STAR OF THE NORTH. R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Bloonisbenr, Wednesday. Jane 28, 1856- DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES BUCHANAN, OF PENNSYLVANIA. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCY. CANAL COMMISSIONER, GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia County. AUDITOR GENERAL, JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery Co. SURVEYOR GENERAL, TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter County. WANTED AT THIS OFFICE. An active intelligent boy as an apprentice to the printing business. One of 17 or 18 years desirable. Perverse and Malicious Spirits. There are some people who have so much of malice and bile in their nature that noth ing has to them its natural color. They feel eo ugly within that they must pervert and distort to some evil intent every thing they hear and read. If they cannot be happy themselves they determine that no one else shall be so. And judging others by their own malignity, they cannot believe that any intent of the human mind can be good. They are determined to misunderstand, and find it easy to deceive themselves; for it is a very true saying that none are so blind as those who will not see. It would be a shab by world if a writer was always compelled to furnish these people brains to understand, along with the matter to be read. We remember some years ago we wrote a handsome eulogiura upon the death of Clay, and afterward in another article con trasted him favorably as a national states man against such sectional factionists as Se ward and Johnston, as being "Hyperion to a Satyr." This expression was Greek to one poor fool who ran about with the paper among some of his wise friends asking "what does this mean!" but predetermined that it must be something very bad; and finally satisfying himself that it was abusing Henry Clay to call him a Hyperion to whom others famed as great were only Satyrs.— Of course nobody would ever be so silly as to reason with such a pitiful fool, for it would only be casting away the pearls of sensible thoughts and words. But Buch cases are akin with the perver sion of Mr. Buchanan's great speech of 1840 upon the subject of national currency, and in which he argued that the best interest of all citizens is consulted by establishing a firm, safe and steady national currency, which shall not be liable to dangerous fluc tuations, expansions, contractions and bank ruptcies. He went on to show that that coun try is the most prosperous where labor re ceives its greatest actual reward, and not only its highest nominal prices. John Davis of Mass., replied to the speech, and attempted to show that the doctrines contended for by Mr. Buchanan would re quire a reduction of wages in this country corresponding to those in Europe. To this speech was appended a schedule showing that the European rates were as low as ten cents a day. The course of reasoning by which Mr. Buchanan was thus misrepre sented, as something like that by which the Eton law student proved that the eel pie was a pigeon—viz: that an eel pie was a pie of fish—a fish pie was a jack pie—a jack pie was a John pie, and a John pie was a pie John, (pi-geon.) Mr. Davis and the men of his party, who were in favor of a national bank and opposed to the independ ent treasury, assumed that Mr. Buchanan was in favor of a purely specie circulating medium—that the necessary -result of the abolition of bank notes would be a scarcity of money—that a scarcity of money would ( reduce the price of labor, and that, etgo, Mr. Buchanan was opposed to the interests of the laboring classes. ' But as the premises in this argument had no foundation, the conclusion could not fol low. The Opposition. The nomination of Col. Fremont is one of .those political games akin with the origin of Know Nolhingum, and deiigned to catch the thoughtless and unreflecting by a glare of ro mance and novelty. It offer* the same kind of attraction with the hard-ciderand log-cabin campaign of 1840; and appeals to the restless and unsteady spirit of adventure which pos sesses unsettled minds. It does not present the ripe experience of statesmanship which can appeal to calm reason and judgment for support; but instead of character it exhibits romance—instead of principles it relies on wild adventure—and instead of cool reflec tion it appeals to saniimont. The eujerficsl miods whioh look only to the surface are fished for by ibis nomination, just as they were fished for by the secrecy and oaths of the Know Netting conspirators. But even those who are iurioui to folly soon gel tired of the same thing, and will not be tempted by a second experiment on their cre dulity. State Tax. TREASURER HARRIS requests us to say to the taxpayers and lax collectors of the coun ty that be ia very desirable the Slate tax for all past years and some for the present year ehonld be promptly paid up before the 15th of July, to enable Columbia county to se cure its abatement of five per cent., whioh the Slate Treasurer allow* if the State tax is paid before the Ist of August. Dickenson Seminary. Last week the annual exercises took place