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The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-10-05
THE SOUTH ERN EGIS.
LINCOLN LOGIC.

In the ever memorable inaugural of Mr..
Lincoln we discover that his oath to sup
port the Constitution and enforce the laws
has been registered in Heaven and whilst
we are in no sense disposed to doubt his
assertion, we are equally disinclined to
question the necessity which demands it,
when we contemplate the magnitude Of the
ills which have resulted from its indis-
criminate abuse. We have always been
taught to regard the Constitution, which
originated in spirit of compromise and
concession, as the government-the cohe-
sive power which binds State to State
If the Constitution suffers violence, as a
necessity the government must necessarily
sustain corresponding injury. Now, Mr..
Lincoln proposes to restore the Union to
its original status, and to preserve the gov
eminent in its integrity, by infringingGhe
most sacred features of that instrumdpt
which is itself the government, and IS
great bond of cement between the States
Truly, the absurdity is akin to the +" IRE.
pressible conflict" and german to the
"higher law" and presents not only q
new, but a grave question in political ethics
for logical solution by Republican expound
ers of law-law above the Constitution
law recognizing the liberty of unrestrained
license-law fatal to the Union of the
States. j--.
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subject of the State of Maryland, and
will be faithful, and bear true allegiance
to the said State, and that do not hold
myself bound to yield any allegiance or
obedience to any king or prince, or any
other State or government"
When the present Constitution of the
United Statc- was adopted in 1887, it was
provided in the 9Th section of the LIST ar
ticle, that the Congress of the United
States shall have power to establish an
uniform rule of naturalization )" and in
the I'd section of the 4th article, it is de.
clared that "the citizens of each State
shall be entitled to all privileges and i'm
munities of citizens in the several States. ~
This authority to the Congress of the Uni
ted States, has been exercised by the Act
of 18th April, 1902, which provides that
the applicant for naturalization, shall
absolutely and entirely renounce and alb
jure all allegiance and fidelity to every
foreign prince, potentate, State, or sover
eighty, whereof he was before citizen OF
subject" and "that he will support the
CONSTITUTION of the United States :" bu
NO oath Of allegiance to the United States
as required. The applicant becomes q
citizen of the State aohepe he Is natura
ltaed, and thus entitled to the privileges
of citizenship" in al Che other States.
From what has been said, it is manifest
that the Constitution of the United States
is a compact between Sovereign States,
binding on each State and its citizens
within the limits of the delegated authori
ty: that the acts of the General Govern.
ment within the scope of the delegated
authority, are the supreme law for all the
States in the Union: but when any one
of the States, in its sovereignty, deter.
mines that it is necessary "to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them
with another" both natural born and nat
uralized citizens, owe allegiance to the
State in which they reside, and not to the
general Government or Confederacy; and
that the oath to support the Constitution
of the United States is subordinate tt
State allegiance; and that when the two
come in conflict, by tho withdrawal of 6
State from the Union, the citizen mus
obey his State, and refuse obedience to the
unauthorized demands of the Executive OF
Legislative functonaries of the genera
Government.
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The people of Hartford desire no further
evidence of the wisdom and patriotism Of
the Peace and State Rights organization
than is given in the presentation of the
above admirable ticket. Circumscribed
by no metes and bounds of old party or.
CARNATIONS; hedged in by no promises OF
pledges to subserve the interests of either
or any of them; bound by no pledges to
carry out the peculiar dogmas of any set
Of political leaders, but standing boldly
and independently upon the broad plat;
form Of the Constitution, which has beeli
SO ruthlessly violated by those temporari-
ly in authority, and daring to lift their
voices against the Entertainments of fa.
naticism and bigotry, upon the rights and
liberties of the people, they command the
undivided support of the intelligent, the
reasonable, the patriotic, the conscientious,
and the iberty-loving and tyranny-hating
portion of our citizens, and we have every
reason to, believe they will be triumphant
ly elected.
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@The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph gets
off the following. 1t is fair hit, and.
reasonable in everything but the offer to
buy the gun. IA countryman was in the
town Of Luppkin, and some one asked
him how he liked the war news. He re-
piled, Very WE'LL sAre you ready to
go% he was asked. .Ye.,' he replied
Are you not afraid?' 'No, if | should
see Yankee, with his gun levelled and
looking right at me, will draw out my
pocket-book and ask him what he will
take for his gun, and right there the fight
will end
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-10-05

