Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-09-19


his ecslacy Of delight at the prluci-
pies embaaced in It, he is willing to
loose his own personal identity, and
become wholly absorbe in the plat.
form. lie is no longer simply James
Buchanan, but the embodiment of
the new democratic" creed This
is the language he uses in his address
TO the Keystone Club, at Wheatland,
in Penns, lvania
81 have been placed upon a plat
form Of which I most heartily ap-
prone, and that can speak Ior me.
Being the representative OF the great
Democratic party. and not simply
James Buchanan, | must square my
conduct according to the platform uf
that party, and insert no new plank
nor take one from H."
Whatever Mr.. Buchanan's follow
ers may attempt to say Of him 10 the
Tree States, such is The Slavrry-ex-
tension platform on which he is plac-
ed ! Aud that there need be no pos
sidle mistake as to his soundness in
regard 10 It, have only to make one
further extract from Hon. Preston $.
Brooks, of SouthCarolina, which puts
his orthodoxy beyond question:
Hear Mr. Brooks.
"Mr Buchanan was neither my
first nor second choice for the Presi-
dency but, as a representative OF a
type Of principles, aud standing bold
ly rs he does, upon the Batmore
platform, upon which General Pierce
was carried into power-enlarged,
improved, and strengthened, as It
has been by the supplemental resolu-
linns adopted at Cincinnati, and by
which resolutions our principles, as
practically applied TO the Territory Of
Kansas, have been re-endorsed by
The American Democracy, and by
their nominee could not be un-
faithful TO the man, without tr,ache-
ry 10 the principles be represents"
II any additional evidence were
wanting to show Mr. Buchanan's
complete thorough identification with
the views OF the South, 1t is furnish
cd in the Jealous support given him
10y Gov. Wise, of Virginia, who pre-
ferred Mr.. Buchanan 10 even Gen.
Pierce, or Stephen A. Douglas, on
account of his peculiar soundness on
the slavery question. la his speech
at Richmond, Gov. Wise says:-
Gle has been especially faithful
on the suhjecto Slavery. under
take to say that not only no man
North but no man SoutI:, can show
q better record than that Of Jamos
Buchanan, on that vexed aud dan
gerous question.
"Hls friends Of Pennsylvania, in
'.'n..inaiing him at llarrisburgh, had
excluding the idea oI sqnauer sove
reigaiy, adopted the principle OF non
intervention 10y Congress to prevent
OF 10 exclode Slavery and Of State
equality IN the Territories
and immediately upon his return
home, he adopted their nomination
Of him, placed upon this PLATFORM
This was indenliicallon enough with
hat measure
Mr. Wise goes on To prove, thai
on every question ct Slavery, Mr..
Buchanan has always gone South
and the above extracts will show thai
he not only adopts the platform laid
down for him, but adopts also the
Southern Interpretation OF IT, To wit
that "squalier sovereignty" meau,
nothing, and estate equality" meani
the right of slave owners to TAX,
Their slaves to any of the free Terri
tories of the l-allon, and there hol,
them, under the protection of law !
| have thus sir, SHOWN the position
now occupied by the Democratic
party before the country. hav'
shown what is understood by III,
leading principles of its PLATFORM
The ground taken is bold one, ant
should be met by freemen with equa
boldness and determination. Tn
slave power, which nov acts through
the Democratic organization, make
no further apologies for slavery. |
admits no longer that it is in an
sense an evil; but with a braver
worthy a better cause, 1t de6antl
proclalms it TO be right--a blessin
both TO the master and the slave
and claims the right to go anywher
with its property in human feSL
upon the same terms Of equalll
which we of the free States possess
to 90 with what is everywhere re
garded as property 10y the gener
CONGO apd judgment Of Mankind I