Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-04
PresIaent Rnehanan,s DeelInatIon.

The venerable occupant Of the White House
has written one letter which the nation ap-
proves II is short to the point, and hits the
nail on tho head Buchanan declines to be a
candidate icr reelection to the Presidency As
if he were not TO be believed over his own sig.
nature on this delicate point of mans ambition
his official organ, the Washington Constitution,
adds its assurances that "under no cireumstan-
ces will he be a candidate for re election -
This is relief to the Democracy, and the
whole people breathe freeT and deeper. A sec
ond infcton of misrule under the same ruler
is escaped at all events.
The Constitution, rs in duty bound, glorfes
the non candidate on the brilliant success of
his reign, "and declares that Mr. Buchanan will
leave behind him record of which any states
man and patriot might feel proud" SO said
the Madsonian when John Tyler laid down the
sceptre. Buchanan's organ declares also that
"he will have accomplished the great desire of
his heart"-wiil have "restored the same har-
mony among the sister States which prevailed
before this apple of dscord, in the form of
slavery agitation, had been cast into their
midst" The "desire of his heart" must be
easily satisfied, for the truth is, the "apple of
discord" referred to has never been Sc generally
and so bitterly tasted in this nation as under
the administration of James Buchanan There
has been and is no composing of the differences
of the States on the slavery question The
differences, in fact, have been widenod i'm
measurably by his prO-slavery policy and meas
ures.
On the Kansas question the South bornd the
President band and foot He stuck doggedly
for LecomPton, and aenated Douglas and his
men The Nfreemen OF Kansas triumphed in de-
fance Of Border Rufianism and Executive ops
preston. They have cOnsecrated the new
State to freedom forever, in spite of the resist
ance of every btanch Of the federal Administra.
ton, bacFed b bayonets and bowie knives.
The "desire of his heart" was thwarted, and
that continually.
The acquisition of Slave territory is also the
desire of his heart" Cuba has been and is
coveted Thirty millions were asked as an Of
fer for fresh slave acquisitions and agitations.
ongress, Democratic at that, wisely withheld
the corruption fund. Military possession of the
Northern States of Mexico, to enlarge the area
of slavery, was another "desire of his heart
That recommendation also fell still born.
The re opening of the African Slave Trade
dates with the Administration so eulOgized by
its organ. 1t is a new "apple of discord" Blu
chanan has let drop into the family basket with
but the fseblest and most sham of efforts to
prevent the disgrace to the Republic and hu-
manity. Already the South "rolls it as sweet
morsel under the tongue;" and the African
Slave Trade and a Slave Code for the Terrific
res, are eminently the Buchanan phase of
"savery agitation" These issues are now the
staple of "SOuthern politics, and where columns
only were devoted to slavery agitation" when
Buchanan in his inaugural expressed the "de-
sire of his heart" to restore harmony among
the sister States volumes, the most inaamma-
tory and threatening, are now uttered by speech
and press This is settling the vexed question
with vengeance.