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THE NOKTH CAROLINA STANDAKU ; SATURDAY, SEPT. 6,, 1862. , - ft Li t V V tab. Jt ft- tminaru., SPEECH OF C. L. VALLANDIGHAM, Jfafa Qolumbus, at the Democratic State Con- tenHon of Ohio, on the ilh day. of July, 1863. Following the reading and adoption "of the reso lutions, loud and continuous calls were made for Mr. Vallandigham ; and when he ascended the plat forni, he was greeted with rapturous cheers. He spoke as follows - Mr. President, and fellow democrats of the State ofVhiol am obliged again to regret that, the lateness of the tour precludes me from addressing you either in the manner, or upon the' particular, subjects which otherwise I should prefer. This is sny aoisfortune again to-day as last night ; but speak ing thus without premeditation, and upon sach matters chiefly as may occur to me at the moment, if I should happen to get fairly under headway, it may turn out to be your misfortune Laughter. I congratulate the democracy of Ohio, that in the midst of great public trial and calamity, of persecu tion for devotion to the doctrines of the fathers who , laid deep and strong the foundations of the Consti tution and the Union under which this country has grown' "great and prosperous, to-day, we have as sembled in numbers greater than at any former Convention in Ohio. I congratulate you, that, de spite the threats which have been uttered, and the denunciations which hae been poured out upon that time honored and most patriotic organization, peaceably and in quiet, with enthusiasm and ear nestness of purpose, we are here met, and in har mony, which is the secret of strength and the har binger of success, have discharged the duties for which we were called together. There was a time when it was questionable if in free America in the United States boasting of their liberties for more than eighty years a party to which this country is indebted for all that is great and good and grand and glorious would have been permitted peaceful ly to assemble to exercise its political rights, and perform its political functions. Threats have even been made in times more recent, that this most es sential of all political rights, secured to us by the precious blood of our fathers in a seven years' revolu tionary war, should no longer be enjoyed. The democrats of our noble sister State of Indiana, sec ond born daughter of the North-west, have been menaced within the last ten days with a military organization and the bayonet, to put down their party. I hold in my hand a telegraphic dispatch from the capital of that State, boasting of this infa mous purpose. I will read it, gentlemen, because I know that the same dastardly menaces have been proclaimed against the democrats of Ohio, and be cause I am here to-day to rebuke them as becomes a free-born man, who is resolved to perish Great applause in the midst of which the test of the sen tence was lost Some months ago, a Democratic State Convention was held in Indiana. It was a Convention of the party founded by Thomas Jefferson, and built up by a Madison and a Monroe, and consolidated by An drew Jackson applause a party under whose prin ciples and policy from thirteen States we have grown to thirty-four for thirty-four there were, true and loyal to this Union, before the Presiden tial election of 18G0 a party under whose wise and liberal policy the course of empire westward did take its way, until the symbol of American power, the stars and stripes, waved proudly from the At lantic to the Pacific, over the breadth of a whole continent a party which, by peace and compro mise, and through harmony and wisdom and sound policy, brought us up, from feeble and impoverished colonies, struggling in the midst of defeat and disas ter in the war of the Revolution, to a mighty em pire, foremost among the powers of the earth, the t ... .... ...... ...... firm, in that noble Constitution and that grand old Union which the democratic party has ever main tained and defended. The democratic party, with 6uch principles and such a history and record to point to, held a State Contention in pursuance of its usages for more than thirty years, and under the rights secured by a State and Federal Constitution older still, in the capital of the State of Indiana. And yet, referring to this party and its Convention, the correspondent of a disloyal and pestilent, but influential, newspaper in the chief city of Ohio, dared to send over the telegraphic wires wire wholly under the military control of the Adminis tration, which permits nothing to be transmitted not acceptable to the censors a dispatch in these words : "The fellows are frightened, evidently without cause." Well, gentlemen, I know not bow far democrats of Indiana may be frightened and a nobler and more fearless body of men never lived but I see thousands of democrats before me to whom fear and reproach are alike unknown. Frightened at what? Frightened by whom ? We are made of sterner stuff "The militia of the State," he adds, "will prob ably be put upon a war footing shortly." And who, I pray, are the militia ot the State ? They are not made up of the leaders of the Repub lican party in Indiana or Ohio, I know. I never knew that sort of politicians to go into any such or ganization, in peace or war. No men have ever been more bitter and unrelenting in their opposition to and ridicule of the militia; and none knows it better than I, as my friend before me by his smile reminds me, that one of my own olTences is that I am a militia brigadier in favor of the next foreign war. But who are the militia ? They are the free born, strong-armed, stout-hearted democrats of Indiana as they are of Ohio. Let them be put on a war foot ing. Good ! We have hosts of them in the army already, and on a war footing, but who are as sound democrats and as much devoted to the principles of the party as they were the hour they enlisted. They have been in the South, and I have the au thority of hundreds of officers and privates in that gallant array for saying that not only are the origi nal democrats in it more devoted to the party to day than ever before, but that hundreds also ho went hence Republicans, have returned, or will re turn cured of the disease. Laughter and applause. Sir, the army is, fortunately, most fortunately for the country, turning out to be a sort of political hospital or sanitary institution, and I only regret that there