uCI)c 3cffcrstmitin "THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1864. NATIONAL UNION NOMINATIONS. TOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON, OF TENNESSEE. Uniea Electoral Ticket. SENATORIAL ELECTORS. MORTON M'MICHAEL, of Philadelphia THOMAS CuiNNllNuHAM, of Beaver. REPRESENTATIVE ELECTORS. 1 Robert P. King, 13 Elias W. Hall, 2 G. Morrison Coates,;14 C. H. Shriner, 3 Henry Bumm, ;15John Wistcr, 4 "William II. Kern, .16 D. M'Conaughy, 5 Bartin II. Jenks, 17 David AV. Woods, G Charles M. Runk, :18 Isaac Benson, 7 Robert Parke, ;19John Patton, 8 Aaron Mull, 20 Samuel B. Dick, 9 John A. Hiestand, 21 Everard Bierer, 10 Richard H. Coryell, 22 John P. Penney, 11 Edward Holliday, ,23EbenczerM'Junkin 13 Charles F. Reed, 24 J. W. Blanchard, WLL1 LL.J1.L. . .. , , !!" FOR CONGRESS. Col. James L. Selfridge, OF NORTHAMPTON CO. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. William H. Stroll, OF CARBON CO. Union Meeting. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends of the Union was held at the Court House, in this borough, on Thurs day Evening last. Although the notice given was short, the meeting, in point of numbers, was but little if anything behind that of the copperhead affair, on Monday eveuing, with ample notice and the rush of Court week to swell its numbers. Geo. II. Miller, Esq., presided, assisted by Melchoir Drehcr, and Frederick Kiser, as Vice Presidents, and Edward L. Wolf, Secretary. After a few remarks by Mr. Davis, in which that gentlemen, we think, eclipsed all his former efforts as apolitical speaker, and in which he clearly showed Up the paltroonry of the pretended Dcni ocracy. by a comparison of their profes sione now with what they were at the commencement of the rebellion, he intro duccd Samuel L. Cooley, Esq., to the au dience. Mr. C, though laboring undo severe indisposition, in a speech of an hour's length, contrasted the course the true friends of the Union with that of the latter day men in the difficulties which have been forced upon the country. His speech, which was a paragon of polit ical honesty and courtesy, proved conclu eivcly that the war was forced upon us by the South, and that in all the efforts the administration to suppress it, nothing could be seen but an earnest desire, to re Btore the Union, the Constitution and the laws. In reply to the assertion of the Chicago rebels that the war had been thus far a failure, he conjured every one present to examine the maps of the coun try in connection with the march of our armies, and assured them that they could pee for themselves that, whereas, tbe re bclhon commenced with fifteen claimed States, the rebels had now but two Slates and a half under their control, and even these were tottering. The fruits of that sp.ech, which was frequently interrupted with enthusiastic applause, are already beginning to manifest themselves. The people are disposed to take the speaker's advice, to read and judge intelligently upon their duty in the campaign ; aud when they once begin to do this, good-by to the power of as en who have substituted toan-worshipjfor the support of principle, and who widk sell their very souls, if that was suggested to them as the only means by which they could secure politi es! pottage and who even now are urg ing their fellows to vote for a platform hieh was erected by its builders solely to place the country and government into the hands of traitors. At the conclusion of JUr. Cooley s speech the meeting ad journed with "three times three' for those eminent peace makers, Grant, Sber aan, Farragut, Sherridan, Lincoln and Johseon. The TJnkra Nominees. 'he conference which met at the A erican Hotel ob Thursday last, (the proceedings of which will be found in an ether column,) have given us a candidate for Congress eminently worthy the sup port of every true friend of his country the gallant Col. James L. Selfridge, of the 46th Pennsylvania Veteran Volun teera. While bis opponent, PJbii. John son, has been enjoyiag the emoluments f his Congressional career in, ease, and ly his votes and speeches endeavoring to tlog the actional administration, and thus sad Jeff Davis and his Southern political Iretken in their accursed rebellion, Col. Selfridge has been suffering the hardships of a soldier's life and .gallantly doing "a soldiers duty In