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V. and his friends, while no Abolitionist has ever asked to have CONWAY punished, or in any manner interfered with. The reason and the only reason is as plain as the sun at mid

What a lovely prospect for the people of the | North! "After this war is over"-"while our hands are in,"-[blood] we, the partizans of the Administration, in the army, will imbue our hands in the blood of our Northern broth-day-CONWAY votes the Republican ticket and ers and neighbors, who have not agreed with all the President has done, or may do! This is literally what these bloodthirsty marplots We are making history which "we can

mean.

not escape."

BROUGH'S APPEAL FROM THE BALLOT TO THE BULLET.

JOHN BROUGH, the candidate for Governor of Ohio, against Mr. VALLANDIGHAM, in one of his campaign speeches in Ohio, in 1863, said:

"What will be the effect of electing Mr. Vallandigham Governor of Ohio? I will tell you what will be the effect of it. It will bring civil war into your State-civil war into your own homes-upon the soil of your own State for I tell you there is a mighty mass of men in the State, whose nerves are strung up like steel, who will never permit this dishonor to be consummated in their native State."

In plain language then, this meant that if the people should elect Mr. VALLANDIGHAM BROUGH's friends, and the administration would have inaugurated civil war in the State, and put him down by force. What a commentary on free government!

MORE THREATS.

A Washington correspondent of the Wisconsin State Journal (supposed to be a United State's Senator) under date of May 6th, 1863, said:

"The morning papers bring the announcement of the arrest of the notorious Vallandigham who for the last eight months has been flooding the country with treasonable speeches, and no doubt some of his disciples and co-laborers in Wisconsin are already writing long editorials against 'arbitrary arrests,' styling him the martyr of a military despotism. Their time may come next! A brilliant success of the army may save them, but if our armies should be repulsed, let them beware!”

That these threats have not been carried into execution, shows no want of disposition, but only the lack of brute courage.

CONWAY vents open threats right in the very portals of the Capitol, and within its halls, by advocating a dissolution of the Government.VALLANDIGHAM never uttered a sentiment of that kind, and yet these terrible threats and a black cloud of denunciations are hurled at Mr.

is in favor of the Radical scheme to break up this Union-VALLANDIGHAM is right the reverse way of thinking, and has exposed their treason.

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THE WHOLE THING JUSTIFIED.

The Boston Commonwealth, in admitting the wicked and unlawful means resorted to by the Administration to carry the elections, attempts to justify the monstrous wrongs:

"We do not find fault with the machinery used to carry Maryland and Delaware. Having nearly lost the control of the House by its blunders in the conduct of the war from March, 1861, to the fall of 1862, the Administration owed it to the country to recover that control somehow. To recover it regularly was impossible; so irregularity had to be resorted to. Popular institutions will not suffer, for the copperhead element will have a much larger number of members in both branches than it is entitled to by its popular vote. Ohio, with its ninety thousand Republican majority, will be represented by five Republicans and a dozen or more Copperheads. It is fitting that this misrepresentation of popular sentiment in the great state of the West should be offset, if necessary, by a loyal delegation from Maryland and Delaware, won even at the expense of military interference. If laws are silent amid the clank of arms, we must take care that the aggregate public opinion of the country obtains recognition somehow or other."

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THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT BOASTS OF THE | ing document, and was printed by the million, and circulated throughout the North and the

INFAMY.

"The Administration, for the first time since it came into power, used its legitimate influance on the right side in the New Hampshire election, and the second occasion was in Connecticut."

This “infinence” consisted in sending such and only such soldiers home as would pledge themselves to vote the Abolition ticket, and refuse to allow any Democrat to go. And this is that Administration that come into power on the promise of freedom and reform. God save

In speaking of the spring elections, the New South-the expense being equally divided beYork Independent said: tween the secessionists and the Republicans. The portion of these incendiary documents falling to the Republicans, were sent all over the North, as plentiful as autumn leaves, under the franks of Republican members of Congress. We have one before us that came under the frank of "JAS. R. DOOLITTLE, M. C.?' Yes, this speech, which contained doctrines that slavery must be protected in all the territories, by law, that it was held sacred there by the constitution, and which also contained the most florid puffs on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, was sent broad-cast over the North by Republicans, acting as twin coadjutors with the Southern rebels. In speaking of the relative merits of Mr. DOUGLAS and Mr. LINCOLN, this Southern fire-eater said:

the mark.

CHAPTER XXXV.

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SYMPATHY BETWEEN RADICALS AND REBELS-
THE DRAFT, &C.

