ruin the best and most benevolent Government SOLDIERS: It is too late for me to make you a speech to-night, but I will say that I heartily commander. The doctrines which he has laid approve every sentiment uttered by your noble down I approve as if they were my own words. They are my sentiments-sentiments which will not only lead you to victory, but which will in Constitution. It is idle to talk about treating the end reconstruct this our glorious Federal with these rebels upon their own terms. We must meet them as cur enemies, treat them as enemies, and punish them as enemies, until they shall learn to behave themselves. Every means which God has placed in our hands it is our duty to use for the purpose of protecting ourselves. I am glad of the opportunity to say here, what I have already said elsewhere, in this evening enunciated by Col. Cochrane. these few words, that I approve the doctrines (Loud and prolonged cheering.) secedes another may secede, and still another, | Secretary of War. Mr. Cameron came before and still another, so that within forty-eight the regiment, and said: hours, by the light of their reason and the exactness of their judgment, you may establish on this continent thirty-four independent Governments. Thirty-four, did I say? Why, no, not thirty-four merely, but every county, and every city, and every village, and hamlet; nay, every person who suffers from indigestion at the dinner-table, may claim the same right, and thus, soldiers, we shall have the confusion and disorder which will plunge into dismay and in the world. Now, what is our object? It is simply to arrest the sway of this fell spirit of secession. It is to maintain our Government, to establish and vindicate law and order, without which neither happiness nor prosperity can exist. You are engaged, too, by the strength of your arms to protect our commerce with other nations, and when victory crowns your devotion to your country's cause-as it assuredly will-you will be proudly pointed at as the champions of American rights, as men who have maintained their dearest principles, and as those who, from this time forward, shall live THE MORALS OF THE UNION ARMY. in the most grateful remembrance of the living, and whose names shall descend with marks of imperishable honor to the remotest posterity. But, soldiers, to accomplish all this, not merely arms are necessary, not merely men to carry them, but that powerful and overwhelming spirit which constitutes and makes us men, that DEAR BRETHREN: I write to inform you that spirit which lifts us up above the creeping a new era has dawned upon us. We can scarcely things of the earth, and brings us near the Dei- find words to express our joy and gratitude. ty in accomplishing his work on earth. Oh, The chapel tent you kindly donated to us has then, let us not think that the "battle is to already been the means of inconceivable good the strong"-let us not merely depend on to us. It is truly wonderful what a decided imdiscipline and order, but with that fervid-provement it has made in our regiment within ness of soul which inspired our fathers at Bunker Hill, and Saratoga, and Yorktown, come forward and give effect to all that is valuable in the name of patriotism, and honor, and religion. Never, no-never, will you succeed until that spirit is once more manifested and developed which actuated the soldiers of Cromwell, who, on the field, invoked the Lord God to arise. So let it be with us. We must be, at least, one with him in spirit. Let us, like Cromwell, invoke the Almighty blessing, and, clothed with the panoply of patriotism and religion, strike for our homes and our country. (Immense cheering.) Let us-oh, let us, without reference to any differences of the past, keep our eye steadfastly on the great object to be achieved, the nationality and independence of this country-the salvation of civilization from the insults and assaults of barbarism; and then, but not till then, will you be worthy to be recognized as a distinguished portion of our great American army. (Long continued cheering from the whole regiment.) Immediately after the speech of Col. Cochrane there was a tumultuous demand for the Doc. 158. CHAPLAIN INSKIP'S LETTER. CAMP MARION, UPTON'S HILL, VA., one week. * ** ** * * On Monday night we held a temperance meeting. A large number were present; indeed, many more than our chapel would contain. One of the private soldiers delivered an address of great earnestness, which was listened to with profound attention. He was followed by the chaplain in a few brief remarks. Several were induced to take the pledge. Capt. Mallory, the president of our Regimental Temperance Society, occupied the chair. Our society now numbers about seventy-five members, and we hope to have large accessions soon. On Tuesday evening we formed a literary and debating society; officers were chosen, various committees appointed, and a highly interesting discussion ensued, which seemed to interest the men very much. