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Ht NTIOCTI3O'N, PA.
W:i:sitvis, Editor and Proprietor
Wednesday_ morning s , ktitil, 1863.
Our Flag Fileciiteir.
" i r knoto of no Mode in which a logal 646-
*t?l' may so well demonstrate his decbtion to
his country as by ettstezinitty the Flag the
Constitutiim and' the t:triot, ftiderall Ci•rcant
stances, and UNDER EVERY Arawnsiii.tfio:t,
REGARDLESS OP PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALL
ASSAILANTS. AT DOME AND ATIROAD."--.STETSIEN
A. DOUGLAS
Huntingdon on Friday Last,
Our readers may be anxious to know
*fl'atccassind4 fiat watl n domrhero on
frfday l'a'st: The' bogus Democracy
bad issued circulittrs and bills for a
great indignation meeting on that day.
•
Meetings were held townships to
got the Waft)l up to fever heat. Car
bon township rettived more atttontion
-than all the rest, as it was fram• this
. township the Monitor faction expocted
to receive their heaviest reinforce
ments. We were in communication
. with our friends in every direction,
and nivrost hourly we• heard of Oh.ren-ts
• ttaViilg beeti'matfe by elle . faiTilfal' that
it was their intention to destroy our
:office on that day. Friday came,. and
-
f4'Ottt•• 620 1 67 moYniit4,4 urntii; noon, mon
"dordnued to arrive on horseback, on
- foot, in carriages, in wagons and in
thecars. At noon a delegation arrived
in the train from Broad Top, number-
ing not over two hundred and seven
ty—one hundred of the number must'
Save been Union men as but one bun
dred-and sixty-seven could be forced
into line after they left the cars. This
delegation was taken charge of at the
depot by J. Simpson Africa, one of the
frac, Know Nothings in the county, and
marched to the Court Muse. This
wits the only " delegation , " that ar
rived during the da - y andLk was fail
>_ are, as not less than three hundred
were expected f[orn the mines. The
wliole number, including Union men,
- fir She Court Boom at any ono time
- did not reach seven hundred. The
Vann. nron in town far out numbered
the followers of ValTandingham, and
had there been any attempt made to
carry out the threats of the hfonitor
etlifors against. this office, we would
to-day Bare had the pleasure of an
nouncing a great Union victory. Wo
never saw the bogus D's more calm—
and they were as anxious to get their
only delegation out of town as they
were to get it in.
.• The speeches made at the . lx>gue
Democratic Mass meeting wit!, be found
in to:) , Any's Globe—also the comments
e,f oar rcperter. We publish them
.that . our readers may know what kind
cof treason was permitted hero on Fri
, clay.
The " indignation meeting "was a
,completo failure, both in character and
number, as but few of the old lino Dem
'oorate wore in attendance. Of the
- number In the Court House at least
two hundred wore opposed to the
traltoroua conduct of the bogus De
mocracy. The speakers were all
Tbrbiight here from r distance—they
were inns* , small size, but they an
swered the purpose of the rebels who
taught them here to talk treason and
abaft our loyal citizens.
. Friday - evening, after the
K thousand Derneeratw. in council,"
who came in power, bad diepersed,
* some of the " boys " gat tip a Union
.Steeting, which was hekl. la Market
:Square, and which was ably address
ed by Messrs. Dorris- Reid, Scott, Mc-
Divitt, and a- Mr. Grey, from New
,'Fork State. They wore wholesome
.speeches, and purified tho atmosphere,
-which was a stench in the nostrils of
an good loyal men, for treason held her
: away all over the town during the
day. The meeting was opened by
Col f Dorris, who made a few most ex
-collent remarks. Rev. Reid followed
iti his usual convincing style; then
came John Scott, in ono of the best
•svnd' most eloquent k.nock-down argu
mentative *ceche& we ever listened
11e dealt with facts, and proved
- them by history. - Mr. McDivitt corn
_roomed by • saying that his head and
pockets were fuller of treason. than
'they had ever been before, Or than ho
ever expected them to be again. He
iamb seine excellent remarks, Mr.
Grey, a stranger in town, was next
:called on, who responded in a few
well-timed and interesting remarks.—
He said that ho bad voted the Demo
'oracle ticket all his life, and if the peo
ple called .the meeting in tho Court
House that day a Democratic Meet
ing, he never wanted to be called a.
Denwernt again. lie kept his .audi
ence. in a fit of laughter the whore
time, He made some ugly thrusts -at
the bogus Democracy.
At a:late hour the crowd dispersed,
highly:pleased with the privilege they
bad: had of passing the evening so
pleasantly and profitably.
itta. fin. assortment or Catti Photo
graptasat Lewis' Book Store.
TRAITORS IN COUNCIL.
