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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1861.
YOL. 8.-NO. 1.
LEAF BY IEAF.
Leaf by loaf the roses-faH, ,
Drop by drop the spring runs dry ;
One by one beyond recall,
Summer beauties fade and die ;
But the roses bloom again.
And the spring will gush anew,
In the pleasant April rain,
And the summer nun and dew.
go in the hoars of deepest gloom.
When the springs of gladness full,
And the roses in the bloom,
Droop like maid.-ns, wan and pale,
We shall find some hope that lies
Like a silent gem apart,
Hidden far from earless eyes,
In the garden of the heart.
80111 e sweet home to gladness wed,
That will spring afresh and new,
Jl'hen grief winter shall have fled,
Mivipg place to rain and dew
Borne sw eet hope that breathes of spring,
Through the weary time,
Budding for its blooming.
In the spirit's glorious clime.
A GIEL IN SOLDIER'S CLOTHE?.
The war now prevailing in this once great
and glorious country, says The St, Louis Re
publican, has already given rise to many strange
and romantic adventures; but nothing more in
teresting than the following has been made
known to us. The Tacts are these :
Early on Wednesday morning some of the
police officers at the Central station discover
ed a young soldier passing on the opposite
side of the street. The young soldier's step
was very clastic, compaction fair and hands
small and rather delicate. These little cir
curustances excited suspicions of the police
men, and following the young soldier a square
or two, they deemed it proper to take him into
custody. lie gave bis name as Charles II.
Williams, and seemed somewhat surprised
and not a little indignant at being thus inter
fered with.- He explained that he was merely
on his way to the Republican office, to obtain
a copy of that highly interesting newspaper.
This fact the policemen were ready to admit
w?s well calculated to show that the young
soldier had excellent judgment and discretion ;
but nevertheless they were of the firm convic
tion that the fair complection, the delicate
hands and various other peculiarities which
they had observed about the young soldier,
were not wholly of the masculine order. So
they took the young soldier to the police sta
tion, aud there, blushingly and confusedly,
lie, she or it admitted that the suspicions of
the policemen were well founded iu short,
the young soldier was a young lady. In com- I
pany with Captain Turner, we visited the ro- '
Uatjtic young creature during thu i'ureuoou.
A finer looking soldier we have never seen,
Her eyes were large and lustrous, her features
regular, hair jet black and cut in the most ap
proved masculine style, nose acquiline and
Mouth perfectly delicioua, so to speak. In
cidition to these interesting particulars, her
duneanor was modest and graceful, and ex
livniuiy pleasing. She itcemed to be in the
t;juyiuent ol excellent health, and looked as
though fut pork and soldier life had been
lather beneficial to her consfitntior. She rc
liii.sthe story of her adventures frankly and
modestly. She was born in the town of Da
vei.;.rt, Jowa, where hor mother at present
r.'Mdes. For several years has resided iu Ly
'tm, Clinton county, and it was from there
sue enlisted, not quite three months go, in
Mr Second Iowa regiment. Col Curtis. Her
o-.i-ipany was Company I, Capt. Cox. It was
;n this company she had a friend, who was a
iit'utcuant. She loved the lieuten int, and so
H;o clipped her raven locks short off, obtained
a suit of boy's clothing, packed fcer crinoline,
etc., in a trunk, and presented herself in male
attire to Capt. Cox, stating her desire to "go
for a soger." The Captain eyed her sharply,
nnd said, You're rather young ain't you "
"I'm twenty" she replied, r.nd am anxious to
R-.TVe uiy country." So the Captain accepted
tiie young volunteer, and she at once shonld
'trred aims. She states, however, that Capt.
Cox tmosequeiitiy discovered her sex, but at
l:er urgent solicitations, permitted her to re
main with her company, and particularly ad
vised her not to go about the streets of St.
Louis alone.
She followed the fortunes of her regiment
from Iowa to this city, and from thi to Bird's
Foiut, and became exceedingly proficient in
the use of Hardee's tactics. A few days ago
the regiment returned to this city, but the
young volunteer was unable to come along
with it having been detailed to attend to the
sick in the hospital on the steamboat City ol
Warsaw. Yesterday evening (Tuesday) the
Warsaw came up to this city, and brought a
long the young volunteer. She at once made
inquires concerning her regiment, but ascer
taining that it was stationed at the Barracks,
she concluded to remain for the night in the
city. She proceeded to the residence of a
framily on Seventh street, with whom she was
formerly acquinted in.Davenport. made her
self known, and was kindly cared for. She
rose early, to obtain the latest and most relia
ble news, as already stated, and thus foil into
the hands of the police.
