Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-06-17
MIR. BUCuANAN'S RECORD

The following is an extract from SrErHE' ~
DOUGLAS speech at the New York ratification ihee'
ing:
NV friends, find that these black republican ORA.
tors and black republican newspapers n"Ve tIi
b,vuu to shed crocodile tears over my own nu,
observation-disclosures they say that Inc Conpon
ZION erected Douglas platform, aud theh pu' nu.
hanan on it. (Applause wish TO lnvite you, ~
tenton for moment TO TINS poInt, anu seo @ no q
that platform is not Buchanan platform as wen as "a
| Dourlas' platform. (Cries of Yes, Eyes. ihes
saw that it is Douglas platform, because II nus GU
dnrsed every position that have nken not only up
an the slavery question and the Kansas and Nebraska
question, but also upon the question OF our ore,Sn
nnocy. IA yoicc--.'Good for YOU y That Is rue
Ind because it is true | entered this campaign win
heart and SOUL ready TO devote all my ehe'gea ~
of tn. platform and the candidates VINO siad
| mon IT, I(;reut cheering and applausc.) NOW, my
friends if you will listen for moment 10 oriel MS
torlcal recital! will show you that james buchahah
and myself have occupied for years past, ever since
cam. ,utn nublc life, precisely the same position
unon This suy.ry question from the beginning 10 the
end. Bear in mind that ~ 1919 Congress passed an
act for the annexation OF Eexas to this republic; and u
| y,u will look at the Journals O Congress you Will
find that | offered the proposition To extend the
Missuuri compromise line through Irxns Indefinite.
", as far as the Territory should extend That
act passed with that provision III II, anI Mr. Buc
buuan. who was in Mr.. Folks Cabinet III the lime,
approved Of it, lAppause.l In the course of events,
| war between Mexico aud the United STATES grew out
of it, the Justice OF which Mr.. Buchanan asserted, rs
a member .: Mr. Po!k's Cabinet and mainlancdin
| tn. House ut Representatives, by my vuIrs and my
speech ana my every act as Il representative %! my
State. lGreat nppaus..l When there pro-
liability that by that war would acquire territory
| from Mexico Mr. Wimut Of Pennsylvania, on the
9TH of August, 1916, offered proposition 10 prohibit
slavery in all the territory might acquire from
MexlcO. Ii that Proposition had been adopted there
would have been 10 territory acquired IL was a
proposition To Disgrace this c"nntry ny forcing 10
Withdraw our armies from Mexico, and make peace
| with her without getting Justice Tor our wrongs. DO
you suppose that Southern man would have been
craven enough 10 have voted ~ ratIiy treaty
tanning clause insulting his own section, his own
people. and his own State rights, when it WIS made
rs an insult To them! And yet the treaty could not
| have been approved without twO.hrds vote, at Il
time when the sldvehu,!iug and free States Were eX-
actly tied in the SelHc. Knowing that the oh cct ut
Mr.. Wilmo in Offering the proposition, WAS t" force
Us to ingorIuus and ignUmIuOus peace with q TO-
reign powcr resisted il with all my might, and U.
| fered in lieu of il amendment to extend the Mis-
souri, compromise line OF 50 deg 81 min. ~ the Pac
nc ,i.c seIse, and with the same under
standing with which il originally adopted. In
October 1871 Jnrnes Buchanan addressed letter To
the Hurvc,t Home Celebration of Bucks county, (,
PENNSYLVANIA, in which he urged the extension 81 !
that game line of 80 deg 30 min, called the Missouri
compromise, to the Pacific ocean, i'll the same man
| Her as had proposed.
Here the speaker was again Interrupted by the |
loud and long continued applause which greeted the
appearance Df the Tenth Ward Buchanan and Brock
El1dse Club preceded by u band OF music aud
banner bearing the n,crIp;ion "Democrats Furev-
er" Hating in front of the platform they uuturlei
The stars aud sir pes amidst the cheers OF the crowd.
Hardly had the applause subsidized before another
delegation, in solid plIaaux, pressed It's way through
The crowd, which proved To br Il delegation from The
Buci,araG 4na I;icc!rri Club. Their banner, Us
il was held GlUtt 10 this gaze lit crowd containing
the inscription, i've have i'DiE-rd lEr!, ge hGve
Pterc-ed them, und now we have Buck ed then," was
greeted with the most rapuruus cheering
nrJ,. k.ip,r rod Mr , :
eI.d great cheering, his renarks, rs tDilows:-Whe
| Was interrupted ~ the procession which has JUS,
passed. was Saying tiI"t r October, lSl', James
Buchanan wrote his celebrated "HGrsGst T. ONE
letter in which he declared in favor OF the extension
of the Missouri compromise line to the Pacific
a. dividing line between free and slave territory.
at this point ...- 3-v that there was child
lost and little bright eyed i.ilu,, five Years
DID, was passed the heads Of tho oruGd % The
front OF the platform, where he was held up by Mr.
Douglas. who said, "iiere is Young America
lLhlsi aud cheers
Alter this little s;;srde, Mr.. DOUGLAs again re-
surnrd In the month of Angus: introduced in the
Senate Of thu United States an amendment - the
Oregon BILL 10 carry out the proposition OF Mr. Buc.
