Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-12-27
Judge Holt on She War.

20 Collector Barney of New York, in answer to
= an invitation to address a public meeting there.
The letter has been published since the removal
OF Mcclellan We make a few extracts
"I must be frank however, and say that to
! ne it seems that what is at this moment needed
, "a not words however glowing, but heroic deeds.
The tongue Of an Archangcl could scarcely com.
fort and animate the popular spirit IN the presence
of the inactjon of our armies.
If those who are in the front will not so for
ward, the public safety will demand that they be
assigned positions in the rear. What are the
sensibities, what the reputation, or what the
cherished schemes of any General in the field, as
compared with the life of such a Government and
country as ours IT, with the cloudless skies,
and bracng airs and dne roads of the Autumn,
our vast aud completely appointed army cannot
do its work, when will it be able to do so F?
If Lee, Jackson and I4ongStreet can move with
promptitude and dashing celebrity, in the cause of
treason and barbaric vandalism, aud cannot our
cheftains move as promptly and as fast in The
cause of honor and loyalty How much longer
will the nation endure that all its sacrifices be
frutless? It's convictions that it possesses, twice
! told, the power to subdue this rebellion IS not
. more complete than, in my Judgment, vii! be its
termination that Mother the loAies nor the crimes
of men shall render that power unavollins.
If any man, as a motive for such course sup
pose that he has ground of complaint against the
President let him take heed that his i'll directed
hostility does dot put in jeopardy the Kepnbilc
itself for whose preservation from overthrow the
President is inccssantly aud loyalty labormg'-
| What has n controversy with the President OF the
United States to do with the question OF loyalty
/ to our country in the midst OF such trouble as
this? If he crrs-as the best OF men are liable
to do-he is soon to pass away with all his deeds,
but our Government and country should, ahd II
we are true to them, they will endure for count
less ages to come The President, with an tne
dignity and responsibilities be longing to his
position, is but pilot on the national snip iot
! single watch of the night.
My faith in all this matter is simple and briefly
stated. 1t is this: For all things that are Tor
the Uuon-aganst all things that are against It,
am for the onion as uHcondjtionally as am
for protecting my own body at every cost and
hazard, from the knife Of the assassin. No
human Institution, no earthly interest, shall ever
by me- be weighed in the scales against my conn-
try Least of all will approach with unsandeled
feet or permit so be thus weighed, an institution,
the feeding fountain of whose belnS-the African
slave trade-the laws of my country have ior
more than forty years denounced as a crime wor-
~, oI 6eath-a crime not 5Ainst any particular
code or any particular form Of civilization, but
crime against The very race to which we belong.
Hjstis humaai qeReris, is the designation which
the Christian legislation Of the United States has
given to the African slave trader
yield to no man in veneraton for the Consti-
llOU, OF IN uGleIilndtlOu tudt lt7 bco0tH6 Tu''ll
BE- extended TO those who respect and obey It.
The door to all these blessings is widely open to
the Southern people, and they are earnestly
invoked by the President to enter in and ENJOY
| thrm
These institutions and their every interest are
in their own hands, and cnn be saved not only
from ruin, but from the slightest injury, by the
uiterauce of a single word-a word OF duty and
honor But if, in their passionate pursuit of sep
arate empire, aud in their blind resentment
against brethren who have never wrongcd them,
they refuse to speak that word, and prefer to per
ieh themselves, rather than the loyal States shall
escape destruction. BE it so. The world will
judgle Alright and history will record its judg-
m,nt But it is not childish prattle to say that
the South can claim to be at the same moment
The proGge aud destroyer Of the Constitution"
CALlFoRNIANs IN REBELboM.-Thc Los Ange-
les star gives the following list Of former resi-
dents Of California, now in the rebel service:
Aonzo Ridley commanded the body guard,
" the guides" Of Gen A. s. Johnston, and was
by his side when he fell at Shiloh.
Geo. W. Gilt joined the navy, and has been
promoted to a lieulenancy.
Wm NJ Jones, brother in law Of A. p. Critten
den, is one of the most reliable quarter-masters
in the service lie was at Belmont and shiloh:
Carman Frazee, commonly called Dad" Is
clerk to Capt. Jones.
perinendent of transportation.
William c. Bower, Dave Mckenzie, Tom Stons.
house, Wm. NJ Skinner, aud Warren Taylor, are
with Ridley.
WIN. N Robinson, of San Diego, is in Hard
castles regiment lie was on board the drkansg9
at Vcksburg,
J. J, billiard commands company Of partisan
rangers.
Aaron 3. IIardbastle is colonel Of a Mississippi
-regiment
r, A. Brewer is colonel Of cavalry.
IL. b. Davidson has not a regiment at present.
He is in Virginia.
j. L. Brent is chief of ordnance on Gen. Magru-
; dar's staff
Harry /. Thorn,on, exSonato from Sierra, was
at the disaiter at Fishing Creek also at Shiloh
and Baton Rouge w. W. Porter, Of Caleyeras,
was with Thornton.
Jos. p Vaughn, formerly Clerk of Solano
county and clerk in the Secretary of State Office,
is major in the Missouri division OF the army
under Price.
In that army also are Dewitt c. Gage, who is
sutler; Th0s s. Stevens lst lieutenant Of
cavalry ry-made his way from the ranks by gallant
conduct; John 4 Crenshaw, eX Senator from
Nevada, captain Robt. g. Wood, who accom-
panied Crabb in his fatal expedition to Sonora, is
lieutenant colonel and aid TO Gen. Price
Calhoon Benham was volunteer aid to Gen
Johnston, aud was with him at Shiloh.
Sam. II. Brooks, late Controller of State, is
living in Montgomery, Ala, with his family.
Crttenden ex-senator from III Dorado, is Ad-
iutant Of a South Carolina regiment.
VIM. NJ. Gwin is in Jackson, Miss His son is
in the cavalry service.
Maj Armisted is brigadier general.
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PAPER Is UP-l0O per cent. above last years
price. We are cutting off all suspicious Gus.
toners " 1t is harder to pay something than