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McClellan, TTORXEY AT LAW.——che in Westmd- A Still at Work I QAPHMAKIXG AND l'-L_"H‘l§“\H'l‘lH\‘(‘- —'!:he undersigned roepn-mfullr iuhnms his friends and the public l|l~l In? rnmlungs lhu Ummhmaking nnxl lilzu lwumlniu: lumnvss ‘in Every hunch in. his t-slnlxlidunvnf in Hunt - l-rréhuu btrcrt.‘llc has an h.m»l and will mnnuLu-furo tn nrdoruli kinds n! ('.\l!RlAlir2.\', * IH'GUIHS, SLEIHIH. Sp‘riulz “’:l_'olll9 ’4 " , , ~‘ . , .' V _ . Br H. J. STAHLE dasth Year- @ll2 @1152. “AT THE LANT.” J [This beautiful litth: poem appeared origina'l ly in the Independent, wnltnn on the pnséage “Hun greth forth unuLhis walk and mlhis labor mm] the cvcning."] ‘ , The stream is cahfiest when it ncnrs the tide, ' And flqurs ure sweetest at ‘the cveutide, ~ And birds most music") at. the (~lch of day, And saints define»: when they puss away“ .\lnrnin: ig: lovely, bu} a th‘ior charm . Liesfoldesl close in Pn'ening‘s mhe of balmy; And weury maxi quugevcilme be; best, ‘ For Morning culls to tell, but night Lowest. “ She come: from heaven, and on her wings floth henr , _ ‘ A holy fragrance, like the bran“! of prayer; Foqlst‘epa of angels follow'in “3;” truce, ‘ To shut the weary rycs of Day 1n pence. All things nre‘ hushed hefnre her ; ns she t]:!‘q“s U'c-r earth and sky her mnn'le «(n-pose; ' ' There is a calm, a bounty, and}! power ’rlm'l Morhinzknows not, in the Evening ham. l'mil ll": Evrning we must \\'ct-pnnd mil, ‘ Plough life‘s stern furrow, dig i'w yoedqunii'. Trwld with. son) feel our rough and [horny way, A'ud bear the bent nnd burden ofthe day. (My! when nur sun i: culling, mnr we giide, « n a” ‘ LIM- Summer Evening. down thq golden Mule; , . .\ud IL-uu- ’H‘hln'l us, M “c pnu‘nway, Sweet. slurry twflirzht munvl our 51w ping clny. figimfilnnwnfi. ~.1 . ’ . Ex-Premdent Buchanan’s - STA Tmnmvs Izmv'rm'u GENERAL ‘ smrrs. _ 'l‘” THE Fm‘rims or Tm; X.AT;OV.\L TVTELIJ REVCER :—-( )n \\'Hinosjny his! I _rpcuived the ‘\'rl/inlllll 1,./://:qnu-rr cml'nivuing l‘m'n. Sentt’< :ulclw» tn the puhlir'. 'l‘Lriq i~ thrmwhnut an nnoliwu‘sml cvmuro of mm» conduct during the lnct month: of mv .\dminiflru lion in regard to Hm sgven Cuttu n States now in rplmHion. Frofin mu- pnerelulioua _I “w: err-.xtly mun-km] at the nmmnrnncp nf' th ‘n pgnor. In one nspnct. meovvr. it “-::: highlv gratifying. It hm jnflifimi me. mv. it, hntrmlderorl it, nbmlutely ne nmmry that I slmulrl no longer remain silvnt i‘n )(Nvmrt to charge: which have ‘wcn long \'nl_'nr“\' oirvulnting. Ihurnre now m'ulnr~ce nrmnp «Ir nlmn ridiculous?" There is One umwor, hath emy mul econfiugi e, even ifolller \‘nlitl runmns (lltl nobexisL-L There were n'o m‘uilnlvle troops within rea'fih which'éould he sent to these fortifimtioifi. To hnve attempted a military operation It a scale my extensive by any means within the President’s pnwer would have heén simply absurd. Of this Gen. Scott himself seems to have been convinecd,.~fnr on the day after thexlnte of his first “viewe.” llé addressed (on the 30th October) supple mental views to the “In: Dépnrtment, in which he states: .“ Theie is om- (nyular) company in Region, one liaere; (at (he Ally-rows.) one, at I’ittaburg. one at Augusta, (Ga.,) one (I! Baton Rovige.”~in allfiuc companies only within, reach to yarn-{Minor reinforce lie: for}: mentiol'l‘cd in (In; “news.” Five _ panies—i’our hundred men—to occupylifnd reinforce nihe fortifications in' six highly excited Southem States! The ‘ force “within reach” was so entirelyinade quute that nothing more needgbe said on the shhject. To have attempted such‘ls .military operation ,with so feeble a force, |llnd the Presidential electibn impending. 1 would have been in invitation to collision , and secession. Indeed, if the whole Ameri ‘ can army, consisting of only sixteen thous and men, had been “within reach,” they would have been scarcely sufficient for this purpose. Such was our want (If troops that, although Gen. Scott, believing, in op- , position to the opinxon~of the committee ‘ raised in the House of Representatives, that 1 the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln might be -interrupted by military force, was only able to assemble -at'Washington, so late as the 4th March, six hundred and fifty-three , men, rank and file of the army. And, to make up this array, even the Suppers and * Miners were brought from West Point. 