The true Democrat., 1856-09-09


 tholic to office. If elected and inaugurated President of the United States, he would be compelled to swear that he would require "no religious test as qualification to any office or puollc trust under the United States" I ask, unaef such circumstances, which Oath would he keep and which oath would he violate?- Are the old-ne whigs prepared to indorse Mir. Fillmore, thus presented for their suffrages bv himself know no difference between an n- dlvldual joining the order and giving his vote to sustain its candidate except that the latter course Is more effective Tn carrying out the ten cts of his party.
 The friends of Nr. Fillmore have assaiIed Mr. Buchanan for his Ostend communication. without admitting or denying the soundness of the doctrine therein contained. l would re- mark that the correspondence of Mir. Everett, as sectary under Mir. Fillmore, after the death of Mr. Webster, relative to Cuba is more otfen- slve and ought to be more obnoxious to the cri- | tlclsm of conservative men, than the Ostend letter; and It should be remembered that the diplomatic manifesto of Mir. Everett was is- sued ucder the immediate supervision of Mr. | Fillmore and his Cabinet
 Mr. Everett is probably the best educated statesman now living; he is an erudite scholar . and sound patriot When in Congress he took higher ground in favor of the south on the subject of slavery than any northern states man had ever done before or has ever done since. One thing is certain, any opinion uron international law promul gated by him is ent- tied to respect.
 Mir. Buchanan has been in pubicli life upwards of forty years; he has filled the highest offices his own state could confer upon him. He has occupied the highest seat in the Cabinet during most eveutful epoch; and he has twice repre- k nt ha tl tr,, nations in Europe. His private character stands without blot or blemish, and beyond rebuke or reproach and it is high elogum upon his pub lie life, that the Ostend letter. is the only act which is designated by his opponents as the ground of attack.
 There are many old-line whgs who are at tached to their cognOmen, and dislike chang. ing lt-ths Is all over scrupuious ncety. They must change their name--they must recognize tae title of an American, Know Nothing, re- publican, a democrat.
 If they refuse to elect either of these names, they must retire from all participation in pub- lie affairs. Gov. Seward is reported to have said during the present session of Congress- in caucuS, that he cared nothing for names, but that he looked to principles alone. The remark showed that he had clear head and sound judgment, and Was worthy of better cause.
 Time will not permit me to discuss at large the question of the territories. 1 hold that the territory cedea to us by Mexico was purchased by common treasure. The fifteen slave States contributed their portion of the fund as well as the then fifteen free States. Territory should stand on the same footing as admitted States, and the rights of the people to hold slaves or not as they please in the territory ought to be commensurate with the rights of the people as they exist nj thlrty-one States. There can be no just ground for any discrimination between the two cases. New territory is not more sa- cred than the old thirteen States, or the pre- sent thirty-one States. The will of a majority prevails in the cases last enumerated, and the same orthodox principles should prevail in the newly acquired territory.
 What is the doctrine of the Wilmot proviso? |? It k the sixteen free States declaring to the l- teen slave StateS-you are part owners of this territory; you have shed your blood and eX- pended your treasure In acquiring 1t, but you shall have no share in its euloyments or profits Strip 1t of its trappings, and 1t amounts to this: there thirty one stockholders in corpora ton, and sixteen say to hlteen it is true you are part owners and have contributed to the purchase Of our common property, but you shall have no share in the enjoyment of its privileges or the receipts of its profits. Such doctrine Is subversive of every principle of justice and equality, and cannot be sustained
 1 am not the advocate of opinions that are new to the whig party of Pennsylvania. At a wing meeting held in September 1850, at the Chinese Museum, ill Philadelphia, 1 offered a resolution congratulatlng the nation upon the restoration of peace and quietude to the coun- try by the passage of the compromise acts of that year. It was unanimously adopted, and then laid down the same principles which 1 am now endeavoring to inculcate.
 In November, l05O the great Union meet ing was held at the same place, and over which John Sargean. presided Among others I again enforced the same principles At later per lod, during the session of the Legislature of thls State in 1851, pure whig meeting was called to request the repeal of the act of the Legislature of 1847, which closed the public jals of this commonwealth against the custody of fugitive slaves. At that meeting Samuel Breck, second to no man in the country in in telligence and patriotism. presided. 1 again promulga the same doctrines, and they were again indorsed by the whig party assembled on that occasion.
 These are some of the reasons why invoke every old-ine whig in Pennsylvania to sup port Mir. Buchanan. The triumph of the de- mocraic party in Pennsylvania, in October next would place his election beyond a doubt. It would remove the last glimmerng hope of the opposition, restore peace and quietude to the country, and for one generation at least, put at rest the present agitation on the question of slavery.
 The old-line whigs of Pennsylvania possess the power to accomplish this great result; the responsibility rests upon them, and have no doubt but that the draft which is made upon their patriotism will be promptly accepted and that the great Keystone State will once more come to the rescue, and do as she has done heretofore, put down all sectional feeling, and at the ballot-box gi ve a vote which will strike terror to the enemies of the constitution and our glorious Union, which have so long been the pride and admiration of every friend of ci- vii and religious liberty throughout this glo- rious Union.