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The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Recruiting in California. (search)
ing military men now before the country, North and South. He was emphatically of the opinion that there is no way to get out of our difficulties but to fight it out. I came away well satisfied that, for weal or woe, James Buchanan stands firmly for the Union, and that, whether mistaken or not, he has always acted from the highest motives of patriotism." You are easily "satisfied" then. James Buchanan acting from "the highest motives of patriotism," which are, of course, the five loaves and two fishes, the only motives which ever operated upon the mind of any of his tribe! Of all the office-seeking pack, of all the sinister, sinuous, slimy politicians that have bedaubed every avenue to public confidence, and betrayed every party and every individual credulous enough to believe in them, commend us to Buchanan. If he "stands firmly for the Union," it is the only thing he ever stood firmly for. It will not take much of a Samson to pull down a temple that rests upon such pillars.