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Year: 1864

The people are not disposed to treat
our Navy Department with that fair
ness it deserves. Intelligence comes
flashing over the wires that a rebel pri-
vateer has overtaken some of our mer-
chantmen and they have been destroy
ed, and at once the people condemn the
Navy Department for inetficiency.


For the benefit of those who are too
apt to complain without just cause, we
publish the following sensible article
from that renowned ship builder, Don
aid Mckay, published in recent issue
of the Boston Adrertiser. Mr.. McKay's
reputation entities his opinions to the
more consideration:


~ am well aware that the public has been
quite restless in relation to the movements of
dations of the Alabama, Florida and Georgia;
but il the facts were generally known they


sre II
tor Grimes, which YOU published some time
since, boldly asserted that the Alabama was
inferior in speed and fighting qualities to our
stoops of war, the truth of which was clearly
demonstrated in the recent glorious naval COM
sells of the right class to destroy these British ro-
vers, but to obtain sight of them. 1t is my de-
nberate opinion that almost any of our sloops
could easily overhaul the Florida in twelve
hours rum and bring her to action. The
counts of her great speed. from the size of the
vessel and her we'll known motive power, are
entirely incorrect. l do not believe she can be
driven more than twelve knots an hour under
steam alone for more than two three hours at
time. If the public will only exercise a little
patience they will find that the Navy Depart
ment has not neglected its duty in this hour of
our national struggle, and that in the designs of
even the light-draft monitors it has acted with
more skill that many have believed. These ves-
sells were a bold experiment, an innovation up
on all previous notions of iron-clads, and could
not be expected to be wholly perfect at first, but
l am confident that without change from the
first design, they would be most valuable for
home defense. To make them available for
action in Southern waters in all weather, the
proposed improvement is necessary"
Year: 1864

nsA Persons who have friends prison.
ers in rebel hands must possess their
souls in patience. The efforts for the
renewal of an exchange of prisoners has
not thus far been successful, and there
is no immediate prospect Of a general
exchange, the rebels not being disposed
to accede to any equitable arrangement
But it is believed that recent exposures
of their cruelty have induced a change
in the treatment of our men. For the
rest we must look to Providence and
Generals Grant and Sherman to end the
war, and let out our imprisoned heroes
at the same rent whereby the rebellion
parts with its foul life.
Year: 1864

Aa The Richmond Dispatch is very
angry over the capture of the Alabama.
1t says that Winslow had covered his
ship with chain armor and then nailed
planks over it to give it the appearance
of a wooden ship. This it pronounces
infamous, and says Had such foul
advantage been taken over one knight
by another in the days of chivalry, the
perpetrator would have had his spurs
hacked off by the common hangman,
his arms reversed, his name stricken
from the roll of honor, and his carcase
earth, until the birds of the air had torn
his eyes from their sockets. What must
be the sense of honor of that Govern
ment which can encourage such damn
ing infamy in it's officers "'
Year: 1864

p@ The Copperheads are very fond
of telling how long this war has lasted,
how many lives and how much money
it has cost. Will they endeavor to fig
ure up how long it would have lasted,
how many lives and how much money
it would have cost, if they had not op-
posed the war? Their accusations
against the war are so many confessions
of their own treason. On their own
heads rest the greater portion of the
waste and bloodshed of the war. They
could hav aided the Government to close
it long ago. The war would never have
begun had not the rebels reposed well
founded confidence upon the aid which
the Copperheads would afford them, by
opposing the efforts of the Government
to put down rebellion.
Year: 1864

The following is the paragraph in the
Newark IN. j. Journal, for which the
District Attorney commenced prosecu-
ton against the editor under the law to
punish the Indictment of resistance to
the draft:


1t will be seen that Mr. Lincoln has called for
another half million Of men, Those who desire


