The Mountain Sentinel

The Tariff Question Settled.
The result of the election in Pennsylvania, (says the Lancaster Intelligencer) has settled the question of the Tariff. which was made by the whigs the leading issue in the last campaign, The Democrats were desirous of keeping that question out of the canvass—but our opponents would not permit it, and insisted that the destruction or permanency of the Tariff of 1846 depended on the election of Henry M. Fuller, or John A. Gamble. The whigs made this the great question of the campaign, and as Mr. Gamble is elected by an overwhelming majority, of course the people have expressed their satisfaction with the tariff as it is, and do not desire its destruction, or even any essential modification of its details. Is our neighbor of the Examiner satisfied with the decision of the sovereigns?
On this subject that spirited paper, the Guernsey (Ohio) Jeffersonian remarks.— The whigs of Pennsylvania made the repeal of the Tariff of 1846 a prominent issue during the late campaign in that State. The Democracy met the issue boldly, and the people have rendered a verdict, through the ballot-box, against the repeal of the existing Democratic Tariff. Pennsylvania is right side up on the Tariff question.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, Ion, in his letter of the 15, says: 'There is some talk about a revision of the tariff system at the coming session. A great effort is to be made by the iron and sugar interests, but they will effect nothing at present.'
We congratulate the people of the United States, and especially the citizens of Pennsylvania, that the tariff question has been settled by the decision at the ballot box. The political complexion of the next Congress is another guarantee that the importunities of the Federal and Conservative monopolists will not be heeded. The country can now enjoy quiet.