Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1862 — Page 4

JYEEKLY SENTIT EL awAY JULY 28 finl ( ongretnanal District. The Democracy of the First District will meet in convention, at Vincennes, on Wednesday, the 13th of August, to nominate a candidate for Congress. Emancipation . As a part of v.e history of the times we publish this morning the address of the President to the border State Senators and Representatives in Congress and the reply of the latter. This correspondence, from the distinguished sources which it em i nates, entitles it to the careful consideration of every citizen.

True Wards. The Lafayette Journal say:: "Help your country while yet your help may avail. If ever lib erty and the true principles of self-government needed the strong arm, the stout heart, the clear bead of every loyal man and woman, is to day. The hour is dark. Help you, help, help the country." Tenth Congressional District. The Democracy cf the Tenth Congressional District will meet in Convention at Kendall vilie, Noble county, on Thursday, August 7th, to nominate a candidate for Congress, "and to .unsult as to the most efficient means for crushing this unholy rebellion, which fills the land with violence and confusion, and restoring to the full measure of their primitive glory and beneficent way. the Constitution and the Union of our fa thera." Seventh Congreenional District. The Democracy of this district met in mass convention on Tuesday, the 22.J inst., at Terre Haute. The attendance was large, I irger than any similar convention ever be:ore held in the district. By acclamation, and with the wildest enthusiasm, Hon. D. W. Voorhlla was renomi nated as the Democratic candidal for Congress. Mr Vookhecs, in response, spoke for two hours in a niiisterly and eloquent effort. His exposure and rebuke of the corruptions and frauds of the party in power was scathing, and his vindication of his public action was most triumphant. T"Conjrress, after appropriating $ 800,000,000 and passing a medley of incongruous acts, unconstitutional and oppressive says the Albany ,4ru has adjourned. The country is relieved, as from a nightmire. Never before did so nn worthy a body of men meet in a crisis like the present. The condition of the country called for wisdom, forbearane, energy, sacrifice. This Congress gave the tliiuient speeches of politi cians, the violence of demagogues, the plots of intriguers. Ti.e army and the people have stood for a year with au enemy in front the rebels and an enemy in the rear the Congress. Wt.ich has been the worse? Historv will tell. Tke flau Convention ot the 30th. The Journal ot Tuesday copies our notice of the arrangements mae with the railroads centering in this city for half-tare trains to the State Mass Convention to be held here on the 'Mlh, which appeared in the Sentinel the day before, and inquires "what State Central Committee have made the arrangements" referred to. If the Journal had examined the call it would have been enlightened. It is the Democratic State Central Committee that made the "arrangements," and it is to be a mass meeting of the Democracy of Indian and all conservative citi zens who desire to maintain the Constitution as it is and the Union as it was. called to consider the crisis of the country and their duty in reference to the present emergency iu our public affairs. It the Journal editor comes within that class he is invited to unite with the Democracy upon that occasion in a patriotic effort to preserve the Union ot the fathers and to secure to ourselves and those who come after the blessings of constitutional liberty. There was no design or "policy" in omitting the word "Democratic" in refer ing to the State Central Committee. If it had been a notice sent for pablication iu a Republican paper there might have beeu some "policy" in the omission, but appearing in a Democratic pa per no oue could question or doubt what com mittee was intended. We are obliged to the editor for publishing the article noticing the ar rangements for and objects of the Convention, and we have no doubt its readers will be under equal obligation for once furnishing them with "lofty and party patriotism" and Union senti menu expressed with "sincerity and truth." The Convention will be largely attended from all parts of the State by sincere and truthful Union men, and its resolutions and speeches will breathe nothing but patriotic devotion to the Constitution and the Uuion. and express naught but condemnation of the men, policy and measures designed for their overthrow, and the best means for the preservation of the Govern ment. me ractt." Under the above caption, the Journal of Monday comments upon a communication from one "Dr. J. N. Rat." which appeirs iu that print, respecting a private conversation said to be h id with one of the proprietors of this piper, after the attack upon Sumter, and a remark he t its lie heard some one make to the writer of this after the Bull Run battle, desiring that Bralre6AUD di uld march his annv upon Washington and capture the Government. This fellow Rat is insane, known to be so by all who hive any intercourse with bim. His statements upon any subject are no more entitled to belief than any inmate of the Asylum for the Insane. No court, or sensible man, would now believe him on oath. He owes this office several hundred dollars for work done for bim and we suppose that fact is the occa si on of his insane m ilice towards us. Before his aberration of mind we understand he was a vicious and troublesome man and we believe was guilty of mal practice hieb compelled him to leave his former residence in a neighboring coun ty. We pity the man whom Providence, as a cliaati.-ement, has thus afflicted, or even if it should be the result of his own tran-j Insanity may be an apology for Rat's slan der. b it where the excuse for the infamous inferences of the editor of the Journal based upon such testimony? The latter can not be igno rant of the general character and menu I condition of the foi wer He knows that Rat was dis charged from the arsenal as a watchman for incompetency a no imbecility. Upon such evidence theaditarof the Journal charges the "controlers" of the SenUnel with "malignant hatred of his Goveraiuaut in bis heart.' Nothing but malice, a heart depraved bulb by nature and cultivation, could prompt such a slander agaiuat a neighbor. There is no excuse or palliation for it. The Journal editor knows that t iere is not a shadow of foundation for a charge dapdislovalty against us, unless it was for entertaining views as to the causes aud necessity of the war similar to his own, expressed before the breaking out of hustil (ties, and which he baa since reiterated. A malignant, mean wickedness could alone hare the publication ot Rat's communication bis comments thereon. There could be no object but to excite prejudice and stir up strife in the community. We hare no heart to comment upon aach evidences of anJiea. that have no justification whatever. Iu conclusion, we will add that the statements of Rat are misi eptwsaiUtion and falsehoods from beginning to end. No such remark as he relates ws ever made to ns in the SentinM office

