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oj A nr lark.
The rooms of the Democratic Union
Association, at 032 Broadway, were crow
ded, on the evening of the 13th of Jan
uary, to [heir tidiest capacity, so that all
the’ aisles and entrances were lillcd, to
Jisten to an address from Horn B. B. Cox,
of Ohio. The audience was of the most
intelligent and enthusiastic character.
* * * * As a western
man representing tho capital of the lead
ing State of tho northwest during those
past six years, I have not been unobser
vant of the signs in that quarter. I have
persistently oposed all schemes of seces-'
sion and division, I yet oppose them. But
I am far behind the impulse and senti
ment of the West. The erection of the
States, watered hv the Mississippi and
very sources
cotton which runs them l Is it ®mart, to
over-tax, for her owii benefit, a more pow
erful section. she has the West ? If
she is not driven from the Union, she will
be humiliated in it. (Cheers - ) But it is
neitheir wise nor just to impeach a whole
people for the misdoings and errors of a
part, even when that part is dominant.—
While, therefore. I analyze the elements
ot New England Society, and their rela
tions to our politics, I shall not confound
that which is mischievous. In Colonial
its tributaries into ^ an independent | times, the rescntiul bigotry of an Endi-
Republic ; standing on its own resources, , eott was relieved by the amiable*cliarac-
mincral and agricultural, with a soil so fat ter of a Winthrop ; as in later times IV eb-
tbat it you ‘tickle it with a hoe, it will : ster (cheers) stands like a granite rock re-
laugh with a harvest [cheers.J a eon- : pelting the wave of New Englandism.—
nection with which, would be enough by 1 (Cheers.) I
the South and the East, yet choosing for j Choate, Chief Justice Shaw, Benjamin F.
itself its cheapest and best outlet to tiie j Thomas and Judge Curtis', and such illus-
sea; banded together by river and liomo- trious men (cheers) with Theodore I’ar-
evidence of smartness that New England
should array against her the ideas ot the
Union. She showed no smartness in al
lowing this war to begin, when she eonlil
have prevented it. She has shown none
in bbr estimate of the formidable charac
ter of the rebellion. She has showu none . . - . ,
in her Morrill tariffs and her schemes of j considered by some as a representative o
emancipation. Is it smart to build facto- j the Republican party. But be does truly
rics and destroy the very sources of ‘be ; represent
certain passflges showing that slavery had
its protection in tbc Constitution, and
therefore, tho Constitution was a league
with death and a covenant with bell. D
wv>nnd up with the demand: “No Luton
with slaveholders." .
l’erhaps Wendell Phillips may not be
the Administration with its
proclamation of liberty. Look at the votes
in Congress on my motion on yesterday,
to lay on the table a resolution by I bad-
dens Stevens (hisses) to raise 150,000
martial negroes, (llisses) M by, one
would judge from that that the white race
in this country, like the 1 ankec s calt,
was “pretty nearly gin couf. /'Great
laughter; a voice, “They want to get the
niggers cheap, so that they won t have
the trouble to colonize thorn ) 1 cannot
see anv special . difference between the
republicanism that, sustains emancipation
proclamations and the real old genuine
Congo Abolitionism.' (Cheers) 1 hey are
two separate links of the same sausage
made out ofthe same original dqg- ] t»roat
I
and burned, iucetwte to ** te d «* b . ec * U5 . c
by them the- t*”?.! 0 " “ fat ,*“ d * he,r
meat r i..*eom?.” 1 heir decendents have
out forgotten unto this day, to urge that
the government of the Union should give
them their fishing bounty. It is one
among the privileges
eminent New England divine
scholar, Dr. Lord, well remarks, that
we were safe in the Union, till the
moral balance was deranged and the
unty. « !S one ch , ur ?h and State fell out of their true
enjoyed by New relations to each other and to moral
i reached their gunbosts w* must have winged them
tt ’■ smartly.
England for hergodly and apostolic mode j government. He says further:
of life. (Laughter.) When they catch | “We were tenffitcd, almost uncon-
a cod out comes a tax from a western tar- I ciously, into that snare by introduc-
mer ! But whence catcli a catfish or a ing a nioral element—slavery—into
sucker, ont West, we do. not get any boun : the reckoning of politics, and thereby
ty ;J L i , , ug ! ,ter -J - . • wn-Mf tomarliR brought Church and State together
Ike 1 onus Ell, J“ ””fk' to th>t lower level. From that
upon the second ship load ot pilgr.ms, . . . , /\ lir phris-
calleil Weston’s men, that they were tune our glory has departed. Our CUn*
nterly demoralized, so much so that one ; tamty has become seculiar, auu
of their numbers, ''from a lack ofprinciple, and our secular glory has been (•*
while gathering clams, stuck
ami died there !’’ [Lau
early annalists do not forge
fact, that as early as 1G2G,
tin’s company arrived; and that ««.e ^ j uto wrangling* We
ton seduced them into quaffing and drink- hi ° c made GoJ a 7,d man to exchange
FROM VICKSBURG
Obssrvtnds, the Vicksburg correspondent of
tbo Mobile Register and Advertiser, under date of
the Uth, writes:
The curiosity mingled with a degree ot appre
hension yesterday morning, at the pa«*age ot one
of the enemy’s boat* by our batteries, was greatly
exercised ail dav in finding out the true character
ofthe craft. The hour at which she parsed was
not very dark, and some of our sentinels were on
river bank, and yet, strange to say, they could
not make her out sufficiently to define her ciiarac
ter. True, it diJ not much resemble a gunboat,
but then it might bo one. nevertheless, and the
controversy was kept up until toward night*
when it was reliably ascertained that it was a
coalboat. .