are not many more Republican patients in it Laughter. Well, put the militia upon a war footing. Put arms in their hands. They never can be made the butchers or jailors of their fellow-citizens, but the guardians of free speech and a free press, and of the ballot-box. Standing armies of mercenaries, not the militia of a country, are the customary instru ments of tyranny and usurpation. But this correspondent proceeds "If the sympathisers with treason and traitors" 7 sympathise with treason and traitors 1 We, who have stood by the Constitution and the Union from the organization of the party, in our fathers aay, in every hour of trial in peace and in war. in victory and in defeat, amid disaster and when pros perity beamed upon us we to be branded as ene mies to our country, by those whose traitor fathers burned blue lights as signals for a foreign foe, or met in Hartford Convention to plot treason and dis union fifty years ago 1 We false to the Constitu tion and to our government, the bones of whose lathers lie buried on every battle-field of 1812 from the massacre at the River Raisen to the splendid victory at New Orleans ; we who bore aloft the proud banner of the Republic, and planted it in tri umph upon the palace of the Montezumas 1 We, br whose wisdom in council, and courage in the field for seventy years, the Constitution and the country which has grown under them have been preserved and defended; we to be denounced as sympathizing with traitors, by the men who for twenty years have labored day and night for the success of those principles and of that policy and that party which are now destroying the grandest Union, the noblest Umstitotion and the fairest country on the globe, lam to me about sympathizing with disunion, with treason and with traitors. I tell you, men of Ohio, that six weeks it may be, these very men and their K.vfo J" VVshmSton whose bidding they do, will UDtoSiSFS"0' th eternal Nation of this l?Z'P"ce trsrzs? Foppose f criemie8 and the renp.I. untry. . Foreign intervent on hate law? "d m8t Serious which nave lately befallen our arms, will r .u- ue or separation and Southern :iS"f'Z."" aisunt proinue. :. o i am and I here yuTdyVroclaTmif ana nowing less, u oy any possionuj if not, then for so much of it as yet can be rescued and preserved and in inv event and under all cir cumstances, for the Union which God ordained, of the Mississippi Valley and all or which may cling to it under the old name, the old Constitution and the old flag, with all their precious memories, with-bat-tle-fields of the past and the songs and the proud history of the past with the birth place and the burial place of Washington, the founder, and Jack son, the preserver, of the Constitution as it is, and of the Union as it is was. Great applause But this correspondent again proceeds : " If the sympathizers with treason and traitors meditate to carry out their plans in this quarter." . What plans t Just such as to-day have been the business of this Convention ; the plans of that old Union party, laying down a platform and nomina ting Democrats to fill the offices and control the policy of the Government, to the end that the Con stitution may be again maintained, and the Union restored, and peace, prosperity and happiness once more drop healing from their wings. " Plans," the fellow proceeds, " in this quarter they will doubtless find the work quite as hot S3 they bargained for." And I tell the cowardly mis creant who telegraphed the threat that he and those behind him will find the work fifty fold hotter when they begin it than they had reckoned on, both here and in Indiana. "Ten thousand stand of -arms," be adds, "have been ordered for the State troops." For what f To put down the Democratic party. Sir, this is a work which cannot be done by ten, or twenty, or fifty thousand stand of arms in the hands of any such dastards in office or out of it. If so full of valor and so thirsty for blood, let them enlist under the call just issued for troops in Ohio and In diana. Let them go down and fight the armies of the " rebels " in the South, and let Democrats fight the unarmed but more insidious and dangerous Ab olition rebels of the North and West, through the ballot-box. Forty thousand additional troops, I estimate it, are called for in the proclamation of yes terday, Jrom the State of Ohio. Where are tho forty thousand Wide-Awakcs of 1860, armed with their portable lamp-posts and drilled to the music of tho Chicago platform ? Sir, I propose that 35,000 of them be conscripted forthwith. They will never enlist; they never do. They are " Homo Guards." They "don't go," but stay vigorously at home to slander and abuse and threaten Democrats whose fathers or brothers or sons are in tho Union armies or have fallen in battle. I speak generally cer tainly there are exceptions. But I will engage that if the records of the old Wide-Awake clubs in the several cities and towns of Ohio shall be procured and the Republicans will detail or draft 33,000 from the lists, I will find 5,000 strong-armed, stout-hearted, brave and loyal Democrats to go down and see that they don't run away at the first fire. Great laughter. Sympathizers with treason and traitors 1 Seces sionists ! Sir, it is about time that we had heard the last of this. The Democracy of Ohio, and of the United States, arc resolved that an end shall be put to this sort of slander and abuse. But I do not pro pose to discuss this particular subject just now. "Goon, go on."J Well then, from that which concerns the Demo cratic party to a word, a single word, about what relates to myself; and I beg pardon for the digres sion. I am rejoiced that it has been permitted me to be here present to-day in person before you. Had you believed the reports of the Republican press, you would, no aouot, nave expecteu to see probably the most extraordinary compound of lep rous and unsightly flesh and blood ever exhibited. (Laughter.) Well, my friends, you see that I am not quite "monstrous" at least; and bear no es pecial resemblance to the beast of the Apocalypse, either in head or horns ; but am a man of like fash ion with yourselves. To the Republican party alone, and its press, and its orators, I am indebted, no doubt, for a large part of the " curiosity " which I am sorry to say, I seem to have excited, and which has brought out even some of them as if to "see the elephant" They have never meant to be friendly