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Governor Curt In.
From th Westmoreland Republican.
" Thir.e own mouth condemns thee, and
r.tl; yea thine own Up tettify against
thr." JoB.
Universally charged with gross neglect
in allowing the inva-oo of the State by a
mull detachment of cavalry under Stu
ert, in October, 18G2, even the friends of
Cm rnor Curtin have not undertaken to
defend him. We are more generous ; for
although it is impossible to deny that,
with a man of martial spirit for comtnan-d-'r-in-ehief,
Stuart would not have pene
trated into Pennsylvania, or, if lie did,
would not have returned with impunity,
it is due to' Gov. Curtin to say that he
has always disclaimed fitness to exercise
any military functions, except those, at
nw fe and profitable, connected with
iu vuenormaster and ommissary ua
j RrtniiT.t and that, besides that natu
ral proclivity tor gain and repugnance to
peril, he did not anticipate, and probably
Lad n information, of the rapid move
ment of the rebels.
Having, however, been taught by
Stuart the plain and painful lesson of
1SG2, it should havo boon a standing
warning to the Governor of the liability
i-f the S'ate to invasion and its practica
bility ; and thus was imposed upon him
fprchd obbligation to perpetual vigilance
an ! preparation. His oath, his duty, the
hotmr of the State, the protection of our
people, the suppression of the rebellion,
u'l required that infant and persistent
measures should be taken for defence.
The means were ample. More than four
hundred thousand able bodied arid patri
otic citizens, whom he had a right to call
to the field, were ready to defend the
State. No extensive movement of the
enemy could be made without being
known in ample time to meet the attack.
We had in the army of the Potomac,
and at other points within two or three
days' march, one hundred thousand Penn -fylvania
volunteers. The south-eastern
counties, sure to be the theatre of conflict,
ve densely populated, and nearly every
anan has arms and knows how to use
them. Such was the condition of affairs
in June, 18G3 warning of attack timely,
nd means of resistance ample. Iet us
what Curtin did and said let us
hiirly try him on admitted facts and his
jwu defense.
On the 14th of June the Confederate
walrv. alxxit 1.800 strong, under Gen.
rf 7 - - C
'onkins, entered Hagerstown, having
crossed the Potomac at Williarasport
Without opposition. They took quiet
possession of Hagerstown, there being no
roups there to oppose them. The 6tores
Tero kept open, and General Jenkins no
'ficd the citizens to inform him at once if
heir persons or property were molested
'JJ any of his troops. None of the citi-i-as
were arrested. There was no prop
erty destroyed in Hagerstown or vicinity,
i he larger body of the enemy did not
"wry long, but passed out of the city in
'.wo divisions, towards Grecnca9tle and
"ambersburg. They occupied the first
r-iped place but a short time, the latter
:aey entered without resistance on the
-6th, where they quietly encamped for
'ree days. Their force consisted of
about 1,000 cavalry. The scouts
s- nt out from the Carlisle garrison ap
proached the rebel pickets, a couple of
iles from Chambersburg, and were fired
u?on, and two of our men taken pris--kts.
On the 19th aud 20th Chambers-
-Jrg was evacuated, and the enemy quitly
ireatea towards the Potomac.
A. feeble force havintr thus invaded th
S'ate with impunity, which demonstrated
ueienseiess condition ami also gave
j rvgi vcannng to Governor Curtxn, Gen
ft
ine neaa oi me main re Dei army
EBENSBURG, FA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
report and invited by Curtin's conduct to a
far more important movement ; and ac
cordingly he marched into Pennsylvania,
and on the 27th of June occupied York
and Carlisle, and on the 28th was within
four miles of Ilarrisburg. General
Meade, newly appointed to the command
of the Army of the Potomac, without
giving the trembling Cabinet at Washing
ton time to prevent it, abandoned the line
of the Rappahannock, pursued the enemy
into Pennsylvania and attacked and de
feated him at Gettysburg ; but in con
sequence of being unsustained by the
State troops, who had been called out
in time for effective co-operation, he was
unable to reap the full fruits of his vic
tory, and Lee safely retreated to his or-
iTinai
i
position.
