Washington telegraph., 1856-09-10

| and when In the Legislature of Pennsylva-
MA opposed the enlistment of foreigners
into the army of the United States.
10Th. While Mr.. Buchanan was minis
ter to England he attended the Ostend
Conference, and signed the manifesto is
sued by the conferees. In that document
he advised the obtaining of Cuba, hon
estly if we could, but if we could not, he
advised us to steal it, not for the purpose
of enlarging the area of slavery, but to
give the Pennsylvania Dutch the benefit
of Its trade In sugar and rum.
10th. In 1916, being temporarily a
member of Mr.. Polk's Cabinet, he refused
to pay his taxes in Lancaster, of which
place he was undoubtedly citizen.
21st. In 1856, he presented to the
Senate of the United States several petit
tions for the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia, and on the 7th of
January, of the latter year, he refused to
vote for Mr.. Calhoun's motion not to re-
ceive such petitions
I'D On the LIST of July, 1856, his es-
pecial friend, Mr.. Bigler, one of the Sena-
tors from Pennsylvania, declared directly,
in so many words, in favor of squatter So
vereignty, and was surprised that any one
should be opposed to it.
23d. Mr.. Buchanan is opposed to Amer
lcanism, doctrine advocated by General
Washington, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Webster,
Gen. jackson, Mr.. Madison, Gen. Harri-
son, the constitutional Congress, the Le-
gislature of Virginia, Henry Clay, Theo-
dore Frelinghuysen, William H. Crawford,
John Randolph, and by Mr.. Buchanan
himself before he became a candidate for
the Presidency.
24th- MIR. Buchanan now subscribes to
the doctrine of his party, that foreign pau
pers and criminals ought not to be exclu-
ded from our shores, but that they ought
to be welcomed to this country and taken
to our arms, although they swell the Abo-
lItIOn vote of Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania,
and other Abolition States; to send such
men as Sumner, Hale and Seward to the
United States Senate; and to convert into
Freesoil every foot of the common Terri
tory, won by the toll and blood of Southern
freemen.
25th. Ga the first ballot, In the Cincin-
natl Convention, Mr.. Buchanan got but
81 votes from the Southern States, out of
10, and it was not until the 18th ballot
that he obtained the nomination, and then
mainly by Northern votes, thus showing
that the Northern Freesoil pressure forced
him upon the South, contrary to her wish
es and without her consent.
26th. So far as is known, he had not a
solitary advocate, before the Convention
met, in the Southern States, outside of
Virginia, Delaware and Maryland. with
perhaps corporars guard in Kentucky
and Louisiana. All the other slave States
were, almost en- masse, for Mr. Pierce
His nomination Is, therefore, a freesoil tri-
umph.
9th. He is in favor of unnaturalized
foreigners voting in Kansas and Nebraska,
and excluding thereby, Southern slavehol-
ders, who might otherwise be induced to
emigrate to those Territories and that,
too, although they may not have been three
weeks in the United States, cannot speak
word of our language, understand moth
ing of our institutions, and are fresh from
the despotisms of Europe, and, it may be,
with the chains of the felon still clanking
about their limbs
18th. Martin and John Van Buren, are
the leaders of Buchanan's friends at the
North. aud favor his election because he is
In favor of Squatter Sovereignty.
18th He has, although he has been in
public Afe upwards of 40 years, never iden-
tilted his name with any great public mea-
sure, and although frequently Minister to
Foreign Courts, has never yet settled any
controversy.
3Oth. His nomination was one not fit to
be made.
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