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S. B. ROW, Editor asd Proprietor.
CLEARFIELD, PA., SEPT. 17, 1850.
People's National Ticket.
FOR PRBSIDS.NT,
JOHN C. F It E M OST,
op califorsia.
foh vice president,
Vf ILLIA M L. D A Y T O .V ,
OF" SEW JERSEY.
Union State Ticket.
CANAL COVVISSIOSEIt.
THOMAS E. COCUKAX, of York Co.
- AUDITOR GEXEftAL,
DARWIN I'll E LPS, of Armstrong Co.
fl RVETOR GEXERAI.,
BARTHOLOMEW LAP'JKTE, of Bradford Co.
Union District Ticket-
FOIt CONGKES9,
JAMES S. MYERS, cf Venango County.
Assembly,
JOUX BROOKS, of Elk County.
Union County Ticket.
I'rothonotarv,
T1I0MAS ROSS, cf Tike Township.
Associate Judges,
BEXJAMIX SPACKMAX. of Clearfield bor.
ARTHUR BELL, of Bell Township.
Register and Recorder.
-J01IX ADAMS, of Bogs Township.
Commissioner.
"WILLIAM W. CAT1ICART, of Pike tp.
Survevor.
TETER LAMM, of Uirard Township.
Auditor,
"WILLIAM HOOVER, of Bradford Township.
COL. FBEHONT'S BEEF SUPPLIES.
The Democratic papers are vaporing consid
erably in relation to ctrtaia contracts made by
George W. Barbour, United States Indian
Commissioner, with Col. Frexoxt, with regard
to supplies of beef, which the New York Eve
ning Post explains to the satisfaction of the
most prejudiced caviller. These supplies were
to conquer the Indians with in California, food
being found by the Commissioners both cheap
er aud better ammunition for fighting red men
than powder and ball. Fremont's proposals
were lower than any others received and were
accepted. He could afford to offer better terms
than any of his competitors, because he had
greater powers of endurance than most men ;
lie had more experience in fighting or manag
ing Indians, through whose territory, for a dis
tance of some three hundred miles, the ani
mals had to be driven, aud be was withal much
more ready to expose his life to the perils of
tuch an enterprise than any one else in that re
gion, lie fulfilled the contract agreeably to
its stipulations, and went to Washington for
Lis money. The auditing department said Mr.
Commissioner Barbour had no right to make
contracts, ia the name of the Government, to
Iced the Indians, lie oalv had power to make
war or peace with them. Col. Fremont went
to Congress, and allied them to order his bills
to be paid. The sul jeet vss referred to aCom
mittee of the 33d Congress, in 19-31, composed
oi the following gentlemen : J.zmci L. Orr, of
South Carolina, Chairman; Benjamin C. Eait
man, of Wisconsin, Galusha ?, Grove, of Penn
sylvania, Edward Ball, of Ohio, .iuzmtus E.
Maxwell, of Florida, Daniel B. Wright, of M h
cissippi, 1 If red B. Greenwood, cf Arkansas,
Be.njamin Prir.gle and 31i!lon S. Latham, cf
California. All of these gentlemen were De
mocrats, except Ball, now a Fillmore mankind
Pringle, now a Fremont man ; they were Whigs.
All arc now Buchanan Representatives, except
the two mentioned, and Grow and Eastman the
latter now dead. . Latham is the present Col
lector of San Francisco.
On the 14th day of July, this committee
made their report, in which they state that the
contract was conceived in a wise and humane
spirit; that the prices were reasonable; that
its terms were fairly and fully complied with.
'Colonel Fremont," they say, "purchased a
largo number of beef cattle in the southern
part of the State, and hired drivers, at a heavy
cost, to drive them to the designated place.
Tfce cattle were driven upwards of three hun
dred miles, ia the heat of summer, in the dry
season, at great labor and exposure, and some
four hundred were lost or died on the route.
JIo delivered to agent Barbour, and took his
receipt therefor, one million two hundred and
twenty-five thousand five hundred pounds of
beef on tbo hoof, (1,225,500 lbs.,) and accept
ed in payment drafts drawn by agent Barbour
on the Secretary of tha Interior, amounting to
ono hundred and eighty-three thousand eight
hundred and twenty -five dollars ($183,825.)
