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labor of fifty, oce hundred, fire hundred, or
one thousand men and women, he can afford
to educate his children and to lead a life of
lavish expenditure. But I do mean to say,
that a man in a slave State, who hopes hy his
own labor to support himself and raise his fam
ily, has no chance of seeing any of them taught
to read and write, in any just sense of the ex
pression. I do mean to say that there are no
public schools for such ; I do mean to say there
are no libraries for such ; and I do mean to say
that the life of a laboring man a purely labor
ing man in the slave States is a life of degra
dation, shutting out every hope of advance
ment to himself or bis children, applause and
I mean to say, my fellow-citizens, that because
the free laborers understand tbis,that beautiful
region of country constituting the southern
States, is so sparsely populated, while here at
the JTortb, population is already becoming too
dense. You know the efforts that are requir
ed to be made during the winter in New York,
and Boston, and Philadelphia, to ferret oat the
laboring poor who may chance to be unem
ployed and are suffering.
" Voa know that when there is any derange
Went la the financial affairs of our country, or
la the commercial affairs of tho world, there
comes a glut in the labor market onr laborers
are unemployed, our poor laboring women are
Without work, and then the "times are hard."
As I said before, why do they not emigrate to
the "sunny south ?" It is because times arc
still harder there. What does the laboring
man, or the laboring woman, get for wages in
a slave State ? When I asked the question at
a meeting the other nignt, the response from
one of my hearers was "nix," and it was right.
I answered that it was "swWi kom raus," and
worse than that, because, not only does the
lave give his labor, but he gives his children
as pay for food and clothing. Do you know
that the time was, when a slave babe was worth
but twenty dollars in this country. When I
stated the other night, at a meeting, that a
slave babe was now worth fifty dollars, a gen
tleman from Missouri, who was present aFre
tnont man, loud applause told me that I was
mistaken, that the average value of a healthy
slave babe, at the honr of its birth, is now one
hundred dollars. The poor slave mother is
toiling in the cotton field, toiling in the kitch
en, toiling as the dressing maid to her mis
tress ; and the poor slave father is laboring in
the field, or in the blacksmith shop, or in the
iron works, or in the tobacco factory, or in the
cotton factories of Savannah for slaves work
in them all. When a child is to bo born to
tho woman, it inspires no hope in her heart,
and no aspiration in that of the father.
Can the laborer work in the midst of a sys
tem of this kind J You do expect to rear your
children ; you welcome the 'doctor's bill,' the
first expense they bring you. Tou clothe them;
yon provide for them in advance, and when
yon labor bard to provide them sustenance,
you do it cheerfully, because in them your
hope lives, and their future gilds your down
ward path in life. . . .
And, again, I ask you, laborer, can yon say
that others shall be doomed to labor in all the
twelve Pennsylvanias embraced in Kansas tor
ritory, beside that system of servile labor 1
Will you, working men of Pennsylvania, for
ever exclude yonr posterity from all that ter
ritory acquired by the common country of
which you are citizens 1 I do not believe you
will. Let ns trust, fellow-citizens, that it may
not be done.
By what is called the Democratic rule, it is
said that the South will be injured if she can
not take her slaves into all our vast territory.
Who and what is the South 1 The south has
six millions of free people, living in States
which embrace over nine hundred thousand
square miles of territory, and they have with
them over three millions of slaves. What is
the Xorth 1 They have not nine hundred thou
and miles of territory; they have but 4-jO,000
miles, on which there are dwelling this day
thirteen millions of free people. Xow, I say
the South has forced this issue npon us, aud
snppose we accept it as an issue in which one
or the other must be injured, shall the injured
party be the six millions who have 900,000
square miles of territory to dwell in, or the 13
millions, who have but 4-50,000 miles. Shall
slavery be hemmed in, or shall the freemen of
tho North be crushed into that little space ?
This is the question, my fellow-citizens, for
you to decide, and as you vote at the next
Presidential election, so, perhaps, will you in
Philadelphia decide it.
But, say yon, slavery is in the States, and we
hare nothing to do with it. So say I. The
Constitution, yen say, protects it in tbeStates.
