Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-11-30
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RICHARD M0SSOP's
October 9. 1859. Clearfel5 D.
rENHE NEw-Y0RK TRIBUNE.-TbaT
Il bune-Dow more than eighteen years old ys3
having over Two Hundred thousand subsetiber.
constant purchasers, diffused through ev.,y
State and Territory of our Union-will coptinus
in essence what it has been-the earnest ch ampion
of Liberty, Progress and whatever will condue.
to our national growth in Virtue Industry KuowI--
edge. and Prosperity. 1t will continue to urge
the emancipation not only of the Black lahore,
from chattleism and legal impotence but of tbs
White likewise from Land Monopoly Intemper
ance, Ignorance, and that dependence on rer,ots
Markets which paFalyzes exertion by denying 10
Toll any adequate and morally certain rewsrd
Believing thar the chief evil of our time Is the in
ordinate multiplication and disproportiou of Non
Producers it win continue to war against wbatey
tends 10 degrade Manuel Labor or deprive it OF
its just and full recompense- 1t will infe1ibly
commend the policy OF winning hither from En-.
rope the Useful Arts. and. wherever they lnay h,
needed, the Artisans as well, for whose products
our country is now running recklessly into debt
while our laborerS roam IN fTuitless quest Of EN-
piOyment. leaving their children in want OF bread
though the farmer Is too often compelled TO ser
hIscrops at most inadequate prices In short while
battling against Flllbusterism and every other
manifestation Of that evil spirit which seeks tbro'
the spoiation Of other countries that sggrapdize-
ment which l. to be truly attained only through
the due development and cultivation of our inter
nal resources 1t viii urgently advocate more eff
fectiv.ly discrm mating Tariff the Freedom Of the
Public Lands. the construction of a Railroad from
the navigable waters of the Mississippi to those
of the Pacific. and every other measure which
seems to calculated to enhance the dignity
the recompcnse Of Labor and pruots ths
wcll-being of Mankind.
The ''irrepressihle conflict between Darkness
and Light, Inertia and Progress Slavery andF Free
dom. moves steadily onward. Isolated acts Jf fol.
ly and madness may for the moment give a seem.
ing advantage to Wrong; bat God still reigns and
the ages are true to humanity and Right. TIE
yea 4 mn Tyif,,
tween these iTreeOncilable antagonists Theoues-
uon-"chall Human Slavery be further strength
cned and dlfuscd by the power and under the dag
OF the Federal Union p Is now ~ receive e mo-
mentous if not conclusive answer. "Land for tbs
LandesS, versus Negroes for the Negroless' is tho
batte-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 eyery
man right TO cultivate and improve a mOdicu;n
of the earths surface wherever he has not been
anticipated by the State scession to another Free
Homes. and the conservation of the virgin soil Of
the Territories to Free Labor-two requirements
but one policy-nust largely absorb the attention
OF Congress through the ensuing session. 8. of the
People IN the succeeding Presidential canvass.
and, whatever the immediate issue we csrnot
doubt that the ultimate verdict will be in accord
at once with the dictates of impartial Philanthro-
py and the inaiicnable Rights of Man.
Having made arTangen ents for fuller and mora
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