Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 February 1863 — Page 1

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wm II E R B LET THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA W E D BY INrLUE'ICB AND UN BOUGHT BT GAIN. VOLUME 4 XEW SERIES. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUA11Y 12, 1863. NUMBER 2 WIIOJ.E Xo. 15S. j-'.'j&t..JL-&j.Ag-;.;'.jt.M.'jMi:

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11. Time Talries. P., Tt. ""V. & C. II. R. Time Table. WIXTFR. AB R ANGGMENT. OI?VTDE OF TRAINS FROM M.YMOCTH STATION. EASTWARD BOUND TRAINS . Dav FxprfM and Mail :'."?J Nisht eU- 1J-,,iE"5" stock iimp ir Live Srnck and Ex. Freight iono r" Local Freight, l-Ul.;il. WESTWARD BOUND TRAINS. Div I'xpres ami Mail, 7:02 P. M NiirhtKvress Local Freight fj Through Freight Tat Freight, 3:)i r S.U. EDWAKD3, Agent. C. 5. & C. SI. K. Time Table. SUM M Elf A Ü 1R ANC EM ENT. EASTWARD. Leave La Porte, dailvj 8.45 Aj (SutiJits Excepted, )) Arrive at Plymouth, 1030 A. MWESTWARD. Leave Flvmouth 3- JJArrive at La Porte 4:ü0 P. M. Tnin run bv La Porte time, which is kept at E. Wit- JewelrT tor? , an! is 15 minutes slower Iban P., Ft. V. & C. It. R. time. II. R. PUULlNER,FiiPt. Attoriu'.vs. RZZVZ &, CAFRON. AltorneY m l Notaries. Plvmoi.th, Morshall Co., Ind., nr.ieticetn VI irdiall and a.ljoiteng co'intie. REfERsto P.iUfock Ca.. riielp.--,Do.le k Co.,ew York, Oool-v.t'anvell .V" Co., Co-Y k 3ro.. Chicago. Loa lon V. Co., Phila.. ("--Uentte 5. C ii:tsbur?!i. Hon. A. L. O-tc.., Circuit Julge, Laport.lieh JOHN S. BErvOE', Att-irnrntLa ami Real Estate Agent, Knox, Knu. In l. Co'lections. Tax paving ami examination of Title, promptl v atteinletl to. nll-ly DK. T. A. BORTOM, Phvsician an 1 Sarreon, oi.-e on Miehiirn street, west i-le. over Hill's Riken. where lie may ! com'iltetl luiiiir o!l;-. hoi::.. J. J V'fJALL. UvTi'pathIf P:7-i'.t! an. P iftieular ittntionpa!' in M'Mtetrie ri-ac:i-. an-l ehroüie nisrases f wom?. ami -lise is!'of chi! 'rt'M . oil re over C. Plmr st--re. earner Mi:!iian nn-1 Laporte treet. whehe mivbv? roiisn'Tl at all hours. rlaite nf JT.-;s.u M -il f'.iüen-.l rrsid.Miee 4x1 o!!ho uenr S!i:!t's Mi!!. I'iTnrii, I:.1. DR. A. O. S:ir;t Dtnti!. P!irf.. !i. I!i !:n... Wl.iilc 01 "jtrti il s.!t5 ot' IVviIi iii-iTt! on the nvut aipruvr 1 t' mi. S f ! il tti'iitioii pa'nl to tin prcTV iii:i !t'i-. iiafnra! te fi. -hk! i;'re!il;iritv of C!i!!Jre:t' t-rtli e .rrt'.-t-.l. Fans- ain! ii: ""Uli ?--th extr.i -f" w'!: m- wit?:ii Ch!mfor:n. Cm '-e :is-.:;ti l t ' ''.rn a t any t i:m exvtfpton vs au-1 Tu ILli's BiUer fM EDWARDS HDU3S P!ytnath. !u l. W. C. E l.var !, PioprU toi . 5 I;: r!viii. H. B- DICKSON Co., 0;iler in hir.l.var of very o!5-ripfTrni, also, tove, tin, ;:;-t iron, a'l eo.er ware. RUCK &, TO AN, P ih-r in IIir N are of very 'senpti'Mi, anl ra-inu'a'-t'ircr f Tin. S.'.ut't-Iron aii;i Cupperware, Michigan stnv t. J BrtOV.M'E. l)-.i!erin ."rycoods ofaM kin ls, rorrrie?, wares Michigan trwet, IJ!viii i.t!i, IikI. c. p win. Da'erin I:y (J Kd, tlrjjenea, etc., outh side Li Pur! e itrfrt. NJ333A'J.Vi:,&. DAV!D30r4. Dei'ersiu Croefrie.s and IV vnien-, east side of 'Jichran street. Hoots Shoes. E. PAUL. Ü Mfr in bo-iH nnd .hoes, rp anufactui ? all kirnt of line.' vv-M-li in his tine, Michigan street, Ply mout'i. Intl. Ix-ii rrt G. BLA1N & Co. Drusist s and confectioners, wet side of Micl.igun street, Ilyuiiiitii, I ml. m T. A. LEMON. Oa.tIr in dn:-, i.ie fieinos, notions, literary magazine., piper.-, etc., north side Lapoite street, Plymouth, Ind. AVsi tfhm:ili. JOHN M HCEiVKER. re vler ia v tetn's, cloeks and iewelrv, Plymouth Iq l-,'s: rt s e ei-it intly on hau l clocks, watches brent p" is, ear rins, tinker rins, lockets, ete Clucks ti t wif.i-hes, etc-, repa'ied in the be u.uner pssiliie. 1 Ssi i1-Iiij MICH - CL G1NZ. U.rU.r and Inir !r.-sser, (r--t i.le Michigan street over Pattrr-ons store) Plymouth. ,fnd. Kverythiou'in the above business attended to bv m in the best style, AV:t 'oniuiilviiijr. C MV3LAM3e.1 &. DUO'S, VI i lufiHarers orv.i'.ii-, carriages etc. I'lack S mtiiiii, niiiitiii.'.nd graining done to order Iiivcry. N. B. KL1NGER. ?raprietor fl ickeye Livery," opposite Edwards 1 1 - j.i , t iy mouth f I inj. nltly t. Mcdonald, i...t .... n . . i . ... . ao'i notary puoiic, omcc in liirlware tore, Plymouth, Ind

