THE PEOPLE'S JOI7RNAL, JNO. S. MANN, A. AVERY, Editors COrDERSPORT, THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 30, For President in 1956: 'LION. SALMON P. CHASE, or 01110. For Vice President: CASSIUS M. CLAY, 01' KE.NTUCKY. We are indebted to various friend.; for new subscribers, and we return thanks fur the renewed interest znanife4ll , l in the Journal. 'We shall do our best to make the paper worthy of it= snprort. I:i7' Julius Nief of Sweden has t.renty : ,6re acres of buckwheat, five of which was sown July Ist., and is al ready out of the way Of frost. The whole of it is large and very promis ing. That is the way to be independ ent of llour merchants. r-1- 7 7 The proceedings of the Repub lican meeting at Lewisville on Mon day evening last, tvill be found in anodic: column, and they indicate the existence of a hopeful, confident-feel ing among our ft fends. Let this spit it animate nil the opponents of slavery exten , ion in this county, and the cause will he triumphant at the polls. 1-7 The :Alen business has teen very much nerdected in this count• of late, and we Ilige the immediate at tention of our formers to the subject. sheep trrowing is as well adapted to this county, as anything that could be done. It takes but little Capital, which may be more than doubled every MEE Oar fiord 3. L. AV., of Pleas ant Valhw, has our thanks for his in t:mil-16m about Nyheat growing in that township ; but ho has only given an accour: of two acres. Please tell us how man , : at-ITS of wheat were int vested in Pleasant Valley the past Bras :n and how much it is estimated these• acr:s will Yield. r=7" T., is a fine prospect for a c , ..d1 business in l'sl'Kean coun ty. A !..ix foot vein has been discov er,!d at La Fayette, which an experi enced 'nine:- pronounces to be the bituminous coal yet found in the 17nityil S!ates. T:lere are undoubted: ly valtzul_le coal bads in this county, am! we hope some of our intelligent pioneei:s will di=cover them. of_joseph Mann, at thc in Lewisville, took us by Should be be the choico of the diArict, of course we shall give Jiini cheerful support ; hut it is our Inc. , yut impro.ssion that Henry South cr. E. 1., of Ridgway, would be more to satisfaction to the entire li.twver, we shall not dis- guisc pleasure at this endorsement of t}....t i lys::cs Republicans. EF A few extra copies of the Jour nal vHII be sent out for a week or but Wo do not ask anything for them. We simply desire to circulate -the facts in relation to the Kansas outrage, and the present condition of the country in relation to slavery. If each pe:::,on to v.-hor.2. the paper is scut give the fads contained in it his attention, we shall be amply coinneurated for the paper. Ea" . Our friend David Conway, of Abliott, planted half an acre of pink-, eye potatoes, on the sth of NoveMber last. NV halo potatoes wore dropped in evety third furrow, as he plowed the ground, and nothing more done to them till early in May, when ho har rowed tl:e ground all over. When the potatoes were up high enough, be dressed them with his plow. .On the 15th of July they were ready for the tab'e, and now they are the largest potatoes we have seen. The Republicans of Ulysses have recommended a mass meeting ou Tuesday evening, of Court, being Sep tember ISth. We are much pleased .with this suggestion, and will second it with all our might. So we say, Come to the meeting on Tuesday eve 'ling of Court, all who mean to do anything for freedom in Kansas. A committee of arrangements will incitGsncakeis from abroad, and we believo those who come will not, be (flhq , e,inted THE BEPTZLICAN MOVEMENT For more than a year past, intelli gent men of all parties have been fully satisfied that old party issues were dead, and . that a union of free- . men must take place or slavery would be extended over every foot of Amer ican soil. This feeling manifested itself among the democrats of Tioga county before the passage of the Kan sas bill, and soon after Wards, on the Gth of July, 1654, the honest masses of the democracy met together at Wellsboro, chose the • lion. R. G. White President of the meeting, lis tened to an able exposition of the slavery 'question by the Hon. B. Wil mot, and at its Conclusion adopted the following among °the:. resolutions: • • " Ri•sol red, - That tho union of free men without regard to former polit ical- attachments, is the only safety for freedom." Now every pan when he reads the above knows it is true. "Divide and conquer" the enemy, is the sure road to triumph. The South know this, and heretofore have succeeded in do ing it. They will succeed no longer. The spirit attic: Tinga resolutio , u, has been adopted by the masses ev.ery where, and many leading and influen tial democrats have adopted it. The Hon. H. Hamlin, Senator from Maine, has united with the Republican move ment. lion. Benjamin F. Butler.