Doc. 260. GENERAL LYON'S PROCLAMATION. BOONEVILLE, June 18, 1861. To the People of Missouri: UPON leaving St. Louis, in consequence of war made by the Governor of this State against the Government of the United States, because I would not assume on its behalf to relinquish its duties, and abdicate its rights of protecting loyal citizens from the oppression and cruelty of the secessionists in this State, I published an address to the people, in which I declared my intention to use the force under my command for no other purpose than the maintenance of the authority of the General Government, and the protection of the rights and property of all law-abiding citizens. The State authorities, in violation of an agreement with Gen. Harney on the 2d of May last, had drawn together and organized upon a large scale the means of warfare, and, having made a declaration of war, they abandoned the Capital, issued orders for the destruction of the railroad and telegraph lines, and proceeded to this point to put into execution their hostile purposes toward the General Government. This devolved upon me the necessity of meeting this issue to the best of my ability, and accordingly I moved to this point with a portion of the force under my command, attacked and dispersed the hostile forces gathered here by the Governor, and took possession of the camp-equipage left, and a considerable number of prisoners, most of them young and of immature age, and who represent that they have been misled by frauds, ingeniously devised and industriously inculcated by designing leaders, who seek to devolve upon unreflecting and deluded followers the task of securing the object of their own false ambition. Out of compassion for these misguided youths, and to correct the impressions created by unscrupulous calumniators, I liberated them upon the condition that they will not serve in the impending hostilities against the United States Government. I have done this in spite of the well-known facts that the leaders in the present rebellion, having long experienced the mildness of the General Government, still feel confident that this mildness cannot be overtaxed even by factious hostilities, having in view its overthrow; but lest, as in the case of the late Camp Jackson affair, this cemency shall still be misconstrued, it is proper to give warning that the Government cannot always be expected to indulge in it to the compromise of its evident welfare. Hearing that those plotting against the Government have falsely represented that the Government troops intended a forcible and violent invasion of Missouri for purposes of military despotism and tyranny, I hereby give notice to the people of this State that I shall scrupu lously avoid all interference with the business, right, and property of every description recognized by the laws of the State, and belonging to law-abiding citizens. But it is equally my duty to maintain the paramount authority of the United States with such force as I have at my command, which will be retained only so long as opposition makes it necessary, and that it is my wish, and shall be my purpose, to visit any unavoidable rigor arising in this issue upon those only who provoke it. All persons, who, under the misapprehensions above mentioned have taken up arms, or who are preparing to do so, are invited to return to their homes and relinquish their hos tilities towards the Federal Government, and are assured that they may do so without being molested for past occurrences. N. LYON, Brigadier U. 8. Army, Commanding Doc. 261. TWENTY-SECOND PENN. REGIMENT. THE following are the names of the commanding officers: Colonel, Max Einstein; Lieutenant-Colonel, Chas. Angeroth; Major, William Schoenleber; Adjutant, Shreve Ackley; Aide-de-camp, Chas. A. Deron, M.D.; Quartermaster, Frederick Breitinger; Surgeon, H. Heller; AssistantSurgeon, M. Heller, Jr.; Sergeant-Major, Wash. Cromlin; Quartermaster-Sergeant, B. Reiter; Commissary-Sergeant, A. Gallen; Regimental Ensign, Herman Hayman; Drum-Major, Chr. Baker. Company A-Capt., Solomon Rodelsheimer; First Lieutenant, Charles Auer; Second Lientenant, Henry Florsheim. Company B-Capt., W. Jatho; First Lieutenant, John Ehrenberg; Second Lieutenant, Samuel Wool. Company C-Capt., Charles Angeroth; First Lieutenant, Augustus Riedt; Second Lieutenant, Gustavus H. Bopp. Company D-Capt., Jacob Keifer; First Lieutenant, Hermann A. Vogelbach. Company E-Capt., Albert N. Kidney; First Lieutenant, Charles Friele; Second Lieutenant, Francis Bierwith. Company F-Capt., Chauncey Spering; First Lieutenant, C. S. Harrington; Second Lieutenant, John M. Carson. Company G-Capt., James Harvey; First Lieutenant, Martin C. Frost; Second Lieutenant, Lawrence Kelley. Company H-Capt., Raphael Vogel; First Lieutenant, Albert Heubel; Second Lieutenant, Lewis F. Resay. Company I-Capt., John M. Lang; First Lieutenant, Walter F. Evans; Second Lieutenant, John H. Steiner. Company K-Capt., Duplat Hagemeister; First Lieutenant, Henry Memminger; Second Lieutenant, Peter A. McKoon. The men are armed with percussion-cap smoothedbore muskets, and their uniforms are of dark blue cloth. The band numbers about twentysix instruments, and as they marched along performed admirably. Upon their arrival at Fourteenth Regiment: the depot and at the request