Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1862-10-14

              VOLUME XXVI. l rCBLUa KTBTTHJt8DAr VOUU0 r C3ee inWoodward Block, Sd Story. ; TERM3. Two DolUtra pr annnai, pya.bt in ad Tanc; $2.50 within six month; $3.00 ftficr thp PlU rtwiwimfHt.' ' ' ...... . EDITED BT L.HARPiR. facts for Voters! The Crittenden Compromise De- feated by the Republicans ! Tbe Crittenden Compromise would have . ! 8ayed the Union ! The Hpablieans Responsible for the Present Civil War! -'' " : . ,.'';: - ; 1 Head the Record I : : - -;; Upan the aseero Wing of Congress, Deceni-Ler" 3i,Jl84ia, every $tate in tlie Union was repreetfu4 l..:the Hooae of Representalives, n(Hn th Senate all but South Carolina. Se-ceseian was threatened by the Gulf States. The representatives of Southern States gener-alljridemanded additional constiUitioiial"par' antees for the protection of their rights l&nder ' tha Constitution! - It is tiot proposed herpio decids.whether those demands were just orun--. just, or whether the triumph of a sectional ' party in the Presidential election of 1860 was s justification on the part pf the Southern States for demanding those additional guarantees for the protection of the rights which thev regarded as baring beeir put in jeopardy by the success of that party. The question to be examined is. Could the preseot civil war and fhe- threatened permanent disunion of the States have been averted by the adoption of : the plan of adjustment proposed by the Sena tor from Kentucky, com nony knpwn as the rCaiTTKNDxsr compromise? : S7TK flF fPBXIC HINP IS THE SOCTJI. In a speech in the Senate, January 3d, 18G1, (see appendix to Congressional Glote, p. 38), Mr. Douglas thus referred fo tje statp fif pub- fic mi ud in the Soutlj: But we cannot close our eyes to the fact that the Southern people have viewed the re sult of that election (Mr. Lincoln e) as lur-pighing. evidence that the dominant party of the North, which is soon to take possession of the Federal Government under that election, are determined to invade and destroy their constitutional rights. Belieying tlfat tjjeir donjesr . tie institutions, their heartp-stones and their 7 family altars, are to be assailed, at least by indirect means, and that the Federal Government is to be used for the inauguration of a line of policy which shall have for its object the ultimate extinction of slavery in all the States, old as well as new. South .as well as North, the Southern people are . prepared to rush wildly, madly, as I think, into revolution, disunion, war, and defy the consequences, whatever they may be, rather than to wait Jfor the development of events or submit tamely tp what they think is a fatal bloj? impending over jhem and all they hold dear on earth. - .. WITHOUT COMPROMISE DISPJTIOW INEVITABLE. Appreciating the condition of the country and the necessity of compromise to avoid the calamities of civil war and disunion, Mr. Douglas, in the same speech, (on page 41), said: i In my opinion, we haye reached a point where disunion is inevitable,' unless some compromise, founded upon mutual concession, can be made. I prefer compromise to war. I pre-- fer concession to a dissolution of the Union. Vhen I avow myself ii favor of couaprqinfce, 'I do not mean that one side should give up all fhat it has claimed, nor that the other side Bjjould give up every hng for which it has contended. Nor dq I ask any man to come to "rny standard ; but I simply say that I will ineet every one half way who is willing to pre serve tbe peace of tne country, and save th Union fr.Qra disruption upon' the principle je of compromise ana concession. ," t.' In the aame speech (on page 42) Mr. Pouo- -LA.8 adds:'-,. ' In my opinion we have no,w reached a point where this a ei tat ion (the elaiyery question) "nnrt clone, find all the matters in controversy bit finally determined by constitutional amend ments, or dvil war and the disruption of the Union are inevitable. " .' . ' I Tegret the determination, to which I ap- prenend tne JAepubJican Senators have come. to make no adjustment, entertain no proposi tion, ana listen 10 no compromise oi me mat ters in controversy. -"''I fear, from all the indi- cations, that they are disposed to treat the matter as a party question', to be determined in v caucus in reference to its effects upon the prospects of their party, rather than upon the peace of the country and tbe safety of the Un-fon. -Iinvoke their deliberate judgment whether it is not a dangerous experiment for any political party to demonstrate to the Ameri-jcan people that the unity of their party is dearer to them than the onion of these States ! ceittinden's PLAK PEOP08ED. "; Such was the cqnditioni o.f the public mind iwU ike necessUy adapting eome'measnres o prevent the .calamities of oivil war and die. jxafa, so,rorciQly set forth by Mr.