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From the New York Citizen.
CLEAVELAND, OHIO,
A SONG FOR THE BOYS IN BLUE.
Ho ! comrades of the sash and sword.
The crcsabelt and the bayonet's glitter—
To see that lost for which yen pouied
Your blood, inueed were bitter!
'"The Union" ws your heart's one cry—■
For this you saw, with steady eye,
While the din of battle filled the sky,
Your brothers bleed, your brothers die—
Tl eir last breath "For the Union!"
The flag y..u bore had all the stars.
The oath you took to keep them bounJ you ;
Beneath that flag you won your scars
Beneath it victory crowned you !
Now you hear your stricken country's call,
Raise every hand—and swear by all
The t bings that soldiers sacred call,
"No single star from its place shall fall.
No State be lost to the Union !
The plotting knaves who stanl confessed
Rousing a pareianent war of races,
Can show no badges on the bre ast —
No corps hath known tbeir faces !
Brothers are they of 'Gideon's ban!"
Who followed you down to the conquered
land,
And whose purses did wonderously expand
While you fought the rebe s, hand to haad
Reasserting our glorious Union !
They were captains in the "Home Brigade,"
When our country needed each man's sinew ;
In the war they drove a prosperous trade,
And wish it now to continue.
"Our foes," forsooth, "they will not trust;
A volcano, indeed, is beneath the crust !"
The sword once drawD, must never rust,
And the South forever lie in the dust—
They will hear no talk of Union!
Of fresh revolts they plant the ge*ms,
New wars are in their tendered;
But the boys in blue *ill keep the terms
On which the South surrendered !
We trust the mou with wh nu we fought,
We know them gallant in act and thought,
The dieain they cherished has come to
nought,
And to loyalty now, by rough means
brought
We welcome them back to the Union !
So, comrades of the belt and sword,
Still keep in lin till your work be finished '
IT OK the flag which above you in battle soared
No star must be diminished !
"The Union" was your heart's one cry—
For this you saw, with steady eye,
While the roar of battle fills the sky,
Your brothers bleed, your brothers die—
You have saved—now preserve the Union
MJLES O'RKVLV, his x mark,
Late Private 47th N Y. Vol Infantry.
THE INTIMIDATION GAME^
Bogus Destrier Lists in Preparation
We understand that the Disunion mana
gers have given orders to the State printers
that they uiu.-t hav- the lists of Deserters
and Drafted men ready lor
distribution in two weeks. The printers
are accordingly working day and night to
get tlum done. Some time ago we stated
thit the regiments were estimated to aver
age about 150 deserters and non-reporting
drafted men, which would make the aggre
gate upon the lists about 30,000. We are
told, now, that the agg r egate will reach
nearly SIXTY THOUSAND ! There is strong
reason to believe tins, from the fact that
the lists have been in th-' hands of the prin
ters long enough to have been printed
weeks ago —if containing no more than 30,
000. Even though there may he 60,000,
time enough has elapsed to have had them
printed now and ready for distribution.—
WE BELIEVE THE DELAY TO BE INTKN
TIONAI —DESIGNED To GIVE THE ACCUSED
NO TIME TO PREPARE PRuOF AND HUNT UP
WITNESSES !
But there is a more serious rumor
abroad. It is said that, since the lists were
first prepared, there have been added THE
NAMES OF THOUSANDS OF DKMOCRAT- WHO
WERE NEVER IN SERVICE. KNL) WERE NEVER
DRAFTED ! Sixty thousand nnms would be
ONE-SIXTH OF ALL THE PENNSYLVANIA
SOLDIERS IN SERVICE DURING THE WHOLE
WAR. It is NOT POSSIBLE ONE SOLDIER
OUT OF EVERY SIX DESERTED FROM SER
VICE. Nor is it probab'e that there was
ONE deserter for every TWELVE men. The
names of persons who were never in service
have been added principally IN LOCALITIES
WHERE DISUNION ELECTION OFFICERS
PRESIDE, so that, UNLKBS THE ACCUSED MAT
BE ABLE TO FURNISH PROOF, AT A MO
MENT'S NOTICE, that they were never
in service, THEIR VOTES CAN BE REJECTED
The mere publication of such names upon
the lists, it is calculated, will secure the
electiou officers from pnnnishment after
wards. There is but little doubt that this
desperate Disunion game is going on.—
THE DELAY IN THE PREPARATION AND DIS
TRIBUTION OF THE LISTS IS STRONG PROOF
OF THE FACT !
