Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-08-22
From the Philadelphia American Banner.l
Memoir of James Buchanan.
FACTS AND FIGURES FOR THE
PEOPLE.

FACTS AND FIGURES FOR THT
PEOPLE
We have RETAINED from saying ough
against Mr.. Buchanan, calculated to iniurt
his prospects Of nomination. If we had {
wish, it was to see him occupy his presen
position. that honest Democrats might see fol
themselves, to what shifts the dcmagogues
of that misnamed party Would resort Fol
changing and shutting, sycophaney and time
serving, blowing hot and cold, and adapta-
ton TO the varying shades and hues of politi
cal chances, we venture the assertion that
James Buchanan csccls the vilcst trucker
that ever made politics a raae.
This history, we take from the Lancaster
(Pa.) AAlerican Citizen, paper published
at the home of Buchanan, where his friends
would be prompt to detect and expose the
smallest error of this truthful narrative OF
his vascilatlng, slufllng, seven-sided, Janus
faced career. The history is credited to the
PennsV'rand7.. and is most truthfully re-
viewed by the editor of the citizen, who is
familiar with his history, and who challen-
ges contradiction upona single point The
reviewer quotes and proceeds to comment as
follows:
.sAIr. Buchanan is in the sixty-ffth year
Of his age, and in the vigor Of health, intel
loctually and physically
In 1852, Mr. Buchanan in letter to citi-
zons Of Bradford county, put in the plea that
he was too old to make them t; speech
more than sixty years, and asked for san
honorable discharge - How unkind to force
him into the Presidential harness. Again ::
'.Ile was born in the county of Franklin,
in the State of Pennsylvania, Of honest and
Industrious parents, and may truly be called
the architect of his own fortunes. Having
received good education, he studied the pro-
fession Of law, in the county of Lancaster,
in the same state, which has ever since been
his home. In 1874 and 1915 he was elected
to the State Legislature, where he distin-
guishcd himself by those exhibitions of in
tcllcct which gave promise of future emf
nonce.'
So he was elected to the Legislature, but
why not state by ,ehom? Wewill supply the
record for 1915.
ASSEMBLY.
James Buchanan, FEDERAL, 305l
Motion c, Rogers, DEMOCRAT, 2502
Again
"ln 1920, James Buchanan was elected to
the House OF Representatives, and retained
his position in that body for ten years, vol
unfairly retiring after the first Congress un-
der the administration OF Andrew jackson. y
Ten years in Congress as a Democrat, We
suppose, but let us examine the record and
see
CONGRESS.
lS20-Jamcs Buchanan. FEDERAL, 4G42
Jacob ii}sham, DEMOCRAT, 3G66
lS22-Jamcs Buchanan, FEDERAL, 2l53
:. Jacob liibsham, DEMOCRAT, 1910
lSlI-.Iamos Buchanan FEDERAL. 1866
Samuel Houston, DEMOCRAT, 3046
lSo6-.Iames Buchanan. FEDERAL, 2160
DR.. John McCamant. DEMOCRAT, 23ol
lS2S-,Jamcs Buchanan. Jackson, 52O3
:. William Hester. ADAMS, 1904
VA INC itii vi ouiN I'io' WI Dueii'i'Si; ;
when he was Il candidate for Assembly on
the Federal ticket, delivered ''an oration'
in Lancaster, in which he showed his love of
Federalism and hdtred of Democracy, by at
tacking the administratio of james Madison.
lie said
Time will not allow me to enumerate all
the other WILD and WICKED projects Of the
Democratic Administrative. Suffice it to say
that after they had deprived lis Of the means
of defence, by destroying onr nary and DIS
Janding ou" army; after they had taken
away from us the power of recruiting them,
by running commerce, the great source Of our
national and individual wealth, after they
had, by refusing the Bank Of the United
States a continuance Of aS charter, embarrass-
ed the financial concerns OF the government,
and withdrawn the only unieersd paper medi-
una Of the country from eirculati0n after the
people had become unaccustomed to, and, of
course, unwilling to bear taxation, and with
out money in the Treasury, they rashly
pistnged hemSelrcS into a lcar lcith nation
more able to do as injury than any other in
the corH. What was the dreadful necessity
for this desperate measure? Was our coun-
iT} lHNdQcu W. w do ~ w iioeSNe oti iAl
tie remaining commerce from the injuries it
sustained by the orders in council? No.
Commerce was no such a flvorite, and The
merchants wished for no ,car on that account. y
And then again, speaking Of foreigners he
remarks
"Thc greater part of those foreigners seho
,couM be thus a6ectedb By 1t, hare tong been the
,carmest friends Of the Democratic Party.
They had been one Of the great means Of ele-
rating the present ruling Uemocraticl Party,
and it would have been ungratcful for that
party to have abandoned them. To secure
this foreign feeling has been the labor Of then
leaders for more than tocnty years, and we'll
have they paid for their trouble, for ii has
been one Of The principal causes Of introducing
and continuing them IN potcer. Immediately
before the war this foreign influence had COM
pletely embodied itself with the majority
particulorly IN the West, and its voice was
heard so loud at the seat of government that
President Madison was obliged either to yield
to its dictates, or retire from office. The
choice was easily made bya man mho preferr-
ed HIS PRIVATE INTERESTS to the pubic good,
and therefore hurried us into war utterly un-
prepared"
And then again
"We ought to use every honest cxertion to
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