The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-06-14
Address of the Peoples State Committee,
of Pennsylvania.

common country.
The so-called Democratic party has
been in power for nearly eight ye ars, and
the fruits of its policy are now felt IN
PROSTATE Industry. raraiyzed Com
merce, a bankrupt Treasury, and large
and steadily increasing National Debt.
The domestic peace and harmony that
witnessed the restoration of the party
now in power, have been wantonly ex-
bsusted for sectional discord and frater-
nal strife; and even the sacred land 70 arks
of the Constitution have been blotted out,
in the systema attic effort of the Government
to spread the blight of slavery over Free
Territory.
Corruption has gained undisputed n as
terY in almost every department of pow
er, and stamped its fearful stain indelibly
upon the Government; and shameless
prOf,isacy has given US National bank
ruptcy at home and National disbonor
abroad.
The time has come when thorough
reform is uumistakably demanded by the
people. In this great work, Pennsy!va-
MIA must, as ever be potential. Always
10y al in the last degree, to the mainten-
anoe of the National Union. and to the
compromises OF the Constitution. and faith
fuI to the supremacy Of the laws, her peo-
pie have no warfare to wage upon the
rights of sister States. They will main
tain these rights inviolate with the same
fidelity that they defend their own.
Our free labor is the basis of all our
wealth, or prosperity, our greatness. 1t
has trusted and appealed in vain to the
party in power to protect it. Its conh'
dence has been ever betrayed, its inter
ests ever sacrificed Our untold millions
of slum beriug wealth, and our unemplog
cd and unrequitted labor, are swift wit
uesses to the suicidal policy that has i'm
poveri-hed US.
The studied purposes Of the National
Administration has been to sectinaiiSe the
Government, and give boundless domin-
ion to a system that has dishonored and
beggared free industry wherever its desc
lating steps have gone.
Against this fatal sectionalism the
Industry have protested without avail,-
Nothing but radical change of admins
tration can give reasonable promise o.
respect for the great Industrial interests
Of our State, and redress from the end
less train of evils fowing from the faith
fulness of the Government.
The territories of the great West teen
with beauty and richness. There, with
free homes, our sturdy sons would rear
; new Empires to pour fourth their bound
less wealth, and add to the prosperity anC
f true greatness of our boasted Rcput lie
They have escaped the witbering bhgb
of servile labor thus far, only by defyinI
the whole power of tao Democratic Ad,
ministrations, and leaving history erin
soned With the blood of our brethren
Failing to subdue, even by force, th'
! strong arms that are scattering the ricf
/, fruits of peaceful and ehlig btened indus
try, the Constitution itself has been as
sailed, and its sacred aims perverted t.
sectionelize the nation The startlip,
declaration IL now made by the party i,
: power, through its official exponents, tbs
/ the Constitution must defeat the wise anl
benfoent purposes OF its authors. an'
t carry seryile labor, under its ogn broat
shield, into every territory in the Union
e To restore the Government to its orig
: inal purity; to redeem it from its fata
: hostility to the interests of free labor
: from the corruption, the profigaoy aut
the sectionaism which have marked tn
: party in power, are the great purposes 0
the Peoples organization in Pennsylva
MIA. To this patriotic end we invoke th
: aid and cooperation Of all who desire t
t Join in a common cause, to inaugurate
] liberal, just and faithful Government.
: Our standard bearers ftly represen
g the vital issues involved in the struggle
They CON mmsnd the unbounded con6denC
It of friends, and the respect Of foes. Eve
partisan malice is impotent to assail theu
e That Abraham Lincoln, the nominee 70
President, is spotess in both public an
private life, aud that he is "honest an
r oapable," is confessed as with one voic
e by bis countrymen. His well-earned ma
tienal fame, the offspring of no fortuitou
d circumstances, points to him as the ICON
!. ing man" who will administer the Coz
), ernment honestly, frugally and faithful.
}. and restore the Republic to domesii
II tranquility, to prosperity, and to houor
|. True to tbeee great measurers Of reform
l. is HANNIBAL HAMLIN, our candidate fc
It Vice President, as is shown by his Ion
and consistent public career in the cour
ellis of the nation
ANDREW g. CURTIN, our nominee fc
: Governor, has given lifetime of earnes
! untiring effort to the interests Of Ere
: Labor. He has advocated in every cor
test, with all his matchless power, th
= true principles Of government, as declsl
3 ed by the Convention that has placed bin
before the people. Measured by tb
- highest standard, be is faithful and qua
flied. He will be in the front of toe bal
tie, bearing our standard aloft, and de
Tending our cause. We have but to joi
him in his efforts with zeal worthy {