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Efforts to deprive Zlen of their Liberty during- th Administration - of John Adams The' Arreat of Thomas Cooper His Sentence to Fine andImprison-xaent--Suhseqnent History of the Man and the Case--Honors attend .''The Convict" and the Nation Foots 'the 31 and ' Cost of the Unjust Prosecn- ' : tion j ,;; ; -:';r' ' : " In continnatloD of the bistory of those who have been prosecuted in America for LoIdJjr adyocating the rights of the citizen, it is our purpose io thU number to show how complete-ly tb efforta of tyrants to suppress have re- coiled, and how, eventually, those who bave encountered persecution for truth and righteousness sake, have triumphed overall eir enemies. ; " Tbomas Cooper, editor of the Sunbury and Northumberland Gazette, was arrested and tried in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Pennsylvania District, in session at Phil-BdefphiaVApTiI.il, 1800- for an article published in his paper in October 1799, reflecting severely upon John Adams, the President of the .United States. Inasmuch as this trial was one of unusual interest at that time, we have thought proper to refer to it in this paper. The prosecution was unJer the 2d section of the sedition act, foi having published his article, as alleged, "with the intent to excite the hatred and contempt of the people of this country against the man. of their choice," etc.. the same leing " false and scandalous, and published from malicious motives' The actionable words were that the defendant Cooper, had Baid of Mr. Atlaras, " At that time he had just entered into office; he tcas . i --.jr.. .- . il - - r j-.- - . , ,,,y te oj poiiucac misiaxe: even wtr jajiio uovuica nu capaomiy thought veeuoj his j jf i believed that, by meeting you onthe oc-inlenLvnis. Kor were we yet saddled with the s casiou referrel to, I could be of service to a expanse of a permanent navyt or threatened, under his auspices, with the existence of a. standing army. " Our credit' was not yet' redu ced so. lew as to borrow money at eight per ! cent, in time of peace, wli ile the unnecessary violence of official expressions might-justly -war. Mr. Adams has not vet projected hia embassies to Prussia, Russia and the Sublime Porte nor had he yet interfered, as President of the United States, to iufluence the decisions of a Court of Justice a stretch of authority which the monarch of Great Britain would have shrunk from an interference without prececent, agaiust law, and against mercy; This melancholy case of Jonathan. Robbins, a native citizen of America, forcibly impreesed by the British, and delivered up, with the advice of Mr. Adams,, to the mock trial of a British Court-martial, bad not yet astonished the republican citizens of this f. MnnliT a nun tnrt little known, hnt of , !. t rn 1 1 you continue to- believe it necessary to " en-which the people ought to be fully apprise! 1 ... , ,,, j:.t.i - I - m .1 . Bi i it i.9t-.aAl oeiore tne election, ana tuey snau ue. ai this trial Mr. Cooper, who was a lawyer; appeared in pro. per and District Attorney Raule for the government. Judge Chase in his charge to the jury dwelt at great length upon the monstrosity of the publication and parjicularly upon the closing remark "a case too little known, but of which the people ought to be fully apprised before the election, and they hallb." ' Ilere then, the evident design ofthe traverser was, to arouse the people against the President so as to influence their minds against him on the next electron. I think it right to explain this to you, because - it proves, that the traverser was actuated by improper motives to make this charge against . the President. ' It is a very heavy charge, and made with intent to bring the President into -contempt and disrepute, and. to excite against him the hatred of the . people of the United States." "Take this publication in all its parts, and it is the bold jest attempt I have known to poison the minds ' ot the people? . . , '... .t., ""There is no subject on which the people of . America' feel more alarm than the establish ' ment of a ttandiag army. 'Once persuade . them that the sTerninent' js attempting to. promote' euch a 'msaaure, and roO destroy ikehr coufldenee in the government. There- fore, to say, that under the auspices of the r President, we were saddled with a standing : army, was directly calculated to bring him in-to contempt with the people, and excite their Starred against him;1 . It is too much to press ,,-thje point on the trsTerter. But he deserves iL . This publication is evidently, intended to C smalead the ignorant and inflame their minds . . against ths President and to iufluence their wotes""on the next election.";; :... , r- ; ,t,r3n fWtf1. ( tbe charge was the effect V:;iaU-ilajts4sw.evwerB Jjkely. ia hays'5, a the aext election" and to silence the bold r-1i&ik&tnrtS'2k& Coopmv wias . them and there1 sentenced to pay a flns of toai fcandred doIlsixe3mpriwne .:f8tetha aadVattha end of jat period, to find attretrforhU toed tehariOr Jitmsclf , in .one " thoisani,"nd twoshretlea in firs thadred doh iV1! --ffcu 'j'V-Vvri! r ' - .This aeateace -was espied ana lZf CopfT eerredontkis full time uTpnajfaV pviUaf . -MlI -wl - jf.-.- j ir. . 2-1 .iJV"ns to thfaoTcIit!! Inhifetst yU tistorr1 ?Ahef Vthis; OTfc"t,!(ws,if the Ilira. kpplis4 by, tL 'adtrk&iH'cfJ 1- tT.vr vc i.wee- TsptecJi hi ta liv3, kaa come aadcr the batfXjrtht " J4 ,Jrtoas asiast the powers ile was satMeqaenti ap- pojoted.io thepresfdent judgeship of a judicial district "end held ' other prominent 1 political positions, but. bieinsiMiiciaof more 'parttcniariy nia. nign. iuoopu .v tainments canBed liito to - be invited io diatinr guished positions in literary institutions. He waa professor of Chemistry in . pickiDKon Cfef- lege at Carlisler afterwards filled a, chair 1 the University of Penbsyltania; and having obtained a more lucraUve offer from Columbia College, South C6llna'''wifiicr!