The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-06-01
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A sUccEssFUL ADM1]NIsTR.A.,TisI5otEs. 8

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In the midst of all the difficulties which
have SURROUNDED the Administration, ,gof rSIr.
! Buchanan, it is most gratifying to observe the
entire success which Has attended his measures.
No enc subject has cngrossed a larger share of
the PUBLIC attention., excited deeper feeling,
created crater alarm, or more fully eonrulscd
| the whole country-threatning u peace i, not
the stability Of the goyernme tt = L.
| difficulties in Karsas---4sTr rTe firm course or
eire TresIdent in vindicatings the supremacy of
the laws--exerting to- that end inll, the powers
of his great Office, needless Of partizas etaInor,
| and intent only on the performances of .fhis
constitutional difty, in full view of the most
appalling cohseq uen ces-brought order out of
/ confusion, and gave peace and repose to that
distracted territory. He appealed to reason,
Sustaining his appeal by adequate military
| force, to maintain the dominion Of law for the
public good, andhis policy was slecessfIiLd9
When the President came into Office, lie
found the people Of Utah in open yebellion,-
They had resorted to acts of resistance, of vio-
tlence and unsupatioh until there was left in the
! territory scarce a xestige of legal adfhority.-
The President ntlaeains with infexible Spurpose,
determined at all hazards to restore the supre-
macy Of the laws. Promptly, at an immense
distance, in spite Of Infinite difficulty and
embarrassment, he precipitated strong Mill
| tary force INTO the SHOWS of that iffh6spftable
region, and at the same. time extendedyt61she
deluded and exasperated speopie,gthes io6ve
branch of peace. The reign of law andforder
was Immediately restored IN this case, as. in
that of Kansas without spilling drop of
/ human blood. s The firm and decisive hut 5usr
and eonciliatory measures of the rPresideilt, in
both cases signally. Prevailed, 5,i6a aa4g
The President at the commencement of his
| administration, found the old vexed question
of the right of search, which had been persist
emily maintained by Great Britain = distafbiHg,
or threatening TO disturb, the relations sof tie
/ two governments. Invoking to his aid a princ-
pie of the law of nations that ought never to
have been questioned, which extends the abso-
lutte sovereignty Of a nation over4iic tlecksf Of
its own vessels, traversing the high sea auuder
its own flag, accompanied BIZ tlses proper s,ln-
nimehts Of title, and gives to them, the same
protection whichiis given to the soil, be pre-
scented the American claim tot4he British
| Government with power of reason and daFgu-
ment which it seemed difficult to resist;e and
| when the practice Of the assumed right began
| to be openly revived in the neiglborhood of
Cuba, he promptly despatched into those waters
strong naval force of twelve caruied vessels,
with percmptory orders to preventtits exercise
thus leading to inevitable collision unless
the difficulty should be adjusted. The laErpf
nations, as maintained by our Government, was
admitted by Great Britain, the pretended
right of search was reiineuished, the navy of
the United States assputs.i i'm the position eier
defending American ships, as it defehds s4Ame-
rican soil; and thus had been accorded to us
peaeeably what the war of 1872 had not been
able to eXtort. fr
Anethara case of difficulty with foreign
power existed, involving an irsalt to our Effaa,
eontumely to our governments and I'M juir-ysG
our people. The property of Ameriggnse;iei-
Zens had been confiscated, the United States
Ship Water Witch had been fred into from
the fortress of Itapern the life of an Ainerican
citizen had been sacrificed, a treaty alrea1y
agreed to. had been abruptly rejected, ,lqndEa
mission of peace rudely 7repelled; The 4PFesi-
dent appealed to Congress, and obtained au-
thority to use force to secure an adjustment
of difficulties with the Government Of Para
quay. He Immediately dispatched yas Com
missioner suppored by a,powerfulg feet,eeof6-
prising 10 vessels; of every descriptions which
nothing in Paraguay could resist,) to demand
just and honorable terms. 5.'o 1896 asa "st""
The expedition is now on its return homo,
after the most satisfactory accomplishments
its object-all difficulties settled, 5as Eedress
obtained, a treaty negotiated and the, great
interior of South America opened to our com
merce.
On the 4th Of March, 1857, China was in
the midst Of her 'trpdbies.s 4 Intelligence, had
Just been received that the Barrier forts, four
In number, mounting 170i guns, commanding
the approach tot anton, and anongthe strong
est defences OF the empire, and fred into. one
of the boats attached to our squadron passing
up the river under the flag of the United States,
and had been for that ofense, by portion Of
the squadron captured and destroyed and
their. walls razed to the ground. This aetlof
summary retrbution, although it had thesusuai
effect of bold and successful measures, which
was well calculated to prejudice our relations
with China, and involve us in the censeduenees,
atlleast, of 1.-THE hostilities in which England
was then engaged against that empire. e The
President Immediately took measures to iIl-
crease our naval force on that station by tho
addition of the Minnesota, the Mississippi, and
the Germantown, and to send aoeommissi6her
to Chinawith Instructions to keepac clear ofthoss
hostilities, and to makes treaty, The. mission
was entirely successful Our pacific, relations
with that people were more than preserved-they
were Improved; a treaty was made upon the
footing of the most favored nations ;; and the
rich treasures of the East have been lthrowh,
open to US under the most favorable auspices,
These are some of the results of Mr. Bucban-:.
ans Administration. Should the same Bril-.
liant success follow him to the period whiehi
he has fixed for his retirement, it will be sui-
fcient to crafty the highest stoaspirstiensaof ana
ton. -. -.
nsa-The Washington correspondent Iofithe1
New York Journal Of Commerce, aludiug tot
the acquittal of Mr.SSiekles, says that the
"District Attorney Mr.. o0uld = anticipated no
other result and he said to onei of the ucounsel
for the defence, after the adjournment of, theii
court, that no one in the-city, exceptMr., Sick,
les himself, was more gratifed at it than he
was" ii.iii3ia s5Eeua7'S s5'' - II 'ai' 1aia'
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SINGULAR DIspRoPoRTIoN.--In the bill !;
of one of the German princes, stopping at Fem
tons Hotel, there were these two dispropor-
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