Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1862 — Page 2

WEEKLY SENTINEL

MONDAY i:pr nHF.K i The I moo it uum be ircerre4. Jackson dmocratic Union State Ticket. rOK SXCEETAET OF STATE, JAMES S. ATHON. Of Marion Count roa auditor or TAT. JOSEPH RISTINE, Of Fountain County. rOK TliK l KLR OP STATE MATTHEW L. BRETT, Of Daviess Countj. FOE ATTORNEY OKXEBAL, OSCAR B HORD, 0 Decatur CoLnty. OB BJC PORTER OP -I TRI ME COURT. MICHAEL C. KERR, Ol Floyd County. POE v CtRINTKMUNT OP PUBLIC I JIHTBICTIOII, SAMUEL L. RCGO, Ol Allen CouutT. (OM.Ill aio ti o T I ios. 1st District JOHN LAW 2d 3d 4th 5th 6ih 7th 9th 10th 11th JAMES A. CRAVENS. H. W HARRINGTON. W. S HOLM AN. E. JOHNSON. A. B CONDUlTT. D W. VOORHEE3. DAVID TURPIE. J. K. EDGERTON. j. f Mcdowell. The .If nine Election. In I860, Maine gave Lincoln more than 33,000 majority over Douglas. In I6bl Washbib.ne's majority for Governor over Jameson was more than 36,000, and 17.000 over all other Demo cratic candidates. This year the telegraph estimates the Republican majority at about 8,000! The Union ball is rolling! The Value of BinMrr. Governor Wright makes one grand point in bis rhapsodies before the people, for they can hard'v be called speeches certainly not argu ments. He denounces as traitors all who opposs negro purchase and emancipation all who despise the iniquitious Morrill tariff all who object to the plunder of the treasury of the nation, or who find fault with the conduct ol the war. This is about the burden of his harangues, and the staple of his wise statesmanship. Since he sold himself to Governor Morton and turned his political wares into the Republican camp, he seems to have lost all sense of hams and the little political indeoeudence he once possessed. Gov. Wright never had much of Ute latter commodity, but that little he makes B willing sacrifice now to his rapacity for office End pelf. He is content to remain dumb in view of the unjust attempts to make his constituents pnv for Southern negroes, and to have them horn of their property to pamper the bloated and purse proud aristocracy of manufacturing New England. In his creed for place, he humbles himself at the feet of these men, and denounces his old Democratic friends as traitors, because thev are not as cowardly, base and mean as he has shown himself to be. Frank Blaib, his Republican brother, denounced this Morrill tariff in unmeasured terms, ami J ames Wilson BudG.S.OaTU are equally severe against the email cipatou purchase policy of Mr Lincoln. Are these Republicans traitors? Crittenden and all the Border State Union men in Congress, voted against these measures of iniquity and injustice. Are they traitors? Republican members of Congress, and committees of Congress, impaled on high the "thieves who plundered the Treasury." and the Republican presses denounced the "robbers who swindled the Government, robbed the people, and stole from the soldiers iu the field." Ado are they traitors, too? The whole truth is, that Governor Weight, living fur four years at the seat or a powerful and corrupt monarchy in Europe has imbibed the worst sentiments ot a despotic Government. Like all weak miuded and unprincipled men, his impessions of liberal government were easily erased, and he returned froin the Court of Berlin with a thorough contempt for democratic institutions. He is for stilling the voice ol the people for putting down free discussion for permitting "artificial weights to be put upon the shoulders of the tckUe man, and tor throwing them from the shoulders of the negro." In a word, the mau has turned himself inside out, and be moves about like a maniac, trying to make Democrats believe thai he only is honest, and that all otbA's are Secessioi.ists and traitors. When Gov. Weight makes such an exhibition of himself, and blusters to make some one believe that a Democrat he is till, let all the people laugh! The whole thing a funny. A Kcptibllcan Argument Against Partyiam. We call attention to the following bold deuun eiation of the attempt of the Republican leadeis to nitie all discussion and criticism of the acts of the Administration, under the plausible but dmgerous plea that no matter for what objects or in what m timer the war is prosecuted, that all who do not sustain the powers that be, must be against the Government since the war began there has been no factious op;osition to the Administration. Every requisition it has made upon Congress and the people for men, money and authority to suppress the rebellion, has beeu promptly complied w.th. But this confidence and liberality upon the part of the people have been shamefully abused. Recklessness, prufligicy and rascality have cnaracterized the war expenditures from the beginning. Where has there been any economy or regard for the public interests7 Fortunes have been made by stealing from the Government and with the knowledge of those whose it was to protect its interAud whv hare these things been permitted? Because such "patriots" as Joe Wbight have been going around the country declaring it to be treason to question any act of those whom in the purer and belter days of ti e Republic were regarded as public servants but who are now pronounced to be "the Government." And in this light this same Joe. Wbiobt iu a speech at a Republican meeting in Madison the other day, and the sentiment received the cordial applause of the Republicans, declared that "every man who was not openly for the Government (meaning the party in pow er, including himself; richly merited and should promptly meet a traitor's death." That's his idea of loyalty. It is not fidelity to the Constitution which should be regarded the first duty of the citizen, but an open approval of all the thievery, rascality and imbecility which has characterized (and still characterizes) the cou duct of the war aud the infamous legislation f the present Congress. The people hive no right, ay those advocates of no party Wm. to inquire into and condemn corruption and partisan legislation, until we know whether we have a Government and a country! And what is the result ot such doctrines? The war to suppress the rebellion has been in progress a year and a half, and the rebellion is stronger to day than when the war tret commenced. The Government has accumulated a public debt of a thousand millions of dollars, and it is being increased at the rate of two or three ail lions a day. And from a Government comparatively free from public burdens, eighteen months of Republican Administration has made it about equal in taxation to the taif the old world If there had b peaceful opposition party in Congress,

