THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL J..VO. .S. _ILI NA', A. A rEft Y, Editprs COILIDERWORT, 1'A:: ""111. 7 11SDAYTMORNING, MAY 17, ]ES 1.-,‘• ,- ? - I.lle.new State Treasurer, Hon. Eli Slifer, , has taken charge of his ..odice,. and appointed Thomas Nichol .son, 4sq., at one time a member of the House from Beaver county, and a first Tate man, Cashier. ITT - F. - The Ys'a , ren Ledger, an old line democratic paper, has condemned the late outrage in Kansas,in manly terms. "We mention this because nearly every paper of that stamp in this Slate, is iler.t as midnight on that subject. They even turn the cold shoulder to Cov.lteede,r,Ayho is an administration • eicalocr3t. IEWe are glad to see our enter townsman Hon. S. Ross, so heartily engaged in agricultural pur suits. He has a field of winter wheat containing five acres, in fair view of our which is good for sore eyes. Then he has prepared eight or ten acres - adjoining his wheat field, for Spring crops, to which ho will do full justice. ra'Most of the lumbermen come home with long faces. They say tim ber is low, and buyers I indifferent. Fanners, the prosperity of the county depends upon you. There is no de pendence to be placed on the lumber business, and the sooner our people rely on the generous earth of ow- own roliniy, the sooner we shall become rich and prosperous.. a?'" More Thoughts for the Sons of Temperance," is a very timely arti cle, and ought to be read by every friend of • temperance in the county. There are.quite a number of the order who will read this, and resolve to at tend.te the next meeting of the Divis-. ion,,—;ce hope. -Brother Stillwell, ac cept our thanks for this communica tien. !Pit dues one's heart good to see to activity of our farmers at this time. Notwithstanding the scarcity of seed, and the difficulty in keeping teams. there is more spring work done than , we have ever known at this season ; and what is equally encouraging, the wheat sown last fall looks admirably; In fact everything denotes a prosper ous season fl,r the farmer, whichwill wcure.prosperity for all other classes. as we are all dependent on those who plow and sow, for•our-success in busi ness. Erne Lpg'slature adjou,-ned on the Sth irst. The bill for 'he sale of the Public, Works, passed the Sen of the 4th by a vote of 22 to 11. It fixes the pi ice at S millions; if pur chased' by the Pennsylvania Railroad G~ompauy, at 9 millions. The bill. to abolish the Canal Board .S - 30.0,000 was appropiiated to common schools, which is a step i in the eight direcion. We hope next year this sum w:llbe doubled, and then we _llan soon sue an efficient common school sv stem. When the Old Hunkets removed o.lr friend Cole,f;om the office of Com missioners' Clerk, and appointed Sam uel Haven in his stead, the organ made a characteristic flourish, and told what great improvements would be made ,in the Commissioners' office by the .new Board and their Clerk—also' sta ling what every intelligent man in the county knew was not true that "order and method have been strangers in the business of the Commissioners' office," . Well,•as we are advocates of reform, we said, to ourselves, '" if these new hands make aay improvement, we shall ejoice at it, and give them due credit therefor." But as generally happens with bragging mon, the big promises Imo all failed. Se far from improve, m e nt, we hear a general complaint from all who have anything to do with the office, that the present Clerk is far more negligent than the old one, and nobody thought of bragging of him. The most that was said for him was that t he was faithful, intelligent; and_ ..irldustrious ; three - virtues, only one of which is possessed by the present offi cer.' Th'en his inability to perfoim manual lahor, should have secured his continuance in the office, unless the • p!ace was to he filled by a more CfFt cita loan, whirl, no unprejudiced per son ill pri.telid han been done. CONDFJ , I_:NINCi TiiRWs;ELvEs It 'is amusing to see the ingenuity made use of by the . - Ailministration press to; dodge the 'ino.st -important questions of the day. 'For instance, those papers in this State - which said but little.