Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1862-07-08

              - - ' ' - ": ' ' -; , ,y ' in,.-,-,, I, .1 mil mmnm kmi i mi n m i n'i I rmm si'n if iti r- . - - - ' ' '-,mrmt-m---mmM,amm-'tm : " '. ...-..,..... zrZ'y"-' --5!?!V" i ii .ii ntH'w mi mil 'ipj n) T m mi ..nl an i - MMMHriMkM aiawpMBsp?wwg' - I I I I I I I II II I I I I I I I -.-..ii-io'l no UwiJi r i . j t t . . -.1 :--. i f .-; n! - - W VOLUME MOUNT : EEN0N;H10: -TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1868. i - - J V MST , Ml K. "I fT ' .11 I . I ' "J ' - Pi, OCein7Xwarmiok, S4 Story. .- - ' -, , : ?'IXlHf8Tir Dolta pt ftiafiam, payll in ad-iMM X9 vitaia ala nontlit; $3.00 afUr th xpU ,ftiotaf Utjar. .... DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION la paraaDce of A atll of the Democratic Central Committee, a ConTention of tLe De-mocraey of Knox County assembled at tha Court Hooee, In Mt. Vernon, on Saturday, June 28th, 1862. On motion Hon. Jacob Mirrin of Berlin township, was callel to the chair. Bnj. BortiR, Christopbxr Wolfe, Jo-, ixph Qrxxn, H.n. Yocwo, and Am Hart, were choaea Viet Presidents. Jrromi Rowlxt, Secretary. On motion, the names of the townships were called over, when the following delegates appeared and took their Bents, viz : ' Jackson A. C. Scott, A. II. Darling, Charles Elliott, Jr., James Gault, T. P. Uess, John .Harris. - " Butler-J acob Leply, Wm. Morninstar, Thoe. Carpenter, II. B. Crowder, Martin Bech-" tell, Henry Richards. Union- II. II. McDonald, Squire Butler, . Benj. Butler, Lewis Britton, Squire Ross. Brow Thos. Wade, Miles Deakins, A. " Barrett, Jas. S, Killing, J. P. Cunningham, T. Pinkerton. : Jejferton J. T, Shrimplin, J. Shulte, J. Colopy, J. Blubaugh, J. II. Mills. HousardJ araea Berry, John Mario w.Worth-ington Shipley, Peter Magers, W. D. Wollia-on, Peres Ileadington. 7arrwdn-Sam u el Nicholls, Wm. Beebout, Moae Dudreon, Silas Lybarber, Daniel Fuller, . Jacob Hays. - ; Gay Jacob Harrod, John Ilarrod, Charles Elliott, Wm. McWilliaras, Jr. Charles Dudgeon.' Wu.Mc Williams, Sr. Morgan Rodman Tulloss, Joseph Green, H. Smith, Isaac Bell, John Sellers, John P. Hosey. PUtuant Wro. Lhamon, Joseph Ulrey, Martin Bechtell, Noah Gorsuch, James Col-ville, Thomas C. Hilliar. College James Young, E. M. Dodson, " Jo-aiah Lybarger, C. Tress, John Davis, Jacob South. . . Monroe H. II. Young, D. D. Ireland, Eli Young, . Solomon Blake, Robert Marshall, Thomas Anderson. - J"li JarrottParrish, Jacob Dunmire, John Wineland, Elias Arnold, John Dadley. Berlin John J, Kine, Joseph Love, Henry Snyder, Henry Markley, D. M. Shaw, Jacob Merrin. : - Morris John Stigers, A. Thrift. T. Shafer, L. S. Disney, Jamea Stigers, John Rhina-hart. ' . . Clinton D. F. Halsey, Samnel Israel, Abel Hart, David Parrott, Frank H. Hurd, John Welch. ... : -: "V ; .2filler John Parrott, James Neal,- Oliver Squiar, J. C. Montgomery, Wm. Crider, Valentine Shaffer. " . MilordDr. E. Smith, B. Thornhill, W. J. McGugin, Wm. Moreland, N. P. Perkins, G. W. Jackson. - r' Liberty A. J. Leek, A. Dalrymple, E. D. Bryant, W. D. Ewalt, Jerome Rowley, A. - Eowley. s Wayne--D. C. Beach, Wm. Darling, Waa. Dunham, A. Kellar, T, J. Logan, L. S. McCoy. . . ; . . : r-y' MiddUbury Joseph Levering,. Jeesee Goit-ner, Noah Levering. Wm Killen, L. B. Ack-crmaa Israel Stamp. JTOZuxrSellera Roberts, . Joh n , Ewalt. Si-roon Ewali, Daniel Fry, Horace Borden, PfcU-. lip Shaffer. - - - ; ::- ; F. H, Hew, Esq'.; 'chairman of the com-, mittee on Resolutions, reported tJia following, which were unanimously Hadopted, amidst, vo ciferoui appladaexi"- ;' . ' ' ' ' ',' Jtetolued, Th('in these" tner of national ; tribulation,' the only hope .of our ecu n try is tb e triumph of DemoeratSe principles and the suo-ceec of the Demoeratie party ; and, aa of old, that time-honored organization.' is. pledged o the Constitution as it is and the : Union as It w4a1 i --.;' j : ' . .".V .- ' . - Jtetotved, Thai lh Tarty now in power in the Federal' administration, has shown itself unfit to pjanigi "aiTairsyor government, by the uncbtistUutional measures they have advo cated and adopted, and the unprecedented cor- ruptiofr that ba prevailed in high places. RrJW,,That we view, irith alarm the pot icy of the 'present Cbngreas in reference to the eubject oralararyV whoi carried away: arit& A mock-pJaUanthropy forithe bliiskTabe, iroujd acriftee Ua best iritareat of the whites' and - hy a, wheleaaJeeaMUjdpatioo fire the alaveaa rreean: tnfcy are unfitted for.W 1 whkh fcUl , make the . rich ftalda X Ote Soath j ei t barren -tt '? - " - J?WA: Thai while we wiU eppovt onstitationa,l measure tor the JwrraQn f . averninenw ana- rue jeeurtu of the Union, we aeJiniUini.to roteY'efnele dol- ty jnrchiuit of, elves or for X generai fdtUagibat tb boxden of a, Beceaaajrj'jtiuu ikm, ini be hmfjttU'li Betolvtd, That the eo-called