The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1838-06-09
POLITICAL
OF the Democratic Committee Of Cores
pondence for The Gig Of Philadelphia.
A DDRE s S

of Philadelphia, have deemed it advisable |
t. address you on the subject of the ap-
preaching Gubematorial election. 1t is al
ready known to you, chat two candidates
are presented for the sufrages of the people
of ,tNis commonwealth, one of whom is Jo-
seph Ritner, the present minority incum-
bent, and the other is David r. Porter, the
nominee of the Democratic Convention,
which assembled in Harrisburg ON the fifth
of March last. Between these two candi-
dates, the people Of necessity will have to
choose, and so far as we may be permitted
to draw conclusions from the spontaneous
expressions of public feeling which meet
us on all sides, it can scarcely be consider
ed doubtful what will be the result Between
federalism and aristocracy or the one hand
and democracy and popular will on the 9TH
er, there can be no room to question what
will be the issue; and our only object IN
addressing you at this crisis is to excite
you to vigorous and united effort, in order
that this portion of the state may have
some share of the glory which will result
from the victory. That David r. Porter
must, and will be elected, is conceded by
all who are conversant with the politics of
the State, and who are willing TO yield to
the evidence that it is obvious to their senses.
The democracy when united have never
been defeated in the Keystone State, and
THEN harmonious action has heretofore al
ways resulted in securing the ascendency
of democratic men and measures. Such
we predict will be the result of the election
in October next, and the state will then be
redeemed from the humiliation and degra-
dation into which she has fallen.
That our opponents are strongly impress
,sed with the belief that General Porter will
be elected, is obvious in a great degree
from the virulence with which they assail
him, and the gross misrepresentation to
which they continually resort. They allege
that the democratic party is hostile to the best
interests Of the people, and is continually
engaged in endeavoring to break up the
credit system, under which the community
has prospered. They aver that it is hostile
to all banking Institutions, and is seeking
10 their overthrow and ruin, and endeavoring
10 impose upon the country mere metallic
circulation. This, suffer us to remark, is a
sheer imposition upon the credulity Of the
community, and is at,war with all the prin-
eiples ever entertained by the republican
party of the country. The acts ofall demo-
cratic legislatures heretofore corroborate
this remark, and show that banks have
been brought into existence, and fostered,
andprotected by democratic administrations
Even the last official organ of the party
which assembled at Harrisburg, 1--WE allude
to the 5th of March Convention, have ex-
posed the fallacy of contrary notion, and
have vindicated the party from this slander
of the enemy. That democracy has ever
been opposed to the credit system is utterly
untrue, on the contrary its friends are con-
scious that its influence in connection with
the credit and enterprise Of the people, has
built up our country to its present great
ness, contributed to fill up its dense popu-
lation, and intersected in all quarters with
railroads and canals, indicating the giant
march of internal improvement, in yet
infant nation.-A contrary system, founded
on the exclusion of all credit, would essen
tally tend to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer, result the very opposite of
that which democracy seeks to produce. All
that the democratic party has ever sought to
accomplish was to place the banks under
Wholesome and proper regulations, to check
an excess of issues which might food and
endanger the land, and so restore metallic
currency as to make it the basis of circu-
lation that should be healthy and safe for
the community. How desperate, then,
must be the hopes of party which can re-
sort to such misrepresentation, for the pur-
pose of retaining power which it original
ly obtained against the clear and recorded
votes Of a majority of the people of Penn
sylvania.
That the democratic party must triumph
in the approaching Gubernatoral contest,
will be evident from a slight review of what
has occurred within the last few years.
That the present position of the antimason-
ic and whig party in Pennsylvania is pure
ly the result of accident, is shown by the
actual vote by which Mr.. Ritner was elect
ed. He did not receive majority of the
votes Of the citizens who recorde their
will, and is, at this moment conceded to be
a mere minority Governor. At that very
election, when the democratic party had no
chance whatever of success-owing to an
unfortunate division in their own ranks
yet they recorded a majority of votes against
the supremacy Of federalism, which even