smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1863

Chicago has population Of 5000 in
habitants. During the year 1862 there
were in that city 2,575 deaths, or equal to
about one in every forty nine This is an
awful mortality, especially in the entire ab-
sence Of any epidemic !; but i: is no more
than We expected to hear from that city,
We were there on business las: June, and
the river that flows through the very centre
of the city was u perfect bed of pestilence.
The water was as black as ink and about ~
thick its fragrance was anything but de-
lightful. Indeed We expected to hear that
the entire city was swept with the fame OF
death from such cess pool Of disease. We
congratulate the living that only one out OF
every forty nine Of their numbers has been
murdered by that pestilence breeding stream,
whereas We expected that not more than
one in that number would escape.
Year: 1863

Arm the Militia.


Under recent law the militia Of tho State
is now organized, or ought 20 Be. and every
man Of suitable age Is now soldier, in ~
serve. Our frontier, tor distance Of three
hundred miles is threatened, by the mort
sutte, cunning, desperate and nerciless foe
that ever shed the blood Of man The Sioux
Indians are, il all accounts are true. prepar.
ing for bloody war next sum ,ner, and it
will not be waged against our armed soldiery,
hut against our defenseless women and chill
dren on the frontier. lfthey try they can
avoid the vigilance Of the soldiery and inflict
an incalcu|able amount Of injury upon the
white citizens. The constant fear to which
the frontier residents Of this State are sub-
ject on that account, is doing more to depop
u'ate our State than anything else can DO !;
and unless something is done to give ASST
surance of safety to them, the State will be
nearly ruined by the exodus of its inhabi-
tants. They want an assurance that they
shall be protected to the full; extent Of the
ability Of the Government.


Now, in addition to that protection which
= afforded by the presence Of soldiers, the
frontier citizen militia ought to be armed.
There are armes enough in the armory At
st. Paul to put rifle into the hands of every
person able 10 use it, in the frontier counties.


We hope the papers throughout the State,
in the more exposed counties,
will urge, will demand this, and we feel as
sured the Governor will grant it.
Year: 1863




The one plank in the platform upon
which all the Republicans stand-the
plank which is like the keystone Of the
arch, binding all the other parts together
and giving them conlliness and strength
is that which declares in terms or as
sumcs by its relations, that when any man,
black or white, does q days work, he is
entitled to days pay. It is the belief in
in that fact-an axiom Of civ1lization-t
has made the opposition to human slavery,
the essence Of which is the power of one
man to compel another to work without
pay. It is that belief which raised up, or
rather revived a party, in opposition to the
spread Of the work without pay
policy in the Territories. It is that
which is the central idea Of the re-
sistance that the North is making to the
dissolution Of the Union. It is that upon
which the State elections have turned; and
1t is that which has the greatest promi-
nence in The canvass before us in Chicago.
And if the men who depend upon their
daily wages for their daily bread, could but
see, as clearly as we do, how vitality they
are interested in the maintenance Of the
right in this matter, there would not be 9
vote cast against the Bryan ticket, unless
by men who do not hesitate to aTow thai
capital should OWL its labor, or that the
strong should govern the weak. No man
who believes in the Scriptural truth-the
laborer is worthy Of his hire-can be Q
pro-slavc1y man. These facts arc plain
The war, the elections past, and those d
hand, are mere questions of labor. Shal
men work without pay2 is the point i,
Year: 1863

THE CoMING WHEAT CHOP.


Tie lave been at some pains to inform
ourselves Of the facts in relation to the
area Of ground devoted this year to spring
wheat and oats; and the word comes to
Us from all quarters Of the Northwest that
the long continued favorable weather in
which farmers have Ind no interruption Of
the labors common to the season, has in
sured the sowing Of IN area greatly in ex-
cess Of that put into small grain year ago.
The scarcity and high price Of labor have
been drawback; but. since the great ad-
vance in the remainder Of the last years
crop, both Of wheat and corn, hasreplenish-
ed the agricultural excleQuer, they are not
so grieyously felt as we feared. Should the
season for growth and harvest compare
favorably with seed time, the country may
look for d yield that is without example
Year: 1863

shifting Of the peas from one thimb1e to an
other, worthy Of mountebank at the Fair,
but hardly reconcilable with the dignity Of
law officer Of the British nation. It is
tic duty Of Government u see it's own
laws executed, and if it has reason to be-
lieye, on sufficient evidence, that q breach
Of them is even about to be made, md has
not actually taken place, it is bound to pre-
vent the same, ifit can, and is responsible for
all the consequences which may result from
itsneglect. According to the English solici-
tors Interpretation Of the law, their ship
builders may turn out for the Confederates
as many izon-clads as they like, to prey up
on our commerce, and dera.tetc our seas,
provided they can keep their own secret as
to the persons who may employ them.
And this gentleman thinks America is very
touchy, very touchy indeed, to make such
fuss about SO small q matter.


