Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-23
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"Our venerable President"
The Lecompton papers get up pitiful how
about Democratic papers abusing, as they cal
it, and villifying the venerable Chief Magis
trate Of the United States" They seem t,
think that, because Mr. Buchanan is Presi
dent, and because his hairs are white. and be
cause his aspect is enerable,-saving som,
physical defects, which we certainly have NJ
desire to ridicule-he ought to be reveret
and respected to such a degree that not
word should be breathed against him Theil
cry is ever, " let US sustain our noble Pres
dent" 'let us put down the vile scolfers al
our venerable Chief Magistrate;' : let us follow
the standard of the eraited head of the ma
tion," and the like sycophantic expressions
1 What if Mr. Buchanan is the Chief Magistrate
of the Nation, and somewhat advanced in
/ years is that any reason that the people who
made him President, should follow Llindly in
his track, whithersoever he may choose to
lead and slavishly acquiesce in whatever he
may see fit to do2 lie was not elevated to
the Presidency in order that he might do as
he pleased with the rights and liberties of the
Nation, but that he might administer the Go.
vernment upon certain sound and well estab-
lished principles, one of which is, that all
Just powers of government are derived from
the consent of the governed, and that ma.
jority of the people shall rule. The accuse,
tion against Mr.. Buchanan is, that he has yio
lated this great fundamental principle. and in
so doing has outraged the sense Of right Of
the American People. 1t makes no difference
whether he is old or young, venerable in as
pect or insignificant in appearance, or any
thing about 1.-THE point is has he violated
this principle and thereby committed, politi-
/ cally, great crime in the face of the coun-
/ try? If he has, the cor del and the por pOp,t
/ Il. the voice of God and Man, must alike re-
buke him. 1t will not do to tell free born
sovereign of the country, true citizen who
values his birth-right of liberty, and who
guards for himself and'his rosterity that cor
ner-stone of the Republic-to wit: the prin-
ciple that all just powers of government are
derived from the consent of the governed,
and that Chief Magistrates and subordinate
magistrates are alike responsible to the peo-
pie for the proper exercise Of their official
functions-it will not do to tell such man,
that, altough he believes the President is la
boring to consolidate, centraize and federal.
ize the powers of the Government contrary
to the intention of its founders, and is tram
pling upon the dearest rights of American
citizens, he must say nothing, because it is the
President of the United States who is doing
it, and the President is a venerable old Man
! The only answer that Lecompton organs
can give to the charges against the President
! is, that he is venerable, and that ANYBODY
who does not believe that he is right is no
better than BLACK Republican" If it is
Black RePublicanism to differ with the Pre-.
sident, Black Republicanism certainly exists
to a very alarming extent. and the North and
South both are given over to the ebon ISM
If, furthermore, opposition to the Kansas
policy, in particular, of the President is
Black Republicansm, the President was him.
selfa Black Republican, shortly after he took
his seat in the Executive Chair, for he held,
then, precisely the same notions that Doug
las Walker and Wise do now. So were his
present ardent admirers, for they thought
Walker was right in the stand which hetook
as Governor of Kansas, till the President
changed his notion about it; but, possibly,
they think that what is Republicanism one
day is not Republicanism the next, and tina
both Republicanism and Democracy depend
upon the humor of the President This may
be very good doctrine for time-servers but it
wont do to be crammed down the throats Of
the main body of the American People