Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-10-25
From Baltimore Patriot.
THE ELECTIONS AND THEIR PHILOS-
MEXICAN REFORM.

ken place, indicate, very conclusively, the pre-
valing popular sentiment of the country
There is determination every where to take
from the professional politicians the govern
msnt of States and cities and confde it to men
who have the security of citizenship and com.
mon honesty to offer for their fidelity to official
trust
This determination has been shown in the
total contempt of party designation which mark
the officers elected. A democratic Canal Com
missioner in Pennsylvania receives a majority
of more than COCOA whig Governor on the
same ticket is elected over democratic in
cumbent of great party popularity. In Ohio,
SO long doubtful between the old parties, the
democratic ticket has been defeated by per.
haps $4,000 majority.
In our own city, ticket chosen indiscrimi
nately without reguard to the party predictions
of the persons who compose it, has reversed a
great democratic majority.
In every case this change has been wrought
against the power Of the Government, and in
contempt of its public rebuke. 1t has over
thrown the candid officials and their servile
press 1t has overawed the DULLES, and spread
the calm Of intelligent determination around
the balotbox.
Neither the partisan nor the philosophic OBJ
server of human action can fail in this extraor
binary change in the direction of popular senti
ment subject worthy of careful examination.
1t is in the midst Of a great conflict amongst
the political managers that these extraordinary
results to which we have adverted, have occur
red 1t is when parties, and distinctions of ma
tonalty and of religion, had been so far reduc
ed to terms of political equation that those WHIT
employed them could estimate their value to
vote.
tits Just when the American people had beer
separated into the senseless distinctions of
democracy which bestowed office upon one POI
ton of the people and excluding another; an
J whggery which, forgetting the great principle
of hostility to power and hatred of corruption
drew boldly across the continent line of lat
tude as a rule of political rights-it is just d
this time that the great principle of America
Reform has arisen and been wrought ont {
the confusion of the ambition and wickednes
which regarded this country as a mere skittlc
ground of gambling politicians. We presum
that there can he no further doubt but that W
have stated the purposes for which the gres
Enow-Knothing movement has been organized
1t is the publication of official administration
: it is the preservation of American Notional
: ty-i it is the condemnation of those miserabl
badges of a priestly domination which hay
deluged other countries in blood and boun
them in bondage.
We now comprehend the full purpose of tn
movement. 1t has been mysterious; but pr
dent concealment is sometimes one of the higl
aizaa--szaauaan--au
f derive the happiest augury from the success
: this movement. We have now two bands
political adventures who aspire to the posse
sion of the Federal Government by an apes
to sectional feeling. The one is headed by Wn
H. Seward and his associates-the head of II
opposite division is at this time difficult to fnt
but the brunt of this conflict will have 70 /
borne by the right and property of that sectio
, which is the object of the combination. W
look with confidence to the great American r,
formers, that it shall be confined to those CON
munities which alone have right to discussion
We confde, that as this is question in compar
son with which Catholicism and Foreign Ma
tionality shrinks into insignfcance, the grea
American Reform party will put the subject a
rest and remove forever from the area of nation
al conflict and the hall of national Legislation
the only question that can imperil the Amer
can Union.