The Kanzas news., 1858-01-30
The Kanzas News.
s.TURDAY:::;::::.:J ANUARY 80, 1858.
From the New York Tribune.
Where is Buchanan Now? -


nouneed everything quiescent and serene
A minority of voters had overcome the
majority, and the majority, as in duty bound,
would at once sink upon their knee-pans,
confess their sins and promise to sin no
more. 1t was not worth while to estimate
the moral opposition-to take into account
that sublime expression of the popular in
telIioence-to note that where men were free,
were prosperous, were rich, were well-in
formed, our present President went beg
gin0 for votes. L was nothing that the
wealthy and cultivated people of New-Eng-
land pronounced against him. 1t was moth
ing that the Western States, some of them
great and some of them destined to be great,
followed the New-England example. 1t
was nothing that the Empire-State shower
ed an avalanche of execration upon the Dem
oeratic candidate; the person now at the
head of the Government complacently fan
cied that success in the present insured sue
cess in the future. He made the unfortu-
nate blunder of thinking that if he could
occupy the Presidential stool the people of
the North, the East, the West and the South,
would bow down to him. He was by an
iuserutable Providence permitted to believe
that his election, under the forms of the
Constitution, was sufficient to settle all the
affairs of the Republic. The Kanzas trouble
ended with his advent. The Nicaragua
question lapsed when he took the oatbs.-
He foresaw an Administration as peaceful
as that of Mr.. Munroe. He went into his
place with prodigious complacency, and
considered the storm to be appeased. He
sduatted himself, like kind of King Canute,
and commanded the waves of conscience
and of intellect to be stayed. Unfortunate
Canute- Buchanan You are already spat-
tered, and drenched, and salted.
We suppose that Mr.. Buchanan must, by
sort of contagion during his residence
abroad, have been infected by the delusion.
which now, after long interval, like those
Of hydrophobia, are exhibited. He approves
Of the unquestioned authority of kings; but
he is unmindful of the fact that he has not
100000 bayonets to back him up. Because
he can make postmasters. and collectors,
and ambassadors, he fancies that he can
make the opinion of the people. Because
he can make Nathan Clifford Judge (as
the Roman Emperor made his horse Consul
he thinks that he may do what, in his SOW
ereign capacity, he may please to do. Be
cause he has a subservient majority in the
Senate, he mistakes the Senatorial tenure,
and imagines it to be for life. Because the
Democratic party has been almost uniform
iy successful in the past, he thinks it must
be uniformly inevitable in the future. The
poor old man. He is like the Bourbons
He has forgotten nothing, and he has learn
ed nothing. He cannot see that his party,
under the influence of diffused intelligence
and humanity, is melting away; that it can
no longer count upon the great Presidential
OteOf New-England, of New York, of Ohio;
that within itself it contains the elements of
dissolution. He comes to US almost from a
generation past and gone; he comes to us
from the times when Gag Atherton could
kick the petitions of Northern constituent
cIes out of the House, and when such hum
bic but honorable remonstrances were hud-
died under the table of the Senate. He is
welded to the past and insensible to the
present. Nothing which he has done since
ne assumed his high Office shows him to be
anything better than Rip Van Winkle
rudely awakened by his election to the Pres
ldeney. Indeed (respeet being out of the
to laugh. When the President and his Secre-
tary Of State put their ''frosty pows" to-
gether. it is spectacle for gods and men.
Do not let US be misunderstood. If we
have indulged in lightness of speech, it has
been out of no disrespect for ability, pa
trOtism, and long public service; but rath-
er because the mammoth demands of the
TINE have been met in such mincing and
mlnken way by the Administration, which
seems to be emulous of rivaling Its prede-
cessor IN catastrophe, and of being the ar
chlteet of its own ruin. Mr.. Buchanan has
started, as Mr. Pierce started, with the idea
Of a perpetual Democratic party, Just as
some religieRists indulge in the idea of one
eternal Church But already the founda-
ions, seemingly SO deep and so stable, are
shifting aud sliding from under the Presi-
Cent A vase man might stay the wreck;
bold man might delay it; cunning man
night conceal it; bRt a weak man must
ldod help biml) 60 down with the tide
and, sorry we are to say it the President
weak-hopelessly and helplessly weak
Ne has been In Office for ten months Du-
Fihg that time the Kansas trouble has be
TVne more troublesome than ever before
Durng that time the Nicaragua pirate has
made another spasmodic effort During
%a5 time our diplomatic relations with Eng
,auu nave been In an unsettled condition.
DuFing that time the Utah rebellion has ri
tyhed- What has the President done
"otaing, or worse than nothing He has
EEpPointed a Governor of Kansas, and he
-as turned him out of Office. He has ar
ies'eo William Walker, and has released
nm I'm, He has held the diplomatic appoint
t-~' tru'S' as cautious whist-player holds his
noIP IhPs' nominating nobody and recalling
IIoOody' although several frst-rate powers
T"T I've sent special embassies to Washington.
aons mas dispatched gallant little army to
s,e Yunder through the almost fathomless
b""s' ba" to reach Utah or to perish. And he
al. 70 state his most explicit achievement,
n;T;l MIL and obtained of Congress loan of