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Curious and Sarcastic letter of i:uier. ort Etlielridge. Washisgtot, May 18, Gemlemix: I have just rece'ved your letter of the 7th inst.. inviting me, in behalf of the Wash ington Union Club of Memphis, to join in a pub lie celebration of the anniversary of the surren der of that city to the Federal arms. You also speak kindly of my p:t efforts to induce the people of West Tennessee to consent cheerfully to "the restoration of the national authority through out the South." If I believed that by meeting you on the occasion referred to, I eoulii be of service to a single honest, law-abiding citizen or truly repentant Rebel, or that I could contribute to the least ex tent in ending the war and restoring the blessings of peace under the Constitution, 1 would certainly attend; but I hare no such faith in myself, and therefore I shall not eo. In your letter you express the opinion that, by ft "direct Tersonal appeal," I might "encourage the loyal or reclaim the disloyal." I confess my astonishment at such a. statement; and I can attribute this opinion of yours to nothing but a failure on your part to comprehend the masterly policy of our great and good President and the wise statesmen who aid him in shaping and directing the civil policy of the Government. When you have fully studied and understood the rand purpose of our most God-tearing and law-abiding President; when you are more familiar with the profound military strategy which, ns "Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States," he fa now displaying: and when you further remember the astonishing success we have had in reclaiming our "misguided countrymen" and in conquering our "wayward sisters," I shall be amazed if you continue to believe it necessary to "encourage the loyal" or "reclaim the disloyal." Why encourage the loyal? Is it possible they need encouragemeut in Memphis, when, fur nearly a year., you have been inside the Federal lines; when every night tattoo is substituted for "Hush, my biby, don't you cry," and sit reveille "Hail Columbia" aroues the people to a consciousness of the great security which is afforded to the property of the loyal people in Memphis and "all the couutry round that (political) Jordan?" How can you or I "encourage the loyal." when our matchless President, the late Congress, his sage counsellors and his peerless miliury subordinates have alre:wly done and promised all which wisdom can suggest, which our sucrcd Constitution authorizes, and which the Christian religion tolerates or approves? There remain nothing for tu to do, unless it be to obey our incomparable President in all Iiis wise meisure to conquer a glorious peace. True, we have among us croakers and copperhe ids silly, brainless men ho are so unwise and unpitr'otic as to question the wisdorn of our indefatigable President. If you have any such in Memphis you should at once denounce them as in sympathy with the Rebel; you should send them to their friends "down South" or to the Dry Tortus is, which is understood bv many to be a place where everybody is tortured J with a thirst for nn whisky, and not a drop can be obtained. No good Union man will complain of the conduct of the wise men who direct our public affairs. Thev should be taught to re member that seandalum mutjnatum was formerly a high crime it is a most heinous offense now and nothing saves such copper colored wretches but the Christian charity of our most pious President. At the proposed meeting you should so arrange matters as to secure a list of all who fail to attend or omit to render a suitable apology, and you should adopt resolutions of the most ' loyal" kind. Allow me to suggest that the committee on resolutions be selected Irotn contractors aod office holders. . I particularly suggest one Cooper, who has recently been appointed asesor for the large, rich and populous district of West Tennessee. He was originally from New York. True, he was never in West Tennessee until sent from this city on his official errand; but he do doubt knows by intuition the true value of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, &c , &c , tf a people he never knew and a country m which he never lived. But ne is so loyal so much so that I doubt not he is better fitted for the office than any one of the native born sons, brothers or fathers of the thousands of sohl i era who, before the 22-1 of last September, West Tennesse had furnished to the Federal army. Let the committee imits.te the "Loyal Leagues" of Bakimote, and resolve that you not only approve all the preseut wise and patriotic Administration has done, but that you will sustain and uphold it in everything it may hereafter do. -Let the torn mitte make an elaborate report, accompanied with resolutions denouncing all who find fault with our most excellent President. For instance: The last Congress (in July, 1862) passed a law to confiscate the property of certain Rebels. That Congress, though a very wise body, did not possess much aggregate wisdom ra our great and good President. In prool of tbia we eeed but re fer to the fact that the Congress aforesaid providei that, under this law, trial should precede conviction and forfeiture, and that guilt should be proven, not presumed. Worse still: itofferedan amnesty to repentant Rebels; it mercifully gve them sixty days hi which to accept it; and provided, further, that our most noble President might suspend for a period the operation of this law as our armies advanced southward, so as to aJbrd all an opportunity t accept pardon. Worse still: tbislaw actually applied to no one but the Rebels. And it ii astonishing that it applied to them everywhere, North as we!! as South In Springfield, Illinois, as well as Springfield, Tennessee. But, worse still, it did not effect the rights or property of Union men, women and children, or lunatics, in any cetion of the country. TLal Congress, strange as it may seem, did not percieve that the way .to end the rebellion and re store affectionate relations between the sections was to place the Urion men, women and children and the insate upon a perfect fooling of equality with the vilest traitors in the land. That Con gresa oelieved that the crime of refusitg obedience to the usurpation cf Davis & Co., in Mississippi. Arkansas, North Carolina and elsewhere, amid the teirora of a military despotism, did not merit the same or worse punishment than that they bad denounced against titled and official

traitors. That Congress spared the women and children; it also shielded from harm the Union men who still adhered to the national symbol of protection. What weakne-s! But Congress has adjourned. What was to be done? Thank Heaven, onr sagacious President was found jual to the occasion. You will percieve that on the 1st of January last, under this so called Confiscation Law, the slaves of every ftetel in the United States who had net accepted the amresty therein provide!, were de jure free. But how were we to end this rebellion if then Union men, women and children in the so-called Confederate Slate were left in undisttubed possession of all their legal and constitutional rights? If this policy were adopted, the Rebels might be come angry with these " monuments of Federal mercy," and in that event the spired monuments