For all this the violation of the sanc
tity of our soil, the ravage of our people,
the dishonor of our State, the unutterable
suffering and and bloody death of many
thousand soldiers, the sacrifice of many
millions of property some one is respon
sible. Certainly not the army, for never
was gallantry more heroic, never devotion
more sublime, than that which was shad
owed by tho sulphurious canopy of Get
tysburg, attested still by ten thousand
new made graves of soldiers criminally
sacrificed, if not wantonly murdered, but
who have left for consolation and example
a glorious record destined to the immor
tality of the historic page.
e arraign Governor Curtin as the
great criminal giceat only in crimk
and not the less to be condemned because
Secretary Stanton was his accomplice, as
we shall presently prove.
The witness whom we produce in the
trial of this culprit is Andkew G. Ci k
tfn iumsklf, and, in hearing his confes
sion, it is only necessary for its full and
fair application, to bear in mind the dates
and facts we have already given, which
are all derived from official reports and
Republican authority.
Oil June lo, 1803, a meeting of citi
zens of Ilarrisburg assembled to take ac
tion in reference to the dofense of the
city against the invaders coming up the
valley.
Gen. Cameron was called to the chair.
In a few minutes Governor Curtin en
tered, looking eomewhat fatigued and
careworn.
The Governor said that he was grati
fied to say that men were arising all
over the State, would soon be here. The
New York Seventh wen; on the way to
our
assistance ; men were coming ironi
Philadelphia, and one thousand men from
15erks would arrive iu the next train.
We will not surrender the town without
a struggle. The rebels had probably de
stroyed the beautiful valley on our west ;
but, thank God, we were separated from
them by a natural barrier, the passage
of which would be disputed. Although
it was dry here, the river had, through
the providence of God, raised during the
night ; and should we mortals stand in
active while the Almighty was working
for us?
" He- had no property here, but the
honor of the State was dear to him, and
should be to every Pennsylvanian. lie
thanked the brave militia for the support
they were ready to give, but he was sorry
for the lateness of the call ; he desired to
make it last week, but the President re
fused it. But let us forget that we have
been treated wrongly. The General Go
vernment must be sustained, as well as
the State. He had been willing to con
cede everything to the administration, and
to carry out their plans to the best ot their
ability. He called upon all Pennsylva-
mans to rush to arms lor the defence ot
their native State, that our Capitol might
not be defiled with the tread of the inva-
ler. There would be plenty of guns and
ammunition on band before tne day
closed.
" General Cameron followed in a short
speech, in which he said that, by virtue
of his office, Gov. Curtin was Comman-der-in
Chief of the Pennsylvania Militia,
and that he was willing to take him as his
leader, and follow him in defense of our
homes. He moved that he bo requested
to take command of the force now called I
out, subject to the orders of Gen. Couch.
When we see our brave Governor mount
ing his steed, and calling upon the people
to follow, we will at once rally to the call.
The highest officer and the humblest in
dividual were on a level now, and every
person should do his duty. lie thought
we should be led by our constitutional
Commander.
" To this Mr. Kunkel strongly objected,
paying that it would be an amendment of
his office.
" Mr. Cameron. It is not an aban
donment of his office ; it is but a part of
his leeitimate duty.
" Mr. Kankel. I enn't understand
this. I don't see why our Governor, who 1
is worn out by the duties of his office, 1
should lead the van of the militia, when
General Couch, a United States officer, is
with us. There is a disposition on the
part of Mr. Cameron to drag the Gover
nor from his legitimate duties. I would
as soon the President of this meeting
should be our leader, and he is as much
fitted and called upon to perform that
duty as the Governor.
" Mr. Cameron. I em ready to sJtoidder
a musket and go as a private under the
Governor.
"Governor Curtin then said he could
do no more than this : he would go as he
did last fall, when he went with the mili
tia to Hagerstown, but got from the
United States the co-operation of a mili
tary mind to direct immediate operations.
