Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-09-28
COMMUNICATIONS,
For the Gazette.
II. J. Walters, ESQ.

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Messrs. Editors-The patent democratic
peace prints are going into perfect fits of ex
altation of this candidate for the Senate, who
according to their representations is pure,
moral. honest. christian, occupies front DO
sItIon at the bar with any quantity of other
J Buncombe trash which could be annihilated
by three lines of FACTS As we have no de
sire to attack bis pirate character. unless
more nonsense like the above is published in
| the copperhead sheets, in which case we
might have few words TO say per contra,
we cite his political and war record. That
he has been an unscrupulous wire worker for
the party for u number of years is fact so
well known here that it is hardly necessary
to state 1t, and that his course relative 10 the
war has been radically for southern interests,
is equally we'll known. To show this let US
produce few plain facts
Although an attempt is now made to give
him a great deal Of credit for aiding in the
efforts to have the quota of this district redu.
ced, did he not some weeks ago when re-
queSted TO 60 TO Harrisburg in connection
with this very matter, dselaim any knnwl
edge OF the facts in the ca e. and perempto.
rlly refuse tn go, even after the whole case
had cen laid before him. saying at the same
time that he had no taste for the dirty thing
and that he believed resistance to tyrants
Is obedience to God. ." and be felt more like
counSelng men To resist the draft than TO
conform to il, or words to that effect? The
proof for this is ready
AT the time of the opening of this rebel,
lion, on the receipt Of the news uf the capture
OF Fort Sumter which so stirred the people
of the whole North, irrespective of party, did
he not say he was glad the south bad come
out, as this me, MT something?
And on different occasions did he not de
clare that II lie had his business fixed up and
his property sold he would move south?
His bitterness toward the administration
has equalled anything in this part of the
country. Expressions such as this - i'm
beetle and corrupt administration are or have
been common with him And his frequent
declarations about giving the south their
rights, and that it is impossible to conquer
the SOUTH are known by very many in our
town. He as been heard to say that Lincoln
or the administration on three different occa-
suns refused to listen to terms of peace from
authorized sources, and that this was nothing
less than niger war. together with other
expressions worthy of devoted disciple of
John G. Breckinridge
In view of these facts, is there Union
man, and especially Of those who are in the
service of the country. who will support this
man for the position Of Legislator in the good
old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ? No
doubt many In our county will be asked to
vote for him because be lives among us, and
because the Union party have DO candidate
resident in our county Let not our ambition
for a representative from little Miffiin lead
us to select man who if he carry out his
past record, will bring confusion and disgrace
upon US. Better far that we go unrepresent
ed than that we should select one who to day
would rather have JEFF Davis enthroned at
Washington than Abraham Lincoln. Besides
all this we have selected as candidates from
this district two men who have clear records
Oh all the great issues of the Gay-men who
have been and always will be eminently pa
triotic, always ready to vote to sustain the
soldiers and the government in their efforts
to break down the rebellion-whose hearts
are entirely with the government and who
will in no event go south to aid secession,
but who, believing that this is something
more than a Niger ,Cay, will do all in their
power to sustain the country. X