aforesaid might cling more closely to the Federal flag This division among the people might cause a stid more unhappy state of tfl.urs in Dixie; our friends there might have to bear addi tional indignities. - As before remarked, ourmer ciful and considerate President was found equal to the crisis. In ft long conversation with some inspired apostles from the saintly city of Chicago a place where Onderdonkipg and other worldly amuse ments are unknown the President candidlv con fessed that he was endeavoring (he did not state the means) to ascertain the will of the Lord upon this difficult question: that so soon as he learned the Divine pleasure, be verily would do the will of the Master who sent him. The revelation came doubtless "by due course of mail." Judg ins fi m "that which is written," it amounted to this: that in a portion of Virginia and Louisiana, in Delaware, in Maryland, in Tennessee and Missouri, it was lawful for traitors who had accepted the amnesty provided by the Confiscation law, and all other persons, to hold slaves; but that in the tidewater regions of irginia, and in that part of Loui.-iana which had not been con secrated to slavery, by the military occupation of Gen. Butler, as also m ?iorih Carolina, Honda, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, it should no longer be lawful for the Union men, women and children, to hold our African fellow citizens to service or labor. And yet there are those of the "copperhead persua sion" who profess not to see the wisdom of this great master stroke of our most noble and exalted President. Sirs, did it not immediately divide the South and unite the North? Were not our camps forthwith crowded with countless myriads of bold and ardent recru't-s Hve not "onr American brethren of African descent" crowded by thousands into our ranks, inspiring our soldiers with a wild enthusiasm and rendering night vocal with the songs of enfranchised Dinahs and mew ing and puking Samlo-, and have not ur arms been victorious everywhere since the dawn of the nesro millenium of 1p63? I know that men like General M. Brayman, who commands in your vicinity (at Bolivar, Tennessee.) are guilty of absurdities of speech which nftord the enemies of. our sagacious Presi dent excuses for complaint and criticism. For instance, on the 14ih of last March, that officer then in command at Bolivar, wrote as follows in regard to the proclamation of freedom with which our illustiious and far seeing President greeted the advent of the new year. "The loyal man is equally helpless wiih the disloyal; in fact, more so: for the Rebel takes his slaves South, or hires them in the army in which he himself serves, whilst the flaves of loyal men flee to our camps, lieyond reclamation. Under this process, the Rebel holds his slaves by carrying them into a State in which they are declared free, while the law abiding citizen loses his by retaining them in a State where it is lawful to hold them. Al it is now, the lovalty and good conduct of these men avail thein nothing." In speaking of the elevating; effect! of this system upon our armies and the negroes, Gen. Bray man shocks our sensibilities by the use of language as this: "Their expense to the Government is enormous. It requires soldiers to guard them. They sicken and die in crowded and filthy corrals. They become debased and demoralized. They debase nnd demoralize the army." Now, among the resolutions you will ndopt at the Memphis meeting, there should by all means be one censuring Gen. Brayman for the use of language so insulting to "our fellow -citizens of Afriran descent," and so justly calculated to incense the slaveowners in Tennessee who have so stubbornly relused to join the Rebels. Why, sirs, this license of speech must be suppressed. What right have men who do not support the present wise and efficient Administration to criticise its policy or the consequences of it? Within the last few days I have heard persons in this city in this capital, which bears the sacred name of Washington, ami which for the present is the home of our illustrious Chief Magistrate draw seemingly invidious distinctions between Ihe fate of Jessie D Bright, of Indiana, and that of John M. Bolts, of Virginia. How mv blood "boiled with pious indignation" when, a few days ago, I heard an individual of the Htraightest sect of copperheads discoursing thus: "Jessie D. Bright, of Indiana, was expelled from the Senate of the United States last year, charged with treasonable practices He then owned a firm and negroes in Kentucky, and still owns them He accepted the amnesty provided in the so called Confiscation Law which passed Concress last July. He is now preparing to accompany his family ou trip of pleasure to En rope, leiving his large properties in Indiana nnd his slaves in Kentucky under the protection of the law. John M. Botts is j.ust out of Libby or sime other Confederate prison, where he was incarcerated for his devotion to the Union and his ur.dyii.g hostility to the so called Southern Confederacy. Ten days ago his slaves were enticed within the lines of our army in Virginia. Mr. Botts demanded that they be surrendered or returned, and received for an answer, direct from Washington, that he had no rijiht to them that onr wise and law abiding President had set them free." I confess that when I heard this long and complaining rigmarole I was indignant at this person's stupidity. He could not see the wisdom of this wise policy of our most noble Executive. He was almost as incorrigible as Jas L. Petigru, of South Carolina, who, when he read the grand proc I imation of the most illustrious successor of Wash ington, took the oath of allegiance to the Confederate Government, and offered his private fortune to the UebcU to aid them in making war upon the armies of the sublimest man of modern tim; of Nelson, of Tennessee, who, with sons in Rebel captivity, published an appeal to the people of that State to take up arms against our freedom loving President; of Houston, Henry and others, who immediately went over to the Hebel cause. Away with allsnch men. A good Union man loves his country per it. He cares nothing for liberty, or property, fame or fortune, considention or contracts, office or opinion. The true tewt is simply this: who is the greatest, wisest and best of mankind? Who is the first natural military genius of the world? Wbodocth all thines wisely and weil? W ho should be elected President so long, as he will accept the office? If to all these inquiries the respondent answers, with a tirm, utualteilng voice, Abraham Lincoln, Esq., he may be set down aa a good Union man, fit to join a "Loyal League," receive a contract, accept a commission or office, and to vote. But if, like Crittenden, of Kentucky, he w ever talking about the Constitution and such worn out themes he ought, not to be trusted for a moment A Union man mnthave an abundance of faith: faith in the saving grace of our exalted President faith that he will yet prove the political Moses to lead our armies serosa the Rippnhannock faith that under bis leadership, could he be in duced to take the field, the mighty hosts of Reb eldora would flee from Ma rye's Hill and drown themselves, like "possessed a wine, in the adja cent stream. How is recruiting now in West Tennessee? Last summer, only a few thousand enlisted in our ranks; but very few, I believe, in Memphis. You were so amply protected within the lines, that you quite forgot. I fear, the sorrows of ttiose who had not yet had an opportunity of greeting the flag which brings such certain security to loyal men. women and children; such inevitable protection to property, including such tri fi ing articles aa ne groes and cotton bales, ilut ry up the volunteers Give the lie to those who intimate that Tennes seeans will not go into the Gulf States to fiht for ihtir brethren of African descent. True, most of our citizens have sens, daughters, sisters, brothers, or fathers there; but they ought never to have settled so far south. Besides, when you have secured freedom to our African fellow citi xena south of us, you may possibly have the honor of taking patt in carrying the same boon to a aimi ar class in lennejsee and iventucky, 1 doubt not, our noble President will, in due time, adopt suitable means to ascertain the will of the Lord in this behalf. Indeed, it seems to have

