Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 April 1862 — Page 1

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Epwaromi INMIM I)E)10fRTir PLATFORM. Wiimkas. The Democratic party having, from the l 'te of its ortrmizafion, been in favor of the fxi viitT,:UHe of l',c Uniun mid the preservation of i!e Constitution, and seeing iu the present condition of tin co.mtrr the deplorable effects of a Jotvirture from its time honored and conservative nr'ncip'cs1. an'l the triumph of sectionalis'n ; ami firnilv be lieving In t the Union ami the Cocstitu tion can he preserved alone by the restoration of V.-it prty to powr. we invite all the Union men thron chut tin1 land to unite w ith u in sustaining it or'i;n'7.iition and carrying out its principles. Therefore. Rftolwl, 1 . That wc reaffirm and endorse the political principle that from time to time have been put forth by the National Conventions of the Democratic party. 2 That we are unalterably attached lo the Constitution, by which the Union of these States waf formed and established : and that faithful vkservauce of it? principles can alone continue the ii-.ten?e of the Union, and the permanent happiDfiH of the people. 3. That the present civil war ha mainly resulted from the long continued, unwise, and fanatical agitation, in the North, of the question of domestic slavery, the conseqin nt organization of n jjoraphical party, guided by tlie svtionol platform Adopted at Hiiffilo, ritUbnrj;!, Vhilade 'phii, and Chi.so. and the development thereby of sectional hate and jealousy, producing h.id Ion" been foreseen and predicted hy ns) m connteqv.rt in the South of s. cession, disunion, and , armed resistance to the (eneral (.vcrnnuiit, and , terminating in a bloody strife between those who hou'd have been forever bound together by tratrrn:d bonds, thin bringing upon the whole eountrr a calamity which we are now to meet as loyal citizens, striving for the adoption of that mode of settlement best calculated to again restore union and harmony. I. That in rejecting all propositions likely to Tfsult in a satisfactory adjustment of the matter in dipute between the North and the South, and CFvcially thse measures which would have secured the l)or ler slave States to the Union, and a hartv co-oper.ition on their part in all constitutional and leiral measures to procure a return of the more Southern States to their allegiance, the Hepublican party assumed a fearful responsibility, and acted in total disregard of the best interests of the whole country. 5. That if the party in power had shown the ue desire to settle, by amicable adjustment, our internal lensions oeiore nosuuues nau rnii y , ... . t r 1 t. 1 i' commenced, that tlie Aiimiiiiratinn nas rccenm ; ihibiteil to avonl a war wnn our ancieni enemy, t.reat Ilritiin, we confidently believe that peace and harmony would now reign throughout all our lyrders. C. That the maintenance of the Union upon the principles of the Federal Constitution should be th" controlling object of all who profess loyaltr to the Government and in our judgment this urpoe can only be accomplished. y the ncen-sleii'-v of a Union partv in the South' rn St tea, wlucli -:aii. i.-acoun.. r rr..v...-. ...... M i.-.-1....-,- j who control and direct th. present r. t.elo.m. 1 hat do f(T..rt to create or sustain such a pa-tr can be ( ue essiul which ia not dated upon a definite set tlem.-..t of t'ne.p.ewt.oTis at issue between the two , . r i i , T . . t . . . . .it ... ... I ri 'n-5; ixii'i we in-rci'rr ii im m i m u i-imi'- mh-ii setlh'TTiMit 1! made by additional ronstitutioind cuaraiitv, either initiated bv act of Coni're-s or i . l r t i. .. ... through the nieilir.m of a National Convention. 7. That th d'epuhhean party has full v demon ftrafed ' inability to conduct the (luvtmnu n through its re-t'-nt difficulties. !. That w are utterly opposed to the twin V.cr ieit Noithern sectioi,alini y Soutlo n, se.l u4 inimlcil to tlip Constitution anil that ! eeM r-.-ir.en, they value the boon f civil liberty ! an.th,.n-nreofthe country, sh uU frown in li- j 1). TW.it ia tli: nit'iOTiftl cmorsrtiry th Ttmof. ! rao, of In hum, I. mMim-n!l iVn- of pinion ! 3!i'l r-'-ntmcut, will rcolVrf only tli':r duty to thf " - ; tu! co'ifitrv; tint tin war sho'il 1 not bo ; wrp 1 "m tb fTiirit of coioj'tost or nbimrition. nor f r t.o pir;x-' of ov-r 1 r w'nij or iiifri frrirr '. ':th the rint'or intit ti- in of t!i Stu-, b-if to ilrf.n;! andnn.nr.thi.srrm.ryof tl,.. nl Ptat.