Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-01-20

Opinion by Judge CarutbsFE, reversing decree and
rsmanding cause for further proceedings, etc.
From the PhiladsIPbia Pennsylvania.
THE BU2ZARD FEAST.
Yesterday will long be remembered as the most
disgraesful day in the political annals of Pennsyl-
vanis Oorruptisu has triumphed, Yillany has
been successful, and Cameron, whose name is but
e synonyme for all that is vile and infamous in
politics, has been chosen not to represent but to
disgrace, our noble old Commonwealth in the q.
s. Senate, for the next six Yeas Despised by
every honest man, of ell political organizations
proven over and over again to be morally and po-
itcaly dishonest; false in turn 70 every party, to
every political sentiment to almost every obliga.
ton that honorable men respeet-s Pennsylvania
Legislature has been found weak enough and base |
enough to exalt him to seat in the highest polti.
| cal sssembags of the country. All are familiar |
wsth the many base arts and appliances by which |
| this bold, bad, cunning man has for years minis
tered to his ambition. Destitute of integrity Of |
| purpose and chaFBcter-neither honest nor cspa-
bls-utberly unprincipled and corrupt-poW |
for the accomplishment Of any good purpose for |
any psrty-he has long psrsistently enrolled him |
| self ia the list of candidates for United States
Dictatorship, without possessing single quali6ca
ton for that post, or single claim OF q proper
character, end has throughout relied entirely upon
intrigue and corruption to foist himself upon q
|
The cheeks Of every true Pennsylvania will tin
gle with shame when be reads the proceedings of
yesterday and his heart throb with indignation at
the thought that any party could have been found
| base enough to pander to the ambition of such
| man. We look to the United States Senate to
rebuks as pointedly and forciby as it can, the in
| trusion of such q creature into their midst We
knew that Cameron will be scorned and despised
by every honest aud honorable man in that body,
and we hope that dead to shame as he is, be may
be made to feel that the bassly purchased and ILL.,
deserved lsurels With which he would deck his
brow are filled with thorns to goad one who 30
, | lily deserves them. Let him be Stunned as .
| moral and political leper, whose organisation is
but complication of foul diseases and corruptions
Let him sit there, as though be were in pllory,
I amid the Kissing scorn and contempt Of the other
5 occupants Of that chamber. If the United States
Senators shall ct ell permit him to sit among them
| let it be with the understanding that he is to be
treated throughout 80 such personifcstion Of
infamy deserves. Simon Cameron will go to the
Sensts to serve no honest purpose to represent no
: honest political opinion to discharge no honest
political duty. he will go there in quest of plum
der, ready to betrsy friend foe to gain his ends
he will 60 there through the aid of corrupt
means to accomplish corrupt purposes He will
90 there as rssdy to sell his own vote and inhu-
enee, as be has been to purchase votes and nlu
; ence to assist him in securing his election
| How was MS el6CLlOu accompaniment 10 the
aaEonishment of almost every one, the entire Cd.
position, American and Republican" vote was
{ | united in his support. We lave heard much from
u our opposition friends about the purity of their
parties the high and lefty purposes which animste
u them the great iRteleots which defend their prn
Z epIes, and the truthful and Honorable devotion to
q g great and noble cause which regulates their
y whole political action The practical commentary
upon ell this Ia to be found in their support of
Q Cameron for the United States Senate. It was
= but two years ago that the opposition, strong in
= numbers and possessing unlimited power, indig
e nantly rejected Cameron as q man wholly unit for
= the place aud unworthy of their support.
But it is not only the opposition members Of the
. Legislature VINO are to blame for this result. The
: Democratic party possessed q ma orty sufficient
to have elected their nominee, had all its represen
y tstives remained faithful to their trust. Three
70 memb rs however, elected By the Democratic par
IGI ty and hOnored by its confidence have earned an
u immortality OF infsmy by Osssly betrsying their
!, constituents and their party. They are WILLIAM
~ B. LEB0, and G. A. WAGONSELLER, oil
, SchUylkill county, and SAMUEL MENEAR, OIL
York county. All these men attended the Demo
~ cratic csuous Friday night last, and c0ncurred
IL in the resolution making the nomination unani-
= | nous. L7bO voted for the nomination of Col
~ Forney. Toe honest Democracy of York and
u SchuyIkI Counties who bresthed political life int
u the nostrl5 Of these mlscresnts, supposed they
were slecting honest men, Democrats, represents
Il. tives who would be faitaful to ths great Cause
"a whose strength elected them. These Just expec
81 tstions have boen disappointed. Upon what pre-.
= text aud for what cause they have voted for Game
le ron is pain TO all. They have betrayed the De
h- mocracy as Judas betrayed bis master They have
le made Msmmom the god Of their idolstry. tn,
tortuTes Of their own scared c0nsc.eacss may moi
~ b. sufficiently pungent 10 force them, Ike Judas
VI to hang themselves, but similar political fate vii
N certainly be reserved for them by their indgusn
~ constituents, and their names become a Kissing
b soorn and reprosch through the whole Common
wealth
d That Simon Cameron owes his election to cor.
y rupt mcsnGslo man doubts The air has beer
D poisoned for months past with rumors of his ma
ohinstions His emssaries Of corruption have beer
despatched to many quarters of the State, and BIZ
I friends have boosted repeatedly that he had pur.
chased, as meat is bought in the shsmbles enough
miserable money-lOVlng traitors to secure bis cleo
ton The Democrats who voted for him could bJ
no possibility have had any other than a corrup
motive to sustain him. Tney koew the deep in
dgnstiOn their treacbery would inevitably ousC
. among their constituents It is impossible to con
=, ceive of any patriotic motive that could have ".
- ged them to vote foV Cameron. There is nothing
% ia his character, his principles his abilities to wiz
of the admiration or secure the support of any man
g. He has had 9th attraction AID could have hEC
= no other inducement to hold out to these men
than base pecuniary one. That Cameron hsl
purchased his election, is the universal sentiment
is of oil parties How far the disgrace of admitting
10 him to the Senate may be sVerted, As yet we dc
not know. If the psinfaot, which all men instiuc-
- lively know in regard to the means and agencies
e by which he secured his election, can be legally
10 established, the United States Senate will owe il
to its own dignity to spurn him from that body
Il 1t that protest has already been presented
against the legality of the election. Upon what
!. grounds it is based We do not yet know. Butpub
u lie opinion will demand that legal means be left
uutried to bIulk this debauches political gamester,
h and snatch from his hands the ill-gotten prize
which is dishonored by his possession of it.
r GOVERNOR JOHNSON, OF TENNESSEE-THE BEE
i MITAGE.