Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
The Presidency and the Danger.

and perpetuity of the Union In the event
of the success of the party, as the repre-
sentative of which, Mr.. BUCHANAN stands
before the Union. Briefly, because hav-
ing delayed the preparation of this article,
we find ourselves compelled to devote
part of the space reserved in our columns
for it, to the publication of the report of
the Railroad meeting, to be found else
remarks we submit the following remarks
and editorials from acknowledgedly inhu-
ential members and leaders of the BU-
CHANAN forces, and ask for them care
full perusal and attentive study. We aim
to present the truth to our readers and
leave them to draw their own deductions
therefrom
The NeU Hampshire Patriot, leading
BU CHANAN journal, says:
''The Nebraska bill works gloriously
and triumphantly for freedom. No act of
any President OF any Congress has secured
so much and SO suddenly and so easy for
liberty; and men of all parties will be OBJ
liged to acknowledge with the intelligent
and honest National Intelligencer, on
the day after the passage of the bill, that
though they opposed it from beginning to
end for the sake of peace and good feel
ing throughout the nation, yet truth and
honesty require them to confess their be-
lief that the North and South should
change their positions. and the North go
for the bill and the South oppose it.
Mr.. Brooks, of South Carolina, who,
We are informed, supports Mr. BUCHANAN,
said recent y
"He rather wished the Army Appropri-
alton bill would not pass, because it would
effect the removal of the United States
soldiers from Kansas and leave the people
of the South free to 90 there and cut the
threats of Lane and his abolition COM
rades"
The Richmond Enquirer, a Jealous ad-
vocate of the claims and pretensions of
the nominees of the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, spoke through its columns recently
as follows:
''Let the South present compact and
undivided front. Let her show to the
barbarians that her sparse population of
fers little hopes of plunder; her military
and self-reliant habits, and her mountain
retreats. little prospects of victory; and
her firm union and devoted resolution, no
chances of conquest. Let her # possible,
dctach Pennsylvania and Southern Ohio,
Southern Indiana and Southern Illinois
from the North, and make the highlands
betsceen the Ohio and the Lakes the dirt-
ding line. LET THE SOUTH TREAT WITH
| CALIFORNIA, AND, IF NECESSARY, ALLY
HERSELF WITH RUSSIA, WITH CUBA AND
BRAzIL!!w
And We might multiply extracts ad
iibitun, to the same effect, but it is unne-
eessary for our purpose Let these suffice.
A mere glance at the conflicting nature
of these authoritative opinions emanat-
ing from acknowledged leaders In the
Buchanan ranks, sufhces to show that
what we said last week was true to the
letter is, that the Kansas-Nebraska
bill, as presented to the South by the
leaders of the party seeking to elevate
Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency, was in
truth the osteasible issue, but not really
the bona fde issue That is, it is claim
ed North as measure for Freedom, South
as measure securing the extension O
Slavery and therefore being, by thi:
double-dealing process, divested of any
pretensions to nationality. it was in trutf
nothing but sectional hobby, ridden al
the North by free negro and at the
South by slave. Whatever may be the
inherent merits of the bill, it has become
a by word, by virtue of the ignoble pur
poses to which scheming politicians and
mousing place-hunters have warped its
provisions, to suit whatever "ecigencies Q,
patriotism" might arise
/ ga house divided against itself canno
stand )" it is not reasonable to suppose
that great party which, BY the acts ot
members of its own body polite, disinte
CRATES itself, will or can be able to hold
together We see the truth of this veri
fed In the recent elections, and we cannot
but think that no better evidence of the
unfitness of this party for the mission
which it arrogates to itself, need be pre-
sented than its internal contentious and
the division which exists in its own ranks
as to the nature and real policy of its ''pet
measure.
But there is yet more striking proof
of the danger which the success of this
party would be fraught with, presented in
the two latter extracts, which we give
above. The intelligent man who reads
them cannot fail to be foreibly struck with
the fact that there is a woful discrepancy
In the plan therein presented, and the
loud mouthed boastings with which the
buchanan presses teem and the Buchanan