- ! unimpVrel; an ithit oon as tW objects are . acotiiD'ifh-! t! war ou-jnt to reu. I r ... ..... 10. T liat n' iu u-t.iin, nii o-ir wrifirt, a war fr ibe inmnfeni'ier ff the ( nhitin. and , r . f.u.i'..- n ..ii. r....i.i..i: : but ar oppose 1 to ä war f..r fh i nioK-i ation I of tlie ne trroes. or the subjuputioii of the Southern ! tt'ntrjt j OI illO integrity in in juoh ii i ft 'i i j 11. Thit Ok p irp-fl arowc 1 n 1 dvo":itd , fT the Northern ni'iriionit, to Iibera'e and arm i .1. V ; . .r,.rmt!m ,n ,u . - t t the nero s.aves, is a ciijraee to th. ac. raicul- 1 ted to retard the i'imiipi.n of tiie rebellion mnd ; tut fit o'ir uniM-Mird condemnation . 12. Tliat the total dwreLM rd of the writ of hi- j iet$ etrput bv the authorities nvir u, an-1 th i weiZ'ir'T ;uri inij'rivimi' in n in i n im m i", ni .iUt'' where the judleiap "n in full operation, without warrantor law and without iivMninj; any ea-i3 or pivini to th party arr"td any opportunity of di-f-ii5, nre flaprant liolit.n- of the t'onfltituti'in and nvt aUrtnin nets of usurpation of prfr. whi'-h slionld receive the rtTti rbuke of rerr Hvcr of Iii1 country and of every firm who prizes the security and ble?siiis ol life, liberty and property. I'l. That the liberty of pee h an 1 of th" rrof are pil ir:inted to the jeo;'l" by the (OTi-titntinn, and Ii. n- but aiiurper would depriv tluMn of the ri!.t- ; they are inestiinabte to tlie ciii n and formidable to tyrant onlv. And tte attemy.t whifh have be n made since our ire-nt uiifortunato troubles to muz.b? tlie pre- ainl -tide fi-f iicuiion, are exercie of despotic iower naiiut hieb freedom revolt :id which can not be tolerated without converting freemen into Uv. 1 1. That the feiznre of Mf n and Slidcll ,on hoard a neutral vead, on tlie hijti wan ither in aecorlt nee with international law, and o leal; or elm- in violation of iich l.iw, and o ' iüccitl. If tlie former, we Umet t tint our nition ha V been humiliated by their surrender, um1r a trit : if the latter, it w.i the lut of the Ad - ministration at onoc to have liavo-.vcI fli :i,.t of thcif ojfin r, and iiHtead of iiicarceratinir t!io cap - tive in roit Warren, to have immediately ie pn-ej ti e w roller by pl.ieinj them, a fir a tcae licable, in the fame coixiition in wlnrh that ofn- ! th- Adnrni.tr.tion w a vacillati,,- and cowEr 11 T anddepradinj; to the dignity of a 'reat nition ... m . f ft l.. lliit tiie action ! me ikej.iiOiic;iii party, a manifested in the p:irfi-in character of all ap pointmenf s of the Alii'ni.r itioti to ciril nllice ; aud, in hoM r p.trty c aucinsen by tlie Kcnublii-nn Oiiniberf Ol i -o:resa ior ine purpose oi inipreJviir upon the Icpi-iUtive action of th it Iw-Iy the p-cili ir Hncmm of tint party, have demonstrated tint! th Vfe..r,of .acrifiein-- p:,rty T,l ofo, ,,. and party Organization-, iij-.n 'he altar of their , cour.?', are b'i -o miiiy njpocrineai ami lane pr'tene ly which t!i v hoj.e to dupe the imw ry into thir f ij fort ;an 1 we warn all loyal persons, a ther love their country, not to be deceived thereby lf That the diclo nrru made bv the investifntlnt: committee in Conrcs of the fiiormom fra i'li t'ot le stilted into the army and navy departments, implicating tlie l.ead-i of those ue p.rtm.i.n in a conti i ai.ee nt, if not an act ual participation in a siso n of corruption. i,. i., Wiiir.i OUT OiUM" riMii i ii.- ". ii ' tle-ir tropf r luinrdi'!, and our ( oreriifnent threat en ! witii b inkrupt'-y, dcfinn l-i d thorough invcK ti.'fition into all our expen.hfure, both Mate ami National, and that a Ppeedy and marked .X itnple be mde oTall such MiiM ofrey," who, tnUin advantap-, of the neee;ity of our country, haie fd ar.d fattened iim public plunder. IT. Th .t the m ritoriou co idiu t of the fn li-' . . . . v . .. mm t 1 1 1 dl iol. I liiOr li'lnpp lift I ii ii mrjri, in r,ti j pcrclod ipmi the national banner, h i filled the pe,,p!e of tili Slate with the highest gratitude to tier gallant torn, anJ that we .cnd our bett wihhe to officers and men, dis; cred throughout the country, and the heartfelt rectin.of every lemocr!t for their further brilliant nchievment in the eoniin contents for the maii.tf imnee ot the Constitution and the Union.

