The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-02
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.
An Important Paper.

:, The time is at hand when your ser
u vices are again required at the polls
, The standard-bearer of loyalty for tn,
q :, State is in your cherished friend ant
. tellow-citizen, the Hon. Henry w
. Williams. -.
. When one of your own best citizens
I has been nominated for the only State
: office to be filled, it is eminently proper
u that every vote should be polled, and
= !, a majority given him such as will sat
7 isty our friends abroad that Allegheny
y county not only appreciates her emf
, nent son and jurist, but with slcepless
vigilance watches over the interests OF
, the entire country.
Either Judge Williams or Shars-
I wood, for the next fifteen years, if
spared, will occupy seat upon the
bench of the Supreme Court of the
State, and may be the point upon
which may turn vastly important
! questions in which you are all deeply
interested.
With the former you are intimately
acquainted. You know him as a
christian, scholar and patriot as
an honest man and able jurist. Whilst
OF Judge Sharswood you have no per-
sonal knowledge upon which to de-
pend as guarantee of the future.
You have heard Of him as the Judge
who decided greenbacks unconstitu-
tlonal and worthless,an opinion which,
if carried out, would have withheld
from your army the very provisions
necessary for the suppression of the
rebellion.
In the choice you are to make, con-
suit your own safety, do not fail to re-
member that one or the other of these
two men during their term of office
may be called upon to. decide ques-
tlons connected with the public securi-
ties of the country, with pensions,
bounties and other interests growing
out of the rebellion. On your own
ballot rests the responsibility of sound
or unsound Interpretation of the law.
But fellow citizens, there is a higher
purpose still to be accomplished by
your ballots. The country is far from
being at rest. The rebel crater con-
tinnes to throw out its livid flames
and light up the whole horizon with
new and untold dangers. A Prcsi-
dent who came into power by the hand
OF an assassin, beguiled and seduccd
by the Blacks and Blairs, has turned
assassin upon his own repeated pledges
of loyalty. From being pretended
Moses Of the down-trodden African,
he has become the Moses of the
rebels. AT every step he has trampl- l
ed upon the will of the people by vio-
lating the Civil Rights bill, the Freed
mems Bureau bill, the Congressional
Reconstruction bills, and not satisfied
with these demonstrations of hostility l
to the wishes of the people as express
ed through their Representatives in ,
Congress, he expelled from Office the |
illustrious Secretary of War, Stanton /
the loyal military commanders of the t
Districts, Sheridan and Sick t
les. lie issues proclamation of gen. t
cral amnesty, and is now engaged in t
endeavoring to arrange the registra- t
ton of rebels, 50 as to allow them to 5
vote and resume their control in the L
councils of the nation. The Consti- |
tutional amendment but for him would v
have met with Southern endorsement. h
He has denounced Congress and as |
sumed to himself the right of substi- S
tuting his own measures of policy for e
the will ofa majority of the nation a
constitutionally expressed through the o
ballot box. He is in daily commun-
on with Jeremiah Black, an avowed fl
'ecessionist, and now rumors of threat a
med revolution are sent abroad as the .,
'esult of these secret conclaves-great- .,
y damaging the business interests of :,
he country, affecting the price of gold b
md paralyzing the great Industrial ~
pursuits of the nation. q, IL
Battles have been fought and won, f.
nd blood in profusion split to stay II
he aggressive march of slavery until ST
ne Almighty, in his Providence, has h,
mitten the hydraheadcd monster and w
it to droop and die. South I
rn men acknowledge the Providence 10
nd accept the result; but Andrew W
ohnson, under the guidance of the i
Blacks and Blairs, with leading South
IN rebels, with malignant hate for 40
he Republican anti-slavery cause, are ~ ~
ndeavoring to reinstate in power the a. a.
Democratic party, and, if possible, a. G.,
lwart the purpose of a wise and over ~ ~
lling Providence. an I
To effect this purpose they appeal "
the basest passions of human ma do
Ire, excite and cling to prejudices of ~
lie worst kind, and connect themselves r,
18th every issue in the land. What Iot
ltelligent man desires to fall back liz
pom Pierce and Buchanan times? 90,
'ho does not remember the Demo- Do,
attic party as the swornally of slave D,
had made rapid strides towards the t;c
iilding up of an oligarchy, which, in t;cy
le end, would have proved destruc- tn
We to the interests Of the laboring w;
asses? Who has forgotten that cele- Bu
'ated sentence in Buchanan's mes j
&c, "Reduce the nominal to the real nm,
lndard of value throughout the an,
orld," by which the laborer here sen
ould have been reduced to the STAN Co
nd ofthe pauper labor of Europe I? sna
i'd who does not know that the wa
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