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VIDE AWAKE CAMPAIGN SONG.
Tres—.Autt , LANG enue."
Let Junes Bitel.aw' be fortata.
And never brought to Min ;
We'll make another President,.
Of a much better kind.
Of a much better kind, my boys,
Oha much better kind ;
Well make another President,
Of a much better kind.
But Breckinridge will never do,
He does not suit our mind
For treading in old Jimmy's tracks,
He is too much inclined.
Breckinridge won't do, my boys,
•
No, Breckinridge won't do,
We want a man of better mind,
And better metal t6o.
And little Douglas will not rait,
He's not the man for; .
He broke the Democrats in twain,
And got them in a muss.
He got them In &mighty muss,
In a right ugly muss,
So Stephen Douglas stay at home,
You're not the man for us.
And Bell can never be our man,
Ms ring Is not quite clear,
Be will not do for President,
Of him we have no fear,
So do not shout for Hell, my boys,
No, do not shout for Bell,
lie never can be President,
So do not shout for Bell.
But there Is one of real worth,
Good, honest, wise and true,
And ABRAHAM LINCOUP Is the mail,
The very man for you.
Then hoist your caps for LlNcois, boys,
LINCOLN the wise and true ;
And about aloud for "Hens,. Ann,"
He 'a just the man for you.
And now since Wools Is our man,
We're bound to put him through ;
For be can beat John Breckinridge,
And Bell and Douglas too.
Hurrah, hurrah, for LINCOLN, boys,
Hurrah for Hall" too.
For they will beat John Breckinridge,
And Bell and Douglas too.
REPLY
ON. A. K. MeLURE
TO
HON. HENRY D. FOSTER•
ivered at the Philadelphia Wig
warn, September 18, 1880.
FOSTER'S SPEECH DISSECTED.
stenographic report of the following speech
K. McClure, was taken for , the News asst
delivered, but owing to the press of en.
.ments of the reporter, its publication has.
delayed.
. McClure was introduced - to the inafandi
by the President, and was received with
ening applause. When order was restored,
id:
President and Fellow-citizens of Fhila
hia :—A few days ago an annonymous ad
, -ement was inserted in several of the lead
papers of Philadelphia, announcing that,
oral Henry D. Foster, the Democratic can
te for Governor, would address the people
. hiladelphia, and that he would make, as I
from the call, the "great speech of the
paign." Under whose direction this meet
was called— whether .by the Breckinride or
gins State Committee, or by no Committee
11, the people are not advised. The call is
e without name and without the declaration
single principle involved in the present
est.
om General Foster I expected a speech that
dbe worthy of the age and of the man. I
him well, and I am glad to hear testi
to Lis high abilities, as I have done in
gone by. I have already stated from
tend, in a former address, that be is one
•e ablest min of the Democratic party. I
.lad when he was presented as a candidate
overner; and when he came to your city,
declared that he would follow Col. Curtin
Lake Erie to the Delaware, and into every
• of thii City, and declare to the world th.e
iples he advocated and the men he sue
t, all felt that he was equal to the task,
that our gallant standard-bearer, Col. Cur
applause] would welcome him to the field
batman worthy of his steel. [Applanie]
.t to the utter surprise of the public, both
ds and foes, this great speech of the cam
,. comes to us made up of unmeaning gene
,es, of humiliating apologies, and unmanly
•ocations. A Ward speech made by the
ble individual who addresses you, in which
plain truths were told to the people of
delphia in my own plain way, seems to
thrown a shadow over the great effort of
stinguished candidate of the Democracy,
.e turns to it and from it, and returns to it
rota it, and struggles against the truth of
with a heroism worthy of a
,better
• ',Cheers J
neral Foster charges me with "profound,
ante' of his history on the tariff, and it is
grave charge that I shall direct mY
mainly to-night. I shall be fair with
To be truthful with the record of General
.1 and his party on the vital ham of Pro
m, is to strike at them with the deadliest
at I shall support Hannibal Hamlin for
President; that I voted for David Wilmot
*Neinor in 1857, and that both of these
men WCTO opposed to the tariff of 1842, I
cc 'neede• Both Wilmot and Hamlin
against Protection fourteen years MN
en those votes were cast, Messrs. Foster,
and Wilmot were all members, in foil.
once and communion, of the great Demo
party [laughter.] The settled policy of
ty was Free Trade. In every State but
ylvania, Free Trade was the doctrine of
'arty from Maine to the Gulf; and so long
ilmot and Hamlin were members of that
, they were true to its teachings—true to
lesion—true to Free Trade. [Applause.]—
differed from Gen. Foster only in this—
dared to profess and sustain the principles
e party, while he dared mot to do so; but,
theless, did tenfold more service for Free
~ by stabbing protection to the heart in
tune of friendship. [Applause.)
