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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
ATHENS,' CLARK COUNTY, GEO. AUGUST 14, 1861.
VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 23.
HE SOUTHERN
lM iU.lSHKl) WEEKLY,
SLEDGE & REESE,
j»vtl.s A. M l l".K. | ASDKRSON W. 11KE3K.
Witors ami Proprietors.
OFFICE l 1*-STAIDS, No. 7 Granite Row
TERMS :
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE
To CIoUa r«mUting SIO iu nU. nnrr,
(•;!«-■ will be «ent.
\ti> nubn«:nbor fnUop to pivo n«*tu*e of hi* dr
• ’<'» discontinue hi* Hultauriitl Inn at tin- < xj»jra
r ,.ii if the time for wMrli it ha* brm jvilibe
«ns wishm;* to continue il, and held
• mbit' «ccordingly. . , . .
UF*No pnpor will bo dwcouttmiiMl (ox -oj.t at
tlie* option <»f tin* cnlilo;*.) until all •*rn .tragi* arc
,m l ’ hath**-•■i'»i»vi:k
For one -ounn imMstiiit; of twelve line* small
typo, or Hpnec <>«]»!vitU at. One Dollar or the first
iiKoriion, and tifiy ceii' . jr ouch vrec*ly eouttuu-
ation.
Special contracts can be made for yearly adver
tising.
Legal advertisement*inserted nt the i
Announcing candidate* bn office. Pi'
i.ivftirahly advance, in nil case*.
Advertisement-* should always lmv
number of Mi-cri ions mark
handed in. « r otherwise tin y
orbid, »»»d charged accord»i
V. CTJ YIJEiR,
RESIDENT DENTIST,
ATHENS, OA.
jlOOJIHon lirond Street. Entrance next door
to (lie Insurance office.
Jnnunrv 19.
-uni rates,
e Dollars,
the desired
them when
published till
business directory.
I ^Professional and Business men can '
heir enrds insertcd under this head, for one ;
at the rate of Five Dollars for a curd of not i
DAM A II COHH
ATTORNEY AT tAW t
MACON, GKO.
o
FFIt'K .11 Mulberry Sir.
t A. M. WUrksliear .V
aluni’tou Block. Will 1>
v. lord, Dooly. Houston,
rlli, and Sumter.
-t, ov or the More
.. in llonrdman'a
nrtioo in ltibb,
.llaooti. Twigs*,
S»V."J If
1)R. II. GILLELAND, DENTIST, .
W ATKINSVIIXK CJ«,roH|iootfully Aolicitithe
p.tronftffeof the .ummndinK country.—
Full sutiatooiion will begiven in their profession.
April 22.
IlR. f. B. LOMBARD.
D entist, Athens,geohoia, Rooms in
huiltTiig with North of the|Pof*t Office,Col*
ege Aven tc. Feb 9— 'y.
f. w. LUCAS,
^yum.ES ALE and retail dealer in Di
Jrv Goods,
Broad st.
(Jroeierica, Hardware, Ac.,No.2,
A t lien, G a. jJan H).
R. Lt BLOOMFIELD,
W HOLESALE and retail Clothine Store,
ltroad Strrcet, Athens, Ga. (May 10.
T. BISUOP & SON,
W HOLESALE and Retail dealers in Grocer
ies, Hardware and Staple Dry Goods, No.
1 lirond St. Athena Ga. |May 1
CRAWFORD & STAPLER,
SUCCESSORS TO T. CUAWFOKD,
IV O ?L ltroad street, under the Banner Office
i V have on hand a nice stock of Fancy and Stn
pie Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Boot* and
shoes, lints and Caps, and many other things too
nuuicrouHo mention allot'which will be sold veiy
j<>w J«»y -*•
ISAAC MAYER.
Importer of
RHINE WINE,
AIT.CHTA, CJ A.
S@f Imported by himself and warranted
Pure, and sold as low ns any Northern
House.
tl^Orders promptly attended to.
Oct 25 tf
WILLIAM «. DELONV,
Attorney lit l.uw,
Office on Ui
Kenney, Alin
Mu
tl5—if.
Hr
v.
D O. CASDI.F.U.
CANDLER A SUM I MB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Iloiurr, Hanks ( o , La,
W ILL pni-.i.e in the counties of Hunks,
llubciVism, Frunkliii. Jackson and Hull
All bnsiuess entrusted to t..cm will receive prompt
attention. (May S, IStltl—ly
T. M. DANIEL.
iTTOIIMiV AT I. AAVAtben
11 will i
LTia,
Jacks,,,.; Miidi^
Wilke*, Warren
?^’' nb.-e ™
I the- counUcs.d t.’lurke, Wiillon,
i. Hart. Elben, O^letliorjie
m.l llnmock.
door ub .VC Longs' Drug-store
Isaac »♦ KENNEY,
AT Hat ©IL® ©TAM®.
R ETi’lllVN thanks to his friends and a gen
erous public for past patronnge, respectfully
ivsks a continuance of their favors.
ClPGooda cheap, accommodating terms.
J a
ATHENS STEAM COMPANY
IS. NIC'KKRNON, Agent a Sup t.
^11 ANUFACTURERSof Circular Maw
, Itl JSill*, Miram Engian,, forcing and lift
PUMPS, Shafting and Machinery; Mill
v, and all other kind of G BAKING. Iron aud
Br ass Casting :of every description. SMITH
ING, Repairing and Finishing prc.. ptly exocu
ted. Select patterns of Iron Fencing, Ac. Terras
cash. May 14 ly
ANDREW J. I1AR1IY,
J* ffv-r
AT I. % \Y.
i . will pr.i. ti
tm. Parti,u
n, Jack-
emu,ties
iiiicnlii.il paid
i ith K. J. J/iJiican. E*q.
A TTOIIM.V
son couibv, <i
to the IlcsternCir
of collcciing. Ollii
Nov. Id— 10m.
It, J A w. T. MILL1CAN,
* TTOUNEYs AT LAW -Will practice in the
JY counties oi the Western Circuit, and the
c«qji*if»s of Madison, Elbert, ami llari, of the
Northern Circuit.
K. J. MILLIGAN, 1 WM. T M1LL1CAN,
JetVeison, Ga. | Carnesville, Ga.
Sept. It*— Iy
HILL & IIILLYEIL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
r*\HE undersigned havingassm-iated themselves
i together in the prnetiee- of law. will attend
th« several Courts in the Western Circuit, and
giva their joint personal attention to all business
entrus'ed to them
GEO. IIILI.YER. | WM. If. HULL,
Monroe, Ga. | Athens, Ga.
July 15 —ly.
M. M. PITTMAN.
V TT< )It.YEY at Law, JclTerMin, Jackson conn
-
FAIRBANKS
SCALES.
S OLD at Manufacturers prices
by.
T. BISHOP A SON.
Athens,October 6 1859.
I\ ty. ( a.,will .
' nil. usted to li
* prompt attention to at
a rare. January-1-
J0I1X II. ISl LL,
V TTOlSNEy AT LAW, A
a:tei:d promptly to all In
gusta, Ga., will
ness entrusted to
[Jan.!
