The weekly Butte record., 1863-12-26
War DgPr. ADJ. GExssALs OryIcg.

s.AtS>, AaloE taFIs> J. " ming, 34d | aiteG
States Cavalry, Is hereby disLonorablv dis
missed the service, foT diSloyaliy, aad 10, usin-
coatemptuoas and disrespectial weris ssains.
tie PreSideot Of the United States.
BY order Of the Secretary Of War.
Z. u. TOWNSEND. \. i. q.
L IS fair Il presume that The ouly p.eof Of
the disloyaliy here charged vas the use Of
"coniemp,uous ana ii.rcSpec.f8l words against
the Presiden, Of the United States. ami this
Presumption IS strengthened by the following
irom another Department:
ATroaSgY GESEEALs OFFICE,
Washington. N0y.2. lS63.
". ". Edwards ESQ 81 Charles No.
Slr-1 car recsut ac,iye participation il
POLITICAL enterprise hostile 10 the known wishes
and views ot ihe Executive government Of
ooil the nation aud tie State. rendered uu6,.
10 ms opinion. for you to confiaue 10 hold The
oIlee ot United States Attorney for the East
ere District Of Ai~s9lri. Such beng nv
opinion. the Presideat. Al NY request, has
caused your ofhee TO be vacated.
EDWARD BATEs. Attorney General.
II to these were adled lie o-der d.smissins
Edgerly, and lie boas. Of NJ. Seward that he
could arrest citizen any State By touching
bell, We should have, il not as complete. as
fairly representative history Of olr present al
ministratioa-as the most elaborate narrative Of
iacts could iurnish Nr Edwards is . radi-
cal, ani assisted . give Missouri 10 that party
by about 1000 msjosi;y; ba; was rem5rcd
while Lincoln was sustaining Schofeid ard
Gamble, and before the Leagaers had waited
upon him, AID twisted his wax nose a-oaod in
favor Of the radicals-E0. RscoED
Mr. Liucoln's Premier" made an ex.raor-
duary speech at bis home in Auburn, or the
night before the New York election. lie de
clar9d that Abraham Lincoln was elected by
the majority OF the American people" and
repeated this assertion in various shapes. But
the fact is, that lincoln IS q minority Presi-
dent; he was in minority of nearly mi lion
On the popular vote. He was cousti;utionally
elected though BY sectional party, and was
therefore entitled TO be The President of the
whole country. IL seeding, the South com
mit;ed great wrong. But Mr. Seward.
speaking fer his party, went on to declare
evolutionary doctrine, il asserting that if tie
war failed to coeroe tie South, the Admins
tration aud lis party would never aequiesce in
the election Of Democratic President. but
would in such an event resort to "bl5odshed,"
and inaugurate perpetual civil var. He
named, am ug others, Governor Seymour. OF
New Ioy&, as enc wAase election would be
thus forcitly resisted By the sectional party
whom lie falsely cAa,~ete7izes as tha, majority
Abiding to the election Of 1860. There viii
be no peace OF quiet" said Mr. Seward, uuta
Abraham Lincoln is President, under that
election Of the Whole United States" Mr.
Lincoln Gays lis Secretary IS to be reelected;
but that. he adds, Is no; the point the object Of
the war is to make him President Of the South
as well Of the Nor-h, by the last Presiden-
iiAl election not the next. Anything less than
this be says rs downright robbery of Abra
ham Linco,u.' Ii the war fails 10 accomplish
Ills end, lie and lis party win resort to blood
shed to prevent the Inauguration Of any Dem
ocrat who may be elected President. Nj s.
goes on to say that any talk of danger to indl-
yidual liberty from tie susp,usion Ct tn writ
Of hAbeas corpus, and the arbitrary seizures
and imprisoaman.s by the Administration, is
idle aad miscA;eyous" that subject only
"troubl4s weak minds and fa;thlcss hearts =
He says too, that IS wroag t. talk Of the waste
of life or Treasure by This war-;hat the re-al
point to present is. (which OF the conteuding
parties suffer most = Viewed ia tLis Light. he
says. it is seen that we are the b5st of, for
while every rebel has grown poorer by the
war, every northern man has grown richer =
This doctrine IS publicly put forth by Mr.. Lin
coins Secretary Of Safe.
Tae system Of working abaadoael pau.a-
tons with the "contraband," 4 aes not seem to
pay. or to improve the condition or benefit the
poor creatures. The government" in malip
aiatlDg freed men" aud occupying abandoned
plantations in Louisiana. appoints superin,enl
eats Of coutr-bards and inspectors 20 visit be
plantations. Mr, W. Il Wilder. the Inspector
il late report, says:
more particularly woa'i call goar a..an
tiou to tie Ola Hickory Plantation. The
mortality that has occagied aud is occurriug
there is truly appalling. On White Castle
plantation. out of one bsna-ed and forty nine
negroes, eighty FIVE have did and tveuly TIVE
:uu away. thus having but forty Of the origin
a number At the Oid Hickory plantation
there were four huudrel and tbigt, ea negroes;
of these Two hundred and two have died since
June last. On my visit there l found thirty
eight negroes sick, W hout proper nurses or
medical attendance. The hospital is build
ing eighteen by twenty three feet in size, in
which the sick referred to were packed In
.hs midst OF this l.zar house was the dead
body of a woman who had died on Wednesday
at three O'Clock 4 ~ At FIVE o'clock. 2.
VI. the following day. no measures had been
taken fer her sepniiurc. and tie body had com.
menced 10 decompose.
Certainly such facts coming from Official ald
loyal sources. are crushing arguments