The Nevada journal., 1858-03-05
Gbt Nebaoa goutnal.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5th, 1858


chair. Scarcely warm in his seat, Bu-
Chanan looks about him to see, not
where the cause Of right is to be ad-
vanced, but where policy is to be con-
sulted-that policy which is not synon-
ymous with honesty. His first annual
message disguised one-half the Demo
cratic party and "the rest of mankind"
and hat raised an opposition to him COM
posed of the best portion of the friends
who elevated him to bis present giddy
position. When we take such men as
Douglas, Wise, Walker, Forney and
others, where will we find their equals
in the loyal supporters of the President! !
The party is bankrupt in strength with
out them.
Again another message on the inter
minable affairs of Kansas is presented to
Congress, which sinks the head of the
nation still lower in the estimation
of the people. This last emanation
from the executive accompanied the
Lecompton swindling Constitution of
Kansas.
The President says in this extraordi-
nary document that delusion pery AIDES
the public mind in relation to the condi-
tion of parties in Kansas. He says the
dividing line there, is not between two
political parties, both acknowledging
the lawful existence of the government;
but between those who have been loyal
to this government and those who have
endeavored to destroy it by force and
observation-disclosures those who sustain
and those who have done all in their
power to overthrow the Territorial gov
ernment established by Congress.
This in plain terms is an executive
fiction. The issue is not directly be-
tween the participants in the Topeka
and Lecompton Constitutions Thou
sands who have all along supported the
Territorial government and laws, and
have been as loyal as any, and as
strongly opposed as any to the Topeka
government, are now arraycd against
the Lecompton swindle. They have
taken a position in favor of squatter
sovereignty and against the rule of the
minority. The President stigmatizes all
these who will not 90 the whole card he
and his tools have marked out, as trail
tors to the country; as having been all
along in open rebellion to the Territori-
al government established by Congress,
and would long since have subverted it
but for the troops of the United States.
The President denounces the Topeka
government. He says it is revolution
ary and reasonable in its designs. Per-
haps it is but has the President forgot
ten the time when Dorr received the
sympathy Of the Democracy, and not
only the sympathy but the support of
the leading statesmen and theorists of
that party? Once it took Webster
with all his power to demonstrate the
monstrous evils and tendencies of Dorr-
ism, and not then to the satisfaction of
the Democracy. Now Mr.. Buchanan
can see grinning horrors in Conven-
ton of the veritable people of Kansas,
acting, as they had perfect right to
act, if the doctrine of Senator Green, a
warm and the ablest supporter of the
President, be correct that no enabling
act is necessary to allow the people to
form a State Constitution and govern
ment.
The President takes advantage of an
inconsistency he discovers in the action
of the people of Kansas at the polls on
the first Monday of January. They
voted at that time against the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, recognizing, at the
same time, as the President contends, its
validity by voting under its provisions.
The people voted against the Lecomp-
ton Constitution by large majority at
that election. The will of the people of
Kansas was then most emphatically
made known. But the President still
attempts to take advantage of teehni-
eality to cheat the people of their
rights. Knowing fully their will, he
still persists in forcing the majority to
suceumb to an inconsiderable faction.
The pro-slavery party in Kansas only
numbers, according to Gov. Walker,
about 1000 votes all told, while those
who are favorable to free institutions
FIVE times that number.
IMPRovEMENTs.-Ha may be
seen occupying conspicuous positions in
this vicinity, calling for sealed proposals