Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 3, Number 9, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 March 1862 — Page 1

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TWO HERB LET THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA W E D BY INFLUENCE AND UNBOUGHT BY GAIN.' VOLUME 3 NEW SERIES. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THUBSDAY, MARCH 27, 18G2. NUMBER 9 WHOLE No. 113.

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idin iraoruiTir pltforii. Whereas, The Democratic iirty h.iving, from the date of its organization, been in favor of the Maintenance of the Union und the preservation of the Constitution, and seeing iu the present condition of the country the deplorable effects of a rt-virt!ire from its time honored and conservative principles, and the triumph of sectionalism ; and firmly bvlieving that the Union and the Constitu lion can be preserved alone bj the restoration of that prtj to power, we invite all the Union men throughout the land to unite with us in sustaining; lis organization and carrying out its principles. Therefore. Rttolrtd, 1. Thai we reaffirm ". .-i endorse the political priuciplea that from time to time have keen put forth by the National Convention of the Democratic party. 2 That we are unalterably Attached to the Constitution, by hich the Union of these States wii formed and established : and that a faithful observance of it principles can alone continue the titrie of the Union, and the permanent happi-

art of the people "I 'I"Vi llii rPJtt eivil wi mnnlr 8uuei irom mc ion comivucu. unwise, ani ia- i atical agitation, in the North, of the question of !ti:neic s'averv, the consequent organization of, geographical party, guided bv the seti..n 1 plat-j .. r - - i i i e i fwrrm adopted at Iluffalo, rUtshnrxh, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and the development thereby of actional hate and jealousy, prodacirf (a had Ion been foreeen and predicted by ns) it counI rjmt in the South of secession, disunion, and rr.i?J reviftance to the General Government, and frminatini; in a bloody strife between those who houM have been forever bound together by fra ternal bond, thus bringing upon the whole conntry a calamity hicU xve are now to meet a loyal ; nt zn. trmrg for 'he adoption of that mode of ettlrmeiit best calculated to again restore union a.d barmony. ' 4. That in rejecting all proposition likely to l ru!tina satisfactory adjustment of the ma'ter i. di?ute between the North and the South, and j tipeci-illy those measmea wmrh wmil.l lure er;- I eurrd the WJer slave Sutes to the Union, .and a ' karty co-operation on their part in all constitution- j ! r.J Itial measures to procure a return ot the j BJre Southern States to their allepance, the lie-i ,.V.ican party awtirnM a fearful pHinsibiliry. ! od acted in total disregard of the bept intcrc.-ts of the hole country. ; 5. pat if the party in power lud shown the . Tr.e u'ir" to etile, oy amicaoo- acjmrmrni, our j internal dimension before hostilities had actually coraaieiiceJ, tl,al the Administration has recently ahibited t avoid a war with our ancient enemy, iJrent llriuin, w confidentlv believe that peace vA harmoiiT would now reiirn throtihout all our r i border. j 6. Tli at the maintenance of the Union Pn I tLe princ iple-of the Kederal Constitution should b the controlling fbj-ct ot all who profe-s lovalt to the (Jovernm-nt an I in our judgment this purpose can only be accomplished, by the ascenimf of a Union partv in the Southern States, which hail. by a counur revowtiori, ijitfpi,,ec fh.wc ' U control and d':rccit'.e pre.er.f rtbcllion. That o effort to ere ite or ?'i?t.a!P uch a party en lioi uc essf.il hieh is i nt bad upn a definite ret j no uc

Clement of the question at ssue between tbetwo;tjie purcia((ers. It tab.e3 tWO to make a aection-1; ikd we therefore iieniaii'I fiiat some pucli : 1 . lettlemen: be made by additional eor.stitutionol ' bargain; and I repudiate, once and forever, -uarai.tr . "tlie' ix.itia-d I by act of Ciire-or fvr lhe people whom I represent on this through the medium of a rv.ationKi (convention. i 7. That the republican party has fully demon- j floor, any part or parcel m such a contratJ is inability to conduct the (Jovcrnment L , Slavery, wherever it fcxists under trouK'h ii ; resent iimeulttcs. ' 'Hat w- are utterly opposed to the twin f the constitution, I and my constituent ..rcS;e.N.r co-mize nad respect it ia its legal k iiiimirnl tit tlie tOIistl tilt .( in ntul th:it .

