Decatur Eagle, Volume 7, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1863 — Page 2

TREE A G L E.J SPENCER .1 SCHIRMEYEH, I'norruEions. DEGATUR, INDIANA. SATURDAY MORNING, MAlt. 14. IMS WHO CARRIES ON THE WAR ? The will of the majority of the people is the law of the land, when that will is expressed. Suppose the sense of the people were taken to-day, for or .against the present war, just as it is conducted? What would they say? The fact that one million of tnen voluntered would show that they were in favor of it: but we must r.-collect that they volunteered under pledges ol the President and Congress.— It must also be recollected that those [ !edge.< have been nnbtushingly violated by both Congress and President, and that since that not one volunteer could be found, that the army has become disaffected: and.that if the soldiers could get out of the service as easily as they got into it the army would vanish in a day; and that to obtain the means to carry on this war Congress and the President have not appealed to the people, but a French method of conscription, such as tyrants use to carry on their wars when the people refuse to volunteer. There was a time when the war was carried on without a vjew to absolute and entire destruction of State rights and State laws in the States. Abolitionists opposed it then.— 1 That policy gave way to the doctrine that State rights are forfeited. State laws are annulled, and Constitutions in the States are no longer valid. Now Abolitionists sustain the war, sustain the draft, sustain conscription, sustain arrests, and all the machinery of tyranny to accomplish their I

darling object. The hundred thousand nfficera who swallow up the people's substance from offices requrired by the machinery of draft, revenue, and conscription sustain the war. Old gentlemen, over forty-five, with .a competance at home who .are out of danger, but who might be disturbed by trouble at home, sustain the war and the conscription so long as it dobs not strike in their own families, since it permits them to pay the price of their liberty, and the fear of commotion at home constrains some to sn i-' tain the war. If this last act, conscription. would not have favored the rich, had not not been a respecter of property| it would have, failed in securing a single I soldier for this war. It would have united the country against the war so that it could not be enforced. But while the wealthy can purchase of the powers that be the security and liberty at home, they will do it rather than risk the results of a refusal to comply with the law. Tims : the administration forces from the people ( money and men to carry on this war whether the people desire it or not. It always has been the privilege of every citizen to vote and the duty of every officer to retire when his term of office expires. The administration denounces ( all those as traitors who are opposed to the war. Many privileges of the people ( have been denied, and many duties of of- , fleers neglected, under the excuse that in ( time of war it was necessary. How d > j we know that Mr. Lincoln v. ill not say | that it is a military necessity for him to i remain in office as long as he live.;, or ( that those who oppose, the war, as it is now conducted, are net loyal and should not h n allowed to vote, and that necessity denied that there should be another ' • lection. It kas ceased to bo the people’s . ' war. The Abolitionists who have the ( control of the sword and the purse of the | nation sustain it, and none else. And ' there is no error in saying that they have 1 taken into their hands the means to sits- ' tain it against the will of the whole peo- I t pie. The States are not asked to sustain < to sustain the war. The last Congress ’ made the President absolute, ruler and he ; demands of the States and they must | comply. No such question as duty or ; sentiment. State or individual rights.— ' 'Die President has the power and military ‘ mwaasity is an excuse for anything Ques- . lions as to State rights—the rights of , Viva! State? —are not considere l. It is f not expedient to let them interpose or in- ' terfere in any manner with military o|»e- ’ rations. When are the people to l>e re-1 lieved from calls for men and money, and from the oppressions of military necesst- « tv? Not when the South is conquered,’t for It win require a standing army of five i t hnhdrcd thousand men. and subsistence « tor them, to keep the rebel States in sub- = .-tiori: and these things once firmly es- I ’tablislied will never cease. If this war is r pro.sectrted. the historian who records the .‘nt? of the next century will record the I sets of soldiers, not statesmen, and a his- J to - -of military oonression. not of a y co- , . happy, powerful an I prosperous. I*

