COLUMBIA
DEMOCRAT,
AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER.
I
LEVI L, TATE, EDITOR.
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VOL. 1. NO, 22.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENN' A,,' SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1864.
VOLUME 28
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THE GERM OF LOVE.
A traveler tlirntieh n ilunty road
Strcucil neurits on the lea,
Anil one took root, ntitl .proutcil up,
Anil grew into n tree.
I,ni! enupllt Its sli.nlc at evening tlinf,
To brealli its early vow.,
Ami ago was plcnscil, in heats of noon,
Tob.uk beneath lt boughs,
The dormouse loved Its ilaugllng twig,
The blnls sweet music bore ;
It stooil a cjoryln it. plare,
A bleating evermore.
A little spring had ln.t it. way
Amid the grass nnd fern I
A pa.sing rtrangor scooped a well,
Whcro weary men might turn i
Ha walled ll in, mid hung with taro
A tail lu ut the brink
lie thought nut of the deed ha did,
llm judged that toll might drink,
lie passed ngaln and, In I the well,
liy stnsmers never dried,
Had cooli'd ten thoiKnud parching tongues,
And saved nlifu bi sidu,
A dreamer dropped a random thought ;
'Twas old, and yet was .ew--A
sliuplu f.ilny of the brain,
Hut Strang in bi iug triii;
ll phniii: upon a griiial mind,
And lul its light h':eamu
A lamp of life, n beacon ray,
A monitory 11 inn.'.
Tlinthoughtwas small Its i'suc great ;
A watch fito mi tli hill,
It ft'indsu radiance far ailown,
And cheers 111.' valley still.
A nami'l.'ss man. nmid u rrow.l
That Ihrougi d tlu daily mart,
I. rl fall a word nl hopo and love,
lFntiiili.'.l, from tile h art ;
A VhNper on the tumult thrown
A iransitory brenlh
It raised a brother from the dust,
It puvliI ii soul from death,
O gfrui ! O Count I U word of love I
O thought at random rasl I
Ye wi.re but little at tin' lir.t.
liul inUliiy al the last.
THE Ll I EST .ATi0XL HU.IIIU VTIOX.
Review of the Recent Invasion.
3Uiiiii Article from the Na
tional ir.c'licucur.
Gen. Mc-
H'hut
it Costs (o
( It Han's Advice
Disregard
Arraignment
of the
tralion.
Adraiuis-
l'roiothe .Naltiiiial liitelligcucer.J
TLu Valluy of the Shunautiottb liiu mora
(ban onco liui'ii t lie vullcy ul' our uatinnal
liuiniluiiou. After iimru than tlirou years
ol gig.'iiitiu war, our military adu iuistra
tiuii lias nut h'.iniL'J to appruliuud tlin rc
lat on of tlilft valluy to tlic dulullsu of Wash
intou, anil tiiu cut-my, safely prutmuing
on the iuorai.cc and nliiltltiasUiios of that
administration, lias luarucd to practico iu
tlib ijuartur a wt:arisoim uioimtouy of
iiio.'diiicut wLicb only bcrvi's to show that
plated junction of Gonoral McDowell with
General McClcllan by tho Fredericksburg
railroad ho being diverted from thiiline
of march to eDgago in what he knew to bo
tbo impossible ohaso of Jackson, in the
meantime, nfteriatraeting all our oombi
nations,,8ucceedcd in hurling his wholo
column against Ocneral Mo Jlollau's forces
around Richmond nt the very momont
when our military authorities, relying on
the reports ol General Fremont after the
battle of Cross Keys on the 8th of June,
supposed him still to be detained in tho
valley by the threatening prcsoco of
that officer.
Then catnti the brief campaign of Gen
Pope, in which, after having hia flank re
peatedly turned and his eommunieatiom
with Wa-hiiigton broken by an attack in
his rear,ho was badly rcpnlacd,and diiven
into the defenses of Washington, while
the enemy, with leisurly oomposuro,turu
cd from the pur.u t of his broken and
nils-handled forces to proceed through this
same valley, and miko tho formidable ir
ruption into Maryland which was repelled
by General McClcllan iu tho battle of An-
tietam on the 17th ol September, 1802.