So says every Republican ; and we agree that
it is our duty, as citizens loyal to the Consti
tution, to protect slavery in the States ; but
the question for as to decide is, shall it go
into th Territories ? Shall the white labor
ing man be "crushed out ?" Shall we be pent
tip in these 15 States so that the population
shall become so abundant, and land is high,
that wages will fall and the white man become
iittle better than a slave ? Where, my friends,
will the European emigrant find a footing, hen
Xew York, and Philadelphia, and Boston, and
Baltimore, and Cincinnati have their over
crowded streets, and lanes, and alleys, and
when there shall be no more land in the West
to emigrate to 1 What will be the condition
4l the American laborer 7 Will not twenty or
thirty years bring ns to Mr. Buchanan's stand
ard of wages the European standard that
which drives the Irishman, and the German,
and every other European from his land ? Is
there not every day a tide of emigration flow
ing from the cities, westward flowing from
the old States, westward taking tip new land
and settling there, opening up a field of labor
and thus keeping np wages T Now, let slave
" ry, which now shuts us out from the South,
shut os ont from tho North, and we are pent '
in, and in a little while our condition will be
like that of Europe. Oh ! my fellow-citizens,
what would be the condition of the South
then ? There is there a servile race, tyranized
ertr hy Ibeir masters, but held in bondage by
the great free North. We catch them wiien
they attempt to run away, and send mem
back ; it is known that we have power to crush
them if they attempt to escape. But reduce
the laboring masses of the North to "ten cents
a day," or to ' twenty-five cents a day, or to
"the Europen standard of wages"., (to quote
Mr. Buchanan's precise language) and there
comes an affinity between the oppressed of the
North and the oppressed of the South. We
would make a fearful day of reckoning to those
who had done the wrong.
"Bnt," say some, "it is only a wrong to the
negro it does not touch the white man ; it is
only a wrong to the farm-laborer ; it does not
touch the man of the work-shop, and the me
chanic." Let me tell yon that you make a
mistake here. Let me read to you n adver
tisement from the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch,
of January, 1856 :
'Servant IIirixo. In Richmond.Va., ser
vants, both male and female, are commanding
higher prices this year than tho past. Farm
hands bring from ?IJO to lots, ana women
from $40 to $75 per year. Factor hands hace
advanced about fifteen per cent, on last year,and
first rate female cooks, or goort character, ana
without encumbrance, have advanced even a
bove that ratio."
"Factory hands." What sort of factories 1
Why, my friends, all the tobacco of Richmond,
the great tobacco city of this country, is made
by slaves. If you go into their tobacco facto
ries, you find no white working men, or work
ing women there. You find them all slaves.
I said you find no white working men, or work
ing women there I make a mistake ; I mean
you find no free ones ; they arc all slaves, tho'
some are as white as any of you. Go into Ten
nessce, at the iron works there, and you shall
find none but slaves laboring there ; in the ore
banks of the coaling operations, or in the man
ufacture and working of iron. I appeal to any
colonizationist that is here, to say whether du
ring the last three years a prominent gentle
man of Tennessee I believe it is lion. Mr
Fell bas not sent to Liberia one hundred and
twenty excellent iron workers,men and women,
from his iron works to develope the iron re
sources of Africa T We have tho slave labor
of Virginia competing with free labor in the
manufacture of tobacco. In Tennessee slave
labor is competing with the free labor of Penn
sylvania in the manufacture of iron. Go to
Georgia, and you find them boasting thatGeor
gia is "the Massachusetts of the South."
They take you to their cotton factories and
throagh their workshops, aud yeu find slaves
performing all the labor in every establish
ment, and I challenge you to study the freight
lists of the lines of steamers plying between
this city and Savannah, Georgia, and you will
find that they carry steadily to Philadelphia
coarse cotton fabrics, mannfactnrcd by slaves
in the cotton fields in the neighborhood of Sa
vannah ; and they undersell the Philadelphia
mechanic in his own city, because their labor
is labor without wages laboi at the hands of
people who beget children and whose children
are counted as cattle by their owners.