The Rebels Hate the Democracy and Sympathize with the
Radicals...General Remarks... Benjamin's Speech in 1860
... Breckinridge Seceshers Toasted with Office, &c...Rich-
mond Examiner on Vallandigham, Cox, &c... Mobile
Register on Democrats and Abolitionists....The Draft vs.
Volunteering....Volunteering a Success....Wilson's and
Fessenden's Admissions....Thad Stevens on "Alarming
Expenses"....Too many Troops to pay, but none to Spare
McClellan....General Remarks, &c....The number of Men
called for....Cameron's Eulogy on Volunteering....Cost of
Conscription....Opinions of the Republican Press on the
Draft....Albany Statesman....The Draft in Rhode Island
....A candid Statement by a Republican paper...The
Conscription in Massachusetts....A mysterious Draft in
New York....Result of Draft in ninth District of Massa-
chusetts and eighth District of New York....Thurlow
Weed on "Sneaks"....Drafting in the time of the Revo-
lution....Remarks Thereon.

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HOW THE REBELS HATE THE DEMOCRACY
AND SYMPATHIZE WITH THE ABOLITION-
ISTS.

That the Southern rebels have from the start hated the Northern Democracy and gave preference to the Abolitionists, because they (the abolitionists) hate the old Union, has been known and appreciated ever since the campaign of 1860. During that campaign it is well known that the secessionists and Republicans worked together, cheek-by-jowl, for a common purpose -that common purpose was a division of the Democratic party, that a division of the Union might follow. This is a hard charge, but when read by the light of confessions, which abound in this work, no other proof is wanting.

On the 22d of May, 1860, the great rebel leader, J. P. BENJAMIN, a Senator from Louisiana, made a gross and unprovoked attack on STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, and called it a speech. This was expressly intended as an electioneer

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"His (DOUGLas') adversary (Mr. LINCOLN) stood upon principle (in the Illinois Senatorial Canvass), and was beaten, and lo! he is the candidate of a mighty party for the Presidency of the United States."

This was said to the praise of LINCOLN, and the disparagement of Mr. DOUGLAS. Through. out the whole speech, not one word is uttered against Mr. LINCOLN, or what the South pre-. tended to believe his heresies, but DOUGLAS And why was was vehemently denounced. this? this? Because there had no doubt been an agreement-an understanding between the two wings of Disunionists, to help elect LINCOLN, and as soon as he was elected, this same Benjamin and his rebel followers were to claim' the election as a cause for secession!

One of the main objections to Mr. DOUGLAS was, as seen on page 4 of said speech, that he had acted consistent" with his former course. Such were the means resorted to by these twin factions to break the last link (the Democratic party) that existed between the North and the South. All other links-the churches and civil relations, had long before been sundered.

Now, take these facts in connection with the treasonable utterances of the leaders of the party in power-their votes-their resolutions

their anathemas against the Union-in short, their former and their present attitude with regard to the Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is"-and also take what follows in this chapter-and who that has sense and patriotism combined can doubt that the sad events of the past thirty months have not

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been the result of an

and well defined, to break up the Union?

understanding," clear the Abolition ticket in New York. Hundreds and thousands of others were likewise rewarded' by the abolitionists for their subserviency to the destroyers of our Union, all of which show that it pays to have been an advocate of secession candidates and the extreme southern doctrine. Let the student of history draw his own conclusions from these facts.

The mad schemes and disunion purposes of the BRECKINRIDGE faction were as well known (we make a few honorable exceptions for those who were really blinded) as they are now.--The fact that they contemplated disunion was patent, for they boasted of it. Neither BRECKINRIDGE nor his friends would answer the queries of Judge DOUGLAS, propounded at Norfolk, as to their designs at revolution. And still, the Republicans took these traitors to their bosoms. They furnished the means to establish and keep alive newspapers at the North, in the interest of that faction, where they were not numerous enough to keep alive a 7x9 half-penny sheet. In all the state of Wisconsin the BRECKINRIDGE ticket only received some 800 out of near 153,000 votes, and yet an expensive newspaper, called the Argus & Democrat, was kept up at Madison, in that state, by Republican money, and it is well known that Republicans paid for and distributed a large number of copies among the people, nor was this all. One CALKINS, who was the willing tool to defame DOUGLAS and advocate the secession platform through its columns, was rewarded by a fat office at the hands of the Republicans. N. B. VAN SLYKE, one of the BRECKINRIDGE electors in the same state, was rewarded by a fat and lucrative office, as one of the military blessings that flowed from Republican hands. Another elector on that ticket, in the same state, H. D. BARRON, has been not only appointed by the Republican Governor as Circuit Judge, but has been twice elected by that party as member of the Assembly, and received as high as 46 votes for Lt. Gouernor, in their State Convention of

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JEFF. DAVIS' OFFICIAL ORGAN ON DEMOCRATS.

