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l>rn*;«nd for nod lor t'nu cniQltrtsi Fellow Citizens ./ iht Sen at. . And of tin Hob sc of Rep Hiving been convened on mi extraordinary ocoasioa. *>* authorized by 'he ObnslitnAiou, your ■ tf-ntion ia not called to snv extraordinary subject of legislation. I .-'Tates bv individual enterprise and received into public mind Tlicy invented an injurious : to' i, •rerun,out service! Of coarse, the seceJed ism, which, if lauiceded, was followed by perfoet- . >:«•••», «o called, and to which Texas iad been I ly logically steps through all the incidents to the i joined about the tint* of the inauguration, gave no | complete destruction of the Union. The sophism j troops to the cause oftjie Union. j itself is that any State of the Union may consis- | The Border States, so called, were not uni- tently with the National Constitution, and there- _ _ r _. _ : form in their actio*—some of them being'almost fore lawfully and peacefully withdraw from the j common sailor is known to At the beginning of the present Presidential fof the Union, while in others, as Virginia, North j Union, without the consent of tbc Union or ot -flag, term, four months ago, tiie functions of’the Fed- ! Carolina. Tennessee and Arkansas, the Union [any other State. I Great, honor is due to those officers oral Government was found to be generally sns- ; ■■’“Utimeut was very nearly repressed and si-j The httlo disguise that the supposed right is to i ed true despite the example of their traitor pended within the several States oT South Caro- I ienced. , be exercised only for just cause, themselves to be j sociateg. But the greatest honor and ~ linn. Georgia, Alabama, Mississip.pi, Louisiana ' The course taken in Virginia was the urnst re- the sole judge of its justice, is too thin to merit J portant act of all is the unanimous and Florida, excepting those only of the Post j markable, perhaps the most important. A Con-[any notice. With rebellion thus sugar-coated, j the common soldiers and common sail Office Department. j v-mtion elected by the people of that State to cou- they have Wen drugging tho public mind of their j last man. so far as known they have Federal 1 section for more than thirty years and until at resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose* rwieiietiaod proved fals-lo tiie liandl wbi;li n, e alike traitors, anti deserve capital British lias n.v the right to enter onr pirl* in a,- 1 \!} (silFM \ ITvlrr>» "ri?n ,T HE t 'Otl.r > tnonperr.i ,h„„ net on, a--**- t'» ^^^iS^SSSlSSS 2?;.5«S Within these States all the forts, ars mands but an hour before they obeyed as abso the patriotic instinct of plain . . excepting only . - - . , Taylor and Jefferson, on and near the Florida mediately after the fall of Fort ijumier. many coast, and Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, j members of that majority went over to the dis- South Carolina. ! union minority, and with them adopted an or- The forts thus seized had been put in improved dinanee for withdrawing the State from the condition, new ones had been built, and armed | Fniou. forces had been organized and were ort'-anizino, I Whether this change was wrought by their aH avowedly with the same hostile purpose. The' j great'approval of the assault on Fort Sumter, [ Our States have neither more nor less power than forts remaining in the possession of the Federal I or their great resentment at the Government s i that reserved to them in the Union by the Consti- Grovernment in and near these States were either I resistance to that assault, is not definitely tutiori—no one of them ever having been a State known. ' out of the Union. The original ones passed into Although they submitted the ordinance for rat- the Union even before they cast oft'their Britisli out of the Union, who could have been brought to no such thing the day before. The sophism, derives much, perhaps the whole of its currency, from the assumption that there is some Omnipotent and Sacred Supremacy pertain ing to a State, to each State of onr Federal Union. the Government which was made ’ jn makin by Washington means no good to them. Our popular government lias often been called sn experiment. Two points in it our people have settled—the successful establishment and the suc cessful administration of it. One still remains: Its successful maintenance against a formidable in ternal attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonsuate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebel lion. The ballots are the rightful and successful successors of bullets and when ballots are fairly To bo familiar with the geography and ’ c a reconnoissance, to be atten- . , . . , , •- - - 1,1 i to the necessity of a stronger central 7 * WVr * mind that it is a part of her policy, and, indeed,: States arc in insurrection, an,I rii... **'« vv.v.uu.ch rtnu uc.ir uieve otaies were eitnei besieged or men need by war like preparations and especially Fort Sutnter was nearly sur- rounded by well protected hostile batteries, with j ification to a vote of the people, to be taken on a ! Colonial dependence: and the new ones each j and constitutionally decided, there can be no sne- guns equal in quality to the best of its'own day then somew hat more than a month distant,! came into file Union directly from a condition of j cessful appeal, accept to ballots themselves at sue and outnumbering tbe latter as, perhaps, ten to *h e Convention and the Legislatures, which was ! dependence, excepting Texas : and even Texas, in I ceedibg elections. Such will be a great lesson of one. ’ also in session at the same time and place, with j its temporary independence, was never designated j peace, teaching men that what they cannot take leading men of the State not members of either.! a State. The new ones only took tbe designation immediately commenced acting as if tbe State I of States oncoming into the Union, while that were already out of the Union. I name was first adopted by the oid ones in and by They pushed military preparations vigorously I the Declaration of Independence, forward all over the State; they seized the United 1 Therein the limited United Colonies were de- States armory at Harper's F'erry, and the navy ! clared to be free and independent States, but even yard, at Gosport near Norfolk, they received, per-i then the object was plainly not to declare their haps invited into their State, large bodies of! independence of one anuther orof the Union, but troops, with their warlike appointments, from the i directly the contrary, as their mutual pledge and A disproportionate share of the Federal mus kets and ritles had somehow found their way into these States, and ha l been seized to be used against the Government. Accumulations of the public revenue lying within them had been seized for the same object. The navy was scattered in distant seas, leaving hut a very small part of it within the immediate reach of the Government. Officers of the F'ederal army and navy had re signed iu great nuYnber?, and of those resigning a large proportion had taken up arms against the Government. Simultaneously, and in connection with all this, the purpose to sever the openly avowed. In accordan an ordinance had been adopted States respectively to be separated from the National Union. A formula for instituting a combined Government of these States bail been promulgated, and this illegal organization in the character ot Confederate States was alieady in volving recognition, aid and intervention from foreign powers. Finding this condition of things, and believing it to.be an imperative duty upon the incoming Kx- by an election, neither can they take it by war; teaching all the folly of being tbc beginners of war. Lest there be some uneasiness on the minds cf candid men as to what is to be the course of the gov ernment toward the Southern States, after the re bellion shall have been suppressed, the Executive such blockade of our cotton ports: in which [ MENTrf BV* TilE SHARP nut mu?,*. E| ’ K ' vent Great Britaiu must cither abandon her trade | THE SWitRD. * LINF. Of nth us live to the despatch of- orders, to become capable of exhibiting with simplicity tile i event Great Britain must either abaudon her trade f THE SWuRD. most complicated movements of an army; ^ ° f “ *”\ Gov,-.,t,o„'s p . „ these are the qualifications that should tits- | Great Britain does not wish to do either. She has issued his proclamado-t calling t k"" distinguish the officer called to the Station neither wishes to abandon ht-r trade with us. nor: Legislature of South Carolina in extra 8 * ; f ^ -f .!.?