Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-02-23


In another column, we publish at length, the
bill reported from the Judiciary Committee Of
the House, to provide for the erection of q
County Poor House. The proposition is one
about which there is much diversity of opinion
and We trust that the public after carefully
examining the provisions Of the bill, will take
measures for signfying their wishes to our
Representatives in regard to the matter, that
they may act advisedly. A great many petit
tions have already been presented from citizens
of the Comfy in favor of the measure.
- ..el M "H.
B9- One of the resolutions adopted ut the
pro-slavery bunker Convention, was that the
establishment of Democratic paper in this
County, is of paramount Importance to the fu-
ture prosperity of the cause, and that we pledge
ourselves to sustain faithful organ of the par
ty." This is all very well, except that We had
always supposed that there ,oas Democratic
paper in the County, and had been, since the
Reporter was established, sixteen years past
Either the Reporter is democratic now, or
it never has been democratic And moreover,
if some of the persons figuring in the Conven-
ton are democrats now, then they have not
enjoyed Democracy long. The Reporter has
been for thirteen years under the control of
the present proprietor and editor. 1t has not
been silent during the discussions through which
the political world has gone, and we defy the
sharpest scrutinizer to point out where it has
varied an iota in its straightforward advocacy
of principles. r...a .l7n.
Men change but principles never" is an
oft quoted but trite adage, well illustrated by
some of the actors in the Convention. When
the REPORTER first enlisted in the cause of Free
Territory enlisted for the war, we give no
tice) Col. ProLLEr was with us, outstripping
all in his ZEAL Where is he now? Alas!
Z" The tempter hath snare for all" ...f
and the Colonel put off his free-soil principles
when he donned the Pay Masters suit The
President of the Convention, Gen. BARTON, he
too, stands upon the Journals of the House,
with his vote recorded for the Wilmot Provi-
so. Col MEANS (elected delegate to the State
Convention has offered in County Conven
tion resolutions affirming the principles of the
Wilmot Proviso Our old and esteemed friend
STEPHEN PIERCE, who went Buffalo hunting
our rantankerous free-soiler, CHESTER Thomas,
who wouldn't support BIGLER because he didn't
come up square against the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, with many others who have
time and again advocated the doctrine which
we advocate. Have they changed, or have
we-uW somebody tell us? Were they De-
mocrats when they were free-soiers, or are they
now? Either they were orthodox then, or are
now. If the former, then we are Democratic
if the latter, then we have no desire to be coun-
ted in. Our Democracy is to-day what it was
ten years ago-One of its articles is, Opposi-
ton to the extension of Slavery, and we shall
endeavor to labor on in the good cause, re-
gardless of the treachery aud faithlessness of
others
We agree with the resolution as its origi-
nators probably intended it. We wish those
concerned would hurry up their "organ."-
Where's VEIN FoRNEY? Can't he come up
to the help of benighted Bradford? Come,
gentlemen, don't delay The new doctrines
you have promulgated, about the Constitution
al rights of Slavery will need some expounding.
" Let us not burst in ignorance" Where is
the new Democratic paper, Col. PIoLLEr con-
graduated the Democracy was coming. "If
you're coming, why don't you come along ?"
sas- The last Montrose Democrat contains
two things which should be taken in connexion,
to thoroughly understand either, viz: The
mail route advertisement, and an attack upon
Hon. G.. A. Grow. The latter is made with
many hypocritical professions Of friendship,
under pretencc of duty, both of which those
who know CHASE best, know he is totally des-
titute of. The Democrat is at last given up,
without reserve, to the slavery-propagandists,
and CHASE is now engaged in "eating his own
words."' His attack upon Mr. GRow will only
increase the confidence of that gentlemans
constituency in his integrity and devotion to
the cause. 1t may BECOME their duty, as it
will certainly be their pleasure, to testify once
more their appreciation of his zeal and eff
cheney aud their determination to shield him
from the assaults Of the hirelings and tools Of
the Slave Power
We think that the small pttancc CHASE
will receive for advertising the Mail Letting, q
poor recompense for the inconsistency of his
attack, and the damage he will do the pro-sla-
very cause in Susquehanna. Mr.. GRow has 1
host Of friends; who viii hardly care to see