New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-02

rents and associations during the earlier half Of
bis career. Here is a sample, from "A Memoir
of James Buchanan: Adopted and published
"by order of the Democratic State Central Com
uittee of Pennsy lvanis:"
Mr Buchanan in the sixty fifth year his and in the
the County ankIin PENIS.
bis oruDet Having received good education be studied
the Profession Of the law in the County o. Lancaster in ne
1915 he elected to the State Legislature where he dn
guished himself by those exhibitions Of intellect which save
promise Of eminence In III, profession durnI many
succeeding be the highest class Of legal minds and
period when Pennsyvsa could boast Of her Bsdwns
her Gibsons her Roses her Duncan her her
Tghmars her HopkiHses her yenkse her Daaes and her
Setle he prepared the struggles the future aud
soon became conspicuous had few equals
in their times and whose fame still cherished amoas on
Ia 1920 James Buchanan elected the House Of Rep
resenetyes and retained his position in that body for ten
ininsion of Andrew Jackson He the and ardent
defer der Of the Administration Of Mr. Monroe the active oPpo
ne OF the Administration Of John Quincy Adams and the
sstent ard trusted friend Of Andrew Jackson The proceeln
thowhst while he retained seat in The popular branch Of Uoa
public questions As 1915 he entertained opinions hos
ad in tie fierce struggles which ensued upon the election Of
the hero Of EewOIeans he distinguished champion Of
the Democratic party
We have here copied every line Of this "Me-
moir" which pretends to throw any light on Mr.
Buchanan's earlier public career. Who would
suspect from it that it's hero was among the most
active, earnest, conspicuous Federalists of his
time Yet such was exactly the fact. Born under
the Presidency Of Washington reared in the po-
litcal faith of Jay and Hamilton, John Adams and
John Marshall, it was by the Federal party that he
was cherished into political importance and dis
tinctiOn. 1t was as Federalist that he was twice
elected to the Legislature and at least twice to
Congress. Even SO late as 1926, his name figures
in Niles Register (Oct. 25th) as one of the five
Federal Members Of the XIXth and of the four
Federal Members from Pennsylvania of the XXth
Congress. Ten years earlier, he delivered Fed
eral 9TH OfJuy Grafton, in which he inveighed
against "the weak and wicked acts of Mr. Madi.
sons Administration mostexpllcitly and unsparing
ly And never, so far as we can learn, has he re-
csnted these views or expressed any contrtlon for
their utttrance.
These facts no wise dsparage Mr.. Buchanan.
He doubtless spoke and acted as be deemed right;
and no honest man thinks less Of another tor the
avowal of his honest convictions. Mr.. Buchanan
was none the less patriot for being Federast.
The great party in whose faith he was reared made
some mistakes-as what party has not - and
cherished some narrow, mistaken prejudices; but
this country never knew party more honest and
devoted, nor one that embodied larger proportion
of its intelligence and moral worth than the Fed
eral. Not Mr.. Buchanan, but those unwise and
interruptions partisans who suppress and pervert
the truth, are deserving of apprehension in the
premises.
1t is fashionable just now to be " National" and
to commend aspirants as National" In their
views and inclnations. The term is rank enough
to make the bones of Jefferson rattle in his cofin
it implies all thereis in Federal and much more;
but we have sskooed our nerves to bear it pretty
well. Just now to be " National" implies a
hearty devotion to Slave-catching, and so is not
very frsgrant but Mr.. Buchanan is (or was)
National in far higher and nObler sense. Thus
one of his earliest important votes in Congress
april 80, 1922 was cast in favor of the bill " for
" the preservation and repair of the Cumberland
Road" whereby the Federal Government as
serted its right not only to collect tolls on roads
running through States, bat authorized the Pres.
dent to enhance or reduce those tolls at his un-
checked discretion. The Virginia School Of strict
constructionsts fought this bill as utterly subver.
sve of State Rights and hagranty unconstitutional;
but Mr. Buchanan went for it, and it prevailed
Yeas 81; Nays g. miles, May a, '2)
Mr.. Buchanan, we believe, has voted for every
Protective Tariff that has been passed since he first
entered Congress. His vote helped pass, (yeas,
lO5: DAYS, lO2, the Tariff of 1924, which received
but one vote from Virginia and none from the
Carolinas or Georgia. he voted also for the Tariff
of ls2e-"the Black Taritf''-''t The bill of abOmi.
nations"-being the highest and most protective or
discriminating ever passed by Congress. Here,
AGAIN, he stood with his own State and nearly all
the heart of the Union against the solid phaanI of
the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, &C., with all
but three from Virginia and these three belonging
To what Mr. Jefferson used to term " the outside
rows" On the 3lst Of December preceding Mr..
Buchanan said:
aUs ptofessed to be friendly to domestic lsnuf.cures
more tbsn that he believed that wooden goods required
had doubt the subject the question
a. 10 the amount of Protection" [NRe' Jan s. ls2si
MIR. Buchanan we regret to say, as he began
To have visions of the White House in reyersion,
and to understand that no man Gould receive the
nomination of his party without the indorsemen.Of of
the Virginia politicians, grew by insensible degrees
mysterious and diplomatic in his utte'ances on the
one ticn of Projections but he never faltered when
brought TO the test Of the Yeas and Nays The
Tariff of lsl2-our last decidedly, ayowedly, EN-.
phstically Protective measure-passed the Senate
bv his vote. Yeas "a; Nays 23-Mr. Buchanan
among the Yeas.
n - oo,ra. II anna will Ask that "