The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-10-26
Headquarters Republican State Commit
tee, Philadelphia, Oct IA, 1876.
To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA:

To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA:
Eleven years after the overthrow of the
rebellion we find the men who forced it
upon the country again preparing to seize
the Government. 1t is the old Confederate
army united upon the old Confederate
heresy. They have never abandoned their
cherished idea-they still think with Mr.
Tildcn that ours is a confcderacy, and not
a nation. They have made him their
candidate because he never abandoned his
declared conviction that "the Constitution
of the United States is only orgnized revolu-
ton" and that "any State has the right to
snap the tie at its pleasure"
This was the heresy that fired the rebel
gun from Charleston against Sumter III
1861 and this is the heresy they are
remarshalled in 1876 to re-establi8h.
To this end they have crushed out Re
publican opinion in every Southern State.
To this end they have made the white Re
publican an outcast and the black Repub-
lican a vassal. To this end, coercion of
Republicans is their stern discipline By
force, their Confederate heresy is again the
CCucuG W IlldhG IL tCOttt lSOUtU.
The Confederate army is far more united
to-day in the new effort to seize the Govern
ment than it was fifteen years ago in the
mad effort to destroy it. To-day treason
is aided by their sympathizers in the
North They have concentrated the strug-
gle upon single issue-the recolution Of
the Government They sink every other
question out of sight, and therein they
teach as oar duty.
Shall they recover by the ballot; con-
ferred upon them by Republican magma
nimity, what they lost on the battle field
in conflict with the people they betrayed I?
We have met and vanquished their as
saulting columns five times since the first
Tuesday of September 1676-in Vermont,
Maine, Colorado, Ohio, and Indiana-gain-
ing ten members Of Congress, electing five
Legislatures, including that of Indiana,
which even the rebel raiders from Ken
lucky were not able to capture.
Democratic victories in the South are only
evidences of Democratic terrorism over
Republicans. Sixty-fve thousand Demo
cratic majority in Georgia means $4,000
rebel shotguns at the polls.
Three weeks Onl y are left to us to meet
the new crisis forced upon us by these men.
What rW PeMnsyiUGRian 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 in the safe custody of the re-
organized Confederate army, and they are
now, as in 1868, marching upon Pennsyl-
vania in determined array, and their rebel
yell already is heard within our limits.
Let us be prepared for them. Our great
Commonwealth has always been the strong
hold of nationality. 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 always been
the foe of sectionalism. She stood by
Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Meade dur
ing all the struggles Of the war. The peo
pie believed that when Vicksburg and
Gettysburg fell on the 4th of July, 1868,
the great work Of restoration was accom-
pished and the rebellion was dead, but
they are now brought face to face with a