been made known already to some of the le??er livhts. Last week, a grand convention of the loyal women of America asemfded in the city of New Tork. Each delegate had conceit cd (nota baby) an idea, and under the inspiration of the great occasion, they had commanded our magnifi cent President throughout all the ends of the earth. I doubt not. at the proper time, he ill so proclaim; and the twenty thousand troops which His Excellency Governor Andrew Johnson was recently authorized to recruit in Tennessee, (you have no doubt enlisted) will soon be ready for the good work of giving practical freedom to our enslaved fellow countrymen, male and female, of African descent. Whfn that time comes, Memphis will be ft lovely city. ' Its walks and promenades will be illuminated by the smiling faces and brilliant eyes of the graceful and accomplished sons and daughters of Lincoln and Liberty, of Darkness And Dahomey. True, our State constitution and laws, like those of Illinois and other loyal States, will not permit free negroes to come within our State, nor enfranchised slaves to remain there; but, from military necesMty, or. as u high of5i-i.il expresses it, "from the ex neceatitale rri ot the thinp." they will, no doubt, be permitted to remain. The plan recently adopted in South Carolina, of selling there the lands of Rebels, might be adopted, and thereby Meinphi might soon become a 'a variegated city.' Our while and colored brothers and sisters might thus furnirh an example of that "freedom and fraternity" which so many unhappy Northern

spinsters sincerely regard as the only means, of compromising the present unlortunatedislincuons of color. . Yeu should by all means pass a resolution in favor of giving such Rebel farms and town lots as are not needed for our colored brethren to our Christian fiiendsof the North who desire to live among their colored friend, particularly to that numerous and respectable class who think, both races will be improved by a cross of the Anglo Saxon upon the pure Guinea. "When this cruel war is over," how our IVilm einging brethren from the Church of the Puritans would enjoy a Confederate farm upon the I:g Black. Red river, the Aikansas or Potitchartriiin! When Ihe Rebels are disarmed Inw meek and lowly, docile and penitent, they will be while beholding our Northern brothers occupying their mansions, and illustrating the beauties of General Banks' apprentice system! With what impunity would General Butler ride from his plantation on Moon Lake to to his rauche on Deer Creek I Then would be made manifest the absurdity of those copperhead croakers who foolishly insist that, while military power can put down ft rebellion, moral power alone can eradicate its consequences and keep it down. It is true they cite the example of Veodce, which, in area. is only about the one fortieth part of France. There, we admit, the peasantry believed their religion waj endangered, and history records that they defeated six or seventof thebe-t apftointed armies which the French Republic, in that warlike age, could hurl against them. It is also true that afterwards, when Carnot was made Minister of War, he quieted the people by assuring them that they should be undisturbed in their religious faith. These mischievous fault-fiuders, to give further force to their int-iduotis assaults upon our 1'iesident, point also to Poland, in which the fires of rebellion rre ever burning, but they forget that the Czar of all the Russian is in all respects inferior to our model President, nnd is wholly ignorant of the true means of quieting a disii fleeted people. It never occurred to the aforesaid Cz:r that, to squelch a rebellion effectually, the cause iii us t be removed. Had he stud ied the history of rebellions in this country, he would have discovered that we always ascer tained the cause, the evil, the siu. which gave a pretext lo I lie insurgents. For example: During the administration of (Jener il Washington, a portion of the people of Pennsvl vania got up a rebellion about whisky. Il was crushed out by "coercion;" but the sagacious statesmen of that day determined to strike at the cause. The result 1 that the people of that noble Commonwealth have ever since eschewed whisky nnd turned their attention to contracts. Nothing is now known in that State of whi.-ky, and, though Mr. Buchanan used to recite some trulitionary stories of "old rye" to ths junior members of his Cabinet, it is well known that the siht of a bottle of pure Monongahela was as repulsive to his nature as ice water to a mad dog. S;ibequer.tlr, while Gen. Jackson was Ficsii'ciit. 'he copieof South Carolina revolted at taxation, because tome demagagues Called it high tariff, and asserted tint the monster "stole niorey from their unconscious pockets." The rebellion, however, was "niljugated" by the military power of the Government, and the cause taxation -of course nbolished No tax gathers have been kn-iwu t-inre in South Carolina At a later day, during the nd ministration of Jchn Txler, of thp firm of "Tippecanoe nnd Tyler Inn," some unwashed Democrats in Rhode Island fomented a grand iiftirrection against the sovereignty of that large and populous State. The army and navy of tho United States, by a hearty co operation ith the "loyalists" of that day, soon overthrew the insurgents. Their Provisional Governor. Thomas W. D or. was captured, denied the rights of a "belligerent," and seüt to the penitenti iry. The Democratic party the caue was abolished, as all subsequent elections have shown, throughout the United States, since when no speck ol'reheliinn has been known within the vast limits of that loyal State. The rebellion in Utah, which occurred during the reign of the old public functionary, is too recent to be forgotten The cause is doubtless fresh in the mind of every aged maiden lady in the loyal States The republican instincts of oar people would not tolerate a monopoly in Heaven's "last best gift to man " General Albert Sidney Johnston, was sent to Utah, wiih instructions to conquer the conjugal spirit of Brigham. The Mormon war ended gloriously to our arms. The cause was removed. H rems are now unknown among the Latter Day Saints, and Brigham, like some lone bird without a m ite, "refuses to