as ti, y value tue oon o cmi bherty ; and the p.-ace of the country, .should frown mdij;nar.tl.nU.them. ; 'J. T1 .at in this nations! tmw-ury moc- ; t-. ut Iii lisTia. !.:uMt!n'r reluiiT of nation - ... a:, d r.M-ntment. will recollect only the'r duty to ; the who!- country; tha this war ,h uld n..t : be j r".l in the s;irit of eotniuest or subiuition. Vforthepur;.. a.d r-entrnent. will r-.-t-ollect only their duty to ; 1. ' That we will sustain, with nil our enerir, f.'T the msintennnr of the t on tu! ion. anl f the ir.teprity of the Union nnJtrth, Cnn.htution: Vt we.- opposed to a wr for the em mei ation of the neproe.. or the .ubjuKation of the Southern oti'.'i. 11. That the purpose avowed and advocated J the Northern diuniomt, V, liberate and arm r7 th nerr slavei.is a dirace to the aire.calcula tJ to retard the uppresion of the rebellion and neett iur unuaiiq" 1 condemnation. 12 That the total dirzerd of the writ of Ad14 et r put by the auOioritica over us, and the tsirure and imprisonment of the citizens of loyal 5ti where the judiciar; is in full operation, without warrantor law and without aininR any :ise or irivin to the party arrested any opportunity of defense, nre flagrant iio!ation of the Con titution and most 'rrnin, aett, of usurpation of p.,r, which should receive the stem rebulto of ry lover of his country and of every man who l me the icurity and bl-üina ot life, liberty and property. 13. That the liberty of speech and of the pre! r KUr-nte-l to th- jeopl- by th- "oiilit .ition, tiA none but a usurper would deprive them of these riehts ; they are inestimable to the citiz -n and j formidable to tjrant o.ilv- And the attempt wh!e! have been made ince our present unfortunate trouble, to muizle ihr press and stifle free 1ieuion. are eaereises of despotic power ajptinst which freedom revolts and which can not be toleratd without converting freemen into alavej. i j Ti .1. 1 a f iiin an1 1 1 . 1 w 1 1 ft bsrl a neutral vessel, on the hiK'h seas, was ither in sreor-linc with international law. and lrt,tl; or eUe in violation of ueb law, and s b'.fl If the former, we Umei t tliat our nation : ...a al li hen hurniliateij by their surrender, nndrr a trit ; jf tlie bitter, it was tlie lutv of the .VIrs:nifration at on e to have disavowed the aet f t'nrir o(Ti"r, and instead of incarcerating tho Captin, in Kort Warrer , to have inime.li.ttly iepv.rej tVe ronT by placing them, Ai far as praetimM", in the same condition in which that oflier f.i d tlieni. In either vent, the action of the Almini-trition was vacillating and cowarllv and!'i;r i-ling to t',.e dignity of a great nation li. Tliat the action of the Kepwblican party, aa manif-.-l in the partisan eh:iraeter of all appointments of the Administration to ciril offn e ; and, in Mdirg party caoetisssm by th Republican memb-ri of f'onere-s for the purpose of impressing noon the .-.m -dative .action I tint ldy the peculiar d rma of that party, have demonstrated thit their proff-Motis of "sacrifieing p:itty platform, and party organiutions, upon the altar of their 'ir.'-rv," are b it o manv hypo ritieal and false prefenv by hieb they bop; to dwpe the unwary into tro-ir support ;andwc warn all loyal persona, as thty love their country, not to be deceived tfcereby. If,, Tliat the di-rlo ures made by the investistlu committee in ('ongTS of the enormous fraud that h e stalked into tb army and navy departments, implicating the heads of those de partmrnt in a conrrivanee at, if not an actual rartirinition in a si stem of corruption, and ir. w hie! '.Mir brave soldiers hare been defrauded of their prper supplies, and our CJovernroent threat ened with bankruptcy, demands a thorough investigation into all our" eipenditures, loth State and National, and that a speedy ami marked oaamplc r ma le of all such "birds of prey," who, taking adT.mtago of the neeescity of our country, have fsd ar.d fattened upon public plunder. 17. Ylutthe meritorious coidu-t of the Indiana trop, in every battlefield where ieory ha J-erched upon the rational banner, has filled the people of this State with the highest gratitude to her gallant sons, and that e sent our bet wihes to officers and men. dispersed throughout the country, and the heartfelt greetings of every Democrat for tkVir further brilli nt achievments in the coming contests for the maintenance of the Conatittitica ati-i the l'nijn.