_!? _ l" *1 _ a. _ /V j tO force tilt*- blockade. JSlie tliorafnrd I riitln ntliio on tlia Aunt If-.. 1 . . • ». ?3iO of chief of the staff. V general of artillery should be acquaiti- : the preseut. stand upon She will,, therefore, for j Columbia, on the first Monday in Novernh ,IOD ’ her treaty rights, and \ t.> appoint Electors for President anti Vi'V* 1 - ioe-Presi. . , n ,, - . - ,, will, if necessary to the full enjoyment of those) dent of tbe Confederate States, who . . ted Will all the operations of the . army, ; rights open her way to the ports at the cannon's j voted for on the first Wednesday in V ? as lie is obliged to supply the different j mouth: and this she can. and violate no law, and j and inaugurated on the 82nd F’ebruarv*-' Pm ^ er ’ to yet so called seceded States. They formally entered their mutual action, before, at the time and after- into a treaty of temporary alliance and co-opera- wards, plainly show. The express plighting of tion with the so-called Confederate States, and ; faith by each and nil of the original thirteen in the _ _ sent members to their Congress at Montgomery, J articles of Confederation, two years later, that the F'ederal Union was I : "‘ J finally they permitted the insurrectionary I Union shall be perpetual, is most conclusive, ice with this purpose | Government to be transferred to the capital a't Ilaving never been States, either in substance ted in each of these ’ Richmond. j or > R name outside of the Union, whence this • - 1’h-j people of Virginia have thus allowed this ! magical omnipotence of State rights, asserting a great Insurrection to make i f s nest within her bor- ; dors, and this Government lias no choice left but j to deal with it where it finds it. | And it lias the less regret, as the loyal citi zens have, in due fonn, claimed its protection claim of power to lawfully destroy the Union it self? Much is said about tbe sovereignty of the States, but the word, even, is not in the National Constitution, nor, as is believed, in any of the State Constitutions. What is a sovereignty in the These lov’d citizens, this'Government, is bound ! political sense of the term? Would it be far to rtcogniz • an J protect as being Virginia. ’ wrong to define it “A political community with- _ r _ In the Border States, so-called—in fact, the j ont a political superior ?” Tested by this, no one ecative to prevent, if possible, the consummation of i IVIiddle States—there are those who favor a poli-1 of our States except Texas ever was a sovereign- on wl- d made augural address. The policy chosen looked to the I .This would b; disunion completed. Figura-! in pursuance of the Constitution to ba for her the exhaustion of all peaceable measures before a ro- [ivcly speaking, it would be the building of an J supreme law of the land. sort to any stranger ones. It sought only to hold ! impassable wail along the line of separation ; and j The States iiave their status in the Union, and the public places and property not already wrested j y e * not quite an impassable one, for, under the j they have no other legal slntus If they break from tbe Government, nud to collect the revenue, 1 e r,i ‘ se of neutrality, it would lie the bands of I from this, they can only do so against law and by reiying for the rest on time, discussion and the t* 10 Fnion men and freely pass supplies from ! revolution. The Union, and not themselves sepa- ballot box. j among them to the insurrectionists, which it: rctely, procured their independence and their lib- I promised a continuance of the mails at Gov- could not do as an open enemy. At a stroke it j erty: by conquest or purchase, the Union gave eminent expenses to the very people who were 1 "' ou l | 'l the trouble off the hands of sc-ees- j each of them whatever of independence nud liber- resisting the Government, and it gave repeated j sion. exc-pt only what proceeds from the external; tj^'t ht‘ s ; pledges against any disturbance to any of tbe peo- j blockade . The Union is older than any of the States, and, pie or any of their rights. Of all that a I’resi- It_ would do for the disnnionists that which, of j >» fact it created them as "States. Originally, deems it proper to say. it will be hi’s purpose then, | to obtain gnifles that can be relied upon; as ever, to be guided by the Constitution and the] to interrogate the clergyman and the post- d that he probably will have no different , master t0 establish speedily an under- ndmrr OI t.hf* rinwpre untl ilntif** of tno 1 J . _ standing with the inhabitants; and send divisions of which it is composed, with j iu dmng it will do us the greatest possible service-; - * ‘ _ i if, * r she force the blockade, fas she lawfully mav Henry you ought to be apl-amod arms and ammunition. H s comm m- ! uu ti! she shall present ns to the world as a sep throw away that bread, ion ^ cations with the artillery officers at the \ aratc people troni the United States.) site would | want it 80 ', j xou ma . v . advanced posts should keep him informed ! buy all our surplus and supply us with the muui-1 7. w n »i of all the movements of the troops, and the 'i 0113 war Peace would follow in a month, I e » mi ^ ier ’ woula I stand any bet- - - 1 %v,t « it a recognition ot our independence, | ter cnauce ot getting it than if I shorU ;blessings we are toiling: for. j eat it up now V 9 S P E C l A L \ 0 T I C E s troops management of his great park must be re gulated by this information. To reconnoitre rapidly deities and fords laws understanding of the powers and duties of the F'ederal Government relative to the rights of the States and the people under the Constimtion than that expressed m the inaugural address. He de- siies to preserve the Government that it may be administered for alias it was administered by the men that made it. out spies; to seize the letters in the mails, translate and make an abstract of their contents; in short, to answer all the inqui ries of the general-in-chief on his arrival i and with and all the It may be asked, if this be the correct view, 1 why does not Great Britain at once force the! blockade ? To this several answers may be I given : I. There is now but little use in forcing the | blockade, inasmuch as now wo have but little to i sell, and of course have but little means to buy what she has to sell. 2 She would rather not excite the abolition element among her own people by' piecipitate ac tion that might beconstrued as an act friendly to MRS. WIN-SLO’W An experienced nurse and female physician h.. * Soothing Syrup for Children teethiug, which greatlvf * ^77- the process of teething by softeningthe reauciugall inflammation—will allay all pain aad sure to regulate the bowels. Depend upon it, ;t will^giye rest to yourselves, aud relief aud heaA Loyal citizens everywhere have the right to with the whole army;—Such are the du claim this of the Government and the Govern- j ties which come within sphere of u good ment has no right to withhold or neglect it. It is not perceived that in giving it there is any subju- j ^°_ St gation, in any just sense of those terms. ‘ Commanders-in-chief are to be guided ac- engtneer from *• XI v. UUUIIVall till til UI tJlUVt I IJ liter’i l. Lf lib 11 d j , , • « i • • . . | * state in this Union may lawfully go out of the; h eat 'se, hut generalship is acquired only Union, having done so. it may also discard the Re-1 by experience and the study of the cam- publican form of government, so that to prevent its ; paigns of all great captains. Gustavus going out is an indispensable means to the end of molnlius Ttirenne and Fredp -ic as also maintaining the guarantee mentioned; and when P , ' - 1 m enne, anti 1 reae. 1C, as also Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar, have all acted on the same principles. To keep your forces united, to he vulnerable at no dent might constitutionally and justifiably do in such cases, everything was forborne without which it was deemed possible to keep the Govern ment on foot. On the f»th of March, the present incumbent’s first full day in office, a letter from Major Ander son, commanding at F'ort Sumter, written on tbe 2?lh of February, and received at the War De partment on the 4th of March, was by that De partment placed in iris hands. This letter ex pressed the professional opinion of the writer that reinforcements could not be thrown info that fort within the times for his relief, rendered necessary by the limited supply of provisions, and with a view of holering possession oft he same, with a force less than 2d.0tHI good and well disciplined men. This opinion was concurred in by aii the officers ot lus command, and their memoranda on the sub ject were made euclusuies of Major Anderson’s letter. The whole was iramediVe’y laid before Lieut. General ^cott," who at once concurred with Gen. Anderson in opinion. On reflection, however, he took full time, consulting with officers both of the ] all things, they most desire—feed them well and I some dependent colonies made the Union, and, in give them disunion without a struggle’of their i turn, the Union threw off their old dependence own. It recognizes no fidelity to the Constitu- j f° r them and made them States, such as they are. tion—no obligation to maintain the Union ; and I !sot one of them ever had a State Constitution in- ' while very many who have favored it are doubt-! dependent of the Union. j less loyal citizens, it is nevertheless very injurious I Of course, it is not forgotten that all tho new in effect. , j Stales framed their Constitution before they enter- Recorring to the action of the Government, it ed the Union, nevertheless dependent upon and I may be stated that at first a call was made for! preparatory to coming into the Union. j.75,0H0 militia, and rapidly following this a procla-j Unquestionably the States have the powers and j motion was issued for closing the ports of the in- • rights reserved to them in and by the National [ snrrectionary district by proceedings in the nature i Constitution ; bat among these surely are not of a blockade. So far all was believed to be included ail conceivable powers, however mis- : strictly legal. . - j cbieyous or destructive; but at most, such only At this point, the insurrectionists announcpd ' !ls ' ver eknownintiieworldatthetimeasgoveru- i their purpose to enter upon the practice of priva-1 mental powers, and certainly a power to destroy leering. j the Government itself had never been known as Other calls weie made for volunteers to serve j governmental—as merely administrative power ; three years, unless sooner discharged, and also | This relative matter of national power and State • for large additions to the regular army and ! rights, as a principle, is no other than the prinei- | navy. ' I pie of generality and locality. , I hese measures, whether strietlv legal or not, i W hatever concerns the whole should be confided flkiriuiNh nrnr Alexandria. 'veto ventured upon under what appeared to be! to 'he whole—the General Government; while * popular demand anu a public necessity, trust- whatever concerns only the Slate should be left army and navy, and ar the end of four days came j * n e> as now, that Congress would readily ratify j exclusively to the State. This is all there is of reluctantly, but decidedly, to the same conclusion i ’hem. It is believed that nothing has been done! original principle about it. Whether the national as before, lie also stated at the earn" time that hi yond the constitutional competency of Con- j Constitution, in defining the boundaries between no such Mifficent force was then at tbe control of theGovi rnment, or could be raised and broiigbtnn the ground within the time when the provisions iu the fort would be exhausted. In a purely military point of view this reduc ed the duty of the Administiation in the case to the mere matter of getting the garrison safely out of the fort. It was believed, however, that to abandon that p *siiion under the circumstances would be utterly ruinous: that the necessity under which it was done could not he fully understood: that by many it would be construed as part, of a voluntary policy; that at home it would disorganize the friends of the F.uion, embolden ifs adver saries and go far to ensure to the latter a recogni tion abroad, i hat in fact it would be our national destruction consummated. This could not be al lowed. Pitiott that one who is sworn to take care that the laws be faithfully executed should not himself violate them. j Ot course some consideration was given to the Starvation was not yet upon tho garrison, and 11 uest ' on power and property before this niat- ete it would be reached Fort Pickens might be j ,er was acted upon. The whole of the laws which reinforced ” were required to be faithfully executed werebe- This last would be a clear indication of policy, i resisted, and failing of execution in nearly K ress - ; ’he two, has applied the principle with exact aecn- I Soon after the first call for militia, it was con- i rac y* is not to be questioned. We aro all bound I sidered a duty to authorize the commanding ; ky that defining, without question. What is now general, in proper cases according to his discre- j combatted is the position that secession is cousis- j tion, to suspend the privilege of the writ of ha-1 tent with the Constitution—is lawful and peace- ; bens corpus ; or in other words, to arrest and j I’ll- i detain, without resort to the ordinary processes It is not contended that there is any express and form of law, such individuals as he might' low for it: and nothing should ever be applied as deem dangerous to the public safety. This au- luw which leads to unjust or absurd consequences, thority has properly been exercised, but very spar-1 1 h® nation purchased with money tho countries ingly. I out of which s veral of these States were formed. Nevertheless, the legality and propriety of what : Is>t just that they shall go off without leave and ! has been done under it are questioned, and the at- j without refunding ! The nation paid very large ! trntion of tbe country has been called to the prop- j sums, iu the aggregate, 1 beiieve, nearly uric liun- — ,i—. ,.t - . . , . dred millions, to relieve Florida ol the aboriginal tribes. Is it just that she shall now be off without con sent, or without making any return ’! The nation is now in debt for money applied to tbe benefit of these so called seceded States, in common with an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory. It was with the deepest regret that the Execu- tive/ound the duty of employing the war power iu i -.i • i-. defence of the Government tor,fed upon him. He P 0Int ’ ,0 bc ; al dc " 11 wlth ra P ldlt y "P on ™- could perform this duty, or surrender the existenca j p°rt«uit. points, tlieso are the principles of the government. ’ | which insure victory. No compensation by public sentiment could in i r, e * .. i • i ... thiscasebeacure. Not that compromises are not 11 »» by the fear which the reputation often proper, but that no popular government can U*’ your arms inspires, that von maintain long survive a marked precedent that those who | the fidelity ol your allies, and the obedi— carry an election can only save the government ence of conquered nations, from immediate destruction by giving up tbe ^ main points upon which the people gave the elec tion. The people themselves, and not their servants can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. As a private citizen, the Executive could not have consented that these institutions shall perish Much iess could lie, in betrayal of so vast and so sacred a trust as these free people had confided to him. He felt that he had no moral right to shrink, nor even to count the chances of his own life in what might follow. In full view of his great responsibility, he lias so far done what he has deemed his duty. You will now, according to your own judgment, per ffirrn yours. He sincerely hopes that your views and your action may so accord with his, as to as sure all faithiu! citizens who have been disturbed m their rights of a certain and speedy restoration to them under the Constitution and the laws. And having thus chosen our course without guile and w ith pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God. and go forward without fear and with manly heaits. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. the rest. Is it just, either. th»t creditors shall go unpaid, or the remaining Stat- s pay the whole? and would better enable the country to accept the ! " le ' , l )ir d of the States. Must they be allowed to i A part ot the present national debt was contract- evacuation of F'ort Sumter as a military necessity. I ’ nal b r of execution, even bad it been perfect-' to pay tbe old debts ot Texas Is it just that An order was at once directed to be sent for the 'y c J*' ar tila t by the use of t' e means necessary to she shall leave and pay no part of this herself? landing of the troops from the steamship Brooklyn t,le ‘ r pjecnl ‘ u “ some single law, made in such j Again, if one State may secede, so may another; into F'ort Pickeus. The order could not go by e *treme tenderness of tho citizen's liberty that ! a ’ ld when aii shall have seceded none are left to land, but must take the longer and slower route ! practically it relieves more cf the guilty than ot! P a y tl> e debts. Is this quite just to creditors? by sea. ! tbe innocent, should, to a very limited extent, I Did we notify them of this sage view of ours when The first return news from tho order was re- * ,e v *°* a ’ e d ? To state the question more direct- j we borrowed their money ? ceived just one week before the fall of F’ort Sum- ! *- v ’ are Il* e laws but one to go unexecuted, and ‘ If we now recognize this doctrine, by allowing ter. The news itself was that the officer com- ’ government itselfgo to pieces lest that one be ! tll ° seceders to go in peace, it is difficult to see mandiiig the Sabine, to which vessel the troopj Isolated? * what we can do if others choose to go, or to ex- had been transferred from the Brooklyn, acting , R v ® n such a case would not the official oath ' tort terms upon which they will promise to remain. "be broken if the Government should he over-j The seceders insist that our Constitution admits thrown, when it was believed that disregarding' °f Secession. They have assumed to make a Na- the single law would tend to preserve it / But ii | tiona! Constitution of their own, in which neces- was not believed that this question was present- 3 ’*y’bey have either discarded or retained the ed. It was not believed that any law was vio- right of Secession, as they insist it exists. If they la’ed. ! have discarded it, they hereby admit that on prin- The provision of the Constitution that the j cipie it ought not to be in ours privilege of the writ of naheas corpus shall not be j It they have retained it by their own construc- fuspended unless when in case of rebellion and tion of ours, they show that to be consistent they invasion, the public saiety may require, is equiv-' alent to a provision—is a piovisiou—that such privilege may be suspended when, in case of rebellion or invasion, tho public safety does re quire it. It was decided that we have a ease of rebellion upon some quasi armistice of the la:e Administra tion, and ot the existence of which tlffi present Administration, up to the time at which the order v.as dispatched, had only too vague and uncertain rumors to fix attention, had refused to land the troops. To now reinforce F'ort Pickens, before a crisis could be leached at F'ort Sumter was impossible, rendered so by the near exhaustion of provisions iu the latter named fort. In precaution against such a conjuncture, the Government had, a few days before, commenced preparing an expedition, as well adapted as might be, to relieve F'ort Sumter, which expedition was intended to he ultimately used or not, according to circumstances. Tin- strongest anticipnteu case for using it was now presented, and it was resolved to send it forward. As had been intended in this contingency, it was also reso.vcd to notify the Governor of South Carolina that he might "expect that au atttempt would be made to provision the fort, and that if the attempt should not be resisted, there would be no euort to throw in men, arms or ammunition without further notice, or in case of au attack upon tbe fort. This uotiee was accordingly given, whereupon the fort was attacked and bombarded to its fall, without even awaiting the arrival of tbe provisioning expedilion. Itis thus seen that tbe assault upon and reduc tion of I ’>rt .Sumter W'es in no sense a matter of self-defence on the part of the assailants. They well knew that the garrison iu the fort could by no possibility commit aggression upon them.— Hey knew they were expressly notified that the giving of bread to the few brave and hungry men of the garrison was all which would ou that oc casion he tempted, unless themselves, by resisting so much, should provide more. They knew that this Government desired to keep the garrision in the fort, not to assail them, but merely to maiiiiaiu visible possession, and thus to preserve the Union front active and im mediate dissolution, trusting, as hereinbefore stated, to time, discussion and the ballot-box for final adjustment and they assailed and reduced the fort for precisely the reverse object—to drive [Written for the Richmond Dispatch.[ Nay, Keep the Snonl. Ii* CARRIE CLIFFORD. Nay. keep the sword which once we guve. A token of our trust in thee : The steel is true, the blade is k’-eD— False ns thou art it cannot be. W e hailed thee as our glorious chief: ^ With laurel wreaths we bound thy brow : Thy name then thrilled from tougue to tongue. In whispers hushed we breathe it now. Yes, keep it till thy dying day. Memeutous ever lent it be, Of a great treasure once possessed— A people’s love, how lost to thee. Thy mother will not bow her head; She bares her bosom to thee now ; But may the bright steel fail to wound— It is more merciful than thou. And ere tlmu stiik'st the fatal blow, Thousands of sons of this fair land Will rise, and, in their anger just. Will stay the rasli act of thy hand. And when in terror thou shalt hear Thy murderous deeds for veigance cry, And feel the weight of thy great crime," Then fall upon thy sword and die. Those aged hicks I’ll not reproach, Although upon a traitor’s brow; W e’ve looked with reverence on them once. We’ll try and not revile them now. But her true sons and daughters pray, That ere thy day of reck’uing be, Thv ingrate heart may feel the pain To know thy mother once more free. June IP 1861. , "' nCT nun many other eanses, can be sneerfa- and effectually cured bv using the CLOVE^AXri m-NETpoftf ACHE DROPS. Acting .... nerve, it imparts instantaneous relief. Without J'.' c ,17 iT in, j coloring the teeth or unpleasantly affeetingthe hre.it from Wofford Col- or palate. Once used, you will never willjm-lv*k! j Southern Christ- without it. Only try it,' and complain no more f C»»t. Pickria*’ advice to &tadezit«. With the communications lege, found elsewhere, says the mu Advocate, we received a letter from Gov | aching teeth. Pickens to the Hon. G Cannon, which, in oorj Sanderavill-, Ga„ opinion, is replete with wisdom, 'ome weeks j Gentlemen : This is to certify that mv nn til. ' since we expressed a hope, upon similar grounds.: afflicted with Dropsy for a long tinie.'ar.d that**' that our college pupils would not forget that if j the medicalskill which could be procured was exhmiT ' • ’• aDd , her recovery was r garded as hopele^. st. peace soon comes, educated men would be needed for the duties of another generation—and if it does not, that there will be hereafter other oppor tunities aud occasions