbibed the seeds of this painful disease,
it too often happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, or
dreadof discovery, deters him from applying to these who,
from education and respectability, can alone befriend him,
delaying till the cmastitutionat symptoms of this horrid
disease make limir appearance, snob as ulcerated sore
throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the bead and
limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the slain-bones
and arms, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of
the month or the bones of the nose fall in, and the victim
of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis
eration, till death pate a period to his dreadful sufferings,
by sending him to "that Undishovared Country from
whence no traveller returns."
It ie a melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to
this terrible disease, owinglo the unskillfulness of ignor
ant pretenders, who, by the use of that Deadly PofBo%
Mercury, ruin the constitution and make the residue o
life miserable.
STZAZIGBU
Trust not your lives, or health, to the care of many Un
learned and worthless Pretenders, dustitnle of knowledge,
name or charade, who copy Dr. Johnston's advertise
ments, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly
Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep you
trilling month after month taking their Silly and poison
ous compounds, or no long an the smallest fea can be ob
tained, and in despair. leave yon with ruined health to
sigh over your own galling disappointment.
Dr. Johnston is the only Physician advertising.
. . . .
The credentials or diplomas always hang in his office.
ills remedies or treatment are unknown to all others,
prepared from a life spent in the great hospitals of Europe,
the arm in the country and a more extensive Private
Practice than any other Phyeician in the world.
INDORSZOMMINT OW Wl=
MUM.
The many thousands cared at this institution year after
year, and the numerous important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. Johnston. witnessed. by the reporters of
the San," "Clipper," and many other papers, notices of
which have appeared again and pgain before the public,
besides his standing as a gentleman of character and re
sponsibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the alicted.
Skin Diseases Speedily Cured.
air No letters received unless post-pad and containing
a stamp to be used on the reply. Persons writing should
state age, and send portion of advertisement describing
SyMptOnla.
JOHN M. 3OENSTON, M. D..
Of the Baltimore Loan Hoepital, Baltimore, Maryland
May 23—ly
Desirable City Lots For Sale.
RE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS AT PRIVATE
Sale at moderate rates, •
i.e Banding Lots on North Ninth street
Five Building Lots on the west side of Mom alley, Bast
of Ninth street.
•••. - - -
Three Building Lots on the west side of North Tenth
street, and Fourteen Building Lots on the east aide of Moss
allay.
The conditions will be made easy to purchasers, the pro
prietor being willing to leave two-thirds of the purchase
mosey stand op the premises, if secured by Bond and
Mortgage, and allow payment to be made in installments.
of 10. 20 and e 0 Dollars, until the whole debt is paid,
provided that one-third of the purchase money is paid on
delivery of the Deed.
This is a rare chance for Laborer. and Mechanics to Se
cure homes, as the lots are in the neighborhood of the Steam
Forge and Intinstrial Works; and Ho it de understood that
all the Depots of the Junction Railroads will be put up
near the property.
Fr Plane of the Lots may be seen at my office, or that
of C. Oscar Wagner, Esq., Conn street.
Jan 31-tfj FREDERICK LAGER.
PHILOMATHEAN INSTITUTE,
Near Birdsboro, Berks County, Penna.
rytHE ELEVENTH TERALOF THIS INSTITII
j_ TION commences on Monday, August 10th ISO.
The Principal is prepared to accommodate in his own
family from sixteen to twenty boarders of both emcee. An
early application is advised to secure a place.
In addition to the usual thorough coarse of instruction
given here, a NORMAL DEPARTMENT will be opened for
those preparing to teach, during the Irk and WI quarter
of each term.
The especial care and attention of the Principal will be
constantly devoted to the health, safety, habits and man
ners of those placed ender his charge.
bay scholars received as usual.
For full particulars apply for a Catalogue.
BERMAN SMITH, A. B
Birdsboro, Pa, July 25, 1863.
Commercial Broker.
MBE UNDERSIGNED HAVING TAKEN
out a License as a COMMERCIAL BROKER, is pre•
pared to negotiate for the pnrchase and sale of
REAL ESTATE,
COIN,
- STOCKS, .
MORTGAGES,
and other Securities, Goods in unbroken Packages, Collec
tion of Bente, and any other business of a Commission
Broker or Agent.
/$1?- Parties haying business to do in his Use are request
ed to give him a call.
