The Kanzas news., 1858-08-07
Are Republios ungrasefnlP

"Out, out, brief candie,-box.I MACBETH
/ John Calhoun is no more. The hero of
hundred election frauds and thousand
rum shops, has bitten the dust. In the
meridian of his efulgenee, he is ignomini-
ously snuffed out. The horid face, the
swinish eyes. the Bardolph nose of the ex-
IlIinoisan-e each speaking volumes of whis-
| XIV, tonnes of Border Ruffianism and libra
braries of Sham Democracy-are rolling
over and over from the sharp AK of Presi-
dental disfavor. The tale is brief, but
CHASTITY:
Cen Ward B. Burnett, of N. z, has been ten
dered the appointment of Surveyor General of
Kansas and Nebraska, Uiee Gen. Calhoun, whose
term expired on the Sd of July.
A joviaI and diplomatic way of saying:
Gen. Calhoun, SCko e1pired on the Sd of
July" Let US not be crusty and snappish
during the last moments we spend together
| in the body. Let US bow each other into
the next world, with the merriment of Bor-
gias and the eordiality of Democrats. A
pleasant ride with the grim ferryman We
Shall meet again-we shall meet again
| Au revoir.
Thus is the high priest of the Candle
! Box sent to keep company With the shades
of an illustrious congregation. What crime
had he committed, or neglected to commit,
that should call for his princely blood p
/ Was he not Keeper of the Seal to the Le-
compton Constitution? Did not his unfath-
omable breeches contain whole State Gov
ernment, two Senators, and Representa-
tive in Congress included? Had any body
dived deeper in uncleanness than this man ?
Had anybody eaten dirt more greedily, or
washed it down with more whisky than be?
) Had depravity more conspicuous example
of its adaptedness to dougbfaces than that
furnished by John Calhoun? Has history
a sorrier case of the ingratitude of Repub-
lies than his .? Never owning a nigger
himself, his faculties have all been spent in
helping others to hold them. Nature fitted
him for slave; education made him an over
seer; strong drink and Democracy finish
ed the job by making him Border Rufian.
Douglas made him Surveyor General of
Kansas and Nebraska, and Buchanan, with
the shy malice of Belial, allowed him to
hold Office till his "term expired ~ 1t was
not for him. simple soul, to meddle with
the appointments of the Senator from Hi
nois. Let Mr.. Calhoun be Surveyor till his
''term expires %
We need not go over the events in the
life of this expired veteran. Most like
we could not do him justice. In the
shameful record of the last four years he
holds the place of conspicuous degradation.
A tool in the hands of greater reprobates
than himself, he has outdone his teachers.
Caring nothing for slavery in the abstract,
he has put to blush every competitor, in
his zeal for spreading and perpetuating its
denominations. Reared in New England, he
has spent the best days of his life in SLAM
dering his birthplace, and battling the in
stitutions which gave him social status
above the negro. His fate is that which
overtakes all the servants of slavery. We
have read somewhere of dog whose eau
dal appendage was so obliterated he looked
as though he had been where somebody
wanted tail, so they took his and threw
the dog away. So with Calhoun. He had
done all the harm he was capable Of and
his masters have dropped him in the ditch.
He is squeezed dry and swept out of doors.
What becomes of him now nobody knows
and nobody cares. In official parlance,
''his term has expired. - Chicago Press
and T5ibaJno