These drafts were protested on presentation,
,no appropriation having been made by Con
gress from which they could be paid. Subse
quently, the treaties were rejected by the Sen
ute, for reasons which have not yet been made
public, and the Indians of California have been
driven from their lands and homes, and have
received no compensation from the Govern
ment, save the beef furnished them by Colonel
.Fremont, and which he now asks the Govern
ment to pay birn for. The beef went into the
bands of the agents of the Government; whe
ther it was all faithfully distributed among the
Indians by the sub-agents, is not a question
that is to affect the justice and equity of the
claim of Colonel Fremont. lie furnished the
'agents of tho Government with a largo quan
tity of beef. Most, if not all of it, was used
in feeding the Indians; it was furnished to
comply with treaty stipulations ; it stopped the
war, and restored peace to the country. And
jrill tho Government now shield itself from
the payment or this claim, and devolve a ru
inous loss upon one of its own citizens, upon
the technical pretext that the agent had no
specific authority to make the contract f We
have received the advantages and benefits of
the contract, and your committee believe that
it is just that we should pay for it."
Both the Senators and both the Representa
tives from California, Mcssrs.il 'eller and Guin,
and Messrs. McDougal and Lathnm, united in
saying that Fremont earned his money, while
all the members of Congress from Kentucky,
including Mr. Breckinridge, the Buchanan can
didate for Vice President, united ia testifying
to the unexceptionable character of Mr. Com
missioner Barbour. The committee reported
unanimously a bill for the payment of the Co
lonel's account, and it passed the House unan
imousiy,thongh presented on "Objection da)',"
as it is termed, when a single objection would
have been fatal.
THE GREAT ISSUE.
The great issue, well remarks the Philadel
phia Sun, which now divides the country is
simply this, the extension or non-extension of
slavery. The Buchanan party embody all who
believe that slavery should be allowed, with
out hindrance, to spread over every portion of
our land, aad that it shtfuld even receive the
encouragement and fostering care of govern
ment. Their opponents, on the other hand,
believe that the great interests of our Repub
lic demand its limitation and discouragement.
Not that they wish to interfere with the rights
of our sister States, nor to attempt any control
over local laws ; but they feel that it would be
treason to humanity and destructive to the
prosperit) Jof our nation, to permit the boun
daries of slavery to extend beyond its present
limits. They see that wherever slavery goes,
there industry is paralyzed, population retard
ed, and the soil impoverished. They observe
the difference between a slave State and a free
State, in everything that appertains to true
physical and moral greatness. They wish,
therefore, to save the virgin soil of our far
sprcadiug territories from the incubus of slave
ry. And where is there a northern man, not
himself a slave to party, whose soul does not
approve cf this purpose ; who does not feel
that he would be actiug the part of a patriot in
abandoning every pasty to which he may have
been attached, to rally under the banner of
Freedom 1 There are, doubtless, many other
questions of vital interest which descrvo- the
attention of the country, but this is the great
question. Other questions may be settled at
same future time, this must be met an i settled
now or never. If we prove faithless at this
crisis, and suffer the aggressions of slavery to
go on without rebuke and without check, then
we, who have been chastened with whips, may
argue from progressive evil, that our children
shall be chastened with scorpions.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT !
We see going the rounds an extract frctn a
speech of lion. George Bates, delivered re
cently at Detroit, Michigan, in which he states
that, late in September, 185-3, gentlemen of
influence and character in the Democratic par
ty, of the Sonfh and the North, called on Col.
Fremont and asked the privilege of present
ing his name to the Cincinnati Convention as
a candidate for the Democratic nomination
saying that the party wanted a new man, one
of integrity and well-won distinction outside
of politics ; but Col. Fremont, anticipating
correctly the character of the platform and
nomination which that Convention would be
compelled to make, refused to entertain the
proportion. Now, what do you think of that,
ye honest-lhinking men of Pennsylvania ? If
Col. Fremont had been base enough to do vi
olence to his own feelings, and to subscribe to
the pro-slavery doctrines of Pierce, Douglass
& Co. and the Cincinnati Convention, his
name would have been presented to that body.
But, like aa honest, noble, consistent and un
flinching patriot, he rejected the offer of these
workers of political iniquity. What now be
comes of all tho slang of the Locofoco pres
ses and speakers about Fremont being a new
man 1 If he had agreed to bo their candidate,
they would have proclaimed that as an advan
tage, that he was "one of the People ;" but
as he happens to be the candidate of another
pavty, they now raise it as an objection ! What
consistent fellows these Locofoco editors and
orators are !
OTJS CANDIDATE F02 ASSEH3LY.
