Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-02-24

Jury TO0H--ney u lfItSStWg tUFtty CHTWS
up an Constables Pocket-Re-orgonizat
i - Tnpertsment' Speeches-DemocTatic Stand
ang Committee and Judge Wilnaot hauled orer
the ooaLs-Resofufi0ms- .SpeecheS-iM-
tailc plan to prerent a Division of the Conn
ty-7temendous Emthusiasm-Delegatss and
Standing Committee provided for-1Ir Can
field scants an Orgam-Gramd Finale, and
E1euat Omnes
GFrom the Athens Gazette, Friday Feb. l6, 1861
At Mass meeting of Democratic citizens of
Bradford County held at the Court House in
lTowanda, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 9Th, 1855
On motion, FRANCIS SMITH, Esq. was
called to the chair, and WIN. H OvERroN and
G. S. RUSSELL appointed Secretaries
On motion, by W. III. PECK, Esq,
Resolved, That committee of five be ap-
pointed by the chair to draft Resolutions ex-
pressive of the views and sentiments of this
meeting-whereupon the chair appointed WIN.
Fl. PECK, D.. A. OvERroN, NJ. F. RANSOM, Is
RAEL SMITH, GEORGE STEVENS were appointed
said committee.
The hour having now arrived to which the
Court in their extraordinary diligence in the
dispatch of business had adjourned, it was vo-
ted that this meeting adjourn to the Grand Ju-
ry room-the key of which by some strange
coincidence, had been removed from its usual
place of deposit After diligent search and in
quiry, it was found safely slowed away in the
pocket of one of the officers of Court, who was
prevailed upon to hand it over for the use of
the meeting. The meeting then re-assembed
and proceeded to business. Messrs. BAIRD,
CANFIELD, WARD and CASH addressed the meet
ing inpertinent and appropriate speeches, aai-
madverting with some severity upon the So
called Democratic Standing Committee" in
neither calling a Convention at this time, ac-
cordng to the settled usage of the Democratic
party in this county, giving any reason why
they had not so called one save what might,
| (it is true) be reasonably inferred from their
political opinions, majority, if not all of whom,
are Pollock men, Freesoilers and Know Moth
ings combined, and received their appointment
from a chairman of like political views and who
was elected to the September Convention by
the Know Nothings--the Democrats refusing
| to act in the caucus and who, doubtles, aided
with their votes, in achieving the late signal
victory, and intended to carry out the behests
of their distinguished leader, who closed his
speech at late "FuSi0nap meeting in Susque-
hanna County, in these words: " Ne hare rout-
ed and broken down one party (meanng the
Whigs) and by the hslp Of God ace uciN break
do,cn the 0ther"
Cogent and conclusive reasons were urged bv
the speakers for keeping up and maintaining
the organization of the Democratic party in
this County and District; that although defeat
ed at the late election, we are not disheartened
Or disbanded, but will be found fully armed and
equipped for the next campaign, using the same
old fashioned artillery of Truth and Reason,
! in defence and support of our beloved Consti-
tuition and Union, and those great and glorious
Democratic principles, upon which they are bas-
ed and sustained.
| Mr. PECK, from the Committee of resolutions,
offered the following, which were unanimously
adopted
Resolved, That the present crisis is one of
! the most important in the political days of our
country,-a time when all good men are re-
quired, by the eXigencies of political events, to
arouse themselves to anxiety in defence of those
early and wise teachings which have come
down TO US from the illustrous fathers of the
! Republic.
| Resolved, That the Democratic party has
given to the country all that is glorious in its
history and wise and beneficent in its govern
mental policy; that all those well-settled doc
trines upon which the government has been adj
ministered till the present hour, have been at
some period opposed by the opponents of our
party and its principles.
Resolved, That men who have thus shown
themaelves wrong at all past time on every
question Of national Importance, give a poor
guarantee to the people that they are right now
or ever will be.
Resolved, That though we have been par
TALLY defeated we are not dismayed or diScour-
aged. The principles of the Democratic party
are those upon which the Republic were based,
and they will live as long as Freedom shall
minister at the altar of oGr common country
Resolved, That amid the storm and confu-
sion of the political elements which prevail, we
will still keep our eye upon the star, dem0cra-
cy, by which our country has been guided thro'
perils and dangers in the race of progress une-
quaed, until she has arrived to the glorious
and enviabe position she now occupies among
the nations of the earth.
Resolved, That the great principles of reli-
gious liberty and tolcration--the right of man
to worship God according to the dictates of
their consciences, were fundamental ideas in
the foundation of the government-strongly
and sacredly entrenched in the constitution of
the country, and that we look upon all attempts
to drag this question of religious liberation in
to the political arena, as subversive of the con-
stitution, repugnant to the principles of Re
publicanisnl, and surely to imbroil the coun-
try in all the horrors of religious persecution
and strife.
Resolved, That we are in favor of an eco
nomical administration of the government, a
tariff for revenue only, and so adjusted in its
details, that its burdens shall fall lightly upon
the laboring masses of the country;-a general
and efficient system of Common Schools, that
shall bring education within the reach of the
poorest child in the Commonwealth, and which
shall spread intelligence and virtue everywhere
among our people, and rear a solid foundation