Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, September 30, 1864, Image 1

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4oh more pleasant and more
wn by, the name of Fre—
publican nanie-46401i is the ,
best of Sandusky county, andtcon
.iit population of over 2090 Inhabitants..
mere any but ,foie towns In the Western
country that can equal this place in splen
dor and advantage of location; being situ
ated in NU central part - of one of the beet
~ agricultural districts in Ohio, and lying
contiguous to Late Erie, all the trade of,
the surroundingeountry snares here, mak
ing it quite a shipping point. The private
and-publio„bqildhigs of the town are nest
and tastefully constructed, and on the' whole
would do credit to a much larger'and Older
town. One more advantage to the place is
that its inhabitants, as well athe peasantry
of the" surrounding country are chiefly
l'enneylvattians, mostly from Snyder, Un
' pop,, Centre and Lyeoming, countiee, and
that, yen knvw, is no small Win in Western
localities, as it is a. pretty sure hidicatiolt
of "good land," Paying- farms," large and
sure crops, "honesty, intelligence and in
dustry of the farmers, and the pure and
undeviating devotion of the majority of the
inkabitants to'the sound principles of dem
ocracy. If . any of your readers desire a
Western residence In a good farming coun
try,
_well timbered, lime stone land and
good water, and all at light figures, let them
give old Sandusky county a call and "my
; head for a: foot-ball" if they do not confirm
' my slat ements. -
and I now
TOO from a mu 1
genial place c
Inont—s - j
oottnt r
'But my object Is not to write a descrip
tive letter, only so far as it may be of in
terest to the farming community of your
county, as we are now engegeil in a politi
cal contest of such vital interest to the peo
--ple-anti-the-net-iistrritr-is-netreo--be-tinfreeted-
that any other than a political letter will
meet with n very general acceptation. Since
my last I have been a constant observer of
the political course and tionerhau/t; of men
- and lliutge generally in this great "Buckeye
state." I have rend 'leader" after "lea
der" in that intensely abolition sheet, the
Toledo Blade, and also a few in the Cleve
land Mornings Leader, of like ilk, in the
hope that I might discover some sure basis
upon which they would -erect a defence of
their patron saint—the faithless Abraham!
But no. To disappointment I um. doomed
—ierthat, r at. I ...toad of-fintlingarryth-hr:
to Abraham's credit qr discredit, (for on
the sulkiect of the doings and mis-duingl of
Abraludn, they are as silent as the grave—
probableacting upon the mnsita that." the
least said is soonest mended,")-1 find only
* a repeated attempt to prove tlint there is
a division of the demaratic party produced
by the MCClellan letter of, acceptance. Yet,
In the face of all this paraded twaddle, they
publish the proceedings of the Democtatic
Convention which was recently held at Col
umbus, and ill which Vallandigham, Meek
Long, Pugh and Cox, took an active part,
and there tell us that the Convention mine-
untidy endorsed and ru'ilied the nomination
of "Little Mac." Now, is it not a little
singular that these Republican Abolition ed-
Dere can't keep up the same story on all
Old es of their paper! Why is it that they
so wilfulry tie on the second page and
unwillingly tell lhe•truth an the third page!
Is it possible that they are so ignorant of
the Stanton principle "that a lie well stuck
too is ai good as the truth fully told," or do
thCy hope I hat the whole truth of the third
will counterbalance the tfrribbi lie of the
setioniCpage! The latter inference muakbe
so, for each daily edition presents thisri
oue &namely, and no apology appears foil tte
diserepentijr., Well, let them wail I , "Let the
galled jades wince, our withers are' un-
Wrung," anti the whole democratic vote of
Ohio, in connection with the conservative
republicans vote will he milt for "Mac," lea
ving themortgra, composed of office-holders
and contractors for "Old Aby." lint the
bolitienl rope twisting of our abolitioh edi
tors suggests another very important idea
which is not to be lost sight of, viz : The
growing dissensions in their own miry,
which they vainly endeavor to conceirby
crying out "division", in the Demooratia
ranks. Since Wade has thrown his bomb
shell in their camp, and gudge Campbell
lighted his torpedo on their door delis, Ex-
Secretary Chase has become irreconoiled
and irreconcilable, and consequently the
Cincinnati Ortzette and Toledo Conamemal—
Chase organs—have advanced a la Sigel
several steps to the rear, and delivered a fear
ful charge info the thinned ranks of the Lin
eal nista. This oauses considerable squirm
ing, and I presume, upon the suppo
sition that "misery likes company,"
outlay of the Lincoln organs are now
laboring to produce divisions in other par
ties. The effort, however, will be fruitless.
The epirit'and determination of the Demoo-
racy of Ohio is unalterably fixed, and the
ides of November*lll pronounce theretfult
. greatly and gloriously in favor of the Chi
cago nominee's.
