Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-07-02
gaE RAJ Z TsmANss JOURNAL,
THE POLITICAL SKY IS CLEARING UP.

THE POLITICAL SKY IS CLEARING UP.
The programmes of the different parties
nearly completed; and people can now calm
ly and judiciously select their candidates ac-
cording to their principles. We say principles
for it would be unworthy of any American pa
triot to cast his vote for any man for the high
Office of President, on account OF personal
friendship or partiality, unless he believed
that his political principles would promote
the best interests of his country. To friends,
to kindred, to neighbors, we may yield much
We may surrender personal interests and,
even personal consistency, but we dare not
sacrifice our country.
Hitherto, the question has stood between
Mr.. Fillmore and the nominee OF the Loco
Foco party. We could never for moment
think of supporting the nominee of the pres
ent false democratic party, with its principles
ten-fold worse than ever before, whoever
might be his opponent. This was our deter
mination before the nomination was made
Nor has the nomination although of one OF
our respectable ncighbors), changed our pur-
pose The nomination was accompanied by a
platform the most atrocious ever invented by
human dcpravity. a platform whose planks
are Slavery, Fillibustering, and Piracy; bound
together with the cords and shaclles of hui
man bondage, and cemonted with the blood OF
the murdered freemen of Kansas.
On that platform, we grieve to say, Mr.. Bn-
chanan has placed himself, with nimble a!ac-
rity. Lest it might be supposed that he might
shun the more loathsomc parts Of it, he has
distinctly announced that he had stretched
himself so as to cover every inch Of it. That
he hugged the whole of it TO his heart. OF
course, this renders his support impossible to
all conservative mcn-to all men who love
Freedom, and hate national robbery.
Mr.. Fillmore was nominated, not by the
whole American party, but by the Southern
Americans, and those who sympathiscd with
them, north of Mason and Dixon's line
With one of the principles of the South Amer
lean party we agree. Against another, per-
haps the leading one, we protest. Still, had
the choice continued to be, between candi-
date, some of whose principles we approved,
and one, all of whose principles we condemn.
we should have preferred the former. Fortu-
nately we are left in no such dilemma. The
ICtiiio, iOdiio vi iCC-
dom,--have concurred with the Republicans,
in presenting the name of gallant, energetic
and accomplished Statcsmen-Col. Fremont !;
modest as he is bold-learned, but too retir-
ing ever to have aspired to that high place.
Possessed of extraordinary executive ability.
he has been found incompatible in every
transaction of his life. The descendant of a
Huguenot, who was driven from his own conn
try by religious persecution, he is not likely
to favor the Indulgence, or ascendancy of that
prosecuting TorrISu Fss,,rrvtt ..islS
the horrors of the 'Epeculiar institutions" and
having removed from his native s'Section" to
enjoy the blessings of Freedom. be seems a
fit person to hold the reigns of Free Rcpub-
lie.
We as American Republicans, or Rcpubli-
can Americans, we care not which, shall give
our support to the man who unites both char
acters; and who, if elected, will restrain the
aggressions of Slavery, and curb, within just
limits, the dangerous pretensions of foreign
hierarchy. In this contest the line viii be
drawn between Liberty and Slavery; between
the Southern Oligarchy and their train bearers
the Northern Dough Faces, and the sturdy,
unyielding Frecmen of the North.-Laucaster
Wing.