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HARVEY SICKL.ER, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, March 25, *63.
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JG3T The news from the Seat of War
during the past week, has been mostly made
up of rumors which need confirmation. If
we may believe these, " active operations are
about to be commenced," in various locali
ties.
The Proclamation.
The good results that were anticipated
from Lincoln's emancipation proclamation by
its friends proves to be more imaginary than
real. That bmtum fulmen —that idle threat,
was hailed, by the brain-cracked abolition
ists as the great panacea for all our ills—
" The great prop of the rebellion was knock
ed from under it," we were told, the disso
lution of the cobhouse was to be rapid and
certain. The Rebels were given by procla
mation, three months warning of impend
ing ruin. After the expiration of these
months of grace came the solemn declaration
Ihat all the slaves in the rebellious states
and districts were "then, thenceforth and for
ever free." This was the finishing stroke ;
the last card in the hands of these desperate
gamblers ; the one by which all that had
been lost was to be regained. It turns out
to have been a loosing card. Instead of that
harvest of blood of "dcfenselsss women and
children —that rich feast of rapine and butch
ery, which they hoped for through a servile
insurrection ; they find themselves after the
lapse of three months of uninterrupted proc
lamation thunder in the same situation of
the Pope who issued his bull agaiust the
comet ; or rather the bull, who disputed the
right of way with the steam engine. They
now begin to admit the utter inutility of
this scheme. The niggers are all " copper
heads and sympathizers with rebels." They
will not ris ' their lives and the protection of
their maste -s for the precarious chances of
social equal'ty with " northern mudsills"—
How very stupid in them, not to rusher;
masse to Governor Andrew, and Father
Abraham ! How very useful they wcmld
prove to these worthies, in putting down and
keeping in subjection, Democrats, who refuse
an unquestioning support to their tyrauical
and illegal schemes ?
Lo! the poor niggrr, whose untutored mind,
This promised land will never find ;
His long-heeled feet refuse to stray
Far from their native rebel clay.
Exeunt Billy.
Billy "dilated" a little more last week, on
the subject of "that draft," but says he "shall
waste no more paper on a questian so trivial
and yet so plain." That if we " dispute the
legality of his clearance from the draft, it
must be with the Governor and Secretary
of war."
Billy has demonstrated that he is not only
good at shirking the draft, but is equally
adroit in shirking examination into the le
gality of his course in so doing. After " ex
plaining," "justifying,' "vindicating" and
wriggling like a dying polliwog, he declines
all further discussion on th e subject. Ilow
▼ery convenient, to refer the whole question
to the Governor and Secretary of war. How
unkind, in us, to trouble Billy, with any
questions on " so plain" a matter ?
The distinguished functionaries to whom
we are referred, have already too much to
answer for, to a people whose mcst inviola
ble and sjcred rights they have trampled up
ob and violated in defiance of law, to be
troubled about so small and mean an act as
letting so craven hearted a slink creep out of
so small a rat-hole, as that through which
Billy escaped.
After having peremptorily declined the
proffered society of this contemptible nigger
head, be " puts on airs" and says he does not
desire to associate with us. He has probably
" got it through his wool," that Governor
Andrew is now gathering around him, all
the " sweet scented" patriots whose tenden
cies are Canada-ward aud doubtless hopes to
flod a congenial and appreciative compan
ionship in that distinction.
How very refined is this gentlemanly, red
nosed pedagogue who complains of our lan
guage ; but indulges in such polite epithets
•s " brute," "copperhead," hottentot" &c ?
Now, wo have a parting word of advice to
give you, Billy, as you are making your final
exit from the stage into your secure and ob
scure retreat. That is, if in the draft which
is now impending, you are allowed in violation
of the laws, and through political favoritism
to slink it; (as you doubtless will be) that
you will not so stultify yourself, and outrage
common sense, and common honesty as to
Claim that it is necessary, politic or legal ; but
will frankly admit, that yon aie a whitc-liver
•d, craven-he;rted sycophant and tool of a
Crumbling, coi rupt, lawless and tyranical dy
nasty. You cr,~i then, save yourself from the
reproach whicl attaches to a fool and liar ;
though, never, from the contempt which be
&!>§* to a sueak aud coward.
Then and Now.
