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Year: 1863

We now and then hear a rumor that
Mcclellan is to be restored TO command,
and occasionally voice responds favor.
ably. But We are glad that SO few are
found base enough to ask for the re-
s'oration of this imtecie and traitor.


We unhesitatingly pronounce the
man fool or traitor who wishes Nc
Cleilan restored to the command of an
army after the developments Of his
treachery towards Pope. his duplicity,
envy and jealousy AS revealed by the
Committee on the Con Iuct of the War.
Hereafter the brand oil infamy mus,
forever attach to Mcclellan, because he
sacrificed Pope and the country to his
mean jealousy and grasping ambition


1t is our deliberate opinion that Ne
Clellan and Fi'z John Porter were one
in their base tleachery towards Pons
and That they both should have been
hung as traitors at the time they sacri-
iced the country TO carry out their own
selfish purposes. We believe tha. Por-
ter was but the cats paw which Nc
Cle''an used to gain his ends, and that
all the disgrace Of tie junior Of right
should attach to tie superior.


Ii We are mistaken in these views We
shall be most happy to have the facts;
but at present we cannot see the matter
in any other light. Mcclellan never
should have command until lie can
show a clean record.
Year: 1863

fence corner all night a. one end OF a
lane. the lest being at the other end;
and if they come we intended TO let
them pass about half way between us,
aud then fire into them. The boys at
the other end could then come up and
hem them in so as TO make them fight
or surrender. But they didn't come.


About / o'clock we heard volley
of shots towards Gardner, which prov
ed 10 be the FIRE of ten of our company
into guerrillas, killing .hree of them.
There are only 10 of us stationed here,
and we are expecting TO be attacked
every night. We have good for'liica-
,ions. and if they come we will give
them the best we have. l think we
can whip SO of them To one of us, the
way we are fixed. The citizens are
being organized and armed"
Year: 1863

HENRY CLAY UPON Civil WAR.-If
there be any who want civil war--who
want to see the blood of any portion of
our countrymen split am not one of
them. l wish TO see war of no kind; but
above all, / do not wish to see a civil war.
When war begins, whether civil or for
eigu, no human sight is competent to for
see when, or how, or where it is to terni-
nate. But when a civil war shall be
lighted up in the bosom Of our own hap
py land, and armies are marching, aud
commanders are winning their victories,
and fleets are in motion on our coast
tell me, if you can, tell me if any human
being can tell its duration. God alone
knows where such war would end. In
what state will be left our insiilntionsl 7
In what state our liberties In tie Sen
ate, Feb. II, 1888.
Year: 1863

Constitution p divided f,r. as areserved
force of the Union If. this measure
were adopted, there would be central
lied power. He would not say that the
President would make bad use. Of this
power, but he objected to the principal.
1t was always dangerous to centara lize
such immense power under one man.
Might not the fate Of France be that
If this country. Our f'refathcrs saw
the dangers and wisely placed checks
upon a too great centralization Of power


It has been sail that the life Of the ma
ton was at stake, he believed that the
liberties Of free people were Of more
Importance than anything else, and if
he were to choose between an Imperial
Government. stretching over tho whole
country and incluling Mexico and Can
ada, and two or three seperate Repu'
lies, he would have no hesitation IN
choosing the latter. -
Year: 1863

should never curse an honest people or
blot the pages of history again.
What is the Union worth if half the
States are to 'e governed blythe bayo-
net! We have tried the bayonet for
two years, anahave advanced back ward.
Upon the surposition that the people
North and South can comprehend their
interests, let us try the ballot a short
time. IF it fails, we shall then see
what is best to be done; ''but it will
not fail" 1t is precisely because it
will not fail that the advocates Of war
North and South fear it's trial.
Year: 1863

The following pertinent inquiries are
made by the Chicago Times:


If peace means disunion, what does
war mean? what advance toward the
restoration Of the government have we
madein two years ofvar? Whatassurance
can be given that our progress will be
different hereafter? The question to be
determined is our ability to suhjugate
the South. We mean by subjugation
the imposition of unconditional terms;
the enforcement of the emancipation ed.
Jet, the destruction Of State rights, and
a government in the seeded States of
force instead of law. These are the
terms now proposed by the administra
ton, and the war is carried on to enforce
them. ~ ..s.


