The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1872-09-04


in the hour of the nations fate9 No
one can answer this better than him
self, and as, like Col. Forney, we like
"fair play" we proceed to give Bucka-
LEWIS own record: "Shortiy after my
election (to the United States Senate
az July 1868, / prepared an essay up.
on the existing political situation in
this country, and especially with refer
ence to the war that was then pend
ing" Bearing in mind the date, the
reader will observe, that, while Penn
sylvania bad raised and put in the field
one hundred and eighty-three regi-
ments, and while tens of thousands of
! her sons had been MANNED or killed in
battle, and while every true heart was
throbbing with prayerful anxiety, and
every manly voice was raised in the
Union cause, Mr.. Charles Il. Bucka-
lew sat stoiid and Indifferent for t,reafy-
seuen months, and only declared him
self in "an essay" after he was elected
to the Senate. The temple was fired,
the incendiarv was still plying his
torch, the edifce threatened to crum
BILE away, and its loyal sentinel, in
view of all, sat quietly down, like
statesman, to discuss in can essay" the
danger of fire and boldness of the in
cendiary, without any attempt to ar
rest either. But even this was an en-
forced duty. 1t will be remembered
that the Democratic party in 1862, on
its 1cdr record, swept the country along
with Pennsylvania. 1t thus secured
the Legislature by majority of one.
The battles of Gettysburg and Vicks-
burg had been won, aud the end was
supposed to be near at hand. 1t was
safe then TO discuss abstract questions,
and especially so as Mr., Buckalew
could not be disturbed in his place for
six long years. He could parade
patitudes for patriotism, but in so do.
ing, he could deceive nobody as to the
fixed fact that from the outset of the
war, for t'co gears and three months, and
at time, too, when his country need
ed everything 10 save it from destruc-
tioi., Charles r. Buckalew never utter
ed one loyaL acord, or made sign oil
fidelity to the URiOn For what he
voted and how he voted, we shall dis
cuss again. His feeling is typified in
his silence as stated by himself. It is
further illustrated by a singular cir.
cumstance that both he and Judge
Black accidently met at Niagara Falls
afterwards, and held intercourse with
Holcombe, the traitor, whose mission
was to disrupt the Eastern and West
ern States" and to carry the war;"
in the words of JEFF Davis, "achere
food for slcord and torch await our ar.
mics in the densely populated cities
which took years of in
dustry and millions of money to
build" To verify this production.
and to fulfill the promise Of President
Pierce, that "the fighting will not be
along Mason and Dxon's line merely"
but "it arW be luitbjn oar o,Cn borders,
an our o,Cn Streets" was Holcombe's
work, and, with such scoundrel,
Buckalew, in his loyalty, found fitting
companionship. 1t will take more
than his craftsmanship, or the testimo-
ny of his oo-conspirator to satisfy the
people of Pennsylvania that this hob
nobbing was not purposed and premed-
itaied
The rest of this most remarkable
effort is of the usual material-a
clamor for "reform" without any plan
of reaching it except the poor recourse
of Buckalew's election. He suggests
no measures of immediate relief, much
less does he pledge himself to any di-
rect policy of action. His pledges are
not worth the breath required to utter
them, and the reform" that would be
brought about may be guessed after re.
viewing his faithlessness as a Senator.
Divested of its fEoth, this Lancaster
pronunciamento is the lamest and
tamest appeal that this campaign has
yet evoked. AS defence it falls of
its own weight-while, as q campaign
document it is thousand times worse
than n wet blanket. If Mr.. Bucka-
lew proposes a canvass of the State on
that line he will discover long before
October that what he knows about
campaigning is infinitesilnally little
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