Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 9, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 April 1864 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH

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HERE LET THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBOUGHT BT GAIN. VOLUME 9. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THUKSDAY, APRIL 28, 1864.

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THE KTHilTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT FUBLISUfcU EVERY THURSDAY AT PLYMOUTH,! INDIANA, BY OSBORNE & VANVALKENBUFtGH. J. 6. GSDOKyr. J- K. VAN VALKENBURG1I.

THUMS OF SUPSCIUPTIOX: 1 f paid in advnet, or within three months, ifnotp;iiJ within three months $-V0 O" No rPr wil1 1,0 discontinued until all ..i-rearagesaro p.v.J, imlesa at the ra tion of the Publisher-. iUTSINESS CARDSattorneys. M. A. O. PACKARD, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR .A. T 3IMymoutli, t Iinlifiimx'JAi S. A. M'CRACKIN, Coauty Recordei. nd Attorney , ! Binox, Starke CounO, Indiana. , Will make Collections, pav Taxe?, examine j Titles t- Real Estate, take acknov. elements oi Deeds, Mortgages, &c. All mitträ of tatigation attended to in Starke and au;o:tnr,g Loin: lcS. 13- Dountv money ana hack pay 01 bihuihj, nnd reunions, collected. Remittances promptly tn i d and charges reasonable. 'Jn-2G tf. R'-'kV &. CAPRON, A'trnaT?ar.-l Notar:?, Plvmouth, Morshal !Co., j Ind., practice ein Mirshalland al'iuiiL' eoun-j to H.ibeock k Co., rht lpsDdpe j tks. Rt.T.c-. h .,Ntv York, CooW, Far ell k Co.,Gorh? j '... Chic ige Loudon A: Co., rin:a , o.': i n aetie & Oo.,Pi:t'ur;h, IIoii. A . L. Osboir, Circuit Jadge, LsT-ort,lud. 2. T. PHILLIPS, Attorney mid Connsrlor at Law Anil WafCiaim Atosil, Plyxfloatli, Marshall Co., Intl. iLT'OFf ICE IN WOODWARD'? RLOCK'.rr i'ractifj'ui Mrifhall. Fulton, Pulaski. Staike; Lake. Porter, J?t.Josejl), I-aporte and ariioining . .."Mil.. ' i"uat:e V'"-J.'H V iVUiJi.Aii 1J Attornev auI CoshspIof at Law.! PLYMOUTH, IND. JOHN i. DFVOII, MarnPY and Counselor ?l Law BKS nV AND BCHTV A. IS J SOLICITOE CF PENSIONS. OTTICD Orer Ptfrfcaiu oarli, lu iiana D:i:g Store P Wrr. ni7 . TR. J. M. CONTKf , late Tgcon of the I S " Int'nrfrv. rflVts hii t.rfifc

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-.a.sl fevvi-, $ i j the i eo.le of Msui .-'.I rur.tv. mU c-nv?yar.ce?, t;tke acknowledgments JJi- O.V.i:- a...l ro.-i-h n- e st si.i- of .Miehiirna ! Ue.ws'ticna. A:e., tc. Street, ihre i.locks Noitu of the H49nU üej, r ..H, tlvSr Yi 1 c'-kr's rivnouih Ju-liaw. 1 I PLYMOUTH, L DIANA

J.J VINALL, HOM I" o i Tin c? P ii Y.IC I A N AND S U Ii ii EON . Pirtio -xv. attention r?.:d to 0's'",ilc ?i: -eti'3. and diseases if women, rni cüil i eu . o ":i e vcr C. Palnifr's store. ües'tience 'ii-o'te the Noithwcsteruer of the fubüc f-'.-jusie. DR. JAMES GILLAM, KCAAHJTIG PHYSICIAN T'ii-Iti! M yrofe sItmi iI perriceg'to the ci ti-1 . - r t ii ' . I yn.'i .ii a; si. .in vtni'.v. ir O.Tie iih Dr. W:t, on Michigan Street. v'Jnl.-lT. 1 rr-r Botels. Kl) WA PDS HOUSF, mich ig n st n set, fi.YMuUTii, INDIANA. ! C 2c "W.H.M'CONNELI,, Proprietors I Omnih-JI to and frnm ä'1 tr.iln.. nn.l ntao In ! anr putof the town, wheu order are left at : the HoufC. vDnlG-ly RAIL ROAD EXCHANGE. R. M. CRAWFORD, it:: Proprietor. The proprietor of thi well known Hotel is prepared to receive, and provide for. all h'.s o'd patron., nnd as m;iny new one" us m iy f;ivor Vim rith their p;itroniqc. Ilia t.ible will at all tim he supplied with a? Rood a3 the market afford-?, and Ii!: .ueats shall receive every attention 1h'ir ccmrork may require Ileing situated at the Rail ead Depot, this house ha.i many advantages OAer tvny other in toTn. Doard by the day or weekXVdU reaoniWe. i) tUr 25, lätiTi tf HASLANGER HOUSE, Near the Bridge, ui.l within a few miautts' walk of the Depot, South Plymouth, Ind. The uhsrUer haaiust opened the abors IIone, 4 ltd Icte rmined to keep it in manner erert way wrthyof publicpatronage. HIS TABLE ill be supplied with the best the market ifToids; iMargea reasonable, and every exertion used to c.t-Jer the stay of guests agreeable. CONVENIENT STABLES AUathed t th premises, and a faithful osilor al wayainatteudiincc. JOHN C. HASLANGER, i'lf-nöf tli Mjrch 31, 1661 Sm3

