New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-09-19

| ing to their manifest Jeet1ngS IN reference
to the important events that were transpir
, ing around them Their records have passed
into history, and BY their records let them
| be judged.
! GENERAL JOHN F. HARTRANFT
is so well known to the people Of the State
that to enter into an extended review Of his
brilliant military record would be unneces-
sary and superiluous Promptly responding
to the first call for volunteers in 1861, he
entered the three months service as vol
unteer, and from that into the general ser
vice. he served with fidelity and distinction
to the end of the war. Through bravery
and soldierly ability, he passed through the
various grades Of promotion. when, at the
battle of Fort Seadman, In March. 1865. he
was brevet'ed major general. He was known
throughout the army of the Potomac as a
fighting man, ard no officer in the army was
more popular or bore a better reputation.
Brave, patriotic, humane, ard generous, his
military career was as brilliant as it was
successful. A hero Of nineteen battles, his
record is without blemish. Of his record
as a civil officer, we shall speak hereafter
under its proper heading.
CHARLES Il. BuCkALEw's RECORD
is simply record of infamy. Being
the Democratic candidate for Governor, he
has taken the stump TO vincicate his repnta-
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Senator during he,rari That an United States
Senator from the loyal State of Pennsylvania
should find it necessary to lake the stump for
the purpose Of explaining ks record in the
Senate, Oh the questions of war aimed at
the destruction Of the Government, is re-
voting to the scnsibilities of every patriot,
and must c0nsgn the ex Senator to that no.
htical oblivion which his imbecility and
reasonable conduct so justly merits. The
great State Of PENNSYLVANIA was as LOYAL and
true to the National Government as the
needle to the pole. Her sons marched forth
three hundred thousand strong to defend the
Government in the hour of danger Good
men and true offered up their lives upon
their country's altar that the principles of
Republican Government might not perish by
the hands of conspirators and assassins.
Almost every family circle within the Dor.
ders of the Safe mourns the loss of some one
OF its members who died in the great struggle
tor the supremacy Of the Government, or
who, MANNED for life. returned to their
homes wholly untitled 10 pursue their former
vacations. The records of these men, unlike
that OF Mr.. Buckalew, need no explanation.
Their deeds of valor are written in their
country's history and imprinted upon the
memory and treasured up in the hearts of
the loyal millions, and will be sung by the
millions yet to come. Posterity will honor
their memory long after the name of Charles
X. Buckalew shall be forgotten, or remem-
bered only as being associated with rebels
and traitors.
During the dark days of rebellion, when
the fate Of tho nation was an undecided
question; when our brave armies met with
reverses and disasters when traitors, both
North and South, were putting forth every
effort to destroy the Government; when Sc
cret traitors North were plotting with armed
traitors South for the overthrow of the Con.
stitution ard the laws; when Northern
Democratic Conventions, in open sympathy
with the rebels, resolved that the war was a
failure and called upon foreign Powers to
intervene in behalf of the Southern Con.
federacy, Charles r. Buckalew was Demo
cratic Senator in the Senate of the United
States, and at that time it was the proud
boast of his party that he nerer rotcd men
nor money for the prosecution Of the acar!
Mr.. Buckalew and his party were jublant
over the temporary reverses of the Union
army, and at times were sanguine of the ul-
innate success of their Southern allies:
hence they did not conceal an expression of
their satisfaction when victory for time
perched upon the banners of the common
enemies of the Government. But upon the
termination of the war, which resulted in the
defeat Of the rebels and full and complete
vindication Of the supremacy Of the National
Government-since loyalty has been honored
and treason made odious-the Democratic
party has become extremely loyal, and they
are now attempting to show beyond all ca.
vii that Mr.. Buckalew was war Democrat
A glance at Mr.. Buckalew's record during
the war cannot fail to convince the most
casual observer that Mr.. Buckalew repre-
sented reasonable party, and that lie re-
presented at faithfully. Inundated, '/as
he said upon his return from Ecuador
where be had been sent as q Minister by
President Buchanan, ':to find Abraham
Lincoln elected President of the United
States it is not at all surprising that, upon
the breaking out of the rebellion, his in.
fuence should go with his sympathies and
his aympathies go with his party. To more
fully serve the reasonable purposes of the
Democratic party, recent developments, by
the publication of official records of the
"Contederacy," show that Mr.. Buckalew
was in Canada once, at least, during the
war, ard while occupying q seat in the
United States Senate, in conference with
rebel emissaries; and so much Importance
was attached to his presence, that an official
report was made Of it by the agent, Hol.
combe, to -. P. Benjamin, Secretary of
State, c. s. A"
In 1862, before Mr.. Buckalew was elected
to the Senate, the Democratic State Conven.
ton met at Harrisburg. Mr.. Buckalew was
then candidate for the United States
Senate, and the authorship of the platform
of that convention has always been conceded
to him. 1t will DO remembered that this
platform was in outspoken sympathy with