Wo need not piuso to describo the dis
graceful events which procecdod the
occupation of Winchester by tho one
tnv at this time, or which attended the
surrender of Harper's Ferry results all
due to the incapacity which placed incom
petent officers iu important positions ; and
which, in the case ol'Hnrprr's Ferry, was
made doubly conspicuous- on this occasion
by the retention of Colonel Miles at that
po.t, under order from General ilalleck,
after the military availability of the posi
tion was entirely neutralized by the turn
which events had taken. Official incapac
ity iu Washington, thus combined with
military incompetency at the post, to erect
aucw at the entrance of this valley, the
eaudine forks of an unspeakable huiuilia
tion, which largely modified the exultation
jiiatly prouueed by the victory of Anlio
tarn, and which, in all generous miuds.
was intensified by the attempt to throw
on General McClcllan the responsibility
for tho untoward events whirh ho had the
sagacity to loresee, but not the power to
prevent after his advice in the premises
had been contemned by the general in
cuicf.
And next, in tho summer of 1803 more
than a month after the disaiter of Uh.in
cellorsvillc under General Hooker, the
confuderote commander proceeded to pro
jeet a new iuvasitiu of the north, via tliU
same valluy of the Shenandoah From
at failure on the pint of our military au
thorities to occupy in this quarter tbr
proper points of observation, and from
their failure to place in the positions ac
tuallv occupied the runuisito military tal
ent and skill, the country was again called
to blush at the disgraceful stampede of
iMilroy which preceded the Irruption ot
the enemy into Maryland. Winchesler
was evacuated with John Gilpin speed
and ciuhtaeu fiuld-iiit'ccs, Gvo thousand
five hundred musketry, and a larec quan
tity of amiuunitiin were le t behind by
tho Oocoquan, and probably a fourth tow
ard Locaburg.
To recapitulate tho most important
points which should cngago your attention
aro as follows :
1. A strong forco, well intrenched, in
tho vicinity, of Manaesas, porhap3 ovon
Ccntrovillo, and another forco (a brigade,)
also welt intrenched, near Strasburg.
2. Mock-bouses at the railway bridges,
a. Constant employment of tho cavalry
well to tho front,
4. Grand guards at Worrenton junc
tion, and in advanco as for as tho Rappa
hannock, if possible.
5. Groat care to be exorcised to obtain
full an early information as to tho enemy,
0. The (funeral object w to cover tho
lino of the Potomao and Washington.
We all know how these nrudontial ar-
ments of the government, will stand in tho
way of ridding tho War Department of the
incubus whioh now visibly rests on it un
der its proscut raanDgomcnt making it a
shamo and a rcproaoh to the nation. And
in so saying we intend no particular allu
sion to Mr. Stanton, lor wo do not know
to-day that he is responsible, for theso
things It may bo that ho oonfincs him
sclf.strictly to the civil details of his office,
nnd docs not mcddU in tho matters which
somebody under him or above him brings
to such confusion. Rut Wo do know that
somebody is responsible for the late gross
mulfeasuueo, which must over stand ,in our
military annals a a national dbgraco so
long as posterity shall revert to tho time
when five hundred men laid Washington
under siege for two days with ten or twen
ty thousand men behind itsdofenses ! Such
ranccments of General MoOlellan were 1 is the penalty which a nation pays for bo
broken up by tho military powers which ! ig ruled in any department by its igno-
I . I . . I . I . . r . ... . . I ... . ,l.-.. ' . . ! . ...11!
uununooiv lie uirecuou oi mu war alter DO rauuu ruiuur muu ua muuuguncu.
