Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 April 1863 — Page 1

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Ks 'Timo ;XaJbleH. t.f Ft. W. & C. li. R. Tlihe, Tabic. . WINTFR ARRANGEMENT. btriRTCKK o .tsaihs from tltmoctii statiox. EASTWARD BOUND TRAINS. t)T Express" and Mail 11:18 A.M. Nicht Express,.... 10:21 P. M. Past Stock.'.'. 5:30 P. M. Lire Stock and Er. Freight 11:40 P. M. Local Freight, ....... 12;20 P. M. WK.H'jIRD bound trains. Dar Express in. , 7:02 P. M Night ExrreM,.. 6:4IA,Cl Wl Freight. r'-mmi:SF'l Tfaroujh Freight. . -..3.6 A.M. rut Freight, ....3:05 P, M. S.U. EDWARDS, Agent. C I. R. It. Time Table. S-U JIM ERHARR A NG E M ENT. . EASTWARD. LtTC La Porte, daily ;.8:43 A. M. (3huUts Lxcepted;)i . - Arrive at Plymouth, .....1030 A. M. r"1 ' WESTWARD. wTiwotK.V..: .;.3:oo t. m. Arrive at La Porte -.4:M P. M. Trains run br La Porte time, which' is kept at K. 'ip Jewelry stote, and is 15 minutes slower than P., Ft. W. & C. R. R. time. . , II. R. DRUL'INER.Sitpt. lAttorncyH. ; REEVE Si CAPROS, AttorneTtand Notarie?, PI; r mouth, Morshall Co., Ind., practicein Marshall ami adjoining counties. Rti-rnsto Bibcock k Co., Phelps, Dodc Co.,Ner York, Cool-y,Farwcll Co.,Gor'd A Bro.. Chicago, Lou Ion & Co., Phila., Gr 1 Utaettp & Ce.,Pittburh, Hon. A. Li Oibocr, Circuü Ju'le, Laport, Ind. " JOHN 3. BENDED.-. AtUru4r at. Law and'Real .Estate Age'nt, Knox, ETnax. Ind. ' - - Collections, Tax pavine'and examination of Tili', promptly attended to. nJ-IT D.I. T. A. BORTONi Phficinind Surzeon, office on Michigan street, wctid.orer Hill' Bakery, where he may be oainltsi darin offic hours. J.J V1NALL. KaaiopathiePhyiician. Particularattrntionpaid t ohitetrie practic, xni chronic dineases f ironea.n llNcai'SO-f chililren. office over C. Palrarr' jtore, corner Michigan and Laporte tiret?.whohe nia? he consulted at all hours: J ' ' . - DB. O. BAIRO, -fSraJnat f Je.fTfrion M. licl College.) residae mi olBea'tiearShiTl's.MiHrlk-e.meii, Ind".. Dcntiwtry. DR. A. O- BOFtTON. Sarrean )?nti.-t. PJTwmth, Ihdiana. Whole or p trtiaUtt. of Tet!uin?rted on the most ap- ' Tr'k.-i .'Itn. 'SpoeRil attention p:tid to the rrrT.ttioM ofthc natural teeth, and irreularitT of C'.tilJrfii' teeth corrected. Fans and 11 n.r-i!t tct? ietrA:td or without Chlon'rm. Cn he coniUrd at hiwflirt at any time f T;)toTi Mondar au-1 Ttiedv i i M c!ii''n itrj'., wet ude, over lKr Dker . ,y,f j 1 Iotcls. HOUSE. Lir-.l, Troprietor. i. In 1. , W-.-. c. T lard xai ' rtV B'.- DICKSON' & Co. , ; a hnlwar. of cerv description, alio, , tiu, ie-t;.rn, and i-opper WAre. BUCK iL TO AN, .r in TfirJrare of rcry deiicnptirtn, and mnuf.4Cti4rer: nf Tin, ShtCt-Iron and Copperwtre, Micli4i. street. Drv fiootln Ac Grocoriex. J BnoWNLEE, -'ilfrin J-vwoodii of a!l kind, eropries, ware? c., Michi n trt, Plymouth, Ind. C. PAMER. VJei'cria Dry flood, Grocerie, etc., south side La Porte treet. " N J333AU.Vir&. DAVIDSON. -a'eria Crocertcs and Prorisieiu, east side of i Hichi;n street. liootf.&. HIiocm. E. PAUL. ü-l-rin hosan 1 hoes. mAnufACtuia all kind of h me wrk i. his line, Michigan street, Ply mouth. Ind. G- BLAIN U Co. Drugitand confectioners, west side of Michigan treet, Plymouth, Ind. T. A. LEMON, Da!r in Jrus, mdicine?, notions, literary TAagar.ine. papers, etc., nerth aide Lapoite atrt, Plymouth, Ind. Watlimukr. JOHN M HOEMKER. Dealer i a tches, clocks and jewelry, Plymouth In 1., Veep' constantly on hand clocks, watches ri pins, ear rins, fiuger rings, lockets, etc Cloeks anl watohes, etc., repaired in the bes niaantr possible. MICH XEL GINZ, lr1er and hair dresser, (Wet side Michigan treet orfr P;tUerons store) Plymouth, ,Ind. Cfrvthincin the above buainessattended to by e m the best style. TVnjffoimmlcliijr. C HASLANGER &, BRO S, Mifcturers of wagons, carriages etc. Black Smithing, painting nod graining done to order . f N. B. KLINGER. roritor V.Ruckeye Lirery.V opposite Edwards I ui?, Plymouth, Ind. n27Iy y Tl'i ' -1- . -. , - T. Mcdonald, itltc Jt and notary public, office io lea! -i'inw - hardware store, Plymouth, Ind. '"Hw dted-, mortgage, bond, and agree i i.i. selh ?anJs, cxaininestitleeand furnishes -rctiof the aatne, payataxesand redeem lai t9?dfvrt7xes

