St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-02

"even Mr.. Calhoun Having said that
the South would repudiate the Re-
publican candidate, if elected, he in
"sults the North. Talk Of sectional
" ism I! Why he is the most ultra Sec
I" tionalist. He was nominated almost
Exclusively by the South, and was
repudiated by the North"
In the same speech he also says of
Mr.. Buchanan" We know altogeth-
:" er too much of Mr.. Buchanan. In
"l845, Mr.. Buchanan said in speech
" on the admission of Texas, The
question between the two great in
terests Of our country has been well
discussed and well decided, and from
" the moment the Missouri Compromise
"was passed set my foot down upon
:" that solid ground, and there will let
the question rest foreuer.' In 1856,
I" in his lust for Office he sanctioned the
repeal of that Compromise. The two
prominent acts of Mr.. Buchanan's
public life are his Ostend Manifesto
:" and the sanction of the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise" 49, -
l intended to have said something
about the Democratic platform, but
the subject expands to such vast pro-
portions that unless it is necessary in
a future article, shall not attempt to
carry it out, and will give but one res
olution, which, although it has been
read, will refresh some by a second
reading. @
Resolved, That the administration
" of Franklin Pierce has been true to
" Democratic Principles, and therefore
1" true to the great interests of the
country in the face of the great vi.
"olent opposition, he has maintained
the laws at home, and therefore we
proclaim our unqualified appreciation
"of his measures and policy"
Such, gentlemen, is one plank ofthe
platform now running for the Presi
dency, supported by the Democracy
and supported by the press Of that par
| ty in such articles as the following:
| Says the Charleston Mercury -
There is not single public man ir
her limits, (South Carolina, not one
"of her present Representatives o.
Senators in Congress, who is moi
pledged to the lips in favor of disun
"iom" Also from the same,-"Let the
Government perish, but let the SoutA
abe preserved" Which said Charles.
ton Mercury is the leading organ OF
the Democracy in South Carolina. AL
so the following from the Richmond
Enquirer, the organ of Buchanan in
Virginia, and / may say for the whole
South. "The Democrats in the South
in the present canvass cannot rely
"upon the old grounds Of defence and
excuse for slavery for they seek
"not merely to retain it where it is
but to extend it into regions where
it is unknown" The Democrats of the
north laboring with them of course
occupy the same ground. Also, please
read and ponder the following from tha
same Democratic sheet. "They (thost
holding the doctrine of Mr.. Jeffer
"son,) begin to reason by assuming
slavery to be morally and religious
"ly wrong; and the South hitherto hal
granted their premises, and attempt
led to justify negro slavery as an ex
ception to a general rule, or, j
wrong, as matter of bargain be
tween the North and the.South. Th
laws of God and nature are immuta
l. b vi f
able, and man cannot bargain then
"away, while it is far more obviou
"that negroes should be slaves tha
achites, for they are only fit to labor
"not to direct. u YET the principle Of STA
"xry IS itself right, and does not depen
"oh difference of fcomplexion." Agair
another article from the same. Free
"dom is not possible without slavery
Every civil polity, and every socia
system, implies gradation OF ran
"and condition !; in the states OF tn
South, an aristocracy of white me
) "is based on negro slavery, and tn
e "absence of negro slavery would b
3 supplied by white men,
And will Freemen of the North sti
e work side by side with such men, WI
t declare their readiness to ensla,
Q them in the absence Of negro SLAYER
III trust they will no longer. oHe'
e what that same Richmond Enquire
g says Of James Buchanan. He new,
n gave vote against the interests
n +" slavery in his life, and never utter'
d "a word which could pain the mo