Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-08-22
THE INTENDED FRAUD.

The distinction between evidences of sin
cere penitence and utterances coined in view
of an emergency, and for a special purpose,
should be borne steadily In mind, more
especially in view of the high game being
played at Philadelphia. The Convention
purged itself of Vallandigham and his set
solely because it would be impolitic to per-
NIT them to SIT as members. This act of
the convention evinces the expertness of
the managers rs,-but the choosing of traitors
and copperheads to go to Philadelphia was
high proof of the actual state of things, and
the real danger. However the convention
may strive to cover this up and suppress all
appearance OF it there, the danger remains
and viii grow, and is all the more to be
dreaded for the attempt to hide 1T. a
masked battery Is more to be feared because
more destructive than an open one. 's-
In the Philadelphia convention Louisiana
has a certain number of mild hammered
gentlemen, consenting for the time to abate
the habitual expression of treasonable SEN
timents, s,-whereas the true representative
of Louisiana, as a reconstructed State claim
ing equality in the Union, is the New Or
leans massacre, the terrible fact that peace
able aud orderly citizens are compelled to
fee on account of their Unionism-a state
of things striklngly similar to that which
IL.
1t is a stupendous fraud the Philadelphia
convention has deliberately undertaken to
perpetrate. Governor Orr says the South
accepts the verdict of the war, is peaceable
and loyal, deserves to be treated well, and
would act as she should act if permitted to
re enter, in perfect equality, the Union.
How must the words, In view of the daily
evidence of their falsity, blister his tongue |!
We refer not to isolated cases, to occasional
disturbances resulting from disordered So
cial condition; but 20 the glaring fact that al
most the entire military force of the country
scarcely suffices to protect Union men from
the growing rebellious. spirit all over the
South. We refer not to irresponsible or
distorted statements, but to the testimony
proceeding from among officers and living
witnesses In the persons of tugitives fleeing
for their lives, bringing with them warnings
by Nlgllant Committees and self-appointed
| regulators" whose Office it is to ''clean
OUT Union men, Such facts as these told
us what was the Southern spirit immediate
ly preceding the rebelhon-they prove
what it is now; and they are no more to be
disregarded or treated lightly now than they
were then.
The Philadelphia Convention is stupen-
dons and desperate scheme to mask the de-
formities of the South But it would be as
reasonable to attempt to mask volcano by
throwing blanket over its mouth, as to un-
dertake to conceal the facts as shown in the
eruptive RIGHTEOUSNESS prevalent and grow
ing in nearly every Southern State, with
speeches and resolutions at Philadelphia
The fugitiyes and expelled Union men, ar
irving In Washington, are the living wit
nesses of damnable truth which thou
sand Philadelphia Conventions, with eyer
SO much clap-trap of South Carolina and
Massachusetts arm-in-arm, cannot blot out
-Ptttsburgh Con,mercial