There was a time when a wrong done to
one of our humble citizens was felt as a per
sonal indignity to us all. Now, the brutal
myrmidons of usurped power can hunt down
the best men in the land, and lay them in
dungeons, and the outrage fails to stir the
paralyzed heart of the nation; causes it no
flutter, nor quickens it a beat.
The apathetic soul which can watch with
listless and indifferent eye the unlawful ar
rest of a fellow citizen, and hear unmoved
the clank of his chains, will not be roused,
believe us, by the tramp of invading host 6 or
the thunder of hostile cannon. The great
North—populous, powerful, glowing with ex
cess of life, two years ago, conscious of im
mense physical strength and proud of the
unfettered arms which wielded it—is 6ullen,
prostrate, abased. The black and barbarous
banner of Abolition has twisted its nasty
folds around the flag-staff where the stars
and stripes once blazed—the ensign of hope,
a glory in every land, a terror to every foe.
Men can make idols—God only can make
worshippers. Thread and bunting will patch
together a flag; but, uuless borne by the
strong hands and sanctified by the love of a
free people, a flag is but a rag. Th new
banner—the]Abohtion banner—who loves it ?
Who wants to fight uuder it ? Let plunder
ers, contractors, vagabonds gorged and gorg
ing on the vitals of the land, fight under the
dusky flag that hides their villanies, cling to
the bayonet that shields them from the rage
of 4 an abused people. Let the apostles of Ab
olition—the- Sumners, the Wilsons, the
IV ades, the Beechers and the Greeleys—who
have fanned the embers of disunion into a
flame, and are now warming their backs at
the genial blaze, fling their worthless lives in
to the front of battle, and baptize with their
blood the flag which they have sought to chris
ten with the safer sprinkling of pen and tongue
Let the hands that wove and dyed and
patched together that flag, and nailed it to
the mast head, keep it there, if they can
But shall Americans, freeborn sons ol pa
triot sires, lend their hands, give their lives,
or strip their backs to uphold an alien ban
ner ?—to maintain a despotism erected upon
the ruing of their Constitution ?—to carry
the butcherly standard of abolition over the
land—that accursed standard under which
black men are made free, and whit men are
made slaves ? No ! No ! The heart of this
people is paralyzed and slumbering, but only
lor an hour. The blood and life are still there
which will waken it, one of these days, to a-<
sturdy and vigorous beat. The heart answer
ed to the guns whieh battered down Sump
ter. It responded gladly to every call made
in the name of the Old Flag and the Old Un
ion. To-day it answers not; it is awfully si
lent when Lincoln calls! Why? Not be
cause the old flag is less loved, not because
l he new flag of Abolition is detested ; not he
cause the Constitution is less precious, hut
because the rulers who summon us to the
field have proven themselves to be deadliest
foes; not because the Union is less dear, but
because the creatures who ask us to give our
lives for it have spent theirs in making its
restoration impossible. Our people are loyal
still to the core—but, to be faithful to the
endearment of their fathers, they must be
hostile to its enemies—and its chief enemies,
alas ! are those who now wield its powers and
pervert them to our enslavement. The peo
ple are still willing to fight in any honorable
cause—to pay for national unity any price
that will buy it back.
JOHN VAN BUREN ON ANOTHER
" BUST."
John is a queer fellow—talented, jovial,
and rollicking, socially and politically—a
'• fast man" in many respects, but never very
last to any political principle or doctrine—
plausible in whatever may be his position,
but always uncertain as to how long he will
remain in it—an advocate of compromise,
peace and union in October 'G2, and for no
thing but war in March '63. John took a
political spree in '4B, and wandered away off
from the Democratic party, but not quite in
to the ranks of Abolitionism, lie now gives
strong indications of indulging in another
'' bust," and strikes out on a platform with
Seward, Weed & Co. Whether he will ever
get back again uudcr the Flag of the Consti
tution and Union, is quite uncertain, and in
no respect is it a matter of much importance
to the Democracy. Such wandering and un
certain lights are of no advantage to any par
ty, and the fewer the Democracy tolerate,
the better. We therefore trust John will
this time take all his " duds" with him, and
leave no excuse for again entering the Demo
cratic household, which is the proper homo
only for those who have hearts large and pa
triotic enough to love the people and States
of all sections of our country as brothers and
equals, and boldly to labor for their restora
tion to Union and peace, under the Constitu
tion of the patriots of'B7. We fear, John,
you are not so disposed, and that you are
prejudiced against the South because her peo
ple would not favor the nomination of your
father in '44. If we are right, John, we pray
you make this " bust" last for the balance of
your life. If you can't be contented with the
Democracy, take up your permanent abode
at once and forever with the sectional Aboli
tionists. If you are not for the white man's
party, stand out openly for the " nigger,"
and henceforth cease playing the mulatto
mengrel game.— Jeffcrsoman.
