^y Hollinger pH 8.5 Mill Run F3.1719 ( POLITICAL DIALOGUES SOLDIKRS Ox\ TIIKIR lUGlIT TO \OTK mtn fh\\ Slnntlh Stiitjiurf HOl^. AVM. A. COOE^:, WASIIlNiri'DX. I). ( liv (■(...■nulp IVidt. I4J08 / POLITICAL DIALOGUES. Soldiers on their Right to Vote, and the Men they should support. SCENE : TUE AllMY OF THE POTOMAC, NEAR THE WELDOX IIAILIIOAD STATES UEPRESENTED: rENXSYLVAXIA, OHIO, MICIIIGAX, WISCOXSIX, MIXXESOTA, ILLIXOIS, IXDIAXA, XEW YORK, ETC. TERSONS REPRESENTED: Cjphiin, - Pennsylvania Rci^imcnt. Lieut. Colonel, - Mhcbigan Regiment Ltcutaittnt, do do Adjutant, - • Wisconsin do Prituie, do do Drum Major, - Minnesota do »SVv.'7<;anf, do do Lieutenant, - - Illinois do Corporal, do do Chaplain, - Indiana do Mujor, - Ohio do Colonel, - - - New York do Scene I. PART I. rnSXSTLTANIA. Captain. ^YeU, Lieutenant, what's on hand aow? Yon seem quite engaged. Lieutenant. Not very Bpecially. I have just •iccn rcadine; the law passed at the August ei- u-a sesEion of the Pennsylvania Legislature regulating soldiers voting. It seems we are at length allowed the right to vote. Oiplain. Yes; I confess I never could see why wo were prevented from doing eo. In be- coming soldiers we certainly did not cease to be men, nor any kss citizens than before we put on our uniforms, drew our swords, and shouldered our gnns. Private. So I think. Captain. It was always % puzzle lo me. I have thought our rights ihould, if anything, be increased, not lessened; for there is no use in mincing matters. Don't we do more than those who stay a?, homo — at least more. Captain, than the pfoce men? W« have left home, with all its pleasures, joys, and comforts — wives, children, sisters, mothers, fathers— to defend the old flag; risked health and life to put down those who would dash our good old Union into ruin, and, I think, wt should at least be respected by those who re- main behind. Sergeant. Ned, I'm just of your way of think- ing, and I can't sco why we were kept froa voting because we became soldier boys. TaU and write, as some do, I fed I am just as muo entitled to a vote as when at home. Private. So do I. I am just as good a ma as when in " the Old Keystone," and Just ^ fit to vote; and I am mighty glad we are going to have the chance of voting once more. But, BOO here. Captain, how was it that we have been kept from doing so heretofore ; and thai thoM who did vote had their voles cast out? I ain't •ere I understand it. Captain. Well, I'll try and explain. In days of old, soldierB were held in high estimation. In L813 a law was passed giving them a right to Tote. In 18G9 the law was, almost word for Tord, reenacted. It stands sec. 43 of the Gene- il Election Law, approved 2d July of that B*r. It is in these words : Whenever any of tUe cltlzans of this Common- rfaltU, quallflcJ :is hereinbefore provided, Ehall be ^a any actual militcry service la any detachment of the militia or corps &f voluntaera under a rcq^iiiition from the President of the United Slates, or by the au- thority or this Commonwealth, on the day of the general election, such citizens may exercise the right of Buffragf ^t such place as may be appointed iy the command hcer of ttio troop or company to which they 6ha:lro.-pectlveIy belong, as fully as If they were present at the U3ual place of election: Provided, That no member of any such troop or aompany ehall be permitted to vote at the place so ippolnted. If at the time of sach election he shall be within ten miles of the place at which he would be •ntltltd to vote if not In the eervloe aforesaid. Under this law, I believe soldiers voted during the Mexican war. No one objected to it then. Well, in 1861, the soldiers in Luzerne county voted in camp for Jerome Miller, a good Union man, for prosecuting attorney, and against Ezra B. Chase, a man who claitned to be a Democrat. The camp vote elected Miller. Uhase contended that soldicri had no right to vote, took the question into the Court of Quarter ScBsion?, where Judge Cunningham, an old war Democrat, decided iu favor of soldiers — sgainst Chase, and for Miller. Caose carried the case to the Supreme Court, where Judge Cunningham's opinion was reversed, and a de- cision given against us. rrlvaie. Who gave that opinion ? It couldn't have been any soldiers' friend. It