towards me, I know, but as I see some of them now within my vision, let me whisper in their ears, that I never had better friends, and no man ever bad since the world began. They have advertised me free of cost, for the last fifteen months ; yes, I may say for five years past, all over the UniUd States. Why, sir, a Republican editor without "the undersigned" for a text, would be the most unhappy mortal in the world. Every little " printer's devil" in the office would be hol lowing for copy, and no copy to be had. I know that they are friends, by the usual sign, " the re marks they make." Gentlemen, I have holy oil with which the Democratic priesthood has always been annointed siander, detraction, and calumny, without stint Really, I am not sure that with me it has not reached " extreme unction," though I am not ready, and do not mean, to depart yet Well, I will not complain. It has cost me not a single night's loss of sleep from the beginning. My ap petite, if you will pardon the reference if you will allow me, as Lincoln would say, to " blab " upon so delicate a subject has been in no degree impaired by it Others before me, and with me, have en dured the same. Here u my excellent friend near mc, (Mr. Medary.) Oh, blessed martyr! (Great laughter and applause.) For one and sixty years, the storms of partisan persecution and malignity, in every form, have beaten upon his head, but though time and toil have made it gray, the heart beneath beats still to-day as sound and true to its instinct of Democracy and patriotism, and of hu manity too, as when he laid his first offerings upon the altar of bis country, just forty years ago. What others have heroically suffered in ages past, we, too. can endure. We are all, indeed, still in the midst of trials. Here, before me, is the gentleman of whom I have just spoken, whom you have honored with the Presidency of this noble Convention, for forty years a Democratic editor for forty years devoted to the Constitution and the Union of these States a man who, through evil and through good report has ad hered with the faith of a devotee and the firmness of a martyr to the principles and policy of that grand old party of the Union, and now that the frosts or three score years have descended and whi tened his head he, I say, has lived to see the pa per to which he gives the labor and the wisdom of his declining years prohibited from circulation through a part of the mails, as " disloyal " to the Government 1 (Cries of " No, no, shame."; Sam uel Medary disloyal 1 and Wendell Phillips a patri ot ! Sir, it is not many months since, that in the city of Washington, in that magnificent building erected by the charity of an Englishman who loved America 1 wish there were more like him, that art and science might the more widely flourish in mis country the Smithsonian Institute Wendell Phillips addressed an assemblage of men as false to the Union and the Constitution as himself. Upon the platform was the Speaker of the House of Rep-, resentatives, the third officer in the Government; by his side the Vice-President of tho United States, and between these two, in proportions long drawn out, the form of " Honest Old Abraham Lincoln." Am I mistaken, and was it at another and earlier abolition lecture by that other disunionist Horace Greely, in the same place there have been many of them that Lincoln attended T The Speaker and Vice-President, I know, were there ; and with these two or three witnesses before him, and in presence of the priesthood of Abolitionism, the Sumners and Wilsons, the Lovejoys and the Wades of the House and Senate (great laughter and cheers,) surrounded by these, the very architects of disunion, he pro claimed that " for nineteen years ho had labored to take nineteen States out of the Union." And yet this most spotted traitor was pleading for disunion in the city of Washington, where women are arres ted for the wearing of red, white and red, upon their bonnets, and babies of eighteen months are taken out of the little willow wagons drawn by their nurses, because certain colors called seditious are found up on their swaddling clothes ! The next day, or soon after, this same Wendell Phillips did dine with, or was otherwise entertained by his Excellency, the President of the United States, who related to him one of his choicest anecdotes. Yet, Democratic edi tors, Democratic Senators and Representatives, and those holding other official positions by the grace of the States or of the people, are 14 traitors " for sooth, because they would adhere to their principles and the organization of their noble and patriotic old Prtl ! Such ar me of" the exhibitions -which Washington has witnessed during the past winter. Congress, too, has been in session. Sir, I saw it announced, in one of the disloyal papers of this city TeslCTday? that7eft'Dafisr and Toombs, and Yan cey, and Rhett, and other Secessionisto of the South, wpidd derive much: comfort from" this day's meeting. , (Well, sir, I have just com fro body of men which I woul J not, for a moment, pretend to com pare for statesmanship, respectability or patriotism, -with this Convention. That body has devoted its time and attention to doing more in six months for the cause of secessionism than Beauregard, and Lee, and Johnston, and all the Southern Generals com bined have been able to accomplish in one year. Said a Senator from the South the other day, Union man : " Jeff. Davis is running two Congresses now, and is making a d d sight more out of the Washington Congress than the one at Richmond. . (Laughter, and many marks of approval.) Tho legislation of that body has been almost wholly for the "Almighty African." From the prayer in the morning for, gentlemen, we are pi ous body, we are making long faces, and sometimes wry faces, too ; (laughter,) we open with prayer, but there is not much' of the Almighty Maker of heaven and earth in it, from the prayer to the mo tion to adjourn, it is negro in every shape and form in which he can by any possibility be served up. -But it is not only the negro inside of the House and Senate, but outside also. The city of Washington has been, within the past three weeks, converted into one universal hospital ; every church, except one for each denomination, has been seized for hos pital purposes; and while the sanctuaries of the ever living God the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob not tho new God of the