hud been removed from his previous con- I Nor docs tho evil and with thodisapoar
trol of its operations. And since that date anco of the lato fright. Who, alter such
theso prudential measures, as respects the 1 111 czhibiton of military and admibistra
Shenandoah Valley, have ncvor been ru- Ition so long as it shall remain subicct to
established for no other reason, as far as i's present directors ! What security cm
we can perceive, than that to re-establish ' "y feel when the watchmen from tho walls
them might be oonidrucd by somebody into : ' en national capital lift up their vo cos
a tribute to General iMcOlcllan's railitarv ! "iy to cxt oso their own ignorance of tho
sagaoity in selecting a point of obsorva-' naurc anil extent of the peril from which
tion liko Chester Gap, midway on the cast-1 they call the people to save them ? What
eru border ol the va'.ly, where tho ap- governor ofwbat state will be prompt
proach of danger would bo perceived in herealter to respond lo.thc tap of the drum
time to meet and check ii at Harper's in Wasl ington if its alarms ar beaton with
Forry, instead of some point on the ' ral,!it vehemence when thero is tho least
Upper Potomac, where, with such olli- ' known about tho n-ccasity for disturbing
cers as the military administration habit- tbe, country ? An immense clamor has
ually stations there, the approach of dan- I been raiaed without caujo during tho last
ccr is known to the country onlv bv a . few days. Who is sure that while the
stampede of our forces from Winchester,
illiamsport, or Harper s .Ferry, and by
this war bo much longer prolonged,
It illustrates the character nnd despe
ration of thccontest and the discourage
ment of our condition, that all attorn pts to
arrest this effusion of blood and stay the
progress of ruin arc denounced as disloy
al, and that it is uttered as a matter of re
proach, that a great political organization
(,tho Democratic party is rapidly drift
ing towards peace." Alas I has peace
ceased to be a condition of nations to bo
dcsiicd and prayed for. Is the race of
man to return to barbarism to be trans
formed into tho wild boast of the forest t
Is civilization extinct Christianity abol
ished t
To bo in favor of pcaro does not imply
a de.iro for a dishonorable termination of
hostilities. We not only concede, but in
sist that nations, liko individuals, must
possess self respect, and be reasonably
firm in maintaining their rights. Onoe in
a contest they must not pusillanimously
buck out of it, as by eueh a course thev
... .
but invito aggression.
Wo have not hesitated to insist upon
the duty of tho Fedcrol Government to
suppress the present rebellion. The Dctn
ocratio party of this State and the Natiou
has been firm in its support of the legiti
mate constitutional authority of tho Union
as against this formidable insurrection.
It will continue to occupy that position.
liut war is not the only instrumentality to
conditions of our ignorance remain as they employ in winning back rebellious citizens
are, tho next clamor may not come with or rei'ractorv members of n. nnnfriloropv
a panic of the authorities at Washington, i cause, and find tho War Department Indeed, war alone can never accomplish
tt.lm l.'rmieinrr tuitlitrtrv ...ill. ... ,l.n lil.t 11 nrnnnrnfl tn tnont. rnal rlimrrnr no it I '
movements or magnitude ol tho invadinrr , has proved little prepared to face an imag-
foiccs, fall an easy prey to cvory idle iiud iuary one 1 Let all loyal people lay theso
vagrant ruu-or which vexes the atmoiphere thing to hcirt, but above all and first of
iu a timo of alarm aud uncertainly. Tho all, let the President of the United States
unknown U always portentoui. In the ab- i be assured that for those things his country -notice
of tbo definite configurations reveal- 111011 will hold him to a ttrict account, and
ed to tie mind by assured knowledgo, tho 1 lllilt they will exact fuU atouemeut for the
starilcd imagination, while blindly grop- I indignity which tho nation has jutt suffur
ing in the dark, peoples all space with cd in the eyes ol the world.
"gorgons hydras, nud chimeras dire." : ano I'rt'Biiieu'.. we kuow, i ainmtious
Evin i-o bravo a heart as that of Kino- 'o loaru not only the good opinions of his
Richard, in thu play of ojr great drama" fellow citizens, but also to receive their
tiot, was appalled by "shadows, as ho ex- votes at tue next election J ne wowu re-
claims
liy tho Aposlle Paul, shadow, tn night
have s truck merj terror loth ilof lUdianl
Than can the -uu.t.iucu of leu thousand eoldlers
Armed iu proof.
