THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. IND: S. MANN, EDWIN HASKELL, } EDITORS. FIDELITY TO THE PEOPLE. COUDERSPORT, FRIDAY, 11, 1854 L7' Congress adjourned on Monday Jast, after having accomplished• more evil than any of its predecessors; with little good to olThet against it. iar At the election for Academy Trustees, a week ako to-day, H. J. Olmsted and Thomas B. Tyler were elected fonthe full term. r Next week we shall publish the call for the People's . Freedom Con vention in this county, which has already been signed by a large number of men of all parties. l' IV Some Of our friends have done nobly the past week in procuring new subscribers; and we expect the ago nies of old hunkers to curtail the cir culation of' the Journal will set every earnest :Mend of Freedom in the county at work to increase our iist. That is the erect already produced on some; we pvcsulue it will soon have like effect °nail opponents ofSlavery extension. P Rev. John H. Wamatyr re quests le to camey his heartfelt thanks to the people of Coudersport, who contributed so liberally and so unex pectedly to his support. He received on Monday morning last, by the hand of Joseph Bloomingdale, one hundred dollars, 'which he will ever hold- in grateful remembrance as a token of their regard. We are glad to see our•farmers making such good use of their tithe in saving whatever the drought has left them. Courage, industry, and persever,ince will axon repair the drawbacks of the present unusual season. Above all do we rejoice at the cheerfulness With which our farm ing friends push on their improve ment. • C7' We gave last week an account the most dastardly and cowardly act ever committed by a civilized nation: the b.urnigg of. the town of San Juan. We give ; On the waside of this paper a prize poem, written fin. the New-York grerting Post, to connnernorate the event. We hope o person wilt fail 'to. read this admi rable poem. or The leaders of sham democracy have •alrcad\; commenced active efforts to deceive the People into the support /If the authors of the Nebraska per fidy.. le our friends do their duty, all the el:girt:4 of patty men to sustain the Administration and its machinery in this county will , fail—more signally than ever btfore. But to do this r will require energy, activity, and a, gezier .-bi faith in• the power of Truth and Liberty. EY As some of the Adirdni,stration men in this 'section are trying to de fend it from ; the condemnation oT the People• foK the. .burning of the town of San Juan,•an unarmed and defenseless t-eapOrt„,, by asseiting that the iphabit ziuts..wette murderers and,, pirates, we publish a btatetßent, from the N. Y. Enaing Post; which shows that the murderers have been protected by the 4.dministration. We publish this. state- Meta to the exclusion of various arti ctes of interest which we had prepared. ) ' .U= 1 7M 1 r 7 .9 Senator Hover, of Virginia, supposed to be:actingunder the advice of the President, bas sueceeded, in Jo amending the Homestead Dias it pessed.the House, that the friends of this great measure nook], not know it. The AVashipgton conetstiondent of the Philadel phia North AntAirco hap the following impor t:on intelligence on thi,sioNect Since the true4tracter of the pretended Home tend bill of the Senate has been es posed, It meets With no favor among the friends of the original measure in the Howe. It Is Coned, • in truth, to be from beginnieg to end a tivue of: false pretenses—the object and effect of *blot 6 to gh e nil the land to the sew States without any sort of equivalent to the older ones. The 'bill consists of eleven sections.. The price of the lauds is graduated frost one dollar tied a go:merle twelve oncin half cents per acre, and then' they are prac tieally given to the States within which they' lie; by conferring upon those States a prhik= ege to take them ton body, by pretmption, at the limited prices, and selthem at such enhanced pricesas they may think fit, or not) sell them at all, for the space of ten years. 'After five years of settlement and eultiva- I tiyq Persowi may !Wes any lands as home.. stedds by paying twenty-five cents per acre, or twelve and &half manta for such as have been' in market over twenty years. But as the States will inthllibly appropriate ell the lands as sogn as the hill passgs,there will he nothing to which the homestead principle eau attach. if this is not bratikiug the word of promise to 'ha hope, I know not how it could be done u legislatiye act. • ALEXI"' - THE ntiteruarcF QvAirrlos.