Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-06-30
The Policy of the President.

The enemies of the Administration OF
James buchanan, says the Baltimore Repub-
lican, must experience q chilling sense OF
discontinue in the sudden and favorable turn
which our national affairs are assuming.
chiefly, it will be admitted, through the calm
wisdom and experienced craftsmanship of the
President. 1t perhaps has seldom, if ever,
been the fortune Of an Executive to have
entailed upon him, at his entrance upon Office,
questions of more formidable magnitude than
those entrusted to the management Of tue
present Chief Executive. Of this fact the
Opposition have been perfectly well aware.
and buoyantly hoped and iudustciously labor
ed to find in chem the means of the ruin Of
the Government and their own triumph.
But they have made little calculation for the
cool sagacity aud deliberate craftsmanship of
the President. They saw in the Kansas
question the final arbitrament of the vexed
slavery agitation, and imagined that in the
peculiar situation of that subject there were
difficulties too formidable for any Admins
tration successfully to overcome.
They saw the tenporising expedients or
mistaken legislation upon this subject, cover
ing period of more than quarter of CEN
tury, all suddenly removed, while its invete-
rate prejudices and sectional animositles still
remained in full vigor. Upon these they
readily seized, and marshalling their forces,
facetiously resisted every effort for its adjust
ment But the determined policy of the Pres
ident at length triumphed, and has removed
perha Aforeyer this agitating anb dangerous
question from our national politics.
The Mormon difficulty was next embraced
as the point of attack upon the Administration,
but that too promises to be peacefully and
honorably adjusted. illustrating another signal
triumph to the wise policy of the President
But on this subject We cannot do better than
adopt the following remarks from the Wash
ingtou States of Saturday last:
1.-The proclamation of the President. which
we published yesterday must have p. oduced
{. large portion of the effect illustrated by Gov.
Cummings despatch. the proclamation was
a singularly clear, calm, hightoned, and dis
passionate document. At once succinct
memoir of Mormon treason, ana tirm ex-
preston of the condign punishment by which
| it would be visited, the proclamation left the
Mormons nothing to hope from their persis-
tence in evil, and everything to expect from
submilGon to the power Of the Union,
1.-The President shook the Mormon leaders
out Of the delusion thtt' their attempt to con-
strue our indignation into foray against
their religion was the chief inspiration foI
action He showed them that. with the re-
| ligion now matter how stupidity disgusting,
the Constitution and the laws have nothing
| whatever to do He disclaimed any desire
to come between human bling and his God
! and confined himself, as Chief Magistrate o
/ the Republic, to see that the beauty of it;
| institutions are not sullied by the perpetra
tion of outrage, robbery, and murder by th'
people OF any one locality, however isolated
| on the citizeus of any other.
Reminding the Mormons of the gooc
faith with which their complaints were Away
listened to by the Supreme Government, h
confronted them with their treasons aud 6tra
agcms and yet, unwilling to sacrifice a mas
of ignorance and infatuation for the duplicit,
Of tue -iaglcaiers, he acted toe part of o.