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An Open Meeting. ! The conspirator?-, alarmed nnd dimayd at the damaging effect of our ex

pose of their niiJnfght conclaves, endcav

professions of devotion to the Union made by f upon .'opperhea 1 opposition failures wb'ich, thegettrs-up of these leagues, ' they aru not ! tLo-v at a!1' will he the result ofheer - i. i . ' incompetence at the head of the governments saeli simpletons as to regard ! them as any : y Y n' rid.

thine but n trie.lt to mislead the unwary and

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1863.

K. 5IMCKR K I' I TOR.

A few Things to be Remembered. "Let every Pomnciat nnd conservative man remember that the true issue at ideal in the election in this Township on Monday next ii mt men but principle. A triumph-of the iMoocracy is a tri

umph1 of law and older a triumph of

ored to break the force of the Mte bv lPnaM t,,p Jpublican party to retain eon

opening t lie doois- of their den to the public oti 8turdy night Ia.d. "Well they must ceitniiily recollect that their predecessors, the Know Nothings, done precisely the same thing on numerous oc

casions, but we never learned that it made

! them either better or wor e. -

Yc were not present wo have no tiesire t nlhliate with conspirators against the peace and liberties of the people either fserrrtly or openly, but we learn

thev ottered to or did initiate one or two

members whether the ritual used on this

occasion is the mmo as used in their secret conclaves we veiy much doubt if we have been correctly informed it is not- They claim that the only obligation required i to support the Constitution of the United Slates and the State

trd orrhe enormous patrouage which gives multitudes of people an interest in keeping Hp vast military establish use nt to hold an urr.viilng and recalcitrant people in subjection. f the Democrats are in power the next

four years aftrthe war the relations between the North and the South-will be put on such a friendly footing that vast armies and enormous military expenditures will become un.

necessary; ut the routh will never submit to abolition rule except at the point of the bayonet, which is precisely the state of things most desired by the whole host of contractors, speculators, sutlers, provost-marshals,

third rate lawyers who have been converted

To the Peaplc of Indiana. IltP4' rmt DiTRH-r o Iti4, iKDUKimus, -March 24, lfi3.

In assuming command, q. the District of

Indiana, let me haVc the ear of the petiole.

Let us reason together. - Practical views of

dutv becouie us all-

And 1st Secret political societies have

gained many adherents. They were the bane

oi the Kepuiilic in the days ol W auingtou. They swelled the horrors of the French revolution. They will curse yoit. The ballot lox atxl open debate mark a free people. Trust them. That which plums the light of day should not be endured by you. Come out abjure their vows reject their testa. Whatever their name, whatever your party, seek the old paths, and work as

you once dik, agreeing to disagree uponqwes

into brigadier generals, and all others who fll,n ne p irtv polity, but ever unite.!

in supporr i me viovcrnnieiu ana me na tioti. :

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midnight conspirator r-the advocates aao

ance to these sheet anchors of our rights

lettar.or,nol,ocraey-the persistent and nd liberties, and we question if any ex

ahamelcitR maligners of Democrats and Democratic principles. The. Democrat who so. far forgets hi principles and the lessons of .the past as to vote for even one of the opposition candidates, stiikes a blow at the libcrti'v of the people aids to forge the fetters' of tyranny that will

hind him hand and foot, and make every poor man-as abject a slave as the serf of Knssia. A triumph of the opposition will hc'hailed as a license by the midnight eonspirators to inaugurate mobocracy to put in force the matured plans of their dttestaLle organization, which will as assuxdly lead to violence and blood shed in our midst as the sun will raise on the coming , morn. A tiiumph of the Democracy will be equivalent to saying to these secret conspirators, the laws are Mipreme and must be obeyed, and any violation of the same will call down up

on your heads the .severest punishment. Vote the Democratic ticket and 3-011 see-re civil order, and individual safety vote the secret League ticket and von vote to overthrow civil order, to inaugurate strife and contention, anarchy and mobocracy there will be no securely for life

rvr property the laws will be powerless

for protection. Choose yc wisely Letwean the two. .

