The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-27
rIr. Buchanan's Pledges to Senator
Brown.


The st. Louis Democrat in commenting
upon Senator Browns Copiah speech, says
the disclosures made on that occasion are
of grave importance, for they automatically
define the Presidents position ON the ques-
ton of the admission of Kansas, which he
and all his adherents have assumed.
The Senator states that Immediately be-
fore he left Washington, he called n the
President, who assured him in the most
positive and unequivocal terms, that he
would appoint no man to office Who held
the opinion that Kansas ought to be admit
ted before she has a population to entitle
her to send a representative to Congress
and that he would decapitate every office
holder who expressed such belief. The
Senator proceeds to state that he regarded
this as a solemn pledge on the part of the
President, by whom We believe it will be
fulfilled. =
Enough is known of the character of SEN
ator Brown to authorize the assertion that
he has not exaggerated, much less misrep-
resented, what transpired between him and
the President, to whom lac is rather hostile
than friendly, and whose popularity in Mis-
sissippi he would rather diminish than aug
ment. Were corroborative evidence re-
CURED ID would be found in the declarations
recently made by members of the South
| Carolina Congressional delegation. These
/ gentlemen were unanimous in recommend
ing the State whose representatives they
are, to identify herself with the National
/ Democratic party, as the most prudent
method of accomplishing her projects and
| designs; and Mr. Keitt enforced the advice
/ by proclaiming that President Buchanan
! stands on the platform of the South. But
| Gov. Brown, who is a warm partisan OF
! Douglas, and who is inimical to Buchanan
as Buchanan is 10 him, requires no endorse
inent, so we may proceed without misgiving,
TO ascertain the significance of the solemn
pledge he received from the President.
In the first place it presents itself to the
country as a new test of National Democrat
ic fealty No man, We are informed, shall
be appointed to Office who holdsthe opinion
that Kansas ought to be admitted into the
! Union, unless she has %, 400 inhabitants
and every official who has the temerity &c
express different opinion shall be deprived
of his Office Last winter the expression Of
the belief that Kansas should not be admit
ted until she had ninety-three thousand in.
habitants, was fatal to the claims of the of
fice-seeker, and to the position Of the office
holder. All the machinery of the Govern
ment was employed to force Kansas into thu
Union with n population of forty or fifty
thousand. In six months the multitude o
ofliceholderS, and the greater multitude o
o!Iice-seckers are compelled to reverse theil
opinions utterly, or to dissembe and main
tain dead silence. President Buchanan
exacts from his subordinatcs the same meas
ure of subscrvicncy and abnegation of FIRE,
speech that Louis Napoleon exactS from bis
The Generalization of the public seryic
must he the result ofthis grossly tyrannica
measure. Honest men will be superseded il
the public employment by hypOcrites an,
sycophants, whose language will reflect tn
opinions and wishes of the despot of tn
White House. So tyranniCal and exactinl
has that functionsry become, that we shoul
not be surprised to learn that his courters
like those of Alexander the Great, hablual
: ~ incline their heads on their shoulders il
imitation of his WY neck.