for their entering the field as soldiers. We cannot but think it unfortunate as matters now are, that sage counsels such as those oi his Excellency, had not prevailed more generally in our Literary Institutions over the war fever, that has temporarily suspended so many of them. Here is the letter. State of South Carolina, ) Head Quarters, Jau. 26th, isfil. £ To Hun. (!. Cannon: Sir :—I have just received yours, in which you : say that a number of the' young men in Wofford j College have volunteered and joined a company JJ. . -JJ. 1 1 ' <Al SKA joiutu rt Wllipdliy .utggison Hancock Esq., an honorary in Spartanburg village, and yourespectfullysug- member of the Governor’s Guard, returned ; g es ’’bat they be released and be permitted to to this city yesterday from Manassas Junction. We regret to say that he con firms the reported death of Sergent Hen ry Hanes, of that company, in a conflict with the enemy, near Alexandria, on Sun- day night last. From Mr. Hancock, and others who arrived yesterday, we have re ceived statements of the affair which can be relied upon. It appears that Mr. Hanes, in company with a detachment of twenty-nine and two guides, started from their camp on Friday evening last, in the direction of Alexandria. They continued their obscr- ^ „„„ various for a day or two, gradually draw- , to suppose that the young men of our Colleges must push forward now into the ranks of the I army, or they may never again have an oppor i tunity The day in all probability is coming when there may be occasions, perhaps too fre quent, when they will have a fair opportunity fot distinction. At any rata the true road to "per manent distinction in any pursuit in life, is through preparation and education whilst young I have the honor to bo, Very respectfull yours, F. W. PICKENS. [From the New York Daily News, June l!)th ] T5»« a -*• DziuiBPICM. Some of the Republican Abolition jonrjjaU show symptbns of recovery from their war fever They seem preparing to throw off' the Irideoii- iborei was induced to te-t the virtue of Broom's Ant, it,, dropic Tincture, and fnmid in a few days she vrrir better, and through its use a perfect cure was eftV,, J and she lived several years altcrwards. I cheerfnllv recommend those afflicted with Dr.msy t„ u ■ fair trial. Respectfully, 1 * U e “ 1 JNO. YV. Rl'DISlLLE, See Advertisement in another column. —— 2 k. form a company of students to ba at the com mand of the Governor. I most cheerfully accord to your suggestion, and take this occasion to say that it would ba a j ['."how great injury to the State to have our literary insti- re ‘di tutions broken up by the young men going into the active military service of the State. Their constitutions are not sufficiently matured toi either garrison life or forfield exposure. Besides, we are deeply interested as a State in training oar youths in the paths of intellectual culture, so as to prepare them to maintain the high position the State has ever held in those moral and intei lectual struggles, which are as essential to our in dependence as a Stale, as is the profession of arms The day is coming when we will require the ser vices of all in different departments, and one is equally honorable with the other. It is a mistake If you are afflicted with Files, send to Hertr dfc Hall and get a box of Sturdevant’s pile oiot. ment. and be ctued. Price $1 a box. * We would particularly call the attention of ourW crstqa remedy known as McLean’s Strengthen! e Cordial and Blood Purifier. It is certainly a valual k remedy. YVe therefore say to all, call at the event's and test for yourselves its intrinsic merits. It is deli cious to t ake. YVe ask ourlady readers to trv it. (y t the advertisement in another column. JACOB’S CORDIAL will relieve at once tho most bstinateca.se of Dlarrliotra.and dysentery, no mtt- uvere or violent, it controls with the utmo-t soothing the mucous lining of the intestinal canal, allaying all irritation and, brings about a speedy enre. " ^ 3 Sold by Herty dc Hall, also bv Grieve k Clarke ‘ 8 It.' tng nearer to the Federal outposts. We are informed that by some means they ob tained the countersign of the enemy, and, on Sunday night actually passed three of his pickets, and got within a mile and a half of Alexandria. Here our detachment j separated, three or four only going in cotn- j P a »y-—Mr, Hanes and his companions i came upon some three of the enemy's j scouts, and he at once rode up and order- led them to surrender. ’They fired upon j him, and we regret to say one shot struck him in the head and proved fatal. Our scouts then fired upon the enemy and kill- r | "O relieve suffering has been the object of the hu- I. mane and philanthropic iu ail ages bfore thepree lie® medicine became a scieooe the sick were pnblick ly exposed iu the open air.and every passer bv natne-i theremedy he considered most suitable for the com plaint. YVe possess ut the present day through the agency of the preeaa more reliable mode of convey, ing information to our suffering fellow creatures. Those afflicted with scrofula, cutaneous,and eruptive diseases will find in the columns of every newspaper and Pen- odieal published: certificates and testimonial from those wh° have been speedily cored of these dreadful complaints by tiie purifying and powerfully regenera tive qualities of Sands' Sarsaparilla. Prepared And sold by A. B. & D. SANDS. Drug gists. If>0 Fulton Street, New York. Price 2o cents per Vial. Sold by HERTY k HALL, also by GRIIEVE Ic CLARKE. 7 «n McLe v s’s Strengthen iso Cordial.—'This invalu able compound, we are glad to know, has become the most popular remedy iu the Uuited States. Nearly every family keeps it on hand. They find it saves physicians’ bills. A small quantity given in reason will wapd off Fevers, or any nruv’’lent disease. See tho advertisement in another column. erl two of those who fired upou Mr. Hanes, nightmaie under which they have so lon_, At this time a large party, probably fifty, J with distorted vision and distempered brain. Tin of the enemy were seen advancing. Our I Saturday i$ loud in lamentation of th csr,.,to Tt,—1 .1 • 1^1- I loss of life which must attend a vigorous earn ' scouts fired upon them, and [it is believed) ! killed six. 'I'lie whole detachment of tbe [Governor’s Guard had by this time got to gether; but the superior numbers of the j enemy, and their yells as they retreated j towards Alexandria, made it prudent for | them to retire without being able to se- i cure the body of their dead comrade. None except Mr. Ilaues were injured on igorous cam paign, and suggests a scheme of peaceable war like operations, which seems to he twin brother ti masterly inactivity. The Times would have on. soldiers avoid the frowning battery and tilt dangerous redoubt, and is philanthropically op posed to that branch of the protessoion of arm.- which calls upon the hero to seek ‘ the bubble rep utatipn even at the cannon’s mouth.’’ He would | have the Commander-In-Chief of the Federa. ■ forces confine his warlike demonstrations to the touiachs of the enemy: and by strategical!) our side, and noue captured.—Richmond [cuttingoff supplies, and interrupting | Dispatch. Kuglanil and «hr Coufedcralr Stales, It is said that a short time ago a motion in the Brifish Parliament to recognize our independence was postponed at the request of divers members. coinmuiu- must secede from one another whenever they shall find it the earliest way of settling their debts, or effecting any other selfish or unjust object. The principle itself is one of disintegration, and upon which no Government can possibly endure. . ; | If all the States, save one, Bhould assert the niui tliat the public safety does require the qual-1 power to drive that one out of the Union, it is pre ttied suspension of the writ which was author ; sunied the whole class of seceded politicians 1 , to k* 8 made. Now it is insisted that Congress, i would at once deny the power and denounce the nntt not the F.xecutivo, is vested with this ; act as the greatest outrage upon State rights. But power. i suppose that precisely the same art, instead of be- rsut the Constitution itself is silent as to which ! mg called driving the one out; should be called nr v, ho is to exercise the power : and as the pro- j the seceding of the others from that one, it would vision «as plainly made for a dangerous emer-; be exactly what the seceders claim to do; unless, genev, it cannot be believed the framers of the . indeed, they make the point that the ODe, because instrument intended that in every instance dan-j it is a minority, may rightfully do what tbe others, gershoultt run its course until Congress cou id he ; because they are a majority, may not rightfully ; fv together, the very assembling of which j do. These politicians are subtle and profound on might have been prevented, as was int.