Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 August 1862 — Page 1

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gü$nt& girt rtort. Ji. K. Time Tttllo. 1, Ft. W. & C. U. K. Time Tabic. SPRING AND SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. EF RTCR!; OF TRAINS FROM PLYMOUTH STATION. EA9TWARD BOUND TRAIN'S. Dav F.xpress ami Mail 10:35 A. M. Nicht Express, H:0 Fast Stock 5:40 P. M. Live Stock and Ex. Freight 11:50 P. M. Local Freight, 12:30 P.M. WESTWARD BOUND TRAINS. Day Express and Mail 5:15 P- M Night Express, Local Freight, 1 m 1'aat Freight A"A . Vm S.R. EDWARDS, Agent C. P. Sc C. IX. K. Time Tabic. summeratTranc. ement. EASTWARD. L-ave La Porte, daily) 7;0q A. jr. (Smdavs Excepted,)) Arrire at Plymouth, 8:5a A. M. WERTWARD. Leave Plvmouth 540 P. M. Arrive at La Porte ":30 P. M. Trains run by La Porte time, which is kept at K. Vail? Jewelry store, and is 15 minutes slower than P., Ft. V. & C. R. R. time. II. R. DRU LINER, Supt. Attorneys. RFPVP &l CAPRON. ttornevsand Notaries, Tlv mouth, MorshallCo., Ind., practice in M irshail and adjoining coun ties RtrERSto Babcock k i;o., rneips,uouKc & Co.,Ne- York, Cooly,Farwell & Co., Go-'d & Pro., Chicago, London k Co., Phila., Or Benette Co.", Pittsburgh. Hon. A. L. Osbc: , Circuit J jege, Lnport.lnd. John s. bended. Atforuev at Law and Ral Estate Agent, Knox, Knox. Ind. Collections, Tax prvins' and examination or Title?, promptly attcud'ed to. n3-ly X li i i DR. T. A. BORTON, . Phv9iciinand3urgeon,o.T.ceoverTVr-!un:s & Co. e Orur Store, in Dr. A. O. Horton'- Dontal Room, Michijan str.M-t, e:it nid. corner of r;.mo, where he may be consulted durin- oßic? hours. J. J. VM L. Komeepatliicrhrsician. P-irti-ularattentionnatd to obstetric pfactie, and chronie diseases of iTmpn,an 3'li5eraopof rhiMren. ofl over C. Falra:r'5 store, corner Michigan and La pott e tgrcets, who rnybc conauUcl at all hours. Di. O. BARD, Graduate of 'JeOfcr.on Medical Collejrc.) rcsi dence and office near Sink's Mill. Bremen, Ind. I Mit is try. DR. A. C BOnTON. Sar-eon Dentist, Ph month, lhdi-ma. W h !e or partial setts of Teeth inserted on the roo't approved plans. Special attention paid to thpreservation of the natnral teeth, and incjrulir ity ofCuiMren'i teeth corrected. Fansa and difficult teeth e?r.vtel with or without Chloroform. Can be consulted at hinoßiee at any time except on Monday? an I Tuesday?. fiic- in reMtiinr's il :'. up s:aiis, Michisan and (l ino .street.. Corner Of r.iOff I Hotels. ED W ARO 3 HOUSEP!rmoirIi. Ind. W. C. Edward?, Proprietor IlariUviirc. H- B. DICKSON & Co.. D-at in hardware of -rv description, alfo, stores, tin, sheetiron, and copper ware. BUCK & TO AN, Dealers in Hardware of very bcnptin, nnd manufacturers of Tin, Sheet-Inn and Copperware, M i ch ia n s t r. e t . Diy- Ooo1js Sc Crroccric J BROWNLEE. Dealer in dry goods ofaTl kinds, ro-icried, wäret etc., Michigan m eet, riymoutli, Ind. Dcalerm Djv Go-jda, Groceries, etc., south e'de La Port ?ret. NUSSBAUM; &, DAVIDSON, Dea'ers in Groceries and Frovisiens, erst eide of Michigan street. lioots fc JS1ojs. J. F. VAN VALKEN3URGH, Manufacturer and Dealers in Boots and Shoes, first coor above the Bank Building. ' E. PAUL. Dealer in hoot9 and shoe?, manufactui b all kind of home work, ia his line, .Michigan street, Ply mouth, Ind. Druggist m. G- BLAIN &. Co. Dmgiitsand confectioners, west side of Michigan street, Plymouth, Id. T. A. LEMON, Dealer in drugs, medicines, notion?, literary magazines, paper?, etc, north side Lapotte street, Plymouth, Ind. "Vntolnnakr. JCKNM HCEMKER, Dealer in w. tches, clocks and jewelry, Plymouth lud. .keeps constantly on hand clocks, watches breast pins, car rins, finger rings, lockets, etc Clocks and watches, etc., repaired in the bes manner possible. J 5 1 1 1' 1 M 1 1 J 1 MICHAEL GINZ, Barber and hair dresser, (West side Michigan treet over Pattersons store) Plymouth, ,Ind. Every thiog in the above business attended to by Die in the best style, Wu pro ii 1 1 in 1 c i 1 1 jr C- HASLANGER &, BRO'S, Manufacturers of wagons, carriages etc. Black Smithing, painting -ad graining done to order ry. N. B. KLINGER. Proprietor Buckeye Livery," opposite Edwards JIou.30, Plymouth, lud. ti271y t. Mcdonald, Real estate agent and notary public, ofUce in cksou'i hardware ttore, Plymouth, Ind. Draws deeds, mortgages, bond, and agree ments, sells lands, cxamiucs titles and furnishes abstracts of the same, pays taxes and redeems land sold frr taxes

