Daily State Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 4277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1864 — Page 2

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T3E CXIOX IT MUST DK f RKSKRVKD. Jacaaoa TIIUKSDAY MORNING. JUN E 30. JcVn D A If i-yi Drmocrarf . lMnenliilrii. days ago the court uran of Hi Excelcj a ttigh tribute to what it termed the Jackson Democracy. Its eulogy un the OU Hero acJ tho?c who acted with him iu utinin the principles and measures of the Democracy boweter, a tribute to political doctrine which it did not really intend. Jac iox followed in the footAtepsol JnruAO. Maiiox, ani the other founders of the Dernomtic prtj, an I the political aeotimcnta they eotertainci re a much ia contraal with I,incolnim,Sewardici, Sumner ism aad Deecheriam an Riglit differ? from day. The Journal iuelf makes the contrast between the two, m narked aj it Deed be. It nys . Talkso s enforced the Constitution, and he did o with out regard to aectional interests or prejudices. He used the power given him to enforce obedience to the fundamental law of the hnd, alike in the North and in the South, in the Ea.t and in the West. But different it i with Lincoln. A the Journal mot appositely remarks, "LinCOiJi ia attempting to circuit the Constitution." This be not only attempts, but in ercrj case where the cocatitution has come in conflict with his abolition and union destroying policy he has nothefitated to suspend it. Sworn to maintain, preserve and defend the Coustitutiou he admits thu he has violated its provisions and itt tno-l acred guar antee with impunity. The Administration of LiKCOLy. which has receive! the indorsement of the party in power by Lis renominition, has been conducted upon principles entirely opposite to Jackson Democracy. There has been nothing in common between the two. The extremes of the poles are not more opposite. Jackson Democracy U synonymous with union, while Lincolnism is but a convertible term for dijunionUm That'f just the difference between the two. To day the Union would not odW have been pre served, but it would hive been cemeUed as of yore, if the principles and policy of the Jackon Democracy bad prevailed in the administration of the Government. Hut opposite doctrines and measures have been the rule.and behold the result! Civil wir.eihausiinß the resourcei of the intion and eparate Confederacies with distinct and Ik8 tile government. And whit has brought about tbia great calamity upon the nation? Let Jackson Democracy answer and we abide the appeal the Joornat has made. Twenty-aeven years ago, in his farewell address to his countrymen, Jackson thus summed up hi Ion;; consideration of the principles upon which our government is lu.-etl and the pol:cy necessary to preserve it as founded by our revolutionary fathers: "But the Constitution cannot be maintained, nor the Union preserved, in opposition tu public feeling, by the mere exertion of the coercive powers confided to the peneral government. The foundations must be I id in the affections of the people; iu the security it give to life, liberty, character and property, in every iju.irter of thj country; ant in the fraternal attachments which the citizens of the United State be.ir to one another, as member of one political family, mutually contributing to promote the happiness of each other. Hence the citizens of every State should studiously avoid everjthing calculated to wound the sensibility or offend the jut pride of the people of other State; and they should frown upon any proceedings within their own borders likely to disturb the tranquility of their . politie.il brethren iu other portions of the Union. In a country k extensive as the United States, and with pursuits so varied, the internal rezulatious of the neveral States must frequently differ from one another in important particulars; and this differerce is unavoidably increased by the varying principles upon which the American colonies were origin ally planted, principles which had taken deep root in their social relation before the revolution, and therefore, of necessity , inHueuciug their policy as they became free and independent States. Hut each State has the unquestionable right to regulate its own internal concerns ac cording to its own pleasure; and while it does not interfere with the rights of the other States or the rights of the Union, every State must be the sole judge of the measures proper to secure the safety of it citizens and promote their happiness; and all effort on the part of the people of other Sute to cast odium upon their institutions, and all measures calculated to disturb their rights of property, or to put in jeopardy their peace and internal tranquility, are in direct opposition to the spirit in which the Union was formed, and roust endanger it safety. Motives of philanthropy may be aligned for this unwarrantable interference; and weak men may persuade themselves for a moment that they are laboring in the cause of humanity, and asserting the rights of the human race; but every one, upon sober reflection, will see that nothing but mischief can come from these improper assaults upon the feelings and rights of others. Rest assured, that the men found busy in this work of discord are not worthy of your confidence and deserve your strongest reprobation." That i Jackson Democracy throughout, and there is not a sentimeut in the extract but which has the hearty approval of the Democracy of the present day. The views entertained and expressed by Jackson have ever been advocated by Democrats a the spirit which mut prevail in the hearts of the people to maint tin the Constitution nd preserve the Union upon the basis it was formed. Hut certainly the sentiments of Jack son and the Jackson Democracy are not eutertained by the Lincoln partv. Their opinions and view are in direct antagonism. The Lincoln par ty is a sectional party. It is ba.ed upon the i lea that the States of the old Union could not longer exist half slave and half free. The Jackson Democracy hve ever believed iu State equality, and in State rights subordinate to the Federal Constitution. The Lincoln party advocates the centralization of power and trie obliteration of State lines. The Jackson Democracy believe that in the legislation of Congress, alo, in every measure of the Ueueral Government, ju.-tice to every portion of the United States should be faithfully observed. The Lincoln party in its legi.L;ien subordinates one section of the country to the other, and imposes an inequality of burdens. This is manifested expres.-ly in its tariff policy, whiwh disciiraiuatck in favor of the Etattrn States and acaint the We tern and Southern. Jackson was opposed to a piper currency a imposing burdens upon Mr and building up a moneyed aristocracy. He as op posed to tariff for protection, and was for approximating as near free trade a pible to develop and sustain the agriculturtl interest of the country. He did not believe a nation 1 debt to be a pub'ic b!ring, and ehpeI the rinaiu-ial policy of hi administration to citinguidi the public debt then eiiting He . oppo-ed t. large standing army a- dangerous to the liberties or a ttce people. He favored the utmost economy iu the public ci j-eiiditure-. He w lor free epfivh, free pre, fiee election, trial bv jury and the writ of habe corpu In thee regards the Lincoln put? occupy jut the opp. it ground -iu each and all it i ti ditevt an UgouiiOi to Jaem. Democrat'. Jacko m r the L'niou and it wa his con slant effort to mui:i those principle and met urea of which would cultivate that fraternaj ffectiou between the people of tie dirlcreiil State aud do that ju-tice to every pott ion 0f the United State, that would pttcngihm and perpetuate it. The Limoln patty, in euntradistiuctloo, ia disunion party. Im lead. ng np iit for the last thirty jean luv advocated disunion a pration of the free and alave State. Mr Linmmn bltnielf, wheo a member of Conre--.

