New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-07

thy oppose and greatly prefer that they should bs
men Of unsullied reputation and competent ability.
1t gives us pleasure to recognize in the CINCINNATI
nomine for President a man respectable 10
every personal relations good citizen and neigh.
bora man Of fair talents and unsullied private
character. Profoundly realizing that Mr. Buch-
aDans election would be in the highest degree dis
astrous to our country and prrjudiciL to the ad-
vance Of Freedom End Justice throughout the
world, We rejoice that Our opposition to him will
be tiDged BY 10 shade Of personality, and that, 10
opposing the politician whom an overmsstering love
of power and place has led sstray, We wage no war
on the maD.
Nor do we seek to disparage the strength Of Mr..
Buchanan as a candidate. True. be il not q man
calculated to achieve personal popularity. Frosty
in manner if not in heart, he will never attract
and secure such troops Of friends" as the men
Of impusive, electric nature, like Jackson or Clay.
He is the embodiment of worldly prudeoce and
unfalteriDg discretion. His Federalism, which
might seem chivalric and defiant, was just the
contrary. Though Pennsylvania and the Union
were Democratic, Lancaster County was Federal,
he necessarily looked for his first steps up the po-
litical lacder. He was elected to the State Legis-
lature as Federalst by q Federal constituency;
and it was TO that cons atuency he appealed when,
at the date Of his frat aspirations to seat in Con-
gre.s be made Carefully prepared Fourth of-Jaly
Grafton (lS15), wherein he spoke Of Mr. Madison's
rule as follows:
10 arata aat tba oil
wild and wicked prof, cts of this Administration Suf
fee it to say that after they had deprived US Of the
means Of defense, by destroying our navy and ois
banding our army; after they had taken away from
the power of recruiting them, by running commerce,
the q eat Of national and individual wealth.
after they bad by refusing the Bank of tue United
States continuance of its charter, embarrassed the
financial concerns Of the Government, and WITHDRAWN
the Only unive sal paper medium of the country from
crculatioD after the people hao become unaccnS,omed
TO- aJd Of course, unwilling to bear taxation ana Win
out money in the Treasury they rashy plunged Us INTO
war with nation more able 10 90 Us INJURY lhah any
other in the world. What was the dreadful necessity
for this desperate measure Was our country in-
vadeo No. Was it to protect our little remaining
from the juries it sustained by the orders
in cOurcil No. Commerce was no such favorlte,
and the merchants wished for 10 war on that account
In the same Ofation, he speaks OF Adopted
Citizens as the Hartford Convention had recently
spoken, and as bis party was then accustomed 10
speak of them-as follows:
"The greater part Of those foreigners who would De
thus affected by it. have long been the warmest friends
of the Democratic party. They had been one oil tue
ore at me ans of elevatDg the present ruling party ana
It would bave been ungra'efu for that parry 10 nave
abandoned them. To secure this foreign ieehng nas
been the labor of their leaders for more than twenty
wears and well have they been paid for their lot
il be of the principal causes OF anu
continuing them in power. Immediately before Tue
war; Il is foreign influence had completely embodied
.fSa HxF,fh mn nartl
ts voice heard loud at the seat OF Governmsnt
that Presdent Madison obliged either to yield to
it's Dictates or retiie fiom office. The cholce was
easily made by who preferred his private inter-
ests 10 the public good, and he therefore hurried US
into war utterly uDprepared.'
Ard again, returning to the subject:
1--WE ought TO use every honest exerton to turn out
of power those weak and wicked men whose wild and
vis.opary theories have been tested and found want
ing. Above ALL we ought to drive from our shores
foreign influence, and cherish American feeling
Foreign influence has been in every age the curse OF
Republics SITS jaunoiced eye sees everybOd in false
ccurs-he thick atmosphere of u0ice by which IT
is ever surrounded excluding from its sight the light OF
reason Let us then learn wisdom from experience,
and forever Danish this fend from our society
There has long heen a story current that, In
bis old Federal days. Mr.. Buchanan once declared
that If he supposed he had drop of Democratic
"blood in his veins, he would open them and let
~ out" We do not think any one who knew Mr..
B. can baye ever credited this tale. Though by
no means great man, he was never so simple nor
80 impetuOus as to use such al expression. There
is not man living more unlikely to make rash,
silly speeches than be lie.
Mr. Buchanan continued to act and rank himself
with the Federalists 80 lorg as their flag waved in
PENNSYLVANIA. As Federalist, he was three
times elected to COngress-twice after he had
become an active partisan of Gen. Jackson. He
was last chosen as Federast in 1896, beating
Democrat, who was also for jackson. In 1923,
he was for the ast time chosen to the House, but
now the old party lines had been effaced and he
was chosen as q Jacksonian without regard to
former distinctions
Mr.. Buchanan, in 1919, united in call for
public meeting in Lancaster TO demonstrate against
the aomis sion Of Missouri as a Slave State; in
1856, be favored the extension Of the Missouri
line across what was claimed to be Texas; in $780,
he wanted that line continued to the Pacific; now
he stands with those who condemn any restriction
on Slavery in the Territories as unconstitutional
His representatives at Cincinnati have just adopted
and he will undoubttd dy plant himself upon, Plat
form in which it is
Rsored That elsimI fellowship with, and desiring the
generation who regard the the Union
der the Constitution The paramount ssueand repudating
and platforms
which .eek TO bro the and ucts TO tea.on and
aimed resistance the Terroes and whose ayowed
mn, cor sun ted end IN civil and dsunos-
tbs American Democracy recognize and siopt the PRINCIPLES
in the garlic laws establishing the
and Nebraska emboying the ouIy sound and s.s
.utin Of the Slavery q1tsc upon which the great national
H,a OF the people Of this whole country
sJ 90 ,eryatm m Of the u-NoyISTERFgREycE BY
co>cKrss VIM SLAvERY IN STATE AND TERKIroRY or n
s,,o,rsd That recognize the night Of the people of all
,b n rritore incl Kansas and Nebaska through
~ r,y sId fairly expressed will Of majority Of th. sctus
,Ssnt. spd whenever the number u Their iuhs5an inst
80. ~ 10 form Constitution with without domestic slay
- - he admitted into the Union upo. term, Of perfect
..n.i,y with he other States.