Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-06-12
The Slavery Candidate for the Presidency

TnS 6IdVeIy Ga1iCnddCS IOr tee F&6SlueIfcy.
Tue slavery party in its late convention at Cincin.
natl, nominated JAMES BUCHANAN, Of Pennsylvania,
a. its candidate for the Presidency. Some eighteen
or twenty ballots were had the vote being divided
between buchanan, Pierce, and Douglass. The no.
minaton effected by compromise of some sort
by which Douglass and Pierce were withdrawn,
when Buchanan got nearly Tie unanimous vote,
Looking to success as the object mainly of its la
bor8 this was probably wise choice as the con-
venton could have made. Mr. Buchanan has been
aloof from the Of the difficulties personal and
general, which have afflicted the democratic party
for years past md it cannot be questioned that
III the north his nomination will do as much toward
abrogang thgsc difficulties and healing these divi-
sions, that Of any other man thought of All the
men of that party who have for time stood aloof
from it, because Of ther anmosity, not to its prnci
plies, but to the men who have administered them,
will return again to their labors But this nomina-
ton will not affect the infinitely greater number who
have recently left that party because eondemningits
principles It makes OF course, no difference to them
who was nominated, for they understand very clear
ly that whoever it is ia virtue of the inu ences IN
der which he is nominated the result cannot possibly
be different from what it has BEEN The N. Y. Eve.
ming Post represents that class to great extent and
in the following, it eaS presses clearly their views
"Who are the political class represented by the de-
legates az Cincinnati Those who broke the public
Faith by repeating the Missouri compromise those
who would nationalize slavery those who make the
free admission of slavery into the territories test of
Democracy; those who take part with the invaders
of Kansas in their attempt to propagate slavery by
fraud and violence, by usurpation and revolution, by
plundering aud shooting the residents of the territory
and burning down their villages; the party which APP
pauds the attempt to silencemembers of Congress by
murderous assaults and screens the perpetrators from
punishment; the party which, in its zeal for the
tension of slavery holds fs1sehood robbery and man
slaughter to be lawful when employed for that pur-
pose. Let them take rs their candidate whom they
will, he will be but the Executive in whose name,
at least under the shelter of whose connvance all
these enormities to proceed as they have done
heretofore. The party which responsible for these
things does not hold its great convention at Cincn-
natl in order to repent of its crimes to renounce them
publicly and set up man as chief magistrate who
will do his best to prevent their repetition They
are assembled to agree upon candidate whose cleo
ton will enable them TO go on they have begun,
whoevar he may be, he will be nominated under
an implied pledge to that effect
Pierce, it will be recolleced, when he was nomna-
ted, was claimed to be just as good man as Buch.
is now claimed to be- and so he was, tested in
the light Of their mutual history Up to the time lie
nominated Pierces history just as fair Us is
Buchanan's, and thcro just much reason for
anticipating fair and honorable administration at
his hands there i, to anticipate ii at the hands
of Buchanan; and we conceive it 10 be inevitable
that Buchanan can pursue no different or better
than has Pierce, for the that the niu
ences which have put him forward and will GOV ern
him are precisely the same which put forward and
have governed Pierce. We think people must I'M
derstand this matter by this time. They find that
Pierce, northern man, elected under the most deli
berate pledges that the slavery question was settled
and was to be no more renewed under any preext
whatever, compelled to violate his pledges and
naugurate and carry forward one of the most violent
slavery crusades ever experienced. AS the Post
says, this party have not nominated Buchanan to re-
pent of their misdeeds, but simply to obtain new
lease Of power in which to perpetuate them. Pierce
and Douglass both have been but the instruments of
this party Buchanan can be neither more or less
and to support Buchanan Is just as surely and GER
tany to support all that is Objectionable in the sla-
very policy and practice, as to support Pierce
Douglass. There il not particle of difference and
the man who can so for Buchanan, and could not for
Pierce OF Douglass could not have been counted for
the RcpH' beans under my circumstances. We have
some Gouhe all things considered whether the choice
q buchanan over Pierce aud Douglass, has added
eny perceptibc strength TO, that party.
ol course oGropQonents are perfectly sure of sue
cess The ascendercy Of the slavo power in the 60
vernment thus tar has baen almost uninterrupted,
and is exceedingly natural that its adherents should
doubt its even coming to an end. 1t is not to be de-
nisd that calculating as they with confidence on
tbeNote of every slave state they start with the odds
IL their favor. Perhaps their ultimate hopes will be
realized. We recollect campaign which opened
with lust as nu confidence on ono side as this foes
which confidence was sadly disappointed in the re
suit We shell rot le surprised If the confidence on
this occasion resutsa it dill that The same eau
which will make aunit of the southern vote ought
TO have and may have Gle same effect on The north
ern vote.
after we sec who the opposing candidate is to be,
and after the campaign ID sarly opened, we can tell
better wig! VIII he tic probable result
The Difference.