Not only do they interfere with labor of this
kind; but I tell you, my friends, the question
is pressed npon us by the South for the estab
lishment of white slavery. This is no idle talk
They say their institution is no longer safe if
it depends upon tho doctrine of African slave
ry. This is a necessity of the South. . .
The doctrine of white slavery is no mere ab
stract theory of the South ; it is becoming a
necessity. They must either emancipate their
most valuable slaves, because they are white,
or they must insist uon the north surrender
ing all our territory to their peculiar institution
Look at it, my fellow-citizens : am I exag
gerating t Am I wandering one hairs-breadth
from the real state of the case 1 I ask you,
oh! workingruen of Pennsylvania, to go to
your pillows to-night ; and ponder, as you have
never pondered before, upon the issue that is
before you in this election. If you are the
friends of freedom if you love the Constitu
tion of your country if you revere the names
of its great patriots if you believe in a su
perintending and avenging Ptovidence if you
believe in Christianity which teaches you that
"inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of
these," (the suffering ones of earth) ye have
done it unto your Great Master" Oh ! think,
and think that all these matters are connected
with your vote in the coming Presidential c
lecticn that by your vote you may either say
that this institution, which thus degrades hu
manity, shall be hemmed in to the South of
that line of 36 deg. SO minutes, or that it shall
stalk with unabashed front all over the great
territories of the West. You shall say whetb
er the laborer shall walk erect, a freeman, put
ting his wages in his pocket, and spending
them at his will, or whether, in the south,wbite
or black, he shall be the mere creature of his
owner, and in the north be reduced by the com
petition of nnpaid labor to acondition,scarce
ly more happy than that of the slave.
Is not the issue a portentious one t Is it
not one demanding reflection 1 Is it not one
demanding vigorous action ? Oh ! my fellow
countrymen, let not party names mislead yon.
Be not deluded by the cry of 'Americanism,'
if it would lead you from tho free side of this
issue. Americanism is to stand up for tho
freedom and equality of man. Americanism
is to governAmerica by a soundAmerlcan spir
it which will maintain the equality cf man and
the freedom of man. Be not humbugged ei
ther, by the cry of Democracy. There was a
time when the Democracy of our country
claimed to be, and I, at least, believed them to
be, "eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame"
when I believed they were tho friends of
freedom, equality and education when I be
lieved that they strove to give to man the freest
and fullost chance to develope himseif, and
provide for the prosperity of his posterity
Bnt what is the so-called "Democracy" of to
day f I spurn the Democratic party of to-day.
A perfect storm, of appiause, which did not
subside for several minutes. I spurn it be
cause it tramples and spits upon the graves of
the great men who organized it,and libels their
great names. I spurn it, because, as I have
shown you,-it has proved recreant to the great j
-.THE MFf!
principles that led it on to victory. I spnra
it, because, instead of being the friend of la
bor and the laboring man, it is attempting to
extend all over our country a system which
makes the child of a white woman descended
from a slave, a slave, be he as white as white
can be thongh his blood be Caucasian, and
his spirit as free as that of Jefferson, or of
Washington. I scorn tho Democratic party
because it has silenced its own leaders, or ex
pelled them from its ranks, and placed itself
in charge of the disunion orators of theSonth.
