The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-03

advantages. and the light by which you
saw it was for the South.
After the war of 1912 had closed. and
we were one party, what then was done I
The tariff of protection was introduced
and passed because we had not been divi.
ded iuto parties.
The people the South have peculiar
views on the subject of the tariff They
believe that in proportion as you protect
the free labor of the North you interfere
With the value Of the labor in the South.
Mr.. CorWiu spoke spprosinply of the
Homestead Bill. He drew a humorous
contrast between the condition of a sec-
tioD Of land covered with negro slaves,
and the same district populated by free
white settlers. Mr.. Corwin continued at
length in advocacy of the principles of the
Republican party, and protested that as
an old Whig, bis conscience prompted
him to espouse itE cause. The speaker
concluded with an eloquent appeal to the
Peoples party not to suffer defeat in the
coming Municipal and State struggles;
victory would be followed by the most
glorious results in the national CONTEXT
Defeat would be attended With the u ost
disastrous consequences. He hoped that
PeDnsylvania would not repeat the blum
ders she bad made on former occasions :;
aud he appealed to his hearers not to be
guilty of a mistake which would be atten-
ded with effects so disastrous to the vel
fare of the nation and the cause of hum an
freedom. Loud applause
The following resolutions were offered
and adopted:
The members of the Peoples party of
Philadelphia, in town meeting assembled,
co heartily and unanimously resolve as
follows:
|. We cordially approve of the plat
form and proceedings of the Peoples
State Convention, at Harrisburg The
platform is we'll considered frank, and
lucid expressions of those benign. just
and broadly national principles which are
cherished by the Pennsylvania Opposi-
ton, as well because they are necessary
to the exigencles of the present time, as
because they we're common alike to the
old-fsshioned Democracy of Jefferson and
jackson, and the old-fasbioned Wbisism
OF Clay and Webster.
2. 1t is hardly necessary for as to reit-
crate oNr Gtelity to the Protection of A.
uerican Industry. Our opponents, them
selves, dare not iu Pennsylvania, dissent
from that policy which multiplies home
markets and hone exchanges. stimulates
every domestic art and enterprise, and
blesses, not Pennsylvania alone, but eve
ry State of our Confederacy.
8. We approve of the new tariff bill,
lately reported to the House OF Repre-
sen!atives at Washington by the Commit
tee of Ways and Means; we rejoice that
the Opposition stand by it in solid col uu q
and it is a significant expose of the by
pocrisy of the faint tariff professions re-
Gently put forth By the Democratic State
CoBvention at Reading, that nearly all
the Dem ocratio members of the House
voted against the consideration of that
bill.
4. We take this occasion to express our
iohexible determination to fraternse With
no organization, and to accept no csndi-
date for any Office, however exalted, un-
less irrevocably pledged to that wise and
national system OF protected American
Indu-try which is the traditional and ia
vorite policy of the Keystone State.
5. We congratulate the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington upon their
prompt passage of tie Hone-tead Bill
We regard this measure as particularly
adapted to the spirit of this age. the genius
of our institutions. and the wants of the
working nan. 1t saves our vat and fertile
territories from the graspoi the specuI ator
provides free homes for many successive
generations of the sons of misfortune and
toll, and insures the splendid prosperity
Of those new States which shall peaceful
ly extend over all this Continent, the
range of our arched Empire.
8. We repel with proud indignation
the false and wanion cslumny that we
lack de5 otion to the Union of the States
or to the constitutional rights Of our
Southern fellow citizens While the lea.
ders of the so-called De ocratic party
have been and are vociferous and insult.
ing 10 their threats of disunion, and their
appeals to weak kueed terrors in case
they should be driven from power, we de-
fly the most lynxed eyed III malignity to de-
tect any act or word of any member o.
our party, which does DOT breathe pro
found respect for vested Southern rights
and undying love for our indissolublt
Union.
Z We distinctly and emphatically de-
clare that while We prefer the sytem o.
lator which obtains 10 our own State o.
Pennsylvania. 1--WE do not seek to force
or even to intrudc our system" upon those
Southern States which prefer different in
stitutions. ave are excluded, Justly
wisely, and contentedly from all poltica
power and responsibility in those States.
They are to all iDtents and purposes, soy
ereign on the subject of slavery wtbir
their own borders; and all such attempt
as those of John Brown. and bis misgui
ded copfederates. should be sternly de