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A Wan! in Time.
The Abolitionists have always been char
acterized by a spirit of evil. Their con
tempt for the law of the land found expres
sion in their enunciation of a '"higher law."
Their indignant disregard for the very foun
dation of our Government confessed itself
in their repudiation of the Constitution as
"a league with death" or "a covenant with
bell." The "irrepressibte conflict" which
they announced, in even the palmy day of
peace, was but an utterance ot their fixed
determination to force the sections of the
then happy and prosperous Union into
bloody strife.
Abolition lias, from, its inception, spat
1 upon-the lertra'iin ol . law. It ignored the
obligations of the Constitution in reference
to fugitives from service ; and organized
brigandage with the view of promoting ser
vile rebellion, in its contempt for the sov
ereignty of a State. That ferocious faction,
having succeeded in rallying around itself
the present elements of Black Republican
ism, breathed into the whole all its own'
lav, less and incendiary passions. The pres
ent Administration, the creation and pup
pet ot that consequently ferocious and li
centious party, has become, from the very
conditions of its existence, dangerously
revolutionary. v
Mr. Lincoln has proved himself a faith
ful tool oi Black Republican lawlessness
Siep by step he has gone on iu treason.
Popular submission to each ol his crimes
but gives him, in the coinmis-ion of the
next, greater audacity. The apologetic
special pleading under which he issued his
first call for seventy -five thousand men r.a
been scorned in tf e autocratic edict by
which now, igncring the sovereignty of he
'.States, he demands even hat; a million
Hh: supreme will disregards the habeas
"higher Uw." He i, iu short, with more.
truth than if he were Lotii- Quatorze, -him
tei the State." The Constitution trampled
under his feet, he sits in his Cabinet to day
a very traitor, at the head of a revolution
ary junta.
Mr. Lincoln's acts of lawlessness have
opened wi'h the people a heavy account.
Bereaved affection, impoverished toil, shat
tered fortune, owe him, .throughout the
length and breadth of the land, inapy. an
individual' grudge. The health that has
been broken by his arbitrary imprisonments
can be harw'Iy rcppoeJ-lo tr, i.i ait cases,
stripped of that power o. passion which
nurses its revenge. Ten thousands of la
thers whose sons have been torn from their
bosoms to redden Virginian soil wiih their
hearts' young blocd, may te reasonably
, .
'feared to include amori" them some who
paru i ci seme wiui me nes.-uner ni niBir
souls, in the stern account of a red light
band. The fears' of Ue tyrant cross his
path with specters of despoiled hopes and
murdered men.
Law. however, haunts Mr. Lincoln with
doubtless more terror 'han een violence J
The Courts and the Congress, purified of j
his minion and relieved from his iniimi-,
dations, will, in the event of his defeat,!
brinz him and the memters o( his Cabinet
.... !
to utter ruin. Mr. Lameron,- Mr. Manton,
Mr. Seward, will ia that event, be made to
pay dearly for the ringing of a certain bell
that ha consigned hundreds of better men
to unlawful imprisonment. The President
and his Cabinet may therefore be held to
enter on the contest for the succession,
goaded on by their apprehension ol stern
reckoning at the hands of a triumphant
Democracy to ail the desperation of meu
fighting with ropes abont their necks.
The arrest of the Legislature of-Maryland,
in 1861, was an act of high handed
surpation. The dissolution of a. political
meeting in Kentucky, in 1863, by" military
order, was an act of dangerous despotism.
The enforcement of test oaths at elections,
the attachment of penalties to the free ex
ercise of suffrage, and the restriction of it
to such objects of choice as may happen
to fall within the approval of the Adminis
tration, are all outrages which, directed
against the very foundation of Republican
Government, demonstrate that the people
of these Stales have been caugh: in the very
vortex oi a most alarming revolution.
devolutions, be it recollected, never go
back. Mr. Lincoln will hardly dare relin
quish his hold apSa the Go"rnmeut. The
personal necessities of his position prevent
him from hesitating to employ ia the re
newal of bis power whatever he may deem
expedient ot the very violence he has dared
to exercise in ils enjoyment.
