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Clearfield, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1853.
AMERICAN NOMINATIONS..
TOR SENATE.
B. F. LUCAS,
Ol Jefferson County,
f S6c to the action of the other Courdiit.
TOR ASSEMBLY.
Da. C. R. ERLY,
Of Elk County.
. Subjtet to the action of Elk and M'Kean.
for SHERIFF.
R. F. WARD,
Of Clearfield Borough.
TREASURER.
PHILIP ANTES,
Of Lawrence Township.
COMMISSIONER.
ROBERT MICHAEL,
Of Burnside Township.
AUDITOR.
VALENTINE HEVENER,
- Of Huston Township.
A Stabbing Scraps. A fracas occurred on
Saturday last, a short distance from town, be
tween Benjamin Carr, and Nathan Trude, in
the course of which the latter was stabbed with
a pitch-fork, which pierced the right arm and
lung, causing a very dangerous wound, from'
which, it was thought for a while, he would
not recover. We understand hopes are now
entertained of hi? recovery. 'Carr was bound
over on Monday, for his appearance at Court,
and we therefore forbear to give any statement
of the facts, until after the trial.
The Result. The locofoco primary elec
tlon resulted in the selection of the following
candidates: For the Senate J. T. Leonard;
Assembly Tho's Jefferson Boyer, SI. D. ct
Sheriff Josiah Reed ; Treasurer Eli Bloom;
District Attorney T.J M'Cullough; Commis
sioner Jacob Wilhelm ; Auditor Frank
Pierce. The tail end seems to be the. largest
part of the ticket. It belongs to the kangaroo
species. But if Frank hasn't got more brains
than his illustrious namesake, we doubt excee
dingly, whether he is fit to discharge the du
ties of county auditor.
To Our Readers. We expect to be absent
for a few weeks, after this issue of our paper,
and we have made arrangements with a friend
to give it a share of his attention. Oar readers
we feel confident, will not regret the change
as he is far better qualified to discharge the
duties of an editor, than we can presume to be
Those of our friends having legal business
to transact in our absence, can have it attend
ed toby calling on J. B. Gordon, Esq., with
whom we have made an arrangement.
Subscriptions will bo received and receipted
for in the Printing Office, as usual.
Railroad Meetino. On yesterday, and last
evening a large and enthusiastic meeting o
the friends of the Tyrone, Clearfield, and Erie
Railroad assembled in the Court Uouse. It
was organized by calling the Hon. Jonx C
Montoomert, of Philadelphia, to the chair
and electing Samuel Clotd, David Johnston
Esq., Wm. Irvin, Esq.. Hon. Richard Shaw
Hon. J. P.Uorr, and Bexj. Hartshorn, Vice
Presidents. D. W. Moore and II. B. Swoope
were elected Secretaries.
The President being called upon, stated the
object of the meeting in a brief and happy ad
dress, when Mr. Jas. E. Montgomery, the En
gineer who surveyed the route of the project
ed road, was called upon and addressed the
meeting. During his remarks he made the
following estimate of the value of the stock
showing the nett profit to be over twelve per
cent, on the whole amount:
Estimating the Capital Stock at $1,000,000
coal transported annually, 270,000
: tons at 3cts per ton, tor 25 miles, 202,500
iAiraocr, ZU.UUO.UOU ft., 25,000 tons
at 3cts per ton for 30 miles,
Passengers, 11,000, at $1 per head,
Local freight, &c,
22,500
11,000
20,000
Total,
Deduct 50 per cent, for expenses,
$250,000
128,000
Nett profit, $128,000
- The meeting was successively addressed by
Judge Burnside, Col. Curtis, Hon. J. T.
Hale, Judge Barrett, and others. During
the speaking, the books were opened and a
large number of shares of the stock were ta
ken by those present.
On motion it was resolved that the condi
tion of the subscriptions bo altered from ten
thousand shares, to three thousand.
. Judge Hale stated that the Morgan corupa
ny, with which he is associated, would com
nence a subscription with $30,000, and that
another company .beside them,would subscribe
$10,000,both of them independant of the Phil
Ipsburg subscription, which is $20,000.