f 1 riittKor nii i.ons , ,nc out to im orr.,e:i u. um cause, au i .htc m.c , TL b -military necessity" for, 5fnd and maintain the snprem-ey of the ioi . i-.i r.i.ii i J ' J K.tntion. and to preserve the Union with Mi the i m7 9tni1 ih na,n'5 of lhe P0P,a 1 f'P" ! exclu.ling bet.evol'tit and charitable perequality yA ri.t- of the .,veral State, ! resent against it. I sons from th. Iiosoital. however much

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31 r. Voor heea to the I o int. The other day, when ihe President's abvi i lion scheme came up, Mr. Voorhee3 thought there ought not to be any delay in meeting the issue proposed by the nigger loving President, lie thought there ought not to be any question about the duty of men acting under their oath to support the constitution, which is positive in leaving slavery where State laws had supreme control. He is right in supposing that Indiana has no desire to impose upon herself, or have imposed pon her a tax to buy the property of the southern States. It is enough for them to bear the tax which this corrupt and insane admin istration has bo foolishly and wantonly

imnAiil unnn Iham In a 1 1 nriArf n XV nr wltlMi nj'vu vw,, uvu -"jf - - . ,;.,, and ought to hare been avoided. . 3 Here u Mr. oorhee9 remarks : Mr. YOORHEES I concur with the ! gentleman frru Ohio as to the propriety of considering this resolution now; and I des!:e to say that, if the people that I have the I onor to represent are to pay taxes, in addition to the burdens they at present ,aW umj for tlö purpose of buying the ... Slave of the south, H IS Desl lor lliem to know it at once. I shall vote against any . postponement of this question. I, for one raemüor of this hoUSC. am fully pre- . pared to act upon it now. If this measure - preg?eil ftnJ l0 bfeCome a part 0f " ... the policy of the government, I think it 8 r , anJ lha, people should know it soon; that, while groaning under , untod burJeQ. whj,ö tnmhlns under the weight of taxation upon their shoulders, if this additional burden is to come upon them they may prepare in sea . . ... i .i -n tliAir rl ami nnnrAsspi! linarta una al HlOSt broken bodies to bear it. w ',11 say one thing further: that if . J there is anj border slave state man ,ere wJO js jn Joubt whether he wants .... , . state 10 sen uh uycs iu nut government or nol j rcpr(;Sout a people thM is in no doubt whether they want to become trt. .. t . .1 .:.! ng.i's; tne a irif, euner uumnuc j fr,.:,, ... -.-...l ;. ;, nn: r forwIö'". r PP1 to. and It M no, favorite of the constitution. If -'(rH .. . . .1... i . , lwn ,e,,B '"" ,

; tj.,n. L-t us he:r no more, for a little sea-1 lavishing their all for the union and the f lh, jarmisfn,of slavery. Heath-1 , . t , ' I ever ready to do so, !,.,, furr i,h,,s nothing norso than this, j

the entL'mftn is diicussin the merits of , - Uie proposition. Mr. VOOIUIKES For these reasons , hm nQl (jme lf) state here, I cot cur wh the gentleman , n, . . , ... : 1" 1 1 Ulli WIIIU III IUI Ul V 4 lUIIUCUIdl. vvusideration of this question. Mr. RINGHAM I hope the house will i concur in it. I Mr. VOORHKKS I do not think it U I a education luuui wititu iiicio euouiu uw

