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The report was adopted unanimously.
IMPORTANT MANIFESTO OF GENERAL HAIR.
NEY ANNULLING AN ACT OF THE LEGIS-



look with mercy and favor upon
The report adopted unanimously.
IMPORTANT MANIFESTO OF GENERAL HAIR.
NEY ANNULLING AN ACT OF THE LEGIS-
LATURE
MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF THE WEST,
ST LOUIS, MAY Ia, 1861.
IT, The People ofthe State of Missouri:
On my return to the duties of the command of
this department, find, greatly to my astonish-
ment and modification, most extraordinary state
of things existing in this State, deeply affecting
the stability Of The government of the United
States, as well as the governmental and other in
terests of Missouri itself.
As citizen of Missouri, owing allegiance to the
United States, and having interests in common
with you, feel it my duty as well privilege to
extend a warning voice to my fellow-citiZens
against the common dangers that threaten us, and
to appeal to your patriotism and of Justice to
exert all your moral power to avert them.
1t is with regret that feel it my duty to call
your attention to the recent acts of the General
Assembly of Missouri, known as the Military bill,
which is the result, no doubt, of the temporary
cItement that now pervades the public mind. This
bill cannot be regarded in any other light than an
indirect secession ordinance, ignoring the
forms resOrted to by other States. Manifestly its
most material provisions are in conflict with the
constitution and laws of the United States. To
this extent it is nulity, and cannot and ought not
to be upheld or regarded by the good citizens of
Missouri. There are obligations and duties resting
upon the people OF Missouri under the constitution
and laws OF the United States which are paramount,
and which trust you will carefully consider and
weigh well before YOU will allow yourselves to be
carried out of the Union under the form of Weld
ing obedience to this Military bill, which is clearly
in violation of your duties citizens of the United
States.
Disclaiming, as l do all desire or intention
to interfere in any way with the preroga-
tives ot the State OF Missouri or with the func
tions Of its executive other authorities, yet
regard 1t as my plain rath of duty to express to
the people, in respectful, but at the time de-
clded language, that within the field and scope of
my command and authority, the ''supreme law" of
the land must and shall be maintained, and no sub
terfuges whether in the forms of legislative acts
or otherwise, can be permitted to harass or op-
press the good and lawabiding people of Missouri.
shall exert my authority to protect their persons
and property from violations of every kind, and |
shall deem it my duty to suppress all unlawful COM
binations of men, whether formed under pretext of
military organizations or otherwise
Brig. Gen. U. S. Army, commanding.
From, the Charleston Coauicr.l
MARYLAND.
Maryland is under the foot of oppression. She has
been threatened, insultei, ridicued, subjugated.-
The feeble voice she lifted in protest and defiance
has been silenced. Vandal hordes have marched
through her chief city and taken possession of her
Capital Her soil is desecrated by the soldiers of
tyrant and usurper. sad fate! terrib woe !!
Has it come to this? Has the man who fills the
aft-r which Calhoun asnred, the hardihood and
wickedness, thus to demolsh the sovereignty of
Commonwealth, thus to trample upon the COnsti-
tuition he sOemnly swore to administer?
. The North looks and cOmmends the infamous
of the despot. But the North is in a frenzy
OF wrath. The North is alarmed at the success
and prospects of the movement she derided. The
North is mad at the immense loss she has sustained
by the destruction of her gainfu trade. The North
is all absorbed in the end to be attained by the
subiug alton of Maryland. and she will approve &nv
means that will secure that desirable object. But
will the storm OF fury last forever? Will there not
a time when the North will calmly consider?
They have called into existence power which dis
claims responsibility, and scouts at the wise re-
strictions of law. The obstacles they found in the
path that leads, as they foOlishy imagine, to the
accomplishment of their base purposes, have been
pushed out Of their way by main force. Under the
influence Of mortified pride, demoniac anger, envy,
hatred, and every evil passion, they have over
leaped the bounds set by patriotism and wisdom,
closed their ears to reason and to the warnings of
history, and rushed wildly on. What if the demon
power turn against those who have given it life
and sent it forth to do their horrd work
Their President has openly infracted the Consi-
tuition BIZ a series of acts which he does not pret nd
to Justify or defend He has declared war, he has
raised an army, he has blockaded ports, be has
ruthessly destroyed property worth millions Of
dollars. And yet so intent is the bowling horde
upon revenge and punder, that they are jubiant
these high-handed acts, and shout on the per-
iured despot.