It was resolved that the commissioners named
in the charter, canvass the different townships
in the county for subscriptions of stock, to re
port at a meeting to be held in this place on
the Thursday evening of the regular term of
or court, which will be the 20th inst.
After a brief and appropriate address from
the President, the meeting adjourned, having
xlrtt given a hearty cheer for the Tyrone,
ChKHMiy and Erie RaHrotd.
TaE Scicids ot Slavery. We find an arti
cle in the SU Lout Inielligenccr, bearing this
title, and it is certainly gratifying to find a
Southern paper taking the bull by the horns,
and expressing its honest convictions, with a
view to perpetuate the peace and harmony of
our country.
In May last the editor of the Intelligencer
was in Kentucky, and met numerous of the
most wealthy and respectable farmers of that
State, such as form so large a portion of the
population of Missouri, who enquired earnest
ly about the condition of things in Kansas and
and in western Missouri. They spoke of the
intention they had of removeing to Kansas or
western Missouri ; but said they had abandon
ed it utterly, for the reason that they would
never think of taking their families to a region
wehre law is set aside, presses mobbed, and
men driven from the country by irresponsible
and unknown bamls of regulators. They pre
fered the rule of law ' to anarchy. In a recent
trip through several north-western States, he
found that the same circumstances were most
industriously and fatally used to divert emi
gration to those State's and to prejudice Mis
souri and Kansas with every class of people.
The most aggravating stories of insults and
outrages committed byMissourians on the per
sons of emigrants from the Old World or from
the free States, who are found ascending the
Missouri river, are circulated in the newspa
pers all through the free States ; and it is im
possible to conceive of the deep hatred thus
generated towards our whole State in the
northern half of the Union.
Between these two fires Missouri is leading
on her languid existence. St. Louis is retard
ed in a most woeful way. The railroads creep
at snail's pace. And they build ten miles while
other western States build one hundred. In
every department of life they feel the paraly
sis. Instead of bounding forward, buoyant,
strong and rejoicing, they sit with dull eyes
and heavy spirits, and listen to the tick of a
death-watch.
These are the bitter fruits of the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise a wicked and
wrongful deed that will yet bring a hell of
bitter self-reproaches to its authors. Missou
ri did not demand that repeal. The South
never asked it. Atchison solicited it and in
a moment of political insanity the South con
sented to the wrong, and made the wrong her
own. This was the suicide of Slacery.
Every step since taken has deepened the
wrong and enhanced the danger. The free
States organized Aid Societies, and sent their
men to make Kansas free. It had been free
soil, by solemn compact, for thirty-five years ;
and they naturally were incensed to see its
character changed. The South would have
been far more indignant if a slave territory had
been thus, by unexpected act of Congress,
converted into Free Soil.
The free States had a right to be indignant
that a life-long Compromise had been repeal
edand they had a right to try to keep Kan
sas free as it had been, by peaceable coloniza
tion. They attempted nothing else. But a
portion of the citizens of Missouri, headed by
Atchison and Stringfellow, denounced the
northern emigrants as ''paupers and hirelings,'
because they were sent west by the money of
the society ; and so they held county meetings
in Missouri, and raised money and sent Missou
rians to Kansas to make Kansas a slave terri
tory ! Were these Missourians"hirelings"too?
And did these two wrongs make one right ?
Atchison and Stringfellow, with their Mis
souri followers, overwhelmed the settlers in
Kansas, brow-beat and bullied them, and took
the government from their hands. Missouri
votes elected the present body of men who in
sult public intelligence and popular rights by
styling themselves "the Legislature of Kan
sas." This body of men are helping them
selves to fat speculations by locating "the seat
of government," and getting town lots for
their votes. They are passing laws disfran
chizing all the citizens of Kansas who do not
believe negro slavery to be a Christian insittu
tion and a national blessing.' They are pro
posing to punish with imprisonment the utter
auce of views inconsistent with their own.
And they are trying to perpetuate their pre
posterious and infernal tyranny by appointing
for a term of years creatures of their own, as
Commissioners, in every county, to lay and
collect taxes, and see that the laws they are
passing are faithfully executed. Has this age
anything to compare with these acts of auda
city? The Free State men of Kansas have resolved
not to submit to this daring usurpation of non
resident oligarchy. They have called a con
vention of the people of Kansas, to meet in.
