Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-01-18

/ lOuHce tue currency, com pain OF the taxes
and denounce and dodge arbitrary arrests.
70 the patriot cause they were ever prophets
Of evil allure was their word The asst
/ was failure the future would be. IN the
! beginning Of the war this party was in the
majority IN some Of the colonies, and consti-
tuted large minority in all, but as the war
! progressed their numbers constantly dimin-
| ished Many of the leaders We're from time
TO time sent beyond the Zines" and their
estates eonfscated Most Of these settled
in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, right
| handy to the place where the gentleman in
forms US he was born. This party was cal
! led tories, and il this war is but repetition
of the war OF the Revolution as the gen
fleman intimates, where are their present
representatives?
Again exclaims the gentleman, ''Yo You can
not subjugate eight million people. /
know not which most to condemn il this eX-
| preston, Il speak of course without persCn
| al applicatlOn,l Its Inslnuatlon OF falsehOod
or its confession Of cOwardice. The United
| States does not propose to subjugate any
! portion of its people, but only to exact obe-
dience to law irom all. 1t is this misrepre-
sentatiOn OF the purpose o. the Government
| that still keeps alive the dying flames OF the
/ rebellion. | can go turtscr with perfect
| truth, and say that it was this misrepresen
lGLlOtI lIIlI tiSlttu Jilp.C LhillGS Inst itG
! shareholders were told that 1t was the pur-
pose Of the Administration 10 destroy their
! personal and political rights next they were
reminded that they were proud, brave, chiv-
! alric men, and then tauntngiy asked II they
were going to submit. They were thus far
| iy coaxed aud gOaded into rebellion. EX-
! cept for this misrepresentation the Union
| people would have been in large majority
| in all the slave States, and despite it they
are in a majority IN more than half OF them
| to-day if they could be heard. But they
are gagged bound hand and foot by 4 dcS
| potism so cruel and so mean, so thorough
and so efficient, that even the gentleman
| from New York has no fault to find with it.
| The country is too much engaged now with
| the immediate actors in the drama to look
| behind the screens for the authors and
promptors of the play But when these ac-
tors have disappeared from the stage, gone
| down to graves never to be honored, or wan
| dering among strangers never to be loved
| in the peaceful future, when lnqulstlon
| aiders. and abetfor3 of this great crime. the
| two classes so often coupled in Genunclau0n
| in this Hall, the Abolitionists Of the North,
and the ire-eaters of the South, viii be
| scarcely noticed, but the quiet historian will
point his slow, unmoying finger" at those
northern leaders who for fifteen years have
| deceived the South and betrayed the North.
They will stand alone The large majority
that now gathers around them, moved there
to more in hopes to escape. the severe hard
! ships Of the war than from any love OF them
or their position, will have melted away
from their support like dissolving, ice be
meath their feet, and well will it be for their
posterity if they can manage then, like BY
| ron 5 wrecks. to sink into the
"Depths with bubbling CroRn,
Without grave, unknelled, uncotined, and un-
known"
Subjueate the South No, sir; it is the
purpose as it is the duty of the Government
to liberate the South, to drive out the usurp-
ers. and to restore to the deiuded and betray-
ed masses the blessings of free Republic.
But the gentleman not only misrepresents
the purpose of the Government to lnfiame
the insurgents, but also msrepreSents the
extent of the rebellion to discourage the
people in their efforts to subdue it. Where
does he find his eight million hostile peo-
ple? Allowing for West Virginia and East
Tennessee. the whole white population OF
the eleven States that pretended to secede
does not exceed one half that number. A
| large portion of these are now within the
Union lines protesting no more hostility to
the Government than the gentleman HIM
self. Ofthose that remain under the power
|
some localities more than half, do not de
sire a separate Government, but would
gladly accept the protection and privileges
of the United States II sure that they were
beyond the reach Of their present oppressors.
| Where then | ask again, does the gentle
man find his eight million people? Does ne
mean to include the colored population oi
those States? | suppose not; they are to be
tolerated only as brutes. lie would not OF
course include them under the head OF pe0ple.
do not suppose he intended to include
any portion of his own party L have a
right to conclude then, that this numDer
was only slashng estimate 10 make bad
case With half the white and all the
black population In these seeded States,
it would be very strange If the Government
| were not strong enough TO compel submIs-
sion from the rest. The gentleman himself
gives some little encouragement. The little
State of Maine lin which he tells US just in
this connection he was born is match for
England, France, and Russia, and he final
ly adds for all Europe combined.
Now, sir, if this little State which had
only the honor of rocking his cradle, that
claimed him only.in long troeks and pet
ticoats, could withstand all Europe SIN
ple-handed, is it not reasonable TO suppose
that combined with the State of his adop-
ton, the great State of New York, that
possesses him in all the glory of pantaloon-
ed manhood, it could fog the world and the
''rest of mankind in which l suppose
the rebels would be included? Maine can be
relied upon for the contest so can New
York, since no perfdious hand now holds
the helm, and the gentleman himself
gives some hope that he may be goaded IN
to the support of his struggling, suffering
country. There is point, he tells us, be
; yond which his forbearence will not go. /