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings we held our prayer meetings. The attendance was excellent, considering that about one-half of the regiment were otherwise engaged. About fifty were present, of whom half were members of some Christian church. Of the others, ten arose to solicit the prayers of the people of God. On Friday evening we had an amateur concert of miscellaneous music. We were honored the loyal States, and especially with Maryland, which has just proclaimed her devotion to the Union by the most triumphant vote in her political annals; to restore to commerce its accustomed guides, by reestablishing the lights on your coast; to afford you a free export for the produce of your labor, a free ingress for the necessaries and comforts of life which you require in exchange, and in a word to put an end to the embarrassments and restrictions brought upon you by a causeless and unjustifiable rebellion. on this occasion with the presence of Brigadier- | United States, to reopen your intercourse with General Keyes and his staff. The pieces sung were in several instances decidedly religious; others were of an amusing character, but all contained some ennobling moral sentiment, which was all the more gratifying because the young men made their own selection. The chaplain presided and made such remarks as seemed just and needful. The object of this concert is to draw the attention of the men from other and pernicious methods of recreation. Night is the time when gambling, one of the most pernicious vices of camp life, is more generally practised. Many engage in this vice as a mere recreation. We propose to furnish them such recreation as will be a blessing to them. On Saturday evening we have what we call a social meeting. The whole evening is occupied with singing and informal speaking, or rather conversation. The topics are suggested by the chaplain. On the Sabbath I preached in the morning and evening, and in the afternoon a prayer meeting was held. You will perceive that our tent has been well used. * * * I hope you will do all you can for the army. Christian beneficence never had a more inviting or a more promising field. God grant that the Church may perceive this. Yours in the Lord, JOHN S. INSKIP, Chaplain. Doc. 159. GENERAL DIX'S PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF ACCOMAC AND NORTHAMP TON COUNTIES, VA., NOV. 13. THE military forces of the United States are about to enter your counties as a part of the Union. They will go among you as friends, and with the earnest hope that they may not by your own acts be compelled to become your enemies. They will invade no right of person or property. On the contrary, your laws, your institutions, your usages, will be scrupulously respected. There need be no fear that the quietude of any firesides will be disturbed, unless the disturbance is caused by yourselves. Special directions have been given not to interfere with the condition of any person held to domestic servitude, and in order that there may be no ground for mistake or pretext for misrepresentation, commanders of regiments or corps have been instructed not to permit such persons to come within their lines. The command of the expedition is intrusted to Brig. Gen. Henry H. Lockwood, of Delaware -a State identical in some of the distinctive features of its social organization with your own. Portions of his force come from counties in Maryland bordering on one of yours. From him and from them you may be assured of the sympathy of near neighbors, as well as friends, if you do not repel it by tile resistance or attack. If the calamities of intestine war which are desolating other districts of Virginia, and have already crimsoned her lands with fraternal blood, fall also upon you, it will not be the fault of the Government. It asks only that its authority may be recognized. It sends among you a force too strong to be successfully opposed—a force which cannot be resisted in any other spirit than that of wantonness and malignity. If there are any among you, who, rejecting all overtures of friendship, thus provoke retaliation and draw down upon themselves consequences which the Government is most anxious to avert, to their account must be laid the blood which may be shed, and the desolation which may be brought upon peaceful homes. On all who are thus reckless of the obligations of humanity and duty, and all who are found in arms, the severest punishment warranted by the laws of war will be visited. To those who remain in the quiet pursuit of their domestic occupations the public authori ties assure all they can give peace, freedom from annoyance, protection from foreign and internal enemies, a guaranty of all Constitutional and legal rights, and the blessings of a just and parental Government. JOHN A. DIX, Major-General Commanding. HEAD-QUARTERS, BALTIMORE, Nov. 13, 1861. Doc. 160. COLONEL JENNISON'S WELCOME TO CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN'S SHARPSHOOTERS. A WRITER in the Chicago Tribune gives the following account of the reception: CAMP JENNISON, KANSAS CITY, TUESDAY, November 12, 1861. To-night I have looked on scenes such as a few months ago men would have been considered demented to have foretold. Captain John Brown jr.'s company of sharpshooters arrived here this afternoon, having, on reaching Fort Leavenworth, unanimously decided to join Colonel Jennison's command. They will be attached as mounted riflemen. Some sixty men are here, under Lieuts. Bostwick and Hoyt. Captain Brown is still in your city, finishing the recruiting, and will be on in a few days. It is by all odds the finest body of men I have seen, and as they marched up the main street, sing