The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-08-07
Correspondence of tine Potter Journall
Letter from the Capitol
HARRIsBURG. Pa, Aug. |, rs

! Letter from the Capitol
HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug. |, 1866
| DEAR JOURNAL To-day the third scene on
the Clymer programme took place. To-day
! the capital of the Keystone State was desc
Grated by men, not Soldiers, who are IN secret
concavc with the enemies of the Government.
The Cops. lad intended to have grand rally,
but as on other occasions signaly failed Last
night they expected large delegations, but none
came. About O'Clock P. M, an erratic crowd
composed of boys and a few Clymcr men came
marching up Third street, headed by an indi-
vldual playing the bag pipe, and when oppo-
site Union League Rooms gave three cheers for
the democracy of Pennsylvania. L learned
! that this delegation was from Reading. To-day
the entire crowd will not exceed three hundred,
boys included. This forenoon they marched
to the Capitol and entered the House of Rep
resentatIves for the purpose of organizing the
pseudo Convention. The scenes which followed
battle description. Such stamping, wheeling,
putting, was never before heard in that Hall
After some disagreement they organized
Col M'Candless was elected President, sup
ported by long list of Vice Presidents styling
themselves all kinds of military men. After
organizing and making few disloyal speeches
they adjourned to Market Square, where they
met in the afternoon. Gen. W. w. H. Davis
then reported the resolutions. This man is the
Editor of the Doylestown Democrat, news
paper that opposed the Union men during the
war, denouncing the President as a usurper,
and characterized the leaders of our armies as
butchers His resolutions were fraught with
disoya sentiments, and the preamble was a
dastardly attack on the brave boys of the Pitts
burg Convention. They eulogise Johnson and
embody the sentiments which Hester Clymer
and W. w. Wallace enuncated time and again
in the State Legislature. Then they repaired
to the Bolton House and called on the "ISoldicrS'
Friepd'' to address them A friend of the Sol
diers ! An enemy who opposed the Soldiers
as a Senator, and, not only voted against but
denounced them. Clymer commenced his ha-
rangue while laboring under great modification
at the failure of the Convention. He endorsed
the platform of his party, which endorses the
Mcclellan and Pendleton platform adopted at
Chicago.
Remember, Soldiers of Pennsylvania, that
the Chicago platform declared the war for
the Union failure, and the National debt
fraud Such are the principles enunciated by
this rabble which is to-day seeking to destroy
the Republican Party, and to assume the con- |
troll of the Government! After ClymeI, came
w. II. Miller, but as he failed entirely we will
pass him by, to the sublime reflections of his
leisure moments Then came W. A. Wallace,
of Clearfeld county, who repeated the Copper
head alphabet and subsidized. That closed the
izzle as far as speeches were concerned. All
that now remained to tell Of this 'EmemOrable
day" were few faint murmurs in the alleys,
in the Lager Beer saloons, and occasionally a
curse on Holster Clymer, by Berks county
delegate, because Clymer failed to redeem his
promise to keep and feed them.
These men who styled themselves "Soldiers'
were men who enlisted for emergencies, and
bounty jumpers. | was informed by Veteran
Soldier that some of the men from Lebanon
county never enlisted or saw an army. The
man who i0formed me was acquainted with the
Boys from Lebanon and knew whereof he af-
frmed The Democratic party of the Keystone
State know that Hester Clymer cannot be
elected, and no true Soldier in this section of
the State has joined the Cops. a Soldier came
to me the other day and said, 81 am a Demo- |
crat l have voted and helped the Democratic
party am not a Republican, but | neUer ciH
uots for Ciymer, and this Fall | shall vote for
Maj. Gen. John W. Geary % That Soldier only
speaks the sentiments of all the TRUE Soldiers
of Pennsylvania, as far as the voting is con-
Cerned The returns of the counties this Fall
after the election, will show that true Soldiers
are Republicans and vote for Gen, Geary.
Thus have the Democratic party failed in the /
Capital of the State
The true Soldiers of Harrisburg are awake, |
and tonight the Court House was crowded with |
the friends of the Republic. Ex-Governor
Hamilton, of Texas, addressed the meeting.
Hon. SimOu Cameron was elected President of
the meeting, and on taking the chair made
patriotic speech, alluding to the course taken
by President Johnson. He said that the Pres
ident's faithlessness to the party which made
him Vice President, had become portion of
the common scheme of treason. He said, if a
hundred leading Rebels had been seized at the
end of the war,-if jeff. Davis and his immedi-
ate associates had been tried, convicted and
hanged the work would have been over, and
the work o; rehabilitation completed. Gen.
Cameron then introduced Gov. Hamilton. He
exposed Andrew johnson aud his usurpatiOns,
showed the fallacy of his policy and laid bare
his hypocrisy. He proved that the President
is contradiction; that no two of his own ex-
positions of "My Policy" agree. While insist
ing hat the Rebel States are in the Union, the
President failed to recognize the Governor by |
telegraphing to the Attorney General of Louis |
lana, thus setting aside State Government, and
clearly proving the President usurper. He
declared that the men lately in Rebellion were
preparing for an attack on the Government, |
and that these men are instignted by the Pres
ident of the United States. His speech was
vociferously applauded. and the meeting closed
with three cheers for Geary, and three for
Governor Hamilton. PUBLICUs.
ENTITLED TO INCREASE OF PENsIoN.-The fol- |
loUin class of Dersons are entitled TO an m