be comforted." In Europe, protracted and sanguinary civil wars have often resulted from differ ences of opinion in regard to the true mode of construing the Bible, and especially concerning the operations of the Holy Ghost. They have failed to abolish the one or deny ihe other. The result is that few countries in Europe maintain the quiet which usually "prevails" along the Rappahannock. It should not be overlooked that our people were very ignorant or they would never have been deceived by the treasonable enemies. North ajid South, of our noble President. It was falsely charged that he and his party friends did not desire to suppress the rebellion without first subverting the right of the States freeing all the slaves and elevating them to political equality of the whites. Our people being, of course, very itnnrant, believed all these false, scandalous and malicious statements; and among the resolutions yon will adopt at vour meeting there should be one thanking His Excellency, our most approved President, for the effectual means he has adopted to give strength and moral power to the Union ' men and women of the South, while at the same time he has shown bow wickedly false and libel lous were the allegations of Southern traitors and Northern copperheads that he intended to use the army and navy to abolish, slavery. Tbe Union men of the South will ever, gretfully cherish the name and memory of one who. by a scrupulous regard of hia official and other pledges, and his manly adherence to the Chicago platform, has vindicated the truth of all tbe pledges which from time to time we made in hia behalf, and the traitors and copperheads who thus falsely charged our great and good President with designing to subvert the institutions of the Southern States most henceforth hide their faces in shame. . You should bv no means fail to adopt with wild acclamation, mingled with ft few "Bully Hallelujahs," a resolution severely denunciatory of those who criticise our military operations, or show impatience at the tardy movements of our armies iu South Carolina and Virginia. Such criticism gives the Rebels "aid and comfort." and. though it may not be felonv without benefit of clergy, is nevertheless what Mr. Polk stigmatized as "moral treason" a crime which our noble President and other Wbig were compelled to "dry up" during the war with Mexico. Our present military discord is but "harmony when understood." We are abundantlv ab! to beat the Rebels whenever we try. At present we have them completely surrounded crowded within a small circumference of not more than six thousand m'les. Our armies are guarding the oupots o this contracted line, and everywhese daring the pusillanimous butternuts to " pierce the centre." and the ragged wretches " take the dare." We have forces at Galveston, New Orleans, Pensacola, Hilton Head, Newbeme, Suffolk (all is quiet on the Blackwater) Fortress Monroe, on the Rappahannock, at Baltimore,

along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in Western Virginia, in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Fort Smith and at Vicksburg in the very heart of Rebeldonj. How long can tbe rebellion exist when thus circumscribed? It addition to all this. Adjut ast General Thomas, a na tive of "My Maryland' and who, last year, was charged by the malignant tongue of slander with being a Secessionist and a traitor following where such noble mei as Butler. Brady, Dickinson and other old friends of Breckinridge dare to lead is now in the Southwest organizing the loyal blacks, who, it is understood, are impatient to be led against the btrbarous hordes of Lee and Beauregard. Northern philosophers, women and divines, who regard the African as the best normal representative f ihe human race, and those who have seen the sturdy mastiff quail before the perfume of the skunk, do not believe the delicate nerves of the Rebels wilt be able to withstand a

bayonet charge from these American soldiers of African descent, if made when the state of the thermometer indicates cutaneous activity and corresponding perspiratio. Time, however, will poon settle thia dispute! question. Vou should further denounce all who complain of the Army of the Totimac. It has been in no sense a failure.- It bas-Wneved more than any army in ancient or modem times hu accomplished under similar or equal difficulties. Its bravery is unquestioned, and injustice is done its generals. True, McClellan under the influence of .forthern copperhead., aided by such Republican figies as Thurlow Weed, and bacwed by the stupid graduates of West Point, was fast becoming a favorite with the army nnd the people, and it was gravely h'nted by some of his bolder adherents that he might be used by the copperhead fraternity, to supolant our unrivalled Pre-ident in 1864. Besides, General McU'ellan had commanded the Army of the Potomac lontr enough. "Rotation in office" is a sound political axiom. He was therefore retired, althojgh still ft favorite with the brave men he so long commanded. Gen. Burnsid' career has been an eminently brilliant one; and the same may be said of General Hooker, who. I presume, will soon retire upon the laurels he has so nobly won. f7But in all this there is strategy. It Is the result of that superior genius and wisdom of our President, who, as " Com mander-in Chief." moves inferiors upon the military chess board with . skill which excites the admiration of all who are truly loyal to the Administration. No harm can result from all this. We have an abundance of leaders ready and willing at a moment's notice to lead the Army of the Potomac to the Rebel capital. We have in reserve Butler. Phelp. Busteed and Lane, to say nothing of Col. d'Utassy, who, like Mahomet's coffin, is still suspended between the heavens and the earth. I look in vain among the names attached to your letter for one which recalls a familiar face. I do not now remember that I ever had the honor of a personal acquaintance with any one of you, although in former times I knew many of the leading citizens of Memphis, among whom are not a few who are still ardently in favor of a restoration of the Constitution. I regret to find none of them associated with you in the proposed demonstration. But I will indulge no complaints. Wherever our armies have secured a permanent lodgment in the South, as at Hilton Head, New Orleans, Newbern, Nashville and Memphis, the Northern friends of our most excellent President have supplied us abundantly with most disinterested men and women, whose loyal tongues are heard in melodious tones wherever we "hold, occupy and possess" a cotton or a contraband settlement in the Confederate wilderness. Look at Hilton Hoad, where the tender maiden nnd tougher matron of the North mingle upon sisterly terms with the Palmetto African ladies of South Carolina. A bountiful issue of trarts and catechism? will no doubt soou be followed bv an improved issue of contrabands not fo white as the pure Anclo. not so black as the normal African. In a few years they will. Walk In beauty like the night , Of clou'll-4 clinie and Marry oldcs, And all that' ttrrt in djrk an-t bright, .Meet in their as-pect and their eyr. In North Carolina Charles Hcnrv Foster Esq., originally from Maine, and a warm political friend of Hreckinridge. has oruanized a free