The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05
Democratic State Central Committee.


Hotel, Philadelphia, on Wednesday even
ing, the 2Ist of August, JOHN HlCk-
MAN, Esq, of Chester county, Chair
man, and EDWARD MAYNARD, Esq, of
Tioga, Secretary, pro tenn, the object OF
the meeting having been stated. and the
snbjoined Address read by the Chairman
it was unanimoSly adopted. ANDREW
MILLER g WILLIAM DEAL, Esqrs, Of
Philadelphia county, were appointed ad
ditional members of the subcommittee
announced at the last meeting, There
were present representatives from Ches
ter, Montgomery, Bucks. Toga, PhIudel-
phia and Lancaster. The folIowi NC is
the Address adopted by the Committee:
Address Of the Democratic Slate Central Com
mittee.
Fellow Citizens: The approaching cleo
ton for state officers, and for members of
the Legislature. and presentatives in
Congress, according to an honored Gus
tom, calls upon the Democratic Central
Committee Of Pennsylvania TO say few
words on the issues involved in the con-
test, and on the general aspect OF things
throughout the country. It has been well
said that the Democratic party of the
country never occupied higher or more
enviable position than at the present time.
Out of power at Washington and at Har-
risburg It's measures have, nevertheless,
vindicated themselves by the most tri'
umphant results. while the general policy
Of democratic administrations is the polar
star by which even the wings guide their
shattered barque, and by which alone
they are enabled to keep themselves from
political shipwreck.
a little more than year of experience
of a whig national administration, has
furnished to history another interesting
and valuable example. Coming into
power with huzza, and elated at the
prospect of continual rule, the Whig leads
ers themselves were among the loudest
to rejoice-however much all may have
regretted that the immediate cause should
be the sudden death Of General Taylor
at the termination Of regency, the mem
bers of which going into place, amid
boasts of ability, experience and states
manship, remained in Office only long
enough TO make themselves universally
odious. Every department Of the gener-
al government, under their ltluenCc, gave
during that period, melancholy evidence
of the iLcapaclty or unWorthineSs Of It's
secretary. On the one hand, our for9ign
relatinons were conducted in a maner to
cover the whole country with rldIcule,
and with such blundering awkwardaess
as to extract even from the representa-
tive Of that foreign nation, which sympa-
thises most with federalism, the remark
that it was weak and unpopular. The
Treasury Department, Notwithstanding
the intellectual giant, as he was called,
at its head, did nothing, during the same
space of time, but establish the fact that
the secretary, in his war upon the sys-
tenn OF his predecessor, had forgotten the
plainest rules of of political economy. ID
another remarkable instance, we saw one
member oil the same regency urgiGg
against the government, for an eXorbItant
sum OF money, mostot which he received
himself, having just driven a hard bar
gain with his client, and then Obtaining
the aid of his colleagues in carrying it
through its various processes, without
law, in defiance Of law, and in utter disre-
gard Of the whole course of the govern
ment in similar cases. To complete the
striking picture. Congress by decided
vote, including several independent wings
rebuked the regency that had supported
the claim, and had agreed TO its payment,
in terms of the severest reprehension.-
The regency left office amid general ex-
ecration of their conduct, and at a moment
when other Developments were about to
be made, proving, still further, their un-
fitness to conduct The fairs Of republi-
can government.
Ii is fact that speaks loudly of the in
consistency flour opponents, and of the
triumph OF Democratic measures, at the
same time, that while the last Wing State
Convention refused 10 nominate Mr..
Strohm, for Canal Commissioner, because
of his vote against Il just war-lhe war
with Mexico-Mr. Fillmore, the new
Whig President, at first entirely over
looks Pennsylvania in his choice of Cab.
net officers, and confers the treasury
upon Corwin, whose opposition to the
same war was so bitter and so uncompro-
missing, that Mexico elevated aim into one
of her household gods, and the American
soldiers burnt him in effigy on the very
field where he wished they might re-
ceive welcome with bloody hands to
hospitabie graves.
We refer to this significant history Of
very recent events, with no desire 10 re-
vivo unpleasant recollections, but to show
to the people of ennsylvania First,