Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1863-01-10

              VOLUME XXVI. MOTOT VERNON, Om NUMBER 39. e gtmBtraitt jSJaraitr IS MTBlMBKU STBST aV.TVS4.T intaaa If Offlee In Wdwud Block, 3d Storj. TERMS. Two Dollars wr annum, arable in ad vaaoe ; 12.50 withia six month ; $3.00 after the expl- rition 01 t&e year. ' EDITED BY L. HARPER. "Hew England to be Left Out ' of the v union. A suspicion is growing up in New England that there may be a reconstruction of the Uni on, and she be left out of it. The Democratic papers tfliere are sounding the alarm to the people. The Providence (R. I.) Pott says : X "We publish this to show our readers whither we are drifting under the guidance of each men as Charles Sumner. The people of the country are evidently determined to have one great Republic,' but they are not at all wnxious that it shall include New, England, and, so fur as the Western States are concern-- ed, the sentiment is almost universal. If we caa not have both the South -and New England, then give us the South, and let New England go. - The interests of . the Middle States point in the same direction, and the probability is every hour growing stronger that a new Confederacy is to be formed, embracing all save the New England States. ; j The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, the leading Republican paper in Western New York says : . 44 We have long noticed with apprehension and regret, the gradual growth of a feeling of antagonism in the minds of the' people of the West, toward their Atlantic neighbors." The Chicago . Tribune, (Abolition,) under the head of a seasonable word to New England to abate its hostility to Western interests, says : " ' "The representatives of New York and New England, in that National Legislature, will bear in mind that there is to-day a large and powerful party organization in the North, one and the principal item in the'creed of which is an arowal of intense and bitter ha- tred of New England and whatever bears the rew England impress ; that it is the unceas-ing labor of that party to reconcile the Northwest to separation from the Eastern and Middle States ; and that, to that end, advantage Will IkA ta1r.n a.-Vn. nAstkYtn 1 . 1 . . of, or injustice to, the lake country in its near and complicated relations "with the more pure-ly commercial and manufacturing sections of the Republic The aim of the leaders of that party is to detach Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lifts Is iwen r WiaAAnain Tama "XT! n m T" aad Missouri from thfr Unimir tad; yimT " S V'VlSt ,tnem 10 me ooutn ; ana we ate sorry to say that their labors nave thus far, such has been their skill in pandering to prejudice and in fomenting causeless hate, been attended with a ncgree ui eucvrss mai may wen uiann an men who hope for the perpetuity and indivisibility of the Republic" The Mayflower a Slaver. It may not be generally known that the May. Jtower, which brought the Pilgrims . to Massachusetts, subsequently engaged in the slave trade. Those- who declaim about the "Pilgrim Fathers," who came over in that vessel, should explain whether they mean those who landed in the Carolinas, or those who came ashore at Plymouth the black cargo or the white, the ancestors of the slaves or of the abolitionists, the "colored cuss" or the other. Nathaniel Hawthoisi, in the Atlantic Monthly for July, alludes to the fact as follows : " There is an historical circumstance, known to few, .that connects the children of the Puritans with the Africans in Virginia in a very eingalar way. They are our brethren, as being lineal aesenaanw irom the Mayjvnoer, the fruitful womb of which, in her first voyage, sent forth a band of pilgrims upon Plymouth Rock, and in a " subsequent one spawned upon the Southern soil; a monstrous birth, but with which we have an instinctive sense of kindred, and so are stirred by an irresistible impulse to attempt their rescue, even at the cost of blood and ruin. The character of our sacred ship, we fear, may suffer a little by this revelation; but we most let her white progeny offset fier dark one and two such portents never sprung - from an identical source before,'' A Peace Proposition. At a meeting of the Democratic Union Association in New York city, Hon. Jams Bbooks .presented the following proposi- IXesohed, That the State of New Jersey. through her State Government, be 'respectfully requested to interpose in order to arrest the -existing civil war. First. By inviting the con-elaveholding States and the loyal slave-holding States Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri to meet in convention in Louisville, Kj on the day of February next. Second By requesting the permission of the President of the United States to send commis-eioners to Virginia, North- and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee, to jnvite them also to meet in like national .convention. And, third. Be it farther resolved that, The President be requested by the State Government of New Jersey to declare an armistice with or for such State or States as may accept this call for a national convention. T Resolved, That a committee be created on the part of this association resolutions to the Governor and Legislature of new J ersey and to urge upon mat state that, - in. consideration . of her. Revolutionary his tory ua punouo associations, sne is entitled