The Kanzas news., 1858-11-13
The national InArmary.

the evening OF tuctiz ossf q An sno f1eii-euJoy'
ment of crutches. wooden legs and beef
soup; bat probably but few of our readers
are aware that We of America have nation
al charity already in the full tide of sue
cessful experiment, which is in every re-
spect as much superior to Greenwich Hos
pital as mountain is to mole bill.
Nor is il very strange that it should have
escaped general attention, for it is. in point
of fact, one of our stPeexlior issstifasions, .
and everybody should Be aware, by this
time, that 'our peculiar Institutions are
too sacred to serve as common topics of
conversation. This magnificent national
charity has its local habitation in the city
of Washington, and its name is ''Ths Na-
tionoi Lgfrmary for he relief Of aged. an
firm. distressed, dilopidoted, broken dOacn.
and broken minded politicians, Of the ortho-
doz Democratic faith"
Several of the largest and most commo-
dious buildings upon Pennsylvania Avenue,
usually denominated the State Department,
the Treasury Department. War Department..
&C., &C., are devoted to the uses of the In
firmary, as well as most of the buildings in
our principal cities. commonly styled Gus
tom Houses. The Trustees and Board of
Managers are all of them of most unques-
tionabie Democratic orthodoxy = james
Bachanan at their head.
All applicants for admission to the asy-
ium must show eonelusively that they have
forfeited the confidence and support of the
people in the service of the party, and If
they can show that. their course has been
such as to excite the hatred and abhorrence
of the people against them. all the better.
That proved. their ''calling and election is
made sure"
To illustrate, let US take few examples.
General LeiOis Cdss. having all his life fed
out of the public crib. by turning square
sonaersaun upon the Wilmot Proviso in
I848, and voting for Nebraska Bills. Fugi-
tive Slave Laws &C., afterwards, had com
pletely broken down his party in his own
State as well as himself, He was immense
ly rich-worth some FIVE millions, it Is said
but he could not live without the help of
the U. s. Treasury. Buchanan, plying
his sad plight, admitted HIM to the privi-
leges of the Infrmary, with the honorary
title of Secretary of State.
Isaac T'oucey, formerly Senator from Con-
necticut, having by like causes made him
self decidedly the most odiOus and abhor-
red individual in that part of the Unions
was also admitted to the Inirmary with the
title of Secretary of Navy.
So John Floyd, of Virginia. by showing
that he was completely broken down, used
up and overlooked by his neighbors at home,
was made member by The style of Secre-
tary of War.
Jacob BrosOn, of Missippi. upon like good
grounds, having produced afidavits to prove
that he had been in disgraceful oblivion at
home for some dozen years, obtained his
present title of Secretary of the Interior.
Thomas jefferson said his only rule in
making appointments to Office, was to re-
quire. that the candidate should be honest,
capable. and faithful to the Constitution
James Buchanan acts upon a rule entire
ly different-his highest requisition being
that the applicant. if from the North, shall
have rendered himself infamous at home,
by his outrages upon the peoples rights,
and shows himself regardless alike of all
obligations, divine or human, in carrying
out the behests of party. Hence it is that
he has converted, not only the public Off
ces st Washington City. but every Custom
House. Navy Yard. and Post Office through
out the North into receptaeles for the lep-
rous, unclean spirits who have been cast
out by their neighbors and fellow-citizens.
as unworthy the confidence and support of
freemen. Such a rejection by the people is
a sure token of acceptance aud favor with
the Administration.
Time and space would fail as to particu-
lariss cases of this sort. They are literal
ly and truly ''too numerous to mention, I"
and besides. they are fresh in the memory
of our readers. Only one case-and that
the latest if not the most noted-ean we
find room for this week We chronicled
in our las. the defeat of J. Glancey Jones.
the Member of Congress from Berks coun-
ty, Pennsylvania. who was elected two
years ago when running on the Buck,
Breck and Free Kansas ticket by ma
jority of 6oO4. He voted last winter for
Lecompton and slave Kansas, and the peo-
pie. whom, he had misrepresented and be-
trayed for the 6rst time in the history of
the county. disregarded the behests of par
,y and stamped him with the zeal of their
reprobasiou. s.Goedi -Gloriousi'' shouted
every hoilast man fha .csar.nfru Slver But