JACOB C. SCHCENEE,
OFFICE in Court Etreet, next door above Alderman
schwaer. Ifeb ZS
CURTIN'S POLITICAL PORTRAIT
Drawn by One of his own Party
The following articles appeared in the Pitts
burgh Gazette, the most prominent llepublittan
newspaper west of the Alleghenies, previous to
and on the day of the meeting of the late Abo
lition State Convention. The statements they
contain cannot be attribUted to partisan preju
dice or hatred, nor oan they be eueoessfully
refuted. We never saw a blacker record pro
duoed against any public man, and it cannot but
tell fearfully against Governor Curtin with the
intelligent, thinking, voters of the State. Row
any honest man can vote for the re election of
so unworthy a Governor with such oVerwhelmn
iog evidence of his corruptibility and dishonesty
staring them in the face—fastened upon him,
too, by his own partisans—is more than we can
see. We do not believe they will. But let
them read the articles, and be astonished at the
fact that, with such a record against him, his
tools and dependents were permitted to renomi
nate him in the Pittsburgh Convention:
Pram the Plllmburgh . Gazette, July 20.
"We have already suggested that we would
regard the renomination of Governor Curtin as
a great calamity to the party and to the country,
for the double reason that we should expose our
selves to the imminent risk of a defeat, if we did
not even show thereby that we have deserved it,
and that we should render service very doubtful
to either, by electing him. We now proceed to
assign some of the reasons for that opinion.
" It can not be 'disputed, we think, that his
administration has proved eminently disastrous
to the party which brought him into power.
That it has been an unfortunate one for the State,
the present condition of her plundered sinking
fund and dilapidated revenues will abundantly
attest. It is not clear that it has been a whole
some one for the country. It is but too clear that
it has been a damaging one fur himself—so darn
aging, that it is more than doubtful whether the
Union sentiment, strong as it unquestionably is,
would be sufficiently powerful to over-ride the
unfavorable opinion so generally entertained of
his integrity and wisdom, notwithstanding the
more than charitable reserve of the press, which
has flung a mantle over his faults, and perhaps
Oficefiraged hi@ friend@ and himself to believe
that the history of his administration will eon •
tinue a sealed book or be forgotten amid the
clangor of arms and the strife of the battle field.
"He came into office lees than three years ago
with a huge majority, and a Legislature of which
nearly three fourths of both branches either
were, or claimed to be, Republicans. At the end
of one session he had thrown all that majority
away. . . .
" Concurring in opinion with those of our
Pennsylvania statesmen (?) who believed that the
disease of the nation was one that could be
salved over by further humiliation, and would
only be aggravated by seasonable measures of
defence, one of his first acts was to demoralize the
party by taking seperate counsel with the "Con
seryative" Republicans and Democrats, who
coalesced and co-operated throughout under his
auspices, in refusing to arm the State, and re
cognized the traitorous doctrine of State sov
ereignty, by sending en embassy to Gov. Hicks,
of Maryland, and accepting an invitation to con
fer on Federal grievances, with other States, to
the prejudice of the rights and interests of the
nation, and in clear and manifest violation of the
spirit and letter of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States.
"Entrusted with the privilege of expending
the first appropriation made by the Legislature
for the common defence, he gave to his own
creatures the power of making contracts, as his
private agents, in relation to tirades with which
they were entirely unfamiliar, to the great injury
of the soldier, who was victimized by their un
'skillfulness or fraud. This fact was found by a
committee appointed by himself, under the
pressure of a public clamor, which grew out of
the treatment of the volunteers who had assem
bled' at Harrisburg. Those brave young men
who bad responded so generously to the first
call of their country, were in rage, with shoddy
vestments, shoes whose soles were stuffed with
shavings, and blankets almost as thin and trans
parent as a window pane. It was reported and be
lieved that they had been given over in the tender
mercies of a few heartless epeculators who were
then hovering about the capital. The officers at
Camp Curtin, justly indignant at what they saw,
drew up a spirited remonstrance to the Legisla
ture, which was presented to the House, at their
instance, by one of our own members. It sug
gested to him the propriety of an inquiry as to
th e nature of the contracts made for supplies,
and the names of the agents, through whom they
were made, and he offered a resolution accord
ingly. He wished to know and let the public
know, whether it was true that sundry individ
uals then loitering around the capital, who were
pointed out by the tongue of rumor, and known
to be entirely unfit for the purpose, had been
actually commissioned by the Governor, as his
agents, to make contracts for the soldiers. One
of these individuals was a certain Charles M.
