Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-10-07
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PEOPLES STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,

To tie Ffeemen Of tie State Of Pennsylvania:
1t is one Of the highest privileges of free
people that they have frequent and regular
opportunities to express at the ballot box their
approval or disapproval of the policy or
measures of their Government. Ii was es-
tabished by their will, for their good. and
should be so administered as to preserve their
liberty and secure their happiness.
In few days you will be called upon to
exercise your elective rights. and in perform.
ance OF our duty, we desire to address to Won
few words IN regard to the present conditisn
OF pubic affairs, and an earnest entreaty that
you VIII show your just appreciation of them
Dy administering stern rebuke to those who.
intoxicated with the possession of power, have
basely neglected and betrayed the best inter
ests Of the country
The course pursued by the National Ad-
mlnstration in endeavoring to force upon
Kansas an obnoxious Constitution. against
the known wishes of a large majority nf her
people, merits the condemnation of all good
citizens, and this feeling becomes indignation
when we reflect upon the unscrupulOus and
proScriptive means employed to secure this
unworthy object of the Executive.
That the first President ever elected from
our own State should thus have acted, is truly
humiliating to every Pennsylvania, but when
his whole Administration so far forgets what
Is due to the honesty and integrity Of the cit
izens of this free Republic as to tolerate no
freedom of opinion, bat to drive from Office
and exile from public station all who honestly
differ from the Executive in sentiment-all
who do not renounce their manhood. and be
come the serVIle tools of pOwer-it exhibits
love Of despotism and attempts a tyranny
hat h.. gf 4
earnestly condemn, and will witheringly re.
buke at the polls on Tuesday next.
We desire to enter into no detail i'm regard
to the Lec0mpton iniquity and its final pro-
duet, the English bill, which enables the p res
ident to postpone for years the admission of
Kansas as free State. The facts are before
the world, and upon those facts the sober
judgment Of history will be passed, affirming
your certain verdict on the 81 Tuesday of
October.
To you the consideration must be most
CALLING, that the whole time and means of the
Administration have been, and will be ex-
pended upon this unwise and wicked project,
while the calls of suffering industry as
cending daily and hourly have been entirely
uuheeded by the Administration at Washing
ton. Our workshops are closed, our factories
deserted, our mills silent, and our impover-
lshed people are pressed by the hard and gri-
ping band of want. This is but faint pie
ture Of our condition, and yet the Government
has neglected, and will sterny refuse to pro-
vide the only true remedy. that Of protection
10 home laJ0T, from base desire to conciliate
the favor Of Southern demagogues who wish
to repeal all duties or imports, and to levy
the whole of our enormous expenditures on
the lands and property of the people by di-
rect tax. The people demand, and long have
demanded, Protective Tariff to foster dumes-
tic industry and to encourage American labor,
but the National Administration is deaf to
their entreaty.
Shall we again endorse the candidates and
approve the policy of an Administration so
Indifferent to our welfare and so reckless and
extravagant in its disposition of the public
money. This prodigality alone brings down
upon the Government the condemnation of an
outraged people. 1t can scarcely be credited,
yet the facts are, as proven by themselves,
that they have by the most criminal wastefu-
ness expended in the fiscal year ending 30th
June, 1858, S92, $50, 46l
Whilst the revenues independent
of loans were only &c, ,557 500