The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-06-24

have no opposition in South Carolina, nor
in any quarter where slaveholding and wo-
man selling are controlling interests. Mr..
| Fillmore's friends may promise the most
complete subserviency to the relentless
oligarchy now crushing the life out of Free
Kansas, in order to open there new mar
k et for its human chattelS, some of whom
are the children of the sellers; they may
point to their chieftain's scars testifying of
wounds received in its service, but ali will
be of no avail. Those of the oligarchy
who do not question his will to serve them
will distrust his power. and so give their
voices and votes to Buchanan, whose pros
poets are more hopeful while hissubservien-
cy is unsurpassed and indisputable. Of
the whole body of savctraders throughout
the South-those who make the buying and
selling of human beings their vocation
nineteen of every twenty will support Buch-
anan, leaving but meagre remnant to up
hold the trailing banner of South Americans.
| And even this remnant is quite likely to go
over to Buchanan before the close of the
canvass now opening. The issue to be
now decided is that of the extension or nom
extension of slavery, in view of which all
other questions sink into insignificance.
s'Mr buchanan was the candidate of Vir-
| ginia at the two last Democratic Conven-
tons, and her slave breeding politicians are
not often mistaken in their tools. There is
not a man in'the Union who, since he snuff
fed the Presidency afar off, has been more
subservient to the slave power than he
His distinguished friend and champion, the
| Hon. j. Clancy Jones, in a late triumphant
reply to his American colleague, the Hon.
Henry NJ Fuller, who had vainly attempted
| to pick some flaws in Mr.. Buchanan's pro-
slavery escutcheon, truly said:
''All such accusations as these against
Mr.. Buchanan are answered,
by the fact, that, twenty years ago, in
the Senate of the United States, he was o.
mong the first Northern men to resist the
inroad of abolitionism.
:By his opposition to the circulation of
insurrectionary documents through the mails
of the United States among the slaves of
the South.
by his determined support of the bill
admitting Arkansas into the American I'm
ion.
by his early support of the annexation
of Texas.
by his persevering support of the Flu
gitive Slave Law.
by his energetic efforts to effect the
repeal of the law Of the State of Pennsyl-
vana, denying to the Federal authorities
the use of her prisons for the detention of
fugitive slaves,
by his early and unyielding opposition
to the Wimot Proviso.
"By the fact that, while member of Mr..
Folks Cabinet, against the opposition of
fanaticism, he proposed to extend the Mis-
souri, line to the Pacific amid the delight
and gratitude of national men of all parts
of the Union.
''By every vote he gave in the American
Congress on the question of Slavery, and
by the fact that of all Northern men, he has
been the most prominent in asserting and
defending a strict construction of the Fed
eral Constitution.
''By the construction which he placed
upon the compromise measures of 1850: in
the letter addressed by him in November
of the same year to the people of Philadel-
phia, in which he declared that the compro-
mise measures had superseded the Missou-
ri line, or, to use his own language, that
that line had passed away which con-
struction led inevitably to the adoption of
the principle of popular sovereignty, en-
bodied in the Kansas Nebraska bill.
From the day that he took a prominent
part i'll National politics till the present, the
slave power has never made demand with
which he did not hasten to comply, nor
commit an aggression which he did not
promptly justify and sustain. His name
and his delegation were mainly instrument
tai in beating Mr.. Van Buren, in the Balti
more Convention Of 1914, at the dictation
of the slavery propaganda, though that
delegation was pledged to support Mr.. Van
Burcn, and did once or twice pretend to
vote for him -