Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-08-10
VOL. 1O.--NO. so.
Brady on Peace Democrats.

At the great mass meeting held in honor
of Gen. Grant, at Union Square, New
York, on the evening of the 4th July, Jas.
T. Brady, Esq, the eminent lawyer of that
city, who is well known as a Democrat pre-
sided. On taking the chair he delivered a
short address, in the course of which he
spoke as follows on the Peace Democracy
within the sound of my voice, feeble as
it is, in houses where these tones can be
heard traitors have been living since this
revolution has broken upon US. In the
luxurious clubs of men within the sound OF
Inv voice, have been the skulking and spu-
rious Southerners, who stayed here among
us making money, not having the courage
to share the danger to which they invited
their brothers at home. That's So
and applause. | see one in this crowd.
A voice, 'Name him call HIM out.
beg pardon we viii not initiate the exam
pie of the South, which won't permit aman,
and never did permit a man to express his
sentiments, unless they agreed with those
that prevailed there. Thank God, We are
for freedom, and | shall permit 10 inter
ruption of it in any individual case, nor IN
the case of Il class. We were troubled with
that set of men, and we were troubled with
others. Wewere troubled with the trucu-
lent traitors born at the North, who would
rather that the country should be murdered
than that one of their dogmas should be
disapproved. Cheers. Men who had not
the audacity to assist in secession, but who
stood with their dark lanterns in aproppri-
ate places, holding them in such position
that they covered their own precious car
casses, and shed the light into the heart
into which the reeking dagger of the parri-
eide was to be plunged. Applause. We
are done with them. We are done with
the sneaking, miserable dastards who, when
the extras came about the time of the bat
tie of Gettysburg, skulked into corners aud
drinking holes, and, though men born Ill
what they called high stations in society,
trembled and faltered because they feared
that they would really read that the the Amer
lean flag had prevailed. [Cheers: These
men belong to what they call fhe Peace
party, which is now i'll such fragments that
the only view you can catch of man be
longing TO it, is to, see him hurrying from
it, lest some of the falling bricks may de-
stroy his miserable head. Laughter and
Cheers We are done with them and as L
congratulated you at the beginning, that
we have united North. 1have characterized
these wretched traitors who have been
among us. There is another class of men
who have been nei, her fervent nor warm
hearted in supporting this country during
this war, but who, nevertheless, have never
desired that the Union should be destroyed
or disgrace visited upon our armies--a class
of men who, unfortunately have taken the
right of criticism of the acts OF the Admin
istration for the right to 90 against the ma
tional existence. They are seeing their way
clear out of their erroneous path into which
they permitted themselves to be misled,
and as sure as you stand here, of all men at
the North who heretofore have permitted
themselves to be arrayed, even for an in
slant, against the prosecution of this war,
the residue now left Is so small that on any
rainy day ii can meet under umbrella in
the Park Great laughter. Let me tell
you another thing-and you Will have it
verified in your personal experimenting
of those men who have undertaken to set
up their own peculiar opinions against the
existence of their country, it will one day or
other be required to produce more witnesses
in court of justice to prove that they were
not all disloyal TO the Union, than they ever
could call to prove that a generous emotion
ever stirred in their bosoIns. Cheers. L
have transcribed the limits assigned to my
self Cries of $50 on Excuse me.
Apart from the vanity which is gratifed by
uttering ones own language, allow me to
say to you that speaking in public in the
open air is no easy task. If you think it is
would like enc of you TO come here and
try. Laughter After the organization
of the meeting | shall give way to the read
ing of the excellent resolutions that have
been prepared, after which eminent gentle
men viii address you. | viii only say In
conclusion, that to my mind the grandest
circumstance to come out Of the triumph
of our ar1ns-sure xto come sooner or later
from this struggle m which we have spent
SO much of the blood and treasure, North,
East and West-the greatest triumph to
come out of this battle, never to be given
up apart from the settling OF our national
existence under the old flag, is, that the
time may come when the united American
people in ali the States of the Union that
we ever numbered, and more added to the
list, viii visit their just vengeance upon the
nation which in our hour of disaster basely
and meanly turned against us. Loud
Cheers.
The Metropolitan Record has a letter from
Kentucky sympathizer, who declares that
the Democrats of that State will support