New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-08-17
FREMONT VS.. BUCHANAN,

affair, and reflected credit upon M;rect,v ~ ;nd;
managers, and, no doubt, exercig ehout tba STATE.
rectly considerable influence several letters read
Several speeches were made ;tic;ans Among the
from prominent Democratic, Tohn c,,aell n was
letters was one from the 10 ia 1sss--was lengthy,
dated Washington, Ay sansive @ and seemed to us
and rather discursive f 1aosl ns,form @ for his ad
4 to be intended as c sct @ mon.
herents in this ST as' fsa, ~. letter Of Senator
.nu ,u Worthy of reproduction. in view OF
losl ~, " Ne lately transpired Said the Senator,
.a,s .sen.s .,close of very long letter:
hesitate declare, that If Fremont be elected the
| u ld9e II az 9en1os and ought not to be preserved" "A
ivy ~ well. We have Senator slidells word for it,
-, in 1856, the Union could not and ought not to
spreserved in the event of the election Of Col Ere.
mont to the Presidency of the United States This
language is strong-in fact, unqualified Disunion,
in the happening of then probable contingency,
permeates every letter. breathes through every sya
Bile, and endows with vitality the whole paragraph.
Now, what was the main plank in the Black Repub-
lcan platform, on which the Freesoers sought to
secure the election of Fremont last year? Here is,
substantially Opposition to the extension Of sa-
very into Territories now free.' The Fremonters
didn't propose to interfere with slavery in the States
didn't propose to abridge the existing constitutional
rights of Shareholders averred, times nnumera-
BE, that their object was to prevent the spread of
slavery over the Territories which they contended
were free and ought to be free for all time to come
This was, we repeat, the principal plank OF the Re
publican platform and it Fremont carried most OF
the Northern States while Mr.. Buchanan running on
the boasted Cincinnati platform, carried all the slave
States but one, and barely enough Northern States
to ensure his election.
The Southern people were eloquently invoked to
vote for Buchanan in order to save Kansas to the
South and the Northern people were mpiored to vote
for Fremont to save Kansas to the North These IN
yocatons as before set FORTH were responded to with
unparalleled unanimity by the people both North and
south, but it so occurred that the scale Inclined
slightly in favor of Buchanan and he won the glitter
ing presidential prize. Then the Southern people
having thrown aside the most faithful friend they
ever had in the executive Office of the nation since
they had occasion to have friend in that oice-re-
joiced with exceeding joy that Kansas was saved to
the South, or would be- through the instrumentaty
Of James Buchanan-the South's own honored and
almost exclusively elected President.
Well, time wore on-Mr. Buchanan was duly in
augurated-his opening address, consisting mainly Of
generates susceptible of different interpretations in
different sections was read and pronounced satisfac
tory all around-and the people evinced most com
mendable patience in awaiting the unfolding of his
foreign and domestic policy. The journals, in the
interest of the administration, declared, with faith
that wearied not in the labor of reiteraton that the
President would meet all just and reasonable demands
of the countrythat the interests Of the South were
safe in his keeping-and that all his pledges, ex-
press and implied, would be redeemed. And the
opposition journals stated that if such proved the
they would interpose no ctious obstacles to obsruct
the full success of an administration inaugurated
under such promising auspices.
The protracted delay in appointing Governor Of
Kansas in which Territory the Freesoers were
waging relentless war upon the South, caused some
little talk, that was rpening into discomfort, and
might have led to suspicion, had not the Democratic
papers positively assured their constituents that the
President was carefully looking round to obtain the
services of Governor who would be sure to do the
South justice, theoretically and practically At last
the proper man obtained in the person OF Robert
| j. Walker. He proceeded to Kansas. His first aci
was one of unmitigated hostility to the South wholly
/ uncalled for and unjustiiabe. His succeeding act
have been of a similar character all marked by
4 determination on his part to make Kansas fre
State These acts Of Walker raised storm Of indig
nation against him throughout the South The peo
ple saw that they had been betrayed-that their lido
Of yesterday was the traitor of to-day and that thei
votes had been sought for and obtained under falls
pretences. Democratic State Conventions denounced
| Walker and demanded his removal at the hand
Of the President. Democratic statesmen inyeighet
against his base treachery in terms as bitter as th
language would permit, and Democratic primar.
meetings, candidates and newspapers, from Virgins
to Arkansas, all Joined in chorus Of indignant de
nunciation of the migrate Governor!
Still he was not removed by President Buchanan
nor will he be- Instead of being recalled in disgrace
he is retained in office. Instead of his acts -bein
disayowed, they are endorsed Instead of listening
the voice of the Southern people the President turn
i deaf ear to them, and only hears what their enc
mics have to say. And the upshot of the whole mat
ter will be- for there is no doubt everything was
ranged before Walker left Washington, that kansa
will come into the Uuion as a free State, which wi
secure, beyond peradventure, the whole of the mag
nifcent Territories of the Northwest to the dominic
z of our Freeso antagonists.
II Further security than this the Freesoiers neve
wanted. They fought for the election of Fremont
obtain the control of the Territories of the Northwes
The Southern people fought for the election of Bucl
anan to prevent them from obtaining that contro
> And although the Freesoilers were apparently d
feated last November the result has proved that the
were the winning party. For they have got all the
batted for, and the South has iost all it batled for
Then, to reduce the proposition contained in Sc
ator Sdell's letter of August 10, 1885, to practc
that the election Of Fremont ought to dissolve tt
Union, ought not the conduct of President Buchana
in carrying out and enforcing the openly avowed,
fact only important policy of the supporters Of FIR
mont, towit: the exclusion of slavery from free Te
ritories- s-eventuatein in a similar result?
There is but a shade of difference between the tv
individuals and that is in favor of Fremont. Fremo
: would have used openly and manfully, the inf
: : ence Of his administration to make Kansas fir
: State. Buchanan has exerted the same inhuene
!. : through his instrument, Walker, but in surrep
tious and treacherous manner. He has struck CO
6 ding friends staggering blow while Fremont cou
:, only have warred upon them as enemies. This
about the only difference between Buchanan and Fl
mont so far as Southern rights, interests and hon
=, are concerned.
Address to the People of Louisiana.