A Good Fortrait of yo Modern Patriot 10. "Union Man."

The New York Tones is one of those intensely loyal sheets so loyal in fact r at times to bo nearly or quite insane in advocacy of party creeds and the ban-1 dieing of party epithets. Hut occasionally the. Times returns to sanity. In on f its lucid moments, a few days ago, it drew tlie following admirable portrait not only of itself but of ye Modern Uniotk shrieking patriot, who questions every ones patriotism who does not chime in with his own wild and destructive notious, and would probably have as much trouble iu defining or establishing his own loyalty as the disloyally of his political opponent. We advise a careful perusal of the pictuie by our radical

friends iu this section, as it is a life-like

fekctch of their own precious selves :

"The peecadiloes which they most de

light in ascribing to a public man, occn pying a prominent and responsible po

aition, aie drunkenness and treason. In jdping times of peace, when he cannot get a thauce to be guilty of treason, no matter how ntrongly his bad disposition may incline him toward it, the offense of which he is generally accused is drunkenness of various degrees, from private tippling up to rolling publicly in the gutter. When the fierce blast of war blows in their ears, people of this fort acqnire remarkable acutencss in smelling out treachery as in detecting ardent spirits. When a battle is lost, or an opportunity neglected, or a false movement made, they scotV at the"not1?m that the general is simply incompetent, or that the men were raw, ir badly officered, or that the position was disadvantageous, or, in short, that the fortune of war had played any on of those thousand tricks from which skill ami valor have Miffeit'd so much ever since the war first began. They will hare it that the leader has n secret understanding with t ha enemy i and that for the sake of a small sum of rash he has deliberately eacrificotUthe thing of all others in this woild which every man, and above all every soldier, covets with passion the rhanec to'f military distinction, not to ak of the esteem of hv friends aud neighbors! -

tra judicial oath will attach , him any

more firmly to. them. If the , memlers of this League will go before an officer propel ly empowered to administer an oath, and with uplifted hand swear to obey the Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof, we probably might

have some faith in their intentions to do so, more especially as a violation of their oath would subject them to indictment and trial for perjury. IJut the idea of a man skulking like a thief up a dark stairway and into a carefully guarded

back room, and there take an oath, of no binding effect in law or equity, because the person administeiiug it has no authority to do it, to obey and maintain the Constitution, is simply rcdjculotis the height or purility. Suppose their Patron Saint, Old Abe should issue a Procla

mation suspending the Constitution in toto, what would become of their League where would be its binding tie. Then again, according to the assertion of Ben.

Wade, a bright and .shining light of this

administration, they are traitors, for did he not explicitly avow, in his place in the United States Senate, that the man who prates about the Constitution in the present cri&is of the country is a traitor? Most assuredly he did. We have no dis

position to question the loulty of any man residing in a loyal State but we do not 'believe these "Leagues" have, one ve.sta.ge o( loyalty, in the true acceptation of the term they have just as mnch respect for the Constitution and the written law of the land as a hog has for ihs

Sabbath, and no more. -" ''i The principal speakers were Thos. A.j MrFarland and David O. Mann. It is suflicicnt to sav that the pecch of the first named individual was chAracteristic. The speech of Mr. Mann was a mixture of profanity and sickening vulgarity, that would hardly have been permitted in the lowest brothel on the five Points, New York, but was vehemently cheered by a half drunken audience. Several Republicans assured us after ihc meeting that they were done with the institution and the party,. and we have every reason to believe they were sincere in what they said, for they are honorable men men of property and interested in maintain-

either grow rich by the war or are enabled by it to live in greater plenty and distinction than their talents ever permitted them to do in peace: All these men and the administration that distributes anion them the seven or eight hundred millions a year which is

charged as a burden on the industry of the

country have a direct interest in conducting the war on such principles that a great, permanent army will be necessary to hold the South in subjection. The party now inflow er wish to retain control of the overshadowing patronage created by such an army. We accordingly find it exerting more activity and skill in organizing the new political

campaign in the North than In prosecuting

the military campaigns which it has on its

hands in the South.. J he uepubheans are so elated bv their fancied success in thisdex-

trous political maneuver that in the flush

of their exultation tliev already confess that

the Union league movement is not for the

war but lor the nresideutial election. Mr.

