The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-07
From the PenSsylyAhian.
NTr. BuChanan'S Social Character.

A stereotyped phrase of the Black Repub.
licans is, that Mr.. Buchanan is so very cold.'
They admit what they cannot deny, that his
personal character is unsulied; and that he
is an able aud experienced statesman, but
they invariably qualify even this extorted
praise with accusations like the foregoing.
Recently, we perceive, the Louisville
Journal edited by the notorious Prentice has
proceeded even to step further in rabid mis-
representation, and stigmatizes Mr.. Buchan-
an as stingy. Than this no assertion could be
more unfounded. Mr.. Buchanan, in pecu-
mary matters, is the very reverse of'stingy.'
In proof of it, we will quote only two facts:,
Some ten or eleven years ago, fire occur
red in Pittsburg, laying a large portion of
the city in ashes. No sooner did the ac-
count reach Mr.. Buchanan, who was then in
Washington, dischargng the duties of Sec
retary o! State under The lamented Polk,
than he Immediately enclosed a check of
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS to the May
or OF that city, for the relief of the sufferers.
A-few years later, when he had resolved up.
on Withdrawing from public life, as proof
of his grateful appreciation Of the many
kinduesses bestowed on him by the people
of Lancaster, he donated to that city, the
handsome sum of FOUR THOUSAND
DOLLARS, as perpetual fund, the inter-
est whereof is annually expended in the
purchase Of fuel for INDECENT females. Ma
ny desolate hearth has been made glad by
this noble charity, and more will hereafter
reap its benefits.
IfMr. Buchanan should ever read this ar
ticle, we are not sure but that we shall in.
cur his displeasure for lifting the veil from
these most generous and hallowed deeds
They were performed, as have been many
others of a similar nature, with no design of
ever having them pompously paraded before
the public. Believing Mr.. Buchanan's mu-
nificence on these occasions,to have been
of that dsinterested sort which conceals
from the left hand the transactions of the
right, we woul not refer to them now, but
for the base, unfounded, malicious epithet
bestowed upon him by Prentice, the most
notorious lbe ller in the United States, who
is not worthy to unloose the latchets of Mr..
Buchanasn's shoes.
Kindred to the above, is the general
charge, SO freely made in the disunion press
es, echoed by the Bennetts and Cumming
ses of the bllingsgate school; that Mr.. Bu-
chanan is cold. selfish, speculative, isolated
in his nature! The allegation is utterly
false, as all who know Mr.. Buchanan init.
mately can, and do, testify. True, when in
public life, Mr.. Buchanan has ever been most
assiduous and unremitting in his attention to
his public duties. He has wasted no time in
lettering around hotels, or in promenading
with Tom, Dick and Harry, the avenue
He has not consorted with the Contract
Mongers and Lobby-Jobbers, swarming a.
round the Capital, with view of swindling
the Government-neither with those of his
own party, or of any other. To many such,
unquestionably, Mr.. Buchanan has often tur-
ned the "cold shoulder This class of sour
Wy politicians, no doubt, have often to their
deep modification, found Mr. Buchanan pain.
fully distant So will they ever find him
But to those who may not know the distin.
guished nominee Of the Democratic party,
in his social and personal relations, as we'll
as we, we say, that in all the decent and res
pectfM co@rtssiss Of life-in all the amenities.
the h5adnesSts, the Sweet and amiable sympa-
tAieS and virtueS that adorn the Gentlemen,
the NetghbOr and the Christian, James Bu-
chanan stands second to no man in the United
States or in the ciuiIised world. This is
strong praise, we admit, but it is not too
strong. 1t is richly, fully, unqualfedy Ge-
served. Every line and letter of it is true>
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