The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-07-16
Just Sentiments from IA RcPubii
can Paper.

Just Sentiments from u Repubii-
can Paper.
The New York Times, one of the most
widely circulated and influential journals in
the Republican ru6ks--a paper which last
fall advocated the election of Fremont
comes out with the following hearty endorse.
ment of Mr.. Buchanan's administrations
/ We commend it to the careful perusal Of our
readers:
1t was charged upon Mr.. Buchanan, dur.
ing the canvass which resulted i'll his elec-
tion to the Presidency, that he had been
bought forward as the candidate ofthe South;
that he would devote himself, if chosen, to
the prosecution of the policy marked out for
him, by the Southern chieftains who had
controlled the administration Of President
Pierce, and that he could not be expected,
therefore, to achieve the pacificatioR OF Kan
sas, distracted by the intrigues, and madden
ed by the outrages, of the Southern propo-
gandists of Slavery.
The particular personal friends OF Mr.. Bu'
cEanan maintained, On the contrary, that the
intentions of that statesman were, to repreSs
the violence Of the extreme -partisans by
whose recent excesses the very existence of
tie American Union had been imperiled, and
encourage the patriotic hopes of all peaceful
citizens, of whatever section of country, by
such a prompt and Impartial vindication OF
of the fundamental principles of FREQ Gov
eminent in Kansas, as should conciiate all
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Up 20 tnis tine, the course of Mr. Bu-
chanan has certainly justified the dcclura.
tions of his friends rather than the prognos-
ticatfons of his foes. HI met the issue offer.
ed him in Kansas promptly and p!alnly.-
Without protesting TO take u1 the ground
assumed from the first, by the. Northern
friends of freedom in Kansas, he put him
self into the breach between the assail-
ants and the defenders of liberty, lin that
Territory. Accepting as he was EouDd to
accep:-as Mr.. Fremont himself had he
been chosen, would have been bound to
accept, the action Of lhe, Hast Congress upon
the question of Territorial organization in
Kansas, Mr. Buchanan proceeded to. select
Tor the dischargs,oE the Executive fcnctions
a statesman Of NeEthern origin, but of Sou!
thern associations; a statesman whom no
one could suspect of Abolitionism, not
even of, Anti Slavery procivlties; and whose
capacity for the impartial execution of the
MON enious trust confded to him, was ac-
knowledged by Southern as we'll as North
ern men.
Governor Walker went TO Kansas watch.
ed by thousand eyes. The advanced guard
of the Southern secessionists were sure that
he would do their work for them. They
loudly proclaimed their confidence that he
would so manage matters in Kansas as to
oggravate still further the mutual exaspera-
ton of the North and of the South; that he
would dragoon the Free State men, be their
number what it might, into submission, and
that he would commit the National Admin
istration to the reasonable purposes of their
own fierce and fiery faction. These antlcis
pations of the Southern extremists were
echoed by extremists at the North. Before
Governor Walker had reached Lecompton,
the organs of the most infamed Northern
feeling had poured forth peal upon peal of
premature denunciation against himself and
J the President by whom he had been appoint
ed. No good was to be expected from the
.
So bitter and SO clamorous were the outcrief
sent up from these two opposite quarters, a.
to drown the voices of the men who are IN
the habit ofseeing with their own eyes and
hearing with their own ears before giving
utterance, to their opinions. -...~. -,
But GovernoreW at last made him
self heard and BY conduct confrmatory of hi
. words, made the country und erstand that ht
represented,in Kansas the sovereignty OF IN
United Stetes, and not the cabal or the conn
: Gil of any faction, whatever. He claimed
to speak and to oct in the spirit Of the Presi
i dent and to count upon the firm and un
r qualified support of the Administration il
!. whatever measures or suggestions shoul
a seem to him necessary to the completion
and honorable pacifcation of Kansas,
J, was but natural that Governor Walker, o.
s taking up that position, should lind hlmsel
}. suddenly conspicuous mark for the assault
n of all the unprncipled and unintel llgent ia
. Enatcism of the nation. He had bee
d attacked by the press of South Carolina, b.
j. the Conventions of the Democracy in Geor
N gia end Mississippi, by meetings in Alabe
IN ma and in Louisiana. At the same time h
has received but slurs and slights-nothin
- but nsolent iinputations and impertinent il
e' uendoes from those journals at the Nortl
10 which profess to represent. the extreme No
q. thern sentiment. But he. has not-been d.
70 serted. 4Ths administration, through i
= best recognized organ, the Washiagto
Is Uxion, has come forward to indorse hiS Sopil
be ions, ami to- promise snpport,to bis policy.
IS The Government of.lhe United Stat,
IL may be said, indeed, to have offered an g
fetal rebuke to the audacious factions wi
" have dared TO assume that the supreme a
i. thority of this free country, is TO be pros'
'r- tuted to serve the purpose OF any body
so fanatics whatever. Dir. Buchanan has I
bo ken up position in which be may be su
. 3. that he will rally to himself the support
" all the peaceful, orderly, and patriotic ci
pg zen OF this country ofall sections We
us not believe that the Conventions OF 4