Captain Turner asked her if she would re
sume her proper dress if he wen Id release her,
nd she faithfully promised she would do so,
nd he was thereupon set at liberty, and con
ducted to the residence of her friends on Sev
enth street. She regretted thatshe would be un
able to drayv her threo months' pay, (the term
of her en
cttniofl' it as her belief that she had earned
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the $10 per month, and was as much entitled to
it 8 aqy masculine soldier.
Gen. McCtET.i,Ai,.Mr."WilH8 writes to the
home Journal that a distinguished civilian who
had called upon Gen. McClellan on some mat
ter of importance, concluded his visit by a
general comment or two on jtje state of affairs,
'entering a question, at last, as to what Me
ridian thought of onr army'? probable recov
ery from the late defeaf.. ' J do not think,"
jnusingly replied the hero of Western Virgin
ia, "that they will whip us again j bnt if they
Jji there will be two men left dead on the
ueld I shall ba one, and Lander will be the
other."
Th; Navy Department Is satisfied with the
abundant proofs which Commander Porter has
presented in refutation of the charge against
jus lovaity. JJii owo affidavit shows the al
,eged secession letter to bis son to be a forgery.
lan man wants money or assistance, the
.nri '"!aruIe laTery obliging and indolr
twt, and-ku him want U ,
SPEECH OF HON. DANIEL S. DICKINSON,
OF NEW TUBE.
The largest gathering of freemen ever seen
in Wyoming county, Penn'a, assembled on
Monday the 19th August, 1861, at Tunkhan
nock to listen to an address from the Hon
Daniel S. Dickinson of New York. B. B.
Emory, Esq., called tho meeting to order, and
the non. Wm. M. Piatt was chosen President.
After a few remarks by the presiding officer,
and a prayer from Kev. Thomas P. Hunt, Mr
Dickinson was introduced and greeted with
cneers; alter wnich he spoke as follows:
Mr. President and Ladies andGkntlemen :
Amid all the diversity of sentiment in onr
land, there is one subject upon which we can
agree; and that is, that our country is in a
most lamentable condition our Government
threatened with disruption, our Constitution
with subversion, and our institutions with
overthrow. Wo are met here for the purpose
of discussing the great interests of a common
country, and of determining what becomes us
in an exigency so trying and so fearful. I
meet you here not to discuss Slavery or anti
Slavery. Though and old line Democrat,
brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, and ad
hering with tenacity to the principles of De
mocracy through an active life, yet I come
not to speak to you upon political partisan
subjects. I come to discuss a mattorthat con
cerns our Union, one that rises far above and
shoots deeper than party interests or issues.
We have a duty, my fe"llQW,citia;ens, far be
yond that of the fathers of the Kovolution.
We all agree that tho grievance is most seri
ous. But what is the true way of putting down
what I shall term a rebellion ? And we can
all agree in one thing: that that rebellion is
either right or wrong, justifiable or unjustifi
able to be approved or condemned, as a
whole. If it is right for a portion of this
country to take up arms against this Govern
ment, it is right to sustaiu such action : and
if they are wrong, they should be put down by
the power of the people. Applause There
is no half-way house in this matter no tarry
ing place between sustaining the Govern
ment, and attempting its overthrow. There
is no peace proposition that will suit the case
until the rebellion is first put down. Ap
plause. And were I in favor, or disposed to
tamper with this rebellion, or aid or counte
nance it, 1 would go and take up arms with
them. Uecause, it it is right for them to take
up arms, it is right for them to have armed
aid and assistance. If they are wrong, if they
are guilty of treason, and murder, and arson,
then they should be overthrown by the whole
power of the Government, Applause, and
cries of "good"; and put down so that no
resurrection day will ever find rebellion again.
ruepewed applause. JNOw I believe I am one
of those who, informer years, thought that
sectional discussions put in jeopardy the well-
being of the union. I believe now, as then,
that there never was a sectional controversy
that justified this, or any armed rebellion. I
believe this rebellion did not arise out of sec
tional agitation, but from a blind, wickedj
reckless ambition. And I believe it is the du
ty of every man, woman, and child to raise an
arm against it to crush it. Our Constitution
is never to be put down. An indistinct voice
in the crowd "Compiomise." What does
my friend say, "Compromise?" Well, I will
get at 'Compromise"' belore I get through.