-acctj)ied, be subsequently became President of tbat in-inetitution. '. The Legislature of that State appointed him to revise the statn tea of that state. and he died in 1340, while engaged upon that work. We have in our 'possession, a copy of his translation- of J ustinian, and also a work published by him off Chemistry. ' He waa- voluminous Writer on politics, divinifyv' and metaphysics, and on. political economy and variou 8 subjects of general interest was really one of the best informed men in America.- We mention these things to show that it is not in the power of any tr ranical administration to attach snch a stigma upon true , merit, or to proscribe the advocates of popular rights as to destroy their future usefulness. And we should still further mention that in the case of Mr. Cooper, also, the fit.es imposed upon him together with jthe cost paid and interest thereon, was, after the lapse of forty years, by special act of Congress, -repaid to bin. THE CONDUCT OF THE WAS AND OTHEE .:MATTEBS. CuriotiH nil A Sarcastic Ietter of Emerson Ktucridffe of Tennessee. The Sonthern Clerk of the Eepnhlican U. S. Honse of Bepresentatxves. " Washinctos; D. C. May 18, 18C3. Gentlemen : I have just received your letter of the 7th inst., inviting me, in behalf of the Washington. Union Club of Memphis, to join in a public celebration of the auniversa- jry of the surrenderor that city to the Federal ; arms. You also speak kindly of my past ef forts to induce the people of West Tennessee to consent cneeriuiijr. 10 uie rtsiorauon 01 tfa nRlional anthoritv throughout the South." I single honest, iaw-aoiding citizen or truly re- fentant rebel, or that I could contribute to the east extent in endiug the war and restoring the blessings of peace under the Constitution, I would certainly attend ; but I have no such faitu in tuyaeli. ana tiiereiore l shaJJ not go, lu your letter you express the opinion that, by a " direct personal appeal," I might " encourage the loyal to reclaim the disloyal." I confess my astonishment at such a statement; and I can attribute this opinion of yours to nothing. lut a failure on your part to comprehend . the waHerly policy of our great and good PresidebWand the wise statesmen who aid biru in s Imping and directing the civil policy oftb GovermuenU When you t have fully studied and underatooI the grand purposes of our tuosi God-fearing andlaw-abiding President; when you. are more familliar with the profound military strategy, which, as "Commander-in-chief ofthe Army and Navy of the. United States," ; be is now displaying; and when you furiher remember the astonishing success we have had in reclaiming our "ntirignided countrymen" and in eonquer- I Inff OUT " wayward SISterS, t(;ui olc 1110 rvr y e - va - ieu - mac Mioturai. c . . Why encourage the loyal?- Is it possible they need encouragement in Memphis, when, ' for nearly a year, you live been inside the .Federal lines; when every night, tattoo is Subeti-tuted for " Hush, my baby, don't yoq cry," and at reveille " liail t-olumbia arouses the people to a consciousness ofthe great security which lesiiorae to the pro pert v of the.loyal people -in Memphis ; apd "alf tfie country round that political) Jordan ? How can you or 1 ' entourage the loyal," when our match less President, the late Congress, his sage counsellors and his peerless military subordi nates, have already done and promised all which wisdom can suggest, which our sacred Constitution authorizes, and which the chris tian religion tolerates or approves? There remains nothing for us to do, unless it be to obey our incomparable , jrresiuem in an ins wise II T . - measures to conquers glorious peace. True, we have among us croakers and copperheads silly, brainless men who are so nn wise and unpatriotic as to question the wisdom of T ."11 T . T 1 our wueiaiigsDie rresioent. ji yon nave any such in Memphis you should at onee denounce them as. in sympathy ' with the rebels; 'yon should send them to their friends' "down South," or to the Dry Tort n gas, which is understood by many to be a place wh ere every body ia tortured with a thirst for rifle whisky, and.oot a drop can be obtained.- No rood Union man will complain of the condact of the wise men who direct our public affairs.' They should be taught 40 remember thatcan-r dahcm'fkagnaiuin was , formerly a high crime it is a most heinous offence bow and nothiug saves such copper "cofored wretches but the Christian charity of oir most pious President. At your proposed meeting you should so ar range matters as to secure a list of all who fail to attend, or omit to render :a suitable apology, and you should adopt resolutions of. the most loj' sitnd. Allow . me to suggest that the committee on resolutions te selected from contractors and oface howlers.. ' 1 parti o- ularly suggest oae Cooper, who bae recently been appointed assessor for the largeyteJ? atttit populous oistrict or W et Tennessee; 3 ile was originally from New York' Trpe, hswas never io West Tennessee nntil sent- frem-' this city on his official errand;; bnl-ke dobti Knows py. intuition uie true vaiueoi ueoous 1 and ciiaueis, it&ds an (eoements; 6r ol or a people m war aaew ana s eoentrr- in which he never lived. - Bat be is so Iovsiso moch so that tdooht 6t he i better IiUed for vne offlce than' any jetFtha natite ."bojo sons, brother or fathers orthtf'thoosaods of Wjest-yeniisMh-uI ftirskshed o.tHrXpderil v --vh- louauus TiiOTiieseB" Oflialtimore aixd resolve that 'torn not nly ajjptoveltll tU pwt wWatrfotia-i; uim..ia.HBOM,Bt thatTOO-iriilSS taiw and Bphold U in eeefTthio U txi heire- coaoca aJ wift Cod taalt. swiA octtr moat e-f c&lUzt! ms'Ient? c-rorinstaa.,rh.i,. Conges (o JaIy;lC2) paseda4aw .ia coi. CocaU C tire pert -tj wtxlarrtbc:.. , That Coarresa, -hoc-!i dr2Tv-oiTki nnt Pjaaseas as much ai coated wisdom as our Inz its overthrow. eteatand vooct-Bm-dent vJns.proot-oI -this weneed btTef:taJther fact thai tht Cmgress afbrsatd piwrided thanode tua.Iwttrfft shoulcl precede) eonrietoO: aadt wrteiture ana thit guiltsboald