New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-31

The characteristic Of our present Federal AZ
ministration appears to be imbecllity. Except |,
the matter of collecting taxes, making losal
spending money and running the nation into Debt
the Federal Government in the hands Of Cas-
and Buchanan, has fallen into state OF Hs
pended animation. 1t suffers under syncopA
which il 10 not easy TO Distinguish from desa
,.solr. Everything undertaken BY Mr.. BachnN
has proved failure. The great object to Which Ac
devoted the youthful energies of his Adninatrstau
was the forcing Slave-State Consultation upoa
the Territory of Kansas This project, in 'pise Of
all the energies of the Administration brought 70
bear upon it-one of the few things in which Ae
Administration bSAi sseyn any enersy--mos =
nally failed. What little force the Admlnn-
tration had left after this event. it employed
in an effort to prevent the return Of Mr.
Douglas to the United States Senate, it being
70 bis detection that the Ksnsas defeat wu
ascribed-at least 60 much Of it asUew out OF tho
refusal of the House of Representatives to JOIN IN
forcing on the people Of Kansas State Con'fsu'
ton which they had expressly repudated. Bus
the A,iministrat on succeeded DO better IN llhnon
than it had done in Kansas. 1t found no sup
porters in either, except the get oi omoe-
holders and their dependents. 30 ms
been in everything else that the Admnnus
tion has undertaken. The 6llibusters laugh snke
at the proclamations Of the President and at N
fee Bile efforts of the Federal officers to stop tlea
FDlbusteripg vessels sail nov from Mobile and nos
from New Orleans, with perfect impunity. Tho
only thing actually done to interrupt their W.
rstons was done by Commodore Paaldiog. He's
praised and thanked by the Government Of Near
qua, but is disavowed at home, and left to dsh1
himself at his own expense against the sw-su"
which the disappoir' 6llibusters arc bringing
against him. In the face and eyes Of law Of 10
United States which nobody, till the Accession
Mr.. Buchanan, had dreamed even OF evsaias
or violating three hundred African slaves (moes
or ess) have been landed on the coast Of deofsn;
aud the whole staff of Federal Oficers In that 0s''
and in South Carolina is vsinly employed IN s~
deavorng to get some clue to their wneres"''''.
Ia fact, the organ of Mr.. Buchanan at inc ''''
of the Federal Government frankly proclalms 'a''
under the Administration Of Mr.. Buchanao' oo'
Federal system is a failure. Undoubtedly y;
and il is hard to say where two more years Of 'us.
wretched imbecility may land us. in 'ne 's''
Kansas and Illinois, it cannot Do dou0'e1
the Government did the best it could; 0us =
those two cases they had the disadvantage I" 'A'
yery worst Kind of C ,use. Far sbler ana n'''
energetic men than even their paid nastele" ~
pretended Mr.. Caw or Mr. Buchanan 70 DC, nv
naturally enough bave failed in the sttemP' " r.
stitu,e themselves in the place Of the Poor'
Kansas, or even in the place Of the pse0ao w..
cratic minority Of the people Of Illinois, wn0
that system of fraud, which seems ~.
been regularly adopted as part Of ~' A..s
tics Of the pseudo Democratic party !'i0' =,
the Union, usurp for themselves the cnoie'
majority of the Illinois Legislature. Bus ~
shall we say TO the total Eilure Of the Admin"-,
ton TO enforce the laws against 6llibusteIlos
the African slsye.trsde, and Of the headoos
at which they are pressing the nation ins0 = ri,
as well as public bankruptcy lnespeo,' ~ tbe
Administration is, not able, even ."a ."S.,,h;u d
patronage at ts disposal, to keep tho e'"0. -.
the party that placed it in power sOete ~ a..s
haps, something more to be taken m'o H., =. n.
than mere imbeclity. Mr. buchanan M. ,,s c,s
pectea Of playing into the hands Of that s.ss n,ss
Of bis political friends to whom Tao - Al ,asir
ths Tnion !, the 6r.t object. Dsiessei IN ~ - =,
,,tsmDt, At secession, it would seem TIA. WI" -~.
conni,ance of Mr.. Buchanan, the Nann'.' - ~
.om hsrt on a practical dissolution 7" rL
Uui.n. Uni a practical destruction Of 'As s,.',, :.
.r,I authority BY p.rLyrins al i'' pos =.
Thev despair Of inducing Congress to repeai y.
law. .. ,r,jp,t the trade, but tie pr'e'l''