THE RESULT OF IT. < ■ The great Abolition Convention, held i at Indianapolis, has not been without es-: feet. As a result, we see the Abolition ’ members of the Legislature have all seceded. 1 hey have tried to demonstrate one of the main principles of Abolition- ’ ■sm, that the minority shall rule or ruin; i seceeded just as their southern brethernI did. Secession is revolution they say; and they want to revolutionize. They ' , will not act at all Weeause they cannot rule the majority. They stop the wheels of, and thereby’ destroy, State government to all intents and purposes. If they cannot rule they are willing to ruin.— That is the extent of their patriotism, j learned from Jeff. Davis. TTrey have not | even the merit of originating, but glory ! ‘ in practising the vices of others. When will another Convention be held? I I It will portend evil when it is announced. I It will show that conspiracy has been at 1 , work and that treason is to be developed., i Let the serpents crawl away from the , capitol—it is purified and the people are - I well represented without them. CONSCRIPTION. Will the people calinnly permit this ’ , thing to go on? Will the poor who are unable to pay the price of liberty tamely - , submit and hold out their hands for the ! fetters? \\ ill the rich pay’ over at once ' the price of security, saying “you have ; 1 violated the pledges of the Constitution ' by which equal rights are secured to us. j we give you this much now as an assur- i ance that our lives and fortunes are at ' ' your disposal. Having taken our liberty ; take now our property.” Will all classes ! submit and crouching down with dastard i spirit kiss the feet of tyranny?

CAMP CORRESPONDENCE Helena, Ark., Feb 24. 1863. Editors E xole: —We are again on the eve of departure from this place. Our | Division only, is ordered away. Every preparation for the trip is completed: and j I we are only awaiting the arrival of trans- i I ports This time we are going up thro’h ‘ the Yazoo Pass into Coldwater river, if: i navigation is open, if it is not open we will open it. I am unable to say how , long we will be gone, or whether we will 1 come back at all or not. The probability ) . is, however, that we will not return soon The weather looks favorable enough i 1 this morning, bit it would be nothing ' uncommon if it would pour down before ' sunset: snow through the night, and blow a regular “nor-easter” before to-morrow, i that is the way it has been for the last six weeks. Wc have no late news from Vicksburg. [ Our troops are in danger of being submerged: and a temporary withdrawal of the Federal forces may become necessary. Both sides are evidently preparing for a desperate conflict, and no unforeseen circumstances preventing, it xvill come off in a very short time. Mortality among our troops there, is very great, deaths at the rate of one hundred per day. Gen. Gorman has been relieved from the command ofthis army. Cotton, which | has ruined many a better man, -was his failing. Gen. Prentiss is appointed in ' his stead. The boys of our company are all pretty : well yet, several will be left. There is j , none dangerously sick, however. G. CHRISTEN. Official alvices from tho City of Hex i ico have just been reciived The Jua- i r« z Government are sanguine of being • able to resist the approach to the City I of mexico of the invaliding French Army [t, appears from all of the reports of the Mexican officers that the French have i been defeated in nearly sverv engage- i raent which has taken place. The ranks I of the French Army have been fearfully i thinned by disease and at the latest date over one half were unfit for ser I vice. I — i They have a 'speck of war' on the ’ Pacific side.growing out of a dispe’e regarding the boundary between Califor- , ma and Nevada The scene of tho trouble is in Honev Valley. On the 15th ult., a California Sherifl attempted to serve a civil process there when he was resisted by armed residents of the valley, who j, fired upon him and his posses wounding , six of the latter. At last accounts both -ides had sent for reinforcements and ware fortifying themselves. Thr«*e thousand seven hundred fnd eighty six invalids an I five thousand widows orphan children sisters and mothers. have made applications for pensions since the I 4th of July last, for losses in the present war in the army, and two hundred and sixty-four in the navy, making a total of nine thousand and fifty. ' m Stuped people eat better than they cm talk. Their month are excellent banks of deposit, but poor Holts of issue, • s

The Bible nnd Bullets.’—A Riot at Calumet, Ind., Incited by an Abolition Preacher.—<’ne Democrat Killed, and two Seriously wounded—lntense Exi citement Prevailing, and More Bloodshed Anticipated. To the Editor of Tho Chicago Times: In these times that try men’s souls,’; anything pertaining to politics nnd public speeches is sought after and read with ■ much avidity by the people and presuming that the readers of the times are anxious to keep posted on all that is tianspiring in your own and adjoining States, I propose to give you an inkling of the way in which ministers of the Oo - : pel do things in Indiana. As sickening I and revolting as diabolical nnd malicious ! as they may appear what I propose to relate is strictly true. At Calumet a town of some 500 inhablitants, situated on the Michigan Southern I Railroad near the crossing of the Michigan Central R tilroad in Porter county, ' Reverend Captain William Copp was I announced to speak on Monday evening, ' lhe 2 I inst. The evening came and with lit the speaker. The audience gathered.' The speaker took the stand; opened the ; , Bible before him unbuttoned h-s coat; took I from his side pocket a navy revolver, i which he deliberately placed by the side jof the Sacred Book, and announced that ' bis subject would be The Bible and Bui- ■ Itts.’ The audience was a large one fori I that place and composed of democrats Jan J republicans expecting when they came together to hoar the truth from a I | divine who had been >n the service. They exp vied that he at least would deal justly . j to all men, —nothing extenuate or aught , set down in malice.* but what was their astonishment when after a brief introductory to hear him propose to take a ' vote of the meeting to see how many of : those present would assist in hanging the 1 ' copperheads of that county.’ At this juncture the democrats present withdrew 'to the street where tho abolitionists followed them assaulting them with pistols, knives bludgeons, and in short with everything available, —instantly killing Robert Lake and seriously wounding—Mulhill and Thomas Moony. In that immediate vicinity the most intense excitement ;