bferproreft, tvp fT9iiimfr WoVf StHl ; it offereV- nacAtpfi etj, ,ta rrepenV ant reoeiss u meroiiu4ij. gaxe fecq asixtjt uay In wbich toocept it ; and ppro;Ued further, thit oar most noble Preside t. might suspend for k period the operatioa of this Jaw as .our arm ies ad v snced South ward, so as to a fford all hn onnortnaitr to aeoent-ntrdon. ..Worse sfill this law actually eppuecMpt tQ one but the rebels, j Ana -sastonisnior taauappueii fto them every where,, North as yf ell ju Sqth-r in Springfield lUinoisas-wellas. Springfleld, Terbn eesee. ' But worse siUl. it did 00$ affect the rights or.property. of rUwonl rmea,; women and children, r lunatics io. any section', of the country; That Congress sUapgQ as it may seem, did not-perdeive that the. way 4o?n4 the rebellion and restore affectionate relations between the sections WaS'-tAj place the Union menl Vromen. children and .insane upon a -per fect footiig- of equality with the vUest traitersj. in tnejanu. -inat.wngress enerea,roa oa I crij-leof refusing obedience to the usurpation 01 uavis ec uk in Juissis8-pi,.-vri-anewir.xortn Carolina and elsewhere, amid tle terrors, of a military despotism, did not merit the same $r worse puniihment.thau that they had denounced against titled and official traitors.; T.hat Congress spared the women nd children j' it also shielded from barm the Union men who still adhered to the national symbol of protection.1 What weakness 1 . But .Congress has adjourned. What was to be -done 1 Thank Heaven, our srjgacious President waa found equal to the occasion. iYou will perceive that on the first of January last, under thisso-called Confiscation law, the. slaves of every rebel in the United States who bad not accepted the amnesty therein pro vided" were de jure free.; Bnt how were we to end this rebellion if the Union men, women and Children in the so-called Confederate States were left in undisturbed possession of all their legal and Consti-tntionai rights ? If this policy were iadopted the rebels might become angry with these i monuments of Federal mercy," and in that event the spared monuments aforesaid -might eling more closely to' the Federal flag.. .This division among the people might cause a still morennbappy state of affairs in Dixie; our friends there might have to bear additional indignities. As before rehvarked, our merciful and considerate President was found equal to the crisis. In a ' long conversation -with some inspired hpostles from the saintly city of Chicago a place-whire "Ondenlonking and other worldly amusements are unknown -the .President candidly confessed that he was en deavoring (he did not state the means) to ascertain the will of the Lord upon this difficult question ; that so soon as he learnevi the Di vine pleasure he vertly would k the will of the Master who sent him: The revelation ; comes doubtle888 ".by due cobrse of mail.": Judging from " that -which is -written," it amounted to this that in a poKion of Virginia and Louisiana, in Delaware, ia Maryland, ia Tennessee and Missouri; it -was lawful for traitors who had accepted the 'amnesty provided by the Con fiscal Ion law, and all other persona to hold slaves; but that in -the-tidewater-regions of Virginia, and i that part of Louisiana which had -not been consecrated toslavery- by the -military occupation f General Butler, as also" in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, it should no-longer be lawful for Uie Union men women and children to hold our African, fellow-citizens to serviee or labor. Ad yet there are those of the "copperhead persuasion; who profess not to see , the wisdom of this great master stroke of our most noble and exalted President, birs, did it iot immediately divide the South and nnite'the North? Were notour camp forthwith crowd ed with countless myriads Of bob and ardent recruits? Have not " our' A merican; brethren of African descent" crowded by thousands in.-" . " . - - 1 : 10 our ran Ks, inspiring our soiuiera wiin a wild enthusiasm, and rendering night vocal ith the Bongs of enfranchised Dinahs and mewling and puking Sana bos? "and have not our arms, been victorious of everywhere since the dawn of the negro millennium of 1863 ? I know that men like General M, Bray man. who commands in your vicinity fat Bolivar. Tennessee) are : guilty of absurdities of speech which afford the. enemies. or. our sagacious President excuses for iponi plaint and criticism. tor instance, oi the 14th of last March that officer, then in command at Bolivar, .wrote as follows in regard to the proclamation of free dom with which our illustrious and far-seeinc President greeted the al vent of the new year, "The loyal man is equally helpless with, the disloyal; in fact, more so, for the rebel takes bis slaves bou h, or hires them ,in the army in which he himself serves, while the slaves of loyal rrfen flee to our camps beyond recla roation.. Under this, process the rebel holds his slavey by carrying, them ino a State in which they are declared free," .while the law- abiding citizen loses his by retaining them in a btate where it is lawful to hold theni. As it is now, , the loyalty , and good conduct of these men avail them, nothing." . ... In speaking of the elevating effects . of this system upon our armies and .the negroes, Getu lirayman shocks our sensibilities by the use of such language a this t Their expense to tne uovernroent is enormous, Itreouures sot diers to guard them. They sicken and die in crowded and filthy corrals. They. become de asea and demoralized. ' They debaae and demoralise the army,", r- .; -, V -. : . Now, among. the resolutions you will adopt at the .Memphis meetingthere shouldby all means -be oneJcenstiringtGeti--Brayhiah for the useof language soinsultinc to "our fellow eitisees of African-descent," , and so justly cab dilated to incense the alave-owers in Tennessee who have so stubbornly refused to join the vWht. iirs, 'this 'Iioense' of speech must be suppressed. , What fright , have, men " who do not support