Forney, clerk of the Senate, confident of the

administration, proprietor of two Republi

can newspapers, contract broker with tnt'u

ence at the War Department, this Forney,

d. Our quiet citizens arm with secret weapons. Tie laws ot Indiana forbid it It is not within the intent of the Constitution. It offends good morals, religion, and every social dutv, and is barbarous. Let the early

history of Arkansas ami Texas tell their

f..:irfill inirioir. It is nefdlps Yrmr frnn

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cbis-es arc afo: far paler, through the pro- lunanoma. iney uo tiol propose, u is

' NEWS ITEM. At last reports the Federal dlockade of Galveston, Texas, was rigidly en forced. The Harriet Lane, captured by the rebels some" time since was in" the harbor, and it is supposed i being iron cased.

A Fortress Monroe letter of the 2otk slates that some two weeks previous a

great fire occurred in Richmond, Va., de

stroying a large amount of property and one hundred thousand bushels of corn.

A portion of the fleet of Com. Far

ragut recently tun past the batteries at

Port Hudson, one of the rebel 6trong

holds on the Mississippi. Several of the

boats were badly damaged. Washington letter writers say that immediately after the Cune-ticut election the Presides wiJl issue his Proclamation for three hundred thousand men under the Conscription act. Thu rebels to the nnmberof 60,000 strong are aaid to De strongly fortified at

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si;i:i: &. co. s LETTER "A" FAMILY; SEWIXG. HACIME,.

who w as the original instigator of these Union

leagues, the first of which was got up in his

own city ot Philadelphia this John W. tor nev, who was the bosom friend and particu

lar cronv of Mr. Uuchanan so long as he

could make money out of the connection, but

with a serpent ingratitude bit the hand that

fed him when he failed to get an office which

ho wanted this Forney, the confidant of the

administration and contract-broker of the de

partments, thus avows the purpose of the

Luion leagues, ol which he is instigator ant originator, in a letter from Washington u,v

dcr his ordinary signature, published in the

Philadelphia I ress ofycsterJay. 1 he sigm

iicant italics arc his own:

i VThat there is another reawakening of the

loyal people at hand cannot be doubted.

i he movement in the right direction is earn

est and organized, and must become irresisti

ble. The fearless lead of your Union League

will Tic promptly and heartily followed

Their spirit begins to pervade all classes and

conditions, and the old line Whig, Republi

can, and American elements, arc being thoroughly suffused and fired by the determination and zeal of the best men of the Democ

racy. J will not be urprised if this, new crusade against the slave rebellion does not surpass all the scenes that marked the era before and after Sumter fell. .The campaign for the presidency in 186-4 has been opened by the Union men. They do not wait lor the opposition to assuunt the initiative. They

take. it themselves. If Mr. Forney had in this case been employed a, a spy to reycal to the public what ho has learned in presumed confidence, and thus promote the divorce of the Republican party from the government, he could not have done his work better. This Union league movement is the inauguration by the Kcpub 1 ieans of the presidential campaign of 1664. Mr. Forney cannot, however, be justly charg ed with indiscretion in making this statement, which he ot all men in the country, has the best means of knowing to be true; for nobody of any discernment has failed to detect the motives of tho league movement. The moment an attempt was made to extend it beyond Philadelphia, where it ostensibly originated, we saw through it at once, publicly attributed it to its true source at Washington, and made the same explanation of its

purpose which is now confessed by Air. ror-

It obviously lias lit

FIRST Paou. ''We recommend that every

reader offc the VOLUNTER give the letter of

Thltxow Wfcun, which will be fouud on our first page, an attcutive perusal. This letter shows who the disunionlstsof the North are, and who aa responsible for th? war. We

