North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-05-20

ishep by black men in uniforms-from DeIbi.
Cawnpore-that fingers yet in my ears and
haunts my dreams. And such is or will be
the Negro Army which is to supercede our
regular soldiers aud aid to conquer the South
This is the army which Mr.. Lincoln,s Secre-
tary of State and his Major General think is
to subjugate our brethren. saw printed
letter day or two ago from Mr.. w. D. Kel-
ley to Blockley negro, in which he says:
"The field of operations for this class
of troops, (negroes)will be chiefly in the Gulf
States, where they will in few month con-
stitute the great bulk, if not the whole of our
Army.
And this is conquest, this is the awful
success which the Administration promises.
US, if we will only give them money and men
| enough to carry on this war.
But | am mistaken. They don't ask to
give them money and men. They find the
good old rule more convenient,
| --" The simple plan,
Thatthsy should take who have the power
And they should reap who can."
Congress not only taxes heavily the whole
community-as to which, being the exercise
Of a lawful power, don't complain-but. by
its legal tender device, it vitiates the currency
and disturbs every relation of society, des-'
troying public as Well as private credit, and
| by its new cOnscripton law enters into every
house in the land, and enrolls and forcibly
enlists to fight in this weary war every adult
man who has been left at home. This is
centrazation and the application Of Federal
power, to individuals in the green.-What, 7
ask, will it be in the dry 2-and what be-
comes of the reserved rights of the States p
what becomes of their capacity to protect
| themselves against danger, foreign and domea-
tic when every man and every dollar are alb.
sorbed elsewhere
1t is in view of this ABSORPTION of power at
| Washington, that have no more doubt than
[ have that tonight will succeed to-day that
there is settled, well considered, and, ac-
cordipg to my views, most pestilent design to
establish in the fragmentary North, consol--
ldated nationality, operating, by its legislation,
directly on individuals, without regard to-
State relations and duties The acts of the
| late Congress are tentative-are experimental
and if they are accepted as within the Con-
| stitution, obeyed though without it, you may
call the form of Government what you please
1t is de .tacto revolutionized. Mr.. John
in IF
with Characteristic levity, though more than
ordinary discretion, that though he did not
know enough of the measures of the late Con-
gress to express an opinion about them, he,
supposed "they were all right" and that
they did make Mr. Lincoln something like
Dictator" But he knows, and if he don't,
know, and every man il the land knows, who
reads newspaper, that Congress has tried to
nationalize everything has issued legal-teuder
notes-emtted Continental currency for the
first time since the formation of the Federal
Government, in the face of all authority, leg
islative and judicial, and enabled and in
to use it to defraud his creditor-tainting
| the very credit which it represents, by alb
original fraud, and foreshadowing the repudi-
alton which such Indebtedness renders inev.
table. 1t makes you and me take the paper
and refuses to receive it itself. 1t paws the
poor soldier his thirteen dollars in paper, and
| if with those paper dollars. he wants to buy
little tea or coffee, it won't take paper from
hin, for JI,tias This &c ora avorh;to,t MT
This is not all. Congress has virtually
stricken down all State Banks; and is trying
to build on the ruins huge system of what
| it calls free banking, by which credit is to be
piled on credit, all resting on great and
entangled fiction called federal responsibility
| have no means of knowing if our local fiuan-
ciers are going into this scheme of folly and
ruin. They are standing on the edge it.
They have stripped themselves of good deal
of their capital, and have changed their spe.
Gle deposits for legal-tender notes, may have
to take refuge under the protection of the
Federal authorities to shield them from the
just Indignation Of the stockholders who have
boen wronged. Isee New York demurs.
Out OF this is to be conJured great pecunia-
ry interest welded by the ecretary of the
Treasury, which in combination with the.vast
power of the creditor class, is to aid in crush.
ing out any interference on the part of re-
fractory States. The holders of the Federal
funded debt will not acquiesce in the higher
prices ofState securities and Railroad bonds
and we shall soon have Federal Legislation
directed at them on precisely the same
principle and with the same authority
as the late Congress legislated against prl-
vate loans and contracts about gold and pa.
per, with which they have no more right to
medde than they have with contract. for
-four, or beef, or bacon. In this connection,
don't speak of what is called the indemnity
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