INDIANA iiEÄKATIC PLATFORM.

Whereas, The Democratic party having, 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 departure from its time honored and conservative principles, and the triumph of sectionalism; and firmly believing that the Union and the Corstitu tion can be preserved alone by the restoration of that party to power, we invite all the Union men throughout the land to unite with us in sustainingits organization and carrying out its principles. Therefore, Resolved, 1. That we resffirm and endorse the political principles that from time to time have been put forth by the National Conventions of the Democratic party. 2 That we are unalterably attached to the Constitution, by which the Union of these States was formed and establisheu : and that a faithful observance of its principles can alone continue the existence of the Union, and the permanent happiness of the people. 3. That the present civil war has mainly resulted from the long continued, unwise, anil fanatical agitation, in the North, of the question of domestic s'avery, the consequent organization of a geographical party, guided by the sectionol forms adopted at Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and the development thereby of sectional hate and jealousv, producing (as had lone been foreseen and predicted bv us) its coun terpart in the South of secession, disunion, and armed resistance to the General Government, and terminating in a bloody strife between those who should have been forever bound together by fraternal bond, thus bringing upon the whole country calamity w-hich we are now to meet as loyal citizens, striving for the adoption of that mode of settlement be6t calculated to again restore union and harmony. 4. That "in rejecting all propositions likely to result in a satisfactory adjustment of the matters l in dispute between the rorth and the South, and especially those measures which would have secured the border slave States to the Union, and a harty co-operation on their part in all constitutional and legal measures to procure a return of the more Southern States to their allegiance, the Republican party assumed a fearful responsibility, and acted in total disregaid of the best interests of the whole country. 5. That if the party in power had shown the same desire to settle, by amicable adjustment, our internal distensions before hostilities had actually commenced, that the Administration ha recently exhibited to avoid a war with our ancient enemy. Great Britain, we confidently believe that neace and harmony would now reign throughout all our borders. fi. Tlmt the maintenance of the Union upon the principle of the Federal Constitution should be the controlling object of all who profess loyalty to tlie Government and in our judgment this purpose can only be accomplished, by the ascendency of a Union partv in the Southern States, Inch shall, by a counter revolution, displace those who control and dircci the present rebellion. That no effort to create or sustain such a party can be sue cful which ir not bared upon a definite set tloiiicnt of thequestions at issue between the two sections; and we therefore demand that some ?uch settlement be made by additional corstitutionol guaranty, cither initiated by act of Congress or through the medium of a National Convention. 7. That the Republican party has fully demonstrated its inability to conduct the Government through its present difficulties. 9. That w are utterly opposed to the twin heresies. Northern Fectionalism and Southern secession, as inimical to the Constitution: and that freemen, a? they valne th" boon of civil liberty nnd the peace of the country, should frown indigh lntly upon them. y. That in thi. national emergency the Democracy of In linna, banishins? all fcclin; of passion and resentment, will recollect only their duty to M 1 .1 1 1 . . I . . . .1.1. I 11 . , me nuie munin , iiiiii. nil w.-ir wi'mm not e waged m the spirit of conquest or subluxation. nor for the purpose of overthrowing or interferine with the rights or intiti tions of the Stites, but to defend and matntair. the supremacy of the Constitution, nnd to presrrve the Union with all the dignity, equality a.d tights of the several States ur.iinpa'.red; nnd that us soos as these objects arc accomplished the war ouh' to ce.ts. 10. That we wilt sustain, with till our energies, a war fr the maintennnce of the Contution, and of the integrity of the Union under tht Constitution; but we nr opposed to a war for the emancipation i tue ncjroes, or wie suojugauon oi ineöoutncrn States. 