murmur from- a singlelip;|? A 0 seemed to
thick that it was all wore ao near
the enemy, that we could , hear the
cars running in j-This picket
duty ia rather exciting. busipolsras it calls a
•fellow out at all limls of,'flight 1 , Thursday
■ night we were alarmed hy sri§g all along the
lines, the picket fired Upop the-'rebels which
was a signal fur all to fall in, wbwh We did, and
I hating charge of a of | men did not
know where-to take them, ad? I inarched them
up to the front line and fajme-d-themin line
of battle six hundred yards in’iidVanoe of the
reserve force. The boys were all! on hand for
a fight but were-«happily disappointed in not
having one. As all paasedidff ; quietly we re
turned to our’ 1 rude huts aoKi slept the more
soundly for having a midnigit; skirmish. .
“.The boys aroall'well andrUtbe best of spir
its. We are, in the second: brigade, first divi,
sion, third afiny corps. Tfvo will direct your
letters as before and they riill'feaoh us.
•/ Itours, . L. B.
IMSUSOBDINATION OjS>. afeHEßili Mo
,! CLELLAN. ■
• v . SETTER FROM GE^JeRAL^COT*.
. In'the debate on the" sonhcriptipn bill on
Monday in the"i House oPpUpifesfitatives Mr.
- Stevens, of Pennsylvania,f saidrthat our great
want of snccesss. was. But ijrinjg Breckinridge
democrats to bead our -at without'
.heart or disposition to c.‘usiv*we rebellion.
When General MeCleljan'faa atiYorktown he
was promptly ordered to a' tack the enemy and
- break bis lines. He nev(r ; obeyed the order.
When ordered to send trocpk tpaid Gan. Pope |
’ be stood 1 idle eleven days b rfore'bpl started, and
then went at a snail’s plats-.! He sent troops]
under pet generals who nei-ler readied the bat
tle-ground. General. Port!r wirfjone of them,:
.and was justly dismiaseii fr4mtthe army-for
causing defeat. General Bj ppleKaioi reinstated,
was ordered to pursue t ifr enemy idvading
Maryland. He had 120,0 j )ttppps, and-moved
at lha rapid rate of six m ; is a day till he got
up with them. a tjuasl Victory ;
and while- in sight of tfk .rebel army he suf--
fetod .tbe enemy to cross into -'Virginia, taking
the last man, wagon and with him,
and shortly after, when krdarpdi.by the Com
mahder-inflOhief to pursukjfhC. jkocmy, ho hes
itated fof three weeks, lteo-L|°ek the'South
Mountain path. * There 'w«;re foiir distinct in
, stances of disobedience »f orders. - Mr. Ste
'vens desired to'read a.Tetter.frpin Gen. Scott
to Simon.CamarOn, ■]» ,-f i;
■ Mr. Mallory inquired where Mr. Stevens pro
cured the letter;!. ■ ’ ] j‘j’ , -
, -Mr. Slovens replied tiiab I; ,waB a eopy, from
‘ a letter on .file at the W a t Dt parhhent. It was
rea|l, as follows: | :.' /'■
_. |' “ IJ E4 bq t;ARTEB g p- -rtlfc'AEMY, • 1
] ' v Cetgbei 4, 18G1.1
" Ifon.S. Cameron, Sec^a'.tg'SftWar;
SiV; You art, I belief's, !;.ware that I boiled
the) arrival here of'Majojtfe* nei’al McClellan as
anjsventof happy consmjWndfi fo the country
and the armr. Indeed,‘jif I bid not call for
him, I heartily approved t>f the suggestion, and
ga|e. him the! must cordial reception and sup
'port. ■ • _ (■ A ;r f
■j'He, however, hafdly'eofered upon his
nsw duties, when, communicate
dirbctly- with the Presiij inl and: certain mem
bers of-the Cabinet, he days forgot
thajt he had 1 any immediate ‘cdjhmDnder, and
has how long prided himp|li|u||qia treating me
with uniform neglect, Tupying Into disobedi
ence-of ordjers. Of tbdl-St'jStlar matters, neg
lects, though in them say* pigw® military of
fences, I need not epftal!/ iafthe face-of the
following. jTo- eupprcsilal; irregularity more
jconspieuouC in Major-Geciyai McClellan than
in any other'officer, I ppbli; led the following :
; “ OP ;THE ARMY, 1
Washington-, 16,' 1861. ).
j‘ ‘General -Orders, 11- —There are ir
regularities in the corrtsplp'denpp of the nrmyT
‘which need prompt cprrqdlom It is highly
important that junior on duty be not
'permitted 'to correspond ,fStJ» -Ihe General-in-
Chief hi other bonjma|ider'pn'carrent official
' business, except through intefmCdiate comman
ders; and the same, rija'applies to correspon
dence with |the President direct, or with him
’through the Secretary of Wkrf pnkss it be by
the special invitation jor rajupet of the Pres
ident! ’ f'V 1
t“By command ofißkijenant-Gen. Scott.
