Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-10-01

7 the Presidential nomination; then came the
! Kansas y ebraska act by which that great com
promise line was repealed, and by which it il
asserted that slavery may walk all over the ter
ritories of the Union. -zr.e- 2
| Were you Wings, or were you Democrats
| for at the time of which have been speaking
| you were all one side or the other; your SYM
pathies lay with one or the other of those great
| parties. / care not what you were, have in
culcated Your doctrines. And win you now
abandon them? Why will you now fail TO sus-
tain them Why viii you not now stand up
| for what was your doctrine, as it had been the
doctrine of the Adamses, Of HARRISON and of
Taylor, on the one hand, and OF Jefferson, of
Jackson, of Madison, of Van Buren,, and of
Polk, on the other-as it had been the doctrine
of the great Washington-too great to belong
toselther, but belonging to all parties and to
all countries9 IUnbounded applause Why,
I say. will you abandon the doctrine in which
you were reared, and which has the sanction of
all the great patriots and statesmen, whose
names you revere, whose memories you love
ask it, whether You be Buchanan men, or
Fillmore men for in the one case you are ask
ed to oppose the doctrine, and in the other you
are asked TO vote for man who does moi tel
you lrhich side Of the great issue he stands.
TApplausc. l'
Now, my friends. shall slavery be permitted
to go beyond the line IA general response
IIOHl Tue Vi ''Ho. no. 4 NJ. iSCt
Pennsylvania answer, as with one voice-ssno.'
[Deafening applause for several minutes.1 The
power is in our hands. Maine and Vermont
give us the voice of New England; Iowa gives
us the voice of the West and LET the great
old ssWheel-horse of the Union,'' Pennsylva-
MIA, stand firm, and freedom win be establish
ed forever in those Territories, large enough
to make thirty-one Pennsylvania. [Long
continued cheering.l We TO settle the
question. 1t is feared by the friends of free
dom that we will settle ii upon side issue ; it
is hoped by the friends of slavery that we will
settle it upon side issue.
/ have had handed to me since / came upon
the stand, by a gentleman who sits beside me,
a copy of the Madison Journal, published in
Richmond, Louisiana, which has at its head
| the names of James Buchanan, of Pennsylva-
MIA, for President, and John &. Breckinridge,
of Kentucky, for Vice President. He has cal
led my attention to a paragraph, which | will
read -
Mn FILLMORE NOT TO DE New
Orleans PfcayNHe has dispatch from W ashing gton,
dated the 18th, to the effect that Mr. Fillmore is not
| to be Withdrawn. We are glad to hear it. Mr..
Fillmore may, by continuing candidate, yet save
the cause of conservatism, by preUeRttHg the corr
centration Of The entire opposition in the North
| upon Fremont. No one has the least idea that he
carry single State, but he may. possibly. pre-
vent the success of Fremont in single one and
thus give wider margin to the nationality of Mr.
Buchanan's election"
| -hen Oh ennSNlNanla. are you Wiling TO De
| the cat in the hands of the monkey to pull so
| great chestnut as that out of the lrei Laugh
| ter, and cries of sSno, no."l Workingmen of
| Pennsylvania. merchants of Pennsylvania, far
| mers of Pennsylvania, are YOU willing to be
used by the trading politicians of the South,
and induced to vote for a man who, they say,
has not a chance to carry single State, in or
der that Kansas first and then all the territory
through to the Pacific, may be shut against
the free white laborer-againSt wagcs-against
| the hopes, the enterprise, the prospects OF the
! poor man OF the world Many voices, s.no.
| never.''l Stand upon theConstitution stand
| firm for freedom; plant your feet were Wash
| ington and Jefferson stood plant your feet
| were Polk stood, with Buchanan beside him,
! in 1913. and say, s'Thus, far, accursed instiu-
| ton, thou shalt come thus far thou art pro-
| tected by State institutions, and as we are 10y
al to the Constitution, we will defend you
there ourselves but beyond that, by the grace
of God, and by the power Of a freemen's vote,
you never shall CO." IGreat applause.l
What is it, my fellow-ctizens, that they ask
| of us : What have we not done for that fret
| ful, peevish, boasting lazy South Why, we
| have bought them Florida we have bought
| them the Louisiana territory we have bought
| them the Missouri territory. We have bought
| them, not by our money and our labor alone,
! but by best blood Of our sons and brothers, the
territory Tcapable of making four large Statesl
known as Texas. We have expended between
eight and nine hundred millions of dollars
| in interest and all, very nearly thousand
millions of dollars-in acquiring territory
| which has all been made into slave States /;
freedom has obtained no foot of it, TheStates
| TINS acquired are Florida, Louisiana, Arkan-
| sas, Missouri and Texas. They send to the
| House of Representatives sixteen members,
while they send to the Senate ten Think of
| it, my fellow-citiZens; it takes over ninety
thousand of you to get representative in
| Congress, while twenty seven thousand white
people in Florida get one representative and
| two members of the United States Senate
Those five States, with people enough to give
| them sixteen representatives have ten men,
| bers of the Senate, while New York, which
| has thirty three members of the lower House,
| and more than twice the number of people
! than all these States contain, black and white,
| has but two Senators. Pennsylvania, with her
| large population, almost doubling that of those
| States, has but two Senators.
Now, my friends, shall Kansas be made a
| slave State. in order that with few thousand
people there and their slaves. she shall have
as many votes in the Senate as New York or
| Pennsylvania. / say sswith but few people
and their slaves,'' because, let slavery get
| footing there, and Kansas will be no more
| largely peopled in proportion to the square
mile, than Texas, or Louisiana, or Florida is
now. Why The reason ia very simple
one. There is no law on the statute book to
prevent you, my overworked working men
| from emigrating to the South. There is nc
| law Of that country which forbids you, pool
men, who feel that you are working for made
quate wages, from making your home in the
South, where the climate is genial, the soil
| better, the season for fuel shorter, and where
there are thousand advantages which we do
not possess here in the cold North. Why dc
you not go? You cannot, though there IS nc
law to prevent you. am mistaken; shoulo
have said, there is no law upon the statute
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