New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-19
BUCHANAN.

The Rehmend Enquirer, referring to the recent |
war letter of james Buchanan, administers 70 that
Old Public Functonary castigation richly de- |
served, and defective only in that 1t il not half
sewers enough. It precedes It with sketch OF
his public career, showing him to have been
always a trickster and trimmer looking out for
the main chance, siding with the strong party,
with no honest or earnest political convictions,
hat ever working and scheming and Intriguing for
Ills own personal advancement. a
The Enquirer closes the sketch with the follow.
lug comments upon the letter: A s.r.
The letter from Mr.. Buchanan, which we now
PUBLISH proves how well founded were the worst
objections that were ever urged against him. 1t
preEes either that he was false aad hypocritieal in
his States Rights professions, while soliciting the
support OF Southern Democrats, or that he has
changed hack to his old Hsmiitonian principles
since his returnto private life. The latter is too
improbable for belief. s II ss5z
While a candidate for Southern support, and
while President, elected by Southern votes Mr..
Buchanan invariably admitted thasshe North was
the aggressor in the difficulty which was all the
time increasing between the two sections. In his
last annual message to Congress, after the seces-
sion OF South Carolina hadbecome a fixed fact, Mr..
Buchanan threw the whole blame upon the Abo-
litonists. In his letter to the Union Committee of
Lancaster, he has no censure for anybody but the
South, TIE aggressed party, according to his former
admissions and to historical truth. As, Demo
cratic candidate and as a Democratic President,
ne spoke OF the States as sovereign. In his Union
letter, he assumes that the gssceded States are
wicked rebels, who must and shall be crushed out
by Yankee force NJ &i 5lE9 l!s
h, Upon the whole we are at loss to, decide
whether the knave or the fool predominates in the
character of James Buchanan as defined in this
last letter of his We rather incline to the opinion
| that the two maintain about an equal race. q
We very decidedly dissent from the Enquirers
opinion as expressed in the last paragraph There,
is no mixture of the knave and fool in James
Bnchanan5s character. He is all knave and no
fool He never was a fool in his life, and has
always been knaye. w. ~
His whole public career shows him to be a cold
calculating, selfish politician, wiring in and wiring
out, and intent upon nothing but the personal for
tunes of James Buchanan. We do not suppose he
ever had an impulse Of patriotism in his life, or
any feeling Of genuine concern for the welfare of
his country. he isprofuse in professions, but he
is political Joseph Surface, seeking to cover up
rascality with fine sentiment. The honest and I'M
South took these professions as genuine,
and extended its confidence to coldbIooded
snake in the grass.
Nor was he ever statesman, In long public
career he never originated measure of any i'm
portanee, never became the champion of any great
principle, never stood out in relief as q man of
mark and positive qualities. Pretending to be a
friend to the South, he has in order to retain his
hold upon the people of Pennsylvania, advocated
high tariffs whereby the South was plundered, de-
MED the right of secession, and, in Short given his
sanction to all that vicious and extra constitutional
legislation of Congress which finally drove the
South, as measure of last resort and when her
wrongs became insuppnrtable, out of the Federal
Union. In private and in public life James Blu.
chanan has been the same-without a heart in his
body and without,a drop of manly blood in his
veins. s E15g
And now that he has no longer any favors to ask
of the South, now that he has reached and enjoyed
the Presidency, and his political career is closed
forever, he turns round and advocates this brutal
war upon u.s. and tries to stimulate the fury of the
invaders. He urges them to " more mighty exer-
tons in sustaining the war Ito prompt united
and energetic action, and not tile discussion Of
peace propositions Ito support the President
with all the men and means at the command of the
country, in vigorous and sue ecssful prosecution
Of the war; 4F ssH4+ $50.
This is James Buchanan all over. He is CON
scious Of the contempt felt for him by the South
because he knows he deserves it. Instead of sor-
rowing in sackcloth and ashes, and bowling his
head IN the dust with contriton, for the agency
that ne has had IN bringing this war about, he has
the yhardiheod to lay the blame on u.s. falsely
charge with beginning the war and being res
possible for it and hound on the Northern rabble
70 the fight. One would suppose that a man upon
the verge Of the grave with all his aspirations
realized, would have Of the divine virtue of
charity IN his heart -hnt James Buchanan does not
even feel the common sentiment of gratitude |
Even the miserable reflection that when he sees |
'sthe last Of earth he will be unwept, nnhonored
and unsung, does not suffice to temper the bad |
passions which rage in his heart, or cause him to
save, from the wreck of msspent life, one single
good deed tosmooth his pathway to the grave