C2C" Billy Button recommends the form
ation of a Loyal League" in our town, M to
purify the atmosphere of disloyalty." Rather
a queer disinfecting agent this abolitiou trai
or Billy would prove as a " Leaguer."
irir The exultant crowing of the Repub
lican, over the New Hampshire election,
turns out to have been premature. The
state has a clear majority against the Abo
litionists, of several thousand ; there being
three candidates in the field, neither were
elected. The so-calleu "copperherds" beat
the "woolics"by about three thousand.
THE ARREST OF JUDGE CONSTABLE
Statement of Facts by the State's Attorney
of Clark County.
CHARLESTON, 111., March 17.
To the Editor of the Chicago Times:
I have noticed in several newspapers what
purported to be the facts in regard to the
cause of the arrest, at Marshall, 111., of the
Hon. Charles 11. Constable, judge of the
Fourth Judicial Circuit of the State of Illi
nois. All of these statements are false in
many particulars, and calculated to deceive
the public and prejudice the rights of Judge
Constable.
The Circuit Court for Clark county com
menced on Monday the second day of the
present month ; and on the Sunday morning
following, and before the final rejournment
ofccurt, Mrs. Elizabeth Gamron appeared
before a justice of the peace at Marshall and
made affidavit that two men from the State
oflndianna, giving their natnes as John Mc-
Farlan and Thomas Long, were attempting
to kidnap her son, James Gamron. There
upon the justice issued a warrant, and the
parties were brought before him. Time was
given for the purpose of procuring counsel
and the attendance of witnesses. The accus
ed procured the services of R. L. Lulaney,
Esq., an able Republican attorney, who urg
ed on behalf of the defendants that Judge
Constable, as conservator gf peace, inquire
into the truth and probability of the guilt of
the parties, Judge Constable finally agreed
to hear the case, and the justice handed the
matter over to him. I was called upon as
state attorney, to prosecute on behalf of the
state. The evidence adduced on the part ®f
the prosecution evidently sustained the
charge, and showed a violation of the Crimi
nal Code. The defendants, by their attor
ney, introduced as evidence written commis
sions from authorities of Inniana, purport
ing to give John McFarland and Thomas
Long authority to arrest deserters in the city
of Terre-llaute and county of Vigo, State of
Indiana. There was no proof that these par
ties were the persons they represented them
selves to be. It was also disclosed in the
examination that James Gamron, for whom
the complaint was made, volunteered in the !
cn prisoner in Tennessee about the Ist of
February, and was paroled ; had arrived at
his mother's house in Clark county, 111.,
sick, and remained so up to the time of the
arrest. The judge, after hearing all the ev
idence, held that there was probability of
the guilt of the accused, and thereupon re
quired that they make their bond to the peo
ple of the State of Illinois, jointly, in the
sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned that
they appear and answer further to the char
ges on Thursday following.
What I have stated are substantially the
facts, and all the facts involved in the inves
tigation. There was no habeas corpus sued
out, and the parties said to be deserters were
not in in the custody or under the control of
the judge as universally stated in the ac
counts of the marter going the rounds in the
papers.
J. R. CIINNINGAAM.
THE CONSCRIPTION BILL.