And so during the last few days, we
have seen tho administration starting at
specters, littering panic cries of alarm, and
with its hands palsied by imaginary ter
rors, simply because it had neglected to
lake the most ordinary precautions for
cave litem he must, be carefut to deserve
them ; and il he should in this way vindi
cate hii claim to the renewed eouli leuce of
the country, we ore sure that wu could sin
cerely rejoice in his sucess, not from any
interest we take in his personal fortunes
anymoro than in those of any other man of
any other party but because wo desire
the best welfare of the republic in this day,
when bho requires tho highest statesman-
property watching and occluding tho Shen- ship and the most exalteJ capacity to con-
andoah valley. Incompetent officers have duct to a wise conclusion the affairs of the
been stationed at points actually occupied, state. His merits and his pretensions
and points which should havo been occu- are now trembling in the balance, held by
pied for purposed of observation have beon the hands of a confiding and much endur
loft without any guard whatever. Milita- ing people, who have continued long to
ry incompeteuce on the Upper Potomac ' hope against hope under the military mis
has been reinforced by military incoinpc- rule of which they are only too painfully
tence in 15 ultimo re, as illustrated bv M.i- conscious, but to the pasieut endurance of
After such repeated experience of the jor-ucncrai uvw. V aliacc, who is retained which tuoro is a limit set, equal Oy ptiys- biood jong L.n0Ug, t0 CODfor upon the p03.
military relations held by this valley to I ' cc-uimana just long enough to lose the ical necessity ; aim ty political pruaenoo. sibilitios or peace tp confer, wo mean,
the sa.'etv of Waihini'ton aud to the suo- battle of Monocacy, and then superseded I The protraction of the war, long drawn . .. .- , ,
Tss of Spldir orations agWcb. i by a capable officer in the Geld, while he I out by divided military cou-cls, by injudi ough the constitutional ! "geney of a
mond it micht Iiuvc been sunnosed tint 1 '3 needlessly retained in command ol tho c ous civil policies, and by incompetent Convention of the Statos if this be charg-
military directors, with as tt o ncrsnic- uul,alluJli",'i aa 11 uu,.v lu luumuiy iuu ouicrr? in mu nviu, ia nmu u umi y uuu ea as a rcproacu, wc consent to rest uu
Sail,
Tobacco,
Sigaia,
Ciind- r,
Razcns,
FEED AND IMiOVlSl' NS.
'Ingri'ivr wliii a SPMI iiirii'1' ofuii.lo isaitn e
las too nii'iieroiis to no i 10 i
1 -inner, I.!';,
i I I'lllll'illl' fui' limhIp,
II oo , i iiur M. ! l''l
F;sh,
he deems it nafi at any time to hope for
sueee.vi by counting on our official stolidity
as a siaudiig subatuutc for his poverty of the ftigiiivcs a valuable gh to the in
invention. vaaing enemy
Talleyraud was wont to say that it is
ahiays butler to ruly on the lolly of your
antigonii't than on your own sagacity, and
it iscertiiu that the enemy, iu the use he
periodically maker- of lite valley of the
Sheuaudouh, has si o su his own sagacity
OIllV 111 ri'bUIIUIIg always on our OinCIll ' ... -. triwinn nf tiiu nlnm-itw Inr Mnmbiplni. o ml
a mismanagement in this valley to lay that too when it is no secret that iu his
stotio of stumbling and rock of offense in "Clv,11 oapactty ho has, by his illegal pro
thuwavofthe camnaicn. And vet the ' cccd" 83 "fought down on his head, as wo
the pacification of a country rent with in
tcrnal strife. It must always in tho end
call to its aid the kiudly and gentler offices
of diplomacy, of consultation, of mutual
forbearance aud concessions. Theso are
essential to the consummation of peace,
and must sooner or later be called in req
uisi.ion for war cannot last always. At
some stage of its progress, and under n
greater or less degree of exhaustion of one
or both of the belligerents, au armistice is
sure to be had while the combatants, rest
ing on their arms, discuss thca state of
the quarrel and confer upon the possibili
ties of peace.