thspresent wise .and efficient Ad-tnmistratioa to criticise hs nolicv or tb in. eqeeneeaof; i? , Within the- iast few days I have heard persons in this citv in thw Csiv. itsl, which hears, the sacred, name of Washington, and which, for the present, is the home . Ml rn - . : '-. . or.four ;iiutous uniei-magistrate --uraw seemingly invidious distinctions Detw'een the fate oi Jesse D JBright, xf Indiana,. ndhat A J ohn M- Botts, of Viwiiia ;Hovr nt w. wu .' wujr.inuignaupn wnes, a lew oars aro. i. Heard a certain - IndTrMnsl of the straigh test sect of Copperheads dlscour- mX m . t n m . . .J ..m TV" " uLIr -?UV j ; L- feg. thoa i f?JessarD.'Briirht.of Indians waa expelled jfreju; the Senate of th Uaited Clatcs' iast-Jear, .ahirged "wuV"JreaSqabis fraBtieesr . M hea r pwped ji pm: and 'ne- rroea- m KeatttQjc . fndatil ownsr fhtviMi lie accepted the acaesty pfoyidJia the' called- .Confiscation, laffi ,which .'passed1 Cojn-grtsalauBt JaljV-f nelaffr Pfrparinjf . t- w cessjftT-liiarjnBily' ott-Jl trtp ot tie? litre to Iifrrpe leiyis h!Jarge properties in ItXkhif and u slaves iq Kent; - :y rn ' rhe t 1a,?J crrome.other Conf. ' .rat 3 f r on', where fca. wj;. tsrTT.ttiAnT t. dcrt:",- C urffna j - cn"ji-g. 1 cc ' fv 1. t..jf Lis ilarca - .armka lAf .71. ivr u .s.i.i-jn,; j.n i,viy. slTtffred ToryetarQed.AAd rel 'eeiy4'nwerraiifeer. from : ashiagCoQ, L !.i rd!i . ifjl :. 4. -i-k --, ... jaD.wSidinranatJ .;rpodfes that .bn4 beard UiLr Ichg? oi complainu-iftroJei;.IWS4 t Lbarirfo lioble' ExecaU v.' 'He "was alnbst aincorrisnble as wncn n aeara ma grata. prociaraatiQa or tae. roost illustrious- wtctefOTr of Wash in gton,iook the oath oj allegiance to the Confederate Government and offered private fort'uue to t he rebels Ho aid-theat' bsmaJdnff Waj;. upon the pjf that Stateto XaXi jijprarm'arag&hist ur free dom-Iovinj President of Houston Uenrr aad othersfwho:immedjitly' weM oyer;to(the rebel cause. Away, w tiiuSrsuh men.".' A good Union man Joves'h'is. 'coanlixpgr fe,s t?HepairC8 nothing for jibyjX-tnT-ffiB dr 'fojv Juie, eiMkttYti4-6m-itoet ionl r -The true teet sijoply this: vho is the greatest, ifisest, apil besto.r mankind ?. Who is the first .natural : mtRtary1 genias 1 of the" world f ' Who doeth all things ' wiselir :and well f- Who should , be elected President so lonjg as he will accept the -sdfipe? .11.. to all , th ese j nuiries the respondent answers, with a firm, unfaltering vVoice, Abraham Lincoln,-sq he may b set down as" a good Union man, fit'to join - a 'Loyal League," receive: a contract, accept a , som mission or office, and to vote, But if. like Crittenden, of Kentucky. he is ever talking about tbe Constitution and such-worn out thihrsV'he ouehf noi to be trusted for a tnomeittT : t- ,j A Union man mtjat Jiave an abundance of faith ialth in the ting race of our exalted Prestdentr faith thai lie will yet prove the political Moses to lead our armies across the Rappahannock failb that binder hfB leader ship could be induced to take the field,- the mighty hosts of rexldom would flee, from Marye's Hill and i drown .themselvea, like ' possessed" e wine, in the adjacant stream. ' How isrecruitinginow in West Tennessee ? Last summer only aXew thousands enlisted in our ranks but rerf-few, I believe, in Memphis. You were: sa amply protected -withia the lines that you quite forgot, I fear, the sorrows of those who bad not yet had an opportunity jofTgreeluig the flag which brings eueh certain security to loyal men, women and children; such inevitable protection to property, including such trifling articles as negroes and cotton bales. Hurry up the volunteers. Give the lie to those who intimate .'that' Ten-nesse&na will not go Into the Gulf States to fight for their brethren of African descent. True, most of our citizens have sons, daugh ter, sisters, fathers" or ' brothers there; but they Ought hever to have settled so tar Souths Bets ides, when vou have secured freedom to our African fellow-citizens South of us, you may possibly have the honor of taking part in carrying thesame boon to a similar class in Tennessee and Kentucky. I- doubt not our noble Presulerrt'wi.l in due "tune, adopt suita ble means to' ascertain the will ofthe Lord in this behalf. Indeed, it seems to have been. made known already to-Some of the leaser lights. Last week a rrati convention of th Joval women of. A meriea-liSffembled i the cittq 01 nev j orK. jacn ueicgano asu conceiveu. (not a baby) an idea; and, under the. inspiration of the great occasion," they have commanded our mgn,flcent Presi lent to proclaim freedom throughout all the ends of the earth. doubt not, at the proper tim, be will so pro claim; and the twenty thousand troops which his Excellency Governor Andrew Johnson was recentlv authorized to recruit in Tenne-J-" see (yoqr have no doubt enlisted) will soon be reaity foT the good' work of giving practical freedom to our enslaved fellow-countrrraen. male and female, of African descent. When that time comes, Memphis will be be a love ly city. Its walks and promenades will be il luminated by the smiling faees and brilliant eyes of the graceful and accpmplishetl sons and: daughters ' of Lincoln 'and Liberty, of Darkness -and ' Dahomey. -True, oar State constitution and laws, like those-of Illinois and other loyal . States, will not permit free negroes to come within our state, nor enfran chise slaves to remain there; but from mili tary -necessity, or, as a nigh, oineial expressed it, "from the ex neeesUaUt rei of the 'thing," they will, tw doubt le permitted to remain. The plan recently adopted in South .Carolina of selling there the lands of rebels might be adopted, and thereby Memphis might soon become !r variegated city.- Our white and col ored brethren and sisters might thus f. furnish an example of that "freedom and fraternity" which-so many -unhappy Northern spinsters sincerely regard as the only means of compro mising the: present untortunate disUootious ol color. - , : . - .