Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-03

The series of resolutions were Published in
" Poulson's American Daily ADVERTISE" at
Philadeiphis, two days sfterwards-they are
published with Hon. II. M. Fuller's speech in
Congress Of 10th May lAst---they are certified
under the hand and seal Of Edmund Wilcox,
Notary Public, as being truly copied from
Poulson's Advertiser-they were republished
with the letter of Charles Irving, Esq, Of
Lynchburg, Virginia, last spring, and their
genuineness has never been denied.
To break the force of their publication by
Hon. H. M. Fuller, last May, the Hon. j.
CLANCY Jones, (the cat'sPaw Of Buchanan,
and tho same man who petitioned the Legis-
lature Of Pennsylvania in behalf Of free negro
sutfTags) denied that Mr. Buchanan was
chairman Of the committee that drafted those
resolutions, position never taken by any
man Of responsibility he did not and
cannot deny, that they went forth to the world
over the signatures Of the committee, two
days after they were adopted, and were never
contradicted by Mr.. Buchanan from 1919 to
1861 Do these resolutions contain impreg-
nable' positions on the slavery question:
But let US pass over the space of time from
| 1919, when Mr.. Buchanan was comparatively
young, to April 18th, 1926, when Mr.. Buchan-
an was in Congress, and made speech on
the Panama mission, and said, :" 4 belieos it
(slaVery) great moral and great political
eUa. I thank God my lot has been cast in a
State aoAere 10 does not spist" (See Gales
and Seaton's Register of Debates vol. 2, part
2, page 1880
We shall advert to these remarks Of Mr.. Blu
chanan again, before we close this article, and
therefore now pass on to his speech on the an
nexation of Texas in 1874, (see Congressional
Globe, page 2, vol ID Of the Appendix where
he said: f
"In arriving at the conclusion to support this
treaty had to encounter but one serious obstacle
| and that was the question of slavery. Whilst /
ever have maintained, and ever shall maintain, in
their vigor the constitutional rights of the South
era States over their slave property 4 get felt a
strong repasgaaacs BY any act Of mine TO erte,d
the limits of the Union oUer skaveholoing
| Territory. After mature reflection, however, /
overcame these scrupies, and now believe that the
acquisition of Texas win be the means of limiting,
not charging, the dominion of slavery"
ain the government of the world, Providence
generally produces great changes by gradual means.
| There is nothing rash in the counsels of the AL
/ mighty May not then, the acquisition of Texas
/ be the means of gradually drawing the slaves far
to the South, TO climate more congenial to their
| nature; and may they not finally pass off into
Mexico, and there mingle with race where no
| prejudice exists against their COLOR The Mexi-
can nation is composed of Spaniards, Indians, and
negroes, blended together in every variety, who
would receive our slaves terms of perfect social
equality. To this condition they never can be adj
mitted in the United States.
1 "That the acquisition of Texas would ere long
convert Maryland, Virginia Kentucky, Missouri,
and probably others of the more Northern slave
States into free States, entertain not doubt.
But should Texas be annexed to the Union,
causes will be brought into operation which must
inevitably remove slavery from what may be called
| the farming States"
! We trust that every man in the South will
carefully analyze and reflect upon this speech
of Mr.. Buchanan, delivered when he was
ffty-six years Of age, and when his opinions
were fully matured. And we hero ask the
youth of the Enquirer to point out one single
Southern sentiment, principle or position
thereinl Will he try bis hand at it9"
Did Mr.. Buchanan vote for the annexation
of Texas to gipe the South an equilibrium
Of p0werg Was it in his purpose, by. that
vote, to protect the slave interests of the
South9 He ayows it openly that he was re-
conciled to the admission ofTexas in order To
limit, and not to enlarge the dominion Of
slageryi He was in faves Of the admission
of Texas to free the States Of Maryland, Viz
ginia, Kentucky, aDd Missouri from slavery /
He desired to see slavery 9pass off into Mexi-
CO." and he argues that Mexico will receiye
our slaves upon terms Of social equalityl"
Mark his language! His mind was absorbed
with the idea of getting rid of slavery alto
gether, by opening an outlet through Texas
into Mexicoi Well, then, if this scheme be
effected, the Southern slaves must go there as
| freemen, for the Mexican laws do not allow
slavery, nor could they enjoy social equality"
Gs sLd0es.
And pray, hon does Mr. Buchanan propose
to get the three or four millions of Southern
slaves into Mexico as .freeme,a, without the
utter and GBsol2yts destruction Of Southern
rights and interestsg no free the present
slave States Of this Union from slavery, (Which
be said in his Panama speech he believed to
be "a great political and great moral evil, y
by sending the slaves through Texas into Mex
leo, is the great point in Mr.. Buchanan's Texas
speech, and he only oyercame bis scruples !"
abopt the admission of Texas, growing out Of
the "serious obstacle which slavery present
ed, by that mature reflection" which led him
to the sage conclusion, that the quickest and
best way to get rid of that political and mo-
raj evil, was to send all the slaves through