Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-18
VOL. 2-NO. 81.
Mr.. Buchana.,. R.c.rs.

Mr. BuchamAnss Record.
Some of the Pennsylvania papers are already
beginning to dig up Mr.. Buchanan's record and
an ugly ono they make Of it. The following
brief notice. is from the Pennsylvania Advo
cate and Press s6 ez-
JAMES BrcmasAs's SrNuEKsrrs-No man
IN the United States has turned his political
coat as otter as James Buchanan. He has es-
! ponsed the principles Of every party tba. has
bad an existence since the memorable Hartford
Convention and has been on all lsides Of political
| questions.
brief reference to his history will establish
coae,usively our assertions.
HIS FEDERALisa.--He entered political life in
1914 as rank Federalist, and by the Federal
party he was elected to The, Legislature of tho
State. He was reelected in 1918, defeating
Motion c. Rogers, the Democratic candidate, and
afterwards one of the Supreme Judges Of the
United States. .=e4.st - lar 1fxs
In 1920 he was Federal candidate for Con.
gress, and was elected over Jacob Hilbsman tho
democratic candidate, By 676 majority IN 1922
no was reelected over the same man by SIS
majority In 1874 be Was the Federal candi-
date for Congress and elected over Samuel Hous.
ton the Democratic candidate, by blo yotes.-
In 1926 he was elected over Dr. John McCamant.
the Democratic candidate, by 45s votes His
majoriiies were becoming less each time, and in
order TO satisfy his federal friends Of his fidelity
to the party, he had to declare that s'if he bad
drop OF Democratic blood in his veins ke would
open them and letit oiii.n T7aGtss8 hsg3
He BEcoMEs A DEMocRAr.--Two wears after
this, he changed his coat and became a aful!.
hlooded Democrat, and ran for Congress as the
Democratic candidate, aud was elected By Virtue
OF General Jachson's popularity. He was afraid
to run second term and hc declined s5I.s
Hts TN GENr Spggcu.--ln ls43, in the Uni
the principle that Ten Gents was sdffilient
compensation for days labor. Hence he is
cIlled Ten Cent jimmy K. gsnegat
In 1915, he became Secretary of State under
Folks Adminf5 ration, and consented to give
away about htif the Territory OF Oregon TO the
British GoNetRInrnt, after he had proven that
they had not q spark of title to it. s.ei case
He extolied the federal Administration of
John Adams, and endorsed the a5ominabIe alien
and scdition laws of the federal reign Of terror
lie bitterly denounced the administration ofthat
pure Democrat, James Madiso,s, and ridienled
what he termed the follics OF Thomas jeff
erson. ~" tF '"HeS Mugs t.Affi' s'' f18
e HIS SLAVERY SuNNERsxrs --In 81 0 at meet
insin Lancaster, he reported resolutions f,voring
resistance to the extension of Slavery, and the
admission Of the State Of Missouri as a Slave
State. 5Ea| E- . |i--4s' 49, toe " 's'E
= In iS47 he wrote to the Democracy of Bcrks
county, saying that the Missouri Compromise
had given peace TO the country, and that instead
of repeating it, he was in favor of its extension
and maintenance. 'Fst ''' '' tS-t
In 1850, in n letter to Col Forney, rejoicing
over the settlement of the slavery agitation, by
the passage OF the Compromise Measures during
tillmores administration, and hoping that be-
lore n dissolution OF the Union, he might be
gathered to his fathers, and never be permitted
to witness the catastrophe. 81 ~ .~--
In 1850 Ec wrote TO Mr.. Leake, Of Virginia,
concerning tie Fillmore compromise measures
OF 1850, which had bdcn passed by Congress
and said: "the volcano has been extingulshed,
and any man who would apply the fire and brand
to the combustible materians still remaining, will
produce an eruption that will overthrow the
Constitution and the Union" Well, Mr. Pierce
was ''the man" who at later period, with the
assistance OF the dough-faced Douglas, disturbed
these Compromise measures, repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and re-opened the agitation
of slavery.
