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RELATIVE POWEItS OF THE
<ON FF.MJi ATE ANI» .NTA ffG OV*
4TiTS. IN TOE DON
bI’HBCH Oi VP. L. Va.VJEY, esq ,
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had* in tht StnaU, & t Vjth,
'a. Pa**ioa’JT~The Hasslor fr ’> o rtb *;««-
• preEOEiiShgf Justics of th* I'ese ta t'-e
n ni<sc ♦».•>> h« wul (brotheramendments,
. T*h* tfon'uript Act. Tli* Senators fee to
[ ’ 'fir—fell "u.-kt "r-U. ' iLVe
*-: p;,o: tel that amendment, and bare each assert*
«. '• post r-.r of Cottgrc. ->o enroll a* conscript
i >. • ,n the army, .very officer es t. lit a
■ <■ c-her Judicial, LegiGat ve or Executive, and
;! , very officer under the Confederate Govera
■. .1, r nothor Judicial, L“»V.ilive nrExecutive,
v.-. ; .h blit a single exception, und teat exception
. “i trident of the Om' derate .Slat ... The
enrol' nei t or exemption of a few thousand, filling
uo. i.umble, hot utefal office cf a Justice of 'he
J - .1. ci.- in; of but lit!., iaemeut compared with
1..<; vast fundamenial change m the character of
t ; V --n ,r nt, which nt-rlicall gislalion upon
t " P- lOClpiee must bring about. Legislation
<>! .i -no principle* i*h;-.-.« nuve besn thus «li Bluet •
I_. .. and el-.-iora..-;v argued, would, in my
'•-.■•rly vrbvert me limited Constitutional
•
L '.in’io much pains to establish, and hare cx
"->••• <1 SO t ueb patriotic sacrifice and energy to
Cvi.'.'ul; '.rid would effectually erect upon its ruins
c,p *■• )y n;illt *>y- government. So thinking, /
1 o unjust U>ull the principles upon which
I.’ .re s n the ; it, sad dcieiict to the duty
I . fr, too Slate wfucii lin ~ir 1 represent here,
u • o tt.c oath I hare taken t J preserve eml tie
i-ua the Mon iu -,n it f wore to permit the
r.v ..I. 1 ofx.u-h d-.ctrin.'S to as u unchallenged. If
t’.i-- ani'-ndmeot had been proposed and passed
..; without debate, Hr. President, it might have
II a becotne one of the facto id legislative history
o . -mp-rativcly small moment, ntid not justly
1 Id i .be a pr-cedent. But its introduction has
in.. upper ted by grave end apparently mature
ly . ,’urod opinions of Senators from three of
u cen States ol the Confederacy—and has
h ! t u more lengthened and dignified debate than
her that has occurred in this body since my
■: uncction with it. hnr.li a debate, upon such an
ib, u my opinion, will mark the action of the
ft : i- upon it 03 olio of the great landmarks in
i y < Iv i construction of the Con: Ifrution ; and
r die question pusses into history its footprints
vM he gi avc:y Bcrnt ,ized and considered bere
i . ra« iidicatingthc- progresspf tUisgovcrnment
•ii .. ( • narco i a will utStJerniood constitn
• . .. policy, Isafim . . :onto an assured political
, . commercial greatness as a (fee people—or in
h“"-.td and v '..11 beaten path, from which tUo
v-v g crnmcM.' that f..r centuries have
c i . ii it conlu vpt defer ns, and which leads to
«. .. .. ’!■■■.. in the person of some mighty and
rot ... ■ B liu . This being the case,
d--i inn of thin question is ot the gravest im
ucv cot only for to-day, but for ail time, trod
t. action slionid lie clearly dcfinc.il and leave no
. . .... doubt m. l. onr vi.,W3 of the relative dig
. . i extent of the civil and the war power in
ter. Froniifont, the question 13 not an abstract
wh'i.i ti:n bo postponed without detriment,
it 1 (OH upon you ana practical question, re
'quiring / :;;i«foti re solution. Signs are not lacking
tho too war power is quietly usurping the powers
if both State ond U.mlederate (lot -sromenls. All
'!’> foi , ieaclie. uj that, in times of war, the raorc
•'* ‘ uut I ss bhowy civil powers of government
■ ■ shrink iron ti- > fiercer bearing and
-•■'.to lotti'tioiiß and swelling demeanor of the
.'1 ir own ccs -. go great is the patriotic
.so urdi nt ilieir devotion to
ti use—so Hii.niitih their sacrifices of proper
ty, . i.t. •, aye, and of life itselt in promotion o.
1:. : c .uji.ion wral, that they are loth to question |
ai, act that is designed to advance the common
>nt<‘iv i, no matter how strange or startling to
t. •• •„ as a •..ere question of power. And so far
it. 1 In 11 onerous support of our aru>ion gone, that
•■I Mine moral courage to sustain any who
0 a/, “vigilance is the price of
•. 1 Hence this generous coctidenoe, while
.1 ■ . dolor eiauy a watchful patriot from doing
.0 duly, lets actually been seiz and upon as a
' i'T sorne who have violated civil liberty in
.1 1" t, military power, and their acts jua
u >' b. * a.r the people are quiet.
iJ., , Mr. President, lias should not influence
•ir action hi re. Here we act upon
■ds • • is if ti.'.rto it lit rat the II" public
. till 1 no detriment. litre we are as watchmen
1 - t 1! o n 1 lstiun nta “what of the night.” Hero
>: put upon our consciences, without fear or
ft -r of the people, to do cur duty'—our whole
iiuty -not according to the “general welfare,’’
rn.it' 10 that ether dangerous pica of ail usurpers,
" uec.»..Ay.” but according to the wr.tton law of
the Constitution, which liaa Been placi din our
Hands as our only power of attorney to act at all.
(Under such influences, an cue of these watchmen,
I ~_v that tl i r are already signs that a change
/fuin a tiid government, with constitutional
i-.li-’i kit mid h dunces, to a military absolutism, is
hi pro re. What are the facts to sustain so
eu.nl mg un assertion V 1 repeat a few of them ;
A military commander of a department has do
clai i'rl myrlial law in his district and has muzsled
the free presn within it
I‘liq firat slop towards despotism 13 invan >bly
Vi nuppio .. that-A. tubful friend o' civil liberty—
a Ire preen; mid Hie next is to auppress the
o.i :i law, which won ti rescue a victim from law
ie « arrest, sod check all encroachments upon the
people’s rights.
Another military commander is solemnly eharg
.-.1, nud it >., a matter of inquiry now,in this
ti.-dr, with having exoenled u citizen without a
tnal, either under civil or military law. The
sain# coinmunder has superceded the municipal
ijw of one of our large cities, and substituted the
)><w of his own military edict, has displaced the
uashoritif s (lected by the people, under the sove
reign law of their finite, and has placed over
ihr man officer of Lis ow n choosing. And, as if
ihete startling usurpations were not sufficient, to
satisfy tins craving of the military to drive ail
cavil power into obscurity—in fact, to banish it
fro ■. the’land -hove in the Senate, the chosen
temple of State sovereignty, one of the tribunals
upon which 11 wonl. be supposed the civil power
could safely repose, I'.eßators from several neve
xvigil States arc to he found who deliberately as
s .. hat Coi.gms cr.n suspend uud supercede all
civil governments, both Confederate and citato;
mr they assert that under the clauses giving
Congress tho power to declare and conduct the
war it can coorce every offioer us well as citizen
of t'v: State governments, u:rd every officer of the
.'or ■'.derate g 0 -ernment, save the President, to
■ ,ifc ;a tin. regular army of the Confederate
i aea u.' a soldier, a along as it may see tit to
carry on the war.
Mr. President, if there arc any within our laud
. ,i*leO im t.i desire to overthrow our present
(arm ot government to establish upon its reins a
central despotism, led by a dictator, they could
not desire to have more effective aid in nccotu-
I'lietuDg.tbi ir nuhaltowcd designs, than these
Bettators no doubt unwittingly yield to them. It
is i most startling fact, and history will record it
ns one of the most strange in its annals, that in
the first Senate assembled under n Constitution,
whioh declares that it was formed by erch State,
•*aC'ng in its sovereign and independent charac
ter,” to • establish justiue, insare domestic tran
quility, and uie ihe blessings ol liberty” to
v, emseivos .'.nd the posterity of their people, and
in the Brat mvaion of tba*. Senate, Senators could
fc • frnnd, i'i the name of Liberty, to advocate the
erection oi the muttary power to such a suprem
acy that it would absorb and destroy ail the State
Government.', and all the legislative power of the
Oineficrate Goveraaient—ihun securing to the
b .i ,>rd so unchecked dnmln s on over a people who
had b ceded from toe Uncom usurpation, for the
sole purpose ot pre&erviug their liberties under
tueix -. > -Tal State Governments. Strangs, too,
.while thus severing their connection with
that Lincoln usurpation, on account of the en
otoßcutiuuia upon the rights of tho Stales, that in
UJ early progress ofHbe contest for the sovereign
.* os the Sin’" , ind the rights of their citnecs,
•auv intelligent n rn should be found comprehend
ing st.d approvu g the nature cf the contest, who
should f«U«w, in ins xeal W prosecute this war,
the vei » footsteps of luai L’ucoin despotism. Lin
coln r-t-d S. -vara proclaimed tba; the war power,
the > '»* the Federal as in the Confederate
Constitution, justified the suppress’on of the mu
mcipsi authorities oi iialtimore, and their irnpris
cnamu. :a i tit j tF-ijetle. Taey thought that
the p s was too free m its criticisms upon their
tots, end they crushed it* freedom—ana impris
oned rj caiiors. They thought .1 at the Juaicis
rr should re subord -iste to the war power, und
i.my pUc.J !•• atiaeto at tl e doom of the resi
dences of the Judges, and disregarded their tvr ts.
They thougut tuui independent vState Govern
ments were stumbling blocks in their progress to
military absolutism, and they imprisoned the
' members -cf th? LeJatore of a sovereign State.
And whal were his soecial pleos for this effec
tual anti rapid tram iormauon oi a constiiution
. i.i GevciPulttiit Law a pravliC... despotism which
. uid not. tJ/'W : ;a deems to be questioned *
.Cue iih'r was that s' ard-nllv advanced by the
' Banatertrom Eetitueky, (Mr. aimme.) in defense
Oft propositto •io sen ■ and coerce r.n officer
t — u.e civn uovernaicnt o *Stau nto the army
i>f tiir-taiam.oevacy—ihai it would be absurd to
„ •vr** l ’ tha’. the Ccmstitution conferred upon
Crogrtss the power to vago war, and yet pro
' h.bjted it from* forcing a Slate odirer to do his
'duty m a uoldiar.
