The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-11-08
FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
SLIPPERYRocK, BUTLER Co., PENN,
October 20, 1883.

SLIPPERYRoCK, BUTLER Co., PENN,
October 20, 1883.
To the Editor OF the National Era:
Although the Slaveocracy elected their Canal
Commissioner in Pennsylvania this fall by a
plurality they are decidedly in the minority in
this State. The whole moral force of the Com.
monwealth must be arrayed against them, for
the perfdious manner in which this plurality
was secured. Many circumstances combined
to insure success, which | cannot think can
ever be made available again; and not the least
of these were the Liquor Leagues, organized in
almost every county in the State, to sustain and
promote the liquor traffic. These leagues op-
Grated with an energy and secrecy, to the eff
fectuation of one idea, far surprising the Know
Nothings. This they were enabled to do more
ehectually by contrasting their secret move
ments with those of their opponents, whose pro-
scriptive course, towards Catholics and all for
eigners, was so rnagnifed as to completely en-
shroud everything else, and beguile an extern
sive foreign population into the support of that
party which seemed to fatter most their pre.
tensions to equality. Believing the secret Or
der capable of almost anything, they were east.
ly seduced into union with the Radicals to
intict chastisement on those whom they were
led to believe their enemies, while they forgot
the fact that thereby they were e.ayating to
power those whose course of policy renders
them lgnoble vassas, equalled only by the code
of Slavery in the South.
Thousands of them see now what thew have
done, and where they were blindly led. and
declare that, for the future, their action shall
be, not to inhict chastisement, but to secure the
carrying out of fundamental principles, without
which Governments are a farce.
Every man who thinks so, must see that this
is the only mode to pursue. The success of
neither of the other parties sids the cause which
we advocate hut, on the contrary, the elevation
of either, by Republican votes, detracts from the
stability of our own, and gives to the opposition
that of which they never fail to take advantage.
viz: grounds to reproach US for want of firm
ness and sincerity in the cause wa profess to
favor. Hence the opposing parties strive to
maintain their organizations, and annually de-
rive aid and comfort from those with whom
they have neither interest nor sympathy. The
only course, then, by which we can ever expect
to succeed, is, to let every party stand on its
own platform. We can have no sympathy with
those who seek to subvert our POSITIONS and
why, then, should we strengthen their hands to
do evil? Let it be, from this day, henceforth
and forever, understood that the Republican
party throughout the Union will stand by its
own principles, its organization, and its candi-
dates, discarding all prejudices as to religion
or birthplace, and our cause is one that is as
sure to prosper as the sun is to rise and set in
the heavens. l am gratifed to be able to as
sure you that in this corner of Pennsylvania the
Republican cause is in the ascendant. The mad.
ness and folly manifested by the little minds
which control the Know Nothing Order in this
quarter, the Representative elect from the 22d
district among the number, convinces the most
lncredulous that nothing is to be expected from
that organization, to stay the grasping strides
OF the Slavery Propagandists, or the desecra-
ton of the judicial ermine, when party ascend
ency Is at stake. The peculiar" tenets of
ests Of the three hundred and 6fty thousand
shareholders, are SO peculiarly BETTING the advo-
Gates of the doctrines, that an effectual separa.
ton is so extremely doubtful, that the principles
of the equal and inalienable rights of all men,
set forth in the Declaration of Independence,