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              Vr r-T ' ; : r i i - ii i . -- M, imni -' .. ..... ' ..... 7 r . : lllli1!!.! 1 r , ? ju, winmim.,,. mnmmm t miummmumammimltMimmmnmnm . milMtmuuummmm VOLUME XXYII. MOUNT YERNON, OHIO: SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1863. NUMBER 6. 3BFBS Sjjc democratic fanner is ?ubl:seep f.very satvuday uormxq by L. HAEPEE. Office in Woodward ISlocIc, 3d Story. TERMS. Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad-rance; $2.50 withiu six months; $3.00 after theexpi Tltion of the Year. EDITED BY L. HARPER. "What a Union Man of the South Thinks of the Arrest of Mr. Vallandigham. At a meeting of the Democratic Union Association . of the City of New York, held last week, relative to the arrest of Mr. Vallandig-haji, among the Speakers was Robert S. Tiiarin, Esq., a distinguished citizen of Alabama, who was compelled to leave his own State, to seek a refuge in the North, because of his devotion to the good old Union of our fathers. The following report of his speech will be interesting to our readers : Robert S. Tharin, of Alabama, an escaped Unionist, was the next speaker. lie was received with three cheers. He said he supposed their cheers were intended to commemorate the fact that to-niht, intrenched in the fastnesses of one of the mountains of North Alabama, there is a body of poor hunted Union men living Southern Democrats like himself who are resisting in open arms the conscription act of Jetf. Davis. (Applause.) That, resistance atinr as a nucleus may yet arrav against Jetf. Davis's despotic throne the whole united mass of the Democratic party, sweeping a way in one "effort the Administration at "Washington and the Government of Jeff. Da-'vis. He was national in his instincts, anil desired that the old flag that he had so long loved and revered should float over all the land, and that the Constitution should go with it- The Administration at Washington seemed to be emulating the despotism of Jeff. Davis, and the enormities of Abolitionism bid fair to surpass the enormities of secession. He did not come here to say that he was so disgusted at Abe Lincoln as that he must needs admire Jetf. Davis, but the disgust he felt for the one was augmented by the disgust he felt for the other. (Laughter.) John Minor Botts, of Virginia, may extend his hand across the border, and, grasping the hand of Vallandigham, say: "Alas, poor Yorick, you are not alone in misery." When he (the speaker) took the oath in Alabama to support the Constitution, he took no oath to support Abraham Lincoln. When he took that oath he did not even know there was such a man in existence, and the country would have been fortunate if it had never known of his existence. He hal risked his life at the South in maintaining the Constitution, and he was not to be intimidated by any threats against his rie;ht to epeak for the Constitution in the North. Gen. Burnside (hisses) presumes to prevent free speech. Having precipitated his legions on the slaughter pen of Fredericksburg, and finding his talents best adapted for a military department in Ohio, he sends his soldiers with pen and pencil to listen to the public speeches of a Democrat. Verily this is a wonderful display of military genius. (Cheers.) Splendid exemplification of the principles, policy, and talents of the Republican Administration. They, certainly, could not say that he (the speaker) was a secessionist, lie had resisted secession at the peril of liia life. Mr. Vallandigham is a man. (Cheers.) He is an American citizen, and he has sullered from Abe Lincoln exactly what the speaker had suffered from Jeff. Davis, with this exception, that the Democratic party in the North is too powerful for him to be mobbed, and therefore he has been kidnapped. It is only a greater admission of the strength of a party when they are obliged to steal one of its members. There can be no Letter evidence of the rectitude of the man than that lie was not brought before a court of justice. They dare not try him by law. (Applause.) The speaker held no particular admiration or otherwise for Vallandigham, having never Keen him, but it was certain to him that when a man is not tried by law he must be inno-cent. (Cheers.) They hate him and would like nothing better than to try him by law if thoy had anything of which to accuse him. What he has done must be lawful and right for they dare not try him by law. (Great cheering.) The meeting then adjourned. 2Ir. Lincoln was" Opposed to "Compromise" from the First. We eee some of the Republicans try to deny that Mr. Lincoln was opposed to compromising our sectional troubles, but was always willing to do so. This the Democrats deny, And call for the least proof to sustain such an idea. When Mr. Lincoln passed through this city on his vay to Washington, in February, 1SG1, the Ohio State Journal of this city said: "We, of course, have had no opportunity to converse with Mr. Lincoln, but such is our knowledge of his views and feelings, that we Lave no hesitation in declaring that Mr. Lincoln has committed himself to no compromise whatever, and that the whole is a canard of the first water. He has steadily refused to accede to the demand of those who insisted upon his giving his Inaugural in advance. The country may rest assured that in Abraham Lincoln they l ave a Republican President one who will give them a Republican administration. Mr. Lincoln is not committed to the Border State Compromise, nor to any other. lie stands immovable on the Chicajo Platform, and he will neither acquiesce in nor c"u7i;l his friends to acquiesce in any compromise that surrenders one iota of it." This ought to be taken as satisfactory by (such' Republicans as can produce no proof on the othef i.ide. It was on' this question