Mg Lancaster Intelligencer
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. FOR GOVERNOR:
GEORGE W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERNE COUNTY
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT
WALTER 11. LOWRIE,
OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
DEMOCRATIC CO. TICKET.
STATE SENATORS.
Henry Shaffner, Mount Joy Bor
Col. Edward McGovern, City.
ASSEMBLY.
Capt. H. W. Gara, E. Lampeter.
Emanuel P. Keller, Manh eirn Twp
Joseph S. Keener, Elizabeth.
Dr. Isaac C. Weidler, U. Leacock
SHERIFF.
001. Henry A. Hambright, City.
PROTHONOTARY.
John Eshleman, West Lampeter.
REGISTER.
Col. John H. Buchman, City
RECORDER
P. Martin Healer, Ephrata
CLERK OF QUARTER SESSIONS.
William N. Gibson, Martic.
CLERK OF ORPHANS' COURT.
Capt. J. Miller Raub, Providence
COUNTY TREASURER
James Bones, Manor
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Philip Oldweiler, West Donegal
DIRECTORS OF POOR.
Lieut. R. G. Sherman, E. Cocalico
Isaac Zell, Little Britain.
PRISON INSPECTORS.
Jacob E. Cross, Manheim Bor
George G. Worst, Salisbury.
CORONER
J. H. Hegener, Jr., City
AUDITOR
Martin S. Heiser, West Earl
Election—Tuesday, Oct. 13
COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING
The Democratic County Committee will meet at Shober's
Hotel, in this city, on TIRIBSDAY, OCTOBER let, 1863,
at 11 o'clock, A. M. The punctual attendance of every
member is earnestly desired, as business of the utmost Im-
portance will claim the Committee's attention.
R. R. TSIIIIDY, Chairman.
LAErosertaa., September 221, 1883.
Get Your Ticktes
The tickets are now ready for dis
tribution. Our friends from the
country, as they come to town,
would do well to call at the office of
A. J. STEINMAN, Esq., in West King
street, and receive their supplies.
Be Assessed
Let every Democrat be certain
that his name is on the Assessor's
list. It must be there before Friday
evening of this week, or it will be
too late. Let our Ward and Town
ship Committees pay special atten
tion to this thing immediately.—
There is no time to be lost.
A Great Speech
We occupy several columns of
our paper to-day with the great
speech delivered at our Mass Meet
ing, by ion. JEREMIAH S. BLACK, of
York. Like everything which
emanates from the giant intellect of
this profound jurist and enlightened
statesman, the speech in question
will be found to - be an exceedingly
able and masterly exposition of the
leading principles of the Democratic
party, and a scathing review of the
usurpations and unconstitutional acts
of the Abolition party. We advise
all our friends to read it carefully,
and then hand it to their Republican
neighbors.
Col. Biddle's Address.
Qn our first page will be found
another able and well-timed Address
to the people of Pennsylvania, from
the pen of the talented Chairman of
the Democratic State Central Com
mittee. Among other things it
shows clearly and conclusively who
are and who are not the friends of
the soldier. The hypocrisy of the
Abolition party, in this particular,
are set forth, in a cogent and unan
swerable manner, and it will be in
-vain for the organs of the Adminis
tration, by all their arts of sophistry
and misrepresentation, to blindfold
or deceive the gallant soldierg of the
Republic. Facts are stubborn things,
and the• documentary evidence ad
duced will overwhelm the shoddy
party and its exponents with the con
tempt of the people.
se- We hope there will be a gen
eral attendance of the County Com
mittee on Thursday, as business of
importance requires the attention of
all the members.
' itOr - 4 great Democratic meeting was held
Ozfork.Obester oonnty on Thursday last,
~widohmanipresided over by Seam GABBIER.
and addressed by. Hon. RICHARD VA lIX,
7 ,6% Swim Esq., Mr. D. E. SCHCEDIXR,
R. E. MonAcman and Joni Rirrras, Esqs.
The Democratic Ticket.
In point of - intelligence, respecta
bility and worth, the Democratic
ticket at the head of our columns is
one of the very best ever presented
to the people of Lancaster county.
Look at the names. For Senators
and Representatives, Messrs. SHAFF
NER, MCGOVERN, GAEA, SELLER,
TCPENER and WEIDLER; for Sheriff
the brave and accomplished HAM
BRIGHT ; and for the rest of the
offices, Messrs. ESHLEMAN, DUCH
MAN, EITLER, GIBSON, RAUB, BONES,
OLDWEILER, SHERMAN, ZELL, CROSS,
WORST, HEGENER and HEISER.—
They are each and all men of the
highest character, and eminently
uqualified by ,ed cation and experi
ence to fill with credit to themselves
and advantageously to the people
(should they be elected) the various
offices assigned them—and that is
more than can be said of all the '
candidates on the Abolition ticket.
Let the people of all parties reflect
on these things. Let them compare
the two tickets "with an honest de
termination to select the best men,
and act accordingly when they de
posite their votes in the ballot-box.
Should they do this, the result would
not be doubtful
Who Are the Soldiers' Friends ?
The Republicans of Lancaster
county claim to be, par excellence,
the friends of the soldier; but their
friendship is hollow and deceitful,
as is evidenced by their conduct.—
' At their County Convention, on the
2d inst., they had a fine opportunity
of making their practice tally with
their loud profession—but what did
we see ? With but a solitary excep
tion, Col. FRANKLIN, the claims to
office of the soldiers was ignored,
and men who never smelled powder,
and whose only patriotism consists
in slandering and denouncing heir
Dgnocratic fellow-citizens, run away
with all the prizes. So it is now, so
it always was, and so it always will
be with the Abolition or Republican
party. Their pretended friendship
for the soldier consists in words
alone, but when offices are to be
given out their sympathy for the
brave men who have defended the
flag of our country all ends in smoke,
and they turn their backs upon them
as though they were unworthy of
the least consideration.
But how is it with the Demo
cres ? At their County Convention,
held on the 16th inst., they placed
in nomination no less than sevenof
the country's gallant defenders, viz :
Messrs. HAMBRIGHT, DUCHMAN, Mc-
GOVERN, GARA, RAUB, SHERMAN and
HEGENER, and in this way, by their
actions rather than by their profes
sions, showed their respect and
friendship for the soldiers of Lan
caster county. They placed these
brave men in nomination, and
now ask for them the support of
their fellow-citizens of all parties.—
Shall they ha - ye it? They are, one
and all honest, capable and deserv
ing, and will compare favorably in
every respect with their •opponents
on the other ticket. Then, why
should they not be elected ? They
certainly will be, if any considerable
number of the Republican party are
disposed to act out their declaration
of being the friends of the soldier.
We shall see.
Treason and Blasphemy.
" THE UNION AS IT WAS AND THE CON-
STITL7TION AS IT IS-GOD FORBID !"
