Signs of the Times
Secret sworn Abolition Societies.
The
Marion County (O.) Mirror, of Thursday last, contained the following communication:
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"Secret Societies.--
Mr. Editors: --The article of 'Stesta,' in your last, has made quite fluttering among the Abolitionist in our vicinity.
It has exposed them.
They have met in secret conclave in this township for the past two months. I know what I say when I make the charge that an Abolition Society is in operation here, and that its members are under oath to make this war a war of Abolitionism.
Caledonia"
’
We believe there is no doubt of the truth of "
Caledonia's" statement.
These secret Abolition Societies abound in every county in the free States where Abolitionists are to be found.
And the members of these secret Abolition Societies are sworn to make this a war for freeing the slaves.--
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Brought about by the war.
The Philadelphia Press, speaking of the fall trade, says:
‘
Trade this fall will be light.
In many instances, firms which a year ago had a right to be considered wealthy, are to-day hopelessly insolvent; and, in all our large cities, it is no exaggeration to say that a majority of their mercantile houses have been compelled to yield to the storm of general suspension.
’
A great nuisance.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
A petition is in circulation among the
German Republicans of
Illinois, praying the
President to remove
Cameron, as "a great nuisance." The following is a copy of the petition:
"
To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States:
"The undersigned American citizens having come to the conclusion, and sincerely believing, that
Mr. Simon Cameron, your
Excellency's present
Secretary of War, is in every respect wholly unfit for the high and at the present time, doubly important position your
Excellency entrusted him with, and further believing that he is in fact a great nuisance to the country, would most respectfully pray your
Excellency to rid the nation and yourself of the said officer, and to replace him by a nobler and an abler man, in whom all loyal citizens may confide.
"Discharge
Simon Cameron, and you have won the country a dozen victories!
"We, therefore, will ever pray, &c., &c."
The
Ant eiger des Westens, of
Illinois, hopes the petition may be effectual in removing the "public nuisance" from the
Cabinet.
We have heard returned volunteers say that the belief in the army was that
Cameron was not the only "great nuisance" in the
Cabinet; and that the impression was prevalent that they would all go out of office wealthy, whatever their pecuniary condition might have been before they went in.
The German workingmen in New York.
At a meeting of the German workingmen in New York, held on Wednesday last, the purpose of the resolutions submitted was to the effect that the workingmen of New York, (reduced to a condition bordering upon distress by the political complications of the last eight months and the existing war, with destitution staring them and their families in the face) and having already contributed largely of the labor, their ready means, and even the blood of their relatives and friends, in the effort to preserve the
Commonwealth, deem that, in return, the
State is bound to protect them in the fruits of their honest tell, and all the rights and immunities guarantee to them by the
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution or Charter of American Liberty.