' not to the Government, but to the party In power,

closely scrutinising all (he art.- of the Administration, far different to day would bare been the Condition of public affairs. The war would have been prosecuted energetically and lor the single purpose of restoring the natioual authority and unity; not to strengthen a dominant party, reward its members fur partisan services and fatten its treasury plunderers. Without parties a free Government cannot long exist. Opposing parties are its health, its life. The result of do party ism is despotism, and we see it illustrated in France, in Austria, in Russia Says Joe Wbiobt and the Republican leaders: "Everv man who is not openly for the Government (Lotis Napoleon) richly merits and should promply meet a traitor's death." In France the will of Louis Napoleox is the Governmen'., but in the United States we have been taught that the Constitution, and the laws under it, were the Government, not the Administration who happen to be in power. Tiiese issues must be met and determined at the elections this tall. It must be apparent to every canuiu mmu wiui me ; ... (. , Republican administration of the Government is , a signal failure. If the people desire to maintain j , , . ... . a free Government, and restore puntv and econor my iu iu administration, there must be a change The onlv hope of accomplishing the-e ends is in the displacement of the party in power. And such we believe will be the verdict ol the people. Rut we started out merely to call attention to the following article, which we copy from the New York World, a Republican paper, which ably demonstrates the necessity of a change in the administration of the Government, to save it from utter destruction : The demonstrated incapacity of the Administration now iu power blunts the edge of all the arguments heretofore used against party action during the war. When, one year ago. the disposition was so general to give this Administration the unanimous support of the loyal States, it was I on the assumption that, with such support, it ! would conduct the war to a successful, speedy, ! honorable, and triumphant issue. Ail the world j ' knows how disastrously this hope has been dis j appointed. Supplied with all the men it asked 1 for and all the money t needed, unembarrassed j by even the shadow of parly opposition in Con I gress or the country, there has never been an i Administration in this or any o'her free country ' j which leide.! resources so great, possessed pow- 1 ; er so unlimited, or proved so unequal to a great ! exigency. So notorious is its incompetency that i its own friend, are dem inding of Mr. Lincoln a change of his Cabinet under the pressure of an invasion which renders it doubtful whether he i . , . , . , . . . ... will not, within the next two weeks, be himsell a captive in the hands of the rebels. A war com mittee of the commercial metropolis propose i raising a large arm? in opposition to the Presi dent, und putting it under the command of a popular leader, the most prominent trait of whose character is insubordination to constituted author ity. I he Governors ot several states belonging to" the party which elected the President, hold in a New England city a conclave said to be in con cert with the New' York war committee; whose j j proceedings, kept railed from the public, are I well understood to have been dictated by a spirit of opposition, with a view to depose the present I Cabinet. In this state of things, with the Government in I j imminent danger either ot destruction by the re I I bels or subverson bv ineular and revolutionary i I action at the North, onlv catititiL' imbecility can I deprecate the formation of an organized, efficient ; ami natriotic onitoaiiioii nartv in the loyal States Such an opposition nartv is the rett necessity- ol thetimes. It is maml vowing to its non existence , tlmt we -re now on the brink of counter revolu tion and anarchy The people have confidingly surrendered to this administration such an excess of power that it has as-timed toward them the bearing and enforced upon them the arbitrary etlicts of a despotism, and large botlies of them are beginning to meditate its overthrow by the same irregular and revolutionary methods by which despotisms are subverted. We protest, iu the name of free government and constitutional liberty, against all such treasonable proceedings, against all such desperate and anarchical reports Under a free Constitution a weak administration can be deposed only by a powcrlul opposition party speaking through the ballot-box and controlling the elections Wit lout the safety valves of a free press, untranimeleo discussion, and party opposition, the pent up political passions generated by adminis trative imbecility and acts of arbitrary power gather fearlul and explosive strength The con dilion of the country U now such that these safe ty valves must be re -opened, or there is danger that out r' lburateljpennstructed Mid nicely bal I anced system of government will lie about us in I scattered ami li -jointed fragments. But let the public voice be pronounced em phatically against the present Administration in the approaching fill elections, and a change of measures, either with or without a change of men, is inevitable. The only authentic express ion of the public will, under a free Government, is through the ballot-box. Such party opposition . 1 I i i is me regular constitutional meinoo, under our Government , of deposing incompetentrulers. We seem to be close upon a period when the country will choose between changing the Administration by paitv action through the elections, or by fitlul and irresponsible action inspired by dangerous revolutionary passions. If the opposition party nievails in the State elections tin fall a rha ,. ol Ctbinet will follow of course, but it is sheard to suppose that Mr. Lincoln will reconstruct his administration if powerful majorities in all the j loyal State set the seal of public approbation on his past course. If an opposition Congress is ! elected, iLs arrogant bullying of the Executive, ) which has been ihe source of nine tenths of our j disasters, will cease. But if most of the present nieniliersare re-elected, their indorsement by the ' people will make them more arrogant, domineer J ing. and ah.-urd than ever. The necessity, then, for an earnest, vigorous, ; patriotic and powetful opposition party, is too manifest to be reasonably questioned. That the ; Democratic Convention at Albany will contribute to the organization of such a party iu their action to-day would be a hazardous prediction. There cent histdfv ol that party affords slight guarantee ofthat elevation above mete p it t v views and ends, and of that liberal spirit of wise tolerance toward other citizens friends of constitutional liberty, who love the LTnion and favor a vigorous prosecution of the war which could make it the nucleus of a successful conservative opposition But whatever doubts there may be on this point, the necessity of an efficient opposition party is unquestionable, and nothing contributes more to such efficiency than a thorough organization whose ramifications already extend into every ounty and township of the State. Frequent elections and free party action are the very essence of republican government; they are its vital air and daily bread. Weak and incom Petent rulets can be displaced only by party op position, or revolutionary violence. As the in ; slitution of marriage is the world's safeguard i against brutal license of the sexual passions; as ' the institution of property protected by the laws ! is the best restraint on the acquisitive instinct; as a pure religion is the only antidote to wild fauatij cism and debasing superstition so regular politI ical p o tie- in which opposition to the measure of ; Government can find efficient expression is the ' only alternative to revolutionary violence when thn conviction that the public safety demands, j a change of rulers becomes deep a:,d universal. In the absence of an opposition parly the country is drifting swiltly into the rapids above the revo : tionary catar..ct. But if we are to have a power ful opposition party, we must have also the indlsnen Battle nrerejiuisites and armmnsniments. with nut whifh it i h..)lw mmd .i.in.iv ik.ni W muit have n free press, free assemblies of the I people to deliberate on the public welfare, iu j short all those sacred rights of freemen enumera j led in ;..- Constitution and regarded by it as in j violah'e. o j. t iiiing um A Chicago correspondent of the St. Louis Republican gives the following account of the rapid progress madein manners and habits by the Rev. Owen Lovuot, abolition member of Congreas from Illinois: Lovejoy's life at Washington as a member of Congress and maker of Brigadier Generals has "1 8IH1II inaifffr 111 1117 pCTStllMl Orun'tlio; and habits. He has quit his preacherlike twang and his quotations and comparisons from sacred writings, and adopted the slap dash style and loims of expression that belong to the political buffer. He is also ravenously fond of gin slings and whisky punches. End, people here say, sometimes gets very comfortably "booxy."

