The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-01
The Buchanan PLATFORM

FRANKLIN PIERCE has been true to DEM
ocratic principles, and therefore true to the
great interest of the country; in the face of the
violent opposition, he has maintained the laws
at home, and therefore we proclaim o. OUR
s8 UNQUALIFIED ADMIRATION OF HIS
81 MEASURES AND POLICY.
-aa The Democratic party has endeavored to
conceal the fact that the Cincinnati Convention
endorsed Franklin Pierce. The above reso-
luton is not found in Democratic papers; Old
Line orators avoid the subject with amusing
carefuness, But it is upon the official records
of the Convention, and like milestone it
will sink the party, the platform, and the will
ing tool, who has been placed upon it.
James Buchanan the nominee of that party
who if elected is pledged to follow in the
footsteps of his weak predecessor was just the
man. and perhaps the only man in the party
who would have consented TO ignore his indi-
viduality; to make the confession that he was
no longer JAMES BUCHANAN, bat tool in the
hands ofdesigning office seekers. His marked
Inconsistencies upon the slavery question, his
Federal antecedents, his crusade against labor
proves that the Democratic Plaindealer was
right in 1852, when it said that Buchanan was
willing to sell his native State--to sell her fu-
ture and her past-to South Carolina or the
Devil, for chance in the Presidential rattle
With unparalleled GOODNESS he gives himself
up to party which holdes that the Missouri
Compromise is self evident lie, and never
was recognized by our government, while in
1849, he said that the "Missouri Compromise
saved the Union from threatened convulsions
its extension to any new territory which we
may acquire, will secure the like happy re-
suits"
If it saved the Union in 1920, should it not
have been held inviolable? If it was constitu-
tional in 1847 was it not Constitutional in
1854? If the application of it to Kansas
would have secured such "happy result" was
not the repeal Of it most fragrant wrong?
How is it then that Buchanan is now leading
party which builds its platform upon the
Kansas and Nebraska bill, repeating the com
promise which saved the Union in 1920"
The answer is, that he never had any fixed
principles, but has always stood ready to adopt
any sentiment, any creed, any policy that
promised to advance his own political interests
AMI secure for him ''chance in the Presiden-
tial rattle" He has secured the chance and
that is all.
Vote for Buchanan, if you endorse the adj
ministration Of Franklin Pierce. If you have
realized the divinity of "this glorious and
God like" administration; if you endorse prof
legacy and extravaganza in the administration
oF Oh
the guilt of bloody crime perpetrated in Kan
sas; if you believe that might makes right"
and that Cuba must be stolen; if you wish to |
participate in the thefts from the public treas
ury which have marked the history of the past
four years; if you justify the brutal and cow
ardly attack of Brooks upon Summer, and are
in favor of gag law and rowdyism; if you are
willing to give the rens of government into
the hand of such men as Douglass, Davis, |
Stephens and Brooks who have nominated
Buchanan to use him if elected as political
puppet, then vote for the nominee of the Gin
cinnati Convention. He will carry out to the
letter, your princip7es-if you have any.
We believe with the Cincinnati Convention
that the administration of Franklin Pierce has
been true to Democratic principles" as they are
now laid down by the SO called Democratic
party. We recognize his administration as
the representation of modern Democracy and
as such it will be set down in history, as not
only the most ruffianly and imbecile, but as
the most corrupt of any since the formation of
the Union. The election of James Buchanan
will be but continuation of the present State
of affairs, and the evils engendered by Pierce
& Co. will be nursed through another presi-
dental term. The safety of the country re-
quires the complete determination of these
evils and the entire exclusion from public sta
tons Of that class of men by whom they have
been instituted and propagated 1t is the con-
viction of this fact which has determined the
people to provide for the Inauguration of new
measures by the election of new men.
o. The protraeted drouthis being severely
felt in this neighborhood. Nearly all the els
terms are dry 1t looked very much like rain
yesterday. and we hope to have "wet spell'
shortly. The condition of the river, precludes
the possibility of depending upon it for any
quantity Of water over bucket full
% Red River was rising at last accounts,
with fifteen feet in the channel at Rowland.