September next, and frame a constitution for
their govemment. This movement will be
supported by thousands in Kansas j and it will
rally and bring to their aid the Northern States
that have been for the time staggered and con
fused by their untoward events.
The next Congress will find then this issue
before them a Free State Constitution pre
sented by one portion of the people of Kansas,
and the pro-slavery territorial laws of the pre
sent fraudulent Legislature. The House of
Representatives of the next Congress will be
largely Freesoil or Anti.Nebraska. The pro-
slavery of the bogus Legislature will be reject
ed, and without Congressional sanction they
are not valid and the contest will then be on
accepting the Constitution presen ted ' by the
ree State people. The Free State Constitu
tion may pass the House, but not the Senate.
But the effect will be as disastrous to Missouri
and the South. Kansas will be left to anarchy.
The slaveiy that is there will flee from it per
haps even the slave property of western Mis
souri give way under the panic, and seek safe-
in the cotton fields and sugar plantations of
Texas. .
It has been the .common opinion with tho't
ess persons and thick-headed bullies of the
west, that the northern and eastern men will
not fight. Never was a greater mistake. The
tons of New England and of the Middle States
j do not Ukt to fight. They would rather work
plough bnild towns, railroads make mon- I
ey, and raise families, than fight. But fight I
they will, if need be. Remember, the sons of
New England shed the first blood in the Ameri
can Revolution; they wtre the last to furl
their flags in that terribla struggle. They
have never disgraced their country by coward
ice, and they will not. They are Americans,
with spirit, courage, endurance, and deep love
of liberty, to animate them. The Free State
men in Kansas will fight before they w ill be
disfranchised and trampled on. Mark the
word. "
Here comes, then, the suicide of slavery.
The outrages committed by Atchison and his
fellows in the repeal of the Missouri Cnmpro
mise and by Stringfellow and his followers in
subjugating Kansas to non-resident rule, -Will
bring on a collision first in Congress and then
in Kansas and who shall tell the end?
Slavery will never sustain itself in a border
State by the sword. It may conquer in some
respects ; but it can never "conquer a peace."
Never! never! Once light the fires of interne
cine war in defence of slavery, and it will per
ish while you defend it. Slaveholders . will
not stay to meet the fight. Property is timid,
and the slaves will be sent to Texas to be in 'a
safe plaee" while the fight lasts ; and as soon
as the slaves arc gone it will be found that
Missouri has nothing to fight about, and the
fight will end "before it begins !',?.
Thus tho slavery propagandistswho repeal
the Missouri Compromise to make Kansas a
slave State, will make Missouri free ; and in
endeavoring to expel abolition from Kansas,
they will fill both Kansas and Missouri with an
entire free white population worth more to
the two States than all the negroes in America.
Is not the Kansas outrage the "suicide of
slavery?" Have not the people of Missouri, in
terested in the preservation of slavery in that
State, brought themselves into a desperate
predicament by following the insane counsels
of Atchison and Stringfellow ?
Our Ticket. We this week, nail to our
mast head, the ticket of the American party,
nominated by a majority of the votes of the
party throughout the county. It is one which
every American can heartily support. Com
posed of no faction, and made up of .men from
both the old parties, it commend itself to those
who desire to sustain the great principles of
pure Americanism, and rebuke the party that
allies itself with the enemies of our country
B. F. Lucas, Esq., who will, in all probabil
ity, be our candidate for the Senate, is a sound,
practical, and able lawyer, a popular man, and
a true American. He will represent our dis
trict with credit to us, and honor to himself.
Dr. C. R. Erlt, of Elk county, should he
receive a majority of votes in Elk and M'Kean,
as we are assured will be the case, is our can
didate for the Legislature, and we feel satisfi
ed, that we could nominate no better man, or
one who will dischargo the duties of the Rep
resentative, with more zeal, ability, and fidel
ity- He will bo triumphantly elected.
