VOLUME I. "Our Country Yet Komains." A»lirrrh . them ) In appearing before you, alter four joars of silence and three years of perils and suffering, in defence of our country, I •would do great injustice to my feelings, if I did not express my sincere thanks to our Creator and preserver for this (avor. We all have in this short period beeu brought to mourn the suffering and death of beloved friends, slain by the hands of traitors, upon the altar of constitutional human liberty, And to-day. a christian sympathy fur the cause for which they have given their all. as well as a deepAoli tude for those who have goue to bear their 1 bosom to the sacrifice, has brought us here today. Let us not forget them for a moment, hut while they stan l at t.u guns, let them have our prayers, and let our cry be, "Don't give up the Ship."-- ] jo tus say to them today. while we walk in our jieaeaful streets, surrounded by all ; the blessings of a republican government. I that we are not unmindful ot these who . walk antid the thunderbolts oi treason, to defend the flt» ' is the great est indignity, the me.iiie-t insult lever! knew offered -> an American -oldicr; It any soldier can swallow it and vote the Democratic ticket, he is unworthy to wear the un form, and deserves to be a slave forever ; but knowing a soldier , spirit, I can assure vou there will not be one foui.d, the soMicr will givehis rote. where he gi\es his life, for /><• country. The Copper head party knew this, and therefore, they opposed his voting, Great God!! think of it.the man who gives his liles blood for his country, shall not enjoy its privi lege*. But all these things show tho alli nity between our enemies, north ami south, and brings the struggle more dofi nto v before us. It is time that all under stood it. 1 have not the anxiety in addressing vou, I had four or eight years ago. Then i saw the steady silent approach of the enemy, while a deep sleep brooded over the nation, but now worn down by watch ing and care, I can lie down t« rest with the satisfaction of knowing that the re public is awake, never again to slumber BO long, as treason is hid in Democracy. TREASON. By the term treason, I do not mean such treason as Washington against the crown of England, or Gen. Grant, or Dul ler. against the Democratic party, but such treason as Jefferson Davis and Valandigham against Constitutional Lib erty, The greatest crime known to earth, and the most damning to those who sym pathize with it. If, when Admiral Farragut had Fort Morgan Surrounded, by sea and land, he had sent word to Gen Page, informing }iim that he was surrounded by five times iJiis number, both by soa and land, that it was impassible for him to make his cs £apCj and uselessrfor him to resist, but tie A tied not surrender , for he would have an cessation of hostilities," 1 wouM"bave called him a traitor. Hut when these I uited StaUis have this rebellion surrounded by sea and land, with five to one. we the commerce of the world them blockaded, we shipping mil lion* of bushels of grain to Europe, they almost iu faiwiue, and a mau calling him self the nominee of the Democratic party for word to these rebels, that they need not surrender, that he will be iu power, and he will order an immediate cessation of hostilities; I leu\e AMERICAN CITIZEN. you to say by what term he deserves to bo known. WAR. Hut two calamities greater than war, can befall a nation. By the present war. we hope to he preserved from both, first from secession which is death, and sec ond from slavery which leads to barbar ism. and is worse than death. We arc told this is a cruel war, how could it be otherwise? Could you expect a war wa ged for the extension of a barbarous in stitution. to be Other than a barbarous war? Vet in justice wo sec the burden of the calamity fall where it belongs. The crack of tho slave drivers whip, anil the voice of the auctioneer have died away in tho sound of freed mis cannon. The chattle has received a musket for his chains, and for the cries of the whipping post, we have tho cries of victory. The barbarism of the Cavalier has cost him his life. The ravages of' war have made tho plantation a desolate plain, a family reared m luxury and indolence and left in want, beg a few hard tack from a color rd soldier to sustain life. How hard, and yei how just. — Now listen to what Abra ham Lincoln said in his inaugural address. In peaking to these people, he said,' em) have no icttr with this government un less you arc yourselves th aggressors. They became tho aggressors and the re sponsibility is with them. But th ire