the defence of right and in maintaining our glorious government, on the firm foundation erected by the pa triot fathers of the revolution. "While Phil. Johnson has refused from the com mencement to go forth to battle for the country in a war brought about by the leaders of his party, Col. Selfridge was a- mong the first to bare his breast to the bul lets aud bayonets of the rebels, under the first call of the President for 75,000 men, 1 1 . " 1 M 1 ana nas continued in. ine Eervico ui since, and has heroically participated in nearly every hard fought battle for last ing peace, and for the supremacy of the laws. While Phil Johnson is emphati cally a pot house politician, and has exhi bited a talent for but the dirt of party, Col. Selfridge, in private life, has always pro ven to be an unassuming citizen, and when business tact was required, has shown himself possessed of talents which cannot but shine brightly iu whatever po sition he may be placed. We might go on piling contrast upon contrast, did we deem it necessary. But it is not. The honorable highuiinded voter, no mat ter to what party he may have heretofore belonged, the man who loves country a- bove party, will have no hesitancy in ma king his choice, and that choice will be for CoL Selfridge. Push on the column let the ngnt begin. In Col. beltndge we have a leader worthy our warmest con fidence. Let us then go to work in earn est, and see whether we cannot do some thing to seriously alarm, if wo cannot o verwhelm the Phillistincs of Democracy m utter rout and confusiou. For Representative in opposition to our former non-entity Gilbert, wc have Wra II. Stroh, of Carbon County. Men who kuow him intimately speak in the high est terms of Mr. Stroh, and our Union brethren or Uaroon present mm to us as a gentleman in every respect, worth' the earnest support, of the Union men ol the District. Alas ! Poor Pike, &c. As we prophesied would be the case, some months ago, little Pike and her su premely Copperhead politicians arc left out iu the cold for another two years, un der promise, no doubt, that her time will come next. The Congressional Confer ence at Mauch Chunk has come and gone but our friend George is not, while Phil. Johnson is, the party nominee for Congress. With all the weight of evi dence in favor of her claim to the succes sion, little Pike has thus been cut down in the flower of her manhood, and her sons mourn as though they would not be comforted. Alas ! how sad ! What will George do now ? What will stiff-backed Cotter and the Herald do ? We know what they would like to do, but dare not. The whip of party will be used to a pur pose, and they will march to the polls ap parently as tickled as though they thought of nothing but Johnson from the first, aud didn't want George at all. And the ambitious aspirations of Mon roe too have been rudely blasted. Her democracy felt that Burnet should be the man, and presented him as the most fit ting war horse of this region. Previous to the meeting of the Conference things looked propitious for the success of the General. Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne, were all pronounced dead-set a gaiust thedesiresaud men of the mother of counties, and her candidates were sure to find themselves no where, while Monroe's chance stood No. 1 in the conference. But alack aud alas for the frailty of hu man calculations ! As with Pike, so with Monroe. She didn't have votes,cnough, and so her choice was swamped. And Carbon too. She was on the course with her Brodhead ! (Who can tell the time to which the mind of man runneth to the contrary, in which a Brodhead could not be found willing to take the loaves and fishes under his charge'). And she was certain too. But she too experienced the folly of trusting to sublunary affairs, Brodhead was no where, and Carbon formed in line with Monroe and Pike. laking it altogether it was a beautiful fight for out-siders to witness. Each as T) 1 r?l n t Wflfl hllQV infl nm-nnof in Ut I deavor to head tho nilipr W mnM Hpnr fn ho-, A hn ,.fi. I cially, to head off Johnson, against whom vw.j wmwj u-vrs v Wi" I all were arrayed; but, when the curtain .uv tuuuo onvjjii unajr, ii. u us i lound that each one had headed himself, and left Johnson standing high and snii- ling on his way to tike his three thous- and per annum and