11. That the purposes avowed and advocated by the Northern dnuniomsts, to liberate and arm he negro slaves, is a disgrace to the age, calculated to retard the suppression of the rebellion and meets our urin,ualiged condemnation. 12. That the total disregerd of the writ of habeas dirpua by the authorities over us, and the seizure and imprisonment of the citizens of loyal States where the judicial? is in full operation, without warrant or law and without assigning any cause or giving to the party arrested any opportunity of defense, are flagrant notations of the Constitution and most alarming act of usurpation of poAcr, which should receive the stern rebuke of every lover of his country and of every man who prizes the security and Hessings ot life, liberty and property. 13. That the liberty of peech and of the press are guaranteed to the people by the Constitution, anil no:i" but a usurper would deprive them of these rights ; they are inestimable to the citizen and formidable to tyrants only. And the attempts which have been made since our present unfortunate troubles, to muzzle the press and stifle free discussion, are exercises of despotic power against which freedom revolts And which can not be tolerated without converting freemen into slaves. 1 1. That the seizure of Mason and Slidell ,on board $ neutral vessel, on the high geas. Was either jn accorda nee with international law, and so legal; or else in violation of such law, and eo illepal. If the former, we lament that our nation has been humiliated by their surrender, under a thrtot; the latter, it was the dutv of the Administration at once to have disavowed the act of their officer, and instead of incarcerating the captives in Fort Warren, to have immediately icpaired tlie wrong by placing them, as far as practicable, in the same condition in which that officer found them. In either event, the action of the Administration was vacillating and cowardly and degrading to the dignity of a great nation. 15. That the action of the Republican party, as manifested in tho partisan character of all appointments of the Administration to civil office and, in holding party caucusses by the Republican members of Congress for the purpose of impressing upon the legislative action of that body the peculiar dogmas of that party, have demonstrated that their professions of "sacrificing party platforms, and party organizations, upon the altar of their cour.t-y," are but o many hypocritical and false pretenses by whiclrthey hope to dupe the unwary into their support ;and we warn all loyal persons, as they love their country, not to be deceived thereby. J C, That the disclo tires made by the investigating committee m Congress of the enormous fraud that hae ttalked into the army and navy departments, implicating the heads of those departments in a contrivance at, if not an actual participation in a system of corruption, and in which our brave soldiers have been defrauded of their proper supplies, and our Government threat cned with bankruptcy, demands a thorough investigation into all our expenditures, both State and National, and that a speedy and marked oxample be made of all such "birds of prey," who, taking advantage of the nccescity of our country, have fed ar.d fattened upon public plunder. 17. Yh.t the meritorious conduct of tho Indiana troopg, in every battlefield where victory has perched upon the national banner, has filled the people of this State with the highest gratitude to her gallant sons, and that we send our best wishes to officers and men, dispersed throughout the country, and tho heartfelt greetings of every Democrat for their further brilliant achievmenU in tho coming contests for the maintenance oi the Constitution and the Union

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY,

