Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 August 1861 — Page 1

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ODE FOR THE IXACOCRVTIOM OF COM. FKRRT's STATTE. BV VM. ROSS WALLACE. The glorious Soul of Valor call'd ; And here in gratitude we throng. Responsive to her thrilling cry, With laurel-wreath an 1 triumph-song. Öur grateful hand his statue rear, "Who broke the pride of ho-tile powers, Then simply, but sublimely, said We've met the foe anl they ati ours!" Well may his countrymen exult: Still free the storied waters roil, On which he showed, when all seemed lost. How grand the true heroic soul ! His ship a wreck! another's sought! Lo ! sink at once the hostile powers! For Perry vow'd the news should be " We've met the foe and they are ours!' Roil, roll ye waves ! Eternal roll ! For vc are holy from his might : O Banner that his valor wreathe I, Forever ke-p thy victor-light ! And if upon this sacred lake Should eve.- come invading power?, like him may we exulting cry We've met the foe and they are ours!" The Present State of the Nation. SPEECH nOX. C. L. VALLÄXD1GIIA3I, OF OHIO, In the House cf Representatives, JULY 10, 1861 Mr. VALLANDIGHAM Mr. Chairman, in the Constitution of the United Stair?, which the other day we swore to support, and by the authority of which we arc assembled here to-day, it is written : All legislative powers herein granted sh .ll be Tested in a Congress of the United States." It is further written also that the Congress to - which all legislative powers granted are thus com- j . , j raitted : " Shall make no law abridging the freedom of fpcech or of the press." And it is yet further written, in protection of Senators and Represent atives in that freedom of debate here, without which there can be no libertv : "Tint for anv speech or debate in t-itiiT j Heuse they snail not be questioned in any otlier place. j Ho'direr up the shield of the Constitution, and i standing here in the place and with the manhood j ot a Representative of th people, I pnmse to myself, to-day, the ancient fteeiom of speech f used within the-e wails; though with somewhat i laore, I trust, of decency and discretion than have t sometimes beon exhibited here. .:r, I do nut propose to discuss t.ie direct que- tion of this civil discuss the direct question of this civil .... Um wmcu we are engaged. Its present proseon is a foregone conclus'on; and a wise inn. I er n-i-l. 1,1 r...,!. ... ., f....!.!., ,.....: ".-..- our ijnj ui, , uuiLivss ciucijiiise. " position shidl at pre'scnt, for the most part, oC inuic-.tte.lhy my votes, ar.d by the resolutions j nd motions which I may submit. lint there are j nany questions incident to the war ant to its' prosecution, about which I h ive somewhat to say now. Mr. Chairman, toe 1 i:fore us, d inaiids t!i $40U,nO);000 an amount than the entire public deli the close of the Revo!. times as much as the total the three years' war vith

domain, hanging in common to all tho ,tcs, S Missouri all dec!, red for .he old Union, and every i Administration, and its enormous and p..r,istet in !, ZrZnZZZ :T 1 n"n t0 1 Constitution of the j battle at Bull's Run, but nothing to what mu-t In resident, in the message ; should be t.ken. po.1. and held by one sre-! heart beat with high hope tht in due course of fraction, of the Constitution i,s ..l .! " ,;,in1,Hl M'UCU-. f h! r?' ,nn . United States, fn ,he course of ,he dele e.ne-b.n, ...1 U W,;:i,;, w L

i-. i r iii .. i . i i , .i . i i, . ,. .. T ""l '""- .o, sir; wnaiever been finished in all the'r oi-eo.is m .,ii"...we i '? lIle 'mosi unanimous vote ot t!ie legis ature '""" wlu' l" '"o-.un ..ie ios., oau;e dion ia and four i ha 1 chosen the Prudent, and now has, and for .sir, that the Republican party, ivith great unanimi- t'.e.r mooo.es ,..,. I ,.,,l.. .t. . ... I 1,11 -r oo.'s m n..nt , . - .. , , ... " . . Lr frnm tllrt r.,,.,

Sir. that same Cor ;titution which I again holdjaboin the House. He omits, too, to tell the

up, ana to wiucti 1 g ve my whole beirt and my utmost loyalty, commits to Congress alone the ...nau, nie i.xecu-1 tite.it Will be hirrh time tn..l.,i;j,i, !?. iv... o ...0 ..... , ,1.1, t right, I belieTe, sir, to say that, however gentlemen uponJiis side of the Clumber may differ iinally as to the war. we are yet nm ly and inexo

V , - !". er, u.e necre.ary OI , .ui p.dc.M ; a.... uo... Mucs prepared lor an appeal on fll.jsoi ,,. first .MlUf aU(i aljve ; ( wbicii it slia.I be aip.icd, and expressly limit8 anv I State, dec! ited three years ago. and have main-1 to th.it treat and final arbiter of nil .Iwnntru ; 1 .... ,v . . . . .

. . ' ! . , ... . ceeuingiv napjtv and 01 igmal conceit oi commindappropnations to the term of two years. K ich I tamed cv. r since, that there w.i an irrepressible free country the fople. ir t! e t t t t "PI ' P nt 1. tr.m j-tee j conllkt l.e Ovo foctio, of IV ; Sir. I r, , ;v,ire MK ..,,t,er ,1,. TJ. 1 'L Ul orl,im!.uponIio,iu.,c...Jo..I,. an.l l,o-, :1, ,1 the Cn-oi, ,..M i.ot .lro ,... ,U.n,l rii,l.,i n.l l.i. J.... , , , P. T.

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v uury, oi me liistiec ant wis-' rart Iree : and t at t ic w.io e nower and nd tience ... i . i . . .. . ...... ... ... .

