The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-09-29

How PENNSYLVANIA WAS CARRIED. For
ney very frankly tells .how Pennsylvania was
J carried for Buchanan. 1t was carried by q
, fraud, and this fraud was participated IN by
! southern democrats-by Cobb, Floyd, Scott,
; and many others. But let Forney tell the his
tory himself. He says:
! owe went intothe canvass. 1t fell to my lot
to be at the head of the State democratic COM
:. mttee of Pennsylvania. All my affections
were and aresin that State; all the emotions OF
my nature physical and mental, were enlisted
, on the side of the candidate she had present
ed His whole career, his character, my per-
: sonal attachment, and the sincere devotion
felt for him, his family, his cause and all about
2 him, made me so anxious for him to succeed,
that indulge in no vain expression of speech
: when say to you that | would have forfeited
: my life for him Ny devotion for him knew
{ no bounds. Day and night, night and day, l
toiled in that campaign. And there are those
9 here to- day from my own State who will bear
witness to the fact when | say that all my own
g resources, all my fortune, every exertlon, eV-
7 cry aid that could be enlisted was evoked to
: produce the final result Above all other
A questions in that campaign was the great prin-
ciple of popular (squatter) sovereignty. That
, was the standard which always marshaIed the
I way. That was the shibboleth-that was the
} war cry. From lake Erie to the Delaware
! from Pittsburg to Philadel phia-in every VII
, lage and town in the Stationery where that
, I could induce pen to write, or tongue to
speak, that was theme upon which those pens
wrote, and those tongues spoke. Why, gen
| tlemen, Mr.. Buchanan had no contidants upon
/ this subject He was public, he was open, he
7 was unreserved in his declarations to every
: body He sent to the traduced John Hck-
a man in an adjoining county. He told him.
. through his friends and agents: "Iou, Mr..
hickman, occupy peculiar relation; you voted
e for the Topeka constitution; you denounced
It the Kansas Nebraska bill; you, too, were op-
y posed to the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise line; the democratic party of your dis
s, trict have nominated you; the republicans like
) you; they believe in YOU Now, want you
$ to take the stump and 60 before your people,
e and pledge me, James Buchanan, that intend
s standing by, and, if necessary, dying by, this
: principle Of popular sovereignty" For my
e SELF if I could descend to the baseness of pub
n fishing private letters, l mi ght fill a volume
: with similar pledges from high authority
Why, gentlemen, when the distinguished Sc
: cretary of the treasury, Mr.. Cobb, who, from
e having been a superline union man. has been
converted into tire-eater equal to Mr.. Chau-
! bert hnnself-when Mr.. Cobb came into Penn
S sylvana, and traversed our State from end to
: end, and from county to county, talking to de-
q lighted audiences all the time, what was the
burden of his theme? Why, popular sove-
y reignty He said, in substance: 81 would take
the army and navy, ! would use every power
j. of the federal government, would surround
It the territory, but what the people of Kansas
i should vote, and by their vote the destinies Of
i the future State should be decided
''Whenever southern orator came into Penn
syvana and called upon me, | said to him
Nov, sir have but one thing to say to you;
we have but single thing before the people;
every day is making the campaign more and
S more doubtful; every day is making the popu-
= lar feeling more and more intense; Mr.. Buch-
anan himself feels that every thing depends up
0 on the prudence, the sagacity and the spirit of
cancellation by which this campaign is con-
J Quoted; and for God sake take care what you
) say about Kansas; leave your violent southern
feelings at home; you must not come to threat
$ en-; you, governor Johnson, and you too, Mr..
K Scott, of Richmond, and you, Mr.. Extra Billy
Smith, and you Mr.. secretary Floyd, all of you,
, must remember that if you lose this battle
, here, you lose it altogether; it will be your
l loss, and therefore you must allow us to man
S age it in our own way" And they did ac-
/ cede to that policy without any protestation,
and gladly. There was no deception in that
fight at least so far as | was concerned. l
: sowed the State with private letters and pri-
vate pledges upon this question. There is not
0 a county in Pennsylvania in which my letters
may not be found, pedgng Mr.. Buchanan, in
his name, and by his authority, to the full,
complete and practical recognition OF the rights
of the anti-savery people of Kansas to de-
eide upon their own affairs.
t The Washington Union having asked for a
n general expression OF southern opinion" In
: favor or against Douglas, as regards the issue
Q of the pending Illinois canvas, the Louisiana
0 Courier expresses itself in this wise:
owe join the Union in the hope that the
southern press generally will freely give its
opinion on the Douglas controversy, and sag
whether they prefer Douglas to Lincoln. The
Union says it does not. We and other south
;; ern papers say we do-emphatically do. We
i hope the southern press will speak out freely
i and fully"
5 The Courier closes its remarks in the follow
ing significant words:
owe rather fancy that the cat which the
Union had been concealing so cunningly, is let
out OF the bag in the paragraph about the
, Charleston convention. There is prevailing
fear in this part Of the country that the Union
: is not now representing the interest of the ad-
ministration, but is devoted to the personal in
terests of some people who are scheming for
i their own private advantage, and who are try
ing to destroy Mr.. Douglas for their own pri-
vate purposes, regardless of the interests of the
! democratic party. Many people have belief
l that the war on Douglas in the Union, is a per-
sonal and private war, and looks to the personal
advantage of some particular elfproposed
l. candidate who intends to come before the
= Charleston convention. Therefore, among the
other reasons, they are mortified and outraged
o at the course of the Union, and therefore they
Il are more and more strengthened in their dis
position to adhere to their reliance on State Or
CARNATIONS, regardless of opinions at Wash