THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL, MI S. MANN, EDWIN HASKELL, EDITORS FIDELITY TO TILE PEOPLE COUDERSPORT, FRIDAY, SEPT. - 8, .18-54 PRIMARY MEETING. —The•Repnitlican Electors of Enlalia town- Fhip, and the Borough of Coudersport, who are in fa v or or united actton to prevent the Extension of Slavery, and to build up a Party of Freedom, ore requested to meet at the Court flott-e iu Coudersport on Thrrsda.o afternoon, S&pm . Ger 14, at 5 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of voting for candidates for the ensuing election, and of transacting such other business a,t nray be deemed advisable. !Awls MAN x, A. G. Outsrk:o, F: L. Jos r... C. S. Joss:s, 11. J. 01.M , T , :11, 15iZ1.505 CLARK, L. D. SPAYIPRIL SonsEszt Ross, A. C. TAGGART. Eir The Free Democratic State Convention, which met at Harrisburg on the :30th of August, withdrew - our State ticket; and adopted resolutions expressing confidence in James. P6l - We hope this action will se-. cure the triumph of Republican prin ciples at the next election in this State. Er The speech of Hon. Josiah Quincy, on the first page is short but effective. - It contains more than a hundred such egotistical productions as that of H. H. Dent, sent out to the Faithful last week. We hope every Republican voter Nvill attend the primary meet ings on Thursday afrernoon next, fur that is a sure way to ensure the nom ination of a ticket that will sweep the county; and it is also a sure way to deprive umbitionS men of the power to do harm by attempting to lead. OF' The Nebraska men of the . Dis trict west of us have nominated David Barclay, of .Teffet:.son county, as their candidate for Congress. We shall be happy to record the election of Iton. - C. B. Curtis as au independent man. Lt thii . Dktrict we understand the plan is not. to nominate till a few days before the election, so that the people will have no time to ascertain the uan clidate's petition. Considering the ma jority which, the district gave for Pierce, we should say that this indi cates great cowardice on the part of the Neb-rascals. i*"As Governor Bigler has under 'taken to enlighten the people as to his views on the various questions on which he is called to act, we trust he will inform the people of this county what he thinks of the Lager Bay: bill which he has Carried in his breeches pocket since the Legishit urc adjourned. Also, whether he thinks it is any more manly for Lim to keep this bill so long without telling what he thinks of it, than it. was fur Governor Johnston to keep the bill throwing open the jails for the use of shareholders in his pocket. If we are not mistaken, this Was one of the chief charges brought against Johnston in ISSI, and we think the people should make Gov. Bigler dance to his own music. r er The Bigler men begin to trem ble in their . shoes. They see that. the people of this county cannot be in• awed to acquit...see in the 'Nebraska outrage, and tlfby whiningly ask, What influence will the county ticket have on this que:•tion /, We answer this by asking, if the county ticket has not a very Material influance on National questions, why do the Administration Men nominate a full ticket in every county in the State and Nation! Judge Wilmot, who understands the influence of these movements as well as any man in the State, says "we must strike down" the allies of theNationalAnminiAration "in every State, Di3trict and County ;" and the people mean to follow this advice. rr We hope some honest demo crat will ask his Excellency to . answer the following questions, put by the W ell slio ro Agitatot : Why did you deplore the . increase of crime; and yet let loose upon suci• city a horde of desperadoes by means . of the pardoning powet• . l Why did you tell the committee of the Temperance Conventiom•that • you could, not express any definite opinion, as to whether you would sign a Prohibitory Law or not, and shortly thereafter write a- letter to the Rev, John ,Chambers, satisfying him thut you would sign such a billf ®'There was a thunder shower on Wednesday eVening, which was yery , refreshing. A tree in sight of the vil lage was struck' by lightning. WIULM BIGLER'S POSITION.. As this subservient Governor is it 47 vertiseil to. visit equdersport, and make a speech to-mcirrow,' . we think it a proper time to call the. attention t,of the People to his true Position, which is one of unblushing subjection to the Slave Power. ---••- . - • . In proof of this, we will refer to . a few facts which will satisfy every ,can did mind, and to rebut ~ These facts, ... . we