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Minister TO France, and made that famou
declaration, (as degrading to our country a
insulting to Spain, that the United States can
not be independent without the possession o
Cuba. The same Mr.. Buchanan, who in re
cent letter to Mr.. Slidell, made merit Of ,h,
strenuous zeal with which be had labored I,
extend the Missouri Compromise lnie west
ward, all the way to the Pacific, but now con
ours with those new-light politicians, who hav,
lately discovered that the Missouri Compro
mise was unconstitutional and void from th,
beginning.
And what IS the platform upon which h,
stands. and which he is about to carry out, 4
elected? II consists Of Many enormities. a
gainst most of which all wings have been con.
tending these many years They cannot al
be enumerated now, but may be brought into
view at another time, For the present let two
of its planks suffice:
l. Congress has no power to commence
1and carry on general system Of internal i'm.
PrOvements." This has been construed and
carried out in practice by Mr.. Ruchanan's par.
ty' President Pierce has recently vetoed the
bill to open and improve the mouth oftbe Miss
lssippi. and the bill to deepen tie channel
through the Flats Of Lake St. Clair, and tbe
bill to improve the navigation Of st. Msrv's
river. the only outletto Lake Superior; and
the Cincinnati Convention, in the same spirit
/ which they nominated Mr.. Buchanan, en-
dorsed and vouched for Mr.. Pierce and his ad.
ministration.
2. The Monroe doctrine as interpreted and
carried out in particulars, by the Cincinnati
Convention, which boldly asserts the right of
this country to control and domestcate the
Central american sthmus and the gulf of
Mexico, and consequently all the adjacent
countries and Islands. This prepo8terous gree
diness of democratic ambition has hardly the
merit of originality; it took its rise in the ia.
nous Ministerial Congress, and is but the com.
plement Of the 0stend declaration. made by the
moderate aEd conservative Mr.. Buchanan. that
the United states cannot be independent with.
out the possession Of Cuba. And yet we must
all, it seems, espouse Mr.. Buchanans cause, or
incur the penalty of being classed with those
who are opposed to the Union.
We cannot now take Mr. Buchanan as an in.
dividual, as ''a wise statesman, conservative
man, true hiend of the Union" We cannot
join in the feeling prevalent at the Cincinnati
Convention, as declared b. the st. Louis Dem.
ocrat- "D-n the platform, SO we get the
right sort of man!"-Mr. Buchanan has him
self precluded all that. He declares his posi-
tion, in his answer to the Keystone Club, which
waited on him at his own abode, to commitment
him on bis nomination, "Gentlemen," said
he, "two weeks since l would have made YOU
a longer speech, but now l have been placed
upon platform of which l heartily approve:
and being the representative of the great Dem
ocratc party, and not simply James Buchanan,
L"'"st square "'y conduct according to that plat
form, and insert no neaU plank nor take from IL.
AS an individual, then, he is sunk, absorb.
ed, lost in the Cincinnati platform: and in es.
pousing his cause, we do necessarily and una
Voidably espouse that platform: and in labor
ing to accomplish his election, we do necesa-
rlly and una' oidably labor to maintain that
platform, and to carry tinto practical execution.
The logic is perfect and defiant, and there is
no escape from the conclusion,
And now, 1 ask in sorrowful view of the
wreck of parties and the derelictiou of prirci-
pies all around me) is there sound conserya.
tive whig in the nation, who can support that
platform? To waive for the present all other
objections, is there Wing who can deliber-
ately, and upon the pretence of principle, put
beyond the pale of Governmental protection
the twenty thousand miles Of navigation in the
Mississippi and ITS branches, the two thousand
miles OF Lake coast, and the Pacific RailroadP
Is there whig who is willing to rush his coun-
try into imminent peril of war with the preat-
est naval power in the world, by attempting
to bully the nations with the groundless asser-
ton of our right to control Central America.
the Gulf Of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea? 7
hope and believe not one.
If repudiatng and denouucing the platform,
we still adhere to Mr. Buchanan, we must do
it on grounds dishonorablc to his character as
apolitician and as man, for we must do it
on the suppostion that, when elected, he will
prove treacheroas to his party, and false to his
own personal pledges: anI it would be alike fool
ish and unjust to attribute su,h dishonor to
Mr.. Buchanan. He is the ant-interna i'm.
provement candidate, and the war candidate
of the Democratic party, personally pledged to
stand or fall upon their platform, without ad-
ding or retrencbinp a single nlanL