The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-06-10

by the solicitation, OF his friends, to
become the candidate of the democra.
cy for the Presidency, and was nomin-
ated for that Office, by the Cincinnati
Conventions: :
He was elected in November, after
a warmly contested canvass, over GeL.
II. g. Fremont, the candidate of the
aboIitionists aud Willard Fillmore, the
candidate of the Know Nothings OF
Native Americans.
He filled the Office of President from
March 4, 1857 to. March 4, 1861, with
credit to the party, and the country
Few Presidents had to encounter
greater embarrassments. The aboli-
tor faction had grown, by long con-
tinued agitation, to a formidable party.
The abolition party, known as the
Anti Nebraska party, bad put in mo
ton a series of schemes to distract the
country, and render the in Institutions OF
the South unsafe.
They were int mt on the a~bolishment
of slavery, or a revolution of the gov
eminent. Mr.. Lincoln, as well as
Seward, had declared, more than once,
in their public addresses, that the gov
erpment could not exist "half free
and half slave"
Mr.. Buchanan held, that the agita
tors of the North had no jurisdiction
over slavery in the Southern States
and SO did the Supreme Court. For
this, he was denounced as a traitor, an
imbecile, and a scoundrel. He adj
hered, with infexible courage, to the
constitution, to the end of his term,
and protested IN all occasions, against
the incendiary doctrines of Seward,
Lincoln and their followers.
In his public messages to Congress,
he respectfully informed that body,
that the agitation of the slavery ques-
ton would inevitably lead to'a bloody.
and protracted civil war. For these
professions, the Jacobins laughed in
his face, and denounc. him as a
Linton Saver"
Ia 1860, Abrnham Lincoln was
elected to the Presidency on an irre=
pressibIe platform. He refused, time
aud again, to give any assurances to
the South of the eourse he intesded
to pursue on the slavery 1questi on
The result was, that in April 1861,
his administration, a civil war
broke out. Its history need not be re-
peated here-all are conyersant with it
. The followers of Lincoln, in the hope
of escaping the consequences of their
~dastardly doctrines, then raised a great
hue and cry against Mr. Buchanan, as
if he had been the real cause of the
war, when it vas notorious that he had
done all that mortal mar could, to
avert the ca lamity that was about to
fall on the country.
Lincoln declined to disavow the
charge that he intended, during his
administration, to forcibly abolish
The war began--and he did
do, phat he aoas accused of Htendtng
to do,-FREE the SLAVES Of the South,
without compensation.
nThere was a Brutus once, that
would have brook'd the eternal devil,
to keep his state in Rome, as e'sily as
a king" . ira lsdacl
Let him and his party rest under
whatever of infamy may attach to that
piece of villainy.
Tho administration of Mr.. Buchan-
an was one of frugality, and wisdom
millions of dollars was the
sum spent during any n year.
Ia time of peace his successor spends
over six hundred millions Let a gen
people judge and do justice.
Mr.. Buchanan is entitled to an hon
place in the memorysof; his
,ountrymen. They will award him all
honor for his integrity, uprightness
aud purity of character. Peace to his
long may the memory of his
be cherished by free people.
aft err LIES ftf1l .fcyerehe sleeps we'll"