must have been somt rebel sympathizer. Captain. You are correct. It was George W. WooDWAUD. Ih contending for our right lo vote, Messrs. Longstreet and Wharton had a«ed this argument: WLy Ehould the bravo voluntotr bo denlel the privilege and facUUIe* of votlnul Is he Icsi Intelll- Kcnt; less honest than those who stay at Lomei Is It Against the spirit of oar ln>tltutloni that h< should have those privileges and facility extended to him, or does public policy demand his dlsfran- chisementi Why, then, this attempt to annul the statute SiCHrlng to him these rights? Neither ths Constitution, the spirit of our Inslltutious, nor pub- lic policy dtmand It. Judge Cunningham had used a similar argu ment. In replying to it, Woodward tooli occa- sion to fling at us such inmlts as these: The 43d section '^opens a wide door jar most odiow fraiul;^' that is, we can't act as upright citizeni because we are soldiers ! Again: ^'To seaire purity of election, it (^the Coiistitiition') would Imvi its voters in tTie place wliere they are best knoion o» t?ie day of the election;" that is, we are not as pure as those at home — can't be trusted to do right abroad ! Now my lads, I tell you that is ''.nfa- mo^is. But he goes on in this manner: "A good deal ?ias been said about the Iiardship of depriving so mcriiorioiis a class of voters as our volunteer soldiers of the right of voting. As a court of jus- tice we cannot feel the force of any s^cch considera- tion. We have no bounty to grant to soldier s,^^ etc. No soldiers had claimed from the court any "bounty" — only a right. It was that he de- nied us, and in the face, too, of the appeal o) Messrs. Longstreet and Wharton. Private. Just like him; I remember now. He is the man, too, that went in for keeping all Germans, and Irish, and Scot«h — all men from foreign climes — from voting; because I believe he had found out that they wouldn't vote foi him. Captain. Thai's it; Woodward knew that the soldiers wouldn't, when they came to reflect, vote for him or any of his crowd. For, while they went in for the whole country, he had par- ticular leanings for the South; while they stood by freedom, he went in for slavery; while thej shouted with Old Eickory, "The Union, it must be preserved," he was for changing and mending it to suit the lords of Virginia, and South Carolina, and Georgia, and other places of the sunny South. Sergeant. Hold on, Captain; I think you are a little too hard on Woodward. Have you got the record for what you say? Captain. That Ihavel flere It Is In bUck »n(l white. Here is a speech which he read "at the 1,'reat Uuion meeting in Philadelphia, De- cember 13, ISCO." Sergeant. Is it genuine I Captain. See. It was printed at the Age jQlce in 1SC3, and was sent out by Charley Bid- die, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, co the lOlh of September, 18C3. Now, let U3 sec what he says. On poge he iay-3 : TI18 Soutli sfoms Inclined to accept the jUl'k- ment of the pf ople at the polls In ISGO. Kvery wUerr In the Soutli the people aro beginning to look out for the means oT self-defence. Could It be eipoated Uiat they would be lnc!Iffereat to such events as aave occurred!— that thoy would b- IJle and see measures concerted and carried forward for the an- alhlHt!oD,80onerorlattr, of their property In slaves? Such ex; ectatlons, IflnUulsed, are not reasonable. A.nd It appears to me that there mu^t be a time lu iLe progress of tills conQIct, If U be Indeed Irrepres- ilble, when slaveholders miy lawfully fall back on lh.*T natural rights, and KMrLor 11* DSFEycB of THBIK SLAVB PROPERTY WHATKVBR MEAM8 OF PROTKCTION THEY P03SE38 OB CAN COMMAND. Captain. Boys, that is "^oing it steep." Se- cession up to the hub. More than that, actual destruction and ruin, and an encouragement to .he South to use all the means in their power to carry out their purposes. That's a full license for the thefts and murders of the rebels ; for ±eir treatment of our prisoners, and their making rings of the bones of our dead and cups of their ikuUs, and all the rest of their outrages. 