advocated the right of revolution the right of an portion of a people to raie tip and shak off the exi'tirg government, and form a new one that suits them better. We quote his own words, sj that we cannot le charge 1 with misrepresentation: "An people a:iy w'ricte, bcin indited and having power, kir t) rijht l.i raie up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suit them better. This is a most valuable and sicred r'ght a right which we hope ar d lelieve i H liberate the world. Nor is the ri;hl confined to cae in which the whole people of the exiting government may choose

to excrc:C it. Any trtmn of suck fpi thai ran, may revolutionize nd make their own of so much of the teritory a they inhibit More thm this, a nnjority of any portion of s-ich eop!e may revolutiotic, putting down a minority, intermingled with, cr near about them, who may opoe their movement. Such minoritv wa prcc;ely the ca-e of the Tories of onr revolution. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or olh laws, but to brek both and make new ones." Does not Mr. Lincoln under hi theory completely justify the Southern rebellion? No rebel ever placed the right of .-ece-sion or revolution upon tronger ground. Hut we have said enough to demonstrate that the Lincoln party entertain no sentiments in common with the Jackson Democracy. If the government had been faithfully administered upon the principle advocated by JtrLiiON, Makion and Jackson, to-day we shoul 1 have been an united, happy and pro-petous nation, aud the pre sent civil strife, which has deluged the land in biood and fastened upon the people an enormous public debt and grinding taxation, would hve been avoided. Vnatar Doiigla' Letter. On the t2d of February, lGl, Senator Douglas wrote a letter to the Memphis Appctl, iu answer to an editorial in that paper. This letter evinces the Senator's remarkable political sagaci ty and foresight, and i well worthy of a reproduction at this time. Mr. Douglas wrote: Mles. Editors I have this morniug read with amazement an editorial in yonr paper of the HOth ultimo, in which you assume that I am 'favoring the immediate withdrawal of the remaining State from the Confederacy as a peace measure, to avert the horror of civil war, and with the view of reconstruction ou a constitutional basis" I implore you by all those kind relations which have 60 long existed between u. and which 1 still cherish with o much pleasure unJ gratitude, to do me the justice promptly to correct the unaccountable error into which you have been led. In regard to secession, whether viewed as a governmental theory, or as a matter of political expediency, I have never had but one opinion, nor uttered but one language that of unqualified opposition. Nothing can be so fatal to the peace of the country, so destructive of the Union and all hopes of reconstruction, a.s the secession of Tennessc and the border States under existing circumstances. You must remember that there are disuuiotiists anion j the men whose ho tility to slavery is stronger than their fidelity to the "Constitution, and who believe that the disruption of the Union would draw after it, as an inevitable consequence, civil war, servile insurrection, ami finally, the utter extermination of slavery iu all the Southern States. They are bold, daring, determined men, and, believing, as they do, that the Constitution of the United States is the great bulwark of slavery on this continent, and that the disruption of the American Union involves the inevitable destruction of slavery, and i an iudisneusablc necessity to the attainment of that end, they are determined to accomplish their paramount object by any means within their power. For these reasons the Northern disunionists, like the Jiunioni.t of the South, arc violently opposed to all compromise or constitutional amendments, or effort at conciliation whereby peace should be restored and the L'nion preserved. They arc striving to break uo the Union under the pretense of unbounded devotion to it; they are struggling to overthrow the Constitution, while profeising undying attachment to it, and a willingness to make m v sacrifice to maintain it; they are trying to plunge the country into civil war, as surest means of destroying the Union, upon the plea of enforcing the laws and protecting the public property." If they can defeat every kind of adjustment or compromise by which the points at issue may be satisfactorily settled, and keep up the irritation, so a to induce the Uorder States to follow the Cottop States, they will feel certain of the accomplishment of their ultimate designs. Nothing will gratify them so much, or contribute so effectually to their success, as the secession of Tennessee and the Uorder States. Every State that withdraws from the Union increases the relative power of northern abolitionists to defeat a satisfactory ad justment, and to bring on a war, which sooner or later must end in final separation and recognition of the independence of the two contending section. If, on the contrary, Tennessee, North Carolina, and the Border State will remain in the Union, and will unite with the conservative and Union-loving men of all parties in the North, in the adoption of such a compioraiseas will be alike honorable, safe and just to the people of all the States, peace and fraternal feeling will soou return, and the Cotton State will come back, and the Union be rcudcred perpetual, l'ardou the repetition; but that cannot be too strongly impressed upon all who love our country, secession and war will be the destruction not only of the preseut Union but will blast all hope of re construction upon a constitutional basis. I am, very truly, your friend, S. A. Douglas. Ol II AIC.V1Y ' OmilM'OMIIlM i;. Hi ntsvillk. Ala., June '23. Mr. Eiutor: Yesterday the 3d division left this place, taking up its iine of march for Atlanta. Col. Johnson, ot the 13th Indiana cavalry, relieved Col. Alexander of the command of the post Col. Aleiander rallied on his old 1st brigade, and the last sight I had of him be was at the head of his command crossing a spur of the Cumberland. I was left behind to gather up the pieces, which 1 am glad to say are very few and easily found. Col. Johnson is a "gay aud festive cuss" from Miami, "a fellow of infinite jest," line points and :reat penetrative abilities; he will surely make Iiis mark. A'ready he has many friends. (Jen. Kouseau has been visiting this post, but left for other points last night. His friends in Southern Indiana will be glad to know that he is well, and reminds one ot Shakspeare's Justice "with his fair round belly," with good lining certainly, but I know not the nstv.re of its lining. 1 have just this minute leceived the following dispatch from Colonel Alexander, characteristic becane of its brevity. He says: "Da. J UK The cooks were all drunk last night and h tve nothing to eat. Hring forward supplies." The Colonel hs teat trject for his inli arils." Speaking of friend. Joe. 1 have made some very warm one my .elf. Only last night an enthui tstic cuss slapped me on the shoulder, and swore that if 1 would stay with him. Northern Alabama chould be forced out of the Union, and I made 1'iesiJent of the i;ew confederacy for life. I ci pressed my regrets that I could net serve, but recommended Mr. Lincoln, whom I thought would be illirg to sine. The Alabama chap could not ee it. however. Would thi not be a good fiel I for some of our Indiana politician? ltusfi hacking is getting quite common iu this iicijhborhood, aUo stetliug of every description, and occasionally a genuine Knight of the Koad" makes his appearance I Icaie tonight for "the Iiutit." Shtll 1 write to you of the "military nitustion" when I get there? Your liieLd, .1 ai k. Tin Kihil tii. I.tt Ctruku On Siurday, Ceti Lew Wallace, the sstrip of Maryland. coufieted all the copie of the Iondou ll!utrated Nf found at the different periodical tne in lUltiniore. on account of it contain Ins an admirable likenes of the rvbel Oen. Ire. If the it-bet (ienrrat mtu.ut be taken by our oldtrraoit thj field of battle, he ha been captured on paer by the redoubtable Wallace Washington Union

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TI LCICLL N ATI LL O Tilt A--ALLT ON rtTIKTrasut EJ. va Li i. ot stanton's ''oruiiH Hl LLI TIN" HM .t N.or.ANT FALLEN INTO A TEAf? HOW GIN. Lit- IIA IX PLOT LI THE TJUL THAT OEANT II A fl'l NT RlfOCK rtTI.EVULRl, III MtViat oR Tilt I'LI EAT or t.LN. i.KWTs TLN HOW" MX. LIE EXPECT TO Stt Itr THE SAkTY 0 RKHMNO THI Missmox or rcTissBLRG or no 11: inl the RISLI. WORK Rt riRSTTAKIN. ;l"crre..'rvl' iicr of tb New Yi-rk Nrws.j Washington, June -M, lfl. 1 enjoyed an opportunity of conversing to day at Annapolis, with several ofiicers who were wouuded in the recent attacks on Petersburg. It is evident from their accounts, that the historv of those tetrible tnageraents has yet to be written, and that when it is written truthfully , the country will be appalled at the frightful s-u-ritice of life which they involved. The Secretary of War, in his incoherent and ungramm aticnl "official bulletin" of Saturday morning lat, in which be gravely announce-! the capture of l'etersburg, (the capture of Petersburg by ne?ro troops, too!) describes "the conquered lines," as he calls them, on the authority of his official informant, as "of the very strongest kind, more so. indeed, than the works on Missionary Kid;c." He calls these works, too, "the principal line of the enemy's works." Now what will the intelligent people of tie country think, when they come to learn that the works thus described by Mr. Stanton constituted merely the outer liue of the enemy's defenses; that they were the weakest, and by far the weakest of the works by which l'etersburg is defended; that "the principal line of the enemy's works" ha not been even reached; an th it all the really hard fighting iu front of Petersburg took place after the Secretary's inform tut "went over the conquered lines?" These are the facts. Would it not be well for Mr. Sainton to take some intelligent boy of twelve years of aire, and employ him hereafter to cet up these "oiiicial bulletins." The terrible lighting of the I6:h, 17th and 1 srth of June has developed the real strength of the enemy's position at Petersburg. It u evident that (iniit is butting his head there against a stone wall, with about the si me results that usually attend such a performance. It is question.! ble too, whether, after all, it would not have been better for Grant to have moved on