Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-21
THE DAY-BooK-wHAT is TT

Let US give some testimony and extracts
that we have at hand. In the Clearfed Re
publican of August 14th, Ga sheet, full of the
spirit of treason and secession,) we find the
prospectus of the Day Booh. What does that
Prospectus ask Hark
ssAll friends of the cause will do much to
" advance true principles, By sending Us the
Is names Of all good Democrats"
The Huntingdon Globe, the Democratic or.
gan of that county, (but true Union paper,)
says that Democrat there
"Pronounced it the best Democratic paper
"pubhshed."
The Globe, however, says: ave pronounce
ss it as strong a secession paper as 1t possibly
could be if printed in South Sarolina by
JEFF. Davis himselt.'
The Venango Spectator, tho Democratic or
gan of that county, (buta Union paper,) says:
ssIt is pimp and pander to traitors and
t" should be kicked out of every honest mans
presence"
In the Ddy-Book Of July goth, 1861, will be
found the following sentences
God Almighty Himself, cannot abolish
American Slavery ssWe are twenty
" five millions of white men in juxtapositiOn
with some four millions of negroes.''
we reverertly repeat our assertion, that
even heaven itself cannot abolish slavery"
What then is the Day Book We answer,
1t Is sheet earnestly devoted to the cause of
slavery, secession, treason, and infidelity, un-
der the name of Democracy. Those Democrats
who are true to their country repudiate and de-
nounce it, whilst those who are in sympathy
with the traitors, and anxious TO yield to their
unholy and reasonable designs by some sort
of compromise, circulate and encourage it.
1t is humiiating to human nature, to find
men in our midst who manifest by all their
words and conduct, that they sympathize with
the most guilty band of traitors that ever dis
graced the earth traitors, who. are now in
arms against that glorious Union bequeathed
to us by our revolutionary fathers-trators,
that are continually guilty of the most horrid
deeds of barbarity against their brethren OF
the north,-sometimes whipping defenceless
women-sometimes shooting down peaceable
citizens, in cold blood, simply because they
are from a free State, or because they love
their country aud the Stars and Stripes
sometimes stabbing and killing our wounded
soldiers as they lay bleeding and exhausted
on the battle field.
Yet, the admirers and readers of such pa
pers as the Day Book and Clearfeid Republican
appear to have the closest sympathy for these
Williams who would murder their brethren anC
destroy the Union. All that class of unfortu
nate people, who have no political informa
tion except what they derive from those two
papers, seem to be ready to take up arms a
gainst their country. Some of them in atten
ding the late Democratic Primary Election
showed their feelings by Justify crying ou
"Hurrah for jeff. Dayis!' And the other day
in Bradford township, number of them al
most raised riot, simply because the speaker
II. B. Swoope, Esq, contended warmly tina
it was now the duty of every man to sustain
the government.
But, we find, that the Day Book, and mum
ber of fothertreasonable journals in New York
city, have been presented by the Grand Jury
of the U. S. Circuit Court for the Southern
district of New York. This is step in the
right directions