The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-10-26
Pennsylvania Holds the Fort /!
H,lqrs. RepuJHcd, State Committee.
ImLADrrrnrA, Oct. Ia, 1876
70 Me People Of ofPehm.uleaaiat

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IL is the oil Confederate army uui
ted upon the old Confederate heresy.
They have never abandoned thei,
cherished idea--they still think will
MIR. Tilden that ours is n confe,ierd'
cy, and not natioa. They have
made him their candidate because he
never abandoned the declared con
viction that "the Constitution of the
United States is only organized rev.
olution, and that ''any State has
the right to snap the tie at its plea
sure"
This was the heresy that fired the
rebel gun from Charleston against
Sumter in 1861 and this is the
heresy they are remarshalled in 1876
to rc-establish.
To this end, they have crushed
ont Republican opinion in every
Southern State To this end, they
have made the white Republican an
outcast, and the black Republican a
vassal. To this end, coercion of Re-
publicans is their stern discipline.
By force, their Confederate heresy is
again the cement to make u Solid
South.
The Confederate army is far more
united to day in IT," roy effort to
seize the Government than it was
fifteen years ago in the mad effort to
destroy it. They are still aided by
their sympathizers in the North.
They have concentrated the struggle
upon single issue-tbe reroiutjon
Of tie GooeyuD,enG They sink ev-
cry other question ont of sight, and
thus they teach as orr ddy,
Shall they recover by tue ballot,
conferred upon them by Republican
magnanimity, what they lost on the
battlefield in the conflict with the
people they betrayed :
We have met and vanquished thcir
assaulting columns five times since
the first Tuesday of September, 1876
in Vermont, Maine, Colorado,
Ohio, and Indiana-gaining ten
members of Congress, electing five
Legislatures, including that of Indi-
ana, which even the rebel raiders
from Kentucky wero not able to
capture.
Democratic victories in the South
are only evidences of Democratic
terrorism over Republicans. Sixty-
FIVE thousand Democratic ma jority in
Georgia means 65, 900 rebel shotguns
at the polls. ..a,i !
Three weeks only are left to rs to
meet the new crisis forced upon us
by these men. What UW PennsW,
cdnid do /? Our enemies, confident
of successful coercion all the
South, have resolved to make anoth-
er attack upon this great State.
They leave the South in the safe
custody OF the recognized Confeder-
ate army, and they are now, as in
1863, marching upon Pennsylvania
in determined array, and their rebel
yell already is heard within. our
limits.
Let us be prepared for them.
Our great Commonwealth has al
ways been the stronghold of nation
ality. During the war she gave her
treasures of men and money to the
cause of her country. Standing be-
tween the two sections, she has al
ways been the foe Of sectionalism
She stood by Lincoln, Grant, Shor-
man, and Meade during all the
struggles of the war. The people
believed that when Vicksburg and
Gettysburg fell on the 4th of July,
the great work of restoration was nc
complished and the rebellion was
dead, but they are now brought face
to face with n revolution rs danger
Gus as the rebellion itself.
When fifteen States can be more
unified by the shotgun and the
bludgeon than they were by armed
secession itself, and when this com-
bination is enforced by the suppress.
sion Of free speech, ballot, and free
schools, its success must end our re-
publican experiment. These men
tried to fight their way out of the
Union at an incalculable sacrifice of
human life, aud now they are trying
within the Union, by new forms OF
violence and fraud, to re>cstablsh
the dogmas supposed to be destroy
ed on the battle,feld. All they ask
is a sufficient contingent from the
free States to complete their pro-
gramme.
1t is in this Centennial year, when
Pennsylvania is inviting all the na'
tions to her hospitalities, and prof
fering encouragement and kindness
to her Southern sisters, that the
Confederates advance upon her Dor.
ders TO make another effort for the
heresy which originated and pro,
longed the rebellion.
Pennsylvania demands "peace and
unity" but she demands them ms the
result of cheerful obedience to just
law, and not as the sullen submission
compelled by the officers Of the Gov
ernment.
Pennsylvania demands industrial
and commercial prosperity but she
knows that these are tho fruits OF
peaceful and orderly society, based
upon honesty rnd right, and cannot
grow out Of tho anarchy aud chaos
threatened by soldid South. Penn
sylyania will first have justice, ther
prosperity, Has tho country no road