Dimocbatu: VicTOBT. The special election for member of Congress iu the Bucks and Le high district, Pennsylvania, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Cooper, took place on Saturday. Stiles, Democrat, was elected by about 400 majority

Impertinent Intermeddling CouiniN tees Mr. Snuoti, in his speech accepting the nomination for Governor, tendered him by the De mocracy of New York, remarked that the Republic ms were not tit d to carry on the Government. This he illustrated by stating that they approved of the formation ol impertinent meddling committees, who push themselves into the verr counsels of our rulers. Thoy propose to orgauize men

outside the authority of law and the constituted 1 authorities. A few dayg ago we noticed that a self constii tuted intermeddling committee had gone from this State to thrust their advice upon the Presi dent and to propose setting up an independent prosecution ot the war, outside of the constituted authorities of the nation. The Lafayette Courier thus noticed the meddler's proposition: A Pbopositiox prom tue Northwest We violate no confidence iu the statement that Hon. Henrv S Lane, Judge Test, Je-eL. William, Hou. Dick Thompson, Cassius M Clay, Garrett 1 ' l ' Id IS tSU - '.ill I Davis and other representative men ot the North u , wsliiiixtm for somedavs urging upon the Presideht the acceptance of a proposition for the consolidation of the troops of the Northwestern States into one grand division . . . rn XP , . . under the command ol Governor Morton. 1 hey pledge themselves in behalf ol the great North west to crush out the rebellion from .he line of Virginia southward in ninety days and leave New York. Peiinsy Ivania and the Eist the task of encountei in.' Lee and his desoerate legions. The proposition was well considered and lully matured before it was made. The decision ol the Presi - denl has not been rendered . but grave fears are entertained fur the fate of the proposition. The telegraph of the associated press, which appeared in yesterday morning's paper, says that Governor Morton's commissioners met with a decided rebuke. We quote: Senator Lane and other prominent Indianians who were here a few days ago on a mission from Gov. Morton, have returned with "No" for an answer. Gov. Morton desired authority to arm and uniform the regiments from his State, by making requisitions directly, instead of through the General Government, and to select the Generals to lead them. Modest, that, very. The Governor "desired authority" to act independently of the General Government, prcure clothing and arms for the regiments of this Stale, and select the Generals to lead them. Somebody couiJ have made a considerable amount of money out of an opera tiou of this kind. But the Governor was not satisfied with being the royal satrap of Indiana mt -... r u u i . i King Oliver the rirst ol all lioosierdom but he t L. desired to add Kentucky to his dominions. 1 he special Washington dispatches to the Cincinnati Gazelle, dated the 1 Ith, have the following iu eference to the meddling committee: The Wlstirx Delegation Stories are in circulation here that the recent delegation oi In diaua and Kentucky politicians ca nie IM the pur pose of urging the appointment of Gov. Morton as Provision;.! Governor of Kentucky, and rep resenting that the Union members at the hen lucky Legisl iture desired such an appointment. Tnis version is not believed, but it is known that this dclegaitou desired to secure an arrangement by which the State authority of Indiana could provide for their own troops, without waiting to go through the delay of the War Office, and could select their own Generals for ihem. As the mattet is understood here, this Wai coupled Kentucknilis and llidianiaus with some leitures of the present military management in that departmeut, with the icuuest that Gen. i homas A Morris, whose brilliant services in Western Virginia have never been recognized by the Govern ment, should be put at the head of the depart ment. The whole request, both as relating to Indiana m Itters aud to the affairs of the department, met with a flat refusal. The New York Herald't Washington dis patches of the lllth say: A Pbovisioxal Governor for Kentlcet. It is understood that one Indiana delegation of prominent politicians has been here to get the Pre.-idenl to appoint Gov. Morton, of Indiana, Provi.-ional Governor of Kentucky. It is alleged that the uiemners of the Kentucky Legislature desue such action. The President declines to accede to this request. The New York Tribune's Washington dis patches of the same dale thus notices '.he med dlers: A Mission prom Indiana Unsatispied. Sen ator Lane and other prominent ludianians who were here a lew days ago on a mis-ion from Gov. Morton, have returned with "No" for an answer. Gov. Morton desired authority to arm and uniform the new tegiments from this State by making requisitions directly instead of through the General Government, and to select the Generals to lead them, li is understood that if this latter privilege had beeu granted him he would have appointed to the thief command Gen Thomas A. Morris, who has been shelved ever siiue his success iu Western Virginia, and notwithstanding (!e efforts of many leading men from his own ami adjoining Slates to he v e him appointed Ma jor General. To all these requests ol Gov. Morton a decided relusal was given. A decided relusal to all these intermeddling requests was right. If the propositions of the impertinent meddling committee of Indiana had been acceded to. what would have been the re suit? Instead of unity of aclion and hingleness of purpose, anarchy would have reigned through out. If Governor Morton had been author ized to arm and uniform the troops of Indiana, and appoint the Generals to lead them, the Governor of every other State would have demanded the same privilege the same anthority. We should then have some twenty lour Governors buying arms, uniforms, horses, tents, Ac , Ac, and appointing Generals inuuineiable There would be twenty-four armies distinct from each other, looking to State authorities for sup plies and orders, instead of a single head as now. Who can imagine the confusion and the enormous stealings which would follow such an Utopian scheme. Hut it is worthy the source from whence it emanates. It is a Republican idea out aud out. And who cau doubt, after such E suggestion, the truth of the oft repeated charge that Republicans are not fitted to carry on the Government. If any one desires to know why the war is not eudeJ, why its terrible conse quences have visited the cout try, the answer is, we are under Republican rule. We ask the peo pie of Indiana to reflect ujon these visionary propositions of impertinent intermeddling Republi can commitues, ami then we inquire whether it is the part of wisdom to longer continue the Government in such hands? Let your answer be recorded at thejiolls on the second Tuesday in.October next. KfW York Democratic -mn- Convention.The Democracy of New York met in Convention at Albany on the 10th inst. The attendance of delegates was very large and the utmost enthusiaHin and unanimity characterized its proi ceediiigs. By acclamation the Hon. Hobatio Seimolb was nominated tor Governor. The nomination of such a man, at the present time, when the counsels of statesmen are needed to guide the ship of State from the perils which beset her, augurs well. Mr. Scymoce is a states man, a patriot and an honest man. The brief report of his speech, which we append, is evidence, if his past history did not amply illustrate the qualities conceded to him, that he is the man for the times and eminently fit lo be placed iu power. He denounces in hold terns the ii.iquitousradic.il legislation ot Congress, which, j bj iu .regard 0f the Constitution anil the spirit of our institutions, was giving aid and comfort not only, but even justification to the rebellion. Mr. Sevmovb was for sunning by the Govern ment, giving it all the men and money it required for the suppression of the rebellion, but holding the party in power and the Administration to a strict accountability for the use of the meaDs placed in their hands. In regard to slavery, he was fur letting it take tht consequences ol the .war, but he was opposed to waging -he contest solely Tor iu destruction. This is the position of ihe Democracy everywhere. Most

