Decatur Eagle, Volume 8, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1864 — Page 1

THE HE C ATM EAGLE.

VOL. 8.

DKCffIU BUSINESS (IDS! BIIIT HOUSE. Decatur, In di an a. 3S tSI.T Proprietor. Will give good attention, and makes reasonable charges. n37-r6-Iy. TTaTj elleffT PH Yft rc !I V .$• S UR CE 0N DECATUR, INDIANA. TT UP? ’’-On -lie past, sirb-of Second St . • -Hi i-•>> n( ■ e-u-lv -i-enpied by J. B. .Nutt'in tn as a hacking onlcp. vB-n!5. dTvTb ' S T I D ! «T KER , ATTORM.Y AT* LAW AX’D CLAIM AGENT DECATUR, TN I) TANA. Will P.-actiee in Ad imsand adjoining Counties Will secure Hmm * peimon*; and all kinds oT cla' I'ihi’ist the Government. '□"OFFICE. —On Main immediately South of the Auditor's Office, —vG—n I*2 Attornoyp.nl Counselor at Law, I) Ea XT UR. I S'D r. 1 .V.!. Tj* )F •’R’E. »n !‘. Office. Will p" . idee iii the Cmirts of tlio Tent it Judici d Circuit. .V‘ *n I t rhe Redemption of MnK the pay...ent of Tax's Especial atten, lion ’vill h* gi/»‘n to’the collection f Bounties. Pension nn-l -all -?'t titas against the Goveriuuenl 2S, I'JGJ. vG-i'l2. PH ; ■ " G HHRH P. V. SMITH Ambrotype & Photo.graph Cl H iving permnio nil v located in Decatur and I : ipl’■ I h ' werrthing that may be in a First 01**9 Picture Gallery. Would call Hie ar rent! •• of al! h desire ! Picture at lo'V prices., ip. call at Ids rnnnis in Hn'istarfs Building, immediately ovmho Phil* Store- n37-ly Large fall & Winter Stock OF KEADYMADE <r. ! E3. j "»* K* W ® -51 T IEM J? & BRO., TOST WAYKE. IND. f tin I () N V B T. E T A I T.OHS fieSl Estate for Sale I offer f r «nL- nbont 2,0 '0 nrr?'® of land situated in different part* n, Adyins rnnniy. Xnv person wishimj to buy, will do veil to cdl on the undpr.-i L- .' d March H. ’63 DAVID STUDABAKKR. TwTpha' kc e“ ..rjv.jr.f ;,v <, r-) SI X«I‘ON. RESIDENCE PLEASANT MILLS; Atlums C<’iui!y InHi>'n>i. TAILORIN'.; i HHSWISC F.HPfRU M . Cilhaun Street, Fort Wayne. Indian*. Gent.a' Furnishing Goods, An excellent for sale low. 5-1 VICK SBURG! I. J. MIESSE, In his line of business. Defies the World! All other UKE INSTITUTIONS thrown in be h’i 11 •! AH'Of >: ts at COMPETITION joiw by theß3\.RD It i- ;.rkoowledged by all that he can *ell a BETTER article of fX-yy?- Harm s«, Middles, Bridles. Whips and all such like J for >n y han any other vstr.b-i-hiuent »:i NArth tii Indiana wit hnnt < xeeption. Hu work is all w.ir» anted to b<’ made ofthv V try best munrial, and made by old and expe ri’*nci*d workmen. Biggies in 1 CK r ri ages trimmed in the latest an I m»st approve ! vle. R pairing done on eh >rt notice and at reasonable rates. ■miive ’’.s i cill, and we will convince vnn aflhe truth of what wo <av W.* P\Y (’\Sl’ for our stock, and 'umseq umtly BUT CHEAP ER than if we bo v_f’»t on "1 VIE; and of coursi can sell in proportion —nSF'-vP

Examiner’s Notice. Th« un Idrßigned SMinni Px-imninr of Adatns County Indiana, will hold examinations nt bis ofli •.» in T) ‘Cfttn r upon th«* fourth ’tnrd ’V of the following months, tn wit:—.Toiuarv' April. .I’m-'. M»rch. May. December; and unon each Ratu rd »y of September. October and No veinber. Ex Toises will coiumertceeach day a* ton o’clock, a m. Teachers will please bear in mind that there will he no private examiimtb ' given. unlos the applicant can show there is act a! necc sit therefor. S'in-d and other friends of education are cordiallv invited ’o be in attendance. Apn leantß with whorrffhe examiner i« nnC personallv acquainted will be required to present a certificate sign'll l»y a prominent eitizen nf th° county to the eflM that Slid applicar.tsus tains a good moral character J R. 8080. Examiner Adams Omwitv

