Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, June ~ leol'


10 expressing approval yesterday Of the inter-
psetatioDs of predatory law, as rendered by 'ne
Attorpe, General of Louisiana, / did not pass 70
the second branch Of the subject, but only con-
tenpated it in its Southern exposure. We may
thank tbem for having Furnished us with pre-
oedent which must shut their mouths 10 the
co,nplaiupg which will follow Just visitation OF
PENALTY. There viii and should be an equivalent
for our losses in credits from Southern pur-
ehasers aud our expenditure, heavy as 1t is, ior
ihe Quclling OF an insurrectiOn. Ii war cannot
he made 10 support war, the settlement wbicn
follows must bring with it indemnity. Not the
lives only of the leading rebels must answer Tor
their Nickedness, but their property also will be
made the lawful spoil of conquest. With the
eure Of the disorder and the eradication OF lis
eausos. must be paid the bill of the physician
mud he charge Of the nurse. Their goods and
ehattels are to be cOnisested to the State. lie
bounty which grateful Government are TO
pay TO the solder in our assured security ls
~ be taken from the wealth of the migrate
and rebel who, striving to destroy, has become
himself and what he has, the pay of the victor.





from an unreluctant soil, wrought by hands held
in bondage, the compensation for the danger ana
loss Of war is to be taken. Plantations shall
pass from old proprietorsbip to new possession
without the written transfer and the attestlng
notary. The title-deeds to fruitful roods shall
be written by the sword, and the challenged
tenure be referred net to the record OF con-
veyance, but to the rusty blade sheathed IN
scabbard, or the blackened muskets, silent in
their voices but most expressive and final in the
settlement of the disputed ownership. have said
before fhat' new circulation was to flow through
stagnant arteries and veins Freedom, defect
yng from her march across the Western prairie,
moves in dark and massive columns to lands of
more luxuriant growth under fercer sunbeams.


There is one region that more especially
claims attention and attracts to occupancy.
Spreading away toward the provinces Of Mexico
IA a State bought with money and with blood
paid for in full compensation by the men who
are now about to reclaim their estate. The
rich swales and bottom lands of the BrazOs and
the Rio Crande invite to the cultivation which
gives, in ailluent product, the yield to the hus
bandman. With the growth Of the Cotton and
Cane are the clusters Of the vine and the CRATE.
full flavor of the rich fruit of latitude at
once temperate and tropical in the agreeable
average of its thermal raoge.


We are bound by the provisions of the Joint
Resolution admitting Texas to form four States
of convenient size within its broad boundary.
The pledge is now to be redeemed, soldier Of
the Valley of the Great River With the gleam-
iog line Of your advance toward the Spanish
Main goes the new polity you to found.
The army of occupation is before you. From
the Oder aud the Danube the German hal
bridped the streams over which you are to pas
for the new home that is TO reward your enter
prise. With the baggage.wagon of your camp
furniture ia the canvas roof of the pioneer
vain, and the wife and children who are to Oc
capy the cabin which you shall build on the
Geld upon which you have fought, and enjoy il
virtue and good life the inheritance which de


scends to your valor. On the wasted frontier
where lord and serf have wrung from an abuse,
soil the small contribution of unthrilty tllage
the wheat harvest shall smile to the sickle, ant
the maize, golden in the sunshine shall plead
for the gathering hand If we do not attaint the
blood, we shall seize upon the landed estate held
by the commonwealth and by the single owner.
The gifts which are to be the reward of exposure
10 camp and casualty are net only the virgin
acres but the cultivated farm. We have given
fall value for all this, in negotinton and dona.
tive, and we again. in conquest, strengthen the
prior claim.


You do not believe this You caunot under.
stapd but that these men and States, when they
have played the warrisr long enough, will be al.
lowed to have amnesty and oblivion, and go on
ss if they had not invoked the justice of man and
the Judgment of God. You shall see as the do.
rama moves on, with its steady procession and
its vivid groupings


Understand who now passing into your
borders, and from whom they spring. But an
hour ago, there marched by my window regi-
ment as steady in column aud as perfect in dis
ripine as the Queens Guard. They came from
ander the shadow Of the monument on Bunker
Hill. Faneuil Hall has been their egis as IA
miliar as the homestead or the church. They are
tere FOR purpose, aud the cold phlegm of an
ancestry that dates back to Plymouth, and Shaw
nut, and Naumkcag is as hot as lava in the in
dignation of Lege subjects against lawless re.
belIion Every one Of them has q memory which,
silent in years of peace, comes up again in new
life with the harness of war. His father was
with Montgomery in that dismal night on the
precipce of Quebec, when defeat was made al
81.