Union party has proved falee'io the professions it made last fall for while specially pretending that party deferences- were to be laid aside," they have 'carried their own party"views into the administration of the government, by the abol. ition of slavery in the District of Columbia, by the prohibition of slavery in the territories, by the adoption of a high protective Tariff, and by a violation of all the great'doctrinea of the Democratic party ; therefore, we invite our fellow Democrats who were deceived into the Union organization, so-called, by these promises, to return to their first love and aid us in the great work of restoring our V beloved country to peace and prosperity.? ; BesolpeJ, That we congratulate the people of Illinois upon the result of the late' election in this State, by which the African race ia excluded from its borders, and prevented from voting and holding office, and therefore urge now most . earnestly the people of Ohio that measures be immediately adopted by which the same result may be accomplished with us, and our State preserved from Africanization. .' ' Hetolvsd, That the Crittenden resolution, adopted by the late Democratic State Convention of Ohio, expresses the purpose for which this war should be waged, and any departure from its provisions we shall regard as a breaoh of faith on the part of this Republican Administration, and we hereby declare that to a war conducted on a principle different from that then laid down, for the abolition of slavery, for the destruction of. State lines -and Stats rights, and thereby for the establishment of a military despotism, we as Democrats are earn, eatly and unalterably opposed. A Committee of one from each township (being the chairman of each township delega tion,) was appointed, to report delegates to the State and Congression Conventions. The following are-the Delegates to the State Convention: Cbas. Elliot, Jr., Joiaph IlamilL, H. H. McDonald, J. With row, John Cunningham, Hugh Millar, John Bogga, Jaa. Honey, S. X. Critch&eld, Martin Bechtell, K. Riley, II. IL Young, Jr., C. Babba, Jacob Merrin, F. II. Hurd, L. Harper, Valentine Shafer, . Smith, Jerome Rowley, A, B Ink, Joseph Levering, James Headington, A. Thrift. - The following are the Delegates to the Congressional Convention: J. S. MeCajnent, S.L. Richards. Daniel Campbell' Jacob Leply, II. H. McDonald, T. J. Butler, Jas. Whbrow. JosephMilU, M. Dickens, J. Y. Hall, James Barry. M. Shipley, Jacob Hayes, Samuel Nichols, iiudgeun, JL. raul, Isaao Bell J. F. liosey, Joseph Ullery, Joseph Parks, James Young, E. M. Dodson, Allison Adams, H.. H. ' Yoanjr, John Mishy, Squire Cunningham,. Joseph Lore, M. Shaw, Adam Rhine-hart, A. Thrift, Jamea Andrews, D. F. Halsey, Oliver bqnires, John Parrot, Smith, J. P. Larlmore, Christopher Wolf. E. D. Bryant, L. D. Rankin, T. R. Potter, Jesse Gortner, J. C. Stump, D. Fry. Speeches were made by Samuel Israel, L. Harper and F. H. Hurd, after which the Convention adjourned with three cheers for the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is, which were given with a hearty good will. Ohio to be Flooded with Hegroes. During a debate in Congress on the 21st inet., the following 'colloquy occurred by which it will be seen that Bingham of Ohio goes in for admitting-the freed negroes into Ohio : - r Mr. MALLORY (Union) of Kentucky, be- 1 . 1 . . I x . . LI!- jievii iiiai mine present juncture 01 puuiic hi-fairs it would be inexpedient to adopt any act of confiscation or forfeiture of the estates of the j rebels engaged in this wicked and unprovoked rebellion, with which it was known he had no sympathy. In the course of bis remarks he said that the Booundrels and traitors, botn in the North and South, had discovered that the agitation of the slavery question was one of the most efficient weapons for the dftruction of this Government, and : accordingly availed themselves of it. He declared the condition of slavery is the very best in which the African race can be placed, and he had no reepect for that species of conduct which would turn the negroes free, but vet exclude them from the free States. : The Lord deliver him from such benevolence ! whose only object was to make the slaves outcasts. Mr. BINGHAM (Rep.) of Ohio, replied that a majority of the free States do not exclude them. Mr. MALLORY (Union) inquired whether the gentleman would throw ope, the doors of the great and noble State of Ohio to three millions of freed negroes? Mr. BINGHAM The doors are open now. Mr. MALLORY wished to know whether the gentleman , was willing that the blacks, should compete with white labor ? When the blacks swarm that State like locus , the gentleman would close the door by legislation. -; Mr. BINGH AM bad no idea that any man bom on our soil should be excluded from the limiurofanv State. - ; - Mr. COX . said the - sentimettts of his col league (Mr. Bingham) were not the senti-menta of the people of Ohio. As soon as the Democrats regain power, they will close the door, v- ;- ; - ' Mr. MALLORY" concluded his remarks. when the House adjourned.; v- -.y, , A Faraffrapli to b Skipped .by Aboli. We are pleased to read the following In the Memphis Avalanche but w"e'. presume it will bear hardly npon the Berrea of our . Abolition friends. The DarasrraDh. ia follows : -: . . i , ...... . ': "vEaaoKs? :.'