It will be perceived that wo to-day put up
the name of John Brooks, of Elk county, as
our candidate for Assembly. Mr. Chase, whose
name was put forward by Clearfield county,
finding that his private business was of such a
nature as to ren ler it impossible for him to at
tend to the duties of the office, declined being
the candidate. Mr. Brooks was put in nomi
nation by McKean county, and was unani
mously agreed upon as the candidate by the
conferees from the other counties without any
formal meeting. Wo therefore put up his
name. Tie is a man whom we cau recommend
as one who would bo true to the interests and
the rights of his constituents.
The Clarion Banner has the following in re
lation to our candidate for Congress :
Jas. S. Myers, Esq., for Congress is an ex
cellent selection, and though we had our pri
vate preference for another, we have no hesi
tation in joining heartily and cordially in sup
port of the Union nominee. Mr. Myers stands
at the head of tho Venango bar, and is well
and favorably known to most of our citizens,
lie will run a tremendous vote and be elected
by a handsome majority. During tho canvass
he will be heard throughout tho district aud
no man can make a better impression as a
speaker.
Great Distress in want of food is said to
prevail at many of the outposts of Ncwfound
land. Large numbers of the people were in
actual starvation. Extensive provisions were
made by tho legislature daring its session for
the destitute class, but it is said the outposts
hsr not received a fair shars of provision.
L0C0FGC0 MEETING AT CUBWENSVILLE.
The Democracy of Clearfield arc using the
most iuordinatc efforts to carry the county.
They are evidently scared, and are leaving no
stone unturned that will tend to their success.
They fear that "power will depart from the
house of Judah," and are therefore at work
might and main. "The two Biglers are here,"
doing their utmost to induce their followers to
stick to their party integrity. Meetings have
been held at a number of places, at which the
most urgent appeals were made by them. All
this hard labor shows plainly that the Democ
racy consider themselves in imminent danger
of being defeated.
On last Saturday evening they held a nicet-
incr at Curwensville. Every effort had been
made to get up a large crowd. By drumming
up the forces in all quarters, for some days
previous, they succeeded iu getting up a re
spectab'y-sized attendance, lhere was an a
bundance of "fuss" displayed on the occasion,
if there were no '-feathers." "The two Big
lers," Judge Gillis, Billy Corbet, of Clarion,
and other "distincuished sneakers" were in
attendance. After the meeting had been or
eauized. Mr. Corbet, who wo were told is a
new convert to the Disunion Slavery -Exten
sion party, opened the performances. In con
sideration of his present political standing, he
had evidently been induced by his new friends
to persuade himself that Le was a great man,
and accordingly he "spread" himself in his
speech. This some of the. Faithful couldn't
stand, and so choked him oil by shouting "Big
ler, Bigler," which cry was raised by the Dem
ocrats themselves just in time to save him from
being asked to stop, by one of his particular
friends. Poor fellow ! he has doubtless fully
realized that "new converts, like bumble-bees,
are largest when just born," and will be forced
to think that the Democracy of Clearfield can't
appreciate his invaluable services, aud that
they, like republics, are ungrateful.
After him came Ex-Gov. John Bigler, of
'South Curoliuia, Georgi-t,'" California, or
somewhere else,which can be ascertained from
our down-town "neighbor," for he knows.
John "played on a harp of a thousand strings,"
and sang the same old "'song o' sixpence,"
which he had delivered in the Court House on
the Monday previous, with a few slight varia
tions and omissions. We are not cognizant
that anybody was astonished enough to endan
ger their health, tho' when he "arose in his
m ijesty," there was some anxiety manifested
to see him, and as he proceeded,
' Still they gazed, and still the wonder grew.
That one tumll head contained all he knew!''
After he had finished, "our own Bigler" was
called for, but, finding he was passing over
the same well-beaten track he has run on "from
time whereof the memory of man runneth not
to tho contrary," and Uiat midnight was com
ing on so rapidly that if we remained we would
be compelled to encroach on the Sabbath to
come home, we left before he had concluded.
We understand that Judge Gillis, the candi
date of the Democracy for Congress, was next
called out, but we heard of nothing "wonder
ful" l:e said, in particular. Take it all in all,
it was a great affair "magnificently grand,
and superbly elegant."
'Then let ns sin;r. Ions live the king.
And Cot: bet, long live he;
And when next they ride abroad,
May all bo there to we'.''
WEIGHED IN HIS OWN BALANCE.
The editor of the Clearfield Republican, in
his last paper, say3 :
"In genteel society, to call a man a liar, is
" to act the part of a blackguard lie
is not only writing himself down a black
" guard, but also a liar and a fool icto the
" bargain."
