Daily American organ., 1856-04-18
II may not be True.


The Washington Union Of this morning, in
It's leading article, under The head of g True
Acailability," gives the public the following
very important piece Of information, to wit:
''The evidences are overwhelming tliat the peo-
ple of the South almost without division, fully ap-
prove and endorse the policy and position Of the
present administration on the slavery question"
The Unioa-man is so>accustomed to fancy
sketches /" we are not fully prepared to credit
this information, even though given to the
public with all the appearance of sincerity on
the part of that press. Indeed, we are inclined
to the opinion that there is very great divi-
sion Of sentiment at the South, as to sohat are
the policy ard position of the present admin
istration on the slavery question" Is General
Pierce in favor of making Kansas sLavs State?
It may be answered that he is in .taoor of the
Kansas N ebraska or Nebraska X ansas act al
though the Union newspaper, representing his
views at the time Mr.. Dixon, of Kentucky,
proposed that section Of it which repealed the
Missouri Compromise, opposed that measure.
But this answer would hardly be satisfactory
to the South.in view of the fact that General
Pierce told Senator Clemens, of Alabama, that
this act would operate in Javor Of freedom, or
to prevent the formation of any more slave
States. E
That it was the wish Of General Pierce, as
well as his opinion, that the Kansas Nebraska,
alias the Nebraska-K Kansas act should operate
to prevent the formation of any more slave
States, is evident from his appointment Of Mr..
Reeder, of Pennsylvania as Governor of Kan
sas, whilst he sent Mr.. Burt, of South Carroll
ma. as Governor to Nebraska! He simply fol-
lowed up in this, the policy and purposes set
forth in the New Hampshire resolutions Of
lS47, which were written by himself, and pre-
sented by the representative from his town to
the Legislature of his State, whilst he was on his
way to the fields of glory and tainting in
Mexico. and which resolutions emb0dy the
present Republican doctrine, that there should
be no extension of slavery into territory now
free Does the Union now mean to say, in
the extract above copied, "that the people of
the South almost without division fully ap-
prove and endorse" this policy and position
originally taken by General Pierce in 1S47, and
never yet abandoned ercept in his late bid for
Southern supportf Now, if Generl Pierce
had, contemporaneously with his bid for the
Presidency in his message to Congress, given
security to the South by the removal of the
prominent Free-Soilers in his Cabinet, and by
the restoration of such men as Judge Bronson
to places OF power, trust and honor, that he
would perform his contract with the South, il
his bid should be accepted, then the South
might perhaps show some disposition to con-
slider has proposals!
At present, we are not much inclined to give
full credence to the information conveyed in
the extract above copied, as we have seen no
signs, ercept from the office holders that Gen.
Pierce has any supporters at the Souths 1t
may however, possibly be true, that since the
developments made by Messrs. Nicholson and
Forney, through the Union and the Pennsyl-
vanian, touching the opinions of the Hon JAS
Buchanan on the question of the Missouri Com
promise, a disposition is beginning to be mani
tested at the South to drop Mr.. Buchanan as
the Southern candidate and that the Union
man construes this manifestation at the South
as being quite favorable to the prospects of
Gen. Pierce in that quarter. We are very far
from being suspicious in our disposition and
habits, but somehow or other we cannot get
rid of the impression that Messrs. Nicholson
and Forney have entered into conspiracy to
destroy the favorite son Of Pennsylvania and
that this editorial Of the Union upon "7rus
Avaitabitity" was written in pursuance of
their secret plan to overslaugh "Old Buck"
and we would not be surprised if the true
cause of their political enmity towards him is
found in his grafton delivered in 1915, in which
he so eloquenty warned his countrymen
against 9. foreign influence" We shall await
further signs.
To no other purpose but plot to kill off
Buchanan at the South, can we ascribe the
publication of the following sentiments, said
to have been uttered by that most excellent
gentleman, on the Missouri Compromise ques-
tion, and which we republished on yesterday,
to wit
regard this compromise, considering the ex-
citing and alarming circumstances under which 1t
was made, and the dangers TO the existence of the
Union, which il had removed to be almost az sacred
as a corsfifufionai provisionn
NoN, suPPoso MI Duchanan dad say sop
What Of ~ We will hazard the assertion
that il was said at least dozen years ago, or
more, and the statute Of limitations cuts off ALI
right to hold him responsible for such opinions
nowf II is absolutely cruel on the part Of
profsssed friends, besides being treacherous,
to ransack the musty records Of the past, to find
a politicians honest opinions on questions of
either policy or principle. Why, it is not yet
nine years since Frank Pierce wrote the New