Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-12

From the Louisville Journal
BUCHANAN NoMINATED---THE South soLD.-Our
Geographic dispatches yesterday informed US of
the nomination of James Buchanan as the Demo-
cratic candidate for President. After long atrug-
gle with no appearance of yielding or compromise
on either side, up to the l4.h ballot, Thursday,
the convention adjourned, leaving Buchanan with
but little strength than he had at the begin
ming of the ballotings. The following night was
spent in arranging the terms of sale and completing
the bar gain by which the interests of the South and
the welfare of the whole country perhaps the per-
manence Of the Union itself, were to be sacrificed
to an appearance of unity in the socalled Demo-
cratic party and the vaulting ambition of the willy
demagogue, who deserted his post as a represent
alive of this Government at the Court of Great
Britain and came home for the special purpose of
| wire-puling and pipe-aying to procure the nomi-
| nation which has been thus tardily given to him
by the Cincinnati Convention.
We have not yet been able to ascertain pre-
cisely what particular influences were brought to
bear on Thursday night upon the great majority of
the Southern delegates who had till then persist
emily opposed the nomination of Buchanan. It is
true that, according to the practice of Democratic
Conventions, they were bound TO take Northern
man. "A platform seemingly Southern, but prac-
tically anything or nothing, time and place
might require, had been adopted. The Free-soil
wing of the party had voted for it with the under
slavery construction of this platform, the candi-
date for President should be selected from their
section, and none presented who possessed
record 80 Protean so chameleon-ke, so capable of
being represented of every color that occasion
might require, as the gentleman from Pennsyva-
MIA, who had been everything by turns, and moth
ing long.
Besides, his friends were in attendance upon the
convention, not merely as delegates, but as out
| aidara N 0VerDOwerinp numhprs--oyar one thou-
sand good workers, political trcksters, from the
State of Pennsylvania Alone were pressing his
nomination, and openly threatening that if the
vention did not succumb to their wishes and give
them what they came for, they would split the
party to shivers; the Buchanan delegates would
withdraw from the convention, place him in nomi-
nation as their candidate, and take the con5e-
| quences There is no doubt that this threat was
effectual in bringing about the result Principles
were nothing, spois everything; and it was evil
| dent that If the Buchanan men were driven to
execute their promise, all hope of public plumber
was forever gone. Consequently, yesterday morn
| ing, upon the fifteenth ballot, Pierce was with
| drawn, on the sixteenth Douglas retired from the
| field, and on the seventeenth the Southern party
bowed their heads in humble submission to the
fierce Free-soilism of the North, and permitted the
nomination of James Buchanan.
In the whole history of political conventions in
this country there never yet was such a bareaced,
shameless bargain and sale of Southern interests
for Northern influence. A platform seemingly
Southern in its tone but practically Northern and
capable of either pro-slavery or an anti-slavery
construction, was adopted. Upon this platform,
to CRAFTY the rapacity of Free-soism, has been
placed candidate whose opinions,
variable as the shade
BY the light quivering aspen made"
have ever been easily changed SO as to suit the
prevailing fashion of the times and whose antece-
dents during a whole lifetime spent in political
| intrigue and demagoguism afford abundant guar
antee to the Free-soil faction of the modern De-
mocracy, that, if made President, he will as far as
possible, give the antslavery Interpretation to this
| very convenient platform.
Buchanan was placed in nomination by the Free
soil wing in the convention. OF the 1876 IL votes
which he received on the first ballot lol IL were
given by ten of the Northern States in which abo-
ltionism RACES most fercely and has thrived most
| successfully. Almost the only thing in which he
has been consistent during the whole course of his
public life, is his determined opposition to the ex-
tension OF slavery into the Territories. From the
time when he was first Federalia candidate for
Congress in 1918 until his appointment as Minister
to England by President Pierce, who made all his
appointments OF Northern men from the Free.soil
wing Of the party, Mr.. Buchanan has favored the
views of the Freesol party. Tho position which
he took in meeting OF the citizens of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, in 1919, in favor Of pre-
venting the existence of slavery in any of the Ter
rories States to be erected by Congress, is the
keynote of his whole course in reference to the
slavery question; and he has been nominated by
the Cincinnati Convention because it was believed
there that his well-known Free.soil proclivties
would make him acceptable to the North, and that
the Democracy of the South would, as usual, sui
fer itself to be beguled by mere words, by empty
resolutions, meaning nothing, and binding no one,
and would 6iindly give its support to any candi-
date that the Northern wing might choose to select
In this nomination the South has been basely,
shamelessly BETRAYED Her birthright has been
sold for the paltry spoils of Office. Her interests
have been sacrificed to the hope of public plumber
by the aid Of Northern Free-soilism. IL is Free
soil triumph over the weakness of the South, and
has been VIGOROUSLY achieved by those who are
avowedly hostile to the principles of the Kansas
Nebraska bill The ready compliance of the South
in consenting to take the shadow and give away
the substance--in agreeing to be satisfied with
mere vague and imperative resolutions and to
yield to the North the selection Of the candidate
has led to the belief that the Southern Democracy