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REMARKS BY JOHN D. DEFEEES, Be fort; the Indiana I'nion Club of W ftshinston, I). C'M Mundar live Dins, An?.

tTe are soon to exercise the elective franchise, secured to us by our admirable form of government. Every citizen should desire to use it fo as to pro-luce the greaU st good to the country. To do so he ought to ieek every possible means of forming a correct judgment; and when his mind is made up. his own conviction of the right ought to control him, unawed by partizan prejudice or by the clamor of those who assume to be party' leaders. To aid in f rmttig a correct judgment it is well to brin r to our recollection many historical facts, which cannot be contradicted or perverted. IMrectly after the American lie-volution the States entered into articles of confederation for their government The experiment proved a failure. The subsequent formation and adoption of the federal Constitution was for the purpose of "securing a more perfect Union;" of constituting the United States one nation - a Republic or, in the language of Washington of 'consolidating the Union.' So complete a system of government never before existed, and it became the admiration of tne lovers of liberty throughout the world. The prayers of its founders, as they passed from earth, were for its perpetuity. It was received by their children and I cherished as an inheritance above all price. With them the man who dared to lisp of its destruction was branded as a traitor and an enemy of mankind. In time, bold, bail men, disappointed in their ambitious aspirations, began to conspire for its overthrow. They knew ' that their designs could only be accom- j plished through the means of party ' organization. The democratic party, which then had the ascendency, was se- j lected for that purpose. They became Us leaders find began insidiously to poison the minds of their followers. It would reipiire more time than allowed in an ordinary address to give the progress of their plans but the result is to be seen in the-present condition of our country. I Notwithstanding the efforts of the conspirators favorably to prepare their I followers for the event, when their I treason culminated in their attack upon Fort Sump'er. the whole peo(Ie of the j free States declared that they would put j down the rebellion at all hazards. Their i mighty uprising for this purpose was the ! rioi n.Lwt iiinl iilriut ddni'iriiia aneet'iele ever presented to the" contemplation of 1 man''in l, whilst the fact that so many j of the same people have since shown thcmolves lost to the feelings of patriotism which then controlled them, is the most melancholy event on the page of history. Thru, they determined to stand by the President in his efforts to enforce the laws and to maintain the integrity and supremacy of the i lovernm-r.t. A'mw. many of the samo men denounce all his etfoits with ft bitterness equalled only by tin denunciations of the traitors in arms against that Government. Why this change and how produced? The answer is apparent by assumed leaders of tho Democratic party, who are now acting in concert with the Miemies of their country in the vain hope that they may thus achieve political power. Helving on arousing the partizan feelings of tiie past, they resort to the most glaring falsehoods to accomplish their purpose. They now tell their followers that the war was commenced by the people of the free States against their innocent and inoffensive brethren of the South, when they know that they utter an untruth. The people cannot be thus deceived. They remember but too well the action of the conspirators immediately after the election of Mr. Lincoln and previous to the expiration of Mr. Puchanan's term of cilice. Look at the record : December '20, 1800, Moultrie and Castle Carolina troops. January ISGLCapture of Fort Pinekney by the -Capture of Fort Pulaski bv the Savannah troops. January 3. The United States arsennl at Mount Vernon Alabama with 200,000 stand of arms siezed by the Alabama troops. January 4. Fort Morgan in Mobile Pay taken by Alabama troops. January IV The United States steam cr Star of the West was tired into and driven oif by the rebel batteries on Morris Island when attempting to furnish Fort Sumter with supplies January 1 Mississippi seceded; vote of the convention, s4 to 30. January 10 i-ort .lacKson, 1-ort Phillip, and Pike, near New Orleans. ? captured by the Louisiana troops. j January 11. Alabama seceded; vote of convention. 0 to 2l. j January 1L Florida seceded. January 14. Capture of Pensacola navy-yard and Fort McKea by Alabama j troops. - ; January IS. Surrender of Baton i Rouge arsenal to Louisiana troops. j January 10 Georgia seceded; vote: of convention, 20: to 87. j January -t. Louisiaua sevieded ; vote of convention, 113 to 19. New Orleans Mint and Custom House taken. j February 1. Texas seceded ; vote of convention, Ho to 7. Submitted to a vote of the people February 23 and took effect Jd of March. February '2. Siezure of Little Kock arsenal by" Arkansas troops. ( February 4. Surrender of the revenue cutter Castle, to the Alabama au- , thorities. February 5. The Southern Congress met at Montgomery, Alabama. , February P. lue provisional constitution adopted. February 9. Jeff Davis and Alex. Stephens were elected President and Vice President of what they call the southern confederacy.

