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              ... : mm MM 5? - . . VOLUME MOUNT YERNON, OHIO : SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1864. NUMBER 13;- -- .- I1H I1 II -. I I I I -II II I I II I f ! 111 i fl f W : m i , . : ' 1 ' ' - .z-i. (tyt Dtmotralit anntr l I FCBX.I8IBD ITltT SATURDAY MORKIXO T ' L. HAKPEB.' bfflee In Woodward Block, 3d Story. -TBBM8. Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad- rano ; fJ.50 within bis montut; after the expi ration of the year. ; . j Lyon's Kttthairon. - Katbairon ia from the Greek word " Kathro," or Kathairo," cirnifying to cleanse, rejuvenate and re-ktT Thii article is what its name signifies. Fur presarriug, restoring and beautifying the human kair H ia the moat remarkable preparation in the world. It U again owned and put up by the original proprietor, and ia now wade with the rauie care, kill aad attention which gave it a sale of over one million bottle per annum. .-' It is a inot delightful Hair Dressing. . It eradicates aeurff and dandruff. It keeps the head cool and clean, . It makes the hair, soft and glossy.-It prevents the hair from falling off. It prevent the hair from turning grsy. - It restores hair upon bald heads. Any lady or gentleman who values a beautiful head of hair should use Lyon's Kathairon. It is known and used throughout the civilized world. Bold by all respectable dealers. ' DE MAS S. BARNES 4 CO. New York. Mar. 28-ly : : ; : ; , . Ilagan's Magnolia Balm. This is the most delightful and extraordinary arti-tiole ever discovered. It changes the run burnt face aud hands to a pearly eatfn texture of ravishing beauty. imparting the marble purity of youth, and the Hiitimjue appearaoce so inviting in the city belle -of' fashion. It removes tan. freckles, pimples and roughness from the skin,, leaving the complexion frecb, . transparent and smooth. It contains n material injurious to the skin. Patronized by Actresses and Opera Singers. It is what every lady should have.. Sold everywhere. : . i Preparce by W. E. 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Two sizes, 50 touts and $1. .. -1 --. Mar. 3B-ly ' ! Mexican Mnstang Liniment. The parties in St. Louis .t Cincinnati, .who have c juuterfeited the Mustang Lihiiuent under pretense of proprietorship, have beeu thoroughly , cstoptd by the Courts. , To guaril against further imposition, I have procured from the . United States Treasury, a private steel plate revenue stamp, which isphu-ed over the top of each bottle. Each stamp boars the Vie latiUoi my Signature, and without which the article is a Coui. terfeit. dangerous aud worthless imitation. Examine every buttle. This Liniment has been in use and growing in. favor for tnany years. There hardly exists a hamlet on tlie'habitable Globe that does not contain evidence of it wonderful effects. It is the best emoliment in the world. With its present improved ingredients, its effects upon man and beast are perfectly remarkable. Sores are healed, ' pains relieved, lives saved, valuable animals inads useful, and untold ills assuaged. i'r cut.. bruises, prains, rheumatism, swelliugs, bites, cuts, ciiktrd breasts, strained horses, c, it is a Sovereign liemc-dy that hould never be dispcused with.; It should be in every faiai'y. Sold hy all Druggists. - U.S. DARXES, New York Mar. 26-ly S. T. 1880. X. Persons of sedentary haUits troubled with weakness, lassitude, palpitation of tho heart, luck of ape-tite, distress after eating, torpid liver, constipation, Ac, deserve to suffer if they will nut try tho celebrated Plantation Bitters, which are now recommended by the highest medical authorities, and warranted to produce an tMimediate beneficial effect. They are exceedingly agreeable, perfectly pure, and must supercede all other tonics where a healthy, gentle stimulant ia required. , They purify, strengthen and invigorate. They create a healthy apetite.' They are an antidote to change of water and diet. They overcome effects of dissipation and late hours. They strengthen the system and enlived the mind. They Prevent miasmatie- and intermittent fevers. : They purify the breath and acidity of the stomach. They care Dyspepsia and Constipation. ' 'They care Diarrhea, and Cholera Morbus. They cure Liver Complaint and Nervous lleadache. They make the weak strong, the linguid brilliant, And are exhausted nature's great restorer. They are composed of the celebrated Calisaya bark, winter. green, sassafras, roots and herbs, all preserved in perfectly pare St. Croix rum. For particulars, see circulars and testimonials around each bottle. Beware of impostors. Examine every bottle. See that it has our private U. S. Stamp unmutilated over the eork, with plantation scene, and our signature on a ne steel plate side label. See that our bottle ia not ret lied with spurious and deleterons stuff. Any