Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-09-11

bold and honest in its support of our gal
liant armies and the administration in their
efforts to put down the Southern traitors !;
there is the Breckinridgs Democracy, too
many of whose stay-at-home members are
either lukewarm in Supporting the war, ad-
voeating secession sentiments, or taxing
every occasion to denounce it as humbug,
! sc. To which class does this ticket be-
long? No resolutions were adopted by the
self styled democratic convention-no rat
ifcation meeting was held to lay down even
an equivocal platform-and we must there
fore Judge them by their past conduct.
Let us see what that was. j. Harrison
Ross, the nominee for Assembly, was an
ultra Breckenridge man, and what his SEN
timents were since the commencement OF
this war, the streets of McFeytown can
testify, as we'll as every Douglas democrat
in that region. Need any one be told
whit course others pursued since Mr..
Lincoln took the oath Of office. If they
gave the war measures of the administra-
ton even a iuke,carm support, we hope
some of their friends will be able to point
out when and where they did so. Have
not some of them frequently been most bit
ter in their denunciation Of the admins
tration, charging all these troubles on the
al ~ H. In hck
every honest man now acknowledges that
the present rebellion is but carrying out
the Infamous project commenced under
Gen Jackson in 1882, but which he then
put down with an iron hand before they
were able to strike a blow Have not
others at least indirectly advised men not to
enlist as soldiers, and gave other evidence
by their acts that the support of the Ma
tonal and State Government was a secon-
Diary consideration to the interests of party.
Such is their record, and such the platform
on which they stand, and if that is democ-
racy, we may we'll despair of our country
and its institutions. We say then that it
is not a political question, and in support
of our opinion We adduco an extract from
a speech made last week in New York by
that sterling patriot and honest democrat,
Hon. Joseph Holt, Of Kentucky. Will
any one pretend to say, after reading the
following, that he would support any man
for office under the position laid down by
the Lewistown Democrat in its article de-
clining Union ticket?
Fellow citizens, (said Mr.. Holt) if I might
be permitted to utter a word upon such SUBJ
ject, | would earnestly counsel forbearance
and patience in reference to those charged
with the administration of our Government
Before crlticising their conduct we should re
member that we may not see all the field of
action, and may not be in a condition Justly
to appreciate the difficulties to be overcome |
No man can doubt the honesty and loyalty
of the President Of the United States i'm |
mense applause, waving Of hats, and cries of
No or his determination to suppress this |
rebellion. To him, under the Constitution /
the popular voice has committed absolutely
the fate of this Republic. His hands are |
emphatically your hands, and in weakening
him, you weaken yourselves and you weaken
the struggling country that we are all striving
to save. lie is, too, at this moment over
whelmed with mountain Of responsibility
and toll such as ever rested on no public man |
in our history, and he is fully entitled to all
the support and all the cons -lation which !
generous and warm hearted patriotism can
give him. Amid all the discouragements
that surround US, have still an unfaltering
ialth lR human progress aud in the capacity
OF man tor self government. | believe all /
the blood which the true lovers Of our race
have shed upon more than q thousand bat /
tie helds has born fruit and that fruit is the |
Republic of the United States. 1t came forth |
upon the world like the morning sun from |
its chamber, and its pathway has been the !
pathway of light and glory, and it has pour |
ed Its blessings upon its people in brimming
fullness, as rivers from their waters to the |
sea. cannot admit to my bosom the crush |
ing thought that in the full light of the |
Christian civilization of the nineteenth cen
tury such Government is fated to perish be- |
meath the swords Of the guilty men who are |
now banded together for its overthrow. ZAP |
piause, loud and long. I cannot, I will not |
believe these twenty millions Of people, cul |
tlVated, loyal, courageous-twenty millions |
of the Anglo, Saxon race, bearing the names
OF the heroes of the Revolution, and passing
their lives amid the inspirations of battle |
helds,-will ANONYMOUSLY suffer its institu
tlons to be overthrown by ten millions, near
ly half of whom are wretched, helpless slaves
with fetters in their hands. No page of his. |
tory so dark and so humiliating as this has
been written of any portion of the human
family; and the American people had better |
TAR better, never to have been born than to |
have lived to have such history written of |
themselves. Let us then, fellow citizens, en-
deayor to raise ourselves fully to this great |
work of duty. If it is to be done WELL it |
should be done quickly. If we would econo.
mise both blood and treasure, we should move /
promptly-we should move nightly. IT, at