The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-10-25
The SSF@flf ResGat.

devastation and bloodshed are the iuevi
table cOncomitants our own more favored
! land Is passing through corresponding
/ Crisis N Il manner which she may proudly
claim rs her OWN Within the last forty
| eight hours, our streets have reverberated
to the crash OF a dynasty, yet no one has
offered or fearod bodily harm, and the show
! Of anxious or melancholy faces is limited
TO few office holders. Gladness beams
from million eyes, and jow glows in the
popular heart. for it is felt and known
that our peaceful convulsions BODIES sim
ply that replacement Of the bad by better
which is the inevitable condition Of HUI
man Progress and manifestation Of a gen
uine National life
1t was every way fit that Pennsylvania
and Indiana, cIasping hands across Ohio,
should claim aud enjoy the proud distinc-
ton of inaugurating the National removal
ton. In the first place, those two States
justly share between them the honor of
having made Abraham Lincoln our stand
ard-bearer in the monentous contest now
50 near its clearly 1oreshadowed termina-
ton. Indiana which had previously in
cilned to and was confidently and reason
ably counted on for Judge Bates-was the
first State at Chicago to take her place
firmly and ardently beside Illinois in sup.
porting Mr.. Lincoln's pretensions, and
thencetorth her delegation was most We
hemeut and untiring in commanding her
new choice. Pennsylvania, which unlike
Indiana, had a candidate of her own, hes
itated and debated long; but when press
ed at length to say decisiyely, .In case
you cannot have your own candidate, Who
Is your next choice :" she too, designated
Mr.. Lincoln and her decision. in effect.
impellcd that Of the Convention. All
wary politicians were aware, before 1860,
how crushing Is the weight whercwith
the October Elections fall upon the party
which they declare against, in the very
agony OF a Presidential canvass; and
when Pennsylvania and Indiana said to
the Convention, "Give us Lincoln for
President, and you shall hear Republican
thunder from Us in October - their ap-
peal could hardly be resisted, even had
-he Convention been stubbornly hostile to
heir preference. Moreover, the choice /
If their Delegations was heartily seconded !!
by that Of their respective candidates for I!
Governor, Col. Curtin and Gen Lane. |
Who were both on the ground, and who |
their personal fate being at a stake /
,ould not be suspected of fayoring anoth
r than he who was, in their judgement
he very strongest man. How well found
ID was that judgement, the shouts Of Two
Millions of Republican voters are now
,roclaiming.
1t was especially desirable that Pcnnsyl-
ania should take that position at the head
+ the Republican array which she so DO
ly justified on Tuesday There never
7as imagined more conclusive an answer
han she has furnished to all the wretched
rlyel Of the day about 'Fanaticism,"
Niger equality" Putting the negro
bove the white man." &c The whole
ountry does know Pennsylvania as an en-
lently sober, conservative, Union-Iovinc
tate, Of whose Five Hundred Thousand
oters, not Fifty Thousand have any de-
ire to interfere in any way with the
outhern States, their constitutions" or
heir negroes. They are for Free Labor;
hey believe in it; they live by it; they
1sh to see 1t protected, encouraged, de-
eloPed; they insist that the Territories ,
nee they came to us Free shall be con-
scrated to it; but they are willing that !
he South shall take her own time where
to become convinced of its immense SUI
erlority to the wretched system, inherited
ON Pagan barbariSln, to which she so {
sane!y c!ings. The fact that PennsyIya-
Ia has declared for Lincoln, By Il majority :
hlch puts her vote III November beyond ,
| cayil, is certain to exert a tremendous )
fuence in quieting the fears Of the timid '
Id assuring the thrifty and cautious that
e new era now opening upon US is des q
ned to De emphatically one of order and a
ace. 0
II he elections of Tuesday spanned the |
ave Border from the shore of the Allan a
, almost to the banks Of the Missis.irn; f.