that we broke with Mr. Lincoln and exposed his fchort comings from the first. It was on this ground that we predicted a civil war long before any great number of people would believe that we were sane to make such predictions. We have now had two years experiment on the policy of the Republicans. They feel, as they properly should, that had they honestly tried the experiment of a compromise, and it had failed, that they would to-day have btood n much higher ground than they do, in prosecuting this terrible and fatal war. Crisis. o , Zr Professor Tyler, of Amherst College, proached at Hadley on the National Fast Day from the text, "How much better is a man than a sheep ? Hartford Press. Not muchwhen the fact that wc arc "am-mhf each other to heartily, itt taken into the hc gemofratic fawner Free Government UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE. A FEW PAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE TIMES. "We publish, without comment, Gen. Bcrnt-side's celebrated Order No. 38; and Gen. Has-call's Order No. 9, with explanations of the same. We put these things upon record, as a part of the history of these Abolition times, for the benefit of future generations : Headquarters Department of the Ohio, ) Cincinnati, 0., April 13th, 1863. J General Order. "No, 38. The Commanding General publishes for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country, will be tried as spies or traitors, and if convicted will sutler death. This order includes the following classes Of persons: Carriers of Secret mails. Writers of letters sent by Secret Mails. Secret Recruiting Officers within the lines. Persons who have entered into an agreement to pass our lines for the purpose of join- mi' tne enemv. Persons found concealed within our lines be longing to the service of the enemy, and, in fact, all persons found improperly within our lines who could give private information to the enemy. All persons within our lines who harbor, protect, conceal, clothe or in any way aid the enemies of our country. The habit of declaring sympathies for the enemv will no longer be tolerated in this Department. Persons committing such offences will be at once arrested with a view to being tried as above stated, or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends. It must be distinctly understood that treason expressed or implied will not be tolerated in this Department. All officers and soldiers are strictly charged with the execution of this order. ' By command of Major-General A. E. Burn-side. Lewis Richmond. Oificial. Assistant Adjutant General. D. R. Larned. Captain and A. A. G. Bascall's Order, No. 9. Headquarters District of Indiana, Department of the Ohio, Indian atous, Ind., April 25, 1SG3. General Order No. 9. In assuming command of the District of Indiana, the General commanding deems it advisable and proper to issue the following order, to the end that all may be advised of the principles which will govern his action : 1. lie has no proclamation to issue, nor policy to adopt. That has already been done, and in his judgment well done, by the com-, warding General of this Department. lie has no partisan feelings or interests he intends to advance, but denres to confer freely and fully with the prominent men of all political parries, and invokes their hearty co-operation iu all measures calculated to promotaharmony and good teeling in the State. He neither claims any right to interfere with civil matters in the State, nor has he any desire to do so. 2. The Commanding General is charged with the duty of carrying into effect the provisions of General Order No. 38, recently is-Mied by Major General Burnside. He purposes doing so. Unmistakable evidence has readied him that the provisions of this order have been, and are being, violated in various instances by well-meaning men. who are led astray by newspapers ami public speakers. These latter will therefore be held to the most rigid accountability. There is no use in trying to dry the streams when the fountains are allowed to run. All newspapers or public speakers who encourage resilience to the Conscription Act, or any other law of Congress passed as a war measure, or that endeavor to bring the tear policy of the Government into disrepute, will be considered as violating the order above alluded to and treated accordingly. Thecoun-try will have to be lost or saved during the time this Administration remains in power, and therefore he who is factious!)' and actively opposed to the tear policy of the Administration, is as much opposed to his Government. 3. The Commanding General indulges the hope that all citizens of the Slate will see the propriety and necessity of the observance of this order, and as they regard the interests and welfare of the State and the nation, give him no occusion to take action on account of its violation. By command of Gen. Hascall. KD. R. KERSTETTER, Captain and A. A. G. General Hascall Explains Order No. 9. IIeadqtarters District Indiana,) Indianapolis, May 5th, 18G3. J Editors Journal: I have received the following from lion. Joseph Iv. Edgerton, member of Congress from the Tenth Congres sional District, and as it. refers to matters which interest others as much as himself, and as there are some who claim that they do not understand fully the meaning of General Or der No. 9, recently issued from these .Headquarters, I publish his letter, together with my icply, for the information ofall concerned : Fort Wayne, Ind., May 2, 18G3. "Sir: I have read, with the interest due to it, your General Order No. 9, dated 25th ult. In this order you sav that you have no parti- Kan feelings or inteiests you intend to advance, but desire to confer'freel v and fullv with the prominent men ofall political parties, and in I . . - 1 vo ce their heartv co