The Nevada journal. [volume] (Nevada City, Calif.) 1851-18??, 1857-10-09
TBE PREs,pENy,s ATTtTuDE-Tbe

cording to recent news from the seat of
government, and now presents a tolera-
bic fair aspect to the south. A good
opportunity offered itself for the Presi-
dent to set himself right, in replying to
the letter of Prof Sil!iman and other
savans of the north, and he availed him.
self of it. Old Buck ntimates to the
nest of fogies who addressed him, that
with the help of God and General Har
ney he hopes TO enforce the bogus laws
of Kansas. By invoking the aid of
Capt. Rynders now he can preserve the
party, and make things come out about
right. The President will doubtless
attend to Isaiah in good time.
Mr.. Buchanan has found out the utter
worthlessness of his cabiret, notwith-
standing the popular service done him
by Cass in fixing up the inaugural for
him, In closing up his Silliman letter
he intimates he puts his trust in not a
mothers son of them, but somewhere
else where he imagines help must come
from or his administration will .'peter
OUT like that of his predecessor. No
thing short of an Almighty hand can
rescue Buchanan's administration from
everlasting disgrace if drop of blood
is she'd in Kansas in carrying out one of
those laws which Cass himself has said
is disgrace to a civilized or a Chris
tan code. The President and his whole
party are not worth drop of blood
shed in such a cause, and posterity will
so render Judgment. He stands to-day
on slippery ground. If by his order a
life is lost in enforcing a law which
common justice will declare infamous
his hide viii hang on the fence by the
side of poor Pierce's, and Democratic
calves will howl requiem to another
victim to party murrain.
Buchanan is brewing thunderbolt to
knock his own horns off in attempting
to enforce laws never made by the peo-
pie of Kansas and which large portion
Of northern Democrats are free to say
are tyrannical and disgraccful. But i'll
any attitude he may assume he presents
an unenviable spectacle. The Cincin-
natl convention and the south force him
TO do as he proposes. Any other course
alienates the south where the strength
of Democracy lies, while the carrying
out Of his proposed policy by force of
the bayonet can end in nothing but tie
Strengthening Ct the opposition forces in
the north.
Sir Platform, we imagine, has some
thing to do, either to extricate himself
like man by enforcing nothing but
justice, or submit to a fate brought upon
himself by losing his identity and power
for good in the Cincinnati convention.
- The parting of the Atlantic Sub
marine cable is one of the most impor-
taut events of the times, first, because
it determines the unity of the two Con-
tinents by means Of telegraphic bonds
to be for the present failure, and sec
ond, because it imposes necessity upon
the intellect Of man to devise more ID
genious pieces of mechanism for the
purpose of underlying the great deep
with the international chord of friend
ship, which is ultimately to bind the
whole family of man together There
can be no doubt of the final success of
the experiment, whatever disaster may
befal it in the outset The onward pro-
gress Of the age demands telegraphic
union between the great nations of the
globe, and the god-like powers of the
human mind will not rest short of its
victorious accomplishment. Between
the two grand nations, the United
States and Great Britain, there are
science, inventive genius, enterprise,
good will, and capital enough, not to
say rivalry, to throw a cable across the
Atlantic, and whoever doubts the work
will be done lacks faith in Anglo Saxon
wisdom and strength
The time was, and not long since,
when the project of driving a ship across
the ocean by steam, was treated as a
chimera. Even men of science report
ed adversely to the project. But the
restless spirit of enterprise und adven-
ture could brook no opinions not found
ed upon actual experiment, and a steam
ship hazaided the voyage regardless of
he dieta of theorists. Now thousand
Ieviathans of the wave traverse the
ocean in every direction.
The project of stretching a cable