truly did he remark that the Democracy had been and would be loyal and obedient to the laws and Constitution of the country, not from fear, but irom patriotism; and that the President had been far less embarrassed by the Democrats than the Republicans. In striking contrast is the position of the two parties. The Republicans, to

destroy slavery, would permit the ove -throw of j the Government, even welcome its destruction; while the Democracy are for sustaining the Constitution as it is and restoring the Union as it was, whether in the prosecution of the war slavery is saved or destroyed. The enthusiasm with which the nomination of Mr. Sktmoib is hailed by the conservative citizens ot New York, regardless of past party distinctions, is a gratiiying assurance that he will be triumphantly elected, and in his success the radicalism and the radicals which have brought the present difficulties upon the country, will be justly rebuked. We copy from the proceedings of the Convention the following: Hon. Elijah F. Purdy tueu moved that Ho ratio Seymour of Oneida, be unanimously nom iuated by acclamation the candidate of the Dem ocratic Slate Convention for the Governorship of the State of New York. The mention of the name of Horatio Seymour i had an electric effect upon the Convention. Every member started to his leel, and cheer alter cheer resounded through the hail. The scene of enthusiasm and excitement is beyond description. The motion of Mr. Purdy was carried amid a perlect tempest of appiause, and the unanimous "Aye" of the Convention rang through the hall amidst the most dealening calls for "Seymour," "Seymour," "Seymour." It seemed as if the Convention would never become quiet again. Mr. Sevmoursoon appeared upon the platform when another outburst ot enthusiastic took place lasting for several minutes. cheering Governor Seymour, when order became suf tic. c. illy restored addressed the Convention in a speech of unusual force, brilliancy , eloquence and boldness. Alter slating his unwillingness to accept the office under any other circumstances than those rendering it the duty of every man to do what wa in his ower to re-cue the country from its present difficulties, he referred to the Democratic Convention held less thau two years Ego in this same hall, to exhort the dominant party to submit the "Crittenden Compromise," to a vote of the people in order to avert the war. Mr. Sevnmur then reviewed at length the course of Congress, which refused the petition ot the Democracy, and traced the historv of events ' from the first battle of Bull Run down to the i i pledge made by Congress to prosecute the war I for the restoration of the Union and tin prefer j vation of the Constitution. He then drew a piu- ' ture of the subsequent action of Congress, which ! disregarded the wisdom of Solomon, "that it is j an honor to a man to cease from strife, but a fool i will be meddling." He alluded to the assaults I m ide by Republican journals on the Administra tion. which Administration they charged with in ; competency, corruption, anil unfaithfulness. He showed how the course of Congress had tended j to unite the South aud distract the North, fur the j Republican party had evinced a spirit of insub ; ordination toward the Administration of its own creating. He reminded the Republican party ; that slavery was not the only thing iu the Con I stitutiou, the overthrow of which would bring untold misery and suffering on the I niintij He argued that although the Republicans were not intentionally dishonest, they were not fitted to carry on the Government. They approved of the formation of imperiinent meddling commit j lees, who nush themselves into the very councils j of our rulers. They ptopose to organize' men ! outsHe of the authority of law and t ie constiI luted aiithoiities. For one, he (Mr. Seymour) I spurned such committees, ami would resist such j illegal, revolutionary organizations if need be by force. While ne admitted that there were loyal men in the body of the Republican party, its leaders were dangerous and unwi-e men. nnd in its present situation it could not save the country Mr Seymour then stated the position of the Democratic party. Thev had und thev would I continue to loyally supjtort the laws and authorities of the country. They would give the Presi -j de .t all the men he called for to uphold the Gov ernment, execute the laws, put down the rebellion and gain an honorable and lasting peace. The Democratic party had been and would be loyal and obedient to the laws and Constitution of their country, not from fear but patriotism He warnet), he implored the Republicans not to mistake the p tti iotism of the Democracy for fear. The Democratic (tarty had he MM and arm strong enough to sweep away the cobweb system of ter rorism ami threats which seemed to be held over the heads of the people. The secuiity of the public is in the loyalty and intelligence of that party, and upon that patty the Government can at all limes rely. The President has been far le-s embarrassed by Democrats than by Republicans. Mr. Se muur concluded by saving thai the De mocracy were confident in their cau-te, tor they were battling for the Union, the Constitution ami the laws. Governor Seymour was frequently interrupted in 1 is speech bv the most enthusiastic outbursts of applause, i Idoin if ever equalled in any State 1 Convention. At the conclusion of his speech j cheer after c.ner was given for him, aud the most intense .eling was exhibited, everybody j crowding Inn .rd to seize him by the hand and show the pleasure and gladness thev felt at his ' nomination. The scene of enthusiasm baffles all attempts at description. When oiler was once more restored, loud cries were made for "Fernando Wood;" who, in a brief, spirititl, eloquent and patriotic address, indoised every word that Governor Seymour h id given utterance to, declaring that the time had come when the people could speak their minds. Uiuier the present Ail ministration, a man heretofore, if he spoke ihe truth, was sent to fort Lafayette, and the only securitv for him against im prison BMnt was to give utterance to lies. He pledged that the city of New York would give thirty thousand majority for Horat;. Seymour, and that nothing could prevent him (Mr Sey :iioui) from being the uext Governor of the great Slate of New York. Mr. Wood's remarks were enthusiastically applauded. Illinois Democratic Mal- ( omriHion The following resolutions were unanimously and enthusiastically adopted by the Democracy of Illinois, at their State Convention on the lOih instant: 4 Resolved, That the Constitution, and laws made in pursuance thereof, are and roust remain the supreme law of the and, and as such must be preset veil and maintained in their proper ami rightful supremacy; thai the rebellion now in arms against them must be suppressed, and it is the tiuty of all good citizens to aid the General Government iu all legal and constitutional measures necessary and proper tor the accomplishment of this end Resolved, That the doctrines of Southern and Northern extremists are alike iuc insistent with the Federal Constitution, and irreconcilable with the I' ii ion and harmony of the country. The first have alreidy involved us iu a civil war, and the latter, if permitted lo retain asccudai.cy, will leave to the nation but little hope of the restoration of the I i ne i, in peace. Resolved, That ae protest in the name of our selves and of our children, and in the name of all we hold dear iu the future of our beloved country, against the resolution of pledging the nation to pay lor all the negroes which may be emancipated by authority of any of the Southern Slates; and that we regard such measure, involving as it does the expenditure of thousauds of millions of dollars, as a measure of transcendant enormity a;. d fruitful only of national beggary ; that we are unalterably and unconditiopally opposed to all rchetces having for their objects, immediate or remote, the taxation of the white in it; for the purchase of the negro anywhere Resolved. That the recent arrests of citizens of i this State, charged with violations of civil law, ; and their transportation to military prisons be yond this State calls for the most unqualified con demnation, and are direct aud open violations of the Constitution of the United Slates. That the 1 people of this State have a right to demand that I all of her children so arrested shall be immedi aicly restored to their homes mid allowed a fair and impartial trial, according to the provisions of the Constitution, so that ii guilty they may be convicted and punished, and if not guilty that thev may have their reputations honorably vindicated. Resolved, That while we deprecate End condemn the extravagances of some portions of the public press, and still more strongly condemn all secret political organizations, as unnecessary, we will even protest against ah unjust interference with the freedom of speech and of the pi ess, by arbitrary und illegal arrests and imprisonments, or by exti'. judicial suppression of newspapers in the loyal States where the ordinary courts of justice are unobstructed, as tyrannical, oppressive to individuals and d iiigerous to the public liberty. Resolved, That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the Federal Government:

