Logic of History

for a New Deal all Round...David Wilmot on Dissolution
...Wendell Phillips again...Lowell Republicans for Dis-
solution...Massachusetts Petitions for Dissolution...
James Watson Webb for using "Fire and Sword"...Bos-
ton Free Soilers, 1854... Charles Sumner bound to Diso-
bey law...The True American pronounees a Negro
"Worth all the Unions on God's Earth"-Another Mas-
sachusetts Petition for Dissolution...Dissolution Resolu-
tion by Anti-Slavery Society... Another from same

source...Disunion again in Massachusetts...From Red-

mund's Speech... Wendell Phillips labors nineteen years

to Break up the Union... Parker Pillsbury labored twen-

ty years to destroy the Union...Stephen Foster dissua-

ding young men from enlisting in this Unholy War, &c.

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

Flag: The "Flaunting Lie"...Is this an Abolition

War?...Testimony of Gov. Stone, of Iowa...Statement

of M. B. Lowry...Phillips on Secession..."Chicago Tri-
bune and the Tax Bill...Extracts from a Massachusetts

Pamphlet... Abuse of the Framers of the Constitution...

CHAPTER IX.

EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE-WHO RESPONSIBLE,

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...
Efforts of Republicans to Hush it Up...Senator Chand-
er's "Blood-letting" Epistle, &c.

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
to an End...The Kansas Imbroglio... Stimulated by the

Radicals to Aid Secession and Disunion-Helper's "Im-

pending Crisis" as a Means to hasten Dissolution...Mr.

Seward Endorses its "Logical Analogies
Logical Analogies "-Treasona-
ble Kansas War Meeting in Buffalo-Gerrit Smith and
Gov. Reeder Stimulate the "Cause "...Beecher on Shoot-
ing at Men... Charles Sumner admits the Northern Con-
spiracy.

CHAPTER X.

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.

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
this point...JOHN BROWN Raid originated in Kansas..
Col. Jamison's testimony...Col. F. P. Blair on the cause
of the war... Abolitionists and Secessionists united...Mr.
Seward's testimony...Parson Brownlow on the designs
of the Abolitionists...Thurlow Weed on the "Chief Ar-
chitects' of the Rebellion... Aboliiionists of New York
Invite Southern Secessionists to join them...Massachu-
setts for Dissolution in 1851...Also in 1856...Ben. Wade
Declares there was no Union...Garrison's "Covenant with
Hell"...Republicans of Green County, Wis., Pledged to
"Revolutionize the Government"... Anson Burlingame

CHAPTER XIV.

THE JOHN BROWN RAID ENDORSED BY THE RE-

PUBLICANS.

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...Rev. 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.)

Reporter "...A Prophetic Article from the "New York
Herald "... Brown's Character in Kansas, by the "Her-
ald of Freedom "-General Conclusions, &c.

CHAPTER XV.

WISCONSIN NULLIFICATION AND SECESSION.

The Four Shocks of Secession: 1st, New England; 2d,
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 the

Government...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-

lican Papers for Dissolution...To Sustain the Decision of

the Federal Court declared a Crime...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-

ern Nullification a Twin of Southern Nullification...

Wisconsin endorses South Carolina and South Carolina

endorses Wisconsin.

CHAPTER XVI.

REPUBLICANS TRUE TO OLD FEDERAL INSTINCTS.

Classification of parties, principles and arguments, from

1798 to 1863...Thurlow Weed on Greeley...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.

CHAPTER XVII.

ABOLITION DISLOYALTY AND TREASON.

Extracts from Speeches and Sayings: by John A. Bing-

ham...A. G. Riddle...Owen Lovejoy...Wm. Davis...F. A.

Pike... W. P. Cutler...J. M. Ashlay...J. P. C. Shanks

...John Huchings...F. A. Conway...C. F. Sedgwick...

Benj. Wade...J. H. Rice...G. W. Julian...Thad. Stevens

...J. P. Hale (Petitions for Dissolution)... David Wilmot

...Horace Mann... Wendell Phillips...Lowell Republi-

cans..." Boston Liberator"...J. Watson Webb... Boston

Free Soilers... Charles Sumner..." True American '...

"Hampshire Gazette"... Programme of Revolution...

Senator Wilson...R. P. Spaulding... Erastus Hopkins...

H. M. Addison...Abolitionists of Massachusetts...R. W.

Emerson... Horace Greeley...H. Ward Beecher...S. P.

Chase...Fred Douglas... Redpath...Rev. Chas. E. Hodges

...Lloyd Garrison..." N. Y. Tribune "...Wm. O. Duvall

...Gen. Banks...Anson Burlingame...Rev. Dr. Bellows...