When sho got down as far as Warrenton she
was secured by our peopis and brought to the
landing. It was nothing but a large sized coal
afl probable, but probably the new coatin-
genCy of tho insurrection«in Poland may
materially affect the American policy of
the Emperor.— Telegraph.
Tfce Hraeiienary SHrj Settle*.
The result of the New Hampshire elec
tion disposes of the boasts of the Washing
ton Chronicle about a strong Northern f
action in favor of Lincoln and the war-l!
The Democratic candidate for Governor
has been defeated by a majority of 700
ami the Democrats elect one member to
Congress. This shows a heavy republican
loss even in the heart of New England and
quenches the reactionary hopes and boasts
of’tlie Lincolnites. It moreover inspires
hopes of a still more favorable result in
State election
next Monday.
ing, dancing and frisking ; ami that there
fore they were no better than atheists. One
of the nioral triumphs of the Puritans
consists in llicir having cut down the May
junketing
geueity ot inteiosi—is becoming something
more than a dream. It is the talk of ev
ery other western man. All fall into it,
with a facility which is shocking to the
olden sense of nationality. * *
* * * The Western
farmer who is selling his corn for ten
cents per bushel, if he does not use it for
firewood, is not easily satisfied that there
does not exist, somewhere, a way through
which those who act for him at Washiu;
would not confound ltnfus j and continued applause and laughtpr., , , .
I refer to these volumes to sho.v that j P«le <] f tliene revelers and their
over thirty years ago, the popular instinct captain.
feared that the Union would be in danger | Tills tfiudency to make government
from these insidious borings of the Puri- a moral reform association appears
tanic reptiles. The riots then consequent j a j[ though their history. It is the es-
We
ker, Wendell Phillips, Gov. Audrews
Charles Sumner and tho lesser spawn of
Transcendentalism. (Hisses,) Tho one
class have ever cultivated the graces of
civil order; the other have been and are
the Marplots of the Republic.
I speak of that ruling element, which
even before- it reached our shores, while
it was in exile in Holland, while it ruled
in early days at Plymouth and at Boston,
and which has since been distributed all
ton niay«afford him relief- At least,
will, if the relief cannot be prospective.—
He is perfectly aware that while New
England is getting the benefits, the West
is suffering xlie burdens of the war. In
New England, the merchants and manu
facturers have accumulated fortunes with
Aladdin like rapidity. Their wages are
higher and contracts abundant ; while the
West, with the Mississippi sealed, is char
ged extortionate rates in the transporta
tion of its produce, and in the price of its
purchases. Its people are robbed by tar
iff, and robbed on what they sell and what
they buy. Mr. Dermic. * hq as ted that
God has given the Yankee that intelli
gence that knows how turn to gold all it
Vouches. I Laughter-1. It is his insatiate
cupidity, mingled with his Puritanism,
he ! over the country, presents always the same
— 1 selfish, pharasaieal, egotistic and intoler
ant typo of character We find it in our
politics to-day, as the Tudors found it
three .hundred years ago, ever meddling
for harm ; and yet seeking its own safety
by concesssions, but never conceding any
thing fo - the welfare of others, unless,
tljercby, it could Help itself in larger mca
upon such enunciations, were the instiuc- j p ec j a ( curse of the nation at the pres
tive outgushing of the Union loving mass- eut t j me> This auti-slavery propagand-
r * _ 1. A nn<I n ooticn , ? 1 A . 0 .
places: His institutes and His con
stitutions \ve have interpreted by tin
•‘higher law” of own conceits,
have converted the
Given into a politician. We have dis- j
cussed bv our own standards, and tie-j
termfhed by vote how it is best for
Him to carry on His government ot
the world. We have inquired not
what lie lias willed and done, but
m. fearing » S peecU too too anJ‘ * “““ | tam .prinp from it. Read the barbar- w hM it i. expedient for Him to will,
roen't I ous and silly code of laws in Mass,- ,,j d say, and do, according to a mas-
m Tlicsc extracts are the germ of the potv-! chusetts and Connecticut, punishing ter, a party, or a school. We have
Destruction of
Adam’s Expr ess
.Steamship Fall Ku had arrived from Port
Royal, with datc3 to the 3d instant —
The whole of her news consists of a hi»h-
iliery is improving j faint in account ofthe destruction of the
•Is us 11 fdtv mor-j Confederate steamer Nashville and th«
ivuour han-s ue, bombardment of Fort McAllister by four
Union Monitors. The former affair is her
alded as “Another Gallant Achievement
of Captain Warden.” The account states
that “first firing tbreo shells to enable him
to get the exact range of the Nashville,
Commander Warden sent one of his fifteen
in the canal on the day previous has not been ■ j nc {, * ro tten shot’ fairly into the middle of
made known, and yesterday the atmosphere was , ^ gfeamer j ts exp ] os j on 8et the ,
too heavy to take any observation^ | immediately on fire. Another shall was fi red
I lliat it looks very D-inquixotie, but as long a* die.;
; river is not provided with beacons or lights ot
j some kind, we shall continue to he deceived,
j Tho manner in which our z" lis wen* handled
indicates that our heavy art
finely, and if tho enemy aft ir
< .i-.Girii I 1W ! chances for practice we wii! Iiavo our ban
OU\eiCi r ,u 1 trained to the work by the time he comos.