• about the violation of the contract in• relation to the territory • north of 36 deg. :30 min., and what they did say was intended to induce the people, to pay but little attention to the matter—to aqvie s sce in the vio lation of the contract—are just now very much incensed 'at those mem bers of the - present Leg'slature who voted to increase their own pay. Now, while we adrinit the wrong on the part ofthe Legislature, we pro xose to show that the complaint is made with a very ill grace by the Nebraska press. The wrong done by our members in voting themselves a salary of 5500 a year instead of $3 a day, was so trifling that no remon strauces were sent in against it, that we noticed. In fact, we believe it will be liettec for' the State to pay,the members a salary of $5OO than in the old way, per diem ; but we think, the members who made the change should • have made the law take . effect after their own terms of of had expired. But in 1543 an act was passed? pro viding that " the per diem pay of tho members, after any ..session of the Legislature shall continue over one hundred days, shall he one dollar and fifty cents per day for- the number of days the Legislature may •convene in session beyond that time." (See Dun lop's Digest, page 1007.) . From the passage of this act to the preSent time, according to the dictum of one of the sham democratic papers, the members of Assembly, when elected, made a contract with the people that they would receive but one dollar and fifty cents per day fur each day.they should remain in session longer than one bun dred. \Vas this contract ever ful filled I Not when pro-slavery de mocracy was in the ascendant. Did the Administration press ever before say any thing about this contract ? Not a word. Last year Beck and Eldred voted themselves three dollars a day, in violatioa . of this act of As sembly, but . our hunker editors had not a word to say. Having been si lent when they ought to have spoken, their hypocritical attempt to read moral lectures now, will be taken by the people for what it is wet th. But this is .a fair sample of pro slavery morality. If men will but pr fees to be democrats, swear by the Fugitive Slave bill, and oppose the Maine Law, they are patrio'. - s of the first water ; - and their party press will praise and sustain .them,' no matter what solemn compacts are violated, or bow much free territory they attempt to make over to Sravery. Not so when a man declines to train in their com pany. Then every act is turned into a wrong, and every error magnified a hundred fold. We have a hopeful assurance that sensible mon will soon tire of such gross inconsistency, and itnpudunt Pharisaism It succeeded last year,.by the help of villainous falsehoods, in gaining the ascendancy in this county. But we are frequently encouraged by. unmis takable evidence of a healthy and vig orous reaction, which will,Ave hope, at the next election, restore the county to its former glorious position in favor of Freedom, Temperance, and Home Reform. . . Lire are sorry to ace so many loaded teams coming into Coudersport' on the Sabbath. - "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work," is a wise and beneficent command. The statute d Pennsylvania enforcing this com mand, is a wholesome one ; and if our business men consult, their own good, they will pay due respect to it. If they do not we should not be surprised if our wide awake Burgess should pay his respects to them. We say this not because, we make any pretensions to special reverence for the Sabbath, -but because we believe "the healih, happi ness, peace, and prosperity of all class es, require every seventh day as a time of rest and relaxation, of quiet and repose ;. and that this rest belongs to man and Nast, Hence we are pained' to see the: poor horses come wearily into town on the Sabbath, Ve-,ith a heavy load attached to them. We make- an earnest 'appeal to all con cerned, to reform this abuse. The Ilitits of Slavery Stid Thomas Jefferson, " The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals uncorrupted amid the debasing influences of slavery." ' Every day's experience amply veri fies this assertion of one of the. Fathers. Three millfons of people without the pale of the law—denied the sacred rights of home, of marriage, and of self defense, must invite to clime. Eight hundred thousand adult females with no defense, is an unblushing invitation to adultery, amalgamation, and the vilest corruption. Hence may be seen throughout the South children of all shades of complexion ; and the crimes of which these children are evidence, must, of necessity, induce other crimes. Hence the disregard of .solemn com pacts—the armed seizure of ballot boxes—the destruction of printing presses, and the other daily outrages which mark the track of slavery. 