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IN.PIATT. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Of- i V fi.'c u: Stark's Brick Block, Tioga St., 'funk- I | D.'ilk, Pa ■ T ITTI.E DEW ITT, ATTORNEY'S AT I I.AV,', Office on Tioga street, Tunkhutinock. fa. 11. K. I.ITTI.F. J HKIrtTT. I * i T V. SMITH, M. I), PHYSICIAN A SURGEON, | <1 . .■ ..is Rri-lite Street, next door to the Demo " Cr f Ofs o. Ttrikh.iniM-k. I'M. n.UtVIY *H KI,E. ATTORNEY AT LAW and GKXFRAI INSURANCE AGENT Of t fie. Rri Ige ,-treet, opposite Wall's Hotel, .Tunkhan ft e • k Pa. I J.NAL IIIIOAdS, M. ID., Graduate af the University of Penn'a ) ■K ResiM*. ttul!v ff-rs !i!s profession:!! servb-es to the I ffttT-ns .f Tunkh imio.-k an I vicinity. lie can be ■ f.iun I when u..t f.r..fcssion:illv either at his ■ Lirne St. re, or at his resi leu-e on Putnam Street. DK.J.t.COItSEJ.II S. II AVI Mi LOCAT -1".I> AT THE I ALLS, W \LL promptly attend ■■>llcall? in the line of hi- profession—may he found i>t l;iean-i > lli.tcl. u lien nut professionally absent. I F.ilis, Oct 10, 1361. , uu. .i. c; - 7i KV: KKR A oo^T I'UYSUIVNji SI'UGEOXS, II m 1 1 respectfully announce to the citizenso f Wy icii t Tunkhmnoek wher ley v.; ; prtijhj.flv attend to all calls in the lire of re ' t..{.•—M ty be found at his L>rug Stro win a nut professionally absent. T 11. (IK 111 ,M, I).— (Graduate of the yi J • M Institute, Cincinnati) irouhl respectfully •nuoiiuce to the citizens of Wiotniiip and Luzerne I iimth-s, that he c mtinues his regul tr praetice in the vsriuu- I'p irtments of his profusion. May be found t las oil, e or resiJea.c, when uot professionally ah t tit ■ Particular attention given to the treatment Citnitiic Itiscas entretnurelauil, Wyoming Co. Pa.—v2n2 WALL'S" HOTEL," LATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ Tl NUII.WXOC'K, WYOMISiG CO , 1A. I 'ill 3 establishment has recently been refitted and lurtji. hed in toe latest style Every attention i " •: be given to th comfort and convenience of those I*3o patronize the IIoue. T j>. W ALL. Owner and Proprietor. I Taiikhnnnnek. September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, I MiI.SHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA V"m. H. COR'I RIGHT, Prop'r I |J A\ IN( resumed the proprietorship of the above I Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to I ••h i-r the house an agreeable place ot sojourn for I i who may favor it with their custom. Win. 11 CCKTIUHIIT. I June, 3rd, 1*63 MAYfIARD'S HOTEL, I T'L" \ KHAN N () C K, T0 M 1XG cor NT Y , PEN NA. J ° H X MAYNA R I) , Proprietor. UurXG taken the lintel, in the llorough of IT recently occupied by Riley I _ the proprietor respectfully soli it? a share ot I P-'truu.ige. The llouse has been thoroughly I fee , ' a " 1 the comforts and accomodations of a I v ? " M 'l be found bv all "h > may favor | ' r itopto.n'."- 11 Hdl ■ I 1 M. OiLMAfS, DENTIST. / I Ely ~ "* ■•'l has permanently located in Tnnk f • hnaneck I{ur..ugh, and respectfully tenders his V "*Uii?nil services to the citizens of this pi a2 and , r , Rn '" n g country. | f iCTroy UHK WAKRANTED > T0 GIVE SATIS- B ' over Tutton's Law Office, near the Pos Blanks 11 Blanks !1i SUMMONSES ■ SUBPCENAES EXECUTIONS CONSTABLE'S SALES aiol legal Lii.uk? of stl and Correctly printed on guild Pi\k~. *t the Office of the •' North Jranvb M | E , F ,°R FA RMERS, AS A I ERTH-I'/E at VERNO y S ' ! Tp*n, c. jpt jo IS6li - SPEECH OP HON. D. W. VO OH IT EES INDIANA, DELIVER En AT CONCORP, N. H JULY 4th, 1863. To an Approviug Audiance oT 3 0,000 [Cominurd ] Thus reasoned the fathers of New Eng land and in like manner will reason their children. I have often gaZ'-d long und attert j lively upon- the assembled group on the deck lof the Miyfluwer as you seo that vessel ; idle as a {tainted ship upon a painted ! ocean," upon the canvas in the rotunda of I the C apitoj. llow small was their c .untrv !at that moment, but how f.ee ! Tliey pos sessed not one foot of ground. They had weighed country, home, ancestral graves, all in the balance against liberty, and found t hem light as empty air. liow insignificant to them in that hi ur seemed all the wars of occupation and possession which from the beginning of time have defaced this beautiful earth and destroyed the iinaee of God ! A" time, and i's interests and pleasures recede and disappear Iroin the eye of the dving Christian, and Heaven and its glories mag uify themselves to his awak'jr.;.