Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-06-28
BY s. J. ROW
CLEARFIELD, PA, JUNE %, 1865.
THE NEWS,

EpScCH 10 d utttSdtioi VI .oouth
a very plain ard satisfactory expression Of
his opinion on slavery and the right of
State to secede. He says, "a State cannot
90 out of the Union, and therefore none of
them having gone out we must deal with the
question of reconstruction and restoration.
The institution of Slavery made the issue,
and we might as well meet..it as wise and pa
triotic men. Al institutions must be subor-
dinate to the Government, and slavery has
given way. He could not If he acould re-
mand it to its former status. He knew that
some whom he now addressed looked upon
him as great peoples man and a radical,
but however unpleasant it might be to them,
he had no hesitation IN saying that before
he entered upon this subject he was oppos-
ed to monopolies and perpetual entails. We
had monopoly South in slaves. Being
providentialiy brought to his present condi-
ton, he intended to exert the power and in
fuence of tie Government SO as to place in
power the popular part of the nation. The
Constitution Of the United States, in speak
ing OF persons to be chosen as Representa-
lives II Congress, says that the electors in
each State shall have the qualifications re-
quisite for electors cf the most numerous
branch of the State Legislature. All the
States were in the Union, but portion of
them rebelled. There is Constitutional
obligation resting upon the United States
Government to put down rebellion, suppress
.y,crr nd ra,al Tho c1o
went into the war as slaves, and came out as
freemen of color They have rubbed out
the nature and character of slavery. He
would say to the delegation that slavery is
gone as an institution. There was no hope
that the people Of South Carolina would be
admitted into the Senate or House of Rer-
resentatives until they had afforded evidence
by their conduct of this truth. -
The author of the Infamous advertise
ment which appeared in the Selma, tAla-
bama) Adrertiser, of Dec. lst, 1865, offer
ing one million of dollars to procure the as
sination of Lincoln, johnson and Seward,
was brought to Washington on June 2lst,
under arrest. The scoundrelsnam is Gayle.
He is lawyer by profession, and resides at
Catawba, about ten miles from Selma He
admits that he wrote the advertisement and
paid for its insertion in the Selma paper,
but claims that it was intended merely as
joke upon the community. Two compost
tors, employed in the Adrertiser office, one
of whom placed the advertisement in type,
were also brought along as witnesses against
Gayle. 1t is to be hoped that this wretch
will be punished as he deserves.
The assassin Atzerott, on Wednesday, sub
mitted to the Court before which he was on
trial, statement, or confession, admitting
that he was one of a party engaged to cap
ture though not to Kill the Presiden, and
stating that on the evening of the assassina-
tion he met Booth and Payne, and Booth
proposed to him that he should take charge
Of Vice President johnson, while Payne
should take Mr. Seward, and Booth him
self would attend to President Lincoln and
Gen. Grant. Though the diabolical wretch
declares that he refused to take part in this
arrangement, his confessisn only serves to
remove the faintest doubt that he was really
one of the party engaged in the fendish
work and to rivet the crime upon the assas-
sin of Mr. Seward
Mrs. VIM. III. Seward died at Washing
ton on June 2lst, of an illness caused by
care and exertion for her family since the
terrible night of the 14th of April She
was most estimable Christian lady, and
her unexpected death is hard blow to her
already deeply stricken family.
The Ohio Union State Convention met at
Columbus yesterday, and nominated Gen.
J. D. Cox as candidate for Governor by ac-
clamation. A. S. M'Durney, of Warren
was also nominated for Lieutenant Governor
and j. Brinkerhoff for Attorney General.
President johnson has issued a proclama-
tion appointing Lewis E. Parsons Provision
s. 6ogernor of Alabama Its terms are
precisely the same as, and identical in lam
guage with, those issued on Monday for
Mississippi and Texas
Edmund Rufin, Sr., of Virginia, COM
mitted suicide on last week, at his sons res
idence near Danville. This venerable ruf.
fan fired the first gun in the attack on Sum-
fer in 1861. Surely, the way of the trans
gressor is hard
A fresh impetus has recently been given
to the gold mining excitement in Australia
by reported extraordinary successes. One
company recently struck a.lead mine which
yields At the rate Of million and quarter
dollars per year