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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Prefatory notice. (search)
lue if it did not, in some respects, illustrate one of the most extraordinary changes in the opinions of a great people which history records. The election of Mr. Buchanan seemed definitely to indicate not merely the perpetuity of Human Slavery in this Republic, but the acquiescence of the people of the Free States, or of a majoreholder having any measure at heart, needed only to cry out that, if denied, he intended to secede, to carry his point with marvelous and triumphant celerity. Mr. Buchanan was a Northern man, but although he is dead, the sad and mortifying truth must be spoken: he had so disciplined himself in this school of what may be called unning. He was no better and no worse perhaps than his friends; but he had the misfortune to be their representative. To the last moment of his administration, Mr. Buchanan was faithful to the traditions of his party; and while the bugle call of sedition was sounding through half the Republic — while its flag was defended by a han
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Inaugural glories. (search)
e closely invested than the White House is now; and we verily believe that no Russian soldier in that stronghold was ever in half so much danger of his life as Mr. Buchanan is at the present time. We can easily imagine, without personal observation, (for we have only asked for the appointment of our friend Cass,) how the poor Preto ask these tormenters of the President if it be really their desire to kill him?--if they are bent upon moral murder?--upon an assassination by worrying? Is Mr. Buchanan to be drawn like a badger?--to be hunted like a fox? to be pestered, perplexed, harassed into his sepulchre? Are they in league with Mr. Breckinridge to takeehind them their petitions — the certificates of their virtues, the affidavits of their capacities, the evidence of the gross incompetency of their rivals; and Mr. Buchanan with such aid can make up his mind without a personal inspection of their lean and hungry faces. The double distilled extract of rats which they gave to the P
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Mr. Mason's manners. (search)
ng kicked out of the principal taverns near the court to which he was accredited? Might not such a volume have saved James Buchanan (with due reverence his name is here mentioned) from the gross impropriety of the Ostend Conference? Might not such n that he has; that he is not personally a devotee of the principle of rotation, and that as for resigning he will see Mr. Buchanan----first. But this is a weakness, if it be a weakness, with the whole diplomatic body. In fact, we think we can hear Mr. Buchanan chanting to our friend Cass: Why do n't the men resign, my Cass-- Why do n't the men resign? Each one seems coming to the point, But never sends a line. Mr. Buchanan ought not to be so impatient. Suppose that he were abroad, and Mr. Buchanan ought not to be so impatient. Suppose that he were abroad, and did not want to come home; how would he like to be pricked in the tender parts of his constitution? But the reader may fancy that we are never coming to the point. It is not a point at all. It is the back of a chair. Of a chair, we believe, at t
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Mr. Mason's manners once more. (search)
y, might be considered capital, and which might have obliged the offender to part with his head — a portion of the body necessary to the man if not to the embassador! And to impute to Mr. Mason this offence, when his fate was in the hands of James Buchanan — that mirror of continency, that more than Joseph, that Pamela of Presidents! But the story, incredible as it first appeared, came to us so well authenticated that, careful as we are, we published it with comments appropriate to the territ Mr. Mason, with the modesty of true merit, has, I am sure, remained silent upon the subject. We rejoice that Mr. Mason's modesty has not kept this valuable information from the Cabinet at Washington, where it will produce an excitement. Mr. Buchanan will, of course, act upon the recommendation of Napoleon, as the preference of that monarch ought to be conclusive. So much for Mr. Mason as a diplomatist. But it is as a man of manners, of polish, of civility, of the best breeding, that he
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Presidential politeness. (search)
with Mr. Pierce, and settled ourselves to bear as best we might the reign of Mr. Buchanan, the general opinion was that we had made a change for the better. There waenerous and ungracious things. In fact, despite the little Ostend escapade, Mr. Buchanan ran very much upon the merits of his respectability and figured in the multiin his demeanor; and he vetoed necessary measures with commendable suavity. Mr. Buchanan, we regret to observe, is rather snappish, and too much inclined to snub theh all will admit to be remarkably civil. How different the style in which Mr. Buchanan received his present! Certain gentlemen in Connecticut remarking with pain the donors gave all; they could no more; though poor the offering was. That Mr. Buchanan would have found a study of the paper profitable, we confidently aver. But ress of the White House is said to be a well-bred young woman; and we advise Mr. Buchanan to entrust his more delicate correspondence to her. Female tact will amply a