„.,„ It is amusing to see tie crooks and turns of the administration party : in Pennsylyania to defeat the Maine and .at the same time.' to retaiiithe support of Tempetance demociats. This is rather a difficult undertaking, but with shrewd men,:whii . think all a fair in politics, and who pe.y no more regard to truth than . to manline:ss , and honorable conduct, the task is not so difficUlt as it . might : appear at first blush. The action of the Ins e t Legislature, under the lead of thelligler:influence, in defeating the Maine Law, and adopting a resolution submitting the question of prohibition to the people, was a trick of the politicians to defeat the Temperance movement. And now . the game is to induce Temperance men to give their zeho/c attention to the mere resolution of the last Legislature, and pay no attention to the members of the Legislature and the Governor. If this scheme is suc cessful, then the politicians will have succeeded in defeating the Maine Law for at least another year. Precisely such a resolution was sub mitted to the people, of Wisconsin, a oar ago—a majority of fire thousand v oted for the Maine Law, and yet the succeeding Legislature : did not come as near passing the law as the one which met before any such vote was taken. • And yet in the face of this action in Wisconsin,. John Chambers, P. A. Van Dyke, John Patrick, and tweli - e other old fogies of Philadelphia have issued an address in which .they say ; No Legislature will dare 'to refuse the passage of a bill in the face of the demands of a majority of the Voter's, fairly expressed 'at the ballot boxes; and we have the pleasure of assuring our temperance friends . that we are satisfied that any one of the distin guished gentlemen who are candidates for Governor will promptly give his sanction to such a law. The Wisconsin Legislature did do just what the Bigler Temperance men say no Legislature would dare to do. With the action of the National Leg islature on the Nebraska bill in defi ance of the popular will fresh in mind, the voter who relies on the abOve ' assertion will prove himself easily gulled. We have not seen a single reliable Maine Law paper that endorses the above.; on the contrary, those papers that have done anything to secure the triumph of Temperance, are unani mous in counseling differently. The Williamsport Press speaks of this address and of the duty of the people as follows, to which we most heartily subscribe: Our attention has been called to the following address, signed, as will be seen, by distinguished friends of Prohibition and able champions of the temperance reformation. We concur heartily in the sentiments of the ad dress, so.far .at least as they bear upon the importance of a full vote upon the' question of Prohibition at the October election; though we think it a matte of no small moment, to elect the r led kind of men for erery station; espe cially when it can he done without an extra effort. With all deference to the distinguished names appended below, experience has shown that a Ldgishiturd may be so constituted as "to refuse the passage of a bill in the face of the - demands of a majority of the voters; fairly expressed at the ballot boxes . ;" and the open declara tion of at ' least one member; during the last session, affords evidence di rectly in point, that a majority for Prohibition will be unavailing, unless proper attention is paid to the elec tion of men who will respect and obey the will of the people. Prohibition is the main question, but to secure it, give us with the popular vote, prohib itory men. But what. would you think of a pai per that should publish thi:6ddress of Chambers, Van Dyke, Patrick and their associates, as the action of the Harrisburg State Temperance COftrefi tion Would such conduct be any thing less than a deliberate attempt to deceive votes into the support of obnoxious men? Call it what you will, just that thing has ,been done by a: Bigler paper, and the same paper asserted that the Harrisburg State Temperance Convention endorsed William Bigler as reliable for the Maine Law, in the face of the adop tion by that Convention of the follow- ing resolution, which" — is a most em phatic condemnation of his Excel LIE 11. Resolved, That as the letters of the various candidates for Governor' have been placed in the hands of this committee, and we find tbat--thecan. - '(Bastes taf the Whig, Arnericati and Yrea,Democratic parties' have all an- sweire4,to our satisfaction, and as we .do ':not` wish,., to expose' ourselves,. to the .charge afbndue partiality to sly . particular - - party, we therefore deem it inexpedient to recommend any par ticular candidate; but that justice