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CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS.
"Ton havs*ot, as good Patriot* should do, atudiad
The pub! is good, bat your particular ends ;
Fsctions among yourselves, preferring tuck
To offert and honore, a* ne'er read
The elemente of earing policy;
BCT DIEPLT SEILLIDIN ALL THE PRINCIPLES
TEAT USHER TO DESTRUCTION !"
—T imolion to 'he Citizens of Syracuse
AN AD PR P S S
To the People of the United State*, and
Particular]the People of the States
Which adhere to the Federal Gov
ernment
DANGERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE VTA*.
Under this head may be mentioned the
state of our
FIFANCES AND CL'RRJCNCT.
The unnecessary waste of the puhlio re
sources in the war j the enormous sums ex
pended upon foolish and-fruitless military
expeditions, (sometimes badly planned and
sometimes badly executed and supported,)
and the other enormous sums cor
ruptly or unwisely expended in obtaining
supplies of material* of war, would, of them
selves, hive been sufficient to deeply injure
the public credit, and to create fears of cqr
future ability to bear the pecuniary burdens
created by the war. And what ought to
sting the miuds of reflecting ipen, thy con
sidcration that the general political policy of
the Administration has been such that it
has prolonged the war by depriving us of
allies and sympathy in the enemy's country,
and frittered aA ay the public energy upon
other objects besides military success.
In addition to which stands forth the fact,
that this occasion of war has been seized up
on to establish a system of Government pa
per money, which has caused the publip ex
penditares and the public debt to be oqp
half greater than they would otherwise have
been, and introduced numerous and most se
rious evils and dangers into all the channels
of commercial and business life. The "crash
f ilbs system, and the failure of all the de
lusive hopes aud a:rangemenis based upon
it, is not perely a possible but a probable
event in the future. The ruin and suffering
which such an event would entail cannot be
overate led, and to avert it, or to mitigate its
force, i 6 one of the main objects which 6hou]d
be had in view in settling our future policy,
k pon questions of currency and we
must revert to the ideas of former tiinss in
which alone can safety be found,
In speaking of financial prospects and fu
ture pecuniary conditions, we do not over
look the fact that opinions very different
from ours are expressed by the friends of
power. Rut the appearances pf prosperity
to which they refer us, are delusive.
Production in the country is now decreas
ed, for great numbers of laborers are em
ployed in the war, aud abstracted from in
dustrial pursuits.
Increased rates of value press hardly upon
persons of fixed incomes, and upon all who
are disabled or engaged in unprofitable em
ployments.
The war doe* create wealth, but consumes
it, and consumes also the laborers by which
it i* produced. It devours the products of
past and present industry, and checks the
growth of population upon which prosperity
depends.
And the inevitable evils of a state of war—
the injury and destruction of material inter
terests, the waste, spoliation and improvi
dence that characterize it—are aggravated
by profuse issyes of Government paper mon
ey which incite to reckless expenditure,
public and private, and disguise for the time
the fearful consumption of wealth and the
cure approach of a day of suffering and retri
bution
This expenditure and the accumulation of
debts, public and private, cannot go on indefi
nitely or for any considerable time. Jtie
day of pajment, which will also be the day
of trouble, will 6urely come. Great suffering
wiit fail upon ibe pe pte. Those who tup*
pose themselves independent of the frowns
of fortune, will realize the retribution which
hlways folbvs upon excess, and even those
wholly innocent of any complicity with
financial mismanagement or other evil fea- ;
ture of public policy, will be smitten equally
with the guilty.
The vast debt, created in great part by
profligacy and mismanagement or is a source
of profound anxiety to the people, who must
pay it, *nd to tij£ ryqiitaLsts wiio bold it.
Its obligation rests upon the security of the
national ability and honor, But to prevent
its growth beyond the point where bankrupt
cy thraatens it with destruction, the folly
and corruption which now waste and deuour
the wealth of the people must meet with
speedy and condign overthrow.
FOREIGN INTERVENTION.