The enemy kept very quiet yesterday: and
nothing; was noticed save tho continued work on
the levee. The rise in tile river now seriously
threatens to inundate their camp, and a large
force is employed in throwing up a levee, with the
hope of preserving a little spot lor them to remain
while longer. What become of the boat seen
er now overshadowing the land. \\ 0
may learn from them, that the religious
element was invoked as the ally ot this
crusade against slavery. What though
slavery wasa part of the practical struc
ture of a society South, no matter. M hat
though it was a part of the Providential
order, just as it was in the time of .Moses
and the Savior, 110 matter. Moses sought
not to abolish it; Christ and bis apostles
meddled not with it. Tint taught those gen
eral rules bv which it might be regulated,
sure. (Laughter anil cheers.) Even in i outside of civil government. But a new
the time of Elizabeth, it compromised j evangel was preached by the Abolition-
with its persecutors, by agreeing to the [ jg.*. Applying to old doctrines of l’uri-
supposed that the er.oiuy will , . .
of the cover afforded by the fog to urge oa his I from Wajrdens s
Quakers with death and finding per- popularized'our creeds, measured prin- ! ' T0 ^ militnry movomenfg can be prosecuted in
SOUS twelve pence tor smoking tobac- eiples by their utilities, and Ciod hun- 9U ch weather as the last few days presented, nnd
CO within two miles of a meeting- „,//•/„, //; v ;„n /w W sohscrticnaj to our of course no movement of[any kind has been d.s-
, ,1 I . \ i.1 1 1 ... . ' J yi j covered; but it would not be surprising, when tne
house; (laughter) 01 the penal laws ulriix. • I fog is lifted from the peninsula, that we sbonld
against dissenters voting and against I propose to "ivc two illustrations of j 8 -e him in force, ready for ihe assault,. His
walking in the gardens on Sabbat!.; the ,4 truths. The first is in your midst. ■ movement* of late have been of
acter, and tlie weather,
1 suspicious cliar-
instead of getlinu him
or the horrid cruelties against watch- Every Sabbath you have a sermon from j n „ y possibly be to hi* advantage in pro
Dr. Cheever demonstrating that ourl P«riug bis piansiin obscurity from our■ vim.mw
. . . .1 j to surprise us at the hist approach of a c eat naj*
failures in * battle are owing to I This plan might be practicable by means of his
displeasure of God, because of the sin I fleet of transports and gnnbosts.
. 1 , /n • c „Ai,|in tr„ .nnke-i ! 3' !le army is in very good condemn at . ns tune,
ot slaten. (Cuts ot Ob- ) tie maK.es , #nJ forthe most part very healthy, though the
commissariat is not able to supply the wants of
so large a body ot hungry men Tins is owin'-*"
it In
r.111
passage of a bill by Parliament, which j tanism to bur established _ order,,
shielcieil tl*e Presbyterians, but jirovided j on moral grounds to undermine tbe stiuc-
a punishment for the separatists. Hopkins I ture of our civil society.
craft and the puerile enactments of
making mince pies on Sunday, (laugh
ter,) which obtained in these colonies,
where the foundation of democratic
liberty are said to have been estab
lished. Is not the same spirit yet rife
which mingles morals and politics, to
the detriment of both? (Cheers.)
The Maine liquor law and the re
venue tax lawt>n liquors spring from
slavery the terrible crime of the world
in his own fancy, and reduces Om
nipotence to the task of punishing us
by war for its existence. lie conven
iently forgets that there is another side
to the battle, and that when we fail,
ith
— .his history of the Puritans of that j might, at first sight, seem anomalous Venue tux law on liquors spring trom to the battle, and that when we lai
time, ‘V say (jigpriminatiiig jus- ! that New Ei)cl.inilei>, who have prided I the same source. Regardless ot the God sides, bv Ins foolish logic wit
,hev had well defined and correct”iLe a i I themselves on tlieir local sell-government, j rights ol property in the one case; or the slaveholders. [Laughter.]*
. •. ,■ i- ,1.. .1:. I ,_ -,'rinr with the lowii rncetiiig should t E r«i r ir nf « ruvpniie act in flip other. Iv.v.il 11,1 with tiiia lfurie.. turn hae
latiSn 13 gieater, by 4-i-'3,2J>4, (ban five j Just as*now, wlion it suits Ibeir oliject,
New England Sta’cs, x et they have ten they clamor for the proclamation* and con-
Senators while she lias two ! 1 iie est j fiscafions, which dispense-with tho C011-
is beginning to ask wbetber ibis political | stitirtion. (Applause.)
equality among the Stales, made lor a If we are to take their own account of
wise reason, is to be used for her oppres- ( themselves, as for instance, wliep garnish-
sion ; whether to that source is attributa- ed rvi h the rhetoric of Bancroft, one might
Lie the partial legislation which fosters
manufacture and burdens the consumer;
which hampers the free interchange and
cuterprize of this great emporium ; which
shuts off the competition of the world, and
gives to New England fabrics the monop
oly among ten millions of western farmers.
Why are we to pay fifty per cent, more for
goods, and lose fifty per cent, on wheat,
and corn and poik l Fifty per cent! I
should say ninety per cent., adding the
cost of gold, in which the tariffs is paid, to
the custom duties, which the consumer, at ;
last pays.
To gratify one favored class and sec
tion, are the laws of economy suspended
with the Constitution ? [Laughter and
cheers.] Is free t»de good, when it takes
off the duty and stops the revenue on mad
der and coloring matter, but bad if it lets
in free cotton and woolen fabrics ! Is it
right to tax Illinois whiskey until 1 He
manufacture is stopped, to gratify the
membeis from Maine, and let the tariff re
main on wood screws, to enrich a Rhode
Island company ? One is made in the
West and the other in New England ;
but is that the reason why the one should
be burdened by. an internal tax to destroy,
while the other bears an external tax to
foster? Do you wonder that, at public
meetings West, it is resolved that tbo Mis
sissippi \ alley shall no longer be tributary
to Yankee cupidity and folly, and that
men madly cry out : “New England fa
naticism and speculation have made dis
union ! New England stands in the nay
of reunion ! I’eiish New England that
the Union may live!” 1 Great cheering,
infer that the}’’ deserved the eulogy
enjoyed a blessing, it did not want it ex
tended. [Laughter. | It was ever inter
meddling to forbid its extension. I11 il
lustration of these facts, allow me to refer
to the colonial days.