person pretending to sell Plantation Bitters either . by the gallon and Balk, is an impostor. Any person imitating this bottle, or selling any other ma- - terial therein, whether called -Plantation Bitters or not, is a criminal ander the D. S. Law, and will be so prosecuted by us. -We already have our eye on sev- , eral parties re-filling oar bottles, Ae , who will succeed ia, getting themselves into elose quarters. The demand for Drake's Plantation Bitters from ladies, clergymen, merchants, Ac, is incredible. The simple trial of a bottle is the evidence we present of their wortk and superiority. They are told ; by all respectable druggists, grocers, physicians, hotels, sa-loema, steamboats and country stores. P. H. DRAKE A CO. M-lT 302 Broadway. N. Y. .Home Testimony.' IxOKPKXBBircK, Richland Co. 0. 1 ' September 25, 1859. Dr. a W.'ftosACB ' -Dear Sir t This ia to certify that I was severely afflicted with a disease of the Liver. I was recom mended to try your Scandinavian Blood Pills and Purifier, and did so. I meed them with great success aad can raeommaad them to my friends to cure the dmMwM ' they sure recommended for; coneeanently their sales here, year Ageat informs me, are altogeth er satisfactory. Wishing yam great success, 1 an , . Yoar Sincere Frieni, oka JL WisiiiK. Seea4tertIsementln.aBOtheroolajnn.: . . . For Sale, I rai LianT smrrura top BUGGY, "mi Ihms H pole. Also, a set ef fine liht DOUBLE HARNESS. ; ; Iaqi t the JKWKLRT STORE. Jmne II rrederiektown, 0. OEATIGN ' - ; OF en.Cco. B. xtf cClcllan, DELIVERED AT TLe following is Gen. George B. McClellan's Oration on the occasion of the dedication of the site of the Battle Monument at West Point, on "Wednesday, June loth, 1864: The Oration. All nations have days sacred to the remembrance of joy and of crief. They have thanksgivings for success ; fastings and prayers in the hour of humiliation and defeat; triumphs and peans to greet the living,laurel-crowned: victor. They have obseouies and eulogies for the warrior slain on the field of battle. Such is the duty we are to perform to-day. The potry, the histories, the orations of antiquity, all resound with theclang of arms. They dwell rather upon rough deeds of war than the gentle arts of peace. They have preserved to use the names of heroes, and the memory of their deeds, even to this distant day. Our own Old Testament teems-with the narrations of the brave actions and heroic deaths of Jewish patriots; while the New Testament of our meek and and suffering Saviour often selects the soldier and his weapons to typify and illustrate re-ligous heroism and duty. : These stories of the actions of the dead have frcquent- )y survived, in the lapse of ages, the names 01 those whose lall commcaiorated cenutrics ago was thus But, al- I though we know not how the names of all the brave men'whO fought and fell upon the plain of Marathon, in the pass of Thermopyhie, aniKon' the hills of Palestine, we have not "lost the memory of their -examples. As long as the warm blood courses in the veins of man; as long as the. human heart beats high and quick -at. the-recital of. brave deeds and patriotic sacrifics, so long, with the lesson still invite generous men to emulate the heroism of the past.- Among the O reeks it that the fathers of the was the custom ! mOSt Valiant of ' the slain should pronounce the eulogies l of the dead. Sometimes it devolved ! Cnce, and instruction indispensable to upon then- great statesmen and orators modern armies. It may be be regard-to perform this mournful duty. Would ; ( as coeval with the nation. It de-that a new Demosthenes, or a second rjvcs its origin from the old contincn-Pericles could rise and take my place to- tui anj state lines of the Revolution, day, for U would find a theme wor-; whence with some interruptions and my 01 111s most, urmiani powers, 01 ms most loucmng eloquence. 1 t;mtl iierc now, not as an orator, but as the whilom commander, and in the place of the fathers of the most valiant dead; as their comrade, too, on many a hard-fought field against domestic and foi cign foes inearlyT youth and and mature manhood- moved by all the love that David felt when he pour- a boav God knows that David s love for Jonathan was no more deep than mine for the tried friends of many long and eventful years, whose names are to be recorded upon the structure that is to vise upon this spot. . Would that his more than moral eloquence could grace my hps and do justice to the theme. Ue have met to-day, my comrades, to do honor to our own dead brothers united to us by the closest and dearest l'lSFT "au wijri.g1eu meir nvts for their country in this war so iust and righteous, so long as its purpose is to crush rebellion and to save our nation from the infinite evils or dismemberment. Such occasion should call forth the deepest and noblest emotions of our