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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-09-24


quer in the coming contest That conf.
| dence has lost many day to the right and
| the might, for disparage your foes and you
weaken your friends. The campaign at the
North has begun; and if we are vanquished
at all, it will not be in Southern trenches,
beyond that brown line about which l have
been writing, but fairly North of the blue,
and amid our own homes in November. The
Lieutenant General seeks nothing in Virginia,
and the loyal-hearted pray for nothing in
Georgia, that would bring us any nearer tri-
umph and peace than the reelection of
Abraham Lincoln. We have had a President
but no United States. Let us now finish the
business we began and have both!
remember a picture of Fremont, standing
upon peak of the Rocky Mountains catch
ing bee. That was when he was the Path
finder. remember picture of Mcclellan,
seated upon war-horse on parade day, and
covered with buttons as if buttons were pep
per. That was when he was Napoleon. There
are the two wings of the opposition: the one
never could SNAKE up his mind" and the
other has certainly got that "bee in his bon
net" Two are pair; the one is a negative
and lies down in the shafts; the other is
heady, and runs away with the wagon the
one would play Joshua, and things would
stand still the other would play Jehu, and
the world would go to wreck. If only they
could be elected on the same ticket it would
be as if neither of them had ever lived at all,
and no harm done-a curious specimen of
neutralized humanity
There is third class whose coat of arms
should be clam, the most selfish thing in the
animal kingdom. They have dripping Jo-
nah clambering over the ships side, who
wants passage, and it seems unkind that Mr..
Lincoln will not jump. overheard TO make
room for him. As for the Jonah, l hope he
keeps a whale.
But these petty ambitions and distractions
will all be forgotten in the serious work of
the campaign. / have too profound a faith
in the Justice and honor of loyal men to be-
lieve that the principles of which Mr.. Lin
coin stands forth the exponent, will have
more than three armies to conquer; the rank
and file under George b. Mcclellan, John G.
Fremont and Robert E. Lee. Men will stiff
en- sinew for the Union candidates in this
campaign, who have not fought battle this
many year. The Hon. Thomas Corwin, now
in this city, is going home to take the field in
Ohio. ~ shall make" said he to a friend,
81 shall make the last speeches of my life
for Abraham Lincoln" 1t will be like "the
light of other days" to have old 'Tom" once
more upon the stump. His eye has not lost
the old laugh in it, nor is his natural force
abated. There are yet others, the veterans
of old campaigns, the SHOWS on whose heads
have not fallen farther and frozen their
hearts, whose voices, long unheard by the
multitude, will be lifted once again, and their
latest recorded utterances viii be for coun-
try and for God. There were issues in other
days that we magnifed; let the tremendous
question now trembling in the balance mag
Nifty us, give strength to action, dignity to
purpose, hope to liberty, and TO our country,
salvation. B. +. L.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-09-24

THAT faith which CROMWELL preached to
his Ironsides, to trust in GoD, but keep their
powder dry, was reproduced in essence by
Rev. MARK TRAFToN in New Bedford last Sun
day, in sermon on !" faith in GoD, faith in
the Government, and faith in the righteous
ness of the cause for which we are fighting"
He warned his congregation of dark days,
perhaps to our arms, of dark days to the
Government, dark days to Individual men :
COURAGE and trust. dBut, brethren" said
he. al beseech you, don't in any uark day,
90 and vote for MCCLELLAN and PENDLEToS.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-09-24

Fashions AT NEwPoRT.-A Newport letter
writer says: The leaders of the ton to-day
appeared in very broad belts of four inches
breadth, with gold or gilt buckles cores
pondingly large. The effect to- our eyes is
very pretty, but to be thoroughly appropri-
ate the waists should be shorter. They are
the latest fashion "out," and are adopted
with avidity. One lady wore the newest
style of bonnet, which is no bonnet at all,
cape that sets on the top of the head, leaving
the waterfall of hair exposed to view.
In front the bonnet is equally scants and the
wearer was an object of interest to all fash
ion-mongers Probably the innovation viii
be universally adopted as the winter sets in.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-09-24

