Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-01-07
MIR. RucHANAN,s POLICY.
a prominent Pennsylvania paper thus discourscs
as to the course and policy of the President elect:

as to the course and policy of the President elect
Now, without assuming: to speak for Mr. bu-
chanan, or to pronulee hHf views on Tue 'oPies
treated of in the Enquirer, we neVerthe!eSs fe,
ture to assert that Governor Biger, and poDooy
oIsc is himself responsible for what he SAID on
the floor of the Senate; and further, that neither
the Pepnsylvanian, nor any other newspaper
sncaks by authority of the President elect: MI.
Ruchonon is now. what he has been 1or the iast
thirty wears or more, thorough gong Sta.e
R;obts constitutional democratic statesman OF the
Tefsrson and Jackson school, and in bis admins
tration of the government will be actuated, we
have not doubt by determination to 10 e9uai
and exact iustce-to every portion OF the mon
His course of policy will know no North' no SouLn,
no East, no West. The constitution -will De ms ms
compass and his chart. By it, and 1t alone, wia Ea
be seek to guide the ship Of State; and OF MS
a,,;iI as not at the helm, and the lofty patriot
ism with which he will he actuated, no one VINO m
is nersonally acquainted with the man can have a
solitary doubt The Enquirer may, therefore, well
reteratc its expression of implicit confidence IN
1 the President elect This confidence, We venture
to onticipate and predict, will not be shaken du'
rinu the next presidential term by any act OF bis
His course of policy we doubt not, will be alike
satisfactory to his friends and the lovers OF the
Union in Virginia and Pennsylvania, in georgia ano
Indiana But that policy has not yet oeen aouul:
brated, except in his endorsement of the einclna!
platform and in his letter accepting the nomf
| nation.
We. therefore respectfully advise our Southern
democratic friends to keep cool. The President
elect has always stocd By their constitutional
rights when assailed by abolitonism OF every hue
and Grade; and, we firmly believe he will stano
hv them to the end. Ho is, therefore, entitled te
t6cir generous confidence even in advance OF liz
INAUGURATION as the Chief Magistrate of the nc
nublic Let them not permit the opinions OF
4 B. or c. who, we again aver, speak OF their OWL
responsibilitv to weaken their faithi the ntegri
ty of the President elect If Providence, spare
i his life until the fourth Of March next, ne WI
then take the oath of Office and enunclate !ot
principles and policy which he intends earry,nl
ont in his administration, and when he does tina
We have every reason to believe the Enqulrera"u
be abundantly satisfied.
So far as Senator Bigler in concerned, We KNOW
him to be true-heated conservative Union-loVinE
democrat. who will stand by the constitution am
the rights of tho States in every emergency. III
!, is well-tried and faithful democratic statesman
and We have no fear that he wlprove recreant,
| word or deed to the great principles which hay
always been his guiding star, and which are
dear to every democrat throughout the oroao eA
pause of our glorious Union
In COnneCtlOQ WlGIl Ine loIeSohiS, We
approval of Mr.. Buchanan in saying that the fo
lowing extract from the Southslde democrat state
correctly his position
GAS for Kansas, Mr.. Buchanan has never es
pressed an opinion either one way or the other, !
favor of its coming in as q free or slave state
:. He has prudcntly conceived that it is a matte
with which he has nothing to do, and with whic
he does not mean to meddle. 1t is a question ea
r c,usively with the people of the Territory, wit
! whom he is content to leave it for solution.
will see to it that the principles of the NebrasS
law are carried out in letter and spirit, lmpartal
and without fear, favor, or affection.
This exposition of Mr.. BrcHANAN's sentiment
5 has very much the air of authority and sncerit.
There is degree of modesty and an absence
pretentiousness abouti which cannot fail 10 strR
every reader of taste and experience. We hay
no doubt thatits distinguished subject will rIsid
+ adhere to the chart here foreshadowed. His al
tecedepts, his associations his grade Of Statesman
. ship the school of which he is so able and
= faithful representative, the links that eonne
:, n him 80 intimately with the good and great OF
/. past and better day, his Christian worth and i
: tarrcr TT MS aurn11Isrrarrun wnlcH 1ew aar'
: since WAsuISaroy have commanded. True, h
), has arduous obstacles to surmount, pcrious Shoa
!, to escape But with the honest and brave bacl
ing of all good patriots over this wide and glorol
n country Of ours, he will (if any man can) guit
b the slip of State safely amid the gales Of pop'
o lar fury which in one section Of the Union see
to threaten her with shipwreck. 1t is warn
+ generous, energetic undcspai:ing support. th'
: will carry him, and US, and Our country, and OF
institutions, right on in the road of success and
glory. God grant he may prove himself altoscth'
r worthy of this support, and that he may recei'
it cordially and fully, at the hands Of the Amer
can people!