"will nnly'iay that Thurlnw Wed was one of

the founders of the Republican partv, and for ovsr thirty years the tditorof the Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journmi, the central organ of the old Whig and Republican party. Mr. Weed is a Republican but not an abolition-iatr

ney to be the true one,

. . , ... . -IIU lO UO Willi llir Will. J IU 1CUCJ11UII ia lll ing the laws inviolate and putting 'down t(j be put down by Bpoutins ,rom u,e mouths mobocracy aud lawlessness,, which re-J of orators in the Vorth, . but by the more ef- " -l

spects neither person nor property. cct,v eloquence aeiivcrea iroin irou tnroats

iu lilt; cvHiiii. m. ii; iitt;r tucii. uiv ituvi. uil v; be worsted by public meetings, when armies

fail to do the business, is simply preposterous, i

Jeff. Davis cares little who is elected governor of Connecticut ; the armies opposed to him will be equally strong whether the governor of Connecticut is a Republican or a Democrat. Mr. Lincoln is quite indepciide nt of state governors; aud with abundance of men aud money, of which they cjin nntdc! prive him, what more dos he want, but personal vigor and capacity, to make the war successful? 15ut while it makes no dilference to the rebels (so long as they continue in hellion) whether tho Republicans succeed or ar boatei in the elections, it makes a great difference" in the political prospects of the administration party. The consequence is, that the military necessity for soldiers is post'-, poned to the political necessity for votes. The conscription will not be enforced until tne Connecticut election is over. If the administration were not composed of men who are more partisans than patriots the conscription would be made, without delay, aud the taw conscript be put in immediate training. IJut the exigencies of the military services will be made subservient to the party exigencies of the Republicans; wo shall tee no conscription so long as it can endanger Republican rotes. The Union leagues have still another object than to strengthen the Republican party for the presidential election. The disappoint

ments and ill success of the administration,

on of the war.

Tho So-called Union Leagues. We suppose nobody is shallow enough to suppose that the "league" movement, just now so conspicuous, results from a spontaneous impulse of the peonle. It is a stroke of political strategy originating in Washington! and intended to demoralize the opposition to the Republican party preparatory to the presidential election. The hook is artfully baited; hut Pnioer:its are too wary to allow it to be jerked juto their juws, and themselves to be dragged out of their native element and carved as a dish for their political enemies. The question is not whether the bait is diges tible and nutritious. That may be readily conceded by Democrats. Their only objection to the savory morsel so deftly trolled by the political anglers is the bit of barbed steel it envelopes. Nbody. has anything to say against the pretenses on which these Union leagues are got up, except that they arc pre tenses, artfully assumed to inveigle Democrats into the support of a party whose success in the last presidential election destroyed the Union, and whose defeat in the next is the only possible racau of restoring itThe rebels may indeed be whipped we trust

in Uod they will be J befr this administra- and its wearisome protracti

tion pbe out of power but the sullen sub I makes the party iu ower distrust i a final

mission ami smothered malignity of a suhiu-

tection "of our common Government, than

when every man is the law to himself. Resides this, your brethren are in the field for

your sakn. This indeed gives the military

owcr, which is dormant in time of peace, a

resent prominence. Rut this power is of

the popfe, and to servo the people, lhe Government that wields it is vour Govern

ment. It can have no interest but yours. Armies e xist, not to invade or imperil, but to

insure your dearest rights. Remember, that in civil matters, they who obey the law never feal the fangs of the law. Offenders alone

suffer. So the citizen soldier, when true to

his oath and his duty, is no terror to the

good citizen. While this bo true, it is as true

that every man who bears a secret weapon

ia tempted to use it when flushed with pas

sion; and the good and pure of all parties are at the mercy of the weak or wicked. He whose moral rower can inlluence a whole

people, is reduced to the level of the worst,

and the strength of his muscle. For your own sake, for the peace of your families, for

the sake, of education, religion and all 3-011 hold dear, enforce the laws as to canwing concealed weapons, and you will find quiet

ness restored to j-our hearts ami homes. od. Resistance to the arrest of deserters is another form ot resistance to law, aud a sure road to anarchy and bloodshed. Law must be respected until repealed. Deny its oliey, if 3-011 will.' Labor for its repeal, if you will. Rut resistance is madness, because it is3-our own law it is your own peace and your own Government 3-011 threaten and when your turn comes to legislate you will have undcrminded 3'our own rights; and when anarchy rules, liberty dies. 4th. Your brethren are in the field. Your homes are safe, and you prosper. Your Gov

ernment would have more men. Remember.