Another danger to be apprehended under
our presn< rulers, one which has been spec !
ulated upon often since the war began, and j
which is possible hereafter, is the intarven
tion of poae foreign nation in the pending
struggle. There is an example of such inter
vention in our historv, which de*er,ves con
templation by those who would justly judge
our present situation, and ®*ke provision
APEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EYEHY PREENAN'S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGT 3 1864.
against future dangers- Our fathers revolted
and were sorely chastised therefore by their
monarch. The' sword smote them In all
their coas tstheir wealth wis dried up,
their cities occupied by their foe*, their
land ravaged. They were pushed to the
extremity of endurance ; they became spent
and exhausted by tb? conflict; Rut in
their hour of extremest peril, France, at
the instance of a Pennsylvania diplomatists
extended them her powerful assistance, and
they emerged from the struggle triumphant
and independent. Is this war to be misman
aged and protracted, until a foreign Power
may be induced to assist our antagonist, as
France assisted the revolted colonies of the
third George? Unquestionably the feeble,
changeful, arbitrary and unwise policy of the
Administration, begets this danger of inter
vention, and will produce it if ever take
place. Nor has its diplomacy abroad been
calculated to evart the evil consequences of
its action at home. That diplomacy has not
been wise, judicious and majjJy, bat feeble,
pretentions, aud offensive. Sl}6h9,qld there
,f*re be one pf the leading Tn select i&g
an Administration for the n£xtfoqy years, to
avoid this daoger of intervention. £y se.
leptfqn of rulers who w\U not pfovokg it, ffnd
whose policy will commaftd respect at homo
and abroad. • m
DASfiERS BETOND TTiE WAR. •
But other dangers menace us ainipf Re
publican rule, even if success in the war be
secured. And as these, in a still greater
degree than those already mentioned, deserve
careful ana earnest stttpption, we prqeeed tu
state them distinctly.
OPPKESSIVE GOVERNMENT.
If already we have experienced thearbi.
trary disposition and unlawful practices of
our rulers, what may we not aft
er some tiros bus elapsed, and when military
success has rendered them still more iuso
lent ? If their assaults gpou law and upon
right be so numerous and flagrant while they
arc subjected to opposition and struggling to
maintain their position against an open foe,
what may we not expect when all constraint
upon them is removed ? In considering
what they have already done In opposition
to liberty and lawful rule, we may exclaim,
" If these things be done in the green tree,
what shall be done in the dry?" Let no
one be deceived by the assertion that the
arbitrary and evil ap's of the Administration
indicite but a temporary po ; icy, and are
founded upon necessities which cannot lung
exist. Not on'* is the t-xcuso that this
policy of the Administration is necessary, in
view of the public intesests, false in point of
fact, it is equally untrue that if uuopposed,
if not put down, it will bo of short duration
and expire with the war. If it be necessary
now to do unlawful things and trample upon
individual nights in adhering communities,
the same pretended necessity will exist here
after. Will it not be a6 necessary to up
hold arbitrary government in order to pre
vent renewed revolt, as it is tosuppert arbi
trary government in order to subdue exist
ing rebellion ? When did a ruler who had
deprived his country of its liberties ever
voluntarily restore them ? That people who
will accept excuses for tyranny will alwav 8
be abundantly supplied with them by their
rulers, and especially will they be furnished
with this argument of necessity, which will
expand itself to the utmost requirement of
despotic power under all circumstances.
Our ancestors who settled this country
and established the Government of the Unit
ed States, fortunately did not admit this
doctrine of necessity, but proceeded, under
the guidance of a most wise and just policy,
to tie up the hands of official power by con
stitutional limitations, by checks and bal
ances established in the Fety framework of
Government, and by inculcating among the
mass of the people, in whom was to be
lodged the ultimate or sovereign power, a
profound respect for all private rights and
for the laws by wb'tch are setvred and
vindicated ; and we will do well to act upon
their policy and follow in their footsteps.—
They took the road of safety and mado it
plain fcffofo all succeeding generations, and
he will be recreant to duty and false to our
lineage, if we surrender the principles to
which they held, or permit ourselves to be
deluded by those argumensss of power which
they despised and rejected.
Success itself in the od'ous policy now
urged by the Administration, of the subju-
one-third or more of the States ol
th# Union, were it possible, could be so only
at the price of the liberty of the whole
country ; for our system would not admit of
military rule over them. Necessarily popu
lations within .tbe.m must conduct local
governments, sod exercise the proper portion
of power pertaining to them in the Federal
Government. In short, tboy could not be
held as conquered Territories unless we
should change or whole constitutionpj sys
tem and abandon altogether our experiment
of freedom; and therefore the i rope rati ve
necessity of changing the issue between the
sections from one of conquest to one of re*,
toration. Men must be chosen for public
station who will know how to *ave to a
bleeding country what is left, and restore
what is lost, by securiug peace on constitu.
tional and just term*.