MASS CONVENTION! OF THE DEMOCRACY OF INDIANA. 50,000 Democrats In Council: The following are the resolutions Adop ted at the Mass Convention held at Idianapolis on the 30th u.U., Our space will not permit us to comment. We commend them to the careful atteution of all Democrats. The attendance was immense, and the greatest harmony and enthusiasm prevailed. The principal speakers in attendance were Gov. Wickliffe. of Kentucky; Sena tor Carlisle of Virginia; the gallant Richardson of Illinois, and tho great favorite of the masses, Dan. W. Voorhees, of onr own State. For further comment see the inside of the paper. Resolved, That we adhere to the timehonored principles of the Democratic party and wo believe that the only hope for the restoration of the Union and the maintenance ot the Constitution is in the restoration ofthat truly conservative party to power. 2 That this Convention endorse, as worthy of all confidence, the persons nominated by the delegate Convention which assembled at Indianapolis on the 8th of January, 1862, and that we recommended them to the people as honest, capable, and faithful to the Constitution. 3. That the Constitution, the American Union, the Laws made under and by the authority of the Constitution, mubt be preserved aud maintained in their proper and rightful supremacy that the rebellion now in arms against them must be suppressed and put down, and that it is the duty of all good itizens to aid the General Government in all measures necessary and proper to that en 1. 4. That the Democracy of Indiana, with Patriot everywhere, have made and will continue to make uvery sacrifice to the end that the rebellion may be suppressed, the supremacy of the Constitution maintained, and the Union under it preserved, but they are unalterably opposed to a war of conquest or subjugation, and they will never consent that the war on their part shall be waged for the purpose of interfering with the lights or overthrowing the established institutions of the States. In the lanoruao-e of Senaton Douglas, uttered at Chicago a few davs before his death : "We must not invade constitutional rights. The innocent must not suffer, nor women and children be the victims. Savages mast not be let hose' 5. That we protest in the name of ourselves and of our children, and in the name of all that we hold dear :n the future of our beloved country, nainei the mischievous measure of negro emancipation in the District of Columbia, and the payment for such negroes out of the National Treasury; and we further protest against the resolution of Congress pledging tho nation to pay for all negroes which may be emancipated by the authority of any of the Southern States; that we regard euch measures, involving as they do an expenditure of two thousand five hundred millions of dollars, as measures of transcendent enormity, and fruitful only of National beggary to the land we love; that we are unalterably and unconditionally opposed to all schemes having for their object, immediate or remote, the taxation of the white man for the purchase of i.egroes anywhere; that we deny the constitutional right of the President or Congres to adopt a policy which taxes wLite labor to pay for negroes, or which would make the Government or people slave dealers ; a policy which, if not arrested by the votes of the people, will entail upon unborn generations of our kindred a debt more overwhelming and appalling than ever cursed any nation of ancient or modern times. 6. That In opposition to measures of this kind we desire to interpose the peaceful and powerful agent, the ballot of a Jrce people, and say in the language of another, "We will neither surrender our rights nor forsake them. We will maintain our constitutional liberty at all hazards, and as a necessary step towards that end, we will maintain the Unbn in like majner. We are for the Constitution as it if, and the Union as it was." 7. That iu the language of the resolution of tho conservative members of Congress, the doctrine of the Secessionists and ot the Abolitionists, as tho latter are now represented in Congress, are like inconsistent with the Constitution and irreconcilable with the unity and peace of the country . The firit have already involved us in a civil war, and the others (the Abolitionists) will leave the country but Utile hope of the speedy restoration of tho Union or peaoe. . 8. That this Convention denounce, as unwise and unpatriotic, all organizations, secret or open, having for their object the nullification of, or resistance to, tho laws and unwise legislation find their propor

correction only at the ballot box, where