‘ ‘E. i), Townsend, Abaft;
“/With this order fcbs/b 'ii'hii B memory, Ma
jo: peneral McClellan two important
communications to the Secretary of'War on
respectively the 19th fanjl fEbtfa of the same
month, over my head; japd |ow many since to
the Secretary, and evehjt,b.t|e president direct,
-1 pare not inquired, bp t flany,;! have no doubt,
■ besides daily oral with the
saime high functionaries, 41! ipithout my know!-;
-eige. ■ .* • .
.“-Second,, to correct ' snqlher. class of grave
neglects, I the same day taoaed.to be addressed
t( General McClellan the following order:
ji . ' Headqoaß ’Eh* or the Army, 1
, { ‘ - " Washington' sjp amber 16,1861. J
f'|‘2b Major-General Mcl!kifln t - U. S. A., Com
f:j manding me'Fofomac;
|! “ ‘3te Commanding jjraijof the Army of
jthe Potomac will cause 1 positions, state'and
number of troops un4e£ if to* Ip be reported at
ones to General Head by divisions,
‘brigades,-and’ indepesfent;Regiments or'de
tachments, which- report vjrUJ-, be followed by
reports of new troops ad: t|e]y jatrive, with the
dispositions made of'them,' together with all
the material changes whfoA may take place in
, the skme army. ‘ V
“ l ßy command pf.TaeStenanl-Gen, Scott.
' ‘“E. D. Townsbnd', .Assi ’Atdjt.-Gen.’
I « Eighteen days haT.a.now elapsed, and not
j the slightest has'-VeeUshown to either
f of those orders, by MifJoiyGeberal McClellan.
I Perhaps'he will say, in fsspect.to the letter, it
: haabeen .difficult fpr hi if Lto-procure exact re
turns of divisions, ifco. • No doubt';
bat why not have giver ,mS proximate returns,,
ifach as be eo .eagerly i%i|ghed the President
and certain JsSas,- *fben, a senior
no corrective power over Ajpaior officer in cose
; Of snob, persistent neglectfaild disobedience f
The remsdy hy arrest ’&hd prial before .a court
•' mardal would; probably Soph, cure the evil ;
lit it has been of authority
or the head of the aijnyitfoald be highly en
acaging to the enemies, rjnd depressing.to the
ends, of thC Union). .Iknce my long tor
aranoe, and oontinuiMgi -ihCfigh but nominal
|in duty.. 1 shall tt ’psS&pjli ont till the ar
rad of Major-General Hajlaok, r when,' as bis
presence'will give mf lp'oreaCed confidence in
the-safety of the Uni being, as lam,
, unabiii to ride in the ilddloor walk, by reasoil
i iof dropsy in my feet and'legs, and paralysis
in tha small of the, l’shill definitively re
tire from the army. ■‘ f j„ ; 'J • -
| “I paie the honor to tehiain,. with high re
speet. Your most obodiet^eervant;
, I •- 4 •;;! Scon. 1 '
J ■ ' '/!’ - • ;
■f L 1 -
i •
THE AGITATOR.
WEDNESDAY,
It so happens in this world that man some
times mistake names for things, shadows for
substances, and shucks for kernels. The name
of a man becomes more powerful for good or
evil, as the case may be, than the man himself.