To checkmate this desparat'* game of the
Disunionists, we hope Mr. Wallace, Chair
man of the State Central Committee WILL
AT ONCE ISSUE A CIRCULAR To THE ELEC
TION, DEFINING THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES
UNDER THE ELECTION LAWS OF THE STATE,
AND EARNING THEM AGAINST
REJECTING THE BALLOT OF ANY
MAN WHOSE NAME MAT BE UPON THOSE
LISTS, NO MATTER WHETHER HE BE A D
SEKTBR, NON-RKPORTING CONSCRIPT OR
NOT! We hope that he will also instruct
the people TO SECURE WITNESSES AGAINST
ALL ELECTION OFFICERS WHO MAT REJECT
"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1866.
BUCII BALLOTS, AND ASSURE ALL WHO MAY
SUFFER DISFRANCHISEMENT IN THAT WAY
THAT THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA WILL ASSUME
THE RESPONTI BILITY AND EXPENSE OF CON
DUCTING THE LEGAL PRODUCINGS IN EVERY
COURT. FROM THE LOWEST TO THE HIGH
EST, N 'CESSART TO SECURE TO TIIEM IHeill
RIGHTS AND TO KIGHT THPIR WRONGS !
The Supreme C>urtofthe State having
decided, in effect, that ALL MEN, OF LAWFUL
AGE, WHO H AVE A RESIDENCE IN THE STATE,
AND PAID THEIR TAXES ACCORDING TO LAW,
SHALL BE ALLOWED TO VOTE, (any Fed
eral or State law t. the contrary notwith
standing,) it is tlie duty of the party of the
Union and Constitution to protect in and
assure to every citizen of Pennsylvania his
just CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. Men who
have deserted from the military service, or
who have neglected or i'efused to perform
service when drafted, are certainly liable
to punishment, but NO MAN can be depriv
ed of his VOTE or of any civil ot political
Right until tried by Court Martial, und r
the Rules, and Regulations of the Army,
found guilty, sentenced, and sentence ap
proved. We hope, therefore,' that meas
ures will be at once taken to bring to pan
ishment any and every eh clion officer mho
assumes judicial powers and dares to rrj> et
the ballol< of the men whose names appear
upon those lists, unl -. they have been fried
by court martial, found guilty, sentenced,and
sentence approved.—Pat. &c Un'ton.
SOLDIERS MONUMENT: 82.800 IN
THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE'S
TRUSTEE! WILL HE AP
PROPRIATE IT I
It is claimed that Mr. MKRCUR voted
against the soldiers bounty bill, because lie
could not do so without at the same time
voting to increase his own pay—the two
measures coming together from joint com
mittee. Still lie took the money. By his
vote he said he was not entitled to it, and
is presumed to have said so very emphati
cally, a-he al the same time was obliged
to vote against an increase of pay to the
s ddiers. Certainly he has no fair right to
the money. He may claim to hold it a>
tru-tee for his constituents. And one mem
her may say that if tlmother representatives
lake theirs, his constituents, should be en
titled to take the same amount from the
treasury. The people of a particular dis
trust may be equitably entitled to the
money ; but their represeHtative to no more
o! it than any other tax-payer.
We have this proposition, theiefore, to
sngge-t to Mr. MKRCUR. That he donate
the 52.800 extra pay he to. >k to Ihe erec
tion of a monuent to t'e memory of our
soldiers who have fallen in the war. This
is a tiuly laudable and patriotic enterprise,
in which all have a common interest. Such
a monument, on our public square would
be but a just testimonial of regard for the
irallant dead. It would be a credit to our
county and to our people. We await a re
ply.