Ma. EDITOR :—lt will be rano tritiered l
that on Friday last, the 29th, was the
time fixed by the Representatives of
VallandigharriDemotra!,:y of this coun
ty for a grand. indignatibn , Mass'Meet
ing, an enthusiastic demonstration;-
which was to shake the hills and up
heave the-valleys; re-establish the Mon
itor nuisance lately romoved r call dawn
vengeance upon• the guilty heads of
the Republicans of- the placuand upon
citizens generally-4er it was- hard.to
determine which were most guilty—
and;soatter death and destruction in
d iscri min ately tothe ranks of all who
dared to say "Copperhead," be they
men, women. or children. Well, the
,morni ng, canna, cl'ea'r' and serene—pity
it should be so clear—the day was
fine—too fine for the growing crops
and the parched earth so much in
need of moisture—the threatened effu
sion of sulphur and saltpetre by no
means affecting the tranquility of the
atmosphere: Vitith the morning,came
the; zilightp mass for the collectiOn , of
which, bills, posters, handbills, and
runners, had been so freely used dur
ing the past few days. By noon some
300 perhaps were in attendance, a
majority of which were citizens of the
county, of all parties, prompted by cu
riosity to attend. This crowd was aug
mented. sumo 200 as the Broad Top
train , disgorged , its' riving freight, a:
greater part of which Was composed of
laborers, Irishmen and other foreign
ers from the coal regions. These were
accompanied with a drum and fife and
were marched in procession through
some of our streets, to the sound of
martial music, carrying, the American
flag, ands i ier said, headed by' a mem
ber of the ancient order known as
Know Nothings. Many of them were,
hard looking specimens of humanity,
and apparently with a little prompt-
ing horn their leaders, and a few drinks
of"fighting whiskey" would haVe been
rlpe tor anythirrg. in- the way of riot
and bloodshed. To tliw credit of our
hotel keepers be it said however, that
their bars were at the request of our
citizens with one or- two exceptions
eloaed, which goes far towards account
ing for the-order ivhich characterized
the day's proceedings.
At 2 o'clock the boll rang, the con
vention assembled and the ball opened.
Your correspondent fought his way
through the crowd and secured a posi
tion at the reporter's desk, determined
to maintain it until compelled, by a
purely " military necessity," to a
"change of base." His presence was
very far from being agreeable to some
of the prominent members and various
means were employed to dislodge him,
but without, - eff4J-ct "a shiel was
among them Wain notes, and Faith
he'll print them, too." The party
which prates so loudly of free speech,
free discussion, and tho liberty of the
press, must not object to seeing occa
sionally their proceeding, and rennurks
in print, even if ft is an ugly record,
ugly enough oven, to make a Copper
head blush. I shall also reserve the
right of a freeman, that of com menting
on the same, however distasteful it
nany be to them, promising to keep
within the bounds of truth and pru
dence, as well as cheerfully to correct
any error shown me, or any injustice
dune to any individual.
The meeting was organized, by call.
ing Maj. Goprgo W. Speer of Sit. Uni
on to the chair. Daniel Massey and
38 others were appointed vice-presi
dents. I forbear giving their names
inasmuch as it might not be agreeable,
some of them having loft' before the
meeting was over; disgusted with the
proceedings and pronouncing it a
humbug.
David Caldwell was appointed Sec
retary, together with some 20 others.
The meeting . was opened by the
chairman, who in the course of short
address, took occasion to say that it
was for the purpose of vindicating tho
majesty of the law and to show, forci
bly, if necessary, that the Democrats
aro a law abiding people—to show to
the Republican party of the county
that there is a Democratic party in
thecounty to stand by the government
of the country and uphold it through
good and bad, to'impress upon the of
ficers of the county that we intend to
appeal to the courts for a redress of
grievances and to maintain our rights,
to show the Republicans that if those
rowdies are tried iii the courts, we
want no packed juries to try them,
that if true friends of the Union they
must cease calling Democrats "Cop
perheads" and " Traitors." He had
been called a " Copperhead," and for
what ? Giving the remains of his poor
life to the support of bin country !
Very few of the Union League mon
of this county would go into the ser
vice, oven if Provost Marshal Camp
bell takes the 125th Regiment to - take
them there. Ono Union League speak
er from this place had said in his town
ship that nil men refusing to join the
Leaguo were disloyal and should bo
sent beyond the lines. He did not in
tend to join the League and did not
intend to pass alive beyond the lines.
This Regiment (the 125th) so brave in
tearing down Democratic presses, and
all the soldiers President Lincoln has,
cannot put the Democratic party be
yond the lines. He hoped no one
would say a word to weaken the Gov
ernment in this emergency, but did
not see why the police should be re
moved from a burning house, when
the thieves were there. The reason
why there wore no Copperheads in
the Republican party was because they
had three millions a day to divide
amongst them. If the Democratic
party succeeds in hurling them from
power,
there will be more copperheads
in the Republican than in the Demo
cratic party.
