Washington sentinel., 1856-05-17
OLD VIRGINIA ONCE MORE PRO-
CLAIMING CONFIDENCE I'm OLD
PENNsYLVANIA.

OLD VIRGINIA ONCE MORE PRO-
CLAIMING CONFIDENCE I'm OLD
PENNSYLVANIA.
1t is now beyond doubt that Mr.. BUCHANAN
has carried majority of the delegates from
Virginia to the National Democratic Conven.
tion, and, following the course generally adopted
by the Democracy in their National Conven-
tons, the whole vote will no doubt be thrown
for that distinguished statesman
There is quiet moral in the elections in
Virginia for delegates which it may be well to
refer to at this time.
OF all the Representatives in the present
Congress from the State of Virginia, Mr.. BUcH-
ANAN has but one known friend, the others
preferring other Democrats as candidates for
the Presidency. Throughout the State the
Democratic press has generally been commit.
ted to others, and yet, Notwithstanding the
exertions of the friends of every candidate for
the Democratic nomination, Mr.. BUCHANAN
has carried the delegates in triumph aided it
is true by many gallant spirits, not the least
among whom is her distinguished Wise and
her eloquent Floyd. Mr.. BUcHANAN's name
has been indeed more potent than an army
with banners. The confidence reposed in him
on former occasions, so far from being weak
ened, has been strengthened. The great State
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Wythe, and Taylor of Carroll, cannot break the
links which have bound her to Pennsylvania
through SO many years Of varying fortune.
We ask the other Southern States to look at
Virginia as she stands speaking her spontane-
Gus voice in favor of the great statesman OF
Pennsylvania. Over all obstacles interposed
to the enunciation of this preference, she has
prevailed, and her decision is a lesson and q
moral. SHE does not doubt the orthodoxy of
JAMES BUCHANAN. SHE has not listened 10 the
counsels of those who, for their own purpose,
have deemed it necessary to suspect his devo-
ton to the cause of State Rights. She had read
too carefully and too well the unspotted record
of his career, to be misled by baseless sus,
picions and ungenerous aspersions. She, the
mother of States, she who, to the Democratic
party, has been in the darkest hour the star
that shown undaunted and clear, she speaks
out above the raging passions of the conflict
and proclaims her selection in a voice that
shows how fully and entirely she speaks her
real sentiments. When Pennsylvania forgets
Virginia-forgets the true men of the State, who
always stand ready to honor the true men of
thatState-when Pennsylvania forgets Virginia,
she herself will not deserve to occupy place
on the page of history
Nor is the lesson which this result teaches
any less significant in its application to the
North than in the admonition it furnishes to
the few men in the South who have deemed it
necessary to cavil at Mr.. BUcHAYANs sound
ness on great questions; because at this mo-
ment he is confessedly, beyond all doubt, the
strongest man before the American people for
the high Office for which he has been named.
The most industrious efforts have been made
to show that Mr.. BUCHANAN could in no event
carry the delegates from Virginia. We do not
desire to allude to the documents published in
reference to him, and to all the other devices
resorted to for the purpose of carrying this
prophecy into effect; but we point those north.
ern men to the fact that Virginia, with an eye
to the future, not only weighs well before she
points out the man she prefers for the greatest
office upon earth, but always selects that man
as her preference who is the choice Of the true
men of the free States, and who will be most
ardently supported by them.
Once more we thank Virginia-once more
old Pennsylvania. The Keystone and the old
Dominion will stand together. with locked arms
in the National Convention-stand together in
favor Of man sho is the known expounder
of the principles Of the Constitution, and the
champion Of those principles-whose elevation
to the Presidency would be welcomed by the
praise Of patriots in every part Of the land.