change ot legislators will produce the wished for reform of bad and dious laws, and to that tribunal only wil! the patriot resort in this hour of his country's trial. We hold sacred and binding every enactment till repealed or declared nugatory by competent legal authority. 9. That the happy accord of the Border State Union men of Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Western Virginia with the Democratic delegations in Congress, in their joint efforts to arrest the tide of fanaticism fn both Houses, has filled all National hearts in the State with sentiments of deep affection for our brethren of those gallant Commonwealths, and we hereby pledge to them and the country our best efforts to secure to the councils of the uatioc statesmen who will labor to restore the union of the States on tho basis and iu the spirit of our matchless and. revered Constitution. 10. That the people of Indiana, having inhibited, by the State Constitution and law, the entrance of free negro and mulattoe.3 into this State, and as the present disturbances on our border are likely to brinfj in an influx of that population from neighboring States, we respectfully ask the public authorities of Indiana to see that the Constitution and laws are properly enforced oa that subject. When the peopTa of Indiana adopted that negro exclusion clause by a majority of ninety four thousand votes, they meant that tho honest laboring white man should have no competitor in tho black racethat tho soil of Indiana should belong to the white man, and that he alone was suited to her free institutions. 11. That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which peavades every department of the Federal Government; that a return to rigid eeouomy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans, while the recent Startling developments of frauds and corruptions at the Federal Metropolis show that an ontire change of administration is imperatively demanded. 12. That we approve of and indorse the resoluiious dra,vn by Hon, John J. Crit tenden, and adopted by the conservative members of Congress on the 22d day of January, 1 CG I , as a clear and just declaration of the objects which ought to be had in view by the American people in the present fearful emergency of their national affairs. 13. That we recur with patriotic pride the biaveiy and valor of the officers and soldiers of all the Indiana regiments, exhibited in the struggles upon the many bloody fields in which they have been engaged, and that the CorQention, in behalf of the Democracy of this State, leader to them a united testimony to their valor and devotion to the Constitution and tho Union and offer to the friends and families of those who have fallen in the service of their country it's sincere sympathy and confidence, and that we will ever cherish in grateful recollection the willing sacrifice made by the noble 6oos of Indiana, in exchanging the peaceful avocations of life for tho hardships and perils of war. 14. That the Central Committee be requested to prepare and publish an address to the people of Indiana, setting forth the principles, opinions and doctrines enunciated in the resolutions adopted this day; and that the same be given to the poople with the proceedings of this Convention. 15. That said committee be further requested to publish such campaign documents as may be deemed useful in tho present emergency. .t How to do away with PartIis. If Republicans desire to have ncrpaVly organization during the war, it is tie easiest of all thfngs to accomplish. Thefjr have nothing to do but abandon their abolition hobbies, stop their schemes forfasing abolition laws, and repeal the cries Al.-cdy passed. They have no'hing to uo but to pfofess themselves in favonr' of sty)pprtvng the Constitution and laws, of the cöiftiry, and there would no longer beii living, issue between themselves and any'respectable number of intelligent men ml the Jpuntry. Democrats always upholdIh'3 Coa solution, always sustained thejaws, and were always opposed by the Abolitionists and Republicans in both. As long asvRe puoncans oppose the cntorceiHont oi inei mwsoi mo country ana ueienu violations of the constiiution, another parly will exist and exist in strength snficientto drive them to the wail. ... Stupid people may eat but should not talk. Their mouths may do well as banks of deposit, but not of issue Account him a real frind who duires thy good rather than thy good will. Titles of honor are liko tho improssions on coins which adds no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

AUGUST 7, 1862.

