The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-04-28

able community. and she, 10 her corr
porate capacity, ms an obiec, Of odium.
SIR, am proud of dear old Penn
sylvania, my native State. She was
the first TO adopt the Federal Consti.
tuition. and was in fact the keystone
Of the Federal arch, bIlding together
day prominently the representative
state OF the Uui,D. You cannot
strike her 50 tha, her industries shall
lie blcd without those Of other States
feeling 1t, and feeling it vitality. She
has M cotton, or sugar, or rice fields
but apart from these she is identified
with every interest represented on
thi, floor.
Gentlcmen from tho rocky coast OF
New England and the gentleman who
are here from the more fertile and
hospitr.Jie shores OF the Pacific, cspeci-
ally the gentleman from tho bcauti-
ully wooded shores of Puget sound,
complain that their sbip-yards are
idle. Hers, alas are also Idle. al
though they are the yards 10 which
were built tue largest wooden ships
the Government ever out afloat, and
the largest sailing iron clad il ever
owned She has her commerce aud
sympathizies with young San Fran
cisco and our great commercial me-
iropoliS, New York. She was fol
long years the leading port of entry
10 the country. She still maintain:
Il respectable di:ect commerce and I'm
ports, very largely through New York
for the same reason that London doe,
through Liverpool aud Paris through
lIavrc.
Are YOU interested in the produc-
ton of fabrics. whether of silk, wool
flax, or cotton? If so her interest.
are identically with yours, for she EN-.
ploys as many spidlcs aud looms n.
any New England state, and theft
productions are as various and valna.
bic. Are your interests in the COM
merce, upon the hkes2 ..hen go with
me to the beautiful city of Erie and
behold how Pennsylvania sympathizes
with oil your interests there. Arc
your interests indcntifcd with the
navigation OF the Mississippi and seek
ing markets for their products a. the
mouth Of that river and on the Gulf
! pray 60 remember tha, two of the
nlvigable sources or the American
" Fatacr of Waters take their rise in
the Los I'm of her Mountains. and for
long decades her en'crprising aud in
dus,rous people have been plucking
from her hills bitimnous coal AMI
floating it down that s'ream past the
coal-!iclls Of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, and other coal bear
ing States, to meet that of England in
the market Of New Olleans and try 70
drive il theme. Gentlemen from the
gold regions, where were the miner
trained who first brought to light
with any measures Of science and cx.
pcricncc, the vast resources in eoll
and silver bearing quartz ofthe Pacific
slope They wen, TO yoI from the
coal, iron, and zinc mines Of Pennsyl-
vania There they had learned to
sink the shaft, run the drift, handle
the ore, and crush or melt it. 1t wa,
experience acquired in her mines that
brought out the wealth Of California
almost as maaically as we were ,argh,
in childhood to believe that Aladdin 5
lamp could convert base articles into
that precious metal.
Nor, sir, are the interests of Penn
sylvania at varilncc with tn isc of the
great agricultural States ? Before her
Representatives in the two Houses OF
Congress had united their voices with
those OF gentlemen from the West
to make magnificent land grant,
for the purpose of constructing rail-
roads in different directions across the
trcclcss bnt luxurious fertile pariaries
Pennsylvania was first among the
great agricultural States. And to- Hay
onr products Of the field, the garden,
The orchard, and the diary equal in
value those oi any other State. Cen
llcmcn from Ohio, notwi,hstnndin.
the statement of the gentlemen from
Iowa, Mr.. ALLISON ] that you alone
manufacture Scotch pig iron and suf
fer from its importation, as you alone
have the black band ore, from which
it is made, is II not true that when
Pennsylvania demands tariff that will
protect tho wages Of her laborers in
the mine, quarry, ard furnace. she
does but defend the interests ana rights
of your laborers and those of the every
other iron-beariug State in the Union
Gentlemen from Virginia, Maryland
and North Carolina, Pennsylvania is
denounced because she pleads for u
duty on coil that will enable you to
develop your magnificent tide water
coal-ields in competition with Nova
Scotia, The coal Of your tid,-wate'
iiells of Pennsylvania, which depend
Oh railroads for transportation. On the
banks OF the James, the Dan, and q
score of other navigablc rivers, lie
COAL beds To within a few hundred feet
Of which the vessels which are to car.
ry the precious fuel away may come
and they lie nearer to the markets oI
New England than those Of your col.
ouiil rivals at Nova Scotia aud wher
YOU were not here and Virginia and
North Carolina were v1icclcss on thi,
floor, | pleaded with the Thirty