THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL JNO. S. MANN, A. AVERY; Editors. COUDERSPORT, PA.: THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1853 Take good care of your Road laud School affairs ; for on these your public good depends, and without them this mighty nation would soon be in ruins. tar The National Vedette of Jersey Shore is a better paper than its t ame would indicate. It duos no,'t reeog- Inize the rule of slavery ?,s the law of ita existence, and conipared with two lather papers in 'IPA neighborhood, is an excellent M 3 ''• 'We have had, since Thursda:j last, live days of rainy, JAM, improm ising Weather for Itaymak` eg ; but it gill make tht buckwlleat and potatoes grow, an will secure a heavy crop of °at " Wu fear it will put the corn ;•-• • —Lek, but hope for the best. • rJf*The potato crop promises to be of the old-fashioned, superabundant, ataff-of-life quantity. We have . not eeen so many potato blossoms for years. This indicates a healthy, vig orous, and prosperous yield for the farmer, for which we are duly thank ful. Cir There is another excellent arti cle from Zilpha. Let every smoker read it, and abandon his foolish habit. Write again, good Zilpha, for we all need thy gentle corrections ; and it will be no fault of thine if we do not profit by them, should thy pen• be as wisely used as these first efforts prom ise. lThc Wellsboro Agitator and Mercer* Freeman heartily second the proposition to hold a Republican State Convention at Pittsburg on the 29th of August. We hope the other papers favorable to a union of freemen without regard to former political predilections, will respond to this movement. • IgrThe short speech of lion. S• P. Chase, accepting the nomination of the Republicans of Ohio, is so like the language of the great men who called this Nation into being, that we feel fresh hope of the Nation. Read it, men of Potter, and say whether you will sustain such sentiments or those of the Slavery Convention which met at Harrisburg on the 4th of July. gar The TVarren Ledger reviews the actiuu of its party at the Harris but g convention, in a fearless and able manner. If it continue its present course through the campaign, it will be entitled to the respect of all lovers of freedom. How it is possible for a paper` with such affinities and princi ples, to support the nominee of a convention whose resolutions it repu diates, sec cannot understand. rrone week from Saturday eve ning 'lest, beiug Aug. 4th, the session of Eelslia . Division S. of T., will be enlivened •by a short address from Joni MANN, on the history of the Temperance cause as it has come un der his personal observation. We trust this announcement will secure the attendance of cvery member within convenient distance, and of every per son entitled to visit the sessions of the DivisiOn. 'The Sunbury and Erie Railroad makes progress but slowly. There is, however, some Lope of its final com pletion. If it should be located up the Driftwood, it will add very much to the wealth and prosperity of this county, and will secure a large business ficnit our forests and mines. But if it should go up the Bennett's Braiich, it will get but little business from this county, and do us no good. 10" Dr. Wm. V. Keating, the rep resentative of the owners of the largest body of lands in this county, has bean spending a few days with us, to the mutual benefit of himselfand the settlers on the lands. John Keat ing- Esq., his been the untiring friend of this county for fifty years, and la bored unremittingly for its prosperity, when such labor was performed at great atter:flee. We rejoice that his mind is still fresh and vigorous, so that by this visit of his grandson he will be made aware of the success with which his arduous labors have been Crowned. CAN THE FBREMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA • BE lINITED IN ONE PARTY! There is a large majority in every free State opposed to the slaveholders' scheme of subjugating Kansas, and in favor of political action 6 prevent the further extension of slavery. It is conceded that this is the most impor tant question now before the people. Then why do not all who so believe and feel, unite in one party, and ae r.;maplish their object ? Simply be cause this mode of action wouldinter fere with the plans of party leaders. In this county nine-tenths of the voters would so act, if it were not for the old line Democratic leaders. In Allegany . county it is the Know Nothing leaders . that stand in the way, which is most surprising, as they profess to be as much opposed to slavery-extension as any body. . As a sample of the reasoning of this class on the subject of union, take the following from the Pittsburg Weekly Times of July 14 : The Gazelle would have the American par ty be very accommodating. .That party has carried almost every State in the