New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-06

Gen. Jackson, while as yet only candidate Tor
the Presidency used to complain most bitterly and
yebemently Of the corruption of Congress, and
of the wrongful influence which the President was
enabled to exercise over that body, securing on the
part of Members Of Congress devotion to his
wishes, in disregard of the wishes of those who
elected them and of their own private convictions
of the public good by the overpowering temptation
of some Federal office Elected President, Gen.
Jackson proceeded to push this very species Of
Executive influence, which, as a candidate, he had
80 much condemned, to an extent utterly unknown
before, having, in fact, appointed more Members
of Congress to Office than ali his predecessors put
together. ThereupOn John c. Calhoun, being
then in warm opposition to Cen Jackson's Ad-
ministration, took up the cry of Executive corrup
ton. 1t was he who bestowed upon the Demo-
cratic party the well known and expressive sobr-
quet of the "Spoils party" and who repeatedly
declared that party to be held together by nothing
but the cohesive force of the public plumber. No
sooner, however, had the friends, partisans and
political disciples of John G.. Calhoun succeeded in
getting possession of the machinery of the Demo-
cratic party-which from that moment subsidized
into a mere sham Democracy, of which the stolen
coat and name were used as cloak for the extern
sion of Slsvery-than these new msnipulators OF
the party machine proceeded to push this pressure
of the Executive upon Congress to pitch as much
beyond that 10 which it had been carried by Jack
SON. as Jackon in his exercise of il had transcribed
any of his predecessors. In fact the theory of the
administration Of our National Government adopted
from the moment Of Pierces coming into power
and from that time to the present pushed to great
er and greater extravaganza, was simply this: to
0verbear aud trample under foot the sentiment of
the msjoriy Of the States and Of the majority Of
the people, by bribing and buying up number Of
Northern members OF Congress sufficient for that
purpose.
The first notable application Of this new theory
Of Democratic Republican Government was in the
case of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, carried through
Congress, as every body knows, only BY means of
the yast Executive patronage which President
Pierce, under the advice of Jefferson Davis and
Caleb Cushing. brought to bear in its favor. The
same method was employed with no less audacity
and success in obtaining from Congress quasi sp.
plOFdl OF oil duC
mob yiolences by which il was attempted to drive
off the Free-Labor men who had settled in Kan
sas, and TO prevent any more settlers of that sort
from entering the Territory. This system, how
ever was carried TO its utmost elimination by
President Buchanan in his most base, wicked, BY.
pocriticsl and fraudulent attempts to force upon
Kansas against the wishes of vast majority
of the people of that Territory, and Of very
decided majority OF the people of the Union, Pro
Slavery State Constitution made for them by
body of intrusive border rufians elected by fraudu
lent votes under the act Of sham Legislature, and
upon On spportlonment which DISTINGUISHED half
the people OF the Territory but which Mr. Bucha
nan nevertheless chose to recognize as Conven
ton fairly representing the people of Kansas-and
so far as the framing of State Constitution went
vested with sovereign and absolute power. Not
only did Mr. Buchanan, in the very face and eyes
of all his previous instructions to Gov. Walker.
himself take this extraordinary view Of that