Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-01

State organization inysded by body Of
men at Washington. Of whom they know
nothing, or by clique or single person in
the State, whose caprice may only induce
an agitation in favor OF our opponents.
The present State Committee, with 9
delicacy which does them honor. stayed
far within the limits OF their lawful pow
ers, when they merely recommended the
Democracy of Pennsylvania to unite theil
votes for President on the electoral ticket
nominated by the Reading Convention,
according to the plan set forth in theiI
resolution. II could not have conscien
tiously endorsed that plan should in
stanily have placed my resignation as IN
.elector at large into the hands of the
Chairman of the State Committee, not
withstanding the very large and compli'
.mentary vote received from the mem
bers of the Convention. hold it to be
inconsistent with fair and manly conduct
to accept nomination and not carry oct
the views as expressed by the authority
that gave il. To my mind il is under such
circumstances highly becoming to resign
rather than to persist in maintaining
position that has nothing TO justify u bu'
a mad ambition uncontrolled by the adj
visosy Influences of a worry honorable and
proper authority. .T41l.. 10 rr.. e.'
Such being my views as 10 the nomina'
tions and powers osthe State COMMITTEES
my course seems 10 5e plainly set before
ms. The plan recommended by the
State Committee is wise and appropriate
All true Democrats concede that il is ot
the first Importance that Mr.. Lincoln
should be defeated. / can vote mos
cheerfully for either Mr.. Douglas or Mr.
Breckinridge in preference TO Mr.. Lin
coin, and know 10 other mode by which
it can be done, but by q union of prefer
ences upon one electoral ticket. If tn,
insidious devices of those who prefer men
to principles should preyail, and two cleo
total tickets are thrown into the field. il
will not at least, be the fault of the Demo
cratic Party of Pennsylvania, but OF those
only who, regardless of fealty to time
honored principles, would sacrifice all al
the shrine Of personal aggrandizement
Thank Heaven that class OF men have no
weight with the conservative, sensible,
thinking and efficient portion ofthe com
munity, whose votes must decids the ell
ection. The battle must be fought in
Pennsylvania. A cordial union Of all for
the sake of the Union upon the sugges.
tions of the State Committee would secure
the triumphant election of that excellent
and worthy citizen, nenry ID. Foster, 10
the gubernatorial chair, majority of the
congressional delegation, majority Of
the Senate and house of Representatives,
and rs necessary consequence United
States Senator. Are all these glorious re-
suits to be .jeopardized for the sake of any
one man Is it TO be done at the dicta-
tion Of body which can claim no author
ity for its interference with onr State or
ganizaton, and which seems to have so
little confidence in its own innate strength
as to transfer all it possesses to the keep
ing Of single individual. trust, how
ever, that better councils prevail. How
proudly you could return Mr.. Sibley S
letter and join the gallant forces of our
Democrrt.c Commonwealth.
There is noroom for middle course
If you wish well to our cause, you will
not act with that fragment of a PARTY who.
under the pretext of purity and good
faith, carried their .reacheIy to the ut.
most reach of the enemy's camp, and des.
ecrated the name of Democracy by voting
in the ranks of those who have constantly
opposed it. ... ..r..|. .. .....
In Berks county, for several years past,
q fusion o: factions, under the lead Of the
present Clerk of the Black Republican
House of Republican House of Reprcsen.
tatives, has accomplished the gloomy
picture Of the invasion of this citadel OF
Democracy, and for once succeeded in
levelling it to the earth. TO this achieve
ment, all done in the boasted name of the
regular Democracy, we owe the Republi-
can organization Of the House of Repre-
sentatives. More than once single vote
might have saved us the disgrace we now
witness in their detection and our discom.
fiture. find, too, that every movement
which is made in this State by those who
are sensatively regular and critically pune.
tllous, is prescribed and heralded forth
by the Editor of the PrSSS, the manifest
object of whose editorial labors is not TO
elect Mr.. Douglas, but to defeat him Sc
utterly that he shall be powerless hereaf-
ter forever, From such chicanery and
deception Berks county has resolved to
rid herself. 1t is not to such sources she
looks either for Democratic principles CT
Democratic usages. She is This very day
as ready to manifest her attachment and
devotion to the principles as inculcatod
BY Jefferson and practiced by jackson,
as in the pnlmiest period of her success,
and her abiding intelligence cannot be
how any party can be made
strong by division. She holds in abhor-
renee all who have caused such results,
and for my single self, will not be link.
ed with any of them. The conclusion
with which / close is briefly TO say, that
| shall, ii elected, cast my vote :as Eector
at Large, without equivoca,ion, compro,
mise or change" according TO the action
Of the State Committee. If that Commit
tee should deem it proper 10 suggest any
other service for the general good, it
would be equally proper either to acqui-
esce or resign at once. There is, in my
opinion, no condition moro degrading than
to misrepresent those who have confided
to you a public trust, and which no pri.