FoRF SUMTER IN A BAD wAY.-The Ifi-
5,ssSs Washington special says :: Col. Dana,
of the l43 Pennsylvania regiment, who has
lust returned from under fire at Charleston,
repotes that he was assured by parties who
had been out to Fort Sumpter, that the fort
was rapidly settling, and, in a very short
time, it was believed, water would enter the
lower tier of embrazures. It is a fact well
known to our engineers that this fertilization
was erected upon quite thin point of sand,
which strata of sand rested upon a soft,
uulpy mass of debris"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-09-24
Valandigham Satisfied with the Platform and
the Candidate.

The peace martyr" VALLANDIGHAM, made
a speech at Dayton, o., on the It'll, expressing
his satisfaction with the Chicago platform
We quote enough to give an idea of the gen.
eral tenor of his remarks:
The Convention was emphaticaliy not only
peaceable but peace convention. APP
plause.1 1t assembled and sat in harmony,
and declared the present public sentiment of
the United States, and, unequivocal in its
language it has explicitly declared it. =
Denouncing the war as an experiment and
failure, and charging to its account all the op-
pressions, wrongs and outrages committed by
the Administration for the past four years,
as well as the injury to the material prosper
ity of the country which has followed, it
demands as the sentiment of the people of
these United States that immediate efforts be
made for the cessation of hostilities, to the
end that there may be a convention OF the
States to restore peace to the land upon the
basis of Federal Union of the States. This
is its proclamation. It was Union COnven-
ton, and it declared answering fidelity to
that Union. 1t was peace convention, and
speaking in the name of more than twenty
millions of ffeemen, it demanded peace after
failure of the experiment of war, whereby
to restore the Union. Next after this-but
first, before proceed, let me say to you that
no man among the earnest ADVOCATES of peace,
from tie beginning Of the loar to this hour, has
IN any formal declaration demanded more than
that convention has declared 1t ought to be
satisfactory to every man in the land. Cries
of " 1t ISL 1t meant peace and it said so.
[Applause;
There is not man whose personal charac-
ter, whose morality, whose attachments 60
the principles and whose obedience to the
precepts of Christianity man whose devo-
ton to his country man who in every
sense of the word is a gentleman say
there is not a man in any respect above or
beyond Gen. Mcclellan. Applause. On
that platform, then, henceforth, calling for
the agencies of peace, and a resort to the in
strumentalities through which our Govern
ment was originally founded, can yield to
him the support which here have pledged,
and call upon you, one and all-every man
who calls himself member of the Demo
cratic party-every conservative man in the
land every man who is weary of the poll
ces of this Administration-tO unite in that
cordial and hearty support Applause.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-09-24

A CANDIDATE TO SUIT OUR EUROPEAN Enc
MIEs'-Every day brings accommodating evil
denee that the Chicago Platform and the
Chicago candidates were made to the joint
order of the Richmond conspirators and the
enemies of the United States in Europe.
Said Senator Semmes, of Louisiana, in his
speech last monthto the rebels at Jackson:
" Our hopes for an early peace are dependent
entirely on tie success Of the Democratic party at
the NORTH IN the approaching Presidential cleo
ton"
Says the London Times, in its issue of the
2sth of August:
awhile each succeeding month displays
the unbending frmuess of the Southerners,
there are many signs of relaxation of pur-
pose among their opponents The nomina-
ton of Gen. Mcclellan as the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency is now not un
likely, if the will of New York should pre-
vail with the representatives of the party.
The principles of Gen. Mcclellan are not
very clear; he has always been looked upon
as War Democrat, as being as anxious for
Union and the old Constitution as any man in
the land. But when events move so rapidly
men move with them. Should any opponent
of Mr.. Lincoln be elected, there can hardly
be doubt that the policy of the present
President will be abandoned during the en-
suing four years -
X sTssa
During the next two months we shall be-
hold struggle as fierce as that between the
opposing armies themselves. There will be
but one wish among European nations-that
President may be elected unpledged to a
war policy, and capable of acting with firm
ness and independence during the coming
Presidential term" vsH IL
The candidates of the Chicago Convention,
far from being pledged to war policy" are
bound to make an immediate effort for q
| cessation of hostilitles." They are, there
fore, the very men to meet the ''one wish" Of
our European enemies.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25
The Drift of she Democracy.