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1 t., Ft. W. & C. U. K. Time Table. WINTER ARRANGEMENT CErUTTOK Or TRAINS FROM rLVMOCTU STAT' ON EASTWARD BOUND TRAINS. ,T:t-,f hiinn 9.2D A.M. Day Express.. Nip:ht Express, 10:01 A.M. 2:39 A. M. .r. i: p. m. Live Stock and Ex. FreigK, 12:0 A. M. Local Freight, ..1:LU 1 . TTESTVVAR9 HOUND TRAINS. Mr.il and Accommodation 4 :"0 P. AT. Pay Express Unn a at Night Ekpre ip'm Local Freight 1 PThroHh Freight 5:J'' Fast Stock,. 1 lirun;i' 'o Fast freight,, ..3:06 T, M. S.R. EDWARDS, Agent. i C. r. Ac C. EE. IS. Time Table. WINTER ARRANGEMENT. EASTWARD. Leave La Porte, daily) (Sunday Excepted,)) Andre at Plymouth,... 7:00 A.M. 9.00 A.M. WESTWARD. Leave l'lvmoutn ioi.ii. Arr.Tt a La rorte a:uop.M. Trains run hvLn Torte time, which is kept at n v rOWolrv store, and is 15 minutes slower . p fu cy.R. time. n R. DRUL1NER, Supt. DR. A. O. BORTON, Surgeon Dentist, Can be consulted at hi? .ftice every dav exc-ept Mondays suul Tuesday?. O Otliee over Hill's liukei v, P l. Y M 0 U 'I II NO I ANA. J. H. 3ESAZK, Having removed hi? To the SECOND DOOR NORTil OF WHEELER '."3 RAN a, would respecltully invite hi customers to pive him a call, as he has constantly ou hand a good assortment ct Cloths, C?. ssimcres AND V K S T 1 X S. !-! t ........ ! 0(VZ;f, Lower than any establishment in v9n23 lv iiWK fif "iUL Nil IF. Id' IMIHM. B.3A1ICE AT PIYI,ICÜTI7. Oprn from 10 A. M. to 12 M.,and 1 to 3 P. M. TU KO. CK EnSN EU, Cashr. S- A. FLETCIlrJtt.Jr Prtst. v9nl." -lr. J. V. LANdENlJAUGU, Who understand' tiie (lerman and" English Ian guages tliorougldy, has been appointed OTA R It' P U 21 I C .'nd wii, trnr. slate leirnl documents from one !ani'!'a?re to the other on rcisonaMe tctms. He will a- tuke aclnowledgeiPeiit.s of l)e.'ds. Lc, kc. He m ir be foun dat the "Low Price Sriore." 9nl7 1 v. J.G. OSBOÜKB, Tiii i' ol peace. J. S .SCCTT, O i i 1 Col I ctor, Continues to give Prompt Attention to the ' Collection of f!laiTv. h I?e,t ofrefcrcnccs CI, on hen ,e ilred. i Terms moderate. v:ni:-tf. PETER DALAKER, : n: a.t !A i a i Mcrci? ON LA PORTE STREET, Ono Door Wort of Cleavchind k Work's Gro cery. Fresdi Meats of the beit ijuality constantly on lun-l. v'.ii:?;(tf - j. S. ALLEM AN &, BRO SALOON, jOnwe.-ttiJe aic!oan Street, 1st door south of Woodward's Hiick iilock, PLYMOUTH INDIANA. Choice Li-jioi 3 and Ciarj. Oysters served up iu the very Rest Style. at S,H hours. vcniher 5, v'Jnl I D. E. EGGLESTON, AUCTIONEER Ollice at the Auction Stor of iXJtJLLSTON k HKO. Second hand F'urniture bought and sold. Furniture Auction every Saturday at 1 o'clock. v9nl5-tf. XA viv N. B. KLINGER, Proprietor" iJackeyc Li very," opposite Ed wards House, Plymouth, I ul. n271y " xjoi riv noll, 23 XT T O EC US Meat Market ou Michigan Street, opposite Wheeler'g Rank, l'l.v moiit Ji, IiKliaxia. v, 5, vDul 1. A. K. DRIGOS, nLACKSMlTIUNO and K KHOKINti flono well nnd promptly. fi It f Sllftn In Kitiitli I'll MK.iill. rinn II. f ... .M.a. m iu vu.ii U,u kllv bridge. 9Bl7-ly All kind, vf Job Work dene at thij OOicc, on short notice, with neatnesi unt dispatch

