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Year: 1863

We yesterday cited the testimony of Timothy Tit
comb to the fact that the so-caled reformers" and


philanthropists" of New England are of all among
their contemporaries and compatros in that prosperous
and intelligent portion of country the most
for their acrmony and consciousness The popular and
graceful writer who under this de plume has won an
eminent place in American letters is known by all our
readers to be Dr. Holland, of Springfield
whose experience, not only candid observer but as
public journalist has necessarily brought him into frequent
relations with the whose character he paints from
lfe With warm sympathy for all that pertains to the
cause Of freedom and progress, Dr. Holland naturally
finds little to admire in the who preach the gospel Of
universal benevoence in words of blasting denunciaon
hurled at all who refuse to accept their own peculiar
notions of social reform. The Goddess of Liberty he
thinks must turn away from the altars which, erected
her name reek only with the sitting fumes of human pas
sion and hate, knded by the strange fires of burning
but unhallowed zeal If Slavery has her votaries who
burn the kind Of incense her shrine it is with him
only additional why those who possess higher
religion should derive their inspirations from the wisdom
that from above rather than that which springs
from bitter envyng and strife in the heart.


The portrait he draws of those who widely depart


from the spirit and temper of the Christian phanhropst
is as follows We quote from Timothy Titcomb's LES
sons in Life read in the Essay on Men Of One
idea !"


The whole tribe Of professional agtators and mlscaled
reormers of one idea That these men do good
sometimes directly and frequently indirectly, do not
deny and it equally evident that they do great deal
of HARM the worst of which perhaps falls upon themselves
Like the charge of they do damage enemy
fotfcaons but they burn up the powder there s in them
and lose The ball Like blind old Samson they may pros
trate the pillars of great wrong but they crush them
selves and the Phistnes together, The greatest and
truest reformer that lived was Jesus Christ but
ah the difference between His broad aims, universal
sympathes and overaowing love- and the malignant spirit
that those who augy beat themselves to death
against instituted wrong As illustration look at
those who have been the prominent gators Of the slavery
question in this country for the last twenty years
they Of charity Are they Christian men Is not
nvectve the chosen and accustomed language of their
ps7 Do they not follow those against whom they have
opposed themselves whether for good otherwise
into their graves with endish lust of cruelty and do
they not delight to rampe upon great and sacred
memories Are they men whom we love DO we feel
attracted to their society Teachers Of toeration are
they not the most ntolerant Of all living Denoun
Of bgotry they not the most fercey bgoed Of
any have Preachers Of love and good will to
men, do they not forcbly than any other class
the power Of words to wound and poison human sensi
Year: 1863

Extract from Washington Letter Of July 10Th.


Early in June last Committee of Louisiana Planters
(whose given in the correspondence which fol-
ows) waited upon President LINCOLN, at the White
House, with apeon in behalf of the great planting inter
eats of the State for authority from the General Govern
ment to proceed to the election Gin November nex) OF
Federal and State officers in of the Constitution
of the United States and of the existing State Constitution
Of Louisiana. The President heard the committee re-
ceved their proposition in writing, and courteously dis
missed them with the promise that after Cabinet consul
taon the subject the committee should have his reply
There accordingly Cabinet consultation and the re
suit given in the Presidents letter. herwith transmitted
Year: 1863

BY GALES & SEATON.


JAMES G. wELLINa, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
The subscription price of this paper for year is Two
DOLLARS, payable in advance.


Areducton of 20 per cent oneth Of the full charge)
will be made any who shall order and pay for at
iime ten copies of the Weekly paper and reduction Of
5 per cent or oneourth of the full charge) to any
who will order and pay for at time twenty or more
copies.


