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THE BRIDE.
Oh ! take her. and be faithful still,
And may the bridal vow,
Be sacred held in after years,
And warmly breathed as now, .
Remembering 'tis no common tie
That binds your youthful heart ,
'TIs one that only truth should weave,
And only death can part.
The joysof childhood's happy hour,
The home of riper years,
The treasur'd scenes of early youth,' '
In sunshine and in tears;
The purest hopes her bosom knew,
When her young heart was free,
AH these and more she now resigns,
To brave the world with thee. .
Her lot in life is fix'd with thine,
Its good and ill to share,
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To soothe each sorrow there ;
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Mark only joy's increase.
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- In happiness and peace.
, THE SECESSION CONSPIRACY IN 1851.
' From the New York Tribune.
The Plotting cf Rebellion the Issue in its
Magnitude-
Eleven year3 ago, a leading spirit of Vir
ginia addressed a leading spirit of South Car
olina, and distinctly presented the great issue
of to-day. The following letter, written in
1851, by Mr. Garnctt, then a member of tbe
Virginia Convention sitting to revise the Con
stitution of the State, to Mr. Trescott of South
Carolina afterward Assistant Secretary of
State under Mr. Buchanan, is fully significant
of the matured designs of the Secessionists.
This letter was captured at the residence of
Mr. Prescotf, on Barnwell's Island, and con
tains the reasonings aud motives of the trai
tors who inaugurated the Rebellion. The
meaning of the letter is clear on its face. It
ceeds no commentary. We ask our fellow-
Democrats to read and ponder it. As Demo
crats we accept the issue as the traitors them
selves understand it as we understand it and
as the leading rebels wlio control the South
have forced it on the nation Slavery and De
mocracy incompatible! Which shall go un
der ? Let true Democrats answer the question.
Lorenzo Sherwood, . George P. .Nelson,
ilenry O'Rielly, x John J. Speed,
Chas. P. Kirkland, Ilenry C. Gardiner,
Thomas Ewbank.'" - -
Corresponding Committee of the Democrat
ic League. . . New York, Sept. 20, 1802
Letter from Mr. Gurnet!, of Virginia, to Mr,
Trescott, of South Carolina.
. Va. Convention, May 3, 1851.
My Dear Sir : You misunderstood my last
letter it you supposed that I intended to visit
South Carolina this sprint. I am exceeding
ly obliged to you for your kind invitations
and it would afford me the highest pleasure
luiciunausc, iu person, seuiimenis witu a
friend whose manner of thinking so closely
agrees wi ih my own. But my engagements
here closely confine me to this city, and deny
me such a gratification.
I would be especially glad to be in Charles
ton next week, and witness your Convention
of Delegates from the Southern Eights Asso
ciations. iue condition or tnings in your
State deeply Interests me ; her wise foresight
and manly independence have placed her as
the head of the South, to whom alone true-
hearted men oan look with any hope or plea
sure. Momentous are the consequences which
depend upon your action.' Which party will
prevail? the immediate Secessionists, or those
who are opposed to separate State action at
his time ? . For my part, I forbear to form a
wish. Were I a Carolinian, it would bo very
different; but when I consider the serious ef
fects the decision may have on your future
weal or wo, 1 ieel that a citizen of a State
which has acted as Virginia, has no right to
interfere, even by a wish. It the General
Government allows you 'peaceably and freely
to secede, neither Virginia nor any other
Southern State would, in my opinion, follow
yoo at present. But what would be tbe effect
upon South Carolina? Soraeof ourbest friends
here suppose that it would cut off Charleston
from the great Western trade which she is
now striking for, and would retard very great
ly the progress of your State. I confess that
I think differently. I believe thoroughly in
our own theories, and that if Charleston did
not grow quite so fast in her trade with other
States, yet tho relief from Federal taxation
would vastly stimulate your prosperity. If
so, the prestige of tbe Union would be destroy
ed, and you would be the nucleus for a South
ern Confederation at no distant day. But I
do not doubt, from all I have been able to
learn, that tbe Federal Government would use
force, beginning with the form most embar
rassing to you, and least calculated to excite
sympathy; I mean a naval blockade. In that
event, could you withstand the reaction feel
ing, whioh the suffering commerce of Chailes
ton would probably manifest? Would yoq
not lose that in which your strength consists,
the no ion of your people 1 I do not mean to
imply an opinion. I only ask the question.
