Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-15
From tie NeW York Tribune
AN OPEN LETTER.

SIR For some time past, an anonymous and
utterly unindorsed string of calumnies and
misrepresentation, entitled ssInfdelity and
6. Abolitionism An Open Letter the Friends
of Religion, Morality, and the American u
nion," has been gratuitously flooded over
the country. have been repeatedly asked to
put my foot on it, but declined to do so, as
do not deem anonymous slanders worthy of so
much consideration. But respected clergy
man of your State sends me one of three CO.
pies of this delectable concern which he has
just received under your frank, indicating that
you are engaged in general distribution of
this tissue of lies throughout your State, or at
least among her clergymen. pay, therefore,
to you, the responsible indorser, respect OF
which the naked and skulfing libel was and is
| utterly unworthy, and proceed to expose SOME
| of the more fragrant of its falsehoods
! s.We assert, and defy contradiction. tha.
evary organization boasting iniidei doctrines is
now an organization in favor of Fremont; and
we assert also that all those desiring dissolu-
tion of the Union are openly cooperating with
these organizations"
This is grossly false, Mr.. Bigler! and you
| know it, 1t is false, that even the handful Of
|
| shall soon show; bnt all these are insignif-
| cant in numbers and power when compared
with the Southern Nulifiers and Sccessionists,
every one hostile to Fremont, and nearly all
| supporting Buchanan. In South Carolina,
those who desire and expect speedy dissolu-
| tion OF the Union are very large if not the
| larger party they hold high stations and edit
influential journals; member of the Cabi-
net (Jef. Davis) ran for Governor on the tick
ct of the estate Rights contemporaries.
| of-1S50 party; and throughout theSouth there
| is powerful interest in favor of dissolving the
| Union whenever they can no longer rule it
| You know how Bully Brooks boasted in the
| House that he could have caused 4 civil war
by merely raising his hand; You have read his
grave proposition that the South should march
upon Washington and seize the Federal treas
ury and archives, III case Fremont should be
elected, before he can be inausuratcd and
| you know that Keitt, Wise, and other eminent
Southern supporters of Buchanan, are habitu-
ally indulging in similar buster. You are
| slandering very large portion of your fellow
citizens, Mr.. Bigler, and utterly falsifying the
record, in asserting that all the dsunionsts-
or any considesable portion Of them-are
found in the Fremont ranks.
| 2. Following in the same track, your libel
proceeds to copy from The Ne,o York Standard
of April 10Th last, representing it as ga Fre-
mont Abolition organ,'' and speaking OF it a
| gain as .sthis advocate of Fremont, The Stand
drd.'' That, Sir, is 4 deliberate lie. No one
can have copied from The Standard without
knowing that it is of the Garrisonian non-vot-
| ing school of Abolitionists, bitterly hostile to
Col Fremont and to the Republican party
| 1t is as utterly averse to Frcmont's election as
you are, as your Secessionist az the South
| can well be.
3. Your pamphlet proceeds to quote from
&c The Boston Liberafor, Garrison's paper-a
{. paper that supports Join c. Fremonf.''
This, Sir, is another black, blisterng false
| hood. The Liberator supports candidate for
| Federal Office, being hostile to voting, to the
Union, and the Constitution, but especially
hostile to Fremont and the Republican party.
Columns to this effect might be quoted from it,
but the fact is notorious among intelligent
men. The Liberafor will not even supporter
rift Smith, and it never supported any Repub
lcan or Anti-Nebraska ticket. Yet the lie is
repeated, and reiterated, as if its author found
real pleasure in the simple act of lying.
4. Passing by several Insignificant or irrele-
want lies-among others that involved in cal
ling Wendell Phillips ssBoston Infidel,'' when
he is an orthodox Christian, and thcp insinua-
ting that he is supporter of Fremont, when
he is his infexibe opponent-I proceed to the
following
ssThe New York TRIBUNE is the chief par
ty organ of these infde dsununists. That
Journal has been the rescrv Dir, for years, of all
the levelling, anti-rcligious, and rcvolutioni-
ry doctrines of European ultrasts and destruc-
tives. 1t is controlled by corps, among
whom are notorious intidels 1t has opened
its columns to the revolving doctrines of Free
Love" to FoureriSm, and to the scarcely less
dangerous dogma Of '.SprituaisTa.' All the
wild, monstrous, and absurd theories of the
day, including the political equality of blacks
and whites, have found favor in its sight. 1t
is this dangerous paper, whose editor, Horace
Greedy, has assisted at public meetings OF
blacks and whites in the City Of New York
where both God and the Constitution have
been reviled it is he who has co operated with
the advocates of Woman's Rights in the same
city, where unsexed females have delighted in
addressing mobs of men in strains Of vulgar
Violence
These, Sir, are lies-gross, willful, palpa-
bic, malignant lics-and you are their respon-
sble propagator. The TRIBUTE is the organ
of no s.infidel disunionists. 1t has never been
the s'reservoir'' of ssanti-religious'' doctrines
as its readers well know. 1t has never been
controlled by ssnotorious infilels." 1t never
ssoDened its columns TO the revolving doctrines