Richmond from Harrison's Landing, when bis army was there ou the loth, by way of Mülvern Hill and the Charles City road, rather than have crossed the James river at all. True, the whole strength of the Confederate army would have teeu in his path, and u terrible battle would have taken place, but the battle could uot have been more sanguinary, nor attended with greater loss than have beeu the actions before Petersburg. Grant must meet and defeat the Confederate army somewhere before he can t:ike Richmond: and he had a better opportunity to do that between Malvern Hill and the Confederate capital than lie has where his army is now. If be had been victorious, be would certainly be much nearer the capture of Richmond than he is today. If he had been icpulsed he would have been better off th in he is to day, for be has been repulsed now, not only once, but on four days in succession. Uesides, he has now got to take both Petersburg and Richmond. Iy movin in the direction indicated above, there would have been no Petersburg in bis path. Indeed, he seems to h tve carried the flanking business a little too fir this time, ml to luve rushed against an obstacle which there was no need for him to encounter at all. And I find that many of the officers have the impression that when he has demonstrated to his satisfaction the fact that Petersburg is too hard a nut to crack, he will "change his base" aain, and, crossing his army to Hai-rison's Landing, commence from that point a new campaign against Richmond. In the meantime. I find it to be the opinion of many of the officers that this attack ou Petersburg was desired aud expected by lien. Lee, for the purpose ot involving our array in a tedious and protracted attempt to take the place, an attempt which he knew tnu-t fail, and iu the course of which our assaults must be attended with terrible loss. And this view is confirmed by intelligence which has reached this city from Richmond, up to the liOili instant. It will not escape the attention of the intelligent readers of the News. t!i tt the check which we have experienced before Petersburg, lias afforded to (Jen. Lee the time and opportunity to carry in execution certain raacsures for the defense of Richmond, which he could not have had, if General Grant had not crossed over to the south side of the James liver. If these measures prove successful, it is not too much to say that they will absolutely prevent the capture of Richmond at this time. They are measuies directen against Gen. Hunter, toward the defense of Lynchburg, and toward the defense and preservation, and the continued availability of three lines of railroad running from Richmond, namely ; the one to Danville and Columbia in South Carolina, ( which by way of Ilurkesville, is the most direct route to Lynchburg.) the one to Lynchburi by the circuitous route of Gordonsville and Charlottsville, and the short line to Petersburg. It is very evident that the measures directed against Gen. Hunter have already involved the troops under that officer, as well as those under Pope and Crooks in great peril, that it is entirely beyond their power to engage in offensive operations, and that if thev succeed in getting back to Winchester in safety, it is all that can be expected of them. As regards Lynchburg, the place may be con aidered absolutely beyoud the reach of capture at present. The large force already there under Gen. Nichols has been reinforced since the IGth, by a large detachment from Geii. Lee's army, which was sent to him by the Hurkesvir.,' rail road, the distance from Richmond being 121 miles. It is very strongly fortified, and, although it might be taken by a well appointed force of fifty thousand troops, it certainly cannot be by the troops under Hunter aud Pope. It is under stood at Richmond that large detachments of (Jen. Lee's army have been sent to certain points on the Danville railroad in order to dele it any attempt to destroy it. and it is certain that both that road and the Virginia Central road, from Richmond to Lynchburg, by way of Gordonsville, are both in full opration now. It was at Trevalian, on the latter to id, near Gordonsville. that Gen. Sheridan' cavalrv attempted to de-troy the track. Hut even by his own report it is evident that be failed in his mission. He found a strong Confederate force at Gordonsville, of which Picket's division formed apart. He&.us himself, "The enemy's position was found too strong for assault. We were twice driven from the enemy's works by infantry. My loss in killed and wounded is "; " His ammunition ran out. and he retreated over the North Anna river at Minor's bridge. It was a thoughtful provision of Gen. Sheridan to take ambulances with him In these he brought away 377 ot his wounded men. AH the rest of his wounded he s.ivs he left in the hands of the enemy. Gen Lee's account of the affair represented it as being a complete defeat of Sheri- ! dan. It is certain that he suffered great loss and ! was compelled to retteat, and entirely failed to i accomplish the purpose of his expedition. Yet j the coantry has been told to rejoice over Sheri dan s brilliant success. llutler sent a bragging bulletin to the War Department, boasting that be had destroved the i railroad between Richmond and