labor association, and Gov. Stanley h is gone back to Cali fornia in disgust. In Nashville we have a retrulaily organized Abolition Society. Its organization is the same as that of the State and Federal Government, ami the editor, though imported from atiroad. is going more to sustain the glori ous Administration ot President Lincoln tbau any native born citizen of the State can do or-is willma ; to do. This Ab dinou Society and this Abolition newnpat.er. an though conducted within the fortifications of the city, is doine, no doubt. much to induce the people of Middle Tennessee to cease ail further opposition to the wise, centle and constitutional rule of our distinguished Chief Magistrate In Memphis, the harvest is tempting oue. With cotton at a dollar per po"""! nd likely con trabands "lying about loose," our etiterprisine Northern friends who love the Union and wish it preserved under the cuarantees of the Constitution, may make "a good thing of it." Already I hear of several who have farms in Kansas, Iowa. Illinois, Inciana, and other "loval" States, which are now well tilled by negroes who once belonged to the Union men of the South. Facts like these will tend greatly to the restoration of peace and harmony, and materially aid in removing the prejudice which the people of the insurrectionary States have entertained against their Northern kindred. They now know that the war is not to be so conducted as to deprive them unnecessarily ofanyportiou of their property; and they now have positive proof that Southern secessionists and Northern copperheads, who charged that the war was to be finally waged against the South as a section, instead of ihe Rebels and theirallies, were guilty of falsehood. Furthermore, there is a large party at the North who have persistently refused to regard the African aa the best representative of tbe bumau race. This influx of negroes will do much to chance their opinions, and by the same means Southern manners and customs will become gradually introduced north of the Ohio and Potomac, rendering our people more homogenous than in former times. Thus we will again become a united and loving people. -, The lion and the Iamb the contractor and the contraband will lie down together, and then the milet.ium will have come. Excuse tbe haste with which I write, and accept assurances of my highest regard. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Ex. Etheeidgk. To J. M. Tomeny, C. D. Johnson and others, Memphis, Teen. General llurnslde'a Doings in the West. Under this head, the New York Times, ft lead ing Abolition and Administration paper, publish es the following in its issue of tbe 4th inst: Unless we are greatly mistaken, the Govern ment will very soon find it necessary to check the intemperate patriotism of General Uurnside in bia mode of dealing with disaffected persons and preses in the loyal States. Whether tbe powers which he claims to exercise over freedom of speech aod of the press, do actually belong to his office, or not, it is very clear that they should never be intrusted to any man whose zeaf outruns his judgment. An over zealous friend will often do ten times more harm by restless and injudicious meddling, than an open enemy; and in the exercise of powers which, however necessary they may be, are always odious, an exceseive prudence is always preferable to & headlong and leckleas temper. e have no doubt that Gen. Burnside thinks he is rendering the country an essential service in suppressing tbe Chicago Times, and in forbidding the circulation of tbe IS ew i ork World within his lines, and we hare just as little doubt that he is utterly mistaken. He will very speedily find that he is multiplying ten fold the very evil be seeks to extirpate. It is very rarely that ft military man can be found who is capable of understanding what publrc opinion is, or who can be made to comprehend that the pi ess has any other rights than those which he rnav be pleased to confer upon it. We do not know that we should gain much on either point by appealing from the camp to the Government; but our interest in the welfare of the country impels us to .risk the experiment of counselling President Lincoln to puts check upon Gen. Burnside's super-serviceable and dangerous proceedings, as speedily ss possible. tThe amount of legal tender notes now out is three hundred and eighty one millions. There is near four million demand notes out Standing.t2FSeveral Mormons were in Lafavette on Monday, eu route for Salt Lake city. - They bad stopped over Saturday to try tbe Artesian baths.

new York City. Nearly three pages of the New York Herald are filled with an account of the proceedings and speeches at the great peace meeting held in New York city on last Wednesday. There was speaking from five different stands. Tbe Herald savs of the meeting: The Grand Peace Convention, advertised for several days, previously, took place in and around the Cooper Institute yesterday afternoon and evening. It was one of the largest and most enthusiastic assemblages ever convened in this city. An address and resolutions, urging peace in the strongest manner and denouncing the Adminis- . tretion in the most violent fashion, were adopted hverv allusion to peace was hailed with treme dnus applause, and every time the name of Gei: McClellan was mentioned a perfect Riorm of en thusiasm was occasioned. The menrion of Mr. Vallandigham's name was also the signal for very decided approbation. Tbe speeches were in time with the resolutions, exceedingly denunciatory of - the Administration, and in favor of a cessation of hostilities and tbe shedding of blood immediately on any honorable terms. The principal orators were Attorney General Wootten, of Delaware; Fernando Wood, George Francis Train. Judge Flanders. Hon. Mr. Dinniuny, Judge McCunn and Mr. Wood, of Virginia. ; , The meeting adoptel, with great enthusiasm, the following resolutions: Re$olned, That the electors and the people of the btate of ew ork who have hitherto professed the name and held to the principles known as Democratic, desire to declare their unalterable attachment as well to those truths aa to the Constitution and the amendments thereto, forming the supreme law of the land; that they regard obedience to the Constitution al alike the duty of the citizen nnd the Magistrate, and regard such obedience as the only means of perpetuating the Union, and by it the only hope of restoring the same. Rrtoltri, That the sovereignty of the States and the sovereignty of the people, as Iii J down In the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, of which Jefferson and Madison were the authors, are the fundamental principles of the Democratic party; that they are the vital essence of the Con stitution, pervading everv line and provision of that Instrument, and to deny them would reduce our political federative system to anarchy or despotism. Cheers. . Resolved, That, under the Constitution, there is no power fn the Federal Government to coerce the States, or any rumber of them, by military force. If powtr of coercion exists at all, it is a legal power and not' military That the Democratic party, if true to its own time honored principles, cannot sustain a war against sovereign States; that we believe it the duty of the party to proclaim these sentiments