The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-10-11
From the Chicago Democratic Press.
Pennsylvania.

All eyes are turned to Pennsylvania as
the great battle-ground of the campaign
We feel a moral certainty that she will 60
right at the State election on the 18th inst.
and if she does, the Presidential election
will be practically decided in favor Of Ere
mont Let the noble old Keystone pro-
nounce distinctly for Freedom then, and we
are sure of the whole North. Such a result
in Pennsylvania must completely dishearter
the friends of Buchanan in those States
where they now make the greatest show oil
opposition, and they will feel that they are
utterly defeated, if they do not have the
honesty to confess it before the final trial
shall make assurance doubly sure"
We are rejoced to see that the Republi-
cans of Pennsylvania are doing everything
that men can do who are inspired by the
conviction that never before in the whole
history of the country were such vast inter-
ests, both material and moral, involved in a
political contest. They feel that the veal
or woe of the Republic for long years, it
may be for generations, probably hangs upon
the result. The enemies of Freedom in
Pennsylvania fight with inscriptions Ges-
peration, well knowing that if they fail there,
they fail every where-that their party is
extinct forevermore. They are resorting to
faIsahoGd, Misrepresentation and gross per-
version Of fgcts, without stunt, and will leave
nothing undOne to save themselves that mon
ey can command. But they begin to shake
in their shoes. Secret councils have been
held ip New York and Philadelphia by the
chief wise-pullers, and the conclusion to
which they came was that at least hundred
thousand dollars more was reeded in Penn
sylvania, and they must have felt that it was
an almost hopeless Investment.
The Republican press of Pennsylvania is
working nobly for the good cause, and doing
honor to her great history in the past and
her present commanding position in the Un-
ion. The North American is confident that
the old Keystone will do her duty in the
present crisis. We quote:
'The men of 1880, without any party dis
tinctions, united in abolishing the Institution
of slavery in the State, on the broad ground
of its incompalbility with the original rights
of man, and with the principles of the i'm
mortal Declaration of Independence, which
was first penned and published on Pennsyl-
vana soil. In the next generation, the men
Of 1920, without any party distinctions, Fed
eralists and Democrats, so Styled, but pre-
eminently lovers of their country and of
Freedom, united together as one man in re-
sisting the admission of Missouri, as slave
State, into the Union, and proclaimed them
selves unalterably opposed to the extension
Of slavery OYER any of the free territories of
the United States. This was the unchanged
motto on the Wing banner, up to the time
of the dissolution of the Wing party. That
party stood with the Constitution in shield
ing slavery where it had legal existence
but one of its first principles, manifested not
only by words but by actions, and that un-
deviatingly, was to SHE'D Freedom and the
Free domain of the nation against the en-
croachmepts o! slavery. Such, too, was the
motto on the Democratic banner, till the
hand of Douglas tore it out, and the poll
ticians of the party acquiesced in the sacri-
legious deed. And two years ago, when
Representatives were elected to Congress,
and when a Governor was chosen, the peo-
pie united in abjuripg the Douglas policy
thus making it manifest to the world that
the State OF Pennsylvania still stood, where
it always had stood, and where we trust il
will stand forever, opposed to the extension
OF human slavery eyer the free national do
MAN,"