Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-07-22
..sveet Williams" Address.


Democratic State Committee" is out IN
another characteristic address. William al
fects the Napoleonic style of writing, and
what his laconic paragraphs lack IN gram
mar, terseness, and sense, they fortunately
Ito use q Celtic expression, make ap IN prev
ity. William evidently handles the pen
very much as bear would darninG needle.
The singular thing about this Address
i. that it entirely omits all mention of f. ?.
Blair. the candidate for the Vice Presidency.
Seymour is presented as "a statesman and
an honest man, but Blair is entirely ig-
nersd Why2 They can't vote for Sey-
mour without voting for Blair, then why
omit him from the official proclamation? Is
it because he was soldier for while in the
Union army? Can't William bring himself
to speak in decent terms of soldier, even
when he has joined his party and is its can
didate? There is something queer about
this omission. and we leave it to the faithful
to inquire why the candidate for the second
highest office in the gift of the people should
| be treated with so much disrespect by the
Chairman of the State Committee.
The substance of this Address" is sim
ply re vamping of the old clap trap about
the niger" and the taxes William is
still suffering from 'nigger on the brain.
He either doesn't know, or is attempting to
conceal the fact from his followers, that in
Louisiana, at the recent election, the candi-
date of his party for Governor was a negro
and that he was supported by all the Dem
ocrats in the State that the New York
Uiorld. the metropolitan organ of his party,
and the leading Democratic newspaper in
the United States, during the session Of the
Convention said:
1--WE trust there will be no such nonsense
in the platform as that this is exclusively
white man : government t0r this 1rv& HercF
II. arg time Dem1cruic doctgil.e"
/ Why does he not tell his adherents what
is the truth, that in Washington and Sun
flower counties, in Mississippi, at the last
election. his party actually ran niger
for the same position he holds himself
State Senator-that his name was William
Combash, and that he turned out to be a
deserter from the 32d U. S. CoIored Infantry?
Why does he not tell them, further. that on
Monday evening of last week, the great
Empire Club" Of New York was address
ed by Mr.. Quig!ey, ''colored gentleman"
from Georgia, who had been attending the
Democratic National Convention? This
''damniug the nigger' is played out. Nau-
seous as the dose is,Wiliam and his copper
bottomcd followers will have to swallow it,
wool, stencil, - shins' and ali
His assertion that the Republican party
has given Us four years Of war, grinding
taxation, and three thousand millions of
debt, is a falsehood SO stale that it scarce
HCaSi 'Co uo'ICC' 'ocS NC ilHaSlne thaI thc
people are fools, or that they have forgotten
the great and notorious fact that the war.
the taxes, and the debt were forced upon the
country by the combined efforts of Rebels
and Jopperheads to overthrow the Govern
ment, AMI the pu5illanimity of Buchanan,
the Democratic President, who had the pow
cr to have crushed the rebellion in the start,
and to have saved millions of dollars and
thousands of precious lives? The less he
says about the war, the taxes, and the debt
the better. Hisrecord, and that of his party
are alike too fresh in public recollection.
He says the Democratic policy is one of
thoughtful foresight; ofcautious statesman
ship; 1t seeks no new path" We should
say not, decidedly, Judging from Frank
Blair's letter 1t is the same old path of
notification, revolution, and reputation.
1t seeks to nullify the laws of Congress, to
diSperse, by force, the new State Govern
ments IN the South to repudiate the nation
al Obligations, to restore the rebels to power.
to take possession of the Union, which they
could not destroy, and rule it in the interests
Of slavery. 1t is no new path but ii is one
in which the people of this redeemed land
VIII never tread again. They have had
enough of the horrors of rebellion and war.
ilenceforth they are determined, with Gen.
Grant, to HAVE PEACE.
HARMONY RESTORED We are pleased to
SEQ thar ou- Fr;nnIS In pb;IaIaI,b;. Lor..