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Mr Buchanan. (To The Editor Of The Leade...
MR BUCHANAN . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ) New York , July , 1856 . Sib , —In your paper of June 21 st , you announce the nomination of Mr . Buchanan , by the Democratic party , for the Presidency of the United States , and you give your cordial approval to that nomination . You approve of it because he is a statesman of intelligence , conscience , and experience ; because he is a man of peace , favourably inclined towards your own country ; and because he is a just man respecting " the independence of the Southern States , " and ' the them the existenof
difficulties thrown upon by ce a slavery which they did not create , " while he is " the vindicator of Northern rights and Northern opinions , " and " one who exactly fits the actual position of the Union at the present day . " At the same time you condemn unequivocally the " madmen" " positively identify the defence of slavery with the defence of Republicanism , invade states to enforce their views with the bowie-knife and revolver , assail individual statesmen for the expression of opinion , and actually threaten to divide the Union by civil war . " And their madness you compare to "the bigotry of the Abolutionists in times past . "
I am an attentive reader of the Leader , and appreciate its ability ; and I know how great and deserved an influence it exercises over liberal minds in Europe . I regret , therefore , that it should itself fall , or lead others , into the fatal error of believing that Democracy , in this country , means the liberty or the rights of anybody . It is only another name for that which " bigots" with you call tyranny when they allude to Francis Joseph or Louis Napoleon . I should like , as far as it is possible in a few brief words , to tear off this livery which covers a service to the devil . ' Whether Mr . Buchanan possesses ability , conscience , or experience , is not a matter of much moment , as neither is now considered a necessary qualification for the Presidency . We shall see presently , however , what sort of a conscience he
possesses . You are quite right in predicting that , should he be chosen President , we shall have no war with England . Every slave state in the Union will vote for Mr . Buchanan without doubt . The cotton you purchase of us is the great staple of a part of those states , and the slaves that raise it the staple of the rest . As a general tiling one year ' s expenses are paid by a mortgage of the next year ' s crop . To lose your custom for a single year Avould reduce the Smith to bankruptcy and beggary , and the starving slaves would rise in insurrection against their miserable and imbecile masters . So long as slavery exists , and cotton grows , and Manchester spins , we shall have no war with England . And least of all shall we break the peaco with a President over us of the South's choosing .
But whether avc shall have no war in the reign of Buchanan is another question . You cannot have forgotten the Ostend Conference of American Plenipotentiaries , and the manifesto it published to the world , signed by Messrs . Buchanan , Soule , and MaBon . The doctrine of that famous paper , stripped of its verbiage , is simply this : —Wo mu 9 thave Cuba both to increase the number of our own slave states , and to prevent tho emancipation of her 800 , 000 slaves . We must get it by right of honest purchase if we can ; if not , by right of might . But do not think that that need involve us in a war with England or France , as tho protectors of Spain . We shall avoid that by permitting emigration—filibustering , tho censorious call it—to Cuba . The island
will bo revolutionized , and declared independent . Then we shall re-annex it to this continent . Somo of our New York capitalists hopo that the next step will be to render legal the foreign slave trade . Perhaps bo , but that is not certain . Tho lruiin dependence of tlve Atlantic slave states is alavo breeding for tho newer states—the vujintud crop , they call it in Virginia , because at twenty years men anil women reach tlioir full market value . Tho slave-breeding etatcs will naturally aim at a monopoly of tho new demand which will arise when Cuba ia ours . It is to this , probably , that Governor Wiao rciura when ho says that tho election of Buchanun would enhance tho price of slaves two hundred , and perhaps three hundred per cent .
What may have been Mr . Buchanan ' s relation to the North and tho South in times past ) , is of little consequence , though it would bo easy to show that he has always buen what ex-President Van
Burenanother Dtemocra ^ -once declared himself be ,, a Northern man , with Southern principles . But how far he is the vindicator of Northern rights and opinions , and how far he deserves the credit of merely defending the South against unjust aggressions upon his independence , may lie seen by his presentrpo-- ' _ - - ,
^ The two parties which divide the country at this moment are strictly sectional . The Kepublicans are , to a ce rtain degree , anti-slavery , and therefore Northern . The Democrats are thoroughly proslavery , and therefore Southern . True , they have great strength at the North , but it is among that class who , like Mr . Dickenson , a notorious Democrat of this state , consider it their misfortune that they were not born in a slave state . The one issue between these two parties is the establishment or the prohibitio n of slavery in Kansas . The " madmen you allude to are the whole Democratic party , with your wise , moderate , and conscientious Mr . Buchanan as the chief Bedlamite .