. 'v: - Th rWleir may remember that in- our & sue of yesterday we ' made some remarks Joa the antt-AbolUtoniatio feeling which character-'ff. tTe V under corahiand of Colonel Frtch. A moat pleasing illustration of the truth of those remarks U aflbrded by an ID1,Jnt5"I, occarnd here yeaterdayj "fcoh. onel AHodgeaj a wealthy and influential eitt x4of Arsa.Teeulin aome tvelve milee west ofMemphia, miae4 i Of hla neeroee; who effected thetr aseace from hla nlsS ln4P7asaniedthemeelre lor adnitttanca on thftrederal fjett. aTbey were .ternly aft,aed, and irsed to return ' hont 4iscooi6ted. The raady jd liberal- tjhedienca ct Colonel Fiteh'e published orde jd not only j creditable to the diaeipfine'of the- Lionel's command, but is most miuUUtle evidence of the good faith 1S which frwas issued J t The eontinuanee of such a, course will do ra U ch tr Mi n foiri onr iSifrr, to tie men; otIndian contiatuuice"; aol iii crease or tne confidence they wtlf Ipoepd , IQT The Logan GaxetU has gone : iato the poetics again. ;Here la Ue latest laud best ef fusioo; , ; ; . ; , .:' .: ... . : DE UJfITEI 8TATE3 HOTEI.; : r oira en' ss kumii. - " 1 f . Vt took rooms for de season r cnttin' quite a swell, I's stoppin' at a tat em de TJirmtD Statw HftT Ole Uxcia Sam's de landlord we, eat and drink our . fin ; . ; . ...v. - ' And de wisdom Ob de measure Is, drs nufflm for de bUl ! - . Oh, hi 0 Dinkum Darkey, ; ; ; "De white trash can't afferd To take rooms at de tavern ' Whar de soiled gentry board. '-;-:.yJ De 'possnm it was lnbly but we've better grab dan ds4; , , - ;. . De hoe-cake it was 'ni&cent, de raeeooa sweet an' fat. " ' " But 'possum, 'coon and hoe-eake I bid yon ell fare-weUl . . : ' You wouldn't suit de S'eiety at Uncle Sam's BoteL On, hi o Dinknm Darkey, Oh don't you hear da bell? It's ringin for de boardaha At UncB) Sam's HoteL And don t yon know de boardahs f de aeeoapuabed Dinah Crow , De scrushiatin' Pompey, and de " gallant Mis tab Snow :. And all ob de 'born equals,' no matter what dey dwell, - ' Are gain' to be boardahs at Uncle Sam's Hotel Oh, hi 0 Dinkum Darkey, Oh berry sure I am, De best eb all de taverns Is kept by Uacic Sax. De scrushiatin' Pompey, when be sits down to dine, Just hear him call de waitah, to foteh along de wine! - :'-. And see de little white boys ahelpin' Mistah Snow, And bringin' chicken fixins to de lubly Dinah Crow! Oh, hi 0 Dinkum Darkey, I's cuttin' quite a swell, . ' r I's took rooms at a tavern De United States HoteL It's a mighty big old tavern, dat United States Ho- ' tel ! ' . It has sixty t'onsand boardahs, and it 'commodates 'em well : It has room for all oh Dixie, an' I 'speet deyU all be nere, Wlv dar wives and pickaninnies, 'fore deendin'ob de year. Oh. hi 0 Dinkum Darkey, u' We have no bills to pay v Dey charge 'em to de white trash, I hear de landlord say. Oh, take de mattock, white man! de shubbel and de .spade We boardahs hab no work to do, we all hah quit de trade I . But 'fore yon pay deboahd bills, youll hab to tqgaad sweat. And wish you wasn't white trash a thousand times, I'll bet! - Oh. hi O Dinkum Darkey, - Oh don't you hear de bell T . It's ringin' foT be boardahs At Uncle Sam's Hotel! Emancipation and its Results. IS OHIO TO SE AFWCAmZED t Extracts trom Iat S h or Hon. Samnel H The right and power to exclude Africans from the States North, being compatible with our system of State sovereignty and Federal supremacy, I assert that it is impolitic, dangerous, degrading and unjust to the white men of Ohio and of the North to allow such immigration.By the census of 1.880, in Ohio, we have 86,225 colored persons, out of a population of 2,339,559. As a general thing, they are vicious, indolent, and im- ' provident. 'ft 1 Ihey number as yet one black to about sixty-three , whites; but their ratio of increase during the last ten years, has "been 43.30 per cent., while that of the white increase is only 17.82 per cent. About one-tenth of our convicts are negroes. I gather from the census of 1850, that four-tenths of the female prisoners are blacks, although they compose but one-eightieth of the female population of 0Mp. In Massachusetts the convicts in the penitentiary are one-r sixth black; Connecticut one-third; New York, one-fourth. In Ohio, the blacks are not agriculturists. They soon become waiters, ' barbers, and otherwise subservient to "the whites. They have just enough consequence given to them by late events to be pestilent. The re sistance of the abolitionists to the fed? eral authority in Ohio, within the past three years, was abetted by colored men, some of whom bad received schooling r enongn at oerlm to be vain and ostein tatiously seditious .. . ', The last Legislature of . Ohio by their . committee, gave, their, proteges this certificate of character in their re-1 port : . ; r... ..