The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-13
THE DEMOCRATS IN Pennsylvania


rhe Judicial State CUnvenssSn.
ovn HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE.
HARRISBURG, June IL. 1851.
IN Co~!eH 7o-day-1hs FIRST Issue 10 be DECIDED
The Real Battle-Ihx Hsnbug Of Conversations
and Ratification AeGings-7h Ontry About
Naticisr and Faegu Birh-Ik Ctl~ees Of
Cas- and buchanan Estimatai-Gensrai Scott
aWd David JYamo-Tx Coming Struggle, de.
The remainder of the delegates arrived last night
and tho hstes are ,rs xded to excess The train
which left Philadelphia at half past els zen o'clock
yesterday forenoon, only arrived here at twenty
minutes to nine o'clock las. evening, thus occupying
more than nine hours in running about one hun
bred miles, which is at the rapid rate of eleven
miles per hour, and which can be easily beaten by
the trott;ng horses of New York Being laden how
ever, with such weighty men, due allowance must
be made for the locomotive Buchaa at
the door of the hotel when the stopped at Ian
caster, which is his residence and conversed with
che delegates, and shook them by the hand, as they
WauI In TO get a drink.
The fight commenced to-day, and il is in
tended if possible, to end it day; but that de-
ponds upon the pluck and bottom of the opposition
But the skirmish at this outpost Is not the battle
itself, though it will afford indication of the
victory. Nor is it even the nomination of a Judge
Of supreme Court that is the bose of contention.
II Is something far hi CHER than that- is the Pre-
sidential chair; and both conventions merely
auxil AIRY to that great end. That these conven-
tons are sheer humbugs, is evident from the fact
that everybody knew before the Reading Conven-
ton met, that Bigler was 10 be the nominee for
Governor. and il equally well known, at the
same time, that Campbell would be nominated for
Judge of the Supreme Court. The meeting, there
fore, after deciding the matter beio ehand :
farce and while it lie amusing enough to the reader,
ii ought TO administer instruction To him also. Ii
shows that the people, all these primary elections
have no real voice nor vote, but that everything
l. done by wire pullers and undertakers, while dust
- thrown In the eyes OF the sovereigns, and the
eternal principles of democracy whiggery, the
case may be, are lauded to the skies Ia spescaes
to Buncombe The ratification meetings are
managed by the same leading strings, AID So on
TO che end OF the chapter. TnaL Can bell wall be
nominated scarcely admits of a doubt; and the OPP
position will receive as great a Ihrashing they
did at Reading. The organization Tor Buchanan
: stronger and more complete here than at the
former convention. The opposition, from the legal
profession, 10 Campbell, is de sided, and Of the
turn up their noses with the utmost contempt At
him, saying they would be willing 70 vote for a
lawyer, even If he was not their TREND but that
they will never vote for a demagogue The opposi-
ton threaten to defeat him at the polls aud some
Of the leaders declare, in mournful accents, that
tiuag can be greater injury 10 party han not
to put forward the best men for judges They say
they wished to have Gibson, VINO would do equal
credit 10 the democracy and the bench, but that a
certain coalition defeated them, They allege tnat
IL is al hypocrisy on the part Of Campoes friends
TO make an cutlery about "natlvism the objecs
beng TO divert attention from his qualifications,
and a the same time to raise a sympalny for him
among the foreign born population, wncn feeling
II to be carried into the election for President
SOME hard fighting may be expected; but there will
be no direct expression Of opinion, far - | can
learn, in favor Of buchanan. His friends think il
would be premature, for they calculated upon a
more decisive and extended reeogni ion Of MIN IN
the south. which they think will control the nomi
nation here, without difficulty. They will, there
fore, work quietly for the present. They rely upon
his Unrevoked declarations IN favor OF tue Missouri
uLe; while his being out Of Congress, when the tate
compromise measures were adopted, exempts nun
from all responsibility. Whereas, Cas- mas madc
b mself obnoxious to the ultras of the South by
his ad ocaey Of the most hateful TO them, Of those
measures, though he did not vote for the only one
OF them they yaluet- Fugitive slave Law.
such i the way Ruchanans frends reason They
have not the slightest doubt that he will obtain the
nom nation, not only in this state but AZ the Balt
more Convention, in May next or tina he will con-
trUi II for somebody else tor the idea has been
darby limited that Buchanan Is not working for
himself, but for another, and il Is shrewdly sus-
pected that this individual is little Douglas IL u
we'd known that Buchanan and he are intimate
friends. Buchanan looks old, and would think
more ft TO prepare for the kingdom which j. not Of
tbs world, than to undertake the care OF thirty
one United States and their territories. But i he
l. bitten with the mania, he will run, though the
Accomplishment Of his object might, II has dooe
Ia the OF other Presidents hasten bis exit from
the stage Of this world 10 that which is to CO
tfe = an old bachelor, and u wealthy.
There Is q growing conviction among all sections
the people in this state that General scott will
obtain the whig nomination at the nation n con
vent Of that party. That be will get the nomi-
rstiOn from chs state, seems certain The wings
OF Pennsylvania quite confident that be will be
the next President. The wings Of this county are
intsns. in his favor. At the last Presidential no
Diination, he obtained fifty out Of iftyfour votes
Of TIE Dauphin County Wing Convention, while
sylor only received four.
The expected defining ofhis position By the Hon.
David Wimot the dele gate from Bradford county,
snd author u the famous free toll provisO which
bear his name, j. circumstance that invests this
Convention with more than ordinary interest !
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