Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-05
A few Facts for Calm Reelection.

urging the exercise of the power in the case Of
Misscuri,and aprlaudng the course Of the Penn.
sylvania Delegates, who had strlyen to prevent
the admission Of Missouri, as a slave State. into
the Union. Mr., Buchanan's friends. by his au-
thority. have lately stated that he not pres.
ent at that meeting. but neither they nor he hive
declared that he did mot approve the resolutions
md permit his name TO remain attached 20 them
ss indicative of such approval.
In 1896 in speech in the lower branch of
Congress, he declared slavery to be great po-
iitical evil and a grea, moral evil" course"
and thanked God that his lot had been cast in
State where il did not exist.
In lSiI. in a speech in the United States Sen
ate. on the Texas Treaty of annexation. he es
pressed bis "grea. repugnanco by any act Of hi
10 extend the limits Of the Union over new slave
holding territory" and approved the treaty be
cause he believed the annexation Of Texas would
''limit" instead Of "enlarging the domnons of
siaveryn--that IL would eonvcr, Virginia, Mary
land, Kentucky and Missouri into free States.
In the same speech be declared that tho treniy
fnegotiated by the President aud submitted In
the Senate for ratihcationl Itself should have II X
ed the number of slave States and the number II
free States, 70 be- formed out Of Texas--a doc
trne which goes bow shot beyond tina, assert
ed in the Lancaster resolutions Of lsl9--beoan.e
il permits the President aud the Senate mot on.
ly to the exclusion of the people Interested, but
to the exclusion of the people. representatives in
tho lower Housed to determine the question If
slavery in such territory as We may acquire by
treaty. From this expr0- cd D opinion by Mr.
Buchanan, may conclude. that IL he should
be elected President and DURING his tj,ninistrn-
ton an opportunity should occur for the acquisi-
ton Of Cuha-beng strongly sserse to the ox-
tension Of our jurisdiction over new slavehoding
territory, and believing thai the President. as the
negotiator OF treaties has power to stpuatc that
new territory shall be free or slave, no would
make II a condition that Cuba should accode 10
the Union free State.
In lSis. an the 2ist of August he wrote let
ter from Washington 10 Thaddeus Sanford of Mo.
bile, which was published in the Mobile Register
of Oct 4. lS3S. In that letter he disclosed the
fact that he still occupied the position taken by
him in 1919, expressed the opinion that Congress
possesses the power "to legisato upon the subject
of slavery in the territories and declared that
this poper from It's nature must b. erclusire
In October 1913, just after the State election
in Pennsylvania, he made speech at the Demo.
cratic Headquarters in Washington city in which
he took the ground that territory recently ao
CURED from Mexico free territory, and could
not be made slave territory, unless by the pos
tive enactment Of competent Legislative author
ity. Here are his words-',ehtn IRE acquired
IL CALI ora'a) from Merico. i, mds free territory
9th in fdn and fact and fret Il must remain, an
less its present condition shall be ehangedby hs
p ositips enactment ofd competent Legislative an.
fhoriiy."
In the same year lsis, he planted himself up
the Missouri Restriction line as the panaoea
for all the ills menacing the country, in conse-
quence of the anti slavery agitation.
In 1856. in his letter accepting the nomination
of the Democratic party for the Presidency, he
plants himself broadly aud boldly on tho doctrine
of Squatter sovereign,y declaring that the
people of territory, Ike those eta State, shal
settle the question whether slavery shall or shall
not exist"
1t was the doctrine mot of the Freesoers
merely, butt of the abolitionis,s-ihat Missouri
should have been admitted into the Union only as
a free State.
1t is tho doctrine of the aboltionsts that Con
gress has sovereign and exclusive" power over
slavery in the Territories.
The abolitonists feel "strong repugnanoe'
to the extension of our jurisdiction over ne slave
holding territory-and could only be brought To
assent to it. If at all, from II conviction that it
would Limit instead of enlarging the nroa of
slavery"
The abolitonists think slavery "a great polti
cal and great moral eviln--"a curso''-ana
they too, doubtless, thank God that thoir lots arc
cast whore slavery does moi exist.
The abolit;onists believe that when free terri
tory is acquired, the Constitution does not carry
into that territory protection to the institution
of slavery-and that it can only be introduced
there by force of positive enactments establish
ing it.
These the recorded opinions of tho demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency-tho cand-
date of that party which superciliously assumes
to be the guardian of the interests. rights and
honor Of the slaveholding States. The reader is
requested to bear them in mind, aud when he is
told of the black record" of Willard Fillmore
"a record that has been shamelessly misrepre-
scented and distorted, and that was nobly atoned
for by his faithful and peerless admin stration-
let him demand to know what those who declaim
against him have to say of these monstrous doc
trnes of the democratic candidate,
In 1852, the Democratic party objected to the
election Of Gen. Scott, because he was supported
by Seward and others, representing the free soil
wing of the Wing party-and because, as they
alleged, he would be compelled to recognize these
free sellers in the administration of the eoye,n.