If you could force this blockade and bring
tbe Government to direct force, the leeling
in Virginia would be very great. I trust in
God it would bring ber to your aid. But it
would be wrong in me to deceive you by
speaking certainly. I cannot express tbe deep
mortification 1 have felt at her course tbis
Winter. But I do not believe that the course
pf tbe Legislature is a fair expression of tbe
popular feeling. In the East, at lesst, the
great majority believe in the right of Seces
sion, and feel the deepest sympathy with Car
olina In oppositiou to measures which they re
gard as she does. But tho west Western
Virginia there is the rub? Only 60,000
slaves to 494,000. whites. When I consider
this fact, and the kind of argument which we
have beard in this body, I cannot but regard
with the greatest fear tbe question whether
Virginia would assist Carolina in such an
issue. " ' i . : '
I must acknowledge, my dear sir, that I
look to tbe future witb almost as much appre
hension as hope.. You well object to the term
Democrat. Democracy, in its original philo
sophical sense, is, indeed, incompatible with Sla
very, and the whole system of Southern society.
Yet, if we look back, what change will you
find - made in any of our State Constitutions,
or in our legislation, in Us general course for
the last fifty years, which was not in tbe di
rection of Democracy ? Do not its principles
and theories become daily more fixed in our
pract ice ? I had almost sid in the opinions
of our people, did 1 not remember with pleas
ure the great improvement of opinion in re
gard to tbe abstract question of Slavery. And
if snob is the case, what have we to hope for
the future ? I do not hesitate to say that i
the question is raised between Carolina and
the Federal Government, and the latter pre
vails, the last hope of Republican Govern
ment, and I fear of Southern Civilization, is
gone. Hussla will then bo a better govern
ment than ours. ;
1 fear that I he confusion and interruption
under which I write may have made this a
rather rambling letter. Do yon visit the
North in the Summer ? I should be happy to
welcome you to the Old Dominion.
I am much obliged to you for the offer to
send me Hammond's Eulogy on Calhoun ; but
I am indebted to tbe author for a copy
With esteem and friendship, yours truly,
' M. R. H. Garnet?.
Wm. II. Trescott, Esq. -
A DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE.
We clip the following dialogue from tbe
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, which occur
red a few days siuce between a good Union
Democrat, who loves his country, and a Breck
uridge-Vallandighamer, who, like a good
many more of the same kidney, thinks more
of rebel feelings and rebel property, than be
does of the lives of loyal soldiers, and the
perpetuation of our free . institutions. We
commend it especially to those who are al
ways howling about the "Constitution" and
'Abolitionists":
Vallandigham Bemocrull am in favor of
putting down this rebellion if it can be done
constitutionally.
Union Democrat I am in favor -of putting
down this rebellion, and preserving tbe U
nion, even if we have to annihilate every reb
el in tbe country and reduce the rebellious
States to a desert like that of Sahara.
V. D.l am opposed to interfering with
slavery ; and if tbe rebellion cannot be sup
pressed without doing so, I say let tbe slave
States go. We have no right under the Con
stitution to interfere with slavery. -
V. D. I hold that a traitor to bis Govern
ment has forfeited all rights that he ever bad
guarantied to him while he remained a loyal
citizen even bis life. While I am opposed
to interfering with slavery when it is unnec
essary, yet if it becomes necessary in order
to crush this rebellion, I say take away from
every rebel bis slaves and send tbem out of
the United States, or use them in any way
that will help us destroy the rebels. The reb
els do not hesitate to employ their slaves in
every possible way in whioh they oan be used
against us. Let us retuin the compliment
and use their slaves against them.
V. But I am opposed to confiscating
the property of the rebels ; it is unconstitu
tional !
U. D. The d litis! Your opposition to
this confiscation business, my dear Vallsn-
dighatumer, is probaiily the result of your
fears lest you should suffer its consequences.
