Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-18
" Hold the Fort" and Peace will
be Yours.
ADDRESS OF REPUBLIBAN STATE CEN
TEAL coMNIrrIE.

HEADarARrrRs RErustlcAx SrATs Con-
sIrrEg, PHuADELPnIA, Oct. IA, 1876. !
To the People Of Penn,yisanis:
Eleseu years after the over throw o.
the rebellion We fad the nien who
forced it upon the country again pre-
pairing to seize the Government. Ii is
the old Confederate army united upon
the old Confederate heresy. They have
have never abandoned their cherished
iteaA,hey still think with Mr.. Tilden
that ours is eonfederacy, and not q
nation. They have made him their
candidate because he never declared
bis abandoned his declared conviction
that the Constitution of the United
States Is ONLY organized revolution -
and that any State has the right to snap
the tie at its pleasure" o..
This was the heresy thai Gred the
rebel gun from Charleston against Fort
Sumter in 1861 and this is the heresy
they are re marshaled 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 outcast and the
black Republican a rassal. To this
end, coercion of Republicans is their
stern discipline. by force, their Con-
federate heresy is again the cement to
make a Solid South.
The Confederate army is frr more
united to-day in the new effort TO seize
the Government than it was fifteen
years ago in the mad effort to destroy
il. 70 dag treason is aided b. their
sympathizers in the North. They have
concentrated the struggle upon a single
issue-the rspoiution Of the Goreyn-
meni. They sink every other question
out of sight, and therein they teach us
our dirty
Shall they recover by the ballot, con-
ferred upon them by Republican mag
nanirnity, what they lost on the battle
field in conflict With the people they
betrayed
We have met and vanquished theil
assauliing columns five times since the
6rst Tuesday in September, lS76-in
Vermont, Maine, Colorado, Ohio, aud
Misunderstanding ten members Of Con-
gress, electing FIVE Legislatures, inclu-
ding that of Indiana, which even the
rebel raiders from Kentucky were no,
able to capture.
Democratic victories in the South are
only evidences of Democratic terrorism
over Republicans. Sixty-6ve thousand
Democratic majority in Georgia means
Ga, 900 rebel shot guns at the polls.
Three weeks only are left to US TO
meet the new crisis forced upon us by
these men. What giH Pennsylvania
do? Our enemies, confident of sue
cessful coercion all over the South, have
resolved 10 make another attack upon
this great State. They leave the South
in the safe custody of tho reorganized
Confederate army, aud they are now, as
in 1866, marching upon Pennsylvania
, III uStSi iuiiuSu diiaJs auu tucu icpcA
yell already is heard within our limits
Let us be 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 sectionaiism.
She s,ood by Liocelu, Grant, Sherman.
and Meade during all the struggles of
the war. The people believed that
when Vicksburg and Gettysburg fell
on the 4th of July, 1868, the great
work of restoration was accomplished
and the rebellion was dead, bu: they
are now brought face to face with rev.
olution as dangerous as the rebellion
itself
When fifteen States can be more
unified by the shotgun and the blud-
geon than they were by armed seces-
sion itself, and when this combination
is enforced by the suppression Of free
speech, free ballot, and free schools,
its success must end our republican ex-
pertinent. These men tried to fight
their way out Of the Union at an incal-
culable sacrifice of human life, and
now they ere trying within the Union,
by new forms Of violence and fraud, to
re-establish the dogmas supposed to
have been destroyed on the battlefield.
All they ask is sufficient contingent
from the free States to complete their
programme.
1t is in this Centennial year, when
Pennsylvania is inviting all the natiors
to her hospitalities, and proffering en-
couragement and kindness to her South
ern sisters, that the Confederate ad-
vance upol her borders to make an
other effort for the heresy which origi
mated and prolonged 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 COM
PEELED by the officers of the law.
Pennsy lvania demands industrial
and commercial prosperity, but she
knows that these are the results of
peaceful and orderly society, based
upon honesty and right, and cannot
grow out of anarchy aud chaos threat
ened in Solid South. Pennsylvania
will first have justice, then prosperity.
Has the country no road to prosperity
but that which jisgraces the scars Of
the living soldiers and dishonors the
graves of the dead!
Pennsylvania will have purity in
public administration, but she wants
none of the Elusive promises of reform
made by Tilden and illustrated by
Tweed and the disciples of Tammany
Hall.
Men Of Pennsylvania upon you rests
the responsibility--yours is the absor-
bing obligation. Will you" Hold the
Fort.'
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