Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10

the exlgencies of the times OF the desire
of reckless, INSCRIPTIONS demagogue
for political preferment, demanded the re-
peal of the measure, and it was repealed.
Mr. BUCHANAN straightway forgot his
devotion to this esacred" compact, and
announced his acquiescence in the new
order of things, which, perhaps, in the
mere abstract, was well enough. But this
" compact" had been an effectual bar
against the extension of the area of slave
~. Hence this devotion to it on the part
of Mr.. BUCHANAN Hence his support
of the above referred to resolutions, con-
fined in their operation, as they were, to a
mere assertion of distractions, practically
again We say it-of no benefit whatever
to the South-of no detriment whatever
to the rapacious and selfish policy of the
North. And-now s'here's the rub
prove that he was consistent in his devo-
tion to the Missouri Compromise upon the
principles which We have suggested as the
motives of his conduct, we have only to
refer to the terms in which Mr.. BUCHAN-
AN announces his adherence to, and ac-
quiescence in, the ''new order of things"
Southern men having been to certain
extent impressed with the idea, that un-
der the operation of the Kansas-Nebraska
bill their rights were respected and guar
anteed, and having been, unwillingly, and
after desperate resistance, extending
through seventeen ballots, at the Cincin-
natl Convention, compelled to accept Mr.
BUCHANAN as the candidate for their suf-
frages, he feels it incumbent upon him to
show that he at least does not deviate from
'.frst principles and announces in his
letter of acceptance that in lieu of the
specifically restraining clause of the ''sa-
cred' compact; he holds to, and will main
tain with full vigor the more dangerously re-
strictive doctrine that 1.-The people ofa Terri
tory, like those of .Stgte, shall decide for
themselves whether slavery shall orshall not
exist within their limits ;" the doctri ne
denounced by JOHN c. CALHOUN, the
Virginia and Alabama Democracy, the
Nashville Union, the Richmond Enquirer,
and all men true to the South, whose per
ceptions arise to the knowledge of the
right, and who are above subserviency to
party behcsts Behold the parallel be-
tween the supporter of Mr. CALHOUN s
resolutions, the Senator of 1887, and the
writer of the letter accepting the nomina-
ton of the Cincinnati Convention of June,
1856.
In 1887, satisfied that the existent le-
gislation rendered imperative, void and OF
no effect, few generaliziDg resolutions,
giving the shadow when he knew he had
secured the substance; proving himself by
so doing, willy and astute hut an invete-
rate and uncompromising enemy of slavery
and its extension; in 1856, dissatisfied
with the existent legislation, and incorpo-
rating into that legislation so far as the
moral force of his example and precept
could go, the doctrine OF Squatter Sover-
eighty, subversive in its very nature of ev-
cry thing bearing the semblance of South
ern rights, he is to-day the same as he
was in 1887, and yet paraded as the friend
of the South. Preposterous absurdity,
Ponder these things we ask you. And in
cur next we will come to consider his sup
port of the measure creating Texas into a
sovereign State; chapter darker than ei-
ther of those which precede it.