The canvass of the State is in full tide
and operation; political meetings aro being
held and olubs formed in 'every village,
town and hamlet, and never before, in the
history of MAO, was such enthusiasm man
ifested by the masses in favor of McClel
lan. On the other hand the Lincolnits are
making bet little effort-to advance the in
terests of their chief. Probably a lack of
the proper hidentive [Greenbacks] is the
cause. And what few meetings have been
held in some of the larger towns have been
but slimly attended. The fact is, the "Lin
coln pill" is too big to swallow and be
merry over, since Wade, the Chemist, has
analysed it ; hens, the, bought disciples
have concluded, and wisely too, to die ?is
natural and easy as possible.
I wsa somewhat amused this morning,
wlyin., in glancing over last evening's Tole
tlai i lifade, my eyes "fell flat down" upon a
putilished speech of Secretary Seward de
livered at Auburn, is residence, in New
York, on the 2d inst. And noticing the ed:
.itorial comments thereon, end seeing in the
caption "A Masterly Speech," and having
eaten a hearty breakfast, and being in good
health I, of course, concluded the perusal
'bf i would not seriouily.atfeet digestion,
Vol. 9.
inasmusti - dw 'it was the first republican
speech I had the pleasure or seeing since
the campaign opened. .
h e
sir, I read it, grieved with him when
he “grieved" at the non-appearance of his
many friends 'whom he thought had gone
after strange Gods.. I was sorry when he
was "sorry".that the war was not ended;
and drafting would again be resorted to in
order tb replenish our depleted armies. I
was lourprised, when he was "Surprised"
that everybody could not see Itowmear the
approaellineend of the rebellion' wasp and
I was amazed, when ho was "amazed" that
the people had prOnouneed him too san
guine of success. (Seward is not "son
guino, never; , it is only his Rre,dispositibn
to lie.) I was glad, when he was "glad"
that 1112, could now bid them good-night,
promising them an early and 'honorable
peace with the Union ; (I'thonght I seen it
in "Mao's" election, and I know ho did too
—only bad whisky, or being too "san
,guine made him say otherwise.) Now, you
see, I was not prejudiced when I read his
speech, for in all his' feelings I sympathized
.with him, save the whisky part. I thought
of the remark the llon. Daniel S. Dickin
son made in a speech at the same place, in
114A,srlie.n..ha_said.;._!!CAnharnl_Baantifui
Auburn ! Lovliest City of the Plains! Cel
ebrated for two thing—and just two; one
the residence of William H. Seward, and
the-other—the looatiMvoT the State Prison,
and the great wonder, in my Mind, is that
(Use two have 164 remained apart !"
But I hove now taken up my allotted
space; and will conclude this letter by as
suring the Democracy of the' old Keyetone
State that we of Ohio are firm and united,
and will march with ease to victory, rally
ing around our staudarti bearers, shouting
that beautiful and familiar national song—
. CMS) me ning atdrig! irrirreriggrstrtn:
along I
McClellan's our Loader, both gallant and strong,
,to., de.
More anon, Providence or Abraham POL
interfering. BUCK EYE.
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN PAPER FOR
McCLELLAN
It keep us busy to notice the numerous
important changes—occurring daily. We
can scarcely , pick up an exchaur without
noticing some important accession to our
ranks from those of our opponents. The
Ann Arbor (Michigan) .Tournol, one of the
ablest anemost influential Republionn pa
pers in that State, has taken the names of
Lincoln and Johnson front the head of its
columns, and substituted the names of Geo.
R. 11CCIellan anti Geo. G. Pendleton. In
justification of its course, it uses the follow
ing arguments, which we commend to the
notice of every honest Republican
"Public sentiment in favor of Gen. Me
llan has been increasing in forte YDry
rapidly during the' last thirty days. A
large majority of the people seem to be
A trongly impressed with the necessity of
abandoning the Abolition policy of Abraham
Lincoln- r -of falling back upon the Consti
tution as it is, as the only bond of Union
between the Statei, and of electing a man
of military experience, wisdom and regard
for the Constitution•; a man who is ardently
devoted to the Union, and is capable of
prosecuting the war successfully and deter
mined to restore the Union as it was. * *
Being well satisfied, with the nomination
of Oen. McClellan, and with the resolutions
constituting the platform adopted by the
Democratic Nationll Convention, wo shall
give our support to that ticket, and have
taken from the head of our columns the
names of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew
Johnson,, and substituted in their places
the names of George B. McClellan and Geo.
IL Pendleton. We I>o this in the full and
firm belief that it is implissible to restore
the Union and to establish peace throughout
the United States under the emancipation
policy adopted and persisted in by the
present Administration ; and that it is ne
cessary to change our rulers, with a view to
a change of.the policy of the Government,
that those most deoirahlo and important ob
jects may be attained.