We say they cannot be enforced, and
are told that we are for disunion. The
people know which party 1t is in the
Northern States that has favored t'let-
ting the Union slide." They want the
facts and figures that war means Union
and will result in Union. If peace and
war both mean disunion, certainly
peace is preferable.


The difficulty is that tho Union. as

understood by the people, is not desired
by the administration. H Nv often have
we been assure by tbosed who are now
for the war for the sake of tho Union,
and as the only means by which it can
be preserved the. 'the Onion az it ~.
Year: 1863

not so much for what you have done, as for what you have not. It would be no kindness to conceal from you, Uncle Abe, that dissatis- faction with ths weakness of yonr Administra- tion is very deeply seated and widely spread. People know very generally that gunpowder and milk don't mix well, and they are tired ot seeing the experiment continually repeated The late elections have been carried against you in the great Middle States simply for thls reason, and here in Connecticut though we just saved the State from electing traitor for Governor, we have him to thank for it, and not you. The hardest work we had was to get staunch Republicans to go to the polls-men who are disgusted with the slip-shod. nerveless way the war has been conducted, that they were almost willing to let the election go by default.

 But it is never too late to mend. We people are looking to you Uncle Abe, anxious to re place our lost confidence. will tell you. se nously and kindly, how you can win it. Take your hands out of your pockets, and your legs of the table, and stop telling funny stories Make up your mind who are the best men fol the best places, and put them there, Hallecl or no Halleck, Especially the latter.) Decide upon some general plan of operations and sticl to it. Sit down immediately and write off { stirring proclamation calling out six hundred thousand more men, appealing to their patriot ism and promising them speedy success Pu ! Conscription through insrorably till ever. State has filled it's quota. Show the people in some way that you are awake to the tremen dous nature of your responsibilities, and to tho vast results depending on your action. In short follow the advice in the play of King John Be great in act as you have been in thought

 Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire,

 | Threaten the threatener, and outface the brov | Of bragging horror so shall inferior eyes, | That borrow their behaviours from the great Grow great by your example, and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution"

 In conclusion Uncle Abe, I beg you to un derstand that this is not the letter of . polti clan, but of private citizen who wishes you tt know what the people think and say. If an. part seems unjust, it is not that they are dis posed to be harshly critical, or that I am no still YoUR FRIEND.
Year: 1863

e Preparations are being made for
movement in Gen. Hooker's army. The
transportation resources are being cut down,
and officers have been notified that all super
fluous baggage must be sent home. The ofh-
GERS of the line are to be allowed nothing IN
the shape Of camp equipnee, except shelter
Year: 1863




company OF Philadelphia police. sent 70 Harrisburg
during tho emergency returned home this morning
They rted through the streets by tho whole
body Of police. fully armed . military regiment
Their ovolulons proved acquaintance with military
tactcs that will their efficiency in any emeF
Year: 1863

will be renewed and continued indefinitely" If On
honorable peace were rendered by the South and
rejected by the North desperation would then nerve
every Southern arm. and our people would share a
common fate and ili common grave. But this
awful result, it seems to us, may be aVerted. 1t
may do much good, and can do no harm to talk-to
negotiate to pave the way to negotiations while
we fight


We spoke just now of the worst befalng our
people as the result of this war. What is the
worstP 1t would be the condition Of provincial de-
pendence on the federal government each State be-
ing ruled by military Governor as Tennessee is
and the emancipation and arming of our slaves in
our midst" That would be the worst If the war
continues is it not likely that this will happen?-
Judging the future by the past-and we have no
other means of judging-we fear it will. What
thenf Must we rush on to- our doom? Must the
sword still wave, and the strong arm OF physical
force still exert ITSELF and effort be made by men,
tai and moral means to close the WARP Why, North
American saVages sometimes bury the tOmahaWk
and meet together to smoke the pipe of peace. Are
we of the North and South-Christians as we pro-
fess to be-more savage than the savages?


