New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-12

We have already alluded to the canvass in PENN.
syLyANIA as presenting the singular anomaly of a
great party devoving the entire labor aud response
bility Of UNFOLDING its flag and defending it's faith
upon single man. Hardly amOnth Of that canvass
remains; yet up to this hour the Republican stand
ard would seem from this distance to have been
upborne by David Wilmot alone. Now Mr. Will
mot is an excellent debater, and, if he were Omni
present, 50 that he could speak in dozen different
places at once he might be able to do all that is
required AS it is, he cannot speak within reach
Of half the people who would gladly hear him be-
fore the day Of election. Meantime, his antago.
MIST (who pleads the veto Of his State Com mittee
as his excuse for not meeting Dir. Wilmot on the
stump is backed by other orators, and the efforts
of active and powerful Committees, and most
INSCRIPTIONS press Col. Forney's new Phil4del-
pbia organ taking the lead in bis support. With
WilmOt and Packer traversing the State tog.th
and speaking to the same audiences, We should
fear nothing; but with Wilmot speaking alone for
the Right, and Packer aided by all the appG.
ances of a great and disciplined party which
has the Federal appointments aud the Federal
Treasury in its grasp, the odds are too great, and
Pennsylv to organize for quiet but determined
canvass henceforth to the election. Only let the
light shine and the darkness will cease 70 be felt
If DR.. Gihons beck alone were in the hands of
every voter in the State, it seems impossible that
majority would vote to sustain the author OF the
heartless and cruel letter to Prof Silhman on the
state Of affairs in Kansas. 1t is only among those
who are ignorant of the material facts and who do
not know that Mr.. Buchanan has himself appointed
to as well as retained in Office the masterspirits Of
the Border Rutiian robbers and murderers-includ-
ing seme whose individual hands are red with the
blood Of innocent Free State men-that bis letter
to SDlimsn can be deemed triumphant Had one.
half the Republicans of Pennsylvania taken THE
TRIBUNE during the last two or three years and
lent it freely to their neghboIs, that letter would
suffice to insure the defeat of lis author and bis
partisaDs in the pending contest.
There is yet time TO do the needed work. If
there be lack of faith or Of heart on the Republican
side il is confined to the politicians People do
not share it. Gen. Packer is exceedingly vulner
able with regard to the Canal jobs and squandeIngs
Of the last ten years in Pennsylvania, aud simple
| brief expose of his connection with and profits
| from these jobs would set Thousands actively
az ainst him who are now Indifferent. The attempt
| Of the allies of South Carolina and Mississippi to
raise votes on Il e assumption that Wilmot is
Free-Trader is an insult to the popular intelligence
which only needs to be me. to recoi on its authors
| Whatever may be Mr.. WilmOts individual notions
Of Political Economy, his election would be quite
| other than Free Trade triumph, and this the
authors of the cry that he is FreeTrader do per.
| fecty know. Mr.. Wilmot was nominated and is
supported as the champion Of Slavery Restrictions,
and az such be stsnds or falls but hii election
would Iberate Pennsylvania from the tolls of the
political gamblers who, in opposition to their own
convictions as well as hers, have dragged her be-
hind the triumphal ear Of Calhounism for most of
the lat thirteen years, merely that they might riot
in the spoils of Office. 1t is high time that they
were rebuked for this betrayal and the opportunity
BOW presents itself
We close by entreating every Pennsylvania Re
publican TO do his utmost for the election of wmot
and bis able and worthy associates on the Repub-
Lean State Ticket. In year of relative apathy,
| G,tIa ao,t often secures great results