Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-09
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in essence what it has been-the earnest champion
of Liberty. Progress. and whatever will conduce
to national growth in Virtue, Industry, Knowl-
edge, and Prosperity II will continue to urge
the emancipation not only of the Black laborer
from chattleism and legal impotence, but of the
White likewise from Land Monopoly. Intempcr-
ance, Ignorance, and that dependence on remote
Markets which paralyzes exertion by denying to
Toll any adequate and morally certain reward.
Believing that the chief evil of cur time IS the in
ordinate multiplication and disproportiou of Non
Producers. 1t Will continue to against whatev-
er tends to degrade Manuel Labor or deprive il Of
its just and fall recompense. 1t will infexiby
commend the policy of winning hither from Eu-
rope the Useful Arts. and, wherever they may be
needed, the Artisans as we'll for whose products
our country IS now running reckessly into debt,
while our laborers roam in fruitless quest Of en-
ployment leaving their children in want Of bread
though the farmer Is too often compelled to sell
hiscrops at N ost inadequate prices In shortw
battling against Filibusterism and every other
manifestation Of that evil spirit which seeks thro
the spoliatiOn Of other countries that aggrandize-
mcnt which IS to be truly attained only through
the due development and cultivation of our inter
nal resources, it will urgently advocate a more ei
tectiv.ly discriminating Tariff, the Freedom OF the
Public Lands, the construction of Railroad from
the navigable waters of the Mississippi to those
OF the Pacific, and every other measure which
seems to Us calculated to enhance the dignity
or the recOmpenSe of Labor and prt mote the
well-being of Mankind
he '.irrepressible conflict between Darkness
and Light, Inertia and Progress Slavery andF Free
dom. moves steadily onward Isolated acts of fol-
ly and madness may for the moment give a seem
ing advantage 10 Wrong; but God still reigns and
the Ages are true to humanity and Right. The
year 1850 must witness memorable conflict be-
tween these Irreconcilable antagonists. The ques-
ton-"Shall human Slavery be further strength
ened and difused by the power and under the Dag
of the Federal Union l' is now to receive mo-
mentOus if not conclusive answer. Land for the
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battle-cry of the embodied Millions who. having
just swept Pennsylvania. Ohio and the Northwest.
appear in the new Congress. backed by nearly ev-
cry Free State. to demand recognition of every
mans right to cultivate and improve a modicum
of the earths surface wherever he has not been
anticipated by the States cession to another Free
Homes and the conservation of the virgin soil of
the territories to Free Labor-two requirements,
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