1 But why was there no greater force with- l in reach? This question could be better ? answered_ by Gen. b‘cott himself than by ahy i other person. ‘Uur small regulsrarmymitlu the exception of a few hundred men, were ‘ out of reach, on our remote frontiers,where it had been continuously stationed for years, to protect the inhabitants and the 1 emigl'ants on their way thither from thei attacks of hostile Indians. All were insul— ‘ ficieut, and both Gen. Scott and mysell'had endeavored in vain to prevail ufon Con~ grain: to raise several additional regimen .e for this Rurpose. In recommending this augmentation of the army, the General states, in his report to the War Department of November, 1857, that “it would not more ‘ than furnish the reinmrcements 110 w great- l ly'needed in Flbridt,’l%xm, Neji'Mexiéo, California, Oregon,Wushington,('l.‘§) Kmslh. 'Nebraskn, Minnesota, leevmgnpt a com-‘ Ammmfimm Aswan) mmuw mmwmu pnnv t‘or I'tnh.” Anrl again. in his report of November. lß’ilß, he myg ;_ “This went of troop: to give reasonable security to our citizens in distant nettle— mentx, including emigrants on the plains, ‘cz’tn scnrcely he too strongly stated; but I. ‘ willionly :tdll. that as often as we have been gobliged to withdraw troops from nne from 1 tier inzorder tp reinforce another, the weak-: enetl pointshave been instantly attacked on throuten‘e-l with fnrmitlahm invasion." ‘ These " View: ” nfGeneial Scott exhihit‘ the crude notions: thien prevailing even umong intelligent and tmtriotie men on this, subject of secesaiom ’in the first sentence.‘ the General, whilst stating that “to save time, the, right of hece-sieinn may he minced-1 e'l." yet immediately Shays, "thin i‘q instant t ly linln’nced hy the cormlative right on the part of the Federal Goqernment against an interior State or States to re—estnblish ~hy fiu‘ee, if necewnry, itq formei' eontinuity ol' territ'ory."’ (For thin ihe cites “Paley’s Moral, tinrl Political Philoqnphv, last chap ter.” It mey he thereflmtl have been un able m find it.) Whilst it in difficult to ns-‘ certnih hi: precise n‘lenning in this pftsuuge. he. )‘enderfi'wh‘nt4 he did run! mean quite clear in his sufileme'nL-u-y “view-z.” In these he says: :‘lt will be seen that the i View: make‘uynplin the present Uninn.” ’ The’falling o‘tlfimy of Texas, or ol'nll the Atlnntic~Stntes, them the Pntomnc south; che‘ very face which has: OcOlll‘l‘etL) wns not 1. within thqscnpn' at: (ifneral, Scott's “pm. ‘\'jnil’llllil remedie‘z :" that is In saw. to eStuh‘u ', li~lt l 3: Force. if' yiet‘esqtr)‘. the continuity of l' our te lrit'm'y.‘ In his "i-iewe" he also sttnee :as follqws: “Buttltreuk thin glnrinu-z ['niryn [v by when-vet line‘nrlinps that political mml' nm filmy contrive. until there would be no i’hnpe dl'tecruiting‘ the fragments except by l the lacefittion undil‘osrioticm of the swortl.‘ 'l‘n ethiotmteh remit thfe intestine was of l our Mexican neighbors, would. in compari , mn with nurtsink intq‘ more 'childjs play.” l In'illt‘i (lenerul's opm in. “a smaller etill f (than ilteke intestine s are) would be to ah i 3 low thh fragments'oftl‘is great Republic to aform {ht—mielves into new Confederacies, u‘pmbnhily. t'tun'." ‘ ' He then paint: tint wilmt ought to be the ‘bountlfries between the new Unions; and at the HM of: exit-It; ,né: so far us even to ‘intlient'r‘ the (title-5i whihh ought to be thel leapitnli: ot' the tll‘rt’i? firit on thi» gille of the ' ltlm-kvl‘Mnnntuithi‘ toi wtt: “Unlumhinw 3 South (fat-011115," 'g’A‘ltorim'Quincy, IllinnEm’K .nnil “.\.‘lhutry. New iYutlvd.” (mtiutlm:“’nsh-‘ ingtmi‘fihty ““0110“er The imln'atitm of cztpilal§ (‘Oltlflint‘tl gin tl e original, now inl my t ]vos\t*.~>inn. is curinhelv nniittetl in the, versionfpuhlishetl ih theL Ail/lona] [Il(:‘/I,v.iomst< in tlTeixf mild and wicked lit; tempt to shatter the Unan into frng'mmitg. From the great respect which I then enter tained for the General, I passed it. qrer in silence. ‘ - i I! is worthv of the remhrlé, that man 3ft“- the Prrsidemial electiod representations of what these “viewa contained. of more or less cdrrectfl¢a mire ux fortunntoly circu lnhld, especiully throughout the S)uth.