-nded in . the rights of minorities. They are not partial to tins case by the rebellion. No more extended ar j that power which made the Constitution and speaks .UililorT Halims of N’iipolc-oii. Tents are injurious to health. i This unexplained postponement of a question of ! such moment has occasioned some uneasiness j among some of our people. I take occasion to say that tiiis postponement furnishes, under the It is ' cirou,,lstanc, ‘ s ’ no ground for uneasiness whatever. mueh better for the soldier to bivonack, j smod^a'puS’ou thfpart of'Se Britrih “gov- because lie then sleeps with his feet to the j eminent to which we cauuot object, fire, which quickly dries the ground where There is a commercial treaty between the Gov- helies. A few boards or a little straw ; * ri ?'"V nt of’be United States and that of Great 'Britain. By virtue of this treaty the people of one have the lawful right to enter the ports of the cations, starving the seceders back into the Union. 1 his gleam ot human feeling athwart the blood red cloud that lias darkened the columns of the Republican press for many a day, however una daptable, is at least an intimalion of a step on tin road of peace But, unfortunately for the human theory of the journal in question,it is inapplica ble to a state of war. The Times must know ; [hat, if this cruel strife be persisted in, the best ; blood of the land must How in torrents. No course, other than a eesssaion of hostilities and an amicable understanding, can avert the dreadful calamity. Tbe sneers and mockings that were wont to be indulged in iu regard to Southern chivalry, have been changed to anxious doubts and gloomy forebodings. The most boastful champion of Northern prowess feels that there i.- a foe before him worthy of his steel: and no amount of sectional self-esteem can disguise the terrible tact, that when the legions of me North and South meet in the shock of war, such deeds will be done as when “Greek fought Greek" upon -To Consumptives. T ITE Advertiser having been restored to health in a few weeks by a very simple remedy, after laving suffered several years with a severelungafftc- tion, aud that dread disease, eo sumption—is auiieii to make known to his fei’nw-...if.-rera the means of cure. To all who desire it, he will send a copy of the prescription used (free of charge) with the directions tor preparing and using the same, which they will find a sure Cure for Consumption, Asthma, Brin- chilis, ^re, Theonly object of the advertiserinsend ing the prescription is to benefit the afflicted, and spread information which he conceives to be inval uable, and he hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as it will cost them nothing, and may prove a bles sing. Partieswishing the prescription will pleaseaddrete Rev. EDYVARD A. YVILSOX, YY’illiamsburgh. Kings countv, New York. Oct. 9. 1860. (c. * mca.) 20 ly. R. R. out the visible authority of the Federal , deemed necessary and convenient for yourdelib- Union, and thus to ice it to immediate dissolution. ' ’ That this was their object the Executive well un derstood. And having said to them in the inaugural ad dress. • you can have no conflict w ithout being yourselves the aggressors,” he took pains not on ly to keep this declaration good, but also to keep the case so free from the power of ingenious sophistry, ns that the world should not be to mis understand it. By the affair at F’ort Sumter, with its surrounding circumstances, that poiut v,as reached. Then and thereby the assailants of the Govern ment began tbe conflict of arms, w ithout a gun in sight or in ihe expectancy to return the tire, save eu ,Vr e w * 16 * Je ” e [J ,I '?ginent of Congress j 0 f disunion. There is much reason to believe that J he forbearance of this Government has been so i the Union men are the majority in many, if not in extraordinary and so long continued as to lead j every other cue of the seceded States.’ The con- some foreign nations to shape their actions as ifjtraryhas not been demonstrated in any one of * i s . u PP ose( * the early'destruction of our Nation- them. It is ventured to affirm tin’s even ot Vir- 3 to] 1 - 1 . 11 a3 P ro ’ >a ’ ) ]®- | ginia and Tennessee ; for the result of an election Y\ title this, on discovery, gave the Executive I held in military camps, where the bayonets are all some concern, he is now happy to say that the | on one side of t o question voted upon, can •overe.gnty and rights of the United States are ' scarcely bo considered as demonstrating popular now everywhere practically respected by foreign sentiment. At such an election all that larn-e powers, and a general sympathy with the country : ciass who are at once for the Union and against is manifested throughout ’he world. coercion would be coerced to vote against the I he reports of the Secretaries of the Treasury, I Union War and Navy will give the information in detail l It m shelters hint from the wind. J ents, however, are necessary for the j other for purposes of trade, wherever these ports leaders, who have to write and consult the | ,na J r be - Jt ia not lik o ’he treaty between the map, They should be given, therefor*, L ' ,1 ! ited , s [ ates anJ t Japa “- b y which we were re- . . | • rv i i ’ stricted to one or two ports m Japan. On the t° the superior officers, who should be or-1 contiary, it embraces every port in the Empire ol* j the plains of Macedon. dered to never lodge in a house. j Britain upon whose vast possessions “tho sun j Th® military skill of the Confederate leaders Tents attract the observation of the ene- never sets.’’ and every port within the territorial , makes itself apparent in every move. Their my’s staff and make known your numbers J a ." s . dil:tio11 of [ l,e * tate3 - Ail these ports ! e««don their deliberation, their energy and /i J „ ot the one are by the treaty open to the ships of thorough preparation, are too palpable to be de- ana the position you occupy. But ot ail the other, and the treaty being nothing more nor j nied; to talk of starving them into subjection is army bivouacking in two or three lines, less than a solemn conti act between nations, it is i toar g"eagrossignoranceoftheqni>-t,yetvigo- nothing is perceived at a distance except clear that it cannot be altered or modified except roue pre-arrangements commenced while the world tho smoke, which the enemy confounds ! C0D8ent of ,V' e part ^ es to il ' Gx "? t f' ,ritain - ,or , was S F \• laughingly incredulous of an appeal to n-riLtbo tj- I ’" stanc c- would commit a gross violation of the arln3 - The gigantic scale upon which the Com- raander-in-Chief of the F’ederal forees has gath ered in the military resources of the nation, tells the tale; the old chieftain, whose military sagaci- with the mist of the atmosphere, not count the fires. He can- j treaty weie she to restrict the United States to tbe | ports, say of England aloue; and. in like manner. Nothing is more important in war than : tllB United States would commit a like outrage unity in command. When therefore, you ! she , tu tb 1- t - ad 1 e a ° l Urcat Britam " . , ..... . j . , to the ports only ot the United States—say to the are cartyrngon nostril.tes against a single 1 ports of New York and Boston, or any other less power only, you should have but one army, i number than the whole. This results nee ssarily acting on one line, and