Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-10-31

Buchanan a Ffiond of the Working
Appeals 20 working men" are geue-
rally humbugs Of the meanest and most
contemplate SORT, says the New y ork Ma
tional Democrat. Theys.are flied with.
clap trap. mistatements and buncombe.
They start with the fsupposition that all
working men are fools and require to be
coaxed OF. deluded. It may answer-in
English or French elections to make great
show aud preteuse of sympathy and love;
but the laboring classes are too intelligent
and well informed in this country to be
caught" by such fulsome and insulting
appeals. No respectable newspaper con-
descends to them. No public speaker
will attempt such appeals who fears ridi-
cule and regards himself. Yet in heated
campaigns. whenIthe small fry of parties
become active in the cause, wesoccasion.
ally see and hear something of these ab-
surd ''appeals to working men," and we
must presume that those who make such
appeals actually suppose that some good
results from them 10 their own cause
Else they would not have made them.
Some rockies partizan sheets have in>
vented story that Mr.. Buchanan was not
a 3" friend to the working men," 1t is
caught up and repeated by the less de.
cent of the Black Republican" and
Kuow-Nothing press. The Democratic
papers have as yet scarcely noticed the
ridiculous SANDER. deeming it, doubtless,
beneath their attention. We do not pro-
pose to examine the allegation, for that
Inin - Nd ifo
honor but we place upon record simply.
the following letter, written by Mr.. Bu>
chanan some nineteen years ago, when a
United States Senator, from Pennsylvania,
to the Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, when
Secretary of the Navy. .. g
WASHINGTON, Dec. &c, 1887.
"MY DEAR SIR Permit me to adj
dress you on a subject which has excited
much feeling throughout the city. of
Philadelphia, and has enlisted my warm :.
est sympathies.
81" Five hundred mechanics have been
suddenly thrown out of employment
in the Navy Yard in Philadelphia, at this
incIement season of the year. Most of
them depending on their daily labor for
their daily bread, you can easily appreci
ate what must be their suffering. Their
large families as friend informs me
are in a most lamentable condition, and
| God only knows what will become of them
unless government gives them employ
ment. ..... |
| CHOW, Sir, allow me to remark that
nothing short of necessity ought to compel
paternal Government to place such a
| body of mechanics who have faithfully
performed their duty in such deplorable
circumstances. l know that the feelings Of
your heart will respond to this sentiment.
| Why not, then, make an effort for their
relief? They ask no favor but to be
permitted to give, in their labors, an
equivalent for bread for themselves,
their wives and their children. under
stand there is now frigate in the Navy
Yard. on which they might be employed.
Even if the Department under other
circumstances, should deem it more ad-
visable, for the present, to delay her COM
pletion, still mere question of a few
months in point of time becomes compar-
atively insignificant when weighed in the
balance against humanity and JUSTICE
Besides. unless the Navy Yard at Philadel,
phia is to be abandoned, which l trust is
not contemplated by the Department, it is
OF great Importance to the government to
prevent such body of faithful and skill
full mechanics from dispensing.
II, therefore, appeal to you with conf
dence. to grant them mployment-and
almost envy you the power Of comforting
blessings upon SO many industrious and
merltorious citizens, without doing injury
TO the Government. =
feel confident you will pardon me fol
requesting as early an answer to this com
municalion as may be consistent with
your convenience.
Yours, very respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary oil
the Navy" r.. O.. -
1t the writer of that letter be not a friend
OF the laborIng men, then we have only tc
hope that they have many such enemies
among the public men of America.
a Savannah Slave Airing Himself
NOrth---lIiS Estimation of the Free
Blacks.
We were shown yesterday, a letter
written in good dashing hand, from a
we'll known Savannah negro, who is at
present on an excursion North. The let.
ter is dated Saratoga Springs, Aug. 16,
and is addressed to his "dear old mis-
tress." 1t relates in simple unpretending
style, many incidents of his travels, gives
the names Of number of Savannah La
dies and gentlemen whom he has had the
pleasure of meeting in New York, and