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BY S. J.-BOTT.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1804.
VOL. -11. "NO. 6.
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CiTHAVflOKSE -Came to the premises of
S,L"ubcriber residing in Huston townsb.p, on
the 15th of September, a light bay horse, about 9
rears old, with three white lect. The owner is
r-aueited to come forward, prove property, pay
bharge and take him away, or h "
the law direo . DAY Il BbKKhi.
tepteuiber 2S, 1SG4 pd.
Pittsburg Saw Works.
JH'BBAKDS AND LONG,
Manufacturers of Patent Ground Circulars
Vurranted cast steel saws of every description
Mill, Mulay, Cross-cut, Gang and all other varie
ties. All kind of knives and springs made from
thceteaat steel. Kxtrn icGned Keaper and Mow
ing knives, Aa Particular attention paid to re
toothing, gumming and straightening circular
eaws; together with repairing of all kinds. Ware
house and Works, corner of Water and Short
'street, Pittsburg, Pa. April 13, 18t4-l yp. -
v. w. HiTitBAitn : : : : s. d. iii'biiarl : : : : s. a. long.
""WEATJSJT?"
GBEAT EXC-ITEMENT IS GLES HOPE. PA
EVERYBODY DEEMS l'LBASED.
Ami Why Should They Not Be ?
f urely. the people in that section of Clearfield
county have great reason to be rejoiced over
the pleasing announcement that
JO XTlsT ROBSON
has just opened in his New Store Room, the larg.
mt and best selected stock of goods ever brought
to that part of the county of Cleurtield.
NEW STOKE AND NEW G00D3.
The undersigned having removed his store t i
his New Uuildiiig on Pine Street, tJlcn Hope, op
posite the "Union Ilou?e," isnow opening and of
luring to the public the largest ail best acleatod.
lock of seasunable goods ever offered in this
pla'.-e aid neighborhood, and will bo sold at pri
ces to suit the times.
His .Slock embraces Dry-Goods, Notions. Hard
ware, Queens-ware, Hoots, fchoes. Hats and Caps,
Heady made clothing. Paints. Oils. Glas., Nails.
Itnuun, Fish, Flour, Salt; Willow, Jilone and Ear-tlien-ware,
and cjtoves.
OF PKY-tiOOIlS. he hns Cloths. Cassimers. Sak
tinetts, Tweels, Vestings, Flannels. .Shirting.
Prints, Coburg cloth. Alpacas, l'e Lainus. (illin
ium!. Chintz Kerchief . Nubian, Sontagx. Nan
kin, Lawns, Linen, Lace Edgings, Collar, Iritn
u.ings, itraidx. Vails, eto. .
OF HARDWARE, he lias axes, saws, chisel,
knives and firks. locks, hinges, screwn, augers,
hammers, nails, spikes. Stoves of various pattern
aad sizes, flat irons, etc
OF GROCERIES, ho has coffee, sn'sr, irtolss
(e. teas, rice, pepper, cinamon, cloved, Flour,
ham. sides, shoulders, fifh, etc.
OF QUEENS WARE, he has tea :t?. cups an;
(aucers. cream ju 73, tea and coffee pots, pitchsrt
bowls, plates, dishes, etc.
OF CLOJItlNG. he has coats. paDts. ve.t. un
dershirts, shirts, drawers, neck-ties, giuves. socXa.
bats, caps, boots, shot.', etc
All the above, and numerous other articles. fo
sale chap for cash, or exchanged for all kinds
lumber and country produce
Remember, that Tarn receiving goods weekly
froiu Iialtimore. Philadelphia. New York and
Pittsburg, and that any goods enn be furnished
on very short notice.
IVI' and eiatLine tho goo.ls and prices nd sak
JM'v yojrsclves of the utility of buying t
JOHN KOIWOX'S.
(i!n Hope. Dwember 23. ISlill.
New Firm-New Goods.
HEAD! READ!! READ!!!
EOYFTON, SIIOWEuS AND GRAHAM.
CLEARFIELD, PA.,
Daie received their first supply of Seasonable
Goods.nbich they are now offering for sale at tho
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
Their toek consists of a genera! variety oi
lry-iioods. tirocerios, Hard-wart, Queens-waro,-Tiii
ware. Wil low-ware. Wooden-ware. Provisions,
llats. Cspi. Boots, .Shoes, ahd Clothing. Ac.
