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NEATIN - G-SAE.OO HE .SUBSCRIBER ' announces, to the Public 1 . that he has Purchased the stoek-of.the sa— loon:formerly kept by W; kl. Baker,. West hide . . . , . -. •• . • • • • Public... Square . . where he is prepared to refresh the inner man' with all 'the delieues;usually kept at 'first i!lass RESTAURANT. . . . . "ALE, CIDER, CONFECTIONARIES, NUTS, . • • FRUITS, CHEESE, &C„ &C. . • : • FRESH. OYSTERS served, , to .order, either raw or cooked, ' - • ' ' Thnse.who . favor me with their , patronage shall have no cause to 'Complain, either as .to prices or quatity : . •J. L. WORDEN‘ . . :rrethport , , Sept 24th, 1863. • • . • • • DR. W. Y.: M'COY., • • •• • . SOURH-EAST CORNER MAIN STREET •• • timpthport, Pa.... • • __ . : • • Physician and Surgeon, Smethpoit, Pa:, will attend to al professional.calis with promptness.. Office two 'doors . north of tho Democrat Office.. . . . W. S..BROWNELL . . Dealer in Dry Goode, Groceries, • CroCkery,..llarlware ' - Boots, Skein; Ilats, Cope; Glass, Nolte,' Oils &c., &c East side of the Public Square, Sructliport, Pa'. L. I - I_EATI-I, TANNEA, & CURRIER, PORTAGE, McKean Co., Pa SUBSCRIBER flattPrs' • himself—from lotirexperienceohat he cannot he excelled, in the businese: • Partieularattention will he paid'te CUS,TOM . WORK.:For:the'Convenienee Of those, living at a distance wishing to have tanning on shares arrangements have been made 'with L. R. Pol icy; at Port,Allegany, who will, take the de— livery of thellydes and. the Leather will be re.. •turned Store, when tepned.. . • The largest price will he paid for flyde.;eith ei .in cash,•LEATHER,.I39OTSi BHOES, or HARNESS, left at 'Dolley's , or my,tannery. Entire satisfaction giyed . Conn'ected. • with '64 tunnery have ;a. Boot Shoe•lactori;.and . Harness Shnp. • . Po'rtage; Pa., Nov. 3, 1.862. PROSPECTUS 'FOR 1861. .1111) SATURDAY ..EVENING POST; "Tho oldest and hest of.tho Weektios." , .. ~ The, Pen[Winton of the ;56 tu•day Errnin;.; Poit—which paper is now in 11,F Forty-thit4 l'iat7—would olinply an nounce In their • Prospectus for' 1861, that they design maintaining' tot ti I it weekly Lho high charactei it handl- A F i [:9' CiaSß L ,i t.erark l' per! . . They'llare reason to polio io that the atoned of MRS. WOOD, author or•• East byene,ii Am; MISS. BRADDON, 'anthprof " Steno i s Victory,',' . MARIONIIARLAND, author of."*Alone,'i ; VISS VIRGINIA A. TOWN. SEW', and numerous other eiceelleut writers have 'been generally, regarded as possessing'ilie greatest merit and the most absorbing interest; and they -.design procuring for The, Post In the future MI In the ptist„the best Steriiis, 'Sketches, and other Literary Novelties which they can possibly obtain. ,They jtitnud commencing is the. first jape!' in . Januars.,• • • • . • -A NEW. NOVEL; .BY MRS. WOOD; •:. 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U!,6poolumu uquibilis of Tha Post:wit grotto., Att. drost , • .DEAcoN •. N* o . a" Vulnu tSs. Phila. 'WE AFUATION. I'ROGRAMME. Ip the speech ofWENDELLPufir.ips we find clearly stated' aid boldly advanced ' ;• the riex. step:in•the atiblition' • programme, which. tire, embroiled a nation in war, then prostituted a. war for the Union into war far abolition and 'now demands for the .negro not merely. Oman- cipatiOn, not; namely political and social eq•. uality with the whites, but alio . ..the .con t . ffsction of the iciuthern . landaand theft division' . . among `the .blacks: “The 'North," . eapi. Mr. ""has conquered the South; let her di vido it among her.nohles, blackund white and We are safe.'.!.“Confiscate thi land of the South and put it into the.'hands of.the Degrees and . the White men Who have fought fdr it, and you . may go to sleep With yotir parehinent. All will be Well: • c!Thia . naton...oisres to the negro .not merely freedom, but land'and ethichtion. It is a debt' which will disgrace us befoke' the world if we.dO not pay . it. This is the first , louging of the negro. His instincts . ere better then our . . . Emancipation, aholition,Oonfiserition; .south ern lands, for landless negroes! This is the' programme.. • The . Trilain •esuSual;..wait six 'months and then follow WENorMi. PriMmrs's lead,.face ' foremost'.'The . Times. will. visit abOht ten months, and .then follow as usual ; haeleforemost. Meanwhile it squirms is this The fact is Mr.. Phillips and the. fanatics who follow his lead, hive be - come complete monomaniacs on the 'subject. of the negro. They have brooded eo bong