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A.L15ANY, LINN COUNTY, O.KEG ON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1865.
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T1IE DITY OF DEM OC It ATS.
A 'writer in the Ohio Crisis offers the
following excellent views as to the duty
of Democrats. We most earnestly ap
prove what he says, and trust the Demo
crats of Oregon will heed his views, and
- adopt his wise counsels : . '
My object in writing this article is to
"prevent, if possible, a disruption of the
: Democratic party. Division now among
j us would be disastrous to the party and
the salvation of our country frohi anarchy
and misrule. The facts of pasl experience
t ought to admonish us and make us more
. cautious in the future. The cardinal or
fundamental truths which lie at the foun
dation of our civil government, have al
ways been the principles of onr civil and
political faith. Upon these there should
be no disagreement nor any attempt at
concealment for they are the great cen
tral points of onr civil compact, around
which have clustered, for many years, the
most precious fru:t3 which have swelled
the common mart of our country's pros
4perity. All the minor or secondary issues
before our counfrv are the bitter fruits
of a violation of the
eiples oi onr iorni
ment. Therefore these
pl&i should have a prominent pi
in the Democratic platform. If the pres-
"ent leaders of the Democratic . party are
ashamed of those principles, or if they r.re
afraid to defend them, they had better re-
tire from the conflict and make room for
more courageous men. We have seen the
ad effects of truckling to the caprice of
the enemy. The past admonishes us.
'.and let us resolve that in the future that
principles and not policy shall be our
fuiding light, and that men of truth,
onor, courage, consistency and fidelity
shall be our standard-bearers. If this
course is fcot pursued tire result will be
.similar to tie unwise action of the late
Chicago Convention and the Presidential
election That Convention, by ignoring
our tame-honored principles, expected by
their peculiar policy to obtain the soldiers'
vote and such as were halting between
:twA opinions. They not only failed in
this but they also failed in getting thou
sands of Democrats to endorse their policy.
I am strongly inclined to question the
sincerity of those advocates of an aceoni
teodatiag policy, and am sometimes in
clined to believe they arc enemies in dis
guise or the tools of our enemies, employed
to conceal the real issues before the people.
-Lt this anmonish Democrats and induce
them to mse precaution in selecting mem
bers to car conventions and thereby pre
vent tiarikr mischief. ?
' Are t tie Abolitionists the rankest
laSdels is tie land, 8 far as the suprem
ey f law is concerned ? What law, hu
6aa or diviae, have they not violated?
-la Waat does their loyalty consist ? Have
litey preserved, defeded and maintained
t&e supremacy -of the fundamental laws
of our country ? Are Democrats afraid
to charge them with their infidelity or
or disloyalty to the laws of the land?
The great issue before the people is, shall
fidelity or infidelity triumph in our coun
try? Shall the supremacy of our civil
laws in all their beauty, power and incor
ruptibility be preserved,' orsviIl we pass
ively submit to see the inheritance be
queathed to us by our worthy, ancestors
i&itroyed and Bet aside by unauthorized
f?tlamations and tribunals ? Are we to
fee" degraded and corrupted t.tce of
glares er are we to be freemen? Who
U1 turner these questions ? These nuist
fce met as 1 decided at the ballot-box, if
tkey are cot pre rented by military ne-
. tfessitv."
' .Tf feat are ; tie great issues before the
icotistry now? First and most prominent
M THI bQTEEEiaSTT, FREEDOM AND 1N-
SEPESDsxcE oi the States. This was
guaranteed to the State by Great Britain
- at the close of the Revolution, which has
"been preserved and maintained by the
States np.to the year 1860. This was
aeVer questioned until the present Aboli
tion party cams into power. When' the
Jsiates created a general government to
Execute their will and pleasure, they did
pot clothe their agent with, sovereign and
taEBiited powef, neither did they make
mmrreader ot' their sovereignty, freedom!