(Gen. Jackson's United States Attorney General), one of the leaders of the Democrats of New York, is out in favor of the Republ.can Com'ention, he says; have rejoiced and will rej9,,ice in every demonstration of the popular sentiment in the Free States ag 'last the repeal of the :Ilissoori Compromise, and in favor of the restoration of that ordinance of freedom.— The injustice and iniquity ofthat repeal should never be forgiven, nor should the people of the free States rest satisfied with anything short of its renewal. If it cannot be restored hi form to the statute book, it must be rees tablished in fact by the perpetual exclusion of the Territory originally embraced in it from adiniisiou mto the Union, except in the character and with the attr,bute of the tree States." We commend this position of the Hun. B. F. Butler to the attention of! the 11o:zest portion of the democracy of Putter cOunty. Your 'better judo merits approve his manly sentiments, and wo believe• a large share of you r ill pursue the same wise and con sistent .course. The principles and )I:east/I es of the Republican party must - meet your approbation—those of Pierce democracy must be very unpalatable to you. We republish from the Natio2zal Era a brief state ment of the plans and principles of the Freedom party, and we challenge a discussion c'd them: Its leading and distinguishing principle may be briefly slated to be this: That Slavery is a great moral and political evil, based on principies auterly repugnant to the 'Declara tion of Independence and .he general spirit of the Constitution; that the Cons:invion tolerated its existence in the States, from.a political necessity, but gave it no word of approbation; that it is merely a local State in s mution—d cpe nds ' , pun the. local law. for support, and where :hat is withdrawn, it falls to the ground as a nullity. Hence, it cannot ealst in the Territories or in the Di i itrict of that Slavery being against natural right, all clauses of the Constiiution which are stypOseil or clahned to be favorable to it mast be construed strictly ; tint the clause relative to fugitives front labor, if it refer at all-to slat es, institutes a compact between the States, but confers no power on Congress to legislate in the matter. Or it may he the opinion of o.hers who have joined the Re publican ranks, that Congress possesses a con structive power of legis.aiitin relat.ve to fugi tives front labor, which must be cautiously exercised, with a sacred reference to those individual guarantees of personal r.ghts which secure to every person the writ of habras cor pus and trial by pry. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY claims no right to touch the institution of Slavery in the States. It is eminently the States Rights party. Every leading man ?tithe ranks is fully com mitted to this platform. Mr. Chase, Mr. Sum ner, Mr. Gidd.ngs, Mr. llttle, General, Wilson, have•a thousand times expre , sed these views; and the distinguished Senator from New York, whom we now feel authorized to claim as of the same party, has been equally explicit in placing himself on the States Rights ground. The etTort to igaare the existence of, this great party, or to misrepresent its principles, by confounding them with those of Mr. Garri son on the one hand, or Mr. Gerrit Smith on the other, will be short-lived. It will make itself left. Wft wish the South to understand the position of this party. We regret to see false or exaggerated notions prevail, which are well calculated to excite and irritate- the public mind. It is better that the people of the South should know the simple troth. The people of the north propose to taite from them uo constitutional oohs—to interfere in none of their domestic4,psdo. - itions; but they mean to divorce the Federal Government from Slavery, and to ti-rake it what the Consti tution declares its oVect to be, the conservator of Justice and Lib,eriy. . la' The Hunker Convention which met here on Saturday, put in nomina tion Henry Nelson for County Com missioner, and Wm. P. Burt of Ulys ses for County Auditor. It is a sig nificant sign of public opinion in Pot ter county, that even this convention . dared not endorse President. Pierce. What a poor, cowardly party this old line concern has come to . be. The State Convention adopts one set of principles, and the different counties another set—which means that the rye must be had, if tall somersets will only secure it. COMYEREN'ORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION We are glad to note a greater de-'1 gree of interest in this Association of late than was . felt for a while, The.. number of books in the Libraty is not large, but the selection is of a high order, and includes the standard His-. torical and Biographical works. Quite an addition has been made to the Library within a few weeks. Tho Secretary of State sent a bound copy of the Session Laws of OAS State for 1555. The Actuary of the Franklin Institute made a present of some books of interest. Other person's, donated valuable books; and the Directors have purchased several volumes.