It is susceptible of proof, that the, rea-
, son why the Pilgrim Fathers could not
r ’f live in peace in England, was the tenden-
Mac/Inlay, and-that petty presbyter was I cv to propagate tlieir creed offensively, j upholding^the “right ot the go\-
the vicegerent, of the Most High, special- r r , ; ie y enme hithei-, as is popularly bcliev- j eminent to interfere with -slavery,
ly anointed to reproach mankind with its | 0 escape persecution. B hen they 1 Mormonism, or any other institution,
came what’did they do? The Emperor of condition, or social status, into which the
subjects of the United States can on-
1 with this logic, turn back
”ew
riiment,
iun
... .... . government
this monil sense, the Constitution is ot ilasscichussetts furnishes the com-
now sought to be construed, admii.is- j mentarv; It officially declared that
tered or nullified. Ihe counsel of the i thosQ are the great and provoking evils,
War Department. Mr. Whiting a Bos- ' for‘win cl, r; 0 d hath given the lyrba-
ton attorney, in an elaborate discus- rotts heathen coimiMssion to rise against
sion of the war powers and legislative them: For men wearing long hair and
powers, follows the Puritan doctrine
big gun, and the flames
speedily burst forth in a second place. A
third shell proved very effective. It had
scarcely struck the ill fated craft before
she was on fire in three places. A rifled
two hundred ponndergun which the Nash
ville cariicd forward, was heated by the
Haines and exploded. Soon after, the
devouring elements reached the magazine,
and a most terrific explosion followed,
filling the air with fragments. The Nash
ville was defunct.”
The Northwest Against Lincoln, with so
much Power.
The Chicago Times, in review the
posture of affairs in the North, and
the investiture of Lincoln with abso
lute and unlimited powers, says “The
the abominable condition of the Southern Rail
road, which cannot afford the means of transpor
tation. Thera is no lack of supplies for the ar
my, but the chance of getting them over the road
is almost hopeless; and it creates great dissati.s
faction and causes a good deal of animadversion
by injured parties, both soldier* and citizeiua ^a j pgQpl e will at OtlCe see that if thev
long as the road 19 in running condition, spcc.ua | L 1 . . .
tors had the main beneli., and now, when the submit to these Unconstitutional acts,
Government wants it, there is no dependence to
be put in it.
FROM FREDERICKSBURG.
The Richmond Examiner,9f the Ifnh.says:
We saw last night an officer v:ho left h reder-
there will only be one step more. The
President will issue one more procla
mation, and it will be the last. It
will recite that Congress has now
epr
shortcomings. [Laughter.] The truth is,
that their history, as written by them
selves, has been glossed with falsehood.—
Investigation is fast rubbing off the lac
quer, and tbc rotten framework of their
ethics and politics is beginning to appear.
If they are permitted to write the annals
of this present war, the truth will never
appear. (Laughter.) But so momentous
a conflict as this Las awakened Letter
minds ; and in the history which poster!
Fi ance, in his Llnx Xapolc mcenes | page
40J answers the question which he says it
is “almost always seen that in •times of
trouble, the oppressed cry out for liberty
themselves, and having obtained it, they
ref use to grant it to others. There exist
ed in England, in the seventeenth century,
a religious and republican sect, which Tie-
periwigs made of women’s liair.
[Laughter.] For women wearing bor
ders of hair and for cutting, cur
ling and laying out tlieir hair, and
disguising themselves by following
strange fashions in tlieir apparel,
ter, whenever such interference be- j [Laughter.] For profaneuess in the
comes essential as a means of common people in not frequenting the meet-
defence or public welfare.” It is un- ■ i n gs, and others going away before
derstood, of course, that what is for j the blessing is propounded.—[Laugh-
the common defense and public wel- ! ter.] For suffering the Quakers to
fare, is to be decided by the Brahmins dwell among them, and to set up their
ty wil read, the Puritans will play the part | j 0 j t] ia t sweet and holy liberty which the
of intermeddling destructives, self-willed , ’old World refused to grant. ' Victims of
and intolerant, beyond any characters yet | intolerance certainly, these independent
known to history. _ _ J men will, in the new country, be more just
I he grand keynote of the Puritan is, {] la n their oppressors! But, inconsistency
that “slavery” was the cause of this war. ] o( the human heart! the very first law
and that as men and Christians we should j, a8sc d by the Puritans founding a new
exterminate it. I do not intend now to r« j society in the State, of Massachusetts,
fiite this fallacy. Our past seventy years ■ vvag one declaring the penalty of Heath to
refute it. Because slavery was meddled j those who should dissent from
with, and returned in violence what
ing persecuted, resolved to go beyond the uf Boston! It being also further un- thresholds by God’s thresholds, con-
derstood that we Sooters of the West— trarv to their old laws and resolutions
being of another and in ferior caste— with many such reasons,!’
sea to ati uninhabited world, there to en-
obliged to confess the infallibility of
the Braliaminical decision. It is under
just, snob doctrines, that proclamations
of antislavery issue. (A voice: “That’s
Thus it will be seCn that the ori
ginal defects in the Puritan pattern
have been copied to this day. Like the
Chinese artist, when told to copy a
so ) Other sections arc not to be eon- fine and costly piece of porcelain to
and
icse re-
as I ligious doctrines.” This is the testimony
given in wrath and malice, it docs not f«»l- I 0 fall history, ns I shall presently show,
low that it was the cause of the violence, j Before they left England, King James
1 lie doctrine ol the 1- reneb Socialist 1 ga jd 0 f them, we doubt not with some truth,
Proudhon, that property is robbery, and that they were pests in the church and
should be abolished, is a sample of the | commonwealth. When the Mayflower
same fallacy. What is known as Aboli- j an( ] tke Speedwell were on the sea with
tion is, in the moral sense, the cause of' their freight of Pilgrims, the same perver-
the strife. ! «ity among themselves occurred. Their
Abolition is the offspring of Puritanism. ! own historian, Elliott, (p. j< .) says, 1 hat
TJutil abolition arose, the T. nion was nev- | vessels contained the 1 i
cr seriously menaced, the Constitution was ; s*f te d from the three kingdoms: out, I
ulted. Had the Central, Western and
Border States been consulted, the
proclamation never would have been
issued;.and by tlieir help,it never can
or shall be executed. (Cheers.)
