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CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1861
VOL. 10-NO. 50.
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MOONBEAMS.
Orer ficlJa of thy my blossom,
Orer beds of dewy flowers,
Now npon the streamlet's bosom,
'ow within the whispering bowers,
Soft and slow
The moonbeams go
Wandering on through midnight hours.
Lightly o'er the crested billows,
Where the heaving waters flow.
Where the sea-bird finds her pillow,
There the glistening moonbeams go
Soft and slow,
Soft and slow.
Kvsr wandering, soft and slow.
Queen of beauty ! robed in splendor,
Finds thy silent foot no rest?
Looks thy sinilo. so soft and tender,
Ne'er upon a kindred breast?
Soft and slow
Tby footsteps go
lu thair silver sandals dress'd.
Queen of beauty ! cans'tthou never
Thus thy lonely task fulfil !
filter voices, never, never,
Answering thee from bower or hill !
Soft and slow
As winter's snw
Tall thy footsteps cold and still
Silent moon ! thy smile of beauty
Fainting hope will oft renew,
Teach mo, then, thy holy duty.
Waste and wild to wander tkroogh,
Soft and glow
Still to go,
Patient, meek, but lonely too.
MY EEVENGE.
We met in the beginning of the action, I
and my enemy, Richard Withers he on
foot, I mounted. It matters not why I ha
ted him with the fiercest wrath of my na
ture, "The heart knoweth its own bitter
ness ;" and the details, while most painful
to me, would be of trifling interest to you.
Suffice it that our feud was not a political
one. For ten years we were the closest in
timates the same studies, the same tastes
and the same aims could make us. I was
the elder of the two. and stronger physical
ly ; comparatively friendless as the world
takes it, and had no relatives. Young, sol
itary and visionary as we were, it is hard to
make you understand what we were to each
other. Up to the period of our estrange
ment, working together, . eating together,
sleeping together, I can safely say that we
had not a grief, not a pleasure or a vacation
that we did not share with almost boyish
pingleheartednr.ss. But one single day
changed all. We rose in the morning dear
friends, and lay down that night bitter foes.
- I was a man of extremes ; I either loved or
hated with the strength of my heart. The
past was forgotton in the present. The ten
years of kindness, of congeniality, of al
most womanly kindness, were erased as with
a sponge.
We looked each other in the face with an
ry, searching eyes said but few words,
tour rage was too deep to be demonstrative)
and parted. Then in my solitude I dashed
ray clenched hand upon tho Bible and vow
ed passionately : 1 may wait ten years,.
Richard V ithers I 1 may wait twenty, thir
ty, if you will, but sooner or later I shall
have revenge! '
And this w;is the way we met.
I wonder if he thought of that day when
he laid hia hand upon my bridle rein and
looked up ut me with his treacherous blue
eyes. 1 scarcely think he did, or he could
not have given me that look. lie was beau
tiful as a girl ; indeed, the contrast of his
fair, aristocratic face with the regular out
lino and red curving lips, to my own rough
dark exterior, might have been partly the
secret of my former attraction to him. But
the loveliness of an ansrel if it had been his
would not have saved iini from me then.
There was a pistol in his hand, but before
he had time to discharge it, I cut at him
with my sword, and as the line swept on like
a gathering wave, I saw him stagger under
the blow, throw up his arms and go down
with the press. Bitterly as I hated him,
the ghastly face haunted me the long day
through.
You all rememler how it was at Freder
icksburg. How we crossed the river at th'e
wrong point; and under the raking fire of
the enemy, were so disastrously repulsed.
It was a sad mistake, and fatal to many a
brave heart. When night fell, I lay upon
the field among dead and wounded. I was
comparatively helpless. A ball had shiver
ed the cap of my right knee, and my shoul
der was laid ojen with a sabre cut. The
latter bled profusely, but by dint of knot
ting my handkerchief tightly around it I
managed to staunch it in a measure. For
my kneo I could do nothing. Consciousnes i
did not forsake me, and the pain was in
tense ; but from tho moans and wails of men
about me I judged that others had fared
worse than 1. Poor fellows ! there was ma-
ny a mother's darling suffering there. Ma
ny of my comrades, lads of eighteen or
twenty, who had never seen a night from
home until they joined the army, spoiled
pets of fortune, manly enough at heart, but
children in years and constitution, who had
been used to have every little ache and
scratch companioned with an almost ex
travagant sympathy there crushed and dy
ing, huddled together somo where - they
had weakly crawled upon their hands and
knoes and never a woman's voice to whis
per gentle consolation. It was pitchy dark,
and a cold miserable rain was falling upon
the very Heavens weeping over our
miseries. Then through the darkness and
drizzling rain, through the groans and pray
ers of the fallen men about me, 1 heard a
familiar voice close to my bide :
"Water! water! water! I am dying with
thirst if it be but a swallow water 1 For
God's sake give me some water !"