en the Democratic s pecs l itself
e the country as the special advocate of
tercets of menial labor as against the in
, s of an honorable, intelligent and free
, Hannibal Hamlin and David Wilmot did
erely profess to differ with their party
et slumber in its perfidious embra es as
eneral Foster. They turned upon it, and
• majesty of their manhood declared that
ould follow no party that aimed, by its
, at the degradation of the strong arms
out hearts of their laboring brethren.—
me.] They severed their connections
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with the Democratic party, when it was in the
zenith of its power, because it became the
deadly foe of a prosperous and diversified in
dustry, and from that day to this, they have
voted, spakerctedAWaltAringfid
- -o' e pfilibl.
pleural
I would that Henry D.. Foster had acted like
wise. Had he been faithful to the interests of
his mighty State he must have done so; but in
an evil hour he faltered—he was unequal to
the occasion; free trade erigulphed him, with
professions of devotion to protection still inger
lag on his lips. [Atiplause.]
I charge it upon Henry D. Foster, knowing
full well the meaning of what I utter, 'THAT
Hs HAS DIEN NAMELESS TO PROTNOTION; THAT HE
HAS BUN ITS IMPLACVILI NON, AND re TO-DAY
AMONG EH HOST DANGEROUS, DZOAD9M - 0 Ifft iBAST
MAN ENEMIES. I shall not be misunderstood.
I repeat it, he has, during the list fourteen
years, by every' 'vote, by every act, stricken
death-blow-after death-blow at the industrial
interests of -this State; and never, until the
storm of retribution gathered over his head and
threatened to overwhelm him in its fury, was
his voice heard in favor of the tariff. [Ariz
plasma.]
He tells you he is the friend of-the tariff—
he so declared himself in Independence Square
last night, and adds truly that it is "a question
in which the people of Philadelphia, as a man
ufacturing and commercial people, feel great
interest—a question in which they have a right
to know the opinions of the candidates presen
ted for their suffrages;"- and I am then accused
of "profound ignorance;" of his record and
convictions. Upon some points I plead guilty
to the soft impeachment. Whether he -is for
Breckinridge, or Douglas, or Bell, or Taney, or
Smith, or Lincoln for the Presidency, [laughter
and applause] I cannot say. That seems to be
a question on which the "opinions of the can
didates" arenot important to this "manufac
turing and commercial people." [Laughter.]
And whether he is for fusion or for confusion
he forgot'to mention, [laughter,] although he
is publicly`claimed on bothhides. And‘wheth
er he is for a slave code or for popular sover
eignty I must confess to the profoundest of
ignorance, for be declares one doctrine to the
"frosty sons of thunder" in Somerset, and
quite the contrary doctrine to the people• of
Philadelphia. [Laughter and applause.] Ido
know, however,that on these questions he
sinks &
very manhood, and is seeking to climb
to the Executive Chair- of Pennsylvania by a
fraud upon some party. [Applause.] But that
is a fraud upenrhis awn household, and I leave
him and them to settle it as tes his professions.
By his acts and by his record upon the true
issues in this struggle let him be judged.
Had Arnold; who turned upon the orea
cause of freedom, when our
fathom -ter' -
gling for , thembasep..e.s-trw New World, had be
returnedio Washington, and said r "Sir, it is
true that . ' have startled friend -and foe with
my perfidy—that those iste= are around me
have their cold steel aimed at yours hearbvatill
their gusts bristling upon-year brave country
man ; that the battalions I lead will strike to
the dust every mawisho raises his main de
fence of the Colonlea still I am personally for
freedom, let me command your-regiments, and
let your laurels of victory encircle my brow,"
the world would -have been bewildered ; even
his matchless perfidy would- have faded before
his effrontery. [Applause.] And yetihe -prin
ciple involved has a parallel in this noontide or
the Nineteenth Century. Gen. Foster dare not
even claim that his party is the friend of -Pro
tection. [Cries of "yes, that's it—that'll so."]
comes,before the people of the State, when
it stands confessed that his whole party organi
sation is deadly hostile to the tariff, and while
his followers• and friends, as -With one voice,
outside of Pennsylvania are hoping for his triumph
in order to settle Free-'plate as the fixed policy of this
Government, *shows and:begs for the votes • of his
brethren who have fallen by the treachery of •
his own party; because he claims to be individu
ally the friend of protection. [Applause:]
I appeal to men who think, who read, who
on the question, -whether I wrong General
Foster. I appeal to the experience, to the
--desolation that has swept over us - following the'
march of Free :Trade-;-and ask, as man should
ails of manwhena common perill - overshaddWs
.. them, is the reasoissed leader of • the Free
Trade National Organisitlon in Pennsylvania
to bit supported -by Tariff mee, because In the
hone-of danger he bows at the attar of Pro
tectoin I Pies of no, •no.] '
But let us turn to the record. In 1844; the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania professed
the most earnest devotion to the Tariff. The
"Kane letter"---"Polk's near neighbor"
Democratic banners bearing the inscription of
"Polk, Dallas, Shook, and the-Tarftr or -1842," - -
are familiar ath household words. But still
there was distibat, and special endOrsefirents
had to be resorted to in order to defraud Paw.
