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LIST OF POST OFFICES.
Post Offices. rost Masters. Districts.
feena'3 Creek, Joseph Graham, Yoder.
Bethel Station Enoch Reese, Elackhck.
tJarrolltown, William M. Jones, Carroll.
Chesa Springs, Danl. Litzinger, Chest.
Cresson, Wm. W. Young, Washint'n.
Ebensburg. John Thompson, Ebensburg.
Fallen Timber, Isaac Thompson, White.
Uallitzin, J- M. Christy, Gallitzin.
Hemlock, Wm. M'Gougu, Washt'n.
Johnstown, I. E. Chandler, Johnst'w.
Loretto, Shields Loretto.
Mineral Point, E. Wissinger, Conem'gh.
Munster, A. Derbin, Monster.
Pershing, Fraecis Clerfcent, Conem'gh.
Plattsvifle, Andrew J Ferral, SHSq'fcan.
Roseland, G.W.Bowman, White-.
St. Augustine, Wm. Ryan, Sr., Clearfield.
Scalp Level, George Conrad, Richland.
Sonman, B. M'Oolgan, Washt'n.
Summerhill, B. F. Slick, Cruyle.
Summit, Miss M. Gillespie, Washt'n.
Wilmore, Morris Keil, S'merhill.
CHURCHES, MINISTERS, &c
Presbyterian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10J
o'clock, and in the evening at 3 o'clock. Sab
bath School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet
isg every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal Church Re v. S. T. Show,
Preacher in'charge. Rev. W. Long, Assis
tant. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
at 10J o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the
evening. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, A. M.
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening, at 7
o'clock.
Welch Independent Rzv Lt. R. Powell,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
10 o'ciock, end in the evening at 6 o'clock.
Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
meeting ou the first Monday evening of each
month ; and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the first week in
ach month.
Calvinistie Methodist TIey. John Williams,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock,
A. -M. Prayer meeting every Friday evening,
at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock.
Disciples Rev. W.' Liyd, Pastor. Preach
ing every Sabbath nioruhig at 10 o'clock.
'particular Baptist Rkv. David Jexkixs,
Tastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
3 o'clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock. P. M.
CithoUc Rev. M. J. Mitchell. Pastor.
Services every Sabbath morning at lOi o'clock
and Vespers" at 4 o'clock in the evening.
EBEMBU1& MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
Eastern, daily, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Western, ' at 9 o'clock, P. M.
MAILS CLOSE.
Kastc-rn, daily, at 4 o'clock. P. M.
Western, " at o'clock, P. M.
CgrThft mails from Butler,Indiana,Strongs
town, &c, arrive on Thursday of each week,
at a o'clock, 1'. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Friday of each week,
at & A. M.
Ci-The mails from Newman's Mills, Car
rolltown, Ac, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
isd Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. M.
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GOUXTY OFFICERS.
Judges of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Taylor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W.
Easley, Henry C. Pevine.
Protho notary- Joseph M'Donald.
llryister and Recorder Edward FLytle.
Sheriff John Buck.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commissioners D. T. Storm, James
Cooper, Peter'j. Little.
Treasurer Thomas Callin.
Poor House Directors Jacob Horner, Wil
liam Douglass, George Delany.
Per House Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm.
Poor House Steward. James J. Kaylor.
Mercantile Appraiser John Farrell.
Au litors John F. Stull, Thomas J. Nel
son, Edward R Donnegan.
County Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy.
Coroner. James S. Todd.
Sup't. of Common Schools Wm. A. Scott.
EP.EXSCI RG IIOR. OFFICERS.
Justices of the Peace. David II. Roberts
Harrison Kinkead.
.- Jiurgess George Huntley.
Schoul Directors E. J. Mill3, Dr. John M.
Jones, Isaac Evans.
EAST WARD.
Constable Thomas Todd.
. Town Council Wm. Davis, Daniel J. Davis,
E. J. Waters, John Thompson, Jr., David W.
Jones. :
Inspectors John W. Roberts, L. Rodgers. ,
. Judye of Election Thomas J. Davis.
-Assessor Thomas P. Davis. ;
WKST WARD.
ConstMt M. M. O'Neill.
