Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 5, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 January 1863 — Page 1
THE JASPER WEEKLY COURIER
TOL. 5.
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I am kh, IAIjIAXA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1863. NO. 3.
mcHmWM UfT "d Neg,r' h0";e' 10 hi. P'.p., y-u mi; tUeir perolo,b.B..uthth.ti,:t,U,cl,n,ondw..op,ntoth.m in- VI IF.CH o War. A. Rhhakdson, or Jlli- tached, and the ffrave. ol .our kimW .ml no,hU a. J,... ,k 1,-L wM opn to them. If ihy had
OFPIOE Cobbes or Mv.-nuMii) West HtfcttTa.
Ana
T1RMM-8TRICTLY IN A DVA Nf 'K :
JSISgie Biifticr-plinn, To fifty Ni., ft I 8ft
r er sis men ths, - 1 00 trW or ADVERflM WJ. fee ossäre ef 10 ttnvewfees, I wsek,fi on. Sack subsequent insertion, 35 cll. Leaser BsYertiaenient. t a
- , .... ..... Traetion over even square or squares, counted
ee eeesrs. 1 new are the terms for trau-
Stent afottlitt!Mts; reasonable cleduc UM trill be mada to regular advertisers.
Notices of appointment of administrator.
iu legal notices or like character to be paid for io advance.
Si'f nc IV- a u . r- "1.7 -uit army ir; person in me O utb that 11 . Wm A. Rrhakmok, ok iLU. tached.and the grave, ol your kindred, and , wt. po.aibla to drive there. Wi. it. ioHOI. H TUt 1 S II int ... U .......... ..I...... 1 1 .....
wi 1 ! ouuin wira, ana occupy ttio placee tent to affect these alone n rebellion. TATIVEM. I).i:fmut H ISAM J t . . . . ..
.....ft 111! HA" i lie Home oeinj in Committee of tl, r-llnnr, i.r.. iu 1 t 1 ....
... . - - ' 11 aiHi-ririni Di AlWhole on the Slate of the Union. Mr. Rich- ricen descent Thia ia the euro and eub-
iubuu naiU. st a nm n' it
been aoeailed by McDowell on th.ir
ineir capture or rfoim. ...
' 1 i uiTiur 1 iineir C . DI 11m , : mad. vacant by th.exodu.of hat Hi. Ei. Clearly not. The .late, of every ma. in s'.nd the , h f law, celleuc, term, the -'free American. M A, rebellion M,. , k. 7 sTTaZJ! ... ' Ch f our ""r ,0 R'chn,..nd
Mr. Chaihmam .-The annua message recently aent to thi.Houae by the President of the United Statte, la the moat remarkable
of any that haa over been delivered to Conre.a. It .. rtmarkablu for hat it aar, and
iiw atiu more remarkable lor what it omit, to wy. One halt of the twenty-one page, whicli it cover, ia devoted to negroes. Ko page, no sentence, no line, no word, ia given
to rud, or even to mention, the bravery, the
gallantry, or even tbogood conductor our
eoldiera in the various bloody battiea which
mm own im iw.t.i .... ..J .v . , I . aua
: : 7 -.-...-, u.. ,n iure teyond all doubt. Tue r. blli.,n -w the rebel arm, owniogahk. number, w.re.Lo, h.vo continued J, d by that proclamation, to bo affected preci.e- portnni.v waa fo.i a!a i P" y .h.a... Theobject of the proWtion No( Vcl ' Whml waa to benefit tha nevm. nni in ,1.. ' .
oftheoeuro were to-dav .ueMflU Government or ........... ' .. . "ee dt toll, tta that Mc-
riod out, what would it accompli.!, in the It waa nolhin more, nothine Itaa. It .-'i J,," "" 1 1 ?! by Fr-nk"n'- -i'Won
great work of reatoring the Union' Nothing! 'hot beyond anything done by thia M-Dowel - " ' 'nd ,h" WM
lluuie at tha laat mmiü. of wmmwm m. 7 "7 10 mm.
