CHAPTER VII. OPPOSITION TO THE MEXICAN WAR - LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON-LIKE FEDERAL, LIKE for a New Deal all Roand... David Wilmot on Dissolution •Worth all the Unions on God's Earth"-Another Mas. sachusetts Petition for Dissolution... Dissolution Resolu. tion by Anti-Slavery Society... Another from source... Disunion again in Massachusetts...From Red- mund's Speech...Wendell Phillips labors nineteen years to Break up the Union...Parker Pillsbury labored twen- Treasonable opposition to the Mexican War...Mr. LINCOLN charges the Government” with being in the "wrong* ...CALEB B. SMITH glories in voting to condemn the war ...UIDDINGS would not vote a man or a dollar"...The Press of 1848 on tho War... From the Warren Chronicle ... Xenia Torch Light... Lebanon Star...Cincinnati Gazette ... Kennebeck Journal... New Hampshire Statesman... Haverhill Gazette... Boston Sentinel...Boston Atlas... Boston Chronotype... New York Tribune... North Ameri- can... Baltimore Patriot... Louisville Journal...Nashville The efforts to create a public debt to hasten the "Strong Government's Mr KING'S $2,000,000 gift, as "means”...RANDOLPH opposed...CALHOUN, as to an end, votes against his party... Purpose of the Frag- ments of the Whig party”... Continued efforts to dissolve the Union... The Slavery issue used as a lever... The warnings of JEFFERSON...The Slavery Agitation "the The Statement of Douglas...His last Letter... Senator Pugh's Statement... Endorsed by Douglas...Chicago Tri- bune wouldn't Yield an Inch... The Peace Congress... CHAPTER XII. PROGRESS OF THE NORTHERN CONSPIRACY- (CONTINUED). Charles Sumner Advises Nullification and Disobedience to the Laws... Claims the Republican Party as Sectional, and suited to his Purpose... Greeley's Insult to the War ?... Testimony of Gov. Stone, of Iowa... Statement of M. B. Lowry...Phillips on Secession..." Chicago Tri- Pamphlet... Abuse of the Framers of the Constitution... Similarity between Northern and Southern Disunionists. CHAPTER XIII. DISUNION OF NORTHERN GROWTH. Disunion began in the North... Admission by Wendell Phillips... The War brought on by the North as a Means Radicals to Aid Secession and Disunion-Helper's "Im- pending Crisis” as a Means to hasten Dissolution...Mr. Seward Endorses its “Logical Analogies”Treasona. ble Kansas War Meeting in Buffalo-Gerrit Smith and Gov. Reeder Stimulate the "Cause"...Beecheron Shoot- ing at Men... Charles Sumner admits the Northern Con- spiracy CHAPTER XIV. THE JOHN BROWN RAID ENDORSED BY THE RE. PUBLICANS. THE MOTIVE FOR PRECIPITATING A CONFLICT. Who Responsible for bringing on a Clash of Arms...The Administration resort to a "Trick” to Force the Rebels to Commence the Attack... Letter from the Hon. Harlow S. Orton...His charges of a “Trick" proved by Extracts from... The New York Times... Charleston Mercury...New York Tribune, &c,... The United States Armada take no part to Relieve Major Anderson... New York Post details the Trick... Radicals Prophesying an Easy and Early Victory.... Seward's Promise to deliver up Sumter. Seward, Hale and Wilson Toasted by the Louisville " Jour- hal”!' for not exposing the John Brown Raid...John Brown's operations a part of the Dissolution Scheme... Numerous Extracts to prove that Republicans endorsed the John Brown Raid... Republican Press, Clergy and Orators endorse it...From “La Crosse Republican” Rev. De Los Love...Rey. E. D. Wheelock... Milwaukee Sentinel”..."Elkhorn Independent"...“ Janesville Ga- zette"... Telegraphic Despatches, 1859...