Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-08-29
Revolution us IT?


sition then assumed We quoted from Mont
gomery Blair's speech at Reading on July
18TH in which he said, II warn my hearers
that they are on the eve of another civil
war, and the threat of the Ciearfeld Re
publican to again renew the irrepressible
" conflict And now, in further proof of
our heretofore expressed opinions of the in
tentlons and purposes of the Copperhead
leaders who sympathised with the rebels
during their late unsuccessful effort to de-
stroy the Union, We quote from the address
of the l4th of August Philadelphia Conven-
ton, as follows: 3ll feai9J siil.ofa'
The ten millions of Americans who live
in the South would be unworthy citizens of
a free country, degenerate sonsof heroic
ancestry, unfit ever to become guardians of
the rights and liberties bequeathed to US by
the fathers and founders OF this Republic,
If they could accept, with ,uncomplaining
submissiveness, the humiliations thus sought
to be imposed upon them. Resentment of
injustice IS dttcays and euery,chere essential
to freedom ~,
Here we have direct appeal to the in
trepidity and passions of the Southern reb-
els, in view of the memory of their heroic
ancestry and their chagrin at their ingiori-
Gus failure to establish their seudo slave
confederacy, to revenge themselves upon
the heroes who stood by the Nations flag
through four years civil war-to again
raise the paricidal hand and under the plea
of of,''resentment of injustice plunge the as
sassins' dagger into the hearts of the patri-
otic and gallant men who prevented the de-
struction ofthe Union by Southern traitors
Pertinent to this subject we also cite the
resolutions of the Reading Copperhead Con-
vention, in which the leaders of that party
declare that 'sthe President is sworn to en-
" force the laws, and in which they call upon
him ito make the Congress what they
conceive it should be, and ''adjure him to
''convihce the radical disunionists (members
"of Congress) by ,cord and deed that they
must conform to the Whistles and obey the
dictates of the Copperhead leaders and reb-
els, who now profess to be the especial and
exclusive friends and supporters of Presi-
dent johnson. Whether the President will
comply with their modest (?) demands, time
alone will reveal; yet, Judging from the
tone of his speech to the committee appoint
ed to present him with an official copy of
the proceedings of the Philadelphia Con-
vention, the President seems somewhat in
clined to carry out their dictatorial mani
festo. On that occasion he said, .
I'VE have seen hanging upon the verge
n nnt ~ b<N1. ll,l
or which assumes to be, the Congress of the
United States. ''-r to-- sgs aa .as.-.
Ifthe President is not inclined to carry
out the edicts of the Copperhead leaders in
Pennsylvania, why use such language? Why
denominate our National Legislature as "a
body called, or which assumes to be, the
Congress of the United States p Why in
innate that that body was. a mere fungus
hanging upon the verge of the Govern.
ment, when he has heretofore recognized
1t as the legitimate law making power of the
Union By sending to it annual, special and
veto messages, and treaties for ratification !?
There is, we opine, but one soiutionto these
questions. The expressions used in refer
ence to that Congress were hardly accident
al, but designedly. If so, they have but
| one meaning. They were intended, so to
speak, as the entering wedge of another
revolution perhaps, as a hint to his co-ad-
tutors to prepare the way for the treating of
the Congress of the United States, upon its
re assembling in December next, after the
| manner of the Louisiana Convention, when
| it convened in New Orleans on the Both of
July last If this is not the solution Of the
Presidents language. what is its meaning?
wait and see,' is an old maxim, and
we will obey the injuction but, in the
mean time, it is the duty of every patriotic
citizen to be watchful of passing events, so
as to be prepared to meet any emergency
that may arise. Vigilance, is the price of
liberty" and hence we trust that all the
netarious schemes of the enemies of our be-
loved land may be frustrated, and the Union
perpetuated to the end of time. Go
--~----i 81
Hester Clymer could not stand the pres
sure in Reading during the monster Geary
demonstration in that city on "Wednesday
last, Heleftthe city early that day for Potts
town. Poor Clymer!, he and his party are
dwindling into nothingness more and more
every day. 1t is an i'll omen that drives a
Berks county Democrat from the limits of
that stronghold during Republican mass
meeting. Telegraph ~ - al
CRowED TOO sooN.-A dispatch was
read in the Philadelphia Convention, on
Aug l4th. that the Copper-J Johnson dele
gate to Congress from Colorado, was elected.