Year: 1879

THE RIGHT SORT OF TALK.


Address Of the Pennsylvania Republican


Committee to the People.


The solid South only requires the aid
OF . few Northern States to reverse the
verdict of the war; to indemnify unro-
pentant traitors for losses incurred in
rebellion against the nations life; to
destroy the public credit by plundering
the national treasury, and to blast the
restored prosperity Of the people by re.
pealing the financial and protective leg
islation to which we owe the revival of
business. Does this overstate the dan
ger to which our country is at this mo-
ment 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 way be 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 he in the ma
lorlty 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 to
Lee at Appomatto1 would be Senator
from Georgia; that the Postmaster
General and the Vice President of the
Southern Confederacy would be in tue
House, with more than q hundred rebel
veterans, making laws to govern and
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 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 saluta,y
laws protecting Industry, will the public
credit, will the nations honor be main
tanned 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 armies2 A rebel
Democratic restoration in this country
means that the @lost cause" has been re-
gained, and no sane man can doubt
this, no honest man can deny it. The
safety of our country demands the eter-
nal exclusion from power of that party
in which every unrepentant rebel finds
congenial home and hearty welcome,
and finds it there because he remains
in his sins, and for that reason only.
Weare admcnished by the rebel Dem.
ocrats and their brevet assistants that
State issues alone enter into the pres
ent campaign. The Republicans have
nothing to avoid, in even harsh re-
view of their record since 1860, in the
conduct of State affairs But State is
sues must wait. A mighty national it,
sue confronts us. Political murder has
cemented the South into solid mass
for whomever the rebel Democracy
nominates hereafter on q national tick
ct. Enough of the North is to be
bought to follow the lead of those as-
sassins. And this combination of mur-
der on the one part, and fraud and
bribery on the other, is on trial before
the great tribunal of the American peo.
pie. On this august tribunal Pennsyl-
vania's voice must make profound i'm
preston. Her voice struggles for ut
terance, and it cannot be stiaed.
Pennsylvania can only speak in
the returns of the election on Nov.
4, and then the verdict of the peo-
ple will be recorded, whether the
rebel Democrats will it or not, and
while they clamor silence on national
issues forced on by crimes at which hu-
man nature stands aghast, the whole
country anxiously awaits to hear from
US, because these returns will signify
our position on national issues, and on
these alone. Maine, California, Col
orado, Iowa and Ohio have spoken no.
bly,. It remains for us, men of Penn
sylvania, to give forth 40 uncertain
sound on this momentous issue. It is
the duty of every Republican and loyal
Democrat in the State to so vote that
| the settlement of the war shall etand !:
that liberty for all shall be enforced !;
that fraud shall no longer subvert
States; that the purchase of the Presi-
dency shall never succeed; and that A.
sassination shall be forever banisAe,
from among us as q political agency.
Every man who sustained the Union
against the Rebellion is earnestly urged
to step forward now to again defend the
Union from the same foe that assailed
it from Fort Sumter to Appomattox.


TEE importation of horses from Can.
ada to the United States has increased
thirtyfold in the last four years, from
214 horses with q value of $28, ,955 in
1876. to6.632 in 1879 valued at 449l, ,235.