The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
Another Washington Picture.

AHotaer w aSntagLoQ ElcIurS.
A few day days ago-says the Cincinnati
Commereiat-we gave picture of Wash
ington as tits, drawn by Col. Forney. Now
we have one to present from the pen of tht
editor of the Chicago Times, who has beer
on a visit to Washington, and doubles;
found the colors for the work of art; por.
tons of which we present, in the studio ol
sick chamber of Senator Douglas. The
editor says:
1--WE stayed in the great city FIVE days
and in that brief period we saw enough to
satisfy US that personal and political deprav.
ity never had such harvest as they are now
reaping in the Federal City.
OFFICES BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Offices are bought Just as openly as the
butcher buys the beef intended for his Gus
toners. Office brokers have the run of the
Senate ante-chamber, of the several depart
ments and the executive mansion nd the
actual sum of money to be paid for an of
fee is as publicly named by these brokers
and their clients, as the prices of dry goods
are named between dealer in those articles
and his customers. Corruption stalks
through the city not in disguise, but with
uhDiushing front and exalted mien; the
time for vice to seek dark lanes and private
places for its operations is gone by, and now
men are bought and sold, votes purchased,
and all the detestable traffic in the hopes,
weaknesses and sorrows cf human nature
is carried on without shame. The cause of
this great change is plain to all. Fraud
rules the Cabinet and the Senate; Fraud
deep, malicious, Infamous fraud upon the
people of the Union, upon Kanzas, and
especially upon the Democratic party
lis set up as an object of Worship
The Lecompton Fraud has become another
molten calf. and those who have set il up
for worship have corrupted themselves. ="
THE CITIZENS OF KANzAs IN WASHINGTON.
Do you wish to see a man who In cold
blood shot down his neighbor, his country
man. without any other provocation than to
crafty party haired aud the brutal propen-
sites engendered by habits of drunkenness?
Do you wish to see gang of men of every
age, from twenty-five to fifty, all old in the
meaner habits of border life, and all mean
in The most shameless deeds of depravity :?
Do you wish to see men who boast of cold
blooded murders, of thieving forays, of
fraudulent elections, of forged official pa
pers, of bloated faces, and frames worn
down BY all excesses common among men
lost to self-respect and common deeency-
if you wish to see these men, go to Wash
ington and hunt up the delegates to the Le-
compton Constitutional Convention and
their followers. Imagine to yourself the
desperadoes, bullies and outcasts, even of
Kanzas, and your fancied picture will fall
short of the real living tableaux presented
by the "citizens of Kanzas in Washington,
who, it is said visited the President few
days ago, and assured him of the strong
feeling of admiration they entertained for
him.
One-half of these cut-throats and ballot
box suffers are awaiting their commissions
as officers of the general government. Land
offices, Indian agencies, mail agencies, ETC.,
are to be bestowed upon these outcasts as
soon as the Democratic party at the North
shall be defeated in every State in which the
Lecompton fraud shall be indorsed.
Lecompton in all its hideous deformity
overshadows all things at Washington. a
defaulter was recently summoned there, and
the alternative was offered him of five years
in the penitentiary under the Sub-Treasury
law for taking public money, or an office
and declaration in behalf of Lecompton.
He chose the office"