Ijc Scifctsouian,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1864.
NATIONAL UNION" NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
OP TENNESSEE.
Uuiou Electoral Ticket.
SENATORIAL ELECTORS.
MORTON M'lUrCHAEL, of Philadelphia,
THOMAS CUJXJMlJNUllAjU, ot JJeaver.
REPRESENTATIVE ELECTORS.
1 Robert P. King, il3 Elias W. Hall,
2 G. Morrison Coates,;14 C. H. Shriner,
3 Henry Bumm, ;15John Wistcr,
4 William H.Kern, 1G.D. M'Conaughy,
SBarlin H. Jenks, '17 David W. Woods,
G Charles M. Runk, 18 Isaac Benson,
7 Robert Parke, 19 John Patton,
8 Aaron Mull, 20 Samuel B. Dick,
9 John A. Hiestand, 21Everard Bierer,
10 Richard II. Coryell, 22 John P. Penney,
11 Edward Holliday, 23EbcnezerM'Junkin
12 Charles F. Reed, J24 J. W. Blanchard,
FOR CONGRESS.
Col. James L. Selfridge,
OF NORTHAMPTON CO.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
William H. Stroll,
OF CARIJON CO.
Remember the Election,
On Tuesday, and dont fail to vote for
the Union Ticket.
ASSASSINATION.
Private Leandeii K. Dease, of Capt
Stroud's Cavalry, of Philadelpnia, was
shot through the head with ball and in
several parts of the body, with buckshot
and instantly killed, near the house o
Jacob Miller, in Price tsp., this County,
on the 5th inst. IIo was there with oth
ers for the purpose of arresting deserters
and serving notces on drafted men. The
deceased is spoken of as being a respecta
ble young man. The cowardly murderer
was secreted in the bushes near the road
Such acts are deserving of the severest
condemnation by every man, and they
must cease, or terrible will be the consequences-to
the guilty parties and their
assistants. The laws must be enforced ;
and it will-prove to be far better to sub
mit at once than to resist.
Particulars next week.
Keep it in Mind.
Reader when you go to vote on Tues
day next, keep it in mind, that while
Phil. Johnson, the candidate of the Peace
upon-any-tenns party for Congress is a
round stumping and swigging Lager, &c,
for re-election, Col. Selfridge, the Union
Candidate, is in the tented field, fighting
maufully for the restoration of the Union,
the Constitution and the Laws.
A Good Man.
In Win. II. Stroh, the Union Candi
date for Representative, the people have
a chance to vote for one who has all his
life time kept step to the music of the
t'nion. Who can hesitate to vote for
him, when in his opponent, Peter Gil
bert, we have a candidate nominated on
a platform, which has no word of fault to
find with rebels and rebellion, but whose
every word is a word of condemnation of
our own Government!
Arrested.
Milo D. Overfield, of Middle Smith
field, was arrested as a deserter on Wed
nesday morning, and taken to Honesdale,
where the board of Enrollment is now in
session. Mr. Overfield, was drafted some
time since and neglected to respond to
the call served upon him, and hence has
come to grief. Those of our citizens who
have elected to follow Mr. O's, example,
and still persist in doing so, will yet, like
him, when too late, experience the folly
of their course.
The Campaign.
The campaign is waxing fast and furi
ous. The politicians are "going on like
mad," and between mass mettings, big
transparencies, brass bands and torch
light processions, quiet citizens are driv
en almost beside themselves. They have
still one consolation left, to wit: that they
can slip quietly off and procure for them
selves new, elegant and comfortable out
fits at Pyle's Easton Hall of Fashion, op
posite the old Easton Bank.
Mr. Blowers's Letter.
We hope every reader will peruse. Eli
jah Blowers' letter in another column.
Mr. B. is a life-long Democrat, and has
often represented Tunkhannock township
in the Conventions of the party. lie has
always been uubehdingly wedded to what
his honeat convictions told him was right,
and we do cot marvel now to find him on
the side of the Union. Such Democrats
cannot support treason, no matter how
temptingly sugaixcoated.
The Union Meeting.
