Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-08
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION

in another column. We invite public attention
to the 1" antecedents" of its most active mem
bers, to its candidates, and to the resolutions.
The townships of Ridgberry, Springfield,
South Creek, Orwell, Pike, Warren, Herrick,
Tuscarora, Wilmot, Durell AMI Asylum were
not represented in the Convention.
Heading the list of nominations will be
found the name of V. E. PIoLLET. The De-
mocracy of Bradford will be astonished to learn
that they are expected to support a man for
Representative, who has been for the last
seven years at least, endeavoring to misrepre-
sent their views, to embarrass their action, and
to overthrow or stiae the sentiments which
they so often rallied to support. They are not
ready, to crafty a local question, to allow a
man to be thrust upon them, who holds no
sentiments in common with them upon the
great questions of the day, who has been known
in all the struggles of the past, as a facile and
subservient tool of Slavery p%ropagandists, who
is the bosom friend of FoRNEY, the supporter
of men and the advocate of measures which if
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designs of Slavery.
We listened to the remarks of this nominee
in the Convention, in establishment, if anything
could be astonishing which comes from such a
source. The unblushing effrontery with which
he declared himself incapable of misrepresent-
ing the sentiments of the people of this County,
has no parallel. What, Democrats, is your
recollection of his share in the conflicts of the
past? Has there ever been any doubt as to
the sentiments Of the Democracy upon the
question of Freedom? Yet Col. PIoLLEr has
been actively engaged since 1913, (when he
neglected his duties to endeavor to defeat
DAVID WHMor, in an attempt to thwart the
expression of your views, to embarrass your
action at home, and misrepresent your senti-
ments abroad. Who, in all the battles we have
had in this district with the doughfaces and
tools of Slavery, has been the acknowledged
leader ? Who, we ask you, but V. Z. PIoLLET?
And now you are expected to ignore the past,
and more than all that to forget the present.
More than this, duplicity and fraud will be re-
sorted to, to gain your votes for a man who is
now in league with the General Administration
and is expected to vote for an U. S.. Senator
to bolster up the fortunes of FRANKLIN PIERCE,
by an endeavor to persuade you that he has
never disagreed with you in principle F!
We ask the Democrats of Bradford to look
at the names of the delegates who placed Mr..
PIoLLET in nomination. Have these men, who
have been endeavoring for years to subvert
your principles, given up their pro-slavery doc
trines? Do you not recognize in hen the
same ~factious clan, who have on every occa-
sion, denounced the Freemen of this County :;
while protesting to hang on to its organization,
have taken every opportunity to stab at the
true men of the party, and have openly avowed
and advocated doctrines repugnant to the great
mass of the people of the County? Such men,
taking advantage of a local question, have sac
riiced their interests to give the forms of a
nomination to a man whom they know has no
feeling in common with the true Democracy of
Bradford.
Have you a question, Freemen of Bradford,
where the influence of V. E. PIoLLEr would be
thrown, if you could so far forget your cherish
ed principles as to place him in the Legisla-
ture :? Would his action and his influence be
on the side of Freedom, in the great struggle
which is now going on, or would he be the advo-
cate of measures and the supporter of men to
crafty the slavery propaganda ? Are the Free
men of Bradford prepared to send a man, up
on any consideration, to the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, for the purpose of advancing the
aspirations of JAMES BUCHANAN for the Pre-
sidency, and to elect an U. S. Senator of the
kind that now disgraces the State.
These are matters which we desire the De-
mocracy of Bradford to ponder well. The mo-
mentous struggle of the present will tell upon
our freedom and the destinies of our country
for all coming time. Local questions may be
taken up any propitious moment, and be de-
cided upon their own merits, without making
them subservient to recreancy from principle,
to the designs of dough-faces obeying the be-
hests of the slavery-propagandists.
For the first time in several years, an assem-
blage calling itself a Democratic Convention
has failed to speak out manfully upon the great
questions of the day. For the first time, in
our recollection, has there been an evasion of