Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-28
PENNSYLVANIA.

The result of the recent elections in Pennsylva-
mia has spread CONSERVATION in the ranks OF our
adversaries. The official organ here shouts to
keep up its courage but it trembles while it shouts,
and its terror may be read in its whitened looks.
And now, People of Pennsylvania, behold the means
by which the party that betrayed you four years
ago. and spurned your interests, hopes to repair
the defeat which your just resentment has inflicted
on them. Read the disclosure, which comes, as
we happen to know, from an honorable source, and
which, as we also happen 10 know, is corroborated
by measures now in progress in this city; we refer
to the levyng Of contributions on democratic office
holders to be used in Pennsylvania to carry the
State for the anti-tarif and anti-improvement cam
ddate for the Presidency.
Extract from the correspondence Of the New
York Express, dated
WASHINGTON, OcToBER 10, ls4s
81 But wish to give you item Of important ae,cs,
which hope will place the honest people Of Pennsylvania
their guard have from the very best authority that the
leading officials of Washington have soemny and
solved that the Democratic party shall carry Pennsylvania in
November if it should be at the cost Of half million
of dollars. They say that the money be ased and that
it be aised and that Pennsylvania must be carried for
Cass and Butler assure you that the above strictly true,
and do think you could do better thing than by making
your Pennsyv readers acquainted with this internal de-
ocratic scheme. If the Wings of the Keystone State do
strain every III November they will be defeated by
the unprincipled enemy"
But all such schemes must fail. The people of
Pennsylvania may be deceived, but they cannot be
bought. They confded in those who professed to
be their friends in 1874; they were deluded by the
cry Of Polk, Dallas, and the Tariff of 1872
that tariff under which the State and all its interests
them, hopeless of succeeding again by fraud, aim to
succeed by corruption. II is true that the mana
gers here have with very questionable proprety)
brought out the honorable SECRETARY of STATE to
make public speech for Pennsylvania to lure her
back to the Polk and Dallas" fold but the honeyed
words Of the honorable Secretary no longer mis-
lead the honest yeomanry of his native State they
cannot give life to her silent workshops employ
ment TO her idle artisans and laborers. He avoids in
deed all alluson to Pennsylvania interests, or to ta
riffs new old; that he well knows is sore subject
He talks much of the glorious acquisitions of war;
and the beauties of New Mexico and California !;
but he says nothing about the arts Of peace, the pro-
lection OF labor, the interest OF home industry, the
improvement of the country: indeed his maxim
10 be" millions for war, ,butnot cent for peace
full industry or national improvement" But not all
the sweetness of the amiable Secretary's eoquence
can make these doctrines palstable TO the common
sense of Pennsylvania. The indignant people of
that honest commonwealth will answer him by
referring to the broken promises of ls44, and by
pointing him 10 her silent mills, and her deserted
factories, furnaces, forges, and workshops to which
the Wing tariff of 1912 gave life and prosperity.
II the honorable Secretary should be inclined to
regard these remarks as the mere promptings of
party feelings, let us undeceive him by testimony
from his own side. Let him read the confessions
Of print always devoted to him and his party, but
which is forced by the modification Of defeat
into confession Of the truth. The annexed para
graph is from the american" jealous Demo-
cratic paper published at Sunbury in Pennsy lvania
Read, Mr.. Secretary, and inwardly digest:
"THE REsuIr ITS Ciusrs-The result Of the cleo
tons throu ghout the State will doubt mortfy as well as
surprise many. To us confess, the result wholly
unexpected and therefore surprising We have thought
and we have sad for years past, that the inevitable tendency
Of the policy pursued By those in potcr must necessarily
bring about such result The people Of Pennsylvania are
emphatcally industrious and working people, and il il
therefore natural to suppose that they would be jealous Of
their rights in protecting that industry. The sudden and
shameless dscron Of those ho Prcsed 10 be go0erned Jy
the principles Of the tariff of ls42, nop erery day made
more and mare apparent, and other bad policy Of Their
course ninde manifest"