Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-08-29


THE ssOLD LINERs.''-It is certainly anu
sing to see the efforts that are being made by
the Locofoco party to coax into rank the Old
line Wings. The whining, pitiful attempt of
our neighbor last week, to convert Mr.. Full
TON, q and the humiliating concessions he
makes, ought to be enough to disgust both
Wings and Democrats who possess spark of
honor or manliness. He goes SO tar as to ac-
knowledge that they sdisgraced themselves by
attacking the character of HENRY CLAY, and
whines, like a sick spaniel, to get the votes of
the party, that for years they have thus SLAM
dered and maligned.
Poor miserable, crushed-out Locofocoismi J
They havn't the spirit of a sick louise, but fall
trembling upon their knees, and beg for assist
ancc at the hands of that party they havefeught
and slandered, and prescribed, from year to
spoils' are about to pass from their grasp, and
they cling to them with death-clutch. They
know that they are about to be taught the les
son that few political hacks and wire-work-
ers about this town, have not an eternal lein
upon the offices of the county, and they cry "a
loud to those whom they have heretofore spurn-
ed and despised, to help them to retain them !!
Arc the old line Wings prepared to do bat
tie under their pie-bald flag? viii they assist
them in retaining in their clutches the spOils
they have SO long enjoyed, and still continue
to be satisfied with the occasional '.crust" or
.sbone'' thrown them to keep them from bark
ing Will they swallow all the vile slanders
that have been heaped upon them and their
leaders for years, and take to their bosoms, in
fond embrace, those who have stigmatised
them as traitors, and tories, and infdels, and
fanatics, with every other opprobrious epithet
to be found in the language?
We clip the following interesting extracts
from the ssDemocratic Banner,'' published by
d. w. Moore, in Clearfield, in 1874. The first
is the conclusion of an editorial in the 37th
number of the fifth volume:
owe might mention the part Mr.. Clay took
in the dreadful affair which ended in the death
of Hon. J. CILLEY, and his Uicked and rulgar
assault upon Senator King on the floor of the
u. S. Senate, as among the rirtues which have
been added TO the character Of Mr.. Clay since
he was last before the American people. These
things will be attended to hereafter. They are
all important to the people, and must be fairly
understood before any man goes to the polls"
They ,cere :sattended to hereafter in an ar
ticle entitled :sWhat they don't tell the Peo-
pleas follows:
s.They don't tell the people, that Henry Clay
is confirmed duelist; has five times, coolly
apd deliberately attempted to take away the life
of his fellow nan, in duels; and although now
past 81 years of age, his attachment to this
bloody code, is SO strong that he refuses, in
reply to a committee of citizens from West
moreland county, Pennsylvania, opposed to
duelling, to say that he would not again in
dulge in that practice which. in the language of
Frelinghuysen, sssets the laws of God and the
institutions of Christian people at Defiance -
They don't tell the people, that Henry Clay
has been, from early youth down to the year
1874, gambler; that he gambled for money
on the 4th of July, 1S43, and so late as August,
1874; and that his habits of gambling have nev-
er, in fact been abandoned. (He volunteers de-
malls to other charges this he has never denied.
They don't tell the people, that Henry Clay
is man noted for his profanity, in public and
private. (This also is another charge which
he does not venture to deny.>
No public man in the United States, proba-
bly,, has shewn a greater disregard for the
Holy Sabbath than HENRY CLAY