Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-09-25
LETTER FROM AMOS KENDALL.
From the Bridgeport Conn, Standard.
nYyp uNToN MEETTNc
THE UNION MEETIl

| of Connecticut. With your permission now
| present through your columns the substance
| of what desired to say.
| You will agree with me that our country is
at war. Whether we consider the Southern
States foreign power or their people our own
fellow citizens in state of.rebellion still our
country is at war with them. How is this war
to be brought to a close? By one of two
modes, either by suppression of the rebellion
or by a treaty acknowledging the indepen-
dence OF the Confederate States. Is there any
Democrat who would not rejoice to see the
armed resistance to the Government suppress
ed, peace restored, and business resuming its
wonted channels 2 Or, if there be any Demo
crat who thinks it Impossible to suppress the
| rebellion, still will he not stand by his own
section and enable it to obtain the best terms
il can on the final separation In whatever
aspect the Democrats of the North may look
at this subject, their duty and interests alike
require them to support their Government in
an energetic prosecution of the war. How
else can the rebellion be suppressed Or, if
that be impracicable, how else can an honora-
BILE and advantageous treaty of peace be OBJ
tanned.
But attempts are made to paralyze the Gov.
ernment by the cry of peace, and TO get up
peace party under the name of Democracy
Peace on what terms Are the leaders of
this movement In favor of peace on whatever
terms our rebel enemies may prescribe Are
they prepared to let the white slaves of sskiDg
Cotton ad upon their necks, and be con-
tent to live dishonored lives in the homes of
their brave ancestors Why do not these
men, while casting their peace flags to the
breeze. announce the terms on which they pro-
pose to make peace! W by do they not tell us
what reason they have TO believe that peace
can be made on any terms, other than by cow
ardly submission to rampant rebellion This
peace flag, if not tie traitors, is the coward's
fla h1ta 1tssi in
effect. 1t gives sad and comfort to the
enemy.
Those who attempting to aid the enemy
by this and other devices, call themselves
Democrats. | deny their right to the name
l have witnessed the mutations of part ies and
been Democrat myself for more than fifty
years. There were no such Democrats in JEFF
ferson's days. There were none such during
the war with Great Britain in 1912 TO 1914.
The peace party then was the Federal Party,
which was so effectually disgraeed by the
peace policy OF its leaders, that its members
ever after found it necessary to rally under
other names. There were no such Democrats
in Jackson's day. ssTbe Federal nion must
be preserved - was then the Democr Itic motto,
and ssdown with qualification and secession
was the Jackson battle cry. There was no
such Democracy during the Mexican war;
There is none such now in the heads or the
hearts of true Democrats; in my own heart,
there is none and never was il there were,
would tear it out.
The Democratic party has, for half century,
witnessed the rise and fall of many other par
ties, always maintaining the honor of its name.
Its vital principle has been devotion to the
Constitution and the Union. But for the
wanton rebellion of the Cotton States, it would
now be the ruling party in Congress and the
country. You call the Southern conspirators
our brothers. SO was Cain AbePs brother.
Shall We stop and cry peace while the club of
a ft,.t trnt,1 1o;1 fn naad do h
bowie knife at our throats2 Shall our unre-
sstng blood cry from the ground for ven-
geaDce against murderers worse than Cain
murderers who would kill nation in the
persons of their brothers-trators not only to
their country but TO the cause of liberty in all
time and throughout the world
Democrats No, they are no Democrats.
The shades of Jefferson and Jackson disown
them. They mistake their proper name, and
their true homes. They white slaves of
King Cotton, and their true home is in his
presence. Let them go to the Cotton States
and flaunt their peace flags in the presence of
their King. Let them get up peace party
there, who are willing to live in peace under
our benign Constitution, and they will then
be responded to by all true Democrats of the
North.
Some men in their zeal for party seem to
forget that they have country, and that the
President, to whatever party he may belong,
is the representative of that country. What
if you or | do not like some of the principles
of Mr.. Lincoln, or approve of the means by
which be elected Still, he is our couu-
try's President, and TO sustain our country in
its present conflict, we must sustain him.
What If in discharge of the tremendous re-
sponsbilities which depends upon him, he
sometimes exercises doubtful powers or vio-
lates the letter of the law, shall we therefore
abandon the cause Of our country by with
drawing from him the men and money Reces-
sary for its de fence Shall we go further, e.
spouse the cause of the enemy and throw ev-
cry possible obstruction in the way of our
own Government If SO, the traitors doom
and the hangman's halter would be our just re-
ward. Let save our country first and then
call its rulers to account for any unnecessary
usurpation Of power. 1t were madness in the
the crew of sinking ship to deprive their
commander of the power to save it. 1t is
madness to quarrel about the Administration
of our Government until we make sure that we
shall have Government to administer.
Does interest influence any TO 'scry
peace, peace, when there is no peace 2" If
that interest be one OF trade, it can only be
promoted by suppression of the rebellion. IL
the armed resistance were put down in the
South, trade would at once resume its former
channels and the North would continue to
profit by selling its manufactures to the peo
pie of tho South. But should the rebellion
succeed Northern men may bid farewell for
ever to all profitable trade with the South. 1t
is one of the avOwed objects of the rebel lea
ders to relieve themselves from all CONNER
cial dependence on the North, and to that end
they have already commenced to lay heavy
duties on Northern products and manufac-
lures. To the end of reconciling their peo-
pie to giving preference to Great Britain
and France, or any other foreign power, they
ipculcate upon them deadly hatred ofs'Yan-
kees'' and of every thing Northern. Is it not