Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-12
TUESDAY, APRIL II, 1859.
The AdministratfOn---A Hint TO MIR.
I Ruchauau.

The AdmtnistraffOn---AH Hint TO MI
Buchanan.
The two years test that the country ha
had of Mr.. BUcHANAN's ability to manage af
fairs, have suficed to show that he makes
dead failure at the business. A singular ia
tality has attended all his cherished enter
prises from the beginning of his Ii
all of them, seriatan ct tot,an, he has achieved
lust enough to let the world see how much
he could do provided be had the ability. He
has occupied positions, from of Fourth Of
July orator to President, taken step by STEP
through all the intermediate gradations, most
favorable to the exhibition of greatness of in
u tellect and force of character yet he has
failed in them all to show himself possessed
Of either. Fortune has been unremittng in
her favor, but a cOunteracting evil genius
seems to have kept the shadow of its black
wing perpetually before his vision. His
friends were advised by the voice wisdom,
that he had not the nerve necessary TO the
Presidency. Those who had noted the steps
of his life impartially, knew that he would
fail. But his evil genius would not suffer
him to die till it had exposed him to the gaze
OF the world in the most absurd and ridicu-
loHs attitudes to a realizing sense of which
if he shah ever be aroused, he Will end his ca
reer in positive misery. For, with all his
obliviousness to his OWL, biunders, we think
if Mr. BUCHANAN could see, himself others
see him. he would hang his head in shame
and remorsc, fnot in contritiOn. That time
it occurs 10 us is rapidly approaching, and
that with whatever gladness Of heart he may
have assumed the reins of government, he
will lay them down with still deeper anguish
of soul. r.
Not one great leading measure of his adj
Tninistration has he carried through success
fully. If this untoward result had been
accom- li4hed by his avowed adversaries, the
Contemplation of the disaster would have
been tolprable. But it was into the house of
his protested friends that his recommendations
and measures carried, first for ridicule
and then for slaughter. They have come to
his own table 10 discuss schemes of mutiny
and rebellion, and have got up from it but to
execute them and defy him-until there is
not in all our history a party leader or a
party head that is dwarfed to his parallel.
When Judge DOUGLAS erected the standard
of rebellion in the midst of his followers, in
the citadel of his party, and noutcd its folds |
with scorn in his face the poor President, as
II in state of moral paralysis, put forward
one of the weakest of all his senatorial legion |
to combat him. He kept up chatter
through the Union, newspaper, and when the
war was carried from the Capitol to the |
praires of Illinois, he attacked the Little |
Giant through the removal of petty Federal
ofice-holders and the supply of money to
lcentious politicians to CAD from point to
pointmakiug themselves temporarily notoious.
Not in all that campaign, nor before nor
since. has he struck DOUGLAS one blow that
could by any hap or mishap have proved
vital
Besides this he is twitted by his own Cabi-
net councillors. They openly repudiate his
doctrines and combat through official papers,
his recommendations on matters of vital con-
Germ to the country! Not even can those
who'exist by hissmie be inundated or shaken
by his frown. He has neither the power to
inspire fear nor establish relations of gratitude
in the smallest and most devoted coterie OF
his adherents. What incomprehensible weak
ness what utter imbecityi
What other result could flow from this state
of things, than that the affairs of government
both domestic aud foreign. should take the
shortest road to ruin? Shall it excite sur
prise that the sharks should school and shoal
around the Treasury; that RIGHTEOUSNESS and
corruption should raise their horrid fronts in
the sanctuary of Liberty, fearless of Execu-
tive rcbuke; that some of she most import
ant functions Of government should be man
gled and checked, out Of mere wantonness or
factiousnes; that the foreign policy Of the
country should become entagled in the knotty
skein of diplomacy, or that the rights of the
nation be ignored in negotiations of the great
ct pith and momentG
The truth is, Mr.. BUCHANAN's admnistra- ,
tion has come to be at once the standard and +,
and synonym of weakness incficiency and
humiliation. IL has not probably an earnest. ,
devoted, sincere all-accepung. all-defending
friend alive in any section. or in any party of 7
the Union. IL is absolutely commserable. Ii
pleads alike for the pity OF is friends and the
mercy of its foes. Silence and forbearance are
equally acceptable. Anything to shield it :
from exposure, or to conceal il wretchedness,
would be hailed on all hands as its chiedcst :
blessing.
There is but one small hope for Mr. Bucm- i
ASAS, and we call his attention 30 that in all Il
sincerity. We have no great confidence that +
his redemption is possible; but If there is one n
chance in his favor against the million that a
are against 1t, IL lies in the course We now 4
suggest TO him. We advise him TO cut loose n
at once from his party dismiss his Office Il
holders aud retainers, from the least to tho =
greatest, leaving not vestige ofthem behind h
call around him men above reproach, ii
honest, stern men, who will do their duty
through the heavens were falling above them
or hell were gapins beneath them-turn over
the tables OF the money ehangers-drive out !.
the foxes from the fields and the frogs from !,
the interchangeable new order OF things y
In every department and ramideation Of Gov .
ernment--and put himself before the country =.
ON declaration OF honesty and faithful y
execution Of the laws. This IL about what u
the country needs, aud !: Is what the people =
want In following this programme, he :
, wonld be o1ly anticipating what will happen o