Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-12-03
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could endorse without lgiving ground for the
accusation of disregard of his obligations to
the Union aud the Constitution, the vested
rights of the South being fully guaranteed
by It.
Still there no harm in pushing Mr. Fill
more iu the South if he was willing to place
himself in the breach, but it madness to
attempt to stem the resistless torrent of the
FreeSoil sentiment of theNorth, where almost
with one accord the people had for two years
determined to avenge the of Free Labor
and Free Speech against the aggressions and
assaults of Southrons. 1t was worse than mad
ness to push Fillmore and Fremont to each
others disadvantage in the North. Each
should have been pushed to the others adyan-
tage, and both with single eye to the defeat
of Buchanan. But while Fremont was not ur-
ged to the injury of Fillmore-the Fillmore
presses were found assuming attitudes of the
- most fatal hostility to Fremont, and through
him to the interests of the opposition. The
charge of Catholcity ingloriously urged a
gainst him, betrayed the utmost want of polit-
ical judgment in its utterers, and caused all
who desire to save the country from contn-
uation of the misrule of the last four years, to
tremble for the result, and not without cause,
since that alone lost to the State Ticket in
Pennsylvania in October, many thousands OF
votes, or at least enough to have carried the
ticket through.
The Democrats saw and profited by, and fos-
tered this feeling, and by it defeated in the
very States in which the election was to be de-
cided combination which would have been
fatal TO them. And all sincere enemies of
Calhounism, and Pierce-Douglas-D Democracy,
as laid down in the Cincinnati platform, are
left to regret that American Intelligence and
self-confdence cannot rise superior to the low
ribaldry of rowdy demagogues, and the vul-
gar vituperation of the Irish crew, which con-
stitutes the strength of the party of the ''Ins."
In all the Northern States except New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, (or if the exceptions were
more numerous it matters not, since in them
the die was cast,) the opposition finding Fill
more unavailable except for diversion in the
South or as forlorn hope on the possible
chance of its being necessary to throw the
election into Congress, adopted the fusion
plan OF action, which had been contemplated
from the beginning. In these States it was
peremptoriIy declined by theFiilmore leaders,
in obedience to sinister influence controlling
X them, and the sensitivencss of a few thousands
of the American rank and file to the epithets
of ssWoolly Heads,'' &c, lavished upon them
by jeering crowds of Celts and noisy hurrah-
boys. IfDemocrats in the South could with
impunity say they would prefer Fremont to
Fillmore on their Congressional antecedents,
and if Mr. Fillmore charged there and in
California with distinct abolition proclivities
to his fatal injury, it would have been no
more than .sa Roland for an Oliver had Fill
more men in the North claimed the right to
prefer Fremont to Buchanan.
By the miserable infatuation, if honest, by
the atrocious villainy, If unduly Influenced, of
the Fillmore leaders in Pennsylvania and n New
Jersey, the opposition defeated, notwith-
standing the acknowledged advantages it pos
sessed of nationality of views, aims and ten
denotes; and Disunon Secessionists can shake
hands with Abolition Fanatics in mutual graf
uation at the triumph of sectional agitation
over the cause Of domestic peace, and Soule,
at his sc, 600 dollar hacienda in Nicaragua can
celebrate with Walker the triumph of filibus-
terism and land-piracy over the plighted honor
of the national government, and the hitherto
untarnished name of the American people.
Against the recurrence of similar eventuali-
ties there is but one protection-and that is to
be found in immediate organization of all
opposed TO the dominant party in one united
body, careful and judicious selection of lea
ders, with the adequate diffusion of reliable
information, and its application TO the issues
of the hour, through well-directed press, up
on which the people can rely, both to facts
and the views upon which their action should
be based. a beginning cannot be made too
soon. The organization which elected jack
son in 1928 was entered upon in 1924. 1t re-
quires ''a long pull strong pull, and pull
altogether to ensure success. The Democra-
cy can dictate, must enlighten. They car
command, we must convince and persuade
They can move their forces by the tap of the
drum, and We must arouse our ranks by the
calls of patriotism and the dictates of ascer-
tanned duty. With them ssthe orders of the
day'' are obeyed, blindy and implicitly with
us intelligence and jealous vigilance has TO be
moved by the light of reason, and satisfied by
unanswerable argument. To arms! then, to
arms! Assemble! organize in wards, town
ships, counties, States! Take time by the
forelock, and be ready, all told of, to strike
for victory in 1859.
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