The policy of Mr. Lincoln has ie-
Volved the nation in a debt of pearly four
thousand million of dollars, which debt Is in
creasing each day at the rate of about four
millions of dollars. It is difficult to grasp
the full client or this immense burthen
which .Abolition rule has cast upon the
American people—let us try to illustrate it
by same familiar standard. if a man were
to count as fast as he could pronounce the
words distinctly, he would count eighty in
one minute, forty-eight hundred in ono
hour, and forty-eight thousand in a working
day of ten hours. At that rate it would
take him eighty four days to count the
money expended in one day. Again, an
acre contains six millions two hundred and
seventy—two thousand six hundred and for
ty square inches. Four millions of one dol
lar greenbacks, the expenses of each day,
°Wain seventy-six millings. of square
idolibs, or nearly enough to enikeky, foyer
thirteen acres of land. These Warding' fig
ures may produce some oorreot notimoithe
magnitude of the debt which is mortgaging
every house and every acre of land in -the
country. The Administration hms already
taxed very heavily everything imaginable,
except land, whichflready bears the burth
en of State and county taxation. Give Mr.
Lincoln another lease of power for four more
years, and land will no longer escape, but
will come in for the lion's share of Govern
ment taxation. —Amt
MARK TRIO DITTIRRNOI.—Never in the
political history of thip country did the
nomination of any candidate for the Presi
dency by a great politics party fall so ut
terly still-born upon public expectation ail
that of Abraham Lincoht has done. The
gang of interested office-holders *hi& as
sembled in the Convention at Baltimore,
did their work according to contract, with
the hope of future 'penal/abut in bounties,
contracts, and blond.--Strangers to patriot
ism, and TRAITORS TO TVA consurorrox
they were willing teosee their country butch
ered and ruined, that they night thrive.
The people who bleed and Stiffer, gain no
response to their nominees.
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Rf.I.LEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 30,1864.
Ow taticri: l /damn
V; GRAY 111111Z1Z,--
13E1LEF - 0 - N - TE, PA
TERMS.-42 per year when paid in advance
$2,50 whon not paid in advance, and $3,00 who,
not paid before the expiration or the year
' Wfir for the Union."
When this war began, the party which
had elected a sectional presideht, and
whose very existence depended upoil
hostility to the old Union. endeavored to
make falsehood plausible by coupling it
with truth. They naught alit in the
antis, there could be but two parties,one
for, and one against the Union. This
was the truth. But they went further,
and assuming that the Union could only
he sustained by bayonets, they sought to
teach the people that all who were not
in favor of a barborous war wereenemies
to the Union ; by their' course, they
meant to staiko the death blow to a par
. ortret for years defenleTtliiiW
ernment againsetheir assaults, and pre
served the Union of the .States despite
all their efforts to destroy it. They
meant that the members of the Demo
cratic-party shoal:fall victims - to -popu
lar excitement, And that not a hand
should be outstretched to preserve them
from all the outrages a maddened mob
could commit upon them. In this they
partially succeeded, anti would have car
ried their hostility further but for the
indignant rebuke administered them by
But events haveproveu the earree
items of the old theory, that no man or
party can successfully fight against a po
litical principle. After almost four years
of bloodshed and ruin, such as the world.
never saw equalled, the people have only
ju.t arrived at► the" point from which
they should have set out. The Aboli
tionists taught the truth when they de
clared that there were only two parties,
one for and the other•against the Union.
It has required four years of bitter ex-
perienee to enable the people to sepa
rate the truth from falsehood, - and to
teach them that the Onion party was the
Demoeracy. It has cost millions of hu
man lives and inconceivable sums of
money to teach us what was told us years
ago by Stephen A. Douglas, that "war
divan ion, fi n al, dermal separation,'' and
apd
that the war party were the real distm;
unionists, who were organized upon
principles which had for their object the
honemberment of the Republic. The
lurt.rvrhiell elected Abraham Lincoln
has always been unsuccessful and al ,
ways will be, because it has always•been
fighting against a great principle, and
the laws of its e.xibthilee forbid that it
should fight against anything else.
When they commenced this war, they
showed their „utter ignorance of the
means by which the Union was formed,
or of the natural ties which held. the
States together. It is just as certainly
a law of nature that, war will sunder, in
stead of uniting contending *forces, as
that oil and water will not mix. ' When
South Cafta' and her sister States of
the South withdrew from the Union and
claimed a right to do so, it opened up 'a
question directly which had engaged the
attention of the wisest statesmen for
many years. lt.should have been tnet
calmly, and discussed in all its bearings,
and every effort made to strengthen the
bonds of union which had united us as a
Peeplo for 50 many years. It is evident
to any one who has taken the pains Co
trace up the great events which followed
each other so -rapidly in the Winter of
1860 and spring of 18(11, that the lead
ers of the secession movement at the
South calculated well and, truthfully the
course which would be pursued by the
newly instated power of the North. They
knew full well that the Abolitionists, in
their blind hatred of slavery, would
seize the first opportunity to make war
upon the Southern States, and thus alien
ate the hearts of the poohe of those
States from the old Union and create a
breach which All ova efforts could not
heal. The tesult shows how well their
calculations had been made. The mo
ment . hostilities commenced, the ' last
bond of union 'was severed, and every
blow struck but•-widened the breach.
