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Business Car ds
F. W. .
attarnrg at
Couderaport, Pa., will regularly attend the
Courts to Potter county.
ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,
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Attorttcp, eounselor at ILaixi,
61adiirsport, Pa., will attend to ail business
entrusted to his care, with prouiptuess and
#dolity.
Udice—in tho Teruporanco Block, up stairs,
liaiu-stsoot.
ISAAC )':)ENSON
Illttorati) at Ea
CoUpERSPORT, P. 4
SolSe• earner of West and Third streeN.
L. P. WILLIsToN,
Aittorileg cat /Lain,
w•lipi ? or..', I'io g L Co., Pa., will attend the
Couns m
. I'9L:er and AFECin
4. P. CANE,
llttoritcß at ?Lain,
Wolisburough, 'flop comity, l'a, willregular
-17 'timid the courts of Potter county.
Juu• 3, 1843.
ICEn S. MANN,
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Arttgriten S: Coptorior at 71,a1u
lifetu . lersiiut, Pa., will :mead the 4everal
Cuurhi tu Potter and M'Kean nties. All
iimanuet,3 utrugml in his care, will receive
prompt aLt
Make on Mein-street, opposite the Coutt
Mouse, Cuuderbpo •t, Pa.
p 01:DER:SPORT HOTEL,
Bauirl f. ellawsmire
PROPRIETOI:t.
irpi . .\l4ltl anti StsCol,ld streets, Cott
tiorsport, Putter Cu., 'a. 4t.
W. K. KING,
Aitrilginr, i7i ft aitb
Qtrinb Ella ICcr,
smeic r irt: IT Kean Cu., Pa.,
attend to Int:tingAi ['qr. non-req:dent land
jtoldent, upon re•idonable terUpt. References
giTia if required.
P. S. Maps of any gait of tite County made
tp order.
H. J. OLMSTE.p,
Altrinpor 11th Draftsntali,
tke olfce of J. S. Mann, CoTlerapcut.
YOUNG,
rEtatck---mattre anb 3JrAortev.
Alwork warranted. A stock of Watches
•and .Jot olry on hind and for sale. Cali at tho
'store of Smith & Jones, Coudersport, Pa.
BENJAMIN 11F,NNE, LIS,
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L. • C I T
All work in his line, done' to order end
pith d.spateh. On West s.reet, Leon• Th.rd
Coudersport, l'a.
SMITH SI - J S
Deniers in f)ry Goods, Groccruii, Statintic
Drop &licsnes, Ons., hinny
&c. Main street, Con(hr.:port Pit.
I TONES, MANN, JONES.
General Grocery and Prolision Deaseis—
Alsip in Dry a
Good-i Hardwre, Boot.: .and
gliuei;antl wltme, - er men %van; to titiv. nun
/tree,, Coudersport Pa.
D. E. OLMSTED
plialer in Dry Goods, Etc aly.:n nle• Clothing.
grieeri!s, Crockery, &c. Cond cr,:port, l'a.-
j. W.SMITh ,
Peeler in Stoves, and nruinfacture - of Tin
Cstppar,and Sliest-Iron Ware. Alain street,
pin4ir►pert, Pa.
AV. I\l AN
Dealer in Books & Stationery, Music, and
Magazines. Main-st.. opposite N. IV. corner
•f tile public square, Cult:ler:port, Pa.
ADIOS FRENCH,
Physician & Surgeon. East side Main-st
osy• 4th et., Coudersport, Pa.
DAVID B. BROIArdNi,
roundryman and Dealer in Ploughs.
?et end of.Mairt street, Coudersport Pe.,
JACKSON & SCHOOMAKER,
Dealers in Dry Goodq, Groceries, Crock.-ry.
Ind Ready-made Clothing. Main street, Cott
#eriNll,,
ALLEGANY HOUSE,
etamuel M. Mills, Proprieto . r. 0 . 1 , ,; the Wells-.
Tilit rAad, seven miles. Nord{' Couderipoo.
IL• J• CHENEY,
Merchant Tailor, and Dealer in Ready.
pude Clothing. North of the public square,
'ponder:Tort, Pa.
A.. B. GOODSELL,
clUNSMlTH;Condersport, Pa. • Fireitrnas
11 .../u3anufiletnred and repaired at his shop, on
'kart notice.