Burlingames and Sumners and other Abolitionists, not that God whose gospel is written in the new Bible of Abolition but the Everlasting Jehovah God have been confiscated for hospitals every theatre, every concert saloon, and every other place of amusement, from the high est to the lowest, from the spacious theatre in which a Forrest exhibits to an enraptured audience his graphic renderings of the immortal creations of Shakspeare, down to the basest den of revelry and drunkenness, are open still ; as in the Inferno of the great Italian poet : "The gates of bell stand open night and day." Sir, if these places of amusement innocent some of them, but not holy, certainly had first been seized as hospitals, for the comfort and cure of the thousands of brave and honest men, who went forth believing in their hearts that they were battling for the Constitution and the Union, but who now lie wasting away upon their lonely pallets, with no wife, or sister, or mother there to soothe, groaning in agony with every description of wound which the devilish ingenuity of man can inflict by weapons, whose invention was inspired by the very author of all human woe and suffering wounds, too, rankling and festering for the want of surgical aid if those places, I say, had been first seized, and then it had become necessary for the comfort or life of the thou sands of other sick and wounded who are borne into the city every day, to occupy the churches of Wash ington, I know of no better or holier purpose to which they could have been devoted. And now, sir, not far from the stately Capitol, within whose mar ble walls abolition treason now runs riot, is a build ing, "Green's Row," by name in which 1,100 fugi tive slaves "contrabands," in the precious slang of the infamous Butler daily receive the rations of the soldier, which are paid for out of the taxes levied upon the people. One hundred thousand dollars a day are taken from the public treasury for the sup port of these fugitives slaves, while the army of Shields and other Union armies in the field, even so lately as six weeks ago, marchca bare-footed, bare headod, and in their drawers, for many weary miles, without so much as a cracker or a crust of bn-ad with which to allay their hunger. Aye, sir, while many a gallant young soldier of Ohio, just blooming into manhood, who heard the cry that went up fifteen months ago, "rally to defend the flag and for the rescue of the capital," and went forth to battle with honesty in his heart, his life in his hand, with cour age in every fibre and patriotism in every vein, lies wan and sad on his pallet in the hospital, your sur geons are forced to divide their time and care be tween the wounded soldiers and these vagabond fu gitive slaves, who have been Reduced or forced from the service of their masters. These things and much more I have told you not a tithe of all are done in Washington. We know it there, though it is with held from the people; and while every falsehood that the ingenuity of man can invent to delude and deceive, is transmitted or allowed by the telegraph censors of the Administration themselves usurpers unknown to the Constitution and laws these facts arc not permitted to reach the people of the United States. Your newspapers, the natural watch dogs of liberty, are threatened with suppression, if but the half or the hundrcth part of tho truth be told. And now, too, when but one other means remained for the redress of this and the hundred other politi cal grievances under which the land groans party organization and public assemblages of the people even these, too, are threatened with suppression by armed force. Aye, sir, that very party which, not many years ago, bore upon every banner the ir.otto " Free Speech and a Free Press," now day by day forbid the transmission through your mails of the papers from which you derive your knowledge of public events, and which advocate the principles you cherish. And Democratic editors, too, are seized, "kidnap ped" in the midnight hour torn from their fami lies gagged their wives menaced by officers if they but ask one farewell grasp of the band, one parting kiss thrust into a close carriage in the felon's hour of midnight, and with violence dragged to this Capitol, and here forced upon an express train, and hurried off to a military fortress of the United States yes, men of Ohio, to a fortress that bears the honored name of the first martyr to Ameri can liberty the Warren of Bunker Hill; or it may bo to that other hostile desecrating that other name sacred in American history, and honored through out the earth the name of that man who forsook home, and gave up rank and title, and in the first flush of youth and manhood came to our shores and linked his fortunes with tho American cause the prisoner of Olmutz, the brave and gallant' La fayette. Aye, freemen of the West, fortresses, bearing these honored names, and meant for the de fence of the country against foreign foes, and out of whose casemates bristle cannon planted to hurl death and destruction at armed invaders, echo now with the groans, and are watered by the tears not of men only from the States seceued and in rebel lion or captured in war, but from the loyal States of the North and the West and from that party which has contributed nearly three-fourths of the soldiers in the field to-day. Are these things to be endured? "Never, no, never" If you have tho spirit of freemen in you, bear them not I Great applause, and cries of "That's it; that's the talk." What is life worth ? What are property, and per sonal liberty and political liberty worth 1 Of what value are all these things, if we, born of an ancestry of freemen, boasting, in the very first hours of our boyhood, of a more extended liberty than was ever vouchsafed to any other people, are to fail now, in this hour of sore trial, to demand and defend them at every hazard f Freedom of the Press ! Is the man who sits in the White House at Washing ton, and who owes all his power to the Press and the ballot, is he now to play the tyrant over us ? " No 1 never, never." Shall the man who sits at one end of a telegraphic wire in the War Depart ment or the Department of State, a mere clerk, it may be, a servant of servants, sit down, and by the single click of the instrument order some minion of his, a thousand miles off, to arrest Samuel Medary, Judge Ranney, or Judge Tharman, and hurry them to a bastile f " No, it can't be done ; we will never allow it" The Constitution says " no man shall be held to answer for crime except on due process of law." Our fathers, six hundred years ago, as sembled on the plains of Runnemead in old Eng land, and rescued from tyrant hands, not by arms, but by firm resolve, the God-given right to be free. Our fathers, in tho time of James I. and Charles I., endured trial and persecution and loss of life and of liberty, rather than submit to oppression and wrong. John Hampden, glorious John Hampden, the first gentleman of England, arrested upon an illegal exec utive warrant, went calmly and heroically to the cells of prison rather than pay twenty shillings of an il legally assessed tax, laid in defiance of the Consti tution and laws of England, and the rights and priv ileges of Englishmen. And all history is full of like examples. William Tell brooked the tyrant's frown in his day and generation, in defence of these same rights, in the noble republic of the Swiss ; and that gallant little people, hemmed in among the Alps, though surrounded on every side by despots whose legions numbered more than the whole population of Switzerland, have by that same indomitable spirit of liberty maintained their liberties and their inde- pendence i toT this i uour. And are Americans now to nffVr thnmsnlvea ud a servile sacrifice upon that altar of arbitrary" power T Sir, I have misread the signs of the times and the temper of the people, if' there is not already a spirit in the land which is about to speak in thunder tones to those who stretch forth still the strong arm of despotic power., " Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther.; We made you: you are our servants." ' That, sir, was the language which I was taught to apply to men in office, when I was a youth, or in first manhood and a private citizen, and afterwards when holding office as the gift of the people, to hear applied to- me, and I bore the title proudly. ' And I asked then, as I ask nof, no other or better reward than, " Well done, good and faithful servant" Cries of, " You shall have it ; you deserve it"J But to-day, they who are our servants, creatures made outof nothing by the power of the people, whose little brief authority was breath ed into their nostrils by the people, would now, for sooth, become the masters of the people ; while the organs and instruments of the people the Press and public assemblages are to be suppressed, and the Constitution, with its right of petition, and of due process of law and trial by jury, and the laws and all else which makes life worth possessing are to be sacrificed now upon the tyrant s plea that it is necessary to save the Government and the Union. Sir, we did save the Union for years yes, we did. We were the " Union-savers," not eighteen months ago. Then there was not an epithet in the whole vocabulary of political billingsgate so opprobrious in the eyes of a Republican when applied to the Democratic party as " Union-shriekers," or the " Union-savers." I remember in my own city, on the day of the Presidential election, in 1860 I remember it well, for I had that day traveled several hundred miles-to vote for Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency that in a ward where the .Wide-Awakes, strutting in unctuous uniform, came up hour after hour thrusting their Lincoln tickets, twixt thumb and finger, at the judges, with the taunt and sneer, "save the Union: tare the Union.!" Andyetnow, forsooth, we are "traitors" and "secessionists I" And old gray-boarded and gray-headed men who lived and voted in the times of Jefferson and Madison, and Monroe, and Jackson men who have fought and bled upon the battle field, and who fondly in dulged the delusion for forty years that they were patriots, wake up suddenly to-day to find them selves " traitors 1" sneered at, reviled and insulted by striplings " whose fathers they would have dis dained to have set with the dogs of their flocks." Of all these things an inquisition searching and terrible will yet be made, as sure, as sudden, too, it may be, as the day of judgment W e of the loyal party of the country, the Democratic party we, the loyal citizens of the United States, the editors of loyal newspapers we who gather together in loyal assemblages, like this, and are addressed by truly loyal and Union men as 1 know you are to-day and at this moment " that's so, that's the truth," forsooth, are to be now denied our privileges and our rights as Americans and as freemen ; we are to be threatened with bayonets at the ballot-box, and bayonets to disperse Democratic meetings 1 Again I ask, why do they not take up their muskets and march to the Soutli, and, lilfe brave men, meet the embattled hosts of the Confederates in open arms, instead of threatening, craven-like, to fight unarmed Democrats at home possibly unarmed, and possibly not? Laughter and applause, and a remark " That was well put in." If so belligerent, so eager to shed that last drop of blood, let them volunteer to reinforce the "broken and shattered columns of McClellan in front of Richmond, sacrificed as he has been by the devilish machinations of Abolitionism, and there mingle their blood with the blood of the thousands who have already perished on those fatal battle-fields. But no, the whistle of the bullet and the song of the shell are not the sort of music to fall pleasantly upon the ears of this II Dine Guard Republican soldiery. With reason, therefore, fellow-citizens, I congratu late you to-day upon the victory which you have achieved, A great poet had said " Peace bath her victories as well as War." To day the cause of a free Government has tri umphed ; a victory of the Constitution, a victory of the Union, has been won, but is yet to be made complete by the men who go forth from this the first political battle-field of the campaign bearing upon their banners that noble legend, that grand inscription The Conttitutionaeitis, and the Union at it vat. Great cheering. In that sign shall you conquer. Let it be inscribed upon every ballot, emblazoned upon every banner, flung abroad to every breeze, whispered in the zephyr and thundered in the tempest, till the echoes shall arouse the fainting spirit of every patriot and freeman in the land. It is the creed of the truly loyal Democracy of the United States. In behalf of this great cause it is that wo arc now, if need be, to do and to suffer in