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Sljc cffcvsonian,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1864.
NATIONAL tJNIOlf NOMINATIONS,
FOR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW "JOHNSON,
OV TKKNKRSBK.
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Union Electoral Ticket.
SENATORIAL ELECTORS.
MORTON" M'MiCIIAEI., of Philadelphia,
THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, of Beaver.
REPRESENTATIVE ELECTORS.
1 Robert P. King, ;13 Elias W. Hall,
12 G. Morrison Coates, 14 C. II. Shriner,
3 Henry Cumin, ;15John Wistcr,
4 William II. Kern, 10 D. M'Conaiighv,
5 Bartin If. Jenke, 1? David W. Woods,
G Charles M. Runk, ;18 Isaac Benson,
7 Robert Parke, 19 John PaUon,
S Aaron Mull, 20 Samuel B. Dick,
9 John A. Hiestand, 21 Evcrard Bicrer,
10 Richard H. Coryell, 22 John P. Penney,
1 1 Edward Holliday, 23 Ebenezer M'Junkin
12 Charles F. Reed. 24 J. W. Blancha rd,
The Enlistment.
The enlistment of volunteers to fill the
quotas of Stroudsburg, aud of Stroud and
Hamilton townships, is going on steadily,
but -wc think not quite so rapidly as it
should. The 5th of September is draw
ing near, and as it is certain that the draft
will begin as soon after that day as possi
ble, we should bestir ourselves. It should
be remembered br our young men, that
ty volunteering they can secure bounties
amountiug to 6400 besides $t6 per
month aud clothing, rations, and medical
attendance when sick that the draft is
eurc to come, and that the drafted man
gets no bountj. It would be well then
to secure the bounties ere it be too late.
Capt. Florey, who lias had considerable
experience In military matters, and who
Won the confidence and esteem of his men
while commanding a companj'in the three
month service, last summer, is again in
the field raising a company for one years
service. It is through him that the men
thus tar supplied for the quct.is of the
borough and townships above named have
enlisted, and we would advise all who
R-mili nvnwl Aruft. Uiilnnfnnrinir
to go into the organization which Capt.
riorcy is about perfecting. Ry so doin
3'ou will always be amoug old acquaintances
friends aud neighbors, which is certainly
more pleasant than to take your lot among
Grangers. But you must hurry up. The
time is growing short.
Very Accommodating.
ft is a- good thing to have an accommo
dating spirit at the head of a party: a vc
ry good thing. It saves a "real deal of
trouble, and tends to promote harmony
and good feeling. The Democratic party
is just now so blessed, and rejoices in the
possession of our friend the Squire as just
such a spirit. It will be remembered
that, for the last two or three years, the
Democratic lien has been endeavoring
to hatch a chick out of the regular nomi
nation egg, but that owing to a super-
aoundance of modesty, or because of the
barrcness of the egg she has thus far
.railed. This failure has been a source of
vexation to the antediluvian members of
the party, the Squire among the rest, and
has given cause to many a desponding
nod, and many a melancholy consultation.
Rut, like yeast in the dough trough, the
Squires wit has at last began to work,
aad' his accommodating spirit has set a
Bout to remedy the evil, and the result
has been a determination that it the
mouutain will not come to Malicinct, Ma
homet will go to the mountain. And it
is a good thing for the party too, this de
termination of the Squire's, as it will
save time and money, as well as hard
feeling if acquiessed in. The party has
only to resolve to abolish Conventions
and it will soon see how happily it will
work. The Squire will but have to gp to
"imrsnadiny" men to accept the offices
aad the work will be accomplished. We
d'ourt apprehend that he will find much
trouble in getting Candidates, though he
may have some trouble in electing them
all; but that can be left to their own look
out. We are glad to sec that a com
mencement has been made. The Squire
has already persuaded Jerome S. Williams
of Hamilton township to accept the office
of County Auditor; and a very good per
suasion it is two, for Mr. W. is an excel'
lent accouutant, and will make a faithful
officer. If the Squrie only succeeds as
well in pursuading equally good men to
accept the Commissionership, the assem
Ulysliip and the membership of Congress,
we shall' be- satisfied. Go on jrith your
jersuasions fequire.