over his wrongs that they. cannot . conceive that anybody else has ar y rights. They; claim , for nprods.vir , tues; immunities, prlyileges and rights which they would never dream of elaiming • for whites they profess to suppOrt the Constitution until it stands in the . way of their .schemei for negro' snpramaty; then' they aband omthe Constitution and stand by the negro.. Their test of patrio tism is devotion 'to the negro. , They fare for preserving the U . nion,if it will help the ne groes; if not, they;are for destroying it. They are for prosecuting, the war becauie it will help the negistel; the moment theylind•or fancy' it will not they. are for peace. Mr. Phillips %conic! infinitely :prefer disunion" With the' abolition of slavery to the Union without it; and so would the, great body of those who accept him as their political guide. • .. : . • . . . . if is becoming fashionable in some quarters to speak of.this as !fivi6on4iliona/ loyalty." • . . This' is alLtitie.of Mr. PriiLLIPS. But it' is double4aced . pusillanirnity in the There has beeitrfO organ 'o` the• administration more servile'. It has indorsed:'all .the 'abOlitionism Of the adminiatration'and praised , Mr..LINCOLN as another WAsrlfuoTo:s.' and. the Times practically stand . to-day Where 3V.6DELL ir'nfrr.r.n.s stood a year ago.. One year, hence it will indorse all that Mr. •Pnir.r.irs advocates nr , t .ler,Ouneing in' the same bredth me pro gram,...e 'for the lature: then' ahead. Bet Whi delay? : .You' :haVe the adininfstralion. F.,110W your' leader, gentlemen.. Abolition, con fiAcation, .extermination. orie step more, 0 Rinfblicans., 'Keep in line; •no 'stragglers. Southern lands for southern .slaves! ' • EXCHANGE OF . PRISONERS. We believe it generally known that the exchange .of prisoners of wit Was suddenly stopped sometime last summer, and, has .not since been resumed; but the veason. of this sud den siopPage,'and long' .suspengion of a System .Wisely instituted for the alleviation orat:Jeast a portlen.Of the•rigere,' of war, is not so • well .understood.. Poi months past the. iinittiry has been' on - every.person'i tongim, ea What stopped the exchange?" '‘ , When.wilLit be resumed?" "Whose faultis it?" &c., &c But' nobody giVe satiefeetiiry answers, and could only stispect thattlie everlasting negro was .in It now clearly ascertained that such .is 'the fact. The interruption was caused by the capture of Come hupdred•or so negre. soldiers,. whom we• had employed, together with the white officers who commanded them. ' This class of.prisene'rs the Richmond' authorities' refuse to'deliver,up, eod tbe ..Waebington thorities decline to exchange: any, unless 'rill •are It is asserted and not .'denied, that the cOnfederates'are Willing to' exchange man for man untilthey. 'cnme down to the ne grossoilleging in justification, that: , many of these.negrbes have heenidentified.amlreclaim,. ed by their Masters; and ,that they. had preVi.; (Wily given notice to thelfederril horiffes,- tha .any seldiers;. Or officers commanding them--Nyhether lyfi4e or black—if captured, 'Would not be treated as soldiers, but be held amenable for violating their laWs against Mel— ting to.tlarriestic insurrection. l• ..Thus stands.this grave matter; Some four teen or fifteen thousand whits' men.are held as prisoners by each 'party, and-thus exposed .to 11110 hardships and Sufferings as:Will consign many of them to prepature graves, and render a large majority:of the remainder totally unfit for the activeduties et life for all time tncorne, merely because some hundred or so of “Lin coin's pets" cannot be' placed, upon terms of “perlect equality" with our white soldiers.— Because Mr. Lincoln cannot convince those stubborn and blind rebels that negroes are just as, good as white men, Some fourteen or fifteen thousand of our noble heroes are compelled to suffer all the'rnagpified hardships and horrors . of the Richmond prisons. The fathers, mo thers, Sisters,.brothers and wives of-our noble boys, are_daily compelled to read the most frightful pictures of the starvation of these. loVed ones in the prisons of Richmond, and all because Lincoln, Stanton &.Co., have deter mined to carry oitt their ravolutionary and fa• naticalideas or negro equality. • • • ' 'lf. these, negroes, and .their. white officers, possessed the spirit of true men, they • would say to their 'government,' “go on. and relieve frornthie suffering all who can be released restore to their friends and families, and to the Union armies - . all who : can be. restored by ex change, and we : will, wait the result of future events.'