The first Napoleon was very powerful in this
way. Indeed, he is still, though dost, as if
walking in the midst of Europe, an unseen but
jnigbty' terror. France throbs like a single
heart when his name is spoken; and perhaps
bis nephew ia tolerated more for the name he
bears than for any merit of his own,
The debates in Congress the current session
have reminded, os of this fact constantly.—
There has- been no hour of debate that the
name of the Constitution has not been taken
in vain a hundred times. More especially has
it formed the cry of what is known os the
Copperhead democracy. In the Senate it has
been pitched in every key, ranging np and
down-the chromatic scale like a child bereft of
its home and mother. Now it was thundered
in -the deep bass of the bold And energetic
■Richardson, and now squeaked in the splintery
treble of the inane and turgid Turpie; but in
what key soever, it was pitched, it conveyed
no idea, nothing but sound, sound, sound I
What is the Constitution? It is dual in its
.nature. In one respect it is a piece of parch
ment traced with signs representing language.
In this sense jt ia worshipped and sworn by, by
the copperheads, in the Senate and out. In
another respect it is collective wisdom of
centuries, fashioned into'a form of government
and made the ally and the defender of the lib
erties of a people. In this sense it ought al
ways to bo regarded by every lover of law and
order, and the offspring of these, true freedom.
We have no catch-words for the people.—
Wo shall not tickle them with nice phrases,
tending to inculcate a false and impracticable
idea as to their function ih a government like.
oure. The people may rule; they ought to rule;
bpt they can- only rule wisely wisely dele
gating the executive and legislative function
to agents.
What is the Constitution for? and what is
its scope and'.bearing ? When it declares that
it ia to' secure the blessings of liberty and
prosperity, and of security to the people, does
it promulgate theory, or practical fact? If the
former, then it is not worth the skin it is en
grossed on ; but if the latter, then’ll ia really
and,truly atohsrter of liberty and security?*
These modern democrats tell us that the Con
stitution must be held saore'd and inviolate. —
The entire southern wing of the democratic
party deliberately repudiate it, and declare
\rar against the government. The north rushes
to arms in defense of.the government, which
is the offspring, or result of tho Constitution ;
but when Congress attempts to put means and
men at the command of the Executive, these
modern democrats, in Congress and out, cry
out that the Constitution is about to be viola
ted and vote "so.”
' fl*ow is this? Can the traitors in arme be
pat down without armies, and can armies be
raised, sustained, and kept in tbe field without
means ? Nobody has tbb folly to pretend that.
Then why refuse men and means to that end ?
- But that is to violate the Constitution, say
these objectors. If the President is sworn to
preserve and protect the Constitution it is for
a purpose; and that purpose recognizes the
fact that not far itself is tbe Constitution to be
preserved, bat because of its result—the gov
ernment. Therefore it is idle to administer
tbe inauguration, unless with it goes power
sufficient to fulfil it to the utmost.
An instrument which declares that every
thing depends npon its preservation, and makes
it. obligatory upon the powers created under it
io cherish, defend and preserve it, either con
templates means for that end, or it does not.
If it does not, then it’ is a silly farce. If it
does, then no measure is violative of its provi
sions which aims to distribute the burden of
sustaining the government equally npon the
shoulders of the members to be'benefilted.
A ragged, half-famished child, takes a loaf
from the baker’s counter. He is pursued, ar
rested, tried, convicted, apd sept to the House
of Correction, ns the least punishment.
A man hears a rap at his door io the night.
He rises, opens the door, and sees a negro,
haggard, tired and footsore. The applicant
informs the householder that he is a fugitive
from bondage; that be has climbed mountains,
■waded swamps, swam rivers, scarcely daring
to sleep because pursued, never daring to ap
proach man for food, for fear of arrest; and
that having now reached free soil, he desires
food, rest in security for a night,’and aid in
getting nearer the north star in the morning.
The householder remembering a
the “Sermon on the Mount," invites the fugi
tive in, gives him food, and a bed. In the
morning he gives him money and “Ood
speed.”
The officers of the law, are already on the
path of the-flying negro. They track him to
the door of the kindly householder, and ascer
tain the part be has played In the drama.—
■JTbey arrest him; ha is arraigned, convicted of
a violation of law, and punished by fine and
imprisonment.
It might bo. inferred from these examples
that the American people were great respecters
of law, nnd jealous of the integrity of the Con
stitution. Doubtless the majority of freo State
citizens are so; but there is a large minority,
championed by Fernando Wood, Bnckalew and
Vallandighaar, who are jealous of no infringe-
M. H. COBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
WELLSBOROtJGH, PENWAi
NAMES AND -THINGS,
CONSISTENCY,
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATdK.