Had the . Union been but a thing of pa
yer, something which had no existence
in reality v it would matter but little how
it was maintained. If. we are striving
only for the name of "Union," it makes
little difference whether it is maintained
upon its original principles 'or pinned to
gether with bayonets. Bertha Union
wags fact. It was founded upon great
natural truths, and no matter' by whom
these truths are violated, whether by
Northerner Southern men, it weakens
and destroys the bonds of Union: -. ThoSe
who flamed the Union dallared that it
existed only in mutual love and confi
dence, and no-one who has traced' itei
formation and history but will admit the'
truth of the saying. Is it not absurd
and monstrous to attempt to gain the
confidence of a people by making war
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upon their'? 'Wheit will the memory of
the battles which haikfilled our land With
horror and woo, fad om the minds of
the participantst., fratricidal strife?
When will'the bitterness-which Alls the
hearts of the contending parties give
place to "lore and confidence?" Never,
while the present administration is in
power. It is utterly impossible for the
Abolition ,party, to restart) the Union,
even if they desired to do sup for oppo
-site elements-will not mix. To form a
union there must he mutual confidence
and a willingness on both sides. There
is net a congenial 'feeling between the
Abolitionists of the North and ,the peo
ple of the 4titli ; therefore they can
never form a union..'
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'The only hope is in the Pemocracy,
and if the people would see the countv ,
restored to its 'Old flatus they must sup
port the only mirty which has no sec
tionalism in its composition, and which
has over labored for the good of the whole
country. We Callllot. (101/bUt the honest
desire of the people for the restoration
of the.ol4 Union and peace. Not, a bell
in the laid but would ring forth the joys
~ : • • A r er-u-wititlicir -won
not be illuminated. God grant that they
may not make thelatal mistake ofj sup
posing that waetah-ever reunite the sec
tions which it has so widely sundered.
"War fur .thrakUnion:' is an absurdity :
hat it may cost us the life of our ltepub
lic, and prove the wreck of liberty if it
is perserved in. Then "idly freemen.
for the Union," and teach the world
that we of the North know the princi
ples on which our government is -estab
lished and know how to maintain them.
our "War for the Union" and there on
the 11th of October and the Bth of No
veMber, two grelt, battles are to be fought
which will decide the issue, Let your
ballots be cast for McClellan and .Pen
dleton, and the whole Democratic deka,
and it will assist in restoring the Union,
in preserving the Constitution, and in
re-establishing PEACE.
Which Will They Choose?
If-the poor men of Centre county,
those who are-compelled to labor for a
living, themeehanica and working been
—desire to know how much it is costing
them to keep up this war, which Aboli
tionists swear shall not stop until "sla
very " is abolished, and the negro placed
upon an equality with the white man, let
him take a day's wages and go to the
market or the store. They must pay
sixty cents a pound fur coffee, thirty
cents a pound for sugar, fifty cents a
yard fur calico, eighty Cents a yard for
muslin, nun cents a box for matches,
and for eferything else in proportion.—
Lot them compare what they can pm ,
chase with the proceeds of a day's labor
now, with what they could in the good
oldklays of Democratic - rule. -Then they
had peace, plenty, comfort and happi
ness, now they have war, taxes, conscrip
tions, weariness, hunger amid suffering.
Let them not forget that Lincoln with
his imbecility, and corruptness, his po
liticaManaticism and determinatioa to
ruin the country is, responsible for all
these troubles. If they want these con
tinued, and have taxes and prices for
the necomarries of life go still higher,
let them support Lincoln and the Abo
lition Ticket ; but if they would have a
change, if they would have a return of
the peaceful, prosperous days we once
enjoyed, let them vote for McClellan and
the whole Democratic Ticket.''
Huzf.a! H4zza,!,!
"DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS
FROM MAINE '? l ' The Republican
papers have been filled with falsd dis
patches conceini lig the election in Maine.
They claimed kreat gains in that State.
But tile correct returns show a Dotter
°retie gain of from 3,000 to 5,000! This",
too, was accomplished without any ef
fort on the part of the Democrats, as
they did not expect to carry the State.
Will the miscegenation organ, up town,
give its reader the correct returns. now
that they have turned out so different
from what the Abolition press first re
ported them? And will it tell thorn of
the Democratic. gain in Vermont of six
members of the Legislature?
Dont forget., when you go to Att
polls, that Theo., Wright, 'the Dania
cmtio candidate for Congress, is..a man
of principle, of °hullo:star and ability,
while tephen P. Wilson the indepen
dent Abolition candidate, is a political
trickster, an unprincipled office Bekker.
and a man whom the honest people, even
of his own county will not support.
If you want to be min-represented
in Congress, - or if you would have a few
political tricksters, from Tidga county
control this Congressional district, vote
for Stephen F. Wilson, the " Wilmot
Proviso " Candidate.
The way to increase your taxes,
prolong the war, destroy the govore
mentoand make the neoeSsariei of life
so dear that your, &milks must suffer
for the want of them, is to vote for Lin
coln, Johnson and the Abolition Ticket.
CI
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THE SOUTH 'VOTES FOR LIN
COLN'S RE-ELECTICN.
