Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 September 1861 — Page 1

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DEM V0I.UMJ2 2 NEW SERIES. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY. ATOETJS29, 1861. NUMBER 31 WHOLE No. 83.

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l-CBLISIIKU WELK LT BV Sl P. JIcIJOXALD. T. PLATT MoDONALD, :::::::: Editor. pLYMOUTII, INDIANA: TlH'KAY, Slpixmbli: rTiiT 1SÖ1. SUPPOSE TOU GO TO WAR, YOU CAN ;0T FIGHT ALvTAM, AN WHEN, AFTER MUCH LOSS OS Volll SIDES, AND So GAlXoN EITHER. TöC CEASE FICJHTINo", THE IDENTIC" AT. QUESTIONS, AS TO TERM OF INTERCOURSE. AUE IQAlS UPoS YOU." lÄn coin Inaugural It is cow for them the American people to Jemoairste to the world that those who can fairly rryae virctian CAN ALSO SUPPRF.SS A KLbU-LlüN." Lineeln't Mnsagc, July 4. It is a ttregsl- for maintaining in tho world that form and substance of government whose T.rDING OCJLCT is to elevate the condition of mm. TO LIFT ARTIFICIAL WEIGHTS FROM JX SHOULDERS, to clear the pafn f laudable puruit, a:i I to afford ALL an tinft terti Urt aud a fair chance-in the i ace of lite, vield.ni; to partial and temporary departures from necessity. This the LIMPING OBJECT OF THL (iilYKUNMKNT for whoso cxistiocc we vOIiUbd.' llil. - Till ccuutry with its institutions belongs to the people who inhibit it: whenever Vity thad rrov vtury of the eristiuj prcrnment they cm exercise their constitutional ri:ht -of amending it, OU TILIK REVOLUTIONARY RIGHT TO; I'ISMCMRER OK OVI:RTWR9W II V J Jiticnln'i I it au aural. j i

-All wek of the Democrat i- to KEi.P STILL trci f"r buil.ling even gun-boatsat S8Ü,jul not t'urui.h their rwbtl liiotids ia ti e Smith u(JÜ each, arid then sub letting ihe job 8t with tnore -id aiid comfort than thev ia-ve been din?. wJ WE rill noon settle tke 'hah Jvr tie. oJ,OOU, thus pochetlng 210.000 uf the truitor."M.C. lfubUcu,JuHr,:L J ianj rued meney f the Northern labor-

SU?P01T;NS TH3 DE3TITUrE. Tli7 h-l cro. -odilo far ever an im ig'mary , rac t Tic!!', IiIum' lu conn iou'i; l.e cent, 10 re'.iev e ti;e uecesMttcs of women iud thddn.ii h-.se htibaf.da ani fathers have pone lorth to r.IiJ to the taiintcuiiice of .4 povtturaeut that ha pryt? t'.d m m all our rits " Tl. above, fio'n t(ij fiepulUcan of las'. "Wtk. is but the echo f whst the p;rl)' sre constantly sa,-iwg about the Democrats "f this and oilier flnces. We thouJ like to have Ii. J'epuMitan organ tell us why Democrats ar expected to contribute more to the support of the laniiiis of volunteers, th:ii other j-eoplo. When tho Hetublic.tu otii:ers and fU contractors, who arc daily cheating the government of thou und of dollars, donate a liberal bhare ol heir !ties und tealiiigs to the Mipporl j id volume-is faniilie-. it will bo tim to borate Deniiera:s, who support themselves nnj families by their own t-xerlioiift, fi ni t con U iuuiiri! nne libeia!ly to their nid. Why do i;ot th" Colonels, Majots, Q ar lennasters. C'anl.-ii us. nri 1 hundieds ,, n. , , .r ! oilier ollicers m the dintrcut regiments, , ;i , . f . . . , , ror.tnbute a portion of their l.lli salaries ... . . , .,. , I i lo the support of destitute hur.iites ol vol i w I I unteers under their command; Unuers who jfot from lotty to three hundred dol.i ia r. Y . i lars ?r nr. nth. tdiould at leal hi as i'n t, , . erous ai Uemoctats who buptort- then f 'i i it ( vr.Tn Umilies bv llicir labor. i x.- , " i i . , . j e do not consider tiiatany man du , . , .i i , I i ,, i tv to his counlrv ilematnls tnat he hhould . , , : wave his familv. wlm n: dependent on I t r i t it i r. in ,r I ii in iii.Liti.c .i il.i In 1 . ! .v. ti v. I1V''I' V' f til l-nl rute Coiidi'ioii, aiid without making any irovi-jijn Ijr their support duiing his absenc. Those who thus leave their fami lies t the chaiii.es r.f tho public, arogen- j erfcl'y inti who provide pootlv for thm ! when they ate ni.h them. Me.i who go as ph'a'rs, even, get s?I3 per numth, and all exjnsi-s paid. That is equal to SI: I'r i!av and w.vt ti.eir own evtiftispa. rhiclt .1 , ., t i i i this part of the country, and more than it B in some porlirns. The question, pecur.iailj, i, why cannot a man support his f4mily by serving (h yoveinment at th same wages he receives fiorn individuals, cd which h supports thrm? Thei are many .nses of destitution vauvd by the heads of families volunteering; but wrtro there is on ftich cas, there are hundreds where thn destitution is po greater than before they e:ilisfed. iuanv trhn m ... ,. , , ., . '. . - -- iu in ni icnsi inir-iitiit 01 uir.i imoc - o nd money in saloons and di inking houpes, suddenly become very patriotic- j?in the amySpn, Rj tjjey Hrn an(J le;ive their liftftjiittft f.t dl'irt'A Im a utinnArfal k9 null m 1- . .. . , ' ' , . ' 1 i? u nie iree iu Homib iiitv o have very litt confidence in such patriot 's m II thif nr.vi,la n-.t f..r hi own h djjehold is worse than an indfiel. says the Apostle; from which we conclude that man who neglects his duty to his family fan a great risk of being found wanting. If wtighed in the balance of pure patriotism W are willing to assist, to the eztent of Oar limited mean, tho medy relatives of ohinteers or others. Dut wo obj-et t bing catterwjvulnd ronstanily for not as'.sung the families of volunteers, merely eiu thy are such, when the Yolun!eTiare ?pen(!mg their money for whisky. nd ot eterast instead of sending it ho tut ! .i .1. ....i t: . rsiarvuigiamiiies.wuoiuiiic ouui r ea!Iid upon to support. There at least five hundred able-bodied publicans in this county, competent to ruuitarr dutv. whoe r ecu iiarr circum-