North, and numbers several hundred thousand voters— voters, too, who have united for the double purpose of checking ; the inroads upon our in stitutions, of Slavery, Political Catholicism, and Foreignism. They are not united only upon one principle, but upon and are equally determined to accomplish all. The anzats asks the party-to drop two ofite princi ples, and unite with it to form a Republican Party solely upon the anti-Slavery, principle Ask an anti-Slavery party with between 150, 000' and 200,000 voters in Pennsylvania to drop its distinctive character, and unite with a party which has not shown any evidence of existence in this Commonwealth! The cool ness of this proposition is remarkable—quite equal to that of the juryman who complained of the stupid ity and unreasonableness of the eleven jurors who would not come over to his side. It was just such reasoning as this that kept the Whig party of the State in a hopeless minority, and if persisted in, w ill perform the same work for the Know Nothings. The Times makes no attempt: to state the question fairly. The Ga zette and the other advocates of the union of all persons opposed to the schemes of the slavery propagandists, do not ask any class of voters to en dorse sentiments or principles to which they aro opposed.. They simply ask the anti-Nebraska Democrat to leave his pro-slavery party, and the Whig to leave his obsolete party, and the Know Nothing to- unite with them in securing freedom .to Kansas. The Know Nothings are not asked to en dorse a single principle they have ever opposed. On the contrary the Times and those who act in concert with it, ask anti-slavery men to become Native Americans in order to vote for free dom. This is not the way the Know Nothings of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and of all the New England States, are acting ; 'and it is not the way to build : up a party of freedom strong enough to save this Nation from the iron rule of slavery. Keep up your Councils if you wish, reason, influence public opinion—but surely there is no such pressing danger from the influ ence of foreigners as should divide the free States so that the South may I again conquer. . On the Gth of July, 1854, the honest yeomanry of Tioga county met in council to listen to that fearless Dem ocrat, the Hon. David Wilmot. The President of the meeting, Hon. R. Cr. While, was also a distinguished Dem ocrat.- At the close of the addressap propriate resolutions were adopted, and among them this one : &sated, That the union of freemen, -with out regard to former political attachments, is the only safety for Freedom. Now we believe the .above resolu tion is tine in spirit and letter. We also believe that this "union : of free men" cannot be secured by asking the people to come to' the Know Nothing party, but that it can be done by uniting together on the single ques tion of slavery, as in Ohio and other free States: Hence, we respectfully ask the Times to overlook the too sensitive spirit of the Gez:i.elle; and unite in the call for a Republican State Convention. OP' It is true in all things that we cannot ' serve two masters' We may innocently make our courtesy to Fash ion as she passes. We may make casual inquiries of her about those matters of which our Master gives us no minute suggestions, and then go on with our lawful service. But if we bow down .to her, if we follow her, trembling lest we violate her laws, cringing lest we forfeit her smiles, we can put no heartiness into our services to God, to his eternal interests wher ever they aro, whether in our own hearts or in the heart of the universe:" THE TRIXDON. OP THE MSS There are several papers riubliehed in the slave States that it does one good to dread. The Wheeling Times is one of this character: The St: Louis Dethocrat is another. There are sev eral others that we -have' occasionally had the pleasure of reading with ad miration for their manly independ ence. There is no - old line Demo cratic, paper in Pennsylvania with, half the fearlesiness of the St. Louis Dem- . ocrat. It has never advised Northern, freemento mind their own business, nor suppressed the truth in relation ti 4, .the outrages of the slaveholders in -Kansas. It - has never deceived the people with false assurances that there was no danger of slavery going to Kansas. On the contrary the Demo crat, though Published in a slave State, has kept its readers advised of all that was doing to force the black flag-of slavery into all our Western Territci- I ries, and it has defended the friends of freedom from the slanderous char ges of the Douglas crowd. Compare this honorable conduct with the course of the pro-slavery press in the free States, not excepting this county, and who can help despis ing the miserable dougbfaces who have not a single word to say in favor of freedom or against the outrages of the