-. " The negro rape U looked uponty. tne people oi ynio as a class to oeept by themselves- to b debarred pf social intercourse with the whitesto .fee. 'de. prived of . aU adratages . wbick, fkej class.' " ' : y .' ' ,,;.,.. ' '. : j -, " Pepri?ed of the advantages here enumerated, it could not ?.be, expected that He should attain any great advancer ment. in social imprbyepient. . . Generally, the negro" in Uhio is laiy, ignorant andTicionSr.'- r ;. r. ; i,a If this be true, it irouHbeireli toln qxiire why energetic legislation waa not had, in view of this einancipatiop scEenles hero; impendinii, pre?eni tbis lajsy, ig norant and. vicious class, from orerriini rin wSUr v Suclj lejlat4oa;irs iwlrflii and.re(nsid. - -..' ' : L ? If fnjtber.etirnonj.needeajaa.fa tbe ifieunK ox. iuo oeopio oi,. umoana.uic Slprtbwest'as to th blacks,' I irefer, yon to the speech of n Qhio Senafjr; r(Mr, Shrminif gpeakig 1q fafof if ejaini dpatibn in1 Uus' District, r.beV balanced bixaseloa1fie: jslif kWfire afte? Jhia fa& Xtry paradas for frU nirroit. .ILix jftej enjoy oore pocisi Quality; gag Itheyiad iriy bree the j$taie where :Jive, we. do not Like negroes.- W do not disguise oxtr dislike -d- As my r iriena trom Indiana saia yesteraay, the whole pteopjeipf Aeortbwestern States arefor reasons whether correct or notj opposed" to having many negroes among them, and that principle or " prejudice has been engrafted on the legislation of nearly.' all the northwestern States.' . It is s'fine thing, tbe Senator "thinks, to free the negroes here; not so good in Ohio. Here they have paradise; in Ohio it is opposite, I suppose. If the Senator could visit Green's Row, within the shadow :of this capital, henceforth 'Tophet and black Gehenna called, the type of hell,' and note the squalor, destitution, laziness, crime, and ' degradation there beginning to fester, if he could visit the alleys in whose miserable hovels the blacks congregate, he would hardly be reminded of the paradise which Milton r sang, with its amaranthine flowers, laughter, its blooming trees of life, its golden fruitage, its amber rivers rolling o'er elysian flowers," its hills and fountains ana fresh shades, its dreams of love, and adoration of God. Alas ! he, would find nothing here to remind him of that high estate in Eden, save the fragrance of the spot and the nakednes of the inhabitants, Laugh ter.l . :;.';. r If the rush . of free negroes to this paradise continues, it would be a blessing if Providence should send Satan here in the form of a serpent, and an angel to drive the descendants of Adam and Eve into the outer world. If it continues, you will have no one here but Congressmen and negroes, and that will be punishment enough. Laughter. You will have to enact a fugitive law to bring the whites to their capital. Laughter. But it may still be urged that in the North in Ohio -the free negro will work, will rise, will add to the security of the State and the prosperity of the people. I select one from a string of black gems. I select it from the district of my friend, Mr. Harrison who will vouch for its correctness. Greene county, Ohio, has nearly 1500 negroes. The following article from the Xenia News, a Republican paper, will gi ve us some idea of their condition: " There are about one hundred negroes here in Greene county who . are always out of employment. A part of these are those who have lately been freed by their masters, and furnished .1 1 ' 1 fJ - w witn a oonus, on wnicn tnev are now gentlemanly loafing. Our jail is continually filled with negroes committed for petty offenses, such as affrays, pet ty larceny, drunkeness, assault and battery, for whose prosecution and im prisonment the town of Xenia has to pay about five hundred dollars per an num. And to such persons going to jail is rather a pleasure than a disgrace. They are better fed and lodged there than when . vagabondizing round our streets. 