of several gentle- | Col. McQuade and the Officers and Men of the men, they played the Star-Spangled Banner, Washington's March, Hail Columbia, and Yankee Doodle, and were greatly cheered. This regiment carry with them a magnificent horse, said to be one of the best-blooded animals in the country, and which will be presented to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott as a testimonial of the regard of his friends. The animal attracted considerable attention, and was purchased for the sum of $2,300. -Baltimore American, June 18. Doc. 262. DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S ORDER DOWNING STREET, 1st June, 1861. SIR: You are already aware that the Queen is desirous of observing the strictest neutrality in the contest which appears to be imminent between the United States and the so-styled Confederate States of North America. I have In the name and on behalf of the "Sons of Oneida," residents of New York and Brooklyn, I most cordially welcome you to this city on your way to the defence of that blessed Constitution and Union, which are now attempted to be overthrown by parricidal handsby those who owe to them all the blessings they have ever enjoyed. The contest in which you are about to be engaged, is the most interesting and important that ever occupied the attention of men; for this war is emphatically a war to sustain the only truly free government on earth. Its only object is to maintain and to transmit to future generations the great boon of civil and religious liberty purchased for them by the blood of our fathers. It is, indeed, a glorious cause; and the lovers of liberty everywhere are watching the contest with the deepest interest. On its result may well be said to depend the momentous question of man's capacity for self-government. We, your old friends and neighbors, welcome you with the most earnest heartiness; and we, at the same time, congratulate you on the fact that the result can by no possibility be doubtful. You go to certain victory, you march to certain triumph; for who so mad as to believe that seven millions of people, resting on a vol now to inform you that, in order to give full effect to this principle, Her Majesty has been pleased to interdict the armed ships, and also the privateers of both parties from carrying prizes made by them into the ports, harbors, roadsteads, or waters of the United Kingdom, or of any of Her Majesty's colonies or posses-cano of four millions of slaves, can resist twenty sions abroad. It is Her Majesty's desire that this prohibition should be forthwith notified to all proper authorities within her dominions, and I am to desire that you take measures to secure its effectual observance within the limits of your Government. I have, &c., NEWCASTLE. Governor-The Right Honorable Sir E. W. Doc. 263. millions led on by the holiest patriotism, and with no such dreadful element in their midst? You come, my friends, from a county distinguished in the history of our great Revolution; and as long as the battle of Oriskany and the siege of Fort Stanwix are remembered, so long will the men of Oneida remember the brave deeds of their fathers, and be eager to imitate their example. This war is not second in importance to that of the Revolution. That made us a nation; this is to preserve and perpetuate that nation, now among the first of the world. I may be allowed to say that my FOURTEENTH REGIMENT, N. Y. S. V., greatest honor at the present moment is that my two sons are in the ranks of the 71st New ARRIVED AT NEW YORK, JUNE 18. York regiment, at Washington, engaged in the THE regiment landed at the foot of West same holy work of duty and of patriotism on Fourteenth street. The Oneidas of the Me- which you are about entering. They are both tropolis, to the number of two hundred or up- native sons of Oneida. Thrice welcome, my wards, decorated with an appropriate badge, friends! Your watchwords are our Constiand under the direction of William W. Backus, tution-our Union-our Country." You and the marshal of the occasion, assisted by John your brave compatriots, from more than twenty A. Bryan, Morris S. Brown, James M. Tower, States, will march hand in hand to victory, as A. D. Barber, Robert J. Hubbard, J. O. Candee, certainly as a just and beneficent God rules on and Albert T. Battel, assistant-marshals, form-earth and in Heaven. Your cause is the cause ed a line and received the volunteers with of truth, of right, of civil and religious liberty, the usual honors; and, preceded by a city band and human history records no defeat in such a of music, escorted them through Fourteenth cause. I will add one word: if, in the course street and Fifth Avenue to Washington Parade of events, it be your good fortune to fall in with Ground, where the flag presentation took place. any one or more of five men named Cobb, Floyd, A large concourse of ladies and gentlemen, Thompson, Twiggs, or Davis, do not, I pray, many of them natives of Oneida County, wit-permit them to escape you. They are wanted nessed the ceremony. The welcoming speech to satisfy the stern demands which humanity was made by Charles P. Kirkland. He said:- makes on traitors more infamous than any whose names have yet been mentioned among men. Our best wishes attend you. Again I saywelcome, thrice