Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-06-25
Mr.. Ruchanan,s Record.

Z Inc following Is an eAtfdCt lrom the oPeee" y
Judge Douglas, before the recent Ratification Meet.
ing in New York:
s ssMy friends, T. find that those black republican
orators and black republican newspapers have al
ready begun to shed crocodile tears over my own
humble fate-Q aughter) because they say that the
Convention erected Douglas platform, and then
nut Buchanan on it. [Applause.] lwish to invite
vour attention for moment to this point, and see
whether that platform is not Buchanan platform
as we'll as Douglas PLATFORM (Cr'es OF :" YES
"ves.'0 They say that it is Douglas platform,
because it has endorsed every position that have
taken. not only upon the slavery question and the
Kansas and Nebraska question, but also upon the
question of our foreign policy. Ga voice" Good
for vou') That is true, and because 1t is true
entered this campaign with heart anu SOUL reaay "
devote all my energies to the success Of the platform
and the candidates who stand upon it. Vireat cheer.
ing and appausc) Now, my friends, if you will
listen for a moment to brief historical recital, |
will show YOU that james Buchanan and myself
have occupied for years past, ever since came into
public life precisely the same position upon this
slavery question the beginning to the end Bear
in mind that in 1916 Congress passed an act Tor the
annexation of Texas to this republic; and if you
will look at the journals of Congress you will hnd
that offered the proposition to extend the Missouri
compromise line through Texas indefinitely, as far
as the Territory should extend. That act passed
with that provision in it, and Mr.. Buchanan who
Nas in Mr. Folks Cabinet at the time, approved OF
it. (Applause) In the course OF events, war be-
tween Mexico and the United States grew out Of it,
the Justice of which Mr.. Buchanan asserted, as
member ofMr. Folks Cabinet and maintained itin
the House of Representatives, by my votes and my
speech, and my every act as representative OF my
State Great applause) When there came pro-
liability that bv that war would acquire terrific
~ from Mexico, Mr.. Wmot Of Pennsylvania, on
the 9th of August, 1916, offered proposition to
prohibit slavery in all the territory we might &C
<hokr had hnon
adopted, there would have been no territory ac-
quired. 1t proposition to disgrace this coun-
try by forcing us to withdraw our armies from Mex
leo and make peace with her without getting JUS
tice for our wrongs. Do you suppose that Soath-
ern man would have been craven enough to have
voted to ratify treaty containing clause insult
ing his own section, his own people, and his own
State rights, when it made as an insult to them!
And yet the treaty could not have been approved
without two-thrds vote at time when the slave
holding and free States exactly tied in the Sem
ate. Knowing that the OBJECT of Mr.. Wilmot in Of
ferng the proposition, was to force to an nglo-
rious and ignomnous peace with foreign power,
l resisted it with all my might, and offered in lieu
of it an amendment to extend the Missouri compro.
mise line of36 deg 80 min. to the Pacific ocean in the
same scene, and with the same understanding with
which it originally adopted In October, lS47,
James Buchanan addressed a letter to the Harvest
Home Celebration of Berks county, Pennsylvania,
in which he urged the extension OF the same line of
sc deg. 80 min., called the Missouri compromise, to
the Pacific ocean, in the same manner as had pro-
posed.
Here the speaker was again interrupted by the
loud and long-continued applause which greeted the
appearance of the Tenth Ward Buchanan and Brock
inridge Club, preceded by band Of music, and a
banner bearing the inscription, democrats Forcv
err" Hating in front Of the platform they unfurled
the stars and stripes amidst the cheers Of the crowd
Hardly had the applause subsidized before another
Il
the crowd, which proved to be delegation from the
Buchanan and Breckenridge Club. Their banner, as
it held alolt to the gaze of the crowd, contain
ing the inscription 1--WE have Polked them, We
have Pierced. them, and have Buckcd
them" was greeted with the most rapturous cheer
ing]
Order being again restored, Mr.. Douglas resumed,
amid great cheering his remarks follows
When was interrupted by the procession which
has Just passed. was saying that in October ls47
James Buchanan wrote his celebrated " Harvest
Home" letter, in which he declared in favor of the
extension of the Missouri compromise line to the
Pacific dividing line between free and
slave territory.
At this point the cry was that there was a child
lost and little bright eyed fellow, five years
DID, was passed over the heads of the crowd to the
front of the platform, where he was held up by Mr..
Douglas, who said, Here is Young America."-
daughter aud cheers)
sumcd In the month of August nroduc, d in the
Senate of the United States amendment to the
Oregon BILL to carry out the proposition of Mr.. Bu
chanan in the Harvest Home letter, to extend the
compromise line to the Pacific ocean, in the same
sense and with the same understanding with which
it was originally adopted. That proposition was
passed by the Senate went to the House, and was
rejected there by abolition and reesoi votes Three
groans were here called for and given for the free
soilers) Don't groan, my friends that sounds too
much like Know Nothing music. Uaughtcr) The
House of Representatives rejected that proposition
by almost sectional vote, by Northern votes, COM
posed of aboltoniss and freescilers men of aboli-
ton proclivites, and arrayed against the true ma
tonal democracy. 1t the rejection of that pro.
position to extend the Missouri line to the Pacific
ocean, as proposed by Mr.. Buchanan and as intro
duced by myself, which led to the turmoil section
al haired and hostility from 1913 to 1850. To such
an extent did that sectional strife go, the South
rayed against the North and the North against the
South, that the purest and most devoted patriots in
the land feared for the safety and perpetuty Of the
republic. Even that gallant and immortal states
man. the great Henry Clay, who had retired from
the scenes of his active abors to the shades of Ash
land there to prepare himself for better state of
existence, again took his place in the Senate, the
theatre of his greatest achievements and his most
patriotic triumphs, TO if he could do some
thing to que the storm, calm the troubled waters
aud restore peace to distracted country. From
uioiheHt Oldy dTTlVeu among US, lie was TecOS-
nized as the great leader and champion Of the Union
men of all parties in Congress. The voice of fac
ton was hushed and the voice of the patriot quell-
ed for time the storm. Clay our leader, Cass
was our right hand man. Webster stood by his side,
and your Dickinsons, Cobbs, Kings, and the other
true men, wings and democrats alike rallied around
the standard-bearer of the Union prepared to make
any sacrifice for the peace and harmony of the re-
public.
[The Seventeenth Ward Buchanan and Breckin.
ridge Club, preceded by music and banners, here
made their appearance, and the speaker was again
inferrlnfed hu fha md Of III