.b.m nA Ko. .: ii -i . - i .ai.icM, .iii.i iiic.im, .cany iu preserve to me end own vioicni partisans, and llm rev.ve nn lom and policy of the President's demand: and of the Federn J-ivinmeut must l..-..eef.,nl. be I :.. ., ,: . .. - ..... '

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rablr united in one thing, at least, and that is the South, and the nu n who had proclaimed the docdetermination tint our o.tn rights and dignities j trine of the irrepressible conflict, and who, in the and privileges, as the Representatives of the peo- dilemma or ahem f ive of this conflict, were renle, shall b maintained ia their spirit and to the ; solved that the cotton an 1 rice fields of South

ery letter. And be thu a? it may, I do know that there are some here present who are resolved to assert and to exercise those rights with becoming decency and m wleration. certainly, but at the name time fully, freely, and at cvry hazard. .Jir, it i an ancient an I wi-,e practice of the j English Commons, to precede all votes of supplies by an inquiry into abuses n grievances, and es pieiIlj icto any infractions of the Constitution and the laws of the executive. Let us follow this s ife practice. We are now in toe Committee of the Whole on the side of the Union; and in the exercise of my right and my duty as a representative, and availing myself of the latitude of dcbitc allowed here, I propose to consider nie prksknt rtatc or the NATiox, And supply also some few of the many omissions of the Piesident in the message before us. Sir, he has undertaken to ivc us informat on of the state of the Union, as the Constitution requires him to do ; and it was Iiis duty, as an honest Executive, to make that inlormationiuii, impartial and complete, instead of . m mm - unreauing neiore 11 a labored ai d lawyer! r viiie'i cation of his own course of policy a policy which has precipitated a into a horrible and t" 1. r . . . bloody revolution. He admits the fact ; he ad- ! raits that, to-day, we are in the midst of a general civil war, not no- a mere petty insurtf ction, to be suppressed in twenty diys by a proclamation and a pone comitatv$ of three months' raw militia. k23r it baa been tho misfortune of the President fro.- the beginning tha he his totally ami wholly underestimated the nngnitude and character of the 1 volution with which I.e hid to deal, or surely he never wouhf have ventui d upon the wicked and hazardous exH;iimerir3F calling thirty Liillian peopfe to arms anjoDgiemselvcs without the coub&c! an l authority ofÄigrcsS. Bat when at

last he found himself hemmed iuby the revolution and this city in d inger. as he declares, and waked tip thus, as the proclamation of the 15th of April proves him to have waked up, to the reality and significance of the movement, why did he not forthwith assemble Congress, and throw himself upon the wisdom and pitiiotism of the representatives of the State, and of the people, instead of usurping powers which the Constitution has cx-

l pressly conferred us? ay, sir, and powers which ! Congress had but a little while before repeatedly i and emphatically refused to exercise. But I 6hall refer to this point again. Sir, the President, in this message, has undcrtaken also to give us a summary of the causes which j have led to tl is piesent revolution. He has made j out a case he might, in my judgment, have m i4c out a much stronger case .gainst tin secessionj ist. and disuniomsts of the South. All this, sir, i s very well as far it goes. But the President does ! not tro back far enough, nor in thr right direction. He forgets the still stronger case against the Abj olitionists and disunionists of the North and West. j He omits to tell us that seccs-ion and disunion had t a New England origin, an 1 began in Massachu- ; setts in ISO 1, at the time ot the Louisiana puri chase were revived b the Hartford Convention ; in 151 1, and culminated, during the war with ! Britain in sending commissioners to Washing ton to l cnttlö tli fermj fur !. Wii'iih'n se iiim f Ten ff llir. - J -. . v. ... ...... New England from the oilier St ites of the Union. He forgets to remind us an I the country that this present revolution began forty years ago in the vehement, persistent, oHViisive, mot irritating and i unprovoked agitation of the slavery question in the North and West, from the time of the Missouri controversy, with some short intervals, down o the present hour. Sir, if his statement of the j case, be the whole truth and wholly correct, then the Democratic party and every member of it, and the Whig party too, and its predecessors, have be en guilty, for sixty years, of an unjust, unconstitutional, and most wicked policy in administering the affairs of the Government. But, sir, the President ignores totally the violent and long continued denunciation of slavery and slaveholders, and especially since 131.") 1 appeal to Jack sun 's message fur the date and proof until at last a political antislavery organization was formed in the North and West, whic'i continued t . fi"iti ctpnrirrtli vni" nftoi vnin till nf tTwrtK i J H VI JL'l UH HIUl till IH IVIJ"III , , , , ; , " , - " has destroyed and usurped the place of the ing part), jnd finally obtained control of every free State in the Union, and elected himself, through free State votes alone, to the Presidency of t':e United States. He chooses to pass over the fact that the party to winch he thus owes his place and j his present power of mischief, is wholly and totally a sectional organization ; uul as such condemned l,v '"hington, by Jcfiei-son, by Jacksn, Webster aivl Clay, an 1 by all the founders and preservers of the RcpuMic, and utterly iucondstent with the principles, or the peace, the stability or the existenee even, of our Federal system. Sir, there never was an hour, from the organization of this fectiona! party, when it was not predicted by the wisest men and tret patriots, und when it ought not to have been known y every intelligent m; in tha countrv. tint it must soon.v or later r reeipitate a revolution an 1 the dissolvtion of the eipitate a revolution an 1 the dissolvtio.i of the . r Union. The President forgets already that, on the 1th of March, be declared that the platform oil r.nt.. .. 1.... ....f.. I.:... tt !. ...1 I. 1 ! in. ii, pan M.is , i.i iui.o iiiin. uy wiucii lie meant to be governed in his administration ; and yet that platform announced that whereas there were two separate und distinct kinds of 1 ibor and forms of cifil'z ition in the two different j sections of tlie Union, yet that the entire national country and the world for he speaks and we all speak now, to the world and to posterity that he wi. uu. us existing nm.is. A..I . r. .u... ... - , has forgotten to remind us; also, that when the iii. vi 11.7, rn, nun lo.nv II Ul.ll, Hie I TCSIOeni ... .1 ... j-.in uiua voiiiiuiiieu 10 me principle 01 ueauly j hate and hostility to the slave institutions of the Carolint, and thesugir plantation of I nuisiana, should ultimately be tilled by free labor," bad obtained power and place in the common Governniphr rhf II. Sf fj ihn s2.-w,.1k i . ; T ' K ' ol lieM . ....... v. ............ Mi-inn i iii.viiinii'lllill ."liarat the last session of Congress, every substantive . - pro,s.t,on for adjustment and compromise, except that olfercd by the pentleman from Illinois, (Mr ., ... . .. , . Kellogg.) and we all know how that was received came uom u.e rouui i ocop a moment and let us see. The committee of thirty-three was moved for in this House by a gentlemen from Virginia, the secoiid day of the -ession, an 1 iced ved the vote of every outhern Representative present, exceptonly the members from South Carolina, who declined to v.te. In the Senate, the committee of thir teen was moved for by n Senator from Kentucky, (Mr. Powell.) and received the silent acquesrenee of every southern Senator present. Tlie Crit ten den propositions, too, were moved also hv another Senator from Kentucky, (Mr. Crittenden.) now a member of this House ; a run venerable for his

extraordinary loan of ition alone, and concentrated to that kind of labor time, and thromrh faith iiml mti.nn. L..,: . .... j wnose names were lannbar to t.ie wi,ie country , ., ' ; V ... ' ... .

