Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-09-23

SCdfBSna WOMfO nave Otcn
thrown Off The Ticket had lle
not died before ihe Convention
met.
The Bradford Reporter, of September
4th, the organ of the Democracy of Brad
county, and edited by son of Mr.. Good
rich, Deputy Secretary of the Common
wealth, bitterly deplores the nomination
of William Hopkins, and declares that "st
is a matter Of deep nuortsyfcataom and DIS
appointment" 1t assails the 4th of March
Convention, and the last State Con-
vention, it asserts that Buchanan ruled
both Conventions, that he made the nom-
nation of William Hopkins, that he in
tended to have thrown Searight off the
Locofoco ticket, and that the intrigues of
the Buchanan men fastened the death of
Searight 1t says that James Buchanan
will try to get into the Cabinet of Pierce,
as Secretary of State, and that the DEM
ocratic party is corrupt, and in the hands
of the Philistines.
The Reporter fully confirms all we have
said about Searight and his death, that
the Buchanan men were hostile to him,
that they all rejoiced when he died, and
that their grief and lamentations over his
death was nothing but the vilest and
most infamous hypocrisy. The Reporter
contains almost two columns and a half
on the nomination of Hopkins, the late
Convention, and death of Searight. We
can only make room for portion of the
Reporters remarks, but we beg every
honest man to read this exposure =
We will commence with the last Fourth
of March Convention, by promising that
the great struggle there was between James
Buchanan and those who did not favor
that pretender's aspirations chiefly sup
porting Gen. Cass. The fight was the
fiercer, because the friends of the former
saw, or thought they saw in prospect,
the full fruition of all their hopes. There
was a probability that Buchanan might
be nominated This drew to him all that
class of mercenary politicians, for which
Pennsylvania is so celebrated; men of
every shape, intent and constant to but
one single principle, that of gain; men
who have no higher motive than plunder,
and whose only love of the Democratic
party is, that it is the machinery by
which they secure to themselves office;
men who would be leech-lik in their ma
lures, only that the leech, when gored, is
satisfied, and quits its hold" This ag-
gregation of political dishonesty, posses
sing means, and welding considerable in
fuence, were successful in controlling the
Convention, and perpetrated outrages up
on the minority and usagcs of the Demo
cratic party, of which the selection of
man as Delegate to the Baltimore Con-
vention from this district, who never in
all his erratic political career, supported
the nominee of that Convention for the
Presidency, is fair sample.
At that Convention, while triumphing
and domineering over the minority, still
some measures were necessary to secure
the unity of the party at the polls. 1t is
somewhat unfortunate for the plans of
politicians sometimes, that the people are
called upon to ratify their proceedings at
the ballot boxes where they have an op-
portunity of expressing their appreciation
or disapprobation of their conduct. In
the present instance, the Buchanan men,
feeling unusually generous, or supposing
some concession was necessary, putting
aside their own friends who were candi-
dates, somewhat cavalierly, decided that
the nomination Of VIM. Searight, deci-
dod Noec mon mould bo +bo boe+ IL.
and accordingly they gave him the nom
nation ~ III" -.a.I '-.-" ''
The Baltimore Convention came and
passed, and with it the hopes that had
been based upon Mr.. Buchanans nomi-
nation. In vain were the arduous labors
of many months; but in vain the iba-
tions offered up at ".Carroll Hail." Men
acho hocl Snd'ukged IA pleasant anticipation
Of 1at contracts, Of lucrative ,Qz]fnes, Or Of
h0noroble foreign missions, to1tud Meir
prospects dissipated, their chances vani&sed,
1cih no mare ulau fte baselcSs taJ7iic Of a
rtSi03t.
After a proper period had elapsed for
them to recover from their sad disappoint-
ment, these men have resolved that if Mr..
Buchanan could not be President, at least
he shall be Secretary of State. This would
give him an opportunity of controlling
many of the appointments, and securing
to his devoted and disinterrested friends
some chance of reward. This is now the
and the faithful viii move
Heaven and earth to secure its accom-
plishment.. y. - ~
In looking about them, they found that
the arrangement in regard to Canal Com
though a good one with Buck
as a candidate for President, was very
unfortunate, when he became an applicant
for the post of Secretary of State. In
one case, it brought his opponents to his
support at the polls in the present atti-