Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-03-12
The Feeling in Ireland on the
Result of the Presidential Elec-

HOA
Long life to James Buchanan, by the
grace of God and the will of tie people
President of the United States. We
have watched with intense interest thi.
election, and share the feelings which
fill almost every Irish heart from Maine
to Mexico at the result. To our race il
is a signal triumph, for We cannot forge
and he never does that the new Presi,
dent is of Irish blood. And he enters
the White House at a most remarkable
emergency in the history of the Union
when it may be possible for him to take
as grand a part as that which was play,
ed by the last Irish President, Andrew
Jackson. What effect his administra-
ton may have upon the interior policy
of the Union, we can hardly hazard an
opinion. We believe it will be to con-
serve the Union at all hazards and by
all means. But for the Irish in the
States and outside, this event means the
downright encouragement of Know
Nothingism; it means the extension of
the Union wherever ''manifest Destiny"
opens the way for legitimate annexation;
it means that England must yield every
inch of territory she has unjustly gain
ed, and every pretension of authority
she has presumed to put forward in Cen
trail America. In four years more, the
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need new maps. On hat of the United
States, we dare say we shall see Cuba and
Nicaragua at all events, perhaps another
slice of Mexico, and a few of the West
Indies marked with superabundant stars.
The young geographer will in vain
search for a vestige of British authority
along the melancholy coast of Mosquito,
or on the woody hills of Ruatan.
The English nation is naturally rsth-
er wroth. Mr.. Buchanan has of late
been dwelling among them, and has
studied their statesmen, their manners,
and customs, their method of making
wal and of despatching diplomacy; new
CT was an American statesman since
Benjamin Franklin who had such an
opportunity of studying them. He
knows English as well as Louis Napo-
leon; and the fact is itself significant
that at such a time those two great Wes-
tern potentates should have had such
opportunities of penetrating the charac-
ter of their neighber. On the questions
Mt issue between the governments of
Washington and London, Mr.. Buchanan
has drawn his line as Ambassador, and
it is one from which he cannot reccde as
President. 1t means the absolute re-
treat of England from Central America.
He has, moreover, declared his opinion
that if he does not go, there ought to be
armed occupation. President Pierce
supported his diplomacy to this point,
and from this point President Buchanan
undertakes the conduct of the business.
So if there ever was danger of war with
the States, it is now.
In a country where so much is guild
cd and influenced by the ~auctuating
policy of an unmanageable public opin-
ion, it is difficult to speculate before
hand upon what may be the career of
any statesman in authority. But there
are several remarkable and Characters
tic circumstances connected with Mr..
Buchannan's accession which distinguish
his election from any in the dynasty of
Presidents for many years. He is the
first statesman who has reached the po-
sition in consideration of eminent pub
lie services, since the time of the FOun-
ders of the Republic. 1t was a position
hitherto denied to men of that stamp,
to Webster, to Calhoun, to- Clay, and re-
served, owing to the rivalry which great
public talents evoked, for some dashing
soldier like Taylor, who had cut through
a lucky campaign, or a respectable law
yer, like Pierce, who could wait to be
propelled by his party. Buchanan, OF
the contrary, is an old, experienced, and
resolute party leader, thoroughly trust
ed, and perfectly representing the plat
form of his party, which never put forth
such unbroken strength as in his cleo
ton. In Congress, he had hardly rank
cd below the three great statesmen, We
have named, whose names have passed
together to- immortal fame. He was
Secretary under Mr.. Polk, during the
Mexican war, which added California to
the Union, and administered it with con-
sumate ability. His diplomatic trans
actions in England would have made
an illustrious character for an otherwise
unknown man. Never was the honor
of the States-of any State-so haugh-
lily upheld, and the truth and dignity
of a question of war sustained in a more
mastery manner. Recalled from his
mission to a yet higher honor, the Cen
trail American question is still reserved
IN petto to be the first glory of his Ad-