.':We knew the risks to. which we were exposed•wfien We entered the 'service; •and we ask nor that others 'shall linger in centinement because we cannot share their good fortune." —Clearfiald Republican. - • ===l TheMissouii question remains unsettled', and it is understood that 'no successor. of General Schofield wilt be appointed until, the latter' is conliitned by the Scent?.. 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PHILLIPS ; but, irt his speech the other' night, hc:nsed A fig,ure'so apt that we are content to, borrow it, although in a different ,sense' from what h'eititended. • PHILLIPS: said that Demo- cracy is a raft.: The waves may wash' .e . ver keeri.yourteet wet; but. no' storms : can sink it: We,do not stop to', inquite :whether Thiel,' true . of 'abstract democracy, though . we believe it is; but , Vve confidentlyapply it to the Democratic. Party of the country.. The waves indeed; ashed over Itin the late . elections, but only freshwater sailors or land-lubbersean have any fears that it will - therefore go•down. Fig ures of speech, of course, are not arguments; we will rink metaphor, and. pioceed to state, as succinctly as possible, the .grounds of our confidence in the enduring .vitality of the•Demo= Paretic party. • • • • ' . Ifthe Demoeratic party is founded on Mir ciplea which are trite in themselves and adapted to this epoch ,'the party will'endure.; Otherwise not. - :In our' estimation, the .Democratic party is founded on principles that can never becorne obsolete. • It is in the very nature of power to encroach - On liberty; the history. of, political) freedom in all ages,in.the history' of struggles', in whidh,popular " rights soil local franchises are engaged on one side, against the lust of &min; ionon the other. It is a contest of the . tights of 'the many against the domination of, the few . a contest thatwill have to he perpetually ,re= newed as long as the world stands. • •. The, DemOcratic party Of this country • came into being at the first formation or_ partied onr der our governneent. It has stood' its :ground and maintained its identity front that' day to this, While its:opponents have, undergone ''as Many changes • as; PILOTEUS . . 'lt' has outlived the Federal 'party,: the National, Republican party, the' anti-Masonic party, the Whig party, the Know Nothing party;. arid the Black Re-., publican party, its most recent opponent, is iii its last agonies, try ing• to shuffle off its mortal coil andnppear in a new body as the- so-called llnion party. The old. Federal and Whigpar ties did not fall through froni any . want of tal ents and ability; they, doubtless; • had morelo tellectual. cultivation in proportion totheir num t:ban the pemocratic party has everhad. Rut talent is naturally ambitious, and nmbitien• covets,. power; while the sure instincts and unbiased comm'on'sense of the , people 'always ' guide' them , to .correct conclusions respecting their rights. and-:interests..'The •llernderatic partyshas 'flourished undecaying youth .be cause it has away been in sympathy with , the .-asses of the people.' . Superficial thinkers, who are capable of see-, ing nothing in, political struggles but' their cos in'are,ard'apt. to fancy that when the Alien and • Sedition laws,' andthe bank question, ,and• the • tariffroestion, and the . internal 'improvement question halie become obsolete, the Democratic 'party is therefore hastening to its , giave.; 'But all these separate questions , are only the battle: ' geld On which successive' contests have" been I maintained between popular rights on the one side, and thlist of.poWer on the other. Ever I since our government was founded there has.:. been a . party which' aimed the its' . 1 bands rtiore power than the Conititution, .with out a strained construction, confers upon it. It i has been the.•miaaion or the Democratic party, ever-since the origin , of .parties under the ad- 1 ministration of the elder. ADAMS, 'to resist, and 1 chr;ck this tendency... . To say thet . the Democratic party has' out grown the necessity for its existenco linpiees either great ignorance of its iirinciples.or, gr.fiat i'grierende,OP the tendencies.of the 'tithe. 