The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1865-12-27
PRESIDENT BUCHANAEs DEFENSE.


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and lnter,s,ino v.,pne.
THAT the Can.fifntien a,as ,ot o,,.r.r
npou CONGRESS n.vor to ,ntaTf.~, ,.',b
slavery ln the -t5fe- has haen ad,,ittei
bv all n,rtie. and confirmed hr si inI,c;oi
decisions ever Since. f,. or,n o,' ,t F'..,er.
al Government Tie flrrher contends, ,bot
after q careful review Of lba anti SI.vsr,.
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economy saw oro,nl hin, C!o,sti,,-
mons Senafes SnnranS. Conrts 60 ~,
sole nrrnoso of afernizino, tho, inst,.,,.;or
-mirhr reoard tho avanf2 ortLo - 60,
Years a. a Iindicafion of bis -
James Rpchanon i a tyne or t6o penn.
svlvanian fhor nov no Don Il, ,l,, t,o,,,..F, Il
valley oftho Cumbarland ~ di-.~5ot -
5erinu ON slavery and Freeio,o o,5 ~,
was l0.,r known as a M ~ p,S,-S,.l,.a,,.1
FDvnt whore The rao,Ia -, ,,.,ro-,'i
win a serss ffbe Iivinit, -, Sio,.,l
were Only visited by those enfernrisinf- an
fi-Slaverv men vino never. faara5 the bn,r,.
ino Of q mob He hqs in his ,ai,s ,ba
Scotcb-Ir,-h blood tnaf has rivan ~ Gran,
and Jackson and Calhoun an1 manv M
oar no.- eminent Amer,cans lie wss -.
a Good family and had what wos rore
advantage al the close of fh.. last century
a classical education Ho want into
public life NJ the are of rwen,v-threa. h.
was seventy when be retired from the pro
sidencv For nearly INV vears he had
been in office He knew rhe occult science
Of PENNSYLVANIA p0lltlcs and of AIN the
class of tortuous cold. mnch-contrivino
wire workers VINO fOurished I'm that state
none was greater or more successful H.
was z safe man. He never frightened
staid and sober PENNSYLVANIA with novel
ties There was nothing of ROston ahou-
him. He never worried his constituent.
with ..ideas. but won't ON i'm his nloddfno
way. shrewd. secret. patient selfreliant-
moving up from high 10 hirher-eminently
conservative-tuH of fcompronljses-avo
/ inc dangerous issues. with the canny
Scotch naiure that came with his blood
until the Presidency was oiven him ~ Ios,
AS q refuge from the SQaatter SOyeri0nty
Of Douglas and the Plantation Democ7acv
Of Pierce. His mediocre safeness alone
could meet The enthusiasm OF the gallant
Fremont and his followers He met t.
and Went into power, partly "a we fear by
| the frauds Of desperate men of his schOO
who managed bis fortunes in Pennsylvania
and partly because there We're many who
feared that Fremont might bring trouble
while it was certain that Buchanan wOult
not. How We mistake destiny II Johr
&. Fremont had been elected in 1856. tb,
/ fifteenth President Of the United State,
would not have found il necessary 10 writ,
4 vindcatiOn
The Philosophy that saw nOthinc grand
/ er in our institutions than the eternity o
/ Slavery was sadly out of place in the Pre-
sidential Chair in 1857. The Nation wa.
suffering from the crime Of the Kansas Ne
braska bill. l. was now seen that th,
South not only intended 10 protect Slaver-
/ but 10 extend it bv breaking covenants
sacred by many years Of successful an.
/ harmonious compact. Slavery has beel
advancing, and every advance was
| triumph Mr.. Buchanan thinks that Slave
~ was ''more sinued against than SHINING.
/ tie is welcome 70 his opinion: and W
admire the persiSteucv with which h
clings 10 IT, He does not see the crime O
wantonly breaking a cOvenant-whlch ha,
benefited tae South by giving Missouri q
Slavery. merely that new territories shoul
be added 10 lis ample and blighted domain
This was the sin OF the Kansas -Nebrask
bill. The North justly regarded that meas
ure as 4 crime. At the same time. il CAV
Mr.. Buchanan q great opportunity. TIL
law Of progress had shown that. IN an
contest requiring wealth, emigration. por
ulation, thrlit the keen, wiry, snow lovin
men Of New England were the masters c
the duil, slugglsh. Sun-dried SOutherners
Ihe So1tn knew tnat IN contest for Ia
possession 0l Kansas IL would fail, unles
Northern enterprise could De met wit
force aud fraud. There IS 10 use IN II
peatlng tae history Of the crimes commit
ted against Kansas. They have gone int
history with a dreadful expiatiOn. and W