jiaTe reserved - to. themselves the right,
pot only to legislate for their own local
interests, but also to elect the President,
Senators and Congressmen to represent
tLcia &ad legislate for their respective in
terests and to execute their will and pleas
i
ure. AVhh nnthorizos the election oi'
those men? The Statcs; The (Jencral
CiovernuKMit is not sovereign, neither is it
independent of. the States. It possesses
no nnthority beyond that i fr;jiitr,i to it
by the sovereign States. The State have
reserved all rights not delegated to their
agent. The State, govcrninenis tire, in
the language of Scripture, "the powers
that be," which require uffeetieiate obedi
ence to their authority. To resist them
is to '.osist the ordinance of (Jod ;" to
revolutionize them by force of arms is
treasonable rebellion against the Miprcttie
authority of a sovereign State. A ,sov
ereisn cannot commit treason against a
ercature. An inferior may rebel against
a superior, or the creature may commit
treason against the creator, but a sover
eign State cannot rebel against a depend
ent, 1 hese are facts which no sane man
will deny. In the light of truth this
places the " Urcat Itebelhon upon the
treasonable acts of " lowing war " asrainst
a sovereign State, against the Atmlitiofi
party who deserve the utmost penalty' of
violated law. It is hoped that when the
supremacy of civil law is restored in this
country, that every one of them will be
tried by the civil courts for the crimes
perpetrated by them. Apprehending this
in the restoration of law and order, they
will oppose, with all their might, the
rights of A sovereign State. This is the
reason why they denounce State Rights.
They are afraid of reaction and the appli
cation of their own preaching from the
text. " Whatsoever vc would that men
should do unto you, do ye cveu so uuto
them.
What is the duty of Democracy ? To
place the sovereignty, freedom and inde
pendence of the States in their platform,
and then by union of-effort preserve, de
fend and maintain the doctrine of State
Rights. Then let there also be engrafted
in the platform the time-honored exposi
tion of our political faith, as contained in
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
by the great expositors of the Democratic
creed, and success will again perch upon
our banners.
IIotv the Money Goes.
When John T. Ford attempted to re
open his Theatre at Washington and go
on with a business which had received
the approbation and the patronage of
President Jjmcoln. the War Department
stopped him. After waiting a reasonable
time, Mr. Ford made a formal demand
for the restoration of his property, which
being refused, he employed counsel and
was about to bring suit against tire Secre
tary of War for damages. This seems to
have brought that distinguished individual
to a realizing sense of-the responsibility
people.
turning;
the Theatre over to its owner and allow-
iag him to do as he pieafI with it. the j
Secretary of War has agreed to pay him j
fifteen hundred dollars per month for it j
till the first of February next. when, 'if
Congress refuses to buy it for one bun-
area inousana aoiiars, it is to be given up
to him.
Thus, at the very moment when th
last dollar of the last loan authorized by
Congress has been received and expend
ed, and when the ablest Ertaueiers in the
country are unable to sec where the mon
ey is to come from that will be needed to
carry the Government through till winter,
the Secretary of War contracts to pay a
rent amounting to eighteen per cent, per
annum on the exaggerated value set upon
this property. He also agrees to recom
mend the purchase of the property for
the use ot the Government, when it is
certain, no matter what may be said to
the contrary and by, way of excuse for
the proposed robbery of the treasury, that
it is not needed for the public service
and is not worth the money asked for it.
mt - r . rv . i
xne seizure or tne ineatrc wnen it was
on the eve of being rc-opened by its
owner, was an outrage for which the Sec
retary of War can render no sufficient
excuse, fetill less sufficient will be any
excuse he may attempt to render for sad
dling on the empty national treasury the
large amount he has airreed to pay for a
property with which he had no business
to meddle.
Tsi Securitt or Personal Libertt.
Senator Wilson, in a recent address upon
universal suffrage, says " that on the nrst
day of the next Congress he should introduce
a bill for the personal liberty of every free
man on this continent." This is excellent,
if the Senator could effect so wide a blessing.
There arc persons in Mexico, Braail, Cuba,
(which is an appendage to the continent.)
as well as in the United States, who would
like very much to come in under so humane
a provision of law. But let the Senator use
bis exertions at the-earliest moment to se
cure personal liberty to every freeman in the
United States, which is as far as the power
of our.Congress extends. All he has to do
is to introduce a bill restoring the " privilege
of the writ of habeas corpus'' to all the civil
courts, and putting such guards to it, that
hereafter it cannot be suspended in any case
in time of peace. The habeas corpus is the
best bill for the security of personallibcrty
that ever was devised, and no free Govern
ment can do without it. If he can promote
its extension to the "continent" bo much
the better. The whole family of man ought
to be free, and its personal liberty absolute
ly secured. Fhiia. ieager.