thus to lead in a national convention lor the restoration of the Union of these States How the BoUiern feel About . It . A correspondent of tiie Cincinnati Cbtxmer eioL wnUng froia Buraride's- artnT at'Fal- taouth Va thus happDy hits off the love our oldiers have tor their ; f American eUow 'cii-. ' !fArican deteentt' : , 'C'. l.. .C " njgscr Is not 13ce4 Jn the :artny- a j.ii t negro aerrants in the army urn - -wionauj troublesome to protect horse, must not put on any , airs as h trots ; kwj, mm u is, jcroxea by a shower of stones. Indeed, hm u nA , if he be ever io meek and lowly; and hmust carcimnoirne rules oa hcr9 Protest Ajrainit the Snipeniion of the Habeas Corpus. In the House of Representatives on Mbn Jay, Dec. 22d-, Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, offered a resolution that the protest of thirty-six mem bers of the House against the passage of the bill to idemnify the President for certain ar rests under a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, he entered upon the Journal. After stating the circumstances under which the bill, was passed, they conclude as follows They protest against the refusal of the House to permit the consideration and discussion of the bill as an arbitrary exercise of power by the' majority, unjust to the members, unjust to their constituents, and derogatory to its char acter as a legislative body. They . protest against the passage of the bill, First. Because it purports to deprive the citizen of all existing peaceful legal modes of redress for admitted wrongs, and thus com pels him tamely to submit to the injury in flicted, or to seek illegal and forcible reme dies. Second. Because it purports to indemnify the President and all acting under his authori ty for acts admitted to be wrongful, at the ex pense of the citizen against whom the wrong ful acts have been perpetrated in violation of the plainest principles of justice and the just precepts of constitutional law. Third. Because it purports to confirm and make valid by act of Congress arrests and imprisonments, which were not only not war ranted by the Constitution of the United States, but were in palpable violation of its ex press prohibitions. r ourth. .because it purports to authorize the President, during this rebellion, at any time to arrest any person, and anywhere throughout the limits of the United States to suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus; whereas, by the Constitution the power to suspend the privileges of that writ is confided to the discretion of Congress alone, and is limited to the places threatened by the dan gers of mvasion or insurrection. Fifth. Because, for these and other sons, it is unwise and unjust; an invasion of private rights; an encouragement to violence. and a precedent full of hope to all who would usurp despotic power and perpetuate it by the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of all who oppose them. bixth. And finally, because in both its sec tions it is a deliberate, palpable and dangerous violation of the Constitution according to the plain sense and intention of that instrument, and is, therefore, utterly null and void (Signed) Geo. H Pendleton, Wm. A Richardson, James C. Robinson, Phillip B. Fouke, John Law, Charles A. Wickliffe, Charles J. Biddle, James A. Cravens, Elijah Ward, Phillip Johnston (Pa.) John D. Stiles (Pa.,) James R. Morris, Anthony L. Knanp, C. L. Vallandigham, . Wright, (fa. i. V William Allen (Ohio,) Win. H. Wads wort Samuel S. Cox, Aaron Harding, Elijah II. Norton, Henry Jvrider, Charles B. Calvert, James E. Kerrigan, - Henry May, Robert II. Nugen, . George H.. Yeainan, George K. Shiel, S. E. Ancona (Pa.,) Jesse Lazear (Pa.,) Nehemiah Ferry, Chauncey Hibbard, Bradley F, Granger, Beauties of the message. The Administration journals have pretended that the defects of the Message - were to be attributed to the haste of its transmission by telegraph. On the contrary, the telegraph has rathe improved : than injured it. We look into the Official copyJn the National Intelligencer, and find such sentences as these: u If the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily distracted as we are, might reasonably have apprehended."For 'apprehended" read "hoped." We do not apprehend what is satisfactory. " A blockade, Ac., could not be established, 4c, without committing occasional mistakes and inflicting unintentional injuries." Blockades do not commit mistakes. Blockheads do. ' " During the last year that has not been only no change of our previous relation with the independent States of our own continent, but more friendly sentiments than have heretofore existed are believed to be entertained by these neighbors, whose safety and progress -are so intimately with our "own." ' If there has been no "change," how have the sentiments become "more friend-lyt"Here is a discrepancy of another kind : " In the month of August last, the Slonx Indians in Minnesota, attacked the settlements in their viqnity with extreme ferocity, killing, indiscriminately, men, women and children. The attack was whollv unexpected, and there fore no means of defense had been provided. Information mam received bv thm Indian Bureau from different sonrcea. bont the time hostilities were commenced, that a. simultaneous attack was to be mads neon the white settlements by all the tribes between the Mississippi driver