that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by tavored partisans. Ketolred, That we consider the new excise law unjust in many of its features, and particularlyoppressive on the agricultural States; and we urge such amendments as shall make it equal aud just, and also a general reduction of the

amount levieu so as to be within the present ability of the people to pay Ketolved, That the strictest economy in the ' administration of the affairs of our State Gov- : eminent is imperatively required; and the exec- ! utive, legislative and judicial officers should re , ceive lor their compensation only the salaries allowed by the Constitution of the State; and ! that all additional fees should be paid into the State or county treasuries. Resolved, That, in order to sustain the financial I credit of the United States Government, and to I relieve the people of the State from paying exoibirant premiums to brokers for gold, we iccommend that all taxes be collected and paid iu Uuii led States treasury notes. Reeotoed, That we hail with satisfaction the recent declaration of the President of the United : States, that his object is to "save the Union the i shortest way under the Constitution" that it is the duty of all good citizens lo sustain the President against the pressure of the radiol Republij cans to induce him to depart from this principle, and pervert the effbit to suppress a wicked rebel ! lion into a war for the emancipation of slaves and for the overthrow of the Constitution Regained, That the people ot Illinois having inhibited by the State Constitution and law the entrance of free negroes into this Slate, and as the present disturbances jn our liorder are likely to bring in an influx of th it population from other States, we respectfully ask the public authorities of Illinois to see tint the Constitution and laws are properly enforced on that subject. When the people of Illinois adopted that negro exclusion clause, they meant that the honest laboiing man should have no conqietitor in the black race that the soil of Illinois should belong to the white man, and that he alone was suited tor her free institutions. Reolcel, That our thanks are due and are hereby tendered to the officers and volunteers of every corps, lor their brave and gallant conduct in the war to preserve the Union and the Constitution. History will record their deeds upon the bloody fields of Bel.nont, Danelson, Pittsburg Lauding, Frederick tow n, Lexington and other fields, for the admiration of all coming time. From lae London Times, Auttust 29. The Recognition ol the I nitcu Mate by Knglitnd an i Sample for MM orlh The continual tale of defeat and calamity will "ot tend to excite enthu-i ism iu the new recr iits who are to fill the ranks so terribly thinned bv the war. A second advance southward, it may be predicted, will not be undertaken wit i the same spirit of the first. All the circumstances of the war are changed. The troops are not volunteers; the conflict has no"ninety days" limit; the enemyis in terrible earnest, a mi tights with skdl and dis ciction as well as courage. It is a more serious business altogether than was at first believed. No delusions are fMsil!e now. The part of the population that furnishes the successive armies has begun to see that a conquest of the South is impossible. They refuse to enlist for the work, ami .ire forced into the ranks by the threats of a conscription. The part of the people who cm fight by deputy wili begin, perhaps, to recognize something of the difficulty when they are forced to pay the bill the war has already run up and tocalculaie what even t another year of "conquest" must cost. Thev win oegiu to recover nom the intoxication ot Hie revel when they arrive at the sobering moment of the re k ni'tig! And it is well for mankind that the passion for conquest is sure to he checke) at some poiut by its cost, bvtli in blood aud gold. A period arrives when national pride must yield and make the be-t terms; and a way is sure to be found by which the national honor can be reconciled with peace. It seeks consolation in the very bnvery and ob-tinacy of ttfc1 re-i-t a ne e, or affects to discover that it was only beilen by the powers ot nature, bv climate, by distance, bv mountains ami rivers, ' r by disease, or. in fact. byhnylhing that palli ates Ihe faiiurc. It m titers little how the con viction of the impossibility of an enterprise is arrived at, provided it is abandoned with as good a grace as may be. It wouid be better, of cotir-e, that the in idnes ot a hopeless undertaking should be recognized at the outset. This appears to be a prescience bevond humanity. Yet when j an i invasion has consumed large armies, wasted millions of treasure, anil at the end of the first year of war leaves the invading power iu doubt whether it is not really in danger of attack, the I'm tire "f such a conflict may be calculated from the past. The time has arrived for a compromise of some kind; the worst settlement ot the dispute can not be so fatal as the war. This was the conclusion forced on the British Government at a period the his'ory ot w hich is taught iu every American school. The North might add its present ext erience to the lesson of its schoolbooks with infinite advantage. The American colonists were "rebels" iu the belief of England, as the Southern citizens are "rebels" to the Govern ment of Washington. We thought our national interest antl our national pi ide were involv ed in supprc-sing the revolt by arms. We were stiff necked in the matter as a people, and the Gov eminent was under the influence ot the most ob stin ate of Kings. We kept up the war for years, ami we are still paving for the blindness of our grand fat hers Yet England had to yield all, to acknowledge the inpendence of America, and lo let the British Crown sitstiiti as it could the loss of its "brightest jewel." To our surprise, we soon found that the jewel was not so much missed; that as for our material interests, they were rather improved by the change that we gained more by good Mendt than bad subjects. We now look on the issue of the conflict with satisfaction. But England iheti, unlike America now, had a few wise and moderate men who saw the impossibility of conquering the rebellious colonies, anil courageously opposed the popular clamor, foreseeing the inevitable end. Lord Chatham called on the House of Lords "to instruct the Throne in the language of truth," to which a people might now listen with sdvat- ' tage. It was at one of the worst periods of the war; our Pones and our MfClell ins had failed. '.The army was iu a desperate condition. "That army, said Uliatnani. "can acnieve anvining out impossibilities: and 1 know that the conquest of British America is an imiossibiIity. You can not conquer America! What is your present sit uation there": We do not know the worst; but we do know that in three campaigns we have done nothing add suffered much" words that exactly describe the North at the present moment. Our, King Government and people had to yield to the force of circumstances These say most distinctly to the Unionists, "You can not conquer the South." And the Americans will have to obev their stern monitor, as we did before ihem. Tlie T: raionablr Plot of the Kadi cnl. The Washington correspondent of the New "V ork Herald says: Notwithstanding the fright occasioned by the I present condition of affairs to ihe radical agitators, I their denunciations of the present Administration I are of a character quite as treasonable as any thing ever uttered by the leaders of the rebellion, 1 if not more so. Only last night Senator Wilson, i of Massachusetts, who is a type of this class, w as publicly inveighing against the Government and denouncing to a ciowd of news hunters and newspaper correspondents that if this Government was located in New York it would-be overtumel iu less than ten days, and a provisional Government established in its stead. This was staled, not in the way of a threat, nor was it expressed as a proposition of the Senator himself, but was given with an emphasis which was peculiarity siguifi cant. From other radical sources it is learned that the purpose entertained by the friend- of Fremont is to raise au independent force of fifty thousand men, to be placet under his comm ind, and then to declare him military dictator, ami aJ low him to assume the direction of governmental policy aud enforce his authority by the bayonet. These things are whispered in the corridors ol the Capitol, and indicate the treasonable desires of the Jacobins who have endeavored in vain lo pervert the policy of the Admin. -nation to their own partisan purposes. Thk National Tab The assessors and collectors recently appointed under the tax law of last Congress received their blank books on Monday, but are unable to tell from their instructions how or iu what manner to proceed. In fact they appear to be iu a dilemma, not even knowing whether they are to keep an office or hold forth on the curbstone. The most intelligent of them are unable to tell what is to be deducted from the iuc inc. if anything, or iu fact what '.hey are to do. In short, the whole affair, owing either to deficts in the law or from instructions Irom headquarters at Washington, is in a decided muddle, and the prospects are thai several days will elapse before any portion of the law will be car ried into effect in this city. N. Y. Herald. tJjTBirds are a poor man's music, and flowers the poor man's poetry.

