New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-23
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
AIL'S WELL WITH US-THE HARRISBURG con
VENTION-OUR SPRING BUSISEsS-wHAT WE
THINK or sICKLES AND KEY.
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ATLS WELL WITH US-THE HARRISBURG CON
yENTION-OUR SPRING BUSISESS-wHAT WE
THINK or sICKLEs AND KEY.
From Our Own Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA April 70, 1852
There is ccmmendsble forbesrsncs to be
noticed among .ll classes of the great Numbering
giant Of Opposition to the LecOmPtOn Aiministra-
ten, not only in Pennsylvania, but in all other
quarters TO which information from this city ex-
tends. The lsurels we have won in recent csm-
psigns continue fresh aud green, nor bave
any of them been bound around IN.
worthy bro9s. This forbesrance is strik-
ingly illustrated by the absence Of all impa-
tent urgency in this quarter Of any one individual
for the great battle of the coming yesr. Nor are
We aware that such urgency prevails in any other
direction. So far from feeling st a los, to find
man for the time we rest in quiet confidence thst
we not only have him, but that at the proper mo-
ment the whole Opposition will instnctiyely recOg
nze and adopt him. The disturbing elements are
few and far between, the very enemy having him
self removed mO,t Of them, and, by hisiutemperate
ferceness, so mitigated Inc potency Of the most
formidable, that no folly now likely to be commit
ted can recall to active injury their extinguishcd
virus. The tidings of one victory after another
roll in upon us from East and West assuring us
that the great union of the masses has been perma
ncnty cemcnted. Pity that the great contest could
not he fought now, when the giant energies of the
West are palsled by the touch OF this rUnOus mis-
government. But patience and iorbearance mus
be the motto held up over aud adopted by all,
knowing that IN this sign We shall assuredly
conquer.
The buchanan Democracy here are rent in pieces
By intestine ieuds, low dirty brawls 10 clutch and
mOnOpOze the spOlls Of Office or OF every mean
Job that may be scented atar of by their corrupt oil
factories The nasty sop of the Government bitch-
en- feeds and cnriches a countless pack of these dis
honest harpies throughout Pennsy lyania. One after
another is shown ON record 10 be guilty of every
form of secret thieving, yet the ruling power sus
tains them all, the community of yalny being COM
pact and unbroken. No such feuds exist among
the great Peoples Party of the State-nO heart
burnings, no Impotence, no urgency. The hatch
ct has been buried, the calumet has been smoked,
and the Wampum given. Meantime we look at the
imbecile foundering Of an Administration, whose
bankrupt Treasury performs its functions only by
aid of those floods of shinpasters which it began
hy denounciDe. and ended by buying votes 10 au-
thorize il to adOpt-the President recommending
one policy, while his Secretary of the Treasury re-
flutes il and insists on another. General Jackson
would have sent his Secretary packing who would
dare to snub him thus To staye off an extra ses-
sion it may be relied on that some new violation of
law will be committed, which some future Com
mittec must lay bare. With no head to conceive
wise measure, no virtue to adopt an honest one,
this Government has become Kissing and an as
constituent to the world at home; while TO that
abroad il is held up too justly as covered with
pecculant villainy which none but Democratic
government ever yet was guilty OF. Its hoary head
will leave Office blasted with the curses of millions
Of his fellow citizens, and deSiened by the acca-
nations with which his honest successor Is certain
to he cheered on 10 occupy hls place
The recent Convention of the Anti-Lec0mptOn De-
mocracy was decided success. Itdrew together
vast assemblage of men from all parts of the State
who had uniformly acted as Democrats, very many
of whom were prominent lights in the party. Their
proceedings have no SAVIOR of nOn-cOmmitallsm
about them, neither the speeches nor the resolu-
tons The former We're yirulent IN their repudla-
ton of Buchanan, while the latter, IN many re-
spects came fully up to the true Republican creed.
Indeed in this respect the Convention went further
than our side had any right TO expect The speeches
and resolutions also remarkable for containing
not solitary word Of denunciaton against us. All
these facts are strongly suggestive OF the bitter
ness of the feud between the two wings OF
the party and point very certainly 10 the next he
publican candidate for President receiving an I'M
meuse vote from the Anti LecOmptOn wing. Its true
that Douglas is 10 be the nominee of this DIVISION
But as he cannot be nominated at Charleston. the
Anti, Lecompton Democrats of Pennsylvania wllnot
waste their votes ON candidate whom they know
from the beginning they cannot elect. Much OF
| the proceedings az Hsrrisburg Is believed TO be
! the inspiration OF Mr.. Douglas. The buchanan
Democracy charge that he was clOseted here with
the leaders and shaping their resolutions. One
thing however, appears certain that TINS Conven-
/ ton has opened az impossible gull between all III
ture harmony, and that Pennsy lyania IS helpessly
lost TO those who so long have had her IN keeping.
1t is now satisfactorily asceTtaned that this city
has done its full share OF the usual Spring business,
! even with the South, in spite Of unusual eroft
4 made by your own merchants t. attract an undue
share from that region Our great business streets
| have been, and even now are numbered up on alI
| the sidewalks with tuns oil merchandise for the
! South and West. No such indications would have
been observable had not the payment of old scores
been satisfactory to the seller. If the quantities
sold this year have been less than in the flush tlGes
! gone by, the mode of payment has at least been
better. So far IS the West - concerned i seems
10 be IN some measure w1sk!sy eiear Vi is !sta