Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-29

and commanding.the Notifications oft CITY.
namely that the Fuorth Of July is the very
best day to surrender place to the Yankee
army, because, in the warmph of their graf
lncatlon at celebrating their anniversary with
a triumph, they give good terms 1t is like
approaching bon riUant after dinner to ask
hlin for favor. And, accordingly, the
Yankee nation is now holding itself prepared
TO put on Its most gracious smiles and ac-
cord to lis the same tender consideration
winch has been shown to the citizens of
| klcksburg. Let them only haul down our
nag on that suspicious morning, and read
their Declaration of Independence on our
Capitol Suqare, and Lincoln is already elected
President In this stage of the business al
so, however, our army has a voice and if
1t shall continue to battle, repulse, and cut
up the Federal forces and finally drive them
from the soil Of Virginia, as we fervently
trust, then this Baltimore nomination will
not gam Lincoln single vote in November
In that case who will be the next Presi-
dent IN the enemy S country? Not Fremont
with his radical abolition" The era for
that school Of politics viii be past. But
there remains another party-the Demo
Gratis; they being also divided at present
into War Democrats and Peace Democrats.
but who would all be Peace Democrats in
. the event supposed-that is, in the event of
total failure of the Federal campaign of
1864. Now the very latest intelligence
brought us from that country by a special
channel informs us of these two further facts
that the popular mind became at once
wildly agitated on the announcement of this
Baltimore nomination and that in Mary
land, especially. disturbance was apprehen-
ded. In fact, the Democrats of the North,
who have waited four years, not too patient
Iy, trusting to regraln the power and profit
which they but lately held to be a Demo
cratic inheritance, must stnaturaliy be provoked
beyond endurance at this audacious attempt
Of Lincoln and Seward to ride roughshod O.
yer them four years more.
We learn that the Democrats are now uni
versalIy turning their thoughts to Franklin
Pierce and the Connecticut Seymour as their
nominees for President and Vice President
70 give them the least chance of electing
those two advocates of peace, Grant must
be defeated, the invasion must collapse and
die out, and the very name of War must be-
come word of horror, uttered with loathing
ana eXecration. The reform, it is the inter
est of the Democrats to do their very utter
most to weaken the Federal army, discredit
Federal finance, in short, to eXtinguish the
war altogether, in order to extinguiSh the
party which invented the war and gov
erns it and lives by it.
The last significant fact, which come to us
by special advices is, that Immediately on
the Baltimore nomination, gold rose to one
hundred and ninety-seven. Gold is SEN
sitive substance, and it feels another shiver,
and sinks back yet a little more into its
crypts, at the idea of another four years of
Lincoln and Chase, and those dreadful pa
permits and steam-presses, the smoke of
whose fatal machinery ascendeth up for ever
and ever
Here, then, are the clements of trouble
and storm which happily threatened to in
terfere, not with Lincoln election, but with
the peace of Yankee society. Before Novem-
Der the whole North may be writhing in intes-
tine convulsions her brute mass now pres
sing us so heavily may be flung off, and this
Confederacy may be standing erect, redeem
ed, radiant, triumphant, shaking her in
vincible locks in the sun.
For all this, we look to the Confederate
Army. Lee, Beauregard and Johnson can
both give the Yankees a President and make
us well rid Of them and their Presidents for
ever"