The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-04-19
MIR. Buchanan III Home.

Mr. Buchanan III Home.
In the Lancaster IateHigencer we find
correspondence between Mr.. BUCHANAN
and the Democracy of Lancaster, which is
highly interesting. The letter inviting
him to public dinner is signed by nearly
thousand names. The Lateligencer in
publishing the correspondence, says:
Since his return to this city, Mr.. Bu-
chanan has been personally waited on by
numbers Of his old personal and political
friends from all sections of the country,
who have come to revive former in.ima-
cies, and recount the interesting remini-
SCIENCES of the eventful Past. To these
visits has been added a more general mani
festation, by the tender of public dinner
on the part of the Democracy of the city
and county, which elected the subj ioin-
ed interesting correspondence.
Among the signers of the letter of invi-
tation, the reader will discover the names
of those staunch and true Democrats. who
IN sunshine and IN storm, in good and evil
report, have upheld the time honored en-
blems of Democracy. These men have
known James Buchanan long and well.
They knew him when pursuing his hum
quarter OF acentury ogo, and they have
watched his course as step by step he has
progressed to the highest honors of the re-
public. Whilst his brilliant public career
has been to them source of unmingled
pride, they have not been unmindful of
the fact, that he has passed through all the
allurements of place and power, fame and
fortune, and has preserved a personal
reputation pure and unblemished
The following is the letter of the people,
and Mr.. BUCHANAN reply:
LANCASTER, April 2. IS49.
Hon. James Buchaaa1a-Dear Sir, On
your retirement from the Office of Secreta-
ry of State, to which, four years ago. YOU
were called by President Polk, your Dem
ocratic fellow-citizens and neighbors of the
CITY anu county of Lancaster discharge a
most agreeable duty in extending to yon
cordial ''WIetcome Home" More than
a quarter OF century has elapsed since
you were first called from professional life
to engage in the more responsible and ex-
tended duties of representative in Con-
greSs.. With short intervals, YOU have
continued in the public service ever since.
During this period, many and trying have
been the scenes through which the Repub-
lie has passed-momentous and often ex-
citing the issues decided by the Federal
Government. In most of them it has fall
len to your lot, first as a member of the.
House of Representatives, then as Sen
ator of the United States, and more re-
Gently as the first Cabinet officer of the
Executive, to act an important and con-
splcuous part. 1t may prove some recon-
pense for your long and arduous public
services, to be assured, that your Demo
cratic FeilowCitizens of the city and
county of Lancaster, who were ever first
and foremost to urge you upon the stage
of public life, retain for you undiminished
attachment, confidence, and respect. To
them your unsullied pirate and your brill
liant public career have been alike source
of heartfelt satisfaction. They have been
gratifed with the important part
you have taken in the foreign and domes-
tic policy of the late administration, which
for the magnitude and success Of its mea-
sures, is without parallel on the page of
our country's history.
We beg leave, therefore, on your return
to private life, to welcome you to the So
ciety Of your former neighbors and friends,
and beg your acceptance of a public din
ner at such time as may best comport with
your convenience.