Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-04-24


Mr.. BUCHANAN viii reach his native country
in the midst Of such a greeting as has rarely
been extended 70 any unofficial and private
ci,izen. Without Office to bestow, he will re-
turn to these shores the undoubted favorite OIL
. vast majority Of his countrymen for the
highest position in their gift. Without having
intrigued for the national suffrages he comes
back to receive them as the voluntary heart
offering of the people. No military fame has
served to make him the popular choice. No
yielding to foreign domination; no ostentatious
display Of ambitious pretensionsi no eager
desire for public renown, have given him this
place in the affections Of the masses. He has
done his duty to the Republic with eminent
dignity and ability, and he has crowned a long
and ilustrious career with those exhibitions of
intellect and craftsmanship which have made
him, in spite of himself, the unquestioned pre-
ference of the nation for the Presidential Office
1t is these considerations, and these alone,
which have placed him so far in the advance,
and which inspire the universal sentiment, that
will greet his coming, and after that will pre-
sent his name as the surest omen of success to
the great constitutional party Of the land.
But if our distinguished citizen will be hailed
with the acclamations of all classes and all
parties in the splendid metropolis of New York,
what will il be to the welcome which old Penn.
sylvania will extend to him from her heart of
hearts? When in 1852 she yielded him up
to aid in bringing peace and unity to a great
party, and when this act Of noble sacrifice was
responded to by his own exertions in behalf of
the successful candidates, she did not hesitate
to look forward to the day when he might once
more be presented at similar tribunal, and
with abundant and deserved success. And now
that day-the day of her reward and his own
approaches with sure and irresistible steps
In his absence she saw that his hour had come,
and with one voice her people spoke out, not
at the prompting of leaders, but from their
own free and unbiased judgment and affec-
TONS If he gave way in 1914, in l848, and
in 1852, cheerful to contribute his great infu-
ence to bring about harmony in the selection
of another, his friends are proud and grateful
to know that IN his turn, his name has become,
by general consent the only one that can
secure a certain and assured victory to the
Democracy in 1856. In every circle, in every
county, in every State of this broad land,
wherever the people speak out their real feel
ings, his is the name that springs from their
lips. Such is the welcome which JAMES
BUCHANAN will receive on his return to the
United States.
Pennsylvania, proud of her choice, proud Of
her well-tried and often-tried son, glad to take
him into her arms after his new career Of
honorable service in distinguished position, is
not DESTROYS Of keeping to herself the man she
cherished, to be honored by him in return.
She is filled with joyous emotions to see other
States stepping forward to swell the army Of
friends that gather around him. Her own
welcome will be the more sincere and hearty
now that the citizen she has preferred so long.
has become, in the course of time and after the
trials of new events, the choice Of the people
everywhere else, who are speaking out in tones
that cannot be misunderstood and should not be
disregarded.
Mr.. BUCHANAN will not be greeted by any
mere narrow circle Of men, He will not be in
the hands of politicians. His lofty attitude is
owing to the personal exertions of no man or
set of men. He will owe it to the people--to
the Democracy, and to those disenchanted men
once ATTACHED to other parties, but now glad
to seal their devotion to national doctrines by
rallying around the only man who. can give
success and permanency to these doctrines.
Nor will he be welcome alone by the free
States. The South will honor him as pre-emi-
nently the statesman whose nomination will be
at once most satisfactory to the national North,
and most agreeable to the South, because IL ,ciLl
most assuredly rally in the defence Of the con-
stitutiondl rights Of the South that SUCCESSFUL
sentiment in the free States, ohich, ichen com
bined under such circumstances, toM hencefor-
,card he inrincible against Janaticism @ erery
kind and degree.
zens alone. The voters born in other lands
xw,l haI 4ho,r oh o..l
representative. The man who opposed the Sc
cret ballot in 1e24-25, in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, when General Jackson lost his elec-
ton for the Presidency; who antagonized
Nativeism in 1886, on the Michigan bill; who
fought against it in 1874, and who rebuked in.
consistent demagogueism in 1882 when Gen.
Scott sought the votes he once dispised, needs
no new title to the confidence of the adopted
citizens, whether they are the countrymen of
his ancestors; the emigrants Of that Germany
which has made his own country the garden OF
the worlds the gay sons Of France, or the chill
dren Of any other cline who come hither to
dwell "under their own vine and their own fig
tree, with none to modest or to make them
afraid"
Mr. BUCHANAN will come back to us on or
about the anniversary Of his birth day, when
he will have reached the age Of sixty-6ve. In
the prime Of health and intellect, his form
erect as ever, and his heart beating for the
welfare Of his country, who will not feel viii
ling TO con6de to such man the reins OF
power, and to welcome him as the wortbiest TO
hold themf At such a time of life it will be
the conscientious and constant duty Of JAMES
BUCHANAN to build up for himself an immortal
fame by fidelity to the Constitution, hostility to
fraud in high places, unbending integrity of
word and deed, and the exercise Of that rigid
justice between mau and man, and between
State and State, which Is the surest basis OF the
true glory and greatness Of a free and a Chris.
tan people.
When JAMES BUCHANAN returns to his ma
tive land, such will be the auguries that will
mark his coming. More than one spectator
will be able to say Of Mr.. BUCHANAN as Burke
said of General Conway, after the repeal of the
stamp act by the British Commons, in which
General Conway bore so leading part,
"All America joined in his applause. Nor
did he seem insensible to the best Of all earthly
rewards-the love and admiration Of his fellow
citizens. Hope elerated and JOY Frightened his
crest / stood near hin. do not know how
others felt; but if / had stood in that situation,
never would have exchanged IL for all that
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