-meat of constitutional provision that does not,
by a forced construction, permit them anj
their compeers to violate every moral obliga
tion, and even to plot the destruction of gov
ernment itself. - ■
So it happens that certain men, like James
Brooks, F. Wood, Vallandighami and others,
address the people in treasonable speeches,
publish papers devoted to the overthrow of
the government, meet in secret cabal to devise
ways and means to stifle the free expression
of public sentiment at the ballot-box, and do
all other things common to be done by traitors.
Yet these men drive their vile trade with im
punity, occupy honorable station politically,
and even write the abbreviation “Hon.”before
their names. If a man be caught giving aid
and comfort to the rebels, and arrested and
confined in Fort Lafayette, these men, and
their echoes everywhere, made a great outcry
about it, and ideolare that the government is a
despotism, and that no such thing as constitu
tional liberty, is known any longer.
MARCH 11,1863,
Now, is it'a greater crime to steal a loaf of
bread or to conspire for the overthrow of law
and order?
Does the Constitution confer upon any man
the right to violate that clause defining trea
son and providing, suggestively, a punishment
therefor?"
Or, can a man violate the plain provisions of
the Constitution, ondplead some.doubtful con
struction of another clause of
his crime? •
If so, what is the Constitution worth, os a
guaranty of order and security 1 la it a farci
cal composition, or a compendium of law and
equity ? Does it frown on slight misdemeanors
and wink at the highest of human crimes ?
These are tbp questions which must .ope day
be met and answered. i
These palterers are fools; they are knaves
of the worst stripe. And their advocates and
apologists are like unto them. This is no time
for subtle definitions of deeds or qualities.—
Let men and things.be called by their right
names. Menimay rationally differ as to policy,
but not as td the turpitude of human action.
The crime of murder has apologists; but who
that is not a murderer in heart will apologize
for it? So the crime of treason has apoligists;
but who that is not a traitor will apologize for
treason ?
The Richmond Examiner of the 12st nit,,
published at Jeff. Davis’ seat of government,
and no doubt speaking the sentiments of that
individual, addresses a long article to the North
ern Democrats who are .urging peace and re
construction, jin which it bays •
“ It required forty years to accomplish disso
lution, The work had to he done by radical
measures. The old roots of affection which
bound the two people together had to bo thor
oughly uptorn before the work could be accom
plished. The task had to be so effectually done
as tp be incapable of being undone.
“ The Northern Democrats ask nos?, that,
with the frivolity of children, the two commu
nities should ignore the past, should treat the
tremendous -events of the last forty years as
trifles; and with a debt of two or three billions
of dollars incurred in mutual slaughter, should
shake the bloody bands of each other and be
brethren once more. The thing is not possible.
It would be barbarous, corrupt and wicked.
Who but brutes could shake hands and be
friends with the players of brothers ond com
panions ? Probably half a million of men on
both sides have fallen os victims to this fright
ful war. Are each cimmunity to throw off
the habiliments of mourning, to forget their
dead and revel in mutual amity over the graves
of the slain. The spectacle would disgust the
worlds Heaven would be horrified at the im
piety of the scene.
“ Honorable peace is always to be desired.
War should not be prolonged oqe moment
from mere sentiments of revenge. "But polit
ical union and sooial amity with the slayers of
hundreds of thousands of our countrymen,
would be an: indecency revolting to every vir
tuous, pious jand chivalrous instinct of human
nature.”
The. Constitution as it is. —We suspect
that some of; those individuals who are, for po
litical effect,'crying so loudly for the " Consti
tution as if is,” would not like to have that
instrument enforced. An exchange well says:
If the Government would enforce “ the Con
stitution as it is,” a larger 1 force would ho en
gaged in trying and hanging northern traitors
than is nowiemployed in fighting southern reb
els. If some of the men in the north who are
blustering for the “ Constitution as it is," were
arrested I 'and fairly tried on its provisions for
the punishment of traitors, there would not be
a quorum left in any Democratic club organized
since the last State election. The Constitution
as it is, is': emphatically against traitors. It
provides clearly and explicitly for their punish
ment. If it was sternly enforced, Democracy
as it is now interpreted, would never be spoken,
because Democracy as defined by those pro
fessing it at this day, means practical and
bloody treason. The day will come when the
*■ Constitution as it is,” will be the bitterest
cup ever pnessed to the lips of the men who
now seek toimake the expression one of embar
rassment and reproof to the Government.