CEAIfGrE.
This world is subject to great change;.
In manners, art and style;
Fashion-also changes too,
All lived up to by Pyle.
All kinds of Clothing kept at Pyle's Eas
Ibn Hall of Fushionppposite the old Eas-
Too Fast
The Stroudsburg Jeffcrsonian of Aug-
18th is a little too fast: we have never
alluded to the Congressional question in
this couuty. The Convention, we hear,
is to be held here, and of course Pike
will have the candidaie.-jVfTortZ Her
ald.
Wc were a little too fast; that is a fact
We know, aud so does every one else,
who knows Cotter, that the Milford Her
ald has nothing to say about a bone over
which two factions of his party are quar
reling. Like the Jackass between two
bundles of Hay Cotter don't know which
way to turn, though he is famished with
hunger, and anxious to get afc the best
heap. Why, even when a nomination is
made, with a wheel within a wheel, as
was the case in Rowland vs. Westbrook,
for the Legislature, CottcHdid not have
back-bone enough to say a word either
for or against either candidate. Although
the editor of the regular organ of the reg
ular Democracy, he did not have spunk
enough to openly sustain the action of a
regular Convention of his party; aud even
last fall, when the Convention labored
only to produce twins he did not dare to
call his soul his own, but only gave luke
warm support to the candidate which the
Democracy of his County sustaiued.
We, therefore, deem that we owe an apol
ogy for having inadvertantly attributed to
him an indepondant expressiou of opin
ion, as to the Congressional scramble in
Pike. It was the Northern Eagle, and
not the Milford Herald from whence we
derived our information.
SST The Northern Eagle, of Milford
says. There seems to be no end to the
troubles of the Congressional aspirants in
this Couuty. We had supposed that the
Stroudsburg Resolutions and the proceed
ings of the Democratic Club of Delaware
Township were creating discord enough
but now we hear that a bomb-shell has
exploded iu the Democratic camp, the ef
fect of which bids fair to cause a geuera
panic. Hon. Phil. Johnson has come out
with a Circular, in which he stoutly as
serfs and attempts to prove by mathemati
cal demonstration that Northampton coun
ty should have the Congressman for two
years longer. He then modestly intimates
that he is the man for the place. W. II
Huttcr, Esq., editor of the Easton Argus
(a good paper by the way, only it ough
to be published at Richmond, V a., instead
of Easton) comes out with another Circu
lar iu which, strange to say he arrives a
the same conclusion as Mr. Johnson, only
Mr. II. thinks he is the man for the busi
ii ess. Whereupon the Monroe Democrat
comes iuto action with a G9-pound article
loaded to the muzzle with statistics and
effectually silences Iluttcr'sand Johnson's
batteries, only we think the recoil injures
Gen. .Burnett about as badly. If the
Democrat's article proves anything it is
that Pike is entitled to the Congressman
and therefrom Nyce and Rowland may
draw consolation. These latter gentlemen
have our sympathies. If they will only
succeed as well in explaining the War
Resolutions adopted at Stroudsburg in
lS61,and in soothing the troubled feeling
of Delaware as the Democrat does in dis
posing of Messrs. Johnson and Ilutter, al
t . 11 T l ... .1
may oe wen. uai as it is, things are
dreadfully mixed.
The Seven-Thirties What are they ?
We trust that a large portion of our
readers have pondered the Appeal of Mr,
Fessenden, our new Secretary of th
Treasury. The purport of it is that the
Pcoplo of the United States, acting as a
body through their agent the Government,
wish individuals to lend them two hund
red millions of dollars for three years, at
seven and three-tenths per cent, annual
interest, payable every six months. For
this they offer Treasury Notes that is,
in reality, notes drawn and endorsed by
every man in the country. The loan is
wanted for a great national purpose, to ef
fect which every man, unless he be
traitor at heart if not in act, is solemnly
pledged.
The Appeal is addressed not merely to
a few great capitalists, but also to the
many whose aggregate means constitue
the mass of the wealth of the land. The
notes upon which this loan is asked are
from 650 upward. Every man who has
fifty dollars can take part in this loan.
Apart from patriotism and the duty which
all owe to their country, no investment is
so desirable as this.