Some hor-e-thieving in Michigan is made
by the intrigues of Black Republicanism,
startle os in Ine form of "a raid." A little
anger in the prison at Eimira is worked up
to alarm the tiniwl, in its character ol an
outbreak ot the prisoners. . An emeute 'ia Il
linois is manipulated to shock us in its qaal
ity of a rebellion. "Cepperhead violence,"
4 Democratic treason," ''inlrenchmetil of
deserters," and several other instances of
ingenuity on the pail of the tools of the
Cabinet, have all been designed, . doubt
less, to keep the popular nerves in chron
ic apprehension ot some. unknown danger.
Detective-General Carrington comes upon
the stage at this part of the performance
with his raw head-aud bloody-bones, and
frighten os Irooi our propriety by the hid
eous features ot a great North-western cock-and-bull
conspiracy.
Plots and rumors of plots have been ex
ploding about oor ears like so many blank
cartridges for more than a year. Those in
ventions ol the enemy have been thicken
COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY AUG
ing recently, and bid fairly for popoUr cred
it in the mare's nest found a few days ago
by General Carringtoru The character of
these inventions and the sources to which
' they are traceable, lead us to the suspicion
; that they are parts of a Black Republican
1 intrigue ; and when worked up bye and
bye into some show of plausabUil) on; the
J testimony of perhaps a gang of these dis
i gosting vermm that feed and fa.ten on the
1 rotten carcass of despotism spies or in
formersmay be held In reserve, with a
view to any necessity which may arise in
the Presidential contest for placing Loyal
ly, after the example ot Louis Napoleon,
with red breeche and fixed bayonet, at the
ballot-boxes of the conntry. x (
Will Mr. Lincoln his return to pow
er by any delicate regard for freedom of
election in Maryland ? Will he in Ken
tucky 1 Will ha in Missouri! If civil
wrong or military violence be not sufficient
in these States for his purpose, will he re
spect the sanctity of popular suffrage in Il
linois or in Indiana 1 General Carrington's
North Western conspiracy requires but a
little more touching up to give the control
of the suffrage of the ahole Northwest into
the hands of the revolution junta at Wash
ington, in the name and with the appear
ance of public virtue. Forewarned is fore
armed. ' - '
The danser of violating the freedom of
the people of these States, Mr. Lincoln may )
undervalue. He has perhaps been misled '
by our patient waiting until next November '
for a day of reckoning ; and may therefore
believe that danger less ian hnse that will 1
confront him frctiTTHe pabio:;.i ol aa out- ,
raged people in the event of his defeat
The error of 6uch a supposition would lead
to fearful evils. To guard aaiust a mistake j
so fa'al we urge the public throughout the '
country to sivejexpression, at ewry public :
meeting, i the most emphatic manner, to i
their fixed determination to maintain the
freedom of their suffrage by, if necessary,
even force of arms.
We are opposed to the principle in a free
country of secret political societies When
military power se's its heel upon our lib
erties beyond a reasonable hope of redress,
by civil means, we will support any organ- ;
ization of the people that promises to via-,
dicate their rights. "Treasons, strategies
and spoils" will grow under the very noses
of all the Carring'.ons of the land, thick and
fast, in not only the West but in also the
Eist, if the Adminisira'icn h!l dre nert
November to lay sacrilegious bands on the
corner stone of the tempUof our liberties
Let Mr. Lincoln be assuied of this in good
titiif. .V. Y. Neitu !
Cfr,fral Hut".
We need i.ot ch'I the attention of cr
readers to the i!ier ol Mjor Genera! Bnel!
which we pub ih below It is mst unr
esting in this, tnat it is the' expression of
the inner thought and most conscientious
convictions of a tried and gallant soldier;
and, as we believe and General Buell hints,
a revelation, an unfolding as it were, of the
real sympathy of the best soldiers now in
our service with the caue of constitutional
liberty. There is not, in our judgment, a
regular officer, or a disinterested volunteer,
who looksd into the '-crater'' at Petersburg
and paw black and w hite s.TlilJsoingled
in fruitless carnage ; there is no gallant
man who from "military necessity" follow
ed in Hunter's train of desolation through
Western Virginia, or now watches the use
less shelling from Charleston, who, in his
heart, does not feel precisely as Gen. Buell
does. We thank him lor speaking out so
bold'y his convictions. This letter was ad
dressed to a Iriend, by whose permission
we print it :
Beeford Springs, Joly 10, 1864.