Such was the impious exclamation
of THADDEUS STEVENS in his speech
made at Christiana on the 17th
day of September, 1863—being the
seventy-sixth Anniversary of the
adoption of the Federal Constitu
tion ! And yet this treasonable and
blasphemous language is gulped
down the throats of his Repub
lican followers in this county with
avidity, and they all—the leaders we
mean—swear in the words of their
imperious master, and bellow, at the
top of their voices, great is Thad
deus of Buckshot memory, and
greater still is his treason against the
Union and the Constitution of our
fathers. Can it be possible that
such a diabolical declaration will
meet with a favorable response from
the great mass of our Republican
fellow-citizens ? Is it within the
range of probability, that the wicked
and insane ravings of this arch
traitor to the Union and the Con
stitution, framed by the patriots and
statesmen of the Revolution, shall
be accepted as sound doctrine by
the honest and intelligent masses of
the people ? We can hardly realize
that such will be the fact, and yet,
judging of the future by what has
been witnessed in the past, we are
prepared for the most abject servility
and degradation on the part of the
dominant party in Lancaster county.
We have no words at command to
express the deep detestation we have
for the man who will utter such a
treasonable sentiment. We look
upon him in the same light we do
upon the Southern traitors who are
in armed rebellion against the
Government. JEFF. DAVIS and
THADDEUS STEVENS are in the same
boat—both warring against the
Union and the Constitution—and
both destined to an immortality of
infamy. May kind Heaven protect
our National unity and our liberties
from the bloody hands of traitors in
the North and in the South, and may
this 'glorious temple of freedom be
preserved to our children and our'
children's children to the latest pos
terity.
Black Republican Loyalty.
They prate about LOYALTY !
You, the people have made sacrifices
with pure and generous hearts. You
have sent your sons to battle, and
you have given money that you have
earned by hard toil in your fields.—
But what sacrifices have these men
made ? None ! NONE ; ! NONE !! !
They get high office, and call it—
LOYALTY ! They enrich their
families, and call it—LOYALTY !
They buy lands, and they build fine
houses, which your hard toil pays
for, and THEY call it—LOYALTY !
kir The sale of the " Spring Grove Tav
ern Stand," belonging to the estate of Benja
min Miller,dec'd, heretofore advertised to take
place on Saturday, October 3d, 1863, will be
sold on Thursday, October let. See adver
tisement.
A BASE SLANDER. EXPOSED.
READQUASTRRS DZPOT CAMP IMPALED CORPS, /
Alsarourr HILL, D. C., Sept. 23, 1863.
Mr. T. J. Bighorn, Pittsburgh, Pa :
SIRS I have noticed in the newspapers are
port of a mass Convention held at Pittsburgh
on the 16th instant, in which you are
represented to have said, in response to an
inquiry of one Mathews, as to where Wood
ward (meaning Judge Woodward, the Demo
credo nominee for Governor) was when Curtin
was attending to the'soldier's wants; " that.
when Judge Woodward's gallant son came
home from Gettysburg, wounded in both legs,
his father told him he might be thankful he
got off so well—that he ought to have been
wounded in - the heart for fighting in such a
cause."
As my only brother capable, of bearing
arms, who has made two campaigns with the
State Militia, has never been wounded, I pre.
slime that I am the son of Judge Woodward
alluded to in the foregoing statement—which
statement I desire to brand, as you knew it to
be when you made it, a wicked and deliberate
falsehood. A cause so weak as to need such
assistance must be weak indeed. A man so
lost to honor and decency as to use such
means for partisan ends deserves to be drum
med out of respectable society.
As the Lieutenant Colonel commanding the
2d Pennsylvania Reserves, I participated in
the battle of Gettysburg, but was fortunate
enough to escape unharmed, except a slight
injury to my right foot, in which 1 had been
wounded during the Peninsular campaign.
Just after the fall of Sumter, in the spring
of 1861, finding that war between the two
great sections of our common country was in
evitable, under the call of the President for
three years''volunteers, I raised a company in
Philadelphia, which afterwards became incor
porated with the 2d Regiment Pennsylvania
Reserves. Any one familiar with the busi
ness of raising volunteer organizations knows
it to be an expensive undertaking. Every
cent that my company cost, with the excep
tion of the small amount that my limited
means enabled me to devote to the purpose,
Came from my father, Judge Woodward.
During all the time that elapsed before my
company was mustered into service, I lived in
his house, and had, so far as I needed it, his
co-operation in my enterprise.
As Major of the 2d Pennsylvania Reserves,
I participated in the Peninsular campaign,
and was wounded at Charles City Cross
Roads, in the right foot and left leg—by which
wounds I am crippled for life—was taken
prisoner, confined in the Libby Prison in Rich
mond, and, sifter being paroled, was taken to
my father's house in Philadelphia, where, for
four weary months I was confined to my bed,
Buffering intensely, but with that suffering
alleviated and finally relieved, by not only the
best medical skill, but also by the constant,
kind, unwearying attention of my father,
mother and sisters. During all that time, as
indeed during my whole life e. father could
be more kind, more solici , . sr a son's wel
fare, than was mine. A oat daily converea
tions occurred between us, in which the war,
and the present a ffe future of our country
were discusbgaF, d, although he freely criti
cised, and ten condemned, the manner in
which the war was managed by the Adminis
tration, never did he utter a sentiment in
sympathy with the doctrine of secession, nor
a syllable of approval of the course taken by
the people of the South ; and never did he say
aught which was not calculated to encourage
me in the performance of my duty as a soldier.
I have been thus full, sir, in my refutation
of your slander, not because you need or de
serve this kind of attention at my hands, but
because this refutation must be made as pub
lic as was the calumny, and I desire the pub.
lic to have the exact truth in regard to this
matter.
In conclusion, sir, I will remark that it is
poor encouragement to our soldiers in the
field to find that while they aro toiling and
fighting for their country, lying politicians at
home are using them as the instruments of
their partisan malice, and such an instance
as this is a fair illustration of the pretended
lave fur soldiers which certain parties parade
so constantly. That love must be sincere in
deed which, while it overlays the soldier with
fulsome adulation, stabs to the quick all that
he holds near and dear.
GEO. A. WOODWARD,
late Lieut. Col. Comdg. 2d. Penna. Reserves
Major Invalid Corpe.
ANOTHER FALSEHOOD RAILED
The following highly important correspon
dence appeared in the Carlisle Volunteer of the
24th inst.:
CARLISLE, Sept. 18, 1863
lion G. W. Woodward :
Dear Sir: I have been informed that Hon.
Lemuel Todd, who presided over the Conven
tion which renominated Hon. Andrew G Cur
tin,:in addressing a ratification meeting, held
recently in this county, stated that he had
rd that a certain Judge Hall said,
than recent conversation with him you
had avowed yourself a believer in the doctrine
of secession and in favor of an immediate
recognition of the South.