Lord Palmerston even goes SO far as to
say that we arc spoony people for it, and
like pack Of children crying over spoiled
gingerbread. He made no account Of tho
fierce wrath Of the people coming TO him
in such storms Of thunder aud lightning
across the Atlantic; for the truth was that
whenever we got into difficulty at home
through our own incompetercy, we were
sure to raise an outcry against England.
This ..hoary statcsman-wAo incarnates
in Lis dccaying body all the iniquities OF
his tirnc-the cheat and imposter Of Eu-
ropc-traitor to his OWL country-and
murderer Of Poland, and Of Hungary
whose whole life is a Ic-and who never
performed great or generous action
has the audacity to be insolent to the only
country in the world which never trembled
beneath his tyranny, nor was ever victim
1scd By lis diplomacy. He laughs al Mr.
Adams wien he complains Of the building
Of the Alabama, and tells the Parliament
that our ambassador was foolish enough to
come to the Government with II tell you
this, and tell you that sort Of evidence
and with nothing else, to prove that it wa.
being built fer the Confederates And hc
puts forth this as the reason why the
British Government never acted in the
premises. They were asked to act upon
SUSPICION; but the mighty British 1aS
never had got itselfcxecuted without cyi.
dence, and never would.


This man htew when he made this
statement that he uttered 4 deliberate and
most wicked 1alsehood; that Mr.. Adams for
wardcd to Lord Russell, the oath Of q
seaman that he was hired to fight On board
the Alabama for the Confederate Govern
ment By the Captain Of the Alabama; an6
that even ct the last hour, when the Eng
| lish Government knew the vessel wa!
ready for sea, they deferred taking any
steps to seize her until it WAS too late, ant
the Pirate was on her way to the ocean
| with British colors flying at her masthead
and British seamcn manning her, Britisl


made guns to destroy the ships Of til


United States-thc friend and the ally 9


England!


1t is not, and it cannot come to good.
Year: 1863

Is It is remarkably significant Of the
aims and purposes Of the so-called Demo-
cratic party-the fact that as soon as a
Democrat Of standing and capacity says a
word in defence Of his country, he is forth
with classed with the Abolitionists" Are
we to believe that the Abolitionists are the
only patriots, or, simply, that no man can
love his country and be Democrat? Can
we be favored with the opinion OF the or.
gan Of JEFF. Davis, in Chicago, on this
point?
Year: 1863

The air is full Of rumors in regard to the
recent dispatches sent abroad by Mr.
Seward, and the certainty that they are
only the prelude Of war with Great
Britain. We hazard no surmises in the
matter. We simply suggest that If any
one in Wall street is shrcwd enough to
find out whether Mr.. Thurlow Weed is, or
not, s'selling shor' for decline, the truth
touching the tenor Of the dispatches may
1,e learned
Year: 1863

The lessons that the Corperheads have
been taught since the adjournment of the
Illinois Legislature, have not made them
more patriotic. We hear that new
scheme for stopping the war, upon the
basis before proposed, has been hatchcd by
recent consultation Of the magnates Of
the party; and that, as the extra session Of
the General Assembly of this State is set
down for June, an attemp. will be made to
compel Illinois to adopt it. As related to
us, the plan is, if possible, more Infamous
and reasonable than that which the friends
Of the Union defeated in February last.
We shall sec.
Year: 1863

A Dark Subject.--The Everlasting mig
ger is about to be brought up to the scratch.
The bill authorizing and ordering the enlist.
ment Of an indefinite number of negro regi.
ments for the service, has passed the House
of Representatives at Washington, Parties
who claim to be in the confidence of the ma
jority, assure us that it will pass the Senate.
For the first time since the war began the
effort is being seriously made to get clear OF
the Gentleman from Africa


