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Show tr, new. sw , . r J" JAMES BUCHANAN'S ADMIN im TRATION. J' Tuk most disheartening fact in our j ' sent public troubles, is. the freblenesi . the national administration. There no was a time In our history when more etc '.' ness of vision and firmness of nerve w required iu the executive branch ol , government, yet never a timo when tl . wcro more deplorably lacking. Wl -does the President think, nud what i he do, have been the questions on cv man's lips, and no man cau answer tli now one jot better than before the a " sage and, what is worse, everybody I come to Lclicve that the President hiiin T. is as little able tp answer them, that has ncithor uiiud of his own to assert, i 10 will of hid own to execute. The wii e- are looe, the waves Bre.wtlllng mouutu se high, tho Ice-shore is just betore u; i i an iutelllgiblo order contts from the e ry tabi, nor a werl calculated to stimulate ill i duty. Destruction is imminent, aud c :d fusion reigns. g- What is the fuucllon of the President is the United StateaT He is the executi ii r ' the head, the chief, the guardian, the pri ill ' mover; tho man who is first ii rcsjioi co bility, as ho Is first In honor. If ha is re firm of purpose, if lie is timid before d! g- cultics, easily submissive to circumstaiic is, or pliant tn the hands or other men; if in dares venture nothing beyond mere r foes, other: object thaiCici,"iirotecl bunscll jars, clamor J if.W sense orpuhncobljgdj ditii such -,that ho' canVgwcar to cxecul man laws, and'jet JneaKtp execute theso heso winch IntoHo.li.ltle rcsooujibiKty ai hid pose littlb Itoublc; if lieWasures thi o of nitude of his Office .OiJy by the kale ider "patronage, ritid tllcfiiiccfgs offiis nd used tration only by the. consisteney' ot 1 one cordj If ho, hd not self-impellibg; rom direptmg, nnd.sclf-sustaining.powcr, liese that W.mado olnly the moroiridomltal "thft the ppposltloh of badVcnrd fidelit' rdm wilt folio daty.Ai;eyi;"ry,pVttdalf nrbe ficej If tierhasiiotfiualltiesliko-.ific roll is unfit for lit high Wa'tlpoi arid m'lsi Ho Is tho' country wuoi!e,"aeatinUs,lu nri "and gency, ftfefn the' hands 61 such a" ru :e U . The weakness of iho eXecmlvV. fn give of poWIc 'danger,. Jiaslftlways beei'i suVe stdered on,of thi clilef dtsii(lVarita ash,1 tho rcpublicart.formjir government, om limitation 'or ))0wer'ii ijcbejuary fo ftcr security of popular lihtrtH, It lien consequently; go liatd.wi'tli the, rep iier- whett ttliulopccuriteiiott'er that ; ally exists Is In Incompetent hands t pi vreakly administered, ' ily's ''ItJaMiotBtrangS that every p; icat trcmblcrVtth apprehension as he ? s of indecisro0 of ihe Presideatln the pi Ion," jnnetureindtcistoii. evert Inrespect t la a plainest Una ofduty, i ' ' ' vis .No clenrcf yarning cntil posstli and given ibM the President las had tier, yet-he makes no. sign that anybody tho- satisfactorily lutcrpret. All Of any rion tical account that he- does Js to at ihd. himself by "sayfnlf' that South Cai the has no right logo, and that the ft Mr- government has: ftoyrfght to compc ime to. rcmainv, 1 would have been sobi Hfis Isfaction io, have bceu jt'oltf vhethcrh ant stillVorittuucI to excdutci(tlierefcni)i'o uon I at Cbarfcs'ton-AYiicther this poor cxi , nit of authority Is -to be retained or not- dss though allusion is made by him on iblo subject, he IcaTcs every doabtuusati Iso, It Is art extraordinary comiut.ntar eve on his complete, want of a defiulto p liey and of the universal disregard Into ieir bo bas fallen, that Jiobody m cither bi o a of Congress pretends' to speak his v Hid or .aspires to submit any plan or prt Co, lion commanded by his saqction. ucj ilonso has' gouo through rvith tho ler, jinality ol referring his message 1 :all-ipecia committee, but jicboily tn cOt-intl-i'ttmtnjArro'isHy'-proctical tt ;eat ntciidttfioa in .the document ppou v cut. tho committee will deliberate. ' fonction is Id take the whole subject independent cbnsidcratioii of their and suLmifsiich measures as. they proiteh Wc. trust that this comfn will da its ifiitj- faitiifiiltybat wit oftho-htarty san'etion and vigorous wii Ing of the executive, Us practical conelm It will amount to very little. Such a :on of sanction and support few nrocredt ro enough, attliis day, ereu to dream (iis-1 James Ruchanun Itas done; more. to I tfcdj-pn this crisis thau any. other man; bo- now that it has come, lie le, of all ; ion thcleastcompctenttodeai with it.-hat it.-hat Y. Worlil, ted lost Mr. Buchananl Mr. liuchaiiau! is nly the best finale that you can make lo I to t term of office on which you entered ed, such a spcudid opportunity, to give n." country the benefit ofpatrioticstatesi ach'ghip? Have you indeed encouraged gh secessionists to stand up for false nol I Of of their righ(i!,.only to tell them that iot, must cower at last, on pain of dc ous Obey the laws they miiht iu sttch n t to but at whose door lies tho Itumilia ?m- (he bloodsli,ed,aud the havoc? 1'roti |