The Richmond Examiner, the especial organ of JEFF. DAVIS, in speaking of VALLANDIGHAM and Cox, of Ohio, used this expressive language, which shows where their rebel sympathies lie, April, 1863:

"We wish from our hearts they were both already safely chained up at the present writing. They have done us mose harm-they and Sumners, We tremble to see their unwholetheir like-than ten thousand Sewards and some advances, and still more to see a morbid craving here to respond to them, under the delusive idea of promoting intestine divisions at the North.

"Oh, Dictator Lincoln, lock ye up those two peace Democrats-together with Richardsonin some of your military prisons!";

THE MOBILE REGISTER SAYS "GIVE US SUCH MEN AS SUMNER. ETC.

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The Mobile Register, shortly after VALLANDIGHAM's deportation uttered the following remarkable piece of cozening to the Abolitionists. Read:

"We thank God from the depths of our hearts that the authorities at Washington snubbed Vice President Stephens in his late attempt to confer with them on international afbeen known here that this gentleman thought fairs, without form or ceremony. It has long if he conld get to whisper into the ears of some men about Washington, the result might be terms of peace on some sort of Union or reconstruction. He seemed to forget that Douglas, with whom he used to serve, is dead, and notwithstanding his mantle has fallen, by dividing it into four pieces, upon Richardson and Voorcratic party is not in power now, thank God hees, Vallandigham and Pugh, still the Demofor it.

"The prospect looked gloomy to the Vice President, whose infirmity of body no doubt cast a shadow over his spirits, and he said that one of two things must be done: either some terms must be made, or the whole militia of the Confederacy must be called out, and'immediate alliance proposed with, foreign powers. President Davis gave him full powers to treat on honorable terms, and started him off to the Kingdom of Abraham. But Father Abraham told him there was an impassible gulf between them, and the Vice President had to steam back to Richmond, a little top fallen.

subject.

THE DRAFT VS. VOLUNTEERING.

"We hope this will put a stop forever to some| Democrats, is, that they know every Democrat croakers about here, who intimate that there is in favor of restoration. But enough on this are people enough fiendly to the South in the North, to restore the Union as it was. And we also hope that the government at Richmond will not humiliate itself any more, but from this time will look only to the one end of final and substantial independence. The North is not less set on a final separation than we are. The Republican party is not fighting to restore this Union, any more than the old Romans fought to establish the independence of the countries they invaded. The Republicans are fighting for conquest and dominion, we for liberty and independence.

There is only one party in the North who want this Union restored, but they have no more power-legislative, executive or judicial -than the paper we write on. It is true, they make a show of union and strength, but they have no voice of authority. We know that the Vallandigham school wants the Union restored, for he told us so, when here in exile, partaking of such hospitality as we extended to a real | enemy to our struggle for separation, banished to our soil by another enemy, who is pratically more our friends than he. And if Vallandigham should by accident or other cause, become Governor of Ohio, we hope Lincoln will keep his nerves to the proper tension, and not allow him to enter the confines of the State.

lis Administration would do more to restore heold Union, than any other power in Ohio ould do, and therefore, we pray he may be defeated.

"Should a strong Union party spring up in Ohio, the third State in the North, in political importance, it might find a faint response in some Southern States, and give us trouble.— But as long as the Republicans hold power, they will think on conquest and dominion only, and we, on the other hand, will come up in solid column for freedom and independence, which we will be certain to achieve with such assistance as we now (after the refusal of the Washington Cabinet to confer,) confidently expect before the Democrats of the nation get into power again, and come whispering in our ears Union, Re-construction, Constitution, concessions and guarantees. Away with all such stuff. We want separation. Give us rather men like Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sum: ner. THEY CURSE THE OLD UNION, AND DESPISE IT, AND SO DO WE!! And we now advise these gentlemen, that, as they hate the Union and the accursed Constitution, let them keep down Mr. Vallandigham and his party in the North, then they shall never be troubled by us with such whining about the Constitution and Union, as they are sending up."

of the legal mind of the nation believe the To say nothing of the fact that nine-tenths mode adopted to procure soldiers by draft, is unconstitutional, by reason of usurping the rights and power of the states over the militia, and that the conscription act has been decided unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, on this and other grounds-to say nothing of this, there are features in the operation and ill-success of the draft, that require a moment's attention.

fault-finding spirit, merely for the purpose of It is far from our purpose to indulge in a finding fault. We would by no means throw tional and patriotic effort to put out the fires of an obstacle in the way of any just, constituthe rebellion. We would rather assist, all that the rebellion.

may be in our power, and the most effective way to assist the Administration is to candidly point out its errors, wrongs and crimes, with a view to correct and improve.

