davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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And VIII positively prevent YELLOW FKVKK, BE
L0US FEVER &c. They contain
NO ALCOHOL Or BAD BRANDY.

They WIZ CURE the above diseases In ulnetyn.aa
cases out Of q hundred.
Do you want something to Strengthen Youl
DO yon want Good Appetital
Do you want to Build up your Constitutloa1
Do you want to Feel Wsll1
Do you want to get rid Of NeryousnesaT
Do you want EnergyH
Do ynu want to Sleep Welt
Do you want Brisk and Vigorous FeelingG
Il You do. use HO0FLAND3 GERMAN BrTTHus.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

who entertain such opinions. At the
commencement of the war, Mr.. Buchan-
an declared that there was no power to
coerce sovereign State His Attorney
Gen, also Pennsylvania, held the same
opinion. 1t is true that under the pres
sure of public sentiment, they abandoned
this position, and declared in favor of a
vigorous prosecution of the war; but now
when they imagine that the popular en-
thusiam is some what abated, they have
made up their minds to fall back to their
old moorings. Like the poor emancipa-
ted slave who, tired of taking care of him
self is sometimes anxious to return to his
old master, so'the Northern Democracy
are tired of taking care of themselves
in fact have entirely failed to do so, and
are anxious to return to their old masters,
having entirely failed to exhibit any of
those qualities, the possession of which is
necessary for the enjoyment Of entire lib
erty,
We might follow this subject further
and show that the Democrats have ever
been ready to despair Our great mill
tary achievements, have, in their eyes,
been barren of results, while every rebel
raid has been grand invasion. Every
election we hold is said by them to be our
last \ dictatorship is to follow Eve
rything that could be said or done to de-
stroy public confidence, has been resorted
to! Still to their great surprise, themass
of the people have an abiding faith in the
old flag and in the ability of the Govern
ment to yet waive it in triumph over sea
and land, the emblem of restored and
renovated Union-the pride, as well as
the defender of every Loyal American.
How doubly damned will be the traitor
who cannot then claim its protection
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

of our absolute independence and equal
rights, of all accounts of public debt and
public lands and the advantages accruing
from foreign treatise.
"These provisions, we apprehend, COM
prise the minimum of what we must re-
quire before we lay down our arms. That
is to say, the North must yield all; we
nothing
Are these gentlemen prepared for this !?
VIII they agree, for peace sake, to coerce
Kentucky and Missouri out of the Union?
VIII they divide our Navy with their
Southern brethren? viii they yield all
claim to the western Territories These.
and many other questions which will sug-
gest themselves, are worthy of examina-
ton. Can they be answered Affirmative
ly by any patriot? We think not.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

This is the caption of an article in the
last number of the Democratic organ of
this place; and after reading it, we have
no hesitation in saying, that it is as re-
plete with talSehood and treason, as any
article we have noticed emenating from
the organs of jeff. Davis himself. There
is perhaps some truth in its statement
that, from the organization of the Gov
crnmcnt to the present time, there has al
ways existed sentiment in this country
hostile to Democratic institutions. But
when it attempts to prove this by refer
ence to parties at the present day, itsecms
to be as blind as Copperhead in dog
days. After attempting to follow the old
Federal party into the present ruling par
ty of the country, forgetting that Bu-
chanan was the last Federalst in the whole
North still above ground, y this article
says of it, They are carrying on one of
the most cruel, bloody and devastating
wars the world ever witnessed expressly
for that object" that is for the purpose of
oveEthrowing the will of the people. 1t
is quite unnecessary to go into an argu-
ment to prove this assertion to be a false
hood every loyal man in the land knows
it to be false! The very reverse is the
case The southern stakeholder is the
genuine aristocrat of this country, he holds
the laboring millions of the north to be
essentially slaves-unft to be his equals !;
this doctrine has been avowed in our
halls of Congress Our industrial mas
ses have been denominated 'small fisted
farmers and greasy mechanics" Our
laboring men, 'northern mudsils" &C.,
and yet no Democrat ever had the manly
courage to rise in his place and resent
such insults to northern freemen but
that duty has always been left to Repub-
lcans. But again, in summing up the
present situation, the same article ex-
claims. "Three years of bloody war, one
million and half of soldiers killed, woun-
ded, and prisoners two billions of pub
lie debt; elecen states fighting against
their brethren, for tie right TO regulate
their Domestic affairs IN their oaon ray"
We italicise the latter part of the quota
ton, because we consider it the unmista-
BILE evidence of a disloyal sentiment in
its author. But after all it is only re-
turn to first principles, on the part Of those
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
@! gOnsiStcncy!I

