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Hots* Ctimou A. While's Letter.Inasmuch as the Democracy of this hon-Tiie Eiuaaicipatioii ProclamationEverywhere, all over the loyal States, theA: gressional District have presented this gentle- great Proclamation of President Lincoln finds tman to its voters as their choice for Represen- hearty responses and cordial greeting. Not ^n V 1 T» *___ _ 1 t .* . La • Ltl I Vv Atative in Congress in preference to Judge R. universally, to be sure; but the great masscM. Br- - the Union candidate for that posi- of truly loyal peop’e oi all parties, approve (_ : - t •* m e.. ^_ t. ___I-. / ition. it i eminently proper that the people it. and find in it f;esh grounds fi*r confidence {should know the feelings, riews, and acts of in the rmn who has thus made his name im-Mr. White touching the vitally important mortal: and who in despite of the great a; drquestion of the-rebellion, and the consequent) war now racing in the country, and threaten-)terrible difficulties that environ his w ay, istmoving forward w ith carefut yet steady step *• - 'UC* . ™ ^ ^ A ' AAA k . Iin to destroy both our Constitution and our towards the overthrow of the rebellion andliberties. Mr. White is a Member of thepresent Congress, and as such has riven hisvoice and his votes on divers questions of vastmoment to the Country; and we rocret to record the fact that they have generally beengiven on the same side that Vallandigham andthe restoration os peace.True, there are some persons, even amongstithe loyal, who were at first startled at the (magnitude of the results that are likely toIshis associates have spoken and voted; andconsequently were against the Administration, and in favor of crippling its powers; and therebv strengthening the rebels in the ac-f 57 67complishtnent of their* infernal purposes.We publish, on the first page of this paper, a letter of Mr. White’s, written in May last, to the editor of the ‘Georgetown Argus,’hisfiow. from this proclamation; and tb»re are others also, who have pandend so long to , slavery: and have begn so long connected in t political associations with it;; supporters, thatthey become to believe that slavery is a divineinstitution; that our Government could not f exist without it, and that it would be an act,. of sacrilege to touch it. And they appear to ! ,be willing that the rebels should succeed and ., i our glorious Government be destroyed rsther ,home paper, and through that paper given tothe public.This letter appears to have been written thefthan baae the vile cause of all this mischieftouched with violent hands■To all such timid, deceived, or disloyal onesday before the passage of the confiscation andemancipation bills in the llcnse, and is tilledwith tradings and lamentations over the effectwe have this suggestion to tnnke. If you doiI that they are likely to have on the !property'’ of the vile rebels, who were at that verv hour*kistriving with all their powers to kill hundreds, nnv thousands of his own constituents.not wan* to have slavery abolished in the re- ( bcllious States, then hasten to the rebels and5prevail on them to lay down their arms and ,cease to fmht against the Government.The President has generously given them1more than three months to come to this de-Mar.d to destroy the very Constitution which termination in; and if they will not do it, buthe had sworn to support. Bo sacred is the deliberately persist in their attempts to *!e:1 'property, real and personal,' of these vile reh- j stroy the Federal Union up to the beginning jI els in Mr. White’s eyes, that he hurries to; of the coming year, no man but a traitor caninrorm his constituents, even be'ore the pass then objee* to the proclamation o« the Prear-,age of the act, that ‘if passed and executed, Will] dent being enforced. J je j be as tie an infraction of the Constitution and ll is a glorious proclamation, and will be» | as atrocious a crime as the reh Wot itself.'— j pointed toby future generations as th* great^! Judging by the anxious regard manifested by act of the nineteenth century; and the name*; Mr. White for the 'property' of the rebels, it| would t»e but fair to presume that if any of;of Abraham* Lincoln, as the author of thatdocument, will go down to lutur* ages as thet1 his gallant constituents who are in the Union great champion of universal freedom, and the , ;aimv, should, whilst in the beat of battle, defender of human rights. ichance to kill some of the 700 0C0 rebel‘property’ holders, over whose negroes andMay Heaven bleas the President, and rive !ihim wisdom and lirmne.s sufficient to carrv .I! farms Mr. White keeps such tmxious watch. * °u*- ;JS nobio designs. ,1 he would be unable to find language to ex-v i press the strength of his indignation. Of! Lc*.tcis »t o*»\ Lirtil. C ol. E. ,! lEiues. 