, . ' 1 i'inousvi j .tjwer, lormcu nv pan oi a iieiibcrate u,r,e nf iboi.i .'nctb. . , i-... mm . " J" ueu JIU' : ; ueu. i ne reauz uion oi ti.ese t iingj will be nearly ten times irrcatci ! and form of civilization alone which Prevailed in and by ultimate and adeouate comnromkA. ever,- : , , some of them uestined to pi? into In.stoty. 1 he . " . ... . .. "

, . . f ... . . . . Us. . . , . V ' r ' " M,ro " ; present lorm ot r cil- new winM of the C initol but iut reeentl- ! lht? Crittenden proposition his been indorsed ' "?!" nonie to nam every larnny ; lor lew wi.i t, State and lederil, at that section which by mere numerical superiority, State would be restored to it. It s true, indeed. L-.i .:..:....... , . ("-"ns oi ine uapitoi n i uui jut u entl . ... . 1 ' ..... i .... i , ......

... , . - .... ........ . . . . r i i iii.u.ii. nit- ue- im . ,Tf.,o.t ft Inn treii ,.i.ir... t it, ........ i . m-.KiiuR. 1 1 i.as ueei. .hu irseu ov tue i.eirss- v.. n.-uum.-ui iciuu,',

r. , , p . . r ' , p., . : güinmg, mey rusue.i nccdiesMv and hea.Iiong int., ,lut a h0p1K.r w . wU1 - eortv m Croat Rnta:n,ia lei 2. as from the beginning of the government it had ved against all compromise and conciliation. But. ,1. ..lf !...!:..;,. .1 , . . not .bonier was witn.ii tor. m.us ol U a.ung- f I .

expenditure!, dunnir some years nasi ras na.l. a maioritv in tie Senate, tv and treat e:u ne.-ln -s :n, i-term r. .fw-. 1....1 .... ...... .. .- , . ... m - v -.nu, . . - .

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auiees ior proieciiiJil a linst the aI11.se nr thofr... I . .i .1 .... . . ... . ' .um i.nu.ii . j.u n.'vn, ,.u,i mm 1 ?iaies, nn, I a uii t.n.ai.ust ot t.ie tre- pert7 Wltnn ,lie seceded States. Nor, sir. will 1 Washington and Jackson, and briniii- .10 too in ..,.... , Lv .1 1 , , . ' men lous power an 1 patron ige and iufhienee of n , w , , . ... . ... r " ' once most loyal and true, are no longer here. The , , ""nun. c oi)Stopilow to rsplme the several causes which e- one s ngle day, the frontier from the Gulf to the .. 1 .1 r . r .1 . 1 1 e .t the Federal ( .oveniment. for the puniose of se- .1 11 1 .. .. ... . . V voices and the footsteps of the great dead ol the , -purpose 01 se-(ther led to a change in the apparent Tsdiey or an ; Ohio ai. the Potomac, to ether with the ib.n- , r ,1 1 it- r curing the great en I of the f ectioi.al conlbct. be- 1 .t r .1 . ." . , . , past two ages ol the II -pubbe, linger still, it n.av c T . .iuici. ue ; early dee'o.inent of the oriemal and ical pmpo-1 doiimeiit by the one s . e, and the ficeiinai'oii bv ' 1 . ;. ,1 . .v. ... . . fore resorting b seces-on or revolution nt nil ? t e .1 .1 . .. . I :. . ei upai.on o ,ein ctiio, a. eng t!ic stately cornoors ol tins Cat- ..... , " ' 11 ,u,' yonu,on nla'' 71 ses of the Administration. Hut there ar two the other, Harper's Fctrv and Norfolk naw-vnnl-i . 1 , .1 , 1 , ,we' Did he not know bow could be Im- bimm.o il. . . . .. 1 -1,n,M Hol; but their descendants from nearly one halt of 1

years. loved for Iiis virtue, distinguished for his ' of Massachusetts, N. wY.uk, Ohio, and other service, honored for Iiis patriotism : for four-and-1 States, ascmbled here, promised in n and monev f irty years a Senator, or in other public office ; de- ' to suport the President in the irrepressible convoted from the first hour of Iiis m inhood to the diet w hich they now invoked. And thus it was Union of these Slates ; ami who, though he him- j sir, that the r.eecsslties of a party in the panges of self proved his c.nir.izc fifty years ago upon the j dissolution. In the very hour and article of dealt., b.ittle-fleld againt the foreign enemi s of Lis 1 demanding vigorous measures, which could mult

country, is now, thank Go.!, Mill for comprom ise ..wo..-, 10 un. t ormnaie 111 a lonr anl wen spent life of public service and priv.ue w )rth, he is nifortunatc only that he has survived a Union

and, I fear, a Constitution younger than himselfThe Border State propositions also were projected by a gentlemen from Maryland, not now a member of this House, and presented by a gentleman from Tennessee, (Mr. Etheridgc,) now the Clerk of this House. And yet all these propost-

