" We confess to the smallest possible amount of respect for Republican professions of ' loyalty,' or Republican charges of 'disloyalty.' The word is not American, nor Republican even --here it originally expressed the treasonable attachment of the loyal Tories to George the Third, in his wanton war against .Vmericau liberty ; and, as now used, it generally means partisan devotion to .\braham Lincoln, not in resistance to a Southern Rebellion, but in a would-be second war on the liberties of .\merican citizens."'

June 11th comes the notice of the Democratic Convention being called by August Belmont, on which the editor exhorts his readers that " Civil liberty cannot survive another term of Abraham Lincoln." Next week comes an article on " Reconstruction," from which we extract, --

•'jWhat is the political relation of the rebellious States to the Union ? Have their own acts and ordinances taken them out of it, as they themselves claim If not, has the President, or Congress even, the right to expel States from the I'nion ? If these .States are still members of the Union, can new States be carved out of them without their own consent, against the prohibition of the Constitution on that head? On some of these points we entertain very decided opinions, which we refrajn, however, from expressing in this article."

From thence, through July and August, the Gazette is much exercised at the " progress of military despotism" in regard to the suppression of the bogus proclamation, and especially when the New York grand jury, appealed to by Judge Russell to investigate in the matter, considers it "inexpedient to enquire into the action of the general government as to certain newspapers in this city." The Gazette calls on the judge to summon another grand jury, and on Oakey Hall, the district attorney, to do his best to