SETS.

"In 1819, at a meeting in Lancaster, he reported resolutions
favoring resistance to the extension of slavery and the
admission of the State of Missouri as a slave State.

"In 1847, he wrote to the Democracy of Berks county, saying
that the Missouri Compromise had given peace to the country,
and that instead of repealing it he was in favor of its
extension and maintenance.

"In 1850, in a letter to Col. Forney, he rejoiced over the
settlement of the slavery agitation by the passage of the
compromise measures during Fillmore's administration, and hoped
that before a dissolution of the Union he might be gathered to
his fathers, and never be permitted to witness the sad
catastrophe.

"In 1852, he wrote to Mr. Leake, of Virginia, concerning
Fillmore's compromise measures of 1850, which had been passed
by Congress, and said, 'that the volcano has been extinguished,
and the man who would apply the firebrand to the combustible
materials still remaining, will produce an eruption that will
overwhelm the Constitution and the Union."

BUCHANAN'S LAST SOMERSET.

"On the 28th of December, 1855, about three months ago, Mr.
Buchanan, in a letter to John Slidell, of Louisiana, says: 'The
Missouri Compromise is gone, and gone for ever. It has
departed. The time for it has passed away, and the best, nay,
the only mode now left of _putting down_ the fanatical and
reckless spirit of the North is to adhere to the existing
settlement without the slightest thought or appearance of
wavering, and without regarding any storm which may be raised
against it."

Here, then, is an authentic record--if the reader please, a GILT-FRAME
PENNSYLVANIA LOOKING-GLASS, in which the Democracy of the South who
admire the nominee of the late Cincinnati Convention can _see him as he
is_! Heretofore, to use the language of Holy Writ, they have seen him
"through a glass darkly, but now face to face." Here they see him
standing erect upon the floor of the United States Senate, in all the
pride of that _aristocracy_ which has characterized his course in life,
and giving vent to the old and bitter feelings of the _royalists_ in
Pennsylvania, by advocating the _oppressive British doctrine_, that TEN
CENTS PER DAY _is enough for a poor white man as a day-laborer_! And
here, too, our hard-fisted working-men, No