tions, coming thus from the South, where severally and repeatedly rejecte 1 by the almost united vote of the Republican pai ty in the Senate and the House. The Crittenden proposition, for which Mr. Davis, now President of the Confederate States, and Mr. Toombs, hi Secretary of State both declared in the Senate that they would be satisfied, and for which every southern Senator and Representative voted, never, on any occasion, re - ceivc i one solatary vote from the Republican party in cither House. The Adams or Corwin amendment, so called, reported from the committee of thirty-three, and tha onlr substantive amendment proposed from t!ie Republican side, was but a bare promise that Congress should never be authorized to da what no sane man ever Relieved Congress would undertaketodo abolish slavery in the States whec it exists ; and yet, even this proposition, moderate as it was, ami for which every southern member present voted, except one, w:U carried through uns nouse oy out one majority, alter long anu tedious delay, nnd with the utmost diflicnlty sixty-five Republican members, with the resolute and determined gentleman from Pennsylvania ( Mr. Hickman.) at their head, having voted against it and fought against it to the very last. authorize the President to blockade the southern const ; and to call out the militia and accept the services of volunteers, not lor three months merely, but without any limit as to either numbers or time, for the very purpose of enforcing the laws, collecting the revenue, and protecting the public property ; ami were pressed vehemently and earnestly in this House prior to the arrival of the iW iii Ii Wii. .iiMi rrn tl.B. ii.nn-l. .vn ciaics nan seceoea an.; sec up ;t government oi -J l 1 .1 . uit irun, vhi'u uonn, pos, rmci, inrui asuie, or : i- i e . . i in sonic oiner wav oistioseu 01. sometimes ov i irire majorities in this House, till at last Congress ad - journed without any action at all. Peace then 5ce.-eu to ue u,e poucy ui uo... pa. . ,es. . 1 ... I .t i: ..r i. ..l. ... Thus. sir. the case stood at twelve o'clock 0:1 1 t,u c at ..1. 1... a... e ..,. . ---- um tu. u. .nanu .mi Hum uie i-uMuii wuco of the Capitol, and in the presence of twenty thousand of his countrymen, but enveloped in a cloud of soldiery which no otlier Amei ican Presij huit ever saw, Abiahim Lincoln took the oath of ! office to support the Constitution, and delivered his inaugural a message, 1 regret to say, not written in the direct and straightforward language which becomes an American Piesident and an American statesmen, and which was expected from the plain, blunt, honest, man of the Northwest, lut with the forked tongue nnd crocked j eot thi council of the New York politicians, leaving riy mdiion people in doubt whether it me int I .. IV. .. i. 1 1 in ; peace or w;ir. iui wiaieer may nave oeeil lite I seert 1 1 urifc.se an 1 meaning of this inaugural, praeticaily for six wee! ticailv for six weeks the pohev of peace prevailed ; 1 - - . i and they were weeks of hipplntss to the patriot, and prosperity to the country. Ibisines.s revived; -.(..-....I . n 1 I 1 ' u,i;if iiiuinen; com mere: iiouri.-ueu. a ever was tliere a fairer prospect before any people j Secession tn the past l.mgu:shed. r.nd was spiritless and harm'ess ; secessitai i.- the future was ai rested, I and peri-hed. llv overwhelming majorities, Vir- ! ginia, Kentucky, North Carol na, Tennessee and j on the other hand, the whole Democratic party, and I the wh.de Cons itutional Union party, w ere equal ! ly resolved that there should be no civil war unor . 11 ,i,t r.-.i.- 1: . .... ... l'v.,u ..a., u.3wu, ui I'iwtn-iuus iiorue in spoucu men 1 a.,d otlice seeker, wbi, b e-,me ,b.n ;.,. rwiau.l ..r. !,.., I M. .

fi,u not tins only, but, as a jart ot tlie History ot ; at last ot both, Aew L.ngiand and Pennsylvania, ; and hope of liberty, was turned awav from with frenzy of passion and prejudice may subvert ihn which the war is to cast noon the country tin the last session, let me remind you that bills were , too, the land of Penn. called in peace demanded ; contempt. " ! principles upon which free institutions ate based, ! fearful sacrifice of life which w ill be demandintroduced into this House proposing to abolish ; now coercion and civil war, with all its horrors, as j Tn the po-t-on I-ere omitted Mr V reviews the ,mt vv0 Jjoliove tl!"p " -"t ugh of personal in-j to give it success, or to sustain its defeats, and close up cert tin southern ports of entry ; to ! toe price of preserving either from destruction, i ,,mp .,., f.t Tlf .,, ,,: ', dependence and public virtue to prevent this over I These burden, aad sacrifices, vet scarce! v be-un

J ! ""-) ine.iin ci.ii wir, ami oniy waucu 10 gain time . 1 can iiaruiy conceive, sir. that the I res lent

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A. O V' 1 ... A 1. r.. f I... t . I - . .1 . .... ......... .v.. v ..jm.i. 11. Mil ( 1 uo Know uiai the people believed them sincere, and cordially ratified and approved of the policy of peace ; not as they subsequently rcrponded to the policy of war, in a whirlwird of passim, and madness, but ealrnlv r.r: snbi-lv ami 01 ili..-l ..r.i...: .... - j '-.'-. ,..-.111, ,11 tne.r ueliberate and most solemn judgment . nd beliei it g w"r uosoiuie ana cic.nai disunion, While Secession was blltiaitial and tcmrwmrr 1. . ' tuy cordially indorsed alone the proposed evacua - I nn n Sm.,l..p n... I ,.. ... ... f..,ia . ..... i: n,rt . 1 Lr'T" 1 j j , ."".''is 0 ioi uciaiic, I ad especially of certain wiel-e.l j " -- - I ....... , ni.i unprincipled conductors of a partisan preps. The J peace policy was crushing out the Republican I party. Under that policy, sir. it was meltin aw ay hke snow before lhe sun Tlie ncral tdections in Rhode Island and Connecticut, and municipal elections in New York an 1 western States, -ave j abundant evidence that the people were revived upon the most ample and satisfactory cost tutional guarantees to the South as the price of a restor.itio.. .T f Tl.!.... A .! 1 . . ! ..... . . 1 .t t.i. w. v;..M..,. .no 1 1 1 v 11 11 was, sir,in.u tue long and agonizing how l of defeated and di8appoiued politicians came up before the Administration. lhe newspaper press teemed with appeals and threats to the Pscsident. 'I he mails groaned under the weight of letters d. mantling a change ol policy ; while a secret conclave of the Governors j in nothing but civil war, renewed secession, and : absolute und eternal disunion were r.ref. m.l hearkened to before lhe peace and harmony and prosperity of the whole country.