February 17. Twiggs transferred the United States property in Texas to the rebels. February 1. Jetl Davis was inaugurated President of the conspirators. March "2. The United States revenue cutter was seized ly the rebels in Texas. Mr. Lincoln was sworn into office on March 4, 11. after all the above treasonable acts had taken place. Before

j taking the oath required by the ConstiI tution, "to execute the office of the 1 President of the United States, and to ' preserve, protect, imd defend the Con- : stitution of the United States," lie read j his inaugural address, in which he said: "Apprehension w-nn to exist among the p-pie of fie Southern States that by the accession of a lit pub-ii'-an Administration their property an I their peace an l i personal security are to be endangered. There never ) has lieen any serious cam-? for such apprehension. , Indeed, the tru st ample evidence to the contrary has ' all the while exist -1 an l heen open to their inspection. It is found in all the puhlic speeches of him who r.owa 1 Irenes yon. 1 ilo hut quote from thus.' speeches w h-.-n I declare that "I have no power i:re?t!v. or indirertlv, to interfere with the institution of shivery in I the Suit's where it exists. I lielive I hive no lawful j poacr to do an and 1 have no inclination to do so." j The Congress, whose term had exi pired the day on which Mr. Lincoln was ! inaugurated, had done every thing in its ! power to disarm the apprehension of the ' Southern States on the same question. It had passed a resolution submitting an amendment of the Constitution so as to make any interference with slavery im ' possible. It created governments for three new Territories, Nevada, I)acotah, ami Colorado, and passed no law excluding slavery from any of them. The conspirators, however, continued their efforts for the overthrow of the Government : March 5. Beauregard assumed the coniiuan ! of the troops besieging Kurt Suniptor. .March 1$. Alabama ratified the constitution of the traitor States : rnlcnf the convention, s7 to fi. March '. Georgia ratified the constitution of the rebel States, and. previous to the first of April, all the States in rebellion had done the same thing. The attack on Fort Suinler was commenced on the l'Jth of April, lst',1, and after thirty four hours bombardment it surrendered. All this took place before Mr. Lincoln asked for troops to enforce the laws. In view of these facts, no honest man can or will say that the war was commenced by the present Administrati n. To do so would be a proclamation of his own infamy. Those of the North who are co-workers witli the conspirators sometimes say, in justification, that the South had suf fered wrong at the hands of the Northern people. The assertion is as false as the charge that the present Administration commenced the war. Let Mr. SteV)"'n t'.e Vice President of the i t.:lt's' h? "T '! t,!at V0'"1. ' rebel cer tainly, with them is eood authority. In a speech made in convention against secession, he said : 'Pause, I entreat you, and consider for a moment what reason you can give tliat will even satisfy yourselves in rainier moments what reasons can you give to your fellow-sullerors in the calamity that it w ill bring upon us '! What reasons rm you give to the nations of the earth t justify it ? They will lie the calm and deliberate judges in this case ? and to w hat cause or one overt act can you point on which to rest the plea of justification ? What right has the North assailed ? What interest of the South has been inva'ledf What justice lias been denied? and what claim founded injustice and right has lieen withheld? Can either of you to-day name one governmental act of wrong delilierately and purposely done by the Government at Washington of which the South has a right to complain 1 I challenge tha answ er ! While on the other hand, let me show the facts t an I believe me, (renth'inen, 1 am not here the advocate of the North, but I am here the friend, the tirm friend and lover of the South and her institutions, an 1 fi r this reason I speak thus plainly ami faithful to your, mine, anl every other nun's interest, the worts of truth and soIhtiu'-ss, i of which I wish you to ju lire, anl I will only state facts which are clear aid undeniable, and which now stand as records authentic in the history of our country. " When ( of the South demanded the slave tra le or tiie iuiMirtatioti of Africans for the cultivation of our Ian. Is, did they not yield the right for twenty years? When we asked a three-fifths representation in Congress for our slaves, was it not granbsl ? When we asked and demanded the return of anv fugitive from justice, or the recovery of those jiersons owing laiior or allegiance, was if not mcorporii t -.si in the Conslitut on ? and again ratified and strengthened in the Fugitive I Slave Law ot isou 7 Do you re; ly that in many instances they have vio- ' lated this compact, and have not lieen faithful to their ; engagements ? As individuals and local communities i they may have done so, but not by the sanction of Govj crunient for that has always been true to Southern interests. Again, gentlemen, look at another fact : w hen ! we have asked that more ti rriiorr s'- 'il ! ! ailed, j that we might spread the institution of slavery, have j they not yielded to our demands and given us Louisiana, ; Klorida, and Texas, cut of which tour States have ! been carved, and ample territory fer four more to In j added in due time, if you. by this unwise and impolitic act, do not destroy this hope, an 1. perhaps, by it j lose all. an t have your last siave w renched Ironi you j by stern military rule, by the vindictive decree of a ; universal emancipation which may reasonablv be ex- ; pee ted to follow ? Hut. again, gentlemen, what have we to gain by ' this proposed change of our relation to the General , Government ? We have always had the control, and ' can yet if we remain in it. and are as unite! i we i have been. We ha. I a majority of the l'rev 1 -uts j chosen from the South, as w"fl as the eontrt l and i management of those chosen fr; m the N.'rt!'