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« CoS. of Okiot ****** of Bo^ anr jj nwn Anndatk*. B'forc the " .. . 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.