Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-01

ungener0uS on the part OF the friends OF other
candidates to make this circumstance an OBJ
lection to him-to set up active participation
in the Nebraska struggle, as she qala non,
and on this idea, rule Mr.. Buchanan out, when
il is known he was out of the country, and had
no opportunity Of such participation? The
1 Union, so far as our recollection serves us,
with all its vigilance and pretended fairness,
has never once rebuked this ungenerous idea.
| We present no special claim for Mr.. Buchanan,
1 for none is necessary. Thirty years OF unta
tering fidelity to the doctrines OF the Consttu
ton and the principles of the Democratic
party-to all sections, to all rights and interests
Of the country, will plead his cause. lie is
eminently competent and worthy; and his
State, which has presented him with unprece-
dented unanimity, has claims above any other,
and this the Union will not deny. IL is his
good fortune to be very strong in those States
where the result is to be determined and this
We hold as good reason for his nomination.
Availability, when accompanied with all other
prerequisites should not be too lightly est-
mated. We honestly believe that no can
did man can doubt Mr.. Buchanans superior
strength. Then why should he not be the
nominee? Can any section oft Union doubt
him? Can any Southern State, to whose rights
he has so long been loyal, doubt him ? We
think not We do not believe that there would
be any honest apprehension in the mind of any
statesman as to his national policy.
From the Louisiana Courier
PcnnsyIvania's Favorite.
Every mail from Pennsylvania brings intelli-
gence which shows that the feeling in that
State towards Mr.. Buchanan, and the determi-
nation to use all honorable means to promote
his nomination, continue undated. The man.
ner in which the movement in his favor began,
and the steady increase in the number of those
who declare for him, show that this is no spas
modc or ephemeral feeling. The almost unan-
imous declaration of the late State Convention,
emphatic and tattering as it was, cannot com
pare with the floods of enthusiasm which are
gushing from the hearts Of the Democrats of
the old Keystone. From the depths of her
coal mines, from tie tops of her mountains
from her lovely vallies and her enchanting
hills-from the shore where the svery pillows
of Lake Erie lave her northwestern border
to the line where she locks arms with little
Delaware in the southwest, the name of Bu-
chanan is on almost every Democratic tongue,
highest in their esteem-frst in their choice
deepest in their hearts Every voice is eloquent
in his praise, and a loud, spontaneous, earnest
chorus Of eulogy echoes from every part of that
great Commonwealth. Did we not have ample
proof of the devotion of the Democracy Of Penn
sylvania in all past elections, one might be led
TO suppose that tins vigorous movement in fav-
or of Buchanan indicated that there might be
some oubt of that State giving majority for
any other Democratic candidate but with them
it can have no such Interpretation. Pennsyl
vania has large Democratic majority, and il
will be bestowed upon the nominees of the
Cincinnati Convention, whoever they may be.
This movement in Pennsylvania has cause
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that Of statesman Of the very first class, ripe
in years, grown grey in his patriotic labors,
always true to his party, and industrious in the
joint service of it and his country. Whenever
the Democracy have presented candidate for
national honors, Buchanan has been the fore
most of his champions. Whenever he has
heartily espoused a cause, its success has been
a foregone conclusion. For thirty years past
his name has been tailsman of power in his
own State For fifteen years there has been
large number who have deemed him q fitting
incumbent for the highest Office the people can
bestow-a number now very large, and every
day increasing. Pennsylvania has never fur.
nished the Democratic party with candidate
for the Presidential chair-she now presents
the name of hrst-class statesman-one for
whom his native State will vote by an over
whelming majority-one whose popularity
Union-one whose nobleness Of nature is un-
mixed with any shade of unworthy feeling
one whose heart is attuned TO the spirit of our
progressive peope-a man of profound political
learning and OF the most scrupulous integrity
a man who has been weighed and found whole
"a man. who has been trusted and found
honest. Is Pennsylvania right or wrong in
urging his nomination with an honest zeal and
determined vigor? Must her eloquent appeals
in behalf of her noble and favorte son pass
UNDECIDED? Must States which pretend to have
no preference for candidates who live within
their own borders, altogether ignore the plead
ings of the patriotic admirers Of James
Buchanan?
True it is that such term as personal
claims" is altogether rejected from the Demo. |
cratic vocabulary. We rect gnize no mans |
claims TO a nomination to any office whatever |
yet We may regard great State in the light Of |
having claims, especially when she presents for |
the first time in the history of our Federal |
Government, a candidate for the Chief Execu-
tive Magistracy, against whom not one word
of objection reasonably be urged by the
most INSCRIPTIONS and sophistical, who pre-
sens record on every page of which is in
scribed some worthy deed, and which defes the
most scrutinizing and envious eye TO detect a
stain or blot-a man whose combined public |
and private character exhibits most symmet. |
rical, consistent and noble unity-a man whose |
singular good fortune it has been to lead long /
political life without reproach and without
blunder-a man of comprehensive and vgor.
Gus mind, aud of most magnanimous spirit |