Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-06-13
Tt}E RAF FTsMAN's JOURNAL.
Aadres, Of the Peoples State Committee of Pa

Address Of the Peoples State Committee Of Pa.
To the People Of Pennsylvania We are a.
| bout to enter another great National struggle,
! the issue of which must tell decisively for the
| veal or woe of our common country.
The so-called Democratic party has been in
| power for nearly eight years, and the fruits of
| its policy now felt in a PROSTATE Industry,
| paralyzed Commerce, bankrupt Treasury,
aud large and steadily increasing National
| Debt.
The domestic peace and harmony that wit
messed the restoration of the party now in
power, have been wantony exchanged for sec
| tional discord and fraternal strife; and even
the sacred landmarks of the Constitution have
| been blotted out, in the systematic effort OF
| the Government to spread the blight of sla-
very over the Free Territory, in defiance of
the popular WILL
Corruption has gained undisputed mastery
| in almost every department of power, and
stamped it's fearful stain indelibly upon the
Government; and shameless profigacy has
given us National bankruptcy at home and
| National dishonor abroad.
The time has come when thorough reform
is unmistakably demanded by the people. In
| this great work, Pennsylvania must, as ever,
be potential. Always loyal in the last degree
| to the maintenance of the National Union,
and to the compromises of the Constitution,
| and faithful to the supremacy of the laws, her
people nave no warfare 10 wage upOH ItSutS
| of sister States. They will maintain these
rights inviolatc with the same fidelity that they
| defend their own.
Our rec labor is the basis Of all our wealth ,our
| prosperity, our greatness. 1t has trusted and
| appealed in vain to the party in power to pro-
] tect it. ITS confidence has been ever betray
| ed, its interests ever sacrificed. Our untold
| millions OF sumbering wealth, and our unem
ployed and unrequited labor, ARE swift witness
es to the suicidal policy that has impoverished
| us.
| The studied purpose of the National Ad-
| ministration has been to sectionalize the Gov
| ernment, and give boundless dominion to a
| system that has dishonored and beggared free
| industry wherever its desolating steps have
| gone.
| Against this fatal sectionalism the friends
of diversified and prosperous Industry have
protested without avail. Nothing but radi-
cal change OF administration can give reason
able promise of respect for the great Indus
| trial interests of our State, and redress from
the endless train of evils flowing from the
| faithfuness of the Government.
The territories of the great West teem with
| beauty and richness. There with free homes,
our sturdy sons would rear new Empires to
| pour forth their boundless wealth, and add to
the prosperity and true greatness of our boas
ted Republic. They have escaped the wither
| ing blight of servile labor thus far, only by
ueIyluS tne WHOIe power OF TWO DenOcrdLlC
Administrations, and leaving history Grim
| soned with the blood of our brethren.
Failing to subdue, even BY force, the strong
arms that are scattering the rich fruits of
peaceful and enlightened industry, the Con-
stitution itself has been assaied, and its sa-
cred aims perverted to sectionalize the nation.
The startling declaration is now made by the
party in power, through its official exponents,
that the Constitution must defeat the wise and
benifcent purposes of its authors, and carry
| servile labor, under its own broad shield, into
| every territory in the Union.
To restore the Government to its original
purity; to redeem it from its fatal hostility to
the interests of free labor; from the corrup-
| tion, the prohgacy and the sectionalism which
have marked the party in power: are the great
proposes of the Peoples organization in Penn
sylvania. To this patriotic end we invoke the
| aid and cooperation Of all who desire to join
| in common cause, to inaugurate a liberal,
| just aud faithful Government.
Our sta andard- bearers fifty represent the vi
| tai issues involved in the struggle. They
command the unbounded confidence of friends,
and the respect of foes. Even partisan malice
| is impotent to aSsai them. That ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, the nominee for President, is spot
less in both public and private life, and that
he is sshonest and capable" is confessed as
with one voice by his countrymen. His we'll
| earned national fame, the offspring of no tor
tuitous circumstances, points to him the
sscoming mans who will administer the Gov
ernment honestly, frugally and faithfully, and
| restore the Republic to domestic tranquility,
to prosperity, and to honor. True to these
great measures of reform, is HANNIBAL HAM
| LIN, our candidate for Vice President, as is
shown by his long and consistent public ca
reer in the councils of the nation.
ANDREW q. CURTIN, our nominee for Gov
| ernor, has given lifetime of earnest, until
ring effort to the efforts Of free labor. He has
advocated in every contest, with all his match
less power. the true principles of government
| as declared by the Convention which has pla-
| ced him before the people. Measured by the
highest standard, he is faithful and qualified.
| He will be in the front of the battle, bearing
| our standard aloft, and defending our cause.
| We have but to join him in his efforts with a
zeal worthy of our principles, and he will lead
us to decisive victory in October.
Whether our opponents will enter the con-
| test united or divided, our duties and dangers
will be the same. In any event the triumph
| of the right will be resisted with the spirit of
| desperation. Armed with all the power and
| corrupt appliances of the government, they
will leave no means untried, no effort unem-
ployed, to perpetuate their ascendancv. AL
though rent asunder with intestine feuds, an
| tagonlzed n orth and South by irreconcilable
differences of principle, and bleeding from
| wounds inflicted within their own household,
| yet there is one common bond of union that
will rally their dscordant forces when all else
| fails-that is, 'sthe cohesive power of public
plunder."
| Our cause is worthy of an earnest, united
effort. Our languishing industry, our home
less laborers, our bankrupt treasury, our ma
tional tranquility and national honor demand
it. With early, systematic and thorough or
ganization, by which the truth can be dissem-
| mated in every section of the State, we cannot
fail to triumph. Let the efforts of our friends
be thus directed without delay, and in what