BEMQGRATIC STATE MASS MEETING AT INDIANAPOLIS, -Wednesday, 20th or Jlaj-, 1863. The Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana, in response to numerous

i suggestions made to its members by citi zens of the .various counties, do most respectfully and cordially inyile their political friends, and all -others who -sympathize in their, views for the preservation of our Government, to assemble in Mass Convention at INDIANAPOLIS, on Wednesday, the 20th olMXay, next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., there to consider the questions which now agitate the public mind, and totake ?uch counsel together as will most certainly secure the blessings of Liberty, Peack and Unitt to our distracted country. In making this call the Committee ts not unmindful that great and weighty reasons exist for the assemblage of the people of Indiana at an earlier day; but after a careful consideration of all the circumstan ces involved, it is deemed best to postpone the proposed Convention till after seedtime and planting, when those who ought and will share in its deliberations shall bare committed to the earth that which Will,' under God s blessing, produce a harvest to those who toil. The laboriug thousands of our State have the largest interest in all that ' concerns the nation's well-being. The Committee have, therefore, fixed the meeting at a time when the implements of husband rj can be laid aside for a few days, without material detriment or inconvenience to the great agricultural interests of the State. When the Committee had before the 'pleasure of '-calling' an ' assemblage of the people to-Indianapolis, on the SUth.day of July, 13.2,-it was responded -to by an outpouring of the people such as has never been equalled in this State. That Con vention was the harbinger of hope tc thousands, and citireus.from every portion of Indiana pom cd td the Capital.' It was a grand and imposing manifestation that the popubir .mind was aroused, for nothing short of deep and earnc6t conviction that public liberty was endangered, could hare brought together so vest a multitude. The results ofthat Convention were most, auspicious. "An overwhelming national victory was the consequence in October, and Indiana, true to her ancient faith. eh-r-o11i.il liarir n lln kii.1i. r f flia I Tn Win ' wustr.u'.ion, Liberty a.ia Law. ller peoj pie sent iiitop.jlilio.il exita a nnj uity of those who hud disregarded their wishes, and rebuked many who had tampered with the sacred purpose of restoring the Union i as il L':t the peopld again record i their vows, thai this high and holy pur1 nn;c si Till li accomDlialu'd. a;id that no other Union none but the Union made by Washington, MAnrsoy, and thoir cotemporaries shall hare a j laca in their atlVctiom. Wo exhort you, fellow countryman, to corao together in the spirit-of patriotic deire, and resolve to pat aside erery sentiment but lovo for the sacred piinciplos of your Government. Come up as on man, with your a fractions placed upon the ConsTiTurioN, aud incited by a firm resolutisn that its great muniments ol Liberty shall be preserved for yourselves and your posterity forever. Claim all jonr rights uivler that Constitution, but claim no more. Assume no obligations unknown to it; but stand forward with the high prerogatives of that noblest o! all lilies, "American citi zen." That is your forest defense. In the language of (Jen. Cakrington, Military Commandant of this District, in his late add res to the people of Indiana: " Tie hallot hoxand open debate mark a free people. Trust them. .That which shuns the light of day should not be endured by you. Come out adjure their vows reject their tests. Whatever their r.atne, whatever your parly, seek the old paths, and work a you once did, agreeing- to disagree upon question of mere party pol icy, but ever united m support of the Government and the nation." These words reach the heart, and will be re-echoed by the noble Democracy who have heretofore fought audj vanquished the. dark spirit which brooded over the Know -Nothing Lodges of Indians. That secret political organization endeavored to entomb both personal and religious liberty in one Common grave. The leaders of lh dark conspiracy against your Cgnstittitianal rights, thin, are at the head of the -'Leagues" now formed to give new hopes to the Hepubli. can party. The ballled conspirator of 1353, in their atteu pis to overthrow the Constitution,-are today getting up ntw rows and testa against you and your fel-loir-citizens throughout the land. Tbey again invoke the pells and ine.antationa, of the ipirit of darkness; ind under the plea of "loyalty" and "Union,' are a second time seeking to orerthrow the constitutional liberties of the people. Their "Leagues" are understood, and their ef orte will pot succeed. The smell of