I scorn it becauso it has In the Cabinet of its
President, Jeff. Davis,' a Disnnionist from Mis
sissippi, and it has. sent through the whole
North, stumping In its cause, Senator Benja
min, of La., a Disnnionist, Senator Toombs,
of Georgia, a Disnnionist because its columns
are led on by men who are pledged to dissolve
theUnion, aad sacrifice the Constitution of my
country. I scorn the so-called Democratic
party of Pennsylvania especially ,becanse, hav
ing silenced its former leaders, or expelled
them from its bosom, it has taken those as its
champions and its leaders,' with whom I have
had a life-long political battle. -'
Why, what is this Democracy ? ..' It puts me
in mind of a knife which a French gentleman
of my acquaintance had, of which he used to
boast a great deal. lie was a good fellow a
little thick-headed at times, but very kind
hearted. "There," said he, "Mr. K., is one
very good knife, vich I brought from France
wis me. I values him very much, both be
cause I brought him from France wiz me, and
becauso he met wiz some accidents, and I get
him repaired, and he just as good as ever.-
First, soon after I came to this country, I
broke ze blade, and I take him to Mr: Schirc-
ly, in Chestnut street, and he put in a new
blade, just so good as ze old one ; den, a good
vile after dat, I broke zo handle accidently,
and I go to Mr. Schively again, bnt Mr.Schive
ly move away, and I go around in 2d street, to
Mr. Richardson, and I get a new handle on
so I have my same old knife just as good as
new." Laughter. The Democratic party
has got a new blade and a new handle, new
principles and new leaders, but it is, they say,
the same old party, just as good as new.
My friends, don't believe them don't be
lieve them. Look for yourselves, think for
yourselves, inquire for yourselves. If yon
have thought ot voting cither for Mr. Buchan
an or Mr. Fillmore, pause, ponder and study.
Do not take my assertion. Do not take the
assertion of any partizan leader. God knows,
I do not propose voluntarily to become your
leader. I did not seek the position in which
I stand. I was absent from my home, and
fir distant wheu I first heard that I had been
nominated. My ready answer was, I cannot
accept I cannot serve ; and nothing but a
sense of duty has brought me to the mind to
serve. But I ask you, while you listen to me
to think when you leave me to examine the
question which I have put before you, and to
look to the authorities. If I have made a mis
statement, I have been misled by the law books
which I have studied by the authority which
I bring here, Benton's Thirty Years View,
by the various ones which my library furnish
es, by which I test it. . I have presented to you
the doctrines ot the great fathers of the coun
try, without division of party, without divis
ion of section, and I ask you to stand by them
"Well," say some, "you are right in theo
ry you are light in doctrine ; but the Union !
the Union ! save the Union !" Why the Lr
nion is in just about as much danger as the
Rocky Mountains. Laughter. It would be
quite as easy at this moment to dissolve the
Rocky Mountains, as it would be to dissolve
this L'nion. Our party is the Constitutional
party. Loud cheering. We stand where
the fathers of our country stood we stand
where the Whig party and the Democraic
party agreed in v standing, down till tho prcs
ent Administration. And there can be no
dissolution of the Union for adhering to that
doctrine.
"But," say some, "you have taken up two
candidates from the North two from one sec
tion and Mr. Fillmore says the-South ought
not to stand that." They stood it when our
distinguished townsman, Richard Rush, ran
as a candidate for the Vice Presidency, with
John Adams, of Massachusetts, for President
They stood it when General William Henry
Harrison, of Ohio, ran with Granger, of Xew
York. We stood it when Andrew Jackson,
of Tennessee, ran with John C. Calhoun, of
South Carolina. It has been stood so often
that there is no danger of dissolution on that
score.
But, our position is this : if we are beaten,
we acquiesce pick our flint, and fire again ;
and if we are victorious, ce Kill see vho kUI
dissolve the l'nion. Vociferous cheers. ' A
voice "That's it 1" Why, there is as much
of Andrew Jackson in John C Fremont, as if
he were a "chip of the old block,", or as there
is in any other human being that lives. Great
applause. "Old Hickory" himself lived
upon acorns, and Fremont has tasted a little
dog's meat just as Caleb Cushing has, though
Cashing did it by mistake. When 'on his
Chinese mission, he was dinning with a China
man of rank, and according to the rules of
Chinese etiquette, had to taste of every dish.
One he tasted which pleased his palate exceed
ingly. Wishing to inquire what it was, aad
being unable to speak the language, said he,
supposing it to be duck, "Quack, quack ?"
"No, no," replied the Chinaman, very prompt
ly, "bow, wow, wow !" Shouts of laughter.
But when Col. Fremont went to tho Indian
council, and they set before him roast dog
meat, he knew he had to show himself able to
do anything and everything ; so he went at it
with as much alacrity as the hungriest Indian
present. He says he did not like it much, but
be was in the service of bis country, and must
not shrink ; so he ate it.