77ie rtbdlion has friends Xorth. But here, on page 9, he says : The (JonstltuUoD, wLlch Is strong enough to Rovem tuch en (the revolutionary fathers), is too weak to restrain us who have out-grown the grave »nd moderite wisdom that excited no Irrepressible conflict between brethren, but taught them to dwell In unity. I would make It strong enough to reatriln ite madne£s of our day. And on page 10, he says : We mu«t arouse ourselves and reassert the rights of the Elaveholi!er, and add »ach guarintlei to the Constitution as will protect bis property from thr spoliation or religious bigotry tnU periecntlon, or t'lJt Tt' must rIt<' uy our Constitution aftd rnlon. l^ivale. Why I thought the motto of lb« peace parly was, " Tlie Union as it twM and thi CuHstilutinn as it iv" But I Bcc that is a hyy>o- critlcal cry ! Corporal. Just so. Only notice what he says. It is the slavehoMer whose " rights" are to be " reasserted" — not a word about the non slaveholders, the poor whites. And then, for these slaveholders the Constitution is to beot- ^m2— " aa'Jcci" to— or we must knock under, and give up the old ship of State— the good old Union. I supposct/ui is the kind of peace thai the Chicago Convention Is after- a peace with slavery vp and freedom doicn. But go on. rrivate. Any more of that stuff? Captain. Ob, yes. Take this, also from page 10: Whoever will study the Patilarchal and l.eviu- cal Institutions will sea Vie principle of hum ah BONDAGB AHD OF PEOPBRTY IN MAN DIVIHBLT BANCTIONBD, if not divinely ORDAINED. Sergeant. Let me see that, Captain. Well, that's clear. It's hard to believe ; but here it is. Not slavery in the United States — not lugr* slavery— but the principle of human bondage and property in man Woodward says is di- vinely sanctioned. Notuino aboct colok 1 That's hard to swallow, and if it wasn't where it is, I could hardly believe it. You know I'm an old Democrat. Private. And I too. Captain. Yes, and I too ; but the old party has gone to pieces, arid t^iey try to baptize tfiit kiTid of truck "democracy." It won't do. Private. By-the-bye, while on that point, I remember a book we found in Fredericksburg, called "Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society, by George Fitzhugh, Richmond, Va., IbGl." We deem thi« peculiar queatlon of rxyro tlavtry of vtry little importarxe. The Issue Is made through- out the world. on the general sttbject tt slavery in t\t abstract. ' ' Uam, a son of Noah, was oondemned to slavery, and his posterity after tim. We do net adopt lae theory that he was the ancestor of the negro race. The Jewith iiavei letre n«f nrgrot*^ 'ir.d to eo7\Jlr.t t\i justification of slavery to that race would be to weaken its scriptural authority, ard to lose the whole weight of profcnt authority, for we read or?»o negro tlavery in ancient times. And he add;, page 225 : Slavery, black or white, is right and necessary. Corporal. To this it comes in the end ; Lt is, in other words, jnst what Woodward says, yes, and the sntstance of wha-t every Copper- head says. Don't you remember what Herschel V. JohD£on said on the 17th of September, 1S5G, in Philadelphia? Wb r.KLIEVB THAT CAPITAL SHOULD OWN LA- BOE la all countries, andut der every form of so- cial organization, there must be & aborlng class— a elais of men who get their living by the twrat of their brow ; and then there must be another class that controls and directs tto capital of the coun- try. That is, THE lucn must own the rooii white OR BLACK; and we all have seen enough to icnow how this is carried out in Dixie. Just thinli of "the poor white trash," as they are called by the slave-owners and drivers down here! That's enough. Captabi. But, boys, I have more about Wood- WAUD. Here is a Philadelphia paper of last fall. From this paper it seems that he said to George W. Hart, of that place, on his way from Gettys- burg, our old battle-ground of victory, that "tJiewar was itnconstltittional, and that lie had HO interest in tlie result." And it also seems that he told Tom Cunningham, of Beaver county, that " our only coukse was to with- draw OUR ARMIES north OF MASON AND Dixon'3 line, and offer tehms to the re- bels." Corporal. That's tough, after all we have euffercd aiid done ; but I suppose that is exactly what /he Chicntjo Convention means by an "amii- fl.'t trust me for these words, for although they i.