But again. If the proclamation ia to bei
But, for the oako of argument, admii, if you chooae. that all the plana of the Preei-
dent touching emancipation aud colonisation
wor.e than nothing
The President recommend, in hia annual
' "'UMH tu uc meaaaite three proposition, to amend tha earned into PtT.i-i 14 ... ... 1
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vv(wii 01 me unuea states. 1 will i until every alave ie free. If every rebel
nut irouuie me conimittee with reading
them; every gentleman herein familiar with
have been fooght. No aorrow ia exproMedithe article, he propose, to adopt for amend. f.-. I I. a I. m ... 1 .J I VT . 1 .
menta. The first, aecond and third are for
the benefit of the negro. The people are
Aa.oUBIRl.O I'lmmuTri'
rr Townahio offices, each. Hi .00 for ,he ''"Bo ;i. No alluelon ia made
er County y o')' ,n nimed and wounded. No aympathy mr Diatriet, Circuit, or State, 6,fui' tendered to the Borrowing widow and to tH5?S5ss"" "i ) be helpless orphan made during the progres.
or. aoams. B. Hukt mER.joF this wer, which could have been avoided junmi.takably in the recent election. mM A b aU A a fa II LVValia aas. 1 a a L
K Un M) D U t I I lit II, 7 noiioraotecompromiae, if the Pre.ident L - f y V?. " Sir " " femorkable document. It ia on 8 P R , DUBOIS CO. I N D.je-.r.ordio.ry meeaage, when we como 0 lILL pactice 10 the Dubois Circuit ant'ilink of ito aum and aub.tanco. To feed VT (JainmoB lles P.o.ri. ...1.1 tm .. . ...
8.r.;. and .7. l i e..; " C,,ne- 'nd co,n"e w w 0
earhbarina eauntim 1I1 ...ill uul.
. . I ' fllVlllllllJ ieeAo the collection of clnim ..full 1.
( Seethern Indiana, entrusted to their care,
ted will also in connection with reliable
Agents at tha seat of the United 8tte. esjfltaent, erecure pen.iona, Lind Warranto, and attend to the settlement of
Ml soldiero claitta against the General Gov ernanent. g6 ' erfe P. IVwcrn?, : Attorney aud Connsellor at Law, ROME, IND., WILL attend the Courta in Perry, Dubeie end Crawford counties, and give nreanpt attention to all business entrusted to bias. Jan. 23. 'fii
The valor and endurance of our trcona ,.
esmo all obstaclea, and drove back tha en. my 0 the ertrenchmenta sround hia Capital. McClelrao baa no information from Wash.
w - 1 r " I e- mmrwrnmm w siavsaj wcio ail ick and tired of thia eternal talk upon the free, for the proclamation decl.rca that '-the negro, and they have expressed th-t disgust Kxecutive Qovernmentof the United Statee
.ui.Miiigii in me recent election.. I lie
President propoaed amendments, as a
whole, or either of them, could not receive
the suffragea of a mi rity of the people ol
more than two Stateaof this Union.
vhile upon thia subject, I deaire to call
,111... 1 uiniaiiun rroro wash. .huld l.jr d..wn h .in, m lh. Id ds. ol ,t k. .i .
submit himself to the laws and Con dtitutii.n 1 nnthln V... I . 7 "
uu ""in rurnors camp rumors-, loorna that McDowell's forces ire trlWsW
rickaburg, and to the front. Porter'a corps, from the right wing of the armv. ia aent ta
open communication wfth McDowell, if pea
me. rorter drives Ihe enemy from MechJ a a .
eubnut himaelf to the laws and Constitution
of the United State, the war would atill have to go on unless the elavea were all
including the military and naval anthoritiea
tn tdotn of auch person.." It atreng'hens
the arm of the rebellion and poatpoora the lime of restoring peace to this country, by
the declaration ol the purpose for which the
Jean Bab:eb, A. J. Bkckitt, f iacennea, lad. Jasper, Ind. BAKER ft BECKETT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, IVTILL pr.ctice in the Duboia Circuit and " Common Plea. Courts. Particular attsatiea paid to collection!. June 20.
J.T. Urut-CBf.
1TP0H"BI AT UW, PBTERSOUROII, IND. lfni.l Stve oromot atlentlnn to all husi
mm . . ..... ... .... v mi .. v, pi utc .rue. aZpÄKT 10 hl" c,rt iunLn4i ,h T ,he d fR'in ouile" cuiru A tv9en year bul few of u w,n lhen b ,ivin
m rm n, n. r. ., ., . . fl w vine -i.isj.eu IU
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tax and mortgage the white man and hi. children. The while race is to be burdened to the earth for the benefit of the black race.
A niend of mine from New England the
other day made a mathematical analysis of the message. lie said, one from one and naught remains. Nsught from naWht and
the message ia the result. (Laughter.)