Beal, an active ward politician, and acting
Commissioner, of Philadelphia, who was under
stood to be an intimate and cbnfidential friend of
the Governor. The answer of the Governor
ignored Ilse fact of his employment, although the
record shows that on the very day preceding or
following his message to the House he had en
dorsed and approved a contract for clothing
made by the identical individual with the Frown
fields of this city, in that special capacity. On
this contract Neal was afterwards indicted here,
and it was while that indictment was depending
that the Governor felt it necessary, in order to
appease the public clamor, or divert it from his
own head, to raise a committee of his own op •
pointment to inquire into his own conduct. That
committee proved very unexpectedly a fair one
—so fair that it was deemed prudent to withhold
its Report from the Legislature at the next en
suing session of that body. It found however—
although it passed over the Frownfield case be
cause it was depending in the Courts—that the
soldiers were in rags.' With every disposition
to deal gently with the Governor, it condemned
his appointments and the mode pursued by the
government in making its purchases.' It de
clared that ' the absence of a district supervisory
power had been the cause of much of the mis
chief that had befallen the State.' It remarked,
hi observing upon the character of the Geyer
fleets agents, that 'it could not for a moment
be supposed that there were not men in Penn
sylvania, whose services could have been com
manded, and who by education and ability were
equal to the occasions that had arisen, and that
I the appointment by an executive from personal
or partisan motives of incompetent agents to
offices of great responsibility, is, at all times, a
grave dereliction from duty, never more so than
in great public emergencies, when the disasters
resulting from the ignorance or incompetence of
the agents, for whose appointment lie is respon
sible, will inevitably excite suspicions of fraud,
and return home to the executive in humiliating
charges of collusion.' And it closed by observ ,
ing that they also report, in general, as the
result of their investigations, Ellat they have
found instances of ignorance, of incompetence,
of sharp dealing never praiseworthy, and here
eminently disgraceful, of bad appointments,
which, although under the peculiar circumstan
ces of the times to be expected, are none the
less to be condemned.'
BONDS
" The judicial investigation of the Frownfield
Cage having proved a failure in oonsequenCe of
the arbitrary and extraordinary intervention of
Chief Justice Lowrie, followed, as it was, by the
disappearance of the witness, a new. Committee
BoMitzi.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBR 12, 1863.
was raised at the next session of the Legislature
by which it was found, among other things, that
the case as' shown by the absconding witness,
who had afterwards returned, was a clear case
of fraudulent complicity between the contractors
and Charles M. Neal ;' that the clothing furnish
ed to the soldiers could have been afforded
50fl per suit less than was given, anti yet have
left to the contractors a profit of $1 50;' that
a large portion of it was entirely unfit for the
use of the soldiers and much of it fell to pieces
in a short time after it W 49 worn by them and
'that the flight of the Frownfichis was almoet
conclusive evidence that they, at least, were con
scious of having defrauded the State.' Our
readers will judge of the quality of this commit
tee when they find thorn adding, that while the
testimony of Murphy seems to excite strong sus—
picion against Neal, the testimony of Neal himself,
one of the parties implicated. seemi to clear him
from all but a great, WO fii of ,ju.l4naent in his pur
chase and misapprehensions as to his duties,' and
that his testimony shows that he did not. con
sider himself bound to inquire either into the
actual cost of the goods used or their fitness for
the purpose intended.' lt is rather surprising
that they did not hunt up the Frownfields them
selves as witnessess, who would, no doubt, have
made a clear case of it for the defendants. In
convicting them alone they forgot that the of
fence charged was one which either involved the
complicity of the other party, or did not exist
at all, and therefore furnished no 000ssion for
running away. They do, however, set down the
case as ono of a failure of justice, occasioned by
the interference of Judge Lowrie. We are in ,
formed, however, that the confidence of the Gov
ernor in Neal has been in no wise shaken by the
transaction. He still continues to be among his
most intimate and cherished friends."
Prom the Pittsburgh Ousette, August 4th
" The Convention, which meets here to mor
row, will have a grave and delicate task before
it. If It represents the popular sentiment with
any reasonable fairness, it will endeavor to name
a candidate who combines the essentials to sue-
Coos with an ability and honesty which will in
sure a faithful and favorable administration of
the affairs of the State. Wo do not expect of
course, from this or any other, representative
body thus selected, either the very ablest or
most honest and courageous men in the State.
This would be looking for too much in the pre
sent condition of poor hunnin nature. The best
man is seldom the available one, because he is
generally either a reserved or an outspoken man,
eschewing politics and courting nobody, because
he despises the arts- which are supposed
to be necessary to secure 'the sweet voices' of
the people—or proclaiming on all occasions pre
cisely what he thinks, without fear or favor,
Such men are never popular, and never, there
fore, acquire that notoriety which is derived
from newspaper puffery, which is unquestionably
one of the passports to greatness and glory in
this country. We must wait a few generations
to improve the tone of popular sentiment, and
the system of public representation, before we
can hope to develop the best abilities of the na
tion in the places of highest trust.
" Trusting ourselves, therefore, to the time,
although there never was an occasion when the
country more needed its brightest men, we are
not disposed to be unreasonable in our demands.
We want a man, however, if we would succeed,
of whom at least no evil can be spoken, and for
whom every honest man can freely vote, without
compromising his conscience or his principles.
To take one against whom any eolid and well
sustained objection, on the score of honesty, can
be made, would be to court defeat, and show that
we were indifferent as well to moral considera
tions as to the probable effects of such a course.