CORRUPT OOVIRNJffNT
Another danger to be considered it cor
rupt government, the necessary consequence
arbitrary principles practically applied in the
affairs of the natipD, or gather an accompa
nying principle.
The vast increase of officers in all the branch
es of the public service ; the administration
of a great nublic debt, including the man
agement of a revenue system of gigantic pro
portions, will create numerous avenue* of
corruption and when the Government is ad
ministered upon principles of coercion, it
must necea-ariiy subsidise Urge numbers of
persons in order to maintain its authority.—
It is ever thus that strong governments, as
they are called, must be corrupt ones,
and the interests of the great mass of the
people be sacrificed to the intrests of elates
or individuals, A truly free government
where the authority of the rulers is suppjrt*
ed by the free and uncoerced action of the
people; where the laws are kept in perfect
good faith and individual rights perfectly re
spected, is the only one which san be pare.
INSECURITY.
But, it is equally true, that a free govern
ment, not one free in form merely tut ip fact
in the m?st secure, both as regarded Ganger
from external force and from internal con
vulsion. If it be established for a people Dot
base minded fiqt piyilifed ancf honorable, it
wiil impart tu them enormous force for re-
foreign aegression, wnile it pre
serves them from internal revolt. Unques
tionably, under ordinary conditions, that
Government is most secure which is most
free. But in the hands of a sectional party ,
the future of this country is not secure.
Not only is the danger of renewed revolt a
possibility of the future, but the dangers of
aft reign war are immensely increased. A
disaffected population weakens the Govern
ment in resisting invasion, and if such disaff
ection is sectional, then the coqqtry has a
week part through which a foreign foe tpay
strike its effectual and fearful blows.
CQRRUPTION OF RACE.
A still more important consideration re
mains to be stated. We mean the social
question—the question of the relations of
race—with which our rulers are so little fit
ted to deal, and upon which each extreme,
offensive and dangerous opinions are held by
their prominent supporters. Whatever may
be determined as to the negro race amongst
us, it is manifest it is unfitted to participate
in the exercise of political power, and that
its incorporation, socially, and upon a prin
ciple of edualiyt with the mass of onr coun
try men, constitutes a daager compared to
which all other dangers are insignificant.—
We suppose the men who established suff
rage in this country, and from time to time
have subjected it to new regulation, prapeded
npon the principle of vesting it in those who
were fitted for its pjercise Political pow
ers being in their nature conventional, it is
proper that the; be established upon a basis
of utility and convenience, and in such man
ner that they will not be subjec ted to abuse.
Pursuiug the same line of action pursued by
our fathejs, suffrage is to be withheld from
those members of the social body who are
manifestly unfit to exercise it, and whose
participation therein must neeessarily lead to
abuse. Manifestly a race of mankind who
cannot support free institution*, regular gov
ernment, productive industry; and a high de
gree of civilization, of themselves. acting in
an independent capacity, are unfit for per
forming business of government amongst as.
The arguraen tot equality of rights for all
men fails in their case, because of the ab
sence of the conditions upon which it is
founded. In the organization of a State, it
is perfectly manifest that the social body
cannot be identical with the political; that
vast numbers comprised within the former
are not to be included ip th,e latter. We do
Ijct, in this coiintry, include female*, minors,
unnaturalized foreigners, particular criminals
nor the insane, among those who exorcise
the right of suffrage. Incapacity or unfit
ness exists, to a greater or less extent, with
all these extensive divisions of human being*
and the same gronnd of exclusion precisely
exists in the case of the negro or other inte
rior race, who may be casually or permanent
ly placod amongst u*. Chinese, Malays, and
uncivilized Indians, There is no reason why
any general incapacity for electorsJ
should be ignored in the case of one of theso
clashes and not ip anciher. Our Govern
ments were established by .white men
for white men and tbeir posterity forever
and it 16 for the common advantage of alt
states and conditions of human beings, that
the exclusion of the inferior races from suff
rage should be permanently continued
Thus only can ft his great experiment of free
dom begun by our ancestors and continued
by na, he carried forward successful Iy, and
be made to accomplish the great and bene
ficenl results of which it is capable. !
