Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-08-10
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE JOURNAL, !,
Letter from Philipsburg. Pa,
PHILIPSBU RG, PA. AUG. Sth, 1864.
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giving the First Amendment. then voted
on, majority of fifty y-seyen-being a gain
of forty-two over Curtin's vote last fall.
The vote stood 90 for, and Al against, the
First Amendment; Second, 100 for, 40 a
gainst; Third, 81 for, 40 against. From
these figures it appears, that the First A
mendment was the one; on which strict
party vote was polled, the ultra cops going
dead against it to a man, SO far as they vo-
"Castle" or subdivision, making it
nice point, to get down to the polls, to vote,
about ten minutes too late Others sud
denly had business that called them away
from home, and they could not get back in
time. They regretted it very much, but
business before pleasure, you know is the
old maxim. And those fellow citizens
who arrived at the polls little too late,
seemed to be very much chop-falen, that
they were thus deprived of the right of suf-
frage. Any port in storm. There was
not much electioneering done against the
amendment, openly but the faithful were
all properly equipped behind the throne
No man that had any regard for himself and
his posterity, could be so mean, low, and de-
graded, as to try to induce his neighbor, to
vote against giving the soldier in the field,
an equal right with qualified voter at home
let there were some men mean enough to
do so and not only that, but there was not
ticket For the Amendments, to be had
at two of the hotels of our town, though
cart-loads of tickets reading Against the
Amendment" were strewn over their bar
rooms, thick as 'autumnal leaves of vallum-
brosia. And these same landlords, make
the loudest external appearance of being
the soldier sfriend. Acts speak louder than
words, and this last act of theirs caps the
climax.
With the figures of this vote, we car ar
rive at a perfect conclusion, that we have
forty-one voters in this election district who
are not friends of the soldier, and who cast
the mightlest right they possess, to prove
them guilty. Forty-one citizens, enjoying
the full and free right to vote, voting against
allowing citizen, enjoying the same full
and free right, because he is away from
home, fighting the battles of his country
Tell me that such men are Democrats. No
far from it Talk of free speech, free press,
and all the vocabulary of copperheads, but
this one act takes them all down and proves
to perfect demonstration, what | have al
ways asserted, that they are disloyal to any
measure or action which genuine Union men
support. But with all their wire pulling,
Castles, subdivisions, constituting the
Amendment to the ignorant, that if it car
ried, it would give the colored soldier right
to vote, the Old Keystone has nobly stood
by her gallant sons, who are defending our
country. Well DONE ever loyal good and
true Pennsylvania. Long may thy banners
wave on the side of truth, justice and right.
The drafted men, noticed in my last left
on the morning of the Sd inst, to report at
Bellefonte. They reached Martha Furnace
Station, b. 4. Y. r. r., where they receiv-
ed dispatch, that they nigh return home
have not learned the exact cause of the
dispatch, but think it is from some defect,
or mistake In our township not having re-
celyed a full credit for the men previously
sent. They came home in high glee. All
who were not certain of having some i'll that
human flesh is heir to, that would exempt
them, had the requisite number of green
backs, to commute them from the attend
ance at the military ball, they Were sudden
ly invited to-eXcept three, OF the lucky
he clderS of tickets. These three noble, chiv-
alric, and gallant fellows, having more fore
sight than is commonly given to man, con-
cluded that they would report at point
nearer the North Pole, and be on hand to
act, in case the Canadians made raid |
They will of course, not take advantage of
the defect, and return to the bosoms of
their families. Poor fellows how indis-
Greet they were, to thus skedaddle from |
their dear wives, fond little ones and ha opy
homes, and all coming from the world wide |
fact, (they having left behind them, that |
which viii follow their posterity, down to |
the latest period of time) that they are cow
ards, and unworthy the respect of an Amer
lean citizen.
The expose of ''our veritable William
published in your last issue, taken from the
Hollidaysburg Register. created quite an
excitement among the faithful. The de-
mand for the Journal on Thursday, the day
it comes to this p O., was without prece-
dent in the paper line. 1t was extensively |
borrowed, and most especially by the cops.
Subscribers had hard work to keep track of
their Journal, so numerous were its readers.
There is great deal of sickness, of that
kind incident to this season of the year,
in our town and vicinity. Though
not of such an epidemic nature, nor so fatal,
as the sickness of 1S54-a period long to be
by the citizens that lived here
at that time, as but few, if any, families es-
capped its dreadful visit LERoI.