W hile I am fully satisfied that you have
never held or avowed those sentiments, I deem
it important that your friends should have
authority to contradict the statement. Will
you, therefore, be kind enough to Inform me
whether you ever held such a conversation
with Judge Hall?
Very respectfully.
RUFUS E. SHAPLEY.
Chairman Democratic Standing Committee
of Cumberland County.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21, 1863.
Rufus E. Shapley En :
Dear Sir: Just returned from - Easton,
where I went tg.~ attend the funeral of our
much lamenteleSiend, the Hon. Richard
Brodhead, I find your favor of the 18th, in
forming me of a story which Mr. Todd pro
duced at a public meeting, after obtaining it
it through a channel which to not specified.
There is not a word of truth in the story.—
I know no Judge Hall, and cannot remember
that I ever knew a man of that name..
So far from ever avowing belief t i ts secession
or favoring recognition of the Southern
.Con
federacy, I am, and always have been opposed
to both, and am in favor of suppressing the
rebellion by which both are supported.
My life has been spent, thus far in uphold
ing the Constitution of the United States as
the Fathers framed it—the Union they formed
—and the Constitution and laws of the State ;
and whatever of life remains to me will be
devsted to the same ends, whether it he spent
in public or private stations. Neither secession
nor the malignant fanaticism that caused it
will ever find an advocate in me.
Trusting that this is a sufficient answer to
the calumny you allude to, I remain, dear sir,
Very truly, yours,
Gao. W. WOODWARD.
A Wicked and Traitorous Senti-
ment !
An Abolitionist remarked in a
gentleman's store, in this city, one
clay last week, that he " would rather
hear of Rosecrans' army being annihi
lated, than that Woodward should be
elected Governor of 'Pennsylvania !"
What will the relatives and friends
of the men in Col. Hambright's
Regiment, which is in Gen. Rose
crans' army, and who suffered terri
bly in the I#te battle in Georgia,
think of such an expression ? And
yet this man was but expressing the
sincere desire of every Abolition
leader in Lancaster county. How
long will the people of this great
county consent to be led by men
who have such wicked, atrocious and
traitorous desires in their hearts ?
The second Tuesday of October will
answer the question.
TUAT'S SO
There are some men of the Abolition Re
publican party who • profess to have a holy
horror of the provision' in the Constitution of
the United States, which has been engrafted
into the Fugitive Slave Law, providing for the
return of fugitives from labor, who are negroes.
But these same men grab at the opportunity
f arresting a poor worn out soldier, who has
left his regiment, and returned to his home
who is a white man. The reward of one of
Uncle Sam's $lO greenbacks overcomes his
conscience where a white man is in the case ;
but if it was a negro he would hurry him, on.
Northward. " Consistency, thou art a jewel
Pram Yesterday's Inquirer.
Letter from the Seventy-Ninth
Official List of Killed and Wounded—.
Colonel Hambrlght Slightly Wounded
...Lieut. Col. Miles Wounded . and 4.
Prisoner—Heavy Loss Among the 041...
:Errs--The List of Hilleil.The Wounded
....Their Names and Injuries—..l he 79th
and Its Deeds- 6 . Our Friends at Home
Peed Not be Ashamed of lis."
GEORGIA, Sept. 20, 1863.
A .terrible battle has bee n raging-in - the
"v. - alter, 14 miles south of Chattanooga since
Saturday morning (19th). We were driven
yesterday morning, but in the evening gain
ed ground. Oar Corps (Thomas') sustained
the brunt of the fight. His 26,000 men were
victorious over 40,000 of the enemy. The
fighting has been terrible, men hive never
fought better than ours,-and we arefonly driv-.
en by superiority of numbers. They.outrrum
ber;us five to one. If McPherson does not arrive
to night I am afraid all is lost, and that we
will have to fall back. Ewell's and Long
street's Corps are here and do splendid fight
ing. I have just heard that Gen. ,Lytle has
been killed. Our Corps have been driven
back, and things look desperate. Our Divis
ion has not been relieved since it entered the
engagement at 10 o'clock A. M. yesterday,
and is terribly cutup. Our Brigade was led
into ambush at 10 o'clock yesterday, and met
a horrible fire.
The 79th has proven true to their former
reputation as their list of killed and wounded
will show. I subjoin a list now, and as soon
as I can arrive at the facts will 'give you a
full list. This list is very imperfect as far as
the number is concerned, but is correct as to
facts.
Col. Hambright, slightly wounded in fore
head.
Lieut. Cul. David Miles, supposed to be
wounded and in the hands of the enemy.
Capt. Louis Heidegger, Company F, killed.
Capt. A. Godshalk, Company H, leg am
putated.
let. Lieut. James L. Benson, Company A,
slightly wounded in the leg.
2nd Lieut. C. B. Madden, Company F,
severely in both legs.
2nd Lieut. C. L. Eckert, Company C, re
ported wounded, and in the hands of the
enemy.
2nd Lieut. Jacob Greiner, Company I,
slightly wounded in leg.
Killed.
Private Oram Hart, Company H.
Private Joshua Geiter, Company A.
Private William Nixon, Company C.
Private John J. Frick, Company I.
Private Peter Young, Company C.
Private F. Schaible, Company F.
Private Jacob Lipp, Company A.
Private E. Lansing, Company K.
Corporal Jeffrey Reese, Company C.
Wounded.
Sergeant George W. Beck, Company A,
slightly.
Private Z. Howe; Company A, slightly.
Private C. W. Wiley, Company B, slightly.
Private Thomas Fitzpatrick, Company K,
severely.
Private Boyle, Company A, slightly.
Private A Lechler, Company A, slightly.
Ist Lieut J. A. Madden, Company G, se
verely.
Private R. Stapleford, Company A, slightly.
Corporal Wm. Preston, Comp'y C, slightly
John Crawford, " "
Private Geo. Shaeffer,
" H. M. Reese,
Corporal
Privjte G. W. Reeves,
Private Wolf,
Private
- _
Private G. Zanker, " K, severely
Private Wm. Keller, e " F, "
Private H. J. Young, Company G, severely.
Private C. Mattern, Company 11, "
Sergeant William Doetman, Company H,
severely.
Private George Miller, Company A, severely
in leg.
Private E. Ayers, Company B, slightly.
Private J. F. Leech, Company B, slightly.
Ist Sergeant William Pool, Company 0,
slightly.
Private William Devlin, Company D, mor
tally.
Sergt. C. H. Mayer, Company E, slightly.
Sergeant John Shad, Company F. "
Private A. Dennis, Company G, leg ampu
tated.
Corporal Con. Wolf. Company H, slightly.
Private A. Weinholt, Company H, slightly.
Corporal Isaac Co; Company H,
Private G. Whiteside, Company I, slightly.
