Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-08
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WEDNESDAY NIoRNING, DEC. 8, 49,
MR.. BUCHANANs MESSAGE.

We published it entire yesterday morning,
but its extreme length, and the lateness of the
hour at which it was received, eleven o'clock
on Monday night, prevented us from making
any comments upon it at that time Most of
our readers have doubtless perused it ere this,
and have been convinced in their own minds,
by the reckless diabolsm that pervades it, that
it is document altogether characteristic and
worthy of the head Of an administration, which
in its whole career has distinguished itself
above all that have preceded it, for its crimes
against liberty and humanity. OF unusual
length, for verbosity is not the least of the
Presidents weaknesses, it contains scarcely a
paragraph, or even a sentence that bespeaks
the mind of a patriot or statesman
Commencing with an endorsement of that
recent infamous decision of the supreme court
in the case of bred Scott, wherein slavery is
sought to be egalized in all the territories of
the United States, the message studiously at
tempts to gloss over with Misrepresentation,
the enormity of its offences against the princi-
pies of a true and genuine democracy, in its
dealings with the people of Kansas. Not con-
tent with the Justification of the plainest estab
lshed facts in the history of the Kansas civil
war, with its rapes robberics, and murders,
countenanced and encouraged by the President
and his slayery-loving myrmidons, Mr., Blu
chairman labors in vain, through nine or ten
columns of intermnable twaddle, to say some
thing which may commend himself and his
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people. We say, 'labors in vain, " for none but
the blindest partizan, or the veriest slave of
his prejudices, can find any thing in the acts
upon which he dwells with the most doating
dissatisfaction, or the sentiments and opinions
by which he seems to &c actuated in his Presi-
dental career, and on which he foreshadows
the future course of his administration, that
shows an elevation of character above that of
the old Buccaneers of the Gulf or faith in
any political morality higher than that which
characterized the Barbary States of Africa,
before they were taught some of the blessings
Of civilization, and some respect for the rights
of humanity, at the mouths Of American can
non.
The President dwells with the most enthu-
siastic prolixity upon the success of "our army
in Utah." in the subjugation without blood
shed of Brigham Young and his horde of poly
gamists, to the authority of the United States
but he seems to forget that Brigham was actu-
ated by the purest motives of the genuine
school of Squatter Sovregnty politicians, in
assuming the defiant position against the ma
tional government that he did assume, and
that it was by the mild and persuasive elO-
quence Of a single volunteer in the army of
the Prince Of Peace, rather than by the force
of arms, that order and tranquility was estab-
lished among the Sodomites of the Salt Lake
City. Aside from some matters of fact com
piled from the reports of the heads of the va
rious departments, the remainder of the mes
sage is mostly made up of the buster and gas
conade that distinguishes mean men, selfish
men, and towards. Towards the great pow
ers of the earth, such as England and France
the President is as courteous and respectful as
a man of such a nature conveniently can be
but towards all the lesser powers of which he
has occasion to speak, whether of the small
and weak Republics upon our own continent,
or the pining monarchies of the old world, Mr..
Buchanan manifests the traits and bearing of
the giant in the story book, as he CROPPED in
blindness about the apartments of his castle,
saying,