Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-05-25
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ABR AHAM LINCOLN.
County Convention.

The Delegates elected on Saturday
last assembled in the Town Hall
on Monday and appointed Major NJ.
Buoy, James NJ. Brown, and Lieut.. E.
B. Purcell Conferees to nominate del
egate to the National Union COnven-
ton, with instructions to recommend
E. e. Locke, Esq, as Delegate.
The cOnferees propose to meet at
the Logan House, Altoona, on the 31st
May.
The convention also adopted a reso-
luton that an election for delegates to
county convention be held on Satur-
day, 18th June, to meet at Lewistown
on Wednesday, 22d June, for the pur-
pose of nominating q county ticket,
appointing congressional, senatorial,
and representative conferees, &c.
In view ofthe terrible realities of the pasttwo
weeks-the fact that an hundred thousand
families, in this once happy land. within that
period have been made to mourn, in conse
quenee of the fearful slaughter which has
been enacted upon the blood stained fields of
Virginia. how can we help exclaiming oh,
THIS is q terrible ,car Why does not Presi
dent Lincoln TRY, at least to settle the dis
pute by other means than brute force? If
war must be, then let it be; but in Gods
name let US try-aye, and keep on try
lng-Christian means as well as force, to
bring back the people of the South and re
store peace
What honest democrat in Miflin
county, who reads the TRADE of prevar-
icating statements quoted above from
the Patent Medicine Democrat of last
week, but must blush for shame at the
whole intent and meaning conveyed
therein. From the very start of the
infamous rebellion fostered, promoted
and justified by such papers as the
Democrat, President Lincoln HAS TRI-
ED to " bring back the people of the
South and restore peace" The first
Proclamation invited them to Law
down their arms and with all their
privileges unimpaired come back. His
proposition was ridiculed by the south
ern cutthroats and Jared little better
with their northern allies Again was
the olive branch held out, by naming
daywhen Senators and Representative es
from the rebel States should appear in
Congress, but without avail; and since
then, though with harder measure, an
act OF amnesty, excepting only the
ringleaders, was proclaimed, yet this
copperhead sheet conveys the impress
sion to its readers that President Lin
coin has not tried " to settle the dis
pute by other means than brute force"
Look too at the snaky word "dispute."
There is no meaning attached to it in
the English or any other language
which makes an armed rebellion a Dis
Pute, but the copperhead saints are
getting to be so dainty in their express
slons, both on the public streets and
In newspapers, that the most charv
language is used towards those who
are striving with might and main to
overthrow our government, and that
too with less cause than anv people
ever had on the face of the earth
with such sheets tolerated as party
organs, it is not much to be wondered
that false proclamations with forced
signatures are published-that the
pubic mind is poisoned and perverted
until hundreds Of misguided men stand
up and defend shameless treason as
patriotism, and thus invite anarchy
and confusion on their own heads. The
hidden meaning of the Democrat. how
ever, is plain enough. That sheet
would have President Lincoln recall
our armies from the seeded or rebel
States tell our soldiers to Law down
their arms, and acknowledge that 3OO.-
OOO niger breeders and dealers in hu-
man flesh are, with the aid of one-third
our own numbers, more powerful than
the twenty millions of the free North
-olandly invite President Davis TO
take Washington City as his canitaI
(for be it remembered that the great
"nnhanged" claims Maryland with his
other possessions;) or perhaps it would
suit the Democrat still better if Lin
coin would esign, and Davis invited
co govern the North as well as the
South