A. M. WVNG,
W HOLESALE und Retail Oealor in Hard
ware, Crocker, and House Fnrni.hinp
Good*,one door bolow 3.L. Bloomfield’. ClothiiUS
Store Allien*, Ga. Jan.7, 1858
T. II. WILSON & BROS.,
From the Richmond Whig.
ON TO Kf( 11.110ND.
AFTER SOL’THKV'S “MAECH TO MOSCOW.’
Major General Scott
An order had got
To push on the column to Richmond;
For loudly went forth,
From all parts of Hie North,
The cry that an end of the war must he
made
In litne for the regular Fall Trade;
Mr Greely sooke freely ahont the delay.
The Yankees “to hum," were all hot for
for the fray;
The chivalrous Grow
Declared they were slow,
And therefore the order
To march from the border
And make an excursion to Richmond.
Majjr General Scott
Most likely was not
Very loth to obey the instruction. 1 wot;
'it his private opinion
The Ancient Dominion
Deserved to be pillaged, her sons to be shot,
And the reason is easily noted;
Though this part of the earth
Hail given him birth.
And medals and swords.
Inscribed with tine*words.
It never lor Winfield had voted.
Besides, you must know that our First of
Commanders,
llad sworn, quite as hard as the army in
Flanders,
With his finest of armies and proudest of
navies.
To wreak his old grudge against Jefferson
Davis.
Then “forward the column!" lie said to
McDowell,
And tlio Zouaves with a shout.
Most fiercely cried out,
“To Richmond or It—ll,"(I omit the vowel)
And W ineld, ho ordered his carriage and
four,
A dashing turn out, to he brought to the
door
For a p'esant excursion to Richmond
Major General Scott
Had there on the spot
A spendid array
To plunder and slay;
In the camp he might boast
Such a numerous best.
As he had never yet
In the battle field set;
Kvery class and condition of Northern so
ciety
Were in for the trip, a most varied variety
In the camp lie might heat every lingo in
vogue.
“The sweet German accent, the rich Irish
brogue."
The butliiful hoy
Fiotn the hanks of the Shannon
Was there to employ
His excellant cannon;
And be-ides the long files of dragoons and
artillery,
The Zouaves and Hussare,
All the children of Mars,
There wete barbers and cooks
And Yvriters of Books—
The c/uf de cuisine with his French bills
ol fare.
And the artist to dress the yot ng officers'
hair.
And the scribblers arc ready at once to pre
pare
An eloquent story
Of consequent glory;
And servants with numberless baskets of
Sillery,
Though Wilson the Senator followed the
train,
At a distance quite safe, to “conduct the
r/iuriijinglu-."
and I, College Avenue, Athena, Ga.
M rrh III
J. F. O’KELLY,
1‘IIOTOOUAPH ASl) AMBROTYPE
R
ARTIST.
Spring i
thews..
THURMOND & NORTH,
-A/ttorneys at Luw,
W ILL practice in co partnership in the coun
ms of Ulnrk. IPalton, Jackson. Gwinnett,
lift bun. White, Franklin. Dunks, Haber
sham of the Western I’ircuit; nmi llait anil Mml-
utonof the .Vi ithorn Circuit; autl will give their
ndividuul amt joint attention to nil business cn-
.rested t*> them. Thui^lkdiim of debts will TO
2«ivr ore mpt and carciul attention.
SAM L P. ilirUMoN l>, 1 JOHN B. NORTH,
Over Longs’ Drug Store, | Jefferson,Jnckaou co
Athens, Ga. Oci IS tf
’ JACKSON & IllTtlUXS,
A TTORNKYS AT1.AW.—Will practice
iu the countie. ..f Gwinnett, Walton, Ja. k-
.on, .nd Hall, of the Western, *ud the couuty of
Foriyln of the Blue Ridge Uin-uit.
AMES JACKSON, IN L. HUTCHINS, Jr..
atlien*. On. I L.wrenreville, Ga
P.|t.--DuriuK Mr. JneRom - absence tVo.n Geor*
5 ia, bu.ines. letters should he addressed to the
nn at Lawronrevillo Sei»t IMF-tf
ATTORMEY AT LAW,
HOMER, RANKS CO., (it-
liT^ 11 L practice in 11.
VY ftrcutl. Dusinr:
» prompt
store of Johr U. ,11 at thews, Athens, Ga.
inarch ‘J9 60
NOTICE TO PLANTERS!
Three Thousand Pairs of the Best
NEGRO SHOES IN THE WORLD!!
Made bp MiCleskep cJ Pupil.
W K will keep a good assortment ol
these at the store ol Messrs. Pit-
ner, England & Freeman,in Athens, where
.1/r. ,1/cCleskey will be found at all limes,
ready to wait upon customers. Wo will
sell there shoes in lots, from 10 pair up, at
$1.50 per pair.
Gash will be paid for Hides.
Oct ii ' MeCLESKEY A DOYLE.
Is i>f the Western
usted to his cure,
will inert
KtriRS.Yi KS - .—Il.'n, Joseph II Lumpkin.Thos
K K. Cobb. I>q . Alliens, Wit.; Joseph II. Bank*
G.inesY ilie, ti - Wm. H. Hull, Athens, Ga.
[Jau. Iti—:t.
PAINTING! PAINTING! PAINTING
fimit undersigned would
X xeus of Atiieusaml vici
j is nee to the cit
_. ihat he will ex
ecate in the neatest and most wo
nsr, all tvork in his line ol b,min«:ss at short
Plain, h juse, sign an furniture painting ; Graniicg
and ma•bleiiig of alldesigns. paper-hnneing, gla
King. &•'. tdr Orticrsir nn lu ighhoi ing towns,-
Vtllageti, ot the coutry, j*r >mptly attetulrd t«>.
Atneiis, Aog.« 18<>0 I ' M. DONE.
Hew SPRING & SUMMER Goods
IF.W. LTTCAS
* h now receiving a handsome .tool, of New
JL Goods, and invitea all who are Yvnnliug sut:L
to call mill examine them. All kind, ol
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS.
In New Spring Dress Silks,llareges, Ac.
All kinds French Dress Goods in Organdie*
Bareges, Muslins, aVe.
Elegant Ucr A/antil!as, $5 00 to f'W 00;
Kid gloves, silk mitts, hosiery, laces, t«r)et«ns,Ac.
All kinds Summer Goods, for men, boys and chil
dren. Sheetings,Shirtings, Linens,
Table Damasks, Linen sheetings,towellings, Ac.
IITtIt all other kinds of common-place goods.
March 6
W HOLESALE A retail dealers in Dry Goods wi.il r i i j .i ^ _i...
Grueerko., Hardware. Crockery, Ac ,No.. J V ' ,11,e ,l ' e ,1, ; l!s nere s0 g r *en and ,he ,k y
was so blue.
There was certainly nothing more pleasant
to do
On this pleasant excursion to Richmond.
In Congress the talk, as 1 said was of ac
tion.
To errsh out Imtantcr the traitorous faction.