stances are mch that they could leave their families in a state of comparative comfort, and without any probability thai ihey would suffer for tho necessaries of life. Why don't they enlist, instead of persuading poor men, who cannot, without doing almost an unpardonable injustice to their families? This eeem9 to us to be the more sensible course, instead of I emeaning Democrats for not supporting those who have been rendered destitute through Republican influence.

-AFTER THE WAR! " If thev rhe Democrats, were true nnd loyal nu n, the would defer amd'ning the Administra tion before the country -utwa the charges they aie continually uikitg uulil after the war." Republican. That is, if they were true and loyal men to tho Administration, they would say nothing abortt tho Republican party being responsible for the war, by refusing all terms of on promise. They woulu defer speaking of the outrageous taxes the peo pie will have to pay to support the red tape aristocracy. Tid puichae gondolas tor the President. They would defer ppeak r of th impositions on the Soldiers by (".earing vmt T.uions to them that would turn the sto.naeh of a hungry wof, Tiheti uie government paid for gotd fare. They would defer saying anything aovut luo rcreiaiy oi ar gelling a con j er. They would defer saying that neurly or quite iuh half tho volunteers are lleuuxjrnts, and nir.etoen-t veulieths of the commissioned ofHceis Republican. Tliev would defer saying that although the Administration has been in power but six months, and its adherents all the time rryiiig no par'y," there can hardly be found n Democratic Post-Master in the Northern .Slates. They would defer citing the people to the unexampled profligacy of the Administration, and to the thieving, and geneial corruption which has already crept into every department ol the govern merit. This, aud much more, they would j defer speaking ol until after the war." THE HUMAN FACE DIVJNE. " Tt cannot be that a man who packs round such a dull, tuid, tooltsh countenance, MaeDonald do. m cj pubic ot getting up even the il.m-y ;toducüuin tint appear under ihe diluri.il Iicao of that thectiDui weck U week." Republican. We have he re to fort yiveti Mattingly , I credit for Bom saioicity, at least when he . m had the selecting ol Uio suhi-ct upon t which to base a contioversv; but wo bei " . leave to take back any ;omiwimetilH we ... uiiM imu niiii j i ii..k tun;, j in Mutt'uiglij, who is acknowledged by fii tul :aud foe, Republican and Democrat, to be the ulii.'st and mo-t repuUive man i to 1 in ihe couiuv, to thus throw out a challeULfe foi a personal controversy, without an 1 3 1 provocation, ia certainly an exhibition of 1 madness" v uhout method." Wo have neieioiore. muoiouiv hhiiucu reieninir n 9 Iiis personal repuUiveness, ktiowing that Iu was not wholly responsible- for it; and it may be that our silercrf on 'he point lias caused him to believe that he is decent ! looking; if fo, wo hasten to correct him of his mistake. W make no pretensions j to beauty or spiihilWiess; but to lucve . Afatt:naf twit its of ii in c.ertninlv too bid. " ..... ' ' . Oiim uader! did you ever ses Matting. lv? H not, our descriptive faculties will certainly fail of portraying him as hideous as h4 really is. Wo were at something of a loss to know what objection he would Gud to our physical organization. According to his expressed opinion, our paternal is too fat, aud our older biother loo lean; we therefore concluded that wo enjoyed an enviable state of "belweenity' that would pro ted us from his assaults. Dot it seems we were mistaken. We havo no fault 10 jfjfid with his personal appearance; in fact he is a necessity in our community: for, tn older to appreciate the beautiful of the human rac, it is necessary to have specimens of the eoarnor order of beings, and As supplies that necessity. He U a phyiica rnonstrsitv, more to be ptiied ihan tleepised. The only harmony iu his composition is the perfect adaptation of his mental faculties to his physical organiia lion. Many Republicans, including all their editor, proless a great admiration f-r D jogUrt, since his death, and conaidei themselves th only true fiponenta of I. is doctriries. We should like 10 have them try their hand In explaining what he meant when he said: " War is Disunion eternal separation. " An exchange tiuly says that whi'e die Democrats rally nr-'und no flag but that of the Union, ihey will never c36eto 1 r, .hi f.sr Iipdi nm of religion. I.eeuom ol .. - - mn,'.. freedom of the iiresa. Iieedom ol, the petson under tho piotection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially elected.