The Union meeting at the Court House,
on last Thursday evening, the 29th ult.,
was a decided success in .every respect.
The house was well filled at an early hour
with ladies and gentlemen, all of whom The base, groundless charge of thereb
manifested the utmost appreciation and el sympathizers, that the North, or any
enthusiasm. The meeting was organized portion of it, is responsible for the war,
as follows : President, Dr. S. Walton ; was fully answered by reading a p'ortion
Vice Presidents, F. Kiser and J. W. of the speech made by Alexander H. Ste
Shoemaker; Ed. L. Wolf, Secretary. vens, the rebel Vice President, arid one
A word as to the orator's histoy : Col. of the ablest men in the Confederacy,
Walter Ilarriman, the eloquent speaker to the Georgia State Convention, held
on the occasion, has held various posts ol
honor and trust at the hands ot his JJemo-
cratic friends. lie has served in both
branches of the Legislature otiNewliamp-
shire : held the office of State Treasurer:
aud was appointed Appraiser of Public
ij . it- u p;rpfl
muu.iu u ;
Hitherto the Col. nas made it a regular
business in Presidential seasons to stump
throughout the Eastern and Western
Stntfis in favor of the Demnnrnnv. At.
!,- l,,!-; nf nf tl, in; .
came editor of a paper called the Weekly
union, puonsnea at Manchester, xM. 11.,
which he ably edited in favor of the War
for the Union, for the space 18 months ;
a. on loco t -i j t
when Aug. 26, 1862, unsolicited on his
part, the Governor of his State sent him
a commissiotras Col. of the 11th Reg., a
new regiment which he was expected to
recruit. He issued his call for recruits.
and in less than three weeks, over twen-
ty-two. hundred men responded, the re-
mainder of whom were transferred to re-
giments previously ordered. In a few
days they were off to the field, and direct-
ly after had a taste of war in the Freder-
icksbunr fi?ht under Biirnside. where he
a a j
lost over two hundred men.
At the Governor's election in NT. H. in
1SG3, he run as a War Democrat for that
office, which resulted in the defeat of
Eastman, the Pierce Copperhead, and in
the election of Gilmorc, the Union candi-
date.
He has served in both the Western
and Eastern Departments; and was takeu
.
prisoner on the 6th of May last, in the
Wilderness battle, and was exchanged on
the 4th of Aug. last. For 52 days he
had the peculiarly exhilerating pleasure
of beinc under fire of our own runs in
vj o
Charleston. During this time he finish-
ed reading the New Testament which he
had commenced reading 12 davs before
at Macon. He is now on furlough and
liable to be ordered front any day, but it
is more than probable he will not be very
soon, as it is specially desirable that his
powerful battery against Copperheads
should not cease firing until after the 8th
of next November.
The Col. delivered one of the most cloJe,sachicvc the5r independence, and the
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nnonf. nnrf ;mn;v f -fi,. .i r :
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ble speeches it has been our lot to listen
to in a ffreat while. Iln statnd tW h J
was born a Democrat and had served tlJ
Democracv as lonir as thev sunnorted the
Union and the Wc W. nnn , tW
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refused to support the Union and Laws,
theu he refused to support them. He had
been taught that it wasacardmal principle
of Democracy to be true to our country
rightor wrong; and now that she was so
nrnminonf it riirh I. c U 1,1 .. 4 J i 1 I
.uvmy.uLiuuiuuut-uwBii jjur
to follow the treacherous Democracy, who
are now, in effect, fiirhtins ajrainst the ov-
ernment and in the interest of Jeff. Da-
w a. -n.i..i t.
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UUMUtu agraiust inemx lie m tne last
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rresidential canvass had supported with
all his power Mr. Douglas; and look-
ed upon the death of that aiant
statesman as a calamity : for, had he lived,
iie woum nave so coraiany and unqual-
hedly supported the war for the Union,
and thus have carried along with him his
party, that the Copperhead force, which10
is now strengthening and prolonging the
Rebellion, would be so insignificantly
small that they would be powerless for
evil.
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The Copperheads declare most lustily
that the " Constitution as it is, and the
Union as it was" shall be restored to Reb-
els ; which Constitution and Union the
rebels have sworn to destroy ; and Jeff.