I recoiled with dismay. It was the voice
f my enemy; the voice of Kichard With
ers. They were once very dear to ruc.those
mellow U nes once the pleasantest music t
fared to hear. Do you think they so soft
ened me now ? You are mistaken ; I am
candid about it. My blood boiled in my
veins when powerless to withdraw from Lis
detested neighborhood. There was water
in my canteen. 1 had filled it before the
last ball came. By stretchiug my hand I
could give him a drink, but I did not raise
a finger. Vengeance is sweet I smiled
grimly to myself , and said down in my se
cret heart: '
"Not a drop shall cross Lis. lips though he
perish. I shall have my rfeveuge. "
Do you recoil with horror? Listen how
merciful God was to me.
There was a poor little drummer boy on
tho other side, a merry, manly boy of twelve
or thirteen, the pet and plaything of the
regiment. There was something of the
German in him ; he had been with us from
tho first, and was reckoned one of the best
drummers in the army. But we will never
march to the tap of Charley's drum again,
lie had got a ball in his lungs, and the ex
posure and fatigue, together with the wound
had made him lightheaded. Poor little
child ! he crept close to me in the darkness
and laid his cheek upon my breast. May
be ho thought it was his own pillow at
home ; may be he thought it, poor darling,
his mother's bosom. God only knows what
he thought, but with his hot arm about my
neck, and his curly head pressed close to
my wicked heait, even then swelling with
bitter hatred of my enemy, he began to
murmur in his delirium, "Our Father who
art in Heaven."
I was a rough, bearded man, I had been
an orphan for many a long year ; but not
too many or too long to forget the simple
hearted prayer of my childhood the dim
vision of. that mother's face over which the
grass had grown for twenty changing sum
mers. Something tender stirred within my
hardened heart. It was too dark to see the
little face, but the young lips went on bro
kenly :
"And forgive our tresspasses as we for
give those who tresspass against us."
It went chrough me like a knife sharper
than tbe sabre cut, keener than the kill.
God was merciful to me and this young child
was the channel of his mercy.
"Forgive our tresspasses as we forgive
those who tresspass against us."
I had never understood the words before.
If an angel had spoken it could scarcely
have been more of a revelation. For the
first time the thought that I might be mor
tally wounded, that death might be nearer
than I dreamed of, struck me with awe and
horror. Tlie text of a long forgotten ser
mon was in my cars ; "it is appointed for
all men to die and after death the judgment. "
Wokc and worse. What measure of
mercy could I expect, if the same was me
t'd out that I had meted unto my enemy.
The tears swelled into my eyes, and trickled
down my cheeks; the first 1 had shed since
my boyhood. I felt subdued and etrangely
moved.
The rain was falling still, but the little head
upon my breast was gone. He crept away
silently in the darkness. His unconscious
mission was fulfilled, he would not return at
mv call.
Then I lifted myself with great effort.
The old bitterness was crushed, but not al
together dead.
"Water water!" moaned Richard With
ers, in his agony.
I dracrtred myself closer to him.
"(Jod be praised !" I said with a solemn
heart. "Iick, old boy, enemy no longer.
God be praised ! I am willing and able to
help you. Drink and be friends."
It had been growing lighter and lighter
in the east and now it was day. Day with
in and without. In the first gray glimmer
of dawri we looked into each other's ghast
ly faces for a moment, and then the canteen
was at Richard's mouth and he drank as on
ly the fevered can drink. I watched him
with moist eyes ; leaning upon my elbow
and forgetting the bandaged shoulder ho
grasped me with both hands.
Blood stained and pallid as it was, his face
was ingenuous and beautiful as a child's.
"Now let me speak," he said panting.
"You have misjudged me, Rut us. It was
all a mistake : I found it out after we part
ed. I meant to have spoken this morning
when I grasped your rein, but hut " .