Private W. Gemperling, Company A, "
Corporal Josh. Bennett, Company B,
Private J. Suydam, Company F,
The above is all I can learn at present will
write you again as soon as the returns are
made out of our loss.
6 O ' CLOCK P. 3f.
Hurrah ! the day is turning again. Thomas
is driving the enemy, and giving him a fear.
ful lesson in the art of war. Gen. Starkweather
of our Brigade is wounded. Hie Adjutarkt
General Lieut. C. A. Searles, was killed yes
terday. General Crittenden •and staff was
surrounded by the enemy three times to-day,
but cut his way out ; half of his staff have
gone under-, and his escort cut to pieces. I
hope to give you favorable news soon.
Yours Sm X
P. S.—l have heard that McPherson has
arrived and formed line of battle. The fight
to-morrow will be terrible.
EDELOILEN PLEDGES.
"I do not object," said the President in his
letter to Governor SEYMOUR, "to abide a
"decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, of the
"judges thereof, on the constitutionality of
" the draft law. In feet I should be willing to
" facilitate the obtaining of it, but I cannot
" consent to lose the time while it is being
" obtaivd."
" The President," said General Dtx, "in
" his proclamation [ordering the draft in
"New York] has promptly consented to have
" it tested by judicial interpretation."
Both these promises, says the N. Y. World,
have been broken by the supension of the writ
of habeas corpus, which makes any judicial
test of the law, or any judicial redress of
grievances under it, simply impossible. The
marshal may seize the undrafted citizen. No
court can rescue him. He cannot sue for un
lawful arrest, fur an act of Congress provides
that the allegation of federal authority is a
sufficient plea in bar. And so redress is again
impossible. Minors may enlist, but the parent
has no remedy, he cannot recover his child.
An officer may decoy a citizen into drunken
ness
and enlistment, hie wife is excluded from I
.the courts where the fraud might be exposed
and punished. She has no remedy. A new
conscription may be announced. Frauds a
thousand fold worse than any we have had
experience of may be practiced in the enrol- i
ment, and in the draft, the Conscription act
itself may be shamefully violated. Tha oitizen
who suffers has no remedy. The question
whether officers are doing their duty in obe
dience to the law is excluded from the purview
of the courts. Soldiers whose term of service
has expired may by accident or design be
seized as deserters. They have no remedy.—
Their captors have $lO and expenses. Mr.
LINCOLN has made it safe and profitable for
military prese-gangs to entrap, imprison, and
hold any citizen. He has no remedy. Judges
are ordered to be deaf. "Any military, naval ,
or civil officer of the United States," from
President LINCOLN down to his last corporal,
has by law—no, by proclamation I—the func
tions and the power of a despot, and the shel
ter of the Constitution, and of the law, even
of a Republican Congress, is utterly with
drawn from every American citizen.
TILE GABE NBACK-ITES.
Who sold to the Government, for the use of
the soldiers, shoddy clothing, that one rain
would utterly destroy.
Republican Greenback Shoddy Contractors.
Who sold shoes to the soldiers that had
paper soles ?
Republican Greenback Shoddy Contractors.
Who have speculated off the soldiers 1
Republican Greenback Paymasters.
Who• have made money off contracts of
all kinds in this war ?
Republican Greenback Patriots.
Who form Union Leagues, bat do not go to
the war?
Cotton Speculators, Draft Commissioners,
Postmasters, etc.—all belonging to the Green
back Aristocraoy.
Who want the war prolonged indefinitely
that they may make money?
The Greenback Patriots. .
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
The - meeting -of the` Democratic Central
Club on Thursday evening last was spirited and enthusi.
tette. A capital speech was made by Abram Shank, Rag ,
by the way one of the moat effective political speakers in
our city. Mr.WillianalifcConisey; a plalcii old-fashilned
Democrat, also - made clew appropriate remarks, and was
warmly applinded. The Glee Club were present, and de
lighted the audience with theiradmirable wings.
A huge and enthuisitio meeting was bald on Tuesday
Oman -lalinat - -WitH•EW.Citsiloon, ,Weat- Bins street,
which eta taddreisad - by Or rifdwarlateGovenr,. Cept.
John Wise and Dr. Samuel Welehens. After the *wiles
a procession was formed, which marched to Swilkerala
loon, Church street. The heartiest kind of cheers were
given for Woodward on the march.
Another fine meeting was held at Snyder's Hotel, F.ast
King street, on Friday evening, which was addressed by
Abram Shank, Esq-, Mr. Jonathan Colima and Mr. Alfred
Sanderson. ' About the time the meeting was adjourning,
Col. Edward McGovern arrived at the hotel, and was en
thtudastically greeted. The meeting insleted on swath
from - hini, and he made an able and elcquent one, In the
cootie of which reference was made to the attack on Col.
Efambright and himself in one of the Abolition organs on
Friday evening. He said the assertion that was attributed
to "him that "COL Hazel:right was not a loyal man,' by
whomsoever, or by Whatevee authority, made, was un
qualifiedly false. The Colonel was heartily applauded
throughout. roe Glee Club were present at both the
.
above paeetings. -
A spirited and enthusiastic meeting was held at Fran
deem? Saloon, &nth Queen street, on Saturday evening,
which was addressed by William R. Wileon,•Esq., Col.
McGovern and Abram Shank. Esq. The greatest good
feeling and enthusiasm prevailed. St. Paul, the work
goes bravely on!"
OLD WAIWICK AWA/LE!—A meeting of the Democratic
Club of Warwick township was held at Hallacher's Hotel.
in the 'village of Itoth.svUle, on Saturday evening. Able
speeches were made by Capt. John Wise, Dr. Samuel
Wel
chens and Mr. Jonathan Cessna, of this city. The audi
ence was large and enthusiastic, and the sentiments of
the speakers were received with the greatest applanse.---L
The Democratic Central Glee Club were present.
trams Dproca.ttio CLOP OP COLIThIBIL—At a large and
respectable meeting of the Democracy of Columbia, con
vened on Tuesday evening, September 221, at the rooms
of the "Union Democratic Club," the following resolu
tions were unanimously and enthusiastically adopted:
WFILIIPLP, The Democratic party are and ever have been
the friends of law and order demanding for themselves
only the same rights and privileges conceded and enjoyed
by their political opponents under the Constitution and
laws of the State; and
Wurazas, Appearances and declarations certainly indi•
cats, that Governor Cuarrtr will introdice into our State,
previous to the October election, a military force, ostensi
bly to repel rebel raids, (and when no raids are present or
prospective) but in reality to control the State elections—
therefore
Resolved, That if Governor CORTIIf has any regard for
"the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania," or for the personal welfare of his political friends
and adherents, he will utterly abstain, and so counsel his
friends to abstain, from any unlawful or pernicious inter
meddling with the rights and privileges of the ballot box.
