Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-09-26

rfNrlrlr. scnl. IAN 1850.

thought ! Woulu ENc you bllti hCcouut
OF tho manner of conductiugo "pow-wow
i'm ono Of the little wigwams.
This mmcnsepntherng olJohn Brown.
tics. took placeat Browns school house
on the evening Of theFth inst, Of which
notice had been circulated two weeks
previous, toect ler with the announcement
that distinguished speakers would be
present to address the meeting on that
occasion. Tho time came and with il the
"distinguished speakers" and tie i'm.
mense crowd to hear them. Indeed, they
came pouring in by the wagon load from
all parts Of huston and Jay townships,
until every woolly head was on theground.
On counting all present found the audi
'ence to number fifty.six men and boys
|Of tho voters twenN.hv were Democrats
of the tfuc7slhmp, whom curiosity to heHr
1.-THE distinguished speakers" had Lronght
from their homes In the vicinity.
After they we're brotieht to order, the
first sneak er called wos C. II. Powers =
Young man Of considerable 'gab' and q
Itolerable speaker He talked n long timo
iebout the tariff, which subject he seemed
to understand about as vel as a
horse does Hebrew; stating that the
Democrats opposed Forgetting, how
ever. TO mention that the Republicans
did the same thing, Tie negro next
scame in for n large share Of bis attention,
He mourned them as a down troddcn
trace, and almost shed crocodile tears over
their oppressed condition in the South,
where they are in slavery -bnt forgot to
mention that it was worse IN the North
where they enioved freedom. He seemed
to be in great tribulation about the crtcn-
sion of S'aUerV into tie Territories po,o tre5.-
lie said if the South could get ore State
in the North or Northwest, then they
could Manufacture the same articles mat
we can but as il is now we can manutac-
ture articles that they cannot therefore
all they want is to get one more State
North toenable them To compete with rs !
Then they will control us in spite Of Our.
selves; whence he argued that our policy
was 10 keaD then, iohers they are This lum.
inous idea was enlarged upon at great
length bv the speaker, much o the ediii,
cation of the udience. who soon became
convinced that he was almost as learned
dpon the subject Of slavery rs he was ups
on the tariff The next object Of his fears,
against which he warned his hearers, was
Cuba. And here his wall was loud and
long, besceching them to beware and not
let the Democratic party elect their Pres
ident or they would have Cuba: as cold
3uck" rs he called him. had Offered two
millions or two hundred millions Of dol.
lars for it lhe had forgotten which, he
argued that if they, tthe Democrats,
suppose rs he was speaking of thnt party
get tho Island, the1 will cut it mp into
slave States and that negroes would have
TO be furnished for them. and that the
slave trade would have to be opened -
With q sublime perOration on the tenor
ofslavery this speaker concluded by in.
Producing NJ. A. Frank to tho audience.
who proceeded to sing pretty much the
same song rs the previous speaker, with
some very artistic variations, which show
ed this gentleman to be n complete adept
in drllng an audience according to the
most approved system of Republican tNc-
tics. After repeating much of the same
stale twaddle about the Democratic par
tv, and the corruption OF the present Adj
ministraton, to which headdcd the infor-.
nation that they had sent sCCTb doiL7r Of
gold and silver out Of the country, h > pro
ceeded to pitch the tune upon the negro,
and here the sublimity of his suhicct car
.ried him to heights of soaring eloqucnce
and startling revelation that must have
made him apenr to his audiece rs iflnsplr.
ed. He doubtless made many Of them
tremble i'm their boots when he male tho
startling declaration. that It breckenridge
or Douglas were elected President Tint he
and they and all Of us will have to be slaves,
that PENNSYLVANIA must have sl0res-that
Huston township must have slaves, thatwe
must have slavery on SinuemahohinC, that
we will all be driven away and slaves
nut in ourplaceS-- that we must work hv
the side Of the lousy greasy negro. 1t
was wonderful how his hearers survived
the terrors ofthat fearful though rather
inconsistent and contradictory picture so
skillfully drawn by the speaker bat |
learn that all regched thcir homes IN safe.
ty after the meeting, though some Of
them wore greatly perturbed IN spirit.
The next exercise OF his profound wis
dom was to declure-tha ifthe people on
Sinnemahoning had been compelled TO
manufacture theirlogs into lu nber be
fore they run them. the Tyrone 4 Clear
field railroad would have been completed
long before this through the entire coun-
try. He then begged us to vote for Gen.
Patton for Congress, as he was Clonrlield
man, and he .houcht every man ought to
vote for him on that account, that he
would do so independent of party. Yet
where the exercise of any Independent ce
in his voting for the Republican candidate
existed coild not exactly discover
have listened to great many Speakers
on various subjects during my experience,
but never yet met one who drew so large
lv on the credulity of his hearers as this
doughty squire And ! must say in all
candor, although with all due respect to
the Speakers and the audience, that this
meeting was the greatest "fat OUT | ever
witnessed, the greatest amount OF cry for
the least WOOL The latter, however, was
the genuine article and no mistake.
Yours, g.
g(c0 SN6trtisemrnts.