Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-09-23
2aftsman'S q apQrna1.
coppEE8EAD scorcHED BY DEMOCRAT

| MT browne Is one OF the MOST cObScicntlOus
| and respectable citizens of Philadelphia. a
| Democrat heretofore ,and we believe Postmas-
| ter in Philadelphia under Mr.. Buchanan's Ad.
ministration, but'who came into the loyal par
| ty with Dick inson, Butler and Brewster. He
made a speech, in the course of which he Just
my OF the country, and follower of the doc
| trines of the late Mr. Calhoun. This state
ment he strengthened by asserting former
political friendship for Mr.. Woodward, ard a
knowledge of his views, which every other
Democrat in the State abundanty possessed.
Hence the correspondence
SourH SIXTH STREET, August 27, 1868.
". B. B, o,one, Esg.,-SIR You are report
ed in The Press of this morning as stating to
! public meeting your personal knowledge of
the opinions Of Hon. G. W. Woodward, the
! Democratic candidate for Governor of Penn
! sylHania. You say of him He is, if posi-
| BILE, conscientious Secessiouist. No man in
| the South carries the doctrine OF Secession
| further than he, &C." Force is given to this
| statement by the claim that it is made upon
intimate acquaintance with Judge Woodward.
You introduce your version of his opinion with
the declarations ''Ihe speaker Intimately
acquainted loith the gentleman, and he would
say that if il were possible to call from his
grave that arch traitor, John C.. Calhoun, and
place him in the gubernatorial chair of Penn
sylvania, he wOuld not be Of more service to
the Southern cause than Judge Woo lward will
be, ii elected
viii you inform me whether you are cor
rectiy reported in the newspaper in which
these remarks appPari If you are, will you
please TO say when and where you have had
the intimate acquaintance with Judge Wood
ward upon which you impute to him opinions
which he has never uttered to his friends or
the public Very respectfully yours
CHARLES J. BiDDbE,
Chairman Democratic State Cen. Committee.
lI3 SoUTH FIFTH STREEs Aug. %. 1868.
Hon. Charles j. Biddie, Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Central Committee:
SIR have the honor TO acknowledge the
receipt Of yours of the 9th list, in regard to
my remarks concerning Judge Woodward, on
taking the chair at the meeting of the Nation
al U MON Party on Wednesday evening last
The published reports Of the speeches deliv
cred on that occasion are obviously incom-
plete, and not intended to be full or literal
certainly did not undertake TO represent
Judge WOodW ard 5 opinions the ISSUES now
pending from my own personal knowledge;
for am not aware of having exchanged words
with him since the outbreak OF the present re-
belllon. On the contrary. in commenting up
on the opinions which / attributed to hlm, I
expressly stated either my authority or the
nature of it, quoting partly from his speech OF
December IL, 1860, and partly from current
reports Of his opinions, unreservedly given
and made public 10y their frequent repetition
and, in reference to these latter stat ing that
had them from undOubted sources, and could
therefore speak of them confidently as il
had them from personal know ledge.
Bnt, as my remarks have been thought wor-
thy of your attention and thai there may be
no room for misapprebeusion in regard 10
them, ii is but fair to mysulf as " ell as J udge
Woodward that 1 should repeat them for your
Information. do SO ircm ! written draft of
them.
In speaking Of the remark recently made by
a leading Southern journal, that since the de-
feat at Gettysburg and the surrender OF Vicks-
burg the only hope of the South was in French
Intervention or Democratic successes at the
North. ] said 'sihat foreign Intervention was
too remote probability for them to depend
upon; hut as TO the latter part of the program
me. the Southern rebels themselves could not
well have chosen IN ore fitting instruments than
the principal Democratic nominees at the
North. To say nothing OF the candidate for
Governorship of Ohio, it might be affirmed of
Judge Woodward, the nominee in this State,
that if John c. Calhoun himself-that arch
traitnr--cOuld be raised from his dishunored
of Pennsy ylvanil. he could not serve the IN
terests of the rebellion better. | say this
without any want of respect to Judge W WoOd
ward ;for his ability, high chaIa cter, and sin
cerity. are uudoubted. But these very quail
tiles, in the present case, make such opinions
the more dangerous, and lend them all intu
ence more potent tor evil.
ITO prove this have only to ask your at
teDtion briefly to his views on the three issues,
at this time transcending all others in import
ance; | mean slavery, secession and the war
for the Union. On each Of these Judge wood
ward entertains the views Of the most extreme
Southern radicaiism.
ssFirst, as to slavery. He is not content to
stand with the State Rights Democracy of 9TH
er days, and leave shareholders in the posses
sion of such rights and protection as they had
under the Constitution; but in his speech OF
December, 1860, ,he boldly proclaims that 'hu-
man bondage aud property in man is divinely
sanctioned, if not ordaned' aud that negro
slavery is an incalculable blessing These o.
pinions thus uttered, have lost nothing b, the
lapse OF time for, on another occasion, be de-
cIared, unreservedIy and emphatically ,that.to
think aga inst slavery is sin, 10 talk against
IL a crime! = And more lately he has affirmed
that agitation the subject of slavery is in
fidelity, and comes from the instigation OF sa-
tam
sBut, az to Secession, Judge Woodward ap-
proves of the course, and Justifes the act OF
Secession, if he appears to hesitate as TO the
absolute right of it. Although looking in the
opposite direction, he yet sustains and encour
ages Secession, and no man need go further
Practically, the people of the South have
reached Secession by the same road. He may
be sincere and conscientious in his views, but
he must bear the responsibility OF having CIV
en- the sanction of his name and high position
to their rebellious course. For il his speech
Of 1860 lett any doubt on that point, the re-