New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-20
tration of the sentiment whercwith Pennsylva
MIA regarded the South, the pathetic appeal
Ruth to Naomi, as follows:

Rutn 10 Naomi, rs lollo"s:
"Entrcat mo not TO leave thee nor to refrain from
following after thee: for whittier thou goest wii go
and where thou lodgest will lodge: thy people shs
be nv people and thy God my God: Where tbou NEST
Wi, die; and there will be buried: the Lord 90 SO
to me and more also, If aught but death part thee anu
me-" 49,
This declaration was not only hailed with
shouts by the Southrons present, but was tnen
and there interpreted, by letter writers present.
as pledge that in case Of rupture oil inc
Union, Pennsylvania, so far at least as her
Democrats could direct her course, should 60
with the South.
ILL., Mr.. Buchanan was visited at his resi-
dence. soon after this nomination, by Com
mittee appointed to notify him officially thereof
with whom he had full and free conversation on
tbeouestions of the day. One OF the Committee
1.-THE Hon. Albert G. Brown of Miss, thereupon
wrote home on admiring account Of this inter-
view and conference, which he closed with an
assurance that Mr.. Buchanan was Gas true 70
the South as Mr.. Calhoun ever was" We quote
this from recollection only.] Mr.. Buchanan
had previously assured his visitors that, If he
could only acquire Cuba [then the pet scheme
of the Slave Power] and settle the Slavery
question, he would be willing to die, and let
John c. Broekinridge be President.
". Mr. Buchanan was elected and duly in.
augurated President. His prophetic euloglum
on the bred Scott decision and his support Of
every scheme Of the Slave Power, including that
infamous Lecompton Constitution for Kansas
which Senator Hammond Of S. c., after 1t had
been defeated, though he had voted for 1t
throughout, declared should have been promptly
kicked ont Of Congress, are matters Of history.
John Slidell of Louisiana (now Confederate
emissary at Paris) was his most intimate coun-
selor. Howell Cobb, John b. Floyd, and Jacob
Thompson Gall among the earliest and most
envenomed traitorS) were called by him into his
Cabinet. And they were not kicked out of it
after their completely in the then opening Rebel
lion had become notorious and confessed, but
resigned at their own convenience, when they
could no longer serve the cause of Disunion
better in the Cabinet than out Of il.
V. Gen. Scott, SO early as Oct, 1860, called
the attention of Mr.. Buchanan's War Secretary,
and we think of Mr.. Buchanan in person, to
the urgent necessity then existing for i'm
mediatcly reinforcing and provisioning the
Southern forts, especially those in Charles
ton harbor; but his representations were ut
terly dsregarded, and everything left ready
to drop into the lap Of Secession. Meantime,
Mr.. Buchanan's War Secretary had long been
transferring arms, ordnance, &c,
&C., from Northern TO Southern arsenals and
fortrcsses; and this work went quietly on till 1t
was stopped by an uprising of the citizens Of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
vi. When the time arrived (Dec. a. 1861
for Mr.. Buchanan to address TO Congress and
the country his last Annual Message, the work
of Secession had already begun--the question
of resistance or submission to its progress could
no longer be evaded. He met it in these men,
orable words:
"Thc question fairly stated is Has the Constitution
delegated 10 Congress the power 10 coerce state into
submission which attempting to withdraw. or has act
ualy Withdrawn. from the conederacyi Unanswered IN
the affirmative, 1t must Do on The principle that the
power has been conferred CoDgreo. Ia maxi rir on
the conclusion that suA por,r has bs,r dsi,Rad 20
Congress- 10 any other department. IF the ttdTe! Cor
ernmtH.'
And Mr.. Buchanan's entire course, from that
hour to the close Of his Administration was
held in strict conformity to this ayowal. Can
there be doubt that the cost Of our Civil War,
in blood and treasure, would have been at least
half saved, if our Government had been ad-
minis.ered during the last six months Of Mr..
Administration, in the spirit and on
the principles oe Mr.. Lincoln'si We have 10
shadow Of hesitation on the subject. 1t was
the Roadway gained by the Rebellion under the
former-its enormous, unresisted captures of
guns, forts, arsenals, armories, sub-treasuries,
&C., &c.-that constituted the chief difficulty
of the latter.
Mr.. Buchanan says that the Col. Black
above referred to died fighting Secession at
GaneS's Mill in June, 1862. True: but how
does that prove that he did not make the speech
reported in 1867 Great changes are often
effected in less than six years. Mr.. Stanton,
for example, was Mr.. Buchanans Attorney
ueneral from Dec. ~Vth, icoo, 10 inc CLOSE oi
his Administration, and is not recorded to have
then dissented from the policy that was letting
the country drift to destruction. In fact, he
has been charged in the Senate by Mr. Sauls-
bury with having sympathized rather with the
oppressed and indignant South than with the
slowly arousing North. However that may be,
his attitude and bearing in the Cabinet Of Mr.
Lincoln and his successor have been quite other