are smi • wh i say this is an ■' Abolition war." Well this is so just as the Ram Tciinosseo is now a Ciiion ves sel. The rebels built her at a great es peiise. armed her. ami plated her for the purpose of destroying our fleet, but now she is captured an lis a formidable I nion gunboat. '1 he rebels built, this war, and one of their be it, gunboats was the bam .Shivery, she drifted over to us and wc have re-fitted her. Putin engines of lie •- dom and now she is one of the best gun boats wo have got. All I have to say is, if any man is not in favor of aucA'aboli tion ho is no I'uion nihil, and cousequent ly must be a traitor. It has already become a historical fact that a war waged for the extension of slavery in this country has resulted in its abolition, some arc not pleased with this part of our national history and they blame the Abolitionists. 1 hey never could have done it—some blame the Re publicans, but they do us too much honor. Sotn. 1 blame Abraham Lincoln, but, the true author of sfl great a rulumity is to be found iu hiiu who died that all might bo free. V.N ION. When I was n boy, I heard the I'nion was in danger, but 1 believe it is stron ger to-dav than it was then, because tho ties that bind us together remain the same, and the institution that sought to divide us i- practically dyad, but the fact is, this I'nion is now being fought for. your sons, your brothers, your fathers, are fighting nobly and these same men who then cried tho I'nion is in danger, now cry "cease firing" thcrefoic I have become suspic ious of these I nion savers. Non know your merchants here to be solvent, but if you would sec advertisements upon the streets, that they verc solvent, that mo ment you would become suspicious. In reading Lincoln's letter of acceptance. I do not find the word Uuiouonce, but Mc- Clcllan used it fifteen times and I became suspicious, but had he used it fifteen hun dred times ycu could not have made any sensible man believe but the Chicago Platform meant, if the South would con descend to live with us. we would be their slaves, but if not, wc would build them as good a house as we could on one half of Cnclc Sam's farm, for they had always been very good brethren, and we did very wrong to fire ou them first at Fort Sum ter. When a man tells n:c lie is in favor of this Union, and in the next breath tells me he is opposed to fighting for it, l tell him he is a liar and the truth is not in him. Did you ever know a man own a farm as large as Virginia or Georgia and you goto take it from him. and he would ent fight for it. But have not the lead ers of the Democracy told us a thousand times, that these States did not belong to us, that they had a right to secede and we had no right to coerce tliem? These arc the men who would have you believe, that cowardice will bring victory, and that, dishonor, disunion. anarchy, and eternal ruin aro preferable to a noble war for the Government of your sires. Voters of Pennsylvania remember, our brethren slain upon every battle field, aud let no cowardly act of yours dishonor the cause for which tliay died. The responsibility is with us. Let us show to traitors iu this, the hour of our nations jieril that we arc really tho Keystone >State. \Y e have the coal, the oil, the Iron—the power, the light, aud the sinew; we will givo the power to free labor, the light to free thought, and the sinew to the Union of "Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our -My as we understand it"— A - LINCOLN. BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 18(U. these Shites. A c have brothers slain up on every battle field of this Union, they died for this cmintny, and we will never consent to visit their remains ill a foreign Itnd. They died for freedom, and we will not sec them slumber beneath the tread of a shin. They died like true soldiers, and we Will not disgrace their graves by a cowardly compromise with the traitors who murdered them. No! The Keystone State stands by the 1 nion, and when she falls, if fall she must, it shall be amid the ruins not of eleven but of thirty-four States. Bf, AVERT. I am aware it is no longer necessary, to prove slavery the hinge of this great con flict, but iu times gone by. I have of ten strove to convince the people of this fact, when many were so patriotic, they could see nothing but " The Union" and " Tho Mag" and so blind they could not see the enemy of both. While address iug a crowd at the first, of this war to raise volunteers I said. " This was but the means to the cud, which would be free dom." I wan interrupted by one of these men