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trial or hearing, and yet ia full office and full pay. II they were worthy of imprisonment, and are unwc thy to perform duty, they are unfit to hold commissions and receive pay, and the Pre- sident and his officers who keep them so in office and on pay are corrupt in so doing. Ii they are innocent of offence they are worthy of duty and pay, and the President and his officers who keep them from duty are corrupt in so doing.
 We, tae people, knoD that, if such men imprisoned are guilty, they should be tried and pun lShed as an example to others. If they are inno- cent. the power that refuses to try and honorably acquit them Is corrupt. This evidence is too plain and positive to admit of argument, even under the plea of military necessity; and re, tte peopIe say that criminals must bekied lnd punisheG and those o1nfned must De charQed and Tried and De disDosea Of accordinq so law.
 We, fhe peopte, knoW that neither the President nor Congress have the power or the right to eman- cipate slaves as a " military necessity' or other wise; and we know that they have no right to con- hscate property otherwise than by condemnation ill court, so there may be a record Of ,chose pro- perty it was, and mhat property it was We knop that mhtiohs of dolIdrS hape been cOnfscated Jy ders Ot Generals, sanctioned by the administration, and that act corrupt.
 We kaosc that the present party in power has thrown oil all disguise, and announced to the world that this war IS to free the negro slaves, right wrong, and Mr. Stevens, who speaks by authority, has Gaid the Union shall not be restored with sIa- very. We knop that, in saying this, they pretend to represent us, and, being representatives, the world so receives 1t; while it is a base libel upon and misrepresentation of us, and we will not sub nit to 1t. We kn0,c that Mir. Lincoln knows and has said that his every act in relation to slavery is in violation ot our fixed law, his own oath, and our wishes; and however honest he may hdDe been, We know (and know that he knows) that he is not honest now; and his s'wishes only one of us must not be forced upon us against our will and sense of right, in violation of law and his own oath. Men have justly gone to the scaffold for less. The popular heart is dangerous thing to irritate.
 We, tte people, knoD that unconstitutional acts cannot save or restore the Union of the States on any plea whatever. We desire the Union of the States under one constitutional government. 1.-the one we have had is defective,-if in it's experiment tai progress it has proved to be insufficient for emergencies that have arlsen,-we claim that all its provisions shall be fully applied, and If found unequal to those emergencies, then we feel cOmpe tent to adapt ourselves to the circumstances, and form q constitution and an Union thereunder that IS sufficient without usurpation of power and the annihilation of the rights of men. We, Me people- the source of power, the makers of government, and the reef pents of the legitimate blessings and evils of the work of our own hands,-asser and will maintain the ri ght, "nherent and inaenable,'' to individually and collectively observe the rights ofothers and enforce own, by making and making, changing and amending the fundamental laws ot our government as emergencies may from time to time require; and we will admit of no DitlOnS or interference III our exercise Of those rights Because in this oLr first great trial we have had faith in and respect for servants until they have "beaten our messengers and are about to kill the heir sent unto them that they may inherit the vinevard,' they need not think we are ignor- ant of their acts own rights and power; and we now say to them, "Take heed, beware, lest ye be stripped bound hand and foot and be cast into outer darkness. where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.'
 We have watched this Congress for the twelve days it has been in session last.e IVe have seen nothing done for the benefit of IS, He pcop'c, while We have seen many things done for our irreparabc injury. IVe have watched and listened in vain for a speech CT bill or a vote benehcially involving the interests and the rights of uS the unite people, and have seen our every speaker gagged, every bill tabled, the majority on every vote against our ln- tcrests. We have heard and read of many things done for the benefit of the African and success has attended every proposition made for the supposed benefit of the black man. We, the people, remem- Der the fact that these Congressmen went there our representatives,, and not to represent any one else; that fathers, brothers and sons dying in the hospitals, the battle field, freezing to death on the picket guard, and their wives and lit tie ones suffering at home for food, shelter, for clothes, for fire, in loneliness and sorrow; that hundreds of thousands are maimed for life who left Us full of strength and health, in lusty manhood or vigorous youth, and are coming back to us shat tered wrecks and victims of want and neglected disease. W and they have borne all thlS to pre- serve the constitution 1t is and restore the Union as it was, with all it's compromises; and kno,C that every act of this present Congress has been and is q solemn, premeditated, bitter mockery of us and sultrings, and that our friends and our rights have been offered sacrifice on their heart less altar by their polluted priesthood to their Ar rican idols; and whe we are enduring this suffer ing them daily offering fresh incense on that altar, while our every want is neglected, our every demand refused, every fight usnrpcd, and our every privilege denied and trampled upon Let them remember that
 '~There is Divinity shapes ends,
 Roughhew them how will.'
 And that Divinity never sleeps. He bides His time and when His arm is raised to strike none escape the blow. To accomplish human ends lie uses human means; and Il is power will ere long be manifested in the awfA majesty 0f an outraged peo- pie!
 "Too long the world has wept, bewailing
 That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield,
 But freedom is sword and shield
 An ali thoir arts unavailiug.'
 Let them beware, or they will hear the Marsei- lasc swelling from millions of throats when no av- enue of escape is left open to thcm The dan ger from rebels in arms will sink into insgnihcance by the side of a nation of outraged men, women and children rising under their burthcn of oppres sion and misrule, and coming to the Csurpers Of their rights and their prosperity to demand back the charter of their liberties and to plant anew their government, on the wide firm basis of the constl- tuition.
 This is the way they talk Is it not time that every voice and every hand raised to shield US from the terrible consequences!
 
 CAMP PALARME, Conway Go. Texas,
 Dec 25th, 1862. I
 MR. EDIroR: As your paper has considerable circulation in Texas 1 wish you to publish list of