Come, gentle Spring, ethereal Mil.Ines, come; And from tlie bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation joined In soft assemblage, listen to my sung, Which thy own Season paints; when Nature all Is blooming and benevolent, like thee. And ce where surly Winter passes off. Far to thfc North,) I calls his rutluri blasts: His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. The shattered forest, and the ravaged vale; While softer gales succeed, at whoie kind touch, Dissolving snow io livid torrents lost, The mountains lift their green deads to the sky. As yet the trembling year is unconfirmed. And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze.

I Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving tieft Deform the day delijjitness, so that scarce The bittern knows his time, with bill ingulfed. To shake the sounding mnrsh ; or from the shore The plover when to scatter o'er the heath. Ami ing their wild notes to the listening waste. At last from Aries rolls the beauliotusun, And the bright Hull receives him. Then no more The expansiv atmosphere is cramped with cold ; lint, full of life .'Uni vivifriii'r uont Lifu l!ic p ht ClOUJ3 sUumu and spreads them .,;,. Fleecy and white, o'er all surrounding heaven Forth lly th tepid airs : and uncuntincd, Unbidding eatili. the moving softness struvs. Joyous, the i inpatient husbandman perceives KeU'nting Nature, and his lusty steers Drives from their stalls to where the well-used plough lies in the furrow, loosened from the frost. There unrefusing, to the harnessed yoke They lend their shoulder, and begin their toil Ch ered by the simple song and soaring lark. Meanw hile incumbent o'er the shining share The master leans, removes the obstructing clay, Willis the whole work, and sidelong lays the glebe. While through the neighboring lie Ids the bower stalks, With measured step; and liberal throws the grain Into the faithful bosom of the ground : The harrow folio n; harsh and shuts the scene. f-- " ... ...... . lit. it ipintu. lfii'fti tfVir rifktk' llk.riikti muri ,Us UoJe t ye (osteriiig breezes, blow! ye 50lcning dews, ye tender shower?, descend! And temjer all, thou world reviving sua, Into the perfect year! Nor ye In "ive In luxury and ease, in pomp and pr I Think these lost themes unwonhy rf.urcar: Such themes as these the rural Maro sung To wide-imperial Home, in the I'uil hight Of elegance and taste, by (Ireece refined. In ancient times, the sacred plough cindjyed The kings and awful fathers of mankind: i And Some, with whom compared vour insect tribes Arejutl!ie hvingsof a summer's day, nave ,u.j,j tilt. pt..lk. 4f rlllIr,., tnt. u,e ptorm ()f Hnghtv war; then, with unwearied hand, iJiIai'uiil little delicacies seized ..... vuU..u JlUl ,,rd(u iudei.eu lent lived. i . 1 - . Thompson. The Vlii,:,y KrlK'lIioii. Wo think every man, not absolutely a monomaniac on tlo subject of slavery, will see at a oj.uioe th propriety ami juslic3 of ,jie com,MriH(a n tlie following short and pithy exUncit which we inak f,om aT, arlMo hl lh(J j jarrj.uur;- ( Pa. ) ! 1 1 1 i t and Union: a r,iWli;nn nnr.rt ;fl ltM nfiVi. vatiia It extended over a number of ! we stem counties. It was causal by whis-j Ly, or. moie pioperly speaking, a tax upon j w"isLy . Wat.hii.gto summoned nn ar-1 my, ar.d inarched westward, but befuie he ; , j , of , , rfttels ? , i ttupurseii, and tlie rebellion came to an i , eriu. The President was satisfied with t this rcHult. He did not say, 'This rebel i . . lion was causflil by whisky, and we cantiot ! hope for pecs while there is a gallon of i -n i - i i n whisky distilled in Pennsylvania. He J J liJ not endeavor to remove the cause bv . . . .. . .. ... . . ., demolishing all the distilleries in 1 ennsylvania. He Iii not say that while whisky contiuued tobe distÜlcd there was reason to anticipate periodical rebellions. His; business was to enforce tho laws. He did that promptly and eummaril), and consiJered the work finished. Now whisky was undeuiably a cause of this rebellion, Had there been no whifkr theie would have been no rebellion. Whisky was as much the cause of that rebellion as slavery is of this. We have never had anothi er rebellion on account of whisky, and when this rebellion is put down, we will never have another rebellion on account of slavery." Abolition Kf rturiTN nt tlir SmithMHlillll I nl It lift'. The Washington correspondent of the 1 . ., . . . . 1,c" ' ocui.w.,.-, . ....... ,H ; turnrs al the Smithsonian Institute, be s'kIh Wendell Phillips, Hev. H. Mathison, William (ioodell, (Jerret Smith, and laut. though not least, W iliiam Lloyd Garrison HH wel known as violent Abolition ' leaders of tho most radical and disunion Htainp. With lltpse men Republicans, a year nrr. a some of them do yet, indiirnantlr i : . x .t Jniel having any association. Now these eanio radical A bolilioiiiflt. who have been laboring for years to involve the. country in a civil war on aecount of slavery, are prominently brought for A'.trd an the J nrophets and apoallos of the Hepublican faith. M'liA in it t'lnrt 1 1 1 A r fnriiii j roil . J . .. . ; icals lecture in W awhlllgton at this time, ' j j liotiiz -d there, is obvious etiAU'di. It if to prepare the Piesident, tho Con g;ess and the peopio for that o-rand conspiracy against iho 'restoration of the Union i s it was.' of which Phillip?, fJarrion. Smith, and their associate, are the leading epiiiti. It is now afsuming formidable dimension, and nil loyal Urion men must iinile to check its further progresi, or these ab liti.m pilots will, through the ageney of Republican and bojrurt uni n oiganization, take the helm and ruin tho country. -Statesman.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THUKSDAY,