operation in all meas ures calculated to restore harmony and good feeling in the State. This sentiment is patri- otic. It seems to recognize the iact mat opposing political parties may still be permitted to exist, and yet co-operate to restore harmony and good feeling in the State. Jnacorrcs ponding spirit, I, as a citizen, though not, per haps, a ' prominent' one, in the sense of your order, desire to confer freely with vou by way of inquiry, as to the meaning of a part of your order, which I do not fully understand. You will, of course, admit that if the people are to obey your order, it is important they should know its exact scope and design. " Will vou do me the favor to inform me what vou mean in' your injunction to 4 A) newspapers or public speakers,' by the term 4or endeavor to bring the war policy of the Government in disrepute;' and further, what vou mean bv the phrase, 'actively opposed to. the war polfcy of the Administration,' or what ,,r- n'a o Bvnnnvmmm cxnression. 'on- yuu wov; ivj "j - i posed to the Government?' Awaiting your reply, I atn' Respectfully your obedient servant. JOSEPH K. EDGERTON. M. S. Hascai.l, Brig. General. It will, perhaps, be wellenough, in order to a full understanding of this matter, to rcpro duce that paragraph of Order No. 9, which is claimed to contain ambiguous matter. :rervlt' as frllo-s;' The commanding General is chamed with the duty of carrying into effect the provisions of General Order No. 38, recently issued by Major General Burnside. lie purposes doing so. Unmistable evidence has reached him that the provisions of this order have been, and are being, violated in various parts of this State. This is unfortunately done, in many instances, by well-meaning men, who are led astray by newspapers and public speakers. These latter will, therefore, be held to the most .rigid accountability. There is no use in trying to dry the stream while its fountains are allowed to flow. All newspapers and public speakers that counsel or encourage resistance to the Conscription Act, or any other law of Congress passed as a war measure, or that endeavor to bring the war policy of the Government into disrepute, will be considered as having violated the order above alluded to, and treated accordingly. The country will have to be saved or lost during the time that this Administration remains in power, and, therefore, he who is factiously and actively opposed to the war policy of the Administration, is as much opposed to his Government It seems to me, that taken as a who'e, no one need misunderstand any thing in this paragraph, unless they choose to do so. What I mean by the expression, "or endeavor to bring the war policy of the government into disrepute," is this: Certain measures have been determined upon by the Congress of the United States, and the Executive, such as the Internal Revenue and Tax Bills, (necessary for the support of the Government in time of war,) the Confiscation Act, the act authorizing the Executive to use negroes in every way possible to cripple the enemy and assist us. the Proclamation of Emancipation in certain rebellious districts, and other measures having an immediate bearing on the war; and these I call the war policy of the Government or Administration. These measures, most of them, have been concluded upon after very mature deliberations and discussion, and after more than a year's experience in actual warfare. Possibly, they are not the wisest, and best could have been enacted. That, however, is a matter which does not now concern either of us. Enough for us to know, that they have been agreed upon by the only rightful and proper authorities known to our Government, and that they are likely to remain in force until time and experience shall suggest some modification, and this, though you and I should talk ourselves hoarse v opposition. The only practical effect, then, of allowing public speakers to inveigh against these measures, is to divide and distract, our own people, and thus give material "aid anil comfort" to our enemies. In this connection, allow me to call your attention, and that of the people of the whole State, to the following extract of a letter, written by Hon. Reverdy Johnson, to certain citizens ot Baltimore, who had invited him to address them : "The sole ministers of peace at present are our gallant officers, soldiers and sailors. Let these he used as they may be, and the end wiil soon be accomplished; and let us, m Dressing on the foe, not halt to criticise the conduct of the Government. Let us, on the contrary, give it a hearty, zealous support while the peril is upon us, reserving for a pe riod of restored peace whatever of censure we lave to pass on the conduct of the men who are administering it." If sudi be the sentiments of -Senator John son, a Southern man, it oudit to be no hard ship for you and I and all the citizens of In- liana to live up to the requirements of Gener al Order No. 9. Asain, I srive it as mv opin ion that this rebellion will either have to be established or crushed between this time and the 4th day of March, ISb'o, or duringthis Ad ministration, and that, therefore he who is actiouslv and actively opposed to the war pol icy of the administration, is as much opposed to his Government. If my premises are correct, the conclusion follows. I have never vet seen any one who thought this war could endure two years longer. If there are anv such, it must be those who intend to throw ev erything in the way of this Administration, in order that the war mav be prolonged by some possibility, and another Administrrttion iet the credit of settling it. As I value the ives of our hundreds of thousands of gallant soldiers in the field, as I regard the feelings, ereavements and sulierings of their anxious. amilics and friends at