Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-09-07
THE WIGWAM AND ITS INMATES.
Their Travail and DeliYeTanee.

I caeo. last week, on the occasion of the Cop
/ perhead Convention. There were War
| Democrats and Peace Denocrats-hard
shells and soft shells-disciples of the Mo-
zart Hall school, and peace-shriekers from
/ Tamnlany and Barnburners-ob-
solete Freesoilers and fossilized Whigs-ref-
/ ugees from Rebeldom and expatriated trait
/ ors There was Seymour of New York,
/ the friend OF the rioters, who couldn
/ see why his State shouldn't adopt the Con
/ federate Constitution and cast in her lot
/ with the rebels-there was the traitor al
/ landigham, who boasted that he had never
voted a man nor dollar for the war, but
had always opposed it-there wss our own
/ Bigler, who sanctioned and sustained all
| the Lecompton Fl auds of the Administra-
/ ton of James Buchanan, and who declared
IN his last speech at home, almost in the
words of Vallandighan, that he would not
| contribute another man nor another dollar
to carry on the war-there was Frank
Hughes who wanted TO switch PennSylya-
MIA out of the Union there was Long, of
! Ohio, who declared in Congress that he was
in favor of recognizing the Southern Con
federacy as an independent nation-there
was Harris. Of Maryland, who was publicly
cenStred for his disloyal utterances in the
House of Representatiyes-th was Fer
nando Wood. the great Apostle Of Peace,
who. whilst Mayor of New York, made d
seryile apology TO Robert Toomfs and the
State of Georgia because be could not pre-
vent the seizure of arms that he knew were
intended 20 slay loyal citizens OF the Uni
tel States-there was Amos Kendall the
octogenarian, who, in his dotage sympathi-
zes with traitors-there was John =. Stock
ton, of New Jersey the bssom friend Of
I Governor Rodman P. Rice, who wrote an
elaborate letter urging that his State should
detach herself from the Union and seek an
entrance into JEFF Davis Kingdom-and
there. too, was host Of Others Of ike kid
ney too numerous to mention. Then there
were the lesser lights, such as our own Billy
Wallace, who went to hold up Bigler's coat
tail-rattle-p Charley Lamberton Of
Clarion-Orvis, the gasometer from Belle
fonte-Stahle, the editor of the Gettysburg
CoHapiler who pointed out to rebel officer
the place of concealment of our wounded
soldiers-Charley Carrigan, the bruiser from
| Philadelphi in short, were the lead
ing Copperheads et DtaSse, who have always
proclaimed the war for the Union unjust,
unconstitutional, murderous, and certain to
result in the triumph OF the rebels
As viii be seen by the proceedings in an
other column, the travail of the Conven-
/ ton was long and arduous. The platform
was the first deliyerance. If not an abor-
ton, it certainly Is an hernlap phrodite, for it
is capable of any and all constructions which
the different wings Of the party may choose
to give it. Though best adapted, perhaps,
to the latitude of Richmond, the dexterity
Of It's manipulators can readily make it suit
| that of New York, it being consistent in
nothing save IN It's unqualified hostility to
the Administration, and its sympathy with
those in rebellion Without a single word
against the traitors in arms, who are seek
ing to divide and destroy our country, the
resolutions bitterly denounce the Federal
authorities, declaring that the Constitu-
ton has been disregarded in ecer.y part, pub
lie liberty and private right alike trodden
down, aud the freedom of speech and the
press suppressed = They, moreover, de
mand that Immediate efforts be made for a
cessation of hostilities, with a view to an
ultimate convention Of all the States, to
restore peace
For months preceding this Convention,
the people were taught to look forward to
its assembling, as the time when some feasible
plan would be devised by which peace could
be restored and the rebels brought back to
their allegiance The agony of expectation
is now over, and we search the proceedings
in vain for any plan whatever No sys-
tenn or policy is proposed or recommended.
The political creed is embodied in the series
of resolutions, in which all meaning is COW
cred up in cloud of ambiguous words, but
no practical remedy for the condition of
| the country is even intimated.
While the Convention was laboring to
perfect these model resolutions their broth
er Democrat, Judah p Benjamin, JEFF.
Davis Secretary of State, was engaged in
| the preparation of circular letter, which.
| however little he intended it. interfered
sadly with the accouchers at Chicago and
| produced death-in- birth so that the plat
form, whether hermaphrodite or not, fell
| still-born. For while these wise doctors
were incorporating the provision that hos
tilities were to be stayed and the Union re-