Government CciiKortthip of the The public are aware that Government, 6ince tha commencement of the war, has assumed a censorship over the press of the country. The ostensible object of this was 6ad to bo the prevention of the publication of army movement and other intelligence, the knowledge of which would be of benefit to the enemy. Although anything like ioveiHmental interference with iho liberty of the press is justly looked upon as savoring of despotism, and utterly at variance with wur free institutions, yet the American poople acquiesced in the policy of preventing the enemy gaining information detrimental to the public in terest8, through the medium of the press, and submitted to the censorship, however odious and despotic it might be, as a mili tary necessity. The privilege allowed the government in this censorship has, bow ever, been abused, and a committee appointed to investigate the matter have revealed a atate of facts that will astonish the American people, who have been in the habit of imagining themselves the freest on earth. It is shown that Secretary Seward has usurped a power over the press that can never be tolerated in a free country, land assumed a more rigid censorship than would be submitted to iu despotic France or Austria. No dispatches have been allowed to be sent from Washington, which criticized the conduct of the Cabinet, or contained aurht to show the American people that their affairs were not wll managed, or that Secretary Seward Was not the greatest statesman that ever shone oc earth. The facts were all proved by the testimony lakeu by the investigating committee. Mr. Wilkeson, of the Tribune, testified: Th? general result of my observation, since 1 have come into contract with this new iitstitu.i mi of the censorship of the press, is that 1 am not permitted lo 6eml anything over the wires which, in the estimation of the censor, the Societary of State, shall be dumaging to the chaiacter of the adminiäti.'ilioii, or Any individu. member of the Cabinet, or that would be injurious to the reputation of the oHcei6 charged with the prosecution of the war. and tiarlit'tilailv those of the regular army." Mr. Ren. Peiloy Poore, wf the Rostoi, Journal, understood that he ' could not criticise th wervday conduct of I i a it rn i ! i i i'mi rv t 1 1 e w Cabinet onicei.' Mr. W. R. Hiaw ! testified that it wji9 held that he ought not ' to animadvert in any particular upon the government ot any of its officials. 'I eeu, d to be the iJea which contro . . t IV i mm.-. i ii.i i neu the censoi9. We were not permitted to criticiso the officers of the Cabinet. Th .. . i - i ronmiiieo sty: 'very rew atsnatcties i rvtleciinj on membeis of the Calinet or other civil ofTii-ers were found among the i i: . i mm suppressed dispatches. J he witnesses explain this by stating that they seldom prepared such dhpaicheft, because they understood that they would no; be permilted to tend them over the wires And this is the liberty of press vouchsafed to us by th4 idols of that party which used to be so clamorous for free speech and a freo press ! No criticisms on the acts of government the pres to bo muz '.led dispatches suppressed papers stop, ped, and their publishers threatened with incarceration in our Ilastiles! Was ever I such an outrage perpctiatcd on a free peo pie? Mr. Seward i9 unlit for hin office, or for any other office in a free republic. He cannot comprehend freedom except so far as negroes are concerned and is totally ig. norart of or bitterly opposed to free institutions. He is a despot at heart, and has trampled on our liberties in a way that if atte npted by a feovereign would have cost him his crown, if not his life. The censorship of the press is anti-democratic and opposed to the public rights it i liable to abuse, and has been most villainously abused. Mid ought at once to be put a slop to. It 18 a power that the people should tolerate only in caees of great national emergency, and then it should only be placed in hands capable of wielding it honestly ami righteously. The present administration has hown that il is incapa ble of using the power properly, and unfit to be eulruMcd with it. Il is time for tho people to speak out, and insist on an end being put to Reward's arbitary despotism, and m restoration of our once boftkled freedom of tho press. We should take for our guidance the maxims of Jefferson, who said, "The diffusion of information and the arrangement of abuse at ti e bat of public opinion; freedorn of religion ; freedom of the presH; freedom of persons under the protection of habeas corpiu; anil trial by juries impartially selected the&e principles form the bright constellation whic h ha gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reform. The wisdom of our sa:jf 8 and the blood i( our heroes hav beon devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our