boldly, that the people may feel that there is at least one political organ ization which will deal honestly, independently and truthfully with them. Rettloed, That the war iu its Inception and further continuance, being contrary to the Constitution, must necessarily fast consume all the el emeuts of Union; and hence, that our duty as citizens, our obligations as men and our relations to our common father, alike demand that an end should be. put to what is repugnant to tbe law, abhorrent to the humanity and civilization of this enlightened era, and inconsistent with the benignant spirit of morality and religion. Cheers. Re$nloed, That attempt to do awy with the provisions of the Constitution, 'hich point out the mode in which all crimes are to be punished, are high-handed violations of the sworn duties of our rulers, and that the participants iu such a policy are guilty of aiming a parricidal blow at the very life of the supreme law. . Resolved, That the claim of dictatorial and uo limited power, under the pretext of military necessity, and tbe trial of citizens not in the land or naval fotces or in the militia in actual service, by courts mania, ate monstrous in theory sndexe crable in practice. ' Applause. That it ia equivalent to an entire abrogation of the Constitution, and the erectiou in its place, of a military despotism. Resolved, That the dogma of unlimited submission to the will of the executive br inch of the Government is unworthy an American citizen, and inconsistent with the principles of constitutional liberty Cheers that such a concession is rather suited to thedatk and sullen era of feudal despotism thnn 'to n time when the rights of man are regarded even by motiarchs, and we attribute this exhibition of abject rervility ns dictated by a spirit cf fanaticism beut on effectirg its object even at the sacrifice of personal libertv. Hurrah 1 . Resolved, That we should be unworthy of the name of American citizens of this free and independent State, claiming the first rank among the sovereign components of the American confederacy, if we did not protest against the cowardly, despotic, inhuman and accursed act which has coiiMgnedto banishment the noble tribune of the people the Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham Cheers, the ami ence again rising in the utmost unthusi ism "Three cheers for Vallandigham" and "three groans for Burnside" we protest against it iu the name of liberty, in the name of humanity and the name of Washington. We hope the people of Ohio will have the opportunity of passing condemnation of this act by the election of Mr. Vftllandigh-im as the next Governor of the State. Cheers Resolved, That thus believing there can be no security to persons, or property, pending this war, and that by iuicontinu nice the Government itself will be utterly mid irrevocably subverted; nd that tiie South, ns well as the North, must alike crumble into general ruin and devastation, we recommend, in the nameof the people, that there be a suspension of hostilities between tbe contending armies of the divided sections of our country, qd that a convention of the States composing the Confederate States, and a separate convention of the States still adhering to the Union, be held to finally settle and determiue in what manner and by what mode the contending sections shall be reconciled; and appealing to the Ruler of all for the rectitude of our intentions, we implore those iu authority, to listen to the voice of reason, of patriots, and of justice. Cheers Resolvrd, That to the end that our principles. thus publicly avowed, may be practically carried out, and that a State authority emanating directly from the people, may exist to call any future con rention of the peace Democracy, if it shall become expedient, or necessary- and disclaiming any in tention to distract the Democratic organization in this State, so long as it shall reflect the senü menu of the mosses, the following named gentle men representing, each. Congressional District, are appointed a State Committee for that purpose, with f ill power to take such action in behalf of tbe success of our principles as may seem to them just and proper. .crul Tender. The Supreme Court in this District, three Judges on the bench, have decided, in the well known Roosevelt case, that tbe act of Congress making Government notes ft legal tender is unconstitutional. Thedechiionisiendeted by Judges who rank high at tbe bar, and who have doubt less tfiven the subject mature consideration. The case iwas ably argued against the constitutional ity of the act by George Ticknor Curtis, Esq., . aud has bees held some mouths under advisement. The general term of the court held at Rochester has decided otherwise. Both cases go to the Court of Appeals for final adjudication in the St tte, and thence by writ of error to the Supreme Court of the United States. This process will occupy a long time, and tbe matter will remain in doubt for months or years.. It must be borne in mind that the two decisions. that at Rochester and that in New York, are of equal authority. Tbe practice of the court will be, as usual, to follow the deo sion in the District , where it is made, so that iu New York the special terms and circuits(courts held by one Judge) will hold in rccordance with the New York decision in any new cases until it is -affirmed or reversed by a higher cdurt. New York Journal of Commerce. The citixens of La port e county have held ft meeting and resolved to erect a splendid monument in the cemetery at Laposfe. upon which will be inscribed the names of all tbe soldiers from that county who have or may die or be killed in tho service during tbe present war. The project is as patriotic a? it is proper, and we commend it to the citizens of every county in the Stated Gkxebal Fembebtom's Addsess to ins Ae kt. On the 12th of Mar Geo. Pembertön issaed ths following address to his army:

The Great Peace Jlectlnsr In

ur County- Democratic Conrcn

- (Ion The Democraay of this county assembled in convention on the 30th of May. Hon. Wx. S. Holm ax was chosen President, and 0 m At F. Robests and A. O. Wood Secretaries. Tbe following county ticket was nominated: For Clerk, John F. Cheek; for Auditor. Richard D. Slater, Sr.; for Treasurer, Wm. F. Crocker; for Recorder, Alvin J. Alden; for Commissioner, John Anderegj; for Real Estate Appraiser, Elijah Huffman. Tbe Committee on Resolutions, through their cbariman, Mr. O'Brien, then made the following report, which, on motion of Major Anderegf . was nntnimAiiBlv mAnrtaA

njf 1. Resolved, That while we condemn many of ipf!B leading measures of the present Administra