i i i si pa in our presence, nor did Mr. Elder, say what he reports or any sentiment like it. And no man but who is anxious to believe a lie can think

otherwise, (tod knows that no one can exceed us in loyalty to the Constitution and the Union, and a sincere desire to preserve the one and maintain the other, and no one is willing to make greater sacrifices to secure those great objects. The "War Meeting." The meeting at the Circle on Wednesday night was addressed by Gov. Mobtox, Hon. A. U. Por. teb and Judge Hughes. The speeches of Messrs. Morton and Poeter, in comparison, were manly, dignified and candid. This we can say, without agreeing with all the positions they assumed. The harangue ot Hughes was the reverse. It was a malicious, but artful political tirade. His speech was calculated to excite prejudice and passion, and stir up strife. W.? were happy to notice that it did not receive the sympathy of those who are honestly striving to put down the rebellion. There is no more dangerous man in Indiana than Hughes. He is controlled by his prejudb and not by the lofty senti ments of patriotism, nor does he act upon the convictions of his own judgment. He is a man of intellect, without heart; ot cultivation, devoid of moral sentiment; ever ready to sacrifice principle to gratify his malice. He would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. Within a few months he stated, with apparent honesty, that while objecting to some of the expressions of the 8th of January Convention, he felt disposed to vote for the ticket it had nominated. And with in a few weeks be has said that if he had been .dvised that the mass meeting of the 30th inst. vas to have been called, as it has beeu. he should not have occupied tht position ho now does. We state thee facts to show the animus of his vin diclive and uncalled-for speech last night. If he will honestly express his opin ions, Hughes is as much opposed to the confiscation and emancipation schemes of the Radicals as any m m in Indiana. His position, as we understand it, is "bullets for the Secessionists and ballots for the 'Abolitionists." But, it appears, he is willing to lie upon the bed of Abolitionen) to gratify his vinclicti veness. He is diseased with a species ot moral insanity which perhaps deserves pity instead of ceneuie. Was it not that evil might result there irom. u e should feel disposed to exercise reu charity by not noticing his ebuTlilions of passion. We have not an unkind feeling toward Judge Hughes nersonally, no friendship to reward or enmity to retaliate, and we would rather mantle his errors than ex; ose them, if duly would per mit it. I.TIpORTAT roillli;PO. DOCK. The President's Appeal to the Border Malet, The Representatives and Senators of the bor der slaveholding Slates having, by special invitation ot the President, been convened at the Ex ecutive Mansion on Saturday morning, last week, Mr. Lincoln addressed them as follows from a written paper held in his hands: Ge.ntlkmkm : After the adjournment of Congress, now near. 1 shall have no opportunity of seeing you for several months. Believing that you of the border States hold more power for good than any other eijual number of mem bers, 1 leel it a duty which I can not justifiably waive, to make this appeal to vou. I intend no reproach or complaint when I as sure you that, iu my opinion, it you al! had voted for the resolution in the gradual emancipation message of last March, the war would now be substantially ended. Aud the plan therein pro posed is yet one of the most potent and swift means of ending it. Let the States which are in rebellion see definitely aud certainly that in no event will the States you represent ever join their proposed Confederacy, and they can not much longer maintain the contest. But you can not divest them of their hope to ultimately have you with them so long its you show a de:eriniua tion to perpetuate the institution within your own States. Beat them at elections, as you have overwhelmingly done.,aini, nothing daunted, they still claim you as their own. You and I know what the lever of their power is. Break that lever before their faces, and tbey can shake you 1.0 more forever. Mo.-t of you have treated me with kindness and consideration, and 1 trust you will not now think I i in pro: erk touch what is exclusively your own when, tor the sake of the country, 1 ask, "can you, for your State, do better than to take the course 1 urge?" Discarding punctilio and Mag ims adapted to more manageable times, and look ing only to the unprecedented!- stern tacts of our case, can you do better in any possible event? Vou prefer that the constitutional relation of the States to the nation sir.: tie practically restored without disturbance ot the institution; and, is this were done, my whole duty in this respect, under the Constitution aud my oath of office, would be performed. But it is not done, and we are trying to accomplish it by war. The incidents of the war can not be avoided. If the war continues long, as it must if the object be not sooner at taiued, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion by the mere incidents of the war. It will be gone, and you will have nothing valuable iu lieu of it. Much of its value is gone already . How much belter for you and your people to take the step which shortens the war and secures substantial compeu sstioii tor that which is sure to be wholly hist in any other evtnt! How much better to thus save the money which else we sink forever in the war! How much better to do it while we can, lest the war ere !'ng render us pecuniarily unable to do it! How Much better for you, as seile., and the nation, as buyer, to sell out and buy out that with out which the war could never have been, than to sink both the thing to le sold and the price of it in cutting one another's throats. I do not peak of emancipation at once, but nt a decuion at once to emancipate gradually Room in South America for colonization can tie obtained cheaply, and in abundance, and when numbers shall be large enough to be company and encouragement for one another. I am pressed with a difficulty not vet mentioned one which threatens division among those who, united, are none too strong. An instance of it is known to you. General Hunter is an honest man. He was, and I hope still is, my frieud. I valued him none the less for his agreeing with me iu the general wish that all meu everywhere could be freed. He proclainiv-d all men tree within certain Stales, and 1 repudiated the proclamation. He expected more good and less ti in i lom the measure than I could believe would follow. Yet, in repudiating it, I gave dis satisfaction, if not offen se. to in tny whose support the country can not afford to loje. And this is not the end of it. The pressure iu this di rection is still upon me, and is increasing. By conceding what I now ask you can relieve me, ami. much more, cau relieve the cout.try in this iinortiiiit point. Upon these consideration I have again begged your attention to the message of March last Betöre leaving the Capitol, consider and di- uss it among yourselves. You