Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-11
From TIE Charksville Chronicle.
Mr. Buchanan,s Record Worse
and Worse.

When the American speakers charge upon nr.
Buchanan bis unfeeing votes against the Niagara
sufferers. and against Mrs Brown and Mrs. Denny,
and prove by logical deductions that these votes
had their origin in his undying hatred Of the war Of
"I2, and of the democratic party which declared
il, the sag nits, with wise nod Of the head, an
swer, that Buchanan is the consistent guardian OF
the public crib, and that these votss in
dance with a settled conviction that the public
treasure should not be lightly sQuandered. Were
this apology based upon truth-upon consistent
practice, charity might cast its mantle over bis
duct; but be is entitled to the benefit of no such
plea and must stand convicted not only Of conss-
tent hatred OF the war, and Of all concerned with
it, but of contempt for the masses and want Of sym
patty with the suffering soldier and bis destitute
widow.
In 1927 a bill was introduced into Congress by
Mr. Burgess, for the relief of surviving officers Of
the Revolution which bill studiously excluded the
foreign officers who fought with from the relief
proposed to be given.-0n the 1lth of Jvn. 1927,
Mr. Tucker of South Carolina, offered the following
amendment to the bill.
Resolved That the bill for the relief Of the sur
viving officers of the army of the Revolution, as
amended in Committe of the Whole, be recommit-
ted'to the committee who reported it, with instruc
tons to so amend the same as to make provisions
for ALL the officers and SOLDIERS who served in
the Revolutionary war for six mouths, or more, at
any time. The compensation of each officer and
soldier to be divided among them in proportion to
the rank they held and the time they in sers
vice, and also to make provisions for the widows Of
such officers and soldiers were slain, or other
wise died while in service, who have died SINCE
See Gales Seston's Debates, Jan. llsh, 1927, Vol.
Sd.
On page 683, same volume, Mr.. Buchanan, it will
be seen, spoke against this amendment, recording
as bis judgment, that the government should except
from its grateful acknowledgements and simple acts
of justice, the foreign officer who lent the force Of
his arm and the weight of his counsel to the a.
chievment of our liberties, well the poor SOL
der who split his blood offered up his life for the
maintanancs of the same glorious cause. And it
was in tina. speech, with upon his lips, and
contempt for the soldier ia his heart, that he ask
ell this question -" Has it ever been the practice
OF this government to provide for MlLITIA?"
On page 600, same volume, it will De seen that
Buchanan voted against this amendment, whilst the
entire Tennessee delegation, headed by James. K.
Polk, voted for it.
To bring out the inconsistency OF Mr.. Buchanan.
in still holder relief it will be by reference to
Vol 9th, part lst, page $50, same Debates that he
voted for bill giving relief to the widows of the
seamen lost in the Hornet, which went down in
gale off Tampco. Aud in Vol Sd, 773, it win be
seen that be voted to give 500 600 of the public
money to the sufferers by fire in Alexandra. From
these last votes it would seem that Buchanan was
willing to spend the public treasure in repairing
losses accruing from the ordinary accidents of life
whilst the poor soldier and the sufferer from the
cidents of war, find no sympathy in his bosom. And
no fact is more clearly proven by continuous re-
cord than the fact that James Buchanan stands out
from among the people, bound to them by no bond
of common sympathy and common interest, cold
and selfish demagogue, ready to use the people for
his own advancement and to repay them with SUI
preme contempt.