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CELlVEKED IN TUE HOUSE OF COXGUE.SS. Mr. Vallandigiiam IhdorseJ at the re cent election within tha fame district for which I still hold a seat on this floor, by :i majority lour times greater than ever he fore, 1 sjeak to-day in the name atid by the authority of the people, who, for six yeais, have intrusted tue with the ollice of a Representative, Loyal, in the true and highest sense of the word, to the Constitution and the Union, they have proved themselves devotedly attached to and worthy of the liberties to secure which the a Union and the Constitution were established. Wiih ca;:dor and freedom, therefore, as their Representative, atid with much plainness of speech, but with the dignity and decency due to this presence, 1 propose to consider the state of the Union lo-day, and to inquire what the duty is of every public man and every citizen in ihis the verv crisis of the Great Jievolution. It i now two years, sir, sir.ee Congress assembled soon after the Presidential ileciioti. A sectional anti slawiy party had . . . , . ' r i j tot succeeded through me lurms or i::e Constiiu-.ion. For the first time a IW .Ipnt 1. ,H..n Wn unon a . latform of 4 avowed hostility to an institution peeubar to nearly one half of the btates ot l5i3; Uuion, and had hims.df proclaimed that there was an irrepressible conflict because of that institution, between the Siate: and that the Union coul 1 not endure "part slave ami part f-ee." Congress nW, therefore, in the rr.idst of the prol' ur;t!e.?t ajitati.ui, not here, only, b.:t thrjughoat tt3 entire South. R.v.Imi.,!i glared ipon. us Repeated elVorts for coneil'.ation and cnmpremlte Were attempn d .in CVngr ; and out of it. Ail v eie rejected by the p irty -ust coming into power, exeepi o:;ly ihe prou.i.si in the Ia-.t hour of she esv.on, atnl that, too, a aiiist tlu? con ;e:.t of a ini-j j ri'y of that j -arty l:h in the Senate and llou-e, that C-.n'.:r.-.- i.ot the J'xeciitive l.onbl n-v r b'-; aulf.oilzvd to jtboli it or tiierieie wi.h slavery in tie. t'ni'c- wheie .! t-xij:i-!. -o'itli C.tloü "a (-ee'!".l; (J.u ...I, ; ... 1 .!. f ... g;,i una ;ii.d T X is Kp tli!y t I!ivf.!. '; C'.mf-dera'.e (i.wniiu'nl uad e ab;t!.ed. the ot'ier slave Slates held b ' it ji'.i l d mi!i(leu h Piat:e Coi'iess. Tl.e Coin ini-ii.ers nit, ami, after t-oino titiie. au'eed ir on Uriiis of final adjustment. is ' Uut neilhir in the Senate nor the House wire they allowed even a respectful consideration. The President elect, h fl hid h)me in Febiuary, and journeyed toward I e capital, jesting as he came; pioclaiuiing thai the crisis was only artificial, and that ,4iicIm dy Ains hurt.'' He entered tili citv of Washington under cover of oiht and in digui.sa. On the 4th of M indi lie was inaugurated, sui rounded by soldiery; and swearing to support the Constitution uf ih United State, announc ed in the in breath, that the platform oi Lis party should be the law unto him. From that mom i t all hope of peaceable adjustment fed. Rut for a little while, either with unstea l f .st sincerity, or in preuud.t..ted diceit, llle poln y of peace wa-p:-clalio-d, even to the evacuation id l l. Sumptrr, and the other ledeial forts and arsenals in the seceded Sia'.es. Why that policy was suddenly abandoned, time will fully disclose. Rut just after the spring elections, and the secret