I repeat again, that a traitor has no rights un
der the Constitution. In committing treason
he forfeited all bis rights, and f am decried
ly iu favor of confiscating his property, and
applying it to the payment of the expenses of
the war which his treason has caused.
V. D. I am opposed to suspending tbe writ
of habeas corpus. ,
f. i?. So were the traitors in New Orleans,
when Geueraljackson suspended it and caused
their arrest.
V. D. And I am opposed to old Abe Lin-
cold and bisd d abolition orew.
U. D. So are Jeff Davis and all the infer
nal traitors who are backing bim.
V. D. I would a thousand times rather tbe
South should succeed in this war than that
the country should be governed by tbe Abo
lition Republican party. ';
U. D. Precisely ! then why don't you re
move your cowardly, treasonable carcass to
tbe South, where it belongs 1 Why do yoo
remain here among loyal people who despise
you 1 Go wbere you belong, you black-hearted
traitor! Don't atay here, belching forth
your treason and claiming the protection of
our laws. Exit VaUandigbamcqer, amid tbe
hisses of the crowd. v ; . -
TO THE PEOPLE OF PEflTTSYT.VAKTA.1
From the Miner's Journal. Sept. 27.1862.
The Democratic State Central Committee
having authorized their chairman, Francis W.
Hughes, to place before the people of the
State of Pennsylvania snob matter h
committee think the people ought to reflect
upon at this time, and Hughes having under
taken to do so, it is the duty of such persons
as know Hughes well, to give the people such
facts as will enable them to determine for
themselves, whether Hughes is laboring to
serve the North or tbe South, whether he is
trying to have the Union restored or to have
the rebels succeed, the States divided, and a
Southern Confederacy established. To'ena
ble the people to judge for themselves and act
as they.tbink right, I give the evidence fol-
lowing. C. Loeser.
Pottsville, 24th September, 1862.
At a public political meeting, held in the
oourt bouse in Pottsville, Schuylkill county,
in iebruary, I!:6l, John T. Werner, who was
sheriff of Schuylkill oounty from 1846 to 1849,
was present, and he heard Francis W. Hughes
say, when speaking about the amount of cot
ton that was exported from the United States,
'button is king, and I thank God for it."
? TIT ... . . ..
iur. nuruer reaa ine above tbis morning
and says it is correct. , C. Loe3Er.
Pottsville, 17th Sept. 1862.
Donaldson, Schuylkill county, Pa.,
September 13, 1862.
C. Tower, Esq., Pottaville, Pa. :
DaARbia: In the winter of 18611 was in
the cars, going to Philadelphia, and while be
tween Pottsville and Reading, I was sitting on
tbe left hand side of tbe car, and Francis W.
Hughes, of Pottsville, was in the same car,
sitting on the right hand side of the car, and
two seats ahead of me. I think there was not
anybody sitting on the same seat of the car
with him ; I knew there was not with me. He
was conversing with a gentleman, who sat
right opposite bim, and tbe second seat ahead
of me, on the same side with me. I beard
Francis W. Hughes, then and there, say to
that gentleman, "I am. a delegate to the Dcm-
ocratic State Convention at Harrisburg, and I
am going over to attend the Convention, and
when there, I intend offering s resolution be
fore that Convention, that Pennsylvania se
cede from the Union, and join herself with
tbe South, and leave Rhode Island, and Con
necticut, and Massachusetts, and them d d
little petty States, to subsist on their codfish
and Plymouth rock."
iou are at liberty to make any use of this
statement you may think proper, and I shall
be ready to verify it by my oatb, at any time,
when required to do so.
Very respectfully, David Lomisoh.
Pottsvilie, Sept. 8, 1862.
C Tower, Esq Dear Sir: I have duly con
sidered the importance of your inquiry rela
tive to my personal knowledge of the attempt
made some eighteen months ago by F. W.
