Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-09-03
From the Phila inquirer. Aug. 7. 1852

FROM the fhlla inquirer. aug. q fSbZ.t
Programme OF the Democra ic State Central
Committee-The Rebellion TO BE- Crushed by
Campaign Agains. the Abolitionists
In the review of the address of the DEM
ocra,ic State Central Committee, which was
made in these columns, on Tuesday last the
subject was by no means exhausted. That
paper is lengthy and elaborate. and very sug-
gestive. No single criticism is sufficient TO
expose Thoroughly the false and dangerous
ground upon which it proposes to place ONE
half of the voting population of Pennsy ylvania.
We therefore recur 20 the subject.
1t is not necessary to recite the substan ce Of
our former observations, as they are too re-
cent TO be forgotten. Ii is sufficient to state,
in substance, that the ground there taken was
that whatever may be the purpose of the ssAd-
dress" its effect wi II certainly be to make he
vexat ious, irritating and distracting question
of slavery the sole element in :hc coming cleo
tions in this State. This is wholly unneees-
sary, and, at this time, pregnant with mis-
chief. 1t can do no good, and may do infinite
harm. The slave system Of the South has
been theme of active controversy for more
than thirty years. Many times during thar
long period the dispute was angry, bitter and
threatening. For the last sixteen years the
strife upon the subject has heen incessant
yet there has been no approach to satisfac-
tory conclusive settlement. There has been
compromise after comprorn Use, hat no finality
no end TO the conflict, nothing but division.
Ii first rent asunder one of the most powerful
and popular of our church organizations; it
then split the great Wing party into trag-
mentS, leaving the National Democratic par
ty as the principal or only bond of union be-
tween the North and the South, 1t then dis
rupted that, and now has its evil hard at the
throat of the Union. Having thus shown it.
self to be incapable of Observation-Disclosures ia g
punged the people into a fearful internecine
war-having brought the American Union to
the verge of destruction having accomplish.
ed all this evil, it is now gravely proposed by
the auth orized organ of one of great po-
litical parties to carry this fatal theme of dis
cord once more into our elections as the sole
subject for discussion. Now. when the coun-
try is divided and at war. growing out of this
very subject, and when it requires the united
and concentrated strength of the Loyal States
to defeat Disuuion in the South, it is propo
sed that We shall now proceed to use it to di-
vide and distract the North. When suicid5
comes to be accepted remedy for saving
life, this extraordinary prescription OF NJ
HUoHEs' Committee will be entitled to les
tiers patent.
Having thus exhibited what, in cur jud{
ment, will be the inevitable result of acquiex
cence in the doctrines of the State Centif
Committees .ssAddress,'' let us once md
examine the grounds upon which they recos
mend their people, at the coming eiectiof
to waste their energies entirely upon an aIS
Abolition crusade. They say that large nus
bers of the Rebels are in arms because of
apprehension that this Government is d
king war upon their property in slaves, q
that We can remove this apprehension I
reconcile this 'sapprehensive'' class by d ;
ting down the Abolitionists. To that we
pose this irrefragable proposition-eithe1 8
Rebels hare no such ssapprehensions, OF,
ing them, ii s,not in the porer of human '
mony TO remoue them. We believe they v
no such fears; first, because when they b
up their tratorous arms against the Gov d
ment, their system of slave labor was p
trenched behind barriers more formidable d
any it had ever possessed before. Its eI "
sion from the territories had been repeal ii
at least two acts of Congress; it had the OF
erful protection of the Supreme CouT st
friends and champions were then in the
ity in the Senate, and soon to be in a a tn
ty in the House also. The Presiden al
poweress to harm It, even if he wished az
so. But ne solemny declared, at his "
guratioD, that he had neither the desiZ "