POETICAL.

rCPPlNO CORN. One autumn n'ght when the wind was high, And the rain fell iu heavy p ashes, A little boy s it by the kitchan fire, A popping corn in the ashes: And his sister, a curlj haired child of three, Sat looking on, just close to Ins knee. The blast went howling round the house, As if to get in it was trying: It rattled the latch of the outer door, 'l hen it seemed a baby crying: Now and then a drop down the chimney came; Aud sputtered and splashed iu the bright red flame. Pop! pop! and the kernet, one by one, Cime out of the era Oers flying: The boy Leid a long pine-stick iu Lis hand, And kept it busily pviuc' ; He stirred the com and it po.-ped the more, And taster it jumped ou th clean-swept floor. Part of the kernels hopped out one way, And a part hopped out the other; Some flew plump Into the sister's lap, Some under the tool of the brother: The little girl gat .ered them into a heap. And called them a flock cf milk-white sheep. All at once the boy sr.t still as a mouse, And into the fire kept -razing; He quite forgot he was jxipping com, For he looked where the wood waa blazing: He looked, and he fancied he could see A house and a barn, a bitd und a tree. Still btendily gazed the b y at these, And pussy's back kept utroking. Till his khjter cried out: "Why CJeorge, Only we how the corn is gtnoking!" And f ur enough, wheu the boy looked back. The corn in the ashes was buttit quite black. "Never miaJ," said he; "we shall have enough; So now let's set back and eat it; I'll entry the stool, and )ou the corn It's good uobody can bea. it." Slip took up the corn in her pinafore; And they ate it all, nor wished for more. s p jz tz a ii o r HON. JOHN C DAVIS, DELIVCRCD AT THC Demccratic Convention In Jobneon Co SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. lSßl. Fellow Citizens : For tli first time in my life I appear bcfue my friend.- in J .hnsou c unty. I a m here upon the invitation of the Chairman of vour Democratic Central Committee. I regret that I hui laboring under disease, and that therefore, I cm not addle. you at snc!i length, and with Buch Jioroughness as ihe importance of the questions of pmlilic fKlicy which hive called you together, demands. I am here, felloe citizens, to illustrate the freedom of speech under the Cmtituf ion. Free tpecch ha been threatened all over I.idiana Personal vioh-m-e h-is een t' re ite, ed a:anst thoe who wotild attempt, in this crifis of our country ,to exc rcUc the liberty ,he guarante d riht. of speaking th?ir honot entimeutH upon public affairs which conce n the whole pop.le. I iluil exrrei tncll, on th:i eeaii'ii, without any regard whatever to any threat of personal violence from wh lUocrer source. If the time lias eome when a free Aincrie.ui citizen, before his countrymen, speaking about mat ten of leielative dif cußion, cannot express iiiniTlf, freely, fearlessly and fully, then is a mi lit n y di-iti-iin estnl -lihed,and every man who hears me is now a slave. Who was it that threatened peixui.il violence to those who prooed to di.cus public m ittera concerning the welfare of the whole people ? It was the very man who, twelve jeam , denounced ihe Mexican war as unrighteous and unholv. Old j Abe Uncle Abe not a vcrynnirt mm, but the hone-teat to id in the whole p'id lie at VVashii.gton Old Abe himself h id denounced the .Mexican war. Old Abe wa- u t nt lint time tlueatened by Democrat, who were fighting the battles of the country, villi any pereon il vi deuee bectuse of the .reo utti raic-e ol his ojiinion . 0!d Abe, Uncle Abe, or in more respectful term,. Pres"d tit Liu coin, was at tint day given by all Democrats full Iec and license to proclaim wlutoeverhe conceived iu his brain, no nutter to what extent he proposed to aid by his wordi the enem cj then in arms agaiu -tthe Uuiled States and arrayed in deadly contiicl agaiiiit our brave soldiers whj had rallied for the flag. If these men who threaten personal riolcnce Ik-lie vc they are right why do they not come up and discuss ti:e question, which so concern us be fore the people T Twelve years ago old Tom Corwin discus, cd questions before the people and no Democrat interrupted him. He hoped that our volunteers, the son of our wives aud mothers here in Indiana among the ,-cst, might be " welcomed with bloody hands to hospitable graves." What Democrat, in all the length aud bredlh of this broad laud, then threatened Corwin with personal violence for his unpatriotic speech 7 a speech unpatriotic because we wre initial war with a foreign power. This man 'this Torn Corwin this unpatriotic aud disloyal tilzen, in If4G-7, w.-.s now appointed under Abrahun Lincoln Minister Plenipotentiary aud Embassador Extraordinary to tho vciy country that was thcu at war again; ua. A few weeks ago talking further about these tht eats of personal violence they .ot alarmed at Indian po hs, and tho Coventor of tho Süe reut down a car load of rns to Parke county, in order, as he said, to suppress a rebellion, and then, upon aptssmer tram he caniu hinncll' This Governor of ou -s looks lk an owl, hut is not half as wise as a respectable 'bird of thai peniuj. Ho came on fool's errand, accompanied by the editor of the Journal, III- Cscellency'a monkey wiiii fpccucics, to rupprcs wlut kind of a icbtUiun, fellow citizens, do you think? I h id liken the ground, bcfjre my fellow country mc.i, that this war in which we are now engaged wa fanatical aud ought at once to be settled bv concciio.i on both rides and by compromise. I hl stressed these sentiments, tho like of which I express before the Do moo cy who heir ineto diy, an I it wis this rebellion th it lha (Javcrnor cimS down , . , , ui . M ... , nonker. to suppress. It w the rebellion ot . free speech, my fcllo -citizen, th.it his lulf-Et cellei cv for I uevcr knew him to htve a whole p. t1! If net In hi lif" 'im t-) otsrthr.

