Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-14
From the Quarterly Rerier.

From the Quarterly Review.
AS ENGLISH VIEW or Nh BucHASAN.-He
has been from earlys.life successful lawyer in
extensive practice, and has most ably filled the
highest posts in the government, next to that of
President, having been Secretary of State, En-
voy to St. Petersburg, &c. He never was mar
ried; an early and mutual attachment is spoken
of by his friends, whose object was, by one of
those terrible diSpensations which certain stead
fast natures never can forget snatched from him.
Like another distinguished American, Washing
ton Irving, who suffered similar bereavement,
he has remained faithful to thememory of her
whom he had lost Although the private lives
of men in high stations are considered as belong
ing to the public Domain itwould not, we think,
be delicate to ailude more particularly to the cir
cumstnnces attendant on this deep affection in
the outset of Mr.. Buchanans career. What we
have said suffices to show that no cold insensi-
bility of character condemned him to celibacy.
In manner Mr.. Buchanan is courteous, and in
conversation mild and deliberate, with n smack
of the old school. His bearing is calm and dig
nified, his temper and language under complete
control; although on occasions, when he has
conceived that personal or official slight was in
tended he has shown that although his parents
were Irish, he can yindicate the claim of his
family TO Scotch origin, by acting up to the
motto, Memo me impu1e tdcessiG The new Pre-
Sident is designated by some as the jealous lea
der of the Slavcocracy, and reported to be the
warm advocate of Slavery. That this is correct
in it's full extent, we muStbe permitted to doubt.
Mr.. Buchanan is not nativeof Slave State,
but Pennsylvania, who never owned a slave
in his life, nor is he likely ever to do so. Nor
do he think that he is an approver of Slavery,
although, in dealing with great evil already
existing, he knows and feels the extreme diff
Guilty that practically surrounds the question:
He may, like other men in public life, wish to
be on good terms with many whose conduct or
principles he cannot wholly approve. 1t needs
no great effort of judgment to perceive what
Language it may have been necessary for him to
hold or withhold, in order not to offend the pas
sionate preiudices of so INSCRIPTIONS and vio-
lent party as that which has for some time
PLAYED the dictator, per as ct Retus, in the coun
ellis of the United States.
The opinion formed of Mr.. Buchanan in ccr-
tain ministerial circles in this country was not
favorable. Some of those high in Office consid-
cred him as sort of diplomatic liedgehog-pre-
JUDGED against England, hostile TO her Govern
ment and thoroughly philo-Russiun. Those
who saw him most do not share in this opinion,
and arc far from anticipating such violent meas
ures rs may be Predicated from the tenor OF the
0stend Manifesto. But the tiattering attentions
showered upon him in st Petersburg, not only
within the Imperial Palace, but byall the no.
biIity, may have rendered him alive to the cold
ness lie experienced from certain of our aristoc-
racy. He was on very friendly terms with many
persons oil dlStlncpon llere ana IL speaks III MS
favor that those who knew him best liked him
most; but others, especially some with whom he
came in contact in his official position, regarded
him as WASHINGTON IRvING describes the old
Dutch families of New York to have looked
upon the Yankees, with great respect and abb
horrcnce'
Americans have informed us that he left Eng
land with feelings of the deepest respect and
esteem for the highest pcrsonages of the realm,
but had lost much of such feelings for those
who compose our Government Desiring, as
man, all prosperity to our sovereign, he must
naturally wish her better ministry; while as
President, in the not improbable contingency of
the United States again requiring England to
abandon an island or give up consul, lie would
desire the continuance in office of those now at
the head of affairs who have distinguished them
selves by doing such things with iaunty, un-
blushng grace that is inimitable, and have eaten
enormous leeks, not only with gusto, but to the
sound of their own trumpets. Mr.. Buchanan's
reply to the Franklin and Marshall address, con-
firms our anticipations of his conservative poll
CIV, and assures us that he will use his power
and great abilities to lead back this giant Re-
public to the paths marked out so impreSsively
by its founder.