Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-12-10
The Progress of the War.

Forncv has got his back up. His paper,
~, Press. pours broadside of a column and
half into the Administration organ at Wash
.tnr dcnouncing it's " nSolent and dictato-
,;9I articles,n its censureS of the supporters of
Waf,cr, and its attempt The italics are For
AVS own1 to commit The democratic party to tie
I,.,iee Of introducing sIarery into all the free
,.,tss and of holding it there in defiance of
state laws" Forney pronounces the Unioa's
,rrnmcnt in support Of the Kansas Constitu-
+i6naI Convention =" a miserable apology for a
,,,rot moral fraud" and concludes its declara-
,;,n Of independence with the following, which
slrnd, something like declaratio of war:
Our able contemporaries have not forgot
+cn that after Governor Walker had exposed
,Ia criminal frauds in Oxford aud M'Ghee
,rbcu the fire eaters and extremists were hunt
;nr him down like feIon when all honest
men were applauding him for his courage ard
his integrity, the Washington Uaiion had not
. word to say in his support. 1t was as silent
os death, and dared not SO much as raise a
whisper for the gallant statesman, absent from
his family and his friends fighting against as
rracpful a set of tric[SterS as ever lived The
T-aioa waited, like cautions politician, till
the hour came when it could take vengeance
on those who stood by Governor Walker in
that crisis. And We thank God we were
among the first to do SO, and so we receive the
first stab
But, more than this. While Governor
Walker was still absent, and nothing was yet
known Of his action on the Calhoun contri-
vance, the UHion, in an editorial ecstacy that
wouId not have been an inappropriate picture
oC the Sgners of the Declaration of Indepen-
,iepce. euIogised the minority Convention at
Lecompton, appauded their dOngs as wise,
and sagacious, and stateSmamike, and then
proceeded to present the Calhoun Constitution
u the democracy of the free-StatcS to swallow.
falling in which, they were to he handed over
10 the aEolitionStS. \ few DAYS after this
most delcctabe piece Of editorial agility, Gov.
Walker made his appearance, and took exact
" opposite ground to the UHion-the ground,
indeed, occupied by the entire body of the
Democracy of the North. Indignant at this,
lis most pitiable dilemma and desperate at the
scoruful Independence of those democrats who
will not be dragooned by any man into SubmiS-
sion to confessed wrong much less by SO awk
ward drill sergeant as the GHjoa, it has lost
its patience, aud attempts to intimidate with
an infuntile Yigor truly dismal to behold.
We have only to say, finally to the Wash
ington Jnion, that We despise and reject its
censorship When it speaks Of Abolition sym
pathes, it should look closely to its own house
hold We defend a great principle. We OPP
pose no slave states, fairly made We resist
wrong and fraud, whether exercised for or
against the South We stand 10y the author
Of the Nebraska bill Is he an Aholtionist
We stand by the Governor of Kansas Is he
a disorganiser We follow the public opin-
ion that elected James Buchanan. 1t was not
false in lS57-it is not false now. Supported
Jy such authorities, we can afford to look down
with ineffaDIe contempt upon a newspaper
which, like Tom Thumb before an audience of
fllI-grovn men, imaginea itself a king, when
it is only the puppet of a set OF graspiug spccu
latorS"