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), chapter 19 (search)
ther scolded him, his mammy protected and humored him; and seems, in his desolation to have come to the conclusion that this is rather a weary world. There appears to be nothing to do but to put Edward Pollard, Esq., out to nurse — dry-nurse or wet-nurse, according to circumstances — and and to strive by every tender art to divert his mind from the distracting memory of the original mammy. Of all the poor white people in Washington, he seems to be in the lowest spirits — if we except Mr. James Buchanan. Whether the result of Mr. Edward Pollard's grief for his mammy will re-open the African Man-trade, is more than we can determine. The connection between his bereavement and that branch of commerce we have been somewhat at a loss to discover. We have been able to conclude only that there now exists at the South a dearth of mammies, and that Mr. Pollard, having felt through long years the want of that most useful article, seeks to replenish the market by the importation of what we <
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Modern Chivalry — a Manifesto. (search)
, and to send to Col. N. J. Scott, of Auburn, Ala., the neat sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars. We are afraid that it is just possible that Col. Scott will be obliged to wait awhile for that money; and our advice to Sir George, if he really desires to be the Alexander of Mexico, is to courageously make up his mind to defray all the expenses out of his private resources, which are undoubtedly unlimited. We beg leave, most respectfully, to call the attention of our friend, Mr. Buchanan, to this Proclamation. It may divert his mind from a too constant contemplation of his recent misfortunes; and he may pleasantly employ himself during the brief remainder of his official existence, either in assisting or arresting this expedition — it really makes no difference which. Should he determine to try a new sensation, and for once insist upon a rigid execution of the laws, we beseech him not to begin with a Proclamation, for in that particular line of warfare he cannot for a m
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), A Southern Diarist. (search)
ead stop. He ceases suddenly to chronicle the rapidly changing features of the times in Columbia, and begins to abuse Mr. Buchanan as a poor old man. This we cannot but regard as a gratuitous insult. Poor, Mr. Buchanan is not. Old, he may be; but Mr. Buchanan is not. Old, he may be; but we are ready to wager dollars against dimes that the President is not half so old as he appears to be. The mistake is a natural one. Good guessers, familiar with his proclamations and messages, and computing his years from his drivel, would undoubte to be rather worse off than Shylock was on the Rialto. Southern gentlemen must swear, we know, but why call poor old Mr. Buchanan a liar and a dog? ‘T is inexpressibly shameful. If we were Mr. Buchanan, we would turn anchorite; we would retire to Mr. Buchanan, we would turn anchorite; we would retire to Some secluded cave, and there, over a moderate allowance of the choicest wheat whiskey, would we strictly meditate the thanklessness of mankind. What more, we beg leave to ask, in behalf of an injured old gentleman, and outraged O. P. F., would the
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Dr. Tyler's Diagnosis. (search)
e enlivened by the united abilities of Mr. Tyler and Mr. James Buchanan. That correspondence, too precious not to print, isowing compendious abstract: No. I. Mr. Tyler informs Mr. Buchanan that he has taken lodgings at Brown's Hotel, in order ts the hospitable B. No. Iii. Mr. Tyler represents to Mr. Buchanan that his health is too delicate to make it prudent for ing. No. Iv. Why is the Brooklyn frigate sent South, Mr. Buchanan? fiercely asks Mr. J. Tyler. No. V. An errand of me Nine--if Mr. Tyler had then countered with his Ten--if Mr. Buchanan had immediately got in his Eleven, to be followed by a Tyler, in the action of my pill called the status quo. Mr. Buchanan promised to take the status quo, but no status quo woulh a closet of closets that if Mr. Tyler had therein met Mr. Buchanan, and had suddenly presented the status quo in a mild meicines out of the window? What could Dr. Tyler do when Mr. Buchanan steadily refused to take his physic? What could he do,
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Democracy in London. (search)
hey likely now to heed in the heat of insurrection, voices to which, in the calmness and solemnity of high counsel, they turned an utterly deaf ear? We do not question the willingness of Northern Democrats to do whatever service the feudal lords of the South may prescribe, as the tenure of the old tugs at the Treasury teats. But however willing the Seymour party may be to be bought, the rebels are not yet desperate enough to buy them. What, indeed, could a new Administration of the bad Buchanan variety offer, which could tempt these traitors back to loyalty? When with hasty passion they repudiated all Constitutional obligations, they gave up a legislative and judicial power far greater than that of the North, but still not great enough to satisfy their most unreasonable appetite. It was not enough for them to be potent in practice, but they insisted on being considered omnipotent in theory. We caught and surrendered their fugitives; we gave them in spite of prescription a faire
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