Mr..Simms, of Ky.—The Cohstitution no where
iAves Congress power u>raise and support armies
»or the i ve-throw ot the State Governments, bm
it doc# give this power to Congress ‘‘to protect
each S.ate against invasion.” The language of the
Oons'.tot'eß is, “Congress shall protect each of
them (the Stales) against invasion.” The war in
whictf'ws'Bre now engaged, and the armies we are
now rxsing und supporting are tor that very pur
pose. If the whoie physical power of the Confed
*«•*■> b* required in tnc military service to sue
a, tisiuliy “protect ice Slates against ioTisipn,’’ I
te.d that Congress no only has power, but that
it is made its b ghest duty by th* Constitution it
self, to exercise that power to the full extent de
manded by the exigencies of the occasion. I am
therefore, tor cousonpimg magistrates into the
zauitary service, not for the purpose of overthrow
ing the State Government bpt for the purpose of
OfKrvui.aj, tr.atr r.ad i?S>ihiuW oj fc
tweifk Invader •
Fori
*
'- 'ic.elar« t it snail not httv* paw or to r*tse !
•- i j i ' try *' ico i-> do it. is to toy that
o' i . la n which declares that •* Con
sh I] roteet the States against evasion.
. > deniet to l.’oogirsa the pow.“r VO do the very
thing H declares Congress shall do. Such 6 con
struction, I hold, would he- enough to stt-mp the
Lgirtirceat an absurdity' and more than enough
I t j stamp itt auttciii u-iu. e f.upiiity incapable of
undemanding th. .r own purpo::-
fir.. Yancey continued. It s-r ma, Mr. t'rec.
•lea:. tlaut l d.d not ir.isappreher.d the Senator,
i;.: : p • .t .;t ;b a limitfttion of iho war port
er s»3iii prevent the government forcing on - •*-
c- ri i ar.ar- piv-.frmi ot to str.e in the army,
; ao i.hr.urd, y and a weakness es wd.cn the
ftm rjc Os the Cos t'tutien con J not be"gml»7-
.- tv- ; .r.rr e r.-’oniug, if it can be c»uvi
-Jet was... el by E ..coin a, to our right toss
c- dc from I. gover: . nt-ard :n rapport of bw
I Mate government?,
or,.' t- imnt ' >n l'ldc-i end editors ot a free press.
An -J.cr t-c.-a w.nicb niacoin used to support m=
o rone ursar;-. i one and acts ol tyranny. ‘
-.at l;d h.r y the Smator fr om
rf , '. r?,r..' the National Life—as it
-utionai government,
Jn.,-,0 : : ..I'M. antagonistic to tb“ sover
eign r: :.u or t.f; m free Stale, cr of a free cat-
zen oi ..uch -.Str..e. - 4U .
A i. her pi i- .vi bj the anthoriUea rftbe
; ternal w -.:r upon Oft P
, 7 .; ;; of their owji citizens and upon tae
. —■. t i -' r . ; their own States, <« that S3
...... .■ ‘uip, and here by the .Senator from Mm
:ppi, f Mr. Phelan j in behalf oi his view that
ji, (;,ay u: : i can coerce into its armies all ti.e
C:j> r.f tho . «'Tc,al .-.tales, and even the mem
!,. ; ,of •" ~ body; tin -vr^r.iacy —the unlimited
ext-ot of '.ho power of Congress over all other
power-: -ley —t by tho States or reserved uy
ih.-m iu ti e c -udnet of a war.
fir. Phelan here disclaimed that he was ono ot
those- who made a mere gtntral refer once to tho
“war power "in ihoKin;; the constitutionality of
any fj-teial measure. On the contrary, be had
..inied any such general reference is danger
ous in principle and pointless as proof. A refer
ence so infinite, he had declared, was ct no more
force in proving the constitutionality of a njieclal
measure tban a similar reference by iti title, to
any olbbr writing. Every powar, claimed under
the Constitution, must be established by special
clauses; and in his argument to show that Con
gress had power to exact military service of a
•State officer, ho had referred to the special clauses
by which, he thought, it was granted.
Mr. Yancey— l have not, than, misapprehended
the Senator. He reasserts unlimited right of
Congress to coerce every citizen. He only ex
plains that ha derives it from special clauses, and
not from general reference to the war power. 1
mention these coincidences between statesmen of
diLlercnt and antagonistic governments not with
a view of showing auy common design to dostroy
public liberty, but to warn Senators lest, in their
patriotic zeal to strengthen their Government iu
this prosecution of tlie war, they lay the foundation
tor an eventual destruction ot the Government
itself, and of all that vast mass of personal and
State rights which is the sol ; object of the war
to aecnra and to perpetuate, if the lessens of
history, teaching by example, are too weak to be
heard amidst the din of the conflict, surely the
more recent and striking examples, furnished by
our enemies because of their effect upon the
s ruggie, should cause Senators to panso in any
courso which would seem to justify those usurpa -
tions and to stultify ourselves in pursu
ing the like line of conduct. If there is
anything m our form of government which
checks tfeo m limited expansion of the war
power, and reserves from its seizure cither State
or Confederate civil rights—and Senators wiil
persist in considering such checks and reserva
tions absurdities or weaknesses —let them con
sider that thus it has been maturely and consid
erately determined by the States. Sufficient
to every legislator should it be that over the
whole fundamental policy of our complex govern
ment, it is thus written. Enough for them should
be the wisest and most potent of all reasoning—
■Ua est tcriptaltx— thus is the law written, and
thus we are sworn to observe it. But we arc
cun', ally adjured not to let the Constitution
stand in otu way, when it is necessary to put
every man in the field in order to resist subjuga
tion by the Lincoln despotism, and that when the
war is over we can return to Constitutional gov
ernment. Air. President, I here solemnly state
my conviction that it is far better for a free peo
ple to be vanquished in open combat with the
invader, than voluntarily to yield their liberties
and their constitutional safeguards to the stealthy
progress of legislative and executive usurpation
towards the stablisbment of a military dictator
ship. When a’ people, have lost faith in the
power of free government to defend their liberties,
and loßt that high courage and tried virtue which
can wrestle with danger aud meet disasters with
fortitude, and in cowardly search of eaße they dis
card the onerous and trying duties of sell-gov
ernment, and throw themselves and their all into
the arms of a vigorous despotism of their own
cheering, in nine coses out of ten that people are
lost—lost forever. The recuperative energy and
virtue which would he required to throw off the
..hft4..hleo vUwj- plnvtid wpon tliclv \jn tJ
llmlm, would he wanting, und they would have to
undergo ages of suffering, before anew lace 0!
men could be born, equal to a task of such magni
lode. No, sir Far better, iu every particular,
if thr.v are to be governed by n despotism—if free
constitutional gov eminent .a to he overthrown—
tbal it be overthrown by au open enemy: and if
they arc to be governed by a despotism, that it
aftei being vanquished in the conflict of arms.
Vn 1 es grow by trial; the virtues of courage, ot
patriotism, 0! love of liberty, arc not uprooted by
the triumph of amaoemy, by defeat at the hand
of a foe. The world’s history is fall of the noble
truth—toe stern, bloody, practical truth which
poetry bus seized und almost consecrated as i'a
own, by reason of the amber ol sweat uumcera 111
which it has cmblatued it—
“Freedom’s battle oiica begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won!”
There is hope for a people who arc crushed by
superior power, in their brave struggle for the
right. There is uu hope for a people, so destitute
o! couragoand virtue and wisdom a3 to flee to a
despotism to render their conflict with an invader
I the easier. I therefore, repudiate aii idea that
we can «afely übandon any ot the safeguards of
nnr liberties in order.more successfully to con
tend with our invaders.
Mr. President, I liavo said that this amendment
and the priucipiea upon which it has been sup- i
ported.it cairied nit j practical legislation, will
destroy both the State and Confederate Govern -i
menst, and will erect the Executive into a Kxiila- !
rv Dictatorship.
I no* proceed to sustain that proposition. |
Ip considering this question, it must be borne j
m mind taut this.is not a consolidated Govern j
ui.'iit ; but that the powers of this Confederacy •
arc limited, because delegated, and that ali the |
towers of government are distributed between I
this and the several State Governments.
There are 'seven articles iu the Confederate
Constitution. X assert tlmt the exercise of such
11 power by Congress will destroy the provisions
of sis of these articles, and will thus destroy the
various powers delegated to Congress and Which
make this a constitutional civil government, and
will leave the Executive and war power without
the checks and balances so wisely provided to
keep these subouiinate to civil and legislative
power.
In the first ai tides are provisions that the Leg
‘Si.Aure of a State has power to prescribe who
shall be voters for members of House of Rept e
santativcs, and shall chose members of the Sen- ‘
ate and prescribe the times, places and manner !
"• tueir election; and that the State executives !
Sffi *0? ’T WE**
can, and would, be destroyed by Commes* o !^'? 08
ipg the powers contended for by &e
from Ueorgta ( Mr. Hill) and frL Mil?ss pni
Mr Phelan) the power to place in the wmv for
th.eo years the members of the State LegUd/tu?e
and the Executive, through whose action alone
cuu llepreseuvativos and Senators be elected and
ue power to enroll as conscripts the militia’offi
oers of a State ; and the militia, when called out
by a State to resist its invasion. .
Texas has a regiment of rangers now in her ser
vice to protect her borders; Virginia hag a We
body of her militia to protect her insulted territo
ry. Iu my opinion, Congress cannot touch a man
of either under the conscript law; although I be
lieve that Congress can provide for calling forth
the minus to repel invasion; and in such a ease
the States would be bound to sand their militia, in
obedience to that clearly delegated power.
There is another class of provisions in the first
article, which the assumption of such powers bv
Congress as are contended lor would render null
and destroy. These Senators say distinctly that
Congress has power to enroll every member of
Congress as privates in the army for three years
or more. Let us see the effect.' The Ist article
provu.es that all legislative power shall be rested
m Congress; that it shall meet once a year; that
the House shailStlone impeach an officer; that the
Senate shall try impeachments; that members
shall be free from civil or military arrests—save
for treason, felony or breach of the peace; and 1
that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in \
the H: ’se. In addition to all this, there are nmo- :
teen distinct powers specially delegated to Con
press in that article, six of which relate to the war
power. To enroll members of Congress in the
army would destroy the legislative branch of the
goremmeat, and would render Congress unabie
to exercise all those powers and to perform all
those duties; would take from the people of the
States their voice in managing the General Gov
ernment, and would take from the States the rep
resentation of tneir sovereignty in this Govern
ment, and would place the revenue in the hands !
of the Executive—would give him the parse as j
well as the sword. Further, the suppression of !
Congress, by enrolling in the army, would des
troy the only power which con’d impeach and try J
the Executive for usurpation.