Town Council William Kittell, II. Kinkead,
R. L. Johnston, Edward I). Evans, Thomas J,
Williams. . .
Inspectors J. D. Thomas, Robert Evans. "
Judye of Election John Lloyc.
Attestor Richard T. Davis."
VOLUME
SREECH OF COL JOHN W. FORNEY.
Delivered in tlie Union Conven
tion, at Ilarrisburgr, on Thurs
day, the 17th of July, Instant,
in support of the Resolutions
adopted on that Occasion.
Mr. President : The resolutions which
have just been read comprise, in- brief
terms, the duty of the loyal men of Penn
sylvania, and they will go to the country
as an utterance that must produce health
ful consequences, lhere are elements in
this assemblage which have never been
combined on any former period of our
country issue. . v e have here represen
tatives of the llepublican party, the Peo
ple's party, the American party, and of
the loyal men of the Democratic party.
I notice that at least twenty counties of
the State have sent Democratic delegates
to this Convention. The heavy gloom
which seems again to have settled upon
our unhappy country has had the effect of
extinguishing many dissensions. Men
who have differed radically in former years,
now stand' together like a band of broth
ers. But one motive animates this splen
did organization that of devotion to
country and determination to maintain
the Union. There is no spectacle, eays a
great poet, more icspiring than a brave
man struggling with danger, and can there
be any spectacle more inspiring than a
gieat people struggling with their ene
mies ? The fiend, slavery, which is the
beinnin": of all our troubles, in tearing
itself from the Republic, seems determi
ned to tear the vitals of the Ptepublic away
with it. For however men may differ,
Mr. President, this is not merely a stiug
glc for our existence as a free people, but
it is a struggle between liberty and sla-
very. All other issues nave subsided
before this issue. Slavery, in beginning
the war, to perpetuate itself, has laid a
strong hand upon our free institutions,
and is resolved, failing itself, to bury them
m one common ruin. Those only deny it
who themselves pray for the success of
the rebellion, and those only believe what
L have said who earnestly pray for the
triumph of the Union arms. And it is a
fact well calculated to agonize the soul,
that bitter and dreadful as has been the
general suffering in this extraordinary
strife, notwithstanding thousands of homes
are covered with mourning, although tor
rents of tears are shed over the freshly
heaped graves of those who have fallen in
defence of our. flag, yet all these terrible
lessons produce no impression upon manj
who live among and around us. These
men see their country bleeding at every
pore, and have no word of hope or com
fort to give her. While we, forgetting
all old antagonisms and parties, while we
throw off the cloaks of former organiza
tions and reveal ourselves only in the garb
of patriotism, they clothe themselves with
all the hatred and rancor and uncharita
blencss for which they have been so dis
tinguished before, and prepare to strike
at the country, if not in the name, at least
in the name of the doctrines, of that can
didate for the presidency who less than
two years ago marshaled the. hosts of dis
union at the ballot-box,, and now leads an
army of traitors in the battle-field.
If, Mr. President, slavery is the cause of
this great crusade upon human liberty, its
immediate agents and ministers confess by
all their acts that they are fully conscious
of the truth of this assertion. They have
pursued the fell purpose which has now
ripened into war with a persistence which
can only be explained by their close sym
pathy with the rebellion itself, and their
sincere hatred of the government of the
United States. Calling themselves Dem
ocrats, they are banded together in favor
of slavery and aristocracy. Let me take
a prominent example of the school : the
old man who lives in neglected solitude
within an hour and a half 's ride of the
capital of Pennsylvania. . He is now be
yond the Psalmist's age. He entered the
Presidential chair more than five years
ago, with as fair an opportunity to serv
and save this country as ever had been
presented to man. lie was elected upon
a distinct and voluntary pledge that he
would give to the people of the unhappy
territory of Kansas the right to dispose of
their own affairs, in their own way. Had
he been true to this pledge, we should
have had neither secession nor bloodshed.