FmVH VE ADVFRWIIEHS. HinTT’llEETlicilAnFE, J. LESM.-VN, - - • Proprietor. Halo Str, W>st »f (Olhsnn. Ft. Wiyne. Ind., G'/od Accommodntiovxat Reasonable rates office for.Blufftnn. Decat.ur,St.Af'irv’s, Kleiidalville,Sturgis and Auburn. n3t\6 MEYER & BR(K Whole & Retail Dealers in Driig.l and Medicines, Paints, G French and \rn'.ir in Window Glass, Dye Groffs, Brushes. Er»ic< s. Liquors and Wines. Coni Oil and cool oil Lamp*. <to -.LTNo. 95 Columbia Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. n'3cv6.

B. W. OAKLEY, Wholesale Dealer in HARDWARE AND STOVES. And M-’innfucriirer of' TIN.SHEET IBON AND COPPFR.WAEE ATT iE QftANtTE STCFE. No. 79, Columbia Street. r!-u2l. FORT WAYRE, IRD. HR I) EK IN HOUSE, J. EK A3N3 &SON. - - - Pro's Barr cb CtdtimMn Main. FORT WAYNE IND Thi a Hon«p has been eatir<-l v Refurnished ai.d Rt fiiled ineoo-l *tyb*. aud cvpry attention will he paid 1 o the rornUrt of ernopfs Board ers ar com mod a’ ed Ly the Day of Week, r-39 MAY El I HOUSE’ Cornor of Wayne and Calhoun-Sts . FORT WA Y iNI E , INDIANA. H C. FOX, - - - Proprietor General Staom ' f]l p. JUSrIX BSURET. Dealer in W’Tf'iEX CLOCKS, MOT

SILVER-PLATED WAP.E.dc , b Vlt'NßtbcL FORT WAYNE, IND AH kin-1* <4 Rnp:»ifjng done to order, inn i whj39 -DEALER IX1 Marble Monuments. HEAP STONES, MANTI.bS, CABI!fET■SL A B S. & • . , 4 r FORT WAYNE, IND. VTork dune tn order on notice nn>t in tiie neatest eianner vsn3». S. PATTERSON, Agent. “d rP ccmpa rd t. PORK PACKER. llillEll DD CDiniissm Mercli a n t , EOBT WAYNE. IND. dealer in all kinds of Grain, Sc Fish, Su’t. Produce. Agricultural Implements. Rest Bra’ul Family Flours LrLi’ eral a«l vances made on .Produce.He . n 4 Jvfil

SIGI OF m NDIOCK. 0. P. MORGAN iVo. 81 Columbia Street, FORT WAYNE Ind. o kset: -•ssl a e llard ware & Stoves -AND— Manuraatnrar of Tin & Sheet Trcrll’>. WS2.' ££ • no 15 I GUST E. Sft MON RUIWI.PII SILM A F SIEVtT'T ’< 3RD , Wholesale and Retail Demers in ißooks, Stationary, Toys And Fancy Goods, Calhonn Street, between Columbia and Main V ORT W \YVE, TXD. Entjli-ih School Rooks, German and Latin Book•<.Toovs —a lartrq assortment, Wall and Window Paper. LnokinuClasses, Picture Frames, Engraving** etc.. <tc.. Ti t attention of the public isr^snectf'illv invited Most nf nnr Rtark is imported directlv b* nnrsolves. -vhirh enables us togi our cur.mners Great Raruains . UNI o M Fl L E~~oIVI P ANY. 0 SCHMIDT & Co. -MANUFACTURE' S OFFfLES, R4MPS. HTLL-PTCKS, Sr.)VE CUTTERS’ TOOLS <tc. D«C rUix 'lid F : I os, 4c , done to order and «V »rr i »ted equal to new. AU'’H Isof R tsns and Files made tn order AUn Vh and Retail D.*nh*rs in Foreign and i) »m *stic r T irdw ire. Pine Sash and I’nor-.. Nails.Glus, P-ii nt. drc., At Factor* Prices. UNION BLOCK, oppo<ilfstfnte Bank. FORT WAYNE, IND. All n’der® from th© Country attended to.

‘Our Countrys Good shall ever to cur A'n-—Willing to Praise artd.net afraid, to ißlatnc."

