Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-11-21
The Buchanan Administration.

that Mr.. Buchanan has been elected
President, the newspaper letter writers
of Washington, and even Pennsylvania,
have taken up the subject Of his Cabinet
with great vigor. Nearly every promi-
nent man in the Democratic party has
been named in connection with a govern
ment office, and his claims, supposed or
real, discussed with great show OF wis
dom and veraeity. And not only are the
spoils divided, but an attempt is being
made 10 foreshow what Mr.. Buehanan's
administration will be. Strange as it
may seem, some of the letter writing fra
ternity, in the face of the Ostend mani
festo, and the Cincinnati platform in
which Mr.. Buchanan merged his iden-
tity during the campaign, have discov-
cred grounds for expressing the belief
that his administration will prove to be
eminently wise, moderate and conserya-
|
tive; that slavery agitation will be hush
ed up; that Cuba and Central America
will not be interfered with, and that 1860
will see our country at peace at home
and abroad. This is highly satisfac-
tory programme, but will it be carried
out? How it is supposed it may be
done, will be seen by the following ex-
tract from a Washington letter in the
New York Times:
''The views expressed in recent num-
bers of the Charleston Mercury, New
Orleans Delta and Richmond Enquirer:
reflect the well-founded fears of the Ill
tra-Southerners, that neither Slavery
propagandism nor ffllibusterisrn will meet
with any furtherance during the mex
four years. On the contrary, the earn
est endeaver will be made to elicit wha
I may call the latent conservative, Unior
; strength at the South, which has Sc
) long lain dormant. This is the mos
important impending event of the day
, 1t is surmiscd that if a fair vote could b.
taken at the South, a majority Of thu
inhabitants would be adverse TO the exten
sion of slavery, and opposed to the an
} nexation of more territory.
Nothing is more common than to NEE
with crowds of intelligent citizens-evel
in South Carolina-who deprecate tn
jefferson Davis, Wise, Rhett & CO
school of politics, and whose opposition
: to the North has heretofore proceede,
from mere local pride, and a superstiti
Gus dread lest every Northern vote
> should be, in his heart, a Garrison or
Greeley. Mr.. Buchanan's government
!, as it is believed in Washington, will seel
:, to bring his school into prominent notice
: and thus neutralize the fre-eating ele
: ment. Such a policy would certainl.
, be admirable, and give satisfaction to al
both North and south, who hate ertreme,
! As l said in a former dispatch, Mr.. Blu
chanan's friends confidently predict tha
his administration will be the grand re
: futation of all that has been said agains
him by his enemies"
I A letter from Lancaster, in the Ne,
a York Herald, processes to give some {
; the gossip around Wheatland, in the 70
{ lowing:
< "Nr. Buchanan is now in the positio
> to make for himself and his countr
one of the grandest and most sublim
a administrations that this country has ha
/ since the days of Washington, and ;
Q the same time reinstatc the Democrat
e, party in the North where it was whe
+ poor Pierce took charge of the countr,
re This ] know it will be his aim to do
I And to begin with no fire-eating Soutl
S ern or Northern disunionist viii get
seat in his Cabinet. Soule, Quitmal
y jeff. Davis and that class of political
e. viii have to take back seats. The roc
N on which Pierce's administration W:
i wrecked, and came near taking the d
Or mocratic party down with it, will be 81,
4 en- wide berth to- Mr.. Buchanan wi
carry out the Cincinnati platform as h
at understands it, and not as jeff Davi
Atchison, and Stringfellow interpret
D The people of Kansas shall decide Il
h question of slavery in that Territor
y and not drunken mob from Missouri.
Is Under Pierce, the Democratic part
OF the Union have been forced to be q
l. South; now we will have some Nor
u for the party TO stand and fight on Il
At In the free States. Mr.. Buchanan know
and SO do his home friends-his goo
tt true Lancaster friends--not Forne
N Sanders, Sickles & Co., that anoth
III fOur wears lilo p;a,o,,,. ...z..II !,