tion aa unconstitutional and unwise, and calculated to increase, rather than remedy tbe misfortunes of the nation, we still declare that, bower er unwipely administered, it ia the solemn duty of every loyal citizen to sustain the Government, and to give the weight of bis influence to every just measure for putting down the rebellion which now seeks to destroy it. 2. That we can not and will not consent to the dissolution of the Union; we will not consent that the Mississippi river, the source of prosperity and power to the Northwest, shall be controlled by a foreign Government; and, as the only mode that Is left of preventing these national misfortunes, we are in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war to the end, that the rebellion which now seeks to destroy the Union shall be put down; and deploring the infatuation of the party in power, which weakens the cause of the Uuion by partisan, subordinate and questionable measures; we invite the cooperation of all loyal men who make the preservation of the Union under the Constitution, just as our fathers made it, the only foundation of their political faith. 4.1 hat in the judgment of this Conventk sf, I the Government tf the United Statesand the Ad ministration, for the time being, are not one and the same; and while we will maintain the Gov eminent and its integrity and its constitutional powers at every sacrifice of life and treasure, we wili not surrender the constitutional right to call in question such measures of tbe Administration as our judgment mav condemn. 4 .That freedom of speech and of the press, and a ballot lox controlled on y by 1 iw, are the foundations of a free government, and are itia lienible rights of the American citizen, confirmed by the highest constitutional guaranties; and tbee rights no enlily power shall compel ns to surrender. We will consider aud discuss public measures with ihe freedom, the prudence, and the foibe.iri:ce hieb becomes a free people in the presence of great nation-il danger; and vet will condemn any mere factious perversion of these rights to the encouragement of the public enemy. 5. That the suspension by the President of tho United States, of the writ of Inbeas corpus in the loyal S tu es, the orders of military commanders suppressing the freedom of speerh and of the pre.-, and euhjectuig citizens in civil life in the loyal States to thejudgment of militarv tribunals. are measures full of danger to the liberties of the American people, unproductive of any beneficial result, unconstitutional, impolitic and tyrannical. o. t Hat standing by the ancient policy of the Democratic party, we will condemn any forcible resistance to law, and look only to constitutional agencies and the right of free suffrage for redress against unwise or oppressive legislation. 7. That we again tender to the brave sons of Indiana in the army our grateful acknowledge ment of the honor they have conferred on the State and the services they have rendered to the Uuion bv their patriotism and courace. Their gallantry oo every field of battle has rendered the name of the State a title of honor. We will stand by and sustain them, and cherish the memory of their brave comrades who have fallen in resisting the wicked conspiracy to overthrow the Republic. 8. That we again cordially indorse the resolu tion introduced bv Hon. John J. Crittenden in the House of . Representatives of the United State on the 22 1 day of July. 1861. and almost unanimously adopted by that body, as a ju;t declaration of the objects of the war. 9. That we reindorse the platform of princi ples adopted by the Democracy of Dearborn county, in convention assembled in 1P62. L. A. Conser then presented the following res olution, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, Thit the thank ami gratitude of tbe Democracy of Dfathorn country are due, and they are hereby Ijndered, to the Hon. Wm. S. Holman, our Representative in Congress, for the bold and fearless manner iu which, as a member of the National Council, ht has defended the constitntion-.il rght- 'f tliv St ifs snd of the people His course, is a Representative, commands our liigha-d admiration, and therefore we give him asiir-in-s of our undiminished confidence. Ordered th t the ;-rcoediii2S ot the Conven tion be'publisheJ in the Democratic RegMeraud State Sentinel. Vor tbe Sentinel. Sulllrnn County Visited by a Squad of Soltier.l "5 euipent InaTraPat," Si llivax, Ta., June 8, 1663. En.Tou Semixkl: An unusually strong force of foldicis (some sixty in number) made their appearance here la.t Friday, from Indianapolis, ostensibly lor the purpose of arresting deserters. Arriving Ht the bou-e of Mr. Joseph Waggoner, the same eteninjr. they demanded the use of ft horse for a sick comrade, and compelled a boy to bring the horre,out fer them Mr. W. was from home They vUited the kitchen, despite the protestations d Mis. VY.. and conceited all the cooked victual.-. They then went away, taking the hoi se with liieni. I also learn th if at cvwy De ocrttic residence along the road, after leaving Waggoner's, they stopped Hiid an bed, under the pretense of inspecting for Government arms. The inmates of the houses, frightened fled to their neighbors. Tbe whole couutry became intensely excited by reports that armed soldiers were taking private property aud viol tting the rights of private citizens. As might have beeu expected, a large number of people assembled to defend themselves aud assert their unquestionable rights. On assembling they appointed a committee to wait on the Lieutenant Commanding, and asked redress. The Lieutenant a pologized for the arbitrary conduct of ft part of his men. confessing that they had acted contrary to orders, at:d gave un the horse. Thev bad other horses, buLbad obtained tbe consent of the owners for their use The committee urged the officer in command to move in the discbarge of the duties assigned him, that he would meet with uo opposition from our citizens in arresting deserters or executing any legitimate order, but lor some reason unknown to us, the Lieutenant turned about with bis commaud, returned to Sullivau, and left on tbe Saturday P. M. train for Indianapolis. I have thus given you, Mr. Editor, a plain unvarnished statement of the facts in this case, discarding many additional circumstances which may possibly have been exaggerated. Had these soldiers done nothing but their duty, without interfering with private property, they, would not have been interfered with, even by a committee. I write this to correct any erroneous and exaggerated reports that may be circulated in regard to tbe affdr for political effect. Flusesay to the Autborities that prominent men here will give bond that no interference will bs made with any squad of soldiers who may come to arrest deserters, provided they commit no depredations on private rights or property. TfttJTH. P. S. I have since heard of an additional circumstance, on undoubted authority, which goes far to excuse tbe people for tbeir belief that they were being overrun. They encamped for the night near the house of Mr. Joseph N. Pigg. As he waa on his way home he encoutered a picket, or sentinel, who, after inquiring his business, &c, suffered him to pass. Jo. rode on and was soon challenged again; but not stopping immediately, he was fired at, the ball passing so close to his hand as to leave the effect visible. Are squads of soldiers justifiable in such acts as this? Unless the authorities are violently prejudiced against our county, the company here last week (from the 63d regiment, I understand,) will re ceive punishment. They certainly deserve it. Civilians wtthi th Amt Lutes. The number of citizens within the lines of the Army of the Potomac ia almost incredible. . Including those registered and following civil pursuits, such as newsmen, sutlers, ragmen, &c, and having permits ii follow their respective callings, the to tal will probably nach 9,000.

nlXlTAHY ITEMS.