Among the candidates named, we have ourselves,
as we have more than once remarked, no choice,
and no interests to serve. If the privilege were
given to us of saying who should be the stand
and bearer, we should decline it. There is not
one of all the candidates whom we have named
that we would not take cheerfully, except Gov.
Curtin, or one of the associates of Woodward
and Lowrie, on the Supreme Bench. Either of
thede men would be ineligible here and in West
ern Pennsylvania generally, the first, because of
his pelioy and acts as a Governor; and the
other, because of disastrous decisions, and the
acts of highhanded tyranny, which have exas
perated and inflamed our people to an inappre
ciable degree against them. On these points,
Lowrie and Woodward will-both prove weak and
vulnerable, beyond any other men in the State,
if the advantage is properly used. Beyond these
candidates we are indifferent.
" We trust, however, that nobody in the Con
vention will allow himself to be.mieled by the
idea that a man like Curtin, and with such a
record as we have shown of him, can be forced
upon the people of this county by putting him in
nomination against their will, We know what
we say, when we give notice to those who
may be tempted to this view, that he is so uni
versally believed by the people hero to be cor
rupt—to havo sold the State and the party both
—and to be anything but well affected to the
National Administration or the true loyal men at
home ; they know indeed so well the sort of
company he keeps, and the kind of influences
that have governed him, that we have but given
shape and utterance to their invineihle repug—
nance to the man, and done what they desired
in endeavoring to save the party, by warning the
managers that they must neither touch, taste, or
handle anything so unclean, if they considered
the vote of the strongest Republican county in
, the State or the nation an important one."
From the Pittsburgh Gazette, Aug. 6
A Parting Word to the Convention•
The delegates to the State Converktion are
now amongst us. Before they prooeed to do
their duty, we have a word to say to them.
We bad reason to believe that Governor Cur
tin, notwithstanding his ostensible withdrawal,
was a candidate for renomination, and confident
that he would be successful.
WE FELT ASSURED THAT lIE COULD NOT
BE ELECTED. WE KNEW THAT HE OUGHT
NOT. IT BECAME OUR DUTY, THEREFORE,
TO SOUND THE ALARM, AND ENDEAVOR
TO SAVE THE PARTY, IF POSSIBLE.
We have endeavored to show that he imposed
upon the soldiers, by farming them out to his
friends, and then denying that he had employed
them. •
We have exhibited the record to establish the
fact that he had approved a bill, acknowledged
by him to he wrong, WHICH ROBBED THE
TREASURY OF MANY MILLIONS OF MONEY,
that as the conditions of his approval be had
taken an agreement for the State, which he ab
stracted, and secretly surrendered to the parties
who had given it—and that when interrogated by
the Legislature, he confessed the fact, and
offered as his apology, a reason which is known
to have been untrue.
We have demonstrated the fact that. he bar
gained away a Republican United States Senator,
for the consideration of an adjournment, and
the discharge of the Committee, appointed to
inquire into the means which had been used to
procure the passage of that bill.
We have charged that he was unfriendly to
the war policy of the Administration, and proved
it not only by his Message in relation to the
arrest of traitors, and his conduct in relation to
the draft, but by the character of the men whom
he has retained about him.
We have shown that thkeffoot of his policy
has been to break down the power of the Re
publican party of this State, and even those who
merely co operated with him in the Legislature,
have . been placed, almost without exception,
under the ban of the people.
And we have inferred from all this—without
referring to other matters—THAT HIS NOM
INATION WOULD BE DISGRACEFUL TO THE
PARTY AND HIS ELECTION IMPOSSIBLE—
as the general desire of Copperheads that we
should take him for our candidate, proves it to
be, in their judgment, as well se wire.
All this we have been compelled, by the ne
cessities of the case, to do, in order to save the
cause from irretrievable ruin. We would rather
have avoided this, if it had been possible. We
have kept these things in the background,
rather than rut the risk of crippling the State
administrative, ur driving it boldly tato the em
braces' of the enemy, to which we feared ils
tendencies were overetrong already. We thought
it wise to make the . best'of a bad bargain, so
long as we could not help ourselves. When the
same man was, however, presented anew, as a
candidate for a second term, it became our duty
to speak out before the mischief was enacted,
and we have done so in language as moderate as
thethets would beer. And yet even then, we would
have rather waived our objections, if it had
been possible, and taken the weakest man, and
the wickedest of our enemies, than run the risk
of disturbing the harmony of the party, at such
Er tiele. It was clear to us ' however, that will
Stith a candidate. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR
US TO SUCCEED. We should be beaten, at
any rate—as our past experience has demonstra
led—and as it could not make the matter worse,
it was worth at least the trouble to prevent it.
