Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-06-28
Address of the Peoples State Central
COmmittee.
To tie People Of Psansylrqnia

10 tie fe0Pte Ct PeRRSyIcaHta;
We are about to enter another great ma
tional struggle, the issue cf which must tell
decisiyely for the veal or woe of our coun.
Try.
The so called Democratic party has been
IN power for nearly eight years, and the fruits
OF Its policy are now felt in PROSTATE indus
try, paraIized commerce, bankrupt Treas
ury, and large and steadily Increasing Ma
tional Debt.
The domestic peace and harmony that wit.
messed the restoration Of the party now in
power, have been wantonly exchanged for
sectional discord and fraternal strife, and
even the sacred landmarks of the constitution
have been blotted out, in the systematic cf-
tort OF the Government to spread the blight
OF Slavery over free territory, in du6ance OF
/ the popular will.
Corruption has gained undisputed mastery
In almost every department of power, anu
stamped its fearful stain indelibly upon the
Government; and shameless profiigacy has
given Us national bankruptcy at home and na-
/ tIonal dlShonor abroad.
The time has come when thorough re-
/ form Is unmistakably demanded by the peo.
/ pie.
In this great work Pennsylvania must, as
/ ever be potential. ALWAYS loyal in the last
J
/ Union and to compromises e the Constitution,
and taithiul to the supremacy of the laws,
her people have no warfare to wage upon tho
rights Of sister States. They will maintain
these rights inyiolatc with the same fidelity
that they defend their own.
Our Free Labor is the basis uf all our
wealth, our prosperity, our greatness. 1t
has trlsted and appealed in vain to the party
IN power TO protect it. Its confidence has
been ever betrayed, its interests ever sacrif-
ced. Our uuJold millions of slumbering
wealth and unemployed and unrequited laboI
are swift witnesses to the suicidal policy that
has impoverished us.
The studied purpose Of the National Ad-
mlnstratlon has been to sectionalize the Gov
ernment, and give boundIess dominion to
system that has dishonOred and beggared
Free Industry wherever its desJlating steps
have gone.
Against this fatal sactionalism, the friends
of diversified and prosperous industry have
protested without avail. Nothing but rad
zeal change Of administration can give reaa-
enable promise Of respect for the great in
dustrlai interests of our State, and redress
tor the endless train of evils flowing from the
faithlessncss of the Government
The Territories of the Great West teen
with beauty and richness. There, with free
homes, our sturdy sons would rear new en-
pres to pour forth their bonndless wealth
and add to the prosperity and true greatness
of our boasted Republic. They have cscap-
ed-the whitening blight Of serviIe labor thus
lar only by defyng the whole power Of two
Democratic Administrations, and leaving q
history crimsoned with the blood of our Lrcth-
ren.
Failing to subdue. even by force the strong
~ hot Al
OF Teace and enlightened industry. the Cor
stitution itself has been assailed and its sa.
cred aim 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
benefcent purposes of its authors, and carry
servlle labor under its own broad shield, in
to every Territory Of the Union.
10 restore the Government to its original
purity; to redeem it from its fatal hostility to
the interests Of Free Labor: from the corrup-
ton, the pronigacy, ard the sectonalism
which have marked the party in power, are
the great purposes Of the Peoples organize
tiUn in Pennsylvania. To this patriotic end,
we invoke the aid and cooperation Of all who
desire to join in a common cause, to inaugu-
rate liberal, just and faithful Government
Our standard bearers fity represent the Vi
command the unbounded confidence of friends
and the respect of foes. Even the partizan
malice is impotent to assail them. That
Abraham Lincoln, the nominee for President
is snotless in both public and private life,
and that he is as honest and capable" is
confessed as with one voice by his country
men. His well earned national fame, the Off
spring Of no fortuitous circumstances, points
to him as the "com.hg man" who will ad-
minister the government honestly, frugally,
and faithfully, and restore the Republic to
domestic tranquility, to prosperity, and true
honor. True to these great measures of Re.
form is Hannibal Hamln, our candidate foy
Vice President, as is shown by his long and
consistent public career in the councils Of
the nation
Andrew G. Curtin, our nominee for Gov.
ernor, has given a life time of earnest, untir-
ing effort to the interests of Free labor He
has advocated in every contest, with all its
matchless power, the true principles of go7-
ernment, as declared by the convention that
has placed him before the people. Measured
by the highest standard, he is faithful and
qualified. He will be in the front Of the bat
tie bearing our standard loft, and defending
our cause. We have but to join him in his
efforts with zeal worthy of our principals,
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 viii 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 aseendency. AL
though rent asunder with intestine feuds,
North and South by irreconcil-
able differences of principle, and bleeding
from wounds inflicted within her own house
hold, yet there is one common bond Of un-
ion that will rally their discordant forces when
all else fails-that is :" the cohesive power of