HMWi.HMBUuy miff ri1 a' Assault Upon the Democracy. I regret to see public journals teeming with icsultiug impeachments of the loyalty of Democrats their conventions styled eecesh conventions, and their candidates for public trust stigmatized as secesh, now but another name for traitor. Why we Democrats are required to abandon party measures when those of tho last Congress were of the most ultra, if not mosta odious, partisan character, some of them tending to alienate loyal people South (if not North) and to swell the muster rolls of the rebel army, sueh as the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, its exclusion from all the Territo. ries, the confiscation of slave property and Sumner's measure to reduce the Southern States to territorial vassalage, &? The writer admits that the paramount duty of all citizens is to crush the rebellion, but does not admit that that duty absolves him from all other duties. He believes that Democracy is almost synonymous with loyalty, that it embodies the true genius and spirit of our institutions and does not stifle a single patriotic throb, and is in no wise incompatible with the duties of a patriot. To a6k Democrats to say that their political life is a lie, and their professions have been a piece of hypocrisy, is asking rather much. Nor can they subscribe to the doctrine that they are to be but slavish echoes to the party in power, with no right to criticise its policies or to vote their sen timents in a Government where pnblic sentiment, voted, is a law in other words to be excluded from a participation in the la ws and polity of Government. Democrats are joint heirs with Republicans of this Government, joint guardians of tho public liberties, joint architects of its fortunes and equally interested in its future destiny, and it bigotry, intolerence and hatred are to be shown by the press, by stigmas of disloyalty and proscriptions its fruits will be, I fear me, such as the Abolitionists and proslavery radicals are reaping from a like malignant, bitter and intolerant spirit sown in the past. Tho war is wared bv the Government to uphold and enforce laws laws whose oiflce is to recognize and protect lights and without which lights and liberties are but a myth every violation of law annuls it pro tanto, and all who encourage, aid, or abet in violation of legal rights, are enemies to the peace and welfare of society. And where mobs usurp the judicial functions, and under excitement administer vengerice, they are guilty cf disloyalty, for loyalty tia but the obedience of law. The liberty of the press and of speech in liberal and just criticism, are guaranteed by the Constitution. To violate this right is to violate the Constitution. To condemn the act is to defend the Constitution. If thieves rob our Government of her sinews of power, shall re not condemn and reform this waste Of war's sinews if imbecility in a General endangers our army is he not as recreant to patriotism who doe not expose it, as if its danger came from the known treachery of the command? If a Fabian in activity which givea stability to a rebel Government by the hostsof civil and military officers it at taches to it and by an immense debt, diffused among its people, perishing if the Government perishes? Is it treason to urge vigor to crush it in the bud, as economic boUiof treasure and blood? Ifanjunjust and partial levy of taxes is made,s it unpatriotic to demand justice and a reformation oT the evil? The argument that we are to pretermit all other duties because we are'in a war ia idle. All other duties arenas imperative as ever they were. The war- duty may be paramount; but with which the others ueed not conflict. If a rebel soldier, forced into the army, sworn to obey his officers, with the penalty -of death for disobedience, captured as a guerrilla, is threatened. tobe hung when in our power, aud at our mercy, cannot a chfutian plead for his life without being accused as a rebel sympathizer especially when the laws of modern warfare tolerate no wanton or malicious destruction of hijman life, or property, and when such acts will lead to retaliation, until the war degenerates into a mere butchorv? It seems to me that passions are becoming-incarnate, that are wholly unworthy of stiahtr, a fid that a labored effort is being ma"de to turn out people into Ishmaelites. Tho end of war is peace when peace is conquered, we want the North an element oi?trength,not weakness. This is not to be attained by making their fancied grievances real not by blotting out their constitutional rightr. The war should be waged imply for tho Constitution, tho enforcement of the laws, and tho integrity of tho Ltiion, any ulterior designs impair the unity of the North, and tend to unite that of the SiUlh, and is therefore impolitic. What was the lever by which public sentiment South was swayed by the arch traitor? Wo all know it, and I trust that I may hazard the opinion that those who1