His generosity spared me the rest.
The wound my hand had inflicted was yet
bleeding in his head ; but for the blind pas
sion of the blow it must have been mortal.
Was vengeance so sweet after all ? I felt
something warm trickling from my shoulder.
The daylight had gone again how dark it
was !
"Forgive me,Dick," I murmured, grop
ing about for him with my hands. lhen 1
was blind then I was cold as ice then 1
tumbled down an abyss, and everything was
blank. -
"The crisis is past he will recover, said
a strange voice. ' n
"Thank God! thank God "cried a famil
iar one. r
I opened my eyes. Where am I 7 How
odd everything was. Rows of beds stretch
ing down a long narrow hall, ' bright with
sunshine, and women wearing white caps
and peculiar dresses flitting to and fro with
noiseless activity, which in my fearful weak
ness it tired me to watch. My hand lay
outside the covers t it was as shadowy as a
skeleton's. What had become of my flesh?
Was I a man or child ? A body or a spirit ?
I was done with material things altogether
and had been subjected to'some refining pro
cess and but now awaked to a new existence.
But did they have beds in the other world ?
I was looking lazily at the opposite one,
when some one took my hand. A face was
landing over. I looked up with a beating
heart. The golden sunshine was on it on
the fair, regular features, and the lips and
kindly blue eyes, ' - . "
"Dick," I gasped, "where have you been
all these years ' ' f . . . - . . J
Weeks, you ''mcan't-aid Richard, .with
the old smile. ""But never mind now. lou
are better dear Rufus you will live wo
shall be happy together again." t
It was more a woman's voice than a man s
but Diek had a tender heart.
"Where am I? what'B the matter with
me?" I asked. -
"Hospital.in the first place, typhus in the
second. You were taken after that night at
Fredericksburg."
1 1 broke upon me at once. I remember
ed that awful night I could never, never
forget.it again. Weak as a child, 1 cover
ed my face and burst into tears. Richard
was on his knees by my side at once.
"I was a brute to recall it." he whispered
remorsefully ; "do not thiuk of itold boy
you must Dot excite yourself. It is all for
gotten and forgiven."
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against us :" I prayed
from my inmost heart.
"Those words have been in your mouth
day and night, ever since you were taken,"
said my friend.
I lav silent, cogitating.
"Tell me one thing," I asked, are we in
the North or South?"
"North in Philadelphia."
"Then you are a prisoner," I said, mourn
fully, recalling his principles.
''Not a bit of it."
"What do you mean !"
Richard laughed.
"I have seen the error of my ways. I
have taken the oath of allegiance. When
you are strong enough again we shall fight
side by side.'
"And the wound in your head? 1 ask
ed, with emotion, looking up at his bright,
handsome face.
"Don't mention it ; it healed long ago.'
"And the little drummer ?"
Richard bowed his head upon my hand.
"He was found dead upon the field. Heav
en bless him ! They said he died praying
with his mother's name upon his lips."
"Revere him as an angel !" I whisper
ed, grasping him by the hand. "But for
his dying prayer we had yet been enemies?"
Indian Strategy before Petersburg.
A very curious piece of strategy, which
took place the other day, shows the wonders
of Cooper's Indian heroes have not ceased.
One of the 14th New York Artillery a
Seneca Indian, from the western part of the
State undertook, on a wager, to brin? in
a live rebel sharpshooter, who was perched
in a tree in front of our line, considerable in
advance of his own. His manner of accom
plishing this was as iugenious as successful,
and rivals the "deviltry of any of the Leath
erstocking redskins." Procuring a quan
tity of pine boughs, he enveloped himself
with them from head to foot, attaching them
securely to a branch which he lashed length
wise of his body. When completed he was
indistinguishable to a casual observer from
the surrounding foliage, and resembled a
tree as closely as it was possible for his really
artistic efforts to render him. Thus prepar
ed, and with musket in hand, concealed
likewise, he stole by almost imperceptible
movement, to beneath the tree where the
sharpshooter was lodged. I fere he patiently
waited until his prey had emptied his piece
at one of our men, when he suddenly brought
his musket to bear upon the "rob," giving
him no time to reload. The sharpshooter
was taken at a disadvantage. To the com
mand to come down he readily assented,
when the Indian tritrmpantly marched him
a prisoner into camp and won his wager.
