Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-04-05
Mr.. Foster and the Democracy in 1857.


in the election Of Gen. Cameron, several
democrats preferriug the latter to either
Forney or Foster The democratic papers
were quite severe on the q traitors" and
denounced them by wholesale. Among
others, the Lock Haven Watchman has
resusciated some articles from the Clinton
Democrat, edited by II. L. Difenbach, now
Deputy Secretary of State, the frst of
which is as follows:
He (Foster) is lawyer, has served two
or three terms in Congress, and is now men,
Der of the Legislature. He did not distiu.
guish himself in either Of these positions,
! and he may not be aS able as his friends rep
resent him to be, for they have fashion Of
/ making great men Of rather scanty material
/ IN the western part Of the State"
| From the same paper Of the 10Th of JAN
uary, 1857, we find the news of the cleo
ton of United States Senator recorded
as follows
ELECTION OF U. S. SRxAroR.-Both
Houses of the Legislature met in convention
on Tuesday last, for the purpose of electing a
| L. ). Senator. On the first ballot the vote
stood:
For John W. Forney, Dem, SIS
- Simon Cameron, Bl. Rep, 81
Henry b. Foster, Traitor, 6
In the issue of the Clinton Democrat of
the 23rd of January 1857, we find the
following;
"This result is most humiliating That
the Democratic party should labor for months
to convince the people of the business of their
cause, and then to be deprived of the fruits
Of their victory, by the grossly indecent
treachery Of few vile miscreants is as NOR.
titying TO every honest man as it is base, sor
did and villainous in the scoundrel perpetra-
tors of the wrong" He then adds . But one
motive can be assigned. The base Judases,
Foster among them, have been purchased like
sheep"
In the same paper of the same date in
another column we find the following:
The SENATORIAL ELECTION -When we
spoke OF this shameful event in our last issue,
our information was derived from telegraphic
dispatches, We have the full history of the oc-
currence now. Forney, Democrat, had SO
votes Cameron, Republican 81 Foster T-qt-
tor, and Mr.. Foster himself voted for Mr..
wilkins. What excuse these rascals make
for their treaehery, OR whether any, we are
not informed. 10 style them Judases is to
SANDER old Iscariot, for though he betrayed
his Lord, lie was decent enough to hang him
self Immediately afterwards which these trai
tors, we regret to say, have not as yet done.
1t is mockery of language to attempt to
characterize their conduct. There is nothing
meaner than an ingrate-nothing so villain
Gus as a traitor, and Foster is guilty of both.
The motive OF the act is clear--no other than
pecuniary profit
The BoLTERs.-U. D. Foster John Fau-
said, Samuel Hill, of Westmoreland j. X.
Calhoun, Of Armstrong r. j. Nicholson, of
Jefferson S. A. Backers of Mexican: G.. n. |
Smith, Of Cambria and John Cresswen ir.
If Blair were the Democrats who refused to
attend the Democratic caucus and supper its
nominee. We look upon these men as trai-
tors.
Among the incidents of the victory of the
Democratic party last fall, was the right to
be represented in the L. S. Senate, for the
term commencing on the 4th of March next. |
The victorious party had won the right to
choose the Senator And none but a major |
ity could make a proper selection for the par
ty of the Legitimate fruits Of its victory and
cheated it out of its right. In this light the !
conduct Of the boilers is wholly indefensible. |
" AS to Foster himself, we know but little |
about him. We spoke Of him before the Sen
atorlal election rs one who had served in max !
ing known to the people of the State that |
such man lived. We said that he had |
friends in the western part of the State, who |.
spoke Of him in high terms, but as they had |
4 fashion of making great men out of small !
material In that quarter, We did not know
whether he was all he was represented to be. |
But he has now succeeded in making him. !
self known, and no one will now have much |
difficulty III measuring the calibre, his patri. |
otism, or his love for the Democratic Party. |
His seihshness, his factiousness, his weak !
ness, puerlhty stand out conspicuously to the |
gaze of the public. lie has voluntarily plac. |
ed himself beyond the pale of the Democratic |
fold, and there let him stand, or fall, or wal !
low, as best suits his tastes. We admire an .
independent man, but despise puerile fac |
zionist. The littleness Of soul that mistakes |
unreasonable factiousness and stubbornness !
tor independence, characterizes selfshness !
under ell circumstances, and we have never /
seen more thorough exhibition of these !
traits than has been exhibited by Henry D. |
Foster, throughout the recent Senatorial struo.
gle."
There, reader, you have good Democrat
ic testimony in regard to the political and |
private character of Henry d. Foster, the |
present Democratic nominee for Governor;
you can believe it or not We give it to
you as VIC find it, without further comment
Pennsylvania Legislature.
1t is almost impossible, from the mass of