True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-10-27
Forney's view Of the result in Pennsyl
Yanis.

agencies can we attribute Ibis astonishing
and unprecedented revulsion in political
sentiment Local causes" as has been
suggested by some Of the or
gans of the Administrator The idea
is stamped with absurtity upon lis face.
The Tariff.
The question Of protection has deeply
interested our people, and there is an ear.
nest feeling on the subject; but how did
that Of itself, defeat the Administration
candidates ? They were vociferous .hro'-
out the whole canvass in their expressions
of devotion TO the doctrine Of protection,
and boldly claimed that they were the best
tariff candidates before the people--that
they could and would obtain more desira.
BILE legislation for Pennsylvania interests,
thankther opponents. Nay, more: a
leading argument against the Peoples
Party was based on the false assertion
that their uominee, Mr.. Read, had signed
letter commencing George M. Dallas,
for his vote on the Tariff Of lS46. So
far as professions could go, there never
were a set of men more thoroughly COM
mitted to the doctrine of protection than
the Administration candidates. How
then did the tariff question defeat them ?
Whatever influence it may have resulted
from, deeply settled conviction of the
people, that inasmuch as :hey had betrdy-
ed their constituents on the Kansas ques-
ton, they could not be trusted on the
tariff issue.
What then has produced this remark
able political revolution =! Why have
tens of thousands of men who have grown
grey in the ranks of the Democratic Party
who have brought to its service the
warmest affections of their hearts, the
best energies of their natures, and who
have ever been hitherto its most devoted
partizans--either sadly abs.ained from
voting, or for the first time in their lives
cast their ballots against the regular NOM
inees of their organization! Its because
they have loved the principles of that
party better than the men who have be-
trayel them. Because they have believed
tho saying of Mr.. Buchanan in his great
Greensburg speech, in 1852, that while
men are but the creatures Of day, prin-
cipes are eternal. Because they adhere
to the Cincinnati platform and the pledg
es of 1856. Because they believed i'll
popular Sovereignty as great funaamen-
tai doctrine, which no treachery of Ad-
minislrations or Congressman could make
"dead ISSUE" and which, faithfully
carried out, might furnish an ever living
and benifcent system of territorial govern
ment, under which all the vast area OF
the public domain would bear the impress
of the footsteps of ireemen, and not be
polluted by governments conceived in
fraud and infamy, and fastened upon out.
ragged communities by Executive tyranny
Because, knowing in their hearts that the
Lecompion policy of Mr.. Buchanan was
unjust, and that it had no real defenders
among our people, except the paid hire
lings of power, they were unwilling tc
endorse by their votes confessed ant
unmiiigated wrong. Because they spurn
ed the "fnalty" Of the English bill witt
the contempt il merited, and loved tht
rights ofthe States TOO well to endorse I
law which prescribed one rule for th'
free and another for the Slave States o
the Union. Because the "Lecomptol
test made every Democrat who woult
not sacrifice his manhood, violate hi
plighted faith, betray principle as dea
to him as any he had ever cherished,
mere newer of wood and drawer Of waite
in the ranks of his party, while heartles
and corrupt demagogues were loaded witt
rewards and honors. Because, while tn
Democracy Of Pennsylvania were invoke
to sustain the men who had betrayed
villifed and prosecuted them, merely be
cause official agencies had secured thei
) nomination, the gallant Senator of lllinol
and his band of devoted friends, who wer
clothed with all the sanctity that reguIa
nominations could give, were, for thei
honest adherence 10 great principle
being hunted down with fiendish (eroclt
by the DANTE agents ofthe Adminisratio
paid with the money of the Federal Ire;
t sury. Because such interference by tn
agents Of the central power at Washingto
t in the elections of sovereign State is on
of The grossest outrages that could be pei
petrated upon free people, threatenin
, as it does, if applauded and endorsed,
undermine the whole basis upon whic
our liberties are founded, and because
, therefore demanded stern rebuke.
| Because we had in our very midst, 6
| the representatives ofthe Administration
Bigler and Jones, two Of the men VIII
have been most active in, insiituung Il
! unholy war upon the great Champion
, Popular Sovereignty. Because, if u
surmise Of Governor Walker that the fir
year Of American monarchy anc despo
, ism had been inaugurated was correct,
was resolved that Pennsylvania. atleas
the home Of the man who had establshe
, it, should denounce it in terms that cou
not be misunderstood by any one.
She has done so; and we believe III
/ even teps Of thousands Of those who pr
i testinsly voted for the defeated candidate
from a love for the organization. viii
t they detested the principles which for I'll
t time it represented, rejoice with the gre
{ body of the nation over the result, muC
as they regret that tho misconduct of
d faithless Administration has given rise
n such a feeling Il Phil. Press.
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