shame, for the madness of her degenerate chil- | by the Government of the Union, in theory or dren.

The first flash of artillery kindled anew a flame of patriotic devotion to country, which will burn with a pure and constant glow when the lamp of mortal existence shall pale and flicker in death. Its first reverberations upon the air, aroused a slumbering love of Constitution and of Union, and of the cherished emblem of all, the Stars and Stripes, which will not again seek repose until the roar of hostile guns shall be silenced. It startled to their feet, as if by a common impulse, twenty millions of freemen, to guard the citadel of their faith from destruction, as war was driving his ebon car upon his remorseless mission.

This civil intestine war is one of the most fearful and ferocious that ever desolated earth; and its authors will be cursed, when the atrocities of Bajazet and Tamerlane, and the Khans of Tartary and India, and other despoilers of the earth shall be forgotten. It is a war between and among brethren. Those whose eyes should have beamed in friendship now gleam in war; those who close in the death-struggle upon the battle-field, were children of the same household and nurtured at the same gathering place of affection; baptized at the same font, and confirmed at the same chancel:

"They grew in beauty, side by side,
They filled one house with glee;

Whose voices mingled as they prayed
Round the same parent knee."

in practice. This State was the last Southern
State gathered under the flag of the Union-
admitted in 1845, more as a Southern than a
Northern measure; admitted, too, under pe-
culiar circumstances, after a most memorable
struggle, and in the highest branch of the Na-
tional Legislature, by a single vote.

"Bir John of Hynford, 'twas my blade,
That knighthood on thy shoulder laid;
For this good deed, permit me then,
A word to these misguided men."

Not to those who would seek to maintain but to those who labor to destroy the Union. You have widely mistaken both the temper and the purpose of the great body of people of the Free States in the present crisis. In this unnatural struggle, which your leaders have forced upon them, they seek only to uphold and maintain, and preserve from destruction a Government which is a common inheritance, and in the preservation of which you are equally interested. They seek not to despoil your States, not to disturb your internal relations, but to preserve the Union which shelters and protects all, and vindicate the Constitution, which is especially your only defence from aggressionis both your sword and shield. They war not upon your peculiar system of domestic servitude, nor will they, but they adinonish you in a spirit of kindness that, during this brief struggle, its friends and advocates have been its worst enemies, and have furnished arguments against it which will weaken its foundations, when the denunciation of its most persistent Anti-Slavery foes are forgotten forever. You arraign the people of the free States for rallying around the Government of the Union, of which a few months since you were members, and sustained it yourselves, and which, at the time of your alleged secession, had experienced no change beyond one of political administrations. You rebuke those who stood with you through good and evil report, in defence of the Constitution and all its guarantees, in its dark days of trial, when menaced only by opinion, for sustaining it, now, when it is assailed by armed forces, and insist that, after having defended that sacred instrument so long and so faithfully, they are bound now to assist in its overthrow!-a system of law, logic, and morality peculiar to disunion ethics alone. You repudiate the Constitution with no sufficient cause of revolution, for all the alleged causes of grievance as stated were insufficient to justify it, and proclaimed a dissolution of the Union, defied and dishonored its flag, and meConspicuous in this strange passage of the naced the Government by denouncing actual new world's history is the secession of Texas. war. You scized by violence its fortresses, A State with extended territories, and the right armories, ships, mints, custom-houses, navyto form four more States from them without yards, and other property, to which you had restriction, south of the old Missouri line,- -8 not even a pretence of right, and threatened to State requiring the protection of the Federal take possession of the National Capital. You Government to guard it from marauding sav- bombarded Fort Sumter, a fortress of the ages and other hostile bands-a State which | United States, garrisoned as a peace establishwas never wronged by a Northern State, norment only, and in a state of starvation, from