nature, pride, sorrow and prayer. Pride that our country has possessed such sons; sorrow, that she has lost them; prayer that she may have others like them; that we and our successors may adorn her annals as they have done; and that when our parting hour arrives, whenever and however it may be prepared for the great change. THE VOLUNTEERS. - We have assembled to commemorate a cenotaph which shall remind our children's children in the distant future of their father's struggle in the days of the great rebellion. This moment is to perpetuate the memory of a portion only, of those who have fallen for the nation in this unhappy war; it is dedicated to the officers and soldiers of the regular army. Yet this is done in no class of exclusive spirit, and in the act we remember with reverence and love our comrades of the volunteers who have so gloriously fought and fallen by our sides. Each state wilL no doubt, commemo rate in some fitting way the services of its sons who abandoned the avocations of peace and shed their blood in the rankswill receive some memento of a nation's love, a nation's gratitude. With what heroism they nave confronted death, have wrested victory from a stubborn foe and hare illustrated defeat, it well becomes me to sav for it is has been my lot to command them on ma ny a, saguinary. field. I know that J but echo the feelings of the regulars when I award the high credit thej; deserve to their brave brothers' of the Vol- f unteers. -. . -s. .' - J Bat we of the regal&r army have no ed forth his lamentation for the mighty ted as Americans- in the large opera-lather and son who fell on Mount Gil- tions of civilized armies. American States to look to for the honors due otud dead. Webeloncr to the whole country We can neither expect nor desire the General uoTernment to make, perhaps, an invidious distinction in our favor. fWe are few in numbers, a small band of comrades, united by peculiar and very binding ties. For, with many of us our friendships were commenced in boy hood, when wo rested beneath the shadow of the granite hills which look down on us where we stand; with others the ties of brotherhood were formed ih more mature years -while fighting amid the rugged mountains and fertile valleys of Mexico within hearing of the eternal waves of the Pacific -or in the lonely grandeur of the great plains of the far West. With all, our love and coufidence has been cemented by common dangers and sufferings on the toilsome march, in the dreary bivouac, and amid the clash of arms and the presence of death on scores of battle fields. West Point, with her large heart, adopts us all:-graduates, and those appointed from civil life officers and privates. In her eyes we are all her children, jealous of her fame, eager to sustain her worldwide reputation. Generals and private soldiers, men who have cheerfully offered our all for our dear country, we stand here before this shrine, ever hereafter sacred to our dead, equals and brothers in the common death which awaits us all perhaps in the same field and at the same hour. Such are the ties which unite us the most endearing that exist among men; such the relations which bind us - together the closest of the sacred brotherhood of arms. It has therefore seemed, and it is, fitting that we should erect upon this spot, sacred to us all, an enduring monument to our dear brothers who have preceeded us on the pajh of peril and of honor wJiich it is the destiny of many of us some day to tread. What is the regular army to which we belong? Who-are the men whose death merits such honor from the living ? What is the cause for which they have laid down their lives ? Our regular or permanent armv is the nucleus which in time of peace pre- corvps flip mJUfjirV tr.n flit inn a nf ffift nn - tionl- as well as the orrrnnization. sci- many changes, it has attained its pres ent condition. In fact, we may with propriety to go even beyond the Revolution to seek the roots of our genealogical tree in the old French wars; for ; the cisatlanta campaigns of the seven years' war were not confined to the "red men scalping each Other by the great lakes of North America;" and it was in tlinm that our ncr-trrs first, narticina- regiments then fought on the banks of tie St. Lawrence and the Ohio, on the orcs of Ontario and Lake George, in the islands of the Carribbean and in South America. Louisburg, Quebec, Duquesne, the Moro and Porto Bello attest the valor of the provincial troops, anj in that school were educated such Isoldiers as Washington, Putnum, Lee, ; Montgomery and Gates. These men ; like Greene, Knox, Wayne and Steu- ben were the fathers of our permanent army, and under them our troops ac quired that discipline and steadiness which enabled them to meet upon equal terms and often to defeat the tried veterans of England. The study of the Re volvtion and a perusal of the