In the press, and the mess,
I'hey would hear nothing less
Than to make llte advance, spite ol rhyme
or of reason.
And at once put an end to the treason.
There was Greely,
And Ely
The blood-thirsty Grow,
And Hickman,^tlie rowdy,not Hickman the
beau,)
And that terrible Baker
Who would seize on the South,evrey acre,
And Webb, who would drive us all into the
Gulf, or
Some nameless locality smelling of sulphur;
And with all this bold crew
Nothing would do.
While the fields were so green and the sky
was so blue.
But to march on directly to Richmond.
Then the gallant McDowell
Drove madly tiie rowell
Of spur that had never been “won"’ by
hint,
In the flank of his steed,
To accomplish li is deed,
Such as never bet’ re had been done by
him;
\nd the battery called Sherman's
Was wheeled into line,
Wlti'e beer-drinking Germans,
From Nec.ar and Rhine,
With Minnie and Yager,
Caine on w ith a swagger,
Full ol fury and lager,
(The day and and ihe pageant were
equally fine,)
Oh! Ihe fields were so green and the sky
was so blue.
Indeed ’twas a spectacle pleasant to view.
As the column pushed onward to Rich
mono.
THE ADAMS EXPRESS OFFICE,
H AVING been removed to the l.uinpkin
House Building, persons having business
witu .aid Company "w ilt take due notice thereof,
aud govern thcmselvc. eeeordlngly.''
T. ill> N, Agt.
Attn ns. n (Ith I8'.U.
MEDICO-CHlftURGlCAL!
W. D. WELDON, M. D. I
GILLSVILLE, IIALL COUNTY, GEO., |
1 H reatly to servo the public professionally;
■ru v*ill found in Ini office, at that place,
*t all t , unload professionally absent.
Jpril 10 mu.
BOOT AXD SllOli 9Ukl\£.
N. W. HRUOROP,
W OULD respectfully inform his friends and
the public generally, that he in now Manu
facturing hi bis establishment, on the North corner
of College Avenue and Clayton street, every des
cription of line boo fa nnd abora, anr b na line
... , „ j pnmp-soled dreaa toots; atilcbed dreaa
anhke man | bootlt , benv j donble-aoled boota. out of the
very best and tineat material; warranted to be done
neat and good as any shoo establishment in the
place-
[j^T Wending done at the »borte»t notice and in
tne neatest style.
Thunk i nl for past patronage, he will endeavor to
merit und hopes to receive a libcralaharcof custom
Jan. 1J—ly.
TKJIW-
|)KltHO.\JI owing me account, due l.t April.
X are informed that those accounts are now
ready for setib ment. Pleaae call and let mo have
the needful without delay.
April lo I. M. KENNEY __
•R. A. LOWRANCE,
Resident DENTIST,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
College Avenue, Athens, Ga.
OFFICE
Oct Irt
OR. WM. KING.
1 Iomiropethir PI,ytirinn,
O m:t!«i
i/atji.a of Alhens mat \n ii,i
^ ResidenPe. at Mrs! Clayton's
Clayton and TIioiuas streets.
e, corner of
“>•*—ly.
G. L. MeCLESKEY, M. D„
H I VI permanently located in Athena,wit
•■ontii.ueili ..practice of Medicine and Surgery,
rS-RtTideuee, that recently occupied by Mr.
Albua -liaee. Olhr.; at home, where he may he
- March 8th. J8
|C. tv. & ||. It. J. LONG,
Driiggi.t.. All
Dr. lt. M. SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PERFUMERY,
P.1 J STS, OILS, DYE STEPPS,
MEDICINAL BAANDY AND WINK, &C., &C„&C.
■ 2$ NOW receiving and opening a large stock of
Y go<Nls, selected in the Northern Markets by him
eif with great caic.and which hecoufidently reconi*
.ends to the public as being pure.
Athens, J uric 9.1»j9.
LAY IN YOUR SUPPLIES!
ni^A YVaOKt <V HOYT having determined to
if. close up their business in Athens, arc now
offering their eutire stock of
Family Groceries,
At COST for CASHS
Persona will do well lo lay in a supply, aa they
were nil bought low aud are now groatly advanc
ed. TAYLOR A HOYT.
April 10 tf
MILITARY UNIFORMS-
E. YOXDERLEITU,
TAILOR, ATHENS, GEO.
O FFERS hi. .ervioiB to cut uniform, at *ev
entj five e.
I ttlier cutting dene.
Ere the inarch was begun.
In a spirit of fun,
General Scott in a speech
Said this army should teach
The Southrons the lessons the laws
obey.
And just before dusk of the third or fourth
day,
Should joyfully march into Richmond.
He spoke of their drill
And their courage and skill.
And declared that the ladies of Richmond
would rave
O’er such macthless perfection, and grace
fully wave
In rapture their delicate kerchiefs in air.
At their morning parades un the Capitol
Square.
But alack! and alas!
Mark what soon came to pass.
When this army in spite ol his flatteries,
Amid war's loudest thunder
Must stupidly blunder
Upon those ;tccursed“inasked batteries.’’
Then Beauregard came.
Like a tempest of flame,
To consume them in wtath
On their perilous path;
And Johnston bore down in a whilwind to
sweep
Their ranks from the flcld
Where their doom had been sealed.
As the storm rushes over the face of the
deep
While swift on the centre our l’rcsident
past,
And the foe might discry
In the glance of his eye
The light that once blazed upon Diomed’f
crest.
McDowell! McDowell! weep, weep for the
day
When the Southrons, you met in their bat
tle a rray:
To your confident hosts with bullets and
steel
’Twas worse than Culloden to luckless Lo*
chiel!
Oh, the Generals were green and old Scott
is now blue.
And a terrible business, McDowell, to you,
Was that pleasant excursion lo Rich
mond.
A Noble M amin*.
Rarely since the warning voice of Pat
rick Henry aroused and animated the Bur
gesses of Virginia, has there been uttered
in an American Legislature a more manly
and eloquent appeal than was made on Ihe
10th ult., in the Uni ed States 1 louse of
Reprorenlatives, by Clkmint L. Yai.lan-
niGHAM. of Ohio. We give some extracts
regretting that space prevents a full report:
The hill to authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to borrow on the credit of the
United Slates a sum not to exceed 250,-
000,000 6cing under consideration:
Mr. Vallandighatn said:
A/r. Chairman:—In Ho Constitution of
the United Slates, which wc swore the oth
er day to suppoit, and hy llte authority of
which we are assembled here to-day. it is
ritlen:
All legislative powers herein granted
shall be vested in a Congress of the United
Slates.’’
It is further written also that the Con
gress lo which all legislative powers grant
ed are thus committed—
Shall make no laws abridging the free
dom of speech or of the press.”
And it is yet further wiitten, in protec
tion of Senators and Representatives in that
freedom of debate here without which
there can he no liberty.
“That for any speech or debate in either
House they shall not he questioned in any
other place.”
