Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-10
Facts from the Record.

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That Mr.. Buchanan was federalist and
opposed the war of l812-a war which
has justly been termed the second war of
independence-no one can doubt who has
read his celebrated grafton, delivered on
the 4th of July, 1915, in Lancaster. In
that grafton, which we have now before us,
he denounces the democratic adminiStra-
ton Of Madison, and declares that with
tout money in the Treasury, they rashly
'piDnged into 1rar with a nation more
cable TO do us injury than any other in the
world. What" he asks, was the dread,
'ful necessity for this desperate measure ?
"Was our country invaded2 No. Were
''our liberties in danger? No. Was it to
protect our little remaining commerce from
'the injuries sustained by the orders in
Council :? No. Commerce was not such
"a faVorite, aud the merchants aoished for no
"aoar on that account"
In accounting for the cause of this trash
aoar," he says:
Il took its rise from the OVERWHELMING PAR.
TALLY WHICH THE DEMOCRATIC PATTY have
unfurmly shown for France, and the conse-
quent hatred which they felt against her great
adversary England. To SECURE THIS FOREIGN
INFLUENCE HAS BERN LABOR OF THEIR
LEADERS FOR N RE THAN TWENTY YEARS, and
well have they been repaid for their trouble
FOR 1T HAS BEEN ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL
CAUSES FOR INTRODUCING AND CONTINUING
THRM IN POWER. Immediately before the var
THIS FOREIGN INFLUENCE HAD COM
PLETELY EMBODI D ITSELF WITH
EVERY P LITICAL FEELING FAM MA
JORIIY IN TIE WEST, ITS VOICE WAS
HEARD so LOUD AT THE SEAT OF GOV
ERNMENT, THAT The PRESIDENT WAS
OBLIGED TO YIELD TO ITS DICTATES OR RE
TIRE rom OFFICE. The choice in this alter
native was easily made by a man (Madison)
WHO PREFERRED HIS PRIVATE INTER
EST 10 THE PUBLIC GOODl We were,
therefore, HURRIED INTO A WAR ENTIRELY IN
PREPARED.
What has been it's results? Exactly what
reasonable men expected at its commencement
We declared our intention Of cOn9uerirg Cana
da whether for the purpose Of annexing to the
yield the doctrine Of Imprisonment, is inmate
rial to the present. question. Instead of con-
uuering il, we have ourselves been invaded in
in every quarter, and the best blood of our
country has streamed in defence of our soil
The very capitol of the United States, the
lofty temple of liberty, which was reared and
consecrated by Washington, has been aban
doned TO its fate BY HIS DEGENERATE sUOoEssoR
(MadsOn,) who ought TO have shed his last
drop of blood in it's defence.
Instead of eXempting seamen sailing under
our htg from lupre smeut 10y the war, we have
altogether reli 9uished that principle; because
il is well established truth in the law of ma
tions that if war he waged by one country
against another, for specified claim, and the
treaty which terminated the contest is silent
upon that object, it is forever abandoned.
Thus the Government have at least yielded
the point for the maintenance of which they
protested TO 60 to war, after having expended
nearly two hundred millions or dollars.
We have not only notobtained by the war any
thing which we were taught TO expect, but we
have lost many valuable privileges. All the
numerous rights and advantages guaranteed
TO Us by JAYS treaty have been rehnquished
Nay, we have not only been compelled TO con
tary stipulation in our favor, except that there
shall be peace; but which unsettles lie boun-
dares of our country, aud leaves to the decis.
ION of commissioners whether We shall Ion
ger retain part of our own territory, which
we held in quiet possession for more than
twenty years.
But notwithstanding our immense national Fl!
debt, which, IL the war had continued would
soon have resulted 10 nrtional bankruptcy;
notwithstanding all our property, even the
very necessarles of life, have been taxed heav
"; notwithstanding we have not obtained q
single object which we had in view at the
commencement of the contest, but haze lost
many valuable privileges; notwithstanding our
country has been invaded in every quarter,
aud the Capitol Of the United States has been
laid in ashes by marauding party OF the enc
my THIS AS BEES CALLED GLORIOUS WAR!
Glorious il has been, in the highest degree, 20
the American character But DI,GRACLFUL IN
THE EXTREME TO THE ADMINISTRATORS. When
the individual States discovered that they
were abandoned 10y the General Government,
whose duty il was to protect them, the iurti
tude of their CT liens arose with their mis-
for unes The moment We were invaded, the
genius uf freedom inspired their souls. They
rushed upon their enemtes with q hallnwed
fur,. winch the hirehug soldiers OF Britain
could aever feel They taught our toe that
the sill OF freedom would always be the grave
of lis invaders.
But do the administration, WHO INVOLVED
Us IN THE LATE UNNECESSARY WAR, derive any
credit from their exei tiuns Certainly not.
They were the spontaneous efforts OF the coun-
try, undirected by the government.
The reader will bear in mind that these
bitter denunciations were uttered after the
close Of the war-at time when its glori-
Gus results had gwen American military
proves prestige beyond anything it had
ever attained. The splendid triumphs on
the ocean by which our little Navy had
forever taken the sting from the vain boast
Of the Brton-"B Britannia rules the rare"
and the wonderful achievement at New Or
cans, under the lead of Old Hickory, which
lad startled the civilized world, we're facts
IF history.
We are fully persuaded that the country
is indebted to the resistance of Mr.. Madi-
'on's administration to the encroachments
of Great Britain upon our national rights,
and 10 the war Of 1919 which necessarily
for the high character she nov
enjoys. and the peace, happiness and pros
peF-ty which lave marked Der subsegaen