and the Rockr Moun tains." , - ' It seems then .that Che Indian Borean had information that. " the attack was to b made." How, then, was it.44. wholly nnez pected V : - ' . Speaking of the Aerienltnral lnArtmnt he says: " ; . - :- . - . ; It Will sooa be Drenared to distribnta Lu-m- ty seeds, cereals, plants and cuttings.", Y What is the diserenee between M seeds and cereali; plants and cuttings V : May not cer eals be seeds, and plant cuttings f speaking of a boondary' , of separation he saysr , ;, ,. .. .J -,, " ' "Nearly all Its remabbf length sJt merely surveyors.' Ko part of this Lin can n mad any more dificnit to pate ?;.tif Aonfuahinjol smgnlar-alI plural which might easily have been aviikleir v: V- i Ifbd remsTheT -And if with Una -tilfl easUytaiL we eaa.pmerv. the benefits of ui0 jtuom en ma meana . 1 wit can by the War alonej is it not also conomkal io Certainly U is iict easy to" pay mometMnguM it U lo'pay ncVJnjft itrt it is easier .to 4 my a uzr sua tnaa u is ta pay a Ixrgtr one. .And it 14 easier to pa any: sum, &Kai we are able iaaa uiaio pay u tutors we are tU.! - 1 I IU c ; i n, If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. The President says, on closing: " We can not escape history." No; but he has escaped grammar, logic and arithmetic -Albany Allot and Argus. The Effects of Lincoln's -Proclamation Setting the Hegroes Free Testimony of Henry Clay. Inasmuch as Mr. Liwcoln has issued his Proclamation, setting the negro slaves free, it is important to understand what will be its ef fects upon the country. We give below the letter of Mr. Clay to Mr. Colton, his biog rapher: Ashland, Sept. 2, 1843. " Mr Dear Sib : Allow me to select a sub ject for one of your tracts,. which, treated in your popular and condensed way, J : mink would ne attended witn great and good enect. I mean Abolition. " It is manifest that the ultras of the party are extremely mischievous, and are hurrying on the country to fearful consequences. They are not to be conciliated by the Whigs. En grossed with a single idea, they take care for nothing else. And yet they would see the Administra tion of the Government precipitate the country into absolute ruin before they would lend helping hand to arrest its career, l bey treat worse, denounce most, those who treat them best, who so far agree with them as 'to admit slavery to be an evil. Witness their conduct toward Mr. Adams in Massachusetts, and toward me. I will give you an- outline of the manner in which I would handle it. Show the origin of slavery. Trace its introduction to the Brit ish Government, bhow how it is disposed of by the Federal Constitution; that it is left ex clusively to the States, except in regard to fugitives, direct taxes, and representation. Show that the agitation of the question in, the free States will destroy all harmony, and finally a-Head to disunion, poverty and perpetual war, the extermination of the African race ulti mate military despotism. r - " But the great aim and object or vour tract should be to arouse the laboring classes of the free States against Abolition. Depict the consequences to them of immediate Abolition. The slaves, being free, would lie dispersed throughout the -Uiuom ; they would enter into competition with free labor with the American, the Irish, the German reduce his wa ges, be confounded wilh him, and efi'ect his moral and social standing. And as the ultras go both tor abolition and amalgamation, show that the object is to unite in marriage the white laboring man and black woman, to reduce the white laboring man to the dia- pised and degraded condition -of the black man. I would show their opposition to coloniza tion. Show its humane, religious and patriot- zation? To keep and amalgamate together two races in violation of God's will, and keep the blacks here, that they may interfere with, degrade and delase the laboring white! Show that the British Government is co-operating with the Abolitionists for the purpose of dissolving the Union. I am perfectly -satisfied that it will do great good. Let me hear from you on this subject. "II. CLAY." Stephen A. Douglas on Setting the Negroes Free by Proclamation A Voice from the Grave Against Lincoln's Policy. . Senator Douglas gave his support to the war policy of President Lincoln, but with the express understanding that if any attempt was made to excite servile insurrection in the South, he would oppose the war with all his power. In his speech before the Illinois Legislature, delivered at Springfield on the 27th April, 1801, just before his death, he said: . ' ' ' "I think I can appeal to friend and foe I use it in a political sense, and I trust I use the word foe in a, past sense. I can appeal to them with confidence that I have never pandered to the prejudice or passion of my section against the minority section of this Union, and will say to you now, with all frankness and in all sincerity, that I will never sanction nor acquiesce in any warfare whatever upon the constitutitutional rights or domestic institutions of the people of the Southern States. On the contrary, if there was an attempt to invade those rights, to stir up servile insurrections among their people, I would rush to their rescue, and interpose with whatever of strength I might possess to defend them from such a calamity." . Ia there any Democrat that will not do as Mr. Douglas said he would, on