Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-10-19
PENNSYLVANIA.


Locotoco ingenuity stretched discover the ca uses
of its defeat in the Keystone State. To our mind
they obvious enough Party discipline is stringent
there as in any STATE, and the crfduly Of the people
often tested She has been. by the Frequency of the in
fuence Of popular leaders, the days If Gen Jack
con, kept the support If Democratic Administrations
urging ona VIGOROUSLY Injurious her in
terests. and which frequently condemned by her
Legislature and which, if submitted the people at
large, would have been repudated by vute Of
ten In the great struggle of S4. however she
conld have been brought the support of the Dem
ocraiic nominee, had she believed him bitter uncom
promising and consistent opronen Of that system Of pro
lection Which well knew she indebted for her
unexamped prosperity. The Democratic leaders knew
this full well, and DETERMINED upon system of fraud,
fasehoo and deception, which has no parallel in the an
mails Of p,it cal depraviiy They determined to make
the eoplr believe hat Pix was Tariff nan-nay that
he was greater friend Of protection than Mr. Clay him
self. We need dwell upon the contempt of the pop
ular intelligence which this effort implied fer. sad say
the result justified the opinion Of the leaders that the
was 50 besordly ignorant that they cnud ba made 10
believe black white and rice The Kane leter
procured, Of which the tiffany monnpolized
BY hi, 70 whom it was addressed and those BY whom
Of Land share the guilt of the fraud upon the people
Mr.. Buchanan took The stump and exhausted his oily
eloqnence prove that Mr.. Polk friend of protec
ton and that the great Interests Of Pennsy would
be safer in his hauds than those f Mr. Clay. Can the
angelic charity believe that Mr.. Buchanan was him
self deceivedl No. He knew he telling The people
what was true. He knew that he deriving
them upon point OF vital interest. He and his fellow
conSpators succeeded They made the people Of Penn
sylvana believe thai James h Polk was Tariff man,
and hey voted fIr him. rdngly.
Mr.. Buchanan rewarded, for the part he played
in this infamous plot by the Secrea:yshp If State, and
Mr.. Kane made Federal Judge! Mr.. Polk was.
for once, ungraeiu 10 bring home to our compre-
heuslon the full Of the arocity Of the plot, 1T US
imagine, for mement. that the hg leaders Of Viz
gnia-men whose intelligence and purity the Wings
Of the State have ever con6ied-had in 1874, secured
the country and made speeches at every cross road 10
prove that NJ Clay had been, all his llte the arden
friend OF Free Trade. an that Mr. Polk was consist
tent pretectionist Now we do filter the people Of
iITslna-isere /. unfortunately great deal Of igno
lance within the slaie-olt really d! not believe
such an etiori would have been tolerated in the M st
oehighitd c unity In the Commonwealth. Ihe speakers
would have been Kissed from the musings Certain i
Is, that they who attempted such fraud would have
and been Pia' ed without The pale Of honorable men
regarded as base AMI degradei-so diverse the
bottoms OF political morality in cotemnous States
Pennsylvania has had her eyes opensd The effects
Of The Tariff Of l6 upun her coal and iron Interests
heavily felt. She naturally turns ftaa those ht
have deceived her. Mr. Buchanan will be Consigned
to political death, which will have no resurrection
He has forfeited the confidence Of his native State and
acquired that OF no other Statesmen and politicians vii
IL time lsarn that honesty i The best policy.