at Dickenson Seminary, Williamspoit; and they are spoken of by those we have heard as having pasted off quite oreditabfo lo the luatitntion. Diploma* wera granted to Miss Jennie I. Goodlander of Milton, Miae Emily Low of Lime Ridge in tbie county, end Thoe. Care. The Contrast. la the day# of honorable and manly states manship when Webster made his great speech in reply to Hayne he used neither invective nor reproach. He compliment ed the ability and patriotism of the South Carolinian, for men like Webster and Hayne could afford to be just and generous. Alas how have the mighty fallen ! How sadly has the representative of Know-Nothing Massachusetts degenerated from his illus trious predecessor! Sumner afreets a stilt ed scholarship, but natural and graceful el oquence is not in it. Ono paragraph will illustrate how his speech is studied out and manufactured from the brains of others.— He says: "But it cannot be that she acts wrong for herself and children, when in this cause she thus encounters reproach. No! by the generous souls who were exposed at Lex ington—by those who stood arrayed at Bun ker Hill—by the many from her bosom who, on all the fields of the first great struggle, lent their vigorous arms to the great cause of all—by the children she has borne, whose names alone are national trophies, is Mas sachusetts now vowed irrevocably U> this work. What belongs to the faithful servant she will do in all things, and Providence shall determine the result." Demostlienes in his oration on the crown several thousand years ago used the follow ing language: "It cannot be that you have acted wrong in encountering danger barely for the liberty and safety of all Greece. J>fo! by the gen erous souls who were exposed at Marathcm! lly those who stood arrayed at Platea! By those who encountered the Persian fleet at Salami* who fought at Artemisium! By all those illustrious sons of Athens whose re mains he deposited in the public monu ments! # # # What belongs to gallant men they all performed—their success was such as Providence dispenses to each." Scholarship is beet jtroved by the refine ment and amenities which naturally flow from a polished mind; and which constitute both the evidences and the ornaments of civilization. He who aspires to its honors assumes its duties, for these are reciprocal. One poor crack-brained abolition editor foolishly, and in the spirit of Tom Hyer or Yankee Sullivan, boasts that Sumerbeat his antagonist in "sarcasm" and "invective." True orators and noble men like Webster was would scorn such praise as the most disgraceful insult. The San Francisco Kevolatlon. The late unfortunate troubles at San Fran cisco have grown out of the boldness and desperation of the gamblers and "shoulder strikers" of that city. Most of these are off casts from some older city, and some, like Casey, have been Sing Sing convicts. When Ibis fact was charged upon Casey by King, the former did not deny the charge, but said he did not want past acts raked up. for he was very sensitive on that subject. He had a carriage in readiness to convey him to jail for his protection when he shot King. This class of rowdies had become so pow erful in San Francisco that notorious .black legs and "shoulder strikers" like Yankee Sul livan, Ned M'Gowan, Bill Lewis and that stripe of gentry daily stood on the steps of the best hotels, with their hats on three hairs, puffing cigar smoke into (be face of passers by, and hob-nobing with city office holders and Judges of the Courts; until they bade defiance to all law; and Ned M'Gowan lately boasted that no man in the City dared serve a notice on him to leave, adding he was "good for about twelve of them." The people submitted to the law until it ceased to protect society, and it was only after the law was subverted that they quietly re stored order. Cora, the murderer of U. S. Marshall Richardson, was lately put through the farce of a (rial, and could not be convict ed, though the evidence was clear and un contradicted. Casey had got his carriage ready before killing King to secure him safely in jail until he could in like manner escape punibhment. He had just before been enga ged in a murderous affray which grew out of bis ballot box stuffing, so that he appeared to be elected to an office by a large majority, although nobody bad voted for him. The manner in which the ever.l was re ceived by the people indicate the character of the parties. We quote from a San Fran cisco correspondent. "The evening after Mr. King's assassination, Rev. Mr. Lacy was to have preached a sermon in the First Con gregational Church for the benefit of some charity. The meeting was opened at the appointed hour by a most fervent and affect ing prayer for the recovery of Mr. King. At its conclusion, the preacher and the whole audience were in tears. All saw that it was not a time for sermons, and the minister and his people roße involuntarily, as it were, and left the Church. "On that fatal evening every theatre was closed 'on account of the publio calamity,' and a masquerade ball which was to have oome off, was 'postponed to a more suitable occasion.' "The courts have not