We will add, that this will be in accord
ance with the course pursued bv Mr. CLY
MER, candidate for Governor, when the
legislature increased his pay, in opposition
to his own vote. He donated the money
to a charitable institution in his own dis
trict. Will Mr. MERCUR show H imself
equally just, when such a patriotic enter
prise appeals to his sympathy ?— Brad.
Argus.
Major General Wool Endorses tlie Presi
dent's Policy,
A delegation f>ora Troy. N Y , bended
by Hon. Geo. Vail, on Thursday visited
the President at Albany, and extended to
him an invitation to visit that c tv, and al
so handed him the following letter from
Maj. Gen. John K. Wood :
TROT, Aug. 21, 180 G.
To An Ireiv Johnson, President of the
United States: My Dear Sir: Tlie Hon.
George Vail, of the city of Troy, will hand (
vou this note. As one of our most re
spectable and worthy citizens, I would
commend bun to your kind attention.—
rie is an old Jackson Democrat, and your
political friend, who wants nothing and
seeks for nothing but his country's good.
He, as Weil as mys If, is exceedingly anx
ious, deeming it ess. utial to the welfare
and prosperity of the country, that you j
should succeed in your policy of recon- j
strueting the Union.
We fully concur with von in the .decla- !
ration that "we have had war enough, let ,
there be peace." Another civil war is
indicated by those who declare the Union j
dissolved,it would rend the United States in- j
to fragments,followed by pestilence.faraine,!
and desolation thnugh ut the land, and j
would overturn the best government ever
devised by man, and ruin the finest coun
try or. the face of the glebe.
That von may succeed in your r.oblcand i
generous efforts to bring back into the folds
of the Union a brave people, and make u<
what we ought to be, a united, great, and
prosperous nation, should be the earnest
and anxious desire of all true patriots and
lovers of their country.
I greatly regret that important business
deprives me of the pleasure it would afford
me to accompany the Mayor, Common
Council, Mr. Vail, and other citizens <>f
Troy, who intend to pay their respects to
vou, on the morrow, while en route for
Chicago, to celebrate the erection ot a mon
ument in commemoration of the late la
mented Douglas.
I have the honor to be, with considera
tion of the highest respect, your obedient
[servant, JOHN E. WOOL,
I Major General, U. S. A.
WHO JACK HAMILTON IS
Every one knows that "piler up of blas
phemous adjectives,'' Parson Brownlow,
but that other shining light of the bogus
loyal Southerners, Jack Hamilton, is not so
well known, lUe give a memorable act of
bis public career, for the especial benefit
of his present party friends :
At a meeting of the citizens of Travis
County, assembled on the 16th of June, in
the city of Austin, to express their appro
bation of the late spirited conduct of Hon.
Preston S. Brooks, ot South Carolina, the
Hon, A. J. Hamilton was called to the
chair, and A. J Lott appointed Secretary
On motion ol \\ in Byrd, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously
adopted, viz:
Whereas,, We have learned with sincere
pleasure of the prompt and merited castiga
tion inflicted by the Hon. Preston S.
Brooks, of South Carolina, upon the person
of Senator Sumner; therefore
Resolved, That the Hon. Preston S
Brooks is entitled to the earnest thanks of
the whole South for the energy and hearty
will with which he struck down her infa
mous em mv, on the spot where the honor
able ruffian poured forth, for four consecu
tive fours, unmerited abuse of her institu
lions and favoiite sons.
Risolved, That in testimony of our ap
preciation of tlie patriotic conduct of Colo
nel Brooks, we w ill present to him a cane
made of the toughest wood which grows on
the soil ot T< xas, and which, therefore,
with manifest propriety, should be applied
with the full force of a stout Southern arm
upon the backs ut our hypocritical ind slan
dermis enemies.
Risolved, That a committee of ten be
appointed by the Chair to carry out the
objecis of the preceding resolutions.
Resolved, That the proceeding-, of this
meeting be publi.-hcd in the Austin city
papers.
A.J. HAMILTON, Chairman.
A. J. LoTr, Secretary.
It happens, cur ously enough, that the
then "hypocritical and slanderous enemies"
of the South, whom lie was tl en willing to
whip with the full force of his arm, are his
present friends and backers.
