The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-06-28


A day or two sgo " rsferssd 70 the fact
hat Gov. Wise. Of yirginis, IN aepeech at
the Bachanaa Ratifcstion meeting ia Rich
nend. said : principal.a ad dssirsble eense-
susHee Of Mrso 0chas6ns siesbsn ~osld b
to nise the rpUce Of aserses. The scllow-
ing l. IN extract from sAat spssch,--
~But they Of the Moth already reacAsd
the Pacific in he Northwest. We wanted
territory in the Southwest TO perssyve the
equilibrium Of slave power In the Union.
This We had Acquired By ths saaexaaiea,
and it, pro-slsvery phase would have been
preserved by running the Missouri line to
the Pacific. Mr.. Polk contended it did 30
sxtsAd-ewrybody else except Mr.. Cal.
houn, 90 commended; but in spite of friend
or foe he Offered his amendment to the Ore
gon bill. which conceded that il did not 80
extend, and he--not JaGes Buchansn-lost
the value Of the extension TO the South, He
made il q geographical line, applying only
to territory acquired from France and Spain.
Mr.. Buchanan and Polk, and myself and all
others, urged il over . clinatcry line, and
did u TO the Pacific. To concede other
wise. was to put our hands in the lions
mouth of = majority-wss to concede that
we had not the 6xed fact of the line TO che
Paciic-and was to leave Us 10 the mercy
Of 4 majority aeainst us. We were in =
minority, and of c0urse would be voted
down without that admission. The eoet OF
not running that line TO the Psc.hc may be
valued thus to Virginia: We nov get =
thousand dollars for . sound slave; we would
then have gotten RON three to I'VE thous-
and dollars for an operative Ia the gold
mines Of California; 100000 multiplied BY
hys thousand, or even three Thousand, will
ehow our immense loss. One billion Of dol
lars would not compensate Virginia for her
loss in not running the line OF to the Pa.
ci6c. The North had fxsd the line. They
had the advantage Of it until annexation
1t was then our turn, and We did not take il.
| That vas not Mr.. Buchanan's fault. Had
it 90 been 6xed, aebo shins and gixzard feet"
| couldn't have poked their noses North into
the dominion OF Jack Frost, but then free.
OF that line, a. il has aimee the compromises
of 1850. Yet, though thus proposed by the
South and BY Buchanan, the phafisees and
hyPocrites who are now bowling over the
| repeal of the Missouri compromise, were
1 L1f very tAEn " pRRODr VIZ NAkSdatSH ~ "a,
Missouri line, and to making il . fixed
fact"
1t is a lsmentshle proof of the extent 70
which people may be influenced BY party
| preiudices, that such abominabls sentiments
a. are uttered in the above extract, are not
Indignantly and Immediately denounced by
every freeman in the country. The Gov
ernor Of the State which was mainly instru-
mental in nominating Mr.. Buchanan, has
the unblushiag hardihood to state that one
Of the main reasons for desiring and advo-
eating the election Of Buchanan. is that the
policy he has pursued would have the effect
of raising the price of a human being from
one thousand to three or I'VE thousand dol.
lars. Virginia, according TO Wise, has al
ready lost q billion Of dollars because ths
policy Of Buchanan has not yet been adoP
ted. And this man, the n,minee of TIL
slsse-breeding party of Virginia, is pre-
scented for the SURFACES OF Northern free
men, and it is expected they will vote 10
him because his election would raise th'
price Of negroes. That is the one idea,-
for it and slavery extension are ~synoncmous
NOW advocated by the once renowne'
Democratic party. IL is no wonder that .,
many honest men, who still believe in III,
doctrines laugh, by Jefferson and Madison
are refusing to degrade themselves by com
plying with the demands of the slavery
propagandist. Ten years ago, who couls
have predicted that in 1856 the Democratic
candidate would be supported on the GROUND
that his election would raise the price O
negroes. But such is the shameful as vel
as suggestive fact.