1o eouis? he would, for would that not be taking1 from the in their lives 'without trial by jury. We have been permitted to read sever J L*t-1 | without process’ by law, without a day in j ters written by Col. Ilines to his family, du-court, without a presentment or indictment, ring the great Maryland battles, and since, :*, . . _ . . _.1and witiiout confrtmting the party accusedwith wi.’nesses, and allowing him process and'from which we learn that he passed safely (through them all. He speaks in the highestbenefit of counsel.’ Surelv, if Mr. White terms of praise of the Regiment to which be0.would raise such a cry of alarm as that over belongs, the l'Jth, and says that they stood„ the prospective loss of 'propertf to the rebels; manfully under fire for hours together with-; be would i@ much more intensely exercised j out flinching, and bore themselves gallantly* at the loss of life of his rebe l proteges. [throughout. His statements in that respect iI !Very anxious is Mr. White about the Con-j are fully corroborated by the general reports. lt;stitution; so anxious indeed that he does notCol. Ilines gives the names of several of the i—: hesitate to declare that ‘the worst enemies of Clinton county wounded, which we have al■ '• the country, Jeff! Davis himself, could not i readv published.I .' ! have devised a more effectual means of under--[mining our Constitution, and overthrowing! The Chemistet op Meiucixx. Among the iour liberties titan this bill proposes.’ In his' special delights which have ao richly repaid our \estimation, the confiscation of the rebels’ visit to Now ;.ug! ind w •.* 'he inspect!* n, it wasproperty by Congress is as bad as the worst' ol,r pfivJ sp* to ’ ab *pi lr. -C t. A; *r *t * o. a an..* tb»t J.ir. Davis CM,1.1 ,lev is*. Ilmr U:«i«»ciy. «l Lowull. ah!,vet,:,-.; lyk . ... . . . . ,f TtM** v a- *• i iu\lt;*r-*ay,that it was v t wv \r«Te*i;r?n**j terrible must it be in Mr. W lute’s estimation, f - . . \ . . .' when we enme into view oi iU real imigniUub\“ j for eur armies to kill the rebels in battle.I _ # . and still more by the extent nficl eoinjtlieatHifi1 x 1 cor ncction, let ask, %% hen ai d |a^ immense hiHiliess. The whole «where has Mr* \\ Lite ever shown so much* gtruetnre is in fact one vast ehenucal hit*o-1iI so licit tide lor the protection of the property mtorv* itt whieh the processes t ‘ f tf*is wo:u!erfiil of loval men? When and where has he ever art are constantly £01115 oa. Jledieo eiiernlcaimar.ifested as much interest in the lives and science has found that the curative properties c! *. comfort of the loyal soldiers of the Union as allJ substance crcis; in atimeore or mer 1 « i 1he exhibits in this letter for the ‘property,! Thus tlw r nwdinl cffct* vi II , , 1. * it •• , .. . i oi'imn ?irc» due slt;-Mv to ti.or;'.n;i it •i real and personal’ of the vile traitors who arc ; ! , ...* j sltlioiign lui* is l.n*. one-«ig:iU*«*nth part of its 1in open and defiant rebellion against our Gov-i ,i . 5 ,! r n {weight; tlie other s.i :i i avi.j «»•,• L'um, exernment. Wc are sure that he did not man- tr!H, rva an,} iR,.rt „r matter. Dr.'ifest it by his vote against%ic law makingappropriations for the equipment and payment. Ayer’s system vepflrnte- the medical proper?h*■ of cacli substance cn»rb'Yed and we r.r»» her.,lt;ti *of our soldiers. j shown the processes by which the virtues of eachMr. White speaks of the danger to the Con- reiuedisl agent are chascd thre.tigh the alembits 11 stitution bv the acts of tlie loval Congress and until they come out completely | ure at last.—These concentrated, purified im*oical propcrtu s.oAdir.inistratidti half a dozen times in this letter; but where does he speak of the acts of the “r virtn^‘ ,,ry finnH-v 1 u * ih'r to I r‘” !. , , , a n • I due* the remedies which have made themselves,. rcliels endangering the Constitution? In no, . „ . ,, , ,, ,, . ,, j . . . i a reputation ftwuntivaileaexeellence, all over the.o i place, except to institute an invidious compar- ., «- , . . . i . .. n '*1 ’ • world. A ot onlv does the Doctor disclaim ahison between the action of the Congress ofsecrecy in his art and explain every pr. ee?s and which he is a member, and that of Jeff. Davis, j ,T,.rv. particular, but he maintains that this ism * a A A A - A A A ..rin which he appears to give the arch-traitor j |h« only process by which the people can bethe preference. supplied with the beat possible remedies for the!n close connection, side bv side on the treatment of disease. The Formula by whichsame page, with this semi-traitorous letter of •'»* remedies are made arc published in the rocd-Mr. White, we have placed ’an srtkle from ’ical Jlt;,urn»U 1^*^ *• » l»rg.- jthe pen of John W. Forrer and a letter from ’ rt U0,*'lt;’4I Faeulta of the I nited States,:1;atpen „ ............