Banishing Eebel "Women.
Gen. Rosecrans is disposing of quite a
number of women in and aiound St. Louis,
who have been engaged in treasonable acts.
One Harriet N. Suead, wife of a rebel mem
ber of Congress, for clandestinely delivering
letters to persons within our lines, in viola
tion of law and orders, wasjbanished South,
and if she is caught returning, will be treat
ed as a spy. Nina E. Hough received the
same sentence, for carrying on her person
a piece of a Union soldier's skull, and ex
hibiting levity unworthy of a lady. Ada
Haynes was banished some time ago, but
returned with a view of taking the oath of
amnesty. Her conduct has since falsified
her oath, but the General to give her an op
portunity to make good her profession with
out temptation to herself or danger to the
Government, released her on oath, bound
not to reside west or south of the State of
New York during the present rebellion. In
this latter decree the General haa shown
great though intended respect to the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, and we thank
him for it '
The War one of Ideas.
The war in which this nation is involved
is one of -ideas. The national school holds
to the principles of the Declaration of '7G ;
the rebel school dissents from it. The peo
ple of the free States love the Declaration
made by Hancock and his com-patriots.
They have pondered and repeated it from
childhood ; have annualy and most heartily
celebrated its noble utterances, and most
profoundly believe in its sublime truths.
The slave holding communities have aposta
tized from that common faith of freedom.
Their philosophers, orators and statesmen
have ridiculed the American magna charta
and made it fashionable in Southern society
to ridicule it. Hence the war. We stand
by the Declaration ; the rebels stand against
it. The' spirit of liberty goes forth with the
hostsof the Union, while the demon presid
ing over the mistruided valor of the leaders
of "the rebellion is slavery. Which ought to
succeed ? Let civilization and the best inter
ests of humanity answer; .
Governor Conncly, of New Mexico, re
cently requested the citizens of that terri
tory to: observe a day of thanksgiving in
view of the termination of the war with the
Yravjo Indians. He stated in his proclama
tion that, with but slight intermissions, the
wars with that people have existed lbO
years.
Niagara
Peace Commission.
HIS OPINION OF THE AFFAIR.
Hon. Horace Greeley, in his place, in the
Independent speaks for himself in the mat
ter of the Peace negotiations at Niagara
Falls. We quote from his article some of
the most important statements.
THE INTRODUCTION."
Last week was signalized by two efforts to
initiate negotiations with a view to the pa
cification of our country. The more impor
tant of these had Richmond for its arena.
Mr. J. R. Gilmore more widely known as
"Edmund Kirke," author of "Among the
Pines" paid an unofficial visit to Richmond,
accompanied by Rev. Col. James F. Ja
quess, of the 73d Illinois, and had a familiar
interview with Jefferson Davis and several
of his lieutenants. They went with the full
knowledge of the President, intent on devis
ing or discovering some ground of accom
modation and adjustment "between the bel
ligerents now devastating the Republic, and
appear to have been treated with signal
courtesy and even generous hospitality, but
had no success.
JEFF DA VIS' PLATFORM VIEWED
Mr. Davis, I believe, has not yet acknowl
edged the right of his Lluek countrymen to
,'self government" or "independence" eith
er. Nordoes he acknowledge the right of
North Carolina to secede from his confeder
acy, and thu disconnect herself from a re
bellion into which she was precipitated by
the grossest frauds. The Unionists of the
South were conceded no right but apostacy
on peril of extermination by Davis and his
upholders. Yet he, doubtless, is fighting
for "independence" for freedom to impose
claims on half the people of the Slave
State? and to reign as autocrat over the res
idue. "Independence" is to him power,
state, luxury, importance; but to the undis
tinguished many, evtn of whites under his
sway, it is quite other than these. We may
safely assume that he will make no peace
that restores the Union, so long as there is
a possible altert ative. Yet the Gilmore
Jaquess mission is no failure, though it re
sulted but in demonstrating this.
So far Mr. Greeley has disposed of the
Richmond Peace effort. Now for Niagara
Falls, in which he was ''more immediately
concerned.
TOE "OTHER EFFORT FOR FEACE. ' '
Some timo since, it was announced b3' tel
egraph from Halifax that Messrs, C. C.Clar,
of Alabama, Jacob Thompson, of Mississip
pi, (ex-U. S. Senators). Prof, J. P. Hol
combe, of the University of Virginia, and
Geo. N. Sanders, of Kentucky, had reached
that city from Dixie, via Bermuda, on im
portant business ; and allof these but Mr.
