Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-10-04
GOV. BIGLER,s APPEAL.

long, has been issued by Gov. Bgler and thousands
of copies, franked by the officers at Harrisburg
official papers. have been all over the State
In this county it has been freely and extensively
circulated. so that We presume, sll of our readers
| have been furnished with a copy of the modal
document and can refer to it and sec whether in
/ what we have to say, we "nisrepresent'' its con-
| tents not.
| He begins by most contemplate and undignif-
| ed fling at Judge Pollock, which. even if it was
| true, he should never have mentioned We should
be sorry to accuse him of falsehood, and shall,
| therefore, charitably presume he has been misir-
formed. when he says that during the three weeks
he was confined to his room, 'the canvass was ac-
lively pursued by his opponent With q gener-
osity, which Biger himself was far from exhibit
ing Judge Po1LocK, ceased his labors in the west
| ern part of the Commonwealth when he heard of
Gov Bigler's illness, and leaving the State went
| to Buffalo. where he remained until news came
| that the Governor was better. For the truth of
this we can refer to Col. A. G CURTIN, and other
distinguished gentlemen who accompanied him
But, how was it with Gov. Bigler9 at tho begin
ing of the campaign, it was announced in all the
Wing papers that Judge Pollock would stump the
State, after the farmers would get in their grain
and tho proper time would arrive This well
understood by al parties But when the time
came, Judge Pollock was lying extremely i'll at
his home in Milton. Then and not till then, Gov
Bigier issued Proclamation that he would canvass
tho State, and started off his expedition, while
Judge Pollock was still unable to leave his couch.
Immediately all the democratic papers. began to
crow the fact, and alleged that Judge Pol
LOCK was AFRAID to meet Bigler before tho people
So much for Governor Bigler generosity and mag
nanimity, IN politics.
The next point in the address is that 'the fnan-
ces of the State never in wholesome
condition and this with public debt of
Forty siz millions. One thousand fee kH2aared
and cighty-o7se tons! A debt thatit would require
7o3 wagons and four thousand horses to haul, and
every year being increased! Such is the whole
some condition of our State finances.
The next question which is alluded to in the ad-
dress is the Sale Of the Public Works, which he
CARDS simply "a business transaction. He occu-
pies his usual non-committal or whip-the-devil
roun3-the-stnIup position, and talks about the
Compensation for them &c just he did in his
annual message, and just as those members of the
Legislature did who loaded the Bill last winter
with restrictions and conditionsffor the express
purpose of defeating it. Notwithstanding this mea-
is demanded by the people, Gov Bigler is
idently opposed to it, and will do all he ean to-
gether with the leaders of his party who in
debted them for their bread and butter. TO pre-
vent their sale
He next descants upon the banking question, but
forgets to tell how it happened that, while he ve-
toed some bank bills ho approved others contain
ing exactly similar provisions, There is no other
question always excepting the Liquor Law upon
which the Gov. occupies a ''straddle-legs''
position than his profcsssR opposition corpo-
rations and monopoIies
The next subject of importance that receives his
angus. attention: is the School Question, upon
which he has st last been orcet to express opin
ion. But he does not out freely and openly.
like Judge Pollock, and say ''if my church, amy
church. chooses to enter the political arena, down
WITH Ir"'
From tho School Question, he gets to the Prohib-
atory Law, on which he stands precisely in the
samo position az he did before the State Conycn-
tion, when his letter declared unsatisfactory
He would desire leave the impression that he is
in favor of the Law, but hear the Harrisburg Un-
ion: his organ at the Capitol =
''Up democratic guards of Dauphin, and charge
for victory. Up for Bigler, Black, and Mott !.
Route the IHGtne Lar families, the " higs, the
Know Nothinss' dc
1t is not difficult to SEQ who running him us
their candidate He also admits in this address
session, thus proving most concIusively that he is
the Anti -Prohibatory candidate.
But we come to the great burthcn of his
song. the "Know Nothings y We have no particu-
lar love for secret societies. nor do desire to be-
come their peculiar apologists. But we hare a
gard for the Constitution, and Republican Insttu-
tions of Country, and while that Constitution
guarantees to every the right to worship G tod
according the dictates of his own conscience it
also secures to every American citizen the night |
to vote for whom he may proper, and for what |
reasons he may proper. If therefore, we |
hold different religious creed from certain cam
didate, and or that ground atone, proper to |
vote against him, only exercising that right
es guaranteed to us by tho Constitution. And If !
we pledge ourself to vote for one holding that |
creed, whether publicly privately. most Ger
tainly violate word phrase, or clause of the |
Constitution. If therefore, portion of cit- !
zens see proper to form an organization, whether
open or secret, and mutually pledge themselves
not TO vote for individuals holding different re-
ligious political creed, We cannot see how It |
conflicts with, violates the guarantees and
immunities' secured to us by the Constitutions 1t
is precisely the privilege which Gov. Bgler
claims for himself yet denounces in others. Will /
he vote for Whig, Free Soiler or Native Ameri- |
can And why7 Simply because they hold diff |
fcrent principles from the party to which he be-
longs. Will he vote for a Mormon, Deist, or an |
1nfidel! We presume not and for the same rea- |
SON Now if we happen to hold the doctrine that /
the tenets of particular church are inimcaI to |
our form of goTerrment.-that its teachings are |
directly contrary to the spirit of all Institu
tions, and to republican liberty, have not the |
same right, to vote ainst individual that holds
such creed, as he has to vote against Whig, |