Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-10-24
The LATE CoNTEsr IN PENNsYIvANIA.a7

sylvanla has senta thrill OF Joy through Ene
heart of every conservative, Constitu' ion-
al man in the country. Nobly has the
Democracy Of the old Keystone acquft-
ted itself, in triumphing over the combs
nation formed for its destruction. The
following letter, evidently written by Col.
John w. Forney. to the Washington IN
ion, will give our readers some conception
of the ordeal through which our readers
some conception of the ordeal through
which our friends of Pennsylvania have
SO gloriously passed. To this result the
writer of this letter who. has been ever
prompt and fearless in the defence ofAthe
national principles of the Democ ATTIC par
|ty, has contributed his full share. and is
entitled to his need of praise.
Correspondence of the Union.
The Grand Result in Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10, 1855.
We have penetrated the triple mail of
fanaticism and reached the heart of the
combined opposition to the Democratic
party in this State. We have not only
Frustrated, but almost annihilated, the
compound monster OF abolition and of in>
tolerance. The reaction has been most
disastrous in its consequences upon the
enemies of the Federal Constitution
There was no Sinking any question in
the contest which has so gloriously ter
minated. But over all other issues that
of the rights and equality of the States
| II L. 4
on this that the Democracy of Pennsyl-
vania made their stand from the Della
ware to Lake Erie, from the New York
border to ' Mason and Dixon's line. -
The Nebraska question, in all its phra-
ses, and the bold and patriotic attitude Of
President Pierce and his administration
on that question, were not only openly at
issues between the two parties, were not
only urged upon the voters of the State
in the most industrious and most uuscru>
pulOus manner by the fusion leaders, and
particularly by Cameron and Wilmot, but
were accepted by the Democracy without
reservation. The whole opposition was
concentrated against the nationality OF
the Democracy and in favor of the Sec
tiOnal creed OF the aboltiOnists. The or
der OF know~Nothings postponed for the
moment their imprac!icabiities on the
subject foreign influence and the Pope,
and threw themselves into the abolition
combination with malignant readiness.-
Az no election within my intimate and
somewhat extended experience in Penn
sylvania politics, have4 ever seen more
industry, confidence and desperation on
the part Of The adversaries of the Demo
cracy and of theUnion than at the last. The
traitors from our ranks forgot all their past
professions in favor Of sound principles
| forgot all the hOnors and GaYors bestowed
upon them by cOniding party-and
took up the battle-cry of the fanatics and
disunIonlsts who sought to make Penn~
syIvaniA the basis upon which to build up
a fortress TO scatter fire brands, arrows !;
and death among our brothers Of the
Southern States. But if they were bold
and reckless in this course, the Dcmocra-
cy were united in sentiment and in action
opposing ia them and although denoun-
ced as slaves Of the South !" as ''dough-
faces, and as pro slavery tools" they
enunclAtcd the most thorough constitu-
tlonal principles at their meetings, and
detied the epithets and the intrigucs Of
the opposition.
Our judciary-the eminent Judge of
the United States district court, Hon.
john X. Kane, the learned Chief Justice
Lewis and the unsurpassed jurist, Judge
Black were especially held up to the de-
hesitation as if each had been JelFries, who
gIoried in judicial murder, simply and
alone because they dared to be true to
the right, and TO stand unawed before the
lnturlated hosts of a financial combination.
Judge Kane was not only assaulted in the
most offensive manner at the meetings and
IN the newspapers of the fusion for his up
right course in the case Of Passmore VIII
hanson, but he was threatened by anony-
Wous VlIlhers With personal violence, and
pIacarded at the streets corners by mid
night ISLANDERS. Impeachment was added
to the list Of Punishments in store for him,
and the torrent of SANDER reared around
him with uexampled turbulence. What
q proud and cnnObiing reflection the in~
dependent members Of an upright Judi
clary must njOy, now that the find their
acts endorsed and approved by an intelli-
gent end patriotic people
We haze lost all our bad material. The
hno" Nothings were organized to 'puri.
~ the two old parties" and they have
done SO with vengeance by receiving
into their lodges all the invaIided, cor~
ruPt, diseased and discarded intriguers
who have SO long infested our councils
In their places, however we have receiv-
ed with gratitude and joy, a host of con
.stltutlon- loving wings, who came forward
on tuesday, and, like patriots. forgot all
past differences in assisting to wage war
upon the common enemy. Inspired by
the recollection Of Clay and of Webster,
and by the victorious examples of Ste
Phens and Of Toombs, of Evans and OF