Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-06-25

| under the form and law of the Constitution
without fraud, without cheating, and that i
was the bouDden duty of every good man il
N North America to obey cheerfuily, because
the majority, as expressed at the ballot box
had so said, and | declare my purpose to dc
so. and at the end of four years, if Lincoln
didn't make the right sort of President, tc
PICK our flint and try it again. But this Se-
cession party and their neighbors and disu-
! MON leaders had intended to break up this
| Government for more than thirty years, and
| II they had been successful in electing Breck-
inrldge, and Lane, they only intended the
Government to continue for four years. during
which time it was their settled purpose to
steal all the money in the Golfers, manufacture
all the arms they could at Springfield and
other points, transport all the arms to the
! South, erect Qualifications, and at the expira-
tion of the four years entirely disarm the
North. take charge and put an end to the
Government. Did not Pryor say upon the
Hoor of the House, eve can get the Critten-
den Compromise but we don't intend to have
It, and we don't intend to have any other com
promise-we intend to dissolve the Union 10
Mr. Brownlow referred to other evidences of
the well settled plan to destroy the Union, no
matter what the North would offer. During
the eighty years the Government has existed
we of the South have had the control of it
twice to your onca. Five of our men were
elected second time. making forty years of
Office, while not a man north of Mason and
Dlxon's line was ever permitted to be elected
to the Presidential chair the second time and
we seized two or three of your N orthern gen
tlemen with Southern principles as soon as
they were elected. [Laughter.1
Mr.. b. referred to the composition of the
Senate and House at the time of Mr.. Lincoln's
election, as a sufficient check upon Mr.. l..
II any bad been needed. He then recounted
the suffering of the Union men in East Ten
nessee when hanging was the daily amusement
OF the Secesiouists, and he gave the names of
those who were thus executed. Referring 10
the advance of General Negley into that sec
tion of the country be expressed the hope
that he would be reinforced so that he could
drive the devils into the Gulf of Mexico. Not
until that is done will they find the last dich.''
Concluding his narrative of the suffering en-
dured by the people of Tennessee for their
devotion to the flag, he said ssI am mortified
and humbed before God and my country,
when know that we have lots of men in the
North who sympathize with the rebellion
II had my bond with the devil for the pro-
dnction of dozen of the meanest and most
God-forsaken, hell deserving creatures on the
face OF the earth, and if l wanted to get
premium upon the payment, would turn o.
yer to the dev twelve Northern men who
with secession. TCheers Every
man of them ought to be ridden on rail out
OF Philadelphia [cheersl, and if you make an
appointment at one of your parks, to orrow,
will lead the way. [Cheers.l We men of
the South who have suffered at the hands of
the Secessionists make ii personal matter
when we find men at the North sympathizing
wit the traitors. CHEERS.
In closing, he referred to the exhausted
condition of the South, and predicted that the
contest could not last much longer. 1t will
come down If we have to coerce, If we have to
,ntjHgdte, or il we have to externnate the
people of the South, and supply their places
With a better class of men,