The near approach of the Chicago
Convention gives an interest to all the
recent manifestations of opinion which
have come from the various sections Of
the Democratic party. A comprehen-
sive review of them, we think, would
lead to the conclusion that while a fair
proportion of presses and conventions
have Endorsed the prosecution of the
war, for the most part on terms at vari-
ance with the policy of the administra-
ton, yet the majority Of recent utter
ances have been inconsistent with any
effective support of the war, if not ex-
pressly hostile to it.
One of the most singular declarations
of this nature occurred in the resolu
tions Of the last Democratic State Con-
vention of Vermont, said to have been
written by Hon. I. p. Redfield, the dem
ocratic candidate for Governor. 1t was
therein declared that the administration
"has denied sovereign states all constitu-
tional rights and thereby aJsolred them from
the duty of allegiance" jeff Davis him
self could not have expressed the seces-
sion view of state rights" and the
compact theory" in stronger TERMS
According to that the seeded states
are now rightfully resisting the General
Government, and our gallant army is
the instrument of sheer despotism. We
are not sure, indeed, that the declaration
was meant to be limited to the rebelliOus
states. That this was no hasty individ-
ual view is evident from the fact that
two county conventions have taken
pains to record their hearty approval
of the resolutions in which the above
reasonable sentiment occurs.
We know not whether this is to be
taken as an indication of the under cur
rent of democratic sentiment in New
England; but it proceeds from high au-
thority and in Vermont the party has
peculiar privileges for speaking its mind
freely, and without regard to local profit,
because it has no chance of success at
the polls let it do what it may At the
| West the case is somewhat different
| And yet there the peace demonstrations
are much more plentiful than those O.
| the war democrats. The recent mass
convention at Peoria, numbering be
tween seven and eight thousand partici
pants, resolved that
W dI 10 IlSdHS vi lCSuolllsS - II
ion has proved failure and delusion
and if the people of the non-seceded
States would restore and preserve theil
shattered Constitution, and avert from
themselves and their posterity the slave
ry of a military despotism, and public
debt, the interest upon which can never
be met, they must bring this war to 6
speedy close.
| The Democratic constituents Of Mr.
Long have endorsed his course and hi:
sentiments, saying also:
"Resolced That we are in favor of i'm
mediate peace, and against the furthe
prosecution of this war.
Resolred, That the Government of tn
United States has no right to coerce ;
sovereign State" d
As a practical inference from sucl
doctrines as these, the Milwaukee New
gives the following reasons for not wish
ing the triumph of our gallant selfsac
rifcing troops:
eff Grants wins battle, it is in par
a triumph over the fundamental law G
the Government. fisherman conquer
) Atlanta, an essential porAon Of the Con
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25