Reader, this is the language of a
citizen of this county, professedly a
strong Union man and a man of truth
and voracity, formerly a Major of a
Penna. Regiment, who, while that
Regiment remained at Washington,
away from the scene of conflict, was
well satisfied to remain with it, and
enjoy his share of the three million,
daily. It comes with a very bad grace
for him to accuse Republicans or Uni
on League men with cowardice, when
he knew that at least one-third of the
audience he wasaddressing were unna
-turabized foreigners, now claiming
British' protection to escape the draft. -
Mr. Speer knew as well as any man liv
ing, that the Republican party had no
hand in destroying the .Monitor °Mee,
not one Reyablican being engaged in it,
and he should have had the nom=
to say so. lie knows and the comma
nity know that every MAN engaged in
removing this nuisanso was a' Demo
crat. He knows further that the citi
zens of Huntingdon discountenanced
the act and attempted to prevent it,
even thought v(eryt• t`evr of them; the re
spectable portion at' feast, had escaped
abuse-from that vile sheet, Mr. Speer
knows alt this, and , if he has the how
°sty and the the manhood which he .
has received credit for, he will retract
some of the expressions, and as far as
possible atone fertile injury he bas done
to the citizens of this place, to a' party,
at leasU au- respectable as the one to
which he belongs, and to a gallant regi
ment, which has at least established its
reputation for valor, on hard won bat
tle fields, having no objection to being
sent "beyond the lips," and at the same
time having too many friends in this
community to be slandered and villified
without resenting it.
Robt. L. Johnston or cambric coun
ty was introduced to the audience and
received With three cheers, mingled
with cries of "Vallandighatini which
wore - prOmptly suppressed'.
:11 r. johnhten said he' had sonic
strange' sonSatiens oar receiving the' hr
vitation, but did not hesitatele7come.
We are a little bold on the mountain.;
wo have some 1,000 majority and none
of our presses aro ever destroyed. On
the banks of the Blue Juniata I drow
my first breath I press agai n my native
heath , and , my name Stiii.eGre,ggor.—
[Cheees.] t am truly astonished to
see that the Democracy of the county
aro all hero. [A voice—" Not one
third of them.] Well, I know the
other two-thirds will be out on the
day of the , cloction, : --can only account
for it (emir a certain' fact, welt known
in the history of the serpentine race,
that "Copperheads" always turn out
in warm .- weather. [Tremendous
cheers.] The speaker hero read from
the Constitution, Art. 9, section 7, and
then said ho did not intend to preach
because ho had taken a text, but of
late so many preachers had become
politicians that. they could not com
plaint it a politician became preacher.
[Cries of "Bully for you," "Go in, boy,"
&c,] Ono of our Constitutional rights
had been stricken down without law
and without oven the poor apology of
a military nocessity,—strfeken down
by a mob: He would try to - speak of
facts which would secure their atten
tion in the present unhappy and do
graded condition of our country. It
is not when the Ship of State is float
ing smoothly over the waves that we
think of those cardinal principles upon
which our Government is established,
but whoa it is thrown upon the break
ers wo grasp the chart to moor her
again safely into port. We were free
and sovereign States long before the
Constitution of the United States was
framed and gave the Constitution all
the privileges it deserved. I am
speaking about a, thing you do not of
ten hear of in Union League meetings.
There never was a tyrant that did
not prate about the Government,---4
say. sintaint the Constitution, Dt,trriel
Webster said years ago, it should-be
a school book, that it was the only
bond of the Union of the Stater [Cry
of "Hurrah for Webster," not respond
ed to.] Without it we resolve back
into our original elements; it was
framed with a nice regard to' tire rights
of the people, securing the freedom of
speech—the liberty of the press, rights
which Democrats ever prOclaimed and
asserted- It had become common for
even judges to say that the Adminis
tration was the Government; that they
could not see the difference between
thern,—the Constitution recognizes
three branches of the Government,
each one having its separate functions;
the President to execute the laws
passed by Congress and approved by
the Supreme Court. Suppose now
the Supremo Court declare any law
unconstituthrnal and void, and the
President afterwards attempt to en
force that law, and I call on you to
support the Government, where is
your support yielded, to the President
or the Supreme Court? Again, if at
the end of four years wo turn out
Lincoln. from once, does that change
the Government? The idea could on
ly be entertained by a madman or a
Republican. [Cheers.] We aro told
about loyalty to what A piece of
clay .like ourselves, and a very homely
piece at that. [Great cheering.] The
Supremo Court is just as much enti
tled to loyalty as the President. If it
becomes our duty to sustain the Con
stitution in thne of peace there are far
stronger reasons for sustaining it now
and yet we have all seen the most to
tal and wanton disregard of that filet:ru
n-tont by the President of the United
States, sworn to execute the duties of
President and carry out the laws of
Congress as decided by the Supreme
Court. Wo have seen that same Pres
ident sending into Congress over his
name laws for them to pass, interfer
ing with tho rights of tho people, the
Congress in secret aim sion and the lino
between the different branches of the
government entirely gone. 'This is a
wanton and wilful violation of the
Constitution. The party opposed to
the Democratic party, by whatever
namme called, does not appreciate or
regard the rights of the people, and
from 1798, the time of the first reign
of terror, up till the present, the Dem
ocratic party has fought under the
same flame and for the same principles;
the other party have over displayed
an unwillingness to abide in the intel
ligence of the people. It began with
the reign of the elder Adams; they
hold it now, and the late act is only
another evidence of it. Here, in the
free State, where every- court of jus
tice Is open, a man cannot stand up as
I am now doing and speak his senti
ments to the people; the mob may
destroy the press, thd military powers
have sot the example in other places.
