Year: 1863

A severe cold placed me hors du combat last
week, and prevented me from starting YOU q
letter for the first time believe. since | have
been Oh this side. Am not favorably impress
ed with the climate here, and shall take al
early opportunity of returning TO California
Ny idea of staying here during the war has
been dispelled. The Administration idea of
employing only those for the prosecution of
the war, who agree with its policy, may be the
proper one, but " do not see it" and am not
disposed to beg. or acknowledge the immacu-
late conception Of an abolition Administration,
for the purpose of showing my patriotism in
the field. Hundreds have resigned within the
past few months. They arrived at the conclu-
sion that they could best sustain the Constitu-
ton by abandoning the Administration
Hence the necessity for the conscription act
which they are DOW proposing TO enforce.
Said Mr. Cox, in Congress not long since.-
=" Repeal the confscation act, the emancipation
proclamation, and other unconstitutional mea
sures-withdraw the negro entirely-and q
conscription bill will not be necessary to rein
vigorate the country" 4 year ago, the vol
unteers poured into the hands of Government
faster than it could hold them. They rejected
regiment ritter regiment, and at one time put a
stop to recruiting. The volunteers were more
eager to serve than the Government to accept
them, Yet it is such people that are to be
subjected to forcible conscriptiou.


"wIDE AWAKE ASSOCIATIONS


Have been revived all over the Northern
States, under the title of '' Union Leagues or
IS. B." associations. While adopting the
name of Union Leagues they do not favor a
restoration of the Union. Their object is TO
continue the abolition party in power, until
the Southern States are brought to submission
and compelled to give up slavery. do not
question the power of the North to do this,
for their resources are comparatively untried
but doubt the policy of making a long and
bloody war upon partisan questions that ought
10 be determined at the ballot-box OF course
you will have the leagues in your midst, if you
have them not already


a correspondent having asked the Louisville
Journal whether there was a loyal league in
Kentucky which he could join, was answered
as follows: There are over seventy of them,
and nearly forty-fve thousand of members, d.
vided into infantry, cavalry and artillery. If
our inquiring friend is between the ages of Is
and 40 he can apply to any of these, and will
receive all necessary encouragement. The loyal
Kentucky league is the volunteer army of the
United States" We commend this to the
cowardly, woolly-pated midnight prowlers of
the s. b. societies. The army is the true
Union league, and the only one that true pa
triots will join. Hurrah for the glorious Union


league of the United States They perform
by daylight, beneath the starry emblem of the
nation. and are nobly struggling for the pres
ervation of the best Government on the EARTH
and are cheered on by every well disposed citi
zen. The 5. Is. societies, on the contrary, are
composed of midnight prowlers and political
plotters devotees of schemes for partisan ag
grandzement, regardless of the welfare of their
country. If they are really patriotic let them
join the army. Their secret leagues are vile
and treacherous affairs in loyal States, where
all so nobly support the army aud yield due
and proper obedience to the laws If the
heads of these midnight prowlers contained
brains, instead of the fossil remains of negro
wool, and their hearts little patriotism in
stead OF love and devotion to partisan schemes,
there would be little or no danger of the rebels
overthrowiDg the Government. Let all patri-
otic men sustain the true Union league of the
country-the glorious volunteer army of the
United States.


Since the formation of these abolition socie-
ties, the country has been overrun with moute-
banks in the shape of abolition satraps. Some
of them give free lectures, taking up contri-
button at the close, aud others charge an ad-
mission fee at the DOORS We have lately had
one of these suckers here second time. On
his first appearance, be took up collection,
which was so small that he tried the fifteen
cents admission dodge, on his second appear
ance. His remarks will appear in our next
issue. -ED.


The Washington Chronicle has been per-
mitted to see private letter, received by
gentleman in that city, from a correspondent


in Nassau, which states that on an average.
two vessels day arrive in that place loaded
with cotton. By some means they contrive to
run the blockade. The writer of the letter
processes to be in favor OF the Union, and init
mates that there must be some derelc,ion of
duty on the part of our blockading squadron.
when such things are done. The writer, more
over, says that many people in Nassau state
openly that some of our officers in command of
the blockading feet connive at these things
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