Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-14
WOULD THE SOUTH HAVE THE CONTROL
OF MIR. BUCHANAN?

and well-meaning people, who are opposed to
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, indig
nant at the outrages in Kansas, and hostile to
the extension Of Slavery, who are supporting
JAMES BUCHANAN, because they have been made
| to believe that the candidate of the Cincinnati
Convention, being a Northern man, would not
favor the plans of the Savery-propagandists.-
Particularly in this region is pains taken to as
| sert that Mr. BUCHANAN is a friend of Free
| dom.
Men who believe this are allowing them
selves to be duped and deceived. The pro-
ceedngs of the Convention which placed Mr..
| Buchanan in nomination show that the Slave
power controlled and dictated everything, can
ddate and platform. Mr.. Buchanan has
placed himself unreservedly upon that platform;
nay, more, he has sunk himself in the platform,
and those who support him support the plat
form. We need hardly say what that platform
| is. 1t was made as Objectionable to the North
as could be.
1t will not be denied that Mr. BUCHANAN
is supported at the South on the ground that
he has always been true to the interests of Sla-
very AS the Richmond Enquirer forcibly ex.
presses it. L" he never uttered word nor gave
a vote that could pain the most sensitive Sou
thern heart" Not only is he thus supported
at the South, but it is well understood that if
elected it will be by the united South, with
just enough Northern votes to make him sue
cessful We ask any candid man, will there
be anything to be expected for Freedom from
a man elected under such circumstances He
will 90 into the Presidential chair by the votes
of the Shareholders He will be surrounded
by that Slavery influence which seems potent
enough to chill and blast every emotion of JUS
tice and moderation in our Chief Magistrates
He will necessarily have for his advisers the
same men who have misled Pierce. 1t is not
concealed, that there is powerful clique at
Washington intent only on the extension and
aggrandizement of Slavery, composed of both
Southern and Northern men. This party is
| led by DOUGLAS, TooMBs, BUTLER STEPHENS,
and others of the same class, and supported
by number of camp-followers from the North,
who hope by being subservient to the behests
! of Slavery to merit some reward.
This influence predominates in the Senate
No President who counts the favor of the South
could stand a moment before the pressure it
would exert. The least symptom of yielding
to Northern sentiment would bring down upon
BUCHANAN, or any other man who looked to
this influence for support, such storm of de-
nuncation, as wouldappal anybody but JACK
SON. Is there any reason to believe that BC-
CuANAN possesses the qualities necessary to
withstand such an ordeal? On the contrary,
he is distinguished for his want of nerve and
and purpose, for his irresolution and vascilla-
ton for his trucking and time-serving, and for
the gracefulness and ease with which he pla-
ces himself upon any platform made for him.
We need not prognosticate as to the future
| to satisfy ourselves as TO what would be Mr.
BUcHANAN's course in the Presidential chair
The political history of the past, shows on his
part degree of profigacy more dsgraceful if
possible, than exhibited by PIERCE. Origi-
nally, he was an avowed anti-slavery man.
From that he mounted his favorite hobby, the
Missouri Compromise, which (says the Rieh-
n,ond Enquirer was regarded as an extreme
concession to the just demands of the South"
After the passage of the Compromise measures
of 1850, Mr.. Buchanan wrote a letter to
CHASE, maintaining the inviolability of the
Missouri Compromise. Absent when that Com
promise was repealed he kept silent, as far as
the public was aware, until the South demand
ed of him as q candidate, his adhesion to that
gross violation of our National faith, when he
spurned the hobby he had been riding so long,
and in his letter to SIlDELL fully endorsed that
unparalleled villainy. We repeat that such a
| exhibition of utter and indecent truckli ng to
the South has never been known in all the an
nails of Northern recreancy
Mr.. BUCHANAN has no excuse for this dis
graceful and unparalleled apostacy. He has
already seen his three score years and ten-
He had acquired some reputation in long,
though not very brilliant public life. He should
have hesitated before he allowed hisinsatiable
ambition to lead him into a step which sullied
his reputation, and placed him side by side,
with Pierce and Douglas. But the desire to
be President has proved too strong for Mr.
BUCHANAN, and his name swells the list of those
prostituted by Slavery from their consistency
and their duty.
Mr.. BUcHANAN's devotion to Southern in
terests has been manifested in his attempt to
acquire Cuba for the shareholders. When
Secretary of State he intrigued for the pur-
chase of the island, offering millions of the
peoples money for the aggrandizement of sla-