Within the last week the sum of nearly three millions of dollars in gold was sent out to Europe, as a small portion of the tribute that American workmen are obliged by their very Democratic rulers to pay over to the laborers and capitalists of Europe. If this were the end of the drain upon our people we would bear the infliction with scarcely a murmur; but as we are all destined to submit to many a similar evil, till the country escapes from the delusions of a sham Democracy, we must show the fact in all its force. We find no adequate demand for our products to counterbalance the effect of this drain, by which the entire country is impoverished. Our purse is cleaned out by the process, and yet we continue to go on headlong in the fatal policy that closes our mills and mines, or reduces the wages of operatives in them to the pauper standard of Europe. A callous mind would say that it serves a people right to be so treated, when they themselves foolishly established the absurd policy that causes this drain upon the basis of our currency; but we will not go so far. All that we can do is to deplore the grave facts, and to try the effect of reason upon the heedless men of labor who put persons in power to keep up a system that destroys enterprise and paralyses industry. Workingmen of the old Keystone! It is for you to condemn the ruinous policy which pauperizes the toiling masses of America, to feed and clothe foreign workmen and build up European manufactories. The way to do this is to vote with the party which goes for FREE LABOR AND PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRY! Rally under the flag that bears this motto, and aid the Opposition party in achieving a brilliant triumph at the coming election. "Strike for your altars and your fires," and let your blows fall thick and fast until the enemies of American Industry are driven from (the) National Capital, and the black flag of Free Trade trails in the dust. Elect COCHRAN and KEIM, and thus pave the way for the success of the PROTECTIVE TARIFF PRESIDENT in the contest of 1860.!
"People of Dauphin County! Opponents of the present corrupt and profligate slave-led National Administration! You who are in favor of Protection to American men, American institutions, and American labor and enterprise - who abominate Lecomptonism and favor the spread of Freedom - we remind you that the decisive hour is almost at hand, and that if you want to maintain you cause at the ballot-box on the second Tuesday of October, you must RALLY for the occasion IN ALL YOUR MIGHT. You opponents, we assure you, are busily at work,a nd will defeat you if corrupt means can effect it. Up, then, and TO WORK. Rally the People's Party in every nook and corner of the county. See that not one of them is deceived by the misrepresentation and slanders of the enemy, and that every man goes for the WHOLE TICKET. Our candidates - one and all - are greatly to be preferred to the candidates of the enemy. So let us give them a zealous support and a glorious victory."
We agree with a contemporary, that the issue before the people at the coming election is so clear that `he who runs may read' All who are satisfied with the present condition of things - all who think the times are good enough for them - all who are in favor of sending our coin out of the country to support foreign labor and enrich foreign capitalists, while our own workshops are closed, and our mechanics and laborers are in need of bread to support the famishing children; - in short, all who are in favor of low wages and no work at that, should support the Buchanan ticket and endorse the MAN and the measures by which the country has been brought into its present deplorable condition. On the other hand, all who are in favor of such a change in the Tariff as will give constant employment to the industrious laborer and mechanic, at such rates as will enable them to sustain their dependent families; all who are opposed to the `one man' power which now rules at Washington; all who are in favor of free Territory for free white men - should support the only ticket whose election will e felt at Washing, and cause to tremble in its boots an Administration so `weak in the knees,' that it only needs another blow such as it received last Fall, to extinguish the little vitality still remaining in it."
"A stranger - whose skin at least is white - in bobbing around at the circus last night, fell in with an ebony hued damsel, and fascinated by her charms, had the bad taste to accompany her to a den some in the locality of Meadow Lane, and remain with her all night. This morning he discovered that he had been robbed of $15, and on inquiry for his thick-lipped charmer, found that she was among the missing. The fellow complained to a police officer, giving a description of the woman, but thus far she has managed to keep out of the grasp of `the strong arm of the law.'"
"Returns of the recent election in Kansas indicate the adoption of the Constitution framed at Wyandotte. It remains now to be seen what disposition Congress will make of the next application of admission. Topeka and Lecompton have become matters of history, and the policy by which their rejection was secured has so thoroughly demoralized the Democratic party that it is doubtful if the Administration will dare repeat the dose. A majority of the next Congress, as Republicans or an anti- Lecompton Democrats, are committed to the admission of Kansas, in spite of the provisions of the English Bill, and the settlement then made. As a question of prudence, the Democratic party may wish to exclude Kansas for another year. As a question of policy, they may feel compelled to admit her, lest the doubtful disadvantage of three votes in the electoral college against them may be changed into the certain effects that would be produced by any further factious or arbitrary opposition. If the Democracy scorns Kansas again, it will reap a whirlwind of popular indignation which will indicate a sowing of the most marvelously productive seed. It has professor to desire the removal of the Kansas question from the arena of politics. It is in its power to accomplish that end, and it will hardly care to assume the responsibility of keeping open the wounds of `bleeding Kansas,' though the Senate and the PResident may most strongly desire it. After all, the Wyandotte constitution is not merely an expression of the wish of Kansas to enter the Union as a State. It is the record and triumph of a five year's conflict against hostile administrations, brutal ruffianism, and the doubts and sneers of a large party in the older States. It is the first fruits of the `irrepressible conflict' slowly but surely fought, now won, unhappily, by blood, but vindicating forever the potency of free, when contending against slave labor."
