The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-22
Mr. Buchanan.

that he has had an hours chat with Mr.. Bu-
chanan at Wheatland, and has evidently been
smitten with the old bachelor at first sight
He tells us, there is nothing in the monstrous
hugbear stories to which we have been listen
ing about the dire evils, that the new Demo
cratic Admins traton is about to infict on US.
After telling US that Mr.. Buchanan resisted
more than year the earnest solicitations of
his political friends to become candidate, he
finally yielded to background swelr'of popular
sentiment in Pennsylvania, that demand Of
him his assent to the use of his name. To
the people of his native State it was yielded,
and to them alone. He. therefore, is neither
indebted to the North nor to the South, nor
to any clique for his nomination and he will
act independent of all, and be an upright fear
less President Of the whole country. The
following is the writer's account of his per-
sonal appearance
The first remark of stranger concerning
Mr.. Buchanan, would naturally be, "What
fine old English gentleman !" had been in
troduced to him many years ago at Gadsby's
Hotel in Washington but the interview then
was of short duration This time | had pos
session of him for several hours. One of the
first remarks he made, elected by the presen-
tation of New York caricature, was, that
the portraits which had been made of him du-
ring the whole canvass were mostly all carica-
lures ; that those who had not seen him
must imagine him, from his effgies, to be as
grum as an ogre, whereas he had scarcely ever
known an uncheerful moment in his liie." In
fact, in spite of the weight of responsibility he
evidently feels his countenance is the mirror
of happy thoughts, and benignant DISPOSE
ton tie looks hale, temperate man of sixty,
of massive intellect, hard, undaunted energy !;
but with caution as the predominant trait of
his moral and intellectual character.
L Judge him to be one of those naturally
impetuous, daring characters who by practical
experience of the folly Of yielding to impulse,
has gradually acquired the habit of waiting
for "sober second thoughts to check and
govern his every action. His countenance
shows this. Occasionally his face will tighten
up, both of his large blue eyes will distend,
and listeners are compelled to sink their gaze
before his profound, scrutiniziug look. Sud-
>denly, however, one Of his eyes half closes,
his head slightly inclines towards one side,
and every word appears to be weighed in the
balance before it is uttered. You always find
that you are conversing with an emphatically
q great man, and bisf unpretending. unostenta-
tious simplicity adds rather than detractS from
this impression, while his unaffected amlabili-
ty and hospitality win your heart, even where
the judgement has resolved to make resist
ance. / am Republican and he is Demo-
crat but pay him this willing tribute, that
- he approaches as nearly to my ideal of gen.
Henan of the old school as any one it has ever
been my good fortune to meet.
Mr.. Buchanan has charming and accom-
plished niece who presides over his household,
and who will do the honors of the White
House. Mr. B. resisted the wishes of his
wanted to prepare book for which he had
been years gathering the materials.
The writer is quiet confident in his asser-
tions, thought he gives none of the reasons for
his belief
He says / would stake my life that the pol
icy of his Administration will prove that par
tisans of extreme measures everyl0here will be
checked by him, and that partisans of the
school of Garrison and Tappan will meet with
no more severe rebuke than that of the New
Orleans Delta, the Richmond Enquire, Gov
ernor Wise, and Jefferson Davis. In the
course of the late campaign, Mr.. Buchanan
has conversed, with profound emotion, respect
ing the dangers OF eStrangement between diff
ferent sections of the republic; but have not
been able to put any finger upon solitary
fact which would prove him to have entertain
ed fears in a sne-sided or partisan spirit. On
the contrary, | attribute the anxiety with
which he repudiates the preGence that he is
exclusively Southern candidate, and the fire.
quency with which he has, in public and pri-
pate, fallen back upon the people, and, above
ALL the people of Pennsylvania Free State
-as the ground work of his own popularity,
to unalterable- formed determination of
strict adherence 10 the Constitution as the
basis of policy during his administration.
In relation to Kansas, if | should form an
opinion, it would be ti.at Mr.. Buchanan pre-
fers, as an individual, and as the citizen of
non-slave holding State that it should come
into the Union a0ithout Slavery He enter
tains, however, the sincere conviction that
Congress has been long enough the arena of
conflict on the Slavery question; and that the
only true and constitutional mode of settling
the difficulty, is to leave each Territory, ask.
ing State privileges, to arrange its own insti-
tutions. He draws the distinction between
the properties of the Territories, and the people
of the Territories, which forms the basis of the
Kansas-Nebraska law, and denies the right of
Congress to leg;slate, hereafter, more than is
absolutely requisite, respecting the latter. His
hope is, believe, that the Kansas question
will take such shape this winter, and in the
Spring, that il will be virtually decided before