“ Winsted Her- ald”... Speech of J. W. Phillips... Laconic Letter and Reply, between Elder Spooner and an Editor... Massa- chusetts Resolution... Meeting in Rockford, Ill.... 100 Guns Fired in Albany, N. Y.... Theodore Parker's For- mula... Indignation Meeting in Milwaukee : their Reso- lutions, etc. ... Rev. Geo. W. Bassett, of Ill.... Telegram from New York...Horace Greeley on John Brown- “Milwaukee Free Democrat"... Speech of Rev. Mr. Staples, Milwaukee... Emerson at Tremont Temple... Rev. M. P, Kinney..."Menasha Conservator" “Milwaukee Atlas “New York Tribune"...“ Wood County (Wis.) CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS AND, EVIDENCE OF THE NORTHERN CONSPIRACY. The Radicals conspire to overthrow the Government long before the Rebellion of 1861... DOUGLAS testimony on CHAPTER XV. WISCONSIN NULLIFICATION AND SECESSION. South Carolina ; 3d, Wisconsin ; 4th, The Confederate States... Wisconsin Bids " Positive Defiance" to the General Government...Constitutional Provisions Rela- tive to Judicial Dicisions... A Premeditated Conspiracy to take Wisconsin Out of the Union... Complete Chrono- logical History of the Booth Case, and Judicial Action thereon... The Federal Supreme Court declare that Wis- consin was the First to Set Up the Supremacy of the State over the Federal Court... Republicans Break Open Arsenal, and Seize Arms to Defy the Power of tho Governinent...Judge Paine's "Eloquent Extract "...Op- position to Law Placed Judge P. on the Bench... The Rescue Leaguers... Republican Meeting to Denounce Law...Judge Crawford Opposed solely because he felt Bound by the Decision of the Federal Court... The Con- stitution Quoted... Lloyd Garrison declares Fugitive Law Constitutional, but Defies It...“ Milwaukee Sentinel”? on Habeas Corpus and Jury Trial for Negroes... Opposi- tion to the General Government a Political Test...The " Wisconsin State Journal” on said Test... Various Re- . publican Papers on the Test...Judge Smith's Opinion... No Precedent to Sustain It... What Senator Howe said... Judge Smith Scouts the Consequences of His Own Acts ...The Seyen Points as Proof...The State Journal” declares "Dissolution no Misfortune”...Republicans Resolve to “Revolutionize the Government”... Repub- MORE REPUBLICAN VOMITINGS OF DISUNION AND TREASON Republicans claim that Judge Paine was elected expressly to Defy the Fed- eral Court...Disunionists in Mass Convention...General Government again Defied... Republicans endorse South- ern Nullification... Wisconsin Legislature “Positively Defies” the Federal Government... Substitute to Sustain the Government Voted Down... Doolittle's Views... North- orn Nullification a Twin of Southern Nullification... Wisconsin endorses South Carolina and South Carolina endorses Wisconsin. The True Object of the War [the Negro] Avowed by the “N. Y. Independent”... Beecher and the “Sheepskin Parchment"...Nest Eggs of Treason : Laid by Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, American Anti-Slavery Society, F. E. Spinner, J. S. Pike; anoth- er by Phillips and Garrison; and one by the “Chicago Tribune"... Ingersoll invests Lincoln with the Power of the Czar of Russia...J. W. Forney on silencing “ Laws and Safeguards”... The Abolition Conspiracy in the New York Riots : Important Testimony... The Union Not Worth Preserving... Tricks of the Ohio Abolition- ists... The Revolutionary Spirit at Work..."New York Tribune" advocating Mobs and Riots against Law... Sen. Howe would " Do in the Name of God what can't be done in the Name of the Constitution"...Phillips, Peace and Dissolution... This War a "Barbarian Con- quest." CHAPTER X1X. THE ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE BAN OF THE "BALANCE OF POWER." Power and Influence of the Abolitionists over the Admin- istration... The Leading Abolitionists Feted and Provided with Place and Power... Superstition and Intolerancé... 