In the HcraH Of July 22d, 1868, we
find the following: "The discrimination
against the poor by the $500 clause is now
too plainly seen to admit of discussion. %
In another number of same paper, we find
the following in speaking of the $500
clause: "This provision of the law is as
unjust as anything can be-" In still an
other number of same paper, we read, af-
ter naming some the of Republican ticket,
and all other candidates on their ticket,
it should be remembered, applauded this
$500 provision, and contended that ii
would operate to the advantage of the
poor, but the poor men cannot see its ad-
vantages, since they have witnessed its
practical operations" Then by way Of
variety, we will close our quotations for
the present, with the following which we
find in that paper of the 9th inst.
"MAKE A NOTE OF IT.-The man who
is most persistingly agitating the repeal Of
the three hundred exemption clause in
the Conscription act, is Abraham Lincoln,
Let not the working men who are appeal
ed to, to support Lincoln, because he once
kept whisky still and split rails, forget
that this working man is trying to shape
the draft so that they will be compelled to
90 into the army, no matter in what con-
dition it may leave their business or their
families"
Poor Herald, now that Communication is
played out what will be your next
hobby
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
Rebel Terms of Peace.

On every successive depression of the
National spirit, our Copperhead neigh
bors take up their universal howl for
peace-men who are intelligent-men who
have screamed war and devastation till
their throats were sore, who have urg-
cd their neighbors to go into the ar
my, and all that, when the National cause
seems to languish shout for peace. "Quit
killing men" say they, withdraw your
armies" and let them go, the Union is
irretrievably gone OF course, if they
will fight no more, they will have to ac-
cept whatever terms Of peace the rebels
will offer. One of the JEFF. Davis or
gans in Richmond, short time since, in
formed us what their terms were in the
following language:
Recognition by the enemy of the in
dependence of the Confederate States.
Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from
every foot of Confederate ground, inclu-
ding Kentucky and Missouri.
Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from
MaryIand, until that states shall decide, by
free vote, whether she shall remain in
the old Union, or ask admission into the
6onfederacy.
"Consent on the part of the Federal
Government to give up to the Confedera-
cy its proportion of the navy as it stood
at the time of secession, or to pay for the
same.
Yielding up all pretensions on the
part of the Federal government to that
portion of the old territories which lie
west of the Confederate States.
" An equitable settlement, ON the basis
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20


No. Il, appointed Miss Johnston to att
tend to that School Ward she paid over
1925.
In No. 5, appointed Miss Mondane
Rea, who attended to it faithfully, and
collected and paid over in cash, $3.50;
two or three of the leading men of the
ward would not pay cent.
In No. 6, our own, Mrs. Kennedy and
Miss Pinkerton Collectors they collected
and paid over in cash, twenty-five. dollars;
three families in the ward did not pay one
cent.
did not intend to publish any report,
but at a public meeting the other day..
'ames Barr and some of the other col
lectors, insisted on having the contribu-
tions from the different School Wards
published. You will please publish the
foregoing statement, and oblige your friend.
SAMUEL MARSHALL.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
The Special Election.

