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EDITKD BY LEVI I,. TATE, PROPRIETOH.
Saturday Morning,June 18,1864.
CSST Old Abo calls Fremont tho ,lBo-
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crats of Ohio, in their several districts,
are at present selecting their delates to the
Chicago Convention. Some of tho ablest
of the advocates of Peace have alroady
boon chosen. Hon. Chilton A. White,
Matthias Trimblo, Dr. Edson B. Olds,
Archibald iMoGiegor, editor of the Starke
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clooted delegates, indicating how Ohio
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vention, aud showing that the Democrat
ic masses of the State will insist on a Pace
platform with a Povcc man to stand upon
it.
May 3d. Tho long expected campaign
really opened to-day. Aftcrdaik tho tents
were quietly struck, and tho various Corpus
marched to tho Rapidan. Tho utmost vig-
ilonco was observed to prevent tho enemy
from discovering the movement.
May 4th. Our Corps, tho Second,
crossed at Ely's Ford without opposition.
Uad our passage been disputod much loss
mutt havo ensued, as tho southorn bank of
the river completely commands the North
ern. Leo wai cither surpriped, or consid
ered it unadvisablo to attempt tho defense
of so long a front. Wo marched over tho
Chancellorvillc battlo ground, and by a
wonderful colncidcnco enoamped on the
same spot where one year ago to day, we
wcro in lino of battle, engaging the enemy.
The opot was full of interest. At this point
our Batteries had been massed, the horses
sent to tho rear, and preparations made to
hold out to the last. Hero Gen. Whipple
was killed, and so many desperate attempts
mado by tho enomy to break our line. A
few hundred yards to the front was tho
Chancellor's House, and over tho whole
field was scattered the usual debris of a
battle field. Our intrenebments had been
levelled by the enemy, after Hooker's re
treat.
May 5th. Commenced our march at
daylight. The woathor was intensely hot
Passed a furnaco and some oro mines,
which boro evidence of having bcon recent
ly worked. About noon the enemy wcro
met, and It soon became evident that bo
foro moving further we mmt Jlglit. Tho
ground selected by Leo was in a denso
ohapparel, which covers this country for
miles, anu is called tne wiblermss. lliicK
underground nut only presents the ordi-
plank road was well suited for it, as tho
splinters did as n.uch damogo as tho shot.
Their wounded crawled into tho woods,
and tho remaining dead formed a barrier
for living rcbols. But they learned that
they could not advanco down a narrow
road in tho faeo of two guns capablo of
throwing into their midst a peck of bullets
a minute. Thoy thoy ndopted new tao
tics, and loading their guns in the woods,
would jump into the road, fire, and then
run into tho woods again. But their vory
hasto mado their aim inaccurate, In the
woods, however, at ono time thoy pressed
our lines beyond my guns, and I began to
foar for their safety. Gen. Getty ,however
promptly sent in a fresh Brigado, which
maintained the line. After being under
fire ovor two hours, I found to my dismay
that only a round of canister remained,
Capt. Rickctts, on being informed of this,
promptly eont in Lieut. Snidcr's section to
relievo mo. His guns wcro placed in rear
of mine, and after firing tho hut round tho
prolouge was fixed, and my guns wero ta
ken to the rear. The enemy thinking our
lino was falling back made a fresh charge
At this critical momont Serg't Trump'sguu
burst, and the other, unaided, oould not
hold tha rebels back. Another section,
Lieut. Campbell's, was ordered in, but
Gen. Hancock, who had now arrivcd,Baid
twas madness to rush artillery into such
traps, and ordered him back. Thanks to
Gen. Carroll's Brigade, tho abandoned
guns was recapttucd, and later in the
evening the limber sscurcd.
I have described only that portion of
battlo in which wo were engaged. On the
right and left it had been equally heavy,
though :io Artillory was used. Al night
fall, wo held our ground on tbo left and
centre, but had lost two gucn, some pris
oners, and much ground on the right.
Considering the entire engagement, we got
Tho Cleveland Nominations.
General Fremont's Letter of Acceptance.
