The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-06-28
Address Of the Peoples State
Central Comm III oe of Penn
SYiNania.
tie PeODZe of PennsvlUanid


Central Committee of Penn
SyIlania.
To tie People Of Pennsytuanid
We are about 20 enter another Nation
al struggle, the issue of which must tell
decisively for the veal or woe of our own
country.
The so-called Democratic party has
been in power for nearly eight years, and
the fruits of its policy are now felt in a
PROSTATE Industry, paralyzed Commerce
and bankrupt Treasury, and large
and steadily increasing National Debt.
The domestic peace and harmony that
witnessed the restoration of the party
now III power have been wantonly ex-
changed for sectional discord and frater-
nal strife and even the sacred land marks
Of the Constitution have been blotted
out, in the systematic effort of the Gov
ernment to spread the blight Of Slavery
over Free Territory, in defiance of the
popular will
Corruption has gained undisputed
mastery in almost every department OF
power, and stamped its fearful stain in
delibly upon the Government; and shame
less prof;gaey has gwen us National
bankruptcy at home aud National dishon-
os abroad
The time has come when thorough
Reform is Enthusiastically demanded by tie
people. In this great work, Pennsy lyania
must, as ever, be potential Always 10y
sl in the last degree, to the maintenance
of the National Uuion, and to the COM
promises of the Constitution, and faith
tul to the Supremacy f the laws, her
people have no warfare TO wage upon the
rights Of sister States. They will main
tain those lights inviolate with the same
fidelity that they defend their own.
Our Free Labor is the basis of our
wealth, our prosperity, our greatness. 1t
lsas trusted and appealed in vain to the
party in power to protect it. Its conf
dence has been betrayed, its interests ev-
en- sacrificed Our untold millions of
elember;ng wealth, and our unemployed
and unrequited Labor, are swift witness
es to the suicidal policy that has inpov-
Grished US.
The studied purpose of the National
Administration has been to sectionalize
the government and give boundless do
mnion to a system that has dishonored
and lessencd Free Industry wherever its
desutorv steps have gone
Against this fatal sectionaiism the
friends OF diversified and prosperous In.
dustry have protested without avail
Nothing but radical change of admins.
tration can give reasonable promise Of
respect for the great Industrial interests
of our State, and redress from the end
less evils flowing from the faithles<ncss
of the government.
The Territories Of the great West teen
with beauty and richness. There. with
free homes, our sturdy SOUS would real
up new empires to pour forth their bound
less wealth, aud add to the prosperity
and true greatness Of our boasted Ropah
lie. They have escaped the witherine
blight of servuo labor thus far only By
detying the whole power of two Demo
cratic Administrations, and leaving /;
History crowned with the blood of oul
brethren.
Failing te subduc them by force, thu
strong arms that are there scattering thc
rich fruits of peaceful and enlightened
industry, the Constitution itself has beer
assailcd, and its sacred aims perverted
to sccfionalize the nation The startling
declaration is now made, through its of
fetal exponents, that the Constitutios
must defeat the wise and henificent pur
poses of us authors, and carry servile ia
bor. under its own broad shield, iuto ev
cry territory in the Union
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 profigacy, and
the sectionalism, which have marked tht
party in power, are the great purposes o
the Peoples party In Pennsylvania II
this patriotic end, we invoke the co oper
alton of all who desire to join in com
mon cause, to inaugurate liberal, jas
aud faithful government.
Our standard bearers ftly rcpresen
the vital issues involved in the struggle
They command the unbounded conf
dence of friends, and the respect of foes
Even partisan malice is impotent to as
sail them. That Abraham Lincoln, The
nominee for Presidept, is spotless in boil
public and private life, and that he il
"honest and capable" Is confessed a:
with one voice of his countymen Hi.
well-earned national fame, the offspring o
no fortuitous circumstances, points'to hin
rs the coming man" who will admins
ter the government frugally and faithful
ly, and restore the Republic to domestic