But the social aspect of this subject of the
" relations of race," is equally important
with tha political, and intimately associated
with it. It is of the highest policy, it is of
the greotest necessity, that the raoes should
be kept distinct, socially ; that they should
not blod together tp their mutual corruption
and distraction. If an example were needed
| te a4mooiifc te open this high point of poli-
7T, it would be furnished by the Spanish
American Republic*, who have run their
troubled and inglorious career under our ob
servation, and whose present condition may
well awsken the pity or contempt of man
kind. The SsAaiß*4 in the New World hRd
not self-respect enough to keep hiqiself on
contaminated the Negro and Indian, and he
inflicted upon his colonies ail the curses apd
horrors of bybeidi6iti, until their social state
has become degreed had poisoned beyond
apparent redemption. Throughout tU those
extensive countries brought undgr control
by the arms or policy of the Spanish crown
and which within the present century and in
imitation of our example, have assumed re
publican funns of government, this - disregard
of Natural Jaw. this ignoring of the differen
ces of raoe ; ha,s been the prolific cause of the
social and political evils which scourge and
afflict those unhappy countries. Social voices
prevail to a fearful extent ; society is enfee
bled and e*tun out by them ; there is no
steady productive labor, no increase of pop.
ulatiop, no uniform and just administration
pf law, but constant revolutions and insecuri
y of all those which governments are
established to protect and defend.
OPPOSITION TO BR ORGANIZED
In view of the foregoing considerations,
and of many others which might he rneniton
ed, an appeal for popular action against
the evils of the time and the dangers which
threaten us, must La thought timely and
proper. The sure restoration of the Uuion
and of a true administration of our system of
constitutional government, await the 6ucces6
of a grert Opposition party actuated by just
aims, an inspired by an earnest, patriotic
determination to eqve the country and per
petuate its liberties.
The idea of ignoring party in the accom
plishment of great public objects, cannot be
accounted one of wisdetn. Great masses of
men in a free country can set usefully and
stcadfully only through fiom.e organism which
combines their power and giyes it direction.
Without organization, their strength, (all
powerful when concentrated,) is dissipated
and wasted, and the adventurous few leize
u on the powers of government and pervert
ihem to their own siuistcr designs.
No truth ;s more certain this, thfit
the destructive elements of society, (for in
stance fanaticism and rapacitj by both of
which we are now afflicted,) can be held in
permanent check in a iepubiic,oniy by unit
ing patrjotig and just men against them in
same enduring association, which shall act
stedilg and powerfully upon government and
preserve it in its duo course.
The problem for us now to solve ia this :
Are the people of the United States compe
tent to organize themselves in defense of
their system of free government and volun
tary union, or must they resort to a dictator
armed with large power, who will crush fac
tion and res tore peace and union at the sac
rifice of liberty ? Evil In the State will not
die, if left to itself. Some instrument ade.
quate to its extirpation must be sought and
found, in the direction of either dictatorial
of popular power.
Instead of looking to a dictator to the des
potic principle, to a strong executive govern- !
meat of large and concentrated powers, those
who have faith in our American principles
will look to the people, and will seek to rouse
and organize them and flirect their united,
strength against the evils of the time. Thus
wo believe the nation may be saved by itself,
and be prepared to resume its career of pros
perity rudely interrupted by the war.
A great Opposition party, made strong
enough to carry the elections of 1864, is now
the appropriate instrument for national re.
demption, and its success will be the tri.
umph of free government and will extricate
us from the jaws of destruction.
That the party of the Administration is
both vicious and incapable, has been most
abundently proved and ought no longer to be
denied. It has failed to restore the Union
after three years of trial, though possessed of
all the powers of Government and of all the
resoorces of the country. And meantime it
b*3 struck b.e? T 7 blows at liberty, and is car.
rving us away from all tho oiq landmark* of
policy and administration. We are literally
drifting toward destruction, with the ksowl.
edg/e that those who have charge of our ,ve.
sel of State are unfit to direct itspourse.
Bat there is jet time to avert much of ca.
(amity. The future at least may be made
secure, all desire the Union
restored, and along with 'it honest, constitu.
tional government, the appeal may now be
made to assist ,©legating a parly to power
which be faithful to the Constitution,
which wil unite together the union elements
of the whole .country; will chastise corrup.
Tien an£ fanaticism from the public Adminis.
tration, and will secure the future from
convulsion and despotism.
Let the fact sink deeply into the hearts of
our countrymen, that the great obataele to
peace, to reunion, to integrity in public
affairs, fnd to the renewsl pf prosperity, is
the presence at the capital of the nation of
the chiefe of a sectional party, who have bean
instrumental in plnngmg the nation into
"ana of troubles," wb <> V* both
lacepeble-acd nowUltof to w tt. f
SLOO ran. AKSnTM
roucr or tm orroerrron.
