cd a .d pins forth invatling armies. arid , tlisk:avltolo ialiu e nee. and po . vier of .3be.Federal Government are employ ed to aid them , merely 'die" acteal teszdeuts of Kansas, in_the e- e:•c:iee of the rig!:ts paranteed thgtn the law which opened tha,,Tert:i ifiry t't cettle':s, are largely detellained t), 1 it %hull be free.' Ignolge &Mt.estl 1% hare slavery is let it remain. Let it npalogized for 'end - mitigated - as' it ca::. I am int one of those who would . attitek-4.l)e4goath inlieritanee of . . perkli4:4lty-.tuid shame Ivhicli Storthprn onkii.ii,iy was m:igi tinily" . a joint, agent. 'fin introdacing. ' Lei them mourn oVei 'the emiiariissrnent;arid iwiis of their L 10t,'311.1 strive to . dis:clia rge ty as .C.tristian masters to .S4lO pe o pl e ,ihey'llave found depeqent - and in sot . - 'vitude. Thus (nit of their birthright ruisiortuno ,they`inay work out a ;Messing : to s the; subject race, and a rnis.ileti of mercy frir themielres, To !Lpo.c . letze for an involuntary evil is one thing. To Atrive to ,extend and per- peturiteit is another. Nye .may regarJ the former with the truest charity.— But . . as 'freemen and Christians, what must we iiay — of the latter? . But why are Southern men so mad ly resolved that IS..ansas shall be thrown .opeu { to ei . avery 3 Is i: 1 because they desire themselves to ho residents of :the . country Very few of them have any such idea. But it will give . them, un increase; of political ,power It will wheel another State into the phalanx, and give them two more Senetolial votes for that cunt: of of the . _ . . Govern men,t which the far swifter pro g reis of the' Free States has taken . i from them n r the ll6Use of Represen .. t.atives. Few arnaiii us baVe race ied'on" xlie political power given by .alLircry W the few. Three-fi - ftbs of all the slaves are Ci;nliteci in with the :w hites as !Ike basis of representation, largely increasing the political imper ta.nce of the l l:vhite person at LI/a 6/,17,th . o.yer :white person at the North.--. Qf ,the :whites, large uunther3 are ei ther dis‘fra'neliisedby a properly quail- _ :nation or are completely under the • ,conttolof their wealthy neighbors.— Political honors and influence are con 3inet) to a few. In the whole sixteen Blivel.olding States there are loss than 100,0j0 pet sons owning more than ten Slaves each. How many of these are desirous of deserting their plantations end emigrating to Kansas? But these are the persons who control the pulley ot' sixteen States, and, by their influ :epee at home and 'et the North,- have eontrolled the policy and monopolized ihe . honors of the General government /s it to be wondered at that they should make such desperate efforts to extend 4' o di,proportionate an . importance ? And as it grows so it Nvill grow, until this whole land of liberty shall be made tiibutary to the perpetuation of i human bondage. the establishment of slavery in I 1 sit .a; will give them, secondly, a new Market for slaves. Tlie pecuniary value orslavery arises not from the produc tiveness of slave labor. It costs much and l irodlices little, wastes largely and wears out the soil it cultivates. • Left to itself, it impoverishes, iu the long !With land and.owner, and would 'gradually work out its own extermi nation, But slavebroeding compen sates for the expensiveness of slave labor. To breed human beings fur . sale, 19 tear immortal scuds that they niy be driven like cattle to the mar ket and sold tothe highest bidder, is a profitable business. Farnlies and es tiheS are maintained by such breeding and Often of blood relations. To keep rip the price, the Market must be extended, New States and Terri tories roust have their virgin soil thrown open to slavery, and, as their !.tads also become impoverished, joiu toe slavehreecling States in the cease less ery of the horse-leech and her 'daughters. Kansas is now invaded and outraged merely 'that it may be made a lancl.of bondage, and that for o:4iincrease of a political power in imical to our free institutions, and a sttinulus to the breeding ofhtlinan be hig for sale. And what• is the pretence under which these evil deeds are covered up arid the acquiesence of the country in them is sought ? It is the equal right of men of all sections of the country to gi with their property into the na tional territory. It is said that to de tly the right of slaveholders to carry their property thereis to destroy the equality of our. citizens, As this is the gi•and'phia,. Which is designed to, and to some extent does, impose on the public mind ftir excuse of•all.theso• enortnities, iris essential that it