Dear Sir : The public have seen no of
ficial announcement of the fact though it;
is no doubt by this time very generally
known that 1 have resigned my commis
sion in the army. I have several limes
since been assured that my pereonalfriends
and many who without the claim ot person
al acquaintance have taken an interest in
my official career, feel that some explana
tion of the circumstances and motives of
my action is due to them. Accepting this
claim upon me, I have already answered
some of my friends in substance as I do
you now.
It is perhaps unnecessary to enter into an
exposition of the circumstances ot my en
persedure in Tennessee in the fall of 1862,
since the particulars, though not without a
certain value, involve interests of my own
with which it is tso: 017 wish to weary you.
As far as facts are concerned it will suffice
for the present to say,that after the adjourn
ment, about the 1st of May, 1863, of the
"Commission"which investigated my Cam
paign, my correspondence with the Depart
ment was confined to a monthly report
rciae to the Adjutant-General that 1 was
waiting the action of the War Department
on the proceedings of that Commission;
that about the first week of April, last, I
was offered command under General Sher
man, my junior, which I dtfcltrtel-j that a
month laterlwai again offered command
under General Canby also my juuior.wbich
I decliued ; that about three weeks later I
received notification that I was mustered
out of my rank as Major-General of Volun-.
teers, and that on the same day I sent in
my resignation as Colonel in the Adjutan1
General's Department of the Regnlar Army.
The impulses of most men would ap
prove my course" in this matter, ; it it even
rested on no other ground than a determi
nation not to acquiesce in any measure that
would degrade me ; but I had a hisher
motive than that, i believed that the poli
cy and means with wbicb the war was be
ing prosecuted were discreditable to. the
nation, and a stain upon civilization ; and
that they would not only fail to restore the
Union, if indeed they bad not already ren
dered its restoration impossible, but that
their tendency was to subvert the institu
tions order which the country bad realized
unexampled prosperity and happiness ; and
to such a work I would not lend my hand.
While there may have been more or less
ot personal ambition mixed up in the move
ment of secession, as there must generally
be in the management of political affairs,
yet f do not doabtthat it vaa mainly deter
mined by an honest conviction in'the minds
of those who engaged in it, that the control
of the Government bad passed permanent
ly into the hands oi a sectional party wbicb
vould soon trample on the political rights
ot the South. This apprehension was shar
ed in by a very large portion of the people
who did not tavor secession, and who were
so anxious for the preservation oi the Union
that even coercive measures, if tempered
by justice and mercy, would not have es
tranged them. Under these circumstances
the use of military force to put down arm
ed resistance was not incompatible with a
restoration of the Union, with its former
glories and affections, provided the means
were employed in such a manner as to con
vince the people that-their constitutional
rights would be respected. Such a policy,
therefore, in the use of force, if force ranst
be resorted to, had the manifest advantage
of weakening the power of the rebellion,
and strengthening the Government, inde
pendently of the moral force which digni
ty and justice always lend to authority.
A policy which recognized these princi
ple was wisely declared by Congress in
the beginning oi the war ; and from a fer
vent desire for the preservation ot the
Union, in which pride of country and all
my interests as a citizen centered, not lees
than from a natural impulse, I gave that
policy my earnest support. Unfortunately
it was too often cheated of its due effect by
the intrusion of sectional rancor, and the
injudicious or unfaithful acts of agents of
the Goveiement : and when, at the expira
tion of a year, a system of spoliation and
disfranchisement was inaugurated, the
cause was robbed of its sanctity, and suc
cess rendered more difficult of attainment.