-PorcLAS in iis 4ble speech in the Senate, trom which the QiegqiQg extracts . are quoted, that the emi pent atatestnan and patriot of Kentucky, John vaimirDBV, felt called npon as. a duty to hla country to propose a plan of adjustment to the Senate andllhe . peopje, which he 4id D,e .cember 18tbil86tsiSee DtnfraZbmal Globe, TPh l,pae,114ym01.j- . At that we at a Stat had seceded or- jsAr the -Uo4ooi -1 Coegreaa had acted tmptJT.'jnpo (beprbpo-eiOoni jud adopted ft Vote' wblcn Voil BaTe'damonstrated tW'theorJntena have acted on gpod laUb.ahere is evidence to how that noi 8tate ' would - hare c attempted I iecessiflhi; ejtcept bp:outh'Carori6af 4a part of Ushjetory oriecewn, r.tt hn tbe several SUteeeefeded from tbe Unipn: . . ' .t..-.! c s-mi - South CejcJil......,.;... I860 " Pr,df;,,,,,i"Tan." T, 1851 Alabama...... Jan. 11, 161 Georeia ....... .............. .........Jan. 19, 1861 Louisiana. -., it - it t itf" t-'tti Jan. 26. 1861 Texasl:...... ..Feb. 1, 1861 Vlrsipi ....... ,..,....,... ....AprH 17, 1861 Tennessee..i.......-.. -May 0, 1861 Arkansas..... . .....May 6,1861 North Caroling M ....JXay 21, 1861 ' It will thus be seen that no border slave State attempted secession until after the rejec tion of the terms of settlement proposed by the Peace Convention, which assembled in Wash ington Feb. 4th, 1861, and likewise those of Mr. Crittenden. Twenty-one States were re presented in the Peace Convention, fourteen Northern and seven Southern, viz: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennesr see, Kentucky, and Missouri. The propoei tion for a conference or convention of five commissioners from each State on the condi tion of publie affairs, was first brought for ward and adopted by the Legislature of Vir ginia, to adjust "the present unhappy contro versies in the spirit in which the Constitution was originally formed." This shows there was a strong disposition on the part of the border slave States to adjust the national diffi culties and preserve the Union.' Theplan of the Peace Convention was submitted t Congress on the 27th day of February, 1861, before Vir ginia, I enneesee, Arkansas and JSorth Oaro. lina had seceded, but it was rejected. It rmay be well to add here that the Ceittindex Compromise, was offered in the Peace Convention as a plan of adjustment, but it was rejected by that body. The secession of seven States, South Carol i- jnar Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Jxuisiana, and Texas, all before the 1st of February, 1861 gave the Republican party a majority in both the Senate and House of Representatives, and hence the responsibility of accepting pr rejecting he propositions of compromise proposed i by Mr. Crittenden, Mr. Douglas, and the Peace Conference, rests with the Republican party, andlio proposition would have been acceptable to the South unless it had been sustained by a' majority' pf-the. members of that political organization. In making this statemeut, the withdrawal of the members of Congress from the seceded States U not justified, but a fearful responsibility rests upon them for permitting the control of the Government to thus pass into the hands of a sectional party. But while condemning the action of the members who withdrew, it does fjot lessen the responsibility of the Republican majority in Congress. It wa? in their power at any time to have kept Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Carolina, willing and firm members of Uiion, by adopting eith er the C.ittbsosv or Peac Convention compromises.FINAL ACTIO UPON' THE CRITflNpEN COUPRO- . Kiss. " V It was npt until Sunday, the 8d pf March, 1801, tbe lafit 4ay p.f the 30th Congress, tljat a vote was permitted in the Seriate uppi the plan of adjustment known as the 'CaiTTEtf-den Gbmpromise." That vote is given as evidence that the Republican Sepatprs never intended that any plap. pf cpm promise should be adopted with their approval, but that thpif party doctrines and the 6upremaey of ther party in tlje control of the Government were far superior tp their dfrsire for the preservatipn of the Union in peace and with the good will of all the States. ' - VOTE IN THE SENATE. Upon the direct vote, taken March 36 1861. for the adoption or rejection of the Chittenden Compromise, just a.3 it was offered Jty t)ie distinguished Senator from Kentucky, the following was the result in the Senate yeas 19 nays 20: Yeas Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bright, Crit" TI5DIN, ppnglag, Gwin, Hunter, Johnson o' Tennessee, Kennedy, lane, L.atbam, Mason Nicholson, Polk, Pu'gh, Rice, Sebastian, Thqrnpspn and rigfall 19; of which 17 were Pemocrats and 2 Americans. . v Nats Messrs. Anthony, Bingham, Chandler CJark Dixon, boolitile Durkee Fessenaen, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Harlan, King, Mprri!. Sunjner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull Wade ,Vilkinson and Wilson -r20; All Republicans. The Democrats are in Rpman; Republicans, a , and Americans in small caps. It thus appears that