ing the "John Brown song," the emotions and memories the scene excited crowded thickly on the mind of an old Kansas man like your correspondent, and were far too deep to be painted by words. As the song rang out, and the escort came to meet the new comers, cheering lustily, there was something in the scene which will render it ineffaceable to my mind. Stirring as was the reception of the company, it was surpassed by the scene which took place in camp after supper. The company came to the Colonel's quarters, and formed a semicircle in front. The field officers came out, and then the "John Brown's song" by them was sung with glorious spirit. Afterward cheers were given for the Colonel and officers generally. The bugler of the company then sang a new and very appropriate version of "Dixie," which I will send hereafter. Colonel Jennison was called out, and made a characteristic speech. I cannot give you more than a short synopsis thereof. It was as forcible, and couched in as strong Anglo-Saxon, as the proclamation I forwarded you yesterday. Colonel Jennison said: "Gentlemen and fellow-soldiers: I am not in the habit of public speaking, but will say that I never felt more like fighting than I have in the last fifteen minutes. Proud to welcome here Captain Brown's New York company, he would say that old John Brown was the only man in the United States in whom he took stock. "He first took arms under him, and, when doing so, determined never to lay them down again until the last slave in the United States was free. The time for that was now come. This regiment was organized, not for political effect, but for fighting purposes and freedom. He meant to do for treason and to kill Slavery at the same time. Here he would say, that if at any time the Government did not approve of such action, they could have his commission. But if that occurred, they would be likely to find him on his own hook, though, as at first, he should have but six men with him. He felt that Captain Brown's company had honored him, his officers and regiment, by so unitedly voting to come into it. In his own name, and that of his officers and men, he returned them thanks. He believed that every thing would be done to insure mutual co fidence, and wanted them to understand the programme. It was a standing order that any man bringing a rebel into camp should be put into irons. If the Colonel ever did so foolish a thing, he trusted the regiment would enforce the order. He meant to bring them out of their holes by necessitating their attendance on their families. He was ordered to guard through a Government train, and, in doing so, proposed to make this country so safe that a lone widow might travel in safety. He wanted the rights of Union men respected. "For rebels and their sympathizers, no temporizing. Be sure they are disloyal men, and then meet them promptly. For the half-way trash we have no room, and my test of loyalty is a willingness to fight for the Union. There can be no peace until the thing is settled, justice done on traitors, and freedom established. He had told General Fremont that he would do no fighting if he thought Slavery would exist when the fight was done. The slaves of rebels can always find a protection in this camp, and they will be defended to the last man and bullet. He wanted no men who were not Abolitionists-had no room for such, and trusted he had none, for all know now that Slavery is at the bottom, middle, and summit of this hellish war. Nor was he or his men too good to fight by darker-skinned men than themselves. Ile meant to make 'contrabands useful,' and did not know what better use to put secesh guns to than to place them in the hands of the slaves of rebels. No excesses will be committed by his men, and he doubted not our new companions will cheerfully obey all legitimate commands. Again he thanked them." Doc. 161. CONFEDERATE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. THE subjoined is taken from the Richmond Examiner, of November 14th: We publish below, as general information, and to gratify our numerous readers belonging to that communion, "The Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America," as proposed by the General Convention of that church, lately held at Columbia, South Carolina. The Convention, we learn, was well attended, all the bishops of that church in the Confederate States being present, except Bishop Polk, of Louisiana, together with a full attendance of clerical and lay deputies. The venerable Bishop Meade, of Virginia, as senior bishop, presided over the body. The general tone of its deliberations, though entirely free from asperity toward the church of the North, gave evidence of a deep and settled conviction, on every hand, that the separation in church organization, like that in civil government, was, and ought to be, complete and perpetual. In taking the necessary steps to form an independent church organization for the Confederate States, every thing was done with harmony and good feeling, and but one important change from the old constitution was made-namely, that which permits a State to divide herself into two or more dioceses (jurisdiction of a bishop) without the consent of the General Council. The several State councils are required each for itself to ratify this constitution. The missionary fund and work of this