The daily union., 1856-04-08
THE NEW YORK TINES AND Mr.. BUCHANAN.

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THE NEW YORK TINES AND Mr.. BUCHANAN.
nuns not 10 be expected that Mr. Buchanan any more
than other eminent democratic statesmen whose names
associated with presidential nomination, would escape
bs malignant assaults of abolitiouis sud kBow-nothings
II they are made upon him witt less violence and direct
neSs than upon Others they not the less malicious
false because they are insdiou The New York Times Of
Friday last deyoes th@n column 10 this covert mode
Of warfare on NJ BuchsRsn which has stopped 10 bor
row and adopt mainly from the knownohing organ iu
this city, II Is only necessary to alude briefly 70 he
chnrgcs Of the TIMES show The magny q the assa-
anis whether Is principals or endorsers
The FIRST specification h that Mr. BuchanaR was attached
the federal party ia the early part Of his life What honest
motive Times have for aking up charge hatwas
long since threadbare and thrown aside unsya
able BY his whig opponents? If the democrats satisfied
to trust Mr. Bschanans fidelity after than thirty
years unwayerng fidelity their principles they have
repeatedly shown Why should who has descended from
whggery aboltonism manifest any concern Mr. Bu-
chaasn is not candidate for abolition nomination
The insnuaon Of the Times relates to the Connex-
ion Of Mr. Buchanan with the difficulty between General
Jackson and Mr. Clay in 1924 the charge of bargan
and intrigue The intnaton is that Mr. Buchanan failed
10 sustain Genera jackson in that matter and yet The
Times writes down its Standardization when SAYS
afterwards in the article that General jackson in
1882 appointed Mr. Buchanan as minister 10 Russia Does
any suppose TINT If General jackson had not been
satisfied with Mr. Buchanan's conduct in that affair be
would have given him marked evidence Of his
confidence
The Times goes still lower down in the depths of malg
Il tl,a
h of July Grafton Mr. Buchanan once said that be had
drop Of democratic blood in his veins he would open
vein and let il ont IL saidths is the battery from
behind which honest sandered If The Times
give responsible author for this falsehood is no
better predeament than the author himself But why
should the Times feel concerned fish up from the
Of caumny this loug-snce-exploded charge? 1t viii not
do for that journal TO say that the repetition Of these
charges whether false excites only good-naured
in the controversies Of former day The mace
that insdgpted their repetition by the Times is but poor
ly concealed by its hypoertcal apology.
The main charge, however, made by the Times is that
ION the slavery question Mr. Buchanan has party
pediency his higher law This charge is based upon The
assumption that in 1920 be warmly opposed exclusion
Of slavery from the territory north OF the Missouri line
and because in ls47 be wrote his Beks letter in which
he advocated the extension Of the Missouri line the Pa
chc the simple and equitable mode Of settling the
slavery question: and because the Times anticipates that
be viii take early occasion place himself thoroughly
upon the KansasNebraska platform II is worthy Of re-
mark that in the number OF the Times in which this
effort made suspicion upon Mr. Bucsanans posi-
tion telegraphe announcement that "ths Union To-
viii contain letter from the Hon James Buchan-
dated the 2Sih December in which be declares that
the Missouri Compromise is dead and gone and asserts
that the Nebraska bh is the only basis upon which The
slavery question be seed-that be adhered
At All hazards and every faced that Be brought
against il
The mon did contain such letter, but that
Tie first time that Mr. Buchanan declared the Missouri
Compromise dead and gone In the great struggle
the Wmo proVso from s47 to 1850 Mr. Buchanan stood
alongside Of the great body Of southern in advocating
the extension Of the Missouri line the Pacific This prop
osou made again and again in both houses Of Con-
gross and uniformly supported BY the South. It
uniformly rejected BY the North the honorable exceptions
being few. The struggle resulted the adoption Of the
Compromise Of 1885, after ali hope Of passing the Nis-
souTi Compromise abandoned. Then commenced the
great contest in which the question was whether the
Compromise Of 1850 should be sustained and ratified BY
The people final settlement The southern men who
lad 0PPoscd X and had insisted on the Missouri O0mpro-
mise determined 10 join with its original friends and to
r'ty i a. FINAL settlement Of the slavery question Mr.
buchanan did the thing and united heartily in
tanning the COmPromse Of 1850 In his celebrated letter
. t0s Union meeting Philadelphia dated November r.
1850, be wrote follows:
defeat q the Wnoi proviso and The passage
tluVesiave Law all that the South have obtained by
ne compromise They asked for the Missouri Compromise
which Il s known that for one always wiling 70 con.
cos believing this woula be the just equitable and
Escory arrangement n the territorial question between
'o' North and the south ba that Las passsd ovay"
In The opinion Of Mr. Buchanan the Missouri Compro-
mise Pa''sd array when the Compromise of 1850 wa,
adopted He joined The southern men, who had preferred
the 1ssour Compromise he had done and contributed
% hs triumph IN which the people ratified the Comproiss
:" 1850 Vow respectfully submit that it Il the gross.
- injustice 70 charge Mr.. Buchanan with making party
'eaency h higher law the slavery question upon
'ooh 'ee a. these The charge may ss wen be mad,
against 'he great body q southern men who insisted on
he missouri Oompromise but when the North refused 20
oOncede Il the South determined to ncauiese in the grst
principle of the Nebraska bin and held the North tt n
a final settlement