R. F. Ward, of this borough, our candidate
for Sheriff, is well known throughout the coun
ty, having been discharging the duties of that
oiEcc, as a deputy, for the last two years. He
is poor, honest, and capable a good Ameri
can and a clever fellow. There is no doubt
wj atever of his election.
I'iulh' Antes, of Lawrence, is our candidate
for Treasurer, an old and esteemed citizen, a
native American, and a good man. He is well
qualified in every respect to discharge tho du
ties of the office, and should be be elected, re
sides near enough to this place to attend to the
business without employing a deputy.
Robert Michael, of Burnside, our candidate
for Commissioner, is well known throughout
the county, as one of our best and most worth
thy citizens, who is acquainted with the inter
ests of tho whole county, and who has the hones
ty, ability and determination to promote them.
Valentine Hevxer, of Huston, is the can
didatc for Auditor. He is a good man, and
abundantly able to discharge tho duties of the
office.
This is the ticket presented to those favora
ble to tho cause of Americanism, for their
support. They stand upon the American plat
form, the object of which is to render our Un
ion "safe" from foes abroad and enemies
within. Safe from tho evils to be apprehend
ed from foreign influence safe from the in
terference of religion in politics, and safe
from domestic enemies to our free institutions.
Our " Better Citizens." On Saturday
evening last, after the announcement of the
result of thf Locofoco Primary election, a ci
tizen of our town, while quietly discussing a
political subject with a member of the Demo
cratic party, was most grossly insulted by an
impudent, blustering Irishman, who accosted
him with the epithet of "a d d drunken old
tailor," and swearing that he "could lick any
d d Know NothiDg in the country." At this
juncture of affairs, the 'old tailor,' found that
he had at least one friend in the crowd who was
not afraid to make it publicly known that he
belonged to the calumniated party. But as
the Irishman was about carrying his threat in
to execution, ho was removed by an officer,
just one rod and a half from the scene of action,
where he was told to watt and "let their party
give it to them, while the officer (!) would go
and hide," until a stripling attorney would
"lick" the friend of the "old tailor."
Fortunately for our town, and much to the
credit of the parties who were so ruthlessly at
tacked, no violence was resorted to, andt heir
forbearance saved our streets from a scene
that would, indeed, have been sad to witness.
They have already been stained with the blood
of one Protestant, who met his fate for the
avowal of his opinions, and wo be to the man
who shall rouse the demon of vengenco in
the breasts of those who have leen made
Americans from that very circumstance. It
is high time that we should think of protect
ing ourselves from the assaults and attrocities
of these 'persecuted people,' especially as they
seem to have ucceaded so far as to be able to
get the officen of the law to "Hrwt," while
they successfully insult and trample on Amer
ican citizens!
Later in the evening other rencontres, grow
ing out of this one, occurred, but fortunate
ly p.o blows were struck, and consequently no
blood spilled. In one instauce the abuse heap
ed upon one of our citizens, by a low, scuril
ous Irishman, was enough to arouse the blood
of an angel, and we only wonder that his 'teeth
were not knocked down his throat." Had he
said half as much to many a man, be would
have been carried away with a broken head.
It is to be regretted that the foreign born
residents among us, do not realize their posi
tion, and, instead of embracing opportunities
to quarrell with and insult Americans, endeav
or to live quietly and in the observance of our
laws. As long as they do not molest us, we
will not molest them, but if they see proper to
to insult and trample upon us," though they
may have the friendship of our public officers,
they will discover that we are abundantly ablo
to protect ourselves, and the man who would
not do so is a coward and poltroon.
Proscription. We want to hear no more
from the Locofoco leaders about this town,
about "proscribing" men for "the accident of
birth." The result of their primary election
for a candidate for the office of District Attor
ney, and the reasons atsigntd by some of them
for not voting for a certain candidate, indicate
very plainly how far their actions are consist
ent with their professions. Last fall, we were
accused of proscribing Geo. Daksie, because
he was born on foreign soil. We were told
that he was a good citizen, a respectable man,
capable of discharging the duties of the office,
and superior, in every respect, to his antagon
ist. But it seems, that under nearly similar
circumstances, the Locofoco leaders of Clear
field have followed our example.
