Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10
VOL. XVI.
Facts for the People.


at great expense and labor, cleaned from
the public records, and other reliable sourc
es, the following facts in relation to the
pending canvass. Every statement here
made, may be depended upon with the ut
most confidence
lst. James Buchanan commenced his
publie career as blue-light alien and Sc
dition law federalist; and as such, in his
first public demonstration, denounced Mr.
Madison, the war of 1912, and the Repub-
lican party of that day.
ID At the same time he applauded the
federal administration of John Adams.
3d. He is the great grand-daddy of the
Know Nothing party, having denounced
foreignism so early as 1915, and declared
that it was one of the principal causes OF
the war of 1872 He asserted that Mad
ison preferred his private interest to the
public good, and hurried into the war en-
tireIy unprepared for its exigencies; thus
unblushingly slandering one of the purest
patriots the country has ever produced.
4th. At the same time he declared that
the Democracy had exceedingly embarrass-
ed the country, and declared himself in
favor of making large quantities of whis-
kew, because the distillers created ready
market for corn and cattle.
9TH 1t is a fact that James Buchanan
volunteered in the war of 1872, and shoul-
dered his musket to fight the cnemy-af-
ter the British had left the country.
9th In 1919 Mr.. Buchanan made his
first public demonstration against the
South in his Lancaster resolutions, in which
he earnestly requested the Representatives
and Senators in Congress from Pennsylva-
MIA, to use their best exertions against the
extension OF slavery into new States and
Territories, and declared that those mem
bers had sustained the cause of Justice,
humanity and patriotism, who had endea-
vOred to prevent the introduction of slave
~ into Missouri
1th- On the 11th of April, 1926, in his
place in the House of Representatives, he
declared that slavery was great political
and Il great moral ecI, and thanked God
that his lot had been cast in 4 State where
j: did not exist. and that it was A CURSE
rF0E THE NATION.
Sth- On the 9th of December, 1927,
be voted TO amend Mr.. Calhoun's resolu-
yans, 50 as to allow the priestly fanatics of
ne North, to agitate from the pulpit, mo-
r.iiy and religiously, @ for the abolition
5i slavery
9Th In 1914 he voted for the annexa-
ton OF Texas, and gave as reason for his
vote that it would have the effect of re-
s;ricting, not enlarging, the area of slave
~, and make free States out of Mary yland,
Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri
lOth- In 1913 he wrote his letter to
Thaddeus Sanford, OF Mobile, In which he
declared in favor of the Wilmot Proviso,
and that Congress had sovereign power over
the subject of slavery in The territories.
llth- But in 1856, being apprehensive
that it would be somewhat difficult t, get
both Houses Of Congress to legislate against
slavery at the same time, he came out. in
his letter of acceptance, an taror of Squat
Ter Sorereigaty, declaring that the people
Of Territory, like those of a State, shall,
decide for themselves, whether slavery
shall or shall not exist within its limits.
18th Mr. Buchanan has declared for
Squatter Sovereignty, because he knows
that 1t is a surer mode of excluding the
South from any participation in the terri
tories than the Wilmot Proviso. John G..
Calhoun said it was worse than the Will
mot Proviso, and the most monstrous doc
nne ever advanced by an American States
man. The Democratic Conventions of Al
abama and Virginia, in 1913, declared that
It Was as indefensible in principle, and as
dangerous in practice, as Wilmot Proviso-
Ism, and that they would never support
any candidate for the Presidency that was
In favor of it And the Richmond Enqui-
rer, one of the ablest Democratic papers in
the Union, said that Squatter Sovereignty
vas an lmpOsture, counterfeit copy, an
ugly idol wrought by mems hands, and
should be kicked off the pedestal where it
SITS In mock majesty, and courts the admi-
Fatlon of fools and demagogues.
18TH About the time that Mr. Bucha-
nan made his now celebrated anti Madison,
ahtl-War, and anti-DemOcrafic 4th of July
ration IN Lancaster, he made that famous
declaration which sticks to him like the
poisoned shirt of Nessus, that if he thought
ne had drop of Democratic blood in his
'elns, ne would open them and let it out
I4th- In 1S24-5, after he had failed to
induce Mr. Clay to give his influence to
zen jackson, by his brilliant offer of the
seeretaryship of State, he started that
iOul and infamous SANDER of bargain and
corruption against one of the purest states
men that ever lived; and poisoned the
nmd of Gen. Jackson against him for ma
ny long years
10TH In 1928 he voted for what has
been termed the black tariff of that year,
tae highest tariff that has ever been enac-
led, and that which gave rise to nulifca-
ton in South Carolina.
10th In 1874 he induced Pennsylvania
70 vote for Mr.. Polk, by telling the Dutch
mat he was better tariff man than Mr..
Clay. -
17th- In 1910 he made his low wages
speech, in which he advocated the reduc-
u01 of the nominal price of wages to the
real standard throughout the world, sys-
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