Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-06

stitution and long for its restoration, would
be so governed and controlled as TO use the
power of his administration to make Kansa,
a slave State. The North believed that
Buchanan would be so influenced. To break
that belief and to hold the mass of the Dem
ocracy and the people of the North to vote
for the Democratic candidate for the Presi.
dency, Mr. Buchanan and his friends prom
ised that his administration, in case of his
election, should exert its influence to have
Kansas admitted as q free State. The
promise was everywhere proclaimed in the
North. They said, "vote for Buchanan,
Breckinridge, and free Kansas" The prom
Use of Buchanan and his friends influenced
4 sufficient number of voters to cast their
ballots for Buchanan, and he became Presi-
dent in 1856
The promise Of free Kansas, how was
that kepta Mr.. Buchanan appointed John
W. Geary, of Pennsylvania, Governor of
Kansas. Geary went there, believing that
Buchanan would keep his promise, but soon
he felt that the influence of the administra-
tioa was in favor of the men who wanted
/ Kansas 10 be admitted as . slave State.
Geary had been one of the strictest North
ern Democrats, but he could not stand the
deception be could not endure to be used
as tool TO further the interests of slavery
when he, too, had promised TO oil 10 whom
he spoke in the campaign that Buchanan
was pledged to free Kansas. He addressed
Mr.. Buchanan and reminded the admins
tration OF the promises that had been made,
but the answer that he received was instruc-
I ion that urged him to . closer attention TO
the interests of the men who were striving
to make Kansas slave State. He informed
the administration that if its pledges and
promises could not be carried out, he would
be compelled TO resign. Ar. Buchanan said /,
Well, Mr.. Geary, You may resign. The next
Governor wa, Robert J. Walker, . veteran
Democrat, man Of great ability. His FAM
lily protested against Lis acceptance of the
appointment. His sister, Mrs. Cook, plead
uOt ~ kO " N auShs sAS lls uOfCf-
nor. He disregarded all protests, aud the
result was the same ss with NJ. Geary. He
de sired to hold the administration to its
promises, but he, 70, his honest efforts, was
told that his resignation would be accept
ed a., and he resigned. James Buchanan went
out of office without Kansas having been
made free State.
In the light of The historic past; in the
light of the promises of Polk and Buchan-
an, how shoulc the promise of General Han
cock be accepted Men of the same faith
that surrounded Polk and Buchanan will
surround Hancock if be be elected, and they
iii shape his every policy.
The men who lead the Democratic party
seem to be gifted with q craft, or way Of
deception that manifests itself painfully
often The brigadiers employed it often.
In the heat of battle a brigadier or regi-
mental commander would put on uniform
of the Union soldier, put the Union flag at
the head of his column, and thus disguised
march up to the Union line and deliver a
ire before his true character could be re-
vealed. More than one disaster TO the
Union arms was brought about by that man
ner of deception.
Having a knowledge of the broken prom
ises and methods of deception of Hancock's
leading friends, we may know that il is not
20 the interests of the free North to elect
him President. If we help 10 elect him,
and disaster comes TO the free cause, or
cause Of free men, there will be no strong
Republican loyal party entrencbed in the
government, with all the machinery and
power that such position gives, TO resist
the encroachmcnts of the men of the Lost
Cause. They Will keep themselves within
the forms of law, and We will Be compelled
to accept what they give US, or rebel, and
that will be to put US in the place of the
men of the South q, rebels in 1861.
There is no double meaning in their plat
form; il is bold. Mr.. Lyons has spoken as
TO how plain il Is in the third resolution on
the question of tariff. That resolution is for
free trade, or a revenue tariff only, which
amounts to the same thing. On the ques-
tion of tariff they are so strong as TO feel
themsel,e es able to declare for free trade
openly.
On the questions that overshadow even
the great question of the tariff, they are as
pronounced in the Cincinnati platform IS
they can be. In the platform they declare
themselves as pledged anew to "ths CoastI-
fufioadi doctrines qnd tradition, Of the DEM
ocratic party"
trines and traditions of the Democratic
party 2" They comprehend everything that
was lost by the LOST Cduse in Rebellion.
Hancock says, yes, 1 accept the Cincin-
natl platform in its full meaning, and sin
gulariy enough, how all his public utter
ances and acts coincide with the platform
and the faith that it expresses allegiance to.
In his letter to General Sherman during
the HAYES and Tilden excitement, he says:
Thomas Jefferson is my bean ideal of a
statesman. He inaugurated himself. Was
that hintl Gentlemen, you can interpret
that language perhaps as well as any one.
Sir. iiI resurrects J. J.s-rson, and when he
does so he resurrects the first historical or
traditional character OF the Democracy.
Jefferson was the father Of the doctrine OF
State Rights; the same doctrine that Cal
houn made his reputation on, and the same
doctrine under which South Carolina at
tempted notification in 1892. The same
doctrine of secession that took the South
ern States ont of the Union in 1861, and
Order No. 40, that Hancock issued while in
command at New Orleans, was the same
doctrine as applied by Andy johnson in his
efforts to nullify the reconstruction mea-
sures or laws as passed by Congress. Han
cock, by his avowal Of doctrine, has proven
how near he stands to the Democracy and
how fit he will be as President for the brig