- . V - You should by all means pass a resolution in favor of giving such rebel frirtus And town lots as are not frienis of the North who desire to live -among their colored friends; particularly to that numerous and respectable class wbo think that .both races, will be improved by a cross of the. Anglo-Saxon . upon the pure i.: . .a ttti 1 - r . 11 1 - wbmiw.: -;i.-t bsj tut cruei war ts over jiow our Psal na-siniinz brethren . from ' tbe.Cburch of 4he Puritans would .enjoy a , Con fe vrate fsrm.npon, Bic B.lackr Bed - river, the Arkan- sas or Ppntcbartrsin I, . tWhen.' the rbels.are disarmed bogr peek. and lowly 'dosile and penitent, they.. will be while beholding oar Northern, brothers occupying their mansions. and Ulaatratmg toe beau ties or General Banlcs' apprentice-, system 1 ., With what impunity Generai Botler would ride from his-plantation on Moon Lake to h is raocjie dn "Deer Creek Then woahl be made manifest the absurdity of those-. Copperhead 1 croakers who '- fooSahy insist that, while military power can nut down is rebellion; iiral.pewer alone s can eradicati its conseqaeaces ana seep it downer It is trae,'thet cite tbe example of Vendee, which ia area Is oalyabont onefoitiethipart of France- There, we admit :th peassatry believed theit religioft " was endangered, and history records that tney defeated. sixi or seven off he best, appointed armies wbih the French Reouhlie. -'1b -that warlike aeei eoald hurl against themVr'1It is' also tree that afterwards. wnen tjarnot was bmob ju in isteraow war, mt quieted -p9. people' ay aSBurin tMaa -KV should 1 undisturbed in their riigiou-B Itb4 armies Of ute somtfnes man. 01 modern jtimes ; bf Nelson TcnneseeeWho, with sofis in rebel captivity., published as appeal, td the beoble These mischievous faait-ondersto grre farth-J aoerenw wm iui-u u UBu vj mo cup-erf forfesio tbeii-insiduona esalilttipoarl t?.iP:? nBed wcridipC.TCeyWiiiittheyi Prewdeal f:mW' (ofset that 'the .Czarof aH the13ussiaa ia iri1J all r'p'-tafmor.ttfaar vni whuiij iguviaut vi io wit means yf qaietiajgdisaiTecte-t rou to Hwawre-wn vf tyw a sqneico a reLtte yfiia wis orava men am bo io"S coramanoen. beniofe effectaally the oaralitaast he retrroved'; Had: he studied, ehistorj.twbel-iona intuentl brilliapt Be,T ahd-the eams'may. M wuH7,ff.yw4.jiiiiT oiscoverea inai we always a,:pertainedha eaos, tha evil,' the 'si; tvhich fjtw h fii Ufi tcji iwtrrgeAta.-: 'FcfCxa.m r . e, d diU -rtae1 AdmiCtet.i;crti dfQia. H'.-ir t 4 rc S.vTLs uuItiisnUtH'-ie cf jt.'.t Cv.i.ii.oawa!lh - bavS v-tt ;':' r K ti I wiLVrahd'trccJ tlrcir St (ALZj, , Uo kt-bWo I IfcvlTania r it t a a 1 1 beTHi A' r. - - f.w - -r li l m" cruo! X 1 cat r T c-'rcldaV the :ior 3 t'-z : :-cfU.-.t d-:r i! tcr:hiei to io. thaeStaW wWskT; Subseonendyy while I6en; 'Jicksijn was ,PresiJen-,;, the 'people of South .'Caroiina tVetdlted i.f taxation: because adine idemagogues calledit fclgb'taritf,iand aV sertajd btthemonatM-!st&e rmoner fions theur nnconscioos, ppcjcjftsf Thei.retjelliorv howjererwas V "subjuitea" bV the militarT M.ir Vf tt'-k rtn.-.nnAf''.f )!. '.. . -! f. fcT "-. il f r. - . -m . . . htka-pAf co-lrse; ahMished. Ni 'tax-gathers havelbeea kaowa smee in- .South . Cr(ii... At a later dayn during the Administration of John Tyler ofthe firm of "Tippecanoe and Ty-lertojo." some ud washed Democrats' la lthods Island1 fomented grand frfstirrectidn "against ths sdVereigntr-'-of Uhat! larse and; oomloaa SttUKTTJie:-surmjo4nAvyf.of t lis United i es iyr jp, beart co-operation with the? loy alisM uai ,ui iiiai. uuy, soon ovennrcw tne insur-s."' Their Provisional Governor. -Thhm gents. WT.Ddrf-'Wa Saptored, denied the rights of a "belligerent'.and sent, to the Penitentiary.- throBtuitU;hisdvt-sineewhwrr- s4 SSUrVs CB9 ASS OUtVCJUCUV VlUWkCftlft JlltC Wfl A.' . - ". .' Ml . speck o"f rebellion h as beerr known -frith'mi'the vast Iiraite of that LoyaJ fUte, Thtt. rebellion in Utah is too. recent to be -.forgotten. The cAose is doubtless fresh in the mtnd of every aged maidet. Ialy in the loyal States. The republican instincts of our people would; not .tolerate a monopoly in Heaven's "last best gift to man." ,. .General Albert Sidney tTobn-etbn was sent to Utah with, instructions fo conquer the conjugal spirit of Brfjrham. The Mormon war ehde.l gloriously to our arms. The cause was Temoved. r Harems are now unknown. among the Latter Day Saints, and Brigham like some lone bird without a mate, tre fuses to be comforteil." In Europe protracted and sangninary civil wars have often resul ted from differer ces of opinion in reeard to the true mode of constiminz the Bible, and especially, concerping the operations of the Holy Ghost. They have failed to abolish the one or deny the other. ' I he result is. that few countries ia - Europe maintain the auiet which usually "prevails" along the Rappahannock. ' . ." V '. ' . It should hot be. overlooked that our people were very ignorant or they would never bave been deceived by the treasonable- enemies. North and South of our noble President.: It was falsely charged that he and hia party friends did not desire to suppress the rebellion without first subverting the rights of the States freeing-; all the slaves and elevating them to political equality with the whites. Uur people being, ot course, very ignorant. believed an these false, scandalous and malicious statements; :'J and among the res olutions you will adopt at your meeting there should be one thanking-Lis .Excellency, our most' ; approved President,.. for the effectual means be has adopteil. to give strength and moral power to the Union men and women of the South v while at the sams time be- baa shown how wickedly false, and libelous were the allegation of Southern traitors and. Northern Copperheads that he. intended. to use the army and navy to abolish slavery. The Union men of tbe South will ever gratefully cherish the name aud memory of one who. by a scrupulous -regard .of lus official arid other pledges, and his manly adherence io the Chicago 3at-form, has vindicated the truth ofall the pledges which front time .to time we. made iu" h.is be-balf; and tbe traitors and copperbe-uls who thiis falsely .charged DPr great and good Prcsl-' ,u.f hi wiiu utffigiuiig 10 su oven tne institutions Of the Souther:! States must henceforth hide- their faces in shame. ;- ..