Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-06-13
HOW We Stand,

the kind ever known in the United States. For Inc
platform and for the candidates every delegates vote
is recorded and every district in the United States
,v.e renresonted California not excepted. We will
not insult the intelligence of our readers by nstitu
TING comparison between this great convention and
the very weakly and disjointed affair which met al
Philadelphia in February last, and nominated Fill
more and Donelson To do so would be absurd on
the face OF it.
Well the platform and the candidates of two
parties are before the country. The third party
that with which the Democratic party will have the
seyerest battle TO fight has not yet made its nomina-
ion The Black Republican champions are yet to
enter the arena and contend for the prize OF victory
We must be prepared to meet them and defeat them'
whether coming in their own name or in alliance
with and under the name of the followers OF any oth
er ism.
How are we TO meet them What our prin.
cinles-wbo are our candidates Are the first ma.
tional-are they open-are they just-are they con-
sttptional To answer these interogatories we need
only point 10 the resolutions adopted at Cincinnati
adopted unanimously and without sing lie dissenting
vote.
And who are our candidates? The name OF James
Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, was familiar and re-
spected name before many OF his oudest assallantS
were born nay, the very charges now raised against
him, were stale and exploded before they knew the
first letters of their alphabet. James Buchanan, OF
Pennsylvania, who supported the Administrations OF
Monroe and Jackson and Of every Democratic Pfesl-
dent since is talked of as an Old Federallst NOW
is it not rich, for gentlemen devoted to party not
old enough to remember when Gen. Scott was so
sweet upon the rich Irish brogue TO accuse James
Buchanan of party sins over thirty-six years old
Provided that all their charges were true, what do
they amount 10 ? simply that away more than hall
n life time ago. Mr. Buchanan had been attached to
party tothe lineal successor of which they them
selves now belong.
But putting aside the carping ISLANDERS from which
it would be in vain to look for exemption, let US look
at who and what Mr. Buchanan is, first presuming
that he is not what the know nothing party would
have us to think him.
He is gentleman of some sixty-fve or slxty-slZ
years. but appears considerably younger showing
of the faings of age Indeed he to be mentally
and ply sically in the prime of life, far the
pacity for mental eXertion and the endurance OF the
fatigues of public office are concerned Born among
the yeomanry OF Pennsylvania of the same Scotch
Irish stock which contributed important element
10 the settlement and population of several Of the
counties of Western Carolina, he possesses the en-
during constitution, of body and mind, character
istic of that race of people.
AS man MIR. Buchanan stands, by the acknOwl,
edgmens of even his btterest opponents, far beyond
the reach of suspicion or reproach His character
is without a stain. Amiable, obiging and benevolent
he is best loved where he is best known, and any
charge of ooldness selfsbness rather insinuated
than openly avowed against him. is easily set rest
State, 10 whom he lent helping hand at the outset
of their career and who repay him with d warmth
of devotion almost unparalleled. 1t is not the cold
the selfish who thus is the friend of the young
and struggling At his own home in Lancaster coun-
ty, Pa, where Mr.. Buchanan is we'll known. such
charges against him would be received with the con-
tempt they deserve.
But it is said that in 1919, Mr.. Buchanan was
Chairman of committee at meeting in Lancaster,
Pa, in which certain resolutions were adopted de,
nouncing the Missouri Compromise. One of these
resolutions is said TO be as follows
Resolved That the representatives Congress this
district they hereby earnestly requested
their utmost endeavours members of the national
legislature, to PREVENT the EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY
the territories States which may be erected by Congress
Upon this charge, MIR. Jones of Pennsylvania in a
short speech recently delivered in Congress, says
NOW, Sir, am enaOleG TO sIate, on unqueSGOneu du
thority, that the declaration that James Buchanan
was Chairman of the Committee which framed these
resolutions is unfounded and untrue | undertake
here in my place, to say to the House and to the
Country, that Mr.. Buchanan did not report the reso
lutons referred TO that he was not the Chairman o.
the Committee by which they were reported" The
whole charge is founded upon document equally
false and spurious and has been exploded dozen
times before has been the story about his saying
that if he had drop of Democratic blood in his veins
with q dozen such, the proof for which has been de-
manded over and over again in the city where the
proof has not been produced But they powerless
they must be powerless against man, who, as long
as twenty years ago, when the abolitionism of the
present day first began to show ITSELF among the
first northern TO resist its nroads-among the
first to oppose the circulation Of incendary matter
through the mails among the slaves of the United
States-to 60 for the annexation of Texas-the ad
mission of Alkanzas-for the Fugitive Slave Law
and to make energetic efforts to effect the repeal OIL
the law of the State of Pennsylvania, denying to the
Federal Authorities the of her prisons for the de
tentlon of Fugitive Slaves. He never went for, bu
always opposed, unyieldingly opposed the WIlmo
proViso. And last, but not least his nationality ant
his fidelity to the rights of the South, have been en-
dorsed by the assaults which have been made upor
him for more than quarter of q century by the fan
atlcs OF the North.
Such is James Buchanan. A man whose reputa
ton is known throughout the world whose nnr;tv n