Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-08-03
BEDFORD INQUIRER.
Elegant Extracts.
From John cessna's Gazette, Dec. %, 1858.
HON. j. y. BLACK.

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The distinguished gentleman whose name
| stands at the head of this article, is favorably
spoken of by number of Democratic newspa-
Pers IN this state and elsewhere, as suitable
person to receive the nomination of the Charles
ton Convention for President of the U States.
We we're among the first to express our pre-
ference for the nomination of Judge Black ;
indeed had We been slower to recognize his
claims, we would have been false to our con-
victions of duty and utterly recreant to that
pride of section which nurtures and rears the
great men Of the land
1t is said a1d truthfully, too, that Pennsyl-
vania holds the casting vote 10 the Electoral
Colleges of the Union No President, We
believe, has been chosen by the people, without
the vote of Pennsylvania. The reason of this
is obvious. Pennsylvania, as state, is the
representative of that feeling which binds
together the national confederation She is
the heart and soul, the very vital spark Of the
Union. Her people have no sympathy with
oDe seetlon as against another. They are
neither for he North, nor for tie South, bat
Tor the equal Constitutional rights of each
with this spirit of justice pervading the hearts
and the conscience of her people, PennsyIya-
MA always casts her vote for the candidate
chosen by majority of the electors of the
Union, which majority has thus far held with
her In common her national aud conservative
sentiments. 1t is this that makes Peunsslya.
MIA the keystone of our political arch: not the
number of her populatiou--for sectional and
factional New York exceeds her on that score
NOT her wealth Of mines, and forpes and
manufactories-uot her cities and commercial
har 4, IL
fares; 1t Is her position as the great break
water between fanatioal extremes, her Office as
the conservator of the peace between sections
embittered against each other by the schemes
of crazy theorists, political demagogues aud Of
fee e-bunting knaves like Stephen A. Douglas.
Such being unquestionably the politica. status
OF Pennsylyania, where is the man that is
truer representative of our glorious old coul-
monwealth, than Jeremiah s. Black Search
the record of our statesmen aud where will you
tind bimz New York has her Dickinson.
Virginia her Hunter, Georgia her Cobb, Ili-
nois her Douglas, but where is the representa-
tive man of the great State of PENNSYLVANIA?
The public life of Judge Black warrants us
fully IN regarding him as that mau. He has
always shown himself the equal friend OF all
classes-the advocate of religious as we'll as
evil freedom, the guardian of the rights of
naturallzed as well as of native citizens, and
above all the fearless promulger of the Penn
sylvania idea-union and harmony 6efceen The
states and an end 10 utopian theories and ab
straet1ons on the question Of siauery. Let us,
therefore, have the Representatives man of
Pennsylvania, as the nominee of the Charles.
ton Convention, and no fears need be enter
tanned of the future.
Yet, notwithstanding ali that is said by John
Cessna's Gazette, in the above article, in favor
of Judge Black, serious effort was never
made to make him the candidate. He did not
get vote, we believe, in the Convention, and
the editor and owner of the Gazette, John
Cessna, was there and never voted once for
Black, but all the tune for that ''crazy hporist,
political demagogue, land Office bunting knavs,"
Stephen A. Douglas, as Cessna's Gazette styles
him in the above article. The Gazette was
great Buchanan aud Black paper then, and very
bitter against Douglas, but John Cessna, VIM.
?. Schell and Samuel III. Tate came out for
Douglas fat-footed, and the conductor, not
having any soul or body of his own, did the
bidding of John Cessna & Co. The persons
referred to by Cessna's Gazette, Dickinson, of
~ u, Hunter of Va, Cobb of Ga, as we'll
as Buchauan and that papers fayOrite presi-
Dental caudate, Black, all support Breekin-
ridge and Lane, 10 opposition to Douglas aud
johnson.