welcome, ye gallant men of the Fourteenth! The regimental color was now brought forward, and Charles Tracy addressed the regiment as follows: Col. McQuade and Officers and Members of the this State. In the war of 1812, New York furnished vastly beyond its quota both of militia and volunteers; and now, to this sacred war of liberty, she sends forty thousand men. These united arms will fly together upon the flags of our volunteers, until secession and treason shall be crushed out of the whole land. Ours is a war of defence. The whole area of the Union is our country. Upon every acre of this soil we are at home, until our feet step into the Gulf of Mexico. We paid for Florida, and our army will see to it that our national ag again waves over its entire territory. It is kind. This country, for three-quarters of a a holy war-a war for principles, a war for our century, has stretched out its hands to the oppressed of all nations. The victims of tyranny of refuge and an abode of prosperity. What a and of want have fled hither, and found a place spectacle is now presented to the world, when traitors rise among us to crush this beneficent struggle for liberty! What crime can surpass Government, and dishearten all men who secession! If it could prevail, the heart of every man sighing for liberty in Europe must its gloom. The time has come, in the affairs sink, and every dungeon of tyranny must deepen of men, when liberty and justice in this country must be maintained. To wage war against such treason is to wage it against the enemies of humanity. The Sons of Oneida County residing in New York and Brooklyn present to you this regimental color. The Oneidas here, not forgetting the land of their nativity and the associations of their boyhood, were unwilling that the third regiment from that county-the first which passes by our present home-should go to the field without some token of our fraternity. This is the most we can do, except to assure you of our sympathy in the glorious cause you have adopted. The memory of Oneida County, to a man who has passed his boyhood among its green hills, its rich valleys, and its noble woods, never dies out, but deepens with growing years. But beyond the charms of its external beauty and the thrift of its people, the county is full of inspiring associations. It was there that the Baron Steuben, celebrated for his gallant part in the war of the Revolution, passed the closing years of his life, and found his grave. It was there, in 1777, that the patriot forces in Fort Schuyler, a hundred miles from any relief, endured a siege of twenty days, and repelled their besiegers. It was there that the farmers of the Valley of the Mohawk, under General Herkimer, met the enemy in the forest of Oriskany, resisted two attacks in the same day, and drove away both British and Indians. During that battle, the general, dismounted, and bleeding from a mortal wound, It is no pastime, no mere parade, no Fourth sat upon his saddle on a log, continued the of July celebration to which you are going. direction of the fight, and smoked his pipe Yours are the actual and mortal risks of war. with his usual calmness. Any one familiar Lamartine has eloquently said:-"Every revowith those old battle-fields, who has traced the lution must have its birth; every birth its hacks of the tomahawk, and clambered over throes; every throe its pang; every pang its the ruins of the ancient forts, and now witnesses groan." The hazards of camp and battle are the uprising at the same place, may truly ex-before you. Great is the sacrifice. Yet deem claim : (( Again there breathe that haunted air As quick, as far, as they." Upon the flag you see emblazoned, in a single shield, the arms of the Union and the arms of the State of New York-the Stars and Stripes quartered with the rising sun-the morning rays bright with promise, the motto always EXCELSIOR-HIGHER. Well joined! What State is more identified with the American Union? The very first Congress of the colonies, long before the revolution, was held in Albany. The first Congress under the Constitution was held in this city, in 1789. The first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated in Wall street, and was sworn into office by the Chancellor of ries, philosophy, arts and the like, do much to War is now a necessity. Alas! politics, theoameliorate the condition of man; but in the matter of civil government, there never was, there never can be, any great deliverance secured to man, except by the sword. Some may shrink from this proposition; but it is inevitable truth; and it makes the profession of arms a sacred calling. yourselves fortunate that you can thus devote "Its voice sound like a prophet's word, Go forth, gallant men. Go with no doubt of your perfect success. Go, assured that you are remembered by us in every thing that can serve you, and not forgotten in our prayers. May the Almighty Upholder of the Right, THE GOD THAT JUDGETH IN THE EARTH, guard your heads in the day of battle, and bring you back with the triumphs of victory. Mr Tracy thereupon placed the banner in the hands of Col. McQuade, who responded as follows: MR. TRACY AND GENTLEMEN :-I regret that an unfortunate detention on the river will not give me time to make a fitting response to the very eloquent