The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-07-23
Address Of the Democratic state
Committee.
DEMocRATIc STATE COMMITTEE Rooms,
Clearfeld, Pa, July IA, 1868. !


CIearieId, Pa, July IA, 1868.
To tie People of Pennsylvania
The political contest just entered into is
laden with grave results to your business
and to Yourselves.
The Radical party asks renewal of its
power and continuance of its misrule.
Defeated in every recent election, it now
DISCUSSES its principles and trusts for sue
cess to the military prestige OF an aValia-
BILE candidate.
1t offers to Grant the shadow OF power,
as a price for securing the reality OF Com
gress.
Its success will bring yeu- continued
missovernment by Radical Congress, the
control Of every department Of the govern
ment by Radical domination and the per-
petuation of its iniquilies, its extravaganza,
its elevation of the negro, and its prostra-
tion of your business interests.
1t. came into existence to benefit the
negro its devotion to his interests gave
us four years of war, grinding taxation
| and three thousand millions of debt its
determination to place the negro over the
white man has for more than three years
! kept society shattered, commerce para
! lyzed, industry prostrated, the national
credit below par and the Union divided.
1t has governed us for near eight years:
the history of its first administration is
written IN four years of blood and record
! ed in an enormous national debt the
history of its second admin istration is near
! four years of peace, with absolute power,
and Union not restored, government
! of the sword, business destroyed, taxation
crushing the energies Of the people and
! the negro vested with the balance of power.
Its end and aim is the preservation of
Radical power through the votes of ne
! groes, aud to this will be sacrificed your
material interests, and, if necessary your
personal rights and your form of govern
ment
Military rule oppresses the nation and
eats out the substance Of the people. 1t
is fit that Grant SHOULD lead the party
that maintains that rule, for his laurels
were gathered by the sword alone.
The Democratic party, placing itself
upon the Constitution, pledges itself to
! strict obedience thereto, to the mainten-
ance of the government created thereby,
to the supremacy of law, to the reform ol
abuses, to economy in administration, to
equal taxation, and to justice to all.
| 1t antagonizes and Genounces that infa-
nous policy which, during moro than
three years of peace, has overtaxed the
people, has governed by the sword and
has destroyed the credit of the nation.
lis policy is one of thoughtful foresight,
of cautious craftsmanship it seeks nc
new path but by the line of the written
law, in the light of experience, it will
! guide the Republic buck to the highway
of progress and prosperity and will restore
to it national credit and fame.
1t presents to you with pride its candi-
date for Presidency: Horatio Seymour,
of New York, a statesman and an honest
man. Capable and pure, possessed Ol
large experience and gifted with the rarest
! qualities of the head and of the heart,
strong IN intellect, sound in judgment and
| prompt in action, none more competent to
lead Us back to the haven of law and
order.
Pennsylvania owes him debt of graft
tude for his prompt aid when her border
was attacked.
The issues are before you: they are,
The statesman against the soldier; in
tellect against force; tie law against the
sword.
1t is for you to determine which Of
these will best suit our present unhappy
| condition.
BY order of the Democratic Committee
| WILLIAM A. WALLACE,
Chairman.