may. - be. done to all we recommend thatithe letters of the four eanaidates .be_ published, together with tile-inter rogatories in our proceedings, that the people may judge for' themselves, TIM CON Y sin LON The supporters of Douglas and his, Nebraska progeny; 'by dint of extra ordinary efforts and personal visits to 'most Orthe townships, made out to secure nineteen delegates,. and then six more were elected here in Cou dersport, making twenty-five• in all— leaving half the county unrepresented. The ticket, as we said last week, had been cut and dried before. The Peo ple have taken no interest in it, and we can see no reason why they. should. This is all we shall say about the men nominated, for we have never thought it worth while to praise men on the Independent ticket, nor run down the men on the Slavery ticket.. We ex pect our friends will nominate men so well known that no amount of abuse can disturb them; and we have too much respect for our principles, and the intelligence of the people,to stoop to the discussion of the private-char acter of friends or opponents. We 'shall give the resolutions of the Douglasites next week. The ticket nominated is as follows: • For member of Congress, H. H. DENT, late of St. Louis. For Prothonotary, THOS. B. TYLER, late o .New-York. Recorder, Asnacw JACKSON. Treasurer, HARRY El.Lis.. • Two Commissioners, H. ROSA, H. NELSON of Wharton," Two Auditors, J. H. WRIGHT, HARRIS LY lAN. rir Our hunker friends are sorely tried, because the people of this' county, in their sovereign contempt of the caucus arrangements of small polio; •ticians, have, filled the offices with competent, men, who do not cringe and fawn at the feet of slavery. It is amusing to witaess the impudent claim which these caucus men make to all the offices. It is no use, gentlemen. I The People have tried your way of 1 filling the offices, and found it,anti-re publican and opposed to the . best in terests of the county; —that under the caucus system an incompetent man is more likely to get the nomination than a competent one; so they took the matter into their own hands, and will hereafter fill the offices to suit them: selves, to the great damage of hun kerism, and against the peace and dig nity of those pro-slavery politicians in Coudersport who think this matter of filling offices should be left to them. Thus we see men who have scarcely gained a residence asking for the most important offi,co in the gift,., of the people, and growling and snapping at old residents lip-cause the People have asked them to discharge responsible duties. And these grumbling office; : seekers desire to pass themselve,s off as samples of disinterested patriots.--. democrats par excellence s and the only persons entitled to hold office. . . 19P We used to think the Erie: Ga zette was something more than a mere party paper,.hut its . efforts of late to . use the Anti-Nebraska feeling of the People as so much Whig capital, is too notorious' to be overlooke'd. A few.such papers would make'a union of the Anti-Nebraska forces of this State impossible. If that paper has any desire to see Pollock elected, it had better cease its foolish advice about bringing all the Anti-Nebraska men into the Whig party. Every such article in a IVlng paper will drive liberal democrats away from Pollock, and can do no possible good. FRUITS ASEI FARINACE/I THE PROPER FOOD OF AIAN, etc. 'By John Smith. With notes by IL T. Troll, M. 1). Fowlers & Wells, New•-York. This is a neat volume in magazine form, with a beautiful colored frontisqiece of fruits. Like all the publications, of this popular house, the work before us is written in, good taste. Shows great industry and research, and will have a good effect if extensively read, in increasing the desire of the people to raise more and better varieties of fruit. Price 25 coque per number. IGF'At the meeting of the Couders port Library Associatios held on Sat urday last at its rooms, M. W. ?Jana was 4ected Librarian for the present term. The Libiary is therefore Moved to the Journal Book Store, where the stockholders and others will please call. - R FREEDOX TER ; 13111OR ;:.::11esolved; , ,.That:the Mains of:Freemen,' se!tli. intt iegard;# farther politio!ti.attachmentsts the e/ ' I •Y safflf, 9r it i rTHlii, President. F. 11.o4THAID, Beer i tarie i,„ A. E. Nu.se, , The above resolution was adopted at an Anti-Nebraska meeting. held at Wellsborougbk Tioga Co:, 'July • 'As 'desperate efforts are made 'in this county to drive anti-Nebraska Ilern ocrats into the support of the Slavery party, by denonncing the "Union of Freemen without. 'regard to former political attachments,". as fanaticism, abolitionism; and every horrible ism that can be thought of, we shall keep the attend()of the People to this res olution, til its importance and ne cessity is thoroughly -understood. The Hon. IL, G. WRITE is knoWa to some extent in this county; 1014 shown by tho nearly unanimous vote given lira for .Judge. And he is known as - a candid; high-minded, dear Righted, conscientious man;. with tal ent unsurpassed by any man in this district.• He does not mingle in or dinary party strife. We think our] readers will conclude that when a deka-rat of this character', advises " the union of freemen without regard to fanner political attachments as the only safety for freedom," it is quite time to pause in their submission to party usages, and see if the advice is not of the 'highest importance. But Judge. White is not the only democrat who gives such advice.— Judge Wilmot is still more emphatic in urging .the people to throw party trammels to the winds and unite fir the overthrow of the Slave Power. W. C.- Bryant, with other leading democrats in his county, have signed a call for a Union meeting similar to the one now in circulation in this county. In Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin, the best men in the administration party have united 'in this movement. And yet, in the face Of all this, cer tain small politicians hereabouts, but. would-be great men, have the impu dence to demiunce the movement with all" the epithets that minds fertile in such language can invent. If the opinion of Judge White, as expressed in the above resolution, does not have more weight with every earnest opponent of ',the Nebraska swindle, than the whole set of dema gogues in this county,, who make sub mission to party of more importance than the triumph of Freedom, then we are greatly mistaken in the intelli gence and independence of the masses. A single reflection will convince any candid mind of . the truth 'and force of the resolution. . • - Franklin Pierce was. elected as a democrat, and so was a large majority of the members of Congress. They pretended to be in favor of respecting the Popular will, and Yet . to • please certain Nullifiers North and : South,' : the - President undertook to repeal a solemn compact of thirty years' stand ing, which a Majority of the people of this Nation suppose to be a 4 bind ing as the Constitution. • He took to do this: against the hno‘ len will of the people, and without the request *of- a single petition, or the' voice of one public meeting. AnrYte [succeeded in ;accomplishing thiabase work. Howl, • By means :of the md thinery of: the party. /Without this the work never could:lmre been done. And it •,ii. by . means of the . same machinemthat the authors of.the Ne lxmaka outrage are vainly endeavoring to sustain themselves. 'Without the organizatiOn,rdthe old line Democratic party, President Pierce, S. A. Doug las & Co.,' could not sustain them selves for a - day.' The menat Wells borough, who adopted the above reso lution knew, this.. Every sensible man knows it. He also knows that the compact • breakers do not care a fig for your milk-and-water resolutions, so you will only stick to the party, and - sustain the old machinery by the aid of which they triumphed over . the people. It is votes the :conspirators against libtrty are afraid of, not reso lutions.; for it is well said by our znalr. ons Methodist :friends that even.-- is lined with good ones. • up There is an article on the fourth page about plowing, which deserves attention. Nearly an' average of 1,000 emi grants have arrived , at the port of New York each day during the four weeks ending July 24th. DM What to You Propout..to-DaAboaritt tiinetcen-twentietiia ortbe peopl :of this county are oppoipd to. 116.. •Nebraska perfidy. Thep . feel ;that great wrong has been done. Thep know how it was done. They know that, if the peeple of the North quietly submit to-this-monstrous aggressierrof the Slave Power, the whole' country will won be bound hand- and foot by the slaveholdere. Knowing all this we ask, What are god. going to tio about ii? The Southern leaders of this movement say you will grumble and growl little, and then ;submit. The old line Committee of this county think most of their party friends will swimait, and so they propose to go on in the,old way, Which is to sustain the Administration and approve the Ne- briska. bill. Every man of sense knows that the only way to preserve fre'edom for freemen is to repudiate the party that repudiated the people The Administration ha undertaken to revolutionize the natio3 by