Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-09-30
from The Pittsburgh Gazette.l
Memorable Declarations.


Let US ne, lose sight of the fact, that Mr..
Buchanan and his fellow labore-s in the
great field of pro-Slavery Democracy, are
endeavoring to fusten upon this country
new policy-one which shall make this
great Slave republic. Republicans ! bear
in mind the great fact that in voting for
A ndrew Darke or Thomas Williams you are
voting for doctrines that until the present
Administration no one except John c. Cal
houn ever dared openly to defend-doctriDe
which send Slavery with the fag and the
Constitution of the United States wherever
they go. Had the Republicans, in the
press or on the stump, alleged, in 1856, that
Democracy h.d any such schemes for ex-
tending Slavery as the Administration OF
Buchanan has di sclosed, we had been laugh
ed to Scorn. Yet the President had not
abandoned one single measure which he
has initia,ed--not one. He finds it polite
to keep little dark, just at present. The
principles which govern his Administration
are unal!erable We doubt not.
Let US not forget the following from Pre-
sident Buchanan's letter to Prof. Silliman,
Aug 18th, 1851:
"SLAVERY. existed at that period Goa
and still erists in KANSAS GTUNDERi
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES. Tais point has at last
been 0TFINALLY DECIDED By the.
highsst tribunal Judge Taney) knolgn to
our LapS. How IT coyLn HAVE BEEN
DoUErEp is A MYSTERY.
Or from his message:
alt has been solemnly adjudged by the
highest Juiiri.l Tribunal, that SLAVERY
EXISTS IN KANSAS BY VIRTUE OF
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNI-I
TED STATES. /
nJkapsas is theref fore as much A SLAVE
STATE as GEORGIA OR SOUTH CAR
OLINN'' -r .
Or this, from the Dred Scott decision:
) The African race was so far inferior
that they no rights which the white man
was bound TO respect; and that the negro
might justly and lawfully be reduced to sluv-
cry for his benefit"
Or, turning from those official declarations
lock tor moment at the speeches of lead
ing men, champions of the Democratic par
~. Read this:
from A. G. Bfown's Speech Miss July Ilth 81,
IL heard it from the Presidents Ouch
anan's) own lips, that this thing of Squat
ter Sovereignty was one of THE HOST
DAMNABLE HERESIES that was ever
broached IN this Or any other country, and
that he would leave nothing uudoue TO
THROTTLE IT. He (the Piesi-
den) had no doubt that Walkers upPoin;-
menl " would be cancelled"
from Gov. Hammond : late speech.l
''All the opposition measures of which
the South has complained in the last thirty
years she herself has inauguarated.-'
6FWASHlNGTON JEFFERSON,
IN THE MATTER OF SLAVERY, SET
THE EVIL EXAMPLE. The North bur-
rowed it from them"
lFom lion. l.. NJ. Ksitt's recent speech
The Democratic party he thought was
sounder now than it had been Tor wears. II
was because THE SOUTH WAS NOW
THE MAJORITY IN THAT PARTY,
and had driven Of rom its numbers all the
tainted. iimid and feeble members of it
from the North. He would not predict, bot
in his Judgment; the Black Republicans
would win the election in 1860"
He went to Washington at the begin
ming Of the last session resolved TO oppose
the Administration, but when he got there
he found Mr.. Buchanan upon the platform
OF the South. 1t was thea he determined TO
sustain the President cordially and ungrudg-
ingly
From Col Ofr's Speech upon the same eeessionA
"Whh regard to Slavery, be thought it