the CnncrrpSKinn.il nonors ior the next two years. There were a w v-q wwwtwuwi i heart burnings at the result, but there is no doubt but that these are squelched for ine present that each the possession success become tired noTnnMfi rirotn-rr rru w e r n . . I lhe citizens of Monroe County, in w1,w viavuij. i tendance of the present term of Court, had a rare treat on Monday last, in listen- mg to the speeches ot those mat Demo- cratic lights, Dr. Leonard, of Mauch - " " i Chunk, and Hon. Phil. Johuson. The Doctor's oration was particularly spicy, being devoted, not to a discussion of the causes of the wicked rebellion which has filled our land w;a .M. mnnrnlnn inf1 fbrnif enedto destrov onr Kfc n. nf Atrr ... "1 i-r. ... -..u.ua,uuu .u.vu- muiuiuL.auu imtau- ""'"J uur national ine, or 01 . tha Uf f .. , .. vw uow ouppressiDg it : but to a paltry and despicable tirade against the great Union Party of the nation aud an attempt to show that its real cAA.m : accomnlish a general intermiTf, c . o vi mu 1 v I He read larn-elv nunc auu uiauxacesJ xie read Jarp'elv from an anonymous pamphlet, published in W York, entitled,. "Miscegenation" ' ' 0 1... v. . . , , , Al. unh ho iiflirmaH -tn hn- i-Un rim-l- .fl i: . uauu ui, uuiiu.u w iuu ' iu 1. til 1 tooetne worK ot jjiummeni ivepupncans, ana expressive ot j Tt 1 1 - . - I , , nor is there a mite of doubt "lose opposed to the war under all cir- M "g - mond WaV.onc of the most nrominent Reb- Vnrfb.mntnn nnfi nf tlio .ffl;taj mimsfnrif.no Tin ;n f ua i. rccini nor as an oDiect. but it is nrosecu- , . ., r of a politicians pledge of of those most indignant on the score of C"1Q interest ot the white man, of - . ' ' ' n , J" rT.' after mother Northampton has arbitrary arrests, yet he committed to iail umon ana .r Perm"nent peace. This is . - x, indge, ohn w . of the fionrrftssinnn,n,iW the entire Marvlnnd Ui,!,!,,-, nf a a DCgro war Decause we are trying to take ueau aeau ueyonu Monroe the Sentiments of that party : but failed of course, to prove any connection be tween the two ',ot anything else, 'savehis own devotion to the slave-drivers inter estsand the' ignorant malignity' Of his hatred to the Union cause. We have no hesitation in saying, that among intelli gent men, the Doctor will do far more to elect the Union nominees, than he will accomplish for the cause of Gfen. McClel-lan. The facts with regard to amalgamation in the free States, are simply these: that In few localities where promiscuous inter course of the races does exist instance, the Five Points in 6th Ward New York, and Bedford and Small sts, in 4th Ward, Philadelphia : the vote is almost unani mously Democratic ; in fact, it is doubt ful whether one vote for Abraham Lincoln will be polled from the loathsome dens or corruption anu miamy which iestcr in those localities, and which annually roll up their hundreds of ballots iu favor of the Democratic ticket. And tneonly in stance of practical amalgamation that has been brought prominently iuto view du ring the war, iu the free States, is that of Gov. Seymour's "friend, the leader of New York Copperhead riots "Mr. An drews, of Virginia who was dragged from the arms of his black mistress to the halls of justice. Mr. Johnson's address was less viru lent, aud far more decent, than the Doc tor's, but was destitute of force or point The most striking portion of it was hi is description of the Chicago Convention where, he informed us, among the count less thousands of enthusiastic Democrats not a drunken man was to be seen, nor i profane word heard ! Certainty, the Mil lcnium must be near! Philip held iu his hand, what he said was the Democratic Platform not that adopted at Chicago, however, but McClcl (an s Jteport ! lie endeavored to con viucc his audience that the war would have been ended longsince, had McClel bin's plan been pursued : singularly for getting, that the little hero of lame was only removed lroui command after eighteen mouths experience had j - shown the utter incompetency alike o the plan and its author. The reference to West Virginia was unfortunate for our honorable Philip : Since West V lrginia lias repudiated the darling institution which our copperhead friends love so dearly, and with Missouri aud Maryland, joined the phalanx of free states ! and with Missouri and Maryland, her gallant people