The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-03-23
TIE L ELECTION.

gard TO It's immediate results and lis re-
mote consequences.
The present State Executive, it is well
known, though perhaps not generally adj
nit,ed. IS a weak, imbecile oficer-a mere
scamp follower of the great leaders of
his party, who is unable to either con-
ceive or carry out any scheme of State
policy, unaided by men Of greater talent
and experience than himself. The honor
and interests of the Commonwealth and
Of The people therefore demand his defeat
and tle election in his stead Of n more
competent to discharge the high and re-
eponsible duties which deyulve upon the
chief Executive officer.
The present Board of Canal Commits
sioncrs is composed Of two Democrats
and one Wing. the latter Of whom, though
he be ever so DESTROYS of introducing
wholesome reforms into the management
of the public works, is altogether power
less, and viii continue to be SO until one
Of the former shall have been suppianted
by the election of a Wing.
These are, in few words and general
terms, the principal reasons why the
Democratic candidates for Governor and
Canal Commissioner should be defeated
and the Wing candidates elected. in so far
rs the affairs Of the Commonwealth are
likely to be affected by the decision
But this election will have an important
bearing also upon the Presidential on-
test in 1913, and viewed in this light, be-
comes even more important than when
considered merely with reference to i'm
mediate results.
Last year the Wings Of Pennsylvania
achieved a great and decisive victory,
which has exerted a salutary influence
upon the National Legislature, causing a
large portion of the Northern Democracy
10 cut loose from the President g. his south
crn friends, and to take a manly stand for
Northern interests; thus identifying them
selves, so far as regards those interests,
with The Wing party of the Nation, who
have long been battling against southern
cncroachncnt upon Northern rights, and
have condemned, from first to last, that
system OF Southern dictaiion and Nor
them s~erpility which has been for so ma
ny years a curse TO the nation.
It does not require the vision of a pro-
pheG to foresee that the power and inlu-
cncc Of the South viii be exerted at the
ensuing election in this State, for the pur-
pose Of reversing the decision given last
fall, which has been the source of SO
much perplexity to the President and of
alarm 10 Southern Locofocoism. The
reelection OF Gov. Skunk and the sue
cess Of his candidate for Canal Commits
sioner would be viewed and proclaimed
as a condemnation by Pennsylvania of
the course of her delegation in the last
Congress on the Slavery question and as
a triumph Of a Southern President and
Southern faction over the free citizens of
the keystone State, and would be follow
ed by renewed exeriions to either retain
iii the Executive chair the present incum-
bent or place in his stead another South
ern man with Southern principles. On
the other hand, the defeat of Skunk and
his partizans and the election of the
Wing candidates, would at once convince
all parties that Pennsylvania was deter
mined to remain true to her purpose, and
that none other than a Northern man, I'M
trammeled by the influence Of Slavery,
could receive her electoral vote for Presi-
dent of the United States.
Il must, we think, be obvious to all,
that, in whatever light we view the ques-
ton-wheiher in regard TO State or to
National afTairs-the result of the ensu-
ing election will be of high and lasting
importance-important in regard to the
immediate concerns OF the Common
weallh-important in its bearings upon
the coming Presidential contest-and inn
porlant in the influences which it viii ex-
er. upon all sections Of the Union in re-
gard 10 those p~erplexing questions Of Ma
lonal policy which have been SO long
and so constantly a prolific source Of On
tention between The slaveholding and nom
s~layeholding States Of the Conlederacy.