'For 'illustration of this, see the article on the outside, from a Missouri paper, giving an account of the destruction of the Parkeille Luminary. The fol lowing able editorial from the bile . pendent Republican of Montrose, con tains some truths on this subject, which the people would do well to consider : The general demoralizing influence of slave ry on comumnities where it exists, has often . been pointed out. - To judge of the character of a people by the acts and doctrines of the aggregate body of which they are the compo nent. parts, onr slaveholding fellow-citizens must be looked upon as men who either have a very indistinct perception of right and wrong, or are indifferent to the obligations that a per ception of the. right imposes. We are fre quently told that great allowance most be made for difference in education—that those horn and reared where slavery exists, view it not in the saute light as we. This is certainly true. Those who, having by fraud removed from K a n,,a s, the restriction of slavery, are now pre pared to use violence and bloodshed to intro duce it there, most certainly have very differ ent ideas of ,he blessings of slavery, as welkas of the rights of freemen and the sacredness of 1 the laws, from those of the Northern people. The movement for the enslavement of Kansas is co, to be a.tribmed to the ho Ale of semi barbarians who marched thitlier to curry the elections with bowie-kit:re and pistol:Jim to the leading spirits of the Son.h. prominent among whom,in this outrage, stands Atchison, Speaker of ie Senate. This raid of ruffian ism and lawlessness was deliberately planned by the slaverv-ex;ensionists, months before its i execution. The general complicity of the pro slavery leaders is sufficiently evinced by the fac. that the news of the result was received by the echo; nistration with great rejoicings. and I was made tire subject of l-pecial festivities at the White House: for President Pierce. for ; getful of the principles of freedom lie should have imbibed among the hills of his 11:1ii e S..ate; has become the ally and tool of sla , :-e-y, and rejoices whit the rest over its unholy ti- mnphs. For this act—the same as though the people of New York should march into Pennsylvania armed wt,h cation and small arms, drive the legal voters away. and take possession of. the polls—no apology or excuse is offered, except. the interests of slavery detuando it ; because the legal voters iu Kansas are almost univer sally in favor of making it a free State. This is a specimen of what we have to expect from the chivalrous spit it and nice sense of honor of the .South. Is it safe to cormnit the keeping of our country's honor and imerests to the hands of risen with such-very peculiar ideas of right and wrong ? Yet they have long con trolled the government in an undue degree, and 'now more tha a ever. Their cominned, da\ success in timid • g the North to their porpos es, has rendered t in arrogant and presump tuous. Confident i their power, they go on rapidiy front one aggression to another. They. have determined that there shall be no peace till the government is completely and securely under their control, and 'abolitionism crushed out. . UrOur Town Council has been in session nearly every evening for some two weeks past. Not aware that any important business would come up for disiussion, we had no reporter, pres ent, and so cannot give the proceed ings. Ent- the decisions as they are made public, give general satisfaction thus far, and we feel impelled to say that the members of the Council are entitled to the thanks of this commu nity for the promptness with which their duties have been discha . rged. Frank L. Jones, Esq., the energetic Burgess, is at home as a presiding of ficer, and is executing the ordinances of the Borough with that thorough and business like manner that character ized his administration of the Sheriff alty of this County. ISPWe ask attention to the article in another column from the Olean Journal, in relation to our act of As sembly just passed to restrain the sale of intoxicating drinks. We are pleas ed with this candid notice, and the approbation of our Olean neighbor we deem of groat importance, as it comes from an impartial and unprejudiced . source. The Journal is an old line denlorrade paper, and we commend its fair and manly notice of the . anti-. license bill, to the, attention of its snarling and captious associates in this State. The Harrisburg Union and Ly coming Gazette are especially request ed to „give the Olean Journal's