home, and as 1 regard the true interests of our State an. I nation, I am going to see to it, that in Indiana at least, sudi men have no abiding place. ii is a more serious a tiling than many are wont to suppose to divide and distract our country and prolong the war. In putting a stop to such practices, I shall hold the lead ers principally responsible. As well might I establish a number of small-pox hospitals in the heart ot this city, and then punish the people for becoming infected with that loath some disease, as to allow newspapers and pub lic speakers to belch forth their disloyal and treasonable doctrines, and blame the people for becoming contaminated therewith. Such things Avill not do in these times. To kill the serpent speedilv, it. must be hit on the head. General Order No. 9 has been approved by Ma jor General Burnside, and the force placed at my disposal to enforce it. 1 shall do so in every case where a palpable violatiou comes to mv knowledge. Hoping I have made mvselt understood, and thanking you for your frank and manly letter. I am yours, with great respect, MILO S. HASCALL, Brig. Gen. Vol's, Commanding Dist. To Hon. Jos. K. Edgerton, M. C. We add'one more leaf to this curious histo ry of the times : Gen. Hascall and the Press of Indiana. We find the following in the Columbia City News : Headquarters District of Indiana, Department of the Ouio, Indianapolis, May 8, 18G3. Editor of Columbia City News Sir : A copy of your paper of May 5 has been handed me; and my attention called to your comments on General Order No. 9 from these Headquarters. You can now take your choice; publish an article taking back your threats of resistance to that order and your comments designed to destroy its usefullness, and hereafter publish a loyal paper, or you can discontinue the publication of your paper till further orders. Any violation of this order will receive prompt attention. MILO S. HASCALL,' Brig. Gen. Vol. Comg. Dist. Disloyal Practice." A woman who marries a man from 35 to 45 years of age, thereby exempting him from liability to serve in the first class ofconscripts, is regarded as guil ty of a disloyal practice. Darke Co. Democrat. We know a man who wears false teeth, and passes himself off for twenty-eight, when amongst the ladies. This same man takes out his teeth and calls himself over age, when there is any danger of a draft or conscription. Is that not a " disioyal practice- also Hills no Elegant Extracts from a Very Recent! Speech. A distinguished triumvirate Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley and William Lloyd Garrison delivered speeches, reported in the Tribune, before n Republican Association at the Cooper Institute, New York, on Wednesday evening, May 11. Mr. Russell, the President of the Associa" tion, introduced Mr. Phillips, as "the man who had done more than any other except John Brown to bring this people to the banks of the Jordan." . Mr. Phillips in his speech said that "ever since September 22d of last year, the nation has turned its face Zionward, and ever since Burnside took the helm of the vessel, it has moved toward that point." The speaker expressed his sense of the value of the word "contraband," as applied to the negro, as follows: You know that when the rebellion first broke out no man dared speak touching the negro. The South fought to sustain slavery, and the North fought not to have.it hurt. But Butler pronounced that magic word "contraband," and summoned the negro into the arena. It was a poor word. I do not know that it is sound law, but Lord Chatham said, "nullus liber homo," is coarse Latin, but it is worth all the classics. Contraband is a bad word and may be bad law, but it is worth all the Constitution. . Mr. Phillips dos not think the war is approaching a termination, for he said in his s'peech : The South has not yet felt the first symptom of exhaustion. Get no delusive hope that our conquest is to come from any such source. This war will never be ended by an event. It will never come to a conclusion by a great battle. J t is too deepjin its sources; it is too wide in its influences for that. The great struggle in England between Democracy and nobility lasted from 16-W to 16G0, taking a king's life in its progress, and yet failed. The great struggle between the same parties in France began in 1793, and is not yet ended. Our own revolution began in 1775, and never till the outbreak of the French revolution concentrated the a ttention of the monarchies of Europe was this country left in peace. And it will take ten or twenty years to clear olf the scar of such a struggle. Prepare yourselves for a life long enlistment. The idea of Halleck's taking the 'field is thus treated bv the orator: We have got now two Generals-in-Chiefand two Commanders-in-Chief. Thev both live in Washington. The sad news reaches usto-dav that one means to take the field." Lincoln and Halleck they sit in Washington,Commanders-in-Chief, exercising a somewhat" disastrous influence, that even a Bonaparte would exercise on a battle if he tried to fight it by telegraph a hundred miles distant off.' But now it is said one of them means to take the field. Heaven forbid. In pointing out the difference between Halleck and Fremont, Phillips said of the for- nier : He has not learned anything since he graduated at West Point, and does not want to. He does not mean to undertake the labor of thinking. He is too indolent to go about to examine a new idea. It is enough for him that it was not in the text books when he graduated. Laughter. Battles were not fought so when he was taught, and if he is beaten according to the book he is willing to be beaten. As he passed along, the speaker gave the following thrust at Secretary Seward: Now in the two distinctions between Halleck routine and Fremont, Phelps, Butler, realities, is the distinction between the future in military affairs, in the difference between Seward the politician and Butler the Government. Why, if Seward is a Republican God grant us a Democratic successor. Phillips is of the opinion that if he could select the Generals, the Cabinet at Washington might be dispensed with. He says: Only let me put at the head of the advancing columns of the Union certain men that I could name, and the. Cabinet at Washington may shut themselves up and go to sleep with Rip Van Winkle till 1872. Laughter. 