Such a contingency will arrive in the
progress of this war how soon, or wheth
er it will terminate in peace, or in a re
newal of the struggle, the future must dis
close. Rut the armistice the conference
the attempt at settlement aro merely a
question of time. And fit be charged as
a reproach to tho Democratic party, that
it is not irrevocable committed to jcrpet
ual and desolating war that it is ready
, to yield to the impulics of humanity and
Christianity, aud suspend the effusion of
acity as ours havo shown themselves to ' cuaueeB of confusion by t.ho possible in-
I .mi. piouiiin g-ner.i'iy ii't
A. P, IX :
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rjqiF, CONFESSIDNS AND
nenecf i i V.M.I I.
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June- l-l'4 - iy
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linn I s rv I'i's "i l ie Iri ii'" ''"!' i" 'i' '
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lirpariil mi.ei'i, in n I lie v oi's
op irtilioiif iu I le line oT 'a'p p. o .'p-ion run i n in " il
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,'. it '.ice .mil otliiea ew i.U's i.iou i el'n.'
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National Foundry.
lW.OO.V!Si;iJ!:C,GOLtJMBIVCO.,PA.
rt lit! miIipi" nier prop ietor of llm tiliovo na.ri'il ! '
J tp'invu e.i.iii uli'iicul, is uuiv iirepaied mieieivo
in lers tor
n K'imIs or niiU'liliieiy,
I i'ColrrfP. I'.'i'sl t'uiiii'ces, Fta.le'il'ry I'.njl'ic., iMiMu
Tdl'UHIilVO MACIjl VCri. UC. tU.
Ilo in I'l. n preinr"d to um'o SSiuvs. all siies ami
I I IIOI..S, i'oi,.iroiis, ami I'veryi ii'i'j! usiild'v iiii'du ill
p. -t-l hl.P roil'lllliep
lls i'.ii M'uve l.uilities and iirailiciil wnikmeii, war
jrn.il':'" ii ri'uitiug thu largept luuuacls ou lliu
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w.ir. Physical geography has ordained
that lliu occlusion, or at least tho vigilent
observation of this side approach to tho
city of Washington, shall liu a prime ele
ment in any campaign whieh starting from
Waahingtou, has the city ol Richmond for
its objective point And yet, with a want
of foresight whioh, iu the absence of all
couci'ivahlo motive for the wilful betrayal
of a grave public iru"t, confound.-, the rea
son of ordinary mortals by its maguitude
nnd by its iuvuluiacy, our military au
thorities have for 'ion r mcccssivo summers
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!,.:,,:.... ..ui.. .t t..i i.,a Hected at such a v
unugiu buuiumuii uu lliu ,v i. ll-loan iiauis
of all our generals operating againat Rich
mond. Whfthvr it hu at one time from
failing to station in this vi'llcy a capable
commanding .iffiucr ; or at another from
not letainiug a sufficient force under his
eoramaiid ! or at ."till another from not
occupying I he proper point nf observation
to docry tho approach of danger in time
to guard against positive mischief ; or
uhoiher, as at some times ,it be from com
mitting all tho-e blunders at onre, certain
it i that the military administration, iu
I giving the country much sad experiendo of
I iuefficieuey, has nowhere mado that ineffi
ciency more egregious aud deplorable than
,u,ul3T'""u'- Gap Railway is inn
Tho first baltle of Dull Run was turned a brigade ol infantry,
iruui viuiury iinu uiaaaiur uy inu liiuuru ui
General Paicrsnn to prt'vent tho junction
of GuneralJoseph E. Johnson, through
this valley, with Gcnoral Beauregard in
the very crisis of tho conflict a failuro
i which, whether resulting from the incom
' petctioy of General Pattorson, as somo
charge or from tho inadcqiinoy of his og
gressive force, as others represent, is ono
of which tho responsibility muBt equally
, rest on the central power which appoints
our commanders and directs the opera
' tioiis of tho war.
