The Pennsylvania Black List.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Morning Herald [Whig](22 May 1854)
We give below the names of the eleven traitors
to Pennsylvania and the North, who voted to take
up the Nebraska bill, with a view to its immediate
passage. May these recreants never return to the
State they have dishonored and betrayed. Let
them depart the country on foreign missions, or
borrow in patronage in and around the Capitol
(the price of their treachery) but a decent
regard for the people whom they have betrayed,
forbids the thought of their ever again seeing the soil and
sky of the old Keystone. Here are their names.--
Let their individuality be marked. Le the record
be preserved in some conspicuous place within every
farm house, work shop and counting room in
the State.
The Traitors to Pennsylvania!
Thomas B. Florence,
John Robbins, Jr.,
William H. Witte,
John McNair,
Samuel A. Bridges,
Christian M. Straub,
Hendrick B. Wright,
Asa Packer,
Wm. H. Kurtz,
John L. Dawson,
Michael C. Trout,
J. Jones.
If these trucklers to the Slave power expect their
districts to endorse their votes they will be mistaken.
No party drill can force the free men of the
old Keystone into the support of those who vote
to substitute Slavery for Freedom. The conduct
of these men will be closely scrutinized. Should
they accept office from the Administration, the
example of Judas will rise up in the memory of the
people as duplicated in the persons of their Representatives.
If they fail of their reward, let them
come home and ask the people for an extension of
their terms of offices; and see how the demand will
be answered. We advise them to close their eyes
and shut their ears, when the answer at the ballot
box is given. In contrast with this base subserviency
and treachery on the part of the Democracy,
how noble the conduct of the Pennsylvania Whig
Delegation in Congress, who unanimously resisted
the outrage attempted to be perpetrated upon the
North, by forcing the infamous Nebraska scheme
through the House prematurely and without that
full and "free discussion" which the importance
of the subject demanded, and which free men claim
as an inherent right.
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