Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-12-06
For the Journal.
TAWNING FOR PLACE.

| considerably exercised from reading the last
number, and have been moved to- write thee on
the matter. We know the Telegraph was pref
ty sound on the political questions before the
people during the late canvass for Rulers. Il
love to choose upright men to rule over me
and mne.) Well that very good, but
| from what has taken place since, fear the
Editor was not so disinterested as we could
wish. assure thee, hare been led to sus-
pect s:something more than meal in that
| lump
Now tell thee, have no objection to thy
friend Miller wanting an Office. He has as
good right to it any other man, if he is
as well qualitied-and I consider Integrity a
necessary. yea, an indispensable qualification
but dislike his mode of seeking it. As
soon as the election was over thy friend nofn-
mated JAMES Pollock for President. Well
! have no objection to that either. | know
James Pollock is worthy man, and would
make good President, and he would be my
choice too, of all who have been before l
tell thee, what dislike in the Telegraph, is,
the hot haste with which the thing was done,
as if thy friend Miller in fear that thee or
some other clever man might do the same be-
fore he could do it, and then his zeal to pub
lish that he the first to hoist the Pollock
flag for the Presidency, the election to take
place t,co yeas offer this. Witness the fol-
lowing from the Telegraph of Nov. Sth:
ssAt seven O'Clock on the evening of Oc;o-
Der the l0th, 1851, we beiisrei JAMES Pollock
to be the Governor elect of Pennsylvania; 1T
nine we bneC il ; at ten we nominated him rs
the Peoples candidate for the ipresidency in
1856; and at seven the EeYt morning nailed his
name to the masthead Of the Telegraph and
sent it flying through the length and the
breadth Of the land by steam, in order to give
the magnanimouS people and our editorial
brethren an opportunity to pass their judgment
upon cur Seteciloa.'
Well now, have no particular objection to
all that either, if there was nothing more hate
full to come after it. While this is pretty good
evidence that thy friend Mi!tcr wants to be
paid, (and has made something of a fool OF
himself) he is very anxions that no man shall
| claim his labor, and beguile him of his re-
ward Well let him have all the merit OF his
zeal, and if our excellent Governor elect shall
see proper to appoint him to some office,
care not for that. This is what | so hate, and
| what so exercises me, and what moves me to
write to thee on the matter. As soon as thy
friend Miller nominated our good James, Of
Milton for the Presidency, he begi,s 10 hare
incliaaiion 10 pro-slarery sentiments. What is
/ the reason our would-be politicians have no
! consciences, and not brains enough to perceive
| that other persons have? This is just what
! killed thy friend William of your place, or he
would have been Governor yet. He had an
| eye to the Presidency and he thought he must
/ come out pro-st2rery. So with Pierce and
/ Douglas, and all that class. Just see the fol-
lowing articles from the Telegraph of the 18th
| inst
..The Commerci 4, commenting upon the de-
| feat of Clark, the Nhig candidate for Cover
nor, trusts that the result Will not be without
| its to the Whig party. sit is now plain
! that even with the aid OF SO good as
| that of temperance. and SO strong an excite
ment as that awakened by the repeal OF the
| Missouri Compromise, men Of ism and ses ION
aiities cannot secur,. the public confidence
/ The country is ionei, and SO must the Whig
party be and il is at he art, as from the very
| nature of its principles it must ever be-
| The Express says one definition Of the cleo
ton is, s'that the New York people, though
| indignant because of the repeal of the Mis-
| souri, Compromise, are not going to create a
to run Mr.. Seward for the Presidency, the
| Northern candidate, only in the Northern
| States Of this Union" This election, and
past experience, clearly dem. nstfate the truth
that no party can long prosper in New York
! unless it he conservative in principle. and
fioaai in character The NiTrGr halls the
defeat of Clark. and the large vote cast fol
| Ullmann, as triumph of Americanism."
.sIt seems to be the aim of the Know Moth
! ing party TO steer clear of all the factions and
isms of the day. and plant themselves upon a
| broad National platform. The know Nothing,
published at Boston, which NC take to le an
acknowledged organ OF the ''invisible reform
ers,'' squints very strongly towards National
| organization that Will unite the friends OF
American principles, North and South, in a
bond of common brotherhood. We quote:
| ssA NATIONAL AMERICAN PARTY.-That is
our tavorite idea. 1t is great idea and the
sooner it is Carried out the better it will he for
! the country and its whole interests. Let us
! have an organization, the heart Of which shall
| throb in unison from Maine to Texas, from
the cast to the far west. And everything tends
! TO that point. Our ranks swelling, our
principles spreading and deepening in every
| quarter. Men-goOd men and patriotic, the
! best in every community-are with us. To
carry ont our glorious destiny we must be
| shaped into national form. Our power will
he formidable indeed. NATIONAL AMERI-
icAS PARTY. Let the words echo from every
hill top and mountain height in the country
We agree with the ssknow Nothing that
the idea sis great one" There is too much
seetionaism nowadays; and ii this new par
ty succeeds in crushing out the various isms,
silepcpg the agitation of sectional puestions,
and bnilding up great NATIONAL PARTY
upon purely .3perfcan platform, ii sswill be-
come formidable indeed" One thing is GER
tain, if this Know Nothing or American party
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