VOLUNTEERING A SUCCESS

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The Administration, so long as it adhered to its first declared policy found no difficulty in getting all the soldiers it wanted. Nearly, not quite a million of men rushed forth, in vast numbers, so rapidly that Senator WILSON, of Mass., chairman of the Military Committee, became alarmed, and said in his place:

"I have over and over again been to the War office, and urged upon the Department to stop recruiting in every part of the country. We have had the promise that it should be done.I believe we have to-day 250,000 more men under the pay of the government than we need, or can well use. I think the Department ought to issue peremptory orders forbidding the enlistment of another soldier into the volunteer force."

About the same time Mr. FESSENDEN, of Maine, another abolition Senator, said:

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who are paid from month to month, not called "In every state in the Union, there are men into the field for the reason that the GovernThis, then,shows that there is both a fellow- ment has no occasion to use them; and yet no feeling and a fellow-purpose between the reb-step is taked to disband these men. Why not els and the Abolitionists. The rebels know 250,000 more than we ever intended to have.— disband them if they are not wanted? We have the radicals do not want the Union restored, It is extravagance of the most wanton kind. I and in this they both agree, and the reason offered a proposition to stop all enlistments.” why the rebels are so prejudiced against the

Thus, we have it from the highest abolition

authority, that our armies were too large for all to enable the Abolitionists to carry out the purpose of subduing the rebellion. their primary designs.

About this time THAD. STEVENS, chairman of the committee on ways and means in the House, denounced the extravagance of so large an army, in the following style:

It has been a standing remark, for Republican as well as Democratic papers, that the Army of the Potomac was too near Washington to accomplish anything. This is true, and the reason why they have accomplished nothing is because the radicals had resolved they should accomplish nothing, beyond the bare guarding of Washington. We can now see an object in this. It is a link in the same object that brought on a collision by sending an unGovern-armed vessel to banter the rebels at Charleston to a fight.

"We shall have to appropriate more than six hundred million dollars without the addition of a single dollar beyond what is estimated for. New, sir, that in itself is alarming. I confess I do not see how, unless the expenses are greatly curtailed, this government can possibly go on six months. If we go on as we have been doing, the finances, not only of the ment, but of the whole country, must give way, and the people will be involved in one general bankruptcy and ruin. We have already in the field an army of six hundred and sixty thousand men, &c."

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The rebellion is now reeling at every step. We have more men in the field now than when WILSON and FESSENDEN clamored for a cessaNot far from the period at which these men tion of enlistments, and the rebels are no gave the above utterances, Gen. MCCLELLAN stronger, and still the Administration is reachwas on the Chickahominy asking for a rein- ing out after conscripts, and by frauds the forcement of 50,000 troops, with which he said most damnable, are endeavoring to draft mosthe had not the least doubt he could take Rich-ly Democrats, in the hope that they may permond in a few days. But the powers at Wash-petuate their power. They are determined not ingto had no troops to spare! and ordered his to allow the rebels to come back and be good retreat from the pursuit of the rebel capital. citizes, until they can destroy their state The Administration and the disloyal and trait-rights, and so cripple their power that they orous abolitionists that controlled it, saw that cannot vote against the Abolition party. That if Richmond was taken it would end the war, is the secret of their refusal to accept a surand the war ended without the accomplishment render, as their leading organ, the New York of their darling object-the abolition of slavery, Times, declares they will refuse, if a surrenwould not suit their programme, so our brave der is offered, Does all this look as though the and ill-treated army was hauled off, and the re- Administration was laboring to save this bels given time to again recuperate-the mouse Union, and for that only? Does it not show was permitted to gain sufficient strength to en- that they care more for the future strength of tertain those who desired to play with it. their party than they do for the Union?

It may be uncharitable, but we must confess that we can see it in no other light. We believe as firmly as we believe in the existence of an All-wise God, that the real purpose of insisting on the draft, is to keep the people of the North embittered and divided by a series of gross frauds on the one hand, and lamentable mobs on the other. If the system of prov

From that day to this the Army of the Potomac has been crushed by the foolhardy and criminal policy emanating from the "throne of power." They have been required to march up the hill and then to march down again, and have not been permitted to accomplish anything worthy of their patriotism and courage, except when the old grannies in and around the White House became frightened for their own indi-ocation and reaction can be kept up, it is no vidual safety.

The people are fast settling down on the conclusion that those wno control the Administration do not want to take Richmond-do not want the war to close until they can provoke a state of despotism which may enable them to abolish slavery, or "let the Union slide." This war is being prolonged-the lives and the fortunes of our people are being sacrificed, beyond any necessity of saving the Union, and

doubt intended to consummate what DOUGLAS predicted, to dissolve the Union and establish a Dictatorship, whenever it can be done with a show of shifting the responsibility on their opponents, or rendering a military excuse.Hence, we firmly believe, the draft is held constantly over the heads of the people in terrorem, to affect the elections, in those various ways so susceptible to Abolition manipulation by the army of Provost Marshals. We have

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