-—~ The‘editnrs of Hm .\7115/4'nal IlliPl’iflem‘er, .in asfigning‘ a reusnn‘ foritheir publicatién, state- that both in ”WIN printfi nndm pub -110 Spec-chm, Minions Imd’been mudn to them.‘nnd some, misapfirehension in their character hm! got abroad. ‘ v II and I”. General t§cott states that he arrived in Washington on the 12th, and. accompanied by the Secl-etary of War, held a conversation with thel President on the 15th of December. Whilst I have no-recol',‘ lection whatever of th conversationphe dpuhtless states that Ifilid refuse to segd three hundred men to rfeinforce Major An dlarson at Fort Moultrie. who had not‘then removed to Fort Sdmtel'. The reason .for this refund is manifest to uleho recollect the history of the time; But twelve days before, in.the annual misting? of the 3d of December; I had urged penl ConcressLthe adofition of amendments to the Constitu tion of the same clmrhctcr with those sub sequentlyproposed by firl‘xittenden. call ed“ The Crittemlen Compromise.” At thet Ctilme high hopes were entertained‘through t the country that these would be adopt ed. Besides, I believedwnud this correctly, as the event proved, that Major Anderson ‘ was then in no danger of attack. Indeed. _he and his command were then treated with marked kindness by the authorities and people of Charleston. Under these circumstances, to ‘have sent such a. force there would have been only toimpair the hope of compromise, to provoke collision, and disappoint the country. There are some details of this conversa tion in regard to which the General’s mem ory must be defective. At present I shall specify only one. I could not have stated that on a future enntingent occasion I would telegraph “Major Anderson, of Fort Moultrie, to hold the Forts (Moultre and I Sumter) against the attack ;" became, with prudent precaution, this had already been done several days before through a. spectal messenger sent to Major Anderson for this very purpose. “I refer to Major BuelL of the army. The (leneral’s supplementary note of the same day, presenting to me General Jack son’s conduct in 1833, during the perxod of nullificntion. as an example, requires no special notice. Even if the cases were not entirely dlfl'erent, I.”me pxevioualy’gdeter mined upon a policy,“ my own, as willap— pear from my annu‘al 'messagé. This was. at every humid/Lo 'éollé’ct p 8 cuswms‘nt Charleston, any] outside ofjhe: rwfl‘ neqd be. in a ves'aelpf—wnr. Mr. 831 mm the u 1 . . v 11 I'3fo 13 Juan-n AM) WXLL PRzLUL. GETTYSBURG, PA-, MONDAY, Nov. 17; 1862- exitting collector, as I had anticipated. re— ; “igned his affine about the end of Decem- ‘ her, and immediatelv thereafter I nominat ed to the Senate, as his successor. a suitable Ker-son, prepared at any personal risk totio is duty. That body. howeveruthroughoub its entire. seseiotx, declined to net on thifi 1 nominationfi 'Fléun, without a Collector‘it was rendered impossible to collect the revenue. .3 ' ‘ IV. General ’i‘Scott's statement alleges that “ the Brooklyn, with Captain Vogdes’ compnny alone,ileft_ the Chesapeake for. Fort Pickens nltout Jnnuwry 22d, and on the 29th President Buchanan.‘liaving enter ed into a qm‘m’ a mi~tice with; certain lend-‘l ing seceders at‘taPerisncold nnd.elsewhere, canned Secretariés Holt and‘Toucpy to in- I “met, in njointtmte to the cpmmnnder ‘of the war vensels ofi‘ Pensacolmlnnd Lieuten nnt Slammer, cdmmanding FortrPickens.‘ to commit no ant nl‘ hostility, nnd‘not to lnml Captain Vogdes’ comfiuny u,nles< the fort. shonld be nttncked." He afterwards states, within buckets. “'l‘hntjoint the I never saw. but 3:")YDO‘3B the lirmistic was consequent uponi the. nleétinghfthe¥ence : Convention at, \\"nshington. and was under stood to terminate with it."_ i . These state-melts betray a ringulnr want I of memory on th, part of General Scott.