Weekly Wabash Express, Volume XXI, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 February 1863 — Page 2

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/IfESDAY FEBRUARY 4,1863

resistance offered to officers in arrest'n Morgan county is but the

/legitimate results of the teachings of Demo-

crat|c

politicians and the organization of the Knights of the Golden Circle. The squadron of cavalry, however, succeeded in dispersing the mob and capturing the deserters, antf-also -arrested six citizens who were actively engaged in the mob to prevent the arrests being made. There is no mistaking one fact, and that is the military'authorities of the State will not be trampled upon, nor will they tolerate any body of men in screening deserters from arrest, and otherwise interfering with their rightful authority. We presume those citizens who were arrested will be dealt with in- such a manner as to de ter others from repeating such conduct. The

Knights of the Golden Circle will yet learn that it is no small matter to resist a Govern mem with more than half a million soldiers under its command, together with the State Governments at its back, and the whole loyal people ready on short notice to rally in its defence. If the members of this order desire to resist the Government and inaugurate civil war in the State, there is not much doubt that they will be willing to quit after a very brief campaign. Small politicians can boast and make a groat deal of noise, but "UNCLE SAM" will still be master of the situation.— It will be much better and safer for the Knights of the Golden Circle to keep quiet and obey the laws than to undertake the task of bullying and threatening, and finally re sisting the Government. It may prove very dangerous, and many necks may be brokep

The Organization and Arming of the Negroes. A bill is before Congress, having for its purpose the organization and arming ofono hundred and fifty regiments of negroes to serve as soldierB during the war. A great doal of time has been consumed in its di£cussions, and the Democrats of the VALLAN DIGHAM character denounce such a project most bitterly. The demoralization of the 4tmy and civil war, are among the conse quences which the people are told, will ensue from the passage of the bill. But in case the bill passes, it is not very probable that tho Federal Government will pause to take counsel of tho wild ravings^of a few rebel sympathizers, who have from the commencement of the struggle aided and assisted the enemy by every means in their power which they dared to use. Should the bill become a law, the negroes wiil bo armed, organized and drilled and prepared for active service. There is no good and valid reason why the bill should not pass. The objections which have been made to it are of a frivolous character, the peace Democrats desire to inaugurate war in the North on the passage of the bill we presume the Union men will be able to care for the interests of the country in that respect. The real objection, however, which the peace Democracy entertain to such plan, is that these negroes will, whenorgani zed and armed, become capable of doing tho rebel government somo damage. They will then be able to assist in crushing the rebel power, and everything which looks in that direction, the peace Democracy denounce as unconstitutional and radical. Wo are told also by the opponents of the bill, that the white soldier will be reduced to a level with the negro, &c. The statement is a false one and has not the semblance of patriotism in it,

One hundred and fifty negro regiments, would bo able to save our brave volunteers from

vast

amount of severe drudgery which they now perform and which causes tho hospitals to be filled with the sick. All digging ditching, fortifying, and cutting roads should be .lone by tho negroei. They are enurod to such work, and can do more of it and do it equally as well as the white soldier. The health of the regular Regiments should be protected. Tho fatigue of marches, and the preparations for battle are all that the soloicr should be required to perform. The negro should do the balance of the army work. Tho soldior that flights all day, or marches all day does not, at night., feel like goii.g into the trenches to work, or to constructing fortifications. He certainly would nor regard himself as insulted or degraded to :in equality with the negro, should the Government organize regiments of negroes to take this character of work off his hands, and if necessary to assist him in boating back the enemy. Whin the very life and existence of the Government is at Mtdke. it should be saved, if possible, by the USB of all the means it can command, without regard to any nice questions of etiquette. Gen. JACKSON used the" negroes for soldiers at Now Orleans, and after the battle, issued a proclamation in which be complimented them for their bravery and patriotism. He .lid not think by so doing, that he had reduced the heroes of that conflict to a level with the negro. But the Democracy of .) -U'KSON was of a different character from that which exhibits itself now under tho disguise of that name The Democracy then was a patriotic Democracy aud was not the ally of treason. But that which exists now is unpatriotic and is tho ally of tivason. We trust the bill referred to will pass Congress, and that the negro Regiments will bo organized and put in service forthwith. Let tho rebel sympathizers howl "abolition" and "negro p(|it ility" to their hearts content. It is a noticeable and significant fact, that those persons, in every community, who talk longest and loudest about "negro equality"

and

"abolition," are the very ones who are nearest on au equality with the negro, in point of character and attainments. The poor whilom of some parts of the South, who eat dirt, and are the associates of negroes, are the persons thero who set up the loudest '"'"nor against negro equality. It is nnversai.s

true

the man who is nearest the

level of th* -»gr0,i9 the one who says most about negro «q^jjty.

.CIST" The Indiana^"

loftn)3 Umt

a detail of soldiers sent jn^Q j|

county to arrest deserters we.

.the

facts.

or sn

on

last, fired on by some citizens. O.

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Col. Carrington dispatcheu

cavalrymen to tho disloyal neighborhood

With orders to arrest all engaged iu the outrage, and to bring them here, dead or

•alive.

.-VERY CnKKRiNG."—The Nashville Union uf Sunday made the mysterious announcement on that day that it had some excellent /•ewe, hich would make every loyal heart ihrob with pulsations of ecstatic joy. It is 1 pleasure, it says, to be an editor when tbere such intelligence {to communicate. But aufortu&ately, the editor says, he is not alowed to tell this good news. It is contra­

band.

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An

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infant, supposed to be about

twelve hours old, was found near the Terre Hftflte House Sunday morning. It was wipped in a blanket and laid upon a pile of

When found life was extinct. What shape could have left the scattehofethere to perish

A Cessation of Hostilities Demanded' by the Democracy.

The Democratic members of the Legislature of thiaState, and those of 9* Lf^sla ture of lttiuois haye, since both bodies Convened, vied w|Eh each- other in the work of giving moral support and courage to the rebels. Their conduct, in this matter, has been most shameful, and although it may wear the appearance of patriotism in the es timation of many of the people of both States at present, yet it will eventually be regarded by the whole loyal North with unlimited scorn.The «lleged came for tius action on the part of the Democratic leaders, is the issuing of the emancipation proclamation by the President. This is the alleged cause, but the real cause is quite different. Bat what right have they to demand a cessation of hostilities simply from the fact that the President of the United States has adopted a policy which they do not approve What right have these Democratic leaders to prescribe the policy for the Administration to pursue and demand that unless that policy is rigorously adhered to, the party will abandon the

Government in the hour of its peril, and transfer its support to the enemy What right have they to do this? Is every man who may see proper to find fault with the conduct of public officers, to be allowed to plead his dissatisfaction as an excuse for as listing the enemy Must the war bo so con ducted a3 to suit all classes of politicians, before the Government has aright to receive their support Not at all. et preposterous "as the doctrine may be, the Democratic leaders in this State and Illinois, act upon it and are now demanding that the Federal Government shall prostrate itself before the arch rebel of the Southern Confederacy, and in that attitude humbly implore forgiveness for past offenses, and promise submission to him in the future. It does seem as if their only ambition is to become the menials of JEEFERSOX DAVIS and his associates. They demand a cessation of hostilities. Why Because the President issued his emancipation proclamation, declaring the slaves of certain States in rebellion "forever free.