Here is a test established by tho editor of
the Republican, by which he wishes to judge
the respectability of his fellow men. Wo trust
he will not object to having himself tested by
his own tulc.
In the Republican of the 23d July, tho edi
tor of that paper, in speaking cf our corres
pondent C. J., uses the following language :
"Without exception ho is tho most bare-
faced falsifier wo ever knew."
"If he can't do this he must consent to be
" branded as a liar of the first magnitude."
"After filling a halt' column or so with one
" lie after another," &c.
"Why is such a monstrous lit so boldly pro
" claimed."
"For no less a dinner could, while clad in
" the livery of heaven, lie and slander as he
" does."
These are tho expressions of the editor of
the Republican. Here, then, we find him call
ing a gentleman "a liar," expressly or in ef
fect, no less than five times in one article, aud
wo are not sure that we have given the whole
number. According to his own rule, as quo
ted in the beirinninp: of this article, namely.
by calling a man "a liar," ho makes himself
out "a blackguard," if not "a fool." We are
sorry for this self-condemnation, on the part
of the editor of tho Republican, for wo wish it
to be distinctly understood that tec do not call
him by these rude names or say these haish
things of him not at all. We disclaim all
intention of it. But if he will, by his own
words, make himself appear "a blackguard"
r "a fool," we shall, out of mere courtesy,
raise no objection. All we have dono was to
weigh him in his own balance, and if ho has
been "found wanting, "he can only blame him
self. What we do say is, that it appears about
as consistent for the editor of the Republican
to preach against people calling each other
harsh names, as it would bo for Satan to re
buke Sin !
The Indiana (Pa.) Register, says : "There
are in Pennsylvania one or two newspapers,
professedly American, but really in the inter
est of the Slave Power, who, whilst they affect
to advocate the election of Fillmore, arc la
boring to divide tho Opposition and secure
the electoral vote of this State to Buchanan.
They will not hear of any union against Bu
chanan, but denounce, slander and abuse the
Fremont men without stint and in effect are
makinir common cause with the Slavoocracv.
j Out upon such vile duplicity and hypocracy."
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THE PIERCE ASD BUCHANAN DEKOCBACY
Mr. Editor : I now proceed to notice the
fourth and fifth charges against the Piesident
Franklin Pierce. They charge him tcith neg
lect of official duty in not aiding the lawtul cit
izens of Kansas, in the protection of their
persons and property, against the attacks of
lawless moDs lrom a neignoonng state, anu
with cruelty in aiding and abetting, by bis re
cent message? to Congress, and otherwise the
riots, robberies and murders, committed by the
border ruffians of Missouri, agaiust the citi
zens of Kansas. . ... . .
The American people arc now just beginning
to sec the Despotism, under which they are
languishing, that no tyranny since the Jays of
Dionysius the elder, has ever fallen to the lot
of a nation like that under which we are now
laboring in the. Pierce dynasty. His repeat of
the Missouri compromise, was the opening of
Pandoras' box, upon all the sacred rights or
our already injured country, and is the fore
runner of iinarc!iy and desolation, unless ar
rested by the votes of a free and independent
people. When the bill for the abrogation of
that long cherished and sacred contract, the
Missouri compromise, was brought forward in
the Senate of the United States, by Douglas
& Co., they were told by wise aud experienced
statesmen "that its repeal would bring agita
tion, confusion, civil war, and would finally
dissolve the Union ; but they treated with con
tempt the views and arguments of the friends
of equal rights, aud at last sueeeuded i:i tear
ing away the venerable barriers that had so
long held within the territory of its crushed
and wailing millions, the demon of slavery,
that like the greedy vampira beneath the fan
ning of whose gloomy wing, it hushed thcNoith
to slumber, while it sucked the vital blood.