are pitriota and state-men, and as such I pray you consider this proposition; and at the least commend it to the consideration of your States and people. As you would perpetuate popular government for the best people in the world, I beseech you that you do iu no wise omit this. Our common country is in great peril, dem Hiding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a speedy relief Once reliev I, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history and cherii-hed memories are vindicated, and its happy future fully insured and rendered inconceivably grand. To yon ma) re than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your owu names therewith forever. At the conclusion of these remarks some conversation was had between the President and sev eral members of the delegations from the border State, iu which it was reoresented that these Suites could not be expected to move in so great a matter as that brought to their notice in the foregoing address, while as yet the Congress had taken no step tieyond the passage ot a resolution expressive rather ot' sentiment than presenting a substantial and reliable basis of action. The President acknowledged the force of this view, and admitted that the border States were entitled to expect a substantial pledge of pecu .(J MM . . niary aiu as me couoitiou oi using into console ration a proposition so important iu its relations to their social system. It waa further represented, in the conference, that the people of the border States were interest ed in knowing the great importance which the Pres ident attnehed to the polivy in question, while it waa equally due to the country, to the President, and to themselves, that the representative of the

border slaveholding States should publicly announce the motives under which they were compelled to act, and the considerations of public policy urged upon them aud their constituent - by the President With a view to such a statement of their position, the members thus addressed met in council to deliberate on the reply they should make to the President, aud, as the result of a comparison of opinions among themselves, they determined upon tho adoption of a majority and a minority answer. reply or the majority. The following paper was yesterday aent to the President, signed by the majority of the Representatives from the border slave States: Washington, July 14, 1862. To the Ptrtident: The undersigned. Representatives of Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri and Maryland, in the two Houses of Congress, have listened to your address with the profound sensibility naturally inspired by the high source from which it emanates, the earnestness which marked its delivery, and the overwhelming importance of the subject of which it treats. We have given it a most respectful consideration, and now lay before you our re sponse. We regret that want of time has not permitted us to make it more perfect. Wt have not been wanting. Mr. President, in respect to vou, and iu devotion to the Constitution and the Union. We have not beeeu indifferent to the great difficulties surrounding you. compared with which all former national troubles have been as a summer cloud; and we have freely given you our sympathy and support. Repudiating the dangerous heresies of the secessionists, we believed with you that the war on their part is aggressive and wicked, and the objects for which it was to be prosecuted on ours, defined by your message at the opening of the present Con gress, to be such as all good men should approve, we have not hesitated to vote all supplies for carrying it on vigorously. We have voted all the men and motu y you have asked for. and even more; we have imposed enormous taxes on our people, and they are paying them with cheerful

ness and alacrity; we have encourageu ennsi menu, and seut to the field jnanv of our liest men; and some of our number have offered their persons to the enemy as pledges of their sincerity and devotion to country. We have done all this under the most discouraging circumstances, and in the face of measures most distasteful to us, and injurious to the interests we represent, and in the hearing of doctrines avowed by those who claim to be your friends, most abhorrent to us and our constituents. But, lor all this, we have never faltered, nor shall we as long as we have a Constitution to delend and a Government which protects us. And we are ready for renewed efforts, and even greater sacrifices yea, any sac rifice when we ar? satisfied it is required to preserve our admirable form of government, and the priceless blessings of constitutional liberty. A tew of our numlier voted for the resolution recommended by your message of the 6ih of March last; the greater portion of us did uol.atid we will briefly state the prominent reasons which induenced our action. In the first place, it proposed a radical change of our social sxstem, and was hurried through both Houses with undue haste, without reasona hie time for consideration aud debate, and with no time at all tor consultation with our constituents, whose interests it deeply involved. It serine : like an interference by this Government with a question which pecularly and exclusively belonged to our respective States, on which they had not sought advice or solicited aid. Many of us doubted the constitutional power of this Government to make appropriations of money for the object designated, and all okus thought our finances were in no condition to bear the immense outlay which its adoption and failjilu' execution would impose upon the national treasury. If we pause but a moment to think of the Lebt its acceptance would have entailed, we are appalled by its magnitude. The proposition was addressed to all the States, and embraced the hole numlier of slaves. According to the cen sus of 160 there were then very nearly four millions ot slaves in the country; from natural increase they exceed that number now. At even the low average of three hundred dollars, the price fixed by the emancipation act for the - laves of this District, and greatly below their real worth, their value runs up to the enormous sum of twelve hundred millions of dollars; and if to that we add the cost of deportation and colonization, at one hundred dollars each, which is but a fraction more than is actually paid by the Maryland Colonisation Society, we have four hundred million more! We were not willing to impose a tax on our people sufficient to pay the interest on that sum. in addition to the vast and daily increasing debt already fixed upon them by the exigencies of the war; and, if we had been willing, the country could not bear it. Stated in this form, the proposition is nothing less than the de portaiion from the country of sixteen hundred million dollars' worth of producing labor, and the substitution in its place of an interest-bearing debt ot the same amount! But if we ire told that it was expected that only the States we represent would accept the proposition, we rc-je -unlit submit that even then it involves a sum too great for the financial abil ity of this Government at this time, to the census of le6U According Kentucky had M try laud Virgiuia Delaware ... ....335.490 slaves. 