4 Curiously enough, though the orator was addressing a Republican Association, he boldly asserted that Abraham Lincoln is not President of the United States, saying: Your own great fellow citizen goes to Washington under the pledge of the President too much in a hurry to allow him to leave Wash ington for six hours, stays for a week, and conies back without a commission. Why? Because Abraham Lincoln is not President of the United States; because behind him, curb ing his purpose, making conditions that baulk his designs, making him doubt the purpose and the strength of the North, standing round him in civil and military positions, are men who do not mean that this battle shall be bravely and gallantly fought through. Phillips is for a general clearing out in Washington. He would spare none of the present oflice-holding gentry there. He says: None of them I am utterly impartial neither President, nor Cabinet, nor Senate. Peel off Seward, peel olf .Halleck, peel off Blair, peel off Sumner yes, Massachusetts Senators as well as others. We have taken up so much space with these elegant extracts from Phillips that we have no chance to pay our respects to Messrs Greeley and Garrison. Suffice it to say that their addresses were of a similar cast. states man. Enrolling a Jackass. Harper's "Drawer" contains this "enrolling" anecdote: The enrolling officer of Salisbury District Marvland, was verv active and thorough in the performance of hu duty. One day he went to the house of a countryman, and find ing none of the male members ot ihe family, at home, made inquiry of an old women, th number and age of the "males" of the family. After naming several the old lady stopped. "Is there no one else?" asked the officer. "No!" replied the woman, "none except Billy Bray." "Billy Bray! where is he?" "He was at the barn a moment ago," said the old lady. Out went the officer, but could not see .the man. Coming back, the worthy officer questioned the old lady as to the age of Billy and went away, after enrolling his name among those to be drafted. Time of the drafting came and those on whom the lot fell was Billy Bray. No one knew him. Where did he live? The officer who enrolled was called upon to produce, him; and lo, behold, Billy Bray wasa Jackass! and ?tands, now on the liat of .drafted men oh 'forming oac of the quota of Maryland. The Beign of Terror Kecessarily of Short Duration. The reign of terror of the French revolution lasted from 1792 till 1794, and prepared the way for absolute monarchy. All its leaders ascended the scaffold, and, as a lasting consequence of their misdeeds, their ghosts continue to be the terror of the French people when ever an effort is .making to gain, a larger field for the exercise of the rights of freemen. The infamy of that reign and the detestation in which the memory of its champions is to this day held by all classes of society, have made even liberty an object of apprehension ; and we have seen a Bonaparte, the Bourbons, the Orleans, and at last Napoleon III., triumph over the popular will, simply because any form of Government, even without freedom, is preferred to the reign of a faction without law and without responsibility. Lafayette, "the citizen of two worlds," preferred a King to a Republic, with the chance of an unchecked Jacobin rule; and the present Emperor Napoleon 1 1 1, is willingly accepted by the French people as the man who is ready and able to keep the Red Republicans out of power I Of three persons who support him, there are perhaps two who dislike him personally; but they prefer him to a Republic, with a Jacobin faction lurking behind it. And so it will ever be in France. The Reign of Terror, like Macbeth, has murdered sleep ; the ghosts of the Jacobins have destroyed the faith in popular governments. And'so it will be here, if a lawless faction is permitted to make sport of the Constitution and the laws of the country. Let license be gra'nted to popular passion, let factions run riot iind attempt to establish power by brute force, and a reign of terror will soon follow ; but it wi.l be of short duration, and cover its instigators with defeat and disgrace. The passions which are directed against one man today may be hurled against another to-morrow; the house that is burned to -night may lead to a conflagration on the following evening, till the general sense of insecurity will make the people submit to any Government, nay, to any man, who shall be able to keep the factions down, rather than continue the system under which they can enjoy neither tranquility nor safety. Who, then, suffers more than the wealthy classes? It is the manufacturer, the merchant, the capitalist, who has to pay the expenses of the new Government, for the simple reason that they have the means to do it, and that money is more easily obtained from them than from the honest laborer whom the revolution has thrown out of employment. It is the possessing classes who, in all revolutions, have to " pay for the whistle." But our Republic is young, and our men of fortune have made money without acquiring experience. They certainly do not sufficiently rellect on their position. -"Property," says Burke, "is inert, and, consequently, eminently conservative ;" but our men