— We trust a much greatei degree of interest will be taken in the Library . by all friends of education and of lit erature. It has furnished much valu-. able reading to the young of this com munity. With a • little effort on tha part of its . friends, it can be made much more attractive and useful. The Trustees of. the Academy had .11 meeting on Saturday evening , last, when they elected Eli Rees to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig nation of Thomas B. Tyler. They appointed a committee on repairs, a committee of correspondence, and transacted some other business. Rees was notified of his election, promptly accepted and entered on the . duties of his office. This will give great satisfaction to all friends of the Institution, and is a fortunate se lection. We hope the new Board . will be equally fortunate in all its acts ; 'for great interests arc confided to its care. Le'The nomination of Duick ple, by the Republicans of Ulysses, is t a timely suggestion. The people should canvass that subject without fumber delay, and agree upon .a can diduterwhose election will give no aid or comfort to the author of Governor Reeder's removal. We trust other meetings will .be promptly held, and if any of our friends prefer seine other candidate for Commissioner; let them say-so ; for in that way we shall soon . come to an agreement over some one. We hope this will- be done before the meeting in Court week, so 'that we can then give the choice of the people an enthusiastic endorsement; SENATOR SUM Et. TO P ASSMORE L IA MS ON. L. SUPERIOR,ON BOARD TILE STAR, Saturday, Aug. 11, 1r55. MY DEAR Sin: With astonishment and indignation I have learned the story of your imprisonment; and now, from this distant retre7it, where T. am for the moment, I maize haste to send you my sympathy. • From beginning to end—from side to side, and iu every aspect-this transaction"chn be regarded only a's a clear, iudul•,itable, and utterly unmiti gated outrage. The new-fangled dec. trineohat a slavemaster can voluntari ly impot t his alleged slave—of •courie with all the revolting incidents of Sla very--into the Tice-States, is not more odious than it is preposterous. It is scouted by _reason and disowned by universal jurisprudence. You were right in disregarding it. In .stepping forward to remind persons claimed as slaves on this pretext, that all such claim is baseless, you did a good work. It was this knowledge which filled them with confidence to regain their God-given liberty. .And: for this it appears that you have been brought before a man who, "dressed in a little ati.thority," has cast you into priso-.1. This outrage is rendered more outrageous by the way in which • it was done.- It was perpetrated through the perversion. of the great writ of habeas corpus. This writ of freedom and deliverance, which in England has often been styled the palladium of the Constitution—which is recoznized as a distinctive feature of Constitutional Government—which finds no place in a despotism, arid which is the very master-key appointed to unlock prison , . doors and let the oppressed go free— has been made in your case, by a ho cus-pocus without precedent, the in strument of imprisOnment and oppres- MEM Strange and disgraceful as, all this is, it must be considered as the natural fruit of Slavery. Any person, whoso ever he may be—whether simple citi zen or magistrate—who undertakes to uphold this wrong, seems forthwith to lose his reason. He may bo just, humane - and• decent in other things, but in the support of Slavery he be comes unjust, inhuman, and indecent —often in obvious unconciousness of his degredation. The blindness which makes him insensible to a - wrong so transcendent, naturally makes him in sensible to the lesser wrong by which it is maintained. What is the writ of habeas corpUs, the trial by jury, the privilege of debate, or your liberty or mine, in the estimation of a person who •iias already screwed himself to the pitch of injustice necessary for the vindication °fan institution which sepa rates parent and child—which stamps woman as a concubine—which shuts .' the gates of knowledge, and which snatches from the weak all the hard- Earned fruits of incessant toil ? But there must he an end to these things; and as 'Shakespeare found a jewel in the toad's head, so do I find a cheering omen even in the injustice which has made ypu its victim. There is an old saying handed down from distant at. tie uity, that, "Whose the gods wish to destroy they first make mad," and I have often of late been impressed by its truth. The Slave Oligarchy is mad, and its overflowing madness runs through every agent and tool. In all that it dues—especially in the Fugitive Slave bill and its cruel en fox cement, the Nebraska bill and its felonious administration, and in the imprisonment of an unoffending citizen—l rejoice to believe that there is unmistakable evidence of that mad ness which precedes a fall. Verily the day is at hand when returning jus tice will once more bear sway ;. then, among the triumphs of Freedom, will he a reckoning with unjust judges. Meanwhile accept my congratula tions on the portion of responsibility and dignity which is yourS. lt is a privilege to suffer for truth ; and I envy not the meanness of that soul which would hesitate to prefer• your place within the stone walls of a prison, to , the cushioned bench of the magistrate .by whose irrational and tyrannical edict you have been -condemned. Believe me, my dear sit, . • With much regard, Very faithfully yours, CHARLES SUMNER. Passmore Williamson, Moyamonsing Prison, Philadelphia. REPUBLICAN MEETING Pursuant to notice, a meeting of the friends of Republican Liberty was held at the Hall of. D. Baker, in Ulys ses township, on . the evening of the 27th inst., for the purpose of appoint ing "a delegate to attend the Republi can State Convention, to be held at Pittsburg, and transact such other business as may be thought ; neces sary," and was called to order by Iton. 0. A. Lewis. John Chappel,' Esq., was called to the Chair, -and H. J. Olmsted and D. Baker were appointed Secretaries. The object of the meet ing was then briefly stated by Judge Lewis, who then uffered the following resolution : • • Resolrcd, That we hail with delight the prospect of establishing a genuine Republican party in Pennsylvania, which will be pledged to use all constitutional means to make Freedom national end Slavery sectional. • _ After able and pertinent remarks from the mover of the resolution, N. H. HaHock, and others, it was unani mously adopted: On motion, the following resolutions were then unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we extend an invitation to all opponents of Slavery extension to meet in Mass Convention at Coudersport on Tues day evening of next September Court, to make preparation for the' union of ail the friends of Freedom in one effort to preserve Our nation from the. foul blot of permitting tree territory to be cureed with the evils of involuntary servitude. 1 .1 Resolved, That Hon- 0. A. Lewis be our delegate to the • PittsbUrg Convention—with power to appointa substitute. Resolved, That we recommend Col. Duick Whipple, of Ulysses- township, as a suitable candidate for the office of County Commis sioner, well worthy 'of the support of all genuine Republicans. Res°lred, Th At we suggest Alm propriety of holding a meeting of delegate; from the seve ral counties in this Senatorial- District, at Coudersport, on the 12th day of September next, to select a suitable person as a candidate for the office of State Senator, and that we recommend Barak Niles, Bsq., as one of said delegates. Resolved, That we have entire confidence in the integrity, ability, and patriotism of Hon. Joszen Mess,-11 citizen of our county, and .that we recommend him as a man well qualified for the office of State Senator. On motion, adjourned. JOHN CHAPPEL, Pres't D. B/LICER, Serretarisa IL J. OLMSTED, Tholon of Pram:neat for the Salo of 7:eal,om. The Whig Committee of Bradford county assembled in Convention and adopted the following .resolutions: Resolved, I—That in comparison with the great issue before the coon try, the minor .questions of party are unimportant, and therefbre should nut be allowed to prejudice those para mount interests of Freedom which are involved in that issue. _ 2—That the rights of the North can only be secured from the encroach ments of Slavery, by uniting the North ernstrength upon firm and 'decided grounds against the further extension of Southern institutions. 3—That we do therefore earnestly recommend to the several Committees of Vigilance, above named, that they use their utmost influence to secure delegates to the coming County Con vention, who will sacrifice patty names and minor considerations, to effect an union . of Northern forces - upon one common platform of freedom. :The Reporter has a long and able editorial on these noble resolutions . from which we extract the following: A period has now arrived, which demands most imperatively the united action of the Freernen of the North. National faith is disregarded, compro mises violated and set aside, armed ruffians' are organized to invade - soil consecrated to Freedom ; the ballot box is assailed, the rights of actual settlers ruthlessly and brutally invaded. Bowie-knives, and revolver:, - and rifles; overawe the residents of . the Territory, because A•rentsoN and raxorm.t.ow ate determined that slavery shall be extended into Kansas. How ate these disgraceful proceedings regarded in .the South ? Does her . vaunted chivalry, and patriotLni re buke such .unlawful conduct ? Cer tainly not—but on the contrary, ap plauds and encourages the acts of the armed iAadors of the soil the South by her own acts forever consecrated to freedom. No expression of repro bation has been beard from the South. But she demands the removal of REED _ ER, because he has been an obstacle in the way aconsummatino their nefari ous schetne3.. There is unreason why the 4.