The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-13
From the New York HeraI
From the New York Herald.
ELECTION OF MR.. BUCHANAN AND A DEMO
CRATIC CONGRESS SHOALS AND BREAK
ERS AHEAD,

With the election of Mr.. Buchanan. and with
Democratic majority in both Houses of Con-
gress, the first conclusion would be, that he has
secured everything essential to a smooth. re-
spectacle, and successful Administration. Bat
such is not the case. His Administration, from
the outset, will be surrounded with difficulties
and perplexities more numerous and formidable
than those which any President has been called
upon to grapple with since the organization of
the Government.
In the first place, his majority in the House
of Representatives is uncertain and slippery
majority. The gains, in many instances, which
his party have secured in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, and New York, are gains achieved
upon false issues, and particularly false upon
the test question of Kansas. Let the Southern
Democracy try these Northern gentlemen upon
a bill for the admission of Kansas as slave
State, and they will most probably discover
that they have made a lamentable bunder in
their calculations, and that their Democratic
majority in the House is by no means q har-
rnonious working MAJ ority for the extension of
Slavery according to the Kansas policy of
Atehison, JEFF. Davis, and Franklin Fierce,
We are not kept in doubt concerning the
programme of the ruling Democratic secession
faction OF the South. The leading article,
which We transfer to this paper from that out
spoken confidential organ OF Jefferson Davis
the New Orleans Detta-is singulsrly frank in
the exposition of his policy as the great South
ern Warwick of the Democratic party. He
hiss ruled the Administration of poor Pierce
With rod of iron-he has left the imprint of
his power upon the Cincinnati platform of Mr..
Buchanan; and with bis transfer to the United
States Senate, this conspirator, Davis-4his
arch-agitator of Slavery extension, secession,
snd Southern confederacy-will be in q posi-
ton to work out more effectively his mischiev-
Gus designs upop Mr. Pierce's successor. His
present programme, as laid down in his con-
fdantial organ, is, after the admission Of Ian.
sas as slave State
First. The reduction of the whole of Central
Auerics 10 q slaveholding confederacy under
Gen. Walker.
Secondly. A descent from Nicaragua, by
Walker, upon Cuba and the West India islands
generally, the reestablishment of Slavery in
those islands where it has been abolished, and
the annexation of the whole lot to the Union.
Thirdly. The adoption of this policy of Sla.
very extension as the Union preserving plank
in the Democratic platform of 1860.
With regard to the prospects Of this grand
and sweeping programme, this organ of yefer-
son Davis and his powerful faction has its mis-
givings. 1t confesses its fears of the Northern
Democrats elected to the next Congress; and
the fact that the cause of Mr.. Buchanan him.
self has been pushed forward in the North upon
the policy Ct hostility to the extension of Sla-
very it regards as very bad omen. But
after all, says the Delta, we have the Ostend
manifesto, to which Mr.. Buchanan is pledged"
This will do; for in this secessions lavery-ex.
tension programme, and in these misgivings
and fears Of the confidential organ of Mr.. DAVIS,
we have disclosed to the naked eye the budget
g Anbarrassments which will surround Mr..
-hN very outset of his career.