setting up the .will of the Cabinet as above the will of the People. It, seems to 'us that every man who has a spark of Manhood' about him will say that such high-handed - arrogance should be re buked; and that such an Administra tion should be taught that the People are the ruling power in America, and that the President is only the servant, and not the master. Frauklin Pierce has assumed to control the action of Congress. To our shame be it spoken, he'hai succeeded in part in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. He has done 'it arrogantly and tyrannically. The party leaders ask you; the People, to sustain him in this anti-republican course. Will you do it; or will you fol lciw the advice of common sense,and the good men of ail parties who think the SlavePowerhas ruled us long enough? That is the question now to be de cided. Active and leading old line democrats all over the free States, say the only safety for freedom is for free; men of all parties to unite in its de fense. Do you do ubt the wisdom and necessity of such action ? If not, show that you are men, and not the mere tools of small politicians. , Follow the convictions of your own judgment as to what ought to be done'to curb the power, of Slavery, and rebuke those men who have set at naught the pop-, ular will, and the country will be safe. Follow the advice of those men who teach you that the proceedings of a cauctis are entitled to your unques tioned support, and that every refular nominee is entitled to your vote, and you will do your best to keep the country subjected to tho rule ,of Slavery. . "WNW ROGUES PALL OUT," Est The Harrisburg Dcpweratic Usiion come to be one of the .- most inter esting of our exchanges. Each num- . ber has an expose of some prominent leader of the sham democracy, which it does honest men good to read. The following extract from a leading arti. de in a late number is doubtless pret ty near the truth, awl will be read with evident delight (except the hard vford.4) by every true sou of Penn aylvania t ' • ..We again repeat, that James Campbell and his jackal], Forney, have inlhsed into the Democratic party the elements of its destritc i taunt we repeat that the unmerited elevation of James Campbell was an insult to 'Pennsyl vania, which has excited public indignation, and has led to a formidabje organization that nowthreatenslhe defeat of the Democratic party; we repeat, that the relenting pro scription in Pennsylvania, of the friends of the 'venerable Cass, who was assassinated in the Baltimore • Conventiou by the Campbell clique, has alienated from the general Ad ministration two-thirds of the Democracy of the Keystone State ; we repeat, that if 'these intriguers are not repudiated at Washington and in pennaylvania, the people will pass sen tence upon them at the next general election— and in proof of the truth of these assertions, zee, appeal to thefuture. We invite any responsible friend of Mr. Pot.Locx, the Whig candidate, to point to uny official act of Gov. litot.xit that ha,' been at variance with the interests of the people at large.—Montrose Democrat. How about that Beer Bill that got into His Excellency's breeches pocket Would tk't it be well to label that pocket " Bills stuck , here!" —Wdlaboro Agitator. How abont.the pardon of the kid: napper ALBERTI I Also his refusal i to demand from the Governor of Mary land the surrender of thi murderers of SMITH at Columbia'? And now, in return, we would in rite ticm Montrose Democrat, or any other admirer. of Gov. BIGLER, to point . to any official act of his that has tended to promote the interests of the people at large. James G. Percival, the poet, has been appointed State Geologist .of Wisconsin. - DE/IXDI/CY Party men are prone to be l e d away from the fundamental principle of their party : A name, in the halal; of tho,designmg, is often made ad.:. coy to.:catch the votes of honest me : , for the _baaW._purpoles... -Everybody this; yet 'the nick constant's,- rr Bucceeds,. Ii view .4ese .facts . ,i; becomes us to refer ,frequently to “ k 1 first principles. Let us analyie lie. mocrady. , • -In . what. does• DernOtracy eomisi; Does:-it consist in :blindly followbp, the dictates of self-constituted leaders, :.j and obeying their dictation in opp o . „w on to reason and ennsrience - ,':Doe f it consist in being bound by the bond of partisan orgalwi l al ion rind-m.011411t, our' .opinions to tuit Its requisition., changing, and tni-eing at Ls beck! it to advocatwdort tines now, and op pose them when it suits the putin. , o gflwlitital - co , termwtge"s I, r L „ uphold measures lvbich