The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-12-16
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kat as @guI g. they begin to recover their
svu-ca SUI I4.a kc an effort togather thesl-
seive.: ~ IRON the ground, The ipeligatinn
OF th.ir mindg IS to speculate hpw they
carn+ there. Ap iliaatration Of this re-
Snz,k il before us The Washington
[ ni0a, after the stunning effect OF the
tate unexpected ovorthrog Of the Admin
Istratiou ia the State nf Pennsylvania was
p litilc aver, began 70 puzzle itself Fith
the causes Of fthat q isaster, and noT, III its
seslerqay >hGat, proigsseS y haTe arriY-
ed at "a ,isfaetory eXplapatinR. Somc
Say that the unpooularity Of the Admin
is;ration in Pennsylvania asowing to the.
part it took for the Lecompton conStitu-
tion; Others that it was because of the
dissatisfaction of the people with the
present tariff On this Mr. Buchanaus
crgap goes on to observe:
= The case being thus narrowed DOWN. II IS
nlc1".! possible to get ct the trUp causes of
the disaster. Il twas, we arc convinced. rttiulr
and aiuos exclusively what tho Pen4sy yiyauia
people regarded as a defective reveruc system
We may estimate them in this rs quite un-
rcasUl.,''le bl,t, after all, there are mauv ex-
cuSeS ttg the indulgence CT these Impressions
Il the Riuing and manufacturing districts
there we're thousands If working men thrown
ouI Of employment The" were told that the
INABILITY II The ploprc'ors 70 provide them
with WORK Was due wholly 70 the fact that
foreign 'EapUtaC C'greS Goals, a., could be in
l-04uSrG into this country and sold at rates
below the cost Of min.ny. manufacturing. ard
marketing Of kindred articlrs 1f Pennsylvania
production. We say they were told 60 bv the
Pennsylvania proprietors."
II is clear, from this paragraph, that
Dir. buchanan : administration IL not like.
" 10 learn anything tronl lis tate defeats
IN the free states. Correction has been
l,st upon it SO far as It's own amendment
l. conccrneu, Ii ia becu beaten 10 no pur-
pose IN state ter tate through twenty
i've degrees of longitude, from the Atlan-
&c coast to the upper tributaries Of the
Missouri. The country at large derives
an advantage trom tuis, but the beaten
party seems TO derive none; It shuts It's
eyes, ears aud understanding to The les
s0n which has been given it.
1t may be that the Pennsylvania vote
against the Administration Was somewhat
swelled ia certain lbUrhuods, by the
Fant Of employment in the mines and il on
mills, and certain dissatisfaction with
the present tariff. Yet it should be re-
Hembered that the democrats OF Penn
sylvania are IN more iii favor Of free trade
than the other party-Iree trade and low
duties found no advocates there, in the
late qanyass, and Hopkins, one OF the
democratic candidates Tor Congress out
Dragged, as protectioRst, Ihaddeus Ste
vens, his Republican competitor, yet was
beaten by hlm notwithstanding, Mr.
Buchanan IS rot responsible for the pres
ent tariff, and has never acknowledged
himself TO be favorable to freedom o.
trade, indeed he Is commonly supposed to
be as unsound on that head as he is il
segBF9 TO the freedom of man in general
II is absurd to ascrlbc the defeat uf tue
Administration 20 question III regard to
which its friends had no dispute with
their opRQncnts; while there is a ques-
lion In regard 10 which they decldediy
aud radically disagreed The great dir
ference between the Administration and
It's adyersaries in Pennsylvania related
Hholly to its treatment of the territories !;
the battle was fought on that ground, aud
on that ground the victury was won.
In the state Of Indiana the Admiuis-
tration party was smitten down by de-
feat almost is unexpected as that il Penn
sylvana 1t is but just to infer that the
cause was the same III both states-that
the same errors which made it Qnpopu-
lar on the Wabash made it unpopular on
the Schuylkill. Yet the people Of lndi,
pna have no dissatisfaction with the pres
sut tariff; the people of Indiana are no
friends of the protective system they are
Eer. low duties and cheap goods.
Elsewhere the same causes produced
the same consequendes Over all the
West the arbitrary measures by which
the Administration sought to thrust slave
ry upon the settlers Of Kansas disgusted
che people, and brought the cltizeus to
the polls TO expre85 their Indignation -
In Massachusetts the question was not
on the tariff of 1876. the most Jealous
enemies of that tariff, The warmest friends
of the old tariff of 1912, n0istcd the whig
Gag and went over in solid phalanx to
she Administration. They had no quar-
rel with the Administration about the
doctrine of protection.
Let the truth then be spoken. Tie
cause of the Administration defeat IL
Pennsylvania, as in other states, was the
crea, sin of the present Administration
its attempt to enlarge the empire OF slav-
cry. This is the political controversy OF
she day. In regard to this, aud IL regard
90 no other issue, the Administration and
the opposition are at open, direct, decided