It is secure. Every dollar of every
man's property is pledged for the punctu
al payment of interest, and of the debt
when due. The security is increasing
in value. For some years before the
war we were earning 1000 millions a
year more than we spent. During
the three years of the war, owing to the
high prices and constant demand for labor,
wc have earned more than ever before
No man who could or would' work has
been idle; and, except f0P the war, wc
have spent less than before: The total
valuation of the property of libc United
'States, according to tile census of I860,
was SiD,loy,000;000 of which 310,957 .
448,95G was in the Loyal States. This!
valuation, according to the usual rule of,
isscssmen t,; was. not more-; than: two-thirds i
of the actual cash value of the property.
The increase of property in the Loyal
States during the last ten years was oyer
126 per cent., or an average of 12 6-10
per cent. pevjannum. "In three years of
the war we of the United States have cer
tainly earned 8000 millions more' than we
have spent apart from the war. The cost
of the war may be set down at 2000 inil-
lionsi Dediictiug this frp.m our net ear
nings, the People who arc security for
this loan are 1000 millions richer to-day
than they were when the war broke out.
No other investment can be so easily
convertible. The man who has a Treas
ury note for 650, or 100, or $1000, can
turn it into money more readily, and up
on better terms, than if it were invested
upon bond and mortgage, or in railroad
stocks.
The interest offered is higher than can
be realized from any other safe aud con
vertiblc investment. it is, moreover,
readily collectable when due. To each
note arc affixed five "coupons," or inter
est tickets, due at the expiration of each
successive half-year. The holder of
note has simply to cut off one of these
coupons, present it at the nearest bank or
Government Ageucy, and receive his in
terest; the note itself need not be pre
sented at all. Or a coupon thus payable
will everywhere be equivalcut, when due,
to money.
Thus, while this loan presents great
advantages to large capitalists, it offers
special inducements to those who wish to
make a safe and profitable investment of
small saving. It is in every way the best-
Savings' Rauk ; for every institution of
this kind must somehow invest its depos
its profitably in order to pay interest and
expenses. They will invest largely in
this loan, as the best investment. Rut
from the gross interest which they receive
they must deduct largely for the expen
ses of the Rank. Their usual rate of in
terest allowed to depositors is 5 per cent
upoti sums over $500. The persons who
mvests directly with Government will re
ceive almost 50 per cent. more. Thus
the man who deposits $1000 in a private
savings isanic receives ou dollars a Tcar
interest ; if he deposits the same sum in
this National Savings' Rank he receives
73 dollars. For those who wish to find r
safe, convenient, and profitable means o
investing the surplus earning which they
have reserved for their old age or for the
benefit of their children, there is nothing
which presents so many advantages as
this National Loan.
It is convertible into a six per cent
gold-bearing bond. At the expiration o
three years a holder of the notes of the
f.30 loan has the option of accepting pay
ment in full or of funding his notes in t
six per cent, gold interest bond, the prin
cipal payable in uot less than five nor
more than twenty years from its date as
xi n . i . i-
uie vjrovernment may eiccc. juor six
months past, these bonds have ranged at
an average premium of about eight per
cent, in the New York market, and have
sold at 109 to-day (Aug. 12th). thus ma
king the real rate of interest over ten pei
ceut.; and besides, to make the induce
a . , .
menc even greater, uougress Dy specia
act exempts its Treasury notes from state
and municipal taxation. Could Shylock
ask more I Was patriotism ever so lib
erally rewarded ? Harper's Magazine.
Stamps on Receipts.
Ry the new revenue law, all receipts
arc required to be furnished with a two
ceut revenue stamp. The provision has
beeu the cause of considerable discussion
as to the proper person to affix the stamp
Especially has this been considered in
large corporations where extensive trans
actions of business require the use of
great numbers of stamps. The following
correspondence in reference to this sub
ject is interesting to the business commu
nity. The treasurer of the Reading
Railroad, M. S. Rradford, wrote to Com
missioner Lewis at AVashington, as fol
lows :
Philadelphia and Reading R. R. Co., Of-
hec ZZi fc. fourth btreet Philadelphia,
August 9, lb4. Joseph J. Lewis, Esq.,
U. S. Commissioner Internal. Revenue.
Washington, D. C. Sir: Please state
which party must pay for the U. S.
stamp t
lhe one who receives the money, be
ing the maker of the receipt, or the par-
.1 n .
ty paying tne money f lours respectful
to
S. Rhadfobd, Treasurer.
To this Mr. Lewis replied :
Treasury Department. Office of Inter
tfal Revenue, Washington, August 15.