-ittle pendent and hone,t portion orNorthern voters should not act and vote in unison. There is not a' question nor a shade of principle which -should separate them.. They are unitedin sentiment upon the only question which has They may be exorted about departed questions—they. -may be invoked to" sustain dead patties—but obeying the demands of their principles. and the convictions of their judgments the voters will deposit- their ballots in a manner most likely to advance their principles. The slogan of patties lost its power—the defunct carea• partisanship cannot be galvaniz( .1 in to existenCe though interested dema gogues and office seekers may strive to their utmost. The i<=ur< r;hi;•;2 once arrayed community in am (gOni , :a. have passed away, or ::re f;re er settled; nothing, remainc hot tt( I.,:me: which distinguished the adv,c Id' diGrentunless it he a ~ f - greedy greedy Mtn lockcoo:: the organizations as their : only hope to r office. The •action of the is not only libel al, but it is timely nod propriate. Jt is the course lit 1.111. Northern Freemen, unless willing quietly to submit to the out rages and aggre;si.ms of the minions of slay cry—or what is worse, by di .a greement and diviion here, 'to permit their schemes to be carried out. There is a moral, political and numerical power in the North, sufficient to lain , the Government hack to the origiind design of its - founders, carefully ob serving all the guarantees and_coinpro mises of the Constitution, and sacredly respecting the rights of our Solo het n brethren—but emphatically and sol— enmly determining that Slavery shall not be the ruling and dominant pow, - !r in the government—controlling its ad ministrative, legislative, and judicial branches. Such power, if once exert ed, would accomplish all that the patriot could desire. When it- is once known that there is a North, the South will quietly submit to the advantages guaranteed to her by the Constitution thesecurity of her peculiar propel ty, and not be seeking by constant en croachments tin free 'territory to ex, tend its area. • to effect Aids, the North must be united. She must not fritter away her: strength upon abstraCt questions which have no practical bearing upon the pres'ent. Shall we pursue the spectres of:departed issues, rather than embrace those which have life, vitality and importance ? Shall we permit ourselves like vassals, to be •driven, at the beck of leaders, into contests at - which the mind and heart revolt?— `Are we not Freemen, loving our Cou ntry, and desiring her prosperity 1 If so, hoW shall we best - accomplish "the object of our 9 '.deAire I Certainly not by being tickled by old party names, by being divided, and thus shorn of our strengt4sVidle Slavery, compact and active, continues to -wield her in fluence and monopolize the govern merit, bending everything to its propa gation and perpetuation. A noble heart, like the sun, shows its brigh vet countenance iu its lowest estate. la" We give, in another column, the resolutions of the Whig Commit. tee, of Bradford county;in favor of union, and some comments• of the Brae ford Reporter thereon. These are noble words, and we trust they will be considered by every anti-I4e braska Democrat in this county. By the way, what is to prevent the union of the Reporter arid Argus into one paper I Such a Union would ei ert a happy influence throughout the State, and if we rightly understand the tat' position of the two papers . , there is nothing to prevent the union but a little personal pride, which we hare no doubt would be Overcome f r the p u bli c good, if the friends of union in Bradford county were to agitate the subject. Mr.ssits Eorrons:- . :4 Sec by the last Journal (and various other indica tions of public opininn) that people are inclined to laugh at the professed strictuss of morality of thoSe who have resigned the office of Trustee of our Acaaorny. This is a great pity. I Would be glad to think, and am sure you tvould, that there.was really corn- iug over ilur community, and some t tnembe . vs of: it in pal ticular, a healthier, better •1;Ioral princiiml than wo have Levu accu,ll,mcd- to See. Ever since I Eyed in Coudersport, ur anywhere there has never appeared to be aey dill'erenee made by the votinrz pa it of the community,. between men (.I ., ciod and bad moral character. In Trie-tee elections, - as in all othet, , , men unworthy of any confidence have been elected; and 1 fur one, t-lionidhail with joy the time when only truly respectable, honor able melt were entrusted with. the welfare-L-even though niany office.; should go vacant in conse que:leu.• Speed the time. CORN PLANTER l iTi?" Among men there .are some who have their vice 3 cpticealed by - Wealth, and other.; •,vho have their virtue.; conc.2l.lerl by poverty." 11.%1111.11 . ..0-111 14mi!et, Auglp.t. .1111, by Juhn TitonAs A. ‘VARRLS to Misi fit 1.. \Vim:. ul Ihe same pace, N c:.) 7. 21. T T 111.1 PUBLIC. !:.-, ntid Accouhti 1). 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