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 Treasonable Speech

in Congress... Also, his Treasonable Letter to the "N.

Y. Tribune"... Garrison's Speech in Philadelphia... Ex-

tract from "Wisconsin Puritan."

...

CHAPTER XVIII.

MORE REPUBLICAN VOMITINGS OF DISUNION AND

TREASON

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 XIX.

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 Intolerance...

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 XX.

DISLOYALTY OF REPUBLICANS-THE GREAT

ROUND-HEAD CONSPIRACY.

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-Head

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 Home

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 "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 Negro is our "Forlorn Hope"

Republican Bloodthirstiness...Jim Lane would send all

the White Men to "Hell" Chicago Tribune" Down

on the "Union 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...C.

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"

...Mr. Seward's Justification for Disunion...The Prefix

"National" Stricken from the Republican Cognomen...

Banks Predicts a Military Government...Carl Schurz on

Revolution...J. P. Hale on Dissolution...Gen. Butler on

Reconstruction...Object and Consequences of Slavery

Agitation... Prophesies of Eli Thayer...General Conclu-

sions, &c.

CHAPTER XXI.

ABOLITIONISTS SHOW THEIR PURPOSE TO DE-

STROY THE UNION.

The Various Efforts at Compromise... Compromise the Basis

of all Governments...General Principles of, Applied...

The Compromises of the Constitution : What were

They?...Messrs. Yates and Lansing Retire from the Con-

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...

Compromise between Slavery and Navigation... The New

England States Favor the Slave Trade... Official Proof...

Hypocrisy of Abolition States... Massachusetts Stealing

Negroes...The Virginia and New Jersey Plan of Govern-

ment... Predictions of Geo. Mason...The Missouri Com-

promise...General Propositions...Jackson and Clay on

Compromise... Compromise of 1832-3...Crompromise of

1850... Why the Radicals would not Compromise in 1861..

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"The Conduct of the Abolitionists in the Wisconsin Legis-.

lature... Radical Reasons for not Compromising... The

Chicago Platform Good Enough for the Radicals...

Tenacity of the Wouldn't-Yield-An-Inchers...Effort of

Democrats to send Commissioners to the Compromise

Congress...Republicans Claim to have "Struggled Man-

fully against the United Democracy "... Carl Schurz and

"Our Side "...Republicans of Sauk City opposed to Com-

promise... A Candid Admission... Edward Everett on

Compromise... Lord Brougham on Coercion... Plan of

Adjustment by the Peace Congress... Franklin's Substi-

tute... New York Post" on Effect... Greeley against

Compromise...General Conclusions, &c.

CHAPTER XXIV.

REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO STIMULATE DISSOLU-

TION-THEIR DISLOYALTY AND TREASON.

The Morrill Tariff as a Means to Hasten Dissolution...

Opinions of the "Cincinnati Commercial," "New York

Times," and "New York World"... From the "London

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 64

Copperhead "... Mr.

Lincoln on the Stand: His Preaching contrasted with

his Practice...Congress on the "Object" of the War...

"Indianapolis Sentinel" ditto...Thad. Stevens against

the Constitution as it is...Mr. Chase Declares the Union

Not Worth Fighting For...Frank Blair on Chase...Thur-

low Weed on Mob Inciters... Being for the Union as it

was Declared an "Offense "...The Present Programme

Blocked Out Just After Lincoln's Nomination...Daw-

son's Letter to the "Albany Journal "...Giddings in

the Chicago Convention; His Radical Doctrine Voted

Down There; How Acted On...Lincoln's Letter of Ac-

ceptance...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

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...

Money and Not the Proelamation Required to Make

the "Roads Swarm '...Greeley Down on Old Abe...

Seward Pronounces the Proclamation Unconstitutional

CHAHTER XXV.

DISLOYALTY AND "TREASON" OF THE RADICALS.

How the Radicals "Opposed the Government" before the

Proclamation... Parker Pilisbury... "New York Times''

Before and After the Election..."New York Post" "Op-

poses the Government"... "New York Times" Again...