meeting in ihis ciiy of ihe Governors of several Northern and Western Jftites, a fleet wass;nt down, ostensibly to provision Fort Sumpter. The authorities of South Carolina eagerly accepted the challenge, and bombarded the fort into surrender, while the fleet fired not a gun, batjudas soon as the flag, was 6truck, bore away and relumed to the North. It was Sunday, ihn 1 till day of April, 1?C1; and that day the President, in fatal haste and without the consent or advice of Congress, issued his proclamation, dated the next day, calling out 6eventy-flvc thousand mil'tia for three months, to repossess the forts, places and property seized from the United States, and commanding th insur gents to disper.-e within twenty days. Again the gage was taken up by the South and thus the llamas of a civil war, the eratidest, the bloodiest and 6addest in his loiy, lighted up the vholo heavens, and Viruinia forthwith seceded, North Caroli w Ii, Tei.iiesfeeo and Aikanas followed. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Mis souri were in a blaze of agitation, and. within a week from the proclamation, the line of the Confederate States was trans feired from the Cotton States to the Po tomac, and almost to the Ohio and Mis souri, and their .populatiou and fightin men doubled. In the .North and West, too, the storm raged with the fury of a hurricane." Nev-

laymen, were all swept along with the current. Distinction of age, sex, station, party, perished in an instant. Thotiands bent before the tempest; and here and there only was one found foolhardy enough it may have been, to bend not, and upon him it fell as a consuming, fire. The spirit of persecution lor opinions t-al.e, almost extinct in the Old World, now, by some mysterious transmigration, appeared incarnate in the New. Social relations weie dissolved; f'-iendships were brokeu up; the ties of family and kindred snapped asunder. Stripes and h inging were everywhere threatened, sometimes executed. cassi. nation invoked; slander sharpen d his tooth; falsehood crushed truth to theenrth; reason fled; madness reigned. Not justice only escaped to the skiea, but p ace re turned to the bosom of Mod, whence she came. The gospol of love per shed; hate sat enthroned, and the sacrifices of human blojd smoked upon every altar. But the renn of the mob was inauirurated only to be supplanted by the iron doniiniiion of aibhrary powers. Coiististiuitional limitaton was broken down; habeas corpus fell; liberty of the press, of speech, of the p. rson, of mails, of travel,

i nf one's own lioiiso nnd of n-li'rlonr the i ' to Wai" a,n,3 d;,e F üt' jdicUI ul- ulA b.V jnry. trial at all; every badge and muniment of freedom in repubi: . i.: i.. J . ' a:i weuv muvn ai a oiow, u.e cniei .aw oifieerofthe crewn I beg pardon, sir, but it is easy to fall into this courtly language the Attorney General, first of all men, proclaimed in the United States the maxim of Roman severity: Whatever pleases tiir Rrident, taat is law! Prisoneis of State er then n"rt heard of her?. Travel var; inter llcted; '.ra le embargoed; pas--ports djiuan!cd; Ra-ti'.ca were intro duv-ed; stiMti je oaths invented, a secret olice organiz "d: "piping" bega:i; informers multiplied; spies now firt appeared m America. The ri.cht to leclare war, to rNi.se Mid support armies, and to provide and iur.iut.aii a navy was usurped by i.'n President; atid in a little mote tl.au two months a naval and land force of over f .1 t !........ .1 ... :.. .t.. iinriM nunoie.i iiiuumuu inen eiu .11 n;u lield or upon the ex. An army of public plunderers followed, and corruption struggled with power, in friendly stri.'o for the liu.stery tit ho. i.e. "Fijh?, ta', t mar.cl .'te, ht the -o, said the gentleman from Maine, (Mr Pike.) at t'ie lad session, hi the- trinty of our sa!yation." S r. tl.ey have become the trinty cd" your de p damnation. Tha war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and cosily fail. ire. 