Daily American organ., 1856-04-02
Hon. James Buchanan.

occasion to repeat the Spanish proverb, "Save
me from my friends, and | will take care OF
my enemies" /" that politician is james Buchan-
an, of Pennsylvania. The Washington Union
and the Pennsylvania are at loggerheads with
each other upon the question, which of them
is the true friend of this gentlemana In our
opinion, neither of them have any claim to be
regarded as his friends, though both of them
profess to be exceedingly anxious to defend
his political consistency, and the Pennsylya-
nian especially asserts, that the Democracy OF
Pennsylvania has now no second choice--it is
centered in James Buchanan" We may pos
sibly be mistaken in our belief, that this is a
sham. fight between the Union and the Penn
sylvanian, carried on in pursuance of we'll
concerted plan between Messrs Nicholson and
Forney, for the well understood purpose of so
presenting the views Of Mr.. Buchanan on the
Missouri Compromise question, as to destroy
all his chances of nomination by the sup
.porters of the Kansas Nebraska measures
BE this as it may, and be the true condi-
ton of matters as between these two presses
what it may, Mr.. Buchanan may well ex-
claim, sace me from such friends The
Union of this morning repeats, what it has 80
often stated within tho last few weeks, "that
the Presidential contest is to turn almost ex-
clusively upon the Nebraska ISSUE" We shall
advert to this point hereafter. But admit the
proposition in all its length and breadth, and
what would be the policy of the true friends
Of Mr.. Buchanan2 Would the policy be. to
show that, SO far as Mr.. Buchanan appears
upon the record, he soas and Is an advocate Of
the Missouri Compromise line, which that Ne
braska act annihilatedf Would it be the pol
icy Of Mr.. Buchanan's true friends to publish
his letters endorsing that Compromise and
urging its extension to the Pacific ocean p
Would it be the policy of the true friends of
Mr.. Buchanan to republish his letters denoun-
cling in advance those "who would apply a
firebrand at the present moment to the com
bustible materials which may produce an erup-
ton to overwhclm both the Constitution and
the Uuion?" .....
Such is the language Of Mr.. Buchanan's 8
letter of February 18th, 1852, deprecating the
very course which this administration has
pursued in reference to that compromise, and
which letter, both the Pennsylvania and the
Union have republished. Cui bono! and for
what purposc2 So unpopular has the Nilsson
ri Compromise become, "in these latter days" !"
with the pseudo Democracy, that every promi-
nent member of that party shrinks with horror
at the bare mention of the fact that he once
voted for or supported that measured Would
any true friend of a prominent anti-Amer-
ican candidate for the Presidency at this
day, parade before the public the indubitable
proofs that such candidate endorsed that mea-
surep Never--neceri Now we warn the
true friends of Mr. Buchanan, and especially
the Wise men of Virginia, whose especial
fayorite that gentleman now is, next to Wise
himself, never even to whisper it in the ears
of the people, that Mr.. Buchanan has always
occupied the very position on the Missouri
Compromise question, which the Democratic
General Assembly Of Virginia occupied in
l847-'s, when they passed resolution de-
claring, that If the principles Of that Missouri
Compromise should be disregarded, Virginia
'oould resort to the last ertremity:--the uisi-
ma ratio populorumt
We like Mr.. Buchanan, and we have no idea
If tolerating any foul play, If we can prevent
I, by which his popularity shall be destroyed
,y these :" latter day saints" in politics. We
nave reason to like him, for we have read, over
md again, his eloquent oration, delivered at
lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the 4th day of
July, 1915, in which he said:
Above all we ought TO drive from our shores
oreign influence, and cherish American feeling
Foreign influence has been IN every age the curse
II Republics--its jsundiced eye sees everything in
slse colors The thick atmosphere of prejudice
~ which II Is ever surrounded, excluding from its
light the light Of reason"
These are our sentiments-wo learned them