political faith; the text of civil instruction ; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or alarm, let us hasten to tetrace our steps and regain the road whicD alone leads to peace, liberty and safety." Having wandered from these principles "in momenta of error and alarm," we cannot too soon 'retrace our steps. Ivrt Wayne Sentinel.

Government Farming. I ask the gentlemen," said Mr. Wielifle, of Kentucky, in his speech in the House of Representatives upon the President's emancipation resolution, "who are advocating these propositions, if it is a military necessity that this Government with a debt uow upwards of seven hundred millions of dollars, should coume&ce tho business of cotton planting in South Carolina and Georgia or elsewhere? I ask where is the power and authority ia the Government of tho United States to go into the business of farming for it amounts to that practically? Where is the authority of the Government of the Uuited States to send a parcel of men South to engage in the business of cotton growing, who when they get there, will know about as much about raising cotton as I do about preaching the Gospel, and not as much, for I have heard the Gospel preached and they never saw a stalk of cotton growing. If you carry out your plan, it will bi the finest position for one of your modern honest men to stual that you can find in the United States, not excepting army contracts." Where is " .Spoony Ogle V9 In the campaign of 1810 the Democrats were bilterlv denounced because President Van Haren used gold spoons on hi table. Ogle's ej.eeh was circulated by milliona over the land. How stands the case now under the Hepuhlican administration which stands pledged to restore the government to what I lit was in tho days of Washington and JelletRon? Iu the civil appropriation bill recently paseed Congress in an item of two thousand fcix hundred and thlrtecu dollars, for the purchase and repair of gold spoons for the President's house.' Gen leinen tax payers, Is not this item pleas--t to contemplate upon? Ry the cxlrava i ... gc- an 1 thievery, ot men in power, no j . . . . . .... . ! ne peopio win oe compeueu 10 o.i :4 of four percent! Wayne County ' tint rfit Tins most satisfactory description of the MftrriniAo tht we have seen is contained ; in ih following, from tho Richmond cerretponnence of the New Orleans Crescent, written before tho lato naval engagement: As it is almost certain thai the Metrimac will eithsr have proved a brilliant success or a miserable failure before this reaches you, it will not be iaiproper iu me lo give your readers a ftw facts iu regard io her. In the first place, her engines are live hundred and ten horse power, and, in spile of her great weight, it is thought she ni!l make from twelve to fifteen miles an hour. Hho docs not draw by a foot and a half as much wateras was expected. When alloat she presents to the enemy only a roof above the wtaer. All of her machine ry is below the water-line. Her tides and roof are composed of oak 2S inches thick, covered with ix inches of plate and railroad iron. Sho has an apparatus for tluowing 1 ot water on boarders. Her armament consist! of ten gun only, all rilled. "The guns in her sidos four in number aro B0 pounders. Those at the bow and ßtern throw a 100-pound solid shot, or a 120-pound shell, and these guns have three ports, which enables her to give a broadside of ail guns. Sho has furnaces for heating shot. Her crew consists of ton Lieutenants and throo hundred and fifty picked men, arid among them are the best gunners in the old uavy. Sho has under water a wodgo shaped prow of oak ami iioti, thirty-three feet long. Tho ohje:lion to her, and it a serious one, is the fact that she is entirely dependent on her machinery; if that gets out of order she becomes a mere log in the water. Rut if that holds out, it is fair to expect that she will do some dama lo iho two Yankee Iiigates now lying at Newport News, before tin week ends. let us not be too B.-wguine, but hope for the bet. Sho may help us out of our great ditliculty. Ik you wish to know the value that ie set in your society, announce that you intend to give up giving parlies, nd then count the invitations you continue to receive. We heard a lady say, in Iter exultation at the capture of Port Donolson, that she wished sho could kiss every eoldier engaged in the attack 1 Such patriotic devotion to the good cause should not go unrewarded.