Thompson (who if in Toronto) were soon
quartered at the Clifton, on tire Canada side
of Niagara Falls. I heard soon after of
confidential interviews between some or all
of these gentlemen and leading Democrats
from our own and the neighboring States,
and there were telegraphic whispers of over
tures for "reconstruction," and conditions
were set forth as those on which the Con
federates would consent to reunion. (Ican
not say that any of these reports were au
thentic. ) At length, after several less di
rections, I received a private letter from
Mr. Sanders, stating that Messrs. Clay,Hol
combe, himself, and another, desired to vis
it Washington, "upon complete and unqual
ified protection being given by the 1 'resi
dent or the Secretary of War. '
THE PRELIMINARIES STATED.
As I saw no reason why the Opposition
should be the sole recipients of these gen
tlemen's overtures, if such there were, (and
it is stated that Mr. Ciay aforesaid is pre
paring or was to prepare an important letter
to the Chicago Convention, ) I wrote the Pre
sident, urging him to invite the rebel gen
tlemen aforesaid to Washington, there to o-
fen their budget. I stated expressly that
knew not what they wou!d propose if so
invited, but I could imagine no offer that
might be made by them which would not
conduce, in one way or another, to a restor
ation of the integrity and just authority of
the Union. The President ultimately acqui
esced in this view so far as to consent that
the rebel agents should visit Washington,
but directed that I should proceed to Niag
ara and accompany them thence to the Capi
tal. This service I most reluctantly under
took, feeling deeply and observing that al
most any one else might better have been
sent on this errand. But time seemed pre
cious, and I immediately started.
THE MANNER OF THE DIPLOMACT.
Arrived on this side of the Falls, I wrote
across to Messrs. Clay & Co., stating that,
on the understanding that they had the need
ful powers from the authorities at Richmond,
I was authorized and ready to give them a
Safe Conduct to Washington. They re
sponded that, though in the confidential
employment of their government, and fully
conversant with its views and purposes, they
had not the specific powers I reouired, but
would get them, if permitted, and de
sired in order to save tim to proceed
at once to Washington, and be permitted
thence to communicate with Richmond for
the purpose. Not feeling at liberty to con
cede this, I telegraphed to Washington for
furher instructions and was duly informed
that Major Hay, the President's Private
Secretary, would soon be on his way to me.
He reached the Falls on the 20th, and we i
soon crossed over to the Clifton, where Ma
jor Hay, after mutual introductions, handed
Professor Holcombe the following paper, in
the handwriting of the President :
Here follows the President's celebrated
reply, "To all whom it may concern, &c"
; " MR. GREELEY LEAVES FOR nOME.
I left the Falls by the next train, leaving
Major Hay to receive any rcapon.se to the
President's proffer, should any he made ;
Horace Greeley's History of the
but there was none. Messrs. Clay and Hol
combe addressed to mo a letter of sharp crit
icism on the President's proffer above quo
ted, which I first read in the columns of the
daily journals of this city. And here the
matter closed, dospite all rumors of further
or other negotiations. Messrs. Clay, Hol
combe, and Sanders remain at the Fall, or
at the adjacent watering-place of St. Catha
rines, and are still in the receipt of many
visits from Democratic politicians, who cross
the borders on purpose.
MR. GREELEY'S OPINION ON THE MATTER.
I heartily approve the President's basis of
negotiation, and think them calculated to
exert a salutary influence at the South: and
yet I think it would have been wiser to have
interposed no conditions, but asked the Con
federates to perfer and verify their creden
tials, and then make their proposition. For
thus brought to book, what could they
have proffered that would not have strength
ened the upholders of the Union cause ? It
looks to me as though a rare opportunitj'
was lost for compelling either the Democra
cy of the loyal States or the despots of Eu
rope to forego further manifestations of
sympathy with the rebels in their desperate
struggle. I may be mistaken in this, but I
cannot be in my conviction that every indi
cation of a desire on our part to arrest blood
shed and restore amity tends to disabuse
and conciliate the great perverted mass of
those now fighting to divide and destroy their
and our country.
Reasons for being Peaceable.
