The Nevada journal., 1859-02-25
Erccedingly Bitter-The New York

ETccedngty Bttter.-1he New ORR
Times is savage on the President. L
did not get its reporter on board the
Niagara while she was engaged in lay
ing the Atlantic Gable, while Bennett
of the Herald, got his. 1t did not gel
its reporter on board any of the vessels
connected with the Paraguay Expe
dition, while it is believed the Herald
did. 1t had its man all ready to go
carpet-bag and portfolio in his hand
but on the very morning when he was
to sail, dispatch was received from
Washington to the effect that no rcpor.
ter should he allowed to proceed with
the Expedition. 1t naturally enough
feels sore over all this, and hence, in
reply to. the Erening Post which sees
in the proposition made by Mr.. Mason
to confer power on the President to
exact summary redress from Mexico
and any of the Central American
States, in which our flag has been ir-
suited or an American citizen outraged
cause for much alarm, the Times
saws:
"To make man in his (the Presi,
dent's) position dangerous to the public
liberties, something more than unlimited
powers of peace and war are necessary
There are certain rare qualities of mind
and character which are just as needful
for the execution of great crimes as the
exhibition of great virtues. Fortitude,
secresy, energy, strength of will, fore
sight, and decision are just as needful
to enslave nation as to save it, and
enter into the composition of a Louis
Napoleon in almost as large proportion
as into that of a Washington. That a
man is bad is not all that is required to
make him dangerous, let the powers
conferred on him be ever so extensive.
The lions claws and teeth would do
him little service without lions heart
''For all of which reasons, we honest
ly confess, at the risk of appearing rash
III the eyes of many timid people, that
If James Buchanan was Tomorrow
placed by Congress in command of half
a million Of trained soldiers, with un-
limited credit and unrestricted powers,
we should not be in the least alarmed
That he would like to do something
with such machine, and that this some
thing would lie omething mean, or
cruel or unjust, or unjustifiable-or that
being noble, i. would be done in a cow
ardly OF iguobIe way-we don't in the
least doubt. We feel quite sure that he
would like to Illustrate the military an-
mails Of his \ administration by something
more striking than the expedition
against Utah. or the chase of the Susan
But there is long interval between an
ambitious dream and brilliant exploit
The qualities which make an absolute
disposer of fleets and armies terrible
either to foreigners or fellow citizens are
not those of the trickster and intriguant,
which Mr.. Buchanan processes in rich
profusion, but those of dauntiees des-
pcrado, which he does not possess at
all. When he sends out an army he
sends out peace Commissioner" along
with it, with separate instructions, and
confounds confusion by "a peace proc-
lamation." When he appoints Gov
ernor, he directs him to follow one line
of policy, and dismisses him for not fol-
lowing another He revenges political
defeats by Withholding invitations to
dinner, and repays the scurrility of a
Bennett by the transmission of ''early
intelligence" to his newspaper. When
fllibusters make ready for their filibus-
tering, he tells them not to go, and yet
lets them go freely When an officer
like Paulding performs bold du'y
boldly, he repudiates him by way of
encouraging pluck in the Navy. He
sends Sound steamers on a hostile ex-
pedition against Paraguay-tries to cor
rurt all his opponents, and then wecps
when his opponents try to corrupt others.
1t is not of such a thin compound of fol-
lies and absurdities as this that dictators
are made There isn't headache in
hogstead oft. This venerable chief
may be weak, and the world
knows he is weak : but dangerous he
can never he :"