And scarcely had tho news of the repeal of
the Compromise, and tho passage of the or
ganic law of Kansas, officially reached Missou
ri, before her leading men crossed over into
Kansas, and held meetings and passed resolu
tions, that slavery now existed in the Territo
ry, and that persons opposed to slavery should
not be allowed to settle therein, yet notwith
standing these unconstitutional, and threaten
ing resolutions, thousands of our bebt citizens
resolved to make their homes in the lertile
nlains of Kansas. But when the time came to
elect a Delegate to Congress, cm the 29th day
of November, 1S-31, which was the first elec
tion in the Territory, the Missouri nis came by
hundreds into Kansas, and encamping in corn
pan vs near the election houses of almost eve-
ry precinct me evening uciure, anu uciug pro
vided with arms and whiskey, they were well
prepared to carry out the will of the President,
at the next days election, which resulted in
tho triumphant election of the Administration
candidate, Gen. Whitfield, who received out
Lof 271 votes polled, a majority of 1003 votes
over all others, over 1C00 of winch were 1 lie
ml votes from Missouri. The next election
was held on the 39th of March, 1S53, to elect
members for the legislative assembly of the
Territory. And on the day before the elec
tion the Missouriaiis armed with cannon, guns,
pistols and bowie knives, came into the Terri
tory by hundreds and thousands, bringing
numbers cf their own candidates, as well as
own voters, along with them, and camped near
the election houses as before. I heir procee-
dinss through the nisht were terrific in the
extreme. In the morning they threatened ev
ery citizen , with death, who would vote the
tree state ticket, and alter forcing the Judges
appointed by the Governor to their own terms,
or tnmins them out and appointing others in
their places from their own ranks, these Pres
idential mobs proceeded to open the elections.
forbidding at many of the precincts the citi
zens voting, unless the would vote the pro
slavery ticket, while at the other precincts the
citizens were beaten and driven from the polls,
so that out of C320 votes cast at that election.,
4008 were illegal, giving tho Pierce, Douglas
and Buchauan party a clear majority of 5127
votes at the election.
Thus the people of Kansas have had imposed
on them, by and through Franklin Pierce, the
President of the United States, a foreign Le
gislature, that has reduced them to the condi
tion of vassals, to a neighboring State ; aud
because Gov. Iieeder would not acknowledge
them a lawful Legislature, Pierce urged him
to resign, and finally Cored him a mission to
China if he would fiive up the Governorship ol
Kansas : but on refusing this bribe from the
President, he turned Gov. Keeuer out of of
fice, and appointed one that would, and did
acknowledge- this bogus Legislature a lawful
body, so that without the consent of the gov
erned, the President, by his recent messages
and the U. S. troojis, palmed upon the free
people of Kansas, a Legislature not of their
own choosing, the enactments of which are a
disgrace to the nineteenth century. No code
this sido of Draco's, lias ever been so bloody
and unjust. The following is a synopsis of
some of tho sections of its statute for the ter
ritory of free Kansis :
1st. That any person or persons raising in
surrection among the slaves of the Territory,
shall sutler death.
2d. Persons aiding in a slave insurrection,
shall be put to death.
3d. Persons by speaking, writing, printing,
or otherwise advising slaves to rebellion, shall
sailer death.
1th. Persons enticing or decoying slaves out
of the Territory, shall suffer teu years' impris
onment or be put to desth.
oth. Persons aiding or assisting in enticing
or decoying slaves out of the Territory, shall
be punished with teu years' imprisonment, or
sutler death. '
Cth. Any person bringing the slave of an
other into the Territory, with intent to tree
him, shall be deemed guilty ot grand larceny,
and shall sutler ten years' imprisonment, or be
put to death.
12th. Any person speaking, writing, print
ing or asserting that men have not the riht to
hold slaves in this Territory, shall sutler im
prisonment at hard labor for two years.
13th. And no person who does not admit
the right to hold slaves in this Territory, shall
be allowed tho right of a juror, on any trial
for the violation of this act.
fTho entire law will be found on tho first
page of this paper. Ed. Jour.