have not waged war for or against slavery, are not the disturbers of the peace of society, nor the authors of the war, and are as fit to guide the vessel of State as those who would have plunged her either against the Scjlla of slave propogandists, or the Charybdis of Abolitionism. I look upon treason against such a Government as oars only paralleled by that of Lucifer against

God, and the embodiment of every crime in the catalogue of crimes. I have a high opinion of the loyalty aud statesmenship of those men who have stood against the radicals North and South; and tried to save the Government from the phrenzy that ruled portions of society North and South. And believing, with many Republicans, that the policies and measures of that portion of the Republican party known as Abolitionists, are not calculated to restore peace, harmony, and those fraternal feelings which should animate brothers, decline a political association with them. The cry of the 'Bright Democracy, when but an inconsiderable portion of the Democracy followed the lead of Mr. Bright in the late Presidential elec tion, has, like the impeachment of the loyalty of Democrats, a party purpose. All know that in times of civil war, liberty is in greater danger than in times of peace, and evry man should obey the dictates cf his conscience do right and fear not. w. m. Mccarty. Retribution. We have it by the last advices from Europe that maßs meetings are in progress in the manufacturing districts of England, aud that they are petitioning the government either to attempt mediation in American affairs or recognize the Southern Confederacy. The London Times, however, oppose? both ideas, and very properly thinks cotton will be obtained easier, by letting us alone. The supply of cotton is nearly exhausted, produciag the long foieseen result of stoppage of machinery and the throwing out of employment of millions of operatives. How these people are to be sustained is a question that will exercise to the utmost the ingenuity of Brittish statesman British- iuterest in our war and us results is enormous, and looks far beyond the present. The burning of cotton and cultivation only of grain by the South are as much a defiance to ng land as to us. It is saying to her, " You wish to purchase as badly as we wish to sell money will not buy our great staple, but recogniton will." She dare not recognize the South, for she knows the obstinacy and determination of our people, and fears that inerveution would prove the destruction of tho cotton interest on this continent. The Xortk British Review estimates the number of British laborers dependent upon the cotton trade for support at four millions; and the Westminster Jleviexc places the amount of British capital engaged in it at rive hundred millions. From these estimates alone the extent of danger to be apprehended from the stoppage of ihe trade can be readily seen. But the remedy is beyond the prescience of the most sagacious. The dfSculty is not a ternm . 1 porary one. lue comparatively small amount of cotton on hand in the southern Slates would afford a very insufficient supply; were there no obstacles in the way of obtaining it The persistent obstinacy of the South in not cultivating it will make the crop almost a failure next year. It is obvious that whatever stimulus England may give to the cultivation elsewhere, there must a long time intervene before she can again put her manufactories in motion. Tho day of retribution has come, and come in the 6hape of famine around Enffhsh heaithetoues. So be it. We lament that the poor must be the principle sufferers. England, in helping to fan the flame of sectional hatred in this country has blown the fire that burns herself.. Her Thomp sons Sutherlands and Broughams, and a snarm of insignificant and less worthy in termeddlers, have been efficient co-workers wiih our Garrisons, Phillipsand Beechors. New England has found an ally in the Old. The houses of Beocher and Sutherland hav? establislTed a mutual admiration society. The toadyism of the first has boen repaid by the flattery of the last. Their doctrines have led to a division of thlscuntry and a suspension of trade with the South. In consequence, England Is inquiring what she shall do with her millions of starving operatives. The question is eagerly asked now. How much more of earnestness will there be in it as time shall increase the pressure. The people of Manchester now 6ay to the gov; ernment, give no cotton, and the govern ment is helpless. Soon they will say give us bread, and the government must respond. In the wealth of her own ciliiens she must find help. Let the nobles disgorge depletion will do them good. Let English abolitionists disgorge their phi

