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JOE WOELK of all.kinda neatly executed, and at prices to suit the titnes. All TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS and JOB WORK n ust be paid for, when ordered. IJusiitfSS ffotiffs. H S.COOPER, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON • Newton Centre, Luzerne County Pa. R,R. LITTLE, ATTORNEY AY LAW Ofhee on Tioga street, Tunkhannock Pa. WM. M. PIATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 01 fice in Stark's Brick Block Tioga St., Tunk haaaock, Pa. GEO. S. TUTTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Tunkhonnock, Pa. Office in Stark's Brie •ek, Ttoga street. 1> R . .T. C- BECKER . PHYSICIAN dt SURGEON, Would respectfully announce to the citizensofWy tuing, that he has located at Tunkhannock where he will promptly attend to all calls in the line of his profession. IT Will be found at home on Saturdays of each week Uurtjlei' §>Mise, HARRISRURG, PENNA. The undersigned having lately purchased the •• BUEIILER HOUSE " property, has already com menced such alterations and improvements as will render this old and popular House equal, if not supe rior, to any Hotel in the City of Harrisburg. A continuance of the public patronage is refpect fully solicited. GEO. J. BOIiTON WALL'S HOTEL, lATE AMERICAN HOUSE/ TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING CO., PA. THIS establishment has recently been refitted an furnished in the latest style Every attention will he given to the comfort and convenience of those whe patronize the House. T. B. WALL, Owner and Proprietor ; Tunkhannock, September 11, 1861. NORTH BRANCH HOTEL, MESHOPPEN, WYOMING COUNTY, PA Wm H. CORTRIGHT, Prop'r HAVING resumed the proprietorship of the above Hotel, the undersigned will spare no effort to tender the house an agreeable place ot sojourn for •11 who may favor it with their custom. Win. H CORTRIGHT. Jane, 3rl, 1863 traits fjntfl, TOWANDA, 3?A.. D- B. BARTLET, (Late of the BBRAISARD HOUSE, ELMIRA, N. Y. PROPRIETOR. The MEANS HOTEL, i* one of the LARGEST aid BEST ARR ANGED Houses in the country—lt ia fitted up in the most modern anil improved style, and no pains are spared to make it a pleasant and agreeable stopping-place for all, v 3. n2l. 1 v CLARKE, KEENEY.& CO., MAHUFACTURKUi AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN LADIES', MISSES' & GENTS' filk arch £ ass hnere§lata AND JOBBERS IN BATS. CAPS, FURS, STRAW GOODS, PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS, BUFFALO AND FANCY ROBES, (849 BROADWAY, CORNER OF LEONARD STREET, sow a r. CLARK, A C KBENEV, \ B. LEEENEY. } " M. GILMAN, fc/T <LMA, has permanently located ill Tunk *"•• jtaraeck Bvrough, and respectfully tenders his professional services to the citizens of this place and nrrounding country. f ALLWORK WARRANTED, TO GIVE SATIS OTOffice over Tutton's Law Offico, near the Pos tSc.U, 1861 i©o® HSWS TO HOUSE KEEPERS! Frank M. Buck Has just opened, at the store house formerly oc cupied by C T. Marsh, one door below Baldwin's Hotel, in Tunkhannock, NEW GROCERY AND Provision Store, where he is prepared to sell eve;ything in the line of Family Groceries at prices far below those here tofore asked for them His stock was selected and purchased by MR. A. G. STARK in person, whose intimate acquaintance with the trade, and dealers, enabled him to purchase at prices UK! Till Til lIMST. Mr. Stark's services as salesman, also, have been secured. 0 In the line of Groceries and Provisions, I can sell Good Molasses at 91 per Gal. Good Brown Sugar at 12} cts per lb. No, 1 Mackerel •' 12J " •• •' Cod Fish 9 "" * j New Mess Pork " 17 " •' " i Chemical Soap •' 12J •' •' " Saleratcs '• 12} " " *' Ground Coffee " 25 " " " Fxtra Green Rio Coffee " 40 " " " Lard " 20 " " •' Rice " 15 " " " Crackers " 10 " " " And all other articles at correspondingly low prices. In the article ot Teas, both as to prices and quality, I fREy Smiipefjtifiii GINGER, PEPPER, SPICE, CINAMON, CLOVES. NUTMEG, MUSTARD, CREAMS-TARTAR, RAISINS, FIGS, POWDER, SHOT AND LEAD. HIT! 11l lITS If 111 III)!. -ALSO FLAVORING EXTRACTS FOR PUDDINGS, 1 IbS, CUSTARD AND ICE CREAM. 0 SPICED SALMON & SARDINES in boxes—a fine article for Pic-nie, fishing and pleasure parties, Ice Cream Constantly on hand, and furnished in any quanti ty desired, on short notice* MACARONI— FOR SOUPS. SMOKED HALIBUT. 0 A Urge and varied assortment of LAMPS, LAMP CHIMNEY'S GLOBES AND WICKS, ALSO Kerosene Oil. N. B —WOOL, HIDES, PURS, ANP SHEEP PELTS, purchaaed for cash or trade, for which lbs highest cash prices will be paid. ©all aito giamjae, BUCK. Tankhannook, June 28, 186& ?4n46tf ••TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. ** —Thomas Jefferson. