New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-31

the North, the East, the West and theos- 80"
bow down 10 him. He WA ~ an mScru'A"e
Providence permitted 10 belize that his election,
,oder the forms Of the constitution was sufficient
"a sctfo al The sg,. Of the Republic. The Kan
a., trouble ended with bis advent Tho Nicaragua
,,e.,;or ,.o..d sten be took the oaths. He FORE
eau an ADMINISTRATION az peaceful a. thst of Mr..
Munro. He vent into his place with prodigious
complacency, and considered the storm to be sp'
,eaasd III squsttcd himself, like kind Of King
| C.,u.e and commanded the wares Of conscience
and Of intellect to be stayed. Unfortunate Canute-
buchanan. You are already spattered, and drench.
| ed, and sared.
We suppose that Mr.. Buchanan must, by sort
ofcontaqion during his residence abroad, have been
| infected by the delusion which now, after long
interval, like those Of hydrophobia are exhibited.
He approves the unquestioned authority of kings
but he is unmindful of the fact that he has not
10000 bayonets to back him up. Because he can
make postmasters, and collectors, and ambassadors,
he fances that he can make the opinion of the
people. Because he can make Nathan Clifford 8
Judge (as the Roman Emperor made his horse
ConsuD be thinks that he may do what, in HE
sovereign capacity, he may please to do. Because
he has q subseryent majority in the Senate, he
mistakes the Senatorial tenure and msgines it to
be for life. Because the Democratic psrtythss
been almost uniformly successful in the past, he
thinks il must be uniformly inevitable in the future
The poor old man He is like the Bourbsas. He
has forgotten nothing, and be has learned nothing
lie cannot see that his party, under the inauenc
Of diffused intelligence and humanity, is melting
away; that it can no longer count upon the great
Presidential vote of ew.England, of New.York
Of Ohio; that within itself it contains the elements
of dissolution. He comes to US almost from a
generation past and gone; he comes to us from the
times when Gag Anterior could kick the petitions
of Northern constituencies out of the House,
and when such humble but honorable remOn-
,trances were huddled under the table of the
Senate. He is welded to the past and insen-
sibe to the present. Nothing which he has
done since he assumed his high Office shows
him to be anyrnlns Aatter than Pin Van
Wrinkle rudely awakened by his ,,-..;on r. ,ho
Presidency. Indeed (rcspect being out Of the
question:, we hardly know whether to pity or to
laugh. When the President and his Secretary of
State put their frosty pows" together, it is a
spectacle for gods and men.
DO not let US be misunderstood. If We have in.
dulged in ghtncss of speech, it has been out of no
disrespect for ability, patriotism, and long public
service; but rather because the mammoth demands
of the time have been met in such mincing and
miniken way by the Administration, which seems
to be emulOus of rivaling its predecessor in catas.
trophe, and of being the architect of ts own ruin.
Mr. Buchanan has started, as Mr.. Pierce started,
with the idea of O pcIpvtv-, IL Ut. rtv lust
9. sora re,;o;onsts indulge in the idea of ono eter.
80, Chrrcb Rut already the foundations, SEEM
ingy so deep and so stable are shifting and sliding
from under the President. A wise man might stay
the wreck; bold man might delay it; cunning
man might conceal it; but weak man must God
help him y 90 down with the tide And, sorry we
are to say it the President is wesk-hopelessly
and helplessly weak. He has been in Office for ten
months. During that time the Kansas trouble has
become more troublesome than ever before. Dur
ing that time the Nicaragua pirate has made I'M
other spasmOdic effort. During that time our dip.
lomatc relations with England have been in an
unsettled condition. During that time the Utah
rebellion has ripened. What has the President
dOnel Nothing or worse than nothing. He has
appointed Governor of Kansas, and he has turned
him out Of Office. He has arrested William Wal
ken and he has released him. He has held the
diplomatic appointments, as a cautions whist
player holds lis trumps, nominating nobody and
recalling nobody, although several frstrate powers
have sent special embassies to Washington. He
has dispatched gallant little army. To founder
through the almost fathomess SHOWS, to reach
Utah or TO perish And he has, to state his moss
explicit achievement, asked and obtained OF Con
gress a loan of millions upon millions.
We have already alluded TO the main moral
blunder Of the Preident. He has supposed that
by mere dctation ic could create public opinion;
that he could shrte the general mind from
its conscientious e1uanimity by bestowing or
withholding a few Offices; that Government
il a mere CANT at cards. He does not
seem TO know that While he is sorting, counting,
fixing, arranging AMI balancing the people are
thinking, and in the most sagacOus but dlsrespeet-
flu way laughing at the botheraton of his. Excel
lency. When he Looks out Of the White House
windows, like that Of the younger Weller, his
..wision is limited" This only can account for the
epregious folly of Hmosing Mr.. McKeon. This
only can be an excue for the injustice with which
Capt. Chatard and Com. Psulding have been treat
ed. In truth, the Administration is anything but
settled, and We expect to see it bobbing around
until the people seth it for all time. The secret
of these saltations to be found in the fact that