1796, 1800, 1814 and 1864 Compared... The Bigotry and Intolerance of To-Day Borrowed from the Pilgrims-A Chapter from the Puritans... Blue Lights and Blue Laws ... The Act Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, in full... Ayes and Noes on said Bill, Politically Classified... “New York Tribune" on Peace... Old Abe and the “Union as it was,” &c. CHAPTER XVI. REPUBLICANS TRUE TO OLD FEDERAL INSTINCTS. CHAPTER XX. DISLOYALTY OF REPUBLICANS—THE GREAT Classification of parties, principles and arguments, from 1798 to 1863... Thurlow Weod on Grebley... New York Tribune favors Secession...Greeley advocating Peace with Rebels... Mr. Lincoln Advocates the right of Se- cession... The Republican Congress vote down a Resolu- tion against a Dictatorship... The Ayes and Noes on that Subject... The Constitution again the “Cause of all our Troubles...Complete overthrow of the Public Liberties ... From the New York World... Republicans Raise a · Higher Standard than the Stars and Stripes”... Prefer " Their principles to Fifty Unions”'... Who Discourage Enlistments... Reference to Aboltition Votes in Congress. ROUND-HEAD CONSPIRACY. i CHAPTER XVII. ABOLITION DISLOYALTY AND TREASON. Threats to Force Mr. Lincoln to Issue the Proclamation... From “New York Independent”..."Chicago Tribune" Against the "Union as It Was" ; also, its Threat to use Bayonets in Defiance of the People... The Radical Conspiracy of 1862... Disclosures of the Round-Ilead Plot... Suggestions of the “Boston Courier"; also, from an Albany Paper... The " St. Louis Anzeiger" Reveals the Plot...The “N, Y. Observer” Gives a Clue to It... Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota, on “Machinations of Homo Governments,' &C......" Legalized Treason ” ..... From “ Boston Courier"....The Second Hartford Convention Toasted...Chas, Sumner Teaches Revolution...Mr. Sew- ard Boasts of More Despotic Power than the Queen of England dare Exercise... Thad. Stevens declares the Con. stitution an "Absurdity”... Republicans Cheering for Dissolution..... Republicans for 66 Extermination and Damnation"...The "Boston Commonwealth " Denoun. ces Restoration a Crime... The “South Not Worth a Copper”..." Boston Commonwealth” Curses the Union as It Was”... Bingham Don't Want the Cotton States... The Constitution Committed to the Flames by Garrison Senator Henkle and Vallandigham... Destruction of the Constitution a Test of Loyalty... God and the Negro... Beecher Declares that the Nogro is our “Forlorn Hope" Republican Bloodthirstiness...Jim Lane would send all the White Men to “Hell” ..."Chicago Tribune” Down on the “Upion as It Was ”...Amalgamation and Negro Equality...Fred. Douglas and White Women... Wendell Phillips Thanks God for Defeat...“N. Y. Tribune" De- . fies the National Government-Ben. Wade on Dissolu- tion... The Seceding States follow Ben.'s Advice...O. M. Clay "Spots the Union as It Was"...Beecher Ridi. cules the “Sheepskin Parchment”...Daniel Webster on the “Grasp of Executive Power" "Democrats Must Not Clamor for the Union as It Was ”... Moulding Public Opinion...Mr. Lincoln in 1854... Mr. Seward and Violence... Mr. Seward on the "Last Stage of Conflict" Extracts from Speeches and Sayings : by John A. Bing- ham... A. G. Riddle...Owen Lovejoy... Wm. Davis...F. A. Ingersoll, of Ill.... Defeat of the Crittenden Compromise ... Vote in the Senate...Policy of Won't-Yield-an-Inch... Treasonable Correspondence between M. D. Conway and J. M. Mason...F. A. Conway's Treasonablo Speech in Congress... Also, his Treasonable Letter to the “N. Y. Tribune”... Garrison's Speech in Philadelphia... Ex- tract from "Wisconsin Puritan." 