You have, in thesa few lirve, an explaw
nation of :he motives of my conduct while
I was in command, as well as of the step
which, after twenty-three years of service,
has closed my career as a soldier, and bro
ken up the professional habits and associa
tions to which I was educated, and in
which I have passed the larger portion of
my life. I am very far from casting unfa
vorable reflections upon the thousands in
the service, who, perheps, with views sim
ilar to my own, have not chosen my course,
lew of them have been similarly situated ;
and I rather commend the paiience with
whicy they have struggled on in positions
which must otberwi-e have been filled by
less scrupulous men, and in which they
might mitigate some of the calamities
whieh they yet could not wholly prevent.
Very truly Yours,
D. C. Buell.
"Fishling against God."
Fanaticism never reasons. It neither
considers the past, nor cares for the future. 1
The history of the world abounds in instan
ces of the fearful results brought about by
the headlong fury of its blind passions ,
and nations of the earth to-Jay are suffer
ing from the consequences produced centu
ries ago by its unrestrained will. We are
living to day in tte very eweep of one ol
these political monsoons ef fanaticism, that,
if it is allowed to spend its lury, will hurl
everything to destruction. Before loosing
all the bonds oi master and slave, the nine
teenth century should have asked of the
centuries that have gone before, whether,
in solving the problem, the preventive
ounce should not have prevailed against the
pound which modern Europe shows to be
hindering and baffling cure. In ils mad
antagonism to slavery, the fanatical Aboli
tionism of the North precipitated a peace
ful and prosperous land into all the horrors
of an internecine strife. In this, from the
commencement, it h s clearly 6hown that
it was fighting against God and his decrees.
Slavery was established on ibis continent
for wise purposes in the Divine mind to
make it the nursery of Christianity and civ
ilization, from which. in his own good lime,
should be taken the instruments through
whom benighted Africa was to be coloniz
ed, civilized, and"Cbri6:ianized. While we
have brought upon ourselves, in resistance
to this Divine law, the horrors of civil war,
unwilling to wait the time God has appoin
ted, we find the very human agencies re
sorted to in its accomplishment miserably
failing in their purposes. There was a
curse, a dreadful curse, once pronounced
against a nation that was fighting against
God. . ''Go to, now ye rich meu, weep and
howl for your miseries that shall come npon
you. Your riches are corrupted and your
garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and
your silver is cankered. and the rest ol them
shall be a witness against yoa, and shall
eat your flesh as it was fire." Do not let
us be too sure that we are not under the
withering effect of this curse to day. - Abo
lition fanaticism, in its heaven-daring pre
sumption, decrees the emancipation ol mil
lions of human beings that have been held
in bondage for long period of time, car
i ing nothing for the rules of established mor
r-ST. 17, 1864.
al and physical laws, and utterly regardless
of the fearful consequences it in entailing on
its own, the superior race. "The astrono
mer,'.' it has been well said "is mad, who
burdens bis conscience with the charge of
winds, of clouds, and rain and sunshine,
and their influence upon the harvests by
which men and beasts must live ; ar.d the
philanthropist is mad who burdens bis con
science with accomplishing his own esti
mate and plan for the well being oi his
race who undertakes to overrule the Great
Overruler himself." And this is exactly
what the madmen who now unfortunately
control the destinies of this country are do
ing in endeavoring to make this war and ils
agencies the instruments to bring about the
immediate emancipation of - millions of
Blaves. Their mad presumption is even
proof against the damaging experiences of
more than three years of bloody strife, in
which they have succeeded in setting about
three or four hundred thousand bondmen
free, only to perish miserably iu . the em
brace of their new-found freedom. At this
rate, it would require, forty years of just
such strife as we have passed through dur
ing the last three ; and where, pray, would
be the whole race on this continent at the
expiration ot this period ? The silly cry
that 'slavery has produced this civil war,'
and so shall perish," is but the cry of fa
naticism, defeated in its purposes and baf
fled in its malice. Slavery produced this
war, indeed ! ''So was Tenterden Steeple
the cause of Goodwin Sands." Has not
slavery been upon this continent since 1620?
