Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-10-22
| Address Of the Republican State
Committee.

To the People Of Pennsylvania:
The solid South only requires the
aid of few Northern States to re-
verse the verdict of the war to in
demnify unrepentant traitors for losses
incurred in rebellion against the ma
tion's life; to destroy the public credit
by plundering the National Treasury !;
and to blast the restored prosperity of
the people by repeating the financial
and protective legislation to which we
owe the revival of business. Does
this overstate the danger to which our
country is, at this moment, exposed !!
The unrestrained rule of the Rebel
Democracy means ruin ! The leaders
of the dangerous coalition will never
hesitate to carry out their schemes If
the power to carry them out can be
grasped in any way.
Remember this! Any man who
had predicted, on the night when the
whole North was shouting over the
surrender of Lee, that in fourteen
wears the Democratic party would be
in the majority in the United States
Senate and House of Representatives /;
and that this Democratic majority In
each House would be composed OF
two rebel officers to one Northern
Democrat that the rebel General
second in command under Lee at
Appomattox would be Senator from
Georgia that the Postmaster General
and the Vice President of the South
ern Confederacy would be in the
House, with more than a hundred
veterans, making laws to govern, and
to punish, their conquerors,-the man
then making such prediction would
have been believed on the road to a
mad-house. And yet, what would
have been considered insane raving in
1865 is disgraceful history in 1879
With this fact in remembrance who
will dare to mark limit to Southern
arrogance and Democratic cringing !!
Will the salutary laws protecting in
dustry, will the public credit, will the
Nations honor, be maintained and
defended by the malignant enemies OF
them all? Shall our heroes continue
on the pension rolls, or will they
be forced to retire in favor OF the
veterans of the rebel armies? A
restoration in this
country means that the "Lost Cause"
has been regained, and no sane man
can doubt this-no honest man can
deny it! The safety of our country
demands the total exclusion from
power of that party in which every
unrepentant rebel finds a congenial
home and hearty welcome, and find
these because he remains in his sins,
and for that reason only.
We are admonished by the rebel
Democrats and their brevet assistants
that State issues alone enter the pres
ent campaign. The Republicans
alone have nothing to avoid in even
harsh review of their record since
1869 in the conduct of State affairs.
But State issues must wait. A
mighty national issue confronts us.
Political murder has cemented the
South into solid mass for whoever
the rebel-Democracy nominates here
after on national ticket. Enough of
the North is TO BE BOUGHT to follow
the lead of these assasslns. And this
combination, of murder on the one
part, and fraud and bribery on the
other, is on trial before the great tri-
bunal of the American people. On
this august tribunal Pennsylvania's
voice must make profound impress
sion. Her voice struggles for utter
ance and it cannot be stified Penn
sylvania can only speak in the returns
of the election on November 4, and
then the verdict of her people will be
ecorded-whether the rebel-Demo-
Gratis will it or not, and while they
clamor for silence on National issues,
forced on by crimes at which human
nature stands aghast, the whole coun-
try anxiously awaits to hear from US
because these returns will signify our
position on National issues, and on
these alone.
MAINE, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO,
Iowa AND ONO, have spoken nobly!
1t remains for us, MEN OF PENNsYL-
vANIA, to give forth no uncertain
sound on this momentous issue. 1t is
the duty of every Republican and
loyal Democrat in our State to so
vote that the settlement of the war
shall stand; that liberty for all shall
be enforced; that fraud shall no longer
subvert the States; that the purchase
of the Presidency shall never succeed
and that assassination shall be forever
banished from amongst US as political
agency. And every man who sus-
tanned the Union against the Rebel
lion is earnestly urged to step forward
NOW to again defend the Union from
the same foe that assailed it from
Fort Sumter to Appomattox.
+. G.. HooToN,
Chairman Republican State Com.
SAMUEL F. BARR, Secretaries.