Giving to the rebellion more vigor
and unity and to the North discour
agement and division—it will only be
potent for mischief, by rendering the
war a failure and the Union hopeless.
This is the direful result of these ili
um wheat ternieddling purists of New England.
But the proclamation was to end the
which some accident had happened,
lie followed His instructions with such
great skill and labor, that lie copied
the crack which extended the whole
length of (he model.—[Laughter.]
[Concluded next 7/xer/,.]
T/r
ARMY NEWS
Yankees at Jackson
rillc.
a voice, “we’ve had enough of Her.”! !
never endangered. Puritanism introduced ' sa y s ’ “that it needed sifting once or twice v.ai. llou ! Bv the paper and ink used
the moral elements involved in slavery in- more.” (Laughter.) ^ One of (heir leaders j in printing?. By the language written,
There is a legend related of St. Lawrence:
As he lay on the gridiron, conscious that
lie was sufficiently done on one side, he
requested the cooks, it not too inconveni
ent, to turn him over and do him on the
other. (Laughter.) 1 fear the West
will never be canonized, if it requires such
double sacrifices-to reach tii" saintly cal
endar. [Laughter.]
But these economic abusrs can be light
ed by another Congress. The evils arc
temporary. They would he borne, but
unhappily (hey seemed to lie accompanied
by an element harder to master—the Pu
ritanism of New England. [Hisses.] This
is bred in the boue. It is the same now,
that it was hundreds of years ago. Like
begets like. Generation succeeds genera
tion, with the same stamp of Puritan char
acter; taking success for justice, egotism
for greatness, cunning for wisd<-m, cupidi
ty for enterprise, sedition for liberty, and
cant for piety. (Applause ] The West
do hot complain merely that t Heir iuter-
ests arc sacrificed by New England capi
talists, for their aggrandizement; but they
detest the idea of Puritan politics that
tins should be reformed by the Stales, and
that the State should unite its funcrions
practically with the church, for the propa
gation of moral and religious dogmas.—
For these objects the laws of economy and
the dictates of public opinion which ever
look to the interest ol sections and men are
disregarded. He who fails to observe
these laws understands little of the science
of government New England may be ac
counted smart in intellect, cunning in in
vention and energetic in industry. She
may boast of her libraries, schools, church
es and press. She may understand the
science which subsidizes tbc lever, the
pulley, the cylinder and tlie wheel. She
may study, as the worm does, how to draw
a thread fine, and like the spider, how to
make the web. She may even under
stand the mechanism of matter, and may
boast of an Archimedes and Jacquard in
every fretory ; but such smartness may
be unable to comprehend the machinery !
ofa State. It may bring—nay, it. has al
ready brought—crash and confusion where
better minds evolved beauty and har
mony! | ApplauseJ
It is not true that New England is
smart in the sense of wisdom. It is not
smart to be informed on one side of the
question. Onesided information is the
blankest ignorance. A man who reads
the Tribune exclusively, has but u crazy
Activity of mind. [Laughter.] It is no
to politics, and thereby threw the church
into tiie arena. Our Christianity, there
fore became a wrangler about human in
stitutions. Churches were divided and
pulpits desecrated. A certain class in a
certain section wore, sinners and were
damned forever. Speculative discussion
about a higher law than the organic polit
ical law, poisoned politics and begat as
perities of sections. The first harangue
of George Thompson, in this country, un
der the auspices of the Fessendens of
Maine and Garrisons of Massachusetts,
was predicated on the idea that slavery
was a sin against God; and that no Chris
tian people should tolerate it. I hold in
my baud the letters and addresses by
George Thompson, during his mission here.
In bis first address at Lowell, October 5,
1834, belaid down the dogmas- which are
now being worked out in disunion and
and blood. He said: ‘-The medium
through which he contemplated the vari
ous tribes that peopled the earth was one
which blended all hues.. 'Toward sin in
everf form, no mercy should be shown.
A war of extermination should be waged
with the works ot the devil. * *
Misguided patriotism spread the alarm,
-the Union is in danger.’ But whom
should they obey? Ue boldly answered
God, who required that men should cease
to do evil.” lie demanded that the con-
stiiuiion should be changed. “What
though the Union was in danger!” said
this iuterlop®i-; “there is every disposition
amoug British Abolitionists to extend to
you their sympathy, tlieir counsel and
their contributions.” AVe«re now getting
in overmeasure the sj’tnpatliv, counsel and
contributions of these lovely kinsfolk
lid : “Our voyage hither (faun Holland j ort he sound thereof? No—but as a
to Dartmouth.) hath been as full of crosses military TOea s ur e! How? Bv stirring
as ourselves of crooked,.ess- | Laughter j | th „* b]ack8 t o mutiny,' and thus
Later, in 1021, he again said, what was . 1 . , c i , i i ,
no doubt true, “that they were yoked i the supply of rebel labor!
with some ill conditioned people, who will | '»two weeks <tie gone, A\ e see
never do good, but corrupt and abuse no si^u yet. 0\er three months are
other*.” Oliver, in Iris history, proves | gone since the threat of its issue; but
that the captain of the Mayflower was [ where are the results? It has made
brided fly- the Dutch, who had settlements
in this vicinity, not to land the J’ilgrims
in or near the Hudson, where they in
tended to settle [Laughter, and a voice
“that’s true.”| It there are any praying
Knickerbockers here—j cries of “pleuty,”
and laughter] I ‘hope that I may not be
considered intrusive upon spiritual con
cerns, if 1 suggest that it is net too late,
even yet, to give thanks for that pious
fraud which led to this happy riddance !