of property seem to reverse the rule, and under the influence of the rJacooin Leagues, to became eminently destructive. We would warn them to reflect a little before they lend themselves blindly to the intrigues of a faction which is now playing its last card. Phila. Age. Reverdy Johnson and the Peace Congress.This gentleman, in a long letter to the Journal of Commerce, gives his view of men and things, and of the Peace Congress and the part D. D. Field, Esq., of New York, took in it. The substance of his letter in a review of the causes that called the Peace Congress, the actors in it and of D. D. Field in particular who, he says, was in the majority, against all practical settlement or compromise. "Had the New York delegates adopted a different course had they spoken with one voice in support of the Guthrie report, (so justly potential as that voice ever is,) I believed then, and believe now, that the desired unanimity in support of the report could have been obtained, and that Congress would have acted upon it at its then session, or if not, that the South would have felt such an assurance of security in the recommendation of the convention that no immediate attempt at rebellion would have been made. "But from a want of foresight, as I think from a blindness to the danger that was before them that voice, was not spoken. The majority of her delegates, so far from speaking it, resolved on an opposite course, and were active and most influential in defeating the so much desired, the so vital unanimity, in support of any guarantee that the Southern members and many of the Northern members thought would alone meet the crisis. Their mistake (and a dreadful one it was) was because, perhaps without being aware of it, they were under party rather than under national influences. They were, too, it seemed to me, under the further and as sad error of believing that the South was not in earnest ; and that, from fear or other motive, they would not venture on rebellion. They maintained, therefore, throughout, their opposition to the proposed Guthrie guarantees, and were equally hostile to anv that their Southern brethren over and over again oti'ered ; and in terms of earnest invocation implored them, adopting solicitation that would have been esteemed, and trulv, undignified, but for the great issue that they felt to be impending civil war a war between brothers a war that would sunder ties the holiest that had ever bound people together a war to be attended with dreadful misery the destruction of our prosperity for untold aires the loss of our proud station among the nations of the world, and probably the total extinguishment for years, if not forever, of our very freedom itself. But the errors of the past cannot be corrected. We can only learn from them wisdom for the future. What does that teach us ? . Is it, that no Union feeling is now to be found in the Southren States ? Is it that it is so totally extinct that to revive it is impossible? I do not think so. The Outlines and Wick-litfes, the Joneses, the Rodneys, the Bates, the Rives and the Sumners, the Ruffins and the Morehends, and the thousands and thousands who united with them, still have in their hearts, as pure as ever, love for the Union which their fathers constructed. Satisfy them that the war ended, that Union will be as it was intended to. be, aridvyafi before treason and fanaticism involved us in the'existing frightful struggle, and much, very much, will be done to bring the struggle to an end, and to restore our former nationality. We shall then, too, know each other the better, and value each other the more. Courage has been found a common possession mistakes as to character corrected love of freedom is seen to be equally sincere, and we shall be more firmly convinced than we have ever been that Union, under all the guarantees of personal and State rights which our forefathers provided, can abone make us what they intended, and believed thev had accomplished, through their blood and wisdom the freest and the happiest, and one of the most influential nations-of the world. With great regard, your obedient 'vnnt. Kevejipt JouVscn. Our Platform The Constitution and the Laws ! "The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the Legislature or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinioss is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak write and print upon any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty." Art. IX., Sec VII., Constitution of Pennsylvania. This is our platform, and upon its broad foundation we stand. In the exercise of our sovereign rights, clearly laid down in the document from which we have just quoted, we shall daily "print" that which to us seemeth good; and we shall always be ready to answer the law, if, at any time, we violate its provisions. We claim no privileges not granted to others in this community; and, in respecting theirs, we shall not tamely permit any of our own to be infringed upon. No popular clamor, no unauthorized edict, shall ever deter us from freely and fearlessly claiming ourj sovereign rights aa American citizens, rights which have been guaranteed to us by the Constitution and laws of our country, and which cannot be taken away without subverting the one and trampling upon the other. Therefore, as faithful public journalists, we shall be bold and decided in the advocacy of the great principles of the Democratic party, and free and unsparing in the condemnation of wrong and official malfeasance, no matter from what quarter they may come. To us the sacred principles of law and order are as dear as they are to any in this Commonwealth; and we shall never advocate, nor en-encourage, in any degree, an abandonment of those precious safeguards which have been erected for the welfare