White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-11-04
(FrOn the Philadelphia Press Of Oct l5th.)
Forney'S View Of the Result in Penn
sylVania.


Governor Packer received one year ago,
at time when the original Kansas policy
Of Mr.. Buchanan was being faithfully
carried out bS Governor Walker. a ma
iority Of about forty thousand as the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of Penn
sylvania. Now. John III. Read. the OPP
position candidate for Supreme Judge,
has received a majority, which from pres
ent indications, will not be less than Co.
900. One short year has effected change
of about 100, 1000 votes in the relative
position Of the two leading parties Of the
State. In 1856 fifteen Democrats were
elected to Congress ; now only two or
three Administration candidates have es-
capped defeat. To what agencies can we
attribute this astonishing and unpreceden-
ted revision in political sentiment? 10
cal causes," as has been ingeniously sug-
gested by some Of the organs of the Ad-
ministration The idea is stamped with
absurdity upon its face. The Tariff?
The question Of protection has deeply
interested our people, and there IS an earn
est feeling on the subject; but how did
that, of itself. defeat the Administration
candidates? They were vociferous thro'-
out the hole 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
desirable legislation for Pennsylvania in
terests than their opponents. Nay, more:
a leading argument urged against the
PEOPLES party was based on the false as
sertien that their nominee. Mr.. Read. had
signed letter commencing George NJ.
Dallas for his vote in favor of the tariff Of
1916. So-far as professions could go,
there never were set of men more thor
oughly committed to the doctrine Of pro-
lection than the Administration candi-
dates. How, then, did the tariff question
defeat them? Whatever influence it may
have had, resulted from a deeply settled
conviction of the people, that inasmuch
as they had betrayed their constituents on
the Kansas question. 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
gray in the ranks of the Democratic par
ty-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 foted parti-
sadly abstained from voting.
or for the FIRST time in their lives cast their
ballots against the regular nominees Of
their organization 1t is because they
have loved the principles of that party
better than the men who have betrayed
them. Because they believed the saying
of Mr.. Buchanan in his great Grepnsburg
speech, in 1852, that while men are but
the creatures of day. principles are eter-
nal. Because they adhere to the Cincin-
natl platform and the pledges of 1856.
Because they believed in Popular Sover-
eighty as great fundamental doctrine,
which no treachery Of Administration or
Congressman could make !''dead issue, /"
and which, faithfully carried out, might
furnish an everything and bene6cent sys-
tenn of territorial government, under
which al the vast area Of the public do
main would bear the impress Of the foot
steps of freemen, aud not be polluted by
governments conceived in fraud and infa-
many. and fastened upon outraged com
munities by Executive tyranny. Because.
knowing in their hearts that the Lecomp-
ton policy Of Mr.. Buchanan was unjust,
and that it had no real defenders among
our people, exceptthe paid hirelings Of
power, that were unwilling to endorse by
their votes confessed and unmitigated
wrong. Because they spurned the final
ity" Of the English bill with the contempt
it merited, and loved the equality and rights
of the States to well to endorse 4 law which
prescribed one rule for .le free and another
for the Slave States of the Union. Be-
cause The "Lecompton test" made every
Democrat who would not sacrifice his
manhood, violate his plighted faith, and
betray a principle as dear to him as any
he had ever cherished, mere newer OF
wood and drawer of water in the ranks Of
his party, while heartless and corrupt
demsgogues were loaded with rewards
and honors. Because, while the Democ-
racy Of Pennsylvania were invoked to
sustain the men who had betrayed, Wilt
fed and perseeuted them, merely because
official agencies had secured their nomi-
nation, the gallant Senator of Illinois anil
his band of devoted friends, who were
clothed with all the sanctity that regular
nominations could give, were. for their
honest adherence to q great principle, be-
ing hunted down with fiendish ferocity
by the DANTE agents of the Administers
tion, paid with the money Of the Federal
Treasury. Because such interference BY
the agents of the central power at w ash
ington in the elections of q sovereign
State is one of the grossest outrages that
could be perpetrstel upon a free people,
threatening as it does, IL applauded and
endorsed, to undermine the whole basis
upon which our liberties are founded, and
because it therefore demanded stern re-
buke. e5g i18 - gg4
Because we had in our very midst, as
the representatives Of the Administration,
Bigler and Jones. two Of the men who
have been most active in instituting the
unholy war upon the great Champion Of
Popular Sovereignty. Because, if the sur.
mise Of Governor Walker that the first
year of American monarchy and despo-
tism had been insngurated was correct, II
was rasolvad that Pannsrlran;.--nAI La -