44 We have seen negro prostitutes flaunting down Main street, three or four abreast sweeping all before them indiscriminately. We have seen ladies of respectability running upon tbe eel lar doors, and even into gutters, to ovoid being run over by these impudent hussies. It was only the only the oth er evening that we saw a lady completely turned round bw some black mrls. er e --. O ' who never deviated from their path in the middle of the sidewalk, and our own cheek has burned with indignation at the lecherous smile of .invitation which has been flung into pur faees by these swartny demoiselles. Uther gentlemen have complained of the insulting bold ness of their address. But we are sick ened with the recital. It is a disagree- able task to lance the sore which has long been gathering unheeded; and it is" equally so to probe this evil, which unawares is ingrowing in our njidst, oome years ago, tnere was a negro Colony established Jaw Brown -count v. Obiowasitob&b t?tte CijjclnnwtiTGa. iette saidt that fur a little while the ne groes became tow lMy to play, - "A Sen- a(orm vnio cnaractenrea tije poiony as follows : vni vu. u:- Tbe -blalf seitlement in Brown county was made to' 1819," the orieinal I number located ' there" being Tour hun- 4req ana twenty lor wnpm a pout - two tbiouahdjacr of land were - proenred. Ffp tbe'L.commence Uiere: has been no iaprovement in theiw; morals or habits.' ; . Idleness 'and' vice' are the prevailing concomitants. Tbe. cost of criminal prosecutions nas ; oeen .very large n proportion to tbe Bomber of in-hapitarits, nd continues io increaseirr In tbe Tficinlty thksettjemenV there if 9t muywitbin , two iailea rvho srs) notlcepi in a constant dread ef dep-redatioar;or tnjtirjr of t ofije L sort. yEr erytUn viluabieaVi U stolen. :: Tbeyvaje. absolutely - con Tilled to confine themselves to what is mejfely neteswjr- tosnpijrt tyfeffoT anything byoTncfw musi inevitaDi v tail a prey to the iartiuz JTagrants"tr); ff crso than jjan of ty'iecti3n tlo3 5 it e jte3 in a rrrcc cr or lis derfred trhejfiver tiis pert: sa cf ' l1 - trS-Mly J? li?spaly hatthey taay " devour. And I bw w i-j 147 ,oi -. CGnr.ea ;toi ; A rOrief and dinted 8pech-Tidies- ,-tioa of Jude-Loaglas lxwm Aftatian with5 the Abtiordsts. r ," In the-House. of Hepresentatives, on the" 24th of May, several speakers of the Abolition faith made speeches mis quoting Mr. Douglas to support' their peculiar views on emancipation and confiscation. Governor -Richardson re plied to theni briefly and 'to the point. He said : '. Mr. Speaker I propose to reply to a single point which bas arisen during the progress of this debate. . . , Republican members have frequent ly quoted Judge Douglas within the last few days, and quoted him, too, for their own party purposes. And now I desire to remind them and the country that in all his speeches in reference to this war, Judge Douglas took, i the broad and statesmanlike position that this war should be conducted for the preservation of the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws for nothing more, nothing less. His position 13 so clearly defined that a few brief extracts from his last speeches will at onoe vindicate the truth of history, and place him in the proper light before his countrymen. At Springfield, 111,, in a speech made before the Legislature during'the- month of May, 1861, he said : . " The first duty of an American citi-zen, or of a citizen of any constitution al government, is obedience to the constitution and laws of his country. I have no apprehension that any man in Illinois or beyond the limits of our own beloved State, will miscontrue or mis understand my motive. So far as any of the partisan questions- are concerned. I stand in equal, eternal and undying opposition to the Republicans and the Secessionists." " And again, in the same speech he remarks : u Hence I repeat that I am not prepared to take up arms or to sanction a policy of bur Gofernment to take up arms to make any war upon the rights of the Southern States; upon their institutions ; upon their rights of persons or property ; but, on the contrary, would rush to their defense and protect them from assault; but while that is the case, I will never cease to urge my countrymen to take unarms to fight to the death in defense of our inde fensible rights. Long continued applause. Hence if a war does come, it is a war of self-defense on our part. It is a war in defense of our own just rights ; in defense of . the Government which we have inherited as a priceless legacy, from our patriotic fathers ; in defense of those ; great rights of free dom of trade, commerce, transited intercourse from the center to the cir cumference of our great Continent.? These are rights we must strueele for and never surrender." And in the . last great , effort of his life, his speech at Chicago, made but a few days prior to his death, he said ? " We must not invade constitutional rights. The innocent must not suffer, nor women and children be the vie-? tims. - Savages must not be let loose." T . 