*vivant& into the whirlpool-of P'ree Trade: In
thls special endorsement, this special wrong,
Glen. Foster" [icecap participated. He Wats
the same year a Democratic amdidate for Cdn
gress, and he stunned his own district, and `a
large portion of the State, pledgingthe fidelity
of Mr. Polk, of his party, -and of - himself, to
the protective policy. He did not go !before
the people then trembling andhesitating as he
does now, lest he should utter-some honest con
viction ; but he declared boldly for himself and
fcr his' party; that the Tariff of 1842 should re
main - undisturbed. The people confided in
him—they trusted- him and-his associates, and
were lured to destruction. Success crowned
the efforts of Mr. Foster and his coadjutors in
1844 Aeolely , •because of their verdetent and
earnest professions of devotion to our great in
dustrial interests; and yet the tariff was stricken
down 'by the casting vote of a Patinglvania
Vice President, with a Pennsylvania Premier
in the Cabinet, and. with Henry D. Foster in
Congress. I have searched the records of Con
gress in vain to find where Gen. Foster raised
his voice in denunciation of -the fraud thus
practiced' upon the-people of iris own State by
the very men he bad aided to place' in power,
and for whose fidelity be Was personally
pledged. Ohl his very manhood required of
him that -he should turn upon those who had
falsified his own solemn assurances, and carry
his great cane to his betrayed brethren. In
such a crisis no friend could falter. [Cries of
that's so.] There was no middle or temporising
ground to stand upon. Henry 1). Foster had
either been deceived himself, or he had wilfully
deceived others. The crime lay not at the
door of sister States, naturally inimical to the
growth of our free industry—it lay at his own
door—the blow came from his own immediate
household, and yet the tualte;.pf Bsichanan and
of Dallas, and of 'Polki have irevetbeen lisped
by that ran -but in praise [Applause.] He
voted against the repeal, and there his duty
seems - to have ended. He then fell nr4er the
blandishments of power, and the national ad
ministration, although stamped witittry
and loaded with 'fatal; had aasaiguitteps
and AditifuPeupporttiliwOughout "ic bonitri‘
"INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS - NEETRAL IN NONE."
HARRISBURG, PA.. SATURDAY &FTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1860.
atonal career than Gen. Foster. His tongue
was palsied when his defrauded brethren cla
mored for some recognition of his plighted
faith, and to this day that wholesale betrayel
of Pennsylvania stands unreleaked..bx
^ • , . -310 I wrong this man
when I declare him the deadly foe of Protec
tion ? [Cries of no, no.]
But what is the mdtion of General Foster's
party on this question now ? It will not be pre
tended that he has isolated himself froni the
Democratic organization. He is confessedly
faithful, ever faithful to it. It issues its fiat,
and he bows submissively. If for the tariff,
well ;if for free trade, also well. [Laughter
and applause] Here is the platform, as laid
down by the Cincinnati Convention of 1866:
"The time has come far , the People of - the
tffitted States to declare themselves in favor of
free seas and PROCHIBIBIVE EBBE man %moron
our xis worm), and, by solemn manifestations,
to place their moral influence upon the side of
the successful example."
The same Convention nominated James Bu
chanan for the Presidency. I have searched in
vain for the defiant voice of Foster denouncing
the theory of progressive free trade, and Te- ,
volting at the nomination of Buchanan, because
he assented to the free trade Tariff of 1846, and
accepted the platform of 1856. [Laughter and
applause,] The West should have resounded
with the eloquence of Foster, declaring that he
was the friend of protection, and the foe of
both Buchanan and his progressive free trade
platform. But this Tariff candidate for Gov
ernor hackled on hie armor and enrolled him
self under thli Democratic banner, with free
trade floating boldlrover him, and stumped
the State for his party, and rejoiced with free
traders from one end of the Union to the other,
when progressive free trade 'was crowned with
a national triumph. [Applause.] Do I wrong
this man when I charge that he is the repre
sentativelnen of the free trade party in Penn
sylvania P [Cries of no, no.]
Again, in 1860, the Democracy are called into
a. national council.= On various articles of faith
there, were grave differences of opinion. Dis
cord ran riot throughout the assembled wisdotn
of the party. After days of disgraceful war
fare, the great Democratic organization was
rent into -fragments. Turning. back upon the
country,-and beholding the terrible revulsion
of 1857, crushing credit, crippling commerce,
beggaring industry, and carrying want to thou
sands of homes ; and beholding, also, the na
tional treasury bankrupt, and an appalling
debt growing upon the nation, it would be
most reasonable to presume that the dogma
progressive Free Trade had been the
pie of discord in that last of is Demo
cratic Cony • FA-vvrante.] Not so, how-
m 00,..- e desolation of free trade reach
ing every ehannel of industry, the tariff was
unthought of as a question of moment in that
body. One man from Pennsylvania, (Mr.
