The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-03-24

Mon'kiy has mastery and scathing re-.
view of the first year Of the Buchanan
administration. We extract few of the
closing remarks:
Looking at the ADMINISTRATION of Mr..
Buchanan simply FROM the point ot Wow
of an enlightened craftsmanship, we &
nothing in it that is not contemplate; ,at
when we regard it as the accredited cvpo-
nent of the moral sense of a majority Of
our people, it is saved from contcmpt, in
deed, but saved only hccduse contempt is
merged in dec per feeling Of humiliation
and apprehension. Unparalleled as the
outrages in Kansas have been, we regard
them as insignificant in comparison with
the deadler fact that the Chief Magis-
trate Of the Republic should strive to de-
fend them by the small wiles Of a village
attorney,--that, when the honor of ma
ton and the principle Of self-government
are at stake, he should show himself I'M
conscious of higher judicature or a no.
bier style of pleading than those which
would serve for case Of petty larceny,
and that he should be abetted by more
than half the national representatives,
while he brings down case Of public con-
science to the moral level of those who
are content with the maculate safety which
they owe to a flaw in an indictment, or
with the dingy innocence which is cert-
fed to by the disagreement OF jury.
These things arc the logical conse-
quencos of that profound national demor-
alization which followed the enactment of
the Fugitive Slave Bill and alone made
its execution possible Generalization
wilfully brought about, for selfish ends, in
that sad time which saw our greatest ad-
vocates and our acutest politicians spend
ing all their energy of mind aud subtlety
Of argument to persuade the people that
there was no higher law than that rule Of
custom and chicane woven of the split
hairs Of immemorial sophistry, and whose
strongest fore is at the mercy of an OBJ.
stinate traverse juror,--no law higher
than the decree of party, ratified by a
popular majority achieved by the walters
on Presidential providence, through i'm
migrant voters whom the gurgling oratory
of the whiskey-barrel is potent to con-
vince, and whose sole notion Of jurispru-
dence is based upon experience of the
comparative toughness of Celtic skulls and
blackthorn shillalahs. And such argu.
ments were listened to, su h advocates
commended for patriotism, in land from
whose thirty thousand pulpits God and
Christ are preached weekly to hearers
who profess belief in the Divine govern.
ment of the world and tue rreversible
verdicts of conscience
Do our leading politicians, and the
prominent bankers and merchants who
sustain them. know what dangerous les
son they are setting to a people whose af.
fairs are controlled by universal suffrage
when they affirm that to be right which
can by any false pretense be voted so
Does not he who undermines national prin.
ciple sap the foundations of individual
/ property also? IF burglary may be com
mitted on commonwealth under form o.
law, is there any logic that will protect Q
bank-vaut or strong-box? When Mr.
g Buchanan, with Jew broker at one c
l bow and Frenchman at the other
, (strange representatives of American d
plomacy y signed his name to the OstenG
circular, was he not setting writing les
son for American youth to copy, and ont
A which the pirate hand of Walker dic
D copy in ungainly letters of fire and BLOOD
, in Nicaragua
, "A correspondent of the New Yorl
Post thus speaks of Senator Hammond
OF South Carolina, who has recently beer
, making ultra Southern demonstration il
, the Senate:
Il knew his father, who was q true
Yankee from Massachusetts. He thcl
resided in Lexington district, South Car
: DINA, and was the owner and manager o
a saw-mill. He had previously carried OIL
) the business of butcher, at Columbia
His chief pride seemed to be conferred il
his son James, whom he trained from
childhood in oratorical exercises.-Th,
mother of James was, think the daugh
= ter of an Englishman, named Fox. 81
the aristocratic Senator is half Yankee
half Bull. His Yankee father grudged
no sacrifice in making him an orator, ant
fit him for public life, not expecting that
,, he would distinguish himself chiefly in
efforts against the land of his fathers -
" Y. Post
PLAIN SAEAKINo.-In the House o
Representatives, ON Wednesday last, Mr.
,, Haskin of New York; democrat, dyec
in the wool, in the course of a spirited
speech, proclaimed, without rebuke or de
, NAL from any qnarter-that :" If it wer,
,, not for EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE
. he did not believe there were TEN NORTH
: RRN DEMOCRATS who would vote for tn,
Lecompton Constitution.-He considered
!, the attempt to admit Kansas under thai
,, Constitution, THE MOST STUPEN
DOUS FRAUD that Congress had ever
been called upon to consumate."
OF the liquor sold in Buffalo N. Y.
the Advertiser, of that city says -"Thc
brandy is poison, the whiskey of thai
variety known as hardware" strychnnt
would improve it and the gin is kept il
glass bottles simply because a a0ould cut
through me aareS of u barrel in fifteen