MAINE ELEcTIoN.-The Maine State
election, on Monday, resulted in a victory
of the Union party.-Statcsman.
Why not tell your readers the truth,
that WAsHBURN. an ultra abolitionist,
nominated by the republicans and support
ed exclusively by them, was elected by
about the usual republican majority p
The Legislature is also almost unanimous
ly republican. The Bangor Wig, of
Thursday last, thinks sufficient is known
to five the total vote of the State at from
$4,000 to 100000 decrease of $4,000
a least from last year. In this reduced
vote, Gov. WAsuBURN will maintain his
majority of last year, very nearly or quite
$4,000. The Democratic vote will fail
short Of 10000, divided between JAMESON
and DvNA, the former leading the least
it may be 6000.-N II. Patriot
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PROGRESS OF DESPOTISM,

Step by step, and day by day, is oul
free, constitutional government being de-
stroyed by those into whose hands it has
fallen, and onward, constantly onward, is
the course of events, by which it is being
reduced to an unrelieved and undisguised
despotism. Every day brings some new
and daring usurpation-some bold attack
upon the liberties of the people. The
citizen goes to bed at night, wondering
what constitutional right still left will
have been wrenched from him by the hand
of power ere he sees another sun. 1t re-
minds us of legend related Of a tyrant of
the Old World, who seized an object of
his suspicion Or vengeance and confined
him in cell of his dungeon, each of the
four walls of which was composed of a
single slab of granite, and the whole SO
arranged by springs and machinery that
every night those walls would make a GER
tain approach towards each other, both
from the sides and top, so that every
morning, when the prisoner awoke, he
made the horrifying discovery that the
size Of his cell was growing smaller, and
that ere long its walls would press against
his person on all sides, and thus gradually
but surely reduce it to shapeless and
lifeless mass. So it is with the liberties
Of the American people. One after anoth.
er their constitutional rights are being
trampled upon. Day by day does the
strong hand of power grasp and destroy
them. On and on, and down and down,
comes the pressure by which both the
form and the spirit Of free government are
being crushed out of our institutions.
First, in the series of violations of the
Constitution, did the executive, without
authority of Congress, declare war against
the Confederate States. Next, without
authority of law, he raised large standing
armies. Again, in violation of the express
law Of the land, he blockaded ports claimed
by him to be within the limits and juris-
diction of the United States, and which,
if they were so, the law required to be left
open to the free ingress and egress Of the
vessels, not only of all citizens of the sew
eral States of the Confederacy, but Of the
citizens and subjects Of all foreign nations.
Then followed the marching Of his armies
into sovereign States, and suspending their
laws, by military power. Soon succeeded
the seizure Of citizens, without complaint
upon oath, without legal warrant, and by
mere arbitrary mandate of the execu-
tive, or Of a military commander, and
their imprisonment in federal fortresses,
without informing them of what they are
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-10-05
a@ Hon. Edward Eyerett,s letter

B@- Hon. Edward Everett's letter of
acceptance for the Vice Presidency in 1860:
"The suggestion" said he, "that the
Union can be maintained by the numerical
predominance and military prowess of one
section, exerted to coerce the other into
submission, is, in my judgment, as self
contradictory as it is dangerous. II comes
loaded with the death-smell from fields wet
with brothers blood. n If the vital princi-
pie of all Republican Governments is the
consent of the governed, much more does a
Union Of co-equal States require as its
basis the voluntary cooperation in its Or
ganic functions" L.. - gvi ri 10 {.
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o. Speech Of Hon. .Josenb Halt @,

g. Speech of Hon. Joseph Holt Seul
years since ~.
"The South has ever deprecated agits.
ton. From her inmost soul her yearnings
have been for peace and that she might Be
allowed to sit under her own vine and fie
tree and enjoy those blessings which the
institutions of the country promise alike to
all. Standing with unsandaled feet upon
the hallowed ground of the Constitution,
and laying her hand upon its altar, she
calls upon the men of the North to respect
her position, to forbear their rude onslaught,
and press her not to the wall amid that
ever-ringing cry of selfrighteousness with
which her ears have been stunned"
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WHAT HE MEANs.-When you hear a
republican talk about o-party' he means
no party but the republican party, and
when he talks about 'wiping out party
lines he don't mean to be understood that
it is the Chicago platform that is to be
wiped out 'N
When you hear Democrat talk about
joining the republican party to save the
Union, you may be sure he wants an Of
fee and that he is willing to get on the
Chicago platform for one
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THE TRIRuNE DENouNcE

