The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-15
Democratic Ratification Meet
ing---The First Gun of the
Campaign---and a Pop
Gun at that!
WHERE THE LoAvEs AND FISHES ARE THOUGHT
TO BE, THERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS
GATHERED TOGETHER II

uCdI OlSCuSScu UOtn olASS VI ihG pOlII
ical questions of the day, he has made
arrangements by which all, or a majority,
of the mass meetings to be held through
out the county during the canvass, by
either. party, will be fully and fairly re-
ported in these columns. Without fur
ther preface, and knowing that his efforts
to enlighten and instruct will be duly ap-
preeiated, he submits the subjoined notes
of the late Democratic ratification meeting
held here to general consideration j
In pursuance of callAromulgated at
least a month prior to the meeting of the
Democratic State Convention, the Demoo-
racy of Cambria county, O portion of them,
assembled In the Court House, Ebensburg,
on Wednesday, evening last, to ratify the
nomination of Hester Clymer, endorse
the reconstruction policy of President
johnson, and perform such other business
as might be brought forward.
The meeting was called to order by
George w. Oatman, Esq, Chairman of
the Democrats County Committee, who
said:
"Fellow-citizens, that ours is a great
country, is undeniable. / myself have trav-
eled over a considerable portion of it, and
think it m; ght with great propriety be said of
it that it is a cery great country. Look at
our rivers, and lakes, and mountains, and
then tell me-where is their equal (Cries
of hear hear y Not in Canada; for it is a
well attested fact that the rivers there are
rivulets, the lakes lugoons, and the mountains
nolehills. Not in Mexico; or history, as
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tells lie. Not in England, not in France,
not in Spain. (Applause.) Tell me, furth
ermore, where viii you find telegraphs, and
railroads, a1d steamboats,, and canal boats
like unto ours? Your silence, l take it, sig
nifies assent 10 the proposition that you will
find these things, in their sublimest perfec-
ton, nowhere except here. (APplause.) Well,
fellow citizens, it becomes my duty to inform
you that this great country of ours, the
greatest of ali countries, is now, as it has been
for five years, in the hands of mot to mince
matters) Abolitionists; and the point desire
to make is. that it must be got out of their
hands, and that forthwith or the result will
be that in Incredibly short space of time,
our rivers, and lakes, and mountains will
have decayed and dwindled away until they
are no more than rivulets, and lagoons, and
molehi!ls, while some enterprizing New-Zea-
lander, seating himself on the ruins of the
Great Tunnel at Gallitzin, will sketch the
NOhAldIl VI luc SuIfI0 lcleRrapn, rdllrOaQ,
steamboat and caLal-boat system of the coun-
try. (Uproarious applause Yes, fellow cit
lZens, during the past five years the star of
Abolitionism has been in the ascendant-
During that long, long period, the Democracy
have been in the backgrounds out in the cold
in the dark. The latter idea suggests the
remark tt at We now ray of Ii ght. CHEERS
Away off, so tar distant that you ca n scarcely
discern it, there is ray of light which beck
ons us from the miasmatic swamps and the
gloomy caverns of our desponding retiracv to
the ever-welcome feast of the loaves and fishes
(Unbounded enthuSiasm.) The moment is an
suspicious one let US soar equal to its de-
mands and necessities. Putting on the helmet
of right and clean shirt, and graspiug the
Constitution firmly in our hands as our guide
let us go forth (taking care to first provide
ourselves with ten days rations} like an ava
lanche, and, scattering the interlopers who
have seized upon our rightful substance and
heritage, let US do what is in our heart of
hearts (We will A ray of light, l pre-
sumo it is hardly necessary to say to you, is
understood to be a material fluid of extreme
subtility emanating in PARTICLES from a lumi-
nous body. 1 would therefore move that
Michael Hasson, Esq, be elected President
OF this meeting"
The motion prevailed. On taking his
seat, Michael said:
fMen, don't want to make speech to
you, and l am sure you don't want to hear
speech from me. There is a disturbing agent
roaming throughout the land, and it IS Abo-
litionism. l now declare this meeting ready
for business"
On motion, r. i. Johnston, Esq, was
invited to address the meeting. He took
the floor and said:
''In 1862-3-4, when Abraham Lincoln was
battling for the great principle that no State
IL.
that Abraham Lincoln was a fool |
that the Union was indeed and in truth dis |
rupted, and that peace could never be resto-
red over reunited country. The logic of |
events proved that Abraham Lincoln was !
right, and that we were tcrong. Five years of |
bloody war were necessary in bringing about |
determination of the issue, but it tcas deter |
aMed that the Union could not be dissolved |
If understand the political situation, and |
hink do, then Andy Johnson, who, if John |
De JACK, is also Andy Jackson, holds to pre- |
;isely the same theory in the premises as that
entertained by Abraham Lincoln. He de-
;lares that the Union cannot and was not dis
the rebellious States were never
or a single moment out of the Union-that !
peace is restored over whole country 1t
therefore, becomes our duty, as consistent Dem
,crats, to endorse Andy johnson and his pol
cy, and ! am glad that this meeting was
;alled to afford US opportunity for the express
lion of our sentiments. AS to Heister Cly-
ner, our nominee for Governor, one of his
amily was a signer of the Declaration of In
dependence, and none of them ever took in
,oot-blacking for living. Like myself he
vas once Whig, but has been for years a
Democrat, and so is worthy of your warmest
ympathy and support. His record through
ut the war is untarnished. I may sum it up
n a word by saying that he never voted
nan to be killed dollar to be entalled
pon us in the shape of standing debt, du-
ing the entire continuance of hostilities.-