The Nevada journal., 1856-08-08
BucHANAN's FEDEnALIsM.-It wasn't

ers were clamorous for James Buchanan.
He was the Jupiter Tonans of democ-
racy. There was nobody like him,
never was, and never could be. He
was capital fellow. Broken English
Iauded his praises and the Neptunes of
phalanxism lifted their heads above the
waves of Salt river and footed the lu-
grubious old party conch. calling upon
wigglers to come from the vasty deep to
his support, Being sort of fshy can
didate, there was commotion sin the
dirty pool of politics" Small fry be-
lieved he was good bait, and bit noblv.
But the barbed hook of F federalism took
them in the gills, and they founder ter
ribly. Well, they had no business to be
such perfect suckers" Didn't their
old party leaders condemn all such bait !
Didn't they curse that cid Federal worm
that gnawed at the roots of the tree of
Democracy, and lay him bare to the sun
light of old Democratic principles, or
purge the roots of him with the strong
est decoctions accompanied with the
worst maledictions? Didn't they know,
and hadn't they been warned of that
Shiny old worm that leaves trail be-
hind him, James Buchanan The slip
perry old chap that feasted on the vitals
of the Federal party till it gave up the
ghost, and then abandoned the putrid
carcass for the body of Democracy
"Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" Blinded and maddened
the phalanxers have run counter to the
sayings of their ancestors, and are COM
PEELED to abjure their early faith and
apostatize to their early prayers for the
damnation of Federalists-
What maudlin Democrat has not drunk
confusion to the party Of Hamilton,
Adams, and coming down to party infn-
itesimals, James Buchanan
What would-be oracle of democratic
wisdom has not exclaimed with cracked
voice to gaping crowds agog. "Wo
worth the day, when such men were
misbegotten l' What degenerate phal-
anxer of the present day has not learned
from tradition to hate the name of the
old enemy of the tribe But, smother
ing all hate, forgetting former animosi-
, ties, banishing from memory empty
bowls pledged to undying war against
: the eternal foe, and swearing the crawl
ing, cringing interloper has the true
totem Of the tribe on his breast, every
phalanxer is expected to stand, like a
whipped school boy, taking back with
whine his tell-tale stories that "the
master was counting Sal. Jenkins, he
seed him kiss her in the entry, and ride
down the ice with her in sap trough
Some will go through the formula with
a slight whimper, others more. Some
are tied to the party, like a tin kettle to
a worthless dogs tail, and will follow
wherever it goes, tumbling off here and
there in tangents, leaving the marks OF
a crooked pathway to the snubbing post
but always bringing up somewhere neal
the thing they are after. But there are
others who stand aside and enjoy laugh
at the ludicrous exhibition of party and
its infallible attaches. These may have
been deceived once. They may have
imagined that Buchanan was a better
statesman and sounder than he is, but
they are not blind to their own destruc-
ton. Such men will see that Buchanan
has a taint about him that nothing short
of burial will remove, They will find,
he was of wool-dyed Federalist, an
enemy to Jefferson, till forty years of
age, the slanderer of Henry Clay, he
man ofwhom jackson had much distrust,
an advocate of the U. S. Bank, of a
high tariff, the outspoken foe ofslavery
and the endorser of the Kansas-N ebraska
bill, the advocate of appropriations by
the general government for the old Cum
berland road, but the uncompromising
foe of the Pacific railway-in short he
will be found anything to suit
the selfish policy of the party that has
him in leading strings-and sensible
men having consistency in view and the
interests of California at heart, will leave
him in contempt.
SHOOTING AFFAIR AT ALPHA.-On
Wednesday night, about 8 o'clock, an
affray took place at Alpha between two
persons named Aston and Melvin, re-