Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-06-10
cLEARrIELD. PA, JUNE 10, 1s5'
AG1AncE AT A FEW FACTS

GLRNCE Al a FEW thCIS.
Immediately after the elections last fall, and
on several occasions since, we expressed the
belief that the more prominent of the s'sidc-
door'' leaders would attempt to play of in the
approaching Gubernatorial contest the same
game of duplcity and deception, by which
they, in the Presidential contest, succeeded
but too we'll in dividing the Opposition to Lo-
cofocoism and its Roman Catholic adherents,
and thereby gave the electoral vote of Penn
syvania to Buchanan. We thought we had
good and sufficient reasons for forming such
ar opinion, and the sequel shows that we were
not mistaken.
On the 25th day of March last, a State Con-
venton, composed of Americans and Republi-
cans, assembled at Harrisburg, in pursuance of
n call issued by the members of the Legisa-
ture. Both branches of the Opposition TO Lo-
cofocosm were well representative fact 1T was
the largest State Convention, we believe, ever
held in Pennsylvania. Each had fair repre-
sentaton, a fair voice in the deliberations of
tho body, and all were well satisfied. That
Convention, made up of some of the best and
most influential men in the State, representing
the American as well as the Republican senti-
ment, nominated Hon. David Wilmot, of Brad
ford county, for Governor, Hon. William Mill
ward, of Philadelphia, for Canal Commission
er, and Joseph J. Lewis, Esq, of Chester
county, and James Veech, Esq, Of Fayctte
county, for Judges of the Supreme Court. Mr.
Wilmot is known to entertain, and has express
ed as good American sentiments as any man
in the Commonwealth, and his determined op-
position to the extension of slavery and the
aggressions of the slave power, is well known
to every one. Mr.. Millward is said to be an
excellent man, and by the decided stand he
took for the union electoral ticket last fall,
won hosts of friends. Mr.. Lewis is represent
cd by those who know him as a man of ability
and every way well qualified to fill the office
for which he has been named. OF Mr.. Veech
have some personal knowledge. He is an
estimable man, possessed of far more than or
binary ability, and qualified to discharge the
duties of the station for which he Is named,
with honor to himself and credit to the Judi
ciary. The political antecedents Of these men
are such as to commend them as strongly to
our American as to our Republican friends.
Now let us see what has been the course Of
the 'side-door' leaders. They pretended that
the squire Americans would have to be gui-
ded by the action of their State council, which
convened at Altoona sometime in April. That
council endorsed aud ratified the nomination of
Wilmot and the rest of the ticket, by deci-
ded majority. But this did not Hserye their
purpose" !" and hence they issued call for ano-
ther Convention, which met at Lancaster a
few days since. Not over or 10 countless we
see, werc-rcprcsented. The proceedings were
s'ricb, rare and spicy and the farce was en-
tirey played out-nominations made, and
after several Intellectual attempts, they were
finally declared unanimous. If Baron Dubois,
this affair, well might he have exclaimed, as
he did on one occasion, ssVot a country, vot a
beeples.' And now il will require no pro-
phetc vision to foresec what pulling and
blowing will be done about these pretended n
merican nominees, and we shouldn't be sur
prised TO see the Locofoco papers praising
them unreservedly, for we think the design of
the whole affair is to aid Packer & Co. Any
one that cannot see this, deserves rather our
pity than our censure :; and we will now only
yet express the hope that sensible and reason
able men will not permit themselves to be de-
ceiyed and led astray by the political tricksters
who are at the bottom of the e-movement, and
whose political integrity can only be regarded
rs OF the most problcmatical character.