-x,ew.ww .u vuv-u.cuuaui
the rebellion, have repeatedly said they
will have nothing to do with them, but
"will have independence or extermina-
tion." What fplly, what extreme bypoc-
risy in the Copperheads to ask for the
traitors what they know they will not re-
ceive. They well know that the rebels
must be whipped, or the Union be dis-
solved. Nothing else can prevent such a
calamity and nothing but that can save
us from anarchy and from national bank-
ru
'VUnvrx r r xl
ptcy. lhare is no safety for the coun-
j but in the re-election oi Mr. Lincoln,
try
lor ii iilcClellan were perfectly loyal and prejudice to party opposition to the gov
ever so much inclined to administer the ernment, that though they profess love
government in the interest of loyalty of for the, Union' (onstitution, and the
the nation nf L'. ,aws the controlling power of the Democ-
ojuipatui- racv CeUtered m its leaders, was opposed
zers by whom and in whose interest he to these, and really exercised in the in
was nominated and to whom he would terests of the rebellion that though thev
owe his election, and by whom he would
be surrounded, would oppose him and if
ne persisted, he then would not be anttoh-V 1 Ii Wl" ,ul
,. , I . P I litical campaign the verv man who. a
live long tor these things
are easilv
managed and then the government would
fall into the hands of George H. Pendle-
ton, a faithful friend of the Rebels from
v,r. nAmnnnn,,t n it. i
the commencement of the outbreak-he
Mfa.,,,y aaiuai-ueu.jas
Davis, & Co., and for the prosecution of
the war to save the government from o-
verthrow and thus would the Rebel's in-j
dependence be rendered easy, and our na
tional ruin certain.
in January 1861, for the purpose of ta
king that State out of the Union. The
Rebel Vice President then said :
"This step (secession) once taken can
never be recalled, and all the baleful and
witnering consequences tiiac must ionow
as they would see, will rest on the Con
vention for all coming time. Pause
r entret 0 and couaider for a momeD
what reason you can give that will even
satisfy yourselves in calmer moments
what reason you can give your fellow suf-
ferers in the calamity it will bring upon
us ? What reason can you give to the
nations 0f tne earth to justify ifc? They
will be the calm aud deliberate judges in
the case ; and to what cause or one over
act can you point on which to rest a plea
of justification 7 What right has the
assai,cd ? Whafc of the
South has been invaded ? What justice
has been denied ? I .challenge the
answer." &c, &c.
The speaker was fully impressed with
tbc belief that the rebellion was fast tot-
tering to its fall. The strong rebel mili
tary positions are rapidly falling into our
hands ; their territory is being curtailed
their sources of supply are, to a great ex
tent, already cut off, and will soon be en
tjrely severed. The rebel forces were not
i
as large as we generally thought they were
Grant has the rebellion by the throat
and is about ready to shut off the wind
and the speaker should not be surprised
if he did so before election, and if he did
the votes for McClellan would be so scat
tering that they would hardly be counted
Rut the Copperhead Democracy seeing
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leir incnds going to tne wall, scream
out in their ardent sympathy, let the war
be stopped ! "Let us have an armistice,'
And why do they waut a suspension
hostilities ? For no other purpose than
for saving their frieuds from defeat
i
Were hostilities to cease for three or six
mouths, the rebels would recuperate their
lst powers ; and foreign nations would
acknowledge their independence ; and our
own people would be exceeding loth to em
bark again into a terrible war which would
thu,s bave resulted in nothing not even
to save our country from dissolution
and in this way, through the instrumen
tality of the Copperheads, would the Reb
uuuuiry ue ruineu. j.nere is no otuer
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wa? Ulat tne can tnumpri over us. Will
ll0Dest lo?al voters lend tbeir assistance to
this Chicago Copperhead disunion scheme?
11 13 hoPed not
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Aue speaKer saia, in tne language ot a
minister up his way, he was for prosecu-
tiu this Jl uatil ' could , .
leaders of the rebellion by the nape of the
neck and shake them over hell till, thev
s(lualled like cats- Such only was the
re,tJ unngiDg upon
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causeless, terrible, devastating war.