- - :-.-' .You should by hb means Tail to adopt, with wild acclamation.. mingled with a few. "-BuU ly Hallelujahs,'.' a renolutioh severely denun-; ciatory of those who criticise our military opr .erations, or dIiow impatience at the tardy movements of our armies in South Carolina .r:.-:.:. x o i ...?' ... . . nuu . .trunHi. oucii enuevm gives tne reoeis 'aid aud comfort," and though it may "trot be felony without benefit of, "clergy, is nevertheless what Mr. Polk stigmatize t as "moral treason" a crime which ournobfe President and other Whigs were compelled to "dry "up," "during the war with Mexico. ' " Our present military discord is but "harmony when understood." . Wg" are abundantly able to beat the rebels wbeu we try. . At present we . ha vie them completely:"surrounded crowded into' a small circumference of not more thousand- miles. Our armies are guard ing the outposts of this contracted line; and everywhere during the pusillanimous butternuts to "pierce the centre," and the ragged wretches "take the dare." We have forces at Galveston, New'Orleans, Pensacola, ' Hilton Head, Newbern, Suffolk all is quiet on the Blackwater Fortress Monroe, on the Rappahannock, at Baltimore, along the line of the Baltimore "Snd Ohio Railroad,' in Western Virginia, in 'Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Fort Smith and at Vhjksburg, . in ; the very heart of rebeldora. How long can the rebellion exist when thus circumscribed ? In addition to all this Adjutant General Thomas, a native of "My Maryland," and who, last yearj was charged by.the malignant tongie of slander with being a secessionist and a traitor following where such noble men as Butler, Brady," Dickinson, and otber old friends of Breckinridge dare to leadis now in the Southwest organizing the loyal blaeks, who, if it is understood, are impatient to: be led against the barborous hordes of Lee and Baregar,l. Northern philosophers, women rand divines, whoTegard the African -as the -best normal representative' of the human: - race, a nl those jwhoi hav been the sturdy mastiff quail before the perfume of the skunk, do not: believe the delicate riervei'of the rebels'-' wilt -be abler to withstand a'bayenet charge from these American soldiers of African descent, if made when Uie state of .the ..thermometer ., indicate cutaneous activity and and 'co'rres ponding perspiration. Tune, however, iril soou settle this disputed question.' ' -f-?'-- - '' ' ;.::''. ' .' "TosHshontd farther denon nee Si! who com. Elaia of the-Army- of the Potomac. It has een in no sense . a , failure. It has achieved more than any army in. anciepl or; modern times h asaccomplwhed under similar or equal dif56ullie8V; Its bravery is unquestionable, and injustice lis done, its generals.- True. .Mo- I Clellan, underthe unfluence of Northern cop perheads, aided by such Republican rogies'an Th urb? w Weed," a nd backed T br the "stnpid graduates of AVest -Point, was : fast ' becoming a favbnlc.wiurth army, and the people,, and 'WfvWX?X -PIJesides General McClellaa had commaoded Potomao long epougb'R-5 1 1CI5- w utcv . wibvii. wi;uvu nxnnn.r still a faTor- f GediraT Bdrnfetde! cscrter aa ibeenan .ni Bnt in all this there ia strategy. Tf ia?lhd it zt auperiorepTu3en4'. wisdom !4f Tesaltc,! OTXrlufpt, who as. "00'' ;r-iiw;!:ietM movesnnferiors upon the "miiirv "cueioUar3 with a skill which excites tli- -isirationT;? all who are truly.Ioyal to tne ; 'rJlnirtraUon. Noh&rctciXc ::t .Lyrrii Il't: J..7e U an abtf ':ijcs; f flea2-rf " .!an4" wOlicg at la m6TZ&&&i;ij.Zkli &J r of the o-1 Isauj o ufKiaoQKVftffitv -presunie,!!! i soon retire npoajtWJamfelsTitassiibS J . . . ...-.' . . - m ' ... . I- Wtnaa to tbe rebel capiiaL"--W e have i-T'fe serve Butler, Phelps, Busted iiidLane, to say nothing tCo)ooel 4:UUssy, : ,wbo,.. like;. Ma-homet'e.eofSa ia suJl-saapeaded-between- the. beavens and the earth, I look in vain among the narnes 4 1 tacked . to your letter for one whicV fetsBJls'a fasiiliar face. I do aior now rem-iber that I eer had tbe honor, of & per pooal aiiawtonce with any -one of, -jou,; a- thoturh io former times I. knew many of the leading ciUrens of Mem pins,' among whoin are not a few,' who are still ardently in favor of a rstoratioa : of the Constitution- 1 regret to find.noeeof them ascoeiated with jrou. ui the proposed demonstration. But .1' will, indulge no comments. Wherever our arms bave ef-fecled a permanent lodgment in the South; as ftt Uilton Head, New Orieans.-Newbern, Nash ville and Medph,;ihe .Northem.-ft-ienda-irf our jDOSVazcellent President cave spppliect ps abundalntly .with most disinterested" men and Women,' whose loyal tongues are heard in mel-1 sdJoWtdtiliwherevef we'old, occupy' snd4 iff eoeiiaband seulenient in the Coo federate wilderness. Look at ililtoh HeadL where the tender maiden , ard tougher matron, of the North mingle upon .'sisterly terms1 with the' Palmetto African ladies "of South' Carolina. ' A bountiful ieue of- tracts and catechisms will no doubt soon be followed by an. improved isue of contrabands not so white as the pure Anglo, not, so' black as. the normal African. In a few yean they wUl ;".';:;wIk iabMstj like the nigVtv '7 " : Of eloadle ltma and tarry skiet, - -. r Aad sit that's best of dark and bright - Meet in their aspect and their eyes. - In North Carolina, Chsries nenry Foster, Esq., originally from Maine, and a warm political friend of Breckinridge, has organized a (ree labor association, and Governor .Stanly has gone back to California iu disgust.