and protection of so-1 ciety. Believing that the Constitution as it is written and the laws as they have been enacted, are broad and plain enough to protect the citizen and punish the offender, we demand that they shall continue supreme, now and in the future, and shall not be supplanted by the: passions and prejudices excited in the heated turmoil of partisan strife. This is a rule of action, to govern freemen, "not for a day, but for all time;" and it shall govern us let it be distinctly understood when other and truer men are borne into power by the resistless wave of public opinion. Thus placing ourselves upon the platform of the Constitution and the laws, we intend to pursue "the even tenor of our way," and shall earnestly strive to do our whole duty fo the party that has so far honored us with its generous confidence and support, and to the country, which now needs brave and loyal defenders at home as well as on the stormy field of battle. Philadelphia Age. . The Subjugation of the North. The New York Express thus groups some of the tyrannies being enacted in this "land of the free." The editor, it will be seen, is "disloyal" enough to think, and has the assurance to intimate that these things do not look well! What a malignant "copperhead" he must be 1 t "Brigadier General Hascall fulminates from Indianapolis an ukase, in reply to the Hon. Mr. Edgerton, M. C. better fitted for the meridian of Constantinople than for Indianapolis. If this ukase be in forced by the bayonet in Indiana, Turkey will be a comfortable place of residence in comparison with that State. ,Not only are all the editors to be hushed up, but the speakers are to be dried up. The 'tallest poppies' are to be cut off. The bigger the oi ators, the quicker off go their heads! Acts of Congress are not to be discussed, even to eug-gest reasons for repeal! Whatever is written is. Whatever is, is order. The right of petition, even, in public meetings, to present to the people reasons for the exercise of this right, is out off. Thank God! we live in the free State of New York. " The Ohio journals are now pretty well hushed up, also. It is very evident, from reading them, that thev all labor under a Cen-sorship, with this disadvantage to them, from the uncertainty that not as in Despotic countries, is the censorship before, but after, the Republican, not even as in Paris, with a warning, 'one two three,' before suppression but suppression, without warning. The Dayton Empire is suppressed, its Editor is in jail. "The Provost Marshal of St. Genevieve county, Missouri, has issued an order suppressing at all the Post offices in that county, the New York Freeman's Journal, the New York Caucasian, the Dubuque (Iowa) Herald, and the Chester (111.) Picket Guard. "Has the Administration any idea of how all these things read in Europe, in England Ireland, Scotland, in France, Germany, &c, &c, and how sane, sound people there, as well as lovers of liberty, laugh at the false pretense of freeing negroes, when thus white men are enslaved 1" Greeley Praising the Forbearance of the People. Greeley, in a late article in the New York Tribune, thus praises the patience of the people. He says : "In, the ardor of our souls and it is an exceedingly creditable ardor we are pleased to be humbugged, and swindled, and cheated, and robbed to be taxed upon all we eat, and drink, and wear to submit to a rise in gold, in dry goods and groceries to be paid in shin-plasters and to pay with the same to write even our love-letters upon brown paper to bear on penny advance upon our newspaper to subscribe liberally to the Ladies' Society for furnishing wooden legs to wounded soldiers and broth and jelly to the convalescent, while we live upon porridge to the great disgust of the younger branches or; the family, who bawl 'beef as loudly as John Hook did in the American camp, and as if it were to be had of benevolent butchers without shinplasters and without price! The nation is enduring, and is willing to endure, materially and mentally, to the end bH is not it a shame to swindle such a good-natured people? Is not it a shame that a pack of men, numerically not equal to the population of a village, which, perhaps, has sent off a. charitable box to -the poor soldiers every month since the war broke out that a corps of contractors should, all this time, be amassing colossal fortunes, and buying his brown stone houses, and setting up dashing equipages, and presenting their dames with Indian shawls ana their daughters with diamond necklace?". 'Stv- e nave not nearu irom rrinre .ionn Van Buren, Judge Daly, or James T. Brady since the kidnapping of allandigham. 16 this the entertainment to which we were invi ted upon the formation of the so-called Loyal Leagues ? We were told all that kind of thing was at an end. It tabes a great deal of whitewash to keep the rpote on thf Aduiini; ration 'ieopan.1 cut cf etht. -- H'r't. Stocks and the Telegraph. Even the Abolition Press cannot escape the' conviction, that, while a father or a mother having a eon in the army cannot get a line aa to death, or wounds, over the telegraph, pending, or after a battle, others, tor mere money matters, can. Thus the Washington correa pondent of the Independent hints, as the Even' ing Post did, the other day, that Cabinet stock speculation i3 at the bottom cfthe false official information we have been having. He says: "Some of the Northern cities seem to have gone crazy within a day or two over the ridiculous story that Gen. Peckv has taken Rich-, mond ! The Philadelphia Inquirer comes here' ih is evening with the, ridiculous heading of 'The Stars and Stripes Floating over Rich-; mond !' It is difficult to dismiss the suspicion that some pretty high parties have been - endeavoring to operate in the gold market. . Cor-, respondents have endeavored in vain yester.