Washington sentinel., 1856-05-24
VERY HARD TO PLEASE.

"Old sober.sded Pennsylvania" ;" as some peo-
pie call her. has great difficulty in SO manifest
ing her political preferences as to suit the taste
ofmanaging politicians in other States. tits con
ceded, pretty generally, that the "Old Keystone
is something Of a Commonwealth-that she has
rather an honest and industrious populations
little too much Of the "stupid Dutch" and
turbulent Irish" composing its Democracy, as
the Federal Wings used to osay-but on the whole
she has some right to claim Presidential can
didate, at least once before the close of the frs,
century of our national existence In the wear
1910; the Dem ocratic party of this sold Key
stone" ventured for the first time to name one
Of her own children as suitable person tn FIJI
the Presidential chair-and at the national Con.
vention Of lS48 that party brought the name of
JAMES BUCHANAN regularly before it, for NOM
ination. But although Pennsylvania was even
then acknowledged to be very respectable old
State; and her Democratic party very clever
ard obliging "Conestoga Wagon horse" party;
and her candidate and "favorite SON. man
who had done ''the State some service;r vet there
was one reason for not gratifying this good State,
good party and good candidate, which is deeply
to be regretted That reason was, "Rennsylpa.
MIA had not presented her candidate THROUGH the
united poice Of her Democrocyl-he Democrat
&c party of that State pas diUidedi-Mey had a
second choice!-Mr buchanan could not ca,v-u
his o,cn State; and the success ofthe Democracy
ofdbe country must not be put in jeopardy Jy
his nomination ~
Such was the pretext assigned by political
adopts at President-making for rejecting the
appeal Of Pennsylvania and her Democracy,
by the Convention of ls48. Four years after.
wards, at the National Convection Of 1852,
Pennsylvania appeared again, represented by
twenty-seven delegates, instructed to present
the same chosen candidate as the choice of
that Democracy. Those delegates, true to the
trust conhded TO them by their constituents
voted for him forty-nine ballots, and bad with
them on majority of those ballots, the noble
hearted Democracy Of Virginia, and four other
Southern States, with some aid from the North
and West. But, notwithstanding the declaration
OF lne CHOSEN representatives OF fennsylva-
Mas Democracy, an outside voice was listened
to-Mr. BUCHANAN could not carry bis own
State They had "second choice" who
twas preferred TO him r'--and so the old "wbeel
horse" was again thrown aside, and her can
didate and his friends told, in sorrowing tones,
that they we're very deseruingl but as no assu-
rance bad been given that he was their " first
choice it would be dangerous to venture into
the campaign with any candidate soy- "aoho
could not CERTAINLY carry Pennsylvaniair
SO the pretext postponing the claims of the
Keystone in ls4s, again served its purpose
in 1852.
WELL the good-natured Democratic citizens
of the old State shook their heads some
little, as if they did not believe the ex-
cuses rendered to be Gospel truths; but, as
usual they rolled up their sleevcs--wenti into the
thickest Of the battle in support of FRANKLIN
PIERCE, as the nominee Of the Convention, and
gave him a majority Of nearly twenty thousand