Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-06-19

stock OF Goods.
Lewistown School Account.
Nails down again at Hoff,man's.
Auditors Notice, &c.
The COpperhead Convention.
During a gloomy periodin the rebellion,
when Lees rebel army was overrunning
the lower counties of this State robbing
and plundering the people almost indis-
crimirately, body of men calling them
selves the Democratic Convention assem-
bled at Harrisburg, and looked with al
most stoical Indifference on the state OF
our National affairs. They talked and
prated about the Constitution, ;" hut they
had no warm words of condemnation OF
the rebelliOn-nO cheering words to our
gallant soldiers who were enduring the
hardships and privations of war for the
sake of our government and its very ex-
istence. Judge Woodward had delivere
his infamous opinion that the government
could not enforce drafts-Franklin Pierce
had pronounced his Grafton almost openly
justifying the rebellion-Seynour of Con-
necticut had openly defied the govern
ment-the New York World, Daily News
and other papers, were preparing the pub
lie mind for the triumph of the rebellion
and Fallandigham and his tools Were
ready to take arms against the nation. All
this was called democracy :" but honest
men of that party stood aghast at this
spectacle of fperfdy and treason, and cast
ing aside the traitors they fell into the
Union ranks and thus saved our country
from ruin and anarchy, if not from slave
rule. Last week many of the same men
who attended the infamous convention of
1868 again met at Harrisburg under the
samespeciOus name, and nominated Judge
Sharswood of Philadelphia as their can
didate for Supreme Judge. They also
passed a string of highsounding resOlu-
tions, in which the Union of the States is
declared perpetual and the Federal Gov
all the States to representation in Con-
gress; opposing negro suffrage by act of
Congress or an amendment to the State
Constitution; charging the Republican
party with infidelity in not passing tar
iff bill; charging the same party with
usurpatiOn in the government of the rebel
States, etc; charging the Republican
members of the late Legislature with pas
sing unwise laws; asserting the depend
ence of the Copperhead party upon the
newspaper press, for due force and useful
ness; thanking Chief Justice Woodward
for the manner in which he discharged
the duties Of his office, and pledging sup
port to the nominee of this Convention.
Among the leading spirits in the con-
vention were Judge Black, who as Bu-
chanan's Attorney General, could find
nothing i'll the Constitution to preserve
the Union by force as Andrew Jackson
did; VIM. y. Wallace, who opposed drafts
during the war and last year advised de-
serters and skedaddlers that they had as
good a right as any soldier to vote, togeth-
er with many others who during the re-
bellion were ready to give more aid and
comfort to the enemy than to the govern
ment. Now as then, they consider all the
measures taken to preserve us as a nation
usurpations; now as then, they consider
a white rebel as more deserving than a
loyal black; now as then, they condemn
what the people said was right and now
as then applaud the men whose doctrines
would have annihilated us as a nation, or
made the Northern workingmen mere
serfs to Southern aristocrats. When the
people again trust this Vallandigham
crew, they will deserve all the evils that
will follow the repudiation of the Nation
al Securities and a general restoration of
the rebel element to power-for those
measures are without doubt in their pro-
gramme.