Again, see the bearing of Colonel Fremont,
in that terrible expedition which he under
took at his own expense, to explore the
Rocky Mountains. His guide had misled him
and on one of the highest peaks, thirteen
thousand feet above our leyel, they were al
most Llindcd by adrift of hard froze snow,
through which they had to walk waist-deep.
They gathered their little forces together
he and his tbirty-threo men, and sheltered
themselves for tho night. It was the 24th of
December. . In the morning they made their
wayr back oyer the peak to get its bhelter
against the wind. Their mules huddled to
gether as by instinct to keep themselves warm,
and fell one after another, making the nucleus
of a snow bank. Their implements were lost,
and such unexpected dangers and difficulties
had encompassed them that dispair seemed to
be overtaking the men. He rallied their spir
its, and he spent that Christmas rewliug Dlack-
mey toshow tbeut-that he was not disconcer- J
ted and that he did. not feel- disheartened by :
danger. When cut off from all resources,
misled by his guide, deceived by one in whom '
he trusted, with the hearts of his men curdling
in their bosoms, aud the dumb brutes that
could not be inspired by his bravery, sinking
around him, he calmly took up a volnmc of
Blackstone ; and by that decision of character,
that apparent indifference of the circumstan
ces that surrounded him, he assured his men
that their detention was after all but a raero
Christmas halt. When they had sufficiently
rested he dispatched a detachment on the
backward track for assistance, and when they
did not return in time, he himself, with knap
sack upon his back, sought relief, and found
his poor men maddened with hunger and ef
fects of the cold. He hurried on, and on, and
on, until he found relief, and saved the great
er body of that company of men. We have in
him a man who has exhibited the character of
Napoleon for energy the character of Jack
son for firmness, for decision, for coolness a
man who has never been President, it is true,
but who has never been called to perform any
duty, civil or military, in which he has not
shown himself "up to the mark" long con
tinued, enthusiastic applause a man born in
the South, reared in the South, but has served
his whole country a man familiar with all
history, and especially familiar with Ameri
can history the first enlightened man that
traversed that region of Kansas the man
who gave not only to America but to the world
the knowledge the complete knowledge, I
might say of the Rocky Mountains, their pas
ses, their varions scientific disclosures ; ho
revealed them all and with wonderful rapidity:
the man who gave freedom to California, and
w'.io represented that State with marked abil
ity for a short time in the councils of the na
tion the man and mark it whom the lead
ers of the Democratic party one year ago
sought to make the candidate of that party
for the Presidency. The proof is clear and
undoubted, that rather more than a year ago,
Governor Floyd, of Virginia, and other distin
guished Democrats sought to make Mr. Fre
mont the candidate of the Democratic party.
He listened to tbera, and when lie found that
they would ask him to appiove of the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise line, he said
"Never;" that he had been a Democrat ; that
he owed to the Democratic party all the polit
ical preferment he had ever-had ; that he had
no political aspirations ; but were the Presi
dency of the United States twenty times that
Presidency, he never would consent to sec
slavery extend by the abolition or abrogation
of the Missouri Compromise line. Great ap
plause. He is a man fit for any and for ev
ery emergency ; and a man behind whom in
the Vice-Presidential chair, will stand one of
the youngest and ablest jurists of New Jersey
a man who has distinguished himself upon the
bench as a lawyer and a chancellor, and who
has rendered himself eminent in the councils
of the nation a safe man a cautious man a
firm man. They are both tho friends of free
dom ; and I ask you, let your party predilec
tion hitherto be what they may, to unite with
one common consent and vote for your own
common doctrines vote for the doctrines of
Washington, and Jefferson, and Polk, and
Harrison, and Taylor vote for the freedom
of the North for the enfranchisement of la
bor and the preservation of its freedom vote
for men, as men vote for Fremont aud Dav-
ton, and leave other issues to take care of
themselves hereafter. Americans cannot "gov
ern America" until wo have a free America
to be governed. Raptnreus applause, which
continued for some time.