Know-Nothing intolerance is upon thair. garments. It is the old faction under a new name. But the Democratic party has

no need of such' helps. Its principles do I not shua the light of -Hay. Their longcherished doctrines are the recorded teachings of the early Father?, " and while the glory shed by that record shall remain, we claim no higher political salvation than that which our Constitution confers upon the people. That vie will assert. It is your birth right and ours, and come what may, we will defend it. Let us respect the laws and aid those in authority to uphold them. Some of these enactments grate harstly upon the ear of the Nation. Under a wise Administration they would havebeen unnecessary. Without proulamatious there would have been no need of conscriptions. Let us look at thirrgs as they are. We lament, but cannot avoid their efTects. Gen. Carrinotok has eloquently and truly said in his address to the people: Resistance to the arrest of deserters is another form of resistance to law, and a sure road to anarchy and bloodshed. Law must be respected until repealed. Deny its policy, if you will. Labor for its repeal, if you will. Hut resistance is madness, because it it your own law it is your own law it is your own peace and your own government .you threaten and when your turn comes to legislate you will have undermined yonr own rights; and when anarchy rules, liberty dies. The coming spring election?, occurring at a time of unusual excitement, call for notice, as false impressions prevail as to tbe duty or intent of the soldier. The soldier, at home, votes, as does any other citizen. If absent, he must be content to leave his civil rights in the charge of others. When voting, he must go Vo his duty .unarmed, as dies every good citizen. lie is'aworn to maintain law, and is the last man to interfere with the rights of others; and the riht of the people proptrly to express their will by the ballot box u sacred and inviolable, and must be kept so." Most qordially do we adopt this language of Gen. Carrington, and . commend it to the approval and admiration of the people of Indiana. The HentimT nts arc honorable to his heart aa a soldier. Thev are more: They are worthy of a statesman. : Men of Indiana! Come up to the Con Vention aB patriots, not us parltsang. Assemble to heal and not to open the wounds of the Nation. This is your mission. As your public Servants stagger under the weight of their own follies, it is for you to uphold the temple of well-regulated Liberty and Law. The Government is on your shoulders, and you must preserve it, r c it . ni f . i or u iaiH. ims is your country, anu whatever evils afflict it, must be borne by yourselves and your posterity. It is your duty to preserve it from social disorder. Aa the Administration becomes reckless, vascillating and coriupt, you must ' be calm, considerate and determined. Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet are men of a day populations and Stat exist lorever. Your fathers left you a good heritage of free institutions You are ila custodiaris of that sacred treasure. Neglect nothing necessary to secure their perpetuity, and do no act which will hazard their peaceful preservation. This is a Government of consent, and the .majority must be heard and respected. It is a Government of constitutional rights, too. No man and no party can infringe uprn or overturn these rights without becoming false to the people, and they will ultimately punish those who assail them. It is, as well, a Government of laws, and they are held sacred until modified or repealed. Unlike the despotism of the Old World, thee laws, in a Republic, are already abrogated, and they give way to a higher sentiment of constitutional Governmtnt. They are subject to the direct controi "if the citizen. Two and four yeate only are " required to undo the works of faithless representatives and correct tho edicts and proclamations of ah unwise Executive. In the life of a great Nation, this is but an hour. Time hastens on, and the people milst work while it is called today. The Rebels at Richmond and the Radicals at Washington are fat exhausting the Nation. Another two year's war will roll up a debt whieh generations can never pay. The extrems nren ih goth sections have their hands on the throats of the people, and neither jrill listen to tho voice' of reason or the appeals of patriotism Is there' no hope for a suffering country? All that we can peacefully accomplish is to dislodge those who stand in the way of an honorable peace. We want and will have no division of the States, and no division of the Union; bat tro demand the wise and patriotic counsels of those who are willing to preserve both in the spirit in which they were otiginally framed. You, fellow-countrymen, want the return of the peaceful days of your lathers, when the whole People, from the Arie took to the Sabine, "dwelt together io unity." You can only have it by a