Holding up the shield of the Constitu
tion, and standing here in tins place and
with the manhood of a Representative of
llte people, 1 propose to myself to-day the
ancient freedom of speech used within these
walls; though with somewlftt more, 1 trust
of decency and discretion than have some
limes been exhibited here. Sir, I do not
propose to discuss the direct question of
this civil war in which we are engaged.—
Its present prosecution is a foregone conclu
sion, and a wise man never wastes his
strength on a fruitless enterprise.. My po
sition shall at present he indicated hy my
voles and my resolutions and motions which
may submit. But there are many ques
tions incident to the war and to its prose
cution about which 1 have somewhat to say
now.
Mr. Chairman, the President in the mes
sage before us, demands the extraordinary
loan of $400,000,0(10—an amount nearly
ten times greater that the public debt, Slate
and Federal, at the close ul the Revolution
in 1783, ana four times as much as the to
tal expenditures during the three years’ wai
with Great Biittain, in 1812.
Sir, that same Constitution which I again
hold up, and’ to which I give my whole
heait and my utmost loyalty, commits to
Congress alone the poaer lo borrow money
and to fix the purposes to which il shall be
applied, and expressly limits any appropri
ations to the term ot two years. Each Sen
ator and Representative, therefore, must
judge lor himself, upon his conscience and
oath, and before God and the country, of
the justice and wisdom nnd policy of the
President’s demand; and whenever this
House shall have become hilt a mere office
wherein to register the decrees of llte Exe
cutive, it will he high time to abolish it.—
But 1 have a right, 1 believe, sir, to say
that however gentlemen upon this side of
the Chamber may differ finally as to the
war, we are yet firmly and inexorably uni
ted in one thing at-ienst, and that is the
determination that our own rights and dig
nities and privileges, as the Represents
lives of the people, shall he maintained it
the spirit and to the very letter. Aud he
this as it may, I do know that there are
some here present who are resolved to as
sert and to exercise these rights, with be
coming decency and moderation certainly
but at the sainu time fully and freely, and at
every Itazzard.
Sir, it is an ancient and wise praclit
the English Commons, to precede all votes
of supplies by an inquiry into abuses and
grievances, and especially into any infrac
tion of the Constitution anti the laws hy the
Executive. Let us follow this safe practice
Wc are now in the Committee ol the whole
on the state if the Eniun; and in the exet
cise ol my right and my duty as a Repre
sentative, and availing myself of the lati
Hide ol debate allowed^ltere. 1 propose
consider the present state of the Satiun, and
supply also some few of the many omissions
of the President in the Me'ssage before us
Sir, he has undertaken to give us iulorina
lion of the state of the Union, as the Con
stitution requires him to do; and it was his
duty, as an honest Executive, to make that
information full, impartial and complete,
instead of spreading before us a labored and
lawyerly vindication of his own course
policy—a policy which has preciplaited
into a terrible and bloody revolution. I
admits the fact; he adit its that, lo-dav, w
are iri the midst cf a general civil xcar, not
now a mere insurrection, to he suppressed
in twenty days by a proclamation and
posse co mi talus of throe months’ militia.
Sir, it has been the misfortune of the
President from Hie beginning, that lie lias
totally and and wholy underestimated the
magnitude and character ot the revolution
with which he had to deal, or sutely
never would have ventured upon the w icked
and hazardous experiment ol calling thirty
millions of people to arms among them
selves without the cou ccl and authority ol
Congress. But when at last he found him
self hemmed in by the revolution, this city
in darger, as he declares, and waked up
thus, as the proclamation of the 15th April
proves him to have waked up, to the reality
and significance of llte movement, why did
he not forthwith assemble Congress, and
throw himselt upon the w isdom and patri
otism of the representatives of the States
and of the people, instead of usur ..g pow
ers which the Congress has exptessly con
ferred upon us? Ay, sir and powers which
Congress had but a little while before re
peatedly and emphatically refused to exer
cise, or permit him to exercise. But 1 shall
recur to this point again.
Slates* anjU who, though himself proved his
courage fitly years ago upon the battle field
against the foreign enemies of his country,
is now, thank God. still for the compromise
at home to day. Fortunate in a long and
well spent life of public services, and pri
vate worth, he is unfortunate only that he
has survived a Union and, I fear, a Consti
tution younger than himself.
The Border State propositions also were
projected hy a gentleman from Maryland
not now a member of this House, and pre
sented by a gentleman trom Tennessee,
[Mr. Etheridge] now the (Mark of this
House. And yet all these propositions,
coining thus from the South, were severally
and repeatedly rejected by the almost united
vole of the Republican party in the Senate
and Ihe House. The Crittenden proposi
tions, with which Mr. Davis, naw President
of the Confederate States, and Mr. Toombs,
his Secretary ct State, both declared in tho
Senate that they would he satisfied, and for
which every Southern Senator and Repre
sentative voted, never, on any rccasion, re
ceived one solitaiy vote from llte Republi
can parly in either House.
The Adams or Corwin amendment, so-
callen, reported from the Committee of
Thirty-three, and the only substantive
amendment proposed from the Republican
side, was hut a bate promise that Congress
would never he authorized to do what no
sane man ever believed Coocrcss would
undertake to do—abolish slavery in the
States where it exists ; and yet even this
proposition, moderate as it was, and for
hich every Southern member present vo-
How comes ittbatthe President has for
gotten to remind us, also, that when the
party thus committed to the principle of
deadly hate and hostility to the slave insti
tutions of the South, and the men who had
proclaimed the doctrine oftlie irrepressible
conflict and aho, in the delimma or alter
native of this conflict, were resohed “that
the Cotton und Rice fields ofSoulh Carolina
and the Sugar plantations of Louisiana,
should ultimately he tilled by free labor,”
had obtained power and place in the e-m-
mon government of the Slates, the South,
except one State, chose first to demand
solemn constitutional guarantees for pro*
lection against .he abuse of the tremendou*
power and patronage and influence of ih e
Federal Government, Gr the purpose of se
curing the great end of the sectional con
flict, before" resorting to secassion or revo
lution at all? Did he not know, how could
he be ignorant, that at the last session of
Congress, every substantive proposition for
adjustment and compromise, except that
oflered hy the gentleman fiotn Illinois, [Mr.
Kellogg.] and we all know how that was
received, qaiue from the South? Stop a-
moment and let us see.
The committee of thirty-tlireo was moved
for in this House by a gentleman front Vir
ginia, the second day of the session, and
received the vole of every Southern Repre*
sentativc present, except only the member
from South Carolina, who declined to vote.
In the Senate, the couimiitecof thirteen was
moved for by the Senator from Kentucky,
[Mr. Powell,] and received the silent ac-
quiescense ot every Southern Senator pres
ent. The Crittenden propositions, too,
were moved also by another Senator from
Kentucky, [Mr, Crittenden,] now a member
of this House—a man venerable for Itis
years, loved for his virtues, dislingushed
for his services, honored for his patriotism,
for four and forty years a Senator, or in
other public office; devoted from the first
hour of his manhood lo the Union of these
except one, was carried through this
House by but one majority, af er long and
tedious delay, and with (he utmost difficulty
—sixty-five Republican members, with the
resolute and determined ger tleinan from
Pennsylvania [Mr. Hickman | at their head,
having voted against it and fought against
the very last.
