The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-02
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Perhaps nothing illustrates the quality OF
wbatmay becalled Buchanan morality, more
aptly than the means which are taken by
tile administration influence to misrepresent
the state Of Democratic sentiment and ac-
ton The states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota. ETC., have elected delegates to-
Charleston against the opposition Of the
ADMINISTRATION, and instructed them to vote
for DOUGLAS as the Presidential nominee
And yet alter this fair, direct trial of strength
between DOUGLAS and BUCHANAN, resulting
thus in the triumph of the former, we notice
that lthe Con aaution, the immediate organ
of BUCHANAN, claims part of the delega.
tion from each state, except Illinois, as
opposed to DOUGLAS. This claim Of the
Presidents, mouthpiece is caught up and
echoed byfeach Administration press, and
pensioned adherent, over the country. Ii o' s
This claim, If, it were true, would expose
the BUCHANAN influence to most damaging
suspicion of political immortality. For in
all these states the delegates to Charleston
were elected upon the distinct DOUGLAS
issue; with the certainty that no man could
be elected unless he was pledged to DOUGLASS
support. And this pledge, always demand
ed and given, was clinched by instructions
from the conventions which appointed them.
This being the spirit in which the primary
contests were .waged, and the instructions
given it is apparent that, if any Of these
delegations contain men hostile to DOUGLAS,
they must have got their places through de-
ceit, and that their continuance on the,dele
cations is fraud upon the masses Of the
party, And the Administration in using
the assumed fact as an argument against,
DouGLAs's success, exposes its ,privity with,
the movement, and demonstrates by such
claim its participation, or its readiness to
participate, In such fraud. - '''.',,ei 49,, 10y
But the claim itself is false, And this fact
reveals the Administration in a still worse
light. 1t It's bad enough to lie when the subject
Of the falsehood is, in itself, meritorious but
the lie becomes doubly yenal when such
subject is intrinsically. dishonorable. Thus,
a man may falsely say that be has performed
charities; and we can understand such lying,
because the subject of the lie is creditable,
though the lie itself is sin, But we cannot
comprehend how man could falsely say
that he had robbed ahenroost; because such
lying would be trebly disgraceful- First, by
reason Of its preparation Second, if the
lie was believed, by reason of the criminal
act of robbing; Third, if the lie was dis
credited, by reason Of the implied confession
that the liar would rob henroost, if he got
a chance. Now, this last style of lying is
that adopted by the Administration. In the
first place, it is false that any of the North
western delegates are opposed to DoueLAs; in
the second place, if the Administration claim
to that effect is believed, such belief must
be accompanied by the further belief that
the Administration has been guilty of per-
petrating a fraud upon the party. And in
the third place, the lie, if disbelieved, is
damaging, because its utterance shows that
the Administration would practice a fraud
upon the party, if it got a chance. And
such is the morality of Buchananism. 81