All others will stay home and defy Old Abe and
his minions to drag them from their families
once put their feet down and insist that not a
man shall be forced out of the State to engage in
the abolition butchery, and swear to die at their
the dictates OF that mad, revolutionary fanati-
cism which has destroyed the best government
the world ever saw, and would now butcher its
remaining inhabitants to carry out a mere ia
natical sentiment. This has gone far enough
and must be stopped. Let the people rise as one
man and demand that this wholesale murder
shall cease. -n'
The above reasonable language is sim
liar to that which appeared in the Mus
catine Courier on the same subject. We
give one or two extracts: a.y.s,l
"The fiat has been proclaimed! King Abra-
ham Africanus demands five hundred thou
blood! Five hundred thousand husbands, fa-
theirs and sons to be dragged from desOlate
homes, to lay down their lives for Lincoln's





Let the Northwest speak out, and say for
itself whether the people court another draft
To do this let township, county and State mass
meetings OF peace men be held all over the
Northwest. Let these meetings pass resolutions
informing the President that he has been i'm
posed upon by such men as Arnold The right
of the people to assemble and to petition the
Government is still constitutional provision.
Now, let the peace men exercise this right, and
soon King Abraham will learn that there are
limits to which even the wickedness of an i'm


beetle despot can go.


I'VE have had war enough. The people be-


lieve this. Now let them talk it out. If they
have not the courage to tell Mr.. Lincoln to his
teeth that they have had enough of war, let
them stay at home and be drafted. For our part
proaches for enforcing the draft. We believe
that the fate of the nation rests upon Mr.. Lin
coins not succeeding in drafting 1900 more
men. Here is the turning point in the country's
disunion a fixed fact No more men and the
Union may be saved through peace" l,l


Yet this licentiousness of the press
this stirring up of the people to revolt
this giving laid and comfort to the
enemy'-is claimed as freedom of the
press which must not be interfered
with. We appeal to sober, thinking
men whether, when riot and murder


has followed this incendiarism, as in


New York last year, it can claim immu-


nifty as freedom of the press.
Year: 1864

DI A mischievous boy at Portland is
said to have lately tied couple of cats
together by their tails, and hung them
on clothes dryer, in order that he
might have the satisfaction of seeing
them flight it out on that line" One
feline was soon defunct, and the other
nearly so.
Year: 1864

BA The question is now presented for
final decision to every loyal man Shall
the eight millions of the South conquer
the twenty millions of the North and
destroy their Government? The Cop
perheads surrender. What say the loyal
masses? s.
Year: 1864

We trust that as the Presidential can
vass advances, the great loyal body of
the Union party will show that they will
tolerate no personal altercatiOns-tha
they will put the ban upon them as hos
tile and fatal to the Union cause. The
party cannot afford to be patient with
men who think more of their own re-
sentiments than of the interests of the
country. The millions who make upthe
party are themselves controlled by pub
lie considerations only; and they have a
right to insist that this shall be the all
ruling spirit of the party. If this can
be secured, the triumph of the party is
certain. There is that in the Baltimore
ticket and platform which will surely
overcome all opposition, unless it be be-
trayed by false friends. No observing
man doubts that the majority of the
people are for the prosecution of the war
until the rebels are subdued into an un-
conditional submission. That determin-
alton finds its only clear exponent in the
declared policy Of the Union party
The Opposition party will, and of neces-
sity must, go before the people either
with peace propositions outright, orwith
half-and-half, milk-and-water resolu-
tons that will express neither princi-
pie nor purpose. In spite of all the VEN
ON which the Copperheads will emit
against President Lincoln, and all their
Misrepresentation of the cause to which


he is committed, the great loyal, treason


hating majority of the people will stand
fast to the real issue and give an over
whelming vote for the maintenance of
the war, if those who act in the name of
the Union party truly devote themselves
to its thorough organization and the
concentration of its patriotic spirit. Let
there be an end of every old ranking,
every unpleasant memory; and let ev-
cry man who cares for the deliverance
of his country from it's terrible dangers,
know no purpose but to do his utmost
toward re-electing the President who is
pledged unreservedly never to yield to
the rebellion.-N Y. Times, July Is.