No accounts being kept for this paper it will be sent
to any unless paid for advance anyOnger than
the time for which it is paid.
Year: 1863

While the Government Of tho United
States is menaced with treason at the Nor;h
the rebels are much worse off: for there they
are beginning to have open rebellion to con
tend with. In Northern Georgia, and South.
western Sou,h Carolina, the citizens quite
generally resist the conscript act, and Gen,
Lee has found it necessary to compel their
obedience by force. This is but the COM
mencement Of popular outbreaks that will
soon give the rebel leaders trouble.
Year: 1863

We dislike to be misunderstood, and yet
we are, probably as often rs any person who
ever wrote an article for newspaper. But
we arc always misunderstood by fanatical
pariizans, and by none other. One moment
we are cursed for being al abolitionist, and
the next we are charged with going over to
tho democrats. Now we care mol a penny
what people say about as, for anything wo
publish but If We can set any person
Alright with regard to our position, We will
cheerfu!ly do So more for their own good
than our own. - 60


Wo advocate what we think is right
& though the heavens fall" il matters no,
from whence the matter OF tho subject emf
rates There is good and there is evil in
all party, though fana,ical par,izan m,ght
not be able to discoverit. When we see any
thing good We are bound to approve it. and
what Is bad We will condemn, even though
it bring the "sho. and shell" Of an army OF
ang~y partizans about our head. So let it
be understood that we are, first of all for
the Onion and the Constitu:ion-for their
protection by any, anl By every means
That we are a Republican in fai,h but do
not hesitate to say there are dishonest men
in that party as we'll as in any other; that
wo will a' readily condemn dishonesty in it
as anywhere else : that we believe tho re.
beIion can b. more easily crushed by The
perfect unity Of the people OF the North, in
dependent Of any party ard finally that
we will sustain the present or any admins.
tration that may follow, in every etfort 10
save tho Un,on.
Year: 1863

to the summer retreats, and 1t has not yet been
resumed Instead of thinking about the water
ing places, everybody is now thinking about the
war, and conjecturing what will be the issue of
the next battle, upon which 80 much depends.
For the present, therefore, those who would
otherwise be at the watering places take
their recreation In the Park; and as the Park
is now more beautiful than ever, we do not
know but that our citizens might only 60 farther
to fare worse.
Year: 1863

INCREASED ACTIVITY or THE BLocKADE Run
NERs-NEGLIGESCE SoMEwHERE.-lt will be seen,
by statement published in another column.
that there had arrived at Nassau within few
days no less than eight vessels from Charleston,
and five from Wilmington, N. G. These, no
doubt, all contain valuable cargoes of cotton,
and the impunity with which they have run the
blockade does not reflect much credit on the
vigilance Of our cruisers. If the vessels com
posing our blockading squadron are too slow to
put stop to the traffic, steps should be taken
to replace them by others better adapted to the
work. We would fain believe that this Is the
explanation Of the facility with which British
vessels run past our cruisers both In and out of
Southern ports We cannot for a moment credit
the assumption put forward BY one Of our con-
temporaries, that ii Is to the pecuations
charged against the prize courts here the fact
Is owing II Is no doubt very hard for cur
brave sailors TO be cheated out Of their prize
money; but they have too much patriotism TO
allow such consideration to weigh with them
for moment. AT the same time II Is the duty
Of the government to see that they are fairly
dealt with, and that the oormorants who fatten
upon the fruits Of their hard labors and watch
ings are brought to speedy account
Year: 1863

we may fairly conclude that he will not run
the risk Of war with this country. The peo-
pie of France would not submit to the conse-
quences it would entail upon them; and the
Emperor, being well aware of this, will suit his
policy to circumstances, and not run counter to
the desires of his subjects, who have 80 recently
given him warning which he perfectly under
at0od
Year: 1863

THE RECENT CHANGE or MINISTRY IN France
ITs SrGNFTcANCE-The displacement of Persigny
and Walewski, and their substitution by new


and untried men, are events of no small impor-


tance in the present position of European


affairs. They are the logical results of the
electoral successes Of the opposition in the De-


partment of the Seine. Previous to these mat
ters were assuming very much the same aspect
a. they wore under the administration of Guizot,
when the demands for an extension Of electoral
franchise, made through the public banquets
everywhere held in France, were so obstinately
and foolishly resisted by Louis Philippe and
his Minister. Had those demands been com
piled with, and the franchise enlarged to the
moderate extent Of hundred thousand votes
there is every reason to believe that the
Orleans family would to this day have kept
possession Of the throne.


