New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-16
Penn.fIYania nnd Ohio.

PenDsylyania and Ohio.
Gov. Johnston is beaten by very nearly
the average party majority in Pennsylvania.
No Wing candidate for Governor save Rit-
ner ever came near an election in that State
except in Presidential Election years and
Gov. Rituer ran in between two candidates
Of the majority, who together had some
$4,000 more votes than he had. When his
first term expired, he was defeated by some
5000 majority, though supported with des-
perate energy by the entire Wing strength.
We shed no tears for Gov Johnston.
He has nObly done his duty and richly de-
served reelection. Yet, from the hour
of Gen. Taylor's death, the chances have
been heavily against him. If he could have
received the determined support Of all the
Wings, we think his personal popularity
outside of his own party would have barely
secured his reelection. But the very acts
which commended him to millions exposed
him to the implacable hatred of thousands.
Without the enthusiastic support of the
Masses he had no chance; with the stiletto
of Cotton Whiggery stealthily aimed at his
heart, his chance was at best forlorn enc.
Nothing short of drawing out the last vote
would have saved him; and this is hard to
do in merely State Election. 1t has not
been done now, and he Is beaten.
$50 much for Slavery Agitation" says
Silver Grey. Well, Sir how much bet
ter has Mr.. ViBtOn done in Ohio Ohio is
naturally Wing State, which Pennsylva-
MIA is not Mr.. Vinton is a most capable,
worthy, widely-known Statesman, Of thor
oughly Conservative character and pro.
foundly averse to Agitation generally. He
is Just about such candidate as you would
have desired Gov. Johnston to be yet he
appears to be beaten far worse in his Wing
State than Gov. j. is in his Loco-Foco
State. The latter had nothing to gain, even
as a mere question of policy, by pursuing
the course you would have prescribed for
him. Tue, he has gained the votes which
Gov. J. has lost but he has lost far more
to the Third Party candidate than he has
gained Of your sort. So the matter was at
least as broad as it was long
Well; Pennsylvania has attested her
devotion to the Fugitive Slave Law and her
willingness TO descend to any depth Of
seryility which the Slavery Propaganda
may see fit to require. If Cuba is to be the
next grab, she is ready to acquiesce and to
aid If two or three new Slave States, to
be carved from what remains of Mexico
tins side of the Sierra Madre, are to be put
before Cuba, Pennsylvania is ready for that.
Il new acts of tyranny, even more atroclous
than the Fugitive Slave Law, or new Con-
stitutioral distractions to any exhibition OF
sympathy for Universal Freedom shall
be exacted, she will be the foremost TO lick
the dust from the boots of the Propagan-
dists. Already her Buchanan has bid for
the support of that Propaganda by offering
to run the Slave Line Of $50 30 clear
across the Continent; and her Dallas has
undertaken to outbid him by proposing to
amend the Federal Constitution so as to re-
press future Anti. Slavery efforts. All this,
you see, is intended to put a stop TO Slavery
Agitation OF course it viii do tor, at
all events, it viii give a chance of resur-
rectiOn to some long buried politicians,
which is equally an object OF patriotic
sohcitude. One way or another, the Union
| is bound 10 be saved.
If Fate had so decreed that Gov.
Johnston could have run in Ohio, he would
pretty surely have been elected while it
is rot impossible that Mr.. Vinton might
have done better in Pennsylvania, though
we think not. But no matter now