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1865. A SOLDIER'S SENTIMENTS. •Z*3BZIOS or CAPT, CHAS. B. BROCKWAY. At the Great Nob Mountain Meeting, Co* lumbla County, on Wednesday, Auguat 30, 1869. ■ FRIENDS AND FELLOW SOLDIERS It may be according to tactics to put raw recruits in from while these old veterans are kept io re serve, but the posit ion is a paimul one. In msmuch, bowerer, as I have been assigned a position in this assault on the aoemy, it is my duty to advance to the charge, and if repulsed I shall fall back upor the reserves. We have assembled here, as we have a per fect right to do, alike tb celebrate the estab lishment of our party, and to renew among our people their political faith. For four long years we have engaged in a bloody civil war; the garbs of mourning be fire me, the maimed soldiers who have met here prove the desperation of the struggle, were other evidence wanting The ques tions are pertinent, what have we fought for ? Why is this fair land filled with cripplee, with mourning—and why are we as a nation overwhelmed with debt 7 These are the questions which have been assigned me, and I will endeavor to state what we forgh' for, what we did not fight for, and what we should now insist upon. When we consider the conflicting opinions of leading men, of different communities, the importance of a proper solution of the que.tion will be ap parent. The subject is an old one; you have heard it day after day for the past four years ; and I shall not pretend to give you any original thoughts on the subject, but to revive old onps to your minds. The object of the S-.utb, I take it, was to establish a separate government among Stales alike interested in thp preservation of the institution of slaveiy, which they claim ed had been illegally interfered with Doubt less other causes impelled them to th s course, but this was the main one. The object of the West, besides the general one to maintain the Union of our fathers, was to open and keep open the navigation of the Mississippi river, that they might, through it, send their produce to market. The mass es of the Middle State* were actuated by truly patriotic impulses, though they knew that upon their borders would the contest be decided. The object of the East, howt ver, I hold, was not the general one to preserve the Union, though some men within its borders may have so stated. It was the desire of vengeance upon the South, and upon South Carolina in particular. They were not op posed to seression, because they had been advocates of that doctrine from the founds, dation of our government. Many of my hearers may be old enough to remember the Essex Junto and tbe Hartford Convention They may remember the numerous petition* coming from that portion of the United Slates to Congress, praying for a dissolution of the Union. For over thirty year* tbey have declared that "they would have no un ioo with slaveholders." You have not for gotten that General Banks, who ha* held hightcivil and military positions under our government, a man whose name is synony moot with disunion and defeat, declared thai "he was willing in certain contingencies to let the Union slide." You have not forgot ten that a certain representative in Congress from that godly city of Boston, and who now hold* a high diplomatic position under the government, declared that "the time had arrived when we must have an anti-slavery Constitution, an anti-lavery Bible and an anti-slavery God." Garrison's Liberator, a prominent New England paper, and one extensively circulated in the army by the Sanitary Commission, king had -at its head a* a motto "The Constitution is a covenant with death—an agreement with hell." These men are types of New England sentiment, and hated alike the Union and the Consti tution. Nor were they actuated by a desire to support the laws, because they have been the first to break them ; they have refused to carry out the provisions of the fugitive •lave law, though founded opon a direct command of the Constitution, and have set up their own corrupt consciences as "the higher law," in following which they claim the right to break through all laws—all con stitutions. These are the men whom I ar raign before you as having been disloyal in the past, and who, when the present wr commenced—the first they ever attempted to support—endeavored to pervert its objects But thb mainspring of their action was the love of gain, and they hve grown rich by taking advantage of the nation's .necessities, and the knowledge that they were secure from invasion. But, fellow citiaens, outside of N w Eng land, the grand moving cause was patriotism, the desire to perpetuate the government of our fathers, and to transmit it to our pos terity, to resent the insult to the flag before me, which the sun is gliding with bis sittiog rays. We could not bear that one star aho'd be taken from its sky. The blood of our la tbers was embalmed in its red, the parity of their cause in its white, and the freedom they attained in its blue. These considera tions induced me and thousands of my com* rades to forsake the peaceful avocations of life, and to bare ou* breasts to tbe storm of battle. There were no party distinctions, and Democrats were among the first to offer their services. Having shown the object of tbe people, let us consider the object of the administra tion as publicly declared to us. President Lincoln, in his iuaugural address, said. "I have no purpose, directiv or ind.rectly, to in terfere with the institution of slavery in tbe States where it now exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no in clination to do so. * * * The power confided to me will be used to bold, occupy and possess the property and places belong ing to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no evasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere." This was the declaration of the then Pres ident, but further, in his proclamation call ing for 75,000 troops, he said it was "to re possess the forts, places and property of the United States, and we should avoid devasta tion or disturbance of peaceful citizens."