.. We i have had sixty years i f S Mithern l'r-sideots to their i twenty-four, thus controlling the Kxerulive I'epirtj ment. I No man has controverted, or can con- . ... . , troveri inese tacts, w no men so uase as to justify the rebellion While the Government is usire; every possible etfort to maintain its existence, an organization has been entered into ly many persons at the North to cooperate with the conspirators in its destruction. To accomplish their object, assuming the specious name of the "Peace !e mocracy," they resort to the meanest acts of the most gtovelling demagogue to prejudice the people against the Ad- ; ministration. Kead the following cxj tracts from speeches and newspapers. made and written in the North in aid of ; the conspirators. 1 Speaking of President Lincoln, the i Sellingrove (Pa.) Tinm says: i 'He ia blooly monsu-r. He is hell's Pandora box 1 brought to earth ami re-opened for the destruction of this foolish people, who hujr him to their bosoms until, like an Lgyptiaa adder', be st:ngs them t death. By his eleva'ion to piewer, every mean principle in trie man's composition has been brought rcl and fanneii into a blaxe of destruction. He is a liar, a thief, a robber, a br.gand, a pirate, perjurer, traitor, a coward. hypocrite, a cheat, a trickster, a murderer, a tyrant, i an unmitigated scoundrel, an I an infernal fool. In ; less than cne year he has, by the force of ctrcum atanees. certainly not br his w isdom, became absolute ' monarch over a race of imbeciles, who, because they deserve it. bars become willing slaves and vassals, fie commenced the present war ith dishonest motives ; be has carried it oo under false pretences : and in the ' end. he will so effectually cheat the people out of their ; liberties that they cannot recover them unless through I blood v revolution." A Mr. J. D. MurpLy, a 'Teace Democrat"' of New Hampshire, on the 22d January last. eraittd h$ poison as follows :

"The Iiemocrats have submitted to the despotic sway of Abe Lincoln for three years, thinking it better to endure wrong tor a short time than to risk all by a last appeal to arms, lint now the time is coming when we can change our rulers. Kather than submit four years l n-s-r to A!e Lincoln, and be overrun by the hordes of his hireling soldiery, let us ring out the err of old, " To your tents. O Israel ?" Iiemocrats should arm and organize, and dri.l clubs, companies, battalions, regiments and brigades, for these blood thirsty als.litions and shoddy ite thieves, and traitors are a wind-broken, spavined, dyspeptic race, and one regiment of Deurjcrats cuiild whip three of them." This man is for "peace" with the consi irators, but for war with the freemen 1 of the North, his neighbors ! Shame!

Head still further extracts the out pouring of impotent wrath and vile- j ness : j "There has never been anything called fnr by the ; South, anl there never can be, that 1 would not williii2W consent to." Sfrec of' S'nte S ' nat'jr tVtirt-. y ) U'lV-oiWH, J'ire, ISoJ. j "History will rda e that we (the North) m?nu- ; factured the conflict, forced it to hot-bed precocity, ' nour.slied and invited it." iMtroit r I'rem, Aril lrt, i . j "We tell them (Congress ; that a Cromwell will rise . in their midst before they progress too far. w ho will ; f bring their heads to the block w ithout delav or mercv." . - l,-r l'rrm.M.r "I. ' j i "I say to you. my constituents, that, as your rep- j ; r.'sentative, 1 wiil never vote one dollar, one man, or j one gun to the administration of Abraham Lincoln to : make war upon toe South." . H'. 'yorlr-, M. C, Seventh District, Indiana, April, ls'l. , "The Democracy will yet teach Al Lincoln and his co -usurpers that the way of tiie transgressors is not I easv." ... .1. C. Ihrf'jr. of Iowa. j ! " 1 his is a damned alsdition war. We ticlieve Abel Lincoln is as much of a traitor as Jed'. Davis." Ah- j ) tmul - Ohio I9rnr rattr I'num. j "The t 'resilient ami his cabinet mere never worthy j of tiie confidence of the nation. The Democratic j party should never have given its assent to the appeal , i the sword after the atlair of Kort Sunipter." - , The AM-iii Ohio i I 'hum, a Democratic organ,1 ' speaking ot our soldiers, calls them hired Hessians go-,,g to the sunny Southern soil to butcher by whole- - sale, net foreigners but good men, as exemplary tl.ristians as any of our men." 1 "The CVujrord t'uunfy t'urmn, referring to our sol- : iliers, says : "It i the Administration i has put arms in the hands I "f outlaw s, thieves, murderer, and traitors." ! "The trmi.crutir I'rttt, Tay lorsville, HI., speaking , j of the Republican party and the army, says : j "In power less than a year it has spent millions of : the people's money, anil five hundred thousand men ' are employed to steal negroes from their Southern i masters." i "It the Nort.'i and South are ever re-united, we prediet it will be when the Confederate States North shall adopt their new constitution, i of Jell". Davis.) or something very near like it. Thers's a good time coming. Ijoys." !Vm Jiurtn County I'rr, at faff Paw, Michigan. " hv this ovponditure of more Uod and treasure in a hopeless enterprise w hy blame m ti for being traitors. We cannot see why." fr.Wt r I'r-tt. "Tliere. sir. is the damnable abolitionist who administers the Government. The people ought to ri ,e up and by physical force, hurl him from the chair of the Government. In the eyes of God and men. the people would be justified. They should do it ; ami I will go'with them." Jud.e i'nia't Sffrh in the ; Michigan Legislature, K-b. 1-', lsi.3. "Geo. W. I'eck. of Ohio, in a speech Is' fore the Lansing Democratic Association, March lSti;t.said : "Vou Black Republicans began this war. Von have carried it on for two years. Vou have sent your hell hounds down South to devastate the country - and what have yt. u done ? You have not conquered the South. Y on never can conquer them. And why? Because thev are our brethren." "John H. "George, N. II., Democratic nominee- fir Congress, declared : "I won't do anything to sustain the President, Om gress or anv of the piratical crew that have control of this Government. 