Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-09-11
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ADDRESS.
OF THE
Union State Central Committee
TO THE
LOYAL MEN OF PENNSYLVANIA.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNION STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE, Commonwealth Buildings, No.
6l3 Chesnut Street.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. &c, 1862
FELLOW CITIZENS In times of war the
political organizations of peace are surren-
dered or postponed to the public emergencies
During the Revolutionary war there was no
party against Washington but the Tories or
the traitors. During the war of 1912, the en-.
emes of the Administration of Mr. Madison
soon became as infamous as the foreign inva,
ders themselves. The war with Mexico was
waged, as results hove proved, by slavehold
| ing statesman, in order that one State more
might be added to the number they have
lately forced into treason yet the public
man who opposed it soon became unpopular,
aud its victorious general was nominated for
the Presidency by the party that dissented
from the policy which resulted in the war
These are the eloquent teachings of the past.
We are now engaged in death struggle
with the most powerful foe to human liberty
on earth. This enemy is strengthened by
slavery in America. aud sustained by the
monarches of the Old world The issue is
clearly made-the contending parties openly
arrayed hga;nSt each other. There is not a
nation, an Individual or an idea opposed tc
| human freedom that is not enlisted against
| this Government and in favor of the rebel
lion. We are ourselves Cur only friends.-
Within ourselves is our Only hope. We can
| have no sympathy from any other Power
| in the world-no sympathy that is sincere
| and effectual. The State Central Committee,
appointed by the Uuon State Convention,
composed of the loyal men of Pennsylvania,
who met to consider what was proper TO be
! done in this crisis, have a simple duty to
perform in this their first address They
! have only to ask whether the examples Of the
two were with Great Britain, and the admo-
nitionS of the war with Mexico shall be re
collected or rejected in this gloomy hour, and
| whether the American people will cordially
support the Government in putting down the
rebellion.
The Central Committee would impress up
or the people of Pennsy Ivania that the one
great subject for them to consider is tie danger
to The Republic. There is no prejudices or
opinion that should not be postponed and
| if necessary, sacrificed, to avert the common
! peril. The Convention from which the COM
mttee derived its authority acted in this
| spirit, and it is now your duty to come for
| WdIu dui SUSTAIN IHO CduuludlGS tHht NUU
ven,ion placed in nomination. We make
this appeal to all loyal men They only ore
! loyal who recognize this war as one waged
for our natonhI existeDce-who give au ar.
dent and uuquestioning support to the Ad
ministration-who sustain all the measures
of Congress for the maintenance Of the war.
making power--who see in the Southern Con-
federacv, and those who are in alliance with
! e
aud who dc nothing to weaken the hands of
the Executive. They arc not merely disloy-
al who take arms in their bands, and com.
bine themselves into an army He is rebel
who abnres his allegiance and becomes an
enerny to his flag but he is traitor, who,
while enjoying the protection of the Govern
ment, and ostensibIy observing his pledge
of allegiance, contrives TO bring dIshonor
and defeat upon the country. These rebels
and traitors we are called upon to meet. We
must encounter them on the battlefield and
at the ballot box. The ballot box is the
! great source Of popular power If beaten
there, our victories will be frutless, our Suff
erings unrewarded our sacrifices barren,
and the glory and valor of our soldiers will
end in the triumph of the Southern rebellion
and dishonorable peace.
1t is necessary to restate the causes Of
the war. Our opponents have made them
the substance of calumny and misrepresenta-
tion. For answer, we appeal to the living
history familiar to all men. We need not
remind the people that at the basis OF the
| Southern rebellion there exists hatred of
| Northern men and Northern institutions-of
our social, political and revenue Systems
This has inspired their leaders during two
generations. Welded to an institution which
| has denoraized them in demoralizing their
labor, and cultivating the earth by an en-
slaVed race of men, they have made their
slaves the source of their political power, and
ruled the nation with products of slave la
bor The happy hours of our national pro-
! gress have for years been embittered by their
! insolence All legislation that looked to the
prosperity of the Northern States and protec-
ton to their industry has been opposed aud
defeated by them. With the growth of
Northern strength as the result of free insti-
tutions and free toll, comes the possession of
political power and the gradual resistance to
encroachments of slavery. Nor need we re-
mind the people of the outrages that follow
| ed the efforts of the shareholders to recover
their unholy aud despotic domioion. The
outrages upon Kansas the studied insults to
| Northern Senators and Representatives the
ceaseless abuse of the Northern people, and
the gradual concentration Of the military
and naval power in the hands of traitors,
all contemplated the restoration of their as
tendency, and enobled them to inaugurate the
treason which eliminated in war. Strength
ened by wicked Administration, and sus-
taiued by timid and treacherous public men
in the Northern Seates, they were permitted
to organize an armed resistance, and to make
fearful advances, before the Government
could strike blow iu Its own defence.
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