Laughter and cheers. I believe in the in
tegrity of the Union; I believe, in the integ
rity of the Constitution ; I believe in sustain
ing botb by the power of the Government.
But they say, "You would not coerce a State ?"
No; I would not coerce a State. I have said
I would not coerce a State first, because it is
impracticable ; because you cannot coerce a
State. Second, because it would bo unjust to
coerce a State in its domestic policy if it
could b done. But you may coerce rebel
lion iu a State until you give that State an op
portnnity to act through its loyal citizens in
its duties to the Union. And I would coerce
rebellion wherever I could find it. You may
not coerce a community, but you may coerce
its thieves and murderers. You may coerce
State criminals, and thus enable the State
and its loyal citizens to fulfill their relations
in the Government of the Union. If we can
sustain our Union, if we can uphold our Con
stitution, it is not by compromising with re
bellion -it is by putting down rebellion, and
making our compromise with fidelity. Ap
plause, and a voice "There is your Democ
racy." Anu oi an men living, a uemocrat is
the last man who can take a stand against the
Constitution of his country. Cheers. A
Democrat lives, and moves, and has his being
in the Constitution. . He cannot live outside
of, or in opposition to, the Constitution. He
must stand by the Constitution in all its parts.
It was that doctrine that gave the Democratic
party its pow.r and ascendency in tho times
of Jefferson, of Madison, and of that old hero,
Andrew Jackson. Just in proportion as the
Democracy has wandered from, tho Constitu
tion, just in tho same proportion have they
gone down. And if they had been faithful,
and stood fully up to their own doctrines, all
the Abolition parties of the earth, and all tho
Republican parties of the earth, and all tho
combined powers of the earth could never have
put down the Old Democratic party. Cries
of "That is so," and cheers. I have ever be
lieved in the justice of Democracy, and I be
lieve in it to-day as much as ever. And I be
lieve it to be my duty to stand upon the ram
parts of the Constitution, and defend it lrom
all foes, whether they come from the North,
the South, the East, or the West. Cheers.
My fellow-Democrats, supposing there are any
such in my hearing, Cries, "There are,"
"There are", suppose Breckinridge had been
elected, Sumner, and Garrison, and Wendell
Philips, and the Abolitionists of the New
England States generally had started a rebel
lion against the authority of the United States,
what would have been done 7 I would have
done as I am doing now. I would have tried
to animate my countrymen to put them down
by force of arms. Cheers, and cries of
"Good." Now, why not treat Southern re
bellion just aa you would have treated North
ern rebellion Eastern rebellion as you would
Western rebellion and wherever rebellion
comes from, put it down forever. Cheers.
That is my doctrine. I have stood upon that
doctrine in olden times, and I will stand by it
now, and if that doctrine goes down 1 will go
down with it. There were causes of irritation
between the sections I admit. , I deprecated
them, and labored long and earnestly to get
rid of them. But it was not done. Those
causes of Irritation, although they may have
suggested to Southern States to request bo
coming guaranjjes, they never f ustiQed armed
it'
rebellion in any shape or manner. And wha
were those causes of irritation? The only
real, practical cause of irritation was the non
execution of the fugitive slave law. But that
did not affect the Cotton States so called ; but
Missouri, Kentucky. Vinrinia. Maryland, and
Delaware, and perhaps one or two other States
were the only ones ever injured by it. The
Cotton States so called never lost a fugitive
slave from tho time of their existence to this
day. To be sure they had a question about
territories, but it was so entirely ideal, a mere
abstraction, and so practically not a realgnev
ance. But if it had been they had the Su
preme Court and both branches of Congress,
and practically had control of the question
The fugitive slave question was the only prac
tical question therefore which annoyed them,
and that question was not the cause of the re
bellion. What State first seceded? South
Caiolina began to scrape lint before the votes
were counted. Laughter. She had no prac
tical grievance whatsoever. Look at Virgin
ia. Though politicians cajoled, cheated, and
defrauded, and bullies held bowie-knives at
the throats of her citizens to coerce rebellion,
it was a long time before they conld compel
that State into anthing like Secession. And
when they did so nominally, the State Gov
ernment was revolutionized, one part flew a
way from the other, and organized their gov
ernment, rather than allow it to go into tho
bottomless pit of Secession. Mary land, when
she gets a chance, votes against' it. Missouri
her citizens are pouring out their blood like
water and their treasure without stint, rather
than be drawn into Secession. Look at eood
old Kentucky, where her Governor and Sena
tors have labored to bring her out of the Un
ion after all attempts to seduce her form her
fidelity to the Constitution, she gives more
than sixty thousand majority for the Union.