On next Tuesday week, (being the I'd
of August the special election, will be
held to pass upon the constitutions amend
ments which have already passed two
successive Legislatures, and arenow to be
finally, we trust, adopted by the people
We have printed tickets in favor of the
several amendments The tickets in IA
yor of the amendment allowing the sol
diers to vote is as follows:
"First Amendment
For the Amendment"
This ticket we trust, will find its way in
to the hand of every friend of the soldier
before he votes-lot us have an emphatic
vote on this amendment at least The
next ticket is,
Second Amendment,
For the Amendment"
The second amendment requires every
bill introduced into the Legislature to have
but one object, and that distinctly set
forth in the title This is intended to
prevent, what is called log rolling matters
through the Legislature, which is often
done by reading bill "by its title" for
some avowcd object while in some Sec
ton of the bill there is a provision bear
ing on quite different subject, of which
no one has any knowledge, except its au-
thor till it becomes law-this is wrong.
and this amendment is intended to pro.
vent it,
The third ticket is as follows:
"Third Amendment,
For the Amendment"
This amendment is intended to prevent
any Legislation from being had on any
matter Of which the courts have iurisdic-
tion. 1t is not uncommon for parties de-
sirous of accomplishing something which
is not perhaps very just, and which
therefore they would not be likely to ac-
complsh through the medium of the
courts, where both parties would be sure
to have hearing, to get up bill and
send it on to Harrisburg, and have it run
through the Legislature, before any one
likely to be prejudiced by it knows any
thing about it. These two last amend
ments are now joint rules of the two hous-
es and cannot be violated without the
concurrence Of two thirds of the mem
bers-but this, when the members are
appealed to by popular member, can al
ways be obtained, and hence the necessity
of embodying it in the constitution.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
COWMUNECATEONs.
Clinton pic Mic.

A School Pic Mic was held on the 9th
inst, at School Room, No. 6, Clinton tp.,
at one clock, p. M, being near the close
of Miss Maggie Lawalls school. The day
was beautiful and pleasant, which added
greatly to the pleasures and enjoyments
of the Pic Mic. Early in the day, the
citizens were seen coming with'their bask-
cts filled with their nice things they had
prepared, and at the specified time, there
was quite crowd collected. We all en-
joycd ourselves both young and old, by
marching, playing and strolling through
the wild woods, which surrounded the
School Room. At three o'clock the table
was spread with almost every variety of
pastry that could be mentioned; every
thing that the kind matrons and fair la
dies of District No. 6, could procure and
provide, for the occasion was on hand
We were all marched down to the table,
where the school displayed their vocal
powers by singing few sweotlittle songs,
very suitable for the occasion. And our
dear old flag (the stars and stripes float
cd over the table while we partook of the
rich feast. Everything passed off pleas
antly, and every ono wore cheerful coun-
tenance on that day. 1t will long be re-
membered by both Teacher and pupils,
and also by thespectators, as the pleasure
of meeting one another was improved by
all. Surely,
There's much that gives pleasure
In all that's around,
And little more pleasure
Where Pic Mes abound.
SPECTATOR.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