The history of his unparalleled treachery
is written in carnage iind in shame. It
ought to be supposed that now . looking
over this history, he would seize the occa
sion to expiate his mighty crime by some
manifestation of. public penitence. It
might be supposed that now, in his old
age, he would secure the favor and for
giveness of Heaven by appealing to those
he still controls to rally to the common
defence and to shun his fatal example.-
But no, .gentleuien ; so far from this, the
animating soul of the rebellion in the
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JULY
southern States is" not more Jefferson D&
vis than the animating soul of the rebel
lion in the free States is James Buchanan,
lie seems to desire the immortal infamy
ot dragging our glorious Union into the
dishonored crave he is himself soon to
fill. Around his own home, as proved by
the convention which assembled in his
own countv a few weeks a"ro, and by that
which disgraced this hall ontXhe 4th of
July, his former followers, doubtless under
his lead and counsel, mocked at the perils
of the nation, and delight in nothing so
much as to embarrass and retard the op
erations of the constituted authorities. Is
it possible that this man and his parasites
can rally any portion of the people of
Pennsylvania to their standard ? Monu
ments themselves of the mercy of the
government, permitted to live in comfort
under the flag they toiled to defame and
to dishonor, shall these men be permitted
to go on in their work of treason ? They
proclaim that this war is an abolition war
--a war for the emancipation of slaves
a war for negro equality a war in which
the white man is to be driven out of the
field of labor by the colored race. This
is the staple of their creed. This is the
burden of their cry. Will J amcs Buchan
an, or any one of his creatures, here or
elsewhere, inform me whether it was the
aDontionists that lormca trie Liecompton
constitution and forced it upon the people
of Kansas ? Whether it was the aboli
tionists that fabricated the English bill, a
measure even more infamous '( Was it
the abolitionists that persecuted and pro
scribed W alker and Douglas and Broder
ick ? Did they murder Broderick ? Did
they retain iu the Buchanan Cabinet the
incarnate traitors who robbed the Federal
Treasury, decimated the army, sent our
navy to distant seas, sacked .our arsenals
sent to southern ports incalculable sup
plies of the munitions of war as it
the abolitionists, in a word, that prepared
the way for the culmination of war, leav
ing to Mr. Lincoln a bankrupt and en
feebled government, compelling him to
reach the capital of the nation almost a
fugitive, and surrounding his inauguration
with all the ceremonials of and prerTara-
tions for internal strife ? But, sir, apart
from the duty of exposing these iinpeni-
tent and remorseless Iocs, there are other
duties which must be discharged, and to
which the great organization born to-day
must dedicate itself with stern and self-
sacrificing patriotism.
I he adjournment of Congress leaves to
Mr. Lincoln those hijrh responsibilities
which he has proven himself so able to
bear. He will find himself strengthened
for still stronger measures by ample leg
islation, lie can now throw himself upon
the people and prosecute the war with re
newed vigor. As your resolutions so well
express it, it is fortunate "that we have
at the helm of pubjic affairs one so pru-
Jent, so upright, temperate and firm.
Great are his trials, and great his labors.
it has olten been said that the duties of
the Presidency were too much in times of
peace for any one man ; several of our
Chief Magistrates have fallen under the
weight of these duties. But what must
his condition be who, in the midst of this
remorseless rebellion, must give all his
time and all his judgement to the solution
of stupendous and novel complications.
lie cannot satisly all men; he cannot at a
blow strike down every great wrong ; it is
possible that he may have been mistaken
in the supposition that the slaveholding
treason might be indulgently and mag
nanimously treated, and that the best way
to convince the rebels was to exhibit to
them a willingness of the Government to
offer peace in the midst of war, and am
nesty on condition of prompt submission.
But now, that experience has shown that
no moderation can reach the authors of
this great crime, the President will un
doubtedly profit by the lesson. And I
am sure that the voice that goes up from
this Convention to-day will invigorate and
inspire him iu the vigorous policy which
is about to be inaugurated ; a policy which
I feel sure will be as stringent and as
determined a3 the most exacting and
enthusiastic of us could desire. Backed
by the people, and empowered by law,
there will hereafter be no hesitation in
the employment of all means to put down
the rebellion. No more doubts as to the
coufiscation of the property of rebels, no
more protection of their houses, and crops,
and goods and chattels. Practical meas
ures will forever dissipate the miserable
cry about negro equality and negro eman
cipation. Wonderful is the advance that
has been made in publio sentiment on
these questions. Some of the most dis
tinguished Democrats in Congress now
take ground in favor of the employment
of blacks in the army of the United States
as a measure of imperative wisdom and
necessity. The partizans who roam about
the land alarming ignorant people with
pictures of a black exodus from the slave
into the free States, who look for riots in
the "great cities as a consequence of the
competition of whites and blacks in vari
ous fields of labor, can read their own
doom and the refutation of their own
falsehoods in the ground taken by genu
ine Democrats in the National Legislature
ou this important issue. Whether they
see it or not, whether they realize this or
not, the people realize it. The object of
this war is not abolition, but vindication
nbt abolition of slavery but vindica
tion of the offended majesty of the laws.