"Chicago Tribune" Denounces the President... Wiscon-

sin Home League on "Imbecility and Cowardice"...Pre-

dictions of "New York Tribune"...Democratic Predict-

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 Prophet... "New York Post" as a Prophet... "Nation-

al Intelligencer" a True Prophet...Gov. Andrew's Proph-

esies... "New York Tribune's" Prophesies... The "900,-

000," &c... Remarks of "National Intelligencer" on

Same...The Proclamation in a Nut Shell... Belief in the

Proclamation & Test of Loyalty...Forney Thereon... Sen-

ator Wilson's Address..."Disloyalty" of "Janesville,

(Wis.) Gazette"..."Waukesha, (Wis.) Freeman"..."New

York Tribune" on "Blunders"... Wendell Phillips on the

"Lickspittle Administration"... "Milwaukee Sentinel"

Disloyal to the "Government"... "Slate Journal" Ditto

...Phillips Again...Beecher on the "Government"....Tes-

timony of Senator Browning..."Milwaukee Wisconsin"

Throws a Javelin at Seward..."Chicago Tribune" Cor-

rects Old Abe... "New York Independent" on the Ad-

ministration... "New York Times" Scores the "Govern-

ment"... "Chicago Tribune" Ditto... "Milwaukee Senti-

nel" Ditto...."Buffalo Express" Ditto..." Pittsburgh

Chronicle" Ditto...."Anti-Slavery Standard' Ditto...

"New York Post" on "Mistakes," &c...The Loyal Sia-

mese Twins..."New York Tribune" on "Cabbage Head"

Halleck.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE PROCLAMATION...THE RADICAL WAR POLICY.

Mr. Lincoln's Letter to the Utica-Springfield Meetings

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

Failure...Caleb B. Smith Pledges the Administration

against the Proclamation...Mr. Madison on Emancipa-

tion... Lord Dunmore's Proclamation... Bancroft, the His-

torian on the Same...Thurlow Weed's Prediction...Mr.

Lincoln on Federal Authority...The Chicago Platform...

General Remarks...Post Master General Blair as a Wit-

ness... His Rockville Speech.

CHAPTER XXVII.

CONFISCATION-VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITU-

TION, &c.

The Confiscation Scheme...The Constitution Ignored...
Testimony of Senator Covan... Political Extremes Com

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
the "Government"...A Republican Journal on Senator
Doolittle.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

INDIRECT MODE TO VIOLATE AND NULLIFY LAWS.

The Personal Liberty Bills of the Various States... Sundry
Provisions to Nullify the Fugitive Law...A Radical Or-
gan admits the Purpose...Schemes of the Plotters ex-
posed.

CHAPTER XXIX.

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 Cause and the Effect...Mr. Lincoln's claim to Un-

limited Power...Order No. 38...Trial of Vallandigham...
Resolves of the Democratic Meeting at Albany...Their

Protest to the President...The President's Reply...The

Rejoinder...Protest of the Ohio Committee...President's

Reply...Committee's Rejoinder... The Law of the Case,

from the National Intelligencer "... Personal and Le-

gal Rights...Crittenden's Views...Abolitionist Feel Un-

easy...Administration Condemned by its own Organs...

Views of the N. Y. "Post" and "Tribune "...Judge

Duer on Usurpations of the Administration...From the
"N. Y. World."

glish Bill

from King John... Lord Campbell's Boast..
of Rights..." Body of Liberties" Brough:: the May-
flower...The Bill in the Declaration... Virgia Bill of
Rights...Massachusetts' "Declaration of Rights" 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... Thiers on French Confisca-
tion...Danton's Prediction...General Remarks...Black-
stone on the 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
Vote...Supreme Court of Wisconsin on Suspending the

Writ.

CHAPTER XXXII.

MORE REVOLUTIONARY SYMPTOMS.

Mobbing of Democrats and Democratic Presses... Schenck's

Order Suppressing Newspapers... Hascall's Despotic Note
to the "New York Express"... How the Republicans

Love Free Speech... Mobbing of Douglas in Chicago...

Republican Mob in Green County, Wis....Federals, Whigs

and Republicans in Juxtaposition...Their Line of Con-

sanguinity...Senator Doolittle vs. Political Doolittle...

President Lincoln vs. Political Lincoln...Republicans

in Congress Suppress Inquiry into Illegal Acts...Their
Preaching vs. Practice... The Negro Voted Out of Illinois
and Wisconsin... Abolitionists Selling Negroes for Cotton.

CHAPTER XXX.

ARBITRARY POWER-MILITARY ARRESTS, &c.,

(CONTINUED.)

John Adams 8 Monarchist... What the Early Fathers
thought of the Vallandigham Case...Great Speech of
Edward Livingston on the Alien Bill, 1798...Terrible
Scathing of Assumptions of Arbitrary Power... Who
was Edward Livingston ?...Republican Confessions of
Gross Abuses of Arbitrary Power...Case of Messrs.
Brinsmade and Mahoney...Damaging Admissions by
"Milwaukee Sentinel "...General Remarks thereon.

CHAPTER XXXI.

DESPOTISM, USURPATIONS, INALIENABLE RIGHTS
TRAMPLED UPON, Etc.

