Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-14

torial columns to-day, to this subject not be-
cause Mr. Law has any influence to transfer
to Mr.. Fremont; nor on the ground that his
opposition to Mr.. Fillmore can change one
hundred votes in New York, but simply to
warn the South against the designs of political
hueksters and spoilsmen II is obvious that
Mr.. Law, had he reached the Presidency,
would have been another Martin Van Buren,,
and that the South would have known his true
character only Uhen it was too late. Van
Buren, profsssed national principles, and, as
long as the South yielded him their support,
and gave him the distribution Of the spoils, he
toas "a Northern man with Southern prin-
ciples."
George Law prefessed National principles,
and they.were endorsed by the New York Her
aid. The moment the South refused to sustain
him, he became Republican of the Seward
and Greeley stamp! James Buchanan, a Fed
eralist Of the days of Madison Democrat Of
the days of Jackson protectios tariff man in
Pennsylvania free-trade man in the Senate
a Wilmot-proviso man in 1S4s, and "squat-
ter sovereignty advocate in 1866, nop claims
the confidence of the South. His antecedents
furnish no guaranty for the future, for he has
been for and against all doctrines and all
measures that have been discussed, from 1915
to this day
| Democratic presses during the sitting of the
Cincinnati Convention, and previously to it,
declared, that If nominated, sit would be done
Il
in Difference to the Free-soH influences of the
North" 1t was done, and if these Democratic
presses will deny this declaration, we have the
proof at hand. Mr. Buchanan's nomination,
then, was made, according to Democratic au-
thority, (and zoe here challenge a denial Of it)
in Difference to those Free-soiL influences, and
hence it is that we see Thomas H. Benton, of
Missouri, advocating Buchanan's election, and
the too Van Burens, father and son, of Kin
derhook, joyously accepted by the Washington
Union as good, sound, reliable, orthodox Dem
ocrats Of the era Of 1867
We not only have Democratic authority for
the fact that Buchanan was nominated to
please the Fbee-soilers of the North; but we
see the proof that they are pleased, in the joy
GUS welcome with which the Bentons and Van
Burens greet the nomination. We see, too,
the eulogistic terms in which the Washington
Union refers to the letter Of the elder and the
speech of the younger Van Buren,, giving in
their adhesion to the platform and its nomi-
nee Verify, the millennium is at handl
May we not here inquire, whether it is not
advisable for all Southern and Northern con.
servative men to ask themselves this question,
to-soit
In view of the deception practised by that
Northern man with Southern principles, y
Martin Van Buren,; in view of the recent at
tempt Of George Law to pass himself off upon
the country as a national man; in view Of the
opinions of James Buchanan in 1S4S, that the
power Of Congress over slavery in the Terri
tories was sovereign and exclusive" and OF
his opinions in 1866, "that the people of the
Territory, LIKE THOSE OF A STATE, shall decide
for themselves whether slavery shall or shall
not exist within their limits" in view of the
fact that Buchanan is supported by the Free.
sellers of the North; in view of the fact that
the Weeds, Greeleys, and Webbs of the North
oppose Willard Fillmore on the ground of his
conservatism and in view of the fact that,
as President, Willard Fillmore was thoroughly
national in all his actions, is it not safer and
wiser to trust him, who is knoaon and was APP
proued, in preference to one who is wholly
untried, and around whom the influences of
Forneyism and Van Burenism would be con-
contracted,
Sublime Moral Triumph in the Senate.
"Once the welcome light has broke,
Who shall say,