Qass F^o Bookj-l i i ^VHICH P fillmore or Buchanan ! ANNA ELLA CARROLL, OF MARYLAND. rdOaBSS OP THE "GREAT AMERICAN BATTLE," "STAR OF THE WEST," ETC. " >'), liotW our bleeding country save; Thine arm alone can shield the brave.' BOSTON: JAMES FRENCH AND COMPANY 78 WASHINGTON STREET. 18 5 6. ic) ' !^g^ -3-^ WHICH^ FILLMORE OR BUCHANAN ! BY ^ ANNA ELLA CARROLL. "O, God! our Ijlecding country save; Thine arm alone can shield the brave. r.r'^ «/ «" BOSTON: JAMES FRENCH & CO L8.)6. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 185G, by W. S. TISDALE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of JMnssaciiusutts. / WIIICin-FILLMOEE OR BUCIIANAIN^? CHAPTER I. '' Our country's glory is our chief concern, For this we struggle and for this we burn, — For tliis we smile, for this alone we sigh, — For this we live, for tiiis would freely die." Americans, it is well to remember, that Mr. Bu- chanan, who is now pledged, if elected, to involve us in war for Cuba, from mere covetousness and in viola- ' lation of all right, human and divine — opposed our last war with England, in 1812, and did all he possibly could to cause an English triumph over the United States. jSe denounced Mr. Madison's administration in terms of the severest censure, and cast imputations upon that good man's patriotism, which can never be forgotten. He and his apologists, have plead his youth, for that indescretion ; but, several years later, when a candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania, did he not still arraign Mr. Madison for the war? — did he not still assail the Democratic party, to which he now belongs?— did lie not then repudiate the same foreign influence he and it are now sacrificing America and Americans to propitiate ? He did. Here are Mr. Buchanan's own words to the point, after rehearsing the ills of the war of 1812 : " The ^rreater part of those foreigners who ivould be thus aiTected by it have lon^r beep the warmest'friends of the Democratic party. They had beeli or.e of the great means of e'evnting the present rulincr party, and it would have been un^"ited fetates, and issued the " Orders in P. -i ^ m November, 1807, to that effect ^'"""' 1 he Americans adopted their .^.^.^ in iqas « . all intercourse between Europe and tb.. ' ^^ stopped, after twentj-five Xs "f VT ''' ™ quilitj. ^ ^^'^'' ^^ unbroken tran- wf 'I' x:r !: ^-"^^ ''^'^^^' "-^ ^^^ -*« greater than ^TC^^^-'Crm: '"" """""^ England in monev L \/"** difference we ;,«,i Secretary of State. This to me appeared deep cotrup- iion, and J repelled it with that hottest indiynaliim as I thought it de- served; "Andrew Jackson." Gen. Jackson's letter needs no comment ! And with a single remark we leave you, Americans, to make your own conclusions. It is this ; that while every other de- famer of Mr. Clay, upon this matter, openly confessed that great man's innocence of all bargain and corrup- tion to obtain office under Mr. Adams, Mr. Buchanan, the very man who had sought himself to make that bargain between Mr. Clay and Gen. Jackson, violated all sense of honor and right, and refused to speak the truth, when he himself originated the slander, which was ruining Mr. Clay. He not only refused to speak himself, but insisted upon the pledge, which compelled Mr. Clay's own friend to keep silence ! Need we won- der, then, that Mr. Buchanan should now refuse to speak ? Now that he " Squares" himself to the platform of his party, and declares anything a " finality " which aids his ambitious ends ! Can we wonder at the Ostend Conference ? Can we wonder that he winked at the conduct of those subordinates in London who abused tiieir office by putting the seal of the American Lega^ tion upon despatch bags filled with incendiary publica- tions, appealing to the revolutionists of Europe ? No, no ! But we do wonder, that a man, whom Gen. Jack- son, Henry Clay, and James K. Polk, after an associa- tion of more than thirty years, regard as unreliable, — 10 we say we do wonder, that, at siicli a crisis in onr affairs, a man with such singular antagonisms in his own character, shonld have been considered for the Presidency in this great emergency ? Not only did Mr. Clay leave the written record in his own hand to show the corrupt conduct of Buchanan toward him, but he further told his biographer. Dr. Colton, to call on Mr. Letcher, of Ky., who could give further information on the point. Mr. Letcher admits the letter, and only refuses to expose it because he is silenced by a promise exacted from Buchanan ! Why ? Because it ivould convict him of a serious criminal offence. Every