Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01
PENNSYLVANIA HOLDS The FORT!
HpoIs REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE,
P;uLADELAHA, October Ii, 1876.

HDoIs. REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE,
P.IILADELAHIA, October Ii, 1876.
To ne People Of Pennsylvania:
Eleven years after the overthrow OF the re-
bellion we find the men who forced it upon the
country again preparing 70 seize the Govern
ment II is the old Confederate army united
upon the old Confederate heresy. They have
never abandoned their cherished idea-they still
think with Mr.. Tilden that ours is a coniederacy,
and not nation. They have made him their
candidate because he never abandoned the de-
clared conviction that 50 the Constitution of the
United States is only organized revolution"
and that ANY State has the right TO snap the
tie ut its pleasure"
This was the heresy that fired the rebel gun
from Charleston against Sumter in 1861 and
this is the heresy they are rcrnarshalled in 1876
to re-establish.
To this end, they have crushed out Republican
/ opinion in every Southern State. To this end,
they have made the white Republican an out
cast and the black Republican I vassal To
this end, coercion of Republicans is their stern
discipline. BY force, their Confederate heresy Is
again the cement to make Solid South.
The Confederate army Is far more united to-
day in the new effort TO seize the Government
than it was fifteen years ago III the mad eiior, TO
destroy il. They are still aided by their sympa-
;hizers in the North. They have concentrated
the struggle upon a single issue-the resot,diO.i
ofUs Government They sink every other ques-
ton out OF sight, and thus they teach as oar
duty.
shall they recover by the ballot, conferred
upon thein by Republican nagnanimity. what
they lost the battlefield in conflict with the
people they betrayed.
We have met aud vanquished their assaulting
columns five times since the first Tuesday Of
September, IS16-in Vermont, Maine, Colorado,
Ohio, aud lndiana-gaininc ten members Of
Congress, elccting five Legislatures, including
that Of Indiana, which even the rebel raiders
,from Kentucky we're not able 10 capture.
Democratic victories in the south are only
evidences of Democratic terrorism over Repub-
licans. Sixty-fve thousand Democratic ma
jority in Georgia means s., 900 rebel shotguns at
the polls.
Three weeks only are left to us to meet the
new crisis forced upon Us by these men. What
trM P.,asylrdItid do! Our enemies, confident
of successful coercion all over the South, have
resolved to make another attack upon this great
State. They leave the South III the safe custody
of the reorganized Confederate army, and the
are now, in 1863, marching upon Pennsyl-
vania in determined array, and their rebel yell
already is heard within our limits.
Let us he prepared for them. Our great
Commonwealth has always been the stronghold
of nationality. During the war she gave her
treasures OF men and money TO the cause of her
country. Standing between the two sections,
she has always been the foe of sectioBalsm.
She stood by Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and
Meade during all the struggles of the war. The
people believed that when Nicksburg and Get
tysburg fell on the Ith of July, lSJ5, the great
work OF restoration was accomplished and the
rebellion was dead, but they are now brought
face to face with revolution dangerous as
the rebellion itself.
When fifteen States can be more unified by
the shotgun and the bludgeOn than they Were
by armed secession itself, aud when this combi-
NAT Hfarti= tNx~t tRn
speech, free ballot, and free schools, its sue
cess must end our republican experiment
These Een tried to fight their way out Of the
Union at al incalculahle sacrifice of human
life, and now they are TRYING within the Union,
by new forms of violence and fraud, to re-es;ab-
lish the doSInas supposed TO be destroyed on the
battlefield. All they ask is sufficient contin-
gent from the free States TO complete their pro-
gramme.
IL is in this Centennial year, when Pennsyl-
vsnia Is inviting all the nations 10 her hospitali-
ties, and prollering encouragement and kindness
TO her Southern sisters, that the COnie1era;es f,
advance upon her borders TO make another |
effort for the heresy which originated and pro-
longed the rebellion.
Pennsylvania demands "peace and unity |
but she demands them as the result of cheerful |
obedience to just law, and not as the sullen |
submission compelled by the officer. of the Gov
ernment.
ichnsl lhauln ueinaDuS INDUSTRIAL ana COM I
merciel prosperity; but she knows that these |
are the fruits Of peaceful and orderly society. |
based upon honesty and right, and cannot grow 1
out Of the anarchy and chaos threatened By 4
solid South Pennsylvania will first have JUS 4
tiee, then prosperity. Has the country no road /
to prosperity but that which disgraces the scars
Of the living soldiers and dishonors the graves |
Of the de2dl
Pennsylvania will have purity in public ad- /
but she wants none Of the illusive
promises of " reform " made by Tilden and IL
lustrated by Tweed and the disciples of Tam
many Hall.
Men OF Pennsylvania, upon YOU rests the re-
sponsibiity-yours is the absorbing obligation.
VIII you - Hold the FORTE
BIZ order of the Committee
HENRY NJ. HoYT, Chairman
A. WILSON NORRIS, Secretary.