For this reason they refuse to assist in the further prosecution of the war for the preservation of the Government. They adhere to the fortunes of the institution of slavery and the rebel leaders. Thoy have now abandoned the Government under whose laws they have enjoyed peace and protection. They are ready to yield everything but slavery. But to that they are resolved to adhere, though the republic be broken up and destroyed as a consequence. The News Sheet of two days since uses the following language

Never would we have raised our voice to have asked ene man to enlist in this war, had the present policy of the Government been developed. No, never! We have ever been willing to support a war for the restoration of the Union, if it could not be done without it, which we think it could, but we never have, nor never will support one for the subversion of the Constitution and freeing the negroes. By the acts of the Administration, the avowed objects of this war, as originally made, have been perverted.

The News Sheet still adheres to the dectrine that a rebel has the right to hold his slave by virtue of the Constitution, even when^he U3es him as an instrument to destroy that Constitution. The position assumed in the above extract is that slavery is of higher value in the estimation of the writer than the Federal Government. It is the destruction of slavery to which the News Sheet objects, and not the overthrow and final ruin of the Government. But in whose favor does the News Sheet invoke tho Constitution? Is it for tho loyal man, who has stood by his country and obeyed its laws? Is it for the twenty millions of loyal people of the country that the News Sheet invokes tho power and protection ol the Constitution? No but it is for the three hundred thousand rebellious slaveholders who are at war upon that Constitution that tho invocation is made. The News Sheet claims that these rebel slaveholders have the right, under the Constitution, to hold their slaves, while at tho same time they use them for tho destruction of that Constitution, and it is because this alleged right of the slaveholder is violated that Col. COOKERLY says he would never have raised his voico for the war, had he known that such a policy was to mark tho conduct of the Administration. He has no defence to put in for the loyal poople of the great North. They rievor attract his attention. He never bestows upon them the slightest consideration. For thom ho has no tears to shed, and on them he has no encomiums to pronounce. All his power is reserved to vindicate the right of the slaveholder to hold his slave under the Constitution, while ho (the slave holder) is at war upon that instrument, and renounces all allegianco to it.

The result of the statement of the News Sheet is, that it is a subversion of the Constitution to deprive treason und rebellion of till" inoati3 of destroying the Constitution. It is wrong, it argues, to take the rebel's property from him while he is using it against the Government. Destroy the Government but not slavery, is tho argument of tho News Sheet. Pieserve it and cherish it, even though it feeds the rebel armies while they war upon the Union and constructs fortifications, and digs entrenchments that such armies may the more easily subvert the Constitution. The patriotism and statesmanship of the man who would barter tho whole fabric of Republican Government for the preservation and permanency of the institution of African Slavery, must be infinitesimal indeed. Love of country is srid to be the strongest passion of the human heart, but here in tho free and loyal North we have the editor of a paper, and an aspiring politician, who is willing to sell his Government, purchased with the blood and suffering of his fathers, in a sanguinary strugglo of seven years duration, that the barbarism of slavery may be evermore perpetuated, and the traffic in human flesh evermore established.— The man who would thus shamefully and basely barter off liberty, nationality, law, order, tho Union, the Constitution, the last fond hope of freemen throughout the world, that slavery may live and expand ttud dominate the land like a master, is a monster in the shape of man, but without a single redeeming attribute of his Maker.

But where would a reasonable man look for satisfactory evidence that the Union could have heen preserved without a resort to arms? It is a very easy matter for the News Sheet, to make the allegation, but it annot, aud dare not at tempt to prove it by

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ard^''n^S w^ich

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odiously iguores.

rega nj as dangerous, and never has been known to, In looking at tli&£

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woapou3'

prior to the outbreak oJter

of

compromise

of preserving peace, and miSf®^* ®s ^nean9 relations between the different8inS friendly Union, the attention is attracted to°f the

ocratic party as it existed at that time.

bitrating the dispute by the sword? Here, was an opportunity for the Democracy to display that magnanimity, which it is alleged the Republicans, refused to manifest on all occasions. Here, was an opportunity for the Democrats to exhibit that Statesmanship -which they alonerarowiid to p03ses^~ Why did not the Democratic leaders which assem bled at Charleston and Baltimore, ignore all abolitionism, and grant the requests or demands which the modest WILLIAM S. YAN­

CEY then and there said he would be satisfied with?

But how did the D^eSrat^tfictf and there assembled act? Did its leaders compromise? Did they escape the charge of being Northern abolitionists? No but they were kicked outofthe Conventions as being ne better than so many dogs, by the very men whom, the News Sheet now blames the Union men for not compromising with, aud thus, closing the war byjan honorable adjustment. At Charleston and at Baltimore were the places for honorable adjustments, but ifthe history of those conventions is not wofully distorted no honorable adjustments were £made, notwithstanding all were Democrats, and none were abolitionists, to utter discondant notes, and disturb the general harmony. WENDELL PHILLIPPS, nor SUMNER, nor SEWARD with his "irrepressible conflict," nor LOVEJOY, were there. All were Democrats, and "conservative men," aud it is said

Democracy is everywhere the same. Why then did not peacc and concord reign in those conventions? The Cincinnat platform of popular sovereignty, on which BUCHANAN was elected Piesident, was proposed to those two Conventions. That was supposed to contain national doctrine, and was considered the panacea for all national ills. Why was it not adopted at Charleston or at Baltimore? SUMNER was not there to vote against it nor was QIDDINGS, nor SEWARD nor LOEKJOY there. Why then*was it not adopted? Simply from the fact that YANCEY and his friend, saw that it had failed in Kansas, to build up, foster and strengthen the institution of african Slavery. Consequently they repudiated it, and demanded that the Northern Democrats should advance to a more radical doctrine in behalf of Slavery.

WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, of Illinois was the representative of the Northern Democracy, at Charleston, and was then and there called .upon by Mr. YANCEY, to immolate himself upon tho funeral pyre of Democracy, over which the torch was held, and to accept this honorable compromise to wit: "It is the duty of the Federal Government in all its departments, to protect, when necessary, all the rights of persons and property in the Territories, and wherever else its authority extends." When he was asked to put this, not into the Constitution, but into a party platform, for the sake of Union ana Democ racy, did he make the compromise and save the country from war, over which the News Sheet, has shed so many bitter tears? Just here Mr. RICHARDSON received a dispatch from Mr. DOUGLAS, saying 'Accept the Cincinnati Platform aud DEED SCOTT decision but go not a step beyond.' Here also Mr PAYNE of Ohio explained and said, "we cannot recede from this ground ofnon-intervention without personal dishonor, and so help me God, we never will." And another delegate said, "I feel (praise tho Lord) I've got through easing dirt I have eaten my peck, and want no more.

Although COL. COOKERLY has consumed more than his "peck of dirt," yet, with ravenous maw, aud capacious sto mach he is still hungering for more dirt, It does seem as if a bushel of JEFFERSON DAVIS' dirt would not appease his insatiable appetite for rebel filth. As a result of the action of those conventions, the vaunted nationality of the Democratic party was torn into hostilo fragments. So it was "personal dishonor" for Messrs. RICHARDSON and PAYNE to disclaim their principles and assert the opposite in a Democratic platform, but honorable and just, according to the News Sheet, for the Republicans to repudiate the verdict of the people iu electing Mr. LINCOLN in opposition to such a policy, and to thrust the YANCF.Y doctrine into the constitution, there to remain forever.

If there is any honesty in I lie News Sheet or if there is any augument in it, we call upon it to inform the public, when and where aud how, a compromise could have been made, and the present civil war avoided. We suppose however, that we will receive from it the same answer which it gave when we desired to know, in what manner it would secure a "speedy peace" to-wit: "Abolition." The fact is that the argument that the war could have been avoided by tho Republican party, by accepting an "lionorablo compromise," is a false one, and no paper which is capable of rising above falsehood, and (he tricks of the demagogue, will advance it. It is a libel upon history, and every well informed man knows it to bo such. As Mr. DOUGLAS said in his last speech at Chicago, the present rebellion is tho result of nn enormous and gigantic conspiracy, formed more thau a year before the election of President LINCOLN. Everything proves it, and almost every rensonaable man knows it. to be so.— This conspiracy was, also, formed in a Democratic Cabinet, and with the connivance of a Democratic President, and Democrats, not being satisfied with being kicked out of the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions by YANCEY and his friends, are now aiding and assisting the in in making successful, the rebellion which their treason, fraud and crime inaugurated. And the Editor of t.he News Sheet, while the wounds which he received, by boiug kicked outofthe conventions referred to, are yet fresh and bleeding, desires to go again into a convention with the rebel leaders, to confess to them his entire loss of uiitibood and his ambition to be their object Have.— And the better to enable thom to do so, a peace convention is to bo held here by the peace democrats on the '21st inst., when a cessation of hostilities will be demanded, in conformity with tho resolutions brought before the Legslature by Mr BROWN of Welles county. But all these peace propositions of the democratic leaders aro indignautly rejected, and scornfully spurned by the rebel leaders. JEFFERSON DAVIS himself, the rebel Congress, and every rebel paper and leader of any note whatever iu the whole South, utterly repudiate any such things as peace propositions, unless they look to the direct recognition of tho Southern Confederacy This, in fact, is what the Northern leaders of tho democratic party are trying to bring about. But they will fail in the enterprise, and in the end draw upon themselves the bate aud scorn of every lover of free institutions throughout the world.

1ST Mr. P. Honbrook, Secretary of the Evansville Sanitary Commission, in a noto to the Secretary at this place, acknowledges

tainly the News Sheet, will not dispute its j^ receipt of a box of clothing, for the use purity, nor deny its ability to restore to a distracted country, the peace and quiet which its circumstances so imperatively demanded. In the estimation pf the News Sheet, tho Democratic party can accomplish anything but an impossibility, and the settlement of the questions in dispute prior to the oatbToak of the war, was not, j* an impossibility. Why then did it not compromise with tbe Southern leaders, and thus [ralieve tfee country of the necessity of w*

say#.sick and wounded. In conclusion he "We IK wounded fcnot yet received many of the tributed much battles, vet we have disand 4th cavalry,

8

ic]k 'of the 6T»th 9lst

to Sanitary Boats *o»J£entucky, as also, passing up the River. use of wounded' "Oar Hospitals were npve* tion than now,'and #e art ftfiVtey coodireUpfto those who have been3»Vjve flghtjng fop thp right. Our store is fts, beinpfull, and anything yoi} may sen will bei^dlcously applied.

A TOUGU STORT.—A Southern paper says that one of the rebel regiments engaged in the battle'of J4 urfreesboro was raised in Missouri by a »n oftlohti B. Clarke, who pretends to rep^senfiijhis Stat* in the rebel Senate at Ric^iondS C£r Clarjke, says the rebel paper. wften rwrnitfbg his* regiment,0 was obliged to conceal himself by day and work at night. After filling up his corp3, he swam the whole 1,080 men across the Mississippi river—a mile and quarter' wide— and at the time full Of .driftstde? Rather tough.

HT A strange feud has existed for several years in the parsh of Etnly, in the archbishopric of Caahel, In-kiwl, tutv.-.en two Roman Catholic factions culled the "three year olds," and the "fonr year olds," caused originally by a dispute as to the age of a bull kept near Tipperary, one party asserting that ho was three yeais old and the other swearing as lustily that he was four. The feud has waxed more bitter aud furious with time, and the archbishop of Cashel, in a pastoral letter to this beligerent portion of his flock, recounts a list of six persons murdered, five badly fractured, one dangerously stabbed, one badly beaten, and a number dangerously wounded, victims within the past six years of the ferocity of these factions. The clergy are making great efforts to put a stop to the savage warfare.

tcW Miss Ella K. Hays, of Great Falls, N.H., one day last week, skated twenty miles on Lake Winnebeiseagee in less than three hours, starting from the rail-road wharf at Alton and landing at the Weirs

The ladies of the Catholic Church

are preparing a Festival to be given at Nationnl Hall, OH to morrow evening. One half of the proceeds will bo donated to the relief of the suffering poor of the city. Tickets only twenty-five cents, with supper

free.

Mrs. Crosby, of the Marine Hospital,

Evansville, desires to acknowledge the receipt of two boxes of clothing, four of canned fruits, and other delicacies for the sick, from tho friends ol soldiers in Terre Haute. She says may God bless their noble heart', that have thus far never been surpassed generosity and patriotism.

jj^-A would-beprophet

down South lately

said in one of his sermons that he "was sent to redeem tho world and all things," whereupon a native pulled out a Confederate shinplaster and asked him to fork over the specie for it.

