Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-08-14
Ola Buek'. Record (! Very Black ,

We haze thrown together in another column few
;,es from the black record of our Democratic Repub
l;c.n candidate We find there consistency in moth
inc exeent in oppasition 70 the extension or sdrery
That was the principle with which he set out IN 1879
he repeated it in his speech on the annexation OF
Texas in ls44-snd we have yet to see any repu-
diation OF it to this day. On subordinate questions
Souatter Sovereignty wilmot Proviso &c, he veered
about with every wind Of doctrine-being first
asAins; one And then against the other-and now for
both But with respect TO the extension OF slavery,
he has known no shadow Of change-he has been
fixed a, the North Pole He strscts now to be with
the south and permits himself - Dc held up s. the
candidate Of the South Bat that i the only evil
dence We have. and that ussa5ive and constructive,
Of any change OF o7inSoa- rnAs Pretence OF =
chance i Necessary - ootAjn any support Al the
Southland ih.i no doubt, i the secret Of II But
Van Buren-now one Of his chief SupPorters-tcr-
merry occupied the same position He permitted
himself 20 be run As the especial guardian OF South
ern rights and vet he in lSis, stood upon the But
falo Platform and the leader of the first organ
lied band of Abolition traitors for the subverSion OF
the south and the equality Of the States. He pro
fesses no change-and yet he is one of the main pi-
lars of the Buchanan party. And so with Mr. CaS>
His Nicholson letter was, during the canvass OF IS
construed by the Wings as asserting the doctrine
of SIudtter Sovereignty. That construction wa>
everywhere vehemently denied by the Democracy,
and Mr. Cas- was upheld the most reliable cham
pion that the South had ever had Mr.. Cas- stood
BY all the while-Ssid never word-but by his -
lence acquiesced in the Interpretation put upon his
letter by the Democracy repudiating Squatter Sove
reignty But when the election was over, he rose IN
the Senate, and in the most insulting terms, stated
that the language of his letter Col Nicholson WAS
so plain in favor Of Squatter Sovereignty, that none
but fool could misunderstood it, a knave misin-
terpret it.
We suspect that we have in Buchanan another OF
these Northern men with Southern principles Ger
tain it is, that there is nothing in his published
speeches or letters which prevents his besiowing
upon his Southern supporters the identical phrases
which General Cass did; or like Van Buren,, here
after mount the Buffalo Platform.
1t is by taking such candidates-men who
are fundamentally opposed to the South, and rot
ten at the core-that the Democracy for aud
ever sinking the South deeper and deeper in the
mire II they win the battle, they cannot gain any
thing. As in the famous fight of Glenruen, the vic
tors fare worse than the vanquished.
But tue selection of such men is natural and inev-
liable from the vicious principle on which they pro-
cecil Tney require the Northern man to degrade
himself by huiniliating concessions as condition
precedent their support OF course, no honorable
and high toned will accept their support the
terms exacted. The consequence is, that they are
forced make their selection from among unreliable
adyenturers-and usually the one least trustworthy
most subseryent and most ready to make promises,
which he has intention to fulfil, is chosen.