North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-08-01
PREPARATION EORANOTHER CIVIL
,-. WAR, .-..r.,...- ...

Hon. Henry D. Raymond, editor OF the
New York Times, writing to that paper,
from bis seat in the rump Congress, on the
18th inst, divulges the following very inter
csting facts: .. .....u
You may have noticed the passagein the
House, few days since, of resolution Of
tered by General Paine, of Wisconsin, call
ing on the States to organize discipline, and
equip their militia, and directing that two
thirds of the arms, ordinance and ammuui-
ton now under custody of the General
Government be distributed among the States
the distribution among the loyal States to
take place Immediately. and that among the
States lately in rebellion to be postponed
until further notice.
The resolution came up from the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, and was pushed
to vote, without debate or delay, under
the previous'question. 1t attracted as lit
tie attention in Congress as it has in the
country; and the public will doubtless re-
ceiye with incrcdu lity the assurance that it
was intended, by those who secured its
passage, as the first step toward prepara-
ZION for another civil war. Although no
debate was had upon it, members were
urged to vote for it by direct conversational
appeals on the part of the few who were
privy to its introduction. Some were told
that it was necessary to enable the South
ern 10y alists to protect themselves; others
that it was simply matter Of detail in the
War Department; others that the arms
must be taken out of the hands of the Pres
ident, and others that it was proposed at
the instance of the Secretary Of War. An
appeal was made by Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa,
to allow debate upon it, as it seemed to be
matter of importance, but this was re-
fused.
Most of the leading and rejecting Radi-
Gals in Congress take this view of the po-
litical future. Ifthe fall elections result in
the choice Of Northern Democrats enough
to constitute, when added to the members
from the Southern States, majority Of
the House, they assume that this majority,
thus constituted. will claim to be the Con-
gress, and will act accordingly; and that
they will be recognized by the President
as the body to which he will send his mes
sage, and whose sessions he will, if the ne
cessity should arise, protect by military
force. They assert, on the other hand, that
the Union members from the loyal States
If they constitute majority from these
States-will claim to be the only legal Con-
gress, and will, if necessary, invoke an in
surrection of the people to maintain them
in that position.
They do not in the least conceal their
purpose, IN the event of such collision,
to appeal in force, and to drive the rival
Congress, with the President and his Cab
met, and supporters, into the Potomac"
to use the language of the ablest and most
sincere of their number. Ifyou will recall
! the remarks of Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massachu-
setts, in last weeks first caucus, YOU will see
this movement clearly foreshadowed-in in
deed avowed. He declared his belief that
an issue of force was rapidly approaching,
and that we must be prepared to meet it.
! He acts, and all who cooperate with him
in these measures, profess to act, under
the apprehension that the President in
| tends to resort to force that he means to
diSpersc the present Congress on its reas-
NIT the Southern MEMBERS and Mr.. Fans
worth ascribed to Mr.. Seward the declara-
FtlOn that this Congress should never rcas-
semble, unless the Southern members were
admitted--in support of this belief. Ineed
scarcely say that Mr. Seward never made
any remark of the kind, nor that the pro-
ject ascribed to the President is purely
an invention. or at least the crazy dream of
a political nightmare. But in either case
it serves the same purpose 1t covers, and
shields to justify, the determination to
arouse the North, and prepare for resort
to force upon the assembling of the Forti-
eth Congress in extra or regular session :;
an d this determination is avowed And
the resolution to which have referred, for
an organization of the militia and distribu
| ton of arms in The Northern States, is
the initial step to its execution
| do not propose to comment upon the
result of such movement. 1t is obvious
that if any such contingency should arise,
the war would not be sectional as was the
last it would be war of political par
ties and of peighborhoods. Not only have
the great body of the Union party in Con-
greSs no sympathy with these views and
purposes, but they are IN the main ignorant
and incrednlous of their existence. That
the extreme Radicals entertain them, how
ever, there is not the slightest doubt, and
we know, from the experience of Secession
in 1851, how few men it sometimes requires
to plungea gr at party or great nation in
war.
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and from these lye is made. BY boiling
lye is evaporated and black ash is the resi-
dunn, which, when purified by fire, is
changed INTO potash. BY another process
notash is converted into pearlash, and this