March 3, 1848.
J. W. HERDING,
Fashionable Tailor. All work entru,sted to
Isis ears will be done with neatness, - comfort
and durability. Shop erer Lewis Mann's
ter*
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Ain.—" There's no luck about the house."
'Tis true, 'tis true—the news is true,
Fremont is running well;
Put by yoUr pen, put down your tools,
ThroW down your hats and yell
A roar is coming from the West,
from theaist a shout,
From out the North there cones a eheer-
We'll vote our rulers out.
CHORUS'.
For there's uo hulk about the bowie—
• The Wh to ifeu:e—at art;
They're ull bewildered and befogged,
.o—vote their) out next full.
Buchanan is a southern nut,
Fil!More's a northern traitor,
Wlii!e Pierce he is no better than
A. very small potato.
Throw up your huts, unfurl your flags;
And stir yourselves alwyt—
Aud write and print, anti speak and sing—,
seat rol we'll vo:e you out:
For there's Ito hick about the hope—
The. White Dome—rat all;
They.'reall Know Nothings Democra is
So—Note them out next fall.
The ladies all kir Preednin vo'e,
F . nr Freumt take their stand ;
lle runs away with woni .tra he ,e,
And once did with her -
And when lie runs he wins the prize—
A golde huld—or bride; • :
So vote bin' in our President,
And Jessie by his side
For there's no lack about the ltettse—:
The White Hottie—at all,
Till Jessie goe4 to in tinge. it,
tlq—yote her in next fall l•
K. G. CI,
TETE Two PrIATFORMS
PLATFORM OF THE CINCINNATI gm-
VENTION
The eincinnaii 09ovention. ofJune
1856, which nominated James Buchan
an for the Presidency, after reiterating
the Pierce Rtltimore Platform of
1854, which repudiated " River and
Harbor improvements, a National
Bank, the distribution of the proceeds
of the !midi:: lands," &c. adrpted the
followitm., in addition, es the Radian
an Platform:
Whereas, Since the foregging dun ,
location was uniformly adopted by our
predecessors in National Convention,
and adverse . political and religions test
has been secretly ortranizany a party
claiming to be exclusively Americans,
and it is proper-00x the American de
mocracy should clearly define its re
latiocs thereto, and declare its deter
mined opposition to, all secret politi
cal societies, by whatever name they
may be called:
''hat the foundation of
this Unien ofStates having been laid
in its prosperity, expansion and pre
eminent example in free government,
built upon entire freedom in matters of
religio4s concern, and no respect of
persons in regard to rank or p,la,ce of
birth, no party can jaally. be deemed
pational, constitutional,, or in accord
ance-with A,ruericart principles, which,
bases its exclusive organization upon
religious opi,ni,ons and accidental birth
place. And hence a political crusade
in the nineteenth century, and in the
United States 'of America, against .
Catholics, and foreign-bornOs neither
justified by the past-history. 4 the
future prospects of the ceuntry. nor
is in n unison with, he spiri,t, of. tolera-
49VDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY. PA.," SEPT. IL - 1856.
tion and errlarged freedom which pe
culiarly distingulshe4 the Anaeri,can
systein of . popular government. .
Resolved, That we reitet ate with
renewed energy of Purpose, the well
considered declaration of former con
ventions upon the sectional issue of
domestic slavery, and-concerning the
ciesprypd rights Of the States. .
Resolved, That Congress has no
power, under the constitution. to in
terfere,with or control the domestic
institutions of the several States, and
that such Statesare the sole and prop
erjn-dges of everything appertain;ng
to their. own affairs, not prohibited by
the constitution; that all efforts of the
abolitionists or others'mnde to induce
Congress to Intel fere with questions
of,Slayery, or to take incipient steps
in relation thereto, are calculated to
lead to the must alarming and danger
ous consequences; 'and that all such
efforts hsoie an inevitable tendency to
diminish•the happiness of the people
and endanger the stability and per
manency of the Union, and ought not
to be countenanced by any friend of
our p6litical institutions.
fl,esolved, T.
