Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-07-11
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We hear in these latter days great deal
from the Loco Foco press against what they
are pleased to call the pr0sCTiptiyeness OF the
Americans. We hear nothing from them III
favor Of the rights of conscience; with them,
foisrati0H is the fayOritc phrase. And low do
they show their spirit of toerdtiOn Look al
the past. Look at New hampshire. where un-
| I'll recently, they held uncontrolled sway FOR
the last quarter Of q century. In that State,
the Roman Catholics are prescribed to ali in
tents and purposes, as much they could be
if the Americans had been all the time in
power. Why do they not complain Of IT,
And why do not the Loco Foco press fad
fault with the so-cailed y ew Hampshire Demo-
cracy?
There must be cause for all this. and what
is that cause Why it is that President Pierce,
who was so long the leader Of the Democracy
which prescribed Catholics in his own State,
so suddenly after his election became their
friend and patron, and. now receives them
with 50 mach favor at the White House. The
Wings for many years attempted to abolish
the prescription and in the last Presidential
election made it a test question. IL it was
| offensive to the Catholics, it is reasonable to
| suppose they would have Joined the Wings an
| the effort at emancipation. But they did not
| do it-they stuck to the Democracy like leeCh-
es. 1t is 10 be Inferred, therefore, that they
| either care nothing about it, they have a
higher stake 10 watch after in the appoint
ments of the General Government 1t is q
| little singular that President, chosen from
State so long remarkable for its prescription
of Catholics, and he 4 leading man IN 1t,
should be the first President hOuorcd by Ro-
man PontiH with an autograph letter-and IN
which the still more singular request was made
to youchsatc the protection OF his Holiness
Legate. To say the least of it there is mys-
terry in all this and more especially SO, when
we reflect that much Of the now prevailing eX
citement against Catholicism has been caused
by the partiality his administration has shown
for those OF that creed in the distribution of
the public patronage. May it not be summed
up in this, he feels that he owes in great de
gree his election to them
REALITIES OF IIPE.~A Correspondent of the
n. Y. Tri 1He gives lis an example Of an east
ern man who went West to make his fortune.
While our boat, says the writer, swas tied to
the bank for an hour, we seated ourselves on
the shore, and he gave me an account of
the course he has followed, and the difficulties
he has contcndgd with. He started for the
West with a small sum Of money and the
blacksmith trade. He went down the Ohio as
stcerage passenger, reached st. Louis, and
thence up the Illinois, till his money failed
He stopped and worked to get his purse re-
crIited TO reach friends house. There he
worked a month to pay q man for bringing his
chest from the Illinois River. Finally ne reach
ed Chicago, got contract on the Illinois and
Wisconsin Canal, was getting rich, when IllI-
nos scrip made him poorer than when he be-
raU. Then the chills and fever laid him up
year. Let this suffice for a specimen. At last
he returned to Chicago bought enough boards
on credit to make blackSmish'S shop by stick
ing the ends in the ground and bringing the
tops together. In this he began tomal1c pioWS,
which his father-in-law wooded in a small
room in the small house which he and his sou
in-law had rented. From that time he has
gone steadily forward, until now his car tacto-
rics cover the principal parts Of two squares
in the city, which he purchased, one for some
$500, and the other for some $4,000. The
city Is already far beyond him. and by the rise
of property alone he is rich, while mis- facto-
ries are bringing him fine revenue.
This man says that rather Than go through
all bis hardships again, to attain his present
and prospective wealth, he would sooner be
content with q mechanics days wages.