this, memorable occasion T This speech of Mr. Douglas was widely circulated and approved by the Republican press at the time it was delivered. On. Enq. The Washington System of Arrests. Another case of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, without the slightest cause, has recently transpired. Mr. Enwiw Hcnby, of tnis city, bad been transacting some business at Washington, by which he exposed a fraud upon (he Government, committal by another party, the frustration of which, by Mr. Hsw-et's efforts, saved the Treasury $6,000. Judge Advocate TuEHim told Mr. Hcnkt to make out hi . bill for this service, and indicated to him the charges proper to make. But Mr. Htarar, it seems, had,' in his proceedings, crossed the path of Mr. Bakxx, the Provost Marshal of the War Department, distinguished in the Bkiksxadk case; and this official threatened Mr. Hxurar with arrest if he did not immediately leave : Washington. Eventually, not minding this- order,-- he was arrested du? rinxran. interview with the Assistant Secretary of Warf by , the order- of that official, in the most arbitrary manner, and sent to the Old CapitoL Baksk's ofBcere even disputed the possession of his person with those of the Assistant Secretary's on his way to prison. - The usual arbitrary course was still further pursued all access of counsel to Lim denied, 00 hearing granted. Ac. t tha durm Miit him being, to cap the climax attempting to defraud vm KTfvcrnjncmi- u saving on- uie contrary,' actually detected and exposed a ttend, by which Government Was,saT,ed the jram above menr tibaed. It Would seem that th nftrvm nffh War Department were less desirous of poniah-lag than of concealing 'frauds, ' by: which it floes notj seem . improbable' that" they proCt ' "The ever-lnfamone'Star Chamber never ut rsea tne tigbts or citizens in-a more- ty ran ni cal manner than" thenar 'TJenartment has done in nmaeron casesf-this aorUiJv. T. j XOHowdoyou lik ftWw'cflAboii ticsigqj,8 fcrw U has gone t ',:-;.:'; Our Minnesota Correspondence. FnU.and Graphic Aecotmt of the Hang ing oz uxe xnuxyexgas inaiaTin. Special Commpomdenes of the Banner. OWATomrA, JiivnUf pe. 28, 1882. Friend Harper: V The hanging of the Indians is over, and 38 of the 39 condemned suffered 4he full .penalty of the law, by hanging, at Mankato, on Friday, December 26th, at 10 o'clock and 30 minutes. On Monday afternoon an order was read, prohibiting the sale of liquor to the soldiers. On Monday evening a number of Marshals were appointed, to preserve order on the day of execution, among whom were Col. B. F. Smith, as chief, formerly of 2L Vernon. It was apprehended that soma disturbance might occur on the day of execution, on account of the large collection ef excited people, occasioned by the outrages and brutality perpetrated by the Indians during, the outbreak, and to prevent any such disturbances Martial Law was proclaimed over a circle of ten miles from the town. About 1500 hundred Military were on hand to preserve order, and assist in carrying out the execution, according to law, among whom were 200 of the Ree. Mia. VoL CoL A veril ? 425 " 10 600 - 300 " 7 " " - CoL Miller : 9 " CoL Wilkin: 10 " " CoL Baker; 1st Mounted Baa rers. ' 44 READING OP THE DEATH WARRANT. On Monday, the 39 Indians sentenced, by the President, were taken from. the rest, and confined in a department by themselves. About 2 o'clock Col. Miller, accompanied by his staff and a few others, 'visited them in their prison, for the purpose of reading to them the order for their execution. The Cot. commanding spoke to them as follows : "The commanding officer has called to speak to you upon a very serious subject: : Your Great Father, at Washington, after carefully reading what the witnesses have testified on vour trials, has come to the conclusion that you have have each been guilty of -wantonly and wickedly murdering his white children, and for this reason he has directed that you be hanged by the neck, until you are dead. On next Friday that order will be carried into "effect, at -10" o'clock in the forenoon. Good Ministers are here from amongst whom each of you can select your spiritual adviser, who will be permitted to commune with you con stantly during the few days you are yet to Th i CoionertEep iw1?5HeTfhe'Trealh Warranto be read to them in English, "with the names of each ; then it was read in the Sioux language to them. During the ceremo ny no emotion was manifested by the Indians; among them a half-breed seemed sorely affec ted ; all listened, and at the conclusion of each sentence responded in their usual grunt. Several of them smoked their pipes during the reading, while others were preparing to smoke in various ways. The Indians were evidently posted in regard to the ceremony. The Colo nel and staff then withdrew. The following are the names of the condemned : DECOTAH LANGUAGE. XNQLISH. Te-he-do-ne-cha...... ........ One"who forbid his home. Ptn-doo-t.. ....... ...... ..........................Red OtUr- Wy.a-U-U-w.iM....... ............... r....His People. Hin-haa-shoon-ko-ysy ma-ne........ One who waJks clothed with an owl's tail. ......Iron Blower. Ma-ta-boon-do ... Waa-pa-doo-ta... Rwa-ma-ne....n.n Za-Zay-me-ma., ...Red Leaf. Twinkling Walker. ..Round Wind. Rda-in-yan-ka..n. ......... j Rattling Banner. Do-waa-sa......... ...The Singer. Ha-pao ......... ..............Second Chief pf a Sen. ShooB-ka-ska....i.....r..M...'