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But there was another and yet stronger impelppgjcause without which this horrid calamity of civil war might have en postponed and, perhaps, finally

aveited. One ot the last and worst acts of a Congress, which, born in bitterness and nurtured in convulsion, Iittcrly did those things which it ought j not to have done, and left undone those things : which it ought to have done, was the passage of an obscure, ill-considered, ill digested, and mistatesmenlike high protective tariff act, commonly known as " the .on;Il tariff." Ji.st about the same time, too, the Confederate congress at Montgomery adopted our old tariff of 18.7T, which we had just rejected to make way for the Morrill act, j fixing their rate of duties at five, fifteen, and j twenty per cent, lo.vcr than ours. The result was j as inevitable as the laws o.f trade are inexorable. Ttadc ard ccnnm -reo and especially the trade j and commerce of the West began to look to the

South. 1 limed out of their natural course years cc, which was not in t!)c slightest danger from any if need be, the conduct of those who admin;stor the Constitution, was surtident to .nlit the snj;uago, by the canals and railroads of Pcnit hasia : quirter, a, the date of the prochim -ition. Government. This is the right of freemen. The ' t,l'cs of the people in fighting its battles; but and New i ork. and diverted eastward at a he ivy But, sir, Congress w.- s not asse:nb'ed at oner,' people, under our institution, are the rulers, an 1 hen the fact was dUclost d, tint iste;' 1 f.f sup lo-s to the West, tlier threatened now to resume ! as Congress s'-ould h ive been, and the great o"cs- the oüiecrs servant-. The essence of libertv ' porting the Constitution, thy war has Keen nude

their ancie,t ai.d e.ccustoml channels the waterj courses the Ohio mid Mississippi. And politica association an 1 union, it well known. ms j soon follow the direction of interest and trade, iiiccny oi .uw i oi-k, the great commercial emporiura of the Union, and the Northwest, the chief granary of the Union, begau to chn or now loudly for a repeal of the pernicious and ruinous tariff ( Threatened thus with the loss of both political ; power an 1 wealth, or the repeal of the tariff, and Aye,;r, Pennsylvania, the great keystone of the! who does not know that the South cannot bo foroed t vieM Alu..li..np. t., i . ... , .i , again until you nave conquered and subjugated i !l . 1 - . . . - j iht me puiju;iuki or I lie out'i, ana the clo-in .'i ...... . . u; oi ner norts. nrs' iv force, m w:ir. n-.. -i f..,. j ward- by tariff law., in peace, was deliberately re solved upon by the Cast. And, sir, when once .i - . . . - ....... .,v.. uns poucy was be-un, the sou s imcr motives of! w:iiim enmme?v. ; - ... ...i' ... 14. . : .L.lt' 3 an! tliretteiie-I loss o' trade . . . - .1. ..... . t . .

...v.. w.,..,, M.miig 10 i.iv mewnoiej I h tve fini-hed now .Mr Ch lir wl tl P-'ucU, we would regard as a greater calamity j intimately aspire, Inv au..nled smc s'ight in.Iiweight of Iter iron upon that sacred arch, and crush j j ' " ' r na"' w ,a J""0" j than disunion. The difference between support- j eations of what the countrv is to be calicd upon to :. 1 .1.11 1 ' , . . .. . , po.en '.o 9n at tins time upon tJie message of tue i " it beneath tlie load. I he subjugativn ot the boutn ' -.",. : T the Government and supporting an administra- suffer and endure, Weforc the end shall b? reached. 1 - .. . , -, , . ; i rement. as to my own position m regard to - f . .

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nnt tn r , , . this most mihappv civil war, I have oniv to sav ' u,rt ... ,a.-w.,cor.. -a v ... a u . unot talking to children or fools ; for there is not a 1 1. . , , . " , . , ' , nite c.bj. ct accomplished. Po tno:,ii.ir. lor the-

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merchants and her politic. ans ;.n I her press, vith here and there an honorable exception, to place herself in the very front rar.Ic amo'n, the worlhip. er? of Moloch. Much, indeed, of tint outburst ai;d uprising in the North, which fo!l )vvel the proclamation of the 5th of April, as well, reih ips, as tlie proclamation itself, was called forth . not to nvich by the fill of Fort Sumter an event long intioipated-as bv the notion that the Mnsurrection" might be crushed out in a few weeks, if not by the display, certainly, at least, by the preseru-c of an overwhelming foice. These, sir, w ere the chief causes which, along with others, led to .1 change in the policy of the Administration. and, instead of peace. 'orced u: j !i'M,i:(m-.i-,tn,.iiil n-r ;tt, nil ttJ 1. il o - - ...... ...... ... in uLvuumiaiiu : horrors ' Put whatever mav have been the causes or the I . . " i .... I j rncti ves )f the act it isceit-.in tint tl ch. nge in the policy which the Administration me int to adopt, or which at least they led the country to be lieve they intended to pursue. I will not now venture to assert, what may yet some day be then far distant and ildlieult of access, the disohiv of vigor in rcii letcing Foits Sumter and Pickens. PSd restore and 1 ... ., . .. . ... au. s eo.i.u oe ;,- o. . lie exceeding tolly 1 01 expeeung 10 carrv on a general civil war by a i 5. t .. . . .. .... t I 1. 1 .1 . .. ... 11 may ne, lntiei'u, mat, wnii wicked and most ; desperate cunning, the Pn sidert meant all this as a mete entering wedge to that which was to live j the oak asunder ; or jwiib y 113 a test, to learn tiie public sentiment of the North and West- But, ! i. .1.4 ... 1 . .i . . nowc.er 111,11 in.iv i.e, u.e rapid secession and j inovementsof irginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, J and 1 ennessee, taking with thrm, as I have said lewl.eri. four millions ..! .. i...ir..r .,... t... I ltv ! mense weallh. inexhaustible resourci-. five bunf ! .V.n' . ' . V'"" iitc inrin, co'iipciicij eil icr a sudden wakmu no I ..r ..... n... ..... , ,. . ? . 1 1 j mi,- i iv.uviii .him in? .l.lllst'7-H i.l T :P 1110101111 1 significancy of the act which they had committed in heedlessly breaking lhe vase which imprisoned the slumbering demon of civil war, or else a pre mature but most rupid development of the darin" plot to foster and promote secession, and then set uoinew and strong form of Government in the - tates which might remain in the Union. Hut whatever may have been the purpose, I asi sert here to-day, as a Repieseut .live, that every i ... . .... , principal actot lhe Administration since, has been I n glaring usurpation of ower, and a palpabl and dangerous notation ol ti.at very Coi..titution which th!s civ. I war is professedly waged to support. Sir, I pass by the proclamation of the loth of April, summoning lhe militia, not ti defend this capitol; there is not a word about the ca pi tol in the proclamation, am! there wns then no possible danger to it from any quarter: but to retake und occupy forts ant pioperty a thousand miles off summoning, I say, the militia to suppress the so-called insurrection. I did not bidicve, indeed, no man believed in February lt, l,c Jir. Stanton, o Ohio, introduced his bill to enl ..r the net f ! 17Ü5, that that act ever contemplated the case or .w.r.l r... -..tnii.,., n. .1 ,.r...:... aucc bv an orean- , ized Government. Rut no mattir. The militia ihv;, called out, with a shidow, ut least, of author

made to ap.Var. that the subsequent acts of the ! i .i it ... .. . t.ie Senate, of March 2, upon the Corwin ! have hid a sliidit experience in tint wtv in th