Lathis Riding Sidewats. The introduc
tion of this stvle of riding on horseback is
attributed to Anne of Bohemia, consort of
Riehai-d II. She it was (according to btow)
who orisinallv showed the women of Eng
land how gracefully and conveniently they
might Tide on hoie-Dacx smeways. au
other old ; historian, enumerating the fash
ion nf Rifdinxd IPs reiraJiObserves: " Like
wise noble ladles then used high beads and
corsets, , and robes with -long, trains, ana
seats on side-saddles on their horses, by the
examnle of the resooctable Queen Annie,
daughter of the King of Bavaria, who first
introduced the custom into tne mnguom.;
for, before, women of every kind rode as
men." '
No matter how long you have been mar
riod, never neglect tocourt your wife.
neglect 1
i your
fundamental r.rJn- e fcaiI carre.I by his crlntrarv ami ' I rcirr.rd an finrcal to the source of rV''.V" , . . m-- ."
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.,!a way that wul harnit laeet the arrrt ba- the ceneriJ'wcl are. as r.inar.r the n:.-tr
1 tl.n in iua
STATE It I Tti O SOMHA
TIOX (a:i:KALJA(KM,
Kvcr since the formation of the Nation
al (Sovornment in 17!', and in every
stage of its progress, even up to the . res
sew t eventful liossr, a cn.--tant controvcrsv
has been carried on -. to the nature and
extent of Stat.. IHjhl. At the rw. alTb" iV'r 1,u.,:r onlargoinciit and there
mrtu-rmttil of this eont rovers, it seems!5 probability tliat such an application
to have been maintained bv tlie oi l Fed
eral party, as it has been called, led on j
by John Adams and others, that thei
(J overtime nt of tlw I'nited States was.
i is essential nature, or ought to be to
a large extent at least, a Consofiatt(l
Kcpulilir. making the individual States
in name indeed, distinct and separate
members of the whole; but as regards
any tW pnoh nt State rijht? all subject
at last to the actual unlimited supremacy
and control of the one Great (ntiat
On the other hand, n party equally
zealous and powerful, sprang -tip.' headed
by Jefferson and others, manfully and
steadfastly maintaining, that the union of
the States did not of itself show (nor
was it so intended) that the (Ieneral Gov
ernment should possess one atom more of
power than was allotted to it by the Con
stitution : nor that the States, in their
individual existence, should possess a
particle of power less than they had be
fore, except so far as clearly yielded up
in the Constitution. Roth parties, no
doubt, intended the Government should;
be perpetual ; and the great and only
difficulty was, the true construction to;
be placed on the instrument which gave;
that government existence. As to which
party was or is right, or which wrong in
this great contest, is not the object cf the
present articlo cither to canvass or settle.
The simple purpose will be to give a
general and fair synopsis of the late Pres
ident Jackson's sentiments therein, from
the best and most authentic information.
As many have labored under unfounded
impressions concerning General Jsckson's
fixed sentiments touching State Right?,
especially in view of the South Carolina
Proclamation in IXcembcr, 1S32. an at
tempt will be here made to settle all doubts
by the extracts following, arrayed a near
ly as may be in chronological order.
In Jackson's firot Inaugural Address.
March 4, 1 821', he says :
" In such measures as I may be calhnl
to pursue, in rcgnM to the rights vt' the
separate States, 1 hope to lie animated by
a proper respect for those sovereign mem
bers of our I r.ioh ; taking care net to
confound vhe;powcrs they havo reserved
to themselves with these thev have grant
cd to the Cor feuerncv."
iVgain. in bis Crst annual message toi
Congress, I'cccinbcr 8, 129, be says :
sacred
loMiirations. . I iou tiiis coun-
try more than any other, has, iu the!
IVovidonce of God. 1 cen cast the special
gnardiansbip of the great principle 'of!
adherence to written coustiintions. If it!
fail here, all hope iu regard to it will be!
extinguished. That this was intended to
no. a government of limited and f pecihc. 1
and not general powers, must be admitted
by all; and it is our uuix to prcwrvo forjcalbd. would lose all their independence
it the character mtcnocd by Us Iramcrs.
If experience point out the necessity
for an enlargement of thee powers, let
us appdy for it to those for whose benefit
it is to be exereii-eu, and not undermine
the whole system by a resort to overstrain
ed construction. The scheme has work
ed Well, it his exceeded the hopes of
those who devised it, and became an ob
ject of admiration to the world. We are
responsible to the country, and to the
glorious cause of self government, for the
preservation of 50 great a good. The
great mass of legislation relating to our
internal affairs was intended to be left
where the Federal Convention found it-
in the State Governments. Nothing is
clearer iu my view than that we arc chiefly
indebted for the success of the Constitu
tion tinder which we arc now acting, to
the watchful ahd auxiliary operation of
the Mate authorities, j his is not the
reflection of a day, but belongs to the most
deeply rooted convictionsof my mind. I
cannot, therefore, too strongly, or too
earnestly, for my own sense of its impor
tance, warn you against all encroachments
upon the legitimate sphere of State sov
ereignty. Sustained by its healthful and
invigorating influence, the lederal system
can never fail." -
In the Mar-sville Veto Message of 27th
May, 1830, he says :
" When an honest observance of con
stitutional compacts cannot be obtained
from a community like ours, it need not
be anticipated elsewhere ; aud the cause
in which there has been so much martyr
dom, and from which so much was ex
pected by the friends of liberty may be
-abandoned ; and the degrading truth that
man is unfit for self -government admitted.
