days since, that he was issuing more rations to slaves who have rushed to him than all the white troops under his command. They eat, and that is all."

Of course, no sane man could see any good to the Union cause that could possibly result from the emancipation. Our armies had been successful almost everywhere. The Union armies had been successful prior to the 22d of September, the date of the proclamation, in ninety-four battles and heavy skirmishes, and had lost but eight, with two drawn battles.

The rebels had been nearly driven out of Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, West Tennessee, a portion of Mississippi, the forts below New Orleans, and that city itself, together with Baton Rouge, had fallen into our hands. The whole North Carolina coast, with Beaufort, S. C.,—sundry places of importance in Georgiathe Florida coast-the Potomac cleared of obstructions-the rebel army driven from the Peninsula, and Washington was not menaced by any adequate force for its reduction. In short, everything was going on smoothly for the Union cause. But this was just what the Radicals did not want. They desired to divide the North, so as to make union more improbable, and they set about every means in their power to accomplish this result. They coaxed,

flattered, denounced and prophesied. They were not satisfied to let well enough alone, but the Union must be divided, and they saw that could not be done without dividing the North. They knew the proclamation and other revolutionary, to say nothing of unconstitutiona measures, would do it.

HORACE GREEREY pledged 900,000 troops to leap forth the moment the proclamation should see the light.

GOV. ANDREW'S CONDITIONS.

Gov. ANDREW was appealed to by the War Department for troops, in great haste. The order is signed by Adjutant General THOMAS, and dated May 19, '62, and directed to Gov. ANDREW:

"The Secretary of War desires to know how soon you can raise and organize three or four infantry regiments, and have them ready to be forwarded here, to be armed and equipped. Please answer immediately, &c.

To which the Governor responds under the above date:

"A call sudden and unexpected, finds me without materials for an intelligent reply.Our young men are all pre-occupied with other

views. Still, if a real call for three regiments is made, I believe we can raise them in forty days. The arms and equipments would need to be furnished here. Our people have never marched without them. They go into camp while forming into regiments, and are drilled and practiced with arms and march as soldiers. To attempt the other course would be to dampen enthusiasm and make these men feel that they were not soldiers, but a mob. Again, if our people feel that they are going into the South to help fight rebels who will kill and destroy them by all means known to savages, as well as civilized men, who will deceive them

by fradulent flags of truce, and lying pretenses, as they did the Massachusetts boys at Williamsburg, and will use their negro slaves against them, both as laborers and fighting the enemy's magazines, I think they will feel men, while they themselves must never fire at the draft is heavy on their patriotism; but if the President will sustain Gen. Hunter, recogble of that loyalty the blacks are wanting to nize all men, even black men, as legally capamanifest, and let them fight, God and human nature on their side, the roads will swarm, if need be, with multitudes whom New England would pour out to obey your call. Always ready to do my utmost, I remain, most faithfully, Your obedient servant

EXTRA SESSION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE-GOV. ANDREW'S MESSAGE.

BOSTON, Nov. 11, 1863. The extra session of the Massachusetts Legislature assembled at noon, to-day.

Governor Andrew, in his message, reviews the legislative acts regarding bounties for recruits, and says:

"It has been represented to me by officers engaged in the recruiting service, as well as by many citizens and cuniary inducements to enable the required number to magistrates, that these bounties do not offer sufficient pebe raised within the two months which scarcely remain

to us.

"At the request of several municipal governments, and monwealth, I have, therefore, called together the general of divers pairiotic and public spirited people of the comcourt for the simple and special purpose of devising plans to secure the contingent of volunteers assigned to Massachusetts, and to take such action in the premises as in its wisdom may be found expedient."

"In relation to volunteering Governor Andrew says:

"I am prepared, therefore, to assist in committing the commonwealth to a policy for the payment of regular wages to the Massachusetts volunteers in addition to all other pay allowances, bounties, and advantages hitherto enjoyed."

"The employment of colored soldiers is strongly advocated in the address, and the bravery of the Fifty-fourth Massachustett's colored

regiment in making the assault upon Fort Wagner is eloquently referred to in proof of their fitness for infantry service.

BOSTON, November 11.

"In the legislature to-day the governor's address was referred to a special legislative committee, which met immediately after the House adjourned.

A bill was introduced proposing to give all soldiers who hereafter enlist or re-enlist twenty dollars per month from the State Treasury instead of the bounties now offered. Action upon this proposition was deferred until tomorrow."

So, it seems after all, that money lies at the bottom of Massachusetts patriotism. What a commentory on the "Bull against the comet."

