Washington telegraph., 1856-09-17
BUCHANAN's DIPLOMACY.

Minister, formerly to Russia and recent
" to England, are pompously paraded
by his partizans and urged in his behalf
with as much apparent confidence as if
there was some merit in these things
But wherein does that merit consist
What did BUCHANAN do as Minister
TO either of these countries which was
useful to our own? If these interroga-
tories can be answered afhrmatively Of
anything, Its history has never reached
this side of the Atlantic ocean.
His diplomatic record at ST. Petersburg
is, to the American public, as blank as
the snow which fell on the "winter pal
ace of the Gar" And in respect to his
three years sejourn in England, although
every schoolboy knows that the most del
icate, important and urgent questions
were during the whole term pending be-
tween that country and ours, and that
the exercise of. his boosted skill and ahili-
ty in their adjustment, was not only look
ed to by all his countrymea with interest
and anxiety, bat constantly promised, by
his friends, yet he returned home without
effscting settlement of any of them
nay, worse than that, leaving more than
one of them more fraught with evil and
imminently dangerous than before he
was entrusted with their management
So that in these respects, as affecting any
thing that promised to be useful to his
own country, it was justly to be said of
him, as old GEORGE KREMER once said
of john G. WRIGHT in Congress, sshe
is like the hen that cackled, cackled, cack-
led, but never laid an egg"
From the time he landed in England,
until, dodging out of the international
difficulties lie found himself incompetent
to manage and WIS afraid to meet, he
came home to engage in the more congo
nial operation of working the wires for
Presidential nomination, he was heard
of in but three prominent positions.
In the first, upon entering that country,
he notified Great Britain that, SO far as
he was concerned, the United States set
interest so much above honor, that she
could not kick us into resistance or resent
ment by any amount Of insult or injury.
For, although several of the questions
then at issue between the two govern
ments, involved not only important polit-
ical as well IS commercial interests, but
high national honor, did he not, in his
published letter to the merchants of Liv-
erpool, venture to give them his assurance
that sac months Of the ordinary commerce
betueen the tsco countries, scas of more
uoiae than ell those questions consbined ?
| For this he ought to have been recalled
forthwith And if he had been, and such
man as GEORGE u. DALLAS, whom we
now have there, had been sent in his place,
all those questions would no doubt have
been settled long since, and in manner,
too, st once useful and honorable to mis-
country and creditable to her represent
atiye
In the second, we find him leaving the
legitimate sphere of his duties, and to-
gether with the inbecile Mason, as pup
pets on the wires of speculsting Dutch
Jew and restless French adyenturer,
playing the parts of Punch and Judy in
a RED REPUBLICAN IMBRoGLI0 at Os-
tend. This, it is true, old Mr.. MARCY,
granny as he is, had sense enough to re-
pudiate, and thereby helped to convert
into a ridiculous farce, what had else be-
come as its foreign projectors evidently
intended it to be, a bloody tragedy But
Notwithstanding its harmless termination,
| (for which, no thanks to them y every
one concerned in it should have been
driven IN disgrace from the public ser
vice.
And in the third, to all appearance, the
chief employment of his Ministerial term,
and therefore to be inferred as the best
suited to his capacity and most congenial
to his taste, he has been gobbling the
dinners and guzzling the wines Of the
British 4ristocracy, and then paying for
his entertainment in terms of syoophantic
ddulotioR as disgraceful to his vernaeular
and as genuinely sno5Jiish as if he had
been native of Cocagu>, and in some
Baron's kitchen born. And for this he
should be ignored as an American citizen.
and held in contempt by every one who
would maintain the interest, the honor,
and the dignity of our country at home
and abroad.
And now, mark the difference, After
Mr. BUCHANAN, in. three gears time, had
thus manifested his inco,npetency, and
| sneaked back home TO engage in the spur
ring schemes of political gri1nalkin,''
leaving every foreign issue worse than