For the Ladies.
They would call especial attention to the large
ul good assortment of new styles and patterns of
LADIES DRS33 G33D5
now opening, consisting of Plain and Fancy Silks,
lvliiir.es. Alpacas. Ginghams, Duculs. Print3, M.
riuus. Cishmeres. Plaids. Brilliants. P.'plius. Vo
trg". Lawns. Nankins. Linen. Lace, Edgings, Col
rette. ".raids, Belts, Veils, Nets, Corsetts, Nu
tia. Ji.iuJs. Coats, Mantels. L'aimora! skirt, llo
itry. iJloves, Bonnets. Flowers, Plumes. Ribbons,
Hats. Trimmings. Buttons. Combs. Shawls, IJraid,
Muslins, Irish Linens, Cambrics, Victoria Lawns,
fwi;j. Robiuets, Mulls, Linen Handkerchief etc.
Of Men's Wear
Ti:ey hnre also received a large and well select
ed Stock, consisting of Cloths, Plain and Fancy
'"assiineres, Cashmerets. Tweeds. Jeans. Cordu
roys. I'.cver-Tet-n, Linens, Handkerchiefs. Neck
tiw, Hosiery. Gloves. Hats, Caps, Scarfs, etc., eto.
Ready-Made Clothing
the latest styles and of the best material,
"tisiing of Coats, Pants, Vests. Shawls. Over
U. Urawers, Cashmere and Linen Shirts, etc.
Of Boots and Shoes,
They have a large assortment for Ladies and Gen
Nfmen, consisting of Top Boots, Brogans, Pumps,
'aiters, Balmoral Boots, Slippers, Monroes, etc
Groceries and Provisions
Such as Coffee, Syrups, Sugar, Rice, Crackers,
'"gar. Candles. Cheese. Flour. Meal. Bt.con,
rih. coarse and fine Salt, Tea, Mustard, eto.
Coal Oil Lamps,
l'I oil. Lamp chimneys, Tinware a great varje
'J Japanware, Egg beuters. Spice boxes. Wire
Wels. Sieves, Dusting pans, Lanterns, etc, etc.
Carpets, Oil-cloth,
grooms. Brushes. Baskets, Washboards. Buckets,
Tk. Churns Wall-paper. Candle wick. Cotton
Jrn and Batting, Work baskets. Umbrellas, eto.
Rafting Ropes,
Bn. Axes, Chisels, Saws, Files, Hammers,
"atchets. Niils. Spikes. Gri .d stones, Stoneware.
Trunin. Carpet bag3, Powder, Shot, Lead, etc.
w . . School Eooks,
Writing Bnd Letter paper. Fancy note and com
ercial paper, pons, pencils and ink: copy books,
'itei.ink stands, fancy and common envelopes.
- Carriage Trimmings,
"Findings, Glass and Putty, Flat irons and
offee mills, Bed cords and Bed screws, Matches,
ore blacking. Washing soda and Soap, eto.
p Flavoring Extracts,
tetit Medicines, Perfumery of various kinds,
tj soaps, Oils. Paints. Varnishes, and in fact
i-'J'hirig usually kept in a first class Store.
uk ' 'nv''e all persons to call and examine their
' nd hope to give entire satisfaction.
BOYNTON, 6UOWER8 ttRAHAM
J'H'fie'd, P , Jnty 30th, 1864.
M'CLELLAiT AUD HIS SUPPORTERS.
The Doctrines whicli They Advocate.
Da the 2'Jtli and UOth August, "Demo
cratic" meetings, intended doubtless to give
tone and character to the Convention, were
held in the City of Chicago, at which orators
pave unrestrained vent to their opinions.
We make the following extracts from the
speeches delivered, as we find them reported
in a Western paper:
"lion." Mr. lleed of Indiana, said :
lie advised open and above-board resist
ance to the draft. If Lincoln and his sa
traps attempted to enforce it blood would
flow in our streets, and it would be right it
should flow. Lincoln was already damned
to all eternity, and he did not know if even
this iniquitous measure would materially af
fect the estimation in which the people held
him. lie had taken considerable pains to
inform himself of the opinion ot the people
in relation to this draft, and he found it al
together condemned. There was but one
opinion in this matter, and that was, if the
draft was not enforced, there would he peace.
