The Nevada journal. [volume] (Nevada City, Calif.) 1851-18??, 1857-10-02

in the Democratic camp. Notwithstand
ing the declarations of the press of the
party, that order reigns at Warsaw"
an elemental war is going on in the
great Democratic organization. The
South, after having given Buchanan his
nomination and expended its votes on
his election, finds too late it is betrayed.
The hitherto suppleness of the Presi-
dent, and his Ostend bid for southern
favor had grounded a-confdence in him
in the breasts of Shareholders which his
Kansas policy discloses to be i'll found
ed and badly requited, and many south
ern newspapers cannot tepress the ago
ny of their remorse for the course they
have pursued in elevaiirg to office
man not true to his firmest friends
Like Shakespeare, or the man the jack
ass kicked, the South is ready to ex-
claim, 90! ingratitude, basest of crimes"
Mr.. Buchanan is the ungratcful wretch
who is the recipient of innumerable
maledictions from that quarter. His
day of wrath has, however, not yet ar
rived. When it does he Will declare
the Presidential chair to he one of I'M
rest and his punishment like that of
Cain, greater than he can bear, for the
southern wing Of the Democracy will
not scruplc to belabor him for his treach-
cry to their interests, or sacrifice the
party to obtain their ends Was it to
make Kansas free State. that the
chivalric section of the Union threw
itself into the Cincinnati convention
and nominated James Buchanan over a
host of statesmen tried and truel The
most remote from it possible. The
workings of the Kansas act were not so
understood south Mr.. Buchanan's in
tentions were not SO interpreted. 1t
was confidently declared that under the
operations Of that act Kansas was with
the assistance Of Missouri to throw it
self into the southern scale to balance
the Union. Such was the positive de-
claration Of southern states nen-such
the assurance of southern presses =
such the belief and hope of more than
half the people of the South. These
opinions were pretty generally en-
braced. They found publication and
in that form still exist. They live rs a
record of fallacious hopes cherished in
the past.
There was time when the Kansas
act was rejoiced over as the coming Of a
political Messiah, which was to restore
We have seen the time when the appli-
cant for the most menial office, i'll this
State even, wus obliged 10 bow down
and confess the sovereign power and
immaculate virtue of Douglass hantling
before his soundness rs a Democrat
could be admitted So soon as the as
pirations of the man became public he
was tried by junto Of the faithful in
secret corclave, and if lie passed this
auto da te unscathed. Tie Rubicon was
crossed and the ordeal of a convention
became af5erward IF title danger But
where is this great touchstone Of De-
mocracy now! The praises Of soutl :
ern men come few and flint and far
between. Those who Of old were
wont to complacently discuss the
the Kansas act in every saloon, on ev-
cry public street, cross-way or byway,
are silent all, for voice Of coudemna-
ton comes up from the home of the
STAKEHOLDER against the thing as cheat
and delusion, aud Buchanan and his
man Friday. are heaped with curses for
being engage in the evolution of things
the south has unwittingly decreed. 1t
is now demonstrated that the Kansas
act carried out fairly aud squarely, with
no extraneous influences brnugiIt into
the field, leaving the natural laws of
emigration to govern, must add anothe,
star to the galaxy of free States. The
result is inevitable, and the administra-
ton finds itself driven to the alternative
of carrying out the ''g' eat act of paciii-
cation" as it has been called. hut which
by the way, is a misnoIner, to the immi
nent danger of the disruption Of the Dem
ocratic party, or throw some other bone
to hush for time the wolfsh cxhil itions
of southern Democracy. Should it be
decided among the omnipotent workers
of the party that the great Democratic
organism must not he disrupted in case
= of the admission of Kansas without sla-
very. we may exp ect a salvo TO southern
pride in the shape of the conquest or