The Copperheads in Kentucky received a
severe rebuff in Frankfort, on Wednesday last
where they .attempted to hold a rebel (ostensi
bly Democratic) State Convention. The use of
the. House .of Representatives being refused
them they rented a theatre. Colonel Gilbert
in command of that department, requited
proofs of the loyalty of the delegates. They
failing to satisfy him, the Colonel said to them
plainly from the stand:
There is ho nse of your holding conventions
in Kentucky. None but men of undoubted
loyalty to the government will be allowed to
run fur any'office. Such meetings as this vou
shall not bold within the limits of .my com
mand, and to avoid difficulty you will disperse
to your homes, and in future desist from all
such attempts to precipitate civil war upon
your State.
So that game was blacked.
Proposed New Codhxt.—ln the present Le
gislature ofj Pennsylvania, a project for a new
county hog; found favor, and will most likely
be successful.. It assumes the same of Lacka
wanna, from thegreat coal field which it con
tains, and Is in 1 the northeastern part of Lu
ietae*-~SctpUon Sqtubikan. (
A Secessionist to Peace Democrats.
LETTEH FBOJff J. EMEBY,. ESQ.
Fobtbess Monboe, Va., Feb, 23,1863.
Deab Agitator: In going np the James
river, on Saturday, if noticed one thing, to mo
new .and interesting—the immense beds of oys-*
ter shells. They are on, or rather under , the
surface, to’ the depth of from one to five feet
thick, in all states of decay and preservation.
In some places they appear to be piled np,
forming quite large elevations and extending
to a,much greater depth than where they ate
on a level. I noticed on the 'plantation of my
friend Capt. Smith, qnite a large hillock of what
appeared to be purely oyster shell, and where
his men were digging some post boles, they
threw out the shells in all states of decay, even
to what appeared a black muck. Capt. S. in
formed me he made use of this to fertilize bis
other land. I cannot believe these were de
posited in their present position while the land
was submerged, for if they bud been they
would have been mixed with a dud proportion
of sand and other earth, whereas these beds
ate pure shells.
They were not deposited there hy-thei present
race, because the whole tradition of the region
is against that theory, and in many places their
depth under the soil forbids such a supposition.
There are immense oyster beds in the river
opposite, and this was no doubt the grand re
sort of the aboriginals, for these deposits were
doubtless made by them during many genera
tions. This, Capt. Smith informs me, is the
theory of those who have examined the beds.
My landlady's hour, in which she promised
to have my dinner ready, was a ye'ry short one;
made so probably by the entertaining conver
sation of the host, who insisted on my drink
ing his health in a glass of'whiskey. I told
him I was a decided temperance man—but,
finally, I compromised the matter by drinking
to the health of the lady of the house in a
glass of water, slightly dilated with whiskey
for the stomach's sake. But the two officers,
who had dropped in for some fun, preferred
the pure article.
Our landlady apologized for her poor dinner,
as it was Saturday, and she never laid herself
out on that day, and so got only stewed oysters,
cold bam; roast pig, stewed rabbit, frickaseed
chickens, &c. She gave me a strong invitation
to call again, and she'would' try and get up a
firstrate dinner, and if it’suited me to stay, her
daughter, who was out then, should give me
some firstrate music. I told her I was sorry I
could not stay long enough on the peninsula to
enable me to call again, bat, wore I a young
man, I should certainly stay a day longer for the
sole purpose of seeing the daughter of so plea
sant’a mother. She thanked me for the plea
sant,compliment, Baying that she was a yankee
herself, and knew how to appreciate yankae
oomplmignts..
It was getting late when I bid adieu to my
entertainers, and jnst after dark I arrived at
the encampment of the 45th, and found a
young corporal fidgetting for the unaccounta
ble absence of his visitor.
Saturday night we had a most terrible snow
storm, and all Sunday it snowed, rained and
blew till the elements seemed to be worked up
to perfect madness. At Fortress Monroe the
storm was said to bo terrific, and much damage
waa done to the shipping. It cleared off, how
ever, on Monday, and Tuesday was a very
-pleasant day.
On Tuesday morning, bidding adieu to the
beautiful camping grounds of the Ninth Army
Corps, 1 took a steamer for Fortress Monroe,
some eight miles distance, in which neighbor
hood I spent the day till the departure of the
Baltimore boat at 5 p. si.