"GREENBACKS." The Legislature of Washington Territory has passed an act

punishing persons refusing to receive legaltender notes at par by imposing a tine of from $300 to $1,000, and six months'im­

prisonment.

ON A STIKE.—The "Union" printers in the Milwaukee Sentinel office aio on a strike because tho proprietors of that paper employed

a number of female compositors. The Sentinel refuses to recede and advertises for hands. If tho Milwaukee girls are as handsome as our Hoosier damsels, and if the boys aro allowed to "set up with thero in tho same room, the Sentinel can get plenty of printors from this direction at very moderate

compensation.

The Proclamation of Emancipation in tho California tRsislatnrp. In the Senate of that State the following resolution wns'offered by an honorable Sena­

tor Resolved, That wo fully and heartily endorse the action of the President of the United States iu issuing his pjoclamation of the 1st of January, 1WG3, declaring slaves, in cm tain States and parts of States in.rebellion against the Government, to bo free that we believe with him that it is "an nK q( justice, warranted by the Constitution military necessity."

This resolution was adopted by a thirty one to eight. So the h'Viiif A

Tribute of Itespect.

At the regular monthly meeting ol Evening Star Temple, held on Monday evening, February 2d, 1863, the following preamble and ro.u lutions were adopted

WHEREAS, Our much esteemed Brother John Adams, has lieen removed from this Temple by the hand ol death nnd wo humbly trust, become a member of the Temple above not made with hands, eternal in ihe Heavens and,

WHEREAS, By this afflictive dispensation of nil All-wise Providence, we too, are taught, that we are mortal, and that we should, while we live, do all we can to ameliorate the condition of suffering humanity therefore,

Resolved, That iu iho death ol Brother Adams, this Temple has lost one of its most active, and efficient members, and this community, a worthy and respected citizen.

Resolved, That we bow, in humble submission, to this dispensation of an All-wise Providence, and repeat, Thy will be done."

Resolved, That wo condole with tho relatives and friends of Ihe deceased, in their heavy bereaveuulit, in the death of Brother Adams.

Resolved, That this Temple be draped in mourning for the space of thirty days. Resolved, That these resolutions bespread upon the Records of this Temple nnd published in the city papers.

WILLIAM WOOLLEN, T. A. MADISON, t'om. PS. WEST FALL,

AT a meeting of Social Lodge No. 8G, F. & A. M., held on the 2nd of February, A. D. ISfill, the following preamble aud resolutions were adopted

WHEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Architect of the Universe to remove from our midst, our estimable and worthy Brother Thomas W.J Burton, who died in St. Louis, Mo., on the 22nd of December last, and while we attempt to pay thi9 last tribute of respect to our deceased Brother, let us embalm his memory in our hearts, and pay a juster tribute by emulating his many virtues.

Resolved, Therefore, that we"recognize the Chastening hand of God in the early death of our beloved brother, and bow in humble submission to the inscrutable dealings of an All-wise Providence.

Resolved, That in the death of Brother Bnrton the community has lost an honest aud exemplary citizen, and tho Fraternity a just and upright Brother.

Resolved, That we teuder to the family and friends of our departed Brother the tribute of onr most sincere and heart-felt sympathy in this, their hour of affliction, aud would tenderly point them to the pure and noble principles ho loved so well, and his purity of thought, justice of intention and rectitude of conduct for their copafort and consolation. '"r- JOHN ABBOTT,)

S. L. FOULKE, Com. J. H. MORE,

By order of the Lodge. SJ A. L. CHAMBERLAIN, W. M. GASTON, Sec'y.

THE Express finds fault with our friend ohn T. Scott Esq., because it charges him with havingsaid that he preferral th&downm, fall of slatpry to the, Government

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the Pacific coast is placing its.^^P^^fnt of the emancipation proclamation record. The proclamation is there approved. California is proving its devotion to the (•overnment, to be greater than to slavery.

Mr. WARWICK said he, for one, indorsed that proclamation, holding that the day it was issued was second only to the glorious

Fourth

of July. He, for one, was ready to

"drain the resources" of the nation in sup­

port

of that proclamation, to the last dollar in the treasury and the last drop of blood.— [Applause] It was on the glorious 1st of Jauuary, 1803, that the Administration "proclaimed liberty throughout all the land, and to ifH the inhabitants thereof"—proclaimed liberty to enslaved millions, raising them to the condition of men.

M-New

Shc& I FTO^GRAFTDLI, GRAFTON, what a poor of funiturejjbu are|.Yocrsyntax would disgrace & school boy. "The [Express finds fault with our friend JOHN T.SCOTT Esq., because it charges bim" &c., says the Col. It is no wonder the Legislature refused to send you to the Penitentiary. It evidently thought you a better subject for the Asylum than for Penitentiary.

from the Parke county Republican, which charged Mr. SCOTT, with havingsaid that "if either the Government or slavery had to go down in the present contest, ho preferred tho downfall of the Government." The compositor in "setting up" the article used the word "latter" instead of "Government." Hence the mistake. Col. COOKERLY, with his quick perception, learning and genins, at ooce saw that the compositor's mistake furnished him a subject which would give his talents full scope. Ha did uot hesitate to tako advantage of it. aBd "went in" as the above extract indicates. It is a fine thingindeed to see such a genius exhausting itself on such a subject. Certainly. "Peace hath her victories."

No less renowned than war. But the compositor who made the mistake desires us to say to the Hon. G. F. COOKERLY and the Hon. JOHN T. SCOTT, that he is yet a mere boy, and has quite a limited ex perience in setting type, therefore he trusts you will not follow up tbe attack so vigorously made upon him. He admits the victO' ry to be complete, and of a character which wilf certainly appease the ambition of tho honorable assailants. He most humbly admits that you have won your laurels fairly and believes that you will wear them with humility, as boooines brave men.

In peace there's nothing so becomesaman As modest stillness and humility." But,

Cel.,

you say that Mr. SCOTT is

Democrat. Very well. He has a right to be a Democrat. His card proves him to be a Democrat. It contains the whole Democratic argument. But, Col., we might sug gest to you that JEFFERSON DAVIS, also, is a Democrat in good standing in your estima tion. So is BRECKINRIDGE, and FLOYD, and in fact, all the leaders of the rebellion When you argue that Democrats do no wrong," we can only point you to the examples.

We made no charges against Mr. SCOTT, We did not even "find fault with him because we charged him," &c. Wo merely quoted tho article from another paper, which right we shall continue to exercise whenever we see proper. But, GRAFTON, you are a dread ful botch. You botch everything you attempt to do. You had better employ some person to revise your editorials before they go to tho pnblic, otherwise your sanity will becomo a subject of examination and discus^ sion.