Petersburg on the Kith. I mi t the birtface-d falsity of the state mer.t is evident from the fact that, on the l;th, trains of cars were running on that road all day, bringing troops from Lee's army at Richmond to join Reauregird at Petersburg. It is reported to-dav tint Gen. Grant has um inoncd Petersburg to surrender, and threaten to flu ntti'ii uritfmj t!i ilm iiwl 14 fim-ttiil j with. Gen. Grant miv do this; but the onlv efiectof the bombardment of Petersburg would be the destruction nf the city and the deith of hundred of i.e. i comb ilai.ts. Rut our troops coul 1 never occupy Petersburg, even if we destroy it. The place is completely comimnded by the guns of the Confederate, mounted on their strongest line of work. The-e work must be taken before the capture of Petersburg can be of the slightest advantage to us. Mali oi.m. frV'Tbe i a tree in front of Gen. Harrow' Ith division. ISO rmy orp. Sherman's army, which i called the fitl tree Light men were idiot, one after another, a -oon as they advanced to the ill-fated tree to tike a eccure position behind it huge trunk. Seven men were shot, when a hoard was pi. teed time with the word " Dangrrom" ehalkra upon it. The rebels ahot the guide bord into fragment, and a Sngeant took hi phie behin 1 the uiiupecting tree. In le than Ave minute two Minnie bU pierced the Sergeant' body, and he fell, the eighth matItr bane ath the shadow of the tree of death

Tfanlfetto of the Confederate sttntea to the World The following joint preamble and resolution, with the annexed manifesto, were introduced in the Senxte by Mr. Hill, of Georgia, adopted in secret es, ion. and ent to the IIous- on Friday night. The House, after a cret debate of several hours duration, adapted them substantially as they came from the Sennte. with some slight modification of language. The injunction of secrecy having been removed from this imjortact document by the House, though not by th Senate, webu it before ot:r readers this mornli:g: "iOINT SIOLITIONS DLCLAttlNü Tilt. MsrOsITIOS o rRINCII'LtS AND 1'LJtrOSLS OF THE CONKKDLR-

ATL TATtsi IN ELLATlON TO TIIK TI-TINO W.H WITH T1IL INITIO STAT LS. ' Wiierea, It is due to the great cause of humanity and civiliition, and especially to the heroic sacrifices d" their gallant army in the field, that no mean ciii-tent with proper selfrespect and the approve! uages of nations should be omitted by the Confederate States to enlighten the public opinion of the world with regard to the true character of the struggle in which they are engaged, and the dispositions, principles and purposes by which thev are actuated; therefore, "Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the following manifesto be issued in their name, and by their authority, and that the President be lequested to cause copies thereof to be transmitted to our commissioners abroad, to the end that the same may be laid before foreign overnraents. "Manijettii of the Canjresi of the Confederate States of America relatire to the existing tear irith the United States. "The Congress ot the Confederate States of America, acknowledging their responsibility to the opiniou of the civilized world, to the great law of Christian rbilantbropy.andto theSupreroe Ruler of the Universe, for the part they have been conit elled to bear in the sad spectacle of war arid carnage which this continent has, for the last three yeirs, exhibited to the eyes of afflicted buruanity, deem the present a fitting occasion to declare the principle's, the sentiments and the purposes by which they have been, and are still actuated. "They have ever deeply deploied the neces sity which compelled them to take up arm in defense of their rights, and of the free institutions derived from their ancestors; and there is nothing they more ardently de.dre thau peace, when hoever their enemy, by ceasing from the unhal lowed war waged upon them, shll permit them to enjoy in peace the sheltering protection of tho?e hereditary rights and those cherished institutions. The scries cf successes with which it has pleased Almighty God, iu so s-igual a manlier, to bless our arms on almost every point of our invaded border since the opening of the present campaign, enables us to confess this desire of peace in the interest of civilization and humanity, without dinger of having our motives misinter preted;ofthe declaration being uscribed to any unmanly sentiment or any mistrust of our ability fully to maintain our cause. The repeated and disastrous checks, foreshadowing ultimate discomfiture, which their gigantic army, erected against the capital of the Confederacy, has already met with, arc but a continuance of the same providential successes for us. We do not recur to the successes in any spirit of vain boastiug, but in humble acknowledgment of that Almighty protection which h is vouchsafed and granted them "The world must now see that eight millions of people, inhabiting- so extensive a territory, with such varied resources and such numerous facilities for defence as the benignant bounty of nature has bestowed upon us, and animated with one spirit to encounter every sacrifice of ease, of health, of property, of life itself, rather thau be degraded from the con lition of free and independent States, into which thev were