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HON. ALEX. LONG, OF OHIO, Delivered in iUc HIoue of Ilepreseiituf fives, April S, ISO . The House being in Committee of the Whole, ou the state of (he Union, in consideration of the President's Mcssatre, Mr. Long said : Mr. Chairman : I sneak to-day for the preservation of the (lovernmont; aiul although for the first time within these walls, 1 propose to indulge in that freedom of fcpecch Hud latitude of debate so freely exercised by other gentlemen for tlu past four months, and which is admissible under the rules in the present condition of the House. Hut for what I may say, and the position I shall occupy upon this floor and before the country, i alone will bo responsible, and in the independence of a representative of the people, I intend to proclaim the deliberate convictions of my judgaieut in this fearful hour of the country's peril. And now, Mr. Chairman, we are in Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, let us. inquire: how .stands the Union to-day '! A little over three years ago the present occupant of the President in I mansion, at the other end of the avenue, came into this city under cover of night, disguised in plaid cloak and iScotch cap, least as was feared by his friends, he might have received u warmer greeting than would have been agreeable on his way through al(im'jrc, at the hands of the constituents of the honorable gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Davis). Ou the 4th of March he was inauguratco!, and in his address deprecated civil war, using that ever to be memorable lan guage, '-Mipposc you go to war, you cannot light always, and when, afier much loss on both sides, and no gain on cither, you cease lighting, the identical questions as to terms of intercourse arc again upon you." .Seven States had up to that time seceded from the Uni-.ni. All believed that war would be averted. At the conclusion of the address the lamented Douglas, who had closely watched every word as it escaped from the lips of the President, turned to a friend, aud, with tears in Iiis eyes, -thanked God that after all the election of Abraham Lincoln Would u ;t involve the nation in war.'' A secret meeting of the Governors of a number of states was soi n after held in this eil v. A s hr-ioe was devised and a vessel sent out ui::!i r pretoifci f j'urni. hu'ir lirovisions ;o ili ir..oi.; with Major Anderson in Port Sumter. On arriving in Charleston Harbor the people of that city fired upon the fort. The I t 1. . "VI l.l.l'f. ill.. III'." J fh illl IMtf ..!..! 11. I . p U.'M 1 V t. 11V I1F I M IO K. i I , 1II1 on it.5 ii t mention to the President, he exclaimed. "I knew they would do it," Vililli IJ ll'J J.T UHIllliSlli; IIKIL It was intended cxressly for that purpose. Seventy-Mve thousand neu were immediately ca'led for, war was inaugurated, twenj iy uays were guen tue lnsurgcnis lo Jay down their arm. ; an r.dditional live huu- , herl thousand men were called . : ti . for. hostilities commenced. The rebellion was to be crushed inside t-f lixty hiys; mere troops were filled for; the Union was to be restored with all the rights, equality and dignity of the Stages unimpaired. No man was pcrmilticd to question for a moment the right of the government to coerce the States back into the Union. To doubt the right or ijuestion the rpeedy suppression of the rebellion and restoration of the Union, was t- be denounced-;s a traitor to the Government and a sympathizer with the South. Thus, sir. was the war inaugurated. The fr.-t Vv.tr passed away; the second ''ai'an'.'i.' d in like manner, so for the ;5'ul Jct iai i.l inlUilC how stands the I. nion to -day : J he briel iicri't of three short years has produced a . i . i I i -i eailul eiiane in mis nee, n:ijy una rosj-erous government; no free in its re.straints i!n jer.son;il liberty, and so gentle in its h ninds iin the resource of the people, that the telehrated llumholdt, af't r traveling through the country on his return to Europe, stid : "The American people have a government which you can neither see nor leel." h'o different is it now, tin J so great is the change, that the inquiry might well he made to-dny, are we trot in Constantinople, in St. Petersburg, in Vienna, in Pome or in Pari3jf". Military (lovernors and their l'rovost Marshals" override the law., and the echo of the niuied heel rinp forth as clearly now in America as in Prance or Austria, and the President sits to-day guarded by armed soldiery, stationed at every approach leading to the executive Mansion. So far ironi crushing the rebellion in sixty days, three years have passed away, and from the day the conflict began tipto the present hour, the Confederate army has not been lorceu beyond the sound ot their guns from the dome of the capital in which we are assembled. Iho city oi Washington is" to-day, as it has been for three years, gearde I by Federal , troops in all the lot ts and1 foitificatioiis-with which it is surrounded,-to prevent, an' attack from the enemy, and as an evidence of the despondency of the Administration, and the unsuccessful opening of the spring, campaign of the fourth year of the prog ress of the war, the .Morning Chronicle of this city, the President's organ, -.in an editorial a few mornings since, said: ' Charleston has not been taken; Lee maintains a bold front on tho Papidan; the Florida expedition was a failure; the Sherman expedition has not been a success, and the rebels have everywhere shown more vigor than they were supposed to possess." Although the sumo p:per. and others in support of the Administration, have told the. country from time-to time during the past winter, that tho rebellion was crushed and slavery" was dead; that the Confederates were deserting whole re "iiueut at - a time, coming within our