From the 71st.

BITRNSIDE BARRACKS, Jan. 31, 1863. DEAR EXPRESS The weather has contin­

ued so inclement for tho last month that we are becoming, in a measure, home sick Cooped up in barracks of small dimensions for weeks at a time, is not soldiering in a manner mcst agreeable to the boys. It be comes monotonous wo experience the want of exercise, and being deprived almost wholly of the health-giving drill, both battalion 'and company, many are _becoming sick aud partially discouraged. There is nothing better calculated to fill the soldiers with courage and life, than constant changes from one camp to another, and exciting marches in pursuit of tho enemy. Thus their minds are employed on the chances of success, or the energetic preparations of crusaded towards "bagging" the wily foe. Different scenery and strange places furnish subjects for reflection and pastime. Iu this way tline passes swiftly, and but little of it '-.spent iu fruitless longings for the peace

Hd quiet of home, that only produces, in their results, discontent and finallyjsickness for it has been demonstrated, that those who become disheartened and weary of soldiering so far ns to lose all ambition and interest in the service, aro sure to become sickly and worthlcfs. They becomo negative to any disease that may be prevalent. We have lost four or five men from this cause, and the legimcnt many tnoro.

There is a fino prospect now, however, tlmt we will bo once more free. Our exchange will be effected some timo next week, probably Wednesday or Thursday, when we aro to be mounted. We may not take the field immediately, as the prisoners now in Camp Morton will doubtless have to be guarded by the 71 st regiment. Tbe Colonel, however, will never rest satisfied with guarding a f«w prisoners within the narrow confines of Camp Morton he longs for a wider field of operation, where he can display tho valor of his men, in whom he has pei feet confidence. He chiles under the blow the 71st sustained in Kentucky in December, like a caged lion, and if ever the opportunity presents itself to wipe out that affair, he will not let it pass without improvement.

The prisoiK-rs nowhere are wounded —a great many severely. They say they were inhumanly forsaken at Murfreesboro by their officers, who told them thoy would be taken to Nashville, whero ovr authorities would afford them better treatment than they would. In consequence, pome of the wounded suffered eight or ten days without, having their Injuries dressed liy a surgeon.

As a class, they are tho most filthy, wo-be-gone 9et of creatures imaginable. They look more like just emerging from hog pens than from any civilized, refined region of country. And to hear thein talk, it would seem they had list all their manhood in the domains of Jeff. Davis. There ia no cheer fulness about thctn They manifest very little interest for the rebellion and, in truth, a number with whom 1 conversed expressed themselves tired of the fruitless strife, and perfectly willing to throw down their arms and repair to iheir homes to live iu peace and quiet. This feeling is not confined to a few, but is almost general.

Could we but appeal to the sober judgment of tbe masses of the South, we would find this sentiment occupying a strong place in their minds, and the rebellion, could they but rise up and throw off the magic spell with which they aro bound by their leaders, would disappear almost as rapidly as it broke out.

Company E, Copt. A. J. Welsh, is now officered as follows—(Lieut. E. W. Peck having been promoted to Captain of Company H, vice Capt. Stearns): Captain, A. J. Welsh First Lieutenant, E. Hitchcock Second Lieutenant, H. E. Madison Orderly Sergeant, T. H. Fox Second Sargeant, S Ransdell Third Serger.t, C. L. Harris Fourth Sergent, W. W. Casto. CorporaU J. L. Oreal, Thomas H. Boyd, George E. Davis, J. E Page, E. Vessels, C. R. Young, J. W. Gosnell, and E. Crist Musiciaus, Henry Hitchcock and Edgar C. Knapp.

There lias been many changes in officers iu the regiment, and still more are inevitable. The worthy men alone fill the vacancies.— This wise policy is th« one adopted by our gallant Colonel, and the results of it will be a model regiment.

Respectfully yopra, r?!i E. H.

Private W. E. Moore has been ap^.

pointed Qeartermaster of the 71st regiment rice Kercheval, resigned,

The Proclamation.—fts endorsement by the Loyal People or St. Lonis. The meeting h^i last week in St Louis, to endorse the proclamation, was one of the largest and most enthoaiastic ever bekl in the city. On that ooeision, A* Hon. CHAS. D. DRAKE, made tbefbllowing speeds which we commend as being the true doctrine.— Mr. DRAKE has, all bis life, been a proslave-

Democrat, and was an ardent supporter of DOUGLAS in ibe last canvass. FELLOW CITIZENS: Never has been it my duty to address a popular assemblage, uuder circumstances more solumn and momentous thanthose in which the people are now placed. Were I to give way to expressions of mere personal feelings, it would be difficult to define the mingled emotions with which I have accepted the invitation to appear before you on this occasion. But I have endeavored to put aside all feeling, save that which yearns to my beloved aud suffering country, and every purpose but that which binds me, in life or in death, to her welfare and honor. I am no {politician I belong to no party I have nothng to as ft for myself at the hands of the people, but to be recognized as one ready to do anything in that Holy Cause and to be anything that is farthest removed from a traitor, (applanse,) whether such as skulk from our soil, Southward, to help slay their patriot brothers, or such as hang back under the folds of the old flag, that they may, while enjoying its protection, more surely aid in destroying and dishonoring it. Between snch and me, I thank God! there ia not, nor ever can be, any more concord than between fire and water but discord, antagonism and strife, now and overmore, until tbe venom of treason shall cease to poison their hearts and to fire their brain with parricidal madness [Applause.]

Indulge me, however, in a single remark as to my past position with reference to tbe subject which rises in this hour above every other—the institution of slavery. I desire to preface the words which I deem it my duty to utter, with the reiterated declaration that I am not, nor ever have been, a fanatic against slavery as a domestic institution, nor have I ever been connected for an hour with any party or association which struck at slavery in that character. I have always, how ever, believed slavery a sore evil and a vast misfortune to our country, [applause,] and was ready to hail its removal by proper means as one of tho greatest blessings which a kind Providence could vouchsafe to us. [Great applause When, therefore, I speak as I shall to night of slavery, let no man say that 1 give utterance to any other than the opinions and convictions which the horrid scencs of the last two years have fairly burned into my mind and heart, against the preconceptions of nearly thirty years. When I strike at slavery, it is because slavery strikes at my country and for that I would strikeit down! [Immense and prolonged applause.]