And not (Itis only, hut, as :i part of the
history of the last session, let mo remind
you that bills were in’rodttcid into this
House proposing to abolish and close up
certain Southern ports of entry ; to authorize
the President to blockado tie Southern
coast; and to call out the militia and accept
the services of volunteers, not for three
months merely, hut without a:ay limit as to
either numbers or time, for the very pur
pose of enforcing the laws, collecting the
revenue, and protecting the public proper
ty ; and were passed vehemently and earn
estly in this House, prior to the arrival of
the President in this city, and were .then,
though seven States had seceded and set
p a government of their own. voted down,
postponed, thrust aside, or in some way
disposed of, sometimes by large majorities
in this House, till at last Congress adjourn
ed without any action at all. Peace then
seemed to be the policy of all parties.
Thus, sir, the case stood at twelve o’clock
on the 4th ot March last, when, from the
Eastern portico of this Capitol, and in the
presence of twenty thousand of his coun
trymen, but enveloped in a crowd of soldic
which no other American President ever
saw, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of
office to support the Constitution, and de
livered his inaugural—a message, I regret
to say, not written in the direct and straight
forward language which becomes an Amer
ican President and an American statesman,
ud which was expected from the plain,
blunt, honest man of the Northwest, but
with the forked longue and crooked counsel
of ihe New York politician, leaving thirty
million people in doubt whether il meant
peace or war. But whatever may have
been the secret purpose and meaning oftlie
inaugural, practically for six weeks the
policy of peace prevailed ; and they were
weeks of happiness to the patriot, and pros
perity to the country. Business revived,
trade returned, commerce flourished. Nev-
r v.as there a fairer prospect heforo any
people. Secession in the past languished
.ltd was spiritless and harmless; secession 1
tt the future was arrested, and perished. -
By ovei whelming majorities, Y T ir<jinh, Ken
tucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Mis
33uri all declared for the old Union, and
every heart heat high with hope that in due
course of time, through faith and patience
and peace, and hy ultimate and adequate
compromise, every State would ho restored
to it. * * * . * * * *
Sir, 1 do not propose to inquire now
whether the President and his Cabinet were
sincere and in earnest, and meant really to
persevere to the end in the policy ol peace ;
or whether from the first they meant civil
war, and only waited to gain time till they
were fairly seated in power, and had dis
posed, too, of that prodigious horde of spoils
men and office seekers, which came down
at first like an avalanche upon them. But
I do know that the people believed them
sincere, and cordially justified and approve
ed of the pul icy of peace ; not as they sub
sequently responded to the policy of war, in
a whirlwind of passion and madness, but
calmly and soberly, and a9 the result of
their deliberate and solemn judgment; and
believing that civil war was absolute and
eternal disunion, while secession was but
partial and temporary; they cordially en
dorsed also the proposed evacuation of Sum
ter and other forts and public property with
in the seceded States. Nor, sir, will 1 stop
now* to explore the several causes which
either It d to a change in the policy or an
early development of the original and real
purposes of the Administration. But there
are two which 1 cannot pass by. And the
first of these was parly necessity, or the
clamors of politicians, and especially of
certain wicked, reckless and unprincipled
conductors of a partisan press. The peace
policy was crushing out the Republican
party. Under that policy, sir, it was melt
ing aw’ay like snow before the sun. The
general elections in Rhode Island and Con
necticut, and municipal elections ia New*
York and in the Western States, gave
abundant evidence that the people were re
solved upon the most ample and satisfacto
ry constitutional guarantees to the South as
the price of a restoration of the Union.—
And then it was, sir, that the long and ago
nizing howl of defeated and disappointed
politicians came up before the Administra
tion. The newspaper press teeine 1 with
appeals and threats to the President. The
mails groaned under the weight of letters
demanding a change of policy ; while a se
cret conclave of the Governors of Massa
chuseits. New* York, Ohio, and other States
assembled here, promised man and money
to support the President in the irrepressible
conflict which they now invoked. And thus
it was, sir, that the necessities of a party in
the pangs of dissolution, in the very hour
and article of death, demanding vigorous
measures, which could result in nothin^
but civil war, renewed secession, and abso
lute and eternal disunion, were preferred
and hearkened to before the peace and har
mony and prosperity of the whole country.
But there was another and yet stronger
impelling cause without which this horrid
calamity ol c vil war might have been post
poned, and, perhaps, finally averted. One
ol the last and w orst acts of a Oongres
which horn in bitterness and nurtured in
convulsion, literally did those things which
it ought not to have done, and left undone
those things which it ought to have done,
was the passage of an obscure, tll-consider
ed, ill-digested, and unstatesmanlike higl
protective tariff act, commonly known as
••the Morrill tariff,” Just about the same
time, too, the Confederate Congress at
Montgomery adopted our old tariff of 1857 t
which we had just rejected to make way
for the Morrill act, fixing their rate of duties
at five, fifteen and twenty per cent, low
than ours. The result was a9 inevitable as
the laws of trrde are inexorable. Trade
and commerce—and especially the trade
and commerce of the VVesi—began to look
to the South. Turned out of their natural
course years ago, by the canals and rail
roads of Pennsylvania and New York, and
diverted Eastward at a heavy loss to the
West, they threatened now to resume their
ancient and^accustomed channels—the wa
ter courses—tho Ohio and the Mississippi.
And political association r nd union, it was
well know’n, must soon follow* the direction
of inteiest and trade.
The city of New York, ilie great cnuimorcial
emporium of die Union, aud the Northwest, the
chief granary of tLe Union, began to clamor now,
loudly for a’repeal of the uerniciouR aud ruinous
tariff^ Threatened thus with the loss of both po
litical power aud wealth, or the repeal of the tariff,
and ai last of both, New England—and Pennsyl
vania, too, the land ot Peun, cradled in peace—
demm.ded now coercion and civil war, with all its
horrors, us the price of preserving either from de
struction. Aye, sir, Pennsylvania, the great koy-
.stoiift of tho arch of the Union, was willing to lay
the whole woighi of her iron upon i hat sacred arch,
ami crufli it beneath the load. The subjugation of
die South, aye, sir, the subjugation of the South !
1 am not talking io children or foo’s; for there is
not a umn in this House fit to be a Representative
here, who does not know that the South cannor be
|brcea to yie v ledfouce to your laws aud author
ity unri ! • ^ j conquered and subjugated her .
tilt jtu'. ■•ration of the South, and tho closing up
of her |M*r;s, first hy force, in war, and afterwards
by tariff laws in peace, was deliberately resolved
upon by the East. And, sir, when once this policy
w as begun, the self-same motives of waning com
merce and threatened loss of tiade impelled the
gieat city of Now York, aud her merchants and
her politicians ami her press, with bore and there
au honorable exception, to place herself iu the ve
ry fiont rank among the worshippers of Moloch.