who declared his eternal hatred to abolitionism. I pitied bis weakness, but so long as lie would volunteer I was satis (ie I- Two years rolled round, and I saw this man a wounded abolitionist fighting for the emancipation proclamation. But I only grieve to-day for the One Hund red Thousand, bravo men wo sacrificed in the commencement, to find union in shivery, when the fact is, it contains no U. no, N. no, I. noO. 110 not one letter, aud what is more significant not no element of union. It is iu intelligence, rirtiii and Christianity , that wc arc to look for uuion, not iu tho ignorance, licentiousness and barbarism of slavery—slavery striving to break up this republican government for thirty years. All the leaders of the rebellion and slaveholders. All tho Slave States out, or trying to get out of the uiiiou. Au organised rebel government, with slavery for its corner stone, seeking to destroy us, aud yet One Hundred Thou sand nicii had to die to prove the destruc tion of slavery a military necessity I am not blaming Abraham Lincoln for this, but public opinion, which is and ever must be king in a llepublicau Government. But you ask can I talk of nothing but sla very ? Why could the nation talk of nothing else for the last forty years? Vou can not march on with your Pacific Rail road. in your strugg'o for wealth and greatness, while the groans of the slave cry to heaven against you. Slavery is the hinge of this rebellion—cut loose the hinge and the platform of rebellion drops, and those who stand upoc it are suspen ded between a hell they have merited, and an earth they have eu.sed. I have seen hundreds of slaves with straight hair blue eyes ; fair complexion, some as white as any man here. Now is this enslaving, the black or the white race? Vou call us a negro loving party, hut when the Southern Democrat makes his negro-wench the mother of his child ren and then marks, brands, whips aud sells them, that may be negro loving, but it is the degradation of the .Democratic party. lam constantly reminded of the fact that I am talking to a professedly christian people; and I would have you to remember that there is always a connec tion between our- sins and our sufferings, when you arc called upon to behold, the great suffering of our nation. I would have you to remember our sins are great —for 240 years we have practiced this iniquity, you held no slaves you say, ves you did. What sepcratcsyour State from Maryland ? A simple line such as sep erates your farm from your neighbors. It was not tho line held tho slave there. It wa3 the oath you had registered in the Constitution that if ho crossed it you would return liiiu to his master. Wc could not violate it, and wc could not get it changed, but " lie whom tho gods would destroy, ho first tuaketh mad." The slave master levied war against the Constitution, and forfeited his right under it, and thus is wiped out in the blood of the nation, the siu that has so long cried to heaven against us. Well did Jefferson say, " I tremble for my country when I remember that God tsjust. It is estimated that during the existence of slavery more than sorty mil lions of the sons of Africa, have been brought to tho shores of the new tforld and sold into bondage. At lcastr one-half pefiSl in the passage, think of this, from the waves of the mighty deep,forty mill ion victims cry ujrlinst the defenders of this institution. But of tho eighty millions brought from the shores of Africa only ten millions now survive, think of this, seventy milliou victims have been of fered on the alter of this institution in America. Vet this is the institution which the Democratic party seek to take into their arms as a new bond of union after it has cost us half a million of lives and two thousand million in treasure; and again I say to you Democrats, and lovers of slavery. Let these jirnple got ! Already they have cost the first born of every household and will you not bo content until we are all swallowed up in the Red ,V. ,i of God's just punishment. A hun dred years hence when you and I are for gotten, the student of history will read of slavery, of the slave trade, of the bar barities of both, of compromises, and broken compromises,of the national sin of slavery, and when he opens tho last book and reads of the cruelty and suffering of tho many years of war through which this nation had to pass —he will not curse Abraham Lincoln, nor the Republican, party but he will lift up his eyes to heav and, say O, God! Thou art just. THE NEGRO. There are those among us, who pre tend to justify their course toward the Negro, by