87,188 " 490.HCS7 " 1.798 - Missouri 114,965 Tennessee 275.7tS4 Making in the whole 1 .196.1 12 " At the same rate of valuation these would amount to f358.833.6')0 Add for deportation and colon:, tion $100 each 119.244,533 And we have the enormous sum afi $478.0711.1 TI We did not teel that we should be justified in voting for a measure which, if carried out, would add this vast amount to our public debt at a moment wheu the Treasury was reeling under the eu nnous expenditures of the war. Again, it seemed to us that this resolution was but the annunciation of a sentiment which could not or was not likely to be reduced to an actual, tangible proposition. No movement was then made to provide and appropriate the funds required to carry it into effect; and wc were not encouraged to believe that funds would be pro vided. And our belief has beeu fully justified by subsequent events. Not to mention other circumstances, it is quite sufficient for our pur pose to bring to your notice the fact that, w hile this resolution was und -r consideration in the Senate, our colleague, the Senator from Kentucky, moved an a:nendmeut appropriating $500,000 to the object therein designated, and it was voted down with great unanimity. What confidence, then, could we reasonably feel that if we committed ourselves to the policy it proposed, our constituents would reap the fruits of the policy held out; and on what ground could we, as fair meu, approach them and challenge their support? The right to hold slaves is a right appertaining to all the States of this Union They have the right to cherish or abol.sh the institution, as their tastes or their interests may prompt, and no one is authorized to question the right, or limit its enjoyment. And no one has more clearly affirmed that right than you have. Your inaugural ad dress does you great honor in this respect, and inspired the country with coufidence in your fairness and respect for the law. Our States are in the enjoy ment of that right. We do not feel called on to defend the institution, or to affirm it is one that ought to be cherished; perhaps, if we were to make theattemnt, we m uht find that we differ even among ourselves. It is enough fer purpose to know that it is a right; and, so know ing, we did not see why we s' iuld now be expected to yield it. We had contributed our full share to relieve the country at this terrible crisis; we had done as much as had been required of others in like circumstances; and e did not see why aaciidces should be expected of us from which others, no more loyal, weie exempt. Nor could we see what good the nation would derive from it. Such a sacrifice submitted to by us woult' ,ot have strengt heued the arm of this Government or weakened that of the enemy. It was not necessary, as a pledge of our loyalty, for that had be n manifested beyond a reasonable doubt, iu every form, aud at every place possible. There was not the i emote-1 possibility that the States we represent would join in the rebellion, nor is there now; or of their electing to go with the Southern section iu the event of a recognition of the independence of any part of the disaffected region. Our States are fixed uu dterably in their resolution to adhere to the support of the Union; they see no safety for themselves and no hope ot constitutional liberty but by its preservation. They will under no circumstances consent to its dissolution, and we do them no more than justice when we as sure you that while the war is conducted to pre vetil that deplorable catastrophe, they will sustaiu it as long as they can muster a man or command a dollar. Nor will they ever consent, iu any e mt. to unite with the Southern Confederacy. The bitter fruits of the peculiar doctrines of that region will for. ver prevent them from placing their security and happiueaa in the custody of an association w hich has incorporated in its organiclaw the seeds of its own destruction. We can not adina. Mr President, that if we

had voted for the resolution in the em mcipation message of March last, the war would now be substantially ended. We are unable to see how

our action iu tins , irticular h is given, or could give, encouragement to the rebellion. The res olutiou has passed; and if there be virtue in it, it will be quite as etücaciou as if we had voted for it. We have no power to bind our States in this respect by our votes here; and whether we had voted the one way or the other, they are in the same condition of freedom to accept or rejec. its provisions. No, sir; the war hag not been prolonged or hindered by our action on this or any other measure. We must look for other causes tor that lamented fact. We think there is not much difficulty, not much uncertainty, in pointing out others far more probable aud potent iu their agencies to that end. The rebellion derives its strength from the union of all classes in the insurgent States; and while that union lasts the war will never end until ttiey are utterly exhausted. We know that at the inception of these troubles Southern society was divided, and that a large portion, perhaps a majority, were opposed to secession. Now the great mass of Southern people are united. To discover why they are so, we must glance at Southern society, and notice the classes into which it has been divided, and which still distinguish it. They are in arms, but not for the same objects; they are moved to a common end, but by different and even inconsistent reasons. The leaders, which comprehends what was previously known as the State Rights party, and is mm I. the lesser class, seek to break down national independence, and set up State domination. With them it a war against nationality. The other class is fighting, as it supposes, to maintan and preserve the rights of property and domestic salety, which it has been made to believe are assailed by this Government. This latter class are not disunionists per e; they are so only because they have been made to believe that this Admin istration is inimical to their rights, and is making war their domestic institutions. As long as the.e two classes act together, they will neve- assent to peace The policy, then, to be pursued is obvious. The tormer class will never be reconciled, but the latter may le. Remove their apprehensions, satisfy them that no harm is intended to them and their institutions; that this Gov ei -incut is not making war on their rights of property, but is simply defending its legitimate authority, und they will gladly return to their allegi nee as soon as the pressure of military domination imposed by the Confederate authority is removed from them. Twelve months ago, both Houses of Congress, adopting the spirit of your message, then but recently sent in, declared with singular unanimity the object of the war, and the country instantly bounded to your side to assist you in carrying it on. If the spirit of that resolution had been ad hered to we are confident that we should before now have seen the end of this deplorable conflict. But what have we seen? In both Houres of Congress we have