Weekly American. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1858-1858, 1858-04-10
POLITICAL PARTIES.

The ineficiency, corr upton, and centralizng
Federalism of the Buchanan party, is arousing the
people all over the country to an organized oppo-
siton. This results from the Administration being
purely one policy to the utter disregard ofprin-
ciple hence, like the works of the devil, it will
speedily come TO naught Governments, like indi-
vduals must be honest to prosper, for neither can
take an abiding hold upon public confidence with
out having that "upright spirit and pure" which
dares ever to do right ur 30. H'.. n
We must 90 back to the ideas of our revolution
airy fathers, which have been more or less disre-
garded since the days Of Jackson, but now entirely
repudated by the dominant party. When the
present Administration was inaugurated little more
than year ago, the country was in the full tide
Of prosperity; now, factories, mills, and furnaces
stopped the rewards ofagricultural labor have
declined; the expenditure Of the Federal Govern
ment has largely increased; the Treasury has been
made bankrupt, and discord produced among
the States which alienates confidence in the Union.
1t is time that change come; that we cast off
the demoralizing aud degrading policy which is
ruling and running the country and inaugurate
national party which makes honesty and cspabiity
test for Office, which virtue owns, and which
secures the greatest good to the greatest number
Memphis Eagle and Enquirer
II f... 100 II.
The Washington Union, Of the 9th, has an
article reelxing with yirulent and vindictive
abuse Of Senators BELL and CRrTTESDBS, on ac-
count Of their refusal to support the Presidents
policy of dragging Kansas, chained and mana
cled, like culprit, into the Union, with the
Lecompton Constitution. As the Union is, viz
tually and VIGOROUSLY, the mercenary mouth
piece of the President the credit ofthis indecent
onslaught belongs to Mr. BUCHANAN himself
Mr.. BUCHANAN could not more strikingly ex-
hibit his undtness for the exalted position he oc-
cupies, than by the unworthy measures he takes
to sustain himself in it Regarding the Presi-
dency as the reward Of party subserviency, he
employsits privileges only to perpetuate party
supremacy. Instead Of being the Chief Exec
utive OF the Republic, he has degenerated into
the docile instrument Of coterie.. His friends
call him JACKSON; but he trembles at the
frowns, and bows to the mandates of others
with servility that is as un-J AcKsoN-like as
| possible. A year ago, he instructed Governor
WALKER to secure the submission of the Le-
compton Constitution TO the people. Butwh
DAVIS and TooNBs scowled ominously at him,
he anticipated their demands, and forced WAL
KER to resign, because he had done what he
told him TO do. In proportion to his slavish-
ness to fre-eating traitors, is his insolence to
honest patriots. He smiles on HAMMOND and
TooMBs, who advocate secession, and sneers at
CRrTENDEN and BELL, when they venture an
earnest appeal in behalf Of the integrity Of the
Confederacy. ~
CRrTTENDEN and BELL were once his compan-
ions and his superiors in the Senate. Both are
venerable men, whose record the fetid breath
ofpartisanism, even cannot stain. The common
est propriety and the crudest courtesy would
demand from Mr. BUCHANAN thcutmost dignity
in the treatment Of his old compeers. But he
outrages propriety and violates courtesy, by al
flowing his organ, edited by Mr.. ArPLEaArE,
his Assistant Secretary Of State, to vent the
coarsest abuse upon men who are as superior
to him in moral integrity as they are in intel
lectual ability. Such attacks will not hurt the
Senators at whom they are leveled but they
] will rebound with damaging effect on the Pres
ident-St. Louis EDening Ne,os