The rebel authorities, on account of the
employment Of black troops by our Govern
ment, have ordered that all negroes found in
arms shall be shot down without quarter; and
in two or three instances they have already
shown disposition to carry out the order
with an energy that is not very .eneonraging
to enlistments in that wing of the army to be
composed of American citizens of African
descent"


In the face of the rebel order to anuihilate
all armed negroes that may be found upon
Southern soil, and after an earnest of It's exc.
eution has been given, ''the friends Of the Az
rlean race" have the ooolness TO order them
TO walk up and be shot White men would
not enlist under such conditions; and as the
colored population are likely to take white
view OF the situation, it is not probable that
the negro regiments will rise out of the
ground when the order for their enlistment is
given fl- .ItlI


We have it from authority which Greeley
would deem reliable, that il the negroes viii
not enlist promptly, they will be drafted forth.
with And this is really the way in which il
is intended to raise the Negro Brigades. We
suspect that the negro having proved entirely
too much for the Abolitionists they have de-
vised this inhuman plan to get rid Of him
The scheme is TO embrace every other able.
bodied colored man in the North and all that
come into our lines in the South. II the
plan succeeds we are in a fair way to get
rid of the niger question. We have no rea-
son to doubt the inclination or ability of the
rebels to accomplish the work as fast an the
brigades are organized and sent within their
reach


II we were a negro we would lose no time
In making our way to Canada that is, f we
were not entirely sick of life.
Year: 1863

A TitE REMovEp. "a saiF but proba.


bly frail daughter of Eve made com.
PAINT yesterday morning to police Off
GERS Davis and Teneforde, that she had
been relieved the night before of an ele-
giant hat, of the value of sl5. She had
left the hat in her room, in Carpenter S
Block, corner of Locust and Fourth
streets, while taking a moonlight walk
with fail sister, and when she looked
for her handsome head dress, as she
was preparing to leave for Indianapolis
yesterday morning TO attend the State
Fair, she found it missing


Not being willing to defer her visit to
the capital in order to sue out a search
warrant, the officers could render her
no relief She seemed greatly distressed
but hopeful.
Year: 1863

acter of our volunteer soldiery down


right insult, as well as entirely false


If any men on the continent have a


right to vote and te iniueisee in this


way the policies of the war, they are
those who are periling their lives in the


defence of the country. IT..
Those who censure and condemn
| free suffrage in the volunteer army, do
so, we believe, through narrowness Of
mind and partizan spirit. The News
speaks of the sEunaninity of the SOL
diers' vote in the late judicial election" q"
and this is the cause Of its opposition.
They voted against the copperhead can
didate. If they lad been equally unan-
imous in his favor, we should have
heard no complaint from that quarter.
The ballots of the soldiers tell US that
they do not synpathize with the oppo-
nents Of the war, but are united in IA
vor of its continuance until the rebel
lion is thoroughly crushed. We thus
get at the public opinion which exists
in the army. It is in favor OF the gov
ernment and against the copperheads


1t disproves the oft-repeated assertions
that the army is tired Of service, and


wants a peace by compromises with
the rebels. 1t makes it plain, too, that
the army is against the party which is
endeavoring to obstruct the prosecu-
ton of the war. The army affects pub
lie opinion at home, and its expressed
sentiment is potent and irresistible
power, which is rallyjng patriots eve
rywhere to the standard of the Union,
and in this the copperhead party reads
its doom. That is what troubles the
Milwaukee News. p
Year: 1863

ADVANTAGE OF BEING A WOMAN
\ woman can say what she chooses
without being knocked down for it.
She can take snooze after dinner when
her husband goes to work; she can go
into the street without being asked to
stand "treat" at every saloon. She can
stay at home in the time of war, and
get married again if her husband is
killed. She can wear corsets if too
thick, and-other fxens if too thin.
She can get divorced from her husband
whenever she sees one she likes better.
She can get her husband in debt all
over until he warns the public not to
trust her on his account. But all these
advantages are balanced by the great
fact that she cannot sing bass, go spark
lug OF climb tree with propriety.
Year: 1863

Small Amount Of 'Greenbacks!


We have large stock of Goods Of all
kinds, and are receiving more daily.


