Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-07-04
buchanan a Dead Plank in a
Rotten Platform.

ca lN hlNllt wv AtaNN ifhA w Af''N" WV
more useful in her deulli perhaps than in her
life, since she became a pillar Of salt but
Buchanan out-mlraclcs them all. lie is tur-
ned into u plank. Behold
From the Washington Globe, June 10.
The Keystone Cl,b, with Becks brass
band, OF Philadelphia, yesterday visited
Wheatland, the residence Of Mr.. Buchan-
an. near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with sew
crnl hundred citizens. Tie President Of the
Club was introduced to Mr.. Buchanan and
congratulated him as the Nations choice
The work, he SAID was begun, and they in
tended 10 carry on tl success should
crown their efforts.
Mr. Buchanan replied as follows:
Gentlemen, two weeks since,
should have made you long speech, but
now that have been placed upon platform,
of which most heartily approve, and being
the representative of the great Democratic
party, and not simply James buchanan,
must square my conduct according TO the plat
Iorm, and insert no new plank nor take one
from 1t.
Alas Tor those Democrats, who, hCari sick
OF the present Admnlstuuon-ofii treoch-
cry to It's pledges, It's imbccilty, Of its rot
tenness --haye clutched at Buchanan as
drowning men catch at straws They thought
hlm to be James Buchanan the Senator, the
Secretary Of State, the Minister to England,
the respectable old FedoraIist, old Fogy, old
bachelor, aud, in look, speech and action,
old woman but they are mistaken. lie has
been ttansmogried the spirit has gone out
of him. aud from the very center Of plank
ia rotten platform, 1t cries out to all the
Shums--" am not simply Janss Buchanan
Aye If he ever had any simplicity of truth,
or character, or principles, or statesnanshlp
or genuine manhood, he has lost It. lie is d
plank platform. And tShdi sort Of Il plat
form is he2 Douglas said at New York that
Buchanan thought just as he dd--that he
played second fiddle to him! 1t is true
The Cincinnati Platform is before us--iu the
Woodstock Age,-and we find that the first
ten resolutions are mainly barney the
ghosts OF platforms long since dead:
!. For strict construction of the Consti>
tuition. THE Ohgarchy are always first to
violate their own rule
J. Against internal improvements. Blu
chanan has been in favor Of them
3. Against assuming state dcUts. Mo-
body asks itl
4. Against Protection. Buchanan has
been on the other side
8. For ngd economy The expenses are
now, 10 a time OF peace, seyeuty-tiye mill
lions year-three times as great as the
sum which President Polk fixed as proper.
&. Against distributing the proceeds of
the public lands to the stutos. Tins is con-
trry to the deeds, and deuIal Of the rights
of the states. Vermont Is the owner of her
proportion according to population she can't
get single dollars worth
= Against a u. s bank The bank has
been dead more than twenty years, and even
It's ghost is land. Not a single mourncr goes
about the streets.
2. For the sub treasury.
.. For the veto power.
10. For the Declaration Of independence
so far as 1t is against ubridgng the prIyile-
ges Of foreigners. All but why not he for
it so far ns 1t DEGREES Liberty to all men
especially all Americans
The | nh resolution is against the X. Ms,
and designed to invite the favor of the Cath /
ollcs
The next four are taken from the Ralu-
...o-a pi.,e---. - i-,J nn '"- ~'-~""y Ques-
ton, and approve of the compromise OF 1850
1.-THE fugitive slave law included
Then comes another series on the slavery
question;
For the Nebraska act, and uoninterter-
enco by Congress with Slavery in State and
Territory, or in the District OF Columbia =
and
For the admission of states, with or with
out slavery, u the people may elect but the
people Of the Territories have no right to act
on the Slavery question until they form a
/ Constitution. Here we have the genuine
/ doctrine Of the ohgarchy. Congress can't
prohibit Siarey, and The People Of The Terri
tories cann,t do It until they form state:
hence, while in territorial condition, there
IS no poluer any lchsrc 10 ercluie Slavery! II
can go IN, without let or hndmnce, to every
inch Of federal territory, unless by bare pos
sibility some poor slave shall claim his free
dom at the hands Of Federal Court, and
for new wonder find a territorial Judge Tor
freedom Remember; there is not the Sigh
test hope for freedom left except in the
judges-pnd no man can be Judge, by APP
ponlment Of Sayocratic President, unless
he is Slayocrat or dough-iace. Remem-
Der Lecompte!
To wind up, we find five more resolutions
/, For declaring to all foreign nations in
favor of free seas aud progressive free trade
throughout the world" In other words,
for fhbusloriug, foreign Interference, and
foreign wars
.. For the Monroe doctrine but they
don't tell what It is. 1t bears good con-
sruction-agalnst foreign interference with
our rights and bad construction, lntorier-
encc By as with tho rights Of others. The
Slayocracy, according to the preceding reso-
luton, will take the bad construction.
g. For free communication between the
Atlantic and the Pacific.
4. sympathy with the Gllibusters in Cen
trail America. More Slave States are wan
ted there.
8 d" RESOLVED, That the Democratic party
will expect of the next Administration that
every proper effort be made 10 insure our as
csHddney an the CUR of Merico, and to main
tam permanent protection TO the great out
lets through which are omptled into its wa
teri the products raised out Of the sol, and
the commodities created by the industry of
lao people Of our Western valleys, and Of
ihe Union at large"
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