— {.lt is scarcelv crtdihle that this very joint I note, presented ‘ n such odio 5' colors was gtJubmitted to (Mineral Scott n the day‘it l was. prepared, (29th Jnnuxjuv. and met his‘ tenure upprnhutifi‘m. I Would not: venture l to make this ass rtion if I (li linbt pdssese : conclusive erideiee to provei it. On that 4 day Secretary If It addressei'me n note. : from which [he {Mowing is n extract : P " I lzuce (It, svllleflu'linu of .wv/Zn‘y. Unit on‘ sull , nit/tiny the paper ' Gmernl Scott ‘lie ”pressed! i him-”‘o' mtiqfi'rd 111 it. sax/in!) that there Mil/(l bc‘no obj..ction to I (’a'rrangnnrnf in u mih'lmy pom! (J view or all wring” This requires no ‘ comment. Thatl ll} General had every ‘ reason to be natiutiet with tlminrrangement 1 Will appear from , he [allowing stiitementi: ‘ A revolutionnrjo break [mint-curred in Florida; the trdpp of the l‘nitod States hafl been expellell from Pensacola and the‘ oiliacent Navy Yiird andLicutennnt Siem nier, of the nrtilh‘ry, with his; brave little. command, hnd hfwn’ forced to' take refuge in Fort, Pickcngs, where he ivasiin imminent danger ei‘ery mollient oflmiug captured by n Vimtly superiorlt‘or‘ce. Owing tothe in terruption of rogillur communications, Sec— retary Ilnlt did "rt receive information iof them events unt‘ l several (l:nys.iit‘tci' their occurrence, imd then through a letter to n vthird peimn. llé instnntly informed the rPrc=idrnt of the fact. and reinforcementi, ‘pt‘OVlSlOllH, and iilitarv stores were dis putchcd by the finioklyn to Fort~Pickens without a nmmenti’sunnecessary delay. . She left Fortress Mum-ho on the 24th ofJnnuary; I . “'cll founded ripprehcmions were! how- i ever, entertnincd t the time of her depar ture that the reinFoi-cemcnts, with the ves wls of war at’noipreat distance from' Fort I'ickenu, c'ould no}; arrive intimate defend ‘ltnflfllli‘t- the impending attack. in this stnto ot'~u On Monday morning. 1 nave instructions to the War Hind Navy Departmenta. and on Monday evening Gen. Scott came to congratulate me that the Secretaries had :HSUN' the ne cessary orders to the array and navy officers and that they Were in hit! session; The Brooklyir, withlroope, mii’itry stores and provisions, was to sail lbrtlrwich from For» tress Monroe to Fort Sumteri. .I am. there fore. utterly at a low to imhgine why the: General,rin his statement. thould have u serted thatf‘the South Carolina commis aionets had [already been many days in Washington’; and no movement of defence . (on the part ot the United States) was per mitted.” ’l‘hese Commissioners arrived in I Washing‘tbn on the 27th December: 09118?- al Scott’s request was made to the Presi-i dent on the limb. It. was couyplied with on ' the 31st. and a single day is'a‘ll that repre-i‘ sents the “.many days” ofghe General. : ‘ Again.‘Genei-at Scott arse ts, in the face ' of these dots, that the President refused to { allow an; attempt to he mhdg-t—to reinforce ‘ Fort Summit—because he,b “ins holding ne- 1 . tiations with the South theolina Commie! s onerfi. 3 And still againptH’at “afterwards I S cretary Iloitfind myself findeavored, in! vain, to q‘htairte. shipof-war it: the put-pose ‘ and were finally obliged to 3' play the pas-i saucer steamer Star of th 3, West.” ‘Will'i it believed that the substitution of the; “Star oifthe West” {or thj powerful war' steamer Brobklyn, of wliici hennw com-“i ‘plaiuls; West by the advicelol Gen. Scott‘- . him'selfi‘ I have never héuiid this doubted i until I rehd the statement. 15! , At thie interview already i'ef'erred-to be tween the General and myueit‘, on the eve. ning of Monday. the Rlst ot'DecemberJ sug .ge‘xted to him, that althou‘ghz I had not re-i lccived the‘. South Carolina Commissioners} i in their dflicial capacity, but nflercly as pri-i vaie gentlemen. yet it might he considered ' an improper act to s‘end the'Broohlyn with I [reinforcements to Fort Sumter urttil I had i received an answer from them to my letter i of the priece'ding da ; that the delay could not continue more Eran forty-eight hours. I lie promptly concurred in this suggestion i as gentlemanly and proper. and the orders [were not‘trimsmitted to the Brooklyn on Ethat evening. , My anticipat one were’con Erect. for on_the morning of th 2nd ofJanu-, ry I received their insolont ole.l and sent' ‘it back to thelfi.