Dutiug those two years, we have wit nesstfd the bloody climax of a conspiracy which began in the preceding generation to enthrone Slavery and political power in this land, and to extend its sway over adjacent countries, in the wild hope that, in the grasp and under tho lead of the indomitable Anglo Saxon race, it might become—what it failed to becomo in any other hands—a power in the earth. It is too late in the day for the arch traitor, Jefferson Davis, to delude the world with such lying words as those quoted in one of the resolutions reported by your committee, affirming that he and bis armies "aro not engaged in a conflict for conquest, or for aggrandizement." Does he comprehend the import of language? Does he know what conquest means? Does he sup pose that the world has turned idiot, not to see that, the South is arming to strip by conquest from tho United States a large part of its territory, three thousand miles of its sea coast, and the mouth of that great Mississippi, whose waters roll in ceaseless and stately flow past this city of our habitation? Is there no vision of aggrandisement in that empire of tho "Golden Circle," which sweeping from the capes of Virginia down to Cape Sable, and careering around the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, was to plant its furthest standard in some yet unthought-of point in South American wilds? And does he believe humanity in its dotage, that it cannot see that that standard is to be borne onward in its blood stained march of piracy and subjugation, by slavery and for slavery? No, my friends, he believes no snch miserable folly. He know, long years ago, and he knows now, better than any but his co-conspirators could know, that a vast Empire of slavery was the promise of his and their treachery to the noble Republic of Freedom, which gave them birth, and nurtured them into men of mark, only, as time has proved, that the might be more powerful and dangerous than common men in their accursed treason. [Applause.] It suits their purpose to deny what two years ago they defiantly proclaimed but men do not forget, nor can the world be mocked.— Tho Ethiopian does not change his skin, nor the leopard his spots nor have Southern traitors abandoned the infinitely atrocious purpose to destroy this Union, bought with our fathers' blood, for "the spread of slavery." [Great applause.]

Your committee have, therefore, rightly judged that in the very fore-front of the declarations of this meeting shouid be proclaimed anew tbe great and solemn truth, that it is Southern Slavery, embodied in and acting through its lawless and conscienceless aristocracy, that has drenched the land in blood. [Great applause.] Why should not that trnth bo declared, not only here and now, but everywhere and all the time Of what avail is it to us, to our country, or to Hie cause ef humanity, to bury it out of sight, and parade before our eyes some specious pretext for this rebellion, which we know to be false? Shall we fear to own the truth because some muzzled traitor amongst us scowls in impotant wrath, or because his vote may some day be denied us, for having been truo to truth? Let bim who will shirk this mighty issue. I meet it, at all times aud in all places, alike. [Great applause.] If there was never before an occasion when it should be fairly and leaileasly met, that occasion is here and now. My voice is, and ever will be, that Southern Slavery alone is tho cause of the horrible calamities of this civil war, [immense and prolonged applause,] and the human race in all tno future will join without dissent in that verdict. I would say otherwise, it I could but like Martin Luther before the Diet of Wurms, I answer: "HERE I STAND, I CAN no NO OTHER MAY Go HELP ME, AMEN" [Renewed applane.]

What then is the essential clmractor of this war? My friends, the judgemant and conscience of the whole civilized world, when tho question comes to be fully understood, never can be, nover will be, aught else [applause,] than that it is a war of the aristocratic against the democratic principle a war of an aristocratic form of society, resting upon aud vitalized by a system of human slavery, against a form of socioty in which each individual is as free as every other a war based upon tbe sacrilegious idea that slavery is a divino institution, and that—in tho words of Albert G. Brown, late Senator from Mississippi—its "blessings should be spread, like the religion of our Divine Master, to the uttermost ends of the earth," [roars of laughter a war for the spread of those "blessings," not as *,the religion of our Divine Master" goes forth, on the win^s of a dove, bearing "peace on earth and good will toward men," but as that of the False Prophet, with intolerance, wrath, fire and sword a war, in one word, of human slavery, as a dominant and aggressive power against human freedom as a bulwark of human rights—of Africanized Americans agains Ameticanized Americans [immense applause]—of a proud, conceitod and fero cious aristocracy against THE PEOPLE here, and against all people, everywhere, that would be free. [Great applause.]

And it is not a war of to day merely. It has already borne fruits which, for good or for ill, will never die. Were it terminated this hour, its influence must reach onward into tho unexplored future, blessing or cursing, freeing or enelaving, brightening or darkening, till the last hour of record time. Thero is no difficulty in deciding on which side is tbe light, and on which the darkness. It was the light of freedom which illumined the pathway of our fathers, in their mighty struggle, and in tbe formation of that grand and unequaled fabric of Government we are now defending and it is the darkness of slavery under which that glorious fabric is

now songhtJo be buried by its own children! tuse,] Tbe conflict is indeed irrepressible as

[Cries of "True," and applause,]

irrepressible ast hat between good and evil, between right and wrong, between tiuth and falsehood, between Heaven and Hell. [Applause.] And who made it so? None but they who made of slavery "AX UIAOK or GOLD," and "set it up in the plain" of tbe South, and because the North would not "fall down and wontbip ^fce golden image" that this Sonthem Nebuchadnezzar had set up," decreed that this noble country should "be cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace' of this cruel and devouring war.— This, my friends, is God's QWQ tnjth abqut

this unnatural and amazing conflict. Applause.] History has yet to record, that they who cast America into tbe furnace were themselves slain hy its "seven times heated flame, while she "walked in the midst" with no "smell of fire" upon her resplendent robes. [Great anplause.]

If hi this war snivery was and is the aggressor if the war was begun and is continued for "the planting and spreading of slavery if slavery has become the "golden image" which the South bows down to, and wars with U3 because we will not worship it too if slavery feeds and clothes the armies ol the South if the Southern heart is envenomed against the North for the sake of slavery if our free institutions, and all the hopes of ourselves and our children, are imperiled, that slavery mny be exalted, diffused and perpetuated, (about all of whioh there is no more room for doubt than there is to doubt that this war exists,) then is this nation bound to destroy slavery, wherever it is in armed rebellion. [Terrific applause.]—

Turn which way you may, there is no escape from this alternative, except in cowanl'y and abject submission to the demands of Uie South. If you wish peace, it can be had tomorrow by giving up all that tho South exacts but it would be a hollow truce of not a year's duration. The permanent dismemberment of this country is a geographical impossibility. [Applause.] From every State' west and south of New England, except New Jersey, Deleware, South Carolina and Florida, the Almighty has sent the waters of this great continent flowing from myriads of fountains down this mighty valley, which must forever belong to one people.and share one destiny. [Greatapplause.] It is impossible for one people to owu tho trunk of the Misssissippi, and a hostile people its mouth.— [Renewed plaudits.] There is no room for two discordant nation between the great

Northern lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. The same political institutions must prevail over that entire region. [Cries of "good," and applause.) While the South was satisfied to let slavery retain its original character as a mere system of domestic labor, there was no more necessity for discord than there is between me, a non-slaveholder, and my neighbor,a slaveholder but when the south made a political god of "tbe peculiar institution," and determined, if slavery could not expand its dominion here, to rive thia nation as under, and take up its line of march through devastation and carnage to the final snbjugation of the Westorn hemisphere to that institution, then it became manifest to reflecting men that the die was irrevocably cast, and that upon this generation was devolved by an All-wise Providence the dire conflict between Freedom and slavery, which is to decide forever the fate of America. [Applause] slavery presents that issue at the point of the sword LET SLAVERY PERISH HY THE SWORD? [Thundering and long continued applause.]