- -The Democratic nominees in' the United
States ace Ifc - Clerlan for President iiid-Pen
"elleton for Vice rresident. • What ~concern
have
have the people of those Confeilerate,Stetes
in the fate of dose candidates at' the ap
proaching election? In our opinion, the'
intereit and hope of peaceis not,greatly
ad
yanced by these nominations. from Gen
eral 'McClellan our people (Lapointe but lit
tle hope of peace, other than a reconstruc
tion peace. * * * * What hope do his
anteeedents-hold out that 'should encourage
our people to believe that he would yield
our nationality any sooner than Lincoln-I—
le is by far the more dangerous mentor us ;
had his policy been persistently followed,
and the war conducted on the principle! of
civilised warfare, he might have divided our
people. and perhaps, conquel•ed our liber, ,
ties. Nith consummate abilities he clearly,
foresaw Alta emancipation might possibly
free the negroes, Put could not unite the
ections; 'hat confiscation Might enrich his
dieu,but could not reconcile our people ;
c Inc, with n n curliest and honest love for
Ilse Union, he molded those fatal acts, and
conducted the war for the restoration of the
Union, rather than the Obstruction of the
South. Ilia policy was the olive branch in
one hand Nor the sword in the other, to
conquer by power and conciliate by kind
ness. It was-a most dangerous policy for
us, fur if the ameliorating hand of Ftderal
Jfailcinfma had eaftened the...rigeraut_war..aut
people would not have been subjected to
those terrible fires of
,suffering by which
Mr. Lincoln has hardened every heart and
elected every sentiment against; our merci
less foes. As is sincere seccesionist,prefer
ring war and nationality to peace and the
Union, we looked upon the fact of a differ
enoe between Mr. Lincoln atul d ,General
McClellan as to the proper policy of con
ducting the ivatrssas peculiarly fortutiate for.
our cause. We hailed the proclamations of
einaneipation and tionfiscation, and the poli
cy of plunder and devastation as sure pled.
g q a of ultimate triumph ; they were ter
rible ordeals; but they most effectually
eradicated every sentiment of Union, and
growling the pride as well as the interest of
our people, tnnefirfirritr - pittrloi WM - lit
i
whole, until they wo 1.1 have accepted death.
as preferable to lath ate defeat.
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Now, between . cClellan and Lincoln
there are many points of difference — the
former is a man of talents, of information,
of firmness and great - military experiente
and ability—the latter is a supple, pliant,
easy fool, a good but vulgar joker. While
McClellan has the interest of the Union only
at heart, Mr. Lincoln line the fanatical ob
ject. of freeing negroes for his inspiration.
Between "my plan" as Gen. Grant has con
,ducted it, and one by Gen. McClellan/there
could not have been the same success that
has already attended our arms, for we lost
more men in fighting the science of McClel
lan on the Peninsula than wo have in repel
ling the furipue but ill-conducted assaults
of Grant. .
Thus, whether we view' this nomination
in the light of peace or of war, we prefer
Lincoln to McClellan. We.cap make better
y
term of peace with an au slavery fanatic
than with an earnest U t midst. 15 . 0 can
gain more military sue° as in a war con
ducted on "my plan" than one of a real
soldier like McClellan, and sooner destroy
the resources kind strength of our enemy
where they are mann d and manipulated
by the light fie ere gentry of Messrs.
Chase and Few:Alden, an when husbanded
and skilfully contrail ti by such a man as
Guthrie, Our best ho ititrom thathonest
fanatics of the United States, mentwho be
lieve in their hearts that slavery is the
' "sum of all villanies," and who really and
sincerely believe it,to be their, duty to separ
ate their country from this "rolls of barbar
ism." Snob men, - when they find that th,ir
people are tired of the war, will end it by
a peace that sacrifices terbitory to freedom,
and will let the South "go," provided she
curries slavery with her. These men be
lieve
no less that the just powers id govern-
ntent are derived from the consent of the
governed are derived from the consent of
f .„
the governed, than "that all men crea
ted free and equal." The two p ulaides
are of like importance to au Abolit hideq-- .
Both the Abolitionist and the Democrat •. 1
our enemy—the one, .because we have
slaves, the other, because we are disunion
ist s. Nor does their enmity differ in degrees ;
they both hate us most intensely. The
Chicago platform is, that "pence may he
lostored on the basis of the Federal Union
of Ibe States"—that is, reconstruction of
the Union as it wits, with slavery protected
by the nominal laws, but warred upon by
areal sentiment, aggravated and embittered
by the war. The reconstructerUnion of
the Chicago platform would be the certain
destruction—first, pf slavery, and next of
slaveholders. With Lincoln and the Balti
more platform, we of the Confederate States
know where we are,—outiode of the pale of
men, devoted to rutu anti desthetion„with
no hope save in the iustice - and protection
if (led, and the courage and manliness of
our soldiers. With swords and muskets
and cannon we fight Lincoln, and the past '
affords .no reason of apprehension of the
future: lint in the reconstracted Union of
the Chicago platform' we would be deprived
of our weapons without being reconciled to
our foes.