'ihe President confessed it on llie 'JM of S.ptemb.r, solemly, o'lleially, and under the broad seal of the United Slates. And h; has now repeated the confession. Tin priests an 1 rabbles of Abolition taught him that Cod would not prosper such a cause. Yar for the Union was abandoned; war for tho negro openly b" nin. and with stronger battalions than before. Willi what success? Let the dead at Fredei ieksburg and Yicksburg answer. And now sir can this wnr cotitniue? W he nee the money to carry it on? Wluro tl.e men? Can Von borrow? From whom? Can you tax more? Will the peojde bear it' W;.k till you have ecl-l-cted what is alieady levied. How many millions more of "legal tender" to-day forty one per cent, below the par of gold can you float.' Will men enlist now at my price? Ah, feir, it is easier lo die at home I bog pardon; but 1 hope I am not iiscouragiiig enlistments." if 1 am, then firs, arrest Lincoln, Stanton and Halleek, and some of our other Generals, and 1 will retract; yes, 1 will recant. Rut can you draft again? Aek Nsw England New York. Ask Massachusetts. Where are the nine hundred thousand.' Ask not Ohio the Noithwest. She thought ou were in earnest, and gave you all, all more than you demanded. "The wife whose Labe fust smiled that day, '1 he fair, loud bride of yester eve, Andajcd sire und matron gray, raw the loved wunWrf ha.ae away, And deemed it bin to grieve." Sir, in blood she has atoned for her credulity; and now ihe re is mourning in everv house, and distress and sadness in every heart. Shall she give you any more." There never was an hour from tho be ginning when it ('id not seem to me a cl-iar as the un at noon, that the agitation in any form in the North und West of the slavery question mut sooner or later end in disunion and civil war. This was the opinion und prediction for years of Whig and democratic statesmen alike; and hftei the unfortunate dissolution of tho Whig party tu 1S54, and the organization of the present Republican party upon an exclu sive anti slavery and sectional basis, the event was inevitable; because, in tho then

canvass for twenty years, of a generation taught to hate slavery and the South, tinsuccess of that party, possessed ss it was of every engine of political, business, so. cial and religious influence, was certain It was ordy a question of time, and a short time. Such was its strength, indeed, that I do not believe that the Union of the Democratic party in lSGOon any candidate, even though he had been supported also by the entire so called const, rvative or anti-Lincoln vote of the country, would have availed to defeat it, and if it had, the success of the Abolition party would only have been postponed four years longer. The disease had fastened too strongly upon the system to be healed until it Lad run it3 course. Ti e doctrine of the 'irrepreösibl conflict" had been taught too long and accepted too widely and earnestly to die out until il should culminate in secession and disunion; and, if coercion were resorted to then in civil war. I believed from the first that it was tho purpose of some of the apostles of that doctrine to lorce a collision between the North and the South, cither to bring about a separation or to find a vain but bloody pretext for abolishing slavery in the States, lu any event, I knew, or thought ! knew, that the end wa3 certain collision and death to the Union. To resume: the session of Congress expired. The Presidentelect was luaugurat;d; and now, if only the policy of non-coercion could be maintained, and war thus averted, lime wou'd do its work in the North and the South, and final, peaceable adjustment and reunion be secured. Some lime in March it was announced that the President had resolved to continue the policy of his