We have long enough struck blows as iu dreams at this horrid revolt and held back the home-thrust at its vital point. We have slain the soldiers of Slavery by thousands, but bowed, with hat in hand, to Slavery itself. [Cries of "That's so," &c.] We have braved death in every form for our noble country, but found it hard learning to brave the destruction of her relentless foe. We wielded every weapon against tbe rebellion but the very one that would be fatal to it. We attacked armies of white

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men in the front, but left untouched a more numerous army of black men behind them, without which the rebellion would never have existed, or existing, could not havo lived a month. [Cries of good, and applause.] While we fight the rebellion we must also watch foreign Governments, which, as we are not the subjects of a dy nasty, but Republican freeman, have no spmpathy with our struggle for national life but rather would rejoice at our humiliation and dismemberment, even at tho hands of that institution, toward which they and their subjects profess unbounded hostility. And so it would ever be, as long as we ourselves held slavery too sacred to be assailed, though warring for our destruction. But when we learn to treat slavery as a Constitutionbreaker, a traitor, a marouder, a pira e, and a disturber ®f the peace of nations, and pronounce for its extirpation because it is all these, then wo touch the world's heart, and the popular voico in other lands will be hoard in tones which no Government, however despotic, will dare defy. [Immense applause.]

That time has come—that lesson has been learned. On the first day of January in this year of Our Lord, ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the President of the United States, "by virtue of the power in him vested, as Commander-iu-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time ef actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressin" sai.l rebellion," did, by solemn proclamation, "aver and declare that all persons held a* slaves within designated States aud parts of States, are and henceforward shall be free. [Thunders of applause. And that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons." [Renewed applauso.J Upon this act, which the President declares is "sincerely believed to be an act of justic, warranted by the Constitution—upon military necessity," he invokes "the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God

My friends, if any words have in the histo ry of the world, emanated :r«m the rularof any people, which had a moro august and enduring import than tiiose, I know not of them An invol intai feeliug of awe rises within mo as I read tli:*ui, and endeavor to scan their probable influence upon the future of America and of humanity. They ring out the glad peal of this nation's deliverance, or toll the knell of its downfall not because the fate of the American people depends upon the question whether somo millions of negroes shallj be held in slavery in a portion of our domain but because it does depend upon tho question whether tho masters of those negroes—a meagre minority of this nation—shall, over the ruins of our glorious patrimony of Freedom, erect an aggressive, warlike and ruthless empire of slavery. [Applause.] That is the last and momentous issue which the proclamation lays before

the American people and the world, concerning which the rresid

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invokes tho considerate judgment of mankind." As a part of that people we have met to express our judgment of his act. It is our high privilege and our duty to do so. Not that oil! action can give it additional effect: but, as ours is a Government of tho people, that he may see—that all men may see—whether ho was for or against this blow at the enemies of our country. And now, my countrymen, with as deep a sense as 1 ever entertained of tbe importance of a right judgment in regard to any question of public moment, I hesitate not to declare my firm and unquestioning conviction that the proclamation was constitutional, expedient, and just, and ought to be enforced with all the strength of the army and navy of the Uni ted States, to the end that the power of Southern traitors shall be broken, shattered, and crushed, for ever and evt-r. [Immense, long continued, renewed and prolonged applause].

Do you withhold approval because you do not see that the Constitution authorizes it? Then take that instrument and read and study every line and word ol it, and find, if you can, one syllable that restrains the Com-mander-in Chief of the army and navy, in keeping his sacred oath "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution" from th exercise to the very last degree of the war power of tbe nation, against the nation's enemies in arms. [Rapturous applause.] Our fathers did not make that Constitution as a shield to its foes, and nore but its foes now demand its protection against the power of the Government, wielded to preserve its life.

Do you hold back because you do not perceive the necessity for tbe step? But the Commander-in-Chief, surveying tbe whole field of the rebellion, in its canse and probable result, and in its relations to this country and to othor countries, did consider it necessary, and it was for him alone to judge. Will you revolt against his judgment? Answer. ["NoI no! no!"]

Are you in doubt as to the efficiency of the measure? What avail such doubts? Do they promote tho Union cause Do they make you any better patriot? Does your devotion to your country recruit itself from their companionship? Nay, is it not weakened by their presence

Do you say, "What is the use of the proclamation when we tiave not possession of the regions in whioh it is to operate, and it is therefore powerless?" I answer that the same ceurse of reasoning would enervate every blow, for Omniscience can only fore see whether a blow will be effectual or not. It is not for those aiming it to decide in advance that it will fail. So to decide ia to insure failure.

Do you shrink aghast from the picture which rushes upon your vision, of tbe maddening horrors of a servile insurrection? So do I, aw) sq does every man with tbe least

park of humanity in his nature: but if such an insurrection follows the promulgation of a measure that is demanded to save tbe lifv of tho nation, let the dread responsibility rest where before God and men it rightfully belongs—upon those whose treason creates the terrible nece sity. Applause

Aro you troubled to know what shall be done with the millions of Southern negroes after they become free I answer, that is not the present qaestion bat what shall be douo with this rebellion [Immense applause.] Soldiers usk not in battle, "What shall wc do with the prisoners and the spoils when the fight is over bat, "How shall we whip the enemy?" [Thunders of applause.] To debate what shall become of the-negro, is t» put thatproblem in the scale against your country's life, whether you intend it or not. [Cries of "Never."| Leave the future to the future the present is our care. Tho instant demand of this hour is, by every available means, to overwhelm, scatter, rout and df^troy traitors. [Criesof "That's it," "Thu'. it."] Self-preserva-tion demands th.it slavery, their idol, and the right arm of their power, be wrested from $ them for their feet are on a war path, to

