The Ashland Union

SPEECH OF MR. BUCHANAN

Lancaster, Pa., Monday, June 9.

The Keystone Club, of Pennsylvania, accompanied by Beck's Brass Band, arrived here on Sunday, at eleven o'clock A. M., and this morning paid a visit to the Hon. James Buchanan, at Wheatland, accompanied by a procession of citizens to the number of two or three hundred: Upon their arrival at Wheatland, William B. Radkin, Esq., President of the Club, was introduced to Mr. Buchanan, and said that on behalf of the Keystone Club, over which he had the honor of presiding, he congratulated him as the Nation's choice, adding that the work which was but begun they intended to carry on until victory should crown their efforts. Mr. Buchanan replied as follows:

Gentlemen of the Keystone Club:-

I give you a most hearty and warm welcome to my abode. I congratulate you not upon my nomination, but upon the glorious privilege of being citizens of our great Republic. Your superiority over the people of other countries has been fully demonstrated by the conduct of a vast concourse assembled during the past week at Cincinnati. Upon any similar occasion in Europe the voluntary expression of the people would have been drowned in martial music, and their actions controlled by an army with banners. How unlike the spectacle at Cincinnati, where delegates from the people of the different States met in Convention under the protection of the Constitution and laws, and harmoniously deliberated upon subjects of vital importance to the country.

Gentlemen, two weeks since I should have made you a longer speech, but now I have been placed upon a platform of which I most heartily approve, and that can speak for me. Being representative of the great Democratic party, and not simply James Buchanan, I must square my conduct according to the platform of the party, and insert no new plank, nor take one from it. That platform is sufficiently broad and national for the whole Democratic party. This glorious party, now more than ever, has demonstrated that it is the true conservative party of the Constitution and the Union.