Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-01

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o. the COMMITTEES ~ ~hfh they ~ers reported
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ed In print bss. suppose hs had wporsed
them. suppose hs had been cksssman " the
committee which reported ihs@-i appeal 70
the South 10 answer ~hssher thss fact shoaid
stand against hlm ~ish lhe long sSssrlence u
his lie before the eoantryy
But, Mr.. Speaker, this sccssslios belongs 10
the class Of idle reports inssni.d, aud nos eir.
cuialed, 10 damage him in the sssimst,0s ~ tho
American people. Sir, al these accusations,
whether asserted anonymously 90 publicly, are
iriumphantly answered BY thu record u bis
public life.
do NO, deem !. necessary, Mr.. Speaker, 10
10 into an examination u ihs other alleys.
tions Of my colleague, ia reference 20 Mr.. Ba-
chanan. So much stress seams 10 have been
laid upon the particular charge which have
just answered, that thought u worthy of ihis
special notice. As 10 the rest, confess my
establishment that my colleague should have
deemed IL necessary 10 refer 10 them.
All such accusations MS these against Mr..
Buchanan are answered by thirty six years Of
devotion to the Constitution of the United
States.
They are answered by the fact that, twenty
years ago, in the Senate Of the United States,
he was among the FIRST northern men 10 resist
the inroads OF Abolitonism.
They are answered by his opposition to
the circulation Of insurrectionary documents
through the mails Of the United States among
the slaves of the South.
They are answered by his determined sup
port Of the bill admitting Arkansas into the
American Union.
They are answered by his eloquent support
of the biltadmitiing Michigan into the Union.
They are answered by his early support Of
the annexation Of Texas.
They are answered by his persevering sup
port OF the fugitive slave law.
They are answered by his energetic efforts to
effect The repeal Of the law Of the State Of
Pennsylvania denying TO the Federal authori
ties the use Of her prisons for the detention OF
fugitive slaves.
They are answered by his early and unyield.
ing opposition to the Wilmot proviso.
They are answered by the assaults which
have been made upon him by Northern fanatics
during more than quarter of n century.
They are answered by the encomiums of the
true aud national men of every section of the
country in which he is repeatedly designated
as distinguished for his capacity - distin
guished for his high Observation-Disclosures
ed for his high eloquence, yet more distin
guished still for the pure morality Of his life
and the stern patriotism of his character"
They are answered by the fact that, while
member of Mr.. Folks cabinet, against the OPP
position Of fanaticism, he proposed to extend
the Missouri line to the Pacific amid the de-
light and gratitude of national men of all parts
of the Union.
They are answered by every vote be gave in
the American Congress on the question Of
slavery, and by the fact, that of all Northern
men be has been among the most prominent
in asserting and defending strict construction
of the Federal Constitution.
They are answered by the construction which
he placed upon the compromise measures of
1850, in the letter addressed by him, in Novem-
Der of the same year, to the people of Philadel-
phia, in which he declared that the compro-
mise measures had superseded the Missouri
line, or, to use bis own language, that that line
had passed away which construction led
to the adoption Of the principle of
popular sovereignty embodied in the Kansas
Nebraska bill
They are answered by the national action of
his State-a State memorable in the history Of
this question for its fidelity to the rights Of the
other States, a record with which he and bis
friends are inseparably identified.
They are answered by the resolutions adopted
by the last Democratic State Convention of
Pennsylvania, and accepted and endorsed by
Mr.. Buchanan, on Thursday, the 9th of May,
in the following language:
"The duties Of the President, whomsoever he
may be, have been clearly and ably indicated
by the admirable resolutions of the Convention
which you have just presented TO me, and all
of which, without reference to those merely
personal to myself, heartily adopt. Indeed,
they met my cordial appreciation from the mo-
ment when / first perused them on the other
side of the Atlantic. They constitute plat
form broad, national and conservative, and one
eminently worthy Of the Democracy Of our
great and good old State.
"These resolutions carried into execution,
with an iDfexbility and perseverance preclud.
ing all hope ofchange, aud yet in kindly spirit,
will, ere long, allay the dangerous excitement
which has for some years prevailed on the sub
ject of domestic slavery, and again unite all
portions of our common country in the ancient
bonds of brotherly affection, under the flag OF
the Constitution and the Union"
And now send the resolutions adopted by
the Democracy Of Pennsylvania, and endorsed
by Mr. Buchanan, to the Clerks table, and de-
sire that they may be read:
"Resolucd, That in the present distracted
condition Of parties in which sectional and
partial issues have been allowed to attain
dangerous supremacy, we recognize in the
policy of the Democratic party, that which
rests upon the Constitution as its basis; and
that it is the party which, above all others, has,
in the language of the ilustrious Madison, ever
continued to hold the Union of the States as
the basis of their peace and happiness; to sup
port the Constitution, which is the cement Of
the Union, as well in its limitations as its au-
thorities to respect the rights and authorities