Did not the North fight shoulder to shoul
der through the war of the Revolution, to
gether with slavery existing alaiOst in
every State ? And di'i.wj Sot live in peace
and prosperity , aja &iK:b prosperity as the
world had never seen, until the spoiler of
Abolition fanaticism entered our Eden and
drove us from it? And now it fiendishly
rejoices in the ruin and misery it has oc
casioned. Slavery, with all its constita
tional guarantees secured to it, gave us a
happy and prosperous Commonwealth
Abolition agitation, trampling upon those
constitutional guarantees, gave ns civil war,
and has brought upon us "an Iliad of woes."
And now, not content with bidding defiance
to human laws, it is madly fighting against
Divine laws, and will be hurled back dis
comfited and broken from the thick bosses
of the Almighty's buckler. The Jge,
Irtemni Ward at l aw.
Artemus Ward wants a smart young law
yer, with plenty of lime on his hands. He
has a neat case on hand for such an one -It
seems that Artemus t who must be not
011k rolling in clover but greenbacks also)
bought a buggy in Portland the other day
for $450 which lie shipped for his home
among th9 peasantry of Maine a few days
since. Between that city and Sooth Paris
the canvas cover, a nice affair of the alue
of S25 in currency, was stolen, and yester
day morning Artemus sought reimburse
ment from the railroad folks. The gentle
men with whom he conversed informed
him that they (the G. T. Company) were
not responsible for the cover. Artemn re
joined that if some of their employees ha
become enarmoured or faxinated with the
whiffle-tree, or one of the wheels, and had
eloped wi;h it, he presumed he could get
no redress. The gentleman of florid com
plexion then said that it was specially sta
ted to the shipper that the company would
not be responsible for the cover, and appa
rently having something cf an oriental im
agination, remarked that it had probably
taken fire, and some of their faithful em
ployees, to save the buggy, had torn it off
and ca?t it by the wayside. Artemus said
he had great confi-Jence in the integrity ot
the shipper and thought he bad a right, from
his calling(he was a hackman) to presume
he has one of the noblest works of God
an honest man. Said shipper was ready to
swear that the company said no such thing
to him, and, continued Mr. Ward, I attrib
ute the hypothetical idea of the burning en
tirely to the gentleman's diet. Hedeclared
he would get out a habeas corpus tor the
recovery of the cover, and would go fur
ther, he would have the whole company in
the penitentiary. Artemus is now on the
lookout for an active young lawyer, with
plenty of time ; one who will afflict him
self upon the company in various ways
known to the law. To such a one he will
commit the case ; and, strong in the belief
of the justice of his cause, will await the
considerate judgment of twelve ot man
kind. A Rat Stort A neighbor, whose state
ments are entitled to implicit confidence,
relates a story of the cunning- and intelli
gence of a ral, which is truly remarkable
Being plagued with the depredations of the
rodent mammels he made various attempts
to secure the representatives of this small
race of quadrupeds. The trap used was a
wire one, and so constructed that, on a rati
entering and nibbling at the bait, the trap
would spring and cage the intruder. Our
neighbor, when he went 10 examine his trap,
always found it sprung, but no rat, and,
what was the strangest ol all, the bait gone.
So he resolved to watch the trap. His pa
tience was presently rewarded by behold
ing half a dozen rats making their appear
ance, and at tneir bead one who appeared
to be a leader. This rat advanced slowly
and cautiously towards the trap, and when
the others would make a move as if intend
ing to rash at the bait the old fellow would
'wag bis tail and they would fall behind him.
After viewing the trap closely, the old fel
low approached the back gart of it, shook
ihA raided nart until the trD sprung, aud
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then put a paw through one of the open-'
ings between the wires,- and taking the bait
he made good his retreat with bis booty.
