New-York tribune., 1868-10-10
PENNSYLVANIANS! TO THE RESCUEi

REPUBLICANS OF PENNSYLVANIA Your an
cient foe halts at no danger and rcvolts at no
crime i'll his effort to carry the State of Penn
sylvania by fraud for the Rebel ticket. Six
thousand Citizens" have been manufactured In
Philadelphia alone, by a process which you
know to be without any safeguard against
frauds, and which n majority of the Judges OF
your Supreme Court declare illegal. The Rebels
of Maryland are gathering to invade
your State under the lead of Wade Hampton
and Blair, and renew at the polls the struggle
in which they once before invaded your State
under Wade Hampton and Lee. Your success
no longer depends upon meetings, speeches.
PROFESSIONS bonfires, or barbecues The time
for these is past. Your vote is ample to give
you a majority of 10000 on Tuesday next if
every Republican vote, and if only the mini
mum number of illegal votes are polled against
you You must icork 10 erclude The fraudulent
rote. The popularity of your candidates and
the justice of your principles will avail nothing
against the deliberate conspiracy OF the
enemies of all freedom to dofraud the lawful
voters of Pennsylvania of their true verdict.
La 1856, the convictions of the people OF
PENNSYLVANIA were with the Republican party,
but the State was carried for Buchanan against
Fremont by the most stupendous system or
corruption ever practced in our political his
tory. In 1860, after fercey fought contest,
you guarded the polls with vigilance and
spirit, and in no small degree, by excluding
illegal votes you carried the State by
tremendous majority. In 1864 you again,
by hard work and patient watch
ing at the polls carried the State by 2OO15; in
De~ Ia, ,,oh, Ii
gence, you allowed Judge Sharswood to be
elected 10y 922 majority, every vote of his ma
jority, and more, being frauds. You admitted
the wooden horse thinking it harmless. Now
YOU find it filled with armed men. The few
hundred fraudulent votes which carried the
State for ShaIswood last year are now clothed
with the judicial power to let in as many fraud
ulcnt votes as choose to apply. Turn every
energy to the great work OF purglng your
State forever of this instrument of ylllniny.
Why should the lawful voters of Pennsylvania
see their rulers made for them by a swlndle,
instead of electiug them themselves by the
bailotS What becomes of true Democracy if
the people are cheated of their right TO govern
by the traders in fraudulent votesl
Complete your lists of lawful voters, show
ing who are native, who are foreign, and who
are naturalized. Investigate the case of every
newly naturalized person in your Ward. Find
out if his papers are obtained on facts or
falsehoods. II he has not been in the country
five years, confront him with proof OF the fact
on the spot If he still votes, arrest him for
perjury before he leaves the polls. One prompt
arrest OF fraudulent voter will prevent hund-
reds from making the effort. Without unre-
hitting toll in this direction, all your meetings,
speeches, and arguments are futile. II
il not pleasant work. lou can find
twenty men willing to make speeches
where ten are willing TO canvass
their district or block. and do this more
essential but less showy work. Herein lies
your danger. 1t must be done. and done
thoroughly, or Pennsylvania will be lost
through fraud, aud sealed 10 new era of
villainy. Earnestly urgently. and with deep
sense of the supreme necessity of this advice,
we appeal to you. Brethren in Pennsylvania,
drop every other business. and rest not until
you have shut down the hoodgates through
which dcprayity aud crime are pouring TO
overwhelm your State. Now-to tho rescue