There is no question that between the two
men General Meetsllan enjoys far more of
the respect of the people of those States
than Lincoln, and the Democratic party far
more of our confidence than the Republican,
and that if reconstruction was possible it
would be far more probable under McClel
lan and the Democrats than under Lincoln
and the Republicans. The North-west in
spires one, and New England the other;
'at as long as NewAtigland imposes the
dogmas of her civilisation, and the tenets
of her fanaticism npdn the mind of the pee:
pie of the Northrett, there may be peace
and separation, 'but there never can be
peace and separation, but there can never
be Union and harmony. If the Northwest
desires a restoration of the Union, let its
people shake off the bondage of New Eng
land, and show to the world that anew era
of toleration and fraternal kindness has
risen in the place of nautical Puritanism
and selfish ostraciszo..--Ricksecui Snicker.
Taz.OistawStan.—The nominees of the
Chicago Convention on the other hand have
been received with the moat unbounded
enthusiasm. They have taxed, drafted'and
bled that scoundrels might-stoonlate, upptil
they are grtiund to the very birth. In Mc-
Clellan they see Peace, a Beconstruction•of
the Union, a return to - etatesmanship, re- .
duoed, taxation, and the good old times of
formeryears, as Oka rejoice, let them not
forget that THE ELBCTION not the nowt
nation deeides the Eatioits tate.
—Dont forget the Man 1180:kg on
Morley Next.
No. 38:
MR. LINOOLN'S POLITICAL TRICKS
The great premier of the administration
has left his luxuriou rooms in the State De
partinent,-gene out Miff ta6 atmosphere oC
Washington, into that of the toiling, thri
ving people, and from a stand 'point view's
thp government not only trout afar, but ..m
-lightena the people with the ideas engen: ,
tiered around the cabinet table of the pres
ent dynasty. Dealt lug 'to pass over the
misrepresentation, falsehood, egotism, and
silly twaddle of Mr. Seward's speeches at
Auburn, N. Y.—for it abounds in all—we
will here refer - only to two tentementa made
by the learned and astute secretary }lrmo;
he esperts-there will be no draft, as the vol
unteering has furnished the government with
anfficient, force to recruit tile armies. This
stay have been the secret of the cabinet
council room, but it was never intended in
be mash: known to the voltudeering miutites
till the re-euforcentent of. the army wee ap
accomplished fact or the election safely over
Mr. Reward, however, became excited in hii
speech, was melees for his master, desired
to conciliate votes, and out it carne—plum
ply out, and, preato, change! nett a recruit
ing office next day secured a respectable
corporal's guard of volunteers. Two dnyj.
afterwnrds, however, Mr. 'Stanton, in a dis
patch to General Dix, states most posithely
that the draft must be enforced if the quo
tas are not filled, and the draft se now actual
ly grang on.' Thus the ardent hopes of Mr.
Seward's auditors are chilled by a most 1111-
, nard_spri , od. ug s J I .a -Matatry.-thiail.
that that gentleman looks rather-tint.
Again ha-endeavors to counteract the very
bad effects of Mr. Lincoln's letter, " to whom
it may concern," and he states that when
the rebel armies are subdued, an' the wea
pons of rebellion laid down, the administra
tion will not require the abandonment of
slavery. As this is just the very Opposite
ground taken by Mr. Lincoln in his letter,
.are can come to know other conclusion than
that Mr. Beward speaks by authority, and
that the pilgrimage to Auburn,,was but a
presidential order to assist in carrying the
next election. The ill effects of the letter
which makes the abandonment of slavery a
condition precedent to a compromise and
pence, have startled Mr. Lincoln, for he sees
- thwt - tWelTeelite are Tepidly'ciiiffiiilTO - Tlie
conclusion that no pence can be acquired so
long us he is in office, and M.. Seward must
thei store correct the stupid blunder.
But as he was just' as uncertain and un
reliable in the matter of the draft, so is he
iu this latter statement. It is perfectly ob
vious that it is a piece of an eleclioneering
ohichanery—one of Mr. SeWnrd's subtle
tricks, a [rap, a snare, a falsehood, and an
unstatesmanlike attempt to secure votes to
perpetuate the preach[ despotism. Let hut.
Mr, Lincoln be re-elected, and merciless
conscriptions, enforced by no honied words
will show how the atmosphere has changed
after the 7th of November. With his re
election, all other conciliatory and liberal
promises, with which we are new so plenti
fully regaled, will he forgotten, and the mad
career of national havoc and disruption
along whirl, we are now rushing still be eon
tinned rot-years longer, till se are sunk in
the vortex of - our troubles' anti universal
ruin swallow all. 1
No—the remedy is now. Pot not. your
trust
. ii such honied phrases. The election
is nigh`, --and rbir'eTeiny grows wily and po
litic. Be not deceived. The to-election of
Abraham Lincoln must never be permitted.
flow Ir Is, As n Now IT WILL BE.—The
Yankees, who brought on this unhappy war
and who are too cowardly to fight, are now
getting the Germans, the Irish and the nig
gem to fight for them. They call steal, but
they are too cowardly to tight. Wepiave no
Yankees either in the army or navy who
have been distinguished In this war. Far.
rfigut is a renegade Soutiinter, Dupont is
flow Delaware, Porter wan horn in New
GI leans, and his father was a Pennsylvanian
Gen. lilcCliellan is a Pennsylvanian ; Geant
awl Sherman are front the West. Ucast
Bottler is the only (twinge/shed Yankee we
know of, and he ha 4 stolen front the South
ern people over a million of dollars during
this war. When you call en the Yankee
-States for soldiers, they Alar stolen niggers
in their stead. They want the slaves to
rder their masters, and they !tient the
.7aater's propnaty. If Lincoln is re-elected
' very nigger woutman will be given a white
usband, and every htYck nigger will have
his choice of the white - women of Philadel
phia. The poor white laborer will be forced
to work all his life to 'support free i:ggers.