1 won't do anytniug tiiat can, i:i any way, fx' interpreted as supporting this war." Mr. Charles Heeves was the leading : member of the convention in aid of the ; conspirators, recently held in the ninth congressional district of Indiana, to se- , Ici t a candidate to run against Schuyler ' Colfax. On that occasion he delivered himself of a violent speech, advocating i unconditional peace and reconstruction, condemning the Administration. He ! I said that if the election was carried by j fraud he should advoca'c immediate re- ' ' bellion. He also advocated the doctrine j ! of State nights as enunciated by his 1 Southern brethern, and advised an al- ' liance, offensive and defensive, with the , ; South. lie said the idea of putting ' i down the rebellion had long since be- ! ! come impracticable, and advised the . J delegates to frown down all attempts to j raise soldiers or men to prosecute this ' I infernal war. He was loudlv applaud j ed. " j At the convention that nominated the i j State ticket in Indiana D. II. Colerick, j a prominent member from Allen Countv, ', jsaid: j ' "Nine hundred a id ninety-nine men of every thous- : j and w hom I represent, breathe no other prayer than to : have an end of this hellish w ar, Hn nir of our . : i -I'.-fori, t com ti , r im no rijoirinj. It k-n nctct of our d'-it'tt ,-,rw fWt i, no Ktrrotr. There is a feeling which tel's of an intense desire for je ice. and w-e a-k ! that some resolution lie passed that is in-union w ith the pmyers of the heart ot the Democracy of thecountry, that this horrible and bloody war must cease." ; That the Southern portion of the ! conspirators fully appreciate the services of their Northern co-laborers is shown i in the follow itio- article, copied from the Atlanta ((in.) Register of recent date : ' "Ex-President Pierce, Seymour, of Connecticut. Va'lan ligham. Keod, Wood. Kichar ison. and hundreds of others, are as hostile to the war as they are to black repiii-'icanism. These men are doing us an in lirect s T' .ce. Thev are not openly and avowedly our friends, nor could we reisonaWy ask tins of them. But they are not cor bloody enemies f'niwi ayunat Mr. Lihr.Jn i?t i hv ,-'i'-AW j'Wiri,. breasting t.e power of an overwhelming- miior.ty. firm to the traditions ant prece fonts ot constitutional liberty, the noble ban ! of ! patriots is striving to erect a breakwater that shall ar- ' rest the surges ot the unloosed deluge. I:' thev did no ' mere titan resi.-t the centralization of Mr. Lincoln, that far thev an worthy of cor respect and sympathy. If thev hell up the banner if State Rights, that far thev zr; a '.v, c-;.:ig a scnLmeut entitled to our admiration. Such is the course they are pursuing, and such a is iirst' oiitiht to have our cordial approbation. Step by step t'.e same convictions and the same temper that hae braced thetn in compact unity and fiery valor to denounce ultra Kederahsm and Sew England fanati- ! cisni. w ill inevitably bring them upon the rght ground as it respects our independence. We confess our faith in their political principles. We confess our confidence ti. it eventually these men w ill see the whole tru;U and embrace all its conclusions. "We can gain nothing by denouncing them. We ' nny lose much by presenting a hostde front to their peace movements. Live with them under the same government we never will. But, muxrrku'r, if tirg trill . to rkt bx!iot-ix t,;ai;Mf Jr. Lineotm whit ire KM- (ft car-triJit-fxx, rack v( trill be a Mprr la the otker, ami lotk ' tHt-aprmte to tw-rtwrW tk yrmtrmt tco r t uck Ait country and tie continent have tcunsmed.'' J I The Register is right. The men m ! Indiana and elsewhere in the North, j banded together, by secret oaths, to aid j : the conspirators in the overthrow of the i Government, deserve, and ought to re-' ceive, the "cordial approbation" of their Southern friends. ; The expectation of the conspirators ! j to enlist the whole Democratic party of i the North in their treasonable scheme will fail. Thousands and tens of thou- j ' sands have already denounced them, and ' . other tens of thousands will do it as the , infamous nature of those schemes bei come fully known. Their love of coun- ' try will not yield to the party behests of assumed leaders. As the election approaches, in the vain hope of sesuring a few votes, the leaders of the Northern

portion of the conspiracy are beginning to praise the soldiers while the3" denounce the war ! This hypocrisy w ill not avail them. Our soldiers are as well informed as those attempting to deceive them. The- know that these very men have denounced them as "Lincoln's hirelings," as"hell hounds," hired to cut the throats of the Christian gentlemen of the South who are only indulging in the innocent amusement of destroying the Government ! They know that, in our State, when a proposition was made in the Legislature to secure the right of soldiers in the field to vote it was opposed bv some of these now pretended friends. It is true, as an electioneering trick, the conspirators on the State ticket, understanding that Governor Morton had asked for the return of the soldiers so as to recruit and vote, very magnctnimosly, proposed to join hirn in doing that which lie had already done! The object is too apparent to deceive .' If this is an infernal war on the part of the Union army, as they charge.