— The famous committee of Thirty-three on the state of the Union, of which Thomas Corwin, now Minister to Mexico, was chair man, reported among other equally strong resolutions, the following: "■Resolved, That we recognize slavery as now existing iu fif teen of the United States, by the usages and laws of those States ; and we recognize no authority, legally or otherwise, outside of a State where it so exists, to interfere with slaves or slavery in such States, in disregard of the rights of their owners, or the peace of the society." Added to this we had the al most unanimous rasolution of Congress, ''That thia war is not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose <f conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon us these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." Here wo have the objects of the war stated by the highest authorities in the land. It was not to be for conquest or subjugation ; not to overthrow ihe insti tution of slavery or any other institution without the consent of the Slates interesred. It was a contract between the soldiers and 'he government. The consideration on our part was our lives, our blood ; and after we were worn into the service, we were coolly informed that the objects for which we en listed should not be csrried out, and thus the solemn pledges of 1801 were broken, and the war made one for the negro and uot for the Uoion. We w of these pledges kept. We have done our duty in this contest, as the blood shed during the past four years at teats, and we now call on the powers that be or if they are unwilling, upon the people who placed them in authority, to see that this contract is kept. Remember it was no holi day excursion we undertook, nor was it to meet an ordinary foe. We were to fight our #wn flesh and blood ; men as brave by na ■ure as we are, men whose fathers had fuught with ours to achieve the Revolution, and who illustrated the valor of their race from the snows of Canada to the scorching plains >f Mexico. It is due to ourselves to admit that the S njth.To people are brave and were skillfully led, else we can claim but liDle honor fir subduing them with our su perior numbers. They avowed devotion worthy a better cause, and it wa9 only by superior numbers and indomitable persever ence we campelled their surrender. Among the first acts of tne administration violating our contract, was the publication of ihe emancipation proclamation. At the time I was confined in Libby prison aa one of "Pope's felons," but the sufferings of im prisonment were nothing compared to the mental torture on finding the high and noble cause for which I enlisted debased by being made a struggle for giving freedom to a few degraded negroes. Leading Republicans, it is true, urged the measure as a military necessity, as if twenty millions of white men could not subdue eight millions South with out the aid of a few cowardly negroes. They also promised reinforcements of white troops. Gov. Yates spoke of the "flaming giants" of the West would cotno to our rescue; Gov. Andrews said the streets and highways of the East wonld swarm with patriotic troops ; while even Greeley promised his 900,000 more. Yet they never cane save in the shape of some darkies stolen from the South, and a few reedy foreigners imported ftom abroad. The natural result of this ili timed proclamation was to stop recruiting in the North, and from that time large bounties and keavv draft* had to be resorted to fill our armies, while so long as the war was for the Uoion more volunteers were offered then the administration would accept. Another effect was to consolidate the Sooth. At the beginning of the war, ac cording to President Lincoln's own statement we bad a majority of friends there, but the measure extinguished the last spark of Un ionism Soothj and united their people in the attempt to preserve their property. 