You are evidently aware—as all your readers may not be—that Kansas is a part of that region which thirty-six years ago was solemnly devoted by a national compact , called " The Missouri Compromise" to freedom for evermore . Again and again , m subsequent acts , has that compact been reaffirmed . For thirty-six years has the South enjoyed its half of the bargain . When the time came for the JSorth to enter into possession of its half , it was declared unanimously by the South—aided by their Northern allies , the Democrats—Mr . Buchanan ' s associatesthat the compromise was unconstitutional . In other words , they made a bargain , took their pay * kept and enjoyed it , and when the consideration was called for by the other party , declared the bargain a fraud Kansas is doomed to be a slave state . All the citizens of the territory in favour of freedom are
driven out at the point of the bayonet , or murdered , or arrested for treason , under a fraudulent law , by United States troops , their presses destroyed , their houses burned , their farms laid waste . All along the border a cordon of five thousand men prevent any immigration from the free states . By force and fraud combined these " border ruffians" will complete this work , aided , as it has been thus far , by the legislators and executive power of the Democratic party . Intimidation is a part of the system . The initiative at Washington has been taken by that brutal coward Brooks of South Carolina , who nearly murdered Senator Sumnerwhen incapable of defence . That deed commands universal approval and admiration at the South , and is defended by the associates in Congress of the ruffianly perpetrator , who are all Democrats—all " Buchaniers . "
Such is the position of the Democratic party of this country at this moment—the party which has made Mr . Buchanan its chosen leader—the party from which the slaveholders find protection and aid . The slavery which you affirm they did not create , they have , since the formation of the Union , extended over eight new states , covering nearly the whole of the valley of the Mississippi , a large part of Mexico , and the peninsula of Florida , and which they now mean to extend over a country nearly as large as the British Islands . The " bigotry of the Abolitionists " consists in this—that they demand without cursing , sometimes , perhaps , with indignation , and in language of unmistakable plainness , the annihilation of a system which is an insult to God , and an outrage upon man .
I do not write , it is proper to say , as a partizan . In the election I shall take no part , not even that of voter . Tho man or the party that " fits the actual position of tho Union at the present day" is the man or the party that can dissolve it , free the North from the dospotism under which she suffers , and save , for tho sake of the world , the cause of Republicanism where alono , within the limits of the United States , there is any hope of its existence . Your obedient servant , G-
Bishops At Large. (To The Editor Of The ...
BISHOPS AT LARGE . ( To the Editor of the Leader . ') Boston , July 29 th , 185 G . Silt , —If tho history of England in Church and State is hereafter to be read in tl . o statute books , then the act providing for the resignation of the Bishops of London and Durham will bo noticed as a wise and liberal measure . But Bhould tho student extend his researches to the parliamentary debates , or the contemporary journals , ho will sco reason to doubt whether a beneficial result has not been dearly purchased . The amount of the retiring allowances is nothing compared with tho displiiy of ignorance and recklessness on the part of tho authors of tho bill . The subject has long occupied attention , though never before did the legislature attempt to deal with it . Tho act of 1813 confessed tho difficulty which environed it , but the provisions for tho resignation of Colonial Iiishops indicated that there was nothing impracticable . Parliament might at uny time enable Biahops to retire , and receive ii maintenance us matter of right , not of bargain . . Lately it seemed
understood that such a measure would be introduced , when two ia & ali & i prelates anticipated it by tendering their resignations , on condition . It is objected that 4 JM 8-transaction bears the taint of simony which the legislature cannot obliterate , though it may exempts from the penalties incurred . Certainly the law has been , very peremptory for three hundred years against the legality of conditional resignations of Church preferment , and it cannot readily be credited that the prohibition ; attaches solely- ta the inferior clergy . The acceptance of a bishopric is ( morally ) conditional , depending on the proper discharge of the duties belonging- thereto . The lawhas provided no means for ascertaining wfceo these duties of forfeiture incurred atnnA ffiof . onch a meaBiire would be introduced .
