Daily American organ., 1856-11-14
:. RemarkabIe Discoyeries. ;,

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Under this attractive head, our little neigh
Dor " Phantom has exhibited proof that the
Now York Tribune entertains very different
| view OF Mr.. Buchanan's probable course on
| the slave question, from that which we have
expressed. We are quite happy to know that
| Phantom comprehends this difference. In
| 1865, Greeley, Buchanan and Phantom y will
cordially concur. in opinion, and we, if we live,
shall disagree with them, unless they repent
Of, and change their advocacy of squatter
sovereignty"
"Phantom is right on one point-ace, at
least do intend to blister Buchanan's admin
istration," prooidsd he adheres to the Cincin-
matt platform. But now hear Phantom" e1
cathedra, lay down the law to all the office
hunting gentry in the Democratic party, and
we suppose he means to warn the ''blackguard
Democrats" also, in the same breath, as fol-
| lows, to-wit
Thus, we have to assure them that they may
safely calculate that the new administration will,
with reference to the slavery question, know none
| as it's friends, North, South, East or West, who
fail to stand by all the States rights compromises
of the Constitution so emphatcally re-affirmed in
| the Cincinnati Conventions platform. Whether
| in or out of office, he who even blnks at point
involved in the resolutions of that convention on
the slavery question will stand precious little
chance, indeed, under the new administration
more especially because, of all times, the present
is not the time for temporzing upon that particu-
lar subject matter"
Very well said, indeed, considering soho said
it. Phantom is certainly trying hard tc
become the representative of the incoming ad
ministration. Well, aeso converts are general
! ly preferred now to old stagers, and as Phan
! tom only came over to Buchanan after the
nomination, he will, on this ground, have ex
alted claims
AS we desire that "Phantom should bt
thoroughly understood and appreciated We
copy from his Sheet published just before the
nomination, the following opinions Of Mr.. Blu
! chanan. He spoke Of him thus:
sl "We do not agree with the Times and Sentine
in the belief that he is the greatest now iden
: tilted with the Democratic party. lie has been in
/ public life almost unnterruptedly since 1920
Where is the legislative measure of domestic OF
, foreign policy originated by him that has become
II feature in our public history? He has been a,
the head of our State Department and our Minis
ter to the Court of St. James. Where is the trea
: ty negotiated or consummated through his agency
except the unimportant commercial treaty with
: Russia, which is almost verbatim copy of many
similar treaties with other governments, before
, and since made in many instances by compare
lively obscure Charges dAffaires on the part Of
this government? ee
Il "Tbe idea OF bis peculiar popularity at the
/, South is worse than mistake. IL is dangerou'
misapprehension of the truth. The South enter
tains no devotion to men whatever. In her esti
nation they stand or fall together according to
: their records, and whenever before them for Of
fee, their recrods only are considered.
"Now, upon the question of protection, the rec
. | ord of Mr.. buchanan as as paipa6ly against III,
y doctrines of the South as that of any party VIII,
! has ever been In public life. If in the considera
ton of the tariff question he has ever made an,
but high-protectve tariff speech, or given othe
. than high protective tariff VOTE the fact has es
y capped our recollection. Upon the Pacific Raroat
4 question he certainly differs as widely from th
\ Democracy Of the South any gentleman of eithe
I party now in public life. Upon the slavery ques
. tion though until recently advocate for the ex
clusion of slavery from all United States territor
north of SO degrees 30 minutes OF north latitude
!, | or, in other words, Missouri Compromise man.
he now stands on the Kansasbill platform; posi-
!, ton which every man must necessarily occupy VIII
Y dreams of being candidate for the Cincinnati
}; Presidential nomination.
"Left 70 himself, If elected, we could have u,
!. doubt that he would administer the governmen
Win an eye einRie 70 tnc pufposc VI carryhib ou
the policy Of the present administration upon th
|, question. But we know perfectly well that ever.
< man in the non-slaveholding States who, whil
g | claiming afiiliation with the Democratic party
! stands opposed to it upon the great oyershadow
ing ssues OF the times, is an ardent advocate fo
+ Mr.. Bnchanan's nomination, avowedly because h
: hopes that in administering the government Mr.
B. win make the principle Of the Missouri restric
: ton his policy rather than that Of the Kansas
, Nebraska act Wesfrsnkly confess that we have
u great dstrust indeed OF the peculiar class of poll
y ticsns out Of Pennsylvania who have fairly mount
ed on Mr.. BuchanaD's back. te-