poem by Rev, L, A, Austin of Orwell,
VT The Grafton was ON the RESULTS
of College Influence and CultureIF and
was genial, entertaining and Instructive.
The theme of the poem was "Altars OF
Sacrifice" and IL was fine production.
The Alumni dinner followed in the af-
ternoom Hon. Daniel Roberts Of Bur
lington, one of the Vice Presidents, pre-
sided in the absence Of Senator Foot of
Rutland, the President of the Associa-
ton. Toasts Were responded to and
speeches made on call by Rev. Il. Il.
Taylor of California, Hon. r. II. Hoyt,
Rev, Daniel G, Hopkins President Lab
aree, Rev, DR.. Post, Rev. I. S. Hubbard
of Stockbridge, Henry M. Slade, Esq,
and Hon, Joshua Bates, the latter OF
Boston, a song was sung by j. w.
Stewart, Esq, Mr. Sabin and Mr.. Rob-
erts, assisted by many others in the cho-
rus, A pleasant reunion it was OF
course, This concluded the exercises
of the Sixty-Fourth Anniversary of Mid
dlebury College. s......
1t should be stated in addition that
the music for theCommencement was fur
nished by Gilmore's Band ofBoston, and
their excellent concert was attended by
twelve hundred persons. A levee was
given Wednesday evening by Pres, and
Mrs. Labaree, which was numerously
attended and highly enjoyed. The ru-
NOR that President Labaree intended re-
signing was unfounded. The speech
made by Senator Foot, who was called
out at the dinner table on Wednesday,
has already been mentioned in our COL
umns. The Register sayst
"He took up the question of the pro-
posed suspension of this college, and
most earnestly and eloquently main
tanned that it was the duty of the Alum
nj and friends of this college to sustain
it and he was sure it would be sus-
tanned. So far as we know, the Alumni
generally are not in favor of the fusion
of the colleges, not so much because, as
the thing was arranged in the last leg
| islature, the location of the University
is pretty sure to be elsewhere, as because
they are convinced that the interests of
education will not be promoted by
bringing the collegiate system under
state control. Besides it was thought
that the agricultural fund cannot be le-
gally used in such way as really to in
ure to the benefit of the college proper"
Our correspondent concludes his COM
munication as follows:
eve should be wanting in courtesy,
if we failed to notice the generous,
thoughtful, all-providing and graceful
hospitality of the citizens of the village
of Middlebury. We should be wanting
in entire truthfulness if we omitted to
declare the general success Of the exer-
cises taken as whole-both as indicat-
ing past training, present results and
future PROMISE
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25

instead as his organ, the New Nation,
continually abounds in abuse OF the adj
ministration and even of theSleutcnant-
general of the Union armies, would it
not be well for Gen, Fremont to com
mence q little on the "tender treatment
role Would it not be well for the
Tribune, whose motives doubtless good,
to give a little Of its advice to him 2
The party would doubtless do their duty
In the premises, but 1t is hardly reason
able under the circumstances to ask
them TO take the initiative.
At a recent dem ccraic word meeting
at Philadelphia, a resolution was pa, d
hailing "with unmingled pleasure the
return of the God-like Vallandigham to
his native state Comment is super
tluous and would moreover destroy the
sublime effect of this resolution.
Connecticut and Rhode Island voted,
on Monday upon the proposition to
amend the state constitutions to allow
soldiers the right of suffrage. The vote
was small in both states, but the returns
indicate large majority in favor of the
soldiers.
The Lockport Journal offers reward
Of 81 900 in gold for copy of any Of
fer or proposition, made by the govern
ment of the so-called confederate states
to the federal government, proposing or
offering terms Of peace based upon the
integrity of the Union as it was, and the
constitution as it is"
The Grand Rapids Mich. Eagle gives
an account of an interview between Mr..
Holcomb, one Of the rebel "peace COM
missioners," and a clergyman who used
to be in college with him, from which
we copy the following
Holcomb positively asserted that the
South did not want peace, and would
not listen to the taintest intimatiOn of
peace, erceDt oil terms recognizing He6 abSO-
lite iad,peHdSncs and sogeyejgHty, toib al the
territory they originally claimed He said
the rebels could and would fight twenty
years longer before accepting any other
or less terms than these. He averred
the Southern people were not fighting
for slavery, and cared nothing about it;
that they would relinquish it in a mo-
mcnt frso doing would advance their
cause that what they were lighting or
was Independence and sorregaty, pure and
simple and this they would have or else
Hey mast be cytsrWWafca
Our friend questioned him closely and
repeatedly if there was not some posi-
BILE way to bring about peace; and he
was always answered that there could
be no peace upon the basis of any recon-
structiOn of the UniOn-that was alto
gether out of the question"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25

