The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-01-02


MEssRs. EDIToRs: GENTLEMES-The
most Indifferent observer who casts his
eye upon the whirlpool of Anne rican pol
tiles, c.nnot but see the discussions that
the continual pickering of partiaans pro-
duce. With the history of the conflict
in our western territories for the past
few years, all are familiar. With the
winking Of the administration at the
crimes committed upon the ballot-box,
aud consequent tendency to the subyer-
sion Of free American rights, all are
equally conversant. Finally, the contin-
uous accumulation Of wrongs, the practi-
cal results Of this swiudling scheme, has
produced the tremendous bug-bear Of the
Democratic hierarchy, the Lecompton
Constitution. The administration has
never issued a proclamation condemna-
tory of the barbari,ies Of the boder-rufh.
ans. Wrongs public and private, endu-
red from necessity at their hands, have
not so much rs received a rebuke at
| Washington. Yet the opinions and poll.
cy of the President have been fattered
and encouraged, by the party in power,
as the Legitimate Development of the
great governing principle, "squa,ter
Sovereignty" But when the climax of
this political treachery was attained, the
lordly privates, marching in the rank and
file of the party, deserted their leader at
the capitol This shows the sympathy
they always felt for the Nebraska bill
Every outrage committed was hid under
the paternal wings of this bill. The wall
that rose to heaven from the dying VIC
tins of the assassin's knife; the tears
that witnessed the preparation of siler
deeds, to which even death would have
been a preferable boon; the wrongs to
which the people of a proud, free eoun-
try had to submit, all fell harmless to the
ground beneath the fostering care Of this
bill. DO respectable politicians say this
was the result of that bill? If SO, they
stultify themselves when they say its
provisions were wise, or for the good of
the country 1t is civil war carried on
under the escuctheon of liberty, worse
than the crusades, and ten times more
cupable, because committed in the face
of an enlightened people.
One thing at least is true, no matter
how Democrats regard it. Buchanan
position upon the Lecoinpton constitu-
ton was consistent. lie and his prede-
cessors had recognized as legal all the
elections held in the territory. and the
various acts Of the bogus legislatures No
inyalidity Was attached to any OF these.
All the impositions upon the natural aud
recogognized rights Of man were receiv-
ed with no disfasor at the White House.
Those who rc-echoed the pious mandates
of the revolutionary heroes, acknowl-
edged the dcspotism under which the
people groaned as the relics Of their dear
bought liberty.
While this was the position all along ia
ken BY the administration, who will dare
assert that the President in his opinions
or arguments on the constitution was in.
consistent The mere ipse dirt of poll.
ticians will not suffice, but the history Of
matters will convince. James Buchanan
probably loves the applause Of his adhe-
rents aud the paraphernslia of Office
more than the laws Of rectitude; but he
is not culpable for this one act of hi,
life. What was the course of these Do
liticsl hsrpers when they read the bogus
laws? Everything Was right. They ap-
plsuded the wisdom that cat benignantly
on the brows Of their frsmers They al
most ve0eratod these Sachems Of their |
political faith. But when Buchanan pro. |
nounccd his opinion upon the Lecomp-
t7n ,riatlis, -vhieh il connection With