Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-11-04
Fornev on Buchanan.

ers, New ork, on Saturday week. We
make a few extracts from it to show its spirit
He said:
al am here to render an account of my
stewardship, and to say that Pennsylvania
has pronounced verdict against the Presi
dent of the United States. Contemplate for
moment the magnitude of this result; look
upon it in all its proportions, and you will see
it like some mute orator, encouraging the In
dependent and rebuking the subservient and
treacherous public servant. We shall have
no more treacheries in the North after this
verdict.
That is the native State of the President-iu
that State he grew to manhood-in that State
he has been repeatedly nominated for the high
Office which he has at last ebtained-that State
gave him the majority which rescued him from
danger Of defeat in other quarters; and it was
proper-there was poetic significance in the
fact-that the State which gave him his celeb
rlty should at the same time bring down the
proud usurper that the State which was his
political birth place should become his politi
cal grave. Cheering long add loud. In
1856, Pennsylvania gave large majority for
Mr.. Buchanan, and year after she gave Gov
Packer majority of 10000; and in the pres
ent contest the issue was distinctly made and
well understanding man was more conscious
| of this than the President, and he strained
| every nerve to secure Pennsylvania as an en-
dorser of his policy. In all my life have
never seen such prostitution of official patron
age. In bygone days, when the Whig party
came into power they turned out the Demo.
Gratis, and when. the Democrats came into
power they turned out the Wings; but never
before has such prostitution of patronage and
| Official station been known as in the late elcc.
! tlnn IN OvIr No Il.
money of the people expended by hundreds
and thousands of dollars, but the Admins.
tration resorted to the most extraordinary
| processes, using this patronage and this money
against It's own political friends, or rather
| against those who stood by the principle of
the Democratic party, which gave power to
| that administration. In the district repre-
sented by Col. Florence, the regular vote was
| overwhelmed by an imported army of Office
holders. Some 2800 men were in the Navy
Yard alone, where not more than 500 are re-
quired. Every branch of the public service
was drawn upon for the purpose of contribu-
ting to this immense horde Of mercenares
but, Notwithstanding this you have the result
! before you. OF l5 Democrats who were elec-
ted in 1856, but five have been reelected,
while instead Of the balance ten open and de.
cided opponents of the Federal Administra-
ton have been returned. Loud Cheers l.
And of these five, three of them agree with
me. y
Now let me call your attention to another dis.
trict in Pennsy sylvania-the one represented
with such ability by John Hickman. Great
applause. OF this man ! claim the right to
speak, for he has won high lhoonors at the
hands OF the p"GEie p',@Gpie. No man whom | have
, met has proved himself so equal to the great
occasions in which he has figured no man
was more devoted to Mr. Buchanan in 1854.
and again in 1856. But one day he met Mr..
Buchanan in the cars. Mr. Hickman said to
him, A." How is it that you are in favor of ma.
king Kansas a slave State; | want you to tell
me how you stand on this question:" Mr.
Buchanan told Mr.. Hickman, Il have not the
exact words of the conversation, but can fur.
nish them if necessarily 81 am Northern
| man. all my instincts are Northern was
born and bred in Pennsylvania; am in fa-
vor of the admission Of Kansas as a free
State" That was before the election in 1856.
and upon this warrant, thus spoken without
the pledge Of secresy, Mr. Hickman went be-
| fore his constituents and he was reelected,
and he was found to be one Of the first in
| Washington to tremendous cheers oppose
! Lecomptonism in all its phases. Then began
| the most fearful prosecutions upon public
man which it has been my lot to witness. A
| series of prosecutions and prescriptions and
| abuse began, which will not attempt to de-
! scribc-so much so, that Mr.. Hickman was
| compelled to 20 armed, in order to defend
| himself Yet he has triumphed day and
! night he toiled, and the result has been that
| he is returned to Congress by handsome
majority. Loud cheers. | would that the
| story of that canvass ended here; but regret
| to say that while the people of his district
! fhalr akDo LODI Of
services, his beloved and gifted wife, who par
! ticipated in all his hopes and fears, who had
been the stay of his life, tottered into his libra
| ry and died in his arms. | would not profane
| the sacredness of his grief by political allu-
sions, but | am obliged to believe that she
was the victim of the remorseless persecution
| that pursued him. can very
we'll imagine how Mr.. Buchanan feels at the
| present moment; how he goes back over the
! unfortunate steps of the last two years how
| he seeks excuses for the great disaster that
has befallen himself and his policy for in
| our State this was not question of the tariff
| or revenue laws-it was simply an issue be-
! tween Mr.. Buchanan and the people upon his
| Kansas policy. There was not, there could
not be- any pretext; the issue was fairly tried,
and the result is before the country. As
Mercutio said when he received the stab Jc
! the indignant Thiabault, The wound is not
as deep as a well, iivr as wide as a church
dc3T, but Il aciH do" Tremendous applause.
We say to this Administration We have
fought you when you had nearly four years of
Federal power before you, and were surround
ed by hungry army of unfed and nsatiate
hounds; and we shall fight you now, when
YOU have but little more than two years of
power and your dogs have nearly all been
gorged. Great cheering The whole career
Of Anti. Lecomptonism has been a career of
triumph; we have driven these usurpers from
one point to another we compelled them to
abandon their L"compton policy; we com
PEELED them to abandon the EEghsh bill, and