Cessna,) more zealous than wise, took advan
tage of a brief calm between the raging war
of factions, and Offered, a -tariff- illsoliation,
[Laughter.] It was greeted on all sides with
hissing scorn—with derision and contempt. A
Buchanan official, Captain Rynders, resolved to
add insult to injury, and moved to amend by
offering protection to Monongahela whiskey,
[Laughter;] and the Convention shouted itself
hoarse over Pennsylvania's humiliation and
shame. There were fifty-four Pennsylvanians
on the floor of that Convention, but not one—
'no, not one dared to rise in his place and resent
the mingled insult and wrong heaped upon his
State. [Applause.] The doctrine of progres
sive free trade was reaffirmed by a full Conven
tion—none daring to resist it. But on the
question of forcing menial labor by virtue of
the Constitution, or by act of Congress, where
ever our national flag of freedom float's, the
once powerful. Democratic party was torn into
belligerent factions, and its history as a nation
al party will end with the history of the
Charleston Convention. [Applause.] Again,
at Baltbiore, the discordant delegations were
called into council. Some tarried at Richmond,
to see whether-the party, hiving been driven
to avow to the world lhe A doctine of ' progres
sive free trade, could notnow be driven to the
absolute degradation of every free son of toil.
Others assembled only to renew the scenes of
discord and violence ,which had dishonored
them at Charleston. Resolutions were offered
on every other subject within the range of po
litical diacussion ; but on the tariff all were
silent as the grave. Progressive free trade was,
by common consent, accepted as the established
policy of all wings of the Democratic party.
Two avowed free traders were nominated for
'the Presidency, and after the most disgraceful
and humiliating national spectacle aver mite
•nessed in our history, had been presented
to the world, the dismembered fragments
turned beck upon the people, and with the
ferocity' oolilinown to a divided brotherhood,
` aredragging• each other to "a common grave.—
[Lonecontinned applause.]
When these Conventions met, Gen. Foster
was-therionainee of his party for Governor. He
was at Baltimore in person, on what mission I
know not; but :I do know that the tariff was
unheard of in the deliberations of either the
Douglas or 13reckinridge branch. I have waited
in vain for the eloquent voice of the Demo-,
audio candidate for Governor,to denounce the
actions of these Conventions deolaring for
progressive free trade ; for op enly 'winning the
author of a tariff resolbtion ; and for present
ing two ultra free trade eendidates for the Presi
dency. - Still *he bows, even' when insult is
crowded.upon injury, ands dare not raise his
voice to protest against the fatal, free trade
policy of his party. He must not only remain
Went under this load of infidelity to his State
and suffering brethren, but he must Vote
squarely for progressive free trade, if he would
vote any ticket labelled Democratic. And yet
this man claims to be tariff man ! [Applause ]
It is but charitab.jsto say thattelas mietaken
his own histoW. -• [Laughter and applause.]
If I have wronged Henry D. Foster in charg
ing him with being devoted to progressive free
trade, the truth of history wrongs him. I have
vindicated that, and nothing more. [Applause.]
If. I have spoken earnestly on this question,
it is because I feel earnestly upon it. I was
reared in your mountain .446, arid trained.a
mechanic in your shops. [ApPlause.] My first
visit to your .beautiful city, thirteen years ago,
was as an humble mechanic, seeking employ
ment. I begged. in vain for the privilege .to
toil. Free trade had just burst upon.the coun
try with its endless train of evils, and wher
ever I turned I met labor unemployed and un
requited. And so it has been ever since, save
when the vast resources of the country have
for a time defied even the corroding power of
free trade. Millions of our specie have been
sent abroad; weekly;to"requite a labor that is a
stringer and a foe to our institutions, while
our own sturdy arms havaikeen paralyzed, and
beggary brought to their honaes. [Applause:]c
Ito nok.feat imor ttattetthie:74oohanimt of .Phila ,
delphia can be ,bribtad bitto,free.trade.
Mao; may be dein and seduced from their
honest purpose, by the profettions'of the dead
liest foes of protection. An eagle Scaring tow
ard the sun, was fired, upon by a platece of
soldiers ; they sent up volley after volley, but
atdlothr eagle soared coward and upwakd tow
ard the divinity he "'worshipped. He was be
yond danger from open attack ; but an untu
tored Indian planted a silver arrow in the sand
so as to reflect the eagle's divinity back upon
him. In an evil moment his eye fell upon the
snare, and he came down and poised his breast
upon the fatal dart. It is told, too, that in the
days of the Inquisition a figure most comely to
liehold, clad in smiles and beauty, was the in
strument of a most exquisite torture. The
victim 'once within tlie reach of its embrace,
and an hundred keen blades were driven to the
vitals:
It, is so of free trade. [Long continued ap
plause 4 If its advocates would come to us
with their banners streaming in the light of
day, and declaring to , the world that progres
sive free trade 111 their policy; and the desola
tion of free labor and of free homes their pur
pose, we would be united as one man, and
would speak million tongued through the bal
lot-box, In defnece of ourselves and of our
children. [Applause.] But it comes as Henry
D. Foster comes, [applause,] with its alluring
hoped and fatal stabs, With its fascinating
smiles and keenest blades to pierce the vitals ;
[long continued applause ;] and thus it hopes
to gain another triumph, in order that servile
labor may: possess and blight the Eden of the
Western World. [Applause.]
