Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-06-21
MI. Buchanan's Record.

ratification meeting:
My friends, | find that these black re-
publican oratorsand black republican news
papers have already begun to shed croco-
die tears over my own humble fate
(laug )--because they say that the Con-
vention erected Douglas platform, and
then put Buchanan On it. (Applause.) /
wish to invite your attention for moment
to this point, and see whether that plat
form is not Buchanan platform as well
as a Douglas platform. (Cries Of Yes, =
"ves.') They say that it is q Douglas
pla form, because it has endorsed every
position that have taken, not only upon
the slavery question and the Kansas aud
Nebraska question. but also upon the ques-
ton Of our foreign policy. "a voice
Good for you.e That is true, and De-
cause it is true entered tins campaign
with heart and soul, ready TO devote all
my energies 10 the success ,os the
platform and the candidates who stand
apah it. Great cheering and APP
i plause) Nav, my friends, if you will lis
ten Cor moment TO a brief historical reel.
tai, Evil show YOU that James Buchanan
and myself baYe occupied fer years past
ever since came into public life, precise
~ the same position upon this slavery
question from the beginning to the end
Bear IN mind that i'll 1915 Congress passed
all act for the annexation OF Texas to this
republic; and il YOU viii look at the jour
pals of Congress you will find that oifer-
ed The proposition to extend the Missouri
compromise line through Texas indefinite
IL, as far as the Territory should extend.
That act passed with that provision in it,,
and Mr.. buchanan, who was in Mr. Poill's
Cabinet al the time, approved OF it. Ap.
p!ause.l IN the course OF events, war be-
t@een Mexico and the United States grew
out of il, the justice Of wht!i Rlr. Bnchan-
AZ, asserted, as member of Mr.. Pokss
Cabinet; and I maintained in the House
speech, and my every act as REPRESENTA-
tive of my State. Great appause.) When
there came a probability that by that war
we would acquire territory from Mexico,
Mr.. " llmot of Pennsy lvapia, on the 9Th
Of August, 1916, offered a proposition to
prohibit slavery in all the territory we
might acquire from Mexico. If that prop
osltion had been adopted there would
have been no territory acquired. IT was a
proposition to disgrace this county by fore
ing us to withdra our armies from Next
co, and make peace with her without
getting Justice for our wrongs. Do you
suppose that Southern man would have
j been craven enough to have voted to rati-
IS a treaty containing a clause insulting his
own section, his own people, and his ov n
State rights. when it was made as an insult
| TO them' And yet the treaty could not
have been approved without a two-thirds
vote, at a time when the slaveholding and
/ free States were exactly tied in the Senate.
Knowing that the object of Mr.. Wilmot,
IN Offering the proposition, was to force US
to an inelorious and ignomiuious peace
with foreign power, resisted it with all
my might, and offered in lieu of it an
amendment TO extend me Missouri COM
promise line of So deg. so min. to the Pa
| clfic ocean in the same sense and with
the same understanding with which 1t was
originally adopted. Ia October, 1917,
James Buchanan addressed letter to the
! Harvest Home Celebration Of Bucks coun-
~, Pennsyivanla, in which, he urged the
extension of that same line of 36 deg. go
mln., called the Missouri compromise, 10
the Pacific ocean, in the same manner as |
had proposed.
Here the the speaker was again inter-
rupted by The loud and long continued APP
plause which greeted The appearance OF
the Tenth Ward Buchanan aud Breckin-
ridge Club preceded by a band Of music,
and banner bearing he inscri ption,
democrats Forever" Hating in front
Of the platform ,heg unfured the stars and
stripes atiidsi the cheers of The crowd
Hardly bad the applause subsidized before
another delegation, in solid pialanx. press
ed its way through the crowd which prov
ed to be a delegation from the Buchanan
aud Breckenridge Club. Their banner, as
il was held aloIt to The gaze of the crowd,
eou,aining the inscription, 1--WE have
Polk-ed them, we haze pierce-cd them,
and now we have Buck.ed them" was
greeted with the most rapturous cheering /
Order beng again restored, Mr.. Doug-
las resumed, amid great ehee,ing, hisre-
marks, as follows When | WAS inter
,up.el 10y the procession which has Just
passed, | was saying that in October, 1877,
James Buchanan wrote his celebrated
Harvest Home" letter, in which he de-
clared in favor Of the extension Of the
Missouri compromise line 10 the Pacific
ocean as dividing line between free and
slave territory.
! At this point the CRY WAS that there was
a child lost, and little bright eyed sell6v.
some five years old, was passed over tl.r
heads of the crowd to the front Of the
platform, where he was held up by Mr..
Douglas, who sdid "Iereis Young kmer-
lea" Laughter aud cheers.
Alter tins little episode Mr. Douglas
again resumed In the month of August
introduced in the Senate Of the United
States an amendment to the Oregon bill,
TO carry out the proposition Of Mr.. Buc :
hanan IN the Harvest Home letter, to ex.
tend the compromise line to the Pacific
ocean, in the same sense and with the
same understanding witt, which it was
originally adopted. That proposition was
passed by the Senate, went to the House,
and was rejected there by abolition and
free soil votes. Three groans were here
called for and given for the, free soileIs.
Don't groan, my friends that sounds too
much like Know Nothing music. Laugh
ter. The House of Representatives re-
.eeted that proposition by almost section
al vote, by Northern votes, composed OF