These are sad truths but we feel it to- 6be our duty
to lay them before our readers. We do not censure
others for entertaining their own opinions, and we
have a right to express ours without censure
from friend or foe But censure, and even the
grossest abuse we feel sure we shall incur; yet
"none of these things move us" when we know
we are speaking the TRUTH for the sake of humanity
and liberty in the name of the people themselves,
who ought to be, if they are not practically, the
masters of us all.
Year: 1863

A gentleman in this City, who owns a mill in the
County, has sold meal to the families of SOL
diers for more than s., so bushel and he author
ises us to say that he will enter into an agreement
with the other millers of the county, if they will
consent do So to furnish them meal at S. or even
81 bushel True this gentleman is locked on
with suspicion and has even been called an aboli-
zionist by few last man and last dollar war men
here, who sell meal at from So to $lO but his devo-
ton to the and his friendship for the soldier
are shown by his works He sells them meal at
$3.50 bushel while the market price is eight or
nine dollars.


Another gentleman in this City who owns mill,
sells his meal mainly to the poor at about half the
price charged in market. Both these gentlemen
Conservatives. Our citizens generally will sus-
tain us in the statement that nine -tenths of the
speculators and extortioners and those who refuse
Confederate money, in this County, are Destructives
The war is good thing for them. 1t fills their
pockets They grow fat the sufferings of others
and knowing they are suspected of being enemies
to the Confederate cause they seek to divert aten-
ton from their own bad conduct by denouncing
others as traitors.
Year: 1863

The following appeal Planters BY Alabama soldier
is from the Mobile Register and will apply we'll here as
there We commend the attention OF pa


Planters mn HdtUe State do you know that you are
the deadly enemy that the snder Of your beloved
Stale met? thrust not, and yet must you
You in word but you in deed aud action


You admit that the times very hard Whom do these
hard times aectf The planter has plenty in The
merchant has trade that will realize bread
before the The mechanic of every order places
responding price upon his labor Everything in trade de-
mandsa corresponding price, that no one who pur
particular article of consumption But the soldier who has
chance-geng wages and has family almost stary
ing for bread, is the only class made to suffer.


Yesl the struggle with the open enemy in the federal
army concerns the true Confederate soldier but little But
the desperate struggle with disguised enemy midst
than helpless family than any soldier meet and
successfully confront Patriotic planters of the State of
Alabama! How long determined to wage this
holy Of oppressive cruelty against your dearest friends
You may think unjust in preerring all these charges
against you do this not because you the class of
able arrest the bloodhirsty enemy Of your beloved
country. 49,.


Now for the plan Put your bacon Is nts corn at 75
and -four at $3 and all other things in proportion. You
ask Se these prices aud pay the merchant a for do
mestic and Calico 81 for soda so for Shoes &c &c Mo-
and if the merchant does not sell his domestic and calico
Is cents soda at B and shoes at $ and the mechanic put
corresponding prices his abor-se them not article
Ofsubsistence and you will prices reasonable and
COME derate money worth much gold or (my word
for t merchants and mechsn les will have to live without
eating planter Will you regulate prices and restore
crrency9 Or do you not love your country and
soldier who struggling for its rghts' await an an
'H' ALABAMA SOLDIER.
Year: 1863

DISTRESS IN -RICHMoND.-A mass meeting of the
citizens of Richmond was held on Saturday night
last to take into consideration the high prices OF the
necessaries of life and to suggest means for rene
dying the evil The Richmond papers evince much
concern on the subject The Sentinel says:


1--WE have repeatedly called attention to the con.
dtion OF the poor of the city, and do so again with
the hope that some steps will be speedily taken to
relieve their necessities. Already numbers are suf
fering from the cold weather and the lack of sub
stantial food, and if aid is not given them star
cation WiH end their miseries Those who were
formerly IN moderate circumstances, are reduced
now to almost beggary and we know of a case
where relic after relic OF former days have been sent
20 auction to get the means purchasing provisions
until but little more is left If this is the case with
those who were once doing well, what must be the
condition OF the poor needle women, with little chill
dren to clothe and feedr How long will this state
of things continue, no one knows unless the Legis
lature will come to the rescue and pass stringent
law to reduce prices.


