Litchfield enquirer., 1856-07-17
C9e Gittbdelo Gnquirer
Litchdsld, Conn., Thursday July r, 1866.
Buchanan is committed for Slavery.

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 Whatever may have been the inference at the time, from the defeat of Pierce and Doug las at the Cincinnati Convention, and the se- lection, as standard-bearer for the coming cam paign, of a man who has not even the smell of smoke upon him, there can be no mistake aoec, that the new leader is committed to the pro gressive, slaye-extending, freedom-curtang policy of Pierce and his coadutors The hopes that may have been entertained by the old con servative men of the country of both parties, that with Mr. Buchanan in the presidential chair, the country was safe, have been dissipated as suddenly as they were raised. Mr. E. ac ceEts the nomination without dissenting to a single plank iu the platform ; he swallows it entire with all it's consequences, Under his administration, if elected, are we to see carried forward with increased energy and zeal, the crusade that Pierce has waged against freedom in Kansas. He is committed to the extension of slavery, wherever, in the Territories, slave holder may choose to take his slave His plat form is " NoN-IETEEFE2ESCE with SLAVERY ill State and Territory, or in the District of Co., unba" but INTERFERENCE WITH FREEDOM, ANY WHERE, EVERYWHERE, IN STATES and IN TERRI TORIES, BY ALI. THE MEANS WHICH HE CAN CON- MASD AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE NATION. This has been the policy of the pres ent Administration, and to the same policy is Mir. Buchanan pledged.
 In his speech at Lancaster, (Pa, ) to the Keystone Club June 9th, he makes the most lips of a Presidential candidate. He says |: '' Being the representative of the great demo cratic party, and not simply James Buchanan, l must square my conduct according to the platform of that party and insert no new plank, nor take one from it." He here sinks the in divdua in the party. He is no longer James Buchanan, an independent, free-thiuking, free acting man. Henceforth he has no thoughts. no words, no actions which are his own He opens his Fps but by consent of his guardians. He contesses, he can add nothing to, nor take aught from the platform on which they have placed him. There he must stand and Ike an automaton, go through with the motions of a
 living being, as he is played upon by Douglas and others.
 Pierce and Douglas take infinite pains in their speeches at the ratification meetings to have it clearly understood that their whole pol icy has been endorsed by the Cincinnati Con- vcnt!on and that Buchanan is bound to carry
 1t out. There is a secret, malignant gratitica- tIon manifested by these disappointed aSpirantS, in their saddling poor Buchanan with load which they know will sink him to the low depths to which they have fallen. They are to be his leaders and advisers and, if, in revenge for his success and their discontinue, they do not at tempt to make him as odous to the peo;lc as they have become human nature must have wonderfully changed. With Buchanan, then, tm the presidential chair, what can We expect more or better than We have had the last four years? \ change of democrats don't bring change of pol:cy-and it is radical change of policy that our country needs. We can hope for no improvement in the present state of af- fairs, so loag as Slave Democracy rules. The people have dccrced change and it is useless to attempt to resist 1t with such man as Buchanan.