Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-10-28
The Tariff.
To the People of Pennsylvania.

FELLOW CITIZENS A great victory having
| been achieved we desire, the part of the
committee Of IS. appointed at a meeting Of
the friends Of the national industry in all its
branches, held inths city on the 18th of June,
to offer you our congratulations, not only for
the triumph ITSELF but on the proof il furnish
es of the following facts
That, in the necessity for protecting the far
mer in his efforts for bringing to his door the
market for his products, and thereby econo-
missing the tax Of transportation, Americans,
Wings, Democrats, and Republicans, have
found the solid platform on which they may
securely stand:
That men of all pursuits of life-farmers
and mechanics-miners and furnace men
iaborcrs and captalists-traders and trans
porters-have arrived at the knowledge, that
they have common interest in endeavUring
so 10 diversity the demands for labor Is to
bring together the producers and consumers
of the country:
That they are awake to the destructive ten
denotes Of a system, which burthens the ma
ton with foreign debt that already counts
by hundreds Of Misunderstanding the re.
mittance of probably thirty millions of dol
lars, annually, for the payment of inter st
alone:
That they are unwilling further to sustain
policy which condemns their own coal and
ore TO remain useless in the ground, while
draining the country of the precious metals
70 pay for foreign iron:
That they do not desire longer to be COM
PEELED to pay for foreign labor, while Amer
lean laborers are badly fed and clothed, be
cause unemployed;
That the belief in necessity for total
change in our domestic and foreign policy is
rapidly becoming general throughout tie
State:
That it needs but union among ourselves
to secure the permanent adoption Of system
that shall restore prosperity to the people,
harmony to the relations Of the States, and
dignity and character to the administration Of
the federal government.
The power to accomI lish such a change,
fellow citizens, is in The hands Of Pennsvlva.
MIA, and it is needed only ,nat che exercises
it. Placed as she :. etwcen the rurth ard
sonth-great a. she i in her natural resour-
ces-powerful az she j.. by reason Of her
wealth and ptpuIatpn->he may. if she will,
guide and direct the policy of the Union
Blind, however IT, her true interests, she has.
Dlt ton often. bound herself t. the ear Of
some ambitious aud unprincIpled demagoxue
who, III consideration pf favor 10 himself
has helped ~ sacrifice her dearest interests
lending his aid To The closing Of her mills and
furnaces and 90 the expulsion Of her work.
men, and thereby deprivng her farmers Of
Inc advantages resulting from having a mar
ket near st hand. The consequences exhibit
themselves in the fact that she has had no r..
al influence in the Union-hcr votes having
been obtained by means Of frauds like that
Of Polk, Dallas, and the tariff 81 A." while
she herself. when asking attention 10 her in
tcrests, has been treated a. mere rauper.
seeking 10 be fed Mt the public ost. Such.
fellow citizens, have been the effects of per-
mitting herself to be led, when She should
have placed herself in the lcad--of endorsing
the opinions Of others, when she should bold
iy have proclaimed her own
The true Pennsylvania policy knows 70
North, no South, no East, no West-it be-
ing that which tends to promote The coed If
all, whether farmers or planters, miner~ or
manufacturers. makers Of railroads or own
ers Of ships. 1t Is that policy which seeks Is
obtain perfect freedom of r0mmc-.eaH 7gu,.f-
selves, and with the world at large hy NEAR.
Of such measures Of protection as shall ena
bic all 10 unite in the effort to increase ne
prodactiyeness Of the labor of each and all
there being a perfect harmony in the real
and permanent interests Of every section Of
the country and every portion Of our popula-
ton. That the existence Of such harmony
may have the chance Of being fully demon
strated, but little is now required, except
another long pull, another strong pull, and
another pull all together, by the mcr Of the
Keystone State. To that end we invite your
further co operation-pIcdging ourselves, that
in the effort for its accomp mplshnent, cur city
will fully perform it, share Of the work.
Henry C. Carey, j W O'NeiH.
James Mil;len, William Elder,
William d. Lewis, Thomas Balch.
G. n. Eckert.
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