Thomas Jefferson said public opinion
was always safe to be trusted; soDerre
ocrats feel now, and although you
have the President and his underlings
silencing speech, imprisoning free citi
zens, destroying presses and thereby
encouraging the mob to do it else
where, no Democrat over lifted his
hand against the country and nation,
and no Republican paper in this town
will over be destroyed though it tell
all the lies on the tithe of the globe.—
Democrats are taught better; if injur
ed, they appeal to the laws; it is only
outlaws that use mob law. I do not
hold mobs responsible for all these
things. Presses are shut up in other
States, they are under consership, the
people are dying for political food and
cannot get it; when the people ask for
bread the President gives them a stone.
We find Gen. Bitrnside by a general
order silencing discussion ati'd impris
oning men who dare speak th6ir'sen
timents. Where shall it end ? When
Boileau was imprisoned, I saw a lot of
Republicans in our county spelling out
the articles for which ho' was arrested
—Democrats never do that. No man
has a right to take the 'law in his own
hands, and if ho does so ho is no better
than the President. [Cheers.] It is
difficult to speak seriously on this sub
ject, but the history of those opposing
the Democratic party is in. itself a
burlesque. r would give lily life to
put the country whore it was three
years ago, but shall we risk everything
at home for .the sake of a phantom,
fight the South and revolutionize the
North ? God forbid! I trust our
whole country will be preserved under
the Constitution-gi-ven• to us. Ido not
abuse the New England States. When
the little State of Rhode Island, not
larger tan a Lancaster county cabbage
patch, which- a-physician advised his
patient to travel arturncl every morn
-1 ins to' get an appetite for his break
fast, came into the Union with two
Senators, she' had a fair share for corn
ing in. 1 respect tire South-;
_there - are
true spirits there as the needle to the
polo, if the Administration would not
by its madhess' drive atom. off. In
1798 the New Engfand States inaugu
rated the reign of terror against the
South% The South has produced ma
ny of the parent and best men. Would
to God the South would see its fatty
and the North would see its fanaliefsm
and be brothers again. The South
should not have all the- hemp by any
means; she never burnt wi;ches, held
Hartford Conventions, haniished Bap
tists, held . free Love societies, or Wo
man's rights conventions, or produced
political female speakers to talk poli
tics. In many of these things the
South is behind the ago now, but no
doubt, if united through tilt) agency of
missionaries from New England, their
condition might be ameliorated. When
the little Stater of Kentucky denounced
the alien and sedition laws, not a sin
gle State except Virginia responded.
After the alien and sedition laws the
Federal party went down, in 1826 the
Anti-Masonic party was instituted by
Thaddeus; Stevens, the author of-the
Conscription Bill and the Buck-Shot
War. The old Whig party followed ;
and now no Union - Demme man knows
when- he goes to bed at night what
name he will have- to-morrow morn
ing. I belonged! to about six of their
parties myself and never left one; they
all left me. Their constant aim - has
been to deceive the American people
by a false issue. In 1840 Harrison
was sung into the President's chair;
. four years afterwards the Democrats
learned to sing tom The worst dodge
of all was the Know Nothing party in
the face of the Constitution; strange
to say they succeeded even in Penn
sylvania. In 1860 the Wide Awake
lamp was adopted ;. Abraham Lincoln
was rushed in with a blaze of light by
a party, a few yeu - rs ago, hiding in
eaves and cellars. These are some of 1 1
the subterfuges of a party now claim
ing all the intelligence. • I was with
the Whig party till its death, and after
Henry Clay and Thiniel Webster were
in- their graves I set up with it a year,
but when Know-Nothig,ism took. its
place I could not go that. In striking
contrast behold the history Of the_rve,
fifffftrtrure - --psr-t-r-trntctrr-fthe histor=y
of the conntry; then why shotrid any
Democrat'he asked to leave the party
and forsake its teachings whew the
cotfutry needs her reef os-aCion ter pow
er; so help me God, I can see no other
means of restoration to our country.
Thore is no more ardent war man than
E. We are expected to fight this re
bellion through on fair terms and what
we ask is, that the President will
bring haat< the country to the state
iax which he- tostnti it. When this war
commenced your country Was decima
tot!, the fields were What with soldiers,
because the Democratic party was in
structed that it was a war fur the
Constitution, to put down rebellion
and save the country and the lamented
Douglas whom the Republicans hunted
to death, stood in his place in the Sen
ate and advocated the same principles
we now advocate—that war was dis
union, that our country could not be
saved but by au honorable peace- Ito
did more, he left his seat in the senate
and went to Davis and Toombs and
induced them to say that they were
satisfied with the Crittenden Compro
mise, but the Republicans said no, we
must have war. That war is now upon
us; let the President bring back the
country to what it was before that war
was precipitated.
