Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-01-28
Prospects Of the American Republican Party.

ed our nrm ana determined purpose to labor
earnestly and increasingly to unite and harmo-
Bize all the elements of opposition in our good
old Commonwealth, to the destructive doc
trines of radical .stofocoism. We determin-
ed to permit nd personal feelings, no selfish
ends, no minorSonsiderations farlas;we are
concerned, to.seperate those whose principles,
patriotism and policy should identify and bind
them together. No one can point out to us
any such radical difference in sentiment on the
great questions of public policy, among Ithe
intelligent men by whatever name called who
make up that opposition, as shouldj for mo-
ment divide and distract their Councils
Whether they call themselves Americans, Re-
publcans or Old line Wings, their views on all
these great questions are altogether similar, If
not identical. Are the Americans opposed TO
the wholesale importation of foreign squalid
paupers and vicious criminals, who crowd the
avenues to the ballot boxes, and who make
our election canyasses but system of fraud
and perjury Surely there is no honest Re
publican in the land whose cheek does not
burn with indignation when he remembers that
his favorite and gallant candidate was borne
down in the late contest by the votes, and ma
ny Of them illegal and fraudulent, of this same
miserable. priest-ridden foreign rabble. Are
the Republicans against the extension of the
area of human bondage, and the curtailment
of the power of the slave oligarchy that have
been s'lording it over the hertage'' of free
men for many long years Every genuine
"American" in the State is with you heart
and soul. tits part and parcel Of his nature,
of the humanity within him. And he.iwould
be false to the dictates of his own feelings and
conscience, false to the teachings Of his youth,
the sober judgment of his manhood, aud the
instincts of 4 generous nature if every fibre
of his frame and every pulsation Of his heart
did not rebel against the extension and perpct-
uation Of a;system ;fraught with cruelty and
wrong to his fellow man, and which must in
woke upon the OppreSsorS the righteous rctri-
buttons OF Heaven. To the cold line Whig''
there is nothing new tangled or strange in ci-
ther Of the foregoing sentiments. They were,
and so long as he follows the precepts and doc
trincs of his great champion and chieftain,
must continue to be cardinal principles of his
creed. Ii is true, aspiring and selfish politi
clans may attempt to magnify minor or aleg-
ed differences. Political combinations strug-
Cling for power and asccndaucy may be horri-
fled at what they denounce as unholy alli-
ance. 1t is not of such we write, or whom we
hope to influence by the considerations we
here suggest. But il is of the honest candid,
manly indiriduais composing nearly one-fourth
of million OF free voters of Pennsylvania, of
whom and to whom we speak. Why, there
fore. should there be any division and dstrac-
tion? Divided and disjointed we can accom-
plish nothing, but the success of the corrupt
and dangerous doctrines OF the sham Democ-
racy, which we alike detest and abhor and the
prostration of the very principles and policy
about which it would puzzle the most acute
and sagacious to point out wherein we mate
rally differ.
That we shall be firmly and cordially united
in our future political contests, the signs of
the times appear to indicate with almost uner-
ring certainty. From all parts OF the State we
have the most cheering and abundant eviden-
ceS that friends will bu.y their political
feuds in the deep oblivion of the past. And
were any thing wanting TO confirm the APP
proach of dawn on our political horizon, the
proceedings of our Legislature, and the per-
feet union and harmony of the opposition TO
the Shamocracy, makes our sky radiant with
promise and hope. And the full, hearty and
cheerful response that their action meets from
the people every where, leaves nothing on
which to cherish doubt or entertain fear
We cannot refrain from congratulating our
friends throughout the Commonwealth that a.
mid all the vicissitudes and misfortunes of the
last campaign-amid the disaster and defeat
we then sustained, we still had the good for
tune to secure such representation in the le-
gislature OF the Comm onwealth, as promise
by their intelligent and patriotic action not
only wise and wholesome legislation. but bv
their example and influence TO unite and ce-
ment the entire opposition to Locofocoism in
one common effort for the success of the great
American Republican principles. Should they
persevere as they have commenced, and we
are confident they will, they will not only Sc
cure such legislation as will rebound to the
interests and honor of the State, but will in
spire our friends with courage and energy and
we will find ourselves in the next campaign.
not only unit in action, bat triumphant in
result.
Having accomplished these great results
they will have the approval of their own con-
sciences, be sustained by their constituency.
and will receive as they richly merit, the plau-
dts OF s'wel done good and faithful servants,
ATERRIBLE TRAGEDY occurred at Baltimore.
Maryland, on the 21st. y druggist filed a
prescription ordered by Arnold, German