——ln the. nicairitinie. howev er. the General had become iconvxnced, by the representatiims of a Igentleman!whom I i ,foriiear tomame. that thei hettfr plan. an the Secretarielv. of \Vtu' and the havy informed me, to sccprq secresy and em: ess-and _r'each the fort,~ would he to send a ast it for sending ‘ r iniorcementS. and that whin sent they should go. ct in a vowel ofc mmercm'hut of war. “Erica the counternlxml was ’des patched. h telegraph to New York; but the, vessel had nailed it short time before it reached tht officer (Col. Scott) to whohi it was addres ed." ~‘~ : . . A statemient lofthece facts. eitablished by dates, prodes conclusively that. the I'resi- ‘ dent was Tit. only willing It? anxious in the brjet'es period'to reinfor 'e Fort Suin ter. ’ 7 - . . 0n the 4t} ofJanuar-y, theday before the departure {the Starof the west from New York. as Grin. Scott in his gtatement admits, succor-was gsent to Fort Taylo Key West. toFort Jefferson and Tortu'gaskland, which reached these points in time fer their secu rity. He nevertheleus speculates on {the con<équenqes which mig it have followed bed the reinforcements not reached their destinationiin due time; and even express— a the extraordinary opinion that, with the pose-mien ohhese forts. “the rebels might have purchased linearly recognition.” ’ I shall next advert to the stgté-ment that the expedition under Capt. Ward, “of three or four small steamers belonging to the Coast Survey,” was kept back By something like a truce'oi- armistice. [made here.Le)m bracing Chair-lemon and Pensacola. her rs, agreed 'upan between the late President and certain principal _Secedérs of South Uarolina, Florida. Louisiana, éec. And this truce lasted to the end of the Administra tion. Things altogether distinct in their nature Are often so blended in this state ment thatit is difficult to separate them. Such is eminently the case in connecting the facts relative to Charleston with Pen sacola. j i }laving already treated of the charge of having kept back reinforcements from Pensacola,l shall now say something of the charge of having also kept them back from Charleston. Neither a truce, nor quasi truce, nor anything like it. was ever concluded between the President and any humun authority concerning Charleston . On the contrary, the South Carolina Com mlseioners, first and lust, and all the time. were informed that the President could never surrender Fort Sumter, nor deprive himself of the most entire liberty to send reinforcements to it whenever it was be lieved to be in danger, or requested by Mo.- jor Anderson. It is strange the: Gen. Scott was not apprised of this well-known fact.— It was then, with some astonishment, that I [earned froth the statement of the General that he had. on the 'thh of Mumlullefif, 'sdlvised that M“jol‘ Anderson should be in- Wm" C IMRE TWO DOLLRB A-YEAR structed to avncunte the fort as soon a: suilahte trampormtion could be procure-d i to carry himself and his command to New York. A“ military necessity for a capituln tion min" have existed in case there should bean attack upon the fort, Mia demand for it!) slim-end". but surely note such could hive «ti-ted for its golunthry surrender afi’d nhmdonmont. 5 ’ / Probably that. to which the {lateral means 'tnret’er was not the quasi. b t the actual. tnneo ofarms concluded nt ChnHmtohmn {hp 11th ofJanunryJStßLhemoergovernorl’ick- em and Major Anderson} with‘ at the ,ltnnw ledge of the President. : It. w s or. the 9th of January that the Star of ne West. un. der the American flag, as firqdupnn in the harboriof Charleston b orde of Governor Pickens. Irnmedilltely; nflei-Fthis outrage Major Anderson sent. a; flag a the Gover nor smtingv that he presume the not had been unauthorized. and‘; io‘r t In! reason he had nobopened fire frdm F t Sumter on the. adjacent batteries ; but. emnnded its disavownl, and if this were iot sent in a reasonable time, he would go sider ii war, and fire on any. vesselgcligt Tattempted to leave the harbor. ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ ' (l‘wo days 'nfler this Loom once. on tlii,l 1 h Jinnarv, Governni- Pic ens hud tho, in unity tovdomand of Mnjnr Andeison lho 5 mm” of tho fort. ,ln hisinnswer oftho sn. edhta, the Mnjhr made the following p posifion :' “Should! you , Excellpnoy d em’fit, previous tan. rksort arms. to rp~ for this mainly to \Vnshingto , it would af ford mé the sincernst 'plohniire to depute one of my 0&1;er to azlctwmpanv any,mes 'sepgpr you may doem p ope-r to he thebmr— -9rlof_your demand." Train pi-bpMitmn was pflomptly accepted by ti ‘9 Govhrnor. «ml in' pursuance thereof. he s t. nn'lliis'pnrt “on. J.