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in human history, for, amid all the conflicts of SEO. 2. If any person shall violate, or attempt men and of nations, the life of no such govern- to violate or evade the provisions of the forement as ours has ever been at stake. Our fa-going sections, he shall forfeit all the cotton or thers won our independence by the blood and cotton yarn thus attempted to be illegally exsacrifice of a seven years' war, and we have main- ported, for the use of the Confederate States; tained it against the assaults of the greatest and in addition thereto, he shall be guilty of a power upon the earth; and the question now is, misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall whether we are to perish by our own hands, be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand and have the epitaph of suicide written upon dollars, or else imprisoned in some public jail our tomb. The ordeal through which we are or penitentiary for a period not exceeding six passing must involve immense suffering and months, at the discretion of the court, after a losses for us all, but the expenditure of not conviction upon trial by a court of competent merely hundreds of millions but of billions of jurisdiction. treasure will be well made, if the result shall be the preservation of our institutions.

Could my voice reach every dwelling in Kentucky, I would implore its inmates-if they would not have the rivers of their prosperity shrink away, as do unfed streams beneath the summer heats-to rouse themselves from their lethargy, and fly to the rescue of their country before it is everlastingly too late. Man should appeal to man, and neighborhood to neighborhood, until the electric fires of patriotism shall flash from heart to heart in one unbroken current throughout the land. It is a time in which the workshop, the office, the countinghouse, and the field may well be abandoned for the solemn duty that is upon us, for all these toils will but bring treasure, not for ourselves, but for the spoiler, if this revolution is not arrested. We are all, with our every earthly interest, embarked in mid ocean on the same common deck. The howl of the storm is in our ears, and "the lightning's red glare is painting hell on the sky," and while the noble ship pitches and rolls under the lashings of the waves, the cry is heard that she has sprung a leak at many points, and that the rushing waters are mounting rapidly in the hold. The man who, in such an hour, will not work at the pumps, is either a maniac or a monster. Sincerely yours,

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J. HOLT.

EXPORTATION OF COTTON.

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE EXPORTATION OF COT-
TON FROM THE CONFEDERATE STATES, EXCEPT
THROUGH THE SEAPORTS OF SAID STATES, AND
TO PUNISH PERSONS OFFENDING THEREIN.

SECTION 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, that, from and after the 1st day of June next, and during the existence of the blockade of any of the ports of the Confederate States of America by the Government of the United States, it shall not be lawful for any person to export any raw cotton or cotton yarn from the Confederate States of America, except through the seaports of the said Confederate States; and it shall be the duty of all the marshals and revenue officers of the said Confederate States to prevent all violations of this act.

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SEC. 3. Any person informing as to a violation or attempt to violate the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to one-half the proceeds of the article forfeited, by reason of his information.

SEO. 4. Any justice of the peace on information under oath from any person, of a violation or attempt to violate this act, may issue his warrant, and cause the cotton or cotton yarn specified in the affidavit, to be seized and retained until an investigation can be had before the court of the Confederate States.

SEC. 5. Every steamboat or railroad car which shall be used with the consent of the owner or person having the same in charge for the purpose of violating this act, shall be forfeited in like manner to the use of the Confederate States. But nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit the exportation to Mexico, through its coterminous frontier. CONGRESS C. S. A., May 21, 1861.

I, J. J. Hooper, Secretary of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an act "To prohibit the exportation of cotton from the Confederate States, except through the seaports of said States, and to punish persons offending therein," which passed Congress, and was approved on the 21st day of May, 1861.

J. J. HOOPER, Secretary.
-Mobile Register.

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the surest destruction of themselves and their
peculiar institutions. From the secession of
South Carolina to the storming of Fort Sumter,
the General Government remained all but pas-
sive. It then became indispensable that we
should know whether it was a Government,
whether it could retain its hold of Washington,
and whether the whole system that Washing-
ton and his compeers inaugurated in 1789 was
not a delusion and imposture. This, my dear
sir, is the whole story. Your theory not only
disregards your own obligations under the Con-
stitution, but it leaves to us no Government
except in name-opening the door for perpetual
discord and for secession without end. I do
not believe that at the North one man in fifty
desires an invasion of your soil or the destruc-
tion of your social system. They simply de-
sire that you should not break up the Union by
your method of leaving it, but refer all subjects
of complaint to a Convention of all the States
which will be either competent to redress all
grievances, or to provide a way in which you
can retire from the Union without dissolving
the whole fabric of our General Government.
Under the present exasperated state of the
sections, it is impossible to say to what lengths
this conflict may go. But I assure you that in
the few lines above, you have the whole ani-
mus of the loyal States, and of the Union men
everywhere. Only the smallest number of fa-
natics think or talk of slavery. The whole ques-
tion is one of self-defence, and of Government
or no Government. Yours sincerely,

ALONZO POTTER.
-Louisville Journal, June 12.

