Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-03-05
CONFIDENCE GONE.

Mr. Buchanan owes his elevation to the Presl-
deney more TO the efforts of Col. John W. For
ney than any other man in tie United States
or auy other score of men, He was his friend
when it was not as popular as new to be the
friend of james Buchanan and when he Faa
nominated for the Presidency, Col. Forney,
prompted by all the impulses of long personal
attachment and admin alton for the man, laoored
for and secured his success When the Lee
compton fraud came into public notice, he could
not be persuaded that the President would give
it his sanction, till the fact was no longer dis
putsbIe; he cung to the conviction that, even
then the President would not make LecomPton
:est Of fealty to his administration. Buteven
that belief has been swept away. The issue is
made plain, and Col. Forney accepts it boldy
In the Press, Of the 18th, he says
Yesterdays intelligence, that the l''nI''''ee m
2f investigation raised in the Nat,c, n. IL:
of REPRESENTATIVES on The mot! " VA, 'i@ii -
of Illinois had by decided CT @
majority created by spsss IF uar1;sme,,arr % -. lsr
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i@''o1i " 10 .nation into the Kansas frauds
10 lestl1o. 5ad to the mountain of injustice
SSihicl has accumulated since it has been deci-
ded 70 deprive the people of their rights. The
same dispatch from Washington announces the
removal Of two distinguished Democrats from
,ftiee, no doubt avowedly because they oppose
The uhctlon of the Lecompton Constitution
upon The people of Kansas. These are Mr
Price Postmaster at Chicago, H., and Mr.. Mil
Ter Postmaster at Columbus, Ohio. Il is ap-
parent, therefore, frst, that the vote of the
House Of Representatives iu favor Of a full and
thorough exposure of the frauds Of the mincri-
ty 10 Kansas, is to be disregarded aud defeat
ed, and, second, that every Democrat who dif-
fers flom this scandalous injustice or from the
platform of the enemies Of the Union on the
Lecompton Constitution-we mean the pro-sla-
very leaders of the extreme South-is to be read
out Of the Democratic party.
The annals of politics will be ransacked in
vain for parallel TO these extraordinary pro-
ccediugs. We began to doubt whether indeed,
this is land of liberty and law. That which
vas the Administration policy u June and has
become the Administrators detestation III Feb
ruary. The Democrats who endorsed and
strengthened that policy, 10 the belief and with
the knowledge that they were acting in harmo-
ny with the President Of their choice are eject
ed from Office because they adhered to this po-
siton; and their fate is held up to others as a
solemn warning.
The Press intimates that the pastinle of read
ing men out of the Democratic party is dam
gerous one, and is suggestive of fierce and fatal
retaliation. II adds.
With all respect to James Buchanan, We do
not hesitate to say, that if be had maintained
the stand he took in his instructions to Gov
ernor Walker, and in all his intercourse with
that gentleman up to November, lS51-the doc
trine broadly asserted By the Washington Union
as the Administrators policy on this great is
sue-hs would have united around him body
of friends as devoted and as disinterested as
those who SO chung to his cause in the darkest
days of his career. He would have consolida-
ted all parties 10 the North in his favor. He
would have recalled into the Democratic ranks,
as prominent Democratic States, Maine, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, and Ohio,
now we fear, hopelessly lost TO the Federal Adj
ministration by the effort 10 force them upon
platform whose whole superstructure is open
and scandalous fraud. The miserable handful
of discontents in the South This foes at Cincn-
natl, and his foes now on every part of his po-
LEY that does not square with their own Pro-
crustean exactions) would have been lost in the
uprising Of the people in the South in favor of
the Union. He has, however, changed bis
course; and now, to the sorrow or all true pa
trloIs, the Democracy are also called upon to
change theirs, on pain of accommodation; and
the Southern secessionists boldly come forth |
with their ultimatum--The LecomptoH Fraud |
or DiSunioal
The Press calls the roll Of few Of the men
who will be read out---among them are Robert |
J. Walker, Stephen A. Douglas, George Ban
croft, Heury Horne, Henry Chapman, John
Hickman, Owen zones, Wilson Reilly. Wm.
L. Dewart, VIM. Montgomery, aud "ths rank
and file of the party"
And who, asks the Press, ara to conduct the I
ceremony of ostracisml Who is to weld the I
axe OF ieeapitatlon! 1t designates John Coch-
rane, Of New York, A. Ii. Stephens aud r. II. {
roombs, of Georgia, as the chiefs of the work.
'Cochrane," says tue Press, sis especially quail
fled for his task, having voted against Gen.
Cass, in l84S, ON the ground of tie pro-slavery
endency of the Democracy; while Mcssrs.