Besotted, That the Democrats of Columbia pledge them
selves to their Fellow-Democrats throughout the State,
that they soul stand firm in defence of their rights, and of
a free and open ballot, and that they will not submit to
any military or other unlawful interference with their
rights and•privtleges as citizens and voters on the second
Tuesday of October next
MEETINGS TO BR HELD.
MIMING at Ina HILVASZ Hose House —The Democracy
of the city are Invited to meet In front of the Humane
Hose Rouse, this evening, (Tuesday,) at 7% o'clock. Ad
dresses will be delivered In English by Capt. John Wise,
and in German by J. J Sprenger, Esq. The Democratic
Central Glee Club and Eillian's Drum Corps will be pres
ent. After the speeches a procession will be formed, and
march to Coleman's and Shoenberger's Falcone, on the Old
Factory road, where addresses may be expected from other
gentlemen.
MEETING AT RAWLINSTELLE —The Democracy of Martin
township will meet at Robert Sonlaby's Hotel, in Rawlins
ville, on Saturday next, October 3d, at 1 o'clock, P. M.—
Addresses by J. W. F. Swift, Esq , Dr. Saninel Wolohan!
and Mr. William McComsey
Mxxxirro AT Nate Texas —The Democracy of Fulton town
ship will meet at the hotel of. George Waters, in the village
of New Texas, on Saturday evening next, at 7 o'clock
Addresses by W. W. Brown, Abram Shank and Alexander
Harris. Esqrs.
Mass Msrrnvel-At3WMAX- Cearraa —A Maas Meeting of
the Democracy oOrtariieand the surrounding townships
will be held at -- MiXtitite-Hotel, Drumore Centre, on
Wednesday. eel - O'clock, P. M. Addressee by
Hon. Isaac E. aleitig.;• W. W. Brown, 8. IL Reynolds, H.
B. Swarr. Esqrs4rta others.
Mass Mreviric - sirMatrem BOllOllOll.—A Masi Meeting
of the Democracy of Manhole] and the surrounding town
ships will be held at Leber's `Hotel, in Manhelm Borough,
on Saturday next, October 3el, at 1 o'clock, P. M. Address
es by Hon. Isaac E. Hiester, 8 H. Reynolds and H. B.
Snare, Esqra., in English, and D. E. Schcedler in German.
MEETING AT LONDON GROVE —The Democracy of Paradise
township will meet at David McFalls' Hotel, London
Grove, on Friday next, October 2d, at 8 o'clock, P. M.—
Addresses by Hon. Isaac E. heater, David G. Eshleman
and W. W. Brown, Esqrs.
MEETING AT REAMBTOWN.—The friends of Woodward and
Lowrie will hold a meeting at Joho Frecht'a Hotel, in the
village of Iteamstowc, East Cocalico township, on Saturday
next, at 2 o'clock, P. M. Addresses by William R. Wilson,
Req., and others Let there be a full turn-out of our
friends in the Northern section of the comity..
A FINE THEATRICAL EXHIBITION.--4'llltOrl
Hall, on Saturday evening last, was the scene-of a finial].
did theatrical exhibition. Mr. Jose W FOENLT, who need
to ben Colonel in the ?goody Pennsylvania Militia, before
the war broke out, and is now called "Faumey" by some
wicked people, doubtless because of his sycophantic na
ture, "spoke a piece" to a mixed assemblage of
" Black spirits and white, blue spirits and grey,"
and to the infinite delight of the "loyal" women and
children preseot. Afr. FORME has never yet spoken
or lectured on "Ingratitude." the basest of all crimes, and
one with which he is thoroughly familiar. We would ad.
vise him to do so In Lancaster, where himself and his
career through life are ao well known to our people
That exquisite "ladies' man," Judge SHANNON, of Pitts
burg. was present. and smiled and looked pretty and
struck some of his killing attitudes, and the "loyal" women
were in perfect raptures, and exclaimed "what a dear
creature he Ist"
" " severely
" " slightly.
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Of coerce there was no argument or reasoning in either
of the above worthiest' addresses, but a plentiful supply of
the slang of the day.against the "Copperheads!' What a
eirtwusly immactdate pair they are, to be sure!
Cans G. BEALE, Esq., the Assessor for the
N. W. Ward, will sit at Trout's Hotel, West Orange street,
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of thin week, for the
purpose of making asseementg.
POST OFFICE LETTER BOXES.—The Post
master of this rity has introduced the letter box system in
Lancaster, ender the provisions of the new Post Office laW,
which provides for the free delivery and collection of let
ters by carriers. Our citizens will hereafter be saved from
the necessity of walking a great distance to the Post-Office
to deposit their mail matter, ac, by the arrangements made,
letters and other mail matter will be collected from the
)E. twice a day, taken to the Poet Offino; and sent off by
earliest mails.
1 . otter boxes have been placed at the folloWing places:
Grocery store of John Fondersmith, corner of East King
and Shippen streets.
Grocery store of Jacob 11. Emelt; corner of North Queen
and Lemon streets!
Grocery store of George Spindle, Went King, near Mnl
berry street.
°Theory store of John Bitts, gonth Queen, opposite Mid
dl., street.
All mail matter deposited in the boxes must be prepaid.
The postage on all letlers to be sent through the mails to
any part of the United States, California and Oregon in
cluded, sines caNrs, when weighing less than half an
ounce. 11 not fully prepaid, double postage to charged
Packages of newspapers, weighing under four ounces,
TWO news; single newspapers, two cents.
•
SOME WOODWARD SOLDIERS STILL LEFT!—
The Abolition organs would fain make their residers be
lieve that there are no Woodward soldiers In the Army.—
Unfortunately, the readers of those sheets don't know that
the editors thereof are near kinsmen to a gentleman who
roles in the regions below, and has been known for
thonaands of years by the name of the '•Father of Liars."
But we are digressing: A onng lady of this city wrote to
a near relative, who is a Sergeant in the 2.2 d. Regiment. P.
V , giving him an account of cur great Mass Meeting on
the 171 h. and - asking him whether he was a Woodward
man ? He sends in return an interesting letter, and gives
the following pointed and pithy replyto her inquiry, which
she has kindly furnished for publication:
" I was very glad to hear that you all had such a pleas
ant time on the 17th. Yon wish to know whether lam a
Woodward man. Yon had better believe I am, and.se Is
my old rifle; she shoots neither a Lincoln nor Curtin ball.
If I was to pat one is, she would kick the nose off of me.
I see so many puffs in the papers about the "Soldiers'
friend," 4. p Curtin 7 cannot see what he hoe done for
our Regiment and the 82d P. V. in our Brigade; be has
not been to Bee us since we are in the service. If he would
have come to our camp at Warrenton he would have Been
a Wood ward board stuck up at almost:every street. I
think It would have hurt his eyes."