change of AdminUtration and a change of ' Congress. The latter you have practically secured. The first you will accomplish in I8G4. The ballot-box will theo de-

clarc the National will. Re assured of its efficacy in the bands of a free People, and and doubt not the ultimate blessings of a restored Union, under the guarantees of your beloved Constitution. GEO. McQUAT, Chairman. James D. Williams, First District. M. C. Kekr, Second District. M. W. Shields, Third District. Georgs 1Iit3usx. Fourth District. Edmund Johnson, Fifth District. Jos. J. Bingham, Sixth District. Thob. Dowlino, Seventh District. R. S. Hastings, Eighth District. J. A. Taylor, Ninth District. S. W. SruoTT, Tenth District. J. R. CoVFORin, Eleventh District. Indianapolis, March 30, 18C3. Aboltion Treason. The New York Journal cf Commerce thu3 exposes the treason of the abolitionists: "When the war sras approaching, the abolitionists foresaw it as well as the constitutionals; but while the latter mourned, the former reioiced in it. And they in tended that, if possible, it should not be a war for the Union. The Tribune unhesitatingly espoused the5 causa of the South and not on! v' declared thet secession was right, but quoted and commented on the DeclaraiiDii of Independence as establishing the right, and promised openly its aid iu bringing it about successfully whenever there should be a vniled wish for it on the part of the Southerners. The Evening Post quietly ridiculed the idea of war, quoted Mother Goose's Melodies as the expon uts of iis doctrines, and chuckled complacenlly as they saw the country rushing on ruin. The Liberator dealt in ferocious denunciations of any one- who should subport the war until it was made an anti slavery war, published articles declaring that "obedience to such a government was treason to God," and openly discouraged enlistments for the war in the- most barefaced and violent publications. All this time the. anti-slavery leagues and societies were at work. Our readers will remember our various exDosures of the lita of names of editors of the Evening Post, Tribune, and Anti Slaverv Standatd in cloo fellowship, engaged in those designs for which one of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet advisors pronounced them -'aiders and abettors of the Southern Confederates." This terrible accusation was never even denied by the subjects of it. They accepted the statement, and silently admitted its truth. That they were such, then, no one doubts. Are they any less so now? Plot after plot, conspiracy after conspiracy, has been started by these radicals and put dowu by the bold front of calm, loyal conservatira. So many are these plots that half of them are forgotten. Whenever they feared that there was any prospect of saving the Union they became dosperate and held secret convenions to derisa treasonable plans of ruin. As early as October, 18til, tbey plotted here in New York, to call a mass convention of the people "for the purpose of sustaining Gen. Eremorit" and substituting him for Mr. Lincoln as President"' of the United States. In pursuaucs of this same intention they have held frequent secret' meettings since that tira?, many of which we know at the time they were hld, and all which were disloyal in spirit and object. The winter of 1851-2 was prolific of ?uch treasonable plots. But the constant difficulty was understood to bo the ambition of certain individuals which made it impossible to agree on any one man as the head of the revolution by which they proposed to superpodo Mr. Lincoln. On the 26 of January, 1662, the Tribune threw off the mask. "The nation is fighting for life, though all the paper constitutions on earth be scattered to the winds," eaid that paper; a;td again on the 2ijih of Januaiy, the Tribune eaid boldly: "We can honeotly say that for that old Union, which was kept in existence by Southern menances and Northern concessions, we have no regrets, and no wish for its reconstruction. Who wants any Union which oan only bo preserved by systematic wrong and organized political blunders Who wants any Union which is nothing but a sentiment to lacker Fourth of July orations withal" From that date forward the entire combination of papers referred to have with steadfast energy attacked the Constitution and opposed the idea of union. They have published countless articles on the policy of the President, on the Union, on Generals in tbe array, which, if published in conservative papra, would have consigned the editors to dungeons. Day after day for ranre than a year these combined enemies of the country, taking advantage o the existing war, having plotted the overthrow of the Constitution have