Fall Fashjoxs. There is no perceptible
change of importance in the dress of the la
dies. The basqnes, and bonnets thrown over
the shoulders, are prevailing yet. The "sur
roundings" of the skirts arc incieased in their
dimensions, instead of diminished, as we anti
cipated, on the approach of cold weather
Wide striped fancy silks are yet held in high
estimation, though they are allowed to drag
low on the form divine. Phila. Sun.
California. The Vigilance Committee has
finally disbanded. Highway robberies are com
mitted every day, and it is believed that there
are organized bands of these desperadoes, ho
render it unsafe for persons to travel singly.
The mdian difficulties continue on the fron
tiers, and frequent skirmishes occur. Peti
tions are in circulation requesting Herbert not
to make California his residence and asking
Congress to expel him.
Mwkisota. Late advices from St.PauI,Min
nisota,state that hostilities were threatened be
tween the Sioux and Chippewa Indians. The
latter recently massacred eight women and two
men of the Sionx, w hilst engaged in a corn
field. Shocking barbarities are said to be
committed.
Hulloway's Ointmrnt attd Pills are a. fertnif.
cure for Scurvy. Edward Hope of Charleston, S.
C suffered mora than most people from the nnnr
and the whole of his body was covered with on-
sightly eruption, he tried a great number of repu
ted remedies.but he was not benefitted by the same,
indeed, it became doubtful to his friends, whether
he would ever overcome this disfigurement At
length he tried Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and
these medecines quickly produced a beneficial
change, by continuing these excellent medeoines
foe sight wek, h wm radically curd. - -
iiftsiniut'slmu'nal.
S. B. ROW, Editor axu PnornicrvK.
CLEAK FIELD, PA , OCT. 1, 185C.
People's National Ticket.
FOB P-RKSIDUST.'
J O n N C. FREMOST,
. OF CALIFORNIA.
'FOE VICE PRESIPrST.
WILLIAM L. DAYTON,
' OF SET JERSF.V.
Union State Ticket.
CAXAI. COVWISSfONEJt,
THOMAS E. COCHRAN, of York Co.
ArDlTOR CRNF.RAL,
DARWIX PHELPS, of Armstrong Co.
SCHVEYOrt OK'Vr.KAL.
BARTHOLOMEW LAPOKTE, of Bradford Co.
Union District Ticket-
FOR CONGKFSS,
JAMES S. MVEKj?, of Venango CouDty. .
-As-seniW v,
JOIIX BROOKS, of '.Elk County.
Union County Ticket.
Prothonotary,
THOMAS ROS, of Pike Township.
Associate Judges,
ARTHUR BELL, of Boll Town.hip.
Register and Recorder. -JOHN
A1AAIS, of Bogjrs Township.
Commissioner,
WILLIAM W. CATHCART, of Pike tp.
h'urTcyor.
PETER LAMM, of Uirard Township.
Auditor.
WILLIAM HOOVER, of Bradford Township.
JUDGE XELLEY'S SPEECH.
We occupy a large portion of our paper this
week with Judge Kelley's speech, which we
wish every citizen of Clearfield county would
read, especially our Democratic friends. It
contains many facts that are valuable, and
shows the position of the Democratic party, at
different periods of time, on the great ques
tion which now absorbs public attention.-
Judge Kelley was heretofore a member of the
Democratic party, bnt as the present party
holding that name has lost sight of the great
principles of liberty, he now opposes it. We
trust every one will read the speech.
OUR COUJTTY TICKET. -
In less than two weeks the election for State.
District and County ofBcers takes place, and
we truat that due attention will be given to
our county ticket. By a reference to the
same, it will at once be seen that it is com
posed of some of the best and most reliable
men in onr county. The business capacity
and necessary qualification of the several in
dividuals who constituic it, arc undoubted
The candidates were selected with a view to
qualification and capacity, from among the
people themselves, and will compare favorably
with any ticket that bas ever been presented to
the citizens of Clearfield. We believe they
are generally well known throughout the coun
ty as competent and honest men, and if elect
ed, will fill the respective stations for which
they are named with honor to themselves as
well as to the county. We would, therefore,
nrge every voter to go to the polls and deposit
his ballot for the Union County ticket. We
are firmly of opinion, that if the proper exer
tions are used, we can defeat the Locofoco
ticket at the October election. ! Turn out,
then, freemen of Clearfield county, go to work
energetically, stick to it, and you will come
out of the contest victorious.
