Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-11-03
F0RNEx's VIkW OF THE RESULT
IN PENNSYLVANIA,

of NF. B8ehsnsn was being faithfully car
rel out BY Gov. Walker. a majority Of
about forty thousand as TIE Democratic
candidate kr Governor Of Pennsylvania.
Nov John N. Reed, tie Opposition can
diJaie for supreme Judge, has received a
majority, which from present indications
viii not be les tlan 10000. One short
year bas effected change Of about lo0,-
600 votes in the relative position of the
two lesdiOg parties Of the State. In 1856
faeen Democrats we're elected to Congress
NOV only Two or three Administration
candidates have escaped defeat. To what
agencies can We attribute this astonishing
and unprecedented reyulsiOn in political
sentiment? Local causes, as has been
ingeniOusly suggested by some Of the or
rans ef The Administration The idea
Is stamped With sbsurdity upon its 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
c.ndidAlesl They were vocferous thro'-
Vdl tbe whole canvass in their expressions
ofdevolion Of the doctrine Of protection,
aud boldly claimed that they were the best
turf candidates before the people-that
they could and would obtain more desi-
rable legislation for Pennsylvania interests,
than their opponents Nay, more:
leading argument against the Peoples
Party was based on the false assertion
that their nominee. Mr.. Read, lad signed
q letter commencing George N. 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 doetrire Of protection than
the Administration candidates. How
then did the tariff question defeat them?
Whatever influence ii may have resulted
from, deeply settled conviction Of the
people, that inasmuch as they had betray
ed their constituents on the Kansas ques.
tiOn, they could not be trusted on the tar
if issue,
What then has produced this remarka
bls 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
ty!r been hitherto its most devoted parti-
z,ps-either sadly abstained from voting,
or for the first time il their lives cast
their ballots against the regular nominees
of their organization? 1t Is because they
hive loved the principles Of that party
better than the men who have betrayed
tlsn. Because they have believed the
Swing of Mr.. Buchanan in his greet
Grensburgh speech, in 1852. that while
men ire but the Gre. lures Of day, prin-
ciples are eternal Because they adhere to
tic Cincinnati platform and the pledges Of
1855. Because they b,lieved in popular
Sovereignty to be great fundamental doc
trine, which no treachery Of Administla
tions or congressman could make dead
i sue and which, faithfully Carried out,
might furnish an ever living and benef
cial system of Territorial government, unN
der which all the vast area Of the public
domain would bear the impress OF the
footsteps Of freemen, and not be polluted
by governments conceived in fraud and
infamy, and fastened upon outraged com.
munities by Executive tyraay. Because,
knowing in their hearts that the Lecomp'
ton policy of Mr.. Buchcnaa was unjust,
and that it had no real defenders among
the people, except the paid hirellngs OF
power, they were unwilling to endorse by
their vot 20 confessed aud unmitigated
wrong Because they spurned the 'fnalty'
of the English bill with the contempt it
ms-ited, and loved the rights of the States
too we'll to endorse law which prescribed
one rule for the fioe and another for the
Slave States ofths Union. Because the
'Leclmpton test made every Democrat
who would not sacrifice his manhood, vio'
late bis plighted faith, betray principle
Ms dear to bin as any lie had ever cher
ished, mere hewer of wood aud drawer oI
water in the ranks of his party, while
heartless and corrupt demsgogues were
loa led with rewards and honor4 Be-
cause, while the Democracy of Pennsylya'
mia were invoked to sustain the men who
had betrayed, vilifed and prosecuted
them, merely because official agencies had
secure their noni aion. TIE gala Sem
ator Of Illinois and bis band of devoted
friends, who were clothed with all the
sanciiy that regular nominations could
give, were, Jor their honest adherence to q
great principle, being hunted down will
fiendhh ferocity by the DANTE agents o
the Administration paid with the money
Of Federal Treasury. Becau Q sucl
interference by the agents Of the ceutra
power at Washington n the elections of
stvereign State is one Of tho grossest out
RACES that could be perpttated upon 4
free people, threatening as It does, if ap-
pIaude,l aud endorsed, TO undermine the
whole basis upon which our liberties arc
fuu del, and because II therefore demand
ed asteEn rebuke.
Because We had in our very midst, a
tile representatives of the Administration
Bger and Jones, two of tho men whC
have been most active in instituting tn
unhoIy war upon the great Champion o
Popular Soverhln Bic ue, { the sur
mise Of Governor Walker that the frs
wear Of American monarch and despotisn
had been inaugurated was correct, it wa
resolved a. Pennsylvania, at least, tn
home OF the man who had established
outd denout ceit n terms that could M
be n un % SO by any on,