The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-10-18
Address 10 the People OF Pennsylvania.

Address 10 the People OF pennsylvania.
The following address has been issued
by tho chairmen Of the Democratic and
Liberal State committees:
TO the People Of Pennsylvania:
PHILADELPHIA, October II, 1872.
We have lost battle, but the field
should not be surrendered. Fraud has
held high carnival in Philadelphia, and
paralyzed our ranks throughout the
State but the insolent triumph should
renew every friend of regenerated gov
crnmcnt to increased eXertions. The
official vote declared in Philadelphia
has not even the semblance ofcorrect
ness. The officers charged with the re.
turns of the meeting of the Return
Judges were not sworn. The returns
were read off without opportunity for
examination. The computation of the
vote was not made out, and the papers
were not subsequently taken to the
office where the law required they
should be, but elsewhere, for final
manipulation. By this process, practic.
tNt III NDCli NltlbiSC Vi law tli puDllO
deSncy, the candidate on the State
ticket who received the lowest number
of votes is returned as having larger
vote than his associates. We had no
power to purge the the fraudulent regis
tration Of this city-no authority to re-
strain illegal voters-and now have no
tribunal adequate to the punishment of
election officers and others who cOnspir.
ed to pollute the ballot box. Yet the
principles involved in this contest will
not perish by q temporary defeat in
Pennsylvania, whether honest or frau
dulent. The nation is the battle ground
of reform, and even without Pennsyl.
vania right may achieve victory in
November. Pennsylvania may not be
able to give her electoral vote to vindi-
cate selEgovernment, but she must not
be voiceless in the struggle. Her people
must manfully stand to their principles
and organization. The necessity for the
exercise of the independent power OF
the people in this State is made doubly
imperative by the means employed tc
defeat us on Tuesday last, and he is un.
worthy of the blessings ofliberty whC
would withhold his every effort because
local or temporary defeat is probable
This battle of reform will be won. 1t
may not be this year, but surely in the
near future. 1t appeals to every friend
of national peace and purity, to every
votary Of State and universal regenera
tion, and to every citizen who values
the sanctity of the elective franchise
There must be no faltering in the ranks
Let the friends Of Horace Greeley an(
the principles he represents everywhere
perfect their organization at once. w
can deserve victory in Pennsylvania
and that may save the nation. 1t viii
, certainly save our cause from dishono
and assure US early triumph.
SAMUEL j. RANDALL,
/, Chairman Democratic State Committee
A. X. MCCLURE,
. Chairman Liberal Rep. State Con
William II. Seward, who had bee
twice Governor of New York, twice [
S. Senator from that State, and Secre
= tary of State under Presidents LincOll
- and Johnson. died on Thursday OctC
! Der 10Th, at Auburn N. Y. aged I
years.
He will be longer remembered 70
his 'little bell" which sent numbe
e of his fellow citizens to prison than fC
II any great good he ever rendered h
II country.
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