Much, indeed, of that outburst and uprising in
the Nordi, which followed tho proclamation of the
17th of April, as well, perhaps, as the proclama
tion itself, was called forth, not so much by the
fall of Foil Sumter (an event long anticipated) as
by tho notion that the “insurrection*' might be
crushed out in a few weeks, if not by the display,
certainly, at least, by the presence of an over
whelming force.
These, sir, were the chief causee which, along
with others, led to a chauge iu the policy of tiie
Administration, and, instead of peace, forced us
headlong into civil war, with all its accumulated
horrors. * * * » *
CongrcoR was not assembled at once, as Con-
;rcHs should hive been, and the great question of
ivil war submitted io their deliberations. The
tepresentatives of the States aud of tho people
were not allowed the slightest voice in this the
most momentous question ever presented to any
Government. Tho cntiio responsibility of the
whole work was boldly assumed by the Executive,
aud all the powers required for the purposes in
baud were boldly usurped from either tho States
or the people, or from the legislative department;
while the voice of the judiciary, that last refuge
nnd hope of liberty, was turuea away from with
ccn'cmpt.
Sir, the right of the blockade—and 1 begin with
it—is a belligerent right, incident to a state of war,
nnd it canuot be exercised until war has been de
clared or recognised ; aud Congress alone cau de
clare or rccoguise war. But Congress has not
declared or recognised war. On the contrary, it
had but a little while before expressly refused to
declare it, or to ana tho President with the power
to make it. And thus the President, in declaring
a blockade of certain ports in tho States of the
South, and in applying to it the rules governing
blockades ns between independent Powers, vio
lated tho Constitution.
But it, on the other hand, he meant to deal with
these States as still in the Union, and subject to
Federal authority, then he usurped a power which
belongs to Congress alone—the power to abolish
and close up ports ot entry ; a power, too, which
Congress hud also refused » few weeks before to
exei cise. And yet, without tho repeal or abolition
of ports of entry, any attempt by either Congress
or ihe President to blockade these ports, is a vio
i lution of the spirit, if not of tho letter, of that
Clause of the Constitution which declares that “no
preference shall bo given by ary regulation of
commerce or revenue to the ports of one State ov-
ei tnose of another.”
Upon this point I do not speak without the
ghent authority. Iu the very midst of the South
Carolina nullification controversy,it wussuggest-
ed that in recess of Congress, and without a
law to g* ’Tu him, tho President, Andrew Jack-
son, meant to send down a fleet to Charicaton and
blockade the port. But the bare suggestion called
forth the imlignant protest of Daniel Webster,
himself tho arch enemy of lulliftcation, and whose
brightest laurels were won in the threo years'con
flict in the Semite Chamber with its ablest champ
ions. In an address, in October, 183*2, nt Worcea
ter, Massachusetts, before a National Republican
Convention—it was before tho birth, or christen
ing at least, of the Whig party—the great ex
pouuder of the Constitution said:
•‘We arc told, sir, that the President will imme
diately employ the military force, und at once
blockade Charleston. A military remedy, a rem
edy by direct belligerent operation, lias thus been
suggested, and nothing else has been suggested,
as the intended means <»f preserving the Uniou.—
Sir, there is no little reason to think that this sug
gestion is true. We cannot be altogether unmitul
ful of the pnst, and therefore we caunot be alto
gethir unapprehensive oftlie future. For one sir,
I raise my voice beforehand against thounauihor
ized employment of mili hjv power, and against
superseding the authority of the laws, by an armed
force uuder tho pretence of puttiug down uullifi
cation. The President has no authority to block
ode Charleston."
Jackson! Jackson, sir! the great Jackson did
not dare to do it without authority of Congress ;
but our Jackson of to-day, the little Jackson at the
other end of the avenue, and themimmic Jacksons
around hint, do blockade, not only Charleston
arbor, but ' »: vhole Southern const,three thous
and mi!* it: extent, by a single stroke oftlie pen.
“Thv r*resiuc:it has no authority to employ mil
iry force till he shall be duly required '—
Mark the word ;
c/uired so to do by law and tho civil authorities,
i duty ii lo cause the laws to be executed. His
duty is to support 'he civil authority."
As in the Merryinau case, forsooth ; but I shall
recur to that hereafter :
sor, »u extenuation of whose characser it is writ
ten by Ihe great historian avert it occulot, /««*»-
tique scelera nontpcclavn.
Thus it is, sir, that here in America, in theaoy-
emv-ib'rd year of the Republic, that great writ
and security 9f personal freedom which it cost
the patriots and freemen of England six hundred
years of labor and toil and blood to extort and to
bold fast from venal judges nnd tyrant kiiigs,
written in the great Charter at Rtnnytneade by
tiie iron Barons, who made tho simple Latiu.and
uncouth words of the times, nullus til/er homo, iu
in tho language of Chatham, worth all the classics;
recovered ana confirmed a hundred times after
wards, as often as violated and stole i away, and
fiually and firmly aecur »d at last by the great act
of Charles II. and transferred thence to our own
Constitution and laws, has been wantonly and
ruthlessly trampled in the dost. Ay, sir,, that
great writ, bearing, by special command of Par
liament, those other uncouth but magic words, per
stratutum tricessimo primo Caroli secundt rcjis
which no English judge, co English minister, no
king or queen of England, dure disobey; that
writ brought over by our f» there nnd cherished
by then, as a priceless iuheriutoce of liberty, an
American President has -contemptuously set at
defiauce Nay, more, he has ordered his subordi
unto military chiefs to suspend it at their disere
non! And yet, after all this, he coolly comes be
fore this House aud the Senate and the country,
and plead* that lie is only preserving and protec--
ing ilie Constitution : and demands and expects of
this House and of tho Seuate and the country
their thanks for his usurpations of power; while
outside of this Capitol, his myrmidons are clam
oring for impeachment oftlie Chief Justice, aa
engaged in a conspiracy to break down tl e Fed
Ili* duty i*, if the laws be resisted, to employ
the military force of the country, if necessary, for
their support and execution ; but to do all this in
romjdinnre only with lair and with decisions o f the
tribunals. If, by any ingenious devices, those
ho resist tho laws escape from the reach of judi
cial authority, as it is now provided to bo exer
cised, it is entirely competent to Congress to make
such new provisions as the exigency of tho case
may demand.”
Treason, sir, rank treason, all this to-day. And
yet, thirty years ago, it was true Union patriotism
and sound constitutional law ! Sir, 1 prefer the
wisdom and stern fidelity to principle of tne fathers.
Next after the blockade, sir, in the catalogue of
daring Executive usurpations, comes the 'procla
mation of the 3d of May, and ths orders of the
War and Navy Departments in pursuance ofit —
a proclamation and usurpation which would have
cost any English sovereign his head at any tima
within the lust two hundred years. Sir, the Con
stitution n«»t only confiucs to Congress the right tc
declare war, but expressly provides that “ Cou-
gress (not the President) shall have power to raise
aud support armiesand to “provide ami main
tain u navy.” In pursuance of this authority
Congriss, years ago, had fixed the number of of
ficers, and of the regimeuts of the different kinds
of service; and also the number of ships, officers,
marines and seamen which should compose tho
Navy. Not only that, but Cougres* has repeat
edly, within tho last five years, refused to in
crease the regular army. More than that still: iu
February and March last, the House, upon sever
al test votes, repeatedly and expressly refused to
authorize the Piesident to accept tho service of
volunteers for the very purpose of protecting the
publje property, enfoiciug the laws and collecting
the revenue.