P. MARTIN HITLER
Thin gentleman, the Democratic candidate for Recorder
has great personal popularity in hie own neighborhood:—
He wan elected in March, 1862, a Jeanne of the Peace for
Ephrata towcship—a strong Republican district—having
received 292:votes, or more than, the. other three cand i
dates (two of whom are , epublican.) combined. Mr H.
is a Scrivener and Surveyor, an excellent peneman, a thor
ough German and. English ncholar—epeak Log, rending and
writing both languages accurately and fluently. Should
he be elected, the business of the office would be faithfully
and efficiently attended to.
General BEN BUTLER, who made a million
of dollars in New Orleans, is stumping Penn
sylvania in support of the Administration
which never compelled him to disgorge his
plunder. Of course he is a very loyal man
and he regards all who look with apprehen
sion on a war Conducted for the benefit of men
like himself as disloyal. Secretary SEWARD,
in a formal diplomatic dispatch dated Nov,
10th last, wrote to Minister A1d.318 that 'the
Administration must not be confounded with
the Government,"and that a citizen may oppose
the one without thought of disloyalty to the
other ; but General BUTLER whom the Adm in
istrhtion allowed to make a million of dollars
at New Orleans is of a different opinion. He
holds " that you cannot divorce the Adminis
" tration from the GovernMent, as it is the
" only representative it has got," and so all'
who do not believe in Mr. LINCOLN or in the
propriety of BUTLER making a million of dol
lars which he did at New Orleans are traitors.
General BUTLER, of course is for the war
(be has already made a million of dollars by
it,) and don't believe in a restoration of the
good old Union. It is true he never won a
battle, while he lost two—one at Big Bethel
and the other at Lowell—the last with a stone
mason ; but notwithstanding these disasters,
his voice is still for war, and—another million
of Tellers. The people of Pennsylvania can
judge how disinterested is the advice of this
millionaire :stomper. ;Hill loyalty, his dis
like of " Copperheads," his detestation
of the old Union, and his Clamor for a war - of
subjugation, all mean—another million of
dollars.
THE CONSCRIPTION IN CONNECTICITT.— In
Hartford the number of men drafted under the
Federal conscription law, wa5.1,127.
Of this number, how many, think you
reader, have gone to - the war?
Just—four ! No leas—no more.
And of these four, two were negroes.
POLITICAL
For the Intelligeneer.
A " LOYAL " MAN
For The Intelllgeneer.
MISSREi. EDITORS: Some correspondent of
the Express has been enlightening its readers
about some of the sayings and doings at the
Mount Joy Demoiratio Club Room, and I
have thought it well enough to present your
readers with a brief report of the grand and
magnificent, Union (?) Mass Meeting held
here to day,f for it is not, likely that corree
Fondant will have anything to say about it,
or if he does ivilisnake a very.remote approxi
'Madan to truth.
This meeting was called with a grand
flourish of trumpets a few weeks since.
Posters were up of sufficient dimensions to
call a State Mess Meeting, and an edition of
smaller ones was posted yesterday admonish
ing the faithful, to rally in Bechtold's orchard
for Curtin and Victory. Agnew's name was
not immortalized in these bills ; either owing
to an oversight or because it would have 0037
cup;ed too much paper. Early this morning
the fuglemen of this indubitable fizzle were
in caucus and moving about as busy as bees
in a tar-bucket to put the finishing touches on
the arrangements for the great occasion.
"Great expectations ' were entertained of an
immense torn-out in this Abolition Gibraltar
—at least B,ooo—and that we Copperheads, as
they delight to call us. would not dare show
ourselves. An imposing delegation was ex
pected from year city, and upon the arrival of
the noon train it came. No crowd of our
Mount Joy Abolitionists was there to receive
their Lancaster brethren, and it would have
been a great waste of labor to get up the
crowd had the material been on hand. One
of the orators of the day emerged from the
train and a delegation of two. It became evi
dent the Eastern delegations would not swell
the meeting. The sharpest eyes failed to
detect the advance of the Northern and West
ern delegations. However the Columbia and
Marietta delegations were expected to make
up for most deficiencies. At last they came
and consisted also of two deluded individuals.
At the orchard we found the meeting was
there, but the Mass was not. The Band bad
got tired playing and something had to be
done. The meeting was organized. It was
not difficult to number the crowd. Some seats
had been provided and accommodated 67 men
and boys, and upwards of 30 ladies and little
girls. There were 72 males standing; about.
These numbers progressively diminished till
the meeting was over. Of the whole number
nearly half were boys, more than 20 Demo
crats, and about a dozen were Americans of
African descent, including women and piat
ninnies. Darkies have a great desire to at
tend public assemblages of white folks, and
their presence at that crowd was not inap
propriate ; the orators had the text close at
hand that furnished the staple of their die
courses.
Col. Fisher got up and began to speak. He
did not talk very long, but in the course of
his speech testified his ardent affection for
Sambo and his dislike of Democrats by saying
he would " rather sleep with a greasy nigger
than with a Copperhead " (snake probably).
A hairy and tongue-y Yankee, called Mr.
Thompson, from Washington city, next got
up. The meeting would not have been com
plete without having a converted Democrat
for one of the orators—an ex Breckenridger
at that. Thompson therefore appeared in the
character of a war Democrat. He is reputed
to be a Clerk in one of the Departments, but
his employers leave him earn his salary by a
missionary tour to enlighten Pennsylvania
Dutjhmen how to vote for their Governor.
Thompson spoke at great length—said he had
formerly been a Breckenridger, but:the scales
fell from his eyes (greenback salvo must have
wrought the miracle); was profuse in denunci
ations of copperheads and laudations of loyally;
vowed be would never vote for any man born
south of Mason & Dixon's line, and judged
men's loyally by their deeds. He did not say
why he did not resign his clerkship end join
the army. At last he subsided after having
tired and thinned out a very slim crowd.
Col. Patterson, of your town, got up and did
not indulge in such extravagant expressions
of loyally as his predecessors, hut made about
as good an argumentative speech as the sub
ject would allow. He could not amplify, for
Thompson had tired out everybody, and the
meeting like everything else came to an end ;
nobody more disconsolate than our Abolition
friends. Z.
MocrNT JOT, September 26, 1863.
For the Intellige.er
In a recent speech, made by that eminently
patriotic and purely political General Butler,
to advance the sinking cause of the Aboli
tionists in this State, he made use of an inns-
tration which, it seems to me, was very unfor
tunate and by no means encouraging to his
party, which now openly proclaims itself op
posed to the Union.
Ile compared the Government to an engine
and the Administration to an engineer. Ile
said the engine was now in danger—reaching
a precipice—no time to be lost—and the fate
of all the passengers hangs upon the skill of
that engineer. He furthermore accused the
Democrats of the NOrth of attempting to tie
the hands of the engineer, so as to thwart him
in his efforts to save the Government from
destruction.
