Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-10-02
WHO ARE FOR THE UNION .

The issue before the country is plain. A
band of traitors have raised their hands against
the Government and seek to destroy it by
force. The single question is, Which shall
yield Z Shall it be the Government or the
Traitors7 If the Government has to yield,
the whole world will pronounce our govern
ment a failure-that it is insufficient to put
down treason and maintain the supremacy of
the laws. Upon this question, as Senator
Douglas said, there can be but two PARTIES
patriots and traitors. 1t is the part of patriot
to aid the Government in putting down the re-
belIon by every influence at his command.
And, accordingly, we have seen the patriotic
portion of all parties uniting and acting togeth
er on the patriots platform, of doing all they
can to aid in overcoming the rebellion.
We rejoice at the patriotism shown by the
Republican party. In States and counties
where they had an undoubted majority, they
have nobly disregarded partizan feeling, and
divided the nominations for office, with such
of their opponents as were making common
effort with themselves to save the country. So
they did in the State of Ohio, where Union
Convention nominated men of the different
parties to fill the State offices. So they did
in the State OF New York, where similar
Union ticket was formed; and Daniel S. Dick
inson, the most prominent Democrat of that
State, was placed on the ticket as one of the
candidates. 30 they have done in Lancaster,
Huntingdon, and other counties in this State,
which have reliable Republican majorities--
and in nearly every instance they have shown
willingness to sustain any man who is heartily
on the side of his country. Equal praise is
due to a very large majority of the Douglas
Democrats throughout the free States. They
did not help to elect Mr.. Lincoln, and yet
they generally sustain his efforts to preserve
the Union and put down rebellion, with as
much good will as the Republicans themselves.
There is a small portion of the Breckinridge
party, equally entitled to the highest praise.
In courageous and disinterested patriotism,
no men have surpassed Johnson of Tennessee,
and Holt of Kentucky. Butler of Massachu-
setts, and Dickinson ofN Y York will not soon be
forgotten. But the bright example of these
men shines the brighter in contrast with the
conduct of the great majority of the leaders
of the Breckenridge party.
Eleven States went for Breckinridge and
Lane at the last Presidential election, to wit
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, F. Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mary land, Mississippi, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, and Texas and of these
eleven, ,all have joined the Secessionists except
Delaware and Maryland and as to Mary land
she is only prevented from doing so by the
power of the Federal Government. 1t is a
stubborn fact that nearly all the Breckenridge
States are Secession States, and that the lead
ers who controlled the party are the chief
traitors who contrived this rebellion and are
now carrying it on. 1t is another fact, that
those in the Northern States who have shown
sympathy with the traitors, are almost invaria-
bly, Breckinridge men. AS to their candidates,
Lane has joined the rebels long ago, and
Breckenridge has been aiding them to the ex-
tent of his power; and now, that Kentucky is
about taking up the sword in defence of the
Union, he is reported to have fed like guilty
traitor, as he is, to escape the officers of the
Federal Government.
And what has been the course of that clique
of Breck inridge leaders who aim to control
the Democracy of Clearfeld county7 They
never denounce the rebels-but their party
hatred is so great that they cannot find words
enough in their vocabulary TO express their
petty malice against their political opponents.
A prominent characteristic of this class OF
Breckenridge politicians is their impudence
and falsehood. They pass high sounding reso-
buttons, amounting to kind of euIogy upon
the Democratic party; the substance of them
being, that the Democratic party is always
right-that the Democratic party has always
supported the powers that be-that the Demo
cratic party has ever held the Constitution and
laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof, te
be the Supreme law of the land-and that the
Democratic party is opposed to Secession. L
by the Democratic party is meant the Breck
inridge party to which the Clearfeld clique
belongs, then the resolutions are string o.
the most bare-faced falsehood and nonsense
ever presented to the public--for this day &
majority of the Breckinridge party are trai
tors and rebels, or in sympathy with them.
Where are the States that were carried by