tU&fovi) Itujuiret flirt Hirouiclt BY DAVID OVER. ....... „ w . rv,n 'he ft "My Mewt. IILC LAW WAGES sy EECXI. J £VNTf,MPTIBLE G.CVE. THE I'KOOF. The universal indignation and disgust manifested by the worlringtnen of all par ties, when called on to snpport James Bu chanan, has alarmed the Loco Foco leaders, -a "town hy the following paltry game of deception, attempted to be played in lied ford county: THE "10 CENT" SLA.NDTSR • SI,OOO KEWAKD. IVill be paid immediately bv tin* .undersigned Democratic County Committee t f Bedford County, to any person or jiersotis who wifi show, y clear and satisfactory proof, such AS Would received in a Court of justice, that j'amks '.trciiAXas, iu any speech, letter, public or pri :lV" neper written or printed document or.softial
f
l.itor shoiVM fixed at ten ccuts per dav.
Tiiis charge has been often and recklessly nm -e (
by the enemies of the Democratic Party." It has
ticcn as orten met and answered, but neither argu
ment nor sell-resjiect have been sullicieiit to
stop the mouth of vile slamler.
The charge cooift with an ill grace from a
large portion tsr opponents, who ore strug
gling to free more than three millions of negroes
and scatter them among us, to compete with the
working an 1 laboring population of the conn
try. It is tnade at au unfortunate time for onr
adversaries Every person knows that the
wages of labor never comruatidod a higher price j
nor . greater and surer reward toan at ibis time, j
ami every jwrson knows that this result has
b en brought about by the doctiines and policy
ni' the Democratic party under the leail of J x.'
iiteiiaXAX, and the other great Statesman who
have, for years, assisted in guiding the " ship of
State."
tVe trust th;tf our adversaries will immediately i
> claim the reward, or exhibit such a regard for I
truth in the future, as will prevent the repeti
tion of this iufauiout and unfounded charge.
JOHN CESSNA.
\VM. P SCHELL,
J. IV. TATE,
\V. M. HALL,
G. 11. SPANG,
P. I). BEEGLE,
S. STA fLEK,
County Com.nill\
Bedford, July IS, 1536.
We give tbe above as a specimen of the
contemptible tricks aud quibbles resorted to
by the Loco Foeos, to deceive aud mislead
the public in regard to Mr. Buchanan's low
wages speech. It will be noticed that this
Bedford Committee offers a reward for th e
ptoof of that which nobody charges Mr.
Buchanan with. They offer a §IOOO re
ward for proof that he has advocated or
favored the doctrine that the staudaid of
wages should be fixed at tea cents a day. ,
Now, it so happens, and these Bedford j
folks weii know it, that the charge made j
against Mr. Buchanan, and the proof of |
which is at hand, is that he made a speech i
in favor of reducing the standard of the
price of iabor in this country to that of tbe j
hard-money currency of Europe. This was '
his speech, which, if carried out, would have
reduced the wages of labor in this country
to about ten cents a day. The Bedford
quibble is therefore siuiply a knavish trick
to deceive, aud a very silly and stupid one
at that, for two Ex-Speakers of the Penn
sylvania House of Representatives to attempt
to play. They must have a poor opinion of
the intelligence of the people of Bedford
county, or they would not attempt so clumsy
a gaum to deceive and humbug them.
The card published by the Bedford lea
ders is a virtual admission that Mr. Buch
anan did advocate the redaction of the
wages of American laborers, and though he
did not fix the price at ten cents a day, that
only could be tbe honest interpretation of
his speech. That lie ru ide sac A a speech wc
have already shown, but the proof bears re
publication. Llcre it is:—
Extracts from the Speech of Air. Buchan
an, in'ihe. U. S. Semite, January 'JrhEf
184 U.
"Let mc now recur to the proposition
with which 1 commenced: and 1 repeat that
I do not pretend mathematical aeenrencv,
in the illustration which I shall present. —
. The United States carry on a trade with
Germany and France; the former a hard
money country, aud the latter approaching
•-! so nearly as to have no bank notes in cir
.•tsjatfon uuder the denomination ot five
hundred fraii'-s, or nearly one hundred
dollars. On the contrary, the I'. States is
emphatically a paper money couutry, hav
ing eight hundred banks of issue; all
them emitting notes "fa dcnomtiW't ' ■
i !. . I
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our country and sells it for a hundred. Does
not every person perceive that the redundancy
of our currency is equal to a premium of one
hundred per cent, in lavor of the manufacturer.
"No tariff of protection, unless it amounted
to prohibition, could counteract these advanta
ges in favor of foreign manufactures. I would
to Heaven that I could arouse the attention of
every manufacturer of tlte nation to this impor
tant subject.
"The foreign manufacturer will not re
ceive onr bank notes in payment, lie will
take nothing home except gold and silver
' or bills of exchange which are equivalent.