how can they expect the vote of those engaged in that war? The war cannot be denounced without, at the same time, denouncing those engaged in it. No sophistry, no declamation, no yelling about abolitionism, can blind the eyes of sensible men to an v other conclusion. From the commencement of the rebellion to the present time the ads of cruelty and barbarity perpetrated by the rebels are more horrible than have ever occurred hi any age of the world. The barbarity of Indian warfare bears no comparison to it. A rebel. Colonel Kastman, has written a book, entitled "First year of the War." In that book he says : "I.:ke a thunderbolt, Kirby Sm:th fell upon the foe : our men fought desperate, ami in a mom -nt tiie K.-l--ral troops, who had felt certain of victory, were everywhere driven back. Scarcely had they commenced retiring when it liecnme imiossible to restrain our troops. A giant Texian. throwing away his rifle, tink out his bowie-knife, with one blow he split the skull of a wound. -1 man w h?I had fallen to the gr. nr. I. an 1 this began the signal tor a general butchery. Like wild beasts the iocensed soldiery fell upon their victims. he e -ing, stabbing, sLishiug like mad men ! "A fear;ul panic seizes ujkti the Federal troops. -Even tiie fr.nest fly liefore such an oii.-daught - they give way. and, in im rial fear, officers an 1 m -n run for their lives like startled deer. The savage spirit of our soldiers now almost bordered on the horrible. Beauregard t.x k advantage ot this vengeful mood : he ordered his whole army forw-rl. anl with wild CMiItant cheers fell upon trie broken enemy. Stuart had collected all I is cavalry together and swept across tiie plain like a whirlwind, clearing every tiling before l.iiu. "The enemy was now at full flight at every point, ami so quick w as our ad ance that all order in our ranks was lost. A rumor suddenly spiead that Kirby Smith had fallen. A cry of ang-r and li- rrur passe 1 through the ranks of the whole army. Our troops, now maddened w ith rage, fell mercilessly u;ioii their opponents an l a fearful uus.-acre commenced. Scenes of horrible cruelty too fearful for description ensued. Our men weie no longer human beings ; covered with blood, a'. ! lest, and guntw der. thev fall upon tlieir Hying opponents with ungovernable fury ;" The butchery thus described by a rebel witness was followed by acts still more fiendish, rivaling the Scandinavians of u barbarous age, who, it is said, drank wine from the skulls of their slaughtered foe. The skulls of many a patriot, who had given his life to his i osmtrv, were thus used by the rebels at their drunken carousal in commemoration of their achievements at the lirst Hull Hun battle. If their treatment of the dead be such as to receive the execration of mankind, what cn be said of the horrible cruelty inflicted upon the living when in their power. The fortunes of war gave them a number of prisoners at I'ort Pillow. Hundreds of these men, wounded and helpless, were butchered in cold blood many of them on the day subsequent to the tight. Any man in the rebel States daring to avow himself in favor of the Government of the United States is butchered by the "Peace Democrats" of that region. In Randolph county, Alabama, recently, a I'nion man was dragged from his house b' the "peace Democracy" and taken to a thicket : " After consultation it w as determaine 1 to put liim in the tory's yoke. but. first of all, t i try to make h'm acknowledge to having done and tail certain things of which be was innocent. " A'ter trying some time fo accomplish their obj-ct, by questioning and threatening, thev resorted to more severe measures. Untying him. thev took oft" his clothing, laid him on a log. lashe I him firmly to i,, and with large hickory sticks comm-need lacerating him. Four let in on him at once, and the nuni!er soon increased to six. They continued to lieat him there for a long time, pausing occassional? an i asking him if he weld confess, and aft r his reluming would let it on him more vigorouslv. " Tiie bhvd trickled from his bick iu streams. His piteous appeals in behilt of m rev were t- til J disregarded. Nature finally yielded. 'and tiie poor man swooned and was lost to consciousness for several minutes. As soon as he revived this; hellish t rmentors resumed their torture. They split the ends of green sticks ard tw isted thetn in his hair and pulling violently, caused most excruciating ' pain. This and other fiendish operations were continued some time. They then cut off his fing-rs at the seconJ joint, as also his ears close up to his head. "The next stop was to cuto.T his arm; at the e'l-ows, and the legs at the knees. A'ter this operation the wretci.el victim fainted, and failing to recover tor several minutes the nu:r ien rs pronounced liim dea 1 and began to prepare to leave, but at t:.is moment their victim showed signs of Lfe. Thev n-..v tied a rope around his neck, and hung him to a limb near by, an I instantly decamped." Who that hrs read of the horrors of the Spanish In piisition the rack, and the other moles of punishment there adopted without a feeling of utter detestation for its founders? The cruelties inflicted on the soldiers of the Republic at Li buy Prison and Belle Island, are more horrible than those perpetrated in the secret cells of the great engine of hell, as the Inquisition has been called. A history of those horrors would fill volumes; but we can only now glance at them. Andrew J. Munn, of Company A, in the 100 Ohio Regi. thus speaks'of facts occurring under his own observation at Belle Island: "The next morning we were parcelled anl sent to that bell on earth, Belle Island where I witnessed sights of rnftrir.g for months that were horrible awful possjtitrly indescribable, and chill the blood and rend the heart with an a goer of pity to remember. Day afer day I hare been forced" to witness the slow, fearful death of starvation, of scores of our noble fellows, aad to bear their agonizing moans and incoherent rarrugs. and pleadings for something to soothe the pains of hunger. Ther would sometimes when m this half-crazed condition, ask for so me tiling to save their lives, which titer could feel slipping sway. And their brutal jailor would dnur them from their suffering couches, declaring that thev w-ould show tbem bow to address gentlemen, sad, despite their wea and emaciated coodioon, bock and