Tho campaign of General MoClellan
' orrested and frustrated by tho incursion
General Jackson iuto this valley in tho
laltor part of May, 1802, oompolling tho
abrupt retreat of licncral Hanks throwm
our military authorities here into a most
aVject panio and preventing tho contem
to be the precursor either ot a disunion
peace (rendered a p''yiscal necessity by
the military imbecility which is breaking
down the giant strength of tho couutry)or
of a change iu the administrations which
dcr tho aspersion, and to abide tho cajra
judgment of the people upon the issue thus
made, indeed, we are content to accept
such an issue before the great tribunal of
illustration we have just had of the want1 unaeriauu, tne graveat censure ol the At- bhall at lea t Mioru to tue people ono last the people in the coutiug Presidential elec-
of forecast wu cu has been signalized by i lu,""J' "" ' uuin.-uoi.uua. uopu 01 suymg u,uu imuu, .. ,uiug ,ioUi W(J haVQ u0 coufjuenoo tuat t,;s
the conduct of the war in this quarter sur
passes in its proportions anything wu have
yet been called to witting. Let us anal
yzc the elements oft he invasion which has
just ended in the raising of tho 1 'siege of
Washington."
It is obvious to tho most unmililary
mind that in order to guard the side ap-
proach to Waahingtou via the Shenandoah
observation should no so
tioiut in or near the val
ley as shall enablo tho force which occu
pies it to discern tho approach of danger
in time to guard against the descent of tho
blouand to calculate its probablo weight
wherever it may f ill. Before starting out
on tho campaign against Richmond iu the
spring of 180U General McClcllan was
careful to take precautions on this score.
Under date of March 10, in that yoar, he '
to General Ranks (who had been seleoted i
to watch tho vtlley) as follows : j
Your first care will bo tho rebuilding1 of
tho railway from Washington to Mauasscs
and lo Strasburg, in order to open your
communication with tho valloy ol the
Shenandoah. As soon as the Mansssas
in running order intrench
say four regiinenls,
with two batteries, at or near the point
whcro tho railroad crosses tho Suctuua-
loah. Something like two regimeuts of
cavalay should be left in that vicinity to
occupy Wmoliostcr, and thoroughly tcour
tho eouulry south of tho railway and up
tho Shenandoah valloy, as well as through
Chester gay, whioh might perhaps bo nd
vantagoomly occupied by a detachment
of infantry, well intrenohed. Block-houses
should bo built at ail the railway bridges.
Occupy by grauds Werrenton junction and
Warrenton itself, aud also somo utile more
advanced points on the Orango aud Alcx
andra Railroad, as soon at tho railroad
bridge is repaired.
Great activity should boobsorved by the
cavalry. Resides the two, regimonts at
What wonder that under such an admin- remains as they are, theru is now nouo.
istiation of our military affairs a paltry It the President does not apply a cor
squadron of two or three hundred bold ri- j jrcctivo, a! once timely aud radical, to tho
ders can with entire impunity, cut rail- : evils of which tho loyal elates complain
roads between Harritburg and Baltimore,
and ha I tun dip and I'hiladelpbia ; or that
a mere squad of ten men can approach
within four miles of a city containing two
hundred thousand inhabitants, garrisoned
by twenty tuousaiid men,and burn at their
leisure the mansion of the governor of
Maryland ; or that five hundred men
should, by simply sitting down before one
of the forts of Washington and establish
ing a weak skirmish line, succeed in plac
ing the capital of the natiou under siege,
cutting its telegraphic communications with
Baltimore, burning the house of a cabinet
minister within six milos of tho city, aud
reducing tho government to the necessity
of relying ou river and seu navigations for
its connections with iho great North 1
And all this, be it remembered, happens in
the fourth year ol the war, with men by
hundreds of thousands under arms !