John L. Cuttle, Esq., was born in England
He came to this country when quite young, and
for many years has resided in this town, where
he haseverborne the character of a good citi
zen and an honest man. He is a practical sur
veyor, and a lawyer, and is about forty-five
years of age. No man for a moment questions
his experience and ability. He has for years
voted the Democratic ticket, and been a hard
working member of the party. This fall he
asked at the hands of his party the nomination
for District Attorney. The other candidates
were both young in years, young in experi
ence, and young at the bar. Neither of them
have ever performed one half the service to
their party, or worked so vigilantly for its suc
cess as Mr. Cuttle. Yet, notwithstanding all
this, he is cast aside, receiving only seceu votes
in this borough, because he is an Englishman f
With all their avowed love for foreigners, his
party have embraced the first opportunity to
stab him in the dark, and then toad I insult to
injury, the leaders tell him, that "if they had
the appointing power, they would give him the
office, but it wouldn't do to run him as a candi
date!" Verily, 'consistency, thou art a jewel !'
That we are not mistaken when we assert
that Mr. Cuttle was tl r jwn over-board "be
cause he happened to be born on the wrong
side of the Athntic," can be easily proven.
An old and venerable Democrat, asserted on
the street, in presence cf a crowd of ptrsons,
that he didn't vote for him on that account,
adding, "d'ye think I'd vote for an English
man? Why they burned our Congressional
Library, impressed our seamen, and incited
the Indians to war, on our frontiers. Vot
for one of them ! No, no, no!"
We want to hear no more, then, from the
Locofoco party about "proscription." They
ought to be the last men to talk about it. If it
is wrong for us to refuse to vote for foreign
ers, as such, how' much worse is it for those to
do so, who profess to be their peculiarfriends ?
We do not solicit their co-operation, we do not
ask their votes. But the Locofoco party begs
their assistance, and after enjoying it for years,
embrace the first opportunity of throwing
them over the fence.
The Locofoco Fizzle. Pursuant to their
widely circulated call, the Locofocos held a
meeting last night in the Court House. We
were not present, but are informed that there
were actually seventeen men present w ho did not
belong to the K. N's ! We understand that
Judge Barrett made his accustomed stereo
typed speech, detailing, as usual, his long and
laborious services to tho party,' and giving the
history of hi3 exploits on the stump since
Clearfield was first a county. He appeared to
be laboring under the impression that they
were a 'licked community.' He thought they
had 'fallen upon strange times,' and seemed to
think they were lost in a bog, and couldn't
find the way out. Tho Judge is about the on
ly politician in their party,' and his speech last
night showed clearly that he knew they were
defeated.
The Judge was followed by Mr. L. J. Crans,
who told his Democratic brethren tLat he had
came very near falling into the quag-mire of
Know Notbingism, but fortunately ho was yet
"alivo to tell the tale" that he still belonged
to the great Locofoco party. How was it
Lewis : were you black-balled ?
A long series of resolutions were passed,
which, we suppose, will be published in tho
"orgm." VVo are told they are exceedingly
"rich, rare, and racy."
The meeting was brought to a close by a
miserable attempt at a speech from some poor
creature, whom our reportec didn't know. He
said he was a Doctor, and we suppose he was
employed to try and galvenize into life the
dead carcass of the Locofoco party. From the
quantity of filth he discharged, he must have
taken a dose of his own pills before he com
menced, and we hope he is convalescent now,
since the load is off his stomach. We are told
he challenged tho 'Grand Instructor' to a pub
lic discussion, but as he is entirely too small
game for our fusee, we will hand him over to
the tender mercies of one of our 'Deputies,'
and have no doubt that in Tom Shea, who is
ready to meet him, on or ofi the stump, he will
find a foeman worthy of his steel. Give him
"fiti," Tom,-rjou can do it.
To the People of Pennsylvania.
The undersigned, a Committee appointed at
Reading, to invite the co-operation of other
States to carry into effect the views of the
American Party of Pennsylvania, beg leave to
refer to the following Address of the President
of the Order in the State, which is adopted by
the Committee in lieu of one contemplated by
it, and recommend to your consideration,
as a clear, forcible and out-spoken expression
of the principles and aims of the Party :
ADDRESS.