‘ W. lliLyne, the Amome‘y General of Sdnth Carolina. to Wmhingtop. whilst Mfr jnr Andérsnn deputed Lieutlllnll. of the United States ‘Army. to acconipnny him.— Tliese gentlemen arrived tngejliprin Wimb ingtnn on the evening of lb‘fiqiilll of Jnnu- M'y,‘when the Presidenfi obt’nmé-dftha first. knowledge ofithe Humiliation: Bufi'it. will be recollecled that no time intervened be twgan the return of the Star aftlie West.- to New York and the arrivial oftiw mésseifizor bearing 19. copy of the truce at Washington} within which it would have [em pomible. to'sgnd reinfarcements to Fort Sumwrr— Both evéntsloccurred u.’ ut {hie same time; ,Tlius a truce. or Suspe siomof arme. was concluded between the pin-lion". to'coutinuw until the question of—‘lhie Sui-fender of the fort should he decided I theirl’residenh— Until lbiLdecision Mn or Anderson had placed it out of his own powofitn ask for re-- inforccmentn. land eq’ually out. bl" the pnwer' oi the vaernmem. to send thifm without a violation of ppblic amt. This was mm. writérs (in public law den mingle “ a pdrtial truce under which hostiilcie~ alosuspendcd only in certain ’places. between a town i and the army besiegii!gs.”. ' It. is possible that theil‘rosident. under the laws of war. might. have qnnulled thin truce upon due notice to tiheommaitopnrty; hut. neither Generai Satin, n 'r tiny othm‘ person evc-rsuggested thli exvuglliont. This would lmvc- been to out a reflehtimi on Ma jor Anrlpraonnwho. beyond question, noted from the highpst and puémt motives. Did Gen. Scott ever propotio to gvjolnte this truce «luring in existen 6? It he did,,l am not now, rmd.nrvin>r was, ‘nware ot‘lhe fact. Indeed. l think he would‘hnve been one ofthe last men in the world to propoae such in measure. 1‘ Col. Huyne did not deliver the letter which he bore from Gov rnur 'l’ickt-ne, clev munding the surrender % thei tort. to the President until the 31st t'Jn‘puary. Q’l‘he documents containing thé- reafons for‘this worrying delay” were #omrqunicntnd to Congress in imrrcial mm age of the'Bth of February. to Which I refeL the'remler, {9h the sth of Februnrv. the -cretnrv of War. under the imtructions nt' thé P'rfisident. ,gnv‘ea peremptory refusal to‘this demand in :m able and mmprohonsiv’p h-tter‘ _rc viewing the whole subject, oxpluining and justifying“ the conduct. of the President. throughout. Its concluding {sentence is both eloquent. and emphatic: ; ' “ It'. (says Mr. Holt.) with all the multi plied proofs which Qxibt of the' President's anxiety for peace. and of thumrnvst‘nm {with whiph he had pursued it.:the nutltnri ities of that State shall metault Fort. Sumter and impnril the lives ofa‘lmndt'ul of brave nml loynl men shut up within its mm, and thin plunge our countryrinm‘ the horrors of civil war. then upon tlmman‘d th‘ose thoy represent must rest the rhsimnsibility." The truce _was then ¢nded, and Gen. Scott, is incorrect, in stating “ that it. hailed to the end of that. Administration." ; An expedition was quii‘etly fitted onl M. New York, under the supervision of (ion. Scott to be ready for any qoutingency. -llc arranged its details. and regarded the rein forcements thus provided‘ for he s (fieiént: This was ready to sail for Forgjmter, on five hnurs’ notice. It is of this etpedirion that Gen. Some thus spealjs; a , “ At this time, when th s (the truce) had passed away, Secretaries Holt and Toucy. Capl.Ward,ofphoNavy, atg'd myselfmith the knowledge of the Prosidepb, settled upon the employmentmnder tha Captain. ofthree or four sbenmets belonging to the Coast Sur vé’y’, but he’mis kept back by the truce.” A strange inconsistency, The truce had expired ivith Mr. Iloit’p letter to Col. H ne on_the sth of February, and Gen. Seat in his statement says; “ it would have been easy tn' reinforce this fort dawn to the 12th of February.” Why, then. did not the reinl’orcements proceed? b'l‘his wax simply because of communications from Major Anderson. It was met fortunate that they did not: proceed; because the three or four email steamers which