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;"