So f.r as it relates to the white race that
mat hematic al calculation ia right. Bo far aa it relatea to the negro, or io the Court lan
guage of the Preaideot, the "free American
of African descent,'' rivera of blood and
countless millions of treasure are not enough for his benefit and advantage. Now, air, when our people have anxiously looked to the mesaage from the Pr-udeiit
of the United States to learn what they have
to hope of e. restored Union, and a return ol the blessinge of peace once more to their
fireeidea , by inference we learn , if not
directly, that, if we will carry out all the Preeidem'e plans; if wo will carry out hie ehernes, thirty-aeven yeara from now the
people may again behold the restoration ol
'he Union and the return of neace- Tm
w . g- -www ivi n iiiv.ll 111? the attention of the committee loa aingle! Executive power hall be ud. In what
JASPER. IN1INA,
"llMIX attend promitly to any bu.iueH. iatrusled to him in any of the courts vf Daboia county. Oflice at the eorner of MeDonald and streets. mnrl'J ATTORNEY AT UW", PETERSBURG!!, INDIANA. "Will attend all terms of the courta In Dubois a.anty January 25tb 1860-y KBASTiATiai tili, m :
WAGON, COACH, PLOW AND HA ROW MANÜPA61TKKK, saaasa er aiWTon a lawiebck ariEKTe, Jatptr, Indiana,
Would re-
thia now dialracted and divided country
Dut, Mr. Chairman, there are a few pae-
ige in the message bo extraordinary, mo
onderiul, that they require at least a pasting notice. There haa been, and sti.'l ia a great anxiety felt and expressed by our people that this negro population ahall not
interfere with them- that it ahall not jatle
them in the occupations they have hereto
fore pursued in the various industrial pursuits of life iu the great fertile regions of the
Weat. The Prendent, on that head, uses
the following Isnguage:
"And yet I wiah to say there is an objection urged ngainit free colored persons remaioing in the country, which is largely imaginary, if not fc.oiaelin.ee maliciooB It ia inaiatsd that their presence would injure
. a . . a at a . . . .
specifully in rNfg ,D0 a,"P14C wn:e labor and white laborers. 'nrn. 1 1... n.i I. . tSSatnMBadBBaB. Ii tiiere SVer COIilii he a mnntr limn (a. ....
" . ...v . i - ,-",. ...... iu. huh lia that be ia now prepared to do all kind of catch argumenta, that time aurely ia not lntolul'!""'il'm FurCl? '0W' the preeeni, men .hould era Will do WOIJ to call am exiimiiin i.ia
ateak and work, aa he ia aati.fled he canutter nolbinaT for which thy would not wil
alsaae them
Blackamitaing and repairing of all kinds attended tn oromptly. m!i7-v BOOT Ä 5m STORE, Babtside or Poxlic Sqcare, Jabpei. 01 WOULD respectfully inform J the public thst they have Isrge and splendid .sortment wk. of Boot, and Bhoea on hand, aleh they will aell aa cheap a. can be done aaywhere, ned III trrnt all their work. Give ea a trial. UOMIMLD BECK.
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II irtl war
IOCERY STORE TH K undersigned respectfully informs the public that he haa juat received a fine Mertmant of all kinds of
ling ly be responsible through time and in sterility. Ia it true, then, that colored people can displace any more white labor, by being free, than by remaining alaveal If they stay in their old placea, they joBtle no white laborers; if they leeva their old placee, they leave them open to white laborera. Logically, thera is neither mora nor Issa of it." Now, sir, I will not do logic the violence to eay that that ib an argument. He telle
our people, ti ose who supported him be
cauae they believed be and his party intend
feature in relation to theae amendmenta
In the meBtage ha recomenda an amendment to the Consttution as follows: "Abt . Congress may appropriate
money, and otherwise provide for colonizing
free colored persons, with their own con
sent, at any place or placea within the
Ui ited Slates."
In this recommendation he seeks to give
power to do what he claims be haa the
power to do without it; and by thia recom
mendalion he admits he has been exerciaing
unauthorised and illegal authority, la nut
this in itself an admisaion that the Conaitu
Itaa, unamended, granla no power to Con
greBa or the Executive to appropriate or use
tho money of the'people for any purpose
contemplated in this amendment? He calls
upon ua to compromise What compromiae
ib that! ror whom doea he propoae a compromiae? What for? In order that you mar
have more power to advance the negro.