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY. INDIAN,!, JULY 16,1861.

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THE SPEECH OF Hon, C, L, Vallandigham, AT THE DE M OCR A TlO CO N VENT! OX, I AT II VMIJ.TON, 0., Ou the 15th of June. ISC4. Men of Ohio: To day I ant again in yonr midst, r.rul upon the soil of my naI live State. To day lam once more in . the di.-triet which for ten years extended itc me the highest confidence, and three | times hono'ed me as its representative in [the Cong:ess of the United States. I j was accused of no crime against the con- | 'stitution or the laws, and guilty of none, i But whenever and wherever thus chari ged upon me process of law, am he e ' now ready to answer before any eixil I court of competent jinis«lic<ion. in a ju[ry of my countrymen and in the mennftitne to give b.".:l in any stun, which anv judge c.- court, State or Fedeial, may affix: and you, the hunrbe i and eighty-six thousand Democrats of Ohio, I offer a« my stinfies. Never for one hour have I temained in exile, because I recognized any obligation of obedience to the unconstitutional and arbitrary edict. Neither did personal fear ever restrain me And to-day I return of my own act and pleasure, because it is my Constitutional and legal right to return Only by an exertion of arbitrary power, itself against the constitution and law. aud c<>n<inmnted by military force I was abducted iioui my home ami forced into banish incut. The assertion or insinuation of the Piesident that I was a rested -because laboring with some effect to prevent the raising of troops and to enconr age desertions from the army,’ and was responsible for numerous acts of resistance to the draft, nnd to the arrest of deserters, causing ‘assassination, maiming and milder,' or that at any’ time, in any way, 1 had disobeyed or failed to counsel obedience to the awful autority,. or ex en to the semblance of law, is absolutely false. I appeal for the truth to every : speech I ever made upon those questions and to the very record of the Mock Mdi ta>y (’ommission by the trial and sentence of which I xvas outraged. No. the sole : offence then laid to my charge xvas words 'of criticism of the public policy of the i Administration, addressed to open and I public political meetins of my fe lo.v citizens of Ohio, lawfulh’ and peaceably as ' sehibled And to-day. my on’y crime is that in the xvay which they call treason, worship I the constitution of my fathers. Bnt noxx- for more than one year, no public man has been arrested, and no nexvsi aper suppressed with n the States ad hering still to the Union, for the expression of political opinion: while hundreds in public assembly and through the press have, with a license and violence in w hich I never indulged, criticised and condemned the acts and policies of the administration, and denounced the war, and

i maintaining even the propriety and no ‘' I cecc-i'ity of the. recognition of the South--, ‘ i ent independence. £ndorued by nearly' I two hundred thou and tieeinen of the ; 1 Democratic party of my native tate, at : : | the late election and "still with the sym 1 p.-. hy and support of millions more, I do ' net mean any longer to be the only man 1 :of that party who is to be the vic.im of : |.arbitrary power. If Abraham Lincoln [seeks my life let him so d.-el.i-e but be in ot'nic ..so : al liberty, except upon ‘due p oc.-ss ol / law.' Thu unconstitutional and mon<- ; trous ‘Order 'i liirty-eig'it.’ under which [ :iloue 1 was •iro.v.ted thirteen months ago was defied anil spit upon at yo tr State ' ' Convention of 1833, by the gal ant gen- [ tieman who bore the standard as your candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and by by every Democratic press and public ■ spe.i i<er ever since. Iris dead. From; the first it xvas against the constitution , and laws, and xx ithout validity: and all : proceedings under it were and are utter ; ly null and void and of no effect. The indignant voice of endemnation long since went forth from the vast majority j of the people and press of America, and from all free countlies in Europe with [ entiie unanimity. And more recently. too, the ‘platform’ of an earnest, nume- ' rotis and most flirmid.ible convention of ■the sincere Republicans, and sti 1 further) the emphatic letter of acceptance by the |candidate ofth.it Convention, Gen John C Fremont., the fir.-t candidate also of the Republican candidate for the Presi- ■ den -x’, eight years ago. upon the rallying c y of‘Free Speech and Free Press,’ give renewed ho; e that at last th ■ reign of arbitrary power is about to be brought' to an end in the United States. It is neither just nor fit. thereto e,. that the I ) wrongs infixed under ‘Order Thirty'eight,’and the other edicts .and acts of such power, should any’ longer be endured—certainly not by me alone But every ordinary means of redress has first been exhausted, yet either by the direct agency of the Administration and. its subo'dinates or through its influence or intimidation, or because of want of juris- ; diction in the civil courts to meet a case xvhich no American ever in former times conceived to be possible here, all have failed Counsel appliel in my behalf to an unjust judge for the writ of habeas corpus. It was denied and now the privilege of that writ is suspended b act of Congress .and Executive order in eve ry State. The Democratic Convention of Ohio, one year ago, by a lesolution formally presented through a committee of your best and ablest men. in pe-smi at Washing’o'i. dcui irtded of the President, . ia behalf of a very largo minority of the people, a revocation of the edict of banishment Pietending that the public safety then rcquiied it, he refused, saying. at the same time, that ’it xvoitld affoid linn pleasure to comply as soon as I he could by any means be made to believe that the publjc safety xvould not suf- ; fer by it. ’One year has elapsed, yet this hollow pretense is still tacitly asserted; ■ to dav I am here to prove it unfounded in fact. I appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States and because Congress had ttever conferred jurisdiction in behalf of a citizen tiied by a tribunal unknown for su:-h purposes, to the laws and expressly forbiden by the Constitution, it, was powerless to iedress the w rong.— The time has; therefore: arrived, when it becomes me as a citizen of Ohio and of the United States, to demand and by my own act: vindicate the rights: liberties and prix ileges which I never forfeited, but of xvhich for so many months. I have been deprived. Wherefore monos Ohio lam again in yo ir midst to day. I oxv- ; duties to the State, and am here to discharge them. I have rights as a < I:izen and am here to ass-rt them; n wife and child and home, and xvould enjoy all the pleasures which are implied in those cherished words. But lam here for peace, not turbulence for quiet, not convulsions; for order an 1 law, not anarchy Let no man of the- Democratic paity begin any act of violence or disorder, bnt