Now, this illustration very properly ignores
the doctrine, so fondly upheld by many igno
rant Abolitionists, that the Government and
the Administration are identical. Indeed,
Mr. Seward himself settled thisAuestion no
more than two years ago in his instructions
to one of our Ministers at a Foreign Govern
ment. Every sane man knows that an Ad
ministration is a creature of four years exis
tence, while our Government will last for ages,
if its enemies North and South will cease in
flicting their terrible wounds upon it. The
Government is the Constitution and the laws
made in pursuance thereof, and the simple
duty of an Administration is to see that these
laws are faithfully executed.
The Constitution guarantees every citizen
the right to criticise the acts of an Adminis
tration. Upon this right rests the foundation
of our excellent form of Government. Sup
pose Mr. Buchanan would have prevented
any criticism of the acts of his Administra
tion, how, prny, could Mr. Lincoln ever have
been elected ? Why, have we an election for
President every four years? Simply because
the founders of our Government knew that a
change of men was desirable at those inter•
vale.
Gen. Butler's illustration so far cannot be
found fault with, but when he attempts to Ss
a charge of disloyalty upon the Democrats,
the true Union men of the North, then he ut
ters sentiments which in his heart he knows
are false. Who dares to charge Democrats
with a desire to destroy the Governnient?—
Who are the men that hate the Union and
the Constitutior,
and pray God to forbid that
they should uphold them ?
Who has tied the hand of the engineer and
made it impossible for him to restore the
Union? Have not Democrats furnished men
and money in profusion, have they not given
this engineer all the fuel be could use, have
they not fought, bled and died to aid him to
preserve the Union, in accordance with the
policy ho announced at his inauguration ?
Yes, they have done much to encourage this
engineer. But now their spirits droop, and
they are alarmed for the safety of the engine ;
for the engineer has changed his policy—his
skill has deserted him, and he is fast carrying
us all to destruction, and our last resort is,
not to tie his hands, but to direct the skill he
has, into the right channel, and by the elec
tion of Democrats to office, to give him truer
and better adviser, than he now has.
September 26th, 1863. C.
For the Intelllgencer
A GREENBACK PATRIOT
The Lebanon Courier of Thursday last says :
" Many of the best Democrats of the State
are actively engaged on the stump for Curtin
and the Union. JACOB B. AmRAKE, Esq., of
LanCaster, has been doing a good work this
week before the people of Lebanon county.—
No 'one here will question Mr. Amwake's
Democ,cy. He has stood at the head I . !] of
that party in this district, and is to day a
Jeffersonian Democrat of the strictest kind."
Whew ! What a long tail our poAs has got.
If the good people of Lebanon knevr JAKE
AMWAKE as well as be is known in Lancaster
county, they would form a very different opin
ion of him from what the Courier does. As
to his polities, no Democrat acquainted with
him has had any confidence in his political
integrity for the last ten or twelve years. Ile
is a regular greenback patriot, and works for
pay.
86,000 A MAN.
The machinery of the Conscription law,
with its army of Provost Marshals, Commis
sioners, Medical :Examiners, Enrollere, Dep
uties,•Clerks, &a, is so cumbersome and ex
pensive that it has been estimated the con
scripts will cost the Government not less than
between four and five thousand dollars apiece.
The Boston Post says: "The same amount
would - have, procured as volunteers five times
the • nnsalser of men."
SPEECH .
OF
HON. JEREMIAB S, BLACK,
AT THE
Democratic Hass Convention in Lancaster
City, September 17th, 1863.
Fan Low OrrisrmS I have not accepted this in
vitation to address you with any hope of giving you
new - light on the issues before the people. There
are some things too plain for dittimaion, and the
man who does not understand the fundamental
principles now in contest, is below the reach of an
argument.
This government—this Constitution and these laws
—were made by the patriots of the Revolution to
secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and
their posterity. 'Their blood and treasure expended
upon the erection of the Government, gave them an
inheritable estate in It which has come down in the
regular course of descent to their heirs. We, the
white men of America, are their heirs. •
The Government being our property, we have the
same right to save it from overthrow by- warning
one another of its danger, that anyone of you has to
prevent the destruction of his house by raising the
cry of fire when he sees the flames bursting from the
roof. And this is a duty which will surely be per
formed; for the people of this country have been so
long accustomed to speak plainly what they believe
sincerely upon the subjects whichoonoerntneir tem
poral salvation, that they could not be silent if they
would.
This great combination of independent sover
eignties, uniting all the powers of a consolidated
empire for the common deter= and general welfare,
with all the advantages of local sell-government in
our domestic affairs, was the grandest political
structure ever made by human hands, and. its pres
ervation waa toe most sacred trust ever committed
to any people on the globe. if we shall be com
pelled to close this contest without a resto
ration of the Union, our worst misfortunes are yet
before us. No imagination has measured the full
extent of that calamity, or 'seen to the bottom of
that frightful abyss. 11 any one here feels pity for
the Southern people, let him bestow. it; not for the
sufferings they have already endured, but for the
evils which await them in case they succeed in the
rash and rebellious enterprise of dissolution.—
Neither can we of the North look in the face of
ouch a misfortune without dread and terror. A
simple commercial view of it (and that is the lowest
of all views) is enough to startle us. We lose an
internal trade with the South worth to U 8 at least
one hundred millions per annum in clear profits.—
We lose the larger part
.of that great foreign com
merce which heretofore made all the world depend
ent on us. A financial rovuleion must follow this
bloated system of fictitious paper credit as surely as
the night follows the day. %lith all those elements
of weakness we must shoulder a debt of perhaps
three thousand millions of dollars, Pennsylvania
paying about twenty-five millions per annum as
her share of the interest, a burden which even a
prosperous people could hardly expect to carry
without being crushed. With business everywhere
paralysed, property - uuivereally depreciated, in
debt beybral hope of redemption, ground to the
eertffimby taxation, political insignificance in the
-eyes of \, .tus world, and a conosiousness of national
Marne a d degradation in our own hearts, we must
begin the world again, like a broken hearted man
who has lost his character, his property and his hope.
Wnea these thiugs are recollected, let no man
forget that the Dewooratio party is the only one
which ever appreciated the value of the Union. No
other ever made devotion to it a cardinal principle
of its creed. There never was a time since that party
first came into existence, when any man could re
main in its communion for an hour it he showed in
difference, much less if he expressed opposition, to
the Union. When any one 01 its pretended mem
bers declared his willingness to let the Union elide,.
he was promptly notified to slide himself
over to the opposition, and he always obeyed the
order. .11 there be a man among us now who would
not freely give all he has and all he is to bring back
the Union to the condition in which it was three
years ago, he is not in his proper place ; he ought to
be in secret conclave with the •, loyal leaguers,"
plotting against that Constitution and those laws
which alone can bind the Union together.