dispatch es of Wasington, will convince the most skeptical of the value of the permanent army in achieving our independence, and establishing the civil edifice which we are now fighting to preserve. The war of 1812 found the army on footing far from adequate to the emergency, but it was rapidly increased, and of the new generation of soldiers, many were found equal to the requirements of the occasion. Lundy's Lane, Chippewa, Queen-town, Plattsburg, Xew Orleans, all bear witness to the gallantry of the regulars. Then came an interval of more than thirty years of external peace, marked by many changes in the organization and strength of the regular army, and broken at times by tedious and bloody Indian wars. Of these the most remarkable were the-Black Hawk war, in which our troops met unflinchingly a foe as relentless and far more destructive than the Indians that terrible scourge, the cholera and the tedious Florida war, where, for so many years, the Scmi-noles eluded in their pestilential swamps our utmost efforts, and in which were displayed such traits of heroism as that commemorated by yonder monument to to Dade and his command, when "all fell save two, without an attempt to retreat." At last came the Mexican war to replace Indian contests and the mon otony of frontier service, and for the first time in many years the mass of the regular army was concentrated, nd took the principal part in the hatthis of that remarkable and romantic war. Palo Alto, It esaca, and Fort Brown were the acbieTeniento of the regulars nnairl-d; and as to the ftAttes of MontereT. jBaena Vista, Vera Gru, Cerro Gordo and the . final triumphs inthe valley, none can truly say that they could have been won without the regulars. When peace crowned our victories in the capital of the Montezumas, tho aurny was at once dispersed over the long frontier, and engaged in har rasing and dangerous wars with the Indians of the plains. Thus thirteen years were spent, until the present war broke out, and the mass of the army was drawn in to be employed agaiat a domestic foe. I cannot proceed to the events of the recent past and presant "without adverting to the gallant men- who were so long of our number, but have gone to their last home; for no small portion of the glory of which we boast was expected from such men as Taylor, Brady, Brooks, Totten and Duncan. There is a sad story of Venetian history that has moved many a heart,, and often employed the poet's pen and painter's pencil. It is i of an old man whose long life was gloriously span t in the service of the State as a warrior ahdTIy appeal to the numerous fields from who when his hair was white and his feeble limbs could scarce carry his bent form towards the grave attained the highest honor that a Venetian citizen could reach. He was Doge of Venice. Convicted of treason against the state, he not only lost his life but suffered besides a penal ty which will endure as long as the name of Venice is remembered. The spot, where his portrait should have hung in the great hall of the Doge's pal- ace was vei lea with black, and there still the frame remains with its black mass of canvas; and this vacant frame is the most conspicuous in the long line of effigies' of illustrious Dotres ! Oh. that such a pall as that which replaces the portrait of Marino Faliero could conceal from history the name of those, once our comrades, who are now in arms j e fought side by side in years gone by: But no veil, however thick, can cover the anguish that fills our heart when we look back upoji the sad memory of the past and recall the affection and respect we entertained toward men against whom it is now our duty to act in mortal combat. U ould that the courage, ability, and steadfastness they display had been em ployed in the defense of the stars and stripes against a foreign foe, rather that in this tatuitous and uniustifiable rebel lion, which could not have been so long maintained but for the skill and energy of these our former comrades. GENERAL SCOTT. Butwe have reason to rejoice that upon this day, so sacred and eventful for us, one grand mortal monument of the past stiUliftolwgkljii should have graced "by his presejafStne1 consecration of this tomb by his children. We may well be proud that we are here commanded by the hero who pur chased victory with his blood near the great waters of Xia gara ; who repeated ' and eclipsed the achievements of Cor tes ; who, although a consummate and counu'eni commanuer, ever prcrerreti, ; ut ian- ai i uiuuii-m ui wuui- when duty and honor Avould permit; the j prative quiet by the ball of a single ri-olive branch of peace to the blood-stain- i Aeman. lie died as soldier would chose ed laurels of war ; and who stands at ' to die, with truth at ' his heart, and a the close of a long, glorious and event-' sweet, tranquil smile upon his lips. ful life, a living column of granite, against which have beaten In vain alike the blandishments and storms of treason. His name will ever be One of our proudest boasts and most movin inspi-' field, after a career of usefulness, illus-1 : - . o i .... , i 1 1 . 