all te Democrats and Americans present ip t)e Senate voted for the fjEiTTENDEN cfwprpmise, and the Republicans present ypted against it not a Republic can vote Is recorded in its favor, VOTE IN THE HOUSE. On February 27th, 1861, Mr. Clemens, a Representative from Virginia, proposed to the House that the Crittenden compromise should be submitted to a vdU of tk $epple for adopr tion or rejection. . He proposed the following joint resolution: Whereas, The Union is in danger; and owing to the unhappy divisions existing Congress, it would be difficult, if not irapossible, for. that body to concur, in both its' branches, by the requisite majority, so as to enable it either to adopt such measures of legislation. or to recommend to the States such amendments to the Constitution, as are deemed ne- ceesaiy ana proper vo Tcn, luai unuger; nu whereas, in'so great so emergency, the opinion ana judgment or tne people ougni to De neard and would be the beet and euraet guide to their Representatives :. Therefore.. Jtetolved by the Senate and JJovi of Sepreeent- aixvtt or tpeJJnyted State of America, f Congrets astemblta3 Tfcat ro Ljion pught to be. .made by laW,rwrthont delaV. for tAklnw the sense of the people, and aubmittHig to tbeW' rote th following resolutions Orittendl -n n- sis forthe -finai an'd TniAnntkiMM-.w those ulsWee that Siow1 J5thrK h.miixirt, thebftntry gad threaten U xi8tece fcr WH h the proposition ,ibmit' the1 Ca "39-1 ait-. 1 xiuviir cofio promitftohe sense ojr Lbs peopjl theolbwing wae n6UiLia ihe- Hoorr nette, Peaimick, Edmnftdsob, ' English, iw.fscH--yar watt JLEpQOrt,,8QTXJU tow. Brown, Burch, Burnett, H. F. Clark r Craie. Burton "Craire 1. G.DaTl De J.l Florence, Foukt Garnett, G,n, Hamil' ton J. M. lUafcis, J. T. ilarra Hoi man WnaHo'yaTd.HuabeB; jXuakeL Xarrabee. J. M.i-Ltcm; Logan, Maclay,. Mallort, C. D. Martih, E. S. Martin, Matnar'd, McClernahd, Mx-Kentey, Millson, Montgomery, Labah T. Moors, J. N. Morris, Natson, Nl black, Noell,-Peyton, Phelps Pr-or, Qdarles, Riggs, J. , C. Robinson, - Rnst, Sickles, Simms,;Wm. Smith. W. H. N. Smith, Stec venson, J N. Stewart, Stokes, Stoilt, Thorn-; as, Vallaadigbam, Vnca, .WsiBstaa, WhiU ney, Winslow, Woodson and Wright--80, Democrats, bl ; Americans, i. r Nats Messrs. C F. Adams, Aldrich, Alley, ABhley, Babbett, - Beale, Bingham; ' Blair; Blake, Brayton, BufKngton, Burlmgame, Barn ham, putterfield, . Campbell, Carey; Carter, Case, Cobum, C. Cochrane, Colfa," Conk-ling, Conway, Corwin, Oovode, 1 H. W. Jatis, Dawes, Delano, Duell; Dunn,, Edgerton,' Edwards, Eliot, Ely, ETHERibqa, Farnswdrth, Fenton, Ferry, Foster; Frank; French, Gooch, Graham, Grow, Hale, Hall, Helmiclc, Hickr man, Hindman, Hoard, W. A. Howard, Humphrey, Hutchins, Irvine, Junkin, F. W. Kellogg, W. Kellogg, Kenyon, Kilgore, Kil. linger, DeWitt C. Leacb, Lea, Longnecker, Loomis, Lovejoy, Martson, McKean, Mc-Knight, McPheTSQn, Morebefl4j Morrill, Morse, Nixon, Olin, Palmer, Perry, Petitt, Porter, Potter, Pottle, E. U. Reynolds, Rice, C. Robinson, Royce, Scranton, Sedgwick, Sherman, Somes, Spand ling, rfpinner, Stantpp, Stevens, W..-Stewart, Stratfon, Tappan, Thayer, Theak-er, Tompkins, Train, Trimble, Vandever, Van Wvck, Verree. Vade, Waldron, Walton, C. C. 'Washburn, E. B. Wash bnrne, Wells, Wil son, w indham. Wood ana. Woodrnn llo. Republicans, 110; Americans,2: Democrats, 1. : : ''V:-: Democrats, with ft ; Jepublictns, in .Roman; Americans, In small caps; , ; Thus the Republicans, haying a clear ms- ajonty, in the House of iffpresentatjveSj-rre-fased to submit the Crittenden Compromise to the sense of the people. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE 1 In the Senate of the United States, on the 3d day-of January, -1801, in discussing tlie sub ject 61 compromise, referring to his own propo sition, Mr. Douglas said : I believe this to be a fair basis pf amicable adjustment. If you of. the Repubjjcap aide are not willing to, accept this, nor the proposition of the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden',): pray tell me wnat you are willing tp, dp ? : f address the inquiry to the Republicans aione, for the reason that in the committee pf thirteen, a few da3-s ago, every member from the South, including those from the cotton States (Messrs.1 Toofnbft and Davis.) expressed their readiness to accept the proposition of my venerable friend, from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden) as a final settlement of the controversy, if tendered and sustained by the Republican members.: Hence, the sole responsibility of our disagreeroet, and the only difficulty in the way of an amicable adjustmen t, is with the Republican party. (See Appendix to Congressional Globe, 1800-61, p. 41.) ,. ,., Senator Pccff, in a speech in the Senate, on the 2d day of March, 1861 (see Congressional Globe, 1860-61, vol. 2, p. 1390,) said: The Crittenden proposition has been indorsed by the almost unanimous vote of the Legislature