The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-08-21
LETTER FROM HON. A. G. BROWN.
Important Revelation = Buchanan leading soule
in Fihbustering-Ksep it before the People.

Important Revelation = Buchanan leading soule
in Fihbustering-Keep it before the People.
WASHINGTON Cry, June Is, 1856.
My DEAR SIR: 1 congratulate you on the
nomination of your favorite candidate for the
Presidency.
If the nomination of Mr.. Buchanan was &C.
ceptable to me at first, it is still more so now
since have seen him, and heard him speak.
The committee, of which was one, waited on
him at his residence, to give him formal and
official notice of his nomination, and, in the
name of the National Democracy, to request
his acceptance oft. We found him open, frank,
and wholly undisguised, in the expression of
his sentiments.
Mr.. Buchanan said in the presence of all
who had assembled, and they were from the
North and the South, the East and the West,
that he stood upon the Cincinnati platform,
and endorsed erery part ofa. lie a0as erplicit
an his remarks on its Slavery features, saying
that the Sauery issue ,cGs the absorbing element
IN the canrGss. He recognised to its fullest
extent the overshadowing importance of that
ISSUE and if elected, he would make it the great
aim Of his administration to settle the question
upon such terms as should give peace and safe
ty to the Union, and security to the South
He spoke in terms Of decided cOmmenddtion
of the Kansas bill, and as pointedy deprecated
the unworthy efforts of sectional agitation to
get up q national conhagration on that ques-
ton. After the passage of the compromise
measures of 1850, the Kansas bill was, he said,
necessary, to harmonic our legislation in ref
erence to the Territories, and he expressed his
surprise that there should appear anywhere an
organized opposition to the Kansas bill, after
the general acquiescence which the whole coun-
try had expressed in the measures of 1850.
After thus speaking of Kansas and the Slave
~ issue, Mr.. Buchanan passed to our foreign
policy. He approved in general terms Of the
Cincinnati resolutions on this subject. But
said, that, while enforcing our own policy, we
must at all times scrupulously regard the Just
rights and proper policy of other nations. He
was not opposed to Territorial extension. All
our acquisitions had been fairly and honorably
made. Our necessities might require as to make
other acquisitions. He regarded the acquisition
Of Cuba as Uery desirable no,O, and 1t ,cas like
ly to become a national necessity. Whenever
we could obtain the Island on fair, honorable
terms, he was for taking it. But, he added, it
would be terrible necessity that would induce
me to sanction any movement that would bring
reproach upon US, or tarnish the honor and
glory of our beloved country.
After the formal interview was over, Mr..
Buchanan said, playfully, but in the presence
of the whole audience, =" If L can be Instrument
al an settling the Slapery question upon the
terms hare named, and then add Cuba to the
Union, shall, If President, be piUing to gice
up the ghost, and let breckenridge take the
Government" Gould there be more n0ble
am6itions You may we'll be proud of your
early choice of a candidate, and congratulate
yourself that no adverse influences ever moved
you an inch from your stern purpose of giving
the great Pennsylvania a steady, earnest, and
cordial support. In my Judgment, he is as
scorthy of Southern confidence and Southern
Uotes as Mr. Calhoun erer ioGS and in saying
this, do not mean to intimate that MIR. Blu
chanan has any sectional prejudices in our
favor. I only mean to say that he has none
against US, and that we may rely with absolute
certainty on receiving full justice, according to
the Constitution, at his hands.
Knowing your long, laborious, and faithful
adherence to the fortunes of Mr.. Buchanan,
have thought it proper to address you this let
ter, to give you assurance that you had not
mistaken your man, nor failed In the perform
ance of q sacred and flial duty to the South.
In doing 80, violate no confidence.
Very truly, your friend, A. G. BRowN.
To Hon. S. Il. Adams.
Posi- THE BooKs.-How economical the pres
ent Democratic Pierce Administration has
been How stand the figures? Here they are
from official sources:
S75,684, 400 year; $780, 200 a month
sl,452,920 a week; $2O7,660 day; $500
an hour, $l44 a minute; and S2.40 second.
Let US ask, what is the guarantee that James
Buchanan, if elected to the Presidency, will be
more careful of the peoples money than Frank
lin Pierce has been? We beg the honest, hard
working citizens of Maryland, to ponder on this
wasteful expenditure of the public money, and
then ask themselves the question, whether De-
mocracy is a luxury or q burden.
In calling attention to the above table of the
expenses of this Pierce Administration, we ask
the reader to compare it with a similar table,
made out and published in 1852 by the Boston
Post, one of,he most prominent Locofoco papers
of the country:
1.-THE Cost of our Government. THE Wing
Administration of General Taylor and Mr.. Fill.
more has cost the country the enormous sum of
$55, AZ, 4sl per annum Just look at it. That
sum is
$4,62O,2O6.75 per month; Sl,066, POLISH
per week; $l52,3l4.5Oa per day; $6,347.43i
per hour; $lO5.773 per minute; 1.763 per
second.
Eesrly two dollars spent at every ticking of
the clock That is raors meney than half
dozen men could count, (if it were all in dol.
lars working ten hours day"