predecessor, and even go a step further, and evacuate Sumter and the other Federal forts and annuals in tho seceded States. His own pr.rty acquiesced; the whole country rejoiced. Tho policy of noli coercion had triumphed, and for ouco s.ir, in my life I found myself in an immense majority. No mar. then pretended that a Union founded in consent could be cemenLd by lorce. N.iy, more, the President and the Secretary of State vent fur tlivr. S.iid Mr. Sowanl, in an efliJal diplomatic lüUer to Mr. Adams: "For these rcaao.:s he (the Pre:deui) would not be disposed to reject a cardinal dogma of theits, (tho S.-ces'oi.i-'.s.) namely, that the Federal Government could not reduce ihe seceding Slate; to obedience by conquest, although ho were dispofc.nl tquestion that proposition. Rut in fact ihe President willingly accepts it as true. Only an imperial or des po tits government could subjugaio thoroughly disaffected and insurrectionary members of the State." pArdon me, kir, but I beg U know whether this conviction of the President and his Secretary is not tho philosophy ot tho President and most vigorous efforts made by this Administration, and first of all through this same Secretary, the mo

ment war broke out, and ever since till the late elections, to couveit the United Stateinto an imperial or despotic Government! Rut Mr. Seward adds, and I agiee with him: "This Federal Republican systeki cl ours U, of all hums of government, ti e verv one which is most tin lilted for such a ltbor." This, sir, was on the- l Olli of April, and yet that very day tho fleet was under sa: for Charleston. The policy of peace had been abandoned. Collisit.ni followed; the militia were tudeied out; civil war begoi Now, hir, on the l Lh of April, 1 Lc iievod thai coercion would bring on ra . and war d.snnion. More than that; 1 be lleved, what you all in your hearts ht Have to-day, that the S ulh could never boconqucrcJ never. And not that only; but I w;ü satisfied ani ou of tho Abohiion party have now proved it to th woild that the secret but real purpose ! the war was to abolish slavery In th States, lu any event, I t!J not doubt lha whatever might be the momentary im pulne of those in power, and whatevei pledges they ni ght make in the midst oi tlieir fury for the Constitution, ihe Union and the fl ig, yet tho natural and lntXiia biologic of levolulious would, sooner or later, drive them to that policy, and w.tl. it to its final bat inevitable rcoilt, the change of our promt democratiial foiin of Government lato an imperial despo tism. And now, sir.I refer to the Siato of the Union to-day. Wh it i it? Sir, twenty months have elapsed, but the rebellion inot crushed out; its military power h inot been broken; tho insurgents have not dispersed. The Union is not restored; nor the Cansiilution main lined; nor the laws enforced. Twenty, sixty, ninety, three hundred, dx hundred days have passed; a thousand millions b en expended; and three hundred thousand lives lost or bo 1

many times, than at the beginning. Not a State has been restored, not any portion of any State has voluntarily returned to the Union. And has anything been wanting that Congress, or the States, or the people in their most generous enthsiasm, their most impassioned patriotism, conlu bestow? Was it powei.' And did not tho party of tho Executive caitrol the entire Federal Government, every State Government, every county, every city, town, and villago in the North and West? Was it patronage? All belonged to it. Was it influence? What more? Did not the school, the college, the church, the press, the secret orders, the municipality, tho corporalion, railroads, telegraphs, e xpress com pa uic3, tho voluntary associations, all, yield il to the utmost? Was it unanimity? Never was an Adminh-dtation so supported in England or Ameiica. Five men and half a score of new