political warfare whatever may be demanded of free men who know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain them. Is there any one man in all this vast assemblage afraid to meet all the responsibilities which an earnest and inexorable discharge of duty may require at his hand3 in the canvass before us ? " No, no ; not one." If but one, let him go home and hide his head for very shame. " Who would be a traitor knave. Who would fill a coward" grave. Who so base as be a slave, Let bira turn a flee." It is no contest of arms to which you are invited. Your fathers, your brothers, your sons, are already by thousands and hundred of thousands on the battle-field. To day their bones lie bleaching upon the soil of every Southern State, from South-Carolina to Missouri. It is to another conflict, men of Ohio, that you are summoned, but a conflict, never theless, which will demand of you some portion, at least, of that same determined courage, that same unconquerable will, that same inexorable spirit of endurance, which make the hero upon the military battle-field. I have mistaken the temper of the men who are here to-day, I have misread the firm pur pose that speaks from every eye and beams from every countenance, which stiffens every sinew and throbs in every breast, I have misread it all, if you are not resolved to go home and there maintain, at all hazards and by every sacrifice, the principles, the policy, and the organization of that party to which again and yet again I declare unto you this Government and country are indebted for all that have made them grand, glorious, and great Cheers and great applause. LOST OR STOLEN, A VALISE, MADK UP -EATHER, FROM THE . Favetteville Stage, on Tuesday morning the 2(th of August, between (he brst stand and Raleigh. The valise was marked "J. C. W.," and contained clothing and the muster rolls of the Suth N. C. Regiment I will givo 5 for the recovery of the valise and its contents, and $10 for the detection of the thief. Address Mi. Pullen, at the I'luuter'a Hotel, or the subscriber. G. F. WILLIAMS, Lt Co. A, Soih X. C Regt. Ralcigb, N. C, Aug. 29, 18G2. 70 4tpd. 1VOTIHR- mllE FOLLOWING ARTlCLba ARE WANTED BY JL the Purveyor ot this Denarlmenrliiiniediatelv, They must be clean and well dried Scneka Snake Root, Puecoon or Ulood Root, Price SO cents per pound. M M 44 Wild Cherry UarS, Black Soske Root, . Poke Root, - Blackberry Root, " Dog Wood Bark, - Peppermint, " Jamestown Weed, (seed & leaves,) " Winter Green, Horse Mint, " Sassafras, bark of root, " " peth, " Lavender, leaves and stem, " Flax Seed, " White Oak Bark, " Willow Bark, Wild Poplar. - Persimmon Bark, Root, " Bone Set, - Dandelion Root, " Hops, ' May Apple or Mandrake, " Barberry Leaves, " Sweet Flag. - Slippery Elm, " Red Pepper, Anise Seed, . " Sp-arMint, ' - Woody Night Shade, " Lettuce, dried, " Virginia Soak Root, " Juniper Tops, Red Cedar Tops, Prickly Ash Bark, Sweet Gum Bark. M 80 " " " 60 " 2Q 41 44 U 15 25 44 44 20 44 44 44 2,) 44 44 44 50 44 44 44 20 " 44 44 2o 44 44 6.00 44 44 2o 44 44 44 3.60 per bushel. 10 cents per pound. 20 44 15 44 44 44 20 44 4 44 20 44 44 44 SO 44 44 44 1.00 44 44 44 75 44 44 44 60 44 44 44 25 44 44 4 80 44 44 1.00 60 44 44 44 25 44 44 60 44 l.oo 44 44 44 25 44 44 .4 25 - M 85 44 44 - 60 44 44 44 16 44 44 44 These articles must be delivered at the Purveyor's Office in Goldsboruugh or Raleigb. For farther particulars, ap ply to EDWARD WARREN, Medical Purveyor, Department ot N. C. August 15, 1883. 6 lm.' ATTORNEYS AT.LAW, RALEIGH, N. C. H. W. JflLLXa. ' A. BADHAM. jjj Qrwvsm Brick buildtnf ar tkt Cowri Iltnta. February 85, 1862. 17 ly. NOTICE. rriAKEX FROM A MULATTO" BOY "ON THE 11 TH ATJ JL gust, a Sorrel Mara, star in frrretread, wtnu hind feet, white spot on left shoulder, and foretop cut off. Tbeown er will please come forward, prove property, pay charge,- - .... r JOHN SHfRMANV .. r Oxford, Granville, K. C. - ' ' August 80th, 1862, -- ' -63 tf NOTICE. "1 tft CASES F,ffE CHAMPAGNE WINE JUST RE M. V eeived and for sale. - J-- . E. K. HARRIS. . ' Raleigb, Ang. 22, 1882. ' ' - 68 In. " '' Bit ASS FOUNDRY THE SUBSCRIBER RESPECTFULLY ISTORM'S the public, that be baa, in successful operation, a BRASS FOUNDRY, in tbe City of Raleigb. All those wishing fine BKASS CASTINGS, will please give him a call beiore bargaining elsewhere. The highest price will be paid for old copper, brass and tine. iJ Office opposite the market boose. H. MAHLER. Raleigh, Ang. 29, 1862. 85 wAsw6m. DAMAGED COTTON. THE VEUSK MANUFACTURING COMPANY WILL, pay for Damaged Cotton all it is worth : also, for Kaga. H. W. HUSTED, Treasurer. Ralcigb. Sept 2, 1862. 71 4 w. 11 ifPARTISAN LEA.DER.t-A NOVEL, and an Apocalypse of the origin and struggles of the Southern Confederacy. By Judfe Beverly Tucker, of Vir ginia. Original 1 published in 163. Price, $1 60 When sent by mail, 1 7.1 For sale by W. L. POMEROY. Raleigh, September it, 1862. 71 w T HE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR. BY Edward A. Pollard, Author of Black Diamond, Ac JTtee, z oo YThea sent by mail, 3 .V For sale by W. L. POMEROY. Raleigb, September 2, 1862. 71 6w I B L E8 ,T EST AM EN TS AND PRAYER BOOKS, Just received, at POMEROY'S. Raleigb, Sept. 2, 1862. 71 6 w. JUESS FORK AT AUCTION. WILL BE SOLD AT TOWLES AUCTION ROOM, on Menday Htb day of September, at 10 o'clock, 21 barrels prime Mess Pork. JAS. M. TOWLES, Auctioneer. Sept. 2, 18S2. 71 2U SUBSTITUTES! SUBSTITUTES 1 1 PERSONS WISHING TO ENGAGE THEMSELVES as substitutes, and those desiring to employ substi tutes, will do welt to call on or address me by letter. Na tive North-Carolinians over 4b v ars old preferred for sub stitutes. FRANK. 1. WILSON, - Raleigb, N. C Sept. 2, 1862. ' 715 . 50 BALES OF COTTON FOR SALE. WELL BALED, IRON HOOPED AND TAR ROP ed and in good order at Tarboro'. ALSO, 300 bales in like order, which will be delivered at Wil son, Tarboro', or Mosely HalL Confederate bonds taken in part payment. W. H. JONES. Raleigh, Aug 19, 1862. 67 tf. NOTICE. A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE WAR WANTED OVER forty-five years old, for which a liberal price will be paid. Apply at the .St i ndarj office fur information. None need apply except native born. Raleigb, Aug. 26, 18fi2. 