The TRIBUNE DENOUNCED. We see
that the New York Herald recommends,
mall seeming earnestness, that the Iri-
basse shall be among the number of papers
to be suppressed. While he (the Heraza)
heartily approves of the suppression of the
Neps, etc., he regarde the Tribune as
"doing thousand times more harm to the
government, and more good to the enemy
than the Daily NeaOs and all its tribe have
ever done, or ever could do"
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Under on possible emergency, not
even insurrection or mid the throes Of
civil war, can this Government justify
Official interference with the freedom 81
speech or of the press, any more than it
can with the freedom of the ballot. The
Righteousness Of the tongue and of the pen
is minor evil compared with the licen-
tiousness of arbitrary power. - Francis
p Blair. a .a 40 ls2. !,
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gsgA son was born to the Thirty-sev-
enth New York Regiment in camp the
other day, and was christened "Abe Lin
colin with great ceremoniousness. The
chaplain performed the rite, the lieutenant
colonel and captain stood godfathers,
and the surgeon sponsor. The natural
father was somewhere in the crowd.
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@We see by.a handbill posted about,
that the Union-Savers of Hartford are to
hold 93nass meeting at Abingdon on Sat-
urday, 70 be addressed by Emerson Ether
idge, the Blaoh Republican Speaker of
the House of Representatives. Still, there
is no utilization between Unionism and
Black Republicanism. Oh, no!
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On the 26th ult., at his residence, Oak Grove,
IIafford county, JOHN NEVILLE, in the 10Th year
of his age, after long and painful Illness which
he bore with Christian fortitude and resignation.
His life was dedicated to God, and his end was
peace. T.B.B
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-10-05

GAS THE UNION ARMY ADVAN-
CES THE SLAVE POWER WILL
DISSOLVE BEFORE IT AS SNOW
BEFORE A MERIDIAN SUN."-For-
ney,.s Press.
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THE CONVENTION ON SATURDAY

The county convention of the Peace and
State Rights party of Hartford was we'll at.
tended on Saturday last, and the utmost
enthusiasm and harmony prevailed, re-
sulting in the selection of one of the best
tickets for county officers ever presented
for the suffrages of the people. The con.
vention was organized by calling, CHARL.
TON W. BILL1NasLEA, Esq, to the Chair,
and appointing N. W. S. HAYS and JOHN
P. DALLAM, Esqs., Vice Presidents, and
ROBERT SMITH and VIM. B. JARRETT,
Secretaries. All the districts were fully
represented. The following is the ticket
selected:
For the House of Delegates.
WIN. B. STEPHENSON.
DIR. JOSHUA WILSON. g.
HENRY D. FARNANDIS.
For Sheriff.
- 4--WfLdfANf F0uNG.
For County Commissioners.
LIST Dist. G. G. ROUSE.
I'd " DANIEL MARTIN.
Sd JAMES A. FULTON.
18th NICHOLAS Fl. NELSON.
9Th JOHN GALBRAITH.f
For Judge Orphans Court.
JOHN p. DALLAM.
For County Surveyor.
John CLARK
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-30
Direct Tmnorrnf,nna-

The Atlanta (Ga.) OOgsdSaey has been ahown 6
letter from prominent merchant firm in Charles
ton, which says:
"As soon as the steamers ara able to run between
this port and Europe, we will import direct; as we
have every facility for direct importation having
bought largely in London the past ten years, and
having agents IN Paris and Germany, we think we
shall be able to make arrangements to import for
the Southern trade at low rates.
-fhe North having made war upon US, prevents
forever any chance of reconstruction. In the hope
that it may never take place, Southern merchants
must import direct, to avoid paying duties twice.
when wn call to mind that the South has $780,
OOO,0O0 surplus products for export-the bulk Of
which the foreign world wants and must have,
surely every branch of business must receive new
impulses; and all classes, both producers and deal
ers, make large profits"
The Atlanta Commonwealth states that Mr.. J. n.
BEACH, of the firm of BEECH & RooT, would leave
Atlanta on the 18th for Europe to purchase stock
of dry goods for the fall trade. We are highly
gratifsd at the fact that importations likely to
be direct for Southern consumption, and commend
the pluck that undertakes the enterprise in the
sent posture of our National affairs.
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James Ruchanan VS. Geerge wa.hIng,on,