Thus we give from the Ilarrisburg
papers of June 10th, Gov. Curtin's own
statements an attempted defense, but n
real confession. He declares, in eiFect,
that he knew of the contemplated invasion
by Jenkins " last week," that is, from
about the 8th of June, a week before the
preliminary movement of the enemy, and
more than two weeks before their army
entered the State. Worse even than this,
the Governor's speech was actually de
livered twelve days before Lee crossed the
Potomac, and all these occurrences were
more than eight months after the empha-
! tic warning of Stuart's raid !
To avoid possibility of error and con
sequent injustice, let us marshal the dates.
October, 1802, Stuart's invasion.
June 8, 18G3. Curtin knew that the
State was about to bo invaded a second
time.
June 14. Jenkins entered Pennsylva
nia.
June 15. Curtin's Harrifburg speech
June 20. Ix;c entered York and Car
llle at the head of the rebel Army of
Virginia.
July 2-4. The battle of Gettysburg,
The Governor did some things and we
give him the benefit of them
lie supplicated the president for means
of defense, but it was refused, and thus,
he says,
we were treated wrongly."
Was it fit that the Governor of the great
State of Pennsylvania should crouch as a
beggar, to be spurned from the toot ot the
Federal throne ? as not every citizen
thus insulted in the person of the Gover
nor Would they have dared thus to
treat us, if Governor Curtin had rightly
represented the dignity and power of our
ancient Commonwealth, instead, as he
himself states, " being willing to concede
KVKiiYTiiiNO to the administration."
The duty of the Governor was clear
instant attack of the assailants. Defeat
is not necessarily disgrace, but submission
- r nr. . . i :
lis always lummy. inueiy pivpaiauon
would have avoided either.
We admit that Pennsylvania was.
deeply wronged by the Federal Executive;
that half of the men whom she has fur
nished for this war could have defended
the sanctity of her soil, and that in pre
venting them from doing so, the adminis
tration was both bae and cruel ; that,
probably, the refusal to sanction Governor
Curtin's call for the militia, was deliber
ately designed to arouse our people, by
ravage of their homes, and plunder of
tli.!p nrnnertv : and. in short, that we
were the victims of the weakness and
wickedness of our rulers.
But these were no reasons for abandon
ing the natural right of self-defense. It
is not in the presence of peril that the re
mote cause is to be considered, except for
the puqiose of future punishment. It is
not when the enemy thunders at our gates
that we are to pause and hesitate, because,
if others had done their duty, he would
not be there. It is not when the foe has
us by the throat that we are to speculate
as to who set him on. Our State was
menaced, invaded, insulted. It was the
clear duty of the .Governor to use his
ample power for preparation and, having
for months neglected this, at least he
should have called on the militia on the
8th of June to take arms and instantly
repel the attack made or threatened.
Pennsylvania was strong enough to pr o
tect herself; patriotic enough to make
everv effort and any sacrifice which was
necessary. The might that slumbers in
the yeoman's arm, is irresistible when
aroused. Surely, lethargy itself would be
excited at such a time as this, and yet
Governor Curtin long slumbered and slept
and was, at length, awakened on the loth
of June, only to present a pitiable specta
cle of imbecile terror incapable of being
stimulated to the courage of combat even
by the taunts of Cameron consoled only
by the fact, stated by himself, that " he
had no property " which could be reached
nnd that, thouah " the rebels had proba
bly destroyed the beautiful valley on the
Uiy uv3n J s
wert," hb was safe because they wer
still " separated from him by a natural
barrier."
Have we not fulfilled our promise
to prove that Governor Curtin was as
guilty in permitting the invasion of the
State, as in causing the disaster at Bull
Run ?