address which has been delivered to us. I can say, sir, we shall ever cherish this color on account of the donors. We shall defend it in the great and holy cause in which we are embarked. I assure you, sir, that those of us who may live to return it shall return it without blemish, except it may be the blood of traitors shed in the struggle. He then turned to his regiment, and said :— "If there is any man in the ranks who is not determined to defend the flag to the last drop of his blood, let him now leave." Not a soldier moved; and, after a moment's silence, a deafening shout of hurrah arose along the ranks and from the spectators, testifying that all were true. pany K-Wm. H. Seymour, Captain; Leman Bradley, Lieutenant; Fayette Butler, Ensign. Among the officers and soldiers there are several naturalized Welshmen. Doc. 264. HARPER'S FERRY. REASON OF THE EVACUATION. THE Richmond Enquirer says: We are now at liberty, on the best authority, to make public the true motives actuating General Johnston in what the Northern and some of the Southern papers have called the "Evacuation of Harper's Ferry." The general, like other military men of education, had long known that Harper's Ferry, in itself, is faulty and untenable, from the facility with which it can be turned. It lies, as it were, in the small end of a "funnel," the broader end of which could with great ease be occupied by the enemy. The heads directing the operations of the Yankee forces were well aware of this fact, but forgot that there were fully as astute heads on The citizens of Oneida were again formed in our side. The minute and able investigations column by their marshal, and marched in front of Major Whiting, chief engineer to General of the regiment through Broadway (both flags Johnston, had satisfied our leaders of the justflying) to the Park barracks, where the regi-ness of these views. General Scott's plan was ment took up its quarters for the night. On to turn Harper's Ferry by a column from Pennthe following day the Volunteers were escorted sylvania under General Patterson, effect a juncin like manner to the New Jersey Railroad tion near Winchester or Strasburg with anStation, and took the cars for Washington. other column of McClellan's army, passing through Romney, and cut off Beauregard's and Johnston's armies from each other. This plan was completely foiled, and the enemy checkmated at their own game, as we shall explain. The regiment contains the full quota of 780 men, enlisted for three years. The officers are as follows: FIELD.-Colonel, James McQuade; Lieutenant-Colonel, Chas. H. Skillen; Major, Chas. B. Young. COMMISSIONED STAFF.-Surgeon, A. Churchill; Quartermaster, Thomas H. Bates; Adjutant, John F. McQuade; Surgeon's Mate, J. E. West; Chaplain, Rev. George M. Hewes. NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.-QuartermasterSergeant, James P. Ballou; Sergeant-Major, Cassius B. Mervine; Drum-Major, Thomas J. Hines; Fife-Major, Samuel E. Catlin. On or about Thursday, the 16th instant, General Johnston having waited at Harper's Ferry long enough to make the enemy believe that he intended to contest that position to the last, and learning that they were advancing on Williamsport and Romney, sent a portion of his force to Winchester by rail. On Friday he continued this movement, sent back his tent equipage and other heavy baggage, his sick, LINE.-Company A-Thomas M. Davies, &c., set fire to and burned the railroad bridge, Captain; George II. Cone, Lieutenant; R. D. and such of the public buildings as could be Crocker, Ensign. Company B-Wm. P. Bra- burned without endangering private property, zee, Captain; Rufus Dugget, Lieutenant; Geo. spiked such of the heavy guns at Harper's FerT. Hallingworth, Ensign. Company C-Fred. ry as could not be removed, and on Saturday Harrer, Captain; Joseph Smith, Lieutenant; moved, with his whole army, marching on foot, Wm. Rantenberg, Ensign. Company D-Wm. in the direction of Winchester, encamping about L. Cowan, Captain; Robert H. Foote, Lieuten- three and a half miles southwest of Charlesant; George E. Lee, Ensign. Company E-town. The enemy, taking this movement as it Lewis Michael, Captain; Alfred Sears, Lieuten- was intended they should take it, as a retreat, ant; William War, Ensign. Company F-Chas. crossed a brigade of their advance division, A. Muller, Captain; Wm. A. Rowan, Lieuten- commanded by General Cadwalader, (who ant; Dilos Craymer, Ensign. Company G-J. joined their forces on Saturday or Sunday Babcock, Captain; Seth L. Wadworth, Lieuten- morning,) which was moved forward towards ant; John Stryker, Jr., Ensign. Company H-Martinsburg. Samuel E. Thompson, Captain; Henry Goss, On Sunday morning, however, General JohnLieutenant; Geo. Morgan, Ensign. Company ston changed his line of march. at right angles, I-Horace B. Lake, Captain; Geo. W. Bartlett, and moved square towards Martinsburg, enLieutenant; Sterling W. Hazen, Ensign. Com- camping at Bunker's Hill, on the Winchester and Martinsburg turnpike, twelve miles from Martinsburg, to offer battle there, or advance an attack if necessary. This movement placed the enemy in a predicament. He had not crossed his whole force, and if the opposing forces had closed he must have been beaten in detail. He therefore "acknowledged the corn," turned