Mr. Lincoln had tiied war for three years;,
he had slain our people by countless thou
sands, and blood enough had been shed to
float tho largest ship of war in the world,
lie said wo might as well make up our
minds to the fact that it was impossible to
whip the south. He advised his hearers to
sbont down those who would enforce the
drazt; to in.-i.-t upon tha right of the writ
of habeas corpus ; to resist to the bitter end
the attempt to make the military power su
perior to the civil, and to openly arm them
selves that they might be prepared for hor
rible contingencies."
Jlev. Prof. Johnston of Missouri said :
"1 want lo see peace with the rights of all
the citizens of this land restored. Is that
right? A voice "Yes, we want a peace
man for President. I)i.vvn with war men.'
If it shall be necessary in the settlement of
our difficulties to rdlow a few stars to forma
constellation by themselves, 1 think we can
be just as safe, just as well protected, and
just as free and happy under a Union of lie
publics as we have been under a Union of
.States. I want to-see this whole continent
bound together by a grand union of Ke
pt; blics."
31 r. C. Chauncey liarr said:
"You cannot have the face to ask the
Fiiuth to comeback into the Union until you
withdraw your marauding army. Is there
a man in the audience that wants to have
onc-h.tlf of the .States eouijucred and sub
jected': No. J When this is dune you have
ended the Government. Alter three years
of war. who atv conquered, you or the .Smith?
I say you are cutxitiered. You cannot con
quer the South, and 1 pray (iod you never
may.''
James S. jb.'llins of Missouri said :
'"1 love our Southern friends ; they are a
noble, a brave, ami a chivalrous people,
(cheers, I although they are trying to break
up the i rovcnimcnt ; and however much we
may bate them, wo must remember that
they are our countrymen, and cannot be sub
dued so long as we insist upon depriving
them of their ju.t rights. '
The lleverciid J. A. 3Ic3lastei said:
"'Show me a War J'tMiiocrat to-day, and I
will show you a shoddy Abolitionist in dis
guise. A man who is in favor of this un
natural war insults the ho:y name of J Autoc
racy when he claims a place in its organiza
tion. He is a Judas, and should be eatout
as an enemy to humanity and to God. Y ar,
and blood, and rapine, and murder, is the
legitimate business of the Lincoln minion.
We wash our hands clean ot ail participa
tion in it. Due we are told tiiat we must be
forced to cany arms in this unholy fight.
Soon the net is to be drawn that will gather
in its half million mure to feed the insatia
ble thirst for blood of the Negro God. Let
us demand a cessation of the sacrifice until
the people shall pronounce their great and
emphatic verdict for peace, aud let the ty
rant understand that the demand conies
from earnest men and must be respected.
We are often called the 'Unterrified., 1
trust you are. I hope that your nerves may
be of steei. for there is a day of trial com
ing, and you must meet it. There will be
Provost-Marshals who will sneak into your
family circles, and spy into your domestic
relations, and, perhaps cast you into an Ab
olition bastiie. Then I trust to find you 'un
terrilied' indeed. liet not the threats of
bayonets or greenbacks of tliis Heaven-cursed
Administration frighten you; but if you
arc to die, die us becomes meu, in a struggle
for your rights : live not as becomes slaves.
In the platform of the Convention to-morrow
we shall have embodied the glorious aud
sublime doctrine of peace."
"Hon." Mr. Curtis of New York said:
"I trust the day will never come when the
scenes witnessed in the Commonwealth of
Kentucky lie means refusing to let Kebels
aud Disunionist swamp Union ballot, boxes
with their votes will beenacted on this soil.
But, if that day should come, before God
and in the sight of Heaven, 1 would invoke
the aid of counter revolution. Loud cheers.
A people who submit to that degree of out
rage and tyranny which destroys the char
acter of their liberties, are not fitted to-live
and stand up as merr, but should he down
and die as slaves."