GEN. STANNARD.-Gen. Stannard was in
Burlington Wednesday evening and was
serenadcd at the American House by the
" Burlington Amateur Orchestra In
response to the compliment, says the
Times, the general spoke few words,
saying that he considered it tribute to
himself as representative of the men of
Vermont, who for three years have done
battle against treason. He congratulate
ted Burlington upon the evident loyalty
Of its population and its energetic efforts
to fill its whole quota. He also noticed
with pleasure the absence of that
grumbling and fau'- Ara'rr s~irit, Of
which he was sorry to admit he had
heard more in other of our Vermont viii
lagos in single week than he had heard
during the whole of three years service
in our gallant army. The general closed
by inviting the gentlemen who had
rendered him this compliment, into the
dining room of the American, where a
cold collation. awaited them. After do
ing Justice to the +" substantials," and
enjoying a short season of friendly con-
yersation with the general, the company
separated, convinced that the generals
open, off-handed courtesy ought to dis
arm even his foes If he has any. Gen.
Stannard, we are sorry to say, seems
considerably reduced in health from
wounds and exposure during the CAM
paign. F,.f4 ~.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25
Miscellaneous Items.
Assistant Secretary of War Watson
has resigned.

Assistant Secretary of War Watson
has resigned.
Foreign orders for over four million
dollars worth Of Government bonds
were received on Tuesday.
Sixteen of the rebel officers confined
on Johnson's Island, near Sandusky, es-
capped on the 8th, They were all pur-
sued and easily captured.
The Chattanooga Gazette says there
is no use in administering the oath of
allegiance to rebels there until we can
invent an oath that will choke to death
the party who violates it.
Some students having introduced a
horse into their recitation ROOM the col
lege professor entered, saw the quadru-
ped and quietly remarked; "You've got
a new class mate / see. | am glad it is
horse there were jackasses enough
before.
BY a recent law of Congress, parties
purchasing one hundred dollars worth
of postage stamps or five hundred
stamped envelopes, will be allowed a
discount of five per cent. from the usual
price.
The wife of Gen. Sibley of the rebel
army has come over to our side in Ar
kansas. Her husband escorted her to
the federal lines and there babe her
goodbye. She stands by the old Union
and the old flag.
The New York Express publishes,
''by request of leading wings and demo-
| Gratis" circular in favor of the nomi-
nation of Willard Fillmore at Chicago.
Geo. Selwin once affirmed in COM
pany that no woman ever wrote letter
without q postscript. "My next letter
shall refute you" said lady G. Selwyn
soon after received letter from her la
! dyship, when after her signature stood /;
"P. S,-Who is right now, you or l ~
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25

IL The residence Of the widow Of
John Seldom, near Richmond, was late
ly burned, under the following order,
which furnishes a new outcry about
Beast Butler:
august 2, 1864. - This property,
which has frequently been in possession
of the Union forces and always been re-
spected, is now destroyed in retaliation
for the destruction of the property of
Hon. Montgomery Blair by the confede-
rate forces in their recent raid near
Washington city. BY order Of
Major Gen. BUTLER"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25

A MosT CoMMENDABLE WoRK.-Large
numbers of women, many of them young,
are every year discharged from our
prisons, with no refuge awaiting them
but that always open in the haunts of
vice. Many of these women would
gladly lead honest and useful lives, if
such were possible to the disgraced and
disheartened. To aid these unhappy
creatures a society has been organized,
led by a number of prominent ladies,
mostly of Boston and vicinity, and an
asylum is to be opened early in the au-
tumn, where all who wish to reform are
to be temporarily received, instructed il
need be in reading, sewing and domestic
labor, and furnished if they prove wor-
thy and capable with permanent en-
ployment. For this asylum donations
Of clothings and furniture are requested
either new or partially worn. The idea
is good one, and should meet with a
hearty response -SufHgtfela Republican.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-25

RECRUITS FROM THE SoUTH.-Several
of the agents sent from this state to the
states in rebellion for recruiting pur-
poses have already returned. Col. Mum
son, who went to Marietta, Ca, has ar
rived in Burlington, and reports that
the men in the section he visited are
required in Sherman's army. Itevident-
ly will not do for our towns to place
much dependence upon southern re-
cruits to fill their quotas. No effort, at
least, should be spared at home on ac-
count of any expectation of men from
such source.