tail and retreated, recrossed the river, and evacuated the valley, retiring beyond Hagerstown. A lieutenant-colonel and another (member of the Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers) were taken prisoners during this retreat. A day or two after this, Col. Hill, Thirteenth Virginia regiment, in command of a part of the forces who had "retreated" from Harper's Ferry, and who had been pushed forward towards Romney, as our readers have learned from our Saturday's edition, sent forward towards New Creek, on the Potomac River, eighteen miles west of Cumberland, four companies of Tennessee and Virginia troops, under Col. Vaughan, of Tennessee, who found the Yankees posted on the Maryland side of the Potomac. Our brave fellows, in the face of the enemy, forded the stream, waist-deep, drove them off in the utmost confusion, captured two pieces of loaded artillery and a stand of colors, destroyed the railroad bridge at that point, and returned to Romney, making the march of thirty-six miles and gaining a brilliant victory within twenty hours. Our readers will thus see what General Johnston's "retreat from Harper's Ferry," has done. It has thoroughly broken up General Scott's paper programme, destroyed his whole Western combination, and compelled him to remodel his whole plan. If our "retreats" do thus much, we wait with confidence to see what our advance will do. Doc. 265. destroyed in a few months-madly and rashly destroyed, without reflection, and without loss of life or stain of blood. Star after star from the once glorious, but now drooping, banner has fallen, others are waning in their light, and the whole heavens are covered with the gloomy portent of universal destruction. When shall this ruin end? Where is the rock which will stand and throw back the mad destructive waves of revolution, and arrest the fearful, fatal, desolating progress of secession! Through the mist of the tempest, I think I see that rock rising in moral power and sublimity along the whole southern line of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, supported by Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, and above the mad, riotous, and exulting shout of successful secession and triumphant revolution. From that rock I hear a voice, like the voice of God, saying to the raging sea, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Here I trust, is the rock of safety, standing in the centre of the American Union. The extremities may become cold, and lose their sensibilities, their love for our gallant flag, their pride for our prestige and national glory, won on so many battle-fields, and consummated by so many civic achievements; they may retire to the idolatrous worship of their local and sectional divinities, but the American heart will love and worship the God of our fathers; it will continue to beat in the American bosom, in the centre of the American Union; its warm blood will continue to circulate on both sides of the line of slavery, binding together, in national bonds, the kindred affections of one race in different communities. Here, I trust in God and in the wisdom and virtue of my countrymen, that there is and that there ever will be an American Union, bearing as the emblem of its power and glory, the broad stripes and bright stars, the banner of freedom LETTER OF GOV. CALL OF FLORIDA, at home, and the sign and hope of liberty to the TO J. S. LITTELL, OF PENNSYLVANIA. LAKE JACKSON, Feb. 12th, 1861.* MY DEAR SIR:-We live in an age of miracles and wonders. Great events are in progress, and I look with amazement and mortification at the developments of every day and hour, We are in the midst of the most extraordinary revolution, and the most stupendous ruin is now in rapid progress that the world has ever known. A great nation has been dismembered. The bonds of the American Union, the work of Washington, of Franklin, of Madison, and other great sages and statesmen of a glorious age, have been rent and snapped like cobwebs; and the greatest fabric of human government, with out complaint of wrong or injustice, has been *This letter is ont of its place in the order of time, not markable and perhaps important suggestions, we give the letter in this place.-(Ed. R. R.) having been received until August. As it contains some re world. Here, at least, I hope, a glorious Union of sovereign States may stand forever, to vindicate the success of the representative Republican system, to vindicate the success of the great experiment of popular government, to rebuke despotic power, to disrobe tyranny of its pomp and pride, to rebuke anarchy and riot in the law and government, the holy cause of civil and sanctuary of secession; to sustain the cause of religious liberty; to bless the living, honor the dead, justify the blood of our glorious Revolution, and vindicate the cause in which Hampden, Elliot, and Moore suffered and died; to vindicate the cause in which the hundreds and thousands of victims, through ages and generations, have been sacrificed on the altar of human liberty! May God bless and preserve for all these high purposes, and permit it to this remnant of the great American Republic stand forever as a perpetual monument to the memory and glory of the patriotic men who shall have the wisdom, virtue, and courage to |