But, we have another from GREELEY, just previous to the "Bull against the Comet:"

"Leading men from the East and the West alike express grave doubts whether their states will promptly furnish their respective quotas of men under the forthcoming call of the President. There would be no difficulty, they say, if the people were sure that the war was to be conducted with a single eye to the suppression of the rebellton, whether slavery went down with that which it caused or not.

"A war for the maintenance of slavery, as this seems in some quarters to be-a war in which the recruiting officers are instructed to accept no loyal men whose complexions are dark-is not one they think likely to make enlistments rapid. Some name sixty or ninety days as the periods within which it will be possible to raise the number required, while others say that their citizens will demand an antislavery policy before they will fill up the regiments."

MR. SEWARD PROVES THE PROCLAMATION UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Mr. SEWARD, in his letter of instructions to Minister ADAMS, in April, 1861, said:

The condition of slavery in the several

states will remain just the same, whether the revolution succeeds or fails. There is not even a pretext for the complaint that the disaffected states are to be conquered by the U. S., if the revolution fail; for the rights of the states, and the condition of every human being in them, will remain subject exactly to the same laws and forms of administration, whether the revolution shall succeed, or whether it shall fail.In the one case, the states would be federally connected with the new Confederacy; in the other they would, as now, be members of the U. S.; but their constitutions and laws, customs, habits and institutions, in either case, will remain the same.

"It is hardly necessary to add to this incontestible statement the further fact that the new President, as well as the citizens through whose suffrages he came into the administration, has

always repudiated all desire whatever, wherever imputed to him of them, of disturbing the system of slavery as it is existing under the Constitution and laws. The case, however, would not be fully presented if I were to omit to say that any such effort on his part would be unconstitutional, and all his actions in this direction would be prevented by the judicial authority, even though they were assented to by Congress and the people."

Was Mr. SEWARD a traitor-a Copperheadwhen he penned these instructions?

CHAHTER XXV.

DISLOYALTY AND "TREASON" OF THE RADICALS.

How the Radicals "Opposed the Government" before the Proclamation... Parker Pillsbury..."New York Times" Before and After the Election..."New York Post" "Opposes the Government"... "New York Times" Again.... "Chicago Tribune" Denounces the President... Wiscon. sin Home League on "Imbecility and Cowardice"... Predictions of "New York Tribune"...Democratic Predictions...Gov. Stone admits this an "Abolition War...A Short Tack after the Gale of 1862..."New York Tribune" ... More Prophesies by False Prophets... Wendell Phillips as a Prophet..."New York Post" as a Prophet... "Nation al Intelligencer" a True Prophet...Gov. Andrew's Proph esies..."New York Tribune's" Prophesies... The "900,000," &c... Remarks of "National Intelligencer" on Same... The Proclamation in a Nut Shell... Belief in the Proclamation a Test of Loyalty... Forney Thereon...Senator Wilson's Address..."Disloyalty" of "Janesville, (Wis.) Gazette"..."Waukesha, (Wis.) Freeman"..."New York Tribune" on "Blunders"... Wendell Phillips on the "Lickspittle Administration"... "Milwaukee Sentinel" Disloyal to the "Government" "Slate Journal" Ditto ... Phillips Again... Beecher on the "Government"...Testimony of Senator Browning..."Milwaukee Wisconsin" Throws a Javelin at Seward..."Chicago Tribune" Corrects Old Abe... "New York Independent" on the Administration..."New York Times" Scores the "Government"... "Chicago Tribune" Ditto... "Milwaukee Sentinel" Ditto...." Buffalo Express" Ditto..." Pittsburgh Chronicle" Ditto..."Anti-Slavery Standard" Ditto... "New York Post" on "Mistakes," &c... The Loyal Siamese Twins..."New York Tribune" on "Cabbage Head" Halleck.

HOW THE RADICALS OPPOSED THE "GOVERN MENT" BEFORE THE PROCLAMATION. Since we have heard so much about "disloy

alty" and the charge of "copperheadism" against everybody that did not endorse all the measures and policies of the "Government," we will here present some specimens of abuse and opposition to the "Government," so that the style of then radicals may be know when they were displeased with the policy.

PARKER PILLSBURY, whom the Republicans have so tenderly petted, thus vented his spleen and "discouraged enlistments," for which the administration never even talked of having him arrested and sent over the lines:

"Hasten back to a recognition of your own manhood-of your divine origin and destiny.— Believe yourselves too sacred to be shot down like dogs by Jeff. Davis and his myrmidons,

Did Vallandigham ever utter treason like this? No, never! But, PARKER PILLSBURY don't vote the Democratic ticket, which makes all the difference in the world.

BEFORE AND AFTER THE FLECTION.