..... White Dog. Ton-kn-i-chagTUy-ma-ne.......One who walks by his Grandfather. E-t-doo-U Red face. Am-da-cha......... ......... ...... .....Broken to pieces. Hay-pe-dan ......... .........The third child if a son. Mah-pe-0-ke-ne-pbv.........Who stands on the clond. Henry-MUtord.....I.... .. ......... ...... Half breed- Chas-ka-dan ......... Tho first bom if a son. Baptise-Campbell...... ...... .....Half breed. Ta-tay-ka-gay.......................i....W'in maker. Hay-pin-kpa..... M..-....Tbe tip of the horn. Hypolite-Ange.... MMM . .....Half breed. M ay-pay-shin. ,.... ...... ...One who does not flee. Wa-kan-tan-ka. M.......wi...Great Spirit Chay-tan-pooa-ka.. ....The parent Hawk. Way-kin-gan-ne...... .....M...LitUe Thander And others which I will not stop to write, for fear I will miss the mail. Henry Mil ford, one of the condemned, and a half-breed, was raised by Brig. Gen. Sibley. He is a smart, active and intelligent young man, says she was forced to shoot at a woman by Little Crow. The first two named were guilty of ravishing their female .captives in the most brutal manner.- They all deny the charges against them, only one or two admitting that they shot at any white persons, and most of them deny having anything to do with the outbreak. . On Tuesday evening thty had a dance singing their death song. r Bda-in-yan-kna. (Rattling Runner,) wrote a letter to his. father-in-law. The following Is a copy : ' Wabasha t Yarn hay deceived a. Ton told me that-if we followed the advise of Geta. Sibley and glre oar-selves np to th whites, all would be well no inno-eot man would bejored. I have not killed, wounded nor injared a wbito maa, or any white porsonsj I have not participated la the plobder of their property, and yet toay, I am sot apart for oxeention mad mast die la few days; while men that are guil ty will remain ia' prison. , My I Wiff year daaghter, mjr ehfldren are yonr gtand-chndrea ; I lear fhtm all in year ear and andar yoor protection; 'Do aot let them, sofier, and when my cnQdrea ar Ctowb p let them know that their father died beeaaa ho followed th advica of his Chief and without bariag the blood of th whit man to answer for r to th Great Spirit.- My wiTe and chlldna ar doar.to !mii let them not griey for mo f let Utesa remoabor that the bravo shoold bo prepared t meet doath aad l WCI do so asbeccccre peeotah'.f-j On Wednesday, the Indians vrers penaitf; ! to eend lor one or two of theii friesis for ' tl 5 purpose of bidding them adieu and sending what messages ta their friends and relations thewQeemed proper. Each Indian had some word to send to his parents or family. Good council was sent to their children, exhorting them to adopt the Christian life and' show good feeling towards the whites. La-zoo says he expected to go to the home of the Great Spirit, but the road was long and he was old, and some of the young braves that he left behind might overtake him on the road, as he must go slow ; he laughed and joked a 3 unconcerned as if he was sitting around the camp fire. A respite was received from the President, postponing the execution of La-ti-mt-ma (Round Wind.) iTHE CROWD Was enormous, estimated at 4,000. They continued to arrive from all directions, . until long after the execution. The sand bank in the river, the opposite bank, and all places large enough to hold one person, commanding a view of the gallows were" occupied. :.. THE GALLOWS-Was constructed of square timber, was located on the levy, was in the shape of a diamond, 24 feet square ; in the middle was a pole with large iron ring around, and to. which the ropes were attached that held the platform. A rope was conducted from the ring over a pulley, at the top of the pole to the ground, which held the drop. The prisoners were all painted, and wore blankets. ; They were conducted . to the scaffold between two files of soldiers : eight men were detailed to act as executioners, and two men armed with axes ready for any emergency. .Upon reaching the gallows they commenced taking their places, singing the death song. The ropes were adjusted and the caps pulled down, they still singing their song. When all was ready, the signal officer beat three distinct taps upon the drum; " At the third stroke William J. Duly (who had all his family killed, a wife and five children, during the outbreak.) cut the rope, the drop fell, and the 38 murderers were launched into eternity ; and may God never have mercy on their souls : INCIDENTS, Ac The drop was a perfect success.; In a sec ond from the JaSrtap of the drum all were suepended by the neck. One broke the rope. He was instantly strung up again. A few kicked savagely, but most of them died easy, some in the attitude of prayer. Never before was there an execution but what the ceremony would cause the spectators to refrain from signs of joy, &c; but such a hurra as went up when the drop fell, no person ever heard before. It was one continued cheer from the time the prisoners were placed on the scaffold until they were dead. The people seemed crazed with delight ; but they did not attempt any violence with the balance of the prisoners, or any one else. One person offered $500 for the privilege of cutting the rope. Another Went up to the carpenters that were at work on the scaffold, and asked for the privilege of driving one nan mat wouia De 01 some uee.