Let us now examine the 8d Article. It provides
that the President shall be elected by electors ev.
ery six years, chosen as the State Legislatures
may direct. It gives to him the power of appoint
ment of officers, subject to confirmation or rejec
tion by the Senate. He can make treaties by and
with the consent of the Senate. He shall give
jnferm&flftn of the state o? the Confederacy to
Congress. He shall be removed from office ob
ltnpaachmiai. But these Senators say that Con
gress hag the power to destroy the State Legisla
tures, which prescribe the appointment of elec
tors—has the power to destroy the Senate, which
can reject his appointments, and which cm reject i
TT -7m whiaq *.«. Hmp+Mteto
ok,; by Impaaobmen; aiH wb#n *ll Uiw Ua bj a
in. il»»re wiil he an Executive without ,r.s
checx of legislative power, without thp soar af t .e
iliiri. Court of mneachcjent-an Executive t>
raise monev at wili-to put up and pci oown ,t
make allian.es with foreign powers a.
maintain him in his oca man power, without cop
saltation or draw back from any quarter, and to
keen bis control of government, m there wtu f;
•a v iri exi«ts»ice to aifect Sms successor &r. j
diepute bin term-o? office, j* ,
|>t us -laimce tte U Articlo. It p.oTtdee »1..i
the indicia! power shall bo Tested w
1 .. - ocorts, j that tee juagos stall hold oitue
: daring good behavior-that they abatt presm,
i over civil and criminal trims at prescribed chsr-
&C But these Senator» declare that Congress has
, w ,. r u, -u« that article—to tender t* ot t.o
effi ct-to take the judges from the bench and en
roll them as soldiers under mUitary iti.e—-to ue
;-- e of the dignities .and privilegesi of t ieir
high office, no matter how irreproachable ttse-r j
j.M Tbs Chief justice i3 requtreo to orestde to ;
- te ii tr e President is tried by impeach
meet Bat, although the President may have
L'J. 'i members to destroy the civil functions of
kxvernment, end mav have aneonetituticaally ar
rested uau forced State authorities and all Con
,.v o D d the Judiciary into his army, and there
• Ore had assumed ait the powers of government
and be liable to treason, there will be fount! no
House to impeach—no Sen As to try utm-no
Chief Justice to preside—all will be forced, unfer
the principles so recklessly avowed hero by the
Senators frun Georgia, (Mr. HsllJ from Mutsiwip.
pi (Mr. Phelan.; and from Kentucky, (Mr.
Simms) to be under the ajailed hand of a military
Dictator—that has grown under thorn plea of *‘ao
cesaitv,” and cl the “ unlimited nature cl the war
power.” . j
But to resume my review ot the Constitution. I
Under the 4th article, the Confederate Stales |
guarantee to every State a republican form of j
government, and upon application of the Exeou- !
live against domestic violence. Under the princi- ]
pies of these Senator?, what becomes of this velu
able provision f The Government of the Confc* i
derate States, so far from all'ording that guaran
tee, hf.a destroyed every vestige of republicanism
in both state aod General Government. It will
have destroyed the Legislature, the Executive
and the Judiciary of each State—it will have est
it u prey to anarchy, or, what is more probable, a
province of a Military lluler, governed by one of
his satraps.
The spirit, the vitality, the essence of our Re
publican system will in every particular have been
effectually crushed. And when, in such an event,
the citizen—not then, but once the citizen ot a
tree Government—shall seek the sacred plac/Ti
where his thate sovereignty was enghrined/Jnd
ai all find the Executive chair vaoant, and the
mace of Executive authority broken—when he
shall stray still further into the temple of State
justice, and find the bench of Justice no longer
cocupied, e.nd the sacred ermine tom and trampled
uadet the feet ot Confederate soldiery—the very
altars of his liberties desecrated and cast down—
pray tell me, Bir, what will it be to him to tell him
that you did it from “necessity,” to preserve the
National life, from a fear of Lincoln’s hordes,
from tin opinion that you had a right to do it—
what to him will be your desire to be successful iu
war, when success in war is based on a destruc
tion of tho very rights for which aione he was
tfil ing to war.
I pass over toe sth article a»of comparatively
iittlo importance to the Bth. The two last pro
visions are the most important in the whole Con
stitution—yet they were not devised by the wise
men woo framed the instrument in Convention.
Alter they had sent it to the States for their con
sidoration, a cit zen of this aucient Dominion, far
sighted and with a thorough knowledge of gov
ernment and its workings as taught in history,
had them, among3t others, proposed as amend
ments—and they v ore adopted. They constitute
the grand beacon lights to every benighted or
puzzled statesman by which to guide the bark
of State. By their light there can be no* excuse
c-ven for a blind mau lor not correctly reading
this constitution. They speak a language ot
watuiDg, of instruction and reproof to the Senator
from Mississippi, (Mr. Phelan.) who from certain
special clauses, deduced the power of Congress to
destroy or rentier null and of no effect nearly
every other delegated power ib that instrument,
and to disparage, it not destroy, nearly every
right retained and reserved by the States. I
read them:
“The enumeration in the Constitution of cer
tain rights, shall not bo construed to deny or dis
parage ethers retained by the people of the sev
eral States.
“The powers not delegated to the Confederate
States by the Constitution, uor prohibited by it
to the States, are reserved to the States respec -
tively, or to the people thereof.”
Sow I put it to the Senate, have not a few
specified rights as to the conduct of the war pow
er been so construed by the Senators who have
advocated this amendment as “to deny or dis
parage” the flight of State government which
was “retained by the people of the several
States V" Can those Senators deny that they
have done bo t Have they not so construed the
few war powers as effectually to suppress tne ju
diciar the legislative and the executive depart
ments of State governments if their principles
should be fully 'acted upon by this Congress ?
nan any rv,uaitlT pretenaiu mat me power o!
legislation upon domestic relations among ciii
z *ns of a State has been prohibited to the Statesf
Not pae. Then it is a reserved power to the
States respectively. And if a reserved power,
then, says the Constitution, “ You shall not con
strue certain delegated rights so as to deny or
disparage that reserved right." Yet Senators
here have, without due reflection, 1 must suppose,
done that very prohibited thing.
I have thus, Air. President, performed my task.
I have shown that ihe construction put by some
.Senator i upon this we. -power is utterly at va
riance with six of ihs seven articles of the Con
stitution, and, if-adopted aud acted upon by Con
gress, will crush ali civil power, destroy two but
of the three great departments of ihe Government
—namely , the legislative and judicial departments
—will also destroy all the State governments and
will erect tbs limited Constitutional Executive
into an absolute despotism—a pure military dic
tatorship. As I have so often alluded to the Exe
convive, I hare take occasion to say that, though
differing on some matters with tb3 President, I
have no fears of his assuming unconstitutional
power. Educated and living a strict construc
tionist, I believe bis heart sympathize with his
head, and that no more determined opponent of
military usurpation win ha found in the Confed
eracy. ’ And what ;a the reason urged for this as
sumption of unlimited power? Necessity—blood
covered, liberty despoiling “necessity"—tainted
«ith ihe crimes of ages, and yat dripping with
the fresher blood ofja neighboring republic, which,
although we may be at war with, it may bs no
treason to wish it hud received a happier fate.
But, Air. President, “necessity” can hardly be
urged at this time for the perpetration of bo hein
ous a crime against our own liberties—none more
unpiopitioas for such au excuse as this bright
period iu the history of the war. Though hard
pressed in the spring, when surprised and unpre
pared, the wonderful recuperative energy and
ready resources ot the Southern people have rais
ed aud equipped au army in the very presence of
three quarters of a million of armed and disciplined
enemies; aud those armies have driven back ihe
enemy from ail his fortified bolds on our borders
and hevo routed him on several well contested
fields, and uow hang threateningly over his capi
tal aud along his undefended frontier. Yet this is
the hour chosen for an onslaught upon the dearest
pi inciples of ihe Southern people—upon the chief
principle for which they separated from the gov
ernment of the United States, and upou wbioh
they have built up this Confederacy—the right to
preserve intact the reserved rights of the States
—ihe right to resist usurpation of those rights by
the Federal government.
Mr. President, I have full faith in this compli
cated and limited government to earry us safely
through this war. Its strength, howevor, lies in
the most careful observance of the rights of each
department of the government and of each State.
Its greatest weakness is in a disposition to assume
powers, from a mischievous and fallacious idea
that they are necessary to our safety. Such as
sumption is more to be feared, more dangerous
in my opinion, than are a million of Yankee bayo
neta. Let there be mutual respeot for the rights
ol each all— and there will result a harmony and
an energy and a power that will secure to us all
we value in constitutional government.
The Literary Editor of the field & Tirende
who has a snng little “villa’* in the country, and
cultivates his own vegetables, teUa the following
anecdote: ”
Irish girls have been the object of many a jest
and the newspapers are fond of recording the'
Th^ W » r s “ lstaieß of unsophisticated Biddies.
The events of the past year—the Yankee foravs
I on our coast-have thrown into the interior a
large number of raw rice plantation negroes
i Accustomed as they are, to the routine of rice
plantation work, they rival the sons and daugh
ters of the green isle iu their awkard blunlers,
" e bad one and thse in our employ, in the capa
city ol gardner. It is our custom to slant peas or
potatoes betweeD grape rows. Setting old Krister
to hoe the potatoes one day, we concluded after
he hud been in the patch an hour or two’ to go
enu see how he was getting on. “Phancy our
phelings” when we found that in hoeing two rows
of potatoes, ha had palled np a whole row of our
choicest grapes.
“What m the thunder are yea a'.jt... '■ * .
ed, in no very mild or saintly tone.
“I tort marster, you wanted aU de weeds pull
up, and I doin mv bes to pull am,"—and the old
innocent gave a fresh tug at a vigorous Pauline
of the second year’s growth.
“Those are grapes,“you old blockhead.”
“Bress my life, mars’r—ton dev was weeds. I
ax pardon, mars’r—l no seen garden truck like
dem.”
Health or Wilhidoton.—We were visited with
some thunder on yesterday evening and consid
arable ram. To-day the atmosphere is cool and
refreshing. We bare heard of but two new
cases of fever since yesterday’s issue. They are
not officially reported. Five deaths sre known to
have occurred las; night; one, however, was of
consumption. We learn that Physicians have
been applied for at Charleston, but we have not
heard whether any are coming. Our physicians
are very much exhausted and need assistance.
The telegraph office being temporarily suspended
at this point, our town is completely isolated so
far as regards ary news sxoept by mail. A large
numoar of famines have left for plaors in different :
sections of the country. Our population is oon- i
sequently very much thinned out, and will remain )
so until the lever eubeidea, or until front.
Journal, 26iA. j
OattffaSh OkUwas Alta's
Li*, has been resumed U* count sweme«t
shows a bngqarly account Tr.cr.-ock on the 20ih
August was 35Z bah*. i£ . e ti<ir u g.,^ n-> ...
year, ending September id, wew fi»,730 bale=.
Expsrteo for tho,ear, S7,S<* b a , vi . „
bmes. Ins statistic?, o, iilt
alia 11,0 ai follows : *
* Wo eomp.., J ;
ftTerbgiaglif; -k- ».» . a
*!»« *f?B r -'ga'S weigiit of .'2i ‘Ti - ; .J D . t; :
This embraced SB„n ß4 t \
rifled A- 'ln - F OWf . s > (0,148 refined, ci.-;- :
filled, meiudtcg CtaU.ro 1-..; ~. ~
sugar honscs •; wln'cb
r. J- f Tv , t '}' ewa«, and t-H l-y horse !
ed to 23tiy a -» r i* ol . lu *. P^ediagyear aniuuut
ad to hogsheads, weighing “ 0 -. O'.'.
