Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-05-06

but old BUCK Now up and tell. Don't you
mean that this more than ordinary caution" y
should be applied to him And what is the
reasoning of our friend upon this subject We>
regret to say, not that of his clear brain, but
the adoption of the weaker reasoning which has
been going the rounds of the partisan presses
Of the Administration, that no man should OBJ
tain the nomination at Cincinnati who was not
in the Nebraska Kansas fight! Can anything
be more unjust than this? Can anything be so
ungenerous The acceptance OF foreign
mission and the successful conduct of our deli
cate relations with foreign power, is to be
made just cause for the forfeiture ofall claims
for the Presidency But let us look more close
ly into this matter. Mr.. BUCHANAN was in
England giving his whole attention and apply
ing his talent and wisdom in the amcable and
laudable adjustment of our difficulties with that
nation. Fit as he was for the position and quail
ifiedashe is for any position to which the govern
ment or American people may call him, he has
not unfortunately the divine gift of ubiquity.
He could not be in England and in the Senate
too; and because he could not be in both
places, he is to be ruled off the course for not
participating in the Nebraska Kansas fight!
1t is true, he might have addressed Lord Clar-
endon every day in vehement terms upon the
necessity of the passage of this bill by our
| National Legislature, but whether his lordship
| would quite have appreciated the relevancy Of
such communications upon the international
subjects they were gravely considering, is at
| least a question But Mr.. BUCHANAN went out
to England as the accredited Minister Plenipo-
| Tertiary of the United States Government
During the three years Of his mission, his SUI
perior diplomacy was demanded upon the most
delicate questions which had arisen between
| the two countries, and which it is believed he
has, if not entirely settled, at least has placed
| upon a good and sure basis of settlement
| These were questions threatening war between
| the two countries. Is it any such small SER
vice to the country to avert SO terrible ca
| lamity? Suppose the friends Of Mr.. BUCHANAN
were to urge that no man who had not effected
| this great good should be the nominee at Gin
cinnati? Could anything be more absurd
| and in what consists the difference? Simply in
this: that in this case the CLAIM, 10 the nonina-
| ton would be limited to one individual, while
in the other, the Nebraska Kansas fight" it
belongs to hundreds. But assuming that Mr..
| BUCHANAN is meant to be included under this
| arbitrary and anomalous rule, what justice is
| there in it? and why should we not assume
| that he would get the whole South as a unit in
the next Presidential election, if he should be
the nominee of the party? LalS52 he got a
large majority Of the Southern States wiM Vu-
ginia at their head Virginia voted for him
| aoih an adheraace ,ioalled only by his oacn
great Statei FTginia roted for him some. fifty
timesl Three years have passed since that
time. What has Mr.. BUCHANAN done since
that expression of her confidence and that of
her sister southern States, to forfeit it? No
thing, unless successful nilsson IN aohich their
| dignity and honor 1oere maintained abroad
and a .tuu endorsement Of the Nebraska-Kan
| sdS bill at home, constitute reasons for the for
fixture Of that confidence Is it fair, then2-is
it just, is it generous, to make such an issue
upon one of the most eminent and distin-
gushed statemen of our country, and to make
it upon him alone? Let our friend of the Re
publican stick to his first text, that There is
no one spoken of in connection with the
Presidency whose soundness is at all ques-
tionable," and let him, as he generously will
we believe, embrace JAMES BUCHANAN in this
true and just sentiment.