Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1856-04-25

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their feelings of displeasure, and there is
now no less feeling Of opposition to Mr..
Buchanan, than there has ever been.
Great credit is claimed for Mr.. Buchanan
by his biographer, for his extraordinary eff
forts 10 favor Of TIE election of General
Pierce. And what were they, He atten-
ded convention at Reading, was the pre-
siding officer at it and made a speech; af-
terwards he attended a meeting in West
mnreland; but when asked to attend one at
Bradford he declines doing so, on the ground
that be was too old This and this only
embraced all his zeal Gen'l Cass at once
embraced the nomination of Genl Pierce,
spoke at Washington in its favor, at vari-
Gus places on his return home to Detroit,
and during the campaign in many places in
4 the Western States, but who has heard that
the statesmen and patriot has claimed this
as stepping stone to the Presidency! But
where are al the brilliant orators over the
Union that appeared on the stump in favor
of General Pierce7 If they should all
send in their claims to the Baltimore con-
vention, the list of candidates from which
to choose, will be a long one. 1t is trae
there was another election in which Mr.. Bu-
chanau did not make himself very effect-
| i've. Gen'l Cass was the candidate Of the
Democratic party. In the North he was
opposed by the abolitionists, free soilers,
and all she isms opposed to slavery, whilst
in the South, Gen'l Taylor, as Southern
man and slave holder, fresh from the
brilliant battle fields Of Mexico, was urged
as preference to Gen'l Cass, because he
was a Southerner, with Southern interests.
| What did Mr. Buchanan do 10 this emu
barassing and awkward campaign, that
would have borne down Gen'l jackson him
self, if he had been the Northern eandi
date opposed by the free soilersl He
wrote single letter in favor Of that gall
laut aud able man, the soldier and states
man, who knew no part of the country but
when the constitution covered it, who has
| all his life devoted himself 10 the cause Of
his country, in sunshine and in storm--and
that letter so cold that if it had been Steep
ed in ice, it could have been no colder.
It is a great mistake in client to with
hold the weak points of his case from his
advocate, to avoid surprise and defeat
The ten column biographer alluded to made
out very good character for Pennsylvania,
which it is presumed her citizens have some
idea of but none of the weak points of the
candidates intended to be bolstered By the
character Of State have been referred to.
Mr.. Buchanan has weak points, weak in his
political ante cedents, weak in his political
antecedents, weak in his successive incon-
sistencies, and exceedingly weak in his
claims upon the industrial portion of the
whole North, without whose supp ort, ali
the cliques and personal factions in chris
tendon could not save him. What is call
lei his low wages speech is fresh in the
minds of the people everywhere In his own
State, and no Democrat could run a lower
vote than he. But the other day an old
Democrat was asked how he liked the nom
nation of Mr.. Buchanan at Harrisburg -
He replied that such nomination sounded
strangely in his ears. He had known him
to be federalist, had voted against him as
such, and had an utter aversion to that ten
cents day speech of his. But ah, said
his interrogator, that speech only meant, if
you can buy bushel of wheat for ten cents
and get ten cents day for wages, you are
as we'll off as if each commanded dollar.
True, SO far as that is the case it is correct,
provided ten cents bushel would pay the
farmer for raising bis wheat. In other re-
spects, it would not hold good. If | owe
my neighbor twenty dollars for cow, it
would take me two hundred days to pay for
her at ten cents day, and am sure could
not buy as much butter, as many eggs, or
) groceries, with ten cents, as | could with a
dollar. Besides, in this free country where
the government makes no distinction be-
/ ;. veen the industrious laboring citizen and
The no lob, reference to the low grinding
wages of pan, 'er labor in European govern
meuts. was an ex,,- ,-ere error for an Ameri-
can Representative to make.
In another instance, a. oiu De'no'ia'
was accosted with--well fricne you sec
Mr. BuchaGan has been nominated TO- rres-
ident at Harrisburg, ] hope you are In Ia
yor of him, as some of our Democratic
friends do not seem to relish the matter
very much. Oh, yes, says the tarner' am
| in faver of his remaining on his faIm al
| Wheatland to experiment on the profit ol
raising wheat at ten cents day. These
are home arguments, honestly expressed
against which politicians in their harrangues
would contend in vain.
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