But, while we express deep humiliation for the depravity of our kind, and are shocked and sickened at a spectacle so revolting, we should not abandon the dear old mansion to the flames, even though kindled by brethren, who should have watched over it with us, and guarded it from harm. And, while we should not raise our hand to shed a brother's blood, we may turn aside his insane blow, aimed at the heart of the venerated mother of all. And, if a great power of Europe is disposed to sympathize with rebellion, and believes this Government and this people can be driven by the menace of foreign and domestic forces combined, to avoid the curses of war, let her try the experiment. But when they come, to save time and travel, let them bring with them a duly executed quitclaim to the Union for such portions of the North American Continent as they have not surrendered to it in former conflicts, for they will have occasion for just such an instrument, whenever their impertinent interference is manifested practically in our domestic affairs.

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batteries which the Government of the United these resolves sound well indeed, even in the 1 States, in its extreme desire for peace, permit- abstract; but practically the defence will be in ted you to erect for that purpose, under the time when they are assailed, or at least threatguns of the same fortification, a proceeding ened. And you may rest with the assurance unheard of before, and never to be repeated that when either of these sacred and cherished hereafter, bombarded it too, because the flag interests shall be desecrated or placed in danof the Union which your fathers and yourselves ger or in jeopardy from any vandal spirit upon had fought under with us the battles of the the globe, you shall not defend them alone; for Constitution, -8 flag which a few days pre- an army from the Free States mightier than viously you had hailed with pride-because that which rose up to crush your rebellion, the Stars and Stripes, the joy of every American 'aye a great multitude, which no man can heart, full of glowing histories and lofty recol-number," will defend them for you. But the lections,-floating over it according to the issue must not be changed nor frittered away. custom of every nation and people under Sumter was not your home-hearth, Pickens Heaven, were hateful in your sight! The Athe- your fireside, Harper's Ferry your porch, the nians were tired of hearing their great leader navy-yards your altars, the custom-houses called the Just, and consigned him to banish- and post-offices and revenue cutters your ment. You were annoyed at the sight of the wives and children, nor the mints your housenoblest national emblem which floats under the hold gods. The Government has no right to sun, when unfurled where, by your consent, and desecrate your homes, nor have you the right for a consideration, too, the Government of the to seize upon and appropriate to yourselves United States held exclusive jurisdiction, and under any name, however specious, what is not where it properly belonged; and for this you your own, but the property of the whole people commenced a war promising to be more fero- of the United States; not of those in array cious and exterminating throughout the Repub- against it as enemies, defying its laws, but lic, than was the atrocious decree of Herod in those who acknowledge and defer to its aua single village. Sumter was not erected for thority. the exclusive defence of tho harbor of Charleston, but for the purpose of preventing a foreign enemy from making a lodgment there, and from that point levying successful maritime war upon New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, and other towns and cities. And the unfriendly relations which sprung up between the Southern States and the Government of the Union, made its retention and occupation more necessary than before.

You desire peace! Then lay down your arms and you will have it. It was peace when you took them up, it will be peace when you lay them down. It will be peace when you abandon war and return to your accustomed pursuits. Honorable, enduring, pacific relations will be found in complete obedience to the provisions of the Constitution, and not in its violation or destruction. The Government is sustained by the people, not for the purpose of coercing States in their domestic policy, not for the purpose of crushing members of the Confederacy because they fail to conform to a Federal standard, not for the purpose of despoiling their people, and least of all, not for the purpose of disturbing, or in any degree interfering with the system of Southern servitude; but for the sole and only purpose of putting down an unholy armed rebellion, which has defied the authority of the Government, and seeks its destruction, and in this their determination is taken with a resolution, com