1 ' ' " ieirner xvepuoucan : memoers nor Republican officials any-where can find liny thing in the above extracts, nor in any speech or letter of Judge Doug las, which will justify them in the slightest violation of the Constitution. On the contrary, every act of his public life, and even his dying injunction to bis children, condemns unequivocally all the unconstitutional legislation whicn yon propose, and all the unconstitu tional acts of which your party officials have been guilty. The Republican party, through its President, through this House, and through the Senate, had given a cone struction to tbe Constitution showing the absence of power to pass just such bills as you are now advocating and in tending to pass, Jn his inaugural ad dress, after-having taken ' his solemn oatn to support tne ;onstituuon, xr. lancqln said: ; ' ' I haye no purpose, directly or .in- tion of slavery..in the states where it exists I believe I have no lawful r ifrht to do se: and J have i ho inclin&s tion to do so." .; The ; House . of Representatives . of the ThirtyHBixth Congress, ' a majority qf whQse members 'were Repablieans, passed the following . resolution, nnam mously t .- -i' --..-. --; That neither the Congress . of the United States nor the people or gov ernments of the non-elaveholding btates have the.; constitutional - right to lejisr late uponj or interferewith " slavery- in khy of theu slavehQlding States, of, the ' r By the organic a'ej-s of,he Territch rles ox Nevada., uoioraao: ana vsxota, the Republican psrt.btSiTi . legisv Isioti, had ecogjjijed ; j&d: fpprw4 tne, aoctrine ox popular . aqvercigniT, rwhich J udge liouslas recarded an es- j sentia! tq theremovarfrom ih'ese." Kails 0 tne mosqSfurDuj u!?if .f W s - 1 ciiiit YtT maintainis'? isriokttiV 1 CrfStitsjticas ftircowtry, be for rpment exi5pecea toa jot foiuv ever ; f .ao not presume tna,- jrnsn- siuage attempt the ' violation t"of. the 'pledges which your RepubUc&h : Congress- had given the people, and .which your' Republican President hasj. reiterated. But the bills now ' under consideration propose to violate not only your, pledges, Dut, at the same time, the Constitution. You forget your premises ; yon advocate these bills, and urge their passage through this House. : ... ' Political Priests. "What is now so generally complained of against the clergy, is the prosti tution of an office which ought to be sa cred to the high nailing of . God, to the base &nd unholy purpose of the party demagogue. What V, as the indignant exclamation of same pot-house parson, 'have I not a right to my political views? Have I not the privilege ofuttering them V Assuredly you have, sir, if you will do so in the character of a politician, and not with the usurped authority of a Minister of God. Lay aside your priestly robes, and you shall be free to spout from every stump in the land, and none shall ' call you to account. But yo nave no right to mix abolition with your gospel, and transform the pulpit into a political rostrum. All who believe in the inspiration of God's word, and who look to the church as the means of its dissemination and 'up-building, have a "right to protest, in the name of God, against Such des ecration and sacrilege, x ou nave a right to turn politician and spout Black Republicanism, but you have no right to preach it. You may become a physician, if you choose, and administer medicine; but it would be a bad practice to administer pills with sacramental bread, or mix ippecao with conse crated wine. . Your congregation might need physic; but this is xq the proper time or mode of taking it, - If your priestly calling Imparted infallibility to your inculcations, we would feel obliged for your instruction, and urge you to persistence. 15 ut as God did not call you to this duty, be does not at all enlighten you in its discharge. He leaves yon in abject. blind, groping ignorance. We have conclusive evidence of this m the fact, that the political clergy North preach against Slavery, and the same pestilent class in the South preach tor it. Jine Northern clergy cry out .in Heaven a name tor tne suppression 01 repeiuon i and the Southern clergy beseech Heav-. en to sustain and uphold it, and very confidently assure their dupes of the Divine assistance. It is inconceivable that God should inspire nis JbmDassadors to inculcate views to conflicting, clashing and irrec- oncileable. But it is just like the Devil's work.: V It is just what the Adyer- sary of Souls would delight in doing. Iet every political priest scrutinize his commission, ana 11 tnere is ny omtr name than that of SATAN, in big black letters, appended thereto, let him be assured that it is a forgery. Logan Gazette.' , 1 sj - Comments of the English Press. The Times regards the deieat of Banks as one of the. most important successes of the Confederates, on account of the lesson it teach es the North, showing that efforts and sacrifi ces greater than nave gone be Tore, must be made, if even a Border State is .tQ be . won back tp the Union. Uopes