'The one 'thing which the'Demec:ratic party has 'sites; (lily athl'persisteetlysilane trim the fiegieing; is to rf , Fist the arrnmulation of power ,by .the federal goyernmeet. What ' a '.set . .of political hats must. thejouinaliste bejhrit libourin the'• day-time and tletdttre that the 'Democratic, party has outliyed the issue -. on which it ;was toundedltiere has never: been a time when the tendency to the . centralization of power in the federal government was a Aretlth part as great ,as it is now, Arid 'yet those journalistic bats. who. see . all the. Worse in proportion as the light is. stronger, their membranous wings, andory out that the Derko-. bratic party is not adapted to-the. present con juncture. ',Such persons 'never understood' the Democratic parlY. The. Alien and Sedition laws vested . dangerous powers in the bead Of the,fetleral government. .That pnriicular dues tion hae been obsolete e.ver'sinc . e. the election of ',Tsirsososv but .the principle that. the Tederc ul governtnent must be reseraincd • within . the granted poweis can, never become :'obsolete, because attempts to unduly enlarge the auth ority. of ;the' federal government will. 'never cease to 'be :made.' :The United States B.:lnk' ended to cOhsolid,otien by allying the, whole money, power ot - the country.with the tendency to federal, usurpation; and eu this ground it Wes 'opposed by"the Democrat ic; - party . . The . party opposed'a general . sytem of internal improve men teen precisely the same principle, •Disburs ing 'Vast'sunis of .money fur local purposes.was uncolistitutional, .and it wbuld have created a. Mass of patronage' dangerous. alike to liberty rind to. political purity . . A high tariff 'anover grownrevenue, and profuse expenditures would in like manner;'hai , e tended to render the, ccn tral: authority , too strong the' Democratic party was; therefore, bound, by its, principles to.oppcpse'a high tnriff. . These particidar ques-' tions,.in their turn became obsolete"; ,but the pemocratic party did not die' with them, lie-- causeilts, principles are as perennial *as.: is the tendency of 'power to niurpatioh and abuse. The question of sla'very iii the territories . was the next battlefield; bet it was still Ole same war between centraliied power on the one side and local popular. liberty on' the other, ~ The black Republicans were for.clothing the, dener: alloverennekt with complete poWer' over the ocal institutions of all ..the territories Deenocra tie varty, vn!ler the vigorous: leader = ship of . Douct:As s stoodup• ler popular ,nover- , Had . ...the question been .. left in the; hands.pfthc.eontreunitics,irnmetliately interest ed,. thiS cruel. war Iliotld never have taken It ace. What we be.'retidei particolerly to remark is;•that, throughout our whole'p,olitionl histor'y, although the' costume has ; frgtiently..been changed, 'it ~ has.'nlWays heen 'the same identical struggle between. exorbitant - .federal' pretensions on_the one ,side and popular libeity,• on.the 'To suppose ttat this stioggle has become ohseleV; only betolon.s the.Shar— levness the:supposez. ,To fancy that the IMII2IIMIMi !`, 'Democratic.ptirty has, no work' before. it,' the 'Performance of which is•denianded by its min eiples;.is. td be as incapable 'of discerning 'the sign! of th,e•timesi as a'bat is of seeing in .the day-time. If the Democratie party. were anni hilated to-day it. Would spring . 4 again. morrOxv4. It lain the ''fiatuie of: 'thing's tblit 'oVerigroWn • power will•berenne oppreesiie, and that part of the' commuoity who hope to'sfiare , neither the power nor the plunder--that is ip say, the Democratic masses will resist, • - . I3itt what is 'the .prospect : now TO • those who are capable of looking beneath the seance, of things and 'se.etng the Principles that underlie', them, thepro'spect was never better.. *ark! we' do not say : that the prospects of the .conistry were never better (fur Gon knows they were ,never worse), but that the•vitnlity of the Dime- . cratic party was'pave!' so sure 'to assert itself.. Burdensome . taxatinn,:suffering,, wretchedness; will come to the dwellings of the .coinmon, peo ple, and they, Will ih'alce- the Illach• Republican templetill net one stone is . left upon another of its ruins. Thisii as certain : as that night. Ml lows day; and, in revolutioney times lika•these changea in public sentiment are often verreud dem. In August, last year, the Republican, felt secure'ora large‘Majotity in• every state; - but' the fall elections, nevertheleas, all•went against them. , This fall the Deinocratic raft dipped to the trough of the' sea, end' the. waves' went . over her ; : lnit the Storm ia bigh; . and She will' mount With the 'bounding billow. ' She is so . constructed 'that' nothing' can Sink her.