The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-16
The PENssYLvAsIA SENATORIAL ELECTION.

THE PENNSYLVANIA SENATORIAL ELECTION.
While the honorable portion of the opposition press
disposed regard the result Of the recent election in
Pennsylvania with feelings of just modification the Esw
York Evening Post view it in other light than as
conclusive evidences that the real sentiments Of majority
Of the people Of that State at the late presidential cleo
lion were BY some s6rapt Or agencies not made
available for the blAckepubcan candidate and that the
wishes Of the majority defeated in the electoral college
have found triumphant expression in the Legislature
The remarks made by the Post In this connexion
follows:
"The doubts which have been expressed Of the fsrnes
with which the election in Psnnsy conducted
clearly justified by this result There many who
believe that The popular feeling Of that State with Mr. Bu
chanAn, or Is likely to be- He carried the State in
election till last November and the result of the late
seeton BY the legislature only gives Significance TO the
inquiry by what be succeeded then. The Legislature
has just appointed agent Of the State oppose his adj
minraon at Washington. They have given to the opin-
ion that there the Mr.. Buchanan
the strongest practical expression which could be imagined
The palry apology offered by the Post for which
bears upon its face the strongest presuptive evdencs q
bargain and corruption be best answered by plain
recital Of the facts Of the In October last cleo
ton held in Pennsylvania for canal commissioner
members Of Congress and members of the Legislature In
view of the then approaching presidential election, well
in view Of the fact that upon the Legislature be elected
would devove the duty Of choosing United States
tor party lines most clearly and unequvoeay drawn
Every candidate the democratic ticket from the highest
TO the lowest pledged himself to support the men,
ures and principles of the democratic party and in virtue
of that pledge and in the belief that il would be observed
in spirit and in letter he received the cordial and und
vded support of the party that had placed him in nomna
ton. The result of that election complete demo-
cratic triumph The democrats elected their State ticket
elected large majority of congressman, and secured
email but decided majority in the legislature The cleo
ton for presidential electors followed resulting the
whole country still gratefully remembers in even more
glorious democratic triumph
We have yet in the first opposition press doubt
expressed to what party in the ascendency in the
Pennsyvania legislature to the fair and legal
ner in which the democrats obtained that ascsndency The
legislature Of Pennsylvania in joint convention consists of
I33 members AT the late election the democrats elected
counting the senators who held over si1tnins members
Every Of these sixynin members pledged and
voted for democrat and every of them,
ture say not only voted for the Buchanan electoral
vote but active in his exertons against the Fremont
ticket headed believe il was by the Of Simon
Cameron The legislature met in convention Tuesday
last and proceeded the election of United States
tor The opposition numbered sixtyour members while
the democrats had sixty On the very first ballot
the establishment of friends and foes and to the enduring
nfamy of the parties concerned three members protesting
to be democrats and elected by large and unwarerng
democratic constituencies TO the enemy and by
their votes defeated the candidate they had assisted to
nominate in caucus, and elected Simon CAmsron-the
Simon Cameron they had energehcally opposed
D few weeks before as a Fremont eector
Up to the time of the meeting of the convention these
three members had given public private evidence
that their views the political questions of the day had
undergone change Their fidelity their constituents
their party its principles and its nsages unquesoned
They went into the democratic the friends of Col
Forney They went into the convention the friends OF
Col Fornay and it not until after their names were
called by the clerk that their eachey and hypocrisy
fully revealed Without the suspicious that their
political sentiments had underground sudden change with
the poor apology of parsonal friendship triumph
ing party ealty they abandon the they first
manifested desire support and support who up
to that time they had opposed. II is not for place
unchartabe constructions upon the conduct of any
nevertheless forced to the conviction that the
transaction il now stands strongly of gross fraud
and corruption. Even the Philadelphia North American
the leading Fremont organ in Pennsylvania appears
unwilling give this palpahls renality
That journal says:
GAS to the aodas opeund by which this remarkable re-
suit has been achieved there many yesterday
readily charged all to bribery, significantly inmafing
the senator elect is president of the Middlrtown
Whether there be any truth 10 this have of
Knowing. For the honor Of the old Keystone State sim
: cerely trust there In not"
The Harrisburg correspondent the Philadepha Argus
goes further and makes direct charge will be seen
from the subjoined despatch
! Correspondence Of the Phiade phis Argusl
N HARRIsBuRe Jan. ID, 1857.
Menear Of York, openly boasts that he received So 900
for voting for Cameron He says he would have
Forney for 00O The boarders wikss Hotel where
Menear has been stopping protested against his remaining
he was consequently dismissed by the landlord
Brady to whom he applied for board refused receive
him. Omit has given Wagonseler and Lebo notice quit
In the house effort will be made to expel Menssr.
And yet the face of all this the Post can see in the
progae conduct of these three members only evidence
that the democratic party have been and still are in mi
noty in the State; and because the democrats
their majority in the legislature by open and undsguised
treachery of three of their members it follows according
to the admirable reasoning of New York Contemporary
that the Buchanan electoral ticket in Pennsylvana must
have been carried by unfair