Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-03-06
MIR BUCHANAN.

James Buchanan is no longer President.
Ills official term expired on Monday last
at noon, and ne retires to enjoy the peace
and security Of private life. However men
may differ as to The proprety OF certain
measures of his administration. we believe
there is one thing to which all assent, that
more thoroughly abused man, never L..f The
Presidential chair-(save, perhaps, the i'm
,uv, .al J"ohs"".l Every oct ofhi" admin
istration has been subject to succession
of assaults, from open enemies and pro-
fessed friends, every sentence he uttered
has been tortured into treason. Standing
between the fanatics Of the North and
tho South, he has patrotically laoored to
hold them apart to avert blco lshed, un.
til some f.ir adjustment of thei. conflicts
ing claims could be made. BY strong
constitutional appeals, ho has called
upon tho conservative men-the true men
of the nltion--to assist in allaying this
ticrco sectional ontrovorsy. Treating the
American people as an intelligent people
"A loyal people-he has cndeavorod TO
restore peace and good feeling 10 different
portions OF the country, by an appeal to
reason. and not resort to arms. Happy
would it now be for this nation, had the
wise counsel and patriotic suggestions OF
! the retiring Executive been obeyed.--
But to our National shame be it said, con-
serva,ism is no longer honorable and the
heroic concessions that Il hundred times
have stayed the tide and saved Tho country
can now no longer be made, party must
now live, though patriotism should die
unheard, the stirring calls ofthe true men
Of the nation have died in the very breath
that gave them utterance the irrcpressi-
BILE conflict was going on, and the people,
frenzied with abolitione ex i,sment, against
the protest of the President and those no.
ble men that have sustained him, by their
votes were precipitating "civil war" or a
/ dissolution Of this blood bought Union.
! TIE goal has been won, the whirlwnd has
swept the land. Seven States now out of
the Union, with eight more vainly asking
cf their crazed vic,ors recognition of
their rights, speak put too plainly of the
ruin that is wrought.
These unhappy consequences Mr.. Bu-
chanan has patriotically labored to avert.
Many have been his warningS-v verified to
! the letter have been his predictions. He
/ foresaw, as all great men have foreseen,
that the triumph Of geographical party
must herald the downfall OF the Republic.
He regarded it as public calamity, and
when forced upon the country, he, at
the sacrifice OF ell, but honor, prin.
ciple and life, has eagerly sought to peac.
ably settle. His has been a triumph.
though clouds around our country lover,
and when the bitter party spirit that rules
the hour shall have passed away, and the
unfounded charges Of personal enemies
shallhave been forgotten, James Buchanan
and his isadministrsticn-li Andrew Jack.
son and his admini.tration-like James
X. Polk and his administration-will be
pointed to by his present prosecutors and
sanderers as man for the times in the
better and purer days of the Republic.
Twenty-Five pick-pockets were arrested
by the Buffalo police during The occasion
Of the visit Of tho President elect.