There has been a conscription law
passed. I advise submission to it,
though I take it to be a law the most,
difficult to be appreciated by the pee
pie of any other. If Thaddeus, had
got up that law for the purpose of
grieving and annoying the men of the
armies it could not have been more ob
noxious—it is putting $3OO against a
poor man's blood—one man's gold
against :mothers life—it makes the
poor to fight for the rich—nothing
but madness could induce a man to
pass a law of that kind, it throws the
burden of fighting those battles upon
the poor—the democrats are the sof
ferers, the Republicans are making
money enough out of the war to evade
it—but if the conscription must go on
let it be made, we aro our country's,
but there was a time when tho Gov
ernment had more soldiers than it
wanted, when the war was for the
C - mstitution, willing soldiers were
turned back to their homes, they found
in the South as many Union men as
disunion men, they welcomed our sol
diers and received them as friends—
now, instead of a divided South there
is a united South and a divided North
—but if more men aro to be'offered up
on the shrine of funataicism let them
be ready, if more blood is demanded,
still let it flow—l say however, if tho
President brings hack the war to
where it started out ho will have
enough mon, not conscaipts but vollTll
- to put down the rebellion—but
be there war or peace there is one thing
we must have. Penna. is a soverign
State and we must have peace at home,
while the courts of justice aro all open
it mast at least be said to the people
of std mother Huntingdon that they
are law abiding; it will surely never
again be attempted to desecrate and j
defraud her fair character by a mob in
tho streets of Huntingdon. You must
have a Democratic paper, as well
might verdure grow without dow as a
party to exist without an organ. Those•
who encourage those things are respon
sible for those acts, but it must never
happetragain ; I intend to subscribe for
the Monitor for twenty•fivc years and
pay for it in advance. The. right of
the ConstitutiOti makes every man a
soverign; andlif we dOA tint exercise our
right, We are traitors indeed. We
must be prudent, wise and law abiding,
wise as serpents, and harmless as
cloves. Asyou are all copperheads, you
will exerciee the former virtue, but a
copperhead never will submit to be
trampled on. You must stand by
the stars and stripes of your coun
try, and by the oftf banner of the Dem
ocratic party; let ft float high., with.
the determination that the Union be
re-established and if ever this is done,
it will be done by the Democratic par
ty and its principle.
The above remarks wevo made by a
man who hai grown old in sin, and
rich on the- spoils and stealings of of
fice, who was identified with all the
corruption and fraud which disgraced
the Dame, arid tarnished the memory
of the old Whig party, the man who
as judge of the Morris township elec
tion in 1838, robbed the tombstones to
get names for his fradulont list, and
who , now comes back to t h e scene of
his former disgrace to talk treason in
his native county and villif:y its citi
zens. If his insinuations were inten
ded for the citizens of Huntingdon wo
hurl back the charge in his teeth as a
foul slander and assure him that we
have as little regard for them as for
their author.
Mayor 6,anclerson, of Lancaster, was
next introduced. Ho was never a
stranger amongst Democrats; some
thing in the name and countenance in
spired him- with gratitude to God for
his privilege of being one. Up to 'M
no laws were passed but by a Demo
cratic Congress and signed by a Dem
ocratic President. The country had
gone on in a career of prosperity un
til it had become the wonder of the
whole civilized world. The speaker
hero introduced an anecdote concern
ing two men, a negro and an Irish
man, who were about to be hanged;
the day was warns, a clergyman was
in attendance, who exhorted them to
prepare for death; the negro was pen
itent, the Irishman was obstinate
the' clergyman tried to enlist his atten
tion, told him. that the poor negro,
about to , atone-for the same crime, had
professed repentance, and would soon
be in Abraham. bosom—" I don't
mean Abraham Lincoln!' The Irish
man looked at him as impenitent as
over; says he, " Your Reverence, it
may all be throe you're telling me,
bat by me soul, I don't think ould fa
ther Abraham will thank ye much fbr
filling his bosom with a cloned nager
this hot weather." I a IR- thinking,
too, that the great American people
will not thank the Administration. for
endeavoring to fill their bosom with
the doned nager, (amiable word for the.
Mayor of Lancaster.)
Tho' Democratic party—the law
abiding party, always has been, and
will be to the bitter end—they have
never been the aggressors in any of'
the flee States of this Confederacy—
it did me good to hear of steps being
taken to bring the offenders to justice:
has a right upon the jury of his coun
trymen which she dare not interfere
with. Shall. we be less free—has all
the blood shed by our Revolutionary
sires been shed in vain? I trust not
But, say our Republican opponents, it
is , your duty to support the Govern
ment. I say so-, too 4, but i‘b is- equally
the duty of the Government sustai tr
the Constitution and tho laws. Our
Government is composed of three dis
tinct branches, each having independ
ent powers. The people have a right
to decide for themselves whether they
will have negro slavery or not. It is
said. Democrats are secessionists; and
why ? Because we violate any law ?