should Le eNinai tied. Let it be observed then iu .tbe firSt Flee°, that the ,claimed right Of cartylng one's id'entical prop ir72l with him ofremoval ii an absurdi ty. much - property is therein its nature so local that it cannot be To , moved 1 Wbo.coeld remove his farm 'or his fishery, or his water power I— 'Yet who ever thought of declaming against the injUstide. of Nature and P deuce, bechuie he could not take them to Kansas? The proceeds of their sale he can take: . And has, any body ever denied to—the slaveholder the right to take to Kansas the pro veeds'of the sale Of his slaves, as well 'as the prticeeds•of the sale rif his plan tation Secondly, the rightof prop s -. erty iu human beings is put a natural sight, but merely the result of local Lys. Outside the jurisdiction of those laws, the right . does net exist. There ; are Stitiir ivirere !OM fias - iii4 61 - ' lowed' by law. A luttety interact is th, 4 'propei,t - y eri - ts boVer; Bepaus'tft lottekies are iiiascrilka in Kansas o r ehierhere has the lottery holder .ause to . cornplain of the ovprthtliw el 'ilia ciinstitutional . rights.? Kitnite, be invtitled-and 4iretichecl-in'bion&-be cause its inhabitants will not pass . the local laws which in Other Stp.tes have made lotteries property? With as intich-reatntrlfticanie• they will "not establish property in human flesh and pruperty..whith---tesults froth loc's,l laws -Can be sold where. those local laws have made it.valuable and its proceeds taken wherever the owner may phase. ' And is the Union to he convulsed, a peaceful. Territory made the scene of war, and industri- ous citizens robbeilnpd.murdereA, be- . cause some hgt : headed individual has resolVed.thr.t instead of taking . his ,thousand . doliais to Kahsasin gold and stiver, hew . 111,take it in the shape of a . luttiory office or a brother mane Let the.flirosk pretext be limjersteod. If ~ the right , of holding human beings as property resulti merely from local laW, it is limited by The law which crew ted it. If it bo a natural right, it is as indefeasible.in Pennsylvania as it is in Kansas. Aud this will be the final I= P(Mbtless one sin for which we are suffering is the base spirit of truckling and paedering to sectional interests and prejudices, which has for so many years characterized the prime movers of our political machinery.- polities have been a mere trade, conducted without honesty or principle, for self ish aggrandizement. Vainly do we look tip - paqiMism in the wire-work ing. of our political parties. • The whole government is administered up on the urbac,"ipre of Pie division of the spoils. There has been no prejudice so opposed to the spirit of our insti llations, no sectional interest so degra ding, that political leaders, low and high, were not willing to sell them : - solves to it for votes. There has been no combination of parties too inconsis tent, unprincipled and corrupt to. be entered int? for 01, sa.ke of O . Flu, and public money.. Its parcicuip-,the lead ing political parties have for .years been conducted in rivalry of subservi ence to the interests of slavery. The interests of the nation have been Ills- regaded and sacrificed in di-4graceful widerbidding for the slaveholding vote. There was no deep so low for one par ty to descend into that some "lower deep still opening wide" was not dis covered by the other. For more than a generatiim has this system' of self absement being going on. No won der that those ts ho have been the ob- jects ofthis solicitation should . have been educated into the idea that the whole government of the country should be conduCted for the benefit of slavery. I four unhappy country - is ' now suffering from Southern violence it has been brought on us by that long and increasing self-abasement of Northern politicians. Especially is this the case with our present agita tions. A new scene of commotion had been settkd by new concessions. to which, for the sake of pzace, all par ties had assented. The whole 'land was at rest and quiet. Slavery was demanding nothing more, and its op ponents had made up their minds to acquiesce in the settlement, when, for pure party purpose, and for personal aggrandizement, the tithe-honored barrier of .frae,dom was overihrOwn, as a new bid in the auction. which has sacrificed the domain of the nation for the slaveholding vote: Let the au thors of the iniquity be nameless • here, as they deserve to be in the annals of the Republic. Insane and unprincipled .ambition is the source of all the tation, and turmoil,* and bloodshed which have been rending the land asunder. -The whole people have wit