will give their hearty support to the re-election of Abraham Lincoln ! Want of space forbids us to pursue the subject further at this time. Wc may re cur to it agaiu. Meanwhile remember the words of Webster "Liberty and Union, now aud forever, one and iuseparablc I" The Next Presidency. From the Trenton (N. J.) Monitor j.nc next election is tne late oi tuc na tion. Upou its result depends the res toration or the destruction of the. Uuiou. JSo question has ever before been preseu- ted to the people upon whose solution hung the momentous results which attend Phil was against everything that the admin their verdict upon the next Presidency, istration had donp. But this was the most mm : : .. i. . j - imoT: 10 uu -a , uumuauy rcprcseui; n peace or war. jlo is me nature of the peace. The destruction of the rebelliou is no longer doubtful. The t ki .v,r- doAont in the honfis that the shmiwr of fim. J -"v 1-"v-' lv ut"-' tion in rhn Vnrth mnr mvn flmin tho nU. iects for which thev have been striving, . j - r. . . o i This a democratic triumph would do. The strife is not as to the man who shall . . 1 fill the Presidential chair for the next four ye rir.v nnif nrov possibillity of future secession : or upon a k av MUV basis which surrenders to the conquered all we have wrested from their grasp and wuenever inev ian to maintain ineir sun. I .1 M . . ,1 I 1, , " , ' nnoion sbnll bn ilnni.ln.l ? Cn.,mni,r doubtful doubtful. IWt. if thn nn,lQ nP thn Anmnnn,r J bas r,n i i u i t, ' , the means which they have adopted to advance them are equally so. They themselves kuow that their motives are themselves kuow that their motives are 111'Jinlnr no flirt TiirfVrtii rriiTi fViiir nut f'nrfh .a tbn nvnnoItJnn nf tho', 7;n-, ia c.iU c such that a member of their own conven kiui.ivu vs. -iti-il Tl.lio l i, ... l r i.: tion says it "might mean anything." E- j wuicuijiuuiu ia iiiuir uuurne as 10 the nominations. The onlv irround. bv their own avowal, upon which General McClellan was selected is his oooularitv. Statesmanshin ho. has nnnrv nor lma nnv portion of his party claimed it for him. f ..w "-J .w. The one recommendation advanced is his generalship, yet he is to be sustained by iryiand legislature of his own accord and with no warrant of law. and with no warrant of law.K". rni - . J - I11S DOasted warrior Who is onnnsod fn war is proposed as tne recipient o the nrf nU wlin nns;,iAr Vi, ak :i a - -rr. .. legal, outrageous and despotic, yet he was the first-military man who urged upon tuc -o-ummiBirauon tue necessity oi the connp"on. Ll,n!.rnnnMnj u m: ... We have, but little doubt as to the result. Their defeat will be accomplished bv a the country has never before given, 'lhe defeat of the copper- i". L" ui iue ia8. ; l,j k ..,-, . .i . ..,-i . i . uuiiucuubw meiast hone of the rehe fon unA fiMf otn l.r7, ; , . )n toward a speedy and lasting peace. t -r r qi -a t r r Tu ' ' II j 1 . i ars. It is whether the peace shall be . f, . ' ' L, ra 'u 'P n , . m maue upon grounds wnicn restore the U- o -o- nion in all im intp.rrii.v nn.l nrnvnnf tl,0 the whole Union party deserve hanging for 1 endleton, for nearly all of them served 1 1 11 .1 TT I I11L' LliaL 11 LUC Illlll. I llll. IVM1I! I III 111. L1 Ui lr 11.1 Ull Ul IJU11"! Ut It II II I till. such as will not bear scrutiny, that the , a-,fn ? lxJcca tne royal lamuics lor iut let us pass on to the consideration, expression of the desires of one section of 'Jeinglisn Crown, and is commonly called more particularly, of the peculiar merits tlmir rf,. n.i Ka rnnuin- u tue "Wars of the Roses. of the candidate for the first office on the iun.Mii iciuivua iu i nv- ij uo tuu uauiuiuui . , . .. . - ' . . i ei lniirnms snvn Anrn -'iitif ini.n t .vv.v la wrUJJUY vi iuu uucuauuuuu ia uumnmm nnn nolmin,, n rn. itlKI , v ' A Z v. . . ...--"o- the enemy from v.. ! 6. vu j uc uiuhj uucuv 1IUU1 -fiauera xaiii. capturing 18 Suns and roany artillery horses. The 2jfi? arerfl;Ug hf $ iu ""t con- IUSlnn llnll nnH 111 nl ' In I lo n otnnl- inn - " I . the that rhn I fusion. Gold' and MnClrdlnn stonl- nnn. tinue to fa nndnr tho nnnA ow0 fmn w ' " -w w . wwwu. ll- . . . . . I Liniin rn t. 1 1 ,,rri-. (h the armies of the UnioiL. -.