Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-09-21
The oopperhead Candidate for Vice Pres

The Oopperhead Candidate for Vice Pres
ident.
The first telegram we had from Chicago
announced that Mr.. POWELL of Kentucky
was nominated for Vice President. but this
proved to be mistaken. lowell was the
third highest ON the first ballot; but on the
second GEO. III. PFNDLEToN. of Ohio. was
nominated. He is of the same stripe with
POWELL, and owes his nomination chiefly
TO the fact that POWELL could not get the
concentrated vote of Kentucky, and Pm
DLEToN was POWELL ) second choice Mr..
PENDLEToN Is worthy of POWELL 5 prefer
ence. Both are original Secessionists, and
the record of the two Is about as much alike
as two peas. Both have been in Congress
Tor several years, Mr.. PENDLET0N 5 term
running back to Dec 1851, Mr.. PowELLs
to Dee. 1889. Since they have been on
terms Of intimate fellowship. and THEN opin-
ions are without material difference. Like
POWELL. PENDLETON has voted for nothing
which looked like defending the L Union from
the assaults of armed Rebels. He has voted
against ali measures which had for their OBJ
ject the strengthening of the Government in
the contest with its enemies, and has stead
| lily devoted himself to the propagation OF
the ideas with which JEFF Davis desires
that our people shall be deiuded to their de
struction.
Mr.. PENDLEToN has been uniformly the
friend OF Traitors and has manifested this
by both acts and words When Mr. BUCH-
ANAN, in 1861, insisted that the Govern
ment should collect the revenue off Charles
ton harbor, and nominated Mr.. MCINTYRE,
of Iork as Collector, Mr., PENDLETON dis
sented from this policy, and put bis dissent
on record Iii speech. If Mr.. BUCHANAN
was right, Mr.. PENDLEToN was wromr
We believe that Mr.. PENDLEToN was the
only Northern man who opposed Mr.. BUCH-
ANAN 5 policy in this respect.
In his speech in the House of Represen-
tatives, Jan. lS 1864, Ito be found in the
Appendix to the Congressional Globe, End
session, 36th Congress, page 70-721 Mr.
PENDELToN opposed, at length, bill fur
| ther to provide for the collection OF duties
on imports being substantially the same
bill which under ike circumstances was pas.
sed in General jackson 5 time. He insisted
that the Government had no right to enforce
It's laws III the seceeded States, but urged
Congress to pass certain laws which he
thought would settle the disc0ntents He
then added
IF you viii not; if you find Cancellation
impossible; if your differences are so great
that you cannot OF will not reconcile them,
then, 'fentienen ut The sece3tag States
''depaH j4 peuce; !; let them estdJ{jSh their
. Government and enptre, and 1rork ont
''the destiny acc0rdtag to tie ,c6sdons ,chich
: God has giren them.
March End. 1861, motion to suspend
the rules and take up this bill was negativ-
ed, ltwo-thirds being required, yeas lO3,
nays 81. Mr. PENDLETON was one Of the
e. nays. Branch, Burnett, De Jarnette,
Edmundson, Garnet, Simms, Wright of
Tennessee, and Others, now in the Rebel
army OF the Rebel Congress, voted with
him.
This record is the the key to his whole
subsequent course. lie was tor acQuiescing in
Secession for consentng to DiSuniOn for
allowing any dissatisfied State or States, at
will, 20 leave the Union
Ho.s long would the Government have
hung together with such plincil lie admit
ted ?
Twelve days before this speech was deliy
cred, Mayor Wood recommended that New
York City should secede and declare herself
a Free City
Two days before, the Democrats OF Phla-
dephia passed resolutions threatening the
secession Of Pennsylvania from the Union.
Ali over the West, other lad men were in
trguing to the same end.
At that moment, an intrigue was going on
to form Pacific Republic out of California
and Oregon, and Sc alarmingiy that the Gov
ernment was obliged to send General Sum
ner secretly TO California to take the com
mand from Albert Sidney John.on, which
he accomplished, thus stopping Revolution
on that coast.
To all these, Mr.. PENDLEroN virtually
said, proceed with your schemes, pass ordi-
uances of Secession, the government shall
not interfere establish your empire, and
conduct it as you may have wisdom SO
to do
Such is the record of the gentlemen whom
patriotic Americans are asked to make the
Vice President of the Nation-a man who
believes we are no Nation, but mere aggre-
gate of State corporations, each one of
y hich has the right to leave US at pleasure,
and we no right of sell. REPRESENTATION and
who has not said ord, or done deed to
prove his detestation of the Rebellion, or
disaproval Of the wickedness in which it
originated, or his sympathy with the people
in their noble resolves and sufferings to pre-
serve their National Unity and Power, as
well for the safety of themselves as the Sc |
curity of their children and the prosperity |
of generations yet to come. A kind Provl- |
dence will save the United States of Amerl- |
ca from the calamity of his success. Gettys-
b1Tg Star.