Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-24
PENNsYLyANIA-P PROS
Poets.

! country is anAlously awaiting the result OF the
| election in that State, which takes place on
the second Tuesday of October next. A gov
ernor, judge Of the supreme court, and canal
commissioner are to be elected by the State at
large, and the Democracy has nobly rallied
upon the ancient platform of the party, and is
sanguine Of obtaining a brilliant victory The
! State candidates OF the Democratic party are
in the field William Bigler is the candidate
| of the Democracy. He is the present COVER
nor, elected in 1852, Immediately before the
! presidential election and his success con-
trbuted greatly towards achieving the success
| of General Pierce, and in, obtaining the i'm
mense majority by which he carried the State.
| The opponent of Governor Bigler in that con-
test was the celebrated VIM. F. Johnston, then
the whig governor, who, it will be recollected.
annulled the will Of democratic legislature
and pandered to the desires of his abolition
partizans, by pocketng the ".tagitiee Stare
Arm," which had passed at the last session.
| Upon this issue the contest was conducted, and
| glorious victory achieved by the sterling De-
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forces of the enemy.
Since his election, Governor Bigler has been
tried by the, strongest tests which can be APP
piled to a politician and patriot. He has
been frequently called upon, in his official
| character, to decide upon questions involving
the most important and vital principles of the
democratic creed; and he has been found
faithful and true to the integrity Of his party,
and to the great platform upon which it is
based. VIII that party-the democrats Of
Rennsylrania-whose name is password to
the confidence of the Democracy of her sister
States, prove false to the great principles Of
their political creed and character, by deserving
| him now? We answer, never, never. Such
an act would be at variance with all the ante.
cedents of the lion-hearted Democracy of that
| faithful and noble old Commonwealth.
The Wing party has also its ticket in the
field. James Pollock, formerly a member Of
Congress, and one Of the most active advocates
of Governor Johnston and his abolition pro.
clivities at the last gubernatorial election, is
now the nominee Of that party for Governor.
If the election were between the two can
didates, Bigler and Pollock, and the contest
between the Democracy and Whig-freesoil
abolition principles, the victory would be an
easy one. The democratic candidate would
be elected by an overwhelming majority.
But new party has entered the arena. 1t
is enveloped in mystery, and is manufactured
Of the shreds and patches of all parties and fac
tons. 1t is called "Kno,c-nothing" 1t has
not yet made its nomination Of State officers,
and it is not positively known whether it will
make any, except by adopting the whig nomi.
nees. The democratic party and democratic
press, from one end of the State to the other,
repudiate any utilization with the new faction,
and openly and manfully denouuce its origin
and intentions, as they have denounced every
faction that has sprung into existence in that
State. On the other hand the wing party have
been secretly counting it, as they have courted,
and successfully too, every faction heretofore,
which came into life under the names of anti
masonry, aJolHionism, .treesoiliSm, and natice
1D,aicaaiSm. Indeed it is the opinion Of the
shrewdest politicians in the State, that this new
party, like all others, was recruited and mus.
tered into existence by the managing leaders
of the Wing party, as new stratagem to break,
down the Democracy. 1t had WING origin,
and was intended to catch the unwary and
wavering Of the Democratic party and then
with its new recruits, 90 in body to Whiggery
Such has been the course of all previously ex
listing factions. ..
But it is now said, that the Know nothings,'
in consequence of victories recently gained in
minor elections, have swelled into so much i'm.
portance that they speak boldly about nomina
ting candidates Of their own, unless the Wing
party will agree to stand upon their party plank
and adopt their name. Mr.. Pollock, the whig
gubernatorial candidate, it has been charged
over and over again, and remains uncontra-
dicted, has joined the "Know-nothings" in due
form, and is acknowledged by them as one o.
their leaders. If this be so, it is only necessary
to obtain the consent Of the Boosting Whip
party, TO relinquish their proud name, and
adopt that Of Know.nothing," and the fusion
will be complete. The signs of the times
indicate something Of the kind, in the abandon
ment Of Joseph Il. Chandler, their able, elo
quent and popular representative in Congress-
from the city of Philadelphia, than whom, We
boldly aver, no whig in Congress has higher
reputation, for ability, usefulness, fidelity to
his country and to his constituents. Yet
this man must be sacrificed on account Of
his religion, to obtain the votes Of a faction.
whose avowed principles are antagonistic to
the teachings of our glorious Declaration Of In
dependence, of the Constitution of the United
States of George Washington, of Thomas JEFF
ferson, of James Madison, Of Andrew Jackson.
and of all our great statesmen and patriots.
Let the enemy, however, proceed as it chooses,
the Democratic party Of the good old keystone
commonwealth viii triumph at the ensuing
election. The old men Of that party recolIect