let none shrink from any responsibility. ho',vcver urg nt, if, forced upon him : — Careful of the rights of others, let him sec to it that he i'u ly and fear essly ex acts his own. Subject to right.hl ant ;ority in all things, let him submit to exi-e.-s or usurpation m nothing Obedient to tlie Cor-'.itution and law, let him demand ami have the full measure of protectim which the law and Constitution secure to him. Je.i of Ohi-u: You have a’r.-a ly vhi<l.cate. 1 your right to hear. Ii is uo-w my duty to assi-it'iny right to speak — Wherelore, as to the sole offense for xvhich 1 was arrested, imprisoned and ibamshed—i’tee speech in criticism ami comlemnation of the Administration; an Administration iitlydc:-;ribe<l in a recent public paper by one of its early snppor ters, ‘marked at home by disregard of ! constitutional lights, by its violations of personal liberty and the liberty of the I press, and, as its crowning shame, by its, abandonment of the tight of asylum, a right especially dear to nil free nations abroad.’ 1 repeat here to-dav, ami x\ ill again, and yet again, so long as I live, or ' Constitution and our present, form of government shall survive. The xvords 'then spoken and the appeal at that time imide, an I now inforced by cne year more of taxation and debt, and of blood and disaster, entreating the people to i change the public servants and their po - icy, not by force, but peaceably, through ba lot, 1 now and here reiterate in their utmost extent, mid xvith all their sigiiitieaney I repeat them, one and all. in no spir.t of clia.lenge or br.ix a Ip, but as earnest, sob-r. solemn truth and warning to ; | the people. I U.ron another subject ailoxv me here a ; wool: A powerful, xvidely-spread and very j dangerous secret oath-botmd combination ) among the friends of the Administration known as the ‘Loyal Union League,’ ex- ) ists in every State, yet the very men who ! control it, charge pesistently upon the j members of tlie Democratic party, that | they have organized—especially in the ; nofth-west—the ‘Order of Knights of the Golden Circle,' or some other secret so- ) ciety treasonable or ‘.tisloyal’ in its char . aeter, affiliated xvith the South and for the purpose ot armed icsi-tance to the authority of the Federal awl State Government. Whethet any such ev. r <-xis ted Ido not know; but tiff? charge that ; organizations of that sort, or having any any such purpose, do now exist among members oi'that party in Ohio, or other non-slavehoiding States, is totally and positively false. That lawful political or pa ty associations have been established ‘.nxirg, as their object, the organizing and rtrengthrnmg of the Deinociatic party. awl its success in the coming i’resi;d. ntial election, and designed as a coitn-tei-movement to the so-called ‘Union Leagues,' and, therefore, secret in their proceeding., is very probable, ami hoxvlever objectionable hitherto, and in o di nary times, I recognize to the ful est extent, not the lawfulness only, but the ' propriety and of such organizations—for ‘when bad men combine ' good men must associate.’ But they are no conspiracy against the Government, and their members are not conspbators, : but patriots, men not leagued together for the oyerthrow of the Constitution or the laws, mid still less, of liberty, but ; firmly united for the preservation mid sup port ofthese g'eat objects There is, indeed, and I trust that before long 1 may add strongly consolidated also, and upon sound princip'es, and destined yet to be triumphant —a conspiracy known as tlie Democratic party, tlie present object of . which is the ove throw of the Admims;trationin November next;'not !> .’ force but through the ballot box the election of a pre-ident who shall be true to his oath, to Liberty and the Constitution.— This is the sole conspiracy of which I knoxv anything and i am proud to be' one of the conspi ators. If any other exist, looking to ntr’axvfui armed resis tanccto the Federal or State authorities anywhere, in the exercise of thei- legal and Constitutional rights, T admonish-all

