The true Democrat., 1856-07-29
From the Memphis Appeal. MT. Buchanan and his Southern ASSailantS.

One who has examined the record Of MT. Buchanan would naturally suppose that it would be labor lost to endeavor to defend him on the subject of slavery So clear and bright does his record appear to every man who him. self protessseS to be a true southern man, that 1t would seem no man who was born in slave holding State could be interruptions enough to call in question his position, or essay to con- vince the people of the South that he has not on aN occasions proven himself the fearless and able defender of their constitutional rights. ct notwithstanding this incontrovertiblc fact, there are not wanting southern men, who are either minimizing, ignorant or interruptions enough to charge that Mir. Buchanan is an abolitonist. Such persons are either themselves demented, or else they believe the southern people to be all fools
 We told by an ancient authority, that "whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad" Perhaps this is the key by which the mystery of the violent and interruptions charges against ames Buchanan, volunteered by those who ought to be his truest friends, may be unlocked. We are continually told that the freesoil foreigners, and others who are charged with abolition proclivities in the north ern States, are deserting him and going over to Fremont. This is alleged as reason why  ly the southern man who so argues is either mad, or else his own devotion to southern rights is very questionable We also find that all the abolition horde of the North know ex- actly where to place Mir. Buchanan upon the record. From Seward and Wilson down to Gen. Webb and Greeley they are unanimous in ranking him among "slave-drivers." No negro worshiper ever commits so egregious a fnl fo ocl,u ba of bo fanatical foes of the Union either past or pre- sent. And yet so iniatu ,.ted are our intense American cotemporares with their one idea of " Americans ruling America" that they cannot distinguish between one of the soundest na tional men that our country ever produced and an abolitonist they cannot see that man whom the abolitionsts are deserting for Ere mont, and upon whom all the abolition presses are daily emptying their billingsgate, is enti- tied to some consideration from the South Shame ! shame upon such injustice
 These remarks were suggested by the de- monstrative article from the Charleston Mer- cury, which all know to be one of the ablest defenders and opponents of southern rights
 BUCHANAN ON SLAVERY.
 We have, in former articles, reviewed Mr. Buchanan's career upon the tariff and internal improvements :; and we now come to his course in reference to slavery. Upon this point we shall deal fully-and we invite the attention ot our readers to the proofs that Mr. Buchanan is, In all respects, on this question, entitled to the support of the people of the South. Doubtless to many who have watched his career, such a task will seem wholly needless; but the con- sistency of the Mercury has been assailed in this matter, and Mir. Buchanan's own position so misrepresented, that it becomes double duty with us to meet the issue.
 How any one, acquainted with our political history for the last twenty years, and the course of public men during that period, can now ar raign Mr. Buchanan as unsound upon the ques tion of slavery, we are wholly at loss to con- ceve Ignorance or msconcepton is the only solution.
 But to the question "Is Mir. Buchanan sound on slavery ?' This is the question above all others to be answered satisfactorily It would be enough to show that, from the first day MT. Buchanan came into Congress tc the present time he had never given vote, ol uttered word, hostile to the institution o slavery, or which could possibly give encour. agement to abolitionism. But we claim for him more than mere negative friendship for the South we assert that he has never failed tc
 
 assaed.
 The first charge against MT. Buchanan is that he introduced certain freesoil resolutions at a meeting in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1819 MT. Clancy Jones, a member of the House from Pennsylvania, in recent speech, stated upon authority, that although MT. Buchanan's name appears in the published proceedings as one of th$ committee, yet that he was not al ho fho lptio til they were in print. So much for this stale charge of thirty-seven years.
 It was not until the session of 1885 and 1886 that the spirit of abolition fairly invaded Con. gress. The compromise of 1883 had silenced agitation on the subject of the tariff5 and the northern mind now poured out its intensity upon the question, which, from that day to this has absorbed all others. Petitions for the abo. lition of slavery in the District of Columbia for abolition of the slave trade between the States-petitions against the admission of more slave States, flooded Congress, while incendi. ary publications, transmitted through the mails brought insult and denuncation to southern homes.
 Early in the session bill was introduced by MT. Calhoun, prohibiting deputy postmasters from receiving or transmitting through the mail to any State, Territory or District, certain pa. pers therein mentioned, the circulation o which, by the laws of said State, Territory o1 District, may be prohibited" It was warmly opposed by MT. Webster and others. MT Buchanan from the beginning, took the firmes ground for it. Even before the bill was re- ported, he expressed himself willing ''to do al that can be done, to prevent the circulation O incendiary publications in the South." Sub seouently the bill was amended, and MT. Buch onan oaoin cama forward as it's champion agains