Cheers. 2m ow, I inquire of all citizens in
the Free States, especially my Democratic
fellow-citizens, whether they are troubled a-
bout the integrity of Kentucky whether they
think it is necessary to stay up the hands of
rebellion in Kentucky, so emphatically con
demned there? And now I repeat that the
enly practical cause of dissention was the fu
gitive slave question 5 and that appertained to
States that could only be drawn or dragooned
into the lolly of Secession. Gen. Butler has
had this question on his hands. As long as
the Constitution was acknowledged, all con
servative citizens admitted that it was the du
ty of the Free States to restore the fugitive
who was fleeing from tho service of his master.
Gen. Butler has laund the restoration of the
fugitives impracticable in many cases. The
master had thrown oil the Constitution. What
was the result ? He was obliged to receive
hundreds of contrabands, and retain them. I
do not know what he is going to do with the
question ; but I suppose he is going to do with
them something as the Irishman was going to
do with the Widow Malone's pig. "Did you
steal the Widow Malone's pig, Patrick ?" ask
ed the priest. "That I did." "What made
you Think, when you will stand, you here
tic, in the Great Day, when I shall be there,
and you will be there, and the Widow Malone
will be there, and the pig will bo there."
"And will your riverence be there?" "Yes."
"And the Widow Molane there?" "Yes."
"And tho pig there?" "Yes." "Well, I
should say, Widow Malone, take your pig."
Laughter. Now, I do not know but Gen.
Butler is going to take as long a credit as did
the Irishman. But, when we have a Consti
tution, and when they acknowledge its force,
I have no doubt but every just citizen will be
for seeing it complied with. Now, I have just
as much confidence in the masses of the South
ern people as in the masses of the Northern
people. Both are alike. The masses are
honest. To be sure, their institutions, their
means of communication, render them more
excitable more easily lead, and more relying
upon their leaders for public information, and
therefore more liable to be misled than North
ern people. Nevertheless, I have confidence
iu the Southern people; and the result of tho
great conflict in Kentucky assures me that
the Southern heart is with the people sound
to the core. Though terrified into seeming
Secession, with the exception of ono or two
States in tho South, am well satisfied that if
the question of Union or Disunion were sub
mitted to the people to-day an overwhelming
vote would be given for the Union and its
Stars and Stripes. Applause. Every indi
cation has shown that whenever there has
been an election in any Southern State, and
a fair opportunity given, yon have seen that
the Union sentiment has prevailed. You will
see that it is by military power, by threats,
intimidation, destruction, murder and arson
that they have succeeded in getting in advance
the cause of Secession. In some States, as
for instance Louisiana, they never submitted
the question to the people at all. It is a base
humbug of Davis, Cobb and Co. to place them
selves in power. The election of a political
opponent is never a cause of Secession or for
disturbance ; and if these Secession leaders
had opposed Mr. Lincoln's election from the
time of the Charleston Convention with half
the pertinacity and force that I did, he never
would have been elected. I charge in all my
public speeches that they connived at that
election ; and the same has been charged home
upon them by their own peoplein the South.
Their time had come. It must go, or they
would be ruined. They remind one of little
boys who want to ride a horse. Those in the
city get them a hobby-horse, and they can
ride that. Country boys get astride of a stick,
and ride that. This knot of office-seekers
failing to get a horse to ride, or evec a hobby,
have mounted this poor stick of Southern Con
federacy, and are riding that. It is just such
ambition as caused the angels in heaven to re
bel. It was not because we bad not a good
Government but because they could not rule
it. Call them Democrats, or entitled to sym
pathy of Democrats, with arms in their bands
against their Government, and their bands
red with the blood of our murdered citizens !