gag tiie poor fellews. and force them to lie for hours beneath the s horchmg rays of the sun. and many ! Lmes when they went to release tiie sufferer they would find a stiffened corpse, with the sunken eyes j glazed in death, their fiendish treatment having snappod the frail thread of life, and the poor victim being at last beyoni the reach of their persecute n. "One ixxjr fellow, being reduced by starvation and ill uage; to a mere skeleton, and could scarcely stand, craw led one day up on a bank near his tent to get a little fresh air. his lace burning with fever : but no sooner ha t be gained the summit of the bank and sat down trembling with extreme exhaustion ; that the exertion had cost him, when the sentinel ; leaped upon tiie bank and harshlr ordered him to get down or he w ould sbn'l him. The poor toy staggered ! to his feet at once, knowing full well w hat would be I the consequence of hesitation, and attempted to get out of sight : tut before he could turn round tiie res 1 demon raised his gun and tired, the ball passing through the poor boy's side, who rolled down the bank and expired w it!. out a groan, his heart's blood spirting tn jets from the ghastly wound. "Another tim? a l"t of our bovs were crowdd in a el se. nam w. and filthy cell, scarce ten feet w ide, with but one small, grated w in low fir light and a:r, and some being sick were oblige! to lie dow n, anxl.ii consequence, the men were hud. lied and the air fom" and oppressive ; and one young fellow, who was almost suffocated, arose and put his face up to the window to get breath, when the guar! upon the outside, without the slightest provocation, shot him through the head, his blood and brains bespattering his comrades inside of the cell, who w ith a low, tbnll.ng cry of horn r. contemplated this brutal and coM-blooded murder of their un'ortunate comrade without the po -er of eveu a remonstrance, for fear of sharing alike fate." The testimony taken before the Committee on the Conduct of the War is of similar character. The surgeon who had charge of many returned prisoners at Baltimore thus speaks of them : "West's Hcilpisos Hospital, i "Baltimoke, Mi., May 21. W4.i ' Dear Sib : I hive the honor to enelose the photograph of John Breming, w ith the desired information written upon it. I am very sorry our committee could not have seen these cases w hen first received. No one, from these pictures, ran form a true estimate ot their condition then. Not one in ten w as able to stand alone: some of them so covered and eaten by vermin that thev nearly resembled cases of small pox, ami so emaciated that they w ere r. ultii living skeletons, and hardlv lA-ir. as the result shows, forty out of cue hundred and four having died up to this date. " It" there has been anything so horrible, so fiendish, as this w holesale starvation, in the history of this Satanic rebellion. I have failed to note it. Better the nnssacres at Lawrence, Kort Pillow, and Plymouth than to lie thus starved to dea: i by inches through long and weary months. 1 w ish I ossessed power to compel all the northern sympathizers with this re!c'.lion to come in an l look upon the w ork of the rMmlr.en sons of the ho-pit'iUr and sunny South, when these skeletons w ere tirst received here. A reUd colonel, a prisoner here, who sto.id with si 1 lace looking on as they were received, finally shook his head an 1 walked away, apparently ashamed that lie held any relations to men who coull 1 gai'.tv of such deeds. "V rv resp ctfull v, vour oln-lient servant, " ' "A. CHAPEL. "Hon. B. F. Waive. "iVm f'ummiffr on th - Cocovef ,,f the Wis. Photographs were taken of a few of these victims of the humane treatement by our innocent Southern Irethcren, and printed in the report of the committee. Remember that the perpetrators of these damnable cruelties are the "Peace Democrats" of the South, w'lom Jo. McDon nald- Dan Voorheos. and Yallandiglmm are so anxious to hug to tlieir affectionate bosoms. :md the fathers and brothers of those who have suffered by starvation and death are culled upon to elect sieh men to office. These men say they want peace, and. to accomplish it, they are willing to let theirco conspirators prescribe the terms. T he only conditions yet oti'ered them are the following, published in the Richmond Examiner of the lGth of last October. Read them : Save on our own brnn, we can accept no peace whatever, an 1 must fight till doomsday rather than y ield one iota of them; our terms are : Kecnjrnitioii by the enemy of the Confederate Stab's. Withdrawal of the Yankee forces from every f.o of Confederate ground, including Kentucky and Missouri. Withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that mate shall decide, by a free vote, w hetlier she shall remain in the old Union or ask a luiission into the Confederacy. "Consent on the part of the Feleral Government to give up to th? Confederacy its proportion of the Navy as it stood at the time of secession, or pay for the same. Yielding up all pretentions on the part of the Federal Government to that portion of the old Territories which lies west of the Confederate States. " An equitable settlement, on the basis of absolute independence ani qnal rights, of all accounts of tiie Public Debt and Public Lands, and the advantages accruing from foreign treaties. These provisions, w e apprehend, comprise the minimum of w hat w e must require before we lay dow n our arms. That is to say. the .Vrf.i must .yiWti nil; ice, wtthimj. The whole pretention of that country to prevent bv force tiie separation of tiie Stit'S must be abandoned, w hich will be equivalent to an avow al that our enemies wire wrong from the first: and, of course, as thev w aged a causeless and wirkc 1 w ar upon us. they ought, in strict justice, to be required, according to the usage in such cases, to reimburse to us the whole of our expenses and losses in the course of that war." These arc the terms of peace; and the Enquirer says further: "As surely as we complefetlr ruin their armies ind without that is in peace nor truce at all roiurrtii shall mnk- th'-m )-iy onr vnr tlht, thoiyh tr vriitj t o"t nr' th'ir htortt." Are the people of Indiana willing to get dow n into the dirt and accept such terms ! These men cry "peace, peace." If they want peace why not say to their co consp'u iters, "you made the war and vou can make peace. Disband your armies go to your homes obey the laws maintain the union of all the States and their authority, and you can have peace." Why do they not do so? No man more earnestly desires peace than he whose sworn duty it is to make every possible clfort to maintain the Union; but he wants that peace which can only be secured and perpetuated by the overthrow of the rebellion and return of the people to their allegiance to the Government. This, under God, and by the assistance of the loyal portion of the people, he will accomplish. In the last speech made by Judge Douglas on the rebellion, he said : " The conspiracy is known. Armies bare been raised, war is levied to accomplish it. Thers are only two sides to the question. Ererr man must be for the United Stales or against it. Tbe.r can be no neutrels in tius war, only patriot aad traitor." Judge Douglas was right. That is