Despotism Seeks the Semblance of Loyalty...Solicitor

Whiting perverts Judge Taney's Decision... Provost

Marshal Fry Acts Thereon...Star Chamber...Laws by

Proclamation in England...Kidnapping in New York...

Gov. Hunt on Arbitrary Arrests...The Case of Gen. Stone

...Beecher on Arbitrary Arrests... A Nice Point to Silence

a Press...Geo. W. Jones vs. Wm. H. Seward...Judge

Clerke's Decision... A Young Lady Fined $15 for Playing

othe "Bonnie Blue Flag "...Burnside Favors the Arrest

of Males and Females that wear Butternut Badges...

Opening the Prison Doors...Case of Gov. Tod and Others

Opinion of Judge Van Trump..." New York Journal

of Commerce" on the Powers of the Provost Marshal...

Case of Judge Constable...Liberated from the Bastile...

Atrocious Sentiments by Senator Wilson...Cincinnati

Prison Full...Other Acts of Despotism...General Conclu-

sions... Vallandigham's Acts compared with Leading Re-

publicans...Loyalty of Democrats...Disloyalty of Re-

publicans...$500 Reward for a Disloyal Democrat Not

Taken...The Writ of Habeas Corpus the Palladium of

Our Liberties...Extracts of the Magna Charts-Wrung

CHAPTER XXXIII.

HAVE WE A MILITARY DESPOTISM?

General Remarks... Educating the Army to the New Role
...Adjutant General Thomas Preaching Politics to the
Soldiers...Punishes Soldiers for Political Opinions...How
the Soldiers View it... Anti-Copperhead Letters and Re-
solves from the Army...How Manufactured...General
Remarks...General Halleck on "Crushing the Sneaking
Traitors of the North"...Seward, Chase, Blair, &c., at
the Cooper Institute Meeting...Case of Lieut. Edgerly....
Abolitionism a Test of a Soldier's Duty...The Conscrip-
tion Act intended to Ignore the Constitution..." Boston
Commonwealth" Admits that the Administration Em-
ployed Bayonets to Carry Elections... Difference between
Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy...Atrocious Sentiments of
Senator Wilson... A Leaf from French History... A Fact
by Sallust...Gov. Seymour on the Rotten-Borough System
His Message of Jan. 5, 1864....A Flexible Flatform...

Henry Clay's Opinion... Free Speech Abolished...Senator
Howe on...Petty Despotism... Arrests for Wearing Badges

...Several Instances in Point...The Evidences of Ap-

proaching Despotism...A Link from "New York Tri-

bune"...To Doubt the Infallibility of the President is

"Treason"...Declaration of Independence Revised, &c.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

MORE OF THE ROLE OF DESPOTISE.

Abolition Schemes to Control Elections...Army Voting...

Julius Cæsar the Originator of...Dr. Lieber on...Louis

Napoleon and Army Voting....Army Vote for...General

Tuttle and Vallandigham...Mr. V. Ahead...N. Y.

World thereon...Tricks of the Administration to Saddle

their Electioneering Expenses on the People...Governor

Salomon of Wisconsin in the role...The Army Weakened

...Soldiers sent home to Vote... Proofs in Connecticut...

Proofs in New York, &c...Stanton Boasts of sending 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
...Further evidences... The Administration

carries Maryland by the Bayonet...Gov. Bradford's Proc-

lamation on the Subject...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

Ballot to the Bullet...More Threats...New York Inde-

pendent Boasts of the Infamy, &c.

CHAPTER XXXV.

SYMPATHY BETWEEN RADICALS AND REBELS-
THE DRAFT, &C.

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
McClellan....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
Weed on "Sneaks"....Drafting in the time of the Revo-
lution....Remarks Thereon.

CHAPER XXXVI.

LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM OF DEMOCRATS.

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....Kemarks 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....

Administration Compliment Gov. Seymour for his Pat-

riotism, &c.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND FIGURES.

Political sine qua non of Wisconsin Legislature....Still re-

fuse to yield an inch....N. Y. Round Table on Lincoln's

Amnesty Proclamation...Two Millions in Men....Three

Millions in Money...Is a National Debt a National Bless-

ing...A Negro Nobility...Effects of a High Tariff... Vicks-

burg Discipline... Will the Rebellion succeed...1,685,000

Democratic Votes in the Loyal States....Gross Outrage by

Abolitionists at Boscobel, Wisconsin.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

FRAUDS, PLUNDERING, SHODDY AND TAXES.

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...Collector 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 "Re-
cord of Infamy" by the Ohio State Journal...
Members of Congress take a hand in... Simmons, of Rhode
Island, takes $50,000...Jack Hale 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 on 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
Under...General Remarks on Republican Thieves and
Plunderers.