hu, wnvmg me oaui, u.iu ueMiiouig tue j parieu as wen as living (-talesmen ot tlie the injured would not feeure to them the then boldlv üflinn tl-.t to wl;ch I lemost horrible suffering and demoralization ; eountiy, previous to the commencement of blessings of liberty: it would aven-c their lieved to be ü tru d ctri from want of food, clothing and ill-treat- the j.rescnt war, I propose to call the at-j wrongs, but they would theimelvcs hharc Otlicr hohl t'-it j'-iv'in" c . -:lt-1 ment, yet at every time the people have tention of tlfl Wo and the country to in the common' ruin. The Constitution trcsuii r-M:Pin..l"thcir ' -U -nS 'Z tl. ' been so deceived and misled irom day to j a few extracts which to my mind are wor- cannot be mainti-incd, not the Union ir.-1 Union ' di-rded tl- (,,.' 7in,;,"

"uluu , wivieii t t, lui .;vy,vuv im-ic ""1; n in. in t ivn v.jv.- luii'jD. it v ui call for 00,1'ÜO more, making TUOAhm since the lirst of January, aud ov r 00U since the commencement of the Avar, out of o.öOO.OOO who voted in the so called loyal tites at the last Presidential election, when 75,000 militia were to end it in twenty uays, or at most sixty day?. Mr. Chairman, I have thus maJo a very brief statement of facts as to the condition of the Union to-dav, and for doing which I have no doubt the usual charge of liencouragnient for the rebels." "the prolongation of the war," i;thc rebels are aided by their friends on this floor," and the like charges will be repeated again by the gentlemen on the opposite side of the house; and, as I have heard such charges so repeatedly for the past lour months, I sav now and here that the real friends of the Confederates those wl-:o give them aid and encouragement, and enable them to carry on the war arc ou the opposite side of the house and in the control of the Government. Your confiscation resolution voted for and passed by the friends of the Administration, by which you propose to thrust your hands into the cofiin of the deceased lather, and take all he may have left at his death to his widow, and innocent and unoffending children, is worth more than fifty thousand men to the Confederate army. The order issued by the President to Gen. Saxton, dividing up and parceling out the State of South Carolina among the negroes and enterprising Yankees of Massachusetts, gives courage, energy and enthusiasm to the men now in arms in the Confederate States. The order of the President to his military commanders in Louisiana and Arkansas, and the order issued in pursuance thereof by (Jen. Panks to the people of Louisiana in which by a single- dash of his pen. he strikes out of existence the Constitution and organic law of the State, and by virtue of the power vested in hi.nas a Major General, proceeds to call and hold an election, and inaugurate State olliccrs and set no a State government a. id the legislation consumated and proposed by Congress, and speeches made upon this Iioor in support of radicalism, is strengthening t he war. Herein. iSir, is where tluv lind strength; the true firioMls of tin Coiifederacy in the North are radical Abolitionist s and the radical Press, goading vn the Pre-idont to issue proclamations nu i'iiiitary orders which provide food, raiment. strength and support for the Confederacy. If Jr. Lincoln had made a gift of millions of greenbacks to Jefferson Pavis to be used as bounty money in recruiting the Confederate army, he could not have done I'etici sciviee iu me cause oi inu rouin than he has done by his silly, absurd, and insulting Amnesty Proclamation, and his equally absurd attempt to create Si.-r.o iiuvernments by dictatorial power. Jb