Jiooi. sir: v. ours 0f the 9thnustant is
received. The question as to who shall
pay the duty required on receipts on any
sums of money exceeding $20, is depend
ent on the circumstances attending the
case.
Ordinarily at law no person is bound
to give a receipt for money paid. The
receipt is an instrument of evidence use
ful only to the person to whom it is giv
en. If he needs a receipt it is necessary
for him to furnish the stamp, or to stamp
the receipt, if required, before it is
signed. The person who receives the
money is not obliged to give a receipt.
unless the other party furnishes the prop
er stamp.
If a person gives a receipt without re
quiring that the party to whom it is giv
en shall furnish the stamp, the maker of
the receipt must himself stamp the paper
uviviv jiu uuuvcra n: ii no tails to
stamp it before ho delivers it. he is liable
to the penalty provided by law for the
omission1, but the other- party may stamp
it mi mediatory, upon its bciug received.
Very respectfully.
Josfimi J. Lewis; Commissioner.
S.. Rradford., Esq,, Philadelphia..
86?" THere is one good wife in the
country, and every man thinks he hath
icr.'
TVjf3 Sidney Smith compares, the whis-
le'rof a Locomotive to the squeal of a
wjer( wneu oaiau.geis uini.
Dotals Plantation, La.
Augusts, 1864. )
Editor of The "Jeffef soman"
Sir : Thinking your readers yrould be
anxious to hear how we are- getting along
in this quarters, I will give you a slight
sketch of our "muss" on the morning of
the 5th Aug. Shortly after sunrise our
Pickets came into Gamp and reported
Rebels on all side3. In about twent-
miuutcs wc were iu the saddle and ready
for action, but soon discovered that the
Rebs had two field pieces and a Regiment
of Cavalry stationed on our right cutting
us off from our re-inforcemeuts at Raton
Rough, and two more pieces and an e-
pual number of Cavalry on our left cut
ting us off from Donalsonville, and how
many pieces in our rear I cannot tell.
Our force at this point numbered about
three hundred, and to stand up and fight
against a far superior force, with at least
six pieces of Artillery, would be folly.
Our Com., Maj. Remington, gave orders
to get inside the stockade, which was
done in very good order, although the
Rebs were closing around us and were
only about two hundred yards from us
when we entered. About the time we
were well in they opened on our rear
with two pieces. They sent two shells
very close, when their fire ceased aud one
of their officers came in with a flag of
truce, and presented the Maj. with an
order which read thus
"To the Com. of the Federal forces at
Doyals Plantation, The Com. of the
Con. forces. Col. Scott, orders an uncon
ditional surrender of your forces and
they shall be treated as prisoners of war
As my force is far superior to yours and
you are completely surrounded, your com
pliance will preveut the unnecessary ef
fusion of blood. I give you five minutes
to consider." To which our Commander
replied that he would give him his reply
in less time than five minutes. He thcu
told his men their ouly chance was, to
cut their way through the Rebel lines
below, and reach our re-inforcements
which were nine miles distant. Placing
himself in front he gave the command to
form column on the road, which was done
in a moment, then to draw Revolvers and
forward march. The Major dashed off,
and his command did the same toward
their lines. The Rebels stood until wc
came within a short distance of them
when She head of our column fired iuto
theirs. They, returned fire aud broke aud
run in confusion, leaving the road clear
for us. They still kept up a sharp fire
from their line formed toward our rear
and threw several rounds of grape and
canister at our rear, all of which were
aimed too high, aud strange to say, only
one Captain and private waswouuded ou
our side in makiug the charge. They
then closed in around our quarters tak
ing quite a number of sick prisoners, and
a number of well ones who chose to re
main, among which were two officers,
making in all about 90 men, with their
horses and equipments. They thcu be
gan to pillage and destroy all within their
reach, loading all our wagons with their
spoils, and beat one of our teamsters se
verely for refusing to drive away his own
team. They had about two hours to
complete their work of destruction when
our Gun Roats came to the scene. As
soon as they made their appearance the
Johnny's took to their scrapers, and the
negroes say they retired in great confu
fusion with their booty. When wc re
turned, (which we did under cover of
our Gun Roats,) wc found they had com
pletely robbed us of every particle .of
clothing, blankets, and everything that
could be of any possible use to them.