we believe r„ be false, to pursue settish ends, and - make use of falsehood, treachery and deceit. to adVance 'the 1;0 tunes tint pamper the vanity of •broken thin u party hacks, or to elevate men to high official stations vrhum 'we know to unfit and incompetent? Thiti seems to be the opinion 41t., man v; With them, whatever thing re taiirleading .politicians choose to ca!t Democracy, that is Democracy. • W e believe differently. - The Democracy we profess is dm which lodges the supreme power in the hands of the people, not under the control of. the few. He •is the true democrat who is told, honest, free and independent;' alike fearless in the - advocacy of truth and exposure of error. He consults the good of the .whole people, not in the exaltation of political tricksters. He confides in the integrity and intelligence of the people, anti is not afraid to publish to them the malt, though it should con flict with and disarrange the plans of demagogues. He believes the people can form their own - opinions of men and measitres.and need no coercion of partisan lines to bring them tivcorrert action ; nor would he beguile theh confidence for selfish purposes.. He arts in conformity with his• own. elfin- ion, conscientiously _and without re. glad to the authority of men in office. Such - the - democracy we- avow. Such is the democracy we have prac ticed. We regard independent thought and action as one of the requisites democracy, - and he who counitels or votes in opposition to Lis real opinion, .;either tin ough fear or to serve any faction or purpose, is neither—a free man or a democrat.—Sullivan Coaiity Democrat. To every word Of the above we spond a hearty amen, and we should like to see any of our opponents show that it is not t. , true democracy, or that this paper has ever 4cted .ineonsistent therewith: TES 'PALT OF THE EMIL . The New-York yearly 'Meeting of Free-Will Baptists set an .example of dealing boldly and faithfully with the sins of the day, which we hope to see all the churches follow: The follow: ing, among other resolutions, were adopted at the late meeting of that. body: - Resolced, That it is the iiense of this meet ing that the late triumph of the sl a ve power in opening the Tetritorie.A Ratters and Nebraska to the curse of Sim erv, Ints been invited by the indifference of the .northern church to the sufferings of Christ in the per ions of the poor, and by the-substitution, ott the part of the clergy, of '• lower law" ear moos to the preaching of the apostolic dee,. trine, "that we ought to obey God rather than men." Resole-a, Therefore, Tlait repentance and confession of sin, and the bringing forth works meet for repentance, are the duty of the northern church and clergy.- 'nit among the, / works is a raft/sal to adn.t• those guilty • of slaveholding to communion, to ell/nth-fel lowship, or to the pulpit; a refusal to aahni to the treasury of benevolent societies. the price of blood; a refmal to cast ballot Tipen mere party ground while the great intere44 of human liberty are nt stake, and a:persist/no effort to induce a healthy public .sentiment that will •cnose the repeal .of the Fugitive Slave law, and consign to the felon'-s infamy any man of the North who consents to" be come the - tool of Southern despots in their efforts to reduce to Slavery any human being who comes to dwell among us, or •is our Ili+ way to .other liextilred, That the veto of the late bill' to suppress the liquor traffic by the Govermm of our State should lead the . frientls.of temper ance to vest no man with the executivia or legit/Wive power who is not a known and tried friend of the temperance comae. JAMES GARDINER; Moderator. M. C. BRowg, Clerk. Elmo to be Torte into Kansas The St. Louis latelligincer rays, they the proscriptive itetNe in which the resolution+ adopted by the late meetings held in Kansas have been understood, " is distinctly, repudi " ated by those who introdnced, voted for, "and adopted 'them. They avow that they " only meant to amen their tight, under Ilse law, to go to Kansas with their slives, and "that this right they meant to vindicate by " force, if necessary;" . . Welk esestin that sense we think the reso lution* are nn insult to the American People. But what we desire now to call attention to, is the fact that the slaveholders treat the re peal or the Migsonri_comprontise as.authorby for them to force Slavery into that Territory. Will the People gustair, the party that bag done such mischief / • M!=:=2 There is a movement in. Ohio to stove a free emigration to lit.tnrac la
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