saying, or more generally by insinuating, that tho Negro has no soul. That he is a species of the Monkey tribe, icc. Now arguing this question political ly, it makes no difference whether ho has a soul or not, we know he has a big foot, which has cursed every soil upon which he has trodden, especially when that foot wore a chain; to keep our fair territories from being thus cursed, was the. purpose of tho Republican party, and bow suc cessful has she been? Kansas free, all our territories free, Maryland tree, Missouri free, and slavery only living in the for tunes of the Democratic party. But to those who, when they can defend their curse by no other argument, begin to in sinuate that the Negro has no soul, 1 would say, there are thousands of Ne groes more intelligent, more virtuous, aud more religious than yourself, then your soul uiust exist exclusively iu your white skin, aud such 1 believe to be tho case, lbr such men seldom have common sense. But man is the only religious ani mal, and the Negro is very religious, na turally more so than Copperheads. Not withstanding the opposition to the negro ou this score, I find these men think that the negro will do as a substitute for all the soul they have, when the draft comes off, and I believe they have full more soul for their country than Copperheads have. I have seen the negro fight, I have seen him wounded iu battle, but I never heard liiui cry for a "cessation of hostilities, but for "Fort Pillow" often. The negro lias soul enough to fight for his liberties, and soul enough to know that (jod uiauc him to be free. I find some here so ignorant that they think we take the masters ne groes just as wc take his horses, this is not so. I have seen several thousand contra bands takcu, but never did I see otic ei ther compel cd or influenced to leave his master, when we goon a Cavalry raid, we spread great consternation through the country. The master and his family have always taught the negro that we had horns, and that we lived on black meat, and if we got them, wc would eat them, 'lhcy get the news of our ap proach a short tinfc before we arrive. Sometimes the master (if not in the ar my) takes his gun and goes to join some guerilla party. The overseer takes the most valuable of the slaves toward some place of safety; others are sent to liide the horses, mules ifcc. in tho woods, often he has hid tho horses, in curiosity he crawls to the edge of the woods to watch the approach of the Yankees—as the first goes by he lies low, he says, they don't look like our people, but I see they have no horns, and I don't believe they live on black meat. I had a dream, that wc is all a going to be free, and I believe the time hab com; ■•od bless me I'll risk it anyhow, and out lie comes. The Yan kees ask h in if there arc any Johnies about there (and it is from the negro in such cases we get all our reliable infor mation, and often 1 have seen him ride with our Generals, and guide them on the road) but the negro who hid the horses, has guided some of our men to the place, some of the negroes taken away by the ove. scer, have got away and are uow com ing in, they all aro talking and shouting, aud blessing God the day of their delib erancc hab come. All of massas horses and mules aro hunted up, the jubilee clothes are puton, they have no valuables to pick up, but in less than half an hour from the time they saw the first \ankee, every one that can get anything to ride is mounted. I have seen three on one horse, sonic aro so old flmt they can t walk, but all that are able, resolve to follow, and off they start. Ask them where they are going, and they will tell you, "going to be free, "going with you's all!" "Bless God I always prayed that •youn's all might whip." "1 bless God," 1 knew he would make us free some time. See the move of those ou foot, 'tis not the sluggish mo tion of a slave, but the march of freedom, 'tis a ludicruons sight, but to see those souls, young and old, male and female. on their march tofreedom, born in chains, now rejoicing in liberty, you may call it .Military Necessity, Emancipation or Abo lition, it is a scene over which Angels might weep for joy. In Maryland and Virginia, you will find some free negroes, and always in circumstances that will compare favorably with the poor whites It is a perversion of facts to say the ne gro is incapable of taking care of him self, and will become nvagratft if set free. The negro has always been accustomed to labor, although he never got the laborers hire, the only class we have to fear will become a nuisance is the chivalry who never did work, and the officers of our army who have forgotten how. I knew a negro in Montgomery county, Md. who paid twelve hundred dollars lor him telf, and five hundred for his wife, has sent three sons to the army, and is the owner of n small farm, lives in freedom and is now preaching a free gospel, it would do Democrats good to listen to?