*,- senses, s.. to the Pilgrims on the face of the waters the lovu of liberty rose with such effulgence in tln-ir mind- that all else became obscured like the stars hiding their duui fished lig ,t betre the sun .f noonday. That little speck alone on the desolate bosom of the great I deep, animated and impelled, however, by t. ! pnuc p!e indestructible as matter, eternal, and r their supp >rt ? Will it be contend ed that there is nothing in the current his tory of the day to warrant a well-grounded apprehension that American liberty is in danger? Must 1 prove by argument that the sun is shining ? Must I demonstrate that the night follows tlie day ? This ser vile cry of "all is well," in the face of the unbounded exercise of lawless power, leads to but one result as inevitably as mathemat ical science reaches its conclusions. The fawning courtier who, from the bare motive ■•f promotion and gain, seconds with the voice and smile of approbation every en roachment on the rights ot the people, is the most dangeaous instrument by which pop ular governments have been overthrown in all ages of t lie world. lie seeks to full the people into a lalse sense of security, and at the same time invites the daring usurper to hql'Jly bound over every barrier. A cele brated foreigner thus fairly describes the manner in which this class obtain eminence and favi r with a corrupt and designing exec utive : 'One makes a fortune because he can cringe, an other be cruse he can lie ; this tnnn be -ause h J sca sonaoly dishonors himselt; that because he betrays his friend ; but the surest means to mount as high as Alheroni is to offer like him, razouts of mushrooms to tne Duke of Vcn lorne, and there are Vendornes everwbere. They who are called great have gener ally no other assendency over us but what our weak ness premits them, or what onr mcaancss gives them. The class here portrayed is unfortunately ormidable at this time in control of public Sentiment. By it, every warning voice in behalf ofthe supremacy of the Constituton and the rights of the citizen under it is at ouce clam .rously denounced as evidence of hostility to the Government. Its pecliar province is to paint to tho public eye the dis ptmecra of .patronage as incapable of error, infallible, without spot or blemish, and subjedt to none of the infirmi ties of sinful flesh. The disciples of this school of political Magdalens have the extra ordinary faculty of transforming tlje most attrocious crimes on the part of those who hold the keys of wealth and position into the most respondent virtues. To them tho mur "TO SPEAK HIS THOtJGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT.-Thomas Jeltexson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1863. der of inocent men and women by slow tor ture in loathsome prison-house is simply evidence of devotion to the cause of the Un ion if committed by those who load their ab ect partisans with the Infamous wages of thare adulation. The plunder of the public treasury, the wholesale robery of the labor of honest people fin Is with them the ready and ample justification if their own palms are enriched with a portion of the spoils. Imbecility is converted into zealous patriotism, and the defeats of inferior partisan generals into j and conclusive victories. In the press, in the pulpit, in the forum, and at the hus tings they now invito the open and audaciou* approaches of a complete despotism, and pro claim in advance Ihe submi-eian of the coun trymen of Wane.i and Hancock in the East, and of Jackson and in the West. Tha/t such destroyers of popular 1 iberty- and con&ittutional government shall aim their poisoned shafts ol detraction and calumny at the faithful senti nel who announces jhe near approach of fatal dinger is to be expected, but should not si lence the voice of patriotic duty. They arc in the service of their master. A passonate exclamation ol Ilcnry 11. in the hearing of obsequious minions turned them into assas sins, and s'uitied the altar of Go! with the blood of Thotnmas a Becket. In like man ner this cuntry now swatns with those whose feet are swift to carry out, in defiance of all. law, human and divine the obscurely hinted wishes, the half d.slosed views of an Abmin istration which avows no restraints except iis own will. Look with m* for a few in > - meiits over the intolerable events that have marked the conduct of those now in chief au illor.ty since their act s-don to power,and which call in imperative tones,not to be denied.for re 'oiin or for revolution. I come from the broad free plains ol the West. I Cotne from a land of unmeasured attachment to the Un . ion. Its patriotism has been spontaneous as the productions of its fertile soil. Its valor in the face of battle lias been as fierce as the (lames that rage over its praries. It has not , j au-ed to measure its resotirscs before pour j ing out in tins contest. It has in ile 110 con ditions, exnc'ed no partisan pledges, r°qired no proclamation before rendering obedience to tie laws. The North west is no delinquent, j She is do criminal. Yet the sentence of . outlaw his h -en pro i> t ice 1 again-t her. Her proud and stately neck has been selected for the yoke—the yoke more galling than the Roman emblem of bondage which doomed whole provinces. She has b:e:i robbj 1 of the protection of written laws, and placed in the custody of military governors. The great State of Indinan.