13 ! Lincoln and the Chicago Platform in Juxta- position... Sumner Opens the Radical Ball..."New York Post” and Other Papers fear it was Premature... The Other Class of Disunionists...Treason of the “Chicago Tribune"... The Crittenden Resolutions... The Proclama. tion and Emancipation : Conclusions Thereon..." New ABOLITIONISTS SHOW THEIR PURPOSE TO DE. York Tribune" and Other Sheets” Predict Good Things ... The." Pope's Bull Against the Comet”... The Object to Divide the North, &c.... Gov. Andrew Before and Af. ter the Proclamation...Choice Inconsistencies, &c... The Various Efforts at Compromise... Compromise the Basis of all Governments...Gonoral Principles of, Applied... Money and Not the Proelamation Required to Make the - Roads Swarm ...Greeley Down on oid Abe... The Compromises of the Constitution : What were They ? ... Messr8. Yates and Lansing Retire from the Con- Seward Pronounces the Proclamation Unconstitutional vention of 1787... Compromise between Delaware, Mary- land and Other States... The First Draft... Luther Martin on Compromise... The Large and Small Small States at War on Suffrage... Compromise on Slave Trade and Nav. igation Acts... An Original Plan of Constitution... The Great Suffrage Question...Mr. Martin's Explanations... DISLOYALTY AND "TREASON” OF THE RADICALS. Compromise between Slararv and Navigation... The New ions... 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 Prophot...“New York Post” as a Prophet..."Nation- al Intelligencer' a True Prophet...Gov. Andrew's Proph- THE RADICALS DETERMINED TO PREVEMT A esies..."New York Tribunes" Prophesies... The “900,- 000," &c... Remarks of “National Intelligencet" on Same... The Proclamation in a Nut Shell... Belief in the Proclamation a Test of Loyalty...Forney Thereon... Sen- 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 ..... Tes- timony of Senator Browning..."Milwaukee Wisconsin” Throws a Javelin at Seward..."Chicago Tribune" Cor- REPUBLICANS OBSTINATE AND REFUSE TO COM- rects Old Ahe... “New York Independent” on the Ad- ministration..."New York Times" Scores the "Govern- "The Conduct of the Abolitionists in the Wisconsin Legis. nel". Ditto...."Buffalo Express " Ditto..." Pittsburgh lature... Radical Reasons for not Compromịsing...The Chronicle"? Ditto...."Anti-Slavery Standard” Ditto... Chicago Platform Good Enough for the Radicals... “New York Post" on “Mistakes, &c... The Loyal Sia- Tenacity of the Wouldn't-Yield - An-Inchers... Effort of mese Twins..."New York Tribune" on "Cabbage Head" Democrats to send Commissioners to the Compromise Congress... Republicans Claim to have “Struggled Man- fully against the United Democracy”... Carl Schurz and 6. Our Side”... Republicans of Sauk City opposed to Com- promise...A Candid Admission... Edward Everett on Compromise... Lord Brougbam on Coercion...Plan of THE PROCLAMATION... THE RADICAL WAR POLICY. Adjustment by the Peace Congress... Franklin's Substi- tute... New York Post” on Effect... Greeley against Mr. Lincoln's Letter to the Utica-Springfield Meetings Compromise... General Conclusions, &c. Editor's Remarks on the Negro Policy...“ New York Tribune" Pledges the President, &c ...John P. Hale's Bill to Abolish the Constitution... The Proclamation in England..."New York Tribune" on "Servile Insurrec- tions"...Opinions of English Abolitionists...Mr. Wilber- force on the Folly of the Proclamation... Wendell Phil. lips on the Rampage... The Proclamation Confessed a REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO STIMULATE DISSOLU. Failure... Caleb B. Smith Pledges the Administration TION--TILEIR DISLOYALTY AND TREASON. against the Proclamation... Mr. Madison on Emancipa- tion... Lord Dunmore's Proclamation... Bancroft, the His. The Morrill Tariff as a Means to Hasten Dissolution... torian on the Same... Thurlow Weed's Prediction...Mr. Opinions of the “Cincinnati Commercial," "New York Lincoln on Federal Authority... The Chicago Platform... Times,” and “New York World”... From the "London General Remarks...Post Master General Blair as a Wit- Times” ... The Tables Turned on the Charge of “Disloy. alty”... Rules of Testimony, and the proof of Republi. can