69 tf. 10OO ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE IN LIN COLN COUNTY. N. C. THE UNDERSIGNED, AS TRUSTEE OF C. J. HAM marskold, will sell at public outcry, at the residence of tbe lateC. W. Ham marskold, sereu milea from Lincoln ton, on tbe Beat ties Ford Road, the following valuable lands : One tract containing six hundred and eighty-four (684) acres knowo as the Home Tract or Spring Hill. 'This tract if highly improved, good dwelling house, almost new, with extensive barns, machine houses and every outbuilding needed for an exteusive farm. Much of tbe land is well set in clover. The situation is very desirable for a resi- . deuce, as healthy as any part of the State, and one and a half miles from Iron too Station on tbe Wilmington, Char lotte and Rutheiford Railroad. One tract udjoiuiug the last named tract, known as the Lick Run form, ooutaining 109 acres of very productive laud. Another tract adjoining tbe last, known as (he Hammar skold Mill tract, coutaiuins 177 acres, on which is a tirst class Flouring mill and curu mill. Tbe reputation of Haiu- marskola r lour is too well known to require comment. Suffice it to say, there is none better in Western North Carolina. One tract adjoining the Home tract, called the Haynes' tract, containing Ha acres. Another tract adjoining the last named, and immediately on tbe W. C. A R. R. R., within less than a quarter of mile of Iron'on Station, containing 230 acres. And another tract i n the opposite side of said R. H., containing ISO acres. Aud one other small tract of 8 or 10 acres adjoining Home tract : With all other lands and real estate of the said C. J. Uauiniarakotd. Sale to take place on Monday tbe 29th of September next, unless previously sold at private sale. So deairab'e a body of land is rarely offered. Terms made known at tbe sale. For other information apply to Hon. Wm. Lander, now at Richmond, to Col. Haiumarskold on the premises, (Spring Hill,) or to tbe subscriber at Leuoir, Caldwell couniv. U. V. HAMILTON, Trustee of C. J. Hammarskold. August 26, 1863. So wAswtd. NOTICE. THE SUBSCRIBER HAVING QUALIFIED AS AD ministratrix. with tbe will annexed, of the late Seth B. Jones, of the County of Wake, desires all persons hav ing claims against the estate to i resent them tor payment, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their lecovery. All those indebted, will be expected to make speedy payment. Dr. K A. Crudup is my authorized agent to transact all business pertaining to said estate. Letters addressed to me at Rolesville, Wake County, will receive prompt atten tion. SARAH S. JONES, Administratrix. Wake Co., N. C, Ang 26, 1862. 69 8m. Office Chatham Railroad Co., I Raleigh, N. C. ( WANTED -A SURVEYOR'S COMPASS, TRAN sit and Spirit Level. Applv to KEMP P. "BATTLE, President Aug. 26, 1S62. 69 6U SALE OF VALUABLE LANDS AND MILLS. T1HE UNDERSIGNED, EXECUTORS OF THE LAST . will and testament of Joseph Clouse, deceased, will sell at public auction, on the premises, on tbe 12th day of September next, the very valuable lands of which said testator died, seized and possessed ; the same containing 560 acres, lying in Davidson county, on tbe Yadkin River, about 14 miles southwest of Salem, and 20 miles northwest of Lexington. There are valuable improvements thereon consisting of a good dwelling house, negro bouses and excellent outhouses. About loo acres of said lands are excellent low lands and meadow ai d on which is one of the best Flouring Mills in tbe country. A credit of six months will be given, and bond and ap proved security will be required from the purchaser. For further particulars, apply to William Clouse, who resides n-ar Hail's Ferry, in Davie county, and who will be pleased to show said lands to persons desiring to see tbeui. Those desiring to correspond with him by mail, will do so through the Clenimunsville Post Office. WM. CLOUSE. I. . E. G. CLOUSE. fExecutors' Aigust 26, 1862. 85 w4sw4t. A BOOK FOR THE TIMES. THE UNDERSIGNED HAS PREPARED FOR PUB licationa work entitled, "SURGERY FOR CAMP. FIELD AND HOSPITAL," embracing a Compute Digttt of the most important facts aud principles of each Depart ment of the Science, up to the present time. Tbe book will be an octavo volume of at least three hundred pages, and therefore of such convenient size as will admit of its being carried into the field, for constant and immediate re ference. The author believes, that in the preparation of this work, be has supplied an important Professional de sideratum, and solicits the patronage of the Physicians of the Confederacy, both in and out of tbe Army. Those dis posed to become subscribers, are respectfully solicited to forward their names aud addresses, as speedily as possible, to tbe author, at Raleigb, North-Carolina, in order to ex pedite the publication ( the work. EDWARD WARREN. M. D., Suigeou C. S. A., late Prof, in the Un i r ersi ty of M ary Ian d. August 26, 1862. 89 lm. North-Carolina Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. THE NEXT SESSION WILL COMMENCE ON MON dav the 1st of September. Pupils should be sent in promptly at the commencement of the session. Parents will be expected as far as possible, to furnish tbe necessa ry winter clothing, especially shoes. Any person knowing of Deaf-mute or Blind children, between tbe ages of eieht and twenty-one, will pleas communicate the fact to the Principal, in order that the necessary steps may be taken to have them sent to tbe Institution. Any infof mation aa to the method of admission of pupila, 4c, will be given upon application to me by letter or otherwise. - WILLIE J. PALMER. Aagn.tl5.1862. - ' " ' ' t?5 REWARD. RUNAWAY FROM THE SUBSCRIBER in nv,a Countv,tb ltlvof August, ltVn,?L18 JOHN, ageia4 jwi, feet 8 or io inches hleh t?Z.bo? color, tolerably afoot bnirt, weighs from ud tit si Fih, k Teter by trade, and has lost most of bis npner frlf teeth. Said boy was raised in the Valley of vK J " it is probable be will aim to get back thai. Thlffi. Dl ward will be paid for his apprehension and delivervtn or his connement in jail with information respecti ng h . ; P. N. DULIN,. Smith Grove, Davie Co., N. C 86 wAswWpd.' Augtfst 2?, 1SB2V Moore ITnsnirnl Richhoxd, Va., Ang. 2, 1862. THE UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE TO PUBliU the following circular for those desirous of contrihT,. nig supplies to. the sick and wounded North-Carolinian ",, this Hospital. The papers throughout the State ill 7,i 1 cay or notice. - . O. F. MAN30-N of N. C 1, ' Surgeon ia eiurge. CIRCULAR. Transportation Office C. S". A l QuaBTKBJI ASTER. DbpaBTMKXT ' l Richmond, Va., July 28, lb62. f The