Louis Napoleon is too cautious and farsiehted
to make similar mistake. His system Of per-
sonal government has been strained to a point
which can no longer be borne by the French
people. The recent triumphs Of the opposition
convinced him that between It's relaxation and
the downfall Of himself and family il was neces-
sary to make . speedy choice. Were he to
wait until next year. when the opposition
would be certain to sweep the provinces as
they have swept Paris, the alternative would
not be left him. Like wise man, he yielded
his own will when he found that he
could not bend that Of his people. In
this he has profted by the political
lessons which he received in England. There
the aristocracy only maintain their ascendancy
by resisting popular encroachments as long as
they can do so with safety, and yielding when
the point Of danger is reached. II is this close
watchfulness of the signs Of the times that con-
stitutes the real strength Of Napoleon. Divested
Of 1t he would be q very ordinary sovereign
indeed-as inarm Of purpose and blundering,
perhaps as our own rulers.
Year: 1863

to re-establish the rightful authority of the
Union; but neither New York. nor Pennsyl-
vana, nor Ohio. nor Illinois, will consent to
delay this paramount object of reunion in order
to continue the war for the abolition of South
ern slavery and the reconstruction of the Union
upon the platform ofnegro equality.


We believe that the opportunity is at hand
when the proclamation Of an amnesty, as pro-
posed by Mr.. Seward, will put an end to the
war and secure the triumph of the Union. The
people Of the States committed to jeff Davis
cannot fail now to perceive that his cause is
hopeless; that his armies are beaten beyond re-
covery, and that against the overwhelming
power of a united North further resistance is
vain and suicidal. But on the other hand, let
President Lincoln reject those pernicious aboli
ton counses, which, if followed, will bring ruin
upon his administration, and the country into q
state of political turmoil and anarchy the end
of which will be dissolution, foreign interven-
tion, and two or three or half . dozen petty
confederacies.
Year: 1863

THE SATANIC POLITICIANS AT WORK IN WASH
MaroN.-Recently the radical politicians have
congregated in Washington from three of
the cardinal points Of the compassionate,
west and north. Conspicuous among them are
the members Of the Satanic Committee. Wilson,
Wade, Chandler, Hamlin and the rest are ply
ing their vocation as busily as bees. They
have discovered that General Meade is, after all,
eligible to the Presidency, and, what is still
worse, that he is conservative, as far as he has
any politics. In fact he is not man suitable
to be tool for the radical faction, though most
valuable in warding off danger in the hour Of
need. Already, therefore. they begin to de-
preciate his victory, and say that he ought to
have bagged Lee; while some of them express
doubt that he has won any victory at all.
One of their 0rgans-the New York Times
chimes in with their ideas, by representing our
loss as far greater than that of the rebels, and
warns the public against believing the con-
trary. The special correspondent Of that
journal, protesting to derive his facts
and figures from semi-official sources, sets down
the losses of the Union army In the late battle
a. seventeen thousand, whereas the loss of the
rebels in killed, wounded and prisoners only
amounted to fourteen thousand five hundred.
It was in this way that they ran down General
Mcclellan and intrigued against his success.
Already they are playing the same game in the
case of General Meade. Why has he not bagged
Lee. Let Halleck aud Stanton answer They
have the control Of all the military forces Of the
country. HGeneral Meade had not sufficient
numbers to capture Lees army the admins
tration at Washington alone are to blame; and
they have listened to the malignant counsels Of
the Satanic COMMITTEES, who are determined
that no general shall succeed who does not play
into their hands
Year: 1863

