The true Democrat., 1856-07-29
From the Kentucky Statesman AND FILLMORE
 ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
FROM THE RECORDS,

l he three parties are now before the country with their platforms and their candidates, and the people are required to decide between them
 The black republican organization being wholly northern faction, whose success would inevi tably dissolve the Union, is only formidable. In consequence of the attempt to divide the vote of the south between the other two parties.
 The American party, or such of them as re- mained after the adoption of the platform of June, 1855, claimed to be national and sound on the slavery question, by virtue of the fa- nous Eth section thereof. They met again in council, February 22d, 1856; repealed the l2tb section of their former patform; denounced the present administration for having passed laws in accordance with it; adopted new plat form, in which the word slavery does not occur; and nominated a candidate who does not men, ton 1t in his letter of acceptance. Swallowed up at the north, and absorbed by the black re- publlcans, they seek to divide the south with the democracy, and throw the election into Con- gress, which is all the republicans desire or ex- pect. The democratic party on the other hand with strong organization in every State in the Unlon, met at Cincinnati in June, 1856, laid down platform which fairly meets the slavery issue Tn all its forms, and nominated candidates who have pledged themselves to carry out that platform in its letter and spirit
 Scarcely was James Buchanan nominated. when islander after islander was circulated against hm-al of which have been, or can be- triumphantly refuted. The charge that he was a federalist in 1912, was silenced by his letter of April 23d, 1847, to Hon. G. w. Jones, of Tennessee, showing that he volunteered as a private, and urged the vigorous prosecution of the war. The " ten cents c aday' charge, was re- tuted by the publication of MT. B.'s speeches in the Senate on the 22d of January, and the Sd of March, 104O. The 'dr0p of bood' calumny was forever put to rest by his letter to the Penn- sylvania Inquirer and Courier February 27, 1888, in which he pronounced the stale slam der utterly and absolutely false, not matter from what source it may have proceeded or shall proceed" While hebargain and 8ale'' charge, (made with a bad grace, by men who have mo- minated and supported for high office MT. Clay's worst enemy in his own district within year) has been thoroughly refuted by Mr. Buchanan's letter of August IS, 1827 See Niles Register, vol. 32, pages 415-16. By Clay's letter to Judge Brooks, August If, 1927. See Colton's private correspondence of Mir. Clay, page 169, also ITS. By Hon. R. P. Letcher's letter of Aug. 27, 1927; Colton's P. c. of Mir. Clay, I'll. 1 By Mir. Clay again at dinner in W asington.- See last years of H. Clay, by Colton, page 29O. |
 But it is urged that MT. Buchanan is free Soiler, and the interests of the south would be unsafe in his hands; and to support this charge, the most important of all others, they go back to resolutions, hostile to the extension of slave ", passed in 1919, by meeting in Lancaster, Pa., and urge his connection with that meeting, as evidence against him now. We refer our readers to the speech of Hon. J. Clancy Jones, of Pa, delivered in Congress, May, 1856, for a full rclutation of that specific charge. But ad- init it to be true, Mir. Buchanan and Mir. Fillmore have both occupied prominent positions before the country since that time and their votes and speeches are part of the public records of the country. We propose to present an abstract of their records upon this question, giving full references, by which to test the accuracy of our statements-more especially since the Ameri- can organ in this city has pledged itself to prove Mir. Buchanan freesoiler, and on the other hand states:
 We ask our readers to turn to the adminis- tration of Willard Fillmore. to read his speeches
 in Congress, to note his votes, and they will find that his record upon the great questions which have agitated and now a2itate the nation, Is clear, consistent, unblotted." d."- Observer 3' Re- porter, June 21st 1856
 Mir. Buchanan entered the Senate of the Unit ed States in 1835-6, at the time when the sa very agitation as at its height His record will show the stand he took on that question. Wr. DuChanan's Record.
 On the 7th of January, 1886, Mr. Buchanan presented to the Senate memorial from so- ciety of Friends in Pennsylvania, requesting Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Mr. Buchanan urged the necessity of adopting some mode of dsposng of all such petitions without debate; expressing his decided conviction that the pray CT of the petition should not be granted, and stating: