Delaware State reporter., 1858-09-24
10 o litieal Selections
The Course of the Administrator
Triumphs, and the Lessons it Teaches.

Trlumphs, ana the LESSONS IL 4eacnes'
The prudence, firnlness and consistency
which have marked the administration Of Mr.
buchanan, both in our domestic and foreign
questions are everywhere bringing the masses
up to his support; and the success which has
attended his path will make his era as marked
a one in our political history as was that oil
Gen. jackson.
When he entered upon the duties Of his Of
fee our domestic affairs were in the most dis
aracted condition, and our foreign relations pre-
scented nothing but mass of complete entange-
meat. The politicians, both in and out OF the
Cabinet, had pulled his predecessor hither and
thither each making poor Pierce but a tool to
advance their own selfish schemes, until the
shin Of State seemed TO have lost the power Of
guidance. and to be blown to and fro with the
constanctty changing winds. The Kansas fur
ore had lust swept over the country, and every
petty politician looked upon himsefas mightier
man than the head of the State. A period OF UNI
exampled expansion and overtrading had filled
the public treasury to overlooking, and gathered
about it a swarm of plumbers, whose audacity
was unsurpassed in the history ofpnblic cor
rupiou.. Ambitious filibusters hung out their
banners everywhere, and set the constituted au-
thoritirs at defiance. Scheming secessionists,
in view of the dilapidation of the federal power,
plotted their reasonable designs in the South,
and inpudently announced their intention to
break up the republic. The Utah question
presented this issue in practical form. Fana-
tics and factionists played into each others
hands in the North, and pushed their schemes
of selfish ACKNOWLEDGEMENT with confident zeal.
Sauatter sovereignty vas lauded as the great
cure-all of every evil, The people, stirred up
by ambitious politicians, and excited by hun
cry demagogues, knew not which way to turn,
nor upon whom to found their faith.
10 "a ofn ralptionc nj that finn
was not whit more satisfactory than was that
of cur domestic affairs In moment of politi-
cal hope the British Minister had been dismiss
sed, and our relations with England were liable,
without instant's warning, to come to violent
-uptare-the successor of Mr.. Soule in Spain
had been treated at Madrid with the coolest
contemPt-wewere on the verge of a war with
half a dozen Of the Spanish American States
New. Granada had refused all satisfaction for the
Panama riot-Yenezuela had contemptuously
elected our citizens from possessions to which
she had no shadow Of a claim-Nicaragua and
Costa RIGA had declared all Americans to be
filibusters, and murdered all alike-MeXico was
more inattentve than ever to her international
obligations Paraguay had kicked out our Con-
sui and fired upon our national ships = in the
midst of all these difficulties the government
seemed to have no policy and the State no head.
How completely has all this been changed
through the prudence, frmness and consistency
of the President! No man was ever so tiercely
assaulted, or so impudently threatened by the
politicians from every section, as he was upon
his installation. But he firmly resisted every
effort to force factious DULLES into his cabinet
Looking at every domestic issue by the single
light of the common good, he has faced down
all sectional faction, and reduced such factions
politicians as Dougles, Wise, Forncy, jeff.
Davis, Brigham Young, and a host of others to
their proper level; Kansas has dwndicd to a
shadow before his Observation-Disclosures has
shrunk before his firnness. The punderers
have been driven from the treasury by his enCr-
gy. The slavery question has died out under
his honest Interpretation of the constitution.
The fiGbusers have been put down. The fall
lacy of squatter sovereignty has been completely
exploded. And, above all, the hydra of sec
ms bcsfs ssTTr his fiTm1cs5
upon every public issue. lie has infused new
life into the moribund spirit of nationality, and
renspired the people with the conviction Of oul
notiona permanency. This result is everywhere
seen in the recent podulareecti Kentucky
North Carolina, Arkansas and Missouri have all
rolled up immense popular majorities in APP
proval of his course. The South has come W
in solid phalanx to his support and even tho
confident sectionalists of Missouri have beer
annihiIated. A like result will be seen at tht
coming elections in the North. The disorder
and confusion that arc everywhere seen in Tho
ranks of the opposition, are due to the homes
course of Mr. Buchanan more than to any othel
cause
But if the state of our domestic questions
presents satisfactory view, our foreign rela
tions do so even in greater degree. The rela
lions with England are on more satisfactory
footing than they have ever before been ant
that, too, after passing through great dangers
4ha,r lo1 he
Palmerston found that he should have to appea
TO the people of England on his China policy
he pocketed the Champion affront, and sent
minister to endeavor to wAeedle Mr. Buchanan
into joining England and France in the attacl
upon the Celestial Empire. But Mr. Buchanan
would not be made the tool of Pamerston'
electioneering schemes, and firmly refused hi
flatterlng offers. The foxy old statesman thcr
turned, and as soon as he had succeeded in tn
elections laid the plan Of the British outrages
But MIR. Buchanan presented equal frmnes
here, and Palmerston's successor gave up point,
that no English statesman had ever before con
coded. With Spain there has been a complet,
cessation of those insults that marked her cours,
toward the late administration and there il
now reason to hope that Mr.. Buchanan vii
bring the pending questions to a satislactor,
issue. New Granada has receded from her unten
able position; Venezuela acknowledges the JUS
tiee of our claims; Mexico and Central America
finding they have a statesman to deal with al
Washington, are coming to a sense of their du
ties and for Paraguay lesson is in prepeia
ton that will be taught her if she does no
soon learn wisdom. BY these things our ma
tional position has been vastly enhanced il
the eyes of the world.
In these results, which have followed tn,
wise and prudent steps of Mr.. Buchanan's adj
minis tration, we may see how much depend.
upon the man who is placed at the head of tn,
State Factious and ambitious demagogues will
always endeayor to brighten and control him
in proportion as they succeed, do the flames O