And now we ask the members of the Canyon
Lion to tell us calmly, whether, with the facts
before them, as we have them to be, there is a
constituency in Pennsylvania, that would have
recommended orinstructed for hint—and whether
these fame depending mainly upon the record,
and incontrovertible,' of course, can be now suc
cessfully concealed from them?
We ask them again, who there are among the
eminent speakers of this State, who enjoy the
confidence of the people, that will venture to
meet these issues, with the very record to cols
found them ? We do not know a man, of any posi
tion or force, in this county, at all events, who
would not feel himself personally compromised,
by undertaking a labor so herculean as this.
The question then comps at last, whether
there are any of the delegates inclined to the
support of Curtin; who would consider a triumph
now, as more important than a triumph at the
election, and a sufficient compensation for a de
feat at that time—or would be willing to stake
the result upon a doubt? If it be true, as
charged, that he insists on playing the part of
the dog in the manger, and sacrifices the party,
of which, it is said, he c laims
. to he the builder,
to himself, is there any man in the Convention
who will allow himself to be used for nth a
purpose ? What is to be gained by it for the
advantage of anybody but the rebels and their
Northern sympathizers?
We have stated more than crm—and we can
not repeat it too often—that whatever may be
the opinion of the Convention, and whether
right or wrong, the feeling against Governor
Curtin in Ibis county at lead—growing out, of
his own cots and policy—is so strong that we
could no more control it, even if we were so dis
posed, than we could stein the torrent of the
Niagara with our hands. We might ruin our
selves by advocating his election, but we couldn't
help him. It is not we who are responsible for
the existence or origin of that feeling. We re
flect it only, and have but thrown ourselves into
the current, which was flowing as rapidly before
we undertook to fathom or. direct it.
There were good men hero who doubted in
1860, whether he could be trusted, and refused
to vote for him, and yet this county gave him a
majority of about 0400 votes. Less than a
month afterward it gave Lincoln 10.000. With
a stronger man than Curtin there should have
been 8,000 et least. With an unexceptionable
candidate now we are strong as ever. With
Gov. Curtin, we doubt whether it could be car
ried at all, and those who reflect that his con
duct at the season of 1861, brought in a Demo
crat even here, at the election which followed,
will realize the mischief that such a nomination
may inflict.
It is not this county only, however, in which
it is important to make the machine run smooth.
There will be like difficulties elsewhere, and
particularly in those counties where the strength
of the Republican party lies. If he should be
nominated, it will not be by the votes of those
districts, which will be expected to• elect him.
It will be counties like Berks, we suppose, that
are to be cast as make-weights into the scale.
Would it not become them to reflect, that if they
want us to do the work they must put us into a
condition to run with our weights? Are not the
predjudioes of our people—if they choose to call
them so—to be consulted? If they eon find a
man who is free from ohjeciioa—and we are in a
bad condition, indeed, if they cannot—what is
their duty as men—as patriots—as lovers of
their country ? How can they excuse them
selves for insisting—from mere pride of self
will--on one of the opposite kind, who is
known to be unpalatable to any respectabb sec
tion of the party ? We shall gauge their patriot
ism by the way in which they deal with the diffi
culty. With men of heroic stamp—men suited
to the times—it can prove no serious difficulty
at all.
JUDGE WOODWARD'S LOYALTY
The treasury robbers, who have their arms in
the public purse up to their elbows, afraid that
they will be driven away from further plunder
ings by the election of Judge Woonwmtn, are
crying out against his loyally. The argumeht is,
that he is not loyal to "us," and, therefore, the
people should leave "us" to fatten on their earn
ings. This is the substance of their groans.
No honest or fair-minded man has, or needs to
have, the slightest anxiety on the point. A man
reared. in our midst, always , living under the
eyes of the people of Pennsylvania, exercising
great public trusts with the highest fidelity, own
ing no property and possessing no interests
whatever beyond our borders—what motive to
disloyalty has such a man ? What word or act
of his life implies disloyalty to his Government?
He has sworn to support the Constitution of the
United States and of the State of Pennsylvania
many times ; when—where—has he violated that
oath? What patriot, what shoddy contractor,
what thief, even, dare charge him withits viola
tion ?
Ills speech in Independence &pre, in 1860,
has been garbled, mutilated and forged by such
organs of the National Administration as The
Press, but they dare not spewd it before tlie pub
lic. We have published it in our columns, and
most of the Democratic papers in the State have
done likewise. IL is 11,; own hesl refutation of
these slanderous perversions.
As a further evidence of the general drift of
Judge WOODWARD'S thoughts, we publish below
part of a judicial opinion, delivered by him in
the Supreme Court, on the constitutionality of the
Soldiers' Stay Law. We italicise a few sentences.