LOOS OUT!
The Locofoco politicians are busy at work
circulating pamphlets, purporting to come
from the friends of Fillmore, but which are
really the vile prodnction of the political jug
glers who are controlling the Ruchanan party.
for they are franked by Locofoco members of
Congress, in which the most violent assanlts
are made on the Union State Ticket. The ob
ject is to create a split on our State ticket, and
thereby enable the Democrats to elect theirs.
The Democratic leaders arc well awnre that if
they are defeated at the October election, that
Buchanan will be overwhelming routed in No
vember, and are, therefore, leaving no means
untried to carry this State. The movement
of Levin in Philadelphia, a few weeks since,
was evidently a part of the scheme, but the
Fillmore men denounced him and passed res
olutions pledging their undivided support to
the Union State Ticket. One thing is certain,
we think, that if those who are mere ioliti
cians, will sell themselves, we are confident
that the masses the honest People cannot
be sold. We cantion all against such trick
ery, for doubtless the game will be attempted
in every county where there is a prospect of
creating a diversion in favor of the Democratic
Stato ticket. It was boasted in this county, a
few days since, by a leading Democrat, that
they had a game' up now that would beat ns,
thus "glorying in their shame !
DEATn-BEn Retestaxce. Posters calling a
Democratic meeting at Coudcrsport, Potter
county, on the lGth, announced as a rallying
cry, "Buchanan, Breckinridge, and Free Kan
sas !" Rather too late to deceive the people,
who know the grievous wrongs which have
been perpetrated to make it Slave Kansas.
The friends of Fremont in Maryland have
agreed upon an electoral ticfcit n Wi, ;n k
published in a few days. Fremont electoral
vaI-a. 1 -
i..cia ave ueen, or will be formed in Vir
ginia, Kentuckv. Mi
Here are at least five Southern States in which
tha spirit of liberty is glowing.
THE UHIOH AND THE COSSTITTmSK.
HIM ffllHSS MEETM
FROM 1,000 TO 1,500
. PEOPLE ASSEMBLED.
On last Saturday, Ihe 27th Sept., the friends
of Free Speech, a Free Press, .Free Kansas,
and who arc opposed to tho election of Bu
chanan, assembled in Mass Convention at Cur
wensville, Clearfield county. It-waa one of
the largest political gatherings ever held la
the county not less than from 1000 to' 1500
persons being in attendance. Over 1000 per
sons were at one time counted on the ground..
Two poles of abeut 150 feet in length, the fi
nest we have ever seen, were raised in the fore
noon, and a magnificent Fremont and Dayton
flag, 22J by SI feel, suspended- The meeting
was'callcd to order at about 2 o'clock, and or
ganized by selecting the following officers t
President,
Hon. JAMES FEROUSOX, Penn Tp.'
Vice Presidents, -
Elisha Fenton, Penn township,
John Hancock, Pike township,
John Welch, Tike township,
Daniel McKinney. Penn township,
Samuel Sebring. Burnside township,
John F. Lee, Bell township,
Thomis Shea, Clearfield borough,
James Alexander,
Thomas R. McClnre, Pike township,' '
James Forrest, Boggs township,
David J. Cathcart, Jordan township,
' John S. Williams, Knox township,
M. J. Porter, Bradv township,
M. A. Frank, Clearfield boro.
Daniel Weaver, Lawrence township,
David Adams, Boggs township, '
John Smith, Sr., Pike township,
Jacob Lydick, " "
Samuel Kirk, Penn township,
R. S. Humphrey, Pike township, '
Thomas Montgomery, Brady township,
Geo. Smeal, I'ike township,
Joseph Bailey, "
David McCracfccn, Bell township,
Phiiip Arnold, Brady township,
"Job Way, Pike township,
John Potter, Brady township,
E. King, Lawrence township,
Secretaries,
S. B. Row, Clearfield,
Ed. Montclius, Curwensrille,
I). S. Moon?, Lnmber City,
Wm. A. Bloom. Pike township,
K. S. Dnndy, Clearfield,
S. C. Patchin, Beccaria,
Z. McXanl,Cnrwensvillc,
John W. Hazlctt, Bell Tp.