You will not consent that the General Government, the Government of the whole people, should march forces over the "sacred soil of a State" of the confederacy, to maintain its own dignity and authority, to check rebellion, and save the Capital from conflagration, and its archives from destruction; but you should stand admonished that there is no soil sufficiently sacred under the broad ægis of the Constitution, to shelter armed rebellion or secret treason, and that the Government of the United States has not only full right and lawful an-pared with which the edicts of the Medes and thority to march its forces over every inch of territory between the St. Lawrence and the Pacific, to stop the progress of enemies, foreign or domestic; to put down rebellion, or to arrest those who despoil its property or resist the execution of its laws; but that it is its first and most solemn duty to do so. Should the Geueral Government enter a State for the purpose of interference with its domestic policy, it would be usurpation and an unwarrantable invasion-a neglect to employ its power to enforce its constitutional prerogative would be a culpable disregard of official obligation. You propose to defend your home-hearths, your firesides, your porches, your altars, your wives, and your children, your household gods, and

Persians were yielding and temporary. When the Government of our fathers shall be again recognized, when the Constitution and the laws to which every citizen owes allegiance shall be observed and obeyed; then will the armies of the Constitution and the Union disband, by a common impulse, in obedience to a unanimous popular will. And should the present or any succeeding Administration attempt to employ the authorities of the Government and people to coerce States, or mould their internal affairs in derogation of the Constitution, the same array of armed forces would again take the field, but it would be to arrest Federal assumption and usurpation and protect the domestic rights of States. War is emphatically, and more espe

cially a war between brethren, is a disgrace to stant occasion for conflict, and be a fruitful
civilization-and any war is a drain upon the source of war. Let the rabble cry of divide
life-blood of a nation, and originates in wrong. and crucify go on from the throat of faction, and
Evil spirits give power to evil men for its inau- the cold and calculating political Pilates wash
guration, that amid conflicts of blood they may their hands, and proclaim their innocence, while
cast all roaring down to the dark regions, where their souls are stained with guilt and crime for
the waves of oblivion will close over them. urging it forward; but let the faithful, con-
Its evils cannot be written, even in human scious of their integrity and strong in truth,
blood. It sweeps our race from earth, as if endure to the end. Yet ruthless as is the sway,
Heaven had repented the making of man. It and devastating as the course of war, it is
lays its skinny hand upon society, and leaves not the greatest of evils nor the last lesson in
it deformed by wretchedness and black with humiliation. "Sweet are the uses of adver-
gore. It marches on its mission of destruction sity." In its current of violence and blood, it
through a red sea of blood, and tinges the may purify an atmosphere too long surcharged
fruits of earth with a sanguine hue, as the mul- with discontent and corruption, and apostasy
berry reddened in sympathy with the romantic and treachery and littleness, and prove how
fate of the devoted lovers. It "spoils the dance poor a remedy it is for social grievances. It
of youthful blood," and writes sorrow and grief may correct the dry-rot of demoralization in
prematurely upon the glad brow of childhood. public station, and raise us, as a people, above
It chills the heart and hope of youth. It drinks the dead level of a mean and morbid ambition.
the life current of early manhood, and brings It may scatter the tribe of bloated hangers-on
down the gray hairs of the aged with sorrow who seek to serve their country that they may
to the grave.
It weaves the widow's weeds plunder and betray it; and above all it may
with the bridal wreath, and our land, like arouse the popular mind to a just sense of its
Rama, is filled with wailing and lamentation. responsibility, until it shall select its servants
It lights up the darkness with the flames of with care, and hold them to a faithful discharge
happy homes. It consumes, like the locusts of of their duties; until deficient morals shall be
Egypt, every living thing in its pathway. It held questionablo, falsehood a social fault, vio-
wrecks fortunes, brings bankruptcy and repu- lations of truth a disqualification and bribery a
diation, and blasts the fields of the husbandman disgrace-until integrity shall be a
-it depopulates towns, and leaves cities a mod- mendation, and treason and larceny crimes.
ern Herculaneum. It desolates the firesides,
and covers the family dwelling with gloom,
and an awful vacancy rests where, like the
haunted mansion:

"No human figure stirred to go or come,

No face looked forth from open shut or casemont, No chimney smoked; there was no sign of home, From parapet to basement.