P0U11LE
Published
INQUIRER.
SHEET, FORTY COLUMNS,
every Morning, (except bun-
The Right Name, at Last. Up to
the present timo, tha Administration prea
scs, Radical Abolition as well as moderate
Republicans, have cautiously styled "tho
present deplorablo civil war" (seo unan
imous resolution of Congress, July 18G1)
a war for the Union. Now, however,
cmbohlcucd by tho assumed support of a
largo army, and tho patient submission of
the people to tho unconstitutional measures
which have been enforced by the authori
ty ol the Presidential Proclamations, they
arc throwing olt tno mask, and be-
ngs by their right
delphia Bulletin of
Thursday cvoning, speaks of ''the present
I TJ'ar of Emancipation." ( that had
i been tho declared object of tho War, at
nary manoeuvres of troops, but conceals
the enemy. Success or dicaalers at tho
diuerent points cannot bo noted, com
Gentlknen : In answer to tho lcttor,
which I havo had tho honor to rccoivo
from you, on the part of the representa
tives of the people assomblod at Cleveland,
tho Slit of May, I desiro to express my
thanks for the confidence which led them
to offer mo tho honoiablo and difficult po
sition of their candidato in tho approach
ing prosidontial election.
Very honorable, becauso in offering it
to mo, you aot in tho name of agreatnum
bcr of citizens, who seek abovo all things
tho good of their country, and who have
no sort of selfish interest in view. Very
diffiout, because in accepting tho Candida
cy you propose to me, I am exposed to tho
reproach of creating a schism in the party
with which I have been identified.
Had Mr, Lincoln remained faithful to
the principles he was elected to defend, no
sohism could havo been created and no con
test would bave been possible. 1 bis is
not an ordinary election; it is a contest for
the right even to havo candidates, and not
merely, aa usual, for tho'ohoioc among
them. Now for the first time since 177G,
the question of constitutional liberty has
been brought directly beforo tho people for
their serious consideration and voto. The
ordinary rights secured under the Constitu
tion, and tbo laws of the country have
been violated and extraordinary "powos
have been usurped by the executive. It is
directly beforo tho people now to say
whether or not the prioiplcs established by
the revolution are worth maintaining. m
If, as wo havo been taught to beliovc,
those guarantees for liberty whioh mado
tho distinctive namo and glory of our c un
try arc in truth inviolably sacred, then
there must bo a protest against tho arbi:
trary violation whioh had not cvon the ex
cuse of necessity. The schism is mado by
In thoadiustmonts whioh aro to follow gade on tho centre, and Kitohen'a Heavy
peace, no consideration of vcngoancO can 1 Artillory Brigade on tho loft, in all num-
consistently bo admitted.
Tho object of the war is to make per
mancntly securo tho peaoo and happiness
of tho wholo oountry, and these was but a
ainglo clement in the way of its attain
ments. This clement of slavery may be
considered practically destroyed in tho
country, and it needs only your proposed
amendment of tho Constitution, to mako
its extinction complcto.
With this extinction of slavery tho par
ty divisions created by it havo also disap
peared. And if in tho history of tho coun
try thorc has ever been, a timo which the
American pooplo, without regard to ono
or another of tho political divisions, wcro
called upon to givo solemnly their voice
in a matter whioh involved tho safety of
tho United States, it is assuredly theprci
ent timo.
If tho convention at Baltimore will
nominato any man whoso past life justifies
a well-grounded confidence in his fidelity
to our cordial principles, there is no rea
son whv there should bo any division
boring not over siz thousand men. Noar
tho oontro of the lino wero two sections of
a Michigan battery, whioh, for two frours,
throw an occasional shell in tho woods to
our front, which soon elicited a reply from
tho rebel artillery.
A small Louse near our lines had a man,
his wifo had a large brood of young robots
in it who were advisod to oraouato but declined.
Soon a rebel shell stovo through tho'
room in whioh thoy wero gathorod and ex
ploded in their midst, setting tho homo on
firo, when they at onoo took to tho bushes.
