Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-22
THE RAFTsMANsS JOURNAL.
JEFFERSON COUNTY.


County held meeting in Brookville on the
evening of the 18th inst, Court week.
RoBERr J. NICHOLSON was called to preside;
Thomas Dougherty, John Ramsey, John Tay-
lor, John Hnderliter, and David Haney acted
as vice Presidents; and Augustus Beyle, ST.
las j. Martin ard S. NJ. Tinthof as Secretaries.
On motion, John Daugherty, Charles Horton,
of Elk, Lorenzo HaskiIi, John f. Carroll and
B. j. Reid were appointed a committee on
resolutions.
Mr.. Mccormick, OF Yenango, then deliver
ed speech which was received with frequent
cheers.
The committee reported the following res
olutions, which We're unanimously adopted =
WHEREAS, in the great contest of 1856.
which resulted in the election of James Bu-
clIanan to his present high position, the De-
mocracy throughout the Union stood united
to man, upon the fundamental principle of
popular sovereignty, as embodied in the Gin
cinnati Platform, and enforced with SO much
earnestness and so much success in every
democratic press and from every democratic
stump in the lard.
AND WHEREAS, the universal Interpretation
of that doctrine, as applied to Kansas was
that the people there should have guaranteed
to them The sacred right of shaping their Own
Institutions in their own way, and of admit
| ting rejecting slavery according TO their
own sovereign will, freely, fully and fairly ex-
pressed, without force or fraud, or any outside
interference or dictation whatever.
AND WHEREAS il is self evident that if the
Democracy had held any other doctrine than
/ this in 1856, or had put any other interprcta-
/ tiOn upon it, we would have met with meri-
! ted de<eat at the ballot-box, and James Bu-
chanan would never have been our President.
/ Therefore.
| Resoiced, That what was Democratic doc
/ trine then should be Democratic doctrine Totc:
and that as democrats, sincerely anxious for
| the welfare and permanent success Of our
party, We declare our unalterable resolution to
stand by principles and pledges of 1856,
| let who will desert or bctray them.
Rcsolred, That we cordially approve of, and
| endorse the administration of James Buchan-
/ an, the President of our own choice, except
only SO far as regards the Lecompton constitut
| ton and English bill and as TO these we can
| not but regard his policy an unfortunate
departure from the fundamental principles to
which he and all of stood committed in
| 1856.
Rssolred, That in President Bachanan's in
augural address and instructions to Gov.
Walker, we recognize the sentiments of an
enlightened patriot and true democrat. In
! these we behold the wheat without the tares-
| the spontaneous expression of his genuine
first impulses before the evil counsels of false
| advisers prevailed over his better Judgment
| and induced him to assume the new and start
ling position disclosed III his pcciai message
| of the second of February last. In this, we
behold the tares which threaten to choke the
good seed, and devoted still to the President
We all laborcd so hard to elect we can only
| say. more in sorrow than in anger-sssOme en-
| emy hath done Mis.''
Resolred, That the course of Gov Wm. F.
/ 1l-ar ott tba hna1 of tI,a
ment of our State government, commends it.
self to our hearty and unq qualified approval.
He has proved himself an able statesman and
| true democrat
| ResoiUed, That in Stephen a. Douglas and
John W. Forney, each in his own sphere, we
recognize democrats and patriots of great abil-
ity and heroic devotion to principle. And in
| the fierce assaults made upon them by paid
presses and time-seTving politicians, merely
| because they stand firm and true to principle
when others fater and preyaricate-thcy have
our cordial sympathies, and must command
the respect even of their traducers.
| Resoired, That the democratic members of
| Congress, who, with their eyes open and their
| senses about them, voted for the enforcement
of the Lecompton constitution upon an unwill-
ing people-and when foIed in that, followed
it up by the even more odiouS iaiqCity of the
Engli Ia bill-half bribe, half threat-more in
suit thln injury to Kansas-discriminatin in
the most uncaled for manner in favor of slave
~ and against freedom-did so in violation OF
their express and implied pledges and the well
known principles of the party, and have there
by forfeited their claim to the confidence and
support of their constituents.
Resoired, That the reelection of those mem
bers of Congress by the democratic party OF
their respective districts, would be a ratifica-
ton of all their acts. and direct endorsement
OF tafundamental wrong from the consequences
OF which, We, as party, never could escape
for impartial history would record it and bring
it up in judgment against our posterity.
Res5ived, That as the principles of our party
are far above its mere machinery, and as the
true and lasting interests OF our party are par
amount to the hopes or interests of this oi
that man in it, our fidelity tor those principle:
and those paramount interests requires oil US
if We would be true to ourselves and to oul
party: to repudiatc at the polls those who com
mitted the wrong. 1t is only thus, by repudi
ating the wrong and its authors, that we car
vindcatc the party, restore its integrity, and
save it from ultimate and total defeat.
ResOired, That for the foregoing reasons We
cannot and will not support james l.. Gillis
the present Lecompton member OF Congress:
from this district, now candidate for re elec
ton.
| Resolred, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the stBrookville Jefferso
nian' and all the Democratic papers in thi.
! Congressional district, and in the Philadelphi;
ssPress.'
CLARION CoUNTY.-The Lecompton and An
ti-Lecompton democrats of Clarion county
had regular struggle on Tuesday night :
week. Both tried to get possession of tht
Court House, to hold meetings, and the LIE
comptonites succeeded. The Antics, however
held their meeting outside, and it was fully a