Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-09
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL ., 1856.


James Buchanan
As this gentleman appears to be looming up,
In the consideration of the Democracy of the
Middle States, in connection with the nomi-
nation for the Presidency by the approaching
Cincinnati Convention, brief review of some
Of his antecedents may be of service. Having
recently put in circulation letter dated the
28th of December last, IN which he endorses
the Kanzas Nebraska bill, on the plea that the
deed, whether wise OF not, has been done,and
that by that act, g the question of the Mis-
souri Compromise has been settled, and this
settlement should be inhexibly maintained,
We would like to refresh his memory with GER
rain other act or "settlement'' on the matter of
slavery, which he has repeatedly endorsed on
the same ples, and respectfully ask him if he
il really to consider the present the last anaJf-
nal settlement of all It's not long since Mr..
Buchanan wrote letter, Gt was pending the
Mexican war, we believe), lauding the Mis-
souri, Compromise to such hight, as ''final-
ity," never to be disturbed, that he proposed
extending the line designated by it to the Pa
thereafter, he is willing, at the bid of South
ern task masters, to bow down to the dust in
support of an uncalled for and violent disrup-
ton of that settlement" merely to spread
slavery over the fairest uncultivated portion
of the North American continent. How many
more "inal settlements" and violent disrup-
tons of them will have to occur, before the
mind of Mr.. Buchanan will become finally
settled" as to what should constitute the per-
manent policy of the country in regard to the
territories
By going still farther back in the history of
the anti-slavery controversy, we find Mr. Blu
chanan entertaining sentiments precisely akin
to those of the Republicans of this day. At
the time of the admission of Missouri, in
1919, we find him clamoring, in true Repub-
ican style, for the entire restriction Of slavery
therefrom, previous to its admission into the
Union, as a State. No one would have
then thought that he would ever have been
subsequently found, after the agreement had
been solemnly made, to guarantee Kansas and
Nebraska forever to freedom, on condition
that Missouri was admitted without the re-
striction of slavery, consenting to the remov-
al of that restriction also from the remainder
of the territory covered by that compromise,
and sub mitting to its repeal with such lamb
like grace. But so it is.
To show what were the honest sentiments
of James Buchanan on this slavery issue, at
the commencement of his public career, we
publish the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted at large public meet
lingo his political friends, held in Lancaster,
Pa, Nov. 23d, 1919. They were reported to
the meeting by committee of three, one of
whom was JAMES BUCHANAN himself:
Resolaed, That the representatives in Con-
gress from this District be, and are hereby
most earnestly requested to use their utmost
sndeayors as members of the National Legis-
SEAFERY IN any Of the territories or States
schtch may be created by Congress.
ResolUed, That in the opinion of this meet
ing the members of Congress who at the last
session Sustained the cause of Justice, humanity
GndpatriOtisns, in opposing the introduction of
sioUeYy into the State then eadeavoyea to Be
formed out Of the Missouri Territory, are en-
titled to the EARNEST thanks Of every friend Of
humanity.
A third resolution reported by the same
committee, was also unanimously adopted,
recommending to the earnest consideration of
the Legislature of Pennsylvania then about to
commence its annual session, the propriety of
nstructing their representatives to " use their
most jealous and strenuous exertions to PRO-
EIBIT THE EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY IN any ofthe
TERRITORIES OR STATES vhic6 may
hereafter be created by Congress-
Yet, in the face Of all these antecedents,
clearly committing him 10 the right, and in
face, also, of the fact, that at the inception of
the Nebraska bill, he expressed himself in a
letter in decided opposition to the proposed re-
peal Of the Missouri restriction, this model
Pennsylvania Democrat now turns round and
proclaims himself ready, in order to qualify
himself for the nomination at Cincinnati, to
wallow to the lowest depths in the filthy pool
of Nebraskaism. Yet, we venture to predict,
that the South, after having thus Inundated
him, will fling him away in the Convention,
as they did Webster, and take up a new man.