Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-08-07
Wednesday, August 7, 1867.

He is ofthe Webster and Clay school
of politics, and during the recent civil
war, from the beginning to the end,
did every thing in his power, through
his means, his voice, and his votes, to
strengthen the hands and encourage
the hearts Of the loyal people in the
struggle TO maintain the Union.
Who, and what Judge Sharswood is,
as a public man, will appear from what
/ follows:
/ Early in the history of this nation
/ political sentiment became divided on
the powers Of the National and State
I governments, and their true relations
/ to each other. On these divisions two
great parties were subsequently found
ed The one, known as the State
Rights party, had John G.. Calhoun for
It's champion; and the other, for its re
cognlzed leader, had the great expound
er of the Constitution, Daniel Webster.
The former held free trade, and the
right Of notification and secession, as
cardinal doctrines, denying the consti-
tutlonal power of Congress to impose
duties for protection, and claiming
notification and secession as inherent
rights OF State. The latter denied
these assumptions, and between these
conflicting principles and parties there
has been perpetual warfare In the
main, the old Wing party ranged itself.
under the banner Of Webster, and the
Democratic party under that of Cal
houn. One Of the legitimate fruits of.
the State rights doctrine was the re-
bellion Of 1888 in South Carolina; the
avowed object Of which was to nullify
the protective tariff law Of Congress,
enacted in 1928 The country at that
time was saved from a disastrous civil
war by the firmness of President Jack
son, the wisdom of Congress, and the
patriotism of General Scott. That
effort at rebellion and civil war failed;
and the principle on which it was
based was rcpudiated. But in 1860
and 1861 South Carolina, and other
rebel States, again endeavored to put
In force their States rights doctrine of
secession. The sympathy, imbecility,
and connivance of President Buchan-
an, and his advisers, so contrib buted TO
the success Of the effort, that its con-
summation could only be prevented
by long, desperate, and bloody civil
war. III the end and after fearful sac
rifces Of life and treasure, the rights
and power Of the National Govern
ment were again vindicated; and the
Calhoun doctrine of secession was
again Ovcrthrown. Such at least has
been the popular conviction, and cause
for rejoicing; and even the worst Of
Southern rebels have been compelled
to confess it, and for two years past
have been weeping over their lost
cause Strange, sad, and incredible
as 1t may seem, we are already called
upon to fight these great issues over
again. The Democratic party, with
Judge Sharswood for its leader, and
with Free Trade, State Rights and Sc
ccsolOn upon its banner, is again mar
shaling its hosts, and now summoniug
US to the field of political combat, on
these same issues That party, at
their National Conventions in 1856
and 1860, readopted what are known
as the Virginia and Kentucky resolu.
tions OF 1898 and 1899, as part of their
platforms. These resolutionsa are known
as the embodiment of the old State
rights and Calhoun doctrines They
do not regard the relations of the
States or people thereof to the United
States as constituting goUernnaent, in
the ordinary and proper sense Of the
term, but declare them to be merely Il
compact and that '0S in all other cases of
comp1ct among parties hagjng no common
JUdge, each Pariy has an equal right to
Judge fOr HSelf, As WELL OF ATTRACTIONS.
AS OF THE MODE AND MEASURE OF RE
DRESS
Under this free Democratic charter
for rebellion, the lawful election of
Abraham Lincoln as President of the I.
United States was claimed by the peO /
pie Of the rebel States as an 'infrac |.
ton of the compact and they chose
secession and civil war as the mode, /.
and the destruction of the Union and
State independence as the measure Of
redress The Democratic party at its
last National Convention proclaimed
the war failure; and it has now put
in the field life long Free Trade and
State Rights candidate, whom Judge
Black endorses as one who will stand
by the Constitution and give pure law
viz: who will stand by the Constitu-
tion as the State Rights party construo
it, and give US such pure law as Judge
Black has given President BUCHANAN
and ANDREW JOHNSON.
( Judge Sharswood and his party
friends have not only denied the law
| ful power of the National Government
to coerce n rebelIious State, to make
and enforce a draft, to make paper
money legal tender, to emancipate
/ and arm negroes, to punish rebels and
traitors by disfranchisement, to sus-
pend the writ of hoJeaS corpus in time
Of rebellion, or to arrest and try often
ders in the time Of war by court mar
tial; but they hold that all these things,
though actually done, were illegally
and wrongtuIly done, and therefore set
tied nothing Or, as the Democratic
0rpan (the phiIldalnhia 4 ore y in n re.