heard doctrines subversive of the principles of the Constitution nnd seen meas-. ure alter measure founded in substance on those doctrines proposed and carried through, which can have no other effect than to distract and divide loyal men, and exasperate and drive still further from us and their duty the people of the rebellious States. M litary officers, following these bad examples, have stepped beyond the just limits of their authority in the same direction, until iu several instance you have felt the necessity of interfering to arrest them. And even the passage of the resolution R which you refer has been ostentatiously proclaimed as the triumph of a principle which the people of the Southern States regard as ruinous to them. The effect of these measures was foretold, and may now be seen iu the indurated state ot Southern feeling. To these causes, Mr. President, and not to our omission to vote for the resolution recommended by you, we solemnly believe we are to attribute the terrible earnestness of those in arms against ti : Government and the continuance of the war Nor do we (permit us to say, Mr. President, with all respect for you.) agree that the institution of slavery is "the lever of their power;" but we are ot the opinion that "the lever of their power" is the apprehension that the powers of a common Government, created for common and equal protection to the interests of all, will be wielded aga'iist the institutions of the Southern States. There is one other idea in your address we feel called on to notice. Afterstating the i ict of your repudiation of General Hunter's proclama tion. you add: "Yet, in repudiating it, I gave dissatisfaction, if not offen e. to many whose support the country cannot afford to lose. And this is not the . Vlli .a as .a end ot it. i tie pressure iu tins direction is still upon me, and is increasing. By conceding what I now ask, you cm relieve me, and much more, can relieve the country on this import mt point." We have anxiously looked into this passage to discover its true import, but we are yet in pain ful uncertainty How can we, by conced'iig what you ask, relieve you and the country from the increasing pressure to which you refer? We will not allow ourselves to think that the proposition is that we consent to give up slavery, to the end that the Hunter proclamation in y be let loose on the Southern people, for it is too well known tint we would not be parties to any such measure, and we have too much respect for you to imagine that you would propose it. Can it mean that by sacrificing our interest in slavery we appease the spirit that controls that pressure, cause it to be withdrawn, and rid the country of the pestilent agitation of the slavery question? We are forbidden so to think, for that spirit would not be satisfied with the liberation of seven hundred thousand slaves, and cease its agitation, while three millions remain in bondage. Can it mean that by abandoning slavery in our States, we are removing the pressure from you and thecountry, by prepariLg for a separation on the line of the Cotton States? We are forbidden so to think, because it is known that we are, and we believe that you are, unalterably opposed to any division at all. We would prefer to think that you desire this concession as a pledge ot our support, and thus enable you to withstand a pressure that weighs heavily on yoa and the country. Mr. President, no such sacrifice is necessary to se cure our support. Confine yourself to your con stilutional authority; confine your subordinates within the same limits; conduct this war solely for the purpose of restoring the Constitution to its legitimate authority; concede to each State and its loyal citizens their just rights, and we are wedded to you by indissoluble ties. Do this, Mr. President, and you touch the American heart aud iuvigorate it with new hope. You will, as we sclemnly believe, in due lime restore peace to your country, lift it from despondency to a future glory, and preserve to your countrymen, their posterity, and man, the inestimable treasure of constitutional government. Mr. President, we have stated with frankness and candor the reasons on which we forbore to vote for the resolution you have mentiored; but you have again presented this proposition, and appealed to us,nh an earnestness and eloquence which h ive not failed to impress us, to "consider it, and at the least to commend it to the couside ration of our States and people." Thus appealed to by the Chief Magistrate of our beloved country, iu the hour of its greatest peril, we can not w holly decline. We are willing to trust et ery question relating to their interests and happiness to the consideration and ultimate judgment of our own people. While differing from you as to the necessity of emancipating the slaves of our States as a means of putting down the rebellioti. ami while protesting against the propriety ot any extra territorial interference to induce the people of our States to adopt any particular line of policy on a subject whicS pccuharily aud exclusively belongs to them, yet when you and our brethren of the loyal Stales sincerely believe that the retention of slavery by us is an obstacle to peace and national harmony, and are willing to contribute pecuniary aid to comenate our Stales and people for the inconveniences produced by such a change of system, we are not unwilling that our people shall consider the propriety of putting it aside. But we have already said that we regarded this resolution as the utterance of a sentiment, and we had no confidence that it would assume the shape of a tangible, practical proposition, which would yield the fruits of the sacrifice it re qmred. Our ueople are influenced by the same waul of confident's, and will uot consider the proposition in its present impalpable form The interests they are asked to give up is to them of immense importance, and they ought not to be expected even to entertaiii the pr posal until they are assured that when thev accept it, their just ex pectations will not be frustrated. We regard your plan as a proposition from the nation to the Stales to exercise an admitted constitutional right in a peculiar manner, and yield up a valuable interest. Before they ought to consider the proposi tion, it should be presented in such a tangible, practica I, efficient shape as to command their conti deuce that its fruit are contingent only upon their acceptance. We cau not trust anything to the contingencies of future legislation. If Congress, by proper and necessary legislation, shall provide sufficient funds, and place them at your disposal to be applied by you to the payment of any of our Stare or the citizens thereof, who shall adopt the abolishment of slavery, either gradual or im mediate, as they may determine, and the expense of deportation and colonisation of the liberated slaves, then will our States and people take this proposition into careful consideration for such

decision as in their judgment is demanded by their interests, their honor, aud their duty to the whole country. We have the honor to be, with great respect, C- A. WicRLirrE, Chairman.