hat the foregoing pro
position covers, and was intended. to
embrace, the whole subject of slavery
agitation in Congress ; and•therelo . re
the democratic party of the Union,
standing on this national platform, will
abide by and adhere to alaithful exe
cution of the acts kn.)wnas the compro
mise measures, settled by the Congress
of 1850 ; "the acts for reclaiming fugi
tives from service or labor," included,
which act, being designed to carry out
an express provision of the constitution,
cannot, , with fidelity thereto, be re
pealed or so changed as to itripait or
destroy its efficacy;
Resolved, That the democratic par
ty will resist all attempts at renewing,
iu CoQvss Or nut of it, the agitation
attic slavery question, under %Oat
ever shape or color the' attempt may
he made. • •
Remobred,. That the democratic party
will faithfully abide by and uphold the
principles laid down in the Kentucky
and Virginia resolutions of .1.7 . 6), and
in the report of Mi. Madison to the
Virginia Legislature, in 1790; that it
adopts those principles as constituting
one
.of the mon foundations Of its po
litic,tl creed, and is resolved to carry
them out in their obvious meaning awl
import,
And that we may more distinctly
meet the issue on which a sectional
party, subsisting exclusively on slave
ry agitation, now relies to test the ft
- delity of the people, North and South,
to the constitution and the Union
Resolved, that claiming, fellowship
with and desiring the 'ce-operatiqn at
all who regard the preservation of the
m 1 ided• he Oonstitution, as the
pal 3, and repudiating all
Territorie, and whose avowed pur
pose, ifoonsummated must end in civil
vow and disunion, the American democ
cracy recognise and adopt the princi
ples contained in the orgznic laws esta,b.
fishing zhe Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska, as embodying the only sound
and safe so!ution, of the slavery question
upon zdtich the great national idea of
the people of this whole country can re
pose in its determined conservatism of
the Union and Non-interference by Con
gress ft
w ith Slavery in the Territories or
in the District of Coliimbia.
_Resolved, That this was the basis of
the Compromise of ISSO--,confirtned by
both the democratic and Whig parties
io national cooventions—satificit by
the-people. in tha election' of 1825
and rightly appliell . toth,e orga4iFation
of Territories in 1854.
Resolved, That by the uniform ap
piication of this democratic principle to.
the organization of Territories, and, to
the admission.6l new States, with. or
ctithout domestic slavery, as they may
electthe equal rights of all the States'
preserred• intact—the original
compacts of the constitutio n , maintained
s and .platforms con-
c slavery, which seek
ates gn4 incite treason
.tance to law in. the
inviolate--and the perpituity an•l the
expansion of the Union increases to
its utmost 'capacity of embracing, in
peace and harmony, every future
American State that may be constitu
tedorantiexeJ with or without a re
publican form of Government.
Resolved, That vsu recognize the
right of the peopleof all the Territo
ries, including Kansas and Nebraska,
acting through the legally and fairly
expressed will of the majority of actual
residents; and whenever the number
of their inhabitants justiaes it, to form
a constitution, with or without domes
tic slavery, and be admitted into,the
Union upon terms of perfect equality
with, the other States,
Resolved, •fiaally, That. in view of
the condition of popular institutions .
in the Old World, (and the dangerous
tendencies of sectional agitation, c.,m
bitted with the attempt to enforce civil
and religions disabilities against the
rights of acquiring-and enjoying citizen
ship, in our own land,) a high and sa
cred duty is devolved with increased .
responSibility Upon the democratic
pat ty of this country, as the party of
the Union, to uphold and maintain the
rights of every State, and they the
,Union of the States; and to sustain
and advance among u- constitutional
liberty, by continuing resist all .mo
nopolies and exclusiv legislation for
the behefit of the few at the expense of
the many, and by vigilant and constant
adherence to those principles and com
promises of the constitution, which are
broad 'enough and strong enough .to
embrace and uphold the Union as it.
was, the Union as it is, and 'the Union
as it shall be in the full expansion of
the energies and capacity of this groat
and progressive people. „
Resolved, That there are questions
connected with the foreign policy of
this country, which are inferipr . to no •
domestic question whatever. The time
has come for the peoplJ of the United
States to declare themselves in favor:Of
free seas, and progressive free trade
throughout thu world, and by suleam
manifestations, to please their moral
influence at the side of their success
ful example. •
Resolved, That ell geographical
and political position with reference to
the other States of this continent) no
less than the interest of our commerce
and the developmerr Of; our growiag
Omer, requires that we.shotild hold as
sacred the principles involved in . the
M.lnroe D4ctrine ; their bearing and
import admit of no misconstruction ;
they should be applied with unbending
rigidity.