« , . i *■ , ... , and are constantly aent by mail to sueli physi- (Gen. John A. Logan, both life long Demo* t . , , v. *rTv ' * ', , , , aiaaa as apply for them.—[ Daily Chronicle, San ,erats. but who are both earnest friends of their — i5country, and whose sentiments are as highover those of Mr. White’s letter in point of: tro. ptfriolis. ud loy.Hr m br*r«n U ? P“* thf *»»•«_ , tiooof Uwm wm of this District. Is it sate toearth. \*e in\ite the careful attention of^re#ltd a man to Cc^rsss who Has uniformly| every voter to all three of those U tters. Read cast his vote against appropriating money with:them by all means, and if you can endorse which to carry on war? Mr. White, while »n ™! the sentiments of Mr. White’s letter, whv' Cong**, did vote against appropriations forIw I '7 ' • * ’ Ihi© tvnptvr.ea • no /Ini VAta Itnr.i, tha «a- n • ,* Zvote for him of course*, , * 1 this purpose; he did vote, upon the war ones- i• lf y°a c»n“ot- tion «i,h V.lUndicham. who d«l.v*4 fa 0»- I^, vote for Judga Briggs. 1 gress that before an army should march~ through his Disttict to coerce or put down the; 1W, JP. IScid. Etag* rebellion, thev should march over his dead tOar townsman. W. P. E.H Esq . late pro. Ur. Whit. i*. or w» in Coneress, the ,ft.1 A Ckf thfk \ fllUnfhivI nm \A(tHlr rat I f.* , . ______ , advocate of the Vallandigham policy, vet fprietor of the Wilmington Watchman, vho when votM tie watl{cr, in ur,ler to Tv.e{lCt tvolunteered in the Gist O. io Regiment, was him to Congress, he prt fcsees to be a good war cb? some means taken prisoner or. the Rapp*- man. he wants soldiers to help crush the re-0hannock. ami can ird to Richmond, from which Jj,,t '* 1‘*® fee lion wiih which he vo t, . . , . f . . .. . . ted had Veen successful in their efforts to iplace he wrote a hrsvt note to his family. A „ „u -, ,v„ ...... . . .r J withhold tne means necessary to prosccmte aAfnr litm itifAfmc llirm tV«afr Ka is? .l . _____ ^_ trt. .» . ______ti .* a a aUtcr later from him in'orms them that he is the war. Mr White would unq les’ionably r.again at liberty, and in Maryland.' i this day, advocating aotue kind of a compro- irnise. of * submission, to a division of the Un- ! lt;j, _ __ , .. ion upon the terms dictated bv slaveholders,r »i‘»nls*al of Major Key. i R.'rlwt Mr. WWtr to Coir**,. «id wl,.t jM.wr Jno. .!. Key. Ai,i on Ila'.lrck's sl»!T. pn.r.nttt h»tr thr peopit of l',« District thu ii* just dismissed by the President for expressing te Wl *?a:n 'otf 8i:nlt;t appropriating c ______a m*netO P*J »d »*ul«ist the poor eoldiersdisloyal sentiments. U a brother to Colonel |whogo for*th^ deflt;nJ the government against a 1 hotnas M. Key, Judge Advocate on McGlel- the rebels? His record in Congress upon theIan’s personal staff, both natives of Kentucky, war question, convicts him of incineerity every g e The precise offense for which Key is dismiss- tmi# h« mounts the stump to tnako a w^r ra ^ i ... i. i. ..... L. . speech, and the questrm naturally arises m I1 ed is understood to t*e the retnaik that we .f _ , 1 . , , ,f .....the mind of the victor, ‘if Mr. White is sin- o* could easily have annihilated the rebel army Mr* in hig advoc»cy of the vigorous prosecu-1 J• at Antietam but that it w*s not thought l*est lion of the war why did he vote ag*int »p-to humiliate the South by a defeat so over- PrrtP*i*tion* to pay nnd supjion the men who taliniog pnilias w* to prerrnt the future ™*'ir ,!'e11traj'?' h '*“ * 1... , plan by which the rebellion can be put downrrconstructioaof th. La,on upon torn. r,u,t- tn4 the r„ion onco„.|ition.llr, w.thable to both sections. This remark waa re out appropriations of money from the public ported to Secretary C. P. Smith, who is un Treasury, why does he not present it? itderatood to have called the President’s atten-j ** 1 rery popular thing, if he would, . . . ... . . • _ n . convince the people of its feasibility. Cutt»on to it. In the \ est be waa Provost Mar- jcotjng Upon his record in Congress, the\ sha! General of the Department, and thus at question irresistibly forces itself up before 1 Pittsburg landing and Corinth was chaigcd the minds of the people, when they listen to 1 with the duty of examining prisoners and de- b*s ,rir ^petches, whether be is or not a littlet!* ,i * , ti .• * more furious to bive them rtiunteer to eo qowrum from tb. rnbel »rmy. «• »«l0 th, ^u. ,ml rotu f,r C. A. Wbi«. .»« wuchief mover there in the war on the newrpa- Congress, than he is for t blotters to whip the w per correspondents, \ rebel*?—[Washington Lieraid. |u
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Wilmington Clinton Republican
Wilmington, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 03, 1862
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