[Great laughter]
There is no doubt that, when exiled, as
soon as they learned the language in llol
land, they began to wrangle with tHe
Dutcli about tlieir cieed. '1 bis will ac
count for the. anxiety about tlieir presence
in the island of Manhattan. It is a mis
take to suppose that the Pilgrims lefr
Holland on account ;>f religious persecu
tion* 'The reason which they' gave for
leaving Leyden was that the Dutch would
not observe the >ahhath, and the fear lest
their children should grow up to he dissi
pated Dutchmen. [Laughter] But there
were other reasons. They anticipated
poverty*, and were greatly influenced, as
is sometimes the case yet with their dis-
cendants by wordly considerations.—
[Laughter]
In the language of the time, tlieir
hopes of wealth mingled largely and freeiy
Tiie Lake City (Fla.} Columbian, of tiie 12tlt,
says:
Our community lias b -on thrown into a state off
excitement by (lie information received iiere oa
Thursday, that (be Abolition forces had ngain tak
en possession of the ci'y of Jacksonville, some f>U
miles distant, the eastern terminus of Florida,
Atlantic and Gulf Central Kaiiroad. where they
had landed in considerable force, and had placed
their pickets a mile or two beyond tiie city lim
its.
We are informed by a citizen of Jacksonville,
who was there oil Tuesday morning, that a enn-
bantenme up tbo riverain! anchored off'the town
about h A. >1. Hm was soon followed by another
ounboat and transport, which come direct to the
wharl anil commenced landing troops. It was
supposed that more vessels were coming, as sig
nals were made by the gunboat. The troops im
icksburayeaterdav morning. He reports all quiet, j con ferreil Upon him unlimited po\V-
There were noi indications uf an advance ot the j and therefore, that he may use
enemy, and ail the rumors and talk of ms cross- , * .. . f .
ing- tiie liver have given way to the impression , pOWCTS PnOlM Uillly* IlG prOCltHIWSj
that there will lie no forward movement ior some jjj mse ]f dictator OT king for life, with
time to come. All tiie stir an 1 binds in the ene- i , ~ , •
iny’scamp inure subsided, mid everything whs the power to nominate his successor,
quiet on both sides of the river. Now does any man doubt that he will
Deserters.from the enemy are becoming j k e this Step? Who would have be-
frequent. Not a dap passes but deserters come in i . .
to our Hues. On Satufday night our sentinels' hevcd a year ago that the Amimstra-
aroused by a noise in the river, quickly fol
lowed by taveral voices “Don’t fire' 1 —“Don'i
tire.” In a mODhrot or twi seventeen men deliv
ered themselves up as Couriers, having eluded
their guard and swam (lie river. Ti, P y said they
w-ere tired of the war, and that there we,® hun
dreds in {the Yankee camp who would come
over to our side if they coultl get the opportunity.
They repeated the old story of demoralization in
their army, and on being asked when their army
intended ts make a forward movement they re
plied very emphatically: “Never—our men are
too much dissatisfied and in too bad a fix to fight.
Tiie condition of our army is said to be splen
did. Our men are hopeful and in the best of spir
its. Onr informant said that lie bad been in the
army since tiie war began, and never did lie know
our men to be in better trim for battle. Every
thing wore a che erful aspect in camp.
S^irmi’h on l!>r Kngi)ialiaHii«rk.
THE ENEMY REPULSED.
tion would dare to do what it has done?
See how,* step by step, the liberties
of the people have been taken away.
This is the only step that remains to
bo taken, and it will be taken. He
may not use the word “King at first'
He may not even use the word “Dicta
tor.” It may be, perhaps, a procla
mation that under the present excited
state of the public mind, a fair presi
dential election cannot be held, ml
therefore that he will continue to ex
ercise the office of President for some
years to come, &c.”
The New York Herald also holds
tiie same manly language, and the
Washington Chronicle cails for hand
cuffs or straight jackets for the editors
of both journals.
Great Union-meeting in A!etc York.—
The great Union meeting of New
sred about 12,000. under Gen. Stonsiii, who ! York City is described as having been
r'ilSSSf * fl " “’tended, and very
Richmond. March iff—Information lias been
received here that a skirmish occurred yesterday
afternoon at Kelly’s Ford, on the upper Rappahan
nock, between Gen Filzhugh Lea and Pelham’s
Horse Artillery and tiie enemy. The enemy num
bered
succeed
ll0 \Ve have to iament ths loss of Major Pelham, of | tic. It was addressed by John Daly,
Ala. and Major Fuller, of Va ; . James T. Brady, and that political
The enemy were badly crippled, and re treated ; . .. T , it tv mi i .
to the north bank of the Rappahannock, leaving j Chameleon, John v an Buren. Tile last
tlieir dead men and horses strewed in the road — i mentioned is reported as having Baitl,
I hey also left a hospital. j ,.j n anyway, however, I am for a- vig-
Richmond, March 18.—The engagement yes ter- ; orOUS prosecution of tliC war and for
day near the Rappahannock occurred in Jamison s ; ^ . A - ,. ^
wood within six miles of Culpeper Court House— ! sustaining the Government in_ a gen-
The enemy w-er« driven across the river with heavy | oral assault Oil every Stronghold of the
taptJreffi '**** wou " ded MlJ j rebellion, and in ninety days the. peo-
The enemy evidently eontemplated a great j pie will be astonished at themselves
expedition, but were completely foiled and discom- f or ever* believing that the administra-
southern man and woman u* mediately inarched threw the town, stationing
i- tlieir pickets nnd drawing tlieir lines so as to sur
round the place—the citizens being taken entirely
police force to guard against an tip
rising of the blacks; but the great re
bellion lives. The war goes on. Gov.