been able to hold sessions since Wednesday. The people will attend to nothing else until they have righted the city. "The religious papers denounce in much stronger language than (tie secular press the villains that prey upon our vitals, and all of them agree that the lime has come to hurl corrupt Judges (rora their bench, and for the people to take from the courts the execution of the laws until they have been purified. SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES. "Although it was a bright and beautiful day, the different churcbea were but thinly attended, with the exception of a Congrega tional one, in which it wsa advertised, would be preached a sermon on "Law and Order." This house was filled to excess. The Pastor took decided ground in favor of the action ol the people. APPROVAL or THE PEOPLE. "Ai Ike masses of military were passing by Montgomery Blook, in whioh Mr. King laid so dangerously wounded, the people, who almost choked up the street, reverently raised their hate and stood nncovered till the lat division bad filed past." Thaddeus Stevens. In the Black Republican Convention, test week, Tbaddena Steven* made tbe follow ing remarks : Mr. Stevens saw what tbe current of the Convention was—be did not rise to jesist it —but he admonished delegates to take care it does not sweep away friends as well as foes. [Applause.] Pennsylvania is embarrassed by the withdrawal of tbe only name he thought could save (tie Stale- He would like to have time to consult his colleagues. He would be sorry to see Judge McLean's name introduced now, but be was assured that, without that name Pennsylva nia would be lost by 50.000 majority in the Fail. In conclusion, he moved to adjourn until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. We have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Stevens' prediction will he verified! AN EXCELI.EHT SENTIMENT.—In 1829, the Duke of Wellington fought the Earl of Wio chelsea. It grew out of facts which occur red in a parliamentary debate. In tbe cor respondence tbe Duke of Wellington used the following striking language, which it would be well to engrave upon the walls of Congress:— "No man has a right, whether in public or in private, by speech or in writing,or in print, to insult another, by attributing to him mo lives for his conduct, publio or private, which disgrace or criminate him. If a gen tleman commits such an act indiscreetly, in nhe hear of debate, or in a'moment of party violence, he is always ready to make repara tion to him whom he may thus have injured." I3T THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE RIDOWAT FARM COMPANY, and others desirous of see ing the land, will have an excursion about the fi'st of July in order to spend the Fourth in St. Marys. We do not know a more pleasant trip that any or.e could go an excursion to Elk county, Pennsylvania. The scenery is beautiful and varied. The object is as useful as agreeable, and in the sultry month ol summer, we cannot imagine anything more refreshing or healthful. From what we hear a large number will avail them selves of this opportunity to buy land as well as a pleasant journey. We do not yet know the route which will be taken by the excur sionists, but it will soon be published, and will no doubt be the best. There are two routes, one by (be New York Rud Erie Rail road to Olean upon the line, and from thence to St. Marys by stage, or by the way of Ty rone on tne Pennsylvania Central Railroad, and thence by stage. The first will be con venient to those who go from the north, tbe other is also an excellent one. By arrange ments made with the different companies the fare and whole expenses will be greatly j reduced. St. Marys is a beautiful little town, provided with good hotels, and has already become, on account of its attractiveness, a ' m ' place of summer resort. IF Sixty Baptist Ministers of Boston and vicinity held a meeting on Monday, who, while professing that it "may not become a Minister of the Gospel to enter any political arena, noi to bring its party strifes within walls consecrated to peace and personal god liness," passed resolutions declaring slavery I to be a "great evil," and calling upon all par lies and sections "to subordinate all mere political preferences to the paramount claim of freedom against further encroachments of slavery, ard with the unanimity and zeal which have ever marked the opposition, to unite in maintaining it by uniting in Buch measures and men as will be most likely to ensure success." The Pennsylvania Railroad and Mining Reg ister, published and edited by ThomiaS. Fer non, admirably sustains the promise of its proprietor and its previous announcement. It. is of special interest to the business men of Philadelphia, as it treats intelligently of all tbe publio improvements of the country, which help to feed this city with trade. The editor's legislative experience and his con nection with some of the railroad exterprises of the day, give him a knowledge of wbioh his readers reap tbe advantage. E7* The Democratic Stale Central Com mittee has made arrangements to have a large number of Mr. Buchanan's