Garrett Davis, R. Witaox, J. J. Crittrkdex, Jobx S. Carlile, J. W CatsriELO, J. S Jackson, H. Gbioer, Job S Puelps, Francis Thomas, Chas. B. Calvert. C L L. Leaet. Edwin H. Webs?ee. R. Malloet, Aaron Harding, James S. Rollins. J. W Menxie. Thos L Price, 0 w. Donar, Wm A Hall. Secret Political Societies. The letter of the Hon. James Hughes address ed to Governor Morton, and by the latter read to the Convention of the lHth of June at Indiananolis, on the subject of secret political societies, i , ;m & T t t n t is oecomiug signmcaui. i ue aon. o as. inu , professing Democracy, is moved bv our noble Governor to give the alarm that the Democrats are organizing secret societies for the purpose of resisting the payment of taxes, and thus withdraw the attention from the fact that the Abolitiouized Republican or Uniou party r.re to carry the badge ot a secret society, quietly bidden under the lappets of their coats. We appeud the following from the Lufayette Argu$ : "U. C The Courier of Tuesday evening announces to the members of the midnight watchers "Uniou Club" that their new room will be ready for their next meeting. This "Union Club" is neither more nor less than the old Know Nothing order revived, and it extends to every county and township iu the Svate. When a political party is obliged to resort to secresy, in order to accomplish its en-;-, it should be looked upon as an enemy to free institutions and the rights of majorities. We deem it only necessary to warn the public against such organizations; no true Democrat with a knowledge of the design ever entered the den of Know Nothingism or the nest ot a Wide Awake, the ruelul results of which are now overshadowing the country with ruin and distress. The Democratic parly go forth with their lights burning before the world, no secrets for the initiate only, its principles are eu.blazoned upon its bauners, it has ao devices to allure the unwary, it asks only a fair open, manly contest of the principles i.poii which the country should be ruled, and spreads upon its canvas, in language not to be misunderstood, what those principles are. Iu a time like the present it should be the duty, as it will be, of every true lover of his country to reflect calmly upon the measures which are to extricate us from the woes which surround us. Associations as unnatural as those found in theprai rie dog's houses are being formed by the-e "Union Clubs" for the purpose of again overwhelming the only parly that in peace gave prosperity, and iu war gave peace. Cor.inyton Friend. What i Wanted! What is now wanted of prominent . popular, influential and we 1 ill y citizens ot Chicago is not ! altogether that thev ball contribute their one and two and five and ten hundred dollars to stimulate volunteering, but that they shall themselves volunteer. This example would awaken the topular patriotism, revive (he popular enthusiasm and I stimulate volunteering as money nor anything I else can. The popular masses will theu underI stand that there is need of earnestness and that the men to whom they look for example are in earnesi. They will then understand that public danger really exists, and that it must bo met. Then will the farmers come out of their harvest fields, and mechanics out of their workshops, and the laborers from their toil and volunteer without much re erence to bounty. And let this example become general all over the country, and then will the rebellion tremble as it can not be made to trenibre-by threats or proclamation of negro emancipation or any other Chinese gong method of warfare. Theu will European powers see and know aud feel that the rebellion car. and will be put down, and that they must not interfere between au offended Government and a wicked rebellion. Prominent, and popular, and influential and wealthy citizens of Chicago, the common people await your example. They do not want to sec the dralt come, because they know that you can relieve yourselves by substitutes at five or ten hundred dollars each, and that they can not. They are ready for all work of patriotism if you will lead the way. Chicago Time. Birds of u Ira titer. The Anglo-African is out in a terriole leader against General McClellati and the President, because they don't elevate the blacks to the level of the white race by giviug them arms to fight iu this war. In common with the Tribune, this hybrid mulatto ridicules the President and our greatest General, and predicts that "this miserable race pride will have a fall." The AngloAfrican holds that twenty millions of Northern white men can not conquer ten millions of Southern white men without the aid of the puissant blacks, who have had every opportunity given them to rise at the South, but either do uot dare or do not desire to engage in the conflict. 'There will soon be nn end," quoth the Anglo African, "of Mr. Lincoln's jokes, gyrations and humiliating appeals to border State traitors." Here is a bird ot the same leather with Greeley. The patriotic President desires to retain the border Slates as the sheet anchor of the Union; the Anglo African aud the Tribune long to see the border States forced out of the Union, in order to secure the eternal separation of the South from the North. This is what the radical knaves and fanat'cs have been moving heaven earth and pandemonium for during the last thirty years, and now their fever is at its crisis. They will soon get a cooling or die bv hemp. New York Herald. What lie Did Kay. The Louisville Democrat censures Mr. Vooruees tor an expression put into his mouth by He publican papers It will appear from a correct report of what he did say, that his position wil meet with the approval of every honest man in the country. We copy the following from the Terre Haute Jour ml, which satisfactorily explains the position of Mr. Yoorheks: The editor of the Indianapolis Jonrnal says that D.iii. Yoorhees slated in a speech at the Court house, in this city, on Saturday that he intended to "stand between the farmers and the tax-gathers." Yoorhees said no such thing. He said that in Congress he had stood between the farmer and the tax gatherer, in exposing the frauds and corruptions of Government officials. He did not intimate that the people should not cheerfully pay the taxes levied upon them, but, on the contrary, he told them it was the duty of all to stand by the Government. Some unscrupulous Republican has lied to the Journal about the speech oV Yoorhees. The Way the Thins: is to be did in spencer fount)-. A Perry county gentleman inform us that he met a "Union" (?) man from Spencer comity, last week, who accosted him iu language something like tnis: "How are things going politically up in Perry county?" "Ail for the Union in Perry county," said our informant. "How is it in Spencer?" "Well, we have some Union down here in Spencer, but lam afraid the d 1 Democrats are going to beat us this fall; our only chance ot defeating them is to cry secesh like the d I!" Such is doubtless to be the propra in me throughout the State. CtnneUon Republican. ty We foresee active work in the Southwest. Our intelligent correspondent at Memphis writes in a private note, under date of the 15th inst.: "The conscription, which has been underrated iu the S tuth, is bringing indefinite numbers into the rebel army, and they are already growing bold. I am convinced that the rebels have mre men under arms in Mississippi than Gen Grant cau muster, and active operation are n ! improbable. Gen. Grant's movements indicate such to be the case." Chicago Timet. UP Some itinerant gentleman stopped here a few days since, made a speech aud told the people that he was a candidate tor Congress that lie had once belonged to the "Democrnt" party, and was now a candidate for Congress before no party party's convention. He said that "this here rebellion of ourn must be put down if it requited ninety nine men out of everv hundred to do it." We suppose he wants to be the hundredth man left at home to be a candidate, before the no party party's ccavention, for Congress. Bully for him. We believe his name is Stillwell. We hope he will be still well after Johu Peter Cleaver Shanks beats him for the nomination. Greencantle Preu. tfSAMURL W. CtRTia, Esq., of Owen, is the Democratic candidate for Prosecutor for the Judicial Diatrict composed of the counties of Oreeu, Clav, Owen and Putnam.