"No dog was on the threshold great or small,

No pigeon on the roof, no household creature,
No cat demurely dozing on the wall,
Not one domestic feature."

recom

erous spring-time of our Republic has passed
away, and selfishness and ambition have come
upon us with their premature frosts and "Win-

Can a Union once dissevered be reconstructed by the arrangement of all parties concerned in its formation? No! When it is once destroyed it is destroyed forever. Let those who believe it can be, first raise the dead, place the dimpling laugh of childhood upon the lip of age, gather up the petals of May flowers and bind them upon their native stems in primeval freshness amid the frosts of December, bring back the withered leaves of Autumn and breathe into them their early luxuriance, and It loads the people with debt to pass down then bring together again the scattered clefrom one generation to another, like the cursements of a dissevered Union, when the genof original sin; upon its merciless errand of violence, it fills the land with crime and tumult and rapine, and it "gluts the grave with untimely victims and peoples the world of per-ter of discontent." dition." In the struggle of its death throes, it heaves the moral elements with convulsions, and leaves few traces of utility behind it to mitigate its curse, and he who inaugurates it, like the ferocious Hun, should be denominated the scourge of God, and when his day of reckoning shall come, he will call upon the rocks and mountains to hide him from popular indignation. But with all its attending evils, such a Union cannot be yielded to its demands, nor to avoid its terrors, even though, like the Republic of France, we may exchange for a time "liberty, equality, and fraternity," for infantry, cavalry, and artillery. Nor are tame and timid measures the guarantors of peace. It is as much the nature of faction to be base as of patriotism to be noble; and a divided Union, instead of securing peace, would present con

Shall we then surrender to turbulence, and faction, and rebellion, and give up the Union with all its elements of good, all its holy memories, all its hallowed associations, all its bloodbought history?

"No! let the cagle change his plume,

The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom.

But do not give up the Union. Preserve it to "flourish in immortal youth," until it is dissolved amid the "wreck of matter and the crash of worlds." Let the patriot and statesman stand by it to the last, whether assailed by foreign or domestic foes, and if he perishes in the conflict, let him fall like Rienzi, the last of the Tribunes, upon the same stand where he has preached liberty and equality to his countrymen.

Preserve it in the name of the Fathers of

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and be perpetuated the American Union, and when it shall be proclaimed that time shall be no more, and the curtain shall fall, and the good shall be gathered to a more perfect Union, still may the destiny of our dear land recognize the

the Revolution-preserve it for its great ele- | accents of expiring age. Thus shall survive ments of good-preserve it in the sacred name of liberty-preserve it for the faithful and devoted lovers of the Constitution in the rebellious States--those who are persecuted for its support, and are dying in its defence. Rebellion can lay down its arms to Government-conception, that Government cannot surrender to rebellion.

Give up the Union! "this fair and fertile plain to batten on that moor." Divide the Atlantic, so that its tides shall beat in sections, that some spurious Neptune may rule an ocean of his own! Draw a line upon the sun's disc, that it may cast its beams upon earth in divisions! Let the moon, like Bottom in the play, show but half its face! Separate the constellation of the Pleiades, and sunder the bands of Orion! but retain THE UNION!

"Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along,
And a voice, as of angels, enchantingly sung,
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,

The Queen of the World, and the child of the skies."

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BATTLE AT MONROE STATION, MO.,
JULY 10, 1861.

THE following particulars of the affair at Monroe, being gathered from parties that were Give up the Union, with its glorious flag, its present, may be considered substantially corStars and Stripes, full of proud and pleasing rect. On Monday, Colonel Smith, hearing and honorable recollections, for the spurious that the State troops, under General Harris, invention with no antecedents, but the history were encamped near Florida, left Monroe Staof a violated Constitution and of lawless ambition with a force of 500 men, to disperse them. tion! No! let us stand by the emblem of our fathers,

"Flag of the free hearts, hope, and home,
By angel hands to valor giver,
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome

And all thy hues were born in Heaven."