I hat-is all there ia of it, and there ia noth
tug lese of it- He tells us there are differ
ences of opioion among the friends of the
Union - in regard to slavery and ths A'ric.n
face among ua." He aays to all of those who differ with him, surrender your convictions and some to my plan and he calls that compromiae! Compromise! Yes, I trust
in God the dsy ia not far distant when the people of this country will compromise and
ssve the Constitution and the Union lor the
white people, and not for the black people.
Our people are for no other compromise
han that.
Tuero are other portiona of the message
upon which I should like to beetow some
attention, but I will forbear to do so nowi lor I deaire to call the attention of the committee to another proposition of the President connected with this subject. The proclamation of the 22d of September last, iaeued by tbe President, took the country by surprise, ard no one of tha citizens more than myself. I had fondly hoped snd been snxiouB that the President of
respect has our cause the cause of the
Union been advsuc-d! Up tp that time.
throughout the grest N rth-west, you had
but to call for volunteers and th-y rushed to the army. Since then, you hs-e had no
volunteering, prior to that lime H was n.,t necessary, as lh Secretsry 0 War a. 1
a i. ba. v .
vance ia only fifteen milea distant. The newe of the fact givea great joy to tha army. Forty thousand additional troops are to aid in the capture of Riebmond, Its fall ia
certain. An order cornea from Washington, snd McDowell withdraws hia forces, blow.
tng up the bridges aa be retireo. McClellaa la overwhelmed by auperior numbers, and forced to retire, fighting as no retreating ermy eVer fought before. Thus we see that twice the rebel Capital ia Saved from fallii. !. .... u i . .
..... i ...... miv vui nanus, not OX am o d. 'or n . . -v.t rnml hi. n mirl ii .. . .I'll ...
. . . . - sarsaiu or courage of its defender, bot by declares it ia aete..ary, to have Provoat i.om. u-,u,w V 7
. . I . ' w -v ' wi ur uw ii ruiers. Marshala in exery county to arrest de.erter. I repeat that the fall of Richmond, .h- 4.
the United Statea should so conduct himeelf ia the high office aa Chief Magistrate, that I
could lend him my support. I have been driven, with thousands of other., into oppo
sition to the policy contained in that pro
clamation, for reasons which must commend themselves to every reflecting man
sincerely desirous of terminating this war
and suppressing the rebellion. Mr. Lincoln, on the 4th of March, 1861,
oa the eaat portico of thia Capitol, took a
from the army.
We are informed tha. Irai a few days be
fore ihe issuing tf this proclamation the
"resident himself dec I a ret', in a conference with some gentlemen who were urging hiiu
to this step, that it would not only be wholly
inoperative iu the object sought, but would
directly weaken ua in the border Slate., but
significantly added that it might increase our
strength in the North. 1 pause here to ir.
quire where that additional strength bj the
North waa to be obtained; not certainly
from ihe Democratic element in Ihe North.
If additional vigor waa infused into the ser
vice, it must come from some other auarter
which until then' had not heartily auatained
the policy of the Administration. I need
not particularise what class of Individual
were to be thus induced to lend their aop
port ihe country well knows tke baleful
influences of this cl.es, and the ends they
seek to sccemplish.
Duttliia Ib not all. The record of the
military operations show to day aimoat con
clusively what the country had for some
considerable lime suspected; that success in
a military point of view was not so much tbe
object sought aa tbe bringing about a con
dition of things when a proclamation of thia
sort could be urged as tha only means of se
curing to oa succees.
Some of the ressono are now before tbe
pnblic why McClellan did not capture Rich
mond. At the last session of Congress I commented on the fact that the armiea of
the Potomac, inatead of being massed, were
divided into five corps, and each corpa under
an independent commander no two of them
co operating together thus enabling maaa
corpa of rebels under Jackson to defeat three
of them, and to unite before Richmond in repulsing McClellan. 1 will not now repeat eh at 1 then said. I refer to tba fact as a link ia the chain of evidence which I ahall to day adduce. Then was, during tha whole time Mc-
Clellan was at the bead ef the army, con-
tinual demands that he ahould advaaee upon
vow, which lie said was registered in Heaven, Richmond. The class of persons wbe raised a dk saVd. At itsM M . .a a a. ' , L ! s.a'asasMa tL. a a
to support tha Constitution of the United
StsteB. Is hia inaugural address, dslivsrsd
on that occasion, he aaid he had no lawful
authority or inclination to interfere with the:
institution of slavery in the state where it
exiata. In his proclamation of the 22d of
September laat, be assumes that he has
I " I W. f. - l.w ..... 11 .1.9 ed to keep tha oonalaveholding Stales and po war to forever free "all persona held sa all the Territoriee of the Union for tae solelslavea within anv Stste. or designated wart
occupation of the while race, if you do aot of a Slate, the people whereof ahall be in like my plan of disposing of thia black raes; rebellion sgainat the Unilsd Statea," thus if you fear from their introduction among violsting the pledge so solemnly mads in his . t -. . I : - l.k ..:ti i i . . . . I.
