The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-10-23
Address of the Republican State Com
mittee to the People Of Pennsylvania.

mittee to the People Of Pennsylvania.
The solid South only requires the
aid of few Northern States to reverse
the verdict of the war; to indemnify
unrepentant traitors for losses incurred
in rebellion against the nations life;
to destroy the public credit by plum
dering 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 this dangerous coalition will never
hesitate to carry out their schemes if
the power to carry them out can in
any waybe grasped.
Remember this-any man who, on
the night when the whole North was
shouting over the surrender of Lee.
had predicted that in fourteen years
the Democratic party would be in the
majority in the United States Senate
and House of Representatives, and
each house would be composed of two
rebel officers to one Northern Demo-
crat that the rebel general second in
command under Lee at Appomattox
would be Senator from Georgia !;
that the Postmaster General and Vice
President of the Southern Confederacy
would be in the House, with more than
q hundred rebel 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 con-
sidered insane rawlings in 1865 is dis
graceful 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 industry, will
the public credit, will the nation s
honor be maintained and defended by
the malignant enemies of them all
Shall our heroes continue on the pen
sion rolls or will they be forced to
retire in favor of the veterans of the
rebel armies? A rebel Democratic
restoration in this country means that
the "lost cause' has been regained,
and no sane man can doubt this coun-
try means that the "lost causen has
been regained and no sane man can
doubt this, no honest man can deny it.
The safety of our country demands
the eternal exclusion from power OF
that party in which every unrepent-
ant rebel finds cOngenial home and
hearty welcome, and finds it there
because he remains in his sins and fol
that reason only.
We are admonished by the rebel
Democrats and their brevet assistants
| that State issues alone enter into the
present campaign, The Republicans
have nothing to avoid, in even harsh
| review of their record since 1850, in
the conduct of State affairs. But
State issues must wait. A mighty
national issue confronts us. Pc
| litical murder has cemented the
South into solid mass for whomevel
the rebel Democracy nominates here
after on a National ticket. Enough
of the North is to be bought to follow
the lead OF those assassins. And thi
combination of murder on the on,
part, and fraud and bribery on tn,
other is on trial before the great tri
bunal of the American people. Or
this august tribunal Pennsylvania.
voice must make a profound impres
sion. Her voice struggles for utter
ance, and it cannot be stifled. Penn
sylvania can only speak in the return
of the election on November 4, ant
then the verdict of the people will b.
recorded whether the rebel Demo
Gratis will or not, and while the,
clamor for silence on national issue
forced on by crimes at which humal
| 70 Il ,rl, OF
try anXiously awaits to hear from u
because these returns will signify Ou
position Oh national issues, and ol
these alone. MAINE, CAL1FoRNIA
COLORADO, Iowa and OHIO hav
spoken nobly. 1t remains for us, ME,
OF PENNSYLVANIA, to give forth n
uncertain sound on this momentou
issue. 1t is the duty of every Repuh
lican and loyal Democrat in our Stat
to so vote that the settlement OF tn
war shall stand that liberty for al
shall be enforced; that fraud shall n
longer subvert States; that the pul
chase of the presidency shall neve
|. succeed, and that assassination sha
be forever banished from among us 6
political agency. Every man VIII
sustained the Union against til
rebellion is earnestly urged to ste
forward NOW to again defend tt
Union from the same foe that a
sailed it from Fort Sumter to App
mattoX.
f. C. HOoTON,
Chairman Republican State Con
mittee.
g sAnusI NJ MAepB, e; BARR Secretaries.
PhiEn6eIphin Pa OctOber Is 1878