The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-12-22

party, and to all the eminent states"en
named for the Presidency, will prevail.
and prompt the Convention to leave the
selection of district delegates to the peo-
pie, to achons only, Of right. the selection
! belongs. Such action will perfect harmo-
ny and preserve the alliance that has
made the Peoples party SO formidable to
the enemies Of freedom and industry.
If on the other hand, unmindful of the
usage of all former parties in this State,
Except that of the socalled Democratic
party } the State Convention, in defiance
of every principle of common fairness and
Justice, should APPOINT the representative
delegateS,its action will be deemed usur-
patton, aud will be resisted By the mass Of
the party
1t is self-evident that the unity and fu-
ture efficiency of the Peoples party will
depend ABSOLUTELY Oh the correct action
of the forthcoming State Convention. If
its platform shall boldly reafirm unal-
terable opposition to the extension of sla-
very, express devotion to the protective
system, resolve to support the nominees
of the National Convention to be called
By the Republican Executive Com nittee,
and provide for the election OF delegates
to that Convention by the people in their
respective districts, the party will be an
irresistible unit, able to cast the electoral !
vote of Pennsylvania against the section
al Democratic party by a majority of 5O,-
OOO
Impressed with these convictions, We
call on all acho desire to arrest the govern-
ment from the hands Of the pr0figate party
noa0 an p0acer, to join our organization,
aud, in spirit of conciliation and obliv-
ion, as to past differences, to tolerate each
others ultracisms ard unite on principles
held in common.
Hou to secure Protector to American IN
dustry.
Iu this way only can We secure the sue
cess of the sound doctrine Of protection.
by which the inexbaustihle resources Of
our oaon Commonwealth ma be developed
and the wealth, Independence, and pros
perity of the nation augmented.
The advocacy of the reciprocal inter-
ests of capital and labor, working harmo-
niously under the protective system, "a
system invariably overthrown blythe South
almost as soon as established belongs
naturally to the National Republican par
ty, and the protective system can be prac-
tically put 10 operation only by the tri-
uupb OF the inevitable coIrollary of the
doctrine of free soil and free labor. Free
paid labor les at the basis of all our prin
ciples. Hence we are in favor of estab-
fishing free States and free States only.
over the Western Continent, from ocean
10 ocean, in which labor, the true wealth
of natious, msy vindicate it's dignity and
develop the blessings of the highest civil
zation. Adverse to slavery ip every res
pect, anxious to expose its manifold evils,
still, We woald be content in political dis
cussion to limit argument solely to It's e.
economical features-to an examination OF
it as system of labor, satisfied that in
treating it purely as labor question, we
would convince the working men not on
ly of the north, hut of the South, and not
only working men but capitalists of all
sections, even slave. e.owners themselves,
that slavery is an illogical. Improbable,
and destructive system of labor, adverse
to the interests of every man, woman. and
child in the nation, who is obliged to la.
Dor for living.
Free Homes for the industrious poor.
Besides advocating discriminating
tariff, we advocate another system OF pro-
lection to the working men, which secures
them high wages, by keeping open for
them the lands of the West, to which they
may emigrate, whenever, under the influx
of mgr alton from Europe or any other
cause, undue competition may tend to re-
duce wages. The Republican party is
thus specially the advocate and protector
of the interests of the working men snd
women of the whole country, who recog-
nize that the present level of wages is
maintained and can only be maintained
by securing the vast public domain. as q
refuge for them and theirs, whenever
there are more hands than can find en-
ploy
To our Southern brethren, we say. in
the free Territories of our common coun-
try there shall be place reserved for you
and your children, 10 case that misfortune
or slave competition shall drive you from
your homes into exile, as it has sent mil
lions. where you shall be untrammeled
and undegrsded again by lsboring along
side of unpaid slaves-where the press,
the school house, and the church, those
bulwarks of liberty, make men happy,
prosperous, and free.
The SIander Of Sectionalism.
And for these views, the views of the
fathers of the republic, our party has been
% Indignantly assailed as sectional, and will
gain be subject to these groundless i'm.
putations. We appeal to history to prove
the reverse of these charges, and are calm
in the conviction that men can no longer
be deluded. The Republican party orig
mated to resist the sectionai of the
South and of the Democratic party
That party hath ruthlessly struck down
the land marks erected to freedom. The