Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-08-27

| Assembly,. II. Ross. McVeytown.
| Prothonotary-A. S. Wilson, Lewistown.
Commissioner-Thomas Hazlett, Menno.
/ Surveyor-Geo. Ii. Swigart
District Attorney-T. M. Uttley, Lewiston.
In the evening, after long delay, the
court house bell was rung, and about half
past eight we looked into the Town Hall,
and were somewhat surprised to see less
number of persons (31) in attendance
political opponents included-than had
been present at the nominating convention,
all of whom seemed to be in the position
of not knowing what to do, for no officers
occupied the stand, and no speaker was
belching forth "nigger" as in days of yore.
Fl. j. Walters, Esq, finally nominated
Davis Bates as President, which was follow
ed by few vices and secretaries On mo-
ton of Mr.. Walters committee of seven
was appointed on resolutions, leaving just
ten so-called democrats as the audience
After while the committee returned and
reported resolutions supporting the war and
the government in its prosecution, and
wisely making no direct references to pen
ding political issues. The reading of these
resolutions with the preamble must fall
strangely on the ears of subscribers to the
Lewistown Democrat, who have been week
ly taught in that sheet that Pres
ident Lincoln was, Overriding the constitu-
ton and law, that abolition was the cause
Of the war, and that the government was
invading the rights of the States because
slavery was falling, not by the action of the
government, but as a natural result Of the
rebellion. Mr. Walters in his remarks re.
peatedly made the assertion that the mas
ses of the people we're right at heart and
loyal--a position no one disputes-but at
the same time it is equally true that the
so-called democratic papers, and none more
so than the Iewistown Democrat, have in
culcated false sentiment as to what ZovdL
ty consists Of If this is not so, how comes
it that in ninety nine cases out of hun
dred where such expressions as at is
ID outrage to raise troops to put down
or subjugate the South" hoping that Mo-
ses Cunningham might have to ride for his
life, 'the south is right" that there are
bullets enough in the South to kill all our
recent soldiers, "what has Cobb done ?"
and fifty others of like tenor, are made by
men called democrats Nor are these men
Stunned as they ought to be by those who
profess loyalty. On the contrary we have
ourselves seen leaders { f the party taking
them by the hand, counselling with them,
and some of them We know have been spo-
ken of for office
Mr. Reed, an embryo candidate for Sen
ate, was called upon for q speech, and made
a tolerable defence of President Lincoln,
as we'll as the Republican party, whom he
truly styled "Union savers" The only
demagoguism introduced was the nonsen-
steal statement that if the negroes were
freed, they would overrun the north to the
detriment Of white labor, and the stale at
tempt of Reed and Banks to fasten the
cause of the war on the Republicans by
not voting for Crittenden's compromise
All men who reflect on the subject at all
now admit that if slavery was abolished
the free negroes in the North would be
more likely to go Soutl. il.an the Southern
negroes come North; and we think that
after the statement made by Rev l. w.
Wiley Quoting Mr.. Everett) in the Town
Hall but week ago, that if blank sheet
had been offered to the eonspirators with
liberty to dictate compromise, they would
not have accepted it, it required a good
deal of brass to introduce the catchwords
OF Buchanan's cabinet traitors, even to such
an insignificant meeting
RgrA charge of bribery comes with Pc