of Kentucky." It has been indorsed by the noble old .Commonwealth of Viinia. It has been petitioned for by a larger nuhiber of electors of the United States than any proposition that was ever before Congress. I believe in m v heart, to-day, that it would carry an overwhelming majority of the people of my fetafe; aye, sir, and of nearly every other rtate in tie Union. Before the Senators from the Sfata of Mississippi left this Chamber, I heard onepf -l)ern, who now assumes, at least, to be the President of the Southern Con federacy, propose to accept it and to maintain theUnion if that proposition could receive the vote it ought tq-receive fypff) the other side of thi chamber. Therefore, of all your proppsmons. of all yonr amendments, knowing a I do, and knpsrmg that'the historians will writs iiaown, . i i .1 rt i T - a at any urae oeiore ine nrst oi , January, u. iwo third vote for.tlieCpttsndei)-rp)'Utionsin-this Chamber, woulcl have saved eVery State in the Union, but South Carolina, peorgla would have been here with her representatives, and Louisiana also -those two great States, which at least, would hare broken the whole column of secession. Yet, sir, it has been staved off staved pff (pr ypjir-futile railroad : Lill; and where is it to-night? Staved off by your tariff bill; staved off hy your pension bills. On the eame day, p. 1391, Mr. Docolas thus confirmed the declarations of Mr. Pcqh: , The Senator has said that if the Crittenden proposition could have besiKpassed early in the session, it would have saved all the States, except South Carolina. I firmly believe it, wopld. While the Crittendenproposition was hot in accordance with my cherished views, Tavowed jny readiness and eagerness to accept it, in order to save the Union, if we could unite upon jt. Ij.o mafl Iias" lajb'qxed. harder than I have to git it passed. I can confirm tha Senator's declaration, that Senator Davis himself, when on " tlje committee of thirteen, was ready," at all times, tp compromise- pn the Crittenden proposition. I will go farther,. and say that Mr. Toombs was also, : . . - . .. .. . . ,;- On the 16th of July, 861, Job a C. Baxcc-in ridge, a Senator from Kentacky, made the following declarations upon the floor of the Senate: ' ' . c -v - - ' It was stated upon the floor qf the Senate by the late Senator from Illinois (Mr. Douglas,) and I happened personally to nqw tbe fact mj'self, that the leading jtateimen of the lower Southern States- were willing to accept the terms of settlement" which were .proposed by the venerable 8enafor from Kentucky (Mr. I Crittenden), my predecessor; ' - ' ' j The Republican party, from the .evidence presented, were nrwijlling to cororomwethey preferred civil war to peace. vIn the language of Senator Chandler; of Michigan; they did not! : think the "Union worth a rosh without alittle blood-leuln VT111 noy?tberdict "oj the country be : with the deqlaratipn; . ofJr DocH uaV- Hence, the sole rsspoaeibiliiy of-eur die : agreement, andjthe onld of an amieable adiustgjejtiias it (has been ri& IO ' ! 1 I u. MJ 11 ,i ,s hi I o iliatf?i -Jb ObtJ1-S jrwi t,th;e,qgned; Central Qrga of he Ikptljcad .partyoithU etateIt' iatf feoT of-mbroVia'pajHMe been inan'gnfate Preaiden and Jthe lttbi can party was fully installed In power, the JbKrna'riaa labored and wall-dcfioed article, i declared itself in favor of a dissolution of the Union ! The following startling passage is t&i VT9l7tom the article Tn qnesjtloh: v HI 11- which -has "gone to the countiy to be passed on, and which. failing to furtliier 8ubsery e thepuli ofjts-crea-tionj is about to. be cast aside, like the body which an immortal epal has worn out aqd, thrown ; off,,ta seek neiv and mace lasting tenement."' . ... ( . : V '.;,.,- j . .. ''Politicians and . dptards may gabble an weep tears pf imbecility over the breaking up of an vnnatvraLcompact, lut reason, jutic4 ami humanity will gladly accept it a one of that e cheer-, ivg evidence that Providence if working good to the creatures of earth throughout the process of events.' lue Airicanizea peopie oi toe oouin have precipitated a work which, we believe advance ing civilizatiqq aad the teachings of Christian? ity Would have, ere long, demanded at the hands pf . the. free people of the Nortl,- The complicity with "the barbarii'iii of slavery, which the fatter have had fprced upqq tietr by the Union, has become more burthensdme every year, and. must hare been thrown off voluntarily before the lapse jof many years.. The Union has done nothing' fn reality for. Freedom-. Its legislation has all been , in favor p,f slavery, when required to'decide differ-eQces' between those antipodes. Then, why should freemen deplore the loss of 'the Union? Separate peaceful existences of the sections are prpitritoie io u qion wuicu. aissausracrory to one, and which retards the progress qf the other." j . ; ' PLATFORM OF THE BEFTJBLICAN PASTY OF KNOX fJOUKTY. The