Carllle Stamping for the South." The Journal copies an extract from the Grenada (Mississippi) Appeal, in which it is stated that Mr. Carule "is stumping the Western part of Virginia against the war and in favor of the South." The Journal knew that it was giving currency to a lie by publishing and indorsing a statement of that character. Mr. Cablilk is not stumping Western Virginia against the war or in favor of the South. The Journal is the last

i . mr.i.ii.ij. piper in the Notth that should charge anv one v - with uttering treasonable sentiments. It was against the war before and after it commenced. It pronounced secession revolution, and said that the people of the South had the right of revolution, if they chose to exercise it. It was iu favor of peaceable separation of let ting all the States that desired to leave the Union go in peace. Four months after the fall of Sumter, the Journal said that it had seen no reason to change the opinions it had expressed agaivist civil war and in favor of disunion, antl if the rebels would lay down their arms it was still in favor of letting them depart in peace. When the Journal was advocating the right of secession, Mr. Cablile was in the Virginia Convention opposing it. He opposed it not only theo relically, but practically. He remained in the Union. To day. a he has always been, he is in favor of the old Constitution and the old Union. The trouble with the Journal so far as Mr. Caki.il.. is concerned, is, that he is uot an Abolitionist he is not a Black Republican. He associated with them long enough to find out their hypocrisy, that the emancipation of the slaves was an object higher with them than the maintenance of the Constitution and the preser ration of the Union as it came from the men of the revolution. Because he can not have any sympathy with Black Republicanism, the Jour nal charges Mr. Cablile with uttering treasonable sentiments and with being a secession sym pathiser, knowing both to be false. This charge comes with ill grace from paper which is an open ami persistent advocate of a peicable sep aration of the States. rus from Kentucky. The Louisvdle Democrat of the 13th contains the following information in regard to military movements in that Stale: We learn from ladiable authority that a rtd force. IMM strong, iu couim mi of Gen Polk. niprl " Ii ...,.lr possession. Gen Bragg was leimrted to be fol lowing close on Polk's heels, the whole force be lieved to beoH.UvH). Down HI Road. We learn from Capt. Tom Berrv, of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. j that a train left Bowling Gieen yesterday lor ; Franklin, hut turned back, unable to proceed; the j j track had teen torn up betneeu Franklin and ; I Bowling Green, a force) of rebels having made their appearance within twelve miles of the latter place. Forrest's cavalry, numbering about 1 ,000 men, I were in Franklin yesterday, where they killed one I Federal soldier, and mule prisoners of a lot of ' stragglers. I hey have torn up the track in that vicinity, burned deMtts, ami did considerable . other damage. Lati-ST ikum Ct HDi.Ki .tMi Gap. By information received in this city from a reliaide gentleman ot the Gap. we learn that a I one left the Gap on the 2Hth ult., and made mi attack on the Georgia brigade, who hid been within four miles of our forces for several weeks, when our force-, uiuier the indomitable (ien George W . Morcan, made an attack and completely dispersed the whole brigade, killing several and taking n great many prisoners ami capturing their entire camp equipage, rations, Ac , sufficient to last our en tire division for two months. This is a fortunate occurrence tor our troop, stationed at the Gap as they have been on short rations for sometime past. This will place them iu a position to hold out for double the length of lime thev have so far. The rebels will find that they have a hard customer to deal w ith when they a hold of den eral Morgan ami the men comprising his division. Correspondence of .sentim-I. Democrat. c ."vlcrting in Mnnror omtty Sam. Vt'rljrlit cli-li vtT u tin day Scliool (trillion. Bloomixgton, Sept 1, 162. Eld toe StXTiNKL A large and enthusiastic Democratic meeting was hrld at this place on Moii lav the 8;h Inst. The attendance was larcc Irom every portion of the county The meeting was organized by the selection of Ex Governor Dunning as Chairman. Alter the transaction of business, the Hon John B. Cochrane of Ken tucky, was introduced. Mr Cochrane spoke of the difficulties Kentucky Union men have labor ed under, and the saci dices wiih which they have seated their devotion to the Government. Thev had contributed nearly one half their number lo stved the rank- of the Union armies, aud were ready to re-pond to everv call made upon them by their country. They were for the Government because it was right. In au attic and eloquent apteai he called ujsm the people of the North to shun the counsels of extiemists, and adopting conservative measures, devote eveiy energy to prosecuting the war, in which course lay our surest ro id to success. Mr. C's w hole address was most able and patriotic. As the views of a man whose love for the Union had cost lum many sacrifices, the speech had a salutary effect upon our people, who have been dispo-ed to umlernte the trying situation of Kentucky Union men. It Mr. Cochrane! duties ass member of the Kentucky legislature mild permit him t mioics- other portions of Indiana, he could do Kentucky no better service than h raising his eloquent voice within the borders of our own Slate lor a more v igorous prosecutiou of the war. The lion. Joseph E McDonald then address ed the meeting. A oriel svmqisisof his speech would not do it justice, lie mid the people he came lo appeal quietly to their leasoli. He said the Democratic party ere for a determined ami vigorous wai policy, and would respond to every call of their country for men and money lo up hold the Constitution. It was the only pariy which hail sacrificed party feelings. He ablv re vieived ilicuiicoii-tiiiiiioii.il measures anil suicidal