Such is the policy of the Democratic party,
and it has been steadily sustained by General
Foster. With this fearful chapter of wrong
upon our free labor, as written by the experi
ence of years, I have heard no voice from, the
home,of Foser declaring that our people had
Waited until forbearance had ceased to be a
virtue. [Applause.] We have heard no voice
there saying that if your Allministration con
thanes to defy the popular will; if your Demo
cratic Conventions continue to declare for pro
greisive free trade, and to present candidates
for the Presidency who ,are conspicuous for
their devotion to that policy, I will disregard
party ties, to be just to my great State and her
prostrated industry. For this simple act, re
quiring but the exercise of a common manhood,
Henry - D. Foster his never yet been equal.—,
[Long continued applause.]
I repeat it, as the vindicated truth of history
declares—limey D. FOSTER IS THE DEADLY TOE
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I the '
says . , it. If it were even true
that is had SO votpd,do4.l.t.
coin] lumber couldpi,,w alatt
in a tpost, nearly two - hundred
and forty Members; [Laughter and applause
but Gen. Poster does an act unworthy of him
self when -he clams some twenty Southern
Ame.ricanalis llepribllcani, who are much leas
Beublicans than he. Is in sentiment, if his pro
fessions at timed can be relied on. [Continued
laughter and applause.]' Fity-six men of all
shades of opposition, voted for , the Tariff of
1857, along with nearly twice as, many Demo
crats. But that Tariff made no change in
the Tariff policy of the country; it destroyed no
protectiie features; for the hadnonetcidestroy.
It simply reduced the ad valorem duties, because
we had an immense surplus revenue in the
Treasury. Had they foreseen the Lecompton
infamy, the printing contracts, the Utah con:.
,tracts, the Willet's Point, and other frauds,
not to mention a perfect deluge of defalcations,
by which the Buchanan Administration was to
be signalized, the surplus revenue" need not
have concerned our law-makers. [Laughter
and applause.]
,
The true test of a tariff man is h is faithful
•.
support of tariff men. [Cries of that'h .] I
have shown that General Foster has ly
supported th e Democratic party . and ndi
onn
dates wits Free Trade as one of As ardtial
doctrines, without venturing to ditieut, and hp
will to so again. While profetung to be a
friend of Protection, he will vote for a man for
President, who would not sanction a protective
tariff bill if even passed by,'Congress. Will he
vote for Douglas? If so, he will vote for the
most consistent and earnest Free Trader of our
leading statesmen. He voted against the tariff
of 1842, and - for its repeal, and since then hati
uniformly advocated to use his own language
in the Senate, "Fans TRADE, TO THE FULLEST EX
TENT WE CAN CARRY IT, AND AT TEEE'SAXE TIME
COLLECT REVENUE ENOUGH TB DEFRAT THE AIM
BM OF THE Govntomszt7." I hayeno.dennucia
tion fOr Mr. Douglas. Ido him but justice,
when I say that he is unqualifiedly for, free.
trade. True, in Pennsylvania hp advocates,an•
increase - of 'the tariff, as he , did not do, in New
England and
_the South, but he does not pre
tend to be a protective tariff man. He is,one
of the boldest of men; but he is not bold and
reckless enough to come to Pennsylvania W i ltja
a free tikes record, and attempt to pass. him
selloff as a priitectionist. [Laughter.] He can
enjoy th e claims of New Englailk[langhter]
when in search of bia maternal ancestor, [re
newed laughter] and canatump Maine with an
avowed free trade candidate for Governor; he
can convulie the country with Barnum bills
and LecoMptort Constitutions, and when his
own agitation has raared'the monster disunion
in the South, he shoat; off among them, like
a star darting from its sphere, and declares to
them, with Undaunted heroism, that when they
shall have elected Lincoln, [long continued
applause,] by their wilfare upon him i he
will sustain the Administration with all ;
power in the faithful execution of the laws.
[Applause.] But he will not—he cannot say
that he is tor protection. Will Mr. Foster sup
port Gov. Johnson for Vice, President? If SO,
he must endorse the startling declaratipn made
by that man in this City four years agoohat
"capital should own the labor. ' ': Will he
support lireckinridge and Lane? if so be.will
support men who have never so much as
pretendedto conciliate Pennsylvania by turning
from the path of free trade. Who he will sup
port. for President he forgot. to state in his
speech. [Laughter.l Perhaps he will go for
Gerrit Smith or .for John Bell. [Laughter.]
He certainly intimated very, strongly that he
was partial to the Bell organization, provided
they would vote ,for him for Governor. [Laugh,
ter and applause.] But on one point he is not
to be mistaken he declareshimself willing to
go any where to defeat Lincoln, the only tariff
candidate who /A.within range of an election.