prevails, and more bloodshed is anticipated before the affair is ended. The democracy <f that vicinity are not the attacking party: they stand on the defensive and the consequences of inaugurating civil war at home rest upon the republican or abolition party hissed on by one who has professed to be a teacher ot the piecepts of the meek and lowly Jesus. The responsibility of what follows is with them and the blood of Robert Lake is upon the skirts of this clerical by- 1 poerite. But this is not all. A few days pre-' v ious to this affrav this same demon Copp | spoke at Valparaiso in the same county, I announcing the same sunj.-ct and bluntly asking how many of those present were. ready and willing to assist in hanging! Bu-ll Starr J. Anthony, F Y. J. M<-rri- ■ tii-11 Judge Woodruff and David Oaks,' five of the best prominent and wealthy ; citizens ol Valparaiso, whose only crime) is that of sustaining the constitution Upon the vote being put about two thirds of Che au lienee arose to their feet, when I the <'B'imab!e lady of on* of the men assailed withdrew and it is only the love ) of law and order entertained by the peo- i pie of Valparaiso that saved this white 1 cravatted miscreant from hanging from ( a limb of one of the trees that adorn : that beautiful Court-House Square. How long must these things be tolerated How long will the people he compelled ’ ( 'o tolerate the taming of such base hy- , pocrites and demagogues? Upon whale - vil tin?' § hay? we fallen when men, under the garb of religion, walk to and fro through the earth stirring up strife and inciting bloodshed, instead of counseling , hoe and m-rcy? Are our rights as freemen guaranted by the constitution, i to be basely trampled beneath the feet of,' abolition crusaders the laws of our country desecrated and the pulpit and the \ Bible made subservient to ends and aims of despots and tyrants? Is there no i more protection to the rights of freemen ' in this country? And must we tamely submit to be shot down in cold blood ‘ for daring to choose our own poluical tailh? I would not counsel resistance to any of the laws of our country. As good citiz ns ami patriots we must obey the laws; but when assaulted in open day, : it is sorely our right to act in self-defence Democrats will not be the attacking party bu' if these assaults are continued, -For-, hearance will cease to be a virtue, nnd : blond will flow at home as it has on the battle field. We hope these things will 'ftst be but unless republicans wish it they ' must stop their ‘mad career.’ Yours. Ac. ; Justice. The Milwaukie News says: Every prisoner illegally arrested in this State under the President’s proclamation snspen-: ding the writ of habeas corpus, has; now been set free. Wisconsin is no longer ruled by judge ad vacates and provost marshals, but bv the laws of the country The Secretary of War is no longer judge 1 and executive for our loyal people. The Constitution and the statutes are now law; and not the decreese of the Washington Cabinet. — Hereafter let no representative of arbitrary power dare tn place Ins hand upon a citizen of the State in violation of law. Abe Linkin reminds us of a little anecdote we once heard. It was a veryfoolish anecdote, end had no nub tu it ,J w