Because we would not be willing to
shed the last drop of our blood in de
fence of the Union of our fathers?—
The Democrats were always the war
party. In 1812, when our opponents,
ender another name,. were refusing. to
draft the militia, and burning blue
lights to guide the enemy's vessels in
to our ports ; and in the Mexican war,
when some men, loud fur the Union,
Were' refusing in Congress to vote sup
plies, and one man, no iv high in authori
ty, hoped the Mexicans would welcome
our bravo soldiers with bloody hands
to hospitable graves., I hurt back the
charge; it is fidse, they know it is
Ease. Who in '3.B,at Harrisburg, tried
to revolutionize the Government but
Thaddeus Stevens, the arch-traitor,
who was compelled to escape through
a back window to save himself!—
That Mall now is a traitor to his coun
try, and I will tell you why : In a
speech to the Union- League at Lan
caster, he said he- was determined to
resist the restoration of the Union as
it was and the Constitution as it is.—
[Great cheering.] The Emancipation
Proclamation has caused all this mis
chief, and what good has it done?—
Lincoln has acted from honest mo
tives, but was persuaded against his
better judgment. Ten days before,
ho told a committee from. Illinois that
it would do no good, but was pursued
oil by radical Abolitionists to issue the
proclamation-which must forever bar
the restoration of the Union. How
can the Union bo restored as it was if
the Southern States aro deprived of
their property ? If we are ever to be
a union of hearts again, the hearts of
our erring friends in the South mast
be put right, and our hearts must be
got right; we must be willing to meet
and embrace once more as brothers of
ono family, but until that is done, wo
must fight on until we conquer them
or find that we cannot conquer them.
Wo are in this terrible war, and must
either fight it through, or acknowledge
ourselves beaten. We must push on
the war with energy and vigor—with
the sword in one hand and the olive
branch in the other, but it is a poor
way—for the Republicans to denounce
the Democrats us traitors—to get
them to help cheerfully to fight the
battles of the country. It wont darer
our Republican neighbors to encour
age mob violence-and destroy printing
offices. We go for State rights, equal
and exact justice to all.
Precious few of the Loyal Union
League of Lancaster would shoulder
the musket. There is no democrat
here but would shoulder a musket;
there is no democrat here but would
be willing to risk his life in defence -of
the Union. (no response). Let the
Prosidentrescind the emancipation act,
place the war where congress placed
it in Gl—by doing this be unites the
Nortli and divides the South. Vie
have become the sport of the tyrants
of the' okl world by waging war one
with another. You need aMonitor here,
you have two republican organs here,
and they will , be the death of you un
less you counteract them. On Mon
day last it was rumored that the
Lancaster Intelligencer was to be
mobbed, our democrats got wind
of it and they were about on
that night, the- enemy's spies were
out and saw the* copperheads- so.
infernally above them , that they
thought discretion the bettor part of
valor, and well they did-as everything
was in readiness to give them a recep
tion that would have lasted them half
a century, The D'timotrats of Lan
caster are fighting men and' if ever the
Republicans make an assault on thorn
although 4 or 5 thousand in the minor
ity we could lick them to death and I
have no doubt here in Iluntingdon
County you can lick them to death too
—we are willing, that the Republicans
enjoy their opinions and we mean to
enjoy our' rights peacably if wo can
but forcibly it' we must. Re-establish
the gonitorand lot it speak in thun
der tone to traitors either North or
South (f) Be not, the aggressors, but
show your opponeigs that ymr Wre
law abiding citizens, and if they still
continuo to persecute you and make
personal assaults, be determined as
God has given you strength, to, .
necessary in defence olyour personal
rights. if ever it should become nec
essary to_strike tor your rights strike
like freemen. The indemnity bill of
all other acts .was the most odious of
the last congress, and in direct opposi
tion to the Constitution, as it permits-
Simon Cameron, Seward, Stanton, and;
all those worthies who have been im
prisoning. citizens and committing oth
er outrages, to go sent, free,. but I take
it that the Democratic party will COMO
into power in 186-1, and then we will ,
see whether some - of those worthies
will not bo brought to trial and pun
ishment. The future of the nation de
pends upon the restoration of the De
mocratic party to 'power. You must
start your organ or you will die a nat
ural death—open your hands wide,
subscribe liberally, and I hope in an
other week or two you will have an
organ that will do credit to the coun
ty and State —Heaven bless-you all.
The committee on resolutions repor
ted as series which- were adopted.—
One of them, in regard , to Judge Tay
lor of this place, though somewhat
abusive, will, I think, affect his lion-
or, where he is known, about as much
as the statement made by the lying
blackguard, who edits the Johns - tem
Democrat, to the effect that the Judge
was present when the Monitor was gut
ted, and approved the act, when every
one hero knows that he was over a.
hundred miles away. The resolutions
very much resemble she statement, be
ing equally truthful anti about as do
cent.
A young man named Orris, hailing
from Belletbnto, was nest introduced;
his speech was lengthy and. contained
a rehash of the same sophistry, in
terspemd freely with slang phrases,
low vulgarisms, and insane rai!ery.—
ilroroly aI - {ONV of 643 choice ep
ithets, and submit to the candid judg
ment of an intelligent community
whether they resemble the language
most of a gentleman, afool, or a black
guard.
