Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-07-16
4 Rreckinridge Triumph.

from tnaC DreckinrldSe IacClOn, WHICu Aio'
divided the Democratic party, and then dl-
Yided the Union. Some of them, however,
went last Friday to the Party -above-Coun-
try Convention at Harrisburg, hoping to
regulate, if not to control, its action. But
they were outnumbered, and were placed
in subordinate position throughout. *F.
W. Hughes, most malignant secession
sympathizer-one of those most promln-
ent in uttering the falsehood that "Polk IS
a better tariff man than Clay"-was made
the President, and appoints the State Com
mittee, himself the Chairman lover Rich
ard Vaux.
The resolutions are of the Kane Let
ter" web of contradictions. They have
gloss of patriotism intended to seduce the
casual reader at the same time, they will
suit every rebel sympathizer, and JEFF. Da-
Wis would say that-for our State, at this
time-they are the best calculated to aid
him: for the men elected under it would
cooperate with him, no matter what cheat
they used to obtain the power. We will
copy the resolutions, side by side with
those of the Peoples Convention, when
the latter shall be held, that all readers
may judge OF the SPIRIT of the two Plat
forms
James 2. Barr, of Pittsburg, was nomi-
mated for Surveyor General. He is editor
of the Post, and is described to us by gen.
tlemen who know him as slippery, oily
politician, fit for any desperate work. He
once nominated Buchanan for reelection
next came out for Douglas and is now
in full faith with those who killed Doug
las at Charleston. Professedly war man,
he hinders the Administration in measures
necessary to success.
Isaac Slenker, of Union county, for Au-
ditor General, is a more consistent politi-
clan, having boasted of his uuvarying par
ty fealty, and only one year ago not only
acknowledging his vote for Breckinridge,
but justitying his. vote. He is respecta-
Bile lawyer, slow and plodding III his turn
for business. In our late local legal con-
tests, Democratic Judges decided him all
wrong in the expense and i'll feeling in
which he plunged his clients and the coun-
ty. In the peculiar qualifications for Au-
ditor General, all who know them both
must admit the superiority of Mr.. Cochran,
the incumbent, who will be renomipated
at once.
On the slavery and war question, Mr..
Slenkcr has an unenviable record. In
1910, he stood on the Free Soil Platform
of Saml. ". Black, Gamble, fyiiEot, &c.
In Union county, he aided Shriner, He
kok and others in support Of the Pittsburg
Platform
THAT it ia no part of the Compromises Of
the Constitution that Slavery should forever
90 with the advancing tide Of our Territorial
progress" and similar sentiments.
He has since repudiated that sentiment,
and ip Feb 18Gl-when 6 or 8 States had
| seeded, after stealing % or 40 forts, ar
senals, mints, &C., when the rebels had
fired on the Star of the West, and pro-
claimed Jeff Davis their Presidcnt-Mr
Slenker endorsed the following (among
other) resolutions at the Lewisburg Con-
vention:
Resolred, 2, That we deprecate civil war, as
we believe that this UNION can NEVER be
maintained by force of arms, and that as
| Democrats we are not willing to take
up arms to support platform which ma.
! jority of the people repudiated and opposed
at the polls.
3. That we cordially approge the policy Of
| the National Administration, [Buchanan'sl in
its arise and conciliatory course in the present
perilous condition of the country"
By that Convention he was sent Dele
gate to the Democratic Convention at Har.
risburg, and left Court to attend it. He
was Vice President of that body, which
--22d Feb. 1861, when the rebellion was
as open as fagrant-aided and applauded
it by the following infamous Resolution:
18th. That we will, by all proper and legi
innate means, oppose, discountenance and
prevent any attempt on the part of the
Republicans in power to make any armed
aggression upon the Southern States, espec
ially SO long as laws con travening their riqht
shall remain unrepealed on the statute books
of Northern States, and so long as the Jus
unrecognized by the Republican majoritie
ia these States, and unsecured by prone
amendatory explanations of the Constitu ton
1t is true he afterwards yielded to the
storm of popular indignation that wa