The Freeman's Journal, New York, edi
ted by the noble hearted Irishman, McMas
ters, thus expresses itself in relation io the
new Conscription Law :
" We see that this absurd rump Congress
—which, happily, dies to be forever damned,
on Wednesday of this week—thinks that it
can give " Old Abe" power to call direttly
on us militia-men of New York to quit our
occupations and go down to the Carolinas to
look after his negro brethren. The Abra
hamic claim is so rich, and so fresh, to us
brought up in the traditions of our Govern
ment, that we cannot at once write about it,
because it fills our mouth with laughter and
our eyes with the tears that spring from ex
cessive merriment. We are a very able-bod
ied man—on no plea exempt from the mili
tary service of our country when lawfully
called upon. Gov. Seymour is our Com
mander-in-chief, and as he is very intelligent,
and a very conscientious gentleman, and has
lately sworn to uphold the Constitution of
tb% State of New York, which happens , but
only since the year 1788, to include within it
the Constitution of the United States, we are
free to declare ourselves, within constitution
al limits, as entirely at Gov. Seymour's com
mand for any military duty, from shoulder
ing a long-range rifle to setting a battalion.
But, outside of his command, WE OWE NO
MILITARY SERVICE, AND WILL PAT NONE. Tbe
act of Congress, ignoring the authority of
States over their own militia, is a bag of
wind let loose, and nothing else."
What to be Thankful for.
The Chigago Post ennuraerates the follow
ing reasons why we should give thanks this
year;
I. Because the air we breathe is still free,
and not taxed for internal revenue.
11. Because Greeley's 900,000 men are
still liable to be drafted.
111. Because one rebel isa't equal to five
Yankees.
IV. Because, notwithstanding the Presi
dent's bull against the comet, the comot
hasn't yet projected any horned quadruped
against the President.
V. Because greenbacks are not worth less
than fifty cents on the dollar.
VI. Because printing paper isn't half a
dollar a pound.
VII. Because the rebel army is hemmed
in between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
and has no other alternative but to fight or
not to fight.
VIII. Because the rebels still protest their
intention to " die in the last ditch," (giving
ground for a suspic ion that they expect to
die some time or other.)
IX. Because the radioals have aot yet
prevailed upon the President to turn the
moon into a green cheese by proclamation.
X. Because " "Washington is safe."
The Emancipation Proclamation.
The Metropolitan Record, the organ of
the Roman Catholic church in New York,
makes the following statement of the effects
of the proclamation, which seems to be a
document entirely retrocative in its opera
tion :
WHAT THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION HAS
DONE.
It has divided the North.
It has created discontent among the sol
diers of the Union army.
It has raised the premium on gold to over
160 per cent.
It has strengthened the Southern Confed
eracy by proving to the loyal people of the
South that this is a war not for the Union
but for emancipation.
It has placed two of the Western States
in an attitude of determined hostility to the
Administeation.
It has rendered foreign Powers still more
unfriendly to the Union.
It has falsified the repeated pledges given
by the President that the institution of sla
very should not be interfered with, on the
ground that he, the President, had no au
thority in the matter.
It has reduced the Constitution to a nulli
ty, by a direct violation of its provisions re
garding slavery.
It has put a premium of 20 per cent, upon
the lowest coin in the country.
It has made the Administration contempt
ible in the eyes of all sensible men by the
very fact that it is inoperative.
It has rendered the organization of anoth
er army utterly impossible, unless the Abo
litionists can be induced to fight.
It has established the precedent that on
the piei of " millitary exigencies" the su
preme law of the land can be suspended.
It has proved the Administration to have
been guilty of the most cruel deception in
enlisting men to fight for the Union, and in
sacrificing them to the emancipation theory.
It has rendered useless the immense
amount of treasure and the seas of blood that
have flowed sinc6 the war began.
It has proved to the people that their pub
lic servants at Washington are determined
to act iu defiance of their clearly expressed
desires.
It has established the fact that the aboli
tion of 6laverj' is of more consequence in the
eyes of" our rulers" than the interests and
liberties of the white man.
And whilst it has done all this, we defy
even its most strenuous advocates to prove
that a single benefit to the cause of the Un
ion has resulted from its promulgation. But
there is one thing more it has done, and
which should not be omitted. It has so far
estranged the people from the Adininistra
lion as to render all laws for conscription or
draft utterly inoperative.
Who are Traitors.
According to the abolition way of think
ing-
All are traitors who believed the South
would secede.
All are traitors who did not believe the
South could be forced back with 75,000 men
in three months.
All are traitors who did not believe the
South were almost exhausted at tbe end of
the first three months of the war.
All arc traitors who did not believe that
250,000 men would speedily end the war.