Ninth Congrrwaional District Democratic Canveation. By general consent, it has been agreed that the Democratic Congressional Convention shall be

held ut Wiaammc, Tkurtdau. August ItA, 1663, at 11 o'ciock, to nominate a candidate fur ConIt is particularly requested that all the coun ties he represented. By order of the July 22, 1862. Committee. Judicial Reorganization. The bill rearranging the United States Judicial Districts esublishes them as follows: 1. New England (roost), Justice Nathan Clifford. 2. New York and Vermont, Justice Samuel Nelsou. 3. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Justice Robt. C. Grier. 4. Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina, Chief Justice linger ti lanev. 5. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama and Mississippi, Justice James M. Wayue. 6. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee, Justice John Catron. 7. Ohio and Indiana, Justice Noah H. Swayne. ti. Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, 9. Missouri, Iosra, Kansas aud Minnesota, Justice Daniel F. Miller. The two last named Justices were appointed bv Mr. Lincoln. The aspirants for the vacancy iu the 9th district are said to be Senator Browning and Judge David Davis of Illinois, W A. H w ard of Michigan, and Seuator Doolittle of Wisconsin. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune expresses the opinion that the postponement of the appointment for this district is conclusive against Mr. Browning obtaining the position. Probably the wish is father to the thought, Mr. Browning having ideas of constitutional obligations antipodal to those ot the Greelev school of separationists. Springfield (IU.) Republican. 1 O) i 3T"The following additional appointments have been made for the new regiments: 65th .lames L. Thornton, of Pinceton, to be Quartermaster. 61)ih David S. Evans, of Wayne county, tobe Assistant Surgeon. 71st Matson to be Adjutant. 72d H. S. Dewey, of Delphi, Quartermaster; A. A. Rice, of Attica, Adjutant. 7.'ld Robert Spencer, of Monticello, Surgeon; 0. H. P. Bailey, of Plymouth, Adjutant; Edward Bacon, of South Bend. (Quartermaster. 3FJJnx T. Scott, L.q , ol Vigo, is the Democratic candidate for Prosecutor iu the lUth Judicial District. Willis G. Xkkf, Esq., of Sullivan, is the Democratic candidate for the office of Pro?ecutor in the 6th Judicial Circuit. DRUCS. NEW FIRM I HAVE associated with me in busiiienn Mr. G. W. Sloan, who has been an assistant in the store for a number of yrars past. Hereafter the business will be continued at the old stand wider the firm of BKOWMIG A SLOAN. I feel grateful for the liberal patronage which wt have ever received trust by strict attention to business and the wants of our customers to merit and retain the same. R. BROWNING. ALI. persons knowing themselves indebted to me will please call at their earliest convenience and make settlement of .-arae, aud oblige R. BKOWMNU. BROWNING At SLOAN, (LATE R. BROWSING,) a BR a: a - RT a t m , 22 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, Have in store a large and well selected stock of Drugs, Medicines, Chemical?, Paints, WKVarnishes, Dyestuffs, Glassware. Window Gl a-, Brushes, Cigars, Tobacco, Spices, Perfumery, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Coal Oil and Lamps, Patent lit-dicines, and all artic1? to complete the stock of a Druggist. As we purchase principally for cash, direct from the importers and manufacturers, and being desirous to retain the reputation which onr bouse has ever enjoy ed of selling gwd,jreh rf fiele... great care is taken in the selection of Drugs in reference to their jiuritu. Our facilities are such tha' we feel eonfideat we can offer, in ur and unadulterated articles, as strong inducements as any other Western house. All orders will receive the personal attention of one of the firm Great care taken in the dispensing of physicians' prescriptions and family recipes from strictly pure articles, and we feel confident we can render satisfaction in the price and quality of goods. BROWNING SLOAN, 22 West Washington street. BE ST American and French Window Glass; 500 boxes Window assorted, from XxlO to 36x60, in store and for sale at lowest figures by BROWNING A- SLOAN Brushes! Brushes! 200 DOZEN Faint and Varnish Brushes, Wall Brushes, Sash Tools, Blenders, Scrub, Shoe. Hurse, dair, Hat, and Clotb Brushes of all kinds at lowest figures at BROWNING 4 SLOAN'S. Jel4-deodAweow3m PAINTS! OILS!VAI!MSHES! 500 KEGS Pnrc Whi,e Lead; IJQ BARREI-S Linseed Oil; CASKS Teltow Ochre; g CASKS Tenet. Red. With a large stock of Varnishes, Paints, and Colors of all kinds ground in oil and dry. For sale at the Iowa figure. BROWNING SLOAN, 22 West Washington street. SCALES. PATENT PLATFORM SCALES. F A I K B A N K ' S CATTLE, HAT, COAL, GRAIN. WAREHOUSE, RAILROAD, TRACK, AUD COUNTER SCALES, Manufa tured only by E. 4 F. FAIRBANK 4 CO., St. Johnsbury, Vermont. For sale at Manufacturers'prices by W. P. 3ALLCP, Agent, 74 West Washington st , ap31-wly Indianapolis, Indiana. SURVEYOR'S NOTICE. NOTICE if hereby given to Joseph Hamilton aad Cristenia Berry, that O. W. Voorhis, County Surveyor ot Marion Coutity, State of Indiana, will commence surveying on the 6tb of August, 1S62, in section No. 3, township 14. North of range 6 East, to meet at William Hart's. JACKSON PLUMMER, Agent 'or TKUKY LANCASTER. Indianapolis, July 11, 1862. Jyll-wSw SALE OF REAL ESTATE. THE undersigned, executor of tbe last w'll of William C. Burgos, late of Scott County, Kentucky, deceased, in pursuance of said will, and by order of tbe Court of Common Pieaa of Marlon County, in the State of Indiana, will offer for sale at Public Auction, to be highest bidder, at the Court House door in Indianapolis, within tbe hours prescribed by law, on Saturday, tbe lftlh day of August, 18C2, tbe east half of the north-east quarter of section seven In township fourteen, north of range five east, containing eighty acres, more or leas, situate in said County of Marion. Terms, four buodred dollars cash down, two hundred dollars on tbe first day of January, 1863, and tbe residue on the first day of January. 164, with interest on deferred payments, the purchaser executing notes with approved surety. SAMUEL N. GRKCM, J- w4w Executor.