nessed so tamely the successive be trayals of their interests, and voted so docilely on the issue they presented, that hope had been conceived of their unlimited submission. ' The section al Jealousies which it his stirred up anew, and the attempt to seenre,liy vi olence, what slavery Understood to. he offered it by the measure, is its natu ral consequence, and the providential punishment of the nation for the ini quity Whieh it sanctioned and encour- aged. .A.nother political sin for which the nation is thus suffering . _ is the -neglect of political duty by respectable citi zens. We have boasted Much of our political rights; but we have been sadly unmindful of our political duties; How large a *portion of the most respec table and influential of our citizens hae wholly abstained from the nomi natbn and election of our rulers.' The :wholo'busineas of nominations has been give-i up to. iaucuses, chiefly corn posed.of the ambitious an the ASO nl lies in which no respectable person could appear have brought out candidates of their own for inferior officei, and conventions of interested Men have long wrangled- outthe nomi nation to higher posts of .those, tu 'Whose election they could pin -their ovin . hilles of office to be acquired - or retained. .A.ll honesty and all patriot ism have quite 'disappeared froth - our system,' p o ji t ics- have he : come a trade so low that few respec table then dare touch it: • • Not an ehic. tion can be .caeried without money, and .bargaining and rar q .: _Ana la consequence not a bill can be carried ,throligh, our National .A.eEris4turst without !hyibei.l Yet orderly and 50-, spectable'citiens see th6se Apiquities without troubling themselves for their correction. Absorbed in their own business and comfort, they leave the rule ofthe country they care 'not to' wham. And - yet they boast of their political rights. But Gad • has given no right without obligation . of use.— The right oEself-government involves the duty of selflroverninent, the duty selecting and - electing.the rulers of our people. - This sacred duty, due to ourselves, manfrind,andGod, has been wofully . negleeted, and, therefore,'God has turned our neglect into our pun lshment, and chastised the land with misrule and civil war. K.intiKed and consequential to these has been another sin—the entire di 'force of the whole system of politi6s from the fear of Go,il. If respectable men, when they keep aloof from the selection of candidates for office, also threw away their allegiance to party, the evil would be less. But, by a strange confusion of moral sense, the obligation to party is made unques- tionable • and supreme. No matter what may be the character ofitsagents matter what may he .the . evil principle or . iniquitous measures in corporated in its action, how many good men there are for whom the Single consideration, that it is the ac tion 9f their own party, is erxough.--..- They ash no questions, listen to no ar gurnents, recog,nize no ltigher authori ty. How few Christian men ever think of taking counsel of God in qites tions of public affairs and giving re ligion the control of their politics,-- How few citizens recognize their . re sponsibility, to God for their political influence. How few men of principle bring their political condo ct to the same tests as their ordinary inter course:- Now, let it' be remembered that the ultimate responsibility of eve ry measure rests, with the people, and in this matter, as all others, each. _one must answer for himself. Caucuses of the idle and fliSollltO may nominate who they please, leaders of political parties may venture on what iniquities they will, but to the people belongs the responsibility of their adoption.— Without the sanetirm - of the people, they sink into the obscurity which they deserve. It is on this principle that God is dealing with us as a peo ple. The American people have been chaincterized by a blind aid unscru pulous 'adherence to party—the po litical morality of our country has be come a by-word and a hissing—the whole people, by negligence or party spirit, have become. partakers. in the guilt of actions which, if they had not been in politics, would be a loathing to the moral sense of the community. And, therefore, God has punished the nation with the legitimate results of their own misconduct. For these national offenses God has justly brought up.m us disgrace and a diScoyd which threatens The direst disaster, in the future. V. It now remains that we should consider the duties 'ofthe present. cri sis. The time will not allow more than a brief enumeration. L The first duty of the crisis