The speaker had had both an inside
and outside view of the war: he had talked
t0 ?ebels n .the otlier side of the lincs as
well as to their sympathizers on this side;
and he was fullv convinced that nnthintr
could save the countrv from the most
dreadful calamities but a total aud crush-
,nS defeat of the armed rebels below the
"ac ana tneir cowardly sympathizers
Thespeaker concluded by declaring that
the signs were propitious, that light was
shining, victory dawning, and soon our
sorelJ distracted country would be restored
Pewi sweet, ana prosperity most
tJ tben and thug claim thJe glorioug vi(J.
tory as his own.
The speaker spoke for fully an hour
and - a - half and was frequently interrupted
by out bursts of applause , and at its con-
elusion cheers were given for Lincoln and
Johnson, the Union, the ladies who had
dne so much for our brave soldiers, the
nKV7 our SalIant armies and their brave
com,mand;rs - .
sketch ot the eloquent Colonels speech,
To appreciate it, it should have been
heard.
After Col. Harriman had concluded he
claimed the privilege of listening to some
other speaker, and called upon Wm. Da
vis S1- Mr D., after some hesitation
induced by the fact that he was called up-
on to succeed so able and eloquent a chain
pion of the Union and its cause, procec-
ded to draw a comparison between the
Professions of the pretended Democracy
auu cu uiuutiuua. xu tue course or ins
speech h d conclutjivel to the DJ;nd
0f every man. not bound bv a blinding
i . mi n
pretended to be opposed to restriction of
, m 01 T , , Uie L reS3ry
campaign tne very man who. as
commander - in - chief of our armies, first
ga?fi his assent to the exercise of that re-
striction that though they were opposed
exercise ot tne dratt tney were now
csiubbi v u uiuif iue ciectiou oi uie same
General McClellan who, from his position
nead ot.thearmy Demg best qualified to
iudee,-was;.the first to urge a draft as.a
military necessity for the suppression of
the rebelhonr that thoughithey bated ar
bitrary arrests above all things, they were
reallv shoutincr hosannas to Little Mao,
the very father of these arrests, and who
exercised the power, not for the sqnelch-
of a single traitor, but for the arrest ot an
entire sovereign legislature. But want of
room prevents us, from giving further no
tice of Mr. Dayis's admirable speech.
The manner in which it was received
must have convinced him that it is not
friendship alone which induced us to
speak of his efforts in the campaign as we'
do. There is an earnestness of manner,
and an unanswerableness of argument per
vading them which precludes the nossi-
bility of our speaking slightly of them.
We can but regret that they are not re
peatedly heard in every part of our coun
ty and District.
At the conclusion of Mr Davis's speech
the meeting adjourned with three times
three for the Union, its cause, its heroes,
its candidates and the ladic3.
Arrival of Cavalry.
Capt. Stroud's Independent Rail Road
Troop, arrived here on Monday last, for
the purpose of assisting in the enforce
ment of the recent draft. This Compa
uy has seen hard service, but the men ap
pear as lively as crickots, and fully bent
upon doing their duty in the work before
them. During the last raid of the rebels
in Pennsylvania, they were in the neigh
borhood of Chambersburg, and earned an
enviable reputation for the heroic mur
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mer in wuicn tney nciu tne reoeis in
check, until they were overpowered by
numbers. Both officers and men demean
themselves with gentlemanly deportment,
and have already won for themselves the
respect of our citizens. The officers of
the company arc,
George D. Stroud, Capt.
Aubrey Henry, 1st Lt.
W. J. Smith, 2nd Lt.
The Company numbers 94 men. Some
thirty of the men under proper officers left
yesterday morning for Honesdale. The
troop with two or three exceptions are for
Lincoln & Johnson and the Union.
J&sjT Gen. Dix found time to make
speech six sentences long in Sandusky,
0., on the evening of the 26th, which
should knock McClellauism out of any
town, in which politics arc influenced by
the opinions and example of men of note
aud worth. The General had been sere
naded. He came out from his room aud
said to the crowd :
"Fellow Citizens: As I arrived late
here to-night, and am engaged in public
Dusmess, and depart at an early hour in
the morning, I know you will excuse me
it 1 limit what 1 have to say to a few
words.
