New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-23

Washington; but his advice was in both instances
Observation-Disclosures in obedience to promises
previously made.
How and when Mr.. Buchanan became Demo.
crat, no one seems able to say. The biography
recently circulated BY bis friends sheds light on
this point That he ~os a prominent Federalist'
no one presends to deny. His name figures re-
Pesttdly in Niies's Register marked as q Federal
ist in the list Ct Members of Congress- also among
the sgners Of Circular issued by the leading
Federsliits Of Lancaster in 1923, cslliog upon all
true Federslsts to rally to the support Of Andrew
Gregg for Governor Of Pennsylvania against John
Andrew Shuttle In 1926, after he had been several
yesrs jackson man, be ran and was elected az
the Federal candidate for Congress over Demo
cratic candidate, who was also a jackson man
and in 1928 when he ran as Jackson man simply,
and was for the last time chosen to the House. be
is reported to have corrected friend who wished
to introduce him to jackson meeting In Chester
County as Democrat-"No, no; am a Jackson
{" man, but, thank God not Democrat" We
consider Federalst as good as Democrat, pro-
vided he behaves as we'll; but, as Mr.. Buchanan il
now running for President as q Democrat, will
some Of bis friends be good enough to say when he
became such st Paul met with change equally
astounding about the came time Of life; but he tells
a very plain and credible story IS to the means
by which the change was effected Who will tell US
by " hat hind Of illuminate Mr.. Buchan. ans eyes
we're uusesled tn the beauties and glories Of De-
mCcracy
But suppose Mr.. Buchanan to have truly become,
what Col. Fremont al w. has been, Democrat
the People are called TO decide to y hch Of them
shall FIJI the Presidential chair. They will decide
whether the character, career or services OF the
one or Of the ether are such ss they choose to
crown with an election to the Presidency. They
will also decide which of the two Platforms rep
resented snd sfirmed BY these candidates respect
lively, il commended to their correctness and their
judgments
The differences in these two Platforms arc mainly
two-tbat respecting Slavery, and that relating to
what is known az Fillibusterism. Col. Fremont,
born and reared in the most intensely Pro-Slavery
section Of the South, regards Slavery as an evil,
snd avows his desire, while maintaining all the
constitutional rights of the Slave STATES, to exclude
Slavery from Kansas and the Federal Territories.
Here be stands precisely on the line of policy
devised by Thomas Jefferson, sanctioned BY the
Continental Congress Of 1857 and by the Federal
CoDeItss which succeeded it, with the cordial ap-
prevail OF George Washington. We believe this is
the true, humane and wise policy Does any one
believe that the outrages which have devastated
Kapsas could have occurred in any Territory under
the shield Of the Jefferson or WilmOt PfOviso
Who can say where and when any such reign of
violence has been witnesse in any Territory from
which Congress had excluded Slavery
Mr. Buchanan stands on the opposite platform OF
prOfessed Indifference to Slavery Extension or Re
strictior but really on that of protection and en-
coursgement to Slavery Extension. The doctrine
TO which he il committed Of an indefeasible right
in eyeyy slaveholder to take his property" into
any Territory of the Union and there demand to DC
protected and secured in its possession, inevitably
makes every inch of Federal Territory Slave Ter
ritOry, and dOOms all which is in contact with or
accessible from Slave State TO absorption by the
Slave Power The wrongs and Outrages under
which the Free-State pioneers of Kansas have 80
long and terribly suffered are the natural results Of
the policy affirmed by Mr.. Buchanan and his Plat
form. We are confident the Free Laborers of the
Free States will not uphold them.
AS to Fillibuserism, We find the case very
forcibly summed up in leading Southern journal
which, for Slavery g sake gives it's powerful support
to Mr. Buchanan:
From The CAa,is,ton Mercury
"The third resolution of the new Platform adopted
by the Democratic Convention reads follows:
-" Re.or.d Th.. the great :shxsy yhic! Nature we'll -
marked ont for the free between
to be isszed By the .p. Of modsSs
the energy OF our peops and TIA. result
troll which we right to claim it; and Power
should he suffered to impede clog progress by in
With the governments Of the within whoss dominion it
hes and under 10 circumstances surrender pre-
rondersI adjustment Of ali questions arising
a." bresthes the same spirit of aggre ssion-the same
assumption of superior right to conquest dominion
which marks the assertion OF the Monroe doctrine.
Ills great route lies to the southwark of the great
inland seas known az the Gulf of Mexico aud the
Carbide an Sea. On the extreme northern border of
these waters near the Of Florida and the South
Wererp States the United States hold dominion over
a few barren groups Of islands, while in the midst Of
them Spain has the rich colonies of Cuba and Porto
Rico, between which is the great island of ST.
Domir 90, to the southwark of which is the long,
established and once-valuAbe British colony of
Jamaica and on the eastern border lie grand group
of Islands, the possession Of England, France aud
Denmark.
{" such is the condition of the seas separating the
United States from that great highway Of travel and
trade over which it is now proposed that the United
States shall assume a preponderance as
natural right. The distance between our most
Southern possessions and the Nearest point of this
great highway Is very nearly equal to the
distance fom New-Yoik TO the Capes Of Florida
Yet this oceaDga of one thousand miles, thus
filled with the established Possessions of four European
nations ali Of whoee nights date back beyond the Pc
nod of our Revolution is to be cooy taken possession