DsA. In 1861 the Federal soldiers called
the rebels "Secesh )" in 1862, "Confeds;"
in 1868, "Grey backs; ~ and in 1854 they
call them "Johnnies." A correspondent
gives us the following information about
the origin of the last named sou6riq,4et !:
The name of Johnny originated in a
quarrel between couple of pickets
which began by the Federal telling the
rebel that they (the rebels) depended on
England to get them out of this scrape
which the rebel denied emphatically,
saying they were able to scrape them
selves out. One word brought on an
other, until the Federal said his oppo-
nent was no better than Johnny Bull
anyhow; the Reb. swore he would shoot
Yank. if he called him a Johnny Bull
again. The quarrel was stopped by an
other picket, and they soon cooled
down, but the Reb. kept muttering 'I'd
as soon be called nigger as Johnny
Bull"
Year: 1864

The Ohio State Journal, of the 9th,
says:


Strange as it may appear to citizens of
this place, we have good evidence for
asserting that there is now being organ
lied, not only in this city, but through
out the country, secret oath bound clan
for the purpose of resisting the draft. A
prominent Democrat-a War Democrat,
was approached by person who is
known to be hostile to the prosecution
of the war-in other words, a "peace
man "-who wished to rent certain
hall in this city, and in conversation
with him in regard to the object for
which it was to be used, told him the
secret. .-t.


People may think this all bosh, that it
is got up for sensation item-a scare,
etc., but the truth will burst upon them
one of these days with astounding force.
There are men in our midst who are
prepared to meet such an emergency
with it's attendant horrors-men who,
when a small reverse to the Union
troops happens, can be seen in groups
chuckling over the news, and if per-
chance Union man passes by, will put
on long face and in a dolorous voice
recite the sad disaster, and with pious
sigh, wonder when this "cruel war"
will be over.
Year: 1864

Both these papers are engaged in lying
against the Administration. Would it
not be we'll for them to have some UNDER
standing between each other, so that
when both are discoursing in reference
to the same subject matter they shall be
able to tell the same lie?
Year: 1864

Total number o Delegates ...... ,2S4
The Committee recommend the counties that have not
already held conventions for the purpose To assemble in
their proper places early day appoint delegates
in accordance with the foregoing basis and to perfect an
open and thorough organization Of all who in favor Of
tanning the Union of the States and the Government
of our fathers and all opposed TO the corrupt destructive
and revolutionary abolition party Of the National and
State Administrations


By order Of the Committee.


GEO. McOUAT,
indianapolis, June 8, lsG4 Chairman
Year: 1864

The following is an extract from a speech
delivered by one Ogilyie Byron Young, at a
ratification meeting in Charleston. on the
evening following the surrender of Fort Sump-
ter:


g 1t is well for him Lincoln1 that there
is a popular movement in the South opposed
to his ascension to the Chair of State twill
save his head. For, rest assured, my coun-
trymen, that if the South shall prove herself
50 derelict, demoralized. degenerated. and so
lost to all honor and shame, as not to resist
to the very DEATH this cunning outrage upon
her honor and rights, more than one Ameri-
can Brutus would emerge from the moral de-
generation of the times, and the efemnacy
of the age, to wipe out the vile stains of his
country's pollution, and wrest her proud es-
cutcheon. at the dagger's point, from the van
dal grasp of the servile despot. And, if none
other can be found, this good right hand, that
was never raised to harm mankind except in
self-defence, would leap with JOY to the high
responsibility of driving the dagger to the
mscreant's s heart-and for that | should feel
that deserved well of my country, and of all
mankind For shall have saved from dis
honor that Old Arm Chair, over which the
raven wings of Black Republicanism has new
er lowered, and in which guilty shame never
sat-that chair, c0nsecrated. and made sa-
cred by the virtues of Washington, immortal
lied, by the intellect and wisdom ofa Jetfer
son, and illustrated by the yalor and heroism
of jackson. And haEing thus saved my
country from this deep and damning disgrace,
If, perchance, | might escape the halter or
the bullet of the lurking foe, | would live on
in the calm serenity of a conscience void of
offense. assured that ] had acted well my
part in the great drama Of life. But if
should fall, if the scaffold or the dungeon
should betide me, would die in the full as
suFanee that postqrity would vindieate the in
tegrity of my name, through all time from
oblivion.


mo, my countrymen, | would never die.
&c. South Carolina-the young morning
star of An2erican glory-has, to day, bid fare
well, a long farewell, to an ignominieus
Union, to geek elsewhere, by her own strong
arm and determined will, an asylum from
outrage, violence. and wrong. She Will not
long be alone in her glory. Before another
moon shall hang her pale crescent in the
midnight heavens, star after star will shoot
from these discordant spheres, until the whole
Southern hosts will follow in her radiant
wake, and sing together the gloria IN ercelsis
of their second birth-a birth of the spirit
and of FIRE.