were to hear them ivould never have reached the fort. and in the attempt mix-it have been captured or destroyed. The vast inadequa cy of the force provided to accomplish the object, was demonstrated by information received from Major Anderson at the War Department on the last day of the Adminis tration. ‘ I purposely forbear at present to say more on this subject, lost I might, however unino tentionnlly, do injustice to one or more of the parties concerned, in consequence of the brevity required by the nature of this' commumcation. The facts relating to it"; with the appropriate accompaniments, have been fully presented in a. historical renew, i prepared a year ago, which will ere long be published. This review contains a‘skewh of the four last 111911th of my Administra tion. It is impartial; at least such is my honest conviction. That it has not yet been gubiished-hu arisen solely trom an appre ension. noionger entertained, that some thing therein might be unjusdy perverted into An interference with theGovernmént in l vigorous‘ prosecution of the’ In for the mninuenlnceflof the Conétitufion Dad the reatorttmn of the Union, which nu. fir, r r a: n‘ 91 "' veiy‘ BrYfl‘ofi’l Iy figféfi‘ffofi.‘ no} I ‘ A m canton-aro- t. an 1 decllnrejmfore God anmy"country.ml I cannot. reproach myselfwith any act doom: mimon or omission since the exiuiqxttal-g bios commenced. l have never doublod' that. mfr countrymen Would yet do mutant-1 the. nmy special messaged the of January. 1561, I presented a full nn'd‘h'sr, expo-« Mon ot'the nlnrmmp condition looj country, :lan urged Congress either‘ 39 ads-P": measures of compromise. or, failing int 3.? to preps") for the lust alternative. In both? aspects my recommendation was disregard—l ed. 1 shall close this document with (“,Iqu lotion ol’ the last sentences of that manage; as follows: , - , E “In conclusion. it may be permittedma? to remark that I have often warnedny; countrymen of the dan are which now curl mund us. This [My $8 the In: “me If shall refer to the subject ofiicinlly. 1 fed] thob‘my duty has been faithfully. tho h it: mhy be imperfectly, performed ; and law“ eve-{the result may be, lahull gnu-y to my} grave Ath‘e consciousness NM 1. M hunt! meant. well for my country.” ‘ Your obedient servant. * ~ Jun Bananas. Wilcatland. ntar Lancaucr, Oct. 28, 1862. No. 6- MR. sfififion EHANéIpAnON. When Democrdtic journals’urge, menthol of the objections to the President's emanéi potion proclamation, that it is moon-titu tional, the advocates ofthnt unwise mealtime, in order to escape the issuer, ascribe to them motives inconsistent with loyalty. But-the Democracy are not oonfied to ergumenu of their own to show thelunconstitutinng'lity of- the Abolition edict. Amonfthe m'nny authorities whom they may cite in juttin _cation of their views is Mr. 89mm}. the present Secretary of State. On thrEZd hf {'ll pril. {ML—after the war had nptuelly he l gun—Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Dayton, ouri A Minister to Paris. the tollowing exposition lofthe views of the Adtninistration, the enr i respondence having been sinheofiicinlly poo mulgated : S / 'I» 2‘ .. The condition of slavery in the "Mini 1 States will remain just the some, wlmtherjt ’(tho rebellion) succeed or fail. Time yin not even a pretext for the complaint that Hiifinllected States ore to be conq‘uered hythe i United-Staten if the revolution 'ail ,- for the fright: nf thezi‘tntea. and the condition'ol’ levnry human hoim: in,them, will remain tmhinct to exactly the same laws and form! ’of. (rlminiatrqtion whether the reviolution l-hnll succeed. or whether it shall fail. :ln lone case the States would be federally coh jnect d with the‘new Confederacy; in the lathe; thoy,‘ha now, be menillr-rs nflllo _ Unit d States: but their constitutim n and :luwn, custnmq. habits and institutioiim,:in l.efilu‘r: case will remgltn the some. i 1 l j J “ It is: hardly necessary to add to thisjin icontestihln statement; the furtbnr tin-Mint lthe‘now Peeident, as well as the citizens lthrou’uh whose sufi'rnges he he: come into i the Administration. have always repudiated ‘ .11“ designs whntever imputed to. him Mild i‘them. of disturbing the system of slaving nu it is existing under the Constitution “th i laws. The case, however, would not he 11$ .1)' profiontod if I were to omit to any thtt lnny such etfort on his part would be uncqp istitutinnnl nnd all his actions in that dim)» . tion would be prevented by Vthejudicinliiu ' thority. oventhcugh they were assentedklo by Congress and the people.” ‘ I WORDS 0F PRUDENCE. :1 3 The Xewngryport‘ Ilefald, a Repdblicng'l paper. says 1. I N ‘f 4‘ To‘our minds tlm oleclinns'jud talent plnee are A popular condemnntifion of radi mlism; they are a warning to baity lande é: they are a declaration in favor @f'a I'o3me tion of the counti’y to what it wmoriginalg.