The Glover Hill Coal Mining Company, not to be
behind in these days of extortion, have advanced
the price of coal to thirty dollars load The deal
ers i'll this city, to be in fashion, will of course, ad
vance their price. 60 ahead, ye mounted men and
arstocrats there will be settlement some of these
days, and that, too, to your sorrow"


p The Enquirer traces the high prices to great
extent to the large amounts paid per day-fifteen
to twenty thousand dollars-by the gambling es-
Adjustments for provisions. 1t says: g.


What punishment is too sweeping too severe
for crime that is undermining public morals, squan
dering public funds, enhancing prices, and disgra
cling the city and Statei 1t is notorious fact that
public funds are nightly squandered in these hells
that official honor and honesty are there betted
away. But more than this, and worse than this :
there are twelve of the thirty odd faro banks in
Richmond send each tfteeH hundred dollars per day
market, and the balance average one thousand dol
lars per day Here is one of the chief sources Of
high prces-these bells earn their money so easily
that it is matter of the smallest consequence what
they pay for marketing Their splendid Shippers
attract the crowd their liquors ntoxicate and their
cads win the money"
The Legislature Of the State of Virginia has just
passed very stringent act for the suppression Of
gambling. If public opinion will not put down vice
and immortality, it can hardly be done by law.


These are sad pictures, and they may be seen else
where besides in Richmond; but if zoe had painted
them, as the leading Richmond papers have done
We should have been charged with giving aid and
comfort to the enemy. r....-...... ......
Year: 1863

mo THE VOTERS OF THE FOURTH
Il CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.-The undersigned
take pleasure urging upon their fellowctizens of this
Congressional District the Of Lieut.. THOMAS G.
FULLER fit person to represent them in the next
Congress Lieut.. Fuller has consented TO allow his name
TO be used by his friends These times when platforms
are needed all who know Lieut. Fuller know that he
is fully capable of filling the position with honor to him
self and the people of this District He has done his duty
well in this war for after exhausng all to retain
our old Union in its perfection he of the hrst
af ter Lipcons Proclamation to volunteer private In
the army in which he is serving as an officer.


MANY CITIZENS.


July q, 1858. .. 60-h
Year: 1863

From the American Agricultnrist


Tn the suburbs or the city. cs-
peciallv on Long Island. potato
growing is pretty nearly reduced
to n science. Many OF the farm
ers make this their main crop. and
not a few raise two thousand dol
lars worth and more, in Il season.
They plow in horse manure and
pIow deep. They select their lar
gest potatoes for seed, quarter and
plant the pieces in drills about ff-
teen inches apart. and prefer TO
have only four stalks in a place.
The product IS potatoes of very
uniform marketable size. with few
or no small ones. They require
very little sorting, and the whole
crop is turned into money at the
market price. These farmers
doubtless know what is for their
interest. and ridicule the notion of
planting small potatoes to realize
from.


Farmers who do not make pota-
toes n speciality, may learn some
thing from the large experience Of
these men 1t is more profitable
TO raise potatoes for market than
for stock. and with all the draw
hacks for rot. potatoes generally
pay better than corn in the old
States. especially where farmers
are within convenient wagon drive
of market. 1t looks reasonable
that the body of the tuber should
contain the strongest germs. and
he most secure from rot Posi-.
bly, the continued planting of small
tubers has 4 tendency to weaker
the stock and TO induce rot. Thi:
( year a multitude Of men that wer.