Hrethren : The time for action is at hand,
and the state of affairs demands that I should
address you and urge yon to active prepara
tion for the coming election. -
Tie result of our last State election, and our
subsequent growth, give every reason for hope
of triumph. But the results of the session of
our last National Council are well calculated
to awaken anxiety. It remains to be seen how
far our repudiation of the pro-slavery article
adopted by the National Council will enable
us to maintain our ground and position in the
State. The dissenting members. lam inform
ed, are organizing a State Council, and will
robably attempt to contot our right to rep
resentation in the National Council. In case
of their success, it will depend solely o-i our
selves how we enter the arena for tho Presi
dential canvass. The tims may come, indeed
the time has come, for Pennsyh l i! to assort
her rights, and demand concessions ra'hor
than make them. We can never submit to be
bought or cajoled into a false position or false
measures. We must defend the principles we
have endorsed, and defend them to the last.
The American party was established for
certain clear and well defined purposes. It
had the pure and lofty aim to bring back the
government of the State and of the country
to the purity of former days; to recall, if pos
sible, the national spirit that animated the
fathers and founders of the Republic in the
administration of public alfairs. In order to
do this, it was necessary that the foreign in
fluence which, more pcrhapse than all other
causes, had contributed to the corruption of
our politics, should be put down: and that pol
iticians should be taught that the American
people must be governed on American princi
ples. Before our glorious party stepped forth
in its might and majesty, the interests, the
virtue and the integrity of tho American mas
ses had everywhere been played with, abused,
or set aside,by corrupt conibinationsbetween
ambitious demagogues ond the one hand and
a political church, backed by hosts of ignorant
foreigners, on the other. The evil of this state
of things had been seen and lamented for
many years; but the old parties, each of which
had disgraced itself by these corrupt bargains,
were powerless to correct them. Butthe heart
of the people was sound; and it answered to
the first trumpet call of the Americrn. party
from one end of the land to the ottrer. That
call was "Let us unite to put down corrup
tion in our politics and to secure America for
Americans. Let us manage our local and
State politics as the interests of the locality
and the State may require; but let us aim, in
our National movement, first of all, to put
down, once and forever, the Papal and foreign
power which has heretofore cursed and de
based the politics and admia stration of the
country." To the call thus honestly made,
the people honestly answered; State after
State wheeled into line, and there was every
reason to expect that the glorious example
set by Pennsylvania would be followed by
most,' if not by all, the States of the Ameri
can Union.
How has this fair prospect been blasted, or
at least, clouded for a time? The answer is
easy. In the call which first roused the people,
it was understood th;rf each Slate was to con
duct its local politics and to have its own views
as a Slate, without interfering with those of
other States. Pennsylvania, for instance,
was opposed to the extension of slavery, was
opposed to the Nebraska bill, was opposed to
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The
American party recognized this reeling, which
springs from no temporary or fanatical im
pulse, but is as old as Pennsylvania herself,
where the spirii of Penn, of Franklin, and of
Rush has ever animated the whole population.
And on this issue the American party went
into the last election and triumphed.
And on this issue it will triumph again here,
as it would have triumphed, in every Northern
State. In New York, an attempt was made to
ignore the popular will on this great question,
and the result was, that the American banner
there trails in dishonored dust. This lesson
should have been enough. But the National
Council, at its June meeting, shut its eyes to lution, to wit :
the daylight. At that Council, by the votes Resolved, That a Committee of Thirteen ho
of States in which no American triumph had appointed to invite the co-operation of all the
ever been gained, and by a vote, too, repre-
senting onlva small minority of the voters of
the United States, the old trumpet call was
silenced, and a new element was incorpora
ted into our creed. Had that Council left the
question ot slavery with the Slates, it should
have doue; had it thrown out the banner with
the simple and well-defined issues originally
proposed, there is every reason to believe that
our party would have triumphed in the fall
elections, from Maine to California. But the
12th Article of tho Platform adopted at Phila
delphia put an end to all such hopes.. It com
mitted the American party of the free States
to a course of policy which would not have
left it a corporal's guard in any of them. It is,
in fact, a virtual endorsement of the Nebras
ka bill; a pledge that our party will acquiesce
in that bill, and in the violation of the Mis
souri Compromise. It stultifies and degrades
us before the people; and, more than this, it
pledges us to do what we know to bo wrong,
and to omit doing what we know to be right.
