Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-08
THE CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES.


Mr.. Row II see by your paper OF the Ist |
inst. that Mr.. Hall, of Warren county. is the |
Peoples candidate for Congre SIS in this Dis |
trict. would simply ask, Who SMr. Hall, |
and what were his political predictions pre-
vious to the Kansas excitement / ask these
questions not merely from curiosity, but be-
cause feel an interest in the election of
man who will at least regard the wishes of his
constituents, and carry out in Congress the
principles upon which he was elected, which
hold the present incumbent did not do, but,
to the contrary, most wantoniy violated. :.
have never voted anything but Demo-
cratic ticket for State offices, since polled
my first vote, nor do l wish to; yet the course
of J. l.. GiIlis in the last Congress was such
a fiagrant Misrepresentation of the wishes of
the people of his district, as well as of the
principles advocated by the Democratic party
during the campaign of 1856 and those incul-
Gated by the Cincinnati Platform, that for
one cannot tamely submit to and yield him
my support again in 1858. The popular SOW
ereignty question in that campaign was the all
absorbing question, the one which elected Mr..
Buchanan to the Presidency, and the one
which elected Judge Gillis to Congress from
this District; and little did / think at that
time, when Senator Bigler and other promi-
nent orators of the day were advocating the
right of popular sovereignty in the Terrific
ries, that they were doing it for political effect
in their high positions, by the people, they
would forget all their pledges and protestations
TO the dear people, and insult their intelligence
by direct violation of all their pledges. l,
sir, am one who will repudiate such course
in representative, and teach him that he can
not to-day give pledge to the people and to-
morrow violate it, without calling down upon
himself the just indignation of an insulted and
outraged constituency, be that man even in
name a Democratic Congressman. l am a
ware, sir, that the Administration are ready to
denounce all Democrats who see proper to diff
fer with them on the Kansas policy, and
ready to read them out of the party for that
alone, no matter what their course has been
heretofore; and it seems to me as though they
think man has right to read for himself,
nor form an opinion of his own, but should be-
come subservient to their every will and wish.
If that is Democracy, / wish them to tell me
where they find it. 1t is certainly not such
Democracy as was taught by Jefferson and
Jackson. |, sir, as Democrat, am determined
to vote for no man who violated the popular
sovereignty principle as it was advocated by
the Democratic party in 1856, and aided in
Congress, by their votes, the passage of the
iniquitous English swindle in 1858.
ANTI-LECoMPToN DEMOCRAT.
~We will answer briefly the questions pro.
pounded in the first paragraph. Mr.. Hall is
citizen of Warren county, and reliable man.
He was formerly Democrat, and endorsed the
right of the majority to choose their own in
stitutions. In 1856, finding the Democratic
party had forsaken the principles of Right and
Justice, he, like Curtis and others, severed his
connection with it. he never sought nor held
an office. lie engaged but little in politics,
his time being principally devoted to the lum
bering business, in which he is extensively
engaged.