But my friends, whatever the portents of' this hour, in connection with this proclamation, or with aught else under the sky, the true, earnest patriot, has but one line of duty, and that is, by every act, by every word, by every thought, by every purpose, by evey power granted him, to hold up the hands of the President in this war against tbe enemies of ourcountry and tho destroyers of our free institutions. [Great applause,] As there is nothing in huimtu history so horribly atracious as this rebellion, so the imagination of man can conceive of nothing which would shroud the world in gloom, as the blotting out ^of this Sun of Fretdom from the firmament of nation. Wreck this Republic, and you wreck every hope of free dom in every bnman breast. [Applause.] For nearly three hundred years the hand of the Great Creator has shaped the destiny of America as the home of liberty and tho refugee of the oppressed. From every county and e»ery clime, from the heavy tread-wfTrti garceies, from the sharp fangs of despots, from tho woes and fears of bloody revolutions, from poverty, heart-brokenness and: living death, millions have found here that freedom which they sighed for as their richest boon in life, and the most blessed inheritance they could transmit to their children. [Great applause.] Here has grown into gi gantic proportions a nation presenting the grandest development tho world has ever seen of human intelligence and progress, and: holding in iLs outstretched hands to nil the earth the choicest fruits man has ever tasted of regulated and constitutional liberty. To. mortal prescience that nation seemed immortal—those fruits perennial and undecay ing. But iu the midst of peace prosperity and seeming contentment, all is plunged into confusion and dismay. 1'he livid cloHd of war envelopes the land, the tread of armed legions shakes the earth, the thunders of battle fill the air, blood stains the ground, the groans of the dying fill the ears of night, and the wails of the bereaved rise to heaven from countless habitations What enemy has done this Have the despotisms of the Old World, tired of America's example and glory, niiis?ed their mighty columns to bear her dowu in the dust? Has her ancient foe challenged iter to a third war for Independence Has auy other nation invaded her peaceful shores No, my friends would to Godit were any or all of these, rather than what it is. [Applause.] Her own sons are her assailants!

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ELDER KNAPP'S PRATER FOR TUE PRESI DENT.—That earnest, eccentric, and blunt spoken religious exhorter—Elder Knapp— who is now holding forth every evening at the Wabash Avenuo Baptist Church in Chicago, in a prayer the other evening, used thi,* language: "Oh, Lord, wilt Thou bless Pres ident Lincoln Thou knowesi that all the Southern aristocracy and all the roltou por tion of the Northern Democrats are dowu on him. Therefore wilt Thou bless him «.*•*

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which wo can see no end while slavery bears them onward. The destiny of the enfranchised negroes none but God can shape, leave it, then, to His all-ruling Providence.

But there are those who see in this measure only a deeper embitterment of tbe South, and an increased hopelessness of restoring the Union Is that true? What hope has there ever been since Sumter fell, that the Union would be preserved otherwise than by tbe resistless agency of powder, ball and bayonet? Is there a human being who still hugs the delusion that ptace is to smile upon this country again as a united country, except by the subjugation of this damnable rebellion? [Great applause.] If there is, let him drop that folly from his embrace, and open his eyes to tho utter hopelessness of every attempt to conciliate the nristocracy, which, with a deliberate purpose formed in .some Southern minds fifty years ago, and controlling Southern action with steady sway through the paat thirty years, resolved that this Union should be relentlessly destroyed and supplanted in that fair Southern clime by "A CONFEDERACY OF SLAVEHOLDINO

STATES," to be, a3 they fondly hoped, "the most important among the nations of the world." Haifa century's treason, plotted and pursued through every form of duplicity, falsehood and treachery, and blazing out at last in robbery, fire, nnd blood, is not to be conciliated, but with tho full fruition of its desperate schemes. This proclamation, then, makes no moro hopeless what was hopeless from the moment of the rebellion's outbreak. [Immense applause.]

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ing their own precious birth-right! The' children of the Constitution aro hacking and' battering that glorious fabric, every seam of which was cemented with their fathers' blood and every arch of which is vocal with tho* prayers and benedictions of the illustrious* dead! [Applause.] And all for what? Why basoppresed, who wronged them? The voico of the universal brotherhood of man acquits this nation of wrong to them. What, then, urges this demoniac onslaught Let us not fear to speak the word again. Let us be true, though we die for it! Applause. Speak it, write it, print it, proclaim it, that it is the aristocracy of slavery—[cries of "that's it"]—hurling itself against the buttresses of the Constitution, to clear it out of their pathway to empire! It is the lust ot power, the greed of gain, the arbitrary will of inborn despots, that hurries them on to their hellish work. Will they triumph? Not if the sons of America, native and adopted, are faithful and brave and enduring. [Immense applause.] And shall we not be so? [Voice—"We will."] Shall we falter in the trying hour? ["Never, never Shall wo fear to go forward? ["No."] Fear, ten thousand times more, to go backward a single step. [Great applause.] Tho star of Hope leads onward then let our march and our cry be onward! Ever onward! [Immenso and long protracted applause.]

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York Tribune tells of the following ruse adopted by General Rosecrans to deceire the rebels as to the strength of hia army.— If not purely imaginative, it indicates that the Commander of the Army of the Cum berland is "up to snuff" in more poinfs than one: -i

A cunning ruse—a Roland for Bragg'a Oliver—was practised upon the enemy Friday night, Jan. 2 It was apparent that their numbers exceeded ours. Maj. General Thomas, who is habitually deliberate, said the enemy outnumbered us some 5.0(H) men After we occupied Murfreeaboro, we ascertained beyond doubt that Kirby Smith's 10,000 men, which we knew bad been detached from Bragg ostensibly to go to Mississippi, had been quietly bivouaced among the mountains within call of Mnrfreesboro, and when the Array of the Cumberland moved upon Bragg, they wero ordered back to the front. It was a cunning ruse. Brng^. did it to bring on an attack, vainly imagining that his reinforcements would turn the scale of victory in hia favor. But Friday night General Rosecrans cirected Lieutenant Colonel Langdon, of Gen. McCook's staff,, and Capt. C. Thompson, of his own, each* possessing voices of fine volume, to "move? the 14)h Division" to the right of our liu&i as demonstratively as possible. You will understand that tbe "14th Division" wa^ a mytli. There was none such in the army.— Langdon ami Thompson, however, with powerful vocalization, doploy&d its columns into lino, and illuminated the woods with blazing bivouac fires. Subsequently General Rosecrans visited the camp of the "14th Division," and taking a lot of orderlies, each with a firebrand lb hand, he laid out a long line of battle, with glowing picket stations, completely overlaping tho left wing of theenemy. Bragg, in hia jubilant dispatch to Jeff. Davis, said that "the enemy having received heavy reinforcements, he deem-.,, edIt prudent to retire." The "14th Divis-i ion," consisting of Lieutenant Colonel Langdon, Captain Thompson, Captain Fisher, an^ the General commanding, with his orderlies*, and a few flambeaus, were all the reinforces, aents our army had received, .m