New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-10

Now that the MAINE question is settled, we pro-
pose to say something of the prospect in PENNsYL-
vANIA to which State all eyes turn with anxious
sOicitude
We commenced this canvass with fixed resolve
neither to cherish nor to fabrcate pleasing ilu.
sions. Stern experience has taught US that an
election does not always go right merely because it
ought tO-that the best of causes cannot insure
success without the best of support Also We
believed that the great cause of Free as against
Slave Labor in the Territories could be brought to
just and benefcent issue if all its friends did their
utmost in diffusng light and knowledge; we believed
that John C.. Fremont could be elected President
if any could, standing on so good platform as
that put forth at Philadelphia last june So be-
lieving, we went to work, and exhOrted others to
work, not as if Victory were already assured, but
as if it might, by adequate effort be won. And,
from the adjournment of the Peoples National Con.
ventiOn up to this hour not an election has been
held in a Free State which has not resulted more
auspiciously than We had dared to hope, or had
given our readers reason to expect
How will it be in Pennsylvania
There are oracles in plenty who will tell you that
Fremont sweeps everything before him in the Key
stone State-that nothing can resist his popularity
that his majority will equal Jackson's &C., &c.
All this is simply absurd. When Jackson swept
Pennsylvania, the leaders of the two old parties
united in his suppOrt-the Federal Buchanans and
ROSES vieng with the Democratic Duanes and
Snyders in swelling his majority. Now there is an
immense breakwater of official patronage and party
drill and personal aspiration, combined to breast
the tide of Fremont's popularity. With as fair
field az Jackson had in "a, Fremont would sweep
Pennsylvania as he did; but the cases are by no
parallel.
Let us look, for a moment. at the more favorable
aspect of the present crisis
There never before was such concentration of
the ability and political influence of the State in
favor of any one man as now in favor of Fremont.
In the North, David WimOt, Judge Jessup,
Galusha A. Grow and their cOmpeers form a
majority of the debating talent and personal infu-
ence of both the Wing and Democratic parties Of
old; and here the majority on the right side will be
unparalleled. If our friends are not grossly de-
ceived the Counties of Wayne, Susquehanna,
Bradford, Toga, Potter and Mexican, skirting for
tv-> hundred miles the southern border of our
State, and which gave heavy majOrities against
every Wing candidate for President, will now give
Fremont at least six thousand over Buchanan.
We take the lowest estimate Of our friends in that
quarter; Others place the majority high eight,
and even ten thousand But we wish to keep
within the bounds of safety, and six thousand is
large majority in vote of hardly more than three
times that number.
The West is also alive for Free Kansas and Free
mont. The County of Crawford, which sent
large emigration into Kansas at an early day, is
especially aroused, and will give Fremont larger
majority than the highest it ever gave for Jack
son. Warren, another Jackson county of old, is
now decidedly for Fremont; so, we are well as
surcd, are Venango, Armstrong and other Demo-
cratic counties. On the other hand Allegheny,
Erie, Mercer Beaver, Lawrence, and Washington,
which have OF late years been predominanty Wing
and Free Soil, will give Fremont larger majorties
than they have ever yet given for any President.
Among the Democrats of former years who are
now cooperating with nearly all the former
Wings and Free-Soilers in support of FIRE.
mont, We will only name Judge Galbrath,
of Erie, Gen. w. Puryiance of Butler, S. p. Nc
Calmont of Venango and the Hon. Carlton B. Cur
tbs, who was Democratic Member of the last
Congress, in which he steadily opposed the Ne
braska bill, and is now the Fremont candidate in
his District, at present represented by the Hon.
David Barclay. Greene will give Buchanan ma.
jority, but we are assured that it will be small:
while Clarion and Fayette, which have not vet got
fairly into line, will, We trust, be all right before
November. Indiana will give Fremont larger ma.
lority than she ever yet gave anybody-some say
2.OOO-while Westmoreland, usually giving 1900
to $500 for anything called Democratic-will now
give but a few hundreds, if anything, against FIRE.
mont. We estimate the aggregate majority for
Fremont in the Counties west of the Aleghenies at
not less than Ten Thousand votes, while more san
guine friends place it as high as Fifteen and even
Twenty Thousand. Among the old Wings con-
spicuously at work for Fremont, we observe the
names of Thomas Williams of Pittsburgh, and
Messrs. Purviance, Covode, and Allison Of the
House Of Representatives.