We wish to have it distinctly understood
that we are running Store, and not Saw
mill. 23tf
Year: 1863

1t is but justice to Judge VAN TRUMP
and to the Democratic party to re-pub.
lish his speech before the Convention by
which he was nominated for the position
he now holds. He is our candidate foi
Supreme Judge. and is denied active par
ticpation in the political canvass. This
speech will, therefore, be read with re-
newed interest by the people of Ohio
Its force and appropriateness will be
recognized now as well as in 1862. 1t
is as follow
Year: 1863

The Democratic State Convention passed the
following resolutions unanimously, and they stand
as The creed OF the United Democracy of Cali
fornu-


Resolved. That the Democracy of the State of
California are in favor OF an unatcrable adher-
Hnce to the Constitution of the United States
with all its guarantees of civil liberty unim-
paired.


Resolved, That we are in favor of the restora-
ton and preservation of the whole American
Union; that we recognize to the fullest extent
the right and duty Of the Government to resist
by every Constitutional mode rebellion or insur-
rection against its lawful supremacy: but we re-
cognze that right solely for the purpose of restor-
ing its constitutional authority and for no other
purpose whatsoever.


Resolved, That it is the duty of the State of
California, rs a member of the Union, to yield
obedience TO all constitutional acts of Congress
and the Federal Executive. and that any indivi-
dual, OF any party. who shall cndeavOr to incite
insurrection or rebellion within her borders. or
disafiection and dscord among her people. is a
traitor to her best interests.


ReSofred That the aim and object of the Demo-
cratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and
the rights of the several States unimpaired: and
they hereby declare that they do not consider the
administrative usurpation of extraordinary and
dangerous powers not granted by the Constitu-
ton the subvcrson of the civil by the military
law in States not in insurrection or rebellion.
the arbitrary military arrest, Imprisonment trial
ana sentence OF American citizens in such Stat es
where clvll law exists in full regn-the suppress
sion OF freedom of speech and of the press the
open and avowed disregard of State rights the
ianatcal attempt to place the negro on social
and political equality with the white race and
the employment of unusual test Oaths--as calcu
lated to preserve or restore union of the several
States or perpeuate government deriving its
JUST powers from the consent of the governed"


Hesolped. That we are opposed to al secret
political organizations and societies. as danger
GUS to the liberties of the people and destructive
to our republican form of Government


Res0(red, That we claim and demand as inal-
ienable rights, freedom of thought, freedom of


peech, and OF the press, and further declare that
government agents should at all times be held to
strict accountability to the people, and that all
errors OF such agents should be liable to full and
free discussion for the purpose of correction by
the ballot-box.


Resolced That we denounce and uuouali6edlv v
condemn the Emancipation Proclamation of the
President OF the United States as tending it to
protract indefinitely civil war, incite servile in
surrection. aud inevitably close the door forev er
to restoration of the union of these States


Resofred. That we disapprove of all Congress
sional laws tending to substitute a paper curren-
cy in California in place of our own metallic cir.
culating medium


Resolved, That the spirit and meaning Of the
Democratic Platform of this State are compro-
missed in the words. ''The Constitution as it il
and the Union as it was.'
Year: 1863

ALL Equal HEHE.--It is related Of the
Duke Of Wellington, that once when he re-
mained TO take the sacrament at his parish
church, very poor old man had gono up the
opposite aisle, and reaching the communion
table, kneIt down close by the Duke; some
one-a pew owner, probably - came aud
touched the poor man on the shoulder, whis-
pered to move further away, or to rise and
wait until the Duke had received the bread
and wine But the eagle eye and the quick
ear Of the great commander caught the
meaning Of the touch and that whisper. He
casped the old mans hand, held him, to
prevent his rising, and in reverenta un
dertone, but most distinctly said: "Do not
move-we are all equal here"
Year: 1863

This officer, who was promoted for bis gal
Ian, bearing on the field of Wilderness and
Charlottesville, is a native of Lynchburg,
as before stated in this paper, we believe
He has eeen some very hard fighting in this
war, especially at Seven Pines, where he re
ceived painful wound. He has always dis
tinpuished himself; but at Wilderness his
prominence and signal bravery in battle were
such, indeed, as to extort promotion, had
there been any reluctance in according it-an
idea that is forbidden by the promptness with
which it was done. He graduated in the Vir-
einia Military Institute in lS4S, in very dis
tineuished class, which has furnished some
yery fine officers for the Confederate service
A correspondent in the Sentinel states that,
lust be fore the war broke out, the Chair OF
Natural and Experimental Philosophy, held
by the illustrious jackson, was divided, the
expansion Of the school making such divisit
necessary A Chair of Applied Mechanics
was thus organized, aad to this chair General
Rodes was elected by tho unanimous vote OF
the Board of Visitors. He was, Therefore,
Professor elect Of this important department
of the Virginia Military Institute.
Year: 1863