persons conce’ned, that the act is treason and the peiia'.ty death. But I warn aso the m n in power, that there is a vast multitude, a ho>t whom they cannot number, bound together by the strpngeet a. J holie.st ties, to defend by whatever means the exigencies of the times shall demand, their natural and cmistituttoiial rights as freemen, at all hazards and to the last exticmity. 1 bre :• v. ;‘ . L.'ve ntr.r passed, Men of Ohio, an I the grp-.t is Libe:iy ffiid Free Fopu ii'-Governinent, is still before you. To yon I again cornin', t it, c mfideiil that i,n this, the time of their gi.eatest pe il. ymi xx idba found xxortiix of the aim s ors who tor so many ages in England and Ameiica, on the field, in prison and upon the scaffold, defended them against tyrants mid usurpers whether in counsels o ■ in arms. We have been fi’equetly asked whether it was pa-sible for the Administration of Lincoln to bo so depraved as to give up Polish soldiers in the F; ler.d army to tlie agents of Russia, We answer, yes! and refer the curious to tho St. L >uis Anz.dgei” a German Li ’.eo'n organ, which says: This isastiil more disgracefd aft'tir than the notorious Prussian Rasim cat tel, at " hi.di all Europe so d a ,:h -t. It is an inexting-uishai-lw shame fir oU • Republic, a rrlme aeinst tlm Constitijllon no less thin ag:dn-t. liberty and hum unity. At the s’.ne mo meat when the Fugitive Slave i Law is repealtd, lliissian hangmen are pern.i trd to hunt up their vi.iimscn Am.'iican soil, [and fugitive Poles are deiixefed over to .heir murdeivis’ Can tho American Republican sink still Joxver? Once more we ask'is it pos-itde that the American Repub. lie has c. mmitted such a cruel 1 criminal m t? Rei ar.suing.—Ueorgo D Pretr tice, of th ' I ouisvi’de Journd.in st caking of the negroes who came to Baltimore as -Jelegitcs from kjoutli Carolina an I Florida, says: ■xve should like to know whether th ‘vs it with their xvhiie br?tliren‘ and i ? they di I xvhetimi’ the room xvas crowd'.? 1. an ! if it was whirl her the day was a hot one, and' if it was, whether the oder still re. mainsphotogr, ph d upon the oh ' factory nerves of the light and c lor -d '• de rates.. Tl: ? Baltimore C nveution was tho f rs' pr.viic.il cxemp'ification 'th it his ken made politically in ihis canu/ry of the mi« eicnation theory, or union of the races. Bath negroes and whites, met together as cqna's and r.itifi ■ 1 the mmiination ol'Lincoln.— (Cin, Enq lirer. There is undisguised dissatisfaction is among th? Repuhlvansof this county; in regard to the nomination of Mr. Stillwell. Every effort is made by 1I1? trimmers of tlie partv to keep down the mutini'US feeling by solacing those who are not posted; with th?judgment of John U. Pettit; and other leaders; that no Republican can be elected to Congress from tl is Dis* Ire*: ami, in this view, they thought it infinitely better to run a renegade Democrat than a ‘true blue.. There, is no ques imbut some such view inspir’d the convention, as no Republican made an effort to get nonaina'ion. tho contest was between \ bury Steel and Tom Stillwell.—[Huntington Democrat. - The New York ?Nc’v< savs that it was ju t as natural for the Baltimore convention to nominate Lincoln, as fcr the sun to breed magi’ts jr, a dead hog;

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