The Washington union., 1857-09-12

distinction. His policy Is eApresseu III ho Ssio o oi
Virgil
"rros ryrinsque mIhi nuIlo discrimne agcur"
And this is the head and front of his offending in both
North and Souththe extreme sections ON the opposite
sides of Mason and Dixons line expected each that Mr.
Buchanan would favor 4 in the administration OF the
laws to the prejudice of the other He has not done So
and both are disappointed and dissatisfied but not 80 the
country at large In avoiding the whirlpool OF oharyb
dis he has fallen upon the rocks OF Scy and while
he steers safely between, he can listen with equanimy
10 the bong sges of the one and 10 the unclean dogs of
the other which to bark and howl by night
and by day.
From tho Iarrisonburg Cva) Democrat
We invite the attention readers to the admirable
letter of President Buchanan in another column in reply
to set of natical theoogians and professors OF Connee
tcut who have arraned the President before the bar Of
public opinion for his policy in regard TO Kansas The
reply of the President is calm and dgnled and admins
ter whitening and crushing rebukc TO the meddesome
spirit of pio fanatics who attempt TO control the pot
cal movements of the country 1t beahes the spirit of
patriotism and should satisfy all of the determination Of
the President TO do his duty in the Kansas dculty in
defiance of protest of s clcrgynen and the denun
Citations of extremists of both sections The letter will
be read and endorsed with pleasure and satisfaction by
every conservative citizen Of the land
From the Milwaukee Cws) Daily Nows
President Buchanan then the elected executor Of
the laws and the Chief Magistrate of the people is guilty
of what? OF recognising the government that he, by
virtue of his office and in obedience TO the oath which he
has taken before the world appointed over Kansas and
finds them For doing that he is admonished by tho
forty clergymen that he defes the popular intelligence
and the judgments Of Heaven s'lf true, cooly the
President answers, these grave charges; and ho
proceeds in manner of irresistible logic to prove that
they are not true Ii is true indeed that he
but few arguments the whole case has before been
presented to the country but e arrays the facts and
gunens that yincate his administration so strikngy
that the fanatics when aided by the asute editor of
the Sentinel cannot get around them. The very men
to whom the opposition address their ncendiary appeals
instead 0unless we underestimate their shrewdncs)
of gulping down their candysticks of sophstry will
stand amazed that any person whom intellect and
culture have elevated to the post OF editor
should the doctrine that the President of the
United States may choice as to the laws he
shall admnister-when he is to see that "(AID
the laws are faithfully executed If the Scntinefs the
ory be correct then the President may execute the laws
in New York and neglect to execute the laws in the Caro-
Inas Does our neghbor mean to defend that position
He must do it or reract his unmanly structures upon
President Buchanan for his letter to the forty clergy
men.
But if this letter is the monstrous production that the
Sentinel declares it s why does not that paper publish
At this precise me If is awfuly barbarous in sent
ment and wicked in its assertion of facts the repubi
cans pretend it is they ought to thank its author for fur
nishing the just they at the gates of political
DEATH with capital document for the campaign that will
perchance them from annihilation Why don't the
Sentinel publish the letter Perhaps its editor thinks
that by debarng it from his columns he keeps it from
the people But he does not they have read it or will
do so and the majority will approve of its positions Ii
the Sentinel under the dark wing of aboitionism, wishes
to grope in the bacness of negro equality why it can
The people, however, are going another way.
From the Lynchburg Cva) Republican.
According TO our promise we present in full this
ing the letter of President Buchanan to Professor Sill
mans committee of New England abolitionists. II is
able and patriotic document and is cutting rebukc
to those who provoked it by their ocious inermcddng
in affairs which did not concern them, and about which
they evidently knew nothing.
From the Bay State.
There has been SO much misrepresentation about af
fairs in Kansas 80 many contradictory accounts and
MANY wjlfu and apparently malicious misstatemcns of
the true issue and the position which the national gov
holds in relation to it, that all who not in
sanely bound to party and rasly influenced by mere
party spirit will hail with pleasure and read with high
satisfaction the calm and dgned answer of President
Buchanan who, while he annihates those who rashly
and ignoranty assai him, puts the whole Kansas ques
ton in so clear light that it cannot be misunderstood
and the government in strong position that 1t can
not be oyerthrown.
We are glad that the President has considered this mat
ter Of sufficient Importance to make it the subject of com
ment before the people The right of any body of elec
tors to address the President in respectful way cannot
be questioned and when their petitions, remonsan
ces, advice brought before the public in such
manner to do injustice to him whom they have ad
dressed and the administration of which he is the head
it equally clear that it is his privilege nay more, it
his duty under the solemn obligations that rest upon
himo vndicate himself and tho government of which
he is the head the true position before the people
1t is for these that we heartily commend the
course taken by President Buchanan in replying to the
communication addressed to him. We in it the gen
une, democratic, jackson spirit. We see in it that
which, if mistake not, many more than those who
aided in elevatng him to his high position will commend
and which cannot but have great influence In engh
ming the public mind upon the true issue involved in
Kansas question. There politicians who are de-
ned that the Kansas difficulties shall not be settled
Th, Occupation is gone when affairs quiet in Kan
sas al hence Kansas must keep bleeding to satisfy their
insatiate thirst for place and power.
From the Binghamton N. Y) Democrat
We publish this week the memorial of sundry Connec-
tcut ministers to the President of the United States on
the subject of affairs in Kansas, which has to be
known the protest of the forty clcrgymen together
with the Presidents answer We invite their careful pc
rusal Extended comment is entirely unnecessary. IL
will be that political prejudice and priesty imperti
and ignorance rebuked in terms pointed,
dignifed and just to leave nothing which the most
ardent democrat wamest friend of the President could
wish said or left unsaid
From the Ectrot Free Press.
Had these parsons and professors understood the merits
of the question involved they doubtless would have been
guilty of the impernence of presumng to instruct the
President of the United States in his duties But being
profoundly ignorant Of the merits of the question they
have In their action, made themselves douby ridiculous
before the world Parsons and professors pretty
to make themselves ridiculous whenever they leave their
appropriate concerns and interfere with affairs with
which they have Perhaps it would have been
the part of charity for Mr. Buchanan in this instance to
have forbone exposure Of the mpertnence and gno
of his correspondents but he evidently deemed that
considerations of charity ought TO give way TO consdea
tons of truth and right.