And this will be the case if expediency
be made a rule of construction in inter
preting the Constitution r Power in no
government could desire a better shield
for the insidious advances which itisevcr
ready to make upon the checks that are
designed to restrain its action.
In his Bank Veto Message of July 2
1832, he says:
' " Nor is our Government to be main
tained, or our Union preserved by inva
sions of the rights and powers ot the sev
eral States. In thus attempting to make
our Government strong, we make it weak
Its true strength, consists in leaving indi
vidual States as much as possible to them.
selves ; making itself felt, not in power,
but in its beneficence, not in its control,
but in its protection, not in binding the
State's more closely' to the centre, but
leaving each to move unobstructed in its
proper orbit."
In his Annual Message of December
132, he eays:
, " If a system compatible with the Con
- mmuuurou.ru. ueueviscu wmcn .is iree
stitution cannot be devised, which, is free
I om seen tendencies, we snoma rccoiieci
that that instrument prov-itks within ifsi;lf
the mode of it amendment; and there
is, therefore, nooxt n. e for the assumption
of doubt Vnl po'.vi is by the (ieneral (lov
ernuient. If tluwe which are already
(mut'd shall be found incompetent to
the ends of its creation, it can at any time
it ionniien in punnc intercsrs, will over
be refused. 1 f the States fed themselves
competent to these objects why should
the Government wish toiissunie the power?
If they do not, then they will not hesitate
to make the grant. Roth Governments
are the Governments of the people. Im
provements must be made with the mnev
of the pooph; ; and if the money can be
collected and applied by those ttote sim
ple and economical machines, the State
Governments, it will unquestionably be
safer anl better for the pe'ople, than to
add to the splendor, the patronage, and
the power of the General Government.
That the Government tay be so admin
istered as to preserve it.-, iac.'e-iicy in pro
moting and securing these prenersl objects
should be the only aim of our ambition,
and we cannot, therefore, too carefully
examine its structure, in order that we
may not mistake its powers or assume those
which the people InrVe reserved to them-:
selves. 'We should constantly bear inj
mind the fact that the considerations which j
induced the framcrs of the Constitution
to withhold from the ieneral Government,
the power to regulate the great mays of
the business and concerns i f the people
have been fully justified ly experience. 1
Limited to a general superintending power
to maintain pence at home and id toad,
and to proscribe laws on a few subjects of
general interest, not calculated to restrict
human liberty, but to enforce human
rights, this Government will find its
strength and glory in the faithful discharge
of these plain nhd simple duties."
In his second Inaugural Address.
March 4, 13.1, President Jackson says :
" My cxjcricnce in public concerns,
and the observation of a life somewhat
advanced, confirm the opinions long since
imbibed by mo, that the destruction of
the State governments, or the annihila
tion of their control over the local con
cerns of the people, would lead directly
to revolution and auarchy, and finally to
despotism and military domination. Iu
proportion, therefore as the Federal Gov
ernment encroaches upon the rights of
the States, in the same proportion does it
impair its owu power and detract from
the ability to fulfill the purposes of its
creation. Solemnly impressed with these
considerations, my countrymen will ever
fisul ,ne r.Y tj exercise my constitutional
J rowers m srrestintr
measures which may
,
1C
ate
In his Lfl.nd-bill Veto 31trsar:e.
-1th
Dec, l-3, he says :
It appears to me that mrre l'iert
road to cons.didatii.it can not be devi-ed.
Money is power; and in that goverumci
which ravs nil the Mtblic oHiecrs of tl
rnmcnt
ie
'States, will all political power be substan-
tialiy concentrated. 1 he State rovcrn-
(tvivnts, if governments
they mirrht le
and dignity; tne economy which now
distinguishes them would be converted
into a profusion, limiied only by the extent
of the supply, Rcing the doj ndents of
the (ieneral Government and looking to
the treasury as the source of their emol
uments, the State officers, under whatever
name they might pass, and by whatever
forms their duties might be prescribed,
would in effect be the mere stipendiaries
and instruments of the central power.