Upon this subject the Springfield Repubi-
can has the following suggestive paragraph
One of our high state officials lately received
letter from the COMMITTEE on education In
the Missouri legislature, to the effect that as
Missouri was to become a free state by the ac-
tion of its present legislature, and that not
through the mere good pleasure of tn" legis-
lature itself, but because the people demand
ed it, the next thing to be provided for was
system OF popular education. And as tho
engrafting of the Massachusetts, system upon
the newly made free state offered the readiest
as well as the best means of securing the OBJ
ject desired. all of our educational reports and
such german information as could be- Furnish
ed otherwise, were solicited. To our mind
this looks marvelously like realization OF
that darling dream of the copperheads-
ing Massachusetts ont In the cold. The pre-
sumption is that when Missouri shall have be-
come free state, with the zeal and enthnsi-
asm of a new convert to the true faith, she
will find herself in infinitely closer sympathy
with our old Commonwealth than with the half
converted and doubtfuly inclined free states
more Immediately upon her borders, The
copperheads of Indiana and illinois will prob
ably wake up some Of these fine mornings to
find an uncomfortable ssire in the rear .
Year: 1863

Slowly did the hand of the Invisible roll back the
curtains of darkness that enveoped the earth Ooe bV
one did The breath Of the angels extneuish the star
lamps of Heaven And as The sun flung back the gor.
geous clouds that had veed his rising and sprang
up on h8 fiery course "as seed sprDgeth to the bat
te,hie the light of his couDtenance like the eve Of
fond mother beamed tenderly upon the infant earth
ha cherished-the Ghosts thereof" yelled and bowed
themselves at the near approach of their Creator and
their GGd
Year: 1863

HE MILITARY SlIUhIlON--TUE


RESPONSIBILITY.


An evening journal of a late date had a
dispatch from Washington stating that
Tho President, speaking of the military
operations on the Mississippi, said, che ex-
Pecled the best results, but was prepared
for the worst" Ii the worst comes. we
hope he will be prepared TO satisfy the
country that everything that could have
been done to avert it has been done.


We note this statement, and refer to it
now, in order that the government may
be apprized that the country, if called up
on 10 bear the reverse that is thus appar-
emily half forcshadowed, will require much
Information that it does not now possess
To convince it that the disaster could not
have been avoided.


We do not hesitate 10 make this sug-
gcslion, when We remember how the fl st
Bull Run fight was lost, and tue rebellion
set hrmly upon Its legs. while there were
Union soldiers enough to crush the traitors
twice over. teposing idly oil their arms
within hearing of the din of that battle
and when We farther remember how. ON
that same field, in the following summer,
Pope aud his gallant army were left to
contend for Two days against murdercus
odds. and finally to fall back, while more
than thirty thou'and men were allowed to
remain IN sullen if not treacherous inaction
at aud near Alexandra, hardly a DAYS
march from the field that was being made
drunk with the blood Of their compatriots
and when we remember how, still later
Hooker was perm itted ingloriously to re-
! linqu.h the field OF Chancelorville TO the
rebel army. lest $50 it is said) his com
munlcailons with his base Of supplies a
Aqua Creek should be cut off. although
national troops, amos, equaling in number
the whole rebel army opposed to him. la,
scattered ard unemployed around biz sanl
Year: 1863

and rear, not forty eight hours journy
from the scene of conflict


We shall believe, however, so long as
We can, that the government will not again
be chargeable with such fatal mismanage
ment. But it is well that it should bear
in mind that there Is limit TO all human
endurance, even when the suffering is in
ficted by ones most trusted friends
If Grant and his brave army shall be left
to be overwhelmed. and the nation be
again agonized with the spectacle of heca-
tombs of its children slain to no purpose,
the loyal millions will not quail nor sbate
one jot of their spirit. even in the presence
of so great calamity; but they may feel
that it would be no longer duty to toler-
ate the men in whom they had confded
and who only day after day have given
proof upon proof that they can neither
comprehend or grapple successfully with
the magnitude and the demands Of the task
before them.