Slave Power? As a sample of the fearless tone of the St. Louis' Democrat, take the 'fol lowing notice of a pamphlet just pub lished in defense of slavery, by Peter G. Camden: St. Louis is practically a free city as Mis souri is practically a free State, but both State and city number among their .citizens rich and influential slaveholders whose influence an aspiring politician cannot yet afford either to lose or to defy. Mr. Peter G. Camden, therefore, handles Abolitionists without gloves —which, by the way, we may observe is rather an easy operation when the leaders of that party are absent. But in order that no offense may be taken.by the majority of the citizens of St. Louis—five-sixths, at least, of whom it is said are in favor of free soil—Mr. Camden, while abusing Abolitionists as a class, takes care, by a reserve clause, to acknowl edge that all Abolitionists are not equally in earnest. He says—examine the sentence and see how artfully all the qualities" we de spise are described as characterising the friend of the African: "I believe that abolition is the concentrated spirit of impertinence, selfishness, envy, am bition, hypocrisy, and knavery,.; that its advo cates are mostly infidels, fanatics„scolrers at religion, and advocates of women's rights and all other new-faugled notions, broken-down politicians, and designing demagogues, and hypocrites who out-Pharisee the Pharisees of old. Some of them, no doubt, .are honest and sincere ; but honesty and sinerity cannot sanctity error, or remedy mischief, that has been inflicted." This ultra definition is very foolish in itself, but as a bait for ultra pro-slavery voters, it is first rate ! Judging by it, Washington was an impertinent fellow, and. Jefferson an ambitious knave. An Abolitionist is a person who wish es to see slavery abolished. Now Washing ton, Jefferson, and nearly all the Revolution ary fathers, have recorded their desire to see negro slavery eradicated. Mr. Peter G. Cam den, we happen to kuow, is an .abolitionist himself. There are fire-eating, anti-abolition fanatics in the Western part of this State. These rioters the author defends in this wise: "Accordingly, societies have been formed in the anti-slavery portions of our country, to send out people to Kansas and Nebraska, with the avowed purpose of accomplishing their ob jects by numbers and force; thus recklessly disturbing the peace and jeopardizing the safety of a slave State bordered by those Ter ritories. And _in view of these facts, anti slavery people—practical nullifiers as they are —expect the people of Missouri in particular, and stave States in general, to sit quietly and permit such things to be done ; aye, affect to think Missourians unnecessarily sensitive, and opprobriously denounce them as mobocrats and lawless savages because they oppose force to force in a case involving not simply their peace, but their safety, their 'social existence, indeed." Is Mr. Peter G. Camden prepared to prove his grave charge against. the emigrants to Kansas from New England t We challenge him to do so. Tho emigrants, we affit in, went to Kansas with the avowed purpose of making Kansas a Ire° State peaceably and by consti tutional means. But we deny that they in tended to employ force. -j/ If any bf our readers overlooked the excellent address of the State Temperance Committee, published on the first page of last week's Journal, we hope they will turn to that paper, and -give this unanswerable document a candid perusal. The present law is not the kind of legislation temperance men asked for, but it is a great step in the right direction. One proof of this is to be found in the bitter warfare waged against it by the liquor sellers. If it were a mere " jug law," as they hysterically call it, would drunkard makei•s oppose it ? Not they. As it has virtue enough in it to secure the hatred of all the enemies of Temper ance, it is surely the part of wisdom for the friends of the cause to give the law their enthusiastic support. So, here is one Temperance paper which the Pittsburg Journal will find doing battle for the act of 1855 to restrain the sale of intoxicating drinks. rir..A. man who in ordinary life is very inquisitive after every thing which is spoken ill of him, passes his time but indifferently." TBZ pttcmoNAL Inv/alma We hope every friend of Education in our villagewill read the communi cation of P. in our last in relation to a union of the District School with - the Acadethy. We are pleased to see the subject attracting the attention of our iax-payers, and welcozne - •the commu nication of 0. It. breathes the right spirit; and we hope is an indication dpf the public sentiment of the village: We are decidedly in favor of the proposed union, and shall do what we can to bring it about. But there are serious obstacles to the measure, that we may' well look at on the start. .:.On conversing with Mr. Blooming dale, we came to the conclusion that the School, conducted on the plan proposed, would require, for teaehers, a Principal and two Assistants; that the tuition of students from abroad will not pay the Principal—so that the District would have to raise from taxation the salaries of the two As sistants and a part of the Principal. The following is the best estimate of the amount required from Couders port District per year that we can make . Ist Assistant, $3O per mouth, $360 2d " 12 • " 144 Part . pay of Principal, 200 This will require an assessment of two per cent.