Here is ar.other episode in Hamilton's
career, which we find in the Houston Jour
nal;
CKNTRKMLLE, Leon Co., Aug. 19.
Editors Journal : Seeing thai you have
been performing "a labor of love" for the
redoubtable and Provisional Governor,
Jack Hamilton, in justice to him and the
country, every fact and incident tending to
illustrate his eventful career should be plac
ed before the public. If you will commun
icate with Mr. Webb Kidd, Senior, who
was late a resident of this county, but now
resides near Eutaw, in Robertson county,
he can furnish you an interesting chapter,
tending lo illustrate the ruling passion of
the hero's career. Mr. Kidd knew Hamil
ton in liis ir.cipiency in North Alabama.
They both resided, I believe, in the same
county. Mr. Kidd employed him as agent
to sell a tract of land. Hamilton sold it.
embezzled the money, and decamped to
TexHN. It was the money that paid the
hero's way to the Lone Star State. Mr.
Kidd informs file that he has never been
able to get a cent of his money. Mr. Kidl
is a reliable man, and will give vou, sho'd
you desire it, the details of this transaction,
besides various other circumstances of an
lnierestiug nature, tending to show up the
achievements of the giant in his younger
days, all of which will be inst uctive and
necessary to the truth of history,
Respectfully, * * * *
THEY W ILL STEAL.
We understand that the bill to increase
the pay of members of Congress, originated
in the Senate, and was, at first
unanimously voted down in the House. A
committee of conference was appointed.—
Thad Stevens was on the House commit
tee. He suggested that, the conference
agree to incorporate this bill with the boun
ty bill. The Senate committee said of,
course you cannot carry this measure ag'nst
the unanimous vote of the house. Stevens
said put them together and try it. The
hint was sufficient, and it was done. L"n
d< r the pretext of giving the soldier SSO for
three years service, they took S2OOO each
for nothing. Tins certainly was patriotic
stealing ; and illustrates the saying of Dr.
Johnson, that "patriotism is the last resort
of knaves."
The object of this legislative legerdemain
was this : the republicans have the speak
er and the appointment of the committees
They knew their man when Thad Stevens
was appointed as chairman of the House
Committee. The two bills were joined to
gether, so that if a man voted against in
creasing his pay, he must vote against the
soldiers bill. This was intended to embar
rass democrats. W hat a hue and crv. they
would have raised if a deinociat had voted
against increasing the soldiers pay, or giv
ing him a bounty ? Stevens would have
consigned them to the "penitentiary of hell"
with the people of the South. The demo
crats therefore very properly refused to vote
at all. They would not touch this pi>-ce of
. infamy.
Such is the sincerity of Radical cant
about justice to the soldier. They would
run the rUk of defeating the bounty bill,
by i' Corporating with it a bill to increase
their own pay. They give tlie soldier SSO
or a SIOO and take S2UOO themselves. —
Brad. Aryus,
VBHMS, B2 00 PER AIVNDM
FORNEY'S OPINION OF STEVENS,
Thad. Stevens recently made a speech in
Lancaster. Pa., in which he said he consid
ered the Lord was inflicting vengtance up
on us for our injustice. He said :
"You all remember that in Egypt He
sent f rogs, locusts, murrain, and lice, and
finally demanded the blood of the first born
of every one of the oppressors. Almost
all of these have been sent upon us. More
than the first born have been taken from
us. We have been oppressed with taxes
■ arid debts, and be has sent us worse than
lice, and lias afflicted us with an Andrew
Johnson.'
He also paid bis respects to the Fenians
in the following slur, equalizing f hem with
negroes.
"We are influenced to much by those
persons from foreign lands, who while in
search ot freedom, deny that blessed boon
to those who are their equals."