the only issue; all others are raised to deceive the people. Let no man, by his act. subject himself to le pointed at in after times as a traitor to his country : nor let him do anything, in this dread hour, which shall cause his children to blush for shame when he shall have left the land of the living. The rebellion in favor of extending and perpetuating slavery, brought the continuance of that institution directly in issue. To aid in putting the relellion down it was determined to liberate the slaves, as far as possible, and to use them in our armies. Availing themselves of the existing prejudice against the negro, the northern aiders and abetors of the rebellion have proclaimed

that the only object of the war is to place the negro upon a social equality with the whites ! The only answer to which such trash is entitled is. to give the leaders of the " peace Democracy " assurances that no law shall le enacted to prevent their associating with negroes on as perfect equality as they may desire, provided the consent of the negroes themselves be first obtained ! It may be that Providence has permitted the rebellion for the purpose of forever settling the slavery question. It may be that the prayers of the slaves for deliverance, which have ascended to God f.r two hundred years, have been heard at last : and it may lie, that, in His Divine Wisdom, the prespnt is the time selected for the last shackle to be wrested from the lacerated limbs of humanity : and if so, who will no? joyfully exclaim : "Let God's will be done !" In its consummation behold the grand and glorious spectacle ! Instead of a government founded on the sighs and groans of men and women, as contemplat ed m the establishment of the southern confederacy, we shall have a free and unitl Republic, whose happiness and prosperity, and all the eVmcnts of greatness shall l e f ir greater than ever before know n in history. No other man than lie who now f.'ls tfie Kxecutive Chair of the nation ever had so great a responsibility resting upon him. Called to his position by the suffrages of the people, he dare not shrink from the performance of his duty. That amid all the cares and terrible anxieties of his position, he has honestly and faithfully endeavored to perforin that duty, none can reasonably doubl. That he has always done what subsequent events have shown to be the W isest thing to be done, no one pretends. It is not given to man to see into futurity, nor to any one an infallible judgment; and yet, when the pen of impartial history shall record the events of the present time, fill honor will be awarded to the man who has so faithfully stood by his country in her hour of greatest peril, and ngaint whose sagacity and statesmanship so little can be justly said. The life of that country depends on his re-election. Defeated, and ati ignouvnious peace will surley follow. The constitution of the slave confederacy will be adopted by all the States, and this continent will become a vast slave empire, to be ruled over by the most hated aristocracy that ever cursed mankind. Arc the people prepared for such an ending to the present struggle? Is it for this that they have been pouring out their life's blood for the last three years ? Are they willing now to bo'w their necks in abject submission to the yoke of those who have hern murdering their neighbors, friends and sons, in cold blood, or starving them fo death in infernal prisons ? I f not, then go to the polls in October, as preparatory for the Presidential conflict i.i November, and sustain those who are upholding the Government, and all will be well. The Republic will live and go on incrch.sing in prosperity and happiness from age to age.

A Methodist Among the Mormons. Rf.v. T. II. Pea use, late editor of the Pacilic Advocate, Oregon, has been touring it in the Valley of the Salt Lake, and thus writes : From the opportunities I hud of ob serving Mormoni-,m, ami they were rather limited, the conclusion is reached that in point of political economy it is a failure. The lands .iseeplihlc of husbandry, are not well tilled, and while many of the people may lie industrious, and some of them thrifty, they are generally poor, squalid, ignorant, and degraded. They consist, in large part, of foreigners: English, Welsh. Scotch, Norwegians, and Danes. The polygamy does not tend to social order and comfort, but tiie reverse. At one place where we stopped, the landlord ha? two w ives who have not spoken to each other since the second wife was installed. They live in separate houses within a stone's throw of each other, and if they do not throw stones tt one another there is no more intercourse between them than 1 etween a Turk and a Christian. The husband spends a week with one and then a week with the ether. In another place where wc dined, the Mormon bishop (!) our host, has three wives, sisters, and New Hampshire women ! They did not appear happy. The children of this arrangement are far from being as comely, smart, and intelligent appearing as those outside of Mormondom. We found no books in the MormoR houses we entered, except yellow-covered literature, which the female inmates of these harems spend their time in devouring. I catechised the children at two or three places, nn I they were nearly as ignorant as horse blocks, and as stupid as the unwashed aboriginal pappooses. We inspected the foundations of the the great Mormon temple begun some eight or nine years ago, but not yet raised above the level of the ground above them. They are built of granite, the blocks being from three to four or six feet by a foot thick. The walls are about nine feet thick and twelve high. Under each basement window and doorway are inverted arches, and between the windows are erect arches. At the two east corners are circular cisterns about 12 feet in diameter by an equal depth. They are probably baptismal fonts. The building is about bdxlOO feet. We did not measure it. It will never be finished. Mormonism cannot survive. Already it contains the elements of its own dstruetion; faction and strife are at work, and at Brigham's death if not before, the whole system will be whelmed in a common overthrow. It is a singular and significant fact that many of the children of Mormon parents are heartily disgusted with Mormonism, and repadiat-tits sensual polygamous institutions.