Were we to obey the command, we should fail
before the people, we should gain no more
elections nor should we deserve togain them.
Tho Pierce administration has been con
stantly adding fuel to tho flame on this sub
ject. It has seen Kansas outraged and over-
run by armed ruffians, who took possession of
the polls and retumod a sh im Lviiislature-
but the government had no word of condem- j
uauon io uucr. n nas s"in moo. aw irium- ;
hant ihe rifle and bowie-knife substituted
tor the dopular vote but still it made no sign
But wiien the Governor of Kansas, un honor- j
cd citizen of Pennsylvania, appointed bv
Pierce himself, attempts to vindicate thu
right of the people to choos-j their own Legis
lature, and to curb, only in the least degree,
the ma.l passions of the Missouri Colonists,
who were overrunning the territory and tramp
ling upon the rights of its actual settlers the
Pierce government wakes up suddenly to ac
tivity, and Governor Reeder is removed !
By this act of cowardly submission to the
slave powea, President Pierce has broken the
last link that bound the so-called Democracy
of Pennsylvania to him. The great deep of
Pennsylvania's sluggishness is at last broken
up. Voices of indignation reach us fjura ev
ery county in the State, and from every class
of men except the post masters and govern
ment officials, who keep their principles in
their pockets: and every where the cry is
"Repeal the Kansas bill restore the Missouri
Compromise admit no more Slave States! "
Would not the American party of Pennsyl
vania be mad to set itself against this torrent 1
Would it not be worse than mad to act itself
against its own convictions of right, and truth,
and duty? Thank God, no such disgrace is
before ! Our State Council at Readisg,
true to the interest of the State, true to the
instincts of freedom and of justice, trampled
this 12th section into the dust where it be
longs. Our party is, as it was last year, op
posed to the temporal dominion of the Pope,
opposed to the corruption and debasement of
the old political parties, and opposed to the
Nebraska bill, and the extension of Slavery
This is the issue tho greatest end the most
pressing issue now before the people. Let
us lead them In every county, in every town
ship, in every precinct, under this, glorious
flag of truth, and justice, and humanity, and
we shall see the flag In October, as we saw it
last year, when the battle is over, floating over
a triumphant and victorious host; and our
principles, and our party, will be established
as the Party and the Principles of the people
of Pennsylvania.
R. A Lamberton, Harrisburg-
Lemuel Todd, Carlisle.
R. M. Riddle, Pittsburg.
W. F JonssoN, "
J. L. Gossler, Philadelphia.
T. F. Williams, "
J. Bowman Bell, Reading. .
D. E. Small, York.
W. W. Wise, Brookvilie,
E. Blanchard, Bellfontth
Edward Scull, Somerset.
E. G- Fahxestock, Gettysburg.
Jno. A. Hieftand, Lancaster.
CIBCILAK.
The following are the proceedings adopted
at the Reading Convention:
At a regular quarterly Session of the State
Council of the American Party of Pennsylva
nia, held at Reading, on the :d day of July,
A. D. 1855, the following article of the Plat
form adopted by ti e National Council at its
late Session in Philadelphia, to wit:
XII. The American Party, having arisen
upon thi ruins, and in spite of the opposition
of the whig and democratic parties cannot be
held in any way responsible for the obnoxious
acts or violated pledges of either. And. i .:e
systematic agitation of the slavery question
by those parties having elevated sectional
hostility into a positive clement of political
power and brought our institutions into peril,
it has therefore become the imperative duty of
the American Party to interfere for the pur
pose of giving peace to the country and perpe
tuity t the Union. And, as experience has -shown
it impossible to reconcile opinions so
extreme as separate the disputants, . and as
there can lie no dishonor in submitting to the
laws, the National council has deemed it the
best guarantee of common justico and of fu
ture peace, to abide by and maintain the ex
isting laws upon tho subject ot Slavery as a fU
nal und conclusive settlement of that subject,,
iu spirit and in substance. And regarding it",
the higest duty to avow their opinions upon a--subject
so important, in distinct and unequivo
cal terms, it is Hereby aeciarea as me sense oi .