The Philadelphia Forney's paper)
in publishing the speech calls Stevens a
"veteran patriot," In 1838, Forney enter
tained a different opinion of Stevens, and
in the Lancaster Intelligencer, which he then
published, thus alluded to his Yankee ori
gin and his disorganizing tendencies :
"Thaddeus Stevens, and we are glad to
say it, is not a Pennylvanian. llis own
history proves that he came hither a stran
ger to her people, and has continued, at all
times, consistently adverse to her interests,
lie has been, since his unfortunate presene
in the Legislature, Pennsylvania's evil ge
nius, and if she has degenerated at all—and
the three past years ot her life prove that
she has—lie planed the misfortune. We
will not repeat here his utter destitution of
reputation—for his career is one of that
kind which could only have been run by m
v.Man at heart. Pennsylvania has three
blemishes on her escutcheon ; the Masonic
inquisition, the chartering of the Uniu-d
Siaies Bank, and the present outrageous
condition of affairs. The first, it is not re
qu.Site to say, he originated and completed.
The second was the fittmg offspring of his
brain, for he read that infamous bill before
the llitner House of Representatives. The
last (the buckshot war)is his own bv every
law of light. He began the anarchy— it is
the sad consequences of his own plans. He
dissolved the government. He is now urg
ing the Senate to go on in its path of de
struction. lie is emphatically 'the power
belli nd the throne.' The last desperate and
final plunge. It will either make or un
make him. If it is successful, he can cov
er up the fostering infamy of his life, an-1
save himself and companions from impend
ing ruin. If it is unsuccessful, he w ill be
spurned, not only from the hall of the Leg
is lature, but from the very State — if the
laws permit his escape
THE WAR WAS FOB THE NEGRO,
In a recent speech Senator Wilson, of
Massachusetts, made the following candid
avowal of the designs and plots of the Ab
olitionists who governed the Republican
party during the war :
"And where is slavery to-day? It is
utterly annihilated—ground to power—
and the bond-men of the country stand up
to-day secured to their civil rights by the
laws of the United States, Step by step.by
a slow course, but sure and certain, we
moved on to the accomplishment of the
great purpose that we had in view—the
emancipation of this race ; and th"y are
free, free by the Constitution of the United
States, and free Jorevermorcf
In commenting upon this, the Philadel
phia News ( Conservative Republican )
says :
"If this be true—and Senator Wilson is
one of the acknowledged organs of the
Radical party —the war and its terrible ex
penditure of blood and treasure were but
a part of the programme they had marked
out l<>ng before the rebellion commenced,
and what has been called a rebellion by
southern traitors was in fact an illegal cru
sade againgt negro slavery. It is probable
that t'>e Radical party will gain popularity
by endeavoring to establish the truth of
such an assertion ? It is just what the reb
els said during the war, and what we and
all other honest Union men persistently de
nied. but it is most curious to see leading
Radicals presenting the same excuse for
the Southern disunionists which they made
for themselves."
The News might have said, also, that
for simply declaring what Wilson now
avows as the design of the war, on the part
of those who conti oiled the Republican
party, hundreds of Democrats were perse
cuted. imprisoned, and butchered,and doz
ens of Democratic printing offices were
mobbed and destroyed. But, it is not ne
cessary for Wilson now to declare that the
war was waged solely and entirely for the j
African and his race. The daily speeches
of the Disunion leaders in Pennsylvania
and elsewhere show that the re-establish
ment of the Union was not the object of
thoe who controlled the Federal armies,but
that negro freedom, negro suffrage,plunder
I the overthrow of the Constitution, the es
tablishment of a central despotism, and the
perpetuation of their political power were
the primary and controlling measures of
' their Unionism. Can the people
( yet remain blind to these sell -evident facte?
VOL. 6 NO. 7.
THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH AT DE
TROIT.
The Mayor of Detroit warmly received
the President winch was responded to by
Mr. Johnscn as follows :
After referring to the action of Con
gress on the Freedmen's Bureau bill, and
their opposition to the executive depart
ment of the Government, he said he would
like to meet the whole phalanx of the men
opposed to his principles. He would like
to see the legislative depart.uent of the
Government that is making charges against
the Executive go before the Araericafi peo
ple and test the question at issue ; humble
individual as he was, he would like to take
the entire Congress entertaining these doc
trines before the people, and he would
soon show who it was that was trving to
absorb the liberty of the people. [Cheers]
lie had stood as the Tribune of the peo
ple in defence of the people's rights, and
he would continue theii defender.