Ask the Christian to exchange the cross, with the cherished memories of a Saviour's love, for the crescent of the impostor, or to address his prayers to the Juggernaut or Josh, instead of the living and true God! but sustain the emblem your fathers loved and cherished.

After passing Florida, and when a short distance north of one of the fords of Salt River, on the other side of which the State troops were encamped, his force was suddenly fired upon from the roadside by about 200 of Harris's command. At this spot there was an open field, lying to the right of the road, and about eighty yards in width. The State troops, who were a mounted scouting party, had left their horses a short distance back in the woods, and fired in ambush from the opposite side of the field.

Monroe Station to await reenforcements, the balance of Harris's command having crossed the ford and commenced a system of guerilla warfare. After retreating a few miles, the Federal forces encamped until the next day, when they again retired toward Monroe Station. A short skirmish was here engaged in, without loss to either side. In the mean time, no guard having been left at Monroe, Capt. Owen entered the place with about 200 of the State forces, and burned the depot and some cars.

The only person injured by the fire was Capt. Give up the Union? NEVER! The Union McAllister, of the 16th Illinois Regiment, who shall endure, and its praises shall be heard was mortally wounded. The Federal forces when its friends and its foes, those who sup-returned the fire without effect, and retired to port, and those who assail, those who bare their bosoms in its defence, and those who aim their daggers at its heart, shall all sleep in the dust together. Its name shall be heard with veneration amid the roar of Pacific's waves, away upon the rivers of the North and East, where liberty is divided from monarchy, and be wafted in gentle breezes upon the Rio Grande. It shall rustle in the harvest, and wave in the standing corn, on the extended prairies of the West, and be heard in the bleating folds and lowing herds upon a thousand hills. It shall be with those who delve in mines, and shall hum in the manufactories of New England, and in the cotton gins of the South. It shall be proclaimed by the Stars and Stripes in every sea of earth, as the American Union, one and indivisible; upon the great thoroughfares, wherever steam drives and engines throb and shriek, its greatness and perpetuity shall be hailed with gladness. It shall be lisped in the earliest words, and ring in the merry voices of childhood, and swell to Heaven upon the song of maidens. It shall live in the stern resolve of manhood, and rise to the mercy seat upon woman's gentle availing prayer. Holy men shall invoke its perpetuity at the altars of religion, and it shall be whispered in the last

The officers on the Hannibal and St. Joseph road report thirteen passenger and seventeen freight cars destroyed, and another station-house burned a short distance from Monroe. Col. Smith, as soon as he reached the latter place, threw his entire force into a large building used as an academy. Harris's command, some 2,500 in number, surrounded him and brought two six-pound cannon to bear on the building. Owing to the distance at which they were placed and the unskilful working, they did no

execution.

During the constant interchange of shots that took place, two men, not connected with either side, but residents of Monroe, were killed. The name of one was Hotchkiss.

-St. Louis Republican, July 13.

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THE BATTLE AT CARTHAGE, MO.
COLONEL SIEGEL'S OFFICIAL REPORT.

HEAD-QUARTERS COLONEL SIEGEL'S COMMAND,
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 11, 1861.
To Brigadier-General Sweeny, Commander South-
west Expedition:

HAVING arrived with my command in Sarcoxie, twenty-two miles from Neosho, on Friday, the 28th ult., at five o'clock P. M., I learned that a body of troops under General Price, numbering from eight to nine hundred, were encamped near Pool's Prairie, which is about six miles south of Neosho. I also learned that Jackson's troops, under the command of Parsons, had encamped fifteen miles north of Lamar, on Thursday the 27th, and that they had received the first intimation of the United States troops in Springfield being on their march to the West. Concerning Rains' troops, it was reported to me that they had passed Papinsville, on Thursday evening the 27th, and were one day's march behind Jackson on the 28th. I at once resolved to march on the body of troops encamped at Pool's Prairie, and then, turning north, to attack Jackson and Rains, and open a line of communication with Gen. Lyon, who, it was reported, had had a fight on the 28th ult. on the banks of Little Osage River, near Ball's Mills, about fifteen miles north of Nevada City.