Strange as it may appear, cot one of them,
was hurt, but the houso was soon burned
up with all its contents'; Our men work-
ed vigorously, throwing up breastwork,
and sought to oonceal thorn as much as
possible from tho enomy. Towards sun"
down Ewcll's wholo corps emerged from
iho woods and climbing hastily over a fonoo
formed in threo lines. They had ssarcely
moved when tho Third Brigado opened a
severe cross-fire upon their flank, whioh
auione tho really patriotic men of the .urnea luera over upon tuo jsirst iJrigaaa
country. To any such I shall bo most hap- and Kitchen's Heavy Artilley,
py to givo a cordial and active support.
My own deoided prefcrenco is to aid in
this way, and not to bo myself a oandi
dato. But if Mr. Lincoln should benonu
mated, as I believe it woidd,be fatal to the
About twenty-five yards in front of tho
First Brigadb's riflo-pits was a fonoo and
soma bushes that conocaled our works aa
well as our men.
On the rebels camo, with olossd ranks,
tho wort of it. Gons. Hays and Wads
worth wcro killed, Seymour captured, and those who force the choice between a shame
several others wounded. ful silonee or a protct against wrong. In
May Cth. About daylight Hancock suoh considerations originated the Cleve-
determined to show Leo tho mettle of the land Convention It was among its ob
3rd Corps. Tho musketry was terrible, 'jnots to arouse tho attention of the peoplo
mands cannot bo rapidly communicated, but for once we proved that our Infantry to such facts, and to bring tbem to realize
and in faot the only way to get along is to .could outfight thcird, even on their chosen that whilo we are saturating southern soil
bush-whack on a grand scale. In this, ground. Line after lino of intrenebments with tho best blood of the country in the
were taken, and the enemy steadily driven narao of liberty, wo bave really parted with
for threo miles. This of course left our
flanks exposed, aud tho enemy took ad-
tbo enomy are evidently our superiors.
Ilcretoforo thoir Infantry has proved supe
rior to ours, whilo they confess tho info- ,
riority of their artillery. This probably', vantago ot it and attacked our lett, which
induced Lee to select the Wilderness as a proved to be Barlow's Div. (tst.) Momen-
battlo ground, thereby depriving us of the -ry confusion ensued, but soon order was
use of our most efficient weapon. The restored, and the lino fell slowly bick to
artillery of this army numbers 2U0 guns, its supports. Some troops of Watt's Div.
of calibers from 10 pounders up to 3a's. (formerly Hooker's Div. aud in tho 3d
The lines was hastily formed on tho Corps,) at this crisis behaved badly ; and
Brock road, cutting at right angles tho
Orange plank road. With instinctive
hasto tho men commenced throwing up
entrenchments, using for that purposc,old
logs, planks from the road, m tact any
by breaking, nearly lost us tho day. Tis
alleged as an excuse that thoir timo is
uearly out. Why men who havo hereto
fore borne a good name should thus tar
nish it I cannot conceive. About noon a
thing that would stop a bullet. Gonoral occurred but twas only a preparation
Hancock held tho left, Sedgwick tho ccn- (for the storm. Longstreet, following Jack
tho, and Warren tho right, Burnsido "ly- son's tactics, massod his Corps on our left,
ing around looso" as tho boys expressed 'and about 4 p. m. mado ono of the most
it. As Sedgwiok's artillery had not or-' terrific charges of the war. Our men
rived, our Battery, (F. 1st Pa. arty., fought like heroes, with the exception of a
Capt. Ricketts Commanding,") was tent to portion ef Watt's Div. and Uirney's (for-
report to Gen. Getty-commanding a Di-! morly Kearnoy's and in 3d Corps.) Sev
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struction to both sides, is tho record,
Tho work is by no meons done yet. When
it is done, and in othor years, wo shall
begin to realize the magnitude of tho
bloody labor wo undartook.