What did His Excellency say iu the speech which he made in my county on that occasion ? I quote from his monkey's machine the organ : ' He administered a strong rebuke to those who symp thized with rebellion, and wai n cd gentlemeu that vigilant men watched tuetn " Who is there here or anywhere else in Indiana who sympathizes with traitors 7 Ati7 one here or elsewhere T Cries of" no, no no. No, fellow citizens, not one roan in all Indiana, I undertake to siv. h a traitor or sympathizes with traitors. Hut His Excellency says that vigilant men" are watching you. Men are paid upon the Government's secret p dice force to watch their neighbors and to report every word of their private conversations. Mc who agree with us, men who were for compromise aud peace, are watched by vigilant men, and they had belter have a care! Fellow citizens, under your Kxcu live, is not this the most abject slavery that is if we submit to it ? If 1 am tobe a slave I should rather be a black one than a white one. But I say, let His Excellency, the Governor, go on. I defy him and every other man who desires to take from me my liberty of free speech under the Constitution. J and you and all of u?, notvvithstinding his accideney, will continue to-eel. think an 1 talk like Democrats, Yes, and n e will continue to act like Democrats. They fay I am a secessionist. Do 1 look like one? I appeal to my friend Hendricks I appeal to you nil do I look like a secessionist ? Do I talk like one T Dd I act like one ? auphter, and cr'es of no, n ! "J When these Republicans talk about secessionists, aiming at Democrats, they talk that w hich they know to be false. There is not, I repeat, a secessionist in the whole State in the Democratic party that I know of. We are better Unionists than Mortou or his min monkey. That man Morton has done more th.iu ny other man to cngu1ih the country in civil war, the ueccessary consequence of which isdisuuion. I would, this moment, my friends lay dow n my lii'e willinly and cheerfully if the sacrifice would restore peace once moictothis distr icted country. No man di!l surpass me iu devotion to the Constitution and the Union. Hut I hold that the Union never can be maintained by for re. War is disunion. Peace, aud only pe.icc.M union. For the utterance of these sentiments I have been denounced through the rni.-enible, hirci'n:; p any -npers as a disunintmt. What did Greeley (I wish the devil hud him) what did Greeley, the leader of the Republican part; , and the man w ith more power iu it lhau any t ther man what did hv 8 iv ? " Any attempt to coerce the cotton States was contrary to ihe Declaration of Independence and in opposition to the funiameutil principles of ou Govt-ri lent" If the abolition portion of the Republican party wAtitto hai.g anybody, let them hang Greeley. It Ih.d made such a declaration, every RepublicanAbolitionist in the land wouid have advocated my hanging betöre sundown. My fellow citizens, if any man in this ounr onld claim tobe the dcoted friend of Douglas, I was that devoted friend. For him the prentesl of our statesmen, I would hive sacrificed my 11. Bat what did these Republicans say ol hi id last year? Did not hcir presses and their orators everywhere denounce him as a drunk ml, a scoundrel, a demagogue? Now thev treat him as a stint, a- d shed crocodile tears oicr his memory. Why. if he v as the man they My he was, now why did thev not vote for him then ? voce " Tint' it." If he hid been cUcted Pres'di nt of the United States they would I: ive been United Stites. The sun to day would have risen upon a free, prospermia ac 1 happy people. Hut these m-u thee abolition Repubiic tns- never see anything nntil it is too late, or i'iitil everybody eUc has seen it. Liuphter.l What did Douglas sav, he whom these men now fo eulogize, in the last speech he ever .nade in the United Slates Senate 7 "War," he declared. was disunion. War was final and eternal separation." And he insisted that every man mut ad voca'e sui h measures of amendment to the ( 'onsti tution as would restore the country once moi c to peace. At:d my friends, I agree perfectly with Judge Douglas, our great and glorious, our lamented statesmen ; and 1 would to God his wise counsels might yel be followed by the whole country. Tlw Southern people are much to blame for the condition of n flairs which are u en us, bu. the Abolition party of the North are quite as much to blame. Douglas said that every mm who was for war as a means of preserving the Union was per se a disunjouiftt. If, then, theie are di, union sts iu this country too need not go to the Dem icratic party to find them. Go to the Aboli'.ionists. Go to the puty which sustains the secession journal of Indianapolis. If such a paper was published in my town I would runaway on the very lirat rainy night. I mean no disrespect whatever to my Democratic frieu ls present resident in Indianapolis. tPhat does tin scoundrel editor of this sheet say 7 Better let the Con-titutiou bo broken than that we should luve Civil war und blood shed. What would a Union be worth held together by links and bayonets 7" This is wh it this misennnt of the Journal says, and yet he denounces m and sav a I ought to be hung ! Cries," Hang him !"J Fellow .citizen, this but illustrates the reck les. incousisiencyof these men w 1m are bitting, "War" War' War to the knife !" There is not a Republican to my knowledge wh3 disapproves of what Seward. Greeley, und the Jnutnil lid prcr'nm