-j j^round Into my memory, and burned Into ray bra..., I won't ask you to trm* to my memory. ' ' In the event of our ccming Into power, they (the soldiers) will receive all the care, protection, and regard that the soldiers of the Re- public have earned. ' ' If they come Into power- that Is what they arc alter— they will protect an send them to their homes, to £ln no more by takln up arms against their Southern Drethroa. Tht shan't be punished because they darea to fight JeC Davis. They shan't be put Into prison, there shan' any harm come upon them ; they wlU pr.tect thoa and send them cut of danger. Wo want their votes, and we mujt be kind to them. And as the devil promised what did not belong to him, and what he could net give to Christ, these f j 73 promise their protecticn; and as that dlstlng'a;.heJ gentlemsn was CiSt out of heaven Into the lower regloni, a similar fate awaits the Chlcigo fellows. Look at the naked Infamy attem.pted to bo practised on tha people by the pafsage of this rerolutlon. They want the ordinary reader to suppose that they Int'U'! to compliment the scl-dlers for doing what they har« done. Dut they don't mean any such thing. If they had meant It, why could they not havo sail: • « We tcndrr our thanks to our brave soldiers who bave been nphcUUng our flag against armed rebel- Uon 1 ' ' They could not siy It, because the traitors ■M not mfan It. Captain. That's sharp talk. Corjioral. Yes; but just. What do we want with the syi/ipatfiy of such men as composed the Chicago Convention? ThaVspoor sinff for sol- dierx. Private. We don't forget the votes of that part of them who were in Congreis. Had their wishes or policy been carried out, we would have been without rations, without clothing, without theltcr, without medicines, without hospitals — andcr the sod, most of us. SYMPATnT! We ficvcr got even that until about voting time. Major, your Governor understands traitors. Sergeant. By the way, what doc? the Balti- ■iore platform say on that subject? Major. I think I have it. Here it is: ysolvc(f, That the thanks of tUe Amerlcm pfo- 10 are due to the soldiers and sillors of tho army I navy who have perilled their lives In defence of I' r country, and In vindication of the honor of the * ; (hat the nation otoes to them some permanent re- ' nilion of their ■patriotism and tlicir valor, and 'Li'lr and permanent provision for those of their stir- ^.vori who have received disabling and honorable trvvnds In the service of the country ; and that tto mrmorles of those who have fallen In Its defence f'lHMbelioM !n grateful and everlasting remem- brance. Captain. Boys, that has a different ring. You jet thanks there, and are to be remembered for tour noble deeds — not ]nticd. Your wounds »nd scars are considered honorable in that reso- Inlion ; and you are to be handed down to the future, not as objects of symjyathT/, but of care, If ever your wants and condition require it, and of honor and glory under all circumstances. What a difference! Major. Well, out of the abundance of the hwrt the mouth speakcth, the pen writes, and reaolutions flow. PART III. MICHIGAN. A Muhifjan Lieutenant Colonel, with the vote of tlic Legislature of that State. Captain. Ilere come along some of the Wolve- rines. Come on ; we've got politics in the field sow. Liculcnaiit Colonel Michi'jan rc that the Lin<:oln- ite3 everywhere havb stood vp for orh rights in this respect. Lieutenant Colonel. And another thing is clear : McClellan is running on all fours with that JeSf. Davia-Vallandigham-Voorhees-Ben. Wood faction. Not a man, I venture, in any of the States that worked to get us votes was a member of the Chicago Convention, or today advocates McClellan. And, on the other hand, not a man opposed to our voting attended the Baltimore Convention, or now sustains M:. Lin- coln ; and I am one of that class that never for- gets its friends. 