Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-01-24

ney General, bis deputy in Columbia
county. The duties of that Office were
discharged as Mr.. Buckalew has alway'
discharged every duty he has assumed,
most thoroughly and most clIicieutly.--
From the time OF his appointment up to the
year $50, he was constantly identified
with the political movements OF his county
and district lie was either Senatorial
or Representative delegate to several State
Convention during those years. His poll
iiical olliuitias were with the party Of which
the Hon. Andrew Beaumont was the re.
cognizcd head, and in lS43, he supported
Samuel p. Ceilings, the nominee Of lu-
zernG county. for Congress, against
IIeudrick y. Wright, the candidate Of
Columbia and Wyoming. ln 1880, he
was appointed one Of tho Commissioners
to investigate the affairs OF the Bank of
Susguehanna county, and acquired during
the investigation and some Impression in
relation to men which materially affected
his subsequent legislative action, and which
have been followed by some most saIutary
results.
In $50, he was elected to the State
Senate. The relations Of parties in his
district had long becu modified by the
struggle for the removal of the seat of
justice OF Columbia county from panviIle
TO Bloomsburg, and the contest was an
excited and bitter one. II was elected
by a very gratifying majority, tae county
Of Luzorno giving him a vote considerably
exceeding the party strength. In 1903,
hs was reelected by majority largely
increased. In the summer 0f 1854, he
was absent in South America ~ a bearer
of dispatches from the United States
government to the commander # The ax-
petition against Paraguay. At the ex-
piraton Of his second term. the district
had been changed by new apporIion.
ment, aud in the Columbia district, the
o.licc was already filed. In 1851, he
was Chairman of the State Central Com
miitoe, and in that capacity had charge OF
th3 campaign resulting in tile election Of
Governor 2 ckor, judge Thompson and
Judge Strong. The quiet vigor aud skill
with which that cJulptl was conducted.
are well remembered by the Democracy.
The views announced during The canvass, q,
followed rs they were by the assurances
given in the inaugural Address in its rec
ference to State politics, gave a degree of
confidence in the future to the people e
Pennsylvania which they had not felt for
years. This Is no place for any allusion
to causes which destroyed the ground for
ihat confidence. While Engaged in the
duties Of thairman OF the State Com
mittce, u contest for the nomination OF
Senator in the Nolumbil District was
going on. : he di.trict was composed of
,onr counties, and after repeated aud
pro,racted efforts, it was ioand that no
oae OF the candidates prescnted by the
ounty Conye tious would sucrred -
The name Of Mr.. Buclalew was intro =
duccd at this stage Of the contest and the
result was his nomination by the conIGr
ence on the ll0th Uallot tIe was elrcl-
cd and remained IN the Senate during
the session Of 1853, and at lis ooso was
appointed with Judge Lcwis and Judge
huoX upon the commission to revise tbs
Penal CoIe.--.u July, 1859, he Vas
appointed b. !'re,idcnt Buchanan Amer
Ican Minister in Ecuado-, and resigniug
his place in the Senate and bis position
as Code Commissioned, he accepted the
appointment, lelt dis country in August,
1893, and remained abroad until August,
1861 Since his return, he has rpsld d
in and near B.o)msburg, wh re 1t is hi
purpose to make his home throughout his
.le.
During the whole period Of hs service
in the Senate, Mr.. Buckaew vas int: =
ma ely identified with the entire lcgisia
!on and the whole political policy OF the
State. His theories OF government were
defined and maturld long before II became
necessary to act upon them. Starting
with the miximj OF the iarmers otthu
Constitution, who.e views as 10 the rcla a,
lions Of the National and State govern
ment were precisely those which Mr.
Jefferson subsequently enforced, and
rogret'ing the departure from tho spirit
of those maxims which is apparent in the
early action of the National Government,
he was prepared in entering public life
to accommodate himself 20 the existing
ordrr of things, and to aid in maintain
ing institutions which seemed even then
imperilled. To al! questions connected
with Stale interests, he gave careful in.
vcstigation and immense labor, He has
left upon the statute book the results OF his
efforts in behalf of sound principles in
forms that are constantly and practically
beneficial and salntary. The State is
indebted to him for much that is valuable
in the laws relating to corporations,to to the
License system, aud 10 iuancc, ile project.
ed aud carried through the cons sltutional
amendments of 1857. The provision
regulating the representation of cities,
embraced in those amendments, was the
inauguration Of an entirely novel theory
OF fundamental law in Pennsylvania, and
it is perhaps not too much to say, that
the position of no other public man in the
State was sunh at to have enabled him,
at that time. to effect that object As
already stated, Mr. Buckalew was not in