to the fail of Sum'cr. tint as soon aa Old Abe. Lincoln chmued fiont, every knock need, crov road politician of them shouted for bloj I. for the kt.ile to the hilt iu a brother's heart. An I now, if you are lor Abe. Lincoln, the Jluc igo Platform and tho Administration, right or wron, you are a Union man ; but if you are a Dom icr it, goo 1. seeking to niamtaiii the Union, you arc it diuujonistaud traitor, Hiildeseno tobe hung higlrcr thin the old Hitnsii they tide about. Wh it do they sav? Yon man not inquire Into the war while It is in pr gress. Oh, no! The house U on fire, they say, nnd let us put out the firiyuidh'Uit up the incen li tries afterwards. Well, the llepublioan pirty. the incsmhanes, have al ready been arrets l.an U'iey are o:i trial now, my follow citizen, before you an 1 before, the whole country. Tae'y are to bj h Id responsible, and m oilier to a vigorous prosecution und conviction ol them, it i neec-isiry that I an I you and all of us accessary that the people everywhere should Mseert tin th-ir Ruilt before hanging tSem . I teill inquire Into the cone of this war. They say the fouth is to b'me for the whale of it. They Siywc of tho North are as pure as th5 drivcu snow. How, people North and South are aboui aViVe. There arr hwit mn snd ryre In

bjth sections of the country. I, my fi iend , first saw the light of day ia a Southern State, but I am for the whole country, and not for any ectiou thereof. 1 he South is to blame for breaking up the Democratic Convention in Charleston in 1860. The South was wrong in seceding before any overt act of opposition on the part of Lincoln. I do not, understand me, justify 8Cces-ion at all. I belivve that a State has no constitutional tight to secede without the consent of the Union or confederated with it under the Constitution. But what do we see in the North? A m in is pne in nomination and elected to the Presidency who had asserted over and over again that this country must be all free or all slave aa irrepressible conflict man. The convention which nominated him adopted a platform which said there should be no more slave States admitted into this Union. The South had most certainly a right to complain of this. Nine Northern States had nullified the Fugitive Slave Law. The South had a right to complain of this, and complain most bitterly, too. Seward, in Ohio, had said that "slavery