10 PART VII. rSDIiXA. An Indiana Chaplain'' s Views. Chaplain. The Boldiers of my State (Indi- ana), like those of Illinois, have no vote, because of the opposition of the peace men. Bat let me say I folly believe your conclusions correct. The straggle of the nation is momen- touF. It is one of right against ■irrong; of liberty against slavery. It is a struggle of life or death. And as in moral contests, so in the present national contest, there can be no neu- trals. He that is notwithus, for us, is against us; ' and while I would rejoice and thank God for peace, with all its quiet and pleasures, I believe that it can be only permanently secured at the point of the sword and the mouth of the can- non. The pen of the negotiator can't secure it. The voice of the champions of an armistice can't obtain it. And we should all remember, as Patricli Henry said in the Revolutionary days: "Peace may be purchased at too dear a price." The price demanded by Jeff. Davis is far too great: THH WITHDRAWAL OF OUR ARMIES, THE INDE- PENDENCE OF THE South, a dissevered Union And I defy the whole Chicago Convention, its artful president and all, to put their fingers on a oingle word from the South looking to peace oa any other terms. PART VUI. NEW YORK. A Xcw York Colonel spealcs out about Sejjmciir, etc. Colonel. Don't fear, Chaplain, our boys wos't give up the struggle until the old flag — God blees it— floats over every foot of rebel soil. And if that can't be done in any other way, wo wiW take our lessons from the Heavens ; and as the rebels were expelled from its territory, wo will expel them from the last inch of Am-erican soil cursed by their presence. And, by all the power of our votes and of the law of the land, wo will Etrike at the whole crowd of their sym- pathizers at the North, cot exeepling McClel- l»Ej and, I will add, Seymour, for you know I am a Now Yorker. And I mu^l loi forget to say that Seymour vetoed our soldier bill— true to the InBtlncta of his party as developed in other States. But we got on without him, and we will tell him, when we come to vote, what we think of him. We will make a one- term Governor of him without s doubt. PART IX. OPINIONS AND ARGUMENTS FROM ALL QUARTERS. Captain. And that is another argument against McClellan. The very president of the convention that nominated liim — the great talker and planner of that convention— couldn't allow the bill giving New York soldiers the right to vote to go along without vetoing it. If Ma-c don't feel and think like Seymour, he never would have touched him. Lieutenant Colonel. Well, that is a closed-up question. Men only shout on and uphold those whose sentiments and aims are like their own. Virtue admires virtue ; vice sticks to vice ; devils praise devils ; unfallen angels adore God ; disloyalty worships disloyalty ; patriotism eulo- gizes patriotism. Judged hy these truths, Mae canH get any favors from us. Mc'/or. The truth is, the Chicago^party is a fraud throughout, and it has no more claim to the good old word Democrat, OMi of which it makes nearly all its capital, than the lords of England, or the King of France. Colonel. That is true as preaching — I wean, our friend the Chaplain's preaching; not that rebel preaching which disgraces some Northern pulpits. One of our boys got hold the other day of a book by Fitzhugh, called " Camiiballs All," published in Richmond, which tells the truth on that point. On page 370, he says: Tks Democratla party, purged of Ita ridlcallgm and laigely recruited from tberaaksoftlieOld Line Wtlgs, has bccomo evidently and actlvejy conser- vative. It is the aUipodes of the Dcmocra'.ic party o-J the days of Jejfcrson, in lice grounds wUicfi it occupies cxd the opinions which it holds (what it professes lo hold is another thing). Yet It has been a ccnsUtect part.y throughout. Con-.Ltent, in wisely and boldly adapting lt3 action to the emergencies of twooc:!- 6lon. ItlspitholDgioal, and practises according to prevailing symptoms. TlB true, It has a mighty nosology In Its Dv'claratlon of ladcpendence, Bill of KlghtB, coastltutloas, platforms, and preisables and resolatlons; bet, like a good physician, U watcUfS the state of the patient, and casts nosology to the dogs when the symptoms require it. 11 Captain. That is about it. The old party waa one of principle. The thinj» that takes its name la a humbug — worse, a nestof treason — madenp of all kinds of materials, only seeking, by any means, fair or foul, place and power. I )ust think of a rhyme that hits it off as it has ex- isted for the last few years, and which each member of the Chicago Convention, and, I will add, its candidates too, might sing : ' ' Bat I cars not a flg for a name, If I can but succeed In