The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-08-12
Asa Packer and the War.

With their usual propensity to misrepres
ent the public men and measures of the
Democratic party, the Radical press is now
engaged in a preconcerted system of misrepre-
senting about the public acts of ASA PACKER.
Some OF them have the uRblushing impu-
dence to assert that he was violently op-
posed to the war, while others declare that
he gave to it merely a !ukewarm support
If Gen. HANCOCK had been nominated by
the Harrisburg Convention, these same Sian
derers would have said of him, that although
he was one of the brightest ornaments of the
war ani stood head and shoulder taller
than any other officer in it, yet that his heart
was all the time on the rebel side. Forum
ately ASA PACKERS acts and conduct dur
ing the war are well known and remember
ed by the community in which he resides.
and like every other incident in his honora-
BILE life, afford additional evidence of his no
BILE character, both as a man and a patriot.
! At all times and under all circumstances he
was an unfincing supporter of the integrity
of the Union, and contributed literally of
! his wealth in furnishing soldiers for the
cause, while the men who are now SANDER
| ing and abusing him were at home, denounc-
ing him and thousands like him, or were
amassing fortunes out Of fraudulent contracts
at the expense Of the public treasury.
The Carbon Democrat, a paper published
at Mauch Chunk, the home of Judge PACK
Err, where all the facts connected with his
course during the war are well known, has
recently replied to these libels of the Radical
press, and has scattered them like chaff be-
fore the wind. The following extract from
that paper, the truth of which has not been
and cannot be denied, ought to bring the
blush of shame to the brszen cheeks of every
Radical editor in the State, who has beer
engaged in this vile and infamous business
''On Sunday afternoon, June, %, 1863, &
spontaneous. enthusiastic and large gathering
of the people of Mauch Chunk was held in the
Court House at that place. fierce, bloody
bitter, uncertain conflict was raging at Gettys
burg, from which came hourly dispatches tel
ling tales of horror and of the butchery of no
BILE men. The gathering we speak of was yer,
naturally converted into a war meeting, and
patriotic and tender and fearful speeches were
made by many citizens of the place. Every
soul seemed full of the agony of suspense
trembling lest the sun should 60 down upor
defeated Federal Army, and the cause of The
Union be irrecoverably lost. Urgent appeal.
were made to the young to GO to the aiG
OF their fellows, and help in the ma tons ex
tremity. The morning and the meridian o.
that day were dark and forebeding. From tht
Capitol to the extremity of telegraphic com
munication, one dread, terrible fear seized holc
of the people lest the great battle of the wal
should result against At the meeting il
question, amid al the efforts of burning elo
quence and the tears of sympathetic and patri
otic women-Sor A NAN MOVED. At length
there arose in the audience a man of matur,
years with grey head and bearing as of on,
Of Natures own noblemen-a man who neve
made speeches. All eyes were bent upon him
and amid perfect silence he said every man
now in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Raj
Road Company, who will volunteer for hi
country il this her hour of pressing need
SHALL receive his regular monthly pay aud re
tain his situation until his return. as if he wer
present and working each day" The effec
was most wonderful. Over a hundred mel
volunteered at once, and in few hours wer
fully equipped and speeding over the JehigI
valley Kali Road 10 the scene Of war. Nee'
We say, tnat n&o Was Asa PAcKEB"