born, can never be conquered. Will not'our adversaries themselves begiu to feel that humanity has bled long enough; that tears and blood and treasure enough have been expended in a bootless undertaking, covering their own land no less than ours, with a pall of mourning, and exposing them far more than ourselves, to the catastrophe of financial exhaustion and bankruptcy, not to speak of the loss of their liberties by the despotism engendered in an aggressive warfjre up m the liberties of another aud kindred people? Will they be willing, by a longer perseverance in a wanton aud hopeless contest, to make this continent which they so loug boasted to be the chosen abode of liberty and self government, of peace and a higher civilization, thtf theatre of the most cause less and prodigal effusion of blood which the world has ever seen, of a virtual relapse iuto the barbarism of the ruder ages, and of the destruction of constitutional freedom by the lawlessness of usurped power? "These are ejucstions which our adversaries will decide for themselves. Wc desiie to stand acquitted before the tribunal of the world, as well as in the eyes of omniscient Justice, of any responsibility for the origin or prolongation of a war as contrary to the spirit of the age as to the traditions and acknowledged principles of the po' litical system of America. "On this continent, whatever opinions may have prevailed elsewhere, it has ever been held and acknowledged by all parties that government, to be lawful, must be founded on the consent of the governed. We were forced to dissolve our Federal connection with our former associates by their aggressions on the fundamental principles of our compact of union with them; and in doing so we exercised a right consecrated iu the great charter of American liberty the right of a free people, wheu a Government proves destructive of the ends for which it was established, to recur to the original principles, and to institute new guards for their security. The separate independence of the States, as the sovereign and co-equal members of the Federal Union, had never been surrenderee, and the pretensions of applying to independent communities, so constituted and organized, the ordinary rules for coercing and reducing rebellious subjects to obedience was a solecism in terms, as well as an outrage on the principles of public law. "The war made upon the Confederate States, was therefore, wholly one of aggression. On ! our side it has been strictly defensive. Rom free men and descendants of a gallant ancestry, we had no option but to stand up in defense of our invaded firesides, of our desecrated altars, of our violated liberties and birthright, and of the prescriptive institutions which guard and protect them. We have not interfered, nor do we wish iu any manner, whatever, to interfere with the internal peace and prosperity of the States arrayed in hostility against us. or with the freeest development of their deti:iies in any form of action or line of policy they may think proper to adopt lor themselves. All we ask is a like immunity for ourselves, and to be left to ourselves in the undisturbed enjoyment of those inalienable rights of "life, liberty aud the pursuit of happiness," which our cd mm on ancestors declared to be the equal heritage of -all the parties to the soci il compact. "Let them forbear aggressions upon us, aud the war is at an end. If there be questions which require adjustment by negotiation, we have ever been willing, and are still willing, to enter into communication with our adversaries in a spirit of pea-e. of equitv, and of mmly frankness. Strong in the persuasion of the justice of our cause, in the manly devotion of our citizen soldiers, and of the whole body of our people, aud above all, in the gricious protection of Heaven, we are not j afraid to avow a sincere desire for peace on terms consistent with honor and the permanent security of ou rrights. and au e tri. est aspiration to tee the world once more restored to the benificeat pursuit of industry and of mutuel intercourse and exchanges, so essential to its well doing, which have beeu so gravely interrupted by this unnatural war in America." "Rut if our adversaries or tho-e whom they' h ire placed in power, deaf to to the voice of reasou and justice, steeled to the dictates of prudence by a presumptuous and deluivc confidence in their own numbers, er those of their black and foreign mercenaries, shall determine upon au indefinite prolongation of thecoutet, upon them be the responsibility of a decision so ruinous to themselves, and so ir-.jur io i to the interet and repoc of mtnkirid " "For ourselves, we have no fear of tlie result. The wildest picture ever drawn by a disordered imagination ,romes hört of the cxtravigance which would" dream of the conquest cf eight millious of people, resolved with one mind "to die freemen rather than live slaves," and forewarned by the savage aud exterminating spirit in 'which this war has been wa-cd upon them, and by the md avowals of the up;orter of the w"ore than Kgyptian bondage thet awaits them in the event of their subjugation. 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GeLeral I.AZ. NOBLi:, Adjutant General State of Indiana; Col. W. II. II. TKKRKl L. Financial Secretary Executive Department, Indiana; Major DAXIKL McCIXKK, Chief Paymaster, District of Indiana and Illinois; IJon. J. RISTIN. Auditor of Slate; Major M. L. Bl'NDY, Pavma-ter. U. S. A.; Dr. F. S. NEWCoMK.lt: M .-. FLETCHER, VAJKN & CO.. Bankers; Mer. A. J. C. S. HARRISON. Banker; Mers. FLETCHER, Jr.. A ChTI.CllVAX, Tanker..; Uon. W. H. KANDAI.I., M. C, Lomkn, Ky.;VM. S. HUNTINGTON, Cashier FiMXa tiouil lUnk, Washington, I). C. j-l6-dAwlm