"Capt." Koonts of Pittsburg said:
"Lincoln was now played out the oppo
sition to him was going to be bold and pow
erful there must be no underhand work,
and 'if Democrats catch Lincoln's bj' sa
trap spies among, them, they must cut their
d d throats, that's all. Applause. It
is the duty of every American to vote for a
peace candidate. Shall more wives be made
widows, and more children fatherless, an I
greater hate be stirred up between children
of the tarn glorious Constitution ? If not,
we must put our foot on the tyrant's neck,
and destroy it. The Democratic government
must be raised to power, and Lincoln, with
his Cabinet of rogues, thieves and spies, be
driven to destruction. What shall we do
with him ? A voice 'Send him here, and
I'll make a coffin for him, d n hini.'J Yes.
d n him -and his miserable followers. I
should like to see the noble George IJ. 31c
Clellau as President, cheers, and that great
Domocrat, Horatio Seymour, should occupy
the position of Secretary of .State."
"Hon." 3Ir. Trainor of Ohio said :
"If you wish for peace, great, glorious
peace, vote for the nominee of the Demo
cratic Convention. Now the President has
called for 000,000 more. Shall he have
them? 'No, no,' from the audience. The
Democratic Party want peace; for if we
don't get it we will to submit to a military
despot. He would urge the people to be
freemen, and hurl Abraham Lincoln and his
minions from power. There is no difference
between a War Democrat and an Alxdition-i.-t.
They are both links in the same sau
saugc made out of the same dog. Should
resistance be offered at the polls to prevent
our suffrage, let that resistance he met with
resistance.'1
31 r. O. E. Perrino said :
"Let us say to these States, comeback
with all your rights and not say to them as
Abraham the first and Abraham the last
cheer.? J he said, that you can come back if
you will give upyoiir slaves. Cheers. We
have been told that the South had no re
sources, that tlu-ir soldiers are naked and
unfed. If ther light so well without any
thing to eat or wear, what in God's name
will become of us if tli03' ever get anything
to year and ert. Cheers. He said that
,Linco!ti already felt insecure, and that Mrs.
Lincoln made him sleep on the back side of
the bed again.-t the wall, for fear he would
be gobbled up. Cheers but Mrs. Davis
let Jeff, sleep on the fore side and run a
round loose. Laughter and renewed cheers.
We ask that the people shall bow down to
tho will of the people, and they have willed
that George U. 31cClellan shall be nomina
ted and elected. Immense cheers. Then
we believe, one by one. the stars will come
back upon our banner, and believe that that
concern at Washington wiil be buried."
Cheer. J
Isaiah Kyt'der? said:
'Ho had denounced the unholy crusade
against osir Southern brethren even before
the first regiment was moved Southward.
He saw the inevitable result of war the
waste, and blood aud tears it would entail,
and to this day he could say, and he said it
with pride, that he had never said one word
against the brave, the noble, the generous,
the chivalrous people rf the South, and he
trusted in God he never would. Nearly
half a million of these noble men had fallen
in bloody graves, but they remain imcon
qnered. j Cheers, j They can never be sub
dued, as they area part of our -own flesh and
blood, j Loud applau.io. J 3Jil!ions more of
men may be torn from their homes to fall in
tho fight, but the tak will fail, as it ought
to do. 'fhe war is carried on for the nigger,
and in God's name let the Abolitionists fi.- lit
it out. We .-hall nominate our candidate on
Monday, and place him squarely upon a
phirform of peace, ami sweep the nation like
a whirlwind. Those who count upon a di-vi-ion
of tit 1 'jiuocratic party will be disap
pointed. We are on-' and ah for peace, and
with this ma.uie word upon our banner we
sha!i sweep over the course, and roll into
oblivion the bhrck. negro-loving, ncgio-hug-ginir
worshippers ot old Abe Lincoln."
Hoik Benjamin Allen, of New York, said.:
"The people will soon rise, and if they
cannot put Liii'tolu out of power by the bal
lot they will by the bullet." Loud cheers.
D. H. 3Ialioney of l'ubuquc, Iowa, said:
"The aggression of the North, followed
persistently lor thirty years, compelled the
South to withdraw, much agaiusttheir will.
To get them back you must repudiate the
disgraceful treatment they received, aud
thrust from power the instruments of their
attempted degradation. We must elect our
candidate, and then holding out our hands
to the South, invite them to come and sit
again in our Union circle, j A voice 'Sup
pose they won t. come?' If they will not
come to us, t hen I am in favor of going to
them. Loud cheers. Our Constitution
c in be made acceptable to them, and then I
huve the assurance that they will return and
forget the past. You live in a day when
men and not pigmies are needed. These
are the times that try men's souls, and I
might add, that they will try their nerves.