-The carpenter gave him the hammer and nail, and told him where to drive it. He sent it home, laid down the hammer, and walked away apparently satisfied. After hanging 30 minutes they were pronounced, dead, cut down, the bodies placed in four wagons and removed for burial, and all was over. The people commenced moving off, each well satisfied with the proceeding. Thus ended the hanging of the 38 . condemned Indians. What will be done with the balance the future must show. . Yours, tc. MINNESOTA. . From Medary's Crisis. Candidate for Governor of Ohio. We see that some of our good friends of the press place our name among others, as a Candidate for Governor, before the June State Convention. - We thank them for the honor they do us, but we. assure them that we are not a candidate for Governor, nor any other office. '' -, ;. ' - '. , All we desire is to see men nominated whose talents and integrity will secure us from any regrets that we ever helped to elect them. Half and half men u in such - times as these would be more fatal to us than open enemies. We have thorough, straight-forward, un Yield ing men, who understand the causes of Our na tional calamities, and courage enough to avow what they know to be right. We want to see the people of Ohio represented by men who are up with the spirit and courage of themselves. Then and not till then win we begin to see daylight ahead. Let us be Democrats in word and deed, and draw confidence around us that we mean to perform what we preach, and tens of thousands will cheerfully join our standard who have doubted us from the milk and water performances of some of our men after getting office. ; ;.. . Look to the people, not to men whose names, untried, may stand fair before the country.- We have had dodging enough to satisfy ; any people. - We have the tracks of profligate politicians until the beauties of the system is " played -out." We have carried corrupt schemes, got up for private gain, long-enough upon our shoulders, and the load is becoming rather burdensome. We want talking and acting to go together, and especially do we want the acting part of it. Do this, and we are content. :. - v 7 ; 7 A paper is about to be started in Beau for on a large scale. Thesbeet is to be of the size of the New York Tribune, and will be devoted to the anti-slavery cause. The printers, type, and 3000 reams of paper have already arrived, and a large Hoe cylinder press is to be sent out..- It is rumored that the whole affair is at the expense of the Government, and that the papers, if they dot not circulate at a nominal pricewjll be giveriaway. - .' So then, (remarks the Washington Exam er,) the Abolition powers are" going to make prosely ting a part of the purposes of the war I And the public money, wrung from a safTeriag and unwilling people, is to support the infamous system 1 w Oh j how sweet it will be to re fleet, "when ' the federal tax-gatherer - cornes around,' that part of the hard earned money Which e p;y, goes to defray, the. expeneea ofj making Abolitionists,. and to. Infuse into, the public veins the.virus that makes the nation mad to hr wa -destruction 1 If it-is .'any- thins more thatt desecrzll3 trefsan, tar the Government to employ the pczizj and men of the country to hola a cuspated territory for the only parent purpose cf making abolliionisti and trying to educate ncjrocs inta as unnatut ral condition of freedom tr a ere za.zZ 3 S THE DRAFTED WIDE-AWAKE. I was a glorions Wide-Awake, ; - All marchjag in a row; - And wore a shiay oil-doth cape Abont two years ago. Oar torehee tared with tarpentine, And filled the streets with smoke, Aad we were sure, whate'er might eome, Secession was a joke. Oh, if 1 then had only dreamed . The things which now I know, I ne'er had been a Wide-Awake : About two years ago.: . I said the South would never dare To strike a single blow; . I thought that they were cowards then, . About two years ago.. And so I marched behind a rag, Armed with a wedge aad maul; With "honest Abe" upon a flag, . A boatmaa guant and tall. Oh, if I then had only dreamed - The things that now I know, I ner had been a Wide-Awake : . About two years ago. Mj work was good, my wages high, And bread and eoal were low; The Silver jingled in my purse About two years ago. In peace my wife and children dwelt, Happy the lire-long day; And war was but the fearful curse Of countries far away. - . Oh, if I then had only dreamed The things which now I know, I ne'er had been a Wide-Awake About two years ago. My wife sits pale and weeping now, . My children crying low; I did not think to go to war About two years ago. And no one now will earn their food, No one will be their shield; - God help them when I lie in death Upon the bloody field. Oh, if I then had only dreamed The thiags which now I know, I ne'er had been a Wide-rAwake About two years ago. One brother's bones half-buried lie - Near the Antietam's flow; lie was a merry, happy lad ' About two years ago.. And where the Chickahominy Mores sluggish toward the sea, Was left another wasted corse; - I am the last of three. ': Oh. if I then had only dreamed The things which now I know, I ne'er had been a Wide-Awake About two years ago. Just now I saw my torch and cape, Which once made such a show; They're not what once they seemed, to me, . About two years ago. ; I thought I carried Freedom's light, In that smoky, flaming band; , I've learned I bore Destruction's torch That wedge has split the land. Oh. if I then had only dreamed The things which now I know, I ne'er had been a Wide-Awake About two years ago. The President's Emancipation Froclama-. tion. '-v;'--v.;.