The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-09-19

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To tie People Of Pennsylvania
The Radicals attempt to evade the prac-
teal issues of the canvass and to deIude
you into the support Of their candidates.
They alone are accountable for the pros
tration Of your business interests. They
have deliberately sacrificed them in order
to place in the hands of Southern Negroes
the balance of power in the Republic, and
thus preserve their own rule More than
two years have passed since peace was
restored, and we still look in vain for in
creased products from the South to al i! us
IN paying the interest on our debt, and for
her prosperous customers to buy our wool
en-, iron and other manufactures.
Instead of receiving aii to pay our debts
We are taxed to maintain a freedman's
bureau and Il standing army in the South
Instead ofprosperOus customers to increase
cur trade, every business interest Ian
guisles.
NadIcaI Tnlsm anagement, n negro poll
cy, and radical extravagance, weigh
down our energies and fettcr our rcsour-
ceS-
The whole expense of the War Depart
ment in 1860 WAS sixteen and a-half mil
lions, whilst in 1867 it is estimated by
the Treasury at forty-seyen millions, both
being periods OF peace. To give the ne
gro power to rule US, therefore, costs the
nation annually thirty millions. OF this
amount Pennsylvania's share is at leas
one-tenth, and your industry must annual
ly pay three millions Of dollars to support
Il policy that closes your woolen mills and
stops your factories.
In your State affairs, mismanagoment,
corruption and extravaganza are the rule
In 1860, under democratic power the
whole amount Of money appropriated and
expended, independent of funded debt and
military expenses, as shown by the Treas
ury, was NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGur
THOUSAND DOLLARS. In 1864, excluding
the same items, the Radicals appropriated
and expended one million three hundred
and seventy-nine thousand dollars. In
1860, excluding the same items, the Ra-
dicais appropriated and expended one mil
lion five hundred and nineteen thousand
dollars, and in 1866, excluding the same
items, they appropriated and expended
TWO MILLIONS AND ELEvEN THOUSAND
DoLLNEs. The reports Of the Auditor
General show these facts and prove that
N SIX YEARS OF RADICAL RULE, YOUR CASH
EXPENSES HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED.
The men who have thus wasted your
substance, prate of their loyalty and their
sacrifices, and would maintain their hold
upon the public treasury by fixing your
attention upon other Issues. You are op-
pressed by taxation through internal rev.
enue and other machinery, as no other
people ever were. 1t takes from you
your legitimate profits and gives you 10
customers. 1t compels you to stop man
ufacturing and to discharge your work
men. Your goods remain unsold and
your operatives suffer. Can you expect
relief from this grinding taxation, 50 long
as these enormous expenditures continue
Relief can only come through economy in
public affairs, reduction in your expen-
ses, and the discharge Of corrupt and ex-
trayaqant officials.
1t is their purpose to violate the great
/ principle, "shat each State has the right
to determine the qualifications of its own
electors" and give the negroes of Penn
sylyania the balance of power between
the two great political parties. Negro
4 suffrage is to be forced upon you by Con-
gressional enactment, and your ''Supreme
Court is to be placed in harmony" with
that law, by electng Judge WILLIAMS,
/ who i relied upon to decide that the negro
is entitled TO right which you and your
/ organic laws deny him. In the Senate
of the United States, in July last, the
/ recognized leader of lhe Radicals Of this
| State, voted to proceed TO consider a bill
! that was introduced by WILSON Of Massa-
| chusetts, to effect this Infamous purpose.
! DEMOCRATS OF PENNSYLVANIA!
! Let the result in California arouse you
! TO renewed exertion. Work is to be done,
and you must do it. Committees may
plan and order, but the result depends
/ upon yourselves. Individual effort is the
road to victory. See your neighbor, en-
courage him, bring him to the polls.
/ Perfect your organizations. Block your
wards and townships. Subdivide the
labor and perform it with energy.
Press home upon your adversaries the
real issues of the canvass. Demand ol
/ them that they shall answer.
Are you for or against the Radical pol
icy that destroys our business and closes
our workshops, mills and factories, to give
the negro the balance of power?
Are you for or against continued cor
ruption, mismanagement and extrava-
gaRce?
Are you for or against conceding to
Congress the right to allow the negro the
power to rule Pennsylvania?
BY order of the Democratic State Com.
mlstee. WE LIAM A. WALLACE,
Chairman.
The York, Lancaster and Others
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