Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-30
From the Penn. Advocate and Prsss.
James Buchanan's SOmer.

From the fenu- Advocate and Pres1.
James Buchanan's SOmer.
sets.
No man in the United States has turned
his political coat as often as James Buch-
anan. He has espoused the principles Of
every party that had an existence since the
Hartford Convention, and has
been on all sides of political questions.
A brief reference to his history will con-
corroborate our assertions.
HIS FEDERALISM.
He entered public life in 1914, as rank
Federalist, and by the Federal party he
was elected to the Legislature of the State
He was reelected in 1915, defeating Mol
ten c. Rogers. the Democratic candidate
and afterwards one of the Supreme Judges
of the State.
In 1920 he was the Federal candidate
for Congress, and was elected over Jaoot
the Democratic candidate, by 81
majority. In 1922 he was reelected ovel
the same man BY sl3 majority. In 1924
be was the Federal candidate for Congress
and elected over Samuel Houston, the De
candidate, 5l9 votes. In 1926
he was reelected over DR.. John Mccain
ant, the Democratic candidate, BY rs votes
His majorities were becoming less each
time, and in order to satisfy his Fedora
friends of his fidelity to the party, he had
to declare that off he had a drop of Demo
cratic blood in his veins he would oper
them and let it out"
HE BECOMES A DEMOCRAT.
Two years after this he changed his coat
and becomes full blooded Democrat, and
ran for Congress as the Democrat candi
date, and was elected by virtue of Genera
Jackson's popularity. He was afraid te
run second time, and declined.
HIS TEN CENT SPEECH.
In 1912, in the United States Senate
he made speech advocating the principle
that Ten Gents was sufficient compensa
ton for days labor. Hence he is called
'.Ten Cent Jimmy"
In IS45 he became Secretary of State
under Polk's Administration, and consent
ed to give away about half the Territory
of Oregon to the British Government aftel
he had proven that they mad not sparf
of title TO it.
He extolled the Federal Administration
of John Adams, and endorsed the abomin
able Alien and Sedition laws of the FEEDER
al reign of terror. He bitterly denounced
the Administration of that pure Democrat
James Madison, and ridiculed what he term
ed the follies of Thomas jefferson.
HIS SLAVERY SoMERsETs.
In 1919 at meeting in Lancaster, h
resolution favoring resistance tt
the extension of Slavery, and the admis
sion of the State of Missouri as Slave
State.
In ls47 he wrote to the Democracy O.
Berks county, saying that the Missour
Compromise had given peace to the coun
try, and that instead of repeating it. he wa:
in favor of its extention and maintenance
In 1850 in a letter to Col. Forney, re-
joiced over the settlement of Slavery.agita
ton by the passage of the Compromise
Measures during Fillmoru's administration
and hoping that before dissolution of the
Union that he might be gathered to his
fathers, and never be permitted to witness
the sad catrastrophe.
In 1852 he wrote to Mr.. Leake, of Vir
ginia, concerning Fillmore's Compromist
Measures of 1850, which had been passed
by Congress, and said ",hat the volcano ha.
been extinguished, and the man who woulo
apply the firebrand to the combustlble ma
terials still remaining will produce an erup
ton that will overwhelm the Constitution
and the Union" Well, Mr.. Pierce was
the man who, ct a later period, with the
assistance of Doufaced Douglas disturbed
the compromise measures, repealed the
Missouri Compromise, and re-opened the
volcano of Slavery.
BUcHANAN's LAST SOMERSET.
On the 2Sth of December, 1856, about
six months ago, Mr.. Buchanan, in letter
to John Slideli, of Louisiana, says: The
Missouri Compromise is gone, and gone
forever. 1t has departed. The time for
it has passed away, and the best way, the
only mode now left of pulling down the
fanatical and reckless spirit of the North, is
10 adhere to the existing settlement with
out the slightest thought or appearance Of
and without regarding any storm
which may be raised against it.
So now Mr.. Buchanan is going to "crush
out" the spirit of freedom in the North, and
make us all the tools of Southern Slave
holders. We shall be glad to see Mr.. Ten
Cent Jimmy try that experiment. Pierce
has been at it for four years, and he has
broken down in the attempt, and if the old
Lancaster Federalist wants to find out the
courage that sleeps in the free mans heart,
Dr. feel the strength of freeman's arm, he
nay begin Immediately on his return from
he aristocratic atmosphere and despotic
og of England, and he will find in the end
hat the process of crushing out was COM
nenced some time before the Declaration
If Indepenpence by British kings. and al
,hough renewed in 1912, yet it fizzled out
If existence about forty years ago. We
ire ashamed that Pennsylvania contains a
statesman, of so little political stability as
las. Buchanan, and in next November,
when he begins to put down the freemen
If the North, we will pay him in full for
III his political misdeeds, his Oregon cow
Irdice and his ten cent speech included.
lie will begin to think about wavering then,
md will call in vain upon the rocks, hills,
md mountains to hide him from the
storms" which he does not now ere
,ard.'