Disloyalty... Testimony of Andrew Johnson... Sena- tor Wilson on “Setting up with the Union''... What Constitutes a “ Traitor" and a “Copperhead ”...Mr. Lincoln on the Stand: His Preaching contrasted with CONFISCATION-VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITU- his Practice...Congress on the " Object” of tho War... “ Indianapolis Sentinel” ditto...Thad. Stevens against : pared...Postmaster General Blair on Secessionists and Abolitionists... Comments of “National Intelligencer" ..Senator Doolittle on Colonization and Emancipation... The Three "Solutions" : Of Calhoun, John Brown, (the same as Radicals), and Jefferson... Doolittle on Con- fiscation ... Also, on Same and Abolition Denunciations of from King John... Lord Campbell's Boast.. glish Bill of Rights..." Body of Liberties.” Brongli : she May- flower... The Bill in the Declaration... Virgia.... Bill of Riglets... Massachusette' “Declaration of Rigles" in 1780...From Bill of Rights in Our Constitution... General Remarks on Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus... Law of Suspected Persons... A Leaf from French History, by Allison...Our Parallels... Thiors on French Confisca- tion... Danton's Prediction...General Remarks... Black. stone on tbe English Habeas Corpus...Our Constitution Applied... The Ordinance of 1787 Applicable... What Our Fathers Tnought of it... Pinckney, Rutledge, Morris and Millson on the Habeas Corpus...Judge Curtis on Loy- alty" and Habeas Corpus... A Scathing Speech... Mr. Chase's Opinion of Loyalty... The Roman Law and Per- sonal Liberty... St. Paul on Arbitrary Violations of Law Judge Festus and King Agrippa Respected the Roman Law..." New York Independent” on Arbitrary Arrests ... What a Conservative Republican Thinks of it.. Prosi. dent's Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus : His Proclamation... Congress on Arbitrary Arrests...Official The Personal Liberty Bills of the Various States... Sundry Provisions to Nullify the Fugitive Law... A Radical Or- ARBITRARY POWER-MILITARY ARRESTS, &c. Introductory Remarks... Loyalty and Patriotism of the North... Arbitrary Power used to Destroy the Northern Unanimity... Senator Fessenden on Stopping Enlist- ments...Senator Wilson on same...General Conclusions... The Cango and the Effect...Mr. Lincoln's claim to UR- limited Power... Order No. 38...Trial of Vallandigham... Protest to the President... The President's Reply... The Order Suppressing Newspapers... Hascall's Despotic Note Rejoinder.. Protest of the Ohio Committee...President's to the “New York Express”... How the Republicans Roply...Committee's Rejoinder...The Law of the Case, Love Free Speech... Mobbing of Douglas in Chicago... from the National Intelligencer"...Personal and Le- Republican Mob in Green County, Wis.... Federals, Whigs and Republicans in Juxtaposition... Their Line of Con. gal Rights...Crittenden's Views... Abolitionist Feel Un. easy... Administration Condemned by its own Organs... sanguinity... Senator Doolittle vs. Political Doolittle... President Lincoln vs. Political Lincoln... Republicans Views of the N. Y. “Post” and “Tribune"...Judge Duer on Ugurpations of the Administration... From the in Congress Suppress Inquiry into Illegal ACTS...Their ... Adjutant General Thomas Preaching Politice to the Edward Livingston on the Alien Bill, 1798... Terrible Soldiers...Punishes Soldiers for Political Opinions... How Scathing of Assumptions of Arbitrary Power... Who the Soldiers View it... Anti-Copperhead Letters and Re. was Edward Livingston ?... Republican Confessions of Bolves from the Army...How Manufactured.o.General Gross A bases of Arbitrary Power...Case of Messrs. Remarks... General Halleck on "Crushing the Sneaking Bringmade and Mahoney... Damaging Admissions by Traitors of the North”... Seward, Chase, Blair, &C., et 