is a right public sentiment. Ours is a government of opinion. To public opinion every party and every coali •tion is compelled to bow. It is migh tier than bayonets. The only-difficul ty is in bringing the national, mind to a decision. There is freer circula tion of news in this country than in any other, and yet there is surprising ignorance and unconcern of what is taking place in the country. Many of our countrythen have no adequate idea of what has occurred in Kansas. They know that ther - e hasbeen trouble and fighting, but their information is m o st partial and incorrect. Very few ofthe political journals have presen ted a faithful report of facts. They have been advocates and • not witnesses, catchingup events for special pleading, for party effect, instead of re lating the whole truth before ttle tri bunal of the people. Now let 'every parson seek to inform himself and his neighlreurs of oyents as they are. Put the fonts before the people. Let them know. the outrages which have been committed. Let them understand the spirit which has actuated them, and the end at which they aim. Let them be taught to view the facts and princi-• _plus of the present crisis, irrespective of party affinities. And who can doubt that - the American people will con demn this imbruing of hands in broth ers' bleed ! , and tyrannizing over breth-, ren : in questions of right, rebuke the aggressor, and - Spread the mighty shield of . publlc sympathy and favor over the persecuted I This cause is to be triad, not by violence, but at the bat of public opinion. And whenever an. intelligent decision on full and-im partial testimony shall be given by the tribunal, all the agitators will be powerless. Violent men on all sides,- irlay threaten what they please. They might al well .threeten the Pacific. Ocean, as the resolved ji;agment - and' conscience of the n9.tion. Our first duty is, therefore to enlighten the' pub mind. Make the daily • journals. feel that it is their interest .to spread all the, facts and the testimony of all sides before they readers. Make use ofthe mail for distribution 'of documehtl to' _your acquaintances._..Organize a sys— tem of colportage, which shall leaje.tracliii every tpan's door, and tkrough the trosqs at the markets send them every Where on the wings'of the *ind.i. This is the trpe SyStem of Re pitb.liceg...gOverntnent, and 'the true- WaYrt9,correct a public evil. 4. Thefoprxh duty pfthe crisis is the independent. and ,conscientious use' of the ballot-b.*. - Let the 'fear of God apd,tite.lim of man bring.party pre dilections to an honest argument at the bp- of conscience. Party will die,-but the country will live. Party will die, but we shall lire to Answer at a higher tribunal respecting a freeman's pri vilege and a freeman's duty. .We are the sovereigns of the Republic, We are to decide the issues of opinion and the choice of rulers for ourselves. It matters not what interested and de signing wen on the one side or on the other may agi ee upon for selfish ends; . it is ours to review and decide the question fcr eprselves, fur the benefit of ourscptry, And it is God's to bring us-and them into judgment, an,l to give sentence on our actions ac cording. to truth. THE JOURNAL. JOIIN S. DIANN, EDITOR. COUDER3PORT, PA Thursday Morning July 81.4836 Republican Nomination, FOR PRESIDENT JOHN O. FREMONT, =l3 FOR VICE PRESIDENT. WILLIAM L. DAYTON, OF NEW JERSEY. TOIL CANAL COMMISSIONER. Thomas E. Cochran. =I FOIL ALTDITOW. CIENICRAL Darwin Phelps, OF 4113111TRONO CO. FOR FURYSTOR GENERAL. Bartholomew Lap3rte, OF BRADFORD CO. REPUBLICAN cowry CONVENTION In obedience to an understanding of the County Executive Committee, a Delegate Republican County Conven tion will be held at the Court House in the borough of Coudersport, on Thursday, the 7th day of August next, at 2 o'clock, P . DI. for the purpose of nominating candidates to fill the vari ous County Offices, to be supported at the ensuing State election. Each Township is earnestlysolicited to send three delegates to said. Convention, All the members of the County Exec utive Committee, are reqnseted to be in attendance, at said Convention, thole being important business for them to transact at that time. ISAAC BENSON Ch'n. of the Co. Executive Committee July 12, 1856. OP The friends of free Kansas in . Wharton, have opened the campaign in that township in good earnest. They had a stirring meeting at .the Hort.in School House, on TUesday evening, July 22. J. W. Rounds act ed as Chairman, and G. A. Barclay as Secretary. Isaac Benson, Esq., of this village, made a strong plea for freedom and free Kansas, and