—double the amount of the present year's tax. This we know will be a heavy burden ; but then it will secure to every individual in Coudersport, "above the age of five and under twenty-one years," the in valuable blessings of an Academic education ; and we shall heartily and cheerfully advocate the proposed change. Tax-payers of Coudersport, your Academy is poorly sustained; your District School never can amount to much as - at present conducted. Will you curtail some of your other ex penses, and double your school tax, for the purpose of establishing a first class Academy—the best in Northern Pennsylvania 1 In order to obtain a full expression of the sentiments of our people on this question, we second the motion for a public meeting; and we hope the Trustees will issue a call soon. SPOKEN LIKE A PEZEitAN The Warren Ledger Of July 17, is an admirable paper. Its editorials are written with great ability, and with the spirit of a. freeman. It discusses with courageous frankness the living questions of the day, and points out the shortcomings 9f. its party friends, with a fearlessness that must command the respect of all honest men. In an article a colunin and a half long, it gives a faithful history of the. conduct of the'President in relation to 'Gov. Reeder and the Missouri mob. If our up toWn old fogy dont take immediate measures to purge the party of this traitorous agitator, there - is . no telling what knavery will be practiced next. Take the following extract from the Ledger as a sample of its.metat : 'But have our expectations been realized ? Have our hopes met with happy results 1 Has it been proved that we have a President who recognizes -"no north, no'south, no east, no west," but who is planted on the immutable principles ofjustice and equality, and who is bound to dispensate both to ail - sections of the country I Let his obstinate silence thus far, on this question, answer. Not a syllable of disapprobation has fallen from his lips upop those pouthern vandals who defied our coun try's laws ; and sought by force of bowie knives and revolvers, to control the ballot box for unrighteous and revolting purposes; not a single movement has he made toward throw ing the shield of the Federal Government over Gov. Reeder and the lawful settlers of Kansas. And this tame quietude and stoical indifference he has maintained appeals, nay, demands, both urgent and ,barnest, have been pouring in upon him from every quarter, to proclaim his sanction of Gov. Reeder's course, and put a check to the bold current of lawlessness and riot that is sweeping over the soil of Kansas. He has seen a fair coun try invaded by hordes of armed ruffians • he has seen the sanctity.of the ballot box dese crated; he has seen uneffending citizens de spoiled of their dearest rights, driven from their homes, and treated like felons; ho has seen his own appOinted officer threatened, bullied, buffeted, and his life - endangered, be cause he would not - become the pliant tool of cut-throats and rioters;' all this he has seen enacted within the reach of his executive. power, and not a finger has he raised, not an arm has he stretched forth to prevent it all. There, honest Democrats of Potter county, we commend such sentiments to your candid attention; - We have used language somewhat similar here tofore, but the pro-slavery concern in this village has the audacity to 'tell you it is none of your business what the President does, or what becomes of • Kansas ; and some of you are tame enough to submit to the insult. rir'"A vain person is the most in sufferable creature living, in a well bred assembly," p1ita:?:tf0b#44:1411004.3:4:044`4 4:0 A great change has taken place in the old . Bay State: since the Court House was surrounded with chains for the benefit of Slavery. The election of Henry Wilson, the passage of the Personal Liberty bill, and the rebuke of Commissioner Loring, was the action of a healthy public sentiment acting through die Legislature of Mas sachusetts. But oven Harvard College is waking 1 1 up, and is reflecting this sentiment. Mr. Eliot, the only member of Con gresS from that State that voted for the infamous Fugitive Slave bill, was lately proposed as a candidate for the honor of one of the higist degrees of the