1 ii .1 1 . . rations In long distant ages, when this incipi ent monument has become, venerable, moss clad, and perhaps ruinous ; when the names inscribed upon it shall seem to those who nause to read them indis- l tinct mementos of an almost mythical past, tho name of mneld Scott will still be clear cut upon the memory of all, like the still-fresh carvings upon the monuments of long-forgotten Pharoh's. THE REGULAR ARMY IN THE PRESENT WAR. . .".r i But it is time to approach the present. In the war which now shakes the land to its foundation the regular army has borne a most honorable part. Too few in numbers to act by themselves, the regular regiments have participated in' every great battle in the east, and most of those west of the Alleghanies. Their terrible losses and diminished numbers prove that they have been in the thickest of the fight and the testimony of their comrades and commanders show with what undaunted heroism they have upheld their ancient renown. Their-vigorous charges have often won the day, and in defeat they have more than once saved the army from destruction or terrible Josses by the obstinacy with which they resisted overpowering numbers. They can refer with pride to the part they played upon the glorious fields of Mexico, and exult at the recollection of what they did at Manassas, Gaines's Mills, Malvern, Antietam Shiloh, Stone River, Gettysburg, and the great battles just fought from the Rapidan to the (ckahominy. They can point also to the officers who have risen from among them and achieved great-deeds for their country in this war, to the living warriors whose' names are upon the nation's tongu& and hearty too numerous, to be mentioned here, yet not one of wndm I wenld willingly.omit. V Biit perhaps, the ixroudest episode in the history of the J regular amy is tlwt touching instance of fidelity on the part of thenon-commissioned' officers and privates, who, traitorously made prisoners in Texas, resisted every temptationtto violate their oath and desert their flag. .- Offered commissions in the rebel service, money and land freely tendered them, they all scorned the inducements held "out to them, submitted to their hardships; and, when at last exchanged, avenged themselves oh the. field of battle for the un-availinjJnsult offered their integrity. HistoTYi affords no brighter example of honfclhan that of these brave men, tempted, as I blush to say they were, by some of their - former officers, who, having themselves proved false to ; their flag, endeavored to seduce the men who have, often followed them in combat, and who had regarded them with respect and love. Such is the regular army; such its history and antecedents; such its officers and its men. It needs no herald to trumpet forth its praises. It can proud- the tropics to the frozen banks of the St. Lawrence ; from the Atlantic to the Pacific, fertilized by the blood, ajad whitened by the bones, of its members. But I will not pause to eulogize it ; let its deeds speak for it ; they are more eloquent than tongue of mine. THE DEAD OF THE REGULAR ARMY. " Why are we here to-day? This is not the funeral of one brave warrior, nor even of the harvest of death on a single battle field ; but these are the obsequies of tho best and bravest children of the land, who have fallen in actions almost numberless, many of them the most sanguinary of which history bears record. The men . whose names and deeds we now seek to perpetrate, to render them the highest honor in our power, have fallen wherever armed rebellion showed its front, in the far distant New Mexico, in the broad valley of the Mississippi, on the bloody huntings grounds of Kentucky, in the mountains of Tennessee, amid the swamps of Carolina, and on the fertile fields of Maryland, and in the blood-stained thickets of Virginia. They were of all grades, from the general to the private ; of all ages, from the gray-haired veteran of fifty years' service to the beardless youth ; and of air degrees of cultivation, from the man of science to the uneducated boy. It is not necessary, nor must I name all those who most merit praise ; simply a few who will exemplify the classes to which they belong. Among the last of the slain, and among the first in honor and reputation, was that hero of twenty battles, John Sedgwick. Gentle and kind as a woman ; brave -as a brave, man. can . be : all may strive to imitate, but whom few can equal. In the terrible battle which just preceded his death he had occasion to display the highest qualities of a soldier and commander After escaping the stroke of death when men fell