led bv one com- j lroiu tlm lact tliat t,iC conlract between them, mander. I eaB )‘ has a n ff ht t0 l e,, ’ er “- 1 the ports of the other, mi , ~ ,. . . subject only to such restrictions as are imposed I he effect of discussing, making a show iby the treaty itself. DISEASE At its Onset Fin its Mid Career f AND IN ITS MOST HOPELESS STAGES. ARRESTED, CURED, AND PERMANENTLY OBLITERATED BY Radway's Remedies. Radway’s Ready Relief gives immediate ease in the choleraic attacks common at this sen-on. Nodif- fusive stimulant so instantaneously pervades the sys tem. The most terrific spasmodic paroxysms, the most agonizing attacks of RHEUMATISMS, NEU RALGIA, COLIC,CRAMPS,CHOLERA MORBCS, See. are arrested by il with a suddenness that seemi like the effect of mechanical power. As an antidote to malaria it is infallible. Those who use it as occa sional stimulant, invariably escape intermittent and remittent fevers, fever anil ague, and it breaks up these complaints with wonderful dispatch. Ladies, hopeless of recuperation from ordinary tonics, recov ered rapidly under its influence, from the debility pro duced by sexual causes. Dr. E. U. Perkins, of Marriott*, O . writes us that the use of Railway’s Ready Belief in Feverand Ague, Tliyphoid, Billions, and other Fevers, were highly successful, and when used iu connection with Radway’s Kegulitting Pills, would core the most desperate case* in from three to six days. RADYVAYs REGULATING PILLS. ciation and action : while the Executive and all tiie departments will stand ready to supply omis sions, or to communicate new facts considered ini- | portant for you to know. It is now recommended that you give the legal means tor making the contest a short and decisive lone; that you place at the control of Government I :^. ll,i uy° rk at . , ’' ast -NMV’fiO ineu and mny be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free insti.utions we enjoy have developed the powers and improved the condition of our whole people beyond any example in the world. Of this we now have a striking aud iniptessive illustra tion. So large au army as the Government has now on foot, wes never before known, without a sold ier in it, but who lias taken bis place there with his own free choice. But more than this; there . ^ iat number ot men is about one-tenth of j are many single regiments whose members, one lose ot proper ages within tbe regions where ap ' and another, possess full practical kuowlcdge of p. ren y mi! are willing tu engage; and tbe sum all the arls. sciences, professions, and whatever t.s less than the tw en tv..h,n> .t- ......... I hether useful or elegant, is known it, the , j — — , -AuJ ther hole is less than the twenty-third part of tho money else, w Inj by the “ ien wh0 - S8en » r ® a<5 -'’to de-1 world. AuJ there is scarcely one irom which ’ ’ °.°’ I could not be selected a President, a Cabinet, a - , , , c ‘ s ’ x hundred millions of dollars now is \ Congress, and. perhaps, a Court, abundantly com- only the t«w in the r ort, sent to that harbor years ; a . s sum P er head than was the debt of our rev-1 petent to administer the Government itself, beffire for their own protection, and still ready to o.ution when we earn,- out of that struggle; and | Nor do I say that this is not true also in the army I-reaTer nmno!t U ;nn n . tbe ^ B * ry n0W L bearS even a ! of onr late friends, now adversaries, in this con- i fhe Mmriatton l ‘£ ^ ' han docs * ,e9t ’ But if il 18 - 30 ranch better the reason why ■A motive row tn nra ^ each man has as strong j the Government which has conferred such benefits ^t^n Vn er, MUb P .k UrhberUesaseachhatl °r» both tbe m and us should not be broken up then to establish them. j Whoever, in any section, proposes to abandon A .iglit result, at this time, w ill be worth more such a Government, would do well to consider, in to the world than ten times the men and ten times ! deference to what principle it is that he does it; power of the enemy- he must cope with; lie knows that the flames will rage with demoniac fury, should the firebrand not be extinguished. 'The scourge is uplifted. YY'oe to the land and the people when it falls. The red rivers that ran at . Waterloo will be as streams to the ocean com- _ ~ . . pared with the crimson torrents that must inevi- ot talent, and calling councils of war, will! Bearing these indisputable propositions in mind, : tably flow before either section will yield to the be what the effect of these things has been : we s ! ial * seB that the British Government has very force of arms. The picture of human agony that i r . ' “ * ’* *’ie contemplative tnind, ex horror all that can be eon- seeins an insnlt to human ty is not to be misled, is cotiscious of tbe vast The purest and best Tursatire Medicine i* niYIwnr nf tho onnm>. k/A -A !iL . L- I I 1 ° ill everv a<rp • tliev will end in the orinn [ P°°d reasons for postponing, for the preseut, at forces itself upon the c '. ;{, S ’ ;■ e} t . nU 111 tl,eado P- least, a recognition of their independence. She ceeds in intensity of l.or tion ol tuc most pusillanimous, or (if the? wants our cotton, and indeed must have it. To ljured from the past. Its expression be preferred) the most prudent 1 enable her to buy our cotton, she must sell to us [nature to conceive that the promoters of this measures, which in war are almost uniform- j ber cotto “ goods and such other supplies as wo j struggle can jace the future, and stiM cry havoc, lytlie worst that can be adopted. True and let slip the dogs of war. It seems a’sacrileg- ious invocation of the curse of God, that men, gifted by Disgrace with the attributes of divinity, should abuse the intellect .11 may need and she can tarnish. . j c , . - Now, Gnat Britain can carry on this trade with wisdom, so tar as a general is concerned, the Confederate States in either one of two ways, consists in energetic determination. 11st,she can trade with us in accordance with tbe There are certain things in war of’* a " ot nat ' 0113 s or, 2nd, she can trade with us in j ting it to the destruction which the commander alone” comprehends |-£ i,>iati °^ [ Le - law , ot ' The presump- [ the sake of humanity, * , x- .1 • L i ■ . s I ’ l0 ” 18 ’ tliat, having choice ot the two modes, she | and those they love on the importance.. .-Nothing but Ins superior j preteis ihat mode which involves no violation of [before they leap into th. firmness and ability can subduo and sur- «’iy law. ishe warns the cotton, and wants to the world! In the recent cases of BUtious Cholic, Inflamation of the Rowels, and in all violent attacks will pro. duct a healthy evacuation from the bowels in sii Hours. Radwev’s Regulating Pills, are the only family cathartic that purges without depletion, without indu cing after-conetipatiuu, nud compelling, a perpetual resort to the medicine. They operate more rapidly than any drastic mineral purgative, never occasion tenesmus, auil influence simultaneously the stomach, the bowels, the liver, [aud the circulation. Nofonnof indignation, billionsness, or iutestiual disease, can withstand its alterative and corrective operation. Uadway’s regulating Pills are the purest and best purgative medicine known to the medical science. While they purge from the system all diseased ana give that protection tu whatever was lawful In this act, disregarding ail else, they have forc ed npou the country the distinct issue—immediate dissolution or blood. And this issue embraces more that the fate of thpse United Stales It pre sents to Lhe whole family o! man the question whether a Constitutional Republic or Democracy. government ot th • people by the same people. , the money. The evid-nce reaching us from the j what better he is likely to get in’its stead—wheth- 1 nr mitiimt ni'iiitlL: ■■ ifu t..rnt..M,.l — 1 L, n< - n „ 1 Lj it ..I • , ., .1 .