"I will say one thing, however, upon a
question in wnicn every loyal man is
most deeply interested the rebellion. It
has been my conviction from the first,
that there could be no peace until the
Rebel armies were dispersed and the
leaders of the Rebellion expelled from
the country. Loud chcers.l I believe
that the cessation of hostilities would
lead to a recognition of the Confederacy:
and I need not tell you that I never could
assent to an armistice of which the Chi
cago Platform is the basis. Rcuewed
cheering and applause.! I have faith
only in a steady, unceasing, unremitting
prosecution ot the war Lreat applause,
and i deiieve this will meet the judg
ment of every thinking man.
"Once more thanking you for vour
kind expression of feeling, I bid you good
night."
The Rebellion Engineered by Democrats.
Look at the Rebell ion from beginning to
end, and you will find that it has been en
gineered by Democrats. You cannot forget
that James Buchanan, a Democrat, was Pres
ident, surrounded by a Democratic Cabinet
while tho Rebellion was allowed to organize
and to gather strengh without interruption
Wherever you look now in the Rebellion
there you find the old Democracy, into which
is absorbed John Bell and his followers, ar
rayed against their country.
Look at individuals: you will find that the
arger half, constituting the controlling pow
er of the old Democratic party, is now in
arms against their country.
Look at States; you will find that all now
in rebellion were, at its outbreak, Democratic
States.
It is natural that the Northern associates
and allies of these Rebels should be engaged
in devising apologies for rebellion.
In all this vast Union, whether the Union
as it was or the Union as it is there is not
a single Republican in arms against the
Government, or sympathizing with those who
are. There is not a traitor among them.
Here is a distinction between the two parties,
which is as broad as the space between earth
and Heaven.
The Boston Courier says :
1.1 f ...
xiiu uiu game oi uie Aummstration, to
procure votes by sending home to various
States soldiers willing to vote the RpniiMi.
ua.u uukci unci Keeping m camn everv Dcm
:!.. it . r-"
ocratic voter, is once more palpably on foot
Wherever by the laws of the Slate flio oil.
diers are not allowed to vote in the field, this
iiuijumuiu process wnr be resorted to again.
io it. nun oemi pracucea witnout scruple on
var juuh occasions neretoior. indeed, it is be
gun already."
Will The Courier be good
us why the late Democratic legislatures of
iiuw jersey, ueia ware. Indiana nnrl T nm
did't block this game by just enabling all the
euiuiurb irom uieir respective States to vote
without going home 1 Why has no one Dem
ocratic legislature done this--initiating a
constitutional amendment if that were de
emed necessary 1 Why leave this "game"
open to the Administration if von
and full soldier vote ?
ForTheJejfersonian.
Camp in tho Breastworks, ")
Set. 27, 1864.
: Mr. Editor: Having seen in the Mon
roe Democrat of the 15th? inst., a commu
nication from a member' of Co. G. 142nd
Regt. P. V. touching the political com
plexion of the company, I think it but
justice to myself, and also to the compa
ny, to state a few facts, on the subject
The writer of that article says that he
I has just returned from Washington. This
is true ; but he did not tell the whole
truth, and that is that he spent some fit
teen months in that city, that he went
there an Orderly Sergeant, and that he
has just returned to the ranks, a private.
He tells the truth, too, when he says that
he found the boys all in good spirits, but
he wanders far from it when he says that
he found them all hoping that little Mac
would be elected President; in November.
He knew that he was falsifying the facts
when he penned that assertion. So far
as the company is concerned, I think the
men stand, politically, as yet, about half
and half, but there is no doubt that the
election will find a handsome majority for
Old Abe. In the company on our right
Co. K., I do not know a single man who
i w
will vote for Mac, and I have taken some
pains to inquire
As to the settling of Petersburg and
Richmond, permit mc to say that the Ar
my has the fullest confidence in all our
Generals, and that Grant will do all in
these particulars that is expected of him
no one here, who really loves the cause,
for a moment doubts. But, says the wri
ter in the Democrat, "after that we want
Little Mac," President." We want no
such thing, aud the writer knows it.