- Resolved, That the. great highway
whiCh nature, as. %sell the assent of the
States most immediately interested in
its maintenance, has-marked out for a
fi - ee - corn munication between .the At
lantic aid Pacific oceans, constitutes,
one of the most important achievments
realized by the spirit of modern ti nes
and the unconquerable energy of our•
people. That result should be secured
by . a timely and efficient exertion of
the control which we have to . claim
over it, and no power on earth should
be suffered to impede or clog its pro
gress by any interference with the re
lations it may suit our policy to estab . -
lish between our government and the_
government of States within whose do
minion it lies. We can, under no lair,
cumstances, surrender our propender- .
once in the adjustment of all questions
out of it., . .
Resolved, That in view orso com
manding, an interest, the people of the
United States cannot but sympathize
with the efforts - which-are baing mule.
'by the people of Central America to
regenerate that portion
. of the conti
nent which covers: the passage across
the inner-ocean Isthnins.
Res )Ived, That the Administration
of Franklin Pierce has Leen true to
Democratic principle, and heretofore
ti uc to. the great interest of the country ;
in the face of violent opposition lie has
maintained the law at _home, and vindi
cated floe. rights of Amer* icen citizens
abroad a,nd, therefore, we prodaint
our unqualified admiration orhis meas..
ures and policy,
Resolved, That the democratic par
ty will expect of the u3xt administra
tion that every proper effort be-made
to insure our ascendency in the Gulf
of Mexico, and to maintain a perma
nent protection•to the great outlines
through. which are emptied Into its
waters the products raised gut - of the
soil, and the commuditips'iereated by
the industry of the people of our west
ern valleys, nna of the Union at large.
Ectfertn of the Republican Conireution.
Adopted bathe Repaqcan National Cour en-
JunelBs '
"This Convention of Delegates, as
sembled in pursuance of a call add re-ss
ed to the people of the United States
without regard to past political differ-
endes or divisions, ho are opposed to
the repeal of the Islisseutl Compro
mise,to the policy of the prese it ad
ministration ; to the extension of slave
ry into. free Territory; to favor of the
admission of Kansas as a Fi ce State ;
of restoring the aption of the Federal
Government to Orb principles of Wash
ington and Jefferson; and for the pur
pose • f presenting candidates; for the
offices of President and Vice President.
X. Resolved, That the maintainance
of the principles promulgated in the
Declaration of-Independence and em
bodied in the Federal Constitution,-
are essential, to the preservation of our.
Republican Institutions, the rights of
the States, and the Union of the States,
shall be preserved.
2. Resolved, That with our Repub
lican fathers we hold it to be a self evil
dent truth that all men are endowed
with the unalienable right to lifo, and
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
and the primary object and ulterior de
-sign of - ourTederal Government were
to secure those rights to all persons
within its exclusive jurisdiction ; that
as . our Republican fathers, when they
had - abolished Slavery in all our -No.- .
Aional Territory, ordained that no per
son should be deprived of life, liberty
or property without due process of
law, it becomes our duty' to maintain
this provision of the Constitution
against all attempts to violate it for the
purpose of establishing Slavery in the
United States by positive legislation,
prohibiting it 4 existence or
. extension
therein.. That we deny the authority
of Congress of a Territorial Legisla
ture, of any individual or association
of individuals, - to give legal assistance
to Slivery in any Territory of the
United States, while the present Con
stitution ahall ho maintained.
'3. Resolved, Chat the,Constitution
confers upon Congress sovereign pow
-er over tho Territories of the United
States for their government, and that in
the exercise of this power it is both the
right and the duty of Congress to pro
hibit in the Territories those twin rel
ics ofbarberism---Polygamy and Slave
ry. .