this National council, that Congres possesses -no
power, under the Coustitution to legislate
upon the subject of slavery in the-states where
it does or may exist, or to exclude any StaU.
from admission into the Union, because, its
institution of Slavery as a part of its social
system ; and expressly preterwitricg nny ex
pression of opinion upon the power of Con
gress to establish, or prohibit Slavery in any;
Territory, it is tho sense of the National Coun
cil that Congress ought not to legislate npoin
the subject of Slavery within the Territories--,
of the Unites States, and that any interleronce
bv Congress with Slavery as it exists in ihe
District of Columbia, would oca violation ol.
the spirit and. intention of the compact by
whieh the State of Maryland ceded the Dis
trict to the United States, nd a breach of the
National faith
Was repudiaied, and the following adopted
as a subtitute, to wit :
XII. That the question of .Slavery shoull
not be introduced into the pUtform of the A
merican party ; beiug convinced that no such
issue was intended to be embraced within it
principles and objects. That we In-lieve in,
and shall ever defend, the right of freedom of
opinion and discussion on that and every oth
er subject not intended to be embraced with
in the designs of our organization.
But inasmuch as the subject has been forced
upon us, we regard the repeal of the Missou
ri Compromise as an infraction of the plighted
faith of tho nation, and that it should be res
tored, and if efforts to that end should fail.
CoPijrcss should refuse to admit into the U
nion any State tolerating Slavery, which shall
be formed ofit- of any portion of the territory
from which tht institution was excluded by
tlut compromise.
The Council also passed the following reso-
j btatt Councils in the t onlcaeracy, wno may
be willing to concur in the principles and plat
form this dav adouted bv the State of Penn
sylvania, as and for her National Creed; and
that -a Convention Le held at Cincinnati' on
the 21st dav of November next, to concert
' measures to secure the nomination in the Con-
rention, called by ihe National Council, of can
I didates for President and Vice President, who
i are willing to stand upon the platform this day
established, and transact such other matters
as may be Ueemea necessary to secure iub
success of the Americau party in the Uuiou.
The representation of each State in said Con
vention to be equal to the number of members
such State is entitled to in the National Con
gress. And appointed the undersigned the said
committee.
We therefore most cordially invite yon and
your Council to co-operate with Pennsylvania
, ' Tu-ocosed clan, and
trust that a representation wm im
l .u- . ? . ::f - vnf i
sent from
your State dulv authorized to participate in
the deliberations and actions of that Conven
tion. (Signed by the Committee.)
Military Encampment. Agreeable to no-,
tice the officers of the lfth Brig. 14th Diia-.
ion P. M., met at Spruce Creek, on Tuesday-
Augt. 7th 185;), to fix the time ana place lor
Division Encampment the other officers of
lite oilier rripanes, mrrawsui iireuumiiiiuot,
failimr to attend the meeting was organized
i by calling Maj. Gen. Jons C. Watson, to tlm
chair, and appointed Capt. Geo. Dare, Secre
tary. The President staten the ovject of tha
meeting and after some consultation among
the committee as to the time and place for tho
encampment a voto waa taken and it was dei
cided to hold it, commencing on Tuesday Oc
tober 16th, at Huntingdon, and to continue
for three days. J. C. WATSON, Pres.
George Dare, Sect.
Ex-Pre9idext Fillmore. Mr. Fillmore ia
hiving the most brilliant success in EnglisK
society. His fine personal appearance and
graceful and dignified manners contribute
quite as much to this as his iolitical distinc
tion. Qeen Victoria is alledged to have,
said that he is the politest American she ever
saw. All manner of Duks and EarU are in
viting him t their country seats. He is ac-.
companied, as private secretary, by Henry E.
Davies, Esq., formerly counsel to the corpo
ration of New York. - .
Eingiiamton, N. Y-, Aug. 28.-..The Ameri
can State Convention is here in session. Sev
eral hundred Delegates are present, pountea
are all represented, Good feeling have pre
vailed. The legalization is goiofc on.