But why wait until after Richmond or
Petersburgg or both are captured '
He further savs "In nearly all the
papers we get, we hear Little Mac run
down." Does this look as though nearly
all the soldiers were going to vote for the
Chicago bantling. I should think not
Soldiers are allowed to get just such pa
pers from home as they desire, or as their
friends choose to sond them. Would it
be at all likely that ii they intended to
vote for Little Mac, they would encour
age the receipt of such papers only as op
pose and run him down? But, the wri
ter says he has good opportunities of find
ing out. I should think he had. His
Division must have been the one he
tarried with so long in Washington, when
he speaks of it as the Division three
fourths of whose members will vote for
him. I cannot exactly understand
whether he means himself or Little Mac.
He also says "you may take that as a crite
rian by which to judge the whole array."
He must consider himself the whole Di
vision, indeed the whole army, or he nev
er could say what he has said. And
then, too, he has "noticed it in many of
the Hospitals in Washington." I am
sure it was not in the Hospitals in the
field. By the way what was he doing in
so many hospitlas?
Again in his letter he says, "They
are taking the names ot the men who
will vote for Lincoln, and publishing
them ; "and that he knows to a certainty
that one half, if not more, of the men
say they will vote for Old Abe merely to
et a furlough, and that when they come
to deposit their votes, they will vote for
Little Mac, for he has heard them make
their brag3 of it. If the Government
would be guilty of such a piece of folly
as sending men home to vote, I do not
doubt that there are men, or
things
who
would do as he says, nor have I the shad
ow of a doubt but that the writer in the
Democrat would be one of those very
men. But the Government, in tho pres
ent condition of affairs will not send men
homo to vote, no matter what they prom
ise, and I am happy to know that, hence,
such rogues -as are alluded to will, for
once, at least, be kept honest and truth
ful. I believe there can be no doubt as to
the result of tho Tote in the army. When
I take into consideration tho fact that
the 90,000 McClellanites of Pennsylva
nia voted, to a man, against granting the
soldier the freoman's privilege of voting,
and this in connection with their nomin
ation of Pendleton for the Vice Presiden
cythe man who has yet to cast the first
vote for the suppression of this rebellion,
or to relieve tho necessities of the soldier
in the field, and whose whole course-has
had a tendency only to give aid to the
rebels I cannot see how they can put on
brass enough to ask us to vote for them
Truly such men ought not look for a fa
vor from a soldier. But traitors and cop
perheads can do almost anything. As to
the platform upon which Little Mac
stands, it might better have been mad
at Richmond. It is but the South-side
view of the war, without even the merit
of northern originality; and Jeff. Davis
could readily have signed it without oven
a rebel compunction- of conscience. But
I have already made my letter too long.
I have never, Mr. Editor, voted the
Republican ticket in my life, and I am
now forty-three years old; but when I see
traitors, pretending to be Democrats, try
ing to divide this blessed Union, and
when there are so. many 'Democrats at
the North to help them, I think it high
time to pause and try to save our beloved
country. I am perfectly well satisfied
that the only safe and sure way to accom
plish so good a work is to re-elect honest
Abe for another term.
Yours truly,
ELIJAH BLOWERS, '
An old Union Democrat.
The Democrats and the Confedrates,
Such statements as the following, from the
Richmond Examiner of the 8th inst., cannot
be kept too steadily before the Northern
public :
"We, in defending our own rights and
homes, are perforce working in the cause of
the opposition. Every defeat of Lincoln?s
forces, even holding them steadily at bay, in
ures to the advantage of McClellan. The
influence of the South, more powerful in the
shock of battle " than when throwing her
minority vote in an electoral college, will be
cast in favor of McClellan by this indirect
yet efficacious means."