sane man and woman in the land believes that if Buchanan was an innocent man, he would gladly call on Mr. Letcher to expose the letter, and thus re- lieve himself of a charge which has so long disgraced his name. Well might the sagacious Webster detect the Jesuit- ical letter of Buchanan, when tjying to exonerate him- self, from the moral infamy of which he was guilty, as he wrote thus to Mr. Clay : " Boston, July 24, 1827. I have a suspicion tliat the ' i-espectable mcnibor of Coiij;ress ' is Mr. Buchanan. If it should turn out so, it will place him in an awkward situation, since it seems he did recommend a bargain with your fiicud, on the suspicion that such a bargain had been proposed to them, on the part of friends of Mr. Adams. I am curious to know how this matter will develope itself. I am, always, truly yours, Daniel Webster." 11 "Boston, August 22, 1827. Mr. Buc'han:in is treated too gently — many persons think his let- ter candid — I deem it (therwise. It seems to me to be labored very hard to protect the General as tar as he could without injury to him- self. Although the General's i'riends this way, however, affect to consider Bu;har.an's leiter as supporting the charge, it is possible the General himself and the Nashville commentator may think otherwise, and complain of Buchanan. Ever truly yours, Daniel Webster." Buchanan, we all remember, was Secretary of State, and Marcy, Secretary of War, under James K. Polk, when the gallant Scott was sent to Mexico without proper orders for his mission. The war urns delayed, and many noble Americans killed, from having to wait for months for the Democratic administration to act ; when finally Gen. Scott got weary and anxious to take Vera Cruz, and ordered all the guns from the ships, and in defiance of the tardy administration at Washington, took the city hy storm, before they woke up at Wash- ington to the emergency. When Gen. Scott got home, instead of being received with every demonstration of respect by James Buchanan and William L. Marcy, now the Prime Minister of Pierce's administration, he was ordered by those very men, whose administration he had just saved from disgrace before mankind, to be tried by court martial for acting without orders ! Oh, Americans, who can recur to that act without indigna- tion, or hear the names of such men as James Buchanan and William L. Marcy called without horror ! One of the first resolutions of the Democratic party embodied in the platform whicli Mr. Buchanan person- ates, declares that " no imposture was too monstrous to 12 be imposed on the crechlity of the American party I This is typical of the incredible impudence of the dem- agogues who have aided Pierce in his administration by voting two hundred thousand millions of acres of land to the States to please political tricksters, while they cried out that they have no power to interfere with the eternal improvements of the country. Lot us examine the matter. The second resolution of the Cincinnati platform is this : " Thai the constitution does not confer upon the general govern- ment the power to commence and carry on a general system of in- ternal improvements." The fourth continues thus : "Thit the constitution does not confer authority upon the federal government, directly or directly, to assume the debts of the several States, contracted for local internal improvements, or other State purposes ; nor would such assumption be just or expedient." Now, Americans, mark the fraud by which this plat- form alias Buchanan, attempts to cheat you. In order to secure the vote of the Western and Northern States, another resolution was added. And this last resolution was put there after the plat- form urns made and Buchanan nominated on it. Think of this outrage upon the common sense of a nation of freemen ! And note the fact, that, in publishing the Democratic platform of Cincinnati at the South, this last resolution is not found attached to it. It is not found in any Southern paper, but always in the other sections of the country, where the people are known to demand a Pacific Railroad, and will vote for no man 13 as President of the United States who opposes it. And the Cincinnati Convention thrice voted down the empty resohition in favor of tlie Pacific Railroad, tliat finally passed after it was found to mean nothing but a mere trick to cheat the people. One fact, however, is not without ^gnificance, that, sham resolution as it was, the Pennsylvania delegation, the friends and neighbors of James Buchanan voted against it all the time ! When we remember that Cuba, lying within the