The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-09-15
How Will You Vote!


All tie candidates of either party, ma
tional, district aud county, having been
nominated, and therefore now fully in the
field, we deem it eminently just and prop
eI to take into consideration their relative
merits and qualifications, and to attempt
to demonstrate who ought and who ought
not to receive the support of the people.
This political campaign, by sort OF taclt
agreement, has heretofore in great meas
ure been ignored and lost sight Of in the
tremendous struggle for union and civil
liberty now convulsing the country. Up
TO the present moment, or at least until
quite recently, public attention has GEN.
tered upon General Grant and his brave
companions in arms, to the almost total
neglect of all minor issues. Remember
ing the great and awfu! interests at stake,
affecting the welfare Of every one who
calls himself an American, who will say
it was not right to thus sink politics in
war and war matters But period ever
comes when politics, and the selection o.
officers to administer the civil govern
ment in all is details, will assert its i'm
portance, and Fill the mind to the crowding
out for the time of all other questions of
moment. By the very nature ot-our in
stitutions, such state of things must be.
That period is here. Only one short
month remains to us before the October
election, when the people must and will
vote, and when they ought to vote IN
e1erstandhgy. TIE campaign will be
short-let it be sharp and decisive.
With regard to our National standard
bearers, who will not be voted for till
November, we viii be brief. The politi-
cal career Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN is
known of all men. He il was who, con-
stitutionally and fairly elected, on the
4th of March, 1861, assumed the reins of
government, to find his authority repudi-
ated ard set at nought by the inhabitants
os section comprising two-thirds of the
Union. The trust delegated to him by
the majority has been so faithfully exer-
cised that at the end of his term Of Office
of four years We fud the rebellion rolled
back upou itself until it is able to boast Of
scarcely habitation or name. Mr. Lin
coin may have committed mistakes. We
do not claim for him that he is infal.ible
But where is the man burdened with his
varied aud important responsibilities who
could have made fewer mistakes, or been
more willing to rectify the. same when
brought under his observation !? Mr..
Lincoln's platform for the future, as in
the past, means simply vigorous and un-
ceasing prosecution of the war to the end
of the restoration of the Union of our
fathers. The Chicago platform means
peace at any price-peace at the expense
of our national honor-peace even on the
ruins of a broken aud dismembered repub
hc. Choose ye between
Not to know ANDREW JOHNSON, our
candidate for Vice President, as most
consistent aud thorough-going Union man,
were to acknowledge inexcusabie igno-
rance Of national aEaiIs. In the Uni
ted States Senate, in 1861, he combatted
the idea of secession with all the might of
his giant intellect, and he has fought
treason, In whatever form, ever since
One sentence of his great speech in reply
to JEFF Davis and his fellow conspirators,
delivered ia the Senate March 3, 1861,
marks the man, and should be the rally
ing cry of all who love the right ana hate
he wrong "I uould hare all traitors