Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-06-28
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/ IN GENERAL.
| On Monday week last Colonel Benton made a
speech at Jack son. Mo-. in which he made several
references in very plain language to the party OF
which he is distinguished member. From the
report ofthe St. Louis Republican, in regard TO
| the late convention held in Cincin sa,i, we make
the following extracts:
| WHAT HE SAW.
He had he said, poor opinion oil conventions ms
the public generally knew never was IN one but h-
iermined 10 go TO Cincinnati al but not IN It, baa'
| he said as was his opinion of conventions IL was
made worse by seeing what was there disclosed. ne
characterized il a. garrison of otice-holdersi 'hH-
tom houses had disgorRed post-ofees turhcn ioose
their occupants there were judges dstrct-atiofess
and clerks ofcc-holdcrs from Washington were thete
In full force the whole tribe were there, heads OF
bureaus with their clerks political eunnehs, who can
not give or receive vote, yet all were on hand
They were sent TO help administration under whose
favor they lived; and under their masters there they
were ordered to go, or suffer the penalty single
States at Cincinnati had represented revenue OF
$4,000 900. There were packed delegates and straw
delegates, to say nothing of members OF Congress,
who swarmcd there.
LICK At PRESIDENT mAKFas.
The honest men In the Convention were no match
for the professional President makers who were there
and the Office crew ut first had the advantage. The
belief the fourth night that the minority would
force a candidate; but those ia the Convention and
outside, determined il should not be done. All I'm
einnati was in commoton Us this plan was being de-
yeloped but the outside pressure was Too great ana
il defeated.
now PIERCE AND DOUGLAS MADE AviRTuf OF NECESSITY.
Pierce and Douglas did not withdraw, they merely
sent missyes TO their friends to see how the land lay
and as soon as they found the case hopeless, they
were Withdrawn. These Pierce and Douglas men
were prowng around the Pennsylvania delegation
for the purpose of finding out matters and inducing
themselves into favor, their intention all the time
being to cross TO buchanan in the last resort
and then claim the reward, but they were disap-
pointed. The Office holders were the most yoccrons
when Buchanan was nominated, and, if it Ia neces-
sary they will get ufidayts to that effect, especially
those from Missouri
WHO THEM
Pierce and Douglas in that Convention received n
mere nothing Deduct the packed aud straw dele
gates and members of Congress- and ther vote
insignificant Other Presidents seeking reelection
had mt least received the support OF their parties but
Mr.. Pierce comes in almost unanimously and goes
ont the way such spectacle had never before
been witnessed in this country. Pierce and his right
hand man, Douglas, repudated by Convention
which they had been four years packing and that too
with the revenue and patronage OF the government
prostitutcd to bring IL about
WHAT THOUGHT ON CONGRESS-.
Congress was now slumberng volcano in which
members their bowie knives shnrpcned, and
their reyovers capped 1t was man against man, and
one section Of the country against the other In this
condition of Affairs the people wanted man to restore
peace and pour oil upon the troubled waters. The
rejection of Pierce and Douglas in Convention they
had spent years to pack, condemnation of their
course and he felt that his vote against disturbing
the Missouri Compromise was the voice Of the peo-
pie.
nE HITS CALEB CUSHING.
Gushing and Davis the ruling spiris--one a
nulliher and sccessonis; the other II renegade Wing,
an npostatc Abotionist neophte Democrat, and
rylerito ms long as Tyler had anything to give. lie
had known Mr. Gushing leading Abolitionist,
trying TO keep Arkansas ont of the Union, because
her constitution admitted slavery, aud Ms backing Mr..
Snde of Vermont, in endeayoring TO abolish slavery
in the District of Columbia, wlipn they forced the
Southern members TO secede from the hall of the
House in 1898 lie had known him IA the greatest
enemy of Democracy, making speech against them
divided into two and thirty hcadsas many heads rs
there points in the mariners compass-in which
there congomeraon Of everything that had
ever been said against them. lie had known him as
the enemy of the snh-trcasury, of hard money, and
the bitter revilcr of jackson and he could see Moth
ing but ruin to the administration of which he
the master spirit. He predicted for the adminstra-
ton total overthrow at the time II had come over
whelmingly.
room Mr.. Purcell
Mr. Pierce continued Col Benton, is not to blame.
He was harmless in the hands of such
Gushing and Davis as AN infant in the arms of its
nurse. Sand Col. b., MIR. Pierce and myself
friendly terms in Congress. After his election he
sent FOR me- and called upon him. but stood off from
his Cabinet. One night he sent for me, To consult in
regard TO the Missouri appointm~,ts-nnd Col. h.
stated the conversation and the understanding be-
tween them which was in effect that they were not
To be made without further consultation with him.
yet Col b. sadhe had not been in Missouri two weeks
afterwards, before the appointments were announced
and Postmaster in his own city made, whom he
would not trust with his letters but preferred Adams
Co.'S Express. That the way he said he
served, and he mentioned it not as nm injury to the
individual, but the offence consisted against the pu
rity of government which lent its influence TO put
down men and create Conventions.
now THE ADMINISTRATION VIOLATED THEIR PLEDGES,
The administration had violated their pledges in
not educing the expenses of the Government, which
now amounted to $1,000 900; they had violated their
pledges in regard to the Pacific Railroad by endeay
oring to get territory outside of the country ut Sl0
000, 0o0--the Mesilla Naey-whch Kit Carson says
wolf could not live I'M they have gone way down in
the ancient empire of the Montezumas-bcyond even
the Gadsdens purchase; nay, farther, they were
for ship canal across the isthmus-but no road
He condemned both their internal and their external
policy they had spent their time in picking quarrels
They want the Mosquito Coast, then the Ruatan ISL
and then protectorato over the two Americas from
pole to pole, and this what termed the Mon
roe doctrine.
wRErcHED Mr.. PIERCE.
As for Mr. Pierce he never spoke, even thought
hard of him. He would think hard of n ba-
| by. They met frequently in Washington; often on
horseback, when they saued, and raised their hats
high in the air. In social circles they met and shook
hands but sclf-respect would not allow him to visit
| Mr.. Pierce again.
! The Louisville Journal says of the democratic
nominee for the Vice Presidency:
| Mr.. Breckenridge has by means been rcmarko-