Doc. 199.

GEN. MCCLELLAN'S PROCLAMATION

TO THE PEOPLE OF WESTERN VIRGINIA.

CINCINNATI, May 26, 1861.

your opinion, although the many agencies brought to bear upon you by the rebels were well known. You have now shown, under the most adverse circumstances, that the great mass of the people of Western Virginia are true and loyal to that beneficent Government under which we and our fathers have lived so long. As soon as the result of the election was known, the traitors commenced their work of destruction. The General Government cannot close its ears to the demands you have made for assistance. I have ordered troops to cross the river. They come as your friends and your brothers-as enemies only to the armed rebels who are preying upon you. Your homes, your families, and your property are safe under our protection. All your rights shall be religiously respected.

Notwithstanding all that has been said by the traitors to induce you to believe that our advent among you will be signalized by interference with your slaves, understand one thing clearly-not only will we abstain from all such interference, but we will, on the contrary, with an iron hand, crush any attempt at insurrection on their part. Now, that we are in your midst, I call upon you to fly to arms and support the General Government. Sever the connection that binds you to traitors-proclaim to the world that the faith and loyalty so long boasted by the Old Dominion, are still preserved in Western Virginia, and that you remain true to the Stars and Stripes.

G. B. MCCLELLAN, Major-General Commanding.

ADDRESS TO THE VOLUNTEER ARMY.

HEAD-QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
CINCINNATI, May 26, 1861.

I place under the safeguard of your honor the persons and property of the Virginians. I all their rights. Preserve the strictest disciknow that you will respect their feelings and pline; remember that each one of you holds in his keeping the honor of Ohio and of the

Union.

SOLDIERS:-You are ordered to cross the frontier and enter upon the soil of Virginia. Your mission is to restore peace and confidence, to protect the majesty of the law, and to rescue our brethren from the grasp of armed traiTo the Union Men of Western Virginia: VIRGINIANS: The General Government has tors. You are to act in concert with the Virlong endured the machinations of a few fac-ginia troops and to support their advance. tious rebels in your midst. Armed traitors have in vain endeavored to deter you from expressing your loyalty at the polls; having failed in this infamous attempt to deprive you of the exercise of your dearest rights, they now seek to inaugurate a reign of terror, and thus force you to yield to their schemes, and submit to the yoke of the traitorous conspiracy, dignified by the name of Southern Confederacy: They are destroying the property of citizens of your State, and ruining your magnificent railways. The General Government has heretofore carefully abstained from sending troops across the Ohio, or even from posting them along its banks, although frequently urged by many of your prominent citizens to do so. It determined to await the result of the late election, desirous that no one might be able to say that the slightest effort had been made from this side to influence the free expression of

If you are called upon to overcome armed to the task; but remember that your only foes opposition, I know that your courage is equal are the armed traitors,—and show mercy even to them when they are in your power, for many of them are misguided. When, under your protection, the loyal men of Western Virginia have been enabled to organize and arm, they can protect themselves, and you can then return to your homes, with the proud satisfaction of having preserved a gallant people from destruction.

G. B. MCCLELLAN, Major-General Commanding.

--Ohio Statesman, May 30.

Band of Manchester, and consists of 25 performers, who have volunteered for the war.

The uniform is plain dark gray, with red cord facings, and the regulation gray cap, with a red band. The men are not above the ordinary height, but are all young, hardy, and active. They execute all their movements with great activity. They are composed principally of mechanics, who are not afraid of work, and accustomed to exposure. They are, in fact, the bone and sinew of New Hampshire.

