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

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% STATE, CoJrxeI1. OF NEW JERSEY The Ameriean
State Council of New Jersey. net at Trenton of
Wednesday last. The attendance was very large,
some tyo hundred delegates being present The
Council made change in the ritual, which pre-
vents any member from leaving the Order by an
honorable dismission, after nomination has been
made The twelfth section Of the late Philadel-
phia Platform was most einphaticaly rePudiated,
as an u,warrantabie interpolationrinto the Amer
lean ereed of subject not pertinent to 1t, Reso-
lutions were passed protesting against the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise .-sss- rs s. ..
1t was ordered BY vote that all the principles OF
the Order shall be henceforward everywhere open
Iy avowed; and that each member shall be at lib
erty to make known the existence oF the Order
and the fact that he himself is member ---'.
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e. WILL He AccErT2-The all important question,
just now. is whether JNo- l. pAwsoS. whom he
President has appointed to succeed Coy REEpEa
tovenor of Kansas, win accept the Office tits We
ry evident that Gov Reeder's successor IS ex-
pccted to be more piable in doing the work of tIc
{south. and if Mr. Dawson possesses half as much
eIf-respect as be gets credit for he wilIrefuse the
Office as insult and tell Pierce Atchinson & Co
that they iEnst find som one else, better adapted
to the purpose, fer their tool, I o 1e l-.r s.- BE-
II President PIERCE had studied for an age how
best to offer indisnity to the State QfPennsyl-
Yania he could not have succeeded better than in
the selection of another, citizen of this Common
wealth TO replace Gov RIEDER Nor, can we
think for a moment that Mr. DAWSON, will accept
the p.iitry Office in view of this wanton insult 70
his native State. -
Tue LIoCoR LAw.-it is 10 DOUBT well known to
our readers that liquor dealers and their friends in
this State, have organized powerful secret asso-
citation for the purpose Of Obtaining the repeal Of
the Liquor Law passed by the last Legislature, and
which goes into effect in October next. 1t is said
that in Allegheny county alone they number some
two thousand five hundred, who are all sworn TO
vote for no candidates who are not in favor of the
repeal. 1t is also said that fund of S20,00o has
been subscribed for that county, and $4,000 actu-
ally paid in. ge,a E5 s4 e-o- su
In view of this state of things, it becomes tenn
perance to so earnestly TO work to sustain the
present law and see, least that it has fair tri-
al before they abandon it. We regret that it IS not
moro stringent, or rather that we have not Pro
hfbitory Law in its stead But imperfect as it IN y
be. if rigidly. enforced it Will do vast deal of
good by removing and breaking up places of re-
sort where intemperate habits are first formed
and by placing 1t beyond the reach hef those whose
wives and children starve and freeze for want OF
tire bread and fuel that might have been bought
with the money expended for liquor a law that
can be enforced for the protection of the poor i;
still worth struggle, exon though it may not be
all that is Desired. s4.s HEIEEE9is Z
But let this secret association succeed in this first
step. and who can tell the disastrous consequences
that viii result from their prestige of victory p
The facility with which they obtain funds and
the rapid increase of their numbers. should alone
alarm every honest and good eitizen.f Should
they succeed in this attempt the Sunday Law will
follow-the Buckalew law viii be repealed-and
at length, all restraints upon the nefarious traffic
will be abolished. are temperance willing
to, stand by with folded arms after long years of
labor, and behold all they hare achieved, swept
away by qne effort of this midnight gang of vam-
pyreS who feed upon the blood of widows and or
phansa Let them, then, prepare for the contest,
andldetermine that no effort shall be left unried
TO defeat enemies of Prohibition. notwithstana
ing their thorough organic atien and well filed ar
my 1t will certainly require ordinary exer-
ton to defeat Interest with priec,ple