Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-22
Facts for the People.
TARIFF RECORD.
General Henry D. Foster,
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA.

published BY ORDER OF rHE DEMO.
CRATIC STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTED
We deem it duty we owe alike to truth
and justice, to place before the people of
Pennsylvania in connected form, the tar.
if record of the Hon. HENRY d. FOSTER,
the Democratic candidate for Governor,
whilst that gentleman held scat in the
Congress of the United States as n repre-
sentative from the Westmoreland district.
His record on this important subject needs
but few words Of comment at our hands,
inasmuch as it speaks for itself in lam
guage so plain, unequivocal and direct that
che who runs may read" and understand.
We venture the assertion, however, that
no gentleman who ever occupied q seat in
Congress from the State of Pennsylvania,
Certainly no Democrat, can boast ofsuch
record as that furnished by the extracts we
have taken from the speech of Mr.. FOSTER
in ls46, and his subsequent course, in op-
position to the efforts that were made to
repeal the duty on iron, so convertly and
stealthily by those who were willing to strike
down the interests of Penn sylvania. MIR,
FOSTER has been both consistent and per-
sistent in his advocacy of the iron interests
of his native State for long series Of
years, showing that the doctrines he advo.
Gated on that subject were the result of
conviction, and not the mere ebulitions Of
a tickle fancy, got up for political fleet
His bold, manly, clear and convincing ar
gumcnt against the proposition of Mr..
Holmes, of South Carolina in 1546, to re-
peal the duty on railroad iron, is mas
tcrpeicce in itself, both in point of close
reasoning and logical deduction, whilst it
demonstrates the fact that he is deeply
imbued with just sense of the valus of
the great staples of his native State.
We confidently appeal to the people of
Pennsylvania to support MIR. FOSTER for
the office of Governor, without regard to
party predictions or party prejudices, be-
cause he is the man to direct the dcstnies
of this great Commonwealth at a time like
the present. We ask the patient perusal
by all classes of community of Mr.. Eos
TIERS course in Congress on the subject of
the tariff policy, which he advocated, and
then let them vote for him or against him,
as their judgements may dictate.
1t must also be borne in mind, that du.
ring the last session of Congress, when the
tariff bill was under discussion, Gen. Fos-
TER, true to his former convictions Of duty
was on the ground at Washington city, la
boring with earnestness and zeal for the
passage of tariff bill for the promotion
and protection of the cherished interests OF
his State. He spent week after week at
the Federal Capital, laboring to effect the
passage of tariff bill, thus tcstifying his
devotion to the cause he SO ably advocated
when in Congress. Such devotion as he
has at all times evinced in behalf of the
interests of Pennsylvania must necessarily
beget in the bosoms of lis fellow-citizens a
: corresponding DEVOTION to him, and that
devotion We feel will be signalIy manifcs
ted at the polls on the second Tuesday Of
!, October next.
THE RECORD.
In the House of Representatives of the
United States, on Wednesday, Deccm.
Der ls, 1874, Mr., HENRY d. FOSTER ,o
Pennsylvania, made the following re-
marks on the bill to repeal the duties or
Railroad Iron--E E.le Consressiona
Glo5e. VoL IA, I'd SESSION, 2sth Con
g'ess, PIP. A, As:
Mr.. FOSTER, after advertng to the
unexpected and hasty manner in which the
bill had been brought forward land remark
ing that Pennsylvania ha 4 been accustomed
, to consider the tariff question as one to b,
{ treated on general principles, proceeded tc
express his regret, that his colleague Mr.
i. j. Morris had alluded to the recen
canvass in Pennsylvania as he had done
I AS member of this House from Penn
, sylyania, as native from Pennsylvania
f he felt proud of that great State, and h,
would not now allow himself, here or else
whereas his colleague had done, to charg
the people of Pennsylvania with acting un
t der false or fraudulent motives, on the sub
: jcct of the tariff. If the Wing party ha,
carried the State Mr.. F. esteemed that part
so highly, that, before the National Legis
la'ure, he would not have been found ma
king such charge. He knew the man
ner in which the canvass had been conduct
ed; and when the gent tleman came to spca
of it as it had been carried on in hist MI
F's) county, and to declare that the peopl
: had acted under such influences, he ha
c mistaken them altog 1thcr; they had acte
q under no dclusion. The tariff qucstio
was the one which, in the late canvass i
Pennsylvania, had deeply agtated tn
y public mind They had been told by thei
s. Wing friends there, and generally through
:. out the country, that by the election r