Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-06-17
From the Richmond Enquirer.
The Abolition Press On our Platform ana
Candtdatcs.

Democratic candidate for the Presidency:
From the N. Y. Tribune of the l0lhl
Mr.. Buchanan is the candidate of the Slavery
Extensionists, and is entitled to their sympathy.
The Hon. Messrs. Rust, Herbert and p. s.
Brooks will give him their most determined
support, and he will have no opposition in
South Carolina, nor in any quarter where
slaveholding and women selling are controlling
interests Mr.. Fillmore's friends may promise
the most complete subserviency to the relent-
less oligarchy now crushing the life out of
Free Kansas, in order to open there "a new
market for its human chattels some Of whom
are.the children of the sellers they may point
| to their chieftan's scars testifying of wounds
received in its service, but all will be of no
avail. Those OF the oligarcby who do not
question his will to serve them will disrust his
power, and so give their voices and votes to
buchanan, whose prospects are more hopeful
while his subserviency is unsurpassed and in
disputable. Of the whole body of slavetraders
throughout the South-those who make the
buying and selling of human beings their vo-
cation-nineteen of every twenty will support
Buchanan, leaving but meagre remnant to
uphold the trailing banner of South Amer-
cans. And even this remnant is quite likely
to 60 over to Buchanan before the close of the
canvass now opening. The issue to be now
sion of slavery, in view of which all other
questions sink into insignifcance
Mr. Buchanan was the candidate of Virginia
at the two last Democratic Conventions, and
her save-breeding politicians are not often
mistaken in their tools. There is not man
in the Union who, since he snuffed the Presi
dency afar off, has been more subservient to
the slave power than he His distinguished
friend and champion, the Hon. j. CLANCY
Jones, in q late triumphant reply to his Ameri
can colleague, the Hon. Henry NJ Fuller, who
had vainly attempted to pick some flaws in Mr.
Buchanan's pro-slavery escutcheon, truly said
"All such accusations as these against Mr..
Buchanan are answered.
"By the fact, that, twenty years ago, in the
Senate Of the United States, he was among the
first Northern men to resist the inroad of abo-
litionism.
"By his opposition to the circulation of in
surrectionary documents through the mails of
the United States among the slaves of the
South.
hitting Arkansas into the American Union
"By his early support of the annexation Of
Texas.
"By his persevering support of the Fugitive
Slave Law.
"By his energetic efforts to effect the repeal
Of the law of the State of Pennsylvania deny
ing to the Federal authorities the use of her
prisons for the detention of fugitive slaves.
by his early and unyielding opposition to
the Wimot Proviso.
"By the fact that, while member of Mr..
Folks Cabinet, against the opposition of fanat-
icism, he proposed to extend the Missouri line
to the Pacific amid the delight and gratitude
of national men of all parts of the Union.
h. Al.
Congress on the question of Slavery, and by
the fact that Of all Northern men, he has been
the most prominent in asserting and defending
strict construction of the Federal Constitu.
ton.
"By the construction which he placed upon
the compromise measures of 1850, in the letter
addressed by him in November of the same
same year to the people of Philadelphia, in
which he declared that the compromise mea-
sures had superseded the Missouri line, or, to
use his own language, that that line had
passed away which construction led nevita-
bly, to the adoption of the principle of popular
sovereignty, embodied in the Kansas N ebraska
bill"
From the day that he took prominent part
in National politics till the present, the slave
power has never made demand with which
he did not hasten to comply, nor commit an
aggression which he did not promptly Justify
and sustain. His name and his delegation
were mainly instrumental in beating Mr.. Van
Buren, in the Baltimore Convention of 1874, at
the dictation of the slavery propaganda, though
that delegation was pledged to support Mr..
Van Buren,, and did once or twice pretend to
vote for him.
The National Era, the central organ of the
Black Republican party, thus criticses the
PLATFORM
The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, a
measure which few Of the State Conventions of
the Democracy at the North have had the
temerity to approve, is distinctly sanctioned as
right; but General Cass and his disciples will
look in vain among these cumbrous resolves
for affirmation of the principle of popular
sovereignty-of the right of the people Of q
Territory to determine for themselves the char
acter Of their own domestic institutions The
principle Of the Nebraska bill are fully endorsed;
but not a word is spoken in definition of those
principles. The right of the people of Terri
tory when they come to form State Govern
ment, to establish or exclude slavery, is recog-
nsed but not their right, sohile IN a Territorial
condition So, the principle Of non-interferen
by Congress with the subject of slavery in Ter.
ritories is affirmed, but not the principle Of
non-intcrference by the Federal Executive.
vention representing the slaveholding oigarchy
and its free State allies, pretending to be the
Democratic party, concede the foil demands of
the former. The South Carolina and Georgia
platform is endorsed as national, and the
Democracy, so-called, of the free States, is
at length openly mrshalled as the posse
comitdtus of slavery. South Carolina and
Georgia rule in Kansas, and in Cincinnati.
They dragoon Massachusetts, men in Lawrence
and destroy their property, and compel Massa-
chusetts men in Cincinnati to applaud the
deed and denounce the victims. Hallett, of
Boston, exults over the subjugaion of Massa-
chusetts men by Buford, Of Charleston.
Thurlow Weed, Of the Albany Journal, il
intensely bitter against the candidate of the
Democracy. This is bis language:
MIR. Buchanan Endorses Border Ruff
nantsm.
Wise is the candidate that knows enough to