challenge‘the Governor or any of his friends, to produce a single manly ex . presion tli tthe has ever uttered in favor of fre dom, or in rebuke of the , , impudent a nTessions of the slave holders. Ile has, made the tour of the State once, defending the Fugi tive Slate Bill and denouncing the anti-kidnapping act of 1847, which became a law during the faithful ad ministration. of 11011(6 Frank Shank; but when has be said a single word iu favor 'of 4-fashioned, Jelfersonian Democracy, which held -that Liberty. .for all, NVII< the great object of Gov ernmentwhich held that . Slavery was :uch an evil as Congress was bound to exalt& forever from all the Territory of the Nation. , In the campaign of ISSI, certain wing papers charged Mr. Bigler frith inconsistency in voting for the anti kidnapping act of 1847, and denounc ing the same act in 1851. Mr. Bigler thought it necessary to deny voting for this act, which was the chief orna ment. in the Administration of F. IL Shunk. lie was s Member of the Senate when it passed, and the bill received the unanimous vote of that body, and yet in a .letter dated July 22, 1851, he says: "I did not 'vote for it; I topk ro partin the proceed ings of the Senate on the subject, nor could it in my opinion, bet re become'a lawi if its full bearing had been per-• ceived at the time." Is not that . a pretty denial for a man to'make, Who was at that time, and is now, asking for the votes of independent freemen! Why, this act of 1847 is the most glorious, and the most important of any act of this State since the passage of the act of March 1, 1760, entitled "An. Act fin• the gradual abolition of slavery." The act of 1547 completed the work which the act of 1780. com menced, and yet his Excellency thought it necessary to deny voting for so noble au act, probably fbr the same reason that Peter denied with an oath his acquaintance with Jesus of Naia-: reth. In this same letter, William Bigler said, "1 am in favor of the compromise measures and in favor of a thorough and dicient execution of them as they are, and against all future Congre. , sionai agitation of the question settled by them.", The English of this is, that he is ill favor of a thorough and efficient exe cution of the fugitive slave bill as it is, and he is opposod to any change of that bill, or any discussion of that subject in Congress. Whatevermakes is furor of Slavery be can advocate and uphold with a will, but .when it comes to sustaining a compromise that works against Slavery, then the . Gov ernor has not a word to say and when agitation is commenced . by the' slaveholders, the object of which is to repeal a sacred compact in favor of freedom by means of which Slavery had reaped great advantages, then be is silent as the grave. Is such a man a fit Representative of freemen ? But take another fact. Rachel Par ker, a free -born citizen of Pennsyl vania, was kidnapped by certain Bal timore slave dealers, hurried off to that city, and thrust into a slave pun. Joseph Miller, ft on' whom the girl was stolen in his absence, went to Baltimore to restore her to freedom, and was brittaily murdered. Thomas M'Creary, of Bahimore, soon after-. wards was indicted by a Grand Jury= of Chester county for kidnapping the Parker girl; and Governor Bigler was asked to do his duty, and bring the wretch to trial, but that duty has vecer Leen discharged, It is true, however, that Governor Bigler went through the motions of demanding the surrender of M'Creary, but the Gov ernor of Maryland know his man, and paid no attention to the requisition, when the subject wa§, dropped, and M'Cleary walks abroad. unpunished for his villainous outrage on an unpro tectts•!dffemale. . The same is true of the murderer of Smith at Columbia, except that his Excellency did not go through the form of demanding his surrender. • Thus you see the Governor favor of tt . . thorough and tjfcient.exe catiot of the odious and cruelfugitiVe slave bill;. but is entirely *rent to the exeatitio'n of the bill requiring. the surrender of crimiwils, especially if the, criminal. conies .from a slave State,-and is only kidnapping a free person with a view t<i -increase the -nurnbepof slaves. : But again , George F. Alberti seized a woman and her'free child and hur-' tied them off to '.shivery, but was caught in the act, tried and convicted. The Hon. A. V. Parsons, a democratic Judge, who never had a particle of sympaihy with the anti-slavery move ment, sentenced Alberti to the Peni tentiary for ten year:, .and trnong other thingi said at the time of the sentence; "If there is any, crime