And now wo ask, tho whole nation will
ask, who in lesponsiblc for such humili'i
tion ? Is it the President, the Secretary
ol War, the chief of staff or can it be that
our military affairs are still left at such
loose cuds (as we kuow them to have bcon
before) that sometimes one and sometimes
the other of these luuclionaries assumes to
excrciso the direction of the war, selects
tho points of military occupation, and as
signs tho officers to their several com
mands J In the uncertainty resting on
this subject wu think thero is no doubt
about one thing, aud that is, that if thu
President cannot discover and correct the
source of those blunders, tho people in tho
approaching election will nob be slow to
discover ono method by whioh they can
put an end to this reign of military incom
petence in Washington. No respect for
tho President's "honesty of purpose," and
uo admiratiou tor the purity, intelligence,
"- . i.i i.tti i :' i. .i. -
Mauassas, nnothor regiment of cavalry uu muisiimivu muil luuy uiay
will bo at.youj disposal, to scout toward recognize in the other cscouUto dopart-
wilh just reason, they will not hcMtato to 1
apply the only corrective which lies within 1
their reach, through tho ballot box. j
We do not so writo under any iuspira- '
tions of passions or partisanship. Wo
suppress even the utteratieo of that indig
nation which wo feel it would bo righteous
to cherih in view of the receut nbuso of
tho confidence reposed by the people in
their civil rulers. We speak simply as to
wise men. Lot wise men judgo what Wo
say, and we abido their verdict, in the
full assurance that they pronounco us to
have spoken words of truth ami soberness
in a day when paltering and levity wheth
er in office or out of office, are certainly
out of place.
1'roui The Albany Atlas and Argus.J
"Peace."
It is not to bo disguised that tho Demo
cratic nartv is rapidly drifting towards
peace. Journal.
Wu wish we could say that not only the
Domooratic party, but also tho country,
"is rapidly drifting toward peace. For
moro than thico years this nation has been
torn and desolated by a civil war, as fierce
as any whieh history records. Its soil
has beeu watered by the blood of contend
ing armies. Hundreds of thousands of
men have died on the field of battlo, or
wasted away in camps and hospitals.
Tho wail of mourning goes up from almost
cvory household, Tho properly created
by the sweatof years of labor has been
wasted, pnd that to ho acquired by the
toils of unborn millions is mortgaged to do
fray tho cost of this terrible and uuuatural
struggle Ruin, political, fmanoial, moral
and social, confronts both bolligcreots, if
Administration under all tho complica
tions in which it is involved could ever
end the war except so far ai it might cud
from the exhaustion of tho combatants.
Hut we believe that a new Administration
could close this fraternal strife on terms
the
of
honorable to us as a nation, and
basis of the preservation of the
the States.
on
union
The Clergy and the draft Peti
tion to the Government.
At a meeting of tbo clerical and lay
members of tho Episcopal Diocesan Con
vention of New Jersey, held immediately
after the adjournment of the taid Conven
tion iu the city of Newark, May 2Cth, 04.
Rev. R. M. Aberorombie, h'uetor of S'-'t.
Paul's Church, Rauway, submitted a pre
amblo and series of resolutions concerning
tho relation of the clorgy to the military
service, whioh wcte unauimoasly adopled.
Tho prenmblo sets forth tho sacred prerog
atives of religion and the daugcr of per
verting them by secularization tho ne
cessity of a ministry for tho admiuistrat'on
of religious offices, and "tho duty of tho
State to provtdo for tho religious interests
of its citizens.'" It further sets forth (in
brief) that
"By recent cuactmcnts of the Govern
ment, ooulra:y to the usual customs and
laws ot nations, the clergy aro liahlo to
enrollment and draft for military service,
"The ministry, as a Divino instittu,ion
ordained for specific and exclusivo duties
should be exempt from all liabilities to mil
itary service, that it may bo dovoted tothb
duties of its calling, and thus best sust: 'n
the interest of tho State."
Upon tho nbovo basis it waff
Ilcsolvcd, That we respectfully and earn
estly petition tho Government of the Uni
ted States to enact such exceptions to the
gcnoral laws respecting enrollment and
drafting as may leave tho clergy in theso
States secure in the administration of their
respective offices ; and further.
Ilcsolvcd, That wo cordially invito tho
co-operation of all religious and civil or
ganizations, as well as all right minded cit
izens, in tho iurthcranco ot this loyal anu
reasonable petition.
Tho New York Journal of Commerce
ddes not seem to bo very deeply imprcssod
in favor of this movement, It remarks
that 1 resolutions of this character call' to
mi nil the famous fighting manifesto of the
''3,000 clergymen" who have gono into
hi tory in a lump as ono of tho c.iuics of
the war ; and also tho numerous instanoes
in which clergj men have shown cot only
a boligcraut (towards all Northern peo
plo who differ from them) but a persecut
ing spirit in the pulpit. While it must be
confessed by every candid man that min
isters of this description arc entitled to no'
exemption by virtue of their sacrod offioo,
yet the honest and conscientious protest of
clergymen who havo done nothing in their
pastoral works, to set the North and South
by tho cars,or to heighten the sanguinary
and vindictive character of tho war.is enti
tled to respectful consideration and kindly
judgment."