Teat we are as true as ever to our ancient faith—
that we have not given up one inch of the high
ground we occupied in all time past—is proved, if
proof were necessary, by the character of our present
candidate for the highest office in the State. I think f
know that gentleman as well as one man can be known
to another. .1 can say, with a protound conviction
of its truth, that no word has ever been heard from
his lips, nor a line seen from his pea, which did not
breathe the most fervent devotion to the Union.—
indeed, he has been all his life time uncommonly
sensitive to the dangers which threatened our nation
al institutions. The Union of the States, with their
rights unimpaired and all the liberties of the people
protected, was and is the polar star of his political
course and the supreme object of his affections. No
man, even among the great patriots of the past age,
has been more eloquent in his warnings against dm
union„or predicted our present troubles more accur
ately. In a hundred conversations or a score of
written communications, 1, and many others, have
seen the evidence of his love for the Federal Union
and his hatred for every species of treason that
might weaken or overthrow it. Few persons have
ever been in contact with him, even for a short time,
without being impressed with the great truths which
make en large a part of hie own strong and clear
understanding. Friends and enemies admit his sin
cerity, for feelings so intense and convictions so ha
bitually urged upon others, could not possibly be
counterfeited. lie has fairly earned the title of a
"Union Saver." lie has deserved the sneer of the
opposition when they said he eat constantly " beside
the sick bed of the Union;" and if the Union is
destined to expire in the insanity of civil strife ' his
devoted affection will keep there to the last, "like
love watching madness on the bad of death."
lf we had been in any sense opposed to the Gov
ernment or unfaithttil to the Union, would. we have
proposed such a candidate for Governor? No! we
would have nominated Some blank Abolitionist, who
believes the Ounstitution.to be a covenant with hell,
and who by destroying the Constitution would make
an end of the Union aa certainly as you take the
life of a man by cutting the heart out of his body.
Cr we would have worked out our destructive pup ,
poses by nominating some mighty contractor—one
of those large-handed robbers who are weakening
the Government by depleting its treasury and stuff
ing its money into their own big pockets. With
such a man wielding all the power and influence of
this great State, the Government surely could not
last long. In short, if we had any evil intent
against the Union, we would have taken any candi
date we could lay our hands on rather than George
W. Woodward, the Union Saver—the man of upright
character and downright speech—whose hands are
clean of all crime, and whose pockets are empty of
all gains except what mime there as the just reward
of his honest labor.
Much as we honor and love him personally, it is
not for his sake that we desire to make hire. Gover
nor. Setting aside his fidelity and ours to the
National Government and Union, we could do some
thing a great deal more for his profit than that. Let
him avow his apostasy from the faith of his fathers;
let him prostitute his conscience and his intellect to
the purposes of Abolitionism; let him forget
that he belongs to the Caucasian variety of the
human species and enter the service of the negro;
let him make a few speeches to show the superiority
of the African over the Saxon race; let him contrive
the ways and means of promoting negro insurrec
tions, and always stand ready to take the part of the
negro right or wrong ; above all, let hint denounce
the Constitution as it is and curse the Union as it
was; let him abandon the principles of liberty
in which he was bred, and degrade himself low
enough to call every freeman a traitor who is not
willing to be a slave. if he will do this he may get
a con tract on which he can cheat the United States
at the rate of a hundred thousand dollars a month.
It his inexperience should make him awkward, and
he should be detected and exposed so that even his .
confederates in knavery are compelled to admit his
guilt, there would still be a resource for him. When
the worst comes to the worst, we can get him a
foreign mission—send him to cool his blushes in the
snowed ltussia, or harden the bronze upon his cheek
under the hot sun of Spain.
But stealing the public money or trampling on
the Constitution is not his idea of. loyalty or yours
either. Be would restore the Union by, defending
the ConstitutiOn, by giving to the laws their just
supremacy, by guarding the rights of the people,
and by driving off those obscene birds of prey that
are now gorging themselves on the prostrate carcass
of the nation.
1 know there are those who think that the Union
never can be restored; who believe that the great
gulf of blood and fire which now rolls between the
North and the hunch has been made by this Admin
istration so wide and so deep that it will remain
forever impassable. I stn not one of those who re
gard restoration as a forlorn hope. Every man who
has sense enough to know his right hand from his
left must believe that, if the Democratic party tad
been successful in 1860, this country would now
have been united, prosperous, happy and tranquil.
The American flag would have waved over every
inch of our territory, not one star extinguished
nor one stripe erased." And no concession to the
South would have been made or needed beyond what
was required by the Constitution, or demanded by
that magnanimity which the stronger party ought
always to show in its treatment of the weaker. As
our troubles began with the advent of the Abolition
ists to power, so they will end when the people
scourge back that band of malignants to the obscurity
from which they ought never to have emerged. The
Democratic party built up this Uovernment, kept
the Union together for seventy-five years,
and was always ready " to shield it and save it or
perish there too." The same party will bring back
the better days of the Republic and remove, if not
immediately, at least in process of time, that huge
mountain of sorrow which is now crushing the life
out of the country.
One thing is perfectly certain : that if the Union is
ever restored, it must be on the basis of the Consti
tution and laws. Other hope of salvation to us there
is none under Heaven. When the Constitution was
put aside and another system of government, com
pounded of proclamations and confiscation acts, was
substituted in its place, all possible chances of the
Union were postponed until the Constitution could
be brought back again. When you require the
Southern people to obey the Constitution and the
laws whiott were made by their fathers as well as
ours, it is but their reasonable duty to submit, and
if they do not see it so, it is our duty to make them.
But it is a widely different thing when you offer
them a confiscation act which strips them of land
and goods, coupled with a proclamation which lets
loose four millions of ignorant negroes, with Aboli
tion preachers among them to inoite insurrection
and urge the indiscriminate slaughter of the white
inhabitants. Whether they ought to give them
selves up to this appalling fate, is a question which
I leave to be decided by those who have the author
ity. But that they will never voluntarily consent
to a union with us upon such terms, .1. think isoer.
taro. If they did, would that be the Union. that
Washington made? Would not a Union without a
Constitution be as dangerous to us as tolhein?-
11ow long would a Union removed from the rook of
the Constitution and rebuilt upon the sandy foun
dation of a proclamation, be able to.stand when the
winds blow and the rains beat against it?
That there is something radically and fatally
wrong in a war whioh has for its object a negro
proclamation inconsistent with the white man's
Constitution, is a self-evident truth whiob pervades
the whole popular rand. The negro Plarq ;hos
changed the public feeling every where North and
South. When Mr. Lincoln sent his first. Sausage to
Congress, he declared it to be his Opinion that; there
was not a majority for ta.emation In any state of the
.