—N. Y. - . ' THE`POOR CONTRABANDS. It is:impbsoible to rend without comm islera . , . . tion reliable oacounte of. the. destitution And suffering of the poor , freedmen now gathered' together in camps at different points along the P.ilisstssippi. Four thousand have died of dee- titution within 'three menthe - in- the . camps neer Memphis; and-÷sueh is the wretched con 'dition of the fifty theusandsurvivore, scattered between Memphis and Natchez—it is said by . those who have visited them that more than half .wi fdie this winter, of cold, hunger and filth. Weistesumesthecise is not very differ ent at other points where the poor 'wretches have been gathered in large 'numbers. • • What a',•lesson this should 'be to mock. or mawkish .philanthropy. • These miserable .ricans, healthy; edmtortsble . and happy before the. reign Of Abolitionism, are now passing away tinder:the pressure of.sufferings,' at the mere recital:of 'Which the heart bleeds. - ,They are without' shelteriWitho,ut clothing;,. Without foodaged and decrepid ' men , and. women, ,childhood and .infancY,,ci.ying together for fond and raiment, and dying with.the cry upon their lip 4; And this is, the first fruit' Of Ahdlition, .neg, , ro equality policy.• - . This isf the opening chapter of Lincoln. emancipation. The'accursed fan'atica' who ha‘:4 forced this devastating and devouring . war upon, tlie.coyn r try or negro I,reedom l what are they - ; doing. to relieve the wretcheqness t hpyliiiiie,produeed, Why.are th'e.y,not all:upon the, spot ministering to wants of thefrown creation? Why do they •not sacrifide their ease and . disgorge their gold, .much of it plund e red.from the . government to mitigate the sufferings. of the Victirrts'of their Unwise' and wicked, policy? Let them answer; if they can—: not to man alone, whase feelings they have ehocked,'•hut to that God ••whose name they so often , impi ously invoke. and . whose precotAs they have violated.. . . . • • 'They . wotild giv'e freedom to th.e.slaye—that 'ls what they said. Ihey•ricine.l—‘ , They have'enticed ' the poor deluded creatures from a comps rat leeryight- . liondage, from the estate - o f ,which -supplied them at least with comfortable shelter and- clothing, and wholesome food t .and the vaunted- liberty theyhai%e bestowed upon . th . eni, is the liberty, to go:naked, wallow - in. filth, and' •fitially die of.. starvetion - ,..For . bread they.have been•giyenit stonaL—for, fish serpent; r , • . ' ~And this. AbOlition philanthropy—this is what the wads.. waged for-'this: is the result: of three years bloody:strife, which has shaken the republic to its center, drenched:the land in blood, and created a debtor $3000,600,000;:.•: Let all the. people, shout, bless . Abra ham Lincoln l".-Pairiet . 4•• ; Union: • • . ' 4 1.-lifrumwsaviviL-Eartli, has soma sacred spots 'Where.irejnel like Icosening . th 6 shoes from our feet;and treading with holy reverence; %.Ihere'COrrirnott wordS of Pieri . Snre:nretnfitttng; places whore •friendship's hands • have. lingered iii each other,'.ioiere yos . have been 'plighted, prayers otfered) . and .terms of parting shed. linty the• thoughts hover around such places ) and travel 'back through jmnieasurable 'space to visit them.. • But of ell the spotS:on the green earth, none is so sacred as that w here rests, waiting the .• resnriection; those we once trived and cherished• Hence,. hi all ages,.t he better portion of man. , kind, have.chosen 'these spots, where they have ovoid to wander at eventide and weep alone.' But among. charnel:. houses of the• dead, if there is , one spot more sacred than .the, rast, it is a mother's grave. There sleeps the mother ourof infancy—she whose heart wean stranger , to every other feeling but love, and who could always find excuses for us when We could find none ourselves: : There she sleeps, and Vvelo . the very earth for her sake . . •.. • The, Louisiana Free State Convention Met.on the hithinstant, a delegation of colored men be ing admitted to. scats in the Ouse and talking a,cOnsidetable part in •the businees of the session, The Object was to choose delegate's .to:the cop von tiorfol. the TJnion•men of the. slave states, to' be held oh the 31st instant: - • • •"•:. ' • ' Gen Butler tient live hundred t.ehel pristiners to fity.Point on FiidaY•last foroexchange, and a flag of tructibont from the rebels.subeequently deliVeted five , hundred Union piiaonera l at. For tress'_Meetror. Theltehel government are sail to refii,6 any further exchange, unless all quit tions ark given up about which our government has been contending aid t heir. laws about negro tioldicrirecognited... They ulaorelfuse to carry oni negititittioni with General--Butler,- an ac count 'ef hid haying been! outlawed fait . ~~tyn t 4 •~~ q., ' _.fie ,:...., , j;7 . ,.. , , i ,_i . :" .4 i 7 / ....i . .. ~_ .., , . . ~. .. . , . • . , . ..