must be abolished, and you and I are to do it." This man got the very fiist office under Lincoln. The South had a right to complain of this. Blake, of Ohio, a big Abolitionist, but a small man physically the biggest Abolitionist in such a little carcass I ever saw so big and so black that he would be visible in ihe darkest night introduced a resolution in Congress to the effect that "freedom ouht to be declared for every human bcin,' and that slavery ought to be restricted wherever Con press has the constitutional power. Seventy odd Republicans voted for it; every Democrat and conservative man voted agaitstit the intense abolitionism of the resolution Oeing patent. Of this the South had a right to complain. Lincoln is controlled by the Abolstionists. Seward has the first place in the Cabinet; Chase the next. Gi Idings ha the vry best appointment so far as money i? concerned, in the President's gift. He is Consul General to Can .da, t'.e end of the under-ground r iho.vl. Thi Joshu i Giddings was iot exactly the old Joshua who commanded the sun to stand still, but the modern Joshua who command -d a runaway niger to come to a halt and he taken under his paternal protection. There was Hurling imc, the mm Im wanted aa antiduvcrv Bible, an anti-slaverv Constitution, and an ant i -slavery (J id he had a foreign appointment from Lincoln. Banks, who said "Let the Union slide!'' was now x Major General in the armies of the North depo 1 to whip t se Sji.Ui to keep tl e Union from Kliding ! Of all these things, adding studied insult to injury, had not the South good reason to conipl.in? Further, every compromise for the object of mi able settlement had been refused by th Republicans. Yet they send their emissai ies into evi ry community for the purpose of deceiving the people. Every proposition for pca.-e had been rejected by tho Republicans. The people of almost every county in the State, without regard to partv, had endorsed the Crittenden amendment. Not one county in the State, perhaps, if it were presented, at least so far as the Dem ioratie partv i concerned, would vote agair.a. it. If it i riiiht now. it was riht l ist wilder. Yet then the Republicans rrjecict.' it Th.t proposit.on left the question of slavery the only agitating one and ihe cause of all our troubles to be settled by the people at the ballot-box. It was a proposition which proposed a plan of ottileiuent editable and right. At any rate, it was a pi in of adjustment which ave to the North four-filths of the Territories, and to the South hi: t one-fifth. Ought not that proportion to have bern considered fair by the Republicans? Ah ! but it proposed, by constitutional amendment, M t.ke th- slavery question out of Con-ress. Thisuid not suit, mi l therefore every Abolitionist, every RepinViem voted against iL Why dul they do this if they wanud to avert civil war? The equitable proposition which they rejected could not have become a aw until passed by threefourths of the States. These Republican were alraid to trust the people with this question. They had said thereby to the world that they did not want peace and settlement, but war aud fchedThis is not the only instance of their rejecting every proposition ftr peaceable settlement. Kel logi:, a Republican himself, made an eflort by resolution in Congress iu this regard, and it got only one Republican vote th-t of its author, and he got so scared lhat he came near voting against his own oflVpring. Ethi id-e's proposition was rejected. Every Republican voting against it. Thus I have shown you. my fellow citizens, that every proposition for peace and equitable arrangement has been rejected bv the leaders of the Republican party. Then it follows that the blood to be spilled ii. this war w ill stain not the skills of the Democratic party. Upon the Black Repub! can Abolition party r-sts all the respensibi'.ity for they might have mule peace if they had desired peace. 1 say upon them rests the responsibility not acquitting those in the South w ho are also in the w rong; an 1 wh n they del y it cram the record dow n their throats Make them swi! low it. Their argument a'aimt you will be, Yo are a liar,' -Shut your mouth or we will hang you.' Wi II, mv fiitmls. ( won't swear, but I say let them hang aud be damued. While upon this subject 1 will accumulate evidence go'li to show ihe complicity of the Republican pary against the peace mid prosperity of the country against she Union and the Constitution. vVhu did the Governor of this St;ite do with rel et ente to the Peace Congress? The proposi tion for it cune from old Virginia. Twenty-two S.ates were represent in it. II the Governor of your State is good Union man, why did he not send a mixed delegation to that Congress? h did he not send, tor instance, one American, one Democrat, and three Republicans? All of us would have beea w Hing for this. But ht did not di) it. He appointed Republican dyed in the wool. He swore them in advenee to defeat all peace propositions all efforts for compromise to a bloody ttiidfratricid.it wor. litis was the class of men he nominated to a Vtaet Coimres. When 1 look at this nutter, although, as 1 think I have a lid enough to convince you, I am a peace mau. I feci like kicking thi i Governor every lim I see hi in. I saw "n 'rt't ght in Indianapolis, and a m rc sneaking looking rascal there Is not in the State. Iftheso Republicans I repeat what, perhaps I have said before wanted peace instead of war, union hndead of disunion, why did every one of them in Congress vote agaiust ill propositions of

When they talk of liberty, and of 5ghting for liberty, I tell you that your liberties are in more danger from the usurpations nod unconstitutional acts of lliia -Ad mi cist ration that from any other source. If the utterance of these sentiment is treaso, a traitor stands before you to day. These Black Republicans know there are no traitors nly in their own camp, and I guess they are afraid to set about hanging people for fear they will have to haug some of theii best friends. If the Republicans had given us the Crittenden proposition, the whole country would have been at peace to-day. Mothers and sisters and wives would not be mourning the slain upou the battlefield. Davis and Toombs were readi to accept the Ciitteni'cu compromise. If it had been accepted by the Republicans of the No- th there would no be to day three men traitors outside of South Carolina. This proposition was not accepted. No other proposition looking to peace was accepted or even thought of. Therefore these men of the South think that the right of i evolution exists. Iu the exercise of that right they have risen up. Mind you, I do not justify the exercise of the right in this instance. But still the right exists. I quote froi.-v Abraham Lincoln in justification of this righ. In a speech in Congress daring the Mexican war he said : " Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the exist ng Government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable aud a most sacred right. A r.ght w hich we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this 'ight confined to the cases in which the whole people of the Government may choose to excrci-e it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make th- ir own out of so much of the territory as tney inhabit. More than thip. A majority of any portion of euch people may revolutionize, putting dowu a minority, intermingled w ith or near about them, who may oppose their movements. Such minority was precis, ly the ca6e of the torics of our revolution1 Thus you see. n;y fellow-citizans, that Abe. Lincoln himself justified the right of revolution. Yet I am a traitor, proclaiming like sentiment, and he is a saint. Mexico revolutionized fram Spiin. Texas revolutionized from .Mexico. We the thirteen colonies, revolutionized from Great Britain. All this was don in each country by a majority of the people of each country, but Mi. Lincoln goes further than I, and says that a minority can do all these things. Wonder if he ws scrupulously after the rights of the immortal nigger when he made his speech which now stands on record against him ?