RThc following is Judge Thomas en-
dorscmcnt Of the Conscription bill. Mr..
Thomas is a member Of Congress from Mass
achusstts, conservative Republican, and one
Of the best lawyers in the House:


"I do not rest the power OF Congress to
pass this bill upon the provisions OF the Con-
stitu,ion in relation to the militia. put 1t
upon the simple and clear provision which
gives to Congress the "power to raise and
support armies" and upon the absence OF
any provision Of the Constitution which lin.
its or restricts that power. In the nature OF
the thing. there can be no such limitation.
The powers OF Congress, within the scope OF
the Constitution. are supreme. and strike di-
rcctly to the subject and hold him in Its firm,
its iron grasp. repeat what at an early day
asserted upon this floor, that there is not
human being within the territory OF the
United States, black or white, bond or free,
whom this Government is not capable OF tax
ing in its right nand and using for its mill
tary service whenever the defense of the coun
try requires. and Of this Congress alone must
judge. The question Of use is n question ol
policy only"
Year: 1863

tree, on the ground and in the person Of Anhel-'
ger, who had been hit over forty times IN the
hand, arm, right shoulder, ley an body. Few
have ever heard or read Of such conflict and
it would seem that the lone man in the end was
victorious. The trail of the sagsges was fol-
lowed until dark, but shower in the night un-
fortunately obliterated all traces Of it; yet, on
looking for it in the morning. they fell upon
the trail of ten Indians, three.on horseback and
seven on foot This was followed until the saw
ages were caught, charged upon, three of their
number killed, and two or three others wound.
ed, but who escaped. Whether it was the par
ay beaten off by Anheger never be known.
Year: 1863

THEY LIE, wILFULLY Who lie
Why, the men who make less Informed
people believe that JEFF. Davis is rightful
President, and Abe. Lincoln is trying to
usurp bis place. They lie who say the
draft is going to take thousands of men
from White Deer township alone. They
lie who tell men they can take their wheat
to Canada, then by railway back of the
Rocky Mountains, where the South will
pay them in gold for it.-Yct just these
lies, Copperheads in our own Union
county have made people believe!
Year: 1863

short, Two-thirds of the besieged army
are kept constantly in the field works aud
on the alert. Their only hope is in timely
relief by Johnston, and all intelligence
from the city indicates that it must come
within thirty days or it will come too late.
Superhuman efforts will be made to relieve
the besieged garrison, but with the facil-
tiles at hand, the Federal G Government will
stand without an excuse before the world,
If 1t falls to strengthen Grant even more
rapidly than the Confederate Government
can concentrate the troops under Johnston.
Ihere, seems to be no apprehension in
Grants army that they will not be able TO
maintain their position, press the siege
and repel attacks, and bring the campaign
to a glorious issue. This confidence we
doubt not rests upon the substantial
grounds of augmented numbers and good
generalship.
Year: 1863

being less severely treated because the ma
lignant poison had come from female
tooth? We know greatimany, otherwise
lovely, educated, refined and truly elegant
and estimable ladies, who have been bitten
by the mad-dog, secession, They con-
stantly exhibit the symptoms-and at the
sight or even the mention of the Union 90
into paroxysm of rage. Such ladies must
be confined. This, if it does not cure them
will at least prevent them from doing harm.
Gen. Kelley and Col. Frost will, we doubt
not, act with great discretion and mildness
but they must protect this community
from further spread of the terrible mall
ady we have referred to. &. % j
Year: 1863

The Supreme Court of the First Judi
cial District of the State of New York
has decided that 'greenbacks" are net
legal tender. We had no doubt that the
counts would thus decide when the ques-
ton came before them, because the Con-
stitution was sufficiently explicit upon
that point to convince any assemblage of
Legislators or judges, save an abolition
Congress.