" The President of the United States
was denounced as a. lunatic, and his
Cabinet and the last Congress as a
band orthieves and scoundrels. The
people of the North had,triongled on
the constitutional rights of the South,
and thus brought on the- scar; they
had- turned a deaf ear to all remon
strance, and rejected every comprom
ise, and they only longed for blood, and
like the t-leuth-honedseeating human
flesh, seemed only maxious to pounce
upon their victims. In violation of all
the principles of common sense and
deconv, they determined to inaugu
rate a civil war and carry it on to the
bitter end. Instead of carrying the
sward and the alive branch, they car
ried the sword in ono hand, proscrip
tion in the other, and scattered fire
brands in their track. They wanted
no union with Southern white D;Wil,.—
The-re was a feeling of intense bi'tor
ness and hatred towards the Southern
people; the only union they ever
wanted was with the negro men, and
possibly with the negro women; deter
mined to exterminate the people. and
appropriate the rich plantations, they
took no step calculated to restore good
will, bat only sought to erect an im
passable and eternal barrier against
their return. But we will throw no
barrier in their way; all they want
they shall have.. Why not prosecute
the war with vigor when there is no in
terferenee,—who is responsible but the
party in power? They say the no
grecs should be taken into the army;
Why the devil don't they take them
in ? Nobody objects but Cuff:v i and he
says lie wont go, (in this case Cuffy
and the speaker are alike for once, as
neither of them will go.) Why not
call_ them ? Of the 50,000 required,
they might raise 15,000, if they would
take in the negro worshipers of Mas
sachusetts. It is true we would like
to preserve the Union, but we would
lilto to preserve the principles of the
Constitution also. The word loyalist
bad a meaning; it \vas used in 1770 by
the ancestors of those very men ; they
were then loyalists as now—they
were then tories as they are now—
then wo were asked to be loyal to a
lunatic king, now to a lunatic Presi
dent. I owe no loyalty to Abraham
Lincoln or any other man, white or
black. I admit according to their un
derstanding that I am not a loyal citi
zen—do not understand the military
necessity which originated the procla
mation when it was BO circumscribed
that it would not liberate one solitary
negro. It was a military necessity,
When the President arrived at Harris
burg, that ho should don his cloak and
cap and skedaddle through Baltimore.
That was a change of base.
Abraham Lincoln and his leecb,es
bad proclaimed that he was the Gov
ernment. Had we not a beautiful gov 7
ernment ! Imagine this Government
*standing six feet two, splitting
rails in
Indiana, steering a flat-boat up the
river, and distilling corn whiskey.—
This Government bad to be shown at
every station on his way to Washington,
together with Mrs. Government and the
litUo Government,—all this front a
party that never ev : en• nsecf common'
decency when speaking of Democrats-
The North American and Press of Phil
adelphia. had advocated combining the'
principles of a monarchical with that
of a republican Government, proposing'
that it should hereafter be one of unlim
ited power Vie do not know to what
length the Administration may go be
fore the people will resist, but trust they
will not resort to physical violence as•
long as it can be avoided. They rode
Abraham Lincoln. into the Presidency
on a rail in 1860; if they aro not:care
ful we will ride him out in the same
manner in 1864.
Mr: Woodcock of Altoona was called
upon in conclusion, but contented him
self with a few inflammatory remarks.
lie was full of violence and blood; Jur
proposed going to the ballot-box - with
his revolver in his hand; he hoped the
Dbm'oeres would be prepared to de
fend their rights even to bloodshed,
and exhorted them, if their opponor:td ,
threw down the glove to he prepared
to take it up again, His remarks'
formed an elegant elfmax and' very np,
propriate for such at drainvat I would
simply remind the citizens of - Altoona„
where - this fiery young man resided,-
that they would do well on the day of
the election, to stand'clear and give
him a wide berth when hel,goes to• thepolls,
polls, for if that revolver should hap
pen to• go oil it might hurt somebody',
Letters were read from W. A. Stokes
of Westmoreland, Elx-Governor Bigler'
and others.
The chairman announced that sub:
scriptiOne- had been- received for the
Monitor to the amount e 4 WO. Alia
in conclusion said he bad understood
that some of our Republican friends ,
were very nervous in regard to their
personal property, and hoped his
friends would assure thorn that thriy
were entirely safe.
I can ssstwo the chairman and his
friends; in beimitrof the Republicans
and citizens of the place, that we were
by no means nervous, and not &von'
the women or children felt the slikhitr
est uneosinose; th'© Republican's' were .
about . on' that day, the citizens
were about, and thirg;t4lant &fenders
of our country's flag wore• a few of
them, about also, and if ever any of the
threats made by him and his party had
been in an-y: way attempted, if any pri.-
vate property had been interferer('
with, we were prepared to administter
to them a gentle admonition, which
would have been sufficient to last them
a life tfwel - ancf,- if I mistake not, they
were *slightly advised of this-state of
affairs, and concluded that "discretion
was the better part of valor. Verbuin.
sat 6apientes.