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any delay. Severe lint Just. The Chicago Advocate thus comments on th recent grand party given by our Republican tueeo,' as Frank Leslie styles Mrs. Lincoln. It is severe, but who will r,aiunay its justice? . . . natum has n been in tears. Its sons by the hundred thousands are on the field, and the bodies of many of them are daily borne to the grave. The flag of the reb- , .8 floats in sight of the upper windows 'f lhe White House. Hravewen like J . . ' ucoa inu Corcoran jMnguiaii in iiiv ten of felons. There is everywhere a dense gloom overhanging and enveloping us. At such a time the President's mansion rings with revelry! A grand party treads its halls, here is music revelry, and dancing! Yonder are brave men dying, yoni der moans the captain; yonder sighs the wife for her absent volunteer husband, but there is music and dancing in the White House! fJod pity us! Is this a lims for auch a display? Is this a season for such mockery? Alas for us! Is all sense of fitness gone, all idea of propriety destroyed? Our soldiers endure weary marches, and receive scanty rations, but why should they complain? Was there not a grand party in the mansioo of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy." and does not the telegraph tall us "the Japanose bowls were filled with punch?" Rellshazzar the king, made a great fsast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, o! iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingen of a man's hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the kin it's palace: and the kinjr saw the part of the hand that wrote.

A Crave-Vttrd Scene. We copy the following from the Lafayette Journal, a Republican paper. It is evidence that all the brutes are not in the South: "Any citizen who might have strolled out yesterday ia the neighborhood of the grave-yard would have witnessed not very creditable 6cene. A squad ot prisorera had been sent up in charge of five soldiers, lor the purpose of digging a grave for two rebels who had died on Saturday night. The soldiers obtained liquor from some source, and several of them were evidently intoxicated. Their conduct, as represented by citizens who saw it, was most disgraceful. Profanity, uproarious singing, and the most abusive language to the prisoners, occupied the four or five hours during which the grave was being dug. Several citizens, who bappeued to be present, remonstrated al such unbecoming conduct in a cemetery on the Sabbath, but without other effect than renewed drinking, more obscene songs and louder oaths. Two of the prisoners who were employed in digging the grave, were evidently in feeble health and attempted several times to rest. They were driven to their task a jain with loud oaths and threats, that if they did not work faster, they, (the drunken guard.) would shovel ihe earth in on them in the grave intended for their more fortunate companions. About 4 o'clock another guard arrived with the bodies of the dead prisoners. They were lowered into the grave, the earth shoveled over them and the guard and prisoners departed, the last i amed guard returning to the barracks by the way of the railroad, and refusing to allow the drunken fellows who superintended the grave digging to accompany them, so outrageous and shameful was their conduct, oven up to the moment of buiial. A gentleman vho witnessed the whole affair, and whoie word cannot bi doubted, describes it as the most brutal and shock-

I i"g thing he ever heard of. Xo minister accompanied the bodies to the grave. That practice has boon discontinued. In this instance it was probably well enough. If all this had happened at Richmond,! land loyal soldiers had been the victims of guch barbarhy J))tT indignantly and vio-! J o j wouK, JeounCe, jt a xQ ., legitimate result of the pernicious institu-j 1 I lion. L-t us hear no more, for a little seaeruise. It will bo diflicult. however, to j convince the public that even dead rebels! should not be buried with somewhat more decency than dogs. Inv of euspnpers. The Courts have decided tlie following points: I. 8tibscribr who do not cive express notice to the contrary, are considered as wianing to continue meir uuscripnonn. 2. If subscribers order th discontinu ance of their papers, tlie publisher may continue to send the paper till all that is due is paid. 3. If nubscribjrs refuse or neglect to. take their papers from the office to which they arc directed, they are held responsible till ther have settled their bill and ordered their papers discontinued. 4, If subscribers move to other places without informing the publisher, and the paper is sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. 5. Refusing to take a paper from the oflice, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is prima fa ;ia evidence of intentional fraud. G. A Postmaster neglecting to inform the publisher when a paper is not taken from the oflice makes himself liable for the subscription prico. "No man with the least discernment," says the New York Times, "can fail to see that the Tribune's crusade against Gen. McClellan is prompted mainly by an apprehension that he may become a for midable candidate for the Presidency, to the exclusion of some favorite of its own, and possibly in opposition to its own political party." This is true. The whole warfare of abolitionism upon (sen. McClellan is on the score of hit supposed politics and in the fear which the Times suggests. We are glad to have this testimony of the Timas, and we ask al! patrotio people to consider it. The Cincinnati Press says Secretary Chase stated, a fw days ago, that the disbursement of the Goiernment were now over four millions of dollars por day. Some in authority think it over that. The people will find it out sooner or later. It is said the army of the Potomac costs at the rate of trro hundred millions psr year.