in the black . catalOgue that deserves to rank second to murder, it is, this!!! I can imagine nothing. more revolting to the feelings of humanity than to steal human beings and sell them into bondage. * * * It was an offense which adntils of no ecxuse, and at which humanity shudders." And yet the criminal whom Judge Parsons felt constrained to pithish so severely, and to address with such strong marks of just abhon epee, Gov ernor Niggler took under his especial. protection,. gave him a full pardon, and turned him loose upon c6mmunity to commit new and:more . revolting MEM Such is the man whom unscrupu lous and unprincipleteliticians have selected for election to the office of Governor of this Commonwealth. It remains to be seen if the t ropic will sanction the selection. Such is the man who has been invited to come and teach the ft:center' of little Potter their duty, We have a pretty strong suspicion that they will - teach him at the ballot box, that the reign of slave holding allies in Pennsylvania. is past, " Strike Down its Mice." , The letter - of the Hon. D. - Wilmot, which we published weekAyfore last, is one of the truest and Lest papers that the Nebraska agitation has called out. Its statements of fact cannot be denied, nor its logical advice called in question. We a.k just at this time the especial attention of every voter in the•county to the following pard graph: The,power and designs of Slavery nmst be checked, and the' original . policy of the • Government on this sub j ect restored. To this end we must lay aside—posipone for a time, the strifes of party overminor points of controverted policy, and UNITE in this great work of preserving our.free Institutions trout impending destruction._ The first blow must be aimed for the overthrow of the pres- ent National Administration—the mere tool and puppet of tho Slave Power. Through the competing influence of its patronage upon the people's Representaii% es, Freedom has been betrayed. It must he oven% helmcd at eVery point with ignominious defeat. Wo cannot shorten its Constitutional term of of. lice, but WE MUST STRIKE DOWN ITS ALLIES in every State, District, and County. It mmt have no profits iihhe States, upon which to lean for the support of its iniquitous policy. 'No man should he elected to respon sible office, Governor, weather of Congress, Representative, whose relations of friendship and alliance with the National Administration are open to snspicion. yes; "We must 'strike down its allies." Every' man of any intelli gence knows this is the only course that will- overthrow the Slave Power, and pi event the admission of any more Slave States. • One of the most important and efficient of these allies, is about to visit Coudersport, fur the purpose of strengthening his owe and the Na- tienal Administration, which has lent itself to the schemes of the Slavery • propaganda. ‘. We hope there will be honesty and independence enough among the old line Democracy of this county, to enquire of William Bigler to-morrow, what he thinks of the -Jeffersonian Proviso which excluded Slavery from the Northwest Territory, and if ho says he approves of it, then ask him hoW-he came to assist Douglas and the National Administration to repeal a similar .proviso, which excluded Slaery frOre Kansas and Nebraska. But if he says he is opposed to the Jeffersonian Proviso, mid a consistent advocate of the Nebraska bill, then we snbinit he should be struck down at the ballot box. That he assisted Douglas and the P . resident to force through the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in defiance of the knoren will of the people, is evid4nt from the action of his friends in the Legislature, and in the Convention which nomi nated hint It is well know!n• that he could have induced the Convention to condemn that bill, and that the bill never would havwpassell under midi .cqndemnati on. These facts sh liatii Bigler to he the chid. Northern': 'ally, of the National 'Adniinistration, and•thetefore'`he is mit :fit •to receive the votes of honest freemen, We call the • attention of the public ,to, : tikem now, = because we believe- the masses• in this section •are more 'anxious hear.the GoVernor define his position . on this subject than on any:other; and because we•are in the habit of making our charges when they can be met if not true. EL H. DENT This - gentleman seems to think that Congressional timber is scarce in this district, and. therefore that tile People are anxious to vote for Min. ;:wAiere: upon be publishes a very pretty school boy : production, which ore