The Nevada journal., 1856-08-29
PENNSYLVANIA. HOW WILL SHE GO


hopes of success upon the result in Penn
svlvania. Buchanan owes his nomina-
tion largely to the fact which stared
every member of the Cincinnati Con
vention i'll the face, that the keystone
State must be carried for the democratic
nominee, or the campaign was likely to
end in defeat. 1t was supposed that
state pride would influence a large.num-
Der of Pennsylvanians to vote for Buch-
anan. Let us see if the Convention is
not certain to fail in its reckoning.
Pollock was elected over Bigler by Il
majority of 10000 votes. 1t is not
claimed that Pollock was supported by
anv considerable number Of Democrats.
Bigler might have been unpopular with
his party in some localities, but we have
never heard it.
1t cannot be said that the Democrats
are stronger or more united to-day in
material election. Men well poste in
the politics of that State tell us that the
ranks of the unteriificd are considerably
weakened since that event. Had any
other man but Buchanan been led upon
the Presidential course his chances Of
success would have been slim indeed
As for state pride or the personal iniiu
cnce of James Buchanan, altering the
aspects of the case, it is out of the ques
ton. He is unpopular i'll his own State.
He has not and could not have been
elected to an office in Pennsylvania for
many years past. He is indebted for all
his late positions to the extraordinary
luck of his party in the Union, not in the
State of Pennsylvania particularly
Being under the weather with his party
at home, he was taken in charge by the
Federal Democracy, and given the hon
ors and pap which were denied him by
constituency. Thus has he been a
hanger-on on the Polk and Pierce ad-
ministrations.
His connection with the Federal au-
thorities has added nothing to his pop
ularity. He has originated nothing of
practical utility to the nation, and has
performed no difficult functions either III
the cabinet or in a diplomatic capacity
which entities him to more respect from
the people of Pennsylvania. In fact
the only original idea Of which he is en-
titled to the full credit and honor, is the
proposition in the Ostend Circular that it
is right to steal f. ON another what he is
not willing to sell atthe thcft's valuation,
which certainly is no extra recommen-
dation to the good people of pennsyl-
vania. How he is to carry his own
state perhaps somebody can tell.
How CAN THEY DO IT!-I'hc Buck
and Break" papers are declaring pos;
lively that their party is in favor cf in
tcrnal improvements BY the gcner;
govcrnmcnt-that there is no hope Of
obtaining Pacific Railroad but by tie
instrumcntality Of the Democratic party.
Was ever known such unblushing as
sumption, such an outrageous falschood!
We appeal to any honest Democrat, if
ono can be found, to say if he does not
know that these professions are basely
hypocritical. There never was Il ma
tional platform of the Democratic par
~, erected since the question was moot
I'D, i'll which the doctrine of internal
improvements by the Federal govern
ment was not either expressly or virtu-
ally rcpudiatcd. 1t is worse than repu-
dated in the late Cincinnati platform
it was treated with contempt. Nothing
but the sole idea of carrying this State
for Democracy, could have induced the
barc-faced assumption of the Democrats,
at which every honest, truth loving man
cries shane !" here is rot a paper
advocating the election of Buchanan in
any State not interested virtually in a
railroad across the continent, which can
he found favorable to the great enter
prise, or will even acknowledge the con-
stitutional right of Congress to lend as
sistancc to the work. Every reading
Democrat knows that the triumph Of
Buchanan is the death knell to the rail
road. The strangulation of the magni
fcent enterprise, was the price for which
Pennsylvania sold herself to old fogy
Virginia, in the Cincinnati Convention.
Buchanan became the nominee of the
party and the tool of the anti-railroad
States at one and the same time, and
the qnid pro quo of his elevation and