830fi5» , how>h iB H aQ sacr6HP -e for tho I ssl’) 'M o!
.° E!3tl I f - Rd9 . °r 285,288,500 p,aDd'.i
According to our calculations tt • price of th"
« 1, .
year. *.t th,s average, end ukiuo the c-i's t
1150 pounds to the hogshead, the'J--t - mu;
or the crop of 459,410 hogsheads ar,
hetd- S i«. 4 ’* 68>,i27, th * VroAuct ot zt!S,7SS hogs-
Slt.“ ls ? V J * ar i or w» increase of *lo,B2l'Ml.
; rec.upta of the Leveesmeethe Ist of .vt-ua
! bar have lieu 225,858 hogsheads, end 7327 tier, '"3
; ssisstasrtfjg *•*•-** «•
i
lbe yield c f molasses from the ivst year’s cant
orop is estimated at 70 gallons for each IC.-0 lbs
01 sugar, agaipat the Bams fur the previous
mZK* 1 ' 6 ° f gMloas against
!(ior«a!r - v ®'’ r I’ r »»‘oU3 showing an increase
oi 15,567,9*/5 gitilons, or more than cjnauch
Ibe arnya.s at tho Levee tiuiia? the veasr-n hare
boeH'4t>l,4o4 barrels against 81A,2tiO last ysav,
auowing an increase of 88,944 barrels.
The tutai value of tire product, estimated at
an average of TB>g cent? per gallon, sums op
ft*,. .3, 'J7y against 44, - 235,44;i last year, showing
antucreaao of 12,487,733.
Ijow 10 Draw the *»ay of Ueiid Soldier*, i
Tng.VStJBT DEPiRTMKNT, C. 8. A., j
Hzcoxn Auditor’s Oxfics,
Richmond, June 12 )
HeauMtione of the payment of claims of arrears
of pay due to deceasedsc/diere. Fer Act i<>3. Ap
proved February Id, 1802. The first section of
the act is as follows : “ The Congress of the Con
federate States of Amer ca do enact, That the
pay and allowances due to decarsed volunteer,
noa-comniissioned officer, musician or privates, in
the army of the Confederate States, shall he paid
to the widow of the deceased, if living; if not, to
the children, if any; and in default of widow or
children, to the father, if living; end if not, to the
mother of such deceased voluiresr;” nod pay
ment will he made accordingly.
Ist. If the child or children be ruiuor, payment
will be made vo the guardian, upon tha produc
tion of the proper certificate, under the seal of the
court.
2d. The claiming heir must produce his or her
affidavit, and that of one disinterested person,
staling the relationship, and that there is no other
person entitled to claim—for instanci: If the
claimant be a mother, the affidavitmusi state that
there is living neither wife, child or father of the
deceased j if the father, that there is neither child
or wife; aud if the child, that there is no wife.
Tho magistrate administering the oath should cer
tify to the credibility of the witness, and the clerk
ol the c. urt should certify under the seal, that he
is such magistrate.
84. These regulations do not apply to commis
sioned oifioers, except when the amount due
does not exceed SIOO, and there is no adminis
tration.
Claims prepared in compliance with ihe fore
going instructions, and transmitted to this office
by mail, or otherwise, will receive as p ompt at
tention as the business of the office will aliovs'.
W. H. S. Tatlok, Auditor.
The form given below, it will bo seen, is intend
ed for the use of a widow who has lost an unmar
ried eou in the service, but it requires very little
and easy to be understood alterations to suit ary
case. We leave tba name of tho Stale in the
form, merely to aiil in the filling up the blank de
scription of troops :
Comrviioi. leu’s Orrics, Juno 24, 1862.
I concur in and approve the above.
Lewis Gr-cosn, Comptroller.
State of North Carolina, j It .-fore the Justice of
County, | the Peace,
personally speared , and made
oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God,
that she is tie mother 01 deceased, late a
(private) of Oapt ’s company, (letter,) (ao.)
regiment, North Carolina troops, and that her said
sou died without .caving widow, child, or father,
aud she|is therefore entitled to the appears ot pay.
et cetera, that may ba due him from the Confeder
ate States; and also appeared at the same time,
• (witness,) aud made until as aforesaid
that he knows the son, and the fai ls sworn to by
her are true, add ho is disinterested therein.
Sworn to and subscribed before me.
Hattie of Sliarpsburg.
Terrible Confiiti—The E&m/y Jtepvteed.
Shabpsbciis, Soot. 17,1362 (
'OP. M. (
A bloody battle has been fought to -day. ft
commenced at daybreak aud lasted uuiil b o’clock
at night—fourteen hours. The enemy made tba
attack, and gained some advantage early iu ihe
day left, and on the subsequently the right, but was
finally repulsed with great slaughter. Oir own
losses have been heavy, including many officers of
worth and position. For the present ijcaii only
mention the following :
Killed—Brig. Generals atarke ami Branch, Col.
Douglas of the 13th Georgia, commanding brig
ade, Col. Homes of 2d Georgia, Col. Miqigan of
the 15th Georgia, Col 8. if. Smith of 27th Geor
gia, Col. Newton ol the tith Georgia, Oapl. Tig
bet commanding 3rd Georgia, and Lieut Col
Barclay of 23rd Georgia, (reported killed,) T.
8. Mclntosh of Gen. McLawa’ sfoff, and Lieut.
8. B. Parkman of Read’s Georgia battery, -flso
Coi. Strong Oapls. Ritchie and Calloway, and
Lieufs Lit.le and Lynne of the Ota Louisaxxa,
and Cant, McFarland and Lieut. Newcaau of ihe
7th Louisiana.
Wounded—Major General Anderson, of 8 C.,
Brig. Gen. Anderson, N. C., Gen. Lawton, es Ga.,
in ieg; Gen. Wright, of Ga., in leg; Gen Kip ley'
of S. C., in threat; Col. Duncau Mcßea, who
succeeded Ripley in command, blightiy; Col. Ala
gill, of Ga. Regulars, ioat aa arm ; Majors Sorrell
and Walton, of tiongstreet’s r.taff; Colonel
Gordon, aud Lieutenant Colonel Lightfoot, of
the 6th Alabama, Captain Reedy, of the Sd Ala.,
(wounded and missing at Boonsboro’ Gap;) Col.
Alfred Gumming, of the 10in Ga ; Major Tracy,
badly, and Capt. Watson, of the tilh Ga ; Lieut.
Col. Sloan, of tho 63d Ga.; Col. Jones, ot 22d Ga ,
Lieut. Col. Crowder, badly, of -31st Oa ; Major
Lewis, Capts. Harney aud St. Martin, Rnci Li uts.
Murphy, Cook, Current, Dea, Montgomery, Brv
ant, Wr6n, Birdsall and McJimsey, of thefith La ;
Col. Penn, Capts. Frank Clark and O’Counor, an 1
Lieufs. Smith, Orr, and Maitin, of the <Hu Go.-
Capts. Herrin, iiorqan, aud Harper, and Licuts!
Knox, Tarpey, Flower, Talbot and Weils, of 7th
La.; Major Alenaer, Capt. Hart, and Lieut. Patter
son, of the sth La ; Coi. Hately aud Lieut CoL T.
B. Lamar, ami Serg’t Msjor Anderson, of the sth
Florida; Capt. Gregory, and Privates iiagin,
Eenry, Bryant, Parker, Strickland, Bateman,
Yon, Barnett, Dillard, aud Martin, of Company
H., of the same regiment; S. B. Barnwell, Color
Serg t ot Ogiethorpe Ligtit Infantry, Bth Ga.,
aboue knee, and leg amputated : Capts. Caracker
and Carey, .and Lieuts. Macon, Gay, Hubert, of
4th Ga.; Major Randolph Whitehead, of 4sth Ga.;
and Capt. Charles Whitehead, of Gen. Wright’s
staff; Msjor Harris, of 20th Ga.; and Col. William
Smith, (late Governor, and known as Extra Biiiv
Smith) of Virginia, badly. Gens. Lawton’s and
Wright'a wounds, though severe, are not consid
ered dangerous. The same may be said of Col.
Gordon and Lieut. Col. Ligbtfoot’s, of (Ah Ala.;
Maj. General Anderson’s and Brig, Gen. Ander-.
son’s, and Brig. Gen. Ripley’s.
I bave omitted to mention in itie proper place,
alJ d Lieutenant L'wis
Cobb, of the 4th Georgia, were killed; also Lieuts.
n° 0d ll nd , , CleTela nd. of ihe 13th Georgia.
Capts. Geo Maddox and Crawford, Lieuts. Calla-
f 1 ®® an< L^‘ l '!f“ 8 ’ and feergeant Me Murray, (the
to mortally) of t_ie same regiment were
wounded. Private Slade, of the 2d Georgia, kfil-
This lißt is imperfect, perhaps, limited as it is
and comprises only such names as I have* been
aJa I ( c . ,n,lot . £a y more at this time. This brief
and hastily wmten note is designed to lit C-e
forerunner only of my account of the htttle and
I wflUnfy 0 6
McLawsou the left, about JTnV'™* S'
morning, saved the day on tha‘ la c tlJ , e
and that to Toombs we are indebted fX tl,eJleld ’
into m the afternoon on the right v / “
2 W r« .TCntTa?! 111 - t P - HufgS&S
to the success of the day.* I f? gely
behaved with great spirit. 7 J the trob P s
1 r°l ude
to Virginia F S ‘ Wfc nali return
P. W. A.
tag himself b^ng h MdmaptmatnJon^at,,,lat
upon grounds that we ihnnH * he . other da - T ’
lent joy. 8 ’® 9 f&c « «’*pressive of vio
“How so f" we asked.
ba7h\rUC C n^ 0n e e o ß '^.;:'^
otheis—ha! ha! ha'” I hsi n ’* ? ' I , n bas P ot the
ha! hs! ha!” Udhe laughed^ 008 loDg i
with a coughing fit, which twP* wa * !ied
pulmonary" consumption of the'task of* 0
“tother r 9k ° f 08!ng up
The first draft mlh s country i „,v
ISIS, took piece io the wa " of
'nos a»- is . Lonnecucu’, a few
v- P. , , ,he -=tmeu of th» ritv with
a handkerchief over big eyes, drew
th. n«ne of two hundred W a VZ IZVJ™
in the army fer nine months, One and
one policeman were among tu conscripts
( Af .*. .1 ."A. '
IskUis es j..,imiv. .l
-hri,vc,iy.iU-\
Outers wtre i-. .' •in
men to cue* V V 'K . ’ • V.iP -.. . i , ''n. j - was
tt- e i-• td-.-uM pm . ■.,» ci ■ at
.■•- - ■ l •
HllfeQ*: (iL i'-ei >( :ii' *\ k xq it*;]'. -
odt one oatside* oi k-j
Cat t nm . e> . w u*-.
i!ij£ to a/ ‘«l i 0 .'■ \;' UuTO A , t; '- ■ r;; y
-
Hdli’iaMUi*,', V, c tUrtidfi. iiA. JL C*U uJ" » UEe*
iflfvOu defrnth■? tu , PT ,r ';h?'