To the EItOT OF the Charleston Mercury:
In his letter to the National hdeaigencer Buchanan
says: Several items in the IHtsigencer have awak
ened my attention TO the facility with which mill
tary gentlemen relieve themselves from their oaths
and change their allegiance A military oath has
been held sacred in all ages and in all coun-
tries. Besides the solemn sanction of religion. there
is superadded the highest appeal to personal hon.
or" 1t is well known that Washington held mill
tary commission from George the Third; yet not
withstanding this military oath (Which Buchanan
finds TO be so sacred), at the call of Virginia he
took up arms in her cause in resistance to George
Ill Who is the worthier guide-Washington or
Buchanan? But it is the fashion Of the day to re-
nOunce both the example and the principles of the
American Revolution II was tten declared "that
one people" has the right "to dissolve the political
bonds which have connected them with another
and to assume their equal stations among the ma
tons of the EARTH" and the men of ;76 took up
arms to maintain their principle. Buchanan and
his Black Republican associates pronounce this prn
ciple to be treason, and the action of Washington
and his associates is, in their estimation rank re-
bellion. HISTORY.
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NEW . PAPERS

VIEW . u a PT1S
INDICATE PUBLIC OPINION.
Usually cautious, there great confidence sced In
A RELIABLE NEWSPAPER.
NEW ORLEANS TRUE DELTA.
"There t. be excuse FOR thin gray Hair,
the celebrated HEHsTKEETs IsrTABLE HAIR RESTORATIVE
can be had
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER.
sWhen people can protect Hair tesle
Of when they uxurs in glossy black locks an a
turned 10 beautiful black auburn
bald heads when all this be cannot do
sTORATIVE will This Hair Restorative is beyond per
adventure the best thing Of the kind invented The facts
in possession in regard to this wonderful preparation,
rant Us il unqualihsdly RECOMMENDING it."
ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN
Many hst citizens in St. Louis speaking in glow
ing terms OF this article"
CAIRO CITY GAZETTE.
Ths ncomparsby excellent preparation for Restoration
Of Grey Har to tie original color to preserve Hair from a
ing and to bsldnesSs, is sale at Humphrey
humburg is conclusive. Testimonials effect may
found in almost every paper in tbs country"
SOUTH WESTERN BAPTIST.
Lesve dyes sloDe and only ria0s Restorative
like Hems:rsets ninitable"
Sold eyerywhsre-Prce SOC and u per bottle.
W. Z. HAGAN 4 CO., Propnetors.
feh24-dtwAv3ns Troy, New Tsrk.
Dark, Glossy. ana
Luxurjant HairI
HOW!
By using Eeinstress ESnsieG6s Restorative DOnf
anything else on your Head.
Price SOC and 81 per bottle. Sold everywhere
WE. HAGAN & CO., Proprietors, Troy,N.Y.
eee an sdvsrtisamen headed,
ssYOU LOOK IN VAIN.''
oete6-Iydtw&w
Messrs Clark, Gregory Co Gents chased bottles
of your Anbroal OIL, which has given sSre satisfaction in
Collie Toothache and HeaiAebe.
CyTuston, Tenn. GEORGE STEWART.
Messrs Clark Gragory Co Nashville, Tenn Gentemen: It
gives pleasure tell that Ambrosia Oil has given
great relief, and than the Of
other medicine
have bottle and half 81 your AmhroSsl Oil,
and from the has given me in Rheumatic suffering
would not be without the ether bottle and half for price,
". @. PUEsLEY.
Rissgold, Ca, Sept Sd, 1859. apll-d&W2w
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COMMERCIAL.

HrnNrspAr ErrN1sa. .N.,. 20 i.

WEDNESDAY Evnuse Nay 20. 1861.
In the general markets business continues dull,
and transactions are confined mainly to a retail
business The steak of Groceries in the market is
light, especially Rio Coffee, which is now selling at
&c per h. The New Orleans Price Gzret of the 18th
reports the arrival of cargo of ssh bags from Rio
direct, which brought the stock on hand up 1865
bags. Provisions continue high though the stock
on the market is said to he pretty large, and per
haps sufficient with what will yet come in from
the country to meet the demand luntil the product
of the fall killing shall be thrown up on the mar
ket Hams are quoted at l39l5c, Clear Sidea
l49l5c, and Shoulders l19l2ac.
Ia New York on the 18th, at the second board,
$1,000 Tennessee per cent Bonds sold at 4S3c,
$1,000 at 33se, and 81, 900 at 423c.
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Forn, I.0uisv,n.

LoUIsvHLE, May 29.-Lovell Rousseau. who -o-
Gently at Cincinnati said Il am unalterabiv Union
man; I love Kentucky, but if she abandons tSa
Union, and goes down under that ratlesnake con-
Germ, will abandon her." has been appointed Cen
eral of the Home Guards of Louisville BY Mavor
Delphi. The appointment has demoralized the
Guard, many of its best members Withdrawing on
account Of the partizan character Of the appoint
ment They want no violent parhzans, either Sc
cession or Union.
The Border State Convention has done nothing
yet They will probably issue an address and ad
lOurn.
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ADDITIONAL MEMBERS, DISTRICT NO. l.

