Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-22

When the present A administration came in to pow
err it was confidently expected by its ardent and
enthusiastic supporters that it would reflect honor
upon the country. Democratic journals teemed
with grandoquent laudations OF Buck and Breck, "
as they were plased to Familiarity dub their favor
ties. and amused themselves with semi comic alu-
sions to all who dared question the pluck, fidelity
and integrity of the President and his extraerdina-
riy intellectual Cabinet.
What cared the brawlers of the night, the hun
gry expectant of place and the subsidz' d organ
grinder, whether the laudation showered upon the
men thus elevated to power was a cunningly devils
ed fable or truth Dvincibe and immaculate 1.-The
principles of the divine Nazarne when he sat among
bis disci les upon the Mount? What mattered it
to serve and venal press, whose liberties would
be battered down, whose sacred rights invaded, SO
that the clink of official gold sounded in the ears
of the fsvorite of party-so that the game of pub
lie plumber was played out to the last political
trick?
Mr. Buchanan has not yet been year in power,
and yet the breakers appear and the surf of pop
ular fury beats violently in his face. The political
sky, into whose translucent depths he gazed with
such complacency, has become dark, gloomy and
pOrtentous. Vaporish, indeed, 1t first appeared
but vaporish it is no longer in its suen blackness
The thunder may yet come, and the lightning
smite him.
Gen. Pierce has descended to the tomb of the
Capuets. He is row numbered among the illus
trous obscure. The ''deep damnation of his taking
OFF " was a lack of pluck, energy and progressive
1t is folly to dispute the fact, that the Amer
lean people are deeply imbued with the spirit of
progr ssion and unless the Chief Magistrate comes
up to their standard of progression, contempt and
reputation will be the inevitable consequence.
They want Palmerstonian pluck, and despise a
man who should lead, but ia content to follow. No
power, save that of the great Jehovah, Can crush
that onward spirit of the American people which
leads to the annexation OF territory, to victory and
to conquest.
1t is idle to dispute it, President Buchanan has
so far disappointed lis warmest admirers. Tie dd-
nainistratiom of Federal AFFAIRS tOhether at home
or abroad, has been ueak, FEEBLE IN a roOrd, an.
manly.
wise and prudent statesman would not have
struck upon a sunken rock in Kansas. Had the
vexed question been dealt with in manly, straight
forward and righteous manner, the President might
have retained the confidence of his party and per-
haps of the South. But it is not in the nature OF
Mr.. Buchanan to deal manfully. Like sea-weed
the restless waters of the Gulf, he drifts about,
moved hither and thither by the wind of expedi-
ency.
In the violent and illegal seizure of Gen. Walker
he suffered himself to be controlled By what he
doubtless considered to be the popular sentiment.
Regarding the friends of Nicaragua but a corpo-
rails guard, backed as he was by all the patronage
of the Federal Government he felt secure in the
propagation OF doctrines hostile TO the Americana
ton OF Central America and tending to the over
the Republic whose sword flashed in the light OF
victory at Rivss, Granada and Masaya.
But the President widely missed the mark in his
hostility to the return OF General Walker, set
forth in his age and still more widely missed
il in permitting the invasion of the soil of Nicara
qua by our naval forces, and the seizure and ab-
duction OF its President
This last act violent and Ubiquitous as it il, has
reused the South, and like the gnost OF Banquo it
will not down at his bidding. 1t is understood
that Commodore PauldiDg will neither be court
msrtialed censured nor dismissed, aud Mr.. Buch-
anan must therefore be held as the responsible in
dorser of his disgracefu acts Indeed, one is al
most inclined to lndorse the sentiment of the Rich
mOnd South that ''the dispersion OF the flibusters
in Nicaragua, though accomplished through the in
strumentality of the American Navy, was prompt
ed by u suggestion from the Cabinet OF Great Brit
sin and effected in the interest of the Exeter Hall
Abolitioustsl"
We ask every true Southern man whose heart
answers TO the call of reason, OF humanity, OF JUS
tice, and who believes IN the grand doctrine OF
American Progressiveness, if the President Is en-
titled TO confidence and support As tor ourselves,
emphatically answer, mol The duty OF the
South in this trying crisis, is unIte-to disregard
party ties-to ALLURE party featy, TO stand by the
right and the just. 1t should teach the President
a lesson that will be lesson for future occupants
of the White House. Let the hurricane OF South
ern indignation whistle around his ears, aud It may
prove a warning all who turn aside from the
path of honor and justice to pAnder to the depras-
ed passions Of the Northern section OF tue CoAted.
eracy.