Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-05-22
TowANpA, April %, 1857.

nomination, candidate for the office of Governor, By
Convention of the Freemen Of Pennsyyan opposed tbs
leading Of the late and present National Admins
traon, which assembled the State Capitol the 25t
umo, together with copy of the declaration of principles
promulgated by that Convention
accept the position to which called By the unsolc
tied suffrage of the body whose organ you are profoundly
grateful for distinguished mark of the confidence Of my
fellow citizens yet painfully sensible of my inability proper
y to meet its obligations.
The approaching election is of ordinary interest
Important questions of State policy affecting the public vel
ure and prosperity alone involved in issues pre-
ened As of the largest and powerful Of the
reign States of confederate Republic the honor and
erests of Pennsy deeply concerned in the principles
that animate National Government She can not with
safety her independence and the liberties of her people,
be Indifferent to the momen.ous questions National
port in the progress of touching the
constitutional powers of the Federal Government and vtay
affecting the dignity and rights of free labor Nor she,
without dhonor withhold her protest against the
inflicted upon her distant Territory, under the Ii
E = of Federal authority.
The dearest rights of Feemer, secured by plain
tional guarantees ruthlessy violated the soil of
national domain. American citizens made the victims
of tyranny unknown in the despotisms of the old world
The annals of civilized and Christian nations furnish
amples of cruelty and outrage the part
towards its people, such have been endured the people
of Kansas unless they be found in the persecution of the
uguenos under Louis the Fourteenth of France, aud of
the Proestans of the Netherlands by the Duke of Ava
der Philip Second King of Spain Indeed, the barbares
which the people of Kansas have been exposed
character nhuman provoke iucreduty in the minds
of large portion of citizens Thousands have been de-
ceived into the belief that, for partzan purposes, fcons
substituted for facts although events in American
history better authenticated than the MURDERS rob-
heres
settlers of Kansas These outrage had for their object the
oubjugation Of that Territory the of Savarv
We speak Of quiet being restored to Kansas, because
ed bands of lawess do not to-day nfst her highways
and punder her peope-because her sacked
and the cabins of her settlers in flames This peace de-
= cepve and insecure. 1t will be broken the the
people Of Kansas make vigorous effort to those
rights of which they have been frauduently and violently
deprived The purpose of her enslavemen is nexoraby
pushed forward system of iDgeniousy devised fraud
kindred to that employed in the unsupaon under which
she groans being carried for the conummaton
o this great wrong To this end also the power of tie
Federal Government basey prostituted We given
ods Of fairness but persistence in the support of wrong
Every appontee of the President in Kansas active
:, worker in the scheme for her enslavement
Principles of eternal truth and justice, which lie at the
foundation of Christian civilization and upon which repose
the rights of humanity dauty assaed by the power
that controls in National Government Those truths
declaratory of the natural and nanabe rights of man.
contained the Great Charter Of liberties condemned
by highest judicial authority unmeanng and false The
sanctuary Of courts Of justice closed against entire
Of The poor and downrodden allowed to
petition for redress of their wrongs in those tribunals Of
human that should most nearly represent the
benefcent attributes of the Creator and all
In view of these nconestible factso the wrongs per-
peated against the rights of American citizenship and the
h;chn cd
its true aspec-the contests before dignity
rarely given human affairs and impose duties upon
citizens high and solemn appealed to the hearts
and conscences Of men, The question is before usrom
its demands there is escape Decide must either for
the right for the wrong Sooner later the verdict of
this great Commonwealth must be pronounced the issues
forced upon the country by the advocates Of human bondage
History will record that verdict to her enduring honor
to her everlasting shame.
The Repeal of the Missouri Restriction and the attempt
to force slavery upon Kansas by fraud and violence precp
taed upon the country conflict between the antagonsc
systems free and serve labor In the issue of this
Hc involved the Democratic character Of institutions
of Government and the independence, dignity, and rights
Of the free white aboring man and his posterity 4
Slavery is the deadly enemy Of free labor The two
not coexs the field of enterprise Either labor
will vindicate its right Freedom it will sink into de-
pendence and dishonor. Free labor is clothed with nte
geuce and power 1t stands erect in the dignity of
manhood 1t sustains by its energies all the noble usttu
ons of refined and perfectly developed social life 1t is
the source Of prosperity and national greatness Slavery
is labor ignorance and chansa brualiEcd humanity,
stimulated industry by the lash Of master 1t makes
the aborer an article of merchandise without aim and with
out hope. In the place of intelligent Citizen ready to
defend with his life the honor and interests of his country
Slavery gives the State ignorant savage be held
subection endangers the social fabric by converting its
great element of strength into an mplacabe enmity
Never in the history of partizan welfare, were men more
upusy and perseverngy msrepresened than the op
ponen the slavery This arises part from
the nolerant nature of slavery, and the weapons is