The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-01-27
4 Disclosure.

inc qualifications in all sections of the
country-subordinates and correspond
ents in every communicative had fa-
cilities greater than those possessed by
the mass of the people, for procuring early
and definite information upon all matters
ofnational Importance, and eleven simply
political significance and it has, there
fore, been Gu: tomary with us all to look
to Washington for first limitations of
important movements relative to our for
cign or domestic relations-in diploma
cy or in politics. But since the advent
of the present administration, things in
this connection, as they have in others
more vital, have undergone change
Now, it may be safely calculated, that
all the world are fully conversant with,
and have, generally, about concluded
their speculations upon, transactions and
their consequences, bearing upon the af
fairs of the nation, before the slow going
old fogies who are dignifed by the title
Of " President and Cabinet seem to
have come to realization of the fact
that such affairs have transpired. Fill
buster expeditions have been spoken Of
by the press, and talked of by the PEG
pie Of the whole country-their plans of
operation published, their rendezvous
known, and all details publicly canvassed,
and yet our honest, sleepy headed, un-
suspecting, old fogy administration, new
er, it is to be supposed, heard a word
thereof until steamer or a schooner sail
ed out of port in defiance of custom
house regulations and revenue cutters,
and their eyes and ears were opened by
n despatch from some collector of Gus
TINS. Members of Congress and grave
Senator's have been for months talking
about Southern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
conventions, largely attended by inhuen
tial mon, have been held in the South
Mr.. YANcEY has developed the existence
Of a secret conspiracy for the overthrow
Of the Union, duplicating men high in
favor with the Observation-Disclosures
of Safes have read homilies upon the
same subject to their constituents, and
State representatives have replied in the
same tone and 10 the same purpose-Mis-
souri, has invaded an adjoining territory,
and forced hel laws upon the people there
of-journals Of position have advocated
the open violation of a law they find ii
impossible to get repealed-and yet in
spite of all this, it is but recently that
Mr. Buchanan and his advisers have
learned that there is a law dcfying party
at the South-a party that, to accom-
p!ish its pro-savery purposes. will tram
pie on al law and justice, at home and
abroad.
The recent fragrant outrage against
the laws, both Of our country and of hui
mainly, in the importation of a cargo of
Africans almost under the nose Of these
gentlemen, have at last awakened them
to a realization of this fact, q fact known !
10 the whole country long since and the
Union, the organ of this bevy of imbe-
cile public administrators, frets and
fumes prodigiously over the discovery.
Fillibustering it dolefully deprecates, be-
cause "none can tell what day the ennis
saries of a higher law swarming in IA
natlcal hordes from all christendom, may
attempt similar Intervention into the af-
fairs Of the Southern States 1t isn't
particularly concerned about the Justice
or morality Of the course pursued, but
looks at the policy, which it deems bad
one, inasmuch as other nations may be
induced TO follow the precedent, and at
tempt interference with their own dear
institutions. The men engaged in the
piracy of importing Congo negroes are
simply crash men, in the Union's eyes
and Of course in the opinion of JIMMY
and his confederates- and are only cul-
pablo because they would depaoroli=e The
institution of Slavery by undoing the
work Of centuries, and revertng again
from the civilized and cAristianizcd sys-
TEN Of labor now existing at the South,
10 the labor Of sayages, wrapped in men
!al darkness. and as imbepile and inca
pable in body as in mind" "Civili-
zed and christianizcd system Of labor!"
A system that robs men and women Of
their wages. of their liberty, of their Off
spring, of honor, and Of virtue. A sys-
tenn that brutiiies the image Of God,
chains the faculties TO superstition and
gnesance, and violates each and every {
right ct human nature. A system that
treats virtue As q crime and dooms I'M