New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-18
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when man becomes i daate for public station,
lie may expect that all the unfortunate and objections
able things he ever did say will be raked up by his
opponents in order to prejudice his cause before the
people, together with o great deal he never thought
much less gave expression to. 1t may be these are
deplorable facts butt they are the inevitable in
cdents and results Of popular system of government
Asa general rule, We are opposed to this mode Of
political warfare. 1T leads to elimination and recrimi
nation the use Of language nnsuted to the circunl
stances ito separations and heart burnngs private
and public feuds and never does any good whatever
On the contrary it is fruitful Of injury and the man
OR the party engaged most deeply in the game Of
ntaton, usually suffer from the recol o.
casioned BY the good sense and good feelings Of the
public.
But, there are some researches into the political
history of candidate which are perfectly ustifable
and if proved upon him, should operate to his disad
vantage. We say this unreservedly while we fully
subscribe to the sounness Of the proposition that it
is better for the people to enquire what the conscen
tious views Of candidate for the Presidency ,o,c are
instead Of going back twenty thirty forty years.
to ascertain what the ideas Of the same man were,
under a different condition of atfairs and in the
presence of another generation.
sefStll STE IL aSSeTteu HIlQ
rsasserted that the Hon. James Buchanan Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, in speech delivered
in the United States Senate clearly intimated his
conviction that ten cents day 4 wages was enough
for laboring man It is also stated that the use Of
this expression, or one similar to it in import can be
substantiated by production Of the authoritatyey
published speech. If this be done, Mr.. B. will find
himself in an excruciatingly tight place; as it
in the country would 50 far stultify themselves and
repudate asense Of selfrespect as to vote for an in
dividual who had declared his belief in a movement
which, carried out would reduce them all to the
level Of serfs, if not slaves would make them "hew
their natural lives!
The Washington Organ, Of the 18th, commences an
article on The subject thus:
TEN Gents DAY.James Buchanan in speech delivered
BY him il the United States Senate
e By s ons
1 Riyes, and many copies are still in existence.
. We should like muchto be favored with a pamph-
LET containing the speech referred to. If it was
printed by Blair & Rves no doubt can exist as to the
authenticity Of the document, for, at the time de-
signated, they were the Democratic Congressional
printers and Mr.. Buchanan was a leading Democratic
Senator. Will the Organ be good enough to obtain
and forward rs one Of the " many copies that are
j still in existence
If these statements are true they will damage the
prospects Of Mr.. Buchanan to a material extent If
they not true, the exposure of their falsity will
operate strongly against Mr.. Fillmore and the Ameri-
can party. 1t would have been better to have pub
lshed the speech first the obnoxious portion Of it,
Il and brought in the comments afterwards At all
II events this would have been the safer noIicv
The New York Express, of the 10th, has the fol-
lowing item in relation to the matter. It will be seen
there is difference Of six years in datethe Wash
ngton Organ naming the year 1888 as the one rem.
dered memorable by the delivery Of The speech, and
/ the Express the year 1874. However, the literal
meaning Of the two articles is about the jingle
to the same strain--and, as a matter of news, we
give the EXPRESSES version of the affair."