* . ... “ call or cannot maintain its territorial integrity a gainst its own domestic foes. It presents the ques tion whether discoiiten'ed individuals, too few in numbers to control Hdminstratiou according to or ganic law in any case, can always, upon the pre tences made in this rase, or on oilier pretences, or ar mrarily without auy pretence, break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to tree Government upon the earth. It forces us to ask : U Jthere in all Republics this inherent and tatal weakness ? Must a gov ernment of necessity be too strong for the liber ties ot its own people, or too weak to maintain ffsov.u existence? So viewing the no ctoica was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so to resist force employed rim il * destrQCtion fo“' ce lor its preserva- I'bis sail was mads, and tba response oftt# country leaves no doubt that th.; material for the work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction and the hand ot the Executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. One of the greatest perplexities of the Government is to avoid receiving troops faster than it can provide for them, in a word the people will save their Government, if the Government itself will do its part only indfferent- ly well. It might seem at first thought to be of little dif ference whether the preseut movement at the er tho substitute will give, or be intended to give, so much of good to the people. There are some toresliadowings on this subject. Our adversaries have adopted some Declarations of Iudeperideme, in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jef ferson, they omitted tbe words, “All men are cre ated equal.” Why ? They have adopted a tem porary National Constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike (lie good obi one signetf by Wash ington. they omit, “We the people,” and substi- turn, “We the Deputies of the Sovereign and In dependent States.” Why? Why tiiis deliberate South be called secession or rebellion. Themov- pressing out of view the nghts'of men and tho ers, however, well understood the difference. At the_ beginning they knew they could never raise their treason to any respectable magnitude by any name which implies violation of law. They knew their people possessed as much moral sense, and as much of davotion to law and order, and as muab authority of the people? _ This is essentially a people’s contest. On the side of the Union it is a straggle for maintaining iu tbe world that form and substance of Govern ment, whose leading object is to elevate tbe con dition of men, to lift artificial weights from all mount all difficulties. To authorize generals and officers to lay down their arms by virtue of a special capitulation, under any other circumstan ces than when they constitute the garrison of a fortified place, would unquestionably be attended with dangerous consequences. To open this door to cowards, to men wanting in energy, or even to misguided brave men,is to destroy the military spirit of the nation. An extraordinary situation requires extraordinary resolution. The more obstinate the lesmtance of an armed body, the more chances it will have of be ing succored or of forcing a passage. How many tilings apparently impossible, have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who have no alternative but death ! No sovereign, no people, no general, can he secure, if the office^ are permitted to capitulate on the field and lay down their arms by virtue of an agreement fa vorable to themselves and to the troops un der their command, hut opposed to the in terests of the remainder of the army. To withdraw-from the peril, themselves, and that render the position of their cemrgdei furnish us with supplies. She "ill do both, and do it in such a way as will subject her to no im putation as a law-breaker. We cannot expect Iter to violate auy well established usage of nations for our benefit, especially when she can do us the same amount of good and violate no law what ever. Lot us suppose that Great Britain were now to acknowledge our independence. It is very clear, that by such an act, she would declare that we, the Confederate States, are no part of the United States, it would follow that the treaty now exist ing between her aud tho United States would not include us, and, ol course, she would have no right to trade with us by virtue of it. By such recognition of us, she would at once cut herself off from the advantages of a treaty on which she iiuistputa high value, inasmuch ns by virtue of it she can trade with us as heretofore. This is especially true, so long as the Government of the Uuited States claims us as being a part of it. and as within its jurisdiction. Thus, under present circumstances, there is no act. by either Govern ment showing that they differ iu opinion as to the territorial limits of the United States, aud notas yet differing in opinion as to such territorial limits, it follows that they caunot differ, rightfully, as to the ports at which tho people of Great Fin tarn have a right to trade. Her right to trade includes all the ports of the United States, and by the law of nations, she may, if necessary, assert bar right by force. So loug as Lincoln’s Cabinet shall claim ns a part of th* United States, so long may ©js*t black abyss. In the ■ will insure health, and refreshing sleep, strange immunity from bloodshed hitherto, while I hundreds of thousands are in the field, has not a ! D'vine Providence interposed between the pas- 1 sinus of men aud tlwir better natures, to bid them pause aud reflect upon the threshold of the housd of mourning they would enter ? But that im munity will be of short Juration. What deso lated hearths; what weeping brides made widows, what mothers made childless, what sorrowing hearts and uutimely graves will crowd upon our annals, should this war go on! F’roni every RADYVAY S RENOVATING BESOLY’ENT Persons with Sore Eyes, Sore Heads, Sore Mouths, Skin Eruptions are guaranteed a ynick cure H the use of the Resolvent. R.adwat’s Renovating Resolvent repair* the waste of natnre; replaces decrepitude with vigor: ex- tirpnteH every form of Scrofulous, Cancerous, Syphj" letic. Mercurial, uild Eruptive disorders: cures ojithru- lniu, nml all affections of tlieeyes and earn; is iovalus ble to females in the later crisis of life, and is the rm«i household will go forth ths cry ot anguish, “Why j powerful invigorant and rejuvenant yet discovered, have our loved ones fallen ?” F'rom every battle- i Persons suffering from Asthma Bronchitis, Phthisis, field the groans of dying men will smite the ears 1 ami Lung Complaints, may rely upon deriving imme of those whose evil counsels worked the cruel ! lliu te ease after tukiug a dose of Radway’s Resolvent, strife. Bearing these things in view, and at the! e.ro’hes .-nd heals, clenses, purifies nud renovates same time knowing that such horrors are not thrust i ,bo eutire upon us by an inexorable fate, but are to be the i Remedies are sold by druggists ever) results of our own volition, it is strange and sad ' where. to think that the nation will recklessly invite its 1 RADWAY k CO., 23 John Street, N. Y doom. lint there is time yet for sober thought AGRNTfl. and judicious action. The sword of Damocles! HERTY k HALL, Milledgeville; DAYTS * bangs by a slender thread, but the blow which j aKEF \ Eatonton-J. C. BATES, Louisville; A. A- severs it may yet be withheld. The soldier’s: 4I , u-v’^.nderKville 6 4t- steel may yet be forged into the plowshare, and the 1 ‘ ring of anvils may yet d>own the battle shout. Let those who would have the right hand of fel lowship extended, use every lawful means to direct the course of events. Thus much is due to the enlightened spirit of the age. If the sword is never to be broken and civilization is to be coun termarched at every step, better at once destroy tho printing press and rasa tbe school house and church, that men may at least hsvs the pies of ignores** and harbsrwn t* palliate their sritnso- F)A3n»> StRSAPARIU t—For the reuw- CTral and permanent cure of ai fiseases arising f an impure state of the blood, or habit of ' Tiiis pleasant and efficacious remedy will gentiy ulate the functions of the stomach and bowels to regu lar and healthy action, and without nanasqar pwff expel therefrom all deleterons acenmfflatiouii, puttH the blood, equalize tbe circulation, promote perspi™ lEy