The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-11-11
KENNETH RAYNER.

= LIZ Aiouh auu mani lSitCly uVUiCsocu
to committee of the Peoples party, in
Wilmington, which we give below, will
be read with general interest. Mr.. Ray
ner has long occupied prominent posi-
ton in the politics of the country; and his
opinions, as those of conservative south
ern man, are full of significance. 1t will
be seen that, on the two great questions
of the day-the tariff and the Kansas
outrage-he occupies the same ground
that is held by national men in the north;
and it is very certain that the views be
expresses are shared by party already =
large and constantly growing, at the
south
RALEIGH, n c., October %, 1858.
Gentlemen: have received your com
plimentary communication of the 81 st inst.
expressing the earnest desire of the peo-
pies party of your city that I may visit
and address them upon the political top
les of the day." &C., &c.
Allow me, gentlemen, In the first place
to express my grateful appreciation of the
kind and fattering terms of your invita-
ton; and, in the second place, my unaf-
iected regret that pressure of business,
which cannot and ought not to neglect.
must deprive me of tie pleasure of meet
ing, comforting with, and publicly announ-
cling my views to the Peoples party of
your State, who are now struggling so
manfully with the hosts of Locofoco cor
ruption and misrule. [ deeply regret
that cannot be with you to witness your
ardor and enthusiasm (of which have
been informed in the contest you are now
waging, and to rejoice with you over the
victory which | have faith to believe a.
waits you on the night of the I'd Novem-
ber next.
There are no people in the broad Union
who have stronger inducements to resist
tyranny-none whose efforts should be
strengthened by more heart-stirring as
sociations than the people of Delaware.
No portion of our territory, Of equal area,
contributed SO many and heroic men in
our revolutionary struggle-none whose
early history is adorned by SO many il
lustrious names-Dope that has continued
to furnish our countrys service more men
Of might both in council and in action
Inspired by reflections such as these
situated as you are on the border between
the north and the south. Where the
waves of sectional strife must expand
themselves in their progress hither and
thither-how can you fail to conquer with
the glorious examples lately set you in
Pennsylvania and the States of the north
west, in which locofocoism N has been made
so ignobly to ''bite the DUST" in the last
two months"
Although I cannot be with you in per-
SOD, yet assure y GU that | entirely CO u
cur with you, and heartily sympathise
with you in the conflict in which you are
engaged. Yours is the cause of constitu-
tional liberty against heartless despo-
tism; Of freedom of opiDon against ruth
less proscripsion; of economy in public
expenditures against pro6igate extrava-
gance; of honest and accountability in pub
lie functionaries, against the prostitution
of official patronage for party ends; of the
protection and thrift of American labor
and American enterprise, against monop-
ly of our market By foreign countries; of
the employment and relief of suffering
laborers, who are dependent on their toll,
against the heartless cruelty which laughs
at their calamities; of the precious metals
in or country, as the basis of sound
and stable currency, against the ruinous
fluctuations caused by their expectation
in paying off free trade balances Of the
fostering of commerce, in the improve
ment Of rivers and harbors, against the
unfeeliDg sacrifice of thousands of lives
and millions of products; of the great
principle of representative government
underlying our institutions, that the peo-
pie of each State have the right to frame
their domestic institutions to suit them
selves against the wicked attempt, first by
force and then by bribery, to compel the
people of Kansas to receive constitution
repugnantto their feelings; ofpcace and har
mony between the different sections of lhe
Union, against the continued and system
attic agitation of the question of slavery,
merely to subserve party purposes; of the
maintenance and support of the Union a
gainst sectional strife and discord, which
are encouraged ard fostered with an eye
to the pcrpetuation Of power.
have by no means exhausted the cat
alogue of sins that lie at this door of the
Buchanan administration and the faction
that sustains it. Have | not fairly sta
ted the issues inyolged in the pending
strugglel How can any fair minded and
candid man, if free from party influence,
pretend to deny il? What man is allow
ed to hold the most Insignificant public
employment, who dares to question the
truth of any dogma, promulgated by the
sauhedrim at Washington, as test of
partizan orthodoxy :! Whose character
is secure against the ribald and vitupera-
tive abuse Of the editorial SANDER mong-
ers in the pay of the powers that be-iD
case he dares to censure their policy =
Who can deny that our expenditures have
ra ~ bod aiohtu odd millions If dollars nj