great speech of 1840 on lite independent treasury printed and circulated. The people will then get at the bottom of the "ten cent" falsehood, and { much valuable light will be shed upon tbe subject of political economy. QTAK OPENING DINNER was given at the opening of the Montour House in Danville, on last Tuesday the 17th inst., which is re membered by the participants as a rich and generous feast. Our thanks are due to (he Committee for an invitation, and we regret that orther engagements kept us away. BT The forty-first Asteroid was discovered on the 22d of May, by Goldschmidt. It is a star of the twelfth magnitude. Annexation is going on much faster in the celestial re gions than in (he United States. We have only thirty-one stars to our system, with a whole continent, however, for exploration luture addition. IT* In a notice of new counterfeits, we find the following in Bicknell's Reporter of Tuesday la*l : Bank of Danville, Danville, Pa. 10'sSpu rious, Vignette Man and Cattle. On right end a Female,and ou left, Indian Woman. The spurious biH does not correspond with the face of the genuine bill at all—as there is no "Man end Cattle" on the 10's of the Danville Bank. EF" The eontraot for repartng tbe Episco pal Church at Danville has been allotted to Mr. Null, of Lewiiburg for the sum of sl,- 750. 17* An attempt to call a Republican meet ting at Mauoh Chunk, proved a total fail ure. But eight persons made their appear ance. CHARLES GROSS, the Recorder of Lehigh county, died last week. i The Liberty of Speech an* or the Preu. The following paragraph is taken from the speech of Senator Butler, in answer to Mr. Sumner. There is a great deal of political philosophy ta it: The liberty of speech and of the press is the great conservative element of a republic; it is to the political what fire is to the mate rial world—a subservient and affluent minis ter, when under the control of prudence and when unchecked and un regulated, fire, withering and blasting its pathway of ruin. Render freedom of speech tributary to (he prnprieties, decencies and restraints of social life, and you may crown it with all the min istries and supremacies of intellect and lib erty; but release it from them, and it be comes a blind and maddened giant of evil, tearing down the bulwarks of social order, and desecrating the very sgncluary of repub lican liberty. What would you think ol a reckless man who should.set fire to his own house, or should go about olaiming the privi lege of throwing bis fire wherever he could among the most combustible materials, and say he had the right to dp so on the ground that he was a freeman, and could do as he pleased. Away with aush liberty I Liberty that is worth anything nust be in the har ness of the law. Liberty of speech and of the press must have two restraints. The first is the. highest, which will always gevern a olass of men who it—the obligations of honor, deceiw^and Justice. Another re straint npon licentiousness is, that a man may speak and publish what he pleases with a knowledge that he is amenable to the tri bunals of the law for what he haa done.— Congress cannot pass any statute to say that pien shall not write against religion, or a gainst the government, or against individu als. Neither can Congress pass a law, nor can any State pass a law, depriving the tri bunals of the country of the rights of saying whether you have gone beyond the limits of liberty, and have used yonr power, under that name, with criminal recklessness, with a licentious indifference to the feelings of in dividuals, and the consequences upon socie ty. Ido not wish to live in any community where it is oiherwise. The press is losing its power, and it ought to lose it; for it is now beginning to be an engine of private revenge and individual expression, instead of being a responsible organ of public opin ion. Beecherism, or tbe Klll-em Doctrine Re. baked. The veteran atatesman, Gen. Cass, made the following allusion, a few days since, in a speech iu the United Slates Senate, to the rifle rowdyism which recently took place in the North Church, New Haven: "The temple at Jerusalem was defiled by the money changers who converted it into a bank of that day, nud made it a scene of abominations. Our saviour drove them out, saying "it ia written my house shall be call ed the house of prayer, but y have made it a den of thieves." The house of prayer is now the armory for the collection of weap pons, to arm Americans against thwr coun'y flien, and clergymen are not indeed money changers, but. gaLherers and distributors of carnal, not of Christian weapons; to fight 1 battles of flesh, and not the battleß of tbe faith, forgetting that 'and they that take the sword shall perish by the sword;' and that they are warned by the apostle of the Gen tiles, that the weapons of their warfare are not carnal. To preaoh the Gospel of Jesus is work enough for any human heart and in tellect. He who devotes himself to this du ty, and then goes after strange gods, enter ing tbe field of politics, and tniagling in its strifes and bitterness, does more injury to tho cause of true religion, withm the sphere of