New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-15

The papers announced little while ago that
President Pierce had provided for Concord cler-
gymaD, who, about the time of his election, had
given him certificate of "good moral and reli-
gious character" by appointing the giver Of that
certificate to a chaplaincy, pursership, or somc-
thing else, in the Navy. The success Of this GER
tifyiDg clergymen has not been lost on his watch
full brethren. A similar certificate to the good
moral and religious character of Mr.. Buchanan has
just made its appearance in The Ssv York OJserrer,
in the shape of letter stated to come from a
wellknOwn clergyman of Philadelphia" Ac ,Ord-
ing to this letter, Mr.. Buchanan is patriot in
deed Others have risked Their lives for their
country be risks his salvation. "In conversations
(which l have had with him. says this distil-
gushed L" clergyman in Philadelphia" " he more
@ than once expressed with great tenderness
we did not know before that Mr.. Buchanan was so
much If wag-" his desire of retiremen. from the
- destined cares of public life-the Importance of a
:. close preparation for his last and final account -
Certainly, the pious readers of The Obserrcr, espe
cially those in Pennsylvania, who by voting for
Buchanan have interfered with these pous wishes,
and helped to expose him to the fresh trials and
temptations of the Presidency, have assumed fear
full responsibility. 1t is true that this eminent
clergy man calls upon the pOus now that Mr.. Bu-
char ali is elected, to give him an interest in their
prayers; but We fear it will be found far easier
matter to vote him into temptation, peril and sin,
than to pray him out Of it. Prayers put up for
President elected on such platform, AMI coming
into Office with such surroundings as Mr. Buchanan,
will put US in mind of prayers for the dead, in
which, as good Protestants. We are presumed not
to believe.
We hope that the confidence expressed by thi SEMI
nent clerical correspondent of The Obserrer in Mr..
Buchapan's good administration of the Government
may prove wefounded yet it is hardly safe to
overlook the distinction which Mr.. Buchanan him.
elf takes between his character, conduct and opn-
ons as a man and those which he assumes as
politician and President. As a man, his moral
hsracter may be unblemished. As a citizen Of
Lancaster. on the strength of his owning pew in
each of the Presbyterian churches and his regular
and deyout attendance-not to offend anybody
upon all the churches in the place, he may pass
muster as being Every catholic in spirit; on the
strength of the hour which he is said to Sc. aside
every day for the study of the Scriptures and the
use of "Jay's Morning and Evening Exercises" be
NAV be put down as a Christian in spite Of his
neglect provocative of the wonder and regre: of
Tie ODsorers correspondent to "unite with the
"Church by public profession for how could
be 90 that without risking the dispeasure and per-
haps the sectarian hostility of those whose church
he did not unite with As man, Mr.. Buchanan
may be all this; as President, he proposed to be
exactly what the nominating Convention chose to
have HIN. In his letter accepting the nomination
he makes no reference either to the Scriptures,
jays Morning and Evening Exercises" or to
bis own sense Of right and wrong; he sinks every
IL ing in the Cincinnati Platform.
We need not repeat that we regard Mr. Blu.