All are traitors who did not believe the
suspension of the habeas corpus a wise and
just measure.
All those who did not justify the suppres
sion of the press and restriction of speech are
traitors.
All those who believe that the corruptions
of contractors and certain officials ought to
have been kept before the people are traitors.
All those who did not believe slavery to be
an element of Southern weakness are traitors.
All those who do not believe slavery to be
an element of Southern power are traitors.
All those who believe that the Union can
be preserved without direct reference to the
institution of slavery are traitors.
All who do not believe the President's
emancipation proclamation a wise and judi
cious measure are traitors.
All those who believe that the past nine
teen months have developed the fact that a
certain set of politicians are totally unable to
preserve the honor and unity of the State*
are traitors.
STATE OF DELEVVARE-- GOVERNOR
CANNON CENSURED.
The following preamble and resolution have
passed both branches of the General Assem
bly of Deleware :
WHEREAS, The Government of tbe United
States and the several States are governments
of law, within the limits of which all officials
find their rightful powers, and outs'de of
which no official has any just claim to power
or to obedience from his fellow citizens:—
And Whereas, Win. Cannon, the Governor
of this State, in his inaugural address, has
avowed the false and dangerous doctrine that
" reasonable ground for suspicion" can justify
the arbitrary arrest and incarcerations in
prisons, far removod from the district of their
residence, of citizens against whom no war
rant has been issued or charge made accord
ing to law, and has unblushingly published
his approval of these oruel and lawless arrests
of his own fellow citizens ; And Whereas, he
has thus proved himself, by his own avowal,
the weak but willing fool of Federal usurpa
tion, and a Governor unworthy the respect
and confidence of his fellow citizens—one to
whom they can look for no just protection of
their rights of person and of property ; there
fore,
Resolved, That the doctrines of Gov. Can
non's address, in regard to arbitrary and law
less arrests, are, if carried out, fatal to con
stitutional liberty, destructive of the peace
and security of our people, and deserves and
hereby receives, at the hands of the Legisla
ture of Deleware, prompt and indignant re
pudiation, and are declared worthy of the
severest reprehension of a people who inherit
the privileges of freemen and wish to pre- ,
serve them unimpaired.
Lawlessness of Abolitionism.
Thore is scarcely an abolition journal that,
we open that is not full of lawless intimations
and recommendations. With them the main
tenance of power is everything—to that end
all their energies are bent—to accomplish
that purpose they brush aside Constitution
and Law and wield the iron band of despot
ism. For that purpose were passed the fis
cal, the indemnifying, and the Conscription
acta by Congress, conferring on the President
dictatorial powers. For that purpose secret
armed leagues are being organized in violation
of law, and for that purpose are the cries of
traitor and copperhead raised against men
loyal to the Government, and their arrest,
imprisonment and even death demanded by
the Union-hating knaves and greedy plunder
ers who constitute the Privy Council and
Guard of Honor of the President. But all
these villanies, these bold, lawless, and ruffi
anly measures, sink into comparative insigni
ficance in comparison with the latest measure
proposed by one who writes from Washing
ton, and being one of the trusted there, no
doubt speaks ex cathedra. The Cleaveland
Leader, an Abolition paper of the most radi
cal, bloody and develish spirit, contains a
Washington letter in which occurs the fol
lowing startling passage:
" The times require " Committees of safely."
* * * Congress has done its part: the
Executive will do his. * * There is a
greater than either in the hands of the peo
ple, The time has come for them to act
without law and beyond law. Here is a field
in which every citizen can help without join
ing the army."
Jacobinism revived and expanded. Such sug
gestions proceeded the bloodv reiga of the
French triumvirs, Robespierre, Danto and
Marat. This is the genuine voice of the
Mountain, the howl of incarnate fiends for
blood. Let us not mistake the signs of the
time 9. They indicate trouble—they portend
an impending atruggle, a death grapple be
tween the lawless and the suppoiters of the
law ; between those who would overthrow
the Constitution and tho Union and those
who would crush and those who will defend
Liberty; between the would-be tyrants and
the intended victims between those who would
overthrow the Constitution and the Union and
those who will die, if need be, in their defence.
Let us be calm ; let us keep within the law;
let us be cool and patient—but let as be pre
pared.
