Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-17
ALL HONOR TO PENNSYLVANIA /

ALL HONOR TO PENNSYLVANIA
The election in Pennsylvania for State
officers, Members of Congress, &C., took
place on Tuesday last, and the Democra-
cy achieved most signal, complete, and
glorious triumph. The contest was be-
tween the Democracy on the one hand,
and on the other, Know -nothingism,
Black Republicanism, Anti-Nebraska-
ism, and every other ism. The battle
was very holly contested, and the coali-
ton protested to be perfectly confident
of success. Not more than week ago
they published a statement setting forth
the number of votes they expected to
poll, which was large majority of the
voters of the State, and their organs and
speakers confidently asserted that they
should carry the State by from forty to
sixty thousand majority. The result
was looked for with the deepest interest
all over the Union. 1t was understood
on all hands that the failure in Pennsyl-
vania would be fatal blow to the coali-
.tionists, and their efforts to secure sue
cess were commensurate with this view
of the Importance of the result. That
result is their disastrous overthrow
The Democrats have swept all before
them, by large majority. Their tri-
.umph is as signal and complete, as it is
gratifying to every true friend of Demo
cratic principles, and every honest sup
porter of the Constitution and the Union,
and every foe of intolerance and bigotry.
The fusionists have met their over
match in the old "Keystone." Their
combined forces have been totally routed.
Reckless of all the lessons of experience,
and blind to the blessings which had
sancti6ed this experience, they proclaim
ed their determination to erect new
standard, and to substitute for the doc
trines and the practices Of the revolution
the pains and penalties of the Spanish
Inquisition, the disabilities and disfran-
chisements inflicted by the English ru-
lers upon the Irish people after the rev.
olution of 1868. Invoking to their
cause host of prejudices which civiliza-
ton has vainly labored to pluck from
the human heart, rallying every hatred,
whether Of caste or creed, summoning
to their aid the most levelling theories of
impraeticable reforms, and holding out
reckless promises of Office and of power,
to extinct parties and desperate leaders,
they fondly imagined that their black
banner would float triumphantly over
the " Keystone of the Arch" Flushed
with the recollection of recent triumphs
of most extraordinary character, and
sanguine of vaster success than any
they had yet obtained, they forgot that
they were on hallowed ground, and that
while they were seeking to dishonor and
to degrade the living, they were at the
same time profaning and insulting the
dead. They forgot that they stood upon
the soil watered by the blood, and made
sacred by the graves of some of the IA
theirs of the Constitution they sought to
violate. They forgot that their enginery
of falsehood, their secret complications
and secret bargains, and their projects of
impossible improvement and reform, were
all so many resurrections of the departed
genius of oppression.
The effect of this glorious and oppor-
tune result viii prove most magical.
Like the surrender of CORVALLIS, it will
destroy the Vaccinations of the enemies
of our country, and restore concert and
strength to patriotic people. Like
that event, it will establish on firm and
lasting foundation, the principles of the
Declaration of Independence. Like that
event, also, it will give an assurance to
the world-a hope to the oppressed, on
the one hand, and an admonition to the
oppressors, on the other-that, however
faction may rave and traitors combine,
nothing is more certain Of being main
tanned than the institutions of the Amer
ican Republic.
Upon the approaching Presidential
election this result in Pennsylvania can
not fail 10 operate with saiutaryy eject.
The politicians who were attracted to the
new party by the hope of preferment'
will haul of in disgust, and the mass Of
those who we're deludcd by its mumme-
ries will be glad to gather counsel and
experience from the great victory in
PENNSYLVANIA, and to come back to the
great organization, once more re-estab-
lishca in inyinciblc security upon the old