Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-08-05
& "Reminiscences.


haul number of newspapers hled away
during the war. Among them We found the
s.New York Tribune Of Monday the 9th
july. 1864. Its outside pages were f1iiei
with the glorious news Of the great victory
Just achieved at Gettysbur and OF the re-
joicings ofthe loyal people allo the North
The glowing capitals produced thrill OF
pleasure, as they recalled to our recollection
the relief we experienced whenthe glad news
/ flashed over the land, that the horde Of
traitors had been driven back before the
strong arms and willing hearts of our noble
army fighting upon their own soil, for their
hearths and homes, and the Union establish
ed by their fathers. We turned the paper,
and in the inside we found Photographic
report Of the meetings held and the speeches
made in New I Tork on the preceding Satur-
day, the ith OF July. Among them was the
meeting of the Democratic Union Associa-
/ tion, at the Acade my of Music. 1t was first
addressed by Horatio Seymour, who said
when he accepted the invitation to speak,
he was promised the downfall of Yicksburg,
the re-opening ofthe Mississippi, the capture
of Richmond, and the exhaustion of the Re
beion. Bat none ef them had come 10 pass.
And. said nc, 4 stand before you not as
one animated by expected victories" His
whole speech was Il warning" to the ad
ministration, and contained among other
things these memorable words - 'Remem-
Der this-that the bloody and reasonable,
andrevolptionary doctrine Of Public Necessi-
ty can be proclaimed by mos as well as by
( Government.
! II was followed by Thos. II. Seymour of
/ Connecticut, who said he had almost begun
to think We would have no more cele brations
OF the Fourth ofJuly that if the Govern
menthad no power TO compromise and recon
struct it was useless for us torcsort to arms =
that there was no power in this country to con
script men against their wills, and that a
state could not be co-erced to stay in the
Union by force of arms u
Geo H. Pcndleton of Ohio was the next
speaker. He said he had just returned
from Washington where he had been en-
deavoring to procure the restoration Of Val
landigham, land Vailandigham paid him for
his services in the late convention J that we
had seen patriotic man whose hopes were
garnered III the constitution as it * and the
Union as it was, banished without a trial
from his home, that if it was necessary to
violate the constitution to carry on the
war, it ought Immediately to be stopped
that compromise was one of the first laws
tGsFurSTU
The closing speech was made by Richard
o Gormon, who said ''he was in favor of a
Union if possible, bu. our liberties at all
events,-that he was in favor of peace, con
sidering the the war waste of heroic blood,
that the irSt thing to be done was to arm
the State Of New York to the teeth under
the lead of her Governor, and they then
could dispense with provost marshals, and
that New York could exist and prosper as
seperatc sovereignty -
Yet the same paper that contains the re-
port Of the proc eiings Of this nest of trai-
tors-breathing ont treason and melting to
riot, hloodshed and murdcr-pubished the
uews OF a victory 50 glorious and complete
that the whole land was filled with rejoioings,
and the ultimate downfall of the Confederacv
was rendered inevitable These meetings
and speeches were designed as a FIRE in the
the rear on our gallant boys in the field, in
the very darkest hour of the great peril.
They were in purpose and in essence a di-
version in favor Of JEFF Davis and his rebel
crew. And the victory achieved and pub
lished on the same day, was as much tri-
nmph over Seymour and his friends" as
it was over Lee and his cohorts at Gettys-
burg
These are the same men who are now ask
= ing the neoplc to entrust them with the
highest Offices in their gift--to place in their
hands the power of the Government In the
face Of a record like this could the people
trust them? If they can, then let US in lncdi-
ately put the uame of Judas Iscariot in the
calendar of saints, and Benedict Arnold on
the list Of patriots
Seymour the Statesman"
The astute Wallace calls Seymour "a