the Peo ple separated with a determined pur pose to keep the ballin motion. We are greatly encouraged by this -demon stration in Wharton. bet the good. work go on. gr The friends of the Rocky Moun tain Path6nder, in Coudersport, will meet at the Hall of the Sons of Tem perance this- (Thursday) . evening, July 31, at 8 o'clock, to choose 3 delegates to the cbunty Convention, and to com plete tho organization of a Fremont and Dayton club. lar That man must have a ilueer idea . of religion, who professes to be gov erned by its benign principles, .and yet sustains the Slave Power and its assassinations in Kansas and Washing ton. One such professor will c4i•jve away more people from th© pluirch, than two ministers can: in to it. tr The &ilium of Rey. Dudley Tyng, whicb we publish nn the first page, is one pf the most remarkable and most hopeful productions 'of .tha dui. Di. Ting is rector o f one of Ore vest fashionable Episcopal Churches in Rhiladerphia. This serniop was de livereil op the Sabbath, in the usual course' of his ministerial duties, to a large audience. As a matter of course it created a sensation. Several of his parishioners are-reputed to be -slave holders, and others are in sympathy with the slave power; and so the.vestry held a meeting and - protested against the " repetition of such like sermons." But whoever reads the sermon will be convinced that Doctor Tyng is not to be silenced except in the way that Brooks silenced Sumner, and so he gave his hearers another Gospel ser mon from the text "Go preach to the people all the words of this life." Read his sermon on the first page. • The opponents of Slavery ex tension in Sweden will meet at the. Carom School House on Saturday next, Aug. 2, at 5 o'clock to choose delegates, and organize for the cam paign. Thet*will be speakers in at tendance, and it is hoped a full atten dance. Imo There will be a public meeting of the Coudersport Library Associa tion at the Methodist Church in this village on Saturday evening next, at which time there will be a short ad dress delivered, and a few essays read. We hope all friends of Literary Pro gress in this vicinity, will attend. far They had a good Fremont and Dayton meeting in Oswayo, on Friday afternoon last. L. F. Maynard, - Esq.; of this village, gait, the. freemen there asSembledagenuine democratic speech, in advocacy of the old Jeffersonian ordinance for the Government of Ter ritory. °sway°. is true to freedom. " A wasted lifo is a bitter doath And in prriportinn as it has beau Avast ed it has bitterness," Er Does the Warren Ledger es teem the Douglas and Toombs plan' of governing Territories more demo cratic, or more favorable to the rights of the people, than the plan proposed by Jefferson, and adopted by the Rev olutionary fathers for the government of the North West Territory 1 Are Douglas 'and Toombs better expo- - nents of Democracy, than Jefferson and Madisonl" If not, we submit that the Ledger is not very consistent in agonizing quite so much ever a bill which every intelligent man knows was prepared for the purpose of com pleting the work of subduing. Kansas to Slavery. ' The Old Line Whigs ofErie Coun ty, Pa:, had a gathering week before last, and shook hinds over a common resolve to support Buchanan and Breckenridge.—Coudersport Patriot. cgr A Potter Co. friend sends us the above marked, with the hope, we presnine, of eliciting from us a notice. We have already denied it in positive terms, and now repeat that it is a sheer fabrication. There may be" Old Line Whigs" in Erie county disposed to gn for Buchanan and Breckenridge, but not of the number of a " Corporal's Guard." Hence the ridiculousness of the abovo paragraph.—Erie Gazette. The Buchanan mon, must be hard pushed for consolation, when they re sort to such silly falsehoods as the abOve. The Gazette says in another item, that Erie county will give from 2,000 to 2500 majority for freedom and Freinont. That will be a gain of a thousand. over Pollock's majority. SO it goes. Gaining every where. Cr Rev. S. E. Darrow will preach in the Hell of the Sons of Temperance nex.t Sabbath. morning at half past ten, and at Lymansville, in the afternoon. l',1:fAkii1: 4 •4011 1 Several men, who ought to be better informed have stated within the past ten days, as an excuse for their sup port of the party that repealed the Miasouri Compromise, and let !cease the dogs of war in 'Kansas, that the trouble Was over in , that ill fated ter ., ritory, that Col. 4umqer had dispersed the Border Brea?: Legislature, on the 4th of 341 y, ly-he started this falsehood 1. The Border Ipirtan Legislature did their iyork of mischief /cot year and wout Norte. They do not propose to meet again until ace year. The Bogus laws passed by it,,have occasioned the destruction of arcs printing office 3, the .bast Hotel west ofSt.Louis, and many valuable lives. 