Andrews and the negroes may con
tinue to dance their jubilees with
their head, and, ns usual to contem
plate its results with their heels. What
idle and criminal nonsense to .expect
a rebellion like this to be put down
by surprise; indeed, most of them being igno-
renl of the arrival of the eueniy. Early yesterday
morning, intelligence was received here! that the
Yankees weru landing or had landed more
troops.
Gen. Finegan lias proceeded with the several
companies in tiiis vicinity, in tiie direction of tiie
enemy, and we understand tiiat our pickets are in
sight of the enemy's outposts. We will publish
letails as soon as they reach ire, and for the pres-
i , , - , ,- - , eut must content ourselves with tile foreiroiiiw
by words—legislative or proclama- st .v -*
tioirhad such a wonderful strength as
they supposed.”
The Washington Chronicle says
that “the Democrats have nobly res
olved to postpouf^ll disputes, and to
heal all dissensions; and to strenghen
the Executive in every measure he
i has adopted to crush the rebellion,’"
until tiie 22d April , thereafter, until the 1st
August, in 7 per cents : th -reafter fundable iit the
tement ” " pleasure ol holders, but payable six months alter a
tive words drawn from the passion- learn from gentlemen who liUve just te- r ? ,lfi jL*2‘ 0 V * ,r ® a, - y “i i ,e pt-e. Notes issued
•itc and wild nttei-u.cp \W F, 1( r turu ^ New-Smyrna, that a Yankee gunboat December, and vith.n ten days from
are ana wild Uttciancc Ot New Eng- „ ppt . ared uffihe bar of t!ia»pl»ce a few days ago I the P a f 9a P e ofthis Oct, are fundable ... / percents
land Puritanism, in press and pulpit! and despatched several barges with armed men '.'V. h,e . Ist Au P ust: thereafter in 4 per cents —
to take possession ofa small schooner than laying 1 ! All certificates outstanding on the Ist July shall
foiled.
COXI'-RDEIUTE IOXCBESS
Richmond, March 18 —The Senate renewed the
consideration of the Senate bill against the Su
preme Court.
Mr. Cia)'a amendment repealing the 4oth and
46ih sections of the Judiciary Act of the Provis
ional Congress was agreed to. ' The hill then
passed. The Senate then went into secret ses
sion.
The House is in secret session on tiie Tax bill.—
It is understood tiiat the bill will be perfected aod
passed this jreek.
G«!d w»s selling here yesterday at 423 premium.
It d iclined to-day to 37.-».
1 be following are tiie provisions of the Cur
rency bill, which was perfected and passed, tiie
•Senate having taken final action on the House
amendments to-day in secret session : . <
The first section provides that the Treasury
notes not hearing interest, issued previous to the , , „
Ist December last, shall be fundable in 8 per cents I way and at every hazard seems to be determined
- * - upon as a measure of French policy. An open rupture
cannot now be prevented without that sacrifice of
national honor and dignity, which is uow hailed w
inevitable by the unfriendly British press.
LATER FROM EUROPE AND THE NORTH
Kichm mil, March lit.—Tho Dispatch has Northern
dates to the 16th. The war news is unimportant.
Gold opened 56 1-2 and closed at 55 3-1 to 58,
The London correspondent [of the New York Her
ald] says. “The politicians and e liters have settled
down into the conviction that Seward must speedilr
'be dismissed in compliance icith the peremptory dc
maml< of tke French Government, inconsequence ofthe
Merrier correspondence, and that intervention in sums
Rather than *yiehl tlys censorship
over the morals of these States, New
England was ready to welcome this
bloody strife of brothers. Nor is this
the first time she lias convulsed the
Republic, to propagate her dogmas.
In 17JS, the same overbearing selfish
ness was exhibited. In a letter of June
Ist, 1798, from Mr. Johnson to John
Taylor of Roanoke, it is said:
the English Abolitionists. [Cheers a«d ■ with their hopes of heaven. (Laughter.)
I n IT n.1, 1 n ro f . . P •
laughter]
Following this as the logical conse
quence of these higher-law notions cante
other volume, which I hold in my hand:
“the Constitution a I’ro-Slarery com
pact, or extracts from the Madison Ta
pers, &c., selected bv,” whom think you?
Wen del Phillips! [Hisses] In this vol
ume it is shown as I quote: “That a
a compromise was made between freedom
and slavery in 1787, granting to the slave
holder distinct privileges and protection
for his slave property, in return for cer
tain commercial concessions on his part
toward the North. They proved also,
that the nation at laige were fully aware
of this bargain at the time, and entered
into it willingly and with open eyes,” In
the same volume are collected from the
speeches of "VYebstep and Quincy Adams,
Adventure toward New England, by tbe
northern company, was not inspired by
the yield of gold and silver, tliongh visions
of “mines wbi*h ] a y Ififf j a the earth,”
were not wanting. But their treasures
lay in the sea, and ibeir divining rod
held its hook and line. (Laughter.) Titov
came to serve God and catelt fish (Laugh
ter.) When the Pilgrims went to James
for their charter, he asked : “What
profits do you intend ?” On being told
“fishing,” lie replied, ironically. Bo “God
have my soul, /(is an honest trade, ’twas
tho apostles own calling.” (Laughter.)—
It is a pity to spoil the poetry of Mrs.
lieinans about the Pilgrims, by painting
them as fishermen, who expected to find
silver in the mouth of the fish they took ;
but so it is. We cau say of them, with
truth, that they “sacrificed to their net,
laying
in the haibor, and already laden with cotton, Ac.
i to run the blockade.
