Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-08-24
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE.


watchwoFd be the Constitution and the Union.
AEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That Democratic Senate of the u. States,
7 Seteated the Tariff act, which Repuhlieaa
House of Representatives passed.
That Henry D. Foster was in Washington
city when lhe Tariff bill was before the Senate,
aHd that instead of using ais efforts and re-
| pstted eloqaence to secure the passage of an
actto protect the interests and the Industry of
Penlsylgania, he was 10 secret conference with
the administration, arranging plans to carry
this State for Breckiuridge, free-trade and
| slsyery.
| That democratic Senate defeated the Home
stead bill, because it proposed to apportion the
| pablIc domain among the free white laborers of
| the nation, who would become actual settlers
! oe and eulilvators of such land Ii was op.
I pissed by Democratic Senators with whom Ii.
IsFoster sympathises, because it threatened
! snp would have curtailed the spread Of slave
rs 1t was thus opposed by an administration
Which now supports and advocates Henry D.
foster, because it promised to bring free States
into the confederacy, and thus change the slave
ruling influence of the United States Senate.
IL was opposed by the friends of Heury D.
Foster, and that opposition seconded and APP
proved By his silence, because it tended to ad-
vance free instead Of slave labor-to bring
! capital within the reach and control of honest
industry, aud to place that industry, beyond
the influence of speculation.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
| That in a crisis OF great danger to every in
terest OF this country, involving the Welfare Of
labor, the progress of civil aad religious lber-
| ty, the perpetuity of the Union, as we'll as the
sacred rights and dignity of the North, Henry
D.1Foster is sileueed by his personal fears
He sees the South striking down the industry
OF bis native State, and he apDlauds the motive
which nerves the arm to infict the ruthless
blow. lie sees the South pushing forward in
stltutions that are disgracing, degrading and
dahning the noble aspirations and achieve
meets of free people, and be lends his In
Il fHstaee 90 sso mork BY an ambiguons silence
which his friends call "independence," and
which Stephen A. Douglas claims as the great
principle Of ''non-interVention.
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That the Republican party advocate and are
pledged to secure the passage of az act to pro-
tect the industry of the country.
That the Republican party are pledged TO
secure our territory for freedom-the free la
Dor of the white man.
! That the Republican party are opposed to
direct taxation to raise revenue for supporting
the government.
That the Republican party are in favor of
opening the territory of the nation to improve
lneut and enterprise, by the passage of home
stead act, granting lands to beads of families
who will become actual settlers thereon. By
such plan it is proposed to bring The land of
government into understanding competition
by the encouragement of emigration to the
! West, to form new commonwealihs of freemeu,
each adding to the strength of the Union, the
| independence of free white labor, and the
power and glory of the country at bone and
abroad.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That Andrew g Curtin is in favor of
Protective Tariff as passed by the House of
! RepresentatiVes-and that Henry d. Foster
aided secretly, with Bigler, to defeat that saule
Tariff bill in the Senate.
! That Andrew G. Curtin is in favor of free
! homes for free white men, to be apportioped
out of the public domain, while Henry D..
Foster is in favor of devOtiug that domain
aternally to the uses of slavery.
That Andrew q. Curtin is 10 favor of free
speech, free schools aud free press-while H.
D. Foster refuses to acknowledge either the
! Freedom of speech, schools or the press, by his
silence in the present campaign, bis sympathy
gith an institution that banishes freedom of
speech from the halls of its local legislature,
muzzles its press, exercises an espionage in the
rOst-offices in its localities-and with the whip
apd thong seeks to crush every man and every
organization that upholds the sacred tight of
life, liberty and the franchise.
| Will tue people of Pennsylvania ponder
these truths The comparison that We here
make between the two candidates before them
for Governor is true and just. The Repub-
| lIcan candidate, A. G.. Curtin, has no conceal
ments to make. He is daily before the people
advocating the immutable principles of justice
to all interests and equal and exact laws for
all men. He does not falter when freedom is
up for discussion. He does not shrink when
the Homestead Jaw is 5roeched. His lips are
not sealed or his hands idle when the rights of
| labor becomes the issue. He is square aud fair
on all these great questions. How is it with
his opponent, Henry d. Fosterl Let his
opponents own position be taken in answer
Let Henry d. Fosters silence illustrate, if it
can, the plans of chicanery and deceit by which
/ he hopes to be elevated to the chief executive
control of the interests, industry and prospects
of Pennsylvania. The distinction between
such men Is easily drawn. The difference is as
easily defined The people will have no trouble
in discovering 10 Andrew 6. Curtin man for
the crisis and the Commonwealth = Harrisburg
Telegraph.
Col. Orr, late Speaker of tbs House of Rep
resentatives, has written a letter stating that
as the election of Lincoln is certain, the South
I should secede at once. We think so too.