"The spirit of ''7G' is abroad in the land,
animating every Southern heart and the
habtismal fires Of the Revolution are descend
ing"


! G.. IL al
Year: 1864

Be frank with the world. Frankncss is
the child of honesty and courage. Say just
what you mean to do on every occssien, and
take it for granted you mean to do what is
right. IF friend ask you favor, you shall
grant it if it is reasonable if it is not, tell
him plainly why you cannot. You will


wrong him and wrong yourself by equivoca-
ton of any kind. Never do wrong thing


to make friend or to keep one the man


who requires you to do SO, is dearly pur-
chased and at sacrifice. Deal kindly aud
firmly with all men; and you will find it the
pelicy which wears the best. Above all,
do not appear to others what you are not.
If you have any fault to find with any one,


tell him, not others, of what you complain.
There is no more dangerous experiment
than that of undertaking to be one thing
to mans face, and another behind his
back. We should live, act and speak out
OF door. as the phrase is, and say and do
what we are willing should be known and
read by all men. 1t is not only best as o
matter Of principle, but as matter of policy.
Year: 1864

Gen. Hooker was at Toledo on the 10th
making hurried examination of the bar.
Dor for defensive purposes. The Blade says


On his way from the depot to the tug, be
stopped at the Board Of Trade Rooms to
get chart OF the river and bay AS soon
as he entered the room il was filed with
citizens, and he was completely fanked. -
Seeing no way Of escape, he surrendered
Handsomely in a neat and patriotic little
speech. Upon being introduced to the
gathering by Harry Chase, Esq, President
Of the Board Of Trade, he spoke as follows


GENTLEMEN: | am glad TO meet you here
to- day. Ny time and attention are entirely
occupied with official duties. / was called
from Chicago to Sandusky, and nov stop
here for few hurried examinations, and
must then pass On.


said | was g lad to meet yeu. l am
specially glad to do so under such favorable
auspices. Everything looks bright for our
country. The work which the people ae-
complishsd the day before yesterday will do
more to put down this rebellion than any
thing done before. 1t was the greatest vic
tory of the war The hopes based upon the
Peace Party Of the North, have long been
the chief prop of the rebels. They have
been struggling along against defeats and
difficulties fer a long time, in the hope that
the Presidential election of 1864 would
bring them relief They we'll know that
armistice and negotiations mean nothing
less than separation and dissolution Of tho.
Union, and hence their dependence upon
the Peace Party.


The managers Of the Chicago Convention
are dangerous men. Ohio sent one who
claims to have put into the platform Of that
convention the declaration that the war was
failure. That man claims to be Dem
ocrat. l never was anything else thsn .
Democrat, but | repudiats al such as him.
He never had drop OF Democratic blood
in bis veins. am satisfied from what
heard in Chicago, that one half of the
convention that nominated Mcclellan might
DO indicted for treason. The name Of JEFF.
Davis was cheered there oftener than Nc
Clelan's. The Democratic party neverfail-
ed to stand by its country in times of trial
and danger, and it never will. The only
Democracy now existing in this county
was represented at the recent meeting Of
the War Democrats of New York. They
spoke my sentiments


do not rejoice in this result because /
am SO much friend of the President, as !
do for the success of the cause he repre-
sents and | would support any man for the
sake Of that cause.