notice a candid reading, after which we think ] they will feel better, whether their mariners are improved or not. aret.eoiry De...T:! Meyer from tbe Ileriis . loWn Olive .Branch, ; for Aqipaper uiidef his min agement was one of the - best in the State. Though a firm and determined advocate of whatever he thought was right, he was alWays courteous ponents, and by his candor and fair ness united with great ability, raised his paper to an honorable position. We hope he will reeeive the reward I due to faithfulness and industry. With the new editor, L. H. Gause, we have not the pleasure of an ac quaintance ; but the first number is sued under his supervision, is an ex: cellent journal, well filled with the right kind of reading printed on good paper, with clear type, and is made up with taste and skill. But better than all this, is the independent, manly tone of the opening editorial._ Brother Gause, if you write in this spirit every week, we shall soon forgive you for taking the chair so well occupied by our tried and true old friend . Dr. Moyer. erWe. have the pleasure of in forming our readers that arrangements are making by the friends here .in Coudersport, to devote the 4th day of July next, to the cause of Liberty. The services of Hon. Joshua R. Gid dings are already secured, and it is confidently expected that a larger crowd will be out to hear him, than ever assembled in this county. There will be a meeting in , the Court House on Tuesday evening of next court, to make suitable arrange ments for the occasion. All persons who desire _to do something to save Kansas from the rule of Slavery, are invited to attend. rir The outside of 'this number is more than usually interesting, we think. There is an article on the impor tance of sustaining a Free Presi, which • every opponent. of slavery extension ought to read.- Then thereis a Novel . Discourse on Slavery, by an old man near Washington—a rare article with plenty of fun in it. Then there is an account of :how Douglas is trying to be the head of the . Know Nothing or der in Illinois, but can't come to tea ; also an account of the opening of the war in Kansas. Truly we are on the eve of exciting times, and the reader will find a . pretty full history of the war as it now stands, on the outside.of this number of the Journal. P, -The Olean Journal in alluding to the backwardness of the "happy grooms" •in thi:; section, in adopting the pleasant custom which prevails in the Empire State, of sending the print-, er a gold dollaehs an accompaniment to the 'marriage notieirives us the following piece of advice which we shall follow with .a will We always knew that th;s State took the lead of Pennsylvania in all mailers nirefivm ; -but as the latter generally "follows suit" pret ty well, we shall expect ere long to hear our Coudersport cotemporary plea. antly acknowl edging the very becoming magnanimity, cour tesy, and sense ofjusiice of numberless happy grooms, Agitate the subject, neighbor! Cr Tho following proceeding in our Legislature just before the close, is a sign of progress : HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TUF.SDAY, May 7, 445. A resolution was introduced thanking Gov. Reeder of Kansas, for his faithful adherence to the old landmarks of republican liberty, in defending the purity of the ballot box against lawless mob of Missourians, and bidding him a cordial welcome to his family and friends. After n brief debate in which Messrs. La porte, Chamberlain, and Cummings, partici pated, . the resolution was agreed - so unani mously—yeas 75, nays none. Alps. STOwE BURNT IN EFFIGY.— .. Within the past few days the Univer sity of Virginia has been the scene of incidents hardly creditable to the chiv alry Of the Old Dominion. Miss Beech er, an able and accomplished lady, the sister of Rev—Henry Ward Beecher and'of Mrs. Stowe, visited the vicinity of that institution. Her presence was soon known, and she was treated to a mock serenade, and Mrs. Stowe was burnt in effigy! How have the mighty fallen ! George Washingt.on, I well remember to have read, addressed a negro' poetess in terms of respect, as "Miss Millis," and.raised his hat to a' negro man•to whom be would not yield the palm of politeness. • The present generation' of young men, is far wiser and more chivalric. The author of the most, affecting and truth-like story of the time is burned in effigy in Virrinia, and her sister inaulted,' because she is` her sister. tranfit gloria —[Wash. cor: Pa. Inquirer. ' A Slopman in a. jig