It is too obvious that such a
course would subvert our well balanced
system of government, and ultimately
deprive us of the blessings now derived
from our lwppy Cnion." Henrv.
The Secretarv of War. Tho Pittsburg
Post remarks as follows concerning Mr.
Stanton :
The present Secretary of War is one of
,L f -i 1 1- 1 .. V
inoHe singular compounds wnicn a nation in
convulsions will sometimes throw to the Furf
ace, and, who, having a rugged strength.
and uo sensibility at all, can for a while
maintain themselves with wondrous potency,
This results moro from rough vigor andpow.
ers of physical endurance than from any.
tlur.g else. Juook around and see the nun
drcds of this class who are now in public
plaocs, who, ten years ago, would not be
thought ot tor anv- position more exalted than
a seat m our I'ommoil Council, luesc peo
ple have made politics a trade a profession
"or making moncv, and during our late civil
war they succeeded iu " lining their sleeves
mostextravniraiitlv. Thev a re strong, romrh.
energetic fellows, "with skins as thick as that
of the rhinoceros, and are, besides, shining
examples that a man will never lack gold in
his pockets as long as ho carries an abund
ance ot brass in his face.
Piocs, Moral, Ptritas Boston. A late
State paper has the following t
Boston is becoming infamous for the out
rages perpetrated in its vicinity. A few
weeks ago, two children by the name of
Joyce, a girl fifteen and a boy fourteen years
of age, were found murdered in the woods
near Roxbury, a suburb of Boston, the girl
having been brutally outraged before being
killed. A bounty jumper by the name of
Stewart was arrested tor the orlense. Un
Thursday last another horrible outrage was
pespetrated bv three ruffians upon a child
named Alice Burns, within a short distance
of Boston. The child attended a picnic
near tho citv. and after the perpetration of
the horrible act, was aiscovcrca by uer
- . . .
friends in a perfectly insensible state, she
still remains in a. very critical conaition.
White Slaves. The Hartford Times
says in Connecticut they have a system of
putting up poor men ana women on an auc
tion block and selling them (or their servi
ces, which is the same thing) to the loidcst
bidder. Of course it is all right to sell poor
white men by the Puritans ; but it is hein
ous to sell black men. Black is the win-
nin' color" nowamong that class.
t u
An Abolition Chaplain. The La Crosse
Democrat eavs Henrv Barnard, of that city,
has shut up his gambling rooms, sold his
stock of whisky, and accented the napiain
ry of tho 4th Ohio (colored). -
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OIIIO IEMOC It.t V.
Almscn of Hie Al Jtjfntst i :ai in:: -Ilill
f lilglitH ate- ltS5rinl Eiio
True IoKitioii oI'IJciiiocimIh.
The Democracy of Licking county.
Ohio, lately met in Convention. tnl
adopted the following which every Dem
ocrat hi the country can most fu
dorse :
!y en-
We, citizens of Licking county, in Con
vention assembled, do solemnly proclaim
as Sentiments which animate us, the fol
lowing, vis : ,
T hat the administration of Gove rumen t
by the party in power, has proved that
its continued control of . public affairs
must be destructive of the Republic and
the liberties of the ioopl
It has by usurpation arid violence "bro
ken down the barriers of the Constitution
established by our fathers for the protec
tion of life, liberty and property.
It has taken from the people the pro-!
tectioB.of ttw writ of Habeas Corpus and
tral by jury, the sheet anchor of English
and American libertv. and vi lontlv snl-
jeeted them to the unrestrained caprice.
passion ana will of military power.
It has kidnapped our people, torn them
from their families and homes, and im
mured them in foreign prisons without
charges of offense, and w ithout trial.
It has instituted illegal and mock tri
bunals of its own parasites, "organized U
convict," and has doomed to death its
victims in defiance of law and civil courts, i
It has stimulated and protected armed
mobs in the destruction i f life and prop
erty, and refused redress fur these griev-l
antes.
It has assailed and suppressed the lib-1
erty of speech and of the pres. and pun-;
ished private thoughts and opinions as
felonious crimes, with the penalties of
confiscation, imprisonment and death. j
It has persecuted and punished virtue
asa crimcanddigTiiGed a'nd honored vice of
the mast revolting character, iu its stead.
It has obstructed the administration of
justice, and made judges dependent on
the sole will of Executive officers.
It has erected a multitude of new and
unnecessary offices, and filled the land
"with swarms of officers to harrass our
people and cat out our substance."