Gentlemen, thank you for your kind
moss on this occasion. have already said
more th an / intended to say.
Year: 1864

WHOM TO MARRY.--When q young wo-
man behaves to her parents in q manner
particularly affectionate and respectful, from
principle as well as nature, there is nothing
good and gentle that may not be expected
from her IN il whatever condition es she may be
choice of his wife. my first counsel would be,
.'look out for pious girl: distinguished for
fund of worth and affection indicated BY BY
such behavior. jeined to the habits of duty
ing as a rude, to render her mild, obiigins
and invaluable companion for life."
Year: 1864

ADVANTAGES OF WoNAN--A woman
says what she chooses without being knock
cd down for it. She can take snoeze af
ter dinner, while her husband goes to work.
She can 60 into the streets without being
asked to "stand treat" at every saloon
She can paint her face if it be too pale, and
powder it if too red. She can stay at home
in time of war, and get married again if her
husband he killed. She can wear corsets if
too thick-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 che cannot "pop the
question"
Year: 1864

ltt,CoME here, my lad" said an attorney to
boy about nine years old. "a case is be-
tween the devil and the people which do you
think will be more likely to gain the action p
The boy replied: " guess it will be . hard
squeeze; the people have the motley, but the
devil has the most LAWYERS"
Year: 1864

Mr. Too1lts' remark that "it Vas not that
man but another man." the public will OBJ.
eerye that he runs to the same conclusion,
whichever way his address is worded. That
conclusion Is that the Uulon ought not to be
restored BY force Of arms, that 1t ought not
to be restored in the only way that 1t can be
restored.


As to the remainder Of Mr. McCormick's
letter We hare only to reply that We never
supposed him to be any worse thsd the Chi
cago platform. He writes to assure us that
he is no better. We are glad to find a can
didate who ayowB that be stands squarely on
that platform. He is a bird of rare p1umage.
Mr. Mccormick and Mr. Pendleton arc the
OILY ones We know Of and unless they shall
be promptly secured by some enterprising
museum the race will be extinct.
Year: 1864

The power Of wife for good or evil. is


irresistible. Home must be the seat Of
happiness, or must be fJreyef unknown


A good wife is to man, wisdom, and
strength, and endurance. A bad one is
confusion, weakness, discomfeiture and
dIsrafr. No condition is hopeless where
the wife possesses frmness, decisioa and
economy. There is no outward prosperity
which can ctunteract incidence, exlrava-
eence and folly at home No spirit can
long endure bad domestic inference. Man
Is strong, but his heart is not aiamcnt.-
He delights in enterprise and action. but
TO sus'ain him he needs n tranquil mind,
and whole heart. He needs his mora |
force in the conflicts of the world. To
recover his equanimity and composure,
home must beto him place of reposc,
of peace, Of cheerfulness, Of comfort and
bis soul renews its strength again, and
goes forth with fresh visor to encounter
the labor and troubles Of life. But if at
home he finds no rest, an! is there met
with bad temper, sullenness or gloom, or
is assailed by discomfort or complaint,
hope vaoishes, aud he sinks into despair
Year: 1864

the road, and continued on until | came
to wood, into which l penetrated 70. hall
a mile, and there struck FIRE and cooked
the ANIMAL, which | devoured with a
gusto l have since wanted for much
better meal / then went some distance
from the ERE, lay down and went to sleep.
| also slept some the next day, keeping
myself concealed in the woods, and the
next night | went back to the road and
pushed on as before


Thus | continued to work my way
northward for several days, till at last |
was challenged by a sentry in blue, when
! almost tainted for Joy at finding myself
once more within the Federal lines


[ have not in this narrative exposed
the noble celonel-God bless him to
whom | an indebted for my liberty, and,
perhaps, for my life. The officer for
whom | was TO have been held, was hang
as spy, and doubtless the same fate
would have been mine had not effected
my escape
Year: 1864

now defied will mention in conclusion
a few facts. Between the lst of May
and the lst Of June no less than twenty
four vessels made the port of Whining
ton safely, without .disaster Detailing a
single vessel. No wonder that piles
upon piles of Government goods are
stored here, awaiting, when there is less
strain upon the railroads, transportation
to Richmond and Atlanta. l am inform
ed by the Government agent here that in
his whole experience he has never lost a
single outward bound letter. A gentle~
man at Bermuda Hundred, the. agent of
an eminent English firm, told me that
during two years he had sent an average
of three mails per month from Bermuda
and Nassau into Secessia, and that in
the whole time only two mails had been
lost.


shall defer until my arrival in Rich~
mond any remarks upon the condition of
military affairs in Virginia and Georgia
as l find them at this moment, briefly
that it is infinitely more en-
couraging in every respect than had
been led at Halifax to anticipate.