around him by thousands, he Alas ! our great- nation possesses, few sons like true John Sedgwick. Like him fell, too, at the very " head of their corps, the white haired Mans- iraieu-oy uia skiu anu cooi courage ai Fort Brown, Monterey and Buena Vista; John F. Reynolds anM Reno, both in the full vigor of manhood and intellect, men who had. proved their ability and chivalry in many a field in Mexico and in civil war, gallant- gentlemen,; of wuom men country utu muca 10 nope, had it pleased God to spare their lives. Lyon fell in the prime of life, leading his little army against superior numbers, his brief career affording a brilliant example of patriotism and ability. The impetuous Kearney, and such brave Generals as Richardson Williams, Ter-ril, Stevens, Weed, Saunders and Hayes lost their lives while in the midst of a career of usefulness. Young Bayard so like the most renowned of his name, that "knight above fear and above reproach," was cut off to early for his country. Xo regiments can spare such gallant, devoted and able commanders as Russell, Davis, Gove, Simmons, Bat-ly, Putnam, and Kingsbury all of whom fell in the thickest of the contest, some of them veterans, "others young in service all good men and well beloved. Our batteries have partially paid their terrible debt to fate in the loss of such commanders ar Greble (the first to fall in the war), Benson, Haggard, Swcad, Dr. Hart, Hazlett, and those gallant boys, Kirby, - Woodruff, Dimick, and Cushing ; while the engineers lament the promising and gallant Wagner and Cross.; - Beneath- re mote battle fields rest tho corpses of the heroic McRae, Bascom, . Stone, Sweet, and many other company, offi cers. ; Besides these there are hosts of veteran sergeants, corporals and privates who had fought -under, Scott in Mexico, or contested with the iatages of the far West afid Florida and tain-jed with inem ' yontt5, oIdieri whdv cotirawaasY' steady, aha trneret death unflinchingly without the hope rof 2 senai glory. ; xnese men, in tneir more J humble spheres, terred their country with as'much faith and' honor as most illustrious; Generals, and all of them with perfect singleness of heart. Although ther names may not" live in the page of history, their actions, loyalty, and courage will. Their memories will long be preserved in their regiments, for there were many of them who merited as proud a distinction as that accorded to the first grenadier of France, or to that other; Russian soldier who gave his life fox his comrades. But there is another class of men who have gone from us since this war commenced, whose fate it was not to die in battle, but who are none.the less entitled to be mentioned here. There was Sumner, a brave, honest, chivalrous veteran, of more than half a century's service, who had confronted death unflinchingly on scores of battle fields, had shown his gray head; serene and cheerful, where death most reveled ; who mqre;than once told me that he believed and hoped that his long career would end amid the din of battle. He died at home from effects of the hardships of the leader-ship of his campaigns. That most excellent soldier, the elegant C. F..Smith, whom many of us remember to have seen so often on this "very plain, with his superb bearing, escaped the bullet to fall a victim to the disease which has deprived the army of so many of its best soldiers. John Buford, cool and intrepid ; Mitchell, eminent in science ; Palmer and many other officers have lost their lives by sickness contracted in the .field But I cannot close this long list of glorious martyrs without paying a sacred debt of official duty and personal friendship. There is one dead soldier who possessed peculiar claims upon my love and gratitude ; was an ardent patriot, an unselfish man, a true soldier, the beau-ideal of a staff officer he was my aid-de-camp, Col. Colburn. There is a lesson to be drawn from the death and services of these glorious men, which we should read for the present and future benefit of the nation, .v - War in these modern days is a science and it should now appear to the most prejudiced that in the organization and arming of armies, and the high combination of strategy, perfect familiarity with the theoretical science of war is requisite To count upon success when the plans or execution of campaigns are intrusted to men who have no knowledge of war, is as idle as to expect the legal wisdom of a Story or a Kent from a skillful physician. THE CAUSE FOR WHICH WE TIGHT. But what is the honorable and holy cause for which these men have laid down their lives, and for which the na- vl iuniirniisv- thfl-.TSrififtft, of ihr, precious blood of so many of her child ren : - - Soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, it was found that the confederacy which had grown up during that memorable contest, was falling to pieces