The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-08-09
Buchanan and Low Wages.

Non uesuiy hiSht IaSt INC puchailccT
Yparty here held a meeting in the Court
House, which was addressed by John A.
j. Crcswcll, Esq, of this town. We
have been called onby number of per-
sons with the request that his remarks
be noticed in The Wing. lAt least a
dozen reliable menhavev1fe7 to us that
he used the following language; ...s.--
ANY man who states that james Buchan-
an ever spoke in favor Of reduction of wages
uttcrs falschood Knowing it to be false.
hood"
1t happens that we have published
such statement q number OF times
We have published it years ago when
| Mr.. Buchanan was no candidate for the
Presidency, and we publish it on our
first page this week, which was printed
before Mr.. Crcswell's speech was dcliv-
cred.
The charge has been made hundred
thousand times by Wing speakers and
Wing newspapers throughout the country
and during the very years which Mr..
'reswcll proiosscd to be Wing. 1t
has been rung i'll the ears of the people
since 1910; it has been used by locofoco
politicians as the reason why Mr.. Buchan-
an should not be nominated at previous
conventions of that party, and it pre-
vented, more than anything else, his
nomination Oh previous occasions
Heretofore VIC have not known Mr..
buchanan or any of his friends to deny
the charge as it is now denied by our
friend, this latter day democrat-this
new disciple-who out Buchanans even
Buchanan himself, and in his oratorical
hardlhood puts in total eclipse the
older champions of the party which now
rules and ruins this country.
The object of our notice of Mr.. C's
speech, however, is not to exchange hard
words with him. 1t is to bring before
the younger voters portions of the
speeches made by Mr.. Buchanan, Mr..
Clay and others, at the time the former
took position in favor of the reduction
Of wages, which shall show over the
head of Mr.. Crcswcll, that there is no
possible doubt Of the charge. 10 the
intelligent men of Cecil county, ofwhat.
ever party, who were voters sixteen years
ago, we need bring no proof. They all
remember the celebrated controversy on
the Sub-Treasury question, and all of
them who were at that time readers of
the debates in Congress will remember
the remarks which we proceed to quote
from the Congressional Records. A
speaker may make any declaration; he
may, if he has the hardihood, assert that
the moon is green cheese, and that any
man who says it is not utters false
hood. For such ridiculous assumption
as that there would be just as much
need of calling him to account as for
asserting that Buchanan never spoke in
favor of IL reduction of wages. SO we
pass Mr.. Creswell's declaration which
is simply one of those bold fourishes of
rhetoric only used by advocates in dcs-
perate cases. And now
Working Men and Mechanics
let us look at what was said by Mr..
Buchanan and by others who spoke on
the same subject during the before-mcn-
toned controversy.
On the 10th of January, 1910, Henry
Clay made II speech in the Senate; in
reply to previous speech of Mr..
Buchanan he used the following la,l-
guage - ..4
The gentleman FROM Pennsylvania mr.
Buchanan has put the case of two nations, in
one of which the amount of its currency shall
he double what it is in the other, and, as he
contends, the prices Of all property will be
double in the former ration of what they are
i'll the latter. IL this be true Of two nations
it must be equally true of one, whose circula
ting medium is at ono period double what il
is at another. Now as the friends of the bill
argue, we have been and yet are in this inna
ted state; our currency has been double, or IL
something like that proportion, of what wa,
necessary, and we must come down to thu
lowest standard. Do they not perceive tina
neriiabie ran 10 thousands must be The nccesSo
~ consequence 4 man for example owning
property to the value of five thousand dollars
contracts debt for five thousand dollars
by The reduction of one half the currency O
the county, his property III effect becomes
reduced to the value of two thousand fv,
hundred dollars. But his debt undclgocs n,
corresponding reduction. lie gives up all hi.
property, and remains still in debt two thou
sand five hundred dollars. Thus this measure
will operate on the debtor class Of the nation
always the weaker class, and that which, fo
that reason, most needs the protection Of Gov
| crnmcnt.
| Heretofore it has been one of the pretcn
>ions and boasts of the dominant party, tha
they sought to elevate the poor by dcpriving
the rich Of undue advantages. Now thcil
policy is TO REDUCE THE WAGES OF
LABOR. AND THIS Is OPENLY AVOW.
ED: and ii is argued by them. that it rs ne
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