I trust that the Democracy, which luis nev
er yet failed the country, will not falter now;
but remembering the cause for which their
fathers fought and died, be ready to emu
late their example.""-
Mr. Paine of Missouri said :
"We are tired of this war 'That's so.'
He came to represent the views of Missouri,
which were peace and the Union as it was.
They wanted no Lincoln conditions and
modifications of the Constitution, but would
say to our Southern brethren, 'We want
you to return and exercise the same rights
which you have been despoiled of, and which
the Constitution empowers you to possess.'
They would welcou e them back, as the fath
er of old did the prodigal son without re
serve. He was sorry to say that in this very
Convention, where they had met to promul
gate these doctrines, there were men who
wished to throw a firebrand into their midst
by ajfactious opposition to 3IcClellan. Such
men were false to Democracy, to their coun
try, and to their common humanity, and
were simply traitor. Did the people want
a draft? 'Not by a d d sight.' Then
they must upset the present government at
Washington. This dynasty had already
placed in the field 2.200.000 men to le oi
fered upon the altar of the negro, and now
it demanded 500,000 more. Jf these arc
given there will be no finality, but only a
prelude to fresh calls, all to elevate the fiat
nosed, wooly-headed, long-heeled cursed of
Uod and damned ot man descendants ct
Africa."
3Ir. George Sanderson of Philadelphia said:
"'It is for you, fellow-citizens, it is for the
white men of the North, to say, at the elec
tion in November next, to Abraham Lin
coln and his combined minions and satraps.
'Thus far has thou gone, but no farther shalt
thou go.' Great applause. We expect
to giye you, to-morrow, a candidate for the
Presidency a voice, 'For God's sake give us
a man who has had nothing to do with the
war' who will use his best efforts to bring
around a peace."
Hon. AY. W. O'Brien of Illinois said :
"Taking advantage of an unholy war,
they ride rough-shod over the rights of all.
It has snatched our sons from us to aid in
forcing upon us these galling wrongs. Ijet
us resolve here to-night that he shall have
no more white blood to prosecute this dam
nable war. But we have men w ho call them
selves War Democrats; men who for the
sake ot power or pelf, went into the busi
ness of murder, and soaking their hands in
fraternal blood, they hold them up to you,
all dripping in gore and say, 'Behold my loy
alty.' They are not Democrats they are
Abolitionists ; and this fall we will bury them
in the same crave with the Abolitionists, and
damn them to eternal infamy." Cheers.
Hiram Ketchum, Jr., of New York, said:
"We want peace. "We feel that this land
has sustained too much desolation ; we feel
that too much blood has been spilt: we feel
that too much treasure has been wasted on
both sides of the lino for us to continue this
struggle any longer if we can honorably pre
vent it. We want to elect a man who w ill
say to the South, 'Come back ; we will re
store to you every constitutional privilege,
every guaranty that you ever possessed;
3rour rights shall be no longer invaded ; we
will wipe out the emancipation proclama
tion : we will sweep away this confiscation
act. all that we ask of you is to come back
and live with us on the old terms. We are
both tired and weary, and want to live to
gether again. Applause,'
Ik-Gov. 3Iedary, of Ohio, says: "We
are asked by Democrats who is this Mr. Bel
mont, who seems to have a perpetual lease
upon the Democratic party? Jle is a fr
!) r, lives in the style of the European no
bility, and is put by the money mongers and
shoddy contractors of Wall-streelat the head
of the Democratic party to keep it. conser
vative." The soldiers and sailors of the Bepublic.
dead and living, sound and wounded, receiv
ed mention in the Democratic .State Convert-!
tion, which they may consider honorable to j
their bravery but not to their brains. For j
if anvof them, on shin or shore, beina es
pecially delighted by this compliment, should j
be icd to read tre other resolutions, it will
be to learn that this war, in which they are
engaged as volunteers, is an unjust and
cruel one, and that they are merely the in
struments of a tyrant and usurper his hire
lings, in fact with no motives higher than
those of pay and bounty. If the army was
full of conscripts, there would be no such
implied insult, in these reluctant and interes
ted praises; but, as it is, they read like the
bitterest ire ny.
