The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-20
From the Albany Atlas and Argus
"MY FRIENDS, LORD CLARENDON AND JAMES
pUpHANANp

BUCHANAN
Mr. BUCHANAEs ApnrIsrRA Tos-It is very natural that
great anxiety should exist in relation TO the policy OF Mr.
Buchanans administration, and IL Is equally natural that
those WAo are acquainted Wh the personal relations Which
e1 bsWssH the Vriter and Mr. Buchanan should deuge US
with inquiries to learn what zoe think Of the future
NJ r. Courier and Enquirer
We share the socitude of thousands who have dysd
the vaorous editor of the Courier with inquiries to the
future Next to Lord Clarendon suppose that Mr. Blu
chanan is the confidential friend Of General James Watson
Webb We recollect how the result OF his intimacy
with the noble lord at the head of foreign affairs of
England the General soemny assured the people of these
States that "hee to be war between England and
Russia We glad therefore, to hear one so well in
formed declare
ave know Mr. Buchanan well and in all the relations
of private life he is most estmable gentleman His tai
ents statesman well known TO the American peo-
pie and he is withal conservative in his individual opin-
ions upon all the great questions OF the day"
We are panied, however to hear him say
ave felt it our duty to use all honorable pre-
vent the election, not of our friend James Buchanan but
OF the autonatoa bearing his name"
The reason for this conclusion s the Ineligible and
honest one that Mr. Buchanan had ignored his past life
and said he longer James Buchanan but the sim
pie representative of most odous wicked and disrepu-
table platform We do not recoilect this declaration,
which was probably made by Mr. Buchanan in the init
macy of personal friendship with the General and has
were the Ophic sayings of Clarendon lest the people
should perish IN delusion.
In giving opinion the subject of the future, the
oracle of the Courier and Enquirer gives opinion
is an opinion" "lf friend Mr. Buchanan adheres to
the Cincinnati platform and is democrat 3d. If not not
But be that he has really been pledged not to adhere
to it, land of this what the oracle thinks Is neither hero
nor there,) then 1t will BIO otherwise"
When the redoubabe General cried out in the Fremont
convention that $50 help him God he for resistance
the point of the byone if the democratic party persisted
in its policy we shuddered We could seep onghts
Even when told that the General spoke only for himself
and that he intended to make this bayonet charge alone
we were not quite treasured We recollected how with
his own hand the General had scaled the walls Of the Uni
ted States Bank and almost sacked it alone II his
charge equal to his power of drafts exhibited
that occasion, we felt that it was all up with
We rejoced to find that $50 help him God he is not
make this onset and that he has sharpened the point
his dreadful bayonet into steel pen to write eulogies
upon "his amiabe estimabe and accomplished friend
James Buchanan"
We have a request to make to which the peaceful mood
of our armed Colossus Of the press invites Will
General Webb condescend 60 into the cabinet of Pres
dent Buchanan AS the connecting link between Lord
Clarendon and the American administration and as a me-
dunn between both and the publics of two worlds, h,
would be of infinite Can not at least persuade
him to accept the post till the international electric tee
graph is laid