Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-10-13
PENNSYLVANIA TO rnE RESCUE.
Brilliant Interpretations Achievements
The "Allies" driven back into their
dark eayerns, humbIed and terror
stricken, in the sold Keystone"


The news of the great victory achieved BY the
Democracy OF Pennsylvania Tuesday last,
over the combined forces of Whiggsry, Knoo-
nothingism, and .NiggerdOm, carried by the wires
Of electricity, has already reached and gladdened
the hearts of Democrats-of true lovers of our
ipstitutions, in almost every State Of the Unicn.
We have never used the editorial pen with more
pride and qualification with more heartfelt graft
tude, in recording political victory than at this
moment, and upon the present occasion. 1t
''nerves our heart and steels our sword = for the
great national contest Of next year-if, by good
nursing, the broken down, shattered forces of the
enemy, can be again rallied and brought into the
field, to do battle against the great Constitutional
army, now in the full and vigorous possession of
its herculean strength. The South, with perhaps
the exception of solitary State, will be united
Pennsylvania again rears her proud head in the CEN
TIRE, sounding her ancient battlecry'' in the ears
of her eastern, northern, and northwestern sisters,
whose democracy has met with temporary defeat,
without yielding an inch Of ground to the com
mon enemy, will stimulate the brave and the
tmid to renewed exertiou, and roll back the un-
natural current which, for season, swept over
these States.
All these "sgns of the tmes,' we say, must
have contributed much toward saddening into
dependency the brave, black hearts, even Of
such chieftans Sumner Wilson, Greeley,
Johnston, Gddings, Fred Douglass, and their
late brethren in arms; and will render il difficult
to form new ''allances" in time to enter the field
next autumn and receive "WATERL 90" defeat.
| 1t is hard to realize the great triumph achieved
by the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, at the
recent election. Single-handed and alone
standing upon the bold, proud platform of prin-
| ciplcs, erected under the lead of THOMAS JEF-
PERSON at the commencement of the present
| century, and cherished as the grand structure Of
their political faith through every conflict with
the enemy of many Names ever since--with
the CONSTITUTION for is tert book-the Dem
ocratic party Of the faithful old Commonwealth
has met and vanquiRhed a combination of ele-
ments, composed of every party and faction here
| tofore brought into existence to break it down.
| The political strength of the entire State was
| tested in the contest for Canal Commissioner
There was no other State officer in the canvass.
.arfiod Plummer, one of the most sterling and
unwavering National Democrats in the country,
| was the nominee Of the Democratic party The
| Wings, the Abolition Freesoilcrs, and Know
nothings, had each their candidates in the field,
with the banners or their several creeds flung to
the breeze. The flag Of the old Federal Wing
party" exhibited but little more than g eternal
hostility to Democracy" whilst the two axary
factions presented full display Of 9 Americans
ruling America, the interior Of Catholic schools,
kept by sisters of charity, where, in bed chambers
and closets high treason was Matched against our
country's liberty" ''No more slave States"
| down with slavery in the South 9 A negro is
better citizen, and more fitted to adorn our
social halls than turbulent Irishmen and stupid
| Dutchmen J" g Kansas and Nebraska frauds''
| with many more illustrations Of the same type.
Soon after these nominations were made, how
ever and the chiefs of the several factions counted
their forces and supposed they could rely upon
their fidelity the trickster leaders discovered that
| the stern, unbending Democracy could not be de-
feated, unless the factions thus opposed to it, en-
tered into alliance. 1t was matter of grave
deliberation-the "Whigs" hated the bantling
they had brought into existence under the name
Of "Know- nothing" for raising the mGtricidal
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brace and accept the name Of its loving mother;
and for having, since, set up for ITSELF regardless
Of the piteous cries and mutilated frame Of the
parent who gave it life. But, although the strug-
gle was hard the great object to be attained soon
| overcame every obstacle, and the party Of ''all
the decency'' yielded its consent to lose its old
name, and unite with the Black Republicans,
better known as Freesoil Abolitionists and the
Church burners, prosecutors Of their fellow-men
on account Of their religion place Of their birth,
known as "Know-nothings. Accordingly, on
the night Of the 9th of September, 1855, the
doughty leaders Of the several parties and fac.
tons assembled at Harrisburg, the scat of gov
eminent Of Pennsylvania, in some dark unsighty
cavern, and there and then agreed to unite their
1 forces under the most classical name of FUSION
John A. Fisher, Chairman Of the Wing State
| Committee; Lemuel Todd, Chairman of the
"Amercan" (Knole-noihing) State Committee;
and ID. Witnot, [WmMor -PRoyIso!l Chairman
"Republican!' Freesoii) State Committee, signed
the compact that was TO unite the three in one,
and present invincible phalanx which would
crush down and exterminate the Democratic
party Of the Old Keystone Commonwealth. The
candidates, which had previously been put in
nomination by the three factions, were dropped"
without any feeling Of remorse that we have seen
recorded-even the sad condition Of poor "mar-
tyred" williamson, who is now enclosed within
the walls Of Philadelphia Know-nothing prison,
enjoying the fruits of "Negro stealing did not
excite sympathy enough 10 bring tear TO the
eye Of his honor, David Wilmotl He was drop
ped with the rest, and Thomas Nicholson, vouched
for by the three chairmen, who represented the
hostile factions, as being most excellent Wing,
a sincere and devoted knoIr-nothing, and Free
soier and .Abolitionist Of the "hghcr law order"
was placed in nomination, under the flag of the
| Allied Powers.
Against the coalition thus formed, concontrat-
ing the hatred Of all the factions toward the prn-
ciPles Of Democracy, and goadel into action by
the deadest hostility, the Democratic party stood
4 proud and erect, relying for success upon the
4 soundness Of its cause 1t boldly met the triple-