New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-12-16
so1JNn AND PATRIOTIC DocrR1Nr1.

Not long since the President elect called upon
by the faculty and students of Franklin and Marshall
College, Pennsylvania. There was peculiar proprie-
ty in this call, Mr. Buchanan having been formerly
President of the Board of Trustees of that institu
ton. After listening to excellent and appropriate
address delivered on behalf of his visitors Mr. B. re-
piled felictousy, as is his wont on all occasions AT
ter giving the students most valuable advice, which it
is to be hoped they will carry out practically through
life, he dropped the suhjoned political observations,
which we regard as alike significant and patriotic,
and as, in some measure indicative of the domestic
policy he has determined shall distinguish his admin
istration. We quote: H.,
His election had been alluded to- and he might he expected
say something that point He had been elected the high
sincerely for their congratulations but whether the
yas mta s %I as
Union arraye in political hostility asansi the other The OBJ
s1 Ms "r M9a be to an" hs s9 Dn
under national and conservative as it was Pity
sectional which now unhappy exist may break
the h're and most perfect form Of the s eyer
watched over and preserved us in the past will continue to
people.
There is nothing in the foregoing the most ardent
UnlonFillmore man. or any conservative man, no
matter of what shade of political opinion cannot hear
tily subscribe to. We subscribe to it cordially. We
see nothing in it that does not meet our warm appro-
baton. The sentiment is good and is clothed in for
chile language And, if Mr.. Buchanan practices, in
fexiblyand unfnchngly, in his administration of the
government, the precepts set forth in the above quo
taton, he will receive, according to our unhesitating
conviction the countenance and support of a vast
majority of those who were prominent in opposing
his election, particularly in the Southern States
The Fillmore men of the South advocated their can
didate the ground that he was the best and safest
Union man before the people. That they were cor
rect in their belief have not the smallest shadow
of q doubt. Defeat has not changed our opinions
in regard to him in the slightest possible degree We
do not now believe, nor do we ever expect to believe
that Willard Flmores equal, in all respects, for the
office of President of the United States lived moved
and had his being in the year of our Lord 1856 Per-
haps and were wrong at all events, the voters
of our section and of the country at large have made
up verdict against us, and to that verdict we bow
with all the submission that becomes good and law
abiding citizens. And as Mr.. Buchanan, in the ex-
tract above given, has used the verylanguagc Mr. Fill
more would have used under similar circumstances,
we frankly avow that our satisfaction is so great as
to almost take away the modification incident to the
overthrow of avorite so highly priced and so deep
ly respected. Let Mr. Buchanan practice what he has
preached, and he will win much honor for himself,
and perhaps accomplish lasting good for his dis
tracted country.
1t is true our faith in the practicabity Of harmo
nizing the sectional differences that prevail, which are
deep-seaed and radical, has received stunning
shock, yet as all things are possible we have only to
wish Mr.. Buchanan unboundcd success in his patriotic
endeavors If he succeeds he will be entitled to the
lasting gratitude of his countrymen, and of all lovers
of rational freedom upon the surface of the globe If
he only reconcile the North and the South; Danish
the fell spirit of anatcism at the North superinduce
an era of faternal feeling; teach people that they
belong to common brotherhood Of States, and that
they should love and sustain instead of reviling and
abusing each other; and bring about national and
conservative government, as it was fifty years ago."
he will be justly entitled to the appelaton of second
Washington.
But, can he successfully accomplish this herculean
task? Were he jackson Or a Clay he might. Is
he a Jackson or a Clay--or like those men Of nm
swervng tirmness, Of iron will ? We shall see. We
trust he s--wth all our heart we hope he is.