They are enemies of their country ; they are
traitors against the Flag and the Constitution,
and as such I arraign them in the name of the
Constitution and the Union.' I arraign them
in the name of civilization ; I arraign them in
Xbe pame of Christianity ; I arraign them in
the same of the fathers of the Revolution, who
pouredJout their blood to gain the Liberty
transtufited to us. . I arraign them in the name
of the'abldiers who marched barefoot to secure
our blood-bought Liberty. I arraign them in
the name of the holy memories of the women
1 of the Revolution, whose pure and gentle
hearts were crushed and broken. In the great
Day of Af counts, the , savage Brant and wore
savage Butler, that delnsred the beautiful val
ley of the Wyoming with blood, will stand up
and whiten their crimes in comparison with
ine perndy of the men who now attempt to di
vide and destroy this Union. The ferocious
instincts of the savage taught him that he
might be doing a duty to his people ; bnt these
men were born in a land of civilization, and
baptised in the name of the Trinity, and they
should be held to an account lor the abuse of
the trust which has been confided to them
Who are these men in arm against the Gov
eminent in arms against the Union ? Thev
are men who have bean educated at its ex
pense oeen laaen with its honor been pam
pered at us .treasury. If we perish we may
say witu the poet over the stricken eagle :
"Keen were his pangs, yet keener far to feel, .
He nursed the tnnion which impelled the steel.
While the same plumage, that had warmed his
oreast.
Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding heart "
If the Union is stung to the heart, it must be
a melauchoiy reflection that we have reared
the men to do it, and like the demented Lear,
we snail learn
'IIow sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child;"
that we have nourished and brought up cb.il
dren, and they have rebelled against the insti
tutions of their country. We have vseen by
the action of the Border Southern States that
il is not their intention to permit this Govern
mem 10 oe suovertea. ivery crime known in
the catalogue of depravity from treason to lar
ceny, has been committed in attempting to
drive them into Secession. IIow can these
men be sustained by any one, with hands drip
ping with blood not only with the blood of
is orthern, but of Southern citizens ; aud why ?
iiecause a J orthern candidate was elected, who
had four years to serve, whoso election they
might have prevented whose election they
connived at, they will hazard a whole eternity,
so far as temporal existence is concerned, to
gratify present personal pique and feed a mean
ambition. Whoever sustians them. I will not.
Whoever cries peace, I will not. Whoever
cries compromise with them, I will not.
(Great cheering.) lam for peace, but I am
for making peace with the loyal citizens of the
South the loyal citiz.-ns of Kentucky and of
Missouri too, who have sent that modern Nebu
chadnezzar Claiborn F. Jackson to grass
(Great Laughter). They ask in repetition can
you coerce a btate 7 1 say no ; you cannot
1 ou might as well coerce the- sun to shine or
the stars to twinkle. Can you coerce a neigh
oornooa to oe nonesw jno; out you may
punisJi its criminals. No one can justify
armed rebellion in opposition to the Union
and the Constitution of his country. But Mr
Lincoln it . is said, . forsooth, has violated the
Constitution in conductingbis Administration !
Very well ; there is a day of reckoning to come
with him and his advisers. But it is one thing
to violate the Constitution in defense of your
country, and quite another to violate it in en
deavoring tosubverl it. When my Democratic
or Republican friends, "or anv other man,
are disposed to call the President to account,
and 1 am not his delender, I merely beg, when
they get through with him, they will merely
nquiro whether Mr. Jefferson Davis & Co.
have gone strictly according to the Constitu
tion of the United States ? f Cheers and laugh
ter. I have the impression that instituting a
pretended government within tho boundaries
of the United States ; that stealing the treas
ures of our Government, its ships; betraying
ts commands ; bring upon its fortifications;
organizing piracy upon the high seas, and a
long list of other and kindred acts I have the
impression, I say, that these are slight infringe
ments upon the Constitution, and may require
examination. Laughter. But I want to have
my Constitution friends come along with me,
and when they get the Administration all
regulated and on the constitutional track, to
look at this matter a little ; for it seems to me
that it requires attention. I kuow not whether
Mr. Lincoln has observed the Constitution
indeed, for all the purposes of resisting the
rebellion, I care not. It is due,to him to say,
however, that he has seemed to be in good
laith attempting to put down the rebellion.
lie has not done all things as I would have
done them, because I would have multipled
his men by aoout four, and where he has struck
ono blow I would have struck a dozen.
Laughter and cheering. Therefore I do not
agree with him in that respect. When the day
conies we can have a settlement with him, for
he is to be held with all other Officers to a strict
account. But I would not do even that under
tho smoke of an enemy's guns. Let us see
first, that the rebellion is put down. And
when that is done I am ready to see how it has
been done. I do not propose to yield this
Union or any part of it to the so-called Con
federate Government that has been made up
in the Southern States. It is no government,
and there is nothing in the shape of a govern
ment under it, over it, in it, or around it, di
agonally, horizontally, or perpendicularly.