Have I not, he said, been elected Presi
dent by you ? [A voice—"That $25,000 a
year."] Oh, indeed! That is what you
give jour Tribune, is it ? [Cheers.] Let
me call your attention so this. I am not
afraid to talk to the American people, and
all the little fellows they put into crowds
to call out catchwords with a view to cre
ating disrespect: I care nut for them.—
The whole kennel has been turned loose
upon me long since —their little dogs Tray
and Blanche and Sweetheart—all have
been let loose yelping at my heels for the
last eight months. [Cheers.] The whole
pack of slanderers and calumniators had
better get out of mv way. [Great cheer
ing ] I tell them that the American peo
ple are taking hold of the questions at is
sue, and when they begin to consider them
these usurpets and tyrants - because tyran
ny can be exercised more effectually by
two hundred and forty-two men than by
one single man—[Cheers] —l tell them
it will be better for them to keep their
-mall boats near shore. [Continued cheer
ing.] The people are being waked up,
and when the honest, inte"igent and pa
triotic masses come to the rescue the whole
set of them will be destroyed.
But it i p said here that 1, the Tribune
of the p ople, was getting $25,000 a year ;
but I a.-k this question, has it been in
creased since I came into office? [Cheers
and cries of "No, no!] But let mc tell
you what Congress has done. They
changed their pay since they came into
power. Yes, ths Congress that has as
sailed and attacked me for the faithful dis
charge of my duty when the citadel of
| freedom was attacked. [Cheers.] Yes,
| this immaculate, this pure, this people-lov
ing, this devoted Congress finds it conven
ient while they had the chauce, while they
were in power, to increase their pay near
liy double. [Great cheering and hisses.]
Those who live in glass houses should nev
er throw stones. [Cheers.] Yes, this im
maculate Congress increased their pay
nearly double, while at the same time they
were magnanimous to vote SSO for the
brave two-year veterans of the war ; SSO
bounty for the men who shed their blood
and iost their limbs in the defence of the
country. For men mutilated and disabled
from wot k forever this immaculate Con
gress gives SSO, while they double their
own emoluments, [cries of "Shame!"]
receiving $5,0c0 a year. Just pocket that
as you go along. [Cheers and laughter.]
They reckoned with some sagacity in the
premises; they feared that this would be
the very last grab they would have at the
public purse. [Cheers.] 1 trusf in you,
and trusting in you, I say let the whole
Congress come. Relying on you I will
meet them single-handed and alone. In
the words of the poet I exclaim:
"Come one, come all, thin rock shall fly
From iu firm base as soon as I." [Cheers. J
REPUBLICAN FALSEHOOD. —Among a long
list of other falsehoods and slanders about
Heister Clymer, the Montrose Republican
has this :
"Mr. Clymer declared that "if Wood
ward and Valandigliam were elected Gov
ernors of Pennsylvania and Ohio, they,
with Seymour of New York, and Parker
of New Jersey, would unite in calling from
the army the troops of their respective
States, lor the purpose of compelling the
Administration to invite a convention of
the States to adjust our difficulties,"
The editor knows this to have been an
old exploded electioneering story, without .
truth or probability.
The principle motto over the speak
er 's stand, in the Donglass-Geary-Brown -
low convention, is— "LIBERTY, EQUALITY
and FRATERNITY." There's negro suffrage,
negro equality, miscegenation or mongrel
ism in a nutshell. After that, and the
presence of Fred Douglass, will the Geary
faction pretend to d.ny their negro "prin
[ ciples ?"
The soldiers should remember that
Congress, professing so much LOVB for
them, voted live thousand dollars bounty
to the nt gro soldiers and ONE hundred dol
lars to the whites. White soldiers will
please make a note of this and remember
thei" Congressional friends at the ballot
box. True merit should never go unre
warded.
About a year ago the Disunionists
declared that "Providence gave us Andrew
Johnson as President, for a wise purpose.",
' Now we begin to believe it *'