New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-10


ofone-who preteDds still to be hostile to Slavery
Extension yet says he shall vote for Buchanan, for
he don't bel'ers Old Baeh opprovss tie passage Of the
Nebraska bill! Amazing as the fact may SEEM in
this oge of newspapers and tele. e.raph wires, we
have beard Of "Softs" giving this excuse foe sup
porting Buchanan. Yet his letter to Sdell, pub
ltbed last Winter, expressly proclaim ID bis aihe-
zion to the Nebraska policy, ard in bis speech at
Baltimore, On the occasion of bis recent public
reception in that city, he said:
We have already reached and almost passed the
dangerous crisis the subject Of domestic Slavery.
The volcano is nearly exhausted. The material for
continued agitation no longer exists And why! Be
cause bold it to be quite impos be that any consd-
cradle portion of our people long continue to con.
test the elementary Republican principles recognized
in the Territorial Lt gislatiOn of Congress.
"TLis is nothing more than the po possessed by
the people Of every Free State since the world began.
1t is tie foundation the elementary principle, of
Democratic Republic. Without cheerful submission
to the will Of the majority no Democr ,tic Government
exist. We have thus reached the end, or, to use
expressive Amercansm, the fnallty Of our legsa-
tiOn on this subject.
"What man in the United States who values hi.
character, will rise among his feLow-cidzens and
majority shall governl Nore-not one. repeat, we
have reached the hnaity Of the question. We nave
arrived at the elementary principle Of Freedom that
the majority shall eove,n-a principle essential to no-
eTty snd unchunge cable a. liberty itself
"Afer the tempest has passed away 1t requires some
days for the waves Of the to subside after
the agitation in the public mind for many years on the
Slavery question: it will require some time before tdis
shall cease. That it will do so, except amo those
fanatics who are governed by higher Law than the
Constitution, | feel an abiding confidence"
The cruelty and tophistry of this language is ab-
solutely internal. The "power here asserted is
the power of some men to say that other men shall
live and die slaves-bOueht and sold like beasts OF
the field, and seeing their wives and children sold
at the auction-bock whenever avarice, necessity
or lust shall dictate. This seems so reasonable and
lust to Mr.. Buchanan that he confidently predicts
speedy acquiescence of all but "fanatics' in its
uGdisputed sway.
But the Nebraska act is "a law declaring that
"msiority shall govern" says Mr. B. What ma
jcrity majority Of ~hom Are those most
deeply interested-tbOse whom this act proposes
for its vcims-to have any voice in the matter
Certainly not. Those who are to be bought, sold,
scourped, to work without wages and see their
children torn from their mother,' arms and sent
into eternal exile, have nothing to say in the prem
ises. If lew territory should contain poPufa.
ton of 900 Whites aud $4,000 Blacks when
permitted to form State Constitution, and l,OoO
of the Whites should be 10 favor OF mixing 1t q
Slave State, their will would overbear, according
to the principles and provisions of the Nebraska
act, that of the 90, 900 Whites and $4,000 Blacks
70, O00 in ALL or more than two-thirds OF the ea-
tire population opposed TO Slavery and in favor OF
making it Free State. Yet Mr. Buchanan "hods
ait impossible that any considerable portion OF our
"people shall long continue to contest the elementary
"prinep'es' of this act!
Sopbistry is the high road to positive untruth.
to establish Slavery asserted in the Nebraska bill
is "nOthiDg more than the power possessed by the
"peOple Of every Free State since the world
"began." He knows better than this--knows
that this power was expressly denied to the peo-
pie of the Territory northwest of the Ohio by
Jeferson's immortal Ordinance, framed in 1884,
but first adopted by Congress in l7S7, under which
Ordinance Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and
Wisconsin were first organized as Territories and
6aally ripened into States. He ought to know that
when the Governor and Legislature of Indiana,
representing great majority of the People, peti-
toned Congress for leave to hold slaves for lin
tied period, John RaEdolph, from Committee
composed two-thrds of SHAREHOLDERS, reported
against grating leave, and the House unanimously
sustained the report. He ought to know that Iowa
has sill ce been organized as Free Territory and
ripened into a Free State, and that Minnesota is
now following in her track, under a similar restrc
ton, embodied in the Missouri Compact, which
he, James Buchanan, first condemned, and then
for thirty years sustained, euogized, and tried to
have extended to the Pacific. He ought to know
that Oregon is this day under such Prohibition of
Slavery by positive act Of Congress- never asked for
by her settlers In short, he ought to kuow that
Slavery is gigantic mposture, and that those who
enter upon it's service are in great danger of being
led from wrong into falsehood.
Mr. Buchanan WAS the candidate of Virginia at
the two last Democratic National Conventions, aud
her slave.breejing politician, are not often mi.ta.
ken in their tools There is not man in the Uoion
who, since he snufed the Presidency afar of, has
been more subssrvient to the Slave Power thsn be.
His distinguished frit ind and champion, the Hon.
j. Clancy Jones, in late triumphant re ply to his
South American Colleague, the Hon. Henry NJ.
Fuller, who had va'nly attempted to pick .ome
flaws in Mr.. Buohanan's Pro Slavery escutcheon,
truly sad
IAN such accusations as these against Mr.. Buchanan
are answered
"By the fact that, twenty years ago in the Senate of
The United States he wac among the fir, Northern
men 10 resist the inroads If Abolitioni.m.
BY bis opposition to the circulation of n.u1etionsrv
tocun ents through the mails of the United Stats
among the slaves of the South.
kansas into the American Union
"By his early support of the Annexation Of Texas.
by his per.everng support of the Fugitive Slave