Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-03-30
Governor Packer.

The friends of the above named gentleman com
plain loudly, that the Democratic State 'Conven-
ton did not adopt the resolution Of Mr.. Lanber-
ton endorsing his state policy The resolution
was rejected by vote of S4 to 81. There GER
tanly must have been some good reasons for this
wetherirg ebuke to the Gov vsrnor from the rep
resentatives of the party to which he processes to
belong. 1t is absurd to assert that more than
two thirds of the members of the Convention were
controlled by prejudice factfous feelings, and
that it contained only 81 honest men. More
than two thirds of the members of the Conven-
ton voted against the Packer resolution, and it
is prepostcrous to deny that in SO doing they
faithfully represented the will of large majority
of the Democracy of Pennsylvania. 1t is also
equally preposterous to assert that the resolution
was rejected on account of the Governors AnG
Lecomptonism. All the members of the Conven-
tion who spoke in opposition to the Packer reso-
luton, made allusion whatever to to the views
expressed by the Governor with regard to Ma
tiOnal affairs. They confined themselves to his
state policy. They denounced his appointments
of Black Republicans, alias followers of David
Wilmet, to Office; they denounced his course with
regard to the sale cf the State Canals to the Sun
buray and Erie Rail Road Company; and finally
they denounced tho removal ofO .Baret "a veteran
democrat FROM the efice of Superintendent of pub
lick printing, and the appointment of Black
Republican from New Jersey in his place. There
is time when forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
The representatives of'the Democracy of Penn
sylvania felt, when asked to endorse the admin
istration of Governor Packer, that they could not
do so without proving recreart 20 tie trust con-
hded to them by their constituents. The mem
bers of the Convention did not wish to denounce
Governor Packer. They felt disposed to pass by
his course in silence and allow him to retrieve in
the future, his in the past. But his friends
in the Convention were inprudent enough to de-
mand that he should be sustained. His own
friends must bear the blame of the rebuke he re-
ccived from the convention.
The whining Of few would be party leaders
over the defeat Of the Packer resolution, is really
amusing. They think, or seem to think, that
because Packer was not sustained, the Demo-
cratic party IS irretrievably ruined. We res
pectfully beg leave to differ with them on this
point. 1t is not the peculiar mission of the dem
ocratic party to sustain any man, or to say that
ne mas done night when he has done wrorg. The
principles which it upholds are the great objects
of its care, and pays but little attention to mere
politicians. 1t 1tholds, in the language of Buch-
anan, that 'while man is but the creature of a
day, principles eternal,'' 1t would be strange
indeed, if the only National Party in the country
should be broken down, merely because a certain
individual in the Keystcne State, was not sus-
taineI in the manner he 1pSirad. Rut yya bo--a
too much confidence i'll the intelligence and pa
triotism ofthe people, to entertain any apprehen-
sions ef such result.