Gulf of Mexico, but 130 miles from Florida, within a short distance of New Orleans and the Mississippi river, sends to us not twenty-five per cent's worth of its commerce, while three-fourths go to the parts of Europe, we discover another evil which has resulted from the contemptable actings of the Democratic party, always threatning some such scheme as Buchan- an's Ostend Conference to buy it, steal it, or fight for it. The South American States, too, with a population of 20,000,000, and a territory ten times as large as the United States — far richer in agricultural resources than our own soil — are able to give us fifty times more of its accumulated industry, than avc possess, did we now command its trade, as we should do by proper reciprocal treaties similar to that now existing between the United States and Canada, if we had been blessed with an American administration. Central America, too, had friendly relations been cultivated by commerce and trade, would not now have been ready to cut the throat of every Anglo-American who treads that foreign soil. - 14 The Frenchman, who, on trial for the murder of his father and motlier, cried put to the court to have mercy upon a poor orphan, did so witli quite as much propriety as Pierce could now ask tlie American people to repress their just indignation against his administration. After sacrificing the peace and tranquility of his country, and violating his solemn oath, to defend the Constitution, for the sake of re-election, he could get together, through the patronage of the Custom Houses, but 122 votes at the Cincinnati Convention ; ■which rapidly dwindled to ! The Cincinnati Convention met to substitute names o\\\j , not to change or modify principles and measures. Mr. Buchanan has endorsed Pierce's administration, and declares himself ^Ae platform of the Cincinnati Con- vention, which personates, and if carried out, would lead to the inevitable degredation and ruin of the American people. It says: "The time has come for the joeople of the United States to declare themselves in favor of -^ree seas and a progressive free trade throughout the world." This doctrine is more baneful to the interests of the American laboring man, than even a foreign war. Americans, what is /ree trade hwi taking money directly from yovr pockets to pay the expenses of the government, instead of putting duties on imported goods, ivhich you would not feel? If James Buchanan is elected, you arc to have equal taxation, yArvoh, allowing there arc twenty-five millions of people, will make each man, woman, and child have three dollars apiece to pay 15 yearly. Mr. Buclianan approves, too, of ten cents a day as the wages of labor ! Think of this ! The Cin- cinatti Convention did not consider the ills we endure now were sufficient, while the government is pampering foreign and domestic pets, and squandering eighty mil- lions of the people's money, so it goes to taxing the poor, to increase their burden. Under the present plan we are only taxed for what we choose to purchase, and no more. Then the hard earnings of our yeomen must go to help to support the idle in luxury ; so says Mr. Buchanan when he heartily approves every word of the platform ! Where, where has the democracy of Washington, Jefferson, and Jack- son fled ? The next thing, Mr. Buchanan is pledged to do by the platform, Americans, is to give us free seas I " To insure our ascendancy over the Gulf of Mexico, and maintain a permanent protection over the great outlets." There never was a greater absurdity than this upon the earth, and manifests a most wilful igno- rance of geography. This nation has no more right to the soil between Cuba and Yucatan, than it has to Chinese Tartary ! The Caribean Sea, therefore, one of the outlets to the Gulf of Mexico, we could no more claim ascendency over than we could over the Danube in Austria. The Atlantic Ocean, the other outlet to the Gulf of Mexico is between Cuba and Florida. All the commerce of Eastern Mexico and Cuba goes through this channel ; and it will take a wiser man than we suppose Mr. Buchanan to be, to prove why jthe United States have any more right to ascendency IG over tlie waters which wash the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, than other countries similarly situated. But if the American people elect Buchanan, they have his authority that it icill be attempted And how ? Why by submitting the people to taxation to the amount of $300,000,000 to construct a navy to cope with that of France and England, and prepare for war with those two great powers, and Spain in