how changed !" Not only was the liber-
ty of speech and of the press crushed out
but the protection due to citizens, while
abroad was denied them and under its
diplomacy, naturalized citizens were per-
mitted to be seized by the Government,
from which they came and thrust into their
armies Invain would they exclaim, "we
are American citizens"--in vain call upon
their Government for relief? all the pow
er of this nation being absorbed in one
great and final effort to crush out person
al liberty and establish in its stead univer-
| sal staUay. Even the sacred correspond
ence of friends was subjected to the cen
sorship of irresponsible postmastersl The
party papers of their political opponents
were taken out of the Offices and burned
in the public squares And all this with
out the apology even of military necessi-
ty-in time of peace Surely they are
in a position to arraign Others for the
abridgement of their rights But above
everything else, that party has no right to
criticise the financial policy of its success
sor As we have already said it came into
the possession of an overfowing Treasury;
everything was propitious for its remain
ing so; domestic industry was well reward
ed, while commerce was flourishing =
Why did not the public credit remain
good and thepublic Treasury remain full !?
Does the Editor of the Herald and his
friends not know that Mr.. Buchanan was
only able to borro'r money enough to car
ry on the Government during the last days
Of his disgraceful administration, after OBJ
tanning the endorsement by he RepuJiican
States of the bonds issued as evidences
of indebtedness A humiliation which
the present Administration has never had
to resort o,dilficult as have been the cir
cumstances surrounding it. But we are
not to expect that party charged with
such high duties as is the one now IN pow
er can escape the tongue of the calumni-
ator. Read the history of any nation
whose unity and perpetuity were submit
ted to the arbitrament of the sword and
you will find that the party charged with
its preservation, had, in addition to its
open foe, to contend with domestic faction;
and can we hope to escape similar annoy
anccs certainly net. Such faction, af-
ter ALL is not always injurious, although
such is its design. 1t serves to unite
the Loyal millions, and to stir them to
fresh acts of patriotism, and labors of
love, in behalf of their bleeding country.
Courage then, brave friends The Re
public cannot die. For
"Whcrc to-day the martyr stands,
On the morrow crouchcs Justice
With the silver IN his hands"
And this poetic truth was never more
forobly illustrated, than it will be, when
peace and a restored Union shall again
favor our national life with their balmy
Influences.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
Reconstructing the Seeded States
ProclnmntiOmb bx the President. :,
Yours trul, /,

Whereas, at the last session, Congress-
passed bill to guarantee to certain States
whose Government had been usurpcd or
overthrown republican form of gov
crnmcnt, a copy of which is hereto annex
ed and whereas the said bill was pre-
sentcd to the President of the United
States for hisapproval, less than one hotr
before the sine die adjournment of said
session, and was not signed by him; and,
whereas, the said bill contains, among
other things a plan for restoring the
States in rebellion to their proper practic-
al relation-in the Union, which plan cx-
pressed the sense of Congress upon that
subject, and which plan it is now thought
fit to lay before the people for their con-
sideration.
Now therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln.
President of the United States, do pro-
claim, declare, and make known, that
while | am, as | was in December last.
when, by proclamation propounded a
plan for restoration, unprepared by for
nal approval of this bill to be infexibly
committed to any single plan of restora--
zion; and while | am also unprepared to
declare that the free State constitutions
and governments already adopted and in
stalled in Arkansas and Louisiana shall
be set aside and set at naught, thereby
repelling and dscouraging the loyal citi-
zens who have set up the same as to fur
ther efforts. or to declare constitutional
competency in Congress to abolish slavery
in the States but at the same time sincere
ly hoping and expecting that constitu-
tionai amendment, abolishing slavery thro'-
out the nation may be adopted Never
theless, am fully satisfied with the sys-
TEN for the restoration contained in the
bill as one very proper plan for the loyal
people of any State choosing to adopt it,
and that | am, and at all times shall be
prepared to give the Executive aid and
assistance to any such peopleso soon as tho
military resistance to the United States
shall have been suppressed in any such
State, and the people thereof shall have
sufficiently returned to their obedience to
the constitution and laws of the United
States, in which case Military Governors
will be appointed, with directions to pro-
ceed according to the bill.
In testimony whereof have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city Of Washington, this8 day of July,
in the year of our Lord 1854, and of the
Independence of the United States, the
eighty eighth.
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President:
WM. II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
Army correspondence.
NEAR PETERSBURG, Va, 155th Regt,,
Pa. Vol. July 9th. 1861,