has in edect said to the southern people : j cirroeal fulltillnient of its own. Putthio "You shall not return to the Union except ! la. t of earthly powers is not necessary to under such local government as 1 and my j the fiwdem or independence uf States; military officers dictate," and with the aid connected together by the immediate tieof his iriends in Congress he is enabled to!t:ou id the veople, of whom they consist.

add: 4iln the event of your submission and return, your estates shall be confiscated; your property, personal and real, .-hall be taken from you; your children shall be disinherited and left hoim le.-s and pvniless to starve, under the scorn and hatred of Northern tanatics; your lands and manor houses shall be parcelled out among our retainers; the negro (freedmcn ) and adventuress-hall sit and rule at your hearthstones, and you beggars and outcasts shall be forbidden representation in our national councils, and lie shut out forever" from offices of trust and honor.'' j uch is the laniruane iu which Lincoln and his Congress and the preceding Congre.-s have spoken, and are sj caking to the people of the South uul now, sir, with such a prospect before them, us. the sequel of submission, outlaw ry, disfranchisement, social, moral and political degradation, penury for thcviselves and their children, decreed as their portion, will they throw down their arme, and submit to the terms '! Who shall believe that thv free, proud American blood, which courses with as quick pulsation through their veins as our own, will not be spilled to the last drop iu resistance ' This is the source, Sir, from whence comes encouragement. Ldreiigth, Fiipport, and substance for the Confederates; herein lies the secret id the unity of their action, the prolongation !' the contest, and the desperation ol me con-i liitt produce, not by anything said, or! measures proposed by gentlemen upon thi--side of the 1 louse, or by any measure's proposed or policy advocated by the Pemo, ciatic party, but by the acts of the gentlemen who make the charges; and the President and his military commanders, who issue the proclamations and military oroers. - Mr. Chairman: I have deemed it proper thus to advert to the charges of encouragement to the Confederates, so repeatedly made upon this floor; aud 1 again recur to the consideration of the Union: Can the Union be restored by war? I answer most unhesitatingly and deliberately, no. never: "war is final, eternal separation." My first and highest ground of opposition to its-further prosecution, is that it is wrong, it is in violation "of the Constitution aud of the fundamental principles on which the Federal Union wan founded. My second objection is that, as a policy, it is not reconstructive, but destructive; and will, if continued, result speedily in the destruction of the Government and the loss of civil liberty to both North and South; and it ought, therefore, immediately. to cease. In order, Jlr. Chairman, that we know what views were entertained upon the right ns well as the expediency of coercing fctato3 into submission, by some uf the de-