Republican, party of Knox county have constructed for themselves a Platform, and oa it they muet stand or fail. They hove declared unto 'all the world and the icst of mankind,' that they are Abolitipnists of tlie most Ultra 4escriptipn ; that their candidkff for United Dnuiqr is me nuiprioufl xjenaiamin r Wade, the disunion, negro-equAlity Abolitionist; that they prefer Wade, wkh all its hatred of the Union, and love for thfe negro,1 to their Own distinguished townsman.'Slbn, "Columbps Delanp, . simply because the latter declared himself an unconditional Unin man, in favor of a faithful execution of the laws of the land, not even excepting the Fugitive Slave Law, fpf tjus avowing himself, lr. Delano has been stricken down literaJljf slaughtered in ., the house of his friends 1 - . That the Democracy of Knox county, and all other conservative, Union-loving men, may be fill ly impressed with the isi he the Republicans pf Ki)fix county have presented tp the people in this carqpaigp, for t ar decision, we again produce the resolution -iopt by their late Cpijnty Cqnyenfiqn : - if Jlt-solced, That our Repreifctative jri the State . Legislature, Hon. Wa Whitneyj is hereby instructed to vote Yo Hon. Benjamin F. Wadej as the choice qf th& ipunty fpr" United States Senator. 1.1. ' , Every, man .who will pe4W J(spnbl ican county, ticket must necessarily indqrse this resolution. If he does not wish tp indorse th,is resolution, it is his duty to vote against the Republican ticket. The election of the Republican ticket will undoubtedly be a triumphant indorsement of Benjamin F. Wade, and, under that indorsement Wait Whitney iamprally bound to vote for the re-election of that ultra Abolitionist ! Before deciding the isBue presented by the Republicans of Knox county, it is but proper -that every voter should be fully advised of the obnoxious sentiments Of the negro-equality A br olitioni8t, Benjamin F. Wade. " V As long as 1855, at a mass meeting in Maine, Mr.' Wade uttered the following sentiments: -"There was no freedom at the South for either black or white; and he would strive to protect the free soil of tbe North from the same blight ing curse. 1 here was reaJly uo Union between the Jfbrth and Southland he believed no two nations' upon the earth "entertained feelings' of more bitter rancor toward each of h ei tha'n these two sections of the-Republic. The only salvation pf the , Union, therefore, was to be found in divesting it entirely from all taint of slavery. There. was no Union with the South. Let ns have a Union, or let.us sweep away thier .Tem-nant which we call a Union. I go for a Union, where ALL MEN ARE EQUAL, OR FOR XQ UNION T ALL, and I go for right. ; . In a. speech in tbe. United States Senate, June 25, 1862, Mr. vade said ;! T I would reduce these aristocratic slaveholders to uUer pyrtyx Vlnow tlej- ae eqneeited; I know they are essentially aristocraf jc. Lam fully persaaxfed that their minds and thefr feel- cratio doctrines 'that it is impossible-to recon cile thero, and we shall never have peace until we nave raucea iqe eaaers k nuer poverty and taken Jnereby their influence away. 1 am for doing it. It ought to be done.: -: The -Ciaeinnati Commeroisl in -favor, of ; ? a W J. a . ' m .-m xfcecogniiing iq e xnaepenaeneo 01 $ne Southern Confedjeraey f .. ' . ' At different crates shortly previous ' to the commencement of hostilities, that TepobIicai) gnerrilla,' the Cincinnati Commercial, delivered itself in this wise: ''.' ' t. ', .' "' . . 1 "lar for the subjugation pf the Seceders would be unwise and deplorable. .There is nj province in tlje world, conquered and' held by military iqree, tljat not a weakness to its master." . . ' ;.. ' '. r-" " ..VThe history of (be worl.4 certainlyfiyes that it is nqf. prcS table to govern a people witbj out. their , consent." . - . t- .. s ' . o . The logical lesspn of this fact in, this cotto-try is. that if there are two nations here, who have. been livujie in -an unnatural union, ihey should; iox the benefit of one or both, be eepH- rated; . , . . ... :.. . - .. ' VTb'e dream of an oeeaa bound rennblic which baa been, sq gratefol to Young iAmeri-ca; we 'yet 'hope W tbe, realized but in ' the meantime there is room for several flourish ing vMttonaba'thipoontiaen and thesUh will sbln-af brjghUyAand.. the: risers tub tM cleat wiejtifneldSC as VoMen when 'we'acknwTed?' w,iTWBt.Viirirfir w?5?v,l?!nr tK Senttiertr 6aatf arfeTtiotT" in'- fivoVof r inji 1 pparty States newmn.xwseBsyiftoi thBeeniWtelVjS Ja v t tWiMiJ mSforme of flftbeSnsSI the U. S. ?oTersmenl!n a manTwaJ; win carry some twelve guns ol heavy cahbrc .... .. -v- - - : ' ! ' ' ' .. -T . FBES1DEBT lXRC0tjT8B0I3TIQl? i - to.iH. MIOCL i . Froiaiaa Nw Tfrk Kxprew-A pni1pe. '.