Yes, Democrats—ail friends of the Consti
tion, Law and order—BE PREPARED, not to
dowiongor commit legal violence, but to re
sist the Abolition " Leaguers" whenever they
take the fiist step in assaults upon your person
or property," " witnout law and beyond law."
Let the Abolitionists see and know what they
may expect, if they venture to open their way
to anarchy and outlawry.
In conclusion, we would say to Democrats
and ail constitutional men, stand true to the
Constitution, true to all laws in harmony
with the Constitution, and true to or
der and peace in the community ; but at the
same time BE PREPARED to resist tliese
Icag'ue conspirators if they dare " without
law and beyond law" to assail your persou.
your property, or your legal rights.
The Cleaveland Plain Dealer thus notices
the " League" and cautions the Leaguers in
that region :
" From a daily paper published in this city,
we learn that these leagues are organized to
'• counteract the insiduous efforts of the Cop
perheads." The order is to be "of a quasi
military character for the instruction ot its
members in the manual and school of the sol
dier." " The places of meeting are to be
known as Barracks ." " It is to be a natur
al arm of defence against traitors at home
and in the army."
"There—you have it. The laws of the
land are convicted of impotency to secure
the rights of the citizen- Free government
is pronounced a failure. Military organiza
tions are to be established everywhere.—
They are to decide who are copperheads, and
copperheads are to be tak A a c;ro of. There
it is—a deliberate avowal of Jacobinism.—
A deliberate confession that the civil estab
lishment in the peaceful States of the North
have failed. A deliberate puhlioation of the
intent to substitute, under the guise of a Un
ion society, illegal bodies cf armed men, in
lieu of the constituted authorities.
" Woe unto these foolish wretches if they
inaugurate such a system. Woe unto them
and their children after thcra if they rashly,
and under any pretence whatever, build up
armed clubs throughout this land—let them
heed the revolutionary history of France.—
Let bankers, merchants, the " solid men,"
the owners of 6tone fronted mansions, trem
ble when the time comes that they hold their
wealth at the mercy of furious clubs, when,
as in the old cities of Italy, every house be
comes an armed castle, and the laws are
powerless. We feel an unutterable contempt
horror and scorn for the reckless anarchist
who would deliberately propose or sanction a
project so fraught with death to Americau
Liberty."
The Yazoo Pass expedition hangs fire. At
last accounts the Union fleet were kept back
by the rebel fort on the Tallahatohie. This
work could not, it seems, be attacked by a
land forces, a* it was protected by water.
At last accounts an attempt was making ot
rednce this fort, who was not indicated. The
discouraging part of the matter is that this
delay will give the confedrates time to build
so many obstrucions in these narrow rivers
that all hope of reaching Tlain's Bluff by this
means is very dubious. Let us hope for bet
ter news soon from some quarter j.Y. Y.
World.
A PLAN TO END THE WAR Jane R.
Thurston offers, through a Portland (Maine)
journal,to furuish for the sum of SSOO
(which sura shall be given for the relief of
the sick and wounded soldiers) a plan which
will close up the rebelhan and uuite all the
States in six months, or refund the money."
(tflmmunkatkms,
Co. H. 52nd Regt. Pa. Vols. 2ndTw~>
Nau lee's Division, Isle St. Helenas C t
Dear Mother :
I writfe to i nform
that lam well. It is very hot at thig ni
The sun beats down upon the sandy p
so that we are driven out from our i
tents. A8 there is nothing to shade the
or tents we have to stand and take the hT
like dumb brutes. Now and then an oi
ly breeze sweeps along from the eea .
the island, which almost makes a nu n u*
for joy. *
Last night on dress parade, an order*,,
read that the Regiment must be under
at 9 o'clock to-day. This morning our?
tain came and said that we must
our boots and brighten our brasses
ready for a review. At 9 o'clock they
and raced us up and down till about t*.
o'clock and after that drilled us an houryj
a half longer. I began to think, lik e
Uuiver&alists that there was no h—l
that a man got his punishments here
earth, and that mine had come all at once "
I thought of the night I left my home
friends, and bid farewell to old Wyoming •"
tho little farm upon which I had labored'
many days, trying to make a homo for*,,
parents iu their old age. Farewell to at
brothers and sisters and school-mate? that r
had spent so many happy days with, and ti
all that I held near and dear. I thought tot
of the gaze I took of my home the night{
left it, to take the cars at Pittston for Hir'
risburg. I shall long remember that It'
gaze and the thought that then cameinaj
mind. How the tears came to my evesui
thought of you, mother, I tried to keep Iron
crying, but it was enough to break a hew
of stone. Yes, all this came to my mind
I thought of iny mother which I left so ma
rly nundred miles behind me, to go and
—To fight for what ? The d .d niggers!