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j ii i?i, u uriiig ine auiniuisiiaiKin 01 J. Q. Adams, when the Legislature of Georgia had passed an act settinir aside the laws of Covgrep.s regulating intercourse! wit.i the JiKiian trilns within her limits, the messages of the President on the 0:h aid fc'lh of February, JS27. in relation! toercto, were referred to a select commiti lee of the Senate of which Col. nenton was chairman, and of which .Martin Van Pu re and Gen. Win. H. Harrison, each afterwards President of the United States, were members. The committee, in their report (Senate documents, second session; Nineteenth Congress Document No. GL,) says: It isbcl'evcd tobe amongthosc axioms, which in a government like ours no man may be permitted to dispute, that the only security for the permanent union of those States, is to be found in the principle of common affection, resting on the basis of common interest. The sanctions of the Constitution would be impotent to retain, in concerted and harmonious action, twenty-four sovereignties, hostile in their feelings tovard each other, and acting under the impulse of a real or imagined diversity of interest. The resort to force would bo alike vain and nugatory. Its frequent ir-e would subject it, with demonstrative cer tainty, to ultimate failure, while its tern porary success yould bo valmJe s for all purposes ol social happiness. Jn such contests, However unequal rnd however transient, the seeds of disunion would be thickly sown, and those who may be deslined to witness them will speedily then after be called to lament the destruction of the fahrest prospect of civil liberty which Heaven in its mercy has vouchsafed t man." -The committee will not enlarge upon the frightful consequences of civil wars. rJ hey are known to be calamitous to single governments, and fatal to confederacies." The prediction of the committee of the destruction of the faire; A prospect of civil liberty which Heaven in its mercy has vouchsafed toman, i? alroadyin "rent danger ol being icaii.'.ed, and every hour the war is continued only widens theLepaiaticn and increases the danger. Put, sir, I propose to introduce the opinion of another departed statesman, of the school of polities to which the gentleman on the opposite sine t the chamber belong, a. id for whofo political opinions they t:m rutin the highest regard. That profound statesman, alter the experience of luany years in the most e.alte-t station, and with a perfect knowledge cd' the subject upon which he spoke, said: "Nations acknowledge no judge hjhveen them upon earth, snd their government from necessity must, in their intercourse with each other, decide when the failure of one party to a contract to perform its j d.digations absolves the other iioui the reTo the people alone is reserved, well the dissolving as he constituent power, and that power can be o;;orci-ed by them only under the tie ;f conscience binding them to the retributive justice of heaven. With these quaüfica'ion.s we may admit tho sume right as vested in the people of evi-ry Sti.te in the Uriion. with reference t the encral tiovernment. vn:eh wrsexereise. 1 by the p.-op'e of the United Colonies with reference to the ntpreme. head of the Pritish Empire, of which they formed a part, and under these limitations have the people of each ,'iate in the Union a right tosceed from the Confederated Union itself. Thus stands the light. Put the insoluble link of Union between the people of the several States of this confederated nation is, after all, not iu the right, but in the heart. If the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it!) when tho affections of the people of these States shall be alienated from each other; v.hen the fraternal spirit shall give way to cold iinlifL-rcnee: or collisions of interests shall fester into hatred, the bands of political association will not longer hold together parties attracted by the magnetism of concilliated interests. ;md kindly sympathies; and far better it will be for the people of the disunited States to part iu friendship from each other than to be held together by constraint. Then will be the time for reverting to the precedent wloch occurred at (he formation and adoption of the Constitution, to form again a more perfect Union, by dissolving that which could to longer bind, and io leave the separated arts to be reunited by the laws of political gravitation to the centre. Thus Mr. Chairman, spoke lohn !u?ncy Adams, in an address delivered before the New York llistorocal Society on the ,'ih of April, 1 Sil'.', in commemoration of the fiftieth aniversary of the inauguration of (Jcorge Washington as President of the United States. Mr. Adams was a believer in tho doctrine therein set forth, und the leaders of the party to which he b longed shared in that belief, and continued to do so until the present unnatural civil Vrar If it was sound doctrine before secession took place, aud the war begun, what is there iu cither to change the principle? Andrew lack -on, in his farewell address to the American people, has solemnly warned them that the citizens of one section of the country arrayed in arms against the other, would be the end of the Union and an end of the hope of freedom, lie says that, "if such a struggle is once begun, and the citizens of one tection of the country are arrayed in arms against those of the other, in doubtful conflict, let the battle result as it may, there will be an end of the Union, and with it an cud of the hope of freedom. The victory of

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the mete exertion of the coercive power fd'the government." jiut this opinion, that the Union cannot :e pierved by the coercive powers of the government, was not c-ouiinod to the departed statesmen of the country. i-oveiiinient. was not confined to tin parted statesmen of the country, William II. Reward, in his letter o April 11. 101. to .Mr. Ad aii-s. our Minister? Pngland. said: 'For these reasons, the 1 'resident would not be disposed to reject a cardinal doctrine of theirs (the rebels) namely: That the Federal Government could not reduce the seceding States to obedience by conquest, even though he were disposed, to question that pr position. Put in fact, the President willingly accepts it as true. Only ::ii imperial or despotic government .-ould subject thoroughly disaffected and insurrectionary members of the State. This Federal Republican system of ours is, of all forms of govcrnmont, the very one which is most unfitted for such labor." Such was the language of the Secretary of State in April. lSt.il, three days before the Sunday n which the President wrote his proclamation calling out seventy-five thov.sand troops, but after seven States had. seceded. The Secretary shared in the fears of the President, that the attempt to subjugate the South would destroy tin. ovcrnir.ent. Three years of civil war in a vain and fruitless attempt at subjugation attest and prove to-day the correctness of the opinion then held by the 1 resident: -Only an imrcrial or despotic government could subjugate thoroughly disaheeted and insurrectionary members oi the state. Ins i ederal hepuohc ol ours is of all forms of government tho for .-uch labor." Wir. inftst unfitted does uot believc it? Is there truth m the and M ' V itlj lit ii II V lW.r.l.,,...t 4' I,..!.., ,T independence. the gentlemen on the opposite side of the Hou-c will certainly not dispute it, since they incorporated it in the Chicago platfonn. which became a law unto the President; who, I ask. can deny the conclusion ol' the Secretary of .State, having in iew always, as he and the President undoubtedly had. the great cardinal truth underlying ill i e publican governments, "deriving their just powers from tho consent of the j governed." If the President and his Sec-1