Why is Enjrland so peaceable ? "For
several reasons," says theN. Y. iW ; "but
especially for this, that by her conduct m
the matter of the Alabama and other British
pirate ships she has made of Germany,
which has scarcely a seaport, a formidable
naval power. For Englishmen know, what
is not concealed by the Germans, that the
moment England declares war against them
the ocean will begin to swarm with Austrian
and Prussian privateers and men-of-war,
fitted out in American and other neu
tral ports, which will sweep the merchant
marine of England from the seas. There is
no doubt that this will be done ; it is known
that German merchants and capitalists have
their money prepared for such an event ;
and the moment England dares to help the
Danes with anything more powerful than
empty words, these Germans will at once a
vail themselves of the rule made by Eng
land, and attack her commerce.
Good Peace Doctrines. If we would
have victory, says tho Chicago Journal, let
us have the 500,000 new recruits. If we
would have emancipation, let us have the
500,000 new recruits. If we would have
a vigorous prosecution of the war, let us
have the 500,000 new recruits. If we
would have the public debt diminished, let
us have the 500,000 new recruits. It we
would have the burthen of taxation Jessen
ed, let us have the 500,000 new recruits.
If we would have an end of the depreda
tions of rebel pirates on the sea, and of reb
el jayhawkers on the land, let us have the
500,000 new recruits. If we would have
an end of the war during the present year,
let us have the 500,000 new recruits. If
we would have peace and content through
out the land again, soon, let us have the
500,000 new rceruita.
Timee Generation after generation have
felt as we do now, and tlreir lives were as
active as our own. The heavens will be as
bright over our graves as they are about our
paths. Yet a little while and all this will
have happened. The throbing heart will be
stilled, and we shall be at rest. Our funer
al will wend its way, and the prayers will be
said ; we shall be left in the darkness and si
lence of the tomb, and it may be for a short
time we shall be epoken of, but the things
of life shall creep on and our names shall Ce
forgotten. Days shall continue to move too,
and laughter and songs will be heard in the
room where we died ; and the eyes that
mourned for us be dry and animated with
joy, and even our children will cease to think
of us, and will remember to lisp our names
no more.
A Proper Rebuke. In the 5th ward cf
Harrisburg, on Tuesday Aug 2d, a son of
the " Emerald Isle," came to the Polls to
vote. A blatant copperhead asked to see
his ticket. He ehowed it. It was "for the
Amendments !" The copperhead said :
"Dennis 3-ou're not going to vote that tick
et, are you?"
"Yes, bv jabers," said Dennis, "I am."
"Why,'1' said the copperhead, "that's vo
ting to put a negro on a level with you."
"By jabers" said the voter "I know bet
ter than that. You've fooled me and tho
likes of me enough. I am voting now to el
evate the soldier above the negro, and above
such whelps' aa yon."
Some time Eince a man in Maine want
ed to exhibit an Egyptian mummy, and
went to the court house for a license.
"What is it ?" asked the judge,
"An Egyptian prummy, may it please the
court; more than three thousand years old,"
said the showman.
"Three thousand years old !" exclaimed
the judge, jumping to hia feet, "and is the
critter alive ?" 1
What a Name, One of the Sandwbich
Island Judges is named Ii that's the way
to spell it but whether it', is pronounced
Big I, Little I, or Eye-Eye or My-eyes
who knows. - , .
"Mother," Paid Ike Partington, "did yoa
know that the 'iron horse' had but one ear?"
"One ear ! merciful gracious child what do
you mean?" "Why,- the engine-eer, of
course."
The red cheeks, the white teeth, and blue
eyes of a lovely girl are as good a flag as a
young soldier, in the field of battle of lift.',
need ficht under.
Brady on Peace Democrats.
At tho great mass meeting held in honor
of Gen. Grant, at Union Square, New
York, on the evening of the 4th July, Jas.
T. Brady, Esq., the eminent lawyer of that
city, who is well known as a Democrat, pre
sided. On taking the chair he delivered a
short address, in the course of which he
epoke as follows on the Peace Democracy
"Within the sound of my voice, feeble as
it is, in houses where these tones can be
heard traitors have been living eince this
revolution has broken uixn us. In the
luxurious clubs of men within the sound of
my voice, have been the skulking and spu
rious Southerners, who stayed here among
us making money, not having the courage
to share the danger to which they invited
their brothers at home. "ThaOs 60'-'
and applause. I see one in thts crowd.