bis labors, than the writings of Voltaire and Hume, all the other infidel authors who aver sought, by their sneers and malign influence, to destroy human confidence in tbe most precious gift of God to man." The Poisoning Case in England. The English papers are very full of the trial of Palmer, who has been convicted of the poisoning of his friend Cook, and ia also accused of poisoning his wile and brother. Although the prisoner, Palmer, has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hung, yet many doubts exist as to the actual proof of the prisoner's guilt. The medical proles ■ion are in part annoyed at tbe preference which was given to the testimony of some of the witnesses, and requests have been made to have the body of Cook exhumed, so as to make another analysis, it being guaranteed that if poison was administered it ia possible of detection. The case is near ly similar to one in the Frvnch law books, which occurred in 1823. An individual stu died, like Palmer, the nature and effects of poisons, and having, after many experiments succeeded in getting a drug which left be hind no trace ol poisoning, he administered it to two of bis !utrmate~frieuds, for the pur pose of securing their money. He was de tected in a manner nearly similar to the de tection of Palmer, by hurrying (o an apothe cary for something additional to finish the business. MR. SUMMER.—Senator Wilson, in a speech at Woroester, said that when he and others were conveying Mr. Sumner to his lodgings, after the bealiogby Brooks, Mr. S. remarked —"I shall give it lotbem again, if God spares my life." If the Senate has the right kind of a presiding officer, there wilt be no more of fensive personalities allowed in the debates of. that body. The freedom of speech does not mean licentiousness oftGngue. When a member of the Senate transgresses the prop er rules of debate, he should be elopped at ouoe, tnd not allowed to prooeed, without the consent of the body he is addressing.— Ledger. EFTbe N. Y. Tribune occasionally tells an accidental truth. It says*. ''lt gives us pleasure to recognize in the Cincinnati nominee for President, a man re spectable in every personal relation—a good citizen and neighbor—a man of fair talents and unsullied private character." From the Daily Pennsylvania/'' The Nomination of Col. FremopL Despite the warnings of all the more mod erate men of the Black Republican party, and the wishes of all the comparatively con servative citizens whe were casting longing glances towards that organization—despite the asseition of Thaddeus Stevens in the Convention, that witbout Judge McLean : was its candidate Pennsylvania would be i lost by 50,000 majority in the fall, he was withdrawn under oircumstsnces which strong ly indioale his betrayal by pretened friends, for some unknown reaaoo—perhaps the lav ish use of Mariposa gold had something to do with it. In his place, that "enterprising young man," Col. Fremont, has reoeived the nom ination. Destitute of qualifications, destitute of all Bemblance of statesmanlike qualities, hi* only recommendation appears to have been that there was 'a great deal of romance' about him. This may be a weighty consid eration with a young lady in her teens in se lecting a lover, but it would be an insult to tbe intelligence of the American people to suppose they would not require more solid ' and attractive qualities in a President. Tbe following short biography of Fremont has been going the rounds of tbe press: "John C. Fremont's father was a French man, who, lor some political offenoe, lost his properly and escaped to this oountry.— He taught the French language in Virginia for a.living, and at length ran away with a planter's daughter and married her. Some years afterwards he died in Charleston, South Carolina, leaving a widow and two eons, very poor. Some ladies ol the city took charge of tbe family, gave John C. a good eduoation at their owr. expense, and procur ed him, through the then Secretary of the Navy,a situation as teacher on board a gov ernment vessel, where he remained two years and a half, when, preferring the land service, those ladies assisted in procuring for him a commission in the army. One of his earliest exploits afier that was to run away with and marry Col. Benton's daugh ter. But tbe Colonel at length forgave him, and procured for him the command of an exploring expedition aocross the continent." We will not pause here to remark upon the ingratitude he displays in requiting the generosity -and kindness of the ladies of Charleston by leading on thosa who are known to be tbe deadly foes of the section of the Union which gave him birth, and wbioh by cherishing him, nourished in its bosom a viper ready now to sting it to the heart. Nor will we at present descant at length upon those elements of "romance" which tbe opposition will no doubt dwelt upon largely during the campaign. For tbe sake of Mr. Fremont's own fame, he should never have placed himself in a position which will render it necessary that the true history of his life should be made public, the veil of tinsel with which he has been bedecked be rudely snatched aside, and