exerted every nerve to render Union hopeless, and to convince the people of this country that the Constitution is, as their old motto asserts, "a lengue with death, and a covenant with hell." They are now at work plotting peace by disunion. Men of America, you were sleeping when the enemy thus came into your citadel. You rcgaided that infamous motto of the American Anti-Slavery Society as a harmless phrase, an idle sound, meaningless words. Look around you and behold the terrible results of your mistake. There is no hamlet, no cottage in the land into which these enemies of your country have not crept with their vile doctrines, their treasonable publications. They shrink at nothing. They arc living falsehoods, calling themselves Uniouista whila on their hearts is burned, with the brand of their society, the horrible motto we have so often quoted. In the garb of news-veuders they poison your family circles with their treasonable doctrine?, and with their iusiduous attacks on the Union which you prize. They aro admitted to your social circles, your lyceums, your churches, your fireside gatherings calm faced men, pretending to be the most devoted patriots and they

j but wail the moment to whisper in tho ears of your children words intended to shake their faith in the old truths of the Constitution, the foundation principles ol the Union. And you, citizens, Americans men on whom the future of vour country depends are you still slumbering while they eow the seeds of distraction on nil the fair fields of your once glorious country? No, thank God, you are not slumbering! You are awake, and tho waking vision is most fearful. A land mourning around you are the incentives to earnest, loyal labor. From the far West we hear the shouts of waking millions. From the East the echo comes back. All around us men aio rallying to the Constitution, the hope of the laud, the only hope now. The radical conbp: racy is frightened, trembling, now rampant in rage, now submissive with fear. Thesii radical men must themselves be encouraged with the pledges of the restored power of the Constitution. Though but last week they were threatening contemporaries with suppression, they should be taught that the returning power of the law and tbe constitution is not to ba used for their suppression, but only to keep them within the safe rules of public morality and decency. And the country aska now that the principles of American constitutional liberty should be everywhere inculcated. In vain the radical combination teaches that "to teach the Constitution is treason." We have come iulo a new era since that idea could be forced on the people. Well may the. advocates of this worst of treasonable ideas tremble in view of the fact that all the country is awake and looking for constitutional instruction. If this change in the public mind had not occurred, if rad ical power over the popular intellect and pas ions had continued a few months longer, the constitutional President, Mr. Lincoln, would unquestionably have been deposed, the war ended by a dissolution of the Union, and anarchy or despotism es-' tablished in the Northern States. Now there is a prospect that the constitution will bo restored to power, the constitutional President be protected and sustained by a loyal, conservative, constitutional loving people, and the nation rescued from the radical disunionists. Arbitrary Arrvat in the Oldcii Time. In 1807 during the administration of President Tbomas Jefferson, in the Uurr conspiracy, a bill was introduced into the House of Representatives authorizing the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus for three mouths. Here is the way the bill was received: The opponents of the bill desired to show their abhorrence of it by refusing to consider it after it had been read once io tho House. Mr. Elliot, of Vermont, opposed the bill on the grounds far more cogent now than they were fifty years ago. Thc bill give?," says Mr. E. 4lhe power of dispensing with the ordinary operations oflaw, to a host of these little great men, who are attached to every government under Heaven. I wish not to reflect upon any of these subordinate etficers who miy bo employed by tho government of my country. Hut no one can doubt that in times of alarm and danger many will be clothed with the functions of office who are incompetent to tho discreet exercise of such boundless discretion. 1 can never wish to see auch persons invested with the means of aiming at the heads of their private enemies, or other innocent and unoffending citizens, the thunderbolts of public indignation, or soorohing them with the lightnings of public suspicion. Says the poet: , "Could great men thunder, Jove would ne'er be quiet. For every pretty pelting ofiicer Would use his heaven for thunder."

