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The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The danger of rebellion in the North! (search)
er into a consolidated military despotism or into a Mexican anarchy, in which numerous petty chieftains will each play an independent part. When the Southern Secessionists were forming their plans against the Federal Government, we warned Mr. Buchanan of the danger, and called on him to act with energy. We told him that his foes were of his own household; that leading members of the Democratic party meditated the destruction of the Government. Our admonitions were unheeded, and the conseqrty. These reckless revolutionists thus call on the President to perjure himself. He is sworn to maintain the Constitution and execute the laws. It was upon this ground that the Herald and the conservative press of the country called on President Buchanan, and after him on President Lincoln, to put down the rebellion in conformity with the oath of office. Unlike the monarchies of Europe, in our Government it is not the Chief Magistrate, but the National Legislature, that is the war making p
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Recruiting in California. (search)
James Buchanan. --The editor of the Monmouth (N. J.) Democrat has been on a visit to ex-President Buchanan. He writes back to his paper as follows: "I visex-President Buchanan. He writes back to his paper as follows: "I visited Wheatland, the residence of ex-President Buchanan. I had never seen him, and gladly embraced the present opportunity. As we approached the house we saw the stex-President Buchanan. I had never seen him, and gladly embraced the present opportunity. As we approached the house we saw the stars and stripes floating from a fine flag-staff in front. He received us in the library. He had just recovered from a fit of sickness, the first, he says, he had eties 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 alwathe highest motives of patriotism." You are easily "satisfied" then. James Buchanan acting from "the highest motives of patriotism," which are, of course, the 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 firml