% his had a succession of these officers. Her Constitution provides for a civil G >veru >r who shtll see that the laws are faithfully executed, and who is the chiof of her mditary organization* That official, however, cm no longer be re garded as the Executive of the State, inas much as the that position in all im portant particulars have been surrendered to the hands of another- Thus Federal usurpa tion strikes down the Constitution and the Government of the State, and the advocate of a consolidated despotism abandon both dignity and duty in order to forward the " ravishing strides" which it is making in our midst.— By some silent process of the Presidential mind, the privileges of the writ of habeas cn-pus have become suspended in the West. We had not thought that the subject had even engaged the attention of the Executive until after our citteens had clamored in vain from their prisons for trial and justice. We were not even in ormed of the great revolu tion in our lights and penalties until we were deprived of the former and suffering the latter. To suspend the privileges of this great popular writ is given by the Constitu ti.m as one of the enumerated powers of Congress; but the President of the United Slates exercses that power, as we at last discover, without condesc ending to inform the people that he has done so. But I need not confine my remarks on this point to any one section of the loyal States. They apply equally to all—if not in extent, at East In principle. Arrest, trial, condemnation, arid punishment of citizens free from every taint of crime, all take place in the silent cham bers of one uiind. Law, fact and sentence all exist aUne in the will of the Executive. The person of every citizen of America, his wife and his child is more at the mercy to day of Executive caprice and tyranny than the slave of Virginia is at the mercy of his master. Written laws regulate the condi tion of the black man's servitude. None exist for the protection of the white man. In his letter to the Albany Committee on the subject ofthe arrest and exile of Mr. Vallandigham, the President plainly avows his independence of and supremacy over all law in his dealings with the liberty ofthe citizen. He announce" that the public safe ty is fhe only law which he recognizes. In what the public safety consists he alone wi'l judge. Whatever conduces to the public safely that he will do; and, again, he alone is to determine what may bo necessary to this end. This is his argument, and it ab sorbs within himself every possible power that the inadJest tyrant ever coveted over life, libet ty and property. If in the estima tion of Mr. Lincoln the life of Mr. Vallandig ham or any other citizen was inconsislant with the public safety, this reasoning would produce his death in any manner which the Executive might 6ee proper to indicate We will have to turn back to the familiar and odious names of the worst despots of tho old world and of ancient days to find a parallel to this monstrous assumption of power. The English house of Stuart was th champion of liberty in comparison. Louis XIV., when he exclaimed " I aui the State," did not profane the world with so fatal and bloody a heresy as now stalks through this land almost without rebuke. Tiberius in his hours of vengeful solutide at Caprea nev er menaced more openly or more bitterly the lives and the liberties of Roman citizens. A law was enacted by the last Congress avowedly to cover such supposed r ffenccs as were alleged against Mi*. Vallandigham, and for which he underwent the mockery, and insult of a trial bj T court-martial. Bv that law jurisdiction in such cases was ex pre&ly given to the Courts of the United States, and by that law express penalties were attached in the event of conviction, consisting of fine and imprisonment. Yet with that law staring liitu full in the face with its provisions all unrepealed, with the ink scarcely dry which allixed his name to it, and with his official oaih on his conscience to execulate it, the Executive of the Repub lic ignores its existence, and substitutes in in us place a trial and a punish ment unknown to free governments. Banishment ; Banishment !do we l.ve in Ru->ia or America ? have we a Liberia, a Bot any Bay ? Banishment ! What sad memories atrocious despotism the woid tecalls 1 We ot again behold the pure and inflexible citizen "f Greece, the just and upright citizen ol Rome, going forth to ex le for braving the furious license of arbitrary power. The mel ancholly le-sons of history are busily repeat" ing -themselves in our midst. The old prin ciples of good and