The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-08-08
Geo. Saunders to MIR. Bucha nan.


Mr.. Buchanan never had a warmer or
more efficient friend than Geo. Saunders.-
In 1862 Mr.. Saunders was for Douglas, and
after the election of President Pierce he was
sent as Consul to London, and Mr.. Buchan-
an as Minister to the British Court. The
Senate rejected Saunders nomination, and
he returned home after having been official.
ly connected with James Buchanan for up.
wards of year, at the metropolis of the
Queen of England. In 1856, Saunders
abandoned Douglas, or rather insisted on
postponement Of his pretcDsons, and work.
ed like a beaver at Cincinnati for Mr.. Bu-
chanan. The latter, upon his inaugural alton,
gave Saunders the lucrative Office of Sur
veyor or the Port Of New York, from which
he has recently been removed because he
was for Douglas. Since his removal, Saun.
ders has written letter to Mr.. Buchanan.
He is Kentuckian and a plain talker.-
That our readers may see the style in which
he addresses Mr.. Buchanan, we copy few
paragraphs, but without intending to en-.
dorse the manner, albeit The facts may not
be easily controverted:
Instead of laying aside selfish views, and
Patriotically coming to the rescue of the
Democracy al the recent Convention, you
formed an executive and Congressional ca.
bal, to force upon the people a dictatorial
nomination, and platform of unreasonable
and imPracticable issues. A powerful, com.
pact minority OF Northern delegates, Federal
retainers f1agrantly misrepresenting their
constituencies, and in many cases voting
against direct Instructions, failed, however,
to shake the true representatives. of the peo.
Pile, who would, perhaps, have, indeed, been
Justified in boiling nomination accomplish
ed by means SO nefarious. Yet not in the
darkest hours OF the fierce battles at Charles
ton and Baltimore-the only fields in which
the Federal Executive aud Congressional
cabal had particle of power did the re.
presentatives Of the people for one momen.
contemplate abandoning the Convention.-
That such man. and the clique around him,
should scduce any large portion of delegates
into the mad act Of secession, gives only the
greater value TO our elastic institutions.
which so rapidly return the unfaithfui
magistrate to the comparative harmlessness
Of private life. The halIucination under
which you and your coadutors have been
aboring, however, that National Conven.
tions could be controlled by Executive and
Senatorial stratagem, was dispelled by the
triumph OF the people at Baltimore.
The Cincinnati platform was good enough
for VOu with Tamns Runh,pon A.
undertaking statesman upon it; but the bravo
and true Douglas, because he was not your
mouthPiece and shadow, needed q more
stringent rule. You were very earnest dur.
ing your own canvass, in declarations of the
necessity of your election upon the Cincin.
natl platform to save the country. You
thought the election of Fremont over your.
sell and that declaration Of principle, was
sufficient cause for the dissolution of the
Union. Now, with its provisions strength.
ened, you, asPresident, are aiding Lincoln
with all your oiled machinery. It will be-
difficult, however, for you to convince the
nation that the institutions of the countrv
would be any safer under Lincoln than thew
would have been under the less fanatical
Fremont. Instead Of heavily taxing YOUR
office holders to initiate Breckenridge tickets
North, it would be brave and generous, COM
paratively, the result being the same, to
order them to 60 direct for Lincoln. Your
hands reeking with Democratic gore, YOU
thus essay to deliver over the betrayed South
into the fois of Republican intervention
Your A administration will be marked in his.
tory as the fomentor of anarchy and civil
war. There is nothing so base that you
would not do to prolong your power mad.
ness seems TO possess you-to have no sue:
cessor, to leave no Government behind YOU
like the miser who clutches his bag of
gold in his dying hour, and refuses even to
will 1t 10 another, lest It should loosen his
hold upon it in bis last moments.
When the Democratic party was in the
throes of its present dismemberment, and
you were telegraphet of the fact-a fact
which would have awakened painful emo!
tion in the heart of any honest Democrat
the only excitement visible in your sordid
nature was intense rage at the cost of the
despatch.
lncongruous associations nlwsys accom-.
pany political irregularities. The Admins.
tration having dragged the party into the
vortex Of fire, carries with it from the North
to the feet ofthe Disuuions,s, the place men,
the men spoiled by long official life, imbed-
ded fossils, incapable of arousng themselves
to the immnence Of the occasion. The
young, brave, and gallant patriots at the
North are on the side of Douglas and the
country-t Is the militia of rs against
George III. 1t is the revolution of 1913
against John Adams and old Federalism.
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