Hughes, Esq., to "switch" the State of Penn
sylvania out of tbe Union, in nearly the same
manner, and by tbe same unboly means that
were employed to carry Tennessee, Missouri,
Louisiana, and other States out ; aud in com
pliance with your request, will endeavor to
give a plain, unvarnished statement of suoh
facts as I may be possessed of, confining my
self as strictly as possible to the precise lan
guage used at the time. ,
A day or two prior to tbe assembling of the
Democratic State Convention at Harrisburg,
in February, 1861, 1 heard it bruited about
that Mr. Hughes, (who was a delegate to that
Convention,) designed to introduce into that
body a resolution, the object of which was to
carry Pennsylvania out of the Union, and to
join the so-called Southern Confederacy.
The report notwithstanding my knowledge
of Mr. nughes? sympathy for the South, (he
having previously told me in conversation
with him, that the only mistake; in Mr. Bu
chanan's Administration was that "be did not
receive Messrs. Rhett & Co., of South Caroli
na, as Commissioners, instead of 'distinguished
citizens,' and treat with tbem upon tbe sub
ject of their mission;") the report, , I say,
struck me as being so manifestly absurd as to
be scarcely worthy of notice. ; .
On tbe evening of the day of the Conven
tion, (I think tbe 22d of tbe month,) while on
my way home. I fell in comoanv with bis
nephew, John llughes, Esq., (law partner of
W. Hughes,) and as we walked a consider
able distance in tbe same direction, I took oc
casion to mention to bim tbe reports I bad
beard iu regard to Frank's secession resolu
tion. He replied, "Yes I think that Frank is
doing wrong in that matter." I asked him if
it were really true then, that be designed to
offer such a resolution 7 He answered, " Yes
he took such a resolution with bim 1 read
it myself several times, and advised bim not
to offer it." I need scarcely say, that wbat I
was disposed to regard before as an idle rumor
bad now become a stern reality. On my re.
turn from tea, I stopped to see tbe late Judge
Hegins, and communicated wbat John Hughes
told me. The Judge smiled and said : "Why, j
Frank showed me that resolution before be
left, and asked my opinion of It. I advised
bim for God's sake, not to offer it, as it wonld
kill him politically, fortver." I anxiously a-
waited, the published proceedings of the Con .
vent ion, and was ratified to see that the res-
olntOD in question was not anions: them.'
f Thus natter8 rested until some time, I think,
10 APr, or Mav lollowing, when, on tbe way
to ray place of business, I met Mr. James
Gowan, of Harrisburg, an old friend and ac-
quaintance. The war' having been actually
commenced, our conversation naturally turn
ed npon that subject. Some pretty' severe
strictures were made by myself on what I con
sidered the mistakes of Mr. .Buchanan's admin
istration, and as being in my opinion the di
rect cause of all onr troubles. My friend, on
the other hand, defended Mr. Buchanan's pol-
m uue ioui engagea, we were joined by
tren.J. Y. James, of Warren, a mutual friend
and acquaintance of both of us. Mr. James
sustainud my views on the question,' and the
"talk" became somewhat animated, in th
course of " which I mentioned tbe effort at
tempted to be made by Mr. Hughes in the
late Democratic State Conventiou to "switch"
Pennsylvania out of the Union, when I was
interrupted by Mr. James, who said: "Why,
wasn't I in that Convention, and on the com
mittee to draft resolutions ? And didn't Mr.
Hughes come to me in the committee room
and ask me to support his d d treasonable
resolution?" He continued : "After I bad
read it I got so d d mad that I shook my
fist and swore that il be attempted to offer
that resolution, either in committee or Con
vention, that I would pitch him and bis reso
lution headforemost out of the window." "I
don't know," continued the General, "wheth
er it was my threat or what, , but I neither
heard nor saw anything more of that resolu
tion." Tbe material points of Mr. James'
statement were subsequently admitted by him
to Mr. L. F. Whitney, of this borough in my
presence
This is substantially all I have to say in re
lation to your queries, and is given in nearly,
if not precisely, the same language used at
the time. It has been hastily drawn up, but
you are at liberty to make whatever nseof it
you may think proper. Very respectfully, fcc,
Jerome K. Boter
If necessary, I will verify the above on
oath or affirmation. " J. K. B
At the time of the Democratic Convention
at Harrisburg, in February, 1861, Francis W.