of our farmer friends reviews in .a free and friendly way—as follows: Mr.ssns. EDITORS: The l6.st Patriot contains a rare 'piece of composition, headed "To the People..of' Potter County," one of the inany 'results of the late democratic convention. As the anthoi has taken they liberty tii address "the People,". it is-hoped that lie will not take any'exceptions to a hasty and humble reply from one of their numbers I am not personally acquainted \yid' the author., cherish no prejudices againSt him, know, nothing 'concerning his past biAory, whether lira has been reputed a Christian or Mahometan, conservative' or progressive,- a dema gogue or a strict up-and-down poll- tieian; and for my present purpose it:i is all the same, as I shall tint have tol: du with the past:• The address is well-• timed, neither too soon nor too late; but just at that period of time wheir everybody. naturally expects pulitk cians to "stoop." . It exhibits a com-, II prehensive intellect ; in' a :descriptive point it is all we could ask. The phys T toghoiny of the country, the avepnes of access, sahibrity of climate, sanitary qualities cif the water, scenery; air, social, Moral, physical, and political aspect, is at one bold dash of the au thor's pen laid :before the reader in the most enchanting Our ,au= thor has . a" discrimatitig intellect:, he styles the confidenc - e exhibited toward him "the generous confidace.'i . We concur in that opinion'; it was NA only generous, but extravag-antly gen erous.. It is better to be .just before one is generous." The result of this generous confidence, it- awakened, in his "bosom motives" he darenot un dertake to describe. The character of those motives our 'author does not disclose. The world must' remain profoundly ignorant on that . . score. How unfortunate ! Our 'author tells us that an acceptation. of 'the nominti . - tion could not be considered selfish on his part. .011 . 11 . 0, it would be one of the - rarest cases •of disinterested be, nevoleuce on record. He would be under the painful necessity . a leavin,'rr "his 'domestic pleasures" at eight dui lars - per day. Sainte finally concludes he owes his country a debt, and Will !Oren . ° all the little inconveniences - In ciee7nally connected ivith "a_ Con gressional term," if the People in the district feel disposed to select him. What a wonderful cOndescension How modest! Our autlibr is sympa thetic.; the bare recital of the Vicissi tudes encountered by the early settlers of Potter county "almost" made . his "heart bleed." Just at this time be seems to he brim full and running over with the milk of human kindness. The address contains great- " frankness.". We are told an entire . indifference to. the great question of American Slavery would be one rule that would govern him in the balls Of Congress. The peculiar disadvantages - We labor under should receive the undivided 'attention of our Representative, to the exclu -sion of measures vitally, connected with the gluey. and perpetuity, of the American Union. Zo the author per sonally, we would say, our position•is ode chosen and, occupied voluntarily. We thank you for the well-selected words of commiseration, so' skilliitlly connected and uttered at this . sus picons hour of an important political compaign. We well weigh this cool,) calculating love-offering. -If entitled' fo our votes, we will gio.i them to pin cheerfully. In spreading before us the rules by which you will be get : . erned, you have most, adroit lyi 'under taken to cover up the great issue at the North, the issue forced , upon us, by a most disgraceful class, whose'members 'if elected you '5 . *111 only help to swell . the still greater disgrace of American history. We do not doubt Yotir frank ness In speech: We .do not doubt your conservatism ; we do not doubt yoiir Pro-Slavery tendencies, 13ut we do most' sincerely doubt the propiety of sending you to Congress: Your perceptions of duty are , behind 'the demands of the age. We do not doubt your sincerity, but other qualities equally as essential, • are wanting.