How the Hon. I'linrlctf Mimiier Ulcctk with a Itcbuir. Iu the Senate, on the 2Cth of February, Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts, indulged in a harangue in which he spoke, with his accustomed ascerbity, of the action of the Senate in admitting Mr. Starke, of Oregon, to his seat. Mr. Festenden, unquestionably the leader of the dominant party in that body, not liking the matter or manner of Sumner's speech, responded to it in part as follows: " What does he Sumner mean by saying that he does not wonder that men who have done this deed wish to relieve themselves of the responsibility? Sir. is not my responsibility as great as his? I am one of them. What right has he to assume to lecture me and my friend from Veimont, Mr. Collamer, and the majority of the Senate, for the decision they have made? Is his standing so lofty that he has a right to lecture. Senators for what

they do under the responsibilities of their j oath and their position before tho countiy? Sir, I am as ready to defend my action, if it needs defence, a? ho is to defend his, j and I can do it, I trust, to as much effect, j No one, I believe, in this country doubts that I can act upon consciencious princi-i pies any mors than himself or any less than himself. I do not like this style sir. I am responsible for what I do; and when j I exhibit any fear of the consequence of ray own actions here, or any disposition to shake off the views which I have expressed or the votes which I have givoo, it will be time enough for that eminent Senator to stand up and say that he does not wonder that Senators older than himself, not older bore, pehap3. but older ia years and having had some experience, desire to relieve themselves of tho responsibility. Sir, I feel no responsibility in this matter,! except what I feel in all cases. I acted upon my own individual opinions. Are they not entitled to as much respect as his? What right then has he to say before Ihe country that he does not wonder that Senators seek to relieve themselves of re sponsibility? It will bo timo enough fort him to say that when they ask his aid toj escape from the responsibilities of their! action; but it will bo long, I trust, before I j I ask it." Mr. Senator drowning ef Illinois, also paid his respects to the immaculate Charles. He said: "It will be lime enough for him Sum ner to come to my relief from any ro-J sponsibility which I have incurred by that vote, or which I shall incur by any other vote, when I ask his services. I am as willin" as that Senator to meet the reo aponibility of that vote and every othsr vote that I give, ns willing as he can be, and I reflect now with as much satisfaction upon the vote I gave yesterday as upon any vote 1 have ever given in this chamber, and I hve no fear that the hour will ever come when I shall have one single regret for my cours in this case. I do not think it ii becoming in him to expend so much of his sympathy for the benefit of his brother Senators, who occupy as independent a position upon this floor, I apprehend, as he does; who aio as much at liberty to form their opinions for themselves, and control their actions for ihemaelvss, as he is; and who are responsible to those who tent them here, and not to him. I do not think it verj becoming that he should undertake to lecture us for tho sentinientw we have uttered or tho vote we have given, and deplore our miserable condition before the nation." Abolition Taxation. Slaves are property, and yet slaves are not taxed. Loja! man are taxed upon every imaginable object of domestic use; horses, carriages, pianos, silver spoons, and also every branch of productive industry. They are taxed upon their beef and pork, their Hour, and upon all articles of manufactured food. They are taxed upon every grain of mcdicuo used for their sick, and for every beverage used by tin well. Why should not the slaves be taxed? Why fhould not tho millions of property invested in slaves bj taxed? The 'o. estimates that a tax of five dol lars a head upon siaves, would yield twentv millions of dollars. The only objection that can bo urged to such a tax is, that it recognizes slaves as property! And to do that, somo thin-skinned politicians think it more objectionable than to let blave owners go exempted from taxation. and to collect from the loyal industry of tre north that additional sum. We know that the people of this state, with very few exceptions, no matter what their poli tics, would pay their taxes with fsr greater satisfaction, if they knew that at the same time the tax-gatherer was taking their hard oarnings, like officers were collecting twenty millions from tho tlavo owners. Rut alas! party platforms must let the klave owners pass free and extort their sharo of national burdsns from the frss white labor of ths north.