4 Milwaukee Sentinel"...General Remarks thereon. the Cooper Institute Meeting... Case of Lient. Edgerly... Abolitionism a Test of a Soldier's Duty... Tbo Conscrip- tion Act intended to Ignore the Constitution.ce" Bostop Commonwealth" Admits that the Administration Em- CHAPTER XXXI. ployed Bayonets to Carry Elections... Differemco between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy... Atrocious Sentiments of DESPOTISM, USURPATIONS, INALIENABLE RIGHTS Senator Wilson... A Leaf from French History... A Fact by Sallust...Gov. Seymour on the Rotten-Borough System TRAMPLED UPON, Etc. His Message of Jan. 5, 1864...A Flexible Platform... Henry Clay's Opinion...Free Specch Abolished...Senator Despotism Seeks the Semblance of Loyalty... Solicitor Howe op... Petty Despotism... Arrests for Wearing Badges Whiting perverts Judge Taney's Decision... Provost ... Several Instances in Point... The Evidence of Ap. Marshal Fry Acts Theroon...Star Chamber... Laws by proaching Despotism...A Link from “ New York Tri- Proclamation in Fogland...Kidnapping in New York... bune"...To Doubt the Infallibility of the President is Gov. Hunt on Arbitrary Arrests.. The Case of Gen. Stone “Treason "... Declaration of Independence Revised, &c. ...Beecher on Arbitrary Arrests... A Nice Point to Silence othe "Bonnie Blue Flag"...Burnside Favors the: Arrest of Males and Femalos that wear Butternut Badgós... Opening the Prison Doors... Case of Gov. Tod and Othere CHAPTER XXXIV. Opinion of Jadge Van Trump..."New York Journal of Commerce on the Powers of the Provost Marshal... MORE OF THE ROLE OF DESPOTISHI, Case of Judge Constable... Liborated from the Bastile... Soldiers sent home to Vote...Proofs in Connecticut... Proofs in New York, &c... Stanton Boasts ofrending more Soldiers than Curtin's majority... The Contractors per- form their part...Martial Law in Kentucky to force the Election...How a "loyal" Paper Views it...From Louis- ville Journal...Statements of Clerk of the Election... How a Congressman was elected by an "overwhelming majority"... Further evidences... The Administration carries Maryland by the Bayonet...Gov. Bradford's Proc- lamation on the Şubject... The Great Frauds Practiced on New York by the Enrollment and Quota process... New York Overdrawn as compared with other States... Frauds in the Pennsylvania and Ohio Elections... Punishing officers for Voting the Democratic Ticket... Case of Capt. Sells... Officers' Threats to control Elections ...Bribery at Elections... War on the “Copperheads" Republican Organ Justifies Military Interference in Elections...The Politics of this War... Discharging disa- bled and dying Soldiers from Office of Sutler for Voting the Democratic Ticket... Abolition claim of "Those who Vote must Fight”... Abolition Roorbacks to Effect Elect- ions... The Union League Machinery...Forney on Their Purposes...Dr. Lieber on Soldiers Voting... Gen. Milroy on "Home Traitors”...John Brough's Appeal from the Poetical applications... General Remarks on... Scions of the old Puritanical stock... New York Custom House Frauds ... Testimony and Facts... Conclusions of committee... Van Wyck's speech on the Development of Astounding Frauds...Colleotor Barney and his subs...John P. Hale on corruptions of the Departments... Cattle contracts... Cummings' Agency... Charter of the Cataline...General Mania for stealing...Horse contracts...Contract Broker- age... Treasury Department Frauds...Fire · Arms Frauds ... George D. Morgan's Operations... Army Transporta- tion...Mr. Dawes on Frauds... A Refreshing Expose... A New York Paper on Van Wyck's Report... The "Ro- cord of Infamy” by the Ohio State Journal... Members of Congress take a hand in... Simmons, of Rhode Island, takes $50,000...Jack Halo takes a "fee"...The Horse Swindle... Frauds