Ketfo'k Old Dominion. C1-'. ,
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Eogrossment of Power. . :
It is important to consider, at this time,
the fact ot the engrossment of all power in
the Government ol the 'United States into
the hands of a single political interest.' The
party of the Administration, has. not been,
subjeoted to any efficient check upon Its
action from an opposing interest or party,
since its attainment of power ic,l861. Car
rying all the Northern, Western, and Pa
cific States, with m singU exception,' at the5
Presidential electirn oi 1860, 'and being re.
lieved from all Southern opposition in Con
gress by the withdrawal of the States of
that section, it was able to do its will and
pleasure without check or hindrance in the'
Government of the United States. All pub-'
lie patronage was "subsidized to its use: all
Government outlays (and t,hey are enorm
ous in amount) were disbursed by its offi
cials; all public power was wielded by its
arm; and this condition of things hasfcon-t-.nued
to the present time. It has revelled
in power, and of inevitable necessity, from
ils very nature and from the opportunities
presented it, it has abused its powers; it
has forgotten or despised and trampled
nnder foot the duties imposed upon it by
the people, and the objects announced by
it in the cutset have been supplanted by ;
others, which now inspire Its action and
occupy its hopes.
No truth is more certain, or better estab
lished by history, than this, that political
power is aggressive, that it will always
seek to enlarge itself and increase its dom
ination, and that no free government is
possible where by the very constitution of
the Government itself, power is not made
a check to power. Freedom ia secured
by the action and reaction upon each other
of political forces, so organized and so lim
ited that no one can absolutely dominate .
over or control the rest. And hence, the
necessity or constitutions which shall so
divide and arrange the pewers of govern
ment, that no single interest, class, or
individual, shall become supreme and en
gross the whole mass of political power.
Now the capital source of mischief and
evil in the Government of the United States '
daring the past three years has been, that
a sinal- iium 1 t.Bi"Of party, oi evil""
constitution, has obtained and exercised
the whole mas of Government powers,
free from all check or limitation whatso
ever. I be fatal results are obvious. It has
been false to its promises made as the con
dition upon which it attained power; it has
broken the Constitution shamefully and
often; it has wasted the public treasure; it
has suspended the ancient writ of liberty, .
the ''hahcas corpus," rendering it impossible
for the citizen to obtain redress, against the .
grossest outrage; it has changed the war
into a humanitarian crusade outside of any
cons itutional or lawful object; it has gross
ly mismanaged the war in the conduct of
military operations; it has degraded the
currency of the country by profuse issues
of paper money, aud confiscated private
properly by a legal tender enactment; and,
to retain its power, that it may riot in puln
der and be subjected to no check and to no
restraint from public opinion, it has nnder
taken 10 control State elections by direct
I military force or by fraudulent selection of
voters ftom the army. Thsee are some cf
the results already achieved, and "the end
is not." No impartial observer can con
template the future wiihont apprehension
of still greater evils or can doubt that some
real division of public power or its lodg
ment in new hands, is necessary uoi merely
to the success but to the very existence of
free government in the United States.
Congressional Address.
The National Intelligencer of Saturday last
gives an exhaustive resume of Gen. Grant's
recent Virginia campaign. The conclusion
it arrives at seems to be
1 That the plan of the campaign was a
mistake ; General Grant having either over
estimated his own power ol aggression or
underestimated Lee's power of defense.
2. That every movement of the cam
paign was unsuccessful, the only exception
being the capture of a rebel division on the
Po.
3. That very little tactical skill was dis
played in any of the engagements, which
consisted 6iinply of pushing masses of men
against strong work-, before which they
were uselessly slaughtered.
4. That after using immense numbers of
valuable lives, as well as trained officers,
no advantage has been gained, and the
campaign against Richmond Is a failure.
The Intelligencer has a right to its opin
ions, of course, but we think that it does
not make allowance for Mr. Lincoln's influ
ence upon the campaign. General Grant
was successful at Vicksbnrg when he did
no: follow Mr. Lincoln's advice, as the lat
ter ack no Hedged in a letter, and his fail
ure ia Virginia is undoubledly due to his
adoption of Mr Lincoln's wi&h for an over
land campaign. To this circumstance and
:o bis repeated denials or General Grant's
reqnestin regard to changes among his sub
ordinate generals, can be traced all the dis
asters in Virginia. There seems to be a
curse upon everything Mr. Lincoln meddles
with in a military way.
The apathy ol "loyal" Pittsbnrgrr nearly
produced martial law, during the recent
scare. That waold have been wore far
the leaguers than a cVratt.