Rev. Dr. Wm M Daily has been appointed Chaplain of the United State Miliury Hospital at Madison. (IfX. (JlLJtORI aXD GlX. Hl NI. Tb Tribune of Saturday gives it as "tbe better opinion" that Gen. Gilmore has gone to South Carolin to supercede Gen. Hunter. An order from the Provost Marshal General requires Provoot Marshals to wear the uniform, as prescribed in tbe army regulation, oft Captain of tbe general staff. There were 878 sick and wounded soldiers in the eleven hospitals in this city this morning. Quite a number of convalescents have been sect to their regiment the present week. N. A. Ledger. We of New Albany are uo in Gererml Boyle's Military-District. Gen. Hasca'.l. farewell. Brethren of the Democratic press up North, allow as to condole with yon. Citizens of New Albany, allow us to congratulate you. (N. A. Ledger, We learn from pretty good authority that it is not likely Gen. Burnside will be continued much longer as commander of the Department of the Ohio. Samiakv Sroais. In four Churches at Lafayette, on Sunday last, $418 05 was collected for tbe wounded and sick soldiers at Yickt-bur;. From other sources $219 was raised, making ft total of about $637. 1 The vanity of fame is beautifully illustrated by the little fact that a splendid portrait ot the Rebel President has just been published in Taris, with this inscription: "M. J. Davids, President of South America." Thk Efolemi-t. Tbe enrollment for the Wrft is rro-rrcssinir in New Albanv. and excites mor- interest than if it were an nrollmnt for a Fourth of July militia muster. The total enrollment will foot up about 1,500 men. Gen. Lew. Wallace, it is said, is to b courtmartialed for conduct at Shiloh, under charges preferred by Generals Grant and McVherson; and, it is said, will demand an investigation into Gen. Grant's conduct on the same occasion. Maj. Gen. Fremont It is announced, saya Forney's Philadelphia Press, that Major General John C. Fremont has been assigned to active service and directed to take charge of a department, and that It will be his duty to organize and command the negro troops now being mustered into the Union army. The Medical Dcpnrtment have made arrangement to furnish soldier with amputated limbs, with artificial arms. It baa been supplying artificial legs all the time, but arms are just introduced. The Department has contracted for arms at $50 a piece. There bas been ft great exodus from Missouri lately, over the plains, to escape the draft. The companies doing a freighting business that way, hare bcn overwhelmed with applications from persons willing to work their passage. The Provost Guard on the boraer is putting ft stop to this skedaddle. Wht IXascall was Removed The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says: "The offense of Gen. Hascall, who has been removed from the command of tbe Department of Indiana, is said to have been a declaration in a published order, that if the New Yo-k Express was published in his district, he would suppress it and arrest the editors. This was considered an-officer-like." Fabeweix, Bro. Hascall. Indiana and Michigan have been formed into a military district, with Gen. 0. B. Wilcox in command. Our congratulations to the press and people of Indiana outside of New Albany and JefTeraonviUe. We of this vicinage were several days ago "relieved" . of Gen. H.May, who won more honorable fame in the field with his sword; than be bas done as commander of tbia department by his "orders", and arbitrary acts. N. A. Ledger. Soldier's Moxitmext. The citizens of Decatur county will hold a meeting in feference to erecting ft monument to deceased soldiers from that county. on the 13th of June. We are glad to notice a similar move in a number of other counties in the State. This is exactly the right thing. Let each separate connty in the State provide a monument at their county seats, upon which shall be inscribed the name of every gal--lant man who is killed or dies in the service from that county. The citjzens of Floyd county will thus honor their noble-.wieid. We want no me tropolitan burial ground; such aa has been proposed, that Indianapolis hotel keepers awl tdiatks may speculate off the ashes of our glorious dead. Each county will honor iu own brave boys who may fall, aud under the shadows of tbeir own homes lay their remains to rest, wbeie their friends and relatives may, without ruouey o price, visit their graves, and revive and keep alive their memories with tears of sympathy and affection. Let a move be made in this matter in this county at once, for many a gallant brave who went out from this county with our 23d, 3Sth.49th, 53d, 57th, 5Utb, CGth, bist and J.'ld. has foujjht bis last battle, and now sleeps his last sleep in the land of strangers. Let their asbe be brought home, and over them let a monument Le erected w hieb shall for all time commemorate, their virtues and gallant deeds. N. A. Ledger. . The Ixpiaxola. At last we have an an thentic and complete account ef tbe capture of" the Indianola, in tbe shape of an official report ' of Capt. Brown, who commanded her. We learn from it that the dibifter was not caused by tbe enemy's fire, nor by. the bursting of the vessel's guns, nor by "the cowardice of her commander," as ber contractor generously insinuated, but by the difficulty, with imperfect means of directing the vessel's motions on a dark night, of dodging the blows of the rams. Four vessels,' two butting and two firing, and each with a rrew twice as large as the Indianola's, wer deeidnlly big odds for Capt. Brown; and that bt was sble , to fight an hour and a half, is as good proof as ft sensible man wants that he did all bis duty, and 'a good deal mare than those who have beeu so ' ready to suspect him of cowardice. If it bad . been daylight so that be could have maneuvered to present his vessel to the rams in such position that their blows would have glanced off, or been met by her invulneroble bow. which was equal to any of the rams, be would have beaten off or -sunk the whole fleet. . As it was he was struck on tbe wheel house and disabled, and one of the engines damaged, and of course his motions so crippled that the rams could hit him where they : pleased. A crushing blow ou the stem broke through the timbers and let . tbe water pour in with 6uch velocity that sinking was inevitable, but even then her bull dog commander fought till the water whs two feet deep on ber deck. That sort of fighting does not show much "cowardice," and the clear, manly, modest report don't show any lack of brains. If the constructor of the Indianola bad built her aa well as Captain Brown fought her, the whole Rebel navy could not have sunk her. Bad Newa f rsm Parte. Tbe Columbus, Ohio, Crisis has tbe follow. ing: We have accounts from Dayton of tbe doings of the military, under a Major Keith, an Abolition lawyer from Jackson county, in this State, which sound vtyv much like tbe"Horrors of Missouri." It appears that st-m half a dozen or mors Democratic farmers ot Greene ooonty, living in tbw same settlement, were offensive to their Abolition neighbors, as all such are; Maj. Keith tent one of bis sergeants to look after them, and from some unseen quarter, that is the Kansas way of doing it, three shots were fired at the said aargeant. That is the wav Jennison, of Kansas, used to do it. (was Maj. Keith ever in that country?) and. like Jennison, the sergeant waa cot bit, but tbe bullets came terriblv closel Thereupon Major Keith bad six persons arrested as kostmtes until the "unseen" man is delivered up. The six persons are now in the jail at Dayton, forbid even to see one of their family. ' A young and wealthy son of one of them called on Maj Keith a few days sine and asked to see bis father; thereupon MJ. Keith ordered the boy to be handcuffed and a ball and chain fastened to his leg and incarcerated la ft rlose cell for the crime of asking to see his fatoer! And this Ia Ohio, in one of the oldest, richest and most enlightened parts of the State! We hare these facts from one of the most respectable citizens, and mtke them public that the authorities may either deny, explain, or look intoauch monstrous doings. Would to G4 they wer not true.