church in the South, it was found, had suffered no decline since the separation from the North, but both were on the increase, even under a provisional arrangement. ARTICLE I. This church, retaining the name of Protestant Episcopal, shall be known as the "Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America." ART. II. There shall be in this church a General Council. There may be also provincial councils and diocesan councils. ART. III. The General Council of this church shall meet on the second Wednesday in November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, at Augusta, Ga., and on the same day in every third year thereafter, in such place as shall be determined by the Council. In case there shall be an epidemic disease, or other good cause to render it necessary to alter the place appointed for such meeting, the presiding bishop may designate another convenient place for holding of such Council; and special meetings may be called at other times in the manner hereafter to be determined. The General Council shall consist of two houses the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies. The House of Bishops shall be composed of all bishops of this church having jurisdiction within the Confederate States or the territories thereof. Each diocese shall be entitled to an equal representation, clerical and lay, in the House of Deputies. Such representation shall consist of not more than three clergymen and three laymen, communicants in this church, resident in the diocese and elected by the Council thereof. Before they shall proceed to business, a majority of the dioceses which shall have adopted this constitution, shall be represented in the Council. The representations from two dioceses shall be sufficient to adjourn. In all business of the Council, freedom of debate shall be allowed. Each house shall have the right to originate acts, and when any act shall have been passed in either house it shall be transmitted to the other house for its consideration. No act shall have the operation of law, unless concurred in and authenticated by both houses. When any proposed act shall have passed the House of Deputies and shall be negatived by the House of Bishops, the House of Bishops shall, when requested by the House of Deputies, signify in writing their non-concurrence within three days after such request shall have been If any diocese should omit or decline to elect clerical deputies to the General Council, or should omit or decline to elect lay delegates, or if any of those of either order elected, should fail to attend, such diocese shall, nevertheless, be considered as duly represented by such deputy or deputies as may attend, whether lay or clerical. And if, through the neglect of any diocese which shall have adopted this constitution, no deputy therefrom, either lay or clerical, should attend the Council, the church in such diocese shall, nevertheless, be bound by the acts of such Council. ART. IV. Whenever any one of the Confederate States shall contain more than one diocese, said State may, with the consent of all the dioceses thereof, constitute an Ecclesiastical Province, in which a Provincial Council may be held at least once in three years, which council shall be made up of all the bishops having jurisdiction within the province, and of such representatives, clerical and lay, from the dioceses within the province as may be determined upon by the Diocesan Council thereof. If there be more than one bishop within the province, the senior bishop by consecration shall preside in the Provincial Council, and when there shall be three, or more than three bishops, they shall form a separate house. Whenever such council shall legislate, its acts shall be of force within all the dioceses embraced within the province. ART. V. There shall be held annually, in each diocese, a Diocesan Council, to be com posed of the bishop or bishops of the diocese, and of a lay and clerical representation from each parish of the diccese. This council shall legislate for only diocesan purposes. ART. VI. The bishop or bishops in each diccese, shall be chosen by the council of that diocese, agreeably to such rules as it may prescribe; and every bishop of this church shall confine the exercise of his episcopal office to his proper diocese, unless requested to perform any act of that office by the ecclesiastical authority of another diocese. ART. VII. A new diocese, formed in any of the Confederate States, or in any territory thereof, not now represented, may, any time hereafter, be admitted to union with, and representation in, the General Council of this church, on acceding to this constitution: Provided, there were, at the time of organization, and are, at the time of making application for admission, at least six officiating presbyters within such diocese, regularly settled in a parish or church. A new diocese may be formed within the limits of any existing diocese, with the consent of its council, and bishop or bishops thereof, or, if there be no bishop, of the ecclesiastical authority thereof; and a new diocese may be formed within the limits of two or more dioceses, with the like consent: Provided, that no such new diocese shall be formed which shall contain less than ten self-supporting parishes, presbyters who have been for or an at least one year canonically