Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-16

One of the greatest curiorties of modern poll.
tics, is seen IN the antagonistic elements which
compose the Buchanan party. II the new admin
istration does not fall in pieces, after the manner
othe present. one within two years after its Access
sion to power it will not be because of its want of
resemblance to the Pierce party Of 1852, in being
made up of opposite and most contradictory ma
terials In one extreme of the Union, at the late
election, we saw the border ruffians Of Missouri,
and the secessionists and nullihers OF South Ca"
rolina and Alabama, rallying under the Demo
cratic standard, with the advocates OF T" Buchan
an, Breckenridge, and free Kanzas,' of Pennsyl-
yania, and the intense "Unionsts at all hazards
of the Northern States, generally. Atchison and
Van Buren,, Stringfellow and Dix, Preston S.
Brooks and Rufus Choate, all worked together
tremendously, and of course each has equal
laims to share in the spoils of office, incident
to the successful issue of the canvass.
Considering these discor1ant elements as the
component parts of the incoming national ad-
ministraton, what hope can we nationally have
that it will pursue wise, safe, or conciliatory
policy, as claimed, or that it will adopt any well
settled or decided basis of action in any emergen-
cy which may arise unless it veer directly into the
path marked out by the border Tufians, for that
appears to be the only distinctive or we'll defined
issue on which it gained the election.
Should President Buchanan manage to suit the
views of his supporters in that section OF the
Union where he resolved his greatest aid at the
polls. Gas seems most prObabe,) of course he will
be obliged to dispease bis Northern supporters.
But what OF that the latter comprised but frac-
ton of his popular strength at the polls In No
vember. Should he declare for the Northern pol
icy, he would be discordant at once in quarter
where he has sought most to ingratiate himself
into favor But should he decide to do this, las
undertake, in the face of his antecedents.J he
would find it the only safe policy, in the end
We're Mr.. Buchanan wise, he would at once throw
himself for support upon the Northern and North
Western sections oil the confederac y, largely pre-
ponderating as they do over the South, in all the
elements which constitutes real strength and in.
huence in the Union. But, If the sage of Wheat.
land has been politically blind thus far in his
reer, it is not to be expected that he will, in his
old age, make a radical change in his policy. He
has been during all his official life, the servant
and tool of the slave oligarchy--has become we'd
ded to it, until it has become sort of second ma
ture-and it is the most natural thing in the
world that his administra ton should be, if not of
the most ultra stamp, al least sufficiently subserv
lent IN its policy to the demands of the slavery
proPagandisss, to crafty all their important de.
sires. II he shall do otherwise, shall be most
agreeably disappointed.
The fact is, Mr.. Buchanan has no particular
mindof his own, no firmness whatever to resist
imperative appeals, and no decision of character
OF course. then, if the South pull hardest upon
him, as they have upon every other President
elected BY their votes, and point to the Cincin-
natiplatform as the pledge of his policy, how
he, with bis feeble power of will, and lack of per-
sonal Independence, resist their appeal We
fear he will not be able successfully SO to d. by
che very constitution Of his mind. Let us all,
then, expect the worst ftom the new administra.
tion, and if it turns out better than we expected,
then we can rejoice.