The true Democrat., 1856-09-30
The Change of Tactics.

Tho Change of Tactics.
 Our Know Nothing adversaries seem not to weary of changing. They almost daily shift their grounds both of attack and defence. A little while ago it was their policy and practice to charge upon MT. Buchanan the crime of squatter sovereignty and freesoilism. They even went so far as to accuse him of downright abolitionism.
 But they have changed their tactics. The charge of freesoilism against such man as James Buchanan fell still. born at the south His long and varied congressional career, dur ing which he never gave an abolition vote, but on the contrary voted with the south all the time, on every proposition touching African slavery, stamped that charge as false and call umnious. The challenge of the democratic press to the Know Nothing journals and ora tors to point to single vote given or speech made, against the south, by MT. Buchanan, du- ring his service in Congress, could not be ans- wered--could not be met. The charge has been, in consequence, very generally given up. and now we have one against him of directly opposite character.
 | Sam Houston gives the cue. In his speech at Memphis to Know Nothing meeting, he spoke of Fremont as the northern sectional candidate, of Buchanan as the southern section al candidate, and of Fillmore as the Union na- tional candidate.
 This, every one will admit, is quite change in the tactics of the Know Nothings. From a freesoiler, they have converted MT. Buchanan into southern sectional candidate!
 The great and overshadowing issue of the campaign is the Kansas N ehraska bill. Ere mont is boldly opposed to the Missouri com promise and in favor of its restoration. He is therefore opposed to the Kansas bill and for its repeal. MT. Buchanan occupies position di- rectly antagonistic to that of Fremont He n- dorses the Kansas N ebraska bill is opposed to its repeal, indorses the repeal of the Missouri com promise and is against its restoration. Buchanan and Fremont are thus directly antagonistic. Of MT. FillmOre's position we are not so certain. He is himself undccided-a milk aud water-a half and half, candidate. He denounces the Kansas bill. He denounces the repeal of the Missouri compromise but leaves us uncertain whether he would sanction its restoration or not As far as denunciation of the Kansas bill goes he stands side by side with John c. Fremont He even goes farther He denounces the bill because, he says, it was " boon to the south.'
 So far as Fillmore has expressed himself, he is with the black republicans against the south. As to his future course, upon which he has been prudently silent, We can only judge of it by his past. During his whole service in Con- gress he always, invariably, voted with the abo- litonsts. As President he was opposed to the veto power. If the black republicans should obtain majority in both the Senate and House, and should pass laws odious to the south, we have every reason to believe they would ac- cord with his anti-slavery feelings, while he would decline to veto them because he is op- posed to the exe ercise of the veto power. Mr. Fillmore, therefoe, aoo'tM not make sate P,esi- dent tor the souU.
 But the southern Know Nothings charge that Mir. Buchanan is southern sectional ca,d:- datei This charge will not injure Mir Buchan- an or the democratic party here at the south. Why then is it made? Why is it repeated and reiterated all over the Union? The req son can only be found in the fact that the Know Nothings have concede the south to Mir. Buchanan. and the only hope to defeat him is, by this charge. To destroy hiniin every northern State. Hence their tactics. The charge Is the same one preferred by the aholi- tiOnists from the beginning. The southern Know Noshings now join in the cry. Mir. Bu- chananAn is a southern sectional candidate!
 Let she southern people reflect upon this sin g1laF fact If the country can be brought to regard MT. Buchanan as a sectsoaaal caBdidate, hs wii hs dsleAlea. and the result lr the elsotsan og she 4bolitoHiss, John ( r 4t. NJ Buchanan is the only nation. mar the ooatest lie anI Fremont 0eoup I'd. P op- pssssis aa4 conflicting positions. u.. -olds th&l Congress has power over the s4- sct of slavery iu the territories. Mr. Buchanan holds that that power belongs solely to the papls of tAe ler.tor.es. Mr Fillmore occupies simply a m.dile position, (rsgardlns his position in the most favorable lisht,l because he would not sxrrcss bis veto to defeat bill by Congress upon the subject of slavery. He would not, by his veto, protect the rights of the south.
 Such are the positions of the several candi- dates. Mir. Buchanan is a national man; but if pledges to protect the rights and privi- leges of the people of the fifteen southern States constitute sectionalsm he is then sec tional candidate. If the absence of such pledges constitute nationality, Mr. Fillmore is the man, and the south has no use tor him or his notioma- hy.