The true Democrat., 1856-07-29

the danger has passed away, the crisis is now over, and the fanaticism which threatened to invade the constitutional rights of the south and dissolve the Union, has been nearly extin- guished. Itis impossible after all that is past that they can doubt our devotion to the constitutional rights of the south Let me assure them then that our greatest dangeris from agitation here; excitement is the element in which abolition lives and moves and has its being; flame kindled in the capital would soon invade the Unon
 "When did fanaticism every yield to the voice of reason? Let 1t alone and it will soon burn out for want of the fuel upon which it feeds." Mr. B. moved that the question on the reception be laid upon the table. ]-C0nq. Globe, voS. 8, page 188.
 On the 23d of May, 1886, Mr. Buchanan made an able and eloquent defence of Texas in her struggle with Mexico, which was then progress ing, predicting that the time was not far dis tant when she would assume her proper posi- ton as part of this great confederacy.- Cong. Globe, vol. 3, D. 395.
 On the 9th of June, 1844, Mir. Buchanan made his great speech in favor of the annexa- ton of Texas. It would be impossible, by ex- tracts, to do Mr. Buchanan justice. It was per haps the most thorough speech made on that question during that session, and perusal of it would thoroughly refute the islanders that have been circulated in regard to his views on the slavery question. We venture to predict that none of the opposition papers will dare to pub- fish this speech during the canvass.-iSee Ap- perdin to Cong Globe, go7. 13, part 2, ?. 72O.
 But this is not all when the House resolu- tions for the admission of Texas were before the Senate, Mir. Buchanan, on Tuesday, the 4th of February, 1S45, announced that he was in minority of one on the committee, but that he should advocate their adoption notwithstand- ing. g.-See Cong Globe, vo1. fl, ?. 24.
 And again, on the 4th of February he an- nounced that although in minority Of one in the committee on Foreign Relations, he was anxious that the Texas question should be dis cussed and decided as soon possible.-Do. page 271.
 On the 18th February, Mir. Buchanan made most powerful argument, showing the consti- tutionality and expediency of admitting Texas | See Cong. Globe vo1. 14, ?. 297.
 On the final passage of the resolutions for the admission of Texas, MT. Buchanan said |" this was the greatest public act in which he had ever had the honor of taking an humble part; he should do it cheerfuly, gladly, glori- ously because he believed his vote would con- fer blessings nnumerable upon his fellow men, now, heuceforward and forever.''
 Mr. Buchanan's congressional record closes here, and we venture to assert, that it is as good, as consistent, as true to all the interests of the south as that of any statesman of any party.
 But we have still further and equally conclu- sive evidence of Mir. Buchanan's soundness on the slavery question. During the adminlstra- ton of Mir. Polk, Mir. Buchanan being Sccre- tary of State, the slavery agitation was continu- ed in and far more dangerous, because more plausible form. The Wilmot proviso was sought to be applied to all the territories thereafter to be organized; and as large regions of country acquired by the Mexican war, and defined by the treaty with England, relative to the North Western Territories, were expected soon to be organized as territories, preparatory to their admission into the Union as States, the question of slavery was again discussed with more bitterness than The conservative statesmen of the north, Mir. Buchanan among them, together with the entire southern delega- tion n Congress in 1848, proposed to the rccsoil- CTS of the north to extend the Missouri compro- mise line to the Pacific, and thus forever close 1 the agitation upon that subject. The proposi- ton was scornfully rejected. Nothing was left but for the conservative men of the north and south, to withdraw all offers to compromise and throw themselves upon their constitutional rights, as equal members of the confederacv and equally entitled to the common territories, regardless of latitude or imaginary lines. The battle was fought from this stand point, and the compromise acts of 1850 were the result, and every territory organized under or since those acts has been organized so as to come into the Union with or without slavery as the people thereof might determine. The compro- mise acts of 1850, were regarded as doing away with all former compromises. Mr. Buchanan as early as November 185O in letter to the peo- pie of Philadelphia, declared that the compro- mise measures of 1850 had superseded the Missouri line, or to use his own language, that that fine had "passed away" which construc- tion led inevitably to the adoption of the prin- cipleS embraced ill the Kansas Nebraska bill- That bill was passed upon that construction, and the repeal of the Missouri compromise line is set forth in the bill itself as having been set aside by the act of 1850.
 In May, 1856, the Pennsy ylvana Democratic State Convention passed series of resolutions endorsing in the most unqualified terms, the principles involved in the Kansas bill, and no- minating James Buchanan for the Presidency MT. Buchanan endorsed fully and nnequivo- cally every sentiment therein expressed, and pledged himself to maintain them. Want of space prevents us from publishing these resolu- tions and the response to Mir. Buchanan. Again, the national convention which nomi. hated Mir. Buchanan, passed the following reso lutOn:
 "Resozued, That claiming fellowship with, and desiring the cooperation of all who regard the preservation Of the Unlon under the conSttu- tion, as the paramount issue, and repudiating all sectional parties and platforms concerning domestic slavery, which seek to embroil the the lstates, and invite to treason and armed re- sstance to law in the territories, and whose avowed purposes, if consummated, must end in civil war and disunion, the American democra- cy recognize and adopt the principles contained in the organic laws establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska as embodying the only sound and safe solution of the slavery ques- ton upon which the great national idea of the people of this whole country can repose in its determined conservatism of the Union-NoN- INTERFERENCE BY CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
 "2 That this was the basis of the compro- mises of 185O-confrmed by both the demo-