I should like to write more, but I tin
not time. .
The boys iu Co. B. aie all well, with a fe*
exceptions.
There was very heavy cannonading heard
here to-day. It is supposed to be near Char,
lestun.
I hear that they are going to consolidate
the 52.id with the 104 th Regt. because then
are but a few of us. We can only turn out
2GO men, any more. Ifihey undertake thii
there will be a rebellion, for not a man wil!
g"-
I hope I shall soon return huine to myk
tlicr and mother, for the more I thick oi
them the better I love them.
Give my best respects to all the folks a
the creek. My love to you and fatherK
all the rest of the family. Write as soona
you get this.
Good bye.
S. S. Pewterbaicr
To Mrs. Susan Pewterbaugh.
Mr. Editor ;
Since the bloody strife on!
the Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, our
whole army hid been at a stand still. Nm
hardly daring to speculate on cur next mors
mer.t ; yet, all are looking forward withpw
ful anxiety to the time when the next wye*
mcnt is to be tried. Thousands in the North
say we are demoralized and wont fight. Ii
this true ? Does our record show it ? Iti
true, we have been shorn of our strengtii.-
Seeiningiy every effort that could be msi
has been to throw impediments in our wJ-
The Administration placed at the head *
the army General llalleck—a sworn ecer
to our great and able leader General McCs
lan. lie, with the help of the combined It
olition hoards at Washington, succeeded J
robbing us of one General. We never js
have been able to see why this was necesar.
Ills enemies claim he was too slow in to
movement. In the name of God, we
what army ever did more service, fosp
harder or oftencr than did the army of &
Potomac during the Peninsula campaign-
Starting at Yorktown May sth, until fi?
2nd, a little less than two months we tow®
ejeven days—regular pitch battle fighting
not saying a word about the skirmishing
almost constant picket fighting during
whole time. Now we want our enemies
friends to know one fact, (and that is corrf
orated by history,) that the army under.V
C lei lan during that two months passed
more battles than does the regular soldi*
of Europe in a life-time. Bat what h"
accomplish? Oh! that is the question '
proudly raise our heads and answer; *
struck the rebellion the hardest blow it
ever received since the first gun was fired *
Sumter. We demonstrated one fact to tti
rebel army ; that 75,000 veteran 1 ? led by tie
invincible McClellan could not be whipp*
much less subjugated (as they supposed)
the whole combined forces of the south,* 1 '
had the reinforcements asked for, a fevvdif
eftt r the seven day's battles, teen given, *
wou'd have marched back over the
ground we had covered with their dead,
taken Richmond before their demoralized •'
my could have been re-organized.
failed to take Richmond, and lost our •
Dining these dark days to us, the Preside.
issued his proclamation making the
the war, henceforth, the emancipation of D
slave (or in other words) bringing the b!
race on an equality with our own at the
pease of so many lives. Good God, wb'
6hock this gave us ! It seemed as tbov
our in uths flew open spontaneously aid!
fore we could control our tongues they cr*
out, we wont fight. From this hour wc
gan to look for some hole to crawl out u' !
scrape ; hut none appeared. Ohr oath *-
enough. Solemnly promising to obejf
President of the United States and all omC
placed over us. This closed up every ave. '
ol hope against us, leaving us the only * i
native of submissively bowing our head'
the powers that be. Now you ask, are
demoralized i If we are, we ask, who can
our demoralization ? If you would n**"*
the same invincible force we once h* ve '
tell us, as you told us at the time °f o^ iJi;!l
listment that we are to fight tor the
and the Constitution ; that the inferos
is removed entirely out of the way. w' T
back our leader, and we will promise y° ,
ery man of us, tliar we will fight detenu 1
ly until we are no more, or our court rv
J i Tu
saved.