Such incidental expressions, uttered from the
bench in the course of judioial duty—not framed
as catch-words of a campaign, but grave and
solemn expositions of the law—are better
evidences of a man's mental condition and views
of public policy than statements and professions,
prepared in the heat of a political contest, as
bide for votes. Our candidate has no such bids
to offer. He is not an obscure or unknown man.
His life is before the people of Pennsylvania—a
people whom he has served faithfully through
nearly all of his mature years—always wear—
ing purely and without stain the honors with
which they have crowned him. We ask that that
life be read truly—we ask nothing more. Its
Irecords are an all sufficient answer to the
calumnies of the creatures who are hired to
slander him.
[VOL. XXIV-NO. 21.-WHOLE NO. 1985.
The opinion to which we ask attention vidicat
ed the SOldier's right to exemption from exeou•
Lions, and other legal process, while serving in
the armies of his country. It- maintained the
constitutionality and justice of a law which,
while it could not avail lb protect the volunteer
from the plundering hand of CURTIN, secured his
little possessions to his family until he could
come back to maintain them once more by his
daily labor. Ragged, starved and shoddy
stricken by the grasping hand of a false Govern-
or, this law left his wife and babies a bed, a
stove and a cow; and when its validity was im—
peached on the Supreme Court, WouuwAnn was
its champion. Judge READ alone dissented—
the only Judge of that beach elected by Abolition
votes !
Judge Wood . ward's Opinion on the
Soldiers' Stoy-Law.
" WOODWARD, J.—The 4th sew 1011 of the Ac:
of 18th April, IbtiL, r. 1.. p. 409, is in these
words: civil process shall issue or be eu
forced against nny person mustered into the err
vice of the State or of the United States, during
the term for which he shall be engaged in such
service, our until thirty days after he shall have
been discharged therefrom; Provided, that the
operation of all statutes of limitation shall be
suspended upon all claims against such person
during such term.'
it The principal question upon the record is,
whether this section be constitutional. Although
it occurs in an act supplementary to the penal
laws of the Commonwealth, and does not mention
the militaty service, either of the State or of the
United States, yet it is universally understood,
and no doubt correctly understood, to be
a stay law of all legal process against sol
diers mustered into the military service of the
Government. And it is a stay for a term—the
term for which he shall be engaged. The act.of
Congress of 22d July, 1861, under which the
first half million of volunteers were mustered in-
to the service of the United States, fixed the
term at not more than three years nor less than
six months, and the affidavit which was filed on
behalf of the defendant, says that he had been
mustered in for three years or during the war.
This is the same phrase that was used in the
19th section of the Act of Assembly of 15th May,
1861, in reference to the Reserve Volunteer
Corps, and means three years or less, or not
exceeding three years. The term of engagement,
therefore, during which the above section meant
that the defendant should not be subject to civil
process was three years from the date of his
muster, if the war should last so long, and if it
should not, then until it should end. Thirty
days were to be added after his discharge, which
would make the utmost extent of the term three
years and thirty days, Tite reference to the du ,
ration of the war is a restriction of the term,
not an extension of it beyond three years and
thirty days. The duration of the war was, at
the date of the law, and still is, uncertain, but
the maximum period of the stay—three years
and thirty days from the date of the muster—is
susceptible of ascertainment with absolute cer—
tainty. It was suggested that the volunteer
might reenlist at the expiration of his first term,
and because this was possible that the term of
his engagement was necessarily uncertain. The
answer is that the statute gives but one stay,
which is to be computed from the time of the
original muster, and a re enlistment would not
renew the stay. The statute refers itself for the
term of engagement to the laws that were then
in force fixing the period of enlistment, and,
therefore, we construe it according to the tenor
of those laws.
4, Such being the significance and effect of the
section, was the Legislature authorized to enact
it ?
" We have often said that stay laws, exemp
tion laws, and limitation laws, are ordinarily
constitutional, though applied to existing and
prior contracts, and we hove followed the die
tinction which prevails in the Supreme Court of
the United States, between the.obligation . of the
Contract and the remedies furnished by law for
enforcing the obligation. We understand the .