It has made " the military independent
of, and superior to the civil power."
It has mvaded- the elective franchise,
and overpowered the ballot-box by mili
tary force, and is, at this hour, exercising
this power over the electors of Tennessee
and Kentucky.
It has subjected our people to illegal
aud oppressive assessments and taxes
It has consolidated the whole moncv i
power of the country in the bands if i
limited control over the currcnev
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it has prostrated the reserved rights cd I
T.I . " . . .
the Mates and ot the l-eo; de. broken down
the itidieiarv and the laws it I on gross. ;
even oi it? own making, and concent rated
.
all material rower m the bar: is of Exeeu -
tive "ieers, and thereby transformed tliehu owll Administration, and holds the
Bepuldic into a consolidated and arbitrary
despotlrm.
It has enriched its partisans bv public
plunder, and exempted them from the
burthens ot taxation. A.-.tional and Mate,
thereby imposing a double oppression on
the labor and industry of the country,
and in defiance Of the Constitution of the
State of Ohio.
It h;ts sought and is now striving, to
degrade the white man to the level of the
negro, and attempting to force them into
social and political relations, by extend
ing to thy latter the elective franchise
a project which must inevitably end in
anarchy and a war of races, fatal to the
African and to the restoration of free
government.
" Let these facta be submitted to a can
did world." , We solemuly affirm that
each and all of the foregoing allegations
are founded on indubitable evidence, pa
tent to every man who sees, reads and
understands.
While we live and .ire permitted to be
heard, we will remonstrate and protest
against these grievances, and we now be
seech and implore every honest tehite man
who loves liberty and the welfare of him
self and his country, to unite with us at
the ballot-box in an earnest effort to res
cue the people's Constitutional rights.
We will adhere to these cardinal princi
ples laid down in the trampled and dis
carded bill of rights of our fathers' Con
stitution, vix :
1. That private property shall be in
violate. 2. That the people shall be secure in
their persons, houses, papers and posses
sions, from unwarrantable searches and
seizures.
3. That the freedom of speech and of
the press shall not be violated.
4. That the right of trial by jury shall
be inviolate.
5. That no power of suspending laws
shall be exercised except by tho Legisla
ture. .
G. That no person ( not in the military
service) shall be imprisoned and treated
with unnecessary rigor or be put to an
swer any criminal charge, but by present
ment, indictment or impeachment.
7. That no person nhall bo transported
out of the State for any offense committed
Within the State.
8. That standing armies in time of
peace are dangerous to liberty ; they shall
not be kept up, and that the military shall
be kept under strict subordination to the
civil power.
9. That no person (except such as are
employed in the military or naval service")
8hall.be subject to corporeal punishment
under the military power;
10. That the privilege of the writ of
Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended
when there is no rebellion or invasion
and the public safety docs not require it.
11. That we accord with the doctrine
that each State should be left free to reg
ulate its own internal and domestic affairs
in its own way, subject only to the Con
stitution .of the United States; and that
the elective franchise shall not be prosti
tuted to the embrace of the negro
THE Itl ASOV (JlvEX
V'hy Fn:tr I.en Hie Cuttinei Ue
Kiilinlioti of Use ?Jm-e loetrine
y tltc AtlminiHtratloit.
The following from the Lancaster
(Pa.) Intelligencer, will show the hypoc
risy and treachery of the Administra
tion im regard to the Monroe Doctrine :
The reasons which implied the late
President Lincoln to inform his Post
master G(ircra), Montgomery Riair, about
a year ago, that the time had come when
his room in the Cabinet was more desir
able than bis company, have never been
authoritatively stated to the public. We
infer from the speech delivered by Mr.
Riair at Hagerstown, fln the 12th inst..
that his opposition to Lincoln and Sew
ard's surrender of the Monroe Doctrine
had something to do with Jiis ejection
from the Cabinet.
A Presidential election jyas impending,
and Lincoln was again a candidate. The
war was undecided, and minors were rife
that France was about to. recognize the
South. Such recognition, though it
might not have secured the independ
ence of the Confederacy, would undoubt
edly have insured the defeat of Mr. Lin
coln. To ward off this threatened disas
ter to himself, the late President pur
chased the continued non-interference of
France by a shameful; abandonment of
the lung-settled policy of the country.
Mr. Llair seems to have been violently
opposed to this pusillanimous step, whiefi
he charges to the account of Messrs. Sew
ard and Stanton. He" asserts that "both
our Slate and War Department's have
hem subordinate to Napoleon's poliej-."
