Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-17
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evils Of slavery. They do so unwisely, and re-
gret II but when they do so, the free white peo :
pic oil this State will discuss and condemn it. The
ioea OF marching, In the 10th century with the
immense power OF this free Republic, upon an en-
feebled and half-cvilized people and forcing upon
hem the institution OF slavery which they reject,
and make ii fundamental article of treaty al
peace that they shall be guarded against Is 80 re-
pugnant 10 my sense of what is due not merely TO
the superior magnitude and strength of our own
country but disgraceful to our free institutions,
and so pregnant with evil TO the people Of both
countries that, If could be satisfied that this war
is prosecuted to plant human slavery in Mexico,
devoted though am to the glory, honor, welfare,
and progress of these United States in every
breath OF my life, in every fibre of my system, so
help me God, would join the Mexicans tomorrow
in resisting such oppression. Applause Not
only this, but would pledge myself to recruit
among the freemen Of this State armies, while the
Kingdom Of Polkdom was recruiting single mon"
Further in the same Address this Democratic
Tippecanoe orator and warm supporter of Mr.
Buchanan, after speaking of the time and labor
required to make the people fully comprehend
the nature and bearings of questions of trade and
finance, said:
But go to them on question about buying
and selling body, question which overrides all
Legislative executive grants of power, or discus
sion, as to their true boundaries all questions of
local interests and comes down to the human be-
ing himself, if you cannot make the people believe
that is Democratic to resist the extension of hu
man slavery, it is better to abandon politics and
adopt come other mode of serving your fellow
men,
In a speech made in the city of New York, du-
ring the, campaign of lS4S, he declared that he
would "draw a Gordon of free States about tho
South !" he would flight the fires of freedom all
around them" and that the doughfaces would find
THAT the whip held over their backs was in the
hands of the freemen of the North" s
In the same speech he declared that the doctrine
of restricting slavery by the action of Congress
chad been sanctiied by every administration from
Washington down to Polk, and that was about as
far down as you could get"
1t is in perfect consistency with these recorded
sentences OH the subject Of slavery that John Van
Buren now supports Mr.. Buchanan on the common
ground of squatter sovereignty. In the course Of
speech made by him in the city Of New York, in
which be gave in his cordial adhesion to the Gin
cinnat platform and nominees, he said
81 am told that, in looking at the resolutions OF
that Convention, they have been able to discover
that they pledge the Democratic organization to
the extension of slavery to free territory. / have
read these resolutions carefully, and with what
little intelligence have been able te apply to
them can find no such thing in them. offer
reward now, to any OF these highly intelligent Re-
publican gentlemen, to point me, not to an outrage
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an improper newspaper article, but to line or
sentence in the Cincinnati resolutions which advo
Gates encourages the extension of slavery to free
territory"
In the same speech he further says:
:" You are well aware that as national publicity
is given to my remarks, when l speak in this con
idential way, laughter it is quite as wen !
should say what would not injure Mr.. Buchanan at
the South, and what would not njure him at the
North, and, therefore, in the present state Of the
subject, do not deem it necessary to consider the
question whether it would make slave or 4 free
State"
Further on in the same speech he says:
81 think proper to say, that while greatly dis
approve the repeal of the prohibition of slavery in
that Territory, yet constitutional act Congress
had right to repeal it, if they chose SO to do.
They had the power to do it. There were not 100
people In the Territory when it was done. They
threw open the settlement of the great Territories
Of Kansas and Nebraska, and there are now some
10000 or $4,000 people there, invited under
constitutional act to exercise the right of sefgov-
ernment. The people who are there are the
people who are to determine the destinies of that
State. They have right to do it urder the Kan
act, and they have right to do it independent
Of the Kansas act, perhaps"
The people of Kansas, he says, have the right
now, while in territorial condition, to exclude
admit slavery as they may choose.
Thus upon the common, anti-savery ground Of
squatter sovereignty, do we find the Van Burens,
father and son, with long train of Freesoil-Buf-
falo Platform coadutors Of 1s4S going heart and
soul for the election of Mr. Buchanan.
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