The following is a list of the staff and line officers, and the localities from which they hail:

Doc. 200. FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. THIS regiment, which for the past month has been encamped in Camp Union, at Concord, N. H., struck their tents on Saturday morning, and at 8 A. M. started by special train to Norwich, Connecticut, where they embarked on the steamers Commodore and Connecticut for New York. Their progress through Massachusetts and Connecticut was an ovation, crowds assembling at all the stations to greet them. The Connecticut arrived at Pier No. 39 North River, at 10 A. M. on Sunday, May 26, with the first detachment, and the Commodore with the STAFF.-Colonel, M. W. Tappan, of Bradsecond detachment on board arrived at the Pier ford; Lieutenant-Colonel, Thos. J. Whipple, of at 11 A. M. The disembarkation took place in Laconia; Major, A. F. Stevens, of Nashua; Adan orderly and expeditious manner, when the jutant, E. Q. Fellows, of Sandwich; Quarterregiment headed by the Regimental Board and master, R. A. Batchelder, of Manchester; Staffa Committee of the sons of New Hampshire in Secretary, Chas. L. Brown, of Manchester; New York, marched through Vestry street and Surgeon, A. B. Crosby, of Hanover; AssistantCanal street to the Brandreth House, where an Surgeon, H. C. Shaw, of Hanover; Chaplain, American flag was presented by the Commit- | L. G. Abbot, of Bradford. tee. On presenting the banner, Judge Bonney made an eloquent address, in which he reviewed the history of the support which the State of New Hampshire has always given the Constitution, at its adoption, as well as whenever it has been menaced since.

Col. Tappan responded in a short and patriotic speech in which he pledged himself and his regiment to maintain the Constitution and to avenge the insults which have been heaped upon that glorious flag, (pointing to the banner presented.) The regiment then resumed the line of march to the Division Arsenal, corner of Elm and White streets, where the Committee had made arrangements for temporarily quartering the men, and where they partook of a dinner, the army rations being served to the

men.

The officers then proceeded to the Astor House with the Committee, where they dined and spent several hours in company with their friends, who flocked there eagerly to see them. When the funeral cortege of the late Col. Ellsworth approached the Astor House, on its way to Courtlandt street, Col. Tappan and staff mounted their horses and joined the escort. The 1st Regiment is more completely equipped than any regiment that has left our city or passed through it. The men are fully armed and equipped, and in addition to the United States musket and bayonet, nearly all the soldiers were presented with revolvers by their friends on their departure. Beside the full supply of rations for the journey to Washington, they have a baggage train of seventeen wagons, with four horses to each wagon. The wagons are loaded with provisions, ammunition, engineers' and sappers' and miners' tools, tents and camp equipage; and one is loaded with extra uniforms for the soldiers. Each company in the regiment is accompanied by four female nurses, who have volunteered for the war. The Regimental Band is composed of Baldwin's

NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.-Sergeant Major, Geo. Y. Lawyer, of Nashua; Quartermaster Sergeant, A. Lull, of Nashua; Fife Major, Frs. H. Pike, of Manchester; Drum Major, Wm. Carr; Paymaster, Moses K. Hagleton.

LINE-OFFICERS.-Company A, of DoverCaptain, L. Bell of Farmington; Lieut., Geo. W. Colliath, of Dover; Ensign, O. M. Clark, of Dover.

Company B, of Dover-Captain, D. R. Kenny, of Laconia; Lieut., Chas. W. Sawyer, of Dover; Ensign, J. G. Wallace, of Dover.

Company C, of Manchester-Captain, J. L. Kelly; Lieut., M. V. B. Richardson; Énsign, Chas. O. Jennison.

Company D, of Newport- Captain, J. McL. Barton; Lieut., E. Nettleton; Ensign, Dexter Reed.

Company E, of Nashua-Captain, O. F. Greenleaf; Lieut., W. L. Greeley; Ensign, J. W. Thompson.

Company F, of Nashua-Captain, A. S. Edgerly; Lieut., G. W. Hanley; Ensign, C. H. Drummer.

Company G, of Keene-Captain, A. J. Sargent; Lieut., H. T. H. Pierce; Ensign,

Company H, of Salem-Captain, J. D. Drew; Lieut., J. M. Clough; Ensign, J. Drew. Company I, of Concord-Captain, E. E. Sturtevant; Lieut., H. W. Fuller; Ensign, E. W. Goss.

Company K, of Manchester-Captain, G. E. Sleeper; Lieut., E. Q. Fellows; Ensign, H. O. Dudley.

Ten companies, 77 men each, which, with staff officers and band, make nearly 850 men.

About six o'clock in the afternoon the men were ordered under arms, and proceeded to the Jersey Ferry, and at 8 o'clock departed on a special train of twenty cars, beside a long train of freight cars for the wagons and horses, for Washington, through Baltimore.

In consequence of the impossibility of at

-N. Y. Tribune, May 27.

Doc. 201.