John Randolph followed on the same'the South, a civil revolution U side. lie said he should regard the bill rniHed in the North, which hhati w.

as establishing a new era in the Government. "When I was a boy," said Randolph, ''I recollect to have consulted such chronological tables as I could got access to. I recollect to have read, that a certain ; monarchy was abolisbed io Rome; a little while after the first Dictator, and I believe as iu the case of apoplexy, she hardly go; over the third fit, 1 believe a suspension of tho writ habeas corpus might have here the same effect as the establishment of the first dictatorship at Rome. In what situation would it place yourselves and the citizens of this country? It would leave them at the mercy not merely of a Justice of tho Peace, but at the mercy of every subaltern officer of the army and navy." A 1 vk., wuu coiiMUBieu me lurm so mum above the semblance of liberty that under no preteuse, however plausible and specious, would he consent to place the liberties to the nation, even for a short specified period, in the hands ot the great apostle cf Americanism Thomas Jefferson. "The bill," says Mr. Daha, "authorizes the arrest of persons, not merely by the President or other high officers, but by any person acting under him. I imagine this to be wholly without precedent. If treason was marching to force us from our seftts, I wotdd not agree to do ibis, I would not agree thus to destroy the fundamental principles of the Constitution, or to commit euch an act, cither of despotism or pusillanimity. Uuder this view of the subject I am disposed to reject the bill, as containing ji proposition upon which I cannot deliberate." The till was at once lejscted by a vote of 113 to 11. This was the first and la;t attempt, up to the pnsenl session of Congress, to place the liberty of the citizen at the disposal of a tingle individual. The writ of habeas corpus has now been suspended iadefiniiely in all th States at the pleasure of the President! What a contrast between the Congress of 1807 and that of 1803. Courier. Tlic Issues ncforc the Country. Ina time like the present, when the life ofthe nation is in imminent danger, and the cause of civil liberty hangs trembling in tho balance, it is a misfortune that the people of the loyal States-are not United upon a policy for the restoration ofthe national authority, and tha re-establishment of Constitutional Government. During fhe early period of the war, the people of the loyal States, forgetting, or placing in abeyance, for tho time bing all partisan consideration, united in one grand effoit to maintain the power and authority ofthe Federal Government. They were lavish of their moans and of their lives in support of a cause sacred to all true Americans, and responded to every call of the proper authorities with a zeal and alacrity which fully proved the patriotic fervor animating the jeople at large. Had the Administration accepted this generous support in the spirit iu which it was proffered had tho demands of party been subordinate to the call of patriotism, and had the management of the war been placed upon a constitutional basis the maintainance of the Constitution and the restoration of the Union b.?ing the paramount, and in fact the only objects to be accomplished tho same unanimity of sentiment would continue to animato the people, the same patriotic fervor would yet fill the ranks of our decimated arraios, and give hope of a glorious consummation of this unfortunate struggle between those who should be brothers and friends. But tho dominant party has chosen to inaugurate a partisan policy, to disregard : the teachings of patriotism, and to turn the war and its management to political account. Ignoring the lessons which the grand spectacle of a people, aroused as one man in behalf of tho cause of civil liberty, presented for their instruction, they have undertaken to make the war one of petsonal and partisan advantage, and to avail themselves of the services ol the brave men enlisted fur a noble cause, to divert tho war from it3 original and lritfmate object, for the purposo of producing a radical change in the character of our institutions and our form of government. In this violation of faith and honor; this treasonable attempt to overthrow the Constitution and overrule the rights ofthe States and tho paoplo they ask to be sustained and supported. Themselves the violators ofthe most sacred obligations which can be imposed upon persons iu official position they dare to charge with disloyalty those who decline to approve their acts, and have the manliness to denounce their departure from tho lino of official c'uty imposed by the Constitution. Tho issue before the country is no longer whether rebellion shall be put down and civil liberty maintained, under the forms and guarantees of the Constitution, but whether, in addition to the rebellion in