—Er.
Tun Isere.—The tepubbeaa-.lboliti eu
party in its platform, avows its determin
ation to wry on the war for "abolition
subittgatietitn" Abraham Lincoln nays to
the Niagara Commissiouere, there can be
no peace exeert w th aw“ahnlition at' stasery."
Abrahnin4Lincoln soul in his speech to the
"Loyal Leaguers" in, Philtnlelphia—"the
war wi ll last three years yet.
OLMOCRATIF PLATFORM.
"Cessation of hostolttieF. with a pieto to the
ultimate Convennon of all lhe States, or other
PEACRABLR moans to the end that • L er'-
not practicable moment peace may W7sllored
on the basis of (he Federal Union of the States.
A volume could nut make the issue plain
er. With the light of the bloodshed of the
war—the failures of thin the fourth year of
the war, the burthen of taxation bow, and
what it must be if the war goes on three
years," longer, let every Toter decide be
twetin McClellan and Lincoln t
How Loan, 0 Luau.—Of what does kt
*Tail for the Chicago Convention to resolve
that they will Insist on their Constitutional
right to carry arms, when the people quietly
submit to be deprived of those arms by an
abolition General in Ohio and other States
What chance will there be of electing Gener
al McClellan to the Presidency, if the
Democracy permit Linaoln and his satraps
to make abolition soldiers of all the Demo
orate able to bear arms, and to deprive the
rest of their fire-arm& by which only they
can defend themselves at the polls on elec
tion day. Lincoln and his party are disun
ionist. 'They, are also revolutionists.
Idnooln has declared, andhis party support
Lips in it., that "the Union shall not be re
stored as it was," but that the Southern
States shall be forced bank into Übe Union
as abolition States, and that the people shall
take an oath to support him and all leis
measures. If be succeeds in this, hie par
ty will keep in power forever. Will the
people submit to this.—is,
' 'Nor Mr& lirom
thinks iia party had hitter hold prapir
meetings inateed .of politic,4 . gatherlogs
during the Presidential canvass. This li
not a tdd Idea, and fidgligfroM the @Mite
of the Abolitianints,. thly — hthei siellat 4
Commenced to alt atikm the JEspelditem`o "sib
gage's, improiing upon the original idea
in tide that the prayer meetings are held on
the (looker plan.
ARE THEY FOOTHE.UNW!ftIyOW:=--:i
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Lincoln says "to whom G itimy—emmeetti' s
that he will only mein iffopoiritioks whieh
contain the abandonmentlitelamecy r ienill so
ea; his followers. This at most only makes
them coed: Wend Union men.- Thatiattellty
are only for the Union on 'certain
tiona.
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Mr. Hamlin their Vice Preaidentot U.
United- States in.s recent ipeettit et the
Cooper Institute, New Tork,,vjid:
"The Constitution as it is. sod the tro art
as it was, is *en dostagcloteism, more trlmftb ... .,
It is nonsense:J- 2 nd very gcrol noosed e.
If you have got those here who bare shed
tears over the Coma us at was, they would
form a very 15 60() skrieb for n picture."
Doei that look like being in fav 0 0,0440
,Unirm Does'it even look like patri , oti s m
Could arty but a rile traitor use such lan
'
Mr. Lane an Abolition Senator, said, in
late speech :
Stonstitittion as it was, is played ostt
ararand I ans ready In sre any man 81101'
DO W !"1 who Jurors the Union as .t teas."
And yet they claim to he fighting fog the
Cnien, and draft mai and money to Carry
out elicit doctrines?" ' _
What do such 'men want of the Union 1,
Do they wish to live as friends and brothers
with the 6outlr!. -Not a bit - of ft: - Vier
are opposed to tnion, as 'any tunw with
half on eXe can nee by their sentiments and
_actions.;
The.only way to save the Union ii to
eleot IleCiellan, then we !Lail Lure men
in power, who lone the Union and who Writ
restore it, bring beck itahlessingh, wittta.ll
the peace and prosperity of the paet..
Choose ye, 'ettono yr. end remember that
a nations destiny hangs on your choice !
When n man is mistaken to hie
proplie.lea la, my time., men begin to
doubt a limber lie iv really inspired
After Miller had fixed lie day , of millen
into, and hie followers sat in ascension robes
fur_uraut.pf.. r-dboure,t4 . . . ,
—pronounced him a Inuatit, and consider
ed ' tlatauselves deceived. And yet. bane
not abolition predictions and promisee for
erre [ailed for the hundredth time.
