Year: 1872

mated any measure Of great interest


or usefulness to his country, or that


he ever uttered one patriotic, ono


honest and patriotic sentiment. l


defy them to produce it. As for his


votes, he was always with the Cop


perheads, and he was Copperhead


Of the Copperheads. He voted with


Garrett Davis constantly and consis-


tently, uniformly, all through his Sen


atorial career. He voted to impede


the Government during the war /;


voted to pay the shareholders for the
liberation Of their slaves, and voted


against every measure of reeonstrue-
tion, and now comes into this Com


monwealth and talks about his 10y
atty. Why, told you. aud many
told YOU in Philadelphia during the


war. at the Union League House,
that there wouldn't be one OF these
Copperheads but would claim. after


the war had ended, to be loyal man,
everyone of them ; and our prediction


has come perfectly true. Charles X.


Buckalew was nothing but q big


SNAKE" and he remains nothing but
a big snake" now. / have neither
the time nor the intention to analyze
his record At that time i was living
in CIear-feld county, county very


much like Columbia county, where


it was very hard to live during the


war. You know that in Clearfeld


county they continually resisted the


draft, and that finally troops had to


be sent there to enforce it and make
the people obey the laws. Well, they
| tried the same thing in Columbia
county, and with about the same re-
suits. When the troops were sent to
enforce the draft in Clearfeld county,
you all know that Bigler hied away
to California, and that Wallace put
in substitute laughter, and they


do say that he was a "nigger" at
that Laughter. In Columbia
county they had what they called
their Fishing Greek Confederacy"
and the North Mountain Camp


Meeting" and they published book,
and ! have it, and will produce it,
containing the proceedings Of the
North Mountain Camp Meeting, and
the Chairman of the Committee ON
Speakers is Charles r. Buckalew.-
TApplausel And now be is going
about Pennsylvania, talking about
his loyalty during the war. To any
man that doubts the existence Of that
book, | will be very glad to show it.
| will leave it at the headquarters OF
the Republican State Central Com
mittee, where any man can see it.
make no statement about Buckalew
which am not prepared to prove and
verify by irrefutable documents. Now
this is the loyal man you are asked to
vote for, that some Republicans, some
"Liebral" Republicans, are willing to
vote for the coming election. NY
fellow-eitizens, it has come back in
Pennsylvania to the condition or
things that we had for years, and
years, and years during the war
There is no difference now between
these men and the old Copperheads.
You can't make them anything else.
| know we are told that we ought to
forget it, and that we ought to bury
it away down deep in some "bloody
chasmn or some other sepulchre,
away out of sight, but / say it is be-
vond the virtue and forbearance Of
any ordinary man to do this thing,
and it will take a great deal more of
the grace of God than / ever had yet
for me to to it, Applause. / am
sorry to say that Perhaps / ought
to have it; but still / do say that
though / can forgive it can never
forget it, and it viii take more Of the
grace of God and pure charity than i
have ever vet got.


| have said that | lived during the
war in country where Copperheads
abounded We used to go to the
pOstoffice for our mail, and when /
would look out of my window and
see the COpperheads all with smiling
faces, did | go for my mail Oh. no!
| knew what had happened just as
well as if ! had seen the papers; the
brave boys in blue had met with some
disaster, had gone down in some fight,
and for the time being the flag of my
country was not victorious. But
when / went to the door and looked
out. and saw those same Copperheads c
with faces long enough to eat oats out
of a churn, then knew that the flag
of the republic had foated out tri-
umphantly in the face Of the foe, and
that the successful rebel hosts had
been driven back. Applause. =
Can l forget it? Can / forget it?
Can you forget it? Oh, no none Of
you can forget it, nor can any of you
votesfor Charles r. Buckalew in the
coming election Buckalew-eon-
nectcd with the Fishing Creek Con.
federaey and the North Mountain
Camp Meeting? Oh, my fellow
citizens, it is idle to talk about for
getting, though we may forgive the
men that trailed the flag Of our eoun-
try in the dust all though the war
Applause. And it is also idle that
these men should expect US to forget
how General John F. Hartranft car
ried the flag during the war. Ap-
plauSc. When in q few DAYS the
gallant soldiers come from Maine,
where they don't forget-from Yer
mont, from Oregon-to meet in the
Smoky City, they will bear testimony
to the manliness and patriotism of
General Hartranft, who leads the
vanguard of victory. He can't be
beat. Beat him. Wen drive them
into their holes on the second Tues
day in October, and they will feel so
mean that they viii pull their holes
in after them Laughter and sp-
plause


He had seen men from all the
Western districts as jurors during
the last eight weeks; he had talked
with them about the detection
The in Republican ranks.-He
could not find it in forty-six coun-
ties, and they would roll up a major
ity for Hartranft and plunge it down
over the Alleghenies to the Eastern
slope larger than any other man ever
pot in the State. If Allegheny don't