I visited the Chesapeake General Hospital,
formerly tho Chesapeake Female College, a
large and spacious building, well calculated
for its present purpose. The burying ground
is a place of peculiar interest. At every grave
is a head board, on which is printed the name,
company, regiment and date 1 of the decease of
each soldier. There lay soldiers from almost
every State, rebel or loyal, intermingling with
each other in the great charnel house of War,
forgetting in the grave all their enmities, and
quietly sleeping side by side fifths great broth
erhood of death. On one beau board I read,
“ Confederate prisoner, name unknown, died
July 14, 1862.”
I also visited the M’Clellan, Hospitals, fur
ther north towards Hampton. They are well
arranged,-and I judge well conducted. Still
further north is the bridge that leads over into
what was once Hampton. Here I was stopped
by the pickets, and asked for a pass. 1 bad
none, but I talked the gentlemanly sergeant of
the guard, who was a Pennsylvanian, into the
belief that he would not violate his duty by
letting me over the bridge, and I presume the
war will not be much prolonged by his dorilic
tion from duty.® ‘
Here at Hampton yon can see the horrors, or
rather the desolation of War. Hampton is
said to have been a moat beautiful place. Its
houses and public buildings ivere, many of
them, built with much taste and splendor.—
.Now not a single building, that I could see, is
left standing. I went through most of the
town ; its whole extent is one scene of deso
lation. Its churches had gone down with the
rest. The only grave yard I visited, in the
centre of which had been the Episcopal church,
a fine gothic building, was a scene of melan
choly desolation beyond what imagination can
conceive. Its walla were, in many places,
thrown down, its gates were torn away—the
ruins of the church were strewn nil around—
monuments broken down—tables removed from
over the graves—and head stones broken into
fragments. If ever I felt desolate, it was, as 1
stood all alone, in that ruined city of the dead.
The present inhabitants of Hampton are most
ly blacks—a few recent wooden huts are scat
tered among the ruins, and now and then a
dirty oyster shop, or eating saloon, too filthy
for civilization.
And yet Hampton a few short months ago
was the happy home of thousands.of happy
hearts. Now it is a wild desolation—the fath
ers and mothers, and brothers and sisters, who
were so short time ago so happy there, are,
perhaps, now homeless exiles, separated from
all early associations, and destined to still
greater hardships in their melancholy exile.
Rebels, as they are, I must confess I feit sad
for their fate, and pitied that infatuation .that
led them to entirely destroy one of the most
pleasant villages of the South., ' .
I leave here at 5 o’clock, odd if, 1 in niy fu
ture journeyings I see any thing of interest, I
will try to share it with your readers.
Yours truly, J. Emery.
Negro Soldiers. —It is a foot almost entirely
forgotten that the negro regiments in the Rev
olution turned the scale in our favor at Red
Bank, N. J., and it was the testimony of Gen.
Jaekson, that they fought well at New Orleans
in the war of 1812. Then why object to their
ase ? Shull white men he sacrificed to save the
negro ’ Let loyal men answer j
union LEAGUES.
1 - [From the N«w Tort Times-}
ft was well said by Edmund Burke, inj a
time of raging faction: “[When bad men com
bine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a con
temptible struggle.”- .
The. chief fault of the great loyal majority
of our people has been that they have neglect
ed organization. They have ‘left this tremen
dous instrumentality almost entirely in the
bands of their adversaries. The true explana
tion of the alarming growth of the Copperhead
policy throughout the Northwest lies in the
secret operations of the Knights of the Golden
Circle and affiliated societies. By their clan
destine and thoroughly concerted management,
they ate able to get the control of the Demo
cratic organization, and fill up the Legislatures
with men willing to lend themselves to any
schemes, however disloyal. They completely
circumvented and overslaughed the real senti
ment of the people. These societies have their
kindred associations in the East, somewhat in
ferior, perhaps, in completeness of system and
secrecy of operation, but still laboring steadily
towards the same traitorous ends. The Jaco
binical club of this City, which styles itself
the “Democratic Union Association," does one
part of their work, and the conclaves for rais
ing the wind to scatter;peace, speeches and
papers, do another part.: The associated ef
forts are daily becoming | more extended and
effective. They have already wrought prodigi
ous mischief; yet, considering what they aim
at, their work has just begun. They are 1 fast
going on from audacity to audacity, and even
now they do not shrink from tfao word Revo
lution.
