The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-06

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its history. together with The causes which lea
to The publication Of that famous epistle Du
ing the presidential campaign Of 84e, the 10.
William 1. iancey, of Alabama, was chosen !
delegate to the democratic national CONVEX
hoa, Which was to nominate candidate for I'll
presidency. On his arrival at Baltimore, fe
days previous to the assembling Of the CONVEX
= ton, he!addressed letter to each of the prom
W lnent aspirants 10 the democratic nomination
asking their views in respect to certain resolu
tloas that had been adopted and promulgated b
the democratic convention of the State of Ala
4 bana. !. lie received prompt replies fror
: Messrs. Woodbury., Cass, Buchanan and Dial
= las. Those of the three latter gentlemen wer
y unsatisfactory to Mr.. Yaneey and tie Alabam
delegation, and fell far short of the standart
of "soundness on the slavery question requir
\ ed by the Alabama democratic convention
The answer of Judge Woodbury. was satisfac
n tory, and he was, therefore, the farorite of Mr.
Yahcey and his associates; but failed to secure
she nomination. On Mr.. Yanceys return from
Baltimore to Montgomery. he issued an ad
; dress, in pamphlet form, 10 the democracy Of
Alabama. containing The letters Of Messrs. Cass,
j Buchanan and Dallas, which he declared to be
at variance with the rights of the south, unsat-
isfaetoTy to southern democrats, and @unsound
On heislavery question: and in defending his
course in refusing to support Mr.. Cass, the nom
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ter sovereignty procliFities. Mr.. Sanford, at
the time editor of the Mobile Register and one
of the Oldest and most prominent democrats in
Alabama being great political friend and ad
mirer Of Mr.. Buchanan, conceived that Mr.
| Yancey had in some way misrepresented Penn
svIganas s.favorite son. and to controvert the
unfavorablei impression which the pamphlet
was making, enclosed a copy to Mr.. Buchanan, |
together with an extract from the Register, con
tanning the purport of conversation that had
taken place short time previous between the
I'VE gentlemen, at Washington, and at the same
time requesting correct statement of the whole
affair. Mr.. Buehanan's reply will be found in
our last. It in no way gave satisfaction TO the
democracy 81 Alabama, and the Register ad-
mitted the fact The disafection of Mr.. IAN
cey and his southern rights followers came near
giving the vcte of Alabama to general Cass'
opponent, Mr.. 4ancey, on the 18th page of
his pamphlet, declared that:
ITO Mr.. Buchanan, therefore, is due, theS
credit Of first giving the go-by to the Wilmot
provEso, as means of excluding the slavehold-
ers from our new territories, but at the same
time, pointing out to the north how much more !
the great end of the provisoist- .
teepfag these tsr'tories erclusiueyfor tie settle
qaent Of northern emigrants-could be obtained >
BY advocating the new doctrine, that the inhab-
tants Of new territory, mile get in lis terrific
-sat state, could prevent any emigration thither tt
If Shareholders" q
Mr.. Buchanan, in his letter to Mr.. Sanford
declared that the construction put uponh Ian : if
mage by Mr.. Yancey, "was perversion of its t.
lain and ovious meaning by turning TO $
dr. Buchanan'a letter accepting the nomination O
or the presidency, it will be found that he nows,
occupies, in its broadest sense, the very ground
iPon which Mr.. Yancey placed him. Does a
lot Dir. Buchanan declare, that the people of S
terraory. like those Of q State, shall decide Ii
whether slavery shall, Or shall not, exist in n
heir Iimitse" And could not the enemies of h
be sopth, under the working Of such system, Il
olonise a snew territory, exclude slavery, and e,
nus "prsEent any emigration thther of slave G,
oIders?f Most assuredy, if the democracy Il,
Alabama, in 1915, deemed Mr.. Buchanan
nsound Oh the slavery question and unworthy
the support Of southern democracy, they can N
OF vote for him in 1856. Is
While on the subject Of letters, we may as Nc
ell call attention to one on our first page from II
e pen of Andrew Jackson. It's appearance IL
Gated no small excitement in Tennessee and ne
entucky. to
We: also find "another letter. published in tai
e Washington Union, under the caption of Dc
ZEN Jackson's fame vindicated By his son idt
ndre8 Jackson" being "a letter from the de
ermiHage," and dated at the Hermitage, June En-
J, 1856" tits Ia protest the '*adopted SON. CO.
Old Hickory against the INSCRIPTIONS use shI
the l1suate and confidential correspondence of for
adopted father, and appeals most confident Sa
to the public to sustain him in this protest" on
portion Of the letter from Mr. Jackson, r.. is pic
ended for Francis p. Blair, ex-editor of the has
ashngton Globe (now the Union) and the ho1
personal friend of general Jackson: eve
t ITS real object appears to be to explain away tlo
letter of Old Hickory, recently published in Of
ashingson and Nashville, and written on the roo
tn February, 1845 wherein the old hero en-
eaks Of the non. James Buchanan as a man bre
lcklng moral courage, and not to be trusted" Va
: jackson, Jr, tries to explain this BY saying VIII
It the general wrote under etmomentery ir- ere
atom" That does not explain the generals mu
son for mistrusaing Mr.. Buchanan Old
skory through life stood up to whatever he -,
or did under @momentary'' excitement. r,a
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Mr. Buchanan's letter accepting the nomina- mo-
fprt 1o i 4 | fy