Tlie Limits or the Xcav Mililnrj(acorruphicul Department. 1. Department of New England The six New Kngland States. Headquarters at Roston, Commander, Major General Benjamin F. Butler. 2. Department of New York The State of New York. Headquarters at Albany. Commander, Major General Edwin D. Morgau. 3. Department of the Potomac The States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, the District of Columbia, and that portion east of the Alleghany Mountains and north of James river, except Fortress Monroe and sixty miles around the same. Headquarters at Washington or in the field. Commander, Major General George B. McClellan. 4. Department of Virginia Fortress Monroe and sixty miles around tho same. Headquarters at Fortress Monroe. Commander, Brigadier General John E. Wool. 5. Department of the Mississippi The States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, the Territories of Dacotah, Nebraska and Colorado, to tho Rocky Mountains, and that part of Tennessee lying west of a north and south line indefinitely drawn through Knoxville, Tennessee. Headquarters at present at St. Louis. Commander, Maj. Gen. II. W. Halleck. C. Tho Mountain Department Th country west of the Department of the Potomac and east of the Department of tho Mississippi. Headquarters at Wheeling. Commander, Maj. Oen. John C. Fremont. 7. Department of Hsw Mexico The Territory of New Mexico. Headquarters at Stnta Fe. Commander, Col. E. R. S. Can by. 0. Department of tho Pacific The country west of the Rocky Mountains. Headquarters at Sao Francisco, California. Commander, 9. Department of Florida Th?t part of tho State of Florida not included in the Depattment of Key West. Headquarters at Fort Picken. Commander, Brigadier General Lewis G. Arnold. 10. Department of North Caroliua The State of North Carolina. Headquarters in tho field. Commander, Brij'adier General A. B. Burnside. 11. Department of Key West Key West, the Tortuas and the mainland on the west coast, as far as Apalacicola, and to Cape Caneveral on the east coast. Commander, Brigadier Genoral J. M. Bran-nan.

Abolition. Oa hit Thursday Preiidetit Lincoln approved of tho additional article of war, which provides that " all officers or persons in the military or naval service cf the United States are prohibited from employing any of these forces under their respective commands, foi the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor may have escaped from any person whom such service or labor is claimed to bo due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court martial, of violating this article ot war shall bo dismissed from tho ssrvice. Strang anomely ! A powerful military force hss been called into service, with the oatensible purpose of maintaining the constituiion and executing the laws. Supposing a person pursues his fugitive from service, finds him, brings in requisition the laws of the land, either national or state as the case may be, and prove that ho is juslly entitled to his service. He attempts to return will: the fugitive, a mob of niggers, or white men who aro no better, in'.orfcres to prevent the execution of the laws. What is tho result? The law i powerl-ss, and the officers of the military or naval force aro forbidden to interfere for its execution, under tho peualty of a dismissal in disgrace. Here is the way which our army is required to execute the laws, and maintain tho constitution, which says that the fugitive hall be given up. Here we have the manner in which a president, with an oath bindirg upon him, executes the laws. He signs an article of war, disgracing men who see that tin laws arc faithfully oxecutcd. This obviates the necessity of personal libertv bil! for each state. The abolition states may woll abolish theirs now. This abolition congress has done the work, nnd nn abolition President has sanctioned tt. No longer can the military bo used to execute tho fugitive slave law. The loyal mn of the south have no longer any security for their property in slaves. But conservative men must not say abolitionism has done it ; if so, they ate rebel sym pathisers ! It is about time for men who love the constitution, to look at this matter in its true light. The rebels promised to spend the winter at tho North. About 15,000 of them are keeping their pledge.