JUDGE THOMPSON'S PROCLAMATION
AT WHEELING, VA., MAY 28.

once supplying rations for all the men, the | ereignty we have vindicated by our recent vote, Messrs. Leland entertained a company at the or become obnoxious to their just punishment. Metropolitan, free of charge. Mr. Wm. B. To those citizens in Western Virginia, who Dinsmore, at his own expense, provided for claim the right of secession, in like manner I another company at the St. Nicholas. appeal to lay down their arms agst their brethren and fathers, and submit to the judginent and wish of their own people, in so large a portion of the State as West Virginia. If it is right for one portion of the people in mass to violate or set aside the Constitution, so as to free themselves from political intercourse with other portions of the people of the United States, surely it should be permitted to so large a body of people as West Virginia, exercising their sovereignty in a lawful manner under the Constitution and in support of the Constitution, to choose their destinies. This, at the late election, they have done in no equivocal manner. They should be permitted, and especially by you, their brethren, exercising with such unanimity this sovereign and constitutional right, to stand by the Constitution and the laws in peace; to maintain the solemn integrity of the institutions under which they have grown and prospered. By this vote they have solemnly said they have no cause of revo

I, GEORGE W. THOMPSON, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court, acting under the Constitution and the laws of Virginia, and under the Constitution of the United States, and by my oath of office, imposed on me by the State of Virginia, in virtue of the obligation voluntarily and solemnly assumed by the State in her ratification of the Constitution of the Union, to declare the Constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, the supreme law of the land, "any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding; " (Art. VI., sections 2 and 3;) and being by the laws of the State, a conservator of the peace, and desirous and intend-lution; they are satisfied; let them remain in ing to maintain both Constitutions and the laws made in pursuance thereof, by the faithful discharge of my duties, I hereby, in the names of those Constitutions and the laws made in pursuance thereof, in times of peace and prosperity, and with the consent of all the good people of the Commonwealth, as necessary for the protection of life, liberty, property, and the lawful pursuit of happiness, do call on all the good citizens to obey these wise and salutary laws, and to aid me in their firm and saluary enforcement by obedience themselves, and for the punishment of the lawless.

peace. If you are dissatisfied, go in peace; go where you will have the support and sympathy of those whose cause you espouse; and in God's name, in the name of our ancient friendships and fireside relations; in the name of that peace, the skirts of whose robe will be dabbled in blood, if you remain in arms; in virtue of the holy ties of relationship, and for the preservation of whatever of constitutions and the laws are left, while yet the ruin has not reached you and us; while the vengeance of civil war has not broken up all domestic ties, and the sword of private revenge It is only in obedience to Constitutions has not crossed your own thresholds and sprinkthat families are safe in life, liberty, or prop- led them with blood, and left your homes and erty; and no majorities, cabals, mobs, however your households in ruin; by all the solemn numerous they may be, or by whatever motive memories of the past and the obligations of the they may be actuated, are above these exalted present to recognize the wishes of the people safeguards of human welfare and prosperity; of West Virginia, to seek their own happiness and under these, individuals and minorities are and welfare in a lawful and peaceful manner; entitled to protection. If majorities, acting in the solemn majesty of those laws, and in a lawlessly, are above them, then majorities in higher appeal of justice and the cry, depart, States, regardless of the Constitutions, will depart in peace, and give not up West Virginia, rule; but this may not be until the reign of which otherwise will remain in safety, if not lawlessness and violence is inaugurated. And repose, to the horrors of a terrible war. With I call upon all citizens, in virtue of these su- such a large majority, neither Eastern Virginia preme laws of the land, to stand by the faith- nor the South will be disposed to coerce us to ful and impartial administration of the laws. their own local and peculiar policy. With such To those citizens of West Virginia whose large a position as West Virginia occupies, separated majority against Secession show a firm deter- by vast mountain ranges from old Virginia, acmination to maintain and defend their constitu- cessible to the whole West, and the whole tional obligations, I appeal to maintain the law North, the whole will be a unit in our defence. and order which both of these instruments West Virginia never can be coerced or conguarantee and enforce. If one is a matter of quered. Her streams may run blood, and her conscience and of law, so is the other; and, in households may be desolated, and if this shall maintaining all these obligations to the utmost be so, it will be the work of those in West extent possible, in times like the present, we Virginia, who remain in arms to oppose show ourselves worthy of peace, and the order and resist the wishes of the majority of her and the protection of those laws whose sov-people. Retire, disband, and let us alone in

peace, under the Constitution and the laws, and do not require those laws and Constitution to be maratained here at this mighty sacrifice.

-Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer, May 28.

Doc. 202.

COL. DURYEA'S PROCLAMATION.

FORT MONROE, Va., May 27th, 1861.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 5.-Col. A. Duryea, Fifth Regiment Volunteers, will at once assume command of the camp of the two New York regiments, Mr. Segar's farm, and issue such orders and make such regulations, consistent with the Articles of War, as will insure good order and a thorough system of instruction and discipline; he will see that a proper guard is posted each night over the well and on and near the bridge leading toward the fort, in such manner that there can be no danger of harm to them. Any depredations committed upon the property of citizens, or any unnecessary inconvenience imposed upon them by any number of the command, must be promptly noticed and reported in writing to the Major-General commanding the Department.

By command of Major-General Butler. GRIER TALMADGE, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. To the Inhabitants of Hampton and vicinity: Having been placed by order of Major-Gen. Butler, in command of the troops in this vicinity, outside of the walls of Fort Monroe: hereby notify all, that their rights of person and property will be entirely respected; that their cooperation in maintaining law and order is expected, both by reporting every violation of them, when committed by any one attached to the camp, and by preserving local order and restraining such of their fellow-citizens as may entertain perverted intentions.

You can rely that all offences against you will be severely punished; that no effort will be spared to detect the guilty, and that you, as a community, will also be held responsible for every act committed by any one of your numbers, where the particular offender is not surrendered.

Be assured that we are here in no war, against you, your liberty, your property, or even your local customs; but to keep on high that flag of which your own great son was the bearer; to sustain those institutions and those laws made by our ancestors and defended by their common blood.

Remember all these things, and if there be those among you who, maddened by party feeling, misled by wilful falsehoods or a mistaken sense of duty, have thought to obliterate the national existence, let them at least pause till they learn the true value of what they have imperilled, and the nature of that into which they are asked to plunge. We have all confidence that, in Virginians in arms against us, we

have honorable foes, whom we hope yet to make our friends.

COL. A. DURYEA, Acting Brigadier-General. N. Y. Times, May 31.

Doc. 203.

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TWENTIETH REGIMENT N. Y. S. V. THE officers of the Twentieth are as follows: -Colonel, Louis Blenker; Lieutenant-Colonel, Julius Stahel; Major, Andrew Lutz; Quartermaster, D. Shultze; Adjutant, Drschack. Company A, Captain, Hammerstein; First Lieutenant, Matzann; Second Lieutenant, G. Struve. Company B, Captain, Bocorni; First Lieutenant, Mengersen; Second Lieutenant, Henkel. Company C, Captain, Stumpf; First Lieutenant, Herzberg; Second Lieutenant, Claus. pany D, Captain, Rust; First Lieutenant, Koerner; Second Lieutenant, Thenerkauf. pany E, Captain, Forstner; First Lieutenant, Kuchenbacker; Second Lieutenant, Schultz. Company F, Captain, Gellman; First Lieutenant, Coburger, Second Lieutenant, Baum. Company G, Captain, Thum; First Lieutenant, Geiger; Second Lieutenant, Bossart. Company H, Captain, Kron; First Lieutenant, Engels; Second Lieutenant, Pauls. Company I, Captain, Hedferich; First Lieutenant, Moller; Second Lieutenant, Brandt. Company K, Captain, Wutschell; First Lieutenant, Schuhmacker; Second Lieutenant, Weil.

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There are 1,046 men in the regiment, all told, but those that did not go wait to be equipped, and will probably be sent off on Saturday. The officers all equipped themselves at their own individual expense.

Company K is the artillery corps, and its captain (Wutschell) has had considerable experience in the Austrian army. Col. Blenker has had a thorough military education, and has served in Greece, seeing there a great deal of active service, He also fought with distinction throughout the German Revolution of 1848. Lieutenant-Colonel Stahel is a Hungarian, and was in the Austrian army, which he left to fight the battles of his native land under Kossuth and Görgey. He bears the scars of many a hard-contested field upon his person. Several of the captains and subalterns have likewise borne the brunt of actual war, and many of the men are European veterans.

Doc. 204.

-N. Y. Tribune.

WESTERN VIRGINIA.

THE ADVANCE OF FEDERAL TROOPS.

THE passage of the troops who left for Western Virginia has been one continued ovation, as far as they have gone. We went down on the train carrying the troops from Camp Carlisle, the Ohio Regiment coming soon after. Those who witnessed the parting scenes at the depot will not soon forget them. Some of

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