The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-10-30
The Presidency.

paper the name ofsHon. JAMES BUCHANAN as
our favorite candidate, and the choice of Cam
bria for the Presidency, subject to the decision
of the next Democratic National Convention.
OF MrsBuchanan's public services it is almost
brilliantin everyesection, of our confederacy.
That he is man of mighty mind, able, learned,
and exemplary, there be no doubt. Whether
we look at his actions whilst n member of Con-
gress, the floor of the United States Senate
or the brightest and most brilliant star of the
glorious administration of the lamented Polk,
We find him ecer a consistent democrat, up
right and estimable citizen, devoted to the in
sututions of his country, acting for the general
good, proving himself equal to every emergency,
faithful to the rights of each and every State,
faithful to the constitution and the laws, and a.
tower of strength in his warm and cordial sup
port of the recent compromise measures.
We owe 1t TO our readers to explain the causes
which have induced to take strong grounds
for Mr.. Buchanan hereafter, and we will do so
briefly. When in February last we took charge
Of the Sentinel we were prepossessed in ia
yor of Gen. CAss, and at the sulnr time (as VIII
be seen by reference to our file, April Sd, May
1st, 1885, We were willing to do justice to either
of the other gentlemen named in connection with
that office. From that time until August last
we felt q hesitancy in sustaining Gen. Cass on
account of the course pursued by his friends in
this State, but being unwilling to desert first
favorite, We refrained from saying anything on
the subject. About that time there were
resolutions passed, at two meetings in this
county, urging SIr. Buchanan's nomination and
in obedience to the wishes of the democracy we
espoused his cause; but being too much en-
crossed with the late canvass, did neither Mr.
B. nor ourself justice. Since then we have had
right. We believe that the defeat of Hon. James
Campbell was brought about by the leaders of
Gen. Cass' forces in Pennsylvania, by an appeal
to the baser passions of man. They have pur-
sued him, since the day of his nomination, with
malignity and bitterness unequalled in any
age, and the most desperate means have been
reserted to for the purpose of defeating him.
In all candor we must except our neighbors of
Blair county. They were too honest, too demo-
cratic, to be driven into the the support of such
iniquitous measures.
1t dare not be denied that Simon Cameron,
Richard Brodhead, Alexander Cummings, A.
Boyd Cummings, Brewster, Phillips, Page, Low
man, and others, were the leaders in the organi-
zation that defeated Campbell, and who are
they? Men who have been raised to their
present position by the democratic party, who
should have been the last band in this State to
stab to the heart the party that fostered them.
And yet they are the generals in the army OF
Gen. Cass ia Pennsylvania, and they have, by
base plotting, succeeded in rendering full and
void the voice of III 600 honest democrats of this
State to crafty their malevolent feelings towards
the honorable and high minded Judge Campbell
But this is not all. They desired to defeat Mr.
Buchanan over the shoulders of Judge c., to
show TO the Union that Mr.. B. could not carry
his ,wn State for his friend. This was their
main object. But have they been successful? I?
Bv no means hey have exhibited their own
weakness and demon, stated fully that Mr.. B. is
scarcely opposed by c co, ,ncrals guard, and we
have no hesitation in saying, tnsot any man nomi-
mated through the instrumentality II those men
would be defeated by Gen. Jackson's i.la 'orl'y
of 50, 600. We 90 not justify such an event but
such we believe to be the fact.
Examine the course pursued by Col. Forney
and other democratic editors favorable to the
cause Of Mr.. buchanan. Contrast the columns
of the Pennsylyanian with those of the Evening
Bulletin and the Phila. Statesman, both before
and after the nominations were made by the
State Judicial Convention-look at the votes of
Bedford and Fulton, and compare them with
those of Dauphin, Northumberland and Montour,
and let every honest and rejecting man judge
them by their acts and say who were the friends
of James Campbell the regular nominee of the
party, a nomination sanctioned by the approval
of such legal luninaries as Dallas, Wilkins, Por-
ter, Black, Magraw, Burke, and others We're
Simon, Dick Alick the men who sustained him
or was it the fearless and indomitable Forncy
the persevering and true-hearted Bowman, or
the industrious and indefatigable SAMSON? We
do not pretend to say that these were the only
ones who took part in the struggle for or against
the Rights of the Party, for there were hosts of
others, and we mention them merely to show
that Mr.. Buchanan and his friends have nobly
sustained the slandered Campbell, and that the
head and front of the Cass party, aided by their
friends who are paTticeos criminis, have betrayed
their party and have dishonorably defeated him.
We say boldly and fearless of all consequences
that such 4men should not be allowed a seat in
any democratic Convention much less State
one. Ii they should by any political manage
ment or legerdemain force any one, We care not
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