Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-03-15
From the Pa. Intelligencer and Lancasierian OF
March IL
Pennsylvania-James Buchanan.

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The proceedings of the State Convention will
be found in our columns today, and we invite
for them a careful perusal by oil of our readers.
The resolutions breathe in strong and unmis.
takeable language the sentiments of union and
patriotism-such as cannot fail to be endorsed
by every true friend of his country, whether
hailing from the north, the south the east, or
the west The Convention has laid down q
broad and strong platform, upon which every
Democrat, and every union-loving, ant-pro-
| scriptive, conservative Wing may stand from
Maine to Texas, and from the Atlantic to the
| Pacific. Pennsylvania stands now where she
always has stood, foremost and boldest in de-
| fence of popular sovereignty, the union and
integrity of the Republic, the welfare of the
people, and the perpetpity of the Constitution.
| And now, for the fourth time, and with
| greater unaHimity than ever, does the old Key
stone State present the name of her greatly
beloved and distinguished statesman, to the
Democracy Of the Union, as her first and last
and only choice for the Presidency, and she
confidently expects that at length, after SO
long a delay, her wishes are to be gratified in
the elevation of James Buchanan to the Chief
Magistracy Of the Nation. No man, save the
Father Of his Country, and Andrew Jackson,
ever held such fast hold on the affections of
the people of Pennsylvania; and why should
it not be so? In public life of thirty-fve
years, since his first connexion with national
affairs, he has never by word or deed, betrayed
the confidence reposed in him by the people Of
his native State And in the twenty years
which he served in both branches of Congress
in the four years which he served at the
head of the State Department during the bril-
liant administration of President Polk,-and
in the FIVE years which he has represented our
country at the two most important Courts Of
| Europe--he has displayed talents which have
| placed him in the front rank Of living states
men, and made his name, not only in his coun
| try bnt in Europe a SYNONYM for all that is
great and noble and commanding.
| Such is the man the Democracy of Penn
| sylvania delight to honor, and to him are all
eyes now turned as the most suitable standard
bearer for the ensuing Presidential campaign
Will the Democracy of our sister States do
Pennsylvania but tardy justice. She is one of
the original thirteen-the second State in
wealth, numbers and Importance in the Con-
| federacy-has never for one moment wavered
in her fealty to the Union and her devotion to
the interests of all her sisters. She was the
first State to sustain the immortal Jackson in
his conflict with the United States Bank-the
| first to throw herself into the breach and stem
| Tue Tue Vi aDOHllOn winch, aJ OlUeFent UmeS,
| has threatened to engulph this fair heritage be-
| queathed to us by our fathers. She has always
stood by our common country in time Of war,
and has contributed largely in men and means
| to the defence, the progress and the glory of
| the Republic And shall she not have the
honor Of furnishing at least one President of
the Union in the long space of sixty-seven
years? Virginia has furnished fire, New York
| tico, Massachusetts t,co, Tennessee t,co, Ohio
| one, Louisiana one, and New Hampshire one,
every one Of whom was elected BY the aid of
| Pennsylvania-and is it not her turn now to
furnish at least one, especially when she pre-
sents a candidate so pure and uusuled in
public and private life as James Buchanan. the
peer of any statesman in Christandom?
viii our friends in the other States think of
all this, and do unto the Democracy of Penn
sylvania as they would wish to be done by
were they placed in similar circumstances2
We ask only sheer justice at their hands, and
we feel confident this will be awarded with
pleasure by our brethren in The other sections
of the Union.