„ . , ....-'''.. ,• , :5 .a 1 1 4.4 ig5g+:;? . ..,H1....: .. . ~ . . . . . . ;,.! ? ~ ,' .' ''' . • ' ....... ... : : ' ..... '.4 ~ • ' ;.;;!: ~, , ;4 , f . F . ,4 t ip . .. :-,' , ' , • -.' ' - .... -... ''.• . ' ' ..!. • -::..,,, •,,, ' 4 1," ~.-.,:,.: ''' 't ',lir LOCAL SOVEREIGNTY. The' MATIc heater (Nc*Hanitrisliire).loevintot trely'saysi nth°, peculiar feature which distin guishes our governme nt frOM all, others is th . c local' sovereignty the States; . .Destrity thiS and wit berorie'a 'monarchy; • There.ism,ot a 'nutlet) in the world, that, .ia pot 'marked by'aeo.. but they generally have, 'no power independent: of. the central -go Vern• . ment, - eireii•evet their ekclusive interests..... The .Btiterffiereurc,'or have-heen . ,:difitirtmt,"and we imagine they . will remadp:sp. • We de not. think the. idea of, iopsolidat ion . which, some peeple entertaie,will be reulii3tl; . and if ..not,• what: is . the use of fighting:to liberate the negroes !!Ne*. Hampshire can • eetabiliM .slavery et any lime it pleases _a majority of her pociple *to. :do so. So can any .Stateehereafter,.unless our institutions are subverted." Now; siippoSe South . Carolina is dragnonodinto the ;Union. under the President's, prarkimation, what-isi4o hinder her from Jeadoming her old institution's the . day alter ? if it issaid that • the general government has any power. to .prevent.. it, it is said we have . ceased' to be a -Republic .and become .4'mon . arelly." - ' • In relation to the 'attitude of the riervilelo9l.: ition press, the change of base of. the adminis tration, and • the . . position of the: Pemeciacy; the same:Paper observes:• ' •., • . • requires a great deal. of patience, to.pte serie.rt teComing.equanirnity of temper' in deal, .ins 'with the Abolition . -preiS. • :They .assume - that - they are honest and . .righti rill :a - .matter of coulee, because they sustain tberadrninistrition; and theretbers must neeeiemilly bb '..wrone i 'at I met, if not traitorous. ,This view of .the subject ignrues very. question , issue' Whether or not the administratiori honest. and - right.' This is the issue; ind'wberi'• we' remember 'how, bitterly• and persistently . the Abolitionists have .Warreitegainst all the :-ad- Ministrations..we,have ,recently bad, it Aries not become Meer to insist, that the•, support . 'of an administration shall, berridde• .the , of i.To - say nothing of.the catips. which led to 'the warovhen it had become inevitable, there, Seemed; to;be but one opinion.astO its manage mem: Thatwas.handiornely expressed' in the Crittenden resoltiiion - ,, which was adopted with almost entire unanimity. Mr. Lincoln seemed to stand'upon that ground; in spite of v ery vig- Orotis 'efforts to drive him tram it, until the',lic "tiori of , loyal Governors" frightened' him; in September of last year., Then' by his" owe adinission •te Wendell Phillips, :he committed . the peat mistake of his, life. There was not, an honest 'tiod , thoughtfulMan, of any party, in the' Whole Nett h.w ill.rt.not. recognize - arid tie, ploro the .crror.: There waif . hardly a preas or, a prinninent Itermblicati,stutesmanthat.waitiot committed against the policy then inaugurated, .Hot they. slowly and follovied . the •President-in - his great: mistalie,••and have 'now adopted it, so thoroughly that they. dare•-to.de finance us . because . We won't do sA ' iihardlY . poseible that the . •convictions of nn intelleetual men have really chtinged..'But, the. interests-of a . great many demand an upper.., ellt change; and mercenary' and ambitious •men. are.quick to respond to the , neccssity.