--:':-:' WlsniKCTOx, Jan." 1, 1863. PKOCXAXATIOX, BT TBI PRESIDENT OT THE OiJITKD STATES Or AMERICA. . "Whereas, On the 22d day of September, in the -year of our Lord 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on 4 the 1st day of January, in. the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then henceforth and forever free, and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of. such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any effort they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will on the first day of January aforesaid, issue his proclamation designating the States or parte of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong contravening testimony be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people -thereof are not in rebellion against the United States." Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me entrusted as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord; one thousand eight hundred and : sixty-three and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of 100 . days from . the date of the first above mentioned order, do designate as the States and parts of States wherein, the peo- fde thereof respectively are this . day in rebel-ion against the United States, are the following, to-wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, except ths parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemine, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, La Tourche, St. Mary, St. Martin and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans; Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties, designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the city of Norfolk and Portsmouth, which excepted parts are for the present -left precisely - as if this proclamation were not issued; and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within Undesignated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free, and that the Executive Government of the United States including the military and naval authorities thereof, .will recognise and maintain the freedom of said persons. - And I ' hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence unless it is necessary in self-defence; and X recommend to them that in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages; and I further declare and make known that such-persons of suitable condition will be received Into the armed service' of the .United 8tates, to garrison forts,- posi- upus, sisuon ana puier-piaces, ana to man vessels of all sorts in said, .service and, upon this sincerely believed to be an. act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the "gracibus'laVor of Almighty God.?; i r-, ,j rrdr--z -In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be afUxed. T)on at tte Cty of - ashing ton, this Crtt day cf Jant:ry, ia the year of our jjord ens Uicssand tight fcondred and sixty three, and of the independence of the Vnlted L&tes of America the e!hty-erenUr. "' j. fL-i-ei) v AnrUAlI LICOLXLr Pv the Vrc-t lent t X i -VTs. IL Zzt& Secretary ofetale.' ' yx PATEI0TIS1L Opposed to these a hovering band. Contending for their native laad. - "Marshalled omee more at freedom's call. He came to conquer or to falL" The love of home is innate. From our mother's bosom we draw the honey of affection for surrounding objects. Each and every particular spot has found a resting place in the myriad chambers of memory. The very crevices in the wall, aye, the minutest jest on the hearthstone, like the links of life, are not to be effaced but with the extinction of mental vision. This is a condeBsed, concentrated love narrowly bounded. The echo of the voice reverberates through every nook and corner of the "homestead. Practical vision. with the ever watchful care of a prudent mat ron, grasp nervously all that which U in its legal range, from the hawking eyes of envious neighbors, and right, personified, imperiously treads a sentinel of its own interests, over its domain in order that no adroit chancanery of o' If I : rfV 1 9. 1 - 1 . a oir i7iies iverreacn migui roo it 01 a iota of substance; and right manfully fights for its odds and ends. Though a recognized duty, this love of home is selfish in the extreme; but patriotism, or the love of country, like the beautiful and harmo nious rainbow, girts from centre to circumference the varied changes in the physical character of that country. No rivers, no matter how turbulent or immense; no mountains, how ever towering, and no distance, however naturally formidable, are barren to the divine and universal feeling of patriotic affection. The unhealthy swamps of Florida exact the same measure of love as the richly varigated mead ows of New England. The eunrfy savannahs and blooming gardens of the South cast not a ray of envy on the hard worked fields of the bleak North. No angry voice of feuds and internal commotions can jar on the even atmosphere of patriotic sociality. No ripple can disturb the smooth and placid progress .of good will, when on the broad and united streams of love and concord. The cauldron of party faction which boils over the