APBIL 3, 1862.

The Xcw War Article Abolitionism in the Senate. We extract from the Congressional Globe the proceedings in the Senate upon the passage of the bill which, by attaching penalties and punishments to a soldier or officer who should return fugitive slaves to a loyal mastsr, even in those states where the Federal authority is recognized, virtually renders nugatory the fugitive! slave law. Heretofore, whenever the civil authority has been incapable of enforcing the provisions f that act, the military power has been called oi to aid the former. This was done in Boston under the administration of President Filmore. The new article of war is intended U evade the provisionsof the constitution in regaru to the return ef fugitives from labor to those to whom said labor or service is du. We call attention to the amendments proposed by the conservative Scnatots and which were voted down by the Republicans and Abolitionists. It was proposed by Seuator Davis of Kentucky, that all j officers and persons in the military and naval service of the United States should be prohibited from detaining, harboring or concealing afly such fugitives. This was voted down, ID to 29. Another amendment was offered that the article should not apply to the States of Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky, not elsewhere where the Federal authority is recognized or can be enforced, but it met a similar fate. An amendment prohibiting auy forces of the United Slates being employed for the purpose of enticing or decoying such persons held to service or labor from the service ef their loyal matters,' was likewise lost by a vote of IU to 29. It will be noticed that Governor Wright, with the Republican and Abolition Senators, voted against all these amendments. His professions and practice will not square. Since 1 is appoiuiment to the Senate he has professed to be as good a Democrat as he ever was, and that he would as zealously maintain the constitutional rights o! the people of the Southern States as he ever had done. The President called to his aid the military of the nation to enforce the laws. But Gov. Wright is found cheek by jole with the Abolition Seuators, voting against the employment of the military forces, if llieir services suou.d bu necessary to au in me execution of a iaw upon the statute book with the very men who oppose the Prcti-, ilant a am 'i ninit itn men 1 11 f iah fifvi 11 0 tnev are in uvor oi me uncouuiiuii;u abolition of slavury, without compensation to the master. This m a singular position j for one to occupy who profses to tread in the footstep oI Uouglas. lie had n sympathy wiih such a crew, and -ah" M V 1 last fepeech took ground against them in declaring that ' wo must not invade eon stitutional rights Stale Sentinel. The canvass for Governor ia Rhode Island hat taken a remarks ble turn. The republicans, despairing of defeating Gov. Sprague. decline to put a candidate in the held againsi him, and have commenced the task ot mill.?.;' him out a bad no hoIitionist as themselves. They have astri- ! bed to him the authorship of a pamphlet j announcing the same radical and unconstitutional doctrines which come from Sumner and Phillips. The Providence Post declares that the Governor never wrote a line of it, or had anything to do with it, and that ho stands upon his own declaration that he 'most heartily disowns; any other wish than that of bringing together these now belligerent States without the loss to any one of them of a tingle righ: or privilege which it has heretofore enjoyed.' Treason. The Chicago Times say, " so far as we are concerned, tho time ha9 come when we propose to call that which is treason, treason. Abolitionism is treason. Where is the Abolitionist who will not answer .t. l... i ... . iioti Ii" :ovss l.nerty Dotter man ma Union?' and by the l.berly ha means the abolition of slavery. He l not to be found. Tho Abolitionist in not be found iv ho is for the reconstruction of the Union with slavery. And lho Union cannoi do ... . . . T .,1 restored without slavery. The abolition of slavery by tho Federal government is revolution, the Mmo ai the southern rebellion would have been revolution had it been successful. The Union can be restored, with elavery. Thin war will inevitably thus restoro it, if it shall he continued as it has been carried on thus tar. Kvery attempt lo divert tho courso of the war, then, Is treason. " Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fail wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. JefT. Pavis's message is aimplv a confession that tho Confederates are in the condition of the laundress who hung out more than she washed.

