The Nevada journal., 1858-12-31
Friday Morning, December 31st 1858.

buPposcu tuaI c'eIy Douy mas iCau tho
late emanation from the Federal Head
If every body has not he ought to, pro-
vided always he has the power of endu-
rance to bear the infiction.
The Message is a long one and fairly
written. 1t is foolish to claim for it,
however, great ability. The finances
of the country ought to call out talent,
but not from Mr. Buchanan. Talent ex-
ceps as politician, could never be claim
ed for him.
The President, in the outset, takes
occasion to say good word for Provi-
dence for interposing in our favor
during the year past when sectional
strife was at its height. This shows a
measure of disintcrestedness in our Ex-
ecutive, hardly to have been expected,
however barefaced it would have been
TO claim the salvation of the country by
any act of the administration. Perhaps
the President gives credit to Providence
in the hope of robbing the people of Kan
sas and the opposers Of his administra-
ton of honors that might descend to
them. If so, it is characteristic and we
take back the imputation of disinterest
edness we made against the President.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, says Mr.. Buchanan. has decided
that slave holders have a right to take
niggers into Kansas or any other Terri
tory and hold them there under the
guardianship of the Federal Constitu-
ton, so long as tie Territorial condition
shall remain. 1t will be seen that Mr..
Buchanan takes direct issue with the
position assumed by Douglas in his Free
port speech-Douglas holding (at that
time.) to the right of the people of a
Territory to exclude slavery if they
choose
Having made the issue, Mr.. Buchan-
an proceeds to give us rehash of all
the arguments used by his stripe OH the
Kansas question, which sounds like a
speech from the gallows. 1t is a priyi-
lege of the condemned in all civilized
countries, to have the last word and Mr..
Buchanan has availed himself of it.
We acquiesce in the custom as the rig
marole has been proven trashy long ago,
and so the President will not go off leav-
ing painful impression on the public
mind that an innocent man has been
victimized.
The President is stubborn to the last.
Speaking of his course on the Kansas
. question he says.
In the course of my long public lite,
have never performed any official act
which, in the retrospect, has afforded
me more heartfelt satisfaction. Its ad-
mission could have inflicted no possible
injury on any human being, whilst it
would within a brief period. have restor-
ed peace to Kansas, and harmony to the
Union"
After whistling past grave yard in
this manner, he plucks up little cour-
age, and presumes to say Kansas ought
not now to come into the Union till she
contains $4,000 inhabitants. Her ad-
mission on the condition Mr.. Buchanan
wanted her to be in, "could have infic-
ted no possible injury OH any human
being" but to admit her now in the
shape the people want to come in, would
be unwarranted assumption on their
part, unjust to the large States of Vir-
ginia and New York, and contrary to
the theory of our government The
President thinks the first duty of the
people Of Kansas is to cultivate farms,
construct roads, reclaim the wilderness
be fruitful, multiply and increase, instead
of mcddling in politics as they have
done, 1t is fatherly thought on the
part of Mr.. Buchanan to which he may
have been led by the conduct of his re-
bellious children in the past.
The President argues it would be in
justice to the larger States to allow Kan
sas to come into the Union with less
population than 93,4OO. Why : because
in the event of there being no Vice Pres
ident elect to take the place of the Pres
ident in case of death, it would devolve
upon the Senate to elect a President,
and Kansas there would have an equal
voice with New York. Mr.. Buchanan,
however, failed to tell us that the same
injustice would exist if Kansas had the
requisite population be is pleading for.
Surely there is a wonderful disparity
between 90, 400, and 100000 the pop
ulation of New York. lie might have
seen too, that the constitution sanctions
this kind of inequality in placing little
Delaware and Rhode Island or the
same footing with the Old Dominion in