Upon this principle he is for the fusion or the
Cresson arrangement of the Welsh Committee,
by which the Democracy in Pen .. • lvarda am •
to be transferred into the artn,•_. , • 4 .union and=,
free trade. I my; he is for , , v more, he is
the autbicippt Insinn. He .resent at the
Merchants! /total. when it . t fashioned,
wad, ounseled its aateptsui. -
Again, at.eressom he was . .d the re ,
presentatin front. hissown , - , . `.libete tire
new bantling that was adopted, but when the
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storm came, Foster was lost in the woods.
[Laughter and applause:} He'cordri not even
recognize and: defer:Lads own offspring. [Laugh
ter.] If Mr. Foster was for fusion to secure a
'tariff, there would be both reason and fidelity
in his , actions. [Cries of that's so,] But when
he joins hands and makes common cause with
Free Traders, be must cease to profess to- be a
Tariff man, or he must cease to be believed and
respected. [Applause.] •
But let , us test Mr. Foster stilifurther. Who
does not remember the-great revulaion of 1857?
It burst upon your State like a whirbilnd, level
ing credit and commerce before it in the dust.
There were_ none, I care not how opulent- or
how humble, who escaped its fury. Men trem
bled-444Y met each other on the streetsmul
in their counting houses, and struggled to save
themselves from the common ruin. Your Le
gislature was convened, and. Henry D. Foster
was the Democratic leader of the Democratic
House. The people of Philadelphia sent to the
Legislature a committee of their best men to
procure such legislation as would arrest, insome
degree, the tide of destruction. Gen. Foster
had been in Congress—he had a State fame as a
leading and liberal man. To him the represent
atives of your- commerce went with confidence,
not doubting but that he would espouse their
cause in that dark day of peril. But they ap
pealed in vain. He counseled with them as-a
friend ; but when the fiat of Democracy went
forth he faltered and fell into the-arms-of your
unflinching foes. [Cries of that's so.]
IA toted against every kleralproposition made by
the friends of the prostrate interests of Philadelphia,
and when compelledjto apologize for preferring
party interests to the mtereets of:the Common
wealth, he coolly told the merchants and man
ufacturers of Philadelphia that they, had been
over-trading ; that they had hrought the disas-
ter upon themselves ; that they hed•sown to the
wind, and that their must reardhaerhirlwind.
Now, however, when a candidate-for Governor,
and sadly in want of votes, [laughter,] he comes
to the very commercial and maeufacturingin
terests he then spurned and insulted, and whose
prosperity he-has ever opposed, and claimstheir
votes a their special advocate and friend.—
[Laughter and applause.]
"When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk ,would oe ;
When the Devil was well, the D3VII a monk was he."
[Renewed laughter and applause:];
There is but one tariff party in this country.
Individuals in other organizations may be for a
-tariff, but they are powerless. That Abraham
Lincoln [long continued applause] is a tariff
man, no one but Henry D. Foster ever do
or questioned. [Laughter anti-aeries ete - - I He
has made his record in Congress squarely and
uniformly for proteetion anclhaa aXXOT advocated
and voted for of that policy ; and
when -1— called to the Presidency of
-this great Republic, as soon as will be; [ap
plause,] the whole world will understand that
this nation has declared in favor of the dignity,
the honor, and the prosperity of its Free Indus : -
try. [Long continued applause.] The Con
vention that nominated him declared in une
quivocal terms for protection ; and the loudest
and longest shout that went up hom that vast
assemblage was a greeting to the tariff plank of
the Chicago platform. [4plause.] And the
same is true of oer gallant standard-bearer in
the State contest. Col. Curtin, the next Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. [Cheers for Cintin.]L--
Himself a manufacturer, he knows 'and feels
the blight of free trade, and he has given a life
time of consistent and earnest effort in behalf of
protection and its representative'rnen. Whet;
on the second Friday of aatober next, the
lightning shall flash from this great city of filo
tories and workshops, that Col.' Curtin is called
to the Gubernatorial chair by an overwhelming
vote, [applause] it will •• teach the same leison
North, South, Feat- and -West--it will carry
gladness to every home where prostrated labor
has been struggling against want—it will in-.
spire the hearts of thoumuds of our brethren
who have been driven -to beggary—it will be
the harbinger of peaceful progress—of enduring
prosperity. [Applause.]
But Gen. Foster tells us that the Union is in
danger again. •[Laughter.] He says, in affect, I
that if he is not chosen GoVernor, the Consti-1
tution will be "torn into tatters and the Union
broken up." [Laughter and applause.] He
must.be chosen to step the slavery agitation.
Pray, who agitates slavery? Who agitates itl
in 0011VONB, State and National ConventionS,
in Presidential and - Gubernatorial contests?'
"Who agitates it now Who declares that - the
South ought to go out of the Tinkon, if her
ceaseless' clamor -is not `respected? Henry D.