city advertised for half - a., dozen thin coat makers. Guess he could find' ten dozen thin ones, at the thin .prices paid, without advertising. ACTS We her - shall wo send fur tracts ? . . . Ydu may . sen4 to the TraCt House, in the city of New York, near Castle Garden, on Broadway, and buy of the American Tract Society, or you may Send - to Syracuse; and purchase the Wesleyan ' Tracts,. which are sold cheap—only thirty cents for 400 pages. I have heard of the Wesleyan Tracts, but 'supposed they we' re' political; are they not? ' Yes,.as much so as a.tract on Temperance or Sabbath breaking, and no more; ' for, politics is the science of governnient, and treats of the moat wise and judicious laws for the government and welfare of na tions; and the Wesleyan tracts treat On Slavery, a subject which the A. IT. .T. Society are 'very careful to avoid. I am no friend to Slavery; but, our minister says we had better not med dle with it, for it only makes the case of the slave the worse, and that, it has its origin in theßible,—and he is very much opposed to the Wesleyan tracts. I knew ministers and deacons who opposed the- Temperance reform at first, (my own father not excepted,) but they soon repented of their - folly. There are a variety of motives by which people are actuated. Possibly your minister is afraid of losing his standing in some high ecclesiatical body, or, some of his hearers are strong pro-slavery men, and would, if offended, withhold their support. - In deed, I can •hardly believe that any man, who feels for man, and in whose heart glows the love of Godliness, can suppress his sympathies for the poor slaves. If Martin Luther had been as conservative as your minister, would he have opposed the errors of Popery,- and in his study at Wittemberg ' laid the foundation of th 6, and all other Republics, by diinsing the true spirit of the Gospel? The greatest-lumin aries in the world, are the men who have risen up in defiance of the power 1 of the Prince of Darkness, and advo cated the inherent rights of man, which are Life, Liberty, and the pur suit of Happiness. I have before me the tract entitled "Slavery. a sin." Can it be proved from the Bible that Slavery is sinful 1 'Yes. I will cite to you a few passages. Ex. 21st, 16 : "He that stealeth a man, and' selleth him, or•f he be found in his hand, 4 shall su ly be.put to death." I rather you would prove it if you can, from the New Testament. Very well; I can: St. Paul says that the law of God "is for men -stealers." I thought the slaves were bought, and not stolen. American Slavery had its of iglu in man-stealing, indeed; our slavers get them in any way they .can—some times by force, sometimes by decep tion, and sometimes by purchase. And here you can see at once how Slavery, consisting in the right of property in man, conflicts with the duties which the Bible requires of all men. In the New . Testament you find - all social duties enjoined, and which cannot possibly be . complied with by the slave. Says Mr. Lee : " Can a wife who is in tho absolute power of an other who is not her husband, and who can enforce his will in all things without let or hindrance, by flattery, bribes, strength, prisons, whips, and tortures—can such La wife "submit her Self unto her husband as unto the Lord?" And can a husband who is under the 'same absolute control of another,, "be thehead of such a wife, as Christ is the head of . the Church'?" ' I Can " parents bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," when they are found in the 'different markets, and, separated for ever by different purchasers ? ' Can children "obey their parents" while they are the property of other men? I must lend you the 'tract, and I wish it in the hands of every one, for it eT.- poses the evils of Slavery in a true, masterly manner. We'Must have the Wesleyan tracts in every school dis trict: They are precisely, what we 'need to give light and information. Well, you have said some things of which. I never thought before. I will read the tract, and then see you again. . - CITIZEN. GREAT NASiES AND GREAT MEN.