policy of Congress at its last seasion. He advo 1 are lor settlement " We have not seeu ihe pacated n war Klicy which would defeat the rel el per, and do not know whether or not any qualifjarmies in the field, disarm them and then provide ; cations were added Those who iulormeu us of

for the government ol the receded btates under the Constitution, after the removal of their disloyal leaders. Men went away from the Court House on Monday evening satisfied how deeply the Democracy of Indiana hid been misrepre-ea teal The ballot box will tell a favorable tale for i idouroe county in uctooer, it nee irom leoerai in fluence, aud not niterlered with by State au thorily. One word of tribute to a political colporteui , who is at present vending his politics ami reljgion through Southern Indiana, charging nothing but food and loilrnfc, but with nn rye fixed on here after. Joseph A. Wright abused his lute Democratic friends on Saturday, the 6th inst., at Bloom ington. As he proposes lecturing all over the State except the Seventh Congressional District, we will not destroy his stock in trade by report ing his speech. On Sunday afternoon he deiner eil a Sunday School oration to the children of the Methodist Church. A goodly number of old and i young were present 1 he Ex Governor begun by , saying he could uot talk without speaking of the i war, und said he would tell them the causes ot the rebellion. To bo brief the address was interesting. He talked about himself, quoted from both testaments, questioned the childien, ' put the ministers through cross examination, and concluded by giving the adult portion of his hearers a scientific and instructive account of his visit to Pompeii, where his vision was gladdened by the sight of a theater without a root, several kinds of fish hooks, au immense jug which wouid hold three barrels, what he styled the hetacombs, aud other things of equal interest to an intelli gent audience. The whole address reflected ! great credit upon the taste and learning of the Ex-Governor of Indiana and Ex Minister to j Betliu. As we thought of the past an I wilnessed i the present, despite the day nnd the pi ice, we weie reheshed bv the recollection of what that irrepressible individual, the past says, uot that we would attribute to the gentleman of "thunder and lightning" renown, ihe tierce warlike genius of the famous Englishman, though he might dis pute the claims of piety with Dean Swift. "In life' lat bourn when prodifri ariie; Fears of the b.ave ami follies of the im-; I-'roin rlbort.unh'it eye the tears of du tage flow, An Swift expires a driveller and a show." Or perhaps those other words of the same gen tleman should be equally true which are to be found In the "Loafer's Lament" on his own un fortunate downfall. "Yen I thiuk vat I now be, and vat I oed to was, I think I thrown tnystdr away. Mil oat uBcient caart. Satt

Fron the Bcknoad Exaniner. I. ntr from UietBmon. Intelligence has been received Irom various sources that the enemy has succeeded in evading or forcing the lines ol the Confederates between M an is-as and Washington, and reached Arlington Heights with the wreck of hi army This story lacks confirmation, but it comes from so many quarters that we fear it conUiiis but too much truth. We know from the northern press that it was the intention of their Genet als, it de

