Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-09-05
The kind of Fellows they had at the DO
Little Convention.

The kind of Fellows they had at the Do
Little Convention.
Said Senator Doolittle in his speech
at the Wigwam:
Six long weary years As | look
back, oh ! what an interval it is of
blood, of agony, and tearsr
All, Mr.. Dolittle, what an interval
OF crime, and blood, murder and star
vation of patriots; and now you and
your followers of the President would
have these murderers rule the friends
and brothers of the murdered victims
Leb. Courier.
Governor Watts, a delegate to the
| Philadelphia rebel Convention from
Alabama, wrote letter from the De
partment of Justice, in Richmond,
| (the Department that had charge of
the starving Of Union prisoners and
the murder of Union mem dated 18th
Sept, 1868, in which he said:
IF | had the power | would build
up wall Of fire between Yankeedom
and the Confederate States there to burn
for ages, as a monument Of the folly, a0ick-
cdneS$ and Uandolisns Of the Puritanic
race
We don't know ws,sagAat progress Watts
made in Phila owards getting
his fire under "a he and his fci,
low murderers will doubtless get fire
| enough in the future.-D
Hon. H V. Johnson was delegate
to Philadelphia from Georgia We
regret to say that he was not serena
ded, or he would have doubtless made
a speech and reiterated his honest SEN
timents expressed to the Georgia Leg
! islature, when he was elected Il rebel
Senator in Congress. He then said:
we cannot yield if we would. Yield
to Federal authorities, never-to vas
salagc and subjugation The bleach
ing bones OF 100000 gallant soldiers
slain in battle wouid be clothed in tongues
If tire to curse n everlasting imfdmy the
man who 1ohiSper& yjeld.'
Will Mr.. Johnson just whisper to
the North his explanation of the above?
Has the mission of J Wilkes Booth
modified the everlasting infamy of
yielding to vassaIage of the Federal
authorities Ghambersburg Repository,
The Philadelphia Convention was
opened with prayer on the first day by
the Rev Mr. McDonough. He was
touchingly fervent in his supplcation
for Andrew Johnson, and mingled
prayer and praise for such ruler, in
the following language:
May his (Johnson's) health and life
be precious in Thy sight; make him a
great and lasting blessing to the coun,
try over which, in Thy wonderful .taV-
orabie Providence he has been called
to bear rule
Couldn't Mr.. McDonough have just
said in plain English-'W thank Thee
for Thy wonderful favorable Provi-
dence in giving the Nation John Wilkes
BoothE-D
The South Carolina and Massachu-
setts farce is greeted with merciless
ridicule by the bread and butter bri-
gade, of which the following is an
F amusing specimen:
Signs and Symbols. must have
: been a thrilling spectacle when Massa-
chusetts and South Carolna-repre-
, sented by Gen Couch and Gov. Orr
entering the Philadelphia Convention
, arm in arm. One enthusiastic obser.
, yer, with a strong faculty for simili
, tudes, recognized in this occurrence
2 the fulfilment of the prediction con
cerning the lion (couchant) and the
+ lamb probably Gov. Orr looked IT.
a tie sheepish) lying together,-the ardent
/ affection they professed for each Other
: sufficing for the lying. 1t is also un
5 derstood, though the published des
patches do not state it, that they walk
ed under one mbrella-that being re
garded as the most perfect symbol o.
unanimity, suggesting two souls with
but a single thought Chow to escape
' the rain-viz: the reign of Stevens &
s Coz aud in compliment to the South
+ the umbrella was cottoR-thereby alsC
e denoting the newborn disposition o
o the Northern and Southern represen
tatives to cotton altogether. The col
. or of the umbrella was very approprl
: ately green. -Mobile Times.
t General Custer, speaking of the cal
+ for the soldiers convention at Cleve
o land, said:
: 'He wanted to have gathering o
the soldiers Of both armies, who hat
been fighting each other so long, ant
b who were willing to shake hands, (or
V giue each other, and let bygones be by
If cones.
It How touching it would have beel
70 to see the one-armed hero pordoned o.
D the rebel who fought four years t.
- ruin the country, or to see the Patrlo
! who was starved at Andersonvllle 0
10 Belle Isle forgiven by has jailor