Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-27

ing Of indignant and scornful condemnation,
than JAMES BUCHANAN, the man who thanks
| God that his lot is cast in State where
slavery does not exist In that ever to
be remembered political crusade against the
| South which ended in the adoption of the
Missouri Restriction Mr.. Buchanan bore
a conspicuous part. We doubt if there was
any man more active than he in tanning
into fury the fameszof sectional strife.
The chapter of history which chronicles his
deeds is short. The Washington Organ
of the 10Th inst, furnishes it as follows.
Read, Southern men, and say what punish
ment should be awarded to the blue-light-
federal7anti-slavery agitator of 1919:
In 1918 the people of Missouri Territory Pc
titOned for leave to make State constitution
and to be admitted into theUniOn on the foot
ing of the old thirteen States. In 1879, at the
second session of that Congress when bill to
authorize the people of the Missouri Territory
to form their State constitution was pending,
Mr.. Talmadge of N. York, proposed an amend
ment of the bill, His amendment consisted of
two clauses, which we shall here transcribe
from the official Congressional proceedings of
that date, so that the exact language may
be in possession of the American people. They
will see that the first clause is the WiEmOt Pro
UiSO an terms.
Mr.. Tamadge's amendment was as follows:
THAT the further introduction of slavery or
involuntary servitude be prohibited, except
for the punishment of crimes whereof the par
ty shall have been duly convicted; and that all
children born within the said State, after the
admission thereof into the Union, shall be free
at the age of twenty-five years"
The yeas and nays were called in the House
and Senate on each branch of that amendment
The first passed the House, by vote of 81 to
76; the last branch by a vote of 50 to 49,
Both propositions were rejected by the Senate,
by decisive majorities, and both Houses ad
herring to their respective votes, the bill fell at
that Congress by the division of the Houses
1t now became evident that Missouri was to
have trouble in obtaining admission into the
Union. A new Congress was to convene upon
the first Monday in December, 1919. So did
the Legislature of Pennsylvania. On the oath
of November, 1919, a large and enthusiastic
meeting of the people of Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, was held, comformably to pub
lie notice, and at that meeting a committee of
three was appointed to draft resolutions express
sive of the sense of the meeting. James Buch-
anan was one of that committee, and his name
appears signed to the report of the committee
as published by the chairman and secretary of
said committee.
The resolutions reported by him commend
the votes given in March, 1919, by the Penn
sylvania members of Congress, in favor of pro-
hibting slavery in the constitution OF Missouri,
and directly approve of both branches of Tall
madge's amendment which we have quoted.
They went further they instructed the repre-
sentative from Lancaster county in the Penn
syvans Legislature, TO seize upon the earliest
practicable moment to procure the action of
the Pennsylvania Legislature upon the subject,
instructing the Senator's and requesting the
Representatives in Congress from Pennsyl 5ania
to use their utmost endeavors to procure the
passage of Tallmadge's spendment, and to re-
sist the admission of Missouri without it. We
have published those proceedings heretofore in
this paper.
The PENNSYLVANIA Legislature did according.
ly take up the question Immediately, and by
the 22d Of December, 1919, both Houses had
passed joint resolutions requesting their Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress ito vote
against the admission of any Territory as a
State of the Union" unless "the further intro
duction OF slavery or involuntary servitude,
except for the punishment of crimes whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted, shall
be prohibited and all children born within
said Territory after the admission into the
Union as a State, shall be free, but may be held
to service until the age of twenty-five years"
The reader will see that thus the Pennsyl-
vania resolutions, got up at the instance of the
Lancaster meeting adopted Tallmadge's amend
ment under marks of quotation and TO the very
10 Into I'd -
preamble, in which the slavery recognised
in the slaveholdiug States is denounced as a
crime-"an odious stain upon the present race"
boasts that Pennsylvania was the first sin re.
moving the pollution of slavery from amongst
them" pirates about ''the lawless vendors of
human flesh, :" and finally denounces the whole
system of slavery as "the most foul blot upon
the American character" This preamble and
resolution from Pennsylvania was presented to
Congress on the OH ofJanuary, 1920, and may
be found on the 73d page of the constitutional
Annals containing the proceedings of the first
session of the Sixteenth Congress.
Remember that James Buchanan was theu
thirty years of age, had been several times
elected to the Pennsylvania Legisature.-He
was already prominent Federalist polticiaDIn
that State, anil in getting up the resolutions of
the meeting, at Lancaster, was taking ground
UPON subject which had been discussed at the
proceeding session of Congress, and on which
he had deliberated from March until Novem
Der. Ii his opinion was not deliberately formed
then, it never will be. He stands, then before
this country, as having been active in getting
up the opposition to the admission of Missouri
into the Union, unless she would submit to tie
insertion Of the WiLmOt Pr00isO in her State
. constitution. But We should not overlook the
important fact that the Pennsylvania resolu-
tons asserted the power of Congress to inter
fere to prevent the migration of serve labor
also, which means the slave trade 6etDeen the
States
When the Southern people behold this re-
cord OF James Buchanan upon the Identical
question that must shortly arise in Kansas
what would they give for his pretended con-
version since that time and when those opin-
ions will no longer serve his political purposesl
Is that the ''clean bill of health" the Slave
holding States will require on this subject of
slaveryl
We shall pursue this subject hereafter, for
IL is as sure AS that the sun rises ia the East
the Southern people will not touch Buchanan
when they review his career. Ii is no wonder
that Martin Van Buren,, John Van Buren, and
Cochran, the Raffalo- Platform men, are jubi-
liant over his nomination. 1t is q tribute OF
modeTh DeuOcFhcy 10 lneiT course. IL Is no
wonder Benton and Francis P. Blair, jr., ao-
cept him, and that the New York Softs take
him. They understand his history. So shall
the South
B9- The Union and American has pretty
plainly intimated that Southern men who
denounced the assault on Sumner, sympa-
thized with Black Republicanism. But it