Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-06-13
ANOTHER FALsEHooD NAILED.

ANOTHER FALsEHooD NAILED.
The New York Tribune of Thursday, June
2. says :-One of those newspapers which Mr..
Buchanan has so literally provided with mon
ey from the National Treasury, the Pcnnsyl-
vanian, brings the following charges against
Mr.. Lincoln
ssOn the 5th of October, 1854, the first Re-
publican State Convention, in the State OF IL
linois, was held at Springfield. Abraham
Lincoln was one of its members, and CHAIR
man of the Committee on Resolutions. AT
that Convention, Abraham Lincoln, beside
repudiating all association with the American
party, read the resolution on the slavery ques-
ton, which was unanimously adopted:
"Resolred, That the times imperatively de-
mapd the reorganization OF parties, ana repn-
dating all previous party attachments, names,
and predilections, we unite ourselves together
in defense of the liberty and Constitution of
the country, and will hereafter cooperate as
the Republican party, pledged to the accom-
plishment of the following purposes To bring
the administration of Government back to the
control of first principles to restore Nebras-
ka and Kansas to the position of Free Terrific
ries that as the Constitution of the United
States vests in the States, and not in Congress,
the power to legislate for the extradition of
fugitives from labor, to repeal and entirely
abrogate the Fugitive Slave Law; to restrict
slavery to those States in which it exists to
prohibit the admission of any more Slave
States into the Union TO abolish Slavery in
the District of Columbia to exclude Slavery
from all the Territories over which the Gener-
al Government has exclusive Jurisdiction ana
to arrest the requirement of any more Terrlto-
ries unless the practice of Slavery therein ior-
ever shall have been prohibited"
This is nearly all borrowed from speech
IN Apo
81, 1858. 1t was answered by Mr.. Line oln,
who showed that there was no Republican or
other Convention at Springfield in the fall of
1854, with which he (Lincoin) had any con-
nection. As for this resolution, he had never
heard of il till it was read by his antagonist.
1t was afterward ascertained, and was stated
by Mr.. Lincoln in a subsequent speech, that
the resolution thus attributed to him was re-
ally the work of public meeting in Kane
county, of which he had been ignorant until
after Judge Douglas had affirmed that its res
olutions had been drawn up by him (Lincoln)
and adopted at Springfield.
Mr.. Lincoln's statement of the truth-fol-
lowing, as it did, in that memorable debate,
Immediately upon the false accusation of his
INSCRIPTIONS adversary-coud not well be
unknown, even to Mr.. Buchanan's journalists.
However, they are none the less ready to re-
peat the charge, adding from their own imag-
ination, that Mr.. Lincoln himself read the res
olutions in Convention of which, as it seems,
he was not only not member, but which new
er was held at all
Mr.. Lincoln concluded his exposure of this
falsehood with the following impressive words /:
"I allude to this extraordinary matter in
this canvass for some further purpose than
anything yet advanced. Judge Douglas did
not make his statement upon that occasion as
of matters that he believed to be true, but he
stated them roundly as being true. in such
form to pledge his veracity for their truth.
When we consider who Judge Douglas is
that he is distinguished Senator Of the Uni
ted States, that he has served nearly twelve
years as such, that his character is not at all
limited as an ordinary Senator of the United
States, but that his name has become of al
| most worldwide renown-it is most extraor-
dinary that he should so far forget the sugges-
Iions OF justice to an adversary, or of prudence
to himself, as to venture upon The assertion OF
that which the slightest investigation would
have shown him to be wholly false. / can on
ly account for his having done SO upon the
supposition that that evil genius which has
attended him through his life, giving to him
an apparent astonishing prosperity, such as to
lead very many good men to doubt there be-
ing advantage In virtue over vice-I say can
only account for it on the supposition that
that evil genius has at last made up its mind
to forsake him.
Do not these purgent sayings apply with
quite as much force to those advocates of the
Democratic party who repeat the untruth as
| to its original author?
SUMMERS SPEECH.-The Philadelphia Press
| speaking of the recent speech of Mr.. Sumner
says: ssIt has become the foolish fashion to
| abuse Senator Summers late speech against
the South, and to hold the Republicans res.
ponsible for the same. Now, if there is any
| one thing more reasonable than another, it is
that Mr.. Summers attack upon the South was
pretty fair Roland for their Oliver. They
bad set one of their champions upon him to
| maltreat him, and he has chosen to respond
after his own fashion, ignoring the leaders o
| his own party, and speaking for himself alone.
| This is the long and the short of it,
THE SCIENTIFIC AMERIcAN.-This excellent
paper will commence a new volume on the