There are no more articles openly abusing " Abolitionists:" but the paper sticks to the doctrine, as late as April 20, 18(52, that "the general government has, even in war, no more power" to coerce a rebellious State "tlian the Constitution gives it," and therefore none to confiscate slaves or set them free- The abuse of "Abolitionists" is changed, as the summer goes on, to philippics on "lazy, mindless negroes," and predictions of a "San Domingo massacre " if the slaves of the South are ever freed. As tlie autumn comes on, however, the nomination of Horatio Seymour puts the editor on his feet again, and he begins to threaten the " Abolitionists " more boldly every day. In December he closes the year 1862 by referring to the coincidence of the Emancipation Proclamation of Mr. Lincoln and the election of Jlr. Seymour to be Governor of New York as "The Two Proclamations." The one he concludes to be mere "waste paper, impossible of enforcement," while the other is "A proclamation that the State of New York is free once more." The lines "The Democracy Triumphant," "The Administration is not the Government," came out in every issue, and it is a noticeable fact that in this paper, as in the Yonkers Herabl- Gazette, as the virulence of the tone increases, so does the pressure of the county advertising increase also, showing what powerful influences were behind the papers, in the shape of tlie county officers.

The extracts from the Eastern State Journal have been given in full, because, as appeal's above, a part of the grand jury thought it not quite disloyal enough to be included in the presentment, and therefore its tone can be taken as that of the more moderate Democrats who stayed at home during the war and voted for Horatio Seymour, as they did.