The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-09-29


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DEM. MASS MEETING AT HUNTING
poN-R. L. Johnston, Esq, Congressman
Erpectant, ON the Stump.-The SO called
Democracy had mass meeting at Hun
tingdon on Thursday, 18th inst, whereat
"thousands' of vociferous freemen were
present according to one authority, but
onlv stwo or thee hundred" according to
another. This question of numbers is of
but minor Importance, and can interest
none of our readers, SO we pass on. Sew
eral speakers unbosomed themselves to
the "thousands," OF the "two or three
hundred as the case may be, among the
which was our tellow-townsman and op-
position candidate for Congress in this
district, R. L. Johnston, Esq We find a
succinct report of his effort in the Hun
tingdon Monitor, Dem.,) which we trans
fer to our columns. Thus:
ar L. Johnston, Esq, took the stand amid
much enthusiasm
OF course.
"He said that as he expected to speak to
.Io,, in tha evening he woulH only detain
them with very few remarks.
Which was very considerate.
-"He complained of Lincoln's inability to
prosecute the war to q successful termina-
ton,
Time is indispensably necessary to chat
end Decisive victory, unlike mush-
room, is not the growth of single night,
1t was seven years before signal success
crowned our arms in the Revolution
Wait:
-"that he had blundered along blind through
more than three years of war and blood, and
that when he would again open his eyes he
would find that he was farther from the end
than when be started.
The speaker hadn't then heard of Sker-
man and Atlanta and Sheridan and the
Shenandoah Valley
--"He reviewed M'Clellan's military record,
Which, In one sense, wasn't very hard
Job, and in another sense was an extreme
ly hard job:
tread extracts from his instructions to his
subordinates commanding the different de-
Partments,
Did he read extracts from Gen. MC.'s
letter of instruction to his superior officer,
the President, wherein he egotistically
and impudently attempted to dictate the
policy of the Government touching sla-
very and other questions
repeatedly reminding them to bear in view
that the only object of the was the res
toratiol OF the Union,
And the aggrandizement of George B.
Mcclellan
ITO say very little about politics and the
negro,
In this, wasn't Little Mac guilty of a
shameful attempt to abridge the ''right of
free speech ?''
--"and to impress upon the citizens of the
rebel territory through which they should
pass scith respect for the Constitution and
laws,
This was the kid glove theory of put
ting down the rebellion. The kid glove
theory was followed by the Government
for year and half. Grand result
transfer of hostilities from Virginia to
Maryland in 1862:
-"cautioning them against vexatious mill
tary arrests,
When Gen. Mcclellan was the first man
to suggest and carry into execution this
very system Of "military arrests as wit
ness his wholesale arrest Of the Maryland
Legislature
land the speaker concluded that Gen. NJ
Clellan was by far Lincolns superior in the
attributes of craftsmanship,
Not visible to the naked eye:
land the best military man of the age
Always excepting Grant, Sherman,
Sheridan, Hancock, Butler, Burnside,
Hooker, and a score or two other Gen
erals
-"He advocated a settlement of our national
troubles by conciliation and compromise.
that CONSUMPTION and burdensome taxation
might at once cease"
"Conciliation the rebels have
been invited back into the Union, un-
punished of their heinous crimes, time
and again; "compromise" the head