from its own weight. The central power was too weak. It could recommend to the different States such measures as seemed best, and it possessed no real power to legislate, because it lacked the executive force to compel obedience to its laws. The national credit and self-respect had disappeared, and it was feared by the friends of human liberty throughout the world that ours was but another added to the long list of fruitless attempts at self-government. The nation was evidently on the brink of ruin and dissolution when some eighty years ago many of the wisest aiid most patriotic of the land met to seek a remedy for the great evils which threatened to destroy the great work of the revolution. Their sessions were long and often stormy ; for a time the most sanguine doubted the possibility of a successful termination ot their labors. But from amidst the conflict of sectional interests, of party prejudices and of personal selfishness, the spirit of wisdom and of conciliation at length evoked the Constitution under which we have lived so long. It was not formed in a day ; but was the result of practical labor, of wisdom, and of the purest patriotism. It was at last adopted by the people of all the States although by some reluctantlynot as being exactly what all desired, but the best possible under the circumstances. . Jt was accepted as giving us a form of government under which the nation might live happily and prosper, so long as the peole should continue to be influenced by the same sentiments which acln&led those who formed it; aud which would not be liable to destruction from internal cause long as the people preserved the recollection or the miseries and calamities which led to its adoption. Ui-der this beneficial const itution the brogresa of the nation was unsurpassed in history. " The rights and liberties of its eitifcene were secured at home and abroad; .vast territories were rescued from the control of the savages and the wild beasu, and added to the demainof the Union andcivilization.- The arts, the sciences, and commerce grew -apace; -ouf flag floated upon every sea; ad-w iook our place among the great nations of the earth. .But under this smooth surface ot prosperity iipon '' which ; we glided wiftly, with all sails set before the common breeze, dingeroas) wieui were hidden which now and theacaaeed nprJaspothasnr&ee, and aiade aaxiooa the more careful pHoU EUted j tece the shjptwept ouxth crew not beeif-ing the warainge ibiJFtcmTd, forgetftil obj dangers escaped al the beginjnf of the voyage aid' tlhrd to'tnehidettia niaelsform which Mpsii to restotomtftS; tlTh earn7 eleraetrte iff . - -. 2 A - . 1 . . ' aspoora, eecuoBsu prejfsaMa, msnsis ana mentation which readered the formation of the Coaatitatioa so dtQcoJt, threatened more than once to destroy it." Bui for a long time the na-tion was 60 fortunate as to potiAe8 a nerit of political leaders, who, to the highest abilities, united the same spirit ot conciliation which animated the founders of this republic, aud thua for many years the threatened eviU were aver ted, rime, and the long continuance of good fortune, obliterated the rt collection, of the calamities of yearn preceding the adoption of the Constitution. They forgot that condition, common interests and mutual charity had been the foundation, and must be the support, of our governmept and all the relations of life. At length, men appeard wixh abuse, section al : nd personal prejudices and interest, outweighing all considerations oft he general good. Kx-tremifts of one section furnished the occasion. 1 eagerly seized aa a pretext by equally extreme, men in the other, for abandoning the paeifio remedies afforded by the Constitution. .Stripped of all sophistry and side issues, the direcv cause of the war as it preentnl itself to the honest and patriotic cuizeas of tUe North was simply this: Certain Stales, or ratfter a portion of the Inhabitants of certain .States, feared, or profe&ed to fear, that injury would result to private property from the elevation of a particular party to power. Although the Constitution and the actual condition of the country provided them witB a peaceable and sure protection agamet the apprehended evil, they prepared to seek security in the destruction ol the government which could protect them, and in the use of force against national troops holdinz a nation al fortress. To efface the insult offered to our flag, to eave ourselves from the fate of the divided republics of Italy and South America: to preserve our- government from destruction; to enforce Us just power and laws; to laatntawi our very existence as a nation these were the causes which impelled us to draw the sword Kebellion against a government like oar. which contains within itself the means of self- adjustment and a paci tc remedy for evils fhouIJ neuer te contounded with a