Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-04-02
DEMOCRACY AFTER GAME.

The Harrisburg Telegraph of March 29;h,
says: eve treated to all sorts of prons
es by the Democratic press on the suhiect OF
Democratic intentions in the thick coming fu-
ture. While other people are strainng
their muscle in the great work of production,
fully to be prepared to contribute TO the sup
port of the government in the way OF taxes;
and while, also, the great mass Of loyal men
are engaged in various ways. each contribut-
ing their mite 10 the general cause, some in
the mp, some in the field, some in the mine,
some in the work shops, and yet all striving
TO ie the most useiuli while this is being
done, hear of few members OF Congress
meeting in concave at a private board, and
over private wine, concocting plans aud devils
ing schemes to re-organize the Democratic
party Most sublime and patriotic work truly!
The principal party In this grand scheme is
the shameless appoState and libeller, FaIlan-
digham, who has been SO often frowned down
III Congress that he is pointed out from the
galleries of the House as the most unblushing
aid audacious dough face in that body. The
plan is said 80 be at once 10 organize tie Dem
ocrarc party to sustain the war policy
of General NJ 'Clsllan, making that officer the
means of opposition to President Lincoln, and
using the emancipation schemes of the Presi-
dent as arguments against his administration,
and inducements for the border states to
support General VI Clelan, instead OF Presi-
dent Lincoln. The design of this plan is to
demoraize the Republican party, and, if pos
sibIe, create divisions in its ranks which will
tend to the antagoniSm of the administration
in a manner as 10 leave President Lincoln
completely at the mercy OF the Democratic
party, and, of course, in that event, leave the
free again at the mercy OF the slave states.
From what we have learned both from private
correspondence and in conversation with those
from Washington who understand the move
meDts of prominent Democratic leaders in
Congress, the plan is at once to rally on Gen.
Mcclellan, and make him the head and front
of Democratic tactics. This is to be accom-
plished by opposing the policy of the Plesi-
dent, and 10y such other acts will in the eSti-
nation OF these demagogues, bring the admins
tration Of Mr.. Lincoln into disgrace. 1t is
not for us TO write whether Gen. Mcclellan is
party 10 these plans. II he allows his name
| TO be used political battle cry by those
who have been and are opposing the policy OF
the administration, without protest or disa-
vowal OF APPROPRIATION, he subjects himself TO
a suspeciUn from which he will some day find
il hard to escape, and which at the present is
| unbecoming Of any soldier. Whenever such
as Vallandi CHAM or Bddie of Pennsylvania
applaud anT man in Congress, the country
naturally begins to inquire as to his loyalty
and Devotion; and when any officer in the ar
my permits his name to be used as watch
word for assaults on the administration of A
braham Lincoln, we have right to question
his fitness to command. Let the Democratic
party organize if it so pleases its leaders, in
the loyal states efiectualy as it is organized
in the rebel states. Such re- organization will
prove trui less the rebellion which has
sprung from its old organization. 1t can do
no mischief. Bnt when those leaders conspire
10 base that organization on an attempt to an.
tagonise the administration of Abraham Lin
coin and the officers of the army as a policy
TO be pursued in crushing the rebellion the
sooner the country understands the fact the
better, and the sooner the pretension and au-
dacity Of such officers are hunilated, the bet
ter, too, for the Union and The Constellation.