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of Friday, the 7th instant, Continental Hall, Philadelphia, was crowded to overflowing to listen to an address from the Hon. John Van Buren, of New York. A rabid Lincoln sheet takes the following notice of this speech: The speaker commenced by referring to the fact that in his own State there was but little doubt felt respecfor him; he was glad that soon he would have an opportunity to fulfill this pledge. We are here to-night, said the speaker, to judge of the past acts of President Lincoln's Administration, and are ready to say that, during the four years of his term of service, enough evidence has been given to the people of the Union to prove He here put the question to the audience, whether they desired this state of things to continue, to which a number of voices responded "No, no." But, said he, Mr. Lincoln's Administration is soon to close, and that of General McClellan will then commence; then we may look for peace, prosperity and happiness as a people.--The spea
Banished. --Judge Barnett and family, of Vicksburg, have been banished by General Dana. Two of Judge Barnett's daughters were banished last summer by McPherson for leaving the Episcopal Church while Mr. Hose was praying for Lincoln.
The completion of the return from the North leave no doubt with regard to the re-election of Lincoln. For our own part, we are in no way disconcerted or disappointed, for we have never, for one moment, entertained a doubt that the result would be precisely such as it is new evident to all that it must be. Nor, to speak the truth, are we displeased with the issue. We have always regarded McClellan as the most dangerous man for the Confederacy that could possibly have been put in nominatarmistices and peace conventions — the most dangerous policy that could possibly have been inaugurated for our cause — would have been pushed to consummation. Besides all this, he is a man of large military experience, and knows far better than Lincoln how to handle the immense forces placed at the command of a President of the United States. We are gratified, then, at the escape we think we have made. It might have been infinitely worse. We are, indeed, confident that it would have been.