these resolves sound well indeed, even in the abstract; but practically the defence will be in time when they are assailed, or at least threatened. And you may rest with the assurance that when either of these sacred and cherished interests shall be desecrated or placed in danger or in jeopardy from any vandal spirit upon the globe, you shall not defend them alone; for an army from the Free States mightier than that which rose up to crush your rebellion, "aye a great multitude, which no man can

batteries which the Government of the United States, in its extreme desire for peace, permitted you to erect for that purpose, under the guns of the same fortification, a proceeding unheard of before, and never to be repeated hereafter, bombarded it too, because the flag of the Union which your fathers and yourselves had fought under with us the battles of the Constitution, a flag which a few days previously you had hailed with pride-because the Stars and Stripes, the joy of every American heart, full of glowing histories and lofty recol-number," will defend them for you. But the lections,-floating over it according to the custom of every nation and people under Heaven, were hateful in your sight! The Athenians were tired of hearing their great leader called the Just, and consigned him to banishment. You were annoyed at the sight of the noblest national emblem which floats under the sun, when unfurled where, by your consent, and for a consideration, too, the Government of the United States held exclusive jurisdiction, and where it properly belonged; and for this you commenced a war promising to be more fero cious and exterminating throughout the Republic, than was the atrocious decree of Herod in a single village. Sumter was not erected for the exclusive defence of the 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.

issue must not be changed nor frittered away. Sumter was not your home-hearth, Pickens your fireside, Harper's Ferry your porch, the navy-yards your altars, the custom-houses and post-offices and revenue cutters your wives and children, nor the mints your household gods. The Government has no right to desecrate your homes, nor have you the right to seize upon and appropriate to yourselves under any name, however specious, what is not your own, but the property of the whole people of the United States; not of those in array against it as enemies, defying its laws, but those who acknowledge and defer to its authority.

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 aban don 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 You will not consent that the General Gov- for the purpose of crushing members of the ernment, the Government of the whole people, Confederacy because they fail to conform to a should march forces over the "sacred soil of a Federal standard, not for the purpose of deState" of the confederacy, to maintain its own spoiling their people, and least of all, not for dignity and authority, to check rebellion, and the purpose of disturbing, or in any degree insave the Capital from conflagration, and its terfering with the system of Southern serviarchives from destruction; but you should tude; but for the sole and only purpose of putstand admonished that there is no soil suffi- ting down an unholy armed rebellion, which ciently sacred under the broad aegis of the Con- has defied the authority of the Government, stitution, to shelter armed rebellion or secret and seeks its destruction, and in this their detreason, and that the Government of the United termination is taken with a resolution, comStates has not only full right and lawful au-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 General 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, you your altars, your wives, and you 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, conIts 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 advergore. 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 questionable, falsehood a social fault, viowrecks 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 recom-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 casement,
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."

It loads the people with debt to pass down from one generation to another, like the curse of 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 perdition." 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 fun, 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

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 then bring together again the scattered elements of a dissevered Union, when the generous spring-time of our Republic has passed away, and selfishness and ambition have come upon us with their premature frosts and "Winter of discontent."

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 eagle change his plume,

The leaf its bue, 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

accents of expiring age. Thus shall survive 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-
ments of good-preserve it in the sacred name
of liberty-preserve it for the faithful and de-
voted lovers of the Constitution in the rebel-
lious States--those who are persecuted for its
support, and are dying in its defence. Rebel-
lion 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,

"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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that it may cast its beams upon earth in divi- BATTLE AT MONROE STATION, MO., sions! 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!

Give up the Union, with its glorious flag, its Stars and Stripes, full of proud and pleasing and honorable recollections, for the spurious invention with no antecedents, but the history of a violated Constitution and of lawless ambition! 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.

THE following particulars of the affair at present, may be considered substantially corMonroe, being gathered from parties that were rect. that the State troops, under General Harris, On Monday, Colonel Smith, hearing were encamped near Florida, left Monroe Station with a force of 500 men, to disperse them. 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.

Give up the Union? NEVER! The Union shall endure, and its praises shall be heard when its friends and its foes, those who support, 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 bleat-burned the depot and some cars. ing 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 mercyseat 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

McAllister, of the 16th Illinois Regiment, who The only person injured by the fire was Capt. returned the fire without effect, and retired to was mortally wounded. The Federal forces Monroe Station to await reënforcements, the balance of Harris's command having crossed the ford and commenced a system of guerilla war fare. 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

road report thirteen passenger and seventeen The officers on the Hannibal and St. Joseph burned a short distance from Monroe Col. freight cars destroyed, and another station-house 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.

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

-St. Louis Republican, July 18.

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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 Sar-
coxie, twenty-two miles from Neosho, on Fri-
day, the 28th ult., at five o'clock P. M., I learn-
ed 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 Par-
sons, had encamped fifteen miles north of La-
mar, 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 Papins-
ville, 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 be came 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.

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:

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 On the left the second battalion of the Third marches. Regiment, under command of Major Bischoff, As soon as this battalion had arrived and our in solid column with four cannon. In the centroops were sufficiently prepared for the move-tre the Fifth Regiment in two separate battalment, I sent them from Neosho and Grand Falls ions, under Col. Salomon and Lieut.-Col. Wolff. to Diamond Grove, (seven miles south of Car- On the right, three cannon under command of thage,) where they arrived about noon, advanc- Capt. Essig, supported by the first battalion ing in a northerly direction. I ordered one Third Regiment, under Lieut.-Col. Hassencompany, under Captain Hackmann, to make a deubel. forward movement from Mount Vernon to Sar

Having made these dispositions, and advanc

ed a few hundred paces, I commanded Major | of Col. Salomon and Lt.-Col. Wolff, in solid colBackof to open fire upon the enemy with all the umn. Lt.-Col. Wolff, seconding my movement seven field-pieces. The fire was promptly an- with his accustomed ability, formed three comswered. I soon perceived that the two mount-panies of the first battalion, Third Regiment, ed regiments of the rebel army made prepara- into line, and made them take up marching line tions to circumvent our two wings. They against the cavalry in front of the baggage. made a flanking movement, and, describing a Behind these troops and the baggage, Lieut. wide semicircle, caused a large interval of Schrickel, with a portion of the first battery space to be left between them and the centre. of artillery and two companies, took a precanI forthwith ordered the whole fire of our artil- tionary position in view of that part of the enelery to be directed against the right centre of my coming in the direction of Dry Fork. the enemy, which had the effect in a short time of considerably weakening the fire of the rebels at this point.