College. He was rejected by the overseers for the reasons given in the following extract frorn.the Boston correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Post. We commend the sentiments of this* extract to all persons wh'o think they "are freemen, and not the mere slave of party, or the tools of party _leaders : Some of Mir papers-are making a great fuss . about the rejection of Mr. Eliot, by the Board of Overseers at Harvard College, when it was proposed to make him a doctor of laws. He was rejected because he voted for the fugitive slave law; and the man who would do that is unfit to. hold any office irt Massachu setts, or to receive any mark of favor here, no matter how barren that favor may be. The majority of the overseers would have stultified themselves if they had voted for Mr. Eliot. If he chose to carry his conservative notions so far as to vote in a, way that perfectly out raged the sense and sentiment of his con stituents, he cannot reasonably complain if other men are wedded to their views, and act in accordance with them. Is there to be an immunity in behalf of all who do anything for slavery, while the friends of freedom are to be maltreated on all occasions 'I "Oh !" says hunkerism, " think how hard it is upon Mr. Eliot to reject him!—so respectable a man I" That is just it. A man thinks he is at liberty to do anything because he is re spectable; but as we do not allow men to violate laws on account of their respectability,' so we cannot allow them, on the same score, to make bad laws with impunity. $7OO WHITE -GIRL KIDNAPPED—The Philadel phia:Ledger states that on Friday I ast tt men attempted to kidnap a young white int from Chester county, Pa., and carry her off into Maryland. The girl had been engaged as a nurse for a sick child, and was driving, home the cow, at an early hour in the morning, when two genteelly dressed men standing near a sarriage, addressed her, inquiring her name, where she lived &c., and on her mak ing answer, one of them- placed a plaster Over her mouth, and the two dragged her to the carriage and drove away. After getting some twelve miles from her home, they put her out of the carriage, in a secluded wood, and left her. Two negroes happening to come along, assisted her in removing the plas ter from her mouth and directed her how to reach her home. The supposition is that the kidnappers mistook the girl, whose face was sunburnt, for a mulatto, and intended to carry her into slavery, 7 —Lorkport Journal. And why . suppose these villains mistook this girl's color Are there not thOusands of white girls in Slavery? Is it any worse to kidnap a white, than a mulatto girl 1 The whole history of American Slavery is full of outrage and inhu manity. Kidnapping free citizens of Pennsylvania has always been a com mon occurrence, and - it will continue so until the people shake off their pro-slavery leaders, and say to the black powers of Slavery, Hands oil— touch not another free-born American citizen,.at your peril. This language, spoken as if there were men behind it, will instantly put a stop to this kid napping business. Is there anything else that • will ? IGF Notice is hereby given, that the . Annual Eiection of Trustees of Cou dersport Academy will be held at the Court House in Coudersport on Fri day, the 3d day of August next. • By order. THE WORLD AND THE PULPIT -The Rev. - Henry Ward Beecher discourses more truth than fiction in the follolking We-have no doubt that a vigorous proprietor, having been sharking it al! the week, screwing and griping among his , tenants. would be better pleased to doze through an able gosple sermon on divine mysteries, than to be - kept awake by a practical sermon that might treat of a .Christian proprietor. A broker who has gambled - in a magnifi cent scale all the week, does not go to church to have his practical swindling analyzed and measured by the New Testament spirit. Catechism is what he wants—doctrine is to his taste. A merchant whose last bale of smuggled goods was safely stored on Saturday night and his brother merchant who the same day, swore a false invoice through the Custon House—they go to Church to hear a sermon on faith, on angels, on resurrection. They have nothing invested in those subjects; they expect the minister to be bold and orthodox.. But if be wants re spectable merchants to pay ample pew rents, let him not vulgarize the pulpit by introducing commercial subjects.' PHYSICIANS rarely take medicine, lawyers seldom go to law, and ministers steer clear of other parson's churches. Editors, however, read all the papers they can get hold of. - "JOHN JOI,IFFE.