The ease against Gen. MeClellan has sel
dom been more tersely summed up than by
gallant Col. Guiii3y. of the 3Ia3sach.usctts
yth, who declares his belief that MeClellan
aimed at nothing less than military dictator
ship. The evidence of it is in his "attempt
to uncover Washington in 1862; his hesita
tion after Pair Oaks; his attempt to in
cense his army against hisGovernment; liU
flagrant insult to the President of the Uni
ted States: hi contempt of orders from
Washington; his effort to make lu'mxdf,
separated from cause, country and Govern
ment, the idol of his men; and, alove all,
his refusal to merge himself in a thorough
antagonism to the foe." True, every word
of it. .
There is a rumor current to the effect that
M'Clellan will not vote for Pendleton, nor
Pendleton for M'Clellan. One is so une
quivocally for peace that he cannot support
a candidate who receives his pay from the
War Department, and the other, being
"The Soldier's Friend," can scarcely be ex
pected to endorse a man who has in every
way been the soldier's enemy.
The Bev. Bobert J. Breckinridge, last
week, beautifully defined a Kentucky Cop
perhead to be a man that 4 'had double grain
ed love for the nigger and a double-grained
hatred of the Government a" man - who
hates the Government because he loves ne
gro slaves better than his own soul." The
Kentucky 'critter' is surprisingly like the
Pennsylvania.
The Express warns its readers not to bet
on MeClellan. We extend the caution, and
entreat ours not to bet at all. Betting on
elections is immoral; it tempts to corruption
of the ballot-box ; it is forbidden in some
States by law. - We trust that no single bet
will be made on the pending Presidential
contest. The issues are too solemn too
momentous.
A Copperhead paper said on Saturday
last : "l"he first armistice has been asked by
General Sherman, and granted by Hood."
This is a mistako. Tbn first armistice was
asked for by Gen. Lee and grantd by Gen. j
iu vieiian, aner ine name ox auucuhi, un
der cover of which Lee escaped with his en
tire army across the Potomac.
The Chicago Convention declares that four
years have shown the experiment of war to
be a failure ; and yet two years of that war
was managed by their candidate. Perhaps
they think a man who did not fight will be
the approved nominee of the cowardly
friend of peace. A-hem !
SPEECH OF HOS. B. F. WADE.
FALSITY Oi" THE CHICAGO VLATFOBM UK
FEN" CE OF TUE WADE AND DAVIS MANI
FESTO Jilt, wade's POSITION.
On Saturday evening last, Senator Wade,
of Ohio, made an eloquent speech at 3Iead
ville, Pa. It is reported as follows in tlte
Cleveland Lender:
Fellow-Citizens: The occasion which
calls us here to-day is one of an importance
and significance almost unequalled among
objects ot human interest. The questions
which w e shad discuss to-day possess an in
terest far higher than those of usual party
politics. If, in former times, we made a
mistake in the selection of men or measures,
the error could be rectified after four years.
But an error now, in this crisis of our na
tional history, is fatal aud irreparable. Its
consequences are eternal. It wo fall, wo
fall forever.
I desire to examine one chief doctrine im
plied in the Chicago platform, and asserted
by that nest of infernal traitors who met
there, for I call things by their right names,
and they are a set of mean and cowardly trai
tors. If they took their principles into the
fight and battled for them I could respect
them, but I have nought but loathing for
such sneaking cowards. Cheers. Not a
man of them not eveu as they love trea
son will dare to jeopardize his personal
safety in behalf of it. They pretend to tell
the people for what purpose the war was
first prosecuted. 3IcCleliau says this war
was commenced to save the Union. Sir,
you know, or if you do not, you are a fool,
that this war was commenced by rebels and
commenced to destroy the Union. Ap
plause The rebels began this war long Lie
fore we raised a finger, and we ought to have
done it long before we did. We let them
go on in treason a long time before we tried
to coax them back. I am ashamed to say it
even now, and God knows if 1 had had the
shillelah in my own hands I would have
knocked the brains out of some of their
treasonable heads. Great applause, j Why,
this war was commenced by Jeff. Davis
himself, who telegraphed from his seat in
the Senate of the U. States to tho rebels at
Charleston to fire on Fort Sumpter. And
they did it. And they captured our forts
and arsenals, our mints and our men, and
fired on our flag. Aud still the Democrats
these miserable sneaks of Peace men
said: "You can' t light, you can't coerce a
State, you must just lie down and take it."
