The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-03-20
BLOOMSBURY. COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA. THURSDAY, MAI

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this State will be given to the candidate whom
| we have named. We can tell them with en-.
tire truth, that members of the opposite par
ty by hundreds and thousands have been con-
sidering the nomination of MIR, Buchanan,
and stand ready to endorse il. If he be nom-
mated, they are with us. know many SUCH
have heard, and others have heard, many
such voices of late, Of active members of
what was recently the Wing party. This
nomination, therefore, has strength vastly be-
| yond the limits Of our own party. 1t grasps
and collects the suffrages Of honest, indepen-
| dent, patriotic men, who have never before
been with us. What more need we urge up
on Ike Democratic party of other States and
those representing Why, sir, we can point
them 10 the fact, that al this moment, from
The Atlantic coast westward, through all the
Central States, where the battle of the Con-
s:ilulion is to be fought out, there is no man
who can be named as the peer aud equal, on
grounds of fitness, of the candidate whom we
have named. The distinguished citizen of
Michigan, long and favorably known 10 our
people, is not before the country in connec.
lion with this subject. Excepting one or two
of all The great men who commenced public
life thirty years ago-of all tha, band Of wor.
.hies that have distinguished the history of
our own State, or Of the general government,
from these Middle States, and especially
from Pennsylvania, there is but one proud,
bold head yet above the waves (Applause.)
Some of them have been struck down by the
hand of dealh-some have fallen away from
US in the presence of hot contests and from
apostaies at first, have become open and
eventually insignificant enemies. Zap
plause.) And, some have been found 9th.
erwse unfit for, or unworthy of the continu'
ed confidence and respect Of the people,
But, sir, through all vicissitudes, when our
glance has goGe abroad in search OF the faith
| full and the great, one figure has fixed atten.
ton and commanded respect. There has
been With him steady virtue and mental
power, that have confounded his enemies
! and fixed him firmly in the affections of the
people.
When we have looked, of recent years, for
one who stood up like whole man in for
mer times and yet stands up who has trav.
eled through the storm and the tempest with
unimpsired powers and popularity, but one
man meets the expected gaze, end that man
is James Buchanan. (Applause.) Sir our
people have been thinking of this thing for
some years. They have thought upon it ear
nestly, they have turned it over IN their
minds as they pursued their avooations in
their respective neighborhoods, and they
have expressed here to-day, through their
delegates, the conclusions 10 which they have
come. May we not trust that this voice, thus
intelligent and thus decided, will be respect
ed by our sister States when they assemble
IN council in June next. Yes, sir, there is no
other candidate in the central portion of the
Union who can be pres ented as the fair and
equal competitor of the choice of this Con.
vention; no other man about whose name
such recollecuons, such evidences OF fidelity
and ability are gathered, as TO who 10 now
proposed as our standard bearer in the com.
iuS CdmpuiGu, duu WIN win ooeoto ~ wv u
nominated, signal triumph.
But what more? When read, ethel
backwards or forwards tie history of oul
Commonwealth, I perceive, and afterwards
recollect, one important and striking fact
and it is this that while the little coast
bound State of Massachusetts and the Stale
of Virginia, inferior TO our own in many re-
spects, have often furnished incumbents fol
the Presidential Chair, our own State has
been overlooked, if not forgotten. We have
occasionally reminded our brethren of the
other States of some moderate and modes
pretensions which we hold 10 on this sub
, iect but for one reason or another they have
never yet received their attention, and they
/ have not acceded 10 our wishes.
Sir, the time has come when this favo
ought no longer TO be refused 10 this noble
, State of ours. (Aprlause.) The time ha
: come when fair claim of right arises OIL
> our behalf, ard when it is our duty, founde,
= upon sell respect, to urge IL with zeal and
!. determination tha, it shall be acknowledged
: There are reasons why Pennsylvania shoul
3 be listened to by the other States. In th
0 most critical moment of every political en-
Y gagement, of every political contest, sine
1 the foundation Of our general government
!, to what point Of the Union has the anxious
: strained gaze of the Democratic party beel
1 turned? Whittier? Why, sir, ia letter o
: Mr.. JefTerson's-written in the dark an,
3 stormy days when he lifted up that fla
. which those who came after him have hell
9 up since-he wrote :-"Let but Virgini
3 maintain her position and Pennsylvania
stand firm upon her basis. and our Uniol
\ will be perpetual and our prosperity bound
p less" (Great AppIause.] Yes, Sir, Their
1 was then an anxious, patriotic eye turnet
from the heights Of Monticello towards Penn
, sylyaria, in hope, for The rescue of principle
: from the contests of faction. Away back
. half century ago, the sagacity OF Mr.. JET
Q ferson discovered in this State the foundation
8 npon which Republicanism could safely res
8 he pronounced, his judgment that SO long a
J. she stood with Virginia upon solid principle
!, everything was well, and the prosperity Q
j. the country secure and certain. 1t has beel
d so since. In every party emergency, wher