— Well, two hundred thousand of these ne groes who were once slaves, arc now in the government employ, (/tie bundled thou sand armed. This Gen. M'Clelian aud the Democratic party says is wrong, and they proposed to disarm them, aud return them to slavery. McClellan condemns the Emancipation policy in his letter of acceptance, and now we must have a ccsa tion of hostilities, that you may say to them ; take off these belts, lay down these arms, put on these charms, go back to your master. lam aware you are pro fessedly a christian people, and as such you ought to be able to pray for anything you are able to vote for. Now if you will appoint a day, I will come to hear you pray after thiswise: "(), Lord, hear us, one hundred thousand black men fighting for our I'uion,(they have left their chains aud are fighting to protect us from a bar barous fee ) 01 Lord, we pray thee to grant, that these men may be speedily dis armed. andagain made to n ear theircAnms, and <), Lord, enable their masters to pun ish them effectually for having left their chains; all this we would ask for the sake of lliui who died that all might be FREE! Whenever you can endorse this prayer as a christian, you can vote for M'Clelian. For my part, I believe the negro is a man, with a black skin and a soul, and a right to himself, and that God will punish any nation which deprives him of that right. I further belicvd that the negro was stolen from the coast of Afri ca, and we owe them transportation as a race, to their native land. I believe they have a right ty vote, and hold office, and enjoy all the privileges of a republican government, but in a country exclusively their own. COMPROMISE. We are told by the Democracy, that the times demand conciliation and com promise, that the Constitution was framed in this way, and therefore we should be come half traitors and compromise with treason —this may not be much of a down fall for Democrats, but it is more humilia tion than we can ever sec. True our forefathers compromised with slavery,and to-day we sec its fruits in all tho miseries by which we are surrounded. Can you point to any example in history where the Compromise of the right has finally been productive of good ? First we gave a license of twenty years to the slave trade, gave a representation to the slaveholder for all the Africans he could steal, and agreed if they ran off we would return them—still the nation carefully guarded her territories against this institution,but encouraged by privileges gained by form er compromises, she received for her threats a compromise in 1820 which gave Missouri to slavery. In 1830 she gained by compromise, seven counties more add ed to Missouri. In 1851 you compromis ed yourselves out of the compromise line of 1820, and received instead Squatter Sovereignty. In 1850 you formed a Squatters Sovereignty Platform at Cin cinnati, and on this thchermit of Wheat land sat during the incubation of this re bellion. Vou went to Charleston in 1860, thought you would have nothing to do but nominate Stephen A. ljouglass, but you found the monster which for 10 years you had given link after link still demand ed another. Squatter Sovereignty was no longer solid ground for slavery, it de manded you to say that a territorial legis lature had no right to exclude slavery from a territory, this you refused to do, yes, the Northern Democracy, for once refused to compromise. They took, the Si juattcr Sovereignty, principle. The Re publicans that freedom was tho normal condition of the territories, and the slave power demanded protection. With our three respective platforms, and candidates wo went befole the people. Abraham Lincoln was Constitutionally elected, and the Republican platform was declared the I policy of this nation. Was there any ! thing wrong about this? The government mlmiriistoreil hy tliis policy, hits grappled with this fiendish rebellion encouraged und strengthened as it washy thefe com promises of 40 years. We have made no compromise, but in this short space of time freedom has gained, nil of the terri tories. Missouri, Maryland, Tennessee, and planted her banner in every State in tho I nion. Is there anything wrong about this? Certainly under such cir numstances there is