'lt 's under these - that Charles Robinson, Caps Jenkins, Geo. W. DeitzlAr, .and others are now ita prism:fed for high treason. Aro the troubles over ? They have just core. glanced, unless the people of the free States cone to the rescue of their brothers in. Kansas in"material'aid and at the ballot box. Why, the Missouri rivotis blockaded by Missolirians44 a steamboat from Pittsburg or Citiciti-- nati, or Alton, or any other free state town is not permitted to go up it. itnd . yet Northeru men can *be found iu every township who justify by their political action, this blockade. of the Missouri river agaiult the stearboats from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois. Such submission to party - leaders is beyond our comprehension. - :.. Instead of dispersing the Border' Ruffian Legislattire, Cul. Sumner ou the fourth of July last, broke up 4. peaceable meeting,of citizens of Kan- _ sas, who had assembled at Topeki to .petition Congress for a redress of grievances. They had a constitutional right thus to assemble, and their dis persion by the military povrar of the United States, was an act of tyranny Ithat should ofitself overthrow the party - which caused it. In the language of the Y. Eve. Post, we "say : • We are under a despotism as un mitigated as that- of France, Russia or the Roman Empire. The right of the people to keep and bear arms has been infringed ; The right of the people to be ei cure in their person, - houses, and fccts against unreasonable searches and seizures, has been violated ;and now— The; right of the .people peaceably to assemble is .destroyed ; The : men by whom and for whom ; all this is done, are certainly doing what they can to test the strength of the Union ; but they over-estimate their strength when they : tell us- the. . Union is in danger. There is another remedy, which the people will apply in November. - 1117011.1 2 / 3 N AT HONE Immediately after the nomination of Bnchanan his friends claimed that he was so eminently fitted for the office that all his neighbors would support him, and especially the old line whigs Their predictions turn out to have bowl mere empty boasting. His neighbois will not support him as appears from. the following from the Expres: pub lished within a short distance of M.r.. Buchanan's residence : Of the • eight papers in 'this city . which take any part in politics, five give an active support to Fremont and Dayton; . two are for Buchanan, and one for Fillmore. Theso embrace an aggregate circUlatioa of seventeen • thousand copieS weekly, of which thir teen thousand is opposed to "the favor ite son." Their former "position in politics may be classified as follows ; FOR FREMONT—The Ezaa&iner line Whig) and The Volkifreund, (German Whig,) The Express (lode pedent,) The ; Independent Whig; ( Whig . American) The Inland Weekly (American.) For BUCHANAN—The. intelligencer [Demucraticd and the American Republican [formerly old line I4ative and latterly the.argan of the. liquor party.. For Fiasatusc The Register [American and fur Fill more before Ins nomination.) ANTI DEMOCRATIC! The Buchanan press have given unmistakable evidence -of Federal tendencies as well in support of the Cincinnati platform, . which is anti democratic in every plank, as in sup port of Toombs' Senate bill fur the subjugation of Kansas. The House of Representatives,. which reflects the immediate wishes of the people, has passed a bill for the immediate admission of Kansas as a State._ The Senate which does riot reflect the will of the people, hat passed a bill fur the admission, of Kan sas as a State, after a Constitution has been adopted under tits . supervisfon five Commissioners to be appoiytted.by • ,firesi4ertt Pierce. The Buchanan press'-insist that the House of Repro.. sentativcs, whiph reflects the will of the people shall yield to the Senate which tefleets the will of the admin istration. • If this is not a 'mote odious form of Federalism than old John Ad-. ems ever recommended, then we are not able to read the English language. Liout. Governor Roberts, formerly of Fayette County in this State, a tional democrat, has shown this Toombs Bill, to .be a scholia for the subjugation of If.ansas. liota single Buchanan paper in Pennsylvania, his native State, has the manliness to pub! lish . Mr. Roberts' expdso, much leb
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