Washington telegraph., 1857-01-28
TOMMY DEFEATED.

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1t appears by & dispatch to the New
Orleans Pfeayune, of the 18th instant,
that SIMON CAMERON, Republican, has
been Elected tQ United States Senate
from Pennsyl a, oyer JOHN W For
NEY, the regularly Nominated candidate oe
the Democratic party. We have seen
paragraph going the rounds of the papers
recently, to the effect that Mr. BUCHANAN
had written letter recommending the
election of Mr.. FoRNEY, and urging it
upon the Pennsylvania Legislature as a
well-deserved testimonial to Mr.. FoRNEY's
ability, and a suitable and altogether prop
er compensation for services rendered Gas
per" extraordinary and unscrupulous ef
forts in the recent Presidential campaign.
Whether this be true or not, it is certain
that FoRNEY went into the contest with
all OF the influence of the party now in
power to back him, and in spite of all this
extraneous and powerful assistance, is now
compelled to see the prize which he has
coveted SO ardently, lost at the very mo-
ment when he thought surely to grasp it.
The editor OF an able exchange says
truly, there is but little to regret so far as
the contest between Forney and Cameron ie
concerned; butt is to be deplored that Penn
sylvania, the Keystone State, cannot find
better stuff out of which to manufacture
her representatives in that august body
whose annals are illustrated by the elo-
quence of a WEBSTER and a HAYNE. a
CALHOUN, a CLAY and an EVERETT
But there is moral traced in this result.
which we think We can read, 1t was writ
ten long time ago: '.The race is not
always to the swift, nor the hattie to the
strong" To have listened to the gratu-
lant paans which rent the air when Penn
sylyania rolled up q heavy majority for the
President elect, one would have thought
that the ''unterrifed" had absolute con-
troll OF the destiny Of al political eyerss,
for four years at least; but this event
shows clearly that the wire-workers reck-
oned without the people, and that they,
now that the fiimsy mask of pseudo ma
tionality, and the still more transparent
covering of union, with which the sup
p0rters of Mr. BUCHANAN went into the
contest, is being rent, as each separate fac
ton strives to appropriate the whole piece
Of tawdry fnery to cover its particular de-
forHity, are returning to the support of
the different schemes which make the pre-
sent condition Of American politics a
veritable ola podridG, the most mysteri-
Gus tumble, the most incomprehensible,
worst mixed up enigma that ever a man
puzzleu his brains over trying to under
stand. To be sure there is nothing in all
this upon which to congratulate either
ones self OF the country But We can re-
joice that tie privilege is left US to hope
that out Of all of this seeming disorder.
the ensuing four years viii witness such
change in the publicsentiment as viii suffice
to overthrow and put out Of sight the miser-
able tricksters who have brought about
the present anomalous condition of affairs.
and inaugurate an era Of American poll
tics, which viii suffice at once to correct
existing evils, and bring about healthy
and vigorous operation of all the elements
of national greatness which this land now
possesses, but which are made by dema-
gogues and reckless partizans to minister
only to the Immediate necessities or inor-
dinate desires of political gamblers and
stock jobbers.