Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-08-19

in place to respond TO the coll of their coun
try.
Through him and his Cabinet the arsenal
Of the North were stripped of the arms anC
munitions of war; so that when the conspi
racy broke forth at Sumter, the Ioyalists o
the North had neither implements nor appur
tenances OF war to assail the rebe elllon
| lGroaDs.] We had to wait, almost paralyzed
until guns could reach US from the Continent
of Europe. You know that the union of the
sword and the purse is considered essential
to successful war. And what did the Demo
cratic Secretar of the Treasury He beg
CARED the purse of the nation in order 10 play
into the hands of the Democratic conspira tors.
We were left in the deplorable absence OF
army, navy and treasury
And who did this foul and most miserable
work Who accomplished it Voices.
The copperheads''l Was any abolitionist
then IN power, or any opponent of the ancient
Democratic party We Democrats then had
it all our own way. We were entrusted with
the sacred heritage of our fathers; we were
responsible to men and to angels; and how
did We act Upon the accursed altar of South
ern oligarchy we sacrificed everything that
was democratic, everything that was manly,
and everything that was honorable [Long
continued appause.l Your light fingered
leaders may say that the aboItionists began
the war. |, humble Pennsy Ivania Dem
ocrat, assert that the charge is false ZAP
pianse-I l unhesitatingly assert that this re-
belion was begUtten in the secret places of
the so-called but false Democracy--that 1t was
hur'ured by Buchanan and his Cabinet, who
were the slaves and dupes OF the Yanceys. the
Slidelis, the Ddvises and the Breck inridges of
the South. [Appause.l l but assert what
the iron pen of history shall record, that there
never was party SO betrayed, nor a country
so slaughtered as by the so-called leaders of
the modern Democracy.
What did we do, We young men of the Whig,
The American, and the Democratic parties
To our eternal honor il shall be recorded that
we stood fast and firm for all the rights of our
Southern brethren, so far as acknowIed eed nv
the American Constitution. We faItered not.
We wearied not. From every mountain ton
OF the North, and from every valley we de-
stitution of our fathers. Immense cheers
We stood manfuily, as Christian men never
stood before, by every principle of the Fugi,
tive Slave law. SO that when Alexander Fl.
stephens made his speech in reply to Toombs.
OF Georgia, he was obliged to confess that new
er was Christian civil law more faithfully m.
held than was the Fugitive Slave law by the
n H.,
lhe rebellion had no Justification whatever;
that the general Government had never been
false to its duty to the South; that none of
its statntes had ever interfered with the fran
chIses or the privileges OF the STAKEHOLDER.
And reluctantly and liDgeringly Alexander III.
stephens, with his head turned back to the
glories and brilliant memories of the country
= with his averted eye upon Mount Vernon
and Monticello, slowly and tardily did he leave
The clustered records of the greatest republic
lpon which the sun has ever shown. rLong
,heering.l
No warrior, but thin, attenuated, intel
ectuai man. he may be compared to the Sybil
IF Rome, who offered her volumes to a cor
npted government. When history shall come |
o correctly record this rebellion the auguries
If Stephens shall stand as an everlasting blot |
II infamy upon the men who created this re-
'ellion and are carrying it out.
/ have not time, on an occ aston ofthis sort,
most nefarious transaction. The leaders of |
he modern Democratic party say to me that !
hey alone can restore peace to the country |
nd integrity to the Union. l reply that an
ther such DEMOCRATIC admi nistration as the |
asst one would send my country into the jaws
4 ineyi liable dissolution. What restore such |
mother Administration into power? Think
# it. Think of its perfdy, its treason, its
its weakness. Restore to power
our Buchanans, and your Fernando Woods, |
nd your Vallandighams, and your Hugheses
five them the reins of power! May Heaven
efend us from such calamity.
l have confidence in the masses-the honest
nasses mean--of the Democratic party, but
have none whatever in the miserable preten-
ers who attempt to teach in the sacred names
f Jefferson and Jackson. l should be recre-
Mt to my manhood if | should fail to ac-
Dowledge the heroism and the bravery of the
ood honest Democrats who have fought in
his war. Many of them have given their
ives, martyrs on the field of battle, Tcheers1
Ike the gallant Colonel Samuel ". Black and
he gallant William G. Murray. May God
less their memories, and those OF the brave
len of the old party who have fallen in the
ght. [Cheers.l
But there is one cry which echoes from the
ps of Andrew Gregg, Curtin, (vociferous
,ho fafhar and Guardian of the |