are neglected , and the penalty . But the bishop cannot prescribe new conditions tohis superior , nor offer to sell him all his duties and a portion of his emolument . That would be treating as a peculium what was committed to him as a trust , an offence not discernible from simony . The bishop ' s letters read like a plea of guilty to this charge , nor can the act do more than relieve them from the secular consequences . True that they are clear of any moral stain , though they have compromised their official aud constitutional character . Their error is in attempting for themselves what Parliament wouldr have blamelessly done for them , and the result is that they are placed beyond the operation of the law , which is severely exerted against minor and more
excusable offenders . The argument about " the succession' was judiciously waived—in truth it is altogether out of place . The bishops form part of the clergy , and the same power is committed to every one of them . An ex-bishop is still a priest , and a bishop quoad his consecration . The office is merely an order in the Churchy to which he is called nominally by election , actually by royal designation . Your obedient , H . O .
The Gun Trade.—The Members Of The Milita...
The Gun Trade . —The members of the military gun trade of Birmingham have presented Mr . Muntz , M . P ., and Mr . Newdegate , M . P ., with testimonials to mark their sense of the important services which , those gentlemen rendered to the trade , and to the country at large ,
in the Small Arms Committee , which sat two years ago . This presentation took place at a dinner given at the Royal Hotel on Friday week . The testimonial to each gentleman took the form of a piece of plate , and of a double-barreled fowling-piece and a Minis ' , specimens of the latest improvement in this arm . The inscription on the rifle of Mr . Newdegate makes special reference to the exertions of oue of his ancestors , Sir Richard Newdegate , who , in the reign of William III ., exerted his influence to get the military guu trade introduced into Birmingham .
The Bisnor of Exeter and the Torringtojj Burial Board . —The vexed question between the Bishop and the Board , which was brought before the notice of the House of Lords shortly before the prorogation , is not yet settled . Tho Bishop of Exeter refuses toconsecrate that part intended for the members of the Established Church , on the ground that one end—that which comes close to the Dissenters , although the whole ground is surrounded * by a high substantial wall—is open , and that the burial-ground is not fenced according ;
to the canons . A . few days since , the Bishop s secretary informed the burial board that the Bishop would consecrate the ground in accordance with the report of the select committee of the House of Lords on tho Burial * Act , dated the 4 th ult ., and recommending a railing a * a line of demarcation ; but the board , with but one dissentient , declined the terms , and prefer waiting till next session in tho hope that an effectual and general alteration will bo made in tho law , rendering unnecessary tho consent of the Bishops aa to the finished state of the
ground before consecration . Newspaper Pbosecutiioh . —A verdict has been given against tho / Scotsman newspaper for a libel on Mr . Duncan Maclaren , who , in 1852 , put up for Edinburgh , and was sevorely handled by the paper in question , which published soveral articlos now complained of as libellous . Tho defendants contended that all tho papers at tho time used excited language , and that Mr . Maclaren himself waa very violent in his choice of worda . Ono thousand pounds damages were claimed , but tho jury only gnvo 100 / .
Raooicd or Reformatory Schools . — The Committee of Council on Education have cancelled nil former minutes and agreed to grant substantial and permanent aid to reformatory and ragged schools . The minute by which this resolution is mudo known to tho managers of those institutions provides that no school shall bo admissible to aid " unless it l > o industrial in ite character , and unless tho ncholura bo taken exclusively from tho crhninul and abandoned classes . " A portion of tho expense ia to bo liorno by the achoola themselves . Tho teacher : * aro instructed to have a sppoial oyo to tlio morality of tlioir pupiln . Liahii . itv ov HoxKL-KKErKRS . —It has been decided
by un action at law at Manchester that hotel-keepers aro liablu for losses auHtained by thoir gueutH owing to robberies committed on thorn while in tho hotel , unless thu person robbed haa neglected to take ordinarily prudent precautions .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081856/page/15/
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