We feel it our duty to tell the President
these things. The people believe in the
perpetuity of the Republic, but they can
not believe in eternal weakness. They
believe in the ultimate triumph Of tie na
tonal cause; but they cannot forever en-
dure chronic apathy and improvidence
that no experience, however sharp, anC
no adversely, however appalling, can slim
ulate or instruct. They demand at leas
the same foresight and vigor in promoting
their cause that its enemies exhibit in as
sailing it, The time is past for quiesnt
The country under inexcusable disaste
with assurances that tedious and long war!
and iucompctency in wagihg them are AZ
old as the world itself With unlimited
means, aud with powers, civil aud military
that are literally. despo,ic, placed in th'
hands of the President. there ought at thi
day to be no failures. We trust that til,


issue at Vick>burg will prove that there
will b. none, and that there is and end O
the system, or 10 system. which, if longe
continued. must waste away and consume
not the enemies of the Republic, but ths
Republic itself.
Year: 1863

The Boston Advertise Is disposed TO be
severe upon the speakers and audience at
the late Union Square mass meeting. 1t nei
ther likes what was said, nor the spirit
which was manifested OH that occasion =
But what else could the Advertiser ex-
pect? A few days since it admitted tha!
the arrest of Vallandigham would do in
fintely more mischief than Nallandigham
himself could accomplish at large W, re he
much more active and virulent than he
was. This meeting and the spirit it be
trayed showed that the Advertiser judg ged
correctly. But why blame the effect rath-
er than the cause? How absurd it would
be TO anathematizc the Mississippi river
for over flowing the land if party OF ma
MACS had cut away the levees? This is
Just wha. the administration has done and
i doing. They are tearing down the safe
guards of law, and as consequence, cha
os is coming AS wisely might the Ad-
vertiser blame the torrent or the storm as
the etulilions of popular wrath such as
those manifested at the meeting of last
Monday. The Evening Post of yesterday
proved by quotations from the acts OF the
last radical Republican Congress that the
arrest and subsequent disposition Of VAL


andlgham was in the very teeth Of the lat


ter and in defiance of the law. As enacted
by that body. Now if Mr.. Lincoln and
his associates in power can set asidc delib-
erately ordained laws made in THEN inter


est and by their own friends. can invade
the solemn guarantees of the Constitution,
and put at defiance the traditions of per
sonal liberty common to our race before
the United States were known among the
nations, what can We expect but al up.
heaval of the very foundations Of society
and an era of wide spread violence, disor-
der and lawlcssnesS. Let the President
desisl from his mad course, rebuke Burn
side and iIa>call. set Mr.. Vallandigham at
Liberty. with an ample apology, and over
his own signature solemnly promise to
hereafter do no violance to the Const;tu-
ton or the laws. and. our word for it, the
Advertiser viii never hear of another
meeting like that at Union Square. and
there will be no opposition to the enforce
ment of the conscription law, or any other
law of Congress. But it Is insanity to sup
pose that the administration can keep
planting its fell and murderous blows in
the very face Of the people without being
struck at in return.--N Y. World.
Year: 1863

We frequently hear of prominent Re.
publcans who boast that their party has
al organization in the free States by
which they expect TO enforce the oon


scription, and to single out Democrats fol
the political vengeance of the Administra


ton. They undoubtedly speak the trnth
There is eecret society devoted 10 sho
Year: 1863

Guyer, can only say that my comrads
speak highly of him. Lieut.. Bisbee is
in command of the company now, and is
much respected by all the men.


1t is very muddy here now, and the
little snow we have almost every night,
does not improve the parade ground
much. l think this a very unhealthy
location, and would be glad to be once
more where dry ground is predominant.


Yours truly, HORACE.