EaaI III the harvest Home letter, TO extend the com
promise line II tho Pacific ocean, in the same seIIss
and with the same Understanding will! which il vas
originally adopted. Thai proposition. was ph'stu %
tia Senate, went 10 the House and was rejected there
by abolition Gi.d free soil votes Three grcans were
here called for aud given 10. tie tree sUcr5 Don't
.:r"au my friends; that sounds too much Ike hnow-
Nothing mas:c. Laughteri The House OF Repre-
scnts'Ives ~s"ctcr that proposition by almost sec
torg Jtc by Northern votes, GniBp"'ei .! aoo''
tunlsts and H. -olIr1, men O abuitiun p.Ucivitlrs,
aGd urraycd aaiIis: the national democracy Ii
"aI the rejection of that proposition 10 extend TIE
Misa0ai IL" I" the Pacific ocean, proposed by Mr..
buchanan ana Us !niTCi4C2t by myself, whc! led IL
the turmoil, strife sectional hrirsu .h ~ TIT from
1878 10 lS3O. To such extent did that sectional
strife CO. the South arrayrd against theNcrth aud the
NORTH a;.anrt the South, that a purest ana nlust de,
voted patriots in the lana lsa.=! for the safety anu
prrprtuity of the republic. Even TINT gai!a;. md
immortal statesman, the great Henry Clay, who had
rc:;-.d from the of his active laburs TO the
shades Of Ashland here to prepare himself for bet
ter state of existence again lock lis %l,ce in the Sen.
a;e the theatre of his greatest achievements aud tiIs
!:us. patriotic trlumphs, 20 See II liz could not d"
soqebng to Jual! the storm, calm the troubled wa
ers and rcsturt peace distracted country From
the moment Clay arrived gGCrg US he was r.cognlz'
I'd HE great leader aud champion vi tEe Ehon
men Of all parties IN Congress. The voice OF. faction
was hused, aud the voice CT HE patriot queiied Tor
time the storm. Clay our leader, GAGS Whs our
right hand man, Webster stood by his side ana your
Dlckinsons, Cubbs, Kings, and the 9th" true men,
wiz and democrats, alike rallied aroUid the stan
dard beam. c: the uion, prepared to make any sa'
criiicc for the peace anG ...rruny vi the republic.
The Seventeenth Ward Buchana" EGt treckln'
ridge Club preceded by mrslc and banIi"fs, mere
made their appearance, and the speai:"r WIS again
interrupted i" the cheering and applause ot the
crowd.
The CHAIRMAN cried outlet then, 90 OUTSIDE OF
the crowd, If IN outside can be found. Nrrea i
laughter aud cheering The cry is "StlI they Come.
Mr.. DoIGLAs-Eor five long months the Union
men-WhIgS and Democratic -tGrsHt past differences
and, animated by common Officer, nssciGhl"'! IN
the Senate Chamber with Clay in the char To drvIs"
means by which Ia save the republic from the c":iSe'
1u-EGes which the Gbulllnnsts. tree s"lrs and lac
iiOn!sis were bringing upon the country by ms Sec
tonnl strife. st lhe end OF that pcrnd bright sun
dnwned upon the republic, and GLORIOUS dny was
presented TO our view. The compromise MEASURES o.
1850 passed. an the joyful Intelligence Went all
over tho land tia! strife had ceased that sec'iona.
controversy had been 4uecd. tarlnu rebuked, and
that patriotism had trImphed IN the lani Atone "i
these great meetings Jtnr- BrchaTan then III prs
vac life the sage of Whcatlani, wrote his letter con
graduating the country upon the great principles t'-
tabishcd IN those n"asnres-the equality "t inc
States the right Of seigor"rnm"n in; ne TERRITORIES
III obedience the CnnsIiiutionln short those prii-
cplrs which twas my fuiGn@ ut sub,equrn, PERIOD
TO eInJudy in the Kansas and Nebrasha BILL Zap
plause) Thus you find thu Buchanan and myself
we're together in 1918, the Texa. question:, IN |
lSi1, the question vi the Missouri Cornproml-"
lllr, in 1880, The Compromise measures
and in 1852 also. in the election 81 PRESIDENT Pierce,
when the democratic, party ai"pied tne great pFInc'-
pies of the rolnpronise OF 1850, fundamental ar.
tices in ti,e Democratic creed President Pierce was
elected for those prIncipiet and me nation rJ"cGa III
his inaugural address. In 1851, IL became my duty 10
bring forward bills Ia organise Kansas uiid Sebraskh
upon the same principles that were incorporated III
the compromise Of 1850, adopted by the wings in their
convention in Baltimore, and raiIled by the Amer
can people ir the election of President Pierce in No
vembrr OF that yss.. The Nebraska bill received the
votes of nearly the whole soih, in the S4Iae, and
also, majority of tie votes u Northern erna:ors-
Ii received the majority Of the votes OF the demo-
cratic and the wh;s parties of the Union; aud Yet the
black republicans tell you that the North was betray
ed Why, the North voted Tor that bill 10y majority
of the Northern States. il was Northern measure,
originating with Northern Senator. and II was sup
ported by majority Of Northern States. The great