Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-11-21
A Minority, Sectional President.

ideut, aud be will be both a minority aud
"secfionaP' President; yet we hear no
threats from the Republicans that they
will dissolve the Union, as Democrats
threatened to do if Fremont was elected.
All the Southern States have gone in a
body for Buchanan, except Maryland
All the Northern States except four, have
gone for Fremont, aud the popular major
iry against Buchanan in the North is
100000. The four Northern States that
Buchanan has carried, lie next to Slave
States, aud each shows large Republican
majority in its Northern half, while the
Southern part goes strongly the other way.
To understand the deleterious influence
that the neighborhood OF Slavery seems to
exert, it must be borne in miud that many
Shareholders live in the Free States. Thus,
Stephen Arnold Douglas is Shareholder
[Senators Bright aud Brodhead are Slave
holders j Gov Geary of Kansas,is Slave
holder majority Of the pew holders in
the Rev. Dudley Tyng's church in Phila-
delphia, are Shareholders and Erastus
Brooks, Of the New York Express, aud c.
l.. Ward, Chairman of the Dem. National
Committee, are both said to be slavehuljers
Shareholders from choice, n,ercendry slave
holders, such as Northern owners of bu.
man chattels are, of course will 60 for any
thing that promises to increase the value
of their property, and such men We see
make the most plant doug ghfaces, and GO
strong for Sham Democracy and Slavery
extension. Many of the wealthy mer-
chants, manufacturers, mechanics, hotel
keepers and others living near the lioe
of Slave States, become creditors of the
planters, and often take bills of sale of
slaves, or mortgages on that kind of pro-
perry, as security for their debts. Thus
large body of influential men become inter
ested, not only in sustaining slavery, but
in Increasing the value Of Slaves and
they use their influence to induce others
So TO vote eo to Promntn their infnrnsis
Many of the money-lendcrs in New York
and Philadelphia, hold mortgages on plan
tations in Southern States, and are eager
to have new markets opened in Kansas
and elsewhere so as to raise the price of
"niggers" and increase the profits Of their
plantations. 1t will thus be seen that
large part Of the pro,slavery vote 10 the
North comes from those who have per-
sonal interest in slave property.
But in addition to this influence, two
others we're at work, Fillmoreism and bri-
berry. 1t is an unquestionable fact that
many hundred thousand dollars were ex.
pended to carry Pennsylvania for Bucha-
nan, and doubtless it was the same in In.
diana and Illinois. This "corruption fund"
was used in different ways. Part bought
up Fillmore leaders, and Fart bought vo-
tiers direct By the aid of Northern mig
ger.breeders and their toadies, of Fillmore.
ism and bribery, Buchanan is elected, but
that fact does not prevent its being appa-
rent that he is not the choice of minority
of the people, and that he is,quite as much
as Fremont would have been, Sectional
Neutrality-suspicious. Republican.
A RIGHTEoUs JUDGE.-A young man
was sentenced in Pittsburg, on Saturday
last, to six months Imprisonment, in Jail,
for assaul,ing another with "knucklers."
His counsel, previous to the passing Of the
sentence, solicited leuieucy for bis client
on the score Of "good character and gentle
manly behavior" generally. The Judge
replied that it vas fortunate for him that
be was not indicted for 40 attempt to mur-
der, aud said when people with gentle:
manly culture and good character perform
ed such deeds, he should punish them as
rowdies and rufians. 1.-The first gentle.
man in the land, shall fare no better than
the poorest man."
D%The New York Courier h Enquirer
saws, that letters from the South addressed
to John G. Fremont, within the last four
months have been repeatedly intercepted
aud broken open. Que postmaster in vir-
ginia even went 50 far ss to refuse, point
blank, to mail letter addressed by Vir-
giuia lady to Mrs. Fremont, who vas her
relasive--the postmaster declaring that no
letter with tba. address upon it should be
mailed At bis office. And he kept bis