Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-07-16
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This charge no American, that knows any |
thing about the Pierce administration VIII oe-
ny, for with few exceptions, all the appoint
ments from the Cabinet, down to post-mas-
ters clerk are selected from the masses OF the
foreign population, and from the pro-siaVery,
incendiary border-rufian class OF inhabitants,
SO much So that the present Administration
has become noted both in Europe and Amerl-
ca. for its hostility TO almost every form OF
Protestant virtue. and the Ministers OF the
Gospel of all anti-R oman Catholic denomina-
tions, are everywhere condemned, and from
the Executive to the lowest Administration
paper, forbid to either speak or Write a.
gaiust the burning wrongs OF the Pierce dy-
nasty, under the pains and penalties of the
most tyrannical rebuke ,and withering censure.
But what else can the upright moral portion
of the people expect, when the nine-tenths OF
the thousands of office holders, under the con-
troll of the President and his cabinet, are mis-
sonaries for the extension Of human slavery,
and pioneers under Franklin Pierce, the Her
ostratUs of America, to conduct the 'ipecu!lar
institution,'' with all its social and political
wrongs, over the territorial empire of the free,
and fruitful region Of the great southwest,
until our illustTiOus Union shall be dissolved,
and like the Ephesian temple, it's only glory be
the epitaph Of its desolation. Wen 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 unpTincipled classes of both Europe and
America. The right of people to elect their
own representatives, has been taken from them;
the judges of their own choice have been driY-
en- from the polls, and drunken rufiians appoin-
ted in-ther places; the ballot box corrupted,
and all its most illustriOus privileges over
thrown; and citizens under penalty Of death,
,r.4T T-,Iy, cod to
stand aside and see their elections conducted.
by foreign mobs Of brutal rufians, electing
from a neighboring state, 4 band OF drunken
slavery prcpagandiStS, as the tit representa-
tiyes, to make laws for a 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 approx
ed of and endorsed by James Buchanan, the
present Democratic aspirant TO the executive
chair And TO complete his reign of terrCr,
Pierce has not only removed good men, from
1 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 Pennsylvania noblest sons,
and appointed in his place tie drunken and
tyrannical Shannon, who is now at the head Of
the slave power in Kansas, with his horde of
ruffianS. plund aring, imprsoning, robbiGg and
itants 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 slavc-murdering Harney appointed
in his place. viii it be denied then, that the
President Is Univiaiiy ufstIvurst ivrr',,rits
competent and honorable men and appointing
armed rufans to office
Who that has an American heart, can read
thus far the history of the present Admins
tration, without weeping over the desOlation of
his country, or burning with the patriotism of
the Revolution, to right his country wrongs.
Our Democratic fathers of Seventy-sIX, gave
up their wealth, and shed their blood, to estab-
lish s'THE 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 penalt. Of death in q territory
of the United States. And under this very
law, Printing presses have been, and are now
being broken up 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 bones to whiten the battle fields of our
/ once free, but now tettered and wounded cCUn-
| try. And yet James Buchanan the man that
| the Democrats are about to vote for, for Presi-
| dent, has sanctioned all those foreign, mOnar-
] GuItlt, dlAI DlOOu1 liNS. ana declares IldG lie
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 will finally end in the breaking
up of our Union, and the destruction of our
| Constitution. We then say to every Aneri-
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
| quire, who will be the standard bearer Of the
peopIe' We answer, the Explorer, the Hero,
and the Statesman, J ohm c. Fremont, that
/ honest, competent, and great man. who has
/ done more real good, for the American peo-
/ 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-
/ nefcent enterprise, even the savage tribes
until the banner of his cOuntTy's glory was
planted on plain and mountain from the shores
of the Missouri, to the margin of the Pacific
| Ocean, making way for the march of freedoms
/ millions until the desert regions OF the Nigh
! " west, shall resound with agricultural cities,
/ and commerce, and her industrious popula-
tion, hail John c. Fremont, the American Co
| lumbus, as the triumphant leader Of national
I freedom.
In reference to the 'RepU6lican' man, would
I prefer when he attempts to quote from me.
/ that he would do it correctly. In my last com
Inunication stated, that ':eyery owner Of five
/ slaves has four votes, and every owner of one
! thousand slaves has six hundred and one votes
4 in representation" But the editor of the Re-
/ publican declares that 1 said, the Shareholder
! had these votes at the election, and then char
F! ses me with untruth. Now almost every per-
son that has seen his effort, TO destroy the
truth, have pronounced it the most silly and
inbecile exertion they have ever witnessed
even poor old woman after reading his cat
tempt" declared she was Sorry that the Dem