Ktl 11 well Horton. Anplrson, June 27, liQi. En. Sextixkl: The Lincolnites of this district have nominated Col. Tom. Stillwell, of the sedentary army, hte in the Home Couiniiarv, or Quartermaster Department, we believe, for Congress. It is privately rumored here that he i a ret and relation of "our excellent Governor," and some folk j have got it into their heads how I don't know that "our excellent Governor" miy h.ive occasion to tend some money this summer Gor "military purposes" in that district. from his Financial Bureau. Tbere U a good deal of anxiety amonj the Democracy here on the subject. They want to know whether our little 1 Mc. h;3 ot to run against Stillwell and the Fi- I nancial Bureau or not. If you should learn j anything about it down there, we wi.-h you would let ih know, and oblige Some Toor, bct IIoxtsT Democrat. P. S. We understand teat nei'.her Lincoln nor Morton's son went to war. DIED. In Charleston, Illinois, on the 20ih of this month, Dtmas Jonks Vardkuks. Esq , leaving a wife, three children and innumerable friends to mourn bis premature los. The deceased was a natie cf Kentucky, (we beiieve of Harrison county,) and a more perfect, hih-toned gentleman, tlie writer cf this has never known. He was about 41 or 42 years of age, and, as a politician aud original thinker had few superiors. He had a thorough knowledge of the principle!- and Mructure of our system of poverninent, and, though temporarily misled by the Know rsothina; organization, a more thorough going national man we have never known. He defpised sectionalism and local bigotry, ;rr.d his death is a great loss to tbe Democracy in that section of Illinois. In private life and in tbe family circle be was the model of an hospitable and good ne ighbor, a kind husband and indulgent father, and a true and attached fiiend. The writer of this has known bim long and well, und can truly say that be has left bebind him few men who combined .o many amiable and excellent traits of character, or who exercised a more beneficial infiueric in tbe sphere in which be moved. J. D. AMUSEMENTS. M KTKOl'OLlTAft HALL STACK MANAGER..., , Mr. W.U. RILEY. Jff7l)oors open at 7,' o'clock. Curtain ri-e at 8 precisely. Thursday Evening, June 30th, 1864.1 IVAVAI, ENttAGEIttElVrK.I DANCK .Mis FANNY SiF.KRKLL. Tin Orpluiu ot Goncviu jgfcjy To-morrow Iiehefit of Mr. F O. WHITE. SCALE. OF rniCF.s. Private Boxes, for six people 44 00 Orchestra Seats 75 Cent Dress Circle and Parquet te 5W Cent fiallery or Family Circle J5 Cent jr"Ao extra rhiirye for renerted irpBox office op-n Irom 10 o'clock A. M. till 12 M JQReserved seata retained only till tbe end of tbe first act. 1J A S O I IC Ii A Is L . OUK TAVO KITES Are Ayain Coming icith Xew Attractions. DUPItEZ & GHEKN'S Original New Orleans & Metropolitan MINSTRELS! BURLESQUE OPERA TROUPE ISTID BRASS BAND! OF TWF.NTY-FOUK RENOWNED. POFULAR AND BRILLIANT STARS. TlieL.ar;jcst Troupcin tin- World! F.XCEI.L1NV, AND DEFYING ALL COMPETITION! POSITIVELY FIVE NiGHTS ONLY! UrdnestUy, Tli u r li.-r. Friday Sat u r day and .Monday June 2) und 3 ) and July 1, 2 und . GRAND MATIN EE, Monday Afternoon, Independence Day TIJI-V 'I tli. IWrs t pen at 2 o'clock, commence at 3 o'clock precisely. For detail see Mammoth IlctoriaN, Illustrated I. scriptive Sheet and Irogramnieii, D.sj.lay Bill and other advertisements. Kvenine performance. d-or open at o'cl.'k, to commence at s.' o'clock. PricV of Admis-ion Ti kts 2ö e nts: Itescrved Seat ,r cert. SAM'L IHN I). THOS.C. 0UKK5. AdvertUln: Aent, Cn.VS. II. MTRKZ. Manager. Je'iTdTt NOTICE. lank Notice, I N OBDF.R TO ALLOW SUFFICIENT TIME TO CLOSK on th tu!ni of each day at our reppectlve Bank, the underpinned agree that for the future n tmtne will t transacted by u after four (4) o'clock 1. M , our door being locked at that hour. TLW arrangement hall take etJect after ten day' retire throush tbe dally pr f tLl city, and will be r7.'y ! ((' Vv'y adhered lo N one hall withdraw from thlt arrangement without aTlvln ten (10) daya notice In writing to tie aeveral partie ho have ulc rlhed to thi paper. Ilksr NATIONAL BANK. LETCH KB, VAJKN TO , I'KTTIBOSK, MANM'RA CO. A. A J. C I- IIAKKISOM. X. A. FLFTVHFK A CO., H.KtTllr.K X 511 AHl k . I i d at.!-l, June dlOt

