New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-21
THE FIRST FRUITS OF BUCHANAN S
FOREIGN POLICY,
From he Etenino Pot.

Inc tOlOWlDg RESOLUTION was duopFu ~ Poit VI
the Buchanan platform, at the National Democratic
Convention held at Cincinnati
THAT view Of commanding interest DE people Of ne
United Stats cannot but syHpatre NTH ne eeo,' uhh are
being made BY The people Central A"e,iea to rs9ene,a rat
Do,n he continent phfh the p1oo aero" me inter
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The author Of this resolution was Pierre Soue, the
associate Of M Buchanan at the Ostend Conference
We understand that in presenting it for the adoption OF
the Commute on Resolutions, he empbaticay asserted,
in reply TO certain objections made by New Jersey
delegate that il was necessary coroary of the policy
announced by Mr.. Buchanan in the Ostend Manifesto.
On the strength of this declaration the resolution was
inserted in the national platform.
AZ Mr.. SOule ia the author, so he must be regarded
as the Interpreter of the resolution To his subsequent
as well as previous conduct must we look for an ex-
PLANTATION of doctrine for the first time Incorporated
in the creed of the so.caled democratic party. What
is meant by sympathy with the efforts being made
TO "regenerate" Central America What those
"efots r. Let US how the author Of the piratica
portion ofthe Buchanan platform understands the term
"to regenerate."
Shortly after the adjournment of the Cincinnati Con-
vention this active aplomatist Of Slavery extension,
Mr.. Soule, visited Walkers headquarters in Nicara-
qua and was for time the guest Of that noted free
booter Soon heard that he had purchased for the
of making ii his future residence This, we under
stand was one of the confscated estates Of the
mics of the new Republic" which are advertised
for sale on the LIST of January, 1857. One obstacle
only remained to the success of the speculation and
that was the perpetual decree Of the Constituent AS
sembly abolishing Slavery. Mr.. Soue has returned
TO the United States and the very next steamer after
his arrival brings news Of the revocation OF that de-
cree in O style bearing resemblance to the fraudu-
lent artifce employed by Mr. Douglas to introduce
Slavery into the Territories covered by the Missouri
Compromise.
1t will be remembered that Nicaragua, prior to 1885,
was a member of the Central American Confederscy,
embracing also the four other States Of Honduras,
Guatemala, San Salvador and Costa Rica. When,
therefore, in 1885, Nicaragua dissolved her allegiance
to that confederacy and set up as an independent
government, her Constituent Assembly decreed that
"the federal DEGREES given previous to that date shall
"remain in force unless contrary to the provisions of
"that act-(. e.. the declaration of the independence
of Nicaragua. One of these federal DEGREES was the
Introduction of Slaverya very serious obstacle to that
Southern emigration from this country which Walkers
so anxious to secure. Accordingly, on the 9th u as
will be seen by a letter from Nicaragua published in
todays issue the Supreme Government of that poten-
tate doubtless with the connvsnce of Soue, issued
decree that, "inasmuch as many of the DEGREES so
"gven are unsuited to the present condition Of the Re-
"pubc and repugnant to the welfare and prosperity,
Gas well as to its territorial integrity, therefore, all
"acts and laws of the federal Constituent Assembly as
"we as the Federal Congress, are declared null and
"yoid" Thus, by the abolition of Freedom, is Nj
caragua qualified to enter our sisterhood of States
Such is the most recent development of the Slavery
propagandzing foreign policy inaugurated at Cincin
natl II is the exact counterpart of the execrable sys
tenn which its authors have applied to our territory at
home. Whether in Kansas or Nicaragua, In its
domestic or its foreign policy, the whole energies
of the Government must, according to their pro-
gramme, be concentrated to extend the political power
of Slavery. No matter at what cost Of the blood or
treasure of our fellow. citizens, no matter at what
sacrifice of the rights of freemen and of the principles
of the Constitution, matter at what risk OF cyh or
foreign strife, the intoerabe Ogarchy now dominant
in the Government Of this country move rresistibly
forward in their career of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Having
first established the specious doctrine which legalizes
and protects Slavery in every portion Of the national
territories they next appeal to the turbulent ambition
and the cupdity of Northern politicians for aid in their
GIGANTIC scheme of territorial encroachment.
The men who have initiated this policy the sup
porter, of Mr. Buchanan. If he is elected, there is
every reason apprehend the admission to the Union
not only of Kansas but also unless frustrated by the
Intervention of foreign powers of large portion OF
Central America both of them cursed with the institu-
ton of Slavery, imposed against the wishes OF the
people by politicians whose counsels WILL if their cam
ddate be chosen direct the action of the Federal Gov
ernment In the view of such possibility, how worse
than puerle how criminal, is the conduct of those
Northern men who hesitate to unite now in the first
pra,tical and We fear if unsuccessful the last practl-
cable movement of resistance