rev6Iution acainst despotic power, which refasef redress of wrongs. Such a rebellion cannot be justified upon eth--- ical grounds, and the only alternauves for our choice are its suppression or the destruction ot our nationality. CONCl.T'SIOM. ;t eucli a time as this, and in suoh a strusr- gle, pclitical partisanship tubonld be mrgl in a true and brave patriotism, which think only o( the good of the whole conntfv. It wa! in this cause and with -'the! motirea that so-many of our comrades have given their lives. and to this we are all personally ptedged in all honor and ndemv. Shall such devotion that of our lead comrades be of no avail? Shall it be said in afttr ages that we lacked the vigor to complete the work thus b-nni.? That after all theae noble lives freely given, we hesitated and failed to keep straight on until our laud was saved? Forbid it, heaven, and give ns firmer, truer hearts than thai. Oh, spirits of the valiant dead, souls of th- slin heroes, lend tis your own indomitable will, and if it be permitted you to commune with thoe still chained by the trammel of mortality, hover around us in the midst ot'dan-ger and tribulation cheer the firm, strengthen the weak, that none may doubt the salvation of the Republic and the triumph of our grand ol 1 flag. In the mi Jst of the storms which toss our ship of btate, there is one great beacon light to which we can ever turn with confidice and hope. It cannot be that this great ii?ti.n bs played "its part in history; it cannot be thut our sun, which arose with such bright promisee for the future, has already set- forever. It must be the intention of the overruling Deity that this land, so long the ssvlum of the oi- Jjsedjdrefuge of civil and religious liberty. 1 shall again stand forth in brirht relief, united. purified, and chastened by our trials, as ai ex ample and encouragement for those whodeair the progress of the human race. It isnotgiv. en to our weak intellects .to understand the steps of Providence as they occur; we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far distant past; so it is now. We can not unravel the seemingly tangled skein ot the purposes of the Creator; they are too high and far-reaching for our limited minds. But all history and His own revealed word teach us that His wavs.althongh inscrutable, are ever righteous. Let us, then, honestly and man fully play our part, seek to understand and perform our whole duty, and trust unwaveringly in the beneficent God who led our ancestors, across the sea, and sustaineed them afterward amid dangers more appalling even than those encountered by UU own chosen people in their great exodus. He did not bring us here in vain, nor hae He supported us thus for naught. ' If we do our duty and trust in Him, He ' will not desert us in our need. Firm in our faith that God will save our country, we now de licate this site to the memory of brave men. to loyalty, patriotism, and honor. (Loud ap plause.j LIXCOLX'S LAST JOKE. His Curious Acceptance of the Republi can Nomination for the Presidency-He Kicks the Monroe Doctrine Plank in the Platform overboard. ExEccTirs Mas stay. ) Washington, Juna27. ) Hon. William De&nison and others, a Committee of . the National Uoioa Conrentioa Gentlemen: A'our letter 'of the 14th inet "v formally notifying me that I have beeu nonii- natei by the convention yon epres?nt for the" presidency of the United States for four years from the 4th of March next, has been received. The nomination ia cratefullv - accented, an the ' resolutions of the convention called the plat- :-f rm are heartily approved. While the resolution In regard to the suu planting of Republican government npon the western continent is fultr- eoaearreit in, there might be misnnderstandrng were I noi to ear that the position of the government in relation , to the action of France in Mexico.' as assumed : throagh the State Departraeht and indorsed by the convention, among the tneasuree and acta of the executive. wi)l be faitiifally -maintaiaed so long as the State of facta shall leave that position pertinent and applicable. I am; especially gratified that the eoIdieran4! the aeaman were not forgotton by the Convention, at they forever must and will be remena. bered by the grateful eonntry for wboee aalra , lion they devote their lives. . Thanking yon for the kind and compltmsa- tary terms in which yon have commenieaUi-the nomination and other preeeediere f th of the Convention, I subscribe myself, : ,; . Your obedient servant, . . ' . - v7 ".. AokabaX Lrvtioui. - Ths Pei.es Partr. "- - ; Tha Ltttcbl Rlen feel a horror of the price men bat. lfaooh will .toihmg ' to that parly after a whtlf. Heeaid at the heflnnisj-. "jom eaai fight alsraya." That i true, we presomsi. 3 Abrah Lfaoahf rattaf cfiatemraate Uiaj-a 'peace nan soma day Soma popl art only a little ia advance of Lnaeola.