The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-25

the array thus presented by Mr.. Lowe, were il
infinitely more imposing, could have no inhu-
ence upon him after his otcn opinion had been
deliberately formed upon principle or msa-
sure.
As TO whether questions Of national politics
should have weight in this contest, Mr.. CLARKE
was clear, explicit, and, as we thought, fully
satisfactory. He and his adversary did not
differ upon the great question of State reform
the election of either would be attended by the
same results; and were there no other reason
for the election of Wing Governor, the fact
of his having power to commission Wing to
the United States Senate, in certain exigen-
cies, should of itself prove sufficient to induce
any true Wing to prefer the man of his own
party, even could that Senator do nothing
more in our behalf than give his vote in favor
Of Wing tariff, which, however, the gentle
man was disposed to regard as an obsolete idea.
In abiding to the fact that Ex-Governor
FRANCIS THOMAS was bearing an active part in
this canvass, and was making speeches to pro-
had taken occasion to speak of the avowed
Free-soi principles of that distinguished gen.
tleman; and although Mr.. l., had disavowed
these principles, yet there stood beside him,
on the same platform, that influential leader,
embracing in his sympathies Mr.. LOWE and
the Democratic and Free soil parties Now,
said Mr.. CLARKE, | can tell you why the
tariff has not been practical question during
the present session of Congress. 1t is because
Of the almost exclusive and entire attention
given to the exciting Free soil issues that have
agitated that body and the whole Union. This
is the reason why the fraud of A. enacted by
means of the Kane letter, with the notices
Of ''Polk, Dallas, and the Tariff of 42!" as
the war-cry of the party that intended to re-
peal that Tariff, was not a practical question
during this session.
But We are anticipating our report. From
all that the discussion elected, we were ire
sistibly led to the conclusion that there was
duty resting upon the Wings of Maryland
that they could not compatibly with their own
interests, with their integrity, with their love
for their State, fail to perform; and that the
discharge of that duty will secure the eleva-
ton to the gubernatorial chair of the able and
distinguished citizen who is vigorously dis
putting every inch of ground in the present con-
test.
There is indeed between the candidates an
issue upon single point that should prompt
every true son of Maryland to rally around the
standard of this sterling and honored Wing.
1t is that his adversary has, Of his own
accord, raised from their grave of infamy the
nineteen recusant electors, who in 1886 pre-
ferred the triumph of minority party with
all their devotion to the omni potence and
intallibility of the democracy of numbers y to
the honor of their State, and the inviolabiity
of its constitution. While Mr.. LOWE regards
these devoted gentlemen as the true friends of
constitutional reform, and places their names
high upon his roll of glorious leaders in the
work of reform, his opponent assigns to them
the place to which many distinguished and
honorable member of the Democratic party in
Maryland has ever assigned them--the depths
of political degradation, to which the selfish
and the faithless alone can descend