Fretiertsk acd Badimoro. As the* column ap
r-roecbeci : he village of Boo*- , n o’, at tfoot of
the Bloc Ridge, ten md^sfrom Hagersio.vu. a vap
id artillery fire could bohaard. ’file report noon
obtained ihu; it was r.n afr., r cd in tidery moi't V ;
b.;i at tte awanccd -nearer wc could d.it.noisy
hear the report of small arms hotly engaged.
General H. ii. ilia's oprpa had crorsod ihs Po- j
ICtOnc an and coma u,j to thu vuicity of Booussoro’, i
aau coustitnUd .* rear of the army, which, wish j
<h-: eseepitoß c-f JacksouV, A. P. Eiii's and M.
Laws’ cf-mmaLd.s wu- cue..: p.a along the fur.-
p.kc from Eouaanoro' to Hagerstown. Ho held
.the gap in the mountain, therefore, the ugh
which the turnpike parsed, aud was the hr.-’ to
etccunt.A the advai.ciug columns of MeC'eUan
It seems that the Federal vjunnanflir put his
f.,rc -a in motion e.i scon as he had difictte infor
mation that wc had crossed into Maryland. His
rntpch was rapid, aud spun brought him to Fr.-d
--eriek, where there was a sharp cepagemeni be
tween the 'cavahy. He toliowei cm a*', t us
th tough Middletow;-, ana had reached the B ona
b-uo’ Gip hi the Blur It'd,j*, about mid tv ..v >c
t ween the villages of Miudirtawn and Boonahoio’y
when bo c ene upon D. U. i, as aheadj
stated, fhis was. laieMast evening.
The position of cu? forces at this tiSia wus not
advantiifpious for a wcneral en-iagemens. Lang- !
street aud Attdersod were near Hagerstown, 12 '
miles from B'Xi&sborn’ G ip, Jauksdn uad were i
i A. I’. Hdl had rec.-osaed to the Virginia do rod :
investing llirpar's Fetry, and MnLaws held the j
Maryland Heir its opposite Harper’s Fe ry, from
which point he cooperated with Jackson and ]
Hill in tho movement against that position. Geu
eral Lee, therefore, immediately Ordered back
Long3t rest’s aud Anderson’s tor ess to - the relief
of D. 11. Ili',l, then engaged near Boonsboro’,
The Bluo liidge is not high at ibis place, though
it is broad backed, the passage across by the
turnpike being nearly two miles. The enemy
held the moutfi ct the Gop on the eastern sdia,
and some of the spurs or off shoots of the moun
tain next to Middletown. We held the western
end of tha Gap and more than ono-half of the
mountain. Tbo enemy was in great force; we
h id On y one corps, D. H. Hill’s and some detach
ments of cavalry Loogctrecv 'and Anderson did
not mvivo uhtil near 48. M, up to which time
Hill’s corps had maintained tho unequal combat
single handed.
It will be proper to premise, that for reasons
which will abundantly appear iu the course of
this narrative*, it is utterly impossible at the pres
ent to prepare either a i.li or correct recount of
the battle fought to-day. _ The skirmishers wage
engaged r.s early ns 0 o'clock this morning.—
From that hour until right, tlui combat lasted,
with varied sneer.ss. o.*rl-.tiiri’s brigade was tho
first to enter the light, and Anlftersou’e, (N. O )
Ripley’s, Rhodes’, and Colquitt's, went in subse
quently, aud in tho order in which their names
occur.’ 0 iland was killed about 9 o’clock by &
Minnie ball, which struck him in the breast, ns
ha wsffl gallantly loading a charge. Col. Manning,
of the 50th Georgia, of Drayton’s brigade, which
came up late iu iho day, wits wounded Beyond
these two, 1 have heard oi no other ca-. unities
among tire officers engaged, though many have, no
doubt, been killed or wounded.
There was but one road —the Cumberland pike
—by which Longstreot and Anderson could move
from Hagerstown to Foousborc’; consequently
the forces got into pd: itiou slowly after their
urrivnl. Upon reaching the vicinity of the moun
tain, the several divisions and brigades were tint
forward to their proper places, to reach which
they had to tile off to tho right and left by narrow
country roads and get up the mountain side as
best they could. There were two smaller gaps—
one on fhc right aud the other cm the left—to
which forces were immediately sent forward. For
these reasons, it was nearly sunset before the
whole of Longstreel’s corps got fully into posi
tion, though the brigades, first to arrive, had
been engaged two hours cr more.
Thus, you perceive, that the enemy had not
only greatly the advantage in numbers, owing to
the absence of a large portion of our troops, but
was the first to get info position. When tho Con
federates would charge down tho mountain, they
were subjected to a terrific cross fire from toe
Federal batteries posted on the spurs find eleva
tions on Ike cr,stern side, which rendered it im
possible to advance Indeed, for reasons eulii
clent’y Apparent upon a perusal of this narrative,
X am inclined to believe that the enemy got the
best of the fight. They will certainly claim a vic
tory, end subsequent events will give some color
ing t i the claim.
The troops under D H. Hill behaved Vb.h
gre-t gallan rv, and nr. 0 urrov so than Illume'.'
- . I.V'Of .••■ :..• '•••:,ns •.■■ • v•' r i-'-i ir* -. so
of GsCrrrius. The former brif.sH is ea-npV.-d
of the 1 bird, l: * .H* .*.'• * and *
sixty Alabama r,. ; *itn nf s, end the latter bf the
Sixth, Twenty-third, Twiniy-i.evcnth and Tv*. 11-
eigbth Geo p.i regime to, end ti» Thirteenth
Alabama. Up to ibis horn I have heard of no
casnalties-nmong the officer:! in ci her command.
The artbl ry engaged under Hill wn, Cult's
battalion of artillery ami Bondnrant’s (formerly
Montgomery’s) battery, recruited chiefly in Ahf
barni. Lirut. Cal. Cult’s battalion is compound
wholly of Georgians. The artillery was bandied
with great skill und judgment: Capt. Une, a ton
of Senator Joe Lam*. * f Oregon, commands our
of Cutt’s batteries. K * is • h excellent effie-.-r,
and loof'hthis l 1: v :h* • ■*. Thedfiftto ®t»y
be er.>d -f tV.pt. Ji.-v I’ntt -vsoß,'and Oapt.
bsitalioD— il excellii.t clßc.*is snd led by Col
Cutis, one of th butt t.rtifieri i;» tho service.
Ifn was mail liir;>t. i.T-l'uol of arliilery forg ii.
laiitry and rkif! in the uply tff.hr «♦ DiawsviUe
last December,
Evans’, Jonrn’, dVmbs’, (exe»p* bis old brig
ade rod bims-rii hftd * r■; left at Hagernfown ita a
guard,) flood’s and otl- rdiv! iousia Lnegrtrcct’d
corps'participated in tho fight lute' in the aftat
-000:1, bat With wbut?.-s-*'.l,« I: m nnablb to «nl'orai
you* The buttle continued until 8 o’clock at night,
each side, with uts mpanauf.e'»u t'fono, toainfain
ing its original ground
ji'cksoii, A, P. il .11 ftT'd McLa 78 had bcf *i sgnt
to operate agsinsrHarper's Parity, where the en
emy had between eight, and ten then, and troop*
wir e}, u w«3 tboir purposo to captnro. News Lad
been received that llarVa was iiiovio:-* up vrith a
heavy force for tho relief of the Federal troops at
that point. With a view, therefore, to Die con
cent ration of Lis forces, sad to insure the t educ
tion of Harper’s Ferry, General Lee determined,
at nine o'clock at to-night, to abandon bis posi
tion in front of Boonesboro’, find to move down
towards tho 1\ tcraee on our right, wbica was .Mc-
Clellan’s Lift. Th wagon trains were ordered to
withdraw to the river ot Williamsport above, re
tires* at that place, and move down to Shepavd
*nwn, on th* Virginia sblo below, just opposite
Hharpsburg in Maryland. This movement made
it necessary for us to leave onr dead and many oi
our wounded in the binds oi the enemy. I fear
also that they captured some hundreds' of i>, ir.o
n«rs, men who bed fallen asleep or got out of po
sition. The wagon train wss cut by a detachment
of 1,600 Federal cavalry, who were making their
escape from Harper’s Ferry. They were not
aware of the position of affairs until they struck
the road the tiains bad taken. They slopped
long enough to destroy (aocoiding to report) about
seventy ordnance wagonsiatached to Lftngstreet’s
corps. These events, ns 1 have already intima
ted, will doubtless lead the or.emy to cloirn a grant
victory over the combined forces’ of Gen. Lee.
P. W. A.
SiiAnpsßUKo, lid., Sept. 15th.
The movement to this place list night was suc
cessfully executed. The army is now ia a posi
tion where it can be concentrated, or if need be,
where relief caa be sent to Jackson or Jackson
can come to us. The c’ur.nge has rendered il neces
sary for McClellan to alter bis front, and to move
down so fit to take position between onr forces
and his capita!. Ti.;a we understand fit is now
doing.
We have rumors from Harper’s Ferry which,
for tho present, 1 forbear to mention. It is suffi
cient that Jackson will,probably succeed in cap
turing the entire Federal force at that place. The
wagons have recrossed the river at Williamsport,
and are now moving down to Shephefdatoyn,
three miles frojn this place. P. W, A.
SnAßP.'nrtto, Sept. I6!h, 1852.
We have just received the gratifying news of
Jackson’s complete success at Harper’s terry.
Helms not only reduced the pLoe, hut he has
captured (it is reported) B,VOO prisoners, «n im
mense quantity of commissary and ordi ance
etores, thiriy odd pieces of field artillery iioii se
veral siege guns, and ali the arms in Urn hands of
the prisoaei s. Other reports put the number of
arms takra at a considerably higher .figure, out
yoo wid hear from BJch-uond ’.lie correct number
before this letter eao get through to you. The
Federals were ch’tfiy now irorps, rnd were com
manded by Gen. Miles, the officer ;.y ho was sus
pended for drunkenness at Geatrevilie during the
first battle of ManaEsaa. Onarucior has it that
tbay were comitiandec by a General or Colonel
Smith. The prisoners have been paroled and rent
on to Washington.
There was but little fighting—indeed, nothing
but slight skirmishing. The positions occupied
by our forces so carrptetely covered the piece that
no avenue-ts escape was i=it to the enemy. Mc-
Laws held the Murylaad Heights on this aide of
the river, ana Jackson und Hill invested the place
cn the Virginia, side. The enemy saw their pre
dicament, and were wise enough to Eubmu to an
unconditional surrender T 1 e men were inarched
out and required to stack their arms in the pres
ence of our ireeps, drawn up in i.nc to enforce
the order, if neecl be
Jackson the river this morning, aDd
reached this pi.,ce this afternoon. ’ icLaws came
up later, and will move into position early to
morrow. lam not informed where A. T. iliii is,
but it is reported he was left at Harper’s Ferry.—
Jackson lias gone up to tfie left.