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ity, and for a period extending one rront'i after the ' assembling of Congress, were amply sufficient to protect the capitol against anv force which was

j then likely tobe cent against it and the event has j proved it and ample enough also to suppress he outbreak in Maryland. Every other principal act ; of the Adrainistr .tion might very well have been postponed, r.nil the meeting of Congress; or, if ! the exigencies of the occasion demanded it, Con - j press should forthwith have been assembled : What it two or threa States should not have been ! represented, although even tli s need not have happened; hut better this, a thousand times, than that J the Constitution should be repeatedly and fla - ! grantlv violated, and public libertv and private j i-I.f trampled under foot. As for Harper's Ferry and the Norfolk Navy-Yard, they rather needed protcctio.. against the Administration, bv wiine orders millions of rropertv -vere wnr.tonlv d.strovtion f civil war snbm t?ed to their deliberations. ' The representatives of the Ftates and of the peoj pic were not allowed the slightest voice in this i the most momentous imcstnui ever presented to j any Government. The entile responsibiiitr of the whole work was boldly assumed by the Executive j and all the poweis required for the purposes in J lnnd were boldiv usurped from either the States or f the people, or from the legislative department; while tho voice of the iudieiarv. that last refuge j speec'i, and w e theieforc omit it Uds. 1 , laS J " M" vmttlc ' i iioie LyO!itiTiiiionai I. inon party, lUKl a I t nvijoiitv, as I believe, of the people of the nited States, stood too. I am for peace, speedv, i imiucuiaic. nouora e PEACE. Wit l :l its . eitf n ' Olhersmay have changed: 1 have not. I question not their motives nor quarrel with their course. It jr...:?- r. .i . .. . I " i" iioo lUllie IOr lliem lO rmeslioil i)r Til fm-.irrel ... .;... .... . . 1 n III! IliiliC. .IV I1UTV Ml.lil I ie I 1 ii-lll l-rr,., 1 I I r.i I r , . . n ' 1 . . 1 lirmly, quietly, and regardless of eonseouenees. , .nseienee vmu o, otj a"J WV1f judgment which shall fob ......... uU;i.-., on. b I ViMi.!-.,f., 1 1 r 1 . 1 Mi, I lure spoken freely and ferrlessl- to-day, sl,,.. ., v..,-;,.... n . . 1 i - - ..... ...v- .... " ti, American ciiizsii; o.ie li' inly res -Ived, come w lnt ; may, not to lose his own Constitutional lil.erties, ; ! V v"",lil'i,:"a:u n-iUS

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u.e .uu en jii 10 nnioe tuese r:g:us and liberties , Ken it, a terrible responsibility rests upon the Reupon ten iniilions of unwilling people. I have ; puhlieans for refuing it and ihry declare they will

vpouen earnestly, too, but yet n t as one tmmin land this House of two hundred ard thirty seven members every state being present. It was a i grand an 1 solemn spectacle; the embassadors of ; three and thirty sovereign and r f thirty-nu millions people, the inbrhtiest republic, on earth, in i ..CMCral Cor-ress as.en.bled. In the Senate. ,o. - ton. I ;;r the r.,n.rr, of o TT.-w.i Q...t... ( - ...v . .-I i.v ii.M.O I. I.IH,-. Illicit b..,-,. .. ...!.,.. 1..0 '.... 1 .1 ... ... ....1.. .... , ...., MdUl.l lillj ?.41V. j ur States, twenty three only, j one les than the number Ion v vcais a-o. are hei'e 1 c or in the o'her wing of the. Capitol. Forty-six Senators and one h.mdred und sevcnty-thice Representatives constitute the Congress' of the now United States. And of thee, ei-ht Senators and j twenty-four Rep. emulative., f.om four States, on lv linger here as deputies from that -r-at ..i:h which, from tho hcmi.bi-r of tlu ve,,.me,. " n contributed s'j much to mold its pobe-v. to build in its greatness, and to control its destinies All the other States of that South arc gone. Twenlv-tw o Senati rs and sixty-live Represcn.atives no lönirer LCIVP tn ,.. q-llo V:ir.!t ,. .... deed.still here; and the escutcheons' of their re - o. t .1. o 1 1 1 ...11. siH-cw.c oiiiie. ioiiujttii soicuiun anus, 101 1 irom 1 edceilii-s Butt'ie Vin ini iofW ish Henry and Madison, ol?. Marshall and these vaulte ington and j. flerson of Rand.dph and Moni-e the birth pace of CI. y, the mother olStates and Presidents; the Carol.i.-.s 01 Piek.iev n.ul S.,rte, ,,u T ...j.... of Calhoun and Maeon;"nd Tc...:csse, the home li'-public wiM meet with us 0 .t .1 111 , I niore W,,Il,n ih h ,J,,t P"k ami lawns, and upon the broad avenues ofthi.s spacious city, seventy thousand soldiers have sup plied their places: and the morning drum beat from asvore of encampments within sight of this beleagnred capitol, give melancholy warning to the repiesenratives of the States and of the people, that amid arms laws are silent. Sir, some years hence, ( would fain hope some months hence, if I daie, the present generation will demand to know the cause of all this; and , some ages herruft r the graul and im partial tri bunal of history will make solemn and diligent inquest of il.o authors of this terrible revolution. TI10 DIffercnco Between tho Government and tho Administration. Mr. Lincoln his himsdf a!Forded a very fair illustration of the düTcicnce between supporting the Government and supporting the A.hn'if stratum. He calls out troops to protect Washington and save the Government from overthrow. That the Constitution requires at bis bands, and all party cries are hushed in obeying the appeal. That is supporting the Government. lie turns outofoHice, wherever he can find them, those who do not think with him on the Chicago Platform, without Buy reference to their

r.il nf ii.- c.t r . i . , , , . ' article oi nixnr., is t :.p tomj ci.eu 10 piv a ypetul ot the solemnity f th; scene-s which surround . :-:iown bv documentarv evidence. Can you dve ' -, . .. , ,, , ., : i . i c-- i i , 1 . i cial tax, ranging lieni one t Litv doihirs. wlide usi.pon rer side to-day. .Sir, w hen the Con- : :ne anv add.tional particul irs of the. circumstances I .. . ... , , , , . ., rr . , .. .... i the Proposed income tax wid take fr.ni the alreadv

rosoi me L-nitcu Mates assi-midiU here on the under which Mr. Douglas bore the testimony!.

