Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-07
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In justification of what written and said against Mir Buchanan, in the campaign of 1856, it is we'll to take passing observation of the principal acts of bis administration up to the present time He was called vain, vacillaaing, weak aud unscrupulous :: and weakness and vanity thus far certainly most obvious characteristics. He presumed to think his accession to the chair of state would settle the en- tire irs of tho political world, and this too in the face Of the fact that minority of votes had over come majority; He forgot; that in those states where tl'e inhabitants were rich, prosperous and n t~lligent he had gone begging votes he saw noth ing iH the expression of entire New England, the Empire State, and the vast legion Of the West to affect his compacency, and fanrisd at his inaugura- t,h. the strife of pary the excitement of elections tEe agitation of sections would all calm down, to the consistency of the fate of country mill-pond on summer day. He was the regular candi a.e of the Democratic Party, and they had been success ful party. The name of Democracy was the one all potent, all powerful touchstone, which applied to any faction at converted it into Che simon pure article, and with that name for compass, he could steer without the least caution among all the rocks and shoals totally regardless of the past ard equal ly reckless of the ntnre Thus he set aside the plat furIn upon which he stood when elected, trampled under foot the grand idea of Democracy, removed officers, and forgot every promise to his Northern constituents. He seemed to have supposed that the people would bow down to his opinion and set their own aside to his superior wisdom, to have entirely fo,gotton the opnionated, uncomprolnising charac- ter of Northern Democracy, and to have imagined t,at an election under the form of the constitution would regulate the entire matters of the land.
 The Kansas troubles were to be ended, the question of protection set at rest Ncaraugua to be let alone and illibustcrng to be watched with jealous eye lis vanity lead him to suppose his election consitu- ted him the grand head of the Republic, with pow the less limited than that of the very Pope himself. He saw in his ability to remove few of ticels, and make certain changes abroad, central ization of pc wcr which permitted him to repudate position and assume another, in fact to tampcr with every principle which does not tend directly to the fortifying of Che slave power in the Union.
 Because he has asubservient majority in the Sen ate he tancics his hold upon the government for life and in accordance with his course through Ie from Federalism, to Democracy, from United States Bank to sub-rreasury, he still changes his postion repadiatos his promises, and oscsllatcs hack aud forth, like the pendulum of an old clock Thus has he shifted about in regard to Kansas thus hs he abused the banks, aud asserted his readiness |" indorse apaper money currency. Thus has he is sued order to punish Captain Chattard, for letting Walker land in Ncaraugua, and--right about face issued another order, to rcprnand Commodore Paul ding for alresting him. In fact he has turned so many somersets, within the last nine months, it would puzzle Philadelphia lawyer to find out which end of his body he does in reality stand. If VIC judge him from his acts, weaker never ~as placed at the head of a public trust He would With his ' Little Joker" propensites be bad toner for a borough president and would pity the town paupers who had irstselectman after his trder to whom they had to appeal Our national prile is sorcy wounded by his career the ridie uors
 figure he cuts in this last affair of Walker is farcca, than the Kansas outrage, which he fosters is wicked and outrageous; dancing before the gaze of the world the President of tho United States pre- sents the spectacle of jumping jack, in toyshop, side of pole, and now the other. Pity seems the pcrvadng feeling both with his party and his oppo- nents. Just think oft, he and old Cass at the Load of the nation the one living over his childhood and delivering himself of long windy incomprehen- sible documents, and the other without any appar rent idea of anything tangible, except slavery limp ing after the Southern haslot. Would Heaven he had so much as a good old wife to council him.
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