To this end we send our white men into
the field to fight in our armies. To save
them from the privations of the long,
weary march, to relieve them from the
heavy service that wearies and wastes
them in the trenches and on our fortifica
tions, it is proposed to invoke the aid of
the thousands of colored men who are set
free, not by the abolitionists, but by the
slaveholders themselves. When this race
is fully assured that they may render a
such a service, and be rewarded for it,
there will be no further flight into the
"free towns of the North and North-west:
but they will gladly remain under that
flag which, while protecting them, they
themselves defend. One other lesson has
been taught within the last year, and that
is, if the most loyal of the white people
arc. those who are fighting for the Con
stitution and the Union, so the most loyal
people of the seceded States are the blacks
themselves. . Shall we not use these
blacks ? Shall we not act upon the sug
gestion of some of our most gallant and
experienced military men, and save our
own brothers by accepting this ready,
eager and honest assistance ? What voter
who has lost his relative or his friend by
disease in the army, will not yield to this
argument and ask that it may be carried
into effect hereafter. The fact is, gen
tlemen, this war may as well be termina
ted to day if we do not avail ourselves of
every other means justified by our own
necessities and by the usages of civilized
nations. I know there are some who
shrink from the idea of arming the colored
men. Have they forgotten that they
were armed by order of Gen. Washington
himself; that in the bloody battle of lied
Bank, near Philadelphia, it was a regi
ment of Pthode Island negroes, under
command of Col. ltay Greene, who turned
the fortunes of the day and fought to the
last around the dead body of their com
mander. Iu the second war with Eng
land, Andrew Jackson enrolled the free
blacks for the defence of Louisiaua, and
thauked them for their braverj after the
victory was won. lias the colored race
deteriorated since the Itevolution and our
second struggle for independence? Thev
ought to have wonderfully improved, if
philosophers ppeaic the truth or the cen
sus does not he. Ihe sympathizing gen
tlemen in the free States who arc in the
habit of talking about negro equality, aud
charging ilas one of the great ends of the
republican party, tfill hardly deny that
the iufusion of the blood of the chivalry
of the south ought to have greatly im
proved the negro race in that quarter !
Under, this influence this race should cer
tainly be improved, and, according to the
doctrines of oligarchists,- more refined.
For, the nearer they approach the beau
ideal ot a Southern gentleman, the better
they are fitted to imitate his martial
zeal. As Thaddeus Stevens once said,
the Southern sun has a wonderful effect
in bleaching the negro complexion. Do
not be afraid, -then, gentlemen, of being
called abolitionist or the advocate of negro
equality, because you demaud that your
relatives and friends in the army of the
Union shall be succored, sustained and
saved from disease and death by the stout
arms of the loyal blacks, bond or free, in
the southern states. As I have said, the
only practical abolitionists are the rebels
themselves. They have set more slaves
free than a thousand General Hunters
have done. Emancipation like the rebel
lion is their work, not ours. As the Hon.
Wm. Evarts said at Albany, in 1SG0, as
he was advocating Mr. Lincoln : "Gen
tlemen of the Democratic party, you 6ay
you have a majority in the country, why
don't you unite then and defeat us at the
polls." But the rebels divided the Dc
momcracy then, with the deliberate pur
pose of dividing the country afterwards.
Nor do they desire to escape this double
responsibility. They wish to cut loose
from the free States in order to enjoy
their institution alone, and it was to save
that institution that induced them to pre
pare for and precipitate this war. The
only act of emancipation carried by the
Republicans is the abolition of slavery in
the District of Columbia ; and if the Re
publicans had not doue that, they would
have deserved the contempt of friend and
foe. They were invoked to it by their
own platform and by the authority of the
publicists of the South. The power exis
ted, and they exercised it. What has
Ul, 1862.