The Charleston Courier, a leading organ
of the South, in its issue of the 7th ult., ex
patiates on the mutual connection between
the Rebels and the northern democracy, in
the same vein, viz :
"All of us perceive the intimate concc
tion existing between the armiesofthe Con
federacy and the peace men in the United
States. These constitute two immense for
ces that are working together for the pro
curement of peace. The party whose no
mination and platform we are considering,
are altogether dependent for success on the
courage and resolution of our fighting-men.
If their generalship, .sagacity, valor, and
vigilance are unable to obtain victories, and
to arrest the progress of the invading hordes,
the existing Administration will laugh to
scorn all the efforts of the Opposition, and,
in spite of the most powerful combinations,
will continue to hold the places they occupy.
Our success in battle insures the succc?: of
McClellan. Our failure will inevitably lead
to his defeat."
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The Congressional Hcminees.
Wheu the Uuion party put forth the
name of Col. James L. Selfridge as a
candidate for our representation in the
next session of the National Congress,
they conferred not only a merited com
pliment upon a gallant and conscientious
soldier, but threw down the gage to
measure public estimation as between
the merits of a staunch and active loyalist
and those of a non combatant, who in tho
security of a legislative position has
struggled to hamper and paralyze the ef
ficiency of our defenders.
Comparison between the nominees is
as "Hyperion to a Satyr." The one, at
the first sound of the alarming tocsin,
rushed to the armed succor of our com
mon mother and has steadily persevered,
sword in hand, in his task of mainiaining
our national integrity. Against the bay
onets of rebellious foes he has bared his
naked breast and offered his life-blood, if
need bee, as a sacrifice to his patriotic
resolution.
IIow different the selfish policy of hie
opponent Philip Johnson who in de
fiance of the nation's unanimous will lost
to the faintest promtiugs of chivah-ic
sympathy, has abused a legislative trust
to comfort the enemies of his country,
the invaders of the very State he preten
ded to represent, the felonious pillagers
and inceudiaries who have polluted the
soil of the Penusylvaniau Commonwealth.
t e leave it to the independent voters
of this district to decide which is the bet
ter entitled to their suffrages the loyal
soldier whose sword would exterminate
the marauders of Chambersburg. or tho
semi-traitorous politician, anoloirist for
their vandalism. XortJicm Eanlc.
Democratic Landmarks.
A few of the more eminent citizens nf
our State who opposed Mr. Lincoln's e-
lection in lbOO, but now heartily support
his rc-eleccion, aro these :
DANIEL S. DICKINSON, who has
filled with honor tho posts of Stato
Senator, Lieut.-Goveruor, Attorney
General, United States Senator. &c.
LYMAN TREMAIN of Albany, late
Attorney General.
JOHN A. GRIS WORLD of Troy, now
Member of Congress; elected on the
Seymour ticket in 1862.
FRANCIS B. CUTTING, late Member
of Congress from this city.
THOMAS G. ALVORD of Syracuse,
late Speaker.
Judge JAMES R. WHITING, of this
City.
JOHN COCHRANE, late Member of
Congress Democratic candidate for
re-election in 1S60.
DAVID S. CONDINGTON, late Mem
ber of Assembly, son of Postmaster
John J. Coddington.
HENRY R. LOW, Senator of Sullivan
County.
FRANCIS LARKIN of WinnWr
County.
TIIEO. B. WESTBROOK, ex-M. C, of
Ulster County.
Mr. Lincoln had nearly Fifty Thou
sand majority in 1860 seven votes to
every six against him. Who imagiuea
that, with such changes in his fayor, he
can now lose the State? Tribune.
Hassaurcck, overflowing with scorn of
the duplicity and troasonableness of" Mc
Clellan's position on the two opposing;
Platforms, said :
"What a self-contradictory and dishon
est position it would be to stand as a war
candidate on a peace platform a war
kite with a Vice-Presidential peace tail
attached to it ! Suoh a position reminds
us of those old Scotch houses during the
revolution of tho 17th centurv. in whinh
father and son always took opposite sides,
so that whatever party might succeed,
the family property should not bo confis
cated. It would be the position of a pi-,
ous Mohammedon drinking wine : of a,
professing Isrnelito eating pork; of a,
Quaker appealing to the arbitrament- ofT
arms, and perhaps 'Quaker guns,!