Loyal men have too long given a clear field
to these miscreants. They have taken it for
granted {hat their cause was too sacred to be
seriously, injured by faction. They have look
ed .passively on and made ,no sign, or bare in
dulged in oroakings and- grumblings directly
calculated to strengthen the hands of the fac
tionists,'.though not so designed. Considering
the untiring activity of the enemies of the
Government on the one hand, and the general
remissnesa of loyal men onlthe other, the won
der is, not that the popular heart is so greatly
relaxed, but that it has not become completely
demoralized. It is not in human nature to be
constantly subject to .the freje plays of such ad
verse influences without a bud effect. No cause
has strength or sanctity enough to secure stea
dy fidelity without some organized effort. Even
the Christian religion itself has to organize to
provide for a constant stirring up of its adhe
rents by way of remembrar ce, and successful
makeway against its enemies.
One advantage, perhaps, has resulted from
the inaction of loyal men. The rebel sympa
thizers have been emboldened to reveal their
spirit and purposes with a fullness they other
wise would have avoided. The wayfaring man,
though a fool, needs no longer have a glimmer
ing doubt as to their essential disloyalty. The
delay has relieved true Unionism of no small
amount of trouble in smoking out its adversa
ries from their old coverts. Of their own ac
cord they have come out in broad daylight, and
with defiant front. We knew now just where
to find them, and how to meet them. Nq_blowe
need be wasted. It can very soon be settled
which side is to go to the wfill.'
But no more time must be lost. Union men
must at once organize. The Union, Leagues
which have been started must be multiplied,
until they reach every city, village and hamlet
between Maine and California. Latent loyalty
must be brought out. Lax loyalty must he
braced up. The great popular heart must be
fired with new devotion. Public spirit must
acquire an earnestness at onpe profounder and
more vehement. The vital principles ond the
infinite interests at stake, which have been
overshadowed and thrust into the background
by meie party questions, must be recognized,
and set forth in all their imperitive authority.
The terrible character of the emergency must
be brought closer home to all. It should bo
understood, as never before, that tho Ecpublic
expects every one of her sons to do his whole
duty in this, her day of peril. The same
esprit de corps , the same generous ardor, the
same intolerance of complicity with the rebel,
which pervads and rule the army, ought also
to dominate outside of the army. Loyal men
must put themselves in position to act in con
cert, wherever and however the occasion may
demand—yea, to march shoulder to shoulder
to the bloody field, if need be. Vallandigham,
in his speech at Newark, two weeks since, de
clared that the Conscription bill, if passed,
should be resisted, and the creatures at his
back cheered the menace. It has passed.—
These wretches talk revolution just when it
pleases them. It is high time they should un
derstand there is no terror in their threats—
that if they lift a finger in opposition to the
constituted authorities of this Republic, swift
est retribution shall overtake them.
We say again, organize Union Leagues—
simply to stand f by the Government is not
enough. Our duty is to prepare to stand by
it in the most effective manner. Bad men have
combined, and thereby add a thousand fold, to
their power. Good men must also combine, or
be worsted. Party lines are now nothing.—
The great elections have passed, and the issue
which entered into them, so far as they were
of a loyal nature, can now, without injury to
any political interest, be put in abeyance.—
There is neither just reason, nor plausable ex
cuse, for any further maintenance of party dis
tinctions, the only difference recognized, should
be the difference between loyal and disloyal
men those who are for carrying the
war on to the submission of the rebels, and
those who ate for dropping the war and yield-,
ing to the rebels. That is the supremo issue;
and it determines the position of every man,
whatever bis estimate of Administration mea
sures or policies. Let the men on the side of
war and an -undivided Republic lay aside all
minor differences, and work together with a
will for the one great object. Let them, labor
to stay up and strengthen the hands of the
Government, to cheer and stimulate our brave
soldiers in the field, to compact public opinion
and arm it with a moral force that faction will
never dare either to confront or affront. If
this work ,be seasonably and faithfnlly done,
the warjwill end in magnificent .triumph.
Baltimore seems to be grdwing loyal.—
The notorious YallandigTiam was advertised “to
make a| speech there recently, but neither be
nor hisifrienda dared to attempt it, publicly.
Ben. Better had a glorious popular demonstra
tion in jbis behalf, when he rebuked, the hypo
critical “ peace democracy” and the Slavehold
ing propagandists, in fitting terms.
New I England, is the place to get divorces.
