The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-11-04
TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA.

/ FELLOW -CITIZENS:-A great victory
having been achieved, we desire, on the
Committee Of Seventy Six. appointed at
a meeting of the friends of the National
Industry in all its branches, held in this
city on the 5th of June, to offer you our
congratulations, not only on the triumph
itself, but on the proof it furnishes of the
following facts:
That, in the necessity for protecting
the farmer In bis efforts for bringing to
his door the market for his products, and
thereby ecouomizing the tax of transpor-
tation, Americans, Wings, Democrats and
Republicans have found the solid platform
which they may securely stand
That men of all pursuits of lfe-farmers
and mechanics, miners and furnace men i,
latorers and capitalists, traders and
trausporters-have arrived at the knowl-
edge that they have a common interest in
endeavoring SO to diversity the demands
for labor as to bring together the produ
GERS and consumers of the country.
That they awake to the destructive ten
dcncies OF system which burdens the
nation with foreign debt that already
counts by hundreds of millions-requir-
ing the remittance of probably thirty
millions of dollars annually, for the pay
ment of interest alone:
That they are unwilling further to sus-
tain policy which condemns their own
coal and ore to remain useless in the
ground, while draining the country OF the
precious metals to pay for foreign iron:
That they DO rot desire longer to be
compelled to pay for foreign labor while
American laborers are badly fed and
badly clothed, because unemployed:
That the belief is necessity for total
change in our domestic and foringD pol
icy is rapidly becoming general through
out the State:
That it needs but union among our
selves to secure the permanent adoption
Of system that shall restore prosperity
to the people, harmony to the relations
of the States, aud dignity and character
to the administration of the Federal Gov
ernment.
The power to accomplish such change
fellow -citizens, is in the bands of Penn.
sylvania, and it is needed only that she
exercise it, Placed as she is, between
the North and the South--gre at as she is
in her natural resources--powerful as she
is, By reason of her wealth and popula-
tion--she may, if bhe will, guide and di-
rect the policy Of the Union. Blind,
Lo-orcr ~ bar tr,a ;rt,,actS cLo Lou
but two often permitted herself to be har-
messed 10 the car Of some ambitious and
unprincipled dem agogue, who, in consid-
Grafton Of fayors to himself, has helped
to sacrifice bis dearest interests-lending
bis aid 70 the closing of her mills and
furnaces and to the expulsion of her work
men, and thereby depriying her farmers
of The advantage resulting from having
q market near at hand The consequen-
ces exhibit themselves 10 the fact that she
has had no real influence in the Union
her votes having been obtained By means
of frauds like that Of POLK, Dallas, and
the Tariff OF 'I2, while she herself, when
asking attention to her interests, has been
treated as mere pauper, seeking to be
fed at the public cost. Such. fellow -citi-
zens, have been the effects Of permitting
herself to be led, when she should have
placed herself in the lead-of indorsing
the opinions Of others when she should
boldly have proclaimed her own.
The true Pennsylvania policy knows
no North, no South, no East, no West
it being that which tends to promote the
good of all, whether farmers, or planters,
miners or u auufacturers, makers of rail-
roads, or owners of ships. 1t is that pol
icy which seeks to obtain perfect freedom
of commerce among ourselves, and with
the world at large, by means of such
measures Of protection as shall enable all
to unite in the effort to increase the pro-
ductivnesS Of the labor of each aud all
there being perfect harmony in the
real and permanet interests of every Sec
ton of country, and every portion of our
population. That the existence of such
harmony may have the chance of being
folly demonstrated, but little is now re-
quired, except another long pull, another
stroDg pull, and another pull all together,
by the men of the Keystone State. To
that end We invite your further co.opera-
ton, pledging ourselves that, in the ef-
fort for its accomplishment, our city will
fully perform its share.
HENRY G. CAREY, \
JAMES MILLIKEN,
WIN. d. LEWIS, Committee
G.. n ECKERT, of
j. w. O'NEILL. Correspond.
WILLIAM ELDER, ence.
THOMAS BALCH,
PbiIaoelplaa, Oct. 20, 1853.
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