He does not expand this money here, where
he wonld be compelled to support his family, !
and to purchase his labor and materials at
the same rate of prices which he receives
for his manufactures. On the contrary, he
goes home, purchases, his labor, his wool,
and all other articles which enter into his!
manufacture, at half their cost in this coun
try. and again returns to inundate us with
foreign wolens, and to ruin our domestic
manufactures. I might cite rnar.y other ex
amples; but this, I trust, will be sufficient;
to draw public attention to tho subject.—
This depreciation of our currency is, there
fere, equivalent to a direct protection gran
ted to the foreign over the domestic rnanu
.facturer. It is impossible that our manu
fiicturers should hi able to sustain such an
unequal competition.
air, : 'I solemnly believe that if we could
but reduce this inflated paper bubble to any
thing like reasonable dimensions, New
Euglat,d would become the most prosperous
manufac turing country that the sun ever
shone upon. Why eannot we manufacture
goods, and especially eottoo goods, which
will go into successful competition with Bri
tish manufacturers in foreign market*?—
Have we njr the necessary capital/ Have
we not the industry? Have-wo not the ma
chinery? And above all, are not our en
ergy, aud enterprise proverbial throughout
the world? Land is also cheaper here thau
in any other country on the face of the earth.
We possess every advantage which Provi
dence cau bestow upon us, for the manu
facture of cottou; but they are all eouuter
aeted by the foily of man. The raw mate
rial costs us less than it does the Kuglish,
because this is an article, the price of which
depends upou foreign markets, and is not
regulated by our own inflated currency.—
We, therefore, save the freight of the cot
ton across tbe the Atlantic, and that of the
manufactured article on its return here.—
What is the reason that with all these ad
vintages, and with the protective duties
which our laws afford to the domestic manu
facturer of cotton, toe canriot obtain exclu
sive possession of the home market and
successfully contend Jor the markets of the
! world/
"It is simply because we manufacture at
the n<>mimit prices of our own inflated cur
rency, and are compelled to sell at the real
prices of other nations. Red"ce our nom
iiial to the real standard of prices through
out the world, and you cover our country
with blessings and benefits. I wish to Hea
ven I could speak iu a voice loud enough to
be heard throughout New England: because,
if the attention of tbe manufacturers could
once be directed to tbe subject, their own
intelligence and uative sagacity would teach
them how injuriously they are aftected by
our inflated banking and credit system, and
would enable ibetn to apply the proper cor
rective.
What is the reason that our manrfactuc
rers have been able to sustain any sort of
compeii ion, even in tbe home market, with
those of British origiu? It is bteause Kug
| laud herself is, to a great extent, a paper
money country, though in this respect, no 1
to be compared with our own. From this
verv cause, prices in England are much
higher than tb ey are upon the Continent.—
The expense of living is there double what
tit costs in Fiance. Hence all the English
who desire to nurse their fortunes by living
cheaply, emigrate from their own country to
France, or some other portion of the conti
nent. The comparative low prices of
France and Germany have afforded such a
stimulus to their manufacturers, that they
are now rapidly extending themselves, aud
would obtaip possesion, in no small degree,
even of tbe V-*g lisl I "> UIC market, if it were
not for. +fle ' r protcetiDg duties. Whilst
manufacture* are now languishing,
K vse of the ointment are springing into
a healthy and vigorous existence. It was
but the other day that I saw an extract
from an Euglish paper, which stated tbaj
whilst the cutlery manufactured in Geruiauy
vyas equal in quality with the British, it was
reduced in price, that the latter would have
to abandon the manufacture altogcteer."
Some time since we submitted the Con.
gresssioual Globe to a number of geutietueu
in this Citv, asked theiu to compare the
(foregoing extracts, and to say whether they
arc not literally correct, as published in tbe
Globe. Iu reply we received the following!
the italicized paragraph relating to those
extracts, being so italicized by us.
PHILADELPHIA, J*ly 10, 1856.
Dear Sir: VVe have jusl received you r
note, with the accompanying copies of the
Daily Xem.Penmyltxmmn, and sundry ex
tracts from the Appendix to the Congress
ional Globe for 1839-40, commencing on
page 139, and purporting to be portions of
•>...! !•'i#tl>- dimif Bu-
chanan in the United States Senate, on the
22d day of January, 1840, with a request
that we should compare the extracts pub
lished in the jYeus, his with speeeh as it ap
pears in the Globe, and then gay whether
such extracts are correct or not?
Without any disposition to become par
tics to a newspaper controversy, but as a
matter of justice to you personally, we have
'incompliance with yohr request, carefully
compared the extracts which appeared in
the jVetMrof the 9th iust., with the copy of
Mr. Buchanan's speeeh, published on page
129, et seq., of the Congressional Globe,
for 1839-40, and pronounce the same to
be litte rally and strictly correct in every
particular, with the exception of two or
three immaterial omissions of words, the
insertion in ODO place of "and" for "or,"
and in another, of the words "p-ices ef la
bor," which you have marked as an interpo
lation, and which in nowise changes the
sense of ihe extraet:"
We have also, at your request, compared
the extract of Air. Buchanan's speech, in
tena'eil Jor insertion in to morrow'# JVMW,
with t.'ie copy oj saiil speech published in
the. Globe, and find the same tn be liter
ally correct.
YOUTS, very respecfully,
IIE;RY K. STRONG, JAMES COOPER,
CH.IS. B. PENROSE, 11. C. PRIWFC,
SAML. E. EAQLETON, H. D MOORE,
WM. BOWERS, J. A. SIMPSON>
Having thns given 'Mr. Buchanan's owu
snioo ik and polished language, let us see
what is. the meaning of it in plain English,
when lie says, "reduce our nominal stand_
ard of prices throughout tlie whole world,
and jou cover the country with blessings
benefits." Now, what did Mr. Bu
chac.anv mean by this language, if he ni