After the meeting was fully organized, Lt.
Gov. RoBE&Td, of Kansas, was introduced,
lie gave a plain, clear and comprehensive hif
tory of the Kansas qnestion, and the difficul
ties, outrages and murders committed in
that territory. He was listened to with mark
ed attention, and when abont- to finish, was
strongly urged to proceed. He, however, in a
bhort time gave way fa
13. G. Xohle, Esq., of Wisconsin, who re
viewed the position of parties, presented the
issues in a succinct and forcible manner, and
urged the importance of voting so as to insure
the welfare of the people, the perpetuation of
our free institutions, the maintainance of tho
compromises ol Ihe Constitution, and the per
manency of the LTniou. Ho is one of the best
stump orators in the country, and his speech
was received with unbounded admiration anJ
great applause.
Amos Myers, Esq., of Clarion, was next in
troduced. In the conrse of his remarks, bo
exposed the duplicity, unmasked the fcypocn
cy, and held np the inconsistency of the pres
ent leaders of the Sham Democracy, iu a light
that was irresistibly conclusive. His speech
was humorous as well as argumentative, and
his voice was frequently drowned by the vocif
erous cheering of the multitude.
After Mr. Myers had concluded, the meeting
adjourned till 7 o'clock. A procession wan
then formed, numbering several hundred, nd
headed by a baud ot superior martial music,
marched through the streets. We never wit
nessed a more enthusiastic and respectable
gathering anywhere.
At 7 o'clock, the meeting again convened.
hen W. W. Wise, Esq., of Brookville,
introduced, and delivered a speech of .master
ly argument and convincing power. He re
viewed the issues involved in the present con
test, in a manner that was a entertaining as
it was instructive. His speech was received
with high admiration and frequent applause.
Crst s Jfffriks was then called npon, and
delivered one of his usual trnthful, logical and
powerful speeches. Am s Myers, Esq., was
again called out, and entertained the audience
with one of his happiest efforts, after which
the meeting adjourned with deafening cheers.
The number present at the meeting exceed
ed our expectations, and we have seldom wit-
nesscd as mnch good feeling, harmony and en
thusiasm as prevailed on this occasion. It
was emphatically a meeting of the People, and
augurs well for the success of our cause. The
ball that is rapidly overriding Locofocoisru, is
in full motion, and the Democratic leader
look "blue" whenever they witness these pul
sations of popular feeling. Defeat stares them
in the f.ice, and they fear that their days of
political prosperity are nearly numbered that
on the 14th day of October they will be laid
so deep lcncath the political sod that the hand
of resurrection will fail to wach them. "
MEETING I3T CLEARFIELD B0E0UOH;
On Monday afternoon and evening, larga
and respectable meetings of tho friends ol
Free Principles and the opponents of Jaraca
Buchanan, were held in the Court Honse in
this place. Lew is R. Carter was chosen Pres
ident, XatL. Rishel, Wm. Albert, Win. If.
Robertson, Isaac S. Shirey and Dr. A. T.
Schry vcr, Vice Presidents, and S. B. Row and,
Wm. McBridc, Secretaries. Lient. Got. Rob
erts, of Kansas, B. G. Xoblc, Esq., of Wiscon
sin, and Capt. W. W. Wise, of Brookville, ad
dressed the people on the all-absorbing issue
involved in the coming elections. We are
souy that our limited space prevents us from
giving such extended notice of their speeches
as they deserve. The questions before the
people were fairly stated, the positions of the
various parties clearly shown, and the merits,
claims and qealificatioos of the candidate!
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