resident within on due application therefrom, be consecrated, the bounds of such new diocese, regularly settled with the approbation of a majority of the bishin a parish or congregation, and qualified to ops of this church, signified in writing to the vote for a bishop; nor shall such diocese be president bishop; he, thereupon, taking order formed, if thereby any existing diocese shall be for the same, and they being satisfied that the so reduced as to contain less than fifteen self-person designated for the office has been duly supporting parishes, or less than fifteen presby- chosen, and is properly qualified. ters who have been residing therein, and settled and qualified as above mentioned: Provided, that no city shall form more than one diocese. In case a diocese shall be divided into two or more dioceses, the diocesan of the diocese so divided, may elect the diocese over which he will preside, and shall become the diocesan thereof. And the assistant bishop, if there be one, may elect the diocese to which he will be attached; and if he be not the one elected by the bishop, he shall be the diocesan thereof. ART. VIII. The mode of trying bishops shall be provided by the General Council. The court appointed for that purpose shall be composed of bishops only. In every diocese the mode of trying presbyters and deacons shall be prescribed by the council of the diocese. None but a bishop shall pronounce sentence of admonition, suspension, or degradation from the ministry, on any clergyman, whether bishop, presbyter or deacon. The order for the consecration shall be conformed, as nearly as may be, in the judgment of the bishops, to the one used in this church. Bishops so consecrated, shall not be eligible to the office of diocesan or assistant bishop in any diocese in the Confederate States, nor be entitled to a seat in the House of Bishops, nor exercise any authority in the said States. ART. XII. Any alteration in this constitution shall be originated in the General Council. When adopted in one General Council, by a majority of the House of Bishops, and by a majority of the House of Deputies, said deputies voting by dioceses and orders, such alteration shall be made known to the several diocesan councils, and, if agreed to by two-thirds of them, and ratified in the ensuing General Council, the same shall be a part of this constitution. Doc. 162. NEW YORK "TIMES" ACCOUNT. ART. IX. No person shall be admitted to AFFAIR OF THE SCHOONER MARYLAND. holy orders, until he shall have been examined by the bishop and two presbyters, and shall have exhibited such testimonials and other requisites, as the canons in that case provided may direct. Nor shall any person be ordained either deacon or priest, until he shall have subscribed to the following declaration, viz. : I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrines and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. No person ordained by a foreign bishop shall be permitted to officiate as a minister of this church, until he shall have complied with the canon or canons in such case provided, and have also subscribed the aforesaid declaration. ART. X. A Book of Common Prayer, administration of the Sacrament, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, articles of religion, and a form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons, when established by the General Council, shall be used in those dioceses which shall have adopted the constitution. No alteration or addition shall be made in the Book of Common Prayer, or other offices of the church, or the Articles of Religion, unless the same shall be submitted to one General Council, and by a resolution thereof, made known to the council of every diocese, approved by the diocesan council, and adopted at the subsequent General Council. ART. XI. Bishops for foreign countries may, BALTIMORE, Friday, Nov. 15, 1861. FROM Lieut. C. H. Colburn, of the Eleventh Massachusetts regiment, Company H, attached to Gen. Hooker's brigade, on the Maryland shore of the Potomac, and who arrived in this city this evening, I have the following interesting particulars of a rebel attack upon the schooner Maryland. The schooner was loaded with wood, and yesterday, while passing the rebel battery off Pig Point, and directly off the encampment of the Massachusetts Eleventh, became becalmed. The crew, immediately on perceiving preparations making by the rebels to attack their vessel from the Virginia shore, dropped their anchor, and taking to their boats, rowed away to the United States flotilla, which was anchored about four miles up the river. Lieut. W. L. Chandler, of the Eleventh, in command, and accompanied by Lieut. Colburn and two or three others, immediately leaped into a small boat and put off for the schooner. When they reached her they discovered that the rebels were approaching from the opposite shore in superior force. The guns of the rebel battery now opened a brisk fire upon the vessel, which, together with the near approach of the rebel crew in the boat, compelled them to abandon her, having made the discovery that no one was left on board. Soon after the rebels reached the schooner, dark volumes of smoke were seen bursting up the cabin hatchway, while the rebel demons danced about the deck, cheering and yelling like wild men, and continuing their loud cries |