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'Bounty! battle can pet their Bounty immediately by end!n? their .v. i'". rsToiJLi:. cheerfully given. 312 3XT 3 2 FOR SALE. V Sl'AXX aV S1I1TII. An 80 Acre Farm, 3 1-2 MILES S, E. OF INDIANAPOLIS, -A.T ATJCTIOlSr, On Saturday, July 9, 1864, at 2 P. M. At tin Conti IIoiim' Door, INDIANAPOLIS, INI). THIS VALUABLE TRACT OF LASH MKS OX THE INDIANAPOLIS AND CINCINNATI R. R.f And N only one half mile from the Michigan Road Pike, With an outlet to the Michigan Road t r two dirvet road, one on the north line and the other on the "utb line. On the place are about 3 .? a c it i: s o r r i ii u iz it , Of first rate quality, every acre of which ia worth of itseir JHtO for nre wood. The remainder is clean! Und It is " lloth by a never failing spring and Lick Creek. There U also an excellent Of about one hundred Apple Trees. It is marked on the county map lu name of N. Alldredge and is known as tbe Alldredge Farni. The title ia perfect. Ticrus One-half down, the baUr.ee in one and t-vo year, wbn intereet. SPANS A SMITH, j3"-dts Kea! Estate Agent. I5V SIM NX V S T1ITII. AN ELEGANT TWO STORY -IIIIU I .AJL1 .A- U (J lXO JN . On Wednesday, July 6th, 1864, AT 11 O'CLOCK -A. M.. WK will sell that most deMrahle property No. 1 1 8 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA STBEET, at the premises, at tbe timv above named. It possesses all the a Ivantairen to te had in the most complete city dwelling. There are tine pood room!", hall, porches, cellar, well and cistern, stable, carriage house, a large amount of Ileautiful und Well firoun Mi rubbery, Small Fruitkf.Miade Trees Ac. The principal front is to the EAST, while the St. Clair Ktreet front looks out upon THE BLIND ASYLUM PARK. The lot is large (C5 fet 4 iticheg front) and the house ba been newly painted on the outside, and ia in every respect in first rate order. Terms One-third down, the balance in one and two years, with interest and mortgage. Furttier particular may be learned from SPANN t SMITH, je30-dts Ileal Eftate Broker. CARPETS, WALL-PAPER, &c. NEW CARPET STORE o. HI r,ast Washington St., Scluniirw O 1 I Stiunl, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. WE HAVE A LAH5E 8T(K;K of CARPETS, OIL-CLOTHS, MATTINGS, satin delaines, REPS PEKIN CLOTHS, Duinak Lace, .Timlin A; !Vottln?liuiu All of these Hood haying been purchased before tbe late advance in the F.a-t, we will e!I thtn lower than New Yrk wholesale price. A1m Just received 100.000 1'iecc Wall Taper ami Window Shades KRAUSS & CALL. jejymdiv NOTICE. 1? Iii lUI J riio all whom rr may concern, notice u 1. hereby given that tte underirned will proecole aüpersor lnfrinjln on the patent granted ta A. B J. J owera for lrag .Hawing Machine, patented January 5th, 1-64, In tbe Mate cf Indiana, under the tew patent lw. S. p. V. KLOWKBS. i.i-i-.1lw F0RSALE. Two Store Room Lots on South Meridian Street I .10K AI.E for a few day, at a ry low price. The " U-t property fr either tt or nveteni. I" fiw j vl-red in IbU ground. Th ttreet I the bot In the city for wholaing, and i bcirjc rapidly built b,- with I atrtctly fiM-d. buttiM boue. Tbe lot are each I frt frnt by f et deep lo a i wide alley. If Dot oli with '.I a fea daja. It will bo cl.ed wdt at i At CHUN. Particular may I Warned from ! , M'AN.V k Hil ITH, l Je53 .tTlt BeaU ta Af-tili.

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SSoiit h r-i-ili:m tSt., F.AST F.M r.NIOX DFPÜT. INDIAN APOLIS, IND., WHOLKSALE DEALERS (FXCI.rslVFI.T) IN PAINTS, OILS, Varnishes, Dye-Stuffs, (ah ASS WAR IS, AMi-E-ancy (S-oods, AKI PURE WINES AND LIQUORS. WE WOULD CALL THE ATTKXTIOX OF DRCGOISTS to tbe aove establishment, and Invite them, when in tbe city, to bok through our Mock. Our freodn were bourht when gold wa at fl SH. and before the additional 50 per ceat increase in Tariff Iuty, which, we are confident, will enable u to all godd in our line very low and yet realize a profit. We will duplicate any Cincinnati bill fluctuation In price con. idered. Order are aolicited JeT'U-dly DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, &C. WEBB, TARKIMTON & CO., irf kssor rn WHOLESALE TEAI.F.K. IX STAPI.K VIVr FANCY DRY (MODS! NOTION S, KNOUSH, FRENCH, AM) GERMAN' JFancy Goods, No. 42 South Meridian Street, (SCHNCLLS 5F.W PLOCK,) I .M I ANATOLI, INDIANA. To our Customer, and t'rlcnd. HaTing Mld our entire atock cf Goods to Mer. Wet.b.Tarkinirtoo A Co., w e take plea-aue in recommend -in then a pentlenien poesMnr ample mear lor.r experience in trade, enerry and integrity: and bare entire confidence that tbe old eufctornera of tbe boase will be enred an favorably and Lpon aa rroi term a they havo been ly u. We trut thoe who have dealt with u will continue their patronage to the new hin.e. Mr. pee will continue with our aucceaora. Thanklnc car fiiecda for the farcra hown na In thepat. we will be happy t e thora at our old counting rora, wl.ere we wiil remain for the purpose of e'.anjig up our buflnes. CKOSSLAMi k I'V.r.. Jeh-tt3m PROFESSIONAL. J. T. JAKSON. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR ATLAV, OFUCK K. W. COUXEIl SirKIDlAX A5I WASHINGTON Street, (Telegraph Baildlnc.) Iüd.aiapoü, Iictlana. Special attention (riven to tie Collection of Accor.n'a and the aecurinir of Government Claim. Satisfactory referrnce rlvea hen renc!red. mjZ dtf MONEY ADVANCED 05 WATCTJKS. MANOXDX. JF.WELRT. I't-aTF, Dry Uoodt and oüt rroLal property, orbo5t;l and o!d at jSTO. 18 h soirrii Illinois kti:kft. nohwoois riocx tL'P STA1KS.) cm-sriT HTCLO. BATES HOUSE-; .1. Ii. ClOIION, rEomrroiL INDIAKAP0LI3, INDIANA. Bij30-dtf REAPERS AND U07EnsT FflUK IKOX HAIiVKTF.R I OX KXIIir.ir.OX AT I I ha Court 11 11 Yard. Ietf Raker, II and kakef aa OMoCllpl-er. Farrwen rail attd e xamiii Iber, any I Um I, AYIII Ai t.

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