Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-03-12
THE INTERPRETATIONS.


THE ADMINISTRATION.
The administration Of Mr. Buchanan
seems likely to reproductive Of more morti-
fication and pain TO its Presidential head
than any administration recorded in our his
tory. One half of his own party is already
arrayed against him. Indeed, at the north,
not corporaps guard beside officeholdcrs
and their dependents remain to do him
homage. He has brought forward in this
congress two favorito measures; first, the
Lecompton constitution; second, the army
bill. The first Of these measures has plac-
ed him before the country in the attitude
Of a man equally false to his own pledges
and to truth and justice. He sent gov
ernor and secretary to Kansas with many
promises of fair dealing, and with positive
instructions to have the constitution about
TO be framed submitted to the people,
These instructions Walker and Stanton full
filed; and because they fulfilled them they
were dsgraced and removed. They now
stand before the country ss the determined
opponents of the Presidents Kansas policy.
Five governors successfully have been sent
to Kansas by Pierce and Buchanan. OF
these all but one have returned home in
disgrace for siding with the people against
the federal government. Does any man
doubt that there must be something wrong
in the action of the government that pro-
duces such results as these? The success
i've secessions from the democratic party
produced by the Development of its terri
torial policy, ono would think might convey
lesson to the most stupid, and warning
to the most wicked. It is not too much to
say that if no means are found to heal the
breach which this Lecompton business has
created, there will remain in the democratic
party, few but those who already oat its
loaves and fishes or those who are longing
to do so.
As to the Presidents second measure,
the army bill, it has been unceremoniously
kicked out of doors even in the house of
his friends, the senate. Doubtless it will
be tried again but we do not think it will
succeed. 1t has been well said that the
people of tho United States prefer to do
their own fighting. They want no merce-
nary soldiers to overawe thom. The re-
sponse of the country to this proposition to
increase the army by 5000 men, would be,
"Not man, not dollar"
| lfthe future plans of Mr.. Buchanan are
as productive of harmony in the democratic
ranks, and as successful as those he has al
ready proposed, no man need pray for his
defeat or theirs. They will soon be past
praying for, if they are not already. We
are not at all sure, however, that Mr. Blu.
chanan ought to bear all the blame. He
has unluckily for himself taken the govern
ment just when the wicked, unjust and ruinou'
policy of his party had reached climax
Under the name of national democracy the
, natural rights both of black and white mer
have been trampled on. The federal gov,
eminent had been perverted from its origin
, al intent to favor freedom, and had become
: the great bulwark of slavery and mighty
engine to extend it. This course of evil ha
i eliminated in the doctrine "that SLAYER,
J.. goes wherever the Constitution Of the Uni
n on is paramount" This doctrine Of devil
n is enough to ruin any man or party. 1t ha
It already sunk Mr.. Buchanan and bis admin
istration, as if milestone had been tie,
about his neck and he cast into the mids
of the sea.