Like a boy's training, it is all officers. Laugh
ter. It is made up thus : you shall bo Pres
ident of the Congress, and I will be President
of the Confederacy ; you shall be Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and I will be Secretary of tho
Treasury. Laughter. - Doubtless.very well;
satisfactory enough. If they had kept it to
themselves no one would have objected to their
struttiug in their stolen plumage. But it is
time for the people of the United States to
put their hand upon it in earnest, and to main
tain the Government of the Constituti6n. The
habeas corpus a hard kind of a name for a
writ, but one which a lawyer or a Dutchman
finds little difficulty in pronouncing it is
said that the hebeas corpus has been suspen
ded and abused. Well, I think it is because
some have written so much about it, while
they knew so little. It simply means to have
the body. . A prisoner is alleged to be im
properly imprisoned ; and, in order that tbo
case may be required into, a petition is presen
ten to a Judge, and then the Judge allows the
writ, and tho prisoner is brought up, and the
person who holds him is bound to make a re
turn. If the prisoner is illegally detained,
the Judge orders him to be discharged; if
rightfully imprisoned, he remands him. That
is all there is about it. It is simply a civil
writ. , But there is an old maxim, as old as
Julius Ciesar would bare been bad he lived,
inter ai ma silent leges, that is, the laws, are
silent in the midst of arms. Hero is tho
question : An individual is imprisoned here ;
aomo friend gets a babeas-corpua, and he is
brought up, and tho case is inquired intoJ
Aud whoever interferes witb or obstructs that
writ, is guilty of a great moral and legal wroug,
and incurs a heavy penalty. In time of war
it is a different matter. Here it is found that
a man is fixing to blow up a fortress, or betray
an army to the enemy. The officer in com
mand has him arrested, and sends him to a
fort, with orders that he be strongly guarded,
because he is known to be a traitor, and in the
confidence of traitors and enemies. A lawyer
sues out a writ of habeas corpus. But what
is the result? It cannot be served and the
prisoner cannot be procured they cannot see
him unless the judge's tongue is longer than
the soldier's bayonet. Would any one if he
was commanding at Fortress Monroe, Foit
McHenry, or any where else, where he was
surrounded with treason and traitors at every
step, would he, because a judge sent a writ of
habeas corpus give up a traitor who was en
dangering the safety of his command and the
interests of the country ? Cries of "Never."
No man can pretend it for a single moment, it
is one of the terrible necessities of war. And
if I were in command and had good reason to
believe that I had possession ol a traitor, and
no other remedy would arrest treachery, I
would suspend the writ, arid the individual
too. Cheers and cries of "Good," "That
goes right to the spot," "That is sound,"
That is such Democracy as I like to see.
There is no other here. Gen. Jackson had
the hearts of the American people more than
any man of modern times. And wJg1,? Be
cause he met great necessities like a man. He
didn't go, In times of stirring necessity, tor'.e
monstrate problems from musty prcedents, but
when a man wanted hangine, he hung him
first and looked up the law afterward. Laugh
ter. There are times and occasions when
this is the only way to do in dealing with trea
son. The civil law affords no adequate reme
dy. While yon are discussing the question
the country may be ruined, the Capital in
flames, the archives destroyed. When the war
is over we may examine and see if any one has
incurred a penalty for suspending the writ of
habeas corpus. Gen. Jackson paid his fine,
but not till after he had put down both foreign
foes and domestic traitors. So long as there
is a citizen South that demands the protection
of this Government, then it is our duty to
protect the Government of the Union for his
sake. f"Sound." "That's the talk," &c
And when there is none, it is our dutv to
maintain it, for politically, geographically,
socially, and commercially it is one in every
sense it is utterly impossible for this Gov
ernment to be divided without its ntter de
struction to both sections.
When yon attempt to divide North and South,
you mnst do it East and West. Then all will
go to pieces, and our country will be a Mexi
co worse than Mexico, because we have ten
times more material for mischief and destruc
tion. A military despotum will oe inaugura
ted whenever you permit this rebellion to tri
umph. But some cry we are in favor of peace
1 es, we are all lor peace now. 1 was for ne
gotiating a peace, until a fortification was fired
upon by Rebel artillery, and then I bade adieu
to all expectations ol peace until conquered
over rebellion, rneers.l I say there is no
peace until yon can put down rebellion by
force of arms ; and when every other man, ivo
man, and child in the United States has ac
knowledged the independence of the revolted
States, to those with arms in their hands I will
still oppose it, and I will talk for my own grat
ification when no others will hear me. Laugh
ter, and cries of "good." . We must stand by,
the union, i ellow-citizens, the language of
Andrew Jackson was, "The Union must and
shall be preserved." What would Gen. Jack
son have done had he been at the helm to-day ?