-, .f. iUmni ATiosr -fapera&;- l Tb,e Presiderit, tas at last ,1)e?nJbc(red by tHradicaTs4 into doinic WKat te re- pudjated in 'General 1 Frerjaprit : (JenVral xxumer, vrenerai sraeipz aia otner-r that is firing aaper pr at tb,e yeeUIon." QaQjqtinow what liberty is allowed T0 free wnitmen to discuss this proclamation freeing negroes brit we shall y etiture op. the discus- siqu p.f , i as ar as we think a white manTs. liberty will permit. Before- we do this, howerer, we hare to say, that it is not a rqattef tq b.e regregd, tlat the President has at lat done what the New ; t)glai-d, . , Abolitionists hare so long been hazing ; b;im irto doing as, under-that dictation, it has to be done, be. and as being ' done, we shall soon see whether ox nqt. as they bare pre; dicte4, it will end the war: in sixty or ninety days, by orerawing, affrighting and astounding Ifie rebels q Xr the first place, it sttikes us," jhe President has ' no Wpf e constitutional power to issue such a proclamation than any other man: If be has any less con stitutional authority to free iegrQes, be has' a; corresponding authority to enslave thenu The power exercised is an assumption, therefore, throughout, and hence is mere brutum fulmen, the more therefore to be deplored as mere paper J thunder, because it but re-excites, re- arouses ana aemomzes me ouuiu, m banishing all hope and.in compelling despair. The power,' if it exists, isa military power, independent of, and over, the Constitution, inasmuch as it changes the character of our civil, cohstitutionar government into a, mere J Abolition military despotism. " : ' In the next place, what strikes us, 13 the inopportune moment of tqe utterance. The rebels have, within twenty days b,een almost in Wasbjington, where the President sits in the W bite House, and even now, we are told from Washington, Washington is so unsafe that oigei ana xxeintzeiniau s turps are iu-dispensable in or about the forts for its preservation while in tbe West, Cincinnati has to be fortified to be safe, and Louisville js so "unsafe Jhat tlie women and children have been warned to flee from it. In such crisis, to proclaim freedom for the slaves Irii Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, .Alabama, or Arkansas, is about as absurd as when General Hunter, shivering on the coast of South Carolina, proclaimed tjie sla,ves frpq - in Cfoqrgia, Alabama and Florida.' The whole world will laugh at the impotence of this paper thunder-the European world as well as the rebels, in their yet untouched States and strongholds; , :- . .' : - -S The utterance of such a proclamation, under existing circumstances, sq it seems to us, will ad4 .300,000 rebel soldiers to te rebellion, and be tm the in stant wqrtii 5U,UUU men to the rebel Jragg iixJKcntucky '.' . , TH9 President-rit so seems to us 0.ncqtiiiore is, in the utterance of this proclamation,, doing his best to divide the Northern Statesand to split them up into parties r-as well as in prolonging the war indefinitely. r Every body holds to a principle in bis .proclamation, that slave .property is like all other rebel property, U for; confiscation orappropria-tion-and that a rebel's slave taken In war becomes as fxeo" as the rebel's ' granary or armoryr or forage, gen erally. T But no great party : yet- holds in the North that we are bound tq be taxed : to free slaves ' in Mary lan4, or Kentnckv. . or elsewhere or that the Federal Government is untjer Obligatioq legaL or xnoralf tQ unxlertake yast systems of negro cqlqnisation. Northern taxation, fqr the. Southern liberation, of slaves is 'a new polity, , or, new policy, certainly-not fronvKHtr fathers," who n freeing the'slaVeS f nr England, or of "New 'York ftnr Pennsylvania, left those States free" to be rid of their slaves irr their own way, an 4 a": their own expense1 or cost. :-- ? --" ''. ' The President of tbe United State? seems-to have little cenception qf the enormous debt he proposes to add to the existing enormous ijebt, when invthis proclamation -he lays down ' bis three propositions. r ','" 4;' ' ' ' ' v w " The one; to pay for the slaves made free by the States. " ': '. '5 The. other, for. tEoblonization of free negroes generally, ;? . X- ,v.,:,, : . nbtJierf - for y tbo compensation, of 8laves,losfysyaI.!5 Ja$8'Vi.I fiw-J,i oS fit Jferiii irui Aret wericQ :ff nonra, Yith.; '.sboui. a tbonsand 'millions debt .now imnend mg over us. ana of a million of jneit nn aer pay in tne neia to increase mat ae Dt, t Undertake cwliat; he Ivhrmise T 'tAre notucbdndertalairgsi tfc"aootningi we- llclass for onewrTOdr4?yers;-ttbiei I rie ibitihw carji tal of 4msiCtwinCri'5 aid -PpfcifermOtbCTeS fcOOSld tfepoH 4, 000,000 of sUves to Africa, or Central America; we entail upon tbe white labor of the North the . doom and debt of We ta-gVoanin serfs andla-bor-slavss of Europe-but if "we' do riot deport tbem, we doomonrserfes at home to.an equauty and fratef Mtywith these Blares, that-'th white ' human mind shrinks from, -th apprehension, if not with horror. - I " ! r- s ' ' ; .Fqur rqillionsof slaves emancipated in South- Carolina, Alabama, Qeorgia, Mississippi, Tennessee,; Arkansas, or