Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-09-09
1.-THE DRIFT OF THE TIDE"

That tide of which Wallace spoke,
still keeps ''drifting" onward in the direc-
ton of Grant and Colfax. If it continues
at the same rate rom now to the election,
there will scarcely be a Corporal guard left
to rally in support of Seymour and Blair
Ne append few more samples
The Republican majority in Vermont is
10000 this year-an increase of 10000 over
that of 1867.
The Montgomery (Orange county, New
York. Standard, hitherto neutral, has run
up the Grant and Cofax flag.
Col. MetcaIf, of Providence, Rhode IS
land, leading. talented and life long Dem
ocrat, repudiates Seymour, and comes out
for Grant and Colfax.
Joseph Kirby, Esq, one of the number
who was instrumental in securing the elcc-
ton of Gen. Sam Cary to Congress from
Cincinnati, has declared in favor of Grant
and Colfax
The la Sale Press, of Minnesota, which
before the New York Convention pitched
into the Republican party and its Candidates
rough shod, has come out fairly and square
ly for Grant and Culfax.
Gen Buchanan, commanding the Fifth
Military District, has declared for Grant
and Colfax. He has been highly commend
ed by the Democrats for his conservative
instincts, and was claimed as supporter of
Seymour and Blair.
g. l.. Bittinger Esq, a leading Democrat
of Montana, Boone county, Iowa, chairman
of the Democratic Executive Committee for
the Eleventh Judicial district, has declared
his intention to support Grant and ColfaX,
the peoples candidates.
Mr. Winslow S. Pierce, of Indianapolis,
a brother-i law of Senator Hendricks, and
Delegate to the New York Democratic
convention, has abandoned Seymour and
Blair He has written an inside history of
that convention, in which he reveals its Sc
cret workings. Whether he will openly sup
port Grant is not yet manifest, but he will
never touch Seymour.
The Boston Daily Adrertiser has the fol-
lowing letter from literary gentleman who
voted for Douglas and Mcclellan
ou pay small comp liment to my sense
of patriotism in your assumption that | am
for Seymour. No; | am a square, out and
out Hiram Simpson man, and work and
talk for him every chance | get, :. l am a
Grant Democrat, and believe that there are
| .b hn
staunch little man to the position | know
he will adorn as he has all Others in which
he has been placed from the lanyard up
| wards.
The National Union, published at Gin
cinnati, edited by Enos B. Reed, Esq, hith-
erto independent in politics, has hoisted the
standard of Grant and Colfax In the last
Issue Mr.. Reed defines his position:
I've have endeavored since we resurrect-
ed the Nutionat Union to observe strict
impartality in regard to political matters.
! but confess that we are unable to do So We
| look upon the present campaign as only the
war between the North and the South re-
newed. Rebel generals assure us that the
| lost cause is triumphant in the ascendancy
of the Democracy. We opposed the South
during the war, and we cannot affiliate with
rebels now who declare that they are only
laboriug for the triumph of the South over
the North, AT to undo all that four years
terrible war accomplished. We can never
affiliate with such men as Brick Pomeroy
and Wade Hampton, representative types OF
Northern traitors and Southern rebels. We
do not fight with Frank Blair in his propoS,
ed revolutionary project. Henceforh we
battle with Grant and Colfax. but shall al
ways speak our mind freely concerning all
political parties. We are neither ide bound
nor party bound, but shall ever be found ad-
vocating those men and measures which we
believe the best tend to promote the inter
ests of the entire country"