"We have some further light upon the origin and extent of the sad tragedy enacted at Harper's Ferry, by the additional telegraphic dispatches, and the narratives of newspaper reporters. In summing up and commenting upon the additional facts thus brought to light, the New York Commercial Advertiser says `they entirely denude the tragical affair of all political character and of all sectional or geographical complexion. It is true that one of the reporters makes the insane promoter of it say that he had a large organization, many accomplices at the North, expected help from other quarters so soon as he made a demonstration, with other remarks of somewhat similar import. It is also reported that letters and a check for $100 from Gerrit Smith were found upon Brown, all of which may be true, (though not yet in evidence beyond an irresponsible report,) without at all implicating Mr. Smith in the present act of treasonable wickedness. There is no doubt that Gerrit Smith was in correspondence with Brown while the latter was in Kansas, and he has never made any secret that he had contributed money, even to the purchasing of rifles for the party with whom Brown was there connected. It is by no means improbable, therefore, that documents in Mr. Smith's handwriting were found in Brown's possession. The reported had only to omit the date of such documents - to suppress a part of the truth - to make the impression upon the public mind that Mr. Smith was in present complicity with demented Brown in his horrible scheme. We have little doubt that it will ultimately appear that the dates of all those documents were contemporaneous with the disturbances in Kansas, and that they have no bearing whatever upon the present melancholy affair of Harper's Ferry. At the same time we know of no political party that can be justly held responsible for the peculiar idiosyncracies of the Hon. Gerrit Smith. Assuredly there has long been an established mutual repudiation between him and the Republicans, and with no pretence of justice can they be held responsible for anything he may say to do in connection with slavery or against the Union or Constitution....
Some of the Southern press are already attempting to make political capital out of this tragedy, and are falsely condemning not the Republican party only, but the whole people of the North for the infamous proceedings of the infatuated maniac, whose mind was doubtless thrown off its balance by the cruelties practised upon him and his by the Missouri border ruffians. We would respectfully suggest to our contemporaries of that class, and to our brethren of the Southern States generally, that such a course is both unjust and impolitic in the highest degree. While we have no desire to annoy our fellow citizens of the South by undue moralizing upon the lesson taught by the events at Harper's Ferry, we would remind them that by such an unjust course to their brethren of the North as that of implicating them by wholesale in the proceedings of mad Brown and his fifteen or twenty fanatical associates, they will only provoke retorts and counter maledictions which will tend more to the disadvantage of the South than of the North. The intensity and universality of the alarm caused by this incendiary movement of a handful of fanatics, and the ready resort of the alarmed South to the protective force which the UNION holds at its service, are suggestive of reflections that would prove unpleasant to the South, without the addition of unjust accusation and fierce denunciations. Rather let our Southern brethren learn a lesson of another and better ind from this unfortunate and lamentable occurrence. Seeing it thus demonstrated that the union is essential to the well being of the South as well as the North - that the South needs the protecting arm of the federal government, and feels that its strength is there in any emergency - and that the North cheerfully recognizes the duty of that federal government thus to throw the aegis of its protection over the South and Southern institutions - that, in fact we all need the Union, and turn to it in the time of our need - let us cease all mutual railing and false accusation, and unite heartily in the Websterian sentiment, `the Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.'"
"There is something connected with the late riotous demonstration at Harper's Ferry - originated and participated in by a few madmen - that does provoke unqualified contempt and scorn. We allude to the attempt made by some of the Locofoco journals to poison the public mind by engendering the belief that the insurrection was of a widespread character - a negro insurrection, prompted, sanctioned and encouraged by a political party.....
The affair is bad enough as it is, but it is the act of an individual and not of a party. There was not even a respectable number of men engaged in it,a nd the wonder is what the people of Harper's Ferry were doing to allow twenty-five insignificant persons to take possession of their armory, stop their railroad trains, arrest and murder their fellow citizens, and yet do nothing whatever for their own protection. The crime of the lawless men, however, is none the less because they were few in number, and those whose peace they outraged had not pluck enough to protect themselves. The law has taken some vengeance upon them, but public security demands that every one of the survivors shall be made to feel the law's utmost penalty. Elsewhere the evil effects of such a movement might have been much more disastrous, and a negro insurrection of an important character might have been the result. To provide against the repetition of such offences these men should be signally punished - we had almost said punished as they deserved, but with our horror of their crime, we do not see how this could be done. No political party has so much interest in discouraging any such movements as that in which mad Brown was engaged as the Republican party. It is their interest, as it is their principle, to discourage every attempt to meddle with slavery in contravention of the law of the land, and most of all are they opposed to such unmitigated villainy as that perpetrated by the madman of Ossawatomie renown. We challenge the most searching examination into the affair at Harper's Ferry, in the fullest confidence that whatever revelations may be made, not the shadow of a shade of complicity in it on the part of the Republicans of the Union will be found, or for that matter, of any other political party. It is simply one of those events which spring from a false condition of society, taken advantage of by a cunning and vindictive man whose smothered revenge has at length broken out without a care about the consequences to himself or others. We are sorry to see in the Democratic press a pitiful attempt to make political capital out of these events, and to represent the crimes of a crazy fanatic as the sins of party. There is nothing in the history of the affair which will bear this construction. Let the power which put down this insurrection receive all due credit for its promptness and energy, but in the name of decency and for the preservation of a spirit of unity between the States, let the blame fall where it belongs, on a few wild and frantic fools who have paid for their folly with their lives."