I will remark, in passing, that I had sent several scouts in the direction of Ball's Mills, but only one of them returned, and he had no reliable news.

coxie. I also ordered Captain Conrad, of Company B, (Rifle Battalion, Third Regiment,) to remain in Neosho, in order to afford protection to Union-loving citizens against the secession hordes, and if necessary, to retreat to Sarcoxie. Company H, Captain Indest, was one of the two companies which I had sent to Grand Falls. It had not returned when the battle commenced.

On the evening of the 4th of July, our troops, after a march of twenty miles, encamped southeast of Carthage, close by Spring River. I was by this time pretty certain that Jackson, with four thousand men, was about nine miles distant from us, as his scouts were seen in large numbers coming over the great plateau as far as the country north of Carthage, and conducted their explorations almost under our very eyes.

The troops under my command who participated in the engagement on the 5th of July, were as follows: Nine companies of the Third Regiment-in all, five hundred and fifty men; seven companies of the Fifth Regiment, numbering four hundred men; two batteries of artillery, each consisting of four field-pieces.

With these troops, I slowly advanced upon the enemy. Our skirmishers chased before them numerous bands of mounted riflemen, whose object it was to observe our march. Our baggage train followed us, about three miles in the rear.

After having passed Dry Fork Creek, six miles beyond Carthage, and advanced another three miles, we found the enemy drawn up in battle array, on an elevation which rises by gradual ascents from the creek, and is about Scarcely had our troops left Sarcoxie, on the one and a half miles distant. The front of the morning of the 29th, when I received news that enemy consisted of three regiments, deployed the camp in Pool's Prairie had been broken up into line and stationed with proper intervals of the same morning, and the troops had fled to space. The two regiments forming the wings Elk Mills, thirty miles south of Neosho, in the consisted of cavalry. The centre was composed direction of Camp Walker, near Maysville, of infantry, cavalry and two field-pieces. Sevwhich place is not far distant from the south-eral other pieces were posted at the right and western extremity of the State. It now became my duty to direct my whole attention to the hostile forces north of me. Supposing that they would try to make their way into Arkansas, I ordered a detachment of two companies, with two field-pieces, under command of Captain Grone, to proceed to Cedar Creek and Grand Falls, in order to occupy the road and collect whatever news they could concerning the movements of the enemy.

I furthermore ordered the battalion under Colonel Solomon, just then under march from Mount Vernon to Sarcoxie, to join the force under my command in Neosho, by forced marches.

As soon as this battalion had arrived and our troops were sufficiently prepared for the movement, I sent them from Neosho and Grand Falls to Diamond Grove, (seven miles south of Carthage,) where they arrived about noon, advancing in a northerly direction. I ordered one company, under Captain Hackmann, to make a forward movement from Mount Vernon to Sar

left wings. The whole number of troops which thus came to our view may be computed at two thousand five hundred, not including a powerful reserve which was kept in the rear.

My rear guard being already engaged, I sent two cannon, together with two companies of the Third Regiment, for its support. Another cannon and a company of the Third Regiment I ordered to a position behind the creek, so as to afford protection to our baggage and the troops in the rear against the movements of the cavalry. The remainder of our troops I formed in the following manner:—

On the left the second battalion of the Third Regiment, under command of Major Bischoff, in solid column with four cannon. In the centre the Fifth Regiment in two separate battalions, under Col. Salomon and Lieut.-Col. Wolff. On the right, three cannon under command of Capt. Essig, supported by the first battalion Third Regiment, under Lieut.-Col. Hassendeubel.

Having made these dispositions, and advanc