Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-12-25

ON GENTLEMAN PERPLEXED.---Dificulties seem
TO swarm round Mr.. Buchanan, like moths at a
candle. No sooner does the old gentleman get
one exploring thorn extracted from the cushion
of his easy chair, than another is thrust in 10y the
hand Of inheXlble fatality Fillibustcr Walker
is very likely to give the President immediate
occasion for Cabinet consultation the pirate
will succeed in clearing from Mobile on an ex-
petition which every man in the United States,
the President excepted knows to be ilibuster-
ing expedition to Nicaragua. British cruisers
are in the Gulf for the purpose of interceping
dllibustcrs, and it is very probable that Walker,
with his passports and the American flag, will be
ovcrbauled or, if having escaped the cruisers,
tbs marauders land in Nicaragua, they will be
expelled the country, producing two causes of
war; insult to the American flag, and violation of
the Clayton Bulwcr treaty. The American steam
ship Washington has already been searched by
British officers on like suspicion. These acts
Of aggression will be insisted on as grounds of
outrall by the South, which favors Walkers de.
sign, while Northern States would be pleased to
to hear of the troublesome gray.cyed mans ex-
tirpaton.
In what the President designed as the Old
Hickory act of his Administration. he has been
most unfortunate his favorltc Interpretation of
popular sovereignty, illustrated by the Lecomp.
ton affair, has been overwhelmingly rejected by
the people, after having produced a degree Of an
imosity sufficient to dstort acts of wisdom and
craftsmanship in his Administration So clear
is it that his Kansas policy unpopular that part
of the machinery of his own party has been re-
vcrsed, and its iarring threatens the existence of
political structure which was beginning to be
moss grown and seamless, under the consolida.
ting pressure Of time
1t is, perhaps, fortunate for chief ruler when
his government is illustrated on national histor.
ic page by great events or momcntous struggles :;
many insignificant sovcrc gns are now remember
ed only because of their existence at periods
which greater minds made celebrated. The world
would hardly he advised of the former being of
the fcebly thinking Louis had not the gigantic
minded Richelieu held him above the downward
current The reign Of George the Fourth is re
memhcred by one great event, onlv-the Catho-
lie Emancipation, while wiser kings are forgot
ten because no great way-mark is discoverable
in their reign. Though Presidentially existing
during time Of internal national turbulance,
nothing of long existing fame has been accom-.
pshcd the revelation of which may hereafter
cause Mr.. Buchanan S administration to be cited
as example, His official existence has. thus far
been marked by successive failures. The Pacific
Railroad has failed, and cannot be built from an
insovent Treasury. territory offered Federal
adoption with charter framed by Executive
wisdom, has been refused by the intended bened-
ciarics, and noted pirate frequently proclaim.
ed against still iniests the seas. Months with
capacity for predictions event, passed in wrang.
ling over principle by which n State might be
created, while no great national accomplishment
was effected. Even the Telegraph the all but
contemporary wonder Of the world, lies torpidly
and dumb in the under depths, War, only, Wig
orously commenced and glorously concluded,
can illuminate the chapter in which posterity
will read the dnl events Of an Administration
which began with sonorous responses from an cx-
tcnsivey promising oracle