This is the man who now repudiates
his contract for the Spanish mission, re
tracts his solemn legislative pledge not to
be a candidate, and daily declares, in de
fense of his breach of faith, that he is im
pelled only by the condition of the coun
try, which in these war times, demands
his energy, devotion and. courage his
strong arm to overshadow the State and
protect the people. It is needless to say
that this pretence is not less prepostrous
itself, than insulting to the intelligence
of iOur citizens. But if even he was a
hero, radiant with the glory of a thousand
victories, he is useless now, for he has
abandoned his position and his duty, and
is wandering about the country making
stump speeches to solicit votes laying
the lines for infinite ramifications of jetty
intrigue purchasing his opponents in his
own party by promises, contracts and
offices endeavoring to seduce Democrats
by cajolery, and to deceive the people by
boa.-ts of what he has done and promises
of what he will do. He mut fail. The
tricks of a political mountebank, the de
delusions of a dextrous jupgler, the mean
ness of an artful dodger, will avail no
longer.
Letter from the President.
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLA
MATION NOT TO BE WITH
DRAWN NO MOVEMENT TO
BE MADE FOR PEACE THE
ABOLITION POLICY DEFEND
ED. From the Fulton Democrat.
For weeks past the radical press of the
whole country have given us intimations
of a forthcoming letter from the pen of our
wonderful President, which was to be re
ceived as an authorative exposition of the
policy which the administration would
pursue in regard to the future prosecution
of the war. At length this strange pro-
duction of the great Hal-boating and rail-
splitting Iliinoisan has seen the light ot ,
day. It was read before a meetiug held
in Springfield, Illinois, the home of Lis
excellency A. Lincoln. In style it is
similar to the former productions of this
remarkable litem ry genius, being a ram
bling, disjointed, ungrammatical, vulgar
and undignified piece of special pleading.
There is no doubt but that it is entirely
and completely original. No one "else
than A. Lincoln ever put forth such a
state paer. Truly the days when Amer
ican state papers were remarkable for
their dignified style and high tone seem to
have departed with the other decaying
glories of the republic
The bad style of the document, harshly
as it grates upon all ears, might, however,
have been forgiven had its sentiments
been such as the people could approve.
But, when Mr. Lincoln in the blindness
of his fanatic zeal for the freedom of the
negro insists upon clinging with a pertina
cious grasp to all the worst mistakes of
has
his unfortunate and ruinous system of
iHjlicv, the whole thing is calculated to
excite loth disgust and anger in the mind
of every right thinking man in the coun
try.
That the Emancipation Proclamation
was unwise in all respects is the honest
belief of every man who takes a compre
hensive and unbiassed view of the condi
tion of this most unhappy nation. It
d'r.ided and distracted the people of the
North, while it extinguished all the Liuon
sentiment in the South, and drove multi
tudes of the best men of that section, who
had not hitherto aided the rebellion, into
the ranks of the rebel army. It weakened
the cause of the Union morally and ma
terially, while it added immensely to the
strength and the resources of the rebellion.
So long as it remains unrevoked so long
will the people of the South continue a
unit, and 1x5 ready to fight us to the bitter
end. We may win victories at the cost
of immense sacrifices pf blood and of trea
sure, but they will continue to be barren
of good results. We shall never succeed
in securing an tionoraoie and aesirauie
peace, or in restoring the Union, on any
such basis. Our armies may march
through the territories of the South, but
no sooner will they have evacuated any
section than it will again be in open re
bellion and in the full possession of a peo
ple bitterly hostile to us in all respects.
We may, by immense labor, possess our
selves of Charleston and Mobile, and of
all their prominent ports and cities, but
ii 1 t 1 1 tl il V
we snail oniy ue aoie io noiu mem uy
i . - t
I keeping, up enormous standing armies.
23, 1863.