evil are contending, as they have ever contended, with various sue cess To-day the lovely features of virtue are marred and defaced by some f<*ul and re volting Caliban of malignant mischief. To morrow she triumphs with a brow as radi ant and unsullied as thej cun 1 beams of the morning To-day a law abiding, earnest and distinguished citizen floats away into ban ishment on an iron chid ve-el aurroun led by bayonets for making a defence of tho ac knowledged letter and spirit of the (Jon-ti tulion. To-m >rrow ho will return, strength . ened by the ordeal like 'lie giant after his slumbers, biinging a new vitality and force hi the cause for which ho has selfcred. Men of revolutionary ancestors i Tiie great and solemn questiou of the hour is whether the Constitution and the la we are yet supreme in this land. Shall the mind of one one man constitute your Government? To what do you allegiance ? Shall Roman Decemvirs hang the written laws of your sight, and then punish you for effonding against the hidden purposes of their own minds? Into what war ot Plutonian darkness have we been driven by the waring elements ? Where is the North star ? Where are the compass and the nee dle ? " Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore, Give uie to SEE— and Ajax asks no more," Yes, give us ro SEF. the light of the Consti tulion still unobscure l, and we will be con. tent to abide the tardy steps of time for the .•deviation of all other wrongs. But shall all all obedienece be required of the people and none of their public servants ? Is not obedi ence in a free government a mutual duty ? Shall discriminations be made between American citizens in the enjoyment of rights and the support of burdens ? What burden has the Democratic party failed to assume in support of the government, and of what right has its members not been deprived by the express order or the silent consent of this Administration ? In the words ot John Jay, " Reason looks with indignation on such dis tinctions, and freemen can never perceive their pr .priety." What homo in this broad land has been secure frotn the parted satanic hoof or bare, naked suspicion ? Am I work" ing a sketch from the colors of fancy ? Let the screams of the wife and mother emanating from a hundred inward households at the dead hour of the night, answer. These facts shall not escape history. They will constitute the stocks in which the present Administra tion will stand pilloried forever in open shame and intamy. The angel cf death respected the blood on the door-po9ts of Eg) pt. Ihe King of England could not enter the humblest tenement in his realm, but the meanest and basest of mankind in the employment of the present Administration have had the power of access over the insulted body of the Consti fution into every chamber beneath every roof between the two oceans. Ibis is the neces sary result of the argument of the President that he is the supreme judge of whit is essen tial to the public safety, Before this baleful theoiy every head bows to the earth, every mouth is silent, and every door flies open.— Robespierre, in the delirium of the French Revolution, when " tho sun's eye had a sickly glare," and the world grew faint with horror never assumed so much. The responsibility of the doctrine and practice of this phase of, despotism was divided in bis day among the members of a committee of public safety. No one man accepted tho terrible consequences. It erected that appalling spectacle of insaiiate murder—ihe guillotine—in France It may do the same here to-morrow, if the President should declare the jmblic safety to require it. It filled every prison, it desecra ted every home, it spared no age, no sex, it pitied no condition, it sacrificed whole heca tombs of victims to suspicion and private malice, it converted all, France into a field of IJood. All thjs may transpire here before mir'cyes ift|£ doctrine ofthe Executive, lately announced, is to receive-our submiss ion. Well might a leading Administration journal (The New York Times ) exclaim a few months ago : " hitherto President Lincoln has given us no Constitutional Administration *f * * He has assumed himself to be the sole Executive—to control in his own person tiie whole act-iotvand conduct ofthe Govern ment, and that, too avowedly without any fixed and stable policy, but according to the shifting drifts and currents ot public senti ment and the changing judgments and caprces of tus owh mind. * * No monarch in Eu rope at this day, however absolute, attempts or dreams of such an undertaking, and Mr. Lincoln must abandon it, or the ruin of his country will be the price of his presumption." But let us indulge in some inspiring histori cal recollections. The history of New Eng land is full of glory on this subject. The writs of assistance were the contrivance of a