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Here we have in twenty-three companies that left Schuylkill County, from the 17th to the 24th of April, 1861,—one week— seventeen hundred and ninety-five men; and as Governor CURTIN refused to receive any more companies from Schuylkill County, we believe that a sufficient number of citizens from the County enlisted in companies from other sections to make our contribution to the three months' service, in round numbers, two thousand men. If the other counties in Pennsylvania had sent men in the same ratio to their population, about seventy thousand men Iwould have been furnished to the Government from this State alone; or nearly as many men as the President called for in his first requisition. This is a proud record for the County and State.

Of the four Brigadier Generals which Pennsylvania had in the three months' service, Schuylkill County furnished one, General GEORGE C. WYNKOOP, who served on the Potomac, in General PATTERSON'S Division. She had two Colonels, JAMES NAGLE, who commanded the 6th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and HENRY L. CAKE, who commanded the 25th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, besides other field and staff officers, from Lieut.Colonels down to the lowest grade.

Hon. JAMES H. CAMPBELL, member of Congress from the Schuylkill District, hastened to Washington with the first troops, to assist in the defence of the then threatened Capital. Mr. CAMPBELL was mustered into the service of the United States, on the 19th day of April, A. D., 1861, as a private in the "Washington Clay Battalion," formed for the defence of the National Capital, CASSIUS M. CLAY, Major commanding, and served in the same at the City of Washington, until the 6th day of May, 1861, when upon the disbanding of the battalion he was honorably discharged.

Mr. CAMPBELL was, May the 1st, 1861, elected Major of the 25th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. HENRY L. CAKE; was duly commissioned, and served in that capacity, until the Regiment was mustered out at the expiration of its term of service.

Mr. CAMPBELL entered with great zeal and spirit, upon his military duties; and the citizens of his District admired his course so much, that they presented to him during his term of service, a magnificent ́sword, which cost fifty dollars. The presentation took place on the 22d of June, 1861. The sword bore the following inscription :

TO MAJOR JAMES H. CAMPBELL,

THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN;

From those who believe his Arm will prove as effectual in the
Field as his Eloquence in the Forum.

Rev. S. F. COLT made the presentation, as follows:

MAJOR CAMPBELL:-The citizens of Pottsville hasten to meet you, on this brief visit from the camp to your home: and I am charged, for them, to express their continued confidence in the manly and upright course you maintain, as their representative, and as proving yourself by prompt devotion and active service in the hour of treachery and rebellion, a worthy son of the American Union.

We live, Sir, in trying times. Action, action, deeds and daring, rather than profession, are now required to show where the heart is. From a long continued and most blissful repose of peace and prosperity the nation has been suddenly aroused as by an earthquake, to a tremendous conflict-a conflict, involving its constitutional integrity, its very governmental existence; a conflict threatening destruction to all the protection, privileges and happiness, which the Constitution and Government of the Union give to thirty millions of freemen; a conflict most strange and unnatural, in which, as it appears, the machinations of a quarter of a century's concealed treason have filled with fratricidal hate men of Southern States, who, in their frenzy, led by covenant-breakers,

ruthlessly assail, and madly seek to destroy that Government of the whole Union, which has fostered them, given them whatever of strength and greatness they now have, and which Government is even now necessary to their own existence and prosperity, as a Republican people. But, sudden and unnatural as is this conflict, it gives also occasion and opportunity to millions of freemen, to prove themselves men, and worthy of the boon God has given them in the Constitution of this Republic. A grand Union army rallying on the instant, as by one impulse, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, maintaining their sodality as one people-who will now dare to ask, are we a nation, or have we a Government? Nay more, this almost miraculous response to the President's call for men and means to support that Government, demonstrates to the world that a Republic begets and cultures the purest patriotism. Such a Government is worth a million of lives. The Nation cannot be maintained, no, not for a day, on the absurd basis of State-rights sovereignty. Our patriot fathers, North and South, fought and freely bled, to win and establish liberty and the peaceful pursuit of happiness in a Federal Union for the continent. By a wisdom, bordering on inspiration, they sought to make it indissoluble, by the cementing bonds of the Constitution.