1t is folly to demonstrate with madmen. The
time for argument and appeal is passed. We meet
force with force. Soldiers, not statesmen, must
decide the question now before the two sections
The slaves of the tyrant have drawn their swords,
and content we to cross blades with them on
the bloody field. But they will not rejoice always in
the silencing and Su6jugatiOn OF State. This act
bodies evil to them. They have made terrible
sacrifice. They have wantony in the blindness of
their fury surrendered the dearest ght of free
men. They have consented to and applauded fla
grant usurpations. What are their States more
than provinces? If they should provoke the
wrath of the corrupt man whose rule they are
proud to acknow ledge, will he not punish them p
And suppose their conduct should call for such an
exhibition of his power as Maryland has been tore
ed to submit to- they not receive the rod with
out complaint or murmur? In their madness and
folly, iustgated by malice and lust, they have not
contemplated the nature of the cause to VIII ch they
have given their gold and their lives. They have
not seen that the hand which has smitten that
State, has given the death-bow to their dearest
rights.
There lies Maryland, PROSTATE and well nigh
helpless. Her condition calls for our pity. On this
green earth there lives not people more generous
and high minded and brave. Their hearts are true
to the SOUTH and deeply do they feel their degra-
dation. They have submitted, but they not
subdued. They are hemmed in by the oppr essor' s
forces, but they are not conquered. No chain that
tyrants forge bind the spirit of freemen. They
have not willingly suffered the hurt that has been
done their honor. traitor Governor plotted
with despot President, and the noble people, all
unsuspcous of the treachery, fell into the pit these
miscreants had digged. They have been misera-
biy betrayed Woe TO the traitors that have de-
ceved and mised the Maryianders, when after the
dogged endurance OF indignities and wrongs, with
a clear conception of the artful plot, and grow
ing hatred for the base foes that have held them in
subsection, woe be to them when the Marylanders
rise in their might and go forth to take revenge.
They will strike such blow yrants and traitors
have never felt since the world was made They
win do a great work in a short time. They will
wine out the ma arks of the invaders footprints
with the blood of the invaders. The dav of
geance is at hand. Maryland is getting ready for
her dsenthrament. Her night can be darker.
Soon will her morning dawn.
ARREST UNDER THE ExTRADIrIoN TREATY BETWEEN
THE UNITED STATES AND AUsTRIA.-The first appli-
cation of the tire atv between the United States and
Austria for the extradition of criminals has lately
taken place at Vienna, where an American named
Marsh, clerk in a mercantile house, who had en-
beZzled $40 600, arrested His employers
having learned that he had sailed for Europe, sent
off legal gentleman named Col, no traced Marsh
to Spain, but there is treaty of extradition
between the United States and that country he de-
termined to follow Marsh wherever be went,
hoping that he would at last 90 to some country
where his arrest could be effected. Mr.. Col thus
travelled through Spain, Portugal and Italy, fol-
lowing Marsh, like his shadow, until he came to
Vienna, where be had him arrested. As the treaty
leaves the accused the option of being tried in
taken the precauton of bringing with him proofs
of the forgeries by which Marsh had long con-
cealed his crime but they were not required, the
prisoner chose to return to his own country. A
sum of $500 and 200 Napoeons in gold were found
in his possession.
ToRPEDoEs AND SUBMARINE Batteries IN V1R-
GINA RIvERs.-The Petersburg Express is informed
that, among the other deences ofthe Elizabeth and
Nansemond rivers, are these admirable contrvan-
ces f1r giving an unexpected hoist to an invading
fleet In one place, informed the work is
of character that would damage seriously the
largest squadron that ever floated the waters.
1t is also said that the contrvaucese have
been or about to be arranged at various places
along the coast. The batteries around Norfolk are
in tiP-top condition, and any demonstration upon
that point will be met in a manner that will make
the eyes OF the next generation ofVirginans spar kle
with delight when they open that iumined page
of her history.
Rev. S. s Rozell, Richard H. Dulaney, and
others, of Loudoan county, Va, learning that the