wsjsjrsiajs asjjxJtaifjijj.y ir"", in iiicii iauor wl, oc orougni into insugurai andres. slso, Wises and Liquors, which he will sell competition with thst of your own, all you! If the object of the proclamation was not e.eaner than an nn a la inain. Olvt mv . i . lav. . I .... .... ...
sail at th bighrick :navo tsooiu avoiu una oompoutioB is to to aid trie rebellion, its tneci was. it haa April 10, 181 JOSEPH EGO. Iftly leave your present fields of laberatrsagthaned tbs rebellion by driving iuto
ibis outcry wars the peraona who favored
emancipation. This clamor forced from
McClellan his plsn of campaign, as ws are
told by the Prince de Joinville, which tha aaia.. a J s m
reueia (earned in a lew days after it was
known in Washington. Of courao they prepared to meet it. McClellan moved forward from Forlreaa Monroe with over one
hundred thouand men. He approached the
position of the rebela under Msgruder. ex
pecting McDowell to go by snotber roots to cut off ths rstrsat, when they wars drivsn back ; McDowell never reached nor stsrtsd
for tba point tbst be wss to occupy. The rsbele were defestsd and drivsn back: in
stead of their retreat being cut off, lbs read
feat of the rebel army, would have been ths
end of the rebellion.
Ths rsseons for the ttovemenl of the army under McClellan from the James river, so aa to unite it with the ona near Washing, ton, are before the country, and need no
comment from roe. The corresoondencs
between Generale Halleck snd McClellan
vindicates ths one ssd condemns the other.
When Pope's army reUrea to WsshlnetAn
before the army of Lee, let loose from thai.
prison in Richmond by ths removal of Mr.
Clellan from tbs James river; when tba
capital is threatened, Maryland invade.
and Pennsylvania msnacsd, McClellan ia
again called to assume command, and. drive the insolent foe scroaa the Potomac tie reorganizes tbe disordered battalions, brinea
order out of confusion, marches a large army over one hundred miles, and la leas than
twenty days fights two battles, wine them
both, and drives the rebels across ths Potomac; relieves ths Capitsl aud givea courses
to our army. Thinge being in this poaition, on tbe 92d of September the President issues hia proclamation to frss ths aesro. ssd
followa it up by tbe one of the 84th, to make alavsa of wbito men. McClellan refused or
failed to indorae either of them in hia
to tbe army , and then hia removal
decided upon. Hia competency lo command
had nothing to do with his removal. Ha aal
vindicalsd that. Ths Idas of theaa esemls
aeema to ba that proclamationa are all that ia necessary to make war successful. They iasus proclamationa to fret Ike negro, aal
csii mat a vigorous prosecution of the war. Ths cbsrgs thst McClellan failed to rslieve Harper's Perry, ie a mere pretext, get up to order by a commission sf lineal dot-
cendants of Juatics Shallow, sad they, Rae
iheir ancestors, bare written tbsmselvea
down asses. Tbsir finding baa but to be
rsau to bs condemned; Ths learned asm
mission find Col. Ford csnsursble. bscaeaa
he aurrendered Maryland Uights after be
waa relieved; and tbe same commissioa OSS-
sured McClellan becauee he did not r a uses
ikat point. Hers ia tbsir finding:
The Oeseral-in-Chief alao testifies that, in hia opinion, General McClellan could and
should kave relieved and protected II ai pais
rsrry, snd in this opinion the imaailaalaa
fully concur.
"By reference to the evidence, it will be
sesn last at tke very moment Cel. Pots abandossd Marylaad Hights, bis little araaf wss ia reality relieved by Generale Frank
lin's sad Sumner's corps, stCrampton'aOap,
within asvsn milea of hie poaition."
Truth ia consistent, falaehood and attar
are inconsistent. Tba lading ef the mission is of tbs latter character. Tke
mission givae facta aad datss which
