The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-03-09
9 ..'GIl,Bls: BE-. ,C.!rabi5 q Sentinel,
The cAdministrat ton of James Bu-
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Inc aole and talented editor OF the Chilli
eothe Advertiser recently wrote the following t.
hispapsr, which we fully, freely and cordially
endorse. After an absence OF three years from
Washington City, he says:-"Another man nov
occupies the Presidential Chair, and he is tn
President. This fact has given to some of hi.
professed friends in days gone by much dis
pleasure, and has converted them into bitter op
ponents. There are those who have held 0
prominent place in the public eye who urged
the nomination and election Of Mr.. Buchanan
because they thought his election would con.
duce specially to their advantage. The consid
erations of self dwarled the considerations per-
tanning to the welfare Of the country. These
patriotic individuals thought that their abors in
his behalf should entitle them to controlling
voice in the Administration of the Government
that it should be made to minister to their am.
lbiton. Mr. Buchanan was ready to acknowl.
edge their services, but was not ready to ignore
the fact, that had he not been the statesman he
was-ripe like in years and experience, and
cool headed and conservative-t people would
never have elevated him to the Presidency, NO
matter what the gentlemen might have said or
written who have undertaken to use him, but
failed in the attempt. Arrogance, or egotism
certainly, is made 10 blush at the assumption
Of a Sundry few gentlemen that they made Mr.,
Buchanan President 1t was the people who
did it, and before two years elapse after his re-
from ha ho 10,
uar with the people than any other President
was after the expiration of the same period OF
time subsequent to his retiracy. And for this
there are causes abundantly adequate.
= Although the Administration that preceded
his was Democratic alegacy of trouble was be &.
qneathed his Administration by it. Gen. Pierce
was elected on a platform that committed HIM
and the Democratic party to resist the slavery
agitation either in or out of Congress. There
was no mistakipg the Democratic Platform in
this particular. 1t was explicit, positive man
'datory. In 1850, when Henry Clay, the great
commoner, introduced his Omnibus bill, and
'enunciated and sustained the great truth, that
the people Of the Territories, when they come
to form Constitution preparatory to seeking
admission into the Union as State, should he
.atperfect liberty to decide for themselves the
nature of their domestic institutions, the obvi
Gus mslning Of which was that if they desired
the institution of African Slavery they might
have it, and il they did not want it they could
say SO, and Congress was not at liberty to inter-
pose an objection to tie admission Of Terri
tory as . State simply on this ground; he did
not seem to think that the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise was essential to the thorough
establishment Of the doctrine of non ,intery-n-
ton. Probably he thought that, nasmach as
this compromise had in its day served saluta-
Ty purpose, ndathoush practically no effect,
IL was useless to repeal it. Had he thought it
necessary, certainly he would have made its re-
peal part Of his Omnibus bill, which afterwards
took the name OF Compromise measures Of 1850.
It is very true that the most enlightened and
ing Of . measure or set of measures. Mr..
Douglas, however, in 1854 became impressed
with the idea that the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise was absolutely necessary to the
complete establishment of the doctrine o non
Intervention. Some may insist that this idea
did not originate with Mr.. Douglas, as it was
first brought forward by Senator Dixon, oil Ken
tucky; but it must be borne in mind that Sena
tor Dixon did not desire its repeal because it
would leave the doctrine Of non interven ton
untramneled. but because there was likeli
hood, in his opinion, that if the repeal were
consumatcd; slavery might protitably be taken
on to some OF the soil covered by that restrc.
ticn Mr.. Douglas appears not to have permit
ted that consideration to have had any weight
with him, and his friends in the Free States
unhesitatingly proclaimed that by no possibili-
ty could any Of the territory covered by that re :
striction be carved into Slave State, in the
event its repeal. The Republicans represent.
cd the matter differently, and by concert with
the Know NOTTINGHAM order Of huge proper.
tons that was begotten under the Pierce Ad
ministration--the Democratic party, that in
1852 had achieved one OF the most brilliant vic
tories ever achieved in this country. was ignobly
vanquished at almost every point in 1854
This demoralzation Of the party was not all. -
Some misguided men in tho South acted on
Senator Dixon's idea that Slavery could be car.
ried into Kansas, now that the NJ ssouri restric-
ton had been Withdrawn, and they undertook
to shape matters in that Territory as would re-
suit in making ita Slave State. or course, tha,
4 led the counter action among some of those
whose dogma is no more Slave States-no more
Slave Territory. An association was formet
here in this city to prevent the consummatiou
Of the aim Of the Slavery propasandists in Kan.
sas, I, This association was followed by the in
corporation ofthe Emigrant Aid Associa iation by
4 the Legislature Of Massachusetts,, with a large
capital, 70 furnish men and munitions Of war t
thwart the Slavery propagandists IN this pur
pose Of theirs. Collisions ensued in Kansas, anc
when Mr.. Buchanan was inaugurated, affairs in
|, Kansas were in the worst possible condition =
/ Things are quiet there now; men are pursuing
their avocations with the same degree Of socuri
tyas they would pursue them were they resi-
|, dents Of any of the States. While Presiden
\ Buchanan was not party to the measure tina
formed the cornerstone of all this trouble,
wss'by the measure which he approved ant
which Mr.. Douglas disapproved, the peace ant
order have been reinstated on the soil wher
thsy held undisputed supremacy bs fore Douglas
Piereo, Forusy q Co., brought about the repca