Show OUR REVIEW of the f ascend the future of the american beoo by D W coulp A at N MJ D THE NEGRO AND THE democratic PARTY ex president martin van buren baren was very much displeased with the nomination and selection election of james buchanan Bu he maintained that chief ju justice i stice R B taney and mr buch buchanan anan tad had been raised to the democratic party but they had become attached to it late in life with opinions formed and matured in an antagonistic school both had come from the federalist ranks with political here sies which were hopelessly incurable on the of june 1856 mr van buren wrote a letter declining the invitation to he be present and address the democrats of new york city on july ath but he informed his friends and associates that he be was almost 74 years old therefore his age would prevent him from mingling with them he warned them however that all hope was nearly gone that the perilea peril ef the union obscured every other danger the south was so threatening that patriotism seemed to him to require at least a surrender to all that had bad passed he gloried in in the fact that although the democratic party had not always been perfectly right but in no other party had there been such exclusive regard and devotion to the maintenance of human rights and ana the happiness and welfare ot the masses of the people he referred to the long services of that party since jeffersons days it had its ita origin with the root and branch friendson friend the democratic system of its support of the barof war of 1812 of its destruction of the national bank of its establish lish ment of an independent treasury but slavery he admitted was now living question upon that he had no regrets for his course had always grefer preferred the method of dealing with that practiced ly by the f aunders of the government govern me ut 0 he lamented the recent departure from that method naone 44 auie au ie W was more sincerely oppose opposed than himself to the repeal repe al of the missouri poil compromise he had heard of it and had condemned I 1 it n a foreign landi land he had there then foreseen the reopening of the be lavery ag aft T uren could coula not dot je j e frain president B buchanan 1 for or gioi wms tle the principle ci of jefferson and jackson in accepting ascott decision dion d action he aa a political declared as that the ais Z v g decia iOD which y yi down by that august av aw w nil s nl isar eik yam f V v ar aaa y ita cement w part ef ss a sa scheme s and T sa 3 that 15 egr it aa e m i nsf as i bi T as g A ii aies wf sS iff r yf 0 i V i aitt av tt iba MT r jar 4 tam I 1 ka V 7 I 1 ift power of his administration 1 acted as the hired man of the slave power and was ruthlessly employed for the purpose of trampling under foot the true principles of democracy which had been inculcated into the minds of the people by the followers of thomas jefferson it almost seems impossible to comprehend the fact that during mr buchanann Bucha nans administration the city of new york was one of the greatest greate bt slave trading marts in the world and that from thirty to sixty thousand slaves a year were taken from africa to cuba by vessels from that great city where they passed the remainder of their miserable existence upon this earth in m perpetual bondage it has been truly said that the slave power nourished flourished like a green bay tree and that it rose to high water mark during the reign of james buchanan to be continued |