vision of tho Cth Corps. It was found
that in advancing, only a scotion could bo
used at a time, aud that must advanco in
echelon, and I may truthfully say that I
never expected to bring a man out of the
engagement. Our skirmish lino was only
CO yards in front. As tho minute hand
ofthewatoh pointed to 4:30 P. M. the
command "march" was given. Tho only
fignsof the enemy at the timo, wero afow
rebels about 400 yards in our front stand
ing out boldly in tho road. An advance
of a few yards showed their presence, and
tho silcnoe cbangod to a deafening roar of
musketry. Wo advanced stealily about
200 yardsj ubeL-I deemed it proper to
unlimbor and commence firing. Scarcely
had I done so, when the wliis of a shell
over my head showed that tho enemy bad
maskod a section of Napoleon guns in tho
road only 400 yards in front of mo. Hero
was a tangible enemy, and wo replied.
At first they had it all their own way, but
finally ono of my guns blow up a limber,
and in another moment wc had killed a
number oi their men and firo of their
horses. Thoy thon hailed canlstor among
us, but our percussion shell proved supe
rior, and their guns wero hastily with
drawn. For a moment there was a lull
and then the rebel lino charged. Slowly
tkey pressed our men back, yet yolling all
the time liko demons. I contented mysolf
with firing shell until the head of a col
umn entered tho road in my front at th?
double quick, thoir men cheering and
waving their colors. Now was tho timo
for oanister, nnd well was it usedt Tbo
cral regiment, camo to the rear in masse,
briuging along thoir colors, and awaken
ing fears for tho integrity of our lines.
To add to our discouragement, tho breast
works caught firo, compelling our men to
fall back to the second line. For a few
momonts the rebel colors danced all along
tho works ; but tho old Saeond Corps,
mindful of its past history, made a rush,
drove the enemy baok poll-moll, captured
somo colors, wounded Longstreet, killed
Gen. Jenkins and other prominent rebel
officers. A few of our Bitteries did good
service, firing best at tho most critical
moment. Tho other Corps wero engaged,
but not co heavily. Burnsides handled his
Corps badly, and is loudly censured on all
sides. Sedgwick and Warren proved their
capacity for high oommands. Wo havo
lost heavily, but the enemy bavo likowise
suffered, Wo oannot rcaoh our wounded,
Such terrifio fighting was norer before
known.
Grant is said to havo declared that his
provious battles wore but skirmishes com
pared to this.
t&- A ''bad egg" thrown against a
building, will be dashed in pieces, but
loaving forever its foul mark, in proof that
it once existed. Thus it U with Mr. Lin
coln and his Cabinet, who havo opposed
their rottcness to tho fabric of the gov
ernment.
iSS" Tho National Bank circulation is
now reported at twenty millions of dollars.
te?- It is proposed to removo the eapitol
of New Hampiliiro from Concord to Man-
jobestor.
it at home.
To-day we have in the country the abuses
oj a military dictation without its uuity of
action and vigor of execution. An admin
istration marked at home by disregard of
constitutional rights, by its violation of
personal liberty of the press, and, as a
crowning shame, by its abandonment of
the right of asylum, a right especially dear
to all freenations by a feebleness, and want
of principle which has mialed European
powers, and driven them to a belief that
only commercial interests and personal
aims arc concernod, and that no great prin
ciples arc involved in tbo issue. Tho ad
mirablo condoct of the people, their readi
ness to make every sacrifice demanded of
them, their forbearance and silence under
tho suspension of everything that could be
suspended, their many acts of heroism and
sacrifices, were all rendered fruitless by
tho incapacity, or, to speak moro exactly,
by the personal ends for which the war was
managed. This incapacity and selfishness
naturally produced such results as led the
European powers, and logically enough to
the conviction that the North, with'its
great, superior population, its immenso re
sources, and its credit, will never be able
to ooerco tho South, Sympathies which
should havo been with us from tho onset
of this war were turned against us, and in
this way the administration has done the
oountry a double wroog abroad, It creat
ed hostility, or at best indiffcrenco,among
thoso who would havo been its friends if
tho real intentions of the peoplo could have
been better known, while at tho samo time
it neglected no occasion for making the
most humiliating ooncessions.
Against this disastrous condition of af
fairs the Cleveland Convention was a pro
test.