And notwithstanding tho Constitution de
clares that the freedom of Speixii, and the
right of the Press, shall never be abridged,
yet the free people of Kansas, for speaking
and publishing their opinions against the burn
ing wrongs of slavery extension, have now
their best citizens imprisoned, and all their
free presses destroyed, by the Picrco and Bu
chanan party now in pow er, so that there is no
tongue now in Kansas to publicly expicss, nor
printing" press left to declare the history of
their wrongs. And scarcely had the laws of
this modern Thlegyai become the statute of
Kansas, until hundreds of armed, iguorant and
drunken ruffians from the Slave States were
sent into the Territory and commenced a se
ries of depredations against the unarmed, in
offensive people of Kansas, that for robbery,
murder and - desolation, has no equal in the
history of civilized community. Northern
emigrants were stopped in the pnblic high
ways, their property and money taken irom
them, and they turned back under threatened
penalties if they returned, and that for no oth
er offence than the free expression of their po
litical opinions. Free State men were seized
and searched, and alter being deprived or their
arms, were insulted, abused and ordered to
leave the Territory, withont remuneration for
their property. Citizens wore robbed of their
For the Rafts Man '.t Journal
horses, for the benefit of . the Pierce Adaiinis- ,
trationmob. Oxen were forcibly taken from
the t1ow. nnd butchered in the fields, in the ;
presence of the owners. Dwellings were bio-
ken open and plundered, aud the. inmates
threatened with death, if they ottered resis
tance. American citizens were seized, tarred
aud cottoned, and sent wounded to their fami
lies. Houses were burned, and wives and
children driven oat. to starve. Free State men
were shot from their horses, and left to mould
er where they fell. A company of Pierce aud
Douglas rufiianSjComposed of armed and drun
ken men .mustered from Missouri and other
slave States by the officers of the Administra
tion, entered the citj' of Lawrence, and with
cannon bombarded and burned to the ground
the best houses In that industrious and inoffen
sive town, and after destroying the printing
presses, typo and material, they proceeded to
sack, pillage and rob houses, t-tores, trunks,
and people men were not only robbed ot their
purses in the streets, but this law and order ar
my even robbed the women aud children of
their clothing and their bread, and after one
of the most mciciless, obscene and inlamous
maraudiiis's on record, these Administration-
hired plunderers left the city and its vicinity
in a state of mourning, starvation and ruiu,
and like a gang of voracious vultures, they re
turned to their gloomy roosts to prepare for
other,and perhaps more sanguinary desolation.
But the people of the Territory, being fully
convinced that they could not live under tho
shameful code of the Pierce, Buchanan &
CoJs territorial law,s without being plundered,
murdered or driven lroin their homes, resolv
ed, iu accordance with the Constitution of the
I . S., to meet and form a Constitution for
themselves, elect their officers, and be admit
ted into the Union as a free ari l independent
State. Having proceeded according to the
requirements of the constitutional law, they
met and formed their State constitution, elec
ted their olliccrs, and proceeded to peaceably
petition Congress for a redress cf their griev
ances. But contrary to every principle of the
Constitution he swore to defend, the President
Frankliu Pierce ordered the army to disperse
at the mouth of the cannon and the point of
the bayonet the assembled representatives of
a free people, in Kansas, thus crushing out the
last hope of an injured, robbed and fettered
people. First their elective franchise was ta
ken from them. Then a foreign law, more
bloody than Draco's code, was made their stat
ute. Their printing presses were then de
stroyed, that the story of their wrongs might
not be heard. Next their country was wasted,
their towns destroyed, their citizens robbed,
aud wives and children turned adrift to starve
and die ; and when, as a last resort, the peo
ple, by their representatives, assembled to
humbly petition Congress for redress. the Pres
ident sent his army and drove them from the
hulls of legislation, thus trampling out beneath
the iron foot of his tyranny, the last spark of
American liberty belonging to the free people
cf Kansas.
But this inhuman and barbarous de.-polism,
has not been coiifini-d to Kansas alone it3
proscriptive and bloody track, is seen ail thro"
the locofoco slave states; citizens have boen
molcd and banished for their political opin
ions, and the very chamber of the American
Senate has been made to run with blood, by
the bullys of the Administration, to put down
the liberty of speech. And yet the leaders of
the Administration outrages, have the effron
tery to ask the free people cf this Republic to
vote for James Buchanan for President, who
has declared himself to be the platform of the
Pierce dynasty, and who is inoro than willing
to finish the bloody work already begun, by
giving Kansas, the very heart and garden of
our counfrv, to the negroes, and therebv shut
ting or.t forever, from the rich and healthy re
gions cf the great south-west, the free labo
rers of the north, and turning back upon the
free States tho tide of emigration, until labor
would not be worth even ten cents per day.
For it is the extension and expansion of free
labor, that gives life and wealth to a nation.
Yet the present policy of the locofoco, or ne
gro parly, is to oppose the extension of free
labor, and to send the blighting sirocco ot ne
gro slave labor over Kansas, and consequently
over all the balance of our south-westein ter
ritories. And as the public words and acts of
James Buchanan, have everyw here demonstra
ted bis hostility to free labor, he of course
should be placed at the head vf the great ne
gro party. At first he was in favor of reduc
ing the value of the free labor of America to
the standard value of vassal l.ilor of Europe.