-T—As many of out' • readers at a distance may- expect through the columns of the Sentinel to hear something about this blackheart ed, thiu-skinned, and fearless Aboli tionist, we take the present occasion to give them the particulars connected . with the case, as far as we have been able to learn them. He arrived at Williston on Thusrdey last, and en deavored to procure a carriage or other vehicle for the purpose of eon. , veying . himself to the 'plantation- of Elijah Willis, where we understand several rusty-colored individuals con templated giving him a suit ho did not bring with him from Ohio; but Borne few persons who were aware of this fact, and who were most interested, perhaps the executors, advised-him to remain where he was. He was waited upon, we understand, by some five or six gentlemen, who inquired of him if he was an Abolitionist; to which he responded that. he was, but that ho did not come here for the purpose of ad vocating or extending his principles, but merely to execute a trust reposed in him by one who was dead, and be 'would execute that trust if he died in the attempt. We here assert witat we heard on last sale-day. Ho left. Williston nn the day-, following, Fri day, for this place, and, we are sorry to say, 'was permitted to,'leave here on Saturday last unmolested, again, for Williston, where he remained until Monday morning last. Why he was permitted to remain at Williston so long, we know 'not, neither do we know what the sentiments ofa majority of our citizens are; but our own were. expressed before he landed among us, and we aro sorry, very sorry, ,•to say _ that the people of Williston suffered _ this vile Abolitionist to depart un touched. We are of opinion that an Abolitionist like Joliffe should not be allowed a stopping-place in the State; it matters not whether they come on business or pleasure, our cry is 'tar and feathers.' Those who are opposed, to using any foul - means with this fel low, Joliffe, in our opinion, will see what lie thinks of them in a few weeks. Enough has already been . said. concern •ing him, as the communications in this issue will show, and we here beg leave to have done with the subject until we are permitted to peruse the Ohio -papers.---Barnteell (S. C.) Sentinel. AN ABOLITION PRESS IN .A SLAVE STATE.—We have seen frequent no tices of the Zeitung; a German paper published at San Antonio. The ed itor of .this paper, it seems, considers slavery a curse, and incompatible with republicanism. He also thinks that the Germans of Texas are opposed to slavery. His opinion of slavery, ab stractly considered, is a matter of very little consequence. If he does not like Southern institutions, he can very easily get away from them. We have • had slaves in the Southern States almost-since Virginia was colonized. We have alsu had an occasional aboli tion hypocrite among us. We have seen enough of both to satisfy- us that the morals of the slave are superior to those of the abolitionist, and that lie makes a much better member of society. For these reasons we prefer having him among us to having his pretended ftiends. The Southern pee . - ple consider themselves capable of attending to their own consciences in such matters, and think it ample time for quacks to give their. advice when called on. When they require teach ers, they will not call upon the drivel- - ing hireling, who is paid by their enemies to slander the - country which gives him bread. The Germans as a class, we do not believe, approve the doctrine put forth' in this incendiary sheet. We have noticed their formal repudiation of such cant in the ptoceedings of several meetings held by them.. But Lit is dangerous to permit the continuance of such e men as the editor of that paper among us ; we think it would be nothing more than right to turn him over to the African Colonization Society and have hid tent to 'Liberia, where he can rant " nigger" tonegroes all his life. They could doubtless ap 'preciate his clap-trap better than intellioent Southern men.—Houston_ ( Texas) Gazette. Gorse--GONE.—The pasty of gentle men that left here on Mondiy, for the purpose .of pursuing the - slaves who escaped on board a Northern vessel, returned yesterday, after an ineffectual search in the "Roads."— Slave property is becoming as insecure on the seaboard of Virginia, as on the borders of Maryland or Kentucky. Our commerce with the North is in creasing daily. _Northern vessels are multiplying in our harbors, andrin the wood trade upon the river, hundreds of negro,es are employed in loading these vessels. Some rigorous system of inspection, then, must be adopted. Every craft leaving our waters for a Northern - port must be thoroughly searched, and the law must be en forced to the letter, or the increasing insecurity of slave property in Vir ginia. must materially depreciate its value—Norfolk Beacon. To enjoy to-day, stop Worrying about to-morroy. Next week will be just as capable of taking care of itself as this one, And .why shouldn't it? It will have .seven days more experi mice.
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