There baa been heavy artillery firing nearly all
day. The combatants are tak’ine up ‘.heir finai
positions and feeling of each other,’ preparatory
to a great battle to morrow. The casualties have
been slight on either side. Some of the enemy's
shells burated in thin place. Late this afternoon
—about auneet—the enemy mane a bold dash on
•'th it*v 4 vhu ‘ :.o i'll wd faSjixa » M ui:'T *
maadin'tt pm itl-'n ; Cat he tr. ' disappointed a. 1
an d.: iai ji.uilfe ’This the • ;dy time the infant.-y
■ . ’ i•-. - ' -
Fotv- vr •«' ys *i was wifiont found .
«03. 1% i -t- It . 'o'd and n. t
ku -j - ‘
I i};.i t ,. iosk at tught.
rf'r i ii'tc- . 1 . ,y' i v-, L.from If •
if* - -C*. I” ; ■ - 5
aid:
ton’s p, i; tha Blue Ridgo. Genov .!
; . 2 abb, V.. - his «3 h: g‘ic, and about 5
*uen in -iKiKiae ! « a;s i". *(• ro o i .‘‘.taj-n- G- n-i .1
v -f no lioIJ il, IT ncVd E .
at th ! t'o-.t of-.t ~y ti m-a Ills cp-amand. It v. s
Known taut the on-roy hod s liMi* avy r. 1 re
't* y -v-re m-’-'-v op. *hc I. ■ ctte i tfc Mvrvh..:> !
side, and in the doe eon o ; rfimyou’? Gap
. i*. iii-tw ro onAi.e Virginia >.
i and it w-;-t and -i.-i-ii'e »: t t.:.; v . * r-icforcomet a
| shout i ii.. er ti - .' ta re n t- -.-a c- nei -y.-ct un':l t'...i
' tie.-, i. i i.i. j i t isft.! or atcompltshed
I Manes thwiaitenatifens of Gsn. MxLatN la Gt *
The e •-ta? r.-n it.; ; the Gq.-, 13* *"JJ sitortg 3
P. if. Sumtr sad l:a eiai iPt,- s uva bat:
to OobV: small force cf 2.1 OJ. A fearfudy n
-and i .rriiie fight c: to t. Should the t*:.
in pi . p .
they would r« -.i h liurpi.r’.-i t'..-uy in thus io •
ti.-r the hd-saguored r a!. : .. hiie Ooufedera s
ittion, and
'.retoy ipiior .f ..hairb ■ t ■ ~oi e t -.'. -
th-.'i ho? hii.p. lfi.e i:. 1. . i.nr.iil itigut.
Cobb was not caiy force J t > give back, bm : ,
was flttiked on tho ii f: ht at ;t ■ und tutlVt, .!
lerribl.t. Indeed, iaa comm pci wf.- tlmo.srtirtai
fc dated, bat suit his brave tr.fps aattut with a
and -iperatlon and coavage t> hich !• • nm: btvu
pr.-t.si-ti daring tho w:-.r.
At length nigul carue, und th-- ci'pmv hod not
passed the Gap, thmig't h * a-th , f 3 ap out itiss
way thronnh our mpjllatcd rank?. Tim'ol jtet of
the. Cnnlederates t-ad burn accop-r.hshrd'; tier
had delayod the advance of the enemy unti; it was
ton latr: tor hint to got through Bur lay night,
j Next mmuing the Federal for-.- a. «t u 4
|rv Eu.rc.idcti’d to too heroic Jacr: n ’ ep.
; did the fighting- Let him w*#r the crowu who
j w tea the victory.
I have seen un list of <ur heavy cr.- itirs. It
13 known, howcvc-r, that the, lion. John B. L imar,
of ilncoD, G:t., the brotherrjn-l ;.v mid tolnu cr
aid of Gun. Cobb, was kilted. Uis b"h. / was
saved nnd taken to tha Virginia side. 001. .!-r
--•lersoit Lamar, commanding itie “ Tom Cobb l.n
--■ gioo,” in the absence of 00l T R. R t: -bh, v.as
wounded aud 11-ll into tho hands of tt,e enemy.
It is supposed that he v, as mortally wounded.
Tho Legion suffered very severely.
But 1 must close. \Ye arc on the eve ot a tr:r
rible co: lliot, a: and heareri only kaovva what the
re,; : tlt ail! be. From all I see around me, I feel
certain that ore of ilia greatest battles oi the war
: wiii be fought here to-morrow. Tho enemy arc
in tremendous lore;—not Icrs than 140,000 men.
The Antiutam river is in our front, the Potomac
in out- l-ear. If wears detested, the army must
pertsh ; if succe eiul, tho stream iu trout and the
Blue Ridge as who?e base it Hows, will prevent
any par mt. It is au awkward position, but the
geuim oi mu- leaders and the valor of our troop*,
with the favor oi Pm rid- nee, will -yet deliver us.
The source of greatest regret is, that we shall
pr ibttbly have to recrosn toe Potomac.
P. Yv. A.
Tii-5 Press.—The Bvchmcud Enquirer, speakinp
of tho common no*!.:•}» that everybody has a
right lo publish what ho pleases, ah tbs publish
ers exp.-use and not his own, soya, very forci
bly :
The press is only fro * to its editor*;, and to those
whom its editors believe In have good ground
for addressing the public, and something in
.ay v.-ir'cli the pubte lias an interest in hear
ing. Wo -.001,1 recommend those who labor un
der this mistake to consider the following fact :
th it newspapers arc made for the large class w*io
i rtfcd and net for the sui,!! class who want to write
The idea t tat whan a man subscribes for a news*
paper,«be lays ite proprietor under some obliga
tion, or that ba ban c right to publish bis comma*
nidations therein with the sing'.s proviso that
they rhqil lie aa-.ff.rn dvr, is a popular fancy and
a most ridiculous um.'.ako, which ought to b: ear,
rcefod. Not only has lie no such right, but the
edilpr who permits him to put uuinterestieg mat
ter in his columns infringes upou the rights ol
four or live thousand olh •;■ people to gratify one
iaditiJual. Very fsw editors act si übsurdly.
“Brio. Gsx.” Jim Line on Artillckt.—There
is*a good story long tllact among the fricnds'of
IT 1 “Gr*;:i CuicltaOj,” i»T : .jh,vve believe has never
appi'S’".;,! in print; but iu uutheut.fiiy is unques
ti maoLi. Jqst ut the time when ihe prim chief,
tain was preparing for “The Great Southern Expe
dition” which was "ti-'.v.jf expedited, there-was
much talk in the pap.i*,-. about “uvelve-inch fonr
t:um” of tho ML •• uippi Flea*. As Jamas “whs to
Luvo " cau l,,:■■■ ■ot sti os.foi the expeditii
il - truck hiiti ti;at D„ t * Nv*.-ii.cn mortars would
b. j Ist ilia ibis ~ pv; iriii *ei". is,, v,*an a!
* !■" * Uni ? •
“L'inc had oriior .u lor i• i-s expedition .ix twelve*
inch mprti-.::, ' An officc-r, . or-Jiiunco' in Wash
iuV.ton, n.itoundtd ;*.t the ammuncraicnt, n .k:-.l
Jamra how he pnrn. fi-:.’. transporting those nieces
over ibo prairies.
“Oh, very ettnil}," raid the gjim cliuiUi.n
-“a little i'i.i J a j*..ir of mules will mir y
’em ”
“ V, hat do • >u sunposo a twelve inch mo. tar
is »'*-
“ Twelve inch ir.oihftr! Why, a mortar t .-, *.;!vo
inches long, of course.” ' i
“ Hew mnoh Jo 3 u au.-aotrl on of ’em va I
weight”
.lamc.'i Iv >.ii nsu quet ha hm! uaderral* U tho
t:v. i. '.• , . . . ;. n.l he'd , . ..
hi h iTibugli, at all irk.
“ .boot be ' 1 •;...- ..* -
“ too ff-.'gh of ti." • ,-o i* i, ! *,-j!. 1 ;,00 lbs,
but w-iij'i )uu com** t.i .u tho ca: ring *, cte.,
•hey Wcii'li lour TOl, ..J a •.•k <:*.•. Six of ’• m
wiji l .* 24,000.”
Thu glim chit itain coitcla led tiol to lug u*.y
"I*-iva isah laoriars” t«r that time.
■ [N< lifpaqliec-n 101 h.
MoeSav'at Home—The Kentucky Ststeetnan qf
trie 6th, iiotfetn . ths advent of Gen. J. If. Morgan
cmoug'his nrigfiborc. : Ho entered this is'j[ty
cn Thursday last. His lceeptioa by the people
‘■.raopg whore ho was horn and reared, wa l bound-
If* f-Iy m.tliß.-iiar.lic T* * who!.) pec; I. oiV,
Sfid for once in bis qsn-cr his two lkou,aud mt o
wore cOmrl-ilely surTOundsd. The streets v/er ■
60 thronged that th . coluayi could Bc.v'rceiy pais,
and the r; cm or, strati on a of admuatiou wcic o/;t—
powering. ' *
Figh nua Fit on a any.—A gentleman who has
ju_t rcaohcil this city from is point on tho river a
low miis.s above Frc-itiss, S :i..;*i,ssippi, iaiorms us
that oh Friday aad riau,inlay morning Gas', up
to ihe . hour of his leaving, heavy aud continuous
.Ciinconading was going ou at Prentiss. Prepar
fit.i i*a had been made -uj tiro.companies of Con
federates to «Uuck agunbeut hourly expected and
it is supposed a conflict . 1 *.,u .L— ifrcnada Ap
peal,- 22 and.
Thk Tablbs Toeneii.—Brigadier General Man
son-i Federal,) was among the prisoners taken at
the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, ft will be re
membered that last year ihe gallant Uol. Pegraia,
(Coufederate,) wastak n prisoner by thta'sanio
Gen. MSB. the batde of Rich Mountain, Ya.
Col. Begramj Beiing briysdter; at Richmond,- had
the pleasure of iietiUiig bis ciJ account with his
former crptor.
Ait Kansas. —A gentleman just arrived from Ar
kansas briom, ns additional cheering intelligence
from that State. He elates thut Gen. Holmes is
organizing an army ufficientl.y strong in num
bers, well equipped and disciplined, to accomplish i
their purpose; At Fine Bluff ho was informed
Gen. Hindman had been arrested fir disobeying
orders. We thick lue informant we.3 mistaken.
___ _ [Appeal.
It i.i reported that Commodore Wilkes will be
n«sitrned to a re v end important command in
West Indian waters, with a flying squadron of a
dozen vessels, intended to watch and seize the
ships sent out with orms and goods for the Con
federacy.
Fust Hack of Yaw 1 OTro.v. —The first hale'of
new cotton tyciived ia this city arrived yesterday.
It was from the plantatio ) of Mr. Hijfis, of Crit
tenden, Atk<it;.-as, nine milca from this city. Fifty
centi par pound was the p ice it was heid at. - ” ;
Memphis Union, 3 d, !