And yet the President, of his own more will and
authority, and in violation oftlie Constitution,
lias proceeded to increase, aud has increased, the
standing unny by g. r >,0J0 men ; the navy by eigh
teen thousand, aud lias called for and accepted the
services of torty regiments of volunteers for t rce
years, numbering forty-two thousand men, aud
making thus agraud army or military force, raised
by executive proclamation alone, without sanction
of Congress, without warrant of law, aud iu direct
violation ot the Constitution aud of his oath of
office, of eighty-five thousand soldiers enlisted for
three and five years, and nlreadjr in the field. And
yet the President now nsks us to support the Army
which he has thus raised, to ratify hi* usurpations
by a law ex post facto, and thus to make our
selves parties to our owu degradation, nnd to his
infractions oftlie Constitution. Meanwhile, how
ever, he has taken good care, not only to enlist
the men. nize the regiments,and muster them
iifttFaerx out to provide in advance tor u lot of
forlorn woruout, ami broken dowu politicians of
his owu party, by appointing, either by himself,
or through the Governors of States, Muior-Gcn-
erals, Brigadier Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant
Colonels, Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, Adju
tant*, Qunttennasters, and Surgeons, without any
limit as to numbers, and without so much as ouce
saying to Congress—“ By your leave, gentlemen.”
Beginning with this wide breach of tho Consti
tution, this enormous usurpation of the most dan
gerous of all powers—the puree aud the sword —
other infractions and assumptions were easy; nna
after public liberty, private right soon fell. The
orivocy of the telegraph was invaded in the search
after treason aud traitors; although it turns out
significantly enough, that the only victim, so far,
is oue ot the appointees and especial pets ot the
Administration. The telegraphic dispatches, pro
served uuder every pledge ot secrecy for the pro
tection and safety of tho telegraph companies,
were seized aud carried away without search war
rant, without probable cause, without oath, and
without description of ilie places to bo searched,
or ol the things to be seized, aud in plaiu viola
tion of right of tho people to bo secure in their
houses, persons, papers, and effects, against un
reasonable searches and seizures* One stop more
sir, will bring upon us search and scizur* of tho
public mails; and finally, as io tho worst days of
English oppression—as in tho times of the ’Bus
sells and the Sidneys of Euglish martyrdom—of
the drawers and secretaries of tho private citizen;
though even ’hen tyrants had tho grace to look
to the formr ;t helaw, and the execution was
judicir . murder, not military slaughter. But who
shad •*>>._. that tlio future Tiberius of America
shull Inve the modesty of his Roman prodecea
engaged in a conspiracy
trral Government:
Sir, I am obliged to pas* by, for want of time,
other grave and dangerous infraction* nnd u-ur
patious ot the President since the first of April, i
only nlludo casually to the quartering of soldiers
in private house* without the consent oftlie own
era. aud without any manner having been prescri
bed by law ; to the censorship over the telegraph,
and the infringement repeatedly, in one or more
»f the States, of the right of the people to keep
and bear arms for their deteuce. But if all these
things I ask, have been done in the first tw
months after the commencement of this war, aud
by men not military chieftains, and unused to ur
biirary power, whst may we u..t expe rt to sec
done in three years, and by the successful heros
of the fight ? Sir,|the power and rights oftlie
States and the people, and of their Represent/!
tivea have been usurped; the sanctity of the pri
vate house and of private property has been inva
ded ; and tho liberty of the person wantonly and
wickedly stricken down; free speech, too, has
been repeatedly denied; and all this under the
plea of necessity.
Sir, tho rbrlit of petition will follow next—nay
it has already boon shaken ; and the freedom ot
tho press will follow soon after it; and let me
whisper in yorr ear, there will be *ew to mourn
over its loss, unless, indeed, its ancient high and
honorablecharactf r shall bo redeemed and re- -
cued from its present reckless mendacity and de
gradation. Freedom of religion will yield, too, at
lust, amid the exultant shouts of millions, who
have seen its Lely temples defiled and iu white
robes of a former innocence trampled now under
tho polluting hoofs of an an bilious and fuitidoM*
or fanatical cle*gy. Meantime national banks,
bankrupt laws, a vast aud permanent public debt
high lariffs, heavy direct taxatiou, enormous ex
penditure, gigantic and stupendous speculation,
acarcby first and a strong government afterwards,
uo more State Hues, no more Stato governments,
and a consolidated monarchy or a vast centralized
military despotism, must all follow in the history
of the future, as iu the history of the past they
have, centuries ago, been written. Sir, I have
said nothing, and have time to say nothing now.
ot the immense indebtedness aud the vast expen
ditures which have already accrued, nor oftlie
folly aud mismanagement of the war so far, nor
of the atrocious and shameless peculations uuu
frauds which have disgraced it in tho State gov
ernments and the Federal government from the
beginning. The avenging hour fot all these w ill
come hereafter, and I pass them by now.
The Congress of the United States meets here
gain to day ; hut how changed the scene. Instead
of thiity four State*, twenty-three only, one less
* .an the number forty years aco, are ’here or in
tho other wing of the Capitol Forty six Senators
aud one hundred and sevonty thiee Representa
tives constitute the Congress ot the now United
States. And of these, eight Senators and twenty
tour Representatives, from four States only, linger
here yet as deputies from that great South, which
from tho beginning of tho Government, contribu
ted so much to mould its policy, to boild up its
greatness, and to control its destinies. All the nth
er State* of that Soutn are gone. Twenty-two
.S’«»*iKU*ra aud Mixty.five UuurAMuntatives UO louiier
answer to their names. The vacant seats are,
indeed, still here: and the escutcheons of the
respective States look down now solemnly and
sadly from these vaulted ceiling*. But the Vir
ginia of Washington, and llemv.an i Mudison.ol
Marshall and Jefferson, of Randolph and Mo
the birthplace of Clay, the mother of State
of Presidents; tho Carolinas of Pinckney and
Sumter, and Afarion, of Caihouu and Macon , and
Tennessee, the home and burial place of facksoti:
aud other States, too, onco most loyal an 1 true,
ate uo longer here. The voice* and the footsteps
oftlie great dead of the past two ages of the Re
public, linger slid. it may be in echo, along the
stately corridors of this Capitol; but their descen
dants from nearly one-half of the States of the
Republic will meet with us no more within these
marble halls. But in the park3 and lawns, ami
upon the bread avenue* of this spacious city, sov
euty thousand soldier* have supplied their places
ami the morning drum-beat front n score of eu
oampmeuts within sight of this bcloagured capi
tal, give melancholy warning to the Representa
tives oftlie States and of tlio people, (hat atmd
arms laics are silent.
