Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-30

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/ There is no man connected with this country.
its early history and struggles, that ever raised
| his vote in support of the institution Of sla-
very, not one who has not been altogether
such as am upon this question. Jefferson
! declared that God was just and justice would
would not sleep forever. This was an utter
ance of sentiment in opposition to slavery,
and sustained by Washington, Monroe, Henry,
the Masons of Va, and others.
| Slavery is the basis of system of ariStoc-
racy-the mightiest on the face of the globe.
1t lies in combining together, in the hands
of few men, all the property of the
country, descending from generation TO gen.
Grafton an hereditary title to the great bulk OF
/ the property. The labor in it is in the South,
in the hands of the shareholders, a few hun
/ dred thousand men. This is what degradcs
/ the poor white man. Is that the case in the
North The great bulk Of the property in
| this city is in the hands of the laborng masses,
/ eminently so in the country. 1t is a doctrine
| in the South that it is the policy to enslave
labor. The opposite in the North. No man
from the South can occupy seat in Congress,
a Governor, or other high office that is taken
| liOlu lHc NOIhlHS CldSScS OF lUU people.
No poor 1nan-unless it be some rare in
stance-no non-slaveholder can be elected to
honorable positions. The condition that sla-
vcholdcrs impose upon the poor white man of
the South is degrading; degraded by contact
| with slavery; degraded, because the arm of
the poor white man is paralyzed by slavery.
| No Democratic paper here will publish these
sentiments-the sentiments of Gov Hammond, 4,
of South Carolina-but will uphold system
opposed to her own people and her own labor.
Mr.. Lumpkin said that he was by no means
willing to concede that the poor, degraded,
half-fed, half-clad, white population-four-
fifths of the whole population of Georgia,
would, by giving them employment, endanger
the Institution of slavery but such sentiments
are rarely published.
| Now what system of labor shall exist in our
| Territory? Shall Philadelphia be entitled to
position in Kansas Shall the freemen of
! Philadelphia DC entitled to their rights in Kan
sas, or shall that country be cursed with slave
~, forced upon reluctant people Shall the
| poor white men of the North be there depriy-
| ed of the rights Of freemen! Had any press
of our city sent an intelligent correspondent
| to Kansas, 1 affirm that Mr.. Buchanan never
would have been President!
| If the Ledger, which was amply able, and
which is read by most of the laboring men,
had done so, Pennsylvania would have never
| given her vote to Buchanan.
! Why, 5000 armed men went to the Terrific
ry drove the honest citizens from the polls
and this is well known to the Democratic pa
pers, but they will never publish word of it.
You talk about your frauds here. In the
name of heaven they are bad enough ,.and they
demand your earnest opposition, or your rights
are in jeopardy. But what is all this TO the
| system of frauds in Kansas, upheld by the
my OF the United States usurpation which
| is sustained by sectional President who does
not dare refuse the bidding of his Southern
masters,
! The Hon. Speaker then described the con-
dition of affairs touching the election in Kan
! sas, showing the professions of the authorities
as compared with their acts, processing that
all shall have fair shake, but taking very
good care that the Free State men shall have
| only out of 19 counties, and Ii counties con-
| trolled by the Slave power shall have 30 rep
! rescntatives. This usurpation, these outrages,
are known to the authorities and sustained by
them (by all the powers at Washington.) Is
this. then, an abstract or practical question
And we are to close our mouths on this ques-
ton, arc wei Must we go down with our
mouths in the dust and refuse to sustain the
rights of the North? There white men de-
sire to maintain themselves by their own hon
est industry.
Nv time is drawing to close, and / have
, barely time to refer to another question, the
F question of AmericaniSm. You have my let
ter upon that subject. have we'll considered
that letter, and now avow and reiterate every
word of it. l feel that there is 4 maligning
foreign influence at war with all the best inter-
ests of our country, which L am bound by all
the honesty Of my principles to oppose. /
have therefore right-a right that L shall ev-
er exercIse-to oppose this infuence-an in
fuence that is sustained by the Democratic
party-as long l live. Why, gentlemen,
10 you suppose that am not honestly oppos-
cd TO this influence? De you think that |
cannot readily get back to the Democratic par-
~ IL am not opposed to it2 Why, gentle
men, older sinners than have gone back. and
{ got their reward. I should only have to com
nit some gross act of outrage-scatch mig
F.! ger,'' or when he seeks crust of bread seize
him and put him in prison then would l have
atoncd for all my past political errors in the
sight of the Democratic party. But until this
/ party abandons the principles that govern ii at
present, l never can, and never will, whilst
God gives me reason, unite with such party