H*ring already spoken with just freedom
of the Administration sad of ita policy kid
conduct, we proceed to indicate the pocitioa
and riewa of the Oppoaition, who coatthd
with the Adminiatratioa for the possession
of popular faror.
We bold that all lawa duly eatabliahed
|nd existing shall be kept, and kept ee wed
by persona in official atatiom as by the hum
of the people. Disregard of law acd of righte
established and guarantied by it, is one of
the great evils of which just complaint mast
now be made. A change of Adminiatratioa
and of party power, will secure through the
whole country, fubject to our jurisdiction, a
just, faithful and uniform administration of
the laws by the country and by the Preaidota
and his subordinates,and it will secure in the
Congreee of the United States, foithful obe
dience to the Constitution and an honest
construction of the powers conferred by it
upon the legislative authority. The inter*
ruption of justice caused by an unnecessary
suspension of the habtas corf m in the re rob
tes Spates will, forthwith, terminate \ arbi
trary arrests of persona in civil'life will be
come unknown, sod a pretended necessity
orerriding justice and right, end made the
pretext for various forms of oppression and
injustice, will disappear before a returning
sense of obligation and duty in our rulers.
Id the policy of the Federal Government
there will be no recognition of doctrinea
which tend to the social debasement and pol
lution of the people. The profligate and per
nicious theories which under the garb of
philanthropby and a regard for human rights
would overthrow the natural barriers between
diflerent races and ignore wholly organic
laws of difference between them, will not bo
promoted or favored in the policy of the Gov
ernment of the United States.
There will be an earaest and proper effort
made to retrace the steps already taken in
debasing the currency of the United States
by large and unnecessary issues of paper
money—a system at pnge unauthorised sad
injurious, which impoverishes the country
and distributes the earnings of Tabor to hands
that have not earned Hi WiU invite immediate
revision and ultimate removal from the stat
ute book of the United Statea. -
The troops raised for the public service,
whenever s necessity for raising them ehqty
exist, will be rightfully obtained through the
agency of the State Governments, and >
officered by State authority ; thus securing,
in the raising qf armies for extraordinary oc
casions, the true intent and mefmi°g of the
Constitution, and preserving the armies qf
fhe United Statos from the nodus political
control of the Federal Executive.
The action of the Government in ita finan
cial disbursements, and other features of its
administration, will be thrown open to fn)|
investigation, and * n earnest effort will be
made to purge it in all its branches of corrup
tion.
Economy of outlay, o tpqch spoken of hj
those who now hold power previous to their
election and aa little regarded by them aincf
will be reinstated in the practice of the Gov
ernment m one of the essential rulga of itf
action.
The doctrine that the Statea shall poaaass
and exercise all ungranted powers, cod shell
be free within their jurisdictiqp from the en
croachments of Federal authority, chall be
rigidly maintained.
The system of public revenue shall be ad
justed so a to bear equally upon all aactions
and interests, and thp unnecessary increase
of officers in collecting it, as well as in oth
er departments of public service, shall be
avoided.
The exertion of publip force in the war te
be exclusively for the object fop which the
war was begun, to wit: the restoration ef the
Union and the jurisdiction of our lawa oyer
the revolted country ; and being confined to
that object, and relieved from lhe incum
brance of other objects, to be brought to a
speedy and honorable conclusion. But fur
ther, it may be confidently asserted, that an
Opposition triumph in our elections will call
into existence moral forces more powerful
even than physical force for securing peace
upon the baaia pf rc poion. And it may be
the only jneans for securing that great object,
hitherto unrealized, end postponed and pre
vented by the policy and incapacity of our
rulers.
Beside the revision of our domestic policy
and the restoration of constitutional princi
ples therein, the great objects to whioh wa
look, are, the conclusion of the war and tha ■.
just determination of the questions connected
therewith. The burden of this contest has
become tolerable. Patience has been exhibi
ted by the people of the United States to tbe
utmost extent of forbearance. They were
told the war would last but sixty days; they
were told the South wea not united ; they
have been deluded throughou l the contest,
now more than three years ia duration, hgr
promises of speedy success; tbey bate beta
told to trust and applaud military chieftains
who were afterwarda retired ft o# service,
and
bad iqcalftuiated their praise; they have seen
a variety of enterprises, both by lead and
water, miscarry outright, or fail in securing
tbe objects for which tbey were undertaken}
they have see* tbe prises ef all tha Mn<
riee and eesafiMt M life fid enormous
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