1 hold also that the war has been unnec essaril) prolonged, that competent generals have been removed and their places supplied TZSnMs, ts.oo jfiiLtL AimtJac. i by experimental ones ; that our forces were divided whero they should have been consol idated, and that overtures of peace from the enemy were rejected. Tbe doctrino was openly proclaimed that the "last man and the Ust dollar" should be used in order to liber ate the negroes. Fellow-soldiers, can you affiliate with such men 7 You and I have lost beloved comrades, nay suffered ourselves; yet we must be insulted with assurances that these friends died, or we suflered, not for the Union, not in defense ot tbe Constitu tion, but to tuake the negro our equal That ibis was unduly prolonged I can prove by the highest Republican testimony—Hor ace Greeley—who, in speaking of tbe Niagara Peace Conference said, "Had the wise and brave course been taken when Alex. H. Stephens first publicly solicited permission to visit Washington. I believe it would have saved a quartet of a million of lives, an awful amount of devastation and misery, and left our national debt a ful! billion less than it ts to dav." The President, in refusing overtures of peace, also forgot that portion of his annual message of 1862, which says : ''Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ,- and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fight ing, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. Aiolher rasult of giving freedom to the ne groes and placing them in our army was the death of tuousands of our brethren in Southern prisons. Our government refused to carry, out the cartel of exchange unless some negroes then held by the enemy were liberated what was tbe consequence ? In one year seventeen hundred Pennsylvania soldiers died at Andersonville prison. I know that Gen eral Butler now charges that Secretary Stan ton ordered him to complicate the exchange in order that the rebel forces should not be strengthened. But what of that 7 Instead of trying Captain Wirze, the keeper of the Andersonville prison, I would indict Ben Butler and Ed. Stanton. The war being over, the question occurs bow shall wo secure the objects for which we fought 7 In the first place, we should return to trial by jury. The lime for courts mar tial and military commissions, I apprehend is over, or at least should, be. Those of us who have been in the service know some thing about their constitution and powers While in the army I was several times a member of a crurt martial, and once a judge advocate, and 1 know that, as Senator Halt declared, "they are organized to convict,", VVoe be to the civ'ltan who comes before i hem. They are allowed no counsel, save at the discretion of the court, in general are lg norant of the charges against them, and have no means ol procuring Witnesses. The ac cuser also selects the judges of tho crime, and then has the approval of the sentence. There must be a return to civil law, not only because ho C institution prohibits any other mean* of trial than by jury, but even military wri ters agree that civilians are not subject lo mil jtary rule. We have assumed the garb of cit izens, and lot us maintain their rights. Let us emu'ate the example of Wasningfon, the first commander-in chief of our armies, who 'hough possessed of boundless power, was the first to curb military power and make it subordinate to the civil. I would also have you emulate that beau ideal of Democracy Andrew Jackson. Look at them at New Or leans, when he had achieve! that memorable victory over a veteran English army. Mil lions were rejoicing, and he was the hero of the day. In this hour of triumph, he was ar rested by a civil process for alleeed violations of the municipal law. He appeared. A crowd ol citizens and soldiers gathered around, and when Judge Hal) announced that the gener al had broken the laws, a murmur of indig nation passed through the crowd. The judge hesitated to pron- unce the sentence. "Fear not," said the General, "the same arm which repelled the enemy will protect the deliber ations of this court." He paid his fine, and would not permit the citizens to reimburse him. Would that some of onr shoulder strapped gentry would show the same respect to the laws of the land. We would also demand the restoration of the writ of habeas corpus , so that men can he no longer sent to bs*tiles without due pro cess of law. In that indictment against En glish tyranny, known as the Declaration of Independence, appear the following counts • ''He has erected a multitude of new officers and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our ppople, and eat out their substance." ' lie has kept among us in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our Legislatures - " "lie has affected to render the military in dependent of, and superior to, the civil pow er." "For imposing taxes on us without our consent;" and "For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury." In addition to the above we could bring other equally strong charges against the par ty in power, and the principal one would be the suspension of the great writ of right, against law, in sovereign States in profound peace, and refusing to restore it when there ia ro war or appearance of one In the land. We would also support President Johnson in his endeavors to bring back the Southern States to tueir loyalty. We want Virginia, South Carolina, and the rest, all back in tba VOL. 5 NO. 7 Union, not as territories, but aa free, sover eign, and iodepen lent States, as they were when Washington gave them to us. -We would cell to the memory of President John son the declaration be made in 1860 in the United States Senate, when he said {- u Wba the time comes, if it ever does come, which God forbid, I intend to place my upon that Constitution which I have sworn tosnp port, and to stand there and batxie for alt