The crew of the schooner, together with the
citizens ofthe place, (some ten or twelve persons
11 all.) discovering the intention of the Yankees,
set fire to the cotton on the deck af tiie vessels,
and then selecting a convenient place on the bank
of tho river, concealed themselves and qnietly
awaited tli« approach of tho Yankee barges ; upon
the arrival ot which within range they opened a
well directed fire, which resulted iu the killing of
some eight and the wounding of as many more of
the barges, and causing tlieir speedy return to the
T . . . , gunboats without accomplishitig tlieir otffect. As
“It IS true, that we are complete- soon as the barges reached the gunboats and Were
ly under the saddle of Massachusetts taken on board, she proceeded to sea in a uorth-
and Connecticut; and that they ride | “onfid^a^et^hey tmmedUtefy ffirecieSheff are
US very hard cruelly insulting our feel- tention to extinguishing the fire on the schooner;
ings, as well as exhausting our
strength and and subsistence. Their
natural friends the three other Eastern
States, join them from a sort of fami
ly pride, and they have the art to di- . „ „
vide certain other parts of the Union r‘(£«S
SO as to make use of them to govern Finegan attacked them with a force of about tive
the whole. This is nofr new; it is the h . u “ d, ' eJ cavalry and infantry, driving in the
old practice of despots, to use a part the tow^to t!i'err'‘g'mbuats. e witfch* wT/e Iring a^
ofthe people to keep the rest in or- the wharf. They then commenced shelling from
der. And those who have once got S-t™’ t0 " place of
. , . P san tj out of town, and are watching an opportuni
sm ascendancy and possess themselves ty to give them another lesson.
of all the resources of the nation, their “uderstand the Abolitonists haJuconsiil-
, pf. , - „ ; eralile number of negro companies with thaai
revenues and office^ have immense | Well, let then, come-we will find the fo^oer
means for retaining their advantage.” , ®. states Hti, and the latter press—into the coru-
Could there be a better description e T, s w „,
r .. . j a ■ ft wasa gallant affair and reflected much credit
.ol our present condition undei the upon General Finegan and his troops. Surreon
Mered ith was seriously wounded—none others of
our meu hurt
From tho way the vandgl* skedaddled Jill fhey
be bearing G per cent, payable at date, not exceed
ing thirty years
I he second section authorizes the monthly issue
of Treasury notes bearing no interest, to the
ainottnf not exceeding fifty million.^ fundable du
ring twelve days from the tirsr day of the month
[ of this issue, in 6 per cell* bonds ; "thereafter in 4
per cents.
The remaining (sections of.the act are substanti
ally the same as published some weeks since, with
the exception that the-Secretary of the Treasury is
authorized to sell oue hundred millions ti per cent
bonds, coupons payable at the option of the owner
in Trd isury notes or cotton certificates, pledging
the Government to pay in cotton at the rate of 8
pence sterling per pound six months after
peace.
FROM CHATTANOOGA.
Chattanooga, March 18—No news from the front
to dnv.
Gen. Johnston left here this morning for the
Army of Tennessee.
Eighteen prisoners and deserters were brought
in to day from TuiUhoma.
which was soon accomplished, and the coast being
then clear, safely proceeded to sna on her intended
voyage.
The Quincy Dispatch, of the 14tb„has the follow
ing about the movement of the eut my on Jackson
ville:
A few days ago the enemy land sd in force at
lash and spur of this fanrtciera? Speak
ing of this condition and its causes, an
FOREIGN NEWS.
We got to day tho first responsive Euro
pean thought to Seward’s lying despatch
in answer to the French mediatory propo
sition. Tbo Times gives its true character
in deplomatic phraseology. The Post, the
ministers! organ, uses pliin words and
calls it “arrant falsehood and nonsense!”
—words never more fitly spoken anil
applied. The Paris Pays treats the miss
ive with indifference—which may mean
that it is just what was anticipated, and
does not therefore modify tho French
programme at all, or it means that tho new
complications in Europe, growing out of
the Polish insurrection; have suspended or
modified tbe measures in contemplation
when the proposition to mediate was made.
We have no idea that this project was
initiated by France, at the time, with the
purpose to abandon it on occurrence of an
erent which must Jiave been anticipated
. Mobile. March 19.—The Jackson appeal of this
date says: The reports this morning from Port
Hudson represents a serious outbreak in the Fed
eral army, which, if correct, probably accounts for
the retrograde movement of Banks’army.
Scouts report that several Yankee regiments
laid down their arms and were sent back.
Another report gays that two regiments of
General Rust's command, had met and driven
back greatly superior forces of the enemy.
ihe Tribune of this evening has the following
special dispatch to the Appeal, dated Panola 18th:
Ihe Federal marauders at Hernando have de
stroyed all the county records at that place. They
also made a general jail delivery, and stole all th 0
negroes, horses and mules within reach. They
were attacked and routed by Blyto’s battalion,
with a loss of several killed and wounded. Out
loss ia one man wounded.
Mobile, March 19th—The Appeal of the l-kl*
says everything was quiet yesterday, and no en
emy was in sight of Fort Pembertju. , .
The schooner Alino, Captain Mitchell, arrived
at a Confederate port to-day, bringing Havana
dates to the 12th inst. The news is uuimport* 111
The steamer Alice and schooner Relief tad ar
rived at Havana.
Wilmington, March 19—An English iron stM®*
er arrived at a Confederate port this morning,
having left Nassau at 6 p. m„ Sunday last- AU
Hie steamers from this port had arrived out, ex
cept the Douro, which is said to have been cap
tured by the Quaker City.
The freed negroes in the Federal wes*
tern District are starving to death. *««»
liberators having made no provision for
their support.