Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-07-16
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fans TO Office.
This charge no American, that knows any
thing about the Pierce administration will de-
ny, for With few exceptions, all the appoint
inents from the Cabinet, dowp to a post-mas-
ters clerk are selected from the masses OF the
foreign population, and from the pro-slavery,
incendiary border-ruffian class of inhabitants,
SO much so, that the present Administration
has become noted both in Europe and AmerI-
ca, for its hostility to almost every form OF /
Protestant virtue. and the Ministers of the |
Gospel of all anti-Roman Catholic denomina-
iions, are everywhere condemned, and from
the Executive to the lowest Administration |
paper, are forbid to either speak or write a.
gainst the burning wrongs OF the Plerce dy- /
nasty, under the pains and penaitles OF tne
most tyrannical rebuke and whitening censure 1
But what else can the upright moral portion /
OF the people expect, when the nine-tenths OF
the thousands of ffce-holders, under the con- /
troll of the President and his cabinet, are mis- |
sionaries for the extension Of human slavery, |
and pioneers under Franklin Pierce, the Her |
ostratus of America, TO conduct the ''pecular
institution" with all its social and political /
wrongs, over the territorial empire Of the free,
and fruitful region of the great Southwest,
until our iliustrious Union shall be dissolved,
and like the Ephesian temple, its only glory be
the epitaph of its desolatiOn. Well may the
freemen Of America tremble for the safety of
the temple of our liberty, that was reared by
the exertion, and cemented by the blood Of
our fathers, when we see the chief Magistrate
of the nation, removing competent, honest and
good men, and promoting to high official sta
tions in the Government, the incorporate, base
and Unprincipled classes Of both Europe and
America. The right of people TO elect their
ownrepresentatiyes has been taken from them;
the judges of their own choice have been driy-
en- from the polls, and drunken ruflians appoin-
ted in their places; the ballot box corrupted,
and all its most illustrious privileges over
thrown and citizens under penalty of death,
to vote for men of their choice, were forced to
stand aside and sec their elections conducted
by foreign mobs of brutal Tuffians, elccting
from neighboring state, band of drunken
slavery propagandsts, the fit representa-
! tiyes, to make laws for free people, that had
no voice in their election; and yet these un-
! natural, unconstitutional, and unchristian acts,
were all sanctioned, sustained and carried out,
by the President Franklin Pierce, and approv-
ed of and endorsed by James Buchanan, the
present Democratic aspirant TO the executive
! chair. And TO complete his reign OF terror,
/ Pierce has not only removed good men, from
/ the smaller offices of the Territorial govern
ment, and put bad men in their places, but he
! has even took from the Governors chair. (for
/ daring TO do right,) that great man Andrew II.
Reeder, one of Pennsylyania's nobleSt sons,
4 and appointed in his place the drunken and
! tyrannical Shannon, who is now at the head OF
the slave power in Kansas, with his horde of
numbering the inoffensiye, and peaceful inhab-
/ ltants of an American territory and because
/ commander Sumner would not burn the pro-
! perty, and kill the people of Kansas with as
much haste as Pierce required, he was remov.
| ed and the slave-murdering Harvey appointed
II S 9ac T. only II y be denied then that the
! competent and honorable men and appointing
I armed ruffians to office
Who that has an American heart, can read
/ thus far the history of the present Admins
/ tration, without weeping over the desolatiOu OF
his country, or burning with the patriotism OF
the Revolution, to right his cOuntry's wrongs.
( Onr Democratic fathers of seyenty-sIx, gave
up their wealth, and shed their blood, to estab-
4 lish 'ETHE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE LIB
ERTY OF THE Press to every citizen. But
the Democracy of the Pierce administration
is directly the reverse. 1t forbids both the
freedom Of speech and the liberty of the press
under the awful penalty Of death in territory
Of the United States. And under this very
4 law, Printing presses have been, and are now
being broken mp and destroyed and Ameri-
can citizens tortured and put to death, under
the horrible inquisitorial administration OF
/ Pierce, for exercising that sacred right, for
which many of our illustrious fathers have left
their boTes TO whiten the battle-felds of our
once free, but now fcttered and wounded coun-
try. And yet James Buchanan, the man that
the Democrats are about to vote for, for Presi-
dent, has sanctioned all those foreign, monar
chiai, and bloody laws, and declares that he
viii not add to, nor take from. the Pierce plat
form single plank. He is pledged then, if
elected, TO carry out all that Pierce has com
menced, which viii finally end in the breaking
up of our Union, aud the destruction of our
Constitution. We then say TO every Ameri-
can citizen, next to God, remember your coun-
try, hold sacred as your own blood, her free
dom of speech, and her liberty of the press,
for if these fall as they have in Kansas, we are
at once nation of slaves. But you may in
Equire, who will be the standard bearer of the
people? We answer, the Explorer, the Hero,
and the Statesman, John C. Fremont, that
honest, competent and great man, who has
done more real good, for the American pee
pie, in the field of discovery, science and ag-
riculture, than any other living man. In vain
the desert with its torrid heat, and cloud cap
ped mountains of eternal snow, opposed his
march. He swayed to the utility of his be-
nehcent enterprise, even the savage tribes.
until the banner of his country's glory was
planted on plain and mountain from the shores
of the Missouri, to the margin of the Pacific
Ocean, making way Tor the march of freedoms
millions until the desert regions of the Nigh
ty west, shall resound with agricultural cities
and commerce, and her industrious popua-
tion, hail John c. Fremont, the American Co
lumbus, as the triumphant leader of national
freedom.
Interference to the 'Reprbhcan' man, would
prefer when he attempts to quote from me ,
that he would do ii correctly. In nv last COM
munlcation / stated, that ssevery owner of five
slaves has four votes, and every owner of one
thousand slaves has six hundred and one votes
in representation But the editor of the Re
publican declares that / said, the stakeholder
had these votes at the election, and then char
ges me with untruth. Now almost every per-
son that has seen his effort, to destroy the
truth, have pronounced it the most silly and
imbecile exertion they have ever witnessed
even poor old woman after reading his cat