The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-10-15
HIS NoRrHaRs FacE-The Lancaster Intel

ligencer, published near Buchanan's place Q
residence, and which enjoys the position of be
ing his personal organ, must be considered th
highest authority in all things relating to tina
gentlemen's3 opinions and principles, whethe
they be intended for the private or public cal
No one can dispute its authority TO speak, AM
none can doubt its devotion to "Old Buck" ant
his interests Tie attention ofthe southern de
moeracy is asked to- the following pertinent ar
ticle, which appeared in the columns Of tina
paper, on the 9Th uIt. The article speaks 70
Itself: zI -.
FACTS TO BE REMEMBERED.-Who nomina
ted Mr.. Buchanan? Let it be borne in mint
/ (says the Steuben Farmers Advocate that
auos the north On che first ballot in the Gin
cinnati convention be received one hundred an.
nine uotes from the free states.a and dut Thirty
four votes from the slave States. The southern
States, with but two or three exceptions, votee
against him In a body up to the lastbaIlo,, whel
they yielded to the force of public opinion
Yet, on every hand, you hear the abolition
orators and papers: crying out that he is tht
southern candidate-in fayorof the extension o
slavery. DC. DC. James Buchanan has been il
public life for overthirty years, and aoe chal
lenge any man to produce Tie first sgord or act te
prove these base assertions OF an unscrupulous
opposition. He was born and educated, and
has always lived in free State-and his pub
lie life gives the lie to the charge that he ever
favored the extension Of slavery ~ g.m
I Such are the words of Mr.. Buchanans own
special organ, and as Mr.. Breckenridge stated
in his speech al Tppecanoe, that lie [Brecken-
ridge, was connected with no party that has
for its object the extension Of slavery" we
feel for those southern rights gentlemen who
have SO yalliantly and yehemently sworn that
Buchanan and Breckenridge were the friends
of the south and ''sound on the slavery ques-
tion.' NJ. Buchanan's own organ, and there
fore officially, repudiates all they have advanc-
ed, and declares that gentleman never favored
the extension Of slavery; while Mr.. Brecken-
ridge, speakins, in his own behalf, in person and
with his own mouth declares the very same
thing. We suppose that henceforth the vaunt-
ed nationality of she democracy will consist
of its hostility to the extension of slavery.
The Intelligencer| calls attention to the facts,
and request that the .'be remembered" that
it was the north that nominated Mr.. Buchanan,
that he received on the very first ballot 100
votes from the anti-slavery States, while all
the slave States, with two OF three exceptions,
voted against him in body up to the last bal
lot" when the. southern delegates abandoned
their favorites, and yielded to the north, or
rather to ':she force of public opinion at the
north The only object the Inteligencer had
in view, in Eehearsing the action of the Cincin-
natl convention, was to show beyond the posi-
oility of ca7il that Mr.. Buchanan is the candi-
late of the northern democrats, and not the choice
'f the southern wing of that party; and it wish
IS its readers to remember that Mr.. Buchanan |
was born and educated, and has always lived
q free State-and his public life gives the lie
0 the charge that he ever favored the extension
f slavery to prove that he has no sympathy
nth the south, to show that he is thoroughly
northern man, and for the purpose Of making
apital among the freesoilers.
Mr. Bucbanan's osgan also wishes it "to be
emembered" that during the thirty years he
as been in public liie ait challenges" the pro-
uction of the first word or act to prove that !
II. Buchanan ever favored the extension of
avery. And this boast cannot, of cou1se, be
lewed in other light than that, it is to serve as
guarantee to the north that Mr. Buchanan {
i'll never favor the extension Of slavery. t
Such, undoubtedly, are the ''facts'' which |
lie Intelligencer desires ''to be remembered !
7 its readers, and such the face which Mr.. :
uchanan wears in Pennsylvans-hisn northern
ce for home use. What do the people OF c
e south-the planters of louisiana think OF t
re "facts' which the north is called upon to )
member? Compare these 'facts" with the p
sertions, protestations and harangues of those
ectioneering and stump speaking for Buchan- f
! throughout the southern States, and see o
neither they agree in any way. Mo- The :,
acts put forth by the Intelligencer, are the h
ry reverse Of the statements made by the n
at the south. 1t is, therefore, S
parent that either the northern or the south O
n section Of his partisans are endeavoring to
slead and deceive the people. The question y =
en- is which of the divisions, the Pennsylva- "
1 or the southern, are guilty ofthe decep,ion9 P
, answer is required. Mr. Buchanan S own Il
gan, speaking for himself, endorses the state a
ants OF his Pennsylvania adherents, and chal- ii
ages ''any man to prove" the representations h
ade by his friends at the SOUTH Dare any o
uthern democrat take up the gaue:et thrown Y
Mr.. Buchanan's organ? Can it be expect v
that any true southerner, after reading over II
e foregoing democratic ''facts to be remem-
red, can vote for Buchanan. Is the south n
this time time prepared to export him, be- d
use he has never in the course of his life ia <
red the extension of slavery, and now advo- $
tes the anti-soathern dogma Of squatter SOW "
eighty? A
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The great excitement on the streets, yester- s.
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