rule to be that whilst the Legislature may not
impair the obligation they may modify the reme
dy. But it sometimes happens that the parties
contract concerning the remedy—tbat they
stipulate in the body of the contract that in case
of failure of payment by a certain day there shall
be no stay of execution, or that the mortgagee
may enter and sell the mortgag ed estate—or,
that all exemption rights shall ' be waised. In
suck cases the rule is, that the remedy tweomes
part of the obligation of the contract, anti any
subsequent statute which effects the remedy im
pairs the obligation, and is tiliconetituitonal
Brow,, v. Kenzie, 1 f10ward..322. sod Billmyer
v..EV4IELEI, 4 Wr. 327, are illustrations of obis
rule. The time and manner in which stay laws
shall operate, are property lerslat que,tious,
and will generally depend, said Judge Baldwin,
in Jackson v. Lamphire, 3d Peters' it p 200,
on the sound discrei ion of the LeAislature I no
cording to the nature of the titles, the situation
of the country, and the emergency which leads
to the enactment. Cases •may occur where the
provisions of a law may be so unreasonable as to
amount to a denial of right, and call for the in
lerposition of the court.' In Brown, Itaignel &
Co. v. Gorges, 5 Wr. 411, we bad an instance of
au unreasonable stay law—unreasonable because
of the indefiniteness of the possible stay, and of
the subversion of the authority of the Courts
over judgments upon their records. From the
ruling in that case and the authorities cited, it
may be inferred that, in respect to contracts
which do not treat of remedies, tvlohold any law
to be constitutional which gives a stay for a
time that is definite and not unreasonable, but
unconstitutional if the stay be for an indefinite
time, or for a time that is unreasonable, though
definite.
Wo have seen that the stay given by the act
of 1861 was not indefinite as to its maximum du
ration, but was for a period certain and prefixed,
or, at the least, a period that is capable of being
easily reduced to certainty. Was that period
reasonable ? The stay is a long one, it must be
confessed—longer than is usual—longer than
can be justified, except by most peculiar and
pressing circumstances. There is great force in
the reasons which the learned Judge below urged
against it. The enforced delay of a civil right,
the deterioration of the mortgaged estate, and
the consequent pecuniary bee are entitled to
great consideration in judging of the reasonable
ness of the law. Everybody feels that a stay of
remedies on a mortgage for fifty years, for in
stance, would be a wanton sacrifice of the con
stitutional rights of the ci'izen. What better is
a stay for a less time if it be long enough to
work essential depreciation of the security ?
" Yet it is impossible to separate this question of
reasonableness from the actual circumstances in
which the country found itself at the date of the law.
Eleven States had seceded or revolted from the
Federal Union, and had set up an independent
Government within the jurisdiction of the Con
stitution of the United States, and armed pee,
session had been taken of forts, arsenals, custom
houses, navy yards, and other property of the
United States within the boundaries of the re
volted Stales. In the judgment of the President
and Congress, who were the duly constituted
authorities, the occasion required an immense
increase of the army and navy, and the active
employment of both-of these strong arms Le sub
due the rebellion and restore the Union. Ao
oordingly Congress ,authorized the President to
lleoept volunteers, and to call upon the States
for their militia. He did both, and a vast army
has been in the field for many months.
"Now, if a stay of execution for three years
would not be tolerated in ordinary times, did not
these circumstances constitute an emergency that jus
tOerl the pushing of legislation to the extremest limit
of the Constitution f No citizen could be bkmed for
' volunteering. Ire was invoked to do so by appeals
as strong as Ms lours of country. In the nature of
things there is nothing unredeonable in exempting a
soldier's property from execution whilst he is absent
from home battling for thesupremacy of the Coned
tution and the integrity of the Union. And when
he has not run before he was sent, but hos yielded
himself up to the call of his country, his self sacri
ficing patriotism pleads, trumnet tongued, for all the
indulgence from his creditors which the Legislature
have power to grant. lithe term of indulgence seem
long in this instance, it was not longer than the time
fi so m id u ier , h
s ic , h se t
r h v e
ice lresi' l d t en and
was
atnoet
for
r yr h e i s den
him,
,no in
raisdeidi
forth
us, to rejudge the discretion of the President and
Congress in this regard. Basing ourselves on what
they did; constitutionally, the question for us is,
whether the stay granted by our own Le L dslotore to
our CHZen OkiierB Wits UlirNlBolialfle view Of
the extraordinary circumstances of the ease tee ran
notpnonounce it unreasonable. Ite 4,e in it 97.0
won
tan or careless dnirey Is(' of the obligation of c0.0r,,08
but only a sincere ribs; to enable the Gov.
erumeat to prosecute with success a wry . which, in its
exclusive right of judgment, tt resoled b• woge.
-Another cileutostance whmt, beers ori rho
reasonableness of the emu:Imo:1 is the pi.ovision
which suspends all ctaxiites in favor
of ;he s9ll.lier (hiring all the 'ime than ho ',s
emi:red from process. Th , , provisions were re
ciprocal and both were reasonable."
From the Eational littodligencer.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
The very interesting letter inserted below is
from a gentleman of intelligence and honor, per.
sonully well known to us, and whose statements
of fact are entitled to full credit. He is, more
over, a thorough loyalist, and Las been a uni
form and decided friend of the Administration.
