The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-22
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PENNSYLvANIA-0HIO.

Five or six States hold elecJlOnS on lueS-
day, October u; but the deepest interest
centres upon Pennsylvania and Ohio. Gen.
Ceorv. the Republican Governor of Pennsyl-
vania. who served his country acceptably in
Tho war for the Union, is q candidate for re-
election. opposed by Asa Packer, Copper
bend CONGRESSMAN of ''the times that tried
mems souls" General Hays, the Republican
Governor of Ohio, is in like manner opposed
Inv George H. Pendleton, who was in Con-
oTyess from 1861 to 1866, and there stead
fsstlv resisted as unconstitutional and aggres-
sive every effort to oppose force to force in
defense of the Union. If Mr.. Pendleton is
,iobt then the overthrow of the Confederacy
was wrong. and we ought forthwith to with
draw the authority and flag of the Union from
the South and pay her for the damage wrong
fully, wantonly inflicted on her. 10 vote
George H. Pendleton into the once OF 10Y
ernor is to vote that the loyal sons OF Ohio
who for love of the Union poured out their
blood like water at Pittsburg Landing, at
Stone River. around Vicksburg, at Chicka-
mauoa. and in Sherman's bloody Atlanta
campaign died as the fool dieth, inficting
injury and outrage on a heroic and long
suffering people.
We do not believe Pendleton can be elected;
we should have no doubt on the subject if the
Republicans of Ohio had been wisely coun-
seled and nobly led by their politicians. But
some of these have been plowing with the
preenback heifer and taking the anti-tariff
sophistry which their fathers would have
spurned: and all this is grist to the Cop
perhead mill. The voter who is convinced,
no matter by whose arguments, that the
bonds given for money borrowed to save the
Union with perfect understanding on both
sides that they would be paid at maturity
in coin-borrowed on the faith of assurances
from the head of the Federal Treasury that
thew certainly should be so paid-may never
theless be paid off in greenbacks
fabricated in reamsfor the purpose, and pay
able at no definite time or place-wil vote
for the author of that gigantic swindle and
not his paltry and cowardly followers They
will know that he means it, and that the Re-
publican who tries to steal his thunder is
time-serving hypocrite, who processes ras-
cality because he supposes it the fashion
The voter who really means to pay the debt
in ereenbacks, and to cut down the tariff so
that it can't be paid in anything else, is very
unlikely to stand by the party which sends
Schenck and Garfield to Congress, and mourns
the exclusion from the national councils by
minority vote, of faithful and fearless Ben
Wade.
In Ohio, the Democratic politicians hope 70
make votes by opposing protection, and are
outspoken free traders in Pennsylvania, they
know that protection is overwhelmingly
strong, and SO say nothing about it. Yet the
defeat of Geary will be shouted over from
Maine to Texas, no matter how unjustly, as
triumph of free trade over protection, and
will give powerful impetus to the ant-tariff
hurrah in Congress. Every free-trader in the
State is for Packer, and his election will pow
efully tend to quench half the furnace-fires
of the Keystone State. Whenever the Demo-
cratic party get the upper hand in Congress,
protection is doomed, and hundred Packers
cannot save it if they would 1850.
The Republicans of neither State can make
anything by seeking to evade the great issues
which divide the country. The Republicans
of California might have been beaten any
how: they sealed their doom when they tried
to pronounce the Democratic shibboleth with
regard to the Chinese. When the Republi.
can party ceases to be the champion of equal
rights, regardless of race or color, it's grave
will be dug 1t can give no reason why its
lie should be prolonged one hour after il
ceases to stand up for Government of the
people, by the people, for the people" Who
ever contends that quarter of the adult male
citizens living in a country or district ought
to make all the laws, levy all the taxes, anc
hold all the offices, because the rest are
nothing but ''niggers, black or yellow, is {
sham Democrat and ought to own it, To cal
himself Republican while he thinks ant
feels like Democrat, is to do all the harm
possible to the party he has already resolved
to betray st r
We believe Ohio will sustain and ratify tn,
htteenth amendment, and thus secure it
triumph. If she fails, we shall blame tn,
tlmidity and treachery of few leading poll
ticians, not the great body of her voting Re
publicans, whose hearts are true and loyal
The trimmers who failed us in 1867 sen
Thurman to the Senate instead of Ben Wade
They can now fill up the measure of thei
treachery by electing Pendleton over Hays
But they who contribute to that result
whether by voting or staying at home, mea
to bury the Republican party and roll gref
stone above its remains. They did so
1867. when they sent Thurman to the Senate
vet General Grant carried the State next yea
by over fifty thousand maj ajority. If treacheI
could kill it, it would have been dead Ion
ago.
We appeal to Republicans in principl
whether in Pennsylvania or Ohio, to do the
very utmost in the canvass now near its clos
Men and brethren though no President
delegation to Congress is now to be chose
the principle of equal human rights was new
more clearly at stake than in your prese
canvass The Rebellion makes its last staI
in defense of inequality, of prejudice,
government by caste. You can beat it if "
will put forth such exertions as the impol
ance of the stake requires Speak to yo
neighbors; strengthen the feeble knee
arouse the laggard; inspirit the faint-hearte
and enable us, on the morrow of your che
tion, to congratulate your country that t
long struggle is ended-that our institutio
rest evermore on the broad, firm basis of t
universal and immutable rights of man!
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