My fellow citiz-ns. I am addressing you in a desultory way, occasioned in part by the f.-equeni interruptions of our Republican friends on the outskirts of our crowd, but let me say to you th't I am as devoted to the flag of my coin. try as any man living. Widi what face can Republicans claim to be par excellence friends of that Uig ? Wh it was their flag? and what was their mottn in 156? Sixteen stars only were then tt.wn their oanner. and " No Union w ith slave-holders" was inscribed upon it. Wc wwrc then " Union-savers" the;, as now, were the secessionists. If I wanted a secession flag, I would go and buy it of a Repub ican, who earned it in 5i. Fellow citizens the subjugation of the South is in my opinion, a phy.-icii impo sihiiitv. How long have you already been at it, and what have vcu sic:otnpiihed 1 Suppose you d'l it, you do it through .in ocean of blo..d. It you slaughter one half of thrm, will the rest like you any better? The c'ild would b taujht upon its mother's knee to Into the murderer o! its kindred, and the vcrj same spirit would actuate our own people here in the North. How long w ould the Government last, as a free Government, where one-half held bv tinother half in subjugation by bavoncts ? We ha I better look facts iu the face. I am against coercion. Jtckson raid the Cmistitu ion can not be maintained and the Union preserved by the coercive powers confided to the General Govern tpent. We have not space to f llow Mr. Davis further in his masterly speech. He said, in conclusion that, for a solution, of our difficulties he would call a convention at Ijouisville or Lexington, proclaim mg immediately a a armistice. He would exhausi every means for peace. Rather thin the war should go on, bankrupt mg the nation and destroying huudreds of thousands of lives, he would, it there was nv peaceable way to Union, be willing that a peaceable separation might be agreed to. He declared it as his deliberate convictien, that our difficulties could never be settled by war. Where is it all to End? That's the question the people are asking. They are willing to pay taxes on their laud, their buildings, their capital, their cash, thrir Income on ever) thing they eat, drink aud wear; and they are willing to ?cnd their sons into the army to be maimed for lifo or slain out right in battle, in order to sava the Union; but the question with them is beginning to be Will the Union be saved thereby? The people want to know whether th is war is to become a struggle between the North and South or supremacy aud tet tho relative military strength of the two sections. If it is, tire? bulk of the people who piy the taxes and furnish soldiem, want nothing to do with it. They htve no stomich for a sectional war to determine whether ihe North or the South s'iall wear the champiou's belt. 1 lie people want to know of the Administration men, if, when they talk of "No compromise with nbels," tin y mean that the Administration will entertain no propo-ition for a comptomise from, or propose none to the Southern people. If o, we shall all unders'and that the war is to be cartied on as a mere trial of strength for conquest, with the sword alone, di'dainirg to accept or tender the olive branch. The people are in favor ol no such vindictive war. They don't want il.ey disdd.. auy com prom us with rebels or traitors; but they do demnnl of the Administration at Washington, nnd f the party that controls that ad ministration, ih it the voice of Southern aien who love the Union, shall le heard. The people desire to see the war prosecuted for the purpose of putting do n the rebellion; but they demand that the Un on fee ling hi ihe South should not be crushed out along with the rebellion. This sentiment affords them the only ground of hope for restoration of tho Union. They ace tht unless this Union sentiment can hs cherished nnd made efficient in the South, the Union cannot ! raved Irom certain dissolution. Hence, the pop ular demand is becoming 1 ud and urgent that the s.vord shall be wreathed with the olive hrvjeh. OV MaffSe

