Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-10-05
ADDRESS OF THE UNION IRE.
PUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEES.
COMMITTEE Rooms, 1105 Chestnut ST.,
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. %, 1867.

! PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26, lS67.
To THE VOTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA :-Fel.
tow Citizens. Once more to the rescue
The election is only ten days hence; and
| seldom, II ever, were more momentous is.
sues presented for your decision. The ma.
jority of the judges of our Supreme Court
were elected before the recent war, and upon
partisan, Democratic, State rights, and Sc.
, cession platforms which were free charters
for rebellion. The war itself was legiti
mate consequence of these principles, and
IN strict accordance with these State rights
doctrines. When the conflict came, the
Judges and the otner leaders of the party
which elected them stood fast by their plat
forms, and in so doing deserted the cause
and flag of the country. They denied the
power OF the National Government to CO.
cree rebels, to issue paper money, or to
make 1t legal tender, or to make and en-.
force draft to fill up the ranks of our ar
mics, or to punish deserters by disfranchise.
ment aud in hundred other ways endea-
vored, by State actions, to nulify national
laws; and thus, during the whole war,
kept up an unceasing fire in the rear."--
These dangerous dogmas and State rights
! heresies have been overthrown and repudi.
atet upon hundred bloody battle fields
In the name OF Heaven. ask us not to restore
them, or to elect men who uphold and
maintain them
OF the same grave character is the great
and overshadowing national question of re.
construction. This is the issue of the hour,
| and OF the contest. Who under the Consti
tuition has the right to make laws and reg.
ulatlons Tor States and people lately in re.
beiiion! Is it the sovereign people, through
their representatives in Congress or the
man who accidentally fills the Presidential
chair These important questions answer
themselves. Never were living issues more
plain. You, and the other loyal people of
this nation decided them at the ballot box
only one year ago, in the election of the
Fortieth Congress, and by a popular verdict
four hundred thousand strongl Why has
not this decree of the people been executed,
and become the settled law of the land
Only because of the perfdy of A. johnson.
Instead OF executing the laws, as required
by the Constitution, and by his oath of of
flee, he openly defines them, and endeavors
Systematically to nullify and defeat them.
To this end, he strikes down and endeavors
to humiliate and degrade our most honored
and beloved patriots, statesmen and heroes
Edwin NJ. Stanton was patriot, even in the
Cabinet of James Buchanan, and ever since
erals Philip II. Sheridan and Daniel E.
Sickles are patriots and heroes who have
! nobly earned the gratitude, affection and
admiration of their countrvmep The for
mer with his loyal legions stood in the val
ley OF the Shenandoah like wall of fire
between us and our enemies and saved our
State from the foot of the invader. The
latter, in the front Of battle shed his blood
ard lost his limb at the eliminating battle
OF gettysburg. As patriots and Pennsylva.
mans, can We ever forget them, or forgive
MN who would wickedly strike them down.
Their removal and attempted humiliation is
not onlya high crime and misdemeanor,
nut wanton insult to every loyal man,
whether citizen or soldier Let it be resen-
ted, anc punished as such. Wait not for
the tardy progress of impeachment BY Con-
J gress-but, TO THE POLLS
For want of facts and arguments, our ad-
versaries, as usual, resort to vain boastings
J of their strength, and loud assurances of
! victory. Be not deceived by these stale
Chinese tactics. By false prophecies they
easily elected Lowry. Woodward, Mcclellan
and Clymer during the last five years, when.
| in fact, at every recurring election they were
ingloriousy defeated, and never more sig
nally than in the last contest. Rest assured,
no modern prophet can make such dry
bones live. If, in view of our solemn duties
and responsibilities, we do but half our duty.
we can increase orr old majorties. Discard
all side issues and personal preferences; and,
as in the dark and trying hours of the war,
march straight forward in the pathway OF
honor and of duty. To this We most earn
estly invoke you by the consideration OF
your glorious achievements in the past by
the solemn realities and obligations of the
present; by your duty to yourselves and
posterity; by the sacred memories of the
dead, and 10y the precious blood of the slain.
BY order of the committee
F. JORDAN, Chairman
9 GfR, Rovgrr w, R1ssnshs; n"sen;so, Secretaries,