—Demo: , 'Crate at and where they did before, and car. ab• undantly - vintlicati iheir' position' . by the tes 'tirnony. of Mr . : Lincoln- hinuelf,; rind'the . best' part of his present - Supporefs . .. , The'. Orginal .theory was that the States were not out Of the Union at all, however rebellious ';a portfon 'of their, people might . be; that it was the duty.: of 'the government to recover itsjitrisdiction;• and that this could best be donethrough the agency of the.Southerti people, a , majority ef 'whOm were not original Sccessionists, and would bring their StatesJiack.,a,gain'Whenever they, were satisfied the t Mr. lincolo.and his party intend ed to abide by the... Cone ittition. - :The. policy was changed, .not in'the,expeCta 7 thin the peace 'ivotild be . •aftained earlier, or the:Utile/a restored easier, but because ,'the Governors" • intended that - . the. war should be wagedragainst slaeery, se a Ptiniary , purpose, leaving peace and' union io lake care Of themselves. l'hisiurpoSe.:chies•• not corn. mend itself to•thejtogrnent . ofany conservative man ; and he.wilfttot sustain it ;' fis an honest roan, he cannot.. tie.soes 'no reason why he should commit a greet:mistake' because LinColn has doneso. lie would rather' arrest the consequences' of that iltake_; alit! .01:icout- Op Mr. Lincoln to . lecoye from. the :'error which is aosure. ta.provedieastrous, and fatal . if persisted in, much • Gen. I%r'Clellan's Roport of his Opera tons in Virginia. NVAsiiistroN, Dec. . Dec.. w•as tiaornitfed s ig the'4l(nise to . . It 'consis!'s at ne yen hundred 'and' sixty ..firt foolscap pitge ! g, and ii..qividnd into' four • parts. He concludes as' follow . ....• •shall not; nor I, that when I was ordered to•take command.of the troops .for the defence of the Capital, the soldiers.with.whoin 1 had shared, so:rmich of the anxiety and pain 'and suffering tit the war, had not lost their:coplidence . in me us their commander.',. They _ sprang to my call 'with all their ancient vigor, discipline and courage: led them into • Afary F'ifteendays..pfter they had . fillett.ba'ck, defeated, before. Wash'. ington, they vanquished the enemy on'the-rug get' heights of South Mountain, pursued him to the hard foughrtield , of .rtntiettim, and : drove him broken and dispirited -doiain the -Potomac into Virginia . .. The. army had need Of reirt; after the terrible &patience . - 'battles and marches, :with scarcely an interval. of. repose, which they had gone through with from the rime•of theirleaVing the Periinaula—the return, tii . Washington, the defeat fn . Virginia, the . tory at South; . Mountain,- and again :at ',A ntte-- tam'--.it 'wee apt surprising.that fhek !.i.re in a large degree deatitute'of the.absolute tieeissa,•l ries to effective duty.. • • • • . 'cbeir-shoes .Were•worn out; 'their-blankets were . lost;'and their clothing was rags. ' Short,. the . men . were , unfit .for - active service, and'en . interval for : rest' and equip ment was necessary. .When the slowly forwarded" plies come to • us, I led the ..army across - the river, renovated,. refreshed, order andrliscipline; and followed the retreating foe . tea position, where I was'-confident of dictsive. victorn, when in the,niiilst of the movement, while my . advanced guard . Was actually. in con_ , tact, with the enumy,'l was removed from' my . 1 em davoutty-.thankfut.to God that my last campaign With, this — htave army cio'wded • • ••• • . with avictOry which saved. it nation 'florn'th greatest peril it had then . • .I have not - -accomplished my purpose if this report ,the . - Army of theVotomac is . sot, placed ht„gh . on. the'roli orthe historic armies the 'world. • 111:4leetts ennoble . . 'the nation; 40-1 'Which it belongs,; ; ; 'Always ready forc.battle,::; slways firth. •steadfast 'end . :,trustwoethy..;! -t. ! never cnileil'on it,:in-vain, nor over haye - es use to attribtite its4ant.or ineeeste' tillthfritnyeelror• *under 'other • conmantlere • nr.failtiro of• patriotism or braVerr in , !hit .nold r elody of A.inerican'eoldiers.• No man can, justly.. Charge, upon, -ing„poriion l ;•, 0? .t hat army . , from, ,the corntnanding:generaoO .the my - lack of deiitionttithe Unite'd• Btates-.:liilovernment; and 'to the-tense -of Ake Coroditutiou • anti the : Union; ~..h4v. e Preyed their Natty in much sorrow,, suffering,:.; and..danger, anti through' the verrishidtivi death.Thilt . c omities, deed'on's all the 400*itif; hive scarcely triore 4 ,ol)*lir''' the honor ar,notionrs' leVerenee; than this: survivots to the justice of a nation's' gratitude'. ,:• The reptirt- covers the 'period fiorn 'the, 260: Of 'Ally 1861, to November. 7th . 