War News. The rebels are throwing shell at the canal opposite Vicksburg causing some 'annoyance to the men at work thereon. The Yazoo Pass expedition was in the I Coldwater River on the sth inst.' and i hoped to reach the Tallahatchie on the next day. All available Federal troops are being concentrated near Vicksburg and the indications are that a combined attack will soon be made upon the rebel position. There are rumors at Memphis of an engagement at Port Hudson: but they are thought to bo with out foundation. A dispatch from Jackson, Tenn . announces that a Federal force of 200 infantry with two canon were compelled to surrender. The command of the Department, of the Missouri has been transferred from Gen. Curtis to Gen. Sumner and that of the Department of the Ohio from Gen. I Cox.—Changes have also occurred among the rebel commanders at the West. ■ Bragg succeeds Pemberton in the De- • ' partment of the Mississippi; Longstreet ' succeeds Bragg in Middle Tennessee; Price goes to Missouri; an I Kirhv Smith goes to Arkansas Holmes and Hindman being removed. Gov. Harding of Utah has called upon ; Col. Connor commonding a California i regiment encamped at or near Salt Lake City to arrest Brigham Young and Coun--1 cilors Kimball and Wells; and the cit- : izens have taken up arms to resist such ' ■ a procedure. What is the precise charge j against the Mormon leaders is not stated but it is probable that the administration, not content with the war upon slavery. ; is desirous of opening hostilities upon the I twinrelic, polygamy. Dispatches from Franklin Tenn report that a battle is iminent while a Nashville dispatch states that Van Dorn has retreated. The U. S Supreme Court, yesterday, ■ rendered a decision in the prize cases condemning the vessels and legalizing the 1 blockade. It also decided the Almaden Mine cases—in which 860,000,000 were 1 involved— in favor of the government. ' , Robert J Walker, by the latter decision. I becomes possessed of 81,000,000 worth ‘of property. An application has been made to the President by parties in New York for letters of marque. It is intenl*d to send a first class privateer to cruise off Nassau. ' Three new iron steamers for the rebels arrived at Nassau from Great Britain on the 27th trit. The last advices from Mexico states that unlses large reinforcements are soon received bv the French they will be driven front the country. A vessel arrived al ILivaca reports having seen the wreck of a steamer which it is thought may he that of tho rebel privateer Florida — Chieago Times March 1 I Sheriff’s Sale. Fredrick Engler,’) Administrator of the | Estate of Jacob Beberstine, } Circuit l Court of vs. | Adams County, Christian Sower, j State of Indiana. , BY virtue of an execution to me directed and deli vei<*d by the clerk of the Ad *ma circuit court of the State of lndi« I ana, I will expose to sale at public auction, at the court house door in the county «-f Adam* in the State of Indiana between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. on Saturday, March 14, 1863, the rents and profits for a term of years nofpx ceeding sewn of the following described real estate tQ wjt; | In Lots, number one (!) and two (•?). in the < town of Buna Vista, in said county of Adams and State of Indiana. Also, the north half of the north west qmrter of section sixteen (16), township twenty six (26) north, of ranjfe thirteen (13) east, contain ing eighty (H 9 acres, in said county of Adams and State of Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full amount of the execution I will at the same time ami place, al public auction as aforesaid, ex pose to sale the fee simple of said described real estate, or so much thereof as will satisfy said execution. | Executed as the property of Christian Sower at the suit of Frederick Engler, administrator | of the estate < f Jacob Beberstine. deceased. This, Ifith day of February 3 JACOB STULTS, Feb. 19,1863. . Sheriff. Sheriff’s Sale. Thompson Prairie, 1 Ditching Association, ! Court of Common vs. ? Pleas of Adams coun-! Joel Click,) t.y, Indiana. BY VIRTUE of an execution to me dirertod and delivered by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams Conntv. Indiana. T will expose to sale at public auction, at the Court House door in said Conntv between the hours of ten o’clock a. m. and four o’clock p. m on Saturday. March 21, 1863 The rents and profits for a form of rears not ( exceeding seven of the following described . Real Estate tc wi’: The west half of tho southeast, quarter of | section thirty-six (36). township twenty six , (9fi) north, ot range fourteen (14) east, contain ; in? eight y (SO) acres, in the county of Adams' and State of Indiana. Also, the oast half of tho south-west quarter; o, section thirty six (26) townshin twent.vsix (26) North, of Range fourteen (>4l East, containing eighty (S 3 acres more or less, ini said county, and state of Indiana. And on failure tn realize therefrom the full j amount of the Execution. I will at the sanm; time and place at public auction oxnoso to wile the fee simple of said described Real Estate. Executed as the property of Joel Click at the suit of‘.he Thompson Prairie Ditching Association . This, 16th day of Fel.rnqn-. Wl. JACOB STULTB. Feb. I'»,ISGT Sheriff. <

DRY GOODS! DRY GOODS! ’.B ’ £3 BL NEW YORK STORE, F.O R T WAY NE , IND. Established two years ago, on the go-abcad principle of selling a large amount of goods on small profits. ; This house by the uniform system of buying and selling goods f ’ *j’ ’ ! reputation never before attained bv auv firm m Northern 'j 11 ' ’ * ""'J' " £ n< ." * magnificent stock, purchased at forced and n'-ction sales, by o 1 ' willing to sell goods at a small advance oncost Every article in the DRV (MODS line can always be found here from tin. Lowest Price to the Finest Qua lity. The citiz. ms of Decatur, au.l surro inding country, are iuviled to call. We guarantee a ving of 20 per cent. rani’n » T t CH June 20, 1862. \6-n2O-tf. McDOLGAL A CO.

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