The principles which form tho bisb of
its platform havo my unqualified and oor
dial approbation, but I cannot bo heartily
concnr in all the measures whioh you pro
pose. I do not believo that confiscation,
extended to tho property of all rebels is
practicable and if it woro so, I do not
tbink it a measure of sound polioy. It is,
in faet, a question belonging to tho people
themselves to dcoido, and if a propor oc
casion for the exereisc of their original
and sovereign authority. As a war acts
ure, in tho beginning of a revolt, whioh
might be quellodby prompt severity, I un
derstand the polioy of confiscation ; but
not u a final measure of reconstruction af-
tor tho suppression of an insurrection.
countrv to indorse a policy and renew a and aB thsy reached tho fonoo, our mon,
power.which has cost us the lives of thou- who had not fired a shot, opened a blaze of
' 1 i ft l .1 i mt .
sands of men and needlessly put the coin- musKetry an aiong tno line, xne nrtiucry
i, i . , ,u.,0 ;ii commenced on canister and otio-ncoond
ry uu niu xuuu w uuiufj i -"v.- ..... shells
remain no other alternative out to organ- Th() rcbeU firod a few ghot3 an(J feU oa
izo against him overy dement of conscion- the ground. In vein their officers tried to
r tious opposition with tho view to provent rally them. It was of no avail, and thoy
tho misfortune of his te-cleetion. t" ,-,, !, F V- i . a t a .x.
, ,. " ,T . I The first line whioh had readied the
in tins contingency, i nrcop. .. uuu. foiico ;wero ln08tly left. Our men slacken-
nation at Cleveland, and as a pretimina- ed thejr gre aa fto rebols ran away, and
ry step, have resigned my commission I whenover ono of those left would try to
in the army. This was a naorifico itgavo get up to run, a bullet went crushing
! w tj.. t y.A . in throuch him. Finally, ono of our offioers
me pu.u . B T QUt thal .f th thrQw down thdr
timo fruitlessly endeavored to obtain sor- ftrm camc ia ond surrendered, they
vice. 1 mako tne sacriuco now oniy to ro- WOuld bo spared, about four hundred of
rain libertv of speoch, and to leave noth- them gave themselves up, including two
inn in tbo wav of discharging to ray ut- colonels, three lieutenant-colonels, one ma
...ni, i.. of rnr , jor, and twenty line officers.
.uo u...kJ -v- . . Qur nscovcrcd lhe battle-field, and
With my earnest and sincere thanks for night cfoscd j 0Q tho 80ene o( th() confliot
your expressions of confidence and ro-1 Next morning the enemy were found to
gard, and for the many honorable terms in I bave retreated nearly two miles, leaving
.i,;i, rinnnn.int me with the aotions of their dead ana wounded in our hands
tho committee.
I am, gentlemen,
Very respectfully and truly yours.
r J. C. FREMONT.
New York, Juno 4, 1804.
To Washington G. Snother, of Mary
land, Edward Gilbert, of New York,Cas-
A prisoner says that Gen. Ransom rodo
in front of their lines beforo they camo
outjof tho woods, and told thorn in a short
speech, addressed particularly to his bri
gado of North Carolinians, that tbcro was
nothing in front but the enemy's skirmish
lines, and that tboy would more out '.t a
slow and esy pace, and ut right shoulder
shift, and when thoy readied the edgo of
Committee.
per Butz, of Illinois, Charles E. Mass, of the woods to form and double-quick upon
Missouri, N. P. Sawyer, of Pennsylvania, mo iaunees aim ibko mem prisoners,
ueu, x.uuaoui was luiiucau oo too iiciu,
and his sword was presented by one of our
private soldiers to Gen. Crawford, and
another soldier cut off his eoat collar with
the stars upon it.
The First Regiment buried sovonty rebj
els tho next day, in front of thoir works.
It is estimated that tho rebels lost ono
thousand men in this assault upon tho
"YaBkoo skirmishing lines;' ' Prisoners
all agree that they ncror knew such stub
born resistance as oar nrmy has lately
The Pennsylvania Reserves.