".1 l iwfi :. . .i i . .......... 1 iiiiiiMis.iieu rainir.' i von iii.i.i, i.iree ht cent.. od o! Deeemoer, 10 ), just seven mo:.ihs ago, the , which o i published in the Kniiuircr a few days , c, , " , ' , , .., . l r . o I . ." . - I equal to fifteen doll u s e.n a salary of live hundred Senate was composed of sixty-six Sein'ors. r(.p sjj.ee m reference to the willingness of the South !, , , " w-o. .;.,,. ,i. .i ; . r. . c it , . . dollars, tiurtv uon.irs on a salary oi one thousand, reseniiii'r tlie tlurtv-tui ee Miti i i'w I :n.in . , ,1 i r,. .t,.i ,m r,imi...n, -a i - ' "

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; loyalty to the Gov rnment. That is supporting ; the Administration. j We suppose that the Democracy of Ohio should

; act on the distinction Mr. Lincoln hi3 himself drawn between supporting the Government and ; supporting the Administration. To the first we ' owe allegiance ; to From the Constitui the latter we owe nothing. titntion and the Union spring the 1 Government ; from the Chicago Platform and the I Republican party the Administration. Cincinnati -Enquirer. ! This distinction should not be forgotten. The Democracy of the North have freely contributed ; men and money to sustain and preserve the Gov-; .eminent. They can prove their patriotism and loyalty, if any "proof be neccsry, by generously ; . and cheerfully upholding the Government in its ! i lcgitimitc action. But while doing this they re- ! serve the right to criticise, canvass an 1 census. I , would be gone tlie idea of self-government would e a fare, if the peopl the rulers had not the right to set in judgment upon the conduct of their representatives. When it is ren-anled or pronounced treason, as some desires it to be. for the ! citizen to pass upon the acts or conduct of public i officials, we shall be under a despotism as illin" ; as that of Austria. Russia or France. The! American people n.av voluntarily permit those ! restraints npon individual an-l public freedom . the thow of the liberty of the people which, if ace.inFrom the Cincinnati Enrjuirer. Would the South Have Accented the 1 Cattendea Comprcmise An Important lea Comprcmise-An Important Pj:ge of Folitical Histoiv Indianapolis, Jidy 20, 1EC1. ; To the Editoh of tmi: Enqciree : ! I have seen a statement in the Enquirer copied I . ...... . ; into t io S.n!iiirl n t . j r.W- 1. i. . -v. . mc, S,.,.,,;.-k.-.1.- ., . .-.t..,.. t .l 1 .1. , l i .M..itlu.cu ti.eir icauer ' leff.Tsuti Davis fiml FN.hert Tf.mli .. ;m:. ......u.,.,-,. ,..,;; to take the Crittenden Compromise last winter, and save the Union, but the Republican Senators 'bat . and hence air 1 present troiib.es and tlisasttr. i his statement is t , , . , . ', , vcliemenfly denied bv mv Republican friends. 1-. . r, . .i n i,i,u na- lyiiwu ,.n,n I in ,i J e-1 O V V IS. and Toombs would not take th.it Corn-promise, and that no proof can be given th.V thev would several oi mem aannt tint a tunj tronU hatet.x. ; never iiiinuniov ; 4 DEMOCRAT. t v e nave oeiore us t:ic vongi-essionai iiiooe and Appendix for the session of 18("0 and IS-ßl. If s our correspondent will turn to the Congressional , Globe of .March 11. l.4Cl,he will find in it a debate : ,l "J ""'-u Pe electors of the Urited States than any proposition !nai was ever ueto'e congress. 1 believe in mv l.t . . . Iieart, to-day, that it woiml carry an overwhel- ' I1,in- m 'j,)rity P-P' f my State ; ay, sir, . ....... m lofne uly every other State in the Union. Be - ! for the Senator, from the State of Mississippi left , Ch tmber. 1 heinl one of them who now as 1 s,ime;i !lt l" President ol toe Southern I Cinl-.ler.cy, propise Vi accept it and to m tintaiii 1 nc L ",,m ,l t"t proportion conld receive the vote it ought to receive lrmi the other side of i... . ... . unim-.er. 1 nereiore, 01 ail your proposij tiun3' of -VO!ir knowing as I do and knowiu" tl, lt llve orian will write it dow n, at timc bef"re t,IC Ut of Ji"r.v. a two thirds vote tor the Crittenden resolutions in this Chamber ! saved every State in the Union, but I South Carolina." Mr. Pugh said this in the hearing of S.vard, of Wa',e' of Fr?wn k'a' of Trumball. of all the I Sen itors, and not one denied the truth i . : r. t-v 1 . . t , r. . ! m - "" re . , an 1 conI llmu'1 its trut!l W? Mte from the Globe reert of lhe tliuio. of Ma!l Mr. Doug is i said :

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Th- Senator has said that if the Crittenden ! " MU"" ",,r ',1M r ? JKl nui, al ,iMU u""Proposition could hive passed earlier in the ses-1 un ,h 'lithin respe.sing ,!,.. inttertc ant sion, it would have save 1 all ike States, except ! tr," at Man isas, publicly aeknoi ledge their igSouth Carolina. I lirmlv believe it would. While nr n V thc m' V""t!ie Crittenden Proposition was not in aeeoixlai.ee ÜW Uti " U tlie peawit!. ...v eh,.rwl,e.l vies. I v .w...l mv I P,e' wakenM to a sense of the dr-a.lfu! crron al

and eagerness to accept it, in order to save the Union, if we could unite upon it. No man has labored harder than I have to get it pts-ed' 1 can confirm the Senator's declaration, that Senator I Davis himself, when on the Committee of Thir-

teen, was ready at all times to compromise 011 the ; "" ' c.aunin .-:a,es, Crittenden Proposition. I will go further, and say hiM CCA at 1k e u I "'Ht "' ""','t honorable that Mr. Toombs was also. P-ace can be obtuued. T.is feeling, contrary t This makes the matter beyond dispute, that the ! ,,,e St'l,eri1 iml'. -trtiger in the e v.mtry South would have taken the Citlenden Compro-! thin in the hw cUio' a:,J 1-'Z tnueh mise as :l final settlement of all our difficulties. ; ,1,,vcIo,,, t,,:,t u ,,,,Ht llt 1 "-tcr mee in p ;bWe will go further, however, and adduce the t, s-1 1,c oxPr(' w as i.l private con ver5.itio.,

tiinony of Senator Toombs, of Georgia, himsedf. In his speech in the United States Senate, on the 7lh of January, 1 Mil, he said : " Hut, although 1 insist upon this perfect equality, yet when it was proposed as I understand the Senator from Kentucky now proves that the L.ieofoü 3!) shall be extended, acknowledge .....1 .....:.. 1... - - Hin 'ioiiinin I'lt't ilj uirj ri'illll Mill! l t lie Uno, for tlio s;ik of pruoe, pornianont poact I said to the Committee of Thirteen, and. I say here, with other satisfactory provisions, I would

