Bradford Reporter

Sectionalism.—The presses opposed to the People's candidate for the Presidency are constantly charging him with sectionalism. This sectionalism at present they define to be, the confinement of this party to the Northern States in its political operations. They at first declared it sectional because both of its candidates lived at the North. This they were forced to abandon when it was shown that Gen. Jackson and John C. Calhoun were both Southern men, and both ran as candidates for President and Vice President upon the same ticket in 1828. In the same campaign J. Q. Adams and Benjamin Rush were the opposition candidates for the same offices, and were both Northern men. These and other equally illustrious examples, were cited to show that the mere fact of both candidates coming from the same section, did not necessarily constitute a sectional ticket.

Overthrown at their first point of attack upon their own favorite ground they now resort to the position, that the people's Party have no constituted organization in the Southern States. We are sorry to be compelled to unhorse them, even here. In Kentucky a strong electoral ticket is already put forward for Fremont and Dayton. In Maryland and Delaware a like course of action will be taken in a few days. And it is a well known fact, that the same will be done in Virginia, Missouri and Texas. We should not be surprised to see a ticket in North Carolina, Tennessee and Louisiana. For it is well known that the elements for the formation of a strong party exist in all three of these States.

How idle and preposterous it is then, to charge sectionalism upon a new party which has just been inaugurated, and which already extends its organization into six of the Southern States, with strong prospects of having a development made in its favor in three others before the November election! But this is a part of that plan which the Buchanier press has adopted to sustain their inane claims of exclusive devotion to the Constitution and the Union.