retury of State gave utterance to truth in j knowle Iged a a b-liij.-rnt. both by forTS'Jl. i. it any less a truth to-day? llasjeign nations ..1 our cttii 'government; not rather :hc experience of three years oft mintabied their d-c!ar.ition of independwar confirmed it? I believed it then. 1 j ence for three years, by force of arms; aud believe it now. Put. Vir, 1 propose to call ! that the war has cut asunder all the fraganother witness to testify against this ments and r.hro-utcd v the ohli'-mons coercive policy, who also spoke in advance that bound them under the Con-tftutioii.

of the war. Edward Everett, in his letter of May Isf.O. to Washington Hunt, accepting the nomination as Vice President of the. Union party, of which I believe the distinguished gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Henry Winter Pavis) Avas a member, and for whem a number of gentlemen upon this floor voted, said 'The suggestion that the Union can be maintained by numerical rreoondoranee and military prowess of one section o,.. to coerce the other into submission is, in my judgement, as scli-c -ntradietory as it is dangerous. It comes loaded with the death smell from thuds wet with brothers' blood. If the vital principle ol all republican governments tbe consent of the governed,' much move does a union of eocuual, sovereign States require, as its basis, iho harmony ol lis member and their voiniitary ce-opevati jn in its organic fune(ions

It ma v he sai l that 31 r. Everett has , states as a foreign nation. It N not now changed "his views upon the subject. That,, .yen pretended that the war is carried on may be so, but I have not. I believe it ! haivng for its o'jeet the restoration of the sound doctrine in 1 Si i . 1 cfore secession . Union : "reconstruction," "consolidation," occurred or coercion -began. Three yeais, centralization,"' "vith an entire hange of experience in ;'ttuiptMm, 1 'iiumei leal J m the ('.institution," are the terms cmpreponderance and military prowess of one ployed in speaking of the government that section exerted to coerce the other intojisto exist hereafter. To speak of the

.siibmission has convinced me more thoroughly that it is "as self contradic tory as it is danirereus"' mtradictory because it violates the great principle oflree government, which "derives their just powers from the coiyer.t of the governed ;" and dageron--, because by its exercise, especially when wielded by a weak, vascillathig and unscrupulous man. it destroys, instead ol maintaining th? Union, Constitution and organic law; civil liberty and .personal security are forced to yield to what is claimed1 to be a military necessity, and the government itself, in the brief space, id' three short years, is to-day verging upon the very brink of ruin. .1 am well awaro, sir, that the cry of dis loyalty, want of patriotism and lack of devotion to the government, which is in

every place and at all times raised against ; abolitionists. These follies of the Adminthose who have the independence to disap-! nation, and others of the like chfra' ter, prove of any of the acts of Mr. Lincoln, j J,:,vo instead of "erush.ig the rebellion. An inordinate desire for (Internment pat-i rushed out whatever Union sentiment may ronage, from the building of a steamship j 1;lVt. remained among the Mouther j poo--

and a shoddy contract down tonic . 1 ..1 l a.B 1 IllSlg- I niiieant position of taking charge of a mutil itcd and depreciated greenback in the Treasury building, has changed the opinion of many men, but the lived principles of free government as well as the rules of right, reason justice and truth, arc unchangeable, and although it maybe unpopular, and even at the risk of personal liberty in times like the present to advocate them, they are, nevertheless., eternal and immutable. 1 he distinguished gentleman from Pennslvania (31 r. Stevens) who stand i i , i . 1 1 . upon this floor and belore the country as an acknowledged leader of the Admi'nistratiou party, has had the honesty and independent e, in a speecn uouverou ai an cany I tart, of the session to announce what he hddsto I e the true position of the Confederate States. He says: 'Some think that these States are still in the Union, and entitled to tho protection of the. Constitution and the laws of the United States." This idea he at ouco repudiates, and - i