feated on the Ksppahaiiuock, to retire to Arlington II. I., lit.- rl.n.a I ' .......... .1... mM ilu m. I -iS j I rnrn 111 . n I i ' I uir .i.e. .,), , . . . , c and to reform their broken legions and new lines dui ing the winter. But it was the hope aud be''ef the country that the arrangements of the Confederate leaders had been such as would have completely foiled that plan. If the news of their successful retreat to Ailington HeighU is confirmed, it will tie another of those many disappointments which we have bad to support, much resembling and nearly as great as the escape of McClellan afier the "battle of Cold Harbor and Malvern Hill But if it is indeed true, we hope that our foes themselves will be ti-.ippoiiiied in their expectations of a seige ot Washington. The chiei prize of the late victories is not the possession of that city, but the opportunity which they would seem to afford for the commencement ol an ctieiisiva I campaign in the enemy's country. The captuie ol Washington would produce au immense sen j sat ion, but if unattended uy uh immediate advance into Pennsylvania, and a menace of the ' northern capitals, it is impossible to say that the said sensation would be altogether and necessarily j to our advantage. It would be a prodigious uior- ' tification to the North, but would not cost a faul, , or even a serious loss of strength. The moral shock might possibly occasion negotiations lor ' peace; but if the northern people pos-e? a .y teal j courage, it would more pruhahlv r stilt in a gene ral rush to anus. Possession of Washington is only desirable as the open door to invasion; and if it is effectually closed against us by the occupation of Arlington, e hope that this precious season will not be consumed in picking the lock or batteri.ig it down, while the wall is full of breaches through which we may pass as well. Reason indicates that the .urn and object of the Confederacy at this st ic.e of the war is, or should e, a tran.ler of hostilities to the enemy's soil. It is in fact a matter of necessity that we should do so. It is difficult to see Im an enormous army can be subsisted in N oil hem Virginia during the coming winter. Everything that it consumes will have to lie transported there Irom reat distances, lor it is now literally an aimy in the desert Few who have not visited it know the extent to which the unfortunate portion of the State has been de dated. At the end of eighteen months it has been reduced to a condition nearly re.-emhling th.'i of Middle Get many, after the thirty years' war Toe drums and trawiplings of three conque-ts ,,!,ve x'l el-ewhere the ravage a-.d " ..te which the struy-Ie- ol the Southern ho-ts have caused in Piedmont, Virginia, during the I ast and pi eseiit sciniinis J : n ill lake cue hundred lull years to restore that country to the condition in which the war found it Deserted as it is by the majority of its inhabitants, it is not easily peiceived how the scattered remainder of its population hope to c-ca;.e starvation during the coming winter; aud the maintenance of au army ol ore hundred and nit thousand men theie, dependant oti a single track railroad, when the a inter has rendered Mie other highways impassable, w ill be au experiment not less dangerous than costly. Even if that difficulty could be overcame, it is , evident that our army can not waste its t me in i protracted operations lor the ssse-sioii of a I fionticr city, un.e-- it desires to lose the onlv op- ' (sari unity to make teal approach to the end of the war that we have had since the beginning of : it. Such a delay wouid be all that the enemy j could now tlesiie, I u it would ptve him just the time necessary to organize ami br.ng up his new army of six hundred thousand men; and while Washington shoulu be neither clearly lost or won, but a prize still at stake between the two countries.the difficulty of raising that new army would be greatly alleviated If we can not take Washington bv n comij de main, it must be leit to lake care of itself. The ! true goals of our course are the deliverance of Maryland and the invasion of Peunsy Ivania; and i and if we ee- have an honorable tieaty ol eace with the United States, it will be signed on the enemy's lerriiory, and not on our soil. War is it game of chance, and in all games of 1 chance there are unaccountable iuns o! good and ; bad luck. Iu (he latter part of last winter and in the beginning of the spring, we had our season tl evil lortune. Mishap succeeded mishap, loss 1 followed loss, and disaster pursued disaster in a melancholy series so long aud unbroken that the Confederacy could re dire the sensation of Macbeth, when he asked: "Shall thy line sli etch out to crack of doom?" The tables are now turned; the cards run the other way. The North has now ilsdi'iu ii season, ' while the winter ol our discontent is turned to lorioiis summer. Splendidly victorious ia Vir ginia, our hrst organized advance into Kentucky is also marked by a success even moie brilliant, though of less magnitude. The battle near ' Ku hmond, KentucEY, Ithough ten thousand ' only of the enemy were engaged, is one ot the most encouraging incidents of the war, if the repoit which the telegraph brings is indeed true, that the Kentucky tegiments which the enemy had raised by comptilsoty enrolment i lurched over to the side of their compatriots to deliver up the arms which their tyrants had forced into their hands. A l.nge iKrt:on of the new levies of the North ' "re to be drafted Iroin the oppre-ued populations ol conquered southern Slue Mai land. Kenlucky, Missouri and Tennes-ee. We now know what thee troops will be worth lo them and to i us, and can indulge the hope that they will or ! i;anize, arm and equip as many more tegmenta I from those St ites as the arms bearing population j will aflord The Kentucky victory appears by ; the dispatch to have ttceii so complete, that we leir the details may weaken the impre-tion that I it leaves. But ii is at least certain that we are I victorious in Kentucky, and thai our tmopg are ! uoii their way to Lexington. In the West, as ' in the East, the smile of lortuue is manifest; and ; the ma-ters of the art ot war aree with other gamblers, that luck should be pushed. From die Kiel mnntl Knquirrr, Sept. 6. 'I lie Terms of Pean It seems that the recent victories of the Confedeiaie army has moused a leehng toi i t-a.ee whith is beginning to tiud public expression in northern cities. We ate informed that a late copy of the New York Times has bee i received that savs: ''it the ,'i.Iir..iitsl i. in.'If the combined ai miesol JHcCiedan, Burns ide and Pope are defeated, then we for one : the limes' expression added that the whole tone of Ihe article was that of disappointment and sorrow. Whether or uot this statement is correct, we have no touht that thousands at the North, who heretofore silently submitted to the popular ', cry, will now speak out aud demand peace, since all their armies have been delealed. antl no force intervenes between our victorious army and the northern cities General Lee understands the northern character well enough to know that ihe surest guarantee of an early peace, is the vigorous prosecution of present successes. He has shown himself to be a Geuernl who iroperly estimates the value of quick and rapid movements; he is pressing torward towards the enemy 's country, and nothing but a speedy offer of the most f avorable let tus of peace will prevent an early invasion of northern territory, carrying lo the enemy" home the same kind of warfare that has been practiced by them in the Sauth. When the lact of invasion is lorcibly presented to the northern mind, our own , terms of peace will be ottered us The onlv revurua which the Confederate States can accept will be the immediate recognition of the present Confederate States, and the permission to the other States lo elect their own destiny and to decide whether their future shall be with the Confederate Smtes or with the United Stales. We are of the opinion that the principle of election should be applied not only to the border slave Slates, but to each and all of the remaining United States Not that any of the Northern Slates are wanted in the Confederacy, but as an acknowledgment of the right oi secessiot h i ;, i h i Iii. ai has been waged. The peace which ends this wsr should acknowledge the ends lot which it was fought and apply its principles lo each aud all of the United States. We do not see the necessity for any proclama- , tion to the Northwestet n Slates about the free navigation of the Mississippi river; that has al ready been snfBcieuily declared, and the Northwestern States have, notwithstanding thai ofTer, as vigorously sustained the wsr as any of the other Northern States. Wv are unwilling to mitigate the force and effect of our victories by cetending favors or offers to any portion of our" enemies The ability to conquer a peace has been demonstrated let is do nothing that will appear like an effort to purchase it The earnest desire of the people of the Confederate States for peace is kuowu to the North. Whenever the United States are prepared to hare peace it can be obtained upon proper terms In the meantime our at my will speedily approach the enemy's territorv.