Before the election the New York Times (Abolition) declared that opposition to the proclamation was infidelity to the Government. After the election it talks in this wise:

"The heaviest loads which the friends of the Government have been compelled to carry through this canvass has been the inactivity and inefficiency of the Administration. We speak from a knowledge of public sentiment in every section of the State, when we say that the failure of the Government to prosecute the war with the vigor, energy and success which the vast resources at its command warranted the country in expecting at its hands, has weighed like an incubus upon the public heart. With every disposition to sustain the Government-with the most profound conviction that the only hope of the country lies in giving it a Cordial and effective support-its friends have been unable to give a satisfactory answer to the questions that have come up from every side: Why has the war made so little progress? Why have our splendid armies achieved such splendid successes? Why have they lain idle so long, and why have the victories they have won been so utterly barren of decisive results? The war has dragged on for a year and a half. The country has given the Government over a million of men, and all the money they could possibly use; yet we have made scarcely any progress toward crushing the rebellion. The rebel armies still menace the capital. The privateers defy our navy, and spread increasing terror among our peaceful traders on the seas. What is the use of trying to sustain an administration which lags so far behind the country, and seems so indifferent and incompetent to the dreadful tasks committed to its hands?"

The world does move.

[From the New York Post, Radical Rep.] "A little more than a year ago, the people of every loyal state rushed together with unparalleled unanimity and enthusiasm to devote

"All this arose from the sincere, earnest and invincible devotion of the people to their institutions and particularly to that Union by which these institutions are guaranteed and vivified. But that devotion is no less strong now than it was a year and a half ago; we are still forwarding troops to the army; we are still contributing money, we are still determined that the rebellion shall be suppressed; and we are still confident that no power on earth, neither our own divisions nor the malignant hatred of the old monarchies, will succeed in separating this once proud and harmonious republic into a multitude of factions and warring states. What, then, means the singular revoIntion of political sentiment which is testified by the elections in nearly all the middle states? Are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York weary of the war? Are they willing to say to the states in rebellion, "Wayward sisters, go in peace!" Are they ready to confess that all their past efforts have been causeless and in vain, and to recall their gallant soldiers from the battle field? Not at all-not at all! But they do say, in emphatic and imperative tones, that they are wholly dissatisfied with the manner in which the war has been conducted."

It is refreshing to get a glimpse of so much truth and candor in a Radical Abolition paper:

A little further on, the same paper in summing up the causes that have led to the defeat of the Administration and its policy, remarks:

"Let the authorities at Washington be rebuked significantly, it is said on all sides, and they will do better for the future.

"We trust they wili; we trust the incidents of the day have impressed upon their minds two solemn and important lessons: First, that war, when it has been undertaken, is to be fought as war, according to war principles, and not as politics, according to the interests of localities or classes, or the schemes of wily intriguers and managers. The mistake of the administration, from the beginning has been that it has regarded the war not as a deadly and inevitable encounter between two forms of society struggling ore mastery of a conti

nent, but as a neighborhood feud, which must end in a compromise, mutual conciliation, and a final shaking of hands."

or

SUPPORTING THE "GOVERNMENT." When any Democrat criticises any act measure of the Administration, its organs send up one united chorus of "copperhead opposition to the government." The Democracy throw no obstacles in the way of necessary war measures-indeed, they have from the start, aided all such war measures in every possible way, But in the beginning, when the danger of losing our national capital was imminent, the radical press were savage on the "government." The New York Times is one of this class. It daily abused and threatened the President until he changed his policy; but now it is foremost in denunciations against all who complain of any act or measure, no matter how despotic and subversive of our liberties, We copy the following as a remonstrance:

[From the New York Times, April 24, 1861.] It is stated on the 'authority of Mayor Brown, of Baltimore, that the President has consented that no more troops shall pass through Maryland, and that a regiment from Pennsylvania has been turned back pursuant to this arrangement. Our correspondent gives a very different account of the decision of the President. It is possible the Mayor's account may not be entirely reliable.

the representatives of the colored race, in which they are honestly told that we cannot tolerate them among us, that they must leave our communities and seek a home elsewhere, constitutes a wide and gloomy background of which the foreground is made up of the riots and disturbances which have disgraced within a short time past our northern cities. It is the last struggle of oppression and chattelism. It is the attempt to construct and patch anew the quaking Bastile of the negro drivers by saying to its victims that as freemen they can be received nowhere. That with them it must be slavery or a worse degradation.