- In Nashville we have a regularly organized Abolition society. Its organ is the same as that of tbe State and Federal Ooverninent, and the editor, though imported from abroad, is doing more to sustain the glorious Administration of President Lincoln than any native born citizen can do or is willing to do. . This Abolition society and this Abolition newspaper, although conducted within the fortifications of the city, is doing, no doubt very much to induce the people of Middle-Tennes.ee to cease all further opposition to the wise, 'gen tre and constitutional rule of our distinguished Chief Magistrate. ' .. in Memphis the harvest is a tempting one. With cotton at a dollar per pound and likely contrabands "lying, about loose" our enterpris ing Northern friends, who love the Union arid wwh it preserved under the garantees'of the Constitution, may mkea good thing of it." Aireauy 1 near 01 several who uave larms in Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and other "loyal States" which are nowT well tilled by negroes who once belonged to the Union men of the South. Facts like this, will tend great ly to tlie restoration of peace snd harmony. and materially aid in removing the prejudice which the people of the insurrectionary otates have intertained against their Northern kin dred. They now know that" the war ts not to be so conducted as to deprive them: nnneee- arily of any portion ol their property; and they now have positive proof that tbe Southern se cessionists, and Northern cor perheads. : who charged that the war was to be finally waged ag-MweCthq South as aectiotviAsadoIthe rebelsand their allies, were guilty of a talse hcKxu Furtherraore there is a large party at the North who have persistently refused to regard the -African as the best-representative of the bn man race. This influx of negroes will do much-toehancs theiropim'ona, "and by , the same means Southern manners and .customs will become gradually introduced north of the Ohio and Potomac, redering our-people more homogeneous than in former times. Thus we will again, become a united people. The' lion antbthe lamb the contractor aud the contra-band will lie down .together, and then the millenium will have come. Excuse the haste with wich I write, aud accept assurances of my highest regard. . r . . . . .. . , .''..' E. BmRfpes. - To J. M'. ToilEST, G; D.' J0HK8OK, - ai-d others, Memphis, Tenn. From the Holmea County Fanner, Jane 25.' - The Insnrrection in Holmes County.. An almost incalculable amount of lying was done-attoot the little "rebellion" in Richland tp., in this county.. We have watched everything said, and done to arrive at the whole truth in regard to the affair. ' The difficulty originated in this wise. -- Eli as Robison, of Washington township, was enrolling the militia of Richland. He is a .notoriously unpopular man in that community, and while making the enrollment he: called at a house near De Witt's cross-roads and said to the women present, who- -were frightened at the enrollment being made, "you need not care for your husbands being taken away; I can attend to all the women in this neighborhood." This brutality of Robison spread all over the township in a very short space of time. A day or two afterwards he called at a place where lour Democrats were working at a cellar, and commenced to talk to them of "But-ternuts"'an'd 'copperheads." Th!s; added to his treatment ofthe women, was more than they felt like enduring, and they run him half firm ile with stones.- A few days wfter Provost Marshal Dkakk and U. S. Deputy Marshal Axpsasoa with a posse of 12 men came and arrested the four men who had assaulted Ro-isos. After-proceeding a few miles with their prisoners some fifty persons stopped them demanded and obtained the release of the. pFi-oners and their arms, and'nade them pron. ise never to come back to the township -on: .-a simi!arerrand.- "I - r -.r v?yt ! ' " : The' istols ; were . fired off and ret urnel . to them. -All waa then juiet : until Wednesday of last week wfa eit .some 600 - soldiers made their appearance in the township under, command of Col.. Wallace. . These were distributed in squsifs over the towDsbipt One . squad flr4 a on George BiiUerof Killbuck pwnship who was traveling ta Kpox County on private business, and SO severely 'wouuded him in the knee that he will probaUy-.-lose - his leg and possibly his life, - (uitaa Jinmber. ofcitizenf of Richland and adi?lnipgowifups in Knox and Cosliocton counties amonnting in all to sefera hondred; hearihg'pf the-airlveJPot sol-dlen assembled to-proTect their neighbors from arrest ahd daar. IJJtiripg theeyeniffg a squad o ejiixens fired upon, a squad of soldiers, with-, out effer;. tbe' soldiers -returajbefii'e"ittu woond.4 Mr. 'Brown' fi "tlxr leg1. Oa- Th fUmdrnrog Uoiii D.P. Leadbelt4r; 5ohrf Fiench, Col, D rroc--Lieut-ColEakeraad Rbberi Ibg,hthsrribi:Democr-Ltsand lbs tw bitr RepbllcltO-CTWeSt ootttaase their'eadeayofa to settle the difSnlfyrwi-hbii farther broothed. -' Tbry finaily Succeeded is dompromlsitr be tkxbditidtf thai tbeohr fmf a wio ran Off Ilob-MnhbuIUelirIthSiS-wIres JL x i -.jr. s j. .-v. r.i . . i .1. La op.w vo ir i ea vyi n e jcivu autnoruiesv ssu&i f roroif Mar&hsl Drake mfht afvest iiso of UiCoi vho Lli hten "most ' promlasot Zia. -tie tiict:e;,-flni .st 4l t i Wnii "f 1 1 Viliihlaondej-U-i-irngafaifafC UcelefV aTlff hia comtelndrCilahtriaiv mediatelyumd tbe cUlze&si aUy-hiJ alrcJ 0"disTaid?W?r ,tl I- - . m ' i " , aP - . i ar tnirtrs-tae umsxne., ,t exce.-rcrai-T-r'nvr. as it is eowoionW called hcre,WEre t n c c aver , ing to settle lb affair a number of 'aboHttqa ists fronsi this plaCe.cxi eJewbere psed. al 1 5 thfir edea vors 4o prevent a settl cmrDt. Thtfe eveji entreated uoii- Wallace to arrest Jar. Jed-beUer and.CojlFrentlrThey were anxious " to see a civjwa? ftiattg-tfated hsri arwofitT. resaltid fearful destructiou f.JianJ propef- . y - t . '.': ts. ' - ;The rebellKrwai eiot aufffoaJ tolbeDia-r 73 ocratie party. Many Krptt blicaas of -tha in? mediate neighborhood parupipated io it. Af ter tbe trouble was folly under -bead way three. Republicans deserted and went in Col. Wsl ' lace camp and tendered "him their services which he declined.' - . 