Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-04-22


sigued them
Mr.. j. CLANCY JONES. Do |
understand him to say that lac signed
them?
Mr.. kILGORE. understand from
the report of the papers published at
that time, that Mr.. buchanan was one
Of a Committee Of three men who re-
ported these same resolutions
Mr. j. CLANCY JONES. Iwish
the gentleman would give lis his au-
thority,
Mr.. KILGORE. You win find it
in the Lancaster Ihtelligcncer. volume
ri, No. II. published in 1919. anau
Mr. j. CLANCY JONES. With
the permission of the gentleman de-
sire to say a word | have had occa-
sion more than once to repeat what !
am now about to say upon this subject
and that is, that Mr. Buchanan never
signed the resolutions. and they never
had his sanction in any shape or form.
His name was attached to them with
out his authoritv-as frequently hap
pens-without his knowledge or as
sent. That is the simple history OF
the matter. serrs.. f..0,
Mr.. klLGORE. 1t is too late to
deny this record after silence of 40
years.
Mr. PURVIANCE. / desire to ask
my colleague if Mr. Buchanan did ever
in any shape or form disavow the res
olutions at that time?
Mr.. FLORENCE. No; nor at any
other time that he was assailed.
Mr.. j. CLANCY JONES. / am
not aware that he did.
Mr.. KlLGORE. ! can not admit
Tho cross firing.
Mr.. GROW. | would like to ask
my colleague if Mr. Buchanan was in
favor of the Missouri Compromise?
Mr.. j. CLANCY JONES. He
gave his assent to it as peace meas
ure when every leading Patriot in the
country, North and South, advocated
its passage to save the Union.
Mr.. KlLGORE. | am informed
that these resolutions were published
in the newspapers of his own town. at
the time, aud that no one assumed to
contradict it. | have no doubt, Mr.
Chairman, that Mr.. Buchanan's S
friends would be very anxious to deny
a great many things connected with
his political history.
But. sir, | was rcmarking that | oc-
cupy the position occupied by Mr..
Clay, and the position occupied--as !
understand it-by Mr.. Buchanan at
that particular time. | will not pre-
tend to say what Mr.. Buchanan's opil-
ions are now admit that this is an
age of progression, and that he is re-
markably progressive for an old gen
tleman. 1t perhaps would not bc
amiss for me to remark here, that in
stead of being an Abolilionist, as the
persons with whom | act are charged
with being. | am n Free State man.
| was born and reared in Slave
State, and | am proud of the State OF
my nativity, for it is one of the nobleSt
of the old States of this Union. She
has furnished heroes to the field, and
statesmen to the council of the Nation
1t is the land of the lamented Clay. =
But, as said, | now represent here q
Free interest. The State of my adop-
ton is surrounded with every thing
that is calculated to endear me to Free
Institutions. When | contrast the
state of things there with what learn
of the condition of the extreme South.
ern States, | am proud of my position
How do we stand? We have our free
schools, we have our churches; we
have our academies; we have our char
liable institutions for the benefit of the
deaf and dumb, the blind, and the in
sane. We have our thousands OF
miles of railroads. our fields teeming
with abundance, our thriving towns,
our flouishing cities-everv thing to
endear us to our home. Can those
gentlemen who have denounced us on
this floor as Abolitionists say as much
for themselves? / refer, for the con
dition of the extreme Southern States,
to the declarations of men who know
all about them; who are not speaking
at random, but who have been living
witnesses of what they have described.
My friend from Missouri, Mr.. Blair J
did not exhaust all the materials yes
terday. Gentlemen have hunted up
the records of pauperism and crime in
some of the Northern States, particu-
larly in the State of New York. To that
l have no election. New York is rep
resented here by gentlemen who are
able to defend her and her Institutions.
But / would call the attention of gen.
tlemen to a few facts connected with
the history of South Carolina. The
gentleman from Missouri, (Mr Blair J
quoted from a speech made by Mr..
Gregg. in 1851, before the South
Carolina Institute. There is a part,
however, which he did not quote, and
which / will read:
From the best estimates (says Mr..
Gregg that have been able to make,
put down the white people who ought
to work, and who do not, or are so
employed as to be wholly unproduc-
tive to the State, at one hundred and
twenty five thousand"
Out of a population of three hundred
thousand, at the outside, there are one
hundred and twenty five thousand who
are not employed at all, or SO employ
ed as to be wholly useless. Mr.. Gregg
follows this up by stating that all the
capital, enterprise, and intelligence of
South Carolina. are employed in di-
recting Slave Labor; and that 1.-THE
consequence is, that large portion of
our poor white people are wholly neg
laetsl and n ro Suffa,n1 IN xvh,ia aua,