The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-10-15
gel ohm Van Buren, is making Buchanan

I speeches. Louisville Democrat.
/ If any reliance can be placed upon history
this self-same John Van Buren,, the redoubta
bic ''prince" Of democracy, in the year 184s
made abolition speechesin New York and Penn
: sylvania, and in January 856, wrote abolition
letters. In 1848, when Martin Van Buren, rar
as the abolition candidate for the presidency
on the famed Buffalo platform, he had an en-
5 thusiastic supporter in his son John, who made
a number Of speeches, and stumped the west
ern portion Of New Y ork, in bis behalf. In one
of his speeches, as reported at the time in the
New York Herald, he said:
Ias eff ever vote for, or advocate the cleo
ton of man to Office, holding views opposed te
the doctrines of the Buffalo platform, may my
right hand forget its cunning and my tongue
ceave to the roof of my mouth And any man
holding contrary views and living at the north
ought to be peremptorily d--d!'' ~
The following is the main resolution of the
Buffalo platform, and contains the marrow o.
the whole fabric:
Resolved, That we accept the issue which
the slave power has forced upon us, and to their
deman0for more slave States and more slave ter
ritories, our calm, but fixed answer is, no more
slave States and no more Slave territories! Let
the soil of our extensive domains be ever kept
free, for the hardy pioneers Of our land, and The
oppressed and banished Of other lands, seeking
homes Of comfort and fields OF enterprise in the
new world E........'> .....
And now we will come down to the present
day, and hear what the gentleman who lis
making Buchanan speeches. has to say for
himself. The Cleveland (O.) Leader, Of the
9th ult., says: @ .sa ....
John Van Buren, told the democracy at Sa-
lem, that he was still the anti-slavery man that
he was in 1848. That as an anti-slayery man
he was supporting Buchanan; for in his opinion,
Mr.. Buchanan's election would secure Kansas
as free State
Yetsouthern democrats are eulogising Mr.
Buchanan, and southerners are called upon to
rally around him. As the Buchanan papers, a
few weeks, recorded the fact as an incident
worthy of note, that John Van Buren, had "hon-
ored" Mr.. Buchanan with visit and spent sew
eral days in confidential conversation with him,
they cannot now doubt his competency to speak
authoritively of the policy Mr. Buchanan in
tends to pursue if he should be elected to the
presidency. He says, that as an anti-slavery
man. he is ''supporting Buchanan; for in his
opinion, Mr.. Buchanan's election would secure
Kansas as a free State" What has the south
TO ny on that subject? Can the Louisville
Democrat favor such project?
THE WoMEs's FLAe-At the grand barbe-
cue given a few days ago at Berwick's bay by
the Americans of the Attakapas parishes, Miss
Pecot, on behalf of the ladies of St. Mary, pre-
sented to the Fillmore and Donelson club
magnificent American flag, accompanied with
he following remarks:
"Gentlemen-In ele name and on behalf of
he ladies Of the parish of ST. Mary, have the
lonor to present you this beautiful Union bans
Ter!
"Tbey offer it as pledge Of their devotion
o the great American cause for which you are
o gallantly struggling, and that their bosoms
hrob with the deepest feelings of hopeful emo
Regarding the cause Of the great American
arty as the cause Of the Union and the const-
ution, they feel assured that your success in
lot and statesman, Willard Fillmore, to the ;
residency ofthe United States, is the only hope
f the triumph Of American liberty, and the sa- S
red preservation of the federal Union! {
"And thus believing, they feel, that without ,
the becoming modesty of their sex, i
ley may thus publicly make this civic offering IS
} you, to testify to you their confidence in your {
deity; and to cheer you. Oh, as honest cham
ions in the cause of civil and religious liberty t
nd right. t
'such, sirs, is their purpose, and such their t
fering. And, in presenting it. l Am charged ,
express their hope that none you will ever {
rove unworthy of the confidence this day man i
ested-taat not one of you will ever, by re- c
eancy or apathy, dishonor aooman's .fag!-
nd that, should any one of you ever doubt or a
tier In the path of patriotic duty, he will look
! the votlve banner, and remember that the t
'pes and prayers--the dearest aspirations of S
1nan's heart-cling and cluster around its
,autiful folds, and bids him, by the sacred re- g
embrance of mothers and sisters love, to t
anu tuc VI liie CO7IStltNt1OR LEe C1l1- l
}, and his Ndtsve Land.'' a
Thus spoke the beautiful representative of
e ladies of Attakapas, and where is the man 7
ho will prove recreant to her charge? The :,
erlcss daughters of our land, whether dwell +
lg at the south or north, at the east or west 4
e truly 4dnaerican in all their sympathies, and P
cir "hearts beat for their native land They l:
I'VE adopted the star spangled banner as their
IN and send it forth as "womaD,s fag."- o
ctory must perch upon such a Standard +
hat American can prove recreant and desert
e ''woman's fag?' "
The Charleston Mercury, and the Columbia St
mes, the leading southern rights democratic Il
pers in South Carolina, propose that the leg F.
allure throw away the electoral vote Of that Z.
ate at the ensuing presidential election, by
ting for some good southern man, not A can b
date, as they did in 1882 The democrats of !.
nth Carolina cannot swallow Mr. Buchanan :
re for squatter sovereignty. a