Next because slave labor could not bo intro
duced into Oregon, he gave away of our terri
tory what would make three free States, to
England, for nothing. Then again, he was
willing to give one hundred and twenty mil
lions of dollars for Cuba, for negro slave labor,
and if he could not get it for one hundred and
twenty millions of the jieople's money, he was
willing to plunder Spain of it by force. And
now he is out as tho Generalissimo of all the
armies of negro slavery extension, ami against
the advancement of white labor over territory
now free. Such an aspirant, I boldly affirm,
is unworthy the vote of a single American
freeman, unless it would be to pUce him on
exhibition in an iron cage, as a living curiosi
ty, embodying the superstitious mummery of
the dark ages ; for w here can there be found
any ot the wisdom of the nineteenth century
about a man, or a party, who will adopt ne
groism as their motto, and negro extension as
the perpetuation ol tho Union. Vet the poli
cy of the leaders of this great negro party, is
now every where manifested they want more
territory for their negroes more space to sep
crate husbands and wives, and scatter their or
phan children more land over which to drive
oud scourge their human brutes more room
for negro amalgamation -more soil on which
to trade in human souls and sinews more
bounds to increase the traffic in the purchase
of a Saviour's blood and more representative
power, to overcome tho laboring masses of the
north, and thereby with a slaveholding aris
tocracy, be able to plant on the ruins of our
noble Republic, a limited monarchy. - Thi is
the reason why President Pierce neglected his
official duty in Kansas, and aided by his mes
sages and mobs the shameful cruelty commit
ted in that Territory, and this is the reason
why the Administration papers, fr m the low
est sheet," up to" the official organ of the gov
ernment, slander and condeiuu every effort to
make known the true state of the country to
the people. But the people will hear, "and
hurl from power, every traitor to our Union,
our Constitution, and our Soil. C. J.
The Editor of the Republican, may slime
bis track with the ribaldry of the fish market,
and call foul names, and threaten mv charac
ter publicly, and my life privately. "But like
the moon. I shall not stop to notice the bark
ing of a puppy, especially one that is not
worth despising, but hand him over to posteri
ty, a snarling suckling, unwortbv even of the
curses of an injured people. " c.J.
Com. Mervixe lias been instructed by the
Secretary of the Navy to have two or more
national vessels at San Francisco and to retain
them there until the insurrectionary move
ment shall cease, the present object being to
protect the public property and officers.
Texas. News from Galveston to the SOth
August state that the drought continued
throughout the State. Drinking water was
failing and cattle were dving.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
GL0KI0US VICTORY!
AXOTI1ER "SIIKIEK FOR FREEDOM."
THE L0C0FCC0S DEFEATED!
'Have you heard the news from Maine, Maine,
Oood news and trno ?"
The election held last week in Maine result
ed in a most signal defeat of the Buchanas
party. The Republicans have elected their
Governor by a majority of about 20,000, every
member cf Congress, the whole nnruber of
State Senators, excepting perhaps one, and
more than four-fifths . of the House. Thers
were three candidates for Governor Hamlin,
Rep., Wells, Dem., and Patten, Whig and
the Democrats felt Eure of carrying the State.
Hamlin, however, beats both the other candi
dates by near 20,000 majority.
Three locd "Shrilks tor Freedom" hav
already been heard, namely, from Iowa, Ver
mont and Maine. In Iowa the Buchanan par
ty is beat atont 7,000, in Vermont 20,000, and
in Maine near 20,000. Tliv&e elections show
that the popular feeling is overwhelmingly ia
favor of Fremont and Freedom, and indicate
the certain triumph cf Free principles. Con
gressmen were elected in the States named,
all of whom are opposed to the Buchanan par
ty, viz : In Iowa, Samuel R. Curtis, Timothy
Davis ; iu Vermont, E. P. Walton, Justin S
Morrill, Homer E. Boycc ; aud in Maine, John
M. Wood, Charles J. Gilman, Nehcniiah Ab
bott, Freeman II. Morse, Israel Washburn, Jr.
Stephen C. Foster. Here are eleven members
scared up on the right side. Besides these,
we have Francis P. Blair, Jr., a Fremonter
from hc slave State of Missouri, to make tha
even dozen. If the next Congress shall fail to.
do justice to Kansas, it w ill not be the fault
of Maine, Vermont and Iowa.