CROCERIES.

Ruger & Caldwell, WHOLESALE CM CI IS A!fD COMMISSION MERCHANTS. . 6 Kut WawliiiitoiR Mt. r, Itnnrt Rtt of tdd t. Uuli, arffanajmlu, Indittna. 0QQ BARRELS Phornix Refined Sugar; BAKUKI.S Crushed Sugar: 0 BAIUFLS powd,,re1 So&,r: (t BAHREINS Tellow Sup.r, various brands; BARRELS Beam Mrup. I BARKELS IIoik v Sirup; BARRELS Stewart' Sirup; li HHPS Molanatir, lu xtore and fur tale bv RUGER CALDWELL, fts Kart Wftaliinglon a BAGS Old Java Coffi p. nllfc H XKS"rouDd Coffee; Do. in Fa Jll BAGS KoasK.t Coffee; CHESTS and Half Chests Gunpowder, Tc Hyson, Hyson Skin, aud Oolong Teas, very cheap; ALSriCK, Cassia, t loxes. Cinnamon, and a general assortment of Spices suitable for retail trade; Black and Cayenne Pepper. For sale low by RUGER 4 CALDWELU 6 East Washington V N 0. 1 and No. 2 Mackerel in Barrels, Half Barrels, and Klis; 200 100 100 BOXES Herring; BOXES Codfish; BOXES Smoked Halibut. For sale low by KCGEK A CAI.IlWELL, 68 Ka-I W.-hington st A LARGE and well selected assortment of Groceries now receiving and for sale as low as at any house in tne West. Country Merchants and City Grocers invited to examine our stock. RUGER 4 CALDWELL, .:.;- A w l 8 East Washington at. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. Administrator's ale of Keal Estate. BT virtue of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Marion County, Indiana, made at ita June term. lt62, I will, as administrator of tbe estate of Samuel A. Edgar, deceased, on Saturday, the 33d day of August, ;62, at tbe hour of 2 o'clock P. M .at tb Court House door, in tbe City of Indianapolis, sell at Public Auction the following described Real Estate, vir: Lot number eight (K) in Sidney Moore, Jr.'s Subdivision of Lots sixteen (16). seventeen (17), and eighteen (18), in oat blk number oue hundred and seventy -one (171), in Pratt's Addition to tbe City of Indianapolis, according to tbe recorded plat of said Subdivision, recorded in tbe Recorder's office iu Marion Countv, ldiana, in Record No. 4, p. 31, subject to tbe one-thiru interest of tbe widow therein. Terms of sale: One -third of tbe purchase-money in six moutbs. one-third in twelve months, and tbe remainder iu eighteen montbs from date of aale. Tbe purchaser to give notes with good freehold security, payable with interest, and without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. A certificate will be given toibt -purchaser which will entitle bim to a deed, on confirniatk of sale by the Court, and payment of the pun. bars -money. GEORGE McOCAT, jy21-w4w Administrator of S. A. Edgar, deceased. ELECTION NOTICE. saw I Company are hereby notified that au election will be held at UL B. Fatout's, iu Wayne Town-Lip, on Tuesday, tbe 5th of August, 1 s62, to elect three Directors for said Company. j21-w3w PEbCT HOSBKOOKLECAL. CTtAXt OF INDIANA, MARION COl STY, SS: In the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the State of Indiana, September Term, A. D. 1862. Robert HMlgebeih vs. Sarah Hedfrebeth. Be it knowu. That on this IStb day of July, in th year 1862, tbe above named plaintiff, by bis attorneys, filed in the office of tbe Clerk of tbe Circuit Coun bis complaint against said defendant in tbe above eutit led cause together with an affidavit of a competent erscn, that said defendant, Sarah Hedgebetb, is not a resident of the State of indiaua. Said defendant is therefore, hereby notified oft he riling and pendency of said complaint against her, and that unlessshe appear and answer or demur thereto, at theca'l.nK of said cause on tbe second day of tbe next Term of -id Court, to be begun and held at the Cort-boase, iii tbe city of Indianapolis on the fourth Monday th September next, said complaint, and tbe matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be beard and determined in her absence. WILLIAM WALLACE, Clerk. Thos. H. Bowlea, Attorney for Plaimiff. jr21-3w MEDICAL. Howard Juso dation. I hila.. .ION THE RELIEF OK TIIK S!('K AH lUMUKSSED, afflicted with Virulent and Chronic Diseases, and especiallv diseases of the St xual Organ Medic- 1 Advice given grails by tbe Acting Surgeon Valuable Keporls on Sue'matorrbea or Sec rmitial Wt ness, and other Diseases of the Sexual Organs, aud on tb new remedies employed in tbe Dispensary, sent in sealed letter envelopes, free 'if - barge. Address DK. J. 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