He would have hung the traitors higher than
llauiHn. I know there are some who fear the
warlike power of the rebellious States. They
had a great deal of power lor good ; but they
have a great deal less than they imagine or is
generally imagined for evil. 7e are a good
deal slower in waking up, but when waked
up we are a good deal more in earnest. The
tone of the Rebel press is exceedingly braggart
regrad to its men and its victories. It re
minds me, when I hear of their self-lauded
prowess, of the showman who spoke of the
great capacity of the animal he was exhibiting:
Ladiea and gentlemen." said he. "this ia
the Bengil tiger, measuring fourteen feet
from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail,
and fourteen more from the tip of bis tail
back to the tip of bis nose, making in all
twenty-eight feet." (Laughter.) Now
think thsir estimates about their forces and
capacity are just about as liberal. And they
arc to be looked at accordingly. Neverthe
less, they have great elements of mischief.
And if Satan himself had been sent on earth
to scourge makind, and to cover the land with
desolation, he could not have performed his
mission more successfully than by assuming
the shape of a rebel demagogue, and preach
ing Secession. "Sound." Now, I have a
clear and well-defined, and distinct theory, of
what I would do with this matter to attain a
peace. 1 do not know that tnis ijrovernment
ever can be brought back to where it was be
fore, in the enjoyment of all its relations ; but
I believo it can be.. In population, wave
succeeds wave in generations as wave suc
ceeds wave upon the ocean, and the men of
to-day pass away to-morrow. I believe it can
be brought back, but not by fostering rebellion;
but it is by treating it as treason, robbery,
and murder. And, if this Government ever
can be saved, it must be by a summary chas
tisement and overthrow of rebellion, so that
the loyal people of the Soiithern States can
come forward and administer the government
of these States as before. Who Is the mis
sionary that is going with his peaco proposi
tions 7 What is he going to say 1 What will
he say to this party in rebellion ? It is a pret
ty thing to talk about and for the' designing
to dupe the North ; it is a very awkward thing
to practice. Let every American citizen, in
stead of crying, Peace, peace, when there is
no peace, rally upon the ramparts until Seces
sion is silenced ; until tne roar or artillery lias
ceased. Then we shall have peace, enduring,
perpetnal peace, and as monsters'are seldom
born ol tne same generation, we snail nave no
more of this Secession in the present century
or the next. This Government is the Govern
ment of the American people. It is ours to
use, ours to enjoy, but it is not ours to sub
vert. , We ' are trustees. We are charged
with sacred trusts. All we have to do is to
bask in the sunshine of it blessings. But
cursed be the unholy ambition that attempts
to destroy it, I regard him and treat him aa a
traitor to his kind. God will set a mark up.
on bira too ; but it will not be like the mark
set upon the first murderer of man for safety
-rbut this will be set lor destruction. Ana
pod grant that it may be so. "Amen." It
will be time enough to struggle over who shall
administer the Government when we are aure
we have one to administer. He who is not for
it, is against it. I have determined to fight
this battle out but on no political grounds. I
stand upon the Constitutional ground ot my
fathers. There 1 will stand, and, animate my
countrymen to stand with me, and when onco
we shall have peace restored when we shall
have .put down rebellion, when we shall have
encouraged fidelity, when peace and prosperi
ty shall again greet ns, then let us see if any
individual is w ronged, if any deprived aof their
rights, see that equal and exact justice is ex
tended to all.
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.
FAMILIES DBIVE.V FROM TUEIR IIOMKS.
The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says: "Wc
stated a short time aso that two young men,
named Busbey and Harp, arrived in this city
from Hickman county Kentucky, having been
driven from their homes by the secessionists
of Southern Kentucky and Tennessee. Three
large families, numbering fully twenty-five
souls, arrived from the same vicinity yester
day, and stopped at the Oyler House, on Mar
ket street. The heads of the families were
John Boswcll, John Busby and Wm. Harp.
Their condition is really deplorable. They
were forced to leave their farms at a few hours'
notice, leaving their crops and household.
goods at the mercy of the heartless rebels.'