The result of his observations in a recent and
extended tour in the South, he has thought of
sufficient interest to be communicated to the pub
lic here, and we are sure that all of our readers
will agree with him. What he relates of South—
ern feeling and Southern hopes can hardly sur
prise any one who can imagine the extremity of
suffering and the multiplied woes which the
causeless rebellion has brought to every family
of the south ; but it is only those who from birth
or long association understand the feeling in the
South regarding their slaves, who can appreciate
fully the fixedness and intensity of the Southern
mind on that subject. We are not surprised,
therefore, that the extremity of suffering and the
i h n o s p p e i l r e a s s e n v e a s n s o m f a
n t h y e
n r e e b t e h i n t i s ; n w c h o o m w b i e n r e a d , e a s g h e o r u 1d
10
enter into it with the desire to retrace Their steps
and return to their allegiance, as well as the
masses who were forced into it; and we can well
understand the writer when he represents the
question of emancipation—regarded in the South
as involving utter and irremediable ruin to their
country—as the only substantial difficulty in the
way of a restoration of the Union. It is for those
who rule the destinies of this great country to
say whether it shall, so far as depends on them,
have Union and the Constitution, or immediate and
forcible emancipation with ruin to a moiety of the
country, protracted war, and a violated Constitu
tion. How eloquent anti forcible is the appeal
with which the writer closes his letter, and
which, notwithstanding its personal reference to
the Chief Magistrate, we take the freedom of
placing before him.
NORFOLK, Aug. 29, 1863.
To the Editors of the National Intellioencer.
Having. ust returned from a tour through por
tions of the States of Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, and
having met in my travels many of the former
politicians of these States, and, as was most
natural under the circumstances, had frequent
aonversaLione with them ou the subject of the
war, its origin, objects, bearings on the present
and future of our country, and its probable re
sult, I feel assured te..ectine extent that a brief
synopsis of the impressions made on toy mind
will not be altogether unacceptable to your rea
ders: The war, they argue, was instituted for
the purpose of securing further guarantees to
their own peculiar institution—slavery—and to
repress abolitionism or Northern aggressious on
their rights. 115 hearing nu toe instiintlon has
teen to weaken and endanger its entireover
throw. They admit that they have been de
ceived by their political !ostlers, and that r early
all their promises have proven failures They
see, they feel the crushing effects of the war
upon the Slave States, and admit it it 'huh-finitely
continue that the institution of slavery will not
only be in dan g er of annihilation, but that, their
former slaves will be drafted info the army of the
United States tor the y. utp,,ee of continuing the
war on the South. This one single lain bears
more heavily upon them i ion attyl tilin g else con.
fleeted with the war; and to escape this now ap
parent inevitable fate, they express a willingness
to accede to any terms which shell on, humiliate
andilegrade them. They affirm (in fact they ex
pect, they hope, they pray for ) that it is net
for them to beg for peace, but tor the President
to hold out the olive branch; and if the Presi
dent were to issue a proclamation holding their
leaders to a strict accountability for the rebel.
lion, and offer the people protection in person
and property, leaving the institution of slavery
to the constitutional immunity of State laws,
they will not only accept it, but will hail the act
as magnanimous, noble, great. Thus it will be
perceived that the great masses of the Southern
people are standing on a point of honor, which
to them is of far greater import than defeat
in battle, the lose of strongholds, or the reduc
tion of their ',reties. All Glut they can bear, but
dishonor thepeannot bear, and they hope, they
expect, they pray that the President will spare
them this unspeakable humiliation. In view of
these simple truths, I would ask, Messrs Editors,
through the medium of your invaluable journal,
if the President cannot afford to be magnani
mous? If, after the fall of Charleston, be can
not afford to offer some terms which shall induce
the great body of the Southern people to return
to their allegiance to the Federal Union and the
Government of the United States? If he be
ambitious of enviable fame, he will do it; if ha
dealt es to be remembered as the second Washing
ton, he will do it; if he wishes to secure to him
self the appellation of Abraham the Great, he
will do it; if he wishes to imitate the example
of Him who said "go thou and sin no more," he
will do it; and, I may add, if he wishes to pro
claim the popular sentiment of the American
people, and the sentiment of humanity, civilise-
Lion, and christianity throughout the world, he
will do it; which God grant, for peace's sake.
Youre, very truly,
JOHN ADAMS, all.
A Puoren NAMIL—The Abolition party has a
proper name. It is an Abolition party in Met.
It has abolished the Constitution of the United
States.
It has abolished the good feelings which
bound the North and South together.
It has abolished the Union of the States.
•
It has abolished the babeas,corpus.
It has abolished the right of trial by jury.
It has abolished gold and silver coin from our
midst.
IL has abolished low prices for all articles of
domestic use.
It has abolished the lives of tens of thousand/
of brave white men.
h has abolished peace and security through
out the country.
It bas abolished the respect we commanded
abroad as a nation.
It has, in fine, nbollshed about all it can abol
ish, and the neat thing it will abolish
Somerset Union.