only one name forthe spirit that cries compromise, and that is, treason, and again I say treason to liberty. We have a rebellion now tho his tori/ of which is compromise —conceived ami brought forth in compromise, and now a party which held power so long, by these compromiser, seek another lease of power by tho humiliation of tho national honor, and tell you can have peace, by bringing back that flag of the Union, which your brave soldiers have carried over the dead bodies of friend and foe. through Fort I lonaldson. Murfrecsborough, Vicksburg, I'ort Hudson, Chattanooga, the clouds ol Lookout Mountain, and planted in the goographical centre of (his rebellion, bring back this flag, and send back the one hundred thousand armed slaves to their masters, give Rebels the Mississippi river, the Weldon Railroad and Arlington Heights and they will "tell you " this is the ('t>lif:ileral< States t>f A ill* rieu." | tell you once for nil, tho compromise pro posed is treason and its end is the dit is inii find(/' strut !ion of tliis ion/>tr j. Com promise with traitors is trrnson. l ls life so sweet or peaeo so dear as to be pur chased at (lie expense of, trrason?" As good citizens you have an oath in heaven to defeud this government, and now it is assailed, but you are five to one of your enemies, and is compromise with treason, is treason itself the best defence you can make? Khali cowardice load to pur jury'.' The honorable position nj the Republi can party is, " no compromise with trait ors." Will you sustain it, I have seen your brethren die upon the field of battle, but no one did [ ever hear breathe tho breath of compromise, or curse Abraham Lincoln. A kind word for dear friends, a prayer fur their country, a curs/ for traitors, a groan of agony and all is well. They could die in glory, shall we compro mise in shame? At the battle of Fred ericksburg a boy was. wounded and died on the field where no one could reach him, but his last act was to write on a piece of paper "please tell my father I died for my country." I wrote to his father in .N. Y. and received an answer with many thanks, saying "he was my only son but I am happy to know he died for his country." Will that father compromise? You and I must soon die,would you not rather like this young man, receive the shafts of op pression and treason iu your bosom and die a ylorions death, leaving a free coun try to posterity, than to die a miserable cowardly death here at home voting, for "peace, compromise, cesation of hostili ties," and the Democratic parly. PLATFORM. I wish to ask the Democracy and the slave what they have done with Cuba, that was to be " obtained at the earliest possible convenience Ah ; how .things have changed. They would be well satisfied to-day if they could secure Virginia to slavery. Well may the tho't of Cuba and James Hucannan bring, the blush of shame to the cheek of every Democrat. Some of you will remember when I told you in 50, " if you voted fur ■lames Bucaiwan, the time would come when the blush of shame would tinge your cheek asyonr prattling babes would ask you if you voted for this man." Rut four years had not elaapod, until our na tion was dressed in shame that has not yet been wiped out, although it has cost the blood of half a million. Will you heed the lemons of the p!ist and hearken to my voice. Had you taken my advice in 50. you could have saved this rebellion —you cculd have raved your brother's life—you could have saved the 8800,00 you paid for that substitute—you all could have saved the.blood of the nation—but to-day. I can offer you no such chance, I cifn only say "YOUR COI.NTRV YKT RE MAINS." (And if you will allow me to add) "by that dread name we wave the sword on high, and swear for her to live for her to die," then wo can preserve and perpetuate it. If not, you are a cowardly traitor, I repeat it you area traitor. Our j country to-day knows no third party. She | is Struggling for existence, you must be 1 either for or against her. | Rut let us compare tho Platforms of the two parties, the party in favor of the | (Jo.vernmej.it says. " Laying aside all ' difference of opinions, we pledge ourselves to do everything in our power to aid the Government in quelling by force of arms this rebellion new raging against its au thority," this is the language of loyalty, i The party opposed to the Government I says, " This war having failed for four NUMBER 48 years, wo demand an immediate cessation of hostilities,a Convention with the States in rebellion, and peace by compromise"— this is the language of treason. The torics iu tho