Lieut. Rurgcss with a small detach
ment harrassed their rear, for some ten
miles, making several gallant charges on
their rear guard, but his force only num
bering about 21 nieu, he had to return to
camp.
We are now occupying our old quar
ters, and our duty is very hard owing to
our loosing so many men iu prisoners.
hope my effort to give you something
like a detail of our affairs, may prove in
teresting to your readers. If so so Pwill
be satisfied. This is a correct account of
the whole affair. Adieu for this time.
Yours &c, E. S. C. Houn,
"II" Com. Scotts 900 Cavalry.
THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
The Rebel Cause Failing from Exhaus
tion Letter from General Seymour,
Late a Prisoner of War.
New York, Aug. 19, 1864.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Times::
I have just received the following most
iuterestiug letter from General Seymour,
lately released from "under fire" at
Charleston. As an old- West Point offi
cer, with General Anderson at Sumpter,
and stationed many years' in the South,
he knows the bouthern people well. He
is a bravo, true soldier, devoted to the
Union, and, although' at the time of the
unfortunate battle in Florida, he was ac
cused of lukewarmuess by those ignorant
of his character, he has proved, by his
action' on many a battle-field, aa- well as
by his plucky talk to the rebels at Gor
donsville, when captured iu May last,
that he was every inch loyal to the old
flu
as
Yours; &o., W. E. D., Jr.
Wiltjiamstown-, Mass., Aug. 15. 1864.
' 'MDear "Silt :viask.;fqr my irh
pfes'sion3 of the present condition of the
Southern Confederacy, ana you snail
have them. For the benefit ot our cause
I wish they might be impressed upon ev
ery soul m the land, that the conhdence
begotten ot my three months observa-
tions m the interior oi the feouth mignr,
ba shared by every man who has the
least connection with the responsibilities
of this struggle. And I am sure that
these opinions are not peculiar to myself.
Every one of the fifty officers' just ex
changed will express the same every
one of them, whether from the jails of
Charleston, or the pens of Macon and
Andersonvillc, will confidently tell the
same story.
The rebel cause h fast failing from
orlmustwn. Their two grand armies
w
have been reinforced this summer from
the last resources of the South. From
every comer of the land, every old man
and every boy capable of bearing a rifle
has been impressed, willingly or unwill
ingly, .and hurried to the front. Lee's
armv was the first so strengthened. It
j c
was at the expense of Hood's. Gov
Rrown told the truth with a plainness
that was very bitter, but it was none the
less the truth. Let me extract a lew
prominent statements from his proclama
tion of July 9, addressed to tne "He
served Militia of Georgia:"
"A late correspondence with the Pros
ident of the Confederate States satisfied
my mind that Georgia is to be left to her
own resources to supply the reinforce
ments to Gen. Johnston's army, which
are indespensible to the protection of At
lanta, and to prevent the State from be
ing overrun by the overwhelming num
bers now under command of the hcdcral
general upon our soil.
"Rut there is heed of further rein
forcements, as will be seen by the accom
panying letter of Gen.'Johnston. :
And it becomes my duty to call forth ev
ery man in the State able to bear arms,
as fast as they can be armed, to aid in the
defence of our homes, our altars, aud the
graves of our ancestors.
"If the Confederate Government will
uot send the large cavalry force (now en
gaged in raiding and repelling raids) to
destroy the long line ot railroads over
which General Sherman brings his sup
plies from Nashville, and thus compel
him to retreat with the loss of most of his
army, the people of Georgia, cho have
already been drawn upon more heavily tn
proportion to pnjulation than- those of
any other State in the (!onjcderitn,
must at all hazards, and at any sacrifice,
rush to thcjYont.