that evcr3' man owes his all to the State, and bv the very laws of social life, he is bound

to give his all, it need be, as the measure o! his obligation to the State. We have had

peace so long, that we forget how much we

owe to society. Now, our reciprocal obliga

tions must be felt and rendered. Let not

the .conscription, or enrollment of the people

for the national defense, be the occasion for

assailing the national life Stand by every law until repealed or declared unconstitu

tional by the proper tribunal. Let every man

everywhere recount his mercies, compare his lot with that o. any other people, and he will never withstand his Government or the!ws

of his country,

5th. The coming spring elections, occur

ring at a tunc of unusual excitement, call

for notice, as false impressions prevail as to

the dut3 or intent of the soldier. The sol

dier, at home, votes, as does any other citi

zen. If absent, he must be content to leave

his civil rights in the charge of others. When voting, he must go to his duty unarmed, as loes every good citizen. Ho is sworn to maintain law, and is the last man lo interfere with the rights of others; and the right of the people properly to express their will by the ballot box is sacred aud inviolable, and must be kept so.

6th. A word to the press Your patriot ism and moderation are now put to a severe test. You can correct false impressions ; you can inspire the confidence of the people in our common future; you can do justice to all without compromising a single valuable party interest; or, 3-ou can develope disorder and madden the votaries of party to recklessness of all that is sacred in our great Republic. Your power for good is infinite. Will you not use it? In conclusion, let me say that oven now. your own border is not entirely safe from the inroad of hostile armies. Therefore be united. Diverge as parties as much as you will, but be one in arms for the commonwealth. Remember that this country, so richly endowed with intellectual, pln-sical and religions views, is jit as surely destined to prosper in the end, as that the Almighty ever will bless a people that Inund their institutions upon tfie base of civil and religious freedom. Lit t us a'l therefore fulfill our respective spheres with the earnest purpose to meet His favor. ITrNUY R. Carkivgton, Rrig. tien. Com'd'g District

believed, to attack Rosecrans, but aimply to prevent his advance. On the 26th the rams Iiancaster and Switzerland attempted to run the rebel

batteries at Yicksburgh. As soon as they came in range the battel ies opened a tremendous fire. The Lancaster was struck thirty-fuur times, and so badly shattered as to cause her Lo sink irumediateU, turning a complete somersault as tdtc went down. All her crew, with tho exception of two, cscajcd. The

Sa-iuerland was disabled by a 24 pound ball penei rating her steam drum, when

she was taken in tow bv the Albatioss

and towed out of range of the battel ics. The rebels, it is ascertained, arc building immense fortifications at Chat

tanooga, and already have between 50

md 00 Mcge guns in position.

It is apprehended that the long pie-

meditated attack on Charleston has commenced, although nothing definite :

known. According to all accounts th

city is strongly fortified and its reduction can only be accomplished by a long and desperate struggle by land and sea.

Major Clarence Prentice, with two Mibordinate officers of the Confederate army, were arrested iu Louisville on the

31st, ami sent to Camp Chase. At last accounts the rebels were ma king their way out of Kentucky. The belief is current in military cir cles that tho rebels are preparing toevac

uate Richmond. It has been ascertained

that for a long time they have been buy in

removing supplies, machinery, kc, from

that city

Tho election in Western Yirginia on

the adoption of the new Constitution an

for other purposes, was a one sided affair

The creation of the new Stale was a pet

scheme of the administration at "Wash

ington, and accordingly the ballot boxes were protected by bayonets it was about

as much as any man's life was worth to

attempt to vote against the fraud, am

prior to the election prominent gentle

men were arrested because they proposed

to speak against the erection of the new

State. A tweet, a beautiful, a delight

ful land of liberty this, under abolition

rule.