addi- tion ! This would be the inevitable price of such dem- ocratic folly. Nor will this be all ! What will become of the commerce and trade of these United States ? What of their agricultural products ; cotton, rice, corn, wheat and tobacco ? All our commerce with Europe would cease at once. And while our own goods would in part become valueless, we should be obliged to fore- go all the necessaries or luxuries we import from abroad. What would be tlie result ? — disunion and anarchy among the people, who, deprived of their property by being restricted in their means of living, of their enter- prise and thrift, the government would soon be sub- verted. Americans, it would be better now to expend a thou- sand millions to elect Millard Fillmore, whom you know and have tried then to elect Buchanan ! He may cost us our liberties ! In the other case, the money ivould sure to be returned to the people tenfold, in the confi- dence, and progress, and peace it would bring upon the whole Union. With a war in Kansas, which occupies a territory twice as large as England, Mr. Buchanan is pledged 17 also to carry out the Ostend Manifesto, if elected. Now what would ensue, Americans, if that were acted out ? We answer. War immediatchj with England, France and Spain ! And all commerce between the United States and the Western Coast of Europe would that moment cease. This would stop all exportations of cotton and breadstuffs to Europe, and precipitate us into anarchy and revolution. The real meaning of that Ostend Manifesto is conce- ded upon its face. It is deep, dark and malignant ; and if ever enforced, it will be by making the American people icade through seas of blood! As vre have already seen, it was the work of European revolution- ists and American tricksters. They who called them- selves Americans, were mosilj foreign born, with for- eign hearts, like Soule & Co. To this degrading busi- ness Mr. Buchanan became the pliant tool, because he wished to succeed Franklin Pierce at Washington, and was made to believe, therefore, this was the very best move. Mr. Buchanan has always been in the hands of very had managers^ who, to have him appear consistent, for i\\Q first time in his life, they corrupt him, again and again, to reiterate the policy of the government of the United States, as declared at Ostend in 1855. In his speech, accepting the nomination of the Cincinnatti Convention, hear what Buchanan says : " Gentlemen, two weeks since I should have made you a lonjrer speech, but now 1 have been placed upon a platform of which I most heartil}- approve, and that can speak for me. Being the lep- resentative of tlie great Democratic, Party, and not simply James Buchanan, I must square my co::duct according to the ))lat,foiiu of the party, and insert no new plank nor take one from il." 18 And tlic:i read the letter from Lis friend, M. A. G. Brown, to Hon. R. S. Adams, of the 18th June last, and you will find that Mr. Buchanan regards the acqui- sition of Cuba very desirable noiv, and likely to become a national necessity ; and says, " if I can be instrumen- tal in settling the Slavery question upon the terms I have named, and then add Cuba to the Union, I shall be willing to give up the ghost, and let Breckinridge take the government !" In a word, Mr. Buchanan says, " he stands upon the platform of the Cincinnati Convention, and endorses every part of it." Thus, Americans, you see for your- selves the political Mnkanna, into whose hands you place your destiny, if you ever select James Buchanan for your Chief Ruler ! Whoever has read that remark- able document, palled the Osiend Manifesto, should also read Brown's letter, giving an account of Buchan- an's acceptance of his nomination. Do this at once, Americans, do it for yourselves, and not allow any political leader to insult your intelli- gence, by telling you Buchanan will not follow the fili- bustering programme of the Cincinnati Convention ! You have his words that he icilL You have the pledge of his political suppoiters that he will. What other hnman testimony can you need to be combined ? It is time there was an end to ihis compact sale of the Romnn Catholic Irish and German votes- And the American party fears not to say, that, as foreign papists armed under their own flag, they must not and shall not, asforeig-ners, interfere with our just political rightg, to elevate aspiring demagogues of any party \ 19 My countiymen, we want a man to watch oyer the destinies of this people who recognizes the moral life and moral light of our free institutions, and whose character declares the