"If Gen. Johnston's army is destroyed,
the Gulf States are thrown open to the
enemy, and we arc ruined."
There must, indeed, have been despe
rate weakness when Georgia, and the
Southern cause with it, were so neglected
that Lee's army might be made equal to
the task of holding Grant to the Poto
mac or the James and the people of the
South are intelligent enough to under
staud aud to appreciate this fact, aud
they have lost heart accordingly.
The following is from a letter written
by one rebel to auothcr that accidentally
fell into the hands of ouc of my fellow
prisoners, and for the authenticity of
which I vouch :
"Very few persons arc preparing to o
bey the late call of the Governor. His
summons will meet with no response
here. I he people are soul-sick, and
heartily tired of this hateful, hopeless
strife. They would end it if they could ;
but our would-be rulers will take good
care that no opportunity be given the
people to vote against it. Ry lies, hy
fraud, and br chicanery this revolution
was inaugurated; by force, by tyranny.
and the suppression of truth it is sus
tained. It is nearly time that it should
end, and of sheer depletion it must end
before long. U e have had enough of
want and of woe, enough of cruelty and
carnage, enough of cripples and corpses.
lucre is an abundance of bereaved pa
rents, weeping widows and orphaned
children in the land. If we cau, let us
uot increase the number. The meu who,
to aggrandize themselves, or to gratify
their owu political ambition, brought this
cruel war upon a peaceful and prosper
ous country, will have to render a fearful
account of their misdeeds to a wronged,
robbed, and outraged people. Earth has
no punishment sufficiently meet for their
villainy here, and hell will hardly be hot
enough to scathe them hereafter.
There is certainly a no small propor
tion of the Southern people (despite the
lying declarations of their journals, as wc
had good occasion to learn, that not only
favor the progress of our arms, but tljat
daily pray that this exterminating war
may soon be brought to a fiuality by our
complete and perfect success. They have
had too much of despotism not enough
of the triumph promised them. Many
intelligent Southern geutlemen do, in
deed, express strong hopes of their ulti
mate independence, but such hope is not
shared by the masses. Disappointed from
the first iu not having been acknowledged
by foreign Powers more bitterly disap-
ii. . i . .t .
jjuiutuu in uiuir general expectation that
Northern cowardice or dissension would
secure their ends, but a single chance rc
maius, and that is the result of our next
election for President. If a Democrat
succeeds to Mr. Lincoln, they profess to
feel sure of negotiations-, and sure of their
Confederacy. They believe a Democrat
will bo elected. Iu Mr. Lincoln's re
election they sec only subjugation, anni
hilation, for the war must then continue,
aud continuauce is their failure and ruin.
In military affairs it is au excellent
rule never to do what the enemy desires
is it not equally true in politics?
certain id is tnat tne only remaining hope
of the South lies in Mr. Lincoln's defeat.
Now, I am not enough of a nolitician
to know whether tho election of a Demo
crat cau result as fuvorably to the South
as it .anticipate!?. The wish alone may
be the parent of their belief. Rufrl as
sured all who expressed that belief that
the iNorth, as a mass, is as uuited as the
Souththat 110 Democrat could be elect
ed on a peace platform and that any
President who would inaugurate any
mcasurelloading to peace ou the basis of
hung, by loyal acclamation, to the
lamp posts in front of his own presiden
tial mansion. , .
However that niay ,bc, if wc are but
true ourselves there can be but one re
sult. 117iu we now need is men only men
not substitutes or hirelings who go
forth for. any motive but the country's
good, and produce but little beyond de
preciating our armies but men such-
as really constitute the State, and boast
of being freemen and the sons of free
men. If these fail to support their coun
try's cause in her hour of peril, they are
unworthy of continuing freemen, and
should blush everto exercise a freeman's
privileges.
Rut if bouuties must be paid, let it be
in Southern land, not in Northern gold j
and armies of emigrants, whose sons may,
aspire to even the rule of the nation, wili
cross the seas to win the broad acres that
disloyalty has forfeited to the State.
To every intelligent soldier who has"
fought through all these indecisive caur
paigus on almost numberless indecisive
fields, the question constantly arises, with
touching force, why we do not overwhelm1
our enemies '!
