New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-12


ion forever. With energy aud patient endurance,
Kansas shall yet be free.
Several of the journals which supported the Re
publican candidate for the Presidency have, we oh.
serve, taken Mr.. Buchanan in hand if they really
expected to be able 70 make model President on.
of him. Whether the President elect shall sink HIM
self by weak and wicked administration of the
Government into the same abyss Of Odium in which
poor Pierce is gasping for breath, or, by wise,
ildici aus, conscientious use of the power he has
attained shall elevate himself to the high level
Of the patriots by whom the Office has in former
times been filed depends so these journals tell
him, entirely on himself To accomplish this latter
feat--an exploit no less due to his own self
respect than TO the country of which he is the
President-he has only, so these journals assure
him, to shake off all the influences and all the men,
by the coo peration of which and whom he has been
elected President. He has only to send of with
feas in their ears Wise, Forney, Brooks, Keitt,
Sldel' and the whole pack CT fire. ers, nullifers,
and desperate political intriguers to whom he owes
his nomination and election. He has only to tram
pie the Cincinnati Platform under foot, to renounce
the Ostend Manifesto and the whole flbustering
doctrine therein set out to do justice to Kansas by
repudating and setting aside the whole system
of intrusive voting, bogus legislation borderruffiln
inyasiops, and trumped-up indictments for treason
and murder, of which that unhappy Territory has
hitherto been the victim. and to carry out instead
without fear OF favor, the squa'ter sovereignty prn
ciple on which the Territory organized; he has
only, after counting the favor and securing the
support Of the slave-drvers and savebreeders,
by the most abject humiatiOns and total self
abasement to stand upon his feet and play the part
Of nan, after conserving TO be nominated and
chosen on purely sectional basis, and with an
exclusive view TO the interests and wishes Of the
partsans Of the extension of Slavery; he has only
to come out truly national President ard to give
to the sentiments. feelings, wishes, and interests
of the Moth their due weight; instead of following
in the track Of Tyler Fillmore, and Pierce, he
has onl, to return to the principles and practices
of Washington-to become $50 these journals say
very worthy President, and to administer the
Government with credit to himself and benefit to
the country.
Very excellent advice no doubt, which, if it
should only be followed, would hardly fail of the
most beneficial results. But it seems to US to re-
semble little too much what we have frequently
noticed as to the advice given by physicians to their
patieuts-yery excellent advice in ITSELF but advice
which, in nine cases ont of ten, it is utterly gu. Of
the question for the patient to follow. Thus,
poor fellow, who has not dollar in his pocket. aud
is running in debt for his boardbls, is advised to
ride on horseback every morning. 10 live generously,
and TO take little old Madeira-Si or So bottle
every day with his dinner. Let him bu. follow
this advice, and he will be to renyigorate his
constitution and make himself in time quite another
man. And this patient, in the same state of COL
lapse, is advised to pass Summer at the Springs,
and to make voyage to Europe; while another,
obliged to work twelve hours day for his daily
bread and full of anxeties how to make the two
ends meet. is told that freedom from care and auxi.
ETY., and giving himself up to relaxation and agree
able social intercourse, viii be sure TO make well
man of him.
The presses engaged in this task Of converting
potical courtier. or rather Of teaching a political
courtier how 10 convert himself, into patriotic
President. would do well TO recolect the Scriptural
warning as to the folly ofattempting to gather grapes
from thorns or figs from ,histles. Such attempts
show fund of hopefulness and commendable indus
Try; but the labor, most likely, will be lost. What
ever power Mr.. Buchanan may originally have pos
sssed of discerning between good and evil, it can
not but have been greatly impaired by total dis
use of it for at least twenty years past. Even sup
posing him heartily TO desire It, we very much
question his capacity to administer the government
with wisdom, manlness and impactiality, even
though he were left as TO its administration, free
to follow his own inclination. So far from that, he
has bit in lis mouth in the shape of platform,
and rider and indeed many dozens of them, on his
back-men ola much more decided temp than heis;
and, even though he we've ever so well disposed to
do i, he will find it utterly impossible to shake
them of. Mr.. Buchanan hns been purchased by
the save-drivers as their servant Of all work. They
have boush; hm all paid .9r hiw, apd sloa!l he