Sir, sooio years heuco, I would fain hops some
mouths hence,*ii I dare, the present geueratmu
will demand to know tho cause of all this; and
some ages hereafter tho grand and impartial tribu
nal of history will make solemn and diligent iu-
quest of the authors of this terrible revolution.
From ihe Richmond Dispatch.
The Protest of the Demecratic.Metn-
bers of the New Hampshire Legisla
ture against Appropriations for
War agaiust the South.
During the session of the New Hamp
shire Legislature, in June last, ninety-
one members of that body protested
against the passage of the bill making
appropriations for war against the
South. The circumstance was noticed
at the time as a favorable indication,
though it had no effect upon the bloody
minded Black Republicans of the
North. We append the protest of
these ninety-one true men, which is as
eloquent in language as truthful in
sentiment:
The undersigned claim their consti
tutional right of entering upon the jour
nal of the House this their protest
against the passage of a bill entitled
an “Act to aid in the defence of the
country,’’ with the following, their rea
sons therefor:
1. Because the bill compels us to
approve, ratify and confirm “all pay
ments made by the Governor and
Council, or by their authority and di
rection, in order to furnish troops from
this State for the defence of the United
States, or enlisting, arming, equipping,
disciplining, maintaining or transport
ing said troops, or in any way connec
ted therewith of the nature, extent,
validity and-equity of which we know
so little as to be entirely unable to form
any definite judgment re.ative thereto,
and because from any information com
municated to this House, we cannot
assure ourselves or our constituents
that it would be safe and proper tor us
thus to approve, ratify and confirm.
2. Because by tiie provisions of this
Bill the power to consider and deter
mine what appropriations are necessa-
jy, and what disposition has been, and
shall be, made of the money ol the
people, how and hy what agents dis
bursed, and in what manner accounted
for, are taken from the representatives
ot the people, to whom such power
constitutionally belongs, and surren
dered to the Executive branch of the
Government.
3. Because we cannot permit trans
actions of any branch of the Govern
ment to be sealed up from the eves cf
the people, or to be placed beyond
their power to examine, inspect and
judge. •
4. ‘ Because we cannot regard the
action of this House in Ihe rejection of
the amendments proposed to the bill as
other than the assurance that the pres-
ei.t war may be waged by unlawful
means, lor conquest, subjugation, na
tional consolidation and the extinguish
ment of State sovereignties, and we are
unutterably opposed to the attainment,
by any means, of such objects.
Disavowing all considerations and
motives of a partizan character, we en
ter our protest against this bill, because
of its loose, irresponsible, extravagant
provisions, and also because we de
sire to put upon the record our earnest
will to protect the State against the
exercise of a decree of executive pow
er, sti' h as ti;e Constitution never con
templated and the people never before
dreamed of. When such an extraor
dinary appropriation was submitted to
our sanction, we had a right to know,
and the people had a right to know,
distinctly and specifically, where their
money was to go, for what purposes it
had been and was to be applied, and
by what suitable cheeks its disburse
ments had been and was to be guarded.
We cannot consent to give the idle
catch phrases ot the day the weight
due alone to reason and argument.
The po itical parly to which we be
long has, fortunately, no occasion for
new and extraordinary demonstrations
ot devotion to the llag of our country.
They have never heaped malediction
upon it, or upon the Constitution.—
They have not only loved and honored
it, but they have upheld and defended
it at home and abroad, on sea and land,
at all times and in ali places. They
have striven to maintain the Govern
ment as it descended to them, and in
the spirit which animated their fathers
—not a “consolidated” Government
such as is now oc ><sionally foreshad
owed, but a Government composed of
independent, sovereign States, united
for the purposes expressed, and clothed
with the powers delegated by the
States and the people, and with no oth-
Thts Union, which has been our
pride and deljght, had its birth in the
adoption ol the Constitution. Upon
that instrument, ns its firm foundation,
warmed and strengthened by glorious
memories of the dangers, trials and
privations of a seven years’ conflict for
independence, hedged all around by
the forces of mutual affection and in
terest, it stood lor the first fifty years,
in calm dignity, assuring fraternal re
gard among all its members, safety for
the rights ot every citizen of every lat
itude throughout the broad extent of
our land, an amount of individual and
social freedom and prosperity hitherto
unknown, security at home and respect
throughout the world. It was only
when the provisions of the Constitution
itself relating to domestic servitude
came to be denounced and boldly re-
{.uJtaiad, ll.at all iHwso gr..»t in'erests
and precious blessings were seriously
imperiled.
We are ready to make any appropri
ation reasonable in itself, and propetly
uarded, which looks practically to
restored respect for constitutional rights
and consequently to restored fraternity,
mty, peace and prosperity. Nay,
more, for these objects we are ready
to pledge ‘our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacied honor.” But we enter our
solemn protest against making this the
occasion for inaugurating in New
Hampshire legislation like that of which
the bill just passed ; s a type. We w.ll
not sanction appropriations of the peo
ple's hard earning, unheard of in
amount, without figures, without facts,
without sound reason as a basis. This
legislation, in our judgment, does little
less than to invite speculation. It is
mmaterial that this great debt is to be
funded, and that the bonds are not to
be redeemed this year, the next, or the
year after. They are to he paid some
time, by us or by our childrtn. It is
in vain to remind us of the old Latin
maxim, so often reproduced of late,
that in the midst of arms the laws are
dent. If we go b*ck to the origin of
that maxim, we shall find that in the
midst of arms the best institutions have
been overthrown, and, upon the tyrant’s
plea of necessity, great liberties have
been crushed under the iron heel of
military despotism.
However important may be other
objects contemplated, or to be achieved
by this war, nothing can be more im
portant than lor the people to hold in
their own hands, w'th a firm grasp, all
the rights which r or fathers delivered
to us—among these, and above all,
the sacred personal security of the
habeas corpus, the freedom of opinion
and freedom of utterance. We have
demanded a specification of the objects
for which this unparalleled call upon
the industry and income of our constit
uents is predicated. We 1 ave asked
whether this war contemplates reunion,
and if so, in what manner arms are to
achieve the object. We have asked
whether«.it means the desolation of
Southern homes, the overthrow of
Southern institutions, and the destruc
tion of our own race there. We have
demanded more perfect security for the
economical, faithlul, legitimate appli
cation of this vast amount of money,
and the result is that we are turned
round upon the privilege which we ure
thankful is yet reserved to us, of spread
ing upon the journals of the House
this our respectful, solemn protest.
Signed by Harry Bingham, Aaron
P. Hughes, and eighty-nine others,
members of the New Hampshire Leg
islature, and by order spread upon the
journals.
Host11 u Attitude: of Prussia.—
The Black Republicans tell tho truth
occasionally in reference to their for •
eign relations, anti will be seen by tho
Washington correspondence of tho
Philadelphia Inquirer that even des
potic Prusia is getting as ttnfrieudly
as England and France ’;
I learn that tho Secretary of State
is busily engaged iu writing dispatches
to Mr. N. II. Judd, our Ministor to Ber
lin ; that they will coutain specific in
structions in regard to the unmistaka
bly hostile attitude of Prussia, as tnani*