Superintendents of Railroads will give trsjMiw... tion for aii hospital supplies for Dr. O. F. MaDSon VST mood, Va. Quartermasters will give transportation i eta if required. -Very respectfully, on Uck - Your obed't serv't, . MASON MORFIT Captain and A. Q. M Ainst29,186. " ?? tTran8Pg. " NOTICE. I HAVE FOR SALE A . NO. J SECOND HAnpn Rose Wood Piano, from Knabe 4 Co., Baltimore An person wishing to buy a good instrument of that kind wL will call at Graham, N. C, can get it cheap for cash. ' Graham, Aug. 29, 1862. ' 'l CHOICE RYE WHISKEY WANTED THE SUBSCRIBER DESIRES TO PURCHASE FIVP or ten barrels of choice Rye Whiskey. The SJt Williams or Pnryear Wbiakey preferred. The hiii cash market price given. . E. E. HARlils Raleigh, Ang. 2tf, 1862. " 7otf WANTED, TO EMPLOY A GENTLEMAN, TO TAKE CHARrn of and conduct tbe YARBOROUGU H0UE Raleigb, until the 1st January, 18. Tbe best quahfic.1 tions for the situation are required, and a gentleman with a family would be preferred. Address the unders irnprf .7 .1M. W. R. POOLE, Am r. July 8, 1862. fi5 tf ISf Register and Fayetteville Observer will please eon six times, and send bills to this office. l NOTICE THE FIRM OF R. A. YOUNG 4 BRO., WAS Dis solved on the 17th day of July, by the death of D J Young. All persons indebted to the firm will please maka immediate payneent. Those holding claims againt it Dre sent them for payment. R. a. YOUNG, Surviving partner. THE BUSINESS OF THE LATE FIRM OF R. A oung 4 Bro., will be continued under the same sti le by the subscriber, who begs leave to tender his sincere thanks for tbe patronage extended him for tbe last six years, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the same. . R- A- YOUNG. Petersburg, Vs., August 19, 1862. 67 lm. NOTICE. ON AND AFTER THE 5TH JANUARY. 1862 all Freights between Weidon and Columbia! will be taken at loeil rates, charges will follow as at pre sent, and collections made at points of delivery W. J HAWKINS, Pres. R. i G. R. R. P. C. CAMERON, " N. C. B K. WM. JOHNSTON. 44 C. s n p o Nora. All Government Freight will be shipped as here tofore. Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 81, 1861 1 tf. SALT BEEF FOR SALE. THE SUBSCRIBER HAS ON HAND A LOT OF sour Beef, from tbe brine of which salt can be made, and which he desires to dispose of privately. Those desir ing to purchase can find him at the Commissary Store House, at tbe S. C. R. R. Depot. C. H. THOMPSON. Aug. 19, 1862. 67-3w. BLANTON DUNCAN, COLUMBIA. S. C. rORHEKLT Or KKNTCCKT. 13 PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS TO ANY EXTENT in Engraving and Printing Bank Notes, Bills of Ex change, Ac. Engraving upon Steel or Stone. Large supplies of Bank Note snd other paper will be kept. r r Ang. S, 1862. 63 8m. . Vw Register and State Journal copy to the amount of $5 aud forward bill to tbe advertiser. N. C. MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. AT the Annual Meeting of tbe North-Carolina Mutual Fire Insurance Company, held on the 14th of Janua ry, the following persons were elected Directors snd Offi cers for the ensuing year : DIRECTORS: Henry D. Turner, Raleigh. J. R. Williams, 44 T. H. Selby, 44 C. W. D. Uutchinga,. 44 Kemp P. Battle, 44 George Little, 44 James M. Towles, 44 James E. Hoyt, Washington. Alex. Mitchell, Newbern, Joshua G. Wright, Wilmington, John M. Joces, Edenton. Geo. W. Cbarle, Elizabeth City. Jos. Ramsay, Plymouth. J. W. Harrell, Mnrfreesboro'. H. B. Williams, Charlotte. Samuel Watkins, Milton. A. W. Steel, Fayetteville. Joseph White, Anson County. Josh. Bonner, Salem. A. T. Summy, Asbeville. OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY. T. H. Selby, I'rftidrnt. . ' H. D. Turner, Vice President. John H. Bryan, Attorney. Haniden S. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer. T. H. Selby, ercficio, John R. Williams, J-JSc Committee. C. W. D. Hutchings. J This Company has been in successful operation over 18 years, and continues to take risks upon all classes of prop erty in tbe State, (except Steam Mills snd Turpentine Dis tilleries,) upon favorable Terms Its Policies now cover property amounting to nearly $4,000,000, a large portion of which is in country risks; and its present capital is over four hundred thousand dollars, in bonds, properly secured. All communications in reference to insurance should be addressed to tbe Secretary, post-paid. HAAlDEN R SMITH. itaieigu, rfin. jo, 1002. i:v T . A .... ' GREENSBOROUGH MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Pays all Losses Promptly! DIRECTORS: John A. Mebane, Cyrus P. Mendenball, David P. Weir, James M. Garrett, T. M. Jones, N. H. D. Wilson, David Mc Knight, M. S. Sherwood, Jed. H. Ltn-lsav, R. M. Sloan, C. G. Yates, R. Sterling, Wm. Barringer, Greensborough ; Alexander Miller, Newbern : Dr. W. C. Ramsey, Wades borough; W. A. Wright, Wilmington; Rev. R. C. May nard, Franklinton ; E. F. Watson; Watsonville; A. J.York, Concord; B. Craven, Trinity College. N. II. D. WILSON, . -JED. H. LINDSAY. . . President. Vice President. Attorney. Secretary and Treasurer. JOHN A. GILMER, PETER ADAMS, - N. H. D. WILSON. 1 C. G. YATES, V Executive Committee. J. M. GARREiT, J All communications on business of the office should b directed to PETER ADAMS, Secretary, Greensborough. April 25, 1862. 84 ly. NORTH-CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE INSU RANCE COMPANY. Orwci Raleigh, N. C. THIS COMPANY TAKES RISKS UPON ALL healthy lives between the ages of la and 61) years for one year, for seven years, or for life the assurers for life participating in the profits of the Company. Slaves, between tbe ages of 10 and 60 years, are insured for one year or five years for two-thirds their market value. All losses paid within 0 days after satisfactory proof if presented. 1 DIRECTORS FOR 1860 AND 1861. Chas. E. Jobkbo.v. W. W. Hoi-uaif W. S. Masox, W. II. Jonas, K. P. Battle, J. G. Williams, C. B. Root, P. F. Pkscod, Quints Busbkk, H. W. Hdstso, war v ' - U. AlCKBS, EvEaasn Hall, R. H Battle. OFFICERS Chas. E. Jobxsok, President, W. W. Hold aft, Vice President, H. W. UiT8TB0, Attorney, W. H. Jones, Treasurer. R. H. Battls, Secretary, W. H. McKee, Med. Examiner. C. B Root, ) Q. Busses, V Ex. Cum. W. IL McKis, ) For further information the public is referred to tbe pamphlets and forms of proposal, which mar be obtained at tbe office of the Company or any of its Agencies. Aaaresa, R. H. BATTLE, -Secretary. Ralsigb, Jan. P, 1862. ' 4 ly.