Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-05-28
New Series Vol. IL, No. 29.
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ihe American Party--The True Issue.
The Philadelphia Sun, the Oldest Native
American paper in the State in taking sides
for the Union ticket, raps the Ertra- Americans
over the knuckles with considerable effect. In
late article on this subject it speaks as fol.
lows:
There are men to be found in every com.
munlty who are highly impressible and ready
to receive whatever force may be applied to
them. Such individuals are useful when thew
are placed under proper Influences, but they
generally cost more than they are worth be-
cause they require continual watching If a
designing man take the ear of this class of
men, he usually also gets their hearts, and
does with them whatsoever it pleases him.
There are many such men IN every communi-
ty, some Of them good men, but who are ca
silly misied, and they are taken advantage of
by designing men, who live in large cities by
watching for and taking advantage of what
ever excitement may turn up.
1t gives US pleasure to be able to state that
very many Of the thinking men of the Am,
erlcan party have given US the right hand of
fellowship for the campaign, In view of the
decided stand we nave taken in favor of Mr.,
Wllmot. These men think for themselves
and are not to be deceived. by the hyena cry
and speclous arguments and crude sophisms
OF men who can never rise to the dignity of
being considered even respectful politicians.
But these demagogues, who fail to become
locotocos merely because they can do loco
dirty work more effectually by remaining
with the American party, leave no means un-
tried to keep simple minded citizens hurraine
for principle, while the locos, through the
divisions of those who ought to be friends,
sneak into the best Offices, and the pretended
Americans get their reward.
That such miserable, paid Hessians. soul
and body sold tricksters, are now engaged in
the sinister effort to induce foolish men to get
up separate ticket, is beyond all cavil-that
they are sustained by hypocrites calling them
selves Americans, is equally beyond dispute
Let our readers look around for themselves
and they will find that the men who are most
ciamorous against David Wilmot as an Amer
lean candidate, and who seem to affect a holy
horror at any man in the party voting for
that true son of Pennsylvania. are the very
ones who few years ago were active in their
endeavors to bring about compromise, or
union, or amalgamation, or anything you
please to call it.
Aye, the doubly distilled trimmers who are
now brawers for one sided tickets, are the
very worthless who gained all they now have
by union of Natives and Whigs-are the
very men who, when it suited their purposes,
were the advocates of free soil and the con-
temners of that portion Of the mercantile in
terest which was always suspicious of the
party which did not altogether ignore the
sentiments on the snbject of slavery. But
times are now changed, and these men have
changed their tactics, and, precious Ameri-
cans rs they seem to be- they dare not advo-
cate the doctrine of the party they profess to
belong to, and say, like men, they are entire
ly opposed to any further slavery extension.
Now, the question is reduced to this.and
every Pennsylvania is called upon to vote
upon one side or the other-shall the rich
mans monopoly of labor in the States be pro-
tected, in Pennsylvania by Pennsylvanians,
or shall we stand by and advocate the poor
mans labor-his own labor, that by which
his family is supported on the soil of Penn
sylyania? Disguise it as demagogues may,
that is the true question, and the Philadel-
phian and Pennsylvania who is net man
enough to declare in favor of himself and his
fellow citizen of his or their State, is not fit
to live In this State, and we feel quite sure q
Southern man would consider his worst slaves
disgraced by association with such Penn
sylyanian. The man who viii not strike
blow for his own State is not fit for any State,
and would, In different emergency barter
away the liberties of his country. Show us
the man who is not proud of his own State,
who does not prefer her interests before all
others, and you shall look on the man who is
unworthy the name of an American citizen,
and who is ready for anything and everything,
if thereby 8 thrift may follow fawning."
Who, of the most reckless and unprincipled
of his detamers, will dare say David Wilmot
is not a staunch and true friend of Pennsyl-
yania? Can the same thing be said of his
opposers? Who will de'y that David VIII
mot is a sincere friend of the farmers of
Pennsylvania-of the free laborer's rights
of the free wages of free mechanics in oppo-
sition to owned laber and its consequent mo-
nopoly by privileged few? viii free white
men of Pennsylvania oppose Mr.. Wilmot be-
cause he wishes to secure for them in Kansas
and Nebraska the rights and privileges which
they now enjoy in Pennsylvania? Never,
never. We know we can speak for the true
sons of Philadelphia, they will never sell their
birth right to the heritage of freedom, and
stamp tho noble, manly brows of free labor
with the base, servile brand of Locofoco sub
seryiencv m monOnOlists and tyrapts