Texas, must, if emancipated, haVe their I political rights, i They must govern' or De governea. - lr they are governed, the whites will soon become masters and re-anslaye them.1 If they are not governed,: they will assume political ; powers, as in Jamaica and IIayti? ard sopi) govern here as there. Id several of these States he blapks far outnumber the whites, and as in Hayti and Jamaica, would soon vote the whites down' and ride over ibem in the use of their political power. The blacks would thus govern such States as Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana and when they do govern they will forthwith send two black united btates Senators to Washington, 'black - members to the House .of .Representatives, black Judg es to the State Courts, and we white people of the North if we continue in that Union, shall thus be campelled to share tb3 black partnership, witb them. Are we ready for this ? Will it pay for the taxation we are. submitting to, and for' the prodigious outflow of humanlife and human blood we are lavishing on the field of battle ? " Another thing that startles us in this proclamation is the contrast of the positive act of emancipatioji, .January 1, 1863. with the mere paper powerless proiqises "qf tlie Jresideit to recommend j payment, colonization &c. The Presi dent frees,nby proclamation, January 1, , about 4,UUU,UUU 01 slaves, but on ly promises to pay .for a certain portion of them, provided, of course, an Aboli tion Senate and an Abolition House will pay therefor a promise, before such. 'Congress, . tho President' must know, 13 not worth the paper his promise ' to recommend" is written 'oh'.- Hence, the President must know, or ought to know, what an unhappy effecf , as a mere matter of war policy, 6uch a proclamation just now must necessarily have in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Nevertheless, he hazards all this peril to his country but to please a few Abolitionists in New England, or New England Abolitionists, scattered in the lake regions of the Northern States of the Union. The President is pleased to say in the assumption of ibis extraprdinary power of emancipation Only by Executive order and by bis recommendation of payment for slaves j arid payment for colonization, from the federal Treasury : M do hereby proclaim and declare, that h,ereaftef," as heretofore, the war will be for the object of practically restoring the ponstitutiOnal relation be- tween tne united states-ana the. peo ple, thereof in which -btates that rela tion is or may be suspendedor disturb- ea ; . - . rwhen in these three acts, he is not only going far beyond, very far beyond, his own " Chicago platform" aye, even trampling under foot its 6olemn pledges but is : also assuming :powers not delegated to him by the Constitution of the United States and refused him by aHHie'IaW' 6f nations- for the conduct of civilized war. . He has no authority in Grotius, Puflfcndorf, Bur-lamaqui, Kent or Wheaton, under the laws of nations, for the thus taking of private property if not from "rebels, from citizens qfhe United States, who may be loyal at heart, but are obliged to srxu rebels because he, Abraham Lincolnj fails to exercise the Executive power of the United'States to protect them from, the "rebellion about. The duty of tbV Government to protect,"-' to uphold, is just 'as . much a duty ast the duty of the subject or' citizen to" qb,cy the Government. .The Government which fails in its qwn "duty of protection, arid 'abandons its"snbj'cct pro tenj-i tq the de facto Government oyer him, liberates liim, pro tern., from' tbo obligations of allegiance thereto, to the right ful Government, jejqxe. These are plain propositions of the law of nations, bufr Nevertheless, the loyal citizen in the rebel Stages la confused arid eon-founded with the rebel, and his property is to be taken from bim by mere pf oela? mation without judge or jury, or without giving . him : power to plead rebel force,- constraint &c. , over hitri: ! ; - ?,,f " Ner' docs tbtf President of the United States pay any Tnore respect5 in tHis pirarailion to" the Constitution of the United Btates 'than he docstq tbe.r .law of riationsv"' ' In Jin rif TrarpTing ; tbe Constitution be; destroys, emphatfcaTlY, that part of it bicrogriixes ' slaves clause, orjcqrijBaqt, which' pledge Uif sjavesr-asT.iwell -isu treaties, -compacts,: throng thestatute books, -and-the law reprnbWbele'mstoTy-e IHtited Stated ffdmlTST- on to; I860. The TffoeUmttor6t ti an ict;of Tey olution tbq overthrow of "principles, nroMlntsC statutes, adiudications, al- most ynriumerabjei. " It is n sbor an appeal' to the bbcr law; xVEn orLus- r - . ri: deiv -tho ; Constitution of tber United Cf x x - J. " 'J ? Jr 1 1 5 " '- -..1 States, and lrcarried out, " renders the restoratlori pfoplCozistitiitunt and Union impossible. : : . Tbere are qtbe? poUtteoo&fitDicsA bearings and relatixmsin