upon the farm last Spring are ii
the tented field. and we shall want
all the potatoes we can raise. Il


make breadstufis cheap. Plan


one more acre, and let the seed b,
large. CONNECTICUT.
Year: 1863

a few days vacation gave me
an opportunity of visiting the
schools of Richmond, Wayne Co.
The public schools were just clos
ing their winter term. The class
es in the High School were being
examined; time only permitted me
to witness the examination of an
Arithmetic and Grammar class,
but this was sufficient to judge
of the efficiency of the school.
For this too much cannot be said.
/ have visited some of the best
schools in Ohio, and think this
will stand a fair comparison. The
Year: 1863

Of energy wasted, dollar spent
or a life lost in any issue foreign
to the preservation of the Union,
if the return of peace can be
hastened by breaking the yoke of
the oppressed, by depriving our
enemies Of the labor which feeds
and sustains their armies, by pro-
claiming liberty throughout the
rebellious States to all the in
habitants thereof; if, / say, the
death of slavery in the rebellious
States will give life to the nation
and peace to the people, would
there not be more cause Of JOY than
of sorrow in its death?


On these terms who, that has
the patriotic fire of '76" burning
on the altar of his heart, will
mourn its death? / confidently
adopt the words Of Logan and
| answer, "NoT ONE If the return
Of peace can be hastened by break
ing the chain which binds together
a powerful aristocracy, which is
travelling swiftly in the direction
Of class legislation, which threatens
to usurp the place of Republican
equalty-an aristocracy more to
be feared and dreaded than the
irresponsible one man power
in the name Of the widows and
orphans made by this rebellion
in the name Of liberty and bleed
ing humanity, let the Chain be
broken.


Whilst savages on our western
frontiers are burning houses and
indiscriminately numbering the
manifestation British capitalists
are building ships for our enemies
or for the purpose of waging 4
piratical warfare on our commerce,
the necessity Of the Emancipation
Proclamation is "seIf-ey iCjcnt. -
This Proclamation will not only tell
upon the vitality OF the rebellion,
but it will he one of the brightest
testimonials of the love Of n great
nation for Justice, That ever past
into the history of any people.


Slavery is the lie of the rebel
lion. 1t has become a great pow
era terrible monster whose roar
ings make Il brave nation tremble.
1t seeks to devour our country or
rend it in pieces in its death
struggle. Yet, in the face of these
perils, there are "Copperheads"
in our midst whose stone-clad
patriotism no appeal can penetrate,
and who continue to throw i'm
pediments in the way of the Gov
ernment, or stand aloof and look
on its life and death struggle with
apathetic indifference. We have
men in our midst who are prepared
to see the great principle on which
Free Government is founded-the
right of the majority to rule-go
down to its grave in darkness, to
be succeeded by the paralyzing
cloud of slavery, whose vampire
wings, like an all-pervading night
mare. would brood over the whole
Of this broad land. We have men
i'm our midst who are concocting
internal schemes. while good men
sleep" to bring war to our very
doors. We have men in our
midst who will falter not. shrink
not, pause not, to descend upon
THEM like n mountain avalanche.
should the dire necessity come
In the prosecution of the war OF
in the conclusion of peace, let
slavery "sink or swim, survive OIL
perish" just as the preservation
of the Union may demand.


w. NJ. L.


RIDGEvILLE, IND.


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Year: 1863

A beautiful land by faith l see,


A land Of rest, from sorrow free,
The home of the ransomed bright and fair,
And beautiful angels, too, are there;


Will you 60 to that beautiful land with me
That land is called the City Of Light;


1t ne'cr has known the shades of night;
For the Glory of God rs the light Of day
Hath driven the darkness far away;


viii you 60 to that beautiful land with me 2
In vision see its streets of gold,


Its gates Of pearl ! too behold;
The river Of life, the crystal sea,
The ambrosial fruit of lifes fair tree


viii you 60 to that beautiful land with me
The ransomed throng arrayed in white
In rapture range the plains of light,
And in one harmonious choir they praise
Their glorious SaYiors matchless grace:
VIII you go that beautiful land with mel