New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-04
PRNNAYLyANIA,

"The Keystone of the Federal Arch" was never
| overborne 10 Presidential contest save in 1924,
| when she went with plurality Of the Electors
throughout the Union) for jackson, but was beaten
| by the election of Adams in the House. This
hardly makes an exception to the rule that GAS
" goes Pennsylvania, so goes the Union" She
went for "Polk, Dallas, and the Tariff of 40" in
"a, and was rewarded for it BY the passage of the
Tariff Of '46 by the party she thus elevated to
power-Polk recommending and signing and Dali
Las giving his casting vote in the Senate to pass the
BILL He now luIuriates therefor in the best Office
the country has to give, while Pennsylvania is TO-
day poorer by Hundreds of Millions in property
and Half Million of Population, because of that
fatal vote. She will probably lose two, if not three
Members of Congress by the new Census, when sae
might have held her own, if not gained, had that
vote been reversed, and the Tariff of AZ thus
allowed to stand, securing to her immense mineral
resources their persistent and healthfnl develop
ment. We believe the necessity for Protection to
Iron would by this time have passed away, through
the gradual perfection and cheapening of our Iron
making processes under the stimulus of secure
and expanding market, had the Tariff Of AZ but
stood unchanged to this day.
Pennsylvan is slow, but she feels and remem-
bers. She was only carried for Buchanan by con-
certed and gigantic frauds at her preceding State
Election-by truDks-full of forged Naturalization
Certificates distributed along her Canals and Rail-
roads at the same time that her most conspicuous
and noisy Know-Nothings we're the bought and
supple servitOrs of her Democratic managers.
MOI ey taken indirectly from the Federal Treasury
paid for these tunefu patriots, whose loud vocfer
ations that 4" the American party should not be
sold out" thnly covered the sale they had al.
ready made of il to the head brokers of Buchanan
Democracy.
This game was tried again in SO, but it never
does the second time. Thousands Of dollars-as
were testified most reluctantly before the Covode
and other Investigating Committees last Winter
were spent by the Democratic wire workers in
getting up and running Strai .ht American" tick
cts in Philadelphia and its vicinity, which did not
receive one vote fr every ten dollars they invested
Mr.. Jacob Broom-whO had been an american
Member of the XXXiVth Congress, and beenbeaten
on the Fusion ticket in Sc, now ran as "Straight
American " in one Of the Philadelphia Districts,
aud received about one vote in every sixty sew
enty cast He is now going his length (ostensibIy)
for Bell and Everett.
In spite of all the distraction that could be made
or bought, the united Opposition or " Peoples
party" carried Pennsylvania by over Twenty.f five
Thousand majority, ard carried it again last year
on diminished vote-there being neIther Governor
nor Members of Congress to chooss-by Ssvente IN
Thousand. Never before was Pennsylvania carried
two years in succession against that which calls
itseK Democracy. And the peoples party,
thu, sol,dy triumphant, was invited by name to
,end Delegates to tho Chicago Convention, and
they were not only sent but needed. They did not
obtain th,r first choice but their seco I'd was con-
ceded without hesitation. They named Abraham
Lincoln as man for whom their State would vote;
and their choice did much to secure his nomination
And their constituents have heartily ratified their
selection.
If it were possible to concentrate the votes OF
the Breckenridge and Douglas factions on one
Electoral Ticket, and then add the FIVE or six
thousand votes Of those who pretend to be support
ing Bell, they might still make respectable con.
test But the Douglas men have resolved that