-.w. H.. MVMM 11UU O The Democratic Meeting. Tho Democracy, fearful that they could not on their own merits get out a respectable crowd, siezed upon, the first day- of Court week, and held a Democratic pow wow at the expense of the county. The turn out, as it was,was very moderate, there not being a any time over 450 present. A small shine for a Democratic Mass Meeting, advertised wpeks "before, with names of noted speakers prominently displayed. The first speaker was a Doctor Leonard, of Mauch Chunk : and we will say for him, that if he is not more decent, honest, intelligent and upright as a Doctor than he is as a political speaker, then may God have mercy on his patients. He eet out, in the first instance, to show that the Republicans were Abolitiouists, and the inference was that Jeff. Davis & Co were, therefore, justified on their advent in to office, to leave the Union. The absurd folly of such a position is sufficient to render its meanness and rascality harmless. For every one knows that the Republican party never were Abolitionists, but always denied the right of the national government, in time of peace, to interfere with slavery in any o the States were it existed by virtue of posi tive law. They did, however, object to its extension, and nothing more. But Jeff. Da vis rules the learned Doctor out of Court, for Jeff, said, at the Kirk & Jaques interview that "slavery is no longer an element in the contest, and never was an essential clement, It was only a means of bringing other con flicting elements to an earlier culmination This truthful Doctor next tried to establish the fact that the Unionists were ansalgama tionists. To do this he knavishly quoted from Wendle Phillips and other amalgama tionisfs, who have always been opposed to our party. Therefore what they say and write the Unionists are no more responsible for than they are for what George B. Mc Clellan says and writes. We will state however, since the question is up, for the benefit of this learned Doctor and others o his way of talking, that it is a notorious fact that the Southern States without exception (where the Republicans have not until re cently lived,) for years back, as the census show, have had at least one mulatto for eve ry Democratic vote cast at any election. Besides this, the Democratic party has sane tioncd and approved of amalgamation in the most unmistakable manner, by electing Rich ard M. Johnson to the Vice Presidency whose wife was a full blood negro woman by whom he had several children, aud every one of whom was half Democrat and half ne- gro, In the hope that these pills will re Iievc the Doctor from the negrophobia, and all others who have taken it from him, we pass on. We cannot refrain from remarking for the Doctor s encoungement, that he sue- ceeded eminently m disgusting the intelh- rrn 11 1 rvnrtinn nt hia nfirtv if.hrt liinnmmrl tr nrocnnf " r"" Tho Tf n,l W .nW,., Pi,;n;n a saw a v-rt v uuu juj iivitiivi ituu A uillili Tnhnn nrp.ntnn wi, lcrirrnnrc ' ' J 100 many m congress, anu wno is now a candidate for two years more. The Hon. Iialurai lUing ,n lbe worldf for Mr. Lincoln is against Jeff. Davis with all his might, and Hon. Phil, no more so than circumstances 1 11 . comnei mm to he. ills snnnr.h was nr- ... . ........ winded and necessarily illogical and untruth- fill. Tt iH not onr intnntinn to fl.llnw him - - - through all the tivfetinm, and ,n,rnm, his .snlattnnln.h f,nr,nm,n W n sh.ll nn. o a l v' . . WMV . Iy glance at the prominent points made by not handing the government over to Jeff. Da vis CfcCo. Phil, did not say this in so many words, but his logic pointed there witb un errinor certaintv, " J tt. -m.?i .v -i . , , , , aiou jL-iiu. snowcu that his Knowledge 01 "'Story is no Dctter that his knowledge f pontics. For instance, he informed a punucs. i'or instance, no lniormcd a surPr,scu audience that the Thirty Years surprised audience that the Thirty Years War was to regain nossession of the flolv X , , LU r. .... iiiui. vu iiiiifiiL sun uie lunLicr n nv snv-i i (innins. rtrnnnons nun nnnr v -i Mm Koh. I l . Hi - . . I. 41 a. 1 I f I I . I. 1 T 1 11 .1 -1 17- i . - ,....,1.1 . T'1 . re , p ll, ' Jiut historians tell us that J I J I l"e y.