Thus ended one of the most disgust
ing humbugs ever perpetrated it: this
place. May it be long, indeed before
our town. is- &Tsai—heed' by another of
the same kind. Our glorious- Union'
may be dissolved, our Government
may be overthrown, and this fair fabric
of our fathers' rearing may totter and
fall—all this• may be , —Gothin
avert the dire calamity!
alone is suffiJ*ent to save. But it will.
never bo done by the hand{ of armed
traitors in the South; it will be done,
if ever, by traitors in the free North,—
men whose hearts are blacker, if their
hands-are less red, than those now in
open arms-;: by men whryare now tint
ing their -insane voices, and. raiiiing
their parricidal hands against the best
Government ever given to man; by
ruthless demagogues and corrupt po ,
liticians ; by just such men as disgraced
the Court Rouse walls on Friday la4t.
14BPORTE R.
puma() SALE AT MAPLabd,
VALU.IIDA: LOVA AND 131 , DROVEIT
IPDOIMIITY. •
Mei Rulricribor w.ll offer at Public Snle, in the - yip:tan
of 51....111cbm,
On Thursday, June 18, 1863;.
the following Kcal Estate. viz. The large BRICK TA V
ERN STAN l). w the void village of Mapleton, ajIL tl.o
lots and all neccesary out huil,6ngs beloncing inertia : thu
Elaine Store (louse, IR,rolwusm and Store-keeper's dwell
ing, all connected ; also, shoat Fifteen I,lllldine tale la ,
said village.
'no location of this rising vili.igo , being. nnamportant.
.st.ition. of the Pennsylvania itrittrocul. vitll confilitnill the
adv.mtages of the Milo, proves ty to every enterprisiii.:
nun. The buildings are !erg, comnonlious slid well
suited for the purposes I lin), are desigurd Thu lots arc so
located as to be suitable fur either coinfortable residences
or business places.
Tin , excellent WATER-RIGHT in said village. tolaptX4
by nature to extensive iinproveinentS, will alas bu uttered
for 3.110 On this satin, day iinifpleen.
Major JOhn Donalds'on. n reside,,; of said' village and ,
Agent of enthlsSfitmr, trill take ?lease. !Unloosing the
above pieinlses to all interested.
TIMMS will bo announced on day or axle, with An
view or consulting,the chenille:lm., .of purchaser',
May 20,11363. JAMES DONALDSON,':
FARM. FOR SALE.
THE CELEBRATED PARK 'KNOWN
AS “ESQUIRE WRAY'S FARM,7'
In Henderson township, about five miles from Hunting
don, and tire and /i Mill Creek:contain
ing about 230 Acres, about HU of which are clrarcd
and tinder goott cultivation, enclosed by good fences.—
There is a good apple orchard and also a good
peach n• chard on tho premises. There is ah n
of good avatar near tho barn and house, and
streams running through the Inellll.l//.9. The im
provements area good IC% boast, weatlier.bnard,d, and
large frame barn. Them, is a good sawunill scat and
plenty of timber on the property.
Persons wishing to purchase a good farm. elmakcrilf
mid 0V.11111.110 this property.. - Apply to tho undersigned
living on the preamaes. HIRAM GRADY.
Hey 13 1113-3110-
ORPHANS' COURT SALLY-.
[Nstato of Eduard , Cox, &Oh]
ny rialto erne order of the Orphans' Courts
COMity, the undersigned. Executors of the mete
of Edward Cox, Into of Barres to‘ , ,uship, deceased, 1,114
expose at public sale on. the promises, on
Saturday, the 13th Day of June nexto' 63,
at two o'clock in the afternoon,
MI that plece of land sitnato In Jackson townablp
Huntingdon county, bounded by lauds of George M.
Loll, Michael nann.unan. and eatnuel Iloover,,contarntw.
eleven :tenni, mere or lean, a mall portion or Which
cleared, and the Wane° in timber, with a two-gory loa
holm the! L.Oll erected.
TIMMS QV SAIX—One-half of the purchase money to
be paid on entitle:nation of the ante, and the residue le
ens year thereafter, with tntemst, to be secured by the
Judgment of the purchaser.
J 0113: COX,
jjils cecinas, }Executors.
Slay 20th, 1863.
BIRNBAUM'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,,
ON HILL STREEIT,
A few doors west of Lewis' , Boole. Savo-,
ItU_NTINGD ON P 4
Photogra,plia and Ambrotylms Takem
in-the Best style.
ItEifS.CALL AND EXAMINE SPECIMENS!
SALE.—By virtue of a.
wi it of for. Fuchs to icie directed, 1 will expose to pub—
tic uolo or outcry, at the Court !louse, iu the borough of
ttuutiogdou,
Ou Saturday, 'Tune 13,-1,863
at two o'clock, M.. tho following property, to wit:
A troll of laud sitnato in Cloy t. wnship, ItuntingdOn
county, Pii,, bounded as folloasi 00,1110 north by litads,
of Levi Anderson, on tho south by Richard Madden's heirs,
on the east by lands of Madden's boils, on the west by
land of Moises Oreen!And containing ono hundred acres,
‘‘lth the usind ;Wootton., ho the mum mere or lets.
About eighty fiCretl arc cleared, with the lotion ing•
proveineuts [bacon erected—two log houses, and One log
barn. Seized. taken In exectitiun, and to bo sold as the
property of Alexander Parks.
GEORGE W. JOHNSTON, Sheriff.
tionmves Ornos,
guntingilon, May 20, 1803.