The Nevada journal., 1858-04-02

lash, and, now, the Lecompton constitu-
tion has started in that body under the
same stimulating appliance. To be
sure, to use homely figure, it has stuck
fast In pretty stiff mud at the outset, but
that only renders the Presidents voice
the more imperative, and the crack of
his whip the louder. At his behest,
every other measure of legislation which
affects OF may possibly affect the success
of the Lecomptor constitution, and which
his party can control, is made subservi-
ent to the triumph Of that vile swindle.
Nothing simply moral staiids effectually
in his way. Neither constitutional obli-
cation nor Parliamentary usage, neither
duty nor propriety, offers the slightest
apparent obstacle to his scandalous de-
signs. The admission of Minnesota, for
instance, is delayed in defiance of JUS
tice and of correct policy, for 10 other
reason than that its admission now would
add two Senators and two or three Rep
resentatives to the opposition in Con-
gress. The contested election case of
Indiana, also, is postponed, merely be-
cause its determination at present might
perhaps diminish the Lecompton force
in the Senate by two. In like manner.
the case of Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio, in
the House, is dragged forward with in
decent haste, and pressed without re-
gard to pending business, in the hope of
ousting the incumbent, and thereby sub
tracing one from the adverse vote. In
addition to this shameful disregard not
only of fair=dealing but Of all Parliamen-
tary fitness the President holds up to
Congress, pro7erbially frail, the patron
age of the Government as the tempting
reward of subserviency to his purposes
and, through his official organ, thunders,
day after day, the terrors of excommu-
nication at the heads of all vino have
the spirit and the integrity to oppose
him. No longer ago than yesterday,
the telegraph announced that the Union
had read Mr.. Harris, of Illinois, out of
the party, and insulted him with denum-
ciatory epithets, for having dared to
move the reference of the Lecompton
constitution to select committee of thir-
teen, for the sake of obtaining thor
ough investigation of the claims of that
scheme to the favor of Congress. The
Union sneers at Mr.. Harris, and the
Democrats who voted with him, as
''litte corporal's guard of renegades."
Y Yes, this degraded instrument, this hired
assassin of the Executive stigmatizes
the Democrats who have barely asked
the privilege of looking before they leap;
to be heard of no more, into the abyss
of fraud and dishonor which its master
has prepared for them, as "corporals
guard of renesades." 1t is burning
shame to human nature that the ''corpo-
rails guard has not before now sweled
to battalion. Such is the Presidents
respect for the dignity and the response
bilities of the exalted office. Nor is
this all.
Buchanan, it is well known, has ex-
tended his corrupting influence beyond
the Halls of Congress, to the nation at
large. He has, as general thing, as a
universal thing, so far as we know, taken
away OF withheld the Federal patronage
from those Democratic editors and 9TH
ers throughout the Union who oppose
the Lecompton constitution, and be-
slowed it lavishly upon those who sup
port that miserable cheat The Press,
of Philadelphia, for example, edited by
the man who more than any other living
one contributed to Mr.. Buchanan's cleo
ton, but who scorns to throw up his hat
for Lecompton, gets nothing whilst
the Pennsylronaan, of the same city, that
takes down Lecompton at a single easy
swallow, without making wry face,
gets everything the government has to
give. So, likewise, our neighbor of the
| Democrat, who has struck more blows,
and more effective ones, for the Demo
cratic party than any other editor or any
other man in Kentucky, receives Mr..
Buchanan's cold shoulder for his scru-
Piles against the pet scheme of the Ad-
ministration, and beholfs the Presidents
especial and "material' smiles showered
upon another, who has no such claims,
and no similar scruples. And thus it is
the countr; over. We of course do not
intend to intimate that the support of
The President through thick and thin is
rendered in every instance or in any par
ticular instance as the price of the Fed
eral patronage, but most certainly that
corrupting largess is distributed with the
view of securing such support, and for
no other purpose. If II does not effect
its object, it is not the fault of the Presi-
dent. He has tried and is trying hard
enough to bribe the leading men of his
party, in Congress and out of it, and, if
he hasn't succeeded, it is only because
they are either wiser or better than he
is.
Now, fellow-c citizens. isn't all this a
glorious illustration of Democracy Isn't
it a beautiful specimen of christian states
manship in the nineteenth century? Can
the annals of free government in the
darkest centuries present anything much
more fragrant or shameless We have
termed it, in the title of this article, Off
cial improperly. The phrase is milder
than the truth will allow. 1t is base Off
cial corruption