Sherman on Recruiting in tho Rebel States. Gen. Sherman writes with the direct ncss of an honest and frank soldier in the following letter: HliAlHjCAKTKKS MILITARY DIVISION J of thk Mississirn, in thk Fiuld, V Nlau Atlanta, Ga., July SO, lKl-1.) John A. Spvontr, Esq., A$eHt for the i Commonwealth f Hattackutttts, Satht ilie, ' Tenn.: ' Sik: Yours from Chattanooga, July is received, notifying me of j-our appoint ment by your State as Lieutenant -CVlom 1 i and Provost-Marshal of Georgia, Ala ' bama and Mississippi, under the act of ! Congress approved July 4, 1S4, to re- ! emit volunteers to be credited to the Stales respectively. I On applying to Gen. Webster, at Nash ville, he will grant you a pass through I our lines to those States, and, as I have had considerable experience in those ; States, would suggest recruiting depots ! to be established at Macon and Columbus, I Mis., Selma Montgomery, and Mobile. '' Ala , and Columbus, Milledgeville mid Savannah. Ga. i I do not see that the law restricts you to black recruits, but you are at liberty . i to collect white recruits also. It is waste of time and money to open rendezvous in North west Georgia, for I assure you 1 ': have not seen an able-bodied man, black ' or white, there, lit for a soldier, who was i not in this army or the one opposed to it. You speak ot the impression going i abroad that I am opposed to the orga ni.ation of colored regiments. I My opinions are usually very positive, i and there is no reason why you should ! not know them. j Though entertaining profound rev- ! erence for our Congress, 1 do doubt their ! w isdom in the passage of this law : j 1. Because civilian agents about an army are a nuisance. H The duty of citizens to fight for their country is too sacred a one to be peddled off by buying up the refuse of other States. it. It is unjust to the brave soldiers and j volunteers who arc fighting, as those who I compose this army do, to place them on j a par with the class of recruits you are ! after. i 4. The negro is in a transition flute, and is not the equal of the white man. j T. He is liberated from his bondage by ! act of war; and the armies in the field ! are entitled to all his assistance in labor and fighting, in addition to the proper quotas of the States. 0. This bidding and bartering for recruits, w hite ami black, has delayed the re enforcement of our armies at the times when such re enforcements would have enabled us to make our success permanent. 7. The law is an experiment which, pending war, is unwise and unsafe, mid has delayed the universal draft which 1 firmly believe will become necessary to overcome the widespread resistance ottered us; and I also believe the universal draft will be wise and beneficial; for under the Providence of God it Mill separate the sheep from the goats, and demonstrate what citizens will light for their country, and what will only talk. No one will infer from this that I am not n friend of the negro as well as the white raeev I contend that the treason and rebellion of the master freed the fclave, ; and the armies I have commanded have i conducted to t-afe points more negroes j than those of any General officer in the army; but 1 prefer negroes for pioneers, j teamsters, cooks and servants, otherR j gradually to experiment in the art of the ; soldier, beginning with the duties of ! local garrisons, such as we had at Mem i phis, S'icksburg, Natchez, Nashville and ! Chattanooga; but I would not draw on i the poor race for too large a proportion j of its active, athletic young men, for - some must remain to seek new homes and ' provide for the old and young, the feeble aud helpless. These are some of my peculiar notions, J but I assure you they are shared by a j large proportion of our fighting men. : 1 am, 4c. i Signed W. T. Shfbman, Maj. Gtn. Fremont vs. Fremont. ' In his letter of June 4, 1&64, accept -: :ng the nomination of the Cleveland Convention, Gen. Fremont declares: "I do not believe that confiscation, ext sn led to the property of all rebels, i , practical, and if it were so, I do not think i it a measure of sound policy. It is a question belonging to the people them -' selves to decide, and it is a proper occn- : sion for the exercise of their original and sovereign authority." Contrast with these words the follow, ing passage from Fremont's emancipation proclamation, dated August 30, W2: "The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri, who . shall take up arms against the United ' States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken active part with the enemies ! in the field, is declared to be confiscated 1 to the public nse, and their slaves, if they have any, are hereby declared j freemen." t A Serious View. --Great Britain has j declined going to war with Germany in ' aid of Denmark. The astute statesmen of Great Britain would not consent to j inaugurate & war in which she had no ini dividual interest. But one of the reasons given in the British Parliament for refusing to go to war in Euaope should interest as deeply. It wae the probability of a war with the United States! This reason was distinctly given, and means much that we may ponder upon. It means that Britain and France design, if we do not substantially put an end to, and crush out,the rebellion this campaign, to save us the trouble bj interfering in pehalf of the South r en Confederacy. This is what it means. It is the covert idea which lies at the bottom of what we have considered the extraordinary neutrality" of those two nations.

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