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lanthropy then will bo practical. Meanwhile, we do not fear her intervention. She has now a task sufficient to employ all her resources. Chicago Times. Tlie President's Last War Order. We do not know of anybody except the abolitiooists and the rebels w'io will object to that part of the President's order just issued, which relates to the employment of negroes for military and naval purposes. The rebels do not want the negroes employed at all, and the abolitionists want them employed as soldiers. The President has gratified neiiher. His order as to the negroes is eminently rijrht and just and practical. It is simply that military and naval commanders shall employ as laborers, within and for the insurgent States, eo many persons of African descent as can be advantageously used for military aud naval purposes. The. order changes nothing. The practice has been hitherto as the President directs it shall be hereafter. All the military and naval commanders have employed negroes as laborers where they could advantageously do so. Gen. Halleck, whom the President has just called into his highest confidence, has not employed them because, in his judgment, he could not employ them "advantageously." Gen. Halleck exercised only the same discretion without the President's order, that commanders will exercise with it. The employment of negroes as laborers remains wholly discretionary with commanders. They will be, and should be, thus employed whenever they can be "advantageously." All the abolitionists have gained by their clamor is the mere issuing of the order; it contains nothing which will please them in their hearts, and uo doubt they prefer that it should not have been issued ; whereas, as a matter of fact, ii should havo been issued long ago, for had it ben, it would have restrained the Fremont and Phelps and Hunter proclamations, and avoided all the mischief which has come ot iLem. That part of the President's order relating to the seizure and use by commanders, of property, real and personal, in the rebel States, which may be necessary or convenient for supplies or other military pui poses, would have been proper and r'ght at any 6tage of the war, and has be come a necessity now that our armies must march elsewhere than along waleroourses through which supplies could be, and have been conveyed. In marching into the heart of the rebel couutrr, our armies must not be impeded by supply trains if supplies can be drawn from the people, loyal or rebel, on the route, and that injustice shall not be done, the Preäideut directs that no property shall be destroyed in wantonness or maliee.and that sufficiently accuate accounts shall be kept, both as to negroes and ordinary properly seized, as will enable the government to make compensation in proper cases. The order throughout, executed in the temper in which it is issued, will strengthen the Union armies, weaken the armies and the resources and the spirit of the rebels, and command the respect and approbation of Christendom. Chitago Times. Radical confiscation measures by Con gress and proclamations of negro emancipation by military authority are after the Chinese method of warfare. Thcv are gongs, capable of great noiße, but of little harm. They do not frighten the rebels. The abolitionists have all the while proceeded upon the idea that they were going to frighten the rebels by loud noise. Happily they have not impressed the Piesinent with the wisdom of the idea, and now the sooner they throw away their gongs and ramshoins, and take up muskets, the belter. The negroes are an element of immense strength to the rebels, undoubiedly. Sensi. ble people knew they would be before the War commenced. Abolitionists beheld io them an element of wretched weakness to the rebjls. They beheld in them an element of insurrection which would spread conflagration all over the South the clay war should be declared. We have not heard of any insurrection. We have not herd of any great exodus of slaves, except of such of them as the rebels did uot want. Some halt and blind and aged negroes have come into our lines, and are supported at the public expense, but no, many others. All the negroes the rebels want they safety have behind their own lines, and there they will keep them until we shall break their lines and disperse their armies. The negro experiment has been practically tried and has of course utterly failed. The President uderstands this, and has proceeded accordingly. This war must be fought through by white men, and he who hereafter attempts to re introduce the negro policy into it ought to be treated as a public enemy. Chicago Times, Constancy is the maintaioance of a good

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