servile Parliament in aid of the usurpations of a tyrrannica! king. They gave the right in a mode, however pointed out by law, to do I hat which onr present Executive authorizes his officers to do, without color of legal en actment. The spirit of liberty took the alarm. The flames of the Revolution blazed up under the eloquent denunciations of James Oiis. I quote from the speech of that fervid apostle of American freedom : "11 the third place," said he, " a person with ihis writ, in the daytime, may enter all houses, shop*, &c., at will, command all to assist him. Fourthly, by this writ not only deputies, &c., but even their tnenial servants are allowed to iord it over us. What is this but to have the curse of Canaan with a wit ness oi us: to be the servants of servants, the most despicable of God's creation. Now one of Use most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's home. A man's house is his castle ; and whilst he is quiet he is as well guarded as a Prince in hU castle. This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege. Custom house officers may may enter our houses when they please; we are commanded to permit them to enter, may treaak locks, and everything in their way ; and whether they break through malice ortevenge.no man. no court can enquire. Bare surpicion without oath is sofficicient, * * * * What a scene does this open . Every man prompted by revenge, til humor! or wantonness, to inspect the inside ut his neighbor's house, may get a writ of assist ance. Others will ask it frotn sell-defence ; one arbitrary exertion will provoke another, until society bo involved in tumult and blood." . And out of this question of personal liberty and the security of your ancestors' homes, in the language of John Adams, speaking of this event, " American Independence was then and there born. The seeda of patriots and heroes to defend the non st :e diis am mosus infans. to defend the vigorous youth were then and there sown." And shall we at this late day abandon those very principles for which our fathers enacted Lexington and Banker llill ? Shall we deliver up into the hands of tyrrany tho Declaration of our In dependence? Shall we surrender all that our Constitution has gained from the system of one-man p iwer ? Alas the American revolu tion is in vain ? Did it produce no permanent policy ? Has the existence of American lib. erty been a sweet but temporary dream ? " Oh Liberty ! can man resign thee. Once having felt thy generous flume? Can dungeons, bolts and bars confine then. Or whips thy noble spirit tauie ?" From this spot, and on this holy day set apart in the calendar of tiuie to the cause of lib erty I would solemnly warn the Executive and his advisers, in candor and not in malice, that civil war has but just commenced in this un happy country if they cotinue to pursue their present career of license and upsurpati on. By the shades of the mighty dead who died for American freedom, we here swear to pro tect and preserve the great inheritance. But all that I have urged to-day in behalf of tiie integrity of the Constitution will be met by the ancient, venerable an I odious plea thai a nessesity exists fer its subversion. Shall this abomination in the sight of reason be dignified by an argument ? Shall we pause to explode this thousand times exploded doc trine of depot ism ? Is tho experience of all history lost upon the American mind ? Are we deaf to th voices that issue frotn the tombs of ancient Republics'? They all died from military nessity. This is the story of the school books, and the children of the civilized world know it by heart. But in defiance of reason and expericence tho usurpers of the present hour have boldly intrenched thccu selves is the worn out maxims of king craft, and demand the surrender of this last for tress of Censtitutionol liberty. "So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.' 1 But let us try for a moment this d tee nee 'alse and dangerous as it is, by the results which have followed. What has been achiev ed by a resort to the doctrine of necessity? The pcpople of the Uuited Statoa have been required to euinit to the erection of this fear lirfiriAlS: iI.QO FEU ANNtum ful standard as a rule of conduct in public affairs. Under it newspapers have been sil enced, free speech denied, citizens of every grade and condition in life torn from their homes and imprisoned, no sex exempted, childhood punished, and all this has been borne without revolt. What have the peo ! pie received in exchange for such unparalleled ! sufferings and forbearance 1 Have they a ! county restored to the highway of national • glory ? Has the evil of secession been over- . i come ? Has this rebellion been suppressed ? i Has the Messed Union beeu restored? Are I we far on the way towards that consumation Iso devoutly