Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-11-25
.MR. RuoHANAN,s pooK.

The long expected volume of political
history, by Ex. President Buchanan, IS near,
ly ready for publication, by the Appletons,
of New York. 1t is entitled t.Hr. ,Bttchandns
Administration on the Ere IF Rebellion" the
following extracts from the preface, villa
ford some idea of its scope, and the Object
for which it was written:
1.-THE narrative will prove that the origi-
nal and conspiring causes of all our futufe
troubles are to be found in the long, active
and persstant hostility of the Northern
Abolitionists, both in and out Of Congress,
against Southern slavery, until the final tn
umph of their cause In the election pf Preesii
dent Lincoln; and, on the other hand, the
corresponding antagonism and violence wlta
which the advocates Of slavery resisted
these efforts, and vindcated its preserva-
tion and extension up to the period of
secession. So excited were the parties, that
had they intended to furnish the material to
inflanne the passions Of the one against the
other, they could not have more efiecsually
succeeded than they did by their mutual
ordinations and recriminations. The strug-
gle continued without intermission for more
than quarter Of q csntury, except within
the brief interval between the passage of
the Compromise measures of 1850 and the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854,
during wbich the hostile feelings of the par
ties were greatly aiayed, and hopes were
entertained that the strife might fnally sub
side. These peaceful prospects. it viii ap-
pear, were soon blasted by the repeal Of this
compromise, and the struggle was then re
newed with more bitterness than ever, until
the final catastrophe. Many grevious errors
were committed by both parties from til.
beginning, but. the most fatal Of them al
was the secession Of the cotton States. -.
We have no desire that Mr.. Buchanan
should be made to bear more political sin.
than those for (which he is Justly responsi
BILE, but it is folly to deny that in his aG
ministration, he has been guilty of weak
ness and imbecility, if not crimiuality, ii
not suppressing the plottings and machina
tions of traitors in his cabinet as well as cut
side Of it. The idea that the election of Lin
coin was the cause of the Rebellion is sim
ply absurd, puerie anG unworthy of states
man. Any one who knows anything of the his
tory of that struggle, knows that John {
Breckinridge was nominated for the ex
press purpose of defeating Mr.. Douglas, an,
of course, to elect Mr.. Lincoln. Lincoln
election was the pretcxt for, not the; caus
of the rebellion. The South could hav
elected Mr.. Douglas, without difficulty G
doubt, but they did not want this, the
knew him to be true to the Union, althoug
a warm friend of the South, and therefor
repudiated him, not with view to elec
Breckinridge, which was impossible, but t
elect Mr.. LINCOLN that they might have som
pretext for dissolution nfgthe Union. NJ
Buchanan intimates that the repeal of til
Missouri. Compromise was one of the cause
in order to crafty his spleen against Dou;
las, who laid bare his intrigaes in the Kar
sas and Nebraska question. If Mr. b,
chanan can ever justify himself before IL
world, he will accomplish more than eve
many of his late political friends expect