They used to ridicule Demoorala as
'•Union Savers," et it It an Much bitterness,
as they use the term "Copperhead" now.
They used to call - us "Sticklers for the
constitution " They used to say they were
not for abolition. They tined to say the
election of Lincoln would not give us civil
war—tltar there were no dangers of disso
lution. when Lincoln was elected. he said
ito-body was hail t, and nothing going wrong.'
They then. opposed Compro-:Ase, and called
all "traitors" who favored 11.—They were
going to put down the rebelliottyuLL.ls,..
00 - rifen tor a breakfast ep T --They have
Lott two and the rebellion is as
defiant as °ter. They said the South could.,
he starved out in three months. Let tadte
answer. They have had the baoklione Of
of the rebellion broken et every sumNie,
for four years, it is defiant to-day. • TO*
took "piety days" -ninety dare r t.till chnstt
nuts" to cud the war, and hg so deceived
the people fur four y cars.
They!'would give free soil, yet in four
States they are to-day, ruling elections by
the bayonet ! They promised Icee speech,
they have sought to crush it by hostiles,
and have arrested and imprisoned hundreds,
without warrant or trial.
They hero professed lobe for the robot.
but ret use, it, unless Laws and Coustit utione
be altered to suit their negro views.
Hundreds of other delusions and protni.
see of n like character, have been made and.
broken. Can any man place further con
fidenco in them. If so, he must have the
tenacikr of faith.
. °which wedded fast
To sonvidelumien, huge it to the last."
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G01:19 TO l'ilstllKl:2 10 almost an dreary a
business for the poor man in these times as
going to war. He sees plenty of things to
boy, but vainly feels in his' pockets for
money to buy them. The rent of his little
house has been raised; the commonest
every-day clothes for his wife and children
oat a good-deal more than he used to pay
toi t "Sfinday-best." Ilia uttermost
farthinrits been wrung from him to save
hit' whit 'from the draft; and if he tonnages
'by dint of Mod pinching to scrape together
little market money, ho can only buy
wlthit the fag pieces of meat which, in
Democratic-tunes, foil to the lot of the
butchers' dogs. This is bud'imough, but if
Lincolreis re-elected, and this *sr is to be
prosecuted for the emancipation of sleek
and saucy negroes, it will he .worse before
many months. Poverty, beggary, down
right starvation will be the lot of many an
industrious laborer and his fit i mily, who, in
old tilllo4, fires in comfort and plenty. 'Mr.
Lincoln says the wan for Wu negro must go •
Oil, and to keep the negro fat and free, it is
of (worse, only fair that the white laborer
should gb starved and ragged through the
whole thousand years of the Abolition mil
lenium —Age.
100 000 :%loae.—The reliable Stanton in
forms the public that all Gigot need!) now
to finish up the rebellion is 100,000 fresh
men. Four• months ego Oran( mold hays
placed his army upon the identical spot it
occupies to-day without the less of a wan
or the- firing of a gun. By the route be
took to reach his present position, he lost
not less than 125,000 into anti has gained
not a single point of advantage. This for
ces the conclusion that Grant. in starting.
had not only enough men to end the rebel
lion, but a sutphis ,if 24000.
Either Statltou tells o falsehood, or also
1S0101) lthl'e been uselessly sacrificed. We
leave the apologists of the Secretary to se
lect whichever limn of the dilemma beet
suite them. In just lee to truth, they should
take both ; tur a is not only intentional
thilmehood for Stanton to say that Grant-ma
mid the campaign with 100,000 men ; but it
is at the same time true that every wan of
the 12.5,000 Inst by Grant has been sacri
ficed uselessly, For this latter. Grant,
however, is not to blame. It IS due wholly
to Lincoln. thelautlioo of ••My Plan." Its
insisted on Grant takiug the overland route,
and hence he is responsible for its awful'
ooesequshoes.
Atrorusn ConvElisiol.—The West Ches.
ter (N. Y.) Monitor has abandoned Linen&
and hoisted the McClellan lig. The edi
tor says: "The truth is, the administration
df Abraham hinooin is a lamentable fail
ure. With mismanagement in- the Trete
ury Department, financial reih stares us fit
the feet ; with want of etetermanship in •
the Department of State, diplomacy is "VA , :
discount; and in the Navy Departesont„. a
thiupright arm of the nation 's
defense ou
the ocean, imbecility, vacillation' and am"
ruption shook the people—while in tursty•l .
other department of the ,qoveritnent. *ow
same,characteristies rule the conduct let Usk,
present Adininistrerfen of the ledireiattilla:'
ernment. It view of those ittigebbeibliV.
against , the lidnooba -s -T
revolution in while is A asai o
inn, and the country mliktette . acdo . -
clams—givens tt change
tration., Ludinential gowning itardelidis .
advocates, unary. atozuk'give nay *mai •
liVe certainly eanziot be sty *44 ,
must have it, or miy high
protect our common country "
pending doom that awaits us in the•attisilr'
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fall of "our government."—D.
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