revolution after four years, sung the same gong, hut Washington fought them, three years more, and es tablished this Governmont, are not our liberties worth the price paid lor them SO yeara ago. The Chicago Platform commences "in the future as in the past we will adhere to the Union under the Constitution." forgetting that the South have thrown off the Constitution, all the I nion we have with them now is through Grant, and Sherman, and this the Itemo erats wants to cut loose. A traveler left an Irishman to " hold his bridle" while he eat supper, while be wasgone the Irish man fell asleep, the horse slipped the bri dle and ran off, when tho traveler canio lack, the lri-hiuan wanted a quarter. H hero is my horse '! Troth and 1 don't know. \\ ell why don t you bunt him uj r what arc you doing here. Please your honor I'm "holdingon to the bridle" I want a quarter. So with the Democratic party, ask them where the Union is they will tell you " 1 don't kn w." What are you doing here why are you not out in Georgia or Virginia looking for it ? Please your honor Fin holding onto tho Consti tution. Just as if the rebels would come back and with their own bands put on the bridle of the Constitution, this they will never do, the fact is James Ifucnnnan fell asleep and tho horses broke loose. Wo have caught Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee, Lousiana anil we are alter the rest, if you come along we will soon have them all. No, I won't do it. I'll set here, curse Abe Lincoln, vote tl«; Democratic tickcn,and "hold onto the bridle." \\ i!l you give that man a quar ter of a vote. Hut nerved to a more vig orous exertion, by a lust for power, (they want to ride again) they take the bridle in one hand, and the salt of slavery in the other, and go after the horse in the direc tion of Canada, when they get to Chica go, they stretch out the hand and cry, Peace! Peace!! Peace!!! Rut the wily horse Jeff, says: " I see Sherman dow here with the bridle; I can't come to lick out of your hand until you call him back— then they cry,, "an immediate cessation of hostilities." "Sherman come back," " come back" but Sherman won't come back until lie fetches the horse Jeff, with him, then wc will bridle up as before, ex cept Poor Jcffy, tlii arolton cord you have broken so much we wili throw away, and try a piece of lamp. Diil you ever read the history of tho Chicago Convention? Was it not a con clave of traitors, governed by such spir its as Vallandighatn, Vorhees Powell, Ac. Did they not adjourn with an insinuating threat to meet again before the -Ith of March next? Did they not threaten and council opposition by every means in their power to the government iu Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky, because in these States a man has to swear ho is not a reb el before he is allowed to vote. Who made the motion to make tho nomination of McClellan unanimous? Vallandigham. Who was chairman of the Platform Com mittee ? Vallandigham. Did they not pass a resolution requiring of Oca. Mc- Cleilan as his Drst jet, "to liberate the traitors confined in Louisville?" Who prayed at the Chicago Convention? The Ros-slavery Rishop Hopkins all the way from Vermont, the only .Minister of the gospel in Vermont that would do it. He prayed powerfully for the Lord to help them, and about that time they did get quite a hoist down at Atlanta. M'c hF.I.LAX. Al' the Chicago Platform lacked, was an appology to Jeff. Davis, this we have in M'Clcllans lettcrofacceptance,in which he says:"The preservation of the Union was the solo object for which the war was commenced. It should have been con ducted for that object only." Davis, we have done very wrong, wc should not have permitted tho negroes who raised your corn and your breast works, to como over and bear arms for us, now you are nearly starving, I am sorry to see it; I never favored it, and I will send them all back; in the meantime be of good cheer, and don't surrender but dodge as well as you can, you shan't be shelled any after the 4th of March next. I will declare an " immediate cessation, of hostilities." Thus the very name of Mc- Clellan nerves the rebels in arms against our Government to-day. and is worth fifty thousand men to the enemy. Democrats wonder how the army of the Potomac can forget McClellan ; they do not forget him, but how can yotrexpect them to vote for him. when he is shooting them every day; nowonderthe rebel army cheered when they heard of his nomination, he is now their only hope. Surely in such a position, thou art LITTLE Mac. indeed. Asa soldier I shall always respect the