--eare ar was in consequence no,uinS alone lor the negro: and the "gli ting alone for the i - t . t- lf i I nones or our soldiers that lie bleaching on S0?, hern soil, ho there because Mr. Lm- is prosecuting an unconstitutional war. All nnr sn mors thnt. hnri tnllnn in i.: .i:.wi ...i i r. Twentv-three hundred thousand had called into the field, and not more that one million slaves had been freed. This xuiisucincu to minic was a clincher. .. I l'hii. asserted that Mr. .Lincoln was t . , .. .1 " -"-o- ----. . t.jxug i r nn nnm t - i u n i . i ?.c.. ne?.r.. irom the Rebels, says Hon. .. . . "UU1. tuu UOD. JL nil. lhis war is uo more, nor as much. I'll 'I'hio 1. I "'a 10 I1W '""i uuu, . . , uo 10 u wmw uiau a ui, "orse and mule war, a gun and ammu- ltl0 ar' a territory and provision war. i",16 1S ine P011C an,a sP.ecial endeavor ot the government to deprive the traitors of ail means of carrying on the war to de- 7, " . r"? ""iui their white soldiers, their h nnrl r""108' g.u.ns and ammunitin, territory ana Prov.Islons -nd their ..negroes too, for L8?? S down the "Ul lut iieueis..aDU restoring Deace ana narmnnv to nnr riiatrnntaJ ucuuu auu narmonv tn nnr niBr.rnntnii nnn i T.. - , Tl. . ; - "is in no respect unconstitutional w on j tL r.u.u t.. awvea 01 traitors, ior fne 1Kwe"8 lo.dSed oJusi vely in the - ""0"1 LUU,r rff aenc an- ne would be "Z u " Y tu reiU8r 50 ktuuiwcu tuts wsic nnwpr nt t.iin nnam,r ,n wn ,n :5 1 rZ xu L v'"7 nuj juukukbu uv uivii ZBQ wiir urn. 10 tue euecc or lreeino- and nrm nn m the slaves ? We believe it is ennfiodnd . - , M t S we have nearlv 200 000 ne.rnna ?n the G invnmn,n vr. " 1 v..jtuuU OwlVlUU. I1IIW . -lwir If those I T Ducwuat are the tacts, lhe war is itoHnninmn nfhim. nnri n.nni;.,i.. k t:i. neeroes were tr.mfifprrprl frnm wm-n cnuuu bu nurnoiy, aild be- ion, uy tv.-uj uunon,, ini. xjiiHiRiu o.ur "cro irausierretl irom our service m,mi,n,i i,;m ,,,;ti, r-;u .1 . a i!i ...,1 -vt.- i?i.i T.i.n.-.i t.ii.. to the Rebel' servien .f.bnn ma 1.1 "v, .tuuju u compelled to call into our service 400,000 more white men to make our army rela- ivelv as strong as it now is. Then the Dolicv of the administrationof freeing and arming the slaves has saved to us almost 400.000 white men. For Had we not ta cen them into our service, the rebels would have had the most of them in their service if not in their army, then in the fields, &c, doing that which their white men now are compelled to do. And they would not have come to us without the promise of freedom. That brought them to our side. This is fighting lor tne ne- ro is it? Not a bit of it, non. Phil.: but it is the negroes fighting that near 400, 000 white men may not be called irom their homes and ordinary vocations to take up arms to put down the rebellion; and none can lau to rejoice tnat it was nnauy inaugurated except a rebel at heart. Says Hon. Phil we must and will have peace, and if the lankccs, who are responsible for this war, do not behave themselves, they, like Hainan of old, would yet hang on the gallows that they had erected to hang secessionists on. Thus this Demo cratic candidate for Congress would res tore "the Uniou as it was," to Jeff Davis & Co., by hanging the real Unionists - -v r " t But what becomes or l'nu s negroism when wc remember that Jeff Davis and A. H. Stephens have said that slavery has nothing to do with the contest that it is only a means to an end. The Rebe Vice President contradicts Phil again for he has boldly declared that the Soutl was aloue responsible for the war. Phil says wc must have peace, and Jeff Davis says we cannot have peace till we gran them their independence or exterminate them. Phil cries for peace before the rebels are thoroughly whipped, and there fore favors Disunion. Hence his desire to haug Unionists. Ah ! but says Hon. Phil, this war woul long since have been brought to a close had it been couductcd according to the policy Gen. McClcllan laid down when he first entered est Virginia namely not to interfere with slavery in any respect nor have anything to do with them. It was owing to this policy that West Vir ginia was now a loyal State in the Lniou Here Phil, shows his knowledge and wis dora again. This same McClcllan policy prevailed all over the States for about 18 to 20 months. McClcllan was less than three months in West Virginia. And he had the pleasure of testing his policy for about 12 months in East Virginia and du ring this time got his army nearly demol ished and the remnant chased back to Washington. Hon. Phil's idea of this matter is nonsense. West Virginia