Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-14

Illinois, Wigfall, of Texas, and others
In the House an effort was made to sus
pend the rules in order to take up the bill
providing for the collection of revenue at
the ports of the seeded States, but it failed
for want of two.thirds vote. This, prob.
ably, kills the measure in the present Con-
gress, and whatever is to be done by the
new Administration towards the collection
of the revenue must be done upon its own
responsibility. The resolution censuring
Mr.. Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, for
accepting the designations of those officers
of the Navy who resigned for the purpose
Of taking service in the seeded States,
was passed after considerable opposition-95
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What Mr.. Buchanan Proposes To DO.
Of. B." writes from Washington to the
Eapress as follows of the closing days Of
Mr. Buchanan's administration, the rehec
tions in which be INDUCES, how he propo.
ses to ride with Old Abe to the Capitol, on
Monday, and, then 60 home to Lancaster
and join the church The little sketch Of
"E. B." is pregnant with instruction to
those in high place, who unnecessarily q.
baudon lifelong and tried friends to gain
some trivial point of triaing importance:
"It is popular to abuse Mr.. Buchanan,
for he has no power, and but few friends
Tue Republicans delight to call him tyrant
knave and rogue, and democrats deuounce
him as an idiot, rogue and an imbecile.-
But, in sober truth, he is none Of these,
but one who, after over forty years of pub,
lie service, las made and lost more friends
than perhaps any man who ever before held
public Office in the country. In six months
after his election he quarrelled with some
of his best personal and political friends
and later, with thousands more. Of a par
ty of thirty.ave lifelong and attached mer
with whom he diued in Philadelphia, afte,
his election and before his Inauguration
not one now remains to cal! him friend, Of
to feel au interest in his future.
"The genius of the President seems te
have been in repulsion rather than attrac
ton, and hence no one honors the setting
sun Mr.. Buchanan has (and to his cred
it be spoken) felt all these changes of per
sonal fortune much less than the sad con
dition Of the country, which distinguishes
bis Administration above all which evel
preceded it. Intimate acquaintance have
seen, for three months past, that a real sor
row has been wearing upon the mind and
heart of the President. He has declared
for many weeks, here, that he should see
the President elect inaugurated, hear his
oath to support the Constitution, and ther
go to his home
"In the midst of the great excitement
and threatening danger here, he has said
i shall ride beside Mr.. Lincoln, from the
White House to the Capital, even if it rains
bullets. shall then 90 to Lancaster, pas
my days in retirement, and seek to fne
consolation and religion in the Church.
Bitter sorrow has taught me that happiness
can be found no where else' Mr.. Buch
anau, therefore, purposes at once, upon BIZ
return to his old homestead, to become 1
member Of the Presbyterian Church, il
which be has usually worshipped. He feel
and let us attribute it rather to gooe
than bad irpressons-as deeply sorrowfu
for the condition Of the country as the res
of u.s."