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I personal liberty. This iu&iu, unhappy an'r alarming as it appears to reflecting' men, is fairly beforo the country, and upon its re8ui,a depends the future of this Government. lhe struggle is t be a fearful one, but we rely on lhe good sense and patri otism of the people to conduct it in a manner which shall produce discorofitur.- to the conspirators and save our couury from the additional horrors of iit-Hliu-.j-war throughout the Northern States. The Republican leaders prelum l.trg ly upon the patience or lha imb- ciirty of the people, in wppoisinj, as thy seem to do, that thej will tamely submit to the overthrow of their civil right wiihoit a struggle. I hey hare-evidently acted upou the belief that by demanding unconditional support ofttiemeauresof.he Admit:itration, as a condition c b)ay, and by holding up the tenors of lhe bastile before all who dare to ejuisiion either th legality or the wisdom ol their policy, tha spirit of free discussion c.uld be crushed out and the radical policy ofthe abolitionists engrafted permanently upon the government. The Conservatives of the country &r law abiding and Constitution loving men, who depreciate any action which is not strictlf within the letter and spirit of the fundamental law. They condemn ami denounce all departures I.om thes by the men in power, they will abstain frum such action themselves, uule-js driven to it by the persistent violation of their rights and liberties bj tho Administration. The course pursued by tho Administration and its supporters, towxids iho.se who do not approve their action, is little short of infamous. They demaud ot us an approval of their unconstitutional acts, a blind support of their iaeane policy, on pain of being pronounced disloyal, and of forfeiting our rights and our liberty. They require us to support tho war aa i they may choose to conduct ii, in defiance of Constitutional provisions, in opposition to the teachings of wisdom, or else be insulted with the epithets cf "traitor," t'copperhead," and other opprvprious names. They set up a standard of loyalty outside and abovo the Constitution, mod demand that we e nfirm our Action to it. Are the people of this country to subrait to such outrages? Will such usurpations on the part ofthe AdroinintrHion, such arrogance on the part of its leading political friends, be long tolerated by a free enlightened pvople? Those ar; questions of momentous imprest to tbe people ol this country at this criti. al period. May the wisdom and good setisie ofthe people, under the guidance of a merciful Providence, furnish a solution, which sdiall rot deluge the land with blood. Xetc Yvrlc Argus. I'abe mid True Smiles. Thank heavcu! there are a goodly number of people who smile be ' .nee they ar.'t help it, whose happiness, bubbling up front their lips, or bursts thtough them in jovial laughter. And there is a difference between the false and true symbvl of joy that enables the ken observer readily to distinguish the one fiom the other. The natural expression of delight varies ith the emotion that gives away te it, but the counterfeit smile is a stereotyp, and the tone of a hypocrite's laugh never varies. The crocodile, if the caly old hypocrite he is represented to be, could l accredited with smilej as well as tears. False smiles are, in fact, much more common than false tears. It is the easiest thing in the world to work the smile, while only a few gifted individuals have sufficient command of their eyes to weep at will. Few grsat tragedians, even, have tho knack of iajing ou the waters of afHiciiou impromptu but who ever saw a supernumerary bandit that could not "smile, and smile, and be a villain," or a chorus sioger, or a ballet-girl, that did not look as if she had been newly-nVkled across the lips with a 6traw? Of artificial smiles there are a greater number than we have ipaco to classify. The Countess of Beljjraria has her reeeiving smiles, a 6uperb automatic effect. Count Faro, the distinguished foreigner, who is trying London this year because Baden. Raden doaan't aree with him, shuffles the cards with a smile that distracts vry body's attention from his fingers. Misa Magnet, whose heart and lips dissolves partnership in very eatly life, tiakes such a Cupid's bow of the latter whenever an "eligible match" approtehr, that fortunes flut'.er round her like moths round a flame. Ths Hon. Mr. Vrf pbet who wants to get into parliament, cutti vates a popular smile. In abort, smiiing is a regular business accunpiithmni of thousands of j-eoplc whose simfs bare mi telegraphic communication with their ii Excltange.

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