New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-14
BUCHANAN TO JEFF. DAVIS.

The public las beard enough of the nefari.
GUS acts and appliances Of "Abolition fanatics, u
whereby the North and South have been
brought into hostile collision, while very little
has been said of the selfish Vaccinations Of
Democratic aspirants strongly tending to the
same result. Yet in truth these have had more
influence than those in fomenting tue bloody
Civil War which has desolated the country.
Mr.. James Buchauan's recently published let
ter to jeff. Davis affords fresh illustration OF
this truth.
There had been serious and protracted
sectional controversy respecting the disposition
to be- made of tho territory acquired from
Mexico by the recent War. Messrs. Clay,
Webster, Cass and others undertook to CON-
promise it, and measurably succeeded. In
hlrtheranco Of their common purpose, Mr..
Webster delivered, on the 9TH OF March, 1850,
a carefully elaborated speech, which, at con-
siderable expense of personal and local popu-
larty to himself, did very much toward effect
Ing the Compromise. and was received with
very geacral favor at the South. We dis
tinctly reVember that it created a far deeper
sensation at Charleston, S. c., than Mr.. Cal
houn's speech, made almost simultaneously.
Mr. JEFF. Davis was leading Southern OPP
poneht OF the Compromise aud an Influential
local politician. Mr.. James Buchanan was n
Pennsylvania aspirant to the Presidency, ex-
pecting to achieve his nomination and election
by Southern savehoding favor. Nine days af-
ter Mr. Webster made his speech, Mr.. Bu-
chanan writes to Mr. jeff. DAVIS coniiden-
tai letter, complaining OF the favor with which
Webster's speech had been received at the
South, insisting that his (W.'s) concessions TO
the South were illusory, aud really yielded
nothing Of practical value; that the south was
too easily sati.fed-ihat she Was willing 10
compromise Oh tho principle OF Non-lntersen'
ton by the Federal Government with Slavery
IN tho Territories, while he (Buch.) was in
favor OF dividing the newly acquired
territories by extending the Missouri
slave line Of 50 80 straight through to the
Pacific. and giving over TO Slavery oil south
OF that line. lie Oh had prepared letter
urging that surrender; but Why should he pub
lish it and thus expose himself TO aggravated
odum Of the hands Of he " fanatics aud free
soi.ers" Of the North, when the South did
not ask partition, but was satisfied with less :
No, he would keep his letter private. and not
expose himself 10 be nssAled by fanatics aud
free soIlers for having gone further In support
Of the South than Southern Senators and
Representatives" lilo was committed 70 the
Missouri line. and would stand on IL. but be-
would not make parade of his dcTotlon Ia
Southern rights TO which the South herself
seemed Indifferent
Early in ISIS, Mr Douglas then Prc.-
Dental aspran. made n similar complaint 10
Gen. Quituan OF Mi,ssspp (another Fire
enier) that the South did not stand up for her
full due. If she would only firmly demand all
her rights. she would have no difficulty in &C.
uring them. we believe this statement rests
solely on tue personal authority Of Gen. q,
but no man who ever knew him viii doubt
hs perfect TRUTH
The reputation of the Missouri Compromise
with respect 10 Kansas was likewise a meas
ure for which Northern n'pirants are mainly
responsible. The South was neither expecting
nor asking for it when it was sprung upon
the country. Had there been no Presidency
IN prospect, the scheme could never have re-
celvsd five Northern votes.
We beg the People to remember these facts
Before the Southerners began TO threaten Sc.
cession in case Republican were chosen
President, Northern Presidential candidate
(Fillmore) made n speech at Albany, declaring
that. in case OF such election, they ought to
secede. The country IL now paying the heavy
cost of Northern counsels In the bloody fruits
of Rebellion and Civil War.
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