Insolence. It is now as habitual for a certain class of papers to accuse Democrats of being 'secessionists' as it was when the war first broke out. The utter foolishness of the accusation ii all that protects its authorfrom such a rebuke as would soon Dot be forgotten. If it was true, what would be the fate of tho countiy? What resistance eould be made if the North was divided? The groat Democratic party, true to all its traditions, is now the chief pillar of the Union. Its members and organs are the on!v reliable support which the President and General McClellan have in the conduct of the war. Let the support be taken away, and tho war cannot be carried on an hour. But Democrats have their way of suppressing the rebellion; away, too, in which they are sustained Dy thousands of men who do not belong to their organization. They point to the Constitution as the aa thority by which, and as tho end for which the war shall be carried on. They live up to the bond ' as it was made by the fathers of the Republic. They eimply insist that the struggle shall not be made political. Have they not a right to do this? Is it not their duty to do this? We sincerely regret the factious spirit which causes the class of papers referred to to indulge in these malicious imputations. Wo fear that all men will not view them with the indifference we do. They are undoubtedly designed to inaugurate civil war at the North. This at least would bo their natural tendency, if Democrats regard them as entitled to consideration. Detroit Free J'ress.

Baptism bv Platoons. Ono of the zealous chaplains of tho army of the Potomac called on a Colonel noted for his profanity, in order to talk about the religious interests of his men. He was po litely received and beckoned to a seat on a chest. Colonel,' said ho, you have one of the finest regiments in the army.' I think so,' replied tho Colonel, 'Do yoa think you pay sufficient attention to tho religious instruction of your men?' Well, I don't know,' replied the Colonel.' A lively interest has been awakened in tl,e regiment; the Lord has blessed the labor of his sertav , and ten men have been already baptized. (This was a rival regiment.) Is that so, 'pon honor? asked the Colonel. Yes, sir.' 'Sergeant,' said the Colonel to an attending orderly, 'have fifteen men detailed immediately to bo baptizod. I'll be hanged if I'll be outdone in any respect The chaplain withdrew. tfcusures for the Iteneflt of the Xegro I nt rod need into Congress. 1. Recognition of the negro Empire of Hayti. 2. Abolishment of r.egro slavery in th District of Columbia. 3. Prohibiting our army officers from returning fugitive slaves. 4. Establishing a plantation for free negroes in South Carolina, and taxing the peopla of the North to support it. 6. Proposes to aiJ tho States to abolish negro slavery' by taxing the Northern peo pie to psy for tho slaves. 6. To repeal the fugitive slave law. 7. To repeal ths law which forbids negroes from being stage drivers or carrying the United States mail. 8. To prohibit slaveholders from taking their slaves into Arizona Territory. Ther are other measures cf a similar kind, but have not yet been fully matured and laid beforo Congress. By tho time that body gives them a full discussion ii will have little leisure to consider tho interests of white men. No wonder peli tions -re being sent into Congress, even from New England, to let the negro question alone. Cin. Knq. Mr. Jon.v Skssfokd, a veteran printer, who died on Sunday evening, aged 80 year, has been a resident of Washington siirfy three years, and when the house in which he haw so long lived and died was built, Pennsylvania avenue wa only staked out. There was a marsh where the National Hotel now stands, and in wet weaiher he used to go round it by tho high ground on which the Patent office and City Hall now stands to reach his work at a printing-office on Capitol Hill. J'Ailatfclphia Inquirer. Wo hear of stealing a kiss. But why should a lady charge a gentleman with stealing what she didn't have till he gave it to her tho gift being the very thing she calls theft? You know mock modesty as you do mock tur'.lo from its being the product of a calf 'c haad. That's to.'