About five thousand triors of our exchanged
prisoners arrived at Young's Point on £ outlay
morning, and were being brought over-to this
sid« 8 1l day yesterd y. We suppose they will all
reach the city to -day. This is, we believe, the
fact installment cf pricon-rs.
f Vichlbn ] Whi'j, 22 d.
The Columbia GvardwMa publishes the following
dmpiiteb from a high s urcc- to Gourmet' Pickens.
P.icfiirci.'o S»pt. 2£.—Dispatcher received la3t
nii'ht give, a gun erst account of tilings to Thurs
day morring. OHy a portion of the sarny south
of the Potomac, and''that portion south purely
fwir. precaution. The army on both sides of the
Potomac in good condition and spirits,
Information was received this morning from
official sources at Winchester, saying that Stone-
W3 U i,art encountered a column of McClellan's
army and put them to rout.
Major General Pemberton pud family left the
city yestrfday evening by the South Carolina
Railroad. We bear that General Pemberton has
be-- , transferred to an active command in the
field—probably with the army of Northern Vir-
XiHui.—ClMirUfion i/.rr'/.ry, lii'th
Tn-xosAPir ix thk WAEOmce — The War Do
pariment at Richmond bar er’ahliehed a npecial
telegraph station in tba Department building for
the purpose of receiving all dispatches direct,
and ascertaining the character of all messages
sranur’i.ted over the !int:. The liao cocnects
with tbc- Richmond office, but the battery being
in the tatt.-r, ait the Department teiegrapfi oper
ations a to dependent upon it.
L out. Col. Joe.v B. Wekms has been astigned
by the Secretary of War to the command of the
Camp of Instruction in Georgia.
C|rsnidr it' Stmiuf!
AUGUSTA, GY..
TCBritAi ftntilM -.tj, ? EPIEKUE A 03, tP-A .
WB ALWAV-- Oi.4t.NMCK . 8 Tt. -
Ki e at tin: ei.-i of u . e,-ar*,or «iu tlmo i'orymh ':
it is paid, oi' wh. -h . m ir sub. riibsr Wii i recei ■
oo tics t . .
tiuut it. it w uric : : , in. , . ’,7yo. .- _:T
Hen at i.- .i.i .7 -..u
jf dA E-airil ;0 . e tee A.idrero o£ ii aue
his preseutud.fr ; s.
W EEKLY t'HHO it LK dr r*KriXfNElh.
i ■-- -: f: ; uedt. ir, i; .. ;
**l pup-.-r, arid . l . -vi-1; t.nlj ere - -.0 ...
onr bu-.ice.'H, vc r , . act. -ly oo; >- i ,
frrma cf the ITrcl’y Chron < :e <t Sent in i tv..l
be Tbube Dousut p r r.r.;-- o !.a sdi-anc. -o>s
Ooliar ami i-’sftt e'C'vs :;■! .- ! x n.jr.i-,;
No subi’criptfras tec .- 1 i - - \ tin-, ih-.-u r.ix
i«pot-:«ut iTeediiosi,
At hi't- h„:.i r re ;ta*ir JudieUt! dec:
ioo upon the vyx.-;.: - i the cor. i-.Miticm
aiity of the ccn.-.cMpf i v.-freru. Ji: .!;---wh 1
talent cannot b ■ and. As the q a -‘.ica ccr>-
c«rn:j, directly «r iestly, every m . , v. osraa
fitul child iu the j . tc, - . cam ji dev. car ..pace
to a better parthe- pab'leali u of Jud . e
TnoMis’ able dcci- iou. *
and ..other t'*s to.
A conuterfoii five dollar Om-'o-i-mm bill on the J
green colored inn-, of Sept. 21,1882;woe t xl b- s
it«d to ns this morning. The engraving of the t
counterfeit is inferior to'khe < . nntse—titoportx it 1
of Mr. Metnmirger in the cm; r being badly don -.
All the genuine are lettered H in t o pi -ecs ; t
eminkorfeit has the latter J ones. Tin words
“B'or Treas’rd’ following the siganture in tht g .
nine ara left out of the eountoifcit. Thc.^r.. in
fie circles on tha left hand of tli ; genuine.
omitted in tho spurious, and wherever the . ap
pear in the fatter, arc coarser than in tho ;-.~t t
ine. Tho engraver’s r.amo decs not appear c:i
the counterfeit. There are many other points oi
difference, but the above are sufficient to put ihs
community On their guard •
In tho battle at South Mouu’uin Gap in Mary
land, on riaturdny, the Northern papers r.psrt,
that Goc. Howei.l Cobh, oi Georgia, v. as wouc .1
and taken prisoner.
“Dowm-Troddkn’ iMaryland.”—A letter in t' c
Petersburg Et|>renci from a member of the 151 ti
Virginia Regiment, shows the true fooling 0: ,'*.f
popnlutiop of that partof Maryland into which ou;
• y 1 ossei. The 1 l>r r. ■s ■ * R
villr-ge of Birehtown, on our route t-V Fpedo:
We encountered ninny t. lkative old laili-s, find
some ynv-.q ladies. Bu; few n-eti wore to be s j 11
All are Ui-i *-. But one y. rl wi,U a scccsriou flag
could, be : .-1 in our entire route to Fredtiifk,
which we : ached oij Sund-y, the Tib.
“I went into the town o .rio .i'. > mornln... it
hus a popul. *iou of about 5/H'O, tad p.or.io fi r
private l-ttiileccw. 'There it; un ebr; nt hospu .l
at this point used by the Y’■ !*- •s. The sentim-at
0/ this place in deep Union. here ere many ladies
here who are strougl;,' St cesb. They h.n ,1 no hesi
tancy in exprossisg tlndr seuti incut.. ’
Faimi. Illness or Kossnin. - A Ec’otch ucwsp'i
per fitatca that “poor Kossuth, tin* Hungc-ris n
patriot, is in ih? final stage of consumption, and
that probably, before many urtefcs pai-a awn/, a
noble country will lave to wc.'-p for'the Ior: of
one of her noblest and w.ori lifted re
We regret to learn that Brigadier General
MoNTiioiim,x UABDMan, has nti't with ir- 1 cei :
which will deprive :Ho"country of his valuable
servieea for some lira-, lofiger. While tfoscsndinp
u flight »i hti.ir' n few day:.: ri>..*c, one of hi
t ■v i* It compelled to u bvol
through a defect »n the ■■ teps, and bo fell, break
ing oa<> of the bc-uas of his ana below the el.e.iv
The it jury i • a r-:.'** u. tao, avl In numevous
irienutt v*ll uympaili;.: > aivli him iu an 1 ill Di
which to duo of his active ajnrii, umet at ten ;tit*;e
ba particularly gatling.
We ure officially informed that ihe Exprcea
ouripfimy will re-mico buqinecs over lit Tiuscvi’le
aod Chid.tßr.oogn 1" DlioeJ < 1 the liu-.t oi 0 h r
when it is expected j. ir t. will polo
Murfreesboro’. 1
Yoste-i'day (b fay) Oca. BiiAuaiai -o • • 'anted
the ' te . tho Cohn 1
tit,' MiiiUixy D; pai tmfcot ~*' South r-.ialiife eiU
Gcorgi 1 lUs hsr.dquM’tei I*m; at •hutiieFO**.
The 'Jp&oury of vaster Jay t That Lite Be
giravttt, th<»46th G-shrjria, Cri. Gnlquitt, yec-.-.rday
after iso .a, ntarobed j th* i harl t : ", . :'.
pa) Lbti’r »1 eta to le* 1 I
Th * iM.rimont v.v. diawa up , 1.. J 1, *: ■ ed
by ttte General, ••• ho uxpres: 1. ~ If j-artimi' r
ly p! used vrß'.* i‘:c u,ta.p'. .**: <*i a' -.I fa
Rsco oi tt.e bttrto Georgian *
Sylb op Oon'ci; Goods.-- ’. and: g ■ Lme
maniflac: .ms still mauifost an up'*. ~. ! • a *■:•;•.
The weakly sales of Augusta aod Gru >t vllie
Fact -ry U .0.1.: were svtei a.i- e.dei te. j mo.-;. ....,
and tho bidding lively.
Augusui Factory Goods sold us follow,;:
7-3 Shjlltil , friT;te te
;% “ (fight)/ @«k
4-4 Blimiting
il ifig.. «6@66^
Granilevi’le Fasfory Good.'', so! . fi.te.ows .
Si Shirting <g43)£ “
4 4 Sheeting <£6s)£ “
Dri11.... 63®66 “
At the sap:n sale, Richmond Factory Gr/v
'Tweeds add.at par yard, Grey 7>te
to $2 23 per yi"-d. White do. f2.36 pqr yard, i ) 10
do. £2.65 per yard.
[communiicatkd J
2n Geokgia Hospital, )
Richmond, Stpt. 20,1882. f
i Mr. Editor .•—'Will you bo so pond as lo ac
knowledge the receipt by this Hospital of one
hundred and fourteen dollars, being a ” nej ous
domition for the benefit of the sick andVounded
Georgians from Hon. Beaton Grastland, of Mil—
ledgeville, Ga. In behalf cf the Inmates of tiii..
hospital, I beg leave to return ray sincere thanks
to the generous donor for his kind y remem
brance cf them, and to assure him that I is p .t- ,
riotic gift thali be faithfully applied for the pro. |
motion of tboir comfort.
Very respectfully, yours,
D. C. Oxeri-E, ]
Burgeon in charge. i
Editor Chronicle A tntinel:
I «,m becoming alarmed.at the features our new
I Government is assuming. For it teems that in
t ntcad of fi itiid ,we becoming eneroieß, even
j before we have disposed of the gr. at enemy,
j Alabama prohibit, the expor!a;-ion ofe«H ; the
j Legislature of Virginia in about lo convene, I un
• derstaud, for the came purpose; Mii'Frsii levies
j on everybody’s sweetening found ia her l.nitory,
i f-x'iept reeidentg cf that Ste’.o; Tennessee, / un
' dergfaud prohibits tbeexpcrtatiou of whes ; n«x : ,
North Carolina may prohibit the exports - no.
| tiUjteotln*, .SoLiifi Carolina of chivslr 7, an i Lou
j lstabA oi segar. ho ?/, Ebcnld not Georgia pro
i hi bit the exiioraetioa of corn, as that is the com
j mo'.'ity of w..ici- she bus the greatest abundance,
; ami according to thepoLc, of her kind sisters,
| she should prohibit «u >;>porta! .j- to those
i who may need it n era. By t’.<- dociaiuu <,r Judge
Thomas, Georgia may p r .a .'y met-, the c .s>; by
! prohibiting the exportation of com. r,pw. 'V aid
|it not he well for the Conledc; ,*e St .o’g to fie i>d ;
|of their joint secession before pra •• .iiy eeccd- I
ing from each other? What are v?e making a
joint fight for, if we are to live separately, unu be ;
as enemies in intercourse ? IfCcor/. ; is to live :
on her own hrxik, thru she weftd h - justified in
fighting on her own Look. Is i; just that we
should fight—as men do not often fight—to drive 1
the enemy from Houtb Carolina and Virginia,
when they will not let u’s have salt enough to sea
son a soldier’s dinner ?