Rowdyism ix Baltimore. The Republicans
attempted to hold a meeting on Thursday ev
ening the 19th Sept. to select a Fremont elec
toral ticket for Mary laud, but was broken up
by a gang of rowdies. The Sun says that
gross personalities were inflicted upon t'ae
most prominent individuals of the meeting,
and characterizes the proceedings as "disrci
utable,and unworthy of a people who profess
to honor the freedom cf speech." It saysr
further, that "the recorded proceedings or tho
party contain nothing obnoxious to the civil
rights ol others, aud however objectionable
may be the political sentiments of these peo
ple to the masses of our citizens, there can I c
no justification for so rude, lawless and unbe
coming a demonstration."
FEEED0M, HOW HATEFUL.
The Santfi Side Democrat, of Virginia, pours
out a torrent of wrath against everything Freo,
after the following styla :
"We have got to hating everything with the
prefix Free, from freo negroes down and up
through the whole catalogue fkee frunis,
raEE labor, free society, ejiee will, fbi.b
thinking, free children and free schools all
belonging to the same brood of damnable Urns.
But the worsted all these abomiu.tions is the
modern system of Fcee Schools. The New
England system of free schools has boeu tho
cause and prolific source of the infidelities nnd
treason tiiat have turned her cities intoSodc:r.s
and Gomorrahs, and her land into the common-nesthng-places
of bow Hug Bedlamites. H
abominate the syxtcm, because the scuools abb
tree."
It would be in keeping with such a man to
abuse free air, free light, free social inter
course, free locomotion, free breathing, and
everything else where freedom is an clement.
Senator Bctler, of South Carolina, says of
free suffrage :
"That men have no right to Vote unless
they are possessed of property, as required by
the Constitution of South Carolina. There no
man can vote unless he owns fen negroes, or
real estate to the talut of ten thousand dollars.
The Muscogee (Ala.) Herald chimes iu in
the following beautiful strain :
'Free society ! We sicken of tho name.
What is it but a conplomcration of greasy me
chanics, filthy operatives, small fisied farmers,
and moon-struok theories i All the northern,
and especially the New England States, are de
void of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen.
The prevailing class one meets with, is that of
mech:iuics struggling to be genteel, and small
farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet
w ho are hardly fit for association with a South
em gentleman's body-servant. This is your
free society which the Northern hordes' arw
endoavwring to extend into Kansas."
Who, after this, w ill not turn to aud flguV
that miserable humbug, Freedom ! Thesj
"greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, and small
fisted farmers," according to Southern Loco-
focoisrn, have no right to be freemen. They
are fit only for slaves.
Died On Monday morning, the 15th inst.K
Miltox Irwix, son of John Irwin, of Law renew
township, aged about 22 years.
mill: LAST NOTICE All persons knowing
X themselves indebted to tho Estate of Ucorga
W. lthcora. dee'd.. either by Xotc or Dock account,
me? I call and settle on or 'before the 27th day of
October. 18 OC, eothat I enn satisfy tho claims a
gainst said etate. I can be found at all times at
my Saddler ?hop. overt". I. Wat.on"s I-'ru Store.
Sert. 17. 108. GEO. W. KI1KKM, Adm'r.
IMPORTANT TO EVEUY-BODY For
the last three Tears. I have been nirarol in m.
business known only to myself, and, comparative
ly few other?, whom I have instructed for the tuta
of 2ilO eaeh. which has averaged roe at the rate
of i3.u00 to ?j.000 per annum; and having made
arrangements to go to Europe next Spring, to en
gage in the same business. I am willing to give
full instructions in the art to any person in tho U
nited States or Canada, who w ill remit mo the sum
of $1.. I am induced, from the success I have bcn,
favored with, aud the many thaukful acknowledg
ments I have received from thiwe whom I have in
structed, and who are milking from 5?j to $1$ per
day at it. to give any person an opportunity to ea
gge in this business, which is easy, pleasant, and
very profitable, at a small cost. Tnero is positive
ly no humbug in tho matter. References of ihn
be.-t class can be given as regards its character, and
I can refer to persons whom I have instructed. who
will testify that they are making from $3 to 515
per day at the same. It is a bosiucsj at which ei
ther ladies or gentlemen can engage, and with per
fect case mnke a very handsome income. Several
ladi's in various parts of New York State, Fonnsvl
vauia, hnd Maryland, whom I have instr'ucteb, aro
now making from $3 to S3 per day at it. It is a
fren-ral bnsuiu. and but a few shillings is requir
ed to start it. Upon receipt of SI, I will iiLnlcdi
atcly send to the applicant a priuted circular con
taining full instructions in the art, which can bo
perfectly understood at once. All letters most be
nddressed toA. T. Parson,, 335 Broadway, N. .
5-cpteuiter 17, 1956-lm.
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