my wishes ; For this has been always my game, To Etrlve for the loaves and the fishes. ' ' Coloml. Well, they wont get much of a feast fiom us. But, there's the call to parade. A< good soldiers we'll answer, turn out. LicHtmant Colonel. Kemembeh the kf.ectio^. BOYS. Private. And Qi.n Ans, too, TunTuisD rn:E.Nn OB- THE SOLDIERS ; TUCB TO TUEM AND THE DLL FLAG AS Cnil-D TO PARENT OR DAT TO NIODT. JAcntcnant Colonel. Toe Union FOTin%-EH. BOYS. Corporal. Dowk with the rebels, boys. Major. YE3, and all tub SYMPATniZERS AND defenders above Mason and Dixon's line. Colonel. All rigut, boys. The Union, Lin- coln, Johnson, Grant, Suerman, Sheridan, AND ViCTOET. SCENE II. GROUP AFTEFv TARADE. PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION, AND CANDIDATES IN ADDITIONAL ASPECTS. STATES EEPRESEK-TED: MASSACHUSETTS, INDIANA, CONNEOTI- CUT, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, WEST VIRGINIA, VERMONT. persons represented: Cr.pliirn, Maine re?: ' mt. | Corpora/, N.Hamp.rej?' Lieutenant, C,i:n-a. do. \Sergeant, Maryland do. Prira^f, N. Jersey do. \Lie\U.Colrmel,W.\&.6o. iM/Tjor, MasBach'B <2o. 'Co/onci, Vermont Co. Gcqtiain. We've had a fine parade today. The boys showed off well. Lieutenant. That they did ; they looked as if they could go It on a double quick and drive all RebeWom before them. By the by, Captain, if I may hop from one subject to another, wha' do you think of the Presidential election ? A good deal of talk is springing up about that. Captain. Yes, I heard some this morning — a good many things of interest. Ffivaie. Ton were at that talk, were you ? I have heard of it. It's said the boys setUed dov-n against JlcClcllan. Captain. Most of the time I was there ; and you ane right— they concluded they coulda'l support him. TAevtcnant. Eow 60 ? Captain. Wtll, it Ecems he has endorsed Woodward, of Pennsylvania— a full-blooded Southern sympathizer; that ho has gone into partnership with Harris, of Maryland, Long, of Ohio, and all that bncd of peace men; and the boys wound up with the determin.ition that titcy couldn-t go for any one icho fiad anyVang U do mth that crmcd. 12 Major. I rather guesa they were right. Captain. Their facts and arguments were hard to get over. I confess th-ey made a con- vert of me. Corporal. Of me too. I happened to drop in their company. A man can't touch pitch and be nndeliled. It is oaly those birds whose taste agree that gather around carrion, and Mac. must either be defiled by his associations, or else he must hav? " fallen from grace " and got an appetite for the food of traitors. There's a screw loose somewhere. Captain. Certain it is, there is Eomething wrojig with our eld favorite ; and, as I said, the reasoning this morning was good ; the most of it though ran against McGlcllan and the Chicago gathering. But may not a good many things be said directly in favor of Ifr. Lincoln 7 I think so. Lieutmant. What have you, Captain, of that sort? Bringout things "new and old." Let's hav'> all. Captain, When we come to think fully about it, this has great force. He was once a poor, friend- less toy— no one to help him— and he had to struggle hard with poverty and disadvantages. Now he overcame, by God's help, all; roscup from his humble origin and walk— things the South- ern Elavc-owners and breeders— 'slaves already freed. They would demaid indent- ' 'nlty for losses sustained, and they would demand t ' -treaty which would mak£|the North slave-hunter* ' 'for the South. They would demand pay for thi- ' 'restoration of every slave escaping to the North. Yours, truly, U. S. Gramt. That, you eee, goes etraight to the mark, and, beside other important things, says the rebeli are looking to a divided North and to the car- rying out of tHe Chicago peace plans for success. Captain. And we know that's so. We read the same thing the other day i-n the Richmond En- quirer and Pwichmond Examiner, which that batch of deserters brought over, and they and the prisoners all tell the same tale. Sergeant. May their hopes be blasted— and I nearly said the Chicago Convention men, too. They are meaner than the rebels ; the one class fight the coxLutry rpen and square, and risk tluir lives on tlie battle-ground Jor their cause; theotfier, too cowardly to do so, keep vp a