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satisfaction Of perceiving the rich fruits of her
integrity in the universal respect and imitation of
all the States in similar condition of pecuniary
embarrassment.


The Pennsylranian parades one Of our para
graphs, in which we state few recorded facts
in the history of the country, to prove the re-
sp0nsibility of the Locofocos for its embarrass-
ments. We modestly abstained from claim
ing for the Wings the peculiar merit OF having
adjusted the controversy; we merely claimed to
have participated in that patriotic work. The
Pennsylvania tries, with the hackneyed charges
Of Wing disaffection during the Mexican war,
to break the force Of the reasons urged by us.
We really think that journal protesting pecu-
liar respect for popular opinion ought to bow in
better submission to its DEGREES. The result OF
the last presidential election ought to be con-
elusive upon the charges thus attempted to be
revived. The issues of disaffection, of hav-
ing embarrassed the government, were distinct
ly made; they constituted the principal staple
Of Locofoco objection against the Wing ticket,
headed by Hero whose history alone was a
full refutation of the charge. The result OF
the presidential contest proved that the charges
referred to are alike futile and ungenerous;
that, in the opinion of the people, the Wings
volunteered as freely as their opponents to en-
dure the hardships, or incur the pcrils Of wal
which they regarded as unwise and unnecessary
This want of patriotism was distinctly charged
by the Locotocos, and Indignantly denied by
the Wings. The evidence was submitted, the
argument heard, and the people not only ac-
quilted the Wings from the malicious and I'M
grateful charge of their opponents, but, impelled
by the alarming convictions of Locofoco incom,
potency to administer the Government which
these Investigations had developed, they re-
posed the administrative authority in the hands
of the Wings; in which it is our hope-a hope
dictated alone by regard for the permanency
and prosperity of the Unon-that it may long
remain. We turn the Pennsylvania over
therefore, to the expressed and recorded opin
ion of the people upon this subject.
We are glad to see distinct statement O
our position GO before the readers of a Loco
foco journal without mutilation or perversion
1t often happens in the moral world that Z
stray text of truth--a fugitive leaf of some
sound doctrinal treatise-arrests the attention o
those who walk in spiritual darkness: so The
unusual occurrence of Wing statement in {
Locofoco journal may have similar effect upor
some of its unregenerate readers, who walk II
the gloom of political bigotry and prejudice.
With this little homily upon the structures o
the Pennsyluanian, we place our columns a
its disposal, happy if it shall copy for its read
ers any sentence which they may contain. |
our request be entitled to respect, our view o
Locofoco responsibility for the defeat of all thu
practical measures of public policy will receive
early attention. The Pennsylvania can copy
the wars of WLMoT and the chvalry over thu
spoils of conquest; or the destruction of the Rive
and Harbor bill by the combined action Of those
two sections" of the Locofoco party; and es
pecially the full, true, and important particu
lars of the inhuman murder of every PROPOSE
ton for the salvation of American industry by
the same parties, aided by those paragons 0
Pennsylvania Democracy, Messrs. MANN, Nc
LAFAHAN, and Ross.