Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-07-09


oagn, that these insnuations and these charges are
utterly destitute of truth. But Mr.. Miller, while
thus assailing Mr. Buchanan, is careful to suppress
The fact that Mr.. Buchanan shouldered his musket
in 1912, and marched to Baltimore to defend his
country. He supp, esses the fact, that Mr. Buchan-
IN has himself denied, and has established, by the
voluntary testimony of thirty forty of his neigh
bors, that he never used any such expression as
that attributed to him. of "etng out the last drop
of Democratic blood from his veins" He sup.
presses the fact that Mr.. Buchanan has himself de-
MED that he ever used the expression, ever ar
gued to show that the wages of our laboring men
ought to be reduced and that this charge originat
ed in unjust and unfoundcd inference from
speech of Mr.. Davis, of Massachusetts, He sup
presses the fact that Mr. Clay referred to this
"ten cent" charge on the floor of the Senate; and
that, when MIR. Buchanan rose with some warmth
to repel it. Mr.. Clay interposed in his generous and
graceful manner. and said he was only indulging in
pleasantly, and did not for moment insist that the
charge true Mr.. Buchanan replied, every
well-soe are friends again,"-to which Mr.. Clay
smiled and nodded his assent. He suppresses the
fact, that Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Buchanan were on
friendly terms up to the period of Mr.. Cay's death
that Mr.. Buchanan, the history of that day will
show, was one of the few Democrats who declined
to assail Mr.. Clay with the charge of "bargain and
corruption in 1924; that, the contrary, so far
as his own evidence was concerned, he vindicated
Mr.. Clay before the world and rescued him, so far
as he could, from this charge by his letter of Au
gust 8, 1927, to the Lancaster Journal, and to be
found in Colton's Life and Times of Mr.. Clay and
that George D. Prentice himself, one OF the bosom
friends Of Mr.. Clay, in his Life of Henry Clay, en-
phatically declares that Mr.. Buchanan acted an
HONORABLE" part in all that matter. He sup.
presses the fact that Mr.. Buchanan has been, for
more than quarter of century, the earnest, the
able and the consistent advocate of all the Consti-
tutional rights of the South; that he stood by Mr.
Calhoun, in the United States Senate in his efforts
to prevent the circulation of incendary abolition
documents through the mails and compliment.
ed by Mr.. Calhoun, as his printed speeches will
show, fur his manly and liberal course towards the
South. He supprcsses the fact that Mr.. Buchanan
advocated the annexation of Texas while thousands
of Southern men, including Mr.. Miller and his Wing
friends in this State. opposed it, as Mr.. Mller's
writings and the vote in the House of Commons in
1914, Mr.. Shepard's Texas resolution, will estab
lish. He suppresses the fact, that Mr. Buchanan is,
and always has been in favor OF the acquisition of
slavehoiding Cuba, on just and honorable terms
and that, while Secretary Of State, he authorized
Gen. Saunders then Minister at the Court of Spain,
to offer one hundred millions of dollars for that
island. He suppresses the fact, that Mr.. Buchanan
was among the first and the foremost of Northern
statesmen to take ground against the Wilmot Pro-
vso; that he labored, together with Mr.. Calhoun,
C~1 Il. N(. lI.
Dawson, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Clingman, Gov. Reid
Mr.. Dobbn, and Others to secure to the South the
extension of the Missouri line to the Pacific, and
thus prevent the freesoilers from deprivng the
South, by the Wilmot Proviso, Of aU the common
Territories; that he advocated from the first, and
still advocates as just and Constitutional-having
had no doubts " about it, as Mr. Fillmore had
the fugitive slave iaw and that he is recevin:
the biterest abuse at the hands of Northern hlacl
Republicans and abolition Know Nothngs because
of his fidelity to the Constitution, and his willing
ness to secure to the South, now and hereafter al
her Constitutional rights, both in States and Terrific
ries. Mr. Miller ovcrlooks or suppresses all this
and plays the statesman by ringing the changes ol
ten cent Jimmy" and other exploded calumnies
He kno,cs that the contest is really between Buch
the race though lie says the contest is between Ere
mont and Flmorel Why, then, if he believes this
does he assail Mr.. Buchanan in his speech and i
his resolutions, and say nothing about or agains
Mr. Fremont? He attacks candidate whom h
considers "a man of straw"-but never a wor
does he say about the candidate, who. in his opir
ion, is the leading opponent of his own candidate
| 1t will not do, Mr. Miller. You must either thro
! away your vote on Mr. Fillmore, and thus ind
rectly assist the black Republicans and the abotio
Know Nothings to elect Mr.. Fremont by the pei
pie, or by the House of Representatives or yo
must vote for Mr.. Buchanan. If you perceive IL
danger to institutions, thousands of old lir
Wings perceive it, and ifyou really regard the gre
+ question of slavery paramount to all other que
tions, we tell you again, you oiU hace to cote f
Mr.. Buchanan; but whatever you may do,-if ga
should refuse to do this, as presume you wi
you cannot precent the thousands Of old line Viii
in the South from rallying in this ertreme crisis
the banner Of the national Democratic party. The
will do it, on an is. ue above all mere party issue
they will do it, not as Democrats, but as citizen
determined, as far as they can, to rebuke and put
silence the fell spirit of sectional dscord, to proe
the Constitution, and perpetuate the Union of Il
States. They are not the servants of the !" dar
lantern" They are FREEMEN, full of the spi1
of independence which they imbibcd from the MI
DAY counsels and the MIDDAY action of Henry Clay
and they will neither be swcrved by appeals bas
on prejudice, or passion, or exploded calunnies, n