Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-12
9olitical.

day, because he don't blow. He minds
his own business, and he says nothing
| about it.
The New York Citizen says that ''the
first thing to be done is to prove Seymours S
loyalty during the war This is taking the
hardest job first
William Wood, Unicn soldier during
the war, was taken from his home, in Mon
roe county, Kentucky, on Monday night, by
the ku klux Klan, AMI hanged.
Mr.. Howell Cobb, to whose extraordinary
energy and noble patriotism the country
was indebted Tor an empty treasury at the
breaking out of the war, has endorsed the
Democratic nominations.
One of the standing charges made against
Grant by the Democrats is that he sacrific-
ed the lives of his men. If this were true
we do not see the force of the objection there
being few if any Democrats among tie
number
The Democratic nominations for Presi-
dent and Vice President have carried dlsap-
pointment into every part of the East and
West but all advices from the South show
that the ticket has been received there with
tumultuous exultation.
The statement that Horatio Seymour
never has owned United States bonds, elic-
Its the fact, also: that he was equally careful
to avoid taking any of the bonds issued by
his own county, during the war, for raising
Z E+t,
dollar"
The Financial Bulletin, referring to the
financial acts of Congress, remarks: Taken
as whole, the financial egisa ion of Cen
gress may be regarded as favorable, and as
| tending 10 the removal or Teadjustment of
the burdens of taxation that press more Sc
verely upan industry.
Mr. Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky,
announced in his speech, at Democratic
ratification meeteng in Louisville, that if
the Democratic ticket IS elected, the party
will wipe out all that has been done in
| the way Of reconstruction and the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution
There should be the greatest vigilance
ag alagG tbs HB9l&a &B Eafo =Ha H g giant b8 Qa
banners at Yicksburg. IF we would con
quer rebellion at the polls, in November
next, we must join the Grant and Colfax
forces, and do our share of picket duty.
Two Democrats recently set fire to a
church in NJ guolia, Miss. because they
had heen refused the use of it for u political
meeting Five thousand Democrats once
set fire to an Orphan Asylum in New
| York because several thousand Democrats
| in gray had been killed at Vicksburg and
/ Gettysburg.
At Seymour and Blair ratification meet
ing held in Cincinnati last week, Pugh said
that ''the Democratic party demanded that
the National banks be abolished" Hamp-
ton, Toombs & Co strike for this and much
more-for demanding the abolition of the
Government altogether, and the substitu-
ton of the Confederacy. Pugh, Blair
& Co. will come to it soon enough, how
ever
The Toronto Globe, looking on the condi-
ton of American politics from the stand
point of disinterested observer, says
The infatuation of the Democrats III put
ting forward such men as Hampton as theil
representatives, in the South in the Presi
dental contest, seems almost to amount tc
lunacy. These men accept the situation
simply while they cannot do better, and not
an hour longer
ION. J. n Morris, of Illinois, says: \
few days after the nominations were mad,
by the New York Convention, had a con
versation in Washington City with Genera
, Gushing, of Massachusetts,, in which that
eminent politician said: The simple Ques
2 ton to determine at the election IS, shal
, General Grant OF Frank Blair be Presiden
for the next four years? for if Seymour
elected he won't live year.
, a Democrat, while hearing the declara
ton of American Independence read at tht
1 Fourth of July celebration at Ridgcville
4 Ohio, where it recites that ''all men are ere
ated free, and are endowed by their Create
0 with certain inalienablc rights, among whic
r are life, liberty, and the pursuit OF happi
+ ness" turned upon his heel and wake
away, muttering that he wouldn't listen
I any such id abolition speech as that. -
The Republicans of Maine are preparin
d. for an active campaign, and are thorough
aroused to the importance of the comm
= election in September. They mean to Civ
Gov. Chamberlin at least 10000 majorit
- and make it as much more as possible. Th
, New York nominations disgusted many {
: the Democrats. and they will take no activ
> part in the campaign, feeling that the ele,
tion in that State Is foregone conclusion.
Il The New York SIN, independent in po
: itics. states what every discerning man rea
e ICES is the real state of the case, when
v saws: General Blair's revolutionary lett5
killed the Democratic ticket as soon as b
name was put on it. The Democratic rel
ell orators at the South, older in their bus
ness than Blair, and just as violent and re1
olutionary, are hard at it completing tn
I work. If they are allowed to keep on
this way much longer, 1t IS doubtful whetl
the Democracy will even be able to carr