Compromise this, their grand work, their glorious legacy and nothing on earth will be secure to us or our children. Dark will be the day, and pregnant with woes to this land, aye, to the world-and cursed will be the dastard race who suffer it-when this most perfect effort at selfgovernment by a free people, shall be resolved into the anarchical reign of fragments. But, blessed be the God of our fathers, he has united our people with one mind on this great question. He has given them one heart, to do and to dare for it. So united, they must prove invincible! Major CAMPBELL, the citizens of Pottsville are proud of the firm and unfaltering course you take, and so eloquently maintain in your place in the halls of legislation, on this momentous issue. Be assured, sir, the people in their majesty, will stand firm to those who stand firm for the Union.

But,

To me, Sir, it remains to perform a most agreeable duty. In other climes, crowned heads have been accustomed to signalize and reward worthy men by touching their shoulder with the sword, and dubbing them Knights; and this was held as a high honor for many ages. honored Sir, our republican usages are simpler, and truer to the hearts of a free people. The sovereignty of a noble impulse of grateful regard for well tested fidelity, seeks, by the presentation of some token, to convey to you and yours some humble, yet significant, testimonial of public esteem.

Moved by admiration for the devotion you evinced in so promptly taking arms, and sharing with rank and file, the exposures and toil, the fatigues and dangers of the citizen soldiers, by night and by day-in the streets of Washington, when our National Capital was threatened by treachery and by assault-we, your fellow citizens, have procured this sword, and beg you to accept, and wear it, as a token of our cordial appreciation and hearty acknowledgment of your faith and bravery, your constancy and devotion in the hour of our national trial. May it, in your hands, my dear Major, prove ever true as your own heart has; and in bearing it for the defense of the God-given Union, may you prove as efficient in the field, as you have been eloquent in the forum.

Mr. CAMPBELL in substance said:

Mr. COLT, GENTLEMEN OF THE COMMITTEE, AND FRIENDS:-I had not

anticipated that my impromptu visit of a day, would add one more to the many gratifying proofs you have ever given, of your confidence and kindness. I am deeply moved by this new evidence of your approval, and am unprepared to thank you as I ought. I can only say, I accept your beautiful gift with gratitude, and dedicate it to the most sacred cause that ever called for the unsheathing of steel-the defense of our beloved country, and the maintenance of her laws. In that cause, the loyalty of the people has moved with power and passion. In that cause, a nation has arisen as one man. In that cause, may God permit me to do service, with each faculty he has given !

In accepting this token of your regard, I must disclaim the merit your speaker so kindly attributes to me. I have done no more than the simple duty of a citizen; no more than hundreds from your midst,thousands all over the land have done; no more than every man before me will do if necessary. I, who have known you long and well, know your patriotism and loyalty. If I did not, I see it proclaimed on all sides by mute but eloquent indications. The good old colors are all abroad.

They decorate your children's garments; they ornament your houses; they wave, with tender significance from the windows of the brave absent ones, and float in glory from every eminence.

"From mount, and pinnacle, and spire,
Unnumbered banners lift their bars.

And waving-wafting-high and higher,-
Fill all the firmament with stars!"

Lift up the grand old banner-the beautiful symbol of union; and proclaim death to everything that assails or threatens it. The destiny of this great, free people can only be perfected in union. The land may know convulsions, and tribulation, but not a divided rule. I repeat, death to everything that crosses the path of the Union, from whatever cause or quarter. If interest interferes with it, let that interest perish. If affections are at variance with it, those affections must be in abeyance. If friendships conflict with it, they should be renounced. The claim of country is paramount to every claim or tie. When the sons of Brutus plotted treason, their father condemned them to the traitor's death; and gave the world an illustration of the unselfishness of the patriot's nature. The children of his hearth-the strong yearnings of his heart, were sacrificed to the public good. Modern patriotism is not less exalted than the ancient virtue; and the events of past weeks have enriched the annals of history with sublime evidences of devotion to country. I use the phrase in its broadest significance. Our country is vast, but patriotism is the most liberal, comprehensive, and exalted of virtues. It is not a narrow, and vulgar provincialism, compounded of local passions and prejudices; clamorous for imaginary and fantastic rights of sections to be based upon the ruins of the whole. Wide as Heaven, it can compass all the land!

In the great conflict of the time, we are not battling for a State, but for the United States; not for the North, but for all! For the perpetuity of the government of Washington, over the whole land; and for that great future of peace, prosperity, and progress, which can only be enjoyed under the union of the States. If to that future, the hope of the present must be sacrificed-so let it be. The present is but for a time; the future is for all times. Let this generation sow the seed from which a thousand generations shall gather precious fruits.