"4. Re.yolred, That while the Consti
tution of the United States was ordainod
and established by the people in order
to 'form a more perfect union ; e•stablish
cjustice, insure domestic tranquility,
•'provide for the common defence, and
, secure the blessings of liberty,' - and
contains ample provisions for the pro
tection of the life, liberty and propel ty,
of every citizen, the dearest constitu
tional rights of the people of Kansas
have been fraudulently and violently
taken from them ;
Their Tertitary bas been invaded by
an armed force ;
Spurious and pretended Legislativel
Judicial arid Executive officers have
been set over them, by whose usurped
authority, sustained by the military
power of the governMent, tyratinica,
and unconstitutional * laws have heen
enacted and enforced ;
The rights of the people to keep and
bear arms have been infringed;
Test - oaths of an extraordinary and
entangling character have been imposed
as a condition of exercising the right of
sn i ffrage 1:61 d holding office;
The right of an accused person to a
speedy and public trial by an impartial
jury has been denied;
The right of the people to be secure
in, their persons houses, papers and. af-
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feet 'against unreasonable searches and
seizures has been violated ;
They have been deprived of liberty
and property, withont the process of
OE
That the freedom of speech and of
the press has beerrabridged ;
The right to choose tkeicrepresen
tatives has been Made of no effect ;
Murders,.robberiss and arsons, 1163
been instigated and encbuniged, and
the offenders have been allowed to go
unpuniThed.
That all of these 'things have been
done with the knowledge sanction and
procurement of the present Adminis
tration, and that fur this - mime
against the .Coustitution, the Union,
and humanity, we arraign this Ad
ministration, the President, his; advi-S
-ors, agents, supporters, aplogidl sand
' ancestors either before or after.,the
facts—before the country and 6efure
the world; and it.is our fixed pup )se
to bring the actual • petpetrat.)rs of
these atrocious outrages, an.l their
accomplices to a sure nod condiga
puoi,,hment hereafter.
"5. Resol ved, ThatKaniaishould be
immadiately admitted as a state of the
U don, NV.OI iter present Free Consti
tution, as at once the most effeetups
way of securing to the .citizens the
enjoyment of tho rights and wilt . iliges
to whiCh they are entitled,.and of end
ing the civil stiiknow raging in her
Territory.
"6. Resoled, That the hig'r.v tym
plea that 'th . ...;hts - makes ripts,' em
bodied in the 0 ;tend Circular was in
every respect unworthy of American
diplomacy, and would bring ishaine
and dishonor upon-any government or
people who give it their sanction.
"7. Ras°l va, That a Railroad to the
Pacific Ocean by the . most central and
practical route is imperatively demand
ed by the interests of the,wiido coun
try, and that the Federal G- otornment
ought to render immediate and effi
cient aid in its construction and as an
anxilary th,yoto; the immedi.ito con
struction of an emigrant route on the
line of th - a raitro-ai.
S. Rcsolvetl, That appropriations by
Congrms for the imp! (warn 3 it of 'iv-ors
and barbori, of a national clearactor,
are required fir the accommodation
and security °four existing. c nn n 3 •co
authorized by the Constitution, and
justified-by the obligation of Govern: ,
ment to protect the lives a•:,l property
of its citizens.
9. new! vel, That we invite the 'af
filiation and co-operatiOn ;)f• • the moo
of all parties, however differing from
us i - n• Other respects, in Support of the
principles herein declared, an 1 belieV
ing that the spirit of our institutions as
wall as the Constitution of our country
guarantees, liberty of conscience and
equality of rights among cititizens,
we oppose all legislation impairing
their security."
FiCEMONT . MIiETINGB IV ITLY:3IIE3.--•
At a meeting of the Ulyiie3
can Club hold at thii Hall of D.\ Baker
in Lewisville, on Friday, the ;29th ult.,
it was arranged that public meetings
should be lieldin the Township 3 as
folluivs :
At the Olmsted School House on
Friday, the sth inst., at 4 e'clOck,. P.
M.--Authe Kibbeville School House
on Friday, the 12th the
Sch ml House-near Richard Rid;ers's
on Friday, the 19th inst., .fit the
School House at Cushingville on Fri
day, the-2Gth inst.,—At the School
House-near Nelson Crowell's on Fri
day, October 3d, all the above meet
ings to be - at 4 o'clock, I. M., and it
is hoped that they will be generally
attended by all classes of our popula
tion, and that they will be present at
the hour designated.- Good speakers
will be provided, se that a thorough
examination may be bad in regard to
the principles at issue in the present
campaign. . -
L. F. Maynard, Esq., will atteric arta
address the meeting at the Olmsted
School House, and L Benson, Esq., the
one at Ribbeville.
By order of the President of the
Clu.b..
I.TLYsen, Sept .1,285&
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