free government for which we contend. Remember, that we tread upon the graves of our fathers, whose names, and hearths, and churches, and employments, were as dear to ithem, as are ours to us ! And that joy in life whicli made them fight for these privileges, calls upon us to-day to rally to the maintenance of the Union and the Constitution. We are surrounded by the cry for liljerty, as strongly as on that night when it came from Lexington and Bun- ker Hill, and called fathers, brothers and husbands to the field ! Our free government, Americans, is the last hope of the world ; and our fathers who bled and died for it — our mothers who sacrificed their all for it, call out to us from beneath the green turf, to come with heroic hearts — with good and true American hearts, trusting God and beseeching him to save the nation from the ills whicli Franklin Pierce and his administration have begun, and which may be con- summated by James Buclianan ! My countrymen, God has looked graciously and pitied our condition, and by his providence, the Ameri- can party comes as the break-water of liberty, against which the waves, and torrents of discord and disunion will beat in vain. And now, when mind is in close and sharp contact with mind, and division of opinion makes men impatient for decision, Millard Fillmore is een as the rainbow on the storm I And, under the Vmerican standard of the Bible and Liberty, the 20 American people may cry aloud to foreign enemies and domestic traitors, — "The Union must and shall be preserved." The best friends \re possess, are often those with whom we differ in opinion in private; and we make to them just such concessions as the North made to the South, and the South made to the North, when this beloved Union was cemented by brotherly love, and adjusted with all its delicate balances. In 1850, Mr. Fillmore, a Northern man, whose principles and conduct were all in consistency with those of his native State, was called by the death of Gen. Taylor to the Presidency of these United States. At tliat moment, the ability and patriotism of the whole country, North and South, were united in an effort to adjust the difficulties which impended by the acquisition of new territory ; and in tlie spirit of conciliation and compromise, which guided the framers of the Constitution, the Compromise Measures were the result of their common effort, irrespective of geo- graphical sections or distinction. This law was*passed, then, by the expressed will of the majority, and sub- mitted to Mr. Fillmore for his signature as President of the Nation. And after taking every precaution to fulfd the Constitutional requirements, by submitting it to the Attorney General for approval, Mr. Fillmore affixed to it his signature, and it became the law of the land ! Had Mr. Fillmore refused to sign this Compromise, he would have perilled the existence of the Union 21 instantly ; and patriots, from all sections, would have execrated him as a traitor, vjJiile Cong-ress would have impeached him ! He was ready, therefore, when duty and patriotism called, to forget all private preferences, to cast aside all personal predilections, and to look only to the maintenance of the Union and the glory of our whole country, as 07ie people ! "Was there any disposition then, manifested by Con- gress to repeal that act ? No ! It was the act of peace ; and Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Hancock and Adams, would, if possible, have burst from their graves to have denounced the traitor who would have committed treason to the Constitution and laws, by refusing to sign the fugitive slave law. The veto power was not made by our father's to defeat the will of the majority, and turn the President of the country into an imperious autocrat ! And it is a cry- ing shame to forget that Millard Fillmore, all his life, has been fighting on the side of American princijjles and Union principles, and has saved the nation from sin and shame ! In conclusion, Americans, let us ask, are not all the antecedents of Millard Fillmore right ? Is there any back record which, if unrolled, would cause him to shrink from public scrutiny ? There is none. His life is open to the world. His integrity, honor and capability, as unquestionably settled and established, as were those exalted qualities in the character of Washington. In reference to the agitating topics of the day, where do we find Mr. Fillmore, by his votes in" Congress ? Always one way ; and that was, a con- 90 sistent, steady opposition to the extension of slavery — Opposed, jvst as Henry Clay tvas, to