Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-10

upon the unanimous adoption of platform
which commands the appreciation OF ever
democratic heart to congratulate them upoI
the nomination Of candidate for the Presidenc,
and Vice Presidency worthy to stand upon tina
platform, and TO receive the unanimous supper
of every democrat. Cheers The platform
and the standard bearers were worthy of each
other-each acceptable to the whole Democ
racy of the entire country.
| He felt more heart in this contest than any
he had ever before been engaged in, and there
was more OF importance to be attached to 1t II
Its result, and more to inspire the patriotism o
every lover of his country. This Union wa.
made through the Constitution, must be pre-
served through the Constitution, and cannot
survive for single day the obliteration OF thai
instrument. The Democratic party now stands
before the country as the only national party
in the whole republic; the only party which
avows principles alike in the East and the
West, in the North and the South; the only
party whose principles must prevail wherever
the Constitution regns. Immense applause.
Look at the creed Of the party as promulga
ted at Cincinnati and then upon that disturb
ing element, the vexed question of slavery, you
find platform which has received the sanction
of every Democratic delegate from every State
IN the Union. Democracy is now the same in
Massachusetts, in South Carolina, [applause,
in MICHIGAN, and in Illinois, in Ohio, and
Louisiana and wherever the American flag
waves there the Democratic creed is one and
the same. What other party can cross the
Ohio river and Mason and Dixon's line and
carry their principles with them? A voice.
None. Can this Union be preserved in the
hands of a political party whose principle OF
action is hostility on the part Of one half of the
States against the rights and institutions of the
other half of this Union? Can sectional strife,
sectional animosity, and sectional warfare--a
part of the North against the South part OF
the South against the North-produce that
fraternal feeling and brotherly love which is
essential TO preserve the republic as our fathers
made it? Have we not the greatest induce
ment to stimulate our utmost exertions? No
less than the integrity of the Constitution, the
preservation and perpetuty of the Union, de-
pend upon the result of this election.
Wehave candidate for the Presidency whose
reputation was as wide, he was about to say,
as the republic, but he would say as wide as
Civilizations man who has filled the highest
Offices in his country, save that only to which
he is to be inaugurated on the 4th Of March
next great and continued applause IA man
of wide experience in the House of Reprenta-
tiyes, in the Senate, in the cabinet, in the for
eign service, and wherever commanding abili-
ties and stern integrity were required for the
discharge of high duties. Everywhere in the
line of duty you have found James Buchanan
elevating his own reputation, while sustaining
and carrying forward the interest and honor OF
his country He is man without stain
upon his private character, and with political
record equally untarnished, from the days OF
Jackson down to the present time.
Allusion was made to the signal services
which he had performed, not the least of which
was the delicate duty of representing this coun-
try at the first court in the world during the
present Administration. Such was the man
whom the Democracy had presented to them
for their sufirages. The candidate for the Vice
Presidency was too well known to Washington
audience to require much praise. Most of them
knew him personally, and all that was neces-
sary was to know him in order to love him.
he possessed the highest qualities for the office
for which he was now designated, or for a
higher station in future years when his expert
ence should be more fully matured. The De-
mocracy thus had standard bearers with which
they could defy the combined forces of the
enemy They were one compact party, pro-
Tossing one common creed; and they were
arrayed against the allied forces of Abolition
ism, Know-nothingism, and every other ism. He
rejoiced that they had got all the isms into one
common line; he had long been wishing to get
them where the Democrats could rake them all
down at once. These isms we're animated by
one common sentiment, and that was hostility
to the Democratic party. Abolitionism and
know-nothingsm were first cousins generally
but in Illinois they we're at least brothers, and
Siamese twins at that. They would always go
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was a Know-nothing or an Abolitionist. The
coming conflict, however, he believed, was one
in which the Democracy would triumph, and
the effect of that triumph would be to restore
peace, quiet and stability to the Union. There
we're no longer any dissensions in the Demo
cratic ranks; for all who agreed in principle
we're now invited to act together, without re-
gard TO past differences. One of the great
principles Of their faith was the equality of the
States, and the right of selfgovernment in the
Territories, subject 10 the limitations of the
Constitution; or, in other words, the great prin-
ciple Of the Nebraska bill. Loud applause.
There we're no more any anti-Nebraska Demo.
Gratis now than there were white black birds 10
be found. The platform endorsed the Nebraska
bill; and what more, said Mr.. d., could de-
sire? Ifthere was anything more to be desired
il was TO be found in the residue of the plat.
form, and be cordially responded to every clause
therein embraced. The Democratic party was
united with a common creed and common OBJ
jects; and they we're marching certainly and
surely to a common victory.
The platform was equally explicit in refer,
ence to the disturbances in relation to the Ter
riiory Of Kansas. 1t declared that treason wa,
to be punished, and resistance to the laws was
to be.p down. That was the whole question
involved-whether the supremacy OF the laws
should be maintained, or whether mob violence
should overcome the officer Of the law. On
this question, between law and violence, the
Democracy bad expressed their sentiments
they say that the laws shall be executed SO
long as they stand upon the statute-book. But
the Black Republicans say that they viii
trample upon The law, and shoot down the off
GERS who execute il, because they do not like
the law. The whole question was, whether Law
and order and the Constitution shall prevail
or whether lawless violence and mob law shall
rule in their stead. The convention had met
that question with 6rmness and directness
that must find cordial response not only in
the heart Of every Democrat, but in that Of
/ every lover of his country M uatfar what his