of early solution must be dispelled, and in the meantime in creasing debts and mutual hatred will tend to make tne new union more and more impracticable. . Tbe Daily News treats the defeat of Banks as quite unimportant, and not in tbe slightest degree calculated to disconcert McCleuan's plans, it was nothing more than a mere raid of the Confederates. Tli Wnrnin Pnat iinMinM in th bltlpr- est terms Butlers proclamation relative ia ladles Qf New Orleans, and thinks the Goy-ernment is bound to recall and court martial him, and says such an act aa thia, if not promptly disavowed, would soon turn the scale final ly and decisively in favor Qf tba Confederate cause. . -: ; A Test Question. , V-'Are yoa in favor of restoring and preserr ing the Onion on the basis and conditions on wnicn oar lainers njauo 11 xt u mjs " Yee," shake hands-with hist, am consider him a patriot ; if he says "No," treat him as 1 v j - za. mirw - m ar a. -. - you would a rebeL The-test of patriotism s to be in favor Ot preserving the uonautouon aa it ia, until the people change a in a constitutional manner, and to restore the Union as it existed not only before the rebellion, bat before the wnaiics . of the - a ontt treated the Constitution as a league with hell, and the Union as a covenant with death.- Apply thia test to every eitixen DenuMnrat,.; Republican, and Abolitionist.' i They i who- stand the.- test may be relied on to preserve the Constitution, the Government and the Union aa bur -fathers made them : they who will not stand the teat,' condemn themselves as enemies to their coan- mmmbkwssbb 7 -'z' Cne'f - the Hen who PrnoTrnce ; JeaaV r : ----- orats as Tjr - Oeorge'W'. 'Julian; EepuUican rrona"' tnci- ana, ia a SM,?F W.lff-PQngreee, ?Vitd isay arise in which "rjatriom, ffselfl may demand that we trample under car- eome R the most vital principles of tbe Coo? stitation and he a4dthatii!i h"."bee done already by the present AdministratfQ The Abolllioo orrxna consider such men Jaliae patriot and -oa wea ttH:;yananJj5 r. ni 94 BttlJJ huir m tie assraiies-,thst me.iurjer.jaiiouia t drc- : i, now frankly ackqawlede, that tley tvu e'dteX'anJ dedrt to be 44 couattd out" of all each mixtarea hereafter.ivyw s- f :iWober oirinoc I a-ere humbulr?djBtd a fusion. with th4 Aboi- I -flii Hebel Csxet-Aa AwfU Zzzzs. An extract from a private letter cf .a em-. ber of batiery A. X; Y. Arillery. U Caaej'a. . Division, better know? as the "NapoJeoa gw. Battery, ia' llie front, line f te first' day battle beftire; ich oaoad, aaya t . r- -.- - Our spherical case shot were awful missflsa. eaeb of them consisting of a clotted, aaaea of seventy ; six musket balls, with a charge of powder m the center, that w Erea ty a rose tha same a a shell. The miaslle rsl acta-, aa s solid shot, plooghing ha way "through tne sees. or men. and, .then exploding, jiorle forward a. shower of musket ball.. that mow dowa .tha foe m heaps. Our battery threw' twenty-boa of these minute, and ae we bad the exact range of every part of the field, every shot told) with frightful effect. But the enemy were, at all daunted they marched stead Jy on, aoo) hailed a perfect temjest ot balls njpj us. Why we, aa w41 aa o.urharses,' were not everyone shot down, will- forever remain' a mystery tome. We did not mind the leaden bail, btrtr-t ever; but kept pouring par case-shot into, tha, dense masses of the foe,, who .came on in rro-i digiousand overwhelming force. And tier fought splendidly, . too- --Our ahot tore ' their, ranks wide open, and ahattered them asnhder " in a manner that was frightful to witneee ; bt they closed up again at once, and came on aa steadily as English reterans. When they gpV within four hundred yards, - we closed ewr case. -. ahot and epeued on them. wkb. eaaater.: Ju4 such destruction I never elsewhere. .witness ed At each diacharge great gaps were V their ranks -4ndeef whole companies' went down before thai marderosa firei bat the closed up with an order and . discipline' tha waa awe inspiring. ' They . eeemed to be ash mated with the courage of eapab, blendedj with the hope of a speedy vietary if they could, by an overwhelming rush drive us from os position. It waa awful to see thr ranks torn, and shattered bv every discharge of canhUec that we poured right into their faces, and While thair dead a.nd dying lay in piles, closaq up, and still kept advancing right in the f&on of that fire. - At one time, three lines. ;one be-, hind another, were steadily advancing, and three of their flags were brought in xaoge of . one of our guns shotted with canister, ' 'iireT-shouted the gunner, and down went those, three flags, and a gap waa opened through . those three lines as if a thunderbolt had torn, ' through them., and the dead lay in e.wa.tha.