A voice, "Namo him ; call him out." I
beg pardon ; wc will not imitate tho exam
ple of the South, which won't permit a man,
and never did permit a man to express his
sentiments, unless they agreed with those
that prevailed there. Thank God, we are
for freedom, and 1 hall permit no inter
ruption of it in any individual case, nor in
the case of a. class. Wc were troubled with
that set of men, and we were troubled with
others. Wc were troubled with the trucu
lent traitors born at the North, who would
rather that the country should be murdered
than that one of their dogmas should be
disapproved. Cheers. Men who had not
the audacity to asr-ist in secession, but who
stood with their dark lanterns in aproppri
ate places, holding them in Euch a position
that they covered their own precious car
casses, and shed the light into the heart
into which the reeking dagger of tho parri
cide was to be plunged. Applause. Wc
are done with them. We arc done with
the sneaking, miserable dastards who, when
the extras came about the time of the bat
tle of Gettysburg, skulked into corners and
drinking holes, and, though men born in
what they called high stations in society,
trembled and faltered because they feared
that they would really read that the the Amer
ican flag had prevailed. Cheers. These
men belonj to what they call fhe Peace
party, which is now in such fragments that
the only view you can catch of a man be
longing to it, is to see him hurrying from
it, let some of the falling bricks may de
stroy his miserable head. Laughter and
Cheers. We are done with them and as I
congratulated you at the beginning, that
we have a united North. I have characterized
these wretched traitors who have been'
among us. There is another class of men
who have been neither fervent nor warm
hearted in supjnwting this country during
this war, but who, ncverthelas?, have never
desired that the Union should be destroyed
or disgrace visited upon our armies a class
of men who, unfortunately have taken the
right of criticism of the acts of the Admin
istration for the right to go against the na
tional existence. " They are seeing their way
clear out of their erroneous path into which
they permitted themselves to be misled,
and as eure as you stand here, of all men at
the North'who heretofore have permitted
themselves to be arrayed, even for an in
stant, against the prosecution of this war,
the residue now left is so small that on any
rainy day it can meet under an umbrella in
tho Park. Great laughter. Let me tell
you another thing and you will have it
verified in your jersonal experience that
of those men who have undertaken to set
up their own peculiar opinions against the"
existence of thir country, it will one day or
other be required to produce more witnesses
in a court of justice to prove that they were
not all disloyal to the Union, than they ever
could call to prove that a generous emotion
ever stirred in their bosoms. Cheers. I
have transcended the limits assigned to my
self. (Cries of "Go on" Excuse me.
Apart from the vanity which is gratified by
uttering one's own languape, allow me to
say to you that speaking in public in the
open air is no easy task. If you think it is
I would like enc of you to come here and
try. Laughter, After the organization
of the meeting I Ehall give way to the read
ing of the excellent resolutions that have
been prepared, after which eminent gentle
men will address you. I will only say iu
conclusion.that to my mind the grandest
circumstance to come out of the triumph
of our armB sure "to come sooner or later
from this struggle hi which wehave ppent
so much of the blood and treasure, North,
East and WTest the greatest triumph to
come out of this battle, never to be given
up apart from the settling ot our national
existence under the old flag, is, that the
time may come when the united American
people in all the States of tho Union that
we ever numbered, and more added to tho
list, will visit their just vengeance upon tho
nation which in our hour of disaster basely
and meanly turned against us. Loud
Cheers. , - - ;
The Mrtroqolitun Record has a letter from
a Kentucky sympathizer, who declares that
the "Democrats of that State will rapport
for President no other than an uncondition
al "Peace" man not even McClellan ad
ding that ' !
"It is the Peace party which is to carry
us out of these troubles next November.
Thev are willimr to support Vallandieham
or Thomas H. Seymour for the Presidency,
and they will not vote for any man who is
not for peace, if needs be based on the rec
ognition of the independence of tho South
ern" States, This may sound like treason to
that delectable institution" known as ' the
Union League, but such are the principles
of the Democracy of this State." ! :
We believe that is true, so far, as it re-
Srds "the principles of the Democracy" of
entucky, and only wish toadd.ihatif that
Democracy had power . to elect our next
President as, happily, it has,' not his
Tie would be Jeff. Davis. - 1 -
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