ADDITIONAL MEMBERS, DISTRICT No. Il
LIST Ward, W. J. Doyle and G. D. jackson.
ID VIM. A Glenn and W. II. Ewin.
Sd Geo. Darden, VIM. Stockell and Geo.
rH Thompson.
4th Jos. L. Ryan, J. H. Hartford and N
Burns.
5th D. r. Carter and N. Vannoy.
9th L. A. Horae and Jas. Hsynie.
18th II. Hill and +. o. Hurt.
9Th NJ. c. Cotton and John Tanksley.
Dis. 2.-Thos. G. McCRnpbell, Jno. Pennington D
H. NcGavock and John Greer.
Dis Be G Rowe, Isaac Whitworth and N
Couch.
Dis. 4-Jno Lawrence F Gleayes L II Hooper.
g Dis. On Brown, AT COT, T A King and jos Mat
Dis. s.7-W 6 Briley, A Bush, n Gsmben, and
Dis. 7.AfIao G Briley, W Weir, Ed Ensley, and
FIa w Goodwin.
Dis. So !. Ewing, G Afford. Jno Overton and A
5 Abbey.
Dis. s.--W Armistead, Juo Thompson, W q Ha-
gans and A Duncan.
Dis. lO.-Horacc G Scales Byrd Douglas, NJ
Hawkins and Hugh Frizzeu.
Dis. Nv Smith, W Edmondson and Jno N
Lea.
Dis. l2.-IBen Cockrin. Watkins, and Me-
Gavock
Dis. ls-isam Watkins, Thos Harding, " B Cooper
and Cheatham.
Dis. 14-Skelt Demoss, 10 Newsom, J Greer.
Dis. l5.-T Patterson, Church Anderson and Z
Trabue.
LIS AO.-1lea1er hhullltOni 1nOh rage, Olipln
HRlum.
Dis. libby Morgan, Jack Payne N Snyder.
Dis. lS-James Russell, Hiram Vaughn, Isaac Lit
ton and G Webb
Dis. l9-R Anderson, Jno Maxey, W Hudson, C
Woodruff.
Dis. 20-Enoch Cunningham VIM Cornell, Jno A
Payne, and c Hall.
Dis. 2l-Thss w Ballowe, W d Philips, and W
Norman.
Dis. 22-N Willis, George Gill, Shaw and
Hugh Ewing:
Dis 23-B Drake. T Hye, and Treppsrd.
Dis z4-Thomas Bysor, E Graves, and William
Garrett
information pertaining to any one District which
might Affect its peace and securty all loyal citizens
are requested to report to the Safety Committee,
when more convenient, to the above named repre-
sentative or representatives from that district TO
any member thereof.
The material of which the above Committee is
composed warrants the belief that it will be dctiUe
and sticisnt in the discharge of its duties in all
cases Of emergency.
New members notified that the Committee meets
regularly Tuesday and Fridaysfernoons at p o'clock
at the Court House.
ltIs hoped no further notice will be at any time
necessary. BY order, n.
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:, bAITEoRE, May ga steamer from Fortress
@sonrOe last night reports the arrival Of white
Naegea steamer with 100 wives and children Of the
Noriok Navy Yard workmen
a. report Port says the Leuisianans and Georgians are
Southern army. 80 ' 49, 'tOOPs IN ''''
81. ~ mmeolate attack on Sewalrs Point or Nor
folk Is expected Butler Considers other no;nt. If
more strategetieal value. ~-7 o'-ei P'A"'' u
Inc s1s ~ amendments at the mouth of James
river and Newport are Confirmed. = ans
The Sewal's point batteries 1,rs5 Co... 49,.
the Empire Oity, over three miles distant. The
shots nearly reached the vessel ndicatp exc.llent
ordnance. ---.--s o-Se'''"'
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From washIngton.
The Hon. Mr.. schenck is appointed Brigadier

WAsHNGroS, May 29.-Carl Schurz' leave of ab
sence isrevoked, and he proceeds to Madrid imme
diately.
Cameron is sick.
The Hon. Mr.. Schenck is appointed Brigadier
General.
Bonhaul, Of South Carolina, commands at Ma,
nassas Gap. Col. McGruder is there in command
of battery.
Six additional Illinois regiments have been ac-
cepted.
The Seventy-frst New York regiment reported
having effected landing at Aqua Greek, hs We re-
turned