The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-11

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TIE Course Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 'rri-
umphs, and the Lessons II Teaches.
The prudence, irmness and consistency which
have marked the administration of Mr.. Blu.
chanan, both in our domestic and foreign ques.
tions are everywhere bringing the masses up
to his support; and the success which has at
tended his path will make his era as marked
enc in our political history as was that of Gen.
J9ckson.
When he entered upon the duties Of his office
cur domestic affairs were in the most distracted
condition, and cur foreign relations presented
nothing but mass Of complete ENHANCEMENT.
The politicians, both in aud out of the Cabinet,
had pulled his predecessor hi,her and thther,
each making poor Pierce but tool to advance
their own selfish schemes, until the ship of
State seemed to have lost the power Of guild.
snce, and to be blown to and fro with the con-
stantly changing winds. The Kansas .farore had
just swept over the country, and every petty
politician looked upon himself as q mgh'ier
man than the head of the State. A period of
unexampled expansion and overtrading had
filled the Iublic treasury to overlooking,
and gathered about it Il swarm of plum
derers, whose audacity was unsurpassed
in the history of public corruption. AM
bilious flibusters hung out their banners
everywhere, and set the constituted authorities
at defiance Schemipg secessionists, in view Of
the dilapidation Of the federal power, plotted
their reasonable designs in the South, and i'm
pudentIy announced their intention to break up
the republic. The Utah question presented
this issue in practical form. Fanatics and
fsctiopists played into each other Stands in the
North, and pushed their schemes of selfish ag-
grandisement with confident zeal Squatter
sovereignty was lauded as the great cure-all of
every evil. The people, stirred up by ambitious
politicians, and excited by hungry demsgogues,
knew not which way to turn, nor upon whom
to found their faith.
The state Of our foreign relations at that time
was not whit more satisfactory than was that
of our domestic affairs. In q moment of DO
litical hope the British Minister had been dis
missed, and our relations with England were
liable, without an instant's warning, to come to
a violent rupture-the successor of Mr.. Soule
in Spain had been treated at Madrid with the
coolest contempt-we were on the verge Of q
war with half dozen of the Spanish Ameri-
eau States-New Granada had refused all salts
faction for the Panama riot-Venezuela had
contemptuously elected our citizens from
possessions to which she had no shadow
had declared all Americans to be filibusters,
and murdered all alike-Mexico was more mat
tentive than ever to her international obliga-
tions-Paraguay had kicked out our Consul
and fred upon our national ships;-in the midst
Of all these difficulties the government seemed
to have no policy and the State no head. While
poor Pierce was being bullied on every side by
the politicians, the head of his cabinet was
writing ridiculous letters ON the Koezta and
privateering questions, and busily intriguing
for the Presidency.
How completely has all this been changed
through the prudence, frmness and consistency
Of the President! No man was ever 70 iercely
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 factions and reduced such factious
politicians as Douglas, Wise, Toombs, JEFF.
Davis Brigham Young and host of others to
their proper level; Kansas has dwindled TO
shadow before his prudence-Mormonism has
thrunk before bis firmness. The plundcrers
have been driven from the treasury by his
energy. The slavery question has died out
under his honest Interpretation Of the consti
tuition. The flibusters have been put down.
The fsllacy Of squatter sovereignty has been
completely exploded. And, above all, the hydra
Of sectional issues has been killed by his rmncss
upon every publicissue. lie has infused new life
into the moribund spirit of nationality, and re-
inspired the people with the conviction Of our
national permsnency. This result Is every
where seen in the recent popular elections
Kentucky, North Carolina, Arkansas and Mis-
souri, have oil rolled up immense popular ma
jorities in approval Of his course. TIE South
has come up in solid phalanx to bis support;
and even the confident sectionelists Of Missouri
have been apnihilated. A like result will be
secn Ut the coming elections in the North. The
disorder and confusion that are everywhere seen
in the ranks OF the opposition, are due to the
honest course Of Mr.. Buchanan more than to
any other cause.
But 1.-THE state Of our domestic questions pre-
sents satisfactory view, cur foreign relations
do so even in greater degree. The relations
with ENGLAND are on o more satisfactory
footing than they have ever before been; and
that, too, after passing through as great dangers