Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-16

| lOckef. DuG mI. DuCuatp5u WAS appOiutc'
BY President ierce, in 1858, to fill tb
high and important mission Of Minister t.
England; and while there was removes
from the scenes of domestic politics 'kh'
quietly and unobservantly watched tn
progress of events at home pending an
succeeding the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise line.
Mr.. BUCHANAN FOR AND AGAINST THE
MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
Mr.. Buchanan had been known for hi
attachment to that line. In 1889, while
student at law, Mr.. Buchanan had sttende,
a meeting at Lancaster, Penn, in whicl
he de ounced it. But Subsequently, il
ls47, he came out in his celebrated Buck
county letter, and stated that the only wa.
to settle the slavery Question was to ru'
that line to the Pac fic, SO as to secure t.
the North and the South the benefit tpot
each side of it, as proposed by its origina
friends. Therefore it was that while at |
foreign court, absent from his own coun
Try, his name became peculiarly the nam
to which the American people looked a
the name which would lead the Democrat
ic patty to victory. Again his Democrats
friends of Pennsylvania moved forward
We saw the time had come when our can
didate and champion could be presented
to the people. We repaired to Cincinnati
all home rivalry bad been extinguished.-
The bitterness growing out of the repeal o
the Missouri line, and the passage of the
Kansas Nebraska bill had removed from
the field all other candidates so we thought
The Cass men and the Dallas men il
Pennsylvania made common cause to pre-
sent this gentleman for nomination. Wber
we reached Cincinnati the first thing thai
appeared was this: The South, the extreme
South, had resolved upon Mr.. Buchanan.
annihilation. They saw in him type o.
moderate conservative sentiment. They
saw in him, for the first time, a public mar
who, having been absent from the cothect-
ed and disconnected from the existing ri,
valries of the day, would he compelled
from his position to do justice TO the North
ern feeling and to estitgtish sectiohafisln.
They did not trust him upon the issues Of
the day. He was not good enough Kan
sas-Nebraska man for them, and they
fought us, rs the records show, during
five long days, with bitterness and ami
mostly such as political conventions can
hardly rival. He was the only man tc
prevent the election of a Republican. He
was the only man who could carry Penn
sylxania, and upon the contest in thai
State did the entire tide of battle turn
From your own State singular disposi
ton was manifested in certain quarters; il
those quarters where now this disease Of
Lecomptonisin RACES most furiously. From
those quarters Mr.. Buchanan received moth
ing but coldness and contempt. But We
nominated him. We returned to Penusyl
vania after that time, joyous in having
achieved our long desired wishes; and
when we returned there we CAME With the
full and confident hope THAT there would
he no difficulty in electing man whose
nature was believed TO be conservative
whose character was believed to be 50
prudent, and whose entire record was So
national and constitutional.
WHAT BUCHANAN SAID IN HIS ows PAR.
LoR.
At that time, / believe the Republicans
themselves abandoned the campaign-they
looked to his nomination as their death
blow. They looked round in vain for a
candidate, but found none. But there i:
no necessity for spinning out these details
10 unnecessary length. But later, however
was brought on serious of excltements
such as, believe, were never before wit
messed in our country. By the middle Of
August the campaign became more than
doubtful! Because the opinion of the
North had been stirred to its deepest
depths, by the excesses of the Pro-Sla.
yery minority. backed by the Federal
power in the Territory of Kansas. That
was the only question. 1t was not the
Ostend Conference. 1t was not the Pa
cifc Railroad. 1t was nothing but the
single issue, shall the people of Kansas bt
permitted to dispose of their own affairs In
their own way? Shall they vote upon all
their domestic Institutions, unmolested BY
the bayonets of the Administration on the
one hand of foreign marauders tpon the
other? No man felt more deeply in refer
ence to Kansas than Mr.. Buchanan. Nc
man talked more freely about it. In hi
letter of acceptance, and in the speech
which he delivered to the committee ap
pointed by the National Convention, to in
form him of his nomination-and | wa
present in his parlor in Lancaster when b
received them-he laid stress upon tn
great principle, that the will of the major
ity of the people of that Territory shoul'
prevail. Why, he said to me Thousand
times-the South must vote for me; it j
Fremont or Buchanan; they must vote 70
me; the North must be secured, and tn
only way to secure the North is to convint
them that when 60 into the Presidentia
chair, will do right to the people of Kan
sas. am now sixty-six years of age.
have reached that time of life when hav
no ambition for reelection, or if | have
the only way to secure it, is to be stroh
with my people at home. l have watci
ed this struggle from my quiet retreat ! !
London. l have seen what l conceive
be the mistake of others. am not n
sponsible for the administration of Pres
dent Pierce; therefore, will inaugurate
new system; l will show to those gentl..
men that Pennsylvania President wi
stand firm to The pledges Of Pennsylsa,nl
Democat. Now fellow citizens, IN th'
letter of acceptance, if you will refer to
it is not necessary for me to refer TO
here=you will find that he stated distlnc