Foster and , William Y.' Yancey. '[Laughter
- and applause.] The one does it in Philadel
' phia, to' a Ifelort-loyhtg - an& law-abiding peo
'ple; the other , &ins ittn avowed Disunionists,
down ire the sunny I Seuth. Wise says :—"The
South could not submit, without degradation,
- to the election , of a Black 'Republican Preai
dent.','-•A -Iverson sap; Slatery meet . be
"Inaintained--•in othe 4 Union,iflemsible, out of
it, if necessary." w Keitt,-Dalris, Brown - , Faulk
ner, Clay,. Gwin i Clingman, Carry, Bonham,
?.etcher;- and - hosts. of 'others who sre side by
tide with Mr. Foster in 'this' great national
struggle, openly and Insolently preach dila:Luton.
Yancey says ; "'At the propermornent, itur on - e
niganized, concentrated acticin, we can precipi
tate-the Cotton Statelehito a revolution'." Fos
'ter-resporida In Independence Square.: "You
cannot get Southern -men to stay rn the 'Union
with all them agitating iluestiotnltangink over
their heads, -rendering - their' lives and their
property insecure. 1 tell you they ioill not do it,
AND TN= OUGHT NOT TO DO IT I" He insists that
he must be" elected Governor to preserve - thi
Union,- and prevent the- Constitution from
being- "torn into tatters," and in the same
breath declares for disunion himself. [Laugh=
ter and applause.] He comes tons applauding'
the-rankling treason of •his Democratic
begs Union mere to throw themielves
into the breach, and save him from the over
whelming defeat his cause so richly merits.—
He even gets -halfzway outside of his party in
this speech to invite-the Bell - Men into the em
brace of-himself and Yancey. He bad them
serenaded at' their headquarters before 'his
meeting commenced ;- and • strange to say, to,
the tune of "Auld Lang Syne. ' [Shouts of
laughter.] Imagine the Foster men marshaled
1:7 the free trade and disunion leaders, inviting',
the Constitutional 'and 'Union men into iheir
ranks ty the sweet strains of that inspiring
song—
otice special pleading:
eat injustice to the Re•
j. 857. He charges
thorn: . 'beciuse, as he
[Shouts of laughter and applause.]
He is the special representative of the Brea
inridge- disunionists in Pennsylvania, and it
will not be denied that he performs his task well.
has given them-fusion '
and means now to
'embrace in the ranks of the organization, for
'the benefit of Mr. Brackinridge, the followers
of John Bell—the men whom Mr. Breckenridge
4:v3'lOn:tented on having tongues as long and
his# as empty as the belle they ring." [laugh
tei an-applauseq--- They are to be united tin-
Foster. n It is 'done on the a strompizion that plot
chants can be transferred to disunion, and
,Uriff
cifhould sold acquaintance be forgot.,7
fhaz
Raving procured Steam Power Presses, we are
prepared to execute JOB and BOOK PRINTING of every
description, cheaper that it can be done at any other es
tabliebtoentin the country.
RATES OF ADVBRIIEEKG.
sir Four lines or less continue one-halfiqUare. Eight
Brea or more than four constitute a square.
Ralf F.quare - ode day
one week
one month....
three months
months
• One year
One ignore one day
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"ar one month
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before Marriagesattil'Oeaths, FIVE CENTS PER ma LI NE
for each insertion...
NO; 21.
iirlittrriages and Deathir to be charged as regular
advertisements... -
mechanics to free trade, if ft, be theinterests of
the-leaders to do so. Just now, in this c4y, the
high contracting parties, half it score Of men at
most, are in solemn council as to how they
',will allow the merchants and American me
chanies of Philadelphia to cast their votes."
The only inquiry is " what are these men
worth ?" ' What offices shall a few political
dealers enjoy in consideration for permitting
the Union men to vote for disunion--the tariff
men for free trade? [Applause.]
It is proposed to make a common. union to
defeat Abraham Lincoln. One of the resolu
tions adopted at the-Foster meeting, invites all
who are opposed to the success of the Repub
lican party, to join hands " to secure the elec
=tion of tke candidate who is commeinSd r to the
support of all good citizens by his patriotic de
votion to the best interests of his whole coun
try." Pray who li fts man?. [Laughter.] Not
a single - Presidential candidate is named ; and
yet intelligent menare expected to throw them
selves blindly into the hands of the political
traders, and in the end elect a Disunion' and
Free Trade President. [Applause.]