ki7id of guerilla icar or ojyposition at home. Old Dr. Breckin- ridge, the other day, in Lexington, Kentucky, look this view of them, describing them as ^Rapscallions, uho are nciOicr honest enough nor brave enough to take up arms on citfier side. Captain. I leave other Statei to speak for i.hcmflelves; but it seems to me that description would Just fit the Hoosler Copperbeads. Whila pretending to be against all coercion— turning pale at the eightof blood or violence— they were secretly, cowardly arming to begin war at ftome. They therefore bought arms and ammunitica in the East, and had them shipped to Indiana- polis, marked " ScNDAT School Books," di- rected to n. H. DODD & Co., rrilNTEKS ANB B00KD1SDER3. Corporal. This is a fair specimen of their consistency and honesty. But it's just carrying out the original plan. You all remember old Pierce wrote Jeff. Davis, on January C, ISCO, a letter, with these words : Without discussinq the qdkktion op Kight —of abstract power to seckde, I have luver believed that actual disruption of the Union can occur without blood; and if through the madness of Northern AbolU lionists that dire calamity must come, the fighting wUl not be along Mason and Dixon's line merelij. It will KB WITHia OUK OWN BOEDEES, IN OTJE OWM BTEBET8, BETWEEN THE TWO CLASSES OF CITlZKKi TO WaOM I HAVE BEyESEED. THOSE WHO I>E»T LAW AND SCOUT CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATIONe. WILL, IF WE EVEE EEACH THE ARBITRAMENT 0» ARMS, FIND OCCUPATION ENOUGH AT HOME. Sergeant. I've something which tallies exactly with that. Jeff. Davis, in a speech which ha made in 1S5S, before the Mississippi Legisla- ture, said : ' 'I am happy also to state that, during the par. "luiamer, I heard In many places, what previously 1 > 'had only heard from the late President Pierce, th« ' 'deciarall :n that whenever a Northern ai my shouU "be assembled to march for the subjugation of tht ' 'South, they would have a battle to fight at home b'-for* ' Hhcy passed the limits o/ their oion Slate, and one la "which our /riendj Claim that the victory will at ' 'least be doubtfal. This speech was published in 1S59, by Joha Murphy & Co., right under my eyes, almost, it Baltimore. Captain. That extract. Sergeant, I believe li new ; I never heard it before, but it just lets iti cat out of the bag, and conQrms the notion I have had all along, that there was, from the be ginning, a regular conspiracy between lb: leaders of the rebellion and leading n^n in ih« North and West, elaitning to be Drmerrats. 15 Lieutenant Colonel. Why, iu our section we have never denbted that; and of all base crea- tures on earth, we think th(» vilcet are these peace men around us. With h3 they are nearly all .7)ies— kind'of telej^raph posts and wires for Generals Lee and Early — and we would as soon trust a catamount or robber of the desert as one of tliem. The trutii is, Generals Grant and Sherman, in these letters, take the only correct j^ronud. Let our ranks be filled up; stop all talk about negotiations, and fight the matter through. That's what we go in for. A Chicago peace would be for West Virginia, murder, as- sassination, oppression, and wrong unheard of! Sergeant. And we should remember our breth- ren of the border Slates in these respects. Captain. Here, boys, I've just got hold of an- other of Sherman's letters, in answer to the Mayor of Atlanta. Let's see what he says: » 'To stop wirwo must defeat tterobel armies that ' 'are arrayed against the Laws and ConstUatlon ' which all men must respect and obey. • • • • ' 'War l3 cruelty, and ycu cannctieflne It; and ' these who brought war on onr country deserve all ' 'the curses and maledictions a people can rourout. ' 'I know I had no haad In makln? this war, and I ' 'know that I wlH make more sacriCccs thai any of » 'you to-day to secure peace. ' 'Bat you canaothave peace and a division of our ' 'country. ' 'If the United States submits to a division now, ' 'It will not stop, but win go on tlU we reap the fate "of Slesico, which Ij eternal war. The United "States does and must assert Its authority wherever ' 'it has power ; If It relaxes one bit to pressure It la ' 'gone, and 1 know that such l3 not the national "feeling. • • • • • "We don't want your tegroes, or •