tbe fkcla con nected with his career exposed. His friends will be very apt to maintain * close silence upon his feats as an explorer, when the his tory of his blunders and heartlessness be comes known. They will not boast much of his famous Coochatope Pass, which event ually DroTd to bo iho bighetfl peak but one ol the Rocky mountains, nor of his favorite route for the Pacifio Railroad, which, on examination, proved so crooked that it re ceived the sobriquet of the Ram's Horn Route—nor the school of Engineering which he established, viz: that tbe movements of the Buffaloes were the best guide to an ex plorer—nor will they be apt to particularly land the infamous desertion of his corps in tho midst of the perils in which he had iu veigled them, shut up in enow thirty feet deep, wbioh occurred near Taos, in New Mexico. Perhaps no man of bis age has a more un fortunate record than Col. Fremont. He was court-marlislled and dismissed from the ar my for insubordination—his financial trans actions with the government funds will prob ably be found to be not at all times of tbe most creditable character—he failed as a politi cian ; and, after serving a abort terra in the Senate, was. superseded as soon as he be came fairly known by the people of Califor nia—and altogether, although he may be a very fast, a very romantic, and a very enter prising young man, he will find that no "buf falo engineering" will take him within hail ing distance of the White House—that no ob stacles, high and insurmountable as his fa mous pate, will rise before him —and that his political "ramshorn route" will lead him into difficulties as inextricable as those by which be was surrounded when he ignomin iously deserted his companions in the snow at Taos. |y We heard a rabid opponent of the Democratic party, when asked the other day bow he intended to vote, declare that "he meant to go for any man that could come nearest to'beating the democratic party."— This is the kind of principle that governs the political course of some men and shows what sort of material we have to deal with. Such men do not care whether they are recognized as Republicans or Know Nothings, so that they can gratify their hatred of tbe Demo cratic party. A good Democrat would be ashamed to ulter such an unmanly sentiment, if his party was ever so far in the minority.- Easton Argus. SHOWING THE CLOVEN FOOT.—John P. Hale who is oce of the acknowledged leaders of tbe Abolitionists in the Union, is said to! have expressed the following sentiment the other day, while ic conversation with a dis tinguished Senator; "Sir, we, (the Black Republicans) don't { caie a d—n for tbe negroes—we want and intend to have the political power." A Rowdy Judge Fined. —On the 15th ult., Hugh C. Murray, Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of California, was fined by the City Recorder of Sacramento, in the earn of SSO and oosts, for assault and battery com mitted on the person of Thomas Hill. 17* On the day of Mr. Buchanan's nomi nation, the Presbyterian church in Washing ton was struck by lightning.— Ex. And the "republican" party was struck with consternation. IyrEttESTIKC COEBEBPWIMBIICE. MB. BUCnxNAN AND THE COMMIT TEE OFTHE DEMOCBATIC NATION AL CONTENTION. The following important and inteiesting correspondence between Mr. Bnchanen and the Committee of the late Democratic Na tional Convention, appointed formally to ad vise him of his nomination as the Democrat ic candidate lor the Presidency, will be read with deep gratification by all patriotic men. The distinguished gentlemen who represent ed the Convention on the Committee, dis charged (heir duly gracefully and Eloquent ly ; and we predict that the reply of Mr. Bu chanan will extend and confirm the almost universal confidence which his nomination inspired in the |<optilar heart. LANCASTER, June 13, 1856. Slß—The NstionalConvention of the Dem ocratic party, which assembled at Cincinnati, on the first Monday in June, unanimously nominated you as a candidate lor the office of President of the United Stales. We have been directed by the Conven tion to convey to you tbia intelligence, and to request you, in their name, to accept the nomination for the exalted truat which the Chief Magistrate of the Union imposes. The Convention, founding their action up on the time-honored principles of the Dem ocratic party, have announced their views in relation to the chief questions which en gage the public mind ; and, while adhering to the truths of the past, have manifested the policy of the present in a series of reso lutions, to which we invoke jour attention. The Convention feel assured, in tendering to yon this signal proof of the respect and esteem of your countrymen, that they truly reflect the opinion which the people of the United States, entertain of your eminent char acter and distinguished public services.