There is not a disunionist in the South who
does not demand the election of Foster, and the
defeat of Lincoln. There is not an abolitionist
in the North, who does not respond and de
mand the same. The men who rear the black
flag of diticord and disruption in the South, and
the men-in the North who declare the Consti
tution to be a league with hell--all join in the
common effort for the election of Foster, in or
der that the people May be defeated in the
choice of a President. The National Adminis
tration comes, too, with ite load of corruption,
and itB blistering stains of infamy, and joins
the Rhea for the election of Foster, in order
that 'the retributive stroke aimed at its men
and its measures, may be averted. In this
common effort,. Northern and Southern fanata
clinn,Aisuniernem and sectionalism of every
shade, and the broken fragments of the Bu
chanan administration, all stagger into the field
for onsgreat death struggle, and shout, Hail to
our Chief, Henry D. Foster ! [Applause.f
It is the same organization-the same lead
ereothottave wantonly and wickedly convulsed
this - country with sectional agitation. When at
peace, and when fraternal concord reigned
throughout our land, the spoiler came unbidden
by the people, and against their prayers ; and
he came in the name of the DFmocracy. Thus
was the Missouri Compromise stricken down.—
A night, memorable is our hi
insolence and,
itatrinmph in the
debanc ggled for the mastery, and
-when_Nerehern men dared to protest in the
name of freedom and free labor, the answer
was, "we will subdue 'you!" But- the nation
revolted, and the boasted triumph turned to
ashes in their grasp. Again the spoiler came
in the name of Democracy, and the Lecompton
infamy was the offering. But I need not trace
these- agitations. They are known to all.—
They were conceived and forced upon our peo •
ple when they begged for peace ; and section.
was arrayed against section, and brother made
the foe of brother, because Democracy could
not perpetuate its power without wilful and
wanton agitation. Its career opens with a
country peaceful and prosperous, and its black
ened-path leads through corruption and perfidy
unprecedented in our annals. It has left its
cornea marked by monuments to which the na
tion turns with dismay and shame, and the
blood of the latuented Broderick stamps its
crowning wrong indelibly upon the page of our
history. While this wicked agitation of dis
smionists and their allies shall convulse the
country, from the blue shores of the Pacific will
ever come up to echo and re-echo throughout
the land, the terrible testimony of the tomb—
" They have murdered me—they have murdered
met •because I was opposed to the extension of
human slavery, and to a corrupt administra
tion." [Long continued applause.]
And yet in the name, and for the sake of this
maddened sectionalism, we are asked to choose
Gen. Foster, its representative, to thQGuberna
torial chair, and plunge the country into a
starless midnight of chaos on the Presidency.
We are asked not to , elect any man, for that is
not attempt ; but we are entreated to defeat
the people:l)y the corrupt machinations - of poli
tical tricksters.
Oh I cast your eyes upon this great fabric of
free government. It is the creation of our
fathers, who shed their richest blood to estab
lish civil and religious liberty in the• New
World. They guarded it with jealous care, and
have gone, to their honored graves stronglirthel
hope,that the great
s.
problem :of self-government
had been solved.
,They handed down to lath'
Pt.icelesOnheritartee and, charged us : w ith its
good name, itspatriotic mission, its perpetuity.
Few of thein.lived to see,ibeamonster.disunion.
rear its hideous defonrdty in..ourmidsk . .11ad
they seen a,poweife partypelairaing the name
of Democracy, taking to its embrace those
whose hands and voices were.raised to dismem
ber the 'Union ; had they seen 'those men, in
the name and by ; the power of the'Democracy,
called to the highest positions of the govern
ment, declaring 'their treason unblushingly in
_the American Senate and House of Representa
tively and from the gubernatorial chairs •of
Democratic States, they would have closed their
eyes at last uponitheir own great work, enquir
ing, "what is all this worth;?" They would
)lave died despairing of the Republic. [Ap--
plause.] - ' -
Men and Brethern, who share the commo n
responsibility and the common glory •:•of • this
free government, to what are we invited'? We
are^asked to defy. the popular °will, 'arid for
-what 't Whose lead are we to follow ? To what
great end are we to•throw the nation into the
hands of the political ganiblenrof the, day ?
One man, and one man only, >of all of thosie
who are presented for the Chief Magistracy
the nation, can polisibly be chosen by the popu
lar verdict. • That he is honest and capable,.
stands confessed by friend and foe : that he is
conservative, patriotic and just, free from all
sectionalism and the foe of all discord and tree
-son, is established by every record of his life;
If Abraham Lincoln [applause] is volnerable,lt
is because it is a crime to adhere to th,,,? 'rock
of the fathers of the Republic. [Applause.]
Against him there Is but one formidable force,
but one element that can hope 4 for success.
Thousands in different sections May 'vote for
John Bell, and other thousands may vote for
-Stephen A. Douglas, but the votes cast for
John C. Breckenridge and his disunion compa
triots only can promise success if an election by
the people can be defeated. If that great end
can be attained, aa it is hoped to be attained by
the election of Gen: Foster, when confusion
and chaos sball thicken over us ; when disu
nionisni shall be emboldened'; and sectionalism
of every fearful hue shall come to claim its vic
tory; when your stocks shall tremble on your
imaids; and credit :shall sway to and fro as a
drunken man, will commerce then shout hum
zen to the victors union men then claim
that It- is their triumph I' No, no I the rep.
proposition to defeat and defraud the people in
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