1862. - , . Skean:ran:lr &intr./v..4: • ev , vriZ tsv i.io HOapv, '• TA49.r W 1 have • mislaid spivech'inado: : by Secretary Stanton, en Chrietnrisi 'we Oink, to the siddieu in one of the inialid at .Washington,. end corserjuently: cannot - give its precise language; • but VVerecollect,the meth- stance, which was this: , be hOped the. war would. .be over by the return of next Christmas; and.. then the brave' soldier! who had suffeleil.froriv, wounds in battle, or sickness contracted byaic 7 ,. pasure in the, field,;coUld return to their • hinnes happy. iii the though that they had contributed to the emancipation of the 'millions of negroii• held in' bondage' by the.Sonth •• 'Vi 'e pity thesoltliOrs who cannot retire with any higher consOlatiOn than this,sand we .cair-T not ferb.eardespising ,the.riarrOw mindethoffi •cial who cenlil think.of no ~ g reater comfort to administer, no•noblerthema, &veil : upon.' in • the, esence of men who had' entered, the see- vice not only impresserlowith theidea that they were to do battle for the Mainfenarice.Of• the.. constitution and the , restoration of the Union, • but whaWere bounll by an cloth to do so. It seems that, the higheit ambition of' the ' highest 'officials, of the Govarriment'as' well 'of the low- - • est seribler and blotant. brawler in the service of the administration, is to impress epee the Mind' of the soldier. that his alright duty. is to fight for the policy the Abolitioniete, and considerhiinsalf not under the banner of be • Constitution and the Union, bht ,that, AbrahninLingoln anOnrancipation.,.. Haring Perjured themselves by violating whartheYhlid.;-• solemnly sworn to Support - „and perverted. the . war from its originalfiaootred and , only . imate purpolle, the Government officials are now Working to deceive, .corrupt and. dome/0 7 .. ize the army-÷to turn it !rem the, pith of lion arable warfare for . the integrity of the. Union into the slimy and devioui, windiegiWhichthe . fiendish fanhtics who control the :Government have marked out forit to pursue. In opposing tlfe'schemes of these traitors at :heart it is not neeeisziry to enter upon any de fends of .the inntuiion of - slavery. as- it'exists in 'the Southern States; o'r.of .slavery in any form. The idea of. slavery. iS, Pelbaps, as revolting to . ns . as it is .to 'Abraliarn Lincoln or.:yendell lAre ""would. not own slave to Ail' our land,' to carry us; to fen us 'while we skip, rind trertiblewhen we wake, for all the wealth that.sinews•bought and sold have evnr f oarned.i! But thi...question : ls not now what we think"' it is a question of'conetitutional : right, of local State soveraignti.. .ltie not.because we ap., prove of slavery--although we believe hick he the be'st condition fur ti l e verve w hen; :ps here; hells placed in juxtapesition,with another and superior because ;we colidemn the policy, manifestlyunconstittional :and unjust, by Which it is sougl!fto,abolish it: , When We . . see the libi•rty of the dominent race threatened. by a serios of Prositlential usurpations and ar. hit rary : acts, 811 emanating from .tefatious'poli cy of utitonatitotional . . : emancipa*oha con ilition of the itifoiior and servile taco becomes . with its a question • of secondary fonse'quence7, With osthe. preservatien of. our reptiblicon system,, formed sOlely . .by thoi White man and fcir the white man, is and always must be the' , primary question. We. are not willing to sub vert the Governor tnt, to yield up-our Constitu. tional rights, to centralize power in .the bands. of an unprinclpaled, clownish and fanatical dic... tator, in order- ;to give freedom to 4,000,000' negro slaves, whose freedom would 'be their own curse; and the curse of the country, and lead fintillyto theirle;ctarmination:, • • Thett: ie.neitheir Christianity-nor pliilinthm- • . . py in the AbOition movement—which;: while it is not eniuinctfil in necortinnefi'with the tea: . 'chins of God us they are made,knoyct tr).ati itt„ the scriptures; is prosecuted in vipiritipn nf 'the' constitution end its understOod, colnprOmNes . ' and in detiance.of low r reason and common . tiu- , ..No,.it is not . slavary .which'wolimai;,b,tit the., iinscrupuloue usnrpation of . power io.,eopmeig kt,'irkich we. r4teildniti . , by oppositiOn'to:thfi-ad— Wu hold that the President has no constitil 'tional right to-'sane edicts:of emancipation, and that Congress has , no right tn Tils unnoti-. stitui lona! acts to riot doWn Slavery. ', State and - eimer•Oid • by State loWs,',which, - . 'not being'. in '.Connict . :', with the Federal cOnetitution,:.neithe!„ the,'• President .nor,Ccingresa.hats'aroi with; If it ,let:itdie,. legally, ,by by State action, or as a Ciinielitienen of': - Saa! ,- . - jiistiy.wagett for the'rnaintenance of the Conti:. ton and:t he. rostiration - of tho Unionletil4' .ot Lritiott, . .
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