The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-10-31
A Final Appeal.

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70 he following address irUm the Dem
oc:atic Nalioua! Executive Committee:
10 hr f'ep'e of tie United S'a'as;
Til" October elections are over. They
enable us to form o tolcrably accurate.
ile' Of the true political si,uation of
'he country. In Gsorei. We have to
recount il victory for the Liberal ticket
50 ~uae1anpled as to take her out Of
She list OF doubtful States and prnc;i-
r'liy 10 pronounce in advance the de-
cialon Of at least one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fyo votes in the Electoral College
I" this number it is only necessary to
add sixty votes to elect Greeley and
Crown In Pennsylvania, the dis
tinguShed Chairman Of the Liberal
Committee has ~eloqueutly characterized
the meihcl Jy which the result Of the
election there was accomplished. We
commend lis statement to the thought
M attention Of the country. In Ohio.
despite the most unprecedented gains
for the Liberal Democratic State ticket,
the Grant managers have carried the
State by q reduced majority, having
brought TO the polls their entire reserve
vote. Had our Democratic friends in
certain localities Of that large Common
wealth shown the same caruestness end
activity, and enabled us, like our enc
mics, 10 record our entire strength, they
would how be cxulting over a brilliant
victory. In Indiana the Democrats and
Liberal forces have achieved n most i'm
portant success over Pcnnsylyania tao
tics, most unscrupulousIy employed by
the Administration and its allies, show
iRG thus that a free people when aroused,
knew their rights, and dare maintain
them, Indiana has fairly demonstrated
that bhe can neither be bought nor
bullied.
The moral Of these results is that vic
tory is still in plain view for our National
ticket, and that energy and courage will
assure it. That victory must be won.
If We mean to lYeserys free institutions
on this continent we muGt assure it 49,
The result in Pennsylvania on the 9Th
nit, when considered in lis causes, is tie
most appalling political catastrophe that
has ever taken place III this country
Should the system through which this
catastrophe was brought about he con
doued by the people and ioistcd on the
ether States, it seals the doom Of free
dom in America. 4 sad contrast it is,
surely, that the city in which our Rcpnb-
lie was born amid The anthems Of n FREQ
people, ebould now be the first to toll
the kncll OF its liberties. 1t is for Tie
free, unbonSht people Of all the Statest to
calmly review the fearful crime against
suffrage in Pennsylvania, and to decide
whether it shall he pcrpetruted within
their own borders. For the first time
the system Gf free government and the
s%anctity of the ball.t are really on trial
in tie United States. From this hour
forward, the preservation ofthe franchise
in its integrity dwarfs all other issues.
Let Il friends in each OF the States
catch inspiration from the heroic con
duet Of our fellow-citizens in Georgia
and in Indiana, and from now till No
vember let the struggle be manfully and
Increasing for liberty and an untainted
ballot-box, for reform and on honest
administration of the Government.
AUGUSTUS SoHELL,
Chairman of the National Democratic
Committee"