Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-07-15
LOCAL. AFFAIRS.
PUBLIC MEETING.


At meeting held in the Town Hall on
Monday evening, July II, 1858, VIM.
BROTHERS of Reedsville, was called to
the chair, Col. VIM. BUTLER appointed
Vice President, and Geo. w. Patton, Sec
retary.
George Frysinger, Col. j. Hamilton and
John Cubbison were appointed committee
to report resolutions, which, being read,
were unanimously adopted, to wit:
ReSolUed, That the interference of the Gen.
eral government in the Territorial affairs of
Kansas in order to introduce slavery against
the expressed wishes of a large majority of
Its resident citizens, was an act of fragrant
wrong and glaring injustice at war with the
spirit OF our institutions; unworthy of the ru-
lers OF free people, and deserving a stern re
buke at the ballot box from all who are oppo-
sed to centralizing monarchical power in the
hands of one who, instead of being the SER
want OF the people, has assumed prerogatiycs
that belong only to master.
ResOtced, That as an evidence Of the f;llla-
cy OF encouraging foreign workshops in pref
erence to our own, we point the laboring men
mechanics, merchants and others, to the in
diSputable fact that the wages of labor are
retrogradng towards the European Standard
that our iron and other manufacturing estab
Eshments no longer afford employment to the
thousands Of families formerly employed in.
and supported by them and that, as a nat
ural consequence, all so formerly employed
are now in competition with other labor
ResOtced That the true doctrine of Pro-
tective Tariff is to admit all products and
MI oh
ufacture ourselves, duty free; and to encour-
age the industrial pursuits in all others by
an imposition of duties sufficient to protect
them against the pauper labor of Europe
leaving to our own people to bring and keep
down the prices of all such articles by that
spirit Of competition which has so signally
manifested itself in every department, from
the manufacture Of a pin to Il seed drill, reap.
ing machine &c.
Reso}red That we shall hail with unfeigned
satisfaction a manifestation on the part of the
Peoples Convention, Ito assemble at Harris
burg on Wednesday next, to avoid everything
calculated to cngender i'll feelings by refer
ence to past issues; fully believing that the
questions forced on the American people by
the present corrupt, cxtravagaut and monar-
chical administration Of James Buchanan.
are broad enough and important enough to
merit the united opposition Of al who favor
free thought, free speech, and free labor; of
all who desire to rebuke pledges and promises
made in the campaign Of 1856 but to be bro
ken as soon as power was attained; and Of all
who bold to the principle that the less we are
entangled with foreign alliances and foreign
influence the better for our future welfare.
Resotred, That the course Of Gen. Simon
Cameron in the Z. S. Senate meets with our
appreciation in about the same degree that
we despise the trucking and imbeclity of
William Biger, who misrepresents all parties
in Pennsylvania save the cormorants who are
piundering the U. S. Treasury
Resoired, That SAMUEL S. WooDs be and is
hereby appointed Representative Delegate to
the Peoples Convention to meet at Harrisburg
on the 18th instant.
RcSOtred, That we recommend JAMES NJ
SELLERS, Esq of Juniata, as Senatorial Del
egate to said convention.
The committee reported the representa-
tive delegate in blank, and the name of
Mr. Woods was inserted by the meeting.