VOLUME I.
"Our Country Yet Komains."
A»lirrrh <leltv*veil hj- Slmrnll Wlinn, i»«
Bro» nadale, ItutkrCi). Pa s* p* • 0 *•
Friend* find Felloiv Cihr.e,*: lheie
are many vacant scats here. "here once
sat your sons or brothers, now on the hat
t'e field. (If there lie any Democrats lion;
let them come up close ami occupy these
vacant scats, for I Want to talk t>. 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»<r that protects u«. Let us |
assure them that we never partake ol the ;
luxuries of life, but we at least think oi
thorn, their hard labor*, their lnrd mar !
dies'and their bard tack— that we never
lie down upon our downy pillows, without
a prayer for the sentinel, who walks his
beat iu tho cold storm at the midnight |
hour, to watch over us.
Let uB say t" the-e defenders of the re
public. If we can't eat your hard taek ;
if we can't share your cold damp bed ; it
we can't watch with you, we can with
you; and.no Republican ever voted to de
prive you of this right, but we are happy
today to be nb'.o t i siy to you, the noble
defenders of our country, that while you
have protected us from invasion, we have
guarded your sacred rights from the hands ;
of traitors at home ; and the veteran who i
has lost one arm in defence oi his conn i
try and can no longer tire a musket, can
at least fire a ballot against treason. And
we desire to -ay to the soldiers, that, ba
nest of all. this same Democratic party
that Bought to deprive them of the right
to vote, now ask their suffrage to elcva'e j
them to power. Havinu been a soldier
myself for three years, I know a soldier,
has to endure much ; but ?.'<> ' 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
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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