Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-01-16
s. B. ROW, EDlron AND PnopnIEron.
cLEARF1ELD, PA, JANUARY IS. 1856.
WORD IN SEASON.

WVhD IN SEASUN.
Effort, it is said, is the price of success in
every department of human action. Nothing
can be accomplished without the exercise of
the physical or mental powers. Every a.
chievemcnt Of art, science or literature are the
result of labor-constant, unremitting toll.
No system of government has ever been framed
in the haunts OF findolence-no nation has ever
attained to any degree of eminence whatever
by reclining in the lap of apathy-and no great
purpose can be consummated through inatten-
fion and carelessness.
The truths which are thought to be contain
ed in the above briefparagraph, we would have
every member of the American party ponder,
study well. If there is any one thing which
VIC would impress upon those who belong to
our party more strongly than another, it is that
of constant, harm action. There never
yet was party successful that failed to exer-
else it. This the great apostle of modern De-
mocracy we'll knew, and it was his constant en-
deavor to have the party move and work like
ga urit.'' And should we not profit by the
opinions and experience of othersl Should
we not try to avoid the errors which have in
volved others in defeat, and practice those es-
Eentials which insure success? If we act wise
ly, we certainly will.
sin union there is strength is truthful
maxim, and to its faithful and incessant prac-
tice by our revolutionary sires, are we at this
day indebted for that great boon, which is qua
ranteed to every citizen of this country-civil
and religious liberty. The perpetuity of these
blessings depend, beyond doubt, upon just
exercise of constitutional rights and privileges
and proper administration of our laws. 1t is
conceived by very numerous class of the cit
izens of the United States, that is so
we'll calculated to perform the functions ind-
Gated as the individual who has been reared
beneath the folds of our own ssstars and
stripes" The rejecting mind will have but
little difficulty in arriving at such conclusion.
1t is not to be expected that person, imbued
with the sanguinary doctrines of the Red Re-
publicans of France, the deistical fallacies of
the infidels of Germany, the agrarian views of
the enthusiasts of Ireland, or the absurd and
superstitions opinions of the bigotted Italian
dsvotee, would, at least until radical change
had been effected in his antecedents, be pro-
per expoander of our constitution or in any
. way To laws LOT either our IN
diyidual, state or national government. OF all
foreign influences, however, that might be
brought to bear upon the political institutions
of this country, it is presumed that none would
be more perncious than that of papal ecclesi-
astical-for its proclivities are, as well as its
practices have been. at variance with the fun
damental principles of Freedom. Nor does it
require any special or elaborate argument to
demonstrate this; fGl if We but glance over
the face of the earth, the truth is at once ap-
parent that in those countries where cathol-
cism has the supremacy, there despotism is in
variaby found to prevail. The restraining,
therefore, of any and all influences that would
prove deleterious to the principles of liberty,
subyersive of our republican institutions, or
productive of evil in any way to our Govern
ment, should be carefully guarded against =
and it is for the accomplishment Of such pur-
pose, by securing the success of our party,
that we urge our American friends to work
constantly and unitedly.