-r day to telegraph to their friends that there was not a word of truth in the wild stories which seemed to obtain every credence in Phil? adelphia and New York, but the Government Censor would not permit the denial! This ia. certainly very strange. It cannot be possible that the Government wishes to befool the people with stories of victories which never occur. The Government will not allow correspondents to contradict well known and admitted false-, hoods, when these falsehoods announce a victory." , The "Independent" will soon be pronounced a " Copperhead" if it often publishes paragraphs such as this, for " Copperheadism'' consists in exposing Administration fooleries andcrimes. N. Y. Express. God Reigns." Greeley concludes an article on Hooker's defeat, as follows: "As to the effect of this repulse On the pro-, gress and issue of the war, it is too early tq speculate. All our knowledge of what is yet future is summed up in the axiom that God. reigns, and that all injustice and oppression are surely to be vanquished, and overthrown., If the loyal millions deserve to triumph this year, they will ; if not, we must wait till they shall have been purified by suffering: 'For Freedom's battle on.ee begun, Bequeath'd from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." . v ; According to Greeley, God's reign upon this, continent commenced with the reign of; A bra ham Lincoln, before whose advent slavery, was the motive power and ruling agent in the. control of American affairs. After old Abe took charge of the country, Greeley predicted, that all would go, well ifan Abolition programe. were only inaugurated. This policy was. adopted, yet defeat still rested upon our arms, and the prophet Greeley, ,who has been the. greatest fault-finder and blusterer of .this ;gen-. eration, now wickedly falls back upon the Prov.-, idence ot God. whose dispensations and . natural laws he has been for thirty years feebly striving to thwart, charging upon the Almighty, the results which are the natural sequel to the political crusade inaugurated and. carried on, by Greeley & Co. The God that reign9 in Heaven and over all theearth isa GodofLaw Justice and Right, and not the fanatical,, see-, tional, blood-thirsty deity. of Greeley, Lincoln & Co. Newark Daily Journal. Eebel Account of the Defeat near Hit' Gibson, Mississippi! , The Jackson (Mississippi) Appeal of May. Cth, contains some details of the rebel General Bowen's defeat at bayou Pierre, near Port Gibson, on Friday, Mav 1st: Bowen's fo:ce is put at two brigades, while the Federals' is estimated at twenty, thousand.. Bowen left Grand Gulf, and crossed the bavou. to check the Federal advance,until-reinforcements, known to be coming, arrived. Grant s movements were too rapid, and in great force. The armies met at midnight I hursday, three miles uom Port Gibson, and. fighting commenced, which continued till -Fri-. day evening, when Bowen retreated across the bayou, burning bridges, ibis involved the. oss ot Port Gibson, which the Federals imme diately occupied. A number ofsick and woun ded in hospital were captured. - . . jt On Saturaay the rederals again advanced.. Saturday night the works at Grand Gulf were abandoned, after dismounting and destroying; the guns, and on Sunday the rebels crosse.d Big Black river at Hankinson s rerrv, where they met reinforcements sufficient to make further retreat unnecessary. . The rebel total loss is estimated at one thousand killed, and. sev-; enty wounded were left on the field. Several hundred prisoners were captured, including an entire company of the 4Gth Mississippi. I he V lrginia battery lost four guns, five killed eleven wounded and nineteen missing. Gen Tracy, of Alabama, Lieutenant-Colonel Pettus. brot her of the Governor, and Major Pickerman, were killed, and Colonel Garret, ; of the 20th' Alabama, badlv wounded, and Major Hurlev,; of the 3 1st, Alabama, was mortally wounded, and captured. Baldwin's brigade reached the battle in time to sutler considerable loss. Vallandigham's Arrest. . The Geneva, N. Y. Gazette, speaking of the- arrest of Mr. Vallandigham savs: . " He is a civilian of a loval State, and that is (or rather should be) suthcient to . protect him in his civil rights, and to hold turn amen able only to civil law. The humblest citizen of this State, at all events is sure of protection. against such assaults of the military power. !o military usurper of high or low degree, dare attempt it here. It will be seen whether the civil authority of of Ohio is equally jeaN. ous of encroachments upon its prerogatives,. and has the vital power to protect its people. . It will pronabjv turn out that Mr. Vallan-. digham's offence is, the bold utterance of sen ttments that, though condemnatory of the administration and its military policy, yet in nowise disloyal, find a response in. the breasts of thousands of the people of Ohio. . His grievance is theirs; and that mighty '.multitude is competent to protect his and their constitutional rights. - " Succedaneum" .Rediviyus, , r . The Cleveland Herald is out for Governor Dennison. It says : ....'... It was naked justice to Gov. Dennison that he should have been renominated two years since, and the Union. Convention will honor itself, will consult the interest of the State, and will do but justice to a true man, if it again place Mr. Dennison in nomination. How Stonewall Jackson was Killed. The Richmond Enquirer, in speaking of the wound of Stonewall Jackson which has cost his life savs : - Our base foe villi exult in . the disaster to Jackson ; yet the accursed bullet that brought him down was never. moulded by a Yankee.- Through a cruel mistake, iu the confusion tk hero received two balla from pome of hs ci: j'mm, "ho v?uH v have died fer hlui.