Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-10-28


known to the Democrats of the vicinity!
As all Democrats are called 'Copperheads,
they may net relish the idea of patronlzing
hotel blazoned with such fearful warnings.
ssDeaih to Democrats !" Well, we suppose
that is notice to Democrats that their custom
is not wanted, and that if they have the spirit
OF men, and would shun the 'SDEATH" thus
threatened, they will bestow their patronage
upon Mr. Riddles. of the exchange-see his
ssCard"-or upon Mr.. Kepler, of the McGirk
house, Ciearfeld Republican
ssWe learn from the Clearfield Republican
that a hotel keeper named Gaor, in Philips
burg, flung to the breeze on the morning af-
ter the election, flag with the motto ofsdeath
to Copperheads inscribed upon it. Copper
heads'' travelling that way should be very care
/ full to avoid this man as they would pesti-
lence, for it is said that his wiskey will kill at
forty yards, and that people who go there run
the risk OF starving to death, as he has scarce
ly ever anything to eat, and when he has, It's
cleanliness is notabOve suspicion. Gaylor's
is the worst hotel in PhilIipsburg, as every
body who has ever stopped there can testify"
-BeIef0ate WGtchman.
We have long known that the editors of the
'sCopperhead organ +" in this place were capa-
ble of almost any degree OF meanness, but the
attack upon a mans business, for throwing
out flag after the election, bearing the in
scription, death to Copperheads, - when the
principal transparency carried by that party
here, before the election, bore the motto
caricatare OF Capt. Swoope and his company
upon the other, is meGHeT than we expect
ed gUen from them. The fact that Mr.. Caller
flung to the breeze a flag, signifying that the
ssCopperheads'' were politically dead, on the
day after the election, affords no excuse for
the low and contemplate attack upon him
! and his business contained in the above ex-
tracts. If the ''Copperhead" papers intend
to prescribe every business man who does not
endorse their reasonable course, it is only
necessary fer them to let it be fully under
stood, and it will be seen who will suffer most
! in the end. It will he found that it is ssa
game two can play at" and if it is forced on
them, we apprehend there are few Union men
who will shrink from the consequences.
1t is not true that sall Democrats are called
Copperheads, and the editors of the Repu5-
lican know it. There is just as much differ
| ence between q true Democrat and a cooper
head, - there is between any other loyal
man and traitor. Such men as George N.
former-the editors of the ssCIearfield Repub-
fcan" are examples of the latter. Neither
are all the men who voted the ticket supported
by the ''Republican'' called ssCopperheads. -
Very many honest ana patriotic men,n doubt,
voted their ticket. believing that they were
discbarging their duty-but they were men
who would scorn to be guilty of prescribing
man in his business, for his political senti-
ments.
Anything more despicable than the above
extract from the Bellefonte Watchman, it is
impossible to conceive. Not content with
venting their spleen upon Mr. Caller himself
they attack his wife, and meanly insinuate
that her sscleanliness is not above suspicion. -
Coward and Copperhead-hk they would fix
their ''slimy faRgs'' upon woman. and at
tempt TO poison the public mind in regard to
her character by their foul and contemplate
nuendos. Like the Southern Guerrilas, in
whose cause they labor, they spare neither
age nor sex. Dead to every sense of shame,
and burning under the whitening rebuke of
their overwhelming defeat by the loyal mas
ses, these ''Copperhead'' editors seek to wreak
their vengeance upon inoffensve woman,
| and attempt to destroy the business of prl-
vate citizen. But it is in perfect keeping
with all their conduct. Completely with trea-
son ever sinks the criminal deeper and deeper
in the mire of degradation and infamy.
A 'sCopperhead'' is a low, vile, sneakng
thing, fit only for ''treasons, stratagems and
spoiIs''-a miserable wretch who is traitor
to the Government under which he lives, bnt
| too great coward to enlist in the army of its
enemies. Hence, to make base and covert
| woman, in manner that rivals the vilest
black guard mscreant in the community is
only in consonance with their course and de-
meanor From such creatures nothing else is
to be expected. But their e'fangs'' having
been effectually extracted by the late election,
their sputtering slime can do no harm.
1t is scarcely necessary to say, in regard to
the ''Conrad House, when all our travelling
community know, that there are few better
country hotels kept anywhere. Mr.. Caller is
| a polite, accommodating landlord, and his
wife is a first rate housekeeper-setting as
good table as any man need want to sit down
to. We are satisfied that Governor Curtin
and his lady, did not want for anything when
they stopped there on Wednesday last.
shocking accident occurred in Wellsburg.
Erie county, on the 14th inst. W. H. Wright
| y-ae appapa6 in hauIiup baavv CON- L. 49,.