The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-10-06
The Union Meeting.


The house was we'll filled at an early hour
with ladies and gentlemen, all of whom
manifested the utmost appreciation and
enthusiasm. The meeting was organized
as follows President, Dr. S. Walton
Vice Presidents, F. Kiser and J. W
Shoemaker; Ed L. Wolf, Secretary.
A word as to the orators histoy: Col
Walter Hartman, the eloquent speaker
on the occasion, has held various posts OF
honor and trust at the hands of his Demo
cratic friends lie has served In both
branches of the Legislature of New Hamp'
shire held the Office of State Treasurer;
and was appointed Appraiser of Public
lands in Kansas, by Pierce.
Hitherto the Col. has made it regular
business in Presidential seasons to stump
throughout the Eastern and Western
States in favor of the Democracy. Al
the breaking out of the Rebellion he be.
came editor of paper called the Weekly
Union, published at Manchester, N. H..
which he ably edited in favor of the War
for the Union, for the space Is months
when, Aug. 26, 1862, unsolicited on his
part, the Governor of his State sent him
commissioners Col. of the 1Ith Reg, a
new regiment which he was expected to
recruit. He issued his call for recruits,
and in less than three weeks, over TWEEN
ty-two. hundred men responded, the re-
mainder of whom were transferred to re-
giments previously ordered. In few
days they were off to the field, and direct
ly after had taste of war in the Freder-
icksburg fight under Burnside, where he
lost over two hundred men.
At the Governors election in n IL in
1868, he run as War Democrat for that
Office, which resulted in the defeat of
Eastman, the Pierce Copperhead, and in
the election of Gilmore, the Union candi-
date.
He has served in both the Western
and Eastern Departments; and was taken
prisoner on the 9th of May last, in the
Wilderness battle, and was exchanged on
the 4th of Aug. last. For 81 days he
had the peculiarly exhilerating pleasure
of being under fire of our own guns in
Charleston. During this time he finish
ed reading the New Testament which he
had commenced reading II days before
at Macon. He is now on furlough and
liable to be ordered front any day, but it
is more than probable he will not be very
soon, as it is specially desirable that his
powerful battery against Copperheads
should not cease firing until after the Sth
of next November.
The Col. delivered one of the most elo-
4uent and impressive, patriotic and forci-
BILE speeches it has been our lot to listen
to in a great while. He stated that he
was born a Democrat and had served the
Democracy as long as they supported the
Union and the laws, but as soon as they
refused to support the Union and Laws,
then he refused to support them. He had
been taught thati it was cardinal principle
Of Democracy to be true to our country
light or wrong; and now that she was so
prominently right, he should not desert her
o follow the treacherous Democracy, who
ire now, in effect, fighting against the gov
,rnment and in the interest of JEFF. Da-
lis. We fight against the Rebels; why
lot vote against them? He in the last
Presidential canvass had supported with
III his power Mr.. Douglas and look
ID upon the death of that gallant
tatesman as calamity for, had he lived
lie would have so cordially and unqual-
fedly supported the war for the Union,
nd thus have carried along with him his
'arty, that the COpperhead force, which
5 now Strengthening and prolonging the
Rebellion, would be SO insignifcantly
mall that they would be powerless for
vii.
The Copperheads declare most Justify
hat the Constitution as it is, and the
Union as it was" shall be restored to Reb-
Is; which Constitution and Union the
ebels have sworn to destroy /; and JEFF.
)avis together with all the ringleaders of
he rebellion, have repeatedly said they
NIL have nothing to do with them, but
will have independence or extermina-
on" What folly, what extreme hypoc-
sy in the Copperheads to ask for the
'aitors what they know they will not re-
eive. They well know that the rebels
lust be whipped, or the Union be dis
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