Wlioaretlie Enemies of tue Union t Lot us take, upon this question, the testimony of one of the most devoted as woll as most efficient friends of the Union : "Tho worst enemies of the constitution are those whoso constant cry is for the blood of the robels and the confiscation of their asiates. with tho emancipation of the slaves, and who, to loach their purposes, would trample tho constitution, the rights of property, and tho principles of humanity under foot, md blast forever the prosperity of the nation. Such men propose to establish, through Congressional action, provisional governments over tho secedod States " Extract from a speech from Hon, James Gurthie. Lot us add the testimony of Postmaster General Blair, who, in a letter to tho recent republican meeting in New York, thus rabukes the callers: "I do not concur in the proposition that certain Stales have bsen recently overturned and subverted as members of the Federal Union ' upon which tho call is based. This is in substance what tho Confederates themselves claim, and the fact that secession maintained by the authors of this call for a different purpose does not make it more constitutional, or prevent them from being actual aiders and abettors of the Confederates."

Rc!cl Triumphs.' The Gazette of yesterday, in an article attempting to ridiculi Genetal McCUllan, says: The peaceful evacuation of Bowling Green, Columbus and Manamas, are rebel triumphs It is a most strange perversity, which discovers ' robel triumphs' in the abandonment of three great strongholds prepared by the enemy to prevent the advance of our troops iuto the heart of the intergent States. According to Gazette logic, the more the territory now held by tho rebels is occupied by our troops, the mors triumphant the rebels will become. When Jell Davis skedaddles from Richmond, tho point of the triumphal piocess of rebel evacuation will ba disiiuc'.ly beforo tho country. When our troops occupy New Orleans, great will be our discomfiture. And when thtr old is restored to its piido of place over every ono of the ibel forts and cities, and their armies have been dispersed wo shall discover the full extant of our misfortunes. Cin. Commercial. The .Tlost Startling "Proposition or the 1 ur The Boston Post fays Chatles Sumner is doing the great woik of disintegration faster than our armies undo it and cement the Union. He proposes to disfranchise the people, to take away ths municipal rights of many of the rebel States; to reduce them back to a Territory, and brinjj them under the legislation of Congress This is the most startling pioposition of the war. If it is done, the !iopes of ths Union aro over, Tho Unionists of tho South are forever alienated, and there will bo no power of arm to reclaim them. Macauly said that he ' had long bon convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.' If this bo good philosophy, who comes the nearest to being the direct agent for the destruclioa of libeity in the United States the So cessioniiti or tho dis ntegralionists, the man who would simp!y divide the Union, or the man who would go to the foundations and destroy them? This demagogue of a Senator, canting about tho tyranny anl the barbarism of the South, at a time lile this, when all there is loyal in tho Souih is dearer than ever befor to the North, is but adding fuel to the fltme is but adding more lives to tho holocaust is lengthening this terrible struggle. Indiana State Sentinel. Harper's Weskly recently gate a splendid engraving descriptive of tno Mexican victory over tho Spanish troops at the National Biidge. It now turns out that thero never was a battle there at all. That is as good as the spirited engraving last fall in o e of tho pictorials, of th Fedsral forces rushing in columns over tho bridge al Ed ward 'u Ferry, when it turned out there was not a bridge over tho Polomac within twenty miles if the spot. Tue friends of that arch abolitionist, Ben Wade, are having a hard time to secure his nomination for a re election to tho U.S. Senate. Another caucus was held on Wednesday, and eleven more ballets had. making 3C in all, but Wade tili failed to secure the requisite vote. The probabilities are that a conservative man will be elected, or there will bo no election. We hope trat Old Ben's days in the Senate are numbered he has been there too long already. The Virini rebels proprose to burn all their tobacco. This is an unnecessary trouble. The Teutonic soldiers in the Union army will burn it for thorn -in their pipes.

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