The Wisconsin Home League, a radical sheet, thus alludes to the President's order revoking the suppression of the Chicago Times:

"Compared with the wicked and pestiferous Chicago Times, Vallandigham is a pure and spotless Saint; and for the President to revoke the order suppressing the Times and not recall the Ohio traitor, is indicative of imbecility or cowardice, or both. An Administration that succumbs to its powerful enemies, and punishes its weak ones, deserves the contempt and pity of all brave and honorable men.

GREELEY'S PREDICTION OF GOOD THINGS.

The New York Tribune of September 27, 1862, five days after the first Proclamation, put on record the following predictions, which need only a comparison with the actual facts, to make them appear ridiculous and absuro:

1. We predict that the 1st of January, 1863. will prove a most important and auspicious era in the story. he country

2. We predict that Jeff Davis will think purpose of denuding the Cotton States of their twice before he gives effect to his well known able bodied whites, up to the age of even fifty years, in order to hurl them on the Union armies along the frontier.

THE PRESIDENT DENOUNCED AS THE AUTHOR OF THE NEGRO RIOTS.

The Chicago Tribune, a sheet that has said more unmanly and libelous things against those who felt it their duty to fairly criticise the acts and policy of the Administration, than any other paper in the land, thus inserted its "Copperhead" fangs in Old Abe, because he did not "bow and scrape," and act the excessive genteel to a lot of negroes that called upon

DEMOCRATIC PREDICTIONS.

The following predictions by the Chicago Times, just after the Proclamation, when read by the light of subsequent history, demonstrate the fact that Democrats had a clearer perception of the effect of the Proclamation than their opponents. These predictions are a sample of the universal predictions of the Democratic masses, everywhere.

Emancipation Proclamation. The support was without condition save in one respect. The sole condition was, that the war should be conducted to the end. as it had been professedly undertaken, for the preservation of the constitution and the restoration of the Union, with all the rights to the states unimpaired.

"This generous, earnest and sincere support has not yet been wholly withdrawn, though it must be confessed it has been greatly diminished. It has not yet been wholly withdrawn, because the Proclamation of the 22d of September was only preliminary, and the threatened manifeste on the 1st of January, might be withheld.

"If the threatened manifesto shall be issued, it will change the whole character of the war. [A truth that subsequent history has vindicated.] It will make it a war to destroy the constitution and the Union. [True, again ] It will make it a war not only of subversion of the political constitution of the country, but sudden, radical and inevitably ruinous in the industrial and social relations of the people. [This has been proved too true.] It will make it a war to liberate and enfranchise four mil

lions of semi-savage negroes, and to establish them as the people of the sovereign States."

The truth of this has been admitted. Read the remarks of Gov. STONE, of Iowa, in a previous chapter. when he declares:

"I admit this is an abolition war." 99

MORE PROPHECIES FROM FALSE PROPHETS.

The great Hebrew law giver, in reply to the "How shall we know the word question: which the Lord hath spoken?" replied:

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him." "When wicked men make promises of truth, 'Tis weakness to believe them." [Howard's Scanderburg.

the speech of WENDELL PHILLIPS, Feb. 17, Let us apply the test of the Hebrew lawyer 1861, wherein he prophecied:

"The South cannot make war on any one.Suppose the fifteen states hang together a year -which is almost an impossibility:

and millions of dollars-the value of their "1st. They have given bonds in two thousslaves-to keep the peace.

"2d. They will have enough to do to attend to the irrepressible conflict at home. Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, will be their Massachu setts; Winter Davis, Blair, and Cassius Clay their Seward and Garrison.

"3d. The Gulf States will monopolize all the offices. A man must have Gulf principles to belong to a healthy party. Under such a lead, disfranchised Virginia in opposition, will not have much heart to attack Pennsylvania."

If these things prophesied of have come to pass, let us annoint WENDELL as a veritable prophet, if not, is it not "weakness to believe him?"

THE NEW YORK POST AS A PROPHET.

Just prior to the issuing of the Proclamation, the New York Evening Post set up shop as a wholesale prophet:

"How strange that our great men and rulers should not see that the stomach is the weak point of the enemy! He will have little stomach to fight the bad fight of rebellion on an empty stomach. When the great words of liberty and freedom shall be sounded from the high-places of power like a trumpet through the land, the knell of the rebellion will be tolled. But we are asked how the negroes on the plantations are to be informed of such a decree of the Government. How little do those who ask such questions know of the negro character! The negroes are familiar with every swamp and mountain pass, through glen and forest, and at night, guided by the stars, the gospel of freedom would be circulated from cabin to cabin almost with telegraphic swiftness. The plow would stand still in the furrow the ripened grain would remain unharvested, the cows would not be milked, the dinners would not be cooked, but one universal hallelujah of glory to God, echoed from every valley and