— Brigham Young is sincere,' but his Views on,social and' political economy would not entitle him to your vote, nor mine. Judged by the address, - our author is one of your sleek, well-to-do, con servative, complaisant; - affable, subtle men, entirely destitute olthe;requisite amount ; of Moral courage to raise him above'medinerity. The doctrine con tained in the . address is of the Missouri, Anti-Benton' school, not' adapted to the atmosphere of Saratoga, Bunker Hill, and, 1 hope, not to the laurel bills of Potter. Pass the address round; let the Freemen read the cog itations of one who, when forced to mill, carries u stone in oue end of the bag and the' grist in the other. ONE'OF THE PEOPLE. THE TRAM OF FREEDOM. The _Anti-Nebraska democrats of Sulliean county met in Mass Conven- tion on the, llith (lay of August at the Forks of. Loyal Sock and were ad 41ressed' by the Hon. D. Wilmot for /tree hours, Which was listened to with the greatest attention. We find. the - proceedings of this meeting published in full in the Sul- Ilivan County Democrat; and they are ;of the utmost importance. Judge. Wilmot never yet made a three hour's. speech, without at the same time making his mark. The resolutions unanimously adopt ed at this Loyal Sock meeting show that a glorious work was done. The following are three of the series, and we commend the first one .to Governor Bigler as containing more truth than he will be likely to stand: We also commend this resolution to those Anti-Nebraska democrats of this county, who may assemble to morrow to licar the Governor expre: , s, his views. Will some one of them Who'has a sound back bone just ,ask his Excellency to show, wherein eitlic . r of these resolutions, but especially the first one, is untrue in its facts, or un sound in_ its logic: Resolved, That we have no rya tin , to• believe .that Bigler agree.; with us in any point connected , with the Clues ions of slavery now agitated we know he recomtnended the pass age of a law allowing Shiveholdeits to chrry their slaves through this State; we know he endorses the fugitive slave which tramples upon our personal rights; we know his election would be .regarded in every part of; the Union as a triumph of the allies of slavery, and us those who are not for us, in this matter, are eniphatically. against us, we declare GoV. Bigler unworthy _of our support. Resolved, That, inasmuch as .Tudae Pollock has declared explicitly that lie is in favor of reCnactnq the law which prohibited slavery in territo ries ,north of thirty-six degrees and thirt . minutes north latitude; and . also- favor of the manumis.-ion of any slaves ille!rally held there, (will. .pies a position much mire jnq and liberal than (lov. Bigler, that without endor:ing the confirm' , addre. , s of the Whig, Central Committee, we e..teeln it our duty to ffive Jiuhre Pt llock.our fultand active support in the coming election. Resolved, That, ns the Cor e tit at ion of the United State's declares it was made in order to "establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense' promote the general. welfare, and secure the bless ings .tf liberty to ourselves and our pt)steritv," anv article in the Consti tution. which Is construed to demand laws subversive of these ends is false ly construed and must be understood in *itch a manner as makes it harmo nize with the spirit and intention of the whole ihstrument. FACE THE MUSIC Governor Bigler made a speech in Fulton county on the 7th of August, in which he declared himself in favor of , the- Douglas :Nebraska outrage. Such a' declaration was Aloubtli , s's popular in Fulton county, which bor ders on a Slave State, and the Gov ernor ran no risks in making known such sentiments in that section, but unfortunately for the piirty his friends areTnot all very discreet, and so one of them, the editor of the Falley Spir it, reports what hiS Excellency said, and another one, the editor of, the Harrisburg Key Stone, republishes the declaration with great joy, that at last the Governor- has mustered courage to define his position. As he is doubt less Willing teTeiiffirm in Potter, what he declared in Fulton, we republish an extract from his former speech as reported for the Valley Spirit, and exultingly- copied into the Keystone. Here-it is: Will the Governor have the kindness to say what he thinks of the- correctness of the report? The italicising is ours: Gov..Bigler said he was a mem ber of the democratic party, and that party had a right to demand whether he subscribed to the great demoeratic principle ofself-government embodied in the Nebraska bill. To that demand he Was ready to respond. The repub lican principle of self-government was the leading feature, the i•ery essence of the - adjustment of ISSO, commonly • called the compromise measures.