He reminds the publi that when "our
House of Representatives rc-cehoed the
voice of the -convention fliat nominated
Lincoln .nd Johnson as candidates,
pledged, if lected. to reassert and main
tain the Monroe Doctrine even in the
midst of the rebellion, the State Depart
ment instantly dispatched a disclaimer to
the Emperor of the French, through our
minister to Paris, containing the assur
ance that the opinions of the House' was
not that ci the Government, and giving
him to understand that the Executive
would not co-operate with the House."
He adds that "the War Office confirmed
this intimation of the State Department
immediately by its action," an order be
ing "entered against the exportation of
arms, which were essential to enable the
Mexicans to defend themselves,; while j
the French were allowed forage audi
transportation, which were-all they want-j
ed."
Mr Rloir fifrnnorpl v incscs over Jn si-
r,M U M- T.;n.r.ln ;. l.L
letter accepting the" nomination" of the
jJammore ( omentum, tot special ex-
! tcptious to that portion of th
platform
t
relating tn the Monroe Doctrine.
In the
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.i,.irj 'v.,u,idiiig be gives them, be re- i
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a mere
cipher in
Secretaries of State and War responsible'
for acts which could only have been done ;
by direction of the President. j
About the same time, or shortly be
fore. Montgomery Riair made these as
saults tin Seward and .Stanton at Hagers
town. his brother Frank assailed Stanton
and Holt with even more bitterness in a
public speech at Lexington, Kentucky,
charging them with justifying, aiding
aud abetting treason at the outset of the
rebellion !
Do these attacks of the two Blairs on
Seward, Stanton, , and Holt foreshadow
important changes iff the Administration ?
It has more than once been asserted, but
as often dcuicd, that President Johnson
would avail himself of the first reasona
ble excuse he could find to rid himself
of some of his ready-made constitutional
advisers. He is Very intimate with the
Blair family, and it was at the house of
the father of Montgomery and Frank,
uear Washington, that, by careful nurs
ing, his health wast restored after its
alarming breakdown on the day of his in
auguration as Vice President. When
the close personal and political relations
of President Johnson and the Blairs are
taken into account, and when it is re
membered that Montgomery Blair wound
up his Hagerstown diatribe against Sew
ard and Stanton with a eulogy on the
"courage, judgment, constancy and pa
triotism" of the President, there is cer
tainly room to BUspect that the latter has
given the" Blairs to understand that he
will not quarrel with them if they find
means to drive Seward and Stanton out
of the Cabinet.
Democrats are Christians. An exchange
newspaper savs :
Jersey. There are but five other States in
tho country that contributes as much, though
its population is less than that of this city
alone. During' the vear which ended the
1st of April last, the entire receipts amount
ed to $23,010 41.
Of course ! What else should we look for
from a staunch Democratic State? It is the
old-fashioned Bible that is kept in vogue
there. The modern Burlingame Bible and
God don't flourish iu that locality. Tljey
retain Jesus in the pulpdt to the exclusion of
Parker Pillsbuiy and Abby Kelley there,
and the fruits are a well-ordered Govern
ment and virtuous people, not more intent
upon minding their own business than in
letting their neighbors alone.
Calling Oct the Troops. Gov Brown-
low has called unon General Thomas to send
woops into tne various counties 01 me okim
i - . 1 n a 1 c . .
to preserve order and to protect the wuiot
box. Nashville Union;
Preserve order and protect the ballot-box !
The citizens of Delaware, Marvland, Ken
tucky and Missouri know what that means.
It is the protection that wolves give to lambs.
We merely make note of it, as a part of the
history of the country the Abolition party is
making.
A person in the south cannot now receive
a telegraphic message unless he will first take
the oath ot allegiance, is not this extend
ing " freedom" in the South?
Outrages by XegroeH.
A Western paper compiles and 'gives
the following. We commend it to the
perusal of those who would place the ne
gro cm a level with the white man :
At no period- in the history of this
country have crimes been so numerous
and;" eo atrocious us now. During the
last week our exchanges have been more
than usually occupied with accounts of
murders, robberies, rapes and arsons, il
lustrating the appalling demoralization
of the times almost directly traceable to
thp war, to the violations of law by those
in authority, and to the teachings of the
deluded reformers and fanatical ptolftieal
leaders. Much of the prevalent disorder
grows out of the antagonism between the
whites and negroes, and the extraordinary
audacity and insolence ..with which the
latter have hecr.me imbued by the teach
ing of the fanatical demagogues who ex
pect political preferment by pandering
to the most degrading and hU!exu3 pas
sions of the black..