its garantees ; and if this Constitution ie to:he violated or this Union broken, it': shell .the done by those who ere stealthily and insid iously making encroachments upon its .very foundation.''' In this reorganization we would also ask that some mercy be shown the people lately in, rebellion. True, wkfen thev opposed us with arms in their bendstwe could inflict the usual punishments hot when they grounded their arms, when they submitted to the laws in good faith, #e should not oppress them. The man i§; a coward who would now insult our late foes, who would wreak vengeance on unarmed men, upon women and children, Sbalcspeara truly said : "The quality of mercy ia not strained ; It droppeth aa the gentle rain from Hears n Upon the place beneath ; it ia twice blessed ; It bleaseth him that gives and him that takes t 'Tie mightiest in the might,eat; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal powar. The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth set at the dread and fear of tings t But mercy is ah. ve his sceftred away, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It ia an attribute to Qod himself ; And earthlf power doih then show likest God's* When mercy seasons justice." Thank God, none but the political clergy prate of vengeance, a class of men who did more to cause the war aud less to aid it than any oiher body of men. But we regard it aa unsoldierly, unmanly, to strike a fallen foe— We, through our general, told them that/if • hey would lay down their arms and return to their homes they should not be molested by the United States authorities. The pledged word of a soldier must be kepi and however much stay-at-bome patriots may urge the hanging of General Lee and the mgn under him, the true soldier is opposed tq it-, fn short, we want the Southern Stales and the Southern people back in the Union. want no more interna! dissensions, but let us present a united front to the woild, and io a few years our people will be as good friends, nay better than we ever were before. We also Insist thai elections shall be and equal ; ihat men shall vote as ments dictate. 7he object of the war wm not to do away with vested rights, but to assure them to ourselves and our descendant! We want our legislators to be representatives -(the people, and not the selections of Je part mem generals, operating through squads <>f soldiers. Ilad I the time I would tell you how my "interference" in an election gave me a pleasir* trip to the Mississippi. ['Let's hear it tell it."] Last fall, about the tune of the Columbia county invasion, and 'he Petersburg mine explosion I was sent to Annapolis hospital, sick with a fever. Tha October election coming on, in order to aee now such things were managed, I secured,an ippointinent as clerk of the election board— A captain from Philadelphia was made judge and a portion of the board consisted of offi cers of negro troops, who were not and never had been citizens of Pennsylvania, They concluded it was unnecessary to swear the board, according to law, because were they not officers and was not their word sufficient? I protested in vain, because I was alcne— They at once, io conjunction with some chap lains, commenced electioneering and circulat ing Abolition ballots. Not a Democratic one was to be had. As squad after squad of men came in I pioposed asking i f they were citi zens of the United States or of Pennsylvania ; whether they were of age, or had paid tax within 2 years. But I was asked if t not ashamed to press such matters y. tbee men were soldiers, and was I opposed, to let ting soldiers vote ? I had to submit. At Camp Parole, where we had about 8,060 pa roled prisoners, the same process was car ried on, and the met: were shifted from one point to another. After we had closed the polls, a sergeant brought in a squad of about 50 men, whose votes were admitted for fear they had not been taken elsewhere ! We then commenced counting off, but the judge declar ed it was late, he was tired, and we whald adjourn until the next day ; wheretrpdn he put the ballots into his coat tail pookeP,4nd I did not se him any moro that day, I kept the tally list, however, and I have it at home now. We met the next day but he had more ballots in his pocket than I had names on the tally lit ; by some bogus prncest they had increased. Here was a quandary ; but it was soon settled. They remarked - the thing was very simple; the Democratic ballots, save nine, had been cast by mistake, and they would take out enough of them to make the ballots and tally-list correspond i then entered a formal protest against the whole proceedings, and refuse to make wp the necessary returns. That afternoon I redivod a telegraphic despatch from the Secretary of War.ordering me to report at once XtOrook'a island, 111. Of oourse I bad to ge at one*,and without making up the election retarne* I wentto Chicago,thinking that Crook's Bland might be in the take, but could fiftdoottteth ing as to the place. After aomo*dlaMess searching I concluded to stop at Reek lelaad City, it being a pleasant locality on tka l|if. N , j* *4l
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