Hughes was a delegate from Schuylkill conn
ty to that Convention. In a conversation be
tween the Hon. Charles W. Hegins and Ben
jamin Pott, Hegins said "Hughes is making a
fool of himself," that be bad shown him
(Hegins,) resolutions be (Hughes) bad drawn
up to offer at that , Convention in favor of
Pennsylvania joining tbe Southern Confeder
acy, Hegins said be gave bim a hell of a scold-
tng.
Mr. Pott read the above this morning, and
says it Is correct. . C. Loeser.
Pottsville, 9th September, 1852.
In the latter part of summer or fall of 1861;
Francis W.. Hughes, of Pottsville, came into
the office of William B. Wells, an attorney-at
law of the same place, and who bad been,
from tbe year 1850 to the year 1854, the law
partner of Uugbes.
Lloyds's Railroad map, showing tbe State
was banging, against; the wall,. in the office,
open. Hughes pointed to tbe map witb bis
cane and explained to Wells what be (Hughes)
thought would be tbe result of tbis rebellion ;
that tbe Western States would eventually join
the South, as their interest lay with tbem;
that the New England States, together with
New York, Pennsylyania, New Jersey, and be
may have included Ohio. Ohio would be all
that would remain of these United States, and
that they would have to bear .a II the expenses
or burden of this war ; and that would be, as
be thought, the result of this rebelliou, and
the disgrace of repudation would finally be
the result ; that he (Hughes) did not want to
live in such a oountry. He said if be could fix
his matters to suit bim or language to that
effect he would go to some other oountry or
place ; Wells does not remember which. Wells
then asked Hughes wbere be would go. He
replied, to Sandy Bottom, as Natty Mills used
to say." Wells said, "Hughes, you come to
these conclusion upon the basis that tbis re
bellion cannot be put down." Hughes replied,
"ves." IV ells then asked him what conclusion
be would come to, upon tbe supposition that
this rebellion could and would be put down.
He said, "Of course, then, I should come to a
quite different conclusion ; but said, at the
same time, ihat be believed it could not be put
down. Wells reiterated that be firmly belie
ved that it oould and would be put down.
Hughes to tbis replied,tbat be wished be con Id
see or believe as Wells did ; but be could not
or would not. " " i "
Tbe foregoing was read by Wells, and be
says it is correct. He says Hugbea gave rea
sons for bis belief, the chief of wbich was tbe
bad feeling between tbe North and Sontb, re
lating to the negro. Hughes justifies holding
tbe negro in slavery. f- -'- C, Loeser.
Pottsville, Sept. 8, 1862. -::
In July last, about two weeks after ttw f one-
ral of tne on. unaries w . Hegins, which was
on the4tb ot J uiy,obni. Hobart, late Sheriff I
or fccnuyuun connty, ana nis wire, were at
bunbury, and while there called npon Mrs.
Donnell, tbe widow of tbe lata Judge Uonoeil,
- of Snnbnry , and. ttje sister Judge -Kefina, j
I on a visit of friendshin. In the course of con.
versation Mrs. Donne 11 said, "Mr Hobart, yon
J know my brother was a' patriot in every sense
of tbe word, and for some time before bis deatb
the state of bis country troubled hlmvery
much. A short time before bis death be called
me to bis bed, and said overtures bad been
made to him by a prominent politician of your
place, Schuylkill (I mention; no names,), to
join with them which he declined doing.
And he then said, tbe course the Democratic
party wete now pursuing' was the 'greatest
fraud ever practised upon the country." Mrs
Donnell then said, I aujhoriz j you to telUhis
in fottsvii e
By Mrs Doonell's statement, Mr. Hobart
and his - wife were both satisfied that Judae
Hegins bad named to his sister the prominent
politician of Pottsville, Schuylkill county.
