Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-12-01
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1T ever there was troubles omc team IN harness,
requiring the skill and determination Of bold, ex-
psencsd whip IL is that the President elect has TO
take In hand on the fourth Of March next II old
Jackson were alivs and could take the reins in his
hands for the space Of = twelvemonth, while there
would be an immense deal Of kicking and boiling
and cavortiug generally, we should have no hesita-
ton in believing that in the interim the fiery ones
would be whipped into the traces and begin to draw
with the ease and sobriety Of old stagers.
With Buchanan, however, the case is different
We do not believe he has the moral courage or ply
steal nerve to whip anything into the traces. The
only persuaders he would ever apply would be lit
tie moral suason, in the way Of Withholding Offices
We have considerable faith in this mode Of treat
ment 80 far rs the North is concerned, and have
no doubt it will have practical effect to certain
extent among his supporters at the South. But
there is great doubt upon mind whether the mo
thod he must adopt will be sufficient to secure any
thing like harmony among the harmonious Democra-
cy There are too many discordant and antagonistic
elements in the party for any hope of Cancellation
and compromise by persuasive means. There is too
much of personal and sectional antipathy between
its different wings to imagine any concert Of action
between them, except that which, shall be perempto
rily enforced.
1t is true that Buchanan comes into the chair Of
State with, nominaly at least large administration
majority in the Senate and House So did Pierce i,
1852. But let us see what this administration ma
jority is composed Of
First and foremost in the van of material opposi-
ton to the party under whose banner they en-
rolled the disunion chivalry of South Carolina
and some Of the other extreme Southern States,
rampant for division Of the South from the North,
and the formation Of Southern Republic, favorable
TO any measure which will insure such dissolution,
and Numerically opposed, in almost every political
point their comrades Of the North the Northwest
and Southwest determined to yield nothing, to con-
ciliate nowhere, and only willing to remain in the
Union in order to induce the balance Of the South TO
unite with them in their separation. What brilliant
success this portion Of tho administration majority
will assist in giving to the administration may be
imagined-it certainly cannot be described. Again,
il we are correctly informed, every Democratic re-
preventative from the North is out and out supper
ter of any measure securing freedom to bleeding
Kansas and pledged in opposition to any measure
introducing it a slave State Reverse the propo-
siton, and it applies to the whole Democratic delega-
ton from the South. Here is another clement Of
discordance among the harmonious Democracy
Still further--upon the question of the policy and
constitutonaty Of the construction Of the Pacific
Railroad and the subject Of internal improvements
generally, the north and the south pole more
antpodal than the Democratic representatives of the
West and Southwest and the Democratic represen-
tativ.s Of the South The former go in for the lar
gest latitude of constitutional construction insisting
upon everything which can tend to the advancement
OF their section, constitutional and polite, while
the latter white the constitutional power of Con-
gress down to nothing, and rcpudiate, with all the
ardor Southern sun can give them, any measure
which may add to the strength, the prosperity and
wealth Of their section. We might thus instance
upon every question Of policy, which the next ad
mnistration may be called upon TO consider, an an
tagonism Of sentiment in tho party it represents,
which will effectually embarrass all its measures and
make It's power nullity aud farce. Furthermore,
if Mr.. Buchanan should have the temerity to at in
his administration upon the principles Of the 0stend
manifesto, we predict there will be raised such
clamor and an opposition so formidable and annoy
ing, that he will wish himself once again back out
of the political turmoil, in the shades of Wheatand,
and utter soliloques the fatal results of amb ion,
equally sincere if not quite eloquent as those Of
the fallen cardinal.