Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-09-05


chair he told loyal delegation from
the State of Louisiana, in language
more strong than | can put it, that
treason was crime, that it should be
punished, and that traitors were Grim
inals and should suffer the penalties of
the law
How has he evinced the sincerity of
his protestations? You that have had
friends that suffered at Libby, at Belle
Isle and at Andersonville- go not
around the bush but | appeal to your
hearts, and in that way shall endeavor
to strike at the root of this controversy
i ask you before me how has Andrew
Johnson made good his declarations?
Is it by teasting Jeff Davis on the lux
uries of the land, as they could be OBJ
tanned from the best market at For
tress Monroe? Is it by furnishing him
with the thickest of three-ply carpets
in order that the footballs of our SOL
diers, as they mounted guard, might.
not disturb the delicate nerves of the
"stern statesman"-he that murdered
your prisoners, he that has been the
cause Of all the sorrow and anguish
that has robbed many times ten thou
sand households iii this land of ours
of peace and happiness? But having
neglected even to attempt to make
treason odious, Andrew Johnson now
declares that he has taken issue with
the great Union party Of the land =
the party that has borne your flag in
triumph, that has stood by the State
administration in Pennsylvania and
the National Administration every
where He declares now that he takes
issue with you in the person Of your
Congress, because, forsoOth, the South
ern people have not been represented
in Congress. Represented in Congress,
forsooth! Who is to represent them?
The men who shot you down in the
field? The men who assisted others
to shoot you down in the field? The
men who voluntarily took part in the
rebellion and aided it in every way
in their power? Are those men to be
represented or to represent others in
Congress? Are those men TO control
the destinles of the country in the fu
ture. [Cries of "No! noH] [ hope
not
The speaker here referred to the issue ap
parently insisted upon by the other sido,
who said that this was white mans Cow
ernment. Did they mean by that that the
loyal blacks who had stood by the Govern
ment and saved that Government the neces
sity of calling upon the speaker and many
whom he saw before him from going into
the hetd-that they were not to be protected
IN their civil rights, but were to be shot down
for no crime but simply for daring to hope
that Americas banner might forever be the
emblem of American liberty? If they meant
this, aud the question became one between
loyal blacks and disloyal rebels. the speaker
declared himself for the loyal blacks. He
believed the country was entitled to indemn
ni6cation for the past and security for the
future. He continued as follows:
l have word to say in regard to the pres
ent campaign. | was first elected to the
Senate from the district which ! now have
the honor to represent in the year 1889 and
in the winter of that year | first met your
esteemed fellow. .townsman; and do not IN
tend to say anything disparagingly about my
friend Clymer, because socially l have moth
ing to say against him. | say that first
met him when he was a member of the rev
was then elected to fill the unexpired term OF
Mr. Nunemacher, who died in the session Dt
1860, and all that | knew Mr. Clymer to dc
that year was to deliver a eulogy on his pre-
decessor, and which he did very handsomely.
But | charge here to dav in Berks c1unty
charge here tu'day at the home of Hiestel
Clymer; | charge here and now, that he never
gave single vote from that time down to the
time he resigned, which was not against the
Administrations. both State and National, IL
every effort made by them to preserve tht
integrity of the Union. He not only voted
against paying you. soldiers, four dollars pc
month extra, to be paid out of the munihcen
| treasury of the State of Pennsylvania
| measure by the way, which was introduced
| by myself-but he voted against allowing
| you to vote, and against everything that wa
calculated to encourage you in the field.
speak earnestly, my friends. because | saw
this and know of what l speak. 1t canno
be disputed by even what is called 9TH
Reading Bible" Laughter.
Now who do we present as a candidat,
/ against Clymer? Maj. Gen. John W. Gear,
and for him give three cheers the cheer
were given and repeated "a man who neve
faltered in any official position in which b,
was placed-a man who refused TO cringe t.
! the slave power that brought on this rebel
lion, at the instance and dictaton of tn
most to be'pitied man that now lives-Jame
Buchsuan-and for him three groans =
! [Groans | say that this man. who Tough
in sixty battles and was wounded in four
whose son was killed by his side, who wen
out in the beginning of the war; and VIII
never faltered in anything he undertook
worthy to be the champion of such an a:
semblage as this. Great applause.
By this auspicous opening of the eau
paign in eastern Pennsylvania let it go fort
to the people everywhere that human libert
shall not be stricken down in the house
it's pretended friends, and that this grea
cause of liberty and progress shall now S