President Lincoln has designatet

Thursday, April 30th, to be observed as

a National Fast day

The Polish rebellion is reported as

spreading very rapidly and has already

assumed gigantic proportions. The ef

forts of the Russian government thus far to check the revolt have been futile. So far the sympathies of Europe and the world . appear to bo with the insurgent Poles.

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pttrd people, prostrate beneath the iron heel

of military authority, will never pive place to the cordial and fraternal relations without which the Union world be a curse, until the party whose success h deluded the land in blxnl is deposed frm its control of the government. It is only the lemAcratic partv that can settle the questions which will remain to he adjusted after the military power of the South is broken down. Whila Demo

crat! see nothing objectionable in the new

sin'oe.is ; ana it tney tmoum ao no better hereafter than they have done hitherto, they are planning to charge the blauie of their failure on the opposition of the 'Copjerheads.' Hence the' impression they' are so industriously trvin to diffuse that there is rcat dancer of the war miscarrying by reason of northern opposition. It must be obi-us to everybody not willfully blind that, if the war fails, it will fail for waut of generalship and

. administrative capacity to wield the uuboii tid

ed resources placed by Congress m the hands of the President It is thoroughly dishonest to throw any such anchors as these Union

Card from Dr. Day. Mr. Editor: Having heard that a report is in circulation that I have ioined a secret political "oeiety, whoso object ia to destroy the tloveriinicnt, permit me to say that I not only have not joined any such Society, nor have I ever been approached on the subject, thcrelore, the persons enaed in circulating this rcjxirt, to my certain ktiowbd;;e, are circulating a pettv and contemptible lie. S. .1) Pat. It is the practice of the abolitionists, and moro especially tha secret Lcaueri, to make assertions of a damaging nature to the l)e-

m'HTacy, and declare thy hare tho word of

such aud such a Democrat that it is true. In this instance, a member of the secret abolition League asserted before numerous witnsssthata prominent Democrat in this city aid he had joined the Knighta of the (loldf u Circle for the purpose r.f ascertaining their ohi'N't, and that he was convinced that the object of th onbr was to overthrow the Gov

ernment, (hi being pressed for the name of

the Democrat, he gave that of Dr. Day. lhe above carl from the Doctor shows how much truth there was in the assertion. It will be perfectly sa"e to brand all similar reports as

unmitigated falsehoods, concocted to sustain

leagues to the wiudward,with a view to charge a false, pernicious, and rSpidly sinking cause

Xo Partt Van Kckex Township. For the first time in the history of Van Duren Township a straight out party Convention for the nomination of candidates for Township officers has been held. One day last week, the professed patriots in that Tow n.ship

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assemMci logerner in an out m the way place, organized themselves into a Convention and nominated a ticket composed of the mogt ultra and brainless abolitionists in the Township. The Convention was addressed by a creature calling himself a minister, who opened his discourse by holding out in one hand a revolver and in the other a Ilible remarking: this (presenting the revolver) is my argument to one class, and this (presenting the Ilible) is my argument to another class. His harrangue, for it could not be called an address or a speech, was a most disgusting and blasphemous affair, ao much so, that every decent Itepublican in the house got up and left When the affair became known throughout the Township, the conservative Republicans were justly indignant and at once resolved not to support any such ticket, smeared over as it was, with blasphemy, the stench of ultra abolitionism, and the slimy treason of secret Leagues. They at once conf-red with the most prominent Democrats in the Township, and proposed that they unite on a ticket combining competency, respectability and patriotism. The loyal residents -f the Township, the Democracy and Conservative Republican, therefore met on Saturday last and nominated a mest excellent ticket, headed by John Copplk for Justice and (Seokgk V. Davis for Trustee. Its triumphant election ie certain.

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