Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-26
OLD TINE POLITICS.
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ORAffo srArEsMES.
- nopsnss 70 Invitations to Attend Demo
eeoese Csssbrssos - Harrisburg. Jaiy 4,
1oAs -AIso, One From General sam
ususssa n Attend similar Cs,ebrs-
don NJ Carlisle, Forty Years Ago


Tho near approach Of our national ann
Ssfsary reminds me that short time sine
!% Col. ,. Brisbln Boyd, OF this city, placed !
my hands batch OF letters and tossts, whic
~ has had IN his possession for many year.
Through bis kindness, am enabled to Civ
your readers the gist OF these letters, whic
have q peculiar Significance now, as the,
wore written by the then leaders OF the Penn
syivanis Democracy. All but one of the dis
tinguished men are dead. The letters ar
remarkably well preserved, aud the hand
writing OF the authors shows they did no
consider IL sign OF genius or distinction O
greatness that their penmanship should b
OF q character that no one Except he be al
editor, reporter or some poor devil of com
positor) could read it They were not tn
work of private secretaries or type writers
but the thoughts of the men themselves
written by them evidently with a good old
fashioned goose quill, and in such a manner
that they could be read aud understood by
almost any one.
Tho Writer'S
The letters were written by James Bu-
chsnan, George M. Dallas, Daniel Sturgeon,
Henry A. Muhlenberg, Francis X. Skunk,
Reah Frazer, Simon Cameron, Charles Nc.
Clure and job Mann. The committee of
Invitation, to whom the letters were ad
dressed, consisted of John Maglauchlin, G.
3. Kendig, William Clark and Charles Car
son. They were all prominent citizens.
Major Maglauchlin had been formerly a
citizen OF Elz,bethtown, Lancaster county,
was brigade inspector there, and was subse-
sequently an alderman in this city; Kendig
was a colonel in the Old Pennsylvania
militia; Clarx had been member of the leg
isiature from Perry county, was brlgadier
general oil militia, then contractor aud con-
structei the old tunnel on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Elizsbethtown; Carson had been
n mercbant- was once register of n,unhi,
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y, anu was aoAr ,nspec'or onaer 'he
oiu ooaru Oh Canal commissioners. he was
brother OF your venerable and esteemed
fellow citizen, Mr.. Henry p. Carson.
The Occasion.
l., o,,,a,,,o, Will, tho ,o,,a~s oro ,,o ,,-r
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think they were published in what was then
the Democratic Union, the forerunner OF the
present ably-conducted Harrisburg Fatriot.
This is the quaint way in which the editor
preiaces them:
me fourth OF July was celebrated by
.Svs;os,.a .,,., W a'aIsS Win al en- en-
was formed in the mnrnino under tho diran'
ton of the chief marshal Of the day and his
assistants, and proceeded to Fortney's woods,
wherea q dinner had been prepared for the
ccnasioh py Mr. Cnaries Buehier: The num-
Ders on the GROUNDS TAR exceeded any poliii-
cal celebration IN our borough for many
years. although large preparations had
Deeh mace, all could not be accommodated.
Inc sPlfit whlch prevailed, the harmony ana
were as prai,tv,np To the friends OF Dane
cracy .s tbey ware ai.rmine, 20 thair 90
Dnnsots >, ~
The Declaration OF Independence was read
Dy a Mr. Stoughton, who was q son-in law
OF the late James Peacock, postmaster of
Harrisburg from 1872 To lSi7 An Grafton in
the English language was delivered by Mr..
Lavld PooI, and an address in German by
Mr.. George oletz Ihe guest was the late
ex Governor Blgler, th.n state senator
rom Clearheld, and the editor says, in
response 10 a toast, he replied "in an able
ann nappy manner
bu. the preliminarles are growing too
lengthy. hat you want Is the letters, aud
these will he given you at once, together
Win sothe "reminiscences OF the men VINO
wToto tnehi. VIII Dsgln Win tnat OF
James buchanan.
The handwriting of Pennsylyanis's "a
yorIte son - il the very mink of neatness and
.,Sa..s, f.'N " "''.
f,',1, 20. ,.is - so'"o'nins aoou' ~
s,n, ~non inu''a.es n staIeilless' Ioenialily anu
eyery letter carefully formed. and every
and tscrupulousIv dotted and crossed Eaw
pubic men wrote or write now more beau
nIui hand than that lying before me. Mr..
Buchanan feels honored by the Harrisburg
invitation, ana SAYS "if it were not for a
previous engagement, should certainly ac.
cept your invitation. 1t Is now the auld
l..