-It will be seen by. referenco.to our first page, that "The Honorable General Augustus; Ca?sar Hannibal Dodge, Minister .Plenipotentiary lo the Court °flier Catholic Majesty Isabella his lady, three children, and servant," have embarked in the Pacific for Spain. What a conglomeration of great names and appendages! \\•• e need no longer fear a war With Spain. The Bulleti 4 says, "How can the Court of Her Most Catholic Majesty resist arguments urged by a superhuman being. who is not onlyan honorable, but a General; not only an Honorable General, but an A`tigustus Cesar; not only an Augustus Calsar, but a Hannibal; and • not only a Hannibal, but a Dodger —A'orris town Pave Ercznch. - oc the.iournif.,; For the Jeurint.. MORE THOUGHTS FOR THE SONS OF DEAR BROTIIEttS : I love our noble Order, and I hive to love it, beause can do it without loving my family, the Church, or the Lord the less. love it for the . gond which it has. wrought, and for its promise of good . in the future. You, foo,•love it'for these reasons, I doubt not, and" are still willing to prove your love for it, by giving it your time and talent, and a little of your money. Any good. cause, which can be promOted by these, is worthy of them; and that ours justly bears this character, has long - since been settled. But this• very fact, it is to be feared, has been' suffered seriously to.affect us in many localities. 'Designing men, haring a design in doing So, have patted us on the shoulder, and said: "You are good fellows, your cause is a good one, and we like your way of carrying it on." And Thus, and similar havh be e n the declarations of many who, have been sworn foes to the Order, and, in too many instances, have these professions of favor been regarded as real. The effect has been. less zeal in the cause, less-punctuality in attend ing the stated -meetings, less prompti tude in keeping weekly dues paid up, and, in the ,end, an alienation offeel ing, of interest,. and devotion to "the continued progress of the Order. From what I have been able to gather by an acquaintance with many who have not been willing - toldentify themselves in some tangible form with the Temperance reform, my conclu sion k, that and that they are -not to be trusted, muoti less to be relied an ill the time of need. Do not, then, brothers, think the victory- is complete, when men who are afraid to stand their while bigness on one side of the fence or. the other, are ready to say'" yes,yes," just because -.there is not enough identity or individuality about them to say no. Be admonished that there is danger •" when all . men speak Nvell of you." The reason for their thus -speaking is_ not to be found in their sympathy with your cause ; but very frequently, to turn your mind from the vigorous prosecution of the work which it has to accomplish. There is, and as it seems to me, must be, deep. seated enmity against :the-- final tri umph of the Temperance cause, where ever there are those who aro unwilling to. Commit themselves fully in its favor. The maxim, "He that is not for us is , against us," is applicable to the Order of the Sons of Temperance, is to any other thing. Qur- order is a sacred one; its pledge is -sacred; its princi• ples are sacred ; its aims are sacred , grand, sublime—for its mission is to the wretched, the besotted, the self ruined. It diminishes rags and hi:- ger, tears and' sighs, pains and death'• It has done something in this line-it every community it has entered, and you are not the only witnosses of the truth -of this assertion. It were a • pity, a sad. mistake, if such an Order, with such principles, objects, and' mission, should not be helped to live, and left to act, till her triumphs aro everywhere repeated, and until, under her significant banner, our race 'h al repose and rejoice in Love, Perk' and Fidelity. • R. L. S. Lucy Stone and H. B.; Blackwell have!?en married under protest against the usual fax' 'of the inszituiion of ma.rage; that i, thei annually itts'st that the wife skid be equal fooling with the husband in :111 reqeo• particularly in regard to her oWn moveciettis. to the dspositiou of their children. and :be proper;y. The Advertiser think warty Ori' readers will say, "ful-de4ol" or "fudge" to th! arrangement. VerY likely. They har e " ' the saute, to other arrdngetnents, which hale been completeil. notwithStanding; and what not fyrgotten, is, their . acquiescence has lia r ''' been-scent h. Now; we are.not to be under stood as agreeing to the arrangement. IV' may not be prepared, just yet, to utter ae opinion. But we have lived long enaegh learnihat a saw is not always an argils/val.— Possibly it will be found to be so in :hi:: eve - The"caroftruth, touching all sub;ec:s. 1 5 ma': ing on; and we give the usual notice—"l.oo:. 4° ' out for the engine while the bell ring..." - : land Inquirer. TEMPERANCE "Their friendship is but a name;"
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