The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-01-09
The President aud his AssaiIants.

The President aud his hSSailantS.
Having failed in their artemps to force
the President into the adoption of the coer
cion policy, the leading Lincoln journals of
the North assaiI the Executive with ma
lenity never exceeded IN par,izan contro-
versy. The Courier and Enquirer, the Times
the Tribune, and the Black Republican press
generally exhaust the vocabulary of abuse
in arimadvertions upon Mr. Buchanau's
capacity and motives and they receive aid
and encouragement from the mercenaries
who boast OF their independence, whilst
ready to sacrifice their best friend on the
altar of sensation journalism. Only the
atrocity of these attacks redeems them from
contempt Vitup,ration. and SANDER, and
downright, unmiiealed falsehood are
iumbed together thro' the whole columns
of attack, with pertinaci,y which springs
from baffied mischief and long pent hate.
The conduct OF the Administration in the
crisis is the prelext upon Mr.. Buchanan's
assaiants proceed. They rate him and his
advisers roundly on the alledged ground of
''imbecility, indecision, weakness, ireason;"
the Tribune reaching the iclimax of atrocity
by publishing statements impugning MIR.
Buchanans sanity, and declaring its hope
they are true and others attaining the top
most folly by graveIy calling upon him to
resign his office into other hands
The cause of this disgraceful bitterness of
spirit lies upon the surface Mr.. Buchanan
hos ipo tba 4 of ~
party by his repudiation of the coercion
theory and his firm refusal to permit a re.
sort 10 force as means TO prevent the Sc
cession of sovereign States. Pretending,
"a some of the Black Republicans do, so
far 10 ''hoId the right of self government
sacred" as to object theoretically to State
subjugation, it is plain that the whole party
| practically favor coercion, and are anxious
that il shall be employed against the seced-
! ing Commonwealihs. They would like TO
have Lincon's battle fought by Mr.. Bu-
chanan. They would infinitely prefer hat
Mr.. Buchanan should employ the resources
OF the Federal Government in subduing in
dependent States, than that MIR. Lincoln
should have the modification of finding
J himself The CHIEF officer of section, as dis
tnguished from the President of The United
States Mr. Buchanan wisely declines 10
be the Black Republicans eats-paw. He
I refuses 10 precpiiate the county into civil
war, merely, TO serve the purposes of the
opponents of slavery. He will have moth
ing 10 do with the tactics OF those who, un.
der the plea of preserving The Union, would
convert The federal authority into an odious
despotism, aud wealthy, high-spirited com
munities into theatres of bloodshed and de-
ISOLATION.
That Mr. Lincoln and his anti-slavery
adherents would gladly see the flame
of servile insuueciion, the horrors of war.
conflict, may be fairly inferred from the III
terances of recognized leaders, in Congress:
and the press. Such course would be
but the carrying out of their Ultimate anc
unallerabe schemes. But they are not
therefore, to be regarded as Trustworthy
commeEtors upon Mr.. Buchanan, or iht
line of action which he has honoraby fol
, lowed. He is not coercionist He is no
oh PPS'ShA VI AhotO AAC 10 iOh al
anti slavery emissary, whether of the Gar
rison or Lincoln stripe. And. having pro
mulgated the reasons which led him to ac
cept the no.coercion view OF The State ant
Federal relations, as understood by nationa
statesmen, North and South, the only pail
of patriotic duty open 10 him is that L
which he quietly but steadily adheres.
, Rave and abuse and falsify as they may
Mr. Buchanan's assailants will not succee
in manner inimical 10 its interests. II
: has proceeded in the only way that admit
| of the preservation of peace, the restoration
of our confidence and The reconstruction {
the Union under happier auspices than ;
; present atiainable. The Consciousness
the fact that his motives have been an
are of the purest, and that his polio
commands the approval of all but the sur
porers of MIR. Lincoln, secret or avowed
: may well sustain Mr. Buchanan amidst a
u saulls that have mere affinity 10 barbarisr
: than aught that has been known in moder
political warfare Constitution.
After a Battle.
The following graphic sketch, from II