HIS LAST the 2Sth of Decem-
Der, 1855, about five months ago, Mr. Buchanan.
n letter to John Slidell, of Louisiana, says:
The Missouri Compromise is gone, and gone
forever. 1t has departed. The time for it has
passed away, and the best, nay, the only mode
now left of putting down the reckless spirit of
the North, is to adhere to the existing settle
ment without the slightest thought or appear
ancc of waveriug, and without regarding any
storm which may be raised against it,"
The ''fanatical and reckless spirit of the
North" consists in tho denial of the old Calhoun
doctrine that the Constitution carries slavery with
1t into the territories. This is the issue on
which old Buck now goes before the people.
The NEW YORK HERALD ON THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELEcTIoN--In the New York Herald. of Thurs.
day, there is long article on the propects of tho
various political parties, in which it takes tho
ground that the election of the nominee of the
Convention which adjourned last week, is by no
means go certain as the Democracy would have
it believed. The following are the closing SEN
fences ofthe article: .=. ..a.as -... .t.afs.s-
"We maintain our opinion that not only Is
there decided majority OF the American people
IN favor OF new administration at Washington,
new men, new measures, and now and conser.
vative direction to our domestic and foreign af.
fairs, but a majority, Pierce or know Pierce. op-
posed to the Democratic party as demoralized
under his niger driving and ilGbusleF ring policy.
The particular question is, how is this majority
to be concentrated into effective action and per-
haps the parties concerned may yet work out the
problem. The election will not 10 by default.
We are just breaking into the shell of the
the great question. We are still in the woods,
though we have some CLEANS Of light. "a ga
The Herald of saturday, in leader, upon the
same subject, says: ... -E TO #saa+i
Upon matters of domestic policy, Mr.. Buch-
anan was opposed TO the repeal OF the Missouri
n an tI,,t hat fi,a Ia
of the land, he is giving it fair trial. and for
CARRYING out faithfully the doctrine Of "squatter
sovereignty" rs dimly defined at Cincinnati---
Let US hope that, should the duty OF seeing the
laws faithfully executed fall upon his sl,ogl-
iers, its performance will be attended with hap
pier results than the dreadful fucds between
Aboliuoni>ts and Border Rafiians," excited by
he vaciliating, criminal and bloody mal-adnIinis-
tration OF Pierce, Marcy and JEFF. Davis. We
nope so, though not without our misgirings in
view of that immense secession ultraism OF the
southern niger drivers which has infused itself
INTO all the veins and arteries, the tissues, nerves
and bones Of the demoralized modern Democ.
racy. .r*= .|4
The main question is, what are the prospects
of the campaign? We anticipate one OF the
most exciting, tumultuous and revolutionary
political con.ests in all the history Of the repub-
lie. Many of our hopeful Democratic fellow
citizens affect to believe that there will hardly be
a h9ht-that Mr.. Buchanan, with scarcely O show
of resistance, will walk over the course We
have only to say, 'ooking calmly over the whole
field, that for all such as entertain the belief that
there will be no struggle, the doors of some lu-
natic asylum had better be opened at once
We hare no dou5t Of the fact that a past majority
Of the american people, in tie present Instructed
condition Of the country, are opposed to the
Democratic party, as debamched and demora!ized
,tndsr the n,atsga influence of is Pierce admin
istration; and bet;erc that there noutd still er-
ut a am2iority Of the Ameriean people opposed to
the ratification of the debaucheries Of this corrup-
ted party, eeen If they should nominate as their
representative an angle from Heaeen. This is
our conviction and our belief. Grant that as an
honest man and statesman, Mr.. Buch mar is
fair nomination, and ttat he is simmeasurably gu
peror to men of such small calibre and party
expedicnts as Pierce and his Porney Kitchen
Cabinet, the impressive evidences as vet all a.
round US of an impending revolution. Louis
XVI was an amiable, respectable and worthy
man, and sincerely labored for the good OF his
people; yet in the terrible storm raised by his
mbppIlp and DO,