— They qfterish a profound conviction that your elevaiiotMo the first office in lbs Re public, will {jive a moral guarantee to the country, that the true principles of the Con stilution will be asserted and maintained ; lhat the public tranquility will be established; that the tumults of faction will be stilled ; lhat our domestic industry will flourish ; that our foreign aflairs will be conducted with such wisdom and firmness as to assure the prosperity of the people at borne, while the interests and honor of our country are wisely bnt inflexibly maintained in our intercourse with other nations ; and, especially, that your public experience and the confidence of your countrymen, will enable you togiveeffect to Democratic principles, so as to render indis soluble the strong bonds of mutual interest and national glory which unite our confed eracy and secure the prosperity of our peo ple. While we offer to the oounlry our sincere congratulations upon the fortunate auspices of the future, we tender to you, personally, the assurance of the respect and esteem of Your fellow citizens, JOHN E WARD, W- A. RICHARDSON, HARRY HIBBARD, W. B. LAWRENCE, A. G. BROWN, JOHN L MANNING, JOHN FORSYTH, W. PRESTON, J.RANDOLPH TUCKER, • HORATIO SEYMOUR Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN. WHEATLAND, NEAR LANCASTER, J June 16th, 1856. } GENTLEMEN :—I have the honor to ack nowledge the receipt of your communication of the 13th instant, informing me officially of my nomination by the Democratic National Convention, recently held at Cincinnati, as the Democratic candidate for the office of President of the United States. I shall not attempt to express the grateful feelings which I entertain towards my Democratic fellow oitizens for having deemed me worthy of this—the highest political honor on earth— an honor such as the people of no other coun try have the power to bestow. Deeply sen sible of the vast and varied responsibility at tached to the station, especially at the pres ent crisis in our affairs, I have carefully te fraitted from seeking the nomination either by word or by deed. Now lhat it has been offered by the Democratic party, I accept it with diffidence in my own abilities, but with an humble trust, that iu the event of my elec tion, I may be enabled to discharge my duty in such a manner as to allay domestic strife, preserve peace aod friendship with foreign nations, and promote the best interests of the Republic. In accepting the nomination,l need scarce ly say that I accept iu the same spirit, the resolutions constituting the platform of prin ciples erected by the Convention. To this platform I intend to confine mysell through out (he canvass, believing lhat 1 have no right as the candidate of the Democratio party, by answering the interrogatories, to present new and different issues before the people. It will not be expected that in this answer, I should specially refer to the subject of each of the resolutions; end 1 shall therefore ooo fine myself to the two topios now most prom inently before the people. And in the first place, I cordially ooncor in the sentiments expressed by the Convention on the snbjeet of civil and religious liberty. No party founded on religious or political in tolerance towards one class of American cit izens, whether born in our own or in a for eign land, can long continue to exist in this country. We are all equal before God and the Constitution ; and the dark spirit of des potism and bigotry which would create odi ous distinctions among oar fellow citizens, will be speedily rebuked by a free and en lightened public opinion. The agitation on the question of Domestic Slavery has too long diffracted and divided 1 the people of this Union and alienated their affections from each other. The agitation has assumed many forms since its com mencement, bnt it now seems to be directed chiefly to the Territories; and judging from its present obarecter, I think we may safely anticipate lhat it is rapidly approaching a 'fi nality.' The reeeot legislation of Congress respecting domestic slavery, derived, as it has been from the original and pure fountain of legitimate political power, the will of the ma jority, promises ere long to allay the danger ous excitement. This legislation is founded upon principles, u ancient at free govern* men! itself, and in accordance with them, has simply declared that the people of a Ter ritory, like those of a State, snail decide for themselves, whether slaver) ehall or eball nt>( exist within their limits. The Nebraska-Kansas Act does no more than give the force of law to this elementary principle of self-government; declaring it to be "the tree intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exolude it therefrom; bnt to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestio institutions in their own way, subject only to the Giitltiiu lion of the United States." This prmeiple will sorely not be controverted bjr any indi vidual of any party professing devotion to popular tiover nment. Besides, how vain and illusory would any other principle prove in practice in regard to the Territories! This is apparent from the fact admitted by all, that alter a Territory shall have entered the Union and become a Slate, no Constitutional power would then exist which could prevent it from either abolishing or establishing slavery, as the case may be, according to its sovereign will and plearure. Most