AYc can never even conquer a peace upon
the present war policy, much less restore
the Union. No State will return to its
allegiance, no controlling Union party will
ever be formed in a Southern State nntil
our rulers offer the people thereof their
proper and rightful place in the Union as
it was, under he Constitution as our and
their fathers made it. Until this becomes
the avowed and settled policy of those in
control of our public affairs our armies
will only be able to hold in subjugation
the territory actually within their lines,
and that only by virtue of the force of
their arms. The history of this war
should be sufficient to convince all but
fools or fanatics of that fact. Wherever
our armies go they meet the scowling
looks and il-e Sid'o submission of almost
the entire white population, and no sooner
do they evacuate the territory than the
Confederate forces are welcomed back
amid the cheers of men and the smiles of
the women. Do we not all know that
such is the case along the border near us
in the State of Virginia? Does any man
doubt that it is more decidely and exclu
sively so farther South ? It is strange
that, with all the teachings of the practi- j
cal working of the ne?ro war policy, the
President should still persist in it. let
such is the mad folly of blind fanaticism.
Mr. Lincoln, in his letter, after avowing
his determination to stand by his procla
mation, attempts to defend it by feeble ar
guments which have been long since suc
cessfully refuted alike by arguments and
by the still more stubborn logic of events.
The cople will look in vain through this
production for r.ny promise of peace. The
Emancipation - Proclamation must stand
though the Heavens should fall It will
not be revoked. Horace Grcely declared,
after the battle of Gettysburg, and the
victories at Vicksburg and Peirt Hudson,
when the whole country was anxiously
listening for some sensible proposition to
the people of the Suth, such as we could
then have made with honor and propriety.
that Abraham Lincoln would ta!:c no sty i win in an pouucai matters, so far as
backward. It is now plain that this arch ! thl or,Ior is concerned comply with th
leader of the Abolition press spoke by ; will of the majority though it may ecu
authority. Abraham Lincoln refuses to ! flict with my personal preference."
take any step backward. He will not j second pegp.ee.
make any proposition for peace, nor will " I of my own free will and accord, ia
he listen to any such proposal from the : the nresence of Almi-rhtv God and thosn
"
people of the South, unless it recognize
the unconstitutional and fanatical doctrine
of his Emancipation Proclamation. Such
is in fact the plain English of his late let-te-r
; all in fact that can be gathered from
its rambling and disjointed utterances.
The war must go on. Even to Mr. Lin
coln's view the end does not seem to be
near at hand while to the eye of every
man not blinded by fanaticism if seems to
. i . . . . i i r
stretch out into a prolonged scene of
bloody horrors, to which there can be no
desirable or honorable end while the des
tinies of this nation remain uiulcr the con
trol of the wretched fanatics now in
power. Truly whom the Gods wish to
destroy they first make mad. .
The Whipping Iost of the
coin Government.
I.I a-
This refined institution has just boon
established in Pittsburg says the Kittan
ning Mentor, and a poor Irisman, by the
name of 1 lagan has been stripped and
whipped till his back is all raw. Cap
tain Foster, editor of the Pittsburs Di-
jxitch, and Provost Marshal of the 22d
District, superintends the humane opera-1 patriots, after swearing away what little,
tion. From his own statement it seems j Christian charity they possessed, now at
he only ordered the poor fellow to receive tempt to prove that Judge Woodward is
twenty-Jive lashes, but the physician says j a-9 much of an ingrate as themselves,
he must have received sixty or sei-enty ; ! But we must hasten along. We he-re
and the man or rather the men, for they j produce good Abolition authority, for the
took it bv turns, savs he did not count purpose of showing in what estimation
how many ! We think the captain ought, Curtin was held one month ago by one of
at least, to have kept an account. The s his chief toady organs, and we have not
last report we saw from I lagan was that I heard of his conversion since that time.
he was delirious, and his situation critical. J Enormous frauds iifon the Gavtrmuent
Hagan is a white man ; and captain Fos- ! Millions of Dollars taken Previinnt
ter is an Abolitionist ; of course it is all ; shoiliy Politicians under arrat.