is now a loyal State iu the Union because she had but few slaves within her borders. The other seceded States arc not fully repre sented because the residents thereof ire in the rcuci army. with lUcUletlan s policy prevailing we were rapidly running .1 11 1iT 1 ir ni ti down hill. So after the battle of Antic-1 tarn the Emancipation policy was declared, and which was to take place on the first tiU.i? Inn,,...,. tH h..f K..fl.n lfllf frniinr.il Jinn inif of c;l.'ivnj illil nnf. o 3 oace t the snrinsr fo low nir. Sim I r A r O O that time our greatest achivemcnta have It t-i i mi in. ucen accompiisiicu. inc rcDcmon is now legs, and bids fair to soon tall into a grave long siuce merited together with its idol slavery And we predict that such apologists lor slavery and rcbcldom as Hon. Phil, will soon be following after. George H. Pendleton, the Copperhead ndidate for Vice President, was evident- I rr r t uul 1 o nrl o:.l lK:i 1 , J a,J' uu, wuiusc bPcak.e" 0r?w. aai1 t ollax llad each nrWrt u,, ritl i i u:... i. n r t. I MH'inrr i rul nt V ic tirt A I hmmo 'I Inn t """J , J o , . 'V jgical conclusion would make Jeff. Davis, on committees at the instance of Union speakers. But Mr. Pendleton, it is very well known, voted against every bill aud measure calculated to strengtlicu the L niou cause not excepting such as were liitnnrlnit fn ri ,r nttrl ntrttlw. c-tl'lsi..-. ..vui. "j r j viwhib uui suiuiuii, aud to procuro arms and ammunition. Need more be said as t -Need more nc said as to his political char- 1 a actor? Docs his public record show him actor f Docs his public record show him to be in anv resnect different from .TnfF. mi 1 f Davis, except as to location and eircuui- stance : Copperhead ticket.- When McClellan commanded our arminu . th i?nh..i ni. inffS find I'nnrn In nfnfnM.ln.1 I t0 think him a t commander ThovafJbe allowed five, Carbon three. Monroe fected to fear him, declaring him to be the only General thev feared. But what fool is enough to believe they would have said this had they really thought what they asser- ted 1 But when he lost his command thev had no further obiectm concealing thnlrm.l j i O " .. . I l J w.u...gtjr , ll.u 1V1LU ' " .7 r uy wuik w. i rsiirri'ri inn in inn tin.i, in . ii. ii. i of I. I.... . I -a, r . .t i l UUu ,u u.i, iu wwct, iu uie nope oi I giury ne is aciunct. a review or his carcwr fim thn (;i,nin;mn,i t.. i ,J in the lktle aff . p.. Alountain down J the battle of Antietam, would be instructive to the nation of liars whoacceptcd him at his own lying valuation, and discarded him be- io me nation or liars wiioj broduced no visihl imnrMsinn ..nnn th bellion, Nothing is easier to prove, luai "JLe elevation oi Mcuiellan to tho Z 7 Z I rrr0Llnf 5"" . . f- .- '"Z": pendence. The recital of a few facts pendence. The recital nf n fnW fnntD , ,:u r w. ..u outuiu uur inuc- . -- uv"-u "i muu-i ;i.. , r ' r w gruuuy we ore indebted to him. Tn Octoher iflni. . i,.i ion nnn and the most overwhelming armv of fie l arl tillery that had ever been seen on this conti- r"u lor.e nim was nn my of 40,000 men fyrnnnirinn- Mot t . Tt;h i ' , - ai u JU 8 i1"1' uouuiiuy uuniifr mm to come out nt ik j - iuii - uuoiih. ne did not want to . "e sought merely to push us from one . . . - P08K,on 10 another by dint ot enormous num oers hencetho flank movement by way of t ... 1. :k .i.i 1 mi- , . V""" "r "V" " " ""ul monms. driven uy an imperative order to-advance again in spite of the winter mud, he entered the entrenched' camp at Manasses only td nna it a mass or smouiuenng ruins. He-shipped round to the Peninsula, taking 112,000 men with him. McGruder opposed with 7,500 men, kept him in check and fore- ea mm to tne use of the spade and pick, hi favorite weapons.' He made sieire. and in due time occupied our deserted lines. bpace will not oermit us to follow-. Young Napoleon through the narrative of his career. The Yankees might have taken Richmond after the battle of the Seven Pines when our forces were in confusion. After the battle of Hanover Court House he might have done the same thing. After the battle of Antietam the same. His bombas tic dispatches from Western Virginia secured his elevation. His reputation was foanded on lies. In lies he towered and underlies he is lost crushed. How fortunate for us thaf he was chosen Chief of the Yanke Armyf