""'T1 ,l- (store to the West India station mid the Ihitiidi These declarations forever settle the question, possessions iu America. A large number of Armas a ix.int of history, that the adoption of the Crit- ..tnn.g guns for the different fortification will bo

tenden Compromise would have saved the Union . 1 1.1 ii ... I ami prescrvca uie puuuc po.icc. What a terribu m.istic, wa us rHciion . 1 in

React'on ia Public Sentiment. Few of our reader., we suspect, are fully aware

of the reaction which 1ms taken place in the publie sentiment of the Northern States, on the sub ject of our national diniculties. In nearly eicry city, town and neighborhood from which we hav intelligence, there are accounts of a revolution iT the public mind, which must Foon produce a powerful reaction, and lead to a more careful cx1 animation into the causes and probable conscqucnccs of the v ar. 0:i tho breaking out of hostilities the patriotic in:r ulses of the peopl. led to r. general outburst in support of the Government and the maintenance of the Constitution, and th" exigencies of the case scarcely admitted of than cool examination and rcl".cc:i..iirh:ch were neces sary to a full understanding of the issues involved the controversy. The -cueial declaration th.it Iie war was tobe wajrd M tin'.io'.d and s;iro;t the ; l,ie excuse and ju-tiSeuiinn b-r violating and Sampling r.nder loot i's provision--, tlie public min'1 became in som? measure atou?ed to t j questions presented lor con rider ition. and more ! careful inquiry has in consequcn .c been instituted I !lt0 the causes, objects and pr At ible effect of the 1 W!U"This inquiry has been should, d i.i i.o sn ill de- ! ?rec, by the d v 1 .pi.K-nU v.hkii appeared from I tinie to time, touching the uionnous burdens to be felt in the force and volume which they must ,'-'. we amui ue,in.cuon o; nu:m iit, ! fneh the war mint ost-the b irJens nrn the I . a 1 . ft 1 . . r f .... j ,nA,erU1 iutersts of 1,10 r"mitr)' are ,ik I.v tu I overwueini its business in common rui m, anu jeave a legacy oi oei.t lor posterity, tear ful to cot. template. Hut in order to maintain the credit of the (lovernraent sullicientlv to obtain the cnoiii enormous loans to carry on the war, a system of taxation, direct and indirect. in..Stornressiv. in it. tion, direct and indirect, most oppressive in its ictcr. The imposition of a tax of fifteen .a, , . , ,,,-,n. ..,t ! tWQ to Qn notlrn- of the j b,mle, Ho b . JÜ ZX. , . , rich or poor, throt'.giiout tic co:::itrr. .i too the , .. , . ,' , ine ti.rect tax wnr.-ii is nroposea to lew, t-j na-, tlie interoston the public debt, a;;d wiil.ou which it is not probable the rioucy required can be borrowed, will strike at the root of all pro-pcrify, and inflict severe burdens upon neati-all classes of people. In addition 'o the tax on lands, thowner of a watch, a c iniige, t r almost any other i-A.it i r 1 ci vre .bv' -I " a eil ire it i i -k tl.Mi.'i.id ii.nif i ; l.l U'J.II13 "II l I ll'll I V. IliU 1" III if II ll' i S , . . on three t.ioiisaiid, &e. a very serious cemand unon tue labor ot tue nuntrv. These questions aie just, beginning to be under - j sto d,as is also something of the hr.rrors ai:d i sacrifices of life which must attend the war. We tioned causes than from battle, will demand an I '..-,1 .1 1 . ' . . t . 1 1 1 1,1 li-ousinu . coins even ji 1:1? war üiau not prove of long duntticii. All these things j mipht le suffered and bo. ne, if any grc lt object , .... . 1 w', p tl gamed any substantial good accom l'!i'!- in vie w of mu-I. c,.,.M.lci-:itionsas we j h ue n.un-d: mi 1 of the gene ral v lis and horrors w inaan....! .-.s mat wnicii m te po.;p:e :egm ro a-i.. n u go i is to come 01 11 t.i: : wiiat uOst.inj wu uuicius to posieiny, are to ne aci.uvcd througi? ,. r .r... t .. . . ir.nuiNwru.ee ..,y qua. . s. k, uumore practical qticitiou challenge attention :.m we subjugate and reduce the enemy agaiust whom we aie contending ? These are questions of no small rirexmstance, and "ire lorcing themselves, day by elay, more prominently upon the public mi':d, and producing convictions unfaroralde to the plans of the 1 j !rtr. The President and his advisers failed conviction unfavorable to the plans eif tlie war at the outset to comprehend the niignitude and ex tent of lhe icvobitixti which I. isIk'Cii inaugurated in the Southern State failed to appreciate, if n it the causes of the revolution, at leist the resources and ability which are brought to its support. Th i . i' ... . . .......... ... ,,.. ready committed, demand tint a war begun under a misipprcheusion of the motives and resources j of the enemy, having for its prosecution no welldefined object, unless it be that of overtliu ing. in violation of constitutional pr isions, tlie hr ' 05 M'""r,s 01 country . liearol tu. s growing seotim oit for peace, and every day serves to increase and strengthen it among the masses of lhe people. It h is alreidy become I too stnmg forstij pressi ui, and if we do not mis- ' t,,c ' Kn vrem, w ... sovn luvome me ' ,,rolh Y.Jur. : alof Commerce. A letter from London, dated July 11. sav that .l0 government has chartcrcl transports and four steamers to , eleven sailing iH.rts and lour steamers to convey military BCnt hy tlice VCsscL, Rm1 ,!iC ' c whole of the nngtlines and arse.nls will he placed on a war feo;.