thisproclamat tion of the? highest: importance Tto the white labor, of the-. North, that aflord material foi:.botintiiil discussiorv. No the normous-deportation of.'four?oail man in ms sane.minii.can ever tmnc or lions of slavesor, if its taxation on white labor were endurable, of the inbn-manities of such a forced emigration ; or if there were rio forced inhumanities,' of the. sacking of the plantation States of tbe labor which can alone well cultivate them;, or, pf the enforcing upon, white labor the cultivation of sugar, rice, in the rice swamps i and- "of cotton iri . tropical climates, all utterly unfitted for white labor. The white man can not do field work in such States as Louisiana. , It is-death to.bim to try. But what else is. to, be the effe'et of this inconsiderate if not inhuman policy of expelling into foreign countries all the blacks of : tho Southern States ? short, the President proposes life - Jfo-Whjere to the African, except in Africa or Central America. This policy-certainly will, if executed, preserve the power of the white race, and of white, blood, in the free States, but is it a pos sible policy. ? Does hje believe his Jown party willexecute it; Have they manifested any real disposition so to dor? Has he any security that they will f.en-act" any . of his u recommendations V And if they do not and the bars of migration and immigration are broken down between the States- such barsjas now keep the slave in slave States what else can happen every where save that which his HUnoisans apprehend- a wide, extensive immigration of . these free blacks into the free States, to mix in with and compete with the free white labor of the North?- The human mind eq.ft seems: to-, us--neyer; cbneeiveid a policy so well fitted utterly to degrade and destroy white labor, and to reduce the white man to the level of the ne-gro, as the whole of this proclamation scheme. - -'.'. ' Now, we may be locked rip in Fort Lafayette for all this "free speech, -and free discission, - ' but such fair and free discussion, while liberty exists for white men, used tq be allowable, arid here we venture upon it- in good faith and-with tbec hope that public opinion may be so aroused in the free States that while drawing the just distinction between the support of the Gov ernment and the support of the Administration of the Government, ire dem onstrate,' in the Corigressional elections to this Administration that their ne gro liberty, equality and fraternity schemes have no hold: upon the Norths ern mind, or Northern people. Presi dent Lincoln is not ' Government, only an administrator of tlie Governrnerit ; and while loyalty is a moral and relig ious duty to the - Government, we owe no loyalty to these revolutionary - arid demoralising schemes of bis proclama-tiqri. Let us show we are not to pay thirty or forty cents on tea, six or eight cents on sugar, or coffee, &c.,'to pro vide for the deportation qf negro.es xei us pbosr we lend no sanction to any negro equality tr fraternity schemes of the Amalgamationists 6f Abpb'tipriists' In Congress new alone, 'and in Gon gressional elections alone can" wd oTi? rectly reacb 'the.' Administrition'of the Federal Government and it becomes our -soleinn duty, therefore, to unite ripV on them, and to give them pur most do voted attention. " "T "Eepnblican : Teitiriiony " By Tbeli: "" Truits Shall Te "Knp-w Them." '- "Ido hot know fnt I may over-estimate thsj character qf this transaction, (the M orgnn con-tract, bail tell you, sir, I believe, and 1 r deW clare it npon. my responsibility as a SeBsior of the ' United SUtes, that the liberties of this, country are in greater danger to-day from the ' corruptions and profligacy practised in the ts . rious departments of this Government, thaa they are frpm the open ifneniy in the CldJ A Senator Hale. '' ' "'" "In the first year of a Republican adminisw tration. which rame Into power irpon-pmfe-iort f refomi u.wl retrenchment, tliort i in.T.i bitable evidence aDroad hi tha Iandr' thfltsom body has plundered the public Treasury l nigh in that single year as much as the.correnU yearly expenses of the Goverhnient during the Ad m in trallon which The people burled froni power hecatrse of its cbrruptiona. I)tr 13 m - Bemo cratio Candida tee for CongTes,-. i The foUowing are ths Democratic candidate ft?T Congress m Ohiov so smr mm aomicaty bsvj? beenjpadf ;V L-' ".-" "'t ; .vlstl3istriet--;eorget IL Pendlctos iW'l , : 1 2d .v:cr.-..Iexaodee Ufftit-jt : 3d . U. J-VaJlandigham. VTih- - - J: r McKinner. ': 5th " Frank" C LeBlond. i-ki: cth -r- UhiftmrtL: Whiter 7th - .CamaelSCoz. . "..-..-. ii. th Wilbans Johaetoa.4 v-U- ".th. Warro JrJoble- v 15th James R. XI orris. I6th JJJfTIYhite.- cossTrrrjTioN as jt is ru-. V- bold that TrfraOoTernment wur 'i ov the "WHITE BASIS, by" WHITE IILI.", T r the bxtittt of WHITE MEN, and their rQV-TERIXY fertTtr.''-STxrx3i A. Jz-zzi. ' . .- :- . - .: :: . : -. : 1 r -