! laws, organized a dlstii.ct and hti'-C.v

evnmer f, and by force of arms have rien fr!ii the condilifn of in.r-enl l the pusitio,, f)f:, inde endt-nt power ' '.-.', and having be- n rcknorvl-dgcd as a kdli.l crent both bv ibrci-n nation und ur .,'ui Government.' the Coiistitrt W and Uni..u are arrogated f.:r as they are cnc-i ne.l, and that a between the two belligerents they are under the laws of war and the laws of nations alone, and that which ever power conquers may treat the vau iishe I as conquered provinces,- and may impose upon them such conditions a:id laws as it may deem best." In answer to any objections that may be raised to this position, he says: -Put it is said that this must be considered a contest with rebel individuals only, as States in the Union cannot make war. That is true so long as they remain in the Union; and the very fact tiiat we have admitted them tobj in a state of war. to bo belligerents, shows that they are no longer in the Union, and that they are waging war in their corporate capacity, under'the corporate mane of the Confederate States, and that sruh major corporation is composed of miner corporations, called states, acting in their associated character. -When an insurrection becomes suffi ciently formidable to entitle the party to belligerent rights, it phiccs the contending j powers on precisely the same foot in- a j foreign nation at w.n- wit h each other! "No ne acquainte 1 wit'i the mignitude of this contest can detiv ti it the clu-raeter j of ;i civil war. For nearlv three years, the Confederate State- have maintained their declaration ot independence, bv f rce of j anns. ' What then is tho efTer-f fthTa ildl. war between these belligerents, thec for - - - --- - - - - x,w i - I ' 4 J I I .... eign nations '! Pefure this war. the inrties (we're bound together by a compact, by a j treaty called the 'Constitution They acft knowledge the validity of municipal laws mutually binding- n each. This war has cut asunder all tlic-c hgaments, abrogated all the obligation.-." Nov;, sir. for one at least I agree with the di.-tinguished gcntl man from Pennsylvania, that the Confederate States are out of the Union, occupying the position of at independent power A )tt-. have been ac Xll So far I agree wi'.h him; and howover unwilling we may be to accept such position as the actual condition of the Confederate States, the history of the pa-t three years, the law uf nations, the genius of our government and a regard for truth, compel me at least to accept it, and my judgment to aw rove it. and if the char-o of .ü-lovalt v js brou-ht a-a;:ist me for this opinion I have only io shield myself under the broad iü-iptüj ot the distinguished leader ol the lupubli- iii party. At il).;i..mu..nl( 'r ll.c frnr England ami Frai'cc both declared the federate States to b3 belligerents; the United States has treated with thcin as uch in the exchange of prisoners, and the Ad ministration to-day, without the honesty or independence of the gentleman from Pennsylvania t avow it, doing precisely what he proposes to do under his war of couuuost. waiied against the Confederate 7 t Constitution as it was. and the Union as it was. is an offense, subjecting an officer in the army to punishio.-nt by dismissal from the service, and conclusive evidence of disloyalty in the citizen. If the time ever was when the Union could have been restored by war, which 1 do not believe, it has long since been dispelled by onnneipatiou. confiscation, amnesty and the like proclamations; military orders annulling. State Con-titutions, setting aside State, laws, obliterating State lines and attempting to organize and set up a form of State goernmeiu in their stead, iu which one man out often who shall turn abolitionisti, take and subscribe an oath to execute and obey the will of Abraham Lincoln, whatever it may be. shall g vem and rule over i the remaining nine who refuse to become conci.i:ih:i next wkkk. It was Pow, Jr. sacred ha his memory who said that ''Life is a country mf dance; down outsile ami back; tread on the corns of your neighbor; poke your nose everywhere; all hands round; rbdit and left. Pol your cocoa-nut the figure is ended. Time hangs up the fiddle, -md death puts out the lights." :;u.u nmni i. piCUlClCSl l'l h,i ,ir i . 1 Jiiniiry j :i bavarian astroi o Ler now in Australia, K ... . .- : . l - i j .- who says that it will come near enough to - endanger tha earth, but if it shouldn't an. nihilate us the sight will he most leant iful to behold. During three nighu we shall have no darkness, but he Lathed in the brilliant light of the blazing train. Why are hoops like obstinate men ? Pecausc they stand out about trifies.

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