extending that institution over any portion of the free territory of the Union. He has ever maintahied the principle, that Congress nor the President have a right to disturb or interfere with the States in which slavery already exists, under the sanction of the Constitution and laws. Mr. Fillmore has expressly declared his hostility to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and every intelligent man and woman ought to know, that, under his administration, that repeal never conid have been obtained. Every patriot should know with how much heart and soul Millard Fillmore would delight to see that Compromise of 1820 restored, and the Union blessed with the peace and prosperity which pervaded every section of the country when he resigned the government into the hands of Franklin Pierce. No true American can rise in his place and point to an act of Mr. Fillmore that is not opposed to forcing slavery upon the free territory of this Union. That he is opposed to all piratical attempts to seize the ter- ritory belonging to other nations, is equally true. And so long as the Union and the Constitution have a martyr, Millard Fillmare will be found true tc their principles, and ready to aid in perpetuating thei}' glorious privileges. Here, then, in addition to the Pierce platform of the Democratic party, Mr. Buchanan is to give iis free trade, which means equal taxation from the pockets of the rich and poor ; free seas, or an entire ascendency 23 over the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, and the Ca- nbean Sea, wliich will cost the nation additional taxa- lion of three himdred millions, and ivar with the three great powers of Europe I - X\y^ possession of Cuba, which he says we must huy, if we can; but if Spain IS obstniate, and refuses, then, "it becomes the duty of Americans to wr^st it from her by Divine rio-ht '" In other words, to steal Cuba! Spain, you know, Americans, loill refuse, and so does Mr. Buchanan i^now It, for she has the treaty of France and England to hack her in the act. But, says that manifesto, " If necessary, we ought neither to count the cost, nor re- gard the odds which Spain miglit enlist against us. We would be recreant to our duty, be unworthy our gallant forefathers, and commit base treason against our posterity." This foul slander is a base cahmny upon our honored dead. They cry out, from their charnei-liouses, shame, shame. And, adds Buchanan to Mr. Brown, "our necessities might require us to maue other acquisitions ! " It is the interest, aim and wish of all true Ameri- cans, to remain at peace. And, last of all, to go to war with our best customers abroad, from whom we buy and to whom we sell. And, it is all idle to try to force conviction upon the minds of the American peo- ple, that it is their duty to inflict a blow upon any nation without their rights have been sacrificed or tneir principles invaded. If Buchanan is elected, the Pacific Rail-Road will never be built. Instead of which, he will continue to ^ock up the people's money and keep it from the trade 24 and commerce of the country. The Executive of Pierce brouglit up the hands of the government and paid five millions of the people's money, while they were suffering for the wages of labor ! Since the influx of gold from California, nearly four hundred millions has been added to the circula- tion of the country, or at the rate of thirty-six mil- lions annually. And yet, the Democratic party, instead of managing this judiciously, and keeping the country out of debt, have actually run the people into four or five hundred millions of useless expense, while j^ets have been pampered and fed from the treasury, to per- petuate the power ; and by interfering, as in the local elections of all the States, and by means of the pat- ronage of government, all but themselves under foot. Now, my countrymen, you see precisely what you have to expect by perpetuating the Democratic Execu- tive of Franklin Pierce ! The same home, and a icorse foreign policy, the same anti-American feeling and contemptible subserviency to the foreign Roman Catho- lic hierarchy ! You ask, how do we know this ? We answer, that it is as well understood that James Bu- chanan, headed with the foreign Catholic vote in 1852, for Pierce, which put an Irish Catholic in the Cabinet from Pennsylvania, as that he defeated Henry Clay for the Presidency, in Pennsylvania, in '44, when he practised the gross fraud upon that people, and de- clared to them that James K. Polk was a better tariff man than Henry Clay ? 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