The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-03-07
English View OF American A.
fairs.

From the standpoint occupied BY II.
English Press they are in more favo.. '
bic position to judge properly and un;a
passioncd of the true condition Of A..
can affairs, and Of the real causes wb;.i
have provoked our present difcultss4
than almost any in the United St,tss
however unprcjudiced they may assnms
to be. Taking advantage Of It's opnort,
nifty the London Times makes ferco :.
tack upon Mr. Buchanan. After dis
sing the singular facility afforded bv n.
quadrenn;al election OF President &C
raising and bringing TO an issue any ones
tion on which parties in America NAV dc
fer, and contending that the interresnnn
between an outgoing and incoming admin,
ministration gives opportunity for rebellion
the Times remarks:
These considerations should not ba lo..
sight OF IN estimating the position of Mr.
Buchanan, and he certainly needs all tbn
excuse and allowance that the most tolar.
ant critic can suggest in his behalf Hs
owes his election to the very Southern
States who are now in open rebellion n
his authority, and his best friends have
left him in body rather than to submit
to be employed in preserving the Union
whose bread they have eaten and WHOSE
official stations they have filed during
the last four years. Va
fear it is impossible to avoid the convic.
tion that few men called upon to pla,
great historical part have been found
more utterly unequal 70 their station than
Dir. Buchanan. In the vain hone Of
conciliatipg the Southern members of his
Cabinet. he inaugurated the meeting Of
Congress by a message whici, was in il.
self the most powerful inGucvnen: 10 dis.
union. In the face oi tbrcasened scces-
sion lie told his cGuntrymcn that seees-
sion would be justified unless the North
made very ample concessions. He stated
distinctly that the porcr OF putting dowa
rebellion had not beeu delegated to Con.
greSs, and that while he would continue
to collect the public revenue and to pro-
tect the public property, lie would use no
laeans to bring the .eceders 10 a sense of
their duty. This language could have
bot one effect. It gaze the inteAded Sc
cedera to understand that what might be
wrong IN constitutional law, would be
valid fact, defensiblc ii morality, and at
tended with the most perfect impunity-.
Sir. Buchanan Cabinet to whom he had
degraded his office, lowered his personal
character. and opened the door TO the dis
ruption of his country, have resigned, and
leave HIM now to make unavaiing appeals
10 Congress that they viii supply 10 crisis
that wisdom and frmness which America
had right to expect from her Chief Mag
istrate. Ii, instead of hat.ering and en-
couraSing rebellion, Mr. Buchanan had
acted up to his recent declaration that is
his duty to execute the laws,it is yary posi-
bic that the FIRE might have have been
>trampled out before it had time TO spread
\ small naval force in Charleston harbOr
and in the Mississippi, coupled with
resolate declaration Of the only line Of
policy which is open to President Of the
United States worthy OF his position--a
declaration Of his unAinching resolution
TO employ the whole power Of the govern
ment Of which he is the head for the pur.
pose Of Its preseryation-wouldp probably
,-have rendered any further appeal to force
unnecessary. But the precious, the ire
trieyable moments have been allowed 10
escape, and America must weep IN tears
OF blood the misfortune which has gwen
to faction It's strongest cncourag ement IN
the weakness of her Constitution and
the vacillation Of her Chief Magistrate.
4 Coop HIT.-Mr. Mckeown, mem
ber Of Congress from New York, lntTo-
dueed the following pungent resolution'm IN
the course Of a short speech he made II.
the House, on the 18th inst 1t presents
the whole secret Of the secession movement
in ''nut she'll" Its perhaps The onI}y
amendment to the Constitution that wouD
satisfy Southern secessionists and Aor'n'
ern sympathisers, in the Democratic pAi-
ty:-
"Rcso70ed, That disunion and treason
may be made lawful by adding to AT
of the Constitution, the following amenu,
ment, to wit: Section 5. WheneVeT,
party shall be defeated in an election y.
President and Vice President sueh PIi? ~,
may rebel and take up arms, ana un.i',
She successful shall adopt as its own Wv
principles OF the defeated party, ana W.
sent to such amendments Of the Consh'a
ton as the hitter party shall dictate 'H''
the Union shall be at an end.
ENGLAND HAS SOMETHING 10 SAt
ABOUT THE M1ssIssIPPL-The LnS.n:'
papers claim right to navigate the ua not
sissiori which they saw. secession Cd"",