hippy would it be fof the country if this long agitation were at an end. During its whole progress It has produced no pracli* oal good to any human being, whilst it has been the source of grea' and dangerous evils. It has alienated and estranged one portion of the Union from the other, and has eveb seii* ously threatened its very existence. To my own personal knowledge, it has produced the impiession among foreign nations that our great and glorious confederacy is in constant danger of dissolution. This does no serious injury, becaase acknowledged power and stability always command respect among na* lions, and are among the best securities a gainst unjust aggression and in favor of the maintenance of honorable peaoe. May we not hope that it is the mission of the Deinooratic party, now the only surviv ing conservative party of the country, ere long to overthrow all sectional parties and re store peace, friendship and mutual confidence which prevailed in the good old time, among the different members of the confederacy.— Its character is strictly national, and it there fore asserts no principle for the guidance of the Federal Government which ia not adopt ed and sustained by its members in each and every State. For this reason ids everywhere (he same determined foe of all geographical parties, so much and so justly dreaded by the Father of hie Country. From its very nature it must continue to exist so long as there is a Constitution and a Union to preserve. A conviction of these truths has induced many of the purest, the ablest and most independ ent of our former opponents, who have dif fered from as io times gone by upon old and extinct party issues, to com 9 into our 1 ranks aud devote themselves with us to the cause of the Constitution and the Union.— Under these circumstances, I most cheerfully pledge myself, should the nomination of the Convention be ratified by the people, that all the power and influence, constitutionally possessed by the Executive, shall be exert ed, in a firm but conciiiatoty spirit, during the single term I shall remain in office, to re store the same harmony among the sister States which prevailed before this apple of discord, in (he form of slavery agitation, bad been cast into their midst. Let the members of the family abstain from inlermedling with the exclusive domestic concern of each oth er, and cordially unite, ou the basis of per fect equality among themselves, iu promo ting the great national object of common in terest to all, and the good work will be in stantly accomplished. In regard to our foreign poiioy, to whiob you have referred to in your communication, —it is quite impossible for any human fore knowledge to prescribe positive rules in ad vance, to regulate the conduct of a future ad ministration in all the exigencies whioh may arise iu our various and ever obanging rela tions with foreign powers. The Federal Gov ernment must of necessity exercise a sound discretion in dealing with international ques tions as they may occur; but this under the strict responsibility whiob the Executive mutt always feel to the people of the United State* and the judgment of posterity. You will therefore excuse me for not entering into par ticulars; whilst I heartily concur with you ID the general sentiment, that our foreign affairs ought to be conduoted with suoh wisdom and firmness as to assure the prosperity of the people at home, whiUt the interests and honor of oor country are wisely but inflexi bly maintained abroad. Our foreign policy ought never to be based upon the principle of doing justice to all the nations, and requi ring justice frcm them in return; and from this principle I shall neier depart. Should 1 be placed iu the Executive Chair, I ehall use my best exertions to cultivate peace and friendship with all nations, believ ing this to be our highest policy as well as our most imperative duty; but at the same time, I shall never forget that in case the ne cessity shonld arise, which I do not now ap prehend, onr national rights and honor must be preserved at all hazards and at any sac rifice. Firmly convinced that a special Providenoe governs the affairs ot nations, let us humbly implore hiseontinued blessing upon onr coun try, and that he may avert from us the pun ishment we justly deserve for being discon tented and ungrateful whilst enjoying privile ges above ill nations, under suoh a Constitu tion and such a Union as has never been vouchsafed to sny oilier people. Yours, very respectfully, JAMES BUCHANAN. Hon. John E. Waul, W. A. Richardson, Har ■ y Hibbard, W. B. Lawrenoe, A. G. Brown, John L. Manning, John Forsyth, W. Pres ton. J. Randolph Tucker, and Horatio Sey mour, Committee, &c. The Emperor of Brazil, Don Pedro 11., has been eleoted an honorary member of the New York Historical Society. He it said to be a man ol considerable scientific attain ments, and at the head of the Historical en! Geographical Society of Brazil. The Wheat Crop* ol Ohio is said to be in a very fine condition. There are more acre* oovered with wheat in Ohio than were ever before planted in that State.
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