Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-09-17
The Two Faces.

The Southern supporters of Mr.. Buchanan IN
sist yehemeptly that he alone of the three Pres
idential candidates can be trusted by the peo-
pie of this section of the Union. They declare
that he is bona file Southern man in his SYM
pathes and feelings, and is pledged to the sup
port of our peculiar institutionin every way pos
sible. Not content with claiming for him a de-
termination to maintain the inst constitutional
rights of the South, they boldly assert that "He
will acquire more territory to accommodate
peacefully the great conflicting interests" SO
says an electioneering document prepared atthe
Democratic head quarters in Washington city,
and circulated in the Southern States. This
then is Mr. Buchanan's Southern face.
What say Mr.. Buchanan's Northern friends 7
The Black Republicans of Middletown, Connec-
ticut, held meeting recently, and as usual dis
played their well known motto: Free speech,
Free-labor, Free-Kansas, and Fremont" A
few days afterwards the Buchanan Democracy
held a meeting in the same place, and as a re-
spouse to the Republicans had inscribed on their
banner: "All the Frees but Fremont" That
is, Free speech, Free-labor, Free-Kansas and
Buchanan
Again, q Northern religious journal having
charged that Buchanan was favorable to the
extension of slavery, the New Hampshire Patrl-
ot-the home organ of President Pierce-be-
came exceedingly wrathy, and pronounced the
statement ,"monstrous falsehood." The Patri-
OF says:
''Here are protested christian ministers delib-
erately uttering the infamous lie that James Blu
chan will 90 for the extension of slaveryn Here,
by men of whom truth is at least expected, the
sons and daughters of Democrats, who are sent
to the Sabbath school to receive religious in
struction, are taught that the Democratic candi-
date for the Presidency, who never owned a
slave or lived in slave State, or uttered q word
in defence of slavery, or 1ohispered sentence IN
favor of its extension, or cast q cote arhich any
honest man could c0nstrUe into a lcish to support
the Institution, is meanly denounced as sla-
very propagatdist! Truly this is a depth Of
meanness and mendacity and moral depravity
which was never reached even in politics until
these political priests entered the field. Every
intelligent man knows that neither Mr.. Buchan.
an nor the Democratic party fayors the extern
sion of slavery
Now which of these contradictory statement
are we to believer The Connecticut Democrats
are just as staunch in the party faith as our Vir
GINA Democracy, and the New Hampshire Pa,
triot is Just as orthodox journal, and as likely
to know Mr.. Buchanan's sentiments, as the Rich
mond Enquirer The reader will draw his OWE
differences, and appreciate at their true value al
the pretensions of Southern championship sci
up for Mr.. Buchanan. That the Patriot repre-
sents his position truly seems to us probable from
the sentiments uttered by him in 1874, on the
Texas treaty of annexation. He then expressed
''his great repugnance by any act of his to ex
tend the limits of the Union over new slave
holding territory" and only supported the trea
ty on the ground that it would limit, and not
enlarge, the dominions of savery-that it woult
secure the abolition of slavery in Maryland
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. And YET
| Southern men tell US that he will acquire more
territory for the maintenance of the institu
ton, This game of deception will surely not
| succeed.