Speech of Senator Cowan, of Ienn-j

ft) Ivnnia, Agi!iiit the ConfUcation III II in tue .. h. Senate. On the 4th inst., Mr. Cowan (Republican) addressed the Senate against the confiscation bill. His speech is too long, for publication in our columns, but the ! following extiact will give iome idea oi its i character and spirit: This bill proposes to liberate 3.000,000 of slaves truly the most stupendous stroke for universal emancipation ever attempted in the world. Iudeed I think it virtually liberates tho whole 4..000.0UÜ. What is to be the effect of this upon the war? Shall we be stronger, er shall we find that we hare only doubled the number of those in arm against us? They now have no cause for rebellion. Will not this bill funish them one? Let the loyal men of that section, who know ihm. ausw r this question. I will abide their answer. I submit again that no deliberative assembly in the world ever before sat in judgment on so stupendous an issue. Yes, as if to blind us still more, this bill has a proposition of evill greater magnitude, and, il possible, of still greater ditliculty; that is to take these millions and transfer them to some tropical clime, and to protect them there with all the rights and jjuaranties of freemen. And this is all provided for in a single section and a single sentence of nine lines. Truly wo must have recently transported ourselves from the practical domain of facts, and set down in the romantic regions of Eastern fiction. De the advocates of this measure propose to confer upoa the President the gold-making touch of Midas? Nothing short of the ring and lamp of Alladin, with their attendant genii, would insure the success of such a scheme, unlets it is believed that the Treasury-r.oto possesses this magic power. And even under that supposition, I think the owners of those Southern climes, and the Tranwporlation Companies, ought to be consulted in regard to tho legal tender clause. I piesvime it is not supposed that this modern exodus will be supported on the way by quails and manna; and yet I arn free to say that it will require some such miraculous interposition as that which favored the Israelites in their journey out of Iwvnt. Rut. sir, is it not stiane that lhU 6cneOT, should So so coolly presented i QUr consjJ6raiion, and urged to it I fina, consummation with a kind of ur , , t ghou,j oppoS(J il? It is certainly due to the country, that we should not make haste to engage in such gigantic schemes. Then, ag-iin, there is a further consideration involved in this . bil and QM of slijj r,caler ,oment, which , i& is jn direct conflict with the j Constitution of the United States, reuij f ug if we pas3 j, l0 6et and ignore that instrument, in us most valuable and fundamental provisions, those which guarantee tha !if and property of the citizen, and those which define the limits and boundaries of the several Deoartmentu of this Government. Pass this biI ahJ aJ1 lhai Ja ,cft of lha Constitution , nr.i, meb 4!e, tainlv not woith 9 Ii V W w a a s w w - j - this terrible war which we are mow wa-oino-for it for be it remembeicd that this war is waged solely for the preservation of lho Constitution. I am aware that some think that the Constitution is a rei i URml uron lho free action of the nation j-,, i.,t f il.i r which thev i III 1 1 i U VVUUUt va - f - - j supposed could be carried on a great deal better without it. I have no hesitation in saying that no greater mistako has ever been made anywhere than is made by such people. A traveler stopped at a farm house for the purpose of getting dinner. Dismounting at the Iront door he knocked, but re. ccived no answer. Going to the other side of the house, he found a little while headed man in tho embrace o! his wife, who had his head under her arm, with hr other she was giving her little lord a noundin. Wishing to put an etd to the ' j j . , lPaveler knocked on the house. j anJ cricJ ()Ul ft ,ouJ XJ. .aUo I who keeps this house?' The buihand though much out of brea'.h, answered: Straniror. that's what we r.re trying to j jecj(i0i - W Fremont, tho long-haiied apostlo ha? been assigned a command, embracing portions of Virginia, Teni.essee and Ky. His command is S'.vled the mountain depaitment, and it is asserted that his Ott - ifomia friends aro already after him for a contract to tunnel the Rluo Ridge for an underground railroad. It is also contended that his appointment to a command by the administration is an endorsement

of his financial peculations in Missouri, and j event, ppring up egain in lulltigor. Ileamakes the Government responsible for the! vy taxation, the corrupt squandering of

fraudulent contracts by him awarded to tha Vandal crew who hovered arouud him pke buzzards around carrion. Tho man who proposes to fill shells with some 'sickening gas.' is baying up copies of the N. V. Tribune.

