Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-21
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BuchananS nomination does not take as was
expected. His friends supposed that his name
would combine every shade of opinion, from
the most decided freesoilisn to the. most ultra
slave propagandism, in his support The most
intractalIe holtcr of bygone days would, 1t
was anticipated, return to the fold, and gen
eral era of good feeling would follow the an
nouncemcnt that the veteran politician had been
placed at the head Of the democratic ticket.
But the plan, after all, does not work BH-
chanan'S antccedentS are against him. The
peculiar friends who have been most InStru-
mental in engineering his nomination Will dam
age him. His associate on the ticket Mr..
Breckenridge, will damage him. And last, not
least, the platform upon which &c runs Ought
10 finish him.
We need not refer to the notorious fact that
Gen Jackson and Mr.. Polk, while Presidents,
expressed in unmistakcablc terms their utter
want of confidence in him, and their cOnvic- !
tion of his iniidciity to democratic principles. |
The opinion which the former had Of Buchan-
an may be obtained from his surviving and
most intimate associates and those who de-
sire PolkS may consult the manuscript diary
which Inc has left and which records the i'm
prcsSons Of every day of his Administration.
Indeed we have heard that the only reason 1t
is not published, is the severe reflections it
contains upon Mr.. Buchanan, Secretary of
State under President Polk.
Mr.. Buchanan has spent many years in pub
lie service, and though timid and time-Scrvng
to fault, has, under the maIign influence o.
associates whom he had not the courage to re-
siSt, committed political errors which even the
most reckless might hesitate to face. To go no
Al l.. l.. Il.
patriotic ScnsibiliticS OF our coutrymCn abroad
ever more justly shocked than by the disrepute
into which the American iegationfell, while he
was our minister to st. James Was there
ever before representative Of this government
abroad who would wink at the abuses which
are charged upon his subor mates in Office,
when the government dispatch bags and the
seal of the American Legation was used to give
circulation to inccndiary and republican appeals
to the rcvoIutioniSts OF Europe.
Then look at our minister, against his deli
bcrate Judgment dragged to the conference at
OStcnd, and putting his name to that piratical
manifesto which has so disgraccd us in the
eyes of the world-a manifesto which recon-
mcnds that if Spuin refuses to sell the island
of Cuba, we should "wrcSt" it from her
When we consider, too, that the foreign policy
which SouIe was the advocate and author, en-
body the recommendations of the OStend man
ifesto and that their inevitable result will be
to plunge this country into an unnecessary
and wicked war, ruinouS to the material and
moral interests Of the nation, what shall be
said of the conservative, safe" tendencies
of the candidate who stands pledged to carry
them out z Here is a man who, in his youth
1,
n majority of the people now believe that we
could not avoid, and who nOw when the SHOWS
of seventy wears have whitcncd his head, slim
uatcS his countrymen to Il war of aggression
which, for its purposes and consequences, must
be abhOrrcnt to every Christian and patriotic
man. 1t cannot be that the sober sense of
the North Will sanction such reckless infatua,
ton They will not follow Buchanan in COM
plying with policy the only motive for the
adoption of which is to satisfy the demands of
the slauery propagandists, and the political
cXigencies Of such mel IS Soule, Saunders and
Sickles
If again we look at that portion of Buchan-
ans platform which relates to domestic af-
fairs, we find it equally Objectionable. We
find it, in effect, an assertion of the utra-son-
thern doctrine Of '' popular sovereignty which
fOrbdS either the National Congress or the
settlers of a territory to exclude slavery from
it, and which places that local and ant-repub
lican Institution under federal protection, in
whatever territory it may be carried, and dcS-
pite Of the prohibitory enactmcnts of its leg
iSlaturc Is it likely that northern frcemcn
who Sympathisc with their suffering kinsmen
and friends who have emgrated to Kansas,
and arc now struggling at the peril of life it
self to establish the interests of free mStitu-
tions and free labor there, will sanction this?
In regard to Breckenridge, the candidate
for the Vice. Presidency, his encounter with
Mr.. Cutting is fresh in the minds of every one
What Douglas did for the Nebraska bill in the
Senate, he did in the House. He bullied it
through and, in performing his task, began
that series Of personalities and violence which
has so disgracefuly eliminated in the recent
ruffianly achievement of Brooks lie may be
democrat, but, if so, he is democrat of a
pattern which cannot deserve the sanction. of
men imbucd with northern civilization or genu
inc democracy. Ereniag Post
WILL BrCHANAN CARRY PENNsYLvAVIA-
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