The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-09-20

! From the Pennsylvanian.
| Ihe Whig Candidate for Canal ComnliSsOne!
Caught in a Characteristic Intrigue
The following copy of a letter of HENRY
NJ. FULLER, the Whig candidate for Canal
| Commissioner, which has been display ed
10 number Of persons by the individual
who received it, and has thus been made
| by him, in defiance Of The seal Of secresy,
a public matter, discloses part Of the
game by which the Federalists hope 10
defeat the Democratsin the coming contest.
We desplse the publication of private let
ters, and if the one published below had
not been exhibited 0y the recipient TO gen.
tlemen OF both parties, in Wayne county,
we should have no difficulty Ill deciding at
once not to printit. We understand, also,
that copies of it were allowed to be freely
taken. These circumstances show exactly
! the estimate which is placed upon Mr..
! FULLER's advertisement for the free soil
support, by those TO whom it is addressed.
We give the letter, therefore, without fur
ther preface:
Copy ofa letter from Henry II FulIer,
Esq, TO b. T. Sa,ct01a, dated jT5ikeS-
barre, .4ugtsat l8, l849-marked .pri-
cate
After some information in reference TO
some business OF Mr.. HocKLEY's, he says:
~ on state in your letter that the Free
Soilers' will hold a Convention at Hyde
Park, Oh the 30lh inst. There is, you
know, pretty strong probability of my
being in the field for Canal Commissioner,
apI xTn,,iI oarf1i,,l,, nd
very materially 10 receive nomination
from your party. am in favor of Free
/ Soil, free speech, free labor, and free men,
being u Wilmot Proviso man mp to the
hub, and utterly opposed to any further
extension of slavery.
The matter eoW require prudent man
agenae'at, and Ik,aoW Of no man ,cho can
accomplish 1t better than yourself. IL
s0oxid be bad policy to attempt it 'cithout
a certainty Of success. If done, 1t would
be as well done by the adoption of a reso-
luton, &C., which you will understand
how to prepare. Consult with our mutual
friends, Hockey and Johnson, and write
TO me soon. Y ours truly,
HENRY NJ. FULLER"
Il have received news this evening, OF
my unanimous nomination, at Harrisburg,
on the 9th inst. How would a resolu-
ton of this kind answer? That the
true interests of the people require that the
! Board of Canal Commissioners should be
com posed of men entertaining different
political opinions; as thereby the fraudu-
| lent expenditure of the public money for
fraudulent purposes, would be prevented.
We therefore call upon the honest tax
! paying people ofPennsylvauia, 10 support
| Henry M. Fuller for Canal Commissioner,
as the best means Of promoting their own
/ interest," and secure the people against
/ fraudulent peculation.' Keep this matter
entirely quiet etatl the day cfthe Con-
Ueetioa. Sch inst.
Ask Hockey and Farnham, confden-
tally what they think of It,
The reader will not fail to see the dark
political gamester in every line of this let
ter. Ali the writer cares for is Free Soil
votes. His pledge is made with a random
recklessness, and cool Indifference, that
show, at the same time, now lightly he
regards i: himself, and how readily he
would disOWn it for 4 consideration. Mr..
FULLER, the author of this letter, was per-
fecily truculent in his TAYLoRIsM, during
the late campaign for the Presidency
Then he was blind to the fact that TAYLOR
was Shareholder and q asave-buyer-then
he was deaf to the appeals, in TAYLoR's
behalf, of the Southern planters
The same obsequious deYotiou to party
would lead this same obsequious candidate
to throw up his cap for Taylor, if the lat
ter, in the exercise Of his constitutional
right, should veto a bill preventing the
extension Of slavery FULLER would do
such an act coolly, calculatingly, and boast
tingIy; though at the same time committed
by every form and semblance of obligation
10 exactly a different course! And he
would expect TO be applauded and rewar
ded for it! He would ask office, in return
for this degrading service, equally from the
people he had betrayed, and from the lea
ders he had befriended. Such is Federal
ism, and such the candidate for Federal
ism. To deceive is the fundamental prin-
cipal of the first, and to follow the man
dates Of the party, is the primal duty of
the last. He<must be tyro or fool who
else but deception from