Tens of thousands of lives arc lest
cause our array of strength is so dispro
portiouably less than that against which
we battle. Everywhere we meet on near
ly equal terms, where wc might well have
four to one. The cost to us in blood and
treasure, of a prolonged war, can hardly
be foreseen the economy is infinite of
such an effort aa the glorious North
should put forth.
The South will fight as long as the
struggle is equal; it c ill submit to such
preponderance as wc should show in eve
ry field.
Glance at the summer's campaigns. If
Sherman had but 50,000 or 75,000 more
men near, the South would be lest, be
cause Hood would be annihilated. If
Meade had moved in the spring with re
serves of 75,000 to 100,000 men. Lee
would have been hopelessly crushed.
Even at this moment a third column of
40,000 to 50,000 rightly moved, would
give unopposed blows to the Confederacy
from which she could never rise.
What folly then to struggle on in this
way, when we can send to the field five
times the force ahead' there. .What
weakness to think wc cannot conquer the
South. Rehind the James only boys
and old men arc to be seen, while
here men buy and sell as in the olden
days of quiet, and regiments of able
bodied citizens crowd the streets of our
cities.
There is but one course consistent with
safety or honor. Let the people awake
tp a sense of their dignity and strength,
and a few months of comparatively tri
fling exertion of such effort as alone is
worthy of the great work, and the rebel
lion will crumble before us. Fill this
draft promptly and willingly, with good
and true men; send a few spare thousands
over rather than under the call, aud the
summer sun of 1865 will shine upon a
regenerated laud.
There are some who speak of peace!
Of all Yankees the Southern most scorns
those who do not fight, but are glad e
nough to employ them, as they do their
slaves, to perform their dirty work.
Peace for the South will be sweet indeed;
for us, except through Southern subju
gation, but anarchy aud war forever.
The Pacific, the Western, the Eastern
States would at once fall asunder. The
South would be dominant, and the peo
ple of the North would deserve to be
driven a-field, under negro overseers, to
hoe corn and cotton for Southern mas
ters. Rut no faint-hearted or short sighted
policy can set aside the eternal decree of
the Almighty, who has plauted no lines
of disunion between the Atlantic and the
Western deserts between the great lakes
and the Gulf of 3exico that siguify
His will that wc should be separated; and
unless so separated peace is a delusion,
and its advocacy a treason against the
wisest aud holiest interests of our coun
try. It has becu with a trust that renewed
hope and vigor might be given, when
vigor and hope are needful, that I have
written, and you have my consent to
using this as you please; aud I am
Very truly yours, T. Seymour,
Rrigadier General United States Vol
unteers. To W. E. Dodge, Ju. Esq,.,
New York.
A Little Bit of History.
By rcfcreucc, says the Troy Times, tc
the Constitution of New York, New Ham
pshire. Massachusetts. New Jersnv. Vir--
ginia, Maryland, North Carolina, formed'
before the date of the Constitution of the
United States and in force at its adoption,,
and also to the Constitution of Georgia
and Pennsylvania, formed soon afterward,
it appears that in respect to the qualifica--tion
of electors for the most numerous
branches of the State Legislatures, there,
was no distinction on account of color in'
those nine States. Connecticut and
Rhode Island, being under the old rovah
charters, could have uonc. South Caro
lina, by its Constitution of 1776. allowed
negroes to vote, but in 1798 the privilege
was restricted to every "white man," &c.
In Delaware, by act of February 3,1787
emancipated slaves and their issse were
debarred "the privilege of roting.at elcc'
tions or being elected." And even this -
seems to have becu a violation of the let-
tcr of tho Constitution of the Stotc. It is'
well known, among intelligent men. that
the practice of admitting free men of col-'
or to vote obtained univerBu atrilrsfc?
ty .
among all of tho original "old thirteen."
Iu Virginia- negroes voted side ly side
with white men mitw ib-liU !
fiSyAn Irishman writing' from Pliila-
delphia the other dav to Kis friend in the'
old country, coucludes a letter thus
"If iver it's me fortune to liveitillFdv'
and God nose whether it is sor-CW
visit ould Irelaud' before I leave PhikU"
madelfy." .
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