Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-10-04

IN the canal Board ; and the election of Henry
M. Fuller. the Wing candidate to that al-impor-
iant post, will give but one Wing member, pow
erless perhaps for any absolute good, but power
| full, 10 a great extent, in preventing evil OF
MIR. Fuller's merits, it is scarcely necessary to
speak, as his distinguished public career has made
them familiar to the people of the Commonwealth.
native of the Siate-educated to thorough
knowledge of its interests, and devoted to their
maintenance and supports genuine republican
in the true sense Of that term-actiye, intelligent.
experienced and uprighta stauricli friend of free
labor, and an unhinching foe to the extension Of
slavery, in any form or under any pretext-he pre-
sents in high degree all the qualities required
70. competent and faithful discharge of all the
duties belonging TO The Office for which he has
been selected as a candidate.
Necessary as it is for the moral influence to
be exercised, that the Canal Commissioner should
be elected, it is not less necessary that the Legis-
lature should be Whig, that the interests of Tea
State and the people of the State should be gna0-
ded and defended. Shall we return to the eld
system of finance-a shinplaster currencs--no
sinking fund--no redemption of the State debt
no completion of the public works-the but,hen
of debt and taxation left TO grow heayer-every-
thing neglected except the ignoble interests of
| partizans and pariyl Shall we have the same
declarations in favor of free trade in Pennsyl--
vania Legislature which we nave had In Locofoco
conventions and papers Shall we there becalled
upon, at one and the same time, to declare thar
Pennsylvania--oor brave and homes, Pennsylva-.
MIA, in which slavery was first denounced as an },
evil and free labor was intended by nature to be,
best rewarded sacrifices the interests Of freedom,
| to the schemes of slaveowners, and wishes to.
give away the bread of her own people to stran-,
gers the inhabitants of foreign countries the SUBJ
iects Of foreign princest What safety is there.
but in Wing majority---a Whig Legislature sup,
porting Whg admihstraton-t!,e predomina-
ting influence of Z party whose ruling principles
are free soil and free labor-pro,ec,ion to home
industry-the restoration of State credit, the COM
pletion of the State works, and the payment OF
the State debt,
This is, indeed, the day of the crisis OF the pro-
sective policy in Penns sylvania and i, will mainly
depend upon the kiE.d of vote which the people OF
the State shall give in the coming election, wheth-
er that policy is 20 be restored, or utterly aunul-
led and abolished. The antagonisms of good and
evil are DOW, in our State, in full and desperate
struggle End the history of the morrow will be
one of good or bad fortune, of prosperous or ad-
verse fate, according men shall rank themselves
on the side of their own interests or against them
according they shall direct their weapons
/ against their foes or their own bosoms. We shall
believe thar, on this occasion, Pennsylvania means
to be true to herself and that her people will stand
up like men in support Of their own righs and IN.
terests.
/ By the Committee: