Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-10-30
Freemen to the Polls !


Of. the mighty issues depending upon the result
on Tuesday next The voter-who fails to ex-
crcise the inestimable privilege Of declaring his
sentiments through the ballot-box fails in his
duty to his country and himself While he
who does not exercise that privilege intelligent
ly, fearlessly and honestly, is still more cuipa-
bic. q FEE
Never, in the political history Of the country
did there ever exist such necessity for an ex-
preston of popular opinion as at the present
moment 1t is7not exaggeraton to say that
the priceless liberties of our country are in
imminent danger The dearest rights secured
by the blood and toll of our forefathers,s are
threatened, for. the purpose of extending and
aggrandizing Slavery. All the safeguards
erected for the personal security Of the citizen
are broken down to add to the value of slave
property. The occurrences Of the past few
years should alarm the patriotic every where,
and arouse Northern FFeemen to action. If
we are supine while Slavery -Propagandism
forms its schemes and employs the patronage
and treasure of the country to conSummate
them, how long will it be before the white la
borers of the North will be at the mercy of
that hearless oligarchy, which, looks upon
Slavery as the natural condition of the poor
laboring man without regard TO color, and ''free
society" as failure
Frcemcn of the North are you prepared
to give up this Republic to the plans of the
Slavery propagandists Did our forefathers
pour out their blood in the Revolution for no
nobler purpose than to raise up a nation which
should devote its energies to the breeding of
niggers? Have we no higher duties, no lof-
tier aspirations, than to raise the price of the
peculiar property Are not white men wor-
thy of some consideration ? Is it not an OBJ
ject of desire with you, what shall be the con-
diton of your descendants, and what prvile-
gcs they shall enjoy in this Republic If you
vote for JAMES BUCHANAN you declare that
man to be entitled to any consideration in this
government must either. own nigger, or swear
he would be glad to, and that these "grcasy
mechanics, filthy operatives and smalGsted
farmers" are hardly fit for association with a
gentleman's body servant, and positively offen-
sive to the refined nostrils of Southern plan
ter If you vote for JAMES BUcHANAN you
declare that you are willing to degrade free la
Dor to the level of slave labor that you are
ready to bring your sons into the degrading
contact with the slave and put him beneath
the control Of that proud and seornful aristoc-
racy which looks down upon all labor with
contempt.
Laboring men ! And who of all those
sturdy farmers who make up our country's
wealth and its pride, is not truly laborer, and
looks upon idleness and sloth asa crime. Free
Laborers who till your own lands with your
own hands, and experience no feeling of deg
radiation, but rather exult in the pride of in
dustry and independence ! Arc you ready to
inauguratc an era which shall degrade your Ia
Dor, paralyze your industry, and bring you
within the control of capital Are you rea-
dy to innict upon Kansas an institution which
providence of God, you may be turning your
eyes westward to secure home for yourselves,
or for your sons growing up around you. The
fertile plains of Kansas invite you, with ca
paeity for fire millions of inhabitants Win
you doom it to Slavery, and deny yourselves
and your chidren's children any participation
therein? If you would not vote to save it
from the dangers which now environ it.
If the Freemen of the North will be blind
ed by party prejudiccs, or deceived by mis-
representations they look with indifference
upon the monstrous wrongs perpetrated upon
the Country, and the brutal outrages commit
ted in kansas-if they are not now prepared
to yindicate their own rights, assert their inde-
pendencc, and their determination to preserve
our free territories for the white man of the
North-when, We ask, do they expect to make
stand Are they willing to aid the Southern
Nullifers in their schemes Are they ready
to sieze upon Central America and Cuba !;
for the purpose of forming Great Slave
Power, which shall control the destinics of this
continent, and rule with more than despotic
sway?
In our Judgment, the action of the people of
the North on Tuesday next, will do much to-
ward answering these questions. If they elect
JAMES BrcnANAN, there is no length which the
Slave Power may not with propriety go. The
issue is clearly and broadly defined The
South makes no eoncealments- employs no
slbtcrfuges Kansas as Slave State-Cuba
and Central America-thc recognition of the
doctrine that the Constitution carries and pro-
teets Slavery wherever it goes, and that State
La dnnrinlr THAR ri1rl,t