Tbs Supreme Court, at Rutland, Vt., has just
granted fifteen applications-i-aeven to husbands
against: their wives, and to wives against
tbeir hqsbandß. ' \
A QUESTION-,
The .Republican party wassort is an Abol
ition party. If we tell them so, most of theta
deny it. Now,' if they ore not Abolitionists,
we would ask them to point ns out the word or
paragraph of any Republican paper that ever
opposed Abolition, or that now condemns the'
Ist of January abolition Proclamation ? Do
they not to a man sustain the President in big
negro policy, either by open declaration or by
significant silence ? Clinton Democrat. ' 3
The copperhead Democratic party is a trai
tor party. If we tell them so, gome of them
deny it, and some of them admit that they
think it wrong to oppress the Sdfith, and admit
that they think the Rebels are fighting fdf
ijieir rights. Now if they are not pledged tv
Rebellion and Slavery, we would ask them to
point us out one speech of any prominent Dem--
ocrat, —who now holds fast to that organiza
tion, —in favor of any measure for the sap--
pression of the Rebellion, or one of the disen
able tribe of locofoco papers that ever offered
a word in favor of the Government and against
the Rebels. every act of the copperheads
evidence their total submission to the Slave
Oligarchy. They are spat upon by every Jour
nal of any prominence in the South. As the
Richmond Examiner said a few weeks ago
“the South would spurn these Northern peace
men as slaves.” No man is loyal who talks of
any other peace than a peace conquered, or a
peace secured-by the withdrawal of every robel
in arms and a full return to Federal authority.
A few questions for this copperhead Democracy
to answer ate: Did yon ever hear of an Abol
itionist being in the army •of the Sonthjl Did
you ever hear of an Abolitionist opposing any
Measure of the Government, which might bo
in the least part beneficial to tho cause ? Did
you ever hear of an Abolitionist opposing the
election of a Union Democrat? Did you ever
hear an Abolitionist sheer at the means the
Government has found it necessary to employ
in paying the soldiers; or, did you ever hear
an abolitionist ‘depreciating the United States
money ? Did yon ever hear an abolitionist say
he would resist the draft; or, did you ever
heat of this being done by abolitionists. To
these questions you'must in truth answer,
most emphatically. No 1 But, we can answer
for-the copperhead partizans that they, in tho
mouths of their Yallandigbams, Cozes, Woods,
and Seymours, have been guilty of all these
treasonable acta to embarrass the government:
and further, if it was worth the trouble, we
could prove from the columns of th 6 Clinton ,
Democrat an affirmative answer to all these
questions.
‘While decrying the course pursued by 'Pres
ident Lincoln and his Cabinet, copperheadism
has never hinted at any course they desire to
see pursued, except a peace policy, a total sub
mission on the part of twenty millions of free
men to the dictum of-eight millions, who very
naturally claim slavery as the foundation of
their government. Who ever heard of such,-
meanness, of such total lack of manhood, of
such cringing servility ? Verily, these men
are either vile traitors or great fools. As to
the cry of abolitionism, instead of being con
sidered a term of reproach, the world will soon
consider it the mark ,of a man who has been
born without the pale of bigotry, of preju
dice, of ignorance. There are few earnest war
men in .the North who care about this term.
Of one thing the Democracy of the copperhead
stripe may be certain : Wherever they find a
man who is called an abolitionist they will find
a loyal man I —Potter Journal.
3D I 33 x>.
In Delmar, on tbo 6th inst,, Mr. MERRITT FEL
LOWS, aged 42 years.
In Williamsport, on the 2Sth nit., HENRY MOR
RIS, sbn of John J. and Maria Miller, aged 7 jponths
and 10 days. i
In Delmar, on the 20th nit,, Mrs. DOBjOTHY
FIELD, aged about 80 years.
She died as she lived, in the hope of a blissful im
mortality.
In Charleston, on the 18th ult., of diphtheria,
CIIARLQTTE 3i, eldest daughter of E. R. and J. A*
Westcott, aged T years, 5 months and 23 days.
Wherefore should I mako my moan, -
Row the darling child is dead:
She to early rest has gone,
Sbo to' Paradise has fled;
I shall go to her, but sbo *
Never will return fo me.
God' forbade her longer stay—
God recalled that precious one—'
God hath taken her away
From my bosom to his own,
Surely what be wills is best,
Happy in his will I rest
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The confessions and experience
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By order of Trustees*
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