The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-05-12
JOB PRINTING,
Pennsylvania and the Presidency.
Address and Platform of the Union State
Convention.


Hon. Simon Cameron has been chosen
Chairman of the Union State Central
Committee. The address aud resolutions
adopted by the late Convention at Har-
risburg are as follows:
To the People Of Pennsylvania; Ia
presenting the name of Abraham Liu-
colu, for reelection to the Presidency, to
our fellow citizens of Pennsylvania and of
the other loyal States, VIC are constrained
by high sense of what is due to the
principle involved, briefly to set forth the
reasons which impel us to this preference.
In doing SO, We desire emphatically to
state that our ardent purpose to secure
the reelection of the present Chief Mag
istrate Of the Union is controlled by no
hasty intention to neutralize the high
claims to patriotism of other statesmen
mentioned in connection with the same
great Office by the Union men of the
country; nor to have it manifest, either,
that We are controlled by any selfish ad-
herence to mere man, liz this the hour
of free peoples struggle for their exist
ence. The reasons which urge us to ad,
vocatc the reelection of Abraham Lin
coin are such as must influence all patri-
otic men in adopting measures that will
best subserve the safety and purity of the
Government, the honor and glory of its
people, with their speedy triumph over
the murderous combinations of a wicked
rebellion. The Administration, in all It's
attitudes, presents the power of the Gov
ernmeut in all its might and majesty
Whatever affects the one, must, more or
less, influence aud impair the other If
the Government should be defeated, the
overthrow of the Administration must, of
course, follow. If the cousplrators, who
do the bidding of jefferson Davis tri-
umph. necessarily the brave men who O.
hey the summons and enter in the fight
for the Union, under the general direc-
tion of the President of the United States,
must also be defeated, and as they go
down. the President ceases to be the rep
rescntative of national power; and as all
these perish, so, too, will all men who are
now free and independent, either be sac
rifced to the horrors Of war, or be doomed
to the still greater horrors of slavery
From these alternatives there is no es-
cape. Our political enemies have so
couched their battle cry as to render most
odious. those who now represent the Ma
tional authority; while our armed foes,
(the natural allies of those opposed to US
politically have schooled their followers
in the same prejudices. So closely are
these identified, even now it is boosted,
in the rcyolted States as being only ne
cessary for the success of rebellion, that
the peace Democracy should succeed in
loyal States; while the peace Democracy
Insist, as the basis Of their success, that
the rebellion must first become military
triumph. This is not an assumption o.
our own TO make an argument against our
enemies. The history of the whole
course of the shareholders rebellion cor
roborates it on one side, while the career
of those who sympathize with treason af-
firms it on the other. Hence the neces-
sity of so identifying the Administration
with the Government in the coming po-
litical contest, as to make them insepara-
ble-thc one as potential as the other
invincible against their combined cue
mics. North and South. This can only
be done by the denomination and re-etec-
fion Of A6rdhans Lincoln. Until the re-
bellion is put down, or at least until its
armed force and yigor arc broken, there
should be no change in the Administra-
tion representing the Government OBJ
yious reasons impress us with the import
ance of this position. A change of men
would involve change of measures; so
that while the loyal States we're under
going such reyulsion, the States that
are in rebellion would be afforded time to
gather strength wherewith possibly to
Oyerwhelm and destroy the Government.
Campaigns then just projected would be
Immediately countermanded to appease
the rage of partisan rivalry. Leaders
fairly tried would be reduced 10 command
20 make room for the ambitious, incom-
petent and useless imbecile. The depre,
citation of the currency, now so eagerly
aimed at, would then be speedily accom-
plished. The ruin of the national credit
now treated as jest, would then be re
ceived as a reality, and mocked as de
serving result. Our diplomacy would be
come the channel of conveying to the ma
tions of the world the evidence. of our in
ternal broils and the fact of our nationa
weakness And thus, with schism wher'
the Union is now strong, and antagonlsmi
where cordiality now prevails, the gener
oil wreck of the Government would mari
the imprudent change in its present ad
ministration, and the enslayement OF
reople who are now free and independ
ent, conclude the bleak record OF the ma
tion's decline and fall. !.
If a nations's safety is worth a party
noblest efforts, then, indeed, have we
claiming to be the loyal men OF the Land