Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-09-09
Democyatic Testimony.

Gen. MICHAEL CoECoRAN, the Irish
hero, always Democrat, knows no party
but those who rally unconditional! J
around bis coup,ry's flag and stand by
the Government. At Philadelphia, be
made speech which i. would be well for
O certain class Of Democrats who tals
about "taxes," abolition war;" "B,ach
Republican jobbing," &c, TO read. We
make few extracts:
"Ifad our Government interfeFod with
the institutions guaranteed the South
under the Constitution, ! would have
been the first to help them. But | found,
and know, that they have been plotting
have cousummated. The 1ackjest thing
that could hare happenei fir The re.fnTe
of tbs country, raS The election Of N
Lincoln. When We return from war
VIC will have Just the kind Of politics We
want. | have always been Democrat
but the time has come when every man
should discard politics, and be known as a
lover ard supporter of his country.........,
We have a great duty to perform, MT
only for our own sake, but for those poor,
deluded, misguided white people Of the
South who are ground down by the
blackcst kind of despotism that ever con
trolled man"
Gen. DAN'L f SIcKELs said, in one Of bis
late war speeches, that Abraham Lincoln
is "tbe embodied common sense of the
American people" This is something
better than Q smart saying; it is truth
which the people see and feel, and there
is no more cheering fact than the increas-
ing confidence Of the people in the Presi-
Geut.
At the recent War Meeting in Harris
burg, Ex-Gov. PORTER said she re-
nounced all party ties, and gave up all
political Preferences, that be might the
better serve his country in the hour of Its
danger. He recognised no distinction
but that which distinguished between
loyalty and treason. He was for bis
coun,ry-ready to support any man who
fights il its defence, and willing to ap,
plaud any administration that was labor
ing for it"
Hon. WM. WILKINS, aud Judge VIII
SON M'CASDLEss, of Pittsburg, recently
made similar avOwGls.
The Lancaster county Union Conyen
tion last week unanimously re-nominatet
Thad Stevens for Congress, and unaui
mously nominated that veteran Democrat
BENZ. ChampDeys, for Assembly. In &C
ceptipg the nomination, Judge CHAMP
NgYs s1id-
81 want to say how cordially endorse
the resolutions Of the Union Convention
at Harrisburg, and how utterly loath
and detest the Address Of the Chairman
Of the SO called Democratic State Commit.
tee. 1t is false to every principle ot
Democracy-it Is disioyal from, 6eyinniag
to cnd......In a great speech made il
Congress by Stephens-since Vice Presi
dent of the Southern CoDfederacy-he told
the South that they were opening the
gates of hell upon themselves, from
which all the fsnds would issue TO Their
destruction. How true a prophecy
Nothing | could say would add to your
enthusiasm; but, remember, the times
call for united action, and every man
should express his opinion. I will say
that the great danger now is that there
are men at the North who sympathizl
with and encourage rebellion"
1--WE might add hundreds of such opiu.
ions, from the best and purest Democrats
in the land. How different their course
from that Ct the friends o. Hughes. Barr
and Slehker, who demand and are plo,,i,r
for the downfall Of the Administration 81
Lincoln :,
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A Pennsylyania editor (of the Milford
Nerafd) says be has been represented il
different quarters as an A5o.itionist. I
KepuelicaD, a ecessionis.s-everyibi
IN fact except "bob sled" He return.
thanks to his opponents for no; calling
him bob-sled.
Rev.AH.TaJIor, Of Holi3aysburg. ha.