NUMBER 10 WHOLE No. 114.

Senator Dongln' Opinion of Sen ator uiniicr. If there was any man that the lamented Senator Douglas regarded with abhorrence it was Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts. ijere jB a portrait that he drew of him in Ä debate in 1C54. AdJiessing himself to jllm gajj Is there anytrrng in the means by which he got here to give him a superiority over other gentlemen who came by ordinary means? Is there anything to justify it iu tho fact that he came here with a deliberate avowal that he would never obey one clause of the Constitution of tho United States, and yet put his hand upon the Holy Bible, in the presence of this body, and appealed to Almighty God to wi'.ness that he would be faithful to the Constitution, with a pledge of perjury ort his soul, by violating both that oath and the Constituti.n? He came here with a pledge to perjure himself as the condi.ion of eligibility to the place. lias he a right to arraign us because we have felt it to bo our duty to be faiihful to that Constitution which he disavows, to that oath which ho assumes and then repudiates? The Senate have not forgotten the debate on the Fugitive-slave Law, when that Senator said, in reply to a question whether h was in favor of carryiug into effect that clause of the Constitution for the rendition of fugitive slaves; Is thy servant a dog, to be true to ths Constitution of your country? A dog unless yja are a traitor?' That was his position; and still he comes here and arraigns us for crime, ane! talks about audacitv! Did mortal man 0 ever witness such audacity in an avowed criminal?" Case or Gen. Mono. The following form of petition to the President has been largely signed by leading citizens, both in this city and else wheie. It will be observed that all which this request ia. that Gen ßtone may have an immediate trial. This is the right of every citizen, and in the denial of it every man's rights are violated. Gen. Stone, understood to be a highly meritorious officer, and one who had rendered signal service at the beginning of the ou;bieak, has been arrested and imprisoned, just as the army was abut to march against the insurgents, for no known cause. He is entitled to be beard n his defence, if there is anything which can be alleged against him. A copy of the petition may be found at the coaming room of the Courier, basementot Old State House, State street: To his Excellency tho President of the United States of America, and Comman-der-in Chief of ihe army : The undersigned, citizens of the United States and residents in Massachusetts, respectfully repreeni: That DrigaJier General Charles P. Stone, a native of Massachusetts, an officer in the army of ths United States, and subject to the Articles of War, has bten for many weeks in close confinement, without any known accua:ion against him and without any knowi accuser. Civilians a we are. we yet feel it fo be our right and duty to invoke your authority to secure to Get.eial Stone the full benefit of the Articles of War (as they have heretofore been uniiormly itnerpteled). and an immediate trial. liutlon Courier. A l ine i'haiicc. The number of Federal officers taxgatherers, tc, to bo created by the new tax Bill, will be SG.OOOl This is a fine army, and their fcen. salaries, perquisite, stealings, Ac. will mke a preliy gieat holo in the revenue collected. How will the people who have so heavy a burthen to sustain in keeping an army of soldiers in the field, like the additional burthen of maintaining this army of locusts at home, who will literally devour the it substance ? The creation of this new swarm of officeholder, will "ive a fine chance to l otdfs jf disinterested purl ns who have failed to get office under the present aJministiation. As soon as the bill pases, Washington City will again swarm with hungry officeseekers. A l'rolrtt niitl a Irplu tj . The New York Woild prtest against J the attempt of ihe Sumner Gieely school I. .... - . a a of politicians to resuscitnte ti.e lupuDiu au party 'for the purp. se of erasing fiom thft national Hag as many stars hs it originally ataxia 1 contained, and makes the to lowing statement, which might be considered prophecy j " t was not th expression of a tiuth already, quite patent. As soon as the war draws visibly to a 'cloielhe Democratic paiiy will, in any j the public money biought to !:ht by Congressional committees of investigation. and the questionable stretches of power to which the executive authority has resotted, will be charged upon tha IUpublic.au party, which was alone responsible fur the administration ef the goverfimtnt