— That adjustment Gov. Bigler endorsed: and defended before the people in the ctimpaign of 1851, and the people rendered 'a verdict in its favor. The same principle precisely was incor porated into the - Nebraska bilk—He had defended the compromise imeas ures, and he Would'iteferid the Ne braska bill, which was founded upon the great republican principle of self government." We do not care what xerbiage may he used to hide-the hideous deformity of the bill. Call it Jeffersenian, Jack , son, RepUblican principle, or - what you please, so you will only say in plain English whether - you aro for or AGAINST the Douglas Nebraska bill, and we will be happy to publish your remarks in• your own words, if y ou will but send us - a copy of them. Let . !"there be no dodging however, for the 1 people despise a coward, as much as a doughface. ANNEXATION AT THE NORTHWEST Corrpondence of the Courier end Intinirer. WASHINGTON, July 1t55 I. - The connection ofthe European war with events bearing on our national interest, is becoming better under stood. The Administration seems de- ' termined to avail itself of all the op portunities offered fir advancing- Amcirican interest. A treaty will pro bably be concluded before -the lapse of many weeks for the - purchase of Sitka and the Bussian province on the - north-west coast for the moderate sum of five millions of dollars. • •In pursuance of the same policy, liberal offer will be mink for the purchasing of Vancouver's Island, for . perhaps tim same sum in addition.— A distinguished monder of: the Com mittee on Foreign Affairs remarked to me yesterday,' that it was beleived by our best inflamed statesmen that Great Brit;ain was pl'epuring - to relin quish all her colonial and territMial possessions on this continent, by con-:. ceding to all of them a -degree of inde pendence entirely. incompatible with the colonial and subordinate condi tion. Vancouver is - entirely uninhab ited and it would be in perfect accord ance with this policy to cede it to -us for a romtd sum in money. All these acquisitious serve to extend the pat ronage of ibe General Government. making new offices fir the re-thud of partisans, and arc therefore popular. The new Russian territory is already christening. It is to be called 'Aleutia, from that strange Archipelago which almost,„unites the Amenran with the Kamschat kiln coast. There are nu merous applications for the places of Governor and other local offices, Vanc&ver or Quadra when reaan flexed will for some time require to be kgoverned as a territory, but will eventually become a noble insular ' State. - The most serious difficulty - attending the incorporation (tithe Canadas ii the large population of runaway slaves in those provinces. The Canadians will never consent to surrender them,' nor to come in without some guarrantee against the'reelamation of that por tion of their fellow-citizens. This cir cumstance will realer tieeessar, some special stipulation_ in their tarots of union with us—they may even insist upon a previous repeal of the Fugi tive law, or po:sibly the repeal of the clause of the .Constitution on which that is said to he base)]. IssrecTort. NM'S TEE WORD Who's to. be cheated now? Either the Rums:.llers or the Temperance met' are to be.the victimi of the next election. The question is put to Gov.. Will you sanction a right of 6earch Prohibitory L:1•::-? . That gen tleman answers: “Surely, you don't ' mean to press such a question. My dignity will not permit me to answer.. Take may word for it 1 will do what I think riOlt." The same question is put to Judge Black. Astonishing indiscretion" dies he; "what! you wish to know whether 1 will enforce-. the law after it is demanded by the people, passed by the Letrishture aka sanctioned by the Governor! ! My dignity forbids me to tell you!' The same question is put to-the democrat ic candidates fbr the Legislature.— "How unreasonable!" they all clamor in chorus, "why„ how can we tell un til after we haveheard the arguetrients next winter ? Rest assured, we Will do wjtat we may think . .right at the time we are called upon to legislate." And thus, through all the Democratic ranks. "Lie low, keep dark and say nothing-," is the word of cbminand. Temperance men will not consent ,to walk into such a wide-mouthed trap. if the democrats cannot find in their ".mantras any men with opinions made up, either for. or. against Tem peratwe, they should not Weave such int rig ue.: 10 cat eh Temperance votes. With Legislators doubtimg the con stitution:dity of a Right of Search Prohibitory Law, with an Executive who will not sanction it, and a su preme Court who will not enforce it, the chance of getting one is so small as to be imperceptible. Let Temper ance Men" watch and work -vote.— Above all, let them beware of wolye3 in sheep's clothing.—Phi/a. Register.
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