"That's so," Laughter and applause-
That was the declaration of that miserable
imbecile, James Buchanan. Glorious old
Pennsylvania, you whose soldiers have gone
forth so promptly and well, and have done
you such glory, I call upon you to reverse
that declaration. Applause, and cries of
"We'll do it." Yes, do it with a strong
arm! 1 was in the Senate when these things
were being done, and I speak of what 1
know. I listened to the taunts of Southern
Senators until my blood boiled.
Let me here point out the actual com
mencement of the war, for I want to prove
to you that we are right in theirs. Why,
then, do you talk of our position, for I stand
on the rock of eternal justice, and if I step
off it in either direction I shall fall, and I
ought to fall. Cheers. As the little schoon
er Star ot the West came into Charleston
harbor, freighted with food for the garrison
of Fort Sumpter, they fired upon her up
on the stars and stripes which she floated
and forced her back. Had any body raised
aji arm before this against these infernal
traitors? Had it not been all peace on our
side and war by them on the Government
before being assailed ? Why, Senator Wig
fall, ot Texas, said in the Senate, before a
set of Northern slinks whieh sat there : " '3Ir.
President, we have insulted your flag. We
have fired upon the Star of the West, and
forced her to show her heels, and you dare
not remt V" Now, Northern Copperheads,
take that- and get down on your knees.
Great applause drowned the rest of the sen
tence If you have no principle, have you
no pride? Are all of the American people
slaves and cowards? And yet here w the
Chicago Convention down on its belly aud
begging for peace.
3Ir. Wade proceeded further in this
straio, and then spoke about the manifest.).
But I see stuck up all over town, and even
nailed on this very platform, a certain docu
ment put forth by 31 r. Davis and myself.
J ant told that it was posted by Democrats..
Well, I am glad to see it. Thank God tLat
they'll believe part of the truth. Laugh
ter. They've made me their own witness
now, and it is an old principle of law that
they cannot dispute my testimony. Cheers
and laughter. if they believe w hat I said
about Lincoln, let them believe what l am
about to say of MeClellan.. Isn't that fair?
I shall not deceive you in either case that's
not my vocation. I never suppress the
truth because it may injure me to tell it.
Let us see how this document came to be
issued. The President vetoed an act whieh
Congress had passed. He had a perfect
constitutional right to do so. .But he went
further, and issued a proclamation appeal
ing to the people in support of his position.
In doing so he cast an imputation -on 3Ir.
Davis and myself, who were iu a measure
instrumental in preparing the bill. He put
foward his side ot the question, and whoev
er does that I shall meet him. Be he Pres
ident, King, or peasant, I shall put forth
my side too. applause.
3Ir. Wads proceeded to discuss 3IcClel
lan's record from the time he took command
until the close of his military career, show
ing that feebleness, insubordination, timid
ity, and bluiideringwere its chief character
ist ics. He closed thus :
"I have but lately visited our army. I
have been through its lines. I have talked
with its officers. I have learned from them
some of thejplans now on foot. Of these I
am n ot permitted to speak, but I can tell
you one thing treason is played out, and
jou'll hear thunder along our line long be
fore the Presidential election. Prolonged
Cheers.
"Aud now, in closing, let meexort you to
go home as missionaries. Let every man
devote himself to work for the Union cause,
and the greatest triumph ever awarded to a
nation will be yours, the country's, and
mine."
VISIT TO THE PRESIDENT.
The Grant County (Wisconsin) Herald
contains a letter from John 3Iills, Judge of
the Fifth Judicial Circuit, giving an account
of a recent interview w ith 3Ir. Lincoln, with
a report of the remarks of the latter in re
gard to th consequences which would fol
low the adoption of the war policv urged by
the friends of Gen. G. B. 31 Cicllan. We
quote from the Judge.