p ipers made-up the opposition. Was it enthusiasm? The enthusiasm was fanatical. There has been nothing like it sinco the Crusa les. Was it confidence? Sir, the faith of the people e. tieeded that of the pat parch. They gave up Constitution, law, right, liberty, all at yo ir demand for arbitrary power, that the rebellion might, as you promised, bo crushed out in throe month-, and the Union restored. Was credit needed? You took control of a country, young, vigor otis, and inexhaustible in wealth and resources, and of a Government almost free from public debt, and whoso good name had never been tarnished. Your great nalional loan bubble failed miserably, as it deserved to fall; but the bankers and merchants of Philadelphia, New York, and R stoti lent you more than their entire bal king capital. And when lhat failed too. you forced credit by deelating your paper promises to pay a legal tender for all (Lbts. Was money wanted? You h;:d nil the revenu3s of the United Stales, diminished indeed, but feiill in gold. Tho whole wealth of ihe country, to tha laU dollar, lay at yorr feet. Private individual-, mur.icipal corporations, the State governments, all in their frenzy gave vcu money or

in? tins with reckless prodigality. The great Eastern cities lord you 8150,000,000. Congress voted first, the sum of 250, OJ'0,000, and next 8500,000,000 more in loan?, and then first, 50,000,000, then ?3 10,000,000, next $90.000,000, aud, iu July ht, 150,000,000 in Trea-nry notes; aad the Secietary has issued also a "pa-j-er post ige currency," in sums as low as five cents, li anted in amount only by his disci etion. Nay, more, already since lha lib ' of July, tlds House has ap propriated 400,000,000, almost every dollar without debate, and without a recorded vote. A thousand millions have been expended since tho 15:h of April, 1801; and a public debt or liability of $1,500,000,000 already incurred. And to sapport all this stupendous outlay and in-b-'btedness, a system of taxation direct and indirect, has been inaugurated, the most onerous and unjust ever imposed upon any bat a conquered people. Money at d credit, then, you have had in prodigal profusion. And were men wanted. More than a million rushed to rms. Seventy-five thcusand first, (aud tha country stood aghasl at ihe multitude,) then eighty -three thousand moie were demanded, and three hundred and ten thouStud responded to the call. Tho Piesii lent next asked for four hundred thou sand, and Congress, in its generous conti It nee, gave him five hundred thou-and. ind not to be outdone, he took six bunI red and thirty-seven thou-and. Half of hese melted away in their first campaign; an 1 the President demanded three hundred .houaud more for the war, and then drafted vet another three hundred thousand lor nine months. The fabled hosts of Xerxes liavo bed outnumbered. And yH victory irangely follows the standard td the f. e. Fiom Gieal llethel to Yicksburg', the bat tie htts not been to the strong. Yet every disaster, except the la-t, has been followed by a call for more troops, ami every time so far they luve been promptly faruiehed. From the beglning the war has been condueled like a political campaign, and .t has Icon Ihe lolly of tho party iu ower that they have assumed that numheia alone would win the field in a contest not with ballots but with musket and swoid. Hut numbers von have had "almost without number tho I arges, best Mppointed, best aimed, fed, and clad host of brave men, well organized and well disciplined, ever uiarhalled. A navy, too, not tho most formidable, perhaps, but ihe most numerous and gallant, and the costliest in the world, and against a foo almost without a niw at all. A common interest ctill lemains: to us. As Union for tho common defense, at ihe end of ihe war, taxed, indebted, impoverished, exhausted, as both sections must be.