THEIR LAST AND SUCCESSFUL I1ATTLE.
The
Victory at
Church.
Bcthcsda
Washington, Juno 5. The First, Sco-
ond, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, Elev
onth aud Twelfth Regiments Pennsylvania sbown, and that it tells fearfully upon thoir
Reserves and the Bucktails arrived last, morals as well as their ranks. They say
nirfht from tha White House. They left they aro worn out with .excessive maroh
iKnnt ti,ir. ing, toll and fichtiDg, but all-feel confident
lu-u" uv ""V" t"-""6i oitbeir army boing able yot to defeat us
teen hundred men in tho nine regiments. Amo h . ... doftd . . Tfir
Tho Reserve have been in two heavy bat- ,511 0f tne Twenty-seventh Virgiuia.broth
tlos duriup: the prcsont campaign, and er to our General Ternll, who was killed
fnnr-ht their last battlo within a few miles at Shiloh. In his pocket was found a let
r . t... r...,i n,t tor, nearly worn out, from tho United
' J o o I S-itni mm anvrtnnn tnhn nffnniifiH (Jan Tan! 1 1
General McCall at Mochaiiicivillo. Baid that he Tearc.t.A lhai ,' wntl '
On tho 30th thov were inarchincr from alien from Ins lamily and Stato, but that
Hawes store towards Meohanicsville, and h s,boald 8tal,d b uia wlo10 country to
. r,.1u...i. TJ.. iu last.
a. noon passeu iu, uuutu... y u Tbe Rebtfl ColoDel Hoffman wa8 also
middlo of tho afternoon tbo lurst migade, found cut jn two by a shell. The odor
under Col. M. D. Harden, consisting of bearer of tho Fifty-second Virginia camo
the First Regiment, Col. W. Cooper Tul- almostup to the fenoo,whena shell ajruck
1 : Sixth. Col. W II. Ent. Eleventh. "im auu loro. "l3 uo ?J '".pieces,
j i i
but somo ot tho rebols got the colore away.
and wc did not socurc a single tlag.
One of our men, who has been in overy
battle-field of the army of tho Potomac,
says he never saw tho enemy soraanglod
and torn as they were along that fonoo.
Dead and dying men wero piled up in
some places threo or four dcop. Wound
ed men had pushed dead ones up in front
of them to shield them, and there died
themselves.
Our loss was sot heavy, except ia tho
first engagement on the Mechamoavillo
road, whero wc wero compelled to leava
our wounded in tho hands of tho enemy.
Wo have eccurod correct lists of the cas
ualties in the sevoral regiments. Many
marked missing aro wounded how badly
or how many aro even wounded we oan
not tell.
The repulso- of Ewoll's Corps, with such
dreadful slaughter, by a foroo less than
onrT-third of their number, is ono of tha
most gallant affairs of tho campaign, and
is a fitting close to tho glorious career of
one of tho best divisions that over fired on
Colonel S. M. Jackson ; and Bucktail
Rifles, Major Hartshorn, with tho Buok
tailosin front, wero skirmishing with tho
rebels skirmishers. Tho Reserves fell
baek, mak'iBg but littlo resistance, until
they reached tho road running from Me
cbanicsville to Hanover Court House.
They at once commenced to throw up
breastworks, but had been there but a few
minutes, probably half an hour, when
they were attacked upon both flanks by
the rebels. Somo prisoners taken inform
ed them that it was Early's Division of
Ewell's Corps, and tho order to fall back
upon tho main body was at onco give
They fell slowly back about threo quartors
of a mile, firing so steadily upon the reb
els that they did cot follow in any force.
Tho Brigado was rallied and formed a
new lino across tho road and through
somo fields into tbo woods. The Third
T)p!ni1n T W Tii.tiA nnn.l.f innr nT tllA
"'B'""'! ' " ' '""l c, I ... rpr ,,; u .V
J..IHU, -icnwi ana xwbii a .vea-rvea, wcro . nyti wiU Uye M l5mo ,0 Com,
I upon tho right of tho line, tho First Bri-1