Lge and Oaions. Among all the drollery """hich baa been peeping out at iutcrrals amid the gloom and de preasion cf the war time, we have met nothing better tlmn this punning rigmarole, elated fron Camp Rolla, Mo., and ostensibly a Lxrrtx home raoM onc or tue heavt mlb ix' raxTay. Heavy, yes, sir ! Bound to shoot rebels. This is the rvport. Chicago boy, the undersigned. I'm always hoasting of Ch cago. I'm full of ght. Although fighting is not my forte, I do n t think I would stand being knocked down. I joined this August body in April, and we May March daily, for we are getting stronger weekly. I may say ia good season, if we Spring up to the enemy they are sure to Fall, for our Summersaults will be a dose that will pa ovo " the Winter of his discontent." He will have to evacuate. We won't strike light, for the South is no match for us When the coun ry called all hauds to arm, I thought it a proud legacy to leave posterity that I joined a division for the Union. I set my name do n. and there it standi. Nice uuiforru. Had my hair rui with a knife and fork. Red hair, yellow jacket, blue shirt, white hat, plantation shoes, pink trowsere, belt buttons ou behind, where I never saw ihcru before. Left the city under encouraging circumstances. Toothache, nail in my shoe, forgot my rations, something in my eye. Chap in the rear file rasping my shins. Got out of step aal hurt my iustcp. While marching, washwoman handed me a bill. Had no money, and she had n sense. Wanted to know where our qntrtcrt were. Asked her who gave the order to charge ? Had boys ou the sidewalk cning out, Pay the poor woman." Loaded the little, son -of a -gun with, abuse, and he went off. Arrived in Camp Rolla all right, nobody being left Intention to sleep in tents, but Wvie in-tcnt-ly disappointed, as we slept on the grass, which, after all, served as sell to all in-teuta an 1 purposes. Placed in.nutc-ra ;u on watch, who moved all hands every seconJ, n-itil wc really thought it time to strike. Took, my iura in going around. Shot a cow and calf. Tis meet to be here." Fighting, you see, for the public weal, placing our lives at stake. To'A th hindquarters into head quarters. Pork in various shapes for rations heretofore. Not Jew dishes.. Sergeant Hinmann would like to have s.) nie mutton. Told me to stir up, get a horc r.d find a saddle. Sergeant Ilininanu's drilling is a complete bore, and he thins s he augurs weil on the whole. Marches us around in a body, until he altu -t wears out our souls. Makes our squad run so we will be fully aide to sail in when we have the. enemy at bay. Of course we have our flue times. Had some li"ht reading sent rne tv a sexton :

-Annual RejKirtof Rose-Hill," " GhostSton.-.," and his bus noss circular, with pri.-e list of coffin , etc. I should like to or rtake that undertaker. Sergeant Hinmann speaks disparagingly of our literary tastes. Savs ths only thing red in th camp is my nose. Mv nisal orgm. I mention it because it's a military m rc to right about face.viusic by the band. I must come to a full step now for a period. Flip fl ip. Artemus Ward on Nevr England Rum. I du like vour skool houses, your jneet'.n houses, vour enterprise, gurupshun, ic, but yoi.r fa ventRe vrige I disgust. I allude two New Eng1.ui rum. It is wus ror the kom hiky ef Injiann.. , which eats threw stun jugs, JL will tum the sun:muck of the most shift! s Ho''. I seldom seek consolashun in the flow in IMe, but to'Ji-.r day I woi riil down some of vour Rum. The fust glas in lusod me to sware like an infooriatcd trooper. On takin the sekund gl iss I -ar see.d with a disire to brake winders, and arter im'rbln the third glass I knockt a small boy down, pickt his pocket of a New York Lrjyer, und w iidiy commenced readin Silvaiu.us Kobb's last Tail. Its drcflul sti.lT a Hrt of lickwid litcnin, got up under the personal supervision of ite deviltears men's iunard all to peaces, and m-ikes their noses blossuin as the Lobster. Shun it as you would a wild hveny with a fire brand tied to hip tale, nnd while sou air abowt it you will do a fust rite thing for yourself and everybody a!owt you, by shunnin all kinds of intoiicnt in liikers. Yoa don't need 'em rnore'n a cat nreds "2 talcs, sayin nothin aliowt the i rubble and surTVriu they casc. But unless your innards air cist iron, avoid New Hnglau's faiorite Bevrige. Scene, a Barber's Shop Youi.g Swell (Kj r I say, Thompson, do yoa think ! thil ever Isav whiskers?" Thompson (after carclul examination : "Well, ir, I really doi't tlsink you ever will leastways not to speak off" Young Swcl! : "That's rather hard, for my Tap I wean Governor has plenty 1" Thompson ( facet ius!yji: "Yes, sir, but j aps you take after your Ma!" Total collapseof Y.S. Mrs. Robinson, (the widow of tho eminent pro feeaor of natural philosophy,) invited a gentlemxa to dinner, who accepted, wiih the observatioL, "If I am spared." Weel, wrel, if ye'ro dead, I'll no expect ye; wc shnll not want your giuist,?' repked the wtdQ'iilp, when aAed why In didn't c nl'st in th army, being such an able-bodied fellow replied : "That's just the reason tcing in sound health. I dou't require to b recruited!" The Boston Post says: , - "If our gallant soldiers are much Ion jer compelled to lie on the damp ground, uader lezky ten s, the result will be ho U-ansforuvitioa of infantrr into hoarc-men." Col. Lutrell, having been challenged by his owq father, declined the combat not on any grouol ol filial connection, but because, a lie said, his father "was no gCLtleman A Mormon adverticmrnt trads: "To let room, for two gentlemen and four wires, or roo.n iov onc gftitlemxn. aud sti wiv ea. A young lady lately appeared in wale attire in Baltimore; and one of the editor ys that bcr disguise was so perfect that she ni'ght havo passed for a mwa "had sh had a little mort luodcst; .' It 1 staled that the "cetius embraces seve nteen millions of women." Who wouldn't hate 9 bt the census? ka Pi entice. Fortunes escape: Iti tuiu wün was bt b slmrrfTf,-ACd h: t"ii!n the n'jM tore.