Fuss Trad*.
Mcßea!’, Sept. 24th, 1982.
Mr. Editor: I see tLat rr.y name, through the
partiality, doubtless, of e me friend, is announced
in year paper es a car and date for Jnstic; of tha
Infeiior Court at tfce < lection cu the ?th of Octo
ber next. In these uar twut I respectfully de
cline the cand.cacy. Joaw F. Lawsok.
Punch gives the following " recipe for removing
ink from 1 nen ; —Jetk an Editor out oi his shirt!
i ! * iis*. ! ->l,l ituseiirtl * 6.*s,
sruatenl,
? - gpflccli, in defence of t!*,; nghU
of tfio States &'-\d c»i t!« :• in •: tiocumeu*.
worthy ct the seriouH v.ii'i tii . cstdtra*
tion of onr readers Tho itu rou h mra: cf tho
Confederate Government up; a the
und o{ tha. tufifotry pow.-,- upon the civil law,
among the people, and they wdi rejoice to find
i<y * •
dtetp Govcrau'f; f.,.» fre p,.wrVriuiu-.dfcy
; away from toe M 1 e s wiibc-ut t".lr consent-ail
“■ f■" her deft nee in her miSitii, and all her
[‘■en- . : .do ,and! po.T-.M the Ocnfid rate Gov
erurccut, and by roprivir-g u State of the ability
) l '-ric ■:'s to fr .--L :■ .: to maintain
t : m when dec’an-d, *.:» cciivi ,-t the Confederate
Govcrr.s; eut ini; a Jospolfrat uph.l.i bybayo
-1.f',.. if ! guanmte-ed to
' - oar : . - arom .y for iu
• -
V.
I- ths • a, perhaps the
is :. 77 v;■ . for ; ■ ; end adti.gerous
on:; to the people. It is easy for n iu! rto create
.. p-;: lei iy, t. . v re none to.-ta.-ilj ex'-t-
Yv . atri' com ' t: - cp.-ef Mr. Yakckx
to Ice eUrntlt- i- rus .1 of our roadau,
The h’.f-.r n.itl Luting NoJs*.
tlri ; the Ct afedcr.-te %’etesof.tbe Hover A Ln»-
»-t.s elates, i" n .-of iho Banks iorefu -
in ; to receive them' oil depr-r-it, is causing much
diso'disfnetion a. n-:. ; the pcoplo. Most of our
c r.. y . •—•' • i ; U:n Vin.l t:f :.t.tat iu qnes
!/ l. a.-.' the v. i il of them 55:11 diminish
-Ue tit eul ition lu loiv tho requirements of fiusi
iil ? Th r ■ :>t'on of them by 7.30 interest
■ ivill notht'p ti ? matter, ns thot-e notes are
unfit for circulation and were not intended for it.
ft hi ruliciilot to ex t that th -y 0.,n bo used as
ci<tv. - , v. -i iu tv.'iy I.a h vs iinnsaetion a
t’uo arnouut of interest, accrued on
-
'on .i. ■■. v..'7 ... There ?«omn to us little
n-?c ' y for lb-' ,v,-i-.!i.:rawal, and i -od reason
fur flic eot-.1.i. circulation cf the Hover &
Ltmtvio notes, at 1-. •• t . -.LI tht-ir piece cr.n be
supplied with ot.lv. r. 7 It it tint ihtre ore ccun
fcc . valid
T.. :. 7 ■; 0 1- might have c:.tah!-..-licdan
anlhenUcatt-d test by which the cpntioua conla
- D ‘ 4 are not
an I wi-h-ly Vnown that 1-. r -f-i newspapers
item: !m ■! icon , ! ; ■ 0 :.--re a r ;-ctu-ily detcctf.-d
eountcrfritH, the credit c f the genuine should not
b-> iHijiu'-rcd, ejid f. unvernmeut is doing that by
at'.fo, ;. 7..-■• :o ihave, ill: vfr .31 (itcul:u»,n before
it waft uWe to supply 0110th' r currency. By tho
nt i Btil 1 oti v; 1. . its - Mien bee
produced, it w di e editing its own issues which
ik h-...t mi right to to ao, end wkith fr has been
ready to vis! c:l a cri- ■in tho ci’izcu.
3he course oi the government in thus t*mb.ar
ia. Uni hold: :. - tea bona file promi; ' to
pay, th«a lie';to deprecate the vaiuu of a
Urge part if its ow . is mos, appears to ho uot of
lb a wfo t. We hull that no government bar, the
right to- dictate t.i the holder of iia note.-i, put iu
circulation ar.d nceivi-d confiding in da faith,
shut ha shall do v. ill 1 1*c-n■. It is ore of ihcse
.
*. m .
I'rt l, a t 1 I a.:.-, to : )!:u,V lip 'tea! COlii'SC, Rlld to
vric.Jravv from * : .-cu . . iu it; .::(!■ r. r! isn:.»-1 as
n-,.. ea’.o, Tl- il 1‘ • 1 Si I hall
soon bo vritbout a c**- *; cy or. he enhiec.tJd to
a .* - , : *■■.,',
(i r. 1 ~*. '< ..•■! i* 1 -, . : bi. :V Why aro
not lb *r. itcs of th. :■ |* iten also with Irawn fiotn
circitlnla.-o : ,and \rhj : : , tea Die particular issue be
a- v. * :H 1 * *,■ ate'istst
;
all,: al il would ii V jso'i for the
wi .ii-lteiTal in oi, ,i-!y a i-übtsi ug- to compel the
pcnpl-i Unlis'p *1 her n-'-iiey iu a manner to
. ■ ■l •? j diai and If th '1 -. ment
r.te died to absorb a poi ii of il :-'i.i ucii with in*
t r.-st be '.ring testa. 1 ,)nnl to i. ,If for
such au ckcuse, to da by i.,-T;a*cii ,*a what could
b ’•>: • ■ 'tel-'- *h b te, i, (p.-uly
and directly.
F* *.'. a, *ii * .'•*> fire .*' ;*. o .1,1 hid, igi -i ’’"ire
tin- embr.l j-.f-msut o; Hie j ..spin. By refusing to
rrci v - th# v >'c.t on depeoit they retufoi? them
ii ■-, I, • , Jr ; , ;l to esß.it la the. with
drawal, tt would L-*:-m U.Gr o-'uiss should have
I i.i : C'.i ,<i. hut ii tto ;.*;- , j -id them
...n’ .I-;..: .* iii'i ;*, .; * exch-inj; for inte
*. • ■ ’, ■hi h mi; it! us< 4 in their
na, a;u. til tho aa v notes could 1.-a supplied.
■ ’ ■*• ■ n ' ly the oj
end aiu.' .. .i & itea tei.n,.; rh *. issues
tu qtp -.'.ion, 5,, ..* .ii: . Utcrio insaes ere bronght
■• ■ i ‘ t: a : .' rv l uud bank.thie car
ren-.-y, mob t .e Brw irriuee we ere now pro*
ri,a.., .1 .y 1 ill i.a ■ ,;■'.'.*li7*..!/ “ n.m..,:* iu vel.'.e
tu. :.te 'ly m th -is pan: o : * riUitry dictau
: . ■ ■’ > 1 : ... i . *■ ■*,;. M i. 1 OX
.*., ..- 1 g :f - ..v .' : . Thca v.ill come n
liuvi. :*r fqit *: a *, w 'p ic h *. l .: :o !*;, tlie
policy of ;>.li part-c3 v-ha: * *te a to denoiwce, but
sicfia .; to tpcVliV,
j ,:- * ;ate :1 ,*._ *; :,*.<:: i',*_ 1.-vjib 111 MlfitiOß tt)
the Hoi un & Lchwig not at oro due partly to the
e;*, • •*; :y end s-v.lden et’ti'iapt et withdrawal
of them by id-.- government, partly to the excuse
given thereby to the bunks for their r.jeelion
The ou h.a ru; a*.,' at i* liJrt ly to increase rather
than di-iiuub, and may t .iminate in some fiction
by tl,>- L a at i: «; pte-Titbing Bfisi-ion.
The Lcgislaiuro cannot recoil the Treasury de
pnriu.*;.'!i<,-bu'- ilrnay roach the bunks, and ve fear
TuM to rc. . a *hr a. ce of- i '1 the great andec
k;,c '*:dg * i: rvices l*teidcrocl by liiom to the
government and the Cjuse of the revolution mry
cot silence the clamor which '.'. ill Lo raised against
ten m, if llfjf pern: tin their present coura -. The
i people Jo not and will no. inquire into r . .: one,
{ they will ) -ok only to the hate tact t Corned
,
f arc repnd x’r 1 by the banks, and thereby are de
-1 prtoiated in v due, and legislators greedily in search
of pt-pulurity, will not core to go farther iu the
chain, of reasoning th n the people have gene-
Persecution cf toe banks hr.a always boon popular,
it.;d is not /d.-ily to i■ le-a pi n-uior t‘ an over
uuder cur now order of things.
[Special to the Chronicle A Sentinel. |
! Richmond, Sep!. 27.—1 tit certain that the Irwin
i Artillery, from Wilk in county, were not engaged
in any of the late fights. \y. ;
Tribute of ttespret.
Irvin Lqdue, F. A. M /
September 17, 1 62.'.>j
Whereas, It Lac pieraed our Grandmaster tho
K -/ ■ Hidvt an . Lords of Lords, ia th. li.vpen -
EattU't ot !. J. ». V;.tCJIO.U3 pHiVideos'; ’0 I'.move
ti om our Lodg; b-.lov to the grand c . L e.irj Lodge
a . .•, ( rbo \ trotnei Uurtr Coturs, and
;l.
itiooraiDg and in affi.ated family aro wuh lacera
heart) now hewailiiii- tti grief most poignant his
irreparab’o oas, end a community sytcpathu lrg"
with us and t .cm,
| Resolved, That we bow in meek submigsioa to
; ihe will ol him who errs not, and console ouraa ve«
j with tiie soul cheering reflection, that'though* we
| meet our departed brother no more around our
i Lodge aitar,,we may meet ui.n al.uve wbere l t-
I ini' will be no more.
I Resolved, That in the death of Brother Collin g
j our Lodge has sustained an irreparable loss Lli
tarnily bereft of a kind and affectionate husband
. and father, und our community avy uous good
man and au invaluable citizen. ' ’ s
Resolved, That we hereby tender to the consort
of our brother a; and Irtherleas children, cur hear'
f-!t sympathies iu th>g their affliction, and pro rise
t ’“B m our POW-.T to make less poignant tha ‘
gr.*-i that now weighs theni down, and thst in
token of respect we wear fho usual badge of
mourning thirty days, and a sheet on our min
utes be o um crated to bis memory.
Resolved, That a copy ot these resolutions be
to tho family of ou» deceases brother, Bed a
cop; Rent to tns Chronicle & Brntinel with re
quest to publish the same.
P. L. Wilburn,
J. C. T. Jordan,
Henry D. Millie,
Committes,