in the Navy Yard... The Book Swindle... The Grimes Committee... Frauds, Rascality, and Perjury... The Vessel Charter Frauds... The Com- mittee's Conclusions... The Mileage Steal... Stupendous Frauds in New York... Swindling at Cairo...A Defaul. ter Caught... General Wilcox Contractors...Mr. Dawes on Larcenies...Millions upon Millions Wasted... Beauties of Republican Retrenchment...Fremont's Frauds ... Marshal Laman Mr. Lincoln's Right Bower...Honest Old Abe and Simon help their Friends...Mrs. Grimsley, the President's Sister-in-law, figures in Fraud Investigations ... Letters from Old Abe and Cameron to Major McKinstry ...Congress Censures...that's all... The Holt and Owen In. vestigation... The Splendor of Fremont's operations... Frauds! Frauds!! Frauds!!! on every hand... General Re- marks... Holy Ministers and Stolen Pictures... Swindling the Soldiers... Hundreds of Millions Swindled... We are all Mortgaged...Our National Debt... The Means to pay it... General Remarks... The Currency Question...Stand from The Rebels Hate the Democracy and Sympathize with the Radicals...General Remarks... Benjamin's Speech in 1860 ...Breckinridge Seceshers Toasted with Office, &c...Rich- mond Examiner on Vallandigham, Cox, &c... Mobile Register on Democrats and Abolitionists...The Draft vs. Volunteering... Volunteering a Success... Wilson's and Fessenden's Admissions....Thad Stevens on "Alarming Expenses"....Too many Troops to pay, but none to Spare McOlellan....General Remarks, &C... The number of Men called for....Cameron's Eulogy on Volunteering....Cost of Conscription....Opinions of the Republican Press on the Draft.... Albany Statesman....The Draft in Rhode Island ...A candid Statement by a Republican paper....The Conscription in Massachusetts...A mysterious Draft in New York....Result of Draft in ninth District of Massa- chusetts and eighth District of New York.... Thurlow General Remarks and Facts pertaining to... The Democra- cy of New York... The Iowa Democracy... Doctrine of the Kentucky Democracy... The Ohio Democracy... The Democracy of Wisconsin... The Minnesota Democracy... Democracy of Pennsylvania... Illinois Democracy....Con- necticut Democracy....Democracy of Indiana....of Colum- bus, Ohio....Of Madison, Wis....The National Democracy ... Sayings and Doings of Leading Democrats... Governor Seymour's Proclamation... Gov. Seymour's Message... Gov. Parker's Proclamation... Remarks of Hon. H. L. Palmer... Et tu Vallandigham...Democrats. Rejoice at our Victories... Testimony of our opponents... New York Times....Mr. Seward, Official...Judge Paine, of Wis.... CHAPTER XXXIX. WARNINGS AND ADVICE OF AMERICAN STATES- MEN, &c. From Washington's Farewell Address...Jackson's Fare- well Address...By Daniel Webster...By Henry Clay... : By Patrick Henry...From Webster's Great Oration... Further from Jackson's Farewell Addresses... Madison on the Liberty of the Press... Mr. Seward on Free Speech ...Jefferson on the Plea of Necessity...John Adams on Arbitrary Power... Ex-President Filmore on the Negro Question...Gov. Seymour's Patriotic Letter... Senator Harris of New York, on the Despotism of Conscriptions ... Rob't J. Walker on State Suicide... Sen. Trumbull on the Tyrant's Plea... Gen. McClellan on Constitution and Christian Civilization...Sen. Crittenden on the cause of our Troubles...President Harrison on the Rights of the States... Montesquieu and Jefferson on Preservation of Liberty...James Madison on game... Gen. Harrison at Ft. Meigs....J. Q. Adams on the “Link of Union"... The Father of the Constitution on Confiscation... List of Men- bers and Delegates in Congress, &c. MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND FIGURES. Political sine qua non of Wisconsin Legislatura...Still re- fuse to yield an inch....N. Y. Round Table on Lincoln's |