Lv .sn the result ? - The emancipation of
the slaves in the district of Columbia has
improved them. Thus far the experiment
has worked admirably. The repeal of a
series of laws operating alike upon free
and slave, has made them ambitious to do
well, and they are now more orderly,
more peaceable, and more thrifty than
ever.
So much for several of the most diffi
cult questions growing out of Jhe war.
The sympathizers with secession who
call themselves Democrats undoubtedly
desire a peace with the rebels, and to bring
this about they are industrious in divi
ding the Northern people, well knowing
that the success of this plan must consoli
date and encourage the traitors. No doubt
when the uncle of the gentleman who is
now fighting against his country in the
army ot the south I mean Francis W.
Hughes, of Schuylkill county was presi
ding over the Breckinridge Convention on
the 4th of July, the hope that stirred his
heart was that peace might be accom
'plished on the well known platform of
himself and his nephew. I perceive he
is so anxious to effect this object that he
has taken command of the campaign him
self, and will doubtless make the State
ring with elaborate orations on the basis
of the Breckinridge platform. The object
of this peace is simply to degrade the
people of the free States, to fill them with
factions, to carve their domain into prov
inces, and to make all their great inter
ests subordinate and obedient to a slave
holding despotism. Does any man sup
pose that such a peace would end the war?
It might, indeed, realize Mr. William B.
Reed's grand scheme of division and sep
aration, enunciated on the 17th January,
-1801, at National Hall, while Major
Anderson was besieged in Fort Sumter ;
it might niake New York a free city, in
dependent of State and General Govern
ments. With our Pacific empires lost to
us ; with the great West seceded, and
Pennsylvania bound, like a captive, to the
chariot wheels of slavery, Mr. Reed and
his compatriots would exult in the fulfil
ment of their prophecies and plans but
there would be no peace. It would be
one long and stubborn and exterminating
border war a war of sections a war ma
king the South powerful and the North
powerless. What foreign nations would
say to such a peace as this it requires io
Anthony Trollope to predict.
I cannot refrain, Mr. President, the
expression of my sincere respect of the
manner in which the llepublican party of
Pennsylvania has come up to the good
work to-day. It was the duty, and it will
prove to be the interest, of that party to
act with prompt patriotism in such a cri
sis. But it is so rare for men who have
just elected a President, and who dispense
such enormous patronage, to exhibit such
magnanimity as we have seen to-day, that
the evidence of it deserves to be highly
commended. Ive seen so much crime
and falsehood, such an utter disregard of
solemn oaths and obligations, as the fruits
of the so-called Democratic rule, that
when Mr. Lincoln was elected President
I hailed his triumph with all the more
joy because his hands were clear of these
infamies ; because he was under no cove
nant with the slave aristocracy.
In the coming campaign, although vic
tory is, iu my opinion, certain and sure,
we shall have a bitter and reckless foe to
put down. Should we fail, our defeat
will be accepted as a declaration in. favor
of the rebellion. The Administration will
be arrested in the prosecution of this holv
war, and the'sympathizers with Secession
will insist that their machinations have
been triumphant and their treason con
firmed. The Breckinridgers expect vic
tory because they have been so generously
treated and so kindly tolerated. Fulmi
nating their hatred of the country's cause,
in public and in private, corresponding,
with foreign monarchists who pray for our
downfall, some of those who had hidden
themselves in Paris and London arc qui
etly returning to their homes.. As to
these men, we have a right to demand
that the Administration of he. Federal
Government shall put the strong hand of
power upon them. The sympathizers
with secession, whether our elegant fi ieud,
Mr, Haldeman, from th'iB neighborhood,
whose correspondence with the traitor
emissary, T. Butler King, has only lately
sceu light, whether the editor of a news-
paper, who is only suved from punishmenl
by his own insignificance, or the faithless
representative who looks for re-election by
the votes of a people he has deceived,
they should be admonished that there is
a limit even to the indulgence and fjr
bearance of a great government; and that
they cannot at the same time enjoy its
protection and intrigue for its overthrow.