-r: But they at once closed qp, and came ateadH v on, never halting wavering, right through, the. woods, over the fence, through the -field, right up to our guna, and sweeping everything, before them captured every piece. ' When we delivered our last fire, they were within fifteen,-or twenty paces of us, and, as all our horses had been either killed or wounded, we could, not carry off a gun. Our whole division.. was cut to nieces, with what loss I do not koo,w, t We fell back to a second line of intrench menta and there held the enemy in check until rein-, fbrcements arrived, and then we kepi' ear bo-sit ion till night put an end to the battle.' I Thia. morning the fight was renewed, and we hart driven the enemy back, regained possession 0 our camp, and it is reported, with what degree! of truth X cannot say, that our batter iiai beenr recaptared. j TieTebellKriried ouf camp thoroughly.- . i ; "r The Terrible Havsc of T7ar.. ... ,...-. It is difficult to conceive what fearful havoq the custom of . war has made of human life. Some of its incidental ravages seem to defy belief. It has, at times, entirely depopulated-immense districts. In modern, as wellasaavf cient times, large tracts have been left so ut terly desolate that one might pass from Tillage ' to village, even from city to oity, without tnd- -. ing a solitary inhabitant. The war of '1750, waged ia the heart of Eurqpe, left, ia orieTia-;. etance, no less than twenty contiguous vi'Ugea without a single man or beasts , The thirty' : years war, in the seventeenth century, reia eed the population of Germany from 12,000,- 000 to 3,003,000three-fburths; and thatof-Wirtemburg from 500,0)0 to 48,000 mora, than nine-tenths I Thirty villages destroyed ; in many others the population entirely died out; and in districts qnce studded with towns and cities, there sprang np-iznmense forests. Look at the hayoc oiseiges; u that qf-LonT donderry 12,000 soldiers, besides a vat jinni-ber of inhabitants; in that of Paris, ia thq5' sixteen century, 30,000 victims of inere-'hun?1 ger; in that of Malpaquet, 34,000 ecldierg; alone; in that of Ismail, 40,000; of Vienna. . 700,000 ; of Ostend, 120,000 ; Mexico 150,000; ot Acre 300,000 ; qf CarthagS, 7QQ,0Q(); qf JeJ V rusalem, 100,000. ' . - -. Mark the slaughter of single battles at hptt Cinto, 25.000; at Austerliti, 50,000; at Zjt' 0,80,000; at Waterloo and Quatre Bras-Qne engagement In fact, 100,000; at Borodino, at Foqtenov. 100,000; at Arbela, 300,000; at-Chalons, 300,000 ot Attila'a army alone ;.4QQ,-j 000 Usi petes slain by Jujios Cesar in one bat-j tie, and 430,000 Germans in anqther. , V Take only two cases. The army of Xerxes, says Dr. Pick, must have amounted to 5,S3,-j 320; and if the attendants were o4y one third, ' as great at common at - the present time in.-eastern countries, thetotaJ euoj xn,ust hT$ reached, nearljr 6,000,000. t "',B -Wif'Tf-ijt " thU vast multitude was reduced,' though' ;ii pi,, entirely by death, to 300,000 fighting meat ' Jnd of these only 8,000 escaped destructfoqylj enhis Kahn. the terrible ravage? the thirteenth century, shot 20.000 on th. plains of News, and massacred 200,000' at th storming of Ghaxaism. Iq the Ilerat djtriit, " he butchered IWrtOO- and by to ette-with.hec jendfiaoics,.l J00,000. iuxinrth u last twenty-seven years of. his long reign, he U . said to hare massacred more than half- a rpiji -, lioa leTery yeafi aiu, in 'the first fgurtg; years, he is supposed, by. Chinese histriap". p have destroyed not less than 13,00,003; I i sum total of 32,000,000 in fqrty-fine ; years I , 1 In any vjew, what a felf &iitrpj& is war tra Napoleon's warf sacriSce4 eQms .000,000 j ana all (he wars consequent on the Freaelj revolution, some nine or ten millions. Tfc . Spaniards are said to have destroyed in forty-' 1 two years, mora haa 12,000,000of Americsn I ndiaas, Grecian wars sacrificed 15,0QQ,0OCjs.--Jewkh ware 25.CO0,U0O; the wars of the twelve v r Caesars, ' SO, 000.000 ; in all the wars of the maJbifors -Julius Cesar, O,0OAC00f 'il, - Hears of the Roman Empire,, of the Sara can jr and toe lures, ou.uj.vaaj eaea.; tnose ci. in, . Tartars. 80,000,000; thoe of .Afriea, 100 r vr OOOHIf wetake into 'C0C5i4e?&tion-f he learned Dr. Dick, theijuTnbe"ncenly of, those- not jJy J)f .ithoVe.ho'hsve perishe iT through the natural eoosequenc- of war',-!w will not perhSp&l be. 'OTtr-raticg the" destruer tkn of human . life if, w were to aCrra that'j' Qne-Unth Qf the'hunan race fcasfesen"Vt?oy:.:. ea oytneray8f?e oiy"J n3 cccr- t ibes1 went etil fartheri ari reckoned the t'.; I' 6t its rava ? fro'ni the wt," at t ' 1 - r3 ' th - i frvi rr tkr " t .-'? 1 - U'7.There;ba5 been'a r.r;5.!l r tcf e tnent at'TJetrit' over "atjL;t t? .t-tm f.itWm slave act- Tha ne-rc-ji i 1 turned out to resist the law, and the got Qver to Cada; . x man beings have been elai'-!. terr! ia wr'-1" f the beTinuin? of the worli."-IIt.rJ 1 .