With an immense number at his command? an officer of truth, enterprise and daring would have pushed us sorely ; but McClcl lan was in awe of his reputation. His Kef made him a cowardi arid fforri the first day; to the last of his military career, he did not, dare, on a single occasion, to expose himself to fire. Such is the disinterested judgment of tho' Rebels of McClellan as a General. And bo cause he came so near achieving their inde pendence as a General, they now desire him to be made President, in order that they may fully obtain their independence. To this end they now begin to affect to fear him as Pres ident, with the same sincerity, undoubtedly, that they did when he was commander ef our armies. lie was put in nomination in the interest of the Rebellion. For why is it that Union victories cast the McClellan party down, while our defeats make them loud and hap py 1 And what signifies the great desire ox pressed by the Rebel prisoners for his elec tion 1 And what means the long and loud cheering all along the Rebel lines in front of Petersburg, when the news came to them that McClellan was nominated at Chicago, by the Copperhead, pcacc-at-any-price Dc mocracy I The London Times, a strong Rebel sym pathizing sheet, of Sept 8th, says that mere private diupatches to the effect that McClel lan was certain to get the nomination caus ed an advance on the Confederate loan of three per cent. Why do they consider the Rebel loan worth more with McClellan Pres ident than Mr. Lincoln 1 Simply because they look upon such a result as certain to culminate in the Rebels achieving their in dependence, for in no other event ia the Con federate loan worth any thing. Why did the Rebel Confederate politicians take such an active part in the getting up of the Dem ocratic platform and in selecting a candidate, I f . I i i li Mil wnom tncy nopcu wouiu prove available, to stand upon it, if they had not a deep interest tiall lhe pkronn they ueaircd . and u Atll :n , , 0 t?il-nlP ' ' r . .. ,C; ulraild 1 " "I' mmauii in orucr 1 , , . lu " J"ua "up- w vntty ujuh yumi uy irauu anu ucccp It .!.:..: i... c i i j tion. Jeff Davis 1ms snid lm will except lie has independence with it. The chicarroim., m.nlvod tW tW nw sfi - - - - -w. ------ - m m im 14 of peace. Hence the so-called Democracy have declared themselves in favor of disn- n ion. IMlinni.fc rTl I l,n nvt ,7 TJ - are and can be but Uvo parties. One, how- i , . .. .. . ever noncst many ol the masses may be, is Moen by reuci sympathisers rnnmn in the interest of the Rebellion ; while the other, led by Mr. Lincoln, is unqualifiedly in favor of the Union and a lasting peace. Choose which you will serve. Union Conference, Pursuant to previous notice, the Union Congressional Conferees of the 11th Dis- tnct met at the American Hotel, in rr nn lin ,! Ir. I r. t , i oirouusDur0 Conference organized by the appoint- u,enfc 01 " n- u LI'LIIX. h, of or- thanipton. Prcsideut. and Edwaiid L. Wolf, of Monroe, Secretary The Question of renresentntion W?n f -"ft suggested itself to the Conference, it was, on motiou, Jiesohed, That in the present Confer ence. and in future r'nnnr.ccmn.l f!nnf.. j vcciuiimi vruu l - A - O H PAC fF f V ffc mi if f V,tMltik,H4Ak. ..!., Uiree. ayQe three, and Pike two repre- iseutativcs. A,,c lollow'ng named gentlemen then Preaente(1 their credentials and took their seats as Conferees: Carbon fieore V. w helm .T a n,i..i.: n. ti. cl- m. - D J " v. UUbUIIUIUIUl) V.lib. Willi UUIUIUB. Samuel Cooley, Lew- Lehman, Wm. W. Sfr) Rrown. ionro iienry Shoemaker, Charles. T-V r-m watcr Edward L Wolf J " w- Tim.. -Hon. John Shousc, Dr. E. Hal- . , ldny- Wayne-Robert Doran, A. B. WralKer. On motion of Mr. Cooley, Conference proceeded to make a nomination for Cou pr0Ce(Kletl 10 maL a nomin-ton lor Con- Mr. Cooley nominated Col. Jaraos L.- Selfridge. of Northampton. Mr. Walker nominated Hon. John Tor ry, of Wayne. On motion the nominations were closed. n f .t .11 -oniorenoo iuea proceaea- to vote rnl Q1P.: M-: 11 " 4Ufcu " and Judere Torrv S votes. On motion of Dr. Haft tion of Col. Selfridgo was declared to be unanimous .. , ,. . un motion uonterenco aojournea sine- At the Lutheran Parsonage, in Hamil-- t TTn-w 0lfr,t !M "P::m. muuw, auu mwiiauuui n viwuwvj. uxnut of lloss.
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