Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-10-05

/ we must put our fooU on the tyrant 5 neck,
and destroy it. The Democratic government
must be raised to power, and Lincoln, with
/ his Cabinet OF rogues, thieves and spies be
with him? 4 voice-'Send him here. and
! III make coffin for him, d-n him Yes,
d-n him and his miserable followers. [
/ should like to see the noble George b. Me-
| Clelan as President, cheers, and that great
| Democrat, Horatio Seymour, should occupy
| the position of Secretary OF State.
Hon. Mr.. Trainor of Ohio said
| ''If you wish for peace, great, glorious
peace, vote for the nominee of the Demo
cratic Convention. Now the President has
called for 5OO,O 600 more. Shall he have
them: No, no, from the audience. The
| Democratic Party want peace; for if we
don t get it we viii TO submit to a military
despot He would urge the people to be
treemen, and hurl Abraham Lincoln and his
minions from power There is no difference
between a War Democrat and an Abolition
| ist. They are both links in the same sau-
sauge made out Of the same dog. Should
resistance be offered at the polls to prevent
our suffrage, let that resistance be met with
resistance.
Mr.. O. f. Perrine said
Let Us say to these States, come back
with all your rights and not say to them as
| Abraham the first and Abraham the last
cheers he said, that you can come back If
you will give up Your slaves Cheers. We
have been told that the South had no re-
sources. that their soldiers are naked and
unfed. If they fight so we'll without any
thing to eat or wear, what in God 5 name
will become of us il they ever get anything
to year and eat. Cheers. He said that
Lincoln already felt insecure, and that Mrs.
Lincoln made him sleep on the back side Of
the bed against the wall, for fear he would
be gobbled up. Cheers but Mrs Davis
let jeff, sleep on the fore side and run a
round loose Laughter and renewed cheers
| We ask that the people shall bow down to
the will Of the people, and they have willed
that George b. Mcclellan shall be nomina-
ted and elected Immense cheers. Then
we believe, one BY one, the stars will come
back upon our banner, and believe that that
concern at Washington viii be buried. y
Cheers.
Isaiah Rynders said:
He had denounced the unholy crusade
against our Southern brethren even before
the first regiment was moved Southward.
He saw the inevitable result Of war-the
waste, and blood and tears it would entail,
and to this day he could say, and he said it
with pride, that he had never said one word
against the brave, the noble, the generous,
the chyalrous people Of the South, and he
trusted in God he never would. Nearly
halt a million Of these noble men had fallen
in bloody graves, bat they remain umcon-
quered. Cheers. They can meyer be sub
dued. rs they are part OF ourown flesh and
blood Loud applause Millions more of
men may be torn from their homes to fall in
the fight, but the task viii fail, as it ought
to do. The war is carried on for the niger,
and in God nHme let the Abolitionists fl Int
it out. We shall nominate our candidate on
Monday, and place him squarely upon a
| platform oi. peace, aud sweep the nation like
a whirlwind. Those who count upon di-
vision Of the Democratic party viii be diSap
| pointed We are one and ali for peace, and
with this lnaGic word upon our banner we
shall sweep over the course, aud roll into
! oblivion the back negro loving, negrO-hug-
| gine worshirpers OF old Abe Lincoln. .
Hon, Benjamin Allen, of New y ork, said:
''The people will soon rise and if they
cannot put Lincoln out of power by the bal
lot they viii by the bullet. Loud cheers. !
D. H. Mahoney of Dubuque, Iowa, said :
'sThe aggression of the North, followed
| pgrsistently for thirty years, compelled the
South to Withdraw, much against their will.
10 Atb lntht tIstSh NDtA IluSI ICDudidlC bliC
! disgraccful treatment they received, and
attempted degradation We must elect our
candidate. and then holding out our hands
to the South, invite them to come and sit
| again in our Union circle. \ yoice-'Sup-
pose they won Gomez? If they will not
| come to us, then am IN favor of going to
them Loud cheers Our Constitution
| can be made acceptable to them, and then [
| have the assurance that they will return and
forget the past. You live in day when
men and not pigmies are needed. These
| are the times that try mems souls, and |
might add, that they will try their nerves
| / trust that the Democracy, which has new
er yet failed the country, will not talter now !;
| but remembering the cause for which their
fathers fought and died, be ready to emu
! late their example.
| Mr.. Paine OF Missouri said
I'VE are tired of this war That 5 So |
| He came to represent the views of Missouri,
/ which were peace and the Union as 1t was
| They wanted no Lincoln conditions and
| notifications of the Constitution, but would
| saw to our Southern brethren, We want
/ YOU to return and exercise the same rights
| which YOU have been despoiled of, and which
! the Constitution empowers You to possess.
| They would welcom them back, as the faith
er Of old did the prodigal son-without re-
| serve. He was sorry to saythat IN this very
/ Convention. where they had met TO promu-
gate these doctrines. there were men who
wished to throw a firebrand into their midst
by a.factious opposition to Mcclellan. Such
! men We're false to Democracy, to their coun,
| try. and to their common humanity, and
were simply traitors Did the people want
draft? Not by id sight. ] Then
they must upset the present government at at
] IEy,'-L;,o.t,r, THE d1rnastv had already