to be wished ? Does the brilliant | bow of promise span the future ? Is the sky clear and bright over our heads to-day ? Does th rising sun of this hallowed aniversary come to us with healing in its beatn9 ? The rul ers of this country have had all, everything, even to lives and citizen. All has been cast at their feet. Taxation without limit; a banking system which absorbs and controlls the currency ; an act of conscription which demands the life of the citizen, and a bill of indemnity for past,and future crimes commit ted against his liberty, are the work of one ; Congress, and consttute a measure of despot ;ic power which, I boldly affirm in the face of iny countrymen, has no parallel this day io the history of civilized nations. And what has not been seized by a bold hand. What are the returns for all this ? The ear has heard the promise, but the hope has found it broken. The beautiful apples of gold set | pictures ofsiiver,which you beheld so tetnpt j ingly near at the opening of this war, are | Dead Sea fiuit—ashes to the taste. Oh! what scalding irony the position of affairs to day cast upon the boastful,vainglorious proph ecies of two years ago. Armed with sup prerne power, the members of this Adminis tration are now shaking with mortal terror in the midst of their official predictions that war would restore the Union in sixty days. The people stand by in amazement and horror, stunned by the evil fortune which pursues us. Their confidence, long abused and now dead, bereft of hope, and paralyzed by the want of a capable and honest head to the Government. And this is the result which has attended the unlimited exercise of the doctrine of necessity ! Does it how ever surprise the 6tudent of morals, of histo ry and philosophy ? Can wrong, injustice, and crime constitute the basis of success in a righteous cause ? Has it ever been so ?—- Ought it to be ? If such was the law of hu- * man action, then evil would have stronger reasons in its favor than God ever designed it should have. No. Away with this nox ious heresy. It is baneful in theory and disastr inous results. Let us do right, tho earth and hell confront us. Let us follow the principles of truth and liberty though they should give us uo wider home than the grave. All hail the Constitution ! iThetri-' al has been made to administer this Govern ment independent of its aid, by a higher law. The failure is complete. The world will take notice of this fact, and think the better of tho American Constitution. The Ameri can citizen everywhere, and of all parties, will engrave this great lesson on his heart, and floe in every hour of peril hereafter to the shelter of the Coustiiution as the house of his refuge. The worship of tho golden calf in the wilderness, and the calamities which attended tho sacrilege, gave the ark of the living God a firmer hold on the confi dence and affections of Israel. Let the re sults of disobedience to the Constitution which we now behold, teach us a similar lesson. To this disobedience may bo traced tho '• liliad of all our woes." The Constitu tion is strength—it is wisdom. It is love of country. It is liberty. It is Union. All this has been in times past and all this it will he again in tho future to those who embrace and obey it. Thus far I have spoken of those important and overshadowing incidents of this war which have befallen the people of the loyal States—assailing us like plague and famine shaken from the wings of some bale ful comet sweeping over the earth. But wa do not shrink from a full consideration of the actual issues involved in the prosecution of ihe war itself against the seceded States. If Englishmen in the Parliament of England in the days of King George could denounce a war waged ostensibly to restore and pre serve the Union of the British Empire, but in reality tending to, and resulting ia its dis solution, the citizens of New Hampshire may reasonably claim similar rights. If one por tion of our own countrymen can discuss their plans forthe future coudition of a commoncoun trv I shall never be able to understand "why we shouldbe silent. Common sacrifices and a common destiny beget common privileges. It Wendell Phillips shall rave, snail not tho sane men of New England reason ? If a committee on the conduct of the war shall bring disaster upon a great and noble army and ruin the country m order to blacken tile fame and prostrate the usefulness of the brilliant and able, McCleltan, who shall |dO der us from sp-aking freely our i" this committi.e of the whole pcopkj oa subject of the war itself? I scorn defy every assumption, military or cf*'d tnanda'.e wh'ieh is airoei at tb!s right. My countryman, I am contftnt that ealia partial history shall determine th®claims wisdom and statesraanst-P ' between '.404$ ytho advocated a rysor' 1? VOL. 2, N0.50.