hot furnace of foul and unprincipled souls of toen in the times of peace the tine of self aggrandisement, and who are, like the witches of Macbeth, adding more poison to its blank depth, is left deserted in its seared cavern, when the armed dove of patriotism nings its plaintive song of succor. The passion-furrowed hearts of ambitions beings, and which, from their unnatural life; are callous to the claims of justice of fellow-hearts, lay open wide their secret chambers to the soothing voters of Lethe, when the out-streched and beseeching arms of Mother Coun- ; try are clasped around them. They instantly forget their grand and ever paramount objects : of life self-interest and fame, and draw the rusted sword from its time-dusted scabbard, to be bathed bright in the crimson blood of foes. Hark I to the loud reverberating and fearful tones of the war trumpet as it sounds the signal of carnage. The vallies, far and near, echo back determined defiance. The appeal to arms raises aloft, andia borne on eiry. wings . through space. 'The cry is heard, aye, on the topmost pinnacle of the loftiest mountain. Again, it is taken up with giant lungs and sent to the uttermost bounds of the far off wilderness, and away it goes, like the fiery cross of Roderick Dhue, until it is heard throughout the world. - Like an avalanche of the Alps, pour down in invincible columns, bearing death and destruction in their sturdy grasp, the heretofore peaceable dwellers of cities, the keen-eyed, fearless hunters, and the hardy chivalric mountaineers. The doting mother forgets her E resent solicitude for her . fair-haired boy, and uckles his unsullied armor to his youthful !imbs, and cheers his daring .spirit with her own Spartan heroism, "Come back, my son, ; victorious, or on your shield." The venerable and accrepid father sends forth, with his blessing,' his only stay and support to extreme age. The petty plunderer drops his ill got booty and shoulders the musket of heroes. The murderer and the coward joyfully drink in the enthusiasm, and battle with unflinching courage on the ensanguined field. The dreadful ravages of war, the exterminating pestilence, : guant famine, and misery in its direstshape, appal not when in defence of country. Innumerable reverses dampen not the early ardor of defenders. Bloody incense still ascends from the altar of Mars The gore-stained flag is still borne aloft, and crushing missiles ara still hurled with unerring aim, and thus the fight goes on, until patriots shout in thunder tones victory, or until freedom shrieks its last despairing cry amid the deafening booms of ' the enemy's canons.- - - ; -. . We behold a ship, decked in her gayest colors, sailing peaceably on an 'Unrobed sea to the port of her destiny. -The watery- gates of the firman en t seemed to be closed,.' and an azure vail is cast athwart them. .The sun of the universe mildly sends forth its golden beams,-mellowing all nature; quiet repose is on the deep, and the ship seems to be buoyed np by the strong arm of safety; but all at once, huge clouds flit up, spreading their dismal wings, and completely shutting out the cheerful rays of light. The winds, in their desolate and bar- ' ren halls, scents prey afar off, and with a wild scream rushes down from their homes and lash into fury the waters underneath. -'. The vivid lightnings flash upon flash, illuminating the dark horrors : of the angry deep followed by the deafening, rattling peals of tbe Waning . clouds. ' The gallant craft straggled bravely on, but in the distance there loomed unknow- ingly a towering rock. On, on the ship is driven like a feather in a whirlwind, strained in every fibre. In a few minutes she will be dashed to pieces, but the moment the winds, shrieked the loudest and the waters heaved the highest, the beacon light of the rock glared oa. high, casting its hopeful rays far and near. The despairing pilot at the helm,, cheered and comforted, safely steers her into port. That ship is the ship of State, and the beacon light is the unquenchable and steady fir . of Patriotism. In the darkest hour it illumines the path of the benighted.. When tbe enervating shroud of despair gathers its fold around the weary and exhausted soul, patriotism infuses its own' sublime -strength iota the drooping heart, and with energies revived.-its tears despair in twain, and leaps once mora into the trenches of the heseiged, ,V ' ' " . "M i:- 17ho Began the T7ar!? h:,-. - Secretary .Chase, in. his late report, deserves credit for setting at rest the question ' under wmcn administration fine war commenced. Radical - Abolitionists have- asserted that the war was began under Democratic !rule. - . The. Secretary, however, is of a different opinion, v for he says. In the yery beaming of his report, tbai.the breaking out of the existing rebel-" Con,' soon after the incoming of the present administration, demanded, the employment cf all necessary means for the preervf.t'oa-cf lie territorial integrity of the republic, c , This is canaid,. and gives the lle-'"e-ct to 5 the Abolition thafes that the war i menced daring the adrjisIstratTcnc f r.tlJcr.t Buchatjan, and ye-hope theraIIc-'i 111 jrzZi-by the confession of one cf their owa number, and a Txarrg-membar of $hea!.!.;rs.t";; tnifiuYely will not attempt ta d "y t.:e t "-gallon ofllr. Chase that tV e ws r c c - r alter Frp : ' -Lincola i x .