.Mr. and Mrs. nobart read the above this
morning, ana say it is correct. ,
Pottsville, Sept. 9, 18S2. C. Loeser. ',
WHO i.KE FIGHTING OUK BATTLES! t
.To the Editor of the Phil'a Press: . :
Sir :-A class of political partisans have, during
this war endeavored to create divisions in the
North, by deolaring that the burden of tbe war
is borne by tbe Democratic party, who, they :
assert, compose three-fourths if not more
of the tank, and file of the army'. So often ha
this statement been made by stump orators
and newspapers, that numbers of our citizen
seem to regard it as truthful, and the re
sult is, that remarks of an offensive '.nature
have been made in tbe presence of persona'
who differ in politcal opinion with the De-.
mocracy of the present day, especially that.
class known as Breckinridge Democrats.
That the remarks I allude to are not only
unjust, but absolutely without j foundation
in truth, tbe enrollment for the draft proves
beyond all cavil, a - ; ; ; - ' - , ; -It
must be plain to every mind, thst if the
Democrat realy form three-fourths of the
rank and tie of tbe army, the enrollment will
show that' a greater percentage of the fight
ing poulation have enlisted in ' tbe DemocrtlC
than in tho Republican districts of the State;
Now, the enrollment shows tbe very reverse,
of this, for from it it appears that a - far greater
per centage of tbe fighting population of the .
Republican districts have gone to war than,
from the Democratic districts. The Demo
cratic county of Northampton . has -sent less
men to war than tbe Republican county of,
Blair, and yet Blair polls but little more than , .
one-balf tbe vote of Northampton. ; Tbe Re-t
publican county . of McKean has sent more -men
to tbe war than tbe Democratic county ot
Monroe, and yet Monroe polls almost fifty - per .
cent, more votes than McKean.' The fighting
Quakers of Republican Chester county have ;
sent within five per cent as many men to war
as Democratic Berks, and yet the vote of Berks .
is thirty per cent, more than Chester's. Tbe
combined vote of the Republican counties of
Lawrence, Union, Clinton, and Blair, at
the last Presidential election, was fourteen; -thousand
four hundred and fifty-three, and
tbe combined vote of tbe Democratic counties
of Berks, Northampton, and Monroe, at the '
same election, was twenty-seven : thousaud
three hundred and thirty-three ; yet the Re
puplioan counties named have sent to the wajr
over three hundred more men than I he Demoi '
cratic counties they are contrasted with, al
though they polled hardly more than, half the,
number ot votes. Tbe morning ; paper from '
wbich I culled the information regarding the
men sent to tbe war from tbe foregoing coun
ties has nerer exhibited Republican -procliv-i
itics; indeed, its conductors seem perfectly ,
willing that the corner-stone of the rebellion ;
shall remain untouched, to breed future dis-t'
sensions, if not future wars. If the marshals
returns fro:ne all the counties of Pennsylvania.
could be ptiblisbed, I am confident such a con,-,
ditionof things would be revealed, that no. .
longer would the sneering inquiries be beard,
"Where ar your Wide-Awakes ? Where are .
your Republicans, now 7" . .
Mr. Editor, the truth is, that the rank and, '
file of tbe United States army, as far as Penq
sylvania is concerned, is almost absolutely
made up o" Republicans and Douglas Demo
crats. Tb'sre are . Breckinridge Democrats,
also in the urmy, but you see tbem as quarter
masters, as colonels, and as geneials.
It was witb no wish to wound tbe feelings
of any, but that in order the pause of justice '
and truth should be served.. I penned the ,
foregoing. , The facts of the case have been
so long falsified to acomplish as I believe .
sinister ends, that I conceive it foil time tba( ;
the trnth should be set before tbe people. .
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
. . Ajt Ahercaw CryizEM. ;
A Good Joke. "Now remember said, ait -
officer to as Irish soldier ,J"when tbp jTokwel
asks you what battery yoo are in tefl him bat
tery I. : New dont forget." "No, be jabber.
I won't forgit," said Pat. Tbe Colonel met ,
bim day or two afterwards aad asked him
wbat tbe Captain told him to say, when Pat -stepped
op to the Colonel and without saying
a word, gave bim a blow in the eye, "What
d0 you menu V shouted tbe Colonel,' la no.
eoi humor, on beinsr struck bv an' Irish sol
dier. Felth,.an the Captain tould me t
batter yer ye, tf ye axed me slch a question,'
aaid the terrified Irishman.' The Coiarnjl, ot
course, too tna c.
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