New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-27
THE SKIES BRIGHT IN PENNSYLF4NIi.
Of Tie ". Y. Tribune.
CHAMBERsBURG, October

Pennsylvania has apparently faltered, but she
will reco despite the untiring efforts and sys-
temntic vla:sy of our foes and the perfdy of pro.
fessed friends | write not to inspire unwarranted
hopes, but 10 reflect the settled determination Of
the friends Of Freedom to poll their full vote, and
thus insure victory. Pennsylvania cannot again
turn upon herself with suicidal hands. Her free
aud prosperous industry, her great and growing
wealth, her mighty commerce, and her blooming
fields and golden harvests forbid it. Never before
were her people 50 thoroughly aroused as now.
In the West and North the popular verdict on the
nth was all and even more than We hoped for; but
IN the more selfish and sluggish East and South
We lost through the overweening confidence of our
friends, the treachery OF portion of our allies, and
the unblushng scoundresm of our foes.
When you glance at the official figures you will
soon see how Pennsylvania has been lost Out of
some 400 OOOFotes We are beaten by about 800 ma
jority with Philadelphia containing about one-sxth
less population than your city, polling more votes
than ever you have cast at any election. This ma
i0rity first Of all, comes from the unprecedented
vote in Philadelphia. 1t is nOt-indeed, it cannot
be denied that there were thousands OF fraudulent
votes polled there and no rational man can be blind
to the fact that these frauds were perpetrated by
We were advised some days before the election
that these frauds were contemplated, but we were
pOwerless to arrest them. The Buccaneers had
the entire control of the Municipal Government,
and they had made their immense extra assess.
ments only in such Districts where they controlled
the Election Boards. They had, therefore, the
whole power to consummate this fraud upon the
purity Of the balot-bOx, and they have succeeded
only too we'll But even with the full knowl-
edge of the desperate means employed by our
opponents, we believed that we should save
the State by from fifteen to twenty thousand;
and glance at the returns will satisfy an! reason.
able man that that hope was not wild one. We did
believe that the Fillmore treason had not penetrated
40 far into the ranks of that party. He knew that
SandersOn Vas in the interest OF Buchanan, but
believed him comparatively pOweress. Had his an
tecedents been a. widely known as they should be,
he would have been impOtent; but the bulk OF bis
party OF Philadelphia, being strangers IN his lead,
confded in his integrity and strengthened him IN
his effort to betray He has now been thoroughly
unmarked and in the place, there is not one Fill
more man so poor as TO do him reverence. lie Is
spurned and execrated, and hundreds in this Sec
ton, who were either Indifferent against us be-
fore, because they feared the election of the State
ticket would prejudice the interests OF Mr.. Fill
more have closed in with us and 60 heart and hand
for the Union Electoral ticket Never before were
all the elements of the Opposition in the country
determined that they will not BE- marketable sub
jects in the hands If SandersOn and Forney any
longer, and they have united in a call for a Union
meeting 10 commend the Union electoral ticket.
there will be but two tickets voted in Franklin,
Adams, Cumberland Fulton, Bedford, and SOmer
set Counties, where Fillmore 10 strongest, and We
will thus have fair opportunity to test the sense
of our people on the policy aud principles Of Pierce,
Douglas and Buchanan.
Depend upon it, too that zee x1A poA our tHH
rofe, Franklin cast but 6. 700 the l4th; on the
4th of November We will poll 400, and the
Buchaneers cannot increase their vote l0U. We
will beat Mr.. Buchanan 800 in this his native
county; be will be- beaten in Adams 800; in Bed
ford loo: in Somerset 900: and in Fulton the
Buchaneer majority will be reduced Count us
certain for gain of 90 the vote OF the l4th IN
the counties above mentioned, for We have the
strength. and il will be put forth. In Dduphin we
will gain GOO in Lancaster 800. in Perry 800, IN
Huntington and Blair 600. ia Cambria 800 and IN
the Northampton region il will be morally impOssl-
be 70 crowd the affecting figures of the l4th upon
NJ sSaiu Bad as York Was al the last election 1t
will not improve as the Fillmore leaders there are
Rnchaneers. and will exert their best energies to
nreyent union. The East and South alone will
more than overcome the fraudulent majority OF the
l4th, and the North and West VIII give Us !rom
: OC0 70 10 600 more 70 swell the majority
Be of cood cheer friends in the Empire >fatr
et your mighty State he but "a true az fennsyi-
,apia in the struggle Just al hand, and the glorious
flag Of Constitutional Freedom shall wave III tri-
umph over our beloved land on the 9th OF November
n.,, A VI oRkINGMAS.