‘ and they nre a vote Snfnyor of xmwuu a earliest/hour it can ballwl ‘on lit-nongblb mfmn. . If the Republic'nns will read flip writing‘upon the wgll. and being wmfwd, t-oiect ultra lagers, and measures of doubt ful utility to‘, Say the least. they will ypt stem the tide and keep in their own hand” the adjustment of the present quutionh that must soon be settled. Tlul people ul‘e capable of self-government,~nml if they cali not dothat one way they will dnothem-L- The people will hnv€the Constitution and the Union, and everything else will lmve lb bow before that olject.‘ ‘ ‘ , 7 A Great lelnl.-’—Wo hear the Abolition presses and weaker: daily mouthing “oui' arr-at cnuntvy."—-Wel|. who undo it ”all? Echo nnawers—L"The Democm‘cy." Why is it great, ‘or rather was it great? 'Becauuit extends over‘h boundleaa, a rich and varigd territory. Who added this territm'y I‘d thus made our pountry gi-eat? Echo Again answers, “The Democrach" Who opto sed for a half century, the making ott ”‘in A "great country Y" Thd‘New England Fed}! «rs-lint: and the modern Abol tionist'M-w When was our "pl-mt country" destroyed? When these New England Federalisfl Incl modern Abolitionisls got into power»? What impudunoe is it than for the“! fuel? 11,6 now talk about “our great and gloriuup comltl'y.”— Olu'o Crick. \ ‘ 1' ‘ fi'A Western Poet has written 3 Hymn. intended to be sung by Cong-us. dun-mg in session next winter, immndmtely after pra’yers. Thu foklow'uig stanza 'u a Ipooiio men : ‘ ‘ ‘ From Africa the negm camp, , al‘ And. 0 Co'ngrm him his name: i 3 Stand! up. good aneioy. bless. the day, The negro came from Africa. ,» > In h;m we live. in him we mayo; - ‘1 For hm: we preach, for him wo-priyé— For him we meet. from day to day, -} That colored cuss from Africa. ‘ 1 mule}; said to lug 550,000,000 div. our soldiers, ‘ Some regim‘enu have not 6a ceived a cent for eigh‘t months, send a Jul-‘0 number have been without [my sis monthti. So says the N. Y. Trilnuw. and i? it h true i; is diugroceful go the Government. 00an tors and swindling fun-ite- do not havojp wait a day {or the money they claim. but the poor soldier goes unpaid. Can't tho Oovvrnmcnl: machinbry make money flit enough to meet the demands 7 Ifnot. than let all other claims go, and ply tlwsoldipf'p promptly. Good policy and justice both demand-this. ’ I " More Ncgvoa. —The Telexrabh Innnunm that another boat-loud of negroes, 360 in number. arrived at Washington on Friday, having been brought up from Sufi‘ulk. Norqh Carolina. They were immediately sent lo the contraband camp. (here. of course. to Be fed at the government eXPense. whilelomo ofour poor soldieramccordingtoail account, are suffering for the want. of shoes and clo thing and have not received a cent ofpay in six months! 1% this right? Is itjulfl ne‘A pplos are so plenty in Westarn N6l! York that they can be bought for finy cent. a barrel! Potatoes 3911 an no symptoms of dlituse, and the best, ones are mld for $1 I barrel. including package. One farmer has an orchard of chums grafted‘fruit Ind otfered the whole of his crop of up In pl twelve and a half cents per bushel. tfieplu chaser to gather the fruit and select only such as he wanted and could sell. I Tax on Attorneys.—Judge PAige, of “30 Supreme Court of New York, decided AM days since that the clause in the Nationnl Tax Law requiring attorneys to’tnko oufig' license. applies only 1.0 those who pram in the Ufiibed States Courts. ' ‘4 r QM“. General McClellan bu gone Txmtgn.‘ 19.61., :ihfiere she expecte‘ he“ ' unin‘ urin e' her. ~ ' " ‘ ‘vfi-fn 25th the people are M; m of blackberry leans. , 2