Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-03-18
Gen. James Irwin.


ernor, he is now regularly before the people as
candidate for their suf1rages. We have upon SO
many occasions expressed the high opinion we
terrain Of Gen. Twins qualifications and merits,
that we need scarcely say TO our readers that this
result is highly gratifying to us. Among the first
II not the very first, TO urge his claims upon the
party, and believing from the outset that he would
receive the honor which has been bestowed upon
him, we have, nevertheless, taken care upon all
occasions to do justice to those who were named
as his competitors. To each of them and espe-
cially to Mr.. Cooper, who was the most formida-
BILE of all, we have awarded the credit which high
talent and sound Wing principles ought always TO
command and now that the preliminary contest
is over expect to see them uniting their efforts
to ours, to secure Pennsylvania such admins
traton as will not only rescue this great State from
the shame and dishonor which evil councils have
brought upon her, but enable her to deve!ope
her mighty resources, as to secure to her citizens
those advantages, which. under proper govern
ment, they cannot fail to possess.
General Irwin is emphatically man of the peo-
ple All his instincts, sympathies and feelings
his life has been to promote their geod, and en-
large the means of their happiness. AT the head
of large establishment which gives employment
TO hundreds, he is eminenty distinguished Tor his
paternal care of all connected with him. and in return
he receives from them all the affection which such
kindness and diSinteresiedness merit. His neigh
bors love him for the amiable qualities OF his heart,
II .,
for his sterling and answering integrity, while to
the public at large he is recommended not only by
the qualities referred TO, but by clearness of in
tellect, steadness of purpose, and soundness
Of opinion, which cannot fail to make him valu-
able public functOnary.
If General Irwin is known to the whole country
by his infexibe adherence TO the protective prin-
ciple during that PERIOD when, notwithstanding il
was most fercely assailed, it trumphed over all
opposition. In the memorable Congress of 1912
he bore a conspicuous part, and by his expositions
of the true bearings of this great question, derived
in part from his own practical experience, and by
the influence of his great personal popularity, he
contributed very largely TO the success of the
measure, which intimately identified with
the interests of Pennsylvania. His speech on the
tariff in that eventul session was justly regarded
as one of the ablest and most conclusive of all that
were delivered, for like himself it plain direct,
sensible, without unnecessary trickery or orna-
ment but solid, substantial cogent and statesman
like.
The Wings will enter upon the approaching can
vass with every thing in their favor. An imbecie
State administration, originally unpopular, and
rendered doubly so by its feebleness and follies,
has contrived, by patronage and fawnng, to place
its head again before the people for reelection; ;
and the symptoms of disgust and discomfort among
the trained bands, who have heretofore been re-
lied upon, are already visible. In some places,
indeed, the faithful do not limit themselves to
doubtful signs or inaudible murmurs, but boldly
exhibit their dissatisfaction and loudly declare
their purpose of opposition Added to its own in
trnsic and richly deserved unpopularity the State
| Executive will have 10 bear its full share of the
odium of having fastened upon the country the
miserable Administration which now inflicts upon
it innumerable evils by its Wickedness, and dis
graces it in the eyes of all foreign nations by its
meanness. 1t will have to bear its share-a very
ample share it will be-of the shameful fraud by
which the people of Pennsylvania were cheated
into the belief that Mr.. Polk was friendly to their
interests, nor can it avoid the shame of having
connived with the Vice President TO betray those
whom they were bound alike in honor and con-
science to protect
! The Wings, on the other hand, have proved
themselves, under all circumstances, to be the true
and steadfast friends of the State and its interests
Battling in her behalf against all odds, against
even the ungrateful and parricidal oco-misrepre
sentatives who, while sustained by her bounty
were graphing at her throat they have shown
,constancy in maintaining the right, which canno
fail to be rewarded. On the great question of pro-
lection TO her industry they have never faliered
and while the poor mean, wretched tools of loco
CO policy crUuched before the slave holder of tn,
South, and licked the hand that smote them, the,
have stood up and spoken and acted like men
men who had breasts and conscences and intel
lects, and who could not be terrified by threats
and seduced by corruption.
The result of conflic, in which honor and ,ru,l
and justice are arrayed on the one side, and frau
and falsehood are arrayed on the other; in whic]
plain dealing courage is opposed to knavish limbo
cility of which the umpires are a betrayed am