right It is epiite a siu to whip a slave'. II vnuisiiLi;e;, .July 30. Cor.fciJerublo
in the South, but right enough to whip a 1 excitement has been created by the dia
frccman in the North ! In r.r;cient Rome ' covcry of enormous frauds upon the gov
a plea of citizenship protected even the ! eminent during the recent army move
most humble, from this most humiliating j ment in this region, consequent upon the
punishment ; and St. Paul availed hi ni- ; rebel raid The amounts are stated at
self of this privilege ; but what of that j millions of dollars. A number of .iatj
ISo law, no precedent, no principle is of
any binding force under this Abolition
rule. It is worthy of remark, that near
ly all the cruelties of this cruel war have
been planned and practised by the Aboli
tionists proper, The Old Line Whigs,
who belong to the Republican party,
have generally abstained from these dis
graceful preeeeding3. Wc find then that
those who have most bitterly denounced
the South and Slavery for their cruelties,
are the most cruel and fiendish of all
their associates. We congratulate the
Abolition fraternity on their new Institu-
tion. They are fast acquiring tiuprema
VOL. 10-NO. 42.
and uncontrollable power Martial law,
suspension of Iialtat corpus, provost mar
shals and whipping posts 1 The rack is
all they want more ; if they had that we
think they would be completely furnished.
Rcliold Ills Record.
From the Clearfield Republican.
We this week commence the publica
tion of some of the sayings and doings of
his excellency Andrew G. Curtin, " pro
visional" Governor of Pennsylvania,
Though Gov. Curtin has been allowed,
by the Jacobin Administration at Wash
ington to draw his salary as such, from
the Treasury of Pennsylvania, he has in
fact been nothing but the suppliant tool of
the people's masters at Washington.
The rebellion crushers are just now try
ing to prove that Judge Woodward holds
to the infamous doctrines of defunct
mericanism and as though their shoddy
candidate in common with
themselves,
never hold, or advocated,
that Know
Nothing delusion.
We here here present our readers with
the first act of the drama.
TLe QaVs takcnl Govcrnor Andrew
c , , , fd t, j,riw
or Know Xothing Party.
KliiST DEGREE.
j " Iii the presence of Almighty GoJ
! aud these witnesses I do solemnly
j promise and swear that I will never
i betray any of the secrets of this
I society nor communicate them even U
the proper candidates, except within a
J lawful council of the order ; that I will
never permit any of the secrets cf thi
see-iety to be written, or in any other
manner to be made legible, except for the
purpose of official instruction ; that I will
not vote, nor give my influence for any
man, for any office in the gift of tho
people, unless by an American born citi
zen, in favor of Americans ruling Amer-
iea, nor if he be a Roman Catholic ; that
i T -II II 1-.- . .
j witnesses do solemnly and sincerely swear
! that I will not, under any circumstances,
' disclose in any manner, nor suffer it to bo
done by others, if in my power to pre
vent it, the name, sign, pass words, or
other secrets of this degree, except in
open Council for the purpose of instruc
tion ; that I will support in all political
matters, for ad political offices, members.
Gf xhs order in preference to other per-
. . . t
sons ; that 1 wnl when elected or ap
pointed to any official station confering ou
me the power to do so, remove all foi:-
KIGNEKS, ALIENS Oil ROMAN CaTHOUCS
from office or place, and that I will in no
case appoint such to any office in my
gilt. I do also promise and swear that
this and all other obligations which I
have previously taken in this order shall
ever be lyt through life, sacred and invio
late. All this I promise and declare as
an American to sustain arid abide by,
without any hesitation or mental reserva
tion whatever, so help me God 1"
The intense hate herein expressed,
against foreign-born citizens and Catho
lics, has no parallel in this country, and
yet Andrew G. Curtin and his shoddy
politicians have been placed under a-rest,
and the subject will receive the most
searching investigation by the War De
partment. The most corrupt practices
have prevailed in horse contracts, and iu
clothing and subsistence supplies. They
throw the "shoddy" operations at Ilar
risburg, in the summer of 1801, entirely
in the shade. Many of the same parties
are iaiplicated, and the gangs who have
infested the State Capitol in the winter
have reaped a rich summer harvest. It
is a sad commentary that while thoua-
and ot brave men rustiod to arms to
I Continued on Fourth p-3