Washington telegraph., 1856-09-03
Mr.. Buchanan's Southern Record.

with a few of the reasons why Mr.. BU-
CHANAN has, at various times, voted SEEM
lingly in favor of Southern institutions.
Read them, Southern men, and say for
yourselves how much credit he is entitled
to, as a friend of our institutions, and
how far he can be relied upon, as Presi-
dent, to foster them.
! Before we notice his votes we will
look at the position which he occupied
upon this great question prior to his cleo
ton as Representative in Congress. We
are indebted entirely to the Nashville
Republican Banner for the compilation
of facts which we presen. below, and in
this article attempt to do no more than
present a portion of the record of the dis
tinguished gentleman under our consider
alton.
First, then--on or before the 22d of
December, 1919, in obedience to the ex-
pressed viii and wish of portions of the
people of Pennsylvania, both Houses of
the Pennsylvania Legislature
-"had passed joint resolutions request
ing their Senators and Representatives in
Congress ''to vote against the admission
of ANY Territory as a State of the Union. -
unless '.the further introduction of slavery
or involuntary servitude, except for the
punishment OF crimes whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall be
prohibited and all children born within
said Territory after the admission into the
/ Union as State, shall be free, but may
be held to service until the age of twenty
FIVE years"
The record fully and unqualifedly es-
tablishes the fact that Mr. BUCHANAN,
ct the time of the passage of the above
referred to resolutions, entertained the
sentiments therein embodied; he being at
the time twenty-nine years of age, and
having been several times a member of
the Pennsylvania Legislature and prom
inent politician in the State These sent
iments, opinions, doctrines, or whatever
you may choose to term them, are, in the
language of the Banner, identical with
those which the Willnot Provisoists and
the Black Republicans Of this day contend
| for
Mir BUCHANAN was elected to Con
gress for the first time III IS2U-cIected.
too, as the reflex and representative OF the
odious sentiments above referred TO. He
was returned to his seat in that body for
Il number of consecutive terms.
On the llth OF April, 1926, Mr. BU-
CHANAN, in a speech before the House,
used the following language in regard to
slavery:
''Permit me here, Mr. Chairman, for a
moment, to speak upon subject to which
have never before adverted upon this
floor, and to which, trust, | may never
again have occasion to advert | mean
the subject of slavery IJetiere 1T to be
a great polticai, and great moral erI
I thank God my tot has bcea cast IN a
State 'rhcre 1t does not ecist
| Ii has been q cursc entail
ed upon as By that nation scAich makes
1t subject Of reproach to our institu-
tioas."
See Gales 4 Seaton's Register of Debates,
page 2,1S0, vol. 2, part 3
This passage from the speech of Mr.
BUCHANAN, AT that time, is worthy the
especial, particular notice of Southern
men, because it is complete foreshad-
owing of his course throughout the whole
of his eventful career Upon the senti-
ments thus expressed by him, as upon an
immovable and indestructible cornerstone.
has he built up the edifce of his renown.
Taking them as a starting point, he has
never for an instant deviated from the line
of policy which they would indicate.
With reference to the subject of slavery,
he has invariably acted in obedience to
the promptings which urged him to the
expression of those views This fact is
proven by his record, to which we appeal.
And yet he is presented to Southern men
as the peculiar guardian and eonservator
of their rights.
In 1886, Mr.. BUCHANAN had advanc-
cd to the position of United States Sena-
tor Here we quote the language of the
Banner preceding and following the ex-
tract from Mr. BUeHANAN's speech in the
Senate, concerning the admission of Ar
kansas into the Union:
''In 1886, NIr. Buchanan, being then
in the Senate of the United States, advo-
Gated the admission of Arkansas into the
Union, on which occasion he said -
''That on the subject of Slavery this
Constitution was more liberal than the
| Constitution of any of the slave-holding
States, that had been admitted into the
Union. 1t preserved the very words of the
other Constitutions in regard to slavery.
But there were other provisions in it in
favor of the slaves. And among them. a
provision which secured to them the right
of trial by jury-thus putting them in