3 -t -v -j ; " In tbe settlement it was understood that Mr, p Drake was .to seod.a decentan to make the - enrollment of that township. Rake out an -eooal number :of " the , base pimps that inhabit the abodes of perditica. and they would stand no show with - ths Milr : i lersbarg abolitionists In ly ing about this affair." They have usedthe. Cleveland Ceroid their -. moainpiece.1 . ;t ... .- , . .- . Unfortnnately lor the peace of this coant Provost Marshal Drake selected, with few ext ceptions' imprudent and tinpopala'r- men tat make tbe enroll meet--.' The mea chosen - were . parti8aq pets of bis. , ,; -, ... . ,;... , .... - .Whjile the. soldiers were, passing down to Richland iow'nsbip,.and also while they wem v here, a number ot abolitionists used siren nous . exertions to get them to come to Millersbur and destroy the private property of Democrat, .J : Col. Wallace invited a number of these un principled out-laws to attend to their own bu- - mess and assured ,them thatTie . understood bis. Those of our friends who conversed with the Colonel speak. very, bfrhty ' of him as a gentleman and a soldier. " - -About 100 men who 'cams' "as soldiers: but v-did not belong to CoIV Wallace's commaud have since remained in. the neighborhood ir .violation of the agreement.. It is rumored they are committing .'various outrages upon the citizens, among which is that of forcing an, - .:; oath upon men not to vote, the Democratie ticket. - . ' So far as we are in formed about a dozen peri . sons have been arrested. The four wbo ran ; off Robison have been releasd on, bail. Abraham's Instructions to His PtOTOSt . Marshals.- "- - --1. As your office is. one that is unknown tuv-the Constitution of the United Slates and to, the Constitutioa of the State, you. must en- deavor to impress the people as much as possi ble with tbe dignity and importance of your-official position, by" evincing as much com tempt as you can for the foolish, old fashion! laws of Uie States, which are now entirely otn solete, being yufitted for. the exigenciea of the V times. - . " ' . v i " 2. You are to speak continually, and in all-places, of the " otious," " infamous." ?. exe- crable," "infernal" and "damnable" doctrines of State rights. - -- ; - , ; . , ' 3r Never,vnder any circumstances, alluda s to the Constitution ; and if you hear the word on any man's lips, "arrest him immediate!. ' t 4.r It is a disloyal practice' for any man-to allude to tbe exploded mode of trial by jury.-Arrest all such. - ' -? - ". ."' 5; Accuse all Democrats of every crime un-, der heaven fend if tbescousdrsls prteame to-argue with yo'ti, arrest tbem. ; . -.- ' ; i C. AH' who taYk abou t liberty of speech' and the" press are traitors arrest all such. ' 7. All who prate about lh . habeas eorjna. are enemies of the. Government arrest them. 1 8 Studiously avpid the. word "Jreedom ex- cept as applied to negroes.' Arrest all who are guilty of such disloyal practices'.' -. - ' - f ' 9. Use, whenever you can, the eaMickliaj words "loyal," and ''supporting the Govern ment," but always in such way as to mean . the subversion of the miserable old Govern-' ment, and tbe support of my new system. If? you hear any man use the words in any other connection, arrest him. . . ' - . 10. It is opposing the Government for, any,.', man to speak of restoring the Union as i t was. Arrest Btich. : - "'f'' : 11. It is. a disloyal practice for any, roan to,-" speak of the size of my feet, or otherwise to allude to me, except in praise of my personal, beauty' and ot my emancipation ; policy.' Ar- . rest them. . v. 12. If you hear any man , say that I know, better how to tell stories than bow to conduct. ' the affairs of the nation, he ia disloyal ar rcst'him. ":';"- - " " ' ' ... . 13.' If you hear any man allude with Tea-7 pect to the ridiculous article ia the old Consti-, tut ion which protects citrrens frorn unreason able searches aud seizures, arrest him insUwjt-. ly. If you find no contraband letters and doo umients about him, it will be proof that- her has taken the precaution to destroy them, andV will be sufficient evidence of his -guilt. Lock him up. , . .. . .14. It is opposing the Government for . anj man to say that the Abolitionists ought toe list to help do some of the fighting. ArresS all such traitors. ; . : .- - - r . . V 15. Arrest any boIy-you pleaavaod if anr man complains, arrest hiev foe be i-f tfi-doyal, and an euemy to the Government. . t . 1&. If any body should- blow 'oar brains out while attempting an " illegal arrest, If II, the devil you died serving " me.. ;Hs . wiU re- ward you atecordinglyv Old Gwrnu- ... - " ' 1 ' v. - 5 Tte'CrMe of Sileneo f-: "The man wbo stands by and says aotb-. mg rjien .the peril of hia Government is dis-, eussed, caanot be misutideretood." J4wii' LaL., -"."-,' ."- ' '- ' - Was anythingaskslhe .iCew York; TTortd), so extraordmary ever before uttered by; the. Chief Magistrate of a freee country Men are. tom- from their fippntes and immured io has-7 tiles .for the shockin crime - of-rtaaircat'; Citixens of the mclel lie public df .the woddT. are'potoly ptaishd for.speakirg;their opin-. ipns, but are plurrgeiUintjOBngeons . for holding their tongueji L.Wben . before la ' the an-; nals of fyranTry. was Silence' ever- panisbed as raeximeT -iCSti-Sehs v'Who- disapprove oftbe. acts or,lha r Admiaistratioo', Sr Crred. tveu . tbe refuge of a-rfiMsniSedsH-jase, aooV ejrma-. licious - and.:partan. eoejectsres ."of tLs..mo-j. titea of such Idleriee they are depntSir.vpfe their Uberty'-'Tewai-itfnj - ,ejer;carpejti. to live toVsed such-tliiAg. Jooe; aivdnobody,. w are f urt, j see thco-wo nbbinskiniy', : Tl is k U&f ft?t imonX3ameron hasf--j-ed his whore7ortu!S"-Crths4facoi-rean-' BylvaaX- ..TL::wou!J le a noble rert tutloa t Simon got tbe most of, it from the Garwra ent and ih t'Mm will be rlad toseahi thdh tout' f?r tbeI:enei.fU f yett -JavmaL:: r r e. -er ir arms, .- ij;..wu troi eeveVal j Lt... , ... f' That fellow ov-'.l, ? I lj t.c:?Jior jiist-. ct woaaaj6f Ler jti vats per: : ' - -4 .7 ,'i" r