MEssRs. EDIToRs Again / write a
line to your paper for publication, hoping
thereby to answer some anxious inquirers-
was once member of the CID Regt.,
but at the expiration of that regiments
term of enlistment, and all others, whose,
term of service did not expire with the
regiment, were transferred to the I55th
Regiment The 62d bid adieu to fair
Dixies" on the evening of the I'd inst.
The boys all looked somewhat mclancho-
ly when the parting hour came, but the
most melancholy looking set of fellows,
were we unhappy Veterans" whose term
of service would have expired with the
regiment, had we not re-enlisted but
that feeling of discomfort has subsidized,
and feel as gay as larks now.
We are encamped in front of Peters
burg. Nothing either interesting, or ex~
citing has transpired during the last week.
We are busily engaged IN building fortif-
cations, and preparing for the conflict,
which now appears inevitable. | doubt
not but your little village will soon hear
the tidings of another terrible battle, be-
tween Gen. Meade and the notorious
Lee" which, if successful to our arms,
will be the perfect annihilaton of the reb-
el armies, and universal overthrow of Pc
tcrsburg, and Richmond was about to
add the end of the war | will not say
that, but we are at liberty to Minh as we
choose We have heard that Gen Sher-'
idan's cavalry has been defeated, in the
vicinity of White House Landing; but
nothing official concerning it has been re-
ccived
The whole army is suffering greatly
from the heat, which is almost intolerablc
The dust is also choking and sitting, and
a great need is experienced of rain. The
long drouth is especially severe upon the
wounded Water is difficult to obtain.
Through all these trials, however, and
in spite of the recent disasters, and the,
general failure to push the enemy further,
the spirit of the troops remain heroic and
inyincible. In it, consists the promise of
the future
Yours truly,
Scrgt, G. w. FITcu,
Cnmnnnv A 1hhth Pa XnI
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
ADAMS TP., July I, 1864.
SPECTATOR.


ADAMS i p, July I, lcOf.
MEssRs. DDIToRs Please publish
the following as the action Of Adams tip.
for the Sanitary Commission. Having
been appointed by the Sanitary Commit
tee of the county to organize Adams town.
ship, and appoint Collectors in the differ
ent School wards, | was sick at the time,
but | prepared the papers, made my ap-
pointments, and sent my son, Thomas
Marshall, around to circulate the papers,
and notify those appointed. School Ward,
No. l, Iappointed Jas. Barr, and tochoose
his own assistants he paid me over s22, in
cash, and receipt for So for produce de-
livered in Allegheny city.
School Ward, No. 2, appointed Rev.
John Galbraith, who paid me s24,5O cash.
In School Ward, No. 3, | appointed
Rev. Patterson, who agreed to attend to
it, and did not collect single dollar that
ever came our way; if it had not been for
this failure, our township would have rank
ed among the foremost in the county, and
if he had not accepted the post, would
have appointed some one else
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

FRANCE AND THE REBELs.-The rep
resentations of Mr.. Dayton in resrrd to
permitting warvessels to be huiltin French
ports, have been crowned with success
The advicesreceived from Paris, announce
that the French government has positive
ly forbidden the sailing of the Yeddo and
Ozakka for the Southern States; and as
the vessels are nofat all suitable for COM
mercial purposes the company owning them
now hopes to sell them either to the gov
ernment of Denmark or Peru. =
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

B@~ The Baltimore papers state that
Francis Key, the son Of the author of the
eStar-Spangled Banner" was arrested
on Saturday last on charge of disloyalty,
and locked up in the military prison to
await trial.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

pss- A farmer of Akron, Erie county.
New York, has twenty Tuscaroar squaws
at work cultiyating broom corn. Farm
help is scarce, and these native "Ameri
cans" find abundant employment
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20
Amendment to the Constitution,
Granting the soIdiersRight to yote
ELECTION on TUESDAY, AUGUST ., 1864

pa" Let crc7y roter 90 to the election
on Tuesday the I'd Of August, and take
his neighJor along.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

"Bcsent an insult where twas giyef
lit were in the courts of Heaven"
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-07-20

And this poetic truth was never more
foroibly illustrated, than it will be, when
peace and restored Uuion shall again
favor our national life with their balmy
Influences