Nor could this possibility be waved aside by any affectation of incredulity.

Not alone Mr.Buchanan but the whole Democratic party was publicly pledged to annexation.

"Resolved," said the Cincinnati platform, "that the Democratic party will expect of the next Administration that every proper effort be made to insure our ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico"; while another resolution declaring sympathy with efforts to "regenerate" Central America was no less significant.
[Illustration: JOHN CALHOUN.] But to accomplish such marvels, they must not sit with folded hands.
The price of slavery was fearless aggression.

They must build on a deeper foundation than Presidential elections, party majorities, or even than votes in the Senate.

The theory of the government must be reversed, the philosophy of the republic interpreted anew.