A white woman named Mrs. Dalliitger,
residing near Lafayette, Indiana, was as
saulted by two negroes, one of- them
named Gaines, and the other unknown.
She made a stout resistance to tliem, and
Gaines finally stabbed her until she be
came faint from the loss of blood, when
both violated her person. Roth fiends
were arrested and lodged in the jail at
Evausvillc. On the following day a mob
collected about the jail, broke down the
door, dragged out the prisoners and beat
them to death. After tley were dead
they were taken up and hanged to a
lamp-post on the corner of the street,
whe re they were hanging at a late hour
in the evening. They were ultimately
taken down and buried.
On the 28th of July, at Johnsonville,
Tennestee, a man employed as wagon
master of the telegrajdx corps, accidently
offended some of the negro troops sta
tioned at the jdace by his language.
They exaggerated the affair to their offi
cers, got an order for the man's arrest,
pursued him out the rocd upon which he
was leaving the town, and brutally mur
dered him. They shot him through and
through, strikin? him in the bend in two
pdaces. once tnrotlgh the neck, once
through the hand, and once through the
body. They then stripped him of his
clothes, watch and cash to the amonnt of
from $150 to $200. leaving his dead body
where he fell. The correspondent who
mentions these facts says that nothing
bos bcea clone to arrest or punish the
perpetrators of this murder, and, in fact,
if is scarcely noticed, so common are oc
currences of this kind there. a This un
fortunate man was the third one who had
been shot daring his stay at that place
about five days.
In Clarke county, Indiana, c-n the 2d
in't.. two nirro soldiers went to the house
- ,f M vrt.wi vw . nartv nf
negro soldiers are encamped,' and demand-
(Cd milk, which was refused, aa..tliere was
acme in the house, which explanation was
given in a very pleasant tone of voice.
The negroes then insulted Mrs. Whitsel
in the most outrageous manner, and at
tempted to violate her person. Her cries
brought some neighbors to her rescue,
when the villians made good their es
cape. The news of this outrage was soon
made known, when the citizens armed
themselves and started in pursuit of the
outlaws and.would-be murderers. Oa the
next day a dead negro was found near the
spot where the outrage was committed ;
and the people were then stiil m search
of the ruffians, the excitement was intense,
and there was no telling what might be
the result a mob against the negroes be
ing anticipated.
In Chicago, on the 3d inst., a rurhanly
negro chased a couple of young girl into
the residence of the parents of one of
them, threatening them and flourishing
a bowie knife. Mr. Walwick, the father
of one of the girls, interfered to protect
his daughter tfhen the negro attempted
to stab him, and Mr. W. drew a revolver'
and shot and mortally wounded the ne-
Pro: . ' -
A correspondent at int. Vernon, oet-
ferson county, Illinois, sends us the par
ticulars of a horrible murder recently
committed in that county under peculiar
circumstances. A farmer named .Den
nett left his wife, who was in the last
stages of consumption, in charge fa ne-"
gro woman while he went to work in the
field; ' On his return he found his wife
lying in the middle of the room, with her
head chopped off and her body horribly
mutilated. In the preliminary examina
tion, the negro woman swore that a strange"
man, having on a silk dress, entered the
house, demanded money, which was given
to him, and then murdered the lady ; but
upon being examined " in court she swore
that Dennett had murdered his own wne,
although there was no other evidence to
substantiate such a charge, and it is gen
erally believed that the negro committed
the crime, from the tact that blood-stained
clothes and other evidences were found
in her house near by. Bennett is, how
ever, still in jail, and the wench, is at
liberty.
The President a Usurper. The Chicago
Tribune, head devil among the radicals and
destructives of the Northwest, is becoming
more and more open each day in its warfare
upon the President. We have already dished
up a tew specimens ot its hatred, and from
a late issue we extract another that is very
posmve as to me iaci 01 nis oemg a usurper :
"it we are not correct ; it the iTesident
is acting in his civil and not his military ca
pacity, and if the conquered provinces are
really and truly states, endowed with the
rights which the States Of the North possess,
and are not subject to the military law, iha
President is a usurper and ouglUJo 6e t't-
peached because every one of his acts in rela
tion to these so-called states is an assumption
of poteer that he does not possess except as a
eonpieror.J1
"I wonder how they make lucifer
matches !" said a young married lady to her
husband, with whom she was always quar
rClling. " Tho process is very simple' sail
the husband. . " I once made one." " How
4id you m&nage-H?" '' By leading you Ao
the altw.
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