Washington telegraph., 1856-10-01
"stealiue their Thunder. .


Mr.. BUCHANAN would attempt, or dare
attempt to secure him any support In that
region of country on the grounds upon
which they urge his peculiar fitness in
this section for the Office, to which he as
pires. The idea is preposterous and the
proof that they do not is clear and indis-
putable. A man would beyond question
be altogether lacking in ingenuity if he
found the least difficulty in taking Mr..
RUcHANAN's record and proving that he
was altogether and in toto, opposed to even
the semblance of the peculiar institution,
that the very idea of it, was utterly re-
pugnant to his nature, and the notion of
Its extension, entirely abhorrent to his SOUL
This is the truth. Whatever in regard to
his views of the legal aspect of the ques-
ton may have been his votes upon the
subject of slavery, it cannot be denied
that he has never failed, upon any and ev-
cry occasion when opportunity offered,
earnestly, Indignantly to protest against
its existence, its perpetuation and its ex-
tension We published last week his re-
marks before the Senate In secret session
upon the question of the annexation of
Texas. Concerning these remarks the
Nashville (Tenn.) Banner pertinently OBJ
serves:
The 'question of slavery" constituted
"serious obstacle" to his supporting the
treaty of annexation. How and why p
Because his words-because she
felt a strong repugnance by any act of his
to extend the limits of the Union over a
new sLAvE-HoLDING TERRITORY"
''These scruples," however, on his part,
he, "after mature reflection, '.overcame. y
How? By bringing himself to believe
the necessary and inevitable results of the
acquisition of Texas would be-
| l. The LIMITING, not the ENLARGING
of the dominion of slavery.
2. The conversion into FREE States, ere
long, of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky,
Missouri, and probably others of the more
Northern slave States-of call the FARM
ING States" in fact.
3. The concentration of all the slaves
in the United States far to the South
4. The opening of Gan outlet through
which slavery itself would ''fnally pass
the Rio Grande, and be lost in Mexico y
This is good Free-Soil doctrine, is ii
not2 Is it not dangerous Free-Soil doc
| trine.
Turn to the outside of this week issue
and read the account of the recent attempt
at insurrection among the slaves in coun-
ty of Texas bordering upon Mexico Is
this the way in which Mr.. BUCHANAN
would have the "peculiar institution -
pass off into a foreign Territory, merge
itself into another people and become ex-
tinct? We hope not But let that pass,
and let us see what Mr.. BUCHANAN s
Northern supporters are doing with that
Texas speech. Ihey are holding Mr..
buchanan mp to the gaze of Northern
-Soilers as THEIR candidate =
We have the proof; and it bids fair to
become family quarrel The Fremont
ERs cry out, ''Hold. you steal our thun-
der ~ Read the following, Southern sup
porters of BUCHANAN, and tell us what
you think of your candidate
Mr. Buchanan's Relations with Slavery
There needed no ghost to tell us that
every effort would be made in certain Of
the free States to prove Mr.. Buchanan
enough of Free soiler to be opposed to
the Southern usurpatIon in Kansas. Doc
uments to show his hostility to slavery are
freely circulated in the New England
States and the States of the Northwest
and it is because of his imaginary imparti
ality between Northern and Southern senti-
ment, that pseudo conservatives, like
Messrs. Choate, Reverdy Johnson, Pearce
and Pratt, prefer TO support him rather
than the other candidates OF course,
such support is given upon the assumption
that, in spite of adhesion to the Cincinnati
platform, Mr.. Buchanan is not the man tC
lend his influence to further extravagan1
plans of the ultra slave-propagandists OF
the North.-N. Y. Times.
The Nashville Gazette, remarks:
Just as we thought THE grand rascal:
at Washington prepared lying documents
for the South and lying documents for the
North-the former to show that he is the
greatest advocate of slavery in the North
and the latter to show that he is in favor
of the Free-soil sentiment. What deep
corruption If the Times will send tC
Washington for a;document, the title page
of which runs !: 'Slavery agitation, who
commenced, and who can end it; Buch
anan and Fillmore compared from the
record" it will see villainous production
prepared for the South.
The American Organ, says:
To the above we can add our testimony
We have copy of the document in ques
ton. In the South, Buchanan is repre-
sented as pro-slavery, and in the North
as an anti-slavery man.
Governor WRIGHT of Indiana one o1