He who is false to the flag of his coun-t
try, and yet dares to live in the loyal
States, should either be competed to go
to a foreign land, or b'e driver! with the
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seal of condemnation on his brow among
the rebels themselves. Let the adminis
tration treat such men as enemies, and
with a firm and consistent policy the war
will terminate victoriously, and the ballot '
box will record an emphatic verdict ia
favor of the friends of the Union.
.
Speech of Hon. John C. Knox.
The following are the patriotic remarks
of Judge Knox upon, the occasion of his
assuming the duties of Presiding Officer
of the People's Union Convention, at
Harrisburg, oa the 17th inst :
The gentlemen of the Convention will
please accept my thanks for their kind
partiality in selecting me to preside over
their deliberations. I rejoice to be here
to-day, acting in concert with the true
and loyal men of Pennsylvania, regardless
of former political associations, and recog
nizing at this eventful time as the only
true tests of fellowship and communion,
love of country, devotion to the American
Union, a fixed and unalterable determina
tion to uphold and sustain the government
of the United States, and to resist to the
death the enemies of that government
whenever and wherever found.
I rejoice especially to be here because
I can in this way evince my desire to
strengthen the hands of that honest man
and patriotic statesman, the President of
the United States ; to cheer him on, and
to bid him and his trustworthy counsellors
God speed in their noble labors for the
maintenance of our government and tho
preservation of our country.' ' ,'
Yes, gentlemen, it is to me a source of
great pleasure to be able to declare that,
in my judgment, the men at the head of
our National and State administrations"
are, in this terrible crisis, doing their
whole duty, and are consequently entitled
to our entire confidence and our warmest
support
I envy not that man who cannot now
look beyond the platform of his party to "
the standard of his country. .
The question is not now which political
party shall administer the government, or
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whether there shall be offices to fill or a
government to administer; and until this
momentous question is settled, for one, I
shall act with the men who are the most
earnest in their efforts to destroy this re
bellion, and the most determined signally
to punish the rebels, their aiders and
abettors.
I repeat, gentlemen, that I have great
confidence in Abraham Lincoln and his
chosen counsellors, and I must be permit
ted to say that especially do I coufide in
the cleaj- head, sound mind and honest
heart of the Secretary of War, Edwin M.
Stanton, our own immediate representa
tive in the Cabiuet. I say this with a full
knowledge that of late a systematic at
tempt has been made to bring this officer
into disrepute, and to cause his removal
from the high and responsible position he
now so ably fills. " a
Every disappointed man, whether for
the opportunity of serving his country
with a title prefixed to his name, or for
furnishing the munitions of war, at largo
profits, visits fiis vengeance upon the
head of Mr. Stanton. Jfhe friends of this
officer cannot, of course, complain of the
most careful scrutiny into his official con
duct, and do by no means deny that he
may. like others, have committed mistakes ;
yet, when it is eeen that the mct unmeas
ured abuse is continually lavished upon
him and upon his acts ; that he is 'held
responsi&le for consequences to prevent
which has been entirely beyond his power,
and charged with disasters arising Irom
movements, which he neither counselled
hot directed, it becomes necessary to lok
for the causes which have prompted these
attacks.
For myself, I believe he has been thus
attacked, . , . '
1st, Because he is truly in earnest to,
his determination to put down this rebtl-
lion, and .
2d, Because he performs his official
duty without fear, favor or affection. .
Those of us who are personally acquain.-.
ted with Mr. Stanton, know that hig in
tellect is of the highest order ; that he is
possessed of a character for integrity,
which even majice has never flared to.
question, aud that when he undertakes to
jio,Jie does with ill his might. . . m '
I do not tfay that all of his opponents;
or those who counsel his renroTal f rom
the War Department, are either knavescr
secessionists; but I dosay, tha the North
ern sympathizers wiih. this wicked" rebel
lion, with great unanimity, assert that Mr.
Stanton ought nuk to ha the Secretary
of War, and tra:gvas it may 5eeui, tho
very iatriotic gentle meu Mho have not
objections ro contract wnicn yu?iu very
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the manner in whvcH-hc conducts hisade-f