They traveled with the aged and infirm, and
youthful and tender members of their families
from Hickman county in wagons, and encoun
tered many hardships. They inform us that
fully fifty families in Hickman and Ballarcl,
counties have been forced to leave their homes,'
and to abandon their crops and nearly all they
possessed in the world, their offence being
that they entertained Union sentiments."
TENNESSEE THREATENING KENTIXKT.
A letter from Georgetown, Ky., dated Au
gust 19, says : "To-day, being our regular
county court day, was selected by Colonel
George W. Hanson as an appropriate occasion
for making a very inflammatory and traitor
ous speech. His object was to stir up a hel
lish spirit of war. H begt.n with an attack
upon the camp in Garrard county. He de
clared that, il those troops are not disbanded
in thirty days, they will be put down at the
point of the bayonet, lie said ho saw Gov
ernor Harris, of Tennessee, a Tew days ago,
and that Harris declared that he should con
sider it a violation of Kentucky neutrality,
and that Kentucky would have to meet 50,000
Tennessee troops in battle array if those camps
were not speedily vacated.' Thirty days are
given to you.1 Union men of Kentucky ; uso
those thirty days to a good advantage, or a
civil war will confront us with all its horrors."
RRECKlNBITiOlt nrav. '
The transportation of a number o guns, in
tended fortbe loyal Kentucky troops, through
the town of. Lexington, Kentucky, created a
disturbance. The Louisville Journal says:
We hear, that, when it was ascertained tha;
the guns were coming, John C. Brec'kfnridgo
hustled about, arousing his secessionists to re
sist their passage. At the same time armed
aid was summoned from Harrison and Scott.
In the meanwhile. Dr. Dudley mustered two
companies of the Home Guards to sustain tho
government. There was a very fair prospect
of a collision, but the sudden and very impo
sing appearance ot the cavalry lrom Camp
Robinson put an end at once to all danger of
a Dieach of the peace. All honor to the gal
lant Union men of Lexington.
' HUNTED JIFN TUES1SG WARRIORS.
A gentleman of Danville, Kentuckv, makes
the following statement: "On Monday, Au
gust 19, two hundred and forty fugitives from
Last 1 enncssee, men driven from their homc,
were fed in the Seminary yard in that town.
Some of them were elderlv men and some
young, and all had been compelled to aban
don their families, and were ill clad, almost
barefoot, weary and hungry. Their situation
was indeed deplorable. Several hundred more
were expected to arrive yesterday. The whole
of the two hundred and forty fugitives enlis
ted in the United States service at Camp Rob
inson.
Leap Mines in the Hands of the Rebels.
We are sorry to learn that the richest lead
mine in Missouri, and indeed probably on the
globe, is now in the hands of insurgents;
though they did not succeed in obtaining any
of the metal. The mine to which wc refer is
situated near the village of Cranky, Newton
county, within twenty-five miles of the south
western border of that State. It was onened
about two years ago by a party of capitalists.
having their headquarters at St. Louis, and is
known by the name of the Blow or Ilennett
mine. Last year it yielded abort seventy-five
thousand pigs, or six millions of pounds. Un
like the mines in eastern Missouri and north
western Illinois, this is situated in a level
prairie ot vast extent. The supply of ore has
been pronounced inexhau.talIe by the Stato
geologist, and the quality is considered tho
best on the globe, having scarcely any admix
tures ot foreign substances. The great diffi
culty has been transportation, their being no
navigable river nearer than the Missouri, a.nd,
and no railroad beyond Rolla, which is fully
one hundred miles dintant. The western ter
minus of the Pacific railroad is a little further
off ; buj this route has nsnally been taken on
account of the superior character of the cctr.
mon roads in that part of Missouri. With the
mines and furnaces at Gran by in their posses
sion, the rebes can supply themselves with
lead to any required extent.
From Missouri. Reports received here to
day give information that Gen. Hardee's for
ces are withdrawing from Greenville towards
Heere's Ferry, where they are fortifying
slightly ; also to Peyton's Station, nearer tho
Arkansas line. This seems o confirm previ
ous reports that the eastern division of tho
rebels are hastening to join Gen. Pillow. A
strong body of Gen. Thompson's forces are
represented to have occupied Benton, eight
miles back of Commerce, where they are throw -ing
up fortifications.
In the march of life, don't beed the order of
"right about" when you kuow you are about
right.
If a man isdissipatcd, bis fortune will proba
bly scon le so too.
It is less pains to learn in youth than to ba
ignorant in old age.
f Occupation is necessary to give us coinmaul
over ourselves.
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