Let us look at tho araiimcnt by which
these reverned gentlemen of the Episcopal
Diocesean Convention enforce their claim
to exemption from liability to military ser
vico. ''The ministry," thoy say, "is a Di
vine institution" True ordained by tin
Prince of Peaco,tho author of the Sermon
on tho Mount, whose teaohings this "rain
ietry" (in the proportion of at least nine-
tenths) have utterly repudiated. 1 his min
istry should bo exempt, thoy say, in order
"that it may be dovoted to the duties of
its calling'' which duties it has neglected,
and which calling it has perverted, until
many of tho pulpits in our unhappy land
havo become the rostrums from whioh po
litical Abolition stump speeches are enun
ciated. These speeches breatho not ona
word of ''peace and good will" they aro
sulphureous they smell of gunpowder,
blood and carnage from exordium to per
oration they bristlo with bayonets and
swords and ''sharp pointed intruments of
death." And thus havo those pious mon
"fulfilled tbo duties of thoir holy calling."
One would havo supposed, from their teach
ings, that they would have lcap'ed into tho
ranks eagerly, upon the first intimation
that those ranks needed rcplcni hing
that, when they .-poke so complacently of
blood-shedding, they could not have had
a mental reservation excluding eaoh ono
his own precious carcass from the ohanoo
of having its crimson blood poured out on
tho ensanguiued battle-field. But it seems
that any ono who would have come to this
very natural conclusion, would havo done
the fiery-tongucd pulpit orators more than
justice. They prove, now. by their offer's
to escape the conscription, that the ''blood
and treasure'' which they disposed pf(
atorically) with such princely liberality
wore the blood and treasure of other peopU
-the shepherds were not to be exposed to
the faegs and claws of tho wolf; the sheep,
only were to encounter all danger to fiesli
and fleece. For Emancipation, Miscege
nation, Negro Equality, thoy would do all
sorts of magnanimous things, endure all,
suffer immensely, and devoto themselves,
body and soul vicariously.
Lot us see what sort of sacred creatures
are those who put this claim to exemptiou
from the perils of war on tho ground that
it is inconsistent with their high calling as
ministers of tho meek and lowly Nazareno.
From hundreds of specimen fulminations
wo present this :
Said tli ' Hrvernetl Parson Br wnlow,at
a meeting hold in New York, in aid of tho
Sanit.iry Commission, tho Reverned Henry
Waid Botcher, and rfhor diutinguisod
cle-gyinen, beiug proseut and approving
ll I had the power. Mr, I would arro
and unilorm iu the Federal habiliment,
every wolt and panther and catamount and
tiger aud bear in the mountains of Ameru
ca, ever) crocodile in the swamps of Flor
idu and South Carolina , every negro in
, the Southern Confederacy, and every dovil
in holl and pandemonium
Of course ho would arm cvory body
and every thing on earth and in hell ex
cept Parson Brownlow and his reverned
, brethern.
This war, I say to you, muct be prose
cutcd with a vim and a vengeance, until
tho rebellion is put down, if it extermi
nates from tho face of God Almighty
greon earth, every man, woman and chil
south of Mason and Dixon's line. Chcorsj .
1
thu imposing in tho alternative of a sub- , Wo can whip the Southern Oonfedera
stitule a burden of expense, that from oy . We oan take in Franco aud England ,
their self-denying position they are iu the tb0 wuoi0 0ivjiizcd world, and 1 want to
majority of cases unable to bear, and iu ( oarry jt on until we whip out all God'a
case of a repeal of tho exomption clause, creation.
forcing them into asorvice and position in- Ob, exempt these people by all moani,
that thoy may continue ia the exercbo of
consistent with their office and vows,"
And, finally, that
I the peculiar dntioa of their calling I