Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-11-24
CHASE SHOWING HIS TRUE coLoRs |!

seems to inspire him with new life and zeal
from the congeniality and appropriateness of
its associations. After beating about with add
verse winds and tides, lacking this way and
that way, and endevaoring to reach port by
steering in every direction except the proper
one, he is at last grounded by the current that
has ell the time been steadily and surely drift
ing him away from his principles. We need
hardly inform our readers that he has been
swallowed up in the maelstrom of Slavery-pro-
pagandism, which yawns always to invite and
engulph such frail and weak-headed political
navigators as himself. The fate was so inevi-
tably his, that it causes no astonishment or re-
greet to those who have watched his strange and
~tortuous course.
The lLontroSe Democrat, since the election,
has been a curiosity. We can hardly realize
that it is edited by the same man who endeav-
ored to procure from the Harrisburg Conven-
ton an endorsement of the course of Gov.
REEDER, and Reproduction of the outrages of
the Missouri r%uffians who was so indignant
Ut lIidG lCIuSdIj Ildb uC uIu IiO pidNC IN hdiuC
of PLUMMER at the head of his paper, and re-
fused in any way to countenance or endorse the
Convention. We can scarcely believe that it
is the same paper that has labored, in season
and out of season, to convince the Democracy
of Susquehanna that theirs was the true Free
Soil party that there was no necessity for de-
serting the organization on state or county no
minees, but when the great issue came in 1856
then was the time to strike for Freedom, re-
CARELESS of former party names or associations |!
Yet it is the same sheet, that has roared so
loudly in times past, of the aggressions of Sla-
very, and talked so boldly and defiantly, that
it almost seemed the very champion of Free
dom. Now it comes to us, filled with the usual
p~altcring and driyeling and excuses so common
amongst your genuine, unadulterated doughfa-
ces. 1t no longer denounces the usurpations
Of slavery, it is v%illifying the advocates of Re
publicanism. 1t has no longer rebuke for
ATCHIsoN and his minions, but it is filled with
a holy horror of WLMor and SEWARD and HALE
and their sectional and reasonable schemes !
To show how the tone of that paper has
changed, we propose to make a few extracts
from its columns, all appearing editorially with
in the last year
From the MOntrose Demo- From the Montrose Demo
Crat, Nor. 80, ISL cyat, Oct. %, 1861
= r % So far As sc are = 3 " Who will be the
concerned, oar position was standard bearer of this party
long ago taken, and this we cannot tell, but if wise
movement Will not alter OF ifnot foOlislly mad-thec con-
amend it. There will be nOvention will cast aside all
election previous to the Pre- who have had an agency in
sidential election in 1896, in bringing this unhappy agita-
which we feel much interest. iton of the slavery question
We regard the present as the,upon the country, and will
most important and danger select a Statesman Of the
Gus crisis i'll the history O~flhighest order of intellect and
this government, and we also eXperience-of the conserya-
regard the next PRESIDENTIAL tive school. Should such
election rs that which shaIlcounsels prevail, and such a
settle, for veal or woe. the man be selected, il will be
destnies of the government more apt, i'll our Judgment,
for future years. For that to be AMES BUCHANAN
contest our flag is unfured ,Jof Pennsylvania, than any
and our action decided upon man we know, or can think
II we shall be spared to par of, for be is the only man who
tlclpate therein. Regardless completely fills this meas
of any present political orga- ure."
niZation, we are for THOS
H. BENTON for President From the same. Nor. Isl
and expect to vote for him il y = This state of things
we Shall i've TO vote at all should impress upon the de-
ms Is the platform Imocracy the Importance of
on which we stand, and We starting in the presidential
therefore look upon all orgaI canvass clear for the course.
nlIat.on' with very much OF unless they do so they will
indifference. We expect that be defeated. They must pre-
the next presidential cam sent to the country a man
paign. Yill be pretty much OF like BUCHANAN a states
a " scrub race in which man matured by long expert
every body. will he " on their ence in the affairs of the go
own hook" We have start vernment. and balanced by
ed on ours early-and thOSeIan overshadOwing intellect
who are for Benton we ShalllTh masses of the country
work Wlth-those who areIare ripe now, and will be ri
against nm we shall work per by the time the election
against. We have not, nor shall come round, to receive
Shall we abandon or compro- such a man with open arms.
mise a single democratic ideals Let the democracy be wise
that we have ever advocatedEa and burying the remembran-
or which has formed a dis ices of past dissensiOns, i'm.
tlpctlye article i'll the creed prove the golden opportunity
OF a democrat. Benton en- to bring prosperity and glad
b1dys them ALIVE are for ness to the affairs OF the coun-
him and for them ALL" try
What a falling off is here |! From BENTON
to BUCHANAN at one plunge I! 1t is with no
emotions of satisfaction that we thus place
side by side the evidences of CHAsE's perfdy
and vascillation. When the article from which
we have quoted appeared in November last,
we then took occasion to say that his pretend
ed support of BENTON was all a sham, and that
when the day of trial came, he would be false
to all his former professions.
The political course of the Democrat has been
in the highest degree cowardly and disreputa-
BILE. 1T has gained for it the abuse and exc
~crations of those who tolerate its eccentricities
while they make a tool of its editor, and the
utmltigated contempt and disgust of the true
friends of Freedom. Feeling that the princi-
pies of Freedom have taken strong hold in the
hearts of the people of Susquehanna, the De-
m0crot has been practically sailing under the
colors of Freedom, for base, deceptive and dis
honorable purposes.
We rejoice, as we have no doubt the true
men of Susquehanna will rejoice (if, indeed, the
concern is worth rejoicing over,) that CHASE
has at length thrown off all pretensions and
subterfuges, and has openly taken his place in
the ranks Of those who are the tools and ad-
juncts of the Slave-power. The only influence