Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-10-04
Resolutions Of the Wide Awake Club

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party were successful.
Resolutions Of the Wide Awake Club.
The following preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted at an adjourned
meeting of the Wide Awake Club Of Lewis
town, Monday night, September l7th, 1860
viz:
WHEREAS, the approaching contest in No
vember for President is, in the deliberate
opinion Of this meeting. dependent on sue
cess in part on the result of the election in
October Tor Governor; and believing as we
do, 'tas goes Pennsylvania, so goes the Union"
and as the hopeful issue Of the camraign
in the State Of New York has been abandon.
ed by the friends and supporters respectively
Of Douglas, Breckenridge and Bell-who
have been all equally the opponents Of
protective tarif-thus making the keystone
State, the great battle field Of The campaign
and learning from reliable sources, that the
proposition has been made to transfer to this
State all the money, raised in the city of
New York, to aid in carrying the election in
October as the prestige Of success iG NOYem-
Der, thus overslaughing the friends Of q pro
tcctjre tariF, of the homestead dW and those
who would reserve, and keep sacred the ter
ritorial domain Of the nation as home for
the homeless-as the land Of the free,
Therefore, Res0lccd, as freemen Of the
Keystone State, determined to be free, amid
our own native mountains, hills, valleys and
plains, that We stand where we have stood,
pledged with unwavering frmness to the
cause Of freedom, battling for the right in
the great contest for human liberty
With Freedoms banner streaming o'erus.
And SaTeTys cohorts fierce before us.
Resolrod that liberty is national. now and
forever; and that the territories by every rule
of right, should be and remain free forever
to white labor.
ReS0ired, that protection to American Ia
Dor and home for the homeless, be ms scrib-
ed on our banners, Gs the cardinal principles
IF cur party and its creed.
Re20tced, that we advocate no principles,
cherish no doctrines, and occup no ground
which was not occupied by the fathers Of
the Republic" for which we cannot find
warrant in the writings Of Washington, JEFF
ierson, Patrick Henry, William Writ and
Henry Clay.
Pe5o7ced, that we will battle for the immor
tai principles embodied in the Declaration of
Independence and only yield, when there is
no longer heart to pulsate, and an arm to
strike.
Resozced, in view Of the conflict, now rac.
ing fercely and strongly around us, that we
will advance with fearless step to the combat,
and neither shrink nor falter, before the ser
rIed cohorts Of a corrupt administration, or
Of the linked batallions of the pro slavery
factions, contending for a sectional institution
against the friends of national liberty.
ReSoleed, that the "woolly heads Of go"
have turned up the uncompromising and bold
Republicans Of go, with one ground to stand
on-Cnc object to reaCh-and one country to
serve.
ReSolsed, that the glorious Cons titution
cemented by the blood of our fathers, tread
ing the SHOWS Of winter with naked and bleed
ing feet, rightly interpreted means liberty,
not slavery, and that we hurl back with con
tempt the opprobrious epithet, on its authors
everywhere, who, bowling before the aggres-
siye pretensions Of Slave Oligarchy, would
make slavery national, and reduce the inde
pendent sons Of labor, the bone and sinew Of
the land, to a common level with the degra.
ded slave who hugs his chains and trembl
at the lash Of the iaaolent and imperious
task master.
Resotced, that the only hope, which dawns
on the permanence Of our free institutions,
majestically, like the God Of day over our
own Eastern hills rests on the election Of
him, who, at once a nations pride, we hope
SAicc IL hALLO!i . CiIDiGt, ULC bI udiUIc ; NO.
blemen, honest Abraham Lincoln. The be-
lief, while his administration of public affairs
would be marked by equal and exact Justice
to all the members of the confederacy with
out distinction north, south, east and west,
his measures and lis counsels would be SO
taken and regulated, as at last not to bring
down the lofty position of the government to
the ends, aims and purposes cf slavery but
give It, what the fathers Of the Republic in
tended, tendency and inclination to free
dom. The aristocracy of slavery, ever sec
tional and sectional only, has perverted or
assayed to pervert, this holy end, aim and
object, by a strife for thirty years, to engraft
the blight and the curse of slavery on our
glorious and free institutions, at once the
mark and model of the times, and the wonder
and admiration of the world.
ReS0lUed, that the satellites Of the govern
ment, the anti-tariff advocates and pro slavery
factions, striving to steal our thunder, have
seen, like impious Belshazzar at the feast
the ominous "hand writing on the WALL"
but we cannot forget that therighteous verdict
Of betrayed people will be weighed in the
balances and found wanting" in the earth
quake voice of victory and rejoicing.
ReS0tood, that we laugh to scorn the idle
threats OF disunion, believing that this glor-
iuNo SLlOL WAS NOT IilduS 10 DC uISSUINGuJ oUCl
threats are only appeals for mercy.
ReSolred, that we can elect Old Abe.
ReSolved, we will elect him, and never
doubted for a moment. that the majority
which elects, has power to inaugurGte.
ReS05Ced, that the number Of idle furnaces,
unemployed woTkmen, tenantless houses, to-
gether with the exodus of our citizens to
other States for the means whereby to live
within the ancient Commonwealth, sufficient
ly bespeak our poverty and distress, and at
test the great truth, constantly advocated by
our party for forty years, with Clay ct its
head, that our great staples, coal and iron,
require protection. Vti5 Il, we prosper and
flourish. WHboH Il, We suffer- languish,
and decay.
Resolcea, dwelling in our own beautiful