"3Ir. PresidentTTaid Ex-Gov. Randall,
"why can't you seek seclusion, and play her
mit tor a fortnight? it would le-iuvigorate
you." -
"Ay," Paid the President, "but two or
three weeks would dome uo good. lean
mjt fly from my thoughts my solicitude for
this great country follows me wherever I go.
1 don't think it is personal vanity or ambi
tion, though 1 am not. free from these infir
mities, but I cannot but foci that the weal
or woo of this great nation will be decided
in November. There is no programme of
fered by any win gof the Democratic party
but that must result in the permanent des
truction of the Union."
"But, 3Ir. President, Gen. MX'lcllan is in
favor of crushing out tho relielliou by force.
He will be the Chicago candidate."
"Sir," said the President, "the slightest
knowledge of arithmetic will prove to any
man that the llclxl armies can not be des
troyed with Democratic strategy. It would
s; crifice all the white meu of the North to
do it. There are now in the service of the
United States near two hundred thousand
able-bodied colored men, most of them un
der arms, defending aud acquiring Uniou
territory. The Democratic strategy demands
that these be disbanded, and that the mas
ters be conciliated by restoring them to slave
ry. The black men who now assist Union
prisoners to escape, are to be converted into
our enemies, in the vain hore of gaining the
good will of their masters. We shall have
to fight two nations instead of one. You can
not conciliate the South, if yon jrurrantee to
them ultimate success ; and the experience
of the present war proves their success is in
evitable if you fling the compulsory labor of
million of men on their side of the scale.
Will you give cur euemies such military ad-
vantages as to insure success, and then de
pend on coaxing, flattery, and concession to
got them back into the Union? Abandon
all the posts now garrisoned by black men,
take two hundred thousand men from our
side and put them in the battle-field or corn
fieid against us, and we would be compt-lled
to abandon the war in three weeks. We
have to hold territory in inclement and sick
ly places ; where are the Democrats to do
this? It was a free fight, and the field wa9
open to the War Democrats to put down
this rebellion by fighting against both mas
ter and slave, long before the present policy
was inaugurated. There have been meu
base enough to propose to me to return to
siavery the black warriors tf Port Hudson
and Olustce, and thus win the respect
of the masters they fought. Should
I do so, I should deserve to be damned in
time and eternity. Come what will, I wdl
keep my faith with friend and foe. 3Iy en
emies pretend I am now carrying on this
war for the sole purpose of abolition. So
long as 1 am 1 'resident, it shall le carried
on for the sole purpose of restoring the U
nion. But no human power can subdue
this rebellion without the use of the eman
cipation policy, and every other policy cal
culate to weaken the moral and physical
forces of the rebellion. Freedom has given
us two hundred thousand men raised ou
Southern soil. It will give us more yet.
Just so much it has subtracted from the en
emy, and, instead of alienating the South,
there are now evidences of a f raternal feel
ing growing up between our men and the
rank and file of the rebel soldiers. Let my
enemies prove to the country that the des
truction of slavery is not necessary to a res
toration of the Union. I will abide the
issue."
I saw that the President was not a mere
joker, but a man of deep convictions, of a
biding faith in justice. truth and Providence.
His voice was pleasant, his mariner earnest
and emphatic. As he warmed with his
theme, his mind grew to the magnitude of"
his body. I felt I was in the presence of
the great guiding intellect of the age, and
that those huge Atlautean shoulders were
fit to "bear the weight of mightiest monar
chies." His transparent honesty, republi
can simplicity, his gushing sympathy for
those who offered their lives for the country,
his utter forgetfulness of self inhis concern
for its welfare, could not but inspire me with
confidence that he was Heaven's instrument
to conduct his people through this sea of
blood to a Canaan of peace and freedom."
Said a Democrat, conversing with an ar
dent Union man, "If disaster to our armies
is necessary to the election of MeClellan tJun
welcome disaster "
These atrocious-sentiments are becoming
more and more common among the follow
ers of Pendleton and MeClellan. They are
the natural offspring of the Chicago Plat
form. ' ' ,
A contemporary intimates that Pendleton
the Cincinnati attorney, now mentioned in
connection . with the A' ice Presidency, has
"refused to sign the war-letter prepared for
him. ' ' This is natural. Because 31' Chilian
becomes the partner in a great political
swindle it is no reason that Attorney Pen
dleton should do likewise.
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