ion our domestic tranquility must forewr

remain unsettled. If it cannot be maintained within tho Union, how then outside of it. Sir, I repeat that two govern men's interlinked add bound together every way by physical and social ligaments, cannot exist in peac6 without a common arbiter. Will treaties bind us? Whnt better than the Constitution? What more durable? Shall wo settle our disputes, then, by arbitration and compromise? Sir, let us arbitrate and compromise now, inside of tl e Union. Cettalnly it will be quite as easy. And now, sir, to all these original causes and motives which impelled to union at first, niU3t be added ceitain artificial ligament, which eighty years of association under a common Government have most fully developed. Chicfmoiig these j are canals, steam navigation, railroad, express companies, the postofliee, ti e j newspaper prees, and that terrible agent of good and evil mixed '"'spirit of health, atid yet goblir. damned'' if ftee, the gei-tle.-t minister of ruin and liberty; when enslaved, the supp'.iest instrument of fa'sehool and tya ny t' e magnetic telegraph. All these have multiplied the speed or the quantity of trade, travel., communication, migration and intercourse of all kinds be- ... tweeri the different States and sections; and thus, so long as a healty condition of the body-politic continued, they becarus powerful cementing agenciis of union. The numerous voluntary asso -iations, artiftic, literary, cha; liable, social and scientific, uniil corrupted aad made lanatictl; the various ecclesiastical onganizations, until they divided; and the political parties, so long a they remained all national and not sectional, were also among the sarong ties whieh bourtd us together. And yet all of j these, perverted and abused for some years iu the hands of bad or fanatical men, be-! came still more powerful instrumentalities in the fatal work of disunion; just as the veius and aiteries of ihe human body, designed lo convey the vitalizing fluid O J through every par of it, will carry also, and with increased rapidity it may be, the subtle poison w hich takes life away. Nor is this all. It was through their agency that the imprisoned winds of civil war were all let Iooe at first with such su l!e:i atnl appaulling lury; and, kept in motion by polilual power, they have ministered to that fury every tincc. But, potent alike for good and evil, they may yet under the control of the j cople, and in the hands of w ise, good and patriotic men, be made the most effective agencies, under Providence, in the reunion cf iheae States. Other ties als?, less materia! in their rature, but hardly less persuiaive, have grown up under the Union. Long association a common history, national reputation, and diplomie intercoutsa abroad, admision cf now States, a common jurisprudence, gretat men whoso names and fame are patrimony of tho w hole country, patriotic music and songs, common butilefields, and ülory won under the same flag ! 1 j i these make up tho poetry of ihe Union, and yet, a.? iu the marriage relation, ai d ! the family with similar influences, they are stronger than hooka of steel, lie was a wise statesman, though ho may never have held an oHlce, who Bttid, '"Let me write the songs of the people, and I care not whoniakea their laws." Why is the Marsellai.se prohibited iu France? Sir, Hail Columbia and tbs Star JSpangleJ Ratirer Pennsylrania gave us one, and Mary'and the other hve done more for the Union than all the legislation and ali tl o d.daina in this capitol for forty years; a:id they will do more yet again than all your armies, though you call out another million of men into the field. Sir I would add "Yankee Rodle," but first let me 1 e assured lhat Yankee Doodle loves tl.e Unioumore than he hates the sl iveholder. i3iiUt::lc in I lie :otli-.vc.; EScv olulicuury .ISoi i ir.cnl )T AliuIItio!it.t. I roui the N. Y. Journal uf Commerce, Jan. 27. There exists in several States of ihe Northwest- partieularty iu Indiana, Illinois, Ohio,. Mid Wisconsin a condition of thing-' which mud uion cause alarm, unlets iho tendency of public cntiuent there receives a sudden check. Not. only is there expressed a deep dissatisfaction with tho general government, but the course of soma of the leading newspapers i calculated to fan the embers ol discord into a devouring llama. It is already common to see m piint 6ueh Words as "civil war," "revolution," "secret ai mine of ihe population," &e with an occasional suggestion that certain efiaototy members of ihe legislative bodies should bo arrest ed, with other recommei dations of extreme measures. In fact, the violence of piriisan stnio is equal to anything which pio caded tho rupture between ihn North and bouth. iho Chicago 1 nbune is in every senso revolutionary. A few day ago, the lollowing menance t)f anotlier secession was thrown out iu the leading columns ol that piper:

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zati ons that are possible' as the Con-e.p.eu ce of the present revolt it is necessary f r the West to make an eleciiou where bl.e will go, she will become an append of neither the Middle States nor of the South. She will declare her independe.i. e and right here in the h, a. t 1 the nent, the postor of eh 'fi .e,! s-'l :.. I the bcM fiimv.e in the h n.i : !.e: . , v. i.l. more than ten mii'ions of p !. i.-l prospect of a rapid increase, wi'i ..i...: an empire thai wid d 'mi iat over u i .:!; er faction? of the republic, a id h h vo.i have the power to compel the, op-d half a dozeti routes to the tile w.er u ., . terms and conditions that we now 1 for in vain." AH this because of the terms of G-v. Seymuor's message, ar.d the fact that the tool received by New Yoik Sia'.e on western produce are thought to be exce-s-.-ive. The same journal, on tha '2-A iust. charged that a scheme w i3 on fool in thi Lcgidaturo of lli -t Slate, to tako control of tha military ot of the hauls of tho Governor and vest it in a board of usurpers, accompanying ihis a-seritja with the remark that it may be in the power of the Copperhea Is (democrat.) -to Iiht tho torch of civil war in liliti-.iv" This is only an illusion of the spirit with which po litical controversies are being conducted in some of tho no; th we-tcrn States, whieh we give, that attention may be directed to tho subject and the public forewarn. d. That editor who, in lids critical period, win n strong passions are easily excited, will deal so reckless in fierce virtuperat'on, kindling partisan animosity, and embi.tering sectional jealousy, is either strangely blind to the conequences whieh may nsue or is wholr i.idilL'rent to the publ.c weal. The Springfield (111 ) correspondent of the ano journal speaking of the designs of what he is ph-aeed to call the "ee ession movement" iu tho Legislature of li.a' Slate, says: lts object is the establishment .t' m great slaveholding Coufedeia -v, to tik in as many fre? and border iav S a es a po sihle, and extend its se.ay .v r th countries bordering on il e i.;a" oi M x'- t and the islands of tl.e .;me I ti-Jl I people of the S ato of Ilür.ois th i , in i event of ihe recogn.tio ot the S u . which tho leading aied coi.ttoli,. 1. u. - crats c osider tin f'wt accntt-h ". I have a desperate atid peri ap. !! o i . s.i j gle to pievent this Slate itoni beug lathed thereto." The St. Louis Democrat al-o due 1:1. about "revoluiioii in Illinois,' on account of a proposed amend:. 'ent of ihe t u tion, remarking :;s follows: "In view of thee fects i is p'aa. to be seen lhat a ciiis of te litt K- i- p.-i ai-e- il' ihe cotnfpitaliTs do not puts it: h- t work, is ap reaching in th.- ;t! io- of sister Sta'.e ol Illinois. Upo-: (; i and j eiqile alike will ret a firMiI ie : s i"-''- The (iovtu nor is ple.ige i i( . . ...... oath ofoHiee to defend and m ti .'ai constitution. Sueh a direct and pa1.. assault upo. i its provisions as ap;-:o- i be in contemplation by its en mi s chuuo; fiil to escape his notice and demand hiinterpositioa by all the power hep .s-ess? s " la Indiana tire tgis'alu'e i- in 1 ke man ner agitated I y parti an debate. Gov. Morton professes to have infotma ion ih.it secret political organiza Jons in ;.i St-t'e are seeking ihe overthrow of the gov-:. ment, nnd with numbers suflieient to e cito apprchensi.Tiis on his pa?t, n t o.dy in regard to Indiana, but all ihe Nortiiwc torn States. Tho Indianapolis Sentitei, among the most ic'iable j;:ii'.a! it t! e State, 6:us no sane man can b.lhve fu h a statement, but add-: 'There are creditable rumors all at that the republicans are oegviizing secret societies in different parts of the State, aad that the members are bein furnished villi arras. "What can be theoeeasim r.t.d what the purpose, of such org iaizaii..ti? lias ihe Governor made any flrt to as certain the character, numbers aid object. of theso rqmh.ieati secret clab? 1 he favoring a policy, the flVt c,f wh cli wdl be to orgvilz oppo'-ing stcrel clubs throughout the Slate, to create f-ction among tha people, and whi.-di will result in bitter aud peihaps anguinaiv feudsr"' 'If the governor and th- sa i ftnth(;.r would exercise their power and in 'ut-ncti to protect the citizen i.i .ill ,- Co al rights, to secure sha hbm th - yt,.. iho freedom of speech ;.nd" tin i,:.t i' y t f the l alh t box there will be no a t t justification for the peo, h-,Ml;z; :, any way for the proiiction I .b -and Privileg s guaianteed by ih o u law of the State and the ,,;;, ji does excite alarm when arbiiiatv .i, are made nnd citizens a,e ,j homo and imprisoned for p di-i-l ..M.n alone, and it is a uflki.nt m i. , .1 . enlertci taili ng politichUrn inji,. I -,

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