The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-07

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The Nomination of Mr.. Buchanan by the
Cincinnati Convention.
The long agony is over" The democratic
party is bles5 with candidate for the Presi-
dency. Yesterday, at half-past ten in the
morning, We received special despatch from
Cincinnati, which, in two words, told the story
-" Buchanan nominated" Ten minutes later
We were appraised that the work was done OF
the seventeenth ballot. and five minutes here
after there was q booming of artillery, sud a
hoisterous rejoicing among the idle and ex
pectant democracy hanging round the Park,
the hariahells leading off, as if celebrating
not Sc much the success of Buchanan, as the
obsequies Of Franklin Pierce. Throughout
the country yesterday there was probably
as much gunpowder consumed as in the last
days Commandment OF Sebastopol
The nomination OF Mr.. Buchanan as the
democratic candidate has been generally re-
garded for some time past as a very pro-
bable event. The deluded candidate of the
White House never had a shadow Of chance.
With degree of faulty and folly which could
only have been imbibsd from the fawning but
deceittul sycophants about him, he alone seems
to have entertained the idea Of second nom-
nation. Doubtless the very men who voted
for him ct Cincinnati did so with his name
from one side of their mouths, and broad
grin on the other side, at the breadth and
gravity of the joke. Yet it must be conceded
that the Convention, in order to break the vio
lence of his fall dropped the infatuated Mr..
Pierce in the cellar, among the fossils of the
party, with rem aGkable tenderness and mag
nanimity.
Mr. Buchanan is very respectable states
man. and seems to be considered among the
wiseacres of Wall street sort of guaranty for
the security of all sorts of stock and specula-
tive operations. What grounds these Wall
street philosophers have for this impression,
considering the party, the platform. and the
Ostend antecedents of Mr.. Buchanan, we do
not profess to understand. 1t is we'll known
throughout the country and the world that he
has long occupied highly respectable posi-
ton as public man, and that in private life
he is amiable, modest and agreeable But as a
statesman Mr.. Buchanan is cold, timid and non
committal; in character closely analogous to
most of the prominent democratic politicians
who rose up with Van Buren, under the shadow
Of the broad wings of that old democratic
eagle, General jackson. OF this class, how
ever, Mr.. Buchanan is one Of the most consis.
tent and respectable. His amiability is, per-
haps, his principal drawback. Sometimes
good, sometimes Indifferent, sometimes really
bad, ne is accessible to the influences around
him. as his associations with Forney the Mar
plot and the Mephistophiles of poor Pierces
dynasty, sufficiently indicate. More of this,
however, hereafter.
The policy of the administration Of Mr.. Blu
chsnan, if elected, may be conjectured from
the resolutions called the Platform of the Cor
vention, from his specific pledges during sue
canvass, and from the public acts and negotia-
lions connected with his name during
the last few years. 1t is very evident
that the foreign policy of this great
country is at length beginning to a.
sumo proportions Of a gigantic magnitude,
from the wonderful effects of steam navigation
and magnetic telegraphs; and it is as broadly
manifest that we can no longer isolate ourselves
from the rest Of the civilized world, as we might
have done with impunity at the close of the last
century. Now the American flag in our own
waters floats Familiarity side by side with the
colors of England, France, Russia aud all
other nations, thus identifying and blending
us with the great civilized family of mankind
who control the destinies of the Old World.
In this view the acts and opinions of Mr.. Bu-
chanan in his official negotiations abroad, uu-
der our New Hampshire administration, will
very properly become one of the most impor
tant features Of discussion in connection with
his name for the succession. He cannot es-
cape the folles, blunders and vacillations OF
this Pierce dynasty, of which he is the anoint-
ed heir, touching the Champion enlistment
business, our Spanish relations Central Anne
RIGA and Nicaragua.
We are aware, also, that Mr. Buchanans
great idea of manifest Destiny" as developed
in the ostend manifesto, is policy not pecu-
liar to himself but is skilfully embodied in
the apparently innocent resolutions of the
Cincinnati platform. This policy i. simply
the plan of selling and appropriating the
island of Cuba by force of arms, in proud de-
fance Of the public opinion Of the world and
the contemplate threats Of resistance of Eng
land, France and spain. On the very
first ballot at Cincinnati notwithstanding
the vast patronage Of the President
in Louisiana, that State turned her
back upon him, and voted her whole strength
for Buchanan. The solution is that Ostend-
Cuban manifesto, which neither Pierce nor
Marcy, with the Russian war in their favor, had
the stomach to swallow. Such Is the uncertain
position of the Cincinnati ticket, upon our TO-