The Washington union., 1857-09-19


of Mr.. Buchanan. II for a moment there has rested
upon your minds passing doubt OF the fidelity a the
President to your rights and interests confidently APP
peal to your of truth and Justice to know If any
such doubt still remains Can any airinded man read
this letter and s dstrust the President Can any true
hearted democrat turn his back upon the author OF the doc
unent lay before them Look at its principles
study its doctrines reed it line by line and paragraph by
paragraph and can you find single word or sentiment
TO which Your whole soul does not respond with hearty
aad cordial amen Judging your feeling by our own, we
confident that the people of this district viii never
consent to assume an attitude of hostility TO Mr. Bu-
chanas administration No man can receive their votes
and support who may seek office that he may war upon
the administration of James Buchanan. Indeed may
not hope that all such candidates will retire from the
field and longer insult the intelligence and patriotism
of the people by seeking an endorsement of their most
unjust charges against the Presidentf May we not ap
peal to Mr. Simmons and his peculiar friends to know if
he and they expect the honest masses of the old
sixth to send to Congress their representative
who has taken particular pains to commend himself to
the enemies of the democratic party by denouncng
our noble Chief Magistrate Read th.is letter. Mr.
Simmons and il there remains in Iur bosom one spark
of the old democratic fire wlch once burned upon your
political atars let it be pekndled to burn out the dark
stain which yo have placed with your own hand upon
your escp.cneon. Retire from position into which you
were duced by your vanity and which you can only re-
lain with political dishonor. If you democrat, as
you profess to be- then do justice to the chieain whom
you have aided to power II, on the other hand you
have abandoned your principles well your party,
announce it boldly and seek longer to obtain office in
mode that will compel you to deceive or the other
class of your supporters 1t gives pleasure to pen
these lines about Mr.. Simmons but these thoughts in
voluntarily arise in mind when In reading the letter
of Mr. Buchanan, we reflect upon the fact that man,
protesting to be democrat permits himself to be used
by his political enemies to break down the administration
and destroy the democratic party.
But to return to the letter of Mr. Buchanan,
ask for it the calm and unpreudiced consideration of
every reader When you have read it, give it to your
nephbOr anda ask him q read it Let wives.
mothers and your daughters read it, that every patriotic
heart in the land may unite in doing Justice to the man
who has the moral courage in these days of tmidy and
reachery to do justice to all portions of our glorious
| country.
From the Macon (Ga) Telegraph
At length we find this much talked of correspondence
in the Washington Union of the Sd instant We will
make comment upon the arrogance of these memori-
aiss 1t is in keeping with that of the three thousand
clergymen who undertook TO Congress by
protest in the of Almighty God against the Kan
bill 1t is in pursuance of what to be dar
ling scheme with the clergy of this school, to domneer
in virtue Of their sacred calling the politics and par
ties of the countryto carry their authority altogether
beyond its legitimate sphere and control matters of State
through the natural of the people for religion
and its ministers 1t Is fortunate they cannot back their
pretensons with fire. rack, and thumb-screw or they
would take to them much quicker than to their "pray
! ers."
In his reply Mr. Buchanan, if anybody could have
riousy doubted him, places himself res in cia upon all
regard to the preposterous allegation that he favor
ed congressional prohibition in principle He declares it
mystery that the of this doctrine should ever
have been doubted Note second in regard to the gu
sovereignty allegations When Territory to decide
the slavery question 'sWhen the peopethe bona fde
residents of such to frame State con-
stitution. Who these people us to Kansas
EVERY bona fde inhabant of the Territory who had
sided therein three months previous to the election In
word Mr. Buchanan not only susains the territorial
government in the general but he endorses in particular
right and proper in themselves the restrictions and
limitations of the territorial laws upon suffrage And in
the submission of the constitution to the people, he speaks
of it as thing of course but he also speaks of it as
thing pertaining to the convention and to be regulated by
them. a
the Nashville CTenn) Union.
The correspondence which publish to-day between
President Buchanan and Prof Siman, of Yale College,
and other forty three reverend and lay aboonsts of that
lk will be read with great interest by all parties The
reply Of the President abe lucid and pointed paper
setting forth clearly the points of the case in contro-
vesy and applying the law and the constitution to them
in such cannot fail to convince all those
who not dcterminedy blind upon the merits of the
controversy.
In reply the charge that he has employed the army
of the United States of forcing the people Of
Kansas to obey laws not their own of the United
States and upon which they aaign him violating his
oath of Office and otherwise acting in manner deroga
tory national character Mr. Buchanan nerposes
certain historical facts and thereupon bases arguments
which completely demolish the statements of Slliman
and his colleagues He reminds the memoralists, who
assert the right of the people to make their laws
that the Territory of Kansas had been lawfully oganzed
that all branches of legal and constitutional govern
ment in full operation when he entered upon the
duties of his station that code of laws had been enact
ed by the territorial Legislature and that the Judiciary
engaged in expoundng and carrying these laws into
effect All the requirements of the constitution and the
act of Congress organizing the Territory of Kansas had
been fully complied with and the rights of the people of
that Territory stood precisely upon the same footing
those of the other Territories.
The President then proceeds to define what his du
ties under the constitution and shows that it is for the
performance Of these very duties that he finds him
self subjected to the of the memorialists In
regard to the question of slavery far 1t concerns
this Kansas controversy, the views of the President
truly sound and national, and such as will commend
themselves to the appreciation of all fair